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  • Warrior Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Warrior Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    I once thought one of my ruthless boys could be the killer I’m hunting. They’re all dark, deadly and more than capable of brutality.But now I’m held by the King I’ve been stalking in the shadows and when I unmask him, he’ll realise he made a huge mistake in taking my brother from this world.My Kings are coming for me, I know that in my soul...
  • Evildoer by Dannika Dark, Nicole Poole

    Evildoer by Dannika Dark, Nicole Poole

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Betrayal. Vengeance. Loyalty. Dark forces are at work in the epic conclusion of the USA Today bestselling Crossbreed series.Raven has come a long way since joining Keystone. She embraced her Vampire side, learned to work with others, and even fell in love...
  • Savage Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Savage Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN here.There's more to my brother's murder than I realised...Shadows in the halls, mysteries lurking around every corner.Whoever killed him is covering their tracks well.And now I'm walking a dangerous line between getting close to the four kings for information and wanting to crawl deeper under their skin for my own desires.I can't trust anyone...
  • Blackout by Dannika Dark

    Blackout by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The fate of millions rests on Keystone when they embark on their most important assignment of all… After what was supposed to be a simple job, Raven and Christian uncover a sinister plot against the higher authority, and the stakes are as high as the body count. The assassins are merciless, with anyone who stands in their way becoming collateral damage...
  • Stitched by Shannon Mayer

    Stitched by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    NOTE: ***This novella falls between Wounded (#8) and Rising Darkness (#9) and should be read BEFORE reading (#9).*** "My name is Rylee, and I am a Tracker."When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot...
  • Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop

    Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves… After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders—a primitive and lethal form of the Others—the few cities left under human control are far-flung...
  • Dragon's Claw by Karen Chance

    Dragon's Claw by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A new novella in the New York Times bestselling Midnight's Daughter series! Everyone knows that vampires are hard to kill. But when Dory Basarab is called to a crime scene in a smelly basement in Queens, she discovers that that may no longer be the case. Somebody has developed a new weapon, a vamp killer, and left her plenty of clues to follow...
  • Nevermore by Dannika Dark

    Nevermore by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    USA TODAY BESTSELLERRaven Black risks it all for loyalty and love in this stunning continuation in the USA Today bestselling Crossbreed series. Raven returns to her childhood home to rebuild her severed relationship with her father. After a long year of capturing violent criminals and thwarting assassination plots, she could use a vacation. But trouble is brewing on the home front...
  • Thirst No. 4: The Shadow of Death by Christopher Pike

    Thirst No. 4: The Shadow of Death by Christopher Pike

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The conclusion to the phenomenally successful Thirst series follows five-thousand-year-old vampire Alisa Perne as she battles a new race of immortals: the Telar. The Telar are a challenging threat. But Alisa is hungry for blood—and thirsty for revenge...
  • Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

    Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Return to New York Times best-selling author Anne Bishop’s world of the Others - where supernatural entities and humans struggle to co-exist, and one woman has begun to change all the rules.…After winning the trust of the terra indigene residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them...
  • Written in Red by Anne Bishop

    Written in Red by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut—a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard—a business district operated by the Others...
  • Blood Vengeance by Tessa Dawn

    Blood Vengeance by Tessa Dawn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ramsey Olaru is a bona fide bad-ass: a lethal vampire, a seasoned warrior, and a ruthless mercenary in the king’s Sentinel Guard. He’s accustomed to taking what he wants, ramrodding his way through obstacles, and silencing anything—or anyone—who gets in his way...
  • Shadow's Bane by Karen Chance

    Shadow's Bane by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Half-human, half-vampire Dorina Basarab is back—and facing her biggest challenge yet in the next urban fantasy in the New York Times bestselling series.Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. As one of the Vampire Senate’s newest members, Dory already has a lot on her plate. But then a relative of one of Dory’s fey friends goes missing...
  • Ascension by Zoe Parker

    Ascension by Zoe Parker

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ever get a job that sucks? My name is Iza Black and my life IS the sucky job.I mean yeah, there are perks. Live-in maid service, free food and I get this purple, sparkly aura thing. But there are way more bad parts.So many people, so much pain. Sleep has divorced me completely and I'm living their nightmares now too.I'm not sure I'm strong enough for this, that I can do what needs to be done...
  • Walking in the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Walking in the Dark by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some people find power in the light. Others are meant to walk in the dark. Ollie Wit left it all behind: a new home, friends who saw her as something more than a fragile shadow walker and a budding relationship with Kane. She did it all in an effort to shield Asher, who should’ve never been able to escape the Shadowlands...
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    dark  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  alpha-mc
  • Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A gemstone might destroy the world before I get the chance to do it myself.Interdimensional rifts are opening, spilling supernatural creatures into the world of the humans. Locating and closing the gateways takes two—an angel and a demon. It’s the opportunity I’ve been waiting for, the common goal that might allow demons and angels to put aside nearly three million years of hate...
  • Shades of Midnight by Lara Adrian

