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  • Light Singer by Audrey Grey

    Light Singer by Audrey Grey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Haven escaped the clutches of the new Sun Sovereign and found solace in Shadoria, but for how long? Now that the extent of her powers is known, Solis, Noctis, and mortals all hunt her. Meanwhile, chaos reigns across the land...
  • The Reckoning by Vanessa Nelson

    The Reckoning by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Missing girls. A plea for help she can’t ignore. An ancient enemy with plans of his own. Nine-year-old girls are missing from across the lands. Yvonne has promised to find them, and she always keeps her promises. Even when she doesn’t know where to start looking. There’s more trouble around. Mercenaries are disappearing...
  • Reign of Mist by Helen Scheuerer

    Reign of Mist by Helen Scheuerer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The realm’s darkest secret is out. The cruelty of the capital and the power-hungry King Arden have scattered Bleak and her companions across the continents. On the run in a foreign land, Bleak finds herself tied to some unexpected strangers...
  • The Duelist 7 by Eric Vall

    The Duelist 7 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alex and his family finish their business on Terr and leave the island better than they found it.But they can’t go home yet.Amaya’s fate as the Prophetess looms ever closer, but Alex comes to suspect the oryx-woman may not be what, or rather who, the Order thinks she is.To find answers, they plan to travel to Eng Isle, but Alex keeps having these dreams...
  • Son of the Drowned Empire by Frankie Diane Mallis

    Son of the Drowned Empire by Frankie Diane Mallis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Treacherous OathLord Rhyan Hart, Heir Apparent to the Arkasva, High Lord of Glemaria, Imperator to the North, has carried the weight of his title his entire life. But never has he felt it more than now.After sacrificing everything to protect the girl he loves, a shocking revelation endangers her again. The consequences stretch across the Empire and increase his father's power over him...
  • Chief of the Blackgorge by Marvin Knight

    Chief of the Blackgorge by Marvin Knight

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Cultivating Gamelit Harem AdventureA man must repay his debts.Especially when he owes those debts to the princess of the realm. Luckily, she only asks that Theo stay in the palace as her guest. That should be an easy debt to pay, but trouble is afoot in the land and no number of royal dinners or palace balls will stop it...
  • A Drop of Blood by Charlene Hartnady

    A Drop of Blood by Charlene Hartnady

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I should’ve known better than to trust a stranger.Twelve years ago, our realm was thrust into perpetual darkness. The fae kings abandoned their posts and left us to her . Snow is our self-proclaimed queen and an evil dictator. Once a human herself, she’s turned into something else. Something vile. She hates humans. Perhaps we remind her too much of what she once was...
  • Blood Witch by M. Sinclair

    Blood Witch by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My heart beat only for these men.Any defenses that I had against these men were falling now that they knew the truth about my past—about the darkness that resided under my very skin.After a ritual gone wrong, I find myself even more connected to them than before and embracing the intensity of what was growing between us and the strength it provided me with...
  • King's Warrior by Frost Kay

    King's Warrior by Frost Kay

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Revolution and war come with a price in the fourth volume of USA Today Bestselling Author Frost Kay’s The Aermian Feuds Series. Returning to Aermia should’ve been easy, but nightmares and death haunt her, leaving Sage as an outsider, even in her own family...
  • The Mountains Rise by Michael G. Manning

    The Mountains Rise by Michael G. Manning

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From the dark depths of the past, comes the tale of the first wizard of Illeniel. Daniel Tennick lived simply, a young shepherd with few troubles and little to occupy his mind, until the warden appeared. Daniel’s power awakens, and he finds himself hunted by the servants of the cruel and uncaring forest gods...
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    dark  drama  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  epic
  • Lady of Starfire by Melissa K. Roehrich

    Lady of Starfire by Melissa K. Roehrich

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Scarlett Sutara Aditya has finally learned the full cost to save her world and correct mistakes that are not hers, but she refuses to accept the fate that has been decided for her. Making demands of her own, she fights for her twin flame, her family, and the realm that balances on her destiny. She has always played games by her own rules, but this time, winning might cost her everything...
  • Inferno by Kat Ross

