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  • Magic Strikes - Hot Tub by Ilona Andrews, Gordan Andrews

    Magic Strikes - Hot Tub by Ilona Andrews, Gordan Andrews

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 38 ratings
    Published in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV.
  • 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.
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  • Kate's Origin by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews

    Kate's Origin by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Published in Small Magics, and part of Curran's POV. This is the story Jim tells Curran about Kate’s Daddy.
  • 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...
  • Darkness Devours by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Devours by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 32 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur has been hailed for her “smart, sexy”* urban fantasy novels. Now, she continues her Dark Angels series set in the realm of danger and desire known as the Guardian World… Half-werewolf, half-Aedh Risa Jones can enter the realm between life and death, and she can see the Reapers who collect the souls of the dead...
  • Naked Dinner by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews

    Naked Dinner by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 28 ratings
    Published in Small Magics, and included in Curran's POV. This POV takes place between Magic Strikes and Magic Bleeds and is explaining why Curran missed the Naked Dinner with Kate.
  • Master of Dragons by Angela Knight

    Master of Dragons by Angela Knight

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    The last time fairy princess Nineva Morrow engaged in magic, evil forces rendered her an orphan-isolated and incapable of trusting in anyone's survival. But after years of hiding on Earth, she'll use her powers once more-and attract more knights than she can handle.
  • Wild Night by Nalini Singh

    Wild Night by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A short story about when Hawke visits the nightclub Wild after being notified about a brewing fight involving SnowDancer juveniles. Timeline:. Takes place during Chapter 9 of Kiss of Snow. This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website.
  • Magic Graves by Jeaniene Frost

    Magic Graves by Jeaniene Frost

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    New 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...
  • 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.
  • A Walk on the Cliffs by Nalini Singh

    A Walk on the Cliffs by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Short story in the July Newsletter:. Authors Note:This vignette stands alone, so you can read even if you’ve never read the Guild Hunter series. For series readers, A Walk on the Cliffs fits into chapter 6 of Archangel’s Shadows...
  • Angels' Dance by Nalini Singh

    Angels' Dance by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 51 ratings
    The gentle teacher of angelic young, and the keeper of her people's histories, Jessamy is respected and admired by everyone who knows her. Yet, born unable to soar into flight, she has spent thousands of years trapped in the mountain stronghold of the Refuge, her heart encased in painful loneliness. .. until the arrival of Galen, warrior angel from a martial court...
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    angels  magic  vampires  m-f  contemporary  paranormal  war  futuristic
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    demons  angels  magic  new adult  witches  m-f  fantasy  urban fantasy
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    witches  demons  angels  magic  m-f  paranormal  fantasy  futuristic
  • Magitek by B.R. Kingsolver

    Magitek by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    My name is Danica James. I'm a cop with the Arcane Division. I'm also a magitek. For most humans, demons, and Fae, magik and technology are totally incompatible. But some mages are able to manipulate mechanical and electrical devices. Hunter James was my grandfather, and a magitek. He wanted to end humanity's cycle of war, but instead he broke the world.
  • 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….
    Categorized as:
    vampires  witches  magic  demons  angels  m-f  contemporary  paranormal
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  witches  magic  angels  demons  m-f  contemporary  paranormal
  • Burning Up by Angela Knight, Nalini Singh

    Burning Up by Angela Knight, Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    Passion runs as hot as a fever dream in these all-new stories by four New York Times bestselling provocateurs of the paranormal. .. In Angela Knights's Blood and Roses , a vampire warrior and his seductive captor join forces to stop a traitor from unleashing an army of demonic predators on their kingdom...
  • Asylum by K.A. Tucker

    Asylum by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Tucked away in Sofie’s wintery asylum with no hope of release for years, Evangeline must come to terms with her situation: the curse still plagues her, she’s now hunted by a two thousand-year-old vampire, and the guy she’s in love with tried to kill her. Plus, she’s locked up with a cranky Max and the Forero kids—two people everyone seems to prefer dead over alive. Things aren’t looking good...
  • Crave Me by Lexi C. Foss

    Crave Me by Lexi C. Foss

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Once 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...
  • 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...
  • An Enchanted Season by Maggie Shayne, Erin McCarthy

    An Enchanted Season by Maggie Shayne, Erin McCarthy

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    Give readers a gift-new stories from a bestselling lineup of romance authors. It's the time of year when dreams come true, miracles happen every day, and love is the greatest gift of all. .. The holidays always seem to bring out the best in everyone, with heartfelt hugs for long-missed friends, sincere smiles in the spirit of the season, and a feeling of magic in the air...
  • Pale Moon by Elizabeth Kelly

