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Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee
Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsJade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now known and coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants access to the supernatural abilities it provides, from traditional forces such as governments, mercenaries, and criminal kingpins, to modern players, including doctors, athletes, and movie studios... -
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Jade War by Fonda Lee
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsIn Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis... -
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Maze Witch by Shannon Mayer
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMy name is Pamela, and I am the most powerful witch the world has ever seen. Only my magic is completely bound away from me, rendering me next to useless. I’m about to face a witch who makes me look like a child fighting a seasoned general in battle. A witch whose strength lies within the dead, and whose magic I unleashed during my part of destroying the world... -
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Backyard Dungeon 4 by Logan Jacobs
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy life has certainly taken a turn for the better ever since I found the hidden underground dungeon in my backyard.But living two lives is certainly not easy.Not only do I have to contend with nosy neighbors and a sketchy Irishman who fences my loot, but there’s still the problem of my wife’s crazy half-brother hanging over my head... -
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Elemental Witch by Shannon Mayer
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMy name is Pamela, and I am the strongest witch the world has ever seen. Only I’m not just a witch, I’m an elemental, and that truth makes me a target and a threat. The elementals of this world are done hiding in the shadows. And there is a faction of them who want to rule our world. They want to put the humans beneath their heels, and they want all the power to themselves... -
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Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThings are starting to look up for October "Toby" Daye. She's training her squire, doing her job, and has finally allowed herself to grow closer to the local King of Cats. It seems like her life may finally be settling down...at least until dead changelings start appearing in the alleys of San Francisco, killed by an overdose of goblin fruit... -
![Dangerous Ways by R.R. Virdi]()
Dangerous Ways by R.R. Virdi
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the Dragon Award-nominated author, R.R. Virdi.Jonathan Hawthorne has lived over a century beholden to one rule: do not meddle in mortal affairs. He's broken it twice. So when he crosses paths with Cassidy Winters, he's forced to interfere again.Strike three. And the third time's not the charm.Hawthorne is swept along as Cassidy slips through the cracks in reality... -
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Rand by Silvia Shaw
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAn epic story of magic, heroism, love, and treachery, Rand is a magical world ruled by an imperial line of Queens. Three hundred years ago, its most powerful talisman, a medallion called the Circle of Sheda, was taken through the portal and lost. When Dr... -
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Back to Yonder by David Burke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHome is where the heart is...At least that is what they say. Rob has made a home for himselfin Olimero. Now, he finds himself entangled in events outsideof the town he has made his own.A tournament, rival gangs, jealous gods, andan expanding family. It's a lot for one man to juggle, especiallyas his wives each have their own interests... -
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Bent Out of Shade by Deborah Wilde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMiriam Feldman’s road to happiness is littered with potholes.Between her search for a vampire’s missing fiancée and getting answers about a creepy amulet tied to my parents’ murders, she's making enemies across the whole supernatural spectrum. Fun! Meanwhile, her daughter is acting out, and teen attitude is sooo delightful when you throw magic into the mix... -
![Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire]()
Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsOctober "Toby" Daye, changeling knight in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, finds the delicate balance of her life shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble. Lily, Lady of the Tea Gardens, has been struck down by a mysterious, seemingly impossible illness, leaving her fiefdom undefended... -
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Sidewinders by Robert V.S. Redick
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo brothers flee an army of fanatics across a vast and magical desert in this white-knuckle sequel to Master Assassins from Robert V.S. Redick, author of The Red Wolf Conspiracy. The worst of rivals, the closest of friends, the two most wanted men in a war-torn world: Kandri and Mektu Hinjuman have cheated death so often it’s begun to feel like a way of life... -
![Exiled Queen (The Thief's Talisman) by Emma L. Adams]()
Exiled Queen (The Thief's Talisman) by Emma L. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan Raine outwit the masters of deceit? Kicked out of Faerie and on the run from the ruling Sidhe, Raine Warren is less than happy to be tasked with saving both mortal and faerie realms from an all-too-personal threat. With her surviving allies in terrible danger, it's up to Raine to devise a scheme to stop the outcast Sidhe before they obliterate the Courts and everyone inside them... -
![Hand of Glory by Nazri Noor, Zachary Johnson]()