    Inferno by Kat Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the last volume of the Fourth Talisman series, the worlds of the living and the dead collide in a final confrontation that will leave Nocturne and Solis forever changed....Three talismans adrift.Two mad kings. One poisonous crown.As dark forces gather at the Rock of Ariamazes in Samarqand, Nazafareen discovers that there are worse places than the afterlife...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  myths  sword-sorcery  audiobook  book  epic  fiction
  • The Searching by Vanessa Nelson

    The Searching by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Oath-sworn to help those in need, Yvonne has been framed for murder.Tracking down those responsible for the destruction of the Stone Walls was a difficult enough task, but someone has made it much harder. The King is dead, and Yvonne is accused of his murder...
  • The Rending by Vanessa Nelson

    The Rending by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only place of safety for the desperate has been destroyed.Yvonne has finally found a place to settle, where her children can grow, and she can think about her own future. Even as she celebrates, a shock rings across the world. Someone has attacked the Sisters in the Stone Walls...
  • The Duelist 6 by Eric Vall

    The Duelist 6 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The island of Terr is on the brink of civil war and destruction, so Alex will need to use every one of his “Ambassador” skills to keep that from happening.But Terr has dwelled in darkness for too long, and monsters threaten to destroy the Terran people from within and without...
  • Building Harem Town 5 by Eric Vall

    Building Harem Town 5 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It looks like the threat of an enemy god is a lot closer to home than I realized. It’s time for my loyal priestesses and I to expand my territory, build up my armies, and take on the strange beasts who prowl the northern forest.But there’s more lurking in these woods than I anticipated...
  • Building Harem Town 3 by Eric Vall

    Building Harem Town 3 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I have no idea how or why I’ve become a god, or if any of this is even real, but my three beautiful priestesses certainly seem real, and they rely on me to watch over them, guide them, and impregnate them with my god-seed.Now, more devout followers have joined with my convent. My flock is growing along with my power, and my priestesses are more and more eager to worship my godly form...
  • Primal Undying by Melody Rose

    Primal Undying by Melody Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A spirit of light turned into a goddess of darkness… and a world at the brink of war… With the Morrigan unleashed in my heart and five men now in my bed, my dreams of ever being a normal Prime Academy student have long been out the window. Now, new dreams and visions decide my fate… and the fate of us all.But as I tame the darkness within, the darkness against us grows impatient...
  • Lady of Embers by Melissa K. Roehrich

    Lady of Embers by Melissa K. Roehrich

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    There was no preparing for her storm.Wrath.When they met her, she was a whirlwind of shadows and darkness. Standing among the ashes of betrayal and grief, now she is a tempest of rage and malice. Queen Scarlett Aditya will hunt them all down, one by one, and make them pay. Starting with the one who took her brightest star from her.Acceptance.She knows she will come for her...
  • A Throne From the Ashes by C.C. Peñaranda

    A Throne From the Ashes by C.C. Peñaranda

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As darkness descends, two destinies will merge. But as embers fly, one may rise from the ashes.A KINGDOM…Far from the land she knows, Faythe is beckoned toward the secrets of her heritage. Through trials of her name and a challenge to her claim, does she have what it takes to rule? Faythe bears a future that haunts; Reylan harbors a past that lingers...
  • Queen of Light by Meg Anne

    Queen of Light by Meg Anne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Only one of them can win. Kiri Helena Solene is done burying her loved ones. She is going to put an end to this war, one way or another. Even if it means she loses herself in the process. But in matters of war, Rowena has no intention of losing. The Corruptor knows Helena’s greatest strength is also her weakness, and she has every intention of exploiting it...
  • Spring Guardians & Songbirds by Wendy Heiss

    Spring Guardians & Songbirds by Wendy Heiss

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐦, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬. After falling for a lie and ruling over another, Snowlin starts revealing her dealing hand. Two queens and a joker...
  • Crown of Embers  (The Chosen) by Meg Anne

    Crown of Embers (The Chosen) by Meg Anne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “If it’s a war she wants, I’ll damn well give her one.”Kiri Helena Solene may have gotten her Mate back, but that was just the beginning. The battle lines have been drawn and her nemesis has already struck the first blow.Surrounded by her Circle, Helena’s power continues to grow. However, this time power alone will not be enough...
  • By Dark Deeds by Miranda Honfleur

