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  • Blackwing Beast by T.S. Joyce

    Blackwing Beast by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Beast wants only a few things out of life: to be left alone, to join the Blackwings so he can be left alone, and for everyone to stop expecting anything from him and leave him alone. He was king of the lion shifters once, but his fall from power came at a huge personal cost. Rumors run rampant over what really happened to his pride, but the truth has hardened Beast’s heart to stone...
  • Death Game by Kelly St. Clare

    Death Game by Kelly St. Clare

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The king commands at 3:30 a.m.I’ve screwed up big time. Now, I’m facing the damning consequences.The walls are closing in as I balance duty to grandmother’s memory with my impossible feelings for Kyros. Then there’s the freakin’ human-vampire hybrid thing to deal with.The problem is, I’m no longer willing to lose the person I’ve gambled against from the start...
  • Marked by Rebecca Zanetti

    Marked by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Janie Kayrs has known Zane almost her whole life. He was her friend in the dream world. She trusted him. But that was before he kidnapped her, spiriting her away to an isolated cabin to learn what her dreams never told her. Like how dangerous he looks. How he got on the wrong side of the negotiating table...
  • Reclaimed by Jaymin Eve

    Reclaimed by Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    They all made a terrible mistake. One they will pay for.For the past ten years I’ve been a victim. A victim to my pack. A victim to my true mate, who rejected me in the most brutal of ways. And a victim to Shadow Beast, who used me for his own gains.Or did he?The beast of mystery never reveals his whole hand, but one thing is for sure… in my time with him, I've changed...
  • A Warrior Wedding by Teresa Gabelman

    A Warrior Wedding by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    After a devastating blow, the VC Warriors find themselves fighting, but not an enemy they can see. Their power and expertise alone cannot save the ones they love. Breaking new and old laws, one Warrior is determined to save his mate no matter the consequences, but will his mate agree to be his downfall...
  • The Blood Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Blood Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All magic bleeds... The life I had is gone. Permanently. No matter how hard I try there’s just no going back. One night had ruined everything. Halloween night my best friend and I made a stupid, reckless, totally avoidable mistake. Two high school girls at a frat party had bad news written all over it. I knew better, but I’d let Elizabeth talk me into it. I should have stayed in my lane...
  • Blackwing Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Blackwing Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Dustin Porter is walking a fine line between the Blackwing Crew and the Valdoro pack. He’s been sent to betray Kane, but there’s a complication, and that complication is a smart-mouthed beauty who is also vying for a coveted spot on the crew. Dustin can’t keep his attention from Emma for long, and the more he gets to know about her, the more mysterious she seems...
  • Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestseller Kresley Cole comes this gripping tale of a battle-maddenend warrior driven by revenge and the Valkyrie temptress who haunts his dreams.He Vowed He'd Come For Her... Murdered before he could wed Regin the Radiant, warlord Aidan the Fierce seeks his beloved through eternity, reborn again and again into new identities, yet with no memory of his past lives...
  • Lothaire by Kresley Cole

    Lothaire by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Number-one New York Times best-selling author Kresley Cole continues her electrifying Immortals After Dark series with this thrilling tale, revealing secrets of the Lore, fierce realm of the immortals....All fear the enemy of old.Driven by his insatiable need for revenge, Lothaire, the Lore’s most ruthless vampire, plots to seize the Horde’s crown...
  • Dark Sentinel by Christine Feehan

    Dark Sentinel by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In an explosive novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a human woman ignites the desire of her Carpathian lifemate--and of an ancient vampire with a score to settle.After the devastating loss of her entire family, Lorraine Peters heads to the woods searching for peace of mind and anything to quell the anger in her soul...
  • Crimson Truth by Samantha Whiskey

    Crimson Truth by Samantha Whiskey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For centuries, I’ve been the king’s master of interrogation—his living, breathing lie detector.Mutter a lie in my presence and it appears tattooed into my skin.That’s usually enough to keep people quiet around me.But not her.Jocelyn, heiress to the witch queendom, lives to torment me.And with the disappearance of our princess?She’s become my brand new assignment...
  • Taunting Destiny by Amelia Hutchins

