Books like 'Shadow Born'

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  • Highland Magic: The Complete Series by Helen Harper

    Highland Magic: The Complete Series by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The entire Highland Magic series in one thrilling volume. Daring adventure, captivating romance - and maybe a haggis or two. Gifted Thief Honour Bound Veiled Threat Last Wish Integrity Taylor walked away from the Sidhe when she was a child. Orphaned and bullied, she simply had no reason to stay, especially not when the sins of her father were going to remain on her shoulders...
  • King of the Shadow Fae by Amelia Hutchins

    King of the Shadow Fae by Amelia Hutchins

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    New from USA Today Bestselling Author Amelia Hutchins comes a new Dark Urban Fantasy that will have you begging for more. Spellbinding, action-packed, mystery, and romance.I’d trained my entire life to take over the hunter guild. When the unthinkable happened, my father was taken, and I was forced to step up. The moment I took control, everything began to unravel around me...
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  • A God’s Mistake by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A God’s Mistake by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    We all make mistakes, but for most of us we die and they’re forgotten—not so if you’re immortal.For gods and immortals, grudges live forever.One moment of poor judgment, a lack of understanding, or simply being oblivious to what’s going on around you can elevate you to the top of someone’s to-do list.Be careful who you piss off...
  • Realm of Demons by Shannon Mayer

    Realm of Demons by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The final (for real this time!) book in the heartpounding, bestselling series. Get ready for the last ride with Zamira, Maks, Lila and Balder as they race to save . . .well I can't say, that would be a spoiler if you haven't ready book eight .
  • A Fated Bond by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Fated Bond by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Magic, dragons, elves, and vampires are my new normal. At any point, I might get attacked by an angry book, be on the shit-list for forgetting to hook up my battle bear’s keg, or get called to investigate a gruesome magical murder.And how cool is that?Well… the investigating part, not so much the murder...
  • A Druid Hexed by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Druid Hexed by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Some days I kick life in the ass. Other days it kicks back.On a good day, wearing the Fianna mark tosses me into topsy-turvy trials. It’s a scramble but I manage to hold it together with the help of amazing family and friends: mythical, magical, and mortal.But despite best-laid plans, collateral damage occurs.I can live with me getting hurt but watching someone I love suffer—not so much...
  • A Dragon's Dare by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Dragon's Dare by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Life is a balance—at least that’s what I’m told by people smarter than me.Try as I might to spend quality time with Sloan, family, friends, and companion animals my magnet of mayhem often has other ideas.Adulting is hard.So when I move an adolescent dragon into my backyard why don’t I anticipate the craziness that will ensue?Maybe Sloan’s right and I am ridiculous.I like to think I’m an optimist...
  • A Culling Tide by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Culling Tide by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.The world is about to tilt on its axis. Good versus Evil. Light versus Dark. There’s a balance to the world's alignment and every thousand years the Earth Realm, the Fae Realm, and the Spirit Realm collide, igniting a period of rebalancing.The Culling...
  • A Shaman's Power by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Shaman's Power by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    The focus of my life as an urban druid is to stand as a guardian of nature. The focus of my life as Fiona Cumhaill to stand as a guardian of my family.Seriously. Don’t screw with my family.It’s a no-brainer, drop everything, and take up the fight topic for me—If you need me, I will come...
  • Warrior Fae Trapped by K.F. Breene

    Warrior Fae Trapped by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 40 ratings
    The truce between the vampires and the shifters is long over. So when the two factions stumble upon a lost fae warrior who has no idea what she is, all hell breaks loose. Charity hasn't had it easy. Growing up in a bad part of Chicago, left by her mother at 16, she's a survivor. So when she gets a scholarship to a good college out in California, she thinks all her dreams have come true...
  • Rise from the Embers by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rise from the Embers by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The King has fallen!While Stavros moves to take over Lars’s throne, the war for the entire kingdom begins. However, this is no ordinary war against Seelie or Unseelie. The real enemy is the most powerful object in the world. The Stone of Fail.Lars isn’t the only one the stone wants. Zoey Daniels is next on its list. And the stone will do whatever it takes to finally get the girl...
  • A Throne Of Feathers and Bone by Kelly St Clare, Shannon Mayer

    A Throne Of Feathers and Bone by Kelly St Clare, Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 44 ratings
    Chosen. Framed by my father’s murderer. Running from the fae courts. Fated to never touch the man who sets my blood on fire. Life was looking up for me not long ago. Now, it’s looking all the way down. This latest shitstorm? Yeah, it takes the cake and the beetroot tickle. The father who shunned me from birth lays cold and dead. The courts are in turmoil and after blood. My blood...
  • A United Front by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A United Front by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.The Culling draws ever nearer—looms really—like a big, fat cloud of doom.With evil brewing, our enemies grow bolder, the warriors of light and dark scramble to be ready for the Winter Solstice, and the Cumhaill fam jam digs in to face the battle of our world’s alignment.No biggie… Team Trouble is on it...
  • Bound by Blood by Lindsay Buroker

