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  • City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett

    City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to do — and that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering Shara's killers deserve...
  • Jackalope Wives and Other Stories by T. Kingfisher

    Jackalope Wives and Other Stories by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Winner of the Nebula and WSFA Short Fiction Awards From award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes a collection of short stories, including "Jackalope Wives," "The Tomato Thief," "Pocosin," and many others. By turns funny, lyrical, angry and beautiful, this anthology includes two all-new stories, "Origin Story" and "Let Pass The Horses Black," appearing for the first time in print...
  • Brothers to the Death by Darren Shan

    Brothers to the Death by Darren Shan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After years of wandering, Larten has finally found his way back to his vampire family and resumed the vigorous, brutal training to become a General. But there are vampires determined to pull Larten into starting a war that could have global implications and casualties. Vampires who will stop at nothing. Vampires who would betray Larten in the most cutting way...
  • Death Unleashed by Steve McHugh

    Death Unleashed by Steve McHugh

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A DEADLY VENOM. A LOOMING REBELLION. A VICIOUS SIEGE. AND THE CLOCK IS TICKING.For sorcerer Nate Garrett, the stakes have risen. If Asgard falls, he may lose much more than his home - he may lose the thing dearest to him. To stand a fighting chance against Avalon, he must be ready to go to war...
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    gods  myths  retellings  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  dark
  • Midlife Magic & Magnolias by Meredith Carlisle

    Midlife Magic & Magnolias by Meredith Carlisle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A creepy mansion with a mind of its own. One ridiculously tall leprechaun—and three geriatric defenders fresh out of the retirement village. These are my ducks, and they are not in a row.I always believed my "family curse" was nothing more than an unfortunate turn of phrase...Now turning forty-five, the age at which every woman in my family dies, I'm not so sure...
    Categorized as:
    myths  retellings  adult  book  comedy  demons  europe  female-mc
  • Apocalypse Redux, Book Four by Jakob H. Greif

    Apocalypse Redux, Book Four by Jakob H. Greif

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Humanity is circling the abyss, to reap or to ruin. Only one man can determine its fate.Monsters that can destroy cities have appeared. The most highly leveled humans begin to abuse their power. And as levels rise, individual people start to reach the kind of power where they can rival militaries all by themselves...
  • Ghouls Don't Scamper by Kim McDougall

    Ghouls Don't Scamper by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Critter wrangler rule #17: even the smallest creature can be big in magic.Kyra Greene never thought she’d return to Asgard. Not after she burned the Rainbow Bridge, the only road home. Now she has no choice. With her unborn child’s life at stake, she must find a new route to the old world, or die trying...
  • Redeemer by Leia Stone, S.T. Bende

    Redeemer by Leia Stone, S.T. Bende

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hunt down the weapon pieces, destroy the night goddess, protect Midgard (Earth). That was always the mission... When an unexpected sacrifice turns Allie’s world on its head, she discovers her true function within the Asgardian world. Her new purpose has much higher stakes — and significantly bigger dangers — than she ever could have imagined...
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    gods  myths  action-adventure  aliens  amnesia  book  dragons  europe
  • Going up in the Underworld by Álex Gilbert

    Going up in the Underworld by Álex Gilbert

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a young, up and coming apex predator of the night, Ariane needs the minions, a territory, dubious allies with unknown agendas... From Alexandria to the frozen north, opportunities and danger abound. Fortunately, Ariane has many tools at her disposal and if everything fails, there is always black powder...
  • Choose the Slain by Charley Case

    Choose the Slain by Charley Case

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Lone Valkyrie has an insane evil haunting her dreams… And a sassy goblin helping her during the day. Which is worse? Hard to say.Mila has been trying to pin down the Drude’s location through the nightmares he’s sending her way, and he just made his last mistake.What’s a Lone Valkyrie to do when she can't be around her sisters to help? She brings the battle to her enemies...
  • Reborn: Apocalypse Volume 1 by L.M. Kerr

