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Tourner by Jane Washington
Isobel Carter is making headlines. Some of them good, some of them bad, and some of them … astounding . She started at the bottom and now she’s near the top with everything she never wanted, but the Ironside Show doesn’t care, because she’s just become one of the most interesting students at the academy, and everyone seems to have big plans for her... -
Hunting Fiends for the Ill-Equipped by Annette Marie
I thought I understood power.My parents taught me that magic attracts equal danger, and everything I've seen since becoming a demon contractor confirms it. I've witnessed how power twists and corrupts--and I've tasted power no human should wield.I thought I knew greed.Ambition and avarice drove my family into hiding. My parents died for someone else's greed... -
Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Vol. 8 by AidaIro
Kou has seemed depressed ever since he, Nene, and Hanako-kun returned from the Hell of Mirrors three days prior. To cheer him up, the three friends decide to go to a Tanabata festival held within one of the school’s Boundaries... -
Coven of the Witch by Heather G. Harris, Alyse Gibbs
Full blurb to follow but don't miss this witchy series if you like humour, heart and a strong heroine with a slow burn, enemies to lovers, fade-to-black romance.Written in British English... -
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Out of the Dark by Quinn Loftis
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsDarkness has descended on the Transylvanian Alps. Four packs of the powerful Grey wolves – in a rare show of cooperation – had joined together here in an effort to help their pack members find true mates. Then they were betrayed by one of their own – an Alpha hell-bent on becoming the most powerful of the Canis lupis... -
The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 1 by Kore Yamazaki, ヤマザキコレ
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsEnter the Magician's ApprenticeHer name is Chise Hatori, a penniless orphan troubled by visions. Sold as a slave to an inhuman mage, she is about to begin a strange new life, filled with magic, fairies, and other beings of a fantastical nature...Categorized as:
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Blade Bound by Chloe Neill
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe thrilling final installment of Chloe Neill’s New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series sees a sinister sorcery advancing across Chicago, and it may usher in the fall of Cadogan House… Since the night of her brutal attack and unwilling transformation to vampire, Merit’s stood as Sentinel and protector of Chicago’s Cadogan House...Categorized as:
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Stone Cold Touch by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Every touch has its price Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life—no easy task for a seventeen-year-old who’s pretty sure things can’t get worse. Her impossibly gorgeous best friend, Zayne, is forever off-limits thanks to the mysterious powers of her soul-stealing kiss. The Warden clan that has always protected her is suddenly keeping dangerous secrets... -
Every Last Breath by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Some loves will last ’til your dying breath Every choice has consequences—but seventeen-year-old Layla faces tougher choices than most. Light or darkness. Wickedly sexy demon prince Roth, or Zayne, the gorgeous, protective Warden she never thought could be hers. Hardest of all, Layla has to decide which side of herself to trust. Layla has a new problem, too... -
Tiger's Voyage by Colleen Houck
The third book in the blockbuster Tiger's Curse series is now available in paper! With a head-to-head battle against the villainous Lokesh behind her, Kelsey confronts a new heartbreak: after his ordeal, her beloved Ren suffers from amnesia and no longer knows who she !is...Categorized as:
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Fruits Basket, Vol. 2 by Natsuki Takaya, Alethea Nibley
A family with an ancient curse...And the girl who will change their lives forever...Ever since Tohru Honda discovered the Zodiac secret of the Sohma clan, her eyes have opened to a world of magic and wonder. But with such a great secret comes great responsibility...Categorized as:
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When the Dead Come A Knockin' by B.L. Brunnemer
My name is Alexis Delaney, and I’m your average 17-year-old girl. Except I’m a Necromancer. Which means I can see the dead, talk to them and help them move on. Well, I used to be able to. Someone as sealed the Veil. Now the dead are stuck here. And with the extra energy floating around town, the ghosts are getting stronger...Categorized as:
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Strange Fate by L.J. Smith
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSarah Strange is a normal teenager with annoying siblings and a crush on two boys, Mal and Kierlan, who happen to be her best friends. But Sarah also has visions of a place where dragons darken the sky and feast on humans. When Sarah confides in Mal and Kierlan about her visions, she discovers her friends are not who they seem. They are part of the Night World...Categorized as:
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Deity by Jennifer L. Armentrout
"History is on repeat, and things didn't go so well the last time. " Alexandria isn't sure she's going to make it to her eighteenth birthday--to her Awakening. A long-forgotten, fanatical order is out to kill her, and if the Council ever discovers what she did in the Catskills, she's a goner... and so is Aiden... -
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City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters - never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death...Categorized as:
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Pack of Lies by Hailey Edwards
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHadley is losing time, and her shadow refuses to shed light on the gaps in her memory. How can she protect her city if she can't remember where she goes or what she does when she ought to be asleep? Her grim history appears to be stuck on repeat, and the only way forward might be a scythe through her back... -
Elixir by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Aiden St. Delphi will do anything to save Alex. Even if it means doing the one thing he will never forgive himself for. Even if it means making war against the gods... -
Intuition by Amy A. Bartol
I don’t open my eyes so I can’t see him, but I can smell him. He thickens the air I breathe, choking me with his scent…his aroma. I shiver. I have to resist. If I’m not strong, then I will be relegated to the same fate as this predator whose sickness infects me even now. But now, I crave him and he knows that; he has been counting on my need to end the gnawing pain...Categorized as:
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Every Last Breath: The Dark Elements by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 48 ratings“Armentrout works her magic with swoon-worthy guys and a twist you never see coming.” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Abbi GlinesEach breath may be the last in the epic finale to the Dark Elements trilogy, from the author of the bestselling Blood and Ash seriesEvery choice has consequences—but Layla Shaw faces tougher choices than most. Light or darkness... -
Stone Cold Touch by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 56 ratingsThis is a previously published cover edition of ASIN B00IPDVGKW. Alternate cover editions for this ASIN can be found here and here.Every touch has its priceLayla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life—no easy task for a seventeen-year-old who’s pretty sure things can’t get worse... -
Shiver Trilogy Boxset by Maggie Stiefvater
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe amazing, haunting Shiver trilogy is complete! shiver Sam's not just a normal boy - he has a secret. During the summer he walks and talks as a human, but when the cold comes, he runs with his pack as a wolf. Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house - but never dreamed that she would fall in love with one of them...Categorized as:
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[Un]bidden by Melissa Haag
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsI left home because I didn’t want to end up in a cage like a lab rat. Hitching rides, begging for cash, and sleeping on the ground got old fast. That was the only reason I braved an overgrown path to a group of buildings. I’d hoped to find a bed and a decent night’s sleep. However, what I found was a place overrun by werewolves...Categorized as:
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Predestined by Abbi Glines
You would think after helping save her boyfriend from an eternity in Hell that things would go back to normal. Well, as normal as life can be when you can see souls and your boyfriend is Death. But for Pagan Moore, things are just getting weirder. The high school quarterback and reigning heartthrob, Leif Montgomery, is missing...Categorized as:
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Dragon Mystics by Jaymin Eve
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsWhen the formidable power of Jessa Lebron's mark was unleashed, during her impulsive foray into Vanguard, the American supernatural prison, she learned the truth. She's a dual shifter: wolf, and as an added bonus, dragon - of the fluffy persuasion. Yep, she's one special cupcake. Now, pursued by the Four, powerful hunters of the dragon marked, she has no choice but to run... -
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bidden by Melissa Haag
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsI left home because I didn’t want to end up in a cage like a lab rat. Hitching rides, begging for cash, and sleeping on the ground got old fast. That was the only reason I braved an overgrown path to a group of buildings. I’d hoped to find a bed and a decent night’s sleep. However, what I found was a place overrun by werewolves...Categorized as:
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Surfaced by T.J. Yelden
