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Mob Sorcery 3 by K.D. Robertson
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... -
![Fairy Tale of London by Cassandra Clare]()
Fairy Tale of London by Cassandra Clare
This is the story of how Will Herondale and Tessa Gray finally bind their souls together as they get married in company of their friends and family. Celebrate their union with this short story, originally released as bonus content in the special first edition of Chain of Gold, now available as a free e-book for your enjoyment. Art by Cassandra Jean. -
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![Mob Sorcery 4 by K.D. Robertson]()
Mob Sorcery 4 by K.D. Robertson
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... -
![The Curse That Binds by Laura Thalassa]()
The Curse That Binds by Laura Thalassa
The prequel to the Bewitched series. Two thousand years before there was Selene, there was Roxilana. Her love fated, her life doomed, and her story forgotten—until now. When young Roxilana first hears a voice in her head, she thinks she has gone mad. The truth, however, is stranger still. Because Memnon, the boy who speaks to her, claims he is real... -
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![The Only One by Christine Feehan, Susan Grant]()
The Only One by Christine Feehan, Susan Grant
FOR EACH, THERE COULD BE ONLY ONE. This book contains three short stories:. 1. Dark Descent by Christine Feehan (11 in her Dark Series) an aggressive, multi-talented professional body guard/secret service agent who never lets danger or the unknown stop her becomes the lifemate of a powerful immortal embroiled in a battle with the vampires. 2... -
![The Guns of Empire by Django Wexler]()
The Guns of Empire by Django Wexler
As the “audacious and subversive”* Shadow Campaigns novels continue, the weather is growing warmer, but the frosty threat of Vordan’s enemies is only growing worse. .. As the roar of the guns subsides and the smoke of battle clears, the country of Vordan is offered a fragile peace…... -
![Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey]()
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good. .. and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye... -
![Dragon Slayer by Lauren Gilley]()
Dragon Slayer by Lauren Gilley
In 1931, a golden-haired man in fine clothes appeared to a Siberian boy. An apparition in the snow. In 2018, he guided a pack of misfits to his prison. A man made of sharp smiles, and smoke, who they can hear, but can never touch... -
![Awakening The Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair]()
Awakening The Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the Underworld, lies become truth, villains become heroes. Trust nothing, and trust no one. Especially yourself. In this sequel to the urban fantasy Greek mythology series, "The Forgotten Goddess," the stakes soar to new heights... -
![The Raven Song by Luanne G. Smith]()
The Raven Song by Luanne G. Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsFleeing Victorian London, a witch finds her newfound independence comes with all-new perils—both mortal and immortal. Forever untangling the branches of her strange family tree, Edwina Blackwood is at a turning point. Her parents’ disappearances still strike her as unaccountably odd. Her sister’s questionable life and untimely death have left her shaken... -
![Lost & Found by Ariana Nash]()
Lost & Found by Ariana Nash
What use is a blade without a war? After giving their lives to the Order, the Ashford assassins are in crisis. The battles are over, the war is no more, but assassins cannot retire from who they are. Trey knows this. He may not have been an Assassin of the Order for long, but it was long enough to leave him scarred... -
![Reclaiming the Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair]()
Reclaiming the Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow far will she go? How far will she fall? Surviving captivity in Ares' Underworld, Rhea awakens to a world irrevocably altered by her actions. The God of War has thrust the mortal world upon the precipice of uncertainty; teetering on the edge of chaos. Haunted by the consequences of her choices, Rhea battles with the weight of responsibility and the ghosts of her past... -
![Vital by Abigail Kelly]()
Vital by Abigail Kelly
There's power in connection. Josephine Wyeth has only ever known the shadow of war. Sheltered by her father’s secretive work, she exists as both prisoner and caretaker as the violence creeps ever-closer. Once powerless, now she is something a new being crafted by her father’s cruel hands, proof of his genius and threat to all who meet her... -
![White Wolf by Lauren Gilley]()
White Wolf by Lauren Gilley
NYPD homicide detective Trina Baskin is having nightmares. Vivid ones. Full of blood, and snow, dead wolves…and a young man with pale hair who howls like an animal. She chalks them up to stress and an overactive imagination, too many Old Country stories from her Russian father who, when he’s had too much vodka, starts to rave about dark forces and things that look like men…but aren’t... -
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![Damned by Genevieve Cogman]()
