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  • Omens and Artifacts by Elizabeth Hunter

    Omens and Artifacts by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the elemental world, reputation is everything, but gaining it can get you killed.Setting up shop as an antiquities hunter means nothing if you don't have clients. Benjamin Vecchio, nephew of a famed vampire assassin, is the subject of widespread speculation, but so far that speculation hasn't translated into work.What Ben needs is a job. A big job. A profitable job.A legendary job...
  • The Dirt on Ninth Grave by Darynda Jones

    The Dirt on Ninth Grave by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    In a small village in New York lives Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback. Stranger still are the people entering her life. They seem to know things about her. Things they hide with lies and half-truths. Soon, she senses something far darker...
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  • Imitation and Alchemy by Elizabeth Hunter

    Imitation and Alchemy by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    All Ben Vecchio wanted was a quiet summer before his last semester of university. Was that too much to ask? All Tenzin wanted was a cache of priceless medieval coins that had been missing for several hundred years. And some company. Phrases like “never again” don’t mean much when you’ve been a vampire for several thousand years...
  • Spider’s Revenge by Jennifer Estep

    Spider’s Revenge by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Old habits die hard. And I plan on mur­der­ing some­one before the night is through. Killing used to be my reg­u­lar gig, after all. Gin Blanco, aka the Spi­der, assassin-for-hire. And I was very good at it. Now, I’m ready to make the one hit that truly mat­ters: Mab Mon­roe, the dan­ger­ous Fire ele­men­tal who mur­dered my fam­ily when I was thir­teen...
  • Blood Apprentice by Elizabeth Hunter

    Blood Apprentice by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    If you’re a human in a vampire’s world, nothing goes according to plan. When a map to the mysterious fortune of notorious privateer Miguel Enríquez falls in the lap of Ben and Tenzin, only one of them is jumping at the opportunity. Tenzin can’t wait to search for a secret cache of gold. Ben, on the other hand, couldn’t be less excited...
  • The Flame Game by R.J. Blain

    The Flame Game by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereBailey and Quinn are back for one last action-filled adventure!A corrupt police chief is on the loose, and it falls to Bailey and Quinn to put an end to him before he finds some way to weaponize the spreading rabies virus, create yet another batch of potent gorgon dust, and otherwise wreck Bailey’s happily ever after...
  • Sid by Teresa Gabelman

    Sid by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Renowned for his playboy lifestyle and wisecrack remarks, Sid Sinclair knows he is the last pick for the lead investigator of human/half-breed trafficking. Never one to play by the rules, Sid takes his new position seriously, but not without driving the leader of the VC Council and fellow Warrior’s crazy. A human with a special gift, Lana Fitzpatrick’s life is complicated...
  • Imp Forsaken by Debra Dunbar

    Imp Forsaken by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Sam is banished to Hel, the bond with her angel, Gregory, broken. Six Elven kingdoms are battling for supremacy, and she’s broken and injured in the middle of the most hostile one. Shooting the top off a royal throne, committing fraud in the completion of a contract, and threatening a high lord hasn’t endeared her to the elves, either...
  • Pia Saves the Day by Thea Harrison

    Pia Saves the Day by Thea Harrison

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    In the latest story of the Elder Races, two mates face their deadliest challenge yet—each other… Pia and Dragos’s magical young son Liam (the Peanut), is growing at an unprecedented rate, and if that isn’t enough, he is also exhibiting new, and unpredictable, magical gifts. To protect him, the concerned parents decide to move to upstate New York...
  • Burning Dawn by Gena Showalter

    Burning Dawn by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with a sizzling Angels of the Dark tale about a winged warrior renowned for his ruthlessness, and the woman who becomes his obsession... A tormented past has left Thane with an insatiable need for violence, making him the most dangerous assassin in the skies.He lives by a single code: no mercy...
  • Elimination by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Elimination by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Deception. Demons are experts at it.I thought I could control my fate. I thought I could send the Master of Demon Runes back to the Underworld where he belongs, but instead, I'm the one forced into a dangerous game of elimination.Now I must fight for my life against the strongest demons—demons who have waited their whole lives for the chance to rule the Underworld...
  • Darkness Rises by Dianne Duvall

    Darkness Rises by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Krysta is used to getting the drop on vampires. Her "special abilities" aren't much, but the plan is simple--she plays helpless pretty young thing to lure them in. Then her shoto swords come out and it's bye-bye, bloodsucker. Until one night she finds herself with an unexpected ally. He's a vampire, all right, but different. Mysterious. Handsome...
  • Building From Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter

    Building From Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    For a thousand years, powerful earth vampire Carwyn ap Bryn has served others. God. His family. His friends. But tragedy and loss disrupt his peaceful existence, causing him to question everything he has committed his eternity to. Brigid Connor has known about vampires since they rescued her from a painful childhood...
  • Raven  (The Protectors Series) Book #18 by Teresa Gabelman

    Raven (The Protectors Series) Book #18 by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life has never been easy for Raven, and she liked it that way. Keeping things interesting was her motto. Once a Dark Guardian Raven is now a VC Warrior who feels caught between two worlds. Her loyalty to both was sometimes an inner battle within herself.Being a woman in a man’s world she’s had to battle harder, be smarter and never play the woman card she had turned in so many years ago...
  • Guardian by Shannon Mayer

    Guardian by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "My name is Rylee and I am a Tracker." When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. After months of danger, running for my life, and dealing with one crisis after another, I'm finally getting that vacation I deserve...
  • In Other Worlds by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    In Other Worlds by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Together for the first time in one volume... Three dazzling stories of magic and fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Three of the author's most thrilling stories in one fabulous volume... Fire and Ice On the run, a beautiful virgin crosses paths with a sexy ex-assassin. Knightly Dreams The dashing hero of a novel comes to life...
  • Ancient Enemy by Katie Reus

    Ancient Enemy by Katie Reus

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s out for revenge…Ancient dragon shifter Rhys awoke from his slumber hungry for revenge against the witch who killed his sister. When his year-long hunt takes him to the rebuilding city of New Orleans, he finds a witch—but not the one he’s pursuing...
  • Waterlocked by Elizabeth Hunter

    Waterlocked by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "wa-ter-locked adjective Definition: enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water Example: What happens when the water vampire you’ve promised yourself to actually wants you to go through with the wedding? For Gemma Melcombe, her engagement to Terrance Ramsay was a political maneuver. For Terry, it’s something entirely more...
  • Rapture by Jacquelyn Frank

    Rapture by Jacquelyn Frank

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Magnus is a man of contradictions - a spiritual leader in a warrior's body. To him, laws are for enforcing and visions must be followed - even if that means freeing a beautiful slave and making her his reluctant handmaiden. Betrayed once before, Magnus can barely bring himself to trust another woman. Yet Daenaira's fiery innocence is drawing them both into a reckless inferno of desire...
  • Into the Dark by Gena Showalter

    Into the Dark by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Three otherworldly tales from the master of paranormal romance and a brand-new Lords of the Underworld bonus guide! The Darkest Fire a Lords of the Underworld prequel Geryon is the guardian of hell, more monster than man. Kadence is the goddess of Oppression, more angel than woman...
  • Dark Beginnings by Gena Showalter

    Dark Beginnings by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    This title includes three new stories, Lords of the Underworld, from "New York Times" bestselling author Gena Showalter. "The Darkest Fire" - He is the guardian of Hell, more monster than man. She is the goddess of oppression, more angel than woman. Together they will enter the flames to battle a horde of demon lords - and discover a passion unlike any other..
  • Darkness Unleashed by Alexandra Ivy

    Darkness Unleashed by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others' company. But now, as a member of Chicago's powerful vampire clan, he has certain obligations to fulfill. The latest: track down a missing were pureblood and return her to her sister. The problem: Regan Garrett has no intention of complying...
  • Adam by Jacquelyn Frank

    Adam by Jacquelyn Frank

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hunted by magic, beset by evil, the Nightwalkers face their darkest hour yet. And when the unthinkable happens, only one legendary male has the power, the will, to save them: Adam. . . For 400 Years He Was Lost To Her, But He Is Hers Tonight. . . From their first tantalizing touch, Jasmine knows he is different...
  • East of Ecstasy by Laura Kaye

    East of Ecstasy by Laura Kaye

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Annalise Fallston made peace with postponing her big-city dreams to care for her ill father, but lately she’s been filled with a restlessness not even her beloved painting dispels. Worse, the colors don’t speak to her as they always have, and all her efforts produce dark, foreboding images of a dangerous man and a terrifying future...
  • Genesis by Kristie Cook

    Genesis by Kristie Cook

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Discover how the Amadis began in this fascinating prequel to the award-winning Soul Savers Series! While the land of Ancient Greece is plagued with mortals' wars, twins Cassandra and Jordan have lived more than a lifetime as outcasts. When their dying father divulges a secret that's been buried in his soul, his children come to opposite conclusions, launching them down two very different paths...
  • Duncan by D.B. Reynolds

