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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...
  • Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Mercenary Kate Daniels knows all too well that magic in post-Shift Atlanta is a dangerous business. But nothing she’s faced could have prepared her for this…Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official...
  • Winter by Marissa Meyer

    Winter by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 82 ratings
    Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty, despite the scars on her face. She's said to be even more breath-taking than her stepmother, Queen Levana...When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush their romance before it has a chance to begin.But there are stirrings against the Queen across the land...
  • Emperor's Throne by Shannon Mayer

    Emperor's Throne by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Three against one is not the best odds in any fight. But does she dare gamble on making an enemy into an ally? The final installment in the USAT and WSJ bestselling epic urban fantasy that readers have been waiting for! There might be no rest for the wicked, but there’s no rest for the exhausted either...
  • Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    No matter how much the paranormal politics of Atlanta change, one thing always remains the same: if there’s trouble, Kate Daniels will be in the middle of it…As the mate of the Beast Lord, Curran, former mercenary Kate Daniels has more responsibilities than it seems possible to juggle...
  • Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She’s made friends and enemies. She’s found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players of the world to let her be...
  • Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews

    Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Atlanta was always a dangerous city. Now, as waves of magic and technology compete for supremacy, it’s a place caught in a slow apocalypse, where monsters spawn among the crumbling skyscrapers and supernatural factions struggle for power and survival.Eight years ago, Julie Lennart left Atlanta to find out who she was...
  • Moth by Lily Mayne

    Moth by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When I—along with my best friend and his big purple monster boyfriend—come across a fortress-like raider camp while journeying across the monster-infested Wastes, we stop to deliver a message.Somehow, that simple pit stop turns into a seemingly impossible quest to get this camp’s missing leader out of the prison where he’s being held and forced to fight monsters and other humans...
  • Dragon's Ground by Shannon Mayer

    Dragon's Ground by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    We survived the land of the Witch’s Reign, that much is true. But our arrival home is far from welcome. My idiot brother has taken it upon himself to ride off in search of a mythical healer, someone who might help him walk again. Assuming she doesn’t eat him first. Because she’s a dragon and happens to reside in the deepest reaches of the Dragon’s Ground. Like I said, idiot...
  • Jinn's Dominion by Shannon Mayer

    Jinn's Dominion by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In this THIRD installment of Zamira's journey, she will be faced with losing her Pride, and her two closest friends as she fights her way into the Jinn's Dominion.  There was nothing that could have prepared me for Dragon’s Ground. And I thought that nothing could be worse than what I faced there.Just my black cat bad luck, the world is set to prove me wrong...
  • Fairy’s Touch by Ella Summers

    Fairy’s Touch by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The games of gods play out upon the backbones of mortals. Leda Pierce has come a long way since she left her home on the frontier of civilization one year ago to join the Legion of Angels. She is a soldier in the gods’ army, has crossed swords with demons, and shares an apartment with her angel lover in New York...
  • Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    Down in Atlanta, tempers – and temperatures – are about to flare…As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow across Atlanta like a tide. But once every seven years, a flare comes, a time when magic runs rampant...
  • Sanctuary by Ilona Andrews

    Sanctuary by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s not easy serving the Chernobog, the God of Destruction, Darkness and Death…especially during the holidays; and especially when you’re out of eggnog and one of your pesky, freeloading mythic creatures has eaten your last cookie.Roman would like nothing more than to be left alone, but when a wounded boy stumbles into his yard and begs for sanctuary, Roman takes him in...
  • Redemption by S.J. West

    Redemption by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the final installment of The Redemption Series, Anna must face the challenges of retrieving the rest of the seals from the Princes of Hell. As her relationship with Lucifer grows stronger, she learns more about not only her father's past but also her own. Helena uses her growing influence to strengthen her dominion over Hell and tempt Anna's dark side into joining forces with her...
  • Hell Hounds Don't Heel by Kim McDougall

    Hell Hounds Don't Heel by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Critter wrangler rule #7: Some monsters just have to die.Someone is plotting to put all gargoyles in jail…or six feet in the ground.For decades gargoyles have patrolled the night in Montreal Ward. They are dubbed Guardians by the humans and fae who live on the fringes of society, those who survive in neighborhoods the police don't care about...
  • Elemental Witch by Shannon Mayer

    Elemental Witch by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    My name is Pamela, and I am the strongest witch the world has ever seen. Only I’m not just a witch, I’m an elemental, and that truth makes me a target and a threat. The elementals of this world are done hiding in the shadows. And there is a faction of them who want to rule our world. They want to put the humans beneath their heels, and they want all the power to themselves...
  • Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

    Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The old saying is true. Knowledge really is power, especially when angels and gods play the game. The original Immortals, masters of magic, once reigned over every world in the known universe—until they suddenly vanished. The gods and demons have been fighting over the remains of their fractured empire ever since...
  • The Waste Lands by Stephen King

    The Waste Lands by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Several months have passed, and Roland’s two new tet-mates have become proficient gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But while battling The Pusher in 1977 New York, Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who—in Roland’s where and when—has already died...
  • Lucifer by S.J. West

