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  • War Hammer by Shayne Silvers

    War Hammer by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Two old dudes want to kill me. Oh, and one of them is my ancestor…And after centuries of practice, they’re pretty good at the whole murder thing. But at least they want to kill each other just as badly.Now, I’ve taken down a Greek Goddess, worn a Horseman’s Mask, and I ride a homicidal unicorn who hates rainbows with a passion...
  • Endless by Jessica Shirvington

    Endless by Jessica Shirvington

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Love will kill us all.Angels are real. They aren't always kind. Violet Eden is certain of all this because she is Grigori - part angel, part human. She has felt the influence of both light and dark. When Hell unleashes its worst, Violet must embrace every facet of her angel self to save the people she cares about and the world as she knows it...
  • Wild Side by Shayne Silvers

    Wild Side by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    To become a Godkiller you have to awaken the monster inside you… Almost a year has passed since Nate’s ex-fiancée woke up a Greek god intent on world domination and war. The problem? He doesn’t know which god. And the promised war hasn’t started yet...
  • Pearl Sky by Elizabeth Hunter

    Pearl Sky by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It was a friendly visit until a priceless artifact was stolen. Now Ben and Tenzin are up to their necks in secrets that can kill.It’s not just any holiday season in the immortal world. Elder Zhang’s oldest servant is reaching the century mark and Ben and Tenzin are ready to celebrate, but no sooner do they land on Penglai Island than a mystery falls in their path...
  • Dragon Guard Scholar by Alicia Montgomery

    Dragon Guard Scholar by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A hot, nerdy dragon content to be aloneDragon shifter Gideon wasn’t looking for love. He preferred silence, solitude, and the company of his books. So, when he runs into his mate, his first instinct is to keep her at arm’s length...
  • Chasing the Prophecy by Brandon Mull

    Chasing the Prophecy by Brandon Mull

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Jason and Rachel were not born in Lyrian. They did not grow up in Lyrian. But after all of the battles and losses, the triumphs and adventures, and most of all, the friendships forged in this fantastical world, Lyrian has become home to them in a way they never could have imagined...
  • Power by Robert J. Crane

    Power by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sienna Nealon seems like a woman beaten. Imprisoned by her enemies, facing the extinction of her entire race, she is up against overwhelming odds. But overwhelming odds have never stopped her before...
  • Mack's Rousing Ghoulish Highland Adventure by A.J. Sherwood

    Mack's Rousing Ghoulish Highland Adventure by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mack did not sign up for hunting unknown ghost-eating creatures.But that’s what he gets when he and Brandon arrive to help Eli and husbands at an old inn situated in the Scottish Highlands. Now he’s surrounded by terrified ghosts on the run, zombie-ghosts that look eaten, and no one knows what the baddie is...
  • Voodoo by Kristine Allen

    Voodoo by Kristine Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 23 of the Royal Bastards MC series. I'm Ogun "Voodoo" Dupre. There's no pretty way to put it, I do the dirty work for my club. When my services are required for a particularly delicate situation, I find myself hesitating for the first time in my life. That hesitation might get me killed. Sometimes you gotta work a little black magic to come out alive...
  • Destiny by Robert J. Crane

    Destiny by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    NOTE: This is a tightly intertwined series wherein each book builds on previous volumes.In the aftermath of her confrontation with Sovereign, Sienna Nealon finds herself low on allies. The organization Century continues their genocide of the entire race of metahumans unchecked, working toward an ultimate goal that they have yet to reveal...
  • Legacy by Robert J. Crane

    Legacy by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Time is running out for Sienna Nealon. The mysterious organization Century is only weeks from wiping out the entire metahuman race. But just as Sienna has made the decision to fight them, her past catches up to her and she finds herself in the hands of the U.S. Government. Secrets long buried begin to rise, putting Sienna and everyone she cares about directly in the path of Century..
  • Worm Holes by Kyle Keyes

    Worm Holes by Kyle Keyes

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this sequel to Quantum Roots, the meekish Olan Chapman faces danger as vigilante Samuel Leroy McCoy, a US deputy marshal who upheld law and order in 1876, Dodge City.The metamorphous holds an eerie transformation, cloaked with rolling sagebrush and horse whinnies from yesteryear, which causes DPA Director, Alexis Grumman to rethink the validity of worm holes...
  • Daylighters by Rachel Caine

