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  • The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

    The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Sage Singer befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. They strike up a friendship at the bakery where Sage works. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses... and then he confesses his darkest secret—he deserves to die, because he was a Nazi SS guard...
  • The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 3 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 3 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes an uncomfortably hilarious Mystery with a heaping help of sexual frustration, THE LIBRARIAN'S VAMPIRE ASSISTANT, Book Three. (Yep! It's a STAND-ALONE. But why not read them all because...fun!) FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOUR BOSS JUST CAN'T GET MORE AWKWARD... Michael Vanderhorst is not your usual vampire...
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  • The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 2 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 2 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a humorous, standalone mystery, The Librarian’s Vampire Assistant, Book 2. (Yep! It’s a standalone. The boring title is just to mess with you!) HOW MUCH LONGER CAN HE KEEP HIS SECRET AND HIS FAVORITE HUMAN SAFE? Michael Vanderhorst has always been a lone wolf. Or lone vampire? Whatever...
  • Black Heart by Justin Somper

    Black Heart by Justin Somper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There's a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas, leaving a trail of fear and devastation in its wake. When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters. The team will be led by newly appointed Captain, Cheng Li and will include pirate prodigy Connor Tempest...
  • Dead And Beyond by Jayde Scott

    Dead And Beyond by Jayde Scott

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Amber Reed is a dead girl walking. Having just been turned by her gorgeous vampire boyfriend, eighteen-year-old Amber Reed is bestowed with the ability to see ghosts. Between trying to figure out how to control her bloodlust and solving the mysterious disappearance of a friend, Amber realizes someone wants to step into her shoes so badly, they’ll do anything to take her place...
  • The Key to Erebus by Emma V. Leech

    The Key to Erebus by Emma V. Leech

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The truth can kill you… Taken as a small child, from a life where faeries, sirens and mythical creatures are real and treacherous, Jéhenne Corbeaux is totally unprepared when she returns to France to stay with her eccentric Grandmother...
  • Forever and Beyond by Jayde Scott

    Forever and Beyond by Jayde Scott

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hidden from mortal eyes and divided into three factions are the creatures of darkness that coexist with mortals. In the witches’ town Morganefaire, an ancient legend tells the story of a mirror that was once shattered into four fragments, each able to entrap a powerful soul...
  • The Lost Soul by Suzy Turner

    The Lost Soul by Suzy Turner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    December and Lilly have got their work cut out for them. Not only are they desperately trying to figure out the identity of the Lost Soul, and track him down, they've also got to investigate why Powell River's newest resident has got all of their men falling at her feet. But when they learn that the Nephilim might be involved, it becomes clear that they're all in extreme danger..
  • Charmed I'm sure by Rose Pressey

    Charmed I'm sure by Rose Pressey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hold on to your broom, Halloween is back! Halloween LaVeau never intended on being the leader of the Underworld. Now the job is all hers. But that doesn’t mean other witches aren’t trying every trick in the book to take that title away from Hallie. The Underworld Board has sent investigator Charlie Scott to look into all the mishaps Hallie has encountered since becoming the leader...
  • The Accidental Familiar by Dakota Cassidy

    The Accidental Familiar by Dakota Cassidy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the warlock's away, the familiar will play! A Halloween party gone wrong will keep the OOPs crew putting out one fire after anothert. Join them this Halloween for a ghoulishly, magic-filled tale!...
  • Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich

    Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.   Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list...
  • Desire After Dark by Amanda Ashley

    Desire After Dark by Amanda Ashley

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Vicki Cavendish knows she should be careful. After all, there's a killer loose in town—one who drains women of blood, women with red hair and green eyes just like her. She knows she should tell police about the dark, gorgeous man who comes into the diner every night, the one who makes her feel a longing she's never felt before...
  • Night of the Living Dandelion by Kate Collins

    Night of the Living Dandelion by Kate Collins

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Flower shop owner Abby Knight does not believe rumors that Vlad Serban, friend and employee of Abby's fiancé Marco, is a vampire. But how to explain that Vlad is from Romania, has prominent canines, likes bizarre plants such as bloodwort and Dracula orchid, and dresses entirely in black? When a local woman is found dead, her body drained of blood, the stakes become life and death...
  • Fearless in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

