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  • Fairy’s Touch by Ella Summers

    Fairy’s Touch by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The games of gods play out upon the backbones of mortals. Leda Pierce has come a long way since she left her home on the frontier of civilization one year ago to join the Legion of Angels. She is a soldier in the gods’ army, has crossed swords with demons, and shares an apartment with her angel lover in New York...
  • Endless Knight by Kresley Cole

    Endless Knight by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In this second book thrilling book of The Arcana Chronicles from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole, Evie struggles to accept her place in the prophecy that will either save the world—or destroy it.Evie has fully come into her powers as the tarot Empress, and Jack was there to see it all...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    myths  21st-century  action-adventure  adult  book  dark  dystopia  fae
  • Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

    Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The old saying is true. Knowledge really is power, especially when angels and gods play the game. The original Immortals, masters of magic, once reigned over every world in the known universe—until they suddenly vanished. The gods and demons have been fighting over the remains of their fractured empire ever since...
  • Edge of the Darkness by Brenda K. Davies

    Edge of the Darkness by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BaleDreams of the darkness have haunted me since childhood. I always assumed one day I would uncover the answer to what the darkness hid... and that those answers would destroy me.However, after learning who my mate is, I know it won’t be the darkness that kills me… it will be him.No matter what happens, I plan to take Wrath with me when I die...
  • Fractured Faith by Kristie Cook

    Fractured Faith by Kristie Cook

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evil reigns the world. Earth’s been ravaged. The only signs humans survived the war come from those who serve the Demons’ army. To continue his conquest of humanity, Lucas prepares to open the gates of Hell and bring Satan himself to the physical realm. With a soul that’s been battered and beaten by both Heaven and Hell, I hold on to a single conviction—my love for my family...
    Categorized as:
    hell  angels  book  christian  dark  demons  fae  fiction
  • Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Earth has been overrun with monsters... Post-Apocalypse America is unrecognizable from the past. Jake survives by working as the leader of a scavenging adventuring team. A former mage, now he follows the strange path of cultivation, taught to him by a mysterious traveler. As far as he knows, he is one of the only people on Earth with this power...
  • Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole

    Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Can Evie convince her rival loves to work together? Their survival depends on it in this third book of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole’s Arcana Chronicles, a nonstop action tale of rescue, redemption, and a revenge most wicked...
  • Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts

    Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed...
  • Toil & Trouble by Nikki Landis

    Toil & Trouble by Nikki Landis

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A ghoul who craves zombie flesh. A sensitive vampire who cries black blood. A lying werewolf my ancestors adore. And oh yeah, the witch hunter who hates me. Four unlikely heroes sworn to protect the powerful Salem Howe lineage from evil and help prevent the next uprising...
  • Into the Abyss: Volume 3 by Brenda K. Davies

    Into the Abyss: Volume 3 by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AmaliaBorn behind a seal, I never experienced anything beyond those four walls until I was freed from my prison.On Earth, the other demons see the jinn as nothing but monsters; however, they don’t know the jinn as well as they think. I’m beginning to realize I don’t either...
  • How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

    How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes...
  • Troll Nation by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson

    Troll Nation by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Build. Evolve. Conquer. The dawn of the Troll Nation has begun … Roark von Graf—former noble and hedge-mage, current mid-level mob in a MMORPG—has taken down the Dungeon Lord of the Cruel Citadel, but the battle has only started.Lowen, right hand to the Tyrant King, has come to Hearthworld, and he is building an army of his own...
  • Court of Darkness by C.N. Crawford

    Court of Darkness by C.N. Crawford

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    I would not say things are going well, exactly. I live in a burnt-out car under a bridge, surrounded by rubbish. When Ruadan shows up to bring me back to the Institute, I leap at the chance. That is, until he throws me into the dungeons. I’m on the naughty list, and the mentor who once trained me is cold as ice...
  • Through the Belly of the Beast by Apollos Thorne

    Through the Belly of the Beast by Apollos Thorne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Surviving Lord Darius's attack put Elorion's level over the top. He must soon leave the Mistress's Labyrinth for the unknown dangers of the Underworld.There are three paths that stand before him. Should he absorb all the Blue Magic he can find, power level his fellow captives, or take on the bone palace alone?The Underworld is waiting..
  • Angel Fury by Ella Summers

    Angel Fury by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cadence 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...
  • Hell on Earth by Brenda K. Davies

    Hell on Earth by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WrenIt’s been fourteen years since the gateway to Hell opened and life as I knew it ended.I managed to survive the Wilds, but now I have a chance to build a better world for all Wilders. Unfortunately, it means working with the demons I’ve always considered my enemies.Joining with the demons wouldn’t be a horrible prospect, except it means dealing with Corson...
  • The Scarecrow's Queen by Naomi Lucas, Mel Braxton

