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  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Family Photo Album by Lionsgate

    The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Family Photo Album by Lionsgate

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Take a look inside The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 with Bella’s exclusive family photo album featuring photos and keepsakes of her loved ones and extended friends and family. Experiment with photo filters, listen to music, and view photos of your favorite characters from the film...
  • The Night Club: Part One by Jiří Kulhánek

    The Night Club: Part One by Jiří Kulhánek

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the dark corners of Prague, a crazed couple plots a sinister demise for a kidnapped girl. But justice is swift in the form of a shadowy group called the Night Club. The couple meets an untimely end and the little girl is saved-just one of many innocent victims rescued by the members of the Club...
  • The Night Club - Part II. by Jiří Kulhánek

    The Night Club - Part II. by Jiří Kulhánek

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Night Club Part II, by Jiri Kulhanek, is the second part of the author’s first novel translated into English. At the story's heart is the Night Club, a secret organization operating in Prague that hunts down evildoers, who evade the police and operate above the law...
  • Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 4 by Nicholas Knight

    Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 4 by Nicholas Knight

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Discover that the Highway to Hell really is paved with good intentionsSupernatural, the hit show from The CW, continued its streak of critical praise and ratings gold as the fourth season upped the stakes for Sam and Dean Winchester and introduced another potent supernatural element into the mix - angels...
  • Silence: Part Two of Echoes & Silence by Angela M. Hudson, Angela M. Hudson

    Silence: Part Two of Echoes & Silence by Angela M. Hudson, Angela M. Hudson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Completed Series They fought this hard for love. Now, they must fight for their child. The final book in the epic vampire series Dark Secrets...
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    paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror
  • Beginnings by Kelley Armstrong

    Beginnings by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book One: Bitten Where it all began. Elena is leading the normal life she has always dreamed of, including a stable job as a journalist and a nice apartment shared with her boyfriend. As the lone female werewolf in existence, only her secret midnight prowls and her occasional inhuman cravings set her apart. An erotically charged thriller, Bitten will awaken the voracious appetite of every reader...
  • Hexing on a Hunter's Moon by Harmony Raines

    Hexing on a Hunter's Moon by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Halloween is a couple of days away. Unfortunately, this year it coincides with the Hunter’s Moon. But it’s not vampires and werewolves the people of Wishing Moon Bay should fear.It’s the ghostly fae army that will rise when blood is spilled on their final resting place...
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    paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  fated-mates  fiction  horror
  • Hot Werewolf MC: A Paranormal Romance Series Box Set by Abby Apple

    Hot Werewolf MC: A Paranormal Romance Series Box Set by Abby Apple

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Are you ready for these hot werewolf bikers? For a limited time get all 8 books in the Hot Werewolf MC series as a box set. Includes the following books: Werewolf's Neighbor Werewolf's Secrets Werewolf's Craving Werewolf's Desire MC Werewolf's Witch MC Werewolf's Babysitter MC Werewolf's 2nd Chance MC Werewolf's Demons All have an HEA and are free on KU...
  • In the Shadows by B.A. Stretke

    In the Shadows by B.A. Stretke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's something lurking in the shadows...Dario Varga is a man on a mission. His friend’s brother has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and he wants to know why. Arthur wasn’t the best person, he had myriad faults, but no one deserves to die that way. Dario is a man with special skills, and he never backs down when helping a friend...
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    paranormal  vampires  lgbtq  mlm  shapeshifters  magic  horror  fiction
  • Ascension by Nicholas Bella

    Ascension by Nicholas Bella

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Théoden: Tonight, I have to make one of the hardest decisions of my life. I have to choose which two on my children to send off with my Sire, my King, Ara. As you know, I don't like to share what belongs to me, but I can't deny my King what he's commanded of me. The highlight of my evening, however, will be my ascension to Prince of the City...
  • Bound by the Vampire Queen: A Vampire Queen Series Novel by Joey W. Hill

    Bound by the Vampire Queen: A Vampire Queen Series Novel by Joey W. Hill

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sworn to obedience, compelled by loyalty, and threatened with damnation for betrayal, Jacob entered Lady Lyssa’s servitude as a human servant...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  contemporary  fae
  • Ravenloft by Tracy Hickman, Laura Hickman

    Ravenloft by Tracy Hickman, Laura Hickman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For 6 to 8 Characters of Levels 5 - 7:Under raging stormclouds, a lone figure stands silhouetted against the ancient walls of castle Ravenloft. Count Strahd von Zarovich stares down a sheer cliff at the village below. A cold, bitter wind spins dead leaves around him, billowing his cape in the darkness.Lightning splits the clouds overhead, casting stark white light across him...
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    paranormal  vampires  adult  book  dragons  fiction  horror  noir
  • Vampire Instinct by Joey W. Hill

