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Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh
Since the moment of her defection from the PsyNet and into the SnowDancer wolf pack, Sienna Lauren has had one weakness. Hawke. Alpha and dangerous, he compels her to madness. Hawke is used to walking alone, having lost the woman who would’ve been his mate long ago. But Sienna fascinates the primal heart of him, even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf...Categorized as:
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Jinn's Dominion by Shannon Mayer
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThere was nothing that could have prepared me for Dragon’s Ground. And I thought that nothing could be worse than what I faced there. Just my black cat bad luck, the world is set to prove me wrong. South lies the Jinn’s Dominion and within it the members of my Pride who need my help. The further south we go, the more danger comes not only from outside our group but from within... -
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![Power Game by Christine Feehan]()
Power Game by Christine Feehan
#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan is “one of the best storytellers around” (RT Book Reviews). Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there’s no telling whom you can trust—or who will come out on top..Categorized as:
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The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon
The hotly anticipated third book in the bestselling Bone Season series – a ground-breaking, dystopian fantasy of extraordinary imaginationFollowing a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population...Categorized as:
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![Aimless Witch by Shannon Mayer]()
Aimless Witch by Shannon Mayer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the world of Rylee Adamson and the Elemental Series comes a heroine with nothing to lose and everything to prove…. My name is Pamela, and I am a witch who has no equal. Or so I thought. It has been three years since the Destroyer sundered our world. The land is longer whole, but broken into pieces, most technology gone, and the continents shattered into an unrecognizable place...Categorized as:
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![The Black Tide by Keri Arthur]()
The Black Tide by Keri Arthur
New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur brings her Outcast series to a breathtaking conclusion as Déchet supersoldier Tiger races against time to save humanity from darkness and total annihilation…. Though Winter Halo–the pharmaceutical company behind the evil experimentation on both children and adults–has been destroyed, the danger is far from over... -
![Darkest Heart by Juliette Cross]()
Darkest Heart by Juliette Cross
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAnya—a stoic, blue-winged angelic warrior—was bitten by a demon prince in battle, and now she has precious little time to find a cure for his deadly venom. But the only archangel with the power to stop the dark poison from corrupting her body and soul is missing. She’ll have to trust her guide, the outcast high demon Dommiel, who is as handsome as he is dangerous if she has any hope... -
![Evernight by Kristen Callihan]()
Evernight by Kristen Callihan
Once the night comes . . . Will Thorne is living a nightmare, his sanity slowly being drained away by a force he can't control. His talents have made him the perfect assassin for hire. But as he loses his grip on reality, there is no calming him—until he finds his next target: the mysterious Holly Evernight. Love must cast aside the shadows . . -
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Smoke, Vampires, and Mirrors by Dima Zales
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe epic conclusion of Sasha Urban's story!I found my family, I found my heart, I found myself.But it’s not over.No matter how many allies I have, there's no escaping destiny.The end of the world is coming, and I'm the only one who can stop it...Categorized as:
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![Death Speaks by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Death Speaks by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsCaleb's in high school now and thinks the chaos of last year is behind him. Unfortunately, a serial killer is on the loose and children are his victims. Caleb agrees to help the police apprehend the murderer...until the killer takes notice of Caleb and his paranormal friends. Carson and Brett remain the bullies they always were and their posse continues to grow... -
![The Hero Within by Bec McMaster]()
The Hero Within by Bec McMaster
Can this villain become her hero? As the only healer in a war-stained town, Eden McClain is devastated when the Salt Plague sweeps through the wastelands she calls home. Suddenly she's racing against time to save her people–and her niece–before it's too late. When she hears whispers of a cure, she knows she can't cross the dangerous Wastelands by herself to get it. She needs a guide... -
![Degrees of Wrong by Anna Scarlett]()
Degrees of Wrong by Anna Scarlett
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThis time, the straight-and-narrow path could be the road to ruin. Dr. Elyse Morgan’s mission: find the cure to the HTN4 virus. The compensation, courtesy of the United Nations: a lab stocked with hi-tech goodies, limitless resources and enough chocolate to make her rear look like a cellulite farm. Bonus: she gets to live...Categorized as:
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![Any Given Lifetime by Leta Blake]()
