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Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 4 by SUOL, Gwon Gyeoeul
“When I’m with you, there’s truly never a dull moment. ”. The Hunt is on! Penelope heads off to the small-game area in hopes of finding a present for Eckles…only to run into a hostile bear! Armed with desperation and a crossbow, Penelope holds it off, until Callisto unexpectedly comes to her rescue... -
War of Mist by Helen Scheuerer
War is here. Toxic mist drives all life to the brink of destruction and the conqueror queen, Ines, has her talons in the kings of the realm. Bleak, having discovered her true heritage, must now scour the lands for the one thing that might save them all. But the search is a treacherous one – and it will push her to the very limits of endurance... -
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Tears of Dust by Sylvia Mercedes
After two days in isolation, Ayleth still doesn’t know why Fendrel placed her under house arrest. Powerful drugs suppress Laranta deep inside her, leaving her alone with too many unanswered questions... -
Curse Breaker by Audrey Grey
All magic has a price. Haven survived the Devourers, but she isn’t any closer to breaking the curse. Meanwhile, her forbidden magic rages brighter and more dangerous every day. To control her powers and stand a chance against the Shade Queen, Haven made a bargain with two enemy immortals. Now her waking hours are spent fighting alongside the Sun Lord, but her dreams belong to the Shade Lord... -
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Spy, Spy Again by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn this third novel of the Family Spies series, set in the bestselling world of Valdemar, Heralds Mags and Amily's youngest child must follow in his parents' footsteps to protect both his family and the realm. Thirteen year old Prince Kyril and Mags and Amily's fourteen-year-old son Tory "share" the Gift of Farsight--although neither of them are Chosen... -
Blackthorn by Emily Eve
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsA brutal head wound left twenty-year-old Bonnie unable to read, write, or speak the languages of the continent. Nursed back to health and trained as an assassin within the Amlucen rebellion, Bonnie has dedicated her life to removing the tyrannical King Aborn from his throne in order to avenge her murdered family... -
Among Monsters by Jamie McGuire
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsBeing thirteen has pitfalls of its own, but growing up has never been this hard. Jenna had promised her mother that if the worst happened during her dad’s weekend, they would meet at Red Hill Ranch... -
The Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce
3 novels in 1 The Darkangel; A Gathering of Gargoyles; The Pearl of the Soul of the World. -
Crown of Nightmares by Sylvia Mercedes
Who will live? Who will die? Who will be changed . . . forever? Separated from the Evanderians, Ayleth finds herself alone in the malevolent Witchwood. Or perhaps not entirely alone . . . Confronted with the reality of her living grandmother, Ayleth soon learns that the horrors once ascribed to Dread Odile’s name and legend may not be entirely true... -
Dance of Souls by Sylvia Mercedes
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsVenatrix Ayleth made a vow of loyalty to her Holy Order. But is the Order loyal to Ayleth? Still recovering from her deadly encounter with the Phantomwitch, Ayleth finds herself the unwilling guest of the Golden Prince, forced to enjoy his hospitality . . . and the not-so-gentle ministrations of Venator Fendrel du Glaive. There’s something strange about Fendrel... -
Moonbreeze by Adrienne Woods
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe life of a star-studded royal has not been kind to eighteen year-old Elena Watkins. With a Council breathing down her neck and a dragon that refuses to accept her as her rider, she must convince everyone that she is ready to rule Paegeia like her parents before her. But she has made a promise to her father King Albert, that she will not go looking for him and free the people of Etan... -
Rise of the Phoenix King by Shari L. Tapscott, Jake Andrews
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe epic conclusion to the Crown and Crest series! After serving Camellia for the last five months, Henrik is prepared to sacrifice his future to remove the people he loves from the princess’s clutches—even if it means he must say goodbye to Clover for good. But Camellia isn’t willing to turn away from her wicked ways... -
A Promise of Blood by R.A. Sandpiper
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOLD FATES AWAKEN. DEADLY PASSIONS MEET DEADLIER DEALS. Suri survived the fallout of Queen Lera’s ceremony, but now finds herself deep in unfamiliar territory—the City of the Damned. The City’s deadly ruler, Kol, believes she's the key to breaking the curse upon the desert wasteland. Suri just wants to save her brother and forge her own destiny away from the growing temptations of Kol’s court... -
Wicked Thirst by Megan Montero
