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  • Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter

    Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock must dig deep and find strength within herself if she is to survive in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series.Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker, and vampire killer-for-hire, but her last battle with an ancient arcane enemy has brought her low...
  • Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker…and the woman rogue vampires fear most. Jane walks softly and carries a big stake to keep the peace in New Orleans, all part of her job as official Enforcer to Leo Pellissier, Master of the City. But Leo's reign is being threatened by a visit from a delegation of ancient European vampires seeking to expand their dominions...
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  • End of Days by Susan Ee

    End of Days by Susan Ee

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 129 ratings
    End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They’re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn’s sister...
  • Never a Hero by Vanessa Len

    Never a Hero by Vanessa Len

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 32 ratings
    This sequel to the contemporary fantasy Only a Monster will take Joan deeper into the monster world, where treacherous secrets and even more danger await. Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick. But her success has come at a terrible cost. She alone remembers what happened...
  • 3:59 by Gretchen McNeil

    3:59 by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Josie Byrne's life is spiraling out of control. Her parents are divorcing, her boyfriend Nick has grown distant, and her physics teacher has it in for her. When she's betrayed by the two people she trusts most, Josie thinks things can't get worse. Until she starts having dreams about a girl named Jo. Every night at the same time—3:59 a.m...
  • Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould

    Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 18 ratings
    Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She finds herself unable to stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, clamoring for a time when things were normal...
  • Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

    Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar, even though you've never been there before, or felt that you know someone well, even though you are meeting them for the first time? It happens...
  • Mortal Danger by Ann Aguirre

    Mortal Danger by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Revenge is a dish best served cold. Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn't imagine being strong enough to face her senior year. But thanks to a Faustian compact with the enigmatic Kian, she has the power to make the bullies pay...
  • Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

    Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 271 ratings
    A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience...
  • The Magicians by Lev Grossman

    The Magicians by Lev Grossman

    Rated: 3.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 158 ratings
    Quentin Coldwater is brillant but miserable. He's a senior in high school, and a certifiable genius, but he's still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a kid, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory. Compared to that, anything in his real life just seems gray and colorless...
  • Julian of Macedon by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Julian of Macedon by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    Cursed into an eternity of slavery by his own brother, Julian of Macedon has spent centuries in hell, where the only respite he knows is measured in a handful of weeks whenever he's summoned through an arcane spell. With the modern age, those summonings are becoming fewer and fewer, and he lives in fear of the day when they'll stop for good. Grace Alexander doesn't believe in much of anything...
  • Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 170 ratings
    Dear Reader, Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day. As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them...
  • Laurent and the Beast by K.A. Merikan

    Laurent and the Beast by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 48 ratings
    --- Nothing can stop true love. Not time. Not even the devil himself. --- 1805. Laurent. Indentured servant. Desperate to escape a life that is falling apart. 2017. Beast. Kings of Hell Motorcycle Club vice president. His fists do the talking. Beast has been disfigured in a fire, but he’s covered his skin with tattoos to make sure no one mistakes his scars for weakness...
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