    Pale Moon by Elizabeth Kelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Unlike his siblings, Nicholas Williams has no desire to find a mate. But when a group of strange Lycans arrive at his home, bringing with them a human woman named Max, Nicky finds himself oddly attracted to her. On a dangerous quest to the outskirts to save his birth father's life, Nicholas is drawn to Max in a way he does not understand...
  • Navarro's Promise by Lora Leigh

    Navarro's Promise by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 29 ratings
    The breed guaranteed Mica no harm would come to her, but they never allowed for her sensual fascination with Navarro, or his unstoppable need to claim her as his mate, in both body and soul. Watch a Video.
  • 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...
  • Hot Spell by Emma Holly, Lora Leigh

    Hot Spell by Emma Holly, Lora Leigh

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 41 ratings
    Venture into a world beyond the ordinary, where the dark passions and voracious appetites of vampires, werewolves, demons, and a few undaunted mortals combine to unleash a potent spell.
  • Dawnkeepers by Jessica Andersen

    Dawnkeepers by Jessica Andersen

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The countdown to the end of days has begun—and Only the Nightkeepers can stop the annihilation of all mankind. .. View our feature on Jessica Andersen’s Dawnkeepers. Though a Nightkeeper, Nate Blackhawk refuses to allow others to control his fate. The gods have even tried to influence his love life, sending him visions of Alexis Gray, a sleek blonde who is everything he’s ever wanted in a woman...
  • Darkness Unbound by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Unbound by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 39 ratings
    Risa Jones is as extraordinary as her heritage. Born from a lab-enhanced clone mother and an Aedh father, she can not only talk to the souls of the dying and the dead, but she can see the reapers and walk the gray fields that divide this world from the next. They are skill she rarely uses, however, preferring to concentrate on the business she shares with her two best friends...
    Categorized as:
    demons  witches  vampires  magic  angels  m-f  contemporary  fantasy
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  witches  magic  demons  angels  m-f  contemporary  paranormal
  • 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...
  • 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 . .
  • 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...
  • Shards of Crimson by Liz Maverick, Patti O'Shea

    Shards of Crimson by Liz Maverick, Patti O'Shea

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    FOUR BRAND NEW STORIES FROM THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS OF THE USA TODAY BEST-SELLING SERIES. Its been said there's no such thing as quiet here. Ever since the metropolis first became home to paranormals, discord was named queen. But who will be her king vampires, werewolves, demons or men? One thing remains sure: This land is a battleground and conflict is eternal...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • A Shade of Blood by Bella Forrest

    A Shade of Blood by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 61 ratings
    In A Shade Of Blood , Bella Forrest transports you deeper into a unique, enthralling and beautifully sensitive story. Prepare to be lost in its pages…. When Sofia Claremont was kidnapped to a sunless island, uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire coven on the planet, she believed she’d forever be a captive of its dark ruler, Derek Novak...
  • A Darker Crimson by Carolyn Jewel

    A Darker Crimson by Carolyn Jewel

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Just another day on the job for Officer Claudia Donovan of the Crimson City police department. Two guys dead in what looks like a paranormal kill, and now she has to deal with Tiberiu Korzha, a vampire who leads a notorious criminal enterprise. When demons kidnap her and her daughter, they work dark magic on her to enable her to open the long-closed portal to the demon world...
  • Unseen by Lauren Stewart

    Unseen by Lauren Stewart

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Job security isn’t something Addison is all that concerned with. Death, however? Yeah, death is a major concern. After Addison finds a nearly-dusted vampire in the garbage outside her building, her ability to stay off the paranormal radar is deader than the vamp. Almost as dead as she’ll be if anyone thinks she put him there...
  • 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...
  • Burning Alive by Shannon K. Butcher

    Burning Alive by Shannon K. Butcher

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    First 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...
  • Ruin Me by Jenna Wolfhart

    Ruin Me by Jenna Wolfhart

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The last place I expected to meet my fated mate was in an alley. On the run from angry supernaturals and drenched in at least a tidal wave’s worth of rain, I fall—literally—into his arms. Only problem is, he’s Silas Thorn, an infamous vampire assassin who’s killed more people than I can count...
  • Dead Man Rising by Lilith Saintcrow

    Dead Man Rising by Lilith Saintcrow

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 39 ratings
    "Dark fantasy has a new heroine. ". --- SFX. When the dead call, she answers. Bounty hunting is a helluva job, but it pays the bills. And it lets Necromance Dante Valentine forget her issues---like struggling with her half-demon side and the memory of her lover's death...
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