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  • Scorching Sun by Apollos Thorne

    Scorching Sun by Apollos Thorne

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Passing through the Vampire Gate, Elorion enters the true heart of the Underworld for the first time. The sooner he completes his mission, the sooner he and the girls can return home. The task is impossible at his current level, so he follows the lich down the only viable path. A path laden with bodies and blood...
  • Of Sand and Snow by Bryce O'Connor

    Of Sand and Snow by Bryce O'Connor

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    With fifty thousand freed slaves at their back, Raz i'Syul Arro and Syrah Brahnt leave the savannahs of Perce behind. Karesh Syl is no more. Karesh Nan burns at their backs. Beyond the border before them the South looms, ready and waiting, and together Raz and Syrah pray they are prepared for the great offense they must now undertake against the fringe cities...
  • Winterlight by Kristen Britain

    Winterlight by Kristen Britain

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This seventh novel of the Green Rider series follows the adventures of messenger, magic wielder, and knight Karigan G'ladheon as she fights to save king and country from dark magic and a looming war.After her capture at the hands of Grandmother and the Second Empire, Karigan G'ladheon is making halting progress towards recovery...
  • The Liar's Knot by M.A. Carrick

    The Liar's Knot by M.A. Carrick

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Trust is the thread that binds. And the rope that hangs.In Nadežra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city’s filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look.Derossi Vargo has always known...
  • The Reckoning by Vanessa Nelson

    The Reckoning by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Missing girls. A plea for help she can’t ignore. An ancient enemy with plans of his own. Nine-year-old girls are missing from across the lands. Yvonne has promised to find them, and she always keeps her promises. Even when she doesn’t know where to start looking. There’s more trouble around. Mercenaries are disappearing...
  • Reign of Mist by Helen Scheuerer

    Reign of Mist by Helen Scheuerer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The realm’s darkest secret is out. The cruelty of the capital and the power-hungry King Arden have scattered Bleak and her companions across the continents. On the run in a foreign land, Bleak finds herself tied to some unexpected strangers...
  • The Wandering Inn: Book 1 by Pirateaba

    The Wandering Inn: Book 1 by Pirateaba

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    “No killing Goblins.” So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours. It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon...
  • Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.She answered the Emperor's call.She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.In victory, her world has turned to ash...
  • Winter's King by Bryce O'Connor

    Winter's King by Bryce O'Connor

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Monster of Karth has risen once more. Quin Tern has met his fate, and his council has born the price of crossing Raz i'Syul Arro. Now, as the cruel walls of Azbar fade into the winter storms at his back, Raz rides north, seeking to take the High Priest Talo Brahnt up on an offer he never should have refused...
  • Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

    Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. It's a peaceful, if solitary profession…until the day when he's called to the river to examine the latest in a series of mysterious bodies, mangled by some unknown force.Galen is a paladin of a dead god, lost to holiness and no longer entirely sane...
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    humor  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book  crime
  • As Iron Falls by Bryce O'Connor

    As Iron Falls by Bryce O'Connor

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The High Citadel cannot be seen to harbor a killer. This is a simple truth, and one that Raz i'Syul Arro has little choice but to respect. As the winter storms fall away in favor of the North's pleasant summer months, Raz finds himself having once more to face the cruelties of the world with spear and sword in hand. For the first time, though, the Monster no longer walks his path alone...
  • With Dagger and Song by Helen Scheuerer

    With Dagger and Song by Helen Scheuerer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An empty crown. A perilous journey. Will she answer when darkness calls?Against all odds, Roh survived the harrowing Queen’s Tournament, but now something far deadlier awaits her: a formidable quest for the three magic birthstones of Saddoriel. The gems have been scattered across the realms – and only when Roh retrieves them can she take her place as queen...
  • Chief of the Blackgorge by Marvin Knight

    Chief of the Blackgorge by Marvin Knight

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Cultivating Gamelit Harem AdventureA man must repay his debts.Especially when he owes those debts to the princess of the realm. Luckily, she only asks that Theo stay in the palace as her guest. That should be an easy debt to pay, but trouble is afoot in the land and no number of royal dinners or palace balls will stop it...
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    fae  paranormal  magic  humor  fantasy  harem  steamy  audiobook
  • Taellaneth Complete Series by Vanessa Nelson

    Taellaneth Complete Series by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Arrow just wants her freedom. Days away from the end of her service, the Erith set her one last task, perhaps the most difficult she has ever faced; investigate the sudden death of a high-ranking shape-changer, the Erith’s ancient enemies.Arrow quickly finds herself in the middle of an ancient conflict, and it’s not just her life, and her freedom, that’s at risk...
  • House Name by Michelle West

    House Name by Michelle West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this epic fantasy series for fans of George R. R. Martin and Robin Hobb, Jewel Markess must contend with deadly court politics, and visions of looming magical threats. Jewel has been assigned the task of finding the entryways to the ancient undercity that lies beneath the streets of the empire’s capital in exchange for shelter for her and her den at House Terafin...
  • The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

