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  • Turns of Fate by Anne Bishop

    Turns of Fate by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A young detective investigating crimes of the uncanny will learn that bargains can change your fate—for good or ill—in this darkly enthralling fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of the Others and the Black Jewels series. Words have power. Intentions matter. Most people come to Destiny Park for entertainment. They come to have their cards read to tell them a bit about their future...
  • Afterlife Saga Books 1-4 Box Set by Stephanie Hudson

    Afterlife Saga Books 1-4 Box Set by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Afterlife Saga Box Set offers great savings and ease. Afterlife. The two Kings. The Tripple Goddess. The Quarter Moon. 60+ hours of reading, 2346+ Pages, Over 1. 1Million Words! Afterlife is an opulent Gothic nightclub that belongs in a big city, not in the small town of Evergreen Falls…Just like its forbidding owner does, Dominic Draven...
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  • Hurricane by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Hurricane by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    What’s a goddess to do? After being lost at sea and taken prisoner by yet another denizen of the Titan realm, Quinn finds herself cold, wet, miserable, and very much alone. Until a familiar and unexpected face steps back into her life to remind her who she is—and has always—been: a fighter...
  • Moscow Mule by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Moscow Mule by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Quinn MacKenna is on the warpath to save her bartender. Bear-tender…whatever. And it might just break Russia. In every person’s life there comes a point where well-meaning people mutter empty Hallmark Card platitudes like “it’s all downhill from here,” or “the only way to go now is up. ”. For Quinn, black magic arms dealer and potential Fae royalty, that time is now...
  • It's A Hard-Knock Midlife by Robyn Peterman

    It's A Hard-Knock Midlife by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Midlife is supposed to be messy, but this is a full-on catastrophic crisis. Just when I thought life might be getting back to normal—normal being a relative word—I couldn’t have been more wrong. Marriage proposal from the Grim Reaper? Yes. Beautiful healthy baby? Yes. Friends and family safe? Yes. Ghost of my worst enemy sitting on my front porch? OMG. Yep...
  • Salty Dog by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Salty Dog by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Abductions rarely go as planned…but this is just ridiculous. Torn from the Faeling Games on the beaches of Scotland, Quinn MacKenna suddenly finds herself doggie-paddling in a turbulent sea of blood with no land in sight. And that’s the highlight of her day so far, because her abductors seem perfectly content to simply leave her in this strange Otherworld...
  • Darkest at Dawn by Christine Feehan

    Darkest at Dawn by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    In one volume for the first time-a Dark novel and novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author...
  • Dark Hope by Christine Feehan

    Dark Hope by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 ratings
    The next captivating novel in Christine Feehan’s #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series.
  • Mob Sorcery 3 by K.D. Robertson

    Mob Sorcery 3 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    The Yakuza have rolled into town and Vince finds himself caught in a standoff between the old and new worlds of magic. Doubts remain over who tried to assassinate Vince and the cops have locked down the city to protect the mayor's reputation. But Vince has a job to do. He's taken back the mafia's old territory for their don, but their rival still refuses to accept reality and bend the knee...
  • Dark Memory by Christine Feehan

    Dark Memory by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 28 ratings
    Safia Meziane has trained since birth to protect her tribe, the family she holds so dear. All along she told herself the legends she was raised with were simply that. But now, she must call upon all of her skills to fight what lies ahead. Evil has come to their small town on the cost of Algeria, evil that Safia can feel but cannot see...
  • Dark Curse by Christine Feehan

    Dark Curse by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    Born into evil and ice, Dragonseeker Lara Calladine longs to find the source of her nightmares. The only man who can help her is Nicolas De La Cruz who, for centuries, has longed to feel the sensual love of a woman without a hunger for blood. He’s found the perfect mate in Lara. But their mysterious pasts share a secret that could destroy them both.
  • Bring the Pain by Michael Anderle

    Bring the Pain by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The Harriken have decided James Brownstone is an unacceptable dishonor to their clan. This time, Grandfather has hired the best assassins in the business and Shay knows them. Shay won't allow Brownstone to go to Japan without backup. Her backup...
  • Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures vol 1 by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures vol 1 by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 47 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton brings Anita Blake to the world of graphic novels. Anita Blake lives in a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves have been declared legal citizens of the United States. Anita Blake is an "animator" - a profession that involves raising the dead for mourning relatives...
  • Mob Sorcery 4 by K.D. Robertson