    Daylighters by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    While Morganville, Texas, is often a troubled town, Claire Danvers and her friends are looking forward to coming home. But the Morganville they return to isn’t the one they know; it’s become a different place—a deadly one…Something drastic has happened in Morganville while Claire and her friends were away...
  • Enemies by Robert J. Crane

    Enemies by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Far from home, having failed in her quest to kill Old Man Winter, Sienna Nealon finds herself in the city of London, working with Omega, her oldest enemies...
  • Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

    Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Deep in the heart of Texas, Morganville is a small college town full of laid-back students and eccentric townies, not to mention the sort of creatures you wouldn't want to run into after dark. Despite their obvious differences, the human and vampire residents of Morganville have learned to coexist, but that doesn't stop genius student Claire Danvers from keeping up her guard...
  • Thorns of Decision by Breeana Puttroff

    Thorns of Decision by Breeana Puttroff

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Quinn Robbins was prepared for her mother to be angry. After all, she'd disappeared for two days without warning; to visit the world on the other side of the Dusk Gate that nobody else knows exists. What she wasn't prepared for was seeing her mother calmly sitting there, waiting for her return, as if Megan Robbins somehow knew the secret, too...
  • Accordance by Shelly Crane

    Accordance by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In the sequel, Maggie learns much more about all the strange things that happened to her, and has to face new ones. She rebels against it, but ultimately, must face it for her new families sake and maybe even her life. Bish went from being her biggest supporter to her biggest pain in the butt and Kyle's intentions to attract her interest may not be so innocent...
  • Enticed by Jessica Shirvington

    Enticed by Jessica Shirvington

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    CONSEQUENCE HAUNTS EVERY CHOICEViolet Eden is Grigori - part angel, part human. Her destiny is to protect humans from the vengence of exiled angels.Knowing who to trust is key but, when Grigori reinforcements arrive, it becomes clear everyone is hiding something. Even Lincoln. The only thing Violet does know: Phoenix's hold over her is more dangerous than ever...
  • Frenzy by Robert Liparulo

    Frenzy by Robert Liparulo

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Their destiny is to fix history. Their dream is to get home.When you live in a house that's really a gateway between past and present, you have to be ready for "anything." It's a painful fact the Kings have faced since moving to Pinedale eight days ago...
  • Lake Silence by Anne Bishop

    Lake Silence by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    In this thrilling and suspenseful fantasy, set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, Vicki DeVine and her lodger, the shapeshifter Aggie Crowe, stumble onto a dead body . . . and find themselves enmeshed in danger and dark secrets.Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others–vampires, shapeshifters, and paranormal beings even more deadly...
  • Limitless by Robert J. Crane

    Limitless by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Two years after the explosive Girl in the Box Series ends, Sienna Nealon is called to London, England, where she is drawn into a murder investigation involving an old friend. Paired up with a young, handsome Detective Inspector, she finds herself in a race against time to unravel the mystery surrounding the murder as victim after victim falls to the careful, clever killer...
  • The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore

    The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    The Rise of Nine is the next thrilling instalment in the gripping Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore.'Number Four is a hero for this generation' Michael Bay, director of Transformers***Until I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together we are much more powerful...
  • Dark Light by Jodi Taylor

    Dark Light by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The second novel in the new, gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author Jodi TaylorFrom the frying pan into the fire.Betrayed, terrified and alone, Elizabeth Cage has fled her home. With no plan and no friends, she arrives at the picturesque village of Greyston and finds herself involved in an ages-old ceremony that will end in death...
  • Bitter Blood by Rachel Caine

    Bitter Blood by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    For years, the human and vampire residents of Morganville, Texas, have managed to co-exist in peace. But now that the threat to the vampires has been defeated, the human residents are learning that the gravest danger they face is the enemy within…Thanks to the eradication of the parasitic creatures known as the draug, the vampires of Morganville have been freed of their usual constraints...
  • Whirlwind by Robert Liparulo

    Whirlwind by Robert Liparulo

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Best-selling novelist Robert Liparulo is a former journalist, with over a thousand articles and multiple writing awards to his name. His first two critically acclaimed thrillers?Comes a Horseman and Germ?were optioned by Hollywood producers. Bestselling author Michael Palmer calls Deadfall, released in November, 2007, ?a brilliantly crafted thriller...
  • Get Smoked or Go Home by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Get Smoked or Go Home by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s been so long, Warrior… I can feel you…Is Idina Moorfield going crazy or has an ancient magic found its source?Her family says she’s not a true Moorfield and will never be good enough for the family business.Sometimes what looks like the worst day ever, is the beginning of our best adventure.Idina takes that first step into a new life and gets the hell away from them to forge her own future...
  • Bonded by Nicky Charles

