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  • Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story by Ashley Marie Witter, Anne Rice

    Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story by Ashley Marie Witter, Anne Rice

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    A richly-illustrated adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, told through the eyes of the vampire Claudia, who was just a little girl when she was turned by the vampire Lestat...
  • A Beautiful Curse by Kenley Davidson

    A Beautiful Curse by Kenley Davidson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Follow your heart…But you might just end up snacking on flies. When a bumbling fairy godfather gifts a humble woodcutter’s fourth child with extraordinary beauty, she spends the next eighteen years trying to hide it—behind a book. Now, Elisette is ready to follow her dreams and become a scholar, but her admirers keep getting in the way of her ambitions...
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  • Secret Vampire & Daughters of Darkness by L.J. Smith

    Secret Vampire & Daughters of Darkness by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Secret VampirePoppy is dying. Her best friend, James, can offer her eternal life. One kiss and she sees into his soul. But can she follow him into death. .. and beyond? Daughters of DarknessThree sisters with a secret, on the run from their cruel and ruthless brother. Can innocent Mary Lynette resist his powerful charm - and save the sisters and herself from a deadly fate?
  • Dead Is Not An Option by Marlene Perez

    Dead Is Not An Option by Marlene Perez

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    It’s springtime of senior year, and psychic sleuth Daisy Giordano is preparing to say goodbye to Nightshade High. But no college acceptance letters have arrived yet, and she’s beginning to worry about where she’ll end up come fall—and if it will be anywhere near her boyfriend, Ryan. But that’s not the only uncertainty Daisy’s dealing with...
  • Scorch by Kaitlyn Davis

    Scorch by Kaitlyn Davis

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    "All it did was remind Kira that time was running out. That she needed to choose. Or a lot more than a forest would burn. The whole world would crumble. ". Aldrich escaped…again. Tristan forgot…everything. And Luke, well, Luke was getting more than a little impatient...
  • The Head of the Saint by Socorro Acioli

    The Head of the Saint by Socorro Acioli

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    After walking for days across the harsh Brazilian landscape only to be rejected by his last living relative, Samuel finds his options for survival are dwindling fast - until he comes to the hollow head of a statue, perfect for a boy to crawl into and hide. .
  • Dead Is Just A Rumor by Marlene Perez

    Dead Is Just A Rumor by Marlene Perez

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    As the creepy little town of Nightshade prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary—on Halloween, of course—many of its paranormal residents are receiving mysterious blackmail letters. Psychic teen Daisy Giordano and her sisters set out to find out who is behind the threats. But launching an investigation isn’t easy for Daisy with her overprotective father watching her every move...
  • The Rose and the Briar by J.M. Stengl

    The Rose and the Briar by J.M. Stengl

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Power-hungry princes are Rosa’s greatest dread. Deep within the gardens of Faraway Castle sleeps a secret Rosa the gardener has sworn to protect with her life—the legendary princess Zafira. For three years she has hidden the princess almost in plain sight. But two nosy princes threaten to undo the work of a century...
  • The Ascended by Tiffany King

    The Ascended by Tiffany King

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The Ascended is the final installment of The Saving Angels Trilogy. With Krista's life in turmoil, she is now struggling with the responsibilities that have been passed down to her. With the help of Haniel and her friends, Krista risks everything, including her soul, to march into the den of the Dark Angel...
  • The Discovery by Marley Gibson

    The Discovery by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    After some time off, Kendall's ready to begin ghost hunting again. But her life is still in flux. She misses Patrick, her new love. She needs to find a photographer to replace Taylor. Plus, she may have discovered who her real father is, but to be sure, she has to convince his family she's not a fake. And then there's a certain doll that seems to be out to get her and her friends...
  • Fangtastic! by Sienna Mercer

    Fangtastic! by Sienna Mercer

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Don't miss this fun tween vampire series, featuring regular girl Olivia and goth girl Ivy! Olivia is a vegetarian. Ivy is a vampire. And they're  twins ? !? Ever since Olivia discovered that her long-lost twin sister, Ivy, is a vampire, she's been soaking up everything Ivy will tell her about Franklin Grove's vampire community...
  • Dead Is So Last Year by Marlene Perez

    Dead Is So Last Year by Marlene Perez

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Something very strange starts happening in Nightshade the summer that the eldest Giordano sister, Rose, gets a job working at Dr. Franken's research laboratory. People are starting to see double. Doppelgängers of Nightshade residents are popping up all over town...
  • Wavesong by Isobelle Carmody

    Wavesong by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    With the end of the wintertime that isolates Obernewtyn from the rest of the world, Farseeker guildmistress Elspeth Gordie again sets out for the lowlands. But she soon finds that not everyone welcomes the changes brought about by the rebellion. There is a traitor among the rebels—a traitor whose hatred of Misfits puts Elspeth in danger as she attempts to thwart an invasion of fanatical Herders.
  • Dead Is a Killer Tune by Marlene Perez

