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  • Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning

    Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  magic  paranormal  steamy
  • Feversong by Karen Marie Moning

    Feversong by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning returns with the epic conclusion to her pulse-pounding Fever series, where a world thrown into chaos grows more treacherous at every turn. As Mac, Barrons, Ryodan, and Jada struggle to restore control, enemies become allies, right and wrong cease to exist, and the lines between life and death, lust and love, disappear completely...
  • High Voltage by Karen Marie Moning

    High Voltage by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    There is no action without consequence…Dani O’Malley was nine years old when the delusional, sadistic Rowena transformed her into a ruthless killer. Years later, she’s tough, hardened, yet achingly vulnerable and fiercely compassionate, living alone by her own exacting code. Despite the scars on her body, driven by deeper ones carved into her soul, no one is more committed to protecting Dublin...
  • Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Kate Harker isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.August Flynn once yearned to be human. But no longer. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.The war has begun.The monsters are winning.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in...
  • Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown

    Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Kidnapped by the notorious rebel group, Provstat, Brexley finds her connection goes deeper than she ever imagined. Reunited with old acquaintances and an uncle she never knew, Brexley is thrown into the vicious world of politics, where human and fae leaders will do anything to come out on top...
  • Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Nalini Singh steps back into the shadows of her “heartbreakingly original”* world where angels rule, vampires serve, and the innocent can pay the greatest price of all…Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux and her lover, the lethally beautiful archangel Raphael, have returned home to New York only to face an uncompromising new evil…A vampire has attacked a girls’ school—the assault one of sheer, vicious...
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    alpha-mc  angels  dark  female-mc  magic  paranormal  steamy  urban
  • City of Ghosts by Stacia Kane

    City of Ghosts by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The third book in this gritty, sexy, urban fantasy trilogy.Rogue spirits and psychopomps are terrorising people, and now someone is planning to open the gates to the City of Ghosts and unleash the dead on humanity.Faced with her greatest challenge yet, Chess has to travel to the spirit city to finally lay all her ghosts to rest… Chess Putnam has a lot on her plate...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal
  • Ghost's Whisper by Ella Summers

    Ghost's Whisper by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The enemy isn’t a monster or a demon this time. It is fear, the destroyer of worlds.Life has never been better for Leda Pandora, the Angel of Chaos. She is married to the archangel Nero Windstriker, the love of her life. And she commands a vast territory, surrounded by her closest friends and family.Everything is perfect—until the Earth’s magic goes haywire...
  • Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    THE WORLD IS BREAKING. AND SO ARE THEY.KATE HARKER isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.AUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.THE WAR HAS BEGUN.THE MONSTERS ARE WINNING.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in...
  • Curran POV Collection by Gordon Andrews, Ilona Andrews

    Curran POV Collection by Gordon Andrews, Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Not short story, novella, or standalone, but collection of scenes written by Gordon Andrews as a companion to our Kate Daniels series of books. These scenes illustrate the point of view of Curran, the Beast Lord of Atlanta and are provided in gratitude to our readers for all of their support...
  • Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane

    Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A DEADLY HIGH   Magic-wielding Churchwitch and secret addict Chess Putnam knows better than anyone just how high a price people are willing to pay for a chemical rush...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal
  • Iced by Karen Marie Moning

    Iced by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning comes the first book in her hotly anticipated new urban paranormal trilogy, set in the world of her blockbuster Fever series. The year is 1 AWC—After the Wall Crash. The Fae are free and hunting us. It’s a war zone out there, and no two days are alike...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  magic  paranormal  urban
  • The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

    The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness…Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them—the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies and becomes one of the monsters...
  • The Wilds by Donna Augustine

    The Wilds by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My name is Dahlia but I’m called a Plaguer, a person who survived the Bloody Death. When the virus first hit the world, it ravaged the human race. I thought I was lucky to survive it but survival comes at a cost. Ever since the sickness, I see things and I’m hunted for these visions. Some seek me out because they want to keep their secrets safe...
  • Blood-Kissed Sky by J.A. London

    Blood-Kissed Sky by J.A. London

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There's nowhere left to hide. I thought vampires were our enemies - they controlled our lives, isolated our cities, and demanded our blood - until I met Victor. With Victor taking over as the new Lord Valentine, things were supposed to get better. Instead, they're worse than ever. Day Walkers, a new breed of vampires who can walk in the sun, are terrorizing the city...
  • A Questionable Client by Ilona Andrews

    A Questionable Client by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In a world beset by magic waves, Kate Daniels works as a mercenary. She is tired, hungry, and there is foul-smelling blood on her boots. All she wants to do is to go home, but when Mercenary Guild offers her a job she can't refuse, she finds herself protecting a man against Russian wizards.This story was originally published in the anthologies Dark and Stormy Knights and Magic Graves...
  • Unholy Magic by Stacia Kane

    Unholy Magic by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    ENEMIES DON’T NEED TO BE ALIVE TO BE DEADLY. For Chess Putnam, finding herself near-fatally poisoned by a con psychic and then stopping a murderous ghost is just another day on the job...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal
  • Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London

    Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    At seventeen, Dawn Montgomery knows that monsters really do come out at night—after all, they are her job...
  • Captured by Erica Stevens

    Captured by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Blood Slave.Captured, taken from her beloved family and woods, Aria’s biggest fear is not the imminent death facing her, but that she will be chosen as a blood slave for a member of the ruling vampire race. No matter what becomes of her though, Aria knows that she must keep her identity hidden from the monsters imprisoning her...
  • Shoot the Messenger by Pippa DaCosta

    Shoot the Messenger by Pippa DaCosta

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    "Lies aren't her only weapons against the fae..."In the Halow system, one of Earth’s three sister star systems, tek and magic—humans and the fae—are at war.Kesh Lasota is a ghost in the machine. Invisible to tek, she’s hired by the criminal underworld to carry illegal messages through the Halow system...
  • Dark and Stormy Knights by P.N. Elrod, Ilona Andrews

    Dark and Stormy Knights by P.N. Elrod, Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    9 stories from the hottest writers in paranormal fantasy. 1. A Questionable Client (Kate Daniels, #0.5) by Ilona Andrews: Kate Daniels guards shifter Saiman, less trustworthy than the enemy.2. Even Hand (Dresden Files, #11.6) by Jim Butcher: "Gentleman" John Marcone, Chicago's most dangerous crime lord, fights water demon with defenses against White Council wizard Harry Dresden. 3...
  • Must Love Hellhounds by Charlaine Harris, Nalini Singh

    Must Love Hellhounds by Charlaine Harris, Nalini Singh

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In these hound-eat-hound worlds, anything goes…and everything bites.The Britlingens Go to Hell: Follow paranormal bodyguards Clovache and Batanya into Lucifer’s realm, where they encounter his fearsome four-legged pets. Angels’ Judgment: Seek out a traitor in the midst of a guild of nonlethal vampire trackers, one that intends to eradicate the entire species of bloodsuckers...
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    angels  dark  demons  dystopia  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  urban
  • Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton

    Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Ari can't help feeling lost and alone. With teal eyes and freakish silver hair that can't be changed or destroyed, Ari has always stood out. And after growing up in foster care, she longs for some understanding of where she came from and who she is. Her search for answers uncovers just one message from her long dead mother: Run...
  • Dead Man Rising by Lilith Saintcrow

    Dead Man Rising by Lilith Saintcrow

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    As psychics all over the city are being savagely murdered, a piece of the past half-demon bounty hunter Dante Valentine thought she'd buried is stalking the night with a vengeance. Original...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal
  • Flesh and Blood by Kristen Painter

    Flesh and Blood by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    With the ring of sorrows still missing, and the covenant between othernaturals and mortals broken, Chrysabelle and Malkolm's problems are just beginning. Chrysabelle still owes Malkolm for his help, but fulfilling that debt means returning to Corvinestri, the hidden vampire city neither of them is welcome in...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  dystopia  ghosts  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  urban
  • Saint City Sinners by Lilith Saintcrow

    Saint City Sinners by Lilith Saintcrow

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Saint City has always been Dante Valentine's home. It's where she grew up, it's where her dead are buried, and it's where she learned to hunt. Now, one call from an old friend will bring her back to investigate a murder too close to home for anyone's comfort. But the one person she trusted has just betrayed her. Sometimes revenge is best served demon-hot..
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  magic  paranormal
  • Working for the Devil by Lilith Saintcrow

    Working for the Devil by Lilith Saintcrow

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    When the devil needs a rogue demon killed, he calls Dante Valentine--a cross between Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake and Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan--in this sassy debut novel by Saintcrow. Original...
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    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal
  • To Hell and Back by Lilith Saintcrow

    To Hell and Back by Lilith Saintcrow

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The pulse-pounding finale to Lilith Saintcrow's urban fantasy series featuring Dante Valentine.Dante Valentine has been through Hell. Literally. Her body shattered and her mind not far behind, she's dumped back into her own world to survive--or not--as a pawn in one of Lucifer's endless games.Unfortunately, he's just messed with the wrong Necromance...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  ghosts  magic
  • The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

    The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave.One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses...
  • House of the Rising Sun by Kristen Painter

    House of the Rising Sun by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Augustine lives the perfect life in the Haven city of New Orleans. He rarely works a real job, spends most of his nights with a different human woman, and resides in a spectacular Garden District mansion paid for by retired movie star Olivia Goodwin, who has come to think of him as an adopted son, providing him room and board and whatever else he needs...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  ghosts  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  urban  vampires
  • Blood Rights by Kristen Painter

    Blood Rights by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Rebellion has a price.The lacy gold mapped her entire body. A finely wrought filigree of stars, vines, flowers, butterflies, ancient symbols and words ran from her feet, up her legs, over her narrow waist, spanned her chest and finished down her arms to the tips of her fingers...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  ghosts  magic
  • Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane

    Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    THE DEPARTED HAVE ARRIVED. The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Enter Chess Putnam, a fully tattooed witch and freewheeling ghost hunter. She’s got a real talent for banishing the wicked dead...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal
  • Keeping It Real by Justina Robson

    Keeping It Real by Justina Robson

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elfin, elemental, and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology...
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