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  • The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

    The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 101 ratings
    He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal...
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    dark  enemies-to-lovers  fae  family  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  royalty
  • Ever After by Kim Harrison

    Ever After by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    The ever after, the demonic realm that parallels the human world, is shrinking. If it disappears completely, so does all magic. It's up to witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan to avert catastrophe and keep life from changing... for the worse.While saving the world is important, it isn't Rachel's only motivation...
  • The Wicked King by Holly Black

    The Wicked King by Holly Black

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 98 ratings
    The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.The first lesson is to make yourself strong.After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe...
  • The Beast by J.R. Ward

    The Beast by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Nothing is as it used to be for the Black Dagger Brotherhood. After avoiding war with the Shadows, alliances have shifted and lines have been drawn. The slayers of the Lessening Society are stronger than ever, preying on human weakness to acquire more money, more weapons, more power...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  family  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  abuse
  • The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

    The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering...
  • The King by J.R. Ward

    The King by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Long live the King... After turning his back on the throne for centuries, Wrath, son of Wrath, finally assumed his father’s mantle—with the help of his beloved mate. But the crown sets heavily on his head. As the war with the Lessening Society rages on, and the threat from the Band of Bastards truly hits home, he is forced to make choices that put everything—and everyone—at risk...
  • Psycho Academy by Jasmine Mas

    Psycho Academy by Jasmine Mas

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    ★ A new Enemies Romance in the Amazon Top 5 Bestselling Series ★*This book can be read on its own. It's the first book in Aran's story. It is recommended, but not required, to read the first three books.Fight like a man...or a girl disguised as one.I'm a princess disguised as a boy at a supernatural academy. But this isn't any normal school, we're training to be assassins...
  • Lover at Last by J.R. Ward

    Lover at Last by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Qhuinn, son of no one, is used to being on his own. Disavowed from his bloodline, shunned by the aristocracy, he has finally found an identity as one of the most brutal fighters in the war against the Lessening Society. But his life is not complete. Even as the prospect of having a family of his own seems to be within reach, he is empty on the inside, his heart given to another...
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    angst  dark  family  lgbtq  magic  mlm  paranormal  steamy
  • Magic Bleeds - Awake  (Curran POV #9) by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews

    Magic Bleeds - Awake (Curran POV #9) by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Published in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV.Infuriated by Kate’s treatment at the hands of the Pack, the Beast Lord demands an explanation. When words fail, claws and fangs must do the talking...
  • Stitched by Shannon Mayer

    Stitched by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    NOTE: ***This novella falls between Wounded (#8) and Rising Darkness (#9) and should be read BEFORE reading (#9).*** "My name is Rylee, and I am a Tracker."When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot...
  • Blood Shadows by Tessa Dawn

    Blood Shadows by Tessa Dawn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nachari Silivasi is a bright light in a Dark World. As the youngest vampire in a family of warriors, he has studied Magick for four-hundred years and acquired a rare mastery of the universe around him. He is beloved by his family; legendary for his good-looks; and known for his uncommon valor...
  • Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop

    Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves… After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders—a primitive and lethal form of the Others—the few cities left under human control are far-flung...
  • Blood Possession by Tessa Dawn

    Blood Possession by Tessa Dawn

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Napolean Mondragon is no ordinary soul. He is the sovereign lord of the house of Jadon, the very heart-beat of the Vampyr race, and a fearsome leader who rules with absolute authority and power. While he carries the blood of every vampire in his veins; he also carries a dark secret of shame in his heart…A secret that will soon be used against him by his enemies...
  • Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

    Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Return to New York Times best-selling author Anne Bishop’s world of the Others - where supernatural entities and humans struggle to co-exist, and one woman has begun to change all the rules.…After winning the trust of the terra indigene residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them...
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    dark  dystopia  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  slow-burn  abuse
  • Wyn by Lily Mayne

    Wyn by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I am a monster.A ghoul. A demon. The bogeyman. I have been called all of them. Most creatures fear me, but humans are repulsed by me. They are terrified of me. They have created legends about me, ever since they became aware of my existence when the tear between our worlds grew and we—the monsters from their nightmares—flooded through in our droves.There is only one human who isn’t afraid of me...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dystopia  lgbtq  magic  mlm  paranormal  steamy  action-adventure
  • Written in Red by Anne Bishop

    Written in Red by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut—a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard—a business district operated by the Others...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dystopia  fae  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  slow-burn  abuse
  • High Voltage by Karen Marie Moning

    High Voltage by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    There is no action without consequence…Dani O’Malley was nine years old when the delusional, sadistic Rowena transformed her into a ruthless killer. Years later, she’s tough, hardened, yet achingly vulnerable and fiercely compassionate, living alone by her own exacting code. Despite the scars on her body, driven by deeper ones carved into her soul, no one is more committed to protecting Dublin...
  • Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Kate Harker isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.August Flynn once yearned to be human. But no longer. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.The war has begun.The monsters are winning.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in...
  • The Shadows by J.R. Ward

