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  • Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ilona Andrews invites you back to the #1 New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels series in this exciting new long novella featuring Kate, Curran and Conlan, some familiar faces, some new friends, and all the special brand of chaos they create!Kate, Curran and their son, Conlan have left Atlanta, vowing to keep a low profile, and are settling into a new city and new house…but some things never...
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    alpha-mc  family  female-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  urban
  • Destroyer by Shannon Mayer

    Destroyer by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    “What a fantastic start to a new fantasy series! I love a strong female lead and we were delivered that in spades with Larkspur . . . This story is fast paced and exciting right from the start. I can't wait to see what comes next!” -Boundless Book Reviews From HiJinks Ink Publishing and Shannon Mayer comes The USA Today Bestselling ELEMENTAL SERIES beginning with RECURVE (Book 1). With over 1...
  • Daughter of Kaos by C.M. Owens

    Daughter of Kaos by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Just when they think it's okay to be happy, fate's cruel sense of humor strikes again, stripping them of their right. Adisia and Devin find themselves in a place where they've never been before, and all of Adisia's crippling insecurities hit her harder than ever when her faith in the man she loves is lost... possibly gone forever...
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    gods  magic  myths  paranormal  book  fiction  humor  immortality
  • Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter

    Shadows and Gold by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The first novella in the Elemental Legacy series:SHADOWS AND GOLDFailing grades. Misleading wind vampires. And a fortune in forgotten gold...
  • Let it All Burn by Denise Grover Swank

    Let it All Burn by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Darcie Weatherby has a full plate—a preteen and sixteen-year-old twins, a wayward grandmother, a nightmare boss, and a manipulative ex-husband. The last thing she needs are hot flashes. Especially ones that start fires...
  • Scorched by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Scorched by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The seventh book in this action-packed, wildly original fantasy series by New York Times Bestselling Author Jasmine Walt. Home from their travels at last, Sunaya and Iannis are confronted with a threat against which even their strongest magic is largely helpless...
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    alpha-mc  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook
  • The Cool Aunt by Ilona Andrews

    The Cool Aunt by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One minute you are doing your make up and making plans, and the next your oldest sister is giving birth to a baby who awakened as a Prime mage while in the womb. You think Exorcist is scary? Connor and Nevada’s baby says, “Hold my milk. You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Timeline: Takes place at the end of Emerald Blaze...
  • Brave Bear Mated by P. Jameson

    Brave Bear Mated by P. Jameson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Theron, the second born of the Ursa Gemini twins, has found a home with the Ouachita clan of big cat shifters, and he's determined to leave behind a life of ridicule that has followed him since his days as a young cub in the brutal Deadclaw bear clan. His past has haunted him long enough. There's someone who can heal him now. A female who could be his...
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    alpha-mc  family  magic  paranormal  urban  abuse  adult  book
  • Threat of Magic by Linsey Hall

    Threat of Magic by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Evil has escaped, and only I can stop it.Finally, I’m getting control of my magic. Thank fates, because I really need it. The ancient Greek Titans have escaped their prison in Tartarus, and their dark magic is filling up the earth, causing violence and despair to spread through humanity. We’re running out of time before the planet is thrown into deadly chaos...
  • Running Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Running Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's not about the cards you're dealt... Mistress of the House of Swords Sara Wilde finds herself the rising star of Interpol's Most Wanted list--accused of acts of supernatural terrorism and psychic manipulation, a new category of offenses clearly created just for her...
  • Call of the Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Call of the Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hello darkness, my old friend... Still recovering from an explosive family get-together, Tarot-reading mistress of the House of Swords Sara Wilde isn't ready to return to the war on magic. Then the Magician of the Arcana Council uses her to summon an ancient Greek deity for his own devious purposes, and Sara's suddenly up to her elbows in oversized egos and millennia-old conflicts...
  • Fate Undone by Linsey Hall

    Fate Undone by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A god in disguise No one in the Prison for Magical Deviants knows that prisoner Logan Laufeyson has a secret identity. He is the ancient trickster god Loki, in magical disguise on a mission of his own...
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    gods  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction
  • When Water Burns by Lani Wendt Young

    When Water Burns by Lani Wendt Young

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Maybe you’re not meant to manipulate fire the way I do. Maybe sparks are all you’re ever going to make.”He snarled, “Or maybe you just need to be a better teacher and give me more.” Before I could reply, he grabbed my hand, twisted and pulled me into a restraining lock. Body pressed against my back, he held me in a chokehold. I struggled. Kicked. Fought. Pain knifed me as I tried to free myself...
  • A Name Like Karma by G. Bailey

    A Name Like Karma by G. Bailey

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Karma...and yes, it’s my job too. Since I was eighteen, I have used my powers to deliver karma to those in need like all of my other family do. Only they are much better at it. I deliver much needed karma to both good and bad humans, but mainly the bad as it’s more fun...
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    alpha-mc  female-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book
  • Of Ash and Spirit by D.G. Swank, Denise Grover Swank

