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The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 101 ratingsHe 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... -
![Born of Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Born of Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsDeath Stalks Them All... Kere is the second most infamous member of the shadow organization known as Sentella. An explosive engineer who strikes terror into the hearts of the League, the bounty on his head is truly staggering. No one knows his true identity.The daughter of a traitor, Zarya Starska grew up hard on the back streets of hell- her family hunted to the brink of extinction... -
![Sire by Jex Lane]()
Sire by Jex Lane
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 32 ratings“Because love is the easiest way to control someone and I needed a way to control you.” Still mending a broken heart, Matthew has spent a year avoiding incubi and their army of hunters. Now he has a new goal: lift the shroud on his past... -
![Opposition by Jennifer L. Armentrout]()
Opposition by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsKaty knows the world changed the night the Luxen came.She can't believe Daemon welcomed his race or stood by as his kind threatened to obliterate every last human and hybrid on Earth. But the lines between good and bad have blurred, and love has become an emotion that could destroy her—could destroy them all.Daemon will do anything to save those he loves, even if it means betrayal... -
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![Reaver by Larissa Ione]()
Reaver by Larissa Ione
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsWARRIOR OF HEAVENReaver is an angel with a past, a record, and a less-than-heavenly attitude. Powerful enough to fight alongside the fiercest battle angels-and crazy enough to risk his wings on a one-way mission to hell-he's agreed to go where no angel has ever gone before...to steal the most seductive and dangerous prize of Satan himself... -
![Son of Kong by T.S. Joyce]()
Son of Kong by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTorren Taylor has a gorilla problem. The birthmark on his back says he is supposed to be the new Kong, but he wants nothing to do with his people. Shunning their traditions means his silverback is out of control and on a one-way track to crazy-town. He accepted his shortened life a long time ago, but right now all he wants to do is live long enough to for a couple last bucket list items... -
![Blood Vow by J.R. Ward]()
Blood Vow by J.R. Ward
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe Black Dagger Brotherhood continues to train the best of the best to join them in the deadly battle against the Lessening Society. Among the new recruits, Axe proves to be a cunning and vicious fighter—and also a loner isolated because of personal tragedy... -
![True Dead by Faith Hunter]()
True Dead by Faith Hunter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsJane Yellowrock goes back to the city where it all began in the newest installment of this thrilling New York Times bestselling series.Jane used to hunt vampires, but now she’s their queen. She’s holed up in the mountains with the Yellowrock Clan, enjoying a little peace, when a surprise attack on her people proves that trouble is brewing... -
![Lightning Game by Christine Feehan]()
Lightning Game by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsUninhibited passion meets spine-chilling danger in this thrilling GhostWalker novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.Danger and passion fuse in this electrifying GhostWalker novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. GhostWalker Rubin Campo’s rough upbringing made him into the man he is today: strong, steadfast and wary of outsiders... -
![Elimination by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost]()
Elimination by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDeception. Demons are experts at it.I thought I could control my fate. I thought I could send the Master of Demon Runes back to the Underworld where he belongs, but instead, I'm the one forced into a dangerous game of elimination.Now I must fight for my life against the strongest demons—demons who have waited their whole lives for the chance to rule the Underworld... -
![Archangel's Legion by Nalini Singh]()
Archangel's Legion by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsNalini Singh, the New York Times bestselling “alpha author of paranormal romance” (Booklist) returns to an immortal world of violent passion and lethal power…on the brink of a deadly archangelic war.Angels are falling from the sky in New York, struck down by a vicious, unknown force.Vampires are dying impossibly of disease... -
![Born of Betrayal by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Born of Betrayal by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsYears ago, family loyalty caused Fain Hauk to give up everything he loved: His military career. His planet. His fiancée. Even his name.Now decades later, everything has changed. He's built a new life out of the ashes of his old, and he's vowed to never let anything threaten his loved ones again.But when old enemies align themselves with new ones, he's caught in the middle of a brutal war... -
![Power Game by Christine Feehan]()
