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  • Heartsong by T.J. Klune

    Heartsong by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 28 ratings
    Heartsong is the third book in the Green Creek Series, the beloved fantasy romance sensation by New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, about love, loyalty, betrayal, and family.“ Complex and startling... Green Creek is the perfect setting.” ―Charlaine HarrisThe Bennett family has a They're not just a family, they're a pack. Heartsong is Robbie Fontaine's story...
  • The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards

    The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 31 ratings
    Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home.With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis...
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  • Into This River I Drown by T.J. Klune

    Into This River I Drown by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    At once an exploration of grief and faith, Into This River I Drown is one man's journey into the secrets of his father and discovering the strength to believe in the impossible. Five years ago, Benji Green lost his beloved father, Big Eddie, who drowned when his truck crashed into a river. All called it an accident, but Benji thought it more...
    Categorized as:
    demons  magic  suspense  angst  mystery  urban fantasy  m-m  angels
  • In This Iron Ground by Marina Vivancos

    In This Iron Ground by Marina Vivancos

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Damien is nine years old when his parents die. What should have been the worst moment of his life begins a journey shadowed by loneliness and pain. The night of a full moon, four years and seven foster homes later, Damien flees to the forest, desperate to escape everything. Instead, he finds the Salgado pack, and the earth beneath his feet shifts...
  • Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton

    Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 22 ratings
    They are my harvest, and I will reap them all. Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma, for the funeral of his mysterious and beloved aunt Sue, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members of Adam’s family. It all seems linked to the death of Adam’s father many years ago—a man who may have somehow survived as a warlock...
    Categorized as:
    magic  mystery  fae  witches  demons  suspense  fantasy  urban fantasy
  • Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

    Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors."A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus...
  • A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 13 ratings
    Half-fae Arlo becomes entangled in the courtly intrigue at the Seelie Summer palace as danger for ironborns mounts in this “beautifully written and deliciously complex” (Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers trilogy) sequel to A Dark and Hollow Star that’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones...
  • Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

    Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 79 ratings
    There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up. Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost...
  • The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

    The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Only days have passed since Vie Eliot’s murderous half-brother—a dangerous, out-of-control psychic—was stopped from killing the people Vie loves most, but Vie is ready for his life to return to normal. He has plans. Big plans. Make the cross country team, pick up his grades, and spend a lot of time with his boyfriend...
  • All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe

    All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vie Eliot has survived a new high school, an abusive father, and the murderous Mr. Big Empty. Now, as Vie searches for Mr. Big Empty, he also finds himself facing an unexpected how to be a good boyfriend.When a mysterious drifter named River disappears, though, Vie finds himself dragged into finding the missing boy...
  • Mr. Big Empty by Gregory Ashe

    Mr. Big Empty by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Vie Eliot arrives in the small town of Vehpese, Wyoming with little more than the clothes--and scars--on his back. Determined to make a new life for himself after escaping his abusive mother, he finds that living with his estranged father brings its own problems.Then Samantha Oates, the girl with blue hair, goes missing, and Vie might be the only one who can find her...
  • Civil Contempt by Jade Thorn

    Civil Contempt by Jade Thorn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The amount of pressure on Melody is only increasing. The Apex want to mate with her, her new coven wants her to choose a suitable husband from within their ranks and the new Provost wants her out of there - to graduate as soon as possible.Everyone wants something from Melody, including her mad aunt and Coven Bestia...
  • Prince of Air and Darkness by M.A. Grant

    Prince of Air and Darkness by M.A. Grant

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Phineas Smith has been cursed with a power no one could control.Roark Lyne is his worst enemy and his only hope. The only human student at Mather’s School of Magick, Phineas Smith has a target on his back. Born with the rare ability to tap into unlimited magick, he finds both Faerie Courts want his allegiance—and will do anything to get it...
  • The Mortal Sleep by Gregory Ashe

    The Mortal Sleep by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Months have passed since the events at Belshazzar’s Feast. Vie Eliot, reluctant psychic and self-appointed defender of the small Wyoming town called Vehpese, knows that trouble is coming, but for the time being, he wants to spend as many happy days as he can with his boyfriend. Until one night, two men arrive and blow up a car. They threaten to do more damage unless Vie leaves town. Immediately...
  • Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

    Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost.Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt...
  • The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 112 ratings
    “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past...
  • Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales by M.T. Anderson, Paolo Bacigalupi

    Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales by M.T. Anderson, Paolo Bacigalupi

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fifteen top voices in speculative fiction explore the intersection of fear and love in a haunting, at times hilarious, darkly imaginative volume.Predatory kraken that sing with - and for - their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as to repel...
  • Runebreaker by Alex R. Kahler

    Runebreaker by Alex R. Kahler

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Magic is sinAidan desires only one thing: to rule. Arrogant, headstrong and driven by the element of Fire, he will stop at nothing to bring the evil Howls that destroyed Scotland to their knees. But Fire is a treacherous element, and the very magic that brought him to power could burn his world to ash.Especially with the blood of his fellow Hunters on his hands...
  • Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

    Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 55 ratings
    Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love...
  • The Dawn of the End by Kristen Ashley

    The Dawn of the End by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Once upon a time, in a parallel universe, there existed the continent of Triton. The land was filled with beauty, but it was also splintered by war. Out of the chaos grew a conspiracy to reawaken the Beast, a fearsome creature who wrought only tragedy and devastation...
  • The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 73 ratings
    The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater. All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death...
  • White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton

    White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 28 ratings
    Not all magicians go to schools of magic. Adam Binder has the Sight. It’s a power that runs in his bloodline: the ability to see beyond this world and into another, a realm of magic populated by elves, gnomes, and spirits of every kind. But for much of Adam’s life, that power has been a curse, hindering friendships, worrying his backwoods family, and fueling his abusive father’s rage...
    Categorized as:
    magic  mystery  witches  fae  demons  suspense  fantasy  urban fantasy
  • The Captive Merman's Promise by Zoey Castile

    The Captive Merman's Promise by Zoey Castile

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    A merman meets the bruja who will change his life... The women in the Palacios family are cursed to always lose their love. Until one day, Amada Palacios uses all her magic to transfer the curse into her own body. Now, Amada wanders the world alone, never getting too close or too intimate with anyone who might have the misfortune to love her...
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