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  • The HellBeast's Soul by Stephanie Hudson

    The HellBeast's Soul by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I never meant to change.Never meant to carry the burden of truth.All I ever wanted to do was love him.All I ever wanted was to save him.But I realize now that with wants, sometimes comes sacrifice.The strength to accept the change and the discovery that,You might not be just who you thought you were.You might be exactly who…Your King needs you to be.In order to save… A HellBeast’s soul...
  • Guardians: The Shoma by Lola St. Vil

    Guardians: The Shoma by Lola St. Vil

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brace yourself...(Please note chapter 14 has mature content...
  • Rage of Angels by Lola St. Vil

    Rage of Angels by Lola St. Vil

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Everyone on the battlefield stops to focus on us. Both sides are too taken by the match to do anything else. Malakaro looks at me from across the circle with malice and fury. I return his gaze, matching his ire. He begins to move around the circle slowly. He addresses me in his usual calm voice. “Are you sure you’re ready for this, little sis?” he asks. “Bring it..
  • The Crane Diaries: Homecoming by Apryl Baker

    The Crane Diaries: Homecoming by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New Orleans is a city known for its paranormal history—and it’s the place Emma Rose Crane, AKA Mattie Hathaway, has come home to. She hopes she can start over in New Orleans, where her ability to see ghosts isn't so freaky...
  • Greed's Siren by Stephanie Hudson

    Greed's Siren by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The age-old story of hating my job was nothing new.Many lived it. Many had experienced it.So going into work that day just felt like any other dreaded day at the office.That was until there was him.A thief who stole more than gold that night.A thief who stole my heart.But I was about to learn how risky that truly was. Because Ryker Wyeth wasn’t just any thief.He was dangerous one...
  • Guardians: The Nycren by Lola St. Vil

    Guardians: The Nycren by Lola St. Vil

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It all ends here..
  • The HellBeast's Claim by Stephanie Hudson

    The HellBeast's Claim by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It started as a HellBeast’s Mistake that ended in me making my own.And now I am paying for it.Now I am running from it.But I am soon to discover how foolish that was.Because you didn’t run from the HellBeast King.Not when that King still wanted you.Not when that King wasn’t ready to let you go.So now I am being hunted and soon he will find me.I know this.Of course, he won’t have far to look...
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    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  shapeshifters  steamy
  • The Lyris by Lola St. Vil

    The Lyris by Lola St. Vil

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The end of the world is not coming; it's hereAn impossible decision...A massive war...A Guardian silenced forever..
  • Chaos Volume 2: Books 4-6 by Claire Farrell

    Chaos Volume 2: Books 4-6 by Claire Farrell

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Books 4-6 in the Chaos series (including bonus novella, Kings). Usurper It’s been a year since Cara returned to the human realm with her daughter, and the fae have come knocking again. The game of kings is still being played, power is the ultimate prize, and Scarlet is an asset every court wishes to acquire...
  • The Archangel: An Azrael Story by Elicia Hyder

    The Archangel: An Azrael Story by Elicia Hyder

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Archangel of Death is the master of taking human life. But keeping mortals alive? Not exactly Azrael's forte. For thousands of years, Azrael’s greatest enemy has been silent. Leaving him in relative peace for the first time since the great angel war...
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    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  angels  book  female-author  fiction
  • The Cursed by L.A. Banks

    The Cursed by L.A. Banks

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The Chairman has been killed and now Lilith, Satan’s Consort, sits on the vampire throne as the Vampire Council’s new Chairwoman. She raises all the dark covens, calling every major dark witch and warlock to do her bidding. Her goal is to distract the team members while the unborn heir to the Dark Realms awaits his own birth. All Lilith needs now is Damali’s newly discovered angelic powers...
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    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  angels  book  dark-fantasy  fiction
  • The Shadows by L.A. Banks

    The Shadows by L.A. Banks

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The Dark Realms are taking cover after an angel onslaught from On High. The Antichrist has been injured and the fourth biblical seal has been broken. Yonnie and Val, a strange combination of a daywalker and an angel hybrid, have joined Damali and Carlos's team. And the two new Council-level vamps, Elizabeth Bathory and Lucrezia Borgia, are still in recovery from their last mission...
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    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  angels  book  dark-fantasy  fiction
  • Töte die Dunkelheit by Stella Tack

    Töte die Dunkelheit by Stella Tack

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Die Black Bird Academy ist ein Ort, der seinesgleichen sucht. An dieser dunklen Schule werden Exorzisten ausgebildet, deren Aufgabe es ist, die Menschheit vor den Dämonen zu beschützen...
  • The Forsaken by L.A. Banks

