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Inseparable by Auryn Hadley
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDISASTER! THE BLACK BLADES DISBANDED, AN ALLIANCE IN TURMOIL... The intersecting worlds of the iliri, grauori, and men collide when an alliance is declared, and the humans renege. In the midst of offering an olive branch to other races, they seem secretly hellbent on destroying them all—and they begin by putting Sal on trial and disbanding the Black Blades... -
The Cheat Code by Misba
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter the terrible encounters with the war heroes, the Intuitionist, Kusha, is on the verge of breaking all promises she gave to her friends and family. Worse: both the war heroes might become aware of her power—her intuition, for she is their shortcut, for she is their cheat code. Both the Mesmerizer and the Monk need cheat codes to win at their games... -
Feversong by Karen Marie Moning
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 39 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning returns with the epic conclusion to her pulse-pounding Fever series, where a world thrown into chaos grows more treacherous at every turn. As Mac, Barrons, Ryodan, and Jada struggle to restore control, enemies become allies, right and wrong cease to exist, and the lines between life and death, lust and love, disappear completely... -
Called by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a city full of rising tension, with people going missing or turning up dead, can Max resist the call to help?When Max tries to intervene to prevent an assault and it goes horribly wrong, she wants nothing more than to keep her head down and get on with her job. She does not want to answer calls for help, not even from Bryce, the Order warrior who seems willing to give her a second chance... -
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One Nation, Under... by Daniel Schinhofen
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlvin and his wives had been busy over the last few weeks. They’d gone out of their way to visit settlements they’d helped in the past, all while killing a string of mini-bosses across what had been the American west. Life looked good for Team Asshole… until the devs made a mistake.Without any warning, Sammi stopped showing up... -
Endless Knight by Kresley Cole
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn this second book thrilling book of The Arcana Chronicles from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole, Evie struggles to accept her place in the prophecy that will either save the world—or destroy it.Evie has fully come into her powers as the tarot Empress, and Jack was there to see it all... -
Vampire Gate by Apollos Thorne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter surviving Mistress Nava’s wrath, Elorion is banished from Sanctuary and everything he holds dear. He finds himself on an impossible quest to retrieve something from Lord Darius’s vault for the Head Mistress in hopes of bringing everyone back together... -
Hell Hounds Don't Heel by Kim McDougall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCritter 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... -
Kelpies Don't Fly by Kim McDougall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCritter wrangler rule #15: Always look a gift horse in the mouth. And if it has sharp teeth, never, never get on its back.For ten years, Kyra Greene thought she was the only Valkyrie this side of the rainbow bridge. Until she gets a stunning message from her cousin, Gunora, asking for bail money.But facing the ghosts of her past isn’t on Kyra’s to-do list... -
Catharsis by Travis Bagwell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition for B01J0E8Z8A On paper, Jason has a great life. He attends a prestigious private school on scholarship and his parents are reasonably well off. Yet life hasn't been easy for Jason. He has spent most of high school being tormented by both the students and faculty and his parents are never home. Frustrated and alone, his one escape has always been video games... -
Chosen by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDemons on the loose. Ritual murders. An ancient vampire breathing down her neck.Some days Max just doesn't know where to start. The problems facing her city are piling up, and there seems no end or solution in sight.Max's job used to be dealing with supernatural creatures... -
Master Class by Annabelle Hawthorne, Virgil Knightley
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Demon Lord is dead.The System is broken.Somehow, Elias Hearthsong is neither of these things, despite being at the final battle of the Demon Wars. He is a Master Enchanter, perhaps the last one alive. Determined to keep a promise, he crosses the continent to protect his dead friend's legacy: a crumbling orphanage run by a beautiful kitsune... -
The Dark Tower by Stephen King, Michael Whelan
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsAt the outset of the final installment of our saga, Roland’s ka-tet is scattered across several different wheres and whens. Susannah Dean (still in the clutches of the demon Mia) is in End-World’s Fedic Dogan: a chamber of horrors where magic and technology can be merged and where a monstrous half-human child can be brought forth into the world... -
Jacked Cat Jive by Rhys Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStalker Kai Gracen knew his human upbringing would eventually clash with his elfin heritage, but not so soon. Between Ryder, a pain-in-his-neck Sidhe Lord coaxing him to join San Diego’s Southern Rise Court, and picking up bounties for SoCalGov, he has more than enough to deal with... -
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The Waste Lands by Stephen King
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsSeveral 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... -
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsRoland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away... -
Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe 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... -
Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsCan Evie convince her rival loves to work together? Their survival depends on it in this third book of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole’s Arcana Chronicles, a nonstop action tale of rescue, redemption, and a revenge most wicked... -
