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Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews
Ilona Andrews invites you back to the #1 New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels series in this exciting new long novella featuring Kate, Curran and Conlan, some familiar faces, some new friends, and all the special brand of chaos they create!Kate, Curran and their son, Conlan have left Atlanta, vowing to keep a low profile, and are settling into a new city and new house…but some things never... -
Magic Strikes - Hot Tub by Ilona Andrews, Gordan Andrews
Published in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV...Categorized as:
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Darker After Midnight by Lara Adrian
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsThe climactic novel in the bestselling Midnight Breed series, of which BookPage raves: “If you like romance combined with heart-stopping paranormal suspense, you’re going to love this book.” In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed...Categorized as:
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Magic Bites - Fernando's by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews
Published in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV.During Magic Bites, Curran sees Kate and Crest in Fernando's...Categorized as:
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Kate's Origin by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsPublished in Small Magics, and part of Curran's POV.This is the story Jim tells Curran about Kate’s Daddy...Categorized as:
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High Voltage by Karen Marie Moning
There is no action without consequence… Dani O’Malley was nine years old when the delusional, sadistic Rowena transformed her into a ruthless killer. Years later, she’s tough, hardened, yet achingly vulnerable and fiercely compassionate, living alone by her own exacting code. Despite the scars on her body, driven by deeper ones carved into her soul, no one is more committed to protecting Dublin...Categorized as:
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Hunted by Sophie Davis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn need of a distraction from her best friend's betrayal, Talia jumps at the chance to pack up and head to Washington, D.C., to have a purpose once again. She is tasked with administering the annual Talent Aptitude Tests, analyzing the children of the nation’s capital to identify those with powers...Categorized as:
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Magic Bites - Fernando's by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPublished in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV.During Magic Bites, Curran sees Kate and Crest in Fernando's...Categorized as:
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Here There Be Monsters by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsTwo years ago, blacksmith Ivy, desperate to flee London, purchased her overseas passage by agreeing to spend the voyage in the bed of the pirate captain, Mad Machen... -
Caged by Sophie Davis
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAfter her brush with death at Ian Crane’s compound, Talia Lyons feels like a prisoner, confined in her childhood home. Plagued with seizures- the result of an unidentified drug injected in her neck by Crane’s men- Talia must put her dream of becoming a Hunter on hold...Categorized as:
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Created by Sophie Davis
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen Talia runs away from the only life she’s ever known, she could have never fathomed the lengths to which the Agency will go to get her back. But if the Agency Director- the man who raised her, trained her, and made Talia who she is- can’t have her, he wants her eliminated. Now those she once considered friends are bona fide enemies, ruthless in their pursuit of her... -
Magic Graves by Jeaniene Frost
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsNew York Times bestselling authors Jeaniene Frost and Ilona Andrews bring you two short stories of paranormal. Jeaniene Frost's story, One for the Money, features vampires Cat and Bones trying to protect a spoiled heiress with a price on her head and an undead hitman on her trail. Previously published in Death's Excellent Vacation... -
Dead of Night by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsNora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, puts futuristic lieutenant Eve Dallas in a supernatural showdown with a most seductive criminal: a vampire. An ancient coin whisks an American woman and a modern-day earl into the past-and into each other's arms-in a stirring tale from Mary Blayney...Categorized as:
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Bump in the Night by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsToday's most provocative authors, including Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComan, present new stories of paranormal romance. Includes a new Lt. Eve Dallas story by #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb. Original. Including Haunted In Death by J.D...Categorized as:
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Edge of Dawn by Lara Adrian
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsIn this pulse-pounding and thrillingly sensual novel, New York Times bestselling author Lara Adrian returns to the mesmerizing world of the Midnight Breed, following new characters into a dark future where an uneasy peace can unravel into war—and a great betrayal can mask an all-consuming love...Categorized as:
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Fated by Sarah Fine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAislin 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... -
Crave Me by Lexi C. Foss