    Duncan by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Washington, D.C. … capital of an empire. Powerful. Exhilarating. Corrupt. And in the shadows … vampires far older than the nation itself. A power unto himself, Duncan has served at Raphael’s side for a hundred and fifty years. But long laid plans have finally borne fruit, and the time has come for Duncan to leave Raphael and tackle the greatest challenge of his life...
  • Wicked Wings by Keri Arthur

    Wicked Wings by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a reservation where magic has been unrestrained for entirely too long, there is no rest from the wicked…After dealing with the fallout of a shape-shifting, fire-throwing demon, Lizzie, Belle, and Aiden are hoping the reservation will finally catch a break from the constant influx of evil...
  • Bound by Elisabeth Naughton

    Bound by Elisabeth Naughton

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    TITUS—To most his gift seems like a blessing, but for him it’s a curse the other Eternal Guardians—those who protect the mortal realm from threats of the Underworld—seek to exploit. One he would gladly trade for the chance to be free… Obsessed. Her touch is like a drug. From the moment he met her, Titus knew she was different. Even dangerous...
  • Holy Smokes by Katie MacAlister

    Holy Smokes by Katie MacAlister

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    I’m Aisling Grey—but you can call me “frustrated.” The dragon of my dreams—uber-sexy Drake Vireo, wyvern of the green dragons—has finally decided to make an honest woman of me. That is, if we ever make it to the wedding at the same time! Being left at the altar may have cooled my jets, but not my passion...a good thing when Drake disappears and it's up to me to find him...
  • Damian's Immortal by Lizzy Ford

    Damian's Immortal by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book 3, War of Gods series. The White God’s most trusted friend, Jule, has his powers stripped by the Watchers. They give him an impossible mission: find the mysterious Magician and kill her, before she reopens the gateway between the realms. Jule quickly discovers the beautiful Magician is not what the Watchers claim...
  • Darkness Unmasked by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Unmasked by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Keri Arthur's explosive Dark Angels series is packed with everything you could want: a fiesty heroine, witches, vampires, werewolves, demons, angels of death, suspense and a whole lot of sexy action. The sexy, exciting, suspenseful adventures continue in New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur's Dark Angels series, starring Risa Jones, a half-Aedh/half-werewolf...
  • Dark Bites by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Dark Bites by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    For years, eager fans have been clamoring for an all-in-one collection of #1 bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon’s novellas...
  • The Vampire's Bride by Gena Showalter

    The Vampire's Bride by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    He is Layel, king of the vampires, a master seducer no woman can deny. But since a rogue horde of dragons killed his beloved over two centuries ago, Layel has existed only for vengeance…until he meets Delilah. Wary of love, the beautiful Amazon wants nothing to do with the tormented vampire. Yet there's no denying their consuming desire every time he nears her...
  • Death's Angel by Heather Killough-Walden

    Death's Angel by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Since the beginning of time, the archangels have longed to know true love. When four female angels were created for the four archangels, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Azrael, a chaos spurred by jealousy erupted, and the archesses were secreted away to Earth. The four favored archangels followed, prompting a search that has lasted millennia...
  • Moonshadow by Thea Harrison

    Moonshadow by Thea Harrison

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 33 ratings
    Her past is a blank, her future uncertain…. Recovering from a shooting, LAPD witch consultant Sophie Ross leaves her job and travels to the U.K. to search for answers about her childhood. When she encounters a Daoine Sidhe knight of the Dark Court, she becomes entangled in an ancient hatred between two arcane forces. He has given his body and soul to fight for his people…...
  • Running Scared by Shannon K. Butcher

    Running Scared by Shannon K. Butcher

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    They are the Sentinels. Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn. Now one Sentinel's survival determines the fate of them all. Lexi Johns has one purpose: to free her best friend from the hands of the Sentinels...
  • Rhyn's Redemption by Lizzy Ford

    Rhyn's Redemption by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Katie and Rhyn are in a race against time to free Katie from the underworld, before Death claims her soul and that of her child. When Katie’s guide in the underworld disappears, she has one option: trust the ghost of someone long-dead and seek out Death's fortress in order to try to escape through the portal leading back to the mortal world...
  • Heart of Atlantis by Alyssa Day