    Vampire Instinct by Joey W. Hill

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A brand-new Vampire Queen novel from the award-winning author who "never ceases to amaze." -Night Owl Romance As servant to vampire mistress Lady Daniela, Elisa is unwaveringly devoted-but she recoils at one shocking request: destroy the untamed, undead children entrusted to her care...
  • Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

    Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Marie Reinhart is an NYPD detective on the trail of a serial killer. When she sleeps, though, she dreams of other lives; she dreams of being a knight, in strange wars and strange worlds. On the other side of the city, Nessa Roth is a college professor trapped in a loveless marriage, an unwilling prop in a political dynasty...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror
  • Zodiac Aligned by Elizabeth Briggs

    Zodiac Aligned by Elizabeth Briggs

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Join Ayla and Kaden for the final book in the Zodiac Wolves series. Note: the release date is not fiinal and will likely be moved up, depending on the author's health...
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    paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Storm by Skye Knizley

    Storm by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On a rainy night in 1971 the cruise ship Crescent Star vanished in the North Atlantic without a trace. No crew, no lifeboats and no wreckage was ever found, in spite of a three-week search. Two days ago, she crashed through and sank a pleasure yacht off the coast of New York, leaving five people dead. The ship has answered no hails and no one appears to be aboard...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  vampires  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  demons
  • Into the Shadows by Jayda Marx

    Into the Shadows by Jayda Marx

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An ancient evil has resurfaced. For the first time in nearly seven hundred years, ghouls are roaming the earth again. And this time, they're not alone. Head Elder Abel of the Fairview Vampire Coven has made a pact with the creatures; to join their strengths and take control of the world by fear and force...
  • New Day Rising by J.J. Arias

    New Day Rising by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Would you do anything for your happily ever after? After fighting impossible odds to get back to each other, newly-turned Vampire Erin and her Queen Lucía want nothing more than to run off into the sunset and enjoy a moment’s peace. But when a group of Hunters emerges poised to put all supernatural life in their cross-hairs, their bubble barely has time to form before it implodes...
  • The Empath by Jody Klaire

    The Empath by Jody Klaire

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aeron Lorelei is a young woman with a troubled past and a troubling gift. Blessed and cursed with the ability to sense the feelings, past, and future of those around her, Aeron lived as a misfit child. When she was sixteen, she took the blame for the death of her best friend’s little brother...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Raven by Skye Knizley

    Raven by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All Hallows Eve approaches and for once Raven Storm has plans to spend the holiday enjoying a party at Isle of Night with family and friends, something she hasn't done since high school.But someone has other plans and Raven is called to investigate the grisly murder of Monsignor Quinn, a priest left to drown in his own blood...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  vampires  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  demons
  • Mastered: Teagan by Krystal Shannan

    Mastered: Teagan by Krystal Shannan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nobody could fix her or claim her.She belonged to nobody.Pain was her game.Self-deprecating and guilt-ridden she-wolf, Teagan Rourke, has been to hell and back. Now, all she wants is agony to reinforce what she already knows--she doesn't deserve happiness. Frequenting Castle, a local BDSM club, and succumbing to a sadist's wishes is the only "happily ever after" she's looking for...
  • The Cursed and Desired by G. Bailey

    The Cursed and Desired by G. Bailey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s no love in a world of witches and war. Riona Dark’s plan to escape The Onyx, and the vampire she left behind there, all went up in smoke the moment the witches revealed their true intent.On the witches’ island, The Quartz, Riona finds it’s full of more horrors than she could imagine...
  • Seek & Find by Beatrix Hollow

    Seek & Find by Beatrix Hollow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Monsters--humans with weapons and lies. They tricked me, they've captured me, and they hurt my men. Ben was after me from the start, this entire trip was a farce. He’d been hiding, wanting, and waiting for the day he could use me for his twisted rituals, making monsters of men.Traveling the country camping was supposed to be an escape from the strange and unusual that clings to my family...
  • Behind the Moonlight by B.A. Stretke

    Behind the Moonlight by B.A. Stretke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Stay with the white wolf Sacha. He will guide you to your destiny; he will keep you safe.” As lightning and thunder crash overhead, the young mage Sacha Ivanov stands in a field in sight of the Vampire Coven’s Chateau. This isn’t where he wants to be, but he doesn’t have any choice. His grandfather has been taken by Hunters, and every paranormal in Eastport is now at risk...
  • In the Roses of Pieria by Anna Burke

    In the Roses of Pieria by Anna Burke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Award-winning author Anna Burke delivers the shivers in this daring queer dark fantasy romance teeming with sensuous vampires, dark academia, plant horrors, and terrifying fungal fae.When Clara Eden is offered a job as an archivist working for eccentric estate owner Agatha Montague, she thinks her prayers have been answered...
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    wlw  lgbtq  vampires  paranormal  romance  fantasy  horror  gothic
  • Blood & Brujas by Mikayla D. Hornedo

