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  • Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey

    Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It's inhabited by the race that rose from the seed of angels, and they live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay was sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman who recognized that she was pricked by Kushiel's dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one...
  • The Lord Ruler by Alvin Atwater

    The Lord Ruler by Alvin Atwater

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The saga of Nate the cheat potion maker continues!My place in this world slowly reveals itself to me. Unfortunately, I’m constantly reminded just how magicians truly screwed this place up. The Lord Ruler serves as one of the kingdom’s major problems, though there could be more to it...
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    magic  fae  dark  humor  paranormal  romance  fantasy  litrpg
  • Extermination by E. William Brown

    Extermination by E. William Brown

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Gaea's favored children have put her ancient plan to cleanse the Earth of humans into motion, and Kozalin stands high on their list of targets. Uncertain alliances, scheming gods and an implacable foe will push Daniel to his limits...
  • Den of Wolves by Juliet Marillier

    Den of Wolves by Juliet Marillier

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The “powerful and emotionally-charged” fantasy series from the author of the Sevenwaters novels continues, as Blackthorn and Grim face haunting secrets and old adversaries... Feather bright and feather fine, None shall harm this child of mine... Healer Blackthorn knows all too well the rules of her bond to the fey: seek no vengeance, help any who ask, do only good...
  • Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

    Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl... Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago...
  • Cast in Chaos by Michelle Sagara, Michelle Sagara West

    Cast in Chaos by Michelle Sagara, Michelle Sagara West

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Kaylin Neya is a Hawk, part of the elite force tasked with keeping the City of Elantra safe. Her past is dark, her magic uncontrolled and her allies unpredictable. And nothing has prepared her for what is coming, when the charlatans on Elani Street suddenly grow powerful, the Oracles are thrown into an uproar and the skies rain blood...
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    alpha-mc  dark  fae  female-mc  gothic  humor  magic  medieval
  • Der letzte Kampf by Rachel E. Carter

    Der letzte Kampf by Rachel E. Carter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    He’s the Black Mage and she’s the traitor to the Crown.Ryiah’s world was shattered the night she discovered King Blayne’s nefarious plans. Now, she has to betray the one she loves most in order to save the realm from war...
  • Shadow Wings by Raye Wagner, Kelly St. Clare

    Shadow Wings by Raye Wagner, Kelly St. Clare

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    I will never be controlled again. A manipulative dragon shifter. A sexy phaetyn prince. Me? I shouldn’t even exist. With peace established in Verald, I should be free; Lord Tyrrik is liberated from his blood oath, after all. But the freedom in Verald is an illusion. If I remain, destruction will surely follow. As soon as I come into my powers, the blood-thirsty emperor of Draecon will know...
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    alpha-mc  dark  fae  female-mc  humor  magic  paranormal  abuse
  • Autumn of the Grimoire by J.L. Vampa

    Autumn of the Grimoire by J.L. Vampa

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some witches cast spells. Others slay kings.A mysterious Grimoire. A marriage full of dark secrets. A History sculpted by a quartet of ancient Sister witches.For three hundred years, Sister Autumn has incited wars, burnt villages, killed kings, and released plagues at the bidding of the Grimoire. Meanwhile, her Sister Winter, Sister Spring, and Sister Summer have brought forth only peace...
  • When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason

    When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After narrowly escaping from Rome, Lady Victoria Gardella returns to London, where not even sunrise can stop a vampire's carnage...Ruining Victoria's homecoming, a vampire stalks the streets of London--during the daylight. Not only is Victoria unable to detect the vampire with her heightened senses, but she's being framed as the prime suspect behind the killings...
  • Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco

    Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stalking the Jack the Ripper series comes the steamy conclusion to Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy. Two curses.One prophecy.A reckoning all have feared.And a love more powerful than fate. All hail the king and queen of Hell. Emilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive...
  • Rise by Andrea Cremer

    Rise by Andrea Cremer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The sequel to Rift and the prequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Nightshade.Everything Conatus stands for is at risk. Hoping to gather enough resistance to save their order, Ember and Barrow attempt a desperate escape. But fate offers little mercy...
  • The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater

    The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Olivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul with “a sharp and beautiful gothic romance” (Alix E. Harrow). Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark faerie tale set in a magical version of Victorian England.The faeries of Witchwood Manor have stolen its young lord. His governess intends to steal him back.Victorian governess Winifred Hall knows a con when she sees one...
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    gothic  fae  magic  paranormal  dark  fairy-tale  europe  british-isles
  • Cast in Fury by Michelle Sagara

    Cast in Fury by Michelle Sagara

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When a minority race of telepaths is suspected of causing a near-devastating tidal wave, Private Kaylin Neya is summoned to Court—and into a PR nightmare. To ease racial tensions, the emperor has commissioned a play, and the playwright has his own ideas about who should be the focus...
  • Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons, royal dowager Ista, released from the curse of madness and manipulated by an untrustworthy god, is plunged into a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm...
  • Fostering Faust by Randi Darren

    Fostering Faust by Randi Darren

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    ((Minor Spoiler and Warning at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through.)) Alex is dead. Dead, and apparently with a one way ticket to a place that only the worst of the worst go. All for a simple choice he made about a product his company owned. Damned for all time. Luckily for him, he’s about to be given a chance. Another choice to make...
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    dark  magic  medieval  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  dark-fantasy
  • Witches' Blood by Ginn Hale

    Witches' Blood by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • Bound By Blood: Volume 1  (Bound By Blood, #1) by Shane K.P. O'Neill

    Bound By Blood: Volume 1 (Bound By Blood, #1) by Shane K.P. O'Neill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “A war rages on around us every day. The struggle to save all mankind. The ultimate evil.”As his moment of death looms Dracula suffers the ultimate betrayal. The champion of the Catholic faith in Eastern Europe realises it is Lucifer who is coming to claim him. However, Lucifer does not want his soul. Instead he bites into Dracula’s neck and then offers his own blood to drink...
  • Rogue Elves of Ardani by Nina K. Westra

    Rogue Elves of Ardani by Nina K. Westra

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s an enslaved telepath who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. He’s a scarred elven prisoner with a deep hatred of humans. She needs him if she wants her freedom… but he just wants her dead.Crow expects her task to be simple. Breaking a man out of prison isn’t difficult for someone with the power to read and control minds. It’s just another job forced upon her by her cruel master...
  • Eidolon by Grace Draven

    Eidolon by Grace Draven

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In a bid for more power, the Shadow Queen of Haradis has unleashed a malignant force into the world. Her son Brishen, younger prince of the Kai royal house, suddenly finds himself ruler of a kingdom blighted by a diseased darkness and on the brink of war. His human wife Ildiko must decide if she will give up the man she loves in order to secure his throne...
  • Naamah's Curse by Jacqueline Carey

    Naamah's Curse by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel's Legacy series, delivers book two in her new lushly imagined trilogy featuring daughter of Alba, Moirin.Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people...
  • Tempting Fate by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Tempting Fate by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Europe 1920s. Fifth [published] in the Saint-Germain series, Tempting Fate finds the count as guardian to a Russian war orphan during the Russian Revolution and the end of World War I...
  • Thicker Than Blood by Shalini Boland

    Thicker Than Blood by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chilling and fast-paced, Thicker Than Blood is the supernatural sequel to Hidden. It combines passion and drama with a historical twist.Aelia lives in 6th century Byzantium. She is sixteen years old and her life is about to change forever. She doesn't yet know it, but she holds the fate of thousands in her hands and her actions will echo across the centuries...
  • Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind

    Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Everything Richard Rahl has learned will be for naught as the ruthless Emperor Jagang returns with his vast legions...heralded by a mystical plague that kills innocents in the thousands.Richard must now challenge the undefeatable: the magic that thwarts magic, sealed away for three thousand years in the Temple of Winds...
  • The Black Shriving by Phil Tucker

    The Black Shriving by Phil Tucker

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When invasion looms...After a harrowing battle Lady Kyferin and her stalwart followers have earned themselves a brief respite from Lord Laur's fury. They know, however, that the next assault will be impossible to resist. Their sole hope of survival lies in forging an alliance with the only force capable of resisting the empire's might: the Agerastian heretics themselves.But time is running out..
  • Beneath a Waning Moon by Elizabeth Hunter, Grace Draven