    Fearless in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fashion designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer is back! Morning sickness sucks. Which is why fashion designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer has spent the last six weeks being a couch potato and Moonlight vampire movie devotee...
  • Model, Vol. 3 by Lee So-Young

    Model, Vol. 3 by Lee So-Young

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    While Jae is thinking about Eva asking her to leave Michael's mansion ASAP, Ken arrives. She says she should hurry and paint Michael and leave the estate. Ken takes her arm and leads her to a cave. He tells her that this is his room, and reveals to Jae that Michael isn't his biological father. Michael confronts Eva for telling Jae to quickly leave...
  • Model, Vol. 5 by Lee So-Young

    Model, Vol. 5 by Lee So-Young

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A lifetime of deceit and pain is exposed to Jae! The truth about Adrian is revealed...but what will it mean for Ken? And as for Michael, the years of loneliness and emptiness have taken their toll...
  • When Darkness Falls by Heather Graham

    When Darkness Falls by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What You See - In an ancient cemetery, travel writer Jade MacGregor’s tour of a Scottish tomb is marred by a terrifying attack that leaves her surrounded by corpses drained of blood. A year later, back home on a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses the oddly compelling stranger she met that day...
  • All That Falls by Kimberly Frost

    All That Falls by Kimberly Frost

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She should never have touched his blood... The Etherlin muses have long served as a source of divine inspiration. Now their world stands between the forces of Heaven and Hell. As his muse, Cerise propelled her musician boyfriend to the heights of fame, but when he died under mysterious circumstances, her powers vanished. Now she's plagued by disturbing half-formed memories of his final night.
  • How to Date a Demon by Rose Pressey

    How to Date a Demon by Rose Pressey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Match Made in Hell Rylie Cruz loves playing matchmaker. She even does it full-time at her matchmaking service, Get a Mate. Since she’s a werewolf, she feels that gives her expertise when dealing with the paranormal crowd. When Rylie’s best friend, Jennifer Matthews, asks her to set her up on a date, Rylie is hesitant. Jennifer hasn’t had luck in the dating department lately...
  • Lancaster House by Taylor Dean

    Lancaster House by Taylor Dean

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A PARANORMAL ROMANCE Zoe Grayson needs a change. So, she moves to another state, purchases an old, dilapidated 1920s Victorian Mansion, and sets out to restore it to its former glory. As she begins the restoration, she finds herself falling in love with the old house . . . not to mention its illustrious builder, Mr. Lancaster...
  • Deep Midnight by Shannon Drake

    Deep Midnight by Shannon Drake

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    The Hour When Dreams Turn Into Nightmares... An opulent Carnivale ball in Venice takes a terrifying turn for book critic Jordan Riley. As festivity turns into frenzy, she is rescued by a powerful man disguised as a wolf. But was what she witnessed really just the evening's entertainment--or something far more sinister? ..
  • Deep Midnight by Heather Graham

    Deep Midnight by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hosted by the Contessa della Trieste, an opulent Carnevale ball in Venice takes a terrifying turn for American book critic Jordan Riley. As festivity turns into frenzy, Jordan is rescued by a powerful man disguised as a wolf...
  • Realm Of Shadows by Shannon Drake

    Realm Of Shadows by Shannon Drake

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    A New York Times BestsellerIn an ancient churchyard just outside Paris, archeologists uncover an ancient tomb -- certain they have stumbled onto the find of the century. But something goes very wrong as the tomb is opened. Something too frightening to imagine . . . and too terrible to utter. For American visitor Tara Mason, the romantic city of her dreams has suddenly turned sinister...
  • Realm of Shadows by Heather Graham

    Realm of Shadows by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Every Nightmare Has Its Beginning Tara Mason wants more than tourist sights out of her trip to the city of dreams, something strange and off the beaten path...
  • Whispers at Dusk: A Novel by Heather Graham

    Whispers at Dusk: A Novel by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When darkness falls, there’s nowhere to hide.Four bodies have been discovered along Europe’s riverbanks, placed with care—and completely drained of blood. Pinpricks on their throats indicate a slender murder weapon, but DNA found in the wounds suggests something far more sinister...
  • The Awakening by Shannon Drake

    The Awakening by Shannon Drake

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    New Orleans musician Megan has returned to the home of her ancestors to perform, with her husband Finn, in a weeklong series of concerts, culminating on All Hallow's Eve - and to renew her connection with the past. As the full moon approaches, Megan senses that she is in great danger...
  • As Twilight Falls by Amanda Ashley

