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  • Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop

    Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 61 ratings
    Jaenelle Angelline now reigns as Queen-protector of the Shadow Realm. No longer will the corrupt Blood slaughter her people and defile her lands. But where one chapter ends, a final, unseen battle remains to be written, and Jaenelle must unleash the terrible power that is Witch to destroy her enemies once and for all. Even so, she cannot stand alone...
  • The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
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  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
  • Shalador's Lady by Anne Bishop

    Shalador's Lady by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    View our feature on Anne Bishop’s Shalador's Lady. Return to the "intense...erotic...and imaginative" (Nancy Kress) world of the national bestselling Black Jewels novels in this sequel to The Shadow Queen...
  • Darkest at Dawn by Christine Feehan

    Darkest at Dawn by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    In one volume for the first time-a Dark novel and novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author...
  • It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Midlife is madness—magical, messy and one freaking crisis after another.With a new job I didn’t apply for and an extended family I didn’t know I had—midlife has become somewhat problematic. Gluing ghosts back together is easy compared to my new celestial occupation.The Grim Reaper wants to put a ring on it. Tim wants to be a father...
  • It's A Hard-Knock Midlife by Robyn Peterman

    It's A Hard-Knock Midlife by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Midlife is supposed to be messy, but this is a full-on catastrophic crisis.Just when I thought life might be getting back to normal—normal being a relative word—I couldn’t have been more wrong.Marriage proposal from the Grim Reaper? Yes.Beautiful healthy baby? Yes.Friends and family safe? Yes.Ghost of my worst enemy sitting on my front porch? OMG. Yep...
  • Chosen by Vanessa Nelson

    Chosen by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Demons on the loose. Ritual murders. An ancient vampire breathing down her neck.Some days Max just doesn't know where to start. The problems facing her city are piling up, and there seems no end or solution in sight.Max's job used to be dealing with supernatural creatures...
  • Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In a city full of rising tension, with people going missing or turning up dead, can Max resist the call to help?When Max tries to intervene to prevent an assault and it goes horribly wrong, she wants nothing more than to keep her head down and get on with her job. She does not want to answer calls for help, not even from Bryce, the Order warrior who seems willing to give her a second chance...
  • Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Perry Palomino has fought her demons – and won – but the battle is far from over. She’s now left broken and on her own, leaving behind her life and family in Portland to focus on giving Dex Foray – and the Experiment in Terror show – a second chance. But their past mistakes continue to tease and test their relationship, as does the wild and desolate terrain of the Canadian Rockies...
  • Hunted by Vanessa Nelson

    Hunted by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Unsolved murders, supernatural creatures and civil unrest. Just another day.Problems keep piling up around Max. No sooner has she dealt with one set of supernatural creatures, than she's called to the city's mortuary to an unusual death. The city's most senior spiritual leader is also trying to get hold of her. On top of that, Bryce cancelled their date and hasn't been seen for days...
  • Bound by Benedict Jacka

    Bound by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Mage Alex Verus is caught between a rock and a hard place in the eighth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Burned.Right now I wasn’t seeing Richard as the teacher out of my nightmares, he was just another Dark mage, and I looked into the future to see what would happen if I turned that knife on him instead..
  • On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    When the life you wanted has crumbled beneath your fingers, there’s nothing left to do but pick up the pieces and soldier on. You’ve done this before. But what happens when you no longer feel like yourself anymore? When fires spontaneously start-up around you, when you hear growling coming from underneath your bed, and you no longer recognize your face in the mirror...
  • Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter

    Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Failing grades. Misleading wind vampires. And a fortune in forgotten gold. Traveling to the most remote region of China certainly wasn’t what Ben Vecchio had in mind for his summer vacation, but when Tenzin suggested a quick trip, he could hardly turn down a chance to keep her out of trouble and practice the Mandarin he still struggled with in class...
  • Forged by Vanessa Nelson

    Forged by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Blood may be thicker than water, but not all families are meant to stay together.Struggling to maintain her independence, and the life she has fought so hard to build, Max finally learns the truth about her own origins and her family.Max has no time to absorb the shocking news...
  • The Facts of Midlife by Robyn Peterman