    Beneath a Waning Moon by Elizabeth Hunter, Grace Draven

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two delightfully dark tales of Gothic romance from Elizabeth Hunter and Grace Draven.In A Very Proper Monster, Josephine Shaw spends long nights filling the pages of her Gothic stories with the fantastic and the macabre, unaware that the suitor her father has arranged is one of the dark creatures she’s always dreamed...
  • The Oracle's Queen by Lynn Flewelling

    The Oracle's Queen by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Under the rule of a usurper king, the realm of Skala has suffered famine, plague, and invasion. But now the time for the rightful heir has come, a return to the tradition of warrior queens. And the Lightbearer's prophecy is to be upheld at last: so long as a daughter of the royal line defends and rules, Skala will never be subjugated...
  • Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey

    Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn, the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacred oath sworn in the name of all his people. Now only small gifts remain to them. Through her lineage, Moirin possesses such gifts—the ability to summon the twilight and conceal herself, and the skill to coax plants to grow...
  • Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier

    Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Award-winning author Juliet Marillier’s “lavishly detailed”* Blackthorn & Grim series continues as a mysterious creature holds an enchanted and imperiled ancient Ireland in thrall. Disillusioned healer Blackthorn and her companion, Grim, have settled in Dalriada to wait out the seven years of Blackthorn’s bond to her fey mentor, hoping to avoid any dire challenges...
  • The Novice by Trudi Canavan

    The Novice by Trudi Canavan

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    "Even if a magician's powers surface of their own accord, he will soon be dead if he does not gain the knowledge of how to control them." Alone among all the novices in the Magicians' Guild, only Sonea comes from lowly beginnings. Yet she has won powerful allies—including Lord Dannyl, newly promoted to Guild Ambassador...
  • A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

    A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula’s brides, A Dowry of Blood is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king...
  • Cast in Courtlight by Michelle Sagara

    Cast in Courtlight by Michelle Sagara

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    No good deed goes unpunished…In Elantra, a job well done is rewarded with a more dangerous task. And so, after defeating a dark evil, Kaylin must enter a place of deceit and treachery. A world where silk and jewels hide deadly secrets…Kaylin goes before the Barrani High Court, where a misspoken word brings sure death. And Kaylin’s never been known for her grace or manners...
  • Wicked Memories by Nina Bangs

    Wicked Memories by Nina Bangs

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Return to the Castle of Dark Dreams, where USA Today bestselling author Nina Bangs lures readers into a world of pleasure, adventure, and revenge…Thorn Mackenzie was a young Viking when he met Sparkle Stardust long ago. She used him and then abandoned him. Over a thousand years later, he has finally found a way to repay her...
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    dark  humor  magic  paranormal  adult  book  dark-fantasy  fiction
  • Of Flesh & Bone by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Of Flesh & Bone by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now that the Darkness has tasted her, it won't let Emma go.Robbed of her memories, Emma feels like a ghost trapped in her own body. She doesn't remember much, but she knows one thing--something happened to her in Arnsmouth. Whatever had happened to her had been terrible...
    Categorized as:
    dark  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  dark-fantasy  drama  fiction
  • Of Grave & Glory by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Of Grave & Glory by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emma Mather is having trouble telling friend from foe…and being wrong about whether someone is her ally or her enemy could cost her more than just her life.The Candle has taken Gigi Gage as their prisoner, and Emma will do anything to save her friend from whatever torture Dr. Thaddeus Kirkbride is putting her through in the Arnsmouth Asylum...
  • Curse of Dracula by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Curse of Dracula by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maxine Parker expected to lose her life when the Vampire King swept through her city like a plague. She did not expect to lose her heart to him as well. Caught between her desire to protect the living and her love for Dracula, she suddenly finds herself the enemy of the hunters who had once been her allies...
  • Blood Games by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Blood Games by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is a tale of love and horror set during the last chaotic days of Nero's Rome - a time marked by excesses of high living, cruel violence and intricate political intrigue...
  • Fires of Ballian by M.L. Rhodes

