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Lycans and Legends by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSomeone is trying to assassinate the Queen. After stopping a mysterious preternatural assailant wielding an enchanted dagger, Clemeny is on the hunt. Why is someone after Victoria? To find answers, Clemeny Louvel must travel to the one place she’s been avoiding, the Summer Country. Among the mist and standing stones, secrets about her case—and herself—are hiding... -
Midnight Prince by K. Loraine
Our story begins the same as any ill-fated romance. Two households, two families, two species that should never be together. These are the recipe for tragic, beautiful love, fated to end in flames. She is my doom. She is my destiny. Unavoidable, impossible to deny, and painful to ignore. They call me Bastard Prince, a half-breed unworthy of a true title...Categorized as:
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Blood Feast by Vela Roth
This release date is a placeholder and will be moved earlier when the official launch day is announced.Her Grace is in danger - and her fangs are ready for battle.Cassia has risen from the ashes of her human life as a Hesperine with magic the world has never seen. The Gift of immortality from Lio seals their fated Grace bond and frees her from the ancient necromancer known as the Collector... -
Gods & Monsters by Janie Marie
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe human race stands on the brink of extinction; the result of a plague the likes of which the world has never seen. When salvation comes, it isn’t a miracle cure created by science or our government that saves us. No, our saviors are monsters. Jane appears to be nothing special. In fact, she’s a sad sight to behold, afflicted by the sorrow of her tragic past and failing marriage...Categorized as:
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Highland Thirst by Hannah Howell, Lynday Sands
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew York Times bestselling authors Hannah Howell and Lynsay Sands combine talents in their most thrilling book yet. Set in the rugged Scottish Highlands, here is the spellbinding tale of two men destined to live by night with a hunger only the blood of Outsiders can quench--and a passion only two extraordinary women can satisfy. . -
Enthrall by Sandra R. Neeley
Vampires are often irresistibly sexy, powerful and misunderstood. Enthrall is all of those, and more. Being the leader of Whispers — a community of paranormals hidden deep within the south Louisiana swamps — is a difficult and lonely existence. He’s waited centuries to find his love, his mate. Then finally, when he’s all but given up, she’s there... -
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Shane K.P. O'Neill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA WAR RAGES AROUND US EVERY DAY. THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE ALL MANKIND. THE ULTIMATE EVIL. The battle for souls has raged since the truce that followed the First Great War of the Angels. God has struck the ultimate blow and sacrifice to gain the advantage and defeat His fallen angel and estranged son, Lucifer... -
Curse of the Nandi by Vered Ehsani
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJane Austen meets Lara Croft: a paranormal detective refuses to let danger and death inconvenience her in colonial Kenya. Mrs. Knight's most exciting adventure yet! Mrs. Beatrice Knight is preparing to start a life of marital bliss, or at least marital satisfaction, with her new husband who fortunately is very much alive and can’t float through walls... -
At Death's Door by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 10 ratings#1 New York Times bestseller Sherrilyn Kenyon brings us the final chapter in the Deadman's Cross saga with At Death's Door, an epic pirate fantasy perfect for her millions of Dark-Hunter fans Welcome to the latest Deadmen’s Quest... Valynda Moore was born cursed... -
Sword of Darkness by Robin Furth, Robin Gillespie
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn a world where Camelot is ruled by Lord Kerrigan, the peasant Seren has become a pawn between the rulers of light and the rulers of darkness... -
Precious Red Pearls: A Dark Sapphic Captivity Romance by Holly Hawthorne
Tonight, I find myself craving her wrath just as much as I do her pleasure...Being bought as a blood slave for Roseshire’s vampire elite is Pearl’s greatest fear—and the only thing she’s been raised to be.So when she’s purchased by the county’s most elusive and feared vampiress, Lady Veilthorn, and sequestered to her gothic manor on a night, Pearl has no doubt her young life is over... -
The Last Daughter of York by Nicola Cornick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the winter of 1483, Francis Lovell is Richard III’s Lord Chamberlain and confidante, but the threat of Henry Tudor’s rebels has the king entrusting to Francis and his wife, Anne, his most crucial mission: protecting the young Richard of York, his brother’s surviving son and a threat to Henry’s claims to the throne... -
A Vampire in Bavaria by Suzannah Rowntree
