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  • Night Pleasures/Night Embrace by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Night Pleasures/Night Embrace by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In Night Pleasures, Kyrian of Thrace---an immortal who protects humans from vampires---wakes up one morning handcuffed to the one thing that can scare him: a conservative woman in a button-down shirt. But Amanda Devereaux turns out to be his perfect partner for hunting down a deadly foe, and for helping him to regain his soul and learn that love doesn't have to bite...
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    gods  magic  myths  paranormal  suspense  vampires  adult  book
  • Betrayed by Amber Lynn Natusch

    Betrayed by Amber Lynn Natusch

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    **The final novel in the CAGED series**They’re gone…When Ruby discovers what really happened the night of Alan Beauchamp's murder, one thing becomes very clear: time is running out for the people she loves. As she unravels the web of lies and deceit around her, Ruby reveals an unthinkable truth. One with dire repercussions for all...
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    alpha-mc  gods  myths  paranormal  suspense  angels  book  demons
  • 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
  • Elimination by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Elimination by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Deception. Demons are experts at it.I thought I could control my fate. I thought I could send the Master of Demon Runes back to the Underworld where he belongs, but instead, I'm the one forced into a dangerous game of elimination.Now I must fight for my life against the strongest demons—demons who have waited their whole lives for the chance to rule the Underworld...
  • The Blood by Z.W. Taylor

    The Blood by Z.W. Taylor

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It took one bite to change her life forever. Now Charlotte has found herself in the middle of a war that has been brewing for longer than anyone could have imagined. And it's all in the blood...Join them as they race against time to try and solve the mystery that could destroy or deliver them from this horrible bloody mess...
  • Enslaved by Elisabeth Naughton

    Enslaved by Elisabeth Naughton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    GRYPHON — Honorable, loyal, dependable…tainted. He was the ultimate warrior before imprisonment in the Underworld changed him in ways he can’t ignore.She calls to him. Come to me. You can’t resist. But Gryphon will not allow himself to be ruled by the insidious whispers in his head. And there’s only one way to stop them: kill Atalanta, the goddess who enslaved him...
  • Blood and Sand by Elizabeth Hunter

    Blood and Sand by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Dead women are showing up in the desert east of San Diego, and no one understands why. When the story comes to the attention of reporter Natalie Ellis, she can't help but make comparisons to the tragic deaths she'd investigated years ago...
  • Seeress by Ednah Walters

    Seeress by Ednah Walters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I love Torin St. James...I need his strength…But someone from his past wants me dead.Raine Cooper is certain of two things: her love for Torin St. James and her destiny to be a powerful seeress. But when she starts having premonitions, they are unclear and disturbing. Worse, they involve Torin. With her mother gone, her father dying, and her best friend in Hel, she is not sure who to talk to...
  • Entwined with the Dark by Nicola Claire

    Entwined with the Dark by Nicola Claire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What was wrong with me to antagonise a vampire of his standing to such a degree? I knew I had become too rebellious, too sure of my own place in this world. I was aware that Dark had been encroaching, that I played so often in its shadow I was losing sight of the sun, of my Light. There were times when I truly felt consumed in anger, for all that had happened, for all that I had suffered and lost...
  • Queen Takes Sunfires Book 2: A Their Vampire Queen novel by Joely Sue Burkhart

    Queen Takes Sunfires Book 2: A Their Vampire Queen novel by Joely Sue Burkhart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A secret burns inside me that will very likely get me killed.The wolf king may have gotten me out of Chicago alive, but he couldn’t burn rubber fast enough to get away from me once he’d dropped me off at his sister’s. Wearing nothing but a hospital gown and his borrowed coat, I have to face an Aima queen for the first time. Alone...
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    gods  magic  myths  paranormal  vampires  adult  book  demons
  • 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...
  • Blood and Hexes by May Sage

    Blood and Hexes by May Sage

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seven names. Seven families of royal vampires on Night Hill. One stands above all. After centuries of freedom, no one is happy to kneel to a new Eirikrson. Diana intended to stop by Oldcrest for a pit stop. Catch up with her brother, meet his mate, maybe convince them to name their firstborn after her. She’ll soon learn, as a Helsing, she must pick a side. Before one is picked for her...
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    alpha-mc  gods  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  book  fiction
  • 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
  • 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
  • Vampires Will Be Vampires by Isla Frost

    Vampires Will Be Vampires by Isla Frost

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The supernaturals banished the gods from earth.They should have done a better job.My life, as I knew it, is over.My beloved career, my purpose, my very identity has been ripped from me. Because I now possess the devil's magic. And no one around me is safe.Oh, and my dragon ex-partner-in-action wants my help saving the world. Again.But this time the enemy is no mere magically-gifted human...
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    alpha-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  suspense  vampires  book
  • 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  suspense  vampires  book  dark
  • Reaper by Larissa Ione

    Reaper by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE DEMONICA SERIES RETURNS... He is the Keeper of Souls. Judge, jury, and executioner. He is death personified. He is the Grim Reaper. A fallen angel who commands the respect of both Heaven and Hell, Azagoth has presided over his own underworld realm for thousands of years. As the overlord of evil souls, he maintains balance crucial to the existence of life on Earth and beyond...
  • Atlantis Unmasked by Alyssa Day

    Atlantis Unmasked by Alyssa Day

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A warrior scarred... A descendant of Diana... When two worlds collide... Atlantis is unmasked.Alexios survived two years of unspeakable torture at the hands of a vampire goddess. Now he's been ordered to team up with a beautiful warrior and take on the most dangerous mission of his life: to retrieve the Vampire's Bane...
  • 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...
  • The Cyn and Raphael Novellas: Betrayed, Hunted, Unforgiven, and Compelled by D.B. Reynolds

    The Cyn and Raphael Novellas: Betrayed, Hunted, Unforgiven, and Compelled by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Vampires in America . . . For the first time together in one collection . . . BETRAYED, HUNTED, and UNFORGIVEN, The Cyn & Raphael NovellasThese novellas can stand alone or be enjoyed as part of the series. BETRAYED: Vampires in America 5.5Love. Loyalty. Betrayal.Love . . . the ache in your heart when you meet The One...
  • The Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair

    The Forgotten Goddess by Rebekah Sinclair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Library of Alexandria has been lost. The truth of history has been hidden from us. The God of War rules the earth, and we desperately need a savior.Rhea has always known she was different but never imagined that her secrets would lead her down a path of danger and adventure...
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    myths  magic  suspense  gods  paranormal  romance  fantasy  retellings
  • Rise of the Gryphon by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

    Rise of the Gryphon by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the fourth novel of the bestselling Belador paranormal series, Evalle Kincaid must turn her back on the Beladors to protect those she loves, and the world, from annihilation...
  • Dancing Dragon by Nicola Claire

    Dancing Dragon by Nicola Claire

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    'I'm supposed to be the one that calls him back toward the Light. I am the Light to your Dark. You call to me as I call to you. I will always hold you dear. But, it was getting harder. I loved him and it's not as if I never knew it would be difficult loving a vampire. I just never knew the degree of difficulty it would entail.'Michel battles his rising Dark, all but losing his Light within...
  • 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  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  vampires  adult  book
  • Giver of Light by Nicola Claire

    Giver of Light by Nicola Claire

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His lips met mine again, this time in a slow, soft caress, conveying everything he had just said in those beautiful words that had reached my very soul. I could have drowned in that kiss. I could have lived there for eternity. It filled me up with everything I needed to survive. He gave me life through his lips and I treasured it...
  • Shadow's Light by Nicola Claire

    Shadow's Light by Nicola Claire

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I felt hot tears streaming down my cheeks at his words. Spoken so carelessly, with such shameless intent. He knew how I felt. How I had been feeling. How lost and alone and full of grief my days had been. Avery was not a friend. Not even a trusted acquaintance. But, he understood what I was going through...
  • Vincent by D.B. Reynolds

    Vincent by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sinaloa, Mexico . . . haunting deserts, hot nights, and vampires, who’ve been there for hundreds of years, watching from the shadows, playing their games, manipulating humans, and surviving at any cost. Vincent Kuxim, powerful and charismatic, was made vampire by an ambitious leader looking for soldiers to pave his way to the rule of all Mexico...
  • 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  vampires  adult  audiobook
  • 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  dangerous-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  vampires  adult
  • 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  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  suspense  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...
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    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  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  vampires  adult  book
  • Inferno by Erica Stevens

    Inferno by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B008GFZXDK.Edited By Leslie Mitchell at G2 Freelance Editing and Re-released 10/31/13.Deadly. That is what her time imprisoned by The Commission has made her. Just how deadly, and exactly what was done to her, Cassie doesn’t know but she is terrified of the possibilities...
  • 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  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  vampires  adult  book
  • Gods of Magic by Linsey Hall

    Gods of Magic by Linsey Hall

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rules for Living: Lay low. Kick butt. Hide my magic.The magical world thinks I’m normal. They're wrong. I’m demon touched—filled with dark magic that can kill at any moment. Hiding my power is the only way to survive. Problem is, I’m about to start my first term at the best Academy of Magic in the world...
  • 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  dangerous-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  vampires  adult
  • The Warlock King by Heather Killough-Walden

    The Warlock King by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jason Alberich wears the crown of the sovereign of the warlocks, a dark breed that uses darker magic. He wears it well, skillfully wielding a power that would corrupt others. Yet he has paid the price for his control, bearing the scars of a time when his power had control over him. He is haunted by the regrets of a shady past and now lives each day and night with an isolated soul...
  • Rhyn's Redemption by Lizzy Ford

    Rhyn's Redemption by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Katie and Rhyn are in a race against time to free Katie from the underworld, before Death claims her soul and that of her child. When Katie’s guide in the underworld disappears, she has one option: trust the ghost of someone long-dead and seek out Death's fortress in order to try to escape through the portal leading back to the mortal world...
  • The Knight of the Rose by Angela M. Hudson

    The Knight of the Rose by Angela M. Hudson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    LIMITED TIME FIRST EDITION Sequel to the internationally successful vampire novel, Tears of the Broken. Vampires weren't meant to fall in love with their food. Love was only the beginning of her nightmares. When Ara discovered the existence of vampires, she was given the choice between a life as one of them, or a life without her true love. But fate has a funny way of making choices for you...
  • 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...
  • Midnight's Master by Cynthia Eden

    Midnight's Master by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a world of shadows, desire conquers all…Tall, dark, and formidable, Niol Lapen is the last demon on earth most people would ask for a favor, yet the sexy little reporter who wanders into his club dares to do exactly that. Holly Storm already knows too much about his kind, and Niol has no wish to help her get in deeper over her head...
  • Second Chances by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Second Chances by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Set in the Dark-Hunter universe. Originally included in the Dark-Hunter Collectible Booklet and Dark Hunter Companion .This is the short story that was given away with Unleash the Night about Acheron and his brother Styxx.It can be found in Acheron and Dark Bites...
  • Shifter Syndicate by Avery Stone

    Shifter Syndicate by Avery Stone

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The ultimate punishment for protecting a Shadowborn is death... Plagued by the memories of my slain pack, I disappear into a shadowy survival, rejected by a universe that has never wanted or accepted me — Selene Bleu, one of the few surviving Shadowborns.As an orphaned pup, my life should have remained as it has been for the last fourteen years...
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    alpha-mc  gods  magic  myths  paranormal  suspense  vampires  adult
  • Stroke of Midnight by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Amanda Ashley

    Stroke of Midnight by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Amanda Ashley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In an unseen world that lurks in the shadows, they roam the night--feral, passionate, and dangerous. And when their world touches ours, a primitive desire takes hold, leaving mere mortals powerless in its wake...Four of romance's most intriguing authors have come together to create a mesmerizing anthology--unforgettable tales of vampires, shapeshifters, and werewolves...
  • The Curse by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

    The Curse by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Evalle Kincaid will fight to the death for her supernatural friends...
  • Burning Ash by N.J. Walters

    Burning Ash by N.J. Walters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No one is more surprised than Asher, one of the oldest vampires on Earth, that he's attracted to vamp hunter Jo Radcliffe. She's smart, a talented slayer, and she's gorgeous. Something about her pulls at him, like no one ever has before. For a man, whose name strikes fear in everyone—this is something new and intriguing. And quite possibly deadly, if she discovers his secret...
  • Ravening Hood by Kendrai Meeks

    Ravening Hood by Kendrai Meeks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    RAVENING: To seek or seize, as with prey. To hunt. To devour. I may be relinquished, but I am resigned. I will see the Ravens destroyed. Istanbul harbors the ancient clutch of vampires known as the Ravens, but the city has a thousand shadows and a million secrets. What I find there will be far more than I bargained for, and nothing I could have imagined. Some legends don’t want to be told...
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