    Reborn: Apocalypse Volume 1 by L.M. Kerr

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    If you could turn back the clock and fix all the mistakes you ever made, would you? From the author of the award-winning Web-novel 'Reborn: Evolving From Nothing' comes the tale of Micheal Care, a swordsman that could only be considered a middling warrior in Humanity's Last Army. Micheal's answer to that question would be quite simple. Yes. A million times yes...
  • Demon's Throne by K.D. Robertson

    Demon's Throne by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rys awakes to the smell of blood and nearly two thousand years of dust. Maybe he overslept a little too long. Once, he was a great champion and general in the demonic empire that ruled the world. Now, he's been erased from history.He'll need to remind the world of the price of forgetfulness.Now is the time to build his own empire, as the ancient powers of his time are long gone...
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    myths  retellings  action-adventure  adult  book  dark  demons  epic
  • The Queen of Magic by Michelle Madow

    The Queen of Magic by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Her soulmate spied on her people. Now she’s going to do the same to his.After Zane and Summer journeyed through the Immortal Mountains together, she finally recognized him as her soulmate and let him into her life. Then he told her he loved her and left her in the woods, shattering her heart.But the game isn’t over...
  • Ocean of Blood by Darren Shan

    Ocean of Blood by Darren Shan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Before Larten Crepsley was a vampire general...Before he was Darren Shan's master... Before the War of Scars...Larten Crepsley was a teenager. And he was sick of the pomp and circumstance of fusty old vampires telling him what to do. Taking off on his own with his blood brother, Wester, Larten takes off into the world to see what his newly blooded vampire status can get him in the human world...
  • Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths by R. Raeta

    Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths by R. Raeta

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A shapeshifting god,an immortality granting peach,and a woman gifted with forever.England, 1184: Anna is used to hunger and hardship. Ever since she was seventeen, when the pale shadows of her vitiligo were spotted, she has spent more than a decade struggling to survive alone and in exile...
  • Supernatural Chronicles: The Asgardians by S.T. Bende

    Supernatural Chronicles: The Asgardians by S.T. Bende

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Inga Andersson just can’t catch a break. She’s supposed to be enjoying a ski week in beautiful Åre, Sweden, with her immortal-assassin-husband. Instead, she and Gunnar are trapped inside a bizarre scavenger hunt, unraveling an incomprehensible riddle at the bequest of a mysterious being...
  • Midlife Magic & Medusa by Meredith Carlisle

    Midlife Magic & Medusa by Meredith Carlisle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alex has barely strapped on her magical training wheels when a gorgon slithers into town! Medusa isn’t just seeking asylum, either. She expects Alex’s help in breaking her own family’s infamous curse.Old hatred runs deep in creatures with such long memories, and keeping the entire town from going after Medusa with their own torches and pitchforks may prove impossible...
  • A Radical Act of Free Magic by H.G. Parry

    A Radical Act of Free Magic by H.G. Parry

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Radical Act of Free Magic is the conclusion to this genre-defying series of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world.The Concord has been broken, and a war of magic engulfs the world...
  • Defender by Leia Stone, S.T. Bende

    Defender by Leia Stone, S.T. Bende

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Allie Rydell left her life behind to protect the world from the Goddess of Night. But after weeks of training, hunting, and learning to use the life-giving power that inexplicably chose her, saving Midgard seems more impossible than ever. Nott’s followers have eyes across the realms, and they’re determined to collect the bounty on Allie’s soul...
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    gods  myths  action-adventure  aliens  alpha-mc  book  dragons  europe
  • Perfekt Control by S.T. Bende

    Perfekt Control by S.T. Bende

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rule the realms. Brynn Aksel is a valkyrie—a battle goddess tasked with protecting both the God of War and the future of Asgard. She fends off giants and dark elves with an iron fist, a glossy smile, and no less than perfekt control...
  • The Spook's Sacrifice by Joseph Delaney