    Shades of Midnight by Lara Adrian

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In a frozen wilderness steeped in darkness, the lines between good and evil, lover and enemy, are never black or white but drawn in Shades of Midnight.Something inhuman is stalking the frigid Alaskan wilds, leaving unspeakable carnage in its wake...
  • Haunted Moon by Yasmine Galenorn

    Haunted Moon by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "We're the D'Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Delilah is a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden. My sister Menolly is a vampire married to a werepuma. And me? I'm Camille, a wicked-good witch with three sexy husbands. I'm a priestess of the Moon Mother, and I'm training under the Queen of Darkness...
  • Imp Forsaken by Debra Dunbar

    Imp Forsaken by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Sam is banished to Hel, the bond with her angel, Gregory, broken. Six Elven kingdoms are battling for supremacy, and she’s broken and injured in the middle of the most hostile one. Shooting the top off a royal throne, committing fraud in the completion of a contract, and threatening a high lord hasn’t endeared her to the elves, either...
  • Angel of Chaos by Debra Dunbar

    Angel of Chaos by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Leveling up bites.As if I don’t have enough crap to do being the leader of Hel, I’ve been tricked into helping a pregnant woman who is fleeing an abusive relationship and carrying a very unusual baby. Of course, my hasty vow of assistance opens up a whole can of worms absolutely in keeping with my new Angel of Chaos status...
  • Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

    Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney. MaryAnn is human, but she knows all too well the overwhelmingly aggressive instincts of Carpathian males...
  • Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

    Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before; both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control their divinations for wicked purposes...
  • Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu

    Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Christine FeehanDark DreamShe's known him since she was fifteen. Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falcon - the Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate.Margorie M...
  • Beloved Vampire by Joey W. Hill

    Beloved Vampire by Joey W. Hill

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Fourth in the "darkly rich"(TwoLips Reviews) Vampire Queen series. Escaping the depraved servitude of a vampire master she killed, Jessica has found her way, with three nomadic guides, to the sun-baked desolation of the Sahara-only to slowly perish...
    Categorized as:
    dark  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  abuse  adult
  • Phoenix’s Refrain by Ella Summers

    Phoenix’s Refrain by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There are forces greater than gods or demons at work here.Leda Pandora, the Angel of Chaos, isn’t like other angels. She fights dirty, in ways totally unbecoming of a soldier in the Legion of Angels. She cracks jokes at the other angels, even when she should really keep her mouth shut. And she stubbornly insists on doing the right thing, even if it’s totally against the rules...
  • Death's Mistress by Karen Chance

    Death's Mistress by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Dorina Basarab is a dhampir-half-human, half-vampire. Back home in Brooklyn after the demise of her insane Uncle Dracula, Dory's hoping her life is about to calm down. But soon Dory realizes someone is killing vampire Senate members, and if she can't stop the murderer, her friends may be next..
  • Raising Innocence by Shannon Mayer

    Raising Innocence by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    "My name is Rylee, and I am a Tracker."When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I’m the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. The FBI wants me on their team. Bad enough that they are dangling bait they KNOW I can’t resist. The catch? It’s on the other side of the ocean...
  • Midnight Awakening by Lara Adrian

    Midnight Awakening by Lara Adrian

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    With a dagger in her hand and vengeance on her mind, Darkhaven beauty Elise Chase prowls Boston’s streets in search of retribution against the Rogue vampires who took from her everything she cherished. Using an extraordinary psychic gift, she tracks her prey, well aware that the power she possesses is destroying her...
  • Dark Secret by Christine Feehan

    Dark Secret by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Rafael De La Cruz has spent centuries hunting vampires with his brothers, and with each passing year his capacity to feel emotions has grown weaker and weaker until finally there's barely been a memory left-until only sheer willpower keeps him from turning into the very abomination he hunts...
  • Autumn Whispers by Yasmine Galenorn

    Autumn Whispers by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    We’re the D’Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch with three sexy husbands. My sister Menolly is a vampire married to a wildly hot werepuma. And me? I’m Delilah, a two-faced werecat and Death Maiden...
    Categorized as:
    dark  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  angels
  • The Mark of the Vampire Queen by Joey W. Hill

    The Mark of the Vampire Queen by Joey W. Hill

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When he becomes Lady Lyssa’s full servant, Jacob crosses the threshold into a darker relationship with her than he’s known before. His time as a vampire hunter certainly hadn’t prepared him to embrace a world where humans are sexual commodities, but he adapted. Now he finds the integrity of his soul challenged as he serves his Mistress’s needs as fully as he services her desires...
    Categorized as:
    dark  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  age-gap
  • Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gemstone might destroy the world before I get the chance to do it myself.Interdimensional rifts are opening, spilling supernatural creatures into the world of the humans. Locating and closing the gateways takes two—an angel and a demon. It’s the opportunity I’ve been waiting for, the common goal that might allow demons and angels to put aside nearly three million years of hate...
  • A Life of Shadows by Kristen Banet

    A Life of Shadows by Kristen Banet

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sawyer Matthews knows how to put one foot in front of the other, to keep moving while the nightmares haunt her, and her own failures taunt her. She's become a master at doing awful things with good intentions, terrible things for the sake of those who need her. She's long given up on being the hero, trying to find peace in no longer being the villain...
  • Elementally Priceless by Shannon Mayer

