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  • The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling

    The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    Sometimes the price of destiny is higher than anyone imagined.... Dark Magic, Hidden Destiny For three centuries a divine prophecy and a line of warrior queens protected Skala. But the people grew complacent and Erius, a usurper king, claimed his young half sister’s throne...
  • Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling

    Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    A trick of magic, a twist of fate.As the orphaned nephew of the king, trusted companion to his cousin, and second heir to the throne of Skala, Prince Tobin’s future is clear. But not as clear as the spring in which a hill witch shows him his true face--and his secret destiny....Now Tobin carries a burden he cannot share with even his closest friend, Ki, his squire...
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  • The Oracle's Queen by Lynn Flewelling

    The Oracle's Queen by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Under the rule of a usurper king, the realm of Skala has suffered famine, plague, and invasion. But now the time for the rightful heir has come, a return to the tradition of warrior queens. And the Lightbearer’s prophecy is to be upheld at last: so long as a daughter of the royal line defends and rules, Skala will never be subjugated...
  • Judicium by Natalie Bennett

    Judicium by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tick tock…it’s time for judgment. The blood we spilled came after the riddles. Betrayal followed by those we trusted. There are so many things we could have done differently, saving ourselves from future heartache. Now, it’s too late to recast the die. By everything tainted and maleficent, we’re forever bonded. Every tragedy has an origin. This is where ours begins...
  • Bridge of Dreams by Anne Bishop

    Bridge of Dreams by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Return to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s Ephemera, a world of strange and magical landscapes connected only by bridges—bridges that may transport you where you truly belong, rather than where you wish to go...
  • Ouija by Emmaleigh Loader

    Ouija by Emmaleigh Loader

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ava:Kidnapped by a serial killer with an affinity for pain and madness.Lost to a world created by a sick and twisted monster.I died there, in the belly of the beast. But as the Fates willed it, I came back to life.Now I’m under the King’s Wolves protection, fighting to determine what is real and what are broken delusions.Hunted by the man who thought that he had killed me...
  • Del Diablo by Natalie Bennett

    Del Diablo by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    💀STYGIAN IᔕᒪE💀The devil disguises himself as an angel of light.That illusion doesn’t change who he is—Draven Alistair. The man I’m madly in love with.He presented me with a flawless charade, masquerading as all I ever wanted. But there is nothing hidden that shall not be disclosed, and when the truth is revealed, its too late for me to run...
  • First Light by Liz Kerin

    First Light by Liz Kerin

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    First Light, the riveting sequel to Liz Kerin’s Night's Edge, is about seizing a brighter future by confronting the shadows of our past.“I came all this way to watch you burn.”It's been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home...
    Categorized as:
    horror  magic  vampires  fantasy  paranormal  queer  contemporary  f-f
  • Craving Darkness by R. Sullins

    Craving Darkness by R. Sullins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The long awaited sequel to Lovely Darkness by USA Today Bestselling author R Sullins! Kallista had always known she was different. The shadows had always called to her. She craved to be held safe in their cool depths. To escape her parent's methods of attempting to rid her of her demons.Valen was destruction. Everything he touched crumbled. Everywhere he went, pain followed...
    Categorized as:
    horror  magic  paranormal  vampires  demons  dark  fated-mates  witches
  • The Voice by Anne Bishop

    The Voice by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    An original novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Bridge of Dreams… In a small village outside the city of Vision, the people know no sorrow or grief. But this seemingly idyllic community is hiding a terrible secret...
  • Of Death and Darkness by Megan Montero

    Of Death and Darkness by Megan Montero

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    A woman marked by death.A demon who would send her there himself.A revolution that will change it all.Death comes to us all… or so they say. But they never said that’s what I’d become… death. I’d spent my life taking care of everyone else besides myself. I finally let go for one night. One night of freedom. One night of fun. One night to dance my burdens away...
  • Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier

    Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A complex, adult epic fantasy from a new Australian author ... original, dramatic, unputdownable ... Sierra has a despised and forbidden gift - she raises power from the suffering of others.Enslaved by the king's torturer, Sierra escapes, barely keeping ahead of Rasten, the man sent to hunt her down...
  • Haunted Sanctuary by Moira Rogers

    Haunted Sanctuary by Moira Rogers

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The shadows of her past could destroy their future. Green Pines, Book 1 Eden Green can’t remember a time she didn’t believe in monsters—her cousin was born one. Her family’s dark past casts a long shadow, making it hard to make friends and harder to commit to a lover. She lives a quiet life in small-town Clover, Tennessee, but she’s always waiting for the other shoe to drop...
  • The Untold Tale by J.M. Frey

    The Untold Tale by J.M. Frey

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Forsyth Turn is not a hero. Lordling of Turn Hall, yes. Spymaster for the king, certainly. But hero? That's his older brother's job, and Kintyre Turn is nothing if not legendary. However, when a raid on the kingdom's worst criminal results in the rescue of a baffling woman, oddly named and even more oddly mannered, Forsyth finds his quaint, sedentary life turned on its head...
  • To Be a Heartthrob in a Horror Movie 在恐怖片里当万人迷[快穿] by Jiang Zhi Yu