    Bonded by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reno’s a tough Enforcer for Lycan Link who finds himself drawn to Brandi but duty rules his life. Brandi, just on the edge of starting her career as a Disaster Control officer, falls for Reno at first sight, but are they really meant to be? Is it love or lust and does it really even matter? Enforcers and DCs don't get along...unless fate forces them to. Bonded precedes The Mating...
  • Fall of Night by Rachel Caine

    Fall of Night by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    THANKS TO ITS UNIQUE COMBINATION OF HUMAN AND VAMPIRE RESIDENTS, MORGANVILLE, TEXAS, IS A SMALL COLLEGE TOWN WITH BIG-TIME PROBLEMS. WHEN STUDENT CLAIRE DANVERS GETS THE CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE, SHE TAKES IT. BUT MORGANVILLE ISN'T THE ONLY TOWN WITH VAMPIRE TROUBLE..
  • Pawn by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Pawn by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller, Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Comes Part Two of Mr. Rook's Island, a Sexy, Dark, Romantic Suspense. SHE KNOWS HE'S BAD. THE QUESTION IS, HOW BAD?Stephanie Fitzgerald is nobody's pawn. Determined to discover the truth about a missing loved one, she lands a job at the world's most exclusive resort, working for the only man with the answers--Mr. Rook...
  • Contested Crown by Kai Butler

    Contested Crown by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I can’t give him up, even if it costs me my life...Miles and Cade are on the run. Without money, protection, or allies they have only each other to rely on as they flee the most powerful mage house in the country. Unfortunately, the outside world is even more dangerous than the lion’s den they just escaped from...
  • Tenth Grade Bleeds by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer

    Tenth Grade Bleeds by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In Tenth Grade Bleeds, it's another sucky year at Bathory High for Vladimir Tod. The evil vampire D'Ablo is hunting for the ritual that could steal Vlad's powers. His best friend Henry doesn't want to be his drudge anymore. And as if all that weren't enough, it's getting harder for Vlad to resist feeding on the people around him...
  • Irregulars by Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon

    Irregulars by Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s a secret international organization operating in cities on every continent. It polices relations between the earthly realm and those beyond this world, enforcing immigration laws, the transfers of magical artifacts, and crimes against humanity.The agents who work for the NATO Irregular Affairs Division can’t tell anyone what they do, or how hard they work to keep us safe...
  • Bite Club by Rachel Caine

    Bite Club by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine is "a first-class storyteller" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris). After discovering that vampires populate her town, college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble...
  • Timescape by Robert Liparulo

    Timescape by Robert Liparulo

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the fourth installment of this stunning young adult series,the King family plummets into a nightmare of head-spinning action, as the house and the worlds that lay beyond grow increasingly dangerous.David, Xander, Dad, and Keal have discovered a terrible secret. Now,finding Mom is only a small part of their mission. And time is running out...
  • Sky Raiders by Brandon Mull

    Sky Raiders by Brandon Mull

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    On Halloween below a haunted house, Cole Randolph wanted to have fun (and maybe get to know Jenna Hunt a little better). But he dives after friends whisked away to The Outskirts.The five kingdoms lie in between - wakefulness and dreaming, reality and imagination, life and death. Some people are born there. Some find their way there from other worlds...
  • Gatekeepers by Robert Liparulo

    Gatekeepers by Robert Liparulo

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The house talks. It breathes. And it's hungry. The Kings have been in the creepy old place, their new home, for only a few days, but they've experienced enough terror to last a lifetime. And the mystery is growing even more baffling...
  • Dark Light by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    Dark Light by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Reporter Sierra McIntyre's stories on Crystal City's ghost hunters—and their mysterious guild—have earned her tabloid a bit of respect. It helps that she has her incredible intuition to fall back on. Especially when she interviews Ghost Hunter Guild Boss John Fontana about the disappearances of retired, homeless hunters...
  • After Glow by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    After Glow by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Life is complicated for Lydia Smith. She's working at that tacky, third-rate museum, Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, trying to salvage her career in para-archaeology - and dating the most dangerous man in town. Just when she thinks she might be getting things under control, she stumbles over a dead body and discovers that her lover has a secret past that could get him killed...
  • Trial by Fire by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Trial by Fire by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    There can only be one alpha.  Bryn is finally settling into her position as alpha of the Cedar Ridge Pack—or at least, her own version of what it means to be alpha when you’re a human leading a band of werewolves. Then she finds a teenage boy bleeding on her front porch. Before collapsing, he tells her his name is Lucas, he’s a Were, and Bryn’s protection is his only hope...
  • Darkest Hour by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

