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  • The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After the dramatic events of The Creeping Shadow, the Lockwood team (plus Quill Kipps) deserve some well-earned rest.So naturally they break into the Fittes Mausoleum, on a perilous mission to discover the truth about London's top ghost-hunting agency, and its sinister leader.What they discover will change everything.But there's little time to ponder...
  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The truth is out there... The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
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  • The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud

    The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy, Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring herself out to agencies that value her ever-improving skills. One day she is pleasantly surprised by a visit from Lockwood, who tells her he needs a good Listener for a tough assignment...
  • The Empire Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Empire Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    New year, new magic?A witch can make resolutions, too…right?Psh. First I have to get to the new year. Just when I thought everything was going perfect BOOM. Problems. And not just any problems…missing children problems. One of them is my soulmate’s little cousin, which is bad enough for my anxiety, but the other is a young cousin of the shifter King...
  • The Frozen Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Frozen Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    My magic runs ice cold.I am Judgement.I’ve gone from human to witch…to now Coven member. It’s amazing, awesome, and entirely overwhelming. I’m scared out of my mind right now. I shouldn’t be, I know that. I finally have real magic. I have elemental magic. I have ice at my fingertips and its the deadliest weapon I’ve ever seen.But now I can’t run from Joseph...
  • The Eternal Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Eternal Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    All is fair in war and magic.I’m the Aether Witch. I have power no other witch has had in thousands of years.But even I can’t do this job alone. Salem’s Prophecy says the fate of the world lies on mine and my twin’s hands. Despite our Coven-mates thriving power and Heavenly intentions...In the end, the decision is ours. And ours alone...
  • Demon Magic and a Martini by Annette Marie

    Demon Magic and a Martini by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 60 ratings
    When I first landed a bartending job at the local guild, I didn't know a thing about magic. These days, I'm practically an expert on the different magical classes, but there's one nobody ever talks about: Demonica. Turns out they have a good reason for that...
    Categorized as:
    magic  demons  mystery  vampires  suspense  m-f  urban fantasy  fantasy
  • Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The House of Night is a thrilling, New York Times bestselling book series that follows 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she is “Marked” by a vampyre tracker and begins to undergo the “Change” into an actual vampyre. She has to leave her family in Broken Arrow, OK, and move into the House of Night, a boarding school for other fledgling vampyres like her...
  • Between Kings by W.R. Gingell

    Between Kings by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    G’day. I’m Pet. Heirling. Biter of fae lords. Trouble.I have a lot of names these days—including my own, real name. Unfortunately for me, someone else knows that name too; not to mention the names of my other heirling friends. Now those heirling friends have disappeared, stolen by the current King Behind for a fight to the death where only one contender to the throne remains...
  • The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

    The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations...
  • The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines...
  • Scorched Heart by Helen Harper

    Scorched Heart by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    My parents were brutally murdered when I was five years old. Their killer has spent the last twenty five years in prison for his terrible crimes - but I still have unanswered questions. After all, I am the phoenix. When I die, I am reborn in fire and brimstone. It happens again and again and again. I have no idea where my strange ability came from and nobody to ask...
  • The Broken Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Broken Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Desperate times, desperate magic. I finally have the Book of Shadows. The pages call to me, begging me to devour their hidden power. There are more than just spells inside, and there are things only the High Priestess can see. And Now I know everything I wasn’t supposed to.My Coven likes to keep secrets...well they’re about to get a taste of their own medicine...
  • The Rebel Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Rebel Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I’m finally in control of my magic…and it’s much stronger than my Coven realizes.That’s not the only secret I’m keeping. I made a deal with a fairy: her secrets for some of mine. Except I have no idea how to deliver on my oath and crossing the Fae is suicidal. Tennessee knows I’m up to something, but not even my soulmate can help me now, especially when being together is against the law...
  • The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

    The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 80 ratings
    Chloe Saunders is on the runand raising hell. Literally. Chloe Saunders is not your average supernatural teenager. Genetically altered at birth by a sinister team of scientists, she can barely control her terrifying powers. Now the team that created her has decided it's time to end the experiment. Permanently...
  • The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 115 ratings
    The second installment in the all-new series from the masterful, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater! Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life...
  • The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

    The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 81 ratings
    Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be 'cursed'?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them...
  • Between Frames by W.R. Gingell

    Between Frames by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Two fae is company, but a company of fae is trouble.Which is exactly what we’ve got. Trouble, I mean. Well, and fae. Lots of fae.Something or someone is stalking and killing high-level fae around Hobart—tearing out hearts and leaving a trail of bloody bodies behind. Fae don’t like it when they’re the ones getting killed, so of course they came to hire my owners.Owners, you ask?Hi. I’m Pet...
  • Fateborne by G.K. DeRosa

