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  • The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

    The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 88 ratings
    Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness—the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists—is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed...
  • War of Gods by Dyrk Ashton

    War of Gods by Dyrk Ashton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    War of Gods is the highly anticipated conclusion to the critically acclaimed, award winning epic urban fantasy series, The Paternus Trilogy...
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    dark  epic  myths  paranormal  retellings  adult  audiobook  book
  • Damaged Souls by K.C. Kean

    Damaged Souls by K.C. Kean

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The prophecy declares the darkness that once brought the world to its knees will return. The timing is no coincidence and I can’t help but fear it all points back to me. With my heritage revealed, I finally know where I fit in. It’s not what I expected, but I can’t change it, just like I can’t change who I am drawn to. A shifter, a demon, a vampire, an angel...
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    angels  dark  demons  myths  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary
  • Wrath of Gods by Dyrk Ashton

    Wrath of Gods by Dyrk Ashton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On the run from an ancient evil and his army of terrors straight out of myths from around the world, Fi and Zeke aid Peter in his globe-trotting quest to seek out the remaining Firstborn, uncover the enemy’s plans, and gather the warriors of old for what may become the final battle in the world's oldest war...
  • His Holy Bones by Ginn Hale

    His Holy Bones by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 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...
  • A Time of Dread by John Gwynne

    A Time of Dread by John Gwynne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A race of warrior angels, the Ben-Elim, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished lands, but their peace is brutally enforced.In the south, hotheaded Riv is desperate to join the Ben-Elim's peacekeeping force, until she unearths a deadly secret.In the west, the giantess Sig investigates demon sightings and discovers signs of an uprising and black magic...
  • Bonded by Death by Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

    Bonded by Death by Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m torn between three men that I swore I wouldn’t get involved with. I know it’s wrong, but part of me loves it. Craves it.Everyone thinks I’m the good girl, but what they don’t see is that my carefully crafted persona is crumbling around me.My ex taught me that love isn’t sweet, patient, or kind. It’s cruel and it hurts...
  • The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman, Marlon James

    The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman, Marlon James

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An outstanding array—52 pieces in all—of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, curated by his readers around the world, and introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon JamesSpanning Gaiman’s career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a captivating collection from one of the world’s most beloved...
  • The Ten Club by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    The Ten Club by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff…Book #5 and the FINALE of the King SeriesHE WANTS TO OWN HER. King doesn’t recall dying and he definitely doesn’t recall this feisty woman Mia who claims to be his wife. But he’s happy to make her his if she’ll be obedient and loyal. After all, a king needs a queen, and now that he’s back from the dead, this evil billionaire has big plans...
  • Envy by J.R. Ward

    Envy by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Librarian's note: This is an Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0349400202 ISBN13: 9780349400204.A man and a woman tread the lines of danger, desire, and deliverance in the new novel of the Fallen Angels from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. As the son of a serial killer, homicide detective Thomas "Veck" DelVecchio, Jr...
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman

    American Gods by Neil Gaiman

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 99 ratings
    First published in 2001, here is the New York Times bestselling novel that became an instant classic and was hailed by USA Today as “a powerful, searing force that makes readers confront what is real and what is not…”—now a TV series from FremantleMedia North America is coming to STARZ with Bryan Fuller and Michael Green as showrunners, and starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Crispin Glover,...
  • The Getaway God by Richard Kadrey

    The Getaway God by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Sandman Slim must save himself-and the entire world-from the wrath of some enraged and vengeful ancient gods in this sixth high-octane adventure in the New York Times bestselling seriesBeing a half-human, half-angel nephilim with a bad rep and a worse attitude-not to mention temporarily playing Lucifer-James Stark aka Sandman Slim has made a few enemies...
  • The Lost War by Justin Lee Anderson

    The Lost War by Justin Lee Anderson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The war is over, but something is rotten in the state of Eidyn.With a ragged peace in place, demons burn farmlands, violent Reivers roam the wilds and plague has spread beyond the Black Meadows. The country is on its knees.In a society that fears and shuns him, Aranok is the first magically-skilled draoidh to be named King’s Envoy...
  • A Discovery of Demonology by Amelia Hutchins