    Mob Sorcery 4 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Vince prepares to pull off his largest job yet, a heist to steal an artifact containing an ancient evil. Yet another ancient evil stirs much closer to home. Vince's soul egg awakens, and he finds himself face to face with the being residing within it as she makes him an offer he knows he should refuse. Caught between scheming foxes on all sides, Vince must master his magic and gear up...
  • Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan

    Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    "There is always a price to pay. ". So Darius warned her when she accepted a position with his traveling troupe. And gazing mesmerized at the merciless slash of his mouth, the implacable resolve on his face, the soulless emptiness of his black eyes, Tempest was afraid to ask what it was. She had always been different, apart from others...
  • Mob Sorcery 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Mob Sorcery 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Vince finds himself going up in the underworld, but the mafia is far from the only gang in town. The city is abuzz with an international sorcerer's conference, and the mayor is cracking down hard on anything that might make him look bad. But Vince is out to get that bag. That means fulfilling his enforcer contract for the mob, police crackdown be damned...
  • Sea Breeze by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Sea Breeze by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Remember when dead in the water was just an expression? Not anymore. Fresh from her unplanned stay in the Otherworld, Quinn MacKenna is forced to wait in Fae’s worst Air BnB—a grotesque gingerbread house in a forest full of breadcrumbs—for the captain who will guide her ship to the fabled Atlantis. But just as idle hands are the Devil’s workshop, idle minds are the Titans’ torture chamber...
  • Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 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...
  • Cloaked by Vanessa Nelson

    Cloaked by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 15 ratings
    The world itself in peril. Arrow’s sleep is being disturbed by nightmares that she cannot remember when awake. Her days are spent trying to build her new, simple, life in the human world and helping the shape-changers track down the last conspirators that tried to destroy the Erith. But the Erith want her help one last time...
  • Dark Peril by Feehan C Christine Feehan

    Dark Peril by Feehan C Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    Dominic of the Dragonseeker lineage - one of the most powerful lines the Carpathian people has - infiltrates the heart of the enemy camp to learn their plans. This is a one-way mission: he plans to get in fast, relay the information and go down fighting - an honourable way to end his life. But a complication lies ahead.
  • Shadowmark by McKenzie Hunter

    Shadowmark by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 20 ratings
    When a god wants you dead, it’s safe to assume life can’t get any worse. Wrong. I’m enemy-number-one to a powerful fae and I’ve ticked off the Master of the vampires one too many times. Life—or rather, death—is coming at me fast. I definitely didn’t expect a demon placing a bounty on me to be added to the what-the-hell-else-could-go-wrong Bingo card...
  • Mist and Magic by Lindsay Buroker

    Mist and Magic by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 26 ratings
    As a freelance assassin, Val Thorvald leads a dangerous life. She’s learned not to stay in the same place for long and not to get too attached to anything. For example, she would never consider adopting a pet. But when she’s searching for a missing friend, she finds an abandoned silver tiger cub...
  • Kelpies Don't Fly by Kim McDougall

    Kelpies Don't Fly by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 24 ratings
    Critter wrangler rule #15: Always look a gift horse in the mouth. And if it has sharp teeth, never, never get on its back. For ten years, Kyra Greene thought she was the only Valkyrie this side of the rainbow bridge. Until she gets a stunning message from her cousin, Gunora, asking for bail money. But facing the ghosts of her past isn’t on Kyra’s to-do list...
  • Dark Peril by Christine Feehan

    Dark Peril by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    Dominic of the Dragonseeker lineage, one of the most powerful lines the Carpathian people has, ingests vampire blood laces with parasites in order to be able to go the very heart of the enemy camp and learn their plans. It is a one way mission. He knows he has little time once the parasites and the blood go to work...
  • Misplaced Souls by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Misplaced Souls by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Six years, three months, and two days ago, I was kidnapped by a black witch. Then forced to bear witness as she slaughtered witches and sorcerers across Europe, siphoning their magic and corrupting what she could of my own power in order to raise vanquished demons...
  • Ink, Blood, and Other Afflictions: Episode One by Kristen Coar

    Ink, Blood, and Other Afflictions: Episode One by Kristen Coar

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Do not read this book. Seriously. It’s completely unhinged. . . . Still here? Well, crap. Fine. Just remember. I warned you. Vera would have been a typical librarian—except for that one time she opened the wrong book and got possessed by a dark goddess. Now, every time she ends a life, she experiences the kind of mind-blowing orgasm that could crack the foundations of her apartment...
  • The Neon Boneyard by Craig Schaefer

