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  • The Wicked by L.A. Banks

    The Wicked by L.A. Banks

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    New, deadly enemies of the Vampire Huntress join forces with the old in the battle that will lead to the Armageddon in The Wicked, the eighth installment in L. A. Banks's hot Vampire Huntress seriesDamali and Carlos have finally tied the knot, but there is no happily ever after on the horizon...
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    angels  demons  myths  paranormal  adult  book  dark  dark-fantasy
  • Eternal by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Eternal by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Demons don't belong in the light.I played a game of deception, and my world was torn apart.Now my pack, my family, and the ruthless demon who has claimed my heart could pay with their lives.To save them, I must walk a treacherous path between hope and destruction—a path that leads me out of the shadows and into the light.Where betrayal waits.With every move I make, my enemies close in...
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    angels  demons  magic  myths  paranormal  spirituality  adult  book
  • City of the Forgotten by E.E. Holmes

    City of the Forgotten by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A malevolent force lurks beneath the streets of Scotland...Jess and Hannah Ballard's determination to protect the Gateways brings them to Edinburgh's Old Town, where a strange phenomenon threatens to disturb the delicate balance between the worlds of the living and the dead. Spirits who wish to cross over are vanishing, and it is up to the Ballard sisters to discover why...
  • All That Lives Must Die by Eric S. Nylund

    All That Lives Must Die by Eric S. Nylund

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eliot and Fiona Post are twins whose parental clans are foes. Mom is Immortal goddess Atropos, eldest Fate. Dad is Infernal Lucifer, Satan. High School is Paxington, where gods and goddesses, warriors and sorcerers, learn to harness their powers. Classmates are allies in battle or threats to your life. To flunk is to die. Only the toughest graduate...
  • Unleashed Magic: A Wizard in Bremen Part 2 by Steve Higgs

    Unleashed Magic: A Wizard in Bremen Part 2 by Steve Higgs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No one knows about them. No one is ready. The false gods are coming. In seven days, I have to surrender myself to a demon. That was what I agreed to. That was the price to rescue a teenage girl. What would you do with your last week? My plan to drink good whisky and relax got shot to hell within hours when the police, who hate me by the way, begged for my help...
  • Whiskey Ginger by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Whiskey Ginger by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Meet Quinn MacKenna, a black magic arms dealer from the mean streets of Boston. ***FIRST 4 BOOKS IN THE SERIES RELEASING BY JULY 10, 2018!*** Everything was going fine for Quinn MacKenna… until she accidentally stole from Nate Temple.She knows how to drink, fight, and steal dangerous magical artifacts – but not for money. For favors...
  • Embrace by Stacey Rourke

    Embrace by Stacey Rourke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Whether she likes it or not, eighteen year old Celeste Garrett has come to terms with being the Chosen One. She knew having a "normal life" would be tricky, between intense training sessions and epic demonic battles, but she didn't know at what cost it would come. That is, until a dear friend is harmed by the malicious forces hunting her...
  • Pigeonwings by Heide Goody, Iain Grant

    Pigeonwings by Heide Goody, Iain Grant

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As punishment for his part in an attempted coup in Heaven, the Archangel Michael is banished to Earth. The holiest of the angelic host has to learn to live as a mortal, not an easy job when you’ve got Satan as a next-door neighbour.Michael soon finds that being a good person involves more than helping out at Sunday school and attending church coffee mornings...
  • Sister of the Night - Von Ringen und Blut by Marah Woolf

    Sister of the Night - Von Ringen und Blut by Marah Woolf

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    „Du könntest in Coralis bleiben“, sagte Aarvand.Ich lachte kurz auf. „Dann müsste ich meine Welt verlassen. Ich würde meine Schwestern und mein Zuhause nie wiedersehen. Würdest du dein Leben für mich aufgeben? Dein Amt? Dein Land?“„Nein“, erwiderte er knapp.Ich legte ihm eine Hand auf die Wange. „Und deswegen“, sagte ich bedauernd, „werde ich all das, was ich eigentlich will, nicht mit dir tun...
  • Seals by Kim Richardson