    A Discovery of Demonology by Amelia Hutchins

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This book was previously released as part of the BABE23 anthology.What if Neverland existed?What if Peter Pan wasn’t a boy in tights?What if, instead, he’s a demon so powerful that he commands Hell’s Army?Rowan Teivel is the last man I should be feeling anything for. He is arrogant, dominant, and arouses something dangerously depraved within me...
  • The Perdition Score by Richard Kadrey

    The Perdition Score by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The request from Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, couldn’t come at a better time for James Stark, aka Sandman Slim. For a man who’s most recently met Death — and death’s killer — a few months of normal life is more than he can handle...
  • Godsquad by Heide Goody, Iain Grant

    Godsquad by Heide Goody, Iain Grant

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Team:Joan of Arc, the armour-plated teen saint of Orleans.Francis of Assisi, friend to all the animals whether they like it or not.St Christopher, the patron saint of travel who by papal decree has never existed – no matter how much he argues otherwise.The Mission: An impossible prayer has been received by Heaven and it’s a prayer that only Mary, Mother of God, can answer...
  • 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...
  • Shadow Rising by Yasmine Galenorn

    Shadow Rising by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    We’re the D’Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch with three sexy husbands. My sister Delilah is a two-faced werecat and Death Maiden. And me? I’m Menolly, a jian-tu turned vampire in love with a wildly hot werepuma...
  • 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...
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    dark  epic  myths  retellings  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey

    Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell, renounce his title as the new Lucifer, and settle back into life in LA. But he's not out of trouble yet. Somewhere along the way he misplaced the Qomrama Om Ya, a weapon from the banished older gods who are also searching for their lost power...
  • For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony

    For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The Man Who Would Be SatanParry was a gifted musician and an apprentice in the arts of White Magic. But his life of sweet promise went disastrously awry following the sudden, violent death of his beloved Jolie. Led down the twisted path of wickedness and depravity by Lilah the harlot demoness, Parry thrived--first as a sorcerer, then as a monk, and finally as a feared inquisitor...
  • Angel Town by Lilith Saintcrow

    Angel Town by Lilith Saintcrow

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Jill Kismet is back from the grave in this explosive conclusion to Lilith Saintcrow's urban fantasy series. She wakes up in her own grave. She doesn't know who put her there, she doesn't know where she is, and she has no friends or family. She only knows two things: She has a job to do: cleansing the night of evil. And she knows her name. Jill Kismet...
  • Downfall by Rob Thurman

    Downfall by Rob Thurman

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    I let it go—all of it. Everything I’d been saving up all my life, building and growing inside me, too much to hold in one half-human body. It pushed and fought to be free with a force that turned me into a bomb with a timer vibrating on zero. I was free...
  • Prince of Demons 3 by Victoria Danann

    Prince of Demons 3 by Victoria Danann

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WISHES ARE MYSTERIES FILLED WITH SHADOWS and LIGHT. New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author, Victoria Danann, brings us a tale of romance, suspense, and high adventure.Prince of Demons is a spin off of Knights of Black Swan. It shares characters and references with the award winning series.The third and last part of the Prince of Demons trilogy...
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    dark  demons  epic  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap

    Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Am I dead?”Mebuyen sighs. She was hoping the girl would not ask.Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap’s debut collection jumps right off the page, from the joy in her new novella, 'A Spell for Foolish Hearts' to the terrifying tension of the urban legend 'Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez'...
  • To Break a Demon Curse by Madeleine Eliot

    To Break a Demon Curse by Madeleine Eliot

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elara has been thoroughly taken in by the Demon King’s trickery, and she is determined not to let him back into her heart after all the lies.But with the promise of his help rescuing her mother, Elara finds herself agreeing to a blood bargain to stay with him, learn to use her mysterious demon magic, and pretend to be his betrothed...
  • Queen of the Dark Things by C. Robert Cargill

    Queen of the Dark Things by C. Robert Cargill

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It is half a year since the wizard Colby lost his best friend to an army of fairies from the Limestone Kingdom, a realm of mystery and shadows beyond our own. But in vanquishing these creatures Colby sacrificed the anonymity that protected him. Now, word of his deeds has spread, and powerful enemies from the past - including one Colby considered a friend - have resurfaced to exact their revenge...
  • End Game by Hailey Edwards

