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  • Fashionably Dead and Wed by Robyn Peterman

    Fashionably Dead and Wed by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I know I’m already mated…I wanna get married. What do you get when you combine a three headed monster named Charles, a rotund, gay, dancing Demon named Doug, a culinary disaster baked by Mother Nature, a celibate premarital councilor named Jeff, an offer from Satan that’s impossible to refuse and Steve Perry? You get the Royal Wedding from Hell—or to be more accurate—possibly in Hell...
  • Rebel Vampire by Brogan Thomas, Poppy Royana

    Rebel Vampire by Brogan Thomas, Poppy Royana

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They warned her to be more careful. If she’d listened, she wouldn’t be staring down the ultimate betrayal. Tru Dennison won’t be burned again. Still reeling from her angel mentor breaking her heart, the half-vampire, half-unicorn shifter greets everyone with suspicion...
  • Midnight Spells by Kim Richardson

    Midnight Spells by Kim Richardson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Get ready for this heart-pounding and laugh out loud magical adventure!Just when I thought I’d finally gotten my life back on track, the unexpected happens.It’s the annual Night Festival in Hollow Cove, a paranormal festival extravaganza that lasts for five nights and features a multitude of powerful faces in our paranormal circles.There’s only one little problem. Someone ends up dead...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  audiobook  book  comedy
  • Run by B.L. Brunnemer

    Run by B.L. Brunnemer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With Evelyn unconscious, it’s up to the rest of the team to keep Chicago from breaking out into chaos. Witches, wolves, and vampires are at each other’s throats. Demons are slipping through the barrier and the dead are piling up. It’s up to Astrid and Ranulf to keep Chicago from erupting into war...
  • Client from Hell by R.J. Blain

    Client from Hell by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Step one: add some gasoline.Step two: light a match.Step three: watch the devil’s house burn.As far as plans go, Sandra Moore rather likes hers. It’s simple. It gets the job done. It reduces the devil’s house to smoldering ruins.Life is good—at least for the year she has left of it, assuming the devil doesn’t kill her first...
  • Dead Witches Tell No Tales  (The Hollows, #3-4) by Kim Harrison

    Dead Witches Tell No Tales (The Hollows, #3-4) by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even in the Holllows - Cincinnati's home to all supernatural folk - vampires and werewolves can make strange bedfellows. Just ask Rachel Morgan, private investigator and witch. First her never-do-well boyfriend disappears into the night. Then the hunky protege of vampire crimelord Piscary starts eyeing her curves... not to mention her throat...
  • Fashionably Fanged by Robyn Peterman, Audrey Lusk

    Fashionably Fanged by Robyn Peterman, Audrey Lusk

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I have to trap the most evil, worst bad dude in existence without actually turning him to ash. So, what's a Vampyre to do?For starters, enter an undead beauty pageant - in Oklahoma, where the hair is jacked and the contestants are busty and brainless.My name is Venus. I'm a 200-year-old killing machine, and I'm trading in my daggers and sword for a sparkly dress and an obscene swimsuit...
  • Vampire Hollows by Tim O'Rourke

    Vampire Hollows by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With nowhere else to run to but the Hollows, Kiera Hudson finds herself in a world like no other. Entrusted with a secret, she has to make her way to the mysterious Light House set hundreds of miles beneath the Earth. As she makes her journey, Kiera’s companions are being murdered one by one...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts
  • The Gravedigger’s Son: A Charley Davidson Novella by Darynda Jones

    The Gravedigger’s Son: A Charley Davidson Novella by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The job should have been easy.Get in. Assess the situation. Get out. But for veteran tracker Quentin Rutherford, things get sticky when the girl he’s loved since puberty shows up, conducting her own investigation into the strange occurrences of the small, New Mexico town...
  • Practical Hexes by Kim Richardson