    Seals by Kim Richardson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kara has survived the threat of the Reapers, but at an unspeakable cost—the Archfiends have escaped their eternal prison. Now, with the mortal world on the brink of the apocalypse, with the threat of evil beings as powerful as gods, she must break the rules and travel across the mortal world on an unauthorized mission. Along the way she must face her darkest truth . .
  • Hades Academy: Fifth Semester by Abbie Lyons

    Hades Academy: Fifth Semester by Abbie Lyons

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The last year at Hades Academy begins... With a dangerous new enemy on the horizon, Nova's forced to get unexpected help to fight back. The future of Hades might be at stake—and now Elysium Academy's on the line, too. Alliances rise, friendships are put to the test, and the very balance against Chaos comes into question..
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    angels  demons  magic  myths  paranormal  book  coming-of-age  fiction
  • Hades Academy: Fourth Semester by Abbie Lyons

    Hades Academy: Fourth Semester by Abbie Lyons

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing about the end of my second year at Hades will be easy.With my mom on the loose with the Children of Abaddon, I have no way to know when-or if-I'm being watched...
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    angels  demons  myths  paranormal  book  coming-of-age  fiction  horror
  • Cast in Hellfire by S.M. Reine

    Cast in Hellfire by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Marion Garin is the teenage daughter of Metaraon, the former Voice of God. Now she's also the steward of the Winter Court, which has been in anarchy since a revolution five years earlier. Problem: Marion still doesn't remember anything that happened before two weeks ago. Seth Wilder has a lead on her memories. Whoever stole them and sold Marion's essence to a demon lord in Sheol...
  • Haunted by Jeffrey J. Mariotte

    Haunted by Jeffrey J. Mariotte

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All Cordelia has to do to win a ton of money on a TV show is to spend a week in a haunted house, surviving all kinds of evil doings staged by the producers. But this is in fact the staging ground for real live sacrifice to a demonic presence...
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    angels  demons  magic  paranormal  21st-century  book  fiction  horror
  • Witchcraft by Emma Mills

    Witchcraft by Emma Mills

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jess is no ordinary vampire. Protected by the Manchester vampire clan, and initiated by her family’s east coast American coven, she is sought after by every dark witch and warring vampire faction. Jess must fight if she wants to keep hold of her friends, her sanity and finally her existence...
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    angels  demons  magic  paranormal  book  fiction  horror  low-fantasy
  • Shadow Blood by Jayde Scott

    Shadow Blood by Jayde Scott

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Only a few months ago, Amber Reed would have called herself an ordinary girl in an ordinary world…until she moves to Scotland and is pushed into a world she never knew existed by the sexy and daring McAllister brothers, unable to withstand its perils. Aidan McAllister, the irresistible leader of the Morganefaire brethren, has what he always wanted: the girl of his dreams...
  • Fallen Angel by Kim Wilkins

    Fallen Angel by Kim Wilkins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Set against the twin backdrops of the modern urban ritual magic scene and the bustle and colour of Restoration London, this is a tale of angels and devils, art and lies, and sibling rivalry at its most irretrievably complicated...
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    angels  demons  magic  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • The Devil Was an Angel by J.L. Murray

    The Devil Was an Angel by J.L. Murray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Niki Slobodian knows loss. She knows tragedy. But she has never known this kind of pain. After the war the Archangel Michael waged on her city, Niki is dealing with the loss of her loved ones. And the haunting suspicion that everything was her fault. As well as her new duty to help all the lost souls cross over...
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    angels  demons  magic  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  ghosts
  • Evolution by M.R. Forbes

    Evolution by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His name is Landon Hamilton, but to the angels and demons wrestling for control of our world he’s known simply as ‘diuscrucis’. He is the balancer, the great equalizer, a once mortal and former god who toes the line between good and evil to prevent the end of days..
  • Wrath of the Rejected by Savannah Rose, Amelia Gates

    Wrath of the Rejected by Savannah Rose, Amelia Gates

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two rejected mates. Two heartbreaks. And a fight for survival.Virga's about to find out who she really is. What she's made of. What she's destined for.Is her bloodline one she'll wish to erase? Or one she'll fight to the death to protect?Even if it means betraying Tueur...
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    angels  demons  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  book  fiction
  • A Hint of Darkness by McKenzie Hunter