    As Twilight Falls by Amanda Ashley

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Photographing ghost towns across the American West, Kadie Andrews takes a wrong turn and ends up in Morgan Creek—a spot that isn’t on the map. It’s a quaint little place, but there’s something off about its complacent residents. And when twilight falls, it takes on a truly sinister air… Unable to run or to find any way out, Kadie finds herself a prisoner, hunted for her blood...
  • Finding Obscurity by Emma Shade

    Finding Obscurity by Emma Shade

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lily Canton always knew she was unique. After she loses everything she has ever cared about ten years ago, Lily decides its time to find answers about her past and why she has special powers. But when you can’t control seeing the future, and you hold enough electricity inside you to black out an entire city block, it doesn’t always make life easy...
  • The Walker in Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    The Walker in Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The house next door to Pat Robbins—eerily identical to the home Pat shares with her college-aged son, Mark—has been empty for years, the darkness within seeming to warn all to stay away. Now new tenants are moving in: affable Josef Friedrichs and his lovely daughter, Kathy, who has stolen Mark's heart on first glance...
  • The Fangover by Erin McCarthy, Kathy Love

    The Fangover by Erin McCarthy, Kathy Love

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When rock-god vampire Johnny Malone commits suicide, the rest of The Impalers gather for an Irish wake and jam session to send their bandmate off in style. But alcohol-laced blood and grief make for one hell of a combination... When her brother, Johnny, dies, Stella Malone’s grief lands her in the buff arms of The Impalers’ bass player...
  • Some Lycan Hot by Michele Bardsley

    Some Lycan Hot by Michele Bardsley

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From the ashes of betrayal, love still burns bright... When lycan prince Darrius discovers his former fiancee did not die in the fire that claimed their werewolf village more than seventy years ago, he tracks her down to Broken Arrow, Oregon...
  • Faustine by Imogen Rose

    Faustine by Imogen Rose

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Who is Faustine? When Faustine Spencer was five years old, she discovered a secret that changed her life forever. At twelve, her parents sent her to Bonfire Academy in Switzerland to ensure that she received the training needed to control her increasing powers. Three years later, Faustine returns to Manhattan...
  • More Than Blood by Amanda Vyne

    More Than Blood by Amanda Vyne

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gabrial Ferrar is a House Marshal, an enforcer of the laws of his people. But when his investigation into missing young girls lead him to a dark alley his path crosses with an incredible crossbreed whose blood promises him a lifetime of pleasure he’s willing to sacrifice everything to gain...
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    vampires  mystery  contemporary  fantasy  paranormal  abuse  magic  m-f
  • The Lynx Who Purred for a Sidhe Prince by Scarlet Hyacinth

    The Lynx Who Purred for a Sidhe Prince by Scarlet Hyacinth

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, fae, HEA] Ally or admirer? When lynx shifter Corbin Mckenna falls for Sidhe prince Winter Tomacelli, he doesn't expect being forced into a political marriage...
  • Blood Red by Heather Graham

    Blood Red by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    For more than a century, Maggie Montgomery has hidden her true nature from the humans around her. But when Lieutenant Sean Canady follows a trail of blood from a drained corpse to the door of her New Orleans boutique, the ethereal beauty realises the comfortable life she's made for herself is once again in danger...
  • Eternal Breath of Darkness by Candice Stauffer

    Eternal Breath of Darkness by Candice Stauffer

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Will Caylee's salvation come from the solitude of the cold, dark grave or from the sinful delights of surrendering her body and soul to the seduction of a wickedly sexy, dark and dangerous, powerful immortal? From the beginning of time, Haden's kind has fought to stop the deadliest forces of darkness from destroying mankind. He has never feared defeat until now...
  • Pretty in Black by Rae Hachton

    Pretty in Black by Rae Hachton

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some Things are Pretty. Some Things are Black. Love is both. The sun faded and night began to descend. The sky was a deep navy blue. Marcus sat his violin aside and dropped to one knee, as though he were about to propose. His eyes flickered with seriousness. He took my hand into his...
  • Bride of the Night by Heather Graham

