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  • The Darkest Sampler by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Sampler by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FREE DIGITAL SAMPLER FEATURING EXTENDED EXCERPTS FROM BESTSELLING SENSATION GENA SHOWALTER'S ENTHRALLING LORDS OF THE UNDERWORLD SERIESWelcome to a dark and sensual world, where the line between good and evil blurs and true love is put to the ultimate test...
  • The HellBeast's Soul by Stephanie Hudson

    The HellBeast's Soul by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I never meant to change.Never meant to carry the burden of truth.All I ever wanted to do was love him.All I ever wanted was to save him.But I realize now that with wants, sometimes comes sacrifice.The strength to accept the change and the discovery that,You might not be just who you thought you were.You might be exactly who…Your King needs you to be.In order to save… A HellBeast’s soul...
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  • Dark Horizon Eclipse of the Heart by I. T. Lucas

    Dark Horizon Eclipse of the Heart by I. T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Margo's life takes an unexpected turn when she reunites with old friends aboard a cruise ship and discovers a world beyond her wildest dreams. She soon learns that the man who saved her from the cartel is not human but an alien with god-like mind-control abilities who was genetically engineered to embody physical perfection...
  • Jax by Kym Grosso

    Jax by Kym Grosso

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Kym Grosso JAX (IMMORTALS OF NEW ORLEANS, BOOK 7) Agrestis Wolves’ Alpha, Jax Chandler, is on a mission to exact retribution after being captured and tortured by an enigmatic adversary. When the sophisticated publishing mogul rescues a beautiful wolf, he recognizes the woman he’d once believed to be his mate...
  • Vital by Jamie Magee

    Vital by Jamie Magee

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Willow’s journey continues in VITAL, the fourth book in the INSIGHT series. Combating a crumbling family life, a circle of suddenly inconsiderate friends who seem determined to anger her, and a plethora of emotional trials too numerous to withstand, Willow feels overwhelmed. She has pushed herself beyond her own limits and in so doing has closed her mind. Dreams are no longer coming to her...
  • After Dark: The Darkest Angel/Shadow Hunter by Gena Showalter, Kait Ballenger

    After Dark: The Darkest Angel/Shadow Hunter by Gena Showalter, Kait Ballenger

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A timeless seduction A unique temptation And a whole world of dark desires... From New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter The Darkest Angel Winged warrior Lysander has been alive for centuries, and yet he's never known desire-until he meets Bianka...
  • Micaela's Big Bad by Tijan

    Micaela's Big Bad by Tijan

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A Halloween NovellaI found my boyfriend mid-thrust in a vampire.Gross. WTH, right? Also, a fork might've been thrown.I expected to spend the night commiserating with my best friend.That didn't happen. I found myself on a mission to save her.And somehow, I woke up in the back of a vehicle, across from a guy who could be described as literal sex on a stick...
  • Enslave by Felicity Heaton

    Enslave by Felicity Heaton

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    His determination to succeed in business has left no room in his life for love. Now, a beautiful and deadly succubus has teleported into his dark, decadent world and is in danger of enslaving his heart...
  • Encala by T.M. Nielsen

    Encala by T.M. Nielsen

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Encala, Book 3 in the Heku Series, finds Emily and Chevalier settled into the palace and life as one of the ruling heads of the Equites begins. The Equites elect Damon onto the Equites Council and he immediately finds himself at odds with Emily. Her independence and head-strong personality harshly conflict with his strict nature as one of the ‘old ones’...
  • Voodoo Kiss by Jayde Scott

    Voodoo Kiss by Jayde Scott

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Aspiring rock star, Sofia, had her whole future figured out. Or so she thought until her sister's sacrificed in a horrific ritual. Now Sofia's haunted by dreadful nightmares and terrifying visions from a past she never knew existed...
  • Darkness Seduced by Stephanie Rowe

    Darkness Seduced by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Immortal warrior Gideon Roarke made an oath five hundred years ago to the woman who died for him. The ancient Calydon is ruthless in his quest to honor that promise, even if it means risking everything by teaming up with the one woman who will either destroy him, or finally bring redemption to his blackened, hardened soul...
  • Bewitch by Felicity Heaton

    Bewitch by Felicity Heaton

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A vampire with a past stained with blood and a soul tainted with darkness, he is perfect in his self-control, never surrendering to his darkest desires. Now a beautiful witch in the shadowy fae underworld threatens to reawaken long denied hungers and tempts him with carnal pleasure...
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    vampires  demons  m-f  contemporary  paranormal  fae  magic  witches
  • One Bite Stand by Nina Bangs

    One Bite Stand by Nina Bangs

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Daria never quite lived up to the nightmare reputation the rest of her kind had. Now she has a chance to prove herself. She can win the favor of Hades by delivering vampire Declan Mackenzie to Tartarus. Easier said than done once love enters the games...
  • Wicked Edge by Nina Bangs

