Books like 'The Annotated Sandman, Vol. 3'

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  • Horseman by Shayne Silvers

    Horseman by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ABANDON ALL HOPE, THE FIFTH HORSEMAN SHALL RIDE... Nate Temple is on the hunt to right a wrong. Mordred – King Arthur's son – has escaped from Hell. And it's all Nate's fault.Pro-Tip: Don't let escapees rob the dreaded Nine Souls on their way out of Hell's Gates. It makes the escapee just an itsy-bitsy bit stronger.But what are the Nine Souls? And what does St...
  • Savage by Shayne Silvers

    Savage by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Boys want attention. Men want respect. Legends just don’t care…Nate Temple is finally taking some time off to appreciate the finer things in life…like his new Valkyrie, Kára. But their weeks of romance come to a swift end and lethal end when assassins invade the sanctity of Chateau Falco...
  • Anghellic by Shayne Silvers

    Anghellic by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Callie Penrose has taken over Castle Dracula all for herself, finally feeling like she has time to take a breath and relax. Until she learns that her new real estate acquisition comes with a few unsavory job perks, Nate Temple has been abducted, and Darling and Dear—the mysterious Armorers of the Apocalypse—have been hiding much more than even she suspected...
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    myths  retellings  adult  audiobook  book  coming-of-age  dark  demons
  • Dark Horse by Shayne Silvers

    Dark Horse by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rage, rage against the dying of the lightIn the stygian darkness beneath his ancestral mausoleum, Nate sets out to explore the shadowed history of his infamous Temple ancestors.And to brutally destroy a poisonous weed threatening to strangle his family tree.Aiden Maxon, Nate’s half-brother, is on the warpath, committed and capable of killing everything and everyone Nate loves and holds dear...
  • Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

    Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The old saying is true. Knowledge really is power, especially when angels and gods play the game. The original Immortals, masters of magic, once reigned over every world in the known universe—until they suddenly vanished. The gods and demons have been fighting over the remains of their fractured empire ever since...
  • Paladin of the Spirit by Marvin Knight

    Paladin of the Spirit by Marvin Knight

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the depths of Hell, Darren grew strong. Now he's ready to return as he prepares to face down the man who killed his mother.The world thinks Darren is dead. Now is the perfect time for him to build his strength and prepare to wage war on the heavens themselves. To prepare to attack the heavens, he will destroy the hells...
    Categorized as:
    myths  europe  scandinavia  romance  harem  fantasy  magic  demons
  • Devil’s Blood by Shayne Silvers

    Devil’s Blood by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The greatest trick the First Vampire ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist.Before the now-infamous Count Dracula ever tasted his first drop of blood, Sorin Ambrogio owned the night. Humanity fearfully called him the Devil...
  • The Second Realm by Michael Chatfield

    The Second Realm by Michael Chatfield

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    When Erik and Rugrat entered the ten realms they didn’t know what was going on. They only knew that they had contracted the two week curse. When entering the second realm they came to understand their character sheets, and part of the system that is called the ten realms. A place that the strong make the rules and the weak cling to them for protection and hope that they might be left in peace...
  • Moonshine by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Moonshine by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Witches and werewolves and rednecks, oh my!After surviving one Hell of a journey, Quinn MacKenna - black magic arms dealer turned demigoddess - was really looking forward to spending some quality time with friends. And maybe a beer. Unfortunately time is the only thing Quinn doesn’t have, and all her friends are either missing, in hiding, or imprisoned - including her favorite bartender...
  • Power of the Lost by Cebelius

    Power of the Lost by Cebelius

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A man is only as good as his word ... Celestine is a vast world, filled with mysteries and peopled by creatures most men consider nothing but flights of fancy. Terrence Mack knows better. Free of Florence at last, he wants nothing more than to make good on a promise. Yuri Kolenko journeyed across the world on a quest to be made chieftain and end the abuses of an evil shaman...
  • Beast Master by Shayne Silvers

    Beast Master by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Nate's To-Do List: De-pants Ganesh. Shut down a Monster Circus. Rescue a Chimera. And host Friendsgiving for his guests - an Angel, Achilles, and Death, just to name a few... Easy-Peasy... The Beast Master has come to town, and he's kidnapping shifter kids for his show.But the Queens of Fae also want a little deep-fried wizard for the holidays...
  • Holy Sheoly by Hunter Blain

    Holy Sheoly by Hunter Blain

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company, and Sheol for…well, the screaming silence of eternal nothingness?In the frigid lands belonging to the Queen of the Unseelie, a beautiful stranger dressed all in ivory makes his approach. A debt is owed, and payment is due.Below the burning lakes of everlasting woe and the single, vast city of Hell, lies Sheol—the Hell below Hell...
  • Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey

    Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The final chapter in Mercedes Lackey's spellbinding fantasy trilogy! The Herald-Mage, Vanyel, and his Companion, Yfandes, are alone responsible for saving the once-peaceful kingdom of Valdemar from the forces of a master who wields a dark, forbidding magic. And if either Vanyel or Yfandes falters, both Valdemar and its Herald-Mage must pay the ultimate price...
  • With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

    With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    What does it mean when your school is voted the most dangerous in America? It's time to kick some hellion butt...After not really surviving her junior year (does "undead" count as survival?), Kaylee Cavanaugh has vowed to take back her school from the hellions causing all the trouble...
  • Soul Eater by Lindsey Sparks

    Soul Eater by Lindsey Sparks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Humans know that immortals live among them, and the world is forever changed...Kat Dubois saved the human world from a deadly virus…and she couldn’t be more miserable. Her life as she knew it is over. She has become a prisoner held captive in a gilded cage, courtesy of her newfound fame...
    Categorized as:
    myths  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  magic  mystery
  • Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent

    Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    I died on a Thursday— killed by a monster intent on stealing my soul.The good news? He didn't get it.The bad news? Turns out not even death will get you out of high school…Covering up her own murder was one thing, but faking life is much harder than Kaylee Cavanaugh expected...
  • The Shadow of Glory by D.C. Haenlien

    The Shadow of Glory by D.C. Haenlien

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Scarred but Victorious.Adelheid returned to the capital of the Vuldar Empire after completing her Reginnaglar Ceremony. Armed with prestige and power, the seventh princess lays down the foundation for her rise. Although Adelheid has set her sights on the future, the past never escaped her eyes. Now, is the time for vengeance for both herself and her fallen knight.For Neun...
  • Angel Fury by Ella Summers

    Angel Fury by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cadence Lightbringer, daughter of a legendary archangel, has always known her gods-endowed magic comes with a price. As an angel in the Legion of Angels, she lives where the Legion commands her to live, trains how the Legion tells her to train, and marries whom the Legion instructs her to marry. Somehow it all sounded simpler in her head...
  • Underground by Lindsey Sparks

    Underground by Lindsey Sparks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When immortals clash, mortals will pay the ultimate price. Kat Dubois has been sidelined. With a single word from Heru—no—her plans to save humanity from the Cascade Virus one mortal at a time are put on hold indefinitely. But Kat isn't willing to sit by, watching the world as she knows it crumble around her...
    Categorized as:
    myths  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  magic  mystery
  • Asgard Awakening by Blaise Corvin

    Asgard Awakening by Blaise Corvin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After years of slavery, subjected to torments of body and spirit by the inhuman Kin, Travis Sterling can barely recall his old life. Memories of Earth, and of disappointing his family barely seem real anymore. But even without the occasional voice in his head, Trav knows he’s different...
  • Demon Sworn by Sarah Piper

    Demon Sworn by Sarah Piper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bloodthirsty demons. Deadly, ever-shifting hellscapes. Brutal psychological torments. And that’s just day one.When I ripped out my enemy’s soul and banished him to the Shadowrealm, I knew I’d condemned myself to the same fate, cursing my soul to eternal imprisonment while my body rotted away on earth.No one ever said anything about my body coming along for the ride...
    Categorized as:
    myths  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  dark  death  demons
  • The Talisman by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    The Talisman by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change...
  • Empire Builder by Dante King

    Empire Builder by Dante King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Breed, Populate, ConquerWhen Benjamin's latest conquest revealed herself to be from another world, he couldn't believe it. But her crazy revelations didn't stop there. She said that Benjamin was the reincarnation of the Forgotten Ruler, a supreme being with an empire that once spanned an entire continent...
  • Wings of Shadow by Katerina Martinez

    Wings of Shadow by Katerina Martinez

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Find my brother. Learn the truth. Remember my home.The Obsidian Order is tough, they have to be if they want to turn prospects into elite agents. I want to be one of those agents, and right now I'm closer than ever to achieving that goal. Hunting Valoel down is my primary goal. The word on the street is he's recruiting mages to fight for his cause...
    Categorized as:
    myths  retellings  adult  alpha-mc  angels  audiobook  book  dark
  • When Monsters Fight by Debbie Cassidy

    When Monsters Fight by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Shem's actions ripped out my heart, but they also bought us time. There's not a minute to waste. The path to victory lies in Hell, but I won't be navigating it alone...
  • Myths of Immortality by Raye Wagner

