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  • Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward

    Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Rehvenge has always kept his distance from the Brotherhood—even though his sister is married to a member, for he harbors a deadly secret that could make him a huge liability in their war against the lessers...
  • 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...
  • Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward

    Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    The ruthless and brilliant brother Vishous possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr...
  • The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Long ago, before history broke in half, elder gods exiled the vengeful deity Erynis to a far corner of Earth. When Ryn is found weakened after saving the life of an innocent villager, the U.S. military mistakes the battered immortal for a feral teenager and places her in New Petersburg, a decaying city full of monsters...
  • Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward

    Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    Ever since the death of his shellan, Tohrment has been unrecognizable from the vampire leader he once was. Physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair, he has been brought back to the Brotherhood by a self-serving fallen angel. Now, fighting once again with ruthless vengeance, he is unprepared to face a new kind of tragedy...
  • Dark Legend by Christine Feehan

    Dark Legend by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    'Every Carpathian male is drawn to his life mate, a Carpathian or human female able to provide the light to his darkness. Without her, the beast within slowly consumes the man until turning vampire is the only option.'Gabriel wakes deep within the ground, and the first sensation he feels is an overwhelming hunger for blood...
  • Dark Celebration by Christine Feehan

    Dark Celebration by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    With her erotically charged Carpathian tales, Christine Feehan has enthralled a legion of fans, captivated by a seductive world and the unforgettable characters--both human and not--who inhabit it. Now, she reunites all of them in a Dark Celebration..
  • Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward

    Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Possessed by a deadly beast, Rhage is the most dangerous of the Black Dagger Brotherhood...Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetite...
  • Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward

    Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard-living ex-homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world—to engage in the turf war with the lessers. He's got nothing to lose. His heart belongs to a female vampire, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league...
  • Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    FORBIDDEN TEMPTATIONS Serena Kelley is an archaeologist and treasure hunter-and a woman with a secret. Since she was seven, she's been the keeper of a powerful charm that grants her health and immortality . . . as long as she stays a virgin. But Serena isn't all that innocent...
  • Her Soul for Revenge by Harley Laroux

    Her Soul for Revenge by Harley Laroux

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    JuniperAfter a cult tried to sacrifice me to their wicked God, I went on the run, doing whatever was necessary to survive. Until a demon offered me a deal: give him my soul and he'll help me claim the vengeance I seek. Blood will be spilled, and the monsters I once ran from will soon be running from me. But damning my soul was just the beginning - it's my heart the demon wants next...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  dark  paranormal  revenge  spooky  steamy  adult  alpha-mc
  • The Witchwood Boys Are Trending by C.M. Stunich

    The Witchwood Boys Are Trending by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They tricked me into a dark and unholy union.Three bastards in witch hats, leather pants, and iron masks.These supernatural stalkers have claimed me for their coven.They won’t go away. These assholes will. not. leave.All because I fell for an urban Touch the Witch’s Tree on a moonless night and discover magic.Wholesome magic kinky rituals, blood sacrifice, and jizz potions...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Ringmaster by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Ringmaster by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    As above, so below…who was once friend is now a foe.The Faire is alive. It’s alive, it’s sentient, and it wants more from Cora Glass. Reeling from the revelations that Clown left her with, she struggles once more to find her footing. She never gets the chance.Harrow Faire wants Cora for murder. She assumed it was her death that it was after. She was wrong. It wants her to kill…to save them all...
  • Dark Magic by Christine Feehan

    Dark Magic by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereThey were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light...Would she find magic—or madness in his dark embrace?Young Savannah Dubrinsky is a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions. But there is one—Gregori, the Dark One—who holds her in terrifying thrall...
  • 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...
  • The Faire by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Faire by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Will Cora break, or will she bend…is this the beginning, or the end?Everything Cora thought she knew about Harrow Faire was a lie.All of it.Now as the lines in the sand are drawn, as a war for the Heart of the Faire builds, she must discover how much she is willing to sacrifice to save the people she has come to think of as Family...
    Categorized as:
    anti-hero  dark  gothic  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary
  • Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu

    Dark Dreamers by Christine Feehan, Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Christine FeehanDark DreamShe's known him since she was fifteen. Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falcon - the Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate.Margorie M...
  • Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    In Circus of the Damned-now in trade paperback for the first time-a rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other plans...
  • City of Ghosts by Stacia Kane

    City of Ghosts by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The third book in this gritty, sexy, urban fantasy trilogy.Rogue spirits and psychopomps are terrorising people, and now someone is planning to open the gates to the City of Ghosts and unleash the dead on humanity.Faced with her greatest challenge yet, Chess has to travel to the spirit city to finally lay all her ghosts to rest… Chess Putnam has a lot on her plate...
  • Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

    Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    She's a mortal with dark powers...After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude..
  • Be Still My Vampire Heart by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Be Still My Vampire Heart by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    If it was still beating. Angus MacKay has been undead for almost five hundred years and it's not often something, or someone, surprises him. Until Emma Wallace. The sight of this luscious agent from the CIA's elite Stake-Out team was enough to stop Angus in his tracks. But then he discovers that she's a vampire slayer, intent on killing the "monsters" who killed her parents...
  • 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...
  • The Mark of the Vampire Queen by Joey W. Hill

    The Mark of the Vampire Queen by Joey W. Hill

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When he becomes Lady Lyssa’s full servant, Jacob crosses the threshold into a darker relationship with her than he’s known before. His time as a vampire hunter certainly hadn’t prepared him to embrace a world where humans are sexual commodities, but he adapted. Now he finds the integrity of his soul challenged as he serves his Mistress’s needs as fully as he services her desires...
  • 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...
  • The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Danger turns her on. Desire turns her dangerous…Riley Jenson hunts evildoers—and does it with a style all her own...
  • Hollow Heathens: Book of Blackwell by Nicole Fiorina

    Hollow Heathens: Book of Blackwell by Nicole Fiorina

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A forbidden, timeless, and haunting love story.Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Fallon who was taken far away from home shortly after she was born. A home that held more than strange traditions and bizarre superstitions...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  forbidden-love  gothic  paranormal  spooky  steamy  book
  • Ghost by Kat Blackthorne

    Ghost by Kat Blackthorne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ash Grove is a fine place to die. Blythe has accepted her fate and is tired of running. Who would miss her anyway? She attends her new and eccentric town’s month long Halloween masquerade for one last party before meeting her end. But what will she find...and what will find her? A man in a skeleton mask is watching... and he’s not the only one...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  dark  paranormal  spooky  steamy  adult  audiobook  book
  • Hot Blooded by Christine Feehan, Maggie Shayne

    Hot Blooded by Christine Feehan, Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When the sun goes down, four women will discover the man they desire within the beast that drives them wild in this sexy paranormal romance collection that includes an original Carpathain novella...“Dark Hunger” by New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan In a dark jungle, a beautiful activist liberates animals from a secret laboratory—and stumbles across an unexpected prisoner...
  • Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter, Maggie Shayne

    Heart of Darkness by Gena Showalter, Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the masters of paranormal romance, three brand-new tales of seductionThe Darkest Angel by Gena ShowalterA Lords of the Underworld taleAn iron-willed demon assassin, the angel Lysander has never known lust, until he meets Bianka. Spawned from the bloodline of Lucifer, the beautiful but deadly Harpy is determined to lead the pure-hearted Lysander into temptation...
  • Archangel's Kiss by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Kiss by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her world of angelic rulers, vampiric servants, and the woman thrust into their darkly seductive world…Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux wakes from a year-long coma to find herself changed—an angel with wings the colors of midnight and dawn—but her fragile body needs time to heal before she can take flight...
  • Unhinged by A.G. Howard, Nathalia Suellen

