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  • The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

    The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 727 ratings
    He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal...
  • The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

    The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 172 ratings
    The specter of graduation looms large as Naomi Novik’s trilogy continues in the sequel to A Deadly Education.In Wisdom, Shelter. That’s the official motto of the Scholomance. I suppose you could even argue that it’s true—only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter’s rather scant...
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  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    The truth is out there... The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
  • Relentless by Karen Lynch

    Relentless by Karen Lynch

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 87 ratings
    Sara Grey’s world shattered ten years ago when her father was brutally murdered. Now at seventeen, she is still haunted by memories of that day and driven by the need to understand why it happened. She lives a life full of secrets and her family and friends have no idea of the supernatural world she is immersed in or of Sara’s own very powerful gift...
  • On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    When the life you wanted has crumbled beneath your fingers, there’s nothing left to do but pick up the pieces and soldier on. You’ve done this before. But what happens when you no longer feel like yourself anymore? When fires spontaneously start-up around you, when you hear growling coming from underneath your bed, and you no longer recognize your face in the mirror...
  • Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 52 ratings
    Perry Palomino has fought her demons – and won – but the battle is far from over. She’s now left broken and on her own, leaving behind her life and family in Portland to focus on giving Dex Foray – and the Experiment in Terror show – a second chance. But their past mistakes continue to tease and test their relationship, as does the wild and desolate terrain of the Canadian Rockies...
  • Yield the Night by Annette Marie

    Yield the Night by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    After surviving a round-trip to hell, Piper figures she can survive anything. After all, she just lived through the devastating loss of her Consul apprenticeship and a torturous stint at boarding school. How much worse could it get?Well, she wasn’t expecting a group of crazy radicals to burn her home to the ground and take her prisoner.The Gaians, a.k.a...
  • The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

    The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 146 ratings
    Chloe Saunders is on the runand raising hell. Literally. Chloe Saunders is not your average supernatural teenager. Genetically altered at birth by a sinister team of scientists, she can barely control her terrifying powers. Now the team that created her has decided it's time to end the experiment. Permanently...
  • Between Family by W.R. Gingell

    Between Family by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When someone tries to threaten me by telling me they know my name, I take that personally.G’day. I’m not really a pet anymore, but you might as well keep calling me Pet. It’s not like I’m gunna tell you my name anyway. And if I sound stroppy, well, I am. First, I was threatened. Now, someone has cut off my house from the human world and left my emotional support vampire on the human side...
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  • The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

    The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 147 ratings
    Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be 'cursed'?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them...
  • Spell Bound by Kelley Armstrong

    Spell Bound by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author sets the stage for a battle of epic proportions. Savannah Levine is all grown up. As a witch endowed with an array of spells, she is also a force to be reckoned with. As a paranormal investigator she is finally coming into her own. But her last case tore a family apart, and Savannah swore she'd give up her powers to fix the mess she helped create...
  • Scorched Heart by Helen Harper

    Scorched Heart by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    My parents were brutally murdered when I was five years old. Their killer has spent the last twenty five years in prison for his terrible crimes - but I still have unanswered questions. After all, I am the phoenix. When I die, I am reborn in fire and brimstone. It happens again and again and again. I have no idea where my strange ability came from and nobody to ask...
  • Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

    Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 178 ratings
    Blood doesn't lie... Sydney is an alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of human and vampires. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives. When Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, at first she thinks she's still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. But what unfolds is far worse...
  • Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Something wicked is at work in Colorado’s supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison…a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the already-fractured alliance between witches and the undead.The state’s cardinal vampire, Maven, summons boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther to stop the killing before it ignites a war...
  • Firestorm by Shannon Mayer

    Firestorm by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 36 ratings
    My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental.My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. In a world of lava and fire, I am about to face my hardest trial yet. Not one of strength, or power, but intrigue and manipulation...
  • Night Stalker by B.R. Kingsolver

    Night Stalker by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    All I want is to pay the rent and find a boyfriend. But an insane vampire thinks I hold the key to his takeover of the city, and I have a new stalker. At least for now, I’ve dodged the Illuminati’s Hunters, but life is still a little too challenging...
  • The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

    The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    The Sixth book in the the Rivers of London series featuring the young law officer Peter Grant—who must deal with both crime and magic.Where the Marble Arch stands today in London was once the Tyburn gallows - or The Hanging Tree. The walk toward those gallows, along Oxford Street and past the Mayfair mansions, has a bloody and haunted history as the last trip of the condemned...
  • Well of Magic by B.R. Kingsolver

    Well of Magic by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    I never expected to see a mage battle on national TV. When the ley lines—the orderly rivers of magical energy that circle the globe—went wild, chaos ensued. Magic hid in the shadows for hundreds of years, but then a secret order took control of one of the world's largest religions. Their goal is to rule the world, and the first step is to control the ley lines and magic users...
  • The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black

