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  • Ascension by Shayne Silvers

    Ascension by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Godkiller will rise. Despite his recent victories, Nate Temple’s problems are only just beginning. Although it had been necessary, killing the most infamous of the Norse gods has consequences, and no one knows petty vengeance like the Aesir. Especially with Odin’s legendary spear mysteriously missing.But Nate has more important things to worry about than a pantheon of angry gods...
  • Wicked Lies by Megan Montero

    Wicked Lies by Megan Montero

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My power doesn’t lie but everyone else does…Ever since Beckett Dustwick walked into my life, I’ve only wanted one thing…him. To bad he doesn’t feel the same way. Our soulmate mark tells me we are destined to be together an important fact he lied about. But a broken heart won’t stop me from showing him exactly what I think. He may have started this game, but I will finish it...
  • Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

    Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go.If you ever lost a sock, you’ll find it here.If you ever wondered about favorite toy from childhood... it’s probably sitting on a shelf in the back.And the headphones that you swore that this time you’d keep safe? You guessed it….Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He’s not in the shop, and she’ll never see him again...
  • Incarnations Of Immortality by Piers Anthony

    Incarnations Of Immortality by Piers Anthony

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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  • Kings of Heaven by Richard Nell

    Kings of Heaven by Richard Nell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the final book of the Ash and Sand trilogy, Ruka, son of Beyla, faces the emperor of the world, yet even victory may not save his people…With the death of his ally, Farahi Alaku, Ruka ‘Godtongue’ is alone. Or not exactly… The island prince Kale Alaku now haunts his mind, rattling within his once peaceful ‘Grove’, promising revenge and growing every moment in power...
  • Firstborn: The Complete Series by Isla Frost

    Firstborn: The Complete Series by Isla Frost

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Humans are prey. Holding off the hunters will require falling in with the enemy.For the first time, grab the complete box set of the bestselling trilogy readers have dubbed "SPECTACULAR," "BRILLIANTLY IMAGINATIVE," and "UNPUTDOWNABLE."The invaders didn't come in spaceships. They stepped through a glowing portal and brought death and magic to humankind..
  • Dueling Fates by Stephanie M. Allen

    Dueling Fates by Stephanie M. Allen

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the world of Erez, three kingdoms share a tentative peace. In the far west, Princess Isemay yearns for much more than frilly dresses and etiquette classes. While her twin sister, Alena, prepares for life as a monarch in a neighboring kingdom, Isemay roams the woods with her loyal cheetah, hunting dagger strapped to her belt...
  • The Faerie Mates by Michelle Madow

    The Faerie Mates by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the Faerie Games, it’s kill or be killed. And I’m going to survive, no matter what the cost. Who will win the next Emperor of the Villa competition? Will I tell Julian that we’re soulmates? And most importantly—will Julian, Cassia, and I defeat Octavia and make it out of the Games alive? I’ll do whatever’s necessary to survive...
  • Chew the Bullet by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Chew the Bullet by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Idina Moorfield isn’t the only one on her team with unusual powers.Her buddy, Stop remembers everything he sees, and Cake is a new kind of man of steel.That’s the last two, which means everyone in Idina’s unit has a unique talent.Why would the Army want to bring them all together?Her commander, Hines is still refusing to answer her questions...
  • It’s a Wonderful Night by Jaimie Admans

    It’s a Wonderful Night by Jaimie Admans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Georgia Bailey is closing up her little charity shop in Oakbarrow when she gets a mysterious late night call from a stranger, threatening to jump off the town’s bridge. Something about the man’s voice is faintly familiar but all she can do is stay on the line and after talking for hours, losing sense of time passing, coax him back from the edge...
  • Hidden Desire by Amy Patrick

    Hidden Desire by Amy Patrick

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... Culley Rune is the perfect guy—as far as anyone can see. Inside, he knows he's unlovable, unworthy, unwanted. He's done terrible things in service to his father, the corrupt leader of the Dark Council--including playing a pivotal role in the mysterious new drug epidemic that's sweeping the human population of the world...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  dark  myths  audiobook  book  contemporary  fae  fiction
  • The Order of Brigid's Cross by Terri Reid

    The Order of Brigid's Cross by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Detective Sean O’Reilly is called in to interrogate a young boy who is the only witness to a massacre during a gang war. The child’s story is too far-fetched for most of the Chicago Police Force to believe – claims of an army of other-worldly creatures who attacked and dismembered the rival gangs. But Sean O’Reilly believes him, because he’s seen them himself...
  • Shadow Faerie by Rachel Morgan

