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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...
  • Dark Queen by Faith Hunter

    Dark Queen by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock used to hunt vampires, but now she must fight--and win--beside them.As Enforcer to the vampire Master of the City of New Orleans, Jane Yellowrock stakes her reputation and her life on keeping her territory safe. But Leo has been issued a blood challenge by the emperor of the European vampires, who seeks to usurp all of his power and possessions...
  • Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs

    Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    By day, Mercy is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shapeshifter with some unique talents, Mercy has often found herself having to maintain a tenuous harmony between the human and the not so human. This time she may get more than she bargained for...
  • 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...
  • Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs

    Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    In this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Mercy Thompson must face a deadly enemy to defend all she loves...My name is Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman, and I am a car mechanic.And a coyote shapeshifter.And the mate of the Alpha of the Columbia Basin werewolf pack...
  • 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...
  • Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs

    Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, faces a threat unlike any other in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman. My only "superpowers" are that I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote and fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. It looks like I'm going to need them...
  • The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

    The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering...
  • The Witch with No Name by Kim Harrison

    The Witch with No Name by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    At long last... The final book in the New York Times bestselling Hollows series by Kim Harrison!Rachel Morgan's come a long way from the clutzy runner of Dead Witch Walking. She's faced vampires and werewolves, banshees, witches, and soul-eating demons. She's crossed worlds, channeled gods, and accepted her place as a day-walking demon...
  • Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs

    Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    Patricia Briggs's novel River Marked was praised as "an urban fantasy where our everyday world is believably twisted into the world of fey, werewolves, vampires, and myths made real." Now Mercy Thompson faces a shapeshifter's biggest fear as the realm she has embraced is thrown into chaos...Mercy Thompson's life has undergone a seismic change...
  • Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

    Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    I could smell her fear, and it satisfied something deep inside me that had been writhing under her cool, superior gaze. I curled my upper lip so she could get a good look at my sharp teeth. I might only weigh thirty or so pounds in my coyote shape, but I was a predator...Mechanic Mercy Thompson can shift her shape - but not her loyalty...
  • A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

    A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the Hollows with the electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed Pale Demon!A Perfect BloodRitually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the I.S...
  • Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs

    Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings. In return, the average law-abiding, solid citizen has little to worry about from the things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I wish I was an average citizen...Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor...
  • Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter

    Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock must dig deep and find strength within herself if she is to survive in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series.Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker, and vampire killer-for-hire, but her last battle with an ancient arcane enemy has brought her low...
  • 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...
  • Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker…and the woman rogue vampires fear most. Jane walks softly and carries a big stake to keep the peace in New Orleans, all part of her job as official enforcer to Leo Pellisier, Master of the City. But Leo’s reign is being threatened by a visit from a delegation of ancient European vampires seeking to expand their dominions...
  • Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker…and the woman rogue vampires fear most. Jane walks softly and carries a big stake to keep the peace in New Orleans, all part of her job as official enforcer to Leo Pellisier, Master of the City. But Leo’s reign is being threatened by a visit from a delegation of ancient European vampires seeking to expand their dominions...
  • Faefever by Karen Marie Moning

    Faefever by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Darkfever and Bloodfever returns to Dublin’s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  demons  fae  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  steamy
  • River Marked by Patricia Briggs

    River Marked by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Mercy Thompson: Mechanic, Shapeshifter, Fighter.Car mechanic Mercy Thompson has always known there was something different about her, and not just the way she can make a VW engine sit up and beg. Mercy is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. And she's never known any others of her kind. Until now...
  • Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

    Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Anna Latham didn’t know how complicated life could be until she became a werewolf. And until she was mated to Charles Cornick, the son — and enforcer — of Bran, the leader of the North American werewolves, she didn’t know how dangerous it could be either..
  • Shadow Rites by Faith Hunter

    Shadow Rites by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Slaying vampires is child’s play for skinwalker Jane Yellowrock. But handling the complicated politics of New Orleans’ supernatural players is another story... Jane is keeping the peace between visiting groups of witches and vamps in the city, but then trouble comes knocking on her doorstep...
  • Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters.Now Nick’s saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume...Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That’s the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn’t the average teenager. He’s a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands...
  • Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    FORBIDDEN TEMPTATIONS Serena Kelley is an archaeologist and treasure hunter-and a woman with a secret. Since she was seven, she's been the keeper of a powerful charm that grants her health and immortality . . . as long as she stays a virgin. But Serena isn't all that innocent...
  • 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...
  • Moon Sworn by Keri Arthur

    Moon Sworn by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Some nights never end.Some desires never die. . . .She ventures where no one else dares—into realms of peril and pleasure. But will this next journey be her last?Shape-shifting werewolf and vampire Riley Jenson is through with death–causing it, solving it, surviving it. Her soul mate, Kye Murphy, is dead–and at Riley’s own hands...
  • The Darkest Secret by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Secret by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    In this sexy new installment of Showalter's bestselling Lords of the Underworld series, the haunted Amun meets a woman who tempts him like no other...Keeper of the demon of Secrets, Amun can manipulate the darkest thoughts of anyone nearby...
  • Forbidden Nights with a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Forbidden Nights with a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The Best Things in Life Are Always ForbiddenVanda Barkowski is in trouble. As the owner of a hot nightclub, she's more unconventional than most of her fellow vampires, and if some think her a little out of control, then so be it. But after three former employees filed a complaint about her temper, Vanda is sentenced to an anger management class. Worse, Phil Jones agreed to be her sponsor...
  • Dark Heir by Faith Hunter

