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  • Rise Of Ashes by Stephanie Hudson

    Rise Of Ashes by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    Amelia Lego sets, Star Trek and junk food in my pajamas, These used to be how I would spend my safe and lazy days off. Now, what am I doing with my time…? High-speed chases, running from Hellhounds, fighting witches, opening boxes that threaten the entire Vampire race, and stabbing bitches with my shoes. But hey, at least I get to wear a pretty dress on my date...
  • The HellBeast's Sacrifice by Stephanie Hudson

    The HellBeast's Sacrifice by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Book 6 in The HellBeast King seriesFull Blurb coming soon...
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  • Two Kingdoms & One Apocalypse by Kristy Cunning

    Two Kingdoms & One Apocalypse by Kristy Cunning

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Book 3 & 4 together...Two KingdomsI'm getting a little tired of completing my goals, only to have the bar raised too substantially for me to transition at a productive pace...I started off as a sad little ghost with an impossible crush on four really hot, Gothic guys with some attitude problems. Now I'm The Apocalypse, they're the Four Horsemen, and Lucifer is my fucked up daddy...
  • The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

    The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 80 ratings
    Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficulties' with her usually sweet-natured eleven-year-old daughter Regan. The child becomes afflicted by spasms, convulsions and unsettling amnesiac episodes; these abruptly worsen into violent fits of appalling foul-mouthed curses, accompanied by physical mutation...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  demons  vampires  horror  paranormal  fantasy  suspense  dark
  • Silksinger by Laini Taylor

    Silksinger by Laini Taylor

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    One faerie, the last of her clan, must fight to complete her sacred duty Whisper Silksinger is the last of the secret guardians of the Azazel, one of the powerful Djinn who dreamed the world into being. Relentlessly pursued by bloodthirsty devils, she flees to the city of Nazneen to restore the Azazel to his temple...
  • Blood Ecstasy by Tessa Dawn

    Blood Ecstasy by Tessa Dawn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Julien Lacusta is a troubled soul, born into tragic circumstances, and raised in a violent time. Despite being a Master Warrior in the house of Jadon, and one of the most elite trackers the Vampyr have ever seen, he is damaged to the core: tormented by endless shadows, haunted by unseen ghosts...
  • Fallen Reign by S.L. Jennings

    Fallen Reign by S.L. Jennings

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Yesterday, I had the audacity to imagine a future. One that didn’t include hunting demons hellbent on destroying humanity or being used as a pawn for my father’s revenge. One comprised of a home and a family and all the things I’d longed for as a broken child. Then in the blink of a silver speckled eye, my foolish hope was extinguished, and my world came crumbling down. We stood strong...
  • House of Secrets by Darcy Coates

    House of Secrets by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Sophie and Joseph’s escape from Northwood is short-lived. The beast survived, and attached itself to Joseph’s young cousin, Elise. Garrett writes to beg for their help. Joseph and Sophie travel to meet him at Kensington, a long-abandoned mansion that overlooks a dead town. The house offers a small hope: its original owner had dedicated her life to researching the monster that possesses Elise...
  • Hawk by Patricia A. Rasey

    Hawk by Patricia A. Rasey

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kaleb “Hawk” Tepes, as president of the Sons of Sangue and descendant of Vlad III, needs to keep his head focused on club business. Trouble is someone wants to divest him of it for a crime he committed against his vampire predecessors. He can’t afford distractions, especially those that come in the form of a five-foot-two sprite named Suzi, who once belonged to his nephew...
  • Shadow Me by Annie Anderson

    Shadow Me by Annie Anderson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once upon a time, I killed a god and stole his power. I’ve been paying for it ever since.After my banishment, I promised myself three things.One: I would never take a mate.Two: I would find a way to get rid of the power I stole.Three: I would punish the gods who banished me.Not necessarily in that order.There’s just one teeny, tiny little problem...
  • Raven's Cry by Charlie Nottingham

