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  • Maelstrom by Jordan L. Hawk

    Maelstrom by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Between his father’s sudden—and rather suspicious—generosity, and his own rash promise to help Christine plan her wedding, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough to worry about. But when the donation of a mysterious codex to the Ladysmith Museum draws the attention of a murderous cult, Whyborne finds himself in a race against time to unlock its secrets first...
  • The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure by Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro

    The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure by Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Demigods Nico di Angelo and Will Solace must endure the terrors of Tartarus to rescue an old friend in this thrilling adventure co-written by New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan and award-winning author Mark Oshiro...
  • Draakenwood by Jordan L. Hawk

    Draakenwood by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Someone is killing members of the old families…and the evidence points to Whyborne. Widdershins has been unusually quiet for months. But now a mysterious creature from the Outside is on the loose, assassinating members of the town’s old families by draining their blood...
  • Balefire by Jordan L. Hawk

    Balefire by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Whyborne’s Endicott relatives have returned to collect on the promise he made to help them take back their ancestral manor from an evil cult. In exchange, they’ll give him the key to deciphering the Wisborg Codex, which Whyborne needs to learn how to stop the masters...
  • Bloodline by Jordan L. Hawk

    Bloodline by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Between his bullying father and dissolute brother, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough problematic family members to deal with. So when his sister returns to Widdershins asking for help solving the mystery of a derelict ship, Whyborne is reluctant to get involved. Until, that is, a brutal murderer strikes, leaving Whyborne and his lover Griffin no choice but to take the case...
  • Hoarfrost by Jordan L. Hawk

    Hoarfrost by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sorcerer Percival Endicott Whyborne and his husband Griffin Flaherty have enjoyed an unprecedented stretch of peace and quiet. Unfortunately, the calm is shattered by the arrival of a package from Griffin’s brother Jack, who has uncovered a strange artifact while digging for gold in Alaska. The discovery of a previously unknown civilization could revive the career of their friend Dr...
  • Heretic Spellblade 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Heretic Spellblade 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Changing history is harder than it appears. Every time Nathan thinks he has stopped a world-ending war, he learns that somebody is trying to start it again. But once this is over, he’ll be free to relax and spend some quality time with his Champions.As the war heats up, Nathan finds himself caught up in the schemes and fluffy tails of one of his former Champions, Narime...
  • Ghouls Don't Scamper by Kim McDougall

    Ghouls Don't Scamper by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Critter wrangler rule #17: even the smallest creature can be big in magic.Kyra Greene never thought she’d return to Asgard. Not after she burned the Rainbow Bridge, the only road home. Now she has no choice. With her unborn child’s life at stake, she must find a new route to the old world, or die trying...
  • Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

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

    The Shadows over Marquette by Álex Gilbert

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ariane has found refuge in Illinois, and now plans her rightful return to vampire society. She must stay in control while hiding in nature, while foes old and new converge on her territory...
  • Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereIntroverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has spent the last few months watching his lover, Griffin Flaherty, come to terms with the rejection of his adoptive family. So when an urgent telegram from Christine summons them to Egypt, Whyborne is reluctant to risk the fragile peace they’ve established...
  • Stormhaven by Jordan L. Hawk

    Stormhaven by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereMysterious happenings are nothing new to reclusive scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne, but finding one of his colleagues screaming for help in the street is rather unusual. Allan Tambling claims he can’t remember any of the last hour—but someone murdered his uncle, and Allan is covered in blood...
  • Heretic Spellblade 3 by K.D. Robertson

    Heretic Spellblade 3 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The time for secrets is coming to an end. Nathan has changed history and stopped the end of the world, but the future is more uncertain than ever. He can't rely on his knowledge of the future anymore.Conquering the Federation has turned Nathan into a national hero, but also earned him countless enemies. The peace he has won looks short-lived...
  • Demon's Throne 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Demon's Throne 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rys is still shaking dust from his hair after a thousand years of sleep, and he already finds himself in a two-front war. The sorcerers of the Malus League are summoning a demon lord, while his northern neighbor marches south. Now that Rys has claimed a kingdom, he needs to keep it.Naturally, he'll expand his territory while crushing his new enemies...
  • Hexslayer by Jordan L. Hawk

