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  • ‎Magical Midlife Alliance by K.F. Breene

    ‎Magical Midlife Alliance by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 46 ratings
    Book 7 in the ongoing Wall Street Journal bestselling Leveling Up series!After returning from the basajaunak lands, it's clear that Jessie and her crew need to find an alliance quickly. They need to head to Kingsley's in less than a couple of months. If they go as they are, they'll never be enough to save Austin's brother from total annihilation...
  • Night's Reckoning by Elizabeth Hunter

    Night's Reckoning by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Darkness comes for everyone, and some fates are inescapable.For over a thousand years, the legendary sword Laylat al Hisab—the Night’s Reckoning—has been lost in the waters of the East China Sea. Forged as a peace offering between two ancient vampires, the sword has eluded treasure hunters, human and immortal alike.But in time, even the deep gives up its secrets...
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  • Ever After by Kim Harrison

    Ever After by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 78 ratings
    The ever after, the demonic realm that parallels the human world, is shrinking. If it disappears completely, so does all magic. It's up to witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan to avert catastrophe and keep life from changing... for the worse. While saving the world is important, it isn't Rachel's only motivation...
  • Beach Blanket Wendigo by Amanda M. Lee

    Beach Blanket Wendigo by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Moonstone Bay is in an uproar. The DDA is on the run, but they’re not going down without a fight. While all that’s going on, Hadley Hunter is practicing her magic. She managed to join with her elemental friends for a huge wins—and feels that’s important for the DDA fight—but she needs practice.Nothing is perfect, however...
  • Sookie Stackhouse 7-copy Boxed Set by Charlaine Harris

    Sookie Stackhouse 7-copy Boxed Set by Charlaine Harris

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 50 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series, now available in one deluxe boxed set!Dead until Dark is now the HBO original series True BloodContains: Dead until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, Definitely Dead, and All Together...
  • Omens and Artifacts by Elizabeth Hunter

    Omens and Artifacts by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the elemental world, reputation is everything, but gaining it can get you killed.Setting up shop as an antiquities hunter means nothing if you don't have clients. Benjamin Vecchio, nephew of a famed vampire assassin, is the subject of widespread speculation, but so far that speculation hasn't translated into work.What Ben needs is a job. A big job. A profitable job.A legendary job...
  • Blood Apprentice by Elizabeth Hunter

    Blood Apprentice by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    If you’re a human in a vampire’s world, nothing goes according to plan. When a map to the mysterious fortune of notorious privateer Miguel Enríquez falls in the lap of Ben and Tenzin, only one of them is jumping at the opportunity. Tenzin can’t wait to search for a secret cache of gold. Ben, on the other hand, couldn’t be less excited...
  • Imitation and Alchemy by Elizabeth Hunter

    Imitation and Alchemy by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    All Ben Vecchio wanted was a quiet summer before his last semester of university. Was that too much to ask? All Tenzin wanted was a cache of priceless medieval coins that had been missing for several hundred years. And some company. Phrases like “never again” don’t mean much when you’ve been a vampire for several thousand years...
  • Summoned to Thirteenth Grave by Darynda Jones

    Summoned to Thirteenth Grave by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 53 ratings
    Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the final installment of Darynda Jones’ New York Times bestselling paranormal series! Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire, is pissed. She’s been kicked off the earthly plain for eternity – which is the appropriate amount of time to make a person starkraving mad...
  • The Dirt on Ninth Grave by Darynda Jones

    The Dirt on Ninth Grave by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 74 ratings
    In a small village in New York lives Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback. Stranger still are the people entering her life. They seem to know things about her. Things they hide with lies and half-truths. Soon, she senses something far darker...
  • Spider’s Revenge by Jennifer Estep

    Spider’s Revenge by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Old habits die hard. And I plan on mur­der­ing some­one before the night is through. Killing used to be my reg­u­lar gig, after all. Gin Blanco, aka the Spi­der, assassin-for-hire. And I was very good at it. Now, I’m ready to make the one hit that truly mat­ters: Mab Mon­roe, the dan­ger­ous Fire ele­men­tal who mur­dered my fam­ily when I was thir­teen...
  • Archangel's Prophecy by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Prophecy by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 69 ratings
    Return to New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s darkly passionate Guild Hunter world, where human-turned-angel Elena Deveraux, consort to Archangel Raphael, is thrust center stage into an eons-old prophecy.... Midnight and dawn, Elena’s wings are unique among angelkind…and now they’re failing. The first mortal to be turned into an immortal in angelic memory, she’s regressing...
  • Sorrow's Song by Keri Arthur

