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  • Carnage by Shayne Silvers

    Carnage by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The gods never should have opened Pandora's Box...Nate Temple has been abducted by Zeus and is thrown into the middle of an Olympian family feud that could very well kick off the Omega War all by itself.There is one weapon that Zeus believes will turn the tide. Pandora's Box. But his neglect left it on earth for far too long, and Pandora has found a new master to serve. Nate Temple...
  • All for Connor by Alicia Montgomery

    All for Connor by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Connor is the wrongest wrong guy in existence. He’s a Lycan shifter, for one. And he’s rude, anti-social and has never said a kind word to Evie. Yet, there’s something about him she can’t resist. Maybe it’s the brooding, bad boy vibe. Her feet say run away. But her heart says stay. Evie is sweet and kind. He doesn’t deserve her. And he should focus on one thing: Revenge...
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    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  insta-love
  • Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emily Vega must avenge her father, and as the last of the Hell Hunters, she has one mission: destroy the Galena pack. Werewolves are carefully camouflaged monsters intent on taking over the world—or at least that’s what she’s been taught—but one meeting with the werewolf she’s hunting, and Chance Dawson is changing her mind, little by little...
  • Dark Nights by Christine Feehan

    Dark Nights by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Dark Descent and Dark Dream are combined in Dark Nights. #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan revisits and expands her classic novella Dark Descent, bringing to breathtaking new life her story of an immortal Carpathian hunter, a beautiful adventurer, and their dangerous journey toward an unforeseen destiny and an undying love...
  • Tooth and Nail by Chris Underwood

    Tooth and Nail by Chris Underwood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A murdered vampire. No witnesses. A blood feud ignited.Some folks say the only good vampire is a dead vampire. But when the murder of a vampire threatens the fragile peace between vampires and ogres, someone has to wade into the fray to sort the truth from the lies.Guess who gets that job.But there's more to this murder than an ancient blood feud...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  psychics
  • Her Dragon's Soul by Julia Mills

    Her Dragon's Soul by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 9 in the Dragon Guard series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series. He’d seen the golden highlights of her strawberry-blonde hair glistening in the firelight and it was obvious...
  • Întoarcerea by Theo Anghel

    Întoarcerea by Theo Anghel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tânăra Oriana moare într-un accident, chiar în ziua nunții ei. Pentru oricine, acesta ar părea sfârșitul. Nu și pentru ea. Se întoarce ca recuperator de suflete, însă nu la vechea viață și familie, pentru care trebuie să rămână moartă, ci la una cu totul nouă. Răsfățul și confortul, considerate garantate mai înainte, se duc acum pe Apa Sâmbetei...
  • Forbidden Claim by R.L. Kenderson

    Forbidden Claim by R.L. Kenderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s running for her life. He’s never gotten over her. Will she let him claim her to save her? Wolf-shifter Isabelle Rand is escaping a relationship she never intended to stay in. Fleeing her abusive boyfriend who hates to lose anything, she seeks sanctuary with the only people who can help her...
  • Beneath a Blood Moon by R.J. Blain

    Beneath a Blood Moon by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sara’s life turns upside down when someone leaves her funerary urns, black roses, and death threats on her doorstep. Fearing her work as a stripper and showgirl has put her in the sights of a demented stalker, she turns to her best friend and fellow dancer for help. Instead of a safe haven, all Sara finds is betrayal...
  • Ravage by A.L. Rook

    Ravage by A.L. Rook

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    We promised to stick together. And then they betrayed me.In a world where more children are being born with special abilities, we were six of the ones kidnapped and hidden away for testing and training.We banded together and became a family…until one of us was killed.The others turned on me and left me for dead...
  • Hidden Danger by Amy Patrick

    Hidden Danger by Amy Patrick

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Danger is Everywhere... The Dark Council has struck a shocking and powerful blow against the Light Court and its human allies, defying their own king, Nox, and seeking to re-establish Dark Elven influence and domination over the human world...
  • Tolerated by the Sigma by Lola Glass

    Tolerated by the Sigma by Lola Glass

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All I did was lock myself in the gas station's bathroom...It seemed like the logical thing to do, considering the crappy way my date had gone, and the fact that said crappy date had tried to attack me.But then my date broke the bathroom door down.Luckily, a scarred, inked-up werewolf was there to save the day. He punched my date's lights out...And then called me "mate" and started to hunt me...
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    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  multi-pov
  • Hidden Darkness by Amy Patrick