    The Spook's Sacrifice by Joseph Delaney

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    As the Spook's apprentice Tom's first duty is to protect the County from the dark. But now Mam needs his help in her homeland of Greece. One of the most dangerous of the old gods, the Ordeen, is about to return there, bringing slaughter and devastation. Meanwhile, the Devil himself is still loose and if he and the Ordeen join forces, a new age of darkness will descend...
  • Born of Hatred by Steve McHugh

    Born of Hatred by Steve McHugh

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    There was a time when Nathan Garrett was feared. When the mention of his name was enough to stop his enemies in their tracks. That time has long since passed.When Nathan’s friend asks for help investigating a pattern of horrific crimes, he reluctantly agrees. But his investigation leads to a serial killer who is something more, or less, than human, a creature of pure malevolence and hatred...
  • The Warlock by Michael Scott

    The Warlock by Michael Scott

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    The twins of prophecy have been divided—the end has begun.AlcatrazAlthough their ally Dr. John Dee has been declared utlaga, Machiavelli and Billy the Kid will follow the plans the Elders have laid before them: they will loose the monsters of Alcatraz on the city of San Francisco, thereby triggering the end of the human race...
  • Duncton Quest by William Horwood

    Duncton Quest by William Horwood

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Tryfan, son of Bracken and Rebecca, returns to the sacred Burrows of Uffington, he finds dreadful signs of death and destruction. For out of the chilly North have swarmed the grikes, a fanatical tribe of warrior moles bent on destroying all believers in the powers of the Stone...
  • Infamous Reign by Steve McHugh

    Infamous Reign by Steve McHugh

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In late 15th century England, two young princes are given over by Merlin to the protection of their uncle, King Richard III. They soon vanish from sight, igniting tales of their demise at Richard’s hand and breeding unrest throughout the land.Nathanial Garrett, also known as Hellequin, is sent to London to decipher fact from rumor and uncovers a plot to replace the king...
  • Time Anomaly by Lindsey Sparks

    Time Anomaly by Lindsey Sparks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The sequel to ECHO IN TIME, previously published as ECHO QUEEN. For most people, time is a river, flowing in only one direction...but Alexandra Larson isn’t most people. PRESENT DAY...When Lex notices an inky presence darkening Marcus’s eyes, she discovers he’s no longer what he seemed...
  • City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

    City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birthplace of fearsome supernatural sentinels who killed and subjugated millions. Now, the city’s god is dead. The city itself lies in ruins. And to its new military occupiers, the once-powerful capital is a wasteland of sectarian violence and bloody uprisings...
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    gods  myths  retellings  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  dark
  • Warriors by C. Gockel

    Warriors by C. Gockel

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ~ The Continuation of the USA Today Bestselling Series ~When science meets Chaos, what could go wrong?Bohdi Patel is keeping the revelation that he is Chaos incarnate a secret, and handling the revelation about as well as one would expect. He’s in a downward spiral: losing his lease, totaling his car, and trying to keep everyone he cares about at arm's length...
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    gods  myths  action-adventure  adult  aliens  audiobook  book  epic
  • House of the Rising Son by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    House of the Rising Son by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Now released for the first time as a standalone e-story, House of the Rising Son, previously published in the Dark Bites story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Sherrilyn Kenyon.The eldest son in a family of three boys, Aricles had no desire to be a soldier, even though his fighting skills were among the best in the world...
    Categorized as:
    gods  myths  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  demons  drama
  • The Betrayal of the Living by Nick Lake

    The Betrayal of the Living by Nick Lake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Taro is at a crossroads: He has vanquished Lord Oda for good, but with no land and no title, he has no hope of marrying Hana, the daughter of a daimyo. So when Taro receives news of a murderous dragon and the large reward for killing it, he and his friends find themselves on a dangerous quest to slay the beast...
  • Shades of Fire & Ash by Ken Lange

    Shades of Fire & Ash by Ken Lange

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After surviving an unholy horde in New Mexico, Gavin Randall didn’t think things could get much worse, but the world he walked into eleven months ago grows more dangerous with each passing day. A new threat has surfaced in the form of fanatics hellbent on destroying him, his friends, and the Archive itself...
  • The Slip by C. Gockel

