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  • Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ilona Andrews invites you back to the #1 New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels series in this exciting new long novella featuring Kate, Curran and Conlan, some familiar faces, some new friends, and all the special brand of chaos they create!Kate, Curran and their son, Conlan have left Atlanta, vowing to keep a low profile, and are settling into a new city and new house…but some things never...
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    alpha-mc  dystopia  fae  female-mc  humor  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Mercenary Kate Daniels knows all too well that magic in post-Shift Atlanta is a dangerous business. But nothing she’s faced could have prepared her for this…Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official...
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    alpha-mc  dystopia  fae  female-mc  humor  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Emperor's Throne by Shannon Mayer

    Emperor's Throne by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Three against one is not the best odds in any fight. But does she dare gamble on making an enemy into an ally? The final installment in the USAT and WSJ bestselling epic urban fantasy that readers have been waiting for! There might be no rest for the wicked, but there’s no rest for the exhausted either...
  • Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    No matter how much the paranormal politics of Atlanta change, one thing always remains the same: if there’s trouble, Kate Daniels will be in the middle of it…As the mate of the Beast Lord, Curran, former mercenary Kate Daniels has more responsibilities than it seems possible to juggle...
  • Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She’s made friends and enemies. She’s found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players of the world to let her be...
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    alpha-mc  dystopia  fae  female-mc  humor  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 64 ratings
    Kate Daniels works for the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, officially as a liaison with the mercenary guild. Unofficially, she cleans up the paranormal problems no one else wants to handle—especially if they involve Atlanta’s shapeshifting community...
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    alpha-mc  demons  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 63 ratings
    Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with these days. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide, that’s saying a lot.But when Kate’s werewolf friend Derek is discovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challenge yet...
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    alpha-mc  demons  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning

    Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    “Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” — MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. — Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  magic  myths
  • Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    In the latest Kate Daniels novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews, magic is coming and going in waves in post-Shift Atlanta—and each crest leaves danger in its wake…After breaking from life with the Pack, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate—former Beast Lord Curran Lennart—are adjusting to a very different pace...
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    alpha-mc  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  humor  magic  myths
  • Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews

    Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Atlanta was always a dangerous city. Now, as waves of magic and technology compete for supremacy, it’s a place caught in a slow apocalypse, where monsters spawn among the crumbling skyscrapers and supernatural factions struggle for power and survival.Eight years ago, Julie Lennart left Atlanta to find out who she was...
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    alpha-mc  demons  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    Atlanta is a city plagued by magical problems. Kate Daniels will fight to solve them—no matter the cost.Mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate, Curran, the Beast Lord, are struggling to solve a heartbreaking crisis. Unable to control their beasts, many of the Pack’s shapeshifting children fail to survive to adulthood...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic  myths
  • Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning

    Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  magic  myths
  • Dragon's Ground by Shannon Mayer

    Dragon's Ground by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    We survived the land of the Witch’s Reign, that much is true. But our arrival home is far from welcome. My idiot brother has taken it upon himself to ride off in search of a mythical healer, someone who might help him walk again. Assuming she doesn’t eat him first. Because she’s a dragon and happens to reside in the deepest reaches of the Dragon’s Ground. Like I said, idiot...
  • Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews

    Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    No day is ordinary in a world where Technology and Magic compete for supremacy…But no matter which force is winning, in the apocalypse, a sword will always work. Hugh d’Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs, Warlord of the Builder of Towers, served only one man. Now his immortal, nearly omnipotent master has cast him aside...
  • Jinn's Dominion by Shannon Mayer

    Jinn's Dominion by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In this THIRD installment of Zamira's journey, she will be faced with losing her Pride, and her two closest friends as she fights her way into the Jinn's Dominion.  There was nothing that could have prepared me for Dragon’s Ground. And I thought that nothing could be worse than what I faced there.Just my black cat bad luck, the world is set to prove me wrong...
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    alpha-mc  demons  fae  female-mc  humor  magic  myths  paranormal
  • 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...
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    alpha-mc  angels  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  magic  myths
  • Feversong by Karen Marie Moning

    Feversong by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning returns with the epic conclusion to her pulse-pounding Fever series, where a world thrown into chaos grows more treacherous at every turn. As Mac, Barrons, Ryodan, and Jada struggle to restore control, enemies become allies, right and wrong cease to exist, and the lines between life and death, lust and love, disappear completely...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  magic  paranormal
  • Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Called by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a city full of rising tension, with people going missing or turning up dead, can Max resist the call to help?When Max tries to intervene to prevent an assault and it goes horribly wrong, she wants nothing more than to keep her head down and get on with her job. She does not want to answer calls for help, not even from Bryce, the Order warrior who seems willing to give her a second chance...
  • Crave by Victoria Danann

    Crave by Victoria Danann

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Crave surpassed the limits of mortal endurance and survived years of torture by the Rautt. He'd been isolated, chained in darkness, kept in filth, starved, taken to the point of death only to be restored so that his enemies could begin the cycle again. His family thought he was dead, but the woman who'd held his heart and his promise never gave up hope...
  • Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    Down in Atlanta, tempers – and temperatures – are about to flare…As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow across Atlanta like a tide. But once every seven years, a flare comes, a time when magic runs rampant...
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    alpha-mc  demons  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Sanctuary by Ilona Andrews