    Sorrow's Song by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    They say breaking up is hard to do. They're wrong. Living with the consequences is so much harder, especially when sorrow is a powerful draw to evil ...Lizzie Grace is trying to get on with her life now that she and Aiden have gone their separate ways, but it's a difficult thing to do when just about everything reminds her of the damn man...
  • Pearl Sky by Elizabeth Hunter

    Pearl Sky by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    “If you want to make something new, my Benjamin, be wary of what you unmake in the process.”It’s not just any holiday season for Ben and Tenzin. Elder Zhang’s oldest servant is reaching the century mark and Ben and Tenzin arrive to honor him, but no sooner have they landed on Penglai Island than they’re confronted with the theft of a priceless artifact...
  • Darkness Rises by Dianne Duvall

    Darkness Rises by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    Krysta is used to getting the drop on vampires. Her "special abilities" aren't much, but the plan is simple--she plays helpless pretty young thing to lure them in. Then her shoto swords come out and it's bye-bye, bloodsucker. Until one night she finds herself with an unexpected ally. He's a vampire, all right, but different. Mysterious. Handsome...
  • Saggy But Witty in Crescent City by Brenda Trim

    Saggy But Witty in Crescent City by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Vampires with a vendetta. The Queen of Voodoo. Nasty necromancers. Just another day in my life.If you need a magical mystery solved, apparently I'm your gal. As the go-to private detective for the supernatural community, I've got every shifter, fae, and ghoul knocking on my door. Now the local vampires have decided to test me by leaving a dead shifter in a public park...
  • Broken Bonds by Keri Arthur

    Broken Bonds by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The winds of change are finally whispering through the Faelan Werewolf Reservation...Lizzie Grace is doing her utmost to ignore the portents of doom, wanting nothing more than enjoy her life and her time with Aiden O'Connor while she still can...
  • Wicked Wings by Keri Arthur

    Wicked Wings by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    In a reservation where magic has been unrestrained for entirely too long, there is no rest from the wicked… After dealing with the fallout of a shape-shifting, fire-throwing demon, Lizzie, Belle, and Aiden are hoping the reservation will finally catch a break from the constant influx of evil...
  • For I Have Sinned by Darynda Jones

    For I Have Sinned by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Darynda Jones revisits the sexy, suspenseful world of supernatural shenanigans she created in her Grave series with For I Have Sinned.  In this Charley Davidson story, Charley helps a woman find out how she died and gives her the closure she needs to pass through to the other side...
  • No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong

    No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 62 ratings
    Readers around the world have fallen for Kelley Armstrong’s intoxicating, sensual and wicked tales of the paranormal, in which demons and witches, werewolves and vampires collide – often hilariously, sometimes violently – with everyday life. In Armstrong’s first six novels, Elena, Paige and Eve have had their way with us...
  • Rapture by Jacquelyn Frank

    Rapture by Jacquelyn Frank

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Magnus is a man of contradictions - a spiritual leader in a warrior's body. To him, laws are for enforcing and visions must be followed - even if that means freeing a beautiful slave and making her his reluctant handmaiden. Betrayed once before, Magnus can barely bring himself to trust another woman. Yet Daenaira's fiery innocence is drawing them both into a reckless inferno of desire...
  • The Vampire's Sunny Sweetheart by Kristen Painter

    The Vampire's Sunny Sweetheart by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town where Halloween is celebrated 365 days a year. The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better. Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all...
  • Building From Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter

    Building From Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    He's the rock that others have built their lives on.She's the human who might burn it all down.For a thousand years, earth vampire Carwyn ap Bryn has sacrificed for the good of his family, his church, and his friends. He is a protector, a mentor, and a friend. But though his family has thrived, Carwyn remains alone in eternity...
  • Widow’s Web by Jennifer Estep

    Widow’s Web by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique. Once an assassin, always an assassin. So much for being plain old Gin Blanco. With every lowlife in Ashland gunning for me, I don’t need another problem, but a new one has come to town...
  • Duncan by D.B. Reynolds

    Duncan by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Washington, D.C. … capital of an empire. Powerful. Exhilarating. Corrupt. And in the shadows … vampires far older than the nation itself. A power unto himself, Duncan has served at Raphael’s side for a hundred and fifty years. But long laid plans have finally borne fruit, and the time has come for Duncan to leave Raphael and tackle the greatest challenge of his life...
  • Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep

    Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 53 ratings
    I’d rather face a dozen lethal assassins any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings . But here I am. Gin Blanco, the semi-retired assassin known as the Spider. Hovering outside sexy businessman Owen Grayson’s front door like a nervous teenage girl. One thing I like about Owen: he doesn’t shy away from my past—or my present...
  • By a Thread by Jennifer Estep

    By a Thread by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    The sixth book in the USA TODAY bestselling Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series featuring Gin Blanco, who by day owns a Tennessee BBQ joint, and by night is a tough female assassin known as the Spider. I never thought I’d need a vacation from being an assassin…. My name is Gin Blanco, and I’m the assassin the Spider...
  • Archangel's Viper by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Viper by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Enter New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s breathtakingly passionate Guild Hunter world with the story of a woman who isn’t a vampire or an angel…or human… Once a broken girl known as Sorrow, Holly Chang now prowls the shadowy gray underground of the city for the angels. But it’s not her winged allies who make her a wanted woman—it’s the unknown power coursing through her veins...
  • Mosaics and Magic by Nancy Warren

    Mosaics and Magic by Nancy Warren

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Beware the crystal ball...When Lucy and Rafe are given a crystal ball as a wedding present, she’s shocked when it foretells doom. For the newlyweds, this was supposed to be a time of joy and celebration. But when a terrible accident befalls one of their wedding guests, Lucy and Rafe must postpone their honeymoon. And as the evidence begins to unravel, it becomes clear this was no accident...
  • Black Widow by Jennifer Estep

    Black Widow by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    There’s nothing worse than a cruel, cunning enemy with time to kill—and my murder to plan. With wicked Fire elemental Mab Monroe long gone, you’d think I could finally catch a break. But someone’s always trying to take me down, either as Gin Blanco or my assassin alter-ago. Now along comes the Spider’s new arch-nemesis, the mysteriously named M. M...
  • Holy Smokes by Katie MacAlister

    Holy Smokes by Katie MacAlister

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    I’m Aisling Grey—but you can call me “frustrated.” The dragon of my dreams—uber-sexy Drake Vireo, wyvern of the green dragons—has finally decided to make an honest woman of me. That is, if we ever make it to the wedding at the same time! Being left at the altar may have cooled my jets, but not my passion...a good thing when Drake disappears and it's up to me to find him...
  • The Vampire of Montana by Susan Copperfield

    The Vampire of Montana by Susan Copperfield

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As a member of the RPS, Daphne Niell, also known as the Vampire of Montana, lives to serve.On a good day, she hunts terrorists and eliminates them before they can strike.On a bad one, His Royal Majesty of Montana, also known as her twerp of a cousin, sends her overseas to play nice with foreign monarchs...
  • Let Sleeping Ghosts Lie by Elle Adams

    Let Sleeping Ghosts Lie by Elle Adams

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to Hawkwood Hollow, where the dead outnumber the living.When a local witch shows up in an apparent drowning, everyone thinks it's a tragic accident. New witch in town Maura would, too, except her Reaper senses are telling her there's something not quite right about the woman's death.When the victim's ghost vanishes, she knows her instincts were right...
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  • Spirit Witch by Helen Harper

    Spirit Witch by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 63 ratings
    If anyone appreciates what it means to be dead to the world, it's Ivy Wilde. Barely recovered from her brush with necromancy, Ivy is flung once more into a world of intrigue, adventure and potential death and disaster. It's not her fault - it just so turns out that she's now the only person in the entire world who can communicate with the dead. And they're a chatty bunch with a list of demands...
  • Guardian by Shannon Mayer

    Guardian by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    "My name is Rylee and I am a Tracker." When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. After months of danger, running for my life, and dealing with one crisis after another, I'm finally getting that vacation I deserve...
  • Darkness Unmasked by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Unmasked by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Keri Arthur's explosive Dark Angels series is packed with everything you could want: a fiesty heroine, witches, vampires, werewolves, demons, angels of death, suspense and a whole lot of sexy action. The sexy, exciting, suspenseful adventures continue in New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur's Dark Angels series, starring Risa Jones, a half-Aedh/half-werewolf...
  • 101 Ways to Die by R.J. Blain

    101 Ways to Die by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Officer McMarin of the NYPD is in for the ride of her life when the Chief Quinns storm into her station, promote her to the rank of detective, and relocate her to Manhattan. Saddled with the dubious honor of being Chief Bailey Quinn’s primary rider is only the beginning of her woes.Her first case delves into the dark waters of the many ways in which a person can die...
  • Boundary Lines by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Lines by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Fitting into the Old World isn’t going very well for Boulder boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther: she may have earned a place in a vampire’s service, but now it seems as if every supernatural creature in town has found a reason to hate her...
  • Blade to the Keep by Lauren Dane