    Heart of Atlantis by Alyssa Day

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    As a war wages between the immortals of Atlantis and those of the vampire realm, a Poseidon warrior fights to save his world—and the woman he loves. And no risk is too great. The desires of a high priest. Alaric, Poseidon’s High Priest, has made a vow to Quinn, the woman he loves and the leader of the Resistance: to save her friend Jack before his last bit of humanity has been drained...
  • Zeus by Carly Spade

    Zeus by Carly Spade

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A god-king disguised as a criminal defense lawyer...Zeus/Zane, King of the Greek gods, holds the world in his palm in both his mortal and godly form… until Hera leaves him, forcing him to uphold Gaea's clause: There must always be a Queen, or he loses his title and part of his power along with it. Time is short. Too bad the one woman he has his sights on wants nothing to do with him...
  • The Redemption of Boaz Pritchard by Hailey Edwards

    The Redemption of Boaz Pritchard by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ever wonder how Boaz and Addie met? Why they got engaged? How they fell in love?Well, this story will answer one of those questions.Which one? Good question!Wait. Does that count as the one question?Guess you'll have to read on to find out.* This material was previously published as a blog serial. *** These events occurred between How to Claim an Undead Soul and How to Break an Undead Heart...
  • Yvette's Haven by Tina Folsom

    Yvette's Haven by Tina Folsom

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The Scanguards Vampires series - over 1 Million copies sold worldwide! After being kidnapped by a vampire hunter, vampire bodyguard Yvette's first instinct is to kill the bastard. But before she gets the chance, she realizes that he was double-crossed by the witch he was working for and now is in as much danger as she is...
  • Taken by Claire Farrell

    Taken by Claire Farrell

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s been months since Ava fooled the British vampires and dealt with Becca for good, but although life has been easier, it’s not without its problems. Her deal with the twins is physically harming her, Peter’s grasp on his sanity is tentative to say the least, Carl is struggling, and Esther is losing her edge...
  • Texture of Intimacy by Nalini Singh

    Texture of Intimacy by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    A PSY/CHANGELING NOVELLA New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s phenomenal Psy/Changeling series continues with this sensual exploration of the searing joys and unexpected challenges of mating... SnowDancer healer Lara knows primal ecstasy. She wakes to it every morning, skin-to-skin with the hard male body of the quiet, powerful telepath who is her mate...
  • นักรบในฝัน [Dream Warrior] by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    นักรบในฝัน [Dream Warrior] by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    We are the Dolophoni. Diligent. Vigilant. Fierce and inescapable. Servants of the Furies, we are the right hand of justice and no one stands before us.The son of Warcraft and Hate, Cratus spent eternity battling for the ancient gods who birthed him. He was death to any who crossed him. Until the day he laid down his arms and was banished into exile...
  • Eternal Beauty by Laura Wright

    Eternal Beauty by Laura Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He is captivated by the one who saved him from death—until he finds out who she is… When his lover is murdered by evil vampire-beast, Cruen, the grief-stricken Synjon Wise believes his life over. Enraged, he flashes her away to a remote spot in South America to give his beloved’s body a proper burial...
  • Taste by Claire Farrell

    Taste by Claire Farrell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Someone is hunting down the people she's promised to protect, but Ava's taste for battle is slowly disappearing. She's losing the people in her life, one by one, and without them, her inner light can only weaken...
  • Gabriel's Hope by Lizzy Ford

    Gabriel's Hope by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The continuation of the Rhyn Trilogy saga. Death Finds Love. Recently appointed as Death, Gabriel’s life can’t get much worse. His underworld is in shambles, and he’s racing demons to collect souls in the human world...
  • South of Surrender by Laura Kaye

    South of Surrender by Laura Kaye

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s the only one who can see through his golden boy façade to the broken god within… Chrysander Notos, Supreme God of the South Wind and Summer, is on a mission: save Eurus from his death sentence and prove his troubled brother can be redeemed...
  • Lucas by D.B. Reynolds

    Lucas by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Badlands of South Dakota . . . haunting landscapes, legendary outlaws, and . . . vampires? Lucas Donlon, Vampire Lord, is one of the most powerful vampires in North America and beyond. Charming and irreverent to his friends and lovers, he enjoys everything about his life as a vampire...
  • Hell's Bell by Keri Arthur

    Hell's Bell by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When the church bell tolls thrice in the middle of the night, evil this way comes…Lizzie Grace and Belle Kent, her witch familiar, are living and working on the Faelan Werewolf Reservation—one that has banned the use of magic within its borders. Although they have their supporters—including ranger Aiden O’Connor, who once hated all things witch—Lizzie and Belle now face possible eviction...
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