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  • The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

    The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 58 ratings
    A Holmes and Watson-style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson BennettIn Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body...
  • The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

    The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 45 ratings
    HIDDEN TRUTHS AND BURIED HEARTS The longer Mo Ran spends in his life reborn, the less he understands the man he once was, to say nothing of the teacher he so hated. As emperor of the mortal realm, Mo Ran loathed Chu Wanning with all his being, but the Chu Wanning of this life has sacrificed himself for his student's sake time and again...
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  • The Curse That Binds by Laura Thalassa

    The Curse That Binds by Laura Thalassa

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    The prequel to the Bewitched series.Two thousand years before there was Selene, there was Roxilana. Her love fated, her life doomed, and her story forgotten—until now.When young Roxilana first hears a voice in her head, she thinks she has gone mad. The truth, however, is stranger still. Because Memnon, the boy who speaks to her, claims he is real...
  • Fairy Tale of London by Cassandra Clare

    Fairy Tale of London by Cassandra Clare

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 18 ratings
    This is the story of how Will Herondale and Tessa Gray finally bind their souls together as they get married in company of their friends and family. Celebrate their union with this short story, originally released as bonus content in the special first edition of Chain of Gold, now available as a free e-book for your enjoyment.Art by Cassandra Jean...
  • Untamed Highlander by Donna Grant

    Untamed Highlander by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 33 ratings
    The Dark Sword series reins in the magic, passion, and fury of Scotland’s legendary warriors—for whom love is always worth fighting for… DEVIL IN THE FLESH Druid-born and magic-blessed, Isla is one of the deadliest she-devils ever to serve the forces of darkness. As an immortal Highland warrior, it’s up to Hayden Campbell to destroy her and her kind...
  • The Only One by Christine Feehan, Susan Grant

    The Only One by Christine Feehan, Susan Grant

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    FOR EACH, THERE COULD BE ONLY ONE This book contains three short stories: 1. Dark Descent by Christine Feehan (11 in her Dark Series) an aggressive, multi-talented professional body guard/secret service agent who never lets danger or the unknown stop her becomes the lifemate of a powerful immortal embroiled in a battle with the vampires. 2...
  • Chameleon Uncovered by B.R. Kingsolver

    Chameleon Uncovered by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The dark sequel to the best-selling Chameleon Assassin.Libby has a chance to build a legitimate reputation when she’s hired by one of the world’s most prestigious museums to bolster their security. The gig is in Chicago, where her heartthrob lives, so she hopes for a little romance.She's on a first-name basis with larceny, mayhem, and death, but Libby's not used to being on the receiving end...
  • The Curse That Binds by Laura Thalassa

    The Curse That Binds by Laura Thalassa

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    The prequel to the Bewitched series.Two thousand years before there was Selene, there was Roxilana. Her love fated, her life doomed, and her story forgotten—until now.When young Roxilana first hears a voice in her head, she thinks she has gone mad. The truth, however, is stranger still. Because Memnon, the boy who speaks to her, claims he is real...
  • Dragon Slayer by Lauren Gilley

    Dragon Slayer by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 1931, a golden-haired man in fine clothes appeared to a Siberian boy. An apparition in the snow. In 2018, he guided a pack of misfits to his prison. A man made of sharp smiles, and smoke, who they can hear, but can never touch...
  • Stormhaven by Jordan L. Hawk

    Stormhaven by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 50 ratings
    Mysterious happenings are nothing new to reclusive scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne, but finding one of his colleagues screaming for help in the street is rather unusual. Allan Tambling claims he can’t remember any of the last hour—but someone murdered his uncle, and Allan is covered in blood...
  • Dark Whisper by Christine Feehan

    Dark Whisper by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    Embrace the seductive call of the latest novel in Christine Feehan’s #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series.   Vasilisa Sidkorolyavolkva is a Lycan of royal blood. She knows what is expected of her, but all she wants is to be out from under her family’s watchful eyes. There is a fire inside her that is building. A restlessness coupled with a sense of growing dread...
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    witches  mystery  magic  humor  vampires  demons  fantasy  historical
  • The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles

    The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 202 ratings
    A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell. Exiled to China for twenty years, Lucien Vaudrey never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, it seems the new Lord Crane has inherited an earldom. He’s also inherited his family’s enemies. He needs magical assistance, fast. He doesn't expect it to turn up angry...
  • Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 47 ratings
    Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has spent the last few months watching his lover, Griffin Flaherty, come to terms with the rejection of his adoptive family. So when an urgent telegram from Christine summons them to Egypt, Whyborne is reluctant to risk the fragile peace they’ve established...
  • The Raven Song by Luanne G. Smith

    The Raven Song by Luanne G. Smith

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 33 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...
  • Lost & Found by Ariana Nash

    Lost & Found by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    What use is a blade without a war? After giving their lives to the Order, the Ashford assassins are in crisis. The battles are over, the war is no more, but assassins cannot retire from who they are. Trey knows this. He may not have been an Assassin of the Order for long, but it was long enough to leave him scarred...
  • Damned by Genevieve Cogman

    Damned by Genevieve Cogman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For a former English maid, the stakes have never been higher . . .Damned is the final book in the Scarlet Revolution series, a spellbinding adventure of magic, vampires and mayhem from the bestselling author of the Invisible Library series. 1794. Eleanor, former English maid, is a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - and now a promising mage...
  • Vengeance of the Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair

    Vengeance of the Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a realm where gods walk among mortals and ancient secrets whisper from the sands, Rhea is a goddess haunted by grief and driven by guilt. Forever running away from the looming shadow of death, Rhea knows it's time to confront the very thing she fears...
  • The Skriker by D.K. Girl, Danielle K. Girl

    The Skriker by D.K. Girl, Danielle K. Girl

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Silas Mercer has faced wily boggarts, mad faerie queens and enraged forest spirits. But can he withstand a daemon who is losing his mind? Pitch and Sickle are left bruised, battered and reeling after their confrontation with the Verderer. They have learned a startling truth behind the arrowhead that wounded Silas, a truth that must be taken to the Lady Satine and the Order without delay...
    Categorized as:
    magic  victorian  mystery  paranormal  fantasy  m-m  historical  demons
  • The Thousand Names by Django Wexler

    The Thousand Names by Django Wexler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Enter an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of steel—but where the real battle is against a subtle and sinister magic....Captain Marcus d’Ivoire, commander of one of the Vordanai empire’s colonial garrisons, was resigned to serving out his days in a sleepy, remote outpost. But that was before a rebellion upended his life...
    Categorized as:
    magic  mystery  fantasy  high fantasy  military  war  queer  steampunk
  • Let the Night Begin by Kathryn Smith

    Let the Night Begin by Kathryn Smith

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    A Vampire Will Not Rest Until He Satisfi es His Hunger . . . And what I, Reign, hungered for most of all was Olivia Gavin. I have never met a woman more beautiful, more tantalizing, and so I made her my bride. She promised me her heart and soul . . . in return, I plundered her flesh, and bound her to me for all eternity. Then, terrified of what I'd made her, she fled...
  • Chameleon Assassin by B.R. Kingsolver

    Chameleon Assassin by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Libby is a mutant, one of the top burglars and assassins in the world. For a price, she caters to executives’ secret desires. Eliminate your corporate rival? Deliver a priceless art masterpiece or necklace? Hack into another corporation’s network? Libby’s your girl.Climate change met nuclear war, and humanity lost. The corporations stepped in, stripping governments of power...
  • A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

    A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 275 ratings
    Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black...
  • The Bandalore by D.K. Girl, Danielle K. Girl

    The Bandalore by D.K. Girl, Danielle K. Girl

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    His second chance at life will be the bloody death of him.Silas Mercer is a dead man. Or at least...he was.Upon waking in his grave, he finds himself without a single memory of the life he once lived. Silas is bewildered and lost, and apparently, now in the employ of the mysterious Order of the Golden Dawn. A secretive organisation who specialise in all things supernatural...
    Categorized as:
    magic  mystery  victorian  fantasy  historical  m-m  paranormal  demons
  • Shadow Fallen by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Shadow Fallen by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon returns with a brand-new entry to her Dream-Hunter seriesFor centuries, Ariel has fought the forces of evil and her task was to protect the souls of innocent mortals when they die. Captured by a powerful sorceress, she is transformed into the body of a human who has no memory of her real life or calling...
  • The Scarletti Curse by Christine Feehan

    The Scarletti Curse by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 51 ratings
    The Beast Strange, twisted carvings and hideous gargoyles adorned the palazzo of the great Scarletti family. But a still more fearful secret lurked within its storm-tossed turrets. For every bride who entered its forbidding walls was doomed to leave in a casket. The Bride Mystical and unfettered, Nicoletta had no terror of ancient curses and no fear of marriage..
  • Taken by the Night by Kathryn Smith

