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  • The Crane Diaries: Stained by Apryl Baker

    The Crane Diaries: Stained by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I Am Death. I Am Darkness. I Am Creation. These are the simple truths Emma Rose Crane, AKA Mattie Hathaway, has run from for the last two years, but the situation she finds herself in will not let her flee her past anymore. It’s barreling toward her at the speed of a bullet. Mattie finds herself back in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the trial of Dan’s mother...
  • Message in the Grave by Dawn Merriman

    Message in the Grave by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A psychic suspense thriller The darker the secret, the harder it is to keep buried I’m finally accepting that my psychic talents serve a purpose, that I can use them to help people. But two mysteries plague me...
  • Blood Shadows by Tessa Dawn

    Blood Shadows by Tessa Dawn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nachari Silivasi is a bright light in a Dark World. As the youngest vampire in a family of warriors, he has studied Magick for four-hundred years and acquired a rare mastery of the universe around him. He is beloved by his family; legendary for his good-looks; and known for his uncommon valor...
  • Blood Possession by Tessa Dawn

    Blood Possession by Tessa Dawn

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Napolean Mondragon is no ordinary soul. He is the sovereign lord of the house of Jadon, the very heart-beat of the Vampyr race, and a fearsome leader who rules with absolute authority and power. While he carries the blood of every vampire in his veins; he also carries a dark secret of shame in his heart…A secret that will soon be used against him by his enemies...
  • Nightsoul by McKenzie Hunter

    Nightsoul by McKenzie Hunter

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Who would have thought that a mysterious and powerful man who chose to go by the name Mephisto would be more than meets the eye? I did! And yet I still wasn’t prepared for what I discovered about him.He’s a wildcard. But with so many people wanting me dead, I need all the friends I can get.My life is quickly becoming a cornucopia of crap, and I don’t need any more enemies or any more trouble...
  • Spy, Spy Again by Mercedes Lackey

    Spy, Spy Again by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Now in paperback, the third novel of the Family Spies series, set in the bestselling world of Valdemar, where Heralds Mags and Amily's youngest child must follow in his parents' footsteps to protect both his family and the realm.Thirteen year old Prince Kyril and Mags and Amily's fourteen-year-old son Tory share the Gift of Farsight--although neither of them are Chosen...
  • The Shadow Court by Jenn Stark

    The Shadow Court by Jenn Stark

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Don’t you forget about me… She’s a Tarot-reading artifact hunter finally willing to own her supernatural abilities. He’s the all-powerful Magician of the Arcana Council who once loved her…but now doesn’t remember her, the result of a battle to defeat a terrifying enemy...
  • The Bonds of Blood by Becca Andre

    The Bonds of Blood by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Born without a heartbeat or a soul, James Huntsman has never felt part of the mortal world. It’s an insecurity his abusive brothers reinforced daily, and with his very existence bound to theirs through the alchemically altered blood they share, James has always been at their mercy. All that changed when James found a home within the magical community and fell in love...
  • Matt Archer: Redemption by Kendra C. Highley

    Matt Archer: Redemption by Kendra C. Highley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “There’s more to me than you know…”When Matt Archer’s sister, Mamie, said those words to him three years ago, he had no idea how prophetic they were, or what this would mean for his family.Now, he knows. And it changes everything, bringing the war right to Matt’s doorstep.In the epic conclusion to the Matt Archer series, the endgame is near...
  • Hell's Hammer by Ron Ripley, Thom Bowers

    Hell's Hammer by Ron Ripley, Thom Bowers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An experiment in terror pushed him to his limits. Now Subject B is fighting back. His name is Marcus Holt. He is a fighter, a survivor, and a decorated combat veteran. But to the sadistic Professor Abel Worthe, Marcus is known merely as Subject B -- a pawn in the scientist’s inhumane experiments. Worthe is an expert in the study of death and fear...
  • Red Rain by R.S. Black

    Red Rain by R.S. Black

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Red Rain Pandora has been through hell and back. Literally. She’s been kidnapped and tortured, found freedom, and then lost it all over again. She’s now the newest pawn in the age-old war between Heaven and Hell. The Triad owns her mark, Asher owns her heart, but the demon Wrath might just own her soul. Death—aka Dean—is her constant companion in these final days...
  • New York Night by Stephen Leather, Paul Thornley

    New York Night by Stephen Leather, Paul Thornley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Teenagers are being possessed and turning into sadistic murderers. Priests can't help, nor can psychiatrists. So who is behind the demonic possessions? Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate, and finds his own soul is on the line...
  • Soul's Gate by James L. Rubart

    Soul's Gate by James L. Rubart

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Every now and then we get a break from reality. A glimpse into the other world that is more real than the reality we live in 99 percent of our days. The Bible is about a world of demons and angels and great evil and even greater glory.”What if you could travel inside another person’s soul?To battle for them. To be part of Jesus healing their deepest wounds...
  • Redeeming Angel by J.L. Weil

