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  • The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
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  • It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Midlife is madness—magical, messy and one freaking crisis after another.With a new job I didn’t apply for and an extended family I didn’t know I had—midlife has become somewhat problematic. Gluing ghosts back together is easy compared to my new celestial occupation.The Grim Reaper wants to put a ring on it. Tim wants to be a father...
  • Bound by Benedict Jacka

    Bound by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Mage Alex Verus is caught between a rock and a hard place in the eighth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Burned.Right now I wasn’t seeing Richard as the teacher out of my nightmares, he was just another Dark mage, and I looked into the future to see what would happen if I turned that knife on him instead..
  • Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter

    Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Failing grades. Misleading wind vampires. And a fortune in forgotten gold. Traveling to the most remote region of China certainly wasn’t what Ben Vecchio had in mind for his summer vacation, but when Tenzin suggested a quick trip, he could hardly turn down a chance to keep her out of trouble and practice the Mandarin he still struggled with in class...
  • Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In a city full of rising tension, with people going missing or turning up dead, can Max resist the call to help?When Max tries to intervene to prevent an assault and it goes horribly wrong, she wants nothing more than to keep her head down and get on with her job. She does not want to answer calls for help, not even from Bryce, the Order warrior who seems willing to give her a second chance...
  • Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan

    Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 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...
  • Stealing Phoenix by Joss Stirling

    Stealing Phoenix by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Phoenix belongs to the Community, a gang of thieves with paranormal powers. Yves Benedict, an American student visiting London, is her mark. But Yves turns out to be more than just a target. He is her destiny. Her soulmate. The Community owns Phoenix's past and it wants her future too. Can Phoenix save the boy she loves . .
  • Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep

    Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 42 ratings
    The hotly anticipated ninth novel in the hugely popular Elemental Assassin series finds Gin Blanco on a dangerous mission to rescue a friend. When a terror from the past threatens Gin’s friend and body-disposer, Sophia, Gin will stop at nothing to protect her, even if it means walking straight into a killer’s trap...
  • Marked by Benedict Jacka

    Marked by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Mage Alex Verus is hanging on by a thread in the ninth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Burned.When Mage Alex Verus ends up with a position on the Light Council, no one is happy, least of all him. But Alex is starting to realize that if he wants to protect his friends, he'll need to become a power player himself...
  • The Facts of Midlife by Robyn Peterman

    The Facts of Midlife by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Midlife is sheer madness, and the facts of midlife are not taught in school. Unfortunately, some lessons are hellishly hard to learn.I thought I had it figured out. I was wrong.Proving I’m the Angel of Mercy is turning into a sh*tshow of epic proportions.Not too long ago, I was a forty-year-old gal with a stable and boring life ahead of me. Now? Not so much...
  • A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson

    A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She can see the truth, but when she's accused of murder, no one believes she's innocent.Hallie works as a skip tracer - hunting down people wanted by the law, for one reason or another. It's not glamourous, and it doesn't pay all that well. But it's legal work, and that's hard to come by in the cramped quarters of old town...
  • Deceptions by Kelley Armstrong

    Deceptions by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 47 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Otherworld series delivers her most suspenseful novel yet, where the discovery of Cainsville’s dark past and the true nature of its inhabitants leads to murder, redemption, love, and unspeakable loss.Olivia Taylor Jones’s life has exploded. She’s discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers...
  • Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu

    Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    DARK DREAM Christine Feehan She’s known him since she was fifteen. Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falcon—the Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate. A DREAM OF STONE & SHADOW Marjorie M...
  • 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...
  • 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
    · 87 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...
  • A Plain-Dealing Villain by Craig Schaefer

    A Plain-Dealing Villain by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    It's hard to make a dishonest buck in Sin City, especially when a rogue FBI agent is gunning for your head. Flat broke and one step ahead of the law, Daniel Faust flees Vegas and lands in Chicago, where a risky heist promises to fill his pockets with cash...
  • Home by Stacia Kane

