The Witching Hour: 11 Enchanting Novels Featuring Witches Wizards Vampires Shifters Ghosts Fae and More! Read online

  Contents

  Christine Pope

  Hidden Gifts

  Prologue

  1. Spirit Walk

  2. High Walls

  3. Cats and Casitas

  4. Hauntings

  5. Explorations

  6. Unexpected Encounters

  7. Best-Laid Plans

  8. Secrets

  9. Misunderstandings

  10. Doubts

  11. Preparations

  12. Suspicions

  13. Safe Harbors

  14. Explanations

  15. Confrontations

  16. Betrayals

  17. Recriminations

  18. Revelations

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Bewitching Bedlam

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Sarra Cannon

  Sacrifice Me

  I. Episode One

  Prologue

  1. Little Bird

  2. Catch-22

  3. Lying To Myself

  4. True Friends

  5. The Alley

  6. No. Freaking. Way

  7. Red Dragon

  8. Trust Me

  9. In The Shadows

  10. Blood-Thirsty

  11. Stronger Than She Looks

  II. Episode Two

  12. A Black Crow

  13. The Dream

  14. The Boss

  15. Don't Get Used To It

  16. The Real Question

  17. The Possibility Of Magic

  18. The Magic Within

  19. Dangerous Or Not

  20. A Very Nasty End

  21. Worth Saving

  22. What Other Truths

  III. Episode Three

  23. So Much Darkness

  24. More Than You

  25. The Devil’s In The Details

  26. His Words

  27. No Logical Way

  28. Rip Me Apart

  29. Not Exactly Nothing

  30. Something In The Shadows

  31. Why Hadn’t He?

  32. Invite Me In

  IV. Episode Four

  33. Heartsick

  34. Stop Trying To Guess

  35. Not Ever

  36. Extreme Restraint

  37. Tapping Into It

  38. Back To Business

  39. Lady Luck

  40. Currency

  41. A Natural

  42. The Devil

  V. Episode Five

  43. Venom Is Gone

  44. The Lore Of Vampires

  45. You Belong To The Devil

  46. Ash And Chalk

  47. Not A Chance

  48. More To Your Power

  49. Mirrors Of My Own

  50. There Is Evil All Around Us

  51. Sweet

  52. Surrender

  53. The Flutter Of Black Wings

  VI. Episode Six

  54. Misunderstood

  55. The Last Kiss

  56. The Door

  57. Betrayal

  REND

  58. Brotherhood

  59. Haunted

  60. I Knew The Sadness In Her Eyes

  61. Alchemy

  62. One Devil At A Time

  FRANKI

  63. Annabelle

  64. Revenge

  65. Nothing Here But Nightmares

  66. Empty Of Life

  67. Fighting The Darker Side

  68. Sacrifice Me

  69. No Greater Sacrifice

  70. Someday Soon

  Kat Parrish

  Magic in the Blood

  1. Aixa Meets the Spider

  2. The Night of Blood and Fire

  3. Death’s Bony Hand

  4. The Blood Cries Out

  5. The Scorpion’s Sting

  6. Blood in the Water

  7. Swimming with the Shark

  8. Tainted Love

  9. The Shadow Gathers

  10. The Spider’s Web

  11. The Spider Bites

  12. Fiesta of the Damned

  13. The Best-Laid Plans

  14. Family Matters

  15. No más

  16. In the Hour of Our Death

  17. Aftermath

  Phaedra Weldon

  Elemental Arcane

  ONE

  TWO

  THREE

  FOUR

  FIVE

  SIX

  SEVEN

  EIGHT

  NINE

  TEN

  ELEVEN

  TWELVE

  THIRTEEN

  FOURTEEN

  FIFTEEN

  SIXTEEN

  SEVENTEEN

  EIGHTEEN

  NINETEEN

  TWENTY

  TWENTY ONE

  TWENTY TWO

  TWENTY THREE

  TWENTY FOUR

  TWENTY FIVE

  Stacy Claflin

  Sweet Desire

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Nicole R. Taylor

  Crescent Calling

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Melissa F. Olson

  Bloodsick

  1. Sashi

  2. Sashi

  3. Astrid

  4. Sashi

  5. Sashi

  6. Sashi

  7. Sashi

  8. Sashi

  9. Sashi

  10. Astrid

  11. Sashi

  12. Astrid

  13. Sashi

  14. Sashi

  15. Sashi

  16. Sashi

  17. Sashi

  18. Astrid

  19. Astrid

  20. Sashi

  21. Astrid

  22. Sashi

  23. Astrid
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  24. Sashi

  25. Sashi

  26. Astrid

  Epilogue

  Kristy Tate

  Witch Ways

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Holly Evans

  Chaos Conspiracy

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 41

  Chapter 42

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45

  Chapter 46

  Chapter 47

  Chapter 48

  Chapter 49

  Chapter 50

  Chapter 51

  Chapter 52

  Chapter 53

  Chapter 54

  Chapter 55

  Chapter 56

  Chapter 57

  SM Reine

  Caged Wolf

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  About the Authors

  These are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, places, organizations, or persons, whether living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  THE WITCHING HOUR

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  Cover design by Lou Harper/Cover Affairs

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  Published by Dark Valentine Press

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  About the Books

  HIDDEN GIFTS - Christine Pope

  Twenty-one years ago, the Castillo witch clan helped the McAllister clan defeat a dark wizard...for a price. The payment, Miranda McAllister, is now on her way to Santa Fe to be Rafael Castillo’s bride.

  When Miranda’s parents fail to break this unholy bargain, she boards a train to Santa Fe, and the betrothed she’s never seen. Their first meeting is inauspicious, but their first kiss triggers odd experiences that make Miranda wonder if her long-dormant magic is finally awakening.

  But threads of dark magic are weaving a spell that could destroy their clans’ alliance…and any chance for love.

  BEWITCHING BEDLAM - Yasmine Galenorn

  Welcome to Bedlam, a magical island in western Washington. Founded by witches, Bedlam's a hotbed of mystical creatures, magical mayhem, and fantastical fun. But danger lurks below the surface. When fun-loving witch Maddy Gallowglass moves to Bedlam to restore an old mansion and turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, the last thing she expects is to meet her match in the hot and spicy vampire Aegis. Together with Bubba--their purring, crafty cjinn, Sandy--Maddy's BFF, and the elusive Fata Morgana, Maddy and Aegis traverse the mysteries and murders that come their way, all while navigating their unexpected romance.

  SACRIFICE ME, SEASON ONE - Sarra Cannon

  On her twenty-first birthday, Franki Smith receives a dozen black roses and an unsigned invitation to a nightclub. Two handwritten words near the top haunt her. “Little Bird.” Her mother’s nickname for her.

  Only, Franki’s mother disappeared without a trace exactly three years ago to the day.

  And the nightclub doesn’t seem to exist.

  Who sent the dark gift? This question leads her to the doorway of a strange and glamorous new world. A world her mother went to great lengths to keep hidden.

  A world someone desperately wants Franki to discover, where forbidden romance and dangerous truths await.

  MAGIC IN THE BLOOD - Kat Parrish

  Born to a Mexican mother and an American father, Aixa Riley lives in a sleepy border town that also marks the divide between the world of the living and the realm of the dead. The youngest in a long line of magic workers known as the red witches, Aixa is heir to a tradition centuries old.

  When a powerful sorceress and an ambitious drug lord join forces in a plan that could destroy Sangre de Cristo, Aixa must summon all her courage and use all her powers to save her town, her love, her life, and her very soul.