    Redeeming Angel by J.L. Weil

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The war between Hell and Earth is about to commence. But first, Chase must save the girl he loves. Hell should have killed Chase Winters when it had the chance. Now, it’s too late. He is coming for them—all of them. And he won’t stop until he gets what he wants. Angel. Chase will be damned before he lets Hell take the only thing that matters in his life...
  • The Spook's Stories: Grimalkin's Tale by Joseph Delaney

    The Spook's Stories: Grimalkin's Tale by Joseph Delaney

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    'I fear nobody. But my enemies fear me . . . Without ruthlessness and savagery I would not survive even a week of the life I lead. I am the witch assassin of the Malkin clan.'Meet Grimalkin, the fearsome witch assassin, and find out how she came to take the role she now holds...
  • Blood Ecstasy by Tessa Dawn

    Blood Ecstasy by Tessa Dawn

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Julien Lacusta is a troubled soul, born into tragic circumstances, and raised in a violent time. Despite being a Master Warrior in the house of Jadon, and one of the most elite trackers the Vampyr have ever seen, he is damaged to the core: tormented by endless shadows, haunted by unseen ghosts...
  • Concealed by Vanessa Nelson

    Concealed by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A fragile peace, a suspicious death, and secrets that could destroy everyone. Oath-bound to the arrogant Erith in exchange for her life, Arrow's freedom is days away when they set her one last task; investigate the death of a high-ranking shape-changer, one of their old enemies. The shape-changers suspect the Erith of murder and Arrow nearly becomes the first victim in a new war between races...
  • 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...
  • Dancing with the Devil by R.K. Ryals

    Dancing with the Devil by R.K. Ryals

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***Due to language, violence, and sexual content, this book is suggested for older readers***Falling ash. Subservient Hellhounds. Dark mirrors and ticking clocks. Such is the life of a daughter of Hecate living in Hell...Monroe Jacobs isn't your typical witch. She is strong, her powers growing with each passing day. They are powers that beckon, powers coveted by many, including the man she loves...
  • The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When magic returned almost two decades ago, it found a modern world rooted in science, and those beliefs colored the way new abilities manifested. This New Magic is in sharp contrast to Old Magic, which has always been around, hiding in the dark and forgotten places. Addie isn’t magical, but she can wield power with the best of them...
  • The Cursed and Desired by G. Bailey

    The Cursed and Desired by G. Bailey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s no love in a world of witches and war. Riona Dark’s plan to escape The Onyx, and the vampire she left behind there, all went up in smoke the moment the witches revealed their true intent.On the witches’ island, The Quartz, Riona finds it’s full of more horrors than she could imagine...
  • Whispers in the Dark by Laurel Hightower

    Whispers in the Dark by Laurel Hightower

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rose McFarland is a trained killer--a Memphis S.W.A.T. sniper with a secret. Her team knows about the burn scars that lurk under her clothes, a legacy of the house fire that killed her father and brother sixteen years before. Her supervisors know that she spent two years in a rehabilitative facility, healing and learning to cope with the emotional trauma of the fire...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  dark  gothic  horror  fantasy  fiction  ghosts  grief
  • Night's Favor by Richard Parry

    Night's Favor by Richard Parry

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Bad hangovers don’t usually come with a pile of bodies.Valentine surfaces after a drunken night to find drug megacorp Biomne has unleashed hired guns to bring Val in: no questions, and no witnesses. A criminally insane Russian's also hungering at his heels. Could one ravening sociopath be worse than an army?Val's newfound strength and speed might not be enough to save him...
  • Gravestone by Travis Thrasher, Kirby Heyborne

    Gravestone by Travis Thrasher, Kirby Heyborne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His fear will soon turn to anger…. At first, Chris Buckley was simply warned. And watched. But as Chris unravels the haunting riddles of the town of Solitary, he finds that much more than the life of a town is at stake. Whether facing a pastor with a house full of skeletons or a cousin he never knew existed, Chris is forced to choose between light and darkness, life and nightmarish death...
  • The White Night by Desmond Doane

    The White Night by Desmond Doane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Yes, you should be afraid of the dark…A mighty demon sits at the right hand of Satan, and he knows paranormal investigator Ford Atticus Ford by name. Mike Long, too, but what the vile creature covets most lies with little Chelsea Hopper.As Ford wrestles with the uncertain nature of his future, a different kind of evil storms into his world, proving that not all demons are inhuman...
  • Recombinant by Shannon Mayer, Denise Grover Swank