    The Forsaken by L.A. Banks

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead, and Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress, and her lover, Carlos Rivera. A ruthless and carefully planned strategy---one that not even Damali will anticipate---has been developed...
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    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  dark-fantasy  epic  fiction
  • Tethers by Claire Farrell

    Tethers by Claire Farrell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ava’s been protecting her shifter friend from the alpha for months, but now he’s managed to come up with a brand new excuse to take Esther, and the Senate have turned their backs on her completely.While Ava works to find a way to keep Esther out of Mac’s reach for good, a series of violent murders put everyone in the cul-de-sac under suspicion...
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    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  fae  fiction  horror
  • Matt Archer: Redemption by Kendra C. Highley

    Matt Archer: Redemption by Kendra C. Highley

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

    Blood of Ancients by Sara C. Roethle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eiric won the battle, but Lyssandra plans on winning the war. With her bond broken, her magic builds, threatening to consume her—a price she is willing to pay if it means she can bring Eiric down with her.Only, not everything is as it seems. She had thought the Ivangard witches villains, not victims...
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    paranormal  demons  dark  romance  fantasy  vampires  fiction  mystery
  • Hunted by Ednah Walters

    Hunted by Ednah Walters

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bran and Lil may have escaped an attempt to lure Lil to the dark side, and recovered the contracts damned people signed with Bran when he was a soul collector, but someone forgot to tell them that no one switches sides or cancels contracts without consequences...
  • Imp Series Box Set, Books 1-3 by Debra Dunbar

    Imp Series Box Set, Books 1-3 by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A DEMON BOUND*Samantha Martin is an imp, enjoying an extended vacation from Hel. All she wants to do is drink beer by the pool, play mischievous pranks on the humans, and get her hot neighbor in the sack. It’s a relaxing break from her infernal home as long as she manages to avoid the angels, who won’t hesitate to execute her on sight...
  • Sunset to Sunrise by Trina M. Lee

    Sunset to Sunrise by Trina M. Lee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The absence of the two biggest power players in the city puts Kale Sinclair in a tough position. Maintaining control of The Wicked Kiss isn’t easy for one barely holding together delicate fragments of sanity.When word reaches Kale of a growing vampire rebellion, he laughs it off. Until he learns that their target is Arys Knight. Kale would love to take a shot at Arys...
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    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • The Fallen Angel's Bride by Roxie Ray, Skye Wilson

    The Fallen Angel's Bride by Roxie Ray, Skye Wilson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Getting hitched to a fallen angel in Las Vegas wasn’t in my job description…When you work undercover for an organisation like The Covenant to protect humanity from the apocalypse, you follow orders. And that includes marrying a sinfully sexy fallen angel called Lock, who also happens to be a King of Hell.The weird thing is, Lock seems familiar to me, and he acts like we’re meant to be together...
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    demons  paranormal  angels  supernatural  fiction  book  adult  fantasy
  • Beast And The Imp by Stephanie Hudson

    Beast And The Imp by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It had to be said, that I didn’t much care for the Devil.Especially when he tried to use me to control the Beast.But then this was his mistake. As such, I had been granted early release and as for the Beast… he was not happy.So now Hell had a problem.A big one.One named Abaddon, who was currently tearing Hell apart trying to find me. Which meant I now had a choice to make...
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    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  afterlife  angels  book  drama
  • Lucifer's Queen by Skye Wilson, Roxie Ray

    Lucifer's Queen by Skye Wilson, Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I was born to give the devil his due. When I woke up naked next to the hottest man I’ve ever met, I had no idea just how much my life was about to change. And I had no clue the man was the devil himself. Literally. I promised to be his for all eternity, and so far, it’s going well. Luke will give me anything to keep me happy: jewels, food, days in bed, and more...
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    paranormal  demons  dark  angels  myths  urban-fantasy  steamy  fiction
  • Blessed by Brandi Elledge

    Blessed by Brandi Elledge

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I have been touched by angels. Blessed. Seven simple words that changed my world forever. Now, forced to enroll at the Academy of Seraph, I soon realize that my enemies could be anywhere, including behind the very walls that are supposed to protect me. And, thanks to my hidden abilities, I know it’s only a matter of time before I’m forced into a war that I inherited but did not choose...
  • The Damned by L.A. Banks

    The Damned by L.A. Banks

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The only way to Heaven is through the gates of Hell…Damali Richards knows all about a blood rush. The kind that happened when she first went skin-to-skin with former vampire Carlos Rivera. Or the kind that happened on the streets of Philadelphia, when her crew took on the devil’s own...
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    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  dark-fantasy  fiction  horror
  • Demon Hunter: Birthright: An Urban Fantasy Harem Adventure by Michael Dalton

