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  • Rise of a Phoenix by Shannon Mayer

    Rise of a Phoenix by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    To save my son, I would give up my soul. To survive this journey and stop those who face us I may have to do just that. My son is waiting for me to bring him home, to rescue him from the horrors he’s faced on his own. I won’t take the chance I will find him only to fail him again. Which means I must unearth a way to kill his captor, a man who is immortal...
  • Blood of a Phoenix by Shannon Mayer

    Blood of a Phoenix by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    I thought that going after those who'd destroyed my life would help me move on. At the very least, that it would ease the thirst for vengeance singing in my blood. I was wrong. With my guns at my side, I continue to search for ways to punish the one man who took everything from me. The man who killed my family. Death is far too good for him...
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  • Ascension Day by Vanessa Nelson

    Ascension Day by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Caught in the middle of two powerful forces, can Thea find a way to survive?The Archon has ordered a day of celebration to mark her ascension to power. While most people in the city are looking forward to a day off and an excuse to drink and eat too much, Thea and the rest of the city's Watch are on high alert...
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
  • Witches Brew by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Witches Brew by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    ***OVER ONE MILLION READERS HAVE BEEN PLEASURED BY THE TEMPLE VERSE NOVELS. NOW IT’S YOUR TURN…*** Fae are missing all over Boston, and apparently, no one else is suicidal enough to look into it. Good thing Quinn MacKenna—black magic arms dealer and Fae half-breed—has been searching for a way to earn back some of Boston’s goodwill after almost destroying the city…twice...
  • It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Midlife is madness—magical, messy and one freaking crisis after another.With a new job I didn’t apply for and an extended family I didn’t know I had—midlife has become somewhat problematic. Gluing ghosts back together is easy compared to my new celestial occupation.The Grim Reaper wants to put a ring on it. Tim wants to be a father...
  • Moscow Mule by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Moscow Mule by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Quinn MacKenna is on the warpath to save her bartender. Bear-tender…whatever.And it might just break Russia.In every person’s life there comes a point where well-meaning people mutter empty Hallmark Card platitudes like “it’s all downhill from here,” or “the only way to go now is up.”For Quinn, black magic arms dealer and potential Fae royalty, that time is now...
  • Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In a city full of rising tension, with people going missing or turning up dead, can Max resist the call to help?When Max tries to intervene to prevent an assault and it goes horribly wrong, she wants nothing more than to keep her head down and get on with her job. She does not want to answer calls for help, not even from Bryce, the Order warrior who seems willing to give her a second chance...
  • Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter

    Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Failing grades. Misleading wind vampires. And a fortune in forgotten gold. Traveling to the most remote region of China certainly wasn’t what Ben Vecchio had in mind for his summer vacation, but when Tenzin suggested a quick trip, he could hardly turn down a chance to keep her out of trouble and practice the Mandarin he still struggled with in class...
  • Hunted by Vanessa Nelson

    Hunted by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Unsolved murders, supernatural creatures and civil unrest. Just another day.Problems keep piling up around Max. No sooner has she dealt with one set of supernatural creatures, than she's called to the city's mortuary to an unusual death. The city's most senior spiritual leader is also trying to get hold of her. On top of that, Bryce cancelled their date and hasn't been seen for days...
  • Bound by Benedict Jacka

    Bound by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Mage Alex Verus is caught between a rock and a hard place in the eighth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Burned.Right now I wasn’t seeing Richard as the teacher out of my nightmares, he was just another Dark mage, and I looked into the future to see what would happen if I turned that knife on him instead..
  • Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

    Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The old saying is true. Knowledge really is power, especially when angels and gods play the game. The original Immortals, masters of magic, once reigned over every world in the known universe—until they suddenly vanished. The gods and demons have been fighting over the remains of their fractured empire ever since...
  • Double or Nothing by Craig Schaefer

    Double or Nothing by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Daniel Faust – sorcerer, thief, and newly-minted Las Vegas crime boss – has debts to pay. One of those debts has just come due, an IOU to be paid in the form of a high-risk heist, and it’s a job he can’t refuse. The mark? Daniel’s arch-nemesis, a man with a Cheshire smile and the powers of a living god...
  • Tangled Echoes by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Tangled Echoes by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I never got involved in the dirt and the details of an investigation. I never let my preconceptions muddy a reconstruction. And I steadfastly refrained from ever allowing my past to dictate my future.At least until the one person I couldn’t lose went missing...
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  • Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane

    Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    A DEADLY HIGH   Magic-wielding Churchwitch and secret addict Chess Putnam knows better than anyone just how high a price people are willing to pay for a chemical rush...
  • Idols and Enemies by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Idols and Enemies by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I knew that opening the letter from the sorcerer Azar would have deadly consequences.So we had prepared.We’d planned.We knew we might have to defend ourselves, our freedom. And that I might finally get a chance to exact the revenge I kept telling myself I wasn’t interested in exacting...
  • Unleashing Echoes by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Unleashing Echoes by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    For twelve years, I had managed to separate my personal life from my professional life, becoming one of the best reconstructionists in the world — and proving to myself that I could do so on my own merits. Then I’d been forced into contact with my family, reuniting with someone I thought I’d lost forever, and rescuing my best friend...
  • Cloaked by Vanessa Nelson

    Cloaked by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The world itself in peril. Arrow’s sleep is being disturbed by nightmares that she cannot remember when awake. Her days are spent trying to build her new, simple, life in the human world and helping the shape-changers track down the last conspirators that tried to destroy the Erith. But the Erith want her help one last time...
  • Marked by Benedict Jacka

    Marked by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Mage Alex Verus is hanging on by a thread in the ninth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Burned.When Mage Alex Verus ends up with a position on the Light Council, no one is happy, least of all him. But Alex is starting to realize that if he wants to protect his friends, he'll need to become a power player himself...
  • The Neon Boneyard by Craig Schaefer

    The Neon Boneyard by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Daniel Faust has clawed his way from the gutter to a penthouse suite, carving a bloody swath across the Las Vegas underworld. He's buried his enemies and more than a few friends along the way. If there's one thing a modern-day sorcerer knows for certain, though, it's that the past never stays buried forever...
  • Dust Born by Elizabeth Hunter

    Dust Born by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He’s trapped by a painful past, she might hold his future in her hands. Sean Quinn returned to Cambio Springs to help his shifter clan find their way out of trouble, but before he can hit the road again, a new threat emerges on the border of his hometown. A threat that could leave Sean stuck in Cambio Springs when he's most desperate to escape...
  • Driven by Kelley Armstrong

    Driven by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Cains are known for being big, brutish and not-too-bright. The mutt clan embodies all the supernatural world’s worst stereotypes about werewolves. But not even the Cains deserve to be hunted down and skinned like animals.When young Davis Cain comes to the Pack for help, Alpha Elena Michaels can’t refuse him. It isn’t about morality or justice...
  • The Castle Doctrine by Craig Schaefer

    The Castle Doctrine by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Out of prison and back on the streets, Daniel Faust returns home to a city on fire. The Chicago mob is making their play for control of Las Vegas, with an army of gunmen and a lethal shapeshifter on their side, while Daniel's friend Jennifer marshals the forces of the Vegas underworld...
  • Deceptions by Kelley Armstrong

    Deceptions by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 47 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Otherworld series delivers her most suspenseful novel yet, where the discovery of Cainsville’s dark past and the true nature of its inhabitants leads to murder, redemption, love, and unspeakable loss.Olivia Taylor Jones’s life has exploded. She’s discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers...
  • A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson

    A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A promise broken. Her future torn up. But she still has a job to do.Betrayed by her blood family, all Hallie's plans for her future are in ruins. She has no time to lick her wounds as Special Investigator Girard wants her help looking for some members of the elite who have gone missing in Hallie's territory...
  • Come Alive by Karina Halle

    Come Alive by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 41 ratings
    It’s one thing to bring the woman you love back into your life. It’s another to try and keep her there. For Dex Foray, con­vinc­ing Perry Palomino to open her­self to their bur­geon­ing rela­tion­ship has been more chal­leng­ing than hunt­ing ghosts, bat­tling demons and stalk­ing Sasquatch com­bined...
  • Betrayed by Vanessa Nelson