    Myths of Immortality by Raye Wagner

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the realm of the dead, there are no lies. Hope Nicholas is desperate to believe that the truth will set her free from the bindings of Apollo's curse. But to get the truth, she must travel to the Underworld, a feat near impossible for the living...
  • Wings of Night by Katerina Martinez

    Wings of Night by Katerina Martinez

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Find my magic. Be the best. Beat the odds. I survived the Obsidian Order's first series of trials. I stopped a madman from putting a massive crater in the middle of New York City. Good job, Seline, but that was only the beginning. As I take on my silver trials, friends become competition, competitors turn ruthless, and I still can't touch my magic without it nearly killing me every time I do...
    Categorized as:
    myths  retellings  adult  angels  audiobook  book  boss-employee  crime
  • Cyclops Road by Jeff Strand

    Cyclops Road by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evan Portin is at a sad, scary place in his life. While taking a long walk to compose himself and figure out where to go from here, he encounters a young woman being mugged in a park. When he tries to intervene, he discovers that she doesn't need his help. At all. Her name is Harriett. She is very, very good at defending herself. Everything she owns is in a large backpack...
  • Yuletide Punch: Phantom Queen Book 12—A Temple Verse Series by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Yuletide Punch: Phantom Queen Book 12—A Temple Verse Series by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Tis the season...for slayingFresh off a disturbingly long absence for which she has no explanation or recollection, Quinn MacKenna—reformed Catholic, semi-retired arms dealer, and borderline alcoholic—is busy enjoying the Nordic idea of an afterparty before becoming quickly embroiled in a bitter power struggle coinciding with the advent of the Yuletide season...
  • Herald of Shalia by Tamryn Tamer

    Herald of Shalia by Tamryn Tamer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A village full of gorgeous elves desperate to be loved? There had to be a catch. Sebastian Frost’s most recent memory was waking up in a field naked, in a body that wasn’t his own, in a world that definitely wasn’t his own, and three stunning pointy-eared women staring right at him. He also remembered hair as white as starlight, eyes like amethysts, and the name Shalia...
  • Twisted is the Crown by Kel Carpenter

    Twisted is the Crown by Kel Carpenter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Quinn Darkova made a vow from the very beginning.And now she’s home.For revenge . . .Except N’skara isn’t the same as it was ten years ago, and the person she came for is nowhere to be found. After being taken ashore by armed guards of the same Council they came to sway, Quinn knows it’s up to her to uncover the truth about what really happened, while seeking the retribution owed to her...
  • Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint

    Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Welcome to Newford…Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost...
  • Angel Fever by Ella Summers

    Angel Fever by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cadence Lightbringer has everything. The prestige and power that comes with being the Angel of Storm Castle. Her archangel husband and soulmate, Damiel Dragonsire, Master Interrogator in the Legion of Angels. And their son Nero, a miracle of magic, the first and only child of two angels.But the Legion’s mission to exterminate dark magic brings trouble to Cadence’s door...
  • Claiming the Nanny by Dia Cole

    Claiming the Nanny by Dia Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will he risk everything to claim the nanny? Trapped in a hellish bargain he made with his vicious ex, Nathan, a Lykos shifter, is forbidden from touching another female. Problem is, he’s never encountered temptation like the new nanny before. For the first time in his life Nathan is desperate to claim a woman and not even watching his best friend seduce her will sate his hunger...
    Categorized as:
    myths  adult  audiobook  billionaire  book  dark  dystopia  female-mc
  • Wings of Fire by Katerina Martinez

    Wings of Fire by Katerina Martinez

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Find the last stone. Stop my brother. Save the world. Valoel, my half-brother, is on the hunt, only this time he doesn't want to recruit me - he wants to straight up murder me. I don't have a choice. I have to kill him first. Before I can do that, I need to find the fifth stone. Without it, my chances of beating him are slashed. The only problem is, I have no idea where to start looking for it...
    Categorized as:
    myths  retellings  adult  angels  audiobook  book  crime  dark
  • Claiming Her Mates: Book Two by Dia Cole

    Claiming Her Mates: Book Two by Dia Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once she saves his life, he’ll have hell to payRiding out the apocalypse with my sexy mates in a luxurious mountain lodge sounds like a dream. But for some asinine reason, Liam, Mason, and Gabriel have adopted a hands-off policy.Even worse, my ex hasn’t met up with us as promised. If sexual frustration doesn’t kill me, my growing anxiety over the missing Alpha male might...
  • Portia by Christina Bauer

    Portia by Christina Bauer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Unlike her famous older brother Maxon, Princess Portia isn't known for killing demons or attracting admirers. The reason why is simple: a spell was cast on Portia, and the magic has marked her to one day transform into a dreaded Void demon. To fight this horrible fate, Portia’s spent her life hiding in libraries and learning magic...
  • Lullaby Scars by Hollee Mands

