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  • The Liar’s Knot by M.A. Carrick

    The Liar’s Knot by M.A. Carrick

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    Trust is the thread that binds us . . . and the rope that hangs us. In Nadezra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city’s filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look. Derossi Vargo has always known...
  • The Unweaver by Elizabeth Zoba

    The Unweaver by Elizabeth Zoba

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 22 ratings
    Peaky Blinders with mages: The Unweaver is a historical dark fantasy romance seething with forbidden magic, gory horror, and a steamy enemies-to-lovers slow burn. London, 1920. Necromancy is a secret thirty-year-old Cora will take to her grave. If only she could stay in it...
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  • Oblivion's River by Shoshana Rain

    Oblivion's River by Shoshana Rain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Hephaestus:. I wanted to forget Lethe, to stop seeing her every time I closed my eyes. The goddess hunted me, tormented me, took away everything I am. She should rot away in Tartarus like she deserves. But we need her. She's the only one who can tell us where the rift knife is—and our very survival depends on it. I'm the only one who can get answers from her, so I'll punish her, bend her, use her...
  • Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher

    Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    In Furies of Calderon, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher introduced readers to a world where the forces of nature take physical form. But now, it is human nature that threatens to throw the realm into chaos…For centuries, the people of Alera have harnessed the furies—elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal—to protect their land from aggressors...
  • Foxglove by Adalyn Grace

    Foxglove by Adalyn Grace

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 99 ratings
    The captivating sequel to the Gothic-infused Belladonna, in which Signa and Death face a supernatural foe determined to tear them apart. A duke has been murdered. The lord of Thorn Grove has been framed. And Fate, the elusive brother of Death, has taken up residence in a sumptuous estate nearby. He's hellbent on revenge after Death took the life of the woman he loved many years ago. .
  • The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K.J. Charles

    The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 65 ratings
    A story too secret, too terrifying—and too shockingly intimate—for Victorian eyes. A note to the Editor. Dear Henry,. I have been Simon Feximal’s companion, assistant and chronicler for twenty years now, and during that time my Casebooks of Feximal the Ghost-Hunter have spread the reputation of this most accomplished of ghost-hunters far and wide...
  • Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat

    Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 114 ratings
    In this stunning new fantasy novel from international bestselling author C. S. Pacat, heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war are reborn and begin to draw new battle lines. This epic fantasy with high-stakes romance will sit perfectly on shelves next to beloved fantasy novels like the Infernal Devices series, the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and the Red Queen series...
  • The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro

    The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 55 ratings
    Demigods Nico di Angelo and Will Solace must endure the terrors of Tartarus to rescue an old friend in this thrilling adventure co-written by New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan and award-winning author Mark Oshiro...
  • The Curse That Binds by Laura Thalassa

    The Curse That Binds by Laura Thalassa

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 44 ratings
    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...
  • Eona by Alison Goodman

    Eona by Alison Goodman

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 80 ratings
    Read Alison Goodman's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army...
  • The Faerie Plague by Michelle Madow

    The Faerie Plague by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 27 ratings
    Zombies. The fae realm is overrun with ZOMBIES. Against all odds, I mastered the magic gifted to me by the gods and won the Faerie Games—a twisted, televised game to the death. After winning the Games, I was supposed to be free to return home to Earth. But that was a lie. Now a deadly plague is rampaging the realm. The Otherworld is dying, and I might have the power to save it...
  • The Only One by Christine Feehan, Susan Grant

    The Only One by Christine Feehan, Susan Grant

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 38 ratings
    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...
  • Salvation by Erica Stevens

    Salvation by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 41 ratings
    Imprisoned by Caleb and at the mercy of the king, Aria is determined not to let them break her. However, the more atrocities she witnesses, the more she realizes there are some horrors no one can withstand, and sometimes survival isn’t always the best option...
  • The Gathering by Vanessa Nelson

    The Gathering by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 16 ratings
    Scarred by a brutal past, she has sworn to help those in need. As one of the Hundred, Yvonne cannot ignore a plea for help, even if all she wants is a quiet life, somewhere safe for her adopted children to grow into adulthood. Safety is in short supply. Young people, some of them children, are going missing in large numbers, leaving bewildered and grieving families behind...
  • The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

    The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 162 ratings
    Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.
  • The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

    The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 203 ratings
    After traveling through time in Shadow of Night , the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches --with one significant exception...
  • Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 55 ratings
    Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has spent the last few months watching his lover, Griffin Flaherty, come to terms with the rejection of his adoptive family. So when an urgent telegram from Christine summons them to Egypt, Whyborne is reluctant to risk the fragile peace they’ve established...
  • Wild Country by Anne Bishop

    Wild Country by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 53 ratings
    In this powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side. .. without destroying one another. There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others...
  • Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

    Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 228 ratings
    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...
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    m-f  forced proximity  fantasy  bdsm  dark  war  magic  high fantasy
  • A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

    A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 173 ratings
    A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula’s brides, A DOWRY OF BLOOD is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king...
  • The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles

    The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 232 ratings
    A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell. Exiled to China for twenty years, Lucien Vaudrey never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, it seems the new Lord Crane has inherited an earldom. He’s also inherited his family’s enemies. He needs magical assistance, fast. He doesn't expect it to turn up angry...
  • The Faerie Wand by Michelle Madow

    The Faerie Wand by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    I thought I could return home once the Faerie Games were over. I was wrong. Now, Julian and I must complete the dangerous quest given to us by the Empress of the Otherworld. The Holy Wand is out there. We just need to find it. No matter where the journey takes us, we'll destroy anything blocking our path. We have to. Otherwise, we'll be dead. Romance. Magic. Adventure...
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 554 ratings
    France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world...
  • The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

    The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 111 ratings
    Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York...
  • Dragon Slayer by Lauren Gilley

    Dragon Slayer by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    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...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  paranormal  fantasy  vampires  abuse  werewolves  historical  dark
  • The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett

    The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 86 ratings
    As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise—demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards—symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. It was not always this way...
  • Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

    Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 359 ratings
    Choose: A quick death…Or slow poison. .. About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster...
  • Cracked Blue Sky by Shiloh Sloane

    Cracked Blue Sky by Shiloh Sloane

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    Cracked Blue Sky is an enemies-to-lovers, pitch dark romance about a werewolf cowboy and a hellbent detective, set in 1950s Wyoming. A quiet ranching town in the mountains is plagued by brutal murders...
  • A Game of Gods by Scarlett St. Clair

    A Game of Gods by Scarlett St. Clair

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 105 ratings
    Told in multiple POVs, A Game of Gods is the final installment in the Hades Saga by USA Today Bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair. Hades, God of the Dead, has finally made Persephone his in every way possible. With their wedding on the horizon, the couple should be ecstatic. But Demeter is wreaking havoc on their bliss by battering the whole of New Greece with erratic and dangerous weather...
  • Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers

    Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 72 ratings
    Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent...
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