    Bride of the Night by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's the vampire that could destroy a nation. At least, that's what Pinkerton detective Finn Dunne thinks of Tara Fox. Capturing her aboard a ship sneaking its way northward, he's convinced she's been sent to take out President Lincoln. While she's certainly the most attractive assassin he's ever faced, that won't keep him from his duty. Tara has always been caught between worlds...
  • Let Us Prey by Jamie Lee Scott

    Let Us Prey by Jamie Lee Scott

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mimi Capurro, owner of Gotcha Detective Agency, has been hired to protect New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Silke, who was recently assaulted in the bathroom at a paranormal conference. Though Mimi is hired to act as bodyguard for Lauren's upcoming book tour, plans change when Lauren's assistant is murdered and the slaying is a replica of a scene from Lauren's newest novel...
  • Sacrament by Susan Squires

    Sacrament by Susan Squires

    Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    What if the man you loved was a vampire? How would you find the courage to embrace the darkness? Sarah Ashton, Lady Clevancy, is sure she is a very ordinary person in a very ordinary Regency England. Her life is invaded by a mysterious stranger, the long lost owner of the ruined abbey adjacent to her ancestral lands now accused of serial murder. She should be appalled, rather than fascinated...
  • The Guide by Peter Heller

    The Guide by Peter Heller

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace...
  • Garden of Darkness by Anne Frasier, Theresa Weir

    Garden of Darkness by Anne Frasier, Theresa Weir

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Haunted by both the town of Tuonela and the betrayal of Evan Stroud, medical examiner Rachel Burton tries to leave, but is brought back by the skinned body found in the woods. Others are coming to Tuonela, drawn to the legend of the Pale Immortal, the so-called vampire whose exhumed body is now on display. And others will die...
  • Pale Immortal by Anne Frasier, Theresa Weir

    Pale Immortal by Anne Frasier, Theresa Weir

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The sleepy town of Tuonela, Wisconsin, is known for one thing: the killer who stalked its streets one hundred years ago, drinking the blood of his victims. And when the drained corpse of a young girl is found, the citizens fear their past has risen from the grave--and point their fingers at one man.... Evan Stroud can never see the light of day...
  • Die, My Love by Penelope Fletcher

    Die, My Love by Penelope Fletcher

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If you had to become a monster to be with the man you loved, would you? Or is that a question you cannot answer? You see, for me the problem was never should I be reborn, but when. That and I knew the moment I saw Ben I would die. Let's be honest, rumors blood drinkers are real have had the world in a grip of terror for years, and I'd always known I was waiting for him...
  • Late Night Snack by Lou Harper

    Late Night Snack by Lou Harper

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes life takes strange turns. Gabe is a slayer but his lover is a vampire. And so is his boss. When Gabe is tasked with capturing a delinquent blood sucker, he's determined to succeed, even if it means posing as bait. There is only one problem: Harvey, his possessive boyfriend, might ruin everything. Warning: hot fang-on-man action, role-playing, and one pissed off vampire...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  mystery  contemporary  paranormal  m-m  fantasy  queer
  • Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson

    Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson delivers her most harrowing novel yet as a young woman's determined hunt for a serial killer draws her into a twisted psychopath's unspeakable crimes. Twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz is lucky to be alive. Not many people her age have nearly died twice at the hands of a serial killer, and lived to tell about it...
  • Oxford Whispers by Marion Croslydon

    Oxford Whispers by Marion Croslydon

    Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Madison LeBon is dead set against the dead. Her fresh start at Oxford University is a brand new beginning. She finally has a chance to turn the page on her psychic powers and cumbersome voodoo heritage. Snakes, dolls, ghosts, and spirits: Farewell… Not quite...
  • A Girl, a Guy, and a Ghost by Patricia Mason

    A Girl, a Guy, and a Ghost by Patricia Mason

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Curvy redhead Giselle Hunter, parapsychology reporter, has a crisis. Finding a ghost within three days is the only way to save her job. Not easy, especially with no psychic talent. A trip to Savannah Georgia-voted the most haunted city in America-seems ideal...
  • No Fear by Allie Harrison

    No Fear by Allie Harrison

    Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Medusa's Island...a vacation paradise complete with beautiful beaches and the quaint town of Medusa. But the island's serenity is shattered when two young women are found dead from no apparent causes despite their expressions of terror. Chief of Police James Winchester and Emma Gray fear a monster from the past has returned to make Medusa its feeding ground...
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