    Shadow Faerie by Rachel Morgan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Enter the dazzling and deadly world of Unseelie royalty in the penultimate Creepy Hollow book!Emerson Clarke thought magic might solve all her problems. Turns out, magic only made her life more complicated. Her sick mother is in a worse position than before, and Em just made a risky deal with an Unseelie prince: he will heal her mother if Em agrees to the ultimate alliance—marriage...
  • Troll Nation by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson

    Troll Nation by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Build. Evolve. Conquer. The dawn of the Troll Nation has begun … Roark von Graf—former noble and hedge-mage, current mid-level mob in a MMORPG—has taken down the Dungeon Lord of the Cruel Citadel, but the battle has only started.Lowen, right hand to the Tyrant King, has come to Hearthworld, and he is building an army of his own...
  • Hidden Magic by Amy Patrick

    Hidden Magic by Amy Patrick

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The evil of the Ancient Court is spreading... Macy Moreno has been through hell. She only survived because the guy she loved — Nicolo Buonaccorsi — sacrificed his own life to save her. Though she’s discovered there’s much more to the world than she ever imagined, as far as Macy is concerned, all its magic died with him. She’s alive, but her heart will never recover...
  • The Mysterious Plato by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle

    The Mysterious Plato by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who would suspect that one of the most powerful entities in the world is a black and white cat?Few know that most historical events in the last several centuries were orchestrated by this innocuous feline. Plato isn’t an ordinary cat. He’s a magical lynx with extraordinary powers...
  • Tower of Tempest by Tee Harlowe

    Tower of Tempest by Tee Harlowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I might be sheltered, but I’m smart enough to know that I can’t fall for the playboy prince—or his charms.I’ve spent my life locked in a tower with nothing but books and my gran to keep me company. Until the day she disappears. Despite Gran’s warnings about never leaving, I’ve finally discovered a way out, and I’m going to find her.At least that’s the plan. Until some idiot decides to rescue me...
  • Wicked Queen by Megan Montero

    Wicked Queen by Megan Montero

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My power, my reign…I thought I knew danger, I was wrong. That wicked potion was just the beginning. I feel strong with Tuck by my side, but we’re in way over our heads. We need heavenly Fire. It’s the only thing that can destroy Alataris’ crown. And we can’t beat him any other way. That crown is the seat of his power…and I’m going to take it from him...
  • A Bond of Briars by Erin Phillips

    A Bond of Briars by Erin Phillips

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She is bonded to a spirit who demands her blood.She follows a mother-in-law who resents her power.She meets a man who challenges everything she’s ever believed.After a fatal illness takes newlywed Caitrin’s husband, she finds herself obligated by duty and oath to care for her mother-in-law, Meara, at any cost…even if it means traveling to Croìthe, where magic of any kind is outlawed...
  • Hidden Danger by Amy Patrick

    Hidden Danger by Amy Patrick

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Danger is Everywhere... The Dark Council has struck a shocking and powerful blow against the Light Court and its human allies, defying their own king, Nox, and seeking to re-establish Dark Elven influence and domination over the human world...
  • Hidden Darkness by Amy Patrick

    Hidden Darkness by Amy Patrick

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Darkness is Coming...Ryann and Lad are together and in love, but they are not yet bonded. Wedding plans are underway, but they cannot marry until the mourning period for his father, the murdered king, ends. Waiting is sweet torture and gets harder all the time. Nox and Vancia are touring the world with his band The Hidden and enjoying their honeymoon...
  • Dialogues with Leucò by Cesare Pavese

    Dialogues with Leucò by Cesare Pavese

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A series of dialogues between mythological figures, treating the question of human destiny as the personal content of myths. In his foreword, Pavese elaborates on his method in the Dialogues: "What is more acutely disturbing than to see familiar scenes troubled into new life? . . . A true revelation, I am convinced, can only emerge from stubborn concentration on a single problem...
  • Ride The Thunder by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Ride The Thunder by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An international mission tracking the source of monsters, and a familiar surprise, await the Elemental, Idina Moorfield and Hellion's Bravo Team.Now that they've recognized the pattern, Idina and her unit need to close the Monstrous Pandora's Box to balance out the scales after defeating the Olc.But supernatural entities in Scotland are nothing like what Bravo Team has dealt with back home...
  • Hidden Hope by Amy Patrick

    Hidden Hope by Amy Patrick

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Give in to the Glamour as the saga continues... Ryann is torn between two kings… two brothers. Lad, the king of the Light Court, is her first love. Nox, the new king of the Dark Court, came through when she needed him most and won her heart. But Lad has revealed a secret to Ryann that devastates her and tears at her loyalties...
  • Hidden Game by Amy Patrick

    Hidden Game by Amy Patrick

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a royal in the Ancient Court, Nic’s life is planned out for him. Those plans do NOT include falling in love with a human… 18-year-old Macy Moreno meant to spend a few months backpacking around Europe. Instead, she’s ended up in an ancient castle belonging to international soccer sensation Nicolo Buonaccorsi...
  • Shadow by Adrienne Woods

