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  • Blood Father by Tessa Dawn

    Blood Father by Tessa Dawn

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kagen Silivasi is a powerful ancient vampire with a unique gift for healing – he is also a son, a brother, and a loner who has survived unspeakable tragedy and loss: Beneath his handsome, well-mannered exterior lies an alter ego consumed by rage and an undefinable impulse to “kill them all...” Arielle Nightsong is a brave human, a rebel spirit, and an accomplished healer in her own right...
  • A Warrior Thanksgiving (The Protectors Series) Book #24 by Teresa Gabelman

    A Warrior Thanksgiving (The Protectors Series) Book #24 by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The VC Warriors and the Dark Guardians are being forced to work as a team against the evil that is coming their way. Egos, pride, and personalities collide at times making for an explosive atmosphere. Nicole feels this and decides to take advantage of the situation…for the children of course...
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  • Angelina (The Mate Series) Book #24 by Teresa Gabelman

    Angelina (The Mate Series) Book #24 by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Walking away from her Mate was something Angelina never thought she would have to do. Taking control of her life was something that had to be done for her sake and her sake alone. As she faces a world full of dangers, Angelina begins her new life with the same heart that will forever love her Warrior...
  • Angelina by Teresa Gabelman

    Angelina by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Walking away from her Mate was something Angelina never thought she would have to do. Taking control of her life was something that had to be done for her sake and her sake alone. As she faces a world full of dangers, Angelina begins her new life with the same heart that will forever love her Warrior...
  • Ancients and Old Ones by T.M. Nielsen

    Ancients and Old Ones by T.M. Nielsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emily begins to recover from her long captivity with Salazar, but a drastic setback threatens not only her, but the lives of the Equites Council. Chevalier struggles with Emily’s renewed friendship with the Encala, when they offer her a companion in a time of need. Learn more about the relationships between the Old Ones and the original heku, the Ancients...
  • Elena's School of Horror by Nalini Singh

    Elena's School of Horror by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Short story from authors July Newsletter. Part of the Guild Hunter Series...
  • Lachlan (Vampires in Europe) by D.B. Reynolds

    Lachlan (Vampires in Europe) by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Scotland—sweeping forests, tumbling waterfalls. . .and towering highlands where vampire warriors have ruled for centuries. Lethal and charismatic, vampire Lachlan McRae woke on his first night to death and devastation—his clan slaughtered, his fortress destroyed...
  • The Morning Star by Debra Dunbar

    The Morning Star by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Where’s the support group for demon parents?Samael, the OG Satan who no one has seen in over two million years is supposedly roaming the world and killing angels, just like all those Elvis sightings. If Elvis was a murdering Fallen angel, that is. As the new-and-improved Satan, it’s my responsibility to track him down and bring him to justice...
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    war  vampires  urban fantasy  fantasy  paranormal  demons  fae  magic
  • Masquerade by Felicity Heaton

    Masquerade by Felicity Heaton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ten years have passed since Sophis and Vivek, two vampires of the Venia bloodline, came close to death at the hands of twin hunters Aleksis and Izabella Romanov. The events of that night turned Sophis and Vivek against each other, shattering their close friendship and driving them apart...
  • Broken by Heather Fleener

    Broken by Heather Fleener

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Light’s Duty to Protect A war over the fate of mankind sparked the creation of the Ancients - Light and Dark - one divinely-created guardians, the other hell-spawned killers. The conflict raged within the Realm for millennia, neither faction triumphant in its purpose...
  • Darkness Unleashed by Belinda Boring

    Darkness Unleashed by Belinda Boring

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing is as it seems. Alliances will be forged and broken. Friendships will be tested. The bitter sting of betrayal cuts the deepest ... prepare your hearts for the DARKNESS UNLEASHED. As the startling truth behind Darcy's strange behavior is revealed, the race begins as time runs out for Mason to save his beloved mate...
  • Banishment by T.M. Nielsen

    Banishment by T.M. Nielsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The final book in the Heku Series brings some peace within the factions and within the palace. Chevalier and Emily have reconciled and come to a silent agreement that will benefit not only their own family, but the Equites. Things are looking calmer until someone begins attacking women in the nearby mortal city. Fighting over land in Europe, the Equites and Encala find themselves again at odds...
  • Shadow's Light by Nicola Claire

    Shadow's Light by Nicola Claire

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I felt hot tears streaming down my cheeks at his words. Spoken so carelessly, with such shameless intent. He knew how I felt. How I had been feeling. How lost and alone and full of grief my days had been. Avery was not a friend. Not even a trusted acquaintance. But, he understood what I was going through...
  • Freak Show by Trina M. Lee

