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Thrall by E. William Brown
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsWithout royal leadership Kozalin's defenders are falling into turmoil, but mortal problems pale into insignificance when the gods themselves take an interest in Daniel. With new enemies appearing everywhere he looks, and far too many secrets to keep, can even Daniel's magic save the day? Well, you know what they say. If you can't get results with violence, you aren't being violent enough.. -
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 5 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhen Nanami inherits a shrine, it comes with divine powers and a hot fox spirit!Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity... -
Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 6 by Julietta Suzuki
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA divine comedy!Reads R to L (Japanese Style). Every year, kami from all over Japan gather in Izumo for a sort of divine convention. One of Mikage's friends comes to the shrine to invite Nanami to the retreat, but it turns out most of the other kami and Tomoe don't want her to go... -
Dragons and Demons by Kel Kade
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsEvery kingdom Rezkin touches has shattered, and the turbulence in his homeland is spreading across the Souelian. From the shards of kingdoms past, he begins to forge a new empire. But there is a price to pay for power, and the balance has come due... -
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You Light Up My Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMidlife is definitely a journey. The road has massive potholes.And the crisis… it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Being forty is supposed to be freaking fabulous not fatal. Taking on a daunting new job minus the description isn’t the smartest move I’ve ever made, even if it was to save a friend. Hopefully, it doesn’t turn out to be the stupidest… or deadliest... -
Penric’s Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn his 30th year, Penric fell in love with light.Learned Penric, a sorcerer and divine of the Bastard's Order, travels across the sea to sunlit Cedonia on his first covert diplomatic mission, to attempt to secure the services of a disaffected Cedonian general for the Duke of Adria. However, nothing is as it seems... -
Demons Forever by Sarra Cannon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsHarper has come so far from her life as a foster child. She never imagined what her future would hold when she was first brought to the small town of Peachville. Since that day she’s faced great evil, found some of the answers she’s been looking for, and fallen deeply, madly in love. But her biggest challenge and her greatest lessons are still ahead of her... -
Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsOn his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world... -
Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn this sequel to the novella “Penric’s Mission”, the injured Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, tries to guide the betrayed General Arisaydia and his widowed sister Nikys across the last hundred miles of hostile Cedonia to safety in the Duchy of Orbas... -
Penric's Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsSome eight months after the events of Penric and the Shaman, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the capital of the Weald. There he again meets his friends Shaman Inglis and Locator Oswyl... -
Black Bird, Vol. 8 by Kanoko Sakurakouji
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsHe loves her blood, but does her love her?!Reads R to L (Japanese Style) T+ audience. There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magical realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend... -
The Locust Job by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe first story ever told left a scar on the skin of the universe, with its characters doomed to an endless cycle of reincarnation and death. Trapped by his enemies, Daniel Faust — magician, mobster, and newly-minted knight of hell — has been cast in the role of the eternal Thief. Now the story is dead-set on writing his final chapter, the one that ends with a knife in his back... -
Black Bird, Vol. 9 by Kanoko Sakurakouji
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHe loves her blood, but does her love her?!Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+ Misao and Kyo finally go all the way, and Misao can’t regret the new levels of intimacy, even though all the other demons seem to be able to tell that they are now lovers. But does Kyo feel the same way? Instead of bringing them closer, their new status seems to make him turn away from Misao... -
The Gods We Defy by Soraya Cole
Of fire, of flames, born one that will favor,Of light and darkness, a powerful savor.Unravel before us in shadows of gray,Shards of glass that splinter, and a death to outweigh.Cloaked in shadows, covered in smoke,Carved in sin, a serpent awoke.A sea full of ice, a snow covered in red,A descent into ashes, a life bound by thread... -
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Crest by Emma Raveling
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIllusion. Power. Identity. Tensions are reaching a fever pitch everywhere Kendra Irisavie turns. Darkness settles over elementals as a new threat stirs suspicions of a betrayal from within. Details of recent events spread through Haverleau, prompting doubts over Irisavie leadership. The mysterious Selkie Kingdom finally opens its doors, but the gesture only fans the flames of division... -
Lusam: The Dragon Mage Wars Book Three by Dean Cadman
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsAfter accidentally discovering the possible existence of a second Guardian book, Lusam and his party are remorselessly hunted high into the Elveen mountains by the Empire agents, who are intent on killing or capturing them. What they discover there, may very well change the balance of power in their favour against the Thule Empire... -