    Darkest Hour by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    What - or who - is buried in Susannah's backyard?When the nineteenth-century ghost of Maria de Silva wakes her up in the middle of the night, Suze knows this is no ordinary visitation - and not just from the knife at her throat, either. In life, Maria was the fiancée of Jesse - the same Jesse who was murdered a hundred and fifty years before. The same Jesse Suze is in love with...
  • The Lost City of Faar by D.J. MacHale

    The Lost City of Faar by D.J. MacHale

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    CLORALFOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Bobby Pendragon is not like other boys his age. His uncle Press is a Traveler, and, as Bobby has learned, that means Uncle Press is responsible, through his journeys, for solving interdimensional conflict wherever he encounters it. His mission is nothing less than to save the universe from ultimate evil. And he's taking Bobby along for the ride...
  • Order of Seven by Beth Teliho

    Order of Seven by Beth Teliho

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eighteen-year-old Devi Bennett is surrounded by mysteries: her unknown heritage, a recurring dream about an African tribal ceremony, an inexplicable attachment to a certain tree and a psychic ability she’ll never understand—unless she finds her biological parents...
  • Pack Justice by R.J. Blain

    Pack Justice by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sean’s guardian angel is a feline, but his spirit cheetah prefers rival attorney, Andrea Morgan, over him. Trapped in a failing, dangerous marriage and stalked by an accomplice of one of the most dangerous criminals he’s ever prosecuted, Sean’s troubles are just beginning. A vacation should have offered him a chance to save his relationship with his wife, Idette...
  • What Man Defies by Clara Coulson

    What Man Defies by Clara Coulson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “It was all fun and games until a vengeful ghost threw a washing machine at your head.” Three weeks after his disastrous showdown with Abarta, Vincent Whelan is well on his way to recovering from the fight and putting the whole nightmare behind him...
  • Call of the Cougar by Terry Spear

    Call of the Cougar by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Special Agent for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Services, Tracey Whittington, takes down wildlife traffickers and more, but what she doesn't expect is to be in a shootout, multiple times, when the business turns deadly. Nor does she suspect she'll be working with Hal Haverton, who serves as a part-time deputy for Yuma Town, Colorado, and runs his own horse ranch...
  • Disembodied Bones by C.L. Bevill

    Disembodied Bones by C.L. Bevill

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Leonie Simoneaud was once one of the elusive Lake People, Acadian descendants in Louisiana with odd psychic powers. As a thirteen year old she rescued a child from a maniacal pedophile. Consequently she was shunned by most of the Lake People for imperiling them to the external world. As an adult she has been targeted by another madman, for a reason that has everything to do with that rescue...
  • Haunted by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

    Haunted by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Is it possible to be haunted by someone who isn't even dead?Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh-and-blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good.Paul claims he won't do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him...
  • Dark Nebula by W.J. May

    Dark Nebula by W.J. May

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nothing is as it seems anymore. Leery from the horrifying incident at the end of her first year at Guilder Boarding School, Rae Kerrigan is determined to learn more about her new tattoo. Her expectations are high, an easy senior year and a happy reunion with Devon, the boy she’s not supposed to date. All hopes of happiness turn into shattered dreams the moment she steps back on campus...
  • Sacrifice by Denise Grover Swank

    Sacrifice by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **Includes the short story Middle Ground.** Everything Emma loves has been ripped away-Jake, Will, and her unborn baby. Within minutes of confronting her new reality, Emma is thrust in the middle of a war between two supernatural beings and she's the prize...
  • Safe House by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

    Safe House by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    JESS MASTRIANI was on vacation when Amber went missing. Most people blame Jess for Amber's brutal slaying, but how could Jess -- even with her psychic ability to find anyone, anywhere -- have stopped the cheerleader from turning up dead, without having known she was even missing? When yet another cheerleader disappears, Jess has a chance to redeem herself...
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