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis power will end…. He is a monster and it’s all my fault. I heard whispers of a curse, but I didn’t want to believe it was true . . . I was wrong. I’ve loved Grayson Shade from the day we met and now that love has doomed him to death. He tried to warn me, he tried to protect himself but I wouldn't let him. If he'd only told me the truth, I would've let him go... -
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Spy's Mask by Frost Kay
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFreedom from tyranny comes with a cost. No one could have prepared Sage and Tehl for the ruin the Warlord would wreak on the world to get to Aermia. Sage thought she knew how to play his deadly games, but his warped crimes prove she’s out of her depth. To dethrone the demon, she enlists the help of her former enemies. A spy with ulterior motives. A monarch known for wicked crimes...Categorized as:
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Of Earth and Air by Cameo Renae
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPrince Roehl holds Calla’s fragile heart in his cruel hands. In a wicked twist of fate, Roehl captures the two men Calla loves most. By his command, she will come to him in Aquaris. .. or both will be put to death. It may be a fatal mistake, but that’s the risk Calla is willing to make when she leaves her friends behind and races through the Argent Sea... -
Closer to the Chest by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHerald Mags, the King of Valdemar’s Herald Spy, has been developing a clandestine network of young informants who operate not only on the streets of the capital city of Haven, but also in the Great Halls and kitchens of the wealthy and highborn. In his own established alternate personas, Mags observes the Court and the alleys alike, quietly gathering information to keep Haven and the Kingdom safe... -
Of Fire and Water by Cameo Renae
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsCalla escaped Morbeth only to find herself fighting for her life once more. Incendia seemed the perfect sanctuary of escape. The stories told of the mystical island claim all inhabitants were annihilated. Those tragic tales . . . were lies. Desperate to keep their truth hidden, the islanders take Calla and her friends prisoner... -
Broken Promise by Jen Wylie
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA year of turmoil takes its toll on Arowyn Mason and her companions. After delivering the Elven prince to his homeland, they decide to ride out the winter in the city of Westport before starting their quest to heal the Fey. Like most things in Aro’s life, nothing goes according to plan. As Kei struggles with the prophecy bound within him, his sanity begins to unravel... -
Breath and Bone by Carol Berg
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAs the land of Navronne sinks deeper into civil war and perilous winter, everyone wants to get their hands on the rebellious sorcerer Valen -a murderous priestess, a prince who steals dead men's eyes, and even the Danae guardians, whose magic nurtures the earth and whose attention could prove the most costly of all... -
Of Realms and Chaos by Brea Lamb
Asher Daniox was free. After being taken from her home and shown the treachery committed by the fae king and queen, the wayward princess is now determined to end the coming war before it begins. As loss and destruction follow her every step, she will be forced to seek alliances in a frantic attempt to save the innocents she believes she wronged for years... -
Fate and Flame by Miranda Lyn
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWould you sacrifice yourself for the world? Ara’s found her soulmate and accepted the bond, but now she must journey south with her team, keeping her secret while fighting against the power that’s threatening to destroy her and the world at every turn... -
Immortal Origins by Taryn Knightly
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 15 ratings“Champions are fated. Not even the gods can interfere. Once a name has been given, it can’t be taken back. ”. Born into servitude to the warrior kingdom of Eltoria, Ambrose has spent her entire life confined within the palace walls. Forced to train in secret, she’s a shadow among the warriors that are the pride of the empire... -
No Time to Die by Elizabeth Chandler
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMessage from a dead girl. .. It's too late to call back. Jenny will never speak to Liza again. But it seems that even from beyond the grave, Liza is begging her sister for help. .. . They say it's a serial killer. Is it? Jenny can't afford to trust anyone. Now she's here, in Wisteria, anonymously registered at the Chase College theater camp where her sister died... -
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Nocte by Courtney Cole
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsMy name is Calla Price. I'm eighteen years old, and I'm one half of a whole. My other half-- my twin brother, my Finn-- is crazy. I love him. More than life, more than anything. And even though I'm terrified he'll suck me down with him, no one can save him but me. I'm doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I'm drowning more and more each day. So I reach out for a lifeline... -
The Stolen Throne by Abigail Owen