    Raven's Cry by Charlie Nottingham

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Everyone has skeletons in their closet, but Rain's are learning to open the door. Rain's lost everything in the last decade. Her grandmother, her brother, and her family home might be next. All she has is Graham - a powerful Fae who illegally escaped the Fae Realm and has been her best friend ever since. Until Ezra - the sexiest Vampire she's ever seen - commissions her for one hell of a job...
  • Blade of Demons by Sara C. Roethle

    Blade of Demons by Sara C. Roethle

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When another ancient is murdered, Lyssandra alone cannot resist Asher’s call. Aiding him means going against the Potentate’s direct orders, and she won’t bring Steifan and Tholdri down with her.But the murder isn’t the only problem. Mysterious shadows stalk a nearby village, and ghouls are roaming free...
  • A Vampire’s Mate: A Dark Protectors/Rebels Novella by Rebecca Zanetti

    A Vampire’s Mate: A Dark Protectors/Rebels Novella by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s nothing Jasper Maxwell likes better than a good chase. He is patient and cunning, and he is known as one of the coldest hunters in the immortal realm. As a vampire with a hint of demon blood in him, he stands out even amongst the finest trackers in the shifter world...
  • Claiming the Beast by Holly Roberds

    Claiming the Beast by Holly Roberds

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’ll claw down the walls around her heart, if it’s the last thing I do.My angel of death succeeded in killing me, but I didn’t count on her bringing me back to life. My resurrection unleashed every monster and god ever slain by the Blade of Bane, including my immortal enemy...
  • The Briar Book of the Dead (Sourdough Universe) by A.G. Slatter

    The Briar Book of the Dead (Sourdough Universe) by A.G. Slatter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Oprah Daily's Top 25 Fantasy Novels of 2022), this beautifully told Gothic fairy tale of ghosts, witches, deadly secrets and past sins, will be perfect for fans of Hannah Whitten and Ava Reid.Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  vampires  fantasy  horror  witches  paranormal  magic  death
  • The Gathering: The Ivy Blackwood Chronicles by L.A. Fiore

    The Gathering: The Ivy Blackwood Chronicles by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Words like unnatural and impure started the whispers. From the very beginning, Ivy Blackwood was different. She was only a child when she was accused of setting the fire, one she passively watched engulf the small house she had called home. Her fingertips burned and her hair singed. Some who watched her crossed themselves, convinced she was soulless for she showed no emotion at all...
  • Midnight Monsters by Rory Miles, Harper Frey

    Midnight Monsters by Rory Miles, Harper Frey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    You're going to lose.Those four words meant nothing when I first heard them, but now they feel like a dark prophecy.My power has been bound, my mate bond broken. My mother demands Dane's death, while the witches call for Bastian's head. Valen is the only one who might be safe, but the threat from his father looms over us like an angry storm cloud...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  demons  poly  paranormal  reverse harem  fantasy  dark  fae
  • The Verderer by D.K. Girl, Danielle K. Girl

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

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    An alternative cover for this ASIN can be found here.Silas Mercer is a dead man walking.And the mysterious Order of the Golden Dawn have big plans for their newest ankou and his deathly bandalore.Life as a servant of death has its challenges.But the biggest one of all is Silas’s daemonic guardian, Pitch.He may look like heaven, but he’s making Silas's life all kinds of hell...
    Categorized as:
    demons  mystery  fantasy  paranormal  historical  m-m  magic  abuse
  • Tangled Fates by Mandy Muse

    Tangled Fates by Mandy Muse

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I’ve been hiding all my life.My power is rare and everyone wants it. People are willing to pay for it, even kill for it.I live in a tower with my cat surrounded by mountains and a magical barrier to keep me safe. Mother has kept me safe for almost two hundred years but the loneliness is eating me alive.It’s happened once before...
  • Stray by Lee Colgin

    Stray by Lee Colgin

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Leonas is a cranky panther shifter set in his ways. He handles security for an exclusive brothel and takes the safety of the staff at The Twig and Berries seriously, to the extent of sacrificing his personal life in favor of work.When the young vampire messenger Jeno shows up with heart eyes and disturbing news, Leonas is taken aback...
  • Nicodemus by D.B. Reynolds

    Nicodemus by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    It was a time when gods walked the earth, when armies fought not for bits of land, but for the very existence of humanity. On such a battlefield, five formidable warriors stood against an evil greater than any the earth had ever seen. But evil is not an honorable foe...
  • Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta

    Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For readers of Nightbitch and We Ride Upon Sticks, this strange and sexy novel of queer love in a small town is an unsettling reminder that the horrors of modern life is a monster ready to possess us all. In the valley at the intersection of three towering mountains sits Cadenze, an ugly, remote town with little to its name...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  demons  horror  queer  fantasy  contemporary  f-f  monsters
  • Death Do We Part: Raven's Duet by Ashley Amy

    Death Do We Part: Raven's Duet by Ashley Amy

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Everyone knows. My secret is out. Saving them, I had to unmask who I am. Now that I've been outed, things keep spiraling out of control. The new threats lurk in places we can’t see. When an unknown enemy comes, I’m the only thing that can stop it. As Death, I have to learn my name doesn’t just mean dying. With my known generals at my side, I knew I had a circle I could trust...
  • Stake-Out: An Urban Fantasy Romance by Lily Luchesi

    Stake-Out: An Urban Fantasy Romance by Lily Luchesi

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enter the Underworld of Chicago. Detective Danny Mancini is on a case, following a murder suspect. When he catches him, he finds out that the perp isn't even he's a two hundred-year-old rogue vampire. The Captain doesn't believe him, and puts him on early retirement, despite his many years of service to the Chicago Police Department, which sends him into a downward spiral...
  • Her Dark Salvation by Katelyn Brehm

    Her Dark Salvation by Katelyn Brehm

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    ANNA A made man in the Italian Mafia. An immortal blood demon. I never imagined he’d become my dark salvation. My midlife awakening wasn’t going as planned. I’d wanted to prove I was more than a mousey professor, that I could handle life outside the walls of academia. Turns out, I’d underestimated the real world...
  • Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen

    Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    "Gothic horror for the ages…Combining shiver-inducing horror with sharp-fanged social commentary, this more that merits comparison to Dracula and other genre titans."— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"I'm in your blood, and you are in mine…"The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  mystery  horror  fantasy  historical  paranormal  queer  dark
  • Revelation by Carol Berg

    Revelation by Carol Berg

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Two years after his battle with the Lord of Demons, Seyonne is tired, troubled, angry, and frustrated. As Ezzaria's only remaining Warden, he carries the entire burden of the worsening demon war on his shoulders. But a demon encounter unlike any in Ezzarian memory leads Seyonne to question everything he has ever believed...
  • Academy For The Fallen: Year One by Avery Song

    Academy For The Fallen: Year One by Avery Song

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I lived, fought, and died in the battle between good and evil. But not as a hero… After falling in battle, Lilith, known as Queen Merciless to foe and friend alike, expects to wake up in the toasty halls of hell —not the depths of the Underworld as a candidate for entry into the Academy for the Fallen...
  • The Iron Princess by Barbara Hambly

    The Iron Princess by Barbara Hambly

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A young woman rises from the streets to battle a sinister evil in this magical fantasy adventure by the bestselling author of the Darwath series.Something is amiss with the world's magic. Spells don't work the way they used to--when they work at all...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  demons  fantasy  magic  dark  paranormal  length-medium
  • The Daemon Prism by Carol Berg

    The Daemon Prism by Carol Berg

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A blind mage teams up with an unlikely ally to save a friend and the world in this quasi-Renaissance epic fantasy adventure by the author of The Soul Mirror.   Indicted for crimes against the living and the dead, Dante the necromancer has become the most hated man in Sabria. Becoming blind by his enemy’s cruel vengeance only exacerbates his situation...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  demons  fantasy  magic  high fantasy  paranormal  dark  horror
  • Wraith Captive by Lacey Carter Andersen

    Wraith Captive by Lacey Carter Andersen

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    No one believes I was at the wrong place at the wrong time...Grant it, I kind of get it. I have been found around an abnormally large amount of dead people lately. The thing is, I'm not the dangerous murderer they think I am. If I could tell the truth about my not-so-human father, they'd understand.But I can't...
  • A Bite Of Hate by T. St. James

