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  • Wild Country by Anne Bishop

    Wild Country by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 27 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...
  • Wrong Ways Down by Stacia Kane

    Wrong Ways Down by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It’s a thin line between right and wrong. It’s an even thinner one between wrong and dead… Terrible has always been on the wrong side of the law, living up to the only name anyone ever gave him. As the chief enforcer for Downside’s most powerful criminal, it’s his job to collect debts and protection money by any means necessary. And he’s very good at his job...
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  • Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika

    Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Ash Kyndal inherits her Uncle Charlie’s PI firm, her only interest is in finding an out. Circus veteran, social misfit, daughter of a madman—those are shoes that fit. Card-carrying member of polite society? Not so much. But Charlie saved her once, and his staff of lost souls needs her...
  • Dark Dream by Christine Feehan

    Dark Dream by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    Shes 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: Falconthe Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate...
  • Sins of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Sins of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 59 ratings
    In the realm of the Dark-Hunters there is a code of honor that even immortal bad boys must follow:Harm no human. Drink no blood. Never fall in love. But every now and again a Dark-Hunter thinks himself above the Code. That's when I'm summoned. Who am I? I'm the one thing the fearless fear. Step over the line and it's my wrath you will face. Nothing can touch me. Nothing can sway me...
  • Beneath This Mask by Victoria Sue

    Beneath This Mask by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Gael Peterson has spent years hiding behind the enhanced abilities he wears like a mask, even though he is an important, confident member of the FBI's exclusive H.E.R.O. team. The hurt and betrayal of his mom's abandonment and his father's fists are secrets buried deep beneath the ugly scars on his face, and he doesn't trust Jake, his new, regular human partner, with any of them...
  • Embrace the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Embrace the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Is He Her Mortal Enemy-- Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold. Though Shalotts are renowned assassins, a curse held over Shay lands her on the slave auction block, where her fate is uncertain. . . Or The Man Who Will Risk All. .
  • Shadowdance by Kristen Callihan

    Shadowdance by Kristen Callihan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Once a heart is lost in shadow... Life has been anything but kind to Mary Chase. But the Society for the Suppression of Supernaturals has given her purpose. Now she's been tasked with catching a vicious murderer dubbed the Bishop of Charing Cross. But someone is already on the case—and the last thing he relishes is a partner. Only someone who lives in darkness can find it...
  • When You Were Pixels by Julio Alexi Genao

    When You Were Pixels by Julio Alexi Genao

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A standalone short story in the Syntax universe. An assassin has come to Tower 072, and no one can keep him from his target. Only minutes from escape, he suffers a violent seizure, collapsing in a service corridor. A lonely surveillance operator becomes the only person in the building to see him fall...
  • Not Dead Enough by Mina Carter

    Not Dead Enough by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    There is life after death, unfortunately for them, it's the same one... Brett Perkins was a soldier until the Project killed him. Now he's finding that life after death isn't so hot. With the Project base destroyed, he and his team have been tasked with running down and destroying a group of rogue Bloods. Unfortunately the vampires always seem to be one step ahead...
  • Low Red Moon by Caitlín R. Kiernan

    Low Red Moon by Caitlín R. Kiernan

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Several years after the events in Threshold, Chance and Deacon have married. They’re looking ahead to the future, trying to put the past behind them. But new nightmares await them as a woman with a need for violence enters their lives. And something even worse has followed her..
  • Ten Simple Tips for Surviving the Apocalypse by Cari Z.

    Ten Simple Tips for Surviving the Apocalypse by Cari Z.

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dear Author,Those of us who survived the virus that wiped out 50% of the population are the lucky ones. Those of us who survived the subsequent wars that decimated the world as we know it, throwing us back into a pre-industrial era are the lucky ones. Those of us who survived are the lucky ones.Except… Some of us are different. Some of us are changing. Some say the virus mutated...
  • Infected by Maya Riley

    Infected by Maya Riley

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 5 ratings
    What's the worst that could happen? Sit down and let me tell you. The Void Virus has been let loose on the Earth. Caused by experiments gone wrong, an outbreak has ravaged the world. Anyone infected has turned into a decaying empty shell, void of their former selves. The animate decomposing bodies have become known as Rotters, stumbling around for the scent of the living...
  • Fury by Charlotte McConaghy

    Fury by Charlotte McConaghy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When emotions are erased from the world, creating a civilization of mindless drones, only those with fury can survive. On the same day each year Josephine Luquet wakes naked, shivering and covered in blood that is not her own. Under the cold gaze of the blood moon she is someone else entirely, but when dawn breaks her memories vanish and she is left with only an icy horror, a burning fury...
  • The Greyfriar by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith

    The Greyfriar by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    Rousing pulp action and steampunk come together in a heartbreaking story of high adventure and alternate history. In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. It is now 2020 and a bloody reckoning is coming. Princess Adele is heir to the Empire of Equatoria, a remnant of the old tropical British Empire...
  • Year One by Nora Roberts

    Year One by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 45 ratings
    In her newest work, the stunning beginning to an epic hardcover trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves an enthralling saga of suspense, survival, and the journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives… The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster...
  • A Taste of Crimson by Marjorie M. Liu

