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  • Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 1 by 墨香铜臭, Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 1 by 墨香铜臭, Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 93 ratings
    Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedicated study and noble deeds allowed him to ascend to godhood. But those who rise may also fall, and fall he does--cast from the heavens and banished to the world below...
  • No Paths Are Bound by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 墨香铜臭

    No Paths Are Bound by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 墨香铜臭

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Book III is chapters 89-180...
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    demons  historical  paranormal  queer  fantasy  m-m  dark  magic
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  • The Rascor Plains by Phil Tucker

    The Rascor Plains by Phil Tucker

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Scorio thought victory was within his grasp. He had bested the Final Gauntlet and overcome the treachery of Chancellor Praximar. But the Rascor Plains are full of peril, and his quest for truth has only just begun...
  • LastRock by Phil Tucker

    LastRock by Phil Tucker

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Scorio has won his vengeance. His foes lie vanquished, his skeptics silenced. Yet, as the powers of hell watch eagerly, Scorio and Naomi spurn those who would recruit them, and venture into the untold depths of hell in search of the enigmatic Herdsmen...
  • Phantom by Susan Kay

    Phantom by Susan Kay

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 41 ratings
    "Phantom of the Opera fans no longer need to ponder what was in Erik's past, as Kay has created one for him in this deeply moving, poignant story. . . This sad, but beautiful, novel will be especially popular with [those] who have enjoyed the current musical . . . " – School Library Journal “A MUST READ! Haunting and riveting...
  • The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

    The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 124 ratings
    The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden’s enchanting first novel, introduced readers to an irresistible heroine. Vasilisa has grown up at the edge of a Russian wilderness, where snowdrifts reach the eaves of her family’s wooden house and there is truth in the fairy tales told around the fire...
  • Wicked Highlander by Donna Grant

    Wicked Highlander by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 32 ratings
    The most reckless and fierce of the MacLeod brothers, Quinn is a prisoner of the god inside him, tormented by his inability to save his family from slaughter. His fury governs him, and day by day he loses himself to the darkness in his soul. But Quinn has a profound yearning for a woman's love…...
  • Man of Shadow and Mist by Michelle Griep

    Man of Shadow and Mist by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    “The world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it.”–Bram Stoker, Dracula England, 1890 Vampires are alive and well in North Yorkshire, leastwise in the minds of the uneducated. Librarian Rosa Edwards intends to drive a stake through the heart of such superstitions. But gossip flies when the mysterious Sir James Morgan returns to his shadowy manor. The townsfolk say he is cursed...
  • 二哈和他的白猫师尊 Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, 肉包不吃肉

    二哈和他的白猫师尊 Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, 肉包不吃肉

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 31 ratings
    "The Husky and His White Cat Shizun"Mo Ran felt that taking Chu Wanning as his master was a mistake.His Shizun was just so similar to a cat, while he was like a silly dog.Dogs and cats were biologically different. The silly dog hadn’t originally intended to put his furry paws out towards that cat...
  • Between the Moon & Her Night by Jaclyn Kot

    Between the Moon & Her Night by Jaclyn Kot

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    “It was like he had lifted the lid to a small locket box, because a soft, beautiful melody began to play—happy and sad, and filled with love and loss.It was the song of us.The song of Life and Death.”Centuries before the events of Between Life and Death and Between Sun and Moon . . . Centuries before she was Sage . . . She was Aurelia, the Goddess of Life...
  • Monsters Above by R.L. Caulder

    Monsters Above by R.L. Caulder

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    The fight for our lives is upon us. Running to a new realm that could hold vital information is our only chance. With that comes closing the distance between me and the godly powers that wish to use me for their own gain. What we need is time to uncover secrets and unlock the powers that reside within me, but that’s a commodity we aren’t granted...
  • Forbidden Highlander by Donna Grant

    Forbidden Highlander by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    Fallon McLeod has gifts any warrior would covet—fierce strength, unmatched skill, even immortality. But those gifts have come at a price that puts everyone he loves at risk. Only when his brother, Quinn, is taken captive does Fallon leave the seclusion of his Highland home to seek the king's aid...
  • 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:
    horror  demons  christian  paranormal  fantasy  mystery  suspense  dark
  • Dragon Emperor 2 by Eric Vall