    The Facts of Midlife by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Midlife is sheer madness, and the facts of midlife are not taught in school. Unfortunately, some lessons are hellishly hard to learn.I thought I had it figured out. I was wrong.Proving I’m the Angel of Mercy is turning into a sh*tshow of epic proportions.Not too long ago, I was a forty-year-old gal with a stable and boring life ahead of me. Now? Not so much...
  • Misplaced Souls by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Misplaced Souls by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six years, three months, and two days ago, I was kidnapped by a black witch. Then forced to bear witness as she slaughtered witches and sorcerers across Europe, siphoning their magic and corrupting what she could of my own power in order to raise vanquished demons...
  • Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures vol 1 by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures vol 1 by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton brings Anita Blake to the world of graphic novels. Anita Blake lives in a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves have been declared legal citizens of the United States. Anita Blake is an "animator" - a profession that involves raising the dead for mourning relatives...
  • Come Alive by Karina Halle

    Come Alive by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    It’s one thing to bring the woman you love back into your life. It’s another to try and keep her there. For Dex Foray, con­vinc­ing Perry Palomino to open her­self to their bur­geon­ing rela­tion­ship has been more chal­leng­ing than hunt­ing ghosts, bat­tling demons and stalk­ing Sasquatch com­bined...
  • Dark Peril by Feehan C Christine Feehan

    Dark Peril by Feehan C Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Dominic of the Dragonseeker lineage - one of the most powerful lines the Carpathian people has - infiltrates the heart of the enemy camp to learn their plans. This is a one-way mission: he plans to get in fast, relay the information and go down fighting - an honourable way to end his life. But a complication lies ahead...
  • The Astonishing Strande Brothers by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Astonishing Strande Brothers by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 20 ratings
    Some bonds are too strong to be broken. Even by death.“The Astonishing Strande Brothers” is a short story/extended epilogue that tells the tale of the reunion between Julian Strande and his long-lost brother Louis on a snowy holiday at the Strande Estate.It combines characters from both my Harrow Faire and Impossible Julian Strande series...
  • Stealing Phoenix by Joss Stirling

    Stealing Phoenix by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Phoenix belongs to the Community, a gang of thieves with paranormal powers. Yves Benedict, an American student visiting London, is her mark. But Yves turns out to be more than just a target. He is her destiny. Her soulmate. The Community owns Phoenix's past and it wants her future too. Can Phoenix save the boy she loves . .
  • Toughest Deal by Alessa Thorn

    Toughest Deal by Alessa Thorn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The occult group Aurora is closing in on the Edgeworths, and they are going to need Altun, the Sorceress of Istanbul, to help them if they are going to stay alive.'Toughest Deal' is the third book in 'Mercenaries and Magic,' a fast-paced, contemporary fantasy series full of morally gray characters, found family, passionate romance, and dark humor...
  • Red Fox by Karina Halle

    Red Fox by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 33 ratings
    With Book Two of the Experiment in Terror Series, Perry Palomino and Dex Foray trade in the stormy Oregon coast for the unforgiving deserts of New Mexico. In the for­got­ten town of Red Fox, New Mex­ico, a Navajo cou­ple is tor­tured by things unseen and by motives unknown...
  • Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu

    Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    DARK DREAM Christine Feehan She’s known him since she was fifteen. Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falcon—the Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate. A DREAM OF STONE & SHADOW Marjorie M...
  • The Killing Floor Blues by Craig Schaefer

    The Killing Floor Blues by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Nobody has ever escaped from the Iceberg. It's a privately-owned prison deep in the Mojave Desert, staffed by brutal guards and surrounded by desolate wasteland. Inside the walls, gangs and predators are constant threats; outside the walls, there's nothing but a sniper's bullet or a slow death in the desert heat...
  • Twilight's Dawn by Anne Bishop

    Twilight's Dawn by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop's Black Jewels novels have enthralled readers and critics alike. Now, in Twilight's Dawn, Bishop returns to the Blood realm with four captivating novellas: Winsol Gifts, Shades of Honor, Family, and The High Lord's Daughter...
  • A Plain-Dealing Villain by Craig Schaefer

    A Plain-Dealing Villain by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It's hard to make a dishonest buck in Sin City, especially when a rogue FBI agent is gunning for your head. Flat broke and one step ahead of the law, Daniel Faust flees Vegas and lands in Chicago, where a risky heist promises to fill his pockets with cash...
  • Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent

    Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Kori Daniels is a shadow-walker, able to travel instantly from one shadow to another. After weeks of confinement for betraying her boss, she's ready to break free of the Tower syndicate for good. But Jake Tower has one final job for Kori, one chance to secure freedom for herself and her sister, Kenley, even if it means taking it from someone else...
  • New Regime by Laken Cane

    New Regime by Laken Cane

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Rune and her people have been taken under the mysterious wing of the Annex, an agency that works toward Other equality.But with the new regime comes changes and some monstrous enemies the Annex seems to have brought with it.The crew finds themselves up against a group called the Shop, whose leader cares only about his lab and the monsters he creates there...
  • Ghosted by Karina Halle

    Ghosted by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Ghosted is an all-new EIT novella told from Dex's POV. It should be read after Dust to Dust (after Veiled, preferably) and before Came Back Haunted.It's available in the All the Love in the World anthology on Amazon, as well as by itself in paperback, and at Nook, iBooks and Kobo...
  • A Wild Light by Marjorie M. Liu

    A Wild Light by Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    View our feature on Marjorie Liu’s A Wild Light. For too long Maxine Kiss has felt an inexplicable darkness inside her-a force she channels into hunting the demons bent on destroying the human race. But when she finds herself covered in blood and crouched beside her grandfather's dead body with no memory of what happened, Maxine begins to fear that the darkness has finally consumed her...
  • Ever Winter by Alexia Purdy

    Ever Winter by Alexia Purdy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Shade has been left all, but shattered. Travelling to the Ice kingdom, along with her 'body guard' Dylan-who continues to be bound to her-to where the holder of her magic dwells. The war of Faerie amplifies and her only chance to save it will be to resist the enchantments of the Ice King, one of the Ancient rulers of Faerie...
    Categorized as:
    magic  contemporary  fantasy  urban fantasy  war  dark  paranormal  fae
  • Cruel Enchantment by Anya Bast

    Cruel Enchantment by Anya Bast

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    View our feature on Anya Bast’s Cruel Enchantment. The Dark Magick series continues from this New York Times bestselling author. To keep her fae race from being eradicated, Emmaline Gallagher must retrieve an object of fae power from a locked ancient box. Only Aeric O'Malley has the forging skills to create a key...
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat...
  • Bare Bones by Debra Dunbar

    Bare Bones by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Skinned bodies are turning up in broom closets and garages, but when these bodies are identified, the ‘victims’ are found to be very much alive...
  • The Living End by Craig Schaefer

    The Living End by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    As the FBI closes in on the Las Vegas underworld, Daniel Faust -- grifter, thief, and sorcerer -- isn't the only one feeling the heat. Half-demon racket boss Nicky Agnelli is fighting to hang onto his empire, leaving a trail of dead informants in his wake, while Daniel's ex-girlfriend Jennifer rallies her forces on the street and aims her sights at Nicky's crown...
  • The Sinner by Amanda Stevens

    The Sinner by Amanda Stevens

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 15 ratings
    I am a living ghost, a wanderer in search of my purpose and place…  I'm a cemetery restorer by trade, but my calling has evolved from that of ghost seer to death walker to detective of lost souls. I solve the riddles of the dead so the dead will leave me alone.  I've come to Seven Gates Cemetery nursing a broken heart, but peace is hard to come by…for the ghosts here and for me...
  • Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite

    Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Robert McGee is a man living under a dark cloud. Acclaimed cartoonist of the underground comic book Birdland, he has moved his family from Texas to New Orleans and finally to Missing Mile, North Carolina. But Robert is unable to escape the drinking and the violence that have become as natural to him as breathing...
  • Misfit Mage by Michael Taggart

    Misfit Mage by Michael Taggart

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He went searching for a fresh start. He didn’t expect to find unusual friends, fierce enemies, and primal powers.Jason thought that it was the end of his life after being hunted and attacked by a band of ruthless thugs. Instead, he tapped into the source of creation and emerged from his Death Experience with magical powers...
  • Savor by Kate Evangelista