    Dead Is a Killer Tune by Marlene Perez

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    High school freshman Jessica Walsh is a Virago—a woman warrior who must protect her hometown from danger. And in Nightshade, California, trouble is always lurking. At the town’s Battle of the Bands, Jess’s boyfriend, Dominic, and his band, Side Effects May Vary, are up against Hamlin, a band so popular, their fans follow them everywhere...
  • Afterglow by Karsten Knight

    Afterglow by Karsten Knight

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In this conclusion to the Wildefire trilogy, teen volcano goddess Ashline Wilde learns her former love, Colt Halliday, has an evil plan to kill the Cloak, benevolent beings who oversee the gods. Also, he wants to merge Ash and her two sisters back into a single, too-powerful goddess, Pele. Ash must stop her trickster-god ex-boyfriend once and for all, by feeding a few flames.
  • Possession of Souls by Lacey Weatherford

    Possession of Souls by Lacey Weatherford

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Fear and desperation leave Portia and Vance clinging to threadbare hope as life is given, and taken away. Manipulated, driven by bloodlust and the desire to claim sole possession, the stakes are raised higher than they’ve ever been before...
  • Ancient Legends by Jayde Scott

    Ancient Legends by Jayde Scott

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The moment Amber starts her summer job in Scotland and sets eyes upon Aidan, her fate is sealed. Summoned by an ancient bond, she can never love another. Lost in the woods one night Amber enters Aidan's deadly world when she unknowingly participates in a paranormal race and promptly wins the first prize. .. a prize worth killing for...
  • The Calling / Changeling by Cate Tiernan

    The Calling / Changeling by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Morgan Rowlands holds profound magickal power . . . a power that some will stop at nothing to obtain. Though she knows she has much still to learn, magick has brought her more than she could ever have imagined: the love of her soul mate. Yet her dreams uncover something elseÑa dark force threatening her entire world...
  • Awakening / Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Awakening / Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The second three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands is a blood witch, the last of a long line of ancient and powerful witches and the holder of an unfathomable power. With the help of her love, her soul mate, Cal, she has realized her true self-but at a price...
  • The Keeper by Lynnie Purcell

    The Keeper by Lynnie Purcell

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Clare has woken up in the desert with no memory of her past and no true direction, beyond the impulse to walk west. She has never been more lost. With no clue about the darkness circling her, Clare is on a direct path with Odette...
  • Fallen / Torment by Lauren Kate

    Fallen / Torment by Lauren Kate

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Discover the series that everyone's talking about in this thrilling collection of the first two books in Lauren Kate's FALLEN sequence. In Fallen , Luce knows from the moment she first sees Daniel that she has never felt like this before. Except she can't shake the feeling that she has . . . and with him - a boy she doesn't remember ever setting eyes on...
  • Awaken by Kristen Day

    Awaken by Kristen Day

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The sacrifices we make have the power to shift the very fabric of who we are, and ultimately who we are meant to be…. After learning of her true destiny as the intended Leader of the Tydes, Anastasia Whitman must now embark on a perilous quest to the Underworld before the age of eighteen in order to plant the seed of immortality and complete her essence to become a true Sea Goddess...
  • Chosen by Kristen Day

    Chosen by Kristen Day

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The essence of who we are lies not in what we have, but in what we are willing to give up. Because in the end, Time and Tide wait for no one. After sacrificing all that she had, the evil princess of the Underworld is still successful in her bid to tear Finn from Stasia’s life...
  • House of Night #4 by Kent Dalian, P.C. Cast

    House of Night #4 by Kent Dalian, P.C. Cast

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Having gained a new understanding of her affinities for earth, wind, and water, Zoey Redbird moves into more dangerous territory as she attempts to master a lesson in fire. Zoey seeks guidance from the secret vampyre history of Cleopatra and her relationships with two great Roman leaders--Julius Caesar and Mark Antony...
  • Friends and Traitors by C.J. Hill, Janette Rallison

    Friends and Traitors by C.J. Hill, Janette Rallison

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Slayers – teens who have powers to fight dragons—are back by popular demand in this high-octane sequel, now with a new cover package! Tori is at a White House dinner party when she hears a horrifying sound: dragon eggs hatching. It means in less than a year, the dragons will be mature and dangerous...
  • Blood Storm by Rhiannon Hart

    Blood Storm by Rhiannon Hart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The rain wanted to be ocean; the ice in the mountain caps wanted freedom. I never knew that water held such longing. The clouds above my head rumbled like a growling wolf, impatient to release their burden. I held the rain there a moment longer. I turned to Renata, heard her gasp and knew my eyes glowed blue. I spoke a single word. 'Rain. '...
  • The Next Generation by S.C. Stephens