    Hexslayer by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Horse shifter Nick has one rule: never trust a witch.Nick has devoted his life to making his saloon a safe haven for the feral familiars of New York. So when a brutal killer slaughters a feral under his protection, Nick has no choice but to try and catch the murderer. Even if that means bonding with a handsome Irish witch...
  • Fallow by Jordan L. Hawk

    Fallow by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Griffin’s past collides with his present, will it cost the lives of everyone he loves?Between the threat of a world-ending invasion from the Outside and unwelcome revelations about his own nature, Percival Endicott Whyborne is under a great deal of strain...
  • As Shadows Fade by Colleen Gleason

    As Shadows Fade by Colleen Gleason

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Vampires have met their match with Victoria Gardella, but now the huntress faces an even greater evil as London is besieged by malevolent entities no mortal was ever meant to encounter... Directly descended from the very first vampire hunter in the Gardella family, Victoria knows she must continue the lineage so humanity will have protectors against the undead...
  • Chameleon Uncovered by B.R. Kingsolver

    Chameleon Uncovered by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 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...
  • Forbidden Honor by May Dawson

    Forbidden Honor by May Dawson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In my world, dragon shifters rule. Dragon shifters are always royals. They’re always male. They’re always assholes.An orphaned servant like me? Everyone assumes on first shift, I’ll turn into a squirrel.Instead, I grow wings. Breathe fire. Throw the world into chaos.No one wants a girl in the Royal Dragon Guard. So I’m disguised as a man and sent off to military training...
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    dark  harem  polyamory  steamy  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Demon Pack by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Demon Pack by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    I’m no stranger to the dark. The shadows belong to me. But the dark can’t hide me forever...I run with my own pack—my four demon wolves and the two friends I would kill to protect.We might be the rejected shifters of the Vegas supernaturals, different and unwanted, but our pack is strong. Feared. Think of us as your local supernatural vigilantes...
  • A Symphony of Savage Hearts by Lana Pecherczyk

    A Symphony of Savage Hearts by Lana Pecherczyk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Silver is a beautiful liar.She's human.And a fierce killer of fae.She marks her kills on a silver vambrace so everyone can see her savagery and stay away. As long as she keeps protecting downtrodden humans from monstrous fae-folk, and hiding the true reason for wearing magic-cutting silver, her loneliness is of no consequence...
  • Angel Fury by Ella Summers

    Angel Fury by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cadence Lightbringer, daughter of a legendary archangel, has always known her gods-endowed magic comes with a price. As an angel in the Legion of Angels, she lives where the Legion commands her to live, trains how the Legion tells her to train, and marries whom the Legion instructs her to marry. Somehow it all sounded simpler in her head...
  • Illusion by S.M. Boyce

    Illusion by S.M. Boyce

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The final chapter in the war for Ourea ends with blood. Kara Magari is an icon. A hero. The people love her. The royalty tolerates her. She has everything—an army, allies, and a close circle of chosen family. They believe she will end the war, and they shouldn’t. She’s as scared as they are. She just can’t show it...
  • Angel Fire by Ella Summers

    Angel Fire by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cadence Lightbringer, daughter of an archangel, has trained from birth to one day drink the Nectar of the gods and ascend to the angels’ ranks. She’s always been the perfect soldier. She’s always known exactly where her life is headed. Until she is assigned to a mission with Damiel Dragonsire, Master Interrogator of the Legion of Angels...
  • Undertow by Jordan L. Hawk

    Undertow by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Note: This novella takes place at the same time as events in Fallow (Whyborne & Griffin 8). Shy secretary Maggie Parkhurst knows there’s nothing special about her. She’s neither sorceress, nor fighter, nor scholar...
  • When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason

    When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After narrowly escaping from Rome, Lady Victoria Gardella returns to London, where not even sunrise can stop a vampire's carnage...Ruining Victoria's homecoming, a vampire stalks the streets of London--during the daylight. Not only is Victoria unable to detect the vampire with her heightened senses, but she's being framed as the prime suspect behind the killings...
  • Eastern Expansion by Randi Darren