Damned by Genevieve Cogman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor a former English maid, the stakes have never been higher . . . Damned is the final book in the Scarlet Revolution series, a spellbinding adventure of magic, vampires and mayhem from the bestselling author of the Invisible Library series. 1794. Eleanor, former English maid, is a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - and now a promising mage... -
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White Silence by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe first instalment in the gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor. 'I don't know who I am. I don't know what I am. '. Elizabeth Cage is a child when she discovers that there are things in this world that only she can see. But she doesn't want to see them and she definitely doesn't want them to see her... -
![Legacy by Gail Z. Martin]()
Legacy by Gail Z. Martin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA dark witch dynasty. A malicious, immortal undersea place-spirit. Eternal guardians who wagered their souls to protect Charleston. Omens of impending disaster have the city on edge. Tremors warn of earthquake risk, while a potentially catastrophic storm gathers strength over the ocean and heads for land... -
![Vengeance of the Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair]()
Vengeance of the Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair
In a realm where gods walk among mortals and ancient secrets whisper from the sands, Rhea is a goddess haunted by grief and driven by guilt. Forever running away from the looming shadow of death, Rhea knows it's time to confront the very thing she fears... -
![The Skriker by D.K. Girl, Danielle K. Girl]()
The Skriker by D.K. Girl, Danielle K. Girl
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsSilas Mercer has faced wily boggarts, mad faerie queens and enraged forest spirits. But can he withstand a daemon who is losing his mind? Pitch and Sickle are left bruised, battered and reeling after their confrontation with the Verderer. They have learned a startling truth behind the arrowhead that wounded Silas, a truth that must be taken to the Lady Satine and the Order without delay... -
![The Thousand Names by Django Wexler]()
The Thousand Names by Django Wexler
Enter an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of steel—but where the real battle is against a subtle and sinister magic. .. . Captain Marcus d’Ivoire, commander of one of the Vordanai empire’s colonial garrisons, was resigned to serving out his days in a sleepy, remote outpost. But that was before a rebellion upended his life... -
![Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice]()
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 83 ratingsIn a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Here are the confessions of a vampire... -
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The Raven Spell by Luanne G. Smith
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsIn Victorian England a witch and a detective are on the hunt for a serial killer in an enthralling novel of magic and murder. After a nearly fatal blow to the skull, traumatized private detective Ian Cameron is found dazed and confused on a muddy riverbank in Victorian London... -
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The Mirror by Nora Roberts
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts continues the hauntingly spectacular Lost Bride Trilogy with book two, The Mirror. When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination... -
![The Bandalore by D.K. Girl, Danielle K. Girl]()
The Bandalore by D.K. Girl, Danielle K. Girl
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHis second chance at life will be the bloody death of him. Silas Mercer is a dead man. Or at least. .. he was. Upon waking in his grave, he finds himself without a single memory of the life he once lived. Silas is bewildered and lost, and apparently, now in the employ of the mysterious Order of the Golden Dawn. A secretive organisation who specialise in all things supernatural... -
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![The Ancient Ones by Cassandra L. Thompson]()
The Ancient Ones by Cassandra L. Thompson
When David stumbles upon a tragic young woman in a sordid Limehouse pub, he has no idea she’d recognize him as the last vampyre alive, nor that she’d be the one to pull out his story... -
![Wyrde and Wild by Charlotte E. English]()
Wyrde and Wild by Charlotte E. English
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'I don't know quite how it has come about, but we appear to have developed a corpse. '. It’s winter at the Werth residence, and someone has turned up dead. Not that this is unusual. There’s Great-Aunt Honoria on the premises, after all. Only this corpse is freshly dead, and nobody knows how the lady came to be leaking blood all over Lady Werth's best parlour... -
![Shadow Fallen by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Shadow Fallen by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 15 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon returns with a brand-new entry to her Dream-Hunter series. For centuries, Ariel has fought the forces of evil and her task was to protect the souls of innocent mortals when they die. Captured by a powerful sorceress, she is transformed into the body of a human who has no memory of her real life or calling...Categorized as:
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![Heir to the Throne by Katerina Martinez]()
Heir to the Throne by Katerina Martinez
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe mad Queen's crown opened a door to a place I was never meant to go back to. Now I may never leave. A couple of months ago I set foot in the Tempest for the first time. It should've been the last. My Guardian had closed the door to the realm of magic forever, but the Queen's took me back, and now everything's upside down. All I want to do is destroy the crown, but she won't let me... -
![Engraved by Karina Cooper]()
Engraved by Karina Cooper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCherry St. Croix returns to the fog-ridden streets of Victorian London, where the balance of power threatens all that she loves. I will not wither without laudanum. Sober and determined, I have chosen another way— alchemy, and the pursuit of wellness it embodies. My name is Cherry St... -
![Zen and the Art of Vampires by Katie MacAlister]()
Zen and the Art of Vampires by Katie MacAlister
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhite picket fences can be dangerous to vampires. .. but the right woman can be worth even the direst of consequences. .. Pia Thomason doesn’t have a typical life, but she wants one. The husband, the kids, the house in the suburbs…with her fortieth birthday looming, she decides to do something drastic, and joins a singles’ tour through romantic Europe... -
![The Pastel Prince by V.L. Locey]()
The Pastel Prince by V.L. Locey
The fate of the wilds is in his hands. Kenton, a young druid prince, feels trapped in the bustling city life, a world away from the forests of his birth. Despite his royal duties keeping him tethered to the urban sprawl, his spirit remains tangled with the whispering trees and the ancient, mystical rhythms of the forest... -
![Scholomance 2 by Logan Jacobs]()
Scholomance 2 by Logan Jacobs
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Devil's Academy. Cole has successfully survived the preschooler exam, and now he’s a full-fledged Scholomance student. More importantly, though, he now has four women bound to him forever. He’s their master, they are his slaves, and they must obey his commands. But his women also gain power and prestige out of the deal, and the Headmistress has taken a special interest in Cole and his coven... -
![Tipped in Frost and Blood by Luna Laurier]()
Tipped in Frost and Blood by Luna Laurier
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's never easy taking a life, no matter how tainted their soul had been. But what if it was against your will? With winter's approach comes longer nights, and in the dark of night, Cassie's horrors come to life. Sleep evades her, and when rest finally comes, she finds herself trapped, forced to face the death of the one person she thought she'd wanted to kill...Categorized as:
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Witches With the Enemy by Barb Hendee
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe national bestselling author of The Mist-Torn Witches returns to a world of princes and power, magic and mystery, where two women have the ability to reveal the future and uncover the past…. When seers Céline and Amelie Fawe fled Shetâna under threat of death, they vowed never to return. Yet, less than a year later, they are summoned back—to aid the man who once tried to kill them. …... -
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![Crueler Mercies by Maren Chase]()
Crueler Mercies by Maren Chase
“Vita’s rage overflowed until she was prepared to drown in it, and she knew that she would never again dam this anger to please another. ”. After nine years as the people’s beloved princess in the sun-soaked Kingdom of Carca, Vita witnesses the execution of her mother by her father’s hand. Forced into exile, Vita fades into obscurity with her only friends—the crows that visit her window... -
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The Cape by Joe Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . -
![Where Oblivion Lives by T. Frohock]()
Where Oblivion Lives by T. Frohock
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA lyrical historical fantasy adventure, set in 1932 Spain and Germany, that brings to life the world of the novellas collected in Los Nefilim: Spanish Nephilim battling daimons in a supernatural war to save humankind. Born of daimon and angel, Diago Alvarez is a being unlike all others. The embodiment of dark and light, he has witnessed the good and the horror of this world and those beyond... -
![Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town) by Ray Bradbury]()
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town) by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 82 ratingsOne of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes , now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin... -
![Magic and Medicine by Olena Nikitin]()
