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  • Ever After by Kim Harrison

    Ever After by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    The ever after, the demonic realm that parallels the human world, is shrinking. If it disappears completely, so does all magic. It's up to witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan to avert catastrophe and keep life from changing... for the worse.While saving the world is important, it isn't Rachel's only motivation...
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    dark  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  urban  vampires
  • Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

    Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Condemned and shunned for black magic, Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witches’ conference and clear her name, or be trapped in the demonic ever-after . . . forever after.But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, and a pixy in one car going across the country? Talk about a recipe for certain disaster, even without being the targets for assassination...
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    dark  female-mc  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

    The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    Note: This book is the same as The Outlaw Demon Wails. It was printed under both titles. To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her...
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    dark  female-mc  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • Crowbones by Anne Bishop

    Crowbones by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her friends must find a killer-before it's too late...
  • Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

    Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter—and lived to tell the tale. But she's never faced off against her own kind . . . until now.Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black magic, her best hope is life imprisonment—at worst, a forced lobotomy and genetic slavery...
  • For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison

    For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Despite dating one vampire and living with another, Rachel Morgan has stayed ahead of trouble until now. A serial killer stalks the Hollows, claims victims across society, and ignites a vicious Inderland gang war. Rachel hides an ancient artifact that could stop the killer or start a battle to the death among supernatural races of Cincinnati. Every action has its price...
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    dark  female-mc  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

    White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the sinister and seductive Hollows for the newest blockcuster adventure featuring Rachel Morgan, witch and bounty hunter.White Witch, Black CurseSome wounds take time to heal...and some scars never fade.Rachel Morgan, kick-ass witch and bounty hunter, has taken her fair share of hits, and has broken lines she swore she would never cross...
  • Black Arts by Faith Hunter

    Black Arts by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker who always takes care of her own—no matter the cost...When Evan Trueblood blows into town looking for his wife, Molly, he’s convinced that she came to see her best friend, Jane. But it seems like the witch made it to New Orleans and then disappeared without a trace.Jane is ready to do whatever it takes to find her friend...
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    dark  female-mc  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning

    Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who’d get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe-seers, people who can see the Fae...
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    dark  female-mc  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison

    Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    There's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who's already put her love life and soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice...
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    dark  female-mc  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong

    Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    War is coming to the Otherworld. A sinister cult known as The Supernatural Liberation Movement is hell-bent on exposing the truth about supernaturals to the rest of the world. Their violent, ruthless plan has put everyone at risk: from werewolves to vampires, from witches to half-demons.Savannah Levine - fiery and unpredictable - stands at the heart of the maelstrom...
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    dark  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  urban  vampires
  • Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

    Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Deep in the heart of Texas, Morganville is a small college town full of laid-back students and eccentric townies, not to mention the sort of creatures you wouldn't want to run into after dark. Despite their obvious differences, the human and vampire residents of Morganville have learned to coexist, but that doesn't stop genius student Claire Danvers from keeping up her guard...
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    dark  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  urban  vampires
  • The Romeo Catchers by Alys Arden

    The Romeo Catchers by Alys Arden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Is blood thicker than magic in La Nouvelle-Orléans?Adele scours Storm-ravaged New Orleans for the truth about her family’s magical past, tormented by the fate she condemned her mother to, and by the lies she’s forced to tell to cover it up. But every turn leads her back to the one person she’s determined to forget: Niccolò Medici...
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison

    The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    Rachel Morgan, sexy witch, independent bounty hunter, prowls the downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle leather-clad vamps and a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is an ancient, implacable evil that threatens her very soul...
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    dark  female-mc  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong

    Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Smart, sexy, supernatural—the men and women of the Otherworld live and love, fight and die, among us. Unseen and unsuspected, this realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves is now threatened with exposure by a brutal series of bizarre murders that has left even the supernatural world baffled—and cold with terror...
  • Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    As a curious six-year-old, Clayton didn’t resist the bite—he asked for it. But surviving as a lone child-werewolf was more than he could manage—until Jeremy came along and taught him how to straddle the human-werewolf worlds, gave him a home…and introduced him to the Pack...
  • Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost

    Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    An immortal war has been brewing in the darkness . . . And now one woman has stumbled into the shadows. Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she's only imagined in her worst nightmares...
  • Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong has bewitched audiences with her Otherworld series of supernatural thrillers. Now, in this new collection of shorter fiction, some of Armstrong's most tantalizing lead characters appear alongside her unforgettable supporting players, who step out of the shadows and into the light...
  • Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong has bewitched audiences with her Otherworld series of supernatural thrillers. Now, in this new collection of shorter fiction, some of Armstrong's most tantalizing lead characters appear alongside her unforgettable supporting players, who step out of the shadows and into the light...
  • Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    In Circus of the Damned-now in trade paperback for the first time-a rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other plans...
  • Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine, Cynthia Holloway

    Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine, Cynthia Holloway

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    A new chapter in the New York Times bestselling Morganville Vampires saga. Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big- time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some gigs-which means Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he's been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael's all-too-human friends...
  • Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter

    Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Things are heating up in the Big Easy. Weres have announced their existence to the world, and revived the bitter tensions that run between them and their old enemies: vampires. As a trusted employee of Leo Pellissier, Blood Master of the City, Jane finds herself caught in the cross fire...
  • Fade Out by Rachel Caine

    Fade Out by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Withoutthe evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville,the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again… Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the localtheatrecompany...
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    dark  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  urban  vampires
  • Broken by Kelley Armstrong

    Broken by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on the twenty-first century — and become his next target…Ever since she discovered she’s pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, she’s never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one who’s given birth...
  • The Mark of the Vampire Queen by Joey W. Hill

    The Mark of the Vampire Queen by Joey W. Hill

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When he becomes Lady Lyssa’s full servant, Jacob crosses the threshold into a darker relationship with her than he’s known before. His time as a vampire hunter certainly hadn’t prepared him to embrace a world where humans are sexual commodities, but he adapted. Now he finds the integrity of his soul challenged as he serves his Mistress’s needs as fully as he services her desires...
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    dark  magic  paranormal  suspense  urban  vampires  adult  age-gap
  • The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Danger turns her on. Desire turns her dangerous…Riley Jenson hunts evildoers—and does it with a style all her own...
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    dark  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  urban  vampires
  • The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Danger turns her on. Desire turns her dangerous…Riley Jenson hunts evildoers—and does it with a style all her own...
    Categorized as:
    dark  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  urban  vampires
  • The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey

    The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but if you ask Castor he'll tell you there's quite a bit of arrogance and reckless stupidity lining the streets as well. And he should know. There's only so many times you can play both sides against the middle and get away with it. Now, the inevitable moment of crisis has arrived and it's left Castor with blood on his hands...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  law-enforcement  magic  noir  paranormal  suspense  urban
  • No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong

    No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In her acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series, bestselling author Kelley Armstrong creates a present day in which humans unwittingly coexist with werewolves, witches, and other supernatural beings. Now, in this spellbinding new novel, a beautiful necromancer who can see ghosts must come to terms with her power—and with an evil she never thought possible...
  • Pay Dirt by Chris Underwood

    Pay Dirt by Chris Underwood

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Lost Falls, nothing ever stays buried. Look, I'm a reasonable guy. When the ghoul came to me, shaking and sweating and claiming that he'd been cursed, I did what I could to help. After all, as Lost Falls' resident cunning man, breaking curses is my specialty...
  • Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong

    Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    At twenty-one, Savannah Levine-orphaned daughter of a notorious dark witch and an equally notorious cutthroat sorcerer-considers herself a full-fledged member of the otherworld. The once rebellious teen has grown into a six-foot-tall, motorcycle-riding jaw-dropper, with an impressive knowledge of and ability to perform spells...
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    dark  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  suspense  urban  vampires
  • The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton

    The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it...
  • Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

    Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    It was in Bitten, Kelley Armstrong's debut novel, that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman and the only living female werewolf...
  • First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost

    First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    The night is not safe for mortals.Denise MacGregor knows all too well what lurks in the shadows – her best friend is half-vampire Cat Crawfield – and she has already lost more than the average human could bear. But her family’s dark past is wrapped in secrets and shrouded in darkness – and a demon shapeshifter has marked Denise as prey...
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    dark  ghosts  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • Blood Cross by Faith Hunter

    Blood Cross by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is back on the prowl against the children of the night... The vampire council has hired skinwalker Jane Yellowrock to hunt and kill one of their own who has broken sacred ancient rules — but Jane quickly realizes that in a community that is thousands of years old, loyalties run deep..
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    dark  female-mc  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child–twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children...
  • Immortal Danger by Cynthia Eden