    Practical Hexes by Kim Richardson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Never in my thirty years did I think my new normal would be a gig as a soul collector’s assistant—slave really—where I help stockpile souls from the miserable mortals who sell them to him. The demon thinks he can control me, but I plan on doing things differently… my way. But we all know it’s never that easy or that simple, especially in my life.Surprisingly, things get off to a good start...
  • Cast Away by Annabel Chase

    Cast Away by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. Witch-in-training Emma Hart is preparing for one of the worst days of her life...the marriage of fallen angel Daniel Starr to the spoiled fairy, Elsa Knightsbridge. Fortunately for Emma, distractions are easy to come by in Spellbound when a troll is found dead near a bridge and an overzealous werewolf is arrested for indecent exposure...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  audiobook  book  cozy
  • The Scarlet Deep by Elizabeth Hunter

    The Scarlet Deep by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    On the waves of the North Atlantic, a poison spreads, sapping the life from humans and striking madness into immortals.Patrick Murphy, the immortal leader of Dublin, has been trying to stem the tide of Elixir washing into his territory, but nothing seems to stop the vampire drug...
  • Risk by Dannika Dark

    Risk by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    WHEN A GAME OF CHANCE BECOMES A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL. Simon Hunt is a masterful Mage when it comes to knives, solving puzzles, and women. But when a Mageri Councilman asks for a personal favor, his skills are put to the test. He reluctantly accepts the impossible job of training a young Learner who is beyond anyone’s help. She’s beautiful, cunning, and disabled...
  • 101 Ways to Die by R.J. Blain

    101 Ways to Die by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Officer McMarin of the NYPD is in for the ride of her life when the Chief Quinns storm into her station, promote her to the rank of detective, and relocate her to Manhattan. Saddled with the dubious honor of being Chief Bailey Quinn’s primary rider is only the beginning of her woes.Her first case delves into the dark waters of the many ways in which a person can die...
  • United Eden by Nicole Williams

    United Eden by Nicole Williams

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Life's been many things for twenty year old Bryn Dawson, but one thing it's never been is easy. And it's only about to get harder...
  • Scion by Kelly Oram

    Scion by Kelly Oram

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Russ Devereaux used to have it all—loving father, beautiful best friend, a carefree life in a town he loved, and strong magic. He was the king of his happy universe. Five months ago, that life was taken from him. Do not pass Go. Do not collect two hundred dollars. He’s spent months fighting back and building himself a new life, in a new city, with new friends he now considers family...
  • Freak Show by Trina M. Lee

    Freak Show by Trina M. Lee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alexa’s arrival in Sin City is greeted with a warning: leave town or be forced out.The return of her lover, Arys, has the Vegas vampires on edge. The Wicked Kiss Las Vegas location has changed in his absence. Werewolf death fights and vampire performance art takes it to a whole new level of crazy. The new club owner, Jenner, shares Arys’s bloodline and a few bad memories...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  book  demons  fated-mates
  • Curse of Night by Emily Goodwin

    Curse of Night by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When one door closes, another door opens. Or in my case, kill one monster and another comes knocking. It’s nothing new, since someone has had it out for me my whole life. I’ve learned to not only live with but expect the constant peril.Demons attack? Must be Monday. Send hexes my way? Just another Tuesday night...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  alpha-mc  book  demons
  • Queen of Night by Emily Goodwin

    Queen of Night by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Heaven wants to kill me. Hell wants me to rule. So what’s a girl to do when powerful forces on both sides are clambering to get their hands on me?Stay as far away from the cosmic drama as I possibly can.Though, for those who know me, they know it’s easier said than done. But I’ve promised to take a break, to lay low, to let someone else handle the demons for a while...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • Savvy Negotiator by Erin R. Flynn

    Savvy Negotiator by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Five women of “questionable professions” have been murdered, and that means Acadia Collins—according to her new alias—is heading to Denver. She tries to avoid mixed areas, but corporate also wants to expand into the area. It seems a dangerous move to make when she has an ancient vampire interested in her and vowing not to let her go...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  alpha-mc  book  crime
  • Deadly Night by Vanessa Nelson

