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  • The Rotten Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Rotten Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sometimes magic just isn't enough...Sometimes you have to start a war, and that’s just what I’m going to do.They took my soulmate. I will get him back, even if I have to destroy everything to do so.Don't miss the penultimate book in The Coven: Fae Magic Series!**Trigger Warning: This book contains a scene with minor sexual violence that some may find triggering...
  • The Empire Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Empire Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    New year, new magic?A witch can make resolutions, too…right?Psh. First I have to get to the new year. Just when I thought everything was going perfect BOOM. Problems. And not just any problems…missing children problems. One of them is my soulmate’s little cousin, which is bad enough for my anxiety, but the other is a young cousin of the shifter King...
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  • The Frozen Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Frozen Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    My magic runs ice cold.I am Judgement.I’ve gone from human to witch…to now Coven member. It’s amazing, awesome, and entirely overwhelming. I’m scared out of my mind right now. I shouldn’t be, I know that. I finally have real magic. I have elemental magic. I have ice at my fingertips and its the deadliest weapon I’ve ever seen.But now I can’t run from Joseph...
  • Crush by Tracy Wolff

    Crush by Tracy Wolff

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 107 ratings
    Everything feels off—especially me. I’ve returned to Katmere Academy, but I’m haunted by fragments of days I have no recollection of living and struggling to understand who, or what, I really am.Just when I start to feel safe again, Hudson is back with a vengeance. He insists there are secrets I don’t know about, threatening to drive a wedge between Jaxon and me forever...
  • Between Cases by W.R. Gingell

    Between Cases by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    G’day. I’m still here. Still Pet.Well, I’m only two thirds of a Pet these days, but you might as well call me Pet anyway. Everyone does: everyone but the vampire, that is.Life is more unbalanced these days—cases are cutting closer to home than usual. I thought I was the only one, but there are others like me: kids whose parents were murdered just like mine...
  • Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The House of Night is a thrilling, New York Times bestselling book series that follows 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she is “Marked” by a vampyre tracker and begins to undergo the “Change” into an actual vampyre. She has to leave her family in Broken Arrow, OK, and move into the House of Night, a boarding school for other fledgling vampyres like her...
  • Between Frames by W.R. Gingell

    Between Frames by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Two fae is company, but a company of fae is trouble.Which is exactly what we’ve got. Trouble, I mean. Well, and fae. Lots of fae.Something or someone is stalking and killing high-level fae around Hobart—tearing out hearts and leaving a trail of bloody bodies behind. Fae don’t like it when they’re the ones getting killed, so of course they came to hire my owners.Owners, you ask?Hi. I’m Pet...
  • How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black

    How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 220 ratings
    Return to the captivating world of Elfhame with this illustrated addition to the New York Times bestselling Folk of Air trilogy that began with The Cruel Prince, from award-winning author Holly Black.Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue.Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone...
  • Vampire Debt by Kelly St. Clare

    Vampire Debt by Kelly St. Clare

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 58 ratings
    Vampire royals strategise at 2 am.Last week, I inherited every cent of the multi-billion-dollar Le Spyre estate. But tequila is far easier to swallow than the coincidence of my beloved grandmother’s death.I’m over this supernatural game, yet walking away from Kyros isn't simple with the damn mate thing on the cards.The Indebted need my help. My grandmother deserves justice...
  • Dark Dancer by B.R. Kingsolver

    Dark Dancer by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    One Master survived the inferno that destroyed the Order of the Illuminati. He may know that I survived, but does he suspect that I betrayed the Order? Rudolf Heine has sent Hunters flooding into Westport, wreaking carnage on vampires, shifters, and mages. Normal humans are taking notice, and the shadow world teeters on the verge of being revealed. The Hunters also may be hunting me...
  • Cursed by Jen L. Grey