    Hidden Darkness by Amy Patrick

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Darkness is Coming...Ryann and Lad are together and in love, but they are not yet bonded. Wedding plans are underway, but they cannot marry until the mourning period for his father, the murdered king, ends. Waiting is sweet torture and gets harder all the time. Nox and Vancia are touring the world with his band The Hidden and enjoying their honeymoon...
  • Zodiac Aligned by Elizabeth Briggs

    Zodiac Aligned by Elizabeth Briggs

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Join Ayla and Kaden for the final book in the Zodiac Wolves series. Note: the release date is not fiinal and will likely be moved up, depending on the author's health...
  • After Twilight by Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan

    After Twilight by Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Three of romance's hottest bestselling authors -- Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan, and Ronda Thompson -- invite you to explore the dark side, to taste the forbidden, to dive into danger with heroes who fire the blood and lay claim to the soul in these striking tales of sensual passion. A man hunts for a woman...
  • Baby Me by Aidy Award

    Baby Me by Aidy Award

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Dark forces don’t want these dragon babies to be born… It shouldn’t be a surprise to Azy that her pregnancy is…different. Everything else about her has been too. A girl from Chicago who is half mermaid and mated to a dragon Wyvern? Yeah. That’s not exactly the kind of life she can talk to anyone about...
  • The Hunter's Heart by R.E. Butler

    The Hunter's Heart by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She-wolf Mia Slattery has loved Lucian since she was a little girl, but her brother’s human best friend has always been forbidden fruit. Deciding that it’s better to move on than pine for someone she can never have, she opts to go on vacation with her parents, hoping Mr. Right will happen to be where she’s going. Lucian has been crazy about Mia for as long as he can remember...
  • Moon Bound by Donna Grant

    Moon Bound by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HIS CURSE TO BEAREnigmatic and strong-willed werewolf Kane LaRue realizes the benefits of doing things in a pack. But not this time. He feels responsible for the additional terror a Voodoo priestess has leveled on his family, and has vowed to stop at nothing to end her reign of terror...
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    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  magic
  • Awakening / Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Awakening / Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The second three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands is a blood witch, the last of a long line of ancient and powerful witches and the holder of an unfathomable power. With the help of her love, her soul mate, Cal, she has realized her true self-but at a price...
  • Laughing At Danger by Zenina Masters

    Laughing At Danger by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lima enjoys her life as a hunter for the shifter guild and council, but she has no idea that this routine retrieval and rescue will flip her fate into high gear. Lyros knew that the dog-headed creature that came in to rescue him was a shifter and a woman. He admired her fighting skills but was unable to shake the feeling that she was important to his life...
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    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  dragons  fae  fiction
  • The Voice by Jennifer Anne Davis

    The Voice by Jennifer Anne Davis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    During her abduction and assault, Audrey begins to hear a voice. She hopes she's not going crazy, because after what she's experienced, that's the most logical explanation. However, as she begins to listen to the voice, Audrey realizes that someone may be telepathically trying to help her.Unfortunately, rescue isn't all she needs...
  • Cashmere by Temple West

    Cashmere by Temple West

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This high-stakes sequel to Velvet proves that when you’re the only human caught in a paranormal war, high school can get a little tricky. With Adrian’s brother trapped in hell, the Praetorian Guard has made Stony Creek their base-of-operations, but Caitlin has a bad feeling they’re more interested in her than in finding Lucian...
  • Curse of Stone by Veronica Shade

    Curse of Stone by Veronica Shade

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Supposedly, witches can’t kill. But Madison accidentally killed her boyfriend, and now a girl at her witch academy is dead, too.Madison spent her life avoiding her magical abilities, but when she’s forced to use them to save her best friend from a deadly storm and accidentally kills her boyfriend as a result, she decides she needs to enroll at La Voisin School for Young Witches after all...
  • Letters Written in White by Kathryn Perez

    Letters Written in White by Kathryn Perez

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What's worse, living when you want to die or dying while you're fighting to live?I’m dead.I’m cold and alone and I’m dead. There’s no air in my lungs. My chest is as cold and hollow as a cave on a snowcapped mountain side. My heart no longer beats there. Frigid winds whistle through my ribs and the sadness inside me weeps like my favorite tree. Days ago, I met with death face to face...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  abuse  adult  angst  book  contemporary  family
  • Due North by Kelsey Gamble

    Due North by Kelsey Gamble

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Power is only transferred, never lost.For the first time in shifter history, our community is plagued by internal conflict. Packs are turning on each other. Rogues are under the control of an unknown force. And a power vacuum has left all of us with no clear path to peace.I already lost my mate to the chaos, but there’s no time to grieve...
  • Embrace the Twilight by Maggie Shayne