    Deadly Night by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can she serve justice in an unjust world?Newly-promoted Watch Officer Thea March is assigned her very first death investigation. Someone has brutally killed a young woman and dumped her body in an empty warehouse. The only real clue left at the scene points to one of the elite – the Ageless – as being involved...
  • Hemlocked and Loaded by Annabel Chase

    Hemlocked and Loaded by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. Emma Hart has a lot on her paranormal plate--a wedding to plan, a trespasser to defend, and a longstanding curse to break. When a pixie dies under mysterious circumstances, her endless list of Things To Do grows even longer...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  animals  audiobook  book
  • Fallen Star Series by Jessica Sorensen

    Fallen Star Series by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Books 1-3 of the Fallen Star Series. In Book One, The Fallen Star, eighteen year-old Gemma's life has never been normal. Up until recently, she has been incapable of feeling emotion. And when she’s around Alex, the gorgeous new guy at school, she can feel electricity that makes her skin buzz. Not to mention the monsters that haunt her nightmares have crossed over into real-life...
  • Fashionably Forever After by Robyn Peterman

    Fashionably Forever After by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A movie deal for the Devil’s autobiography slash romance? Priceless. Maybe I should choose George Clooney to play me in the movie… No. Too gray. As much as I can’t see anyone playing me but me, I have far more important issues on my agenda—like finding the woman who stole my soul...
  • A Drop in the Potion by Annabel Chase

    A Drop in the Potion by Annabel Chase

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal. A new discovery by the remedial witches offers the chance to obtain a key ingredient for a spell that *may* bring an end to the curse on the long-suffering town. Naturally, Emma is the first to volunteer for the task--oblivious to the potential danger she faces...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  animals  audiobook  book
  • Supernatural Slayer Squad by G.K. DeRosa

    Supernatural Slayer Squad by G.K. DeRosa

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Welcome to the Supernatural Slayer Squad!  Our task is simple. Kill all the demon baddies before they wreak havoc on the human realm and destroy the fragile peace between our two worlds. Easy peasy, right? Well, if I can’t figure out how to get this devil’s mark off my chest, the demons won’t stop coming for me. Luckily, my long lost father has shown up promising to help me get rid of it...
  • Fallen Eden by Nicole Williams

    Fallen Eden by Nicole Williams

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    If happily ever after were a place, twenty-year-old Bryn Dawson would be on the farthest planet from it. Reduced to stolen glances and secret meetings as they await a Betrothal the Council is bent on stalling, William and Bryn have to settle for happily right now, but with a man like William Hayward at her side, Bryn’s hardly settling...
  • Siren's Song by Yasmine Galenorn

    Siren's Song by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the fog rolls in from the sea, sometimes ghosts from the past follow it... Sandy’s under attack. First, she’s almost mowed down at the supermarket, then her new shore-front burger stand is destroyed on its grand opening day. But when she’s found in a coma, the danger heats up. As she falls into a coma, parts of her dreaming world escape into reality...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  mystery
  • Jumbled Positions by Erin R. Flynn

    Jumbled Positions by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Being the boss is never easy no matter the support system you have in place. Being the boss when people’s lives are on the line is not something even superheroes can do without a break. Especially when they’re your people.But Jasmine Stewart has.Everyone is worried and scared about what comes next since the news of the demons organizing went public...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  book  demons  fae
  • Undisclosed Assets by Erin R. Flynn

    Undisclosed Assets by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A succubus working as a stripper sounds like a cliché or start of a bad joke, but Lola Chase is in a human only province in Canada for other reasons. Someone is murdering women society looks down on, and she’s there to stop it. As a demon, she’s bottom of the supernatural food chain and knows how often people ignore crimes against them...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  alpha-mc  book  demons
  • The Promise by Jessica Sorensen