    Savor by Kate Evangelista

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mature and explicit content. Not recommended for readers below 18-years-old. Yup, you've got to be that old to read my story. Consider yourself warned. I’m Dakota Collins, a tough talking, eye patch wearing, workaholic photography student. Why am I important? Well, maybe because I get to spend an entire month with Vicious, only the sickest indie rock band out there...
  • Enigma by Moira Rogers

    Enigma by Moira Rogers

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Anna Lenoir has always fought. First to escape her broken childhood, then to prove a female shapeshifter can stand shoulder to shoulder with the men. Now she fights for money, and her reputation is as legendary as her stone-cold heart. She’s never met a man she couldn’t walk away from. Until him...
  • Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief  (A Graphic Novel) by Faye Perozich, Travis Moore

    Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief (A Graphic Novel) by Faye Perozich, Travis Moore

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The vampire Lestat, bestselling author Anne Rice's chilling creation, is back...in a graphic novel adaptation of The Tale of the Body Thief, part of the bloodsoaked Vampire Chronicles. Immortalised on screen by Tom Cruise in Interview With a Vampire, Lestat is the decadent, corrupt night dweller with a craving for human blood and the ethics of a snake...
  • Ever Fire by Alexia Purdy

    Ever Fire by Alexia Purdy

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Magic & Fire burn... The Serenity of the Land of Faerie is threatened as the Unseelie Queen Aveta rages war against the three remaining Seelie Realms of Faerie. As Shade's powers grow, she finds she is running out of time to keep the war from spilling into the human world. Winter is growing in strength as the evil Queen's horrifying legions scar the land in their frigid wake. No one is safe...
  • Tommy Nightmare by J.L. Bryan

    Tommy Nightmare by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    While Fallen Oak recovers from the Jenny pox, someone new is hunting Jenny. Like Jenny, Ashleigh Goodling belonged to a pair of opposites with powers that mirror each other. Now Jenny and Seth must face the opposite of love... *** Alexander Death, the third book in the Paranormals series, is now available. The fourth book, Jenny Plague-Bringer, will be available in the fall of 2012...
  • Pretty When She Kills by Rhiannon Frater

    Pretty When She Kills by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Amaliya Vezorak never believed in happy endings… When Amaliya harnessed her necromancer powers to defeat her greatest enemy, she believed she had finally found a happy ending with Cian, her lover and the master of Austin. That happiness is short-lived when the vampire ruling over San Antonio attempts a takeover of Austin in order to capture Amaliya and use her power for his own devices...
  • Old Blood by Karina Halle

    Old Blood by Karina Halle

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A haunting novella from the Experiment in Terror Series... From her harrowing introduction in Darkhouse, the spectre known as “Creepy Clown Lady” has been a constant fixture in Perry Palomino’s life. But beyond the horrid makeup and piercing stare lies Pippa, a woman just like everyone else. Well, not quite...
  • Reeve of Veils by Amelia Faulkner, A.K. Faulkner

    Reeve of Veils by Amelia Faulkner, A.K. Faulkner

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Vengeful. Telepath. Mastermind. Frederick d’Arcy is determined to uncover the truth of his mother’s untimely death, so when he finally locates his missing brother Quentin – the only potential witness – he drops everything and travels to San Diego, but Quentin is embroiled in a different mystery, and Frederick finds himself sucked into a world more dangerous than he likes. Dealer. Loser...
    Categorized as:
    magic  horror  fantasy  paranormal  m-m  urban fantasy  queer  abuse
  • Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover

    Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Renowned throughout the land of Ankhana as the Blade of Tyshalle, Caine has killed his share of monarchs and commoners, villains and heroes. He is relentless, unstoppable, simply the best there is at what he does. At home on Earth, Caine is Hari Michaelson, a superstar whose adventures in Ankhana command an audience of billions...
  • Hex Work by T.A. Moore

    Hex Work by T.A. Moore

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 5 ratings
    My name is Jonah Carrow, and it’s been 300 days since I laid a hex.OK, Jonah Carrow isn’t actually an alcoholic. But there’s no support group of lapsed hex-slingers in Jerusalem, so he’s got to make do. He goes for the bad coffee and the reminder that he just has to take normal one day at a time.Unfortunately, his past isn’t willing to go down without a fight...
    Categorized as:
    horror  magic  m-m  urban fantasy  fantasy  paranormal  humor  dark
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