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Revenant by Larissa Ione
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... -
Compelled by Jaymin Eve
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... -
Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop
Jaenelle Angelline now reigns as Queen-protector of the Shadow Realm. No longer will the corrupt Blood slaughter her people and defile her lands. But where one chapter ends, a final, unseen battle remains to be written, and Jaenelle must unleash the terrible power that is Witch to destroy her enemies once and for all. Even so, she cannot stand alone... -
Circle of the Moon by Faith Hunter
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsSet 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... -
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Flame in the Dark by Faith Hunter
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsSet 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... -
Reaver by Larissa Ione
WARRIOR OF HEAVEN Reaver is an angel with a past, a record, and a less-than-heavenly attitude. Powerful enough to fight alongside the fiercest battle angels-and crazy enough to risk his wings on a one-way mission to hell-he's agreed to go where no angel has ever gone before...to steal the most seductive and dangerous prize of Satan himself... -
It's A Hard-Knock Midlife by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMidlife is supposed to be messy, but this is a full-on catastrophic crisis.Just when I thought life might be getting back to normal—normal being a relative word—I couldn’t have been more wrong.Marriage proposal from the Grim Reaper? Yes.Beautiful healthy baby? Yes.Friends and family safe? Yes.Ghost of my worst enemy sitting on my front porch? OMG. Yep... -
Quicksilver by Dannika Dark
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn the world of crime fighting, Raven has learned that formal affairs are a necessary evil. So when Keystone receives an invitation to a winter ball, she tries to make the best of it. The most powerful elites in Cognito are attending—a perfect opportunity to network and have a few drinks. But when a guest hijacks the party in a violent display of dark power, chaos ensues... -
Eternal by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsDemons don't belong in the light.I played a game of deception, and my world was torn apart.Now my pack, my family, and the ruthless demon who has claimed my heart could pay with their lives.To save them, I must walk a treacherous path between hope and destruction—a path that leads me out of the shadows and into the light.Where betrayal waits.With every move I make, my enemies close in... -
Shalador's Lady by Anne Bishop
View our feature on Anne Bishop’s Shalador's Lady. Return to the "intense...erotic...and imaginative" (Nancy Kress) world of the national bestselling Black Jewels novels in this sequel to The Shadow Queen... -
Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan
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... -
Darkest at Dawn by Christine Feehan
In one volume for the first time-a Dark novel and novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author... -
Chosen by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsDemons on the loose. Ritual murders. An ancient vampire breathing down her neck.Some days Max just doesn't know where to start. The problems facing her city are piling up, and there seems no end or solution in sight.Max's job used to be dealing with supernatural creatures... -
Called by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn 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... -
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Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFailing grades. Misleading wind vampires. And a fortune in forgotten gold. Traveling to the most remote region of China certainly wasn’t what Ben Vecchio had in mind for his summer vacation, but when Tenzin suggested a quick trip, he could hardly turn down a chance to keep her out of trouble and practice the Mandarin he still struggled with in class... -
Hunted by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsUnsolved 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... -
Glamoured by Jaymin Eve
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... -
Forged by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsBlood may be thicker than water, but not all families are meant to stay together.Struggling to maintain her independence, and the life she has fought so hard to build, Max finally learns the truth about her own origins and her family.Max has no time to absorb the shocking news... -
Dark Carousel by Christine Feehan
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... -
The Wicked by L.A. Banks
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDamali and Carlos have finally tied the knot, but there is no happily ever after on the horizon. Cain, the son of Eve and the new chairman of the Vampire Council is amassing an army of creatures like no one has ever seen before...Categorized as:
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Dark Nights by Christine Feehan
