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  • The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

    The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 87 ratings
    Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war...
  • The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

    The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 101 ratings
    He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal...
  • He Who Fights with Monsters 5 by Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell

    He Who Fights with Monsters 5 by Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jason has discovered that his homeworld is not what he thought. What’s more, the rest of the planet is on the precipice of sharing his revelation.With magic on the rise and forces pulling him in multiple directions, Jason is faced with challenges greater than ever before...
  • Death Loot & Vampires by Benjamin Kerei

    Death Loot & Vampires by Benjamin Kerei

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    No Romance. No Harem. Just Vampires.Becoming a knockoff Dracula in tight leather pants was never part of Vincent’s plans. Neither was being summoned to another world by a cult of vampire wannabes. But both happened.Now Vincent’s left picking up the tattered pieces of his humanity as he tries to grow strong enough to keep his family safe...
  • City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett

    City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to do — and that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering Shara's killers deserve...
  • Risen by Benedict Jacka

    Risen by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Mage Alex Verus has gone from a Camden shopkeeper to one of the most powerful mages in Britain. Now his last and most dangerous battle lies before him.Alex's girlfriend, the life mage Anne, has fallen fully under the control of the deadly djinn she made a bargain with, and it is preparing to create an army of mages subject to its every whim...
  • Lover at Last by J.R. Ward

    Lover at Last by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Qhuinn, son of no one, is used to being on his own. Disavowed from his bloodline, shunned by the aristocracy, he has finally found an identity as one of the most brutal fighters in the war against the Lessening Society. But his life is not complete. Even as the prospect of having a family of his own seems to be within reach, he is empty on the inside, his heart given to another...
  • Monster Hunter Nemesis by Larry Correia

    Monster Hunter Nemesis by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    #5 in multiple New York Times bestseller Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series. Agent Franks of the U.S. Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts—parts from other people, that is. Franks is nearly seven feet tall and all muscle. He's nearly indestructible. Plus he’s animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself...
  • Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    FORBIDDEN TEMPTATIONS Serena Kelley is an archaeologist and treasure hunter-and a woman with a secret. Since she was seven, she's been the keeper of a powerful charm that grants her health and immortality . . . as long as she stays a virgin. But Serena isn't all that innocent...
  • Queen Bitch by Michael Anderle

    Queen Bitch by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The UnknownWorld is reeling from change. Bethany Anne has started to make a difference in the first week of being 'awake'. Now, America has been losing good men since their teams don't have a Vampire to help them and Frank is hoping Bethany Anne can, and will, help...
  • Welcome To The Jungle by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle

    Welcome To The Jungle by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The weapons are being released, the military is sniffing around, and Katie is bitching up a storm about her lost Ferrari. Stephanie is helping the team move to a new location, and focusing her talents where she feels they will be best used.On the team. In New York, T'Chezz is starting a new effort to acquire information acquisition contacts. Otherwise known as spies and turncoats...
  • 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...
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  • Bind the Soul by Annette Marie

    Bind the Soul by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The most important rule for an Apprentice Consul is simple: Don't get involved with daemons. Well, Piper is planning to break that rule — big time.After a near-deadly scandal with the Sahar Stone, she has the chance to return to the only life she's ever wanted. All she has to do to keep her Apprenticeship is forget about Ash and Lyre...
  • Relentless by D.B. Reynolds

    Relentless by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    TREACHERY . . . Something the powerful Vampire Lord Raphael has seen far too much of lately. RAGE . . . An emotion that, left unchecked, can burn like the fires of hell. REVENGE . . . A dish that philosophers claim is best served cold.It’s been months since the powerful French vampire Mathilde used Raphael’s arrogance against him and nearly succeeded in taking his life...
  • Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia

    Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Monster Hunter International might be the premier monster eradication company in the business, but they’ve got competition. When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a World War Two weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert...
  • Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke

    Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Fans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and absorbing book based on Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed movie...
  • Brave the Tempest by Karen Chance

    Brave the Tempest by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cassie Palmer has been chief seer of the supernatural world for a little over four months. In that time, she's battled two gods, fallen in love with two men, and confronted the two sides of her own nature, both god and human...
  • Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown

    Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Kidnapped by the notorious rebel group, Provstat, Brexley finds her connection goes deeper than she ever imagined. Reunited with old acquaintances and an uncle she never knew, Brexley is thrown into the vicious world of politics, where human and fae leaders will do anything to come out on top...
  • Monster Hunter Vendetta by Larry Correia

    Monster Hunter Vendetta by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Owen Pitt never met a gun he didn’t like, or a monster he couldn’t shoot. But now, the monsters are shooting back . . .Accountant turned professional monster hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, managed to stop the nefarious Old One’s invasion plans last year, but as a result made an enemy out of one of the most powerful beings in the universe...
  • Hunted by K.F. Breene