    The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. Give them weapons, carnivorous tattoos, and each other. Point them at the enemy. What could possibly go wrong? In the sequel to CLOCKWORK BOYS, Slate, Brenner, Caliban and Learned Edmund have arrived in Anuket City, the source of the mysterious Clockwork Boys...
  • Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

    Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T...
  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse...
  • Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett

    Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    A Discworld Novel. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere-even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewseyy Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning...Everything ought to be going like a dream...
  • One More Last Time by Eric Ugland

    One More Last Time by Eric Ugland

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A ruined life. A broken heart. He thought it was the end, and his gun sat ready to make sure. But an oddball offer from his last friend comes at the literal last second. Curiosity gets the best of him, and he finds himself sucked into iNcarn8, a game claiming to be a whole new life. Now as Montana, the larger-than-life tank warrior, he has one more last time to get his life right...
  • Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

    Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate... and, unfortunately, his relatives. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws..
  • Magician's End by Raymond E. Feist

    Magician's End by Raymond E. Feist

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The final volume in the epic Riftwar Cycle.The dragons are calling...Civil war is tearing apart the Kingdom of the Isles, for the throne lies empty and rivals are converging...
  • The Skull of the World by Kate Forsyth

    The Skull of the World by Kate Forsyth

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the land of Eileanan, the Pact of Peace has not meant the end of unrest. And, though Isabeau would like to return home to help her family in these uncertain times, she must first venture to the Skull of the World where she will discover her true talents as a witch. And when she does return home, she does so transformed with the power to overcome her family's enemies once and for all...
  • May Bird, Warrior Princess by Jodi Lynn Anderson

    May Bird, Warrior Princess by Jodi Lynn Anderson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    At Hog Wallow Middle School, May Ellen Bird was always slightly invisible. Then she went on a long trip to the land of the dead, where ghost towns glowed blue in the dark dusk and spooky specters dwelled in cities on the Dead Sea...
  • Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

    Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a secretive order, on the trail of the raiders who burned her convent and kidnapped her sisters.When their paths cross at the point of a sword, Istvhan and Clara will be pitched headlong into each other’s quests, facing off against enemies both living and dead...
  • Hell's Ascendant by Benjamin Medrano

    Hell's Ascendant by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The heavens are about to explode. Reunited at last, Isalla, Kitania, and Rose survived the machinations of Haral despite the odds against them. They’ve won one battle. Now they have to avert a war, racing the clock to unveil their enemies.The Society of the Golden Dawn has not been idle; the conspirators have begun to move more quickly...
  • The Dark Army by Marcus Alexander

    The Dark Army by Marcus Alexander

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    'Your abilities as a Keeper allow you to open doors that others can not.'Imprisoned in the mythical world of Bellania, CHARLIE KEEPER is at the mercy of Lord Bane's guards while her loyal friends have been sold into slavery...
  • Spells of Old by Benjamin Medrano

    Spells of Old by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Having successfully driven off an assault and freed captives of Kelvanis, Sistina begins fortifying to defend those she cares about from further attacks. Yet with all her power within her halls, she cannot grant those under her protection true freedom...
  • Flight of Sorcery and Shadow by Meg Cowley

    Flight of Sorcery and Shadow by Meg Cowley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aedon's captivity is over when darkness descends upon the realm. The elf's only choices become escape or death—a far cry from his past fame and notoriety as a legendary thief. Lost, alone, and desperate to escape the deadly beasts now stalking him, he does not count on meeting Lief, a ranger of the woodland elves...and Aedon's natural worst enemy...
  • Dragon Emperor 12 by Eric Vall

    Dragon Emperor 12 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Evan and his party continue on to the peninsula of Rahma, but an ultimatum from the king hangs over Evan’s head.If he can’t get the Lord of Atheson to swear fealty to the crown, then he has been tasked with breaking the peninsula off the continent and letting it sink to the bottom of the ocean...
  • Dragon Emperor 10 by Eric Vall

    Dragon Emperor 10 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The campaign across Rahma continues, and this time Evan and his party travel to the desert city of Kana.The lizard Demi-Human lord is quick to welcome Evan, but his stoic mage of a sister tells Evan she isn’t impressed with him.Men don’t impress her in general, so she prefers a woman’s touch, and nothing Evan can say will change her mind...
  • Dragon Emperor 13 by Eric Vall

    Dragon Emperor 13 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Evan’s royal campaign to win over the people of Rahma has taken him to the northern peninsula.And straight to the gates of the underwater city of Pullis.The Green Glass Sect is up to no good under the sea, and it’s up to Evan and his party to save the merfolk from traitors and the ever-corrupting presence of miasma...
  • The Gathering by Vanessa Nelson

    The Gathering by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Scarred by a brutal past, she has sworn to help those in need.As one of the Hundred, Yvonne cannot ignore a plea for help, even if all she wants is a quiet life, somewhere safe for her adopted children to grow into adulthood.Safety is in short supply. Young people, some of them children, are going missing in large numbers, leaving bewildered and grieving families behind...
  • The Searching by Vanessa Nelson

    The Searching by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Oath-sworn to help those in need, Yvonne has been framed for murder.Tracking down those responsible for the destruction of the Stone Walls was a difficult enough task, but someone has made it much harder. The King is dead, and Yvonne is accused of his murder...
  • The Rending by Vanessa Nelson