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVampires, vengeance…and a mutinous Victorian lady’s maid.It’s not always easy to deal with a ticking bomb—and Miss Sharp just happens to have thrown this one straight at Queen Victoria’s royal train.Liz was only trying to save lives, but now she must face the Kabale, a secret tribunal of royal monsters who don’t easily forgive a stray bomb... -
Descent by L.J. Swallow
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe story of Vee and the Four Horsemen continues in Book Six of The Four Horsemen series. The other books in this reverse harem urban fantasy series must be read first. The Four Horsemen are forced to form an alliance with their enemies to take on a new threat to the world. But can they be trusted? Vee's true self is revealed, and the Four learn more about their past...Categorized as:
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Christmas in Transylvania by Sandra Hill
For the first time ever, the leader of the Viking Vampire Angels, Vikar Sigurdsson, has been talked into celebrating a traditional Christmas! The tree has been decorated, the gifts have been wrapped, and the stockings have been hung... -
Blood Games by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBlending the dark eroticism of the vampire with the suspenseful adventure in history's most exotic locales, Yarbro's Saint-Germain epic continues in this third book that takes place in the last chaotic days of Nero's Rome... -
Sinful Treasure by Tina Folsom
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVenice, Italy - early 1800s When vampire rake Lorenzo Conti finds a beautiful woman sleeping in the bedchamber of his newly acquired home, he believes her to be a housewarming gift bestowed upon him by his thoughtful friends... -
Final Affair by Tina Folsom
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsVenice, Italy - early 1800s Viola has been given three months to live but she refuses to die a virgin. She travels to Venice where she wants to experience physical pleasure with a man without causing a scandal for her family. Afterward, she plans to take her own life to ensure she exits the world painlessly and with dignity... -
Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country: The Greenhollow Duology by Emily Tesh, Matthew Lloyd Davies
5 hours, 51 minutesSilver in the WoodThere is a wild man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes... -
Sensual Danger by Tina Folsom
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsVenice, Italy - early 1800s When vampire Nico purchases a house to further his fellow vampires' goal of creating a secure compound within Venice, he doesn't expect to get a headstrong wife in the bargain. He plans to send her to the mainland after their wedding night so he can continue his debauched bachelor life... -
Angel at Dawn by Emma Holly
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFive hundred years ago, Grace Gladwell had captured Christian Durand's heart and then abandoned him in his darkest hour. Seeing Grace again after all these years has sent Christian reeling-even though she seems to remember nothing of the medieval soldier, he wants her more than ever...Categorized as:
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Strangers In The Night by Anne Stuart, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThese three spooky love stories include Anne Stuart's Dark Journey--Cloaked in the form of a stranger, he lived a lie with the one woman he couldn't deny himself. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Catching Dreams--He existed only in her dreams, until she found him in the flesh, and herself in a nightmare... -
Blood Tide by Tess Oliver
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen four strangers move into Blackpool Cove the same week a tragic shipwreck befalls its shores, Trixie Muldoon waves it off as coincidence. Even the arrival of the appealing, young investigator, David Durham, does not convince her otherwise... -
Immortal Dreams by C.M. Owens, Chrissy Peebles
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings3 Stories 3 Immortal Dreams 3 Immortal Destinies From time travel, to witches and vampires, to forgotten goddesses, this anthology has it all with these three novels. Book 1 - Blood's Fury (Deadly Beauties #1) The world is laid out in black in white through the eyes of Alyssa Coldwell, until she stumbles into the gray area she naively refused to believe existed... -
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Mansions of Darkness by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmbitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's powerful and evocative novels have captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, from the temples of ancient Eygpt to our present century... -
A Bargain of Blood and Gold by Kristin Jacques
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA novice hunter with a mission. A five-hundred-year-old vampire with a strong sense of irony. A town plagued by creatures in need of saving.When Johnathan Newman arrives in Cress Haven, the last thing he expects is for his life to be irrevocably changed. Sent by a clandestine league of vampire hunters to investigate a string of murders, signs point to a vampire lurking amid the townsfolk... -
