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  • The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

    The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 94 ratings
    THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe...
  • The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

    The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 102 ratings
    The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin.THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night...
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  • The Wicked by L.A. Banks

    The Wicked by L.A. Banks

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Damali 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...
  • The Grim Reaper's Lawyer by Mea Monique

    The Grim Reaper's Lawyer by Mea Monique

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 46 ratings
    When having to decide between spending her afterlife in hell or as the Grim Reaper’s Lawyer, it's not even a hard choice for Joyce Parker. Of course she’d choose hell.Joyce thought her prayers were finally answered when her client killed her. Yes, she knows, it's morbid. But, so is being a lawyer. Now dead, Joyce thought it was blue skies, angel wings, mimosas and Jesus...
  • Claiming Gabriel by Tessa Stone

    Claiming Gabriel by Tessa Stone

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    In a world of danger and destiny, Gabriel must rescue orphaned shifters while grappling with an irresistible bond to Olivia, the waitress who unwittingly becomes his fated mate. Gabriel I’m the last of my pack to find a mate, and it’s agonizing. I crave the family life I’ve watched my brothers enjoy for years...
  • The Hunted by L.A. Banks

    The Hunted by L.A. Banks

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Each 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...
  • Always Running by Calliope Stewart

    Always Running by Calliope Stewart

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 34 ratings
    Is it finally time to stop running?Tibby Sinclair is the queen of messy beginnings. Raised for fourteen years in a religious cult before being tossed into the San Francisco Omega Academy, Tibby never had a chance. That didn't stop her though. She toughened up and became someone that would protect herself...
  • Going Down Smooth Part Two by Dreia Wells

    Going Down Smooth Part Two by Dreia Wells

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Pack Smooth has a nice ring to it.Alpha and Omega, I can do both. With my father’s company now in my care, the world is about to witness the Omega Revolution. If I must be the first to prove all the naysayers wrong, then I will do it with my head held high and in style.Someone wants to silence me, destroy everything my father built, his legacy, my dream...
  • Colorblind by Violette Dubrinsky

    Colorblind by Violette Dubrinsky

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    Leon Arnaud is a French werewolf on a mission in America. Unlike most of his kind, he cannot sit idly back and watch humans commit one of the vilest atrocities he’s ever seen: slavery. With wealth and connections at his disposal, he arrives in Louisiana with one purpose and one purpose only: to free as many slaves as possible...
  • The Awakening by L.A. Banks

    The Awakening by L.A. Banks

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    A battle is brewing in the underworld, and at the center of it all is Damali Richards, spoken word artist and vampire huntress. But she is not just any huntress; she is the millennium Neteru, a woman so powerful that the vampire world is about to start a war-one that threatens to spread onto her streets-in order to possess her..
  • Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert

    Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 100 ratings
    He was my enemy. My lover. My husband. And the one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy. Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she's not about to start now—even if that means marrying Olympus's enemy number one, the new Hephaestus...
  • The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

    The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 64 ratings
    In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city...
  • Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh

    Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 45 ratings
    Joy needs a deal with a demon to bring an end to the man who’d ruined her life. Malachi needs a deal with a human so he can remain in the mortal realm, far from the sentries looking to drag him back to his sect in hell.It’s a match seemingly made in heaven...
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  • Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

    Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa. In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways; yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land...
  • The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs

    The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clipping.Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep...
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

    Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 54 ratings
    Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire...
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