    Bound by Blood by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Magically compelled by bad guys, Arwen Forester shot her half-dragon ally in the thigh. She longs to make amends to him, but she’s busy with a new quest:Get rid of the tattoo that lets dark elves control her.Unfortunately, such magical marks aren’t easily removed. When the troll tattoo artist she visits is killed, she’s framed for murder...
  • Celtic Magic by Linsey Hall

    Celtic Magic by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    I am the DruidFinally, I know what I am. The Druid of the Dragon Gods. The knowledge comes at a price, however. Two new golden tattoos have appeared on my arms, and they’re blocking my magic. Magic that I need to survive. When two ancient druids show up at the Protectorate needing my help, it's obvious there’s something big at play...
  • Wrath by Kristie Cook

    Wrath by Kristie Cook

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Will a mother’s wrath make her cross the line? I didn’t want to cry. For once in my life, tears evaded me. Perhaps because I refused to grieve this loss, because it wasn’t a loss in my eyes, in my heart. It was a call for war, yes. But not a loss. I wouldn’t allow it. Besides, I was too mad to cry, even in my exhaustion, and anger would get me much further...
  • Lightness Falling by Stacey Marie Brown

    Lightness Falling by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In gaining the crown, Kennedy lost friends, her first love, and her heart. And now her throne is being threatened. In this time of turmoil, radical groups surface trying to kill her and take down the kingdom. Kennedy is forced to go undercover and penetrate one of these groups with the help of the one person she has sworn against ever seeing again. Lorcan Dragen...
  • Fair Market Value by Hailey Edwards

    Fair Market Value by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Forgot to feed your goldfish before your untimely demise? Need to jot down a will? Say a goodbye? See the Grand Canyon? Then come visit us at The Body Shop, where unfinished business is our business.Mary Frances Talbot—Frankie—is a necromancer, probably. Hard to say since she never met her parents. She can see the dead, talk to the dead, and a few other things that aren’t strictly legal...
  • Rage by Charlene Hartnady

    Rage by Charlene Hartnady

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Rage is the fourth book in a series about monsters of all kinds. If you enjoy fated mates, forbidden romance, sassy heroines, and swoon-worthy beast kings who are almost untamable, then this is the series for you.There are stories circling about a lone wolf in a town called Cherokee Hills. Talk of a creature who walks on two legs…a werewolf. I decide to go and investigate this for myself...
  • The Dancer and the Dark by Elizabeth Hunter

    The Dancer and the Dark by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A single wrong step could mean their end.Gavin Wallace has a problem, and her name is Chloe Reardon.For years, Gavin and Chloe have built a life together, skirting the vampire world as much as possible. Chloe has continued dancing, and Gavin has continued building a business empire.But for a vampire in love with a mortal, nothing about the future is certain...
  • Wavering Aftermath by Erin R. Flynn

    Wavering Aftermath by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    My name is Tamsin Vale and I’m about to do something smart… Or something really, really stupid. I give it a 50/50 chance, but keeping quiet on what’s going on with me has bitten me in the arse too many times for me not to admit it.And since my mother’s journal isn’t helping and is heartbreaking to read, it’s time to trust the people who say they care about me...
  • Raven by Teresa Gabelman

    Raven by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life has never been easy for Raven, and she liked it that way. Keeping things interesting was her motto. Once a Dark Guardian Raven is now a VC Warrior who feels caught between two worlds. Her loyalty to both was sometimes an inner battle within herself.Being a woman in a man’s world she’s had to battle harder, be smarter and never play the woman card she had turned in so many years ago...
  • This Caged Wolf by Everly Frost

    This Caged Wolf by Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    I am a wolf shifter torn apart.Hunted. Broken. Destined to spark a war.My freedom has come at a cost. Anyone who cares about me will be hurt by the true nature of my power. To protect the ones I love, I must push them away.Only Tristan Masters may stand beside me, but his fate is closing in as fast as my options are running out...
  • Elf-Shot by Amy Sumida

    Elf-Shot by Amy Sumida

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Seren's heart is in their sights. Moire Thorn, once a Countess of Unseelie, is now a fugitive of the Fairy Realm. Her niece, Princess Seren Firethorn, has made it her mission to find Moire, and bring her to justice. This mission becomes even more imperative when Moire forms an alliance with the elves, using their magical arrows to attack humans...
  • The King's Bargain by J.A. Stowe

