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  • Ever After by Kim Harrison

    Ever After by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    The ever after, the demonic realm that parallels the human world, is shrinking. If it disappears completely, so does all magic. It's up to witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan to avert catastrophe and keep life from changing... for the worse.While saving the world is important, it isn't Rachel's only motivation...
  • The Quarter Moon by Stephanie Hudson

    The Quarter Moon by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    With Keira finding death on her door she is suddenly plunged into a world of the unknown and has to face it alone…or does she? Soon this new life is filled with heartache, shadowed followers and cryptic messages, that only promise to lead her deeper into world of the supernatural like never before. For Keira, even taking a breath without the other half of her soul is painful enough...
  • The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

    The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering...
  • The Witch with No Name by Kim Harrison

    The Witch with No Name by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    At long last... The final book in the New York Times bestselling Hollows series by Kim Harrison!Rachel Morgan's come a long way from the clutzy runner of Dead Witch Walking. She's faced vampires and werewolves, banshees, witches, and soul-eating demons. She's crossed worlds, channeled gods, and accepted her place as a day-walking demon...
  • Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

    Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    I could smell her fear, and it satisfied something deep inside me that had been writhing under her cool, superior gaze. I curled my upper lip so she could get a good look at my sharp teeth. I might only weigh thirty or so pounds in my coyote shape, but I was a predator...Mechanic Mercy Thompson can shift her shape - but not her loyalty...
    Categorized as:
    dark  fae  female-mc  ghosts  love-triangle  magic  myths  paranormal
  • The Pentagram Child, Part 1 by Stephanie Hudson

    The Pentagram Child, Part 1 by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    After finding out the traumatic truth, Keira tries to move on from the doors of Afterlife and the love lost through a world of pain. But Afterlife’s King isn’t yet done with her and Keira once again finds herself stood opposite the man who broke her heart...
  • The Pentagram Child, Part 2 by Stephanie Hudson

    The Pentagram Child, Part 2 by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    As Keira and Draven reunite, it is but a bitter sweet moment as it is time they must put their loyalty on the line in the ultimate test of trust in order to seek the truth. But making it through the gates of Hell and back in one piece isn’t something they can expect or take lightly. As for one of our destined lovers, a fight for the other’s survival is something they will have to face alone...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  fae  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  shapeshifters
  • A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

    A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the Hollows with the electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed Pale Demon!A Perfect BloodRitually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the I.S...
  • Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs

    Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings. In return, the average law-abiding, solid citizen has little to worry about from the things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I wish I was an average citizen...Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor...
  • Hell Hounds Don't Heel by Kim McDougall

    Hell Hounds Don't Heel by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Critter 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...
  • Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

    Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter—and lived to tell the tale. But she's never faced off against her own kind . . . until now.Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black magic, her best hope is life imprisonment—at worst, a forced lobotomy and genetic slavery...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  fae  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters
  • White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

    White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the sinister and seductive Hollows for the newest blockcuster adventure featuring Rachel Morgan, witch and bounty hunter.White Witch, Black CurseSome wounds take time to heal...and some scars never fade.Rachel Morgan, kick-ass witch and bounty hunter, has taken her fair share of hits, and has broken lines she swore she would never cross...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  fae  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters
  • River Marked by Patricia Briggs

    River Marked by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Mercy Thompson: Mechanic, Shapeshifter, Fighter.Car mechanic Mercy Thompson has always known there was something different about her, and not just the way she can make a VW engine sit up and beg. Mercy is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. And she's never known any others of her kind. Until now...
    Categorized as:
    demons  fae  female-mc  ghosts  magic  myths  paranormal  shapeshifters
  • Unspoken by C.C. Hunter

    Unspoken by C.C. Hunter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Unspoken truths will be revealed—and they will change everything—in this dazzling final chapter of the Shadow Falls: After Dark trilogy!Della Tsang is facing the toughest fight of her life—and the most personal. In her new role as an elite paranormal investigator, she’s assigned a twenty-year-old murder case…and the accused killer is none other than her own father...
  • Darkness Unleashed by McKenzie Hunter