    Dragon Emperor 2 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Now tested in battle, Evan aims to become the heir of Hatra. Once that he’s a lord, Evan has even more on his plate, from rebuilding the city’s aqueducts to fighting demonic hordes. On top of all that, the King of Rahma gives Evan a quest to prove his worth: to find the lost Sword of Hatra, which was last seen a thousand years ago...
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    medieval  fantasy  harems  magic  shapeshifters  dark  poly  paranormal
  • A World of Lost Words by Jane Washington

    A World of Lost Words by Jane Washington

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    I was born with a shadow inside me, a beast clawing and ripping its way to freedom. I was born with a clock inside me, the tick-ticking of my heartbeat drawing us all closer to the inevitable, the inescapable. The end of everything.And now, finally, it has arrived.The world is burning, the souls are screaming, the castles are crumbling...
  • So Below by Julie Mannino

    So Below by Julie Mannino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Riley was his, and he better remember that even if he was currently in an angel's bed and shouting someone else's name.The image made Eren see red.Riley While healing from Eren’s betrayal, the first nephalem in centuries will have to learn to feed, do magic, and navigate a different way of life...
  • Queen of Serpents and Shadows by Alexis Calder

    Queen of Serpents and Shadows by Alexis Calder

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Hope might not be enough this time. The fae king continues to claim victories and Nyx is awake. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the gods are after us and we’re running out of time. The Fae King has power he shouldn’t from a sorceress who holds the key. To defeat him, we have to go through her. But the gods are hunting us, and Nyx asked for me personally...
  • The Spirit Stone by Katharine Kerr

    The Spirit Stone by Katharine Kerr

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Prince Dar of the Westlands calls the new fortress of Zakh Gral "a dagger laid against our throat." It was built by the Horsekin, ancient enemies of his people. To destroy the threat, the elven prince has called upon his dwarven and human allies. Their leaders know that if the Westlands fall, their own throats will feel the dagger next...
  • Wit'ch Star by James Clemens

    Wit'ch Star by James Clemens

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The three deadly Weirgates are destroyed but the threat of the Dark Lord remains. And so Elena and her companions have gone their separate ways to prepare for what is yet to come. Elena herself has journeyed to the beautiful city of A'loa Glen, there to recover her strength and spirit. Enter Harlequin Quail.Some might call him a fool, but the little man in the jester's suit claims to be a spy...
  • 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...
  • Murder on Hunter's Eve by Morgan Stang

    Murder on Hunter's Eve by Morgan Stang

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A werewolf terrorizes the city of Lamplight!It's the week of Hunter's Eve, a yearly celebration of monsters, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night. But for Huntress Isabeau Agarwal, the event is a stark reminder that in her line of work, there is never a day's rest.Murders rock the city, and Isabeau is charged with solving them before the killer strikes again...
  • Wicked Schemes by Amy Oliveira, Santana Knox

    Wicked Schemes by Amy Oliveira, Santana Knox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    THE GODS HAVE WAGED A WAR IN HER NAME, A FATE SHE NEVER DREAMT REFUSING.The first nightmare I can remember was not my own.To be born with power is to be gifted, but all I know is a curse.I am Florencia Morales, one of the seven witches whose fate was woven long before we were born.Marriage was never my dream, never a desire or a goal...
  • I Summoned My WHAT?!: Book 2 by Montgomery Quinn

    I Summoned My WHAT?!: Book 2 by Montgomery Quinn

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Since being thrust back in time, Calon has found himself in a world of danger and delight.People were wary at first, about having a summoner in their midst. And not without good reason. The confrontation with the good sheriff made sure of that. But when the dust cleared, there was still work to do, and only one person who could reasonably do it.But it's not just bandits going bump in the night...
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    demons  horror  harems  fantasy  magic  dark  historical  poly
  • The Soul Mirror by Carol Berg

    The Soul Mirror by Carol Berg

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A scientific young woman probes the mysterious death of her magically gifted sister in this quasi-Renaissance epic fantasy sequel to The Spirit Lens.Anne de Vernase is fighting to hold herself together as scandal and tragedy tear her family apart. Her father remains at large, convicted of treason and murder thanks to her own testimony—and his pursuit of depraved sorcery...
  • Greenwode by J. Tullos Hennig