    The King's Bargain by J.A. Stowe

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    What if your bargain with a king is a deal with the devil?I knew accepting that Aegis case could only mean trouble.After her attack on the Colosseum, Valeria launched a campaign of cruelty on Draqaar. With every death, her army grows, and I’m the only one that can turn the tide of battle. I’m the only one that can break the daeva curse...
  • Night by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Night by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
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  • Skullduggery by Helen Harper

    Skullduggery by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Okay. I’ll admit I’ve got problems. But surrender is word wholly absent from my vocabulary.My grasp on magic is shaky at best and my dependence on spider’s silk is a battle I’m still fighting. But while my heritage and my health might be problematic, I’m certainly not going to roll over and give up.Not me. Not ever...
  • A Dash of Vampire by S.E. Babin

    A Dash of Vampire by S.E. Babin

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    What happens when you accidentally kidnap a Fae King, invite a demented vampire queen to bunk with you, and enlist both to plot revenge against the dragons?Violet doesn't know yet, but she's about to find out.Her little jaunt to the fae lands ended with Violet carrying more luggage out than she brought in...
  • Lingering Threats by Erin R. Flynn

    Lingering Threats by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    My name is Tamsin Vale and… I’m stressed. Shocker, I know, but being a college senior at the top supe university is hard. Well, now that the curriculum is what I need and challenging.And I’m also the ruler of a whole world including two realms that have been warring for thousands of years that I’m trying to bring together. I also have five mates...
  • A Trial of the Heart by J.E. Larson

    A Trial of the Heart by J.E. Larson

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The trials begin.Skylar arrives in the Inner Kingdom, but the danger of the trials is only half the battle she will have to face. The courts of the High Fae are as treacherous as they are mysterious to a foreign outsider. Skylar will have to navigate obstacles in the trials, along with the politics and mind games of the other fae creatures living in the Inner Kingdom...
  • Solomon's Sieve by Victoria Danann

    Solomon's Sieve by Victoria Danann

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Sovereign Solomon Nemamiah lay dying on a beach under an overturned vehicle with his fiancée helplessly sobbing next to him, he made a vow to himself that he would refuse to stay in some arbitrary afterlife. He silently promised to return and finish what he started with The Order of the Black Swan and the love of his life...
  • A Shake of Succubus by S.E. Babin

    A Shake of Succubus by S.E. Babin

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Violet is the newest Potionsmaster, Guardian of the Hell Gates, and Lucifer has his eye on her…With her life a weird mess right now, Violet has no one to turn to. Az is still in hiding, and she’s never been able to trust Max. Lucifer has offered a shoulder, but Violet knows better than to trust the original Serpent and her brand spanking new employer...
  • West by Stacey Marie Brown

    West by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sexy, alluring, ruthless, and oh so complicated.West Moseley is known as the "charming" Dark Dweller. With his cheeky grin and southern drawl, he can charm anyone, especially women. And does.But after being held prisoner and tortured by the cruel Seelie Queen, West's past comes back to haunt him...
  • House of Mages and Raven by Meg Xuemei X

    House of Mages and Raven by Meg Xuemei X

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Mine!” he growls in the throes of passion. “Are you mine too?” I challenge him. Before he can promise anything, his betrothed shows up at his door. The demon queen is pushing for a final claim on him, and a war unlike any other rages between us. I don’t stay down, but when she brings in Barbie 2.0, an upgraded version of me, to tempt him, to replace me— Everything crumbles around me...
  • Rhyn's Redemption by Lizzy Ford

    Rhyn's Redemption by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Katie and Rhyn are in a race against time to free Katie from the underworld, before Death claims her soul and that of her child. When Katie’s guide in the underworld disappears, she has one option: trust the ghost of someone long-dead and seek out Death's fortress in order to try to escape through the portal leading back to the mortal world...
  • The Grey God by Lizzy Ford

    The Grey God by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Grey God Darian can’t quite shake off the dark streak remaining after the thousands of years he spent enslaved by evil – or the memory of how the only woman he loved betrayed him. When given a second chance at life and love, Darian struggles to leave his past behind, before it destroys his future...
  • Magic Forsaken by Kenley Davidson

    Magic Forsaken by Kenley Davidson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I used to be human.Now? Well, it all started with a fae queen, a stolen car, and a kitten…Six months ago, I barely escaped the Fae Enclave with my life. Now I’m on the run, in possession of stolen magic I never asked for and in hiding from everyone in the supernatural community...
  • Yvette's Haven by Tina Folsom