    Wicked Edge by Nina Bangs

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Nina Bangs once again tempts readers to enter the wickedly sensual Castle of Dark Dreams--a playground where private pleasures and devilish fantasies come true, where the men who breathe life into women's ultimate desires burn with their own supernatural fire... As an angel, Passion prides herself on perfection...
  • Valle by T.M. Nielsen

    Valle by T.M. Nielsen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The ominous Valle Faction vows to gain possession of what the Equites has hidden in the well protected Island Coven. Just as Emily thinks she’s found peace in the volatile world of the heku, she’s brutally ripped from the protective walls of Chevalier’s coven and thrown into the harsh reality of a Valle prison...
  • The Vengeance of the Vampire Bride by Rhiannon Frater

    The Vengeance of the Vampire Bride by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In THE TALE OF THE VAMPIRE BRIDE, Lady Glynis suffered great horrors at the hands of her evil vampire master, Count Vlad Dracula, and vowed she would one day escape him...
  • Time Without End by V.M. Black

    Time Without End by V.M. Black

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Bound to the Vampire Cora Shaw was bonded twice to the billionaire vampire Dorian Thorne, once though blood and again through her promise to marry him. She knew that her life with him could never be easy. But the dangers that lurk in their bond—the incredible power it gives him over her and the recklessness that it stirs in her—are only a start of the peril that they face...
  • Perfect Match 2: King’s Chosen by I. T. Lucas

    Perfect Match 2: King’s Chosen by I. T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    When Lisa's nutty friends get her a gift certificate to Perfect Match Virtual Fantasy Studios, she has no intentions of using it. But since the only way to get a refund is if no partner can be found for her, she makes sure to request a fantasy so girly and over the top that no sane guy will pick it up. Except, someone does...
  • Always, Angel by Heather Killough-Walden

    Always, Angel by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the "New York Times "bestselling author of the Big Bad Wolf paranormal romances, a brand-new novella in the world of the Lost Angels. For millennia, the archangels have searched for their destined mates on earth. Now they are beginning to unite, but for Angel, it is a time of danger and fear...
  • Don't Flirt With Demons by Grace McGinty

    Don't Flirt With Demons by Grace McGinty

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    We've all been through that one shitty break-up. The one that breaks your heart, turning you into a sobbing, soggy mess. Where you drink so much you accidentally summon a demon. No? Just Elsie?When Elsie decides to get over a bad break-up with a small fire pit and a large bottle of vodka, the last thing she expects is to summon the sexy as hell demon, Ukobach. He of the Impressive D...
  • To Sway a Demon Heart by Madeleine Eliot

    To Sway a Demon Heart by Madeleine Eliot

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    After he rejected their mating bond, Brigid is resigned to working with Tyr as no more than a colleague. But when events conspire to throw them together in order to select an heir to the Court of Shadow, the pair are faced with the difficulty of their ignored bond and the reality that the Pull between them is stronger than ever...
  • Perfect Match 1: Vampire’s Consort by I. T. Lucas

    Perfect Match 1: Vampire’s Consort by I. T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    When Gabriel’s company is ready to start beta testing, he invites his old crush to inspect its medical safety protocol. Curious about the revolutionary technology of the Perfect Match Virtual Fantasy-Fulfillment studios, Brenna agrees.Neither expects to end up partnering for its first fully immersive test run...
  • Wicked Fantasy by Nina Bangs

    Wicked Fantasy by Nina Bangs

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Nina Bangs presents the final book in her trilogy of three brothers who star in the erotic dramas of the Castle of Dark Dreams. Little do their riveted female customers know that the sexy role-players are driven by paranormal passions...which are more than fulfilled by the exotic devices of their women..
  • Hard Days Night by C.L. Quinn

    Hard Days Night by C.L. Quinn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    My name is Mal. I'm a cop in Los Angeles. I can tell you, I thought I'd seen everything... turns out, I was wrong . One night, on a forced vacation, watching a sunset on a lovely beach, I intercepted a call for a homicide. It wasn't my jurisdiction, but I decided to respond until the locals could get there...
  • Destiny Bewitched by Leia Shaw

    Destiny Bewitched by Leia Shaw

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Samantha, a witch from the wrong side of the tracks, would do anything to save her younger sister from the Underworld Games, even join the supernatural gladiator-style event. Her hope lies in the only good demon in the realm, Geo. Even with those wicked horns, Geo is as hot as the hell she's stuck in...
  • Eternal Flame Bundle by Cynthia Eden

    Eternal Flame Bundle by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Librarian's note: this bundle is not in chronological order. To avoid spoilers, the bundle should be read in this order: second book, third book, first book Eternal Flame Cynthia Eden invites you into the world of the Others--supernatural creatures who are sexy, powerful, and more than human in every way... No one that deadly should look that good...
  • Red the Were Hunter by Rebekah R. Ganiere

