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  • Dark Beauty by C.M. Owens

    Dark Beauty by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The continuation of the Deadly Beauties Trilogy... Purgatory was opened for the dark ones to escape, but so much more crept out. Over twenty years later, the consequences are finally starting to appear. And the world full of deadly beauties finds even more deception and secrets to face. As an immortal, it's hard to have any new experiences after living for so long...
  • Elemental Compass by Jaymin Eve

    Elemental Compass by Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Jacob Compass is stuck in the human world, navigating a peaceful treaty so that supernaturals are not exposed. Justice Winter reluctantly finds herself helping him with this task, all the while dreaming about punching him in his perfect, smug face. Suffice it to say, their coexistence is a challenge in many ways...
  • Rise from the Embers by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rise from the Embers by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The King has fallen! While Stavros moves to take over Lars’s throne, the war for the entire kingdom begins. However, this is no ordinary war against Seelie or Unseelie. The real enemy is the most powerful object in the world. The Stone of Fail. Lars isn’t the only one the stone wants. Zoey Daniels is next on its list. And the stone will do whatever it takes to finally get the girl...
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    fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  book  demons
  • Kiss of the Dragon by Nicola Claire

    Kiss of the Dragon by Nicola Claire

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "You do realise," he whispered, his hand reaching up to brush my hair from my face. He began twining a strand around one of his fingers. "That you are my most magnificent obsession." Magnificent obsession. I think I liked that. I certainly understood it. He was mine too.The explosive conclusion to the Kindred Series...
  • Rage by Charlene Hartnady

    Rage by Charlene Hartnady

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rage is the fourth book in a series about monsters of all kinds. If you enjoy fated mates, forbidden romance, sassy heroines, and swoon-worthy beast kings who are almost untamable, then this is the series for you.There are stories circling about a lone wolf in a town called Cherokee Hills. Talk of a creature who walks on two legs…a werewolf. I decide to go and investigate this for myself...
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    fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  book  fiction
  • The Dragon King by Heather Killough-Walden

    The Dragon King by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Millennia ago, in the time of dragons, love and hate colored the very air monsters breathed. Ancient sorcery coursed through powerful wings like blood, pumped by hearts of magic, and timeless beasts of lore soared over the landscape, terrible and wondrous. Amidst these beasts of yesteryear, a forbidden love bloomed. A child was born of this love...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  abuse  adult
  • The Magical Beings' Rehabilitation Center: The Complete Series by K.M. Shea

    The Magical Beings' Rehabilitation Center: The Complete Series by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Werewolves have fleas. Cyclops need glasses. Dark Elves give villain monologues. Maybe the magical paranormal world isn’t quite what we expect? This special boxset contains the complete urban fantasy series the Magical Beings' Rehabilitation Center: Vampires Drink Tomato Juice, Goblins Wear Suits, and The Lost Files of the MBRC...
  • Awakened Magic by Jen L. Grey

    Awakened Magic by Jen L. Grey

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Something boils inside of me, making me lose control.All throughout my childhood, I was complacent vying for my father’s approval. Of course, that never happened and I finally relinquished the fantasy when he attempted to kill my fated mate.Making matters worse, I learn that my life was a lie.The man who claims to be my father hunts me. After all, he has all the power and control...
  • Night of the Nymph by Bianca D'Arc

    Night of the Nymph by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Something evil is calling to her. Is it the mysterious man who finds her in the woods, or something within the forest, itself?An ancient evil hidden among the trees... Crystal is driving across the state for a job interview when she feels a pressing need to stop her car and get out...
  • Dark Alpha's Obsession by Donna Grant

    Dark Alpha's Obsession by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death. And when Death says your time is up, I’m coming for you…When Erith directs me to infiltrate the enemy and topple them from within, I immediately accept the challenge. I figure it’ll be easy until a stunning warrior goddess crosses my path and diverts my attention...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  audiobook  book
  • Magical Creatures Academy 4: Next Level: Power Streak by Lucía Ashta

    Magical Creatures Academy 4: Next Level: Power Streak by Lucía Ashta

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jasmine has been around magic all her life. She knows the rules, and she loves to break them. When she turned eighteen, her shifter powers manifested, just as she expected them to. When the Magical Creatures Academy invited her to attend the prestigious school, she wasn’t surprised...
  • Entwined with the Dark by Nicola Claire

    Entwined with the Dark by Nicola Claire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What was wrong with me to antagonise a vampire of his standing to such a degree? I knew I had become too rebellious, too sure of my own place in this world. I was aware that Dark had been encroaching, that I played so often in its shadow I was losing sight of the sun, of my Light. There were times when I truly felt consumed in anger, for all that had happened, for all that I had suffered and lost...
  • Loaded for Bear by Bianca D'Arc