    The Shadows by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Trez “Latimer” doesn’t really exist. And not just because the identity was created so that a Shadow could function in the underbelly of the human world. Sold by his parents to the Queen of the S’Hsibe as a child, Trez escaped the Territory and has been a pimp and an enforcer in Caldwell, NY for years- all the while on the run from a destiny of sexual servitude...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  family  magic  paranormal  royalty  steamy  abuse
  • Bind the Soul by Annette Marie

    Bind the Soul by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The most important rule for an Apprentice Consul is simple: Don't get involved with daemons. Well, Piper is planning to break that rule — big time.After a near-deadly scandal with the Sahar Stone, she has the chance to return to the only life she's ever wanted. All she has to do to keep her Apprenticeship is forget about Ash and Lyre...
  • Savage Nature by Christine Feehan

    Savage Nature by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When Saria Boudreaux finds a dead body in the Louisiana bayou near her home, her first instinct is to go to the police. But there's a problem: it looks like the victim may have been killed by a big cat - and her brothers are all shape-shifting leopards...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  magic  angst  dark  family  romance  fantasy  mystery
  • Dark Crime by Christine Feehan

    Dark Crime by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Two strangers are bonded by a lust for revenge—and each other—in this short story from Christine Feehan’s “erotic, gripping series that has defined an entire genre.” (J. R. Ward) Blaze McGuire knows who killed her father and she has merciless plans for payback. Until a phone call from a seductive stranger pleads with her to wait. Retribution is in his blood, too...
  • Death by Laura Thalassa

    Death by Laura Thalassa

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    They came to earth--Pestilence, War, Famine, Death--four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.He’s known by many names: Thanatos. Horseman. God’s last angel. And then, of course, there's the one I’m all too familiar with—Death...
  • Archangel's Light by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Light by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Nalini Singh returns to the world of the Guild Hunters for the most highly anticipated novel of the beloved series—a love story so epic it’s been half a millennia in the making…Illium and Aodhan. Aodhan and Illium. For centuries they’ve been inseparable: the best of friends, closer than brothers, companions of the heart...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  family  lgbtq  magic  mlm  paranormal  slow-burn
  • Kiss of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Kiss of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    What do you get when you have an immortal Viking warrior no one can remember five minutes after he leaves their presence, and a demon on the run for her life who is being pursued by one seriously pissed-off demigod?That would be my life.It started out simple enough. One night I went to save a woman in trouble...
  • Ascension by Zoe Parker

    Ascension by Zoe Parker

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ever get a job that sucks? My name is Iza Black and my life IS the sucky job.I mean yeah, there are perks. Live-in maid service, free food and I get this purple, sparkly aura thing. But there are way more bad parts.So many people, so much pain. Sleep has divorced me completely and I'm living their nightmares now too.I'm not sure I'm strong enough for this, that I can do what needs to be done...
    Categorized as:
    dark  fae  magic  paranormal  royalty  shapeshifters  slow-burn  abuse
  • Dark Challenge by Christine Feehan

    Dark Challenge by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereA New York Times Bestselling AuthorJulian Savage was golden. Powerful. But tormented. For the brooding hunter walked alone, always alone, far from his Carpathian kind, alien to even his twin. Like his name, his existence was savage. Until he met the woman he was sworn to protect . . . When Julian heard Desari sing, rainbows swamped his starving senses...
  • Imp Forsaken by Debra Dunbar

    Imp Forsaken by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Sam is banished to Hel, the bond with her angel, Gregory, broken. Six Elven kingdoms are battling for supremacy, and she’s broken and injured in the middle of the most hostile one. Shooting the top off a royal throne, committing fraud in the completion of a contract, and threatening a high lord hasn’t endeared her to the elves, either...
  • Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

    Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney. MaryAnn is human, but she knows all too well the overwhelmingly aggressive instincts of Carpathian males...
  • Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown

    Dead Lands by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Kidnapped by the notorious rebel group, Provstat, Brexley finds her connection goes deeper than she ever imagined. Reunited with old acquaintances and an uncle she never knew, Brexley is thrown into the vicious world of politics, where human and fae leaders will do anything to come out on top...
  • Devil's Paw by Debra Dunbar

    Devil's Paw by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    For about five seconds, no one wanted me dead.Then someone started killing angels, and I’m the prime suspect. Me. An imp. I’m lucky if I can kill a gnat, but somehow I end up accused of flying first-class all over the world and murdering these angels.I need to find the real killer before the Ruling Council slaps a guilty verdict on me and locks me up in a heavenly jail for all of eternity...
  • The Jackal by J.R. Ward

    The Jackal by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sinner brings another hot adventure of true love and ultimate sacrifice in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world.The location of the glymera’s notorious prison camp was lost after the raids. When a freak accident provides Nyx clues to where her sister may still be doing time, she becomes determined to find the secret subterranean labyrinth...
  • Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

    Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before; both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control their divinations for wicked purposes...
  • Aurora's Angel by Emily Noon

