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  • Archangel's Heart by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Heart by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 87 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into a dangerous and exhilarating world where a deadly, beautiful archangel and his once-mortal consort are caught in a fury of twisted darkness… One of the most vicious archangels in the world has disappeared. No one knows if Lijuan is dead or has chosen to Sleep the long sleep of an immortal...
  • Compelled by Jaymin Eve

    Compelled by Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 56 ratings
    A standalone story in the Shadow Beast Shifters world. Best read after Deserted for storyline continuity. Simone, of the Torma shifters, thought she was finished with the world of supernaturals that existed outside of Earth. She'd been there, done that, and had the near death experience to show for her time.Then a summons back to Valdor-the vampire world- is dropped in her lap...
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  • Revenant by Larissa Ione

    Revenant by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 50 ratings
    HELL HATH NO FURY . . . For five thousand years, Revenant believed he was alone in the world, a fallen angel beyond any redemption. Now he finds he has a twin brother who had all the light and love Revenant was denied...
  • The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

    The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 93 ratings
    To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her...
  • Archangel's War by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's War by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 64 ratings
    Wings of silver. Wings of blue. Mortal heart. Broken dreams. Shatter. Shatter. Shatter. A sundering. A grave. I see the end. I see. . . The world is in chaos as the power surge of the Cascade rises to a devastating crescendo. In furiously resisting its attempts to turn Elena into a vessel for Raphael’s power, Elena and her archangel are irrevocably changed. .
  • Dark Queen by Faith Hunter

    Dark Queen by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock used to hunt vampires, but now she must fight--and win--beside them.As Enforcer to the vampire Master of the City of New Orleans, Jane Yellowrock stakes her reputation and her life on keeping her territory safe. But Leo has been issued a blood challenge by the emperor of the European vampires, who seeks to usurp all of his power and possessions...
  • Circle of the Moon by Faith Hunter

    Circle of the Moon by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Set in the same world as Faith Hunter's New York Times bestselling Jane Yellowrock novels, the fourth Soulwood novel stars Nell Ingram, who channels her power from the earth.Nell can draw magic from the land around her, and lately she's been using it to help the Psy-Law Enforcement Division, which solves paranormal crimes...
  • Flame in the Dark by Faith Hunter

    Flame in the Dark by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Set in the same world as Faith Hunter’s New York Times bestselling Jane Yellowrock novels, the third, thrilling Soulwood novel stars Nell Ingram, who draws her powers from deep within the earth.Nell Ingram has always known she was different. Since she was a child, she’s been able to feel and channel ancient powers from deep within the earth...
  • True Dead by Faith Hunter

    True Dead by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock goes back to the city where it all began in the newest installment of this thrilling New York Times bestselling series.Jane used to hunt vampires, but now she’s their queen. She’s holed up in the mountains with the Yellowrock Clan, enjoying a little peace, when a surprise attack on her people proves that trouble is brewing...
  • Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison

    Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 116 ratings
    T here's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who's already put her love life and soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice...
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
  • For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison

    For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 99 ratings
    Despite dating one vampire and living with another, Rachel Morgan has stayed ahead of trouble until now. A serial killer stalks the Hollows, claims victims across society, and ignites a vicious Inderland gang war. Rachel hides an ancient artifact that could stop the killer or start a battle to the death among supernatural races of Cincinnati. Every action has its price...
  • Escaping Destiny by Amelia Hutchins

    Escaping Destiny by Amelia Hutchins

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 205 ratings
    I thought things couldn't get worse. I was wrong. I found out what I really wanted and was forced to give him up. Just as I found out who I really am, I was presented to the elusive Horde King as a gift. This was the mystical being I was hidden from for more than twenty years...
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    alpha male  vampires  fae  royalty  bad boys  witches  magic  mystery
  • Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan

    Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 58 ratings
    A rumor has persisted in the vampire world of a dark slayer—a woman—who travels with a wolf pack and any among the vampires who meets her is slain. Mysterious, elusive and seemingly impossible to kill, she is the one hunter who strikes terror into the hearts of the vampires...
  • Shadow Rites by Faith Hunter