    Unhinged by A.G. Howard, Nathalia Suellen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the guy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly seductive Morpheus and the vindictive Queen Red. Now all she has to do is graduate high school and make it through prom so she can attend the prestigious art school in London she's always dreamed of...
  • Dark Gold by Christine Feehan

    Dark Gold by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light...Was he a man...or a miracle?Alexandria Houton would sacrifice anything - ever her life - to protect her orphaned little brother. But when both encountered unspeakable evil in the swirling San Francisco mists, Alex could only cry to heaven for their deliverance..
  • Captive by Jex Lane

    Captive by Jex Lane

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 29 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...
  • Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward

    Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    In this "frighteningly addictive" paranormal romance saga there's a war raging between vampires and their slayers. Here are the stories of a secret band of brothers like no other—six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. And now a dutiful twin must choose between two lives..
  • The Puppeteer by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Puppeteer by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Silver strings she can’t outrun…her trouble now has just begun.After Cora Glass’s life was stolen by Harrow Faire, things just keep going from bad to worse. Unable to run, unable to escape, there seems to be no way to avoid what she’s become—the Contortionist. But a girl can only take so much.Haunted by an abandoned and seemingly sentient circus? Fine...
  • Slade by Kristen Middleton

    Slade by Kristen Middleton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chelsey is on the run from Faye and her Night Roamers...
  • The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton

    The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it...
  • Dangerous Games by Keri Arthur

    Dangerous Games by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    To catch a killer, Riley Jenson will use every seductive trick in the book. But this killer has found a new way to play…In Melbourne’s urban underworld, there’s a nightclub for every fantasy and desire. But for Riley Jenson, one such club has become an obsession...
  • Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale from a stunning new Australian talent.‘He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!'There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't...
  • Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child–twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children...
  • The Contortionist by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Contortionist by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Come one, come all, to Harrow Faire...and greet your sweetest nightmare.Cora Glass’s humdrum existence as a bank teller flips upside down when a long-abandoned circus mysteriously returns to life. But the entry fee to this big top show is far more than Cora bargained for.A deal struck.A soul...stuck...
    Categorized as:
    anti-hero  dark  gothic  paranormal  spooky  adult  audiobook  book
  • A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton, Laural Merlington

    A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton, Laural Merlington

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Commanded by her aunt, the dark Queen Andais, to conceive a child as heir to the throne, Meredith Gentry, a half-mortal, half-faerie princess, returns to Los Angeles, only to find herself and her lovers trapped between the dark and light faerie courts and human law...
    Categorized as:
    dark  gothic  paranormal  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Ensnared by A.G. Howard, Nathalia Suellen

    Ensnared by A.G. Howard, Nathalia Suellen

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    After surviving a disastrous battle at prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She's determined to rescue her two worlds and the people and netherlings she loves. Even if it means challenging Queen Red to a final battle of wills and wiles . .
  • The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton

    The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    Anita has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. She's survived a lot, but this love thing may kill her yet...
  • Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep

    Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    I’d rather face a dozen lethal assassins any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.But here I am. Gin Blanco, the semi-retired assassin known as the Spider. Hovering outside sexy businessman Owen Grayson’s front door like a nervous teenage girl. One thing I like about Owen: he doesn’t shy away from my past—or my present...
  • The Haunted by Jessica Verday

    The Haunted by Jessica Verday

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    An impossible truth. An impossible love. After a summer spent reclaiming her sanity and trying to forget the boy she fell in love with--the boy who must not exist, cannot exist, because she knows that he is dead--Abbey returns to Sleepy Hollow, ready to leave the ghosts of her past behind...
  • Grave Memory by Kalayna Price

    Grave Memory by Kalayna Price

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    When the dead need to talk, Alex Craft is always ready to listen…As a Grave Witch, Alex solves murders by raising the dead—an ability that comes at a cost, and after her last few cases, that cost is compounding. But her magic isn’t the only thing causing havoc in her life. While she’s always been on friendly terms with Death himself, things have recently become a whole lot more close and personal...
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