    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...
    Categorized as:
    dark  epic  harem  litrpg  polyamory  steamy  action-adventure  adult
  • Incubus Inc. II by Randi Darren

    Incubus Inc. II by Randi Darren

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    ((Minor Spoiler and Warning at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through.))Sameerixis, or Sam for those who actually know him, isn’t what you’d call normal.He had been a door-to-door salesman, of sorts. One that peddled wares, wishes, and whims to anyone willing to pay his prices.Except that life is gone now.His old business model had been modernized...
  • This Cruel Blood by Everly Frost

    This Cruel Blood by Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *Includes an exclusive life after scene for Tessa and Tristan. I am a vampire with a thirst for revenge.Relentless. Fearless. Or so I thought...I swore I'd never be pulled back into my old life. I swore I was done... with him.Aiden Brand. A pyromancer with hands of fire and a heart like ice.Then he shows up asking for my help...
  • Blood Gifts by Becca Andre

    Blood Gifts by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Ian is used to pressure. Born into a necromancer family, he and his twin brother Lex exhibited uncommon magical potential at an early age that led their father to expect great things—from them both. That is until Lex’s blood gift fails to manifest. Or so everyone believes. For the past five years, Ian has been keeping a secret...
  • Hint of Danger by Meg Anne

    Hint of Danger by Meg Anne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She was supposed to be dead.When a chance invitation to a magical ball revives Lina’s spirit, but none of her memories, she’s left with more questions than answers. Lucky for her, she was also left with someone determined to help her uncover them...
  • White Wolf by Lauren Gilley

    White Wolf by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    NYPD homicide detective Trina Baskin is having nightmares. Vivid ones. Full of blood, and snow, dead wolves…and a young man with pale hair who howls like an animal. She chalks them up to stress and an overactive imagination, too many Old Country stories from her Russian father who, when he’s had too much vodka, starts to rave about dark forces and things that look like men…but aren’t...
  • Thicker Than Blood by Shalini Boland

    Thicker Than Blood by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chilling and fast-paced, Thicker Than Blood is the supernatural sequel to Hidden. It combines passion and drama with a historical twist.Aelia lives in 6th century Byzantium. She is sixteen years old and her life is about to change forever. She doesn't yet know it, but she holds the fate of thousands in her hands and her actions will echo across the centuries...
  • Real Vampires Know Size Matters by Gerry Bartlett

    Real Vampires Know Size Matters by Gerry Bartlett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Just when curvaceous vampire Glory St. Clair has her life semi-on track, a woman from her longtime lover Jeremiah Campbell's past steamrolls into town on a mission to win him back...
  • L'Ordine della chiave by Virginia De Winter

    L'Ordine della chiave by Virginia De Winter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Axel Vanderberg, giovane erede al trono di Aldenor, non è altro che una matricola il cui sogno è diventare un giorno Duca dell'Ordine della Chiave, conquistando prestigio e rispetto. Adesso la carica è ricoperta da Rafael Valance, sul quale all'improvviso ricadono ricadono i sospetti per l'omicidio della fidanzata Emelyn. Ma quel delitto sarà solo il primo di una lunga serie...
  • Real Vampires Know Hips Happen by Gerry Bartlett

    Real Vampires Know Hips Happen by Gerry Bartlett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Even though full-figured vampire Glory St. Clair knows a kilt won’t do her hips any favors, she’s willing to travel to Scotland and beyond for Jeremiah Campbell, her hunky on-again, off-again lover. Glory is thrilled when their reunion is a welcome one—until an attack leaves Jerry with amnesia, unable to remember their centuries together...
  • Gossip and Gorgons by Tilly Wallace

    Gossip and Gorgons by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One look could turn you to stone...The newly married Lord and Lady Wycliff are cordially invited to a house party--to be mocked and ridiculed as entertainment. Wycliff insists on attending to discuss business with their host, while Hannah longs to hide in the library with its rare volumes on the Fae...
    Categorized as:
    humor  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  cozy  fae
  • Veiled in Moonlight by C.J. Archer

    Veiled in Moonlight by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a young gentleman is murdered by a shape shifter, Charlie and Lincoln interrogate their contacts and uncover a plot with links to the royal family—and links to more than one member of the ministry's committee. At the heart of the mystery is a sinister love triangle, corruption, lies, and treason...
  • Chameleon Assassin by B.R. Kingsolver