    Greenwode by J. Tullos Hennig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Novel of Robyn Hood The Hooded One. The one to breathe the dark and light and dusk between.... When an old druid foresees this harbinger of chaos, he also glimpses its outcome...
  • Circle of Freaks by Delilah Croww, Carmen Rosales

    Circle of Freaks by Delilah Croww, Carmen Rosales

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Since I was a little girl, I fell in love with the circus. It's all I ever wanted to see up close or be a part of. There was no room for things like that where I grew up. There was no room for anything except bad memories and bad expectations.Every year around Devil's Night, since we moved to Stockbridge, the Circle of Freaks paranormal circus comes to town...
  • The Amethyst Kingdom by A.K. Mulford

    The Amethyst Kingdom by A.K. Mulford

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the fifth and final novel in the Five Crowns of Okrith romantasy series from bestselling author A.K. Mulford, a young fae warrior is hellbent on winning the Eastern Court crown, but when her fated lover—and hated nemesis—Ersan enters the trials she struggles to balance the competition and the chance at love...
  • The Bayou by Arden Powell

    The Bayou by Arden Powell

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    "Eugene didn’t know if he believed in the devil beyond the wicked things people did of their own accord, but if the devil had a face, it would look like Johnny Walker’s."Small-town Louisiana, 1935.When Eugene was twelve, a girl from town disappeared. Everyone said the gators must have got her when she strayed too near the bayou. No foul play, just a terrible accident...
    Categorized as:
    horror  demons  fantasy  historical  paranormal  mystery  dark  m-m
  • Blood of Heirs by Alicia Wanstall-Burke

    Blood of Heirs by Alicia Wanstall-Burke

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Lidan Tolak is the fiercest of her father’s daughters; more than capable of one day leading her clan. But caught between her warring parents, Lidan’s world begins to unravel when another of her father’s wives falls pregnant...
    Categorized as:
    medieval  fantasy  high fantasy  magic  war  dark  vikings  historical
  • Rebels of Last World by Atlas Kane

    Rebels of Last World by Atlas Kane

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Choose a Class.Win your HaremReclaim the World.Cade Clarke spends his last night on Earth drinking with an old Army buddy. When he decides to risk his life to defend a gorgeous bartender, he pays the ultimate price.Resurrected to Antinium, Cade finds himself thrown into a world where the very rules of reality have shifted...
    Categorized as:
    medieval  fantasy  harems  magic  dark  vikings  poly  paranormal
  • Fyneshade by Kate Griffin

    Fyneshade by Kate Griffin

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and silent servants. But not I. For they have far more to fear from me...On the day of her grandmother's funeral, Marta discovers that she is to be sent to be governess at Fyneshade, her charge the young daughter of the owner, Sir William Pritchard.All is not well at Fyneshade...
  • To Love a Dark Lord by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    To Love a Dark Lord by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She pulled him close, in a desperate, perfect embrace. She loved him. And she would burn this world for him… Gwen must free the Prince in Iron, before his mind is torn apart. For centuries, Mordred ruled over Avalon and caged its magic. Now the elementals have seized power, sentencing him to an eternity of torment in his own magical prison. Gwen accepted Mordred’s punishment to save his life...
  • The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman

    The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On an isolated estate in late-eighteenth-century rural Wales, a young English doctor uncovers dangerous secrets that may threaten his own life in this spellbinding Gothic tale from the bestselling author of Pandora.Dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital, Dr...
    Categorized as:
    horror  mystery  fantasy  historical  magic  dark  georgian  suspense
  • Selah Gothic by Kat Blackthorne

    Selah Gothic by Kat Blackthorne

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From bestselling author of occult sensation The Halloween Boys, comes a sinfully fictional religious & dystopian story of naughty exorcism and sinful desires steeped in gothic mystery and lore. Dark priests and an even darker romance. Now I lay me down to sleep.Impure thoughts sent me spiraling toward my fate. I was the holy daughter of Lady of Sorrows Church...
  • The Bladesmith Queen by Sarah MacLean

    The Bladesmith Queen by Sarah MacLean

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    They called her a witch. The only daughter of a long line of bladesmiths, Orsa had no choice but to take up the hammer and forge when it was her turn. But she was unlike those who came before her. Her swords are legendary—said to be undefeatable. And when she makes them, she can see their future...and the truth of the warriors who wield them. Brutal. Cruel. Unworthy of her skill. Until him...
  • Black Magic by Megan Derr