Power Game by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a supersoldier with enhanced abilities. He can see better and run faster than the enemy, disappear when necessary and hunt along any terrain... -
![Shadow Storm by Christine Feehan]()
Shadow Storm by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDanger inspires fierce passion when a new threat targets Chicago's Ferraro crime family in this novel in Christine Feehan's New York Times bestselling series.A long-simmering feud between two families comes to a head in this gripping novel in Christine Feehan's New York Times bestselling Shadow Riders series... -
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![Whispers in the Dark by Maya Banks]()
Whispers in the Dark by Maya Banks
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsShe came to him when he needed her the mostShe came to him at his lowest point. The voice of an angel, a whisper in the dark. She’s the only thing that gets Nathan Kelly through his captivity, the endless days of torture and the fear that he’ll never return to his family. With her help, he’s able to escape... -
![Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione]()
Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThey're here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.Born of a match between good and evil, four siblings stand between hell's minions and everything they want to destroy. They are the Lords of Deliverance, and they have the power to ward off Doomsday...or let it ride.. -
![Blood Truth by J.R. Ward]()
Blood Truth by J.R. Ward
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAs a trainee in the Black Dagger Brotherhood's program, Boone has triumphed as a soldier and now fights side by side with the Brothers. Following his sire's unexpected death, he is taken off rotation against his protests—and he finds himself working with Butch O'Neal, former homicide cop, to catch a serial killer: Someone is targeting females of the species at a live action role play club... -
![Cross Breed by Lora Leigh]()
Cross Breed by Lora Leigh
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Breeds are humans altered before conception with the DNA of the predators of Earth. But although they all carry the genetic material of beasts within them, Cassandra Sinclair stands apart. A unique mix of wolf, coyote and human, she is revered by many—but preyed upon by others... -
![What a Dragon Should Know by G.A. Aiken]()
What a Dragon Should Know by G.A. Aiken
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAttraction that’s off the scale…Only for those I love would I traipse into the merciless Northlands to risk life, limb, and my exquisite beauty. But do they appreciate it? Do they say, “Gwenvael the Handsome, you are the best among us—the most loved of all dragons?” No! For centuries my family has refused to acknowledge my magnificence as well as my innate humility... -
![Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass by C.M. Stunich]()
Allison Shatters the Looking-Glass by C.M. Stunich
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsI'm so fucking scared right now. No, not just scared—I'm terrified. And if you're reading this, you should be, too. I fell through the Looking-Glass; I got back home. But get this: I didn't come alone. Oh, and it doesn't feel like home anymore. Unlike Alice in the original story, this is not my Wonderland. In the original story, the Walrus and the Carpenter didn't follow Alice back... -
![Hunt the Night by Everly Frost]()
Hunt the Night by Everly Frost
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe angels only let me out to hunt.But it's not demons I'm sent to destroy—it's dragons.I'm corrupted. My soul was impure at birth. I’m an angel born with an insatiable need for vengeance so intense that they caged me, branded me, and kept me in the dark.I've been promised purity and redemption, freedom from my cage. Failure is not an option. My soul depends on it... -
![Reckoning by Montana Ash]()
Reckoning by Montana Ash
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLies. Angry-hate s#x. Second chances.A reckoning is coming – but not the one Axel was counting on. Society is still in shambles and although Axel was prepared to help stitch it back together, he was not prepared to do it alongside the woman who tore his heart out fifteen years ago. Celeste had been his entire world, that is, until she told him it had all been a lie; she’d never loved him... -
![SSS: Year Six by Avery Song]()
SSS: Year Six by Avery Song
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen being different leads to the best years of your life.Nothing lasts forever. Especially happiness…After five solid years of spy school, Silver Spell Solange can finally celebrate summer like a normal student, enjoying a proposal she would never refuse, a two-week vacation with her family, and the newfound abilities of her adorable familiar.But all too soon, her peaceful future is threatened... -
![Traitor Born by Amy A. Bartol]()
Traitor Born by Amy A. Bartol
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsIn the Fates Republic, Firstborns reign supreme. Secondborns kneel in servitude. Thirdborns face death. And Census shadows them all.Secondborn Roselle St. Sismode was pressed into military service to battle the rebel uprising threatening the society that enslaves her... -
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![Total Surrender by Rebecca Zanetti]()
Total Surrender by Rebecca Zanetti