    Elementally Priceless by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "My Name is Rylee, and I am a Tracker" This is the story of my first salvage, seeking out a missing child that my mentor has warned me away from.What I find is more than one child: I find my destiny. "They call me the Destroyer." I've been banished to the desert for years after saving a life I should have let the darkness take...
  • The Undead Next Door by Kerrelyn Sparks

    The Undead Next Door by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Three signs that something is very different with your mew man:1. He sleeps all day . . . which would be annoying except he's so attentive at night.2. He's attacked by sword-wielding assailants, yet insists he can handle it on his own.3. He never seems to age.Heather Westfield has always lived a quiet life, but that all changes when she helps a very handsome, very mysterious stranger...
  • Dark Symphony by Christine Feehan

    Dark Symphony by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Blinded and scarred in a terrible accident, Antonietta Scarletti made music that thrilled the world with its beauty and passion. Descended from a long line of psychics, Antoinetta has learned to rely on her other senses to “see” the world around her, but nothing could have prepared her for Byron. He came to her, drawn by her music, and became her secret obsession...
  • Dark Gold by Christine Feehan

    Dark Gold by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light...Was he a man...or a miracle?Alexandria Houton would sacrifice anything - ever her life - to protect her orphaned little brother. But when both encountered unspeakable evil in the swirling San Francisco mists, Alex could only cry to heaven for their deliverance..
  • Twist by Dannika Dark

    Twist by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Months after moving to the mysterious city of Cognito, Silver is developing her gifts as a Mage and learning how to live under new laws. She is forced to give up her old life and live in secret among the humans. There is finally hope of leading an ordinary life . . .Until Logan Cross walks into it...
  • Home for the Holidays by Jeaniene Frost

    Home for the Holidays by Jeaniene Frost

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Originally appeared in the print anthology The Bite Before Christmas.Cat and Bones were looking forward to a normal holiday – at least as “normal” as it gets for vampires and their otherworldly friends and family. But their yuletide plans are shattered when a mysterious stranger shows up and reveals long-buried secrets that threaten to take a bite out of their holiday cheer – and lives...
  • Beyond the Veil by Nicole R. Taylor

    Beyond the Veil by Nicole R. Taylor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Collection of Urban Fantasy Adventures Beyond the veil lies a world of magic, mystery, and adventure! From author Nicole R. Taylor comes five full length novels, each a first in a series...
  • Satan's Sword by Debra Dunbar

    Satan's Sword by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Samantha Martin is an imp, bound by an angel who allows her to live among the humans . . . as long as she follows his rules. It’s not easy for an imp to follow the rules, especially when Sam’s brother, Dar, finds himself in hot water. He needs her help to retrieve an artifact from the vampires, or the powerful demon he owes a favor to will enslave and torture him for centuries...
  • The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton

    The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it...
  • Stormwind by Skye Knizley

    Stormwind by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The body of Wade Franks hangs from a gargoyle in Old Town, bathed in the harsh glow of the spring Blood moon. Terrible, bloody wounds cover his body and it’s clear he didn’t give up without a fight. But a fight against who…or what? Detective Raven Storm is assigned to uncover the truth behind Franks’ death, chalking up another ‘unsolvable’ case for the Chicago Police...
  • L'Ordine della chiave by Virginia De Winter

    L'Ordine della chiave by Virginia De Winter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Axel Vanderberg, giovane erede al trono di Aldenor, non è altro che una matricola il cui sogno è diventare un giorno Duca dell'Ordine della Chiave, conquistando prestigio e rispetto. Adesso la carica è ricoperta da Rafael Valance, sul quale all'improvviso ricadono ricadono i sospetti per l'omicidio della fidanzata Emelyn. Ma quel delitto sarà solo il primo di una lunga serie...
  • Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child–twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children...
  • A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton, Laural Merlington

    A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton, Laural Merlington

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Commanded by her aunt, the dark Queen Andais, to conceive a child as heir to the throne, Meredith Gentry, a half-mortal, half-faerie princess, returns to Los Angeles, only to find herself and her lovers trapped between the dark and light faerie courts and human law...
  • Shadow Rising by Yasmine Galenorn

    Shadow Rising by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    We’re the D’Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch with three sexy husbands. My sister Delilah is a two-faced werecat and Death Maiden. And me? I’m Menolly, a jian-tu turned vampire in love with a wildly hot werepuma...
  • 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...
  • Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance

    Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Cassandra Palmer may be the all-powerful Pythia now, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped trying to kill her. Most of the supernatural power players don’t want the independent minded Cassie as chief clairvoyant—and they’ll stop at nothing to see her six feet under...
  • A Beautiful Evil by Kelly Keaton

    A Beautiful Evil by Kelly Keaton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Myth and mayhem inhabit a richly reimagined New Orleans in this sequel to Darkness Becomes Her.After the epic graveyard battle at the end of Darkness Becomes Her, Ari and her friends know what they’re up against: Ari is facing the Medusa curse and is haunted by the image of what she will become...
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