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The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure by Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDemigods 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... -
![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...Categorized as:
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![When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason]()
When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter 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...Categorized as:
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Veiled in Moonlight by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen 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...Categorized as:
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![A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson]()
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsA lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula’s brides, A Dowry of Blood is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king... -
![Of Flesh & Bone by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
Of Flesh & Bone by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNow that the Darkness has tasted her, it won't let Emma go.Robbed of her memories, Emma feels like a ghost trapped in her own body. She doesn't remember much, but she knows one thing--something happened to her in Arnsmouth. Whatever had happened to her had been terrible... -
![Of Grave & Glory by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
Of Grave & Glory by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmma Mather is having trouble telling friend from foe…and being wrong about whether someone is her ally or her enemy could cost her more than just her life.The Candle has taken Gigi Gage as their prisoner, and Emma will do anything to save her friend from whatever torture Dr. Thaddeus Kirkbride is putting her through in the Arnsmouth Asylum... -
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Dragon's Oath by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe first in an enthralling new mini-series of novellas from the #1 bestselling authors of the House of Night, Dragon’s Oath tells the story behind the House of Night’s formidable fencing instructor – the love that will transform him, and the promise that will haunt him In early 19th century England, long before he’s a professor at the Tulsa House of Night, Bryan Lankford is a troublesome...Categorized as:
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![Rises The Night by Colleen Gleason]()
Rises The Night by Colleen Gleason
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe saga of Victoria Gardella continues as the glorious nineteenth-century city of Rome gives rise to a new threat from the immortal undead....Lady Victoria Gardella Grantworth de Lacy has been a vampire slayer for just over a year, balancing her life as a peer of Society with the dangerous role that takes her out on moonlit streets, stake in hand...Categorized as:
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![A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Cluess]()
A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Cluess
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe magicians want her to lead. The sorcerers want her to lie. The demons want her blood. Henrietta wants to save the one she loves. But will his dark magic be her undoing?Henrietta doesn’t need a prophecy to know that she’s in danger. She came to London to be named the chosen one, the first female sorcerer in centuries, the one who would defeat the bloodthirsty Ancients...Categorized as:
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![Of Visions & Secrets by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
Of Visions & Secrets by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe darkness took Emma's brother. Now it yearns to claim her.When Emma Mather's twin brother, Elliot, goes missing from Arnsmouth University, she is determined to stop at nothing to find him. Yet as she follows the clues left behind, she learns that there are far more sinister monstrosities lurking in the shadows of her city than she could have ever imagined... -
![Teeth, Long and Sharp by Grace Draven, Antioch Grey]()
Teeth, Long and Sharp by Grace Draven, Antioch Grey
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIVORIES by Aria M. Jones - Eleanor resents the afternoons sacrificed to piano lessons and a disagreeable teacher who gloats over her failures and humiliations. Today, it’s Mrs. Lundemann’s turn for a sacrifice of a very different nature… NIGHT TIDE by Grace Draven - Something hunts the surf at night, luring villagers to their deaths with a lullaby of sorrow and the torture of nightmares... -
![Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco]()
Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 79 ratingsFrom the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes a new blockbuster series...Two sisters.One brutal murder.A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself...And an intoxicating romance.Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution...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... -
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![Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale]()
Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBelimai Sykes is many things: a Prodigal, the descendant of ancient demons, a creature of dark temptations and rare powers. He is also a man with a brutal past and a dangerous addiction. And Belimai Sykes is the only man Captain William Harper can turn to when faced with a series of grisly murders.But Mr... -
![Circle of Fire by Michelle Zink]()
Circle of Fire by Michelle Zink
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWith time dwindling but her will to end the Prophecy stronger than ever, Lia sets out on a journey to find the remaining keys, locate the missing pages of the Prophecy, and convince her sister Alice to help--or risk her life trying. Lia has her beloved Dimitri by her side, but Alice has James, the man who once loved her sister--and maybe still does... -
![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 Beast of London by L.D. Goffigan]()