Hand of Glory by Nazri Noor, Zachary Johnson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsListening Length: 7 hours and 18 minutes Glamor, glitter, and gold. Jackson Pryde and the great guilds of the Black Market are recovering in the aftermath of the fae attacks. With Xander Wright at his side, Jackson finds the strength and spellpower to rebuild. Yet, the fae keep coming, infiltrating under cover of illusions and glamor... -
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Silver Magi 4 by D. Levesque
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWild Magic: that was the last thing anyone expected. But now they need to deal with it because, intentional or not, the Organization is creating powerful monsters. Now Brandon and his wives need to take care of it.Jelina is the newest of Brandon’s wives. She is powerful in her own right. A Werebear... -
![Awakening The Forgotten Goddess: An Urban Fantasy, Greek Mythology Reimagining by Rebekah Sinclair]()
Awakening The Forgotten Goddess: An Urban Fantasy, Greek Mythology Reimagining by Rebekah Sinclair
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the Underworld, lies become truth, villains become heroes. Trust nothing, and trust no one. Especially yourself.In this sequel to the urban fantasy Greek mythology series, "The Forgotten Goddess," the stakes soar to new heights... -
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Ash by Shannon Mayer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMy name is Ash, and I am an Elemental. As an Ender, it is my place to protect the royal family at all costs. Despite being the best Ender our world has ever beheld, I have failed time and again as the personal sacrifices continue to mount. Lark has been banished to the desert by her father who is blind to the manipulation he has again fallen prey to... -
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Breath of Life by Jocelynn Drake
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCaelan wants his throne back.The bargain has been struck, and it’s time to return home.But the situation is worse in Erya than he previously suspected. Betrayal runs deep in the streets of Stormbreak, and finding people he can trust will be treacherous.He has no choice, though. He’s fighting for his birthright, and maybe even a little revenge if he can get it... -
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Taken by a Vampire by Joey W. Hill
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJoey W. Hill’s Vampire Queen novels keep the pages turning, your imagination running, [and] your dreams carnally vivid” (Bitten by Books)... -
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Home Sweet Home by Robert M. Kerns
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsEarth. A world untouched by magic, or so its people believe.Gavin’s unexpected return shatters that belief, throwing the world into panic.And all Gavin wants is to return to Drakmoor...Categorized as:
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Frozen Rage by Steve McHugh
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsRealm of Dreich is a getaway for the rich and powerful, a medieval-inspired town in the middle of a vast frozen wilderness. Now it’s the site of a wedding, intended to join two feuding families who have spent centuries in an uneasy truce with each other... -
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Marked by Benedict Jacka
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMage Alex Verus is hanging on by a thread in the ninth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Burned.When Mage Alex Verus ends up with a position on the Light Council, no one is happy, least of all him. But Alex is starting to realize that if he wants to protect his friends, he'll need to become a power player himself... -
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BBQ Delivered with Attitude by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan't a man just enjoy a bit of BBQ without getting into a fight? Apparently not. One day, James comes home and finds his pregnant wife with drawn gun, a ready knife, and an unknown assailant in their living room. The problem is, the person in the living room is hoping the Granite Ghost will help her retrieve some valuable cargo that has gotten...lost... -
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BBQ with a Side of No Apologies by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s hard to live a quiet life when you’ve left a trail of beatdowns and men in walls, but sometimes that’s the only way to achieve peace.James isn’t happy when the head of a Mafia family comes into his restaurant and demands his help. The reputation of James Brownstone is supposed to keep peace in the L.A. underworld, but a few new arrivals didn’t get the memo... -
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![Shadow Unit 9 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear]()
Shadow Unit 9 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit. The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear... -
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Dead of Knight by Victoria Sue
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA battle is coming… …and the immortal knights aren’t ready. Will an orphan be the key? For fifteen hundred years Lucan has waged war with the greatest enemy the world has ever known …and fought the ancient curse that means loving someone with all his heart and soul might be the reason they die. Tom wasn’t supposed to be born… twice... -
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Little Dip by Gill McKnight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s 1977, and Connie Fortune has an easy, freewheeling life as a wildlife photographer and illustrator. A new contract brings her to the Little Dip valley in Oregon to track down a rare bird, but a clash with Sylvie Garoul, the valley’s owner and matriarch of the mysterious Garoul family, and her daughter, the haughty, frustrating, but somehow bewitching Marie Garoul, ruins the deal... -
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Dragged through Hedgerows by Forthright .