    Shadow by Adrienne Woods

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chastity Blake discovered the hard way what she was. A modern day Sandman. But things aren't looking up for Chastity. She is guarding a secret deep within her, her dark sand, or what Reverans would call, her Shadow. Shadow Casters are known for their dark dreams, the nightmares they create, and for Chastity landing up in the Oblivian with all the other Shadow Casters is so not on her list...
    Categorized as:
    dark  myths  retellings  book  contemporary  epic  family  fiction
  • Of Water and Moonlight by Valia Lind

    Of Water and Moonlight by Valia Lind

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'm losing control of my magic... and a wolf shifter has to keep me in check. An Ancient evil is spreading throughout the land. When it knocks on the door of my school, everyone expects me to fight it.But I’m hiding a secret….my magic is on the fritz.Not only that, but the headmaster forces me into combat training lessons with my nemesis.Aiden Lawson, wolf shifter...
  • Dark Fae Freed by Heather Renee

    Dark Fae Freed by Heather Renee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I had one job—kill the king, and I failed.I’d once thought ending King Zephyr’s reign would be enough for me to move beyond my past, but the longer I’m within the fae realm, the more I realize nothing is as simple as I’d hoped.My first attempt to take down the castle might have been unsuccessful, but I refuse to accept defeat. The only problem..
  • Vassago by Randi Cooley Wilson

    Vassago by Randi Cooley Wilson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Seeker with one desire. A Goddess who safeguards an ancient curse. Sometimes even love cannot save a dark soul. Vassago is a Seeker haunted by his dark soul, making him dangerous and mysterious to everyone around him—except Lore. Lore is a goddess who wards an ancient curse...
  • A Deal for a Kiss by Willow Winters

    A Deal for a Kiss by Willow Winters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing could hide her from me. The darkness is everywhere and it moves about in the mortal realm…. And then there’s her. Bright and so easily seen. Mine. She calls to me like I prayed to the Gods she would. I should feel guilt for what I’m going to do. What I must do.She doesn’t remember, but I do. She belongs to me.I will claim her and bring her to the underworld as mine...
  • Bottle Demon by Stephen Blackmoore

    Bottle Demon by Stephen Blackmoore

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The sixth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.The Necromancer is dead. Long live the Necromancer...
  • Dead Stare by M.R. Forbes

    Dead Stare by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Conor Night, the world’s only necromancer, is starting to think that his life is finally coming together. His last job not only left him funded but also helped him fall off the radar of the world’s two most powerful wizards...
    Categorized as:
    dark  myths  retellings  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Immortal and the Island of Impossible Things by Gene Doucette

    Immortal and the Island of Impossible Things by Gene Doucette

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "I thought I'd miss the world." --Adam the immortalAdam is on vacation in an island paradise, with nothing to do and plenty of time to do nothing.It's exactly what he needed: beautiful weather, beautiful girlfriend, plenty of books to read, and alcohol to drink. Most importantly, either nobody on the island knows who he is, or, nobody cares."This probably sounds boring, and maybe it is...
  • Chasing Cats by Erin Bedford

    Chasing Cats by Erin Bedford

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes the smallest debt comes with the highest price. Kat went down the rabbit hole and came out changed. Now everyone wants something from her and she is hard pressed to give in to any of them. Only the irresistibly mysterious Cheshire Cat seems to be on her side. But even he has secrets of his own. Secrets that cause him to show up beaten and bloody on her doorstep...
  • Hidden Hero by Amy Patrick

    Hidden Hero by Amy Patrick

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A hero can come from the unlikeliest of places... After a year-long separation and a search across continents, Macy and Nic have found each other again. Now they must find her family — the birth mother who abandoned her at the hospital and fled back to her people’s secret sanctuary — if they are to beat the clock and save the human race from the onslaught of the coming Plague...
  • The First Four Books Of Poems by Louise Glück

    The First Four Books Of Poems by Louise Glück

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The fierce, austerely beautiful voice that has become Glück's trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in unflinching awareness. Includes "Firstborn", "The House on Marshland", "Descending Figure", and "The Triumph of Achilles"...
  • Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson

    Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The third and final book of the brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, from the bestselling author of the Scotiabank Giller-prize finalist Son of a Trickster and Trickster Drift...
  • Kings of Paradise by Richard Nell

    Kings of Paradise by Richard Nell

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A deformed genius plots vengeance while struggling to survive. A wastrel prince comes of age, finding a power he never imagined. Two worlds are destined to collide. Only one can be king. Ruka, called a demon at birth, is a genius. Born malformed and ugly into the snow-covered wasteland of the Ascom, he was spared from death by his mother's love...
  • Goddess Revenge by M.W. Muse