    Chameleon Assassin by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Libby is a mutant, one of the top burglars and assassins in the world. For a price, she caters to executives’ secret desires. Eliminate your corporate rival? Deliver a priceless art masterpiece or necklace? Hack into another corporation’s network? Libby’s your girl.Climate change met nuclear war, and humanity lost. The corporations stepped in, stripping governments of power...
  • Beyond The Grave by C.J. Archer

    Beyond The Grave by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    At the request of Lady Harcourt, Charlie and Lincoln begin searching for her missing stepson. Still recovering from her ordeal at the hands of a diabolical villain, Charlie is supposed to be resting. But resting is dull, so she throws herself into the task at hand, much to Lincoln's frustration. The search leads them down a dark path littered with family secrets and titillating scandal...
  • The Dark Days Pact by Alison Goodman

    The Dark Days Pact by Alison Goodman

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    June 1812. Just weeks after her catastrophic coming-out ball, Lady Helen Wrexhall—now disowned by her uncle—is a full member of the demon-hunting Dark Days Club. Her mentor, Lord Carlston, has arranged for Helen to spend the summer season in Brighton so that he can train her new Reclaimer powers...
  • Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave...
  • The Scarletti Curse by Christine Feehan

    The Scarletti Curse by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The BeastStrange, twisted carvings and hideous gargoyles adorned the palazzo of the great Scarletti family. But a still more fearful secret lurked within its storm-tossed turrets. For every bride who entered its forbidding walls was doomed to leave in a casket.The BrideMystical and unfettered, Nicoletta had no terror of ancient curses and no fear of marriage..
    Categorized as:
    dark  steamy  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  crime
  • Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles, KJ查爾斯

    Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles, KJ查爾斯

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink.With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student flying off the rails, magical law enforcer Stephen Day is under increasing stress. And the strain is starting to show in his relationship with his aristocratic lover, Lord Crane...
  • Angel Fever by Ella Summers

    Angel Fever by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cadence Lightbringer has everything. The prestige and power that comes with being the Angel of Storm Castle. Her archangel husband and soulmate, Damiel Dragonsire, Master Interrogator in the Legion of Angels. And their son Nero, a miracle of magic, the first and only child of two angels.But the Legion’s mission to exterminate dark magic brings trouble to Cadence’s door...
  • Unknown by Jordan L. Hawk

    Unknown by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Librarian Sebastian Rath and his lover Vesper Rune continue their search for the evil Books of the Bound. But in the meantime, the young men in Sebastian’s social circle start dying.Though the deaths look like self-administered poisonings, Sebastian soon comes to realize a killer is at work. And not just any murderer, but one wielding the dark power of the Book of Bone...
  • Broken Wolf by Mila Young

    Broken Wolf by Mila Young

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Is there such a thing as second chances?Our mission is simple: track down my mother and find a way to save my sister from the witches...
  • When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears by Kersten Hamilton

    When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears by Kersten Hamilton

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “People will die.”Locked doors are opening, and uncanny creatures are tumbling through mysterious portals from Mag Mell, the world-between-worlds, into the streets of Chicago. The Dark Man has marked Aiden with a new song that’s scared him badly, and a frightening new group of sídhe is lurking nearby.Teagan knows this is war, and she must protect her family...
  • Song of Oestend by Marie Sexton

    Song of Oestend by Marie Sexton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On the Oestend prairie, only the strong survive.Artist Aren Montrell has heard tales of the Oestend wraiths – mysterious creatures that come in the night and kill anyone who’s not indoors. Aren’s never believed the stories, but when he takes a job as a bookkeeper on the BarChi, a dusty cattle ranch in the furthest reaches of Oestend, he learns the wraiths are very real...
  • Carousel by Jordan L. Hawk

    Carousel by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Note: “Carousel” first appeared in the anthology Another Place in Time. It takes place between the events of Stormhaven and Necropolis. When a child goes missing in Widdershins, ex-Pinkerton detective Griffin Flaherty fears sinister forces are at work in the town...
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