    Immortal Danger by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Being bullet proof sucks - literallyOnce, Maya Black was a kick-ass cop patrolling the streets of L. A. She still keeps the city safe, but nowadays her bad guys of choice include demons, werewolves, and assorted nocturnal scum. Something Maya knows a thing or two about. She's a vampire--and not thrilled about it. Payback meet bitch.Adam Brody hopes Maya is as dangerous as they say she is...
  • A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton, Laural Merlington

    A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton, Laural Merlington

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Commanded by her aunt, the dark Queen Andais, to conceive a child as heir to the throne, Meredith Gentry, a half-mortal, half-faerie princess, returns to Los Angeles, only to find herself and her lovers trapped between the dark and light faerie courts and human law...
  • What a Ghoul Wants by Victoria Laurie

    What a Ghoul Wants by Victoria Laurie

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    M. J. Holliday has the unusual ability to talk to the dead. But when it comes to a vengeful ghost and a mysterious drowning, this time she may be in over her head…. THAT SINKING FEELING Kidwella Castle in northern Wales is rumored to be haunted by a deadly ghost—the Grim Widow, who allegedly drowns unsuspecting guests in the castle’s moat. Not long after M. J...
  • Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey

    Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, so dealing with the dead is his stock in trade. Between his private clients and some consulting for the Met, he thinks he's seen it all. But a late-night call out to a South London housing estate proves that he still has a few surprises left. After all, it's not every day you see your own name painted in blood at a a crime scene.But that's only the beginning...
  • The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton

    The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    Anita has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. She's survived a lot, but this love thing may kill her yet...
  • Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep

    Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    I’d rather face a dozen lethal assassins any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.But here I am. Gin Blanco, the semi-retired assassin known as the Spider. Hovering outside sexy businessman Owen Grayson’s front door like a nervous teenage girl. One thing I like about Owen: he doesn’t shy away from my past—or my present...
  • Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    In Laurell K. Hamilton's "New York Times" bestselling novels, Anita Blake, vampire hunter and animator, takes a bite out of crime-of the supernatural kind. But even someone who deals with death on a daily basis can be unnerved by its power... When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave-four unsolved murders-it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well...
  • The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton

    The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    Dating both a vampire and a werewolf isn't easy. But just to complicate Anita's already messy life, someone has put a price on her head. Love cannot save her this time, so she turns to Edward, hitman extraordinaire, for help. But finding the person behind the threat won't be easy, because as both a vampire hunter and zombie reanimator, Anita has made a lot of enemies-both human and otherwise...
  • Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter backlist takes flight with a whole new look.In her ninth adventure, vampire hunter Anita Blake owes a favor to a friend-a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face...
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    dark  female-mc  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • Burnt Offerings by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Burnt Offerings by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    "You can't trust anyone who sleeps with the monsters."That's what I've always said. That's what I've always believed. But now I'm the one sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the City. Me, Anita Blake. The woman the vampires call the Executioner. From part of the solution, I've become part of the problem...
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    dark  female-mc  magic  north-america  paranormal  suspense  urban  usa
  • A Ghost of a Chance by Debbie Cassidy

    A Ghost of a Chance by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They say the dead don’t speak. That’s a lie. They speak to Kat Justice, but most of the time, she chooses not to hear them.I’m a Nightwatch agent, a nightblood charged with enforcing the supernatural laws. Humans can’t know the shit that goes bump in the night is real. It’s sweaty, tough work, with crappy pay, but I love it.Things would be perfect if not for my secret...
  • Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The ghost of Sherlock Holmes is dead, but who will solve his murder?The Great Detective's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger through his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost?When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option...
  • Chasing the Shadows by Keri Arthur

    Chasing the Shadows by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nikki James is in San Francisco at the request of her partner and best friend, Jake. The wife of an old friend is missing, and Jake intends to find her—whatever the cost. The authorities believe the kidnappings to be the work of a sick mind, but Nikki knows that the truth is something much worse—especially since she seems to have an unexpected psychic link to the killer...
  • My Dead Body by Charlie Huston, Scott Brick

    My Dead Body by Charlie Huston, Scott Brick

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Private eye Joe Pitt has been in hiding since exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattans Vampyres. But now a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. Then Joe is hired to find a missing girl who is carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind...
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