    Of Ash and Spirit by D.G. Swank, Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B078GWH8KVThe first book in a Curse Keepers spinoff series by New York Times bestselling author Denise Grover Swank writing as D.G. Swank.Who's afraid of ghosts? Not Piper Lancaster, because even though she's a ghost whisperer, she's a skeptic. Piper helps her clients settle their inner demons, and that's good enough for her-even if ghosts aren't real...
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    gods  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • Luna Cursed by Alessa Thorn

    Luna Cursed by Alessa Thorn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ciara Wolf Slayer is the one Ironwood that all wolves fear. When a deranged cult decides to awaken Fenris to start Ragnarök, Ciara must put aside her vicious past and work with the one wolf strong enough to take them down.‘Luna Cursed’ is book four of the new spin-off series in the best-selling 'Fae Universe,' featuring everyone's favorite supernatural hunting family, the Ironwoods...
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    paranormal  magic  myths  urban  female-mc  alpha-mc  romance  fantasy
  • Divine Hunter by C.N. Crawford

    Divine Hunter by C.N. Crawford

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All’s fair in love and magic. Rosalind is preparing for all-out war with Drew, who wields gods-magic with terrifying skill. But now Rosalind is learning to harness gods-magic, too. When she next encounters her cousin, she wants to destroy him completely. Unfortunately for her, Drew launches a surprise attack on the vampire city...
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    gods  magic  myths  paranormal  urban  book  dark  demons
  • Soul of Flame by Rebecca Ethington

    Soul of Flame by Rebecca Ethington

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Time for the final battle has come. Edmund's armies have surrounded the Rioseco Abbey, trapping the few survivors inside. The sight that Ilyan was given a thousand years ago is about to come to pass. If only Joclyn was able to fight. Joclyn is tormented by the hallucinations that Cail’s mind has left her with, her magic an uncontrollable torrent that even Ilyan cannot control...
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    alpha-mc  family  female-mc  magic  paranormal  abuse  audiobook  book
  • Devastation by B.C. Burgess

    Devastation by B.C. Burgess

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Mystic Series continues with Layla, Quin, and the Enemy . .
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    family  gods  magic  paranormal  angels  book  fiction  new-adult
  • The Lost Queen by Jenn Stark

    The Lost Queen by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Not all who wander are lost.  As Justice of the Arcana Council and an experienced artifact hunter, Tarot-reading Sara Wilde prefers to track down the missing on her own. With her latest case, unfortunately, everyone's dying to help her out.Determined to locate the Lost Queen, a witch destined to fulfill a dark and twisted prophecy, Sara finds herself corpse-blocked at every turn...
  • Wilde Fire by Jenn Stark

    Wilde Fire by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's the end of the world as we know it... The war on magic is here, and Mistress of the House of Swords Sara Wilde has done everything she can to prepare. The Arcana Council has recalled its most powerful members to hold the line, and the Houses of Magic are frantically strengthening their defenses. Then the first volley hits: a plague of demons freed to ravage the earth...
  • The Serpent Priest by Anna McIlwraith

    The Serpent Priest by Anna McIlwraith

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Betrayed, bereft, and beaten — but not broken. Emma Chase is the Caller of the Blood, destined to command the magic of all shapechanging races. She’s been to Hell and back and she’ll never be the same, but she’s rebuilding her life — and her sanity — with the help of some totally unexpected allies. If only she knew how to heal the one person whose soul is bound to hers forever...
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    alpha-mc  female-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book
  • Nightingale by Helen Harper

    Nightingale by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All across Scotland, the resistance movement is growing in both strength and numbers. For the first time in five generations, the Mages are afraid - and it’s all because of one woman.But Mairi knows where the real power lies and that it is the Mages who maintain control of the country. She has become the poster girl for the resistance and her magic is growing stronger by the day...
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    alpha-mc  female-mc  magic  paranormal  urban  adult  book  demons
  • Shatter the Earth by Karen Chance

    Shatter the Earth by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Ironically for the time traveling, chief seer of the supernatural world, time has never been on Cassie Palmer’s side. There has always seemed to be too much to learn, too much to master, and never enough hours in a day...
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    alpha-mc  female-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  urban  adult
  • Ragnarok by C. Gockel

    Ragnarok by C. Gockel

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Loki vowed Asgard would burn. Bohdi Patel, latest incarnation of Chaos, wants nothing to do with Loki’s psychotic oath...
  • Small Magics by Ilona Andrews

    Small Magics by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    i>***The stories in this anthology have been previously published*** Now collected for the first time, an irresistible compilation of five previously published stories by the bestselling author of the Kate Daniels series; including Kate’s very first meeting with Saiman, some related adventures, and two unforgettable ‘outside’ excursions...
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    alpha-mc  family  female-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  urban
  • The Immortal by Gena Showalter