    Red the Were Hunter by Rebekah R. Ganiere

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of: ASIN B00K0SEV2A What if you were the key to an ancient prophecy that would begin to heal your lands, but fulfilling your destiny meant you had to turn your back on everything you'd been taught to believe in? Redlynn of Volkzene, member of the Sisterhood of Red, is heartbroken to discover another girl kidnapped and her best friend slain by werewolves...
  • All the King's Men: The Beginning by Donya Lynne

    All the King's Men: The Beginning by Donya Lynne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    NOTE: This book is a prequel. Reading the first five books of the series will greatly enhance your reading experience of this book. Micah Black is a vampire in trouble. He already lost one mate in the Middle Ages and barely survived her passing. Now, he's about to lose another, and this time it could kill him. Except he's not entirely convinced he has actually mated Jackson...
  • Quenched by Z.L. Arkadie

    Quenched by Z.L. Arkadie

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A sense of duty takes Clarity back to the script where she learns there's a new breed of vampires in the world, stemming from Lario Exgesis, once friend now foe. These second-generation vampires are able to hunt and feed off the first- generation vampires. Clarity also sees that Lario is looking for the power of the sun, a power gifted to the seven daughters of the House of Benel...
  • Heart of Darkness by Felicity Heaton

    Heart of Darkness by Felicity Heaton

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A vampire prince on a four hundred year old mission to avenge his murdered sister... Aleksandr Nemov won't stop until the last of the vampire hunter's progeny is wiped from the Earth. Each kill has stolen a piece of his humanity, pushing him towards the black abyss all vampires hold within their hearts...
  • Valefar Vol. 1: Demon Kissed Novella (Demon Kissed) by H.M. Ward

    Valefar Vol. 1: Demon Kissed Novella (Demon Kissed) by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The VALEFAR VOLUMES tell the story of Collin Smith and other Valefar. It's 369 days before Ivy loses her soul to a demon kiss. And, Collin Smith, the most powerful Valefar this side of Hell, wants his soul back. He thinks he'll get it too, until a bargain with a powerful demon proves to be more costly than he hoped...
  • Vampire, Vampire by Heather Killough-Walden

    Vampire, Vampire by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With her latest sizzling release, Vampire, Vampire, New York Times and USA Today bestselling paranormal romance author Heather Killough-Walden shares two scorchingly hot, sweet and savage stand-alone vampire romance novellas. (Total word count approx. 70,000 words) In the completely reconstructed Thorn and Grace, an old tale of historical romance is given a very dark make-over...
  • Guardian's Hope by Jacqueline Rhoades

    Guardian's Hope by Jacqueline Rhoades

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hope Parsons has heard about the evil of demons since she was a child in the little isolated community where she grew up. Demons were part of the outside world; demon sex, demon drink, demon music, demon woman. According to her father, her mother had a demon in her, too...
  • Helpless by Scott Prussing

    Helpless by Scott Prussing

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Helpless is the third book in the paranormal romance series Blue Fire Saga. I don't want to write any "spoilers" for books 1 and 2 by summarizing the plot of Helpless here. Helpless continues the adventures of Leesa and her vampire hunter boyfriend Rave. Rest assured it is filled with the same passion, humor, suspense and supernatural danger as the Breathless and Deathless (books 1 and 2)...
  • The Third Kiss: Dorian's Dream by Heather Killough-Walden

    The Third Kiss: Dorian's Dream by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This title is being re-released in 2013 Product Description An ancient Roma foretelling speaks of vampire kings one day dreaming of the women who could bear them children. These children would be powerful vampire warriors and treasures to their kingdoms. Their mothers would become queens...
  • The Fire Within by Dana Marie Bell

    The Fire Within by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She will set his world ablaze. Detective Dante Zucco has been tasked with bringing a Shemyaza to justice. As a seris Nephilim, his inner fire comes in handy in battle, but not in love. He's been burned before, but maybe this time he'll find a blaze that matches his own. One of the families of the human victims has hired Elizabeth Rand, PI, to investigate the murders...
  • Step by Cindy Paterson

    Step by Cindy Paterson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B00A1X69X8. ‘Only her love can restore his trust—only with his trust can she win her battle.’ Kilter, an immortal Senses Visionary, excels at being rude and crass with little hope of finding peace after being betrayed and tortured by his brother more than a hundred years ago...
  • Severed by Sarah Alderson

    Severed by Sarah Alderson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fate brought them together. Now it’s threatening to tear them apart. As the last in a long line of demon slayers, Evie’s destiny is to end the war that has raged for centuries between humans and demons. Lucas, the half-Shadow Warrior half-human who was sent to kill her, has betrayed his own Brotherhood and his family to fight alongside her...
  • Dating the Undead by Gena Showalter, Jill Monroe