    Blood & Brujas by Mikayla D. Hornedo

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the moment Dayanara could wield a blade, she's been used as a weapon for Caldera, a kingdom of fierce brujas. Whenever her mother, the all-powerful Acna, points her in the direction to kill, Dayanara follows.After centuries of war against the vampire kingdom at their border, her mother offers their king Dayanara's hand in marriage as a truce...
  • She Came for Blood by Darva Green

    She Came for Blood by Darva Green

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Anna"You'll watch your true love die three times before joining them in death."I've been living with the curse of that knowledge for years. Since the first half of that prophecy has already come true, I'm going to spend what's left of my life hunting down the vampire who killed my boyfriend...
  • Shadowstorm by Skye Knizley

    Shadowstorm by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the spring of 1984, just before his daughter's birth, Detective Mason Storm began an investigation into the ritualistic slaying of seven women, their bodies defiled and left covered in black rose petals. The case ended with Storm suspended. The bizarre murders were left unsolved...
  • The Oldest Living Vampire in Love by Joseph Duncan

    The Oldest Living Vampire in Love by Joseph Duncan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "I told you that I cannot die," I said, "but that is not exactly true. There is one way that an Eternal can be killed. Only one! It is nearly impossible, but it can be done. I have seen it with my own eyes. And I believe that you, Lukas Jaeger, may be the one to do it for me...
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    paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  drama  fiction  historical
  • Weeping Walls by Gerri Hill

    Weeping Walls by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    An abandoned old house in a small town northeast of Houston is the site of a second murder, eerily similar to a supposed cold case of fourteen years earlier. FBI Agents CJ Johnston and Paige Riley are dispatched to find the link between the two homicides. The team, including Ice and Billy, find the case to be anything but cold...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  steamy  wlw  adult  audiobook  book  crime
  • Misfit Witchcraft by Niall Teasdale

    Misfit Witchcraft by Niall Teasdale

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s a new student at the Celestina School of Magic; a girl with a secret only. And it seems like only the misfits are willing to help her resolve it...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  book  dragons  fiction  horror  magic
  • Creature of Habit by Angel Lawson

    Creature of Habit by Angel Lawson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Amelia should have run when she had the chance. Away from Asheville. Away from her job. But most importantly, away from her deadly boss, Grant Palmer. Instead she finds the draw of Grant irresistible even after he reveals his darkest secrets. Amelia remains in Asheville even though a killer is stalking her, knowing the one person that can protect her is equally dangerous...
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    paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  angst  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Devil You Know by Marie Castle

    The Devil You Know by Marie Castle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cate Delacy isn’t thrilled to be volunteered as a finder of lost bodies, but she’s not immune to Gemini Roskov’s grief and righteous desire to claim her father’s remains. It means a confrontation with the hostile Council of Supernatural Beings that controls far too much of New Orleans’ darker mysteries and…personalities...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  vampires  wlw  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • Sunset Fallen by J.J. Arias

    Sunset Fallen by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love never quits, even in the face of impossible odds… Vampire Queen Lucia has suffered many blows over her centuries long reign, but when a maniacal terrorist organization kidnaps Erin, a human woman and love of her life, she risks losing her heart and her power. Rescuing Erin will require Lucia to hunt down a threat she can’t see, and identify an enemy she doesn’t understand...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  steamy  vampires  wlw  adult  book  dark
  • Undeniable by L.J. Baker

    Undeniable by L.J. Baker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Warning: 18+ This story contains adult situations, hot sex, bad language, love triangles, sexy vampire bites and violence. If that’s not for you, then maybe this story isn't either. Years after the Great War between the humans and vampires, the world is a very different place. Humans live under the rule of vampires, often becoming little more than slaves or personal blood bags...
  • Fluid by Jordan Castillo Price

    Fluid by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's been a couple of decades since Wild Bill has been able to savor the bite of an ice-cold, freshly tapped keg. Twenty-odd years since the shivery pucker of a cheap, boxed wine has assaulted his palate. But that doesn't mean Bill's forgotten how to party...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  contemporary  dark
  • Swarm by Jordan Castillo Price

    Swarm by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For some time, Michael has suspected that Wild Bill's done more than just dabble in art. As with every other piece of his personal history, Bill plays his cards close to his chest. But when he lets on that a mural he painted before his change might still exist, Michael's dying to see it -- and Bill's never been good at saying no...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  contemporary  dark
  • Snare by Jordan Castillo Price