Any Given Lifetime by Leta Blake
He'll love him in any lifetime. Neil isn’t a ghost, but he feels like one. Reincarnated with all his memories from his prior life, he spent twenty years trapped in a child’s body, wanting nothing more than to grow up and reclaim the love of his life. As an adult, Neil finds there's more than lost time separating them...Categorized as:
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![Nobody's Hero by Bec McMaster]()
Nobody's Hero by Bec McMaster
First rule of surviving the Wastelands: don't be caught out after the sun sets... After her father was killed in a warg attack, Riley Kincaid was forced to stand on her own two feet in the brutal Wastelands she calls home. She knows how to survive, but when a lapse in judgment leaves her out after dark, Riley realizes she's in trouble...Categorized as:
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![Secrets at Midnight by Nalini Singh]()
Secrets at Midnight by Nalini Singh
A changeling will do anything to find and keep his mate in this smoldering story from New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh. Bastien Smith is frustrated. A changeling male should be able to track his mate anywhere—through fire and hail, snow and rain...Categorized as:
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![Night Whispers by Alisha Rai]()
Night Whispers by Alisha Rai
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen every night is a battle for survival, love is an endangered species ShadowLands, Book 1 Analyst James Bennett has spent the years since humankind fell victim to the Illness living underground...Categorized as:
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![Forevermore by Kristen Callihan]()
Forevermore by Kristen Callihan
Miss Layla Starling, the young, beautiful, and extremely wealthy heiress, is the talk of London. Until now, she's managed to evade the marriage noose. Despite the fact that she is unfortunately American, she's received a staggering number of offers. And turned down every one. St. John Evernight does not want to admit the relief he feels every time he hears that she has rejected one of her suitors...Categorized as:
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Prophecy of Magic by Dima Zales
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsFind my long-lost birth parents? Check.Kiss the man I've been crushing on for years? Check.Finally kick back and enjoy my happy ending? Yeah, no such luck.With literal demons out to kill me and my loved ones in trouble, I'm starting to wonder if I'll make it out of this one alive..Categorized as:
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Dawn of Eden by Julie Kagawa, Thérèse Plummer
Before The Immortal Rules, there was Red Lung a relentless virus determined to take out all in its path. For Kylie, the miracle of her survival is also her burden-as a doctor at one of the clinics for the infected she is forced to witness endless suffering...Categorized as:
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![The Vanishing Girl by Laura Thalassa]()
The Vanishing Girl by Laura Thalassa
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsEvery night after Ember Pierce falls asleep, she disappears. She can teleport anywhere in the world—London, Paris, her crush’s bedroom—wherever her dreams lead her. Ten minutes is all she gets, and once time’s up, she returns to her bed. It's a secret she’s successfully kept for the last five years. But now someone knows...Categorized as:
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The Kingmakers by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith
The epic Vampire Empire trilogy rushes to a heart-wrenching conclusion of honor and love, hatred and vengeance, sacrifice and loss. A war to the death. Empress Adele has launched a grand crusade against the vampire clans of the north. Prince Gareth, the vampire lord of Scotland, serves the Equatorian cause, fighting in the bloody trenches of France in his guise as the dashing Greyfriar...Categorized as:
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![Fallen by Traci L. Slatton]()
Fallen by Traci L. Slatton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the world ends, all that is left is love.... As chaos descends on a crippled Earth, survivors are tormented by strange psychic gifts. In this time of apocalyptic despair, love is put to the test. One woman with mysterious healing power guides seven children to safety. Charismatic Arthur offers her a haven. Slowly Emma falls for him... -
![Diadem of Blood and Bones by Ripley Proserpina]()
Diadem of Blood and Bones by Ripley Proserpina
Sacrifice.... Transformation… It all comes down to the final battle... Forced to choose between her life and the lives of the vampires she loves, Briar made the ultimate sacrifice. For her, a world without Marcus, Hudson, Sylvain, and Valen was inconceivable. But her vampires didn't accept her decision, and at the last moment, transformed her from woman to immortal... -
![Tears Of The Star by Viola Grace]()
Tears Of The Star by Viola Grace
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWhen the planet Balen finished his mourning for his lost avatar, he contacted the Sector Guard to get the miners out of his territory so that he could replenish the frozen surface. Zenina Sin Ar is the one to get the message and when she tries to inform the powers that be, they set a price on her head... -
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Guiding by Viola Grace
