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  • The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

    The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 87 ratings
    Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  war  family  angst  suspense  domestic-drama  ghosts
  • Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    FORBIDDEN TEMPTATIONS Serena Kelley is an archaeologist and treasure hunter-and a woman with a secret. Since she was seven, she's been the keeper of a powerful charm that grants her health and immortality . . . as long as she stays a virgin. But Serena isn't all that innocent...
  • Predatory Game by Christine Feehan

    Predatory Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The new Ghostwalker novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets ex-Navy SEAL and Ghostwalker Jess Calhoun. But the riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal...
  • Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts

    Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed...
  • Forbidden Nights with a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Forbidden Nights with a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The Best Things in Life Are Always ForbiddenVanda Barkowski is in trouble. As the owner of a hot nightclub, she's more unconventional than most of her fellow vampires, and if some think her a little out of control, then so be it. But after three former employees filed a complaint about her temper, Vanda is sentenced to an anger management class. Worse, Phil Jones agreed to be her sponsor...
  • Night Treasures by Richard Amos

    Night Treasures by Richard Amos

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s no rest for the, erm… Well, for me.Or for Tae Frost.Chaos reigns supreme, everything turned upside down.The world is calling out for a hero.Can I rise to the challenge, or am I doomed to linger in the dark?I have to hold on to hope.For Tae.For Fizz.For the whole of my heart...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  paranormal  lgbtq  war  suspense  romance  urban-fantasy  fantasy
  • Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts

    Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The battleground has been chosen for the final showdown between those selected by the gods and the minions of the vampire Lilith. But there is one vampire who dares stand against her. And his love for the scholarly queen of Geall will complete the circle of six - and change the face of eternity...
  • Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts

    Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Listening Length: 11 hours, 43 minutesNumber-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers an extraordinary new trilogy—an epic tale that breaks down the boundaries between reality and the otherworldly, while forging together the passions of the men and women caught in a battle for the fate of humanity ..
  • Black Dawn by Rachel Caine

    Black Dawn by Rachel Caine

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Ever since the draug—mysterious creatures that prey on vampires—took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil. Most of the town’s residents have evacuated, but Claire, Shane, Eve and Michael have chosen to stay and fight.Using the city’s water system to spread, the draug have rapidly multiplied...
  • Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

    Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate—both within themselves and within their community..
  • If I Should Die by Amy Plum

    If I Should Die by Amy Plum

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    I will not lose another person I love. I will not let history repeat itself.Vincent waited lifetimes to find me, but in an instant our future together was shattered. He was betrayed by someone we both called a friend, and I lost him. Now our enemy is determined to rule over France’s immortals, and willing to wage a war to get what they want...
  • The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts

    The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Year One and Of Blood and Bone concludes her stunning new trilogy praised as "A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's The Stand" with The Rise of Magicks.After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways...
  • WALL MEN: Book One: a Haunted House by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    WALL MEN: Book One: a Haunted House by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a suspenseful Dark Fantasy, Wall Men, Book One. (Book Two, coming June 2022!)MONSTERS? VAMPIRES? GHOSTS AND DEMONS? MEN WHO GUARD THE WALL BETWEEN US AND THEM.I’m sitting at my grandma’s bedside, moments away from losing her, when she begins to rant about monsters and men trapped in her old mansion...
  • A Frost of Cares by Amy Rae Durreson

    A Frost of Cares by Amy Rae Durreson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Winter Ghost Story Looking for a fresh start, historian Luke Alcott takes on a job cataloguing the archives in an old army training centre. Eelmoor Hall is an old house on a lonely heath and the only other living soul on site is Sergeant Jay McBride, the surly caretaker...
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    ghosts  lgbtq  mlm  paranormal  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult
  • The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton

    The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ancient lore leads to present danger in the final book in the dark and sexy paranormal romance trilogy about a descendent of Medusa, set in a richly reimagined New Orleans.Her fate is not set in stone.Having temporarily defeated Athena, Ari races to break the gorgon curse that has plagued the women in her family for centuries...
  • Blood Feud by Alyxandra Harvey

    Blood Feud by Alyxandra Harvey

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It's been centuries since Isabeau St. Croix barely survived the French Revolution. Now she's made her way back to the living and she must face the ultimate test by confronting the evil British lord who left her for dead the day she turned into a vampire. That's if she can control her affection for Logan Drake, a vampire whose bite is as sweet as the revenge she seeks...
  • 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...
  • The Ghost in the Mirror by Faith Gibson

    The Ghost in the Mirror by Faith Gibson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What do you do when you have no memories of your life except the one moment that took everything away? My name is Dex and I'm a Marine. Somewhere in the horrors of the sand overseas, an explosion took out not only most of my unit but also my memories of everything that happened before that day. When my memories don’t return, the explosion also ends my career in the military...
  • Crushed by Eliza Crewe

    Crushed by Eliza Crewe

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Meda's back. This time she has a friend. The battle is over; the choice has been made. Meda Melange has officially hung up her monstrous mantle and planted her feet firmly on the holy and righteous path of a Crusader-in-training. Or, at least, she’s willing to give it a shot. It helps that the Crusaders are the only thing standing between her and the demon hordes who want her dead...
  • Deadly Night by Heather Graham