    Sanctuary by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s not easy serving the Chernobog, the God of Destruction, Darkness and Death…especially during the holidays; and especially when you’re out of eggnog and one of your pesky, freeloading mythic creatures has eaten your last cookie.Roman would like nothing more than to be left alone, but when a wounded boy stumbles into his yard and begs for sanctuary, Roman takes him in...
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    magic  paranormal  myths  urban  witches-wizards  dark  humor  dystopia
  • Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has never been so deadly. Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job.Kate Daniels may have quit the Order of Merciful Aid, but she’s still knee-deep in paranormal problems. Or she would be if she could get someone to hire her...
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    alpha-mc  demons  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic  myths  paranormal
  • 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...
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    dark  dystopia  fae  magic  myths  paranormal  post-apocalyptic  urban
  • Kelpies Don't Fly by Kim McDougall

    Kelpies Don't Fly by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Critter wrangler rule #15: Always look a gift horse in the mouth. And if it has sharp teeth, never, never get on its back.For ten years, Kyra Greene thought she was the only Valkyrie this side of the rainbow bridge. Until she gets a stunning message from her cousin, Gunora, asking for bail money.But facing the ghosts of her past isn’t on Kyra’s to-do list...
  • Elemental Witch by Shannon Mayer

    Elemental Witch by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    My name is Pamela, and I am the strongest witch the world has ever seen. Only I’m not just a witch, I’m an elemental, and that truth makes me a target and a threat. The elementals of this world are done hiding in the shadows. And there is a faction of them who want to rule our world. They want to put the humans beneath their heels, and they want all the power to themselves...
  • Psychic's Spell by Ella Summers

    Psychic's Spell by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the immortal war between gods and demons, one woman’s past holds the key to humanity’s future. One year after joining the Legion of Angels in New York City, Leda Pierce returns home to visit her family in Purgatory, a rough and rugged frontier town that borders the plains of monsters. Leda’s family reunion is cut short, however, when her little sisters are captured by supernatural mercenaries...
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    alpha-mc  angels  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  humor  magic
  • Chosen by Vanessa Nelson

    Chosen by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Demons on the loose. Ritual murders. An ancient vampire breathing down her neck.Some days Max just doesn't know where to start. The problems facing her city are piling up, and there seems no end or solution in sight.Max's job used to be dealing with supernatural creatures...
  • Glass King by Annabel Chase

    Glass King by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I didn’t ask to be part of a prophecy and I certainly didn’t ask to be held captive by zealots. They may call me a savior, but they treat me like a sacrifice they’re waiting to make to the gods. Not much of a sacrifice given what they think of me.My only saving grace is that I don’t have to face the dangers alone. This time I have an ally in the form of a knight from Britannia City—London Hayes...
  • 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...
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    alpha-mc  angels  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  magic  myths
  • Fallen Academy: Year Four by Leia Stone

    Fallen Academy: Year Four by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Lucifer isn't happy about Brielle's escape from hell and he plans to make that known to the inhabitants of earth. Chaos has descended on Angel City and the Fallen Army needs to do everything they can to keep it from falling. Meanwhile, Brielle is training for the fight of a lifetime. She's ready to fulfill the prophecy. Lucy's going down...
  • Magic Bleeds - Awake  (Curran POV #9) by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews

    Magic Bleeds - Awake (Curran POV #9) by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Published in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV.Infuriated by Kate’s treatment at the hands of the Pack, the Beast Lord demands an explanation. When words fail, claws and fangs must do the talking...
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    alpha-mc  dark  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic  myths  paranormal
  • Dragon's Storm by Ella Summers

    Dragon's Storm by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The supernatural storm of the century is coming. Leda’s quest to gain the magic she needs to save her brother leads her to the castle of the Dragons, home of four soldiers in the Legion of Angels with extraordinary powers over the elements. If she makes it through their training, she might just survive her next sip of the gods’ Nectar and level up her magic...
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    alpha-mc  angels  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  humor  magic
  • Magic Gifts by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Gifts by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    It isn’t often that Kate Daniels and the Beast Lord Curran get to take a break from protecting their pack and enjoy some time for themselves. So when Curran offers Kate a romantic dinner in town, there’s no way she’s going to pass.But their quiet night doesn’t stay quiet for long...
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    alpha-mc  dark  fae  female-mc  magic  myths  paranormal  shapeshifters
  • Foretold by Jana Oliver

    Foretold by Jana Oliver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In FORETOLD, the fourth Demon Trappers novel by Jana Oliver, Riley faces the final battle for humanity and Beck's heart—and Hell is the least of her problemsNow that Riley’s managed to (just barely) fend off Armageddon, everything’s changed. Well . . . most things...
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    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic
  • Curran POV Collection by Gordon Andrews