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe had one job. Becoming a family pet wasn’t it. For the sake of his people, Daroo-fen has lived among humans, working as a lawyer in a little mountain town. He’s vowed to protect the surrounding woodlands, no matter the cost. But in the course of duty, he meets a man who needs help … and a friend... -
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The Darkest Knight by Victoria Sue
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDestined to be together.Kay of Isca knows Charles St. John is his fated soul mate, but between battle, duty, and saving the world, staying in the same reality, never mind the same bed, is proving a bit more of a challenge than either stubborn man will admit... -
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Bioshifter: Volume 1 by Natalie Maher, Thundamoo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHannah has a routine. Wake up, take a shower, go to school, go to work, come home, and pass out. It's a perfectly normal routine for a perfectly normal girl who does not have to remember how her limbs work every morning because of haunting nightmares of being a very different creature in a very different world... -
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Death Unbound by Richard Amos
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThings have taken a seriously nasty turn.Can someone please let me off this rollercoaster?Everywhere I look, there’s drama and danger ready to pounce from the shadows. Nowhere feels safe, and trust seems to be a rare commodity.Damn.Just damn.But the twisted forces bringing all this chaos to the table must be stopped, no matter what.Even if it feels like I'm always ten steps behind... -
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Shadow Hunt by L.L. Raand
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen shadows fill the night, it’s hard to tell friend from foe.With young to raise and her Pack under attack, Sylvan, Alpha of the wolf Weres, takes on her greatest challenge when she determines to uncover the faceless enemies know as the Shadow Lords... -
![Dead Stars - Part One by Ben Galley]()
Dead Stars - Part One by Ben Galley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe sky is falling. The world trembles beneath it.Emaneska is crying out for a saviour. Somebody is hunting down the Written mages in the wilds. Murdering and skinning them alive. Who? A mere girl. A girl who was born to rip the stars from the sky and bring them crashing down to earth. The direst enemy Emaneska has ever faced.In the wake of the Battle of Krauslung, the world has changed... -
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Steelheart Chapter Sampler by Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first five chapters of Brandon's Sanderson's upcoming novel. Summary: At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners-the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny... -
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Warrior by Terry Brooks
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1997, Terry Brooks reinvented the fantasy genre with Running with the Demon, a dark contemporary urban fantasy. Now he returns to that Word and Void mythos with a novella sure to delight his readers and a story as powerful as that previous trilogy. Sinnissippi Park, in Hopewell, Illinois, has long been a place of magic...Categorized as:
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![Right to the Kill by Craig Schaefer]()
Right to the Kill by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen two operatives go dark in Tampa, chasing the trail of an oligarch with ties to the demonic underworld, Vigilant Lock — the nation’s first and last line of defense against occult attack — sends their best to the rescue: Harmony Black, a troubled investigator and an elemental witch with a keen but tangled mind; and her partner Jessie Temple, the daughter of a supernatural slasher and the... -
![The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure by Storm Constantine]()
The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure by Storm Constantine
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHailed as "a literary fantasist of outstanding power and originality" by Michael Moorcock, Storm Constantine is one of the most exciting and innovative fantasy writers of her generation... -
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Critical Failures VI (Caverns and Creatures) by Robert Bevan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the wake of their recent loss, the Caverns & Creatures gang are left hanging. Do their choices amount to more than waiting around to die of thirst and leaping to a quicker death? Probably, or else this would have been a much shorter book... -
![Hell to Heaven by Kylie Chan]()
