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  • Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning

    Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 320 ratings
    “Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good. ” — MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. — Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer...
  • The Curse of Tenth Grave by Darynda Jones

    The Curse of Tenth Grave by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 78 ratings
    As a Part-time PI and fulltime grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who is the hot supernatural entity following me? How do I get gum out of my sister’s hair before she wakes up? But, “How do I trap not one malevolent god, but three? ” was never among them. Until now...
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  • Shadow Hunt by Melissa F. Olson

    Shadow Hunt by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 28 ratings
    For years now, Scarlett Bernard has counted on two things: her ability to nullify magic, and Shadow, the bargest who guards Scarlett with her life. But after a sudden revelation turns Scarlett’s world upside down, she panics and leaves town without warning, leaving Shadow with her partner, Jesse. In the chaos that follows, the bargest is stolen—and Jesse nearly dies from a brutal psychic assault...
  • Blood of the Lost by Shannon Mayer

    Blood of the Lost by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    The conclusion to the Rylee Adamson series! "My name is Rylee and I am a Tracker. ". When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. My final salvage, and this time I’m playing for the survival of the entire world...
  • We All Scream by Amanda M. Lee

    We All Scream by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Stormy Morgan has accepted her life as a witch, and is even looking forward to the future. That means training with the most powerful witches in the Midwest. She’s determined to follow through on her destiny. Despite her best intentions though, not everything is going to be as easy as she hoped. When Stormy steps in and uses her magic following a bus accident, she’s almost killed in the process...
  • Sin Undone by Larissa Ione

    Sin Undone by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 83 ratings
    HER TOUCH IS DEADLY. As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved, and now vows she'll die before she'll relinquish her freedom again. Then Sin's innate ability to kill her enemies goes awry: She creates a lethal new werewolf virus that sparks a firestorm of panic and violence...
  • Sorrow's Song by Keri Arthur

    Sorrow's Song by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 28 ratings
    They say breaking up is hard to do. They're wrong. Living with the consequences is so much harder, especially when sorrow is a powerful draw to evil . .. Lizzie Grace is trying to get on with her life now that she and Aiden have gone their separate ways, but it's a difficult thing to do when just about everything reminds her of the damn man...
  • Broken Bonds by Keri Arthur

    Broken Bonds by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 28 ratings
    The winds of change are finally whispering through the Faelan Werewolf Reservation. .. Lizzie Grace is doing her utmost to ignore the portents of doom, wanting nothing more than enjoy her life and her time with Aiden O'Connor while she still can...
  • Elimination by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Elimination by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    Deception. Demons are experts at it. I thought I could control my fate. I thought I could send the Master of Demon Runes back to the Underworld where he belongs, but instead, I'm the one forced into a dangerous game of elimination. Now I must fight for my life against the strongest demons—demons who have waited their whole lives for the chance to rule the Underworld...
  • Nevermore by Dannika Dark

    Nevermore by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    USA TODAY BESTSELLER. Raven Black risks it all for loyalty and love in this stunning continuation in the USA Today bestselling Crossbreed series. Raven returns to her childhood home to rebuild her severed relationship with her father. After a long year of capturing violent criminals and thwarting assassination plots, she could use a vacation. But trouble is brewing on the home front...
  • Wicked Wings by Keri Arthur

    Wicked Wings by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    In a reservation where magic has been unrestrained for entirely too long, there is no rest from the wicked…. After dealing with the fallout of a shape-shifting, fire-throwing demon, Lizzie, Belle, and Aiden are hoping the reservation will finally catch a break from the constant influx of evil...
  • Twilight's Herald by T.A. White

    Twilight's Herald by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    Aileen Travers thought she had it all figured out. Part private investigator, part fixer to the supernatural community, she was slowly building a reputation as the go-to vampire in Columbus. If you had a supernatural problem and nowhere to turn, she was the girl for you. The best part—no one had tried to kill her in weeks...
  • Nightfall's Prophet by T.A. White

    Nightfall's Prophet by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    How long can a vampire hold a grudge? The answer, it turns out, is an eternity. Aileen Travers is about to get a lesson in the nature of vendettas and how far some will go to avenge any slight. When a representative of the vampire council sweeps into town, he brings with him a deadly conspiracy that could wind up threatening the very foundation of Aileen’s life...
  • Dark Prince by Jen L. Grey