    The Promise by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    My name is Gemma Lucas and my life's a mess. Alex is gone, my dad's trapped in his own mind, and my mom's working for the dark side. Not to mention Nicholas refuses to quit haunting me. The world has also entered apocalyptic mode. Everyday more vampires, witches, and fey run the streets. Innocent people are dying. The Mark of Malefiscus is showing up everywhere...
  • Forever Changed by Belinda Boring

    Forever Changed by Belinda Boring

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Waking up after an amazing night with her new husband and mate, nothing could've prepared Darcy for the epic bombshell Devlin dropped - explaining her heritage and revealing truths that completely blow her mind. When all she wants is to settle into marital bliss and Pack life, Darcy's world is once again thrown into turmoil, forced to face a challenge that may very well break her and Mason...
  • Wolf House - Potter's Story by Tim O'Rourke

    Wolf House - Potter's Story by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "O'Rourke certainly knows how to deliver twists that the reader never sees coming and that will leave him/her reeling for days on end. Five stars." A Book Vacation Book Reviews.As Potter leaves Kiera and his friends to go in search of Luke, he makes a lonely journey across the snow-capped mountains of Cumbria...
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    angels  paranormal  vampires  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Ungifted by Kelly Oram

    Ungifted by Kelly Oram

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even though her father is running for President of the United States, Grace St. Claire is as normal a girl as they come. She’s clumsy, shy, and an outcast among her peers. She even manages to nearly die in a freak accident in front of the entire school. But when Grace survives a vampire attack she quickly learns that she is anything but ordinary...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  book  contemporary  fae  fiction
  • Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong

    Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The final anthology from the #1 New York Times bestselling Otherworld series Embrace the obscure. New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong once again opens the gates to the Otherworld. This collection of rare and never-before-published novellas and short stories brings the clever wit, dark twists, and intense suspense Otherworld readers have come to expect...
  • Dead and Gone by Annie Anderson

    Dead and Gone by Annie Anderson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    There are few things worse than being on the Arcane Bureau of Investigation’s naughty list.To keep herself out of hot water, Darby Adler has made a deal with the devil—using her skills as a grave talker to help the ABI solve some very cold cases...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  audiobook  book  demons
  • The Vision by Jessica Sorensen

    The Vision by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN here.The Vision is book 3 in the Fallen Star Series.Gemma thought she was trapped—that Stephan had finally won. But then time resets and she’s given another chance.The clock is ticking as Gemma tries to figure out how to change the vision that ends the world in ice...
  • The Underworld by Jessica Sorensen

    The Underworld by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    **New Cover, Same Edition**Gemma thought her mind was gone, but she was wrong. And now she is left trying to figure out the truth to what Stephan is planning to do with her and the star, before it's too late.But finding out the truth is hard, especially since Gemma doesn't know who she can trust...
  • Burning Ash by N.J. Walters

    Burning Ash by N.J. Walters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No one is more surprised than Asher, one of the oldest vampires on Earth, that he's attracted to vamp hunter Jo Radcliffe. She's smart, a talented slayer, and she's gorgeous. Something about her pulls at him, like no one ever has before. For a man, whose name strikes fear in everyone—this is something new and intriguing. And quite possibly deadly, if she discovers his secret...
  • Djinn Justice by Jenny Schwartz

    Djinn Justice by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Ancient Egyptian spell opens the door to a soul-sucking evil. Fay Olwen is still adjusting to life as one of a couple. She never expected to have a sexy leopard-were cuddling her at midnight in his huge bed in his gorgeous villa on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. But here she is, in love and in luck--finally! There's not a demon in sight...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  book  contemporary  demons  fiction
  • Knock Em Dead by Heather Hildenbrand

    Knock Em Dead by Heather Hildenbrand

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fork the haters. After being demoted to the position of “cleaner” for the SSF, Gem’s not sure life gets much worse. But when she stumbles upon a level six demon in her last trimester hiding in downtown New Orleans, she realizes she was very, very wrong. Apparently, maternal instincts apply even to demon babies. Gem can’t let the council destroy such an innocent creature...
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    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  audiobook  book  demons
  • Road to Redemption by Kerry Keller