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA fight he must win...Piper Oliver knows she can't trust him. They warned her that the tall, dark, and sexy black-ops soldier Jory Dean would try to win her over with his steel-gray eyes and deadly charm, but she won't be conned by this man they call a traitor. All she has to do is figure out the science necessary to save his life, and she's done... -
![Court of Dreams by C.N. Crawford]()
Court of Dreams by C.N. Crawford
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsExiled from the Shadow Fae, I'm left out on London's streets. The Knights of the Institute are dying of the plague, and they're sure I'm to blame. Desperate to speak to Ruadan, I invade the Institue. Then, things take a turn for the worse. Like, "tortured in a tiny prison cell" worse. Seems like Ruadan has completely betrayed me... -
![Bind the Soul by Annette Marie]()
Bind the Soul by Annette Marie
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe 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... -
![Season of the Wolf (The Lost Royals Saga) by Rachel Jonas]()
Season of the Wolf (The Lost Royals Saga) by Rachel Jonas
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is book four in THE LOST ROYALS SAGA. Full description coming soon! Books 1-3 available now. Series Order: *Book One: The Genesis of Evangeline *Book Two: Dark Side of the Moon *Book Three: Heart of the Dragon The Lost Royals Saga is an upper YA/NA crossover. This is a tale of long-forgotten royalty and a fated love too powerful for time to erase... -
![Custodian by Montana Ash]()
Custodian by Montana Ash
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFate. War. Love. Lust.Max has finally found everything she never dared dream of; family, friends, and love with a man who does terrifying things to her independence. She has more to lose than ever before. With lines being drawn in the sand and sides being chosen, the future from her nightmares seems set in motion. Max is terrified – feeling the weight of her Order’s lives on her shoulders... -
![Breaker by Emma Raveling]()
Breaker by Emma Raveling
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn Impossible War. An Explosive Magic. An Inescapable Destiny.- The stunning conclusion to the Ondine Quartet - War. Prophecy. Freedom.She fought for herself. She fought for friendship and love.Now, Kendra Irisavie fights for the survival of her world.War rages on, leaving no one untouched. Destruction rips through elemental communities and terror flourishes in its wake... -
![A Fey Harvest by Amy Sumida]()
A Fey Harvest by Amy Sumida
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Fey are being hunted.After five-hundred years, the Faerie Realm is open once more. A shaky truce has been made between the gods and the fey and hope has begun to grow for a peaceful future between all races. Vervain Lavine, Godhunter and now Faerie Queen, desperately wants the truce to work... -
![Surrendering to the Dragon by Jessie Donovan]()
Surrendering to the Dragon by Jessie Donovan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNikki Gray has reason to hate the dragon hunters—they brutally murdered one of her friends a year ago. Not only that, they have caused havoc on several of the British dragon clans, injuring countless individuals. Determined to defeat the hunters by kidnaping their leader, Simon Bourne, she teams up with a human male in the British special forces... -
![The Bronze Dragon's Baby by Zoe Chant]()
The Bronze Dragon's Baby by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA woman on a mission to build a better world for her baby… Red dragon shifter Athena is sick and tired of her clan’s never-ending wars. She and her brother grew up orphans because of them, and Athena is not allowing that to happen to her daughter. But no one wants to help her—so she takes off to Oak Ridge, where their current enemies live... -
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Relentless by D.B. Reynolds
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTREACHERY . . . 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... -
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![Salvation by Erica Stevens]()
Salvation by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 30 ratings4th book in the Captive Series. Imprisoned by Caleb and at the mercy of the king, Aria is determined not to let them break her. However, the more atrocities she witnesses, the more she realizes there are some horrors no one can withstand, and sometimes survival isn’t always the best option... -
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Ranger by Montana Ash
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAge gap. Fear. Rejection.After a miserable childhood, Lark has finally found the family he always wanted. There isn’t much he wouldn’t do for his new liege, Max, including undertaking a secret and dangerous mission to save the most hated creatures in their society – the chades. He only wishes his partner wasn’t a lethal, stoic ranger with a mouth he yearned to make smile.Ivy is a ranger... -
![Heart of the Dragon by Rachel Jonas]()
Heart of the Dragon by Rachel Jonas
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEven the deadliest dragon warrior has a weakness ... his answers to the name Evangeline.Liam suffered the loss of his mate once before, but with forbidden magic, Evie has returned to him. His reputation as "The Reaper" is one he earned ... one kill at a time... -