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTaking care of folks in the wild is her hobby, but when two of the Shadow Folk need her help getting everyone out alive, her skills as a guide will be tested. Teyha enjoys being a historian and educating the next generation of Gaia on how they arrived... -
![The Bane by Keary Taylor]()
The Bane by Keary Taylor
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsBefore the Evolution there was TorBane: technology that infused human DNA with cybernetic matter. It had the ability to grow new organs and limbs, to heal the world. Until it evolved out of control and spread like the common cold. The machine took over, the soul vanished, and the Bane were born. The Bane won't stop until every last person has been infected...Categorized as:
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![Prince of Hearts by Margaret Foxe]()
Prince of Hearts by Margaret Foxe
Prince of Hearts: A Victorian Steampunk Romance London: 1896. Airships rule the skies, and automatons run the tracks at Ascot. Since the Great Exhibition of 1851, Her Majesty’s Empire has been powered by the Steam Revolution and Welding science. It is a time of glorious innovation and dangerous civil unrest...Categorized as:
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![Hidden Gem by Lissa Kasey]()
Hidden Gem by Lissa Kasey
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMisaki “Aki” Itou is a psi—a person with mutated DNA granting him psychic abilities. He’s also a contracted companion—a whore. It may not be the perfect profession, but having a roof over his head, food to eat, and not being subjected to torture is a dream come true. He is the top companion at the Hidden Gem, and it makes him enough money to buy the prettiest, most sparkly shoes he can find...Categorized as:
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![The Last True Hero by Bec McMaster]()
The Last True Hero by Bec McMaster
Sometimes the monsters aren't so easy to see... In the drought-stricken wastelands that arose out of an apocalypse, Adam McClain never thought himself the hero. Kicked out of the town he created, and shunned by his friends when they discovered what he was, he's managed to find work as a bounty hunter... -
![Rescued By The Orc Chieftain by Celeste King]()
Rescued By The Orc Chieftain by Celeste King
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThis huge orc brings out the animal in me!Humans have been driven underground, like rats, as we try to stay safe from the marauding orcs.All my life, my only job has been to make sure my sick younger sister has enough to eat.But then on a foraging mission, one of those giant beasts get his paws on me.At first I worry that I’m going to become a plaything of the orcs...Categorized as:
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Wanted and Wired by Vivien Jackson
A rip-roarin' new snarky, sexy sci-fi paranormal romance series with the perfect balance of humor, heat, and heart. Now that Texas has seceded and the world is spiraling into chaos, good guys come in unlikely packages and love sprouts in the most inconvenient places... Rogue scientist • technologically enhanced • deliciously attractive Heron Farad should be dead...Categorized as:
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Avidian by Ashley R. O'Donovan
I can see the dead. They tell me their secrets. But this time, their secrets might get me killed.My name is Kat Sinclair, and the Volkov family owns me. People like me, born with special abilities, are called Avids. But my gift doesn’t spare me from the demands of Marco Volkov, the ruthless family patriarch who keeps me in line with the ever-present threat of violence...Categorized as:
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Demon Bait by Moira Rogers
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis mark could bind her forever or finally set her free. "Children of the Undying, Book 1" Fifty years after a demon apocalypse devastated the world, summoners still bear the bulk of the blame. Marci lives in secret, hiding the gifts that could cost her a secure spot in one of humanity s underground cities, and access to their virtual world... -
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Desire by Kailin Gow
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Dystopian world where everyone's future is planned out for them at age 18...whether it is what a person desires or not. Kama is about to turn 18 and she thinks her Life s Plan will turn out like her boyfriend's and friend's as they desired. But when she glimpse a young man who can communicate with her with his thoughts and knows her name..Categorized as:
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Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet
Captain Tess Bailey and her crew of Robin Hood-like thieves are desperate and on the run. Pursued by a vicious military general who wants them dead or alive, Tess has to decide if she can trust Shade Ganavan, a tall, dark and arrogant stranger with ambiguous motivations. Shade Ganavan had oodles of arrogance, oodles of charm, and oodles of something that made me want to kick him in the nuts...Categorized as:
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Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsOne girl and a griffin against an empire. Griffins are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Shõgun, they fear that their lives are over – everyone knows what happens to those who fail the Lord of the Shima Isles. But the mission proves less impossible and more deadly than anyone expects... -
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A Chip in His Shoulder by L.A. Witt