Immortal Desire by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsTwo enthralling paranormal romances in one volume from the New York Times bestselling author.In Destiny , the Immortal High Witch Nidaba is captured by a madman. After endless torment, she escapes-but is deeply altered. Centuries later, she is found by Nathan King, who loved her long ago. But the beautiful woman he cherished has been replaced by a bitter, angry shell of her former self... -
Magic Unchained by Meg Xuemei X
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsI abandon all hope that my demigods will come for me. In Hell's Academy, it's either kill or be eaten. Demons turn violence into an art form, and they've marked me as their newest victim. A charismatic archdemon offers me a way out of the pit. His price? Spend one night with him and his three dukes. They don't want to conquer my heart, but they have every intention of riding my body...Categorized as:
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Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe Royal Spyness series continues with an all-new mystery of "the British monarchy...a wedding in Transylvania...[and] wonderful characters." (#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Charlaine Harris). Penniless and thirty-fourth in line to the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself in a truly draining state of affairs... -
Ammie, Come Home by Barbara Michaels
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt begins as a lark -- a harmless diversion initiated by Washington, D.C., hostess Ruth Bennett as a means of entertaining her visiting niece, Sara. But the seance conducted in Ruth's elegant Georgetown home calls something back; something unwelcome ... and palpably evil... -
Vowed by Morgan Rice
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsVOWED is Book #7 in the Bestselling series THE VAMPIRE JOURNALS. The series begins with TURNED (Book #1), which is now a free download! In VOWED (Book #7 of the Vampire Journals), Caitlin and Caleb find themselves in medieval Scotland, in 1350, a time of knights and shining armor, of castles and warriors, of the quest for the Holy Grail said to contain the key to true vampire immortality... -
A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis
Margaret Dunhaven may have been forced into marriage with the sinister vampire owner of Shadowcroft Manor in order to fulfill a family obligation, but she's not about to stay trapped there for long...Categorized as:
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One Bite Per Night by Brooklyn Ann
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Dowager Countess of Morley asks Vincent Tremayne, Lord Vampire of Cornwall, to become guardian of her American granddaughter. Vincent honors the agreement and plans to get his new ward married and off his hands as soon as possible. When Lydia Price arrives, she soon turns Vincent's gloomy castle upside-down, and he decides he wants Lydia for himself...Categorized as:
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Vampire Love Story Boxed Set by H.T. Night
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBoxed set of five #1 bestselling Vampire Love Story novels: 1. Vampire Love Story 2. The Werewolf Whisperer 3. Forever and Always 4. Vampires vs. Werewolves 5. Werewolf Love Story VAMPIRE LOVE STORY Josiah Reign is a lover and a fighter. Out for a simple jog, he happens upon a young woman who needs help. So Josiah does what he does best. He takes on her attackers.. -
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Vampire Dragon by Annette Blair
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsOne the run from the mob, Bronte McBride needs the kind of protection that only the mysterious and handsome bodyguard Darkwyn—a former Roman warrior turned dragon—can give her. But Bronte's secrets could endanger both of them. Read Annette Blair's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community... -
Blood of the Rose by Kate Pearce
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Rosalind Llewellyn had to join forces with her enemy, Christopher Ellis to defeat a rogue Vampire threatening Henry VIII, their alliance led to a surprising passion. Reunited after a years separation, they face a new threat that could destroy their last chance at happiness. Christopher is delighted by the spectacular rise at court of his friends George and Anne Boleyn... -
One With the Shadows by Susan Squires
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKate Malone makes her living reading Tarot cards and fleecing society's elite. With no prospect of independence, her own fate looks bleak. But Kate's fortunes change when she steals a magnificent emerald--and is soon confronted by a mysterious stranger. Kate is sure that the striking gentleman's attention is a ruse to retrieve the gem...Categorized as:
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Darker Jewels by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChelsea Quinn Yarbro's immortal vampire, the Comte de Saint-Germain, is one of the most popular characters of his kind ever created. Publishers Weekly has called him a "veritable Prince Charming of the darker arts." In Darker Jewels the Count is sent by the King Of Poland to the court of Russia's Ivan IV, to use his alchemical skills to craft unearthly gems for the mad emperor... -
Pulse and Prejudice by Colette L. Saucier
Narrated by Tim Campbell In this thrilling and sensual adaptation of the classic love story Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet and the citizens of Hertfordshire know Fitzwilliam Darcy to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man, but they never suspect the dark secret of his true nature. He is not a man at all - but a vampire... -
Roman Dusk by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRome is crumbling. The child-emperor, Heliogabalus, diverts the Roman populace with parties, circuses, and celebrations, while his mother and grandmother jockey for power behind the scenes. The government is riddled with scandal and no business is conducted without bribes which grow ever larger... -
Pulse and Prejudice: The Confession of Mr Darcy, Vampire by Colette L. Saucier
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn this thrilling and sensual adaptation of the classic love story, Elizabeth Bennet and the citizens of Hertfordshire know Fitzwilliam Darcy to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man, but they never suspect the dark secret of his true nature. He is not a man at all – but a vampire... -
A Night of Secrets by Lori Brighton
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrayson Bellamont has spent years on the Continent, fighting a war he cares nothing for. It is only while in the chaos of battle that he can hide what he truly is, a vampire. Returning to England, he finds his sister murdered and his seven-year-old niece missing. All over the country vampires are mysteriously dying. Grayson sets out to uncover the truth and locate his niece before it's too late... -
His Ruthless Bite by Brooklyn Ann
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Lord Vampire of Rochester doesn’t do a favor without a price. And now it’s time to collect. Gavin Drake, Baron of Darkwood is being pestered by nosy neighbors and matchmaking mothers of the mortal nobility. To escape their scrutiny, he concludes that it’s time to take a wife... -
Blood Union Part One by Vela Roth
She's ready for her eternal future with him. But the past won't let them go…The night Cassia has fought for is here. At last, she'll drink Lio’s blood and join him as an immortal Hesperine, fulfilling their Grace bond. But then an unexpected guest returns to Orthros with a revelation about the past she never imagined... -
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Gilded Wicked Mirrors by Hazel St. Lewis
In New Swansea, a glittering city once inhabited by vampires, power rests not with the royal class but with the Bargainers—deities trapped in magic mirrors, who exchange power, wealth, and knowledge for a cost . . . often a wretched one... -
Vlad: The Last Confession by C.C. Humphreys
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDracula. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his tale not one of a monster but of a man... and a contradiction. His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved...and whom he had to sacrifice. His closest comrade...and traitor... -
Sunlight Moonlight by Amanda Ashley
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn Sunlight, handsome alien Micah is trapped on Earth after he crash lands and falls in love with beautiful woman, while in Moonlight, the vampire Navarre seeks for a woman brave enough to enter his world... -
My Lord Immortality by Alexandra Ivy, Debbie Raleigh
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHIS BOOK WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 2003 UNDER AUTHOR NAME DEBBIE RALEIGH Despite her impeccable lineage and delicate beauty, Amelia Hadwell has no interest in social demands - not when she must care for her brother William, whose otherworldly manner has convinced their family he is mad... -
Seducing the Vampire (HQN) by Michele Hauf
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHe was mesmerizing, a vampire like none other…but the fire between Viviane and Rhys would begin a centuries-long clash between two powerful vampire brothers. In Marie Antoinette's Paris, the beautiful vampire Viviane seeks a male patron who will allow her to live on her own terms. Courted by two feuding brothers, Viviane succumbs to the handsome rebel, Rhys... -
Deeper Than the Night by Amanda Ashley
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsT ownsfolk of Moulton Bay said there was something otherworldly about Alexander Claybourne. Some people whispered that with his dark, arresting features and mesmerising eyes, the seductive stranger looked every inch a vampire. They never guessed how near the truth they were-or that after more than two hundred years of resisting temptation, Claybourne had found a woman he had to possess...
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