    Home by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    As a Debunker, Chess Putnam is used to investigating reports of suspected hauntings and sending ghosts back to the City of Eternity beneath the surface of the earth. What she isn't used to is having suburban housewives refusing to acknowledge the presence of ghosts in their homes. There are lots of reasons why someone might harbor a spirit, and none of them are good...
  • Without a Trace by Ariana Nash

    Without a Trace by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The windswept Scottish Highlands.Everything has changed.With new names and new lives, Dom & Kempthorne should be living their happy ending, but it’s not over yet.Kage Mitchell knows they’re alive and he’s discovered the single most devastating secret Kempthorne has yet to tell Dom.There is no other option. Kage Mitchell must die.But he’s the least of Kempthorne’s concerns...
  • False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

    False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Now in hardcover, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm...
  • Air Bound by Christine Feehan

    Air Bound by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    The sisters of Sea Haven, bound by the heart and the magical power of the elements, return in this soul-stirring new novel from Christine Feehan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Spirit Bound... For as far back as she can remember, Airiana Ridell has always been aware of her extraordinary gift...
  • Destiny by K.N. Banet

    Destiny by K.N. Banet

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    This fight has always been my destiny.In a previous life, I had run from it, and that choice was the death of me. That mistake went down in history, becoming a story that haunted my people for centuries.I won’t run this time. I’ve regrouped, collected my allies, and sheltered my people. Now, I go hunting. I can’t rest until my people are safe. I can’t stop until the ones we lost are avenged...
  • Silver Staked by Shannon Mayer, D.G. Swank

    Silver Staked by Shannon Mayer, D.G. Swank

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From NYT & USAT bestselling authors Shannon Mayer and D.G. Swank comes a new vision of supernatural suspense. Only these two authors could deliver two such complex heroines and their undaunted courage in a tale of unexpected twists of fate. Escape into the city that never sleeps and where nightmares live in the darkness with "Silver Staked".My name is Leah, and I am a Cazador...
  • Closer by Dannika Dark

    Closer by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Kane never believed in things like fate or karma. Not until the night he took a life. Within the human world is a secret society of immortals and gifted supernaturals. Kane is one of them—a Sensor who experiences emotional energy through touch. But despite his good looks and easy-going personality, Kane lives a solitary life. Unlike other Sensors, he is unnaturally hypersensitive...
  • Irregulars by Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon

    Irregulars by Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "NATO's Irregulars Affairs Division is a secret organization operating in thousands of cities around the globe. Its agents police relations between the earthly realm and those beyond this world, protecting us from terrible dangers as well as enthralling temptations...
  • Darkness Unveiled by McKenzie Hunter, Emerson Knight

    Darkness Unveiled by McKenzie Hunter, Emerson Knight

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When Sky decided not to join our pack, I thought that would be the end of our dealings with the enigmatic wolf. But she’s pulled back into pack business when Sky’s the first one on the scene of a murder attempt of one of our pack members.At first, I mark it off as a coincidence but I'm proven wrong...
  • Lord of Ravens by Amelia Faulkner

    Lord of Ravens by Amelia Faulkner

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lover. Predator. Killer. Laurence Riley’s inheritance comes with a price - one he's not at all sure he can pay. When his urge to hunt grows out of control, he sends a desperate prayer to his ancestor for guidance. But he never expected that Herne the Hunter would answer. Scion. Target. Victim. There are horrors lurking in Quentin d’Arcy’s past, but they won’t hide there forever...
  • The Living End by Craig Schaefer

    The Living End by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    As the FBI closes in on the Las Vegas underworld, Daniel Faust -- grifter, thief, and sorcerer -- isn't the only one feeling the heat. Half-demon racket boss Nicky Agnelli is fighting to hang onto his empire, leaving a trail of dead informants in his wake, while Daniel's ex-girlfriend Jennifer rallies her forces on the street and aims her sights at Nicky's crown...
  • Rajmund by D.B. Reynolds

    Rajmund by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    RAJMUND GREGOR is a vampire . . . and the undisputed Master of New York City. He bows to no one but his Sire, Krystof, who is the Vampire Lord for the entire Northeastern U.S. Based in Buffalo, NY, Krystof is an old vampire—-too old, it would seem, because he’s slowly losing his mind. Summoned back to Buffalo by his Sire, Rajmund finds his master out of touch and rapidly weakening...
  • Stone Skin by Jenn Burke