    A Hint of Darkness by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When I made a deal with the Prince of the Underworld, I knew a lot of things could go wrong. But I never imagined it would be imprisoned-in-the-underworld wrong. My only goals were to escape and resist the blazing chemistry between me and the Dark Prince.After he discovers I’m more than just a mere human who’s had a streak of bad luck, my escape becomes a game of survival...
  • Angel City by Jon Steele, Jonathan Davis

    Angel City by Jon Steele, Jonathan Davis

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jon Steele’s electrifying new novel brings together his unforgettable characters from The Watchers in an action-packed romp that easily stands alone, even as it reveals more of the earthly—and cosmic—mysteries of the Angelus trilogy...
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    angels  demons  myths  paranormal  retellings  adult  book  fiction
  • Netherworld by Kim Richardson

    Netherworld by Kim Richardson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kara had only just begun to enjoy her life as a mortal with David when they’re pulled back suddenly into the world of the supernatural. The Legion has made an important discovery: a new Elemental child, whose whereabouts are unknown. Kara immediately prepares herself for battle, and comes face to face with the evil Seirs—a group of mortals devoted to the Netherworld...
  • The Devil's Apprentice by Kenneth B. Andersen, Kenneth Bøgh Andersen

    The Devil's Apprentice by Kenneth B. Andersen, Kenneth Bøgh Andersen

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Philip is a good boy, a really good boy, who accidentally gets sent to Hell to become the Devil’s heir. The Devil, Lucifer, is dying and desperately in need of a successor, but there’s been a mistake and Philip is the wrong boy. Philip is terrible at being bad, but Lucifer has no other choice than to begin the difficult task of training him in the ways of evil...
  • The Savage Grace by Bree Despain

    The Savage Grace by Bree Despain

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A troubled soul. An impossible choice. A final battle.Wrestling with the werewolf curse pulsing deep inside of her, Grace Divine was finally able to find her brother, but it nearly cost her everything.With her boyfriend, Daniel, stuck in wolf form and Sirhan's death approaching, time is running out for Grace to stop Caleb Kalbi and his gang of demons...
  • Sleeping Late on Judgement Day by Tad Williams

    Sleeping Late on Judgement Day by Tad Williams

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The conclusion of Tad Williams' brilliant Bobby Dollar series.Bobby Dollar thinks he's seen it all - after all, he's been to Hell and back again. Literally.But he has another thing coming. Sleeping Late on Judgement Day will find Bobby back in his adopted hometown of San Judas, California, trying to stay out of trouble... and failing...
  • Elemental by Kim Richardson

    Elemental by Kim Richardson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When seventeen-year-old Kara Nightingale is suddenly struck by lightning and dies—yet again—she finds herself back in Horizon, where angels, oracles and other supernatural beings occupy a mystical world unknown to humanity. But when Kara accidentally strikes an angel with her newfound powers and nearly kills him, she is banished to the angel prison Tartarus...
  • The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls by Alexander C. Irvine

    The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls by Alexander C. Irvine

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Twenty-three years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic supernatural force. Following the tragedy, their father, John, set out to teach his boys everything about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America . . . and how to kill it...
  • Not Forgotten by Nancy Holder

    Not Forgotten by Nancy Holder

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... BURNING BODIES A crime wave has swept the Los Angeles area, which under normal circumstances would be par for the course. But nothing links these particular victims except the cause of death—their bodies were burned from the inside out. Obviously supernatural forces are at work...
  • Shadow Unleashed by Avery Stone

    Shadow Unleashed by Avery Stone

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When you’re fated to fall, rising up to howling glory is the last thing you’d ever expect. My birth — like that of many Shadowborns — was a mistake. A demon hybrid of wolf and dusk, I started life as a dead shifter walking with little hope of survival.Every day death tries to claim me, but somehow I keep living, only to end up in the dangerous hidden depths of Shifter Syndicate...
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    demons  magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  spirituality  adult  book
  • The City of Death by Sarwat Chadda