    Recombinant by Shannon Mayer, Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From NYT and USAT bestselling authors Denise Grover Swank and Shannon Mayer comes a new twist on the world of vampires . . .In the city that never sleeps, nightmares live in the darkness . . .A series of grisly murders begin to pile up in New York City, murders that have no rhyme or reason and no leads. Unless one chooses to believe that the supernatural is possible...
  • The Unholy Deception by L.A. Marzulli

    The Unholy Deception by L.A. Marzulli

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    'The Cadre' claims to have Christ's body preserved and hidden in an ancient tomb.For journalist Art 'Mac' Mackenzie, the scenario smacks of an alien agenda. He determines to unearth the truth at any cost. But the Cadre doesn't surrender its secrets easily...
  • Demon Dawn by William Massa

    Demon Dawn by William Massa

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Over the years, I’ve racked up a pretty interesting resume. Monster Hunter. Demon Slayer. Paranormal Investigator. Now I’m about to add "thief" to the list. The mastermind behind this high-risk heist is Vincent Taske, a billionaire dying of cancer. A man desperate to cheat death no matter what the cost. His plan? Break into the Hagen Bank...
  • Valley of the Shadow by Tom Pawlik

    Valley of the Shadow by Tom Pawlik

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Conner Hayden is certain he survived his near-death experience for a reason. He thinks it’s to save the life—and soul—of Mitch Kent. Mitch’s body remains on life support while his spirit is trapped with the old farmer Howard Bristol in the Interworld—a strange and dangerous dimension that Conner narrowly escaped during his brush with death in Pawlik’s award-winning debut novel, "Vanish...
  • The Occupied by Craig Parshall

    The Occupied by Craig Parshall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a youth, Trevor Black unleashed spiritual forces he couldn t comprehend. Years later, Trevor is a high-flying criminal defense lawyer in New York City, with a six-figure Aston Martin and a trophy wife. But in an extraordinary turn of events, he receives a burdensome gift: the ability to perceive the invisible. And the dark forces he now sees are all gunning for him...
  • Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor

    Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winner of the Silver Medal for Horror in the 2016 Independent Publishing Awards HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS? Elliot Jefferson moved to the isolated Estates of North Hills to work on his sobriety and avoid other people at all costs. But when the electric transformers around the complex begin emitting a horrible buzz that he calls ‘the Squall,’ neither is easy to achieve...
  • Demonic by Jeff Strand

    Demonic by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of PRESSURE and AUTUMN BLEEDS INTO WINTER, comes a new novel of unrelenting terror.Corey is falling in love with his co-worker Quinn. This is a problem. Not only because Quinn is married, but because her husband is a serial killer known as the Toledo Trasher, who has been forcing her to participate in his savage crimes...
    Categorized as:
    demons  paranormal  dark  spirituality  horror  humor  fiction  cults
  • Holes in the Ground by J.A. Konrath, Iain Rob Wright

    Holes in the Ground by J.A. Konrath, Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Monsters exist. Linguist Andy Dennison-Jones knows this all too well. He and his veterinarian wife, Sun, have been chased by them before, and barely escaped from a secret underground government facility with their lives. Now they once again find themselves trapped alongside a collection of creatures straight out of hell...
  • The Oath by Frank E. Peretti

    The Oath by Frank E. Peretti

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    An ancient sin. A long forgotten oath. A town with a deadly secret. Something sinister is at work in Hyde River, an isolated mining town in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Something evil. Under the cover of darkness, a predator strikes without warning--taking life in the most chilling and savage fashion.The community of Hyde River watches in terror as residents suddenly vanish...
  • Unhallowed by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Unhallowed by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They thought they could destroy House Sinister for good, but they weren’t expecting her... Evangeline, a hellion born with the gifts of dual-blades and advanced magic not seen for over a century, had been living a great life as a Guard at House Sinister for many years...
  • Paper Dolls by Anya Allyn

    Paper Dolls by Anya Allyn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The DARK CAROUSEL series is a heart-stopping mix of American Horror Story and the fantastical elements of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.                                                      ~In Book One, Cassie, Ethan and Lacey sought their missing friend, Aisha, in the deep of the forest...
  • Hellmouth by Giles Kristian

    Hellmouth by Giles Kristian

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bohemia. 1370. A lost soul named Galien leads a band of hardened mercenaries on a mission for Mother Church. But in the dark forests of central Europe, a darker secret awaits. Bestselling author Giles Kristian (Lancelot, The Raven Viking Trilogy) takes us on an unnerving ride into fear and paranoia, bloodshed and redemption...
  • Sinner by Ted Dekker

    Sinner by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Some say roll with the punches. Drift with the tide. Nothing can stop the inevitability of change. There was a time when 300 Spartans disagreed with such mindless thinking and stood in the gap.Now it's time for 3,000 to stand in the gap."Sinner" is the story of Marsuvees Black, a force of raw evil who speaks with wicked persuasion that is far more destructive than swords or guns...
  • Cain by James Byron Huggins