    Lucifer by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Disclaimer: This series is a continuation of my Watcher series of books. You need to have read the following series (in this order) to understand what is happening in this story: The Watchers Trilogy, The Watcher Chronicles, and Caylin's Story. Please be advised that this series will contain sexual situations of a mature nature. If I were to rate this series like a movie, I would rate it 'R'...
  • Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Earth has been overrun with monsters... Post-Apocalypse America is unrecognizable from the past. Jake survives by working as the leader of a scavenging adventuring team. A former mage, now he follows the strange path of cultivation, taught to him by a mysterious traveler. As far as he knows, he is one of the only people on Earth with this power...
  • The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

    The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into the life of a different person living in contemporary New York...
  • Defending Nightmares by M. Sinclair

    Defending Nightmares by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I crave my nightmares.I crave the shadows.I don’t want the light if it doesn’t include them…The human terror organization MAM has come to our doorstep—we just don’t know what they want...
  • Dervishes Don't Dance by Kim McDougall

    Dervishes Don't Dance by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Guardian is dead. Fae are missing. And someone has let a golem loose in town. Ride along with Kyra Greene, the only pest controller qualified to deal with the strange and wonderful creatures that come out the shadows when magic flares.Dervishes Don’t Dance is the second book in the Valkyrie Bestiary series...
  • Gloam by Lily Mayne

    Gloam by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When a strange woman shows up outside our camp in the Wastes with monsters chained up to her RV, it feels like I’m the only one who actually wants to help them.That big, grey-skinned monster with the cage on his head and the chain hanging from his back—something is telling me I need to help him. I need to free him...
  • Wyn by Lily Mayne

    Wyn by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I am a monster.A ghoul. A demon. The bogeyman. I have been called all of them. Most creatures fear me, but humans are repulsed by me. They are terrified of me. They have created legends about me, ever since they became aware of my existence when the tear between our worlds grew and we—the monsters from their nightmares—flooded through in our droves.There is only one human who isn’t afraid of me...
  • The Rycke by Lily Mayne

    The Rycke by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Life as a raider in the Wastes, where monsters roam and the military lurks, is as easy as it sounds.I’ve been out here for a long time, and the fear that courses through my blood every time I have to step outside our camp walls to scavenge never fades. No matter how many monsters you face—and have to run for your life from—it doesn’t ever get easier...
  • Reckless Cruel Heirs by Olivia Wildenstein

    Reckless Cruel Heirs by Olivia Wildenstein

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Imagine falling through a portal, into a supernatural prison, with the most hateful faerie. Sound bad? Well, it's worse . . .When my father, the King of Neverra, forced my hand into the Cauldron to cement a political alliance with the Farrows, I thought my night couldn’t get any worse. But lo and behold, it did...
  • Kiss of Death by Brenda K. Davies

    Kiss of Death by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AislingVolunteering to work at the wall wasn’t my life’s goal, but in this new world, the dreams of old are things of the past... especially when I discover I’m part demon.I embraced my demon side and the freedom it offered—until it led me straight to Hawk. Now I find myself bound to a man I don’t even know...
  • Judgment by S.J. West

    Judgment by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As Jess deals with the repercussions of Ravan’s latest earth-shattering actions, she soon realizes that not everything is as it seems. Being surrounded by the enemy on all sides, Jess quickly learns who has her back and who wants to stab it...
  • Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

    Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 89 ratings
    Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles.She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing...
  • The Brightest Night by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Brightest Night by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Less than a year ago, Evelyn Dasher was a normal girl, living an unremarkable life.Now, she's on the run, under the protection of the beautiful, deadly inhuman Luc. She's been betrayed by those who were closest to her. And she's learned truths about herself that she never saw coming--things she once knew, and was made to forget. Truths with devastating consequences...
  • Red: The Heroic Rescue by Ted Dekker

    Red: The Heroic Rescue by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    "We have stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness."The mind-bending pace of "Black" accelerates in "Red," Book Two of Ted Dekker's groundbreaking Circle trilogy. Less than a month ago, Thomas Hunter was a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Now he finds himself in a desperate quest to rescue two worlds from collapse...
  • Death by Laura Thalassa

    Death by Laura Thalassa

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    They came to earth--Pestilence, War, Famine, Death--four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.He’s known by many names: Thanatos. Horseman. God’s last angel. And then, of course, there's the one I’m all too familiar with—Death...
  • Anna by S.J. West

    Anna by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Disclaimer: This series is a continuation of my Watcher series of books. You need to have read the following series (in this order) to understand what is happening in this story: The Watchers Trilogy, The Watcher Chronicles, and Caylin's Story. Please be advised that this series will contain sexual situations of a mature nature. If I were to rate this series like a movie, I would rate it 'R'...
  • Court of Darkness by C.N. Crawford

    Court of Darkness by C.N. Crawford

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    I would not say things are going well, exactly. I live in a burnt-out car under a bridge, surrounded by rubbish. When Ruadan shows up to bring me back to the Institute, I leap at the chance. That is, until he throws me into the dungeons. I’m on the naughty list, and the mentor who once trained me is cold as ice...
  • Three Dog Knight by Annabel Chase