    Cursed by Jen L. Grey

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Hidden and tornI'd broken out of the half-breed prison but the memories still haunt me. Now I'm living with my biological parents and their pack.To make matters worse, the guard and sexy inmate escaped with me. Each one tugs at my soul and I'm not even sure why.As I tried acclimate to my new life and new powers, I find that I'm more confused than ever.My path was clear before me...
  • Wicked Omen by Megan Montero

    Wicked Omen by Megan Montero

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    There’s no such thing as magical powers. . .   All my life the only kind of magic I’d ever seen was the sparkling jewels on fifth avenue. On the night of my sixteenth birthday all hell breaks loose, and by hell I mean me! I never felt power like this, so dark, so tempting, so out of my control! No one is safe around me. And now I’m being thrown into Warwick Academy...
  • Vampish: Kiss of Death by G.K. DeRosa

    Vampish: Kiss of Death by G.K. DeRosa

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    never should’ve trusted him.My entire life I was certain of one thing: vampires were the enemy. Then I met him and let my guard down. That witty banter, those mischievous eyes and gorgeous smile lulled me into complacency. Now I was a prisoner, captured by the very vampire who was responsible for my parents’ death...
  • For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony

    For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The Man Who Would Be SatanParry was a gifted musician and an apprentice in the arts of White Magic. But his life of sweet promise went disastrously awry following the sudden, violent death of his beloved Jolie. Led down the twisted path of wickedness and depravity by Lilah the harlot demoness, Parry thrived--first as a sorcerer, then as a monk, and finally as a feared inquisitor...
  • Wolf Mate by M. Guida

    Wolf Mate by M. Guida

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final battle is here. I have to prove that I'm worthy of the crown.Everything rests on me.But I'm willing to accept the challenge.I want justice for my parents' murder and my demon wolves' enslavement.My enemy doesn't play fair, and I know it's an ambush.Bring it on, dude. Win or lose, I'm ready...
  • Fearscape by Simon Holt

    Fearscape by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The Vours: Evil demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hour of the winter solstice. It's been a year since Reggie first discovered the Vours, and the winter solstice is approaching once again. It will be another night of unspeakable horror for those unlucky enough to be taken by the Vours, because this time, she won't be able to stop them...
  • The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O'Donoghue

    The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O'Donoghue

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    A spellbinding supernatural teen drama - and sequel to All Our Hidden Gifts.Maeve and her friends have revealed their powers and banded together as a coven: Roe can pick locks, Lily sends sparks flying, Maeve can read minds and Fiona can heal any injury. And even better than their newfound talents? Roe and Maeve are officially an item...
  • Ironside by Holly Black

    Ironside by Holly Black

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 79 ratings
    In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing -- her love for Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest...
  • Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The Vours: Evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the winter solstice. Six month... Since Reggie first discovered the existence of the Vours in a tattered journal. Since she learned to overcome her fear and destroyed a Vour to save Henry...
  • The Hunter by L.J. Smith

    The Hunter by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    He sold her the game, and Jenny Thornton walked out mesmerized by Julian, the gorgeous cyber-punk with electric blue eyes and frost-white hair. When she and her friends open the plain white box at her boyfriend Tom’s birthday party, she chills to the warning: “Entering the Shadow World can be deadly. Do so at your own risk.” Spellbound, they piece together the rooms with their darkest nightmares...
  • Night World, No. 2 by L.J. Smith

    Night World, No. 2 by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    Includes:Book 4 - Dark AngelBook 5 - The ChosenBook 6 - Soulmate Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World. In Dark Angel, Gillian is saved from drowning by her guardian angel...
  • Finding Sky by Joss Stirling

    Finding Sky by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 52 ratings
    You have half our gifts, I have the other . . . When English girl Sky, catches a glimpse of bad boy Zed in her new American high school, she can't get him out of her head. He talks to her with his thoughts. He reads her mind. He is the boy she will love for ever. Dark shadows stalk her past but a new evil threatens her future. Sky must face the dark even if it means losing her heart...
  • Wicked Potion by Megan Montero