    The City of Death by Sarwat Chadda

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Roshani Chokshi and Rick Riordan!"A fabulous, action-packed modern take on Indian mythology. I can't wait to read more!" -- Rick Riordan on The Savage FortressMeet Ash Mistry: eighth grader, pretty good video gamer, guy with a massive crush on the beautiful Gemma . . . Oh, and the Eternal Warrior of the death goddess Kali...
  • Music Box by Anya Allyn

    Music Box by Anya Allyn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final terrifying story of The Dark Carousel series. As the day of Cassie's marriage to the centuries-old spirit, Balthazar, grows chillingly close, she finds a secret way to the high tower. The shadowy inhabitant of the tower has haunted her mind since her first day at the castle. In the tower, Cassie makes a shocking discovery, after which nothing can be the same...
  • Dark Phoenix by Karina Espinosa

    Dark Phoenix by Karina Espinosa

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How far would I go for freedom?Lucifer’s mark has a control on my life and the only way out is sacrificing a friend. When Michael gives himself up for my freedom, it comes with consequences.The angels find out what Michael has done to save my life, and it is now my turn to save his. With a bargain struck, it’s a race against the clock to put an end to this once and for all.It’s me against Lucifer...
  • Phoenix Rise by Karina Espinosa

    Phoenix Rise by Karina Espinosa

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For someone who can’t die, it felt as if I were already dead.He took everything from me and I don’t have the energy or fight in me to get it back. Not that I could. What he took is long gone and never coming back.The pain of what he did—what I did—will haunt me for the rest of my life. That is until I met a certain angel in the cell next to mine and I knew I couldn’t give up yet...
  • Shakedown by Don DeBrandt

    Shakedown by Don DeBrandt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Angel and Doyle discover a group of Serpentene demons living locally as an affluent community. Not evil as such, nevertheless Cordelia and Doyle are not sure they can be trusted. Angel, on the other hand, has a deeper grasp of evil and innocence...
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    angels  demons  magic  paranormal  21st-century  book  fiction  horror
  • The Devil's Backbone by J.L. Murray

    The Devil's Backbone by J.L. Murray

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “What does Death fear?”Niki has been to Hell and back to find a single shred of something to call a life. As Death, she has very little time to do anything but usher the lost souls to their resting places. But when Lucifer, the reason for her taste of happiness, comes up missing, Niki has to face how she feels about him. And about the prospect of losing him...
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    angels  demons  magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  adult  animals
  • Requiem for the Devil by Jeri Smith-Ready

    Requiem for the Devil by Jeri Smith-Ready

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Set in modern-day Washington, D.C., Requiem for the Devil depicts the end of the Devil's ten-billion-year career. For the first time in his existence, Lucifer falls in love, and this event threatens to transform his identity and perhaps even his destiny. Gianna O'Keefe is the woman who drags him out of his ancient despair and points him toward possible salvation...
    Categorized as:
    angels  demons  myths  paranormal  religion  spirituality  adult  book
  • Clovenhoof by Heide Goody, Iain Grant

    Clovenhoof by Heide Goody, Iain Grant

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Charged with gross incompetence, Satan is fired from his job as Prince of Hell and exiled to that most terrible of places: English suburbia...
  • War of the Sons by Rebecca Dessertine, David Reed

    War of the Sons by Rebecca Dessertine, David Reed

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Twenty-seven years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America... and he taught them how to kill it...
  • Demigod Captive by Lucy Auburn

    Demigod Captive by Lucy Auburn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My mother is Death. She cursed me with life. Now I'm stuck in Godblood Prison with two hot demigods fighting for my attention.Apparently when you're the daughter of Death, saving people is against the rules. Rules Ares, the God of War and sovereign ruler of the Celestial Realm, strictly enforces.For the crime of saving a mortal, I've been captured. Chained. Imprisoned.And I can't say that I mind...
  • The Shadow Children:  (Shadow Hall Academy Origins Book 1) by L.C. Hibbett