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOnce upon a time, a series of portals opened on Earth, allowing magic to spill into the human world.Houses were created. Supernaturals were assigned. And a new balance was formed.All new arrivals are required to join a House.But this is the tale of a Goddess who refused and the House King who brought her to heel.Nyx.Mistress of Night.My newest obsession.The daring female killed one of my men... -
Man of My Dreams by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsMagic of the Night... Every woman dreams about meeting the perfect man--the one whose power will spark her fiery passion and make her tremble with desire. Now, in this spellbinding collection, today's hottest authors present four devastatingly handsome heroes who can possess a woman's heart and satisfy her late-night yearnings...Categorized as:
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Feudlings in Flames by Wendy Knight
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAri 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...Categorized as:
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Finding Magic by Stacia Kane
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKaren 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...Categorized as:
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Kaleb and Sahara’s Meeting with Sascha and Lucas by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA deleted scene about Sascha & Lucas' meeting with Sahara & Kaleb. Timeline: Takes place during Chapter 7 of Shield of Winter.This story can be found in Nalini Singh's March 2015 newsletter...Categorized as:
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Forsaken by Jana Oliver
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsRiley 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... -
Untouched by Jus Accardo
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsUntil he met Dez, Kale’s days were filled with violence and death. He was used as a weapon of destruction by the power hungry men of Denazen. He’s a Six. A person with an abnormal ability. Some people call them gifts, but not Kale. Kale’s touch means instant death. But now there’s Dez, the girl he can touch, and they’re hunting down Sixes and warning them about Denazen...Categorized as:
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Damion by Lisa Renee Jones
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLethally passionate, wickedly dangerous... Renegade warrior Damion Browne is a soldier of soldiers, an enforcer of the code of honor. With ruthless precision, he calculates risks as deliberately as he does his lover's satisfaction. Now it's up to him to defeat a new generation of female Super Soldiers, including the one woman perfectly programmed to be his downfall. His enemy.. -
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Storm That Is Sterling by Lisa Renee Jones
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHe may be invincible to everyone else. . . Sterling Jeter has remarkable powers and has shown himself to be just about indestructible. But beautiful, brilliant Rebecca Burns knows that even a Super Soldier needs comfort, and so much more ... But she can see that deep down, he's just a man .. -
Mina Wentworth and the Invisible City by Meljean Brook
Eight months after The Iron Duke, can their marriage survive a new danger? After Mina is called in to investigate the murder of an aristocratic bounder, her husband Rhys—known to the world as the Iron Duke—must overcome his fear for his new bride before his need to protect her tears them apart... -
Pack Claimed by Laurel Night
No one has ever heard of a female alpha… until me.Now I’m on a journey to see some Oracle I’ve never heard of, accompanied by the four most eligible males in the clan—go figure, they’re the other clan alphas...Categorized as:
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Black As Night : Quentin Black World by J.C. Andrijeski
From USA TODAY bestselling author, another adventure with Quentin Black and Miri Fox - a book in the Quentin Black World. Paranormal Mystery Romance. "He says he will break anything you try to keep pure, brother..." Forensic psychologist Miri Fox travels across the globe when her now-employer, psychic detective, Quentin Black, calls from a police station in Bangkok and asks for her help... -
Talented by Sophie Davis
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBlock it out. Impossible for Talia Lyons. When you’re a Mind Manipulator, it’s hard enough to block the thoughts of others, let alone your own. Block it out. The pounding, siren-ready world Talia inhabits as she trains with her fellow Hunters, the country's top-secret covert operatives. The physical demands. The emotional toll. Block it out. The secrets that Talia’s boyfriend is hiding...Categorized as:
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Night Forbidden by Joss Ware
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe world is ash, destroyed, and now controlled by Strangers. Survivors live in constant peril. But in the heart of Envy, resistance grows . . . Somehow Bruno "Fence" Washington survived the apocalypse—emerging from a Sedona cave into a strange and terrible new world . . . fifty years later...Categorized as:
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Horizon by Sophie Littlefield
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOf living things there were few, but they carried on. Cass Dollar is a survivor. She's overcome the meltdown of civilization, humans turned mindless cannibals and the many evils of man. But from beneath the devastated California landscape emerges a tendril of hope... -
Reaper: (Post apocalyptic paranormal romance by Mina Carter
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe World after the End of the World will never be the same again… Sanctuary. Clichéd name, but the sentiment is still the same. Ten years after the end of the world, ex-soldier Mason and a small group of humans defend their fortified town against creatures of myth and legend made real... -
