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The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
Dark Possession/Dark Curse by Christine Feehan, Phil Gigante
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsDark Possession:Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney. A dedicated counselor for battered women, MaryAnn has a fulfilling life with no room for someone like Manolito... -
Flame in the Dark by Faith Hunter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 36 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... -
Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIt’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in... -
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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...Categorized as:
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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... -
Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsOctober Daye is finally something she never expected to be: married. All the trials and turmoils and terrors of a hero’s life have done very little to prepare her for the expectation that she will actually share her life with someone else, the good parts and the bad ones alike, not just allow them to dabble around the edges in the things she wants to share... -
And With Madness Comes the Light by Karina Halle
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe Man. The Mystery. The Madness. Dex Foray has never been anyone’s fool – until he missed his chance for happiness with Perry Palomino. Broken and alone, Dex has no choice but to rise from the ashes Perry left behind and find his own path to redemption. But nothing in Dex’s life has ever come easily, especially when there’s a dark madness waiting in the wings... -
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: 4.40 of 5 stars · 31 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... -
Bishop's Flight: A Paranormal Mystery Romance by Elizabeth Hunter
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe sins of the past will burn you.Four nights. Three days. The human son of two powerful vampires has been taken from his home, and if Carwyn and Brigid can’t find him, the delicate balance of power in an immortal haven might just go up in flames. Las Vegas holds a special appeal in the immortal world...Categorized as:
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Called by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 32 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... -
Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures vol 1 by Laurell K. Hamilton
New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton brings Anita Blake to the world of graphic novels. Anita Blake lives in a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves have been declared legal citizens of the United States. Anita Blake is an "animator" - a profession that involves raising the dead for mourning relatives... -
Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 36 ratings"There is always a price to pay."So Darius warned her when she accepted a position with his traveling troupe. And gazing mesmerized at the merciless slash of his mouth, the implacable resolve on his face, the soulless emptiness of his black eyes, Tempest was afraid to ask what it was.She had always been different, apart from others... -
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The Chosen by Dannika Dark
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 17 ratings"Fear is your enemy's feast."The gripping third installment of the Black Arrowhead series.Robyn is desperately searching for a pack, but the odds are stacked against her. Shifters don't accept humans, especially ones with a watchdog. Her fate takes a wild turn when she hitches a ride with a band of rogues who are vying for a spot in a newly formed pack... -
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... -
Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep
The hotly anticipated ninth novel in the hugely popular Elemental Assassin series finds Gin Blanco on a dangerous mission to rescue a friend. When a terror from the past threatens Gin’s friend and body-disposer, Sophia, Gin will stop at nothing to protect her, even if it means walking straight into a killer’s trap... -
The Facts of Midlife by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsMidlife is sheer madness, and the facts of midlife are not taught in school. Unfortunately, some lessons are hellishly hard to learn.I thought I had it figured out. I was wrong.Proving I’m the Angel of Mercy is turning into a sh*tshow of epic proportions.Not too long ago, I was a forty-year-old gal with a stable and boring life ahead of me. Now? Not so much... -
A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA promise broken. Her future torn up. But she still has a job to do.Betrayed by her blood family, all Hallie's plans for her future are in ruins. She has no time to lick her wounds as Special Investigator Girard wants her help looking for some members of the elite who have gone missing in Hallie's territory... -
Dust to Dust by Karina Halle
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 39 ratings(New to this angsty, sexy, scary romance series? Start with book #1, Darkhouse, FREE on Amazon and other retailers. Warning: this series contains harsh language, violence, gore and sexual scenes of a graphic nature - reader discretion is advised) **The dramatic conclusion to the Experiment in Terror Series.** Perry Palomino and Dex Foray. On their own, they’re uniquely brilliant... -
A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsShe can see the truth, but when she's accused of murder, no one believes she's innocent.Hallie works as a skip tracer - hunting down people wanted by the law, for one reason or another. It's not glamourous, and it doesn't pay all that well. But it's legal work, and that's hard to come by in the cramped quarters of old town... -
Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 39 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... -
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 90 ratingsJapan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat... -
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Evermore by Lynn Viehl
The NEW YORK TIMES AND USA Today bestselling Darkyn series continues... Jayr is proud to be the only female ever permitted to serve as seneschal to a Darkyn lord. But in her centuries of service to Master Byrne, she has fallen in love with him. Now, Byrne plans to step down and hand over the Jardin to another Kyn lord-a move that threatens not only Jayr's position, but her very life..Categorized as:
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Duck Duck Ghost by Rhys Ford
Paranormal investigator Wolf Kincaid knows what his foot tastes like. Mostly because he stuck it firmly in his mouth when his lover, Tristan Pryce, accidentally drugged him with a batch of psychotropic baklava. Needing to patch things up between them, Wolf drags Tristan to San Luis Obispo, hoping Tristan’s medium ability can help evict a troublesome spirit haunting an old farmhouse... -
A Plain-Dealing Villain by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIt's hard to make a dishonest buck in Sin City, especially when a rogue FBI agent is gunning for your head. Flat broke and one step ahead of the law, Daniel Faust flees Vegas and lands in Chicago, where a risky heist promises to fill his pockets with cash... -
Midnight Eternal by McKenzie Hunter, A.J. Connor
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKeeping our existence a secret protected the pack. Now the wrong people know about us. That's the reason the Alphas and I have been abducted to be hunted for sport, but we have no intention of going down without a fight. Escape seems nearly impossible once it becomes apparent that we've been betrayed by those that we once considered allies and many of our secrets have been exposed... -
Midnight Shadows by Emerson Knight, McKenzie Hunter
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsI’m losing control.Past choices are coming back to haunt me, and an old curse threatens to drive me from the pack.Sky is the only person who can help me with the curse. To do so, she’ll have to perform forbidden magic that will draw the attention of the witches. They’ve been vying for a reason to kill Sky, and performing forbidden magic will give them one... -
False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsNow in hardcover, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm... -
Silver Staked by Shannon Mayer, D.G. Swank
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom NYT & USAT bestselling authors Shannon Mayer and D.G. Swank comes a new vision of supernatural suspense. Only these two authors could deliver two such complex heroines and their undaunted courage in a tale of unexpected twists of fate. Escape into the city that never sleeps and where nightmares live in the darkness with "Silver Staked".My name is Leah, and I am a Cazador... -
Closer by Dannika Dark
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsKane never believed in things like fate or karma. Not until the night he took a life. Within the human world is a secret society of immortals and gifted supernaturals. Kane is one of them—a Sensor who experiences emotional energy through touch. But despite his good looks and easy-going personality, Kane lives a solitary life. Unlike other Sensors, he is unnaturally hypersensitive...Categorized as:
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Irregulars by Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 18 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... -
The Stone Warriors: Dragan by D.B. Reynolds
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDragan Fiachna, heir to the curse of royal blood, a horror hiding behind a beautiful face . . . you shall remain locked in stone until a maiden, untested and pure, shall find grace in your beast and safety in your nightmare.Dragan Fiachna, born to a life of loneliness, cast into stone by a sorcerer’s curse and imprisoned forever in darkness... -
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Darkness Unveiled by McKenzie Hunter, Emerson Knight
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen Sky decided not to join our pack, I thought that would be the end of our dealings with the enigmatic wolf. But she’s pulled back into pack business when Sky’s the first one on the scene of a murder attempt of one of our pack members.At first, I mark it off as a coincidence but I'm proven wrong... -
Night Tremors by Richard Amos
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs soon as the universe offers you something good, it really likes to throw you a curveball. You know, for balance.Man, when were things going to calm down?Ha! Wishful thinking at its finest.After one of our many enemies makes a life-shattering move against us, Tae and I are running for our lives again. The witches are hot on our heels, adding to our myriad of problems... -
Ink, Blood, and Other Afflictions: Episode One by Kristen Coar
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDo not read this book. Seriously. It’s completely unhinged....Still here? Well, crap. Fine. Just remember. I warned you.Vera would have been a typical librarian—except for that one time she opened the wrong book and got possessed by a dark goddess. Now, every time she ends a life, she experiences the kind of mind-blowing orgasm that could crack the foundations of her apartment... -
Winter by Josh Lanyon