    The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 94 ratings
    An imprisoned prince. A vengeful queen. And a battle that will determine the future of Elfhame.  Prince Oak is paying for his betrayal. Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen, he must rely on charm and calculation to survive...
  • The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

    The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 40 ratings
    The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series.The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face.Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began - his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop to find themselves in Florida...
  • The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O'Donoghue

    The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O'Donoghue

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    A spellbinding supernatural teen drama - and sequel to All Our Hidden Gifts.Maeve and her friends have revealed their powers and banded together as a coven: Roe can pick locks, Lily sends sparks flying, Maeve can read minds and Fiona can heal any injury. And even better than their newfound talents? Roe and Maeve are officially an item...
  • Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

    Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 157 ratings
    Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.This is not that world. Art student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is—and what she is...
  • The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

    The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    From the author of New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night.AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThree girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . .
  • The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 115 ratings
    It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different...
  • Chase the Dark by Annette Marie

    Chase the Dark by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 59 ratings
    Piper wants one thing in to become a Consul, a keeper of the peace between humans and daemons. There are three obstacles in her way.The first is Lyre. An incubus. He’s sinfully seductive, unusually perceptive, and flirtatious when he’s not being a smartass. But for a daemon with supernatural allure, he’s strangely averse to drawing attention to himself—or his secrets.The second is Ash...
  • Night World, No. 2 by L.J. Smith

    Night World, No. 2 by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 78 ratings
    Includes:Book 4 - Dark AngelBook 5 - The ChosenBook 6 - Soulmate Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World. In Dark Angel, Gillian is saved from drowning by her guardian angel...
  • Red Fox by Karina Halle

    Red Fox by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 57 ratings
    With Book Two of the Experiment in Terror Series, Perry Palomino and Dex Foray trade in the stormy Oregon coast for the unforgiving deserts of New Mexico. In the for­got­ten town of Red Fox, New Mex­ico, a Navajo cou­ple is tor­tured by things unseen and by motives unknown...
  • Night World Volume 3 by L.J. Smith

    Night World Volume 3 by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 81 ratings
    The Night World is a secret society of vampires, werewolves, witches and creatures of darkness - a place too dangerous to fall in love. In Huntress, Jez Redfern is leader of the Night World vampires, but had an instinct to protect innocent mortals from her former friends ... Can She resist her desire for blood? In Black Dawn, Maggie's brother, Miles, goes missing...
  • The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

    The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 110 ratings
    Throughout the worlds, the forces of both heaven and hell are mustering to take part in Lord Asriel's audacious rebellion. Each player in this epic drama has a role to play—and a sacrifice to make. Witches, angels, spies, assassins, tempters, and pretenders, no one will remain unscathed.Lyra and Will have the most dangerous task of all...
  • King of None by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    King of None by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 37 ratings
    The Ancients are free, and all bets are off. With the rise of the primordial creators of Under everything has changed. Our world is no longer the same, and neither is Aon.I learned his dark secret the moment the sun peeked over the horizon for the first time in thousands of years. Every king and queen in Under used to be human—even Edu. But not Aon...
  • Finding Sky by Joss Stirling

    Finding Sky by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 53 ratings
    You have half our gifts, I have the other . . . When English girl Sky, catches a glimpse of bad boy Zed in her new American high school, she can't get him out of her head. He talks to her with his thoughts. He reads her mind. He is the boy she will love for ever. Dark shadows stalk her past but a new evil threatens her future. Sky must face the dark even if it means losing her heart...
  • Remember Me by Christopher Pike

    Remember Me by Christopher Pike

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Shari Cooper hadn't planned on dying, but four floors is a long way to fall. Her friends say she fell but Shari knew she had been murdered. Making a vow to herself to find her killer, Shari spies on her friends, and even enters their dreams. She also comes face-to-face with a nightmare from beyond the grave...
  • Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    This electrifying conclusion to the Nevermore trilogy takes one last trip to the dream world of Edgar Allan Poe to reveal the intertwined fates of Isobel and Varen.The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? —Edgar Allan PoeThe fine line between life and death blurred long ago for Isobel Lanley...
  • Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler

    Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    What "really" happened to Mother?Lauren has come home seven years after her famous mother's mysterious drowning. They said it was an accident, but the tabloids screamed murder. Her father, a senator, hadn't protected her. Aunt Jule was her only refuge, the beloved godmother she's returning to see...
  • The Archived by V.E. Schwab

    The Archived by V.E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 57 ratings
    The dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead, called 'Histories', rest in the Archive. Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself...
  • Braving the Elements by K.F. Breene

