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  • Wizard at Large by Jim Butcher

    Wizard at Large by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Contains Blood Rites and Dead Beat...
  • Wizard Under Fire by Jim Butcher

    Wizard Under Fire by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Contains Proven Guilty and White Night...
  • The Night Club: Part One by Jiří Kulhánek

    The Night Club: Part One by Jiří Kulhánek

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the dark corners of Prague, a crazed couple plots a sinister demise for a kidnapped girl. But justice is swift in the form of a shadowy group called the Night Club. The couple meets an untimely end and the little girl is saved-just one of many innocent victims rescued by the members of the Club...
  • The Night Club - Part II. by Jiří Kulhánek

    The Night Club - Part II. by Jiří Kulhánek

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Night Club Part II, by Jiri Kulhanek, is the second part of the author’s first novel translated into English. At the story's heart is the Night Club, a secret organization operating in Prague that hunts down evildoers, who evade the police and operate above the law...
  • Death Masks by Jim Butcher

    Death Masks by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But now he's getting more than he bargained for:A duel with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...Professional hit men using Harry for target practice...The missing Shroud of Turin..
  • Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

    Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller, that pulls no punches, for teens who see the failures in our world and are pushing for radical change.A gut-wrenching story following a trans autistic teen who survives an attempted murder, only to be drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them...
  • Dark Guardian by Christine Feehan

    Dark Guardian by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light....He ran with the wolves...materialized from the mists...hijacked the very heavens to his whims.He was the dark guardian of his people...
  • Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg

    Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay. Though the property has been uninhabited for more than a century, Merritt is ready to call it home—until he realizes he has no choice. With its doors slamming shut and locking behind him, Whimbrel House is not about to let Merritt leave. Ever...
  • Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan

    Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light.... Her childhood had been a nightmare of violence and pain until she heard his voice calling out to her. Golden and seductive. The voice of an angel.He had shown her how to survive, taught her to use her unique gifts, trained her in the ancient art of hunting the vampire...
  • The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

    The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 75 ratings
    The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater.All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death...
  • Destroyer of Worlds by Jordan L. Hawk

    Destroyer of Worlds by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After becoming possessed by the vampire spirit Gray, telekinetic Caleb Jansen thought his situation couldn’t get any worse. But that was before Graham Forsyth, head of SPECTR’s sinister Research Division, took him into custody.Forsyth claims he can exorcise Gray before the forty-day time limit runs out. But once at RD, Caleb and Gray find themselves ensnared in a web of lies...
  • Summoner of Storms by Jordan L. Hawk

    Summoner of Storms by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Federal exorcist John Starkweather’s life is in tatters. His best friend Sean betrayed him. SPECTR, the agency he viewed more as a surrogate family than an employer, wants him dead. His only allies are members of the mysterious organization called the Vigilant, whose motives remain in question...
  • Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray

    Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    New York City.1927.Lights are bright.Jazz is king.Parties are wild.And the dead are coming...After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror...
  • Breaker of Chains by Jordan L. Hawk

    Breaker of Chains by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Caught between the worlds of human and drakul, Caleb and Gray must make a fateful choice.Big changes are afoot at SPECTR. John Starkweather, once a hotshot field agent, is now benched. Instead of chasing down demons during Charleston’s biggest outbreak, he’s stuck interviewing exorcists about a previous case...
  • Drinker of Blood by Jordan L. Hawk

    Drinker of Blood by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An outbreak of demon attacks across Charleston has worn SPECTR agent John Starkweather to the bone. Now a new threat faces his team: a demon with bullet—and bite—proof skin, which can’t be stopped by ordinary means. John’s only solace comes in the form of his lovers: Caleb Jansen and the vampire spirit Gray. Caleb and Gray have their own problems, however...
  • Harmony by Jordan L. Hawk

    Harmony by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Whyborne just wants a quiet Christmas Eve at home, but Griffin has other plans.WARNING: Contains spoilers from Bloodline...
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    lgbtq  north-america  usa  adult  audiobook  book  cosmic-horror  crime
  • Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire

    Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From fairy tale forest to gloomy gothic moor, from gleaming epidemiologist’s lab to the sandy shores of Neverland, Seanan McGuire’s short fiction has been surprising, delighting, confusing, and transporting her readers since 2009. Now, for the first time, that fiction has been gathered together in one place, ready to be enjoyed one twisting, tangled tale at a time...
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    lgbtq  adult  anthologies  dark  dark-fantasy  fiction  horror  humor
  • Undertow by Jordan L. Hawk

    Undertow by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Note: This novella takes place at the same time as events in Fallow (Whyborne & Griffin 8). Shy secretary Maggie Parkhurst knows there’s nothing special about her. She’s neither sorceress, nor fighter, nor scholar...
  • Unhallowed by Jordan L. Hawk

    Unhallowed by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A Novel of Widdershins Monsters. Murder. Librarians.Librarian Sebastian Rath is the only one who believes his friend Kelly O’Neil disappeared due to foul play. But without any clues or outside assistance, there’s nothing he can do to prove it.When bookbinder Vesper Rune is hired to fill the vacancy left by O’Neil, he receives an ominous letter warning him to leave...
  • Pleasure by Jacquelyn Frank

    Pleasure by Jacquelyn Frank

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Discipline. Penance. Order. A Sanctuary priest's life revolves around such things. But when Sagan is taken captive and thrust into the Alaskan wilderness, he encounters a woman who challenges his faith and his self-control. Valera is a natural born witch who almost lost herself to the lure of dark magic...
  • Un segundo amor by Mariana Palova

    Un segundo amor by Mariana Palova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “No eras más que un simple humano. Pero no necesitabas ser nada más para lograr cosas extraordinarias.” Frío, astuto y asombrosamente eficaz, Salvador Hoffman es famoso tanto por ser el mejor detective de Nueva Orleans como por su incapacidad para sentir empatía o afecto por otras personas, cosa que lo ha convertido en un hombre más temido que respetado...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  fantasy  magic  fiction  young-adult  gods  horror  terror
  • Strange Girl by S.A. Hunter

    Strange Girl by S.A. Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *You look awesome.* This is a typical text from Jake, the mysterious guy who saved Mary from the Shadowman. After everything had settled down, he started sending little messages to her. They brighten her day and make her feel special. She likes Jake. He's different like her. A freak. They send texts back and forth frequently, and Mary hasn’t told anyone about him. He's her secret friend...
  • Elixir by Jordan Castillo Price

    Elixir by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wild Bill and Michael might have thought they made it out of the subterranean vampire nest unscathed, but in her anger, Silk left Michael a taste of her wrath that's impossible to shake.It's a race against time to cure Michael of a bizarre affliction, and though the hunter and his favorite vamp have few enough friends, Bill can't ash a cigarette without burning another bridge...
  • Mocker of Ravens by Jordan L. Hawk

    Mocker of Ravens by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Caleb has spent the last six months adjusting to life possessed by the vampire spirit Gray. Unfortunately, after the events of Fort Sumter, the other agents of SPECTR view him more as a ticking time bomb than a co-worker. The one bright spot is Caleb and Gray’s boyfriend, federal exorcist John Starkweather. But John has problems of his own...
  • Dancer of Death by Jordan L. Hawk

    Dancer of Death by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Revenge. Murder. Ballet?Vampire spirit Gray wants to hunt demons. Unfortunately, the foolish mortals at SPECTR have put his host, Caleb, their lover John, and their partner Zahira on desk duty. Gray longs to leave Charleston with John, but if they flee, SPECTR will make them the hunted.A series of paranormal murders returns the team to the field, at least temporarily...
  • Eater of Lives by Jordan L. Hawk

    Eater of Lives by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a supernatural killer is implicated in a string of cannibalistic murders, federal exorcist John Starkweather must track the demon down with the help of his live-in lover, Caleb Jansen. Caleb is possessed by Gray, a vampire spirit who is a natural demon hunter.Caleb's desire to find the killer is tempered by the knowledge his own time is running out...
  • Norylska Groans by Michael R. Fletcher, Clayton W. Snyder

    Norylska Groans by Michael R. Fletcher, Clayton W. Snyder

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Norylska Groans...with the weight of her crimes. In a city where winter reigns amid the fires of industry and war, soot and snow conspire to conceal centuries of death and deception.Norylska Groans...and the weight of a leaden sky threatens to crush her people. Katyusha Leonova, desperate to restore her family name, takes a job with Norylska's brutal police force...
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    lgbtq  adult  book  cyberpunk  dark  dark-fantasy  female-mc  fiction
  • Unknown by Jordan L. Hawk

    Unknown by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Librarian Sebastian Rath and his lover Vesper Rune continue their search for the evil Books of the Bound. But in the meantime, the young men in Sebastian’s social circle start dying.Though the deaths look like self-administered poisonings, Sebastian soon comes to realize a killer is at work. And not just any murderer, but one wielding the dark power of the Book of Bone...
  • Hunt the Dawn by Abbie Roads

    Hunt the Dawn by Abbie Roads

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Out of darkness and danger...You can’t hide your secrets from Lathan Montgomery—he can read your darkest memories. And while his special abilities are invaluable in the FBI’s hunt for a serial killer, he has no way to avoid the pain that brings him...
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    north-america  usa  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  dark
  • A Cursed Moon by Cecy Robson

    A Cursed Moon by Cecy Robson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet the furry big brother that the Wird sisters never had… Bren is a cocky, brash hound of a werewolf who loathes the idea of belonging to Aric’s pack—much less finding a mate...
  • Dead Suite by Wendy Roberts

    Dead Suite by Wendy Roberts

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Crime scene cleaner Sadie Novak has been blessed with the gift of second sight. But with ghosts of murder victims always popping up when she’s trying to work, her blessing sometimes seems more like a curse… With business slow, her mortgage payment looming, and her relationship with on-again off-again boyfriend Zack somewhere in limbo, Sadie could use a drink and a little rejuvenating R&R...
    Categorized as:
    north-america  usa  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  female-mc  fiction
  • Rebirth by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rebirth by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Michael has never put much stock in clichés, but there’s one he probably should have listened to: You can never go home again.His family assures him that plenty of young people take a few semesters off between high school and college, that a year of travel is practically a prerequisite nowadays...
  • Sacrifice by Jourdan Lane

    Sacrifice by Jourdan Lane

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Peter and Lucien are back in this third book in the Soul Mates series!Following Bound by Blood and Deceptions, Soul Mates: Sacrifice, picks up after a vicious attack on Peter's new paranormal family. Peter may have rescued Lucien but their problems are far from over. A vampire who was once a friend, is chained in the dungeon and waiting judgment. Peter's time is running out...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  north-america  usa  adult  angels  angst  book  contemporary
  • Real Vampires Get Lucky by Gerry Bartlett

    Real Vampires Get Lucky by Gerry Bartlett

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a female loan shark named Lucky is attacked and left for dead, vampire Glory St. Clair turns her into one of the undead to save her——but eternity would have been safer without her. Vamps prefer a low profile, and that's not Lucky's style. She prefers to flaunt her sexy rock-star ex-boyfriend and great shoes...
  • Twilight Fall by Lynn Viehl

    Twilight Fall by Lynn Viehl

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    View our feature on Lynn Viehl’s Twilight Fall.Immortal Darkyn Lord Valentin Jaus and landscape artist Liling Harper are two lost souls. Brought together by fate, bound together by passion, Valentin and Liling find solace in each other’s arms...
  • Soulmate by L.J. Smith

    Soulmate by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Eternal Love Hannah Snow's life was so together. Friends, terrific grades, dreams of a career in paleontology. Everything was perfect... until the notes started appearing. Notes in her own handwriting, warning her of the danger that was coming. Dead Before Seventeen.The psychiatrist was supposed to help. But what came out of the age regressions were memories of another time, another life...
  • Deadly Gift by Heather Graham

    Deadly Gift by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Caer is spending this Christmas among strangers. Brought to Newport, Rhode Island, from her native Ireland to nurse ailing millionaire Sean O'Riley, she's living a life few can imagine. But money can't hide the tension between O'Riley's trophy wife, his paranoid daughter, the eccentric aunt in the attic and the staff members who run the house...
  • Eternity by Maggie Shayne

    Eternity by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Three hundred years ago, Raven St. James was accused of witchcraft...Only one man tried to free her from the hangman's noose--Duncan, the town minister, who died trying to save her. Three hundred years later, the accused witch still lives and longs for her love...At last, after centuries of loneliness, Raven has found her precious Duncan...
    Categorized as:
    north-america  usa  adult  angst  book  fiction  gothic  historical
  • 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...
  • Neferet's Curse by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Neferet's Curse by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The White City, 1893: In turn-of-the-century Chicago, with the World's Fair bringing bustle and excitement to her home city, sixteen-year-old Emily Wheiler should be reveling in her youthful beauty and the excitement around her. But her whole life changed when her mother died, leaving her to be the Lady of Wheiler House...
  • Hainted by Jordan L. Hawk

    Hainted by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A retired ghost hunter. A man seeking redemption. Can they stop an ancient evil from destroying the world?Dan Miller once hunted the zombie-like revenants known as haints. He protected the living and quieted the dead. After his parents’ death, Dan gave up his own dreams to raise his young siblings...
  • Dangerous Spirits by Jordan L. Hawk

    Dangerous Spirits by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After the events of Reyhome Castle, Henry Strauss expected the Psychical Society to embrace his application of science to the study of hauntings. Instead, the society humiliates and blacklists him. His confidence shaken, he can't bring himself to admit the truth to his lover, the handsome medium Vincent Night...
  • Agla. Alef by Radek Rak

    Agla. Alef by Radek Rak

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Długo wyczekiwana książka Radka Raka – laureata Nagrody Literackiej NikeAgla to brawurowa historia przygodowa, ale też wnikliwa i wzruszająca powieść psychologiczna o dojrzewaniu i przemianie, o miłości i odkrywaniu swej cielesności, o zawiedzionych przyjaźniach, wykluczeniu i samotności, o odnajdywaniu siebie i stawaniu się człowiekiem w pełni znaczenia tego słowa...
  • The Peabody- Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium by F. Paul Wilson

    The Peabody- Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This novella was expanded from "Freak Show," the nigh impossible to find anthology F. Paul Wilson edited back in 1992. It was originally published as a 500-copy collector's edition that sold out on publication. With copies of the limited going for over $100 on the aftermarket, the author decided to make inexpensive paperback and ebook editions available to his readers...
  • Critic's Choice by Josh Lanyon

    Critic's Choice by Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If there’s one thing film critic Crispin Colley can say about his ex-boyfriend Rey, it’s that Rey likes to remain friends with all his former lovers. Rey’s a friendly guy. Maybe too friendly, judging by the incident that drove the first and last nail in the coffin of their relationship. But now Rey’s been hired for a DVD commentary on a classic horror flick...
  • Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn

    Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    We're the D'Artigo Sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we're savvy--and sexy--operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch whose magic is as unpredictable as the weather. My sister Delilah transforms into a tabby cat when she's under stress...
  • Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière

    Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Twelve strange, eerie, sensual stories by a bold new voice in weird fiction. Capricious gods rule a world of women. Zombies breed human cattle. The son of a superhero must decide between his heritage and his religion. Young lovers worship a primordial spider god. The apocalyptic rebirth of the god of the elephants . .
  • The Gilded King by Josie Jaffrey

    The Gilded King by Josie Jaffrey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the Blue, the world’s last city, all is not well.Julia is stuck within its walls. She serves the nobility from a distance until she meets Lucas, a boy who believes in fairytales that Julia’s world can’t accommodate. The Blue is her prison, not her castle, and she’d escape into the trees if she didn’t know that contamination and death awaited humanity outside...
  • Risen by Cole Gibsen

    Risen by Cole Gibsen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fans of Vampire Diaries and Twilight will be thirsting for this latest vampire addiction…My aunt has been kidnapped by vampires, and it’s up to me to save her. Only…I had no idea vampires existed. None. Nada...
    Categorized as:
    north-america  usa  book  fiction  horror  magic  missouri  mystery
  • Magnolia Mystic by Lisa Kessler

    Magnolia Mystic by Lisa Kessler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Skye Olson is a psychic like her mother, and her grandmother before her, but a bad break up with the man she thought was her soulmate has left her confidence in her abilities shaken. While she's in crisis, a real estate tycoon from Atlanta swoops in with his eyes on her shop.Colton Hayes spent his mortal life plundering royal ships with his pirate crew, but one holy relic changed everything...
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