    Shadow Rites by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Slaying vampires is child’s play for skinwalker Jane Yellowrock. But handling the complicated politics of New Orleans’ supernatural players is another story... Jane is keeping the peace between visiting groups of witches and vamps in the city, but then trouble comes knocking on her doorstep...
  • Shadowed by Rebecca Zanetti

    Shadowed by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 48 ratings
    Jase Kayrs was the fun brother. The warm, charming, easy-going brother of the vampire leaders. Until he was taken and tortured by demons with their evil mind tricks for nearly five years. Upon his return, he’s dark, violent, and not the man they all thought they knew. Not the man he once was...
  • Dark Magic by Christine Feehan

    Dark Magic by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 91 ratings
    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light... WOULD SHE FIND MAGIC -- OR MADNESS IN HIS DARK EMBRACE? Young Savannah Dubrinsky is a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions. But there is one--Gregori, the Dark One--who holds her in terrifying thrall...
  • Broken by Kelley Armstrong

    Broken by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 69 ratings
    In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic , a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-century—and become his next target. Ever since she discovered she’s pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, she’s never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one who’s given birth...
  • Hunted by Vanessa Nelson

    Hunted by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Unsolved murders, supernatural creatures and civil unrest. Just another day.Problems keep piling up around Max. No sooner has she dealt with one set of supernatural creatures, than she's called to the city's mortuary to an unusual death. The city's most senior spiritual leader is also trying to get hold of her. On top of that, Bryce cancelled their date and hasn't been seen for days...
  • Bishop's Flight: A Paranormal Mystery Romance by Elizabeth Hunter

    Bishop's Flight: A Paranormal Mystery Romance by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The sins of the past will burn you.Four nights. Three days. The human son of two powerful vampires has been taken from his home, and if Carwyn and Brigid can’t find him, the delicate balance of power in an immortal haven might just go up in flames. Las Vegas holds a special appeal in the immortal world...
  • And With Madness Comes the Light by Karina Halle

    And With Madness Comes the Light by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The Man. The Mystery. The Madness. Dex Foray has never been anyone’s fool – until he missed his chance for happiness with Perry Palomino. Broken and alone, Dex has no choice but to rise from the ashes Perry left behind and find his own path to redemption. But nothing in Dex’s life has ever come easily, especially when there’s a dark madness waiting in the wings...
  • Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In a city full of rising tension, with people going missing or turning up dead, can Max resist the call to help?When Max tries to intervene to prevent an assault and it goes horribly wrong, she wants nothing more than to keep her head down and get on with her job. She does not want to answer calls for help, not even from Bryce, the Order warrior who seems willing to give her a second chance...
  • Dark Curse by Christine Feehan

    Dark Curse by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Born into evil and ice, Dragonseeker Lara Calladine longs to find the source of her nightmares. The only man who can help her is Nicolas De La Cruz who, for centuries, has longed to feel the sensual love of a woman without a hunger for blood. He’s found the perfect mate in Lara. But their mysterious pasts share a secret that could destroy them both...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  magic  m-f  suspense  fated-mates  paranormal  fantasy  dark
  • Glamoured by Jaymin Eve

    Glamoured by Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 47 ratings
    A standalone story in the Wall Street Journal bestselling Shadow Beast Shifters world. Best read after Compelled for storyline continuity.Samantha, of the Clarity shifters, has a secret. And it’s going to cost her everything.To save the most important person in her life, Samantha promises to form a mate bond with her pack’s future leader...
  • Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan

    Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    "There is always a price to pay."So Darius warned her when she accepted a position with his traveling troupe. And gazing mesmerized at the merciless slash of his mouth, the implacable resolve on his face, the soulless emptiness of his black eyes, Tempest was afraid to ask what it was.She had always been different, apart from others...
  • Jared by Teresa Gabelman

    Jared by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    The VC Warriors are an elite group of vampire who protect innocents, whether human or those of their own race. Jared Kincaid, along with other Warriors, are shocked when a fiery red head with a gun and attitude, bring news of young teens being turned into an army of half-breed vampires capable of taking out all VC Warriors...
  • Dark Carousel by Christine Feehan