The Beast of London by L.D. Goffigan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn electrifying retelling of a classic tale, THE BEAST OF LONDON is the first book of the Mina Murray series.Mina Murray once lived an adventurous life, but after a tragedy in the forests of Transylvania, she left it all behind... -
![The Descent by Alma Katsu]()
The Descent by Alma Katsu
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe final installment in the “mesmerizing” (Booklist, starred review) and addictive trilogy—find out who truly holds the key to Lanny’s heart and whether she’ll ever be reunited with her beloved in this gripping supernatural tale of magic, lust, and longing.Lanore McIlvrae has been on the run from Adair for hundreds of years, dismayed by his mysterious powers and afraid of his temper... -
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The Mummy by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsRamses the Great has reawakened in opulent Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress, Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster...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...Categorized as:
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![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... -
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![Ward Against Death by Melanie Card]()
Ward Against Death by Melanie Card
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTwenty-year-old Ward de'Ath expected this to be a simple job-bring a nobleman's daughter back from the dead for fifteen minutes, let her family say good-bye, and launch his fledgling career as a necromancer. Goddess knows he can't be a surgeon-the Quayestri already branded him a criminal for trying-so bringing people back from the dead it is... -
![Freeks by Amanda Hocking]()
Freeks by Amanda Hocking
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a world of magical visions and pyrokinesis, Mara just wants to have a normal life. But is that possible?Mara has become used to the extraordinary. Roaming from place to place with Gideon Davorin’s Traveling Carnival, she longs for an ordinary life where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future...Categorized as:
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![Pandora by Rebecca Hamilton, Riley J. Ford]()
Pandora by Rebecca Hamilton, Riley J. Ford
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings*20 FULL-LENGTH NOVELS & NOVELLAS* *NO CLIFFHANGERS* $0.99 Whether you love paranormal in the form of romance, suspense, mystery, horror, or fantasy, this boxed set will have something to entice your preternatural sensibilities. Supernaturally thrilling and engaging, this boxed set has it all: ghosts, vampires, mind-readers, shape-shifters, demons, faeries, werewolves, and more... -
![The Damned by Renée Ahdieh]()
The Damned by Renée Ahdieh
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFollowing the events of The Beautiful, Sébastien Saint Germain is now cursed and forever changed. The treaty between the Fallen and the Brotherhood has been broken, and war between the immortals seems imminent. The price of loving Celine was costly. But Celine has also paid a high price for loving Bastien...Categorized as:
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![The Taker by Alma Katsu]()
The Taker by Alma Katsu
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTrue love can last an eternity . . . but immortality comes at a price. . . . On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural St. Andrew, Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting a quiet evening--until a mysterious woman, Lanore McIlvrae, arrives in his ER, escorted by police. Lanore is a murder suspect, and Luke is inexplicably drawn to her... -
![The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason]()
The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBeneath the glitter of dazzling nineteenth century London Society lurks a bloodthirsty evil…Vampires have always lived among them, quietly attacking unsuspecting debutantes and dandified lords as well as hackney drivers and Bond Street milliners. If not for the vampire slayers of the Gardella family, these immortal creatures would have long ago taken control of the world...Categorized as:
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![Fear the Drowning Deep by Sarah Glenn Marsh]()
Fear the Drowning Deep by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWitch’s apprentice Bridey Corkill has hated the ocean ever since she watched her granddad dive in and drown with a smile on his face. So when a dead girl rolls in with the tide in the summer of 1913, sixteen-year-old Bridey suspects that whatever compelled her granddad to leap into the sea has made its return to the Isle of Man...Categorized as:
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![Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica by Poppy Z. Brite, Elizabeth Engstrom]()
Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica by Poppy Z. Brite, Elizabeth Engstrom
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA sexy new repackaging of the extremely popular anthology of vampire erotica, edited by acclaimed author Poppy Z. Brite.The classic horror tale is about fear. But in the last few years a new literature of the macabre has arisen, one that goes deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers. The ones even lovers are forbidden to share... -
![The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh]()
The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soirées and—especially—to the danger... -
![Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood]()
Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhat the heart desires, the house destroys... Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. When a handsome young heir named Magnus Rochester reaches out to hire her, Andromeda quickly realizes this is a job like no other, with horrifying manifestations at every turn, and that Magnus is hiding far more than she has been trained for...Categorized as:
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![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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