    Stone Skin by Jenn Burke

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Can he break his curse before time runs out?Despite being cursed to sleep as a gargoyle for a hundred years, and awake for only twenty-five, Rian O'Reilly is an optimist. He knows he can find a way to break the curse through the tattooed runes he's spent years mastering. No need to wait for this true love crap. But he hasn't found the right combination of magic and his time is almost up...
  • The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn

    The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Practical Magic meets Gone Girl in Ava Morgyn's next dark, spellbinding novel about a woman who is more than a witch - she's a hunter.Piers Corbin has always had an affinity for poisonous things - plants and men...
  • Back from the Undead by D.D. Barant

    Back from the Undead by D.D. Barant

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Another work day, another case for the Bloodhound Files. But this time, Jace is truly stumped: How is she, a mere human, supposed to penetrate the dark heart of a child-trafficking ring of pire orphans—one that turns out to be part of a blood-farm operation, in the crime-ridden border city of Vancouver, British Columbia?Jace is in over her head...
  • Savor by Kate Evangelista

    Savor by Kate Evangelista

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mature and explicit content. Not recommended for readers below 18-years-old. Yup, you've got to be that old to read my story. Consider yourself warned. I’m Dakota Collins, a tough talking, eye patch wearing, workaholic photography student. Why am I important? Well, maybe because I get to spend an entire month with Vicious, only the sickest indie rock band out there...
  • Cheat the Grave: The Fifth Sign of the Zodiac by Vicki Pettersson

    Cheat the Grave: The Fifth Sign of the Zodiac by Vicki Pettersson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Book 5 in the NYT & USA Today Bestselling “Signs of the Zodiac” series.Light. Shadow. Superhero ... Villain.Las Vegas socialite and otherworldly avenger Joanna Archer gave up everything when she sacrificed her extraordinary abilities and embraced mortality to rescue an innocent child … and a city teetering on destruction...
  • SPECTR: The Complete Second Series by Jordan L. Hawk

    SPECTR: The Complete Second Series by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “…a fresh take on the vampire genre.” – Reader Review Caleb has spent the last six months adjusting to life possessed by the vampire spirit Gray and hunting demons with their boyfriend, federal exorcist John Starkweather. Unfortunately, the other agents of SPECTR view Caleb and Gray as a ticking time bomb...
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  • Much Ado About Vampires by Katie MacAlister

    Much Ado About Vampires by Katie MacAlister

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Bitter at first bite… Corazon Ferreira is one heck of a jaded woman. Not only did her husband dump her for a pretty, vivacious blonde, but her sister has lost her mind and married a vampire. Worse, it turns out that Cora herself was a vampire’s mate in a past life…the very same vampire she witnessed killing someone...
  • Redemption Alley by Lilith Saintcrow

    Redemption Alley by Lilith Saintcrow

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Some cases are unusual - even for Jill Kismet. When her police contact asks her to look into a "suicide", she suddenly finds herself in a labyrinth of deception, drugs, murder -- and all-too-human corruption. The cops are her allies, except for the ones who want her dead. The hellbreed are her targets, except for the ones who might know what's going on...
  • Circle of Enemies by Harry Connolly

    Circle of Enemies by Harry Connolly

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Former car thief Ray Lilly is now the expendable grunt of a sorcerer responsible for destroying extradimensional predators summoned to our world by power-hungry magicians. Luckily, Ray has some magic of his own, and so far it’s kept him alive. But when a friend from his former gang calls him back to his old stomping grounds in Los Angeles, Ray may have to face a threat even he can’t handle...
  • The Naughty List by Debra Dunbar

    The Naughty List by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sam and her angel Gregory are off on a pre-Christmas vacation to a sleepy little town in the Alps. Sam looks for a decent spa while Gregory soaks up the history of local martyrs. What they don't expect is a series of murders - murders that take place every at this time and target the sinful in the town...
  • Another Kind of Dead by Kelly Meding