    Loaded for Bear by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A woman with a legacy of magic… Mellie is trying her best to come up with a way to protect the waters around Grizzly Cove from the leviathan and its minions, but it’s not easy. The ancient grimoire she’s been given holds the recipe for a potion that just might work. The only problem is that one of the ingredients is dragon’s blood...
  • Touched by a Dragon by Alisa Woods

    Touched by a Dragon by Alisa Woods

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Leonidas is a Dragon Prince of the House of Smoke... and he is cursed. Falling in love was never in the cards for Leonidas. An angry witch made sure of that-if he loses his heart, he loses his life. But the treaty guaranteeing peace will die with him, unless he wins the True Love of a woman and she bears him a dragonling...
  • Whisky and Wishes by Donna Grant

    Whisky and Wishes by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Return to New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant's Dark King world for a special holiday novella.Finally free of the dangers surrounding him and the burden of pining after his mate, the King of Dragon Kings is ready for some peace—time to enjoy the woman he loves without interruption...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  audiobook  book
  • Jewel of Darkness by Quinn Loftis

    Jewel of Darkness by Quinn Loftis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Dalton Black never thought he'd find his true mate. His dark past convinced him that he could never be worthy of one, but the Great Luna did not agree. She saw fit to give him a gypsy healer, the purest of heart among their kind. And now that he's finally found her, she slips through his grasp and into the hands of Volcan, a corrupt high fae driven mad by his own need for power...
  • Sophie and the Odd Ones by Gwen DeMarco

    Sophie and the Odd Ones by Gwen DeMarco

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sophie Feegle needs a break. Rent is due on her crappy apartment and she's halfway through her last loaf of bread.Sophie doesn't have big ambitions. She only wants a job that will keep her landlord off her back, enough extra cash for whiskey at the neighborhood bar and a bit of free time to hang out with the naughty old lady next door...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  book
  • Strange Fate by L.J. Smith

    Strange Fate by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sarah Strange is a normal teenager with annoying siblings and a crush on two boys, Mal and Kierlan, who happen to be her best friends. But Sarah also has visions of a place where dragons darken the sky and feast on humans. When Sarah confides in Mal and Kierlan about her visions, she discovers her friends are not who they seem. They are part of the Night World...
  • Blood Secrets by Jen L. Grey

    Blood Secrets by Jen L. Grey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The thing about blood… it can’t lie.For my entire life, I’d been complacent. I allowed others to make decisions for me until I almost lost my fated mate. So I did the only thing I could, I took him and ran.Secrets surface and hidden truths are discovered… truths that no one dreamed about facing again.Armed with new knowledge, I must make a choice...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  book  family
  • Dragon Released by Terry Bolryder

    Dragon Released by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Can a curvy baker help this broken dragon find peace?Born in a lab and tortured for a lifetime, hybrid dragon Dallin has never had a real home or a purpose beyond revenge. And he doesn't expect that to change now, even if he's forced to be some human's bodyguard. Then he meets Jo, the curvy baker he needs to protect...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  book
  • A Shade of Kiev by Bella Forrest

    A Shade of Kiev by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    My name is Kiev Novalic. I am a vampire, and a murderer.Having betrayed the trust of my own kind and that of the enemies I sold myself to, I have three days left to live. I stare at the girl in the cell opposite mine. Mona, she calls herself. A witch born without magic.She might be my key to freedom, but I should know to stay away. I should know: some scars are etched too deep to heal...
  • Stealth Magic 401 by Viola Grace

    Stealth Magic 401 by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stealing an ancient artifact is a strange test, but going up against her family and the law adds a new level of difficulty. Imara wants nothing more than to find a different course, but Stealth Magic gives her the credits she needs to stay on track and there aren’t any other options rearing their heads...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  book
  • Spell Crafting 501 by Viola Grace

    Spell Crafting 501 by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The final classes have begun and the only thing standing in Imara’s way is an ancient and deadly enemy…of her kitten. Imara’s life is going according to her plans. She has her boyfriend, her kitten, and is about to earn her degree in Magecraft and graduate. Once she has that degree, she has the right to request an application for a commercial magic license...
  • Blood Lock by Tenaya Jayne

    Blood Lock by Tenaya Jayne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After her sister’s brutal murder, Sabra swore vengeance. But now, her brother has sold her as mate to the highest bidder. Defiant of the custom, and unwilling to submit, dangerous trouble lies ahead. In order to survive, she’s forced to accept the help of her mortal enemy. On the eve of the Savage Solstice, the werewolves hold a tournament. A fight to the death...
  • Ward Locked by Theresa Kay

    Ward Locked by Theresa Kay

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New classes. New director. And lots of new rules.After spending my three-week Winter Break under magical house arrest, I’m looking forward to returning to school. But when I get there, everything has changed.OSA has tightened its hold on every academy and Ravencrest’s new director takes the restrictions a step further, leaving me without my two closest friends...
  • A Trial of the Heart by J.E. Larson

    A Trial of the Heart by J.E. Larson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The trials begin.Skylar arrives in the Inner Kingdom, but the danger of the trials is only half the battle she will have to face. The courts of the High Fae are as treacherous as they are mysterious to a foreign outsider. Skylar will have to navigate obstacles in the trials, along with the politics and mind games of the other fae creatures living in the Inner Kingdom...
  • Defying Eternity by Viola Grace

    Defying Eternity by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An Obscure Magic series, book 5.Trading her services to a vampire king is a price Leo pays gladly, but her human life is not on the table. Leonora has managed to save her pregnant sister from a vampire attack, but to insure the safety of her sister and niece, Leo is willing to pay with everything but her life...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  book
  • Marked by a Dragon by Alisa Woods

    Marked by a Dragon by Alisa Woods

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Leksander is a Dragon Prince of the House of Smoke… and he is in love with the wrong woman.   Leksander never meant to fall for an angeling, and he certainly never meant to hurt her...
  • Alpha Erased by Aileen Erin

    Alpha Erased by Aileen Erin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Aileen Erin Tessa—part witch, part werewolf, raised human and now the unofficial leader of a newly minted supernatural alliance—thinks nothing of her brother, Axel, texting her and Dastien to meet him. The location pin was in a weird spot, but maybe he’d found a magical anomaly there...
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    fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  angels  book  epic
  • Wild Kiss by C.R. Jane, Mila Young

    Wild Kiss by C.R. Jane, Mila Young

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blurb to come...Real Wolves Bite..
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    animals  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  book
  • Cosmo and the King by Macy Blake

    Cosmo and the King by Macy Blake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Cosmo learns the faun king is in the human realm, he panics. See, Silenus happens to be his fiance... and he's never told any of his friends in the human realm that he ran away on his wedding day, leaving his king at the alter. Silenus made a deal with the devil--the queen of the fae--when he learned the human realm was going to be closed, keeping him separated from his mate and betrothed...
  • Piece of Mage by Laurel Chase

    Piece of Mage by Laurel Chase

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Doing what’s right made so many things wrong.I had to get Jack - no question. I just didn’t realize bringing him home would require so much trust from everyone.When that trust is strained, we all suffer.I’ll protect what’s mine, but my team’s bonds are being tested. Threats are suddenly everywhere - inside our magical barrier, inside our safe house, and even inside my mind...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  book
  • A Dragon's Family Album by Thea Harrison

    A Dragon's Family Album by Thea Harrison

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This book contains Dragos Takes a Holiday, Pia Saves the Day, and Peanut Goes to School (two novellas and a short story in the Elder Races series, previously published separately). All three stories focus on the Cuelebres, the First Family of the Wyr.Dragos Takes a Holiday: When the Cuelebre family heads to Bermuda for some much needed R&R, it’s no ordinary weekend in the sun...
  • Lunatics by M. Sinclair

    Lunatics by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The dark fae king has left me with no choice. He threatened my guard and my brother. My need to enact revenge for the brutal massacre of my parents is all-encompassing. If he wants war, a war he will receive. First order of business... returning to a land and home that I haven't seen in years...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  book  demons
  • Elemental Flame by Phaedra Weldon

    Elemental Flame by Phaedra Weldon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "I love you, Sam. I will always love you." When Elemental Witch Samantha Hawthorne discovers her lover, Crwys Holliard, is missing, she vows to find him. With the help of her friends and an Alpha Werewolf who just won't take no for an answer, Sam follows clues that point them in the direction of the realm of Faerie, a place Sam swore she would never return to...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  book  dark
  • A Demon's Debt by Cece Rose

    A Demon's Debt by Cece Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pay your debt or forfeit your soul. ​ Mona thought her troubles were over, but little did she know, they were only just beginning. ​ When you owe a demon, they will always come to collect. Mona must enter the demon realm to repay her debt to the demon Adramelech. If she fails to complete her task, the forfeit is her soul...
  • Loved by a Dragon by Alisa Woods

    Loved by a Dragon by Alisa Woods

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LEKSANDER: I am a Dragon Prince of the House of Smoke... and I am in love with the wrong woman. I never meant to fall for an angeling. And I wasn't supposed to have the duty of fulfilling a ten-thousand-year-old treaty to protect humanity. But now I'm trapped between the immutable facts of magic and the irresistible force of my love...
  • A Slash of Savagery by R.E. Butler

    A Slash of Savagery by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book Eight in the Wiccan-Were-Bear SeriesNatural Wiccan Arissa Kensington takes a job at the vampire club, Fang, in an attempt to help protect the vampires’ mates who are being targeted by anti-vampire fanatics. She expects to perform protection spells and help out around the coven’s office, but she never expects to meet her mate or that he will have flashing purple eyes and double fangs...
  • Dark Alpha's Temptation by Donna Grant

    Dark Alpha's Temptation by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Alpha’s Temptation is a brand new paranormal romance in New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant's Reapers series that features a brotherhood of elite assassins and the women who bring them to their knees. There is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Trial by Blood by Lizzy Ford

    Trial by Blood by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Leslie wants nothing to do with Myca, the bloodsucking predator of humans she’s stuck with for her third trial. When he’s not trying to wear her down, he’s messing with her head. If not for the simple fact every human she crosses smells like dinner, she’d leave him fast...
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    fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Drake of Tanith by Heather Killough-Walden

    Drake of Tanith by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eons ago, the darkly handsome and infamous bounty hunter Drake of Tanith turned his back on his diabolical heritage in favor of freedom from the infernal influences of his kind. But now his indomitable father has delivered the worst kind of ultimatum: He must give up his soul and return to the life he left behind – or he must give up his love...
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    fae  magic  paranormal  slow-burn  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • Outfox by Annabel Chase

    Outfox by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No good deed goes unpunished… For years, my family was in possession of the top half of an ancient sword. Now this dangerous artifact has been stolen and it’s up to me to recover it. With the help of my friends, I must follow the trail of clues to find both halves of the sword before they can be reforged...
  • Trial by Thrall by Lizzy Ford

    Trial by Thrall by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After the shock of her first trial, Leslie believes she can handle anything, including turning into a magic elf or whatever the fae really are. But the differences between alpha werewolf Ben and Tristan—the enigmatic leader of the fae, whose abs and sexual prowess are the stuff of dreams—soon have her wading into new supernatural waters...
  • Wanted: Vampire's Assistant by Dusty Rose, Dusty Lynn Holloway

    Wanted: Vampire's Assistant by Dusty Rose, Dusty Lynn Holloway

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's scrappy and pure sunshine.He's a 1,000 year old vampire.Together they're magic.Ever had life kick you in the teeth after it shoved you down the stairs?Yeah, that’s how my day was heading.And then I saw an ad in the paper that changed my life—Wanted: Vampire’s Assistant...
  • The Evanescence by Jessica Sorensen

    The Evanescence by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Book two in the Fallen Souls Series.My name is Gemma Lucas and everything in my life is falling apart. Lost Souls are roaming the world, possessing people and the fey have made it their mission to torture the innocent. Death and suffering is becoming a way of life and no matter what I do, things keep tearing Alex and me apart...
  • Binding Magic by Viola Grace

    Binding Magic by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Obscure Magic series, book 7.A mage, a destiny and a surprising pedigree. It is hard to juggle new discoveries with a dragon on her tail. Minerva enjoys her life as a master mage. She creates spells that no one has seen before and enjoys her family and friends. She will do anything for them, and she has...
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    dragons  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  adult  book
  • Perpetual Prey by Viola Grace

    Perpetual Prey by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hunted through history, Elsinor has had enough. She is going to fight her stalker, whoever he is. Elsinor has walked the earth for thousands of years, but every few decades, she must start over. Waking up in agony with her organs slowly regenerating, she has coined a new phrase Prometheus Syndrome...
  • Dragon Defiant by Viola Grace

    Dragon Defiant by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Born nameless in a tank, they try and make her into a weapon, but she chooses defiance. Eltrinia sounds like a good name, and Lem comes naturally. After falling through the sky during a lightning storm, Eltrinia is free of the tube that they grew her in, and while she doesn’t yet know her name, she knows that she needs to get in touch with society...
  • Born Human  Part 5 by Viola Grace

    Born Human Part 5 by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Years have passed, and Habel continues her journey to nudge the elves into social interaction with other races. Her own interaction is her business.Habel has enjoyed learning all she could, gaining new skills and new friends. Her heart still aches to find a companion, but she doesn’t see one when she looks at the elves around her...
  • Pain Seeker by D.N. Hoxa

    Pain Seeker by D.N. Hoxa

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Betrayed.Defeated.Chained.I used to be a sister, a friend, a ruler of the elflands that belonged to my family’s House. Now, I am a prisoner of the fae, my kind’s sworn enemy since the beginning of time. They put chains around me, thinking they can keep me from breaking free and taking their lives. They can’t.The only reason I stay is because I no longer need a life...
    Categorized as:
    fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  vampires  book  fiction  myths
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