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  • Kate's Daddy by Gordon Andrews

    Kate's Daddy by Gordon Andrews

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    This is the story Jim tells Curran about Kate’sDaddy.
  • In Other Worlds by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    In Other Worlds by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 41 ratings
    Together for the first time in one volume. .. Three dazzling stories of magic and fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Three of the author's most thrilling stories in one fabulous volume. .. Fire and Ice. On the run, a beautiful virgin crosses paths with a sexy ex-assassin. Knightly Dreams. The dashing hero of a novel comes to life. Dragonswan...
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  • Forbidden by Jana Oliver

    Forbidden by Jana Oliver

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Riley Blackthorne is beginning to learn that there are worse things than death by demon. And love is just one of them…. Seventeen-year-old Riley has about had it up to here. After the devastating battle at the Tabernacle, trappers are dead and injured, her boyfriend Simon is gravely injured, and now her beloved late father’s been illegally poached from his grave by a very powerful necromancer...
  • Guild Hunter Novels 1-4 by Nalini Singh

    Guild Hunter Novels 1-4 by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Angels rule, vampires serve, and passions ignite in the first four novels of the Guild Hunter series by New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh. Angels’ Blood. Archangel’s Kiss. Archangel’s Consort. Archangel’s Blade.
  • Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde

    Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed--and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a darn shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, impress the head-chopping statue, charm the army of ghosts, fend off the barbarians, and defeat the man-eating dragon, she'll never win...
  • Fated by Sarah Fine

    Fated by Sarah Fine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    Aislin Ferry and Jason Moros have only days until they will be called to account before the Keepers of the Afterlife. Yet as they race to restore order and make their case, their worlds fall into total disarray. Mutiny within the fractured Ferry family threatens Aislin’s hold on power and role as Charon. Meanwhile, the fearsome Lord of the Kere has family trouble of his own...
  • Bound in Black by Juliette Cross

    Bound in Black by Juliette Cross

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Genevieve Drake is on a dangerous mission—to find the soul collector, Lethe, and enter the deepest, darkest level of the underworld, where no one has ever gone into and returned. But nothing can prevent her from going after the precious treasure Lethe stole from her...
  • Enchant by Penelope Fletcher

    Enchant by Penelope Fletcher

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Rae’s fragile emotions are becoming unhinged. Lochlann demands she keeps the bond with his brother secret, and the duties of High Priestess threaten to crush her rebellious nature, diminishing her glow. Breandan is her warrior, her light in the dark, but even he cannot hope to protect Rae from her own blood, and the extremes his need to possess her push him to...
  • Hardest Fall by Juliette Cross

    Hardest Fall by Juliette Cross

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The tattooed demoness, Bone, doesn’t like anything except the magical weapons she makes. But she has hidden talents few know about. When I was brought to her near death, she used her Seraph song to manipulate flesh and bone to heal me. But she wasn’t happy about it. Now I must return the favor...
  • A Gate of Night by Bella Forrest

    A Gate of Night by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 37 ratings
    Welcome back to The Shade. .. Derek and Sofia are finally enjoying a well-deserved break. Staying at a resort with good food, sun and sea, Sofia is thrilled to witness Derek’s re-introduction to the human world. They would almost be mistaken for a normal young couple, if it were not for the red-eyed monster lurking in the shadows and watching their every move, waiting for his signal to pounce….
  • Allegiance by K.A. Tucker

    Allegiance by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Evangeline finally got what she longed for – the cursed pendant off her neck and Caden in her arms - only it has come at a steep price. An unknown poison now courses through her body, slowly morphing her into something no one but the Fates can foresee. She has her suspicions though. .. and, if she is right, it will spell certain ruin for her and Caden...
  • The Darkest Edge of Dawn by Kelly Gay

    The Darkest Edge of Dawn by Kelly Gay

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    It takes a strong woman to keep the peace in a city of endless night. . . . Deep beneath Underground, a cunning bid for power and revenge has begun—one that threatens to make Atlanta the new battleground in the ultimate confrontation between good and evil. The powers of hellish Charbydon have the upper hand after plunging the city into primordial night...
  • A Blaze of Sun by Bella Forrest

    A Blaze of Sun by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 43 ratings
    Welcome back to The Shade. .. "Of course you know who I am. I'm a daughter of the darkness just as surely as you are his son. .. ". Ever since his brief encounter with Emilia at The Shade, Derek's thoughts and dreams have been haunted with images of the mysterious, beautiful brunette. Plagued with guilt, he struggles to understand why he is so drawn to this dark stranger from his past...
  • Forsaken by Jana Oliver

