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  • Unspoken by C.C. Hunter

    Unspoken by C.C. Hunter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Unspoken truths will be revealed—and they will change everything—in this dazzling final chapter of the Shadow Falls: After Dark trilogy!Della Tsang is facing the toughest fight of her life—and the most personal. In her new role as an elite paranormal investigator, she’s assigned a twenty-year-old murder case…and the accused killer is none other than her own father...
  • The Devil's Darling by Briana Michaels

    The Devil's Darling by Briana Michaels

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Packs are divided, oaths are broken, and ties are severed. No one is safe. And the traitor is still out there causing mayhem. Could it get any worse? Yes, it could.The closer Sara’s pack gets to discovering who the traitor is, the faster everything around them unravels...
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    angels  dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  amnesia  book  contemporary
  • Vampire Hollows by Tim O'Rourke

    Vampire Hollows by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With nowhere else to run to but the Hollows, Kiera Hudson finds herself in a world like no other. Entrusted with a secret, she has to make her way to the mysterious Light House set hundreds of miles beneath the Earth. As she makes her journey, Kiera’s companions are being murdered one by one...
    Categorized as:
    angels  ghosts  paranormal  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  magic
  • Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle

    Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dex & Perry return in Book #10 of the Experiment in Terror series.A lot can change in three years.For Perry and Dex Foray, it’s been a step in the right direction, a step toward living a normal life. They’re happily married, they have their own media company, they’ve done what they can to leave their sordid and scary past behind them.But something has changed recently...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  age-gap  book  female-author  fiction
  • As Dead As It Gets by Katie Alender

    As Dead As It Gets by Katie Alender

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In the terrifying final installment of the Bad Girls Don't Die series, Alexis battles a more powerful ghost than she's ever faced before... and one whose fate is tied to hers in ways she couldn't possibly imagine...
  • 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...
  • Dead Flesh by Tim O'Rourke

    Dead Flesh by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Kiera and her friends return from the dead, they soon realise that the world is not the same – it has been pushed. Returning to Hallowed Manor, Kiera soon learns that it’s not only the world that has changed, she is changing, too...
    Categorized as:
    angels  ghosts  paranormal  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Psychopomp by Angela Roquet

    Psychopomp by Angela Roquet

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In war, everyone loses...Reaper Lana Harvey is finding out the hard way. When Jenni Fang recruits her for a special mission, the biggest victory over the rebels is followed by a crushing and immediate reprisal. The rebels have a new general working in the shadows of Limbo City, luring gods, reapers, demons, and souls to the dark side...
    Categorized as:
    angels  dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  demons
  • Vampire Breed by Tim O'Rourke

    Vampire Breed by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tim O'Rourke once again shows his mastery at building stories and characters that are larger than life. He has readers constantly guessing and changing their alliances." Abibliophobic Book Reviews Kiera awakens to find herself imprisoned. Experiencing horrific nightmares and visions, she slowly realises that she has been subjected to a series of sinister tests and operations...
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    angels  ghosts  paranormal  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Vampire Hunt by Tim O'Rourke

    Vampire Hunt by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In search of Kayla and on the run, Kiera and her friends make a race against time across the Cumbria Mountains. With vampires predicting their every move, the trust amongst Kiera and her friends starts to waver...
    Categorized as:
    angels  ghosts  paranormal  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Demon Sworn by Katie May, Ann Denton

    Demon Sworn by Katie May, Ann Denton

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Someone fucked up.They stole my little brother, and now my demons and I have to find him.But the thing about my guys?They'll tear apart Heaven and Hell for me...and enjoy doing it.Shocking secrets and betrayals from our past are still tearing our group apart. Combined with threats closing in on us from all sides, we might not survive...
  • Wolf House - Potter's Story by Tim O'Rourke

    Wolf House - Potter's Story by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "O'Rourke certainly knows how to deliver twists that the reader never sees coming and that will leave him/her reeling for days on end. Five stars." A Book Vacation Book Reviews.As Potter leaves Kiera and his friends to go in search of Luke, he makes a lonely journey across the snow-capped mountains of Cumbria...
    Categorized as:
    angels  ghosts  paranormal  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong

    Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The final anthology from the #1 New York Times bestselling Otherworld series Embrace the obscure. New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong once again opens the gates to the Otherworld. This collection of rare and never-before-published novellas and short stories brings the clever wit, dark twists, and intense suspense Otherworld readers have come to expect...
  • For the Birds by Angela Roquet