    The Shadow Children: (Shadow Hall Academy Origins Book 1) by L.C. Hibbett

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everything you know is a lie. Find the truth at Shadow Hall Academy! Millions of pages read in Kindle Unlimited and tens of thousands of worldwide downloads in its first year--readers are raving about L.C. Hibbett's best selling paranormal fantasy trilogy. Now available in a complete set! "An Academy series with a difference. Harry Potter meets Raven Cycle meets Fallen. Unmissable!" - N.M...
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    angels  demons  magic  paranormal  book  dark  dark-fantasy  fiction
  • How to be Death by Amber Benson

    How to be Death by Amber Benson

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All Calliope Reaper-Jones ever wanted out of life was a fabulous job in New York City and a really hot boyfriend. But now, she's the brand-new President of Death, Inc. With the Board of Death breathing down her neck and her dad's copy of How to be Death (A Fully Annotated Guide) unopened, Callie's really feeling the tension...
  • Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred by Donald Tyson

    Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred by Donald Tyson

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Anyone familiar with H. P. Lovecraft's work knows of the Necronomicon, the black magic grimoire he invented as a literary prop in his classic horror stories. There have been several attempts at creating this text, yet none stand up to Lovecraft's own descriptions of the Necronomicon...until now...
  • Hades by Alexandra Adornetto

    Hades by Alexandra Adornetto

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Heaven Help Her.Bethany Church is an angel sent to Earth to keep dark forces at bay. Falling in love was never part of her mission, but the bond between Beth and her mortal boyfriend, Xavier Woods, is undeniably strong. But even Xavier’s love, and the care of her archangel siblings, Gabriel and Ivy, can’t keep Beth from being tricked into a motorcycle ride that ends up in Hell...
  • Immortal Remains by Sean Cummings

    Immortal Remains by Sean Cummings

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's not a detective and he doesn't give a crap if your spouse is cheating on you. Human and supernatural beings avoid him like the plague because if you get too close he'll gleefully tell you the time and date of your own demise and that's before he punches you in the face...
    Categorized as:
    myths  paranormal  retellings  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Corpus Christi by Luke Romyn

    Corpus Christi by Luke Romyn

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Haunted by the toxic memories of a torturous foster-father, Jacob Hope yearns to make a difference in a world gone awry, trying to accomplish some small scrap of good in an ocean of wrong. Tumbling through life with no true direction, Jake unwittingly reveals a nightmare...
    Categorized as:
    angels  demons  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Fire Boy by Sami Shah

    Fire Boy by Sami Shah

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Sami Shah comes Fire Boy, the first of a two-part urban fantasy set in modern-day Pakistan, where djinns roam the street alongside corrupt cops, hustling beggars, and creatures from the darkest corners of Islamic mythology.Growing up in Karachi isn't easy. Wahid has a lot on his mind: the girl he likes, mostly, but also choosing a good university and finding time to play Dungeons and Dragons...
  • Nephilim by Daniele Lanzarotta

    Nephilim by Daniele Lanzarotta

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Academy has always been the home of fallen angels and haunted humans, but that is about to change.Hunter and Kayla, the immortal and the Nephilim, find themselves trapped in a place that they hate... with beings that they do not trust. Inside the Academy they are surrounded by fallen ones... the screw-ups..
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    angels  demons  magic  myths  paranormal  audiobook  book  fiction
  • The Unbreakable Curse by Alexia Purdy

    The Unbreakable Curse by Alexia Purdy

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thalia Brennan’s destiny is one she doesn’t understand. As a cursed immortal, she was banished from entering heaven years ago. When paradise is out of reach, one must bargain away their fate.Recruited by a corrupt archangel named Ereziel, Thalia must fight her way back into heaven and find a way through the gates of purgatory...
    Categorized as:
    angels  demons  magic  myths  paranormal  book  contemporary  dark
  • Tainted Legacy by Amity Hope

    Tainted Legacy by Amity Hope

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ava St. Clair simply wants to finish up the last few months of her senior year while having some fun with her friends. That is, until she finds Gabe Castille battered and bloody on her doorstep. She has no idea just how much her world is about to change because while she has always believed in Heaven and angels, she’s never given explicit thought to their counterparts...
    Categorized as:
    angels  magic  myths  paranormal  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
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