    Darkness Unleashed by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Midwest Pack stands together—and they might fall together.We’ve always kept our existence hidden from humans, but when a video of a were-animal in a violent confrontation goes viral, the other denizens take drastic measures to protect themselves from exposure. Alliances are broken and friendships strained as the vampires, witches, and elves all work to protect their own interests...
  • The Devil's Darling by Briana Michaels

    The Devil's Darling by Briana Michaels

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Packs are divided, oaths are broken, and ties are severed. No one is safe. And the traitor is still out there causing mayhem. Could it get any worse? Yes, it could.The closer Sara’s pack gets to discovering who the traitor is, the faster everything around them unravels...
  • Knight Awakened by B.M. Clemton

    Knight Awakened by B.M. Clemton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Coming to Black Veil University irreversibly changed my life.Meeting Daxton Pierce flipped it on end and made me question everything I know.My memories and my family had been ripped from me. I have been stalked, tortured, abandoned, and betrayed… but I’m not broken...
  • Tea Time with the Dead by M. Sinclair

    Tea Time with the Dead by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I hadn’t been wrong about the trouble I’d felt brewing. Now, the problem was here to stay unless we could figure out a plan. A plan to stop Nero from trying to take New Orleans from me. A plan to stop Asmodeus from kidnapping me to the demonic realm. Hell. A plan to figure out what I was going to do about these six men in my life...
  • A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

    A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that order.Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past...
  • Shadow's Bane by Karen Chance

    Shadow's Bane by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Half-human, half-vampire Dorina Basarab is back—and facing her biggest challenge yet in the next urban fantasy in the New York Times bestselling series.Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. As one of the Vampire Senate’s newest members, Dory already has a lot on her plate. But then a relative of one of Dory’s fey friends goes missing...
  • A Step into the Dark by Donna Augustine

    A Step into the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ollie Wit is the strongest Shadow Walker born in decades but it’s a gift with a steep price. Walking in the Shadowlands can bring untold powers and spells, and even greater risks. Every step into that other world brings her closer to the monsters that have haunted her since a child, destroyed her family and wreaked havoc all around her...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  fae  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters
  • Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong

    Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Smart, sexy, supernatural—the men and women of the Otherworld live and love, fight and die, among us. Unseen and unsuspected, this realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves is now threatened with exposure by a brutal series of bizarre murders that has left even the supernatural world baffled—and cold with terror...
  • Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Something wicked is at work in Colorado’s supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison…a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the already-fractured alliance between witches and the undead.The state’s cardinal vampire, Maven, summons boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther to stop the killing before it ignites a war...
  • The Phantom Queen by Yasmine Galenorn

    The Phantom Queen by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Whisper Hollow, where spirits walk among the living, and the lake never gives up her dead...Fifteen years ago, I ran away from Whisper Hollow, Washington, a small town on Crescent Lake in the Olympic Peninsula. But truth is, if you were born here, you can never really leave. I'm Kerris Fellwater, and I'm a spirit shaman...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  fae  ghosts  magic  myths  paranormal  shapeshifters
  • Game Night by Katie May

    Game Night by Katie May

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    First eliminations.First kisses.First attack.What could go wrong?For this group date, I’ll be a participant in a life-sized board game night with some of the contestants I don’t know as well.Will sparks fly? Or will we succumb to the horrors of the games?Combine that with an escape room solo date with a surly cupid, and new secrets will be revealed...
  • Shadow Wars by C.J. Cooke

    Shadow Wars by C.J. Cooke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “This isn’t just some war being waged against us from the shadows, it’s a massacre, a cull.”With the pack still reeling from their encounter with the witches, all anyone wants is time to recover. But the pack promised the vampires a favour in return for their help—and it’s time to collect...
  • Shadow Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Shadow Web by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The holidays are here, and this year, they’re deadly…It’s my first Thanksgiving back in Moonshadow Bay, and everything is hunky-dory until the Witches Guild assigns me a research project for the upcoming Winter Solstice Festival. Not only do I melt down my computer, but I download a demon who ends up stuck in my house...
  • First Dates by Katie May