    Braving the Elements by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 55 ratings
    Sasha has always known she was different, but now she also knows that the shadow men she’s seen all her life, are real. With a life goal of fitting in, Sasha hopes her strange abilities will finally make true friendship a possibility. Unfortunately, her magic doesn’t function like everyone else’s. What she thought would make her belong, sets her apart now more than ever...
  • Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale from a stunning new Australian talent. ‘He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!' There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't...
  • Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

    Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 135 ratings
    By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz. Common enemy, common cause...
  • Bane and Shadow by Kelley Skovron

    Bane and Shadow by Kelley Skovron

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A killer adventure fantasy follow-up to HOPE AND RED, set in a fracturing empire spread across savage seas, where two young people from different cultures find common purpose.Red is being trained as a cold-blooded assassin by the biomancers. As he becomes increasingly embroiled in palace politics, he learns that even life among the nobility can be deadly...
  • Ignited by Steffanie Holmes

    Ignited by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    I’ll do whatever it takes to free them. Even if I have to sacrifice my soul. The Kings of Miskatonic Prep have fallen. Three arrogant, cruel, and broken boys defied an ancient god, a faculty who imprisoned them. and the parents who stole their future. They were never going to win. But they won’t quit. They won’t stop fighting. This time, it’s not themselves they’re trying to protect...
  • Cemetery Tours by Jacqueline E. Smith

    Cemetery Tours by Jacqueline E. Smith

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Some secrets are best kept laid to rest.At least, that's as far as Michael Sinclair is concerned. At twenty-seven, he has spent his entire life pretending that the ghosts he encounters on a daily basis do not exist. Now, if only the dead would let him rest in peace.Unfortunately, that doesn't seem likely, especially after Kate Avery and her ailing brother, Gavin, move in next door...
  • Tales from the Hinterland by Melissa Albert

    Tales from the Hinterland by Melissa Albert

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A gorgeously illustrated collection of twelve “lush and deliciously sinister fairy tales” (Kelly Link) by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood and The Night Country!Before The Hazel Wood, there was Althea Proserpine’s Tales from the Hinterland..
  • Jinxed by Donna Augustine

    Jinxed by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Karma, it’s what they call me and the very essence of who I am. When I died young, I was recruited by the agency that keeps the Universe running smoothly. As someone with a human past, most of my coworkers consider me inferior.But not everyone. Something evil has been stalking me for centuries. It’s been biding its time, waiting for the moment when it will strike and it needs me to to do it...
  • Initiated by Steffanie Holmes

    Initiated by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 ratings
    They were my tormenters. Now, they’re all that stands between me and my nightmares. They were my tormenters. Now, they’re all that stands between me and my nightmares. Trey, Quinn, and Ayaz—the king, the joker, and the enigma. Three guys who’ve flipped my life upside down, set my heart on fire, and shown me that nothing is as it seems. Last quarter, they broke me...
  • Vesselless by Cortney L. Winn

    Vesselless by Cortney L. Winn

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 40 ratings
    Cortney L. Winn’s sensational debut Vesselless is an addictive enemies-to-lovers romance following the heir to a fantasy kingdom, and the seductive spirit sent to claim her soul—perfect for fans of Rebecca Yarros and Carissa Broadbent. “I’ve seen monsters, Nizzara, and you are not one of them. A little beast maybe, but not a monster...
  • Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide.This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World—and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier...
  • The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst

    The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst comes a fully updated and expanded edition of THE LOST, with a brand-new ending. Against the backdrop of a desolate and mystical town, this arresting, fantastical novel explores one woman’s impossible journey—and her quest to find her fate."A slow-brewing, increasingly exciting, and deeply provocative fantasy world...
  • By A Thread by Nyna Queen

    By A Thread by Nyna Queen

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Addictive, sexy, and unique! BY A THREAD is the first book in Nyna Queen’s captivating and action-packed paranormal romance trilogy The Trueborn Heirs. "I’m a spider, sugar. My shaper kind doesn’t bear that name for nothing."That's not something Alexis Harper dares to say very often. If she did, it might just get her killed. Not that she is an easy mark, but even fools get lucky once in a while...
  • Legacy of Lies by Elizabeth Chandler

    Legacy of Lies by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Something is haunting Megan... She had seen Scarborough House only in her dreams. Now Megan was here, visiting the grandmother she'd never met, and her newfound cousin Matt, too handsome by far, who wanted her to disappear. Grandmother was so cold, so distant...
  • The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst

    The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst comes a fully updated and expanded edition of THE LOST, with a brand-new ending. Against the backdrop of a desolate and mystical town, this arresting, fantastical novel explores one woman’s impossible journey—and her quest to find her fate."A slow-brewing, increasingly exciting, and deeply provocative fantasy world...
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