    Embrace the Twilight by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A creature of the night, Sarafina lives only for pleasure, but love is an emotion she has deemed forbidden. Experience has taught her that love leads only to betrayal and pain, and she wants no more of pain. She cares for no one, tolerating only the presence of those she can control utterly. With her powers, she is convinced she can break anyone. Willem Stone cannot be broken...
  • Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, manuscripts – the written word has never had sharper teeth…From the bestselling author of Come with Me, four standalone horror novellas set in a shared universe! In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride...
  • A Suburban Summoning by Debra Dunbar

    A Suburban Summoning by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Halloween is all fun and games until you're summoned into a closet. Forced to help two children rid their father of a murderous girlfriend to satisfy the terms of her summoning, Sam finds neither the girlfriend, or the father, are quite what they seem. This short story was originally published in 2015 under the title Full Moon Mischief in the Nightshade anthology...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  adult  angels  book  contemporary  demons  fae
  • Dead Roses for a Blue Lady by Nancy A. Collins

    Dead Roses for a Blue Lady by Nancy A. Collins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Previously available only in an ultra-limited-edition hardcover, Dead Roses for a Blue Lady collects eight tales of Sanja Blue, all by the vampire/vampire-hunter's creator Nancy A. Collins. These tales include the hard-to-find "Vampire King of the Goth Chicks" and "Some Velvet Morning" along with tales original to this collection, such as "Knifepoint," "Tender Tigers" and "The None-such Horror...
  • Snarling at the Moon by Zenina Masters

    Snarling at the Moon by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A wolverine with a painful past collides with an elf who glows like the full moon. Her rage meets his calm.Sera has been trying to make ends meet since her family kicked her out. After years away from home in a fey menagerie, she had dreamed of being normal again. It wasn’t possible, and she lived a subsistence life until a strange woman named Pansy arrived in her field...
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    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fae  fiction  kidnapping
  • Ensnared by Elisabeth Naughton

    Ensnared by Elisabeth Naughton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Elisabeth Naughton comes a new story in her Eternal Guardians series… RYDER–Mysterious, powerful, every woman’s fantasy come true. For thousands of years, Ryder has reveled in his role as an immortal messenger—a dream weaver sent to seduce and manipulate. Until he’s ordered to deceive a fantasy of his own...
  • The Accidental Siren by Jake Vander-Ark

    The Accidental Siren by Jake Vander-Ark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mara Lynn is the most beautiful girl in the world. James Parker is the ordinary boy who discovers her power.James had his summer all planned out. He would enjoy the carefree days in the woods behind his castle home, avoid the maniacal Danny Bompensaro, and shoot an epic movie with his best friend Whit...
  • Stranger in the Mirror by Tina Wainscott

    Stranger in the Mirror by Tina Wainscott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hallie awoke in the wrong body, but in the arms of the right man… Sure she'd made mistakes, but this was taking atonement way too far. On the brink of a bitter divorce when she was struck by a cerebral hemorrhage, Hallie died, only to discover her life wasn’t over. She'd been given a second chance and reawakened as Marti West, a quiet but calculating waitress in a Florida hick town...
  • Black and White by Zenina Masters

    Black and White by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ty was raised by a mage who took her on as a favour to her mother. She can read magic, feel magic but not use it. Her skills come in handy while working for the Shifter Council as a hunter or bounty hunter for misbehaving shifters.On assignment to find a man guilty of the ultimate betrayal to their kind, she is doped and caged by some mages, and what a shock, so is her opposite number, Alatas...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fae  fiction  kidnapping
  • Cursed to Crave by Loxley Savage

    Cursed to Crave by Loxley Savage

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Captured again. Just when I had a glimpse of what freedom could feel like, the Incubus King ripped my world out from under my feet. I no longer know up from down, right from wrong, or if what I’m feeling is real or a figment of Romero’s power. One thing I know for sure, I’m as addicted to him as he is to me...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  demons  fiction  horror
  • Snake Charmer by Zenina Masters

    Snake Charmer by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Yvena needs to start over and leaving for the Crossroads is what she has planned. Being followed by the mongoose of her dreams is a shock. Yvena was one of the stolen shifters, and her recovery has not been easy. Six months of healing after two months of torture is not enough to make her whole, but she knows that not everyone is out to get her...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  dragons  fae  fiction
  • Flying Fur by Zenina Masters

    Flying Fur by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A small body and a mighty soul send Misty into the arms of the man she rescued before she had seen him. Misty is a hunter for the shifter Council who uses her small body to get into the cracks and crevices of prisons and habitats. She can go where others can’t and save those who had no other chance at freedom...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fae  fiction  kidnapping
  • Epiphany: Part One by Gemma James