    The Scarecrow's Queen by Naomi Lucas, Mel Braxton

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once, I was feared by all who gazed upon me. For centuries, I served, defending my crops in solitude and stillness, baring my scythe as an omen.But when the crops die around me, I find myself standing over a field of shriveled stalks.It is her fault.The female who has taken over my fields. She might be the new queen of these lands, but in her wake, she brings only death.So, I will scare her away...
  • A Song of Sky and Sacrifice by Lana Pecherczyk

    A Song of Sky and Sacrifice by Lana Pecherczyk

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When famous human musician Melody wakes two thousand years after a nuclear winter, she thinks she’s landed on the right side of a war. Fae are called the Tainted. They’re warped, mutated creatures who horde the bounty of the new magical land. It’s her job in the human city to sling propaganda in the form of daily songs performed to a select tower of elite...
    Categorized as:
    myths  adult  audiobook  book  dark  dystopia  fae  fated-mates
  • Good Intentions by Brenda K. Davies

    Good Intentions by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    RIVERThirteen years have passed since the war started, bombs fell, and the central states became a thing of the past.When the war ended, the government erected a wall to divide the surviving states from the destroyed ones. I never expected to leave my town, but unlike those who volunteered to go, I wasn’t given a choice. With a dim knowledge of my strange abilities, the soldiers came for me...
  • Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse

    Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Kai and Caleb Goodacre have been kidnapped just as rumors of a cult sweeping across the reservation leads Maggie and Hastiin to investigate an outpost, and what they find there will challenge everything they've come to know in this action-packed sequel to Trail of Lightning...
  • The Clan by D. Rus

    The Clan by D. Rus

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Once a seasoned gamer, Max has cheated fate swapping his dying body for an immortal avatar in the world of sword and sorcery MMORPGs. He joins the ranks of a new race of people: perma players, forever stuck in the virtual castles and cities of AlterWorld. Now they have to obey the ever-changing rules of their new home while learning to live together in peace, love and justice...
  • Death Becomes Her by Michael Anderle

    Death Becomes Her by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The UnknownWorld is about to suffer change. For a thousand years, it has felt stifled by Michael's strictures, the rules they must follow on pain of death. As the first and most powerful vampire in existence, he has the power to keep the power struggles under the radar from the rest of humanity. Unfortunately that is changing...
  • 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...
  • World After by Susan Ee

    World After by Susan Ee

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken...
  • Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

    Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The sequel to Dread Nation is a journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America.After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother...
  • 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...
  • Original Sin by Tracey H. Kitts

    Original Sin by Tracey H. Kitts

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Peter was Lilith's first love--and the first person to call her a monster. Despite their past, Lilith would save him if she could, but when Peter is infected with lycanthropy and becomes determined to challenge Marco for the position of lupinus regalis, wolf king, she faces a hard choice...
    Categorized as:
    myths  retellings  adult  alpha-mc  book  dark  female-mc  fiction
  • Path of the Blood Phoenix by J.D. Astra, James A. Hunter

    Path of the Blood Phoenix by J.D. Astra, James A. Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can a single promise change the world?Even with the Crimson Alliance formed, Rowanheath taken, and Carrera dispatched, the onslaught never ends for Abby Hollander. Keeping the Spider Queen in check and handling water provisions was never what Abby wanted to do with her life, but it's what the war demands of her...
    Categorized as:
    myths  retellings  adult  audiobook  book  cyberpunk  dark  female-mc
  • Terror by Crea Reitan

    Terror by Crea Reitan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There are beings in this world that are the embodiment of fear itself - we call them Terrors.Already an outcast shunned beyond the edge of town, I’m regularly ridiculed for my ungainly appearance. In this time of darkness, I simply do what is necessary to survive—like inviting in strangers who come knocking...
  • Asgard's Fall by Robert Hinshaw

    Asgard's Fall by Robert Hinshaw

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Noah didn’t expect much from entering the virtual reality world of Asgard’s Fall. Even the danger of the experimental full immersion technology didn’t put him off. It beat living in a nursing home and was supposed to let him feel young again, at least until modern medicine and his body gave out.But there was something wrong with Asgard’s Fall...
  • Dead City by Debbie Cassidy

    Dead City by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How many times can you cheat death? I’m not sure but I have a feeling I’m about to be tested.First there were thirteen and now there’s only one. But the responsibilities don’t lessen. Bring the Harvest in, they say, take the soul orb to Haven, they order.One of me, and too many places to be. Like hell am I putting my ass on the line without back up...
  • Dragon War by Debbie Cassidy

    Dragon War by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Threat hovers on the horizon, and it's time to meet it head on.An unexpected betrayal, revelations, and a reunion that I didn't know I needed. But there is no time to revel in what I've gained because there is too much to lose.Anya's Journey continues in Dragon War, the thrilling finale to the Dragon Guard series...
  • Three Half Goats Gruff by Kim McDougall