    Fateborne by G.K. DeRosa

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m not alone. There are other Mystic wolves out there, and now I have to find them.And win the Alpha Trials, get my revenge on the supreme alpha and of course, break my mate’s curse. Phew… And I thought things would be easier now that we’d finally completed the mate bond.I was very wrong.When Hunter takes matters into his own hands, a desperate decision escalates the situation from bad to worse...
  • The Brave Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Brave Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Be careful what you wish for…because magic comes with a price.I’m a witch. All of my dreams finally came true. But now, so are my nightmares.There’s a new monster in town and no one knows how to kill it or where it came from. It lurks in the shadows, preying on our every move. For some reason, it seems to be targeting me.I desperately need Tennessee’s help. Only he is strong enough to train me...
  • Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer

    Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 22 ratings
    After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her shoulder. But with a video of her ability to self-heal all over the dark web, Nita knows she’s still a prime target on the black market.There’s only one way to keep herself safe...
  • The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

    The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . .For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions.Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career...
  • Frostbite by Richelle Mead

    Frostbite by Richelle Mead

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 192 ratings
    Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose... It’s winter break at St. Vladimir’s, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy’s crawling with Guardians—including Rose’s hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway...
  • Watercolour Smile by Jane Washington

    Watercolour Smile by Jane Washington

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    “Maybe I was stupid to have agreed to this, but when all of the options that you have in life are dangerous ones, you can only choose to do something reckless, or turn a blind eye and allow the cards to fall as they may… and I was sick of being blind...
  • Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Something wicked is at work in Colorado’s supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison…a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the already-fractured alliance between witches and the undead.The state’s cardinal vampire, Maven, summons boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther to stop the killing before it ignites a war...
  • Firestorm by Shannon Mayer

    Firestorm by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental.My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. In a world of lava and fire, I am about to face my hardest trial yet. Not one of strength, or power, but intrigue and manipulation...
  • Between Floors by W.R. Gingell

    Between Floors by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I’m not supposed to push through the boundaries of reality without supervision. I’m definitely not meant to drag a cop Between with me. But stuff happens, you know? Hi. I’m Pet. Well, not Pet, exactly. I am a pet. Nothing too hard; I just cook and clean for the Behindkind who took over my house. Easy. But now one of my owners has gone missing...
  • Blood Beyond Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Blood Beyond Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The Sword of Light, the only weapon capable of killing Queen Aneira, has been found. Ember’s destiny is to end her reign and become the new Queen.Or so she thought.When Eli and Ember are taken by Aneira, she is forced to make a deal to save the man she loves. A curse is placed on Ember that if she uses the sword against the Seelie Queen, Eli Dies.A price she might not be willing to make...
  • Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

    Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 88 ratings
    Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.This is not that world. Art student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is—and what she is...
  • Knights Magica by B.R. Kingsolver

    Knights Magica by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    If the Knights Magica want a war, I'm willing to give them one.I damned my soul long ago. What I do from this point forward is about redemption. If I burn in Hell because of fighting for others, for shouldering their sins, so be it.The Knights are powerful, and they have taken control of the Universal Church...
    Categorized as:
    magic  vampires  mystery  m-f  urban fantasy  fantasy  paranormal  fae
  • Fire In The Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Fire In The Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Ember discovers she is not only fae, but is one of the most feared type in existence—a Dae—considered an abomination among their kind. Her race is hunted down and killed because of their power.After her magic causes an electrical storm which destroys Seattle, Ember is on the run, pursued by the both the light and dark fae...
  • Between Shifts by W.R. Gingell

    Between Shifts by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    There’s a body beneath the skip bins. Fae on the forklift. A vampire in the manager’s office. And there’s definitely something skeevy going on in the locker rooms. Hi. I’m Pet. Well, not exactly Pet. I am a pet. I was meant to stay out of it, but somebody’s gotta do something when humans are being killed by Behindkind creatures...
  • Salvation by Erica Stevens

    Salvation by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Imprisoned by Caleb and at the mercy of the king, Aria is determined not to let them break her. However, the more atrocities she witnesses, the more she realizes there are some horrors no one can withstand, and sometimes survival isn’t always the best option...
  • Dwellers Of Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Dwellers Of Darkness- 10 year Anniversary by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Three years have passed in Earth’s realm when Ember and her friends finally return from the Otherworld.Eli feels her the moment she steps back, and the beast is far from delighted. Believing for the last three years she was dead, he has become violent and cruel in her absence.Eli’s anger isn’t the only thing she should fear...
  • Brimstone Bound by Helen Harper