    Epiphany: Part One by Gemma James

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His mahogany gaze haunts my waking hours. His touch ignites my dreams. I know him in intimate detail, but I’ve never laid eyes on him.Until now.I’ve always seen things I can’t explain, but the reality of Aidan in the flesh blindsides me. His presence is a captivating force I can’t fight. What’s worse…I don’t want to...
  • Enslaved by the Alpha: Part Two by Viola Rivard

    Enslaved by the Alpha: Part Two by Viola Rivard

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every time Astrid thinks she’s making progress with Erik, it becomes clear that he has little regard for her feelings. While she’s beginning to find her place in the pack, she still struggles to find leverage over the alpha who owns her. Erik continues to grapple with his wolf over Astrid. The animal seems to think she’s his mate, and there’s nothing he can do to dissuade it...
  • Demons and Roses by Beka Westrup

    Demons and Roses by Beka Westrup

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rose Burroughs‘s rich prick of a husband got run over by a golf cart and died right in front of her. Then he miraculously came back to life...
  • Undercover Reaper by Rachel James, RaShelle Workman

    Undercover Reaper by Rachel James, RaShelle Workman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New town. New job. New supernatural power. I reap the dead and there's plenty of work in Eerie Valley.My name is Faith Ghraves and I'm a detective in the small town of Eerie Valley, just outside of Los Angeles, California. A few months ago I started to see the spirits of the recently deceased...
  • Fluid by Jordan Castillo Price

    Fluid by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's been a couple of decades since Wild Bill has been able to savor the bite of an ice-cold, freshly tapped keg. Twenty-odd years since the shivery pucker of a cheap, boxed wine has assaulted his palate. But that doesn't mean Bill's forgotten how to party...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  lgbtq
  • Swarm by Jordan Castillo Price

    Swarm by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For some time, Michael has suspected that Wild Bill's done more than just dabble in art. As with every other piece of his personal history, Bill plays his cards close to his chest. But when he lets on that a mural he painted before his change might still exist, Michael's dying to see it -- and Bill's never been good at saying no...
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    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  lgbtq
  • To Break a Demon Curse by Madeleine Eliot

    To Break a Demon Curse by Madeleine Eliot

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elara has been thoroughly taken in by the Demon King’s trickery, and she is determined not to let him back into her heart after all the lies.But with the promise of his help rescuing her mother, Elara finds herself agreeing to a blood bargain to stay with him, learn to use her mysterious demon magic, and pretend to be his betrothed...
  • Every Sunset Forever by R.E. Butler

    Every Sunset Forever by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Raised by wolves, were-hyena Whisper Callahan has spent the better part of her life struggling to fit into a world where she’s the odd one out. Her adopted family loves her, of that she has no doubt, but now they’re encouraging her to connect with her own kind...
  • The Dark Side of Love by Lynn Hagen

    The Dark Side of Love by Lynn Hagen

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, vampires, public exhibition, HEA] Rhys and Ceri have risen…The twins, Rhys and Ceri, had been placed in a dark sleep almost two thousand years ago. They were whispered about by vampires, resting so long that most thought them just a myth...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq  mlm
  • Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler

    Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What really happened to Mother? Lauren has come home seven years after her famous mother's mysterious drowning. They said it was an accident, but the tabloids screamed murder. Her father, a senator, hadn't protected her. Aunt Jule was her only refuge, the beloved godmother she's returning to see...
  • A Devious Descent: Book One of the Devious Duet by A.A. Powers

    A Devious Descent: Book One of the Devious Duet by A.A. Powers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When light fades and shadows play, the realm eater comes to take you away. Frankie Hart thought she was as human as they come—until her brother vanishes, and she unravels a truth that shatters her world. Not only is she half-demon, but she is also the key to a prophecy that could either save or obliterate the human realm...
  • Temptation in Shadows by Gena Showalter

    Temptation in Shadows by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Originally released as part of THE BODYGUARD anthology, fall under the spell of Gena Showalter's paranormal romantic suspense novella "Temptation in Shadows." Every day he puts his life on the line, what will happen when it's his heart in jeopardy? Tall, lean, muscular—and definitely rough around the edges—Sean Walker is not your typical nightclub bodyguard...
  • The Book of Secrets by Melissa McShane

    The Book of Secrets by Melissa McShane

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Helena Davies just wants a job that will get her out of her parents’ basement. Abernathy’s Bookstore is disorganized, out of the way, and smells funny, but it pays well and promises to at least be interesting. She has no idea how interesting her life will become...
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