    Yvette's Haven by Tina Folsom

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Scanguards Vampires series - over 1 Million copies sold worldwide! After being kidnapped by a vampire hunter, vampire bodyguard Yvette's first instinct is to kill the bastard. But before she gets the chance, she realizes that he was double-crossed by the witch he was working for and now is in as much danger as she is...
  • The Summer Palace: A Midlife Fairy Tale by Kristen Painter

    The Summer Palace: A Midlife Fairy Tale by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Newly crowned queen of the Radiant fae, Sparrow “Ro” Meadowcroft has two goals. First, to show her fae subjects that despite growing up in the mortal realm, she plans to honor all the customs and practices of her new world. Second, to reunite the Radiant fae with the Grym fae. Or at least broker peace between the two estranged kingdoms...
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    fae  magic  paranormal  urban fantasy  fantasy  witches
  • A Whisper of Wolf by S.E. Babin

    A Whisper of Wolf by S.E. Babin

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The world is in chaos, but Violet's more focused on the wolf stalking her…With a war looming and a moody vampire roommate, Violet has her hands full these days. Add on a shifter stalking her at all hours of the day and night, and she's about to lose her mind.When Violet realizes the wolves aren't quite on her side yet, she has to make a choice...
  • A Stir of Fairies by S.E. Babin

    A Stir of Fairies by S.E. Babin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Violet's secret is out. Now comes the fun part…It's time to train.With Violet's identity revealed to her closest allies, the time has come for her to embrace who she is...
  • Damian's Immortal by Lizzy Ford

    Damian's Immortal by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Book 3, War of Gods series. The White God’s most trusted friend, Jule, has his powers stripped by the Watchers. They give him an impossible mission: find the mysterious Magician and kill her, before she reopens the gateway between the realms. Jule quickly discovers the beautiful Magician is not what the Watchers claim...
  • Death's Angel by Heather Killough-Walden

    Death's Angel by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Since the beginning of time, the archangels have longed to know true love. When four female angels were created for the four archangels, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Azrael, a chaos spurred by jealousy erupted, and the archesses were secreted away to Earth. The four favored archangels followed, prompting a search that has lasted millennia...
  • Silverfall by McKenzie Hunter

    Silverfall by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A spell revealed I was marked by the raven. Now what?Well, I already know day drinking isn’t the answer. And Mephisto, with his increasing interest in me and my magic, isn’t either. But what is?The secrets behind the mark keep unfolding, revealing that I’m more dangerous than anyone ever suspected and that I’m the only person preventing the demise of several powerful and dangerous magical beings...
  • Deadly Knight by Annabel Chase

    Deadly Knight by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    From the time I joined the Knights of Boudica, I’ve pretended to be just like all the others. A magic specialty or two. Skilled with a blade. An innate sense of justice.But normal is overrated, right?Now that I know there are more ancient and powerful stones out there, I won’t rest until I find them. If that means using more of my magic and risking exposure, then it’s a chance I have to take...
  • Assassin's Match by Everly Frost

    Assassin's Match by Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My magic is broken. His heart is unreachable.Falling in love was never my intention. Especially not with the formidable Master Assassin, Alexei Mason.When Alexei stepped into my life, he tore through every defense around my heart... until the moment I discovered his bitter secret.Now I must risk everything for a love he can't return...
  • Wicked And Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Wicked And Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01DO5JTBS Hell hath no fury... Tarot reader Sara Wilde has spent her whole life finding the lost with the use of her trusty cards--from missing kids to shifty criminals to ancient, arcane artifacts. But when her newest assignment sends her straight to Hell, she discovers more than she bargained for...
  • Rogue Magic by McKenzie Hunter

    Rogue Magic by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    No one said life was going to be easy, but mine just keeps getting harder. My best friend has been abducted by a madman who seems to have returned from the dead with the sole goal of seeking revenge against me. She’s my friend, but she’s also essential in finding a cure for a virus that has the potential to destroy the supernatural world...
  • Damian's Immortal by Lizzy Ford

    Damian's Immortal by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Book 3, War of Gods series. The White God’s most trusted friend, Jule, has his powers stripped by the Watchers. They give him an impossible mission: find the mysterious Magician and kill her, before she reopens the gateway between the realms. Jule quickly discovers the beautiful Magician is not what the Watchers claim...
  • All Is Faerie in Love and War by Isla Frost

    All Is Faerie in Love and War by Isla Frost

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    If the devil is knocking at your door, don't open it.A simple enough rule to follow... or so you'd think.When a criminal has magic too dangerous to merely lock up, we send them to a blackout prison.Hell would've been a better destination for this guy.As a lowly cop in the LVMPD's Rapid Response unit, I'm used to dealing with all kinds of dumpster-fire scenarios...
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