    Three Dog Knight by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    I survived a job for royal vampires with my life and identity intact. That means I can return to my normal life as a knight, right?Wrong.When a group of werewolves goes berserk in our local pub, there’s a new threat in the city and the local pack hires me to find out what it is...
  • Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews

    Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Some people have everything figured out—Andrea Nash is not one of those people.After being kicked out of the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, Andrea’s whole existence is in shambles. All she can do is to try to put herself back together, something made easier by working for Cutting Edge, a small investigative firm owned by her best friend Kate Daniels...
  • The Immortal Crown by Richelle Mead

    The Immortal Crown by Richelle Mead

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Vampire Academy and Bloodline series returns with the second installment in her acclaimed Age of X series.Gameboard of the Gods introduced religious investigator Justin March and Mae Koskinen, the beautiful supersoldier assigned to protect him...
  • Last Dragon Standing by Rachel Aaron

    Last Dragon Standing by Rachel Aaron

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Dear Reader, There is no way to write a blurb for this final book without spoiling all of the others. Suffice it to say, mysteries resolve, dragons war, pigeons abound, and Julius must risk himself in ways he never dreamed possible as Bob’s grand plan finally comes to fruition. But the Great Seer of the Heartstrikers isn’t the only one whose schemes are nearing completion...
  • Fire in Her Dreams by Ruby Dixon

    Fire in Her Dreams by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Jenny’s dreams have turned to nightmares.Every night, her thoughts are filled with evil. Something is reaching out…and she’s not so sure she wants to reach back. That is, until someone new appears in her dreams. Someone who protects her, comforts her, and thinks of Jenny as his mate. Imaginary friends aren’t real, but Jenny likes to pretend, anyhow...
  • Magic Unchained by Meg Xuemei X

    Magic Unchained by Meg Xuemei X

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I abandon all hope that my demigods will come for me.In Hell's Academy, it's either kill or be eaten. Demons turn violence into an art form, and they've marked me as their newest victim.A charismatic archdemon offers me a way out of the pit. His price? Spend one night with him and his three dukes. They don't want to conquer my heart, but they have every intention of riding my body...
  • One Good Dragon Deserves Another by Rachel Aaron

    One Good Dragon Deserves Another by Rachel Aaron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    After barely escaping the machinations of his terrifying mother, two all knowing seers, and countless bloodthirsty siblings, the last thing Julius wants to see is another dragon...
  • The Dark Calling by Kresley Cole

    The Dark Calling by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    New intrigues, adventures, and stunning revelations fill the penultimate installment of #1 New York Times best-selling author Kresley Cole’s electrifying Arcana Chronicles.In a world teetering on the edge . . .When Evie receives life-changing—and possibly game-changing—news, she has trouble believing it...
  • Aimless Witch by Shannon Mayer

    Aimless Witch by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Or so I thought.It has been three years since the Destroyer sundered our world. The land is no longer whole, but broken into pieces, most technology gone, and the continents shattered into an unrecognizable place.New monsters have risen from the depths, adding danger on top of danger...
  • A Demon's Due by Connie Suttle

    A Demon's Due by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Metal Library has relocated itself. Morgett Blackmantle, a powerful Ra'Ak, is seeking its new location. A scholar is hired to research potential hiding places for the library. When the scholar is killed for the information he holds, Kory, Lexsi and the scholar's son are drawn into the search for Morgett and his allies...
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  • Wicked Queen by Emma Dean

    Wicked Queen by Emma Dean

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Death is only the beginning.Odin has spent thousands of years moving pieces across the board to prepare for the day a blood witch is born who will be his downfall. Mika Marshall may be the last blood witch, but she isn’t sure she has the magic or strength to take down a god who’s been stealing power for longer than the devil’s been alive...
  • No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished by Rachel Aaron

    No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished by Rachel Aaron

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    When Julius overthrew his mother and took control of his clan, he thought he was doing right by everyone. But sharing power isn’t part of any proper dragon’s vocabulary, and with one seat still open on the new ruling Council, all of Heartstriker is ready to do whatever it takes to get their claws on it, including killing the Nice Dragon who got them into this mess in the first place...
  • Stars Above by Marissa Meyer

    Stars Above by Marissa Meyer

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 64 ratings
    The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories—and secrets—that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic...
  • Crave The Night by Lara Adrian

    Crave The Night by Lara Adrian

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In Crave the Night, Adrian brings the Breed and its world to the brink of war, where even the deepest passion can shatter into violence.   Born and raised to be an emotionless killing machine, Nathan is one of the most lethal Breed vampires in existence...
  • Smoke, Vampires, and Mirrors by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires

    Smoke, Vampires, and Mirrors by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The epic conclusion of Sasha Urban's story!I found my family, I found my heart, I found myself.But it’s not over.No matter how many allies I have, there's no escaping destiny.The end of the world is coming, and I'm the only one who can stop it...
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