    Wicked Potion by Megan Montero

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the war for my power only one will win… My secrets are starting to surface and in the world of Evermore secrets can get you killed. The sister I never asked for has joined our side. I’ve hidden the blood tie we share from everyone, including my soulmate Tucker. I’m hiding too many things from everyone and I’m starting to unravel...
  • A Grim and Sunken Vow by Ashley Shuttleworth

    A Grim and Sunken Vow by Ashley Shuttleworth

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Arlo and her friends must decide how far they’re willing to go to depose a cruel ruler in this third book in the Hollow Star Saga that’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones .The die is cast.The era of Spring is over.Riadne’s bloody coup on the Summer Solstice changed Arlo’s life forever...
  • The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff

    The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From acclaimed YA authors Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff comes The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories. - A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck. - Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing. - A world where fires never go out (with references to vanilla ice cream)...
  • The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore

    The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    An unforgettable story of trauma and healing, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tenderness and care. --#1 New York Times-bestselling author Karen M...
  • Silver Staked by Shannon Mayer, D.G. Swank

    Silver Staked by Shannon Mayer, D.G. Swank

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From NYT & USAT bestselling authors Shannon Mayer and D.G. Swank comes a new vision of supernatural suspense. Only these two authors could deliver two such complex heroines and their undaunted courage in a tale of unexpected twists of fate. Escape into the city that never sleeps and where nightmares live in the darkness with "Silver Staked".My name is Leah, and I am a Cazador...
  • Shadow of the Moon by Rachel Hawthorne

    Shadow of the Moon by Rachel Hawthorne

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    I can feel every Shifter's emotions except Daniel's— the only one whose heart I long to know. HAYDEN was born a werewolf, a Dark Guardian. But her ability to sense the feelings of fellow werewolves has made her life unbearable. She runs away, only to be tracked by charming, mysterious Daniel, a newcomer to the pack and the one Shifter immune to her powers...
  • Powerless by Tracey Ward

    Powerless by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The final chapter in the Bird of Stone series...
  • The Dark Rising by Lacey Weatherford

    The Dark Rising by Lacey Weatherford

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Portia Mullins discovers the love of her life is still alive her heart soars. But reality sets in immediately causing it to plummet when she realizes he doesn’t remember his past life with her. Unwilling to give up, she embarks on a loving quest to restore his life to him...
  • Darker by Four by June C.L. Tan

    Darker by Four by June C.L. Tan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    From Jade Fire Gold author June CL Tan, Darker by Four is the launch of an epic, sweeping contemporary fantasy duology that is the Shadowhunter Chronicles meets the Chinese underworld, drawing inspiration from diaspora folklore. A vengeful girl. A hollow boy. A missing god.Rui has one goal in mind—honing her magic to avenge her mother’s death. Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family...
  • Blackbringer by Laini Taylor

    Blackbringer by Laini Taylor

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When the ancient evil of the Blackbringer rises to unmake the world, only one determined faerie stands in its way. However, Magpie Windwitch, granddaughter of the West Wind, is not like other faeries...
  • Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale from a stunning new Australian talent. ‘He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!' There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't...
  • Half Wild by Sally Green

    Half Wild by Sally Green

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 46 ratings
    "You will have a powerful Gift, but it’s how you use it that will show you to be good or bad."In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world's most powerful and violent witch. Nathan is hunted from all sides: nowhere is safe and no one can be trusted...
  • Crushed by Eliza Crewe

    Crushed by Eliza Crewe

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Meda Melange has officially hung up her monstrous mantle and planted her feet firmly on the holy and righteous path of a Crusader-in-training. Or, at least, she’s willing to give it a shot. It helps that the Crusaders are the only thing standing between her and the demon hordes who want her dead...
  • Bane and Shadow by Kelley Skovron