    Hunted by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Book two in the Bestselling SeriesWith a new Chosen coming forward, Shanti has lost sight of her duty. With her plans unraveling, she does the only thing she can think of-- frees her brother and a mysterious stranger from a Graygual camp before heading back to beg for Cayan's aid.Unfortunately, that stranger was precious to the enemy, guarded by one of the elite...
  • Blue Venom by Brad Magnarella

    Blue Venom by Brad Magnarella

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESSWith his time as the Blue Wolf winding down, Jason knows the dangers of looking past the next mission. And Legion has just been called to its most challenging one yet.In a closed kingdom in Southeast Asia, a town of 5,000 people has disappeared from the map...
  • Blue Blood by Brad Magnarella

    Blue Blood by Brad Magnarella

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WHERE THE DEAD WON’T DIEDays from a cure for his lupine curse, Jason takes an urgent mission. A medieval invader has returned to a remote corner of Eastern Europe. Backed by seven undead knights and a zombie horde, Lord Drago threatens the region’s oldest province with ghastly force...
  • House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FROM THE BSFA AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF CITY OF LAST CHANCESCity-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the frontline...
  • Sons of Destiny by Darren Shan

    Sons of Destiny by Darren Shan

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The stunning finale to the "New York Times" bestselling series brings Darren face-to-face with his archenemy, Steve Leopard. One of them will die. The other will become the Lord of the Shadows and destroy the world...
  • Stay of Execution by Glynn Stewart

    Stay of Execution by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Vampire War is over. The United States is reeling. The Masquerade is fragmenting. The Apocalypse is here… The long and bloody war with the vampires in the United States has finally ended, thanks to the efforts of the vampire Arbiter and ONSET Commander David White—and a nuclear explosion on American soil...
  • Blue Howl by Brad Magnarella

    Blue Howl by Brad Magnarella

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B07HDQFM8TI have met the enemy... With Jason Wolfe’s ragtag team of monster hunters hardening into a lethal unit, they’re ready to roll. And not a moment too soon. In the wilds of northern Canada, something is stalking humans and leaving a trail of scattered remains. The team arrives, armed for mayhem...
  • Blue Shadow by Brad Magnarella

    Blue Shadow by Brad Magnarella

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B07B7LF8PPThe price of normalcy In the hopes of curing his curse and returning to his fiancé, Jason Wolfe agrees to command a corporate monster-hunting unit. But the team isn’t exactly what he had in mind… A priest, a ninja, a zombie, and a guy who looks like he should be working crew on the carny circuit...
  • Into the Wild by Larry Correia

    Into the Wild by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Malcontents are back in action! Into the Wild, the new novel from acclaimed author Larry Correia, picks up the story begun in Correia’s first entry in the series, Into the Storm...
  • Eternal Sin by Ariana Nash

    Eternal Sin by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The fate of the world hinges on their shattered love. But can it be saved? For as long as angels and demons have warred over London, battle lines have never been crossed and humans never hurt. Now, everything has changed. More powerful than ever, nothing can stop Mikhail's crusade of vengeance against the demon who betrayed him. Trapped as an angel, Severn is running out of time...
  • Infernal Sin by Ariana Nash

    Infernal Sin by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    An angel and a demon fell in love, and the world went to war...Branded a traitor by his own kind, Severn knows winning demons back will not be easy, but when High Lord Luxen steals Mikhail from his grasp, he has no choice. He’s going to need all the help he can get to find Mikhail, unseat Luxen as High Lord, and build a force to rival the vicious Guardian Angel Remiel’s...
  • Black Dawn by Rachel Caine

    Black Dawn by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Ever since the draug—mysterious creatures that prey on vampires—took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil. Most of the town’s residents have evacuated, but Claire, Shane, Eve and Michael have chosen to stay and fight.Using the city’s water system to spread, the draug have rapidly multiplied...
  • Captive by Jex Lane

    Captive by Jex Lane

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Matthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Unable to stop the vampire inside from preying on humans, he keeps himself confined to a lonely existence. Everything changes the night he is lured into a trap and taken prisoner by High Lord General Tarrick—a seductive incubus who feeds off sexual energy...
  • Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

    Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate—both within themselves and within their community..
  • Captive by Jex Lane

    Captive by Jex Lane

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Matthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Unable to stop the vampire inside from preying on humans, he keeps himself confined to a lonely existence. Everything changes the night he is lured into a trap and taken prisoner by High Lord General Tarrick—a seductive incubus who feeds off sexual energy...
  • The Scar by China Miéville

    The Scar by China Miéville

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of Nova Esperium. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city...
  • Mask of Poison by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Mask of Poison by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Darkness has come to consume the world, and only Ember knows the true depths of its horror.As a hunter, Ember’s life was spent saving humanity from the flesh-starved corpses eager to devour them. Then, a fresh evil clawed its way to the surface, leaving Ember feeling she traded one apocalypse for another.Rxa gave his life to protect his kingdom. But now he’s back, undead and untethered...
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    alpha-mc  dark  female-mc  magic  paranormal  adult  book  dark-fantasy
  • Wolf Man by Craig Zerf