    Three Half Goats Gruff by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Is he a vampire? A shifter? Something worse? Thrown together to save a middle school from an infestation of satyrs, Kyra and the mysterious Captain of the Guardians share one heart-stopping night. Critter wrangling rule #4: There isn’t much you can’t kill, confuse, or disgust with a can of bug fogger...
  • Deadworld by Debbie Cassidy

    Deadworld by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Humans weren’t meant to live underground, but then artificial intelligences weren’t meant to feed off souls. Shit happens. Being a Potential is an honor. It qualifies me for the mandatory Run, the chance to become a Guardian and wield one of the only weapons that can disable a Genesis scout...
  • House of Secrets by Darcy Coates

    House of Secrets by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sophie and Joseph’s escape from Northwood is short-lived. The beast survived, and attached itself to Joseph’s young cousin, Elise. Garrett writes to beg for their help. Joseph and Sophie travel to meet him at Kensington, a long-abandoned mansion that overlooks a dead town.The house offers a small hope: its original owner had dedicated her life to researching the monster that possesses Elise...
  • The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton

    The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ancient lore leads to present danger in the final book in the dark and sexy paranormal romance trilogy about a descendent of Medusa, set in a richly reimagined New Orleans.Her fate is not set in stone.Having temporarily defeated Athena, Ari races to break the gorgon curse that has plagued the women in her family for centuries...
  • Angelfall by Susan Ee

    Angelfall by Susan Ee

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel...
  • Dragons Don't Eat Meat by Kim McDougall

    Dragons Don't Eat Meat by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Someone is killing dragons. And the killings point to a civil war brewing among the fae.When Kyra finds an abandoned baby dragon, she doesn’t want to bring him home. But until she can hunt down his thunder and stop the dragon killers, she’s on babysitting duty...
  • Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

    Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead...
  • Soul Eater by Lily Mayne

    Soul Eater by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    M/M Fantasy Romance. Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. Including Wyn the Soul Eater...
  • End of Days by Susan Ee

    End of Days by Susan Ee

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They’re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn’s sister...
  • Touch of Darkness A Paranormal Romance by Delta James

    Touch of Darkness A Paranormal Romance by Delta James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last thing Skylar wants is exactly what she needs.A serial killer is killing women in Crescent City. Skylar Gautier, New Orleans cop, is determined to track and catch the killer herself. As she closes in on the killer, Travis Nichols, her fated mate shows up, ready for happily ever after. He is a distraction she does not need or want...
  • Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

    Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole introduces The Arcana Chronicles, post-apocalyptic tales filled with riveting action, the dark mysticism of Tarot cards, and breathtaking romance.She could save the world--or destroy it.Sixteen year old Evangeline"Evie" Greene leads a charmed life--until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations...
  • Darkness Rising by Keri Arthur

    Darkness Rising by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The sexy, thrilling adventures continue in bestselling author Keri Arthur’s new Dark Angels series, starring half-werewolf/half-Aedh Risa Jones. Risa will go to any lengths to avenge her mother’s murder—even if it means making a pact with the most evil vampire she’s ever met...
  • Broken Blade by J.C. Daniels

    Broken Blade by J.C. Daniels

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Kit Colbana: assassin, thief, investigator extraordinaire. Now broken. She always expected her past to catch up with her but never like this. Haunted by nightmares and stripped of her identity, she’s retreated to Wolf Haven, the no-man’s land where she found refuge years before. But while she might want to hide away from the rest of the world, the rest of the world isn’t taking the hint...
  • Dead End by Debbie Cassidy

    Dead End by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When death starts taking liberties, it’s time to fight back.The council’s word means nothing to me. Their refusal to open their eyes no longer matters. I have a job to do and no one will get in my way.Lie, cheat, deceive, I’ll do what it takes to save the people I love, and avenge the ones I’ve lost. I won’t be doing it alone. My guys are with me; by my side every step of the way.No more excuses...
  • Nigmus Online by Noah Barnett

    Nigmus Online by Noah Barnett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Virtual Dive technology is coming out of the workplace and into homes. Nigmus Online is the first MMO to use this new device. The only caveat to the game; there is no manual. The only instruction the player gets is how to interact with the user interface. That's it. Nobody is going to hold their hand or give out rare items. Players begin life as a level zero commoner...
  • Broken Wolf by Mila Young

    Broken Wolf by Mila Young

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Is there such a thing as second chances?Our mission is simple: track down my mother and find a way to save my sister from the witches...
  • The Knight and the Butcherbird by Alix E. Harrow

    The Knight and the Butcherbird by Alix E. Harrow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow weaves a dystopian fairy tale that follows the town storyteller as she struggles to protect a local demon from the knight hired to kill it.In this gritty, haunting tale about doing whatever it takes for love, a small-town storyteller resolves to keep the local monster—and her own secrets—safe from a legendary knight...
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