    The Immortal by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter delivers The Immortal, the second dark and sexy book in her Rise of the Warlords series, featuring a cold, merciless assassin and a stubborn harpy warrior... one fated to die by the other's hand.Halo Phaninon, assassin of gods, is as cold and merciless as a machine. For victory, he crosses any line...
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    alpha-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book
  • Wilde Child by Jenn Stark

    Wilde Child by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Come away, O human child...No matter the job, no matter the client, Tarot-reading magical artifacts hunter Sara Wilde has only one hard-and-fast rule: protect the children. But the newest strain of technoceutical drugs--specifically designed to alter psychic children's DNA--has thrown the arcane black market into a frenzy...
  • Forever Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Forever Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nothing lasts forever...if you're lucky. Life has never been smoother for Tarot-reading artifact hunter Sara Wilde. With a worldwide criminal organization at her beck and call, she can finally secure the safety of the youngest and most vulnerable members of the psychic community...
  • Xander's Chance by Lizzy Ford

    Xander's Chance by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A continuation of the "War of Gods" saga ...As the single-most powerful vampire on the planet, Xander is the ultimate bored predator with too much time on his hands. He manipulates the minds of immortals for fun and bullies around the Gods, while guarding the secret source of his power, a crystal that can wipe out the planet...
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    alpha-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary
  • Aces Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Aces Wilde by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Never play the game without an Ace up your sleeve. During her years of finding and selling artifacts on the arcane black market, Tarot reader Sara Wilde has made a bona fide killing. Now, as the recently appointed head of an ancient Connected syndicate, she's forced to take a truly deadly role in the war on magic.  Within the House of Swords, every blade cuts deep...
  • East of Ecstasy by Laura Kaye

    East of Ecstasy by Laura Kaye

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Annalise Fallston made peace with postponing her big-city dreams to care for her ill father, but lately she’s been filled with a restlessness not even her beloved painting dispels. Worse, the colors don’t speak to her as they always have, and all her efforts produce dark, foreboding images of a dangerous man and a terrifying future...
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    alpha-mc  family  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  abuse  adult
  • South of Surrender by Laura Kaye

    South of Surrender by Laura Kaye

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's the only one who can see through his golden boy façade to the broken god within...Chrysander Notos, Supreme God of the South Wind and Summer, is on a mission: save Eurus from his death sentence, and prove his troubled brother can be redeemed...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  angst  book
  • This Changes Everything  (Curse Keepers Secret #2) by Denise Grover Swank

    This Changes Everything (Curse Keepers Secret #2) by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ellie Dare Lancaster is only eight years old, but the secret she carries stretches back four hundred years, to the doomed pioneer colony of Roanoke Island—and the dark pact made by her ancestor, Ananias Dare...
  • Unnatural Magic by Stacia Stark

    Unnatural Magic by Stacia Stark

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If there’s one thing I loathe, it’s being told what to do.I was kept ignorant and sheltered my whole life. Now that I’m free, I’ll never be coddled again.Even if the smoking hot werewolf king thinks coddling is perfectly acceptable.Because something’s hunting humans in my city. Something that kills like a werewolf, but displays those kills publicly–as if taunting the authorities...
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    alpha-mc  female-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book
  • Dime a Demon by Devon Monk

    Dime a Demon by Devon Monk

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Myra Reed’s life is going great. Being a cop is great. Guarding the library of arcane secrets is great. Even dealing with the monsters and gods vacationing in the little beach town of Ordinary, Oregon is great.Then the demon, Bathin, strolls into town and steals Myra’s sister’s soul. So much for great. Luckily, Myra has a plan to evict the demon and save her sister’s soul...
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    female-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook
  • Dragon Blood by Eileen Wilks

    Dragon Blood by Eileen Wilks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The battle against a vengeful goddess reaches a climactic point as Lily Yu must now face the ultimate challenge in a dangerous new realm—without her husband, Rule...When a mission to rescue five children stolen by an Old One falls apart under the assault of a demon prince, Lily wakes up in a strange reality—and is immediately taken captive by the dragon spawn who rule there...
  • Hood's Obsession by Marie Hall

    Hood's Obsession by Marie Hall

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Erualis' time is running out and now Rumpelstiltskin says there are only two who can save him... Lilith Wolf, the daughter of the Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood has a problem, she's an unmated female in heat. She has to get away from the males of her village unless she wants to find herself involuntarily hand fasted to the first one to tame her wolf...
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    alpha-mc  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book  demons
  • Lucifer by D.B. Reynolds