    Fires of Ballian by M.L. Rhodes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 3 in the Draegan Lords series A hundred years ago, the high sorcerer of Velensperia launched a swift and deadly attack against the draegans—a race of dragon shapeshifters who’d always lived in harmony with the humans. The draegans were all but destroyed, with the few who remained, scattered and in hiding...
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    dark  fae  magic  paranormal  abuse  action-adventure  adult  book
  • The Last Descendant by Megan Haskell

    The Last Descendant by Megan Haskell

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Trained as an elite fighter and educated in the ways of the elves, Nuriel "Rie" Lhéthannien has worked decades to be accepted into the High Court messenger service. It's a simple enough occupation, but in a realm where humans are treated as little better than slaves, it's a position she'll do anything to protect...
  • Small Favors by Erin A. Craig

    Small Favors by Erin A. Craig

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the critically-acclaimed author of House of Salt and Sorrows comes a mesmerizing and chilling fairy-talesque novel about Ellerie Downing, a young woman in a small town with monsters lurking in the trees and dark desires hidden in the shadows--in Amity Falls, nothing is more dangerous than a wish come true. Unique, enchanting, and haunting...
    Categorized as:
    dark  fae  fairy-tale  gothic  magic  paranormal  retellings  audiobook
  • Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers

    Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent...
  • Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

    Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Isabelle should be blissfully happy – she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s the ugly stepsister who’s cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella’s shoe ... which is now filling with blood.When the prince discovers Isabelle’s deception, she is turned away in shame...
  • The Bleeding Dusk by Colleen Gleason

    The Bleeding Dusk by Colleen Gleason

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Now the undead of Rome race to unravel an ancient mystery--and only one woman can stop them... As Rome prepares for its Carnivale, the new leader of the city's vampire hunters, Lady Victoria Gardella Grantworth de Lacy--must prove herself as never before...
  • The Deepest Night by Shana Abe

    The Deepest Night by Shana Abe

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A rich portrait of post-Victorian England, The Deepest Night seamlessly blends thrilling romance with riveting history and adventure—perfect for fans of Libba Bray and Lauren Kate.It’s 1915, and sixteen-year-old Lora Jones is finishing up her first year as a charity student at Iverson, a prestigious, gothic boarding school on England’s southern coast...
  • Igniting Darkness by Robin LaFevers

    Igniting Darkness by Robin LaFevers

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times best-selling author Robin LaFevers comes the follow up to “sharp and breathless” (Kirkus Reviews) historical fantasy Courting Darkness. Set in the world of the beloved His Fair Assassin series, this is perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Game of Thrones...
  • Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind

    Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    There is an alternate cover edition here.Richard comes to terms with his true identity as a War Wizard. The New World, and all the freedom of humankind, is under threat from the Imperial Order after he had brought down the barrier between the Old and New World. The Imperial Order has already sent delegations and armies into the New World...
  • The Soul Mirror by Carol Berg

    The Soul Mirror by Carol Berg

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    By order of His Royal Majesty Philippe de Savin-Journia y Sabria, Anne de Vernase is hereby summoned to attend His Majesty's Court at Merona...Anne de Vernase rejoices that she has no talent for magic. Her father's pursuit of depraved sorcery has left her family in ruins, and he remains at large, convicted of treason and murder by Anne's own testimony...
  • Priestess of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson

    Priestess of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Long-awaited final volume in the Avalon series by bestselling fantasy author, Marion Zimmer Bradley. As the Merlin of Britannia keeps his vigil atop the Tor of Avalon, Rian, the High Priestess of Avalon, dies giving birth to her fifth child. The girl, named Eilan with her mother's dying breath, takes life...
  • Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel

    Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When his grieving father orders the destruction of the Dark Library, Victor retrieves a book in which he finds the promise of not just communicating with the dead, but entering their realm, and soon he, Elizabeth, and Henry are in the spirit world of Château Frankenstein, creating and growing a body.[Book two of The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein series...
  • Bloodraven by P.L. Nunn

    Bloodraven by P.L. Nunn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A son of a forest dwelling people, Yhalen knows little of the world outside the ancestral forest, until he is captured by a band of ogres on a slave-taking mission. Only grim tales of the barbaric giants had reached the forest, but Yhalen soon learns that even the darkest fireside story only hinted at the brutality of these Northern warriors...
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    alpha-mc  dark  fae  magic  paranormal  abuse  action-adventure  adult
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