Hell to Heaven by Kylie Chan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDragons and martial arts, science and magic ... great action when our world meets the gods and demons of Chinese myth and legend ...the gods and demons of ancient china are alive and kicking in this popular, bestselling series .. -
![Heaven to Wudang by Kylie Chan]()
Heaven to Wudang by Kylie Chan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe demons that could control stones and elementals have been defeated, but the most powerful of Simon Wong's associates still remains to create almost undetectable copies of humans and Shen. This demon allies with Kitty Kwok to prepare a torturous trap for Emma and Simone from which they may never return... -
![Valley by Stacey McEwan]()
Valley by Stacey McEwan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe final instalment in the bestselling Glacian Trilogy from TikTok darling Stacey McEwan sees the conclusion to Dawsyn Sabar's epic romantasy quest to free her people... great for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Danielle L. Jensen and Raven Kennedy... -
![Silk Dragon Salsa by Rhys Ford]()
Silk Dragon Salsa by Rhys Ford
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSoCalGov Stalker Kai Gracen always knew Death walked in his shadow. Enough people told him that, including his human mentor, Dempsey. Problem was, the old man never told him what to do when Death eventually caught up... -
![The Lord of the Sabbath by Mariana Palova]()
The Lord of the Sabbath by Mariana Palova
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe abyss watches him. Nightmares hunt him. And now, a battle begins.Terrifying creatures, unseen to all around him, have tormented Elisse since he was a little boy. These “night terrors” and the cruel life as a young Westerner in a refugee camp have left him isolated and alone... -
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Heart of Iron by C.M. Alongi
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFresh out of prison, Jennifer Charles (JC) is desperately trying to turn their life around and make things right, and seems to find a golden opportunity in CaFae Latte as an under-qualified but talented baker.However, they soon learn that, as dark and unfortunate as their own history is, it pales in comparison to their kind Fae boss, Violet... -
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![Reunion by Ariana Nash]()
Reunion by Ariana Nash
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAfter a vicious storm delivers Eroan and Lysander's battered ship to the new world, where elves are in power and dragons must follow the law, the peace seems almost too good to be true. Until Lysander ends up on the wrong side of those laws, and discovers the real reason Eroan brought him half way around the world: The brother he thought was dead, is very much alive. *** Akiem is missing... -
![Seven Tales in Amber: Stories from the Chronicles of Amber Saga by Roger Zelazny, Ed Greenwood]()
Seven Tales in Amber: Stories from the Chronicles of Amber Saga by Roger Zelazny, Ed Greenwood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmber is the one true world of which all others are but shadows. Collected here in one binding are seven tales of Amber. It was Zelazny’s intent to use these short stories to tie up unfinished threads from his amazing Chronicles of Amber. This edition is sure to be a treat for the legion of Amber fans.“A storyteller without peer... -
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Yuletide Crimson by L.M. Adams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI am Jaevia Knightley, Jae for short, a daemon, a mutt, a mix breed, half succubus, half vampire. I am one of the Kindred, our only charge, to police the other supernaturals of the worlds. I’ve been training for years to become one of the children of Abbadon, a Reaper, a bringer of death to those who have broken our law... -
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Shadow Unit 10 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit. The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear... -
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Shadow Unit 4 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit. The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear.This collection contains Lucky Day by Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear Sugar by Leah Bobetand more... -
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Taste of Wrath by Matt Wallace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith seven books for seven sins, Taste of Wrath is the adrenaline-fuelled finalé to the Sin du Jour series, which Chuck Wendig calls “a raucous, riotous tale of culinary madness”!Bronko and his team of crack chefs and kitchen staff have been serving the New York supernatural community for decades. But all that could be about to change...
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