    Dating the Undead by Gena Showalter, Jill Monroe

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    They're drop-dead handsome—and we're not kidding! Welcome to the first and only guide devoted to loving the immortal man in all of his furry, feathery, fiery glory...
  • A Dangerous Bargain by J.S. Scott

    A Dangerous Bargain by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    27 year old Kat Larson is haunted by demons. Literally. And how was she to know that there was more than one type of demon? The Evils want to destroy her soul, while billionaire Sentinel demon, Zachary Winston, claims that he wants to protect her. Kat opts for Zach’s protection…but it doesn’t come without a price...
  • Wicked Whispers by Nina Bangs

    Wicked Whispers by Nina Bangs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Nina Bangs welcomes you back to the Castle of Dark Dreams, a place of otherworldly secrets and sensual men with the power to fulfill your most private fantasies. All Ivy had ever wanted was a safe, secure life with no drama. Now she was working in an adult theme park where visitors came to role-play their wildest imaginings...
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    demons  vampires  m-f  contemporary  paranormal  fae  magic  fantasy
  • Neck Deep In Trouble by Georgette St. Clair

    Neck Deep In Trouble by Georgette St. Clair

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Curvy news reporter Frankie Alexander had heard all the warnings about life in New York City, but unfortunately, her parents left out the one about avoiding sexy, infuriating vampires. It’s too late now…she’s craving blood, sizzling when sunlight touches her, and yearning for the kisses of Nicholas Hamilton, the sexiest 300-year-old she’s ever seen...
  • All That Falls by Kimberly Frost

    All That Falls by Kimberly Frost

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She should never have touched his blood... The Etherlin muses have long served as a source of divine inspiration. Now their world stands between the forces of Heaven and Hell. As his muse, Cerise propelled her musician boyfriend to the heights of fame, but when he died under mysterious circumstances, her powers vanished. Now she's plagued by disturbing half-formed memories of his final night.
  • Foreseen Hunger by Marisa Chenery

    Foreseen Hunger by Marisa Chenery

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book six in the Ra’s Chosen series.Takan has hidden who he is for three thousand years, but the time for secrecy is coming to an end. He knows it, and more importantly, Ra knows it. To complicate matters, Takan has found his mate. And she means more than happily-ever-after and smokin’ hot sex. She’s the key to ending the demon god Apep’s threat to the mortal realm...
  • Love's Prophecy by Brenda Dyer

    Love's Prophecy by Brenda Dyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B00702YWF0. Dark warriors of might... Mel is a vampire warrior sworn to hunt and kill demons in the dark streets of Vancouver. But he's burdened with a new assignment: find the meaning behind the Vampire Prophecy...
  • Keltor by Jennifer Sage

    Keltor by Jennifer Sage

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Keltor is a Guardian of the light even though he exists nearly in Shadow, haunted by his past. His world, the world of the Guardians, is a dark reality that coexists in modern day with ours. Behind the warm veils of our lives a war rages against the Shadow Demons and the Guardians protect as much of humanity as they can, still believing in us as a race...
  • Color Me Wicked by Nina Bangs

    Color Me Wicked by Nina Bangs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Amanda Harcourt had one scorching night of incredible sex with Conleth Maguire on a Galveston, Texas beach ten years ago. Then she’d left Con for a career in New York City. She’s back in Galveston now as the interior designer for the weird and wacky Castle of Dark Dreams, a theme park attraction. Old memories surface when she finds out that Con has been hired to paint the castle...
  • Mending Shattered Souls by Scarlet Hyacinth

    Mending Shattered Souls by Scarlet Hyacinth

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Fantasy Romance, M/M] After his betrayal, Pierre D'Argent is tortured and broken by his own people. His only desire is to somehow find salvation in death. But a mysterious man going by the name of X rescues him, bringing a spark of hope in his life. Love blossoms between them, despite Pierre's incurable affliction and X's amnesia...
  • Eternal Flame by Valerie Twombly

    Eternal Flame by Valerie Twombly

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman he cannot have, a man who is only a dream... When guardian Marcus Dagotto, discovers the gods have gifted him with a mate, he is pissed. He has no room for love and even less for a human who has no idea he exists. Cassandra Jensen, has a shattered heart and has given up on men. Only one man can set her body on fire, but he is a fantasy that haunts her sleep. Two worlds, one desire...
  • Fall by Cindy Paterson

    Fall by Cindy Paterson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13 9780991732715. “He’s destroying me—us. I need him like my next breath, yet I’m suffocating.” An unrequited love that has ripped her to pieces. Delara has loved Waleron for over a century. Their intense chemistry is sensual, gripping, irresistible...
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