    Road to Redemption by Kerry Keller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What does a welcome party, a night of drinking, and a recently enrolled college student have in common? Nothing, but that’s what was needed for a one-way ticket to Purgatory.I’m Nerezza Taylor, and there must be a mistake. I’m not a mythical creature, and I don’t have powers...
    Categorized as:
    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  book  dark  demons
  • Valiant Light by Jana Oliver

    Valiant Light by Jana Oliver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With her wedding fast approaching, as well as her fiancé's investiture as grand master, Master Demon TrapperRiley Blackthorne is just trying to keep Atlanta safe from Hellspawn. When she meets a high-level fiend who claims to be free of Lucifer's control, and allows him to remain at large, she knows there will be consequences...
    Categorized as:
    angels  magic  paranormal  book  demons  dystopia  female-mc  fiction
  • Broken Things by Barbara Elsborg

    Broken Things by Barbara Elsborg

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An ancient book of faerie magic. A renegade who will stop at nothing to possess it. And the two boys who stand in his way.When fifteen-year-old Tar, part vampire, part something else, helps his father break into a remote house, he doesn’t care about the book his father is looking for. What he does care about is the little locked-up faerie kid. Merrick is alone, vulnerable and deaf...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  vampires  magic  angels  mlm  mystery  shapeshifters  abuse
  • Death's Door by Heather Hildenbrand

    Death's Door by Heather Hildenbrand

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shift happens.Gem’s life has gone from bad to worse faster than her secret demon baby can say “baby daddy.” What started as a crappy job and a possible killer to bring to justice has become a full-blown conspiracy from hell. Literally.Demons are being summoned into New Orleans and Gem is sure there’s a Nephilim behind it. Now, all she has to do is prove it...
  • Accidentally Divine by Dakota Cassidy

    Accidentally Divine by Dakota Cassidy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heaven ain’t missin’ this angel…At a fateful New Year’s Eve party, Georgina Maverick, a little bit drunk, a lot mired in guilt from her tortured past, trips and falls off a rooftop, tumbling ten stories to her almost death.Little does George know, her friend and co-worker, Dexter Bridger, the man she discovers also happens to be her guardian angel, is on the case...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  vampires  magic  angels  romance  fantasy  cozy  mystery
  • Relinquished Hood by Kendrai Meeks

    Relinquished Hood by Kendrai Meeks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She didn't want any more werewolves in her life, now she has to live with one? Geri Kline wishes her list of concerns began and ended with "human things." You know... How to dress for the first day of your new internship or which shoes go best with a silver dagger and a crossbow. But when you're an outed red hood working in a company run by vampires, human concerns are trivial...
  • Hemorrhage by S.A. Magnusson

    Hemorrhage by S.A. Magnusson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Only my combination of magic and medicine can save me. No longer afraid of my magic, I’ve begun experimenting with how to use it when working in the ER. While on a surgery rotation, my use of magic reveals a dangerous new threat and a type of magic I had not known about before, making me a target...
    Categorized as:
    magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  book  demons  fiction  mystery
  • Blood From A Stone by May Sage

    Blood From A Stone by May Sage

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Viola Wild has spent the last hundred years scourging the world to find the heir to the Eirikrsen’s legacy. She doesn’t expect her latest inquiry to be fruitful. Thomas Miller is just a human. How could he be linked to the most ancient and terrifying line of vampire this world has ever known? She soon realizes, there’s more to the man—and to his charming little sister...
    Categorized as:
    angels  magic  paranormal  vampires  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book
  • The Evolution of Fae and Gods by Sawyer Bennett

    The Evolution of Fae and Gods by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evil is coming.A dark malevolence the likes of which this world has never seen, and it comes straight from the depths of Hell. Darkness meant to destroy. A prophecy I am fated to fulfill but will most likely not survive. Through it all, Carrick Byrne has stood strong by my side...
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