    By Dark Deeds by Miranda Honfleur

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her hands shackled. An assassin hunting the man she loves. Will she save him in time?Elementalist Rielle needs to get to the man she loves before the assassin pursuing him finds her mark. There's only one problem: she's chained aboard a ship bound for a foreign land.And her new life is harsh, with her movements watched, food scarce, and safety even scarcer...
  • The Last Bell by Alex Lidell

    The Last Bell by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hostages. Memories. Heartbeats. The long awaited finale to the epic Power of Five story is here.The quint has finally reunited, but their stunning new discovery changes everything.Just as Lera and the males navigate their redefined future, Owalin violently ups the stakes, giving the humans one hour to hand over their kingdoms...
  • Autumn of the Grimoire by J.L. Vampa

    Autumn of the Grimoire by J.L. Vampa

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some witches cast spells. Others slay kings.A mysterious Grimoire. A marriage full of dark secrets. A History sculpted by a quartet of ancient Sister witches.For three hundred years, Sister Autumn has incited wars, burnt villages, killed kings, and released plagues at the bidding of the Grimoire. Meanwhile, her Sister Winter, Sister Spring, and Sister Summer have brought forth only peace...
  • Of Mischief & Mages by L.J. Andrews

    Of Mischief & Mages by L.J. Andrews

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A sorceress with lost power to claim the throne.A royal thief fading to a cursed heart.A forgotten love that will destroy their world.When Adira’s crook of a boss sends her to a Las Vegas casino as one of his goons, her world turns upside down and she’s tossed through the gates of a strange, dangerous world of Mage courts and curses...
  • Masque by W.R. Gingell

    Masque by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beauty met the Beast and there was . . . Bloody murder? It’s the Annual Ambassadorial Ball in Glause, and Lady Isabella Farrah, the daughter of New Civet’s Ambassador, is feeling pleasantly scintillated. In the library is Lord Pecus, a charming gentleman whose double mask hides a beastly face, and who has decided that Isabella is the very person to break the Pecus curse...
  • Spy's Mask by Frost Kay

    Spy's Mask by Frost Kay

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    War and freedom from tyranny comes with a price in the fifth volume of the USA Today Bestselling Author Frost Kay's Aermian Feuds Series.No one could have prepared Sage and Tehl for the ruin the Warlord would wreak on the world to get to Aermia. Sage thought she knew how to play his deadly games, but his warped crimes prove she's out of her depth...
  • The White Song by Phil Tucker

    The White Song by Phil Tucker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The White Song is the final installment in a gripping new epic fantasy series.The hour of reckoning is at hand. The skies darken with the forces of the enemy while the hopes of the armies of the light dwindle to but a candle flame. Morals, compunctions, oaths - all must be set aside, every sacrifice made, every advantage and ally sought if there is to be any chance for survival...
  • A Warrior's Knowledge by Davis Ashura

    A Warrior's Knowledge by Davis Ashura

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN-10: 099112765X / ISBN-13: 9780991127658."The redemption of the fallen man is neither easy nor quick. It is fraught with hardship and loss, and those who seek to aid someone traveling this twisted path might do best to journey ahead and light the way." (The Word and the Deed)Rukh Shektan has lost everything: his home, his standing, and his future...
  • Iron Wolf by Siri Pettersen

    Iron Wolf by Siri Pettersen

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A new series from the author of The Raven Rings trilogy - Siri Pettersen!Juva knows all about blood readers. Praised for their Sight, they are nothing but swindlers, preying on people’s fears for power and profit. Born by blood readers herself, she knows only too well, and she has vowed never to become one of them...
  • Winter's Fury by A.E. Rayne

    Winter's Fury by A.E. Rayne

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    IN A WORLD RULED BY MEN, ONE WOMAN WILL RISE Jael Furyck isn’t happy.Her father is dead. Her uncle has stolen the throne.And now he wants to marry her off to the fallen son of her arch-enemy.But Jael is a battle-hardened warrior, trained to kill since she was ten-years-old.She doesn’t plan on being anyone’s wife.Eadmund Skalleson is drunk.His father is threatening him with a wife again...
  • Enemy's Queen by Frost Kay