    Curran POV Collection by Gordon Andrews

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Collection of Curran POVs in chronological order...
  • Siren's Song by Ella Summers

    Siren's Song by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    When gods and demons clash, mortals bleed.Leda Pierce’s latest mission brings her back to her hometown at the edge of the Frontier. But things have taken a turn for the worse in the six months since she left home to join the Legion of Angels in New York City...
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    alpha-mc  angels  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  humor  magic
  • Carnal  (Exiled, #1) by Victoria Danann

    Carnal (Exiled, #1) by Victoria Danann

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    NO ONE EVER EXPECTS SOMEONE LIKE CARNAL.The angel, Kellareal, stopped the genocide of generations of hybrids, who had been bred for research and spent their entire lives imprisoned. Against orders, he spirited them away to a dimension where they would have freedom and purpose. In a vindictive fit, Rosie Storm asked Kellareal for a place to hide out...
  • Yield the Night by Annette Marie

    Yield the Night by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    NB: New/alternate cover for ASIN# B00RH8BZOI. Original cover edition here.After surviving a round-trip to hell, Piper figures she can survive anything. After all, she just lived through the devastating loss of her Consul apprenticeship and a torturous stint at boarding school...
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    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  humor
  • Carved by Brenda K. Davies

    Carved by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    River,As the perilous journey across a country I’d long thought destroyed begins, I don’t know who I am anymore or what I’m becoming. My abilities grow stronger with each passing day, as does the fear of what comes next. All I know is that I will do anything to avoid becoming like Lucifer, and to protect those I love, even if that means protecting them from me...
  • War Song by B.R. Kingsolver

    War Song by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My name is Danica James. I'm a cop with the Arcane Division.My job is to protect humanity from monsters - whether they be human or creatures from the Rift. It beats sitting in a factory cubical all day, which is where magiteks usually work.Most of humanity hates the magic users who rule the world, but the Magi stand between humans and the creatures who came across the Rift...
  • Dervishes Don't Dance by Kim McDougall

    Dervishes Don't Dance by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Guardian is dead. Fae are missing. And someone has let a golem loose in town. Ride along with Kyra Greene, the only pest controller qualified to deal with the strange and wonderful creatures that come out the shadows when magic flares.Dervishes Don’t Dance is the second book in the Valkyrie Bestiary series...
  • Shifter's Shadow by Ella Summers

    Shifter's Shadow by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Next to the powers of heaven and hell, we are nothing. “So this was just one gigantic, cosmic war between light and dark magic. And we were only a small part of it, a tiny dot in the gods’ empire. It was no wonder that they saw us as insignificant...
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    alpha-mc  angels  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  humor  magic
  • From Burning Ashes by Stacey Marie Brown

    From Burning Ashes by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This war is not being played on a battlefield.Killed by the man she loves, not even death is kind to Zoey. Neither life nor her fae powers will let her go in peace. In this final installment, Zoey’s strength, determination, and trust are put to the ultimate test...
  • Magic Steals by Ilona Andrews

    Magic Steals by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Ilona Andrews—#1 New York Times bestselling author of Magic Shifts—once again pulls readers into the dark and dangerous world of the Kate Daniels novels...Shapeshifting tigress Dali Harimau may be a powerful healer and magic user, but she’s far from what might be called “normal”...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic  myths
  • Guild Hunter Novels 1-4 by Nalini Singh

    Guild Hunter Novels 1-4 by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Angels rule, vampires serve, and passions ignite in the first four novels of the Guild Hunter series by New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  humor  paranormal
  • High Voltage by Karen Marie Moning

    High Voltage by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    There is no action without consequence…Dani O’Malley was nine years old when the delusional, sadistic Rowena transformed her into a ruthless killer. Years later, she’s tough, hardened, yet achingly vulnerable and fiercely compassionate, living alone by her own exacting code. Despite the scars on her body, driven by deeper ones carved into her soul, no one is more committed to protecting Dublin...
  • Reap the Shadows by Annette Marie

    Reap the Shadows by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Piper is feeling a bit overwhelmed. With Seiya and Lyre missing, Ash recovering from near fatal injuries, and the Gaians picking fights with daemons all over the city, a girl can’t help but think she might be in over her head. And this time, she’s on her own...
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    alpha-mc  angels  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  magic  paranormal
  • Fallen Academy: Year Three by Leia Stone

    Fallen Academy: Year Three by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    It will take every ounce of strength and training Brielle has to survive year three. Meanwhile, Lincoln will also be fighting his own battle for survival. Each of them worlds apart...
  • Bind the Soul by Annette Marie

    Bind the Soul by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The 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...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  dystopia  fae  female-mc  humor
  • Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter

    Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Growing up poor on New Chicago’s meanest streets, Ava Sans had two options: be the predator or be the prey. No contest. Now, working for Alien Investigation and Removal, she’s been ordered to capture the biggest, baddest warrior of all—a vampire too beautiful to be real, with the ability to manipulate time...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angels  dark  demons  female-mc  humor  magic  paranormal
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