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Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews
Maud Demille is a daughter of Innkeepers—a special group who provide ‘lodging’ to other-planetary visitors—so she knows that a simple life isn't in the cards. But even Maud could never have anticipated what Fate would throw at her. Once a wife to a powerful vampire knight, Maud and her young daughter, Helen, were exiled with him for his treachery to the desolate, savage planet of Karhari... -
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Darkness by Laurann Dohner
Kat’s boss wants dirt on the NSO. She is sent to Homeland undercover but everything goes wrong as soon as she enters the front gates. She is arrested by a big, powerful, sexy New Species but she is not frightened. He turns her on and things heat up fast between them. Now, she just hopes he does not break her heart. Darkness admires Kat’s courage but he cannot trust anything she says...Categorized as:
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![Land of the Beautiful Dead by R. Lee Smith]()
Land of the Beautiful Dead by R. Lee Smith
SHE WOULD DARE ANYTHING TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM HIS RULE. EVEN HIS BED. He ascended from the darkness years ago—Azrael the Eternal, Azrael the Undying, Azrael Who Is Death—bringing with him the black rains, the fires, the souring of the sky, and the Eaters...Categorized as:
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![Gloam by Lily Mayne]()
Gloam by Lily Mayne
When a strange woman shows up outside our camp in the Wastes with monsters chained up to her RV, it feels like I’m the only one who actually wants to help them.That big, grey-skinned monster with the cage on his head and the chain hanging from his back—something is telling me I need to help him. I need to free him... -
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![Archangel's Shadows by Nalini Singh]()
Archangel's Shadows by Nalini Singh
Return to New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s sensual and painfully beautiful Guild Hunter world in her new novel of sacrifice, loyalty, and the choices of love that can shatter the heart... -
![Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop]()
Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop
The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before—both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control their divinations for wicked purposes... -
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Wild Country by Anne Bishop
In this powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side...without destroying one another. There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others...Categorized as:
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![Wrong Ways Down by Stacia Kane]()
Wrong Ways Down by Stacia Kane
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt’s a thin line between right and wrong. It’s an even thinner one between wrong and dead… Terrible has always been on the wrong side of the law, living up to the only name anyone ever gave him. As the chief enforcer for Downside’s most powerful criminal, it’s his job to collect debts and protection money by any means necessary. And he’s very good at his job...Categorized as:
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![Embrace the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy]()
Embrace the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy
Is He Her Mortal Enemy-- Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold. Though Shalotts are renowned assassins, a curse held over Shay lands her on the slave auction block, where her fate is uncertain. . . Or The Man Who Will Risk All. . -
![Sins of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Sins of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
In the realm of the Dark-Hunters there is a code of honor that even immortal bad boys must follow:Harm no human. Drink no blood. Never fall in love. But every now and again a Dark-Hunter thinks himself above the Code. That's when I'm summoned. Who am I? I'm the one thing the fearless fear. Step over the line and it's my wrath you will face. Nothing can touch me. Nothing can sway me...Categorized as:
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![Beneath This Mask by Victoria Sue]()
Beneath This Mask by Victoria Sue
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsGael Peterson has spent years hiding behind the enhanced abilities he wears like a mask, even though he is an important, confident member of the FBI's exclusive H.E.R.O. team. The hurt and betrayal of his mom's abandonment and his father's fists are secrets buried deep beneath the ugly scars on his face, and he doesn't trust Jake, his new, regular human partner, with any of them... -
![Anubis by Adrienne Wilder]()
Anubis by Adrienne Wilder
It was supposed to be over: The Utah Facility discovered, New World Genetics dismantled, and those hunting Luca—dead.Then strangers who call themselves Varu come for Luca for help. They claim he’s a Cana and tell him he’s the only one who can bring back their wolves.Nox doesn’t want to trust them, then he learns people called Mah are responsible for the atrocities committed in the Utah Facility... -
![Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika]()
Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Ash Kyndal inherits her Uncle Charlie’s PI firm, her only interest is in finding an out. Circus veteran, social misfit, daughter of a madman—those are shoes that fit. Card-carrying member of polite society? Not so much. But Charlie saved her once, and his staff of lost souls needs her...Categorized as:
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![Shadowdance by Kristen Callihan]()
Shadowdance by Kristen Callihan
Once a heart is lost in shadow... Life has been anything but kind to Mary Chase. But the Society for the Suppression of Supernaturals has given her purpose. Now she's been tasked with catching a vicious murderer dubbed the Bishop of Charing Cross. But someone is already on the case—and the last thing he relishes is a partner. Only someone who lives in darkness can find it...Categorized as:
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![Not Dead Enough by Mina Carter]()
Not Dead Enough by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThere is life after death, unfortunately for them, it's the same one... Brett Perkins was a soldier until the Project killed him. Now he's finding that life after death isn't so hot. With the Project base destroyed, he and his team have been tasked with running down and destroying a group of rogue Bloods. Unfortunately the vampires always seem to be one step ahead... -
![Low Red Moon by Caitlín R. Kiernan]()
Low Red Moon by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSeveral years after the events in Threshold, Chance and Deacon have married. They’re looking ahead to the future, trying to put the past behind them. But new nightmares await them as a woman with a need for violence enters their lives. And something even worse has followed her.. -
![Infected by Maya Riley]()
Infected by Maya Riley
What's the worst that could happen? Sit down and let me tell you. The Void Virus has been let loose on the Earth. Caused by experiments gone wrong, an outbreak has ravaged the world. Anyone infected has turned into a decaying empty shell, void of their former selves. The animate decomposing bodies have become known as Rotters, stumbling around for the scent of the living... -
![Hidden Gem by Lissa Kasey]()
Hidden Gem by Lissa Kasey
Can love conquer all in a world where monsters lurk around every corner? Shane and Misaki will find out.Shane, a hardened detective, bears the burden of a monstrous affliction that threatens to consume him. But his solitary existence is disrupted by Misaki, a captivating hustler with secrets of his own... -
![Call of the Sea by Chani Lynn Feener]()
Call of the Sea by Chani Lynn Feener
The Devils of Vitality always catch their prey.Bay Delmar is pretty done with life.There’s a reason even his friends refer to him as the Undead or Robot. It’s been years since Bay’s been able to feel anything other than emptiness when he isn’t straddling a hoverbike and risking his neck in one of Vitality’s infamous street races... -
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The Queen of All that Lives by Laura Thalassa
She’s a martyr.A myth.A ghost.A legend.She’s my soulmate and my captive, my conscience and my wrath. I love her too much to let her die; I fear her too much to wake her from her slumber.She’s mine.And now she’s gone.He’s unnatural.Undying.Unethical.Unstoppable.He’s the keeper of lies and lost souls. Mine slipped through his clutches.I am his wife, his queen, the love of his very long life... -
![Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh]()
Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh
Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature. He failed...and committed the most extreme act of violence, killing a man and losing his best friend, Talin, in the bloody aftermath...Categorized as:
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![Skin by Kylie Scott]()
Skin by Kylie Scott
Six months since the zombie plague struck, former librarian Roslyn Stewart has been holed up in a school with eight other survivors. But now the shelves in the school canteen are bare. The stranger at the gate has supplies that will ensure the group’s ongoing survival, but at a cost. He wants a woman. Nick is a man with a plan... -
![A Taste of Crimson by Marjorie M. Liu]()
A Taste of Crimson by Marjorie M. Liu
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLos Angeles is no longer the City of Angels; dark things haunt its streets- dark restless things. Bodies have been found, and the tentative peace between humans, vampires, and werewolves teeters on the brink of collapse. Keeli Maddox needs to know why. If she and her kin are to survive, she must trust a man as different from her as night from day, as tooth from claw... -
![Hemovore by Jordan Castillo Price]()
Hemovore by Jordan Castillo Price
Mark Hansen thought working as artist’s assistant would be glamorous, especially if that artist was a vampire. Black tie events, witty repartee, gracing the pages of the local style section…. Didn’t happen. Not even once.Jonathan Varga is an enigma. True, he’s quiet, generous, and scrupulously polite... -
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![Year One by Nora Roberts]()