    Cain by James Byron Huggins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the CIA took Cain's lifeless body from the ground, they intended to create the perfect soldier. Piece by piece, they rebuilt his soulless flesh and transformed it. A team of scientists outfitted him with the most powerful muscles and the deadliest weapons that the generals could ever have wished for. Alive, Cain had been their deadliest killer; dead, he became their greatest nightmare...
  • Shatter Stone by Jonathan Moeller

    Shatter Stone by Jonathan Moeller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nadia Moran has made a lot of mistakes in her career as a master thief, but thanks to her wit and her magical skills, she's been able to avoid the consequences. But now the consequences have caught up to her. She owes a favor to the powerful Knight of Grayhold, and the time has come to pay up. And unless Nadia does something clever, repaying that favor is going to get her killed..
  • The Haunting by Bill Myers

    The Haunting by Bill Myers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Scott and Rebecca’s greatest enemy, the Ascension Lady, has come to Becka for help.She wants to hold a séance to free the spirit of a little girl who has been haunting an old mansion in town. After a series of eerie experiences, Becka and Scott begin to wonder if it really is a ghost haunting the old mansion in town…or demons...
  • Blood Tithe by Glenn J. Soucy

    Blood Tithe by Glenn J. Soucy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    At age five, Jeremy is playing with his friend in the woods, outside of a military base in Maine. He falls through an old World War II tunnel, which is half flooded with both water and chemicals from long forgotten scientific experiments. Jeremy is rescued, but his body is forever altered. Soon he discovers that he can gather energy from living things. But his new abilities come with a price..
  • Dark Phoenix by Karina Espinosa

    Dark Phoenix by Karina Espinosa

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How far would I go for freedom?Lucifer’s mark has a control on my life and the only way out is sacrificing a friend. When Michael gives himself up for my freedom, it comes with consequences.The angels find out what Michael has done to save my life, and it is now my turn to save his. With a bargain struck, it’s a race against the clock to put an end to this once and for all.It’s me against Lucifer...
  • Phoenix Rise by Karina Espinosa

    Phoenix Rise by Karina Espinosa

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For someone who can’t die, it felt as if I were already dead.He took everything from me and I don’t have the energy or fight in me to get it back. Not that I could. What he took is long gone and never coming back.The pain of what he did—what I did—will haunt me for the rest of my life. That is until I met a certain angel in the cell next to mine and I knew I couldn’t give up yet...
  • The Curse by Bill Myers, James Riordan

    The Curse by Bill Myers, James Riordan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I think someone—or something—doesn’t want us here. And I think whatever it is is very powerful.”Becka Williams isn’t convinced that this trip to Louisiana was such a good idea...
  • The Haunted by Frank E. Peretti

    The Haunted by Frank E. Peretti

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four Bestselling Authors Team Up for Thrilling Supernatural SuspenseGathering four stories from four bestselling author friends, Invitation is the first collection in the ongoing Harbingers series. In "The Call" by Bill Myers, four strangers are drawn together to help a student at the mysterious Institute for Advanced Psychic Studies. His gifts are supposedly being honed to assist world leaders...
  • The Syndicate by Jon F. Merz

    The Syndicate by Jon F. Merz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    NOW with the "Seal of EBook Excellence!" - Proofed, Properly Formatted, and a Great Price: Just $3.99!A missing family member sends Lawson on a trip to New York City only to run smack into vampire organized crime. Now they've got Lawson right where they want him - and they want him to switch sides and betray the Balance...
  • Watcher of the Dark by Joseph Nassise

    Watcher of the Dark by Joseph Nassise

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A spine-tingling new Jeremiah Hunt dark fantasy thriller.New Orleans was nearly the death of Jeremiah Hunt, between a too-close brush with the FBI and a chilling, soul-searing journey through the realm of the dead that culminated with a do-or-die confrontation with Death himself...
  • Wolfsbane by William W. Johnstone, William Teason

    Wolfsbane by William W. Johnstone, William Teason

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once the bayou was thick with wolfsbane. But for years the people of Ducros Parish, Louisiana, have been free of the ancient root--and its ancient evil. But now it has returned, and Ducros Parish will once again be a place of nightmarish terror. Johnstone is the author of Cat's Cradle...
  • The Hunted by Mike Dellosso, Michael Dellosso

    The Hunted by Mike Dellosso, Michael Dellosso

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After learning of the disappearance of his nephew, Joe Saunders returns to his childhood home of Dark Hills. With rumors spreading of a rogue lion roaming the woods, he embarks on a mission to learn the truth. As he peels away the layers of Dark Hills, he discovers a secret that has been shrouded for three generations in a deadly code of silence...
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