    Freak Show by Trina M. Lee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alexa’s arrival in Sin City is greeted with a warning: leave town or be forced out. The return of her lover, Arys, has the Vegas vampires on edge. The Wicked Kiss Las Vegas location has changed in his absence. Werewolf death fights and vampire performance art takes it to a whole new level of crazy. The new club owner, Jenner, shares Arys’s bloodline and a few bad memories...
  • Dead Angels by Tim O'Rourke

    Dead Angels by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fleeing Hallowed Manor and being hunted by the Skinwalkers, Kiera and her friends take shelter from a storm in a deserted railway station set in a remote valley. As they spend the night hiding from those who are hunting them, Isidor tells his friends a story about how he had come across the word PUSH some years before on his first journeys above ground...
  • Created by Sophie Davis

    Created by Sophie Davis

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Talia runs away from the only life she’s ever known, she could have never fathomed the lengths to which the Agency will go to get her back. But if the Agency Director- the man who raised her, trained her, and made Talia who she is- can’t have her, he wants her eliminated. Now those she once considered friends are bona fide enemies, ruthless in their pursuit of her...
  • A Wedding Breakfast by Nalini Singh

    A Wedding Breakfast by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Free short story in Nalini Singh's Newsletter.Deleted scene from Archangel's StormThis scene was deleted from an early draft of Archangel’s Storm. It has spoilers for previous books in the series, so if you haven’t yet read those, save this to read later. Also, please note that as this scene was deleted early on, it will no longer fit perfectly into the book’s timeline and/or series continuity...
  • Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 11-15 by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 11-15 by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin...
  • Adam by Teresa Gabelman

    Adam by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Half-breed vampire, Adam Pride, has an almighty chip on his broad shoulders. Trying to move on after finding Angelina married to another, Adam has a decision to make. Remove the chip and move on or kill the man who took what he wanted most in the world, his Angel. With his heart in pieces, Adam’s on a mission to become the best VC Warrior he can be...
  • Betsy the Vampire Queen by MaryJanice Davidson

    Betsy the Vampire Queen by MaryJanice Davidson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's been a helluva year. First I lose my job. Then, I'm in a car accident. Next, I'm waking up dressed in clothes I wouldn't be caught dead in (pink polyester and cheap shoes courtesy of my evil stepmother). But guess what? I am dead and what really bites is that I can't seem to stay dead. Every night, I wake up with a horrible craving. Not chocolate—mom would approve of that...
  • Allegiance by K.A. Tucker

    Allegiance by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Evangeline finally got what she longed for – the cursed pendant off her neck and Caden in her arms - only it has come at a steep price. An unknown poison now courses through her body, slowly morphing her into something no one but the Fates can foresee. She has her suspicions though...and, if she is right, it will spell certain ruin for her and Caden...
  • Queen of the Hill by Genevieve Jack

    Queen of the Hill by Genevieve Jack

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's good to be the queen! Book 3 in The Knight Games Series After saving her caretaker, Rick, from certain death, Grateful Knight is ready for their happily ever after. The date is set and wedding plans are in the works. But when the witch responsible for the candle that almost ended Rick's life shows up in Red Grove expecting payment, the price is more than Grateful can bear...
  • To Kill an Angel by Michelle Leighton

    To Kill an Angel by Michelle Leighton

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ridley Heller thought her life would be perfect and trouble-free once she had Bo back. Unfortunately, she couldn’t have been more wrong. Learning Bo’s true identity has left them with their most difficult decision yet. They have two options. One, they can run away together and spend eternity looking over their shoulder, hiding from both God and Sebastian...
  • An Unexpected Guest by Nalini Singh

    An Unexpected Guest by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Short story that features in the December 2016 newsletter complementing the Guild Hunter series...
  • Enchant by Penelope Fletcher

    Enchant by Penelope Fletcher

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rae’s fragile emotions are becoming unhinged. Lochlann demands she keeps the bond with his brother secret, and the duties of High Priestess threaten to crush her rebellious nature, diminishing her glow. Breandan is her warrior, her light in the dark, but even he cannot hope to protect Rae from her own blood, and the extremes his need to possess her push him to...
  • To Love a Vampire by Jody Offen

    To Love a Vampire by Jody Offen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kayla backed up for every step he advanced. Her heart pounded painfully against her chest. She swore she saw flames flickering behind the vibrant colors in his eyes. She had never felt so afraid, so...alive? When she realized she couldn't escape him, she stood her ground, lifting her head defiantly in challenge. Tray didn't move, standing over her like a warlord about to pass judgment...
  • Ignite by Z.L. Arkadie