    End Game by Hailey Edwards

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Welcome to the ferocious world of The Foundling, set in an bayou town where men are men - except when they are also dragons, kitties with wings, alligators, and . . . well, Miller.This is the unmissable climax to Hailey Edwards's epic The Foundling series, featuring the fiercest heroine in this world or any other: Luce Boudreau.Orphan. Daughter. Cop. Villain . .
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    angels  dark  demons  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Evermore by Lynn Viehl

    Evermore by Lynn Viehl

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The NEW YORK TIMES AND USA Today bestselling Darkyn series continues... Jayr is proud to be the only female ever permitted to serve as seneschal to a Darkyn lord. But in her centuries of service to Master Byrne, she has fallen in love with him. Now, Byrne plans to step down and hand over the Jardin to another Kyn lord-a move that threatens not only Jayr's position, but her very life..
  • Burn the Night by Jocelynn Drake

    Burn the Night by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    “A must-read addition to the urban fantasy genre.”—Kim Harrison“Drake has composed a love letter to the vampire genre.”—Vicki Pettersson“Jocelynn Drake will have you coming back for more...
  • North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

    North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. They are us and we are them and Ballingrud's intense focus makes these stories incredibly intense and irresistible.These are love stories...
  • Horizon by Alyson Noel

    Horizon by Alyson Noel

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fate has bound them together—and torn them apart. Now Daire and Dace face one final fight that will seal their destiny forever.Daire Santos is the last of the Soul Seekers, and the only thing standing between the Richters and the destruction of everyone she loves...
  • Scala by Christina Bauer

    Scala by Christina Bauer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alternate-cover edition can be found hereNineteen-year-old Myla Lewis has transformed into Great Scala, the only being with the power to move souls out of Purgatory and into Heaven or Hell. Trouble is, a magical object called Lucifer's Orb is limiting Myla's abilities. If she tries to move a soul, the Orb's forcing her to send that spirit straight to Hell...
  • The Book of Secrets by Melissa McShane

    The Book of Secrets by Melissa McShane

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Helena Davies just wants a job that will get her out of her parents’ basement. Abernathy’s Bookstore is disorganized, out of the way, and smells funny, but it pays well and promises to at least be interesting. She has no idea how interesting her life will become...
  • The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock

    The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The victim of a violent attack, Alex Bradley is a damaged and visionary child. Little does he know that the distorted creations of his mind are alive inside nearby Ryhope Wood. Then the forest claims him, and his father goes in pursuit, along with a scientific expedition looking for the secret of 'mythago-genesis'...
  • Everville by Clive Barker

    Everville by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    On the borderland between this world and the world of Quiddity, the sea of our dreams, sits Everville. For years, it has lived in ignorance of the gleaming shore on which it lies. But its ignorance is not bliss...
  • Invitation : Shifter Forever Worlds: 2020 Anniversary Edition by Elle Thorne

    Invitation : Shifter Forever Worlds: 2020 Anniversary Edition by Elle Thorne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sexy bear shifter Tanner Navarro has an invitation to the wedding, he's got an invitation to Bear Canyon Valley, but he doesn't have an invitation to sexy, curvy Marti's heart--or bed. Marti's secrets are life or death. Tanner and his bear know they're up to the job. Now they have to convince Marti...
  • Original Sin by Lydia Michaels

    Original Sin by Lydia Michaels

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Adam Hartzler has always been an honorable immortal, but the fine line between right and wrong begins to blur when he is called to his true mate. If he does not find and claim her soon, he will lose his soul and humanity, transforming into a vile predator controlled by insatiable bloodlust, sentenced to a demonic and tortured eternity as a vampire...
  • King of the Damned by Juliana Stone

    King of the Damned by Juliana Stone

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's the book Julianna Stone fans have been waiting for: the story of Azaiel, the ultimate fallen angel, as he fights the forces of evil in a desperate attempt to save his true love. King of the Damned is one of the biggest, darkest, most powerfully romantic League of Guardians books yet...
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    angels  dark  demons  paranormal  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  book
  • Hallowed Eve by Suza Kates