    First Dates by Katie May

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We've been through the introductions...Now, the men have one chance to prove themselves or face elimination.I've chosen a small group of men for my first group date, and one terrifying lumberjack tree for my solo date. But Kyler is more determined than ever to make this the weirdest, strangest season ever of Supernaturalette. Nothing on this show is as it seems, including the men...
  • Lost Moon by J.R. Rain, Matthew S. Cox

    Lost Moon by J.R. Rain, Matthew S. Cox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the next highly anticipated installment of J.R. Rain’s bestselling supernatural mystery series, Samantha Moon finds herself stranded on a distant planet of dragons . . . and confronted with a powerful demon hellbent on destroying worlds. Samantha Moon spent the past thirteen years fighting the evil trying to consume her, but at least she knew where it lurked...
  • Shifter's Moon by Luanne Bennett

    Shifter's Moon by Luanne Bennett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hell hath no fury like a shifter scorned. Savannah has just been invaded by a pack of dangerous bikers—killer cats with greed and vengeance on their minds. Jackson Hunter’s past has finally caught up to him. So has the woman who refuses to let him go—a cat with some sharp claws. Katie Bishop is starting to wonder if she knows her boyfriend at all...
  • Midnight Shadows by Emerson Knight, McKenzie Hunter

    Midnight Shadows by Emerson Knight, McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m losing control.Past choices are coming back to haunt me, and an old curse threatens to drive me from the pack.Sky is the only person who can help me with the curse. To do so, she’ll have to perform forbidden magic that will draw the attention of the witches. They’ve been vying for a reason to kill Sky, and performing forbidden magic will give them one...
  • Faerie Curse by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Faerie Curse by Emma L. Adams, Luci Christian Bell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the leader of the local witch coven is murdered, all evidence suggests foul play of the faerie variety. With a group of anti-supernatural assassins running around town, I have to figure out their connection with the dark faeries before my best friend Isabel, the new coven leader, becomes the killer's next target...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dystopia  fae  female-mc  ghosts  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong

    Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The final anthology from the #1 New York Times bestselling Otherworld series Embrace the obscure. New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong once again opens the gates to the Otherworld. This collection of rare and never-before-published novellas and short stories brings the clever wit, dark twists, and intense suspense Otherworld readers have come to expect...
  • Magic Untamed by Elena Lawson

    Magic Untamed by Elena Lawson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Finding out I’m descended from royalty should have been like winning the lottery. Except I got all of the renown and none of the spoils.That’s what it means to be related to the dark prince.Still reeling, I throw myself into uncovering more about my dark heritage. Meanwhile, Cal and Adrian try to solve a mystery of their own...
  • Vampire Sun by J.R. Rain

    Vampire Sun by J.R. Rain

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mother, wife, private investigator...vampire. Eight years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire...
  • Moon River by J.R. Rain

    Moon River by J.R. Rain

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Seven years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire...
  • Darkness Devours by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Devours by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur has been hailed for her “smart, sexy”* urban fantasy novels. Now, she continues her Dark Angels series set in the realm of danger and desire known as the Guardian World…Half-werewolf, half-Aedh Risa Jones can enter the realm between life and death, and she can see the Reapers who collect the souls of the dead...
    Categorized as:
    demons  fae  female-mc  ghosts  love-triangle  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Bone Magic by Yasmine Galenorn

    Bone Magic by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    We're the D'Artigo sisters: sexy, savvy operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Delilah is a Were who turns into golden tabby when she's stressed. And Menolly's a vampire who's still trying to get the hang of being undead...
  • Darkness Unleashed by Alexandra Ivy