    Dark Carousel by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 38 ratings
    In the new Carpathian novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a woman falls prey to the seductive allure of the past—and a vampire warrior’s intoxicating embrace... The moment Charlotte Vintage walks into his club, Tariq Asenguard’s blood is set on fire...
  • Dark Legend by Christine Feehan

    Dark Legend by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 64 ratings
    He woke deep within the ground, and the first sensation he felt was hunger. An overwhelming hunger for blood that demanded satisfaction. But as he hunted the dark streets of Paris for prey, a voice called to him, soothing, calming, giving him the strength to control his craving. Francesca Del Ponce was a healer, a woman who radiated goodness as powerfully as the sun did light...
  • Stealing Phoenix by Joss Stirling

    Stealing Phoenix by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Phoenix belongs to the Community, a gang of thieves with paranormal powers. Yves Benedict, an American student visiting London, is her mark. But Yves turns out to be more than just a target. He is her destiny. Her soulmate. The Community owns Phoenix's past and it wants her future too. Can Phoenix save the boy she loves . .
  • Fury's Kiss by Karen Chance

    Fury's Kiss by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 43 ratings
    Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. But so far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing... Dory is used to fighting hard and nasty...
  • Dark Peril by Feehan C Christine Feehan

    Dark Peril by Feehan C Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Dominic of the Dragonseeker lineage - one of the most powerful lines the Carpathian people has - infiltrates the heart of the enemy camp to learn their plans. This is a one-way mission: he plans to get in fast, relay the information and go down fighting - an honourable way to end his life. But a complication lies ahead...
  • Don't Tempt Me by Jackie May

    Don't Tempt Me by Jackie May

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 44 ratings
    Something is wrong with Nora. There’s a darkness inside her that she can’t seem to control. As she and her men search for answers to her siren’s dark nature, someone puts out a hit on her clan. Now, mercenaries from all over are trying to kill them. On top of all that, Nora must take on her first official case for the FUA...
  • Black Hat, White Witch by Hailey Edwards

    Black Hat, White Witch by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 49 ratings
    Remember that old line about how the only way out of the organization is in a pine box?Well, Rue Hollis spent ten years thinking she had escaped the Black Hat Bureau, no coffin required.Then her former partner had to go and shatter the illusion by showing up on her doorstep with grim tidings...
    Categorized as:
    magic  witches  fae  demons  mystery  vampires  suspense  urban fantasy
  • Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep

    Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 42 ratings
    The hotly anticipated ninth novel in the hugely popular Elemental Assassin series finds Gin Blanco on a dangerous mission to rescue a friend. When a terror from the past threatens Gin’s friend and body-disposer, Sophia, Gin will stop at nothing to protect her, even if it means walking straight into a killer’s trap...
  • Dark Challenge by Christine Feehan

    Dark Challenge by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 73 ratings
    Julian Savage was golden. Powerful. But tormented. For the brooding hunter walked alone, always alone, far from his Carpathian kind, alien to even his twin. Like his name, his existence was savage. Until he met the woman he was sworn to protect... When Julian heard Desari sing, rainbows swamped his starving senses. Emotions bombarded his hardened heart...
  • Sacrificial Magic by Stacia Kane

    Sacrificial Magic by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    When Chess Putnam is ordered by an infamous crime boss—who also happens to be her drug dealer—to use her powers as a witch to solve a grisly murder involving dark magic, she knows she must rise to the challenge. Adding to the intensity: Chess’s boyfriend, Terrible, doesn’t trust her, and Lex, the son of a rival crime lord, is trying to reignite the sparks between him and Chess...
  • Walking in the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Walking in the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Some people find power in the light. Others are meant to walk in the dark. Ollie Wit left it all behind: a new home, friends who saw her as something more than a fragile shadow walker and a budding relationship with Kane. She did it all in an effort to shield Asher, who should’ve never been able to escape the Shadowlands...
  • Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

    Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 92 ratings
    It was in Bitten , Kelley Armstrong's debut novel, that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman and the only living female werewolf...
  • Possess Me at Midnight by Shayla Black

