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Draakenwood by Jordan L. Hawk
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSomeone 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... -
![Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg]()
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay. Though the property has been uninhabited for more than a century, Merritt is ready to call it home—until he realizes he has no choice. With its doors slamming shut and locking behind him, Whimbrel House is not about to let Merritt leave. Ever...Categorized as:
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![Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk]()
Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsan 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... -
![Hexslayer by Jordan L. Hawk]()
Hexslayer by Jordan L. Hawk
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHorse 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...Categorized as:
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![Angel Fury by Ella Summers]()
Angel Fury by Ella Summers
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCadence 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...Categorized as:
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![Angel Fire by Ella Summers]()
Angel Fire by Ella Summers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCadence 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...Categorized as:
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![Hessians and Hellhounds by Tilly Wallace]()
Hessians and Hellhounds by Tilly Wallace
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFire erases all… even the undead.... One of London’s most recognisable Afflicted is erased from the earth in a fiery way. Whispers spread that a hellhound prowls the streets, snatching the lost souls who have escaped the afterworld...Categorized as:
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![The Dark Days Pact by Alison Goodman]()
The Dark Days Pact by Alison Goodman
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsJune 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... -
![Angel Fever by Ella Summers]()
Angel Fever by Ella Summers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCadence 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...Categorized as:
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![Galvanism and Ghouls by Tilly Wallace]()
Galvanism and Ghouls by Tilly Wallace
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTogether beyond death... A new unnatural horror is about to rattle Hannah Miles' quiet existence, and it's not the short-tempered viscount prowling the hallways. Someone is creating a monster by stitching together pieces of different people. When a limb makes an escape attempt, Viscount Wycliff is called to investigate... -
![Her Majesty's Necromancer by C.J. Archer]()
Her Majesty's Necromancer by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen bodies go missing from the cemetery, Lincoln and the Ministry of Curiosities investigate. But not Charlie. As a housemaid at Lichfield Towers, she doesn't get involved in Ministry business.Instead, she conducts investigations of her own. She searches for details about her real mother, and makes inquiries into Lincoln's background...Categorized as:
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![Spectred Isle by K.J. Charles]()
Spectred Isle by K.J. Charles
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsArchaeologist Saul Lazenby has been all but unemployable since his disgrace during the War. Now he scrapes a living working for a rich eccentric who believes in magic. Saul knows it’s a lot of nonsense...except that he begins to find himself in increasingly strange and frightening situations. And at every turn he runs into the sardonic, mysterious Randolph Glyde...Categorized as:
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![The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K.J. Charles]()
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K.J. Charles
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA story too secret, too terrifying—and too shockingly intimate—for Victorian eyes. A note to the Editor Dear Henry, I have been Simon Feximal’s companion, assistant and chronicler for twenty years now, and during that time my Casebooks of Feximal the Ghost-Hunter have spread the reputation of this most accomplished of ghost-hunters far and wide...Categorized as:
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Restless Spirits by Jordan L. Hawk
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAfter losing the family fortune to a fraudulent psychic, inventor Henry Strauss is determined to bring the otherworld under control through the application of science. All he needs is a genuine haunting to prove his Electro-Séance will work. A letter from wealthy industrialist Dominic Gladfield seems the answer to his prayers...Categorized as:
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![The Last Wizards' Ball by Charlaine Harris]()
The Last Wizards' Ball by Charlaine Harris
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns with the sixth and final installment in the critically acclaimed Gunnie Rose series as sisters Lizbeth Rose and Felicia must face their fates at the last Wizards’ Ball...Categorized as:
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![Feast of Stephen by K.J. Charles]()
Feast of Stephen by K.J. Charles
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Charm of Magpies Christmas coda. Stephen and Crane have finally got away on their long-awaited Christmas break, along with Crane’s henchman Merrick and Jenny Saint. A promised gift is made, and a request unexpectedly and magically fulfilled…This story comes after Flight of Magpies and is not a standalone read. Download now in any format from Smashwords...Categorized as:
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![A Breath of Frost by Alyxandra Harvey]()
A Breath of Frost by Alyxandra Harvey
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1814, three cousins—Gretchen, Emma, and Penelope—discover their family lineage of witchcraft when a binding spell is broken, allowing their individual magical powers to manifest. Now, beyond the manicured gardens and ballrooms of Regency London, an alluring underworld available only to those with power is revealed to the cousins... -
![Neverwas by Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed]()
Neverwas by Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"I was sixteen the second time I had my first kiss...."At the end of AMBER HOUSE, Sarah made a choice that transformed everything--and now she must choose it all again.Things are very different--better--for Sarah and her family: her Aunt Maggie grew up; her parents are happily married; her grandmother died after a long, productive and respected life...Categorized as:
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![The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt]()
The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAn unwilling pawn in the plotting of the Rome of Charlemagne's time, Regeane is betrothed to an unknown barbarian lord. Unable to refuse in case she is betrayed as a shapeshifter wolf-woman, she is attracted to a dark wolf prowling outside the city gates... -
![The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus]()
The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIt is 1962, and Elisa Esposito—mute her whole life, orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn’t know how she’d make it through the day...Categorized as:
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![The Master Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg]()