    Aurora's Angel by Emily Noon

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Joined in a battle for survival, a broken-winged angel and a shapeshifter huntress with a bloody past form a bond that may change their world. Alone since her father’s murder, Aurora has spent years hunting his killers. Battle-weary she’s ready to start over where no one knows who or what she is – she just has one last mission...
  • Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione

    Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Pleasure is their ultimate weapon . . . Runa Wagner never meant to fall in love with the sexy stranger who seemed to know her every deepest desire. But she couldn't resist the unbelievable passion that burned between them, a passion that died when she discovered his betrayal and found herself forever changed...
  • Midnight Awakening by Lara Adrian

    Midnight Awakening by Lara Adrian

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    With a dagger in her hand and vengeance on her mind, Darkhaven beauty Elise Chase prowls Boston’s streets in search of retribution against the Rogue vampires who took from her everything she cherished. Using an extraordinary psychic gift, she tracks her prey, well aware that the power she possesses is destroying her...
  • Eternal Sin by Ariana Nash

    Eternal Sin by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The fate of the world hinges on their shattered love. But can it be saved? For as long as angels and demons have warred over London, battle lines have never been crossed and humans never hurt. Now, everything has changed. More powerful than ever, nothing can stop Mikhail's crusade of vengeance against the demon who betrayed him. Trapped as an angel, Severn is running out of time...
  • Infernal Sin by Ariana Nash

    Infernal Sin by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    An angel and a demon fell in love, and the world went to war...Branded a traitor by his own kind, Severn knows winning demons back will not be easy, but when High Lord Luxen steals Mikhail from his grasp, he has no choice. He’s going to need all the help he can get to find Mikhail, unseat Luxen as High Lord, and build a force to rival the vicious Guardian Angel Remiel’s...
  • Superbia by Colette Rhodes

    Superbia by Colette Rhodes

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Astrid is the kind of Hunter that all Hunters aspire to be.Lethal. Focused. Ambidextrous.In contrast to her disgraced sister, Astrid has done everything right. And now, she’s coming to realize that everything she’s ever known is wrong.Soren wants to be the kind of Shade that all Shades aspire to be.Brave. Decisive. Powerful...
  • Captive by Jex Lane

    Captive by Jex Lane

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Matthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Unable to stop the vampire inside from preying on humans, he keeps himself confined to a lonely existence. Everything changes the night he is lured into a trap and taken prisoner by High Lord General Tarrick—a seductive incubus who feeds off sexual energy...
  • Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

    Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate—both within themselves and within their community..
  • Famine by Laura Thalassa

    Famine by Laura Thalassa

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    They came to earth--Pestilence, War, Famine, Death--four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all...
  • Dark Desire by Christine Feehan

    Dark Desire by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light...The stranger silently summons her from across the continents, across the seas. He whispers of eternal torment, of endless hunger...of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow American surgeon Shea O'Halloran can feel his anguish, sense his haunting aloneness, and she aches to heal him, to heal herself...
    Categorized as:
    amnesia  angst  dark  magic  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  abuse
  • Cursed Dragon by Brogan Thomas

    Cursed Dragon by Brogan Thomas

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s stuck working a dead-end job in an isolated paranormal community. When they come under attack, can this snarky teen defend those she loves? Kricket Jones is bored. Trapped with her family in a heavily warded enclave because of their dormant dragon DNA, the nineteen-year-old’s biggest adrenaline rush comes from crafting forbidden charms on the sly...
  • Burned by Karen Marie Moning

    Burned by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    It’s easy to walk away from lies. Power is another thing.MacKayla Lane would do anything to save the home she loves. A gifted sidhe-seer, she’s already fought and defeated the deadly Sinsar Dubh—an ancient book of terrible evil—yet its hold on her has never been stronger...
  • Elementally Priceless by Shannon Mayer

    Elementally Priceless by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "My Name is Rylee, and I am a Tracker" This is the story of my first salvage, seeking out a missing child that my mentor has warned me away from.What I find is more than one child: I find my destiny. "They call me the Destroyer." I've been banished to the desert for years after saving a life I should have let the darkness take...
  • Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    THE WORLD IS BREAKING. AND SO ARE THEY.KATE HARKER isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.AUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.THE WAR HAS BEGUN.THE MONSTERS ARE WINNING.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in...
  • Dark Symphony by Christine Feehan

    Dark Symphony by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Blinded and scarred in a terrible accident, Antonietta Scarletti made music that thrilled the world with its beauty and passion. Descended from a long line of psychics, Antoinetta has learned to rely on her other senses to “see” the world around her, but nothing could have prepared her for Byron. He came to her, drawn by her music, and became her secret obsession...
  • A Blaze of Sun by Bella Forrest

    A Blaze of Sun by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Welcome back to The Shade... "Of course you know who I am. I'm a daughter of the darkness just as surely as you are his son..." Ever since his brief encounter with Emilia at The Shade, Derek's thoughts and dreams have been haunted with images of the mysterious, beautiful brunette. Plagued with guilt, he struggles to understand why he is so drawn to this dark stranger from his past...
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