Dark Descent and Dark Dream #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan revisits and expands her classic novella Dark Descent , bringing to breathtaking new life her story of an immortal Carpathian hunter, a beautiful adventurer, and their dangerous journey toward an unforeseen destiny and an undying love... -
Don't Tempt Me by Jackie May
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... -
Dark Peril by Feehan C Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsDominic 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... -
Moon Cursed by McKenzie Hunter
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBetween life and death, there’s magic.Our secrets have been exposed and now we have to deal with the consequences: Friends of the Midwest Pack are missing. Alliances are forming between enemies whose sole intent is to destroy the pack. And a mysterious group is trying to make a power grab using any means possible... -
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Kiss of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Wulf is an ancient Viking warrior with a useful but extremely aggravating power—amnesia. No one who meets him in person can remember him 5 minutes later. It makes it easy to have one-night stands, but hard to have a meaningful relationship, and without true love he can never regain his soul... -
Dark Possession by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsA Carpathian event-the new hardcover from the phenomenal New York Times bestselling author.Christine Feehan returns to the sensual Carpathian world that has earned her a reputation as "the queen of paranormal romance" (USA Today) in a new novel of true love and the unnatural forces that could destroy it... -
Dark Obsession by Sarah Piper
A vicious demonic plot. A curse decades in the making. An epic love that burns hotter than the very fires of hell…Charlotte...All Charley’s nightmares are real.Demons. Dark witches. Her murderous uncle.With her soul bound to an ancient demon lord and her sister taken captive by a monster, hope is in short supply.But Charley will not go down without a fight... -
Dark Peril by Christine Feehan
Dominic of the Dragonseeker lineage, one of the most powerful lines the Carpathian people has, ingests vampire blood laces with parasites in order to be able to go the very heart of the enemy camp and learn their plans. It is a one way mission. He knows he has little time once the parasites and the blood go to work... -
Twilight's Dawn by Anne Bishop
New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop's Black Jewels novels have enthralled readers and critics alike. Now, in Twilight's Dawn, Bishop returns to the Blood realm with four captivating novellas: Winsol Gifts, Shades of Honor, Family, and The High Lord's Daughter... -
Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsDARK DREAM Christine Feehan She’s known him since she was fifteen. Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falcon—the Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate. A DREAM OF STONE & SHADOW Marjorie M... -
The Killing Floor Blues by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNobody has ever escaped from the Iceberg. It's a privately-owned prison deep in the Mojave Desert, staffed by brutal guards and surrounded by desolate wasteland. Inside the walls, gangs and predators are constant threats; outside the walls, there's nothing but a sniper's bullet or a slow death in the desert heat... -
Possession by J.R. Ward
#1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward explores what really happens when good and evil toy with humanity in her new novel of the Fallen Angels, as the salvation of a doomed soul depends once again on a crossroads... When Cait Douglass resolves to get over her broken heart, throw off her inhibitions, and start really living, she’s unprepared for the two sensual men who cross her path... -
Hunted by Rebecca Zanetti
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.. -
The Bitten by L.A. Banks
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were-demons have been beaten back and now it Damali Richards and Carlos Rivera (now a Council level vampire) will finally have the chance to settle in and explore their deeper, sexier love. But Carlos and Damali should know by now that there is no rest for the saviors of the known world...Categorized as:
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Crave by J.R. Ward
Seven deadly sins. Seven souls that must be saved. One more no-holds- barred battle between a fallen angel with a hardened heart and a demon with everything to lose. Isaac Rothe is a black ops soldier with a dark past and a grim future. The target of an assassin, he finds himself behind bars, his fate in the hands of his gorgeous public defender Grier Childe... -
Shadow of Doubt by Hailey Edwards
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... -
Dark Symphony by Christine Feehan
Blinded and scarred in a terrible accident, Antoinetta Scarletti made music that thrilled the world with its beauty and passion. Descended from a long line of psychics, Antoinetta has learned to rely on her other senses to “see” the world around her, but nothing could have prepared her for Byron. He came to her, drawn by her music, and became her secret obsession... -