    Dark Heir by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Shapeshifting skinwalker Jane Yellowrock is the best in the business when it comes to slaying vampires. But her latest fanged foe may be above her pay grade…For centuries, the extremely powerful and ruthless vampire witches of the European Council have wandered the Earth, controlling governments, fostering war, creating political conflict, and often leaving absolute destruction in their wake...
  • 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...
  • Blood Trade by Faith Hunter

    Blood Trade by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker who’s always up for a fight—even if it means putting her life on the line... The Master of Natchez, Mississippi has a nasty problem on his hands. Rogue vampires—those who follow the Naturaleza and believe that humans should be nothing more than prey to be hunted—are terrorizing his city...
  • Succubus Revealed by Richelle Mead

    Succubus Revealed by Richelle Mead

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In Georgina Kincaid, succubus and she-demon, #1 New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead has created one of her most enticing characters. But with a shot at love, and maybe even redemption, is the ultimate seductress finally going soft? Like hell she is. . .Georgina Kincaid has had an eternity to figure out the opposite sex, but sometimes they still surprise her. Take Seth Mortensen...
  • Bound to Shadows by Keri Arthur

    Bound to Shadows by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In the darkness, demons come out to play…and someone must bring their sins to light.Part vampire, part werewolf, Riley Jenson knows what can happen when vamps don’t play well with others. But she’s never seen anything like this: a series of brutal murders surrounding the latest hot spot for vampire-human hookups—and the victims aren’t just killed, they’re beheaded...
  • A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

    A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that order.Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past...
  • Shadow's Bane by Karen Chance

    Shadow's Bane by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Half-human, half-vampire Dorina Basarab is back—and facing her biggest challenge yet in the next urban fantasy in the New York Times bestselling series.Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. As one of the Vampire Senate’s newest members, Dory already has a lot on her plate. But then a relative of one of Dory’s fey friends goes missing...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  demons  fae  female-mc  immortality  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Nick Gautier's day just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, he survived the zombie attacks, only to wake up and find himself enslaved to a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul...
  • Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A gemstone might destroy the world before I get the chance to do it myself.Interdimensional rifts are opening, spilling supernatural creatures into the world of the humans. Locating and closing the gateways takes two—an angel and a demon. It’s the opportunity I’ve been waiting for, the common goal that might allow demons and angels to put aside nearly three million years of hate...
  • Dark of Night by Emily Goodwin

    Dark of Night by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everything has a cost.I never thought the cost of falling in love could be my life. But when the Vampire Council gets reports of increased magical activity in the surrounding areas, they give the order for vampires to kill any witches they come across. I trust Lucas to never hurt me, but he’s not the only vampire in my life, and let’s just say the others aren’t my biggest fans...
  • Brutal Asset by John Conroe

    Brutal Asset by John Conroe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Book 3 of the Demon Accords. Partnered in an uneasy alliance with federal law enforcement, Chris Gordon has been hunting down the outlaw gang, Loki's Spawn, who attacked his vampire girlfriend. But when he finds unexpected hostages who trigger his baser instincts, Chris is thrown into a search for answers to dark questions...
  • 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...
  • Otherworld Nights by Kelley Armstrong

    Otherworld Nights by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rare and never-before published short stories featuring fan favorites from the New York Times bestselling seriesIt’s been more than ten years since Kelley Armstrong began the Otherworld series and drew legions of fans to a realm roamed by witches, werewolves, necromancers, vampires, and half-demons...
  • Wicked Hour by Chloe Neill

    Wicked Hour by Chloe Neill

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the second pulse-pounding novel in the USA Today bestselling Heirs of Chicagoland series, vampire Elisa Sullivan gets drawn into the shifting sands of Pack politics.Vampires were made, not born—until Elisa Sullivan came along. As the only vampire child in existence, she grew up with a heavy legacy, and tried to flee her past...
  • Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 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...
  • Bad Wolf by Lauren Dawes

    Bad Wolf by Lauren Dawes

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A rookie cop. A team of supernatural detectives. A shifter with some impulse control issues.My name is Cat McKenzie, and I thought wood sprites weren’t a thing.Apparently, they are. Fun fact: they enjoy eating carrion which was how I discovered the body of a hunter in the woods. The local werewolf pack confirms it’s a bad wolf doing the biting...
  • Up from the Grave by Jeaniene Frost

    Up from the Grave by Jeaniene Frost

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    There’s always one more grave to dig.Lately, life has been unnaturally calm for vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband Bones...
  • Deadly Desire by Keri Arthur

    Deadly Desire by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Seduction that kills. Pleasure to die for. She just can’t resist…Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. And this time’s no different. For it’s no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. But that’s exactly what Riley expects to find at the end of a trail of female corpses used—and discarded—in a bizarre ritual of evil...
  • The Phantom Queen by Yasmine Galenorn

    The Phantom Queen by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Whisper Hollow, where spirits walk among the living, and the lake never gives up her dead...Fifteen years ago, I ran away from Whisper Hollow, Washington, a small town on Crescent Lake in the Olympic Peninsula. But truth is, if you were born here, you can never really leave. I'm Kerris Fellwater, and I'm a spirit shaman...
    Categorized as:
    demons  fae  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires
  • 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...
  • The Darkest Kiss by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Kiss by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    She has tempted many men...but never found her equal. Until now.Though she has lived for centuries, Anya, goddess of Anarchy, has never known pleasure. Until Lucien, the incarnation of death—a warrior eternally doomed to take souls to the hereafter. He draws her like no other. And Anya will risk anything to have him...
  • 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...
  • Death's Mistress by Karen Chance

    Death's Mistress by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Dorina Basarab is a dhampir-half-human, half-vampire. Back home in Brooklyn after the demise of her insane Uncle Dracula, Dory's hoping her life is about to calm down. But soon Dory realizes someone is killing vampire Senate members, and if she can't stop the murderer, her friends may be next..
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