    Taunting Destiny by Amelia Hutchins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    I thought things were bad and weird before—hold on—it’s getting worse.Adam and I are both going through identity crises of epic proportions as we Transition from who we were, and discover who we were meant to be. More Fae are dying, and I feel as if time is running out for us to find all of those responsible and put an end to the killings...
  • The Darkest Lie by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Lie by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Forced to his knees in agony whenever he speaks the truth, Gideon can recognize any lie—until he captures Scarlet, a demon-possessed immortal who claims to be his long-lost wife. He doesn't remember the beautiful female, much less wedding—or bedding—her...
  • Wicked and Wild by Cynthia Eden

    Wicked and Wild by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She was wicked…Everyone knew that Valerie Storm was the baddest bit—um, witch on the block. She might look like Snow White, but she had the heart of the wicked queen. She turned her enemies to ash, she danced on their graves, and she had to be stopped. But who could stand up to someone so wicked?He was wild.Griffin Bastien was the most powerful shifter to ever walk the earth...
  • Dark Nights by Christine Feehan

    Dark Nights by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Dark Descent and Dark Dream are combined in Dark Nights. #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan revisits and expands her classic novella Dark Descent, bringing to breathtaking new life her story of an immortal Carpathian hunter, a beautiful adventurer, and their dangerous journey toward an unforeseen destiny and an undying love...
  • Deserted by Jaymin Eve

    Deserted by Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A standalone story in the Shadow Beast Shifters world. Best read after Reborn for storyline continuity.Melalekin "Angel" of the Honor Meadows has been a warrior her entire life. Battle. Death. Loss. They were her constant companions until the day she met Mera Callahan. A shifter who ended up being so much more. A shifter who changed her life, and now... she has been reborn...
  • Deception by D.B. Reynolds

    Deception by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Kauai, Hawaii—tropical paradise, vibrant jungle, turquoise sea... and sensuous nights that hide vampires so powerful they can change the world.Raphael—powerful, extraordinary, arrogant. He’s been eliminating rivals and gathering allies, determined not just to survive, but to demolish the Europeans who think they can steal what he’s worked for centuries to create...
  • Ashes by Suzanne Wright

    Ashes by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Knox and Harper's story continues as the Las Vegas lair - and its two infamous Co-Primes - face their most terrifying enemy yet . . .Together, Harper and Knox have overcome just about every evil thing you can think of - from Horsemen of the Apocalypse to dark magic practitioners to Lucifer's insistent belief that he's hilarious...
  • The Darkest Lie by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Lie by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Forced to his knees in agony whenever he speaks the truth, Gideon can recognize any lie—until he captures Scarlet, a demon-possessed immortal who claims to be his long-lost wife. He doesn't remember the beautiful female, much less wedding—or bedding—her...
  • Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole, เครสลีย์ โคล

    Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole, เครสลีย์ โคล

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole comes this spellbinding story of a demon king trapped by an enchantress for her wanton purposes -- and the scorching aftermath that follows when he turns the tables and claims her as his captive.HIS OBSESSION...Sabine, Sorceress of Illusions: the evil beauty who surrenders her body, but not her heart.HER DOWNFALL..
  • The Prince by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Prince by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes a new story in her Wicked series… She’s everything he wants…. Cold. Heartless. Deadly. Whispers of his name alone bring fear to fae and mortals alike. The Prince. There is nothing in the mortal world more dangerous than him...
  • Adam by Teresa Gabelman

    Adam by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Half-breed vampire, Adam Pride, has an almighty chip on his broad shoulders. Trying to move on after finding Angelina married to another, Adam has a decision to make. Remove the chip and move on or kill the man who took what he wanted most in the world, his Angel. With his heart in pieces, Adam’s on a mission to become the best VC Warrior he can be...
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    alpha-mc  dark  kidnapping  paranormal  steamy  vampires  abuse  adult
  • When He Was Bad by Shelly Laurenston, Cynthia Eden

    When He Was Bad by Shelly Laurenston, Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Two of paranormal romance's bestselling authors combine their extraordinary talents -- and set the pages on fire with an after-dark anthology -- featuring Alpha males so hot, so wild, and so bad, they may just be the best you've ever had..
  • Fallen by Suzanne Wright

    Fallen by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Only a few are brave enough to fall . . .When Raini desperately needed help, she went to the one person who she knew could save her dying friend . . . her secretive and ruthlessly powerful anchor, Maddox. His price was that she grant him access to her life, yet he's still determined not to form the anchor bond with Raini...
  • Remington's Mate by Anastasia Wilde

    Remington's Mate by Anastasia Wilde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Remington McCall has always had his identical twin brother Colt at his back: teammate, partner in crime, drinking buddy, and wingman. Until Colt met his true mate.And Remy didn’t.He’s happy for his brother. Really. In fact, everything is just effing fine. His two shifter animals at war inside him? It’s cool. His illegal, addictive trips to the spirit world? He can quit any time he wants...
  • Azagoth by Larissa Ione

    Azagoth by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Even in the fathomless depths of the underworld and the bleak chambers of a damaged heart, the bonds of love can heal…or destroy. He holds the ability to annihilate souls in the palm of his hand. He commands the respect of the most dangerous of demons and the most powerful of angels. He can seduce and dominate any female he wants with a mere look...
  • Claiming the Dragon King by Amelia Hutchins

    Claiming the Dragon King by Amelia Hutchins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Horde took everything from him. He’s honor bound to avenge his people and take back his palace by any means necessary. Blane has kept his people hidden from the Horde since the day they came in and wiped out the dragon race, but they didn’t kill them all. Now he’s back, and making a move against the Horde...
  • Fierce Impact by Julie Trettel

    Fierce Impact by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grant Phillips has always been a team player. He lives his life for the Force and worked hard to land a coveted spot with Team Bravo. He follows the rules, keeps his head down, and never causes trouble. Grant does everything for everyone else and wants for very little. The mission always comes first, until she waltzes into his life.Taylor Maxwell is a wild card. A thrill seeker. A rogue wolf...
  • Playing with Monsters by Amelia Hutchins

    Playing with Monsters by Amelia Hutchins

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    My coven has remained hidden in the shadows for centuries. We’ve avoided the ‘real world’ altogether; hiding from monsters and other creatures we share this planet with. We found protection in the Colville National Forest, nestled in a town protected by magical barriers. Our powers are locked by an ancient curse, one meant to protect us from being found. Until now...
  • Second Rite by Geneva Lee

    Second Rite by Geneva Lee

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He wore darkness with such graceful ease…Thea Melbourne has a broken heart. A month after her world turned upside down, she’s struggling to return to the life she left behind. Her mother is in a coma, she’s selling off designer gowns to pay the bills, and her roommates seem to think she’s made of glass...
  • The Ringmaster by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Ringmaster by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    As above, so below…who was once friend is now a foe.The Faire is alive. It’s alive, it’s sentient, and it wants more from Cora Glass. Reeling from the revelations that Clown left her with, she struggles once more to find her footing. She never gets the chance.Harrow Faire wants Cora for murder. She assumed it was her death that it was after. She was wrong. It wants her to kill…to save them all...
  • The Dark Bite by Leia Stone

    The Dark Bite by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Vampires are the spawn of the devil. Evil to the core... or so I thought, until one of them saves my life.As a member of the House of Rose, a division of the Vampire Hunter Society, I've got one of the highest kill records on file. I track my mark and don't stop until the job is done.That is, until my mark saves my life...
  • Blood Moon by Penn Cassidy

    Blood Moon by Penn Cassidy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I've been beaten...I've been humiliated...I've been shackled...I've peered behind the masks and uncovered a world of secrets and evil I never knew existed, and now it's time to choose my side. These men are ruthless, powerful leaders who have seen things I could only dream of. They're cunning, sinister and too alluring for their own good...
  • Tall, Dark & Heartless by R.L. Mathewson

    Tall, Dark & Heartless by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ASIN B007SWLLHE is located here He should have left her and never looked back…....That's not how things played out for Caine, a nearly one thousand year old Pyte, who should have known better. Instead of walking away years ago, he has been watching over the only human who has touched his heart...
  • Vampire Debt by Kelly St. Clare

    Vampire Debt by Kelly St. Clare

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Vampire royals strategise at 2 a.m.Last week, I inherited every cent of the multi-billion-dollar Le Spyre estate.But tequila is far easier to swallow than the coincidence of my beloved grandmother's death.I'm over this supernatural game, yet walking away from Kyros isn't simple with the damn mate thing on the cards.The Indebted need my help. My grandmother deserves justice...
  • Escaping Destiny by Amelia Hutchins

    Escaping Destiny by Amelia Hutchins

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    I thought things couldn't get worse. I was wrong. I found out what I really wanted and was forced to give him up. Just as I found out who I really am, I was presented to the elusive Horde King as a gift. This was the mystical being I was hidden from for more than twenty years...
  • A Vow of Thorns by R. Scarlett

    A Vow of Thorns by R. Scarlett

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Never disobey the court.Never disobey the crown.And never tame that vicious heart.In A Vow of Thorns, sacred laws are broken when a beauty holds an iron heart...
  • The Faire by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Faire by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Will Cora break, or will she bend…is this the beginning, or the end?Everything Cora thought she knew about Harrow Faire was a lie.All of it.Now as the lines in the sand are drawn, as a war for the Heart of the Faire builds, she must discover how much she is willing to sacrifice to save the people she has come to think of as Family...
  • A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day

    A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Bared to You, Sylvia Day, draws us into the shadows of a seductive underworld where lycans, vampires and angels vie for supremacy…Elijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality...
  • Blaze by Suzanne Wright

    Blaze by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Defeat the enemy. Win the boy. Live happily ever after. But life "ever after" isn't as easy as it used to be. Harper's gone from being a member of a small demon lair to co-Prime of one of the most powerful lairs in the US with a mate who, though hot as hell, is just a mite overprotective - I mean, you get kidnapped by dark practitioners just once ..
  • Dark Pleasures by Aja James

    Dark Pleasures by Aja James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Devlin Sinclair, the New England Dark Ones’ Hunter, is on a mission to track down the elusive and mysterious Medusa, perhaps the ultimate nemesis the Pure and Dark Ones have been battling in recent years. But he can’t do it alone. Grace Darling has isolated herself from the world since a very young age, after her parents’ death and because of her own social disability...
  • 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 Darkest Promise by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Promise by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with a sizzling Lords of the Underworld story about an iron-willed sovereign and the somber beauty who melts him with a glancePossessed by the demon of Misery, Cameo isn't allowed to experience joy. If she dares, her memory is wiped clean...
  • Blood Taken by Rory Miles

    Blood Taken by Rory Miles

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Escape from the vampires, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.They lied.Nothing is fun about coming home to your estranged mother, especially when she lied, too.She’s here now though, promising to teach me about my past and keep me safe from the Blood Mafia.I can only hope they don’t find me, because when they do, well..
  • Curse Touched by Becky Moynihan

    Curse Touched by Becky Moynihan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s no escaping a curse . . .The last thing I expect is for my aunt to kidnap, then abandon me. I’m desperate for answers, especially as to the condition of Lochlan D’angelo, my stalker turned protector. Problem is, I’m still shaken over learning his true identity. I question everything he ever told me, including the realness of the supposed bond between us...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  kidnapping  magic  paranormal  steamy  vampires  book
  • Fear the Heart by Hettie Ivers

    Fear the Heart by Hettie Ivers

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Reconciling the mind and heart often provokes inner conflict. Throw in the whims of an emerging inner she-wolf entering her first heat cycle and the revenge demands of an ancient blood curse, and all bets are off! All Milena wants is to rescue her brother and return to her life in Santa Cruz...
  • Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

    Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    She's a mortal with dark powers...After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude..
  • The Roman by Sylvain Reynard

    The Roman by Sylvain Reynard

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From the New York Times and international bestselling author of Gabriel's Inferno comes the thrilling conclusion to the dark and sexy paranormal romance series, following a young art restorer and the vampyre prince she loves as they fight against a mysterious figure who holds the fate of Italy's vampyre population-and their souls-in the balance...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  female-mc  magic  paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book
  • Semi-Human by Isabel Jordan

    Semi-Human by Isabel Jordan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Harper Hall finally has everything she ever wanted. Thriving paranormal PI business? Check. At least some control over her psychic ability? Check. Smokin’ hot ex-slayer fiancé? Check...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  female-mc  magic  paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult
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