    The Slip by C. Gockel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ~ The Continuation of the USA Today Bestselling Series ~ It's only been a few days since Veterinarian Amy Lewis escaped Asgard with the FBI's professional hacker, Bohdi Patel. The escape involved "borrowing" Odin's magical, world-walking, eight-legged, horse, Sleipnir. Now Odin wants Sleipnir back. FBI Director Steve Rogers doesn't want Odin getting anything he wants...
  • Asgard's Fall by Robert Hinshaw

    Asgard's Fall by Robert Hinshaw

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Noah didn’t expect much from entering the virtual reality world of Asgard’s Fall. Even the danger of the experimental full immersion technology didn’t put him off. It beat living in a nursing home and was supposed to let him feel young again, at least until modern medicine and his body gave out.But there was something wrong with Asgard’s Fall...
    Categorized as:
    gods  myths  retellings  adult  anti-hero  apocalyptic  book  dark
  • Centaur Redemption by Nancy Straight

    Centaur Redemption by Nancy Straight

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cami and Drake’s honeymoon is cut short as they escape attacks by the Council Enforcers and head to South Africa for the meeting of the Centaur Council, which has ordered a death sentence on Cami and all members of the Lost Herd. The Council Chairman is her grandmother, her most dangerous foe...
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    gods  myths  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  fiction  historical
  • Night and Fae by Tom Keller

    Night and Fae by Tom Keller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ex-cop and P.I. Robert Hoskins didn't think twice when an old friend needed help. But little did he know where the evidence would lead him when he dug deeper into the case. Demons, Dragons, Monsters and Fallen Angels are only the tip of the iceberg when his old enemy escapes from Tartarus and seeks her revenge...
  • Wings of the Valkyrie by Charley Case, Martha Carr

    Wings of the Valkyrie by Charley Case, Martha Carr

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being a Valkyrie was hard enough, but throw in an oversized dwarf and things get down right complicated.Mila is quickly heading toward a final battle with Azoth that could determine the fate of the universe.Will she win? Here’s a hint… She’s a Valkyrie.Her training is done, her powers are complete, and she’s ready to go, but fate seems to be throwing up roadblocks left and right...
  • Duncton Found by William Horwood

    Duncton Found by William Horwood

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The first trilogy of the Duncton Chronicles now reaches an inspiring and triumphant conclusion… Under the ruthless leadership of Henbane of Whern, the grikes have taken over moledom. Soon their ascendancy is to be consolidated by Lucerne, her son by Tryfan, and the last followers of the Stone rooted out and killed...
  • The Magician by Michael Scott

    The Magician by Michael Scott

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Alternative Cover Edition of ISBN 9780552562539 other edition found hereAfter fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenelle is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies...
  • The Beginning by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    The Beginning by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Appearing as a bonus story on Sherrilyn's web site and at the back of early editions of Sins of the Night, it can now be found in print form in its entirety in the novel Acheron in the Dark-Hunter series.This is a short story written years ago by Sherri as an intro to the Dark-Hunter world.The Beginning was originally published as a short story in a small press magazine called The Voice in 1990...
  • The Warrior God by Eliza Raine, Rose Wilson

    The Warrior God by Eliza Raine, Rose Wilson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Anger management isn’t so bad when your shrink is gorgeous. It’s less great when you turn up to find him dead on the floor, and an armored giant dressed like a freaking ancient warrior standing over his body though. Ares, the God of War, has lost his power and the only way for him to get it back? Me. Apparently, I’m a goddess. One with the power of war. I mean, it does explain a lot...
  • Mantle Of A God by Michael Anderle

    Mantle Of A God by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Terra Olson is an archeologist in the making. When she gets an opportunity to work with one of her idols at a dig that may contain artifacts linked with Norse mythology, she jumps at the offer. What more could she ask for?Probably to not be betrayed by that very same idol.She’d expected the job to be a killer…just not in the buried-alive-and-left-to-die-alone way...
  • Warrior Rising by P.C. Cast