    Black Magic by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    When High Paladin Sorin discovers the brutally dismembered body of his cousin Alfrey, a much loved priest in the royal palace, he is left baffled as to who would do so terrible a thing to so good a man...
  • Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier

    Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A complex, adult epic fantasy from a new Australian author ... original, dramatic, unputdownable ... Sierra has a despised and forbidden gift - she raises power from the suffering of others.Enslaved by the king's torturer, Sierra escapes, barely keeping ahead of Rasten, the man sent to hunt her down...
  • The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

    The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dangerous, otherworldly forest.At the northern edge of a land ruled by a monstrous, foreign tyrant lies the wild forest known as the Elmever. The villagers know better than to let their children go near—once someone goes in, they never come back out...
    Categorized as:
    horror  fantasy  dark  high fantasy  historical  magic  fae  monsters
  • Restoration by Carol Berg

    Restoration by Carol Berg

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In the third Book of the Rai-kirah, Seyonne is besieged by doubt, madness, and visions that insist that he will destroy the world. Even his steadfast hope, that somehow Prince Aleksander is destined for greatness, seems doomed. For a royal murder sends Aleksander on the run as the Derzhi Empire crumbles around him...
  • Crimson Peak by Nancy Holder

    Crimson Peak by Nancy Holder

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak. From acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro...
  • Cursed by Lucy Leroux

    Cursed by Lucy Leroux

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Isobel Sterling is a governess with many secrets—including an uncanny ability she's been hiding her whole life, until the day arrives when she has to use it to save herself from a madman. But first she has to master it. Fast. Governess Isobel Sterling feels fortunate to have found a safe haven in the Montgomery household. The children are kind and the lord and lady of the house leave her alone...
  • The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan

    The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The otherworldly Kiriath once used their advanced technology to save the world from the dark magic of the Aldrain, only to depart as mysteriously as they arrived. Now one of the Kiriath’s uncanny machines has fallen from orbit, with a message that humanity once more faces a grave danger: the Ilwrack Changeling, a boy raised to manhood in the ghostly realm of the Gray Places...
    Categorized as:
    horror  fantasy  queer  dark  m-m  high fantasy  magic  military
  • The Rumpelstiltskin Problem by Vivian Vande Velde

    The Rumpelstiltskin Problem by Vivian Vande Velde

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Have you ever wondered just what was going on when that odd little man with the long name stepped up and volunteered to spin straw into gold for the miller’s daughter? If you stop and think about it, there are some very peculiar and rather hard-to-explain components to the story. Vivian Vande Velde has wondered too, and she’s come up with these six alternative versions of the old legend...
  • My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

    My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 25 ratings
    In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real?Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the only good thing in Roos’ life, which is filled with sordid backroom séances organized by her mother...
    Categorized as:
    horror  fantasy  mystery  queer  paranormal  dark  historical  suspense
  • Uncommon Vows by Mary Jo Putney

    Uncommon Vows by Mary Jo Putney

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney comes a passionate tale about a lady and an earl who become hostages to desire. A single moment of impetuousness sweeps them both up in the royal battle of kings, into a dangerous intrigue of sweet caresses, and a fiery, all-consuming love..
  • The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore

    The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventeenth-century witch trials and the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves. England, 1643. Puritanical fervor has gripped the nation...
  • The Dark Hand of Magic by Barbara Hambly

    The Dark Hand of Magic by Barbara Hambly

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Sun Wolf knew he had the power of magic, but he needed a master wizard to teach him to fully use his skills. But there was no one who could do the job. When he was called upon to help old friends against the ancient wizard, he did -- thus ensuring a curse that would be executed, unless Sun Wolf could harness his own powers and find a way out...
  • The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond

    The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 23 ratings
    Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim your honor.It’s that, or end up like countless knights before her, as a puddle of gore and molten armor.Maddileh is a knight. There aren’t many women in her line of work, and it often feels like the sneering and contempt from her peers is harder to stomach than the actual dragon slaying. But she’s a knight, and made of sterner stuff...
    Categorized as:
    horror  medieval  fantasy  high fantasy  magic  dark  suspense  f-f
  • The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

    The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 52 ratings
    Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father is executed and her home destroyed...
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