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFirst in a NEW series! Still grieving over the sudden death of his lover, antiques dealer Flynn Ambrose moves to the ramshackle old house on Pitch Pine Lane to catalog and sell the large inventory of arcane and oddball items that once filled his late uncle's mysterious museum. But not all the items are that easy to catalog. Or get rid of... ˃˃˃ The Haunted Heart series. Four seasons... -
The Sinner by Amanda Stevens
I am a living ghost, a wanderer in search of my purpose and place… I'm a cemetery restorer by trade, but my calling has evolved from that of ghost seer to death walker to detective of lost souls. I solve the riddles of the dead so the dead will leave me alone. I've come to Seven Gates Cemetery nursing a broken heart, but peace is hard to come by…for the ghosts here and for me... -
Rajmund by D.B. Reynolds
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsRAJMUND GREGOR is a vampire . . . and the undisputed Master of New York City. He bows to no one but his Sire, Krystof, who is the Vampire Lord for the entire Northeastern U.S. Based in Buffalo, NY, Krystof is an old vampire—-too old, it would seem, because he’s slowly losing his mind. Summoned back to Buffalo by his Sire, Rajmund finds his master out of touch and rapidly weakening... -
Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief (A Graphic Novel) by Faye Perozich, Travis Moore
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThe vampire Lestat, bestselling author Anne Rice's chilling creation, is back...in a graphic novel adaptation of The Tale of the Body Thief, part of the bloodsoaked Vampire Chronicles. Immortalised on screen by Tom Cruise in Interview With a Vampire, Lestat is the decadent, corrupt night dweller with a craving for human blood and the ethics of a snake... -
In the Blood by Adrian Phoenix
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn the bestselling tradition of Laurell K. Hamilton and Patricia Briggs, this thrilling follow-up to the critically acclaimed fantasy debut "A Rush of Wings" is a satisfying and pulse-pounding read, guaranteed to please fans of dark fantasy. DANTE LIVES Vampire. Rock star. Begotten son of the fallen angel Lucien...Categorized as:
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Ghosted by Karina Halle
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGhosted is an all-new EIT novella told from Dex's POV. It should be read after Dust to Dust (after Veiled, preferably) and before Came Back Haunted.It's available in the All the Love in the World anthology on Amazon, as well as by itself in paperback, and at Nook, iBooks and Kobo... -
Savor by Kate Evangelista
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMature and explicit content. Not recommended for readers below 18-years-old. Yup, you've got to be that old to read my story. Consider yourself warned. I’m Dakota Collins, a tough talking, eye patch wearing, workaholic photography student. Why am I important? Well, maybe because I get to spend an entire month with Vicious, only the sickest indie rock band out there... -
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Night Troubles by Richard Amos
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe nights are loaded with troubles...I guess the days are too…There’s so much danger out there. Coming for me, coming for the world. Demons and darkness and craziness everywhere. Plus, the mysteries keep on piling up. So many of them!Not good for my already overloaded mind.Ah, well. It’ll get sorted. It’s all about the determination, right? And I've got heaps of it... -
Blood of the Gods by Sapir A. Englard
From the creator of the Millennium Wolves series comes the heart-stopping sequel to Cloak of the Vampire, the epic romantasy set in a brutal world of bloodthirsty and power-hungry vampires.Aileen Henderson didn’t choose to die. That choice was stolen from her, brutally, at the hands—and lips—of a monster...Categorized as:
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Cheat the Grave: The Fifth Sign of the Zodiac by Vicki Pettersson
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsBook 5 in the NYT & USA Today Bestselling “Signs of the Zodiac” series.Light. Shadow. Superhero ... Villain.Las Vegas socialite and otherworldly avenger Joanna Archer gave up everything when she sacrificed her extraordinary abilities and embraced mortality to rescue an innocent child … and a city teetering on destruction... -
SPECTR: The Complete Second Series by Jordan L. Hawk
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“…a fresh take on the vampire genre.” – Reader Review Caleb has spent the last six months adjusting to life possessed by the vampire spirit Gray and hunting demons with their boyfriend, federal exorcist John Starkweather. Unfortunately, the other agents of SPECTR view Caleb and Gray as a ticking time bomb... -
Falling for the Fugitive by Lila Gwynn
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThree months have passed since fairy bounty hunter Olympia Carter chose herself at her vampire lover’s expense. Leandra’s kill bounty has been listed for so long that it’s about to go international, and when top bounty hunter Allie Godden comes to Olympia with a proposal to find the vampire together before someone else does, it’s hard to refuse... -
Because Your Vampire Said So by Michele Bardsley
Not just anyone can visit Broken Heart, Oklahoma, especially since all the single moms—like me, Patsy Donahue—have been turned into vampires. I’m forever forty, but looking younger than my years, thanks to my new (un)lifestyle. And even thought most of my customers have skipped town, I still manage to keep my hair salon up and running because of the lycanthropes prowling around...
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