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 13 ratings“Contract killer” is a fitting job for a vampire, and it suits Liam just fine. Cast down from the wealth and status of the Sky for taking a human lover, Liam lurks in the poor and pollution-choked Gutter, killing to survive. Between his natural strengths and his Cybernetix mods, no mark has ever escaped him. Liam’s ex-lover Daniel is the heir to Cybernetix—and its greatest threat...Categorized as:
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Firelight by Kristen Callihan
Once the flames are ignited . . . Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family's fortune decimated and forced her to wed London's most nefarious nobleman. They will burn for eternity . .Categorized as:
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How Beauty Met the Beast by Jax Garren
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBook one in Tales of the Underlight The Beast Scarred. Damaged. Living with a terrible secret. Agent of the Underlight Wesley "Hauk" Haukon has nothing left but the fight for liberty against the oppressive Order of Ananke. He's starting to lose hope...and then he sees her...Categorized as:
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Galdoni by Cheree Alsop
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“Attention Grabber! I read this book really fast. It kept my attention the whole time and left me wanting more! It was a great mix of fantasy and the world we live in.” M.A.- Amazon Reviewer “This Dystopian novel really surprised me in a pleasant way.” Braine, Talk Supe- Book Blogger “This book was different from anything I've read and I couldn't put it down...Categorized as:
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Foundation by Ann Aguirre
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Ann Aguirre’s award-winning novel, Enclave, humans have taken refuge in colonies below ground. Here is the story of what drove them there, told through the eyes of a teen who would later have vast influence over the fate of many, and who gave his heart to the one person who needed him most...Categorized as:
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![My Familiar Stranger by Victoria Danann]()
My Familiar Stranger by Victoria Danann
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsIn a matter of minutes Elora Laiken lost everything familiar. She escaped assassination by being forced into an experimental device that left her broken, physically and emotionally, in another world. She woke up to find modern day knights, elves, vampires, werewolves, witches, demons and fae. This is the story of how they became her allies, friends, and family...Categorized as:
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![Fate of Perfection by K.F. Breene]()
Fate of Perfection by K.F. Breene
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIn a corporate-controlled future where the ruling conglomerates genetically engineer their employees, Millicent Foster is the best of the best.Physically perfect and exceptionally intelligent, Millicent is granted the uncommon privilege of breeding...Categorized as:
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![Keeping It Real by Justina Robson]()
Keeping It Real by Justina Robson
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elfin, elemental, and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology... -
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Perfect Mate by Mina Carter
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsA hospital manager with a heart of gold. A soldier with a dark secret. Lillian's life is... dull. The highlights of her day, other than her skinny hot chocolate, are the hunky guards who work in the military wing. It's classified and way above her pay grade, but she can't help feeling sorry for the hollow-eyed men and women they shuffle past reception...Categorized as:
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Keeping It Real by Justina Robson
Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA quantum experiment shattered the world into Seven Realms, some magical, some technical, some lethal. Lila Black was an ambitious young diplomat forging relations with Alfheim, realm of elves, when a foolish decision led to a terrible reprisal. Now she's back, dead to her family, the property of a ruthless Intelligence Service that has used alien technology to make her their ultimate agent... -
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Aftertime by Sophie Littlefield
Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Having no idea how many weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: Ruthie has vanished. And with her, nearly all of civilization...Categorized as:
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Rescued by Bears by Skye MacKinnon
Can she tame her bear shifters or will she be their dinner? Alone, frozen, and far from home, Isla finds herself in the care of four frustratingly sexy bear shifters. They soon end up on a Scottish island, trying to survive the disasters of a failing world. With new relationships unfolding, Isla has to make the decision between her humanity and the bears protecting her...Categorized as:
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Wildalone by Krassi Zourkova
Rated: 3.28 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this darkly imaginative debut novel full of myth, magic, romance, and mystery, a Princeton freshman is drawn into a love triangle with two enigmatic brothers, and discovers terrifying secrets about her family and herself—a bewitching blend of Twilight, The Secret History, Jane Eyre , and A Discovery of Witches...
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