Year One by Nora Roberts
In her newest work, the stunning beginning to an epic hardcover trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves an enthralling saga of suspense, survival, and the journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives… The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster...Categorized as:
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![The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers]()
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsWhen Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom... -
![Born to be Bound by Addison Cain]()
Born to be Bound by Addison Cain
She never had a choice. Shepherd vows he will hunt Claire down, ready to burn her city to ash to retrieve his wayward Omega. She may be terrified of him, she may resent the pair-bond he forced, but like it or not, she is his. Claire is desperate. The Alpha male who conquered her city, who calls her his mate, is every bit as ruthless as his reputation suggests... -
![1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin]()
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 84 ratingsThe year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project... -
![Blood Singers by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
Blood Singers by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA sub-species of human beings... Twenty-year old Julia Wade, a young woman tragically widowed, is in the middle of a bizarre bid between two mythical species who are vying for the unique properties she offers; her blood. The vampires need her to balance the food load of the human species and give them their coveted “Lightwalkers...Categorized as:
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Nightfall by Ellen Connor
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFirst in a stunning new post-apocalyptic paranormal romance trilogy. Growing up with an unstable, often absent father who preached about the end of the world, Jenna never thought in her wildest nightmares that his predictions would come true...Categorized as:
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![Pestilence by Laura Thalassa]()
Pestilence by Laura Thalassa
They came to earth—Pestilence, War, Famine, Death—four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.When Pestilence comes for Sara Burn’s town, one thing is certain: everyone she knows and loves is marked for death... -
![Break and Enter by Rachel Haimowitz, Aleksandr Voinov]()
Break and Enter by Rachel Haimowitz, Aleksandr Voinov
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMan on machine on man.Red Cell, Book 1Ex-Green Beret Victor “Cyke” Kellermann is on the run for a crime he didn’t—well, okay, did commit, but he didn’t realize it at the time. He’s a good guy, a “white hat” hacker for hire. He’s also more teched out than the Bionic Man, though his ailing ’ware creates as many problems as it solves.His latest series of break-ins are proving…difficult... -
![Ruthless King by Alison Aimes]()
Ruthless King by Alison Aimes
He's the most brutal Alpha crime boss in the galaxy—and she belongs to him now. Payment for a debt owed. Pawn for an act of vengeance. Property to be used, knotted, and bred. Irresistibly gorgeous mafia king Nikolai Skolov is dominant, hard, possessive—and determined to bend innocent omega Dahlia Lundin to his will. But she is equally determined to resist... -
![Dead of Eve by Pam Godwin]()
Dead of Eve by Pam Godwin
A virus devastates humanity. Few men survive. The rest are monsters. The women are dead, except Evie. Through a quirk in her genetics, she survives. When her physiology begins to evolve, she must come to terms with what she is and accept her role in finding a cure. The mutated hunt her. The men brutalize her…except three...Categorized as:
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![Working Stiff by Rachel Caine]()
Working Stiff by Rachel Caine
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsBryn Davis knows working at Fairview Mortuary isn't the most glamorous career choice, but at least it offers stable employment--until she discovers her bosses using a drug that resurrects the clientele as part of an extortion racket. Now, Bryn faces being terminated--literally, and with extreme prejudice...Categorized as:
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![Parasite by Mira Grant]()
Parasite by Mira Grant
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsA decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the tapeworm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system - even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams...Categorized as:
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Sister Sable by T. Mountebank
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTHE FIRST TENET OF THE WIND: Do not get caught. Sister Sable has lived by the first tenet for seven years, but when an unexpected accident reveals the runaway nun to the clergy, she is forced to embrace the remaining four. THE SECOND TENET OF THE WIND: Win by any means. With the King’s spymaster committed to killing her, and his general regretting he didn’t, Sable enters a deadly game...
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