    A Taste of Crimson by Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Los Angeles is no longer the City of Angels; dark things haunt its streets- dark restless things. Bodies have been found, and the tentative peace between humans, vampires, and werewolves teeters on the brink of collapse. Keeli Maddox needs to know why. If she and her kin are to survive, she must trust a man as different from her as night from day, as tooth from claw...
  • Hemovore by Jordan Castillo Price

    Hemovore by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Mark Hansen thought working as artist’s assistant would be glamorous, especially if that artist was a vampire. Black tie events, witty repartee, gracing the pages of the local style section…. Didn’t happen. Not even once.Jonathan Varga is an enigma. True, he’s quiet, generous, and scrupulously polite...
  • Nightfall by Ellen Connor

    Nightfall by Ellen Connor

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    First in a stunning new post-apocalyptic paranormal romance trilogy. Growing up with an unstable, often absent father who preached about the end of the world, Jenna never thought in her wildest nightmares that his predictions would come true...
  • Miserere: An Autumn Tale by Teresa Frohock

    Miserere: An Autumn Tale by Teresa Frohock

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Exiled exorcist Lucian Negru deserted his lover in Hell in exchange for saving his sister Catarina's soul, but Catarina doesn't want salvation. She wants Lucian to help her fulfill her dark covenant with the Fallen Angels by using his power to open the Hell Gates...
  • The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers

    The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom...
  • Break and Enter by Rachel Haimowitz, Aleksandr Voinov

    Break and Enter by Rachel Haimowitz, Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Man on machine on man.Red Cell, Book 1Ex-Green Beret Victor “Cyke” Kellermann is on the run for a crime he didn’t—well, okay, did commit, but he didn’t realize it at the time. He’s a good guy, a “white hat” hacker for hire. He’s also more teched out than the Bionic Man, though his ailing ’ware creates as many problems as it solves.His latest series of break-ins are proving…difficult...
  • Blood Singers by Tamara Rose Blodgett

    Blood Singers by Tamara Rose Blodgett

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A sub-species of human beings... Twenty-year old Julia Wade, a young woman tragically widowed, is in the middle of a bizarre bid between two mythical species who are vying for the unique properties she offers; her blood. The vampires need her to balance the food load of the human species and give them their coveted “Lightwalkers...
  • The Croning by Laird Barron

    The Croning by Laird Barron

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us..
  • Born in Blood by Alexandra Ivy

    Born in Blood by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In a stunning new paranormal romance series—even edgier than her bestselling Guardians of Eternity books— New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Ivy lures readers into the dark, seductive world of the Sentinels—humans outcast by their hidden abilities, treading the line between life and death, good and evil, pleasure and pain… Born In Blood Sergeant Duncan O’Conner has seen it all...
  • Bound by Shadow by Anna Windsor

    Bound by Shadow by Anna Windsor

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Falling for a demon can be hazardous to your heart. Riana Dumain is a fully trained Sybil, a warrior priestess battling evil whose practical magic keeps her grounded in earthly science–and desires. She knows that gorgeous NYPD detective Creed Lowell is dangerous, and possibly a foot soldier of the evil Legion cult, using his badge and drop-dead looks to consolidate demonic power...
  • Fae's Captive by Lily Archer

    Fae's Captive by Lily Archer

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 32 ratings
    My college roommate is the worst. Cecile steals my food, brings guys over at all hours, and parties instead of studying. But those quirks pale in comparison to what she does next. She drugs me, and I wake up imprisoned in an alternate universe full of terrifying creatures. Now, the biggest and scariest creature of all--a fae king--believes I'm his mate...
  • Dead of Eve by Pam Godwin

    Dead of Eve by Pam Godwin

    Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    A virus devastates humanity. Few men survive. The rest are monsters. The women are dead, except Evie. Through a quirk in her genetics, she survives. When her physiology begins to evolve, she must come to terms with what she is and accept her role in finding a cure. The mutated hunt her. The men brutalize her…except three...
  • Parasite by Mira Grant

    Parasite by Mira Grant

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the tapeworm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system - even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams...
  • Working Stiff by Rachel Caine

    Working Stiff by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Bryn Davis knows working at Fairview Mortuary isn't the most glamorous career choice, but at least it offers stable employment--until she discovers her bosses using a drug that resurrects the clientele as part of an extortion racket. Now, Bryn faces being terminated--literally, and with extreme prejudice...
  • The First Days by Rhiannon Frater

    The First Days by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Katie is driving to work one beautiful day when a dead man jumps into her car and tries to eat her.  That same morning, Jenni opens a bedroom door to find her husband devouring their toddler son.  Fate puts Jenni and Katie—total strangers—together in a pickup, fleeing the suddenly zombie-filled streets of the Texas city in which they live...
  • Sister Sable by T. Mountebank

    Sister Sable by T. Mountebank

    Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE FIRST TENET OF THE WIND: Do not get caught. Sister Sable has lived by the first tenet for seven years, but when an unexpected accident reveals the runaway nun to the clergy, she is forced to embrace the remaining four. THE SECOND TENET OF THE WIND: Win by any means. With the King’s spymaster committed to killing her, and his general regretting he didn’t, Sable enters a deadly game...
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