    Ignite by Z.L. Arkadie

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's still no rest for the Daughters of the House of Benel. The people of Moonridge have been attacked by second-generation vampires and find themselves stuck in a strange coma and covens of first-generation vampires have been wiped out by them too. And now their worst enemy has discovered a way to cheat death? It will take the big guns to stop whatever Lario Exgesis is cooking up...
  • Sunset to Sunrise by Trina M. Lee

    Sunset to Sunrise by Trina M. Lee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The absence of the two biggest power players in the city puts Kale Sinclair in a tough position. Maintaining control of The Wicked Kiss isn’t easy for one barely holding together delicate fragments of sanity. When word reaches Kale of a growing vampire rebellion, he laughs it off. Until he learns that their target is Arys Knight. Kale would love to take a shot at Arys...
  • Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 16-19 by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 16-19 by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin...
  • Darklove by Elle Jasper

    Darklove by Elle Jasper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Utterly destroyed, or lost forever? This is the question that plagues Riley Poe. After her vampire lover, Eli Dupre, was seemingly murdered by a fallen angel, she receives word that he's actually trapped in an alternate dimension, where hell on earth is revealed and dark forces reign. Riley’s been there before, and it nearly ripped her to pieces...
  • The Vampire Hunter's Daughter, Part VI by Jennifer Malone Wright

    The Vampire Hunter's Daughter, Part VI by Jennifer Malone Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The sixth installment of The Vampire Hunter’s Daughter begins right where the fifth part left off, with Chloe and her friends running for their lives as they escape the dungeons below Trevor’s home. Chloe lights their way through the darkness, but they emerge into a bloody battle with her vampire nemesis and his minions...
  • The Vampire Hunter's Daughter: Part V by Jennifer Malone Wright

    The Vampire Hunter's Daughter: Part V by Jennifer Malone Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the fifth installment of The Vampire Hunter’s Daughter, Chloe has been forced to make her decision to leave the community earlier than anticipated. To keep her family safe, she leaves with the vampire Trevor, who she had previously discovered was her father and the man responsible for her mother’s murder. Chloe is now in an entirely new element...
  • 'Til Death by S.C. Stephens

    'Til Death by S.C. Stephens

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    With two kids, an amazing husband, and an incredible family, Emma's life was everything she'd ever hoped it would be. But there was a downside to having everything you've ever wanted, a downside that Teren and Emma couldn't possibly have been prepared for.When you have everything you want, then you also have everything to lose...
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 2 by Maryelizabeth Hart

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 2 by Maryelizabeth Hart

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "I'm the Slayer. Slay-er. Chosen One? She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries? Ask around. Look it up: 'Slayer comma The.'" " -- Buffy, "Doomed"" As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers...
  • Born of Ashes by Caris Roane

    Born of Ashes by Caris Roane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Enter a hidden world of winged vampire warriors—and the women they are sworn protect...For years, she was kept as a human slave—one of seven unwilling “blood donors” for the death vampires who thirst for absolute power. Now, Fiona is a free woman, haunted by her memories of being strapped to a gurney, drained of blood, then revived at the last moment...
  • Gates of Rapture by Caris Roane

    Gates of Rapture by Caris Roane

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Gates of Rapture Caris Roane As a vampire and a warrior, Leto Distra is deadly. But after years of being forced to drink dying blood, he is now part beast—a wild savage thing lurking beneath the surface.  With war on the horizon, Leto is determined to help the Guardians of Ascension destroy the enemy who turned him into a monster. And there’s only one woman who can help him...
  • Asylum by K.A. Tucker

    Asylum by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Tucked away in Sofie’s wintery asylum with no hope of release for years, Evangeline must come to terms with her situation: the curse still plagues her, she’s now hunted by a two thousand-year-old vampire, and the guy she’s in love with tried to kill her. Plus, she’s locked up with a cranky Max and the Forero kids—two people everyone seems to prefer dead over alive. Things aren’t looking good...
  • In Vino Veritas by Karen Chance

    In Vino Veritas by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    "In Vino Veritas" was Karen Chance's contribution to theChicks Kick Buttanthology (June 2011). It is now available on her website as a free short as per the contract with the publisher.Contains spoilers for Midnight's Daughter, Dorina Basarab #1and Death's Mistress, Dorina Basarab #2...
  • Fang Chronicles: Ivan by D'Elen McClain