    Another Kind of Dead by Kelly Meding

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    She can heal her own wounds. She can nail a monster to a wall. But there’s one danger Evangeline Stone never saw coming. Been there. Done that. Evy Stone is a former Dreg Bounty Hunter who died and came back to life with some extraordinary powers. Now all but five people in the world think she is dead again, this time for good--immolated in a factory fire set specifically for her...
  • The Dusk Reapers by J.T. Lawrence, M.J. Kraus

    The Dusk Reapers by J.T. Lawrence, M.J. Kraus

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Green witch. Potion mistress. Cursebreaker. Assassin.Asha Viridian Rook is all of these things, but when she wakes up in hospital with thirty-six stitches in her head, she has no memory of any of them.According to the medical team, the damage to her skull was catastrophic, but Asha surprises them with her lightning-quick healing...
  • Zen and the Art of Vampires by Katie MacAlister

    Zen and the Art of Vampires by Katie MacAlister

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    White picket fences can be dangerous to vampires. Sometimes a woman’s gotta choose… 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 takes off on a singles’ tour through romantic Europe...
  • Oversight by Santino Hassell

    Oversight by Santino Hassell

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Spoiler Alert! The following blurb contains spoilers for Insight, book one of The Community.Holden Payne has it all . . . or so he thinks. As heir to the founder of the Community—an organization that finds, protects, and manages psychics—he’s rich, powerful, and treated like royalty...
  • Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang by Katie MacAlister

    Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang by Katie MacAlister

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    For a woman married to the vampire of her nightmares, the honeymoon’s over—and reality bites… Pia’s dream of being married has come true.But her husband is straight out of her nightmares. Pia Thomason is torn between two Dark Ones and feeling like a fool, considering she doesn’t know where either of them are...
  • To Hell and Back by Lilith Saintcrow

    To Hell and Back by Lilith Saintcrow

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The pulse-pounding finale to Lilith Saintcrow's urban fantasy series featuring Dante Valentine. Dante Valentine has been through Hell. Literally. Her body shattered and her mind not far behind, she's dumped back into her own world to survive--or not--as a pawn in one of Lucifer's endless games. Unfortunately, he's just messed with the wrong Necromance...
  • Darkness Calls by Marjorie M. Liu

    Darkness Calls by Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    View our feature on Marjorie Liu’s Darkness Calls. Demon hunter Maxine Kiss, inked with living tattoos, is on a mission to rescue the man she loves from a bloodthirsty army. To save him, Maxine has only one choice: to lose control—and release her own powers of darkness...
  • Jekyll by Lauren Stewart

    Jekyll by Lauren Stewart

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    “When the devil tells you to stop struggling, do you?” From the moment Eden wakes up, she knows she’s not in Kansas anymore. She isn’t even on Mitch’s doorstep, her dark-side’s favorite place to dump her. No, she’s somewhere far worse. And far more sterile. Sometimes a girl needs to adapt, be flexible, change. And that’s exactly what Eden will do, all the way back to Mitch...
  • Killing Rocks by D.D. Barant

    Killing Rocks by D.D. Barant

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    FBI profiler Jace Valchek’s ticket home from the twisted parallel universe where she’s been called to duty hinges on the capture of serial killer Aristotle Stoker—and an alliance with a sorcerer known as Asher. The problem: Asher has joined forces with some of the most dangerous creatures Jace has ever encountered...
  • The Man in the Long Black Coat by J.L. Aarne

    The Man in the Long Black Coat by J.L. Aarne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dale Bruyer and James Sandover were huntsmen: monster hunting heirs to a secret legacy, warriors and students of magic. Until James died and left Dale all alone on a self-destructive path through alcoholism to an early grave...
  • As Lie the Dead by Kelly Meding

    As Lie the Dead by Kelly Meding

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Evangeline Stone, a rogue bounty hunter, never asked for a world divided between darkness and light . . .   . . . or the power to die and live again in someone else’s borrowed body. After a murder plot meant to take her out leaves an entire race of shapeshifters nearly extinct, Evy is gnawed by guilt...
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