    Goddess Revenge by M.W. Muse

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hell hath no fury like a goddess scorned... at least that's the way Legacy sees it. Her dreams collide into a message she did not want to acknowledge, but the implication ignites within her hotter than the knowledge of the betrayal itself. The only thing to do to cure getting mad? Getting even...
  • Goddess Bared by M.W. Muse

    Goddess Bared by M.W. Muse

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The consequences of her actions are too much. Legacy was warned what would happen, but she thought she could outsmart it. She was wrong. How can she pick up the pieces of her life when all she now has is a void existence? The life she wanted...gone. Her heart has been ripped out, leaving her soul bared. The prophecy she's been battling from the beginning has finally come true...
  • Goddess Bound by M.W. Muse

    Goddess Bound by M.W. Muse

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Faced with one of her greatest fears, Legacy knows time is of the essence. Now stuck in the one place she’d been trying to avoid since learning about her true legacy, she must find a way out before it’s too late. But will her new accomplice be as willing to do whatever is necessary to get free before her eighteenth birthday? Even more troubling..
  • Goddess Sacrifice by M.W. Muse

    Goddess Sacrifice by M.W. Muse

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Legacy wouldn’t let a little thing like changing into a goddess distract her from the joys of her senior year in high school...or hanging with her friends. She enjoys the dances and parties and getting closer to Adin...even trying her hand at seducing him. She’s ready to take their relationship to the next level, regardless of any bond she might have with River and any bond Adin has with Venus...
  • The Intuitives by Erin Michelle Sky, Steven Brown

    The Intuitives by Erin Michelle Sky, Steven Brown

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    IMAGINATION JUST BECAME OUR GREATEST WEAPON.In Egypt, an archaeological team discovers the lost tomb of Alexander the Great...
  • Paper Tigers by Meg Collett

    Paper Tigers by Meg Collett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fear University has created a new monster … The infamous fear switch research started with me, Patient Zero. But I am a failure. My mind adapted and now I move through the shadows like the creatures I was created to hunt. I spent my entire life in a cage with scalpels in my brain, but I am finally free—thanks to the Commander. I am Zero, and I will make the bad men at Fear University pay...
  • The Rise of Nazil by Aaron-Michael Hall

    The Rise of Nazil by Aaron-Michael Hall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was the 75th year of Alberoth when the AsZar summoned the Guardians. There was an imbalance in the lands of Faélondul. The Zaxson, Draizeyn Vereux covered the lands in a pall of darkness. There was a plan to exterminate the infestation in Nazil and beyond, a plan to eradicate the humans...
    Categorized as:
    myths  retellings  adult  book  contemporary  drama  epic  fiction
  • Anaché by Maria Turtschaninoff

    Anaché by Maria Turtschaninoff

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Om nätterna vandrar nomadflickan Anaché med andarna. Om dagarna lär hennes älskade bror henne allt det en akkadekvinna inte får kunna: kasta kniv, jaga och rida som en man. Men i en värld där faror och förbud styr en flickas liv får hon inte visa sina förmågor för någon. Speciellt inte då hennes far är stammens ledare, en oberäknelig, våldsam man...
  • Immortal Stories: Eve by Gene Doucette

    Immortal Stories: Eve by Gene Doucette

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the pages of the Immortal book series, it’s Eve.“…if your next question is, what could that possibly make me, if I’m not an angel or a god? The answer is the same as what I said before: many have considered me a god, and probably a few have thought of me as an angel. I’m neither, if those positions are defined by any kind of supernormal magical power...
  • Thundersword by Julian Rosado-Machain

    Thundersword by Julian Rosado-Machain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    GUARDIANS INC. BOOK 2: THUNDERSWORDThe search for the Book of Concord is on the brink of failure. Guardians Inc. can’t move without being followed by the Azure Guard, and the balance between Magic and Technology has begun to shift giving Magical creatures a stronger hold in our world...
  • Phoenix (Dragon Eye) by Finley Aaron

    Phoenix (Dragon Eye) by Finley Aaron

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Out of the ashes of a once-great dragon nation, a flame-colored dragon named Nia emerged. Alone for centuries, Nia is desperate to find more of her own kind. She indentures herself to the mad scientist Eudora in hopes of learning the whereabouts of her fellow dragons...
  • Ordinary Girl by Ripley Harper

    Ordinary Girl by Ripley Harper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Where do you run, when what you fear most is the darkness inside you? In the small town where she lives, Jess has always been considered a bit of a freak. The outsider with the strange hair. The tragic weirdo who can’t get over her mother’s death. The violent psycho who beat up the biggest boy in school. Over the years she’s worked hard to fit in. To make some friends...
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