    Taken by the Night by Kathryn Smith

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    I enjoy carnal pleasures like any mortal man, but six hundred years of existence have taught me loss. Best to stay away from people and save myself the heartache. Then I arrive at the notorious London brothel Maison Rouge, and my life, such as it is, will never be the same again. Ivy Dearing, daughter of the infamous Madam, has requested my assistance...
  • Heir to the Throne by Katerina Martinez

    Heir to the Throne by Katerina Martinez

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The mad Queen's crown opened a door to a place I was never meant to go back to. Now I may never leave.A couple of months ago I set foot in the Tempest for the first time. It should've been the last. My Guardian had closed the door to the realm of magic forever, but the Queen's took me back, and now everything's upside down. All I want to do is destroy the crown, but she won't let me...
    Categorized as:
    magic  fantasy  demons  urban fantasy  paranormal  humor  dark  angels
  • Engraved by Karina Cooper

    Engraved by Karina Cooper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cherry St. Croix returns to the fog-ridden streets of Victorian London, where the balance of power threatens all that she loves.I will not wither without laudanum. Sober and determined, I have chosen another way— alchemy, and the pursuit of wellness it embodies. My name is Cherry St...
  • Zen and the Art of Vampires by Katie MacAlister

    Zen and the Art of Vampires by Katie MacAlister

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    White picket fences can be dangerous to vampires...but the right woman can be worth even the direst of consequences... Pia Thomason doesn’t have a typical life, but she wants one. The husband, the kids, the house in the suburbs…with her fortieth birthday looming, she decides to do something drastic, and joins a singles’ tour through romantic Europe...
  • The Bladebone by Ausma Zehanat Khan

    The Bladebone by Ausma Zehanat Khan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A powerful band of women warriors must face off against an oppressive enemy in one final showdown that will determine their survival and the fate of their world in this concluding volume in Ausma Zehanat Khan's powerful fantasy series—an epic of magic, bravery, adventure, and the fight for freedom that lies "somewhere between N. K. Jemisin and George R. R. Martin" (Saladin Ahmed)...
    Categorized as:
    magic  fantasy  war  muslim  survival  historical  dark  horror
  • Scholomance 2 by Logan Jacobs

    Scholomance 2 by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Devil's Academy Cole has successfully survived the preschooler exam, and now he’s a full-fledged Scholomance student.More importantly, though, he now has four women bound to him forever.He’s their master, they are his slaves, and they must obey his commands.But his women also gain power and prestige out of the deal, and the Headmistress has taken a special interest in Cole and his coven...
  • A Land So Wide by Erin A. Craig

    A Land So Wide by Erin A. Craig

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child comes an irresistible blend of dark fairytale and romantic fantasy. • The town of Mistaken has a secret…and it’s up to one woman to uncover the truth, confront her past, and save the man she loves. "Wonderous and haunting. Erin A. Craig strikes gold again...
  • Witches With the Enemy by Barb Hendee

    Witches With the Enemy by Barb Hendee

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The national bestselling author of The Mist-Torn Witches returns to a world of princes and power, magic and mystery, where two women have the ability to reveal the future and uncover the past…When seers Céline and Amelie Fawe fled Shetâna under threat of death, they vowed never to return. Yet, less than a year later, they are summoned back—to aid the man who once tried to kill them...
  • Lost and Found by Nita Round

    Lost and Found by Nita Round

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A gifted slave. A cursed woman. Together can they gain their freedom?Evie Chester is a slave with a precious gift. Living in a world that both marvels and fears magic and the unexplained.Evie dreams of being free and of acceptance. When an opportunity presents itself for escape she finds herself pursued with a bounty on her head. Eyes are everywhere, nowhere is safe...
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town) by Ray Bradbury

    Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town) by Ray Bradbury

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 78 ratings
    One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes , now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin...
  • The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard

    The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The white-hot conclusion to the Dominion of the Fallen trilogy by the multi-award-winning author…The Great Houses of Paris—headed by Fallen angels and magicians—have co-existed in fragile peace. When a powerful explosion razes House Harrier, old alliances are torn apart and a race begins to fill the power void.Thuan, the beleaguered dragon head of House Hawthorn, finds a war on his doorstep...
  • Harbinger by Philippa Ballantine