My twin sister is the true queen of Aryd. She survives, hiding and clinging to life in the desert, while I reign as the false queen alongside the monstrous King Eidolon. There’s only one escape from this gilded prison: Reven. My Shadowraith. My heart. Only the shadows that he struggles to control are growing more sinister, more powerful... -
Arising Son by Marie Montine
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRyan Reyn has special abilities that allows him to help people with thier ailments. But he also has abilities that can annihilate everyone in the town, he just doesn't know it yet, and they are awakening. .. He goes to the one person who can help him with his conflicting nature. His Cassandra Wynstrom. Arising Son is the sequel to Mourning Grey, taking place twenty years after the Great War... -
Find Me Between the Stars by Iris Lake
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSeven powerful individuals transcend the boundaries of morality and follow the invisible threads that bind all of their fates together. After Neira Aroya strikes a bargain with the enigmatic and dangerous Herald of Death, Orion Kallistar, she realizes that he has been holding on to secrets far graver than she could have ever imagined... -
The Fair Isle Trilogy: Complete Series Collection by Tessonja Odette
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEvery young woman dreams of marrying a king. Everyone except for me. Because the king I am to wed has razor sharp fangs and a thirst for blood…. The Fair Isle Trilogy is a complete series collection, featuring three full length novels in a single volume: To Carve a Fae Heart, To Wear a Fae Crown, and To Spark a Fae War. All my life I knew I’d come of age during the Hundred Year Reaping...Categorized as:
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The Sorceress of Lycaster by Perci Jay
“Love is not a token you pass from one person to another. It does not abide by the laws of time, or logical sense, or reality. ”. Serafina Bloodstone is a sorceress. After the Queen of the Giants takes her husband, she strikes a deal with an immortal trickster. The cost—her blood bond. Through her newfound partnership, she soon realizes that Riyan is not the only one she must save from captivity... -
Beneath the Cape: The Superhero Anthology: Benefiting the Wounded Warrior Project by Angela McPherson, Cheryl McIntyre
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsBeneath the Cape—The Superhero Anthology. Created with the sole purpose of benefiting the Wounded Warrior Project. Only available July 1st - October 1st. Superheroes. Save the world and protect mankind...Categorized as:
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Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
Now available in a Deluxe Collector’s Edition featuring gorgeous stenciled edges, New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter’s Pretty Girls is a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate... -
Unbound by Katherine Hurley, Katherine Hurley
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs the growing conflict forces Logan to embrace his newly discovered heritage, he fights to control a power he has long kept buried—a power that threatens everything he has tried to make of himself. Desperate to spare Astarti yet another burden, he tries to hide his crumbling control, but she has long since learned to recognize a lie... -
A Lair of Bones by Helen Scheuerer
Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Marie Rutkoski and Alexandra Christo, A Lair of Bones is the first book in a binge-worthy epic dark fantasy series. As the daughter of an infamous criminal, Roh only cares about three things: her friends, finding her deathsong, and the upcoming royal Queen’s Tournament. A treacherous competition determines the ruler of magic every fifty years... -
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Betrayals of the Broken: A Dark Fantasy Dark Romance by Jaime L. Tlax
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA broken soul. A possessive stranger. The chance to be found…or ruined. When Ever and her only friend are abducted to a magical realm, her worst nightmares once again rise like a dark wave in her mind. And Ever has seen enough to know that nightmares can easily become reality... -
Wings of Ash & Flame by Jocelyn Bleu
Rivals by design. Lovers by choice. Enemies by destiny. Alaire Aerendyl has survived by her fists, her wits, and sheer defiance. An orphaned human, unjustly imprisoned by the powerful fae houses that rule her world, she's never truly known freedom—only how to fight for scraps of it... -
Songs of the Wicked by C.A. Farran
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFear is not my master. I will never submit. A grave threat looms over the mortal world. The veil that separates the realms has weakened over time, and monsters-Undesirables-claw their way out of the Netherworld to torment the living. What once dwelled in whispered stories now stalks the shadows. The only guard against chaos is balance... -
King's Warrior by Frost Kay