![Her Salvation by G. Bailey]()
Her Salvation by G. Bailey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI am a spy for my alphas and I will bring the king down from within...After winning The Rite, a brutal three-part test for Alpha Female of the Fall Mountain Pack, I was betrayed by everyone around me. I didn’t see it coming, and neither did my alphas.Ragnar Fall was a trick played perfectly by the angel king and he almost destroyed The Fall Mountain Pack... until he was fooled by me... -
![Wild Lands by Stacey Marie Brown]()
Wild Lands by Stacey Marie Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsBrexley has endured starvation and survived torture and even Warwick Farkas, the brutal legend who still haunts her like a ghost, spilling into her thoughts and life. His betrayal made her a prisoner of Killian, the gorgeous Fae Lord of Budapest... -
![Brave the Tempest by Karen Chance]()
Brave the Tempest by Karen Chance
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCassie 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... -
![Rising Fate by Jen L. Grey]()
Rising Fate by Jen L. Grey
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSome truths were best hidden.The past several months changed so much. Liam and I were fated mates and we’ve seen how awful the packs were being treated. Finally all four heirs were on the same page, and we knew something had to change.As the heirs and I joined the rebellion, more things came to light, and we learned the council has a secret they’ve been hiding-- one larger than my own... -
![Primeval Magic by C.N. Crawford]()
Primeval Magic by C.N. Crawford
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUrsula may have escaped the Shadow Realm, but things are worse in New York. Kester is missing, and the city is under siege by a legion of dragons. There’s a bounty on Ursula’s head – alive or dead, and the dragons prefer the latter. Ursula flees back to England, searching for hidden island of Avalon, barely staying ahead of the bloodthirsty monsters... -
![The Wicked in Me by Suzanne Wright]()
The Wicked in Me by Suzanne Wright
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNo one really knows what they are. Only that they're the first civilization. Aeons, they call themselves. They're immortal. Powerful. Secretive. And they'll come for her. Witch Wynter Dellavale knows that for certain. Because in unfairly trying to execute her, they started a chain of events they're struggling to stop. Needing safety, she flees to Devil's Cradle, the home of monsters... -
![Unleashing Fire by Julie Hall]()
Unleashing Fire by Julie Hall
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe world will ignite and so will I.The Forsaken hunger for vengeance, leaving Steel and me with no choice but to follow Camiel to the only place strong enough to protect me—Eden, an ancient, hidden city darkened by my family’s secrets.But Eden isn’t the safe haven I expected, and family runs deeper than blood... -
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![Last Wish by Helen Harper]()
Last Wish by Helen Harper
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIt's not easy pretending to be dead - especially when it feels as if you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Between an unfulfilled prophecy, the demon-occupied Lowlands, the continuing power of murderous Aifric Moncrieffe - not to mention her constant yearnings for Byron - Integrity Adair has a lot to worry about... -
![Consumed by Rebecca Zanetti]()
Consumed by Rebecca Zanetti
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsSOMETIMES YOU MATE FOR LIFEKatie Smith is the best of her class, part of an elite hunting force trained to eliminate werewolves from the hills of Western Virginia. She's good at it because she has the kind of focus and drive that won't back down no matter how steep the odds. Call it southern sass... -
![Bear My Soul by T.S. Joyce]()
Bear My Soul by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRory Dodson is done running. After one night of bliss with a man she never thought she’d see again, she’s in trouble with a young son who is housing one ferocious little bear cub inside of him. Desperate to keep her baby’s secret safe, she has nowhere to turn but to the man she was determined to keep in her past... -
![Blood Legacy by Jen L. Grey]()
Blood Legacy by Jen L. Grey
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSome secrets can’t stay buried.When I first attended Wolf Moon Academy, the Blood Council and heirs did everything they could to make Liam reject me. I was beneath their status, but much to their chagrin… I persevered.Now that we’re officially bound, they’re determined to get rid of me. After each failed attempt, they up the stakes. Nothing is off the table... -
![Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown]()
Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsKidnapped 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... -
![Veiled Threat by Helen Harper]()
Veiled Threat by Helen Harper
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIntegrity Taylor has regained possession of her ancestral lands - and inherited a whole host of new problems. The spectre of what really happened to her parents is casting a shadow over everything while Fomori demons are being sighted up and down the Highlands...
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