    Enemy's Queen by Frost Kay

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Beauty and perfection come at a price… Abducted and thrust into a court obsessed with perfection, scarred Sage Ramses’ dream of peace and happiness is no longer a possibility. An ancient creature of darkness rules the land along with a people that are no longer human, and she’s forced to learn how to survive despite her inadequacies...
  • Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk’s form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between her people and the serpiente for so long, no one can remember how the fighting began...
  • Celestial Prison by Avery Song, Veronica Agnus

    Celestial Prison by Avery Song, Veronica Agnus

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the deep shadows of the supernatural world lies a prison whose captives are organized by supernatural race, capabilities, and destructive power. The lower the level, the more lethal — and desirable — the individual. As a Nephilim at the Psychic Prison for Supernaturals, I'm banished to the depths of its lowest level, a hellhole from which few ever return...
  • The Reaper by Melissa K. Roehrich

    The Reaper by Melissa K. Roehrich

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Before he was the Fire Court Third, he was the Reaper.And before he was the Reaper, he was her Ash Rider.Moranna. The Baroness of a colony hidden away on the Southern Islands. She works tirelessly to keep some of the most powerful Fae of the realm safe from those who seek to use them for their gifts.Or that's what Rayner has always believed...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  romance  fantasy  fae  high-fantasy  steamy  fiction
  • Primal Igniting by Melody Rose

    Primal Igniting by Melody Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Something wicked this way comes…With the help of the Cintamani Stone, things are almost back to normal for my mates and me. Well, as normal as the five of us were ever going to get...
  • Primal Rising by Melody Rose

    Primal Rising by Melody Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Otherworld feels shattered, but my mates and I are there to pick up the pieces.The memory of the Capitol still hangs heavy in the air, but my mates and I are prepared to do what we can to battle for what’s right. With all of Prime Academy behind us, and newer, more powerful allies, I’m finally prepared to take on the role of the phoenix...
  • Sea of Shadow by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Sea of Shadow by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Though shadow sweeps over the land, light will not relent.Intense. Delightful. Unrelenting. A no-nonsense heroine, a sword of questionable origin, and a plot that sinks its claws in and does not let go. Grab a reading buddy and buckle in...
  • Ghost in the Cowl by Jonathan Moeller

    Ghost in the Cowl by Jonathan Moeller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    OverviewCaina Amalas was a nightfighter of the Ghosts, the spies and assassins of the Emperor of Nighmar, and through her boldness and cunning saved the Empire and the world from sorcerous annihilation.But the victory cost her everything.Now she is exiled and alone in the city of Istarinmul, far from her home and friends...
  • Lost Towers by Angelina J. Steffort

    Lost Towers by Angelina J. Steffort

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With evil rising, every secret can change the course of history.The curse is broken. The Fae are free. And so is Gandrett—at least to walk away from the palace at Lei’Vreah, from the King of Fae who she supposedly is in love with, from the prince who almost died in her arms.Her friends are out there, needing her help...
  • Blood of Desiderium by Ali Stuebbe

    Blood of Desiderium by Ali Stuebbe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the lands of Deyadrum, where every Fae possesses power, Princess Emma is the only one forced without. Confined in the walls of her palace by her father, she’s desperate for a taste of freedom.That is, until she discovers the truth: everything she thought she knew was a lie, for something evil plagues her lands - promising death and darkness.A betrothal that tests her...
  • Leaves May Fall by Carissa Hardcastle

    Leaves May Fall by Carissa Hardcastle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When it comes to fate, where is the line between being predestined and being condemned?Merriam was born a regular girl in a mundane world. Mollian is a fae prince whose family is charged with guarding the Gate that binds every existence together. Both of their lives were forever changed when they met in the woods as children, sparking a bond in their souls deeper than either of them understood...
    Categorized as:
    dark  humor  paranormal  romance  fantasy  fae  magic  high-fantasy
  • Claimed by the Flame of Faery by Mallory Dunlin

    Claimed by the Flame of Faery by Mallory Dunlin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I meant to slay the dragon—not save him.All my life, I've known what it means to be a human in Faery, and I've always fought back. But when my father attacks a half-dragon duke - and fails - I make the only bargain I can think my life for my his.I expect to be treated like a slave, but my new master keeps me in luxury...
  • Illuminance by Kara Douglas

    Illuminance