Hives & Heroism by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDemons loom over Dorma.Despite Joy’s victory over Alethus’s servants, his plans haven’t been stopped. Even so, a glimmer of hope lies before her, and she and her friends are determined to grasp it.That doesn’t mean it will be easy, though. An army is invading Dorma, one with the same destination as Joy. Their goals are sinister, but they aren’t going to stop Joy and her friends... -
Ties That Bind by Pippa DaCosta
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“I am fire. I am destruction. I will be their nightmare.” The veil fell. Demons are here. Muse knows she can stop the slaughter, but to do so, she must return to the battle-scarred streets of Boston and face the cold, hard, truth. Her old life is ashes. Her love, turned to dust. But all is not lost; a spark of hope remains. A spark from which an inferno can blaze... -
Darkyn's Mate by Lizzy Ford
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsCaught between Fate and the Dark One ... Stuck in Hell, human-Deidre struggles to hold onto her hope that she can change the course of events that landed her as the mate of Darkyn, the Dark One. The chances of her leaving Hell plummet when the Dark One takes a drastic step to ensure he never loses his latest possession and blood binds her in an ancient rite from the time-before-time... -
Black Bird, Vol. 13 by Kanoko Sakurakouji
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsHe loves her blood, but does he love her?!Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+. There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magical realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend... -
The Taken by Elicia Hyder
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSloan Jordan's days are numbered. She has 139 to be exact. In that time, there's a lot to do - a missing friend to find, a wedding to plan, and her own murder plot to overthrow. When a lead takes the crew back to Chicago, the truth they uncover is more shocking than they ever imagined - to fight the enemies of the present, they must first face the demons from the past... -
Guild Hunter Novels 1-4 by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAngels rule, vampires serve, and passions ignite in the first four novels of the Guild Hunter series by New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh... -
Talyn: Unyielding by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSuccess can be dangerous.After surviving the depths of Castra's dungeon, Talyn has returned to the surface and caused a seismic change in the city. Now she has to deal with the consequences. But after her last life, she will not bow to anyone... -
Webs & Wards by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsJoy can’t get a break. Having survived a chance encounter with a demon lordling, and made an immense sacrifice, one might expect Joy to at least have some time to rest and recover. Instead, when Joy’s friends learn what she sacrificed, they decide they’ll repay her, no matter what it takes, and they take the adventurous bee-girl on a quest to find another apis hive which can help her... -
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The Underworld by Lizzy Ford
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe time has come for Gabriel to claim his underworld. Accompanied by the deceptive Dark One, he risks everything to find his mate and take his place as the deity Death. Between him and the only woman he’s ever loved: a handful of rebelling death dealers, the deity Karma and the Dark One’s mate, a human-turned-demon who holds his soul in the palm of her hand... -
Wrath and Patience by Rawnie Sabor
Nothing can quell the rage of a Wrath demon. Save for the orders given by a sweet, fledgling witch.Life hasn’t been easy for Sam O’Connor. A past filled with mistakes and tragedy means she prefers hiding rather than risking malicious comments and stares. Weird and awkward as she is, being invisible is far safer than bringing attention to herself... -
Defying Fate by S.M. Reine
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsElise Kavanagh has exorcised demons, slain gods, and come back from the dead. And she's done it all with the help of James Faulkner: a powerful witch, and the only person Elise has ever loved or trusted. But now the worst has happened. The Treaty protecting humanity from war between angels and demons has fallen. Elise has been taken by her greatest enemy and imprisoned in madness... -
Black Bird, Vol. 15 by Kanoko Sakurakouji
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHe loves her blood, but does her love her?!Reads R to L (Japanese Style). There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magical realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend... -
Hanatsukihime, Vol. 02 by Hibiki Wataru
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Lys was born, her heart did not beat at all. To save her, her mother made a contract with a devil: Lys can borrow his heart until the day she turns 16, but after that, he will eat her body. Together with her companion, Siva, someone she met by chance on the desert at night, she travels around as a dancer girl to find the devil who sealed her fate... -
Demon Diary, Volume 07 by Kara, Lee Yun-Hee
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAs a young Demon Lord-in-training, Raenef has experienced it all -- he's fought the good fight, made close friends and developed a deep bond with his tutor Eclipse. Despite his scattered nature, Raenef has learned everything there is to know...and now it's all gone! In this final volume, Raenef finds himself back on the street with holes in his memory, his wallet, and his heart...
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