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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...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal
  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The truth is out there...The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
  • The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah...
  • Dark Tarot by Christine Feehan

    Dark Tarot by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sandu Berdardi continues to exist only to protect his people. An ancient Carpathian, his entire long life has been dedicated to honor above all else. He knows his time has passed, especially since he has not been able to find his lifemate — the anchor to keep him sane in a world he no longer understands...
  • The Aether Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Aether Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My magic, my rules.I’m the Aether Witch.And I’m done playing this game. We’re running blind toward a target we can’t see. Everything I love is on the line. My magic. My family. My Coven. Tennessee. I’ll lose it all at the strike of midnight on Samhain if I don’t put the pieces of this puzzle together.Salem’s Prophecy says the fate of the world lies on mine and my twin’s hands...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal
  • On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When the life you wanted has crumbled beneath your fingers, there’s nothing left to do but pick up the pieces and soldier on. You’ve done this before.But what happens when you no longer feel like yourself anymore? When fires spontaneously start-up around you, when you hear growling coming from underneath your bed, and you no longer recognize your face in the mirror...
  • 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...
  • Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a city full of rising tension, with people going missing or turning up dead, can Max resist the call to help?When Max tries to intervene to prevent an assault and it goes horribly wrong, she wants nothing more than to keep her head down and get on with her job. She does not want to answer calls for help, not even from Bryce, the Order warrior who seems willing to give her a second chance...
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    paranormal  demons  magic  dystopia  female-mc  alpha-mc  dark  romance
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
  • Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward

    Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Number-one New York Times best-selling author J.R. Ward's thrilling new novel in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, seductive cloth as her brother. Imprisoned for eons by their mother, the Scribe Virgin, she finally frees herself - only to face a devastating injury.Manuel Manello, M.D...
  • Hunted by Vanessa Nelson

    Hunted by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Unsolved murders, supernatural creatures and civil unrest. Just another day.Problems keep piling up around Max. No sooner has she dealt with one set of supernatural creatures, than she's called to the city's mortuary to an unusual death. The city's most senior spiritual leader is also trying to get hold of her. On top of that, Bryce cancelled their date and hasn't been seen for days...
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    paranormal  demons  magic  female-mc  alpha-mc  dystopia  dark  romance
  • 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...
  • Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Perry Palomino has fought her demons – and won – but the battle is far from over. She’s now left broken and on her own, leaving behind her life and family in Portland to focus on giving Dex Foray – and the Experiment in Terror show – a second chance. But their past mistakes continue to tease and test their relationship, as does the wild and desolate terrain of the Canadian Rockies...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  survival
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    afterlife  alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  female-mc  magic  paranormal
  • 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...
  • Forged by Vanessa Nelson

    Forged by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Blood may be thicker than water, but not all families are meant to stay together.Struggling to maintain her independence, and the life she has fought so hard to build, Max finally learns the truth about her own origins and her family.Max has no time to absorb the shocking news...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  magic  demons  dystopia  female-mc  alpha-mc  dark  romance
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal
  • Chaos by Sarah Fine

    Chaos by Sarah Fine

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    With Juri in control and everything in absolute chaos, Lela plunges into the depths of hell to free Malachi from creatures that have waited decades to exact their revenge. But the Judge has her own way of doing things, and Lela must work with Ana, the new Captain, who has a very personal mission of her own...
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    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  high-school  magic
  • If I Die by Rachel Vincent

    If I Die by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The entire school's talking about the gorgeous new math teacher, Mr. Beck. Everyone except Kaylee Cavanaugh. After all, Kaylee's no ordinary high-school junior. She's a banshee—she screams when someone dies.But the next scream might be for Kaylee.Yeah—it's a shock to her, too. So to distract herself, Kaylee's going to save every girl in school...
  • Faerie Hunt by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Faerie Hunt by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm Ivy Lane, and lately, my life has been suspiciously free of faerie-related drama. But there's a storm coming.Now, the lords of Faerie know I have their magic. What they don't know is that I killed a powerful faerie, and might just have doomed both our worlds in the process...
  • With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

    With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    What does it mean when your school is voted the most dangerous in America? It's time to kick some hellion butt...After not really surviving her junior year (does "undead" count as survival?), Kaylee Cavanaugh has vowed to take back her school from the hellions causing all the trouble...
  • The Queen of Zombie Hearts by Gena Showalter

    The Queen of Zombie Hearts by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    I thought I had nothing left to give. I thought wrong. They started the war. Now I will end it. Alice "Ali" Bell thinks the worst is behind her. She's ready to take the next step with boyfriend Cole Holland, the leader of the zombie slayers…until Anima Industries, the agency controlling the zombies, launches a sneak attack, killing four of her friends...
  • Full Blood by Donna Augustine

    Full Blood by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One monster wants my soul. One man wants my magic. Me? I want to be left alone to live my life out like a dull, one of the lucky people who were born devoid of magic. But that won’t happen because being born a Wyrd Blood gives me two choices in life: ruler or slave. I’d rather die than be a slave and I’m not cut out to rule. Instead I’ve been hiding out in the Valley...
  • Destiny by P.T. Michelle