    Blade to the Keep by Lauren Dane

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Only Rowan Summerwaite can keep the peace between humans and Vampires in Blade to the Keep, the second novel in the fan-favorite Goddess with a Blade series by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Dane Canny and ferocious, with the power of an ancient Goddess in her belly, Rowan Summerwaite is the only person who can renegotiate the fragile Treaty between the Vampire Nation and the Hunter...
  • Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter, Maggie Shayne

    Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter, Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    From the masters of paranormal romance, three brand-new tales of seduction… The Darkest Angel by Gena Showalter A Lords of the Underworld tale An iron-willed demon assassin, the angel Lysander has never known lust—until he meets Bianka. Spawned from the bloodline of Lucifer, the beautiful but deadly Harpy is determined to lead the pure-hearted Lysander into temptation…...
  • Black Dawn by Rachel Caine

    Black Dawn by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    With its eclectic mix of vampire and human citizens, Morganville, Texas, has always been a risky place to call home. But with the invasion of the vampire’s deadliest enemy, Morganville isn’t just in danger—it’s dying…  Ever since the draug—mysterious creatures that prey on vampires—took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil...
  • Hell's Bell by Keri Arthur

    Hell's Bell by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 38 ratings
    When the church bell tolls thrice in the middle of the night, evil this way comes…Lizzie Grace and Belle Kent, her witch familiar, are living and working on the Faelan Werewolf Reservation—one that has banned the use of magic within its borders. Although they have their supporters—including ranger Aiden O’Connor, who once hated all things witch—Lizzie and Belle now face possible eviction...
  • Yvette's Haven by Tina Folsom

    Yvette's Haven by Tina Folsom

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Scanguards Vampires series - over 1 Million copies sold worldwide! After being kidnapped by a vampire hunter, vampire bodyguard Yvette's first instinct is to kill the bastard. But before she gets the chance, she realizes that he was double-crossed by the witch he was working for and now is in as much danger as she is...
  • Running Scared by Shannon K. Butcher

    Running Scared by Shannon K. Butcher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    They are the Sentinels. Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn. Now one Sentinel's survival determines the fate of them all. Lexi Johns has one purpose: to free her best friend from the hands of the Sentinels...
  • Deadly Sting by Jennifer Estep

    Deadly Sting by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Red is definitely my color. Good thing, because in my line of work, I end up wearing it a lot. Most people shy away from blood, but for an assassin like me— Gin Blanco, aka the Spider—it’s just part of the job. Still, it would be nice to get a night off, especially when I’m attending the biggest gala event of the summer at Briartop, Ashland’s fanciest art museum. But it’s just not meant to be...
  • The Noose of a New Moon by Helen Harper

    The Noose of a New Moon by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Devereau Webb is in uncharted territory. He thought he knew what he was doing when he chose to enter London’s supernatural society but he’s quickly discovering that his new status isn’t welcome to everyone.He’s lived through hard times before and he’s no stranger to the murky underworld of city life...
  • Hunted by D.B. Reynolds

    Hunted by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Power , it comes down to this... those who have it, those who want it. Revenge , the need for it is a fire in the soul, a goad for the unwise. Hunted , the fate of the foolish when they think to become the hunter. The Lord of the Midwest is dead, and the powerful vampires of North America are gathering to choose his successor...
  • Blood Solstice by Samantha Young

    Blood Solstice by Samantha Young

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Enter a world of fierce wolves, stunning magic and romance... In the final installment of The Tale of Lunarmorte, Caia is caught between the most powerful beings in her world, and they are all desperate to use her for their own means. While Caia struggles to find her purpose, tragedy strikes close to home, and time runs out...
  • Midnight Curse by Melissa F. Olson

    Midnight Curse by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Scarlett Bernard is used to cleaning up messes. As a human who cancels out any magic around her, Scarlett's job is to keep the supernatural world hidden—at any cost. But on the eve of the Vampire Trials, a two-day tribunal that allows the otherworldly community to air their grievances, Scarlett receives a blood-soaked message from Molly, her estranged former roommate...
  • Me and My Shadow by Katie MacAlister

    Me and My Shadow by Katie MacAlister

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    A Stalker From Hell May Northcott is a woman at the end of her rope. She’d almost gotten used to her employer, the ex-demon lord Magoth, spending his days hanging around her home and interrupting her private moments with her lover, Gabriel. Then trouble appears on her doorstep in the form of a nearly dead man...
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