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  • Darkness by Laurann Dohner

    Darkness by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 106 ratings
    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...
  • Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter

    Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock must dig deep and find strength within herself if she is to survive in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series.Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker, and vampire killer-for-hire, but her last battle with an ancient arcane enemy has brought her low...
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  • Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker…and the woman rogue vampires fear most. Jane walks softly and carries a big stake to keep the peace in New Orleans, all part of her job as official Enforcer to Leo Pellissier, Master of the City. But Leo's reign is being threatened by a visit from a delegation of ancient European vampires seeking to expand their dominions...
  • Garrett's Destiny by Rebecca Zanetti

    Garrett's Destiny by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    Pulsing with passion, adventure, and paranormal suspense and romance, the latest novel inaward-winning and New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti’s Dark Protectors series delivers an immortal hero and a dream come true . . .Love and danger . .
    Categorized as:
    magic  witches  suspense  vampires  military  mystery  demons  fantasy
  • Archangel's Shadows by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Shadows by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 94 ratings
    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...
  • Crowbones by Anne Bishop

    Crowbones by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 44 ratings
    In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her friends must find a killer-before it's too late...
  • Slaying Monsters for the Feeble by Annette Marie

    Slaying Monsters for the Feeble by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 137 ratings
    I'm bound to a demon. For my entire life, I avoided magic at all costs. Now, I'm responsible for a demon who wields magic more powerful than the toughest mage or sorcerer. Demons are evil. That's what my textbooks say. That's what I see. He's ruthless, he's temperamental, he's cold. But he protects me without fail. I wonder if he's hiding a heart behind his hostility. My demon is a monster...
  • Burned by Benedict Jacka

    Burned by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Mage Alex Verus is back in the seventh in the “gorgeously realized”* urban fantasy series from the national bestselling author of Veiled. I’m used to people wanting me dead. But, this time, I’m not the only one on the hit list—and time is running out... Diviner Alex Verus finally made one too many enemies on the Council of Mages, and now one of them is angry enough to have him executed...
  • Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

    Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 132 ratings
    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...
  • Wild Country by Anne Bishop

    Wild Country by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 48 ratings
    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...
  • Wrong Ways Down by Stacia Kane

    Wrong Ways Down by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It’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...
  • Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire

    Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    The ninth book in the fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans.Sarah Zellaby has always been in an interesting position...
  • Twilight Terrors by Rory Miles, Harper Frey

    Twilight Terrors by Rory Miles, Harper Frey

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    It’s hard to build an empire on a crumbling foundation, but my parents are determined to try.With my wedding to Valen nearing, they can taste the power, and they’re practically drooling.Meanwhile, I’ve got secrets piling up on top of secrets, and it’s only a matter of time before the whole house of cards comes crashing down...
  • Dark Dream by Christine Feehan

    Dark Dream by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 52 ratings
    Shes known him since she was fifteen. Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falconthe Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate...
  • Green Shadow by JS Kennedy

    Green Shadow by JS Kennedy

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Two paths, one fate.Lucan now knows who—and what— Mackenzie truly is. She is Terra, the supernatural boogieman whose tales of carnage are used by parents to bring wayward children in line. But she’s captive, and all his plans for the future are decimated… unless he can find her and bring her home. Mackenzie—thrust back into the nightmare of her childhood—learns the awful truth...
  • Embrace the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Embrace the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    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

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 86 ratings
    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...
  • Blackout by Rob Thurman

    Blackout by Rob Thurman

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When half-human Cal Leandros wakes up on a beach littered with the slaughtered remains if a variety of hideous creatures, he's not that concerned. In fact, he can't remember anything-including who he is.And that's just the way his deadly enemies like it..
  • Wait for Dusk by Jocelynn Drake

    Wait for Dusk by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 28 ratings
    There is no sanctuary in the night . . . Feared even by her own kind for her mastery of fire, the nightwalker Mira is summoned by the coven to take her rightful place as Elder. But with this honor comes grave responsibility—a commitment to the annihilation of the unleashed naturi. For now the foul creatures walk the earth—and neither vampire nor human will survive their horrific onslaught...
  • A Journey of Black and Red by Álex Gilbert