I was a wolf. An honest to God, wolf shifter. How cool was that!?! The problem? I was a latent, which meant that I had to learn how to make my wolf surface. Oh, and apparently latent wolves were rare. Especially white ones. And the Shifter High Council was none too happy to learn about my existence. I was starting college. A new beginning...Categorized as:
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Love & Magic Shaking by Kelly St. Clare
A billionaire phoenix, a berserker in a long coat, and a rebellious brownie walk into a jazz bar…I wish I was joking.My shapeshifting attacker may be gone, but the bastards who gave the order are alive and kicking. They’re not the only ones after a chunk of my perky, cupid butt. The Nepos Bureau of Crime are digging around and asking questions that really aren’t good for my lifespan... -
wise by Melissa Haag
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe dreams start and Bethi’s very normal life goes down the toilet. Reliving past lives, where Dog-men chase her and she sees her eventual tormented death, Bethi sets out to find a way to live this time around. The dreams hint at an answer...Categorized as:
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The Compelled by L.J. Smith, Kevin Williamson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsControl or be controlled . . . Stefan and Damon thought they knew evil. But nothing compares to Samuel, the ruthless vampire hell-bent on avenging Katherine's death by destroying the Salvatore brothers. Reeling from Samuel's latest attack, Stefan and Damon find help in the most unlikely of places—a secret coven of witches...Categorized as:
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Love & Curse Making by Kelly St. Clare
What do jazz pixies, siren celebrities, and three hundred disastrous dates with supernatural men have in common?Me.I’m Cerys. And at twenty-two years old, running a paranormal dating agency with my bestie and living in the magical society of Nepos is an amazing life.Not gonna lie though, it’d be better with a little action... -
fortune by Melissa Haag
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOur world is being judged and even they remain unaware. Michelle, another young woman with an unexplainable gift, finds herself surrounded by the previously undiscovered werewolf society. Kept prisoner for the predictions that torment her, she meekly follows orders waiting for her opportunity to run. When her stepfather dies, she takes a chance and escapes...Categorized as:
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Lovesong Part II by T.J. Klune
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA Green Creek short story.(Spoilers for Wolfsong, Ravensong and Heartsong... -
Witchling Academy: Semester Eight by Avery Song
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMurder? Threats? Court trials? Shocking revelations?Turning twenty is more about chaos than celebration as my final semester at Witchling Academy kicks off with a bang.Semester Eight will be the most intense one yet; with the cheer squad competition, the football league championships, kendo master matches, and the spring festival art competition, we're going to be busy around the clock...Categorized as:
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White Hot Kiss by Jennifer L. Armentrout
One kiss could be the last. Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses... -
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Legacy by Hannah McBride
The final book in Skye & Remy's...Categorized as:
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The Boulder Wolves Trilogy by Olivia Wildenstein
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsEnter a world where humans transform into wolves and hearts beat as hard as they break.When the Alpha of the Boulder Pack dies, his son vies to become the next Alpha, and no one dares challenge him. Except Ness. The only female in her pack. Thus begins a treacherous game. The rules: winner takes all... including loser's heart...Categorized as:
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Shifter Wars by Kelly St. Clare
When Mum died, I inherited a lot more than a pack of lies. I landed a $410,000 debt. Discovered her previous surname.And her real place of birth. Desperate to uncover the truth, I drive to a tiny dot on the map called Deception Valley. Coincidental name? Nope.There, I find her secret family—because she had one of those too... -
Reignite by J.M. Darhower
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe moment the short-lived apocalypse came to an end, life returned to normal. Mortals continued on with their oblivious existences while the earth healed and flowers again bloomed, the devastation instantly wiped away. It was as if it had never happened. But it did. Luce knows. He’s cursed to remember every moment, forced to live with everything he has done...Categorized as:
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Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 58 ratings"Wolfsbane" is the thrilling sequel to much-talked-about "Nightshade". Calla Tor wakes up in the lair of the Searchers, her sworn enemy, and she's certain her days are numbered. But then the Searchers make her an offer–one that gives her the chance to destroy her former masters and save the pack–and the man–she left behind...Categorized as:
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Bitten in Two by Jennifer Rardin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsJaz Parks here. I. Am. Pissed. Just as Vayl and I arrive in Morocco to secure an ancient artifact, he wakes up calling me by another woman's name. And it's not even a good one. But since any form of argument transforms him into an unholy terror, I'm forced to play along until the gang and I can figure out what kind of power has so vastly altered his perceptions... -
Hidden by T.J. Yelden
What happens when fantasy becomes reality? Kendra was a normal girl trying to finish out her senior year of high school. Little did she know what Fate had in store for her. Cade McCoy was a natural born protector, or so his friends told Kendra. Personally, she just thought he was an overbearing caveman with good looks, and an unexplainable need to watch over her...Categorized as:
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Shades of Deceit by Heather Renee
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe need for vengeance can chase away everything... even those she loves most.Taya's worst fears are coming true as Liam's grief begins to consume him. Watching him slip away, she teeters on the edge of being a patient mate and a desperate woman. With an uncertain future, one misstep could be the end of their new love...Categorized as:
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My Soul to Keep by Rachel Vincent
Kaylee has one addiction: her very hot, very popular boyfriend, Nash. A banshee like Kaylee, Nash understands her like no one else. Nothing can come between them. Until something does. Demon breath. No, not the toothpaste-challenged kind. The Netherworld kind. The kind that really can kill you. Somehow the super-addictive substance has made its way to the human world... -
Huntress by L.J. Smith
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsBlood Fever Jez Redfern is unique. She's a vampire hunter... who's half vampire. Raised in the Redfern family, the girl with fiery hair and silvery-blue eyes was the undisputed leader of a gang of vampire raiders. Then came the discovery that shattered her life-- her mother was a human. Now, Jez hunts her former friends, protecting humans from the Night World... -
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Trial By Fire by Chris Cannon
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsBryn’s hopes for a peaceful new semester at school go up in smoke when someone tries to kill her—again. She’s not sure which is scarier, facing the radicals who want to sacrifice her for their cause, or her impending nightmare of a Directorate-arranged marriage to her nemesis, Jaxon...Categorized as:
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Accidental Surrogate for Alpha: Chap 1-46 by Caroline Above Story
After struggling with infertility for years and being betrayed by her lover, Ella finally decides to have a baby on her own.However everything goes wrong when she gets inseminated with the sperm of intimidating billionaire Dominic Sinclair...Categorized as:
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Dark of the Moon by Rachel Hawthorne
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsI've loved him forever, but he can never be mine. Brittany is determined to prove herself to the Dark Guardians. And yet she's been keeping a devastating secret: She hasn't experienced any of the intense, early signs of change that mark a Dark Guardian's transformation. The only intense feelings she has are for Connor — and she's kept that a secret, too...Categorized as:
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Fracture by C.J. Daugherty
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsDevastated by the loss of her friend and under constant threat from an unknown spy at Cimmeria Academy, Allie Sheridan is finding it hard to cope.In Fracture, the third book in the Night School series, she’s not the only one losing it – everything is falling apart. And when Nathaniel begins to reveal his game plan, Isabelle starts to lose control...Categorized as:
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Burning Bright by Chris Cannon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBryn is back for her senior year at the Institute for Excellence, also known as shape-shifting dragon school. She isn’t sure which is scarier, the life-force sucking dragons stalking campus or the fact that she’s officially betrothed to Jaxon, a guy who will never love her. Not that she could ever love him, either… That’s just ridiculous. Senior year should be fun...Categorized as:
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Prince of Wolves by Quinn Loftis
Jacque Pierce was just an ordinary 17-year-old girl getting ready to start her senior year in high school in Coldspring, Texas. When a mysterious foreign exchange student from Romania moves in across the street, Jacque and her two best friends, Sally and Jen, don't realize the last two weeks of their summer are going to get a lot more interesting...Categorized as:
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