    Forsaken by Jana Oliver

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Riley Blackthorne just needs a chance to prove herself—and that’s exactly what the demons are counting on. .. Seventeen-year-old Riley, the only daughter of legendary Demon Trapper, Paul Blackthorne, has always dreamed of following in her father's footsteps...
  • Feudlings in Flames by Wendy Knight

    Feudlings in Flames by Wendy Knight

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ari thought being in love with her prophesied nemesis sucked. But being responsible for her best friend's kidnapping? It sucks worse. Ari and Shane thought they’d beaten Fate and ended the three-hundred year war plagu-ing their people. They thought love had won. But they were so, so wrong...
  • Finding Magic by Stacia Kane

    Finding Magic by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Karen Marie Moning has called Stacia Kane’s Downside Ghosts series “dark, sexy urban fantasy at its finest. ” Now, in this breathtakingly suspenseful eBook novella, Kane has written a prequel to her thrilling series...
  • Heroes 'Til Curfew by Susan Bischoff

    Heroes 'Til Curfew by Susan Bischoff

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the world of the Talent Chronicles, kids with supernatural abilities, Talents, are taken away to government-run research facilities from which they do not return. In this sequel to HUSH MONEY, all Joss wants is to be left alone with Dylan. But as more Talents are imprisoned by the government, everyone's looking for a leader...
  • Fever Moon: The Fear Dorcha by Karen Marie Moning, Al Rio

    Fever Moon: The Fear Dorcha by Karen Marie Moning, Al Rio

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    An all-new Mac & Barrons story by #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Karen Marie Moning, marvelously adapted into a full-color graphic novel by writer David Lawrence and illustrator Al Rio. In "Fever Moon", we meet the most ancient and deadly Unseelie ever created, the Fear Dorcha. For eons, he's traveled worlds with the Unseelie king, leaving behind him a path of mutilation and destruction...
  • Crucible Zero by Devon Monk

    Crucible Zero by Devon Monk

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The national bestselling author of Infinity Bell returns to her “fresh and unique”* world where the truce between the ruling Houses has shattered and chaos now reigns. Only one woman has the power to save the world—but she could also destroy it. .. Matilda Case never thought of herself as a hero...
  • Apocalypse: The Lords of Deliverance Compendium by Larissa Ione

    Apocalypse: The Lords of Deliverance Compendium by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    They're here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Born of a match between good and evil, four siblings stand between hell's minions and everything they want to destroy. They are the Lords of Deliverance, and they have the power to ward off Doomsday . . . or let it ride . . . THE LORDS OF DELIVERANCE COMPENDIUM...
  • Heroes 'Til Curfew by Susan Bischoff

    Heroes 'Til Curfew by Susan Bischoff

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the world of the Talent Chronicles, kids with supernatural abilities, Talents, are taken away to government-run research facilities from which they do not return. In this sequel to HUSH MONEY, all Joss wants is to be left alone—with Dylan. But as more Talents are imprisoned by the government, everyone’s looking for a leader...
  • Dark Goddess by Sarwat Chadda

    Dark Goddess by Sarwat Chadda

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Still reeling from the death of her best friend, Kay, Billi's thrust back into action when the Templars are called to investigate werewolf activity. But these werewolves are like nothing Bilil's ever seen. They call themselves the Polenitsy: man killers. The ancient warrior women of Eastern Europe, supposedly wiped out centuries ago...
  • Faceless by Jus Accardo

    Faceless by Jus Accardo

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Brandt Cross, and I died. Again…. I'm living in the body of a Six named Douglass Cain, a certifiable scumbag whose ability is on Zendean Industries—AKA Denazen's—most wanted list. There’s some serious bad going down, and Ginger, the leader of the Underground, sent me undercover to obtain information because people are dying. My cousin, Dez, is dying…...
  • A Shadow of Light by Bella Forrest

    A Shadow of Light by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 45 ratings
    Since the implosion at The Oasis and Derek's stay at Hawk Headquarters, The Shade has fallen into a state of utter chaos. To make matters worse, the citizens of Derek's kingdom have become suspicious of his loyalties and accuse him of siding with the enemy. .. At a time when Derek desperately needs full cooperation from his subjects, they wish to put their own King on trial...
  • Hidden by M. Lathan

    Hidden by M. Lathan

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Leah Grant has given up on being normal. She’d settle for stopping the voices in her head, intrusive visions of the future, and better odds of making it to her seventeenth birthday. That’s the thing about pretending to be human in a world where magic used to exist – at any moment, her cover could be blown and she’ll be burned to death like the rest of the witches...
  • A Castle of Sand by Bella Forrest