    Demon Hunter: Birthright: An Urban Fantasy Harem Adventure by Michael Dalton

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Jimmy Kaplan has a hard enough time staying on top of his graduate studies in Chemical Engineering and dealing with the death of his quirky, cantankerous grandmother, who raised him from childhood...
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    anti-hero  dark  demons  paranormal  adult  bisexuality  book  fiction
  • Hell Gate by Veronica Eden

    Hell Gate by Veronica Eden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From USA Today & International bestselling author, Veronica Eden, comes an all-new standalone reverse harem paranormal romance with a headstrong heroine and twisted demons who left their morals in the last century.Open the gate...if you dare.The first thing I’m warned about when I arrive at the girls’ home is to stay away from the abandoned graveyard...
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    anti-hero  dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  fated-mates  fiction
  • Fierce by C.C. Hunter

    Fierce by C.C. Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From C. C. Hunter, the New York Times bestselling author of the Shadow Falls series, comes another story set in the Shadow Falls world.Werewolf Fredericka Lakota prefers to be alone. Even years after being abandoned by her rogue werewolf father, she's still never found a place for herself in Shadow Falls...
  • Dead and Everything by P.S. Power

    Dead and Everything by P.S. Power

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dead and Everything Eve Benson, the world’s hardest working baby vampire isn’t going to be left to the normal course of things. As a new member of the undead she should be in for years of beatings, starvation, and possibly some other things that her parents wouldn’t be happy to hear about. Thanks to the training she put herself through though, Eve is a different kind of Vamp...
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    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  dark-fantasy  fiction  humor
  • The Eminence in Shadow, Vol. 2 by Daisuke Aizawa, 逢沢 大介

    The Eminence in Shadow, Vol. 2 by Daisuke Aizawa, 逢沢 大介

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTHCid pays a visit to the Sacred Land, where he finds himself getting roped into the Goddess's Trial. It's a ritual event that summons warriors from the past to engage with only the most worthy from the present...
  • Death Scream by S.M. Reine

    Death Scream by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Elise Kavanagh has been hired to exorcise a castle in Ireland. Easy job. But her partner, James Faulkner, thinks they aren't dealing with a demon -- and if he's right, then what they're facing is far rarer and more dangerous than anything they've fought before..
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  magic  supernatural
  • Vassago by Randi Cooley Wilson

    Vassago by Randi Cooley Wilson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Seeker with one desire. A Goddess who safeguards an ancient curse. Sometimes even love cannot save a dark soul. Vassago is a Seeker haunted by his dark soul, making him dangerous and mysterious to everyone around him—except Lore. Lore is a goddess who wards an ancient curse...
  • The Cursed and Desired by G. Bailey

    The Cursed and Desired by G. Bailey

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

    Twisted Fate (#5, Rhyn Eternal): Volume 5 by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rhyn Eternal Series: love, betrayal, power. It’s like reality TV – with Immortals. Stranded as a mortal after Karma decided to balance him, Fate faces the challenge of living out life as one of the humans he normally mocks. His first problem: all the other deities, demons and Immortals who want payback for him messing with their futures now know he’s vulnerable...
  • Wings & Destruction by G.K. DeRosa

    Wings & Destruction by G.K. DeRosa

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    First the vampires attacked. Then the angels came. Humans thought they were saved. They were wrong. In less than a year, the Vampire and Angel War ravaged the country and decimated the human population, razing lands in golden fire and pools of crimson blood...
  • Crown of Darkness by J.L. Weil

    Crown of Darkness by J.L. Weil

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the struggle between love and vengeance becomes a deadly battleground, is there any hope for salvation? Lexi Winters’ world is falling apart. Damaged. Scarred. And Vengeful. Retaliation consumes her heart. Night and day, all she can think about is exacting her retribution for Colin’s death, the boy she once loved. Her guilt and resentment fuel her choices to hunt. Fate has other plans...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  paranormal  book  fiction  horror  myths  supernatural
  • The Vampire's Prisoner by Zara Novak

    The Vampire's Prisoner by Zara Novak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kat had always believed in vampires, and one night her search for truth brought her to a dark and mysterious bar on the edge of town. She soon realizes she’s made a grave mistake, and runs for her life, only to fall into the arms of a dark and mysterious stranger...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  angels  book  fiction  ghosts
  • Fire Bound by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

    Fire Bound by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A dangerous creature is on the loose. Evalle, Tzader and Quinn take a VIPER team just outside of Atlanta for a sting operation that takes a deadly turn. Killing the half-human creature would be easy, but national security is on the line until the team can discover who created the monster, and whether more like it are waiting in the wings to be unleashed on the human world...
  • Goroth: Everybody Loves Large Chests  (Vol. 7) by Neven Iliev