    Betrayed by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A missing war mage. Death in the heartland. Settling into her new life in the human world, the last thing Arrow expects is a request for aid from the Erith. The Erith’s favourite war mage is missing and Arrow is asked to investigate. For the first time in her life, she is allowed into the Erith’s fabled heartland...
  • A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson

    A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She can see the truth, but when she's accused of murder, no one believes she's innocent.Hallie works as a skip tracer - hunting down people wanted by the law, for one reason or another. It's not glamourous, and it doesn't pay all that well. But it's legal work, and that's hard to come by in the cramped quarters of old town...
  • Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep

    Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 42 ratings
    The hotly anticipated ninth novel in the hugely popular Elemental Assassin series finds Gin Blanco on a dangerous mission to rescue a friend. When a terror from the past threatens Gin’s friend and body-disposer, Sophia, Gin will stop at nothing to protect her, even if it means walking straight into a killer’s trap...
  • The Last Witch: Vol 3.5 by M.J. Lawrie

    The Last Witch: Vol 3.5 by M.J. Lawrie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    It's been six months since Lilly Hooper reunited with her family, friends, and magic.The Arcane Realm offers freedom and safety for all the witches who are rebuilding their lives and healing.But things are not as straightforward or as easy as they all hoped they would be...
  • Concealed by Vanessa Nelson

    Concealed by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A fragile peace, a suspicious death, and secrets that could destroy everyone. Oath-bound to the arrogant Erith in exchange for her life, Arrow's freedom is days away when they set her one last task; investigate the death of a high-ranking shape-changer, one of their old enemies. The shape-changers suspect the Erith of murder and Arrow nearly becomes the first victim in a new war between races...
  • A Shifter's Revenge by Raven Steele, Ava Mason

    A Shifter's Revenge by Raven Steele, Ava Mason

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Never kick me when I'm down, because when I get back up ... you're screwed." Briar should be living the easy life. She finally checked off the last name on her kill list. The new pack Alpha isn't an a-hole, and her smoking hot shifter boyfriend is finally ready to spelunk her bat-cave. But she should've remembered that life hates her...
  • Daughter of Souls & Silence by Annie Anderson

    Daughter of Souls & Silence by Annie Anderson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 27 ratings
    A Council full of Ethereal Elders wants me dead. Yep, it’s a regular Tuesday.When you kill a demon there are consequences. Centuries-old witch, tattoo artist, half-demon… none of those titles are going to save me this time. The only way I’m going to get out of my death sentence is to take down the biggest, baddest demon there is… My father.And I thought being burned at the stake was bad..
  • Tainted by Vanessa Nelson

    Tainted by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Peace at breaking point. A dark and ambitious conspiracy. A lethal adversary. Woken from sleep by intruders, Arrow is shocked to realise that humans have managed to break through her wards. This was no simple break-in. It quickly becomes clear this was just part of a series, and the Erith's ancient enemies may be involved...
  • Wreaking Havyk by Faith Gibson

    Wreaking Havyk by Faith Gibson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He's a Gryphon. The youngest biker mercenary in their family.She's a pawn. A mother who’d do anything to protect her son.Hayden “Havyk” Lazlo, youngest of the Lazlo brood, is finding his feet in the family mercenary business. The jobs he has taken so far have been cut and dried. This one? Not so much...
  • Catching Echoes by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Catching Echoes by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I preferred it when life came in tidy packages. When it didn't -- when something went awry -- I was exceedingly skilled at packaging it back up. It was my job to do so after all.  I was a reconstructionist. I collected the puzzle pieces, then I gave those pieces to an investigative team to sort out. I didn't ask questions. I didn't offer answers. I saw. I recorded. I moved on...
  • Revealed by Vanessa Nelson

    Revealed by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A killer caught, the mastermind still at large, and an exile growing into her power. Arrow’s freedom from the Erith is finally in her grasp. But there is a rogue magician at large. Ruthless, determined, skilled in unclean magic, the powerful rogue threatens everyone and everything, including the life Arrow wants to live...
  • Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

    Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Marie Reinhart is an NYPD detective on the trail of a serial killer. When she sleeps, though, she dreams of other lives; she dreams of being a knight, in strange wars and strange worlds. On the other side of the city, Nessa Roth is a college professor trapped in a loveless marriage, an unwilling prop in a political dynasty...
  • Bewicched by Seana Kelly