    To Be a Heartthrob in a Horror Movie 在恐怖片里当万人迷[快穿] by Jiang Zhi Yu

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Holographic viewing technology allowed audience members to enter a movie and personally experience it for themselves. Naturally, romance movies were the most popular and well-received, while nobody was interested in horror movies.Su Min was the first of the viewers to experience a horror movie...
  • Beneath by Katie May

    Beneath by Katie May

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    But you can't break a dead girl.Revelation after revelation has left me wheeling. The truth about what we are—and what we need to do to escape—is almost too much for me to handle.With only four circles left to complete, our group is more determined than ever to escape this hellhole we've found ourselves in...
  • The Way Evil Does by Amara Draska

    The Way Evil Does by Amara Draska

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rebecca Reis considers abandoning her career as a novelist until she begins writing about convicted serial killer Thomas Eisenbrey. Nicknamed the Hunter because of his penchant for targeting groups of hunters in the forest, Eisenbrey is the worst kind of psychopath. He is crafty, aloof, at times possessing a charm that is almost hypnotizing, and he’s wheedling his way into her mind...
  • Soulless by T. Baggins

    Soulless by T. Baggins

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Man of Science Nicholas Robinson is a chemist decades ahead of his time. Crippled by a riding accident and embittered by his injuries, he shuns the world, focusing on his laboratory and experiments. But when the sale of his country estate, Grantley, leads to an encounter with a vampire, Nicholas realizes there is more in heaven and earth than he ever dreamed possible...
  • The Hungering Dark by Adrian Blue

    The Hungering Dark by Adrian Blue

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Travel vlogger Amelia Sinclair's dream expedition to Antarctica turns into her darkest nightmare when she falls into a crevasse and encounters something ancient and inhuman beneath the ice. Marked and claimed by a creature that defies explanation, she finds herself torn between revulsion and a forbidden desire that consumes her very soul...
  • White as Snow (The Fairy Tale Series) by Tanith Lee, Terri Windling

    White as Snow (The Fairy Tale Series) by Tanith Lee, Terri Windling

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . . So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called “the Angela Carter of the fantasy field”—a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning it into a dark and sensual drama full of myth and magic. Arpazia is the aging queen who paces the halls of a warlord’s palace...
  • Playing with Shadows (Love is Always Write) by Sasha L. Miller

    Playing with Shadows (Love is Always Write) by Sasha L. Miller

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He was told that everything happened for a reason, that there were things out there that watched your every move. He just never thought that the people telling him this were telling the truth. Until he happened to glimpse something out of the corner of his eye, something that he couldn't explain. And now there are things in the shadows, things that want him...
    Categorized as:
    magic  horror  contemporary  fantasy  demons  dark  paranormal  m-m
  • Bedtime Story for a Stolen Child by Anna Mayle

    Bedtime Story for a Stolen Child by Anna Mayle

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stolen away from his cradle as a child, Leinad has been a plaything of the Faerie for thirty years. He has been broken and put back together so many times that he cannot even remember what he used to be. He has given up all hope of escape, until a soft breeze through his cell leads him home, only to find out that home has gone on without him...
  • Love Is Red by Sophie Jaff

    Love Is Red by Sophie Jaff

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Ridiculously entertaining…. Jaff’s woozy supernatural saga is effectively scary and great fun to read. ”— New York Times Book Review This electrifying debut—Book I of the Night Song Trilogy—spins dark suspense and literary fantasy into a mesmerizing story of seduction and survival. Katherine Emerson was born to fulfill a dark prophecy centuries in the making, but she doesn't know it yet...
  • Fear: a Terrifying Love Story by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Fear: a Terrifying Love Story by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 18 ratings
    I have always loved fear. And now I know it loves me back.My whole life has been defined by fear. It’s what’s driven everything I’ve ever done. It’s why I’m a firefighter. It’s why I sneak into abandoned buildings. It’s why I drive a motorcycle way too fast...
  • The Awakened Mage by Karen Miller

    The Awakened Mage by Karen Miller

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    "The evil foretold has risen ... and we are all that stands between it and the end."Asher has come a long way for a fisherman's son. Together with his friend Prince Gar, he has defended their kingdom against its bitterest enemy, but at great cost. Now, the evil mage Morg is preparing for his most deadly assault. Desperate, trapped in a broken body, Morg has little time and fewer scruples...
  • Come Closer by Sara Gran

    Come Closer by Sara Gran

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Demonic possession or psychic break? One of Esquire's Top 50 horror novels of all time delves deep into the terrifying consequences of losing control."A perfect horror novel."—Paul Tremblay, author of 'The Cabin at the End of the World'A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults...
    Categorized as:
    horror  magic  paranormal  mystery  fantasy  demons  dark  contemporary
  • The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The 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...
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    It’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...
  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    The truth is out there... The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
  • Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire

    Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    October 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...
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