    Bane and Shadow by Kelley Skovron

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A killer adventure fantasy follow-up to HOPE AND RED, set in a fracturing empire spread across savage seas, where two young people from different cultures find common purpose.Red is being trained as a cold-blooded assassin by the biomancers. As he becomes increasingly embroiled in palace politics, he learns that even life among the nobility can be deadly...
  • Shadow by Adrienne Woods

    Shadow by Adrienne Woods

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chastity Blake discovered the hard way what she was. A modern day Sandman. But things aren't looking up for Chastity. She is guarding a secret deep within her, her dark sand, or what Reverans would call, her Shadow. Shadow Casters are known for their dark dreams, the nightmares they create, and for Chastity landing up in the Oblivian with all the other Shadow Casters is so not on her list...
  • Thief of Lives by Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee

    Thief of Lives by Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    On the heels of Dhampir, Barb and J.C. Hendee's acclaimed Fantasy debut, comes Thief of Lives, the new novel featuring Magiere and Leesil, Slayers of the Undead... Magiere the dhampir thinks that her nights of hunting vampires are over...
  • Rogue by Gina Damico

    Rogue by Gina Damico

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Lex is a teenage Grim Reaper with the power to Damn souls, and it’s getting out of control. She’s a fugitive, on the run from the maniacal new mayor of Croak and the townspeople who want to see her pay the price for her misdeeds. Uncle Mort rounds up the Junior Grims to flee Croak once again, but this time they’re joined by Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time...
  • A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

    A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new as Death...
  • Half Lost by Sally Green

    Half Lost by Sally Green

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 43 ratings
    This is the final battle.The Alliance is losing the war, and their most critical weapon, seventeen-year-old witch Nathan Byrn, is losing his mind. Nathan’s tally of kills is rising, and yet he’s no closer to ending the tyrannical rule of the Council of White Witches in England...
  • Bright Ruin by Vic James

    Bright Ruin by Vic James

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Magically gifted aristocrats rule--and commoners are doomed to serve. But a rebellion threatens the old order. The dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City concludes...
  • Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide.This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World—and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier...
  • Prince of Air and Darkness by M.A. Grant

    Prince of Air and Darkness by M.A. Grant

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Phineas Smith has been cursed with a power no one could control.Roark Lyne is his worst enemy and his only hope. The only human student at Mather’s School of Magick, Phineas Smith has a target on his back. Born with the rare ability to tap into unlimited magick, he finds both Faerie Courts want his allegiance—and will do anything to get it...
  • Dark Light by S.L. Jennings

    Dark Light by S.L. Jennings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    Love. Sex. Magic. Before her 20th birthday, Gabriella was pretty much clueless about all three. In love with her best guy friend since the age of 14 and too crass and intimidating for most of the male population of Colorado Springs, love and good sex were virtually a myth. And then there’s magic. Freakin’ magic. There’s no way that legend could have a place in her less than exciting life...
  • Maxon by Christina Bauer

    Maxon by Christina Bauer

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The bestselling novel... Now with an all-new wedding epilogue!!!Prince Maxon may be twenty-two years old now, but he’s still haunted by his boyhood abduction and torture in Hell. To deal with his past, Maxon limits his present-day activities to killing demons and seducing women. No long-term relationships. No combat too dangerous. No problem, right? Wrong. Maxon’s life has stalled out...
  • Tarnished City by Vic James

    Tarnished City by Vic James

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A corrupted city. A dark dream of power.Luke is a prisoner, condemned for a murder he didn’t commit. Abi is a fugitive, desperate to free him before magic breaks his mind. But as the Jardines tighten their grip on a turbulent Britain, brother and sister face a fight greater than their own...
  • Oracle by Jada Fisher

    Oracle by Jada Fisher

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I hate fire. It nearly destroyed me. Now, my only chance at survival is a fire-breathing, shape-shifting dragon.An urban fantasy adventure full of mystical creatures and sassy heroines.Davie is a normal girl trying to live a normal life. Except that she can see the future and has visions that make her seem crazy...
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