    Destiny by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When destiny is on the line, will love be enough to light the way? In order to save Ethan, Nara gets pulled deeper into his dark world, where everything she thought she knew about Ethan and herself turns on its head...
  • Archangel's Blade by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Blade by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh is back in the shadows of a deadly, beautiful world where angels rule, vampires serve, and one female hunter must crawl out of the darkness to survive…The severed head marked by a distinctive tattoo on its cheek should have been a Guild case, but dark instincts honed over hundreds of years of life compel the vampire Dmitri to take control...
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    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  female-mc  magic  paranormal  abuse
  • The Unbound by Victoria E. Schwab

    The Unbound by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.Last summer, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, almost lost her life to one. Now, as she starts her junior year at Hyde School, she’s struggling to get her life back...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Through the Zombie Glass by Gena Showalter

    Through the Zombie Glass by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Zombies stalk the night.Forget blood and brains. These monsters hunger for human souls.Sadly, they've got mine...Alice Bell has lost so much. Family. Friends. A home. She thought she had nothing else to give. She was wrong.After a new zombie attack, strange things begin to happen to her. Mirrors come to life, and the whispers of the dead assault her ears...
  • Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent

    Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    I died on a Thursday— killed by a monster intent on stealing my soul.The good news? He didn't get it.The bad news? Turns out not even death will get you out of high school…Covering up her own murder was one thing, but faking life is much harder than Kaylee Cavanaugh expected...
  • Imp Forsaken by Debra Dunbar

    Imp Forsaken by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Sam is banished to Hel, the bond with her angel, Gregory, broken. Six Elven kingdoms are battling for supremacy, and she’s broken and injured in the middle of the most hostile one. Shooting the top off a royal throne, committing fraud in the completion of a contract, and threatening a high lord hasn’t endeared her to the elves, either...
  • Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

    Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    (New to this angsty, sexy, scary romance series? Start with book #1, Darkhouse, and work your way up through all the slow-burn spookiness) Perry Palomino and Dex Foray. On their own, they’re uniquely brilliant. Together, they’re an unstoppable team. Until now. Because after everything the duo has encountered, they haven’t come across an evil quite like this...
  • 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...
  • Come Alive by Karina Halle

    Come Alive by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    It’s one thing to bring the woman you love back into your life. It’s another to try and keep her there. For Dex Foray, con­vinc­ing Perry Palomino to open her­self to their bur­geon­ing rela­tion­ship has been more chal­leng­ing than hunt­ing ghosts, bat­tling demons and stalk­ing Sasquatch com­bined...
  • Shadows in the Silence by Courtney Allison Moulton

    Shadows in the Silence by Courtney Allison Moulton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Your strength in heart and hand will fall. . . . Ellie knows that the darkest moments are still to come, and she has everything to fight for: She must fight for Will. The demonic have resorted to their cruelest weapons to put Will in mortal danger, and Ellie makes an unlikely alliance to save him and to stop Lilith and Sammael, who seek to drown the world in blood and tear a hole into Heaven...
  • Lover Unveiled by J.R. Ward

    Lover Unveiled by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Meet Sahvage: a powerful MMA fighter with a buried secret that could change the world of Caldwell forever... Sahvage has been living under the radar for centuries-and he has every intention of staying 'dead and buried.' But when a civilian female sucks him into her dangerous battle with an evil as ancient as time, his protective side overrides his common sense...
  • City of Ghosts by Stacia Kane

    City of Ghosts by Stacia Kane

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

    Demon Escape by M.J. Haag

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eden Terry survived the first ring of hell only to end up in the second one. With nothing but a trowel and her wits, she's determined to escape the work camp holding her prisoner. She dreams of finding a safe haven and living in the new, devastated world on her own. However, surviving alone after she escapes proves more difficult than she ever imagines...
  • Broken by Kelley Armstrong

    Broken by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on the twenty-first century — and become his next target…Ever since she discovered she’s pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, she’s never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one who’s given birth...
  • Lucid by P.T. Michelle

    Lucid by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Once Nara combines her prophetic ability with Ethan’s power to outsmart Fate at his own deadly cat-and-mouse game, she’s more determined than ever to help Ethan learn the meaning behind the raven sword tattoo that suddenly appeared on his back after their confrontation with Fate...
  • The Lost Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Lost Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I thought magic was make believe...but I was way wrong.I was nobody. No matter how hard I tried, I never fit in with anyone at my high school. Now I know why.Turns out I'm a witch. A scary powerful one, too. Except The Coven that claimed me won't teach me how to use my magic.Suddenly, I'm selected by the Goddess to hunt down a mythical locket needed to save the world from destruction...
  • The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Danger turns her on. Desire turns her dangerous…Riley Jenson hunts evildoers—and does it with a style all her own...
  • The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Danger turns her on. Desire turns her dangerous…Riley Jenson hunts evildoers—and does it with a style all her own...
  • Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 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...
  • 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:
    alpha-mc  angels  demons  female-mc  ghosts  hell  magic  paranormal
  • World After by Susan Ee

    World After by Susan Ee

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken...
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