    For the Birds by Angela Roquet

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lana Harvey isn't just any reaper. She's the new captain of the Posy Unit, a specialty group dedicated to harvesting mass quantities of souls from natural disaster sites, battlefields, and the like. The new title didn't come without a price though. Lana made some promises along the way, and now it's time to follow through..
    Categorized as:
    angels  dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  afterlife  audiobook  book
  • Lucid by P.T. Michelle

    Lucid by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Once Nara combines her prophetic ability with Ethan’s power to outsmart Fate at his own deadly cat-and-mouse game, she’s more determined than ever to help Ethan learn the meaning behind the raven sword tattoo that suddenly appeared on his back after their confrontation with Fate...
  • The Departed by J.A. Templeton

    The Departed by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Psychic? Check.Haunted by a malevolent spirit who is making life a living hell? Check. In love with a smoking hot Scot, who is the reincarnation of the man creepy malevolent ghost murdered two centuries before? Check.Friends and family think you’re losing your mind? Check...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  high-school  paranormal  angst  book  fiction  horror  magic
  • Possession by J.R. Ward

    Possession by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward explores what really happens when good and evil toy with humanity in her new novel of the Fallen Angels, as the salvation of a doomed soul depends once again on a crossroads...When Cait Douglass resolves to get over her broken heart, throw off her inhibitions, and start really living, she’s unprepared for the two sensual men who cross her path...
  • Haunted by Amber Lynn Natusch

    Haunted by Amber Lynn Natusch

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "I cowered away from him, unable to formulate a coherent sentence. Questions ran through my mind though none made it past my lips. I wondered how this could be happening, what he wanted, and what major injustice I'd brought against the universe to bring a fate such as this upon me.Perhaps being born was reason enough...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  paranormal  book  fiction  gods  graphic-violence  horror
  • The Haunted by J.A. Templeton

    The Haunted by J.A. Templeton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After battling a malevolent ghost that held the spirit of her friend Ian MacKinnon bound to the land for two hundred years, sixteen-year-old reluctant psychic, Riley Williams, felt as if she was finally easing into her new life in Scotland.Or so she thought...
  • Life Eternal by Yvonne Woon

    Life Eternal by Yvonne Woon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The dark, romantic sequel to Dead Beautiful from Yvonne Woon.Renée Winters has changed. When she looks in the mirror, a beautiful girl with an older, sadder face stares back. Her condition has doctors mystified, but Renée can never reveal the truth: she died last May, and was brought back to life by the kiss of her Undead soul mate, Dante Berlin...
  • The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    The Back Door of Midnight by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have become borderline violent...
  • Immortal Hearts by Ellen Schreiber

    Immortal Hearts by Ellen Schreiber

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Athena "Stormy" Sterling is coming to Dullsville, and Raven is both excited and panicked in anticipation of Alexander's little sister's visit. Alexander tells Raven that she and his sister have a lot in common, but can the mini-Raven be everything she hopes for? Alexander calls her Stormy for a reason. Stormy's visit stirs up the perfect immortal whirlwind...
  • No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong

    No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In her acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series, bestselling author Kelley Armstrong creates a present day in which humans unwittingly coexist with werewolves, witches, and other supernatural beings. Now, in this spellbinding new novel, a beautiful necromancer who can see ghosts must come to terms with her power—and with an evil she never thought possible...
  • The Heir of Death by Becca Andre

    The Heir of Death by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Elysia Mallory has never embraced her magic, not when doing so comes at the price of her sanity. Her family is cursed with bizarre necromantic gifts that have driven each recipient mad, and she doesn’t want to be another dead branch on the family tree...
  • Usurper by Claire Farrell

    Usurper by Claire Farrell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s been a year since Cara returned to the human realm with her daughter, and the fae have come knocking again. The game of kings is still being played, power is the ultimate prize, and Scarlet is an asset every court wishes to acquire...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  adult  book  fae  fiction  horror  magic
  • Five Down by Stacia Kane

    Five Down by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Downside Ghosts series has been called "gripping and brilliant," "a must-read," and "one of the best paranormal fantasy series available." Now all four previously published short stories set in this world are collected in one place, plus one new, never-before-seen novella...
  • Eerie by C.M. McCoy