    A Journey of Black and Red by Álex Gilbert

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A conversation with a handsome stranger leaves Ariane chained in a cellar with a strange affliction. She soon discovers that the darkness of the nineteenth century’s Deep South hides many dangers. Mages, wolf shifters and the humans who hunt them play a risky game where to stumble is to die, all under the amused gaze of the apex predators of the supernatural world: vampires...
  • Resonance Surge by Nalini Singh

    Resonance Surge by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 43 ratings
    Where are the broken? A propulsive question that unleashes a world of secrets in New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s Resonance Surge . . .StoneWater bears Pavel and Yakov Stepyrev have been a unit since birth, but now Pavel’s life is veering in a new direction, his heart held in the hands of Arwen Mercant, a Psy empath—and the only man who has ever brought Pavel to his knees...
  • Madhouse by Rob Thurman

    Madhouse by Rob Thurman

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Half-human Cal Leandros and his brother, Niko, aren't exactly prospering with their preternatural detective agency. Who could have guessed that business could dry up in New York City, where vampires, trolls, and other creepy crawlies are all over the place? But now there's a new arrival in the Big Apple...
  • Change by Lyla Oweds

    Change by Lyla Oweds

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A mate bond is stronger than any other force in the world.At least, that's what they say.But what Titus and I have is... unique. Especially as, even though we'd been reborn so many times, the dragon has never had a mate. No one knows what to expect.Outside of that, everything with Damen, Julian, and Miles is not all fun and games...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  magic  witches  reverse harem  fae  humor  dark  fantasy
  • Ravaged by Monsters by Katie May, Ann Denton

    Ravaged by Monsters by Katie May, Ann Denton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 69 ratings
    Monsters own the world. And now, they own me.There are two roles for a human—either you’re a monster’s pet or you’re dead.When I’m ripped from my family and the resistance at the age of eighteen, I think my life is over.One second, I’m fighting against the monsters who enslaved us for years, and the next, I’m on a stage, waiting to be bid on by the very beasts I hunted and killed...
  • Dawnbreaker by Jocelynn Drake

    Dawnbreaker by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    The dawn brings new terror for the creatures of the night . . . Those of her race fear Mira for the lethal fire she bends to her will—a power unique among nightwalkers , both a gift . . . and a curse. The naturi despise Mira for what she is—as they prepare the final sacrifice that will destroy the barriers between the worlds...
  • Redemption Song by Craig Schaefer

    Redemption Song by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 29 ratings
    Daniel Faust, Las Vegas sorcerer and career criminal, has never pulled the trigger on an innocent man. When the infernal Prince Sitri challenges him to do just that, though, he can't walk away. His lover, Caitlin, is Sitri's right hand...and if Daniel refuses the job, he'll never see her again...
  • When Monsters Lie by Debbie Cassidy

    When Monsters Lie by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    The world went to shit the day I was born.They say fire rained from the sky for seven days signalling the arrival of the monsters.They say humanity fought hard to beat them.They say the celestials saved us.They say a lot of things.Me? I deal in the present. In scouting for useful things and keeping my team alive outside the protective walls of our base...
  • Pressure by Kiki Burrelli

    Pressure by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    Axe Landry needs a fake mate—fast.Axe Landry is the disgraced heir of a defeated Alpha. He craves law, order, and stability, but he's clinging to his position of Chief of the Lunar Council Enforcement Agency, the protectors of Crescent City, by a thread. If he doesn't find a mate—a witch mate, at that—by the next full moon, he's bound for a life of ridicule and isolation...
  • Dark Enemy Taken by I.T. Lucas

    Dark Enemy Taken by I.T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    The Children of The Gods Paranormal Romance Series weaves Myth and Cyberwar into a smart and spicy romance...
  • Devil May Care by Chani Lynn Feener

    Devil May Care by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 28 ratings
    A Devil of Vitality always rises to a challenge. Nate Narek is barely keeping his head above water. But no one would guess that by looking at him. He's got camouflaging himself down to an art form. Feelings? As far as anyone else is concerned, he's happy and satisfied all the time. Only he isn't...
  • The Last Witch: Volume One by M.J. Lawrie

    The Last Witch: Volume One by M.J. Lawrie

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My ex-lover is a psychopath, hunting me down for revenge.I am falling in love with his enemy.And I am the last Arcane Witch left alive, destined to return magic to the modern world.My whole life, I have been a prisoner.Starved. Beaten. Hated.By my own family!But most of all, I am feared.I am feared because I am the most powerful woman in the world.Most want me dead...
    Categorized as:
    witches  fantasy  dark  paranormal  abuse  cheating  rape  vampires
  • Veiled by Maya Riley