    Fang Chronicles: Ivan by D'Elen McClain

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The loss of Ivan’s mate, Alba, left him broken and turned his inner beast inside out. With the war between the wolves and enemy cats, who killed his mate, all but over his anger has no focus. His new clan consists of two vampires, three cats, and his lone wolf. Talya ran from her clan after losing a challenge against her friend for the love of Dmitri, the vampire leader of the bear clan...
  • Whisper of Light by Jennifer DeLucy

    Whisper of Light by Jennifer DeLucy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The saying goes that all men are created equal... but Nicole Abbot knows better. Lacking the supernatural gifts of the Sentients she has known all her life, Nicole has lived with her nose pressed to the glass, withering beneath the guilt of her own inadequacies and the disapproving glare of her father...
  • Black Water by Faith Hunter

    Black Water by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Three stories from New York Times bestselling author Faith Hunter, starring shapeshifting skinwalker Jane Yellowrock. In Snafu, a young Jane shows up for her internship with a securities firm...
  • The Recruit: Book Two by Elizabeth Kelly

    The Recruit: Book Two by Elizabeth Kelly

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hannah Torrington has used her new-found training to seek revenge for her sister’s death at the hands of the vampires. Her relationship with Will ruined and her abilities growing stronger each day, she is determined to graduate from the program and help end the vampire uprising...
  • Rebel Obsession by Donya Lynne

    Rebel Obsession by Donya Lynne

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Former cobalt addict and AKM drug counselor, Io is a male vampire known as much for his abrasive personality as for his playboy lifestyle. In other words, he's not the likeliest to make friends and settle down. Life on the edge suits him, and he lives full throttle, making his own rules, and damn the consequences. What he wants, he takes, and what he wants now is Miriam...
  • Obsidian Flame by Caris Roane

    Obsidian Flame by Caris Roane

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From paranormal romance author Caris Roane comes the fifth book in the "Guardians of Ascension" series. For a hundred years, Marguerite has been imprisoned and used for her powerful psychic abilities. Her only relief comes from her regular visits with Thorne, her vampire lover. His every touch leaves her hungry for more..and aching for their next encounter...
  • Bad Blood by Nikki Jefford

    Bad Blood by Nikki Jefford

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Aurora returns from boot camp to a new assignment, an unwelcome roommate, and the increasingly amorous attentions of a certain vampire hunter. College is starting, and so is Aurora’s undercover work at a network of swanky parties known as “Tastings” for high rolling vampires who like their blood laced with fine wine. But Aurora’s not the only one on the prowl...
  • Destined for a Vampire by Michelle Leighton

    Destined for a Vampire by Michelle Leighton

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ridley Heller thought that all her problems would be over if she could have Bo back—back from the dead. But what Ridley didn’t know was that her wish would come at a price. Bo survived a condition that would have killed a lesser vampire, or any vampire for that matter. The only reason he didn’t die is because of who he is, someone Ridley doesn’t know at all...
  • Silent Bite: A Scanguards Wedding by Tina Folsom

    Silent Bite: A Scanguards Wedding by Tina Folsom

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Newbie vampire Oliver and Ursula, the woman he saved from a blood brothel, are finally tying the knot. But with Ursula’s old fashioned Chinese parents arriving in town for the traditional wedding, chaos soon breaks out—with Oliver always one step away from accidentally revealing to his soon-to-be in-laws that he and his extended Scanguards family are vampires...
  • Forever Night: A Hidden Novella by Colleen Vanderlinden

    Forever Night: A Hidden Novella by Colleen Vanderlinden

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Each death she caused, each life she saved, was its own kind of prayer. Shanti Williams has been saved by the Angel (as Molly Brooks has been called by the citizens of Detroit) twice in her life: once at sixteen when the Angel rescued her from a life that would have been a living nightmare, and again when Shanti, as a new vampire, came to her begging for death...
  • Blood Sin by Marie Treanor

    Blood Sin by Marie Treanor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The author of Blood on Silk brings readers the next novel in her seductive new Awakened by Blood series. Months after her dangerous encounter with the vampire overlord Saloman, Scottish academic Elizabeth Silk is still trying to cope with both the demands of her vampire-hunting bloodline-and the desire she feels for Saloman, the immortal she brought back from the grave...
  • Blood Eternal by Marie Treanor

    Blood Eternal by Marie Treanor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Despite the growing passion that unites them, all is not well between Elizabeth and Saloman. She refuses to follow him as he builds his influence among the human population and consolidates his rule over the vampire world. A shocking revolt is just the latest crisis that's call him away. But under Saloman's regime, vampires have become less concerned with secrecy...
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