    Dark Prince by Jen L. Grey

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    There's no escaping betrayal. My life once centered around justice. As a trained warrior for the people of Shadow City, I never questioned what I was taught. .. until now. My preordained mate and I are finally on the same side, with our list of enemies growing. All we have learned has changed our very foundation and put a target on both our backs...
  • Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    I had new cupcakes to bake, a new treasure to hunt, and a new dragon in town — literally. Who wouldn’t be ecstatic filling their days with chocolate, trinket collecting, and martial arts training? Yeah … me. Because no matter how much chocolate I ate, I couldn’t fill the dark pit in my soul. A darkness born from blood alchemy...
  • Misfit Fortune by Stephanie Foxe

    Misfit Fortune by Stephanie Foxe

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It’s the brightest light that casts the deepest shadows…. Magic, blood, and politics hide an enemy the pack never saw coming. One with more power than anyone understands. Enemies are closing in on all sides, but they’re nothing more than a distraction to hide the real threat. It isn’t just the pack at risk –– not anymore. Magic itself is being threatened...
  • Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance

    Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 64 ratings
    Cassandra Palmer may be the all-powerful Pythia now, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped trying to kill her. Most of the supernatural power players don’t want the independent minded Cassie as chief clairvoyant—and they’ll stop at nothing to see her six feet under...
  • For I Have Sinned by Darynda Jones

    For I Have Sinned by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    Darynda Jones revisits the sexy, suspenseful world of supernatural shenanigans she created in her Grave series with For I Have Sinned.   In this Charley Davidson story, Charley helps a woman find out how she died and gives her the closure she needs to pass through to the other side.
  • Courting Darkness by Yasmine Galenorn

    Courting Darkness by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    We're the D'Artigo sisters: sexy, savvy ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae means our powers go haywire at all the wrong times. My sister Delilah is a Death Maiden and werecat who belongs to the Autumn Lord. My sister Menolly is a vampire who's dating a gorgeous werepuma, and the godfather of the undead-set...
  • Maps, Artifacts, and other Arcane Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Maps, Artifacts, and other Arcane Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 24 ratings
    One treasure down, two to go …. Three months ago, I nearly lost my best friend while retrieving the first instrument of assassination. I also inadvertently released a rival who was definitely unhinged, way more powerful than me, and obsessed with harnessing the deadly power of the artifacts I’d been tasked by the guardian dragons to collect...
  • Darkness Unleashed by Alexandra Ivy

    Darkness Unleashed by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others' company. But now, as a member of Chicago's powerful vampire clan, he has certain obligations to fulfill. The latest: track down a missing were pureblood and return her to her sister. The problem: Regan Garrett has no intention of complying...
  • Whiskers on Kittens (A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) #22) by R.J. Blain

    Whiskers on Kittens (A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) #22) by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The next time a friend dared her to steal something, Kelsie would say no. Should the friend also be a succubus, not only would she say no, she would run for the nearest border faster than a bat fleeing the dark depths of hell. Under normal circumstances, she didn’t even mind serving community service. It added spice to an otherwise boring day and gave her something productive to do...
  • Hunter's Trail by Melissa F. Olson

    Hunter's Trail by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Actions have consequences—a lesson Scarlett Bernard is learning the hard way. As a “null,” Scarlett has always been able to negate the powers of the supernatural beings that surround her. But now her reckless decision to permanently change Eli from a werewolf to a human has left the Los Angeles werewolf pack in shambles, and upset the balance of power among the city’s supernatural factions...
  • Fury Godmother by Annabel Chase

    Fury Godmother by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight. Be careful what you wish for. .. I've only been back home a few weeks and already strange events are happening all over town. Wishes are coming true to the delight of those affected. Despite the seemingly good fortune, I need to put on my Federal Bureau of Magic badge and get to work...
  • Darkness Rising by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Rising by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    The sexy, thrilling adventures continue in bestselling author Keri Arthur’s new Dark Angels series, starring half-werewolf/half-Aedh Risa Jones. Risa will go to any lengths to avenge her mother’s murder—even if it means making a pact with the most evil vampire she’s ever met...
  • Shadow's End by Keri Arthur

    Shadow's End by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Two ancient vampires and a centuries-long war. Their final battlefield? The Faelan Werewolf reservation. .. With a wedding to plan and a future mother-in-law who hates her, the last thing Lizzie Grace needs is two psycho vampires rampaging through Castle Rock...
  • Must Love Charms by Christine Zane Thomas