    Wolf Man by Craig Zerf

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Brenner is not a werewolf... He is the result of a secret US Army experiment. The creation of a government controlled Super Soldier.And no one asked if he wanted to take part.So, he escaped. And for the last fifty years has been living in the backroads and the small unknown towns of America. Never aging. Searching for a cure. At the same time avoiding the dark ops experts who are looking for him...
  • The Last Vampire: Book Five by R.A. Steffan, Jaelynn Woolf

    The Last Vampire: Book Five by R.A. Steffan, Jaelynn Woolf

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Broke ex-waitresses aren’t supposed to have archenemies.Seriously, that kind of crap is way above our pay grade.We certainly aren’t supposed to have multiple supernatural beings competing for the title of “scariest nemesis.” Yet that’s where I find myself, now that the last vampire on Earth is no longer the last vampire on Earth...
  • Vampire Bound: Book One by R.A. Steffan

    Vampire Bound: Book One by R.A. Steffan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Become a bartender at The Vixen’s Den, they said. The owner isn’t really a vampire, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. And suddenly I’m neck deep in a world I’ve never really believed in, no matter what my crazy Great Aunt Mabel used to say. Seriously, I have more than enough drama in my life already, without adding an irresistibly mesmerizing nightclub owner to the mix...
  • War Witch by Layla Nash

    War Witch by Layla Nash

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hustling as a waitress is a far cry from being the most feared witch in the world. But after surviving ten years of war between humans and supernaturals, Lily finds anonymity a relief. Even a request for help from an old coven friend can’t bring Lily out of hiding -- until her friend disappears, along with the entire coven...
  • Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

    Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls...
  • The Damned by Laura Thalassa

    The Damned by Laura Thalassa

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Taken. Whisked away to hell. Forever bound to a monstrous god. This is seventeen-year-old Gabrielle Fiori's fate. It's everything she's ever feared, and it has all come to pass. Only ... the devil isn't the monster she remembers. At times he seems gentle and, most unnerving of all, she's drawn to him. He wants her for all eternity, and if she gives in, everything he has to offer can be hers...
  • The Darkest Prison by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Prison by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter has enthralled thousands of readers with her Lords of the Underworld series. Discover a new side of the saga with this novella, The Darkest Prison.Once Atlas, the Titan god of strength, was the Greek goddess Nike's slave. Now he is her master...
  • Nightrise by Anthony Horowitz

    Nightrise by Anthony Horowitz

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The third heart-pounding book in #1 NYT bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's spellbinding The Gatekeepers series A gate has been opened. The Old Ones have been released. And now the third and fourth of The Five -- twins with a mysterious psychic bond -- are joining the fight...
  • Phantom Embrace by Dianne Duvall

    Phantom Embrace by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Across dimensions . . . A gifted one, Yuri Sokolov was born with the ability to see spirits, but he knows better than to make contact with them. Yet he’s never seen one as lovely as Cat Seddon, the woman who haunts his home and his dreams. But amid their star-crossed love, a new danger may have Yuri facing a different kind of eternity.Previously published in On The Hunt...
  • Darkest Mercy by Melissa Marr

    Darkest Mercy by Melissa Marr

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Send the messengers for the Faery Courts. This is the end. The Summer King is missing; the Dark Court is bleeding; and a stranger walks the streets of Huntsdale, his presence signifying the deaths of powerful fey.Aislinn tends to the Summer Court, searching for her absent king and yearning for Seth...
  • Doubletake by Rob Thurman

    Doubletake by Rob Thurman

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Half-human/half-monster Cal Leandros knows that family is a pain. But now that pain belongs to his half-brother, Niko. Niko's shady father is in town, and he needs a big favor. Even worse is the reunion being held by the devious Puck race-including the Leandros' friend, Robin- featuring a lottery that no Puck wants to win...
  • Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Simon R. Green

    Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    My name is John Taylor. I’m a PI for hire in the Nightside, the dark and corrupt city within the city of London. Where the sun never shines and where pleasure and horror are always on sale—for the right price.Not a nice place to visit or a nice place to live. So you wouldn’t think I would care that it was about to be destroyed, by none other than my very own long-missing, not-quite-human mom...
  • The Neon Court by Kate Griffin

    The Neon Court by Kate Griffin

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    War is coming to London. A daimyo of the Neon Court is dead and all fingers point towards their ancient enemy - The Tribe. And when magicians go to war, everyone loses.But Matthew Swift has his own concerns. He has been summoned abruptly, body and soul, to a burning tower and to the dead body of Oda, warrior of The Order and known associate of Swift...
  • Jordan by Mandy M. Roth

    Jordan by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's determined not to give in. He's determined to make her beg. As head of the Sargaidia guards, Nina Janelle is accustomed to getting what she wants out of her men-in battle and in bed. These days, she's in a losing battle with her panther-shifter heat cycle, each round requiring more and more men to quell her burning need. Until she meets Commission Officer Jordan Vasil...
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