    Snare by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With summer ending and temperatures dipping low at night, Michael's eager to get his leather jacket back, and although Wild Bill could easily vamp any sales clerk into giving Michael some new duds, it wouldn't be quite the same as the jacket he left at his parents' house. Not unless the malls have begun selling clothing with Rohypnol and ketamine sewn into the seams...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  contemporary  dark
  • Balance of Forces: Toujours Ici by Ali Vali

    Balance of Forces: Toujours Ici by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kendal Richoux’s life began during the reign of Egypt’s only female pharaoh. After accepting the opportunity to drink the elixir of the sun, Kendal becomes immortal and the Genesis Clan’s slayer. History has taught her the dangers of getting too close to anyone who hasn’t harnessed the power of time.After many years, she returns to New Orleans to finish a job she’s trained for all her life...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  steamy  vampires  wlw  adult  audiobook  book
  • Shadow Walker by Jayda Marx

    Shadow Walker by Jayda Marx

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Silas - For nearly seven hundred years, I’ve protected my coven, fighting against every foe that plagued us. I never imagined that an ancient evil would resurface, or that it would attack what means more to me than anything; my mate. Now my closest friends and I are tasked with spreading warning to other vampires in covens across the country, and recruiting as many as we can to fight alongside us...
  • A Royal's Soul by J.K. Jeffrey

    A Royal's Soul by J.K. Jeffrey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When rare magic awakens in Percy Flores, everything changes. Once overlooked, the half-witch is now at the centre of a conflict that could unravel the balance of power across the kingdom.To protect her, Selene Borealis—vampire princess and heir to the throne—is forced to act...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  lgbtq  vampires  paranormal  steamy  romance  fantasy  royalty
  • The Vampire's Revenge by Raven Hart

    The Vampire's Revenge by Raven Hart

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jack McShane: lover, killer, seducer, family man, and vampire. In the shadows of Savannah, with its hip nightspots and moss-draped oak trees, Jack is trying to save humankind from a threat it doesn't know it faces: an explosion of the otherworldly, the weird, the wanton, and the wicked.Tourists are heading to Savannah for St...
  • Bloodborn by Nathan Long

    Bloodborn by Nathan Long

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Newly made vampire heroine Ulrika must adjust to her life as a vampire in the midst of an investigation into the death of one of her Lahmian...
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    paranormal  steamy  vampires  book  dark  dark-fantasy  epic  fiction
  • The Vampire's Betrayal by Raven Hart

    The Vampire's Betrayal by Raven Hart

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jack risks his life by opening a portal to the underworld to rescue Connie. While in the land of the dead, he witnesses an awesome ceremony as a band of honest-to-God angels swear Connie in as the vampire slayer! Using the power of his love, Jack manages to bring Connie back to the land of the living even though she threatens the existence of him and his kind...
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    paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  dark  dark-fantasy  fiction
  • When Dusk Comes by J.J. Arias

    When Dusk Comes by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chasing a bounty from New York to New Orleans, Erin Lewis is on the hunt for an allusive fugitive whose recovery will provide financial breathing room. When she arrives at a French Quarter hotel, Erin finds the captivating hotelier Lucía Guerra instead. The passionate affair that ignites between them catapults Erin into an extravagant world she never imagined. But all is never what it seems...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  steamy  vampires  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book
  • This Book Sucks by Piper C.J.

    This Book Sucks by Piper C.J.

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to The Page TurnerA Seattle speakeasy that caters to secret, underground fantasies: drinks, sex, and fang-tastic carnage. 400-year-old Narya Volkova is exhausted by terrible vampire pop culture, struggling to get over her ex, and annoyed by every man on the face of the planet...
  • A Dose of Agony by Stacey Trombley

    A Dose of Agony by Stacey Trombley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The final installment of the Shadow Hills Relentless series.They say the games have only just begun, but I'm here to end them once and for all.A civil war is brewing in the Under World, lead by the same villain who stole my sister from me. Jarron must return to his world for damage control, leaving me alone at Shadow Hills Academy again...
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, Angela Carter

    The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, Angela Carter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Bryant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen, and many others...
  • Virtual Vampires of Vermont by Johnathan Rand

    Virtual Vampires of Vermont by Johnathan Rand

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mike and his friend Haley thought that the cd game was just a game. That is until they were literally pulled into it's virtual reality. A reality were vampires exist..
  • The Gilded King by Josie Jaffrey

    The Gilded King by Josie Jaffrey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the Blue, the world’s last city, all is not well.Julia is stuck within its walls. She serves the nobility from a distance until she meets Lucas, a boy who believes in fairytales that Julia’s world can’t accommodate. The Blue is her prison, not her castle, and she’d escape into the trees if she didn’t know that contamination and death awaited humanity outside...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  vampires  book  dystopia  fiction  horror  magic
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