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  • The Darkest Passion by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Passion by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    For weeks, the immortal warrior Aeron has sensed an invisible female presence. An angel-demon-assassin has been sent to kill him. Or has she? Olivia claims she fell from the heavens, giving up immortality because she couldn't bear to harm him. But trusting—and falling for—Olivia will endanger them all...
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    angels  demons  drama  gods  immortality  magic  myths  paranormal
  • 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...
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    demons  drama  ghosts  humor  magic  myths  paranormal  shapeshifters
  • 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...
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    demons  ghosts  gods  humor  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  urban
  • The Rebel Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Rebel Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m finally in control of my magic…and it’s much stronger than my Coven realizes.That’s not the only secret I’m keeping. I made a deal with a fairy: her secrets for some of mine. Except I have no idea how to deliver on my oath and crossing the Fae is suicidal. Tennessee knows I’m up to something, but not even my soulmate can help me now, especially when being together is against the law...
  • The Broken Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Broken Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Desperate times, desperate magic. I finally have the Book of Shadows. The pages call to me, begging me to devour their hidden power. There are more than just spells inside, and there are things only the High Priestess can see. And Now I know everything I wasn’t supposed to.My Coven likes to keep secrets...well they’re about to get a taste of their own medicine...
  • Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Dark-Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul to Artemis for one moment of vengeance on his enemies. In return, they swear to spend eternity protecting mankind from the daimons and vampires that prey on them. Valerius isn't a popular Dark-Hunter - he's a Roman, which means that the largely Greek Hunters have a major grudge against him and his civilization for superceding them...
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    demons  ghosts  gods  humor  immortality  magic  myths  paranormal
  • The Darkest Passion by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Passion by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    For weeks, the immortal warrior Aeron has sensed an invisible female presence. An angel-demon-assassin has been sent to kill him. Or has she? Olivia claims she fell from the heavens, giving up immortality because she couldn't bear to harm him. But trusting—and falling for—Olivia will endanger them all...
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    angels  demons  drama  gods  immortality  magic  myths  paranormal
  • The Darkest Touch by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Touch by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter comes the long-awaited story of Torin, the most dangerous Lord of the Underworld yet…Fierce immortal warrior. Host to the demon of Disease. Torin’s every touch causes sickness and death—and a worldwide plague. Carnal pleasure is utterly forbidden, and though he has always overcome temptation with an iron will, his control is about to shatter...
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    angels  demons  drama  gods  humor  immortality  magic  myths
  • 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...
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    demons  ghosts  humor  magic  myths  paranormal  shapeshifters  urban
  • Instinct by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Instinct by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Zombies, demons, vampires, shapeshifters— another day in the life of Nick Gautier– and those are just his friends. But now that he’s accepted the demon that lives inside him, he must learn to control it and temper the very emotions that threaten the lives of everyone he cares for. Something that’s hard to do while trying to stay off the menus of those who want his head on a platter...
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    angels  demons  drama  ghosts  gods  high-school  humor  immortality
  • Inferno by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Inferno by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The heat is on, and a new threat to humanity has risen…Nick has his driver’s license and he’s not afraid to use it. But turning sixteen isn’t what he thought it would be. While other boys his age are worried about prom dates and applying for college, Nick is neck deep in enemies out to stop him from living another day...
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    demons  ghosts  gods  high-school  humor  immortality  magic  male-mc
  • 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...
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    demons  gods  high-school  humor  immortality  magic  myths  paranormal
  • The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most sacred and dangerous of missions: To descend into the Nether Realm and find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill her and her kind. What she never expects is to be taken prisoner by the Realm’s most vicious guardian…Seth’s time is running out...
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    demons  drama  gods  humor  immortality  magic  myths  paranormal
  • The Two Kings by Stephanie Hudson

    The Two Kings by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    After facing her nightmares head on, Keira soon finds her troubles have only just begun and if she thought mortals were dangerous then being hunted by the world’s most powerful beings will spin her further into a web of supernatural destruction. Keira can’t help seeing the handsome man before her, she can’t help the dreams that consume her and neither can she stop him from wanting her...
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    angels  demons  drama  gods  humor  immortality  magic  myths
  • The Darkest Seduction by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Seduction by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    At long last, New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter unveils the story of Paris, the darkest and most tormented Lord of the Underworld.Possessed by the demon of Promiscuity, immortal warrior Paris is irresistibly seductive — but his potent allure comes at a terrible price. Every night he must bed someone new, or weaken and die...
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    angels  demons  drama  ghosts  gods  humor  immortality  magic
  • The Brave Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Brave Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Be careful what you wish for…because magic comes with a price.I’m a witch. All of my dreams finally came true. But now, so are my nightmares.There’s a new monster in town and no one knows how to kill it or where it came from. It lurks in the shadows, preying on our every move. For some reason, it seems to be targeting me.I desperately need Tennessee’s help. Only he is strong enough to train me...
  • Moon Cursed by McKenzie Hunter