    The Next Generation by S.C. Stephens

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 11 ratings
    **NOTE: THIS IS A SPIN OFF OF THE CONVERSION TRILOGY. IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THAT SERIES, YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK IT OUT FIRST. **. Nika and Julian Adams have a lot of secrets. But that's to be expected when you're a "little bit" vampire. When you're a supernatural being that is emotionally bonded to your twin, fitting in can be a little challenging...
  • Forgotten Souls by Tiffany King

    Forgotten Souls by Tiffany King

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Forgotten Souls is Book 2 of the Saving Angels series. Any chance Krista Miller had at a normal teenage life is now gone. Less than a year ago she lived under the radar, avoiding any relationships that would send her emotional sensitivities out of control. Little did she know that her life was destined for something more. Something that will test her very soul...
  • The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 18 by Kore Yamazaki, ヤマザキコレ

    The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 18 by Kore Yamazaki, ヤマザキコレ

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book of Life…and Death. Chise becomes a dragon and swims through the earth’s ley lines to reach the Sargant family house, Elias and the others in tow. Together they make their way to Philomela, but she’s too corrupted by the Testament to hear their words. To save her, Chise must delve into Philomela’s inner world. What does she find there? “The people who want to help can reach out their hands. ”.
  • Flora's Dare by Ysabeau S. Wilce

    Flora's Dare by Ysabeau S. Wilce

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Flora Fyrdraaca wants nothing more than to be a ranger, and for that she must master the magickal—and dangerous—language of Gramatica. But before she can find the ideal teacher, her aspirations are put to the test...
  • Dead Is Just a Dream by Marlene Perez

    Dead Is Just a Dream by Marlene Perez

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The people of Nightshade, California, are dying in their sleep, and fifteen-year-old paranormal warrior Jessica Walsh is determined to find the killer . . . or killers. Justice isn’t the only thing on Jessica’s mind, however. Some days she’s not sure which is worse—having a creepy clown lurking outside her window or having her rock star boyfriend’s hot ex-girlfriend drop by for a surprise visit...
  • Altered by Shelly Crane

    Altered by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Enoch is tested. His brother is human, the thing he hates. He watches as the brother he knew is stripped away by his love for Clara. He's never hated someone as much as he hated her. .. but the bond forced him to not only want to protect her, but feel things he never had before. When a girl needs his help, that split second decision changes his whole world in one instant. A Devourer's Fate. ..
  • Chasing the Red Queen by Karen Glista

    Chasing the Red Queen by Karen Glista

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Donja Bellanger, suffering after the death of her father, finds herself in dire straits when her mom takes a new husband. Forced not only to move to a strange city, but to share a room with her glamorous, new stepsister, Makayla Hampton, her life spirals out of control. Makayla lures her from goth to glam, straight into an exclusive club, not only for wealthy elites but Immortal Descendants...
  • Burn Like Fire by Jayme Morse, Jody Morse

    Burn Like Fire by Jayme Morse, Jody Morse

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lexi and her friends head to Ohio after Anna gets a tip about her mom's killer. While they're there, they learn that her mom was involved in something that surprises them all. Meanwhile, Rhonda struggles with her own inner demons and comes to find that playing with peoples emotions isn't always easy. Austin and Anna's relationship will soon be put to the test...
  • Release Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen

    Release Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Bossy Anja was in control now, and I’d be damned if I let either Ellri take that away from me. ”. Anja will endure anything to save her loved ones – torture, humiliation, showtunes, you name it. For Rob she’s sacrificed everything, even her last drop of blood, desperate to save him from Lodinn’s twisted revenge fantasy...
  • Immortal Destiny by Samantha Adams

    Immortal Destiny by Samantha Adams

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What do you do when your best friend becomes your enemy? How do you feel when crimson flowers begin haunting you? And just when Ally thinks things couldn’t get any worse, someone from her past comes back into her life with two shocking secrets that will destroy someone she loves...
  • Ember by Mindy Hayes

    Ember by Mindy Hayes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One decision changed her life forever. One choice could seal her fate for eternity. By accepting her destiny, Calliope entered the enchanting world of Faylinn. She wasn’t prepared for all the compromises she would be forced to make. After being thrown into her duties as queen, she must pick her battles wisely or risk loosing the respect of her kingdom...
  • The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 19 by Kore Yamazaki

    The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 19 by Kore Yamazaki

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Closing the Book. Philomela finally stops clasping her hands in passive prayer, and instead reaches them out for help. Meanwhile, Lizbeth gives in to blind obsession, merging with the forbidden Testament. Then a third, unexpected party joins the fray—a curse designed to kill a mother...
  • Kilala Princess, Vol. 04 by Rika Tanaka, Nao Kodaka