    The Neon Boneyard by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Daniel Faust has clawed his way from the gutter to a penthouse suite, carving a bloody swath across the Las Vegas underworld. He's buried his enemies and more than a few friends along the way. If there's one thing a modern-day sorcerer knows for certain, though, it's that the past never stays buried forever...
  • Academy of Shadowed Magic: The Complete Series by S.W. Clarke

    Academy of Shadowed Magic: The Complete Series by S.W. Clarke

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Five books, over 2,000 pages of urban fantasy epic adventure, slow-burn romance, and magic and mayhem fill this dark academy box set. Witches, wizards, and one judgmental, talking cat. Welcome to my new life. I'm Clementine Cole. I thought I was a normal nineteen-year-old with anger issues, but I was wrong. I’m not angry, I'm just a witch...
  • The Castle Doctrine by Craig Schaefer

    The Castle Doctrine by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Out of prison and back on the streets, Daniel Faust returns home to a city on fire. The Chicago mob is making their play for control of Las Vegas, with an army of gunmen and a lethal shapeshifter on their side, while Daniel's friend Jennifer marshals the forces of the Vegas underworld...
  • Bring the Fire by Craig Schaefer

    Bring the Fire by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    “We brought you here to answer a single question. God is dead. Vanessa Roth and Marie Reinhart are responsible. We want to know how they did it. ”. That was where the story began. This is where it all ends. Believing her lover has been killed, Nessa — the living archetype of the wicked witch and a fairy tale brought to murderous life — flies across the Mojave Desert on a mission of vengeance...
  • A Shifter's Revenge by Raven Steele, Ava Mason

    A Shifter's Revenge by Raven Steele, Ava Mason

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    "Never kick me when I'm down, because when I get back up . .. you're screwed. ". Briar should be living the easy life. She finally checked off the last name on her kill list. The new pack Alpha isn't an a-hole, and her smoking hot shifter boyfriend is finally ready to spelunk her bat-cave. But she should've remembered that life hates her...
  • Werepanther 8: Paranormal Hunter by Logan Jacobs

    Werepanther 8: Paranormal Hunter by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My crew of badass women and I have officially decimated the Order of the Nile, freed the legions of paranormal creatures the AON were using for gladiator fights, and seized possession of an awesome mansion. My business ventures are also booming, so things are definitely looking up. But there’s still the issue of several rogue Egyptian gods who are out for my head...
    Categorized as:
    magic  horror  harems  fantasy  dark  contemporary  urban fantasy  poly
  • Marked By Salvation by Avery Stone

    Marked By Salvation by Avery Stone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    As a reject continually tossed into uncertain circumstances, I learned to fight for my own survival long ago. But now, thanks to an Alpha with a tender heart, I’m beginning to understand that I’m so much more than a fragile butterfly. I'm a Monarch — an Alpha-born female — and I’ve been trained to handle drug wars, mafia deals, and kidnappings...
  • Dark Obsession by Sarah Piper

    Dark Obsession by Sarah Piper

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    A vicious demonic plot. A curse decades in the making. An epic love that burns hotter than the very fires of hell…. Charlotte. .. All Charley’s nightmares are real. Demons. Dark witches. Her murderous uncle. With her soul bound to an ancient demon lord and her sister taken captive by a monster, hope is in short supply. But Charley will not go down without a fight...
  • The Harbors of the Sun by Martha Wells

    The Harbors of the Sun by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series. "Breathtakingly surprising and fun. For readers who missed earlier entry points to this delightful series, now is the time to get on board. ". —The New York Times. A former friend has betrayed the Raksura and their groundling companions, and now the survivors must race across the Three Worlds to rescue their kidnapped family members...
  • The Last Witch: Vol 3.5 by M.J. Lawrie

    The Last Witch: Vol 3.5 by M.J. Lawrie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    It's been six months since Lilly Hooper reunited with her family, friends, and magic. The Arcane Realm offers freedom and safety for all the witches who are rebuilding their lives and healing. But things are not as straightforward or as easy as they all hoped they would be...
  • The Killing Floor Blues by Craig Schaefer