    Possess Me at Midnight by Shayla Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    I crave her as much as I can’t have her. IceSabelle Rion is tempting…and forbidden. Her golden beauty lures me like a flame, her every glance daring me to burn. She’s my enemy’s sister. My weakness. And now, my mission.As evil closes in on the apocalyptic weapon we’re hiding, Sabelle’s life—and the fate of magickind—hang in the balance...
  • Dark Whisper by Christine Feehan

    Dark Whisper by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    Embrace the seductive call of the latest novel in Christine Feehan’s #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series.   Vasilisa Sidkorolyavolkva is a Lycan of royal blood. She knows what is expected of her, but all she wants is to be out from under her family’s watchful eyes. There is a fire inside her that is building. A restlessness coupled with a sense of growing dread...
  • Come Alive by Karina Halle

    Come Alive by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 41 ratings
    It’s one thing to bring the woman you love back into your life. It’s another to try and keep her there. For Dex Foray, con­vinc­ing Perry Palomino to open her­self to their bur­geon­ing rela­tion­ship has been more chal­leng­ing than hunt­ing ghosts, bat­tling demons and stalk­ing Sasquatch com­bined...
  • Night Blade by J.C. Daniels

    Night Blade by J.C. Daniels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Kit Colbana is always biting off more than she can chew. She has a knack for finding trouble. This time, though, trouble finds her. Someone from her past drops a case into her lap that she just can’t refuse...literally. People on the Council are dying left and right and she’s been requested to investigate the deaths. The number one suspect? Her lover, Damon...
  • Dark Desire by Christine Feehan

    Dark Desire by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 102 ratings
    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light... The stranger silently summons her from across the continents, across the seas. He whispers of eternal torment, of endless hunger...of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow American surgeon Shea O'Halloran can feel his anguish, sense his haunting aloneness, and she aches to heal him, to heal herself...
  • Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

    Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 57 ratings
    Christine Feehan returns to her uniquely sensual Carpathian world in a novel about the nature of true love and the unnatural forces that can destroy it... Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney...
  • Broken Blade by J.C. Daniels

    Broken Blade by J.C. Daniels

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Kit Colbana: assassin, thief, investigator extraordinaire. Now broken. She always expected her past to catch up with her but never like this. Haunted by nightmares and stripped of her identity, she’s retreated to Wolf Haven, the no-man’s land where she found refuge years before. But while she might want to hide away from the rest of the world, the rest of the world isn’t taking the hint...
  • Dark Seduction by Sarah Piper

    Dark Seduction by Sarah Piper

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Betraying the vampire king has deadly consequences. But what if you crave the punishment?Charlotte...Get in, get the intel, get out. And above all, don’t get noticed.As a master thief, Charley D’Amico lived by those rules... until she screwed up and fell in love with her mark—a sexy, commanding vampire king whose cravings are as dark as his secrets.She should be running for her life...
  • Hunted by Rebecca Zanetti

    Hunted by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    Moira Dunne is a witch - the quantum physics kind. Time and space are her playthings. Which might explain why her one-night stand from a hundred years ago has turned up to "claim" her - and request her family's assistance with the war he's brewing. But the more she learns about Connlan Kayrs, the more she comes to think this is normal behaviour for him..
  • Stalk the Dark by Debbie Cassidy

    Stalk the Dark by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    A Vampire King without a heart needs a watcher who guards hers dearly, but I didn’t expect that watcher to be me.The Order of Helsing have protected the innocent from the Vampire King’s ravenous hunger and cruel games for centuries.He can’t be killed.He can’t be stopped.Because this ancient being has no master...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  witches  magic  demons  suspense  fae  m-f  strong heroine
  • Shadow of Doubt by Hailey Edwards

    Shadow of Doubt by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 34 ratings
    Hadley Whitaker is a liar, a killer, and a chocoholic, but she’s getting better about the first two. Or maybe she’s just getting better at them. Some days it’s hard for her to tell fact from fiction, but only one truth matters. Goddess willing, she’s going to be the next Potentate of Atlanta...
  • The Phantom by Gena Showalter

    The Phantom by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with The Phantom, the third book in her pulse-pounding Rise of the Warlords series, featuring a vengeful harpy and a callous torture master locked in a battle to the death.  As the son of a war god, Roux Pyroesis has suffered unending pain—he’s caused it, too, dispatching his foes with alarming ease...
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