    Eerie by C.M. McCoy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The sensational teen paranormal romance featured PEOPLE Magazine!Hailey Hartley has just enrolled in the world's premier supernatural university. It's a school she's never heard of, located in a town called The Middle of Nowhere, and run by a creature that's not supposed to exist. But at least she got a scholarship... Hailey's dreams have always been, well...vivid...
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    angels  ghosts  paranormal  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  humor
  • The Hollow and the Haunted by Camilla Raines

    The Hollow and the Haunted by Camilla Raines

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this darkly magical, romantic YA fantasy debut, a closeted teenage psychic in small-town Washington foresees the death of his sworn enemy, and is forced to work with him to save his life. Sparks fly, but the dead are restless, and some ghosts don't want to stay buried...Perfect for fans of The Raven Cycle, Cemetery Boys and Sixteen Souls...
  • Ghost Market by Angela Roquet

    Ghost Market by Angela Roquet

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the wake of a thwarted war, Lana Harvey is more than ready for an extended vacation on the new houseboat she shares with the Lord of the Flies, but when the leaderless rebels begin poaching souls and selling them on the Ghost Market, Lana is tasked with heading up a new reaper unit to stop them...
    Categorized as:
    angels  dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  demons
  • Demons LLC by Glenn Bullion

    Demons LLC by Glenn Bullion

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you do if you could talk to ghosts?Alex was born with demonic abilities unheard of, even in the supernatural world. He can talk to ghosts, walk through walls, he can even fly. His powers have allowed him to help others, living and dead.Now Alex is at a crossroads in his life. Newly married, he no longer wishes to work at his dead-end job forever...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  paranormal  book  demons  fiction  horror  low-fantasy
  • Shadow Blood by Jayde Scott

    Shadow Blood by Jayde Scott

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Only a few months ago, Amber Reed would have called herself an ordinary girl in an ordinary world…until she moves to Scotland and is pushed into a world she never knew existed by the sexy and daring McAllister brothers, unable to withstand its perils. Aidan McAllister, the irresistible leader of the Morganefaire brethren, has what he always wanted: the girl of his dreams...
    Categorized as:
    angels  ghosts  paranormal  book  demons  fiction  horror  magic
  • Taken by Claire Farrell

    Taken by Claire Farrell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s been months since Ava fooled the British vampires and dealt with Becca for good, but although life has been easier, it’s not without its problems. Her deal with the twins is physically harming her, Peter’s grasp on his sanity is tentative to say the least, Carl is struggling, and Esther is losing her edge...
    Categorized as:
    angels  dark  paranormal  book  demons  fae  fiction  horror
  • Guns and Graveyards by Katie May

    Guns and Graveyards by Katie May

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I have blood on my hands. Blood that isn't mine. I had thought I had escaped my past. I had thought I had finally freed myself. But can you really escape your monsters? With a gang war looming on the horizon, bodies piling up, and a strange new student claiming ties to the Shadow Man, I find myself looking into my past...
  • The Hunter and The Hunted by Kelley Armstrong

    The Hunter and The Hunted by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In Off-Duty Angel (Otherworld #10.6), dark witch and half-demon Eve Levine is desperate for a little entertainment while her lover, Kristof Nast, is detained in afterlife court—enough to volunteer an extra week’s worth of angel corps duty just to pass the time...
  • Love Reborn by Yvonne Woon

    Love Reborn by Yvonne Woon

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Renée and Dante are dying. The soul they share cannot sustain them both, and they're quickly running out of time. But Renée has in her possession a legendary chest said to contain the secret to eternal life—if only they could solve the clues that lie within it...
  • Vampire Wake by Tim O'Rourke

    Vampire Wake by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Since escaping from The Ragged Cove and finding herself suspended from the police force, Kiera Hudson is hired by the mysterious Lady Hunt to protect her 16-year-old daughter from a stranger she believes is lurking on the moors. But little does Kiera know that it is she who will need protecting...
    Categorized as:
    angels  ghosts  paranormal  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Shine by Jeri Smith-Ready

    Shine by Jeri Smith-Ready

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this dramatic conclusion to the Shade trilogy, Aura and Zachary’s relationship sizzles as the secrets of the Shift are revealed.Life can change in an instant, and no one understands that better than Aura. It’s been almost a year since her boyfriend tragically died. She’s finally letting go of Logan’s violet-hued ghost, but not her search to uncover the truth about her past...
  • Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready

    Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Aura’s life is anything but easy. Her boyfriend, Logan, died, and his slides between ghost and shade have left her reeling. Aura knows he needs her now more than ever. She loves Logan, but she can’t deny her connection with the totally supportive, totally gorgeous Zachary. And she’s not sure that she wants to...
  • Jealousy by Lili St. Crow, Lilith Saintcrow

    Jealousy by Lili St. Crow, Lilith Saintcrow

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Dru Anderson might finally be safe. She’s at the largest Schola on the continent, and beginning to learn what it means to be svetocha—half vampire, half human, and all deadly. If she survives her training, she will be able to take her place in the Order, holding back the vampires and protecting the oblivious normal people...
  • The Spirit Chaser by Kat Mayor, Kat Mayor, K.M. Montemayor

    The Spirit Chaser by Kat Mayor, Kat Mayor, K.M. Montemayor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some places are too evil. Some places should be left alone.Austin Cole has it made. Star of the hit television show Spirit Chaser Investigations, he has become the world’s most famous paranormal investigator...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  demons  fiction  horror  mlm
  • The Lost Soul by Suzy Turner

    The Lost Soul by Suzy Turner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    December and Lilly have got their work cut out for them. Not only are they desperately trying to figure out the identity of the Lost Soul, and track him down, they've also got to investigate why Powell River's newest resident has got all of their men falling at her feet.But when they learn that the Nephilim might be involved, it becomes clear that they're all in extreme danger..
  • Serpent's Bite by Tansey Morgan

    Serpent's Bite by Tansey Morgan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There are dangerous people hiding in the shadows of London; I'm going to drag them kicking and screaming into the light. Ever since I became what I am, there have been wolves snapping at my heels, harrying me, trying to weaken me. I hate to admit it, but they've been winning...
  • Crown of Lies: The Demon Detective by Annika West

    Crown of Lies: The Demon Detective by Annika West

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If he learns who I am, he'll kill me. Half-demons don't belong in angel territory. But I'm kind of an expert at staying hidden and running my quiet magical business from my sister's cafe.So, imagine my surprise when an archangel tracks me down and offers me a new job...
  • Veiled Enchantments by Deborah Blake

    Veiled Enchantments by Deborah Blake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this exciting novel in the Veiled Magic series, Witch and police officer Donata Santori travels to Maine to help solve a deadly mystery, where her magical abilities are tested like never before...
  • The Complete Book of Fallen Angels by Valmore Daniels

    The Complete Book of Fallen Angels by Valmore Daniels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Angel Fire My name is Darcy Anderson, and I am cursed with a dark power: Whenever my life is in danger, something inside me summons elemental fire to protect me. I cannot control this. One night, I was attacked in my home. The fire ... it raged out of control. I survived the inferno, but my house burned to the ground - with my parents inside...
  • Wandering Souls by Angela van Liempt

    Wandering Souls by Angela van Liempt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Letting go is not an option.In the coastal town of Atlas Cliffs, seventeen-year-old Drew Harlow has a secret. She can see the dead. She’s always seen them, and they’ve always left her alone.Until now.Drew’s final year of high school should have been fun. It should have been carefree. It would have, if not for the accident that took the life of her boyfriend, Shane...
  • Banished by C.J. Archer

    Banished by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An infestation of evil ghosts is too much for spirit medium Cara to handle alone. She summons Quin, and together they attempt to discover where the ghosts came from, and why they refuse to leave this realm. To protect the residents, Cara and Quin must work closely together, leading to old feelings resurfacing between them...
  • Indelible by Lani Woodland

    Indelible by Lani Woodland

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Yara is beginning to understand just how much her life will change now that her Waker abilities have emerged. She has come to terms with the fact that seeing ghosts is part of her life, but she isn’t ready to let being a Waker dictate her choices. All she wants is a ghost-free senior year with her boyfriend, Brent, and her best friend, Cherie...
  • Disassembled Creatures by Albany Walker

    Disassembled Creatures by Albany Walker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It all started with a game.It was supposed to be fun, a night with friends. No one was supposed to die, but that’s not what happened.There’s a killer on the loose. People I know are dying, and I think I might be next.We called the boogeyman, and he answered...
  • Chasing Echoes by Jodi Perkins

    Chasing Echoes by Jodi Perkins

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Taz Aevos can make things fall with a single glance. Of all the random and bizarre powers that she and her three sisters were born with, hers is clearly the most useless. That is, until New Year’s Eve. When high school senior Stryder Black executes a cruel joke, Taz uses her powers, and all hell breaks loose...
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