    Moon Cursed by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Between life and death – there’s magic. Friends of the Midwest Pack are missing, alliances are forming between enemies whose sole intent is to destroy the pack, and a mysterious group is trying to make a power grab using any means possible. With her pack and its allies in danger, and her love life threatened by secrets, Sky doesn’t think things could possibly get worse...
  • Bloodline Academy by Lan Chan

    Bloodline Academy by Lan Chan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Nephilim, a demon and a mage walk into a psychiatric hospital. This isn't a joke. There's no punch line. My name is Alessia Hastings. Welcome to my personal hell.My weekly visit to Nanna's psychiatric hospital ends with me in a celestial jail cell. Now an impossibly gorgeous Nephilim with a face I want to kiss, and an attitude I want to punch, tells me I'm not quite human...
  • The Darkest Pleasure by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Pleasure by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    Reyes is a man possessed. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her—even defy the gods. Danika is on the run. For months she's eluded the Lords of the Underworld, immortal warriors who won't rest until she and her family have been destroyed...
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    angels  demons  drama  gods  immortality  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Burning Dawn by Gena Showalter

    Burning Dawn by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with a sizzling Angels of the Dark tale about a winged warrior renowned for his ruthlessness, and the woman who becomes his obsession...A tormented past has left Thane with an insatiable need for violence, making him the most dangerous assassin in the skies.He lives by a single code: no mercy...
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    angels  demons  gods  humor  immortality  magic  myths  paranormal
  • 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...
  • The Morning Star by Debra Dunbar

    The Morning Star by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Where’s the support group for demon parents?Samael, the OG Satan who no one has seen in over two million years is supposedly roaming the world and killing angels, just like all those Elvis sightings. If Elvis was a murdering Fallen angel, that is. As the new-and-improved Satan, it’s my responsibility to track him down and bring him to justice...
  • 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...
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    demons  gods  high-school  humor  immortality  magic  male-mc  myths
  • Exodus by Debra Dunbar

    Exodus by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The elves have a plan to save humanity…by enslaving them. And the angels are too busy to intervene.Aaru is at war. The rebel angels are calling for Sam’s exclusion from the Ruling Council and her banishment to Hel. But Sam’s isn’t the only future at risk. If they’re defeated, Gregory and his brothers will face exile, losing everything they’ve spent billions of years to build...
  • Queen of the Damned by Debra Dunbar

    Queen of the Damned by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The Ancient demons of Hel have awakened, and one of them is gathering forces for an invasion of Aaru—which is pretty hilarious as far as Sam is concerned. Few know that Aaru is locked down tight after she banished all the angels. Nobody can get in. Nobody. Well, maybe nobody. The one being in Hel that might be able to restore Aaru is the archangels' prodigal brother...
  • 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...
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    angels  demons  gods  humor  magic  male-mc  paranormal  shapeshifters
  • 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...
  • Duel Nature by John Conroe

    Duel Nature by John Conroe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Chris and Tanya have been assigned as Coven Rovers, traveling the country and trouble shooting the supernatural community. It's a job that's part cop and part auditor, one that should be long periods of boredom mixed with small parts of action...
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    angels  demons  humor  magic  male-mc  paranormal  shapeshifters  urban
  • 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...
  • 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  ghosts  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires
  • 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...
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    angels  demons  gods  humor  immortality  magic  myths  paranormal
  • 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...
  • Beauty Awakened by Gena Showalter

    Beauty Awakened by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    His name is Koldo. He is scarred, powerful, his control legendary-and he lives only for vengeance, determined to punish the angel who viciously removed his wings. But if he yields to the forces of hatred, he will be kicked from the heavens, eternally damned. She is his last hope...
    Categorized as:
    angels  demons  drama  gods  humor  immortality  magic  myths
  • Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts

    Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Listening Length: 11 hours, 43 minutesNumber-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers an extraordinary new trilogy—an epic tale that breaks down the boundaries between reality and the otherworldly, while forging together the passions of the men and women caught in a battle for the fate of humanity ..
  • Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione

    Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Pleasure is their ultimate weapon . . . Runa Wagner never meant to fall in love with the sexy stranger who seemed to know her every deepest desire. But she couldn't resist the unbelievable passion that burned between them, a passion that died when she discovered his betrayal and found herself forever changed...
  • Darkness Shatters by Susan Illene