    Must Love Charms by Christine Zane Thomas

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Nothing can stop Constance Campbell from finding the truth about her mother. Not a demon hellbent on revenge. And not the Faction, a secretive magical organization who have a long history of covering up the facts. But when murders begin popping up all over Virginia with ties to the supernatural, it's up to Constance to protect the paranormal community and help catch the killer...
  • Tamed by Rebecca Zanetti

    Tamed by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Caleb Donovan was never meant to be a prophet. At heart he's a conqueror, his appetites far more carnal than spiritual. He's not inclined to repress his passions and surrender to fate. After all, that's what cost him Lily—three centuries ago. She married another, because it was ordained...
  • Forbidden by Jana Oliver

    Forbidden by Jana Oliver

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Riley Blackthorne is beginning to learn that there are worse things than death by demon. And love is just one of them…. Seventeen-year-old Riley has about had it up to here. After the devastating battle at the Tabernacle, trappers are dead and injured, her boyfriend Simon is gravely injured, and now her beloved late father’s been illegally poached from his grave by a very powerful necromancer...
  • Let Sleeping Ghosts Lie by Elle Adams

    Let Sleeping Ghosts Lie by Elle Adams

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to Hawkwood Hollow, where the dead outnumber the living. When a local witch shows up in an apparent drowning, everyone thinks it's a tragic accident. New witch in town Maura would, too, except her Reaper senses are telling her there's something not quite right about the woman's death. When the victim's ghost vanishes, she knows her instincts were right...
  • Bonds and Broken Dreams by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Bonds and Broken Dreams by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    We had chosen our place, etching our lives into a new land. Then we had defended that land when called upon to do so. And we’d won. We’d maintained our freedom. But magic attracts magic. As they say. So when the sorcerers showed up, holding my recent past hostage — along with a future I had dreamed I might build — it was just as expected...
  • Midnight's Master by Cynthia Eden

    Midnight's Master by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    In a world of shadows, desire conquers all…. Tall, dark, and formidable, Niol Lapen is the last demon on earth most people would ask for a favor, yet the sexy little reporter who wanders into his club dares to do exactly that. Holly Storm already knows too much about his kind, and Niol has no wish to help her get in deeper over her head...
  • Otherworld Nights by Kelley Armstrong

    Otherworld Nights by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    This short story collection includes one brand-new tale, one story previously available only at Kelley Armstrong's website, and re-prints some hard-to-find stories from various anthologies as well as the entire novella Hidden . " Demonology " - Adam's mother discovers what he is. "Twilight" - a Cassandra & Aaron story from. Many Bloody Returns. "Stalked" - Clay & Elena's honeymoon story from...
  • Guardian by Shannon Mayer

    Guardian by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "My name is Rylee and I am a Tracker. ". When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. After months of danger, running for my life, and dealing with one crisis after another, I'm finally getting that vacation I deserve...
  • Darkness Unmasked by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Unmasked by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 31 ratings
    Keri Arthur's explosive Dark Angels series is packed with everything you could want: a fiesty heroine, witches, vampires, werewolves, demons, angels of death, suspense and a whole lot of sexy action. The sexy, exciting, suspenseful adventures continue in New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur's Dark Angels series, starring Risa Jones, a half-Aedh/half-werewolf...
  • Oaths of Blood by S.M. Reine

    Oaths of Blood by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Werewolves are immune to every illness and can heal any wound. It should be impossible for one to become possessed by a demon. But that's exactly what Seth Wilder is facing: a werewolf gone insane from possession. He has no choice but to deliver her to the only exorcist in America, Elise Kavanagh, who also happens to be a powerful demon known as the Godslayer...
  • Hell's Bell by Keri Arthur

    Hell's Bell by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 41 ratings
    When the church bell tolls thrice in the middle of the night, evil this way comes…. Lizzie Grace and Belle Kent, her witch familiar, are living and working on the Faelan Werewolf Reservation—one that has banned the use of magic within its borders. Although they have their supporters—including ranger Aiden O’Connor, who once hated all things witch—Lizzie and Belle now face possible eviction...
  • Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    Three months ago, I lost my foster sister, Sienna, to the darkness. As in blood magic and chaos and general mayhem. No one saw it until it was too late, but I should have. Now, I have a wounded heart and soul that I can’t even reveal to anyone around me, because I’m supposed to hate Sienna with the fiery passion of the justified. And I do...
  • Ruled by Steel by S.M. Reine