    Lucifer by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    EPIC Award WinnerMontreal, Quebec . . . A charming city on the St. Lawrence River, historic, sophisticated, but beneath it all lies an extensive underground where treacherous vampires are plotting to seize the country.Lucifer Scuderi is a vampire—handsome and charismatic, a powerful hunter of unusual skill—who arrives in Montreal to take on the most important hunt of his life...
  • Accidentally...Cimil? by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Accidentally...Cimil? by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A novella from New York Times bestseller, Mimi Jean Pamfiloff.(Book 4.5 of The Accidentally Yours Series. Original release date, 2013)DO A POWERFUL KING AND A CRAZY GODDESS STAND A CHANCE?Meet Cimil. Yeah, she's the Goddess of the Underworld, harbinger of all things evil and deadly, yadda yadda . .
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    alpha-mc  female-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book
  • Lover's Knot by Karen Chance

    Lover's Knot by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    One of the most powerful vampires alive has gone missing, which is fine with Dorina Basarab. As a dhampir, her job is killing vampires, not saving them. But then the man sent to find the missing vamp also goes missing, and she finds herself on a rescue with a flood of long forgotten memories playing out in her head...
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    alpha-mc  family  female-mc  magic  paranormal  urban  adult  book
  • Damian’s Assassin by Lizzy Ford

    Damian’s Assassin by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    BOOK TWO in the War of Gods series.With the White God in Europe, Dustin is left alone in Miami to protect the Grey God, a man-god struggling with his identity, and the White God’s mate. One of the Black God’s vamps in Miami suddenly goes rogue and starts killing humans by the dozen...
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    alpha-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book  dangerous-mc
  • Artistic Vision by Dana Marie Bell

    Artistic Vision by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Desire is the raw material. Lust is the spark…and love will sculpt their destiny.The Gray Court, Book 3Akane Russo, one of the Hob’s top Blades, can’t wait for her current assignment to end. She’s been tasked with protecting Shane Dunne from the Malmayne clan’s scheme to kidnap him once again. But no one—not even her Seer half—warned her she’d have to protect herself from his heated gaze...
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    alpha-mc  family  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book
  • The Law of Stars and Sultans by Samantha Young, S. Young

    The Law of Stars and Sultans by Samantha Young, S. Young

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New York Times Bestselling author Samantha Young writing as S. YoungPreviously released in 2013 under the title Darkness, Kindled (A Fire Spirits Novel)The Law of Stars and Sultans is the action-packed final installment in the epic romantic fantasy series Seven Kings of Jinn.Ari Johnson wishes adjusting to living with her boyfriend was her only source of excitement and anxiety...
  • Golden Wars by Paulina Vasquez

    Golden Wars by Paulina Vasquez

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The shifters council has fallen, and Alpha Ares is ready to fulfill the prophecy. Born from Gods and blessed with elemental gifts, the golden wolf becomes the first Alpha King after a thousand years. The human hunters are at the forefront of the Golden Wars, but something more sinister has been stirring for centuries. A plan to rid the earth of werewolves once and for all...
  • Paradise Damned by S.M. Reine

    Paradise Damned by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The final book in The Descent Series.Elise Kavanagh is being held captive without weapons or allies. The only way out of the garden is to kill God Himself.James Faulkner's son has been taken by Metaraon, but James is caught in Limbo and helpless to save him.An army of half-angel, half-demon hybrids is converging on the gates of Heaven, where the Union prepares for a final battle...
  • The Grey God by Lizzy Ford

    The Grey God by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    BOOK FOUR in the War of Gods series. The Grey God Darian can’t quite shake off the dark streak remaining after the thousands of years he spent enslaved by evil – or the memory of how the only woman he loved betrayed him. When given a second chance at life and love, Darian struggles to leave his past behind, before it destroys his future...
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    alpha-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book  dangerous-mc
  • Queen by Karen Lynch

    Queen by Karen Lynch

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Jesse recovered the missing ke’tain to keep her parents safe, but it came at a high price. In the weeks after her brush with death, she struggles to adapt to her new life, while burdened with the terrible secret she learned about her brother Caleb.On her first visit to Faerie, Jesse faces new challenges and perils amid the splendor of the Unseelie court...
  • The Whispering by L. Filloon

    The Whispering by L. Filloon

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Tharin and Lily find themselves back in Pathen in search of Julia and the key to Eirrell, but old foes and new ones are in close pursuit. Adding to their plight, all doorways to Velesi have been closed.Forced to discover a way back to their realm, the group finds help from new friends and those who once stood against them are now allies...
  • Winter Queen by Skye MacKinnon

    Winter Queen by Skye MacKinnon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "They say grief passes. They say the pain gets less.Well, I don’t want it to go. I don’t want it to stop hurting.The pain helps me function and get through the day. And it helps me focus on one thing: revenge." The Morrigan needs to die, no question about that. But first, Wyn and her Guardians need to find her. While the Realm prepares for war, allies arrive from unexpected places...
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    alpha-mc  female-mc  gods  magic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book
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