    Brimstone Bound by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 33 ratings
    A werewolf killer. A paranormal murder. How many times can Emma Bellamy cheat death?I’m one placement away from becoming a fully fledged London detective. It’s bad enough that my last assignment before I qualify is with Supernatural Squad. But that’s nothing compared to what happens next...
  • 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...
  • Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 82 ratings
    Will love conquer all? Nora and Patch thought their troubles were behind them. Hank is gone and they should be able to put his ugly vendetta to rest. But in Hank's absence, Nora has become the unwitting head of the Nephilim and must finish what Hank began. Which ultimately means destroying the fallen angels - destroying Patch...
  • The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff

    The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From acclaimed YA authors Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff comes The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories. - A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck. - Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing. - A world where fires never go out (with references to vanilla ice cream)...
  • Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The Vours: Evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the winter solstice. Six month... Since Reggie first discovered the existence of the Vours in a tattered journal. Since she learned to overcome her fear and destroyed a Vour to save Henry...
  • Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    This electrifying conclusion to the Nevermore trilogy takes one last trip to the dream world of Edgar Allan Poe to reveal the intertwined fates of Isobel and Varen.The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? —Edgar Allan PoeThe fine line between life and death blurred long ago for Isobel Lanley...
    Categorized as:
    demons  magic  mystery  m-f  young adult  fantasy  paranormal  dark
  • Recombinant by Shannon Mayer, Denise Grover Swank

    Recombinant by Shannon Mayer, Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From NYT and USAT bestselling authors Denise Grover Swank and Shannon Mayer comes a new twist on the world of vampires . . .In the city that never sleeps, nightmares live in the darkness . . .A series of grisly murders begin to pile up in New York City, murders that have no rhyme or reason and no leads. Unless one chooses to believe that the supernatural is possible...
  • Hollow Heathens Young Adult: Book of Blackwell by Nicole Fiorina

    Hollow Heathens Young Adult: Book of Blackwell by Nicole Fiorina

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A forbidden, timeless, and haunting love story.Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Fallon who was taken far away from home shortly after she was born. A home that held more than strange traditions and bizarre superstitions...
  • Web of Lies by Jennifer Estep

    Web of Lies by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 47 ratings
    Curiosity is definitely going to get me dead one of these days. Probably real soon.I'm Gin Blanco. You might know me as the Spider, the most feared assassin in the South. I’m retired now, but trouble still has a way of finding me. Like the other day when two punks tried to rob my popular barbecue joint, the Pork Pit. Then there was the barrage of gunfire on the restaurant...
  • Angel Fire by L.A. Weatherly

    Angel Fire by L.A. Weatherly

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the wake of the Second Wave, the angel menace has exploded, and Alex and Willow are on the lam. Willow's prophetic dream points them to Mexico City, where they connect with a fledgling group of angel killers led by the exotically beautiful Kara, an Angel Killer from Alex's past...
  • Night World, No. 3 by L.J. Smith

    Night World, No. 3 by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Includes:Book 7 - HuntressBook 8 - Black DawnBook 9 - Witchlight Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters - they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And fallin in love breaks all the laws of the Night World. The apocalypse is drawing near. But four Wild Powers can save the world from the impending doom...
  • Magic Games by Ella Summers

    Magic Games by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Dragon Born mage Sera Dering was sentenced to death before she was even born. Condemned as an abomination by the world’s supernatural council, she has escaped her fate for twenty-four years by pretending to be human. Until now. When the council finds out Sera has been hiding her magic, they’re determined to find out why...
    Categorized as:
    magic  vampires  demons  bad boys  mystery  m-f  urban fantasy  fantasy
  • The Killing Season by Meg Collett

    The Killing Season by Meg Collett

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the far Alaskan north, there are places the winter sun cannot reach. Places where light won't shine for months. These are the places we hunt the monsters who feed on fear. So begins the Killing Season. For the next sixty-five days, we will face the darkness. Some will hunt the aswangs in the ever night, but I, Ollie Andrews, am here for one purpose: to search for answers to my past...
  • The Hunter by L.J. Smith

    The Hunter by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    He sold her the game, and Jenny Thornton walked out mesmerized by Julian, the gorgeous cyber-punk with electric blue eyes and frost-white hair. When she and her friends open the plain white box at her boyfriend Tom’s birthday party, she chills to the warning: “Entering the Shadow World can be deadly. Do so at your own risk.” Spellbound, they piece together the rooms with their darkest nightmares...
  • Braving the Elements by K.F. Breene

    Braving the Elements by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    Sasha has always known she was different, but now she also knows that the shadow men she’s seen all her life, are real. With a life goal of fitting in, Sasha hopes her strange abilities will finally make true friendship a possibility. Unfortunately, her magic doesn’t function like everyone else’s. What she thought would make her belong, sets her apart now more than ever...
  • The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

    The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 97 ratings
    My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again. All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost - and the ghost saw me. Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone...
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