Magic and Medicine by Olena Nikitin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDanger doesn’t lurk in the shadows. It barges in and smacks you in the face. After years of working in the Emergency Department, Sara thought nothing could surprise her, but when the deceased victim of a stabbing opened his eyes and demanded his knife back, she knew her life had taken a bizarre turn. Leszek had guarded the magic of the Nether before the first human set foot in his lands... -
![Lost and Found by Nita Round]()
Lost and Found by Nita Round
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA gifted slave. A cursed woman. Together can they gain their freedom? Evie Chester is a slave with a precious gift. Living in a world that both marvels and fears magic and the unexplained. Evie dreams of being free and of acceptance. When an opportunity presents itself for escape she finds herself pursued with a bounty on her head. Eyes are everywhere, nowhere is safe... -
![Court of Death by K.A. Knight]()
Court of Death by K.A. Knight
There are many things that go bump in the night, and I am one of them. I made a deal with a god, with death itself to save someone I love. I thought I had the upper hand, but I was wrong. From the moment he saw me, this god was determined to make me his… but his life is filled with death and is no place for the living... -
![Threshold by Jordan L. Hawk]()
Threshold by Jordan L. Hawk
Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne wants nothing more than to live quietly with his lover, ex-Pinkerton detective Griffin Flaherty. Unfortunately, Whyborne's railroad tycoon father has other ideas, namely hiring Griffin to investigate mysterious events at a coal mine... -
![The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard]()
The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe white-hot conclusion to the Dominion of the Fallen trilogy by the multi-award-winning author…. The Great Houses of Paris—headed by Fallen angels and magicians—have co-existed in fragile peace. When a powerful explosion razes House Harrier, old alliances are torn apart and a race begins to fill the power void. Thuan, the beleaguered dragon head of House Hawthorn, finds a war on his doorstep... -
![Harbinger by Philippa Ballantine]()
Harbinger by Philippa Ballantine
The Deacons of the Order are all that stand between the wicked spirits of the Otherside and the innocent citizens of the Empire. They are sworn to protect humanity, even when they cannot protect themselves…. After the Razing of the Order, Sorcha Faris, one of the most powerful Deacons, is struggling to regain control of the runes she once wielded. The Deacons are needed more desperately than ever... -
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![Tempered by Karina Cooper]()
Tempered by Karina Cooper
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBook Four of The St. Croix Chronicles. Forced out of London's coal-blackened streets, Cherry St. Croix is faced with her most difficult undertaking yet: sobriety. At long last, my guardian, the enigmatic Mr. Oliver Ashmore, has revealed himself—and his order is clear: I am to be dried out at once, regardless of my wishes. I loathe the country estate I am imprisoned within... -
![The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard]()
The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard
From the multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings comes a beautifully wrought fantasy of fallen angels set in a Paris ravaged by a Magician's War as the Dominion of the Fallen series continues. .. -
![Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts]()
Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 13 ratings“She almost missed the sight of a naked youth falling out of the sky. He was long and lean and muscled … He was also completely off his face. ”. A war is being fought in the skies over the city of Aufleur. No one sees the battles. No one knows how close they come to destruction every time the sun sets...Categorized as:
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![The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark]()
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly dead. Nebula and Alex Award winner P. Djèlí Clark introduces a brand-new world and a fantastical city full of gods and assassins. Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi... -
![Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly]()
Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA Hollywood diva. A Chinese curse. A suspense-filled fantasy from the New York Times–bestselling author “who can write well in any genre” (Charlaine Harris). It is 1923, and silent film reigns in Hollywood. Of all the starlets, none is more beloved than Chrysanda Flamande, a diva as brilliant as she is difficult to manage. Handling her falls to Norah, widow of Chrysanda’s dead brother... -
![The Devious Dr. Jekyll by Viola Carr]()
The Devious Dr. Jekyll by Viola Carr
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsDr. Eliza Jekyll, heroine of the electrifying The Diabolical Miss Hyde—an edgy steampunk retelling of the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—investigates a bizarre murder case in an alternate Victorian London while battling her treacherous secret half: Lizzie Hyde. Solving the infamous Chopper case has helped crime scene physician Dr...
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