    Veiled by Maya Riley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    What do you do when your past takes you back? The years I’d spent growing up were the darkest of my life, even with counting the rotter outbreak. Then I gained my freedom, met some guys who refused to leave, and even got some of my siblings back. Then my past came for me. Now I spend my days watching, biding my time, waiting for my chance to escape while also trying to keep my sanity...
  • A Taste of Crimson by Marjorie M. Liu

    A Taste of Crimson by Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Los 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...
  • The Queen of All that Lives by Laura Thalassa

    The Queen of All that Lives by Laura Thalassa

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 64 ratings
    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...
  • Call of the Sea by Chani Lynn Feener

    Call of the Sea by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 24 ratings
    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...
  • Monstrous Intent by Alice Winters

    Monstrous Intent by Alice Winters

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 37 ratings
    DeclanIt’s really hard to pretend like life is normal when you’re staring a monster in the eyes, though he’s both tempting and irritating in his human form...
  • A Vampire Bewitched by L.E. Wilson

    A Vampire Bewitched by L.E. Wilson

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    He'll protect her from everything. Even himself. Hell, especially himself… When Nikulas learns a witch went missing the same night his brother disappeared, he knows it’s not a coincidence. Finding the witch’s sister, the only witness to what happened that night, is easy. Keeping his hands—and fangs—off the feisty woman with the face of an angel and the soul of a warrior, however, is not...
  • Bound by C.R. Jane, Mila Young

    Bound by C.R. Jane, Mila Young

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    They came to earth. They destroyed my life, took those closest to me, and now they’re set on making me their own. Ella Monroe has only one goal in life. To survive. Trapped in a world that’s been taken over, Ella is reminded daily of everything that she has lost because of the Vepar...
  • Miserere: An Autumn Tale by Teresa Frohock

    Miserere: An Autumn Tale by Teresa Frohock

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Exiled exorcist Lucian Negru deserted his lover in Hell in exchange for saving his sister Catarina's soul, but Catarina doesn't want salvation. She wants Lucian to help her fulfill her dark covenant with the Fallen Angels by using his power to open the Hell Gates...
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    The 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...
  • Infected by Maya Riley

    Infected by Maya Riley

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 12 ratings
    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...
  • Blood Pact by Tanya Huff

    Blood Pact by Tanya Huff

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get, the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. Mrs. Nelson's coworker at the Queen's University Life Science Department told Vicki that the cause of death was a heart attack, and that they'd be waiting for her to arrive in Kingston to make the funeral arrangements...
  • Blood Debt by Tanya Huff

    Blood Debt by Tanya Huff

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    It began with a ghost in his bedroom. A tormented soul hungry for vengeance, The sort of nocturnal visitation that even a five-hundred-year-old vampire like Henry Fitzroy found tiresome. It would lead Vicki Nelson, PI, into her most deadly investigation yet...
  • Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice

    Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    At the novel's center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of Lestat's undead body and soul...
  • Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

    Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 503 ratings
    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...
  • Born in Blood by Alexandra Ivy

    Born in Blood by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In a stunning new paranormal romance series—even edgier than her bestselling Guardians of Eternity books— New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Ivy lures readers into the dark, seductive world of the Sentinels—humans outcast by their hidden abilities, treading the line between life and death, good and evil, pleasure and pain… Born In Blood Sergeant Duncan O’Conner has seen it all...
  • Bound by Shadow by Anna Windsor

    Bound by Shadow by Anna Windsor

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Falling for a demon can be hazardous to your heart. Riana Dumain is a fully trained Sybil, a warrior priestess battling evil whose practical magic keeps her grounded in earthly science–and desires. She knows that gorgeous NYPD detective Creed Lowell is dangerous, and possibly a foot soldier of the evil Legion cult, using his badge and drop-dead looks to consolidate demonic power...
  • Blood Singers by Tamara Rose Blodgett

    Blood Singers by Tamara Rose Blodgett

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A 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...
  • Nightfall by Ellen Connor

    Nightfall by Ellen Connor

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    First 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...
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