    The Rending by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only place of safety for the desperate has been destroyed.Yvonne has finally found a place to settle, where her children can grow, and she can think about her own future. Even as she celebrates, a shock rings across the world. Someone has attacked the Sisters in the Stone Walls...
  • The Shadow of Glory by D.C. Haenlien

    The Shadow of Glory by D.C. Haenlien

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Scarred but Victorious.Adelheid returned to the capital of the Vuldar Empire after completing her Reginnaglar Ceremony. Armed with prestige and power, the seventh princess lays down the foundation for her rise. Although Adelheid has set her sights on the future, the past never escaped her eyes. Now, is the time for vengeance for both herself and her fallen knight.For Neun...
  • Crisis of Faith by Benjamin Medrano

    Crisis of Faith by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Reconciling two divergent faiths to a single goddess is much more difficult when the conference begins with an assassination attempt. As her followers have to deal with the multiple unknown attackers which are assaulting them, Tyria finds her hands tied by divine law and her struggle to decide who she is, and who she should be...
  • Ghostsmith by Nicki Pau Preto

    Ghostsmith by Nicki Pau Preto

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In this action-packed finale to the House of the Dead Duology, Wren and her friends put everything they know to the test as they battle the living and the undead to save their world.Wren is still reeling from the revelation that the mother she thought was dead is actually the Corpse Queen, a ghostsmith with the terrifying power to control the undead...
  • Oracle by Michelle West

    Oracle by Michelle West

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this epic fantasy series for fans of George R. R. Martin and Robin Hobb, Jewel Markess must contend with deadly court politics, and visions of looming magical threats.Beneath the streets of Averalaan, capital city of the Essalieyan Empire, lie the three Princes of the firstborn, doomed to sleep until the end of days...
  • Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike

    Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A doubly disgraced Dwarven hero. A band of accident-prone adventurers. Giving redemption a second shot may have been a grave mistake... Still bruised and heartbroken from their last calamitous quest, Gorm Ingerson and his band of washed-up heroes try to make amends for the Orcs they accidentally betrayed. But justice is put on hold when an old foe marches to the city gates...
  • Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

    Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive fantasy adventure. This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It's the one where she kills him. Marra never wanted to be a hero...
  • The Last Bell by Alex Lidell

    The Last Bell by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hostages. Memories. Heartbeats. The long awaited finale to the epic Power of Five story is here.The quint has finally reunited, but their stunning new discovery changes everything.Just as Lera and the males navigate their redefined future, Owalin violently ups the stakes, giving the humans one hour to hand over their kingdoms...
    Categorized as:
    fae  magic  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book  dark
  • Fire in the Blood by Erin M. Evans, Dina Pearlman

    Fire in the Blood by Erin M. Evans, Dina Pearlman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SCRIBE- award-winning author, Erin M. Evans, continues the riveting tale of her Sundering character, Farideh, as she becomes embroiled in a Forgotten Realms-flavored game of thrones.   In a direct follow-up to the third book in the Sundering series, The Adversary, young warlock Farideh falls into the midst of a battle for the throne of Cormyr...
  • Untolled by J.P. Valentine

    Untolled by J.P. Valentine

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He came aboard a broken ship,To Lethis on the waves,With lies and tricks and evil spells,Their future, he would pave.Beware, oh King, the Nothing Mage,A force that pierces all,The golden bell that sings of death,‘Till lords and empires fall.In silent dark, in dead of night,He came in from the cold,And through their screams and dying gasps,The bell remained untolled...
  • Well of Witches by J.A. White

    Well of Witches by J.A. White

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The third novel in the dark and twisty fantasy series that has enchanted readers. The third novel in the Thickety series, Well of Witches, is an epic quest on the edge of a magic crusade, into an enchanted kingdom with new kinds of magic, old enemies, and only one way out...
  • Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

    Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year…Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong...
  • The Three Witches and The Master by Max Nowaz

    The Three Witches and The Master by Max Nowaz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, is not sure if it is his good fortune or not. The young woman has an attitude and starts bossing him around straightaway, issuing commands; which strikes Adam that she may be a practitioner of the black arts...
  • Ancient Ruins by Benjamin Medrano

    Ancient Ruins by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Newly edited for clarity. Sistina awakened after millennia of dormancy, her memories in tatters and born anew. Residing in the ruins of an ancient city, she finds herself drawn into a war between two elven nations and the slaver kingdom of Kelvanis when she rescues a princess from slavery...
  • Mortal Gods by Benjamin Medrano

    Mortal Gods by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Torn from her friends, Kitania is captured by a goddess. She can only hope that her friends have survived. Torn from the sides of her friends by angelic magic, Kitania finds herself in the mortal world once more, among those who suspect she’s a demon assassin or spy...
  • A Storm of Smoke and Flame by Marion Blackwood

    A Storm of Smoke and Flame by Marion Blackwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What would you do to protect your home? Lie? Manipulate? Kill?War awaits across the sea. In order to ensure their survival, the Oncoming Storm and a band of misfits set sail for the land beyond the horizon...
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