    Bewicched by Seana Kelly

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Bewicched: The Sea Wicche Chronicles:We here at The Sea Wicche cater to your art-collecting, muffin-eating, tea-drinking, and potion-peddling needs. Palmistry and Tarot sessions are available upon request and by appointment. Our store hours vary and rely completely on Arwyn—the owner—getting her butt out of bed.I’m Arwyn Cassandra Corey, the sea wicche, or the wicche who lives by the sea...
  • Night Blade by J.C. Daniels

    Night Blade by J.C. Daniels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Kit Colbana is always biting off more than she can chew. She has a knack for finding trouble. This time, though, trouble finds her. Someone from her past drops a case into her lap that she just can’t refuse...literally. People on the Council are dying left and right and she’s been requested to investigate the deaths. The number one suspect? Her lover, Damon...
  • Wicked Hex by Megan Montero

    Wicked Hex by Megan Montero

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Some powers come with a price… My life is unrecognizable. I’ve never been in more danger. I thought I was safe at Evermore Academy. I thought we were finally making progress in this war. I thought I had people I could trust.I thought I could always count on Tucker…I thought wrong. But now all that’s changed. Alataris is coming for me with everything he's got, and no one is safe...
  • The Alchemist's Flame by Becca Andre

    The Alchemist's Flame by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Now that the local hospital is using her burn salve, master alchemist Addie Daulton has become a celebrity. The positive press will go a long way in helping her redeem alchemy’s reputation, but Addie wishes the media would stop calling her the Flame Lord’s alchemist. She doesn’t need his sanction to validate her skills...
  • Twisted Twilight: An Urban Fantasy Series by Laken Cane

    Twisted Twilight: An Urban Fantasy Series by Laken Cane

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A vampire master's obsession. A wolf's enemy. All I want to do is hunt rogue supernaturals, but when Red Town offers me a fat purse to track down a collector and rescue a very special nonhuman, I'm not about to say no. I'd promised an annoying but lovable little fairy that I'd get back his staff and see to it that the Collector parted ways with his head. And that's a promise I intend to keep...
  • Sinners on Sunset by Debra Dunbar

    Sinners on Sunset by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The tax demons want their pound of flesh. Or fifty-two thousand dollars.Unable to pay what she owes, Eden is forced to fight a never-ending stream of bounty hunters while she tries to clear her name and find the cop who set her up...
  • Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent

    Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Kori Daniels is a shadow-walker, able to travel instantly from one shadow to another. After weeks of confinement for betraying her boss, she's ready to break free of the Tower syndicate for good. But Jake Tower has one final job for Kori, one chance to secure freedom for herself and her sister, Kenley, even if it means taking it from someone else...
  • The Most Wanted Witch by Donna Augustine

    The Most Wanted Witch by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A darkness has settled over Xest, as roaming hordes of grouslies prey on the vulnerable. Witches and warlocks fear walking the streets, as lines are being drawn, and sides are taken. There’s only one way to stop the destruction coming, but tracking down an evil that doesn’t want to be found isn’t easy...
  • False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

    False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Now in hardcover, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm...
  • Air Bound by Christine Feehan

    Air Bound by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    The sisters of Sea Haven, bound by the heart and the magical power of the elements, return in this soul-stirring new novel from Christine Feehan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Spirit Bound... For as far back as she can remember, Airiana Ridell has always been aware of her extraordinary gift...
  • Destiny by K.N. Banet

    Destiny by K.N. Banet

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    This fight has always been my destiny.In a previous life, I had run from it, and that choice was the death of me. That mistake went down in history, becoming a story that haunted my people for centuries.I won’t run this time. I’ve regrouped, collected my allies, and sheltered my people. Now, I go hunting. I can’t rest until my people are safe. I can’t stop until the ones we lost are avenged...
  • The Raven Song by Luanne G. Smith

    The Raven Song by Luanne G. Smith

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Fleeing Victorian London, a witch finds her newfound independence comes with all-new perils—both mortal and immortal.Forever untangling the branches of her strange family tree, Edwina Blackwood is at a turning point. Her parents’ disappearances still strike her as unaccountably odd. Her sister’s questionable life and untimely death have left her shaken...
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