The Master Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThroughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she’s kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She’s discovered how to practice forms of magic other than her own—an ability long thought impossible.While all seems set for Ceony to complete her apprenticeship and pass her upcoming final magician’s exam, life quickly becomes complicated...Categorized as:
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![Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto]()
Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe two-bit town of Rogue City is a lawless place, full of dark magic and saloon brawls, monsters and six-shooters. But it’s perfect for seventeen-year-old Westie, the notorious adopted daughter of local inventor Nigel Butler.Westie was only a child when she lost her arm and her family to cannibals on the wagon trail...Categorized as:
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![The Unfailing Light by Robin Bridges]()
The Unfailing Light by Robin Bridges
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLush and opulent, romantic and sinister, The Unfailing Light, Volume II in The Katerina Trilogy, reimagines the lives of Russia's aristocracy in a fabulously intoxicating and page-turning fantasy.Having had no choice but to use her power has a necromancer to save Russia from dark forces, Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, now wants to forget that she ever used her special powers... -
![Unnatural Issue by Mercedes Lackey]()
Unnatural Issue by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA brand-new Elemental Masters novel from the national bestselling author Mercedes Lackey. Richard Whitestone is an Elemental Earth Master. Blaming himself for the death of his beloved wife in childbirth, he has sworn never to set eyes on his daughter, Suzanne...Categorized as:
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![The Last Necromancer by C.J. Archer]()
The Last Necromancer by C.J. Archer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsVictorian London: For five years, Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway has lived as a boy in the slums. But when one theft too many gets her arrested, her only means of escape lies with a dead man. Charlie hasn't raised a spirit since she first discovered she could do so five years ago. That time, her father banished her. This time, she brings even more trouble upon herself...Categorized as:
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![The Passion of Cleopatra by Anne Rice, Christopher Rice]()
The Passion of Cleopatra by Anne Rice, Christopher Rice
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the iconic and bestselling author of The Mummy and The Vampire Chronicles, a mesmerizing, glamorous new tale of ancient feuds and modern passions. Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra... -
![Moonshine by Alaya Dawn Johnson]()
Moonshine by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Imagining vampires at the heart of the social struggles of 1920s, "Moonshine "blends a tempestuous romance with dramatic historical fiction, populated by a lively mythology inhabiting the gritty New York City streets "Zephyr Hollis is an underfed, overzealous social activist who teaches night school to the underprivileged of the Lower East Side...Categorized as:
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![Hôtel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]()
Hôtel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe classic tale that introduced the legendary Le Comte de Saint-Germain, first published in 1978 and spawning 14 titles in the Saint-Germain epic, is now available in paperback. A fixture in 1740s Parisian society, Saint-Germain is a perfect gentleman--and a vampire... -
![The Morning Star by Robin Bridges]()
The Morning Star by Robin Bridges
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSt. Petersburg, Russia, 1890Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, wants to be known as a doctor, not a necromancer. But Tsar Alexander III forbids women to attend medical school; his interest in Katerina extends only to her ability to raise the dead...Categorized as:
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![Ella, the Slayer by A.W. Exley]()
Ella, the Slayer by A.W. Exley
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Ella copes the best she can; caring for her war-injured father, scrubbing the floors, and slaying the undead that attack the locals. Vermin they're called, like rats they spread pestilence with their bite. Ella's world collides with another when she nearly decapitates a handsome stranger, who is very much alive...Categorized as:
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![The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman]()
The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsLondon, April 1812.On the eve of eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall’s presentation to the queen, one of her family’s housemaids disappears-and Helen is drawn into the shadows of Regency London. There, she meets Lord Carlston, one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of demons infiltrating every level of society... -
![The Mermaid by Christina Henry]()
The Mermaid by Christina Henry
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom the author of Lost Boy comes a historical fairy tale about a mermaid who leaves the sea for love and later finds herself in P.T. Barnum's American Museum as the real Fiji mermaid. However, leaving the museum may be harder than leaving the sea ever was.Once there was a mermaid who longed to know of more than her ocean home and her people...Categorized as:
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![The Gathering Storm by Robin Bridges]()
The Gathering Storm by Robin Bridges
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSt. Petersburg, Russia, 1888. As she attends a whirl of glittering balls, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret: she can raise the dead. No one knows. Not her family. Not the girls at her finishing school. Not the tsar or anyone in her aristocratic circle. Katerina considers her talent a curse, not a gift... -
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Strange Alchemy by Gwenda Bond
Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsGwenda Bond's first book Blackwood has been reimagined and brought back to life with new vision. On Roanoke Island, the legend of the Lost Colony—and the 114 colonists who vanished without a trace more than four hundred years ago—still haunts the town. But that’s just a story told for the tourists...Categorized as:
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![Silver in the Blood by Jessica Day George]()
Silver in the Blood by Jessica Day George
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSociety girls from New York City circa 1890, Dacia and Lou never desired to know more about their lineage, instead preferring to gossip about the mysterious Romanian family that they barely knew. But upon turning seventeen, the girls must return to their homeland to meet their relatives, find proper husbands, and—most terrifyingly—learn the deep family secrets of The Claw, The Wing, and The Smoke... -
![Ironskin by Tina Connolly]()
Ironskin by Tina Connolly
Rated: 3.35 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsJane Eliot wears an iron mask. It’s the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain—the ironskin. When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a "delicate situation"—a child born during the Great War—Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help...Categorized as:
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