    Warrior Rising by P.C. Cast

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From 'a stellar talent'( New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning) comes another 'scorchingly sensual, utterly delicious'( New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter) novel? The Goddesses have had it with the Trojan War. So much devastation?all because of some silly male egos. The worst of the bunch is that cocky, handsome brute Achilles...
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    gods  myths  retellings  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction
  • Celaeno's Fate by Lacey Carter Andersen

    Celaeno's Fate by Lacey Carter Andersen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everyone hates a harpy...For the record, I don't drag people to Hades. I'm not a guardian of the Underworld. And I'm not an evil monster. I'm just... a shifter who happens to control birds. Dangerous? Yes. A monster? No.Unfortunately, most people disagree with me. For some stupid reason.So, it's no surprise when monster hunters, the stoic gargoyles themselves, track me down...
    Categorized as:
    gods  myths  abuse  adult  book  demons  enemies-to-lovers  fae
  • Renegade Valkyrie by Stacy Claflin

    Renegade Valkyrie by Stacy Claflin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s an angel of death, but not even that will be enough to keep her alive. Soleil has been skirting Valhalla’s rules since before she dated ancient Egyptian rulers. She recently killed someone other than the person she was assigned to take out, so her leaders are hunting her to put her on trial...
  • Goddess Scorned by S.T. Branton, C.M. Raymond, L.E. Barbant, Holly Adams

    Goddess Scorned by S.T. Branton, C.M. Raymond, L.E. Barbant, Holly Adams

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Okay, so I accepted Kronin’s call to defeat the Forgotten Gods and save the earth, but don’t thank me yet. Just because I’m on the job doesn’t mean it will be easy - even with the Gladius Solis at my side and the power of Carcerum coursing through my veins.The problem is that the Forgotten aren’t your run-of-the-mill villains. They’re, well, gods..
  • The Shadow Gods by Ripley Proserpina

    The Shadow Gods by Ripley Proserpina

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They were heroes who weighed the fate of the world against their love and chose me.The gods are a shadow, shrouding my fate in darkness. With one snap of her fingers, Athena turned my life upside down, and now I have to decide...Run?Or fight?Whatever choice I make, I won't be alone.Pollux, Achilles, Hector, Paris, and Orestes have fought the gods before...
  • The Thirteenth Gate by Kat Ross

    The Thirteenth Gate by Kat Ross

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Winter 1888. At a private asylum in the English countryside, a man suspected of being Jack the Ripper kills an orderly and flees into the rain-soaked night. His distraught keepers summon the Lady Vivienne Cumberland—who's interviewed their patient and isn't sure he's a man at all...
    Categorized as:
    myths  retellings  book  crime  fiction  gaslamp  gothic  historical
  • The Queen of Swords by R.S. Belcher

    The Queen of Swords by R.S. Belcher

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    1870. Maude Stapleton, late of Golgotha, Nevada, is a respectable widow raising a daughter on her own. Few know that Maude belongs to an ancient order of assassins, the Daughters of Lilith, and is as well the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Anne Bonney, the legendary female pirate...
  • The Trickster's Lover by Samantha MacLeod

    The Trickster's Lover by Samantha MacLeod

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Caroline Capello doesn't take chances.A graduate student at the prestigious University of Chicago, Caroline dedicates her carefully-planned life to the serious, academic study of mythology.Until a god shows up in her bedroom...
    Categorized as:
    gods  myths  21st-century  adult  book  dark  europe  fiction
  • When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears by Kersten Hamilton

    When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears by Kersten Hamilton

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “People will die.”Locked doors are opening, and uncanny creatures are tumbling through mysterious portals from Mag Mell, the world-between-worlds, into the streets of Chicago. The Dark Man has marked Aiden with a new song that’s scared him badly, and a frightening new group of sídhe is lurking nearby.Teagan knows this is war, and she must protect her family...
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