    A Castle of Sand by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 48 ratings
    What Sofia has with Derek feels like a sandcastle; temporary and something that the waves of life and time will soon ruin. .. Since the return of Gregor Novak, the island has turned several shades darker. His hatred toward Sofia and thirst for fresh blood lead to a brutal war igniting between father and son...
  • Whispers in Autumn by Trisha Leigh

    Whispers in Autumn by Trisha Leigh

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In 2015, a race of alien Others conquered Earth. They enslaved humanity not by force, but through an aggressive mind control that turned people into contented, unquestioning robots. Except sixteen-year-old Althea isn’t content at all, and she doesn’t need the mysterious note inside her locket to tell her she’s Something Else...
  • Bad Blood by Kristen Painter

    Bad Blood by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    Samhain approaches, bringing with it the final melding of the mortal and othernatural worlds. No one knows just how much power the night holds. .. Violent murders occur in Paradise City as counterfeit comarr are systematically hunted. The police and the Kubai Mata have more than enough trouble to keep themselves occupied...
  • The Renfield Syndrome by J.A. Saare

    The Renfield Syndrome by J.A. Saare

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Vampires, and werewolves, and demons, oh my. Rhiannon thought facing off against a deranged child vampire was the most dangerous task she would ever have to undertake, but she’s about to discover making a deal with a demon is far, far worse...
  • Bedeviled by Sable Grace

    Bedeviled by Sable Grace

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    She has done the unthinkable—turned her best friend into a dark breed: part Vampyre, Lychen and Witch . . . Kyana thought only to save her friend’s life when she fed Haven her blood; instead, she created a monster. Now the woman she thought of as a sister is under the spell of an ancient, vengeful god, determined to set him free and wreak havoc on the mortal world . .
  • All Things Wicked by Karina Cooper

    All Things Wicked by Karina Cooper

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Juliet Carpenter thought of the coven as family, but when she falls for a man who betrays them all, she’s left alone and desperately searching for a reason why. Caleb Leigh has spent the past year in hiding, unable to escape his demons. When Juliet finds him again, her need for vengeance clashes with the hunger still burning between them...
  • Healer's Choice by Jory Strong

    Healer's Choice by Jory Strong

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The author of Spider-Touched and Ghostland continues her tale of a postapocalyptic world where the afterlife has come to life. .. Born into a world of violence and paid-for sex, Rebekka longs for a family of her own and dreams of freeing those trapped in the shapeshifter brothels of the red zone...
  • The Year of the Great Seventh by Teresa Orts

    The Year of the Great Seventh by Teresa Orts

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sophie has always felt out of step—an outsider, even amongst friends in her high school with all the hype about celebrity culture. Her life in L. A. seems to have been already written for her, but when her junior year starts, it all takes a drastic turn. When she crosses paths with the school's heartthrob, Nate Werner, they fall for each other in a way neither can understand...
  • Anathema by K.A. Tucker

    Anathema by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Evangeline has spent her teenage years in obscurity. Her foster parents have the emotional aptitude of robots and her classmates barely acknowledge her existence. About to turn eighteen and feeling like a social pariah, she is desperate to connect with someone. Anyone. When Evangeline meets Sophie after literally stumbling upon her café, she believes she’s found that connection...
  • Shattered by Donna Augustine

    Shattered by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    I thought I could be a hero. That was before I helped destroy the world. Now, as I stand among the rubble of what used to be, I wonder how we're ever going to pick up the pieces. Everyday is a struggle, and people are getting desperate. Creatures that never should have existed are picking away at the dwindling numbers of the human race...
  • Host by Faith Hunter

    Host by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In a post-apocalyptic ice age envisioned by Faith Hunter in Bloodring and Seraphs, humans continue their fight to survive amid the warlike forces of Light and Darkness - and struggle to understand the seraphic and demonic beings who have invaded their world. .. . After risking her life to save the residents of Mineral City from a fallen seraph of the underworld, Thorn St...
  • Hellforged by Nancy Holzner

    Hellforged by Nancy Holzner

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Read Nancy Holzner's posts on the Penguin Blog. A demon is stalking Vicky's dreams-just as several of Deadtown's zombies are viciously attacked and become really dead. And when Vicky realizes she is the only connection between the victims, she suspects that the demon is somehow working through her dreams to become Deadtown's living nightmare.
  • Seraphs by Faith Hunter