    Hallowed Eve by Suza Kates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Something terrible happened in Pine Creek.Eve Taylor must return home for her grandmother’s funeral but has every intention of making it a short visit. Too many memories live in the small town where she grew up, memories of a Halloween best forgotten. Trey Rainwater has been waiting for Eve. He knows she’ll be staying for longer than she’d planned and has every intention of making sure she does...
  • Empire of Dark by K.J. Jackson

    Empire of Dark by K.J. Jackson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'm desperate to wipe his family from the earth. He's desperate to put a baby in my womb.He is the king of the heathens. A king that wants my womb. But it's forbidden, our species breeding.Yet, a deal has been hatched for that very thing. One year—I’m to give Damen one year in his castle to impregnate me...
  • The Neon Graveyard by Vicki Pettersson

    The Neon Graveyard by Vicki Pettersson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Final Sign of the ZodiacOnce she was a soldier for the Light, the prophesied savior who would decide the outcome of the eternal conflict raging in the dark corners of her glittering hometown.Now Joanna Archer is just another mortal – still born of an impossible union of Shadow and Light … still hunted by both – and carrying the unborn child of a lover held captive by a depraved demon goddess...
  • Redemption Song by Craig Schaefer

    Redemption Song by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Daniel Faust, Las Vegas sorcerer and career criminal, has never pulled the trigger on an innocent man. When the infernal Prince Sitri challenges him to do just that, though, he can't walk away. His lover, Caitlin, is Sitri's right hand...and if Daniel refuses the job, he'll never see her again...
  • Broken Souls by Stephen Blackmoore

    Broken Souls by Stephen Blackmoore

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When necromancer Eric Carter returned to Los Angeles after fifteen years on the run he knew things were bad, but he never imagined how bad they could get. Sister murdered, best friend dead, married to the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte.And things are just getting worse.His link to the Aztec death goddess is changing his powers, changing him, and he’s not sure how far it will go...
  • High Moor by Graeme Reynolds

    High Moor by Graeme Reynolds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When John Simpson hears of a bizarre animal attack in his old home town of High Moor, it stirs memories of a long forgotten horror. John knows the truth. A werewolf stalks the town once more, and on the night of the next full moon, the killing will begin again. He should know. He survived a werewolf attack in 1986, during the worst year of his life...
  • Last First Snow by Max Gladstone

    Last First Snow by Max Gladstone

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The fourth novel set in the compellingly modern fantasy world of the Craft Sequence Forty years after the God Wars, Dresediel Lex bears the scars of liberation—especially in the Skittersill, a poor district still bound by the fallen gods' decaying edicts. As long as the gods' wards last, they strangle development; when they fail, demons will be loosed upon the city...
  • Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green

    Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author takes readers back to the Nightside.A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London...called the Nightside...
  • Eternity Embraced by Larissa Ione

    Eternity Embraced by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Desire... Demon slayer Andrea Cole has always taken down the demons and vampires she hunts without mercy. But when a fellow slayer is captured and turned into a vampire by a sadistic monster, she must choose between loyalty to her family and the man she loves. Versus Instinct..
  • Withered Hill: A dark and unsettling British folk horror novel by David Barnett

    Withered Hill: A dark and unsettling British folk horror novel by David Barnett

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If you find your way here, you’re already lost.InsideA year ago Sophie Wickham stumbled into the isolated Lancashire village of Withered Hill, naked, alone and with no memory of who she is.Surrounded by a thick ring of woodland, its inhabitants seem to be of another world, drenched in pagan, folklorish traditions...
    Categorized as:
    myths  paranormal  dark  retellings  horror  fantasy  fiction  gothic
  • The Snow Queen's Shadow by Jim C. Hines

    The Snow Queen's Shadow by Jim C. Hines

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A broken mirror. A stolen child. A final mission to try to stop an enemy they never dreamed they would face.When a spell gone wrong shatters Snow White's enchanted mirror, a demon escapes into the world. The demon's magic distorts the vision of all it touches, showing them only ugliness and hate...
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