    A Bite Of Hate by T. St. James

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Have you ever had a position snatched from under you? Pay years of service to a company just to have the CEO position handed over to an outsider? To hate that outsider so much, you start tormenting him?LayleeWhen the eerie new guy with gorgeous blue eyes stole my CEO position, I became a complete brat. Unfortunately, August had other plans...
  • Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

    Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art . After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights...
  • Tangled Webs by Anne Bishop

    Tangled Webs by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 46 ratings
    Anne Bishop's national bestselling and critically acclaimed Black Jewels series has enthralled readers with its lavish blend of "the darkly macabre with spine-tingling emotional intensity, mesmerizing magic, lush sensuality, and exciting action...
  • Blood Prince by Jex Lane

    Blood Prince by Jex Lane

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Updates for Blood Prince are found on the FAQ on Jex's website. She also keeps her BeMo's updated in her facebook group, Jex's BeMos...
  • Blood & Thorns by Eve Newton

    Blood & Thorns by Eve Newton

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I never wanted to be a vampire. But here I am, freshly turned and on the run from the monster who made me. MistHallow Academy is supposed to be my sanctuary, a place where I can learn to control my powers. Instead, it's become a battleground of desire and danger.Three guys have caught my eye. They're each intoxicating in their own way, and I'm drawn to them all...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  demons  reverse harem  fantasy  paranormal  dark  magic  poly
  • The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young, Jorge Corona

    The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young, Jorge Corona

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 31 ratings
    Writer SKOTTIE YOUNG (I HATE FAIRYLAND, Deadpool, Strange Academy) and artist JORGE CORONA (NO. 1 WITH A BULLET, Super Sons, Feathers) follow up their critically acclaimed series MIDDLEWEST with a haunting new tale...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  demons  fantasy  paranormal  dark  monsters  abuse  horror
  • When It Comes by Kady Ash

    When It Comes by Kady Ash

    Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some people claim they're haunted by their pasts, but me?I'm actually haunted by mine, by a ghost who trips people when they flirt with me, gets me fired, and is trying to get me to go back home to Hallowtide.And then there's Nox.Beautiful, tattooed, powerful, and exists only in my dreams. The sex is great, but I can't hold onto that forever...
    Categorized as:
    demons  mystery  paranormal  fantasy  dark  monsters  dual-pov  magic
  • Bohemian Gospel by Dana Chamblee Carpenter

    Bohemian Gospel by Dana Chamblee Carpenter

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Set against the historical reign of the Golden and Iron King, Bohemian Gospel is the remarkable tale of a bold and unusual girl on a quest to uncover her past and define her destiny.Thirteenth-century Bohemia is a dangerous place for a girl, especially one as odd as Mouse, born with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect. Some call her a witch. Others call her an angel...
  • My Immortal by Erin McCarthy

    My Immortal by Erin McCarthy

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    In the late eighteenth century, plantation owner Damien du Bourg struck an unholy bargain with a fallen angel: an eternity of inspiring lust in others for the gift of immortality. But when Marley Turner stumbles upon Damien's plantation searching for her missing sister, for the first time in two hundred years it's Damien who can't resist the lure of a woman...
  • When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll

    When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    "A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood."Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering flags...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  mystery  horror  fantasy  queer  paranormal  f-f  dark
  • The Countess by Rebecca Johns

    The Countess by Rebecca Johns

    Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Was the “Blood Countess” history’s first and perhaps worst female serial killer? Or did her accusers create a violent fiction in order to remove this beautiful, intelligent, ambitious foe from the male-dominated world of Hungarian politics?   In 1611, Countess Erzsébet Báthory, a powerful Hungarian noblewoman, stood helpless as masons walled her inside her castle tower, dooming her to spend...
  • Come Closer by Sara Gran

    Come Closer by Sara Gran

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Demonic possession or psychic break? One of Esquire's Top 50 horror novels of all time delves deep into the terrifying consequences of losing control."A perfect horror novel."—Paul Tremblay, author of 'The Cabin at the End of the World'A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults...
  • Varney the Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest

    Varney the Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest

    Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas PeckettPrest. It first appeared in 1845–1847 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as "penny dreadfuls"...
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