    Lullaby Scars by Hollee Mands

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s the only man she’s ever wanted. She’s everything he can never have.Killian’s scars are all people see, but with his wretched past, he doesn’t want them to look closer. He resigned himself long ago to living as an indentured slave to a powerful and capricious high mage—until a chance meeting with a temptress outside a brothel teaches him to want…If only he hadn’t asked her price for the night...
    Categorized as:
    myths  romance  fantasy  magic  fae  paranormal  fiction  new-adult
  • Blessed be the Wicked by Kel Carpenter

    Blessed be the Wicked by Kel Carpenter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Some will try to trap her in hopes of harnessing her dark power. Others will seek to end her, deeming it too terrible to risk.In the end, he will destroy them all—because Quinn is his weapon, and he plans to keep it that way...
  • Demon Realm by Road Warrior

    Demon Realm by Road Warrior

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Do you truly believe that you can delay the Calamity? Even if it could be delayed, how much more sacrifice can you justify? Until everyone except you lot is killed?”The journey of the Enemy of the World continues as he steps foot in the fields of conflict on the frontlines of the Demon Realm...
  • Restless Spirit by Briana Michaels

    Restless Spirit by Briana Michaels

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hunted by dark spirits, she’s running out of options... At first glance, she probably seemed like any woman in her prime - Full of life, fearless, and dances like everyone’s watching. Except no one is because she’s dead. Worse than dead, she’s invisible...
    Categorized as:
    myths  adult  alpha-mc  amnesia  angels  book  contemporary  dark
  • The Watchers by A.M. Shine

    The Watchers by A.M. Shine

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams...
    Categorized as:
    classics  myths  retellings  adult  book  contemporary  dark  fae
  • A Man Rides Through by Stephen R. Donaldson

    A Man Rides Through by Stephen R. Donaldson

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the dazzling first volume of Mordant's Need, New York Times bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson introduced us to the richly imagined world of Mordant, where mirrors are magical portals into places of beauty and terror. Now, with A Man Rides Through, Donaldson brings the story of Terisa Morgan to an unforgettable conclusion..
  • Dungeon Bringer 2 by Nick Harrow, Alex Knox

    Dungeon Bringer 2 by Nick Harrow, Alex Knox

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Expand your territory. Defeat your rivals. Satisfy your monster girls! Raiders Guild crushed, Clay can finally relax and spend his time clearing the pesky monsters from around his dungeon.But when a routine zombie bash uncovers a sinister new danger, Clay and his guardians find themselves locked in battle with a rival dungeon lord who really, really hates Lord Rathokhetra...
    Categorized as:
    myths  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  dark  drama  fiction
  • The Void Weaver by Lee Dignam, Katerina Martinez

    The Void Weaver by Lee Dignam, Katerina Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Ashwood Novel Their enemy is getting away. Their danger is just getting started… Alice is in hiding. Holed up in a magically-protected house without her main weapon, the supernatural bounty hunter wants nothing more than to hunt Nyx down. But her enemy is in hiding too, and without her powers the dangerous Pain Children are more than a match for her...
    Categorized as:
    myths  adult  audiobook  book  coming-of-age  dark  fiction  ghosts
  • The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson

    The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    "A trilogy of remarkable scope and sophistication."--Los Angeles TimesTwice before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange otherworld where magic worked. Twice before he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Land.Now he was back--to a Land ravaged by the armies of Lord Foul. The Lords were besieged and helpless...
  • The Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson

    The Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    After scant days in his "real" world, Thomas Covenant found himself again summoned to the Land. There forty bitter years had passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, moved to fulfill his prophecy of doom...
  • Night's Master by Tanith Lee

    Night's Master by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    NIGHT'S MASTER is the first book of the stunning arabesque high fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales...
  • Chasing Rabbits by Erin Bedford

    Chasing Rabbits by Erin Bedford

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An alternate cover edition exists here.Alice was wrong – Wonderland wasn’t so wonderful after all.Kat never expected to be back in her hometown, but when house sitting turns into a mad rabbit chase, Kat finds herself with a whole new set of problems...
  • Dungeon Bringer 1 by Nick Harrow

    Dungeon Bringer 1 by Nick Harrow

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Construct your dungeon. Summon your monster girls. Slaughter your foes.When the Inkolana Cartel's experimental computer network comes under attack, they give white-hat hacker Clay Knight two hours to fix the problem.If he succeeds, he'll be rich beyond his wildest dreams.If he fails, he's a dead man...
    Categorized as:
    myths  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  dark  drama  fiction
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