    The Killing Floor Blues by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Nobody has ever escaped from the Iceberg. It's a privately-owned prison deep in the Mojave Desert, staffed by brutal guards and surrounded by desolate wasteland. Inside the walls, gangs and predators are constant threats; outside the walls, there's nothing but a sniper's bullet or a slow death in the desert heat...
  • Dark Hope by Christine Feehan

    Dark Hope by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Silke Vriese Reinders knows a war is coming. The demon slayer has seen it over and over again in the cards—and the battle won’t just be for the survival of her remote village, but for all mankind. Silke knows the only way to win will be with the help of the Carpathians...
  • Succubus Lord 8 by Eric Vall

    Succubus Lord 8 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Jacob and his succubi have defeated Azazel, and now Jacob is the Demon King of the Fourth Circle. But that doesn’t mean the war’s over yet. Now that he’s king, Jake has to figure out how to rule in Hell, keep from being stabbed in the back by the other Demon Lords and Kings, and somehow stay under Lucifer’s radar. There’s no rest for the wicked, and certainly no rest for a Succubus King.
    Categorized as:
    magic  horror  fantasy  harems  menage  demons  dark  paranormal
  • Shades of Magick by Jessica Wayne

    Shades of Magick by Jessica Wayne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    They lost the battle. Now it's time for war. What they feared has come to pass, and now, stuck in the center of an ancient war, Sienna and Daxon set out in search of a mythical stone that's rumored to have the ability to reshape their world. The magick's want it destroyed. The non-magicks want to cleanse the realm...
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 91 ratings
    Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat...
  • Wolf Domination by Avery Song

    Wolf Domination by Avery Song

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A paranormal mafia romance.
  • Werepanther 5: Paranormal Hunter by Logan Jacobs

    Werepanther 5: Paranormal Hunter by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My life has definitely changed since I discovered I was a werepather, but I would argue it’s changed for the better. Instead of a broke college student, I’m the owner of a lucrative lounge, and business just keeps getting better. Money is flowing in hand over fist, and I have my pick of sexy, intelligent, badass women...
    Categorized as:
    magic  horror  harems  urban fantasy  fantasy  dark  poly  paranormal
  • Succubus Lord 16 by Eric Vall

    Succubus Lord 16 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucifer is trying to kickstart the Apocalypse, but Jacob and his allies aren’t about to let that happen. But when a prophecy is revealed, thwarting the Prince of Darkness involves a field trip to the last place Jake expected. Vatican City.
    Categorized as:
    magic  horror  menage  fantasy  harems  dark  paranormal  urban fantasy
  • Succubus Lord 17 by Eric Vall

    Succubus Lord 17 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Caorthannach, Mother of all Demons and Lucifer’s ex, has been unleashed upon the world, and The Exalted One and the Devil have called a truce to deal with this new problem. Now, Cao is Public Enemy Number 1, and it’s up to Jacob and his Demon Lords to bring her down.
    Categorized as:
    magic  horror  menage  fantasy  harems  dark  paranormal  urban fantasy
  • The Bonds of Blood by Becca Andre

    The Bonds of Blood by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Born without a heartbeat or a soul, James Huntsman has never felt part of the mortal world. It’s an insecurity his abusive brothers reinforced daily, and with his very existence bound to theirs through the alchemically altered blood they share, James has always been at their mercy. All that changed when James found a home within the magical community and fell in love...
  • Wicked Hex by Megan Montero

    Wicked Hex by Megan Montero

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Some powers come with a price… My life is unrecognizable. I’ve never been in more danger. I thought I was safe at Evermore Academy. I thought we were finally making progress in this war. I thought I had people I could trust. I thought I could always count on Tucker…I thought wrong. But now all that’s changed. Alataris is coming for me with everything he's got, and no one is safe...
  • Shield of Fire by Keri Arthur

    Shield of Fire by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A New Relic. A new threat. .. Resident Relic Hunter for Deva’s Fae Council is a title Bethany Aodhán never wanted, but it isn’t like she has a choice. And in truth, the appointment might just aid her quest to find her mother’s murderers—because at least one of those responsible is a member of the council, and getting access to their records could give her the connection and their identity...
  • Silver Magi 2 by D. Levesque

    Silver Magi 2 by D. Levesque

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Brandon is something that hasn’t been around for so long. There isn’t even a name for that race anymore. But because his mother was injected with a blood sample, unwillingly, before he was even born, he has become something that was thought long dead—a progenitor. But only Brandon knows their true name. The Elveesians...
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