    Darkness Unleashed by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The Guardians of Eternity are vampire warriors without equal, bound by their loyalties and sworn to protect their charges from every danger. . .except those posed by their own hungry desires. . .A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others' company. But now, as a member of Chicago's powerful vampire clan, he has certain obligations to fulfill...
  • Hunter's Trail by Melissa F. Olson

    Hunter's Trail by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Actions have consequences—a lesson Scarlett Bernard is learning the hard way. As a “null,” Scarlett has always been able to negate the powers of the supernatural beings that surround her. But now her reckless decision to permanently change Eli from a werewolf to a human has left the Los Angeles werewolf pack in shambles, and upset the balance of power among the city’s supernatural factions...
  • Magitek by B.R. Kingsolver

    Magitek by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    My name is Danica James. I'm a cop with the Arcane Division.I'm also a magitek. For most humans, demons, and Fae, magik and technology are totally incompatible. But some mages are able to manipulate mechanical and electrical devices.Hunter James was my grandfather, and a magitek. He wanted to end humanity's cycle of war, but instead he broke the world...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  fae  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  polyamory
  • Final Curtain by J.B. Trepagnier

    Final Curtain by J.B. Trepagnier

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Five years ago, I had an audition for the ballet company of my dreams. Five years ago, my boyfriend purposely broke my toes and ruined my dreams. Two days later, I found out I’m a witch. I thought my ballet days were over. I just graduated from the academy to work as a federal agent with the Paranormal Investigation Bureau...
  • The Curse of Monsters by Mia Hartson

    The Curse of Monsters by Mia Hartson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An unbreakable bond. An ancient curse. A monster to ruin kingdoms.We survived the outliers, but now Kade, Asher, Darian, Locke, and I are in the fae kingdom with a tortured prince in our grasp. The fae hold the secrets to breaking the curse over Katakin, and I intend to find out what they are...
  • Beyond the Veil by Nicole R. Taylor

    Beyond the Veil by Nicole R. Taylor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Collection of Urban Fantasy Adventures Beyond the veil lies a world of magic, mystery, and adventure! From author Nicole R. Taylor comes five full length novels, each a first in a series...
  • Five Down by Stacia Kane

    Five Down by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Downside Ghosts series has been called "gripping and brilliant," "a must-read," and "one of the best paranormal fantasy series available." Now all four previously published short stories set in this world are collected in one place, plus one new, never-before-seen novella...
  • Then Came Wanda...With A Baby Carriage by Dakota Cassidy

    Then Came Wanda...With A Baby Carriage by Dakota Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s almost nothing Wanda Jefferson wants more than a family to call her own, and she’s almost got it all with her husband Heath, a beautiful home in the suburbs, and her soul-satisfying work with her best friends as part of OOPS—a paranormal crisis hotline. Yet still, there’s a tiny hole in Wanda’s heart she longs to fill with a baby...
  • Give up the Ghost by Debbie Cassidy

    Give up the Ghost by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They say not to judge a book by its cover. It's what's on the inside that counts. But what if what's on the inside could get you killed? The secret is out. Welcome to the spot between a rock and a hard place. A kick ass Urban Fantasy Adventure filled with fey, demons, vampires, gargoyles and golems...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  ghosts  madness  magic
  • Aberrant Monsters by Debbie Cassidy

    Aberrant Monsters by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Evicting a monster is no easy feat. Especially when the monster lives inside you.I’m a rift walker, one of a handful of humans able to step into a world of monsters and arcane magic. We follow three simple rules:*Never step into the eldritch realm after sundown.*Never stay for more than an hour*Never, ever bring anything backI broke all three rules...
  • The Burning Bush by Kenya Wright

    The Burning Bush by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After 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...
  • Darkness Unveiled by McKenzie Hunter, Emerson Knight

    Darkness Unveiled by McKenzie Hunter, Emerson Knight

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Sky decided not to join our pack, I thought that would be the end of our dealings with the enigmatic wolf. But she’s pulled back into pack business when Sky’s the first one on the scene of a murder attempt of one of our pack members.At first, I mark it off as a coincidence but I'm proven wrong...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  warriors
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