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsRevolution and war come with a price in the fourth volume of USA Today Bestselling Author Frost Kay’s The Aermian Feuds Series. Returning to Aermia should’ve been easy, but nightmares and death haunt her, leaving Sage as an outsider, even in her own family...Categorized as:
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White Walls by Lauren Hammond
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAdelaide Carmichael knows that she's lost her mind. She's aware that she's being sent to The Oakhill Institution, but she's been told that she's being sent there to get better. She's been told that the staff is there to help. And it doesn't take Adelaide long to discover that she was very, very wrong about The Oakhill Institution. Patients roam the halls like zombies... -
Every Ugly Word by Aimee L. Salter
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen seventeen-year-old Ashley Watson walks through the halls of her high school bullies taunt and shove her. She can’t go a day without fighting with her mother. And no matter how hard she tries, she can’t make her best friend, Matt, fall in love with her. But Ashley also has something no one else does: a literal glimpse into the future... -
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsFrom Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror novel set amidst the bucolic splendor of a secluded summer retreat. Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance... -
Revenant by Catrina Burgess
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsColina grows in power and ability…and faces danger like never before. After miraculously escaping the research hospital, it becomes clear that Colina holds unprecedented power—she can force spirits into the afterlife, summon a pack of spirit animals, and even raise the dead... -
The Wrath of Wolves by Kelley York, Rowan Altwood
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsPreston Alexander has wanted to see the world for as long as he can remember. Now, an opportunity has presented itself. A supposedly haunted item needs transporting clear across the Atlantic. James and William can’t take it, so Preston jumps at the chance. He may not know nearly as much about the dead as his friends, but surely it can’t be that difficult... -
Epiphany: Part One by Gemma James
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHis mahogany gaze haunts my waking hours, his touch ignites my dreams. I know him in intimate detail, but I’ve never laid eyes on him. Until now. I’ve always seen things I can’t explain, but the reality of him blindsides me, his mere presence a captivating force I can’t fight. What’s worse…I don’t want to. He burrows under my skin and unearths my biggest secret, even as he hides his own demons...Categorized as:
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Court of Vipers by Jacqueline Pawl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"We are enemies by necessity, not by desire. You are my perfect torture, and I would have it no other way. ". Riona Nevis has been a pawn in her uncle's court all her life. The moment she was born, her future was decided for her: when she came of age, she would marry the man her uncle chose and secure her kingdom a valuable political alliance. She obeyed once, and it nearly cost her life... -
Slaying Isidore's Dragons by C. Kennedy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings5 Best friends, 4 Vicious brothers, 3 STD tests, 2 Guys in love, 1 Car bombing & nowhere to run. Follow the burgeoning love of two teens during the worst year of their lives. Irish-born Declan David de Quirke II is the son of two ambassadors, one Irish and one American. He is 'out' to his parents but to no one else... -
Into the Darkness by Kira Adams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt was supposed to be a way to end the devastation in the Middle East, but instead a darkness has been unleashed unlike anything the world has ever seen. Ike Glass is well versed in chaos, but even he is unprepared for what the world will become after the outbreak... -
Smoke and Mirrors: Tales of Atatacia: Book 1 by J.D. Laubach
Every Fairy Tale Comes From A Very Real Story. Fairy tales are just that—tales. Stories. At least that’s what nineteen-year-old Vera and her brother Lieve believed until dangerous characters from their childhood stories turn their world upside down... -
Siren's Lure by Frost Kay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPirates. Sirens. Revenge. Vengeance is Lilja's middle name. As a pirate captain, she's made it her life goal to destroy those who have stolen from her. After one miscalculation, she finds herself cast into the sea with a man's life in her hands. She should let him drown, but despite the warnings ringing in her mind, she saves the human, exposing a secret she's protected all her life... -
Never Never: Part Two by Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 83 ratings“Never forget that I was your first real kiss. Never forget that you’ll be my last. And never stop loving me between all of them. Never stop, Charlie. Never forget. ”. Silas races against time as more truths unravel, while others twist tighter together. And now, the stakes are higher as Silas’ control slips and others begin to point fingers...
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