    Seraphs by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Living among humans in a post- apocalyptic ice age, neomage Thorn St. Croix is a source of both fear and fascination for the people of Mineral City? and now she faces her ultimate test. Deep under the snow-covered mountains beyond the village, an imprisoned fallen seraph desperately needs her help...
  • Daybreak by Ellen Connor

    Daybreak by Ellen Connor

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Change Is Forever. Their mission was to save the world. Their destiny was to fall in love. It's been twelve years since the Change, and Penelope Sheehan is one of the few still practicing magic for the good of humanity in this dark, dangerous world. Determined to infiltrate the notorious O'Malley organization, she poses as an abducted girl—until a furious lion thwarts her mission...
  • Lure of the Wicked by Karina Cooper

    Lure of the Wicked by Karina Cooper

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Naomi West was plucked from one prison and placed undercover in another: the gilded cage that is Timeless, New Seattle’s premier spa and resort, where owner Phinneas Clarke—the most seductive man Naomi has ever met—may be hiding a killer. She’s an agent of the Holy Order, trained to hunt the guilty and render justice...
  • Keepers and Killers by Donna Augustine

    Keepers and Killers by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    The Alchemy Series, Book #2: The story of Jo and Cormac continues on in this fast paced drama. It's very hard to work with someone who tried to murder me. But when the mysterious senator reappears on the scene, I'm desperate enough to take whatever help I can get, even if it is from Cormac. Dealing with him is nothing compared to losing a few hundred lives and that's the best case scenario...
  • Steel Lily by Megan Curd

    Steel Lily by Megan Curd

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    AVERY PIKE is a commodity. No, more than a commodity. Her existence is guarded at all costs. She’s a water Elementalist, the strongest of her dwindling kind. She creates steam to provide energy to fuel Dome Four: the only thing standing between humanity and an earth ravaged by World War III. No steam, no Dome. No Dome, no life. Or so she thinks...
  • Angel Arias by Marianne de Pierres

    Angel Arias by Marianne de Pierres

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Retra - now called Naif - has escaped from Ixion, the island of ever-night. She doesn't know if her friends on the island survived the battle between the Ripers and the rebels. But she does know that she must return home, behind the sealed walls of Grave, to find out why the Ripers have been seen there talking to the councillors...
  • Chasing the Dragon by Justina Robson

    Chasing the Dragon by Justina Robson

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lila Black returns in the fourth volume of high-octane, high-magic, high-tech adventures. Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals and their worlds are open to us...
  • The Altered by Annabelle Jacobs

    The Altered by Annabelle Jacobs

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Twenty years ago the UK’s water supply was contaminated with an experimental pathogen, Lycanaeris, causing widespread panic across the nation. Terrorism was suspected but never proven, and when nothing happened--no epidemic, no unexplained illnesses--the whole episode was written off as an elaborate hoax. But Lycanaeris was selective...
  • The Mark by Marilyn Bunderson

    The Mark by Marilyn Bunderson

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tori always thought the birthmark on her ankle was just a freckle. But when she discovers it's really a set of strange symbols and that others have the same mark, she soon realizes they'll all need to work together to save their real homelandan ancient culture that's been hidden for centuries...
  • Liquid Lies by Hanna Martine

    Liquid Lies by Hanna Martine

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Magic is corporate America's best-kept secret, and Gwen Carroway is the best at selling it. .. With her ability to pick up any language in an instant, Gwen Carroway is taking her family business global. As dutiful future leader of water elementals, she'll do anything to protect her people's secrets and bloodlines--including enter an arranged marriage...
  • The Survivors by Amanda Havard

    The Survivors by Amanda Havard

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In 1692, when witch trials gripped the community of Salem, Massachusetts, twenty-six children were accused as witches, exiled, and left for dead. Fourteen of them survived. The Survivors is the first installment of the tantalizing tales of the fourteen ill-fated Survivors and their descendants, who have been content in hiding for over three centuries...
  • Hush Money by Susan Bischoff

    Hush Money by Susan Bischoff

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    They call their abilities Talents, and that’s what they call themselves as well. Talents are people born with supernatural powers, feared by the population at large. Possession of an “unregistered ability” has become illegal, and those who are discovered are forcibly removed to government-run research facilities. For Talents, keeping their secret is the most important thing in their lives...
  • Bloodring by Faith Hunter

    Bloodring by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In a novel filled with exhilarating action and lush imagery, Faith Hunter portrays a near-future world, caught in the throes of an ambiguous apocalypse, where a woman with everything to hide finds her destiny revealed. .. . No one thought the apocalypse would be like this. The world didn't end...
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