    Deadly Night by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Flynn brothers have inherited more than a New Orleans plantation. They've inherited a ghostly presence -- and a long-kept secret.Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the haunted-house rumors -- especially since Kendall Montgomery, a tarot card reader who has been living in the mansion, is the one to tell him the tale of a woman in white...
  • Bayou Born by Hailey Edwards

    Bayou Born by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Her beginning may be our end...Deep in the humid swamps of the Mississippi bayou, a mysterious, half-wild child is dragged just in time from the murky waters. She has no memories, no family and is covered in strange markings, the meaning of which no one is able to decipher...
  • Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn

    Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In the seventh entry in Carrie Vaughn's bestselling Kitty Norville series, a publicity stunt turns into a fight for the popular radio talk show host's life.Talk radio host and werewolf Kitty Norville has agreed to appear on TV's first all-supernatural reality show. She's expecting cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics...
  • Half Moon Rising by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Half Moon Rising by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After more than a decade, Troy Bishop is going home to the family he left behind when his parents died. Little does Troy know, he's about to get a lot more than he bargained for.... Sawyer Quinton has been waiting for his mate for as long as he can remember, and was beginning to think he'd never find him. Until Troy Bishop walked back onto the Reservation...
  • Green-Eyed Demon by Jaye Wells

    Green-Eyed Demon by Jaye Wells

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Things to do:1. Rescue sister.2. Murder grandmother.3. Don't upset the voodoo priestess.The clock is ticking for Sabina Kane. Her sister has been kidnapped by her grandmother, the Dark Races are on the brink of war, and a mysterious order is manipulating everyone behind the scenes...
  • Half Lost by Sally Green

    Half Lost by Sally Green

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    This is the final battle.The Alliance is losing the war, and their most critical weapon, seventeen-year-old witch Nathan Byrn, is losing his mind. Nathan’s tally of kills is rising, and yet he’s no closer to ending the tyrannical rule of the Council of White Witches in England...
  • Kitty Goes to War by Carrie Vaughn

    Kitty Goes to War by Carrie Vaughn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Kitty Norville, Alpha werewolf and host of The Midnight Hour, a radio call-in show, is contacted by a friend at the NIH's Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology. Three Army soldiers recently returned from the war in Afghanistan are being held at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs...
  • Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn

    Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Kitty's radio show is as popular as ever and she has a boyfriend who actually seems to understand her. Can she finally settle down to a normal life? Not if this is just the calm before the storm. When her mother falls ill, Kitty rushes back to Denver--and right back to the abusive pack of werewolves she escaped a year ago...
  • Kitty Steals the Show by Carrie Vaughn

    Kitty Steals the Show by Carrie Vaughn

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Kitty Norville has been tapped as the keynote speaker for the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies, taking place in London. The conference brings together scientists, activists, protestors, and supernatural beings from all over the world - and Kitty is right in the middle of it...
  • Kitty Rocks the House by Carrie Vaughn

    Kitty Rocks the House by Carrie Vaughn

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    On the heels of Kitty's return from London, a new werewolf shows up in Denver, one who threatens to split the pack by challenging Kitty's authority at every turn. The timing could not be worse; Kitty needs all the allies she can muster to go against the ancient vampire, Roman, if she's to have any hope of defeating his Long Game...
  • I Dream of Danger by Lisa Marie Rice

    I Dream of Danger by Lisa Marie Rice

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They are the Ghost Ops: a covert squad of super-elite soldiers. After their team was betrayed and massacred, the three surviving members went underground and built Haven, a community of misfits and geniuses. Now they're at a cross-roads, facing a new threat capable of destroying everything they hold dear...
  • Yellow Brick War by Danielle Paige

    Yellow Brick War by Danielle Paige

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    In this action-packed third book in the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series, new girl from Kansas Amy Gumm is caught between her home—and Oz. Perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, Danielle Paige delivers a dark, high-octane reimagining of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.My name is Amy Gumm...
  • The Taste of Night by Vicki Pettersson

    The Taste of Night by Vicki Pettersson

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Second Sign of the ZodiacBeing mortal isn’t easy. Being a superhero is even harder.Even mortal, Joanna Archer was nobody’s idea of a victim. But now, infused with the supernatural power to alter the battle between Shadow and Light forever, what she’s become is a target. And when a toxic virus invades the valley, her allies are targets are well...
  • Perfect Mate by Mina Carter, Emily Beresford

    Perfect Mate by Mina Carter, Emily Beresford

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Monsters do exist... and they’re the good guys.Lillian Rosewood leads an ordinary, boring life working as the manager of a psychiatric hospital. The highlights of her day, other than her skinny hot chocolate, are the hunky guards who work in the secure section. Until a late-night emergency is wheeled in.Captain Jack Harper is insane, drop-dead gorgeous... and just had his abdomen shredded...
  • The Veil by Chloe Neill

    The Veil by Chloe Neill

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Seven years ago, the Veil that separates humanity from what lies beyond was torn apart, and New Orleans was engulfed in a supernatural war. Now, those with paranormal powers have been confined in a walled community that humans call the District. Those who live there call it Devil's Isle...
  • The Veil by Chloe Neill

    The Veil by Chloe Neill

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Seven years ago, the Veil that separates humanity from what lies beyond was torn apart, and New Orleans was engulfed in a supernatural war. Now, those with paranormal powers have been confined in a walled community that humans call the District. Those who live there call it Devil's Isle...
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