    Darkness Shatters by Susan Illene

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Winter has come to Alaska and it’s about to be joined by death.Since moving to Fairbanks, Melena Sanders has watched too many of her friends die because she couldn’t react fast enough. When a mysterious illness comes along targeting only supernatural races she’s determined to stop it. But as the death toll climbs she realizes finding a cure is more complicated than she thought...
  • Darkest Powers Bonus Pack 2 by Kelley Armstrong

    Darkest Powers Bonus Pack 2 by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Contains two companion stories to the Darkest Powers trilogy.In Facing Facts (short story set after The Reckoning), Tori discovers who her father is, and Chloe deals with a vengeful ghost. Narrated by Chloe. This was previously published in Enthralled.In Belonging (the novella set after The Reckoning), Derek's werewolf family comes to claim him. Narrated by Derek...
  • Broken Visions by Jessica Sorensen

    Broken Visions by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Gemma thought Alex was dead, that she’d made an irreversible mistake and would never see him again. But then her father resets time and she’s given another chance to be with Alex, if she can save the world and get rid of the star.Gemma decides to follow in her father’s footsteps and attempt to change the vision of the end of the world...
  • Invision by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Invision by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Think your life is complicated and confusing? Nick Gautier was born to bring about the end of the world…It’s not easy being the heir of a demon overlord.But Nick is determined to thwart his destiny and get into a good college. To be more than his genetics and prophecy foretell. No one is ever going to tell this stubborn Cajun who and what he really is. Or how to live his life...
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    demons  drama  gods  humor  immortality  magic  male-mc  myths
  • Demon Driven by John Conroe

    Demon Driven by John Conroe

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Seven months have passed since Chris Gordon met Tanya Demidova. In that time he has adapted to the vast changes in his life. Being faster and stronger, working for a paranormal police unit and dating a vampire. But new threats appear; from the South, from the North, within the NYPD and from the U.S. government. But his greatest danger is already inside him. Book 2 of the Demon Accords...
    Categorized as:
    angels  demons  gods  humor  magic  male-mc  paranormal  shapeshifters
  • Into the Dark by Gena Showalter

    Into the Dark by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Three otherworldly tales from the master of paranormal romance and a brand-new Lords of the Underworld bonus guide!The Darkest Fire - a Lords of the Underworld prequelGeryon is the guardian of hell, more monster than man. Kadence is the goddess of Oppression, more angel than woman...
  • Darkness Devours by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Devours by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur has been hailed for her “smart, sexy”* urban fantasy novels. Now, she continues her Dark Angels series set in the realm of danger and desire known as the Guardian World…Half-werewolf, half-Aedh Risa Jones can enter the realm between life and death, and she can see the Reapers who collect the souls of the dead...
    Categorized as:
    angels  demons  ghosts  magic  myths  paranormal  shapeshifters  urban
  • Wild Things by Chloe Neill

    Wild Things by Chloe Neill

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Since Merit was turned into a vampire, and the protector of Chicago’s Cadogan House, it’s been a wild ride. She and Master vampire Ethan Sullivan have helped make Cadogan’s vampires the strongest in North America, and forged ties with paranormal folk of all breeds and creeds, living or dead…or both. But now those alliances are about to be tested...
  • Embrace the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Embrace the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    IS HE HER MORTAL ENEMYLady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold...
  • Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter, Maggie Shayne

    Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter, Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the masters of paranormal romance, three brand-new tales of seductionThe Darkest Angel by Gena ShowalterA Lords of the Underworld taleAn iron-willed demon assassin, the angel Lysander has never known lust, until he meets Bianka. Spawned from the bloodline of Lucifer, the beautiful but deadly Harpy is determined to lead the pure-hearted Lysander into temptation...
    Categorized as:
    angels  demons  gods  humor  immortality  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Darkness Unleashed by Alexandra Ivy

    Darkness Unleashed by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The Guardians of Eternity are vampire warriors without equal, bound by their loyalties and sworn to protect their charges from every danger. . .except those posed by their own hungry desires. . .A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others' company. But now, as a member of Chicago's powerful vampire clan, he has certain obligations to fulfill...
  • Until I Die by Amy Plum

    Until I Die by Amy Plum

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Kate and Vincent have overcome the odds and at last they are together in Paris, the city of lights and love...
  • Hunter's Trail by Melissa F. Olson

    Hunter's Trail by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Actions have consequences—a lesson Scarlett Bernard is learning the hard way. As a “null,” Scarlett has always been able to negate the powers of the supernatural beings that surround her. But now her reckless decision to permanently change Eli from a werewolf to a human has left the Los Angeles werewolf pack in shambles, and upset the balance of power among the city’s supernatural factions...
  • 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...
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