    Ruled by Steel by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Only a demon can save the souls trapped in Hell. Elise Kavanagh failed to prevent the Breaking, and now Hell is spilling onto Earth. Now she's delved deep into the City of Dis in an attempt to stop the infernal armies--but even the legendary Godslayer is unprepared to face Dis's fiercest demons, not to mention the responsibility of liberating the humans they've enslaved...
  • Protecting the Gray Wolf by N.J. Walters

    Protecting the Gray Wolf by N.J. Walters

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    If they want his immortality—they’ll have to take it…in the second deeply sexy and bold Lone Wolf Legacy series from New York Times bestselling author N. J. Walters. I’m used to other wolves coming for me. They want their chance to try and take out the infamous Gray Wolf. And every single one of them fails—because lone wolves aren’t like the others…we’re stronger. Harder. Meaner. Immortal...
  • Magic Graves by Jeaniene Frost

    Magic Graves by Jeaniene Frost

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    New York Times bestselling authors Jeaniene Frost and Ilona Andrews bring you two short stories of paranormal. Jeaniene Frost's story, One for the Money, features vampires Cat and Bones trying to protect a spoiled heiress with a price on her head and an undead hitman on her trail. Previously published in Death's Excellent Vacation...
  • Blood Wyne by Yasmine Galenorn

    Blood Wyne by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    We're the D'Artigo sisters: half-human, half-Fae, we're sexy, we're savvy and we just turned in our badges to the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked good witch. Delilah's a werecat and blossoming Death Maiden. And as for me? I'm Menolly, acrobat extraordinaire turned vampire...
  • Embrace the Night by Karen Chance

    Embrace the Night by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 71 ratings
    Recently named the world’s chief clairvoyant, Cassandra Palmer still has a thorn in her side. As long as Cassie and a certain master vampire—the sizzling-hot Mircea—are magically bound to each other, her life will never be her own…. The spell that binds them can only be broken with an incantation found in the Codex Merlini, an ancient grimoire...
  • Mortal Ties by Eileen Wilks

    Mortal Ties by Eileen Wilks

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    “Eileen Wilks is a truly gifted writer,” (Romance Junkies) and her Novels of the Lupi have drawn readers into a seductive world of action, suspense, and passion. Now, FBI agent Lily Yu tracks a traitor into the darkest shadows yet…...
  • Darkness Hunts by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Hunts by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
    "New York Times" bestselling author Keri Arthur returns to the enthralling Guardian World--and a twilight realm of danger and desire. .. Risa Jones, half-Aedh/half-werewolf, can enter the realm between life and death. She can speak to the dying and the dead, and she can see the reapers, collectors of souls...
  • Spellcasters by Kelley Armstrong

    Spellcasters by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Witches, Cabels, and Supernaturals. .. oh my! Paranormal superstar and internationally bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's second Otherworld omnibus includes Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic , along with two short stories, Wedding Bell Hell & Case of the Half-Demon Spy...
  • Wulfe Untamed by Pamela Palmer

    Wulfe Untamed by Pamela Palmer

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    They are called Feral Warriors—an elite band of immortals who can change shape at will. Sworn to rid the world of evil, consumed by sorcery and seduction, their wild natures are primed for release. .. The most enigmatic and tortured of the Feral Warriors, Wulfe is haunted by the quiet beauty of a human woman who no longer remembers him...
  • Shattered Emotions by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Shattered Emotions by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 22 ratings
    Maddox Jamenson is the Omega of the Redwood Pack, the one burdened by emotions stronger than his own. He's spent his entire life shrouded in the secrets of his "gift" and the price he has to pay to keep it, yet the cost just escalated. He's known a mate could be in the cards for him, but he can't have what he wants. Not when the battles he has yet to fight could destroy her...
  • Eternal Magic by Linsey Hall

    Eternal Magic by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Cass Clereaux has a few problems. Sure, she just saved her whole town and is now immortal, but immortality sucks. The same spell that made her immortal also takes away her magic. It’s kaput. Finito. Gone. Being a FireSoul and finding magical treasure is who she is. Now, she couldn’t find her left leg with a map. Not even if a dragon pointed the way...
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