Irregulars by Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 17 ratings"NATO's Irregulars Affairs Division is a secret organization operating in thousands of cities around the globe. Its agents police relations between the earthly realm and those beyond this world, protecting us from terrible dangers as well as enthralling temptations... -
Guardian Demon by Meljean Brook
In this thrilling conclusion to the Guardian series, New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook delivers another stunning page-turner, in which the fate of humanity depends upon a tortured warrior winning the trust—and heart—of the woman he wounded… After a terrifying encounter in Hell destroys her trust in Michael, the Guardian’s powerful leader, former detective Andromeda Taylor is... -
Dark Hunger by Christine Feehan
The New York Times bestselling author's Carpathian classic goes Manga! Christine Feehan has reinvented the vampire novel with her New York Times bestselling Carpathian series. Now she and Berkley take her "out-of-the- ordinary" (Booklist) in a thrilling new direction--and this time it's more graphic than ever... -
Night Treasures by Richard Amos
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThere’s no rest for the, erm… Well, for me.Or for Tae Frost.Chaos reigns supreme, everything turned upside down.The world is calling out for a hero.Can I rise to the challenge, or am I doomed to linger in the dark?I have to hold on to hope.For Tae.For Fizz.For the whole of my heart... -
Night's End by Yasmine Galenorn
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsEons ago, vampires tried to turn the dark Fae in order to harness their magic, only to create a demonic enemy more powerful than they could have imagined. Now, in a final push, Myst returns with a vengeance to bring the Golden Wood forever under the rule of the Indigo Court. Newly crowned Fae Queens Cicely and Rhiannon have embraced their destinies and claimed their thrones... -
After Twilight by Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThree of romance's hottest bestselling authors -- Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan, and Ronda Thompson -- invite you to explore the dark side, to taste the forbidden, to dive into danger with heroes who fire the blood and lay claim to the soul in these striking tales of sensual passion. A man hunts for a woman... -
Destiny by K.N. Banet
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThis fight has always been my destiny.In a previous life, I had run from it, and that choice was the death of me. That mistake went down in history, becoming a story that haunted my people for centuries.I won’t run this time. I’ve regrouped, collected my allies, and sheltered my people. Now, I go hunting. I can’t rest until my people are safe. I can’t stop until the ones we lost are avenged... -
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The Salted Sceptre by Helen Harper
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAll my dreams are coming true. But some nightmares continue to lurk in the shadows.I should be celebrating. Hell, I should be the happiest elf in the world. Unfortunately, I can’t revel in my successes when there’s a foul fiend who is relentlessly trying to lure me to his side... -
Blood Past by Samantha Young
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAll Eden wants is redemption... but the road to redemption is never an easy one. Travelling to Scotland to find her mother’s bloodline, Eden is soon embroiled in the politics and training of the Scottish Warriors of Neith. It is a world where some stand with open arms ready to welcome her as family, while others keep a wary distance, conspiring against her... -
Great Hexpectations by H.P. Mallory
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsI know I'm at fault for failing to arrest a wanted criminal but when my partner gets pinned for the crime, I'll stop at nothing to ensure his innocence.What I'm not planning on is a trip to the infamous Netherworld where chaos rules... -
New Regime by Laken Cane
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsRune and her people have been taken under the mysterious wing of the Annex, an agency that works toward Other equality.But with the new regime comes changes and some monstrous enemies the Annex seems to have brought with it.The crew finds themselves up against a group called the Shop, whose leader cares only about his lab and the monsters he creates there... -
The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop
New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop returns to the world of her Black Jewels Trilogy with a prequel that follows a man who is determined to rebel against the course set before him... Jared is a Red-Jeweled Warlord bound as a pleasure slave by the Ring of Obedience... -
The Hunted by L.A. Banks
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsEach millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress whose mission is to vanquish evil from the world. This millennium's savior has come in the form of Damali Richards, a hip-hop diva with the heart of a warrior and an attitude to match. But a war in Hell has cost Damali both her powers and her past love, Carlos Rivera. Still, Damali can't let her grief stand in her way...
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