Abandon the Night by Joss Ware, Colleen Gleason
Everything they knew is gone...Five men emerge from the remnants of destruction with extraordinary new powers. They are humankind's last hope, but they cannot survive this devastated world alone. Quent Fielding had it all: money, power, women, good looks...until he and his friends were frozen in time for fifty years... -
All Things Wicked by Karina Cooper
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJuliet 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... -
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The Year of the Great Seventh by Teresa Orts
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSophie 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... -
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind... -
Host by Faith Hunter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn 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... -
Embrace the Night Eternal by Joss Ware, Colleen Gleason
Everything they knew is gone. From the raging fires, five men emerge with extraordinary new powers. They must learn how to survive this dark, ravaged world . . . but they cannot do it alone. Simon Japp will never forget his violent past. But when civilization is all but destroyed, he sees his chance for redemption...Categorized as:
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Seraphs by Faith Hunter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLiving 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... -
A Touch of Midnight by Lara Adrian
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsSavannah Dupree is halfway across the country from her Louisiana bayou hometown, a freshman studying at Boston University on a full scholarship. But academic excellence is only one of Savannah’s gifts. She possesses something even more remarkable than her quick mind and insatiable curiosity for learning... -
Warrior by Angela Knight
The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR launches the new Time Hunters series. In the 24th century, anyone can leap through time at will. To police the time jumpers, the Temporal Enforcement Agency has established a precinct in time... -
Burning Alive by Shannon K. Butcher
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFirst in an all-new paranormal romance series Caution : readers may feel the heat coming off the pages. They are the Sentinels... Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes-the Synestryn... -
Gameboard of the Gods by Richelle Mead
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIn a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims. But Justin is given a second chance when Mae Koskinen comes to bring him back to the Republic of United North America (RUNA)... -
Countdown by Michelle Maddox
THREE Kira Jordan wakes up in a pitch-black room handcuffed to a metal wall. She has 60 seconds to escape. Thus begins a vicious game where to lose is to die. TWO The man she's been partnered with--her only ally in this nightmare--is a convicted mass murderer...Categorized as:
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Chosen by Blood by Virna DePaul
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLeader of an Otherborn clan, half-breed vampire Knox Devereaux would do anything to find a cure for the anti-vamp vaccine slowly starving his people into extinction. When the FBI contacts him about leading a team of hand-selected Others on a mission to reclaim the stolen antidote, Knox accepts... -
Sundered by Shannon Mayer
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAlternate Cover: B005KOIVH0 They were promised weight loss, the cure for Cancer, Parkinson’s Disease and infertility; they were promised hope.The side effects were anything but hopeful. Mara and Sebastian are young, in love and newlyweds. Far too soon, they will face tests to their love that most others won’t survive... -
Red by Jordan Summers
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGina Santiago is a member of an elite tactical team in charge of protecting the world. She’s devoted her life to apprehending the most heinous criminals that prey on society—and now she’s after the worst one yet. On her own, with no backup, the trail takes her to a dusty, tight-knit town on the fringes of society, where everyone’s a suspect...Categorized as:
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Forbidden Mind by Karpov Kinrade
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsShe reads minds.He controls minds.Together, they might get out alive. 49% of Americans believe their government officials are honest. I don't know these officials, or their supporters, but I know their secrets, and 49% of Americans are wrong. My employers pay me well to be right, to know things others can't... -
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 55 ratingsLast year as college freshman, narrator Cal was infected by exotic goth Morgan with a parasite that caused following girlfriends to become vampire-like ghouls he calls parasite-positives "Peeps". A carrier without symptoms, he hunts his progeny for the centuries old bureaucratic Night Watch...Categorized as:
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The Keepers by Donna Augustine
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTwo days ago, Jo Davids was a waitress by night and a college kid by day, with the unnerving problem of things floating around her. One day ago, Jo's sexy boss, Cormac, noticed her for all the wrong reasons when she witnessed a man transform into a monster in the basement of his casino. Today, Cormac ordered her shot. If he's real lucky, she won't die. Because if she does, all hope is lost...Categorized as:
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