    Kilala Princess, Vol. 04 by Rika Tanaka, Nao Kodaka

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet Kilala, an ordinary girl who loves all the Disney Princesses. When she awakens a sleeping prince named Rei, she magically gains the power of the princesses! Rei is searching for the missing princess of his world, and has a magical tiara that will lead him to her...
  • My Link in Time by S.L. Baum

    My Link in Time by S.L. Baum

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Girl meets boy, falls in love, becomes engaged, and walks down the aisle. Oh, if only life were that simple. When an Immortal girl meets a Mortal boy, life is a little more complicated. When Charity accepted Lincoln's marriage proposal, she thought they could handle anything that came their way. .. Link’s newly acquired lust for blood became the first problem to tackle. .
  • Divine Beginnings by P.C. Cast

    Divine Beginnings by P.C. Cast

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Go back in time, fifty years before the events of New York Times bestselling author P. C. Cast's Partholon books. .. Something isn't right at Guardian Castle, and Aine can't figure out what. As Healer, she's supposed to be making things better, but there's a darkness that can't be brightened. And then Aine finds an injured Fomorian--winged, dark, blood-thirsty and inherently evil...
  • Pale Girl by S.C. Principale

    Pale Girl by S.C. Principale

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Pale girl. Freak. Vampire. Ghost. They say death rides a pale horse. .. Sophie is very much alive. Sophie used to think she was beautiful, a literal incarnation of Snow White. That was before the bullying began— and never really stopped. Even choosing a college in a tiny mountain town doesn't stop the stares and whispers. Pale Girl. .. Freak. Vampire. Ghost. Sophie doesn't know her own secrets...
  • Love Sucks! by Melissa Francis

    Love Sucks! by Melissa Francis

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    AJ Ashe is moving on. Sure she still has not-so-sisterly feelings for Ryan, her ex-boyfriend-turned-step-brother, but there’s a new vampire in town and his name is Alexander Archer. Caught between the desire to move forward with Sexy Lexy and being drawn to her past with Ryan, AJ thinks life couldn’t get anymore complicated. Yeah, right...
  • Ladle Rat Rotten Hut by Cameron Jace

    Ladle Rat Rotten Hut by Cameron Jace

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    What if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong? Warning: these Grimm Prequels are like snap shots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them as poisoned apples. Once you taste them, you will never see fairy tales in the same light again. This Grimm Diaries Prequels are a number of short books in the form of epistolary diary entries...
  • Blood on the Moon by Jennifer Knight

    Blood on the Moon by Jennifer Knight

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As Faith Reynolds enters her freshman year of college, she is a complete and utter nervous wreck.   With her best friend Derek suddenly pulling out the romance card and her dark, mysterious classmate staring her down at every turn, Faith somehow feels stuck in the middle without dating either one.   And fortune may or may not be with her when a devilshly sexy stranger offers her a welcome escape...
  • Mystic Embrace by Charlotte Blackwell

    Mystic Embrace by Charlotte Blackwell

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ebony Triggs and her sister have accepted their birthright to be the magnificent ones, protectors of the innocent. They have been working on improving their magickal powers with the help of close friends the Pierce family. Ebony and Eliza have been working hard, with one common goal in mind, destroying the demon that killed their parents sixteen years ago...
  • The Pearl of the Soul of the World by Meredith Ann Pierce

    The Pearl of the Soul of the World by Meredith Ann Pierce

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    All the world’s wisdom and magic resides within the iridescent depths of a small white pearl. “All my sorcery,” the Ancient Ravenna had said of the pearl. “It is left to you to save the world...
  • Blood and Snow: The Complete Set by RaShelle Workman

    Blood and Snow: The Complete Set by RaShelle Workman

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Every thousand years the Vampire Queen selects a new body, always the fairest in the land, and this time she's chosen Snow White. Snow isn't an ordinary girl. She doesn't know that yet. When Snow gets bitten by a Hunter, her life is thrown into a whirlwind of change where instead of worrying about what to eat, she has to fight not to drink the blood of fellow high school students...
  • Quinn, a Vampire Watcher's Story by Elizabeth Loraine

    Quinn, a Vampire Watcher's Story by Elizabeth Loraine

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Quinn we get to see another side of Royal Blood Chronicles from Quinn's point of view and learn how their journey began. Follow Quinn and Katrina as the Chronicles takes you on a fun wild ride along with those who are chosen as Protectors of the peaceful races of the world as they fight the evil that threatens us all. Extended Description. Quinn is a Vampire Watcher...
  • The Vault by Emily McKay

    The Vault by Emily McKay

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There is no rest for the damned in this thrilling follow-up to Emily McKay's The Lair and The Farm, in a series New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill calls, "Equal parts Resident Evil and Hunger Games. ". In a world where vampires rule and teenaged humans are quarantined as a food source, there is only one choice—resist or die...
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