    Harbinger by Philippa Ballantine

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Deacons of the Order are all that stand between the wicked spirits of the Otherside and the innocent citizens of the Empire. They are sworn to protect humanity, even when they cannot protect themselves… After the Razing of the Order, Sorcha Faris, one of the most powerful Deacons, is struggling to regain control of the runes she once wielded. The Deacons are needed more desperately than ever...
  • Tempered by Karina Cooper

    Tempered by Karina Cooper

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Book Four of The St. Croix ChroniclesForced out of London's coal-blackened streets, Cherry St. Croix is faced with her most difficult undertaking yet: sobriety.At long last, my guardian, the enigmatic Mr. Oliver Ashmore, has revealed himself—and his order is clear: I am to be dried out at once, regardless of my wishes.I loathe the country estate I am imprisoned within...
  • Court of Death by K.A. Knight

    Court of Death by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    There are many things that go bump in the night, and I am one of them. I made a deal with a god, with death itself to save someone I love. I thought I had the upper hand, but I was wrong. From the moment he saw me, this god was determined to make me his… but his life is filled with death and is no place for the living...
  • The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard

    The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings comes a beautifully wrought fantasy of fallen angels set in a Paris ravaged by a Magician's War as the Dominion of the Fallen series continues..
  • This Dark Wolf by Everly Frost

    This Dark Wolf by Everly Frost

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    I am a wolf shifter born with a human soul.Packless. Mateless. Unable to bond.Cast out of my pack, I live in a supernatural safe house filled with broken women. Other women come and go, but I remain.I'm waiting.For him.Tristan Masters—the ruthless alpha of the most vicious pack in the city.He fought for my life when my pack wanted to kill me. He saved me. I should be able to trust him...
  • Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    “She almost missed the sight of a naked youth falling out of the sky. He was long and lean and muscled … He was also completely off his face.”A war is being fought in the skies over the city of Aufleur. No one sees the battles. No one knows how close they come to destruction every time the sun sets...
  • The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

    The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows...
  • Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly

    Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A Hollywood diva. A Chinese curse. A suspense-filled fantasy from the New York Times–bestselling author “who can write well in any genre” (Charlaine Harris).  It is 1923, and silent film reigns in Hollywood. Of all the starlets, none is more beloved than Chrysanda Flamande, a diva as brilliant as she is difficult to manage. Handling her falls to Norah, widow of Chrysanda’s dead brother...
  • The Devious Dr. Jekyll by Viola Carr

    The Devious Dr. Jekyll by Viola Carr

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Dr. Eliza Jekyll, heroine of the electrifying The Diabolical Miss Hyde—an edgy steampunk retelling of the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—investigates a bizarre murder case in an alternate Victorian London while battling her treacherous secret half: Lizzie Hyde.Solving the infamous Chopper case has helped crime scene physician Dr...
  • Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand

    Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A Gothic fantasy set on a college campus from the author of Wylding Hall: “The unstoppable narrative just might make Waking the Moon a cult classic. Literally” (Spin). Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties...
  • Night of the Huntress by Kathryn Smith

    Night of the Huntress by Kathryn Smith

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Bishop has been a vampire for 700 years and though he wishes nothing more than to live his life in peace, getting humans to believe that vampires are not monsters is a difficult task, and vampire hunters like The Reaper make it even more difficult. Believing that a vampire killed her mother, Irina leads a band of vigilantes, determined to rid the world of these monsters...
  • Creatures of Want and Ruin by Molly Tanzer

    Creatures of Want and Ruin by Molly Tanzer

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Profound and enthralling. This book is a delicate dream, mixing its own internal mythology with a brutal tale of prejudice and human frailty. I can't recommend it enough. Tanzer is absolutely one to watch." --Seanan McGuire, bestselling, award-winning author of In an Absent DreamAmityville baywoman Ellie West fishes by day and bootlegs moonshine by night...
  • A Dark Vampire Curse by Nikki St. Crowe

    A Dark Vampire Curse by Nikki St. Crowe

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    A cursed vampire king claims she’s the key he’s been searching for.Emery would think Rhys Roman was insane if it wasn’t for this annoying ability she’s had for her entire life: she can read minds. And oddly enough, she can’t read his.Suddenly, Emery is ushered into a dark, deadly underworld of the city she loves where Rhys is reigning king...
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