    Goroth: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol. 7) by Neven Iliev

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At a glance, the dwarves and gnomes of the Horkensaft Kingdom are two peoples who are worlds apart. The former are seen as hardcore traditionalists Hell-bent on maintaining the status quo, while the latter only look ever forward and upward as they grasp at the future with both hands...
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    anti-hero  dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  harem
  • Sinners on Sunset by Debra Dunbar

    Sinners on Sunset by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The tax demons want their pound of flesh. Or fifty-two thousand dollars.Unable to pay what she owes, Eden is forced to fight a never-ending stream of bounty hunters while she tries to clear her name and find the cop who set her up...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Ventura Hellway by Debra Dunbar

    Ventura Hellway by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beware the devils who promise miracles.When an old flame asks Eden to help find his younger brother, she initially refuses. Searching for Anton will put her smack in the middle of the Disciples—as well as on the radar of the demon who might own her soul. But a sense of obligation (plus the promised payout), overrides her instincts for self-preservation, and Eden takes the job...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  angels  book  dystopia  fiction
  • Forgotten by Ednah Walters

    Forgotten by Ednah Walters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ""Forgotten"" takes the Guardian Legacy series in a new direction, as Lil wakes up on Mount Hermon Island after months of unconsciousness only to find that she has no memory of her life before waking up...
  • Wrath & Reign: A Villain Paranormal Romance Complete Series by Nikki St. Crowe

    Wrath & Reign: A Villain Paranormal Romance Complete Series by Nikki St. Crowe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Demon King crossed over to our world looking for something that was stolen from him. What he found was me.It used to be that the president was the most powerful person in the country. That all changed when Wrath came to our world. He’s more powerful than anything we’ve ever faced.Now there are websites dedicated to worshipping him...
  • The HellBeast's Battle by Stephanie Hudson

    The HellBeast's Battle by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love can conquer many things.Sacrifice even more.Which is why I jumped into Hell and found myself in the very last place I ever imagined.A place of discovery.A place where knowledge is key, and truth is power.So, as the secrets start unravelling and past lives begin catching up with me,I am given a choice...
  • The Underworld by Lizzy Ford

    The Underworld by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The time has come for Gabriel to claim his underworld. Accompanied by the deceptive Dark One, he risks everything to find his mate and take his place as the deity Death. Between him and the only woman he’s ever loved: a handful of rebelling death dealers, the deity Karma and the Dark One’s mate, a human-turned-demon who holds his soul in the palm of her hand...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  paranormal  angels  book  fiction  magic  supernatural
  • House of War and Bone by Leia Stone

    House of War and Bone by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Fallon thought that living her entire life cursed to feel pain every time she was touched was the worst thing that could ever happen to her.She was wrong.The worst thing would be to find a handsome guy who could touch her, and then accidentally trap him in the Realm of Eternity. Not only does Fallon lose Ariyon, but she swaps powers with him...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  demons  dark  romance  fantasy  magic  young-adult  fiction
  • The Hunted by L.A. Banks

    The Hunted by L.A. Banks

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Each millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress whose mission is to vanquish evil from the world. This millennium's savior has come in the form of Damali Richards, a hip-hop diva with the heart of a warrior and an attitude to match. But a war in Hell has cost Damali both her powers and her past love, Carlos Rivera. Still, Damali can't let her grief stand in her way...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  book  dark-fantasy  fiction  horror
  • The Master by Louise Cooper

    The Master by Louise Cooper

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Chaos stalks the Realm of Order. The fate of a world hangs on one woman's life. In Conclave grave the Lords of Light will summon their God to battle. Adept of Chaos, sworn to the Law, the Master rides to confront his terrible destiny. This is the tale of his decision. This is Book III in the Master trilogy...
  • A Suburban Summoning by Debra Dunbar

    A Suburban Summoning by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Halloween is all fun and games until you're summoned into a closet. Forced to help two children rid their father of a murderous girlfriend to satisfy the terms of her summoning, Sam finds neither the girlfriend, or the father, are quite what they seem. This short story was originally published in 2015 under the title Full Moon Mischief in the Nightshade anthology...
    Categorized as:
    dark  demons  paranormal  adult  angels  book  contemporary  fae
  • The Helm of Darkness by Kim Richardson

    The Helm of Darkness by Kim Richardson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Against all odds, Alexa survives the pagan god Hades’ clutches and returns to Horizon—but at a steep cost. Part of her soul is missing, and with that, a darkness brews inside her. When the Legion pairs her with a new petty officer, Milo, a mysterious angel who seems as annoyed as she is to be teamed together, they head to New York City on a lead and things quickly move from bad to worse...
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