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsWhile 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... -
Proving Grounds by Apollos Thorne
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook 4 of the Underworld series!The minotaurs are dead. Mistress Nava is coming.Join Elorion as he searches for the power to face the impossible... -
The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsAs darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise—demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards—symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. It was not always this way... -
Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBefore world war two could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm.Legend has it that an experiment failed. Catastrophically so. And when it failed, the center of the United States, from the Sierra Nevada to the Mississippi river became "The Waste", where everything changed.Except it didn't only happen in North America... -
Welcome to Heathen Row by Logan Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNo one knows why it started, but the monster invasion all began right here, in Heathen Row.Ever since, men all over the world have been on the menu. And women have been at the frontlines, hunting the predators.But in a world where women are over-armed, over-paid, and under-satiated, Chris Hart isn’t staying safe inside while the monsters come out to feast... -
The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn Allison Sekemoto's world, there is one rule left: Blood calls to blood She has done the unthinkable: died so that she might continue to live. Cast out of Eden and separated from the boy she dared to love, Allie will follow the call of blood to save her creator, Kanin, from the psychotic vampire Sarren... -
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Surviving in the Shadow of Death by Donna Augustine
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI thought I was a fake, a spiritual guide doling out nothing more than a placebo effect to the pack. Turns out I’m more legitimate than anyone realizes—and more deadly.It doesn’t matter whether I’m the real thing or not, whether the pack has accepted me or not, because Duncan’s mate never will and she’s in charge. As long as he still wants me in his bed, she’ll want me in a grave... -
Bound to Shadows by Keri Arthur
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn the darkness, demons come out to play…and someone must bring their sins to light.Part vampire, part werewolf, Riley Jenson knows what can happen when vamps don’t play well with others. But she’s never seen anything like this: a series of brutal murders surrounding the latest hot spot for vampire-human hookups—and the victims aren’t just killed, they’re beheaded...Categorized as:
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Full Blood by Donna Augustine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne monster wants my soul. One man wants my magic. Me? I want to be left alone to live my life out like a dull, one of the lucky people who were born devoid of magic. But that won’t happen because being born a Wyrd Blood gives me two choices in life: ruler or slave. I’d rather die than be a slave and I’m not cut out to rule. Instead I’ve been hiding out in the Valley... -
The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsThe sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that prey upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind half-forgotten symbols of power. Legends tell of a Deliverer: a general who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. But is the return of the Deliverer just another myth? Perhaps not... -
Sanctuary by Apollos Thorne
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter coming face to face with death, Elorion and company have found a dungeon to call their own. They’ve fought hard to earn a stint of peace, but Mistress Nava is still out there and her captain is now on the hunt. The impending arrival of the army of minotaurs will be the greatest threat they have faced thus far. With their new-found freedom comes a myriad of additional dangers... -
Through the Belly of the Beast by Apollos Thorne
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSurviving Lord Darius's attack put Elorion's level over the top. He must soon leave the Mistress's Labyrinth for the unknown dangers of the Underworld.There are three paths that stand before him. Should he absorb all the Blue Magic he can find, power level his fellow captives, or take on the bone palace alone?The Underworld is waiting.. -
Chameleon Uncovered by B.R. Kingsolver
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe dark sequel to the best-selling Chameleon Assassin.Libby has a chance to build a legitimate reputation when she’s hired by one of the world’s most prestigious museums to bolster their security. The gig is in Chicago, where her heartthrob lives, so she hopes for a little romance.She's on a first-name basis with larceny, mayhem, and death, but Libby's not used to being on the receiving end... -
The Hunt by Donna Augustine
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLiving in the Wilds isn't any picnic, but I thought I had a handle on things: avoid the beasts and I won't get eaten, avoid the waterways and the pirates won't kill me, and stab every Dark Walker I see. That was before I found out Tiffy's friends were real and back when I’d never heard of the Skinners. Now my magic is on the fritz, and people are disappearing... -
The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsOn the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all... -
King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsThe second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake...Categorized as:
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The Forever Song by Julie Kagawa
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsVengeance will be hers.Allison Sekemoto once struggled with the question: human or monster? With the death of her love, Zeke, she has her answer.Monster.Allie will embrace her cold vampire side to hunt down and end Sarren, the psychopathic vampire who murdered Zeke... -
Demon Escape by M.J. Haag
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEden Terry survived the first ring of hell only to end up in the second one. With nothing but a trowel and her wits, she's determined to escape the work camp holding her prisoner. She dreams of finding a safe haven and living in the new, devastated world on her own. However, surviving alone after she escapes proves more difficult than she ever imagines... -
Blood Binds by Donna Augustine
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRyker calls it an accident. I call it another betrayal. He didn't want me to leave but didn't fight to keep me by his side. Wronged magically and devastated emotionally, I exile myself to another country, Dorley. Now I perform tricks under a tent, my mystical gifts a common sideshow. Just as I’m accepting my self-inflicted fate, Ryker makes a move that forces me back to the Valley... -
Hell on Earth by Brenda K. Davies
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWrenIt’s been fourteen years since the gateway to Hell opened and life as I knew it ended.I managed to survive the Wilds, but now I have a chance to build a better world for all Wilders. Unfortunately, it means working with the demons I’ve always considered my enemies.Joining with the demons wouldn’t be a horrible prospect, except it means dealing with Corson... -
Ghost's Whisper by Ella Summers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe enemy isn’t a monster or a demon this time. It is fear, the destroyer of worlds.Life has never been better for Leda Pandora, the Angel of Chaos. She is married to the archangel Nero Windstriker, the love of her life. And she commands a vast territory, surrounded by her closest friends and family.Everything is perfect—until the Earth’s magic goes haywire... -
Civil War by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBuild. Evolve. Conquer. Welcome to the Civil War ... Roark von Graf—former noble and hedge-mage, current mid-level mob in a MMORPG—has his sights set on taking down the tyrannical Dungeon Lord. But the reigning Troll despot is nearly as devious as Roark, and his followers are much higher level... -
Eastern Expansion by Randi Darren
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 26 ratings[Spoiler for the faint hearted at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through.] Before world war two could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm. Now, Yosemite city stands as the gateway between two worlds. The empire of humanity to the west, and the wild wastes to the east... -
The Clan by D. Rus
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOnce a seasoned gamer, Max has cheated fate swapping his dying body for an immortal avatar in the world of sword and sorcery MMORPGs. He joins the ranks of a new race of people: perma players, forever stuck in the virtual castles and cities of AlterWorld. Now they have to obey the ever-changing rules of their new home while learning to live together in peace, love and justice... -
The Hot Zone by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world of Harmony has its wonders, one of them being Rainshadow Island. Just beneath its surface, a maze of catacombs hides a dangerous secret...… Halloween—with its tricks and treats—is a dust bunny’s dream come true. Just ask Lyle, Sedona Snow’s faithful sidekick. But for Sedona, it’s a nightmare... -
Ghost Hunter by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRETURN TO THE "FASCINATING"* WORLD OF HARMONY...Where deadly energy ghosts lurk in the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. Where dust bunnies prove to be loyal pets. And where a ghost hunter will discover that a woman's heart is the most dangerous adversary of all...Local Guild boss and powerful ghost-hunter Cooper Boone is everything botanist Elly St... -
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Embraced by Darkness by Keri Arthur
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsShe's hunting a killer—and shattering every boundary she’s ever known…Part vamp, part werewolf, Riley Jenson plays by her own rules, whether it’s her stormy love life or her job as a guardian. But when her family’s alpha male demands that she solve the mystery of a vanished girl, Riley can feel a trap closing in around her...Categorized as:
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Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA DEADLY HIGH Magic-wielding Churchwitch and secret addict Chess Putnam knows better than anyone just how high a price people are willing to pay for a chemical rush... -
Christmas with Dragons by Susan Illene
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDragon slayer Bailey Monzac and her shifter lover Aidan are about to have their first holiday season together. They'd rather ignore the rest of the world this Christmas, but trouble is headed their way. Murderous dragons are on the loose, and there's also the shifter mating festival Bailey and Aidan are obligated to attend. And on top of that? Her long-lost father is coming for a visit... -
The Black Rider by J.B. Trepagnier
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s the apocalypse, and apparently, I can’t trust anyone. Aeron had every opportunity to explain the horses that were haunting my drawings. I asked him several times about his crazy zombie killing horse. He omitted to tell me he was the Horseman of Death until Leif let it slip he was the Horseman of Pestilence when he introduced himself to me... -
The Shadow Aspect by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Layla took the final step through the labyrinth, she thought she was saving the ones she loved. She couldn't have been more wrong.Layla and the other survivors find themselves caught in a war for our world, the unwitting victims of a grudge seething for eons. Surviving the zombie apocalypse has become the least of their worries as they come up against vampires, shapeshifters, and fae... -
The Burning Bush by Kenya Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter Dante Bottelli’s slaughter of Vamp-owned Mixbreeds, Lanore and Zulu execute a well-planned attack that hits Dante where it hurts the most—his pockets. But their attack triggers a chain of unfortunate events, and allows Detective Rivera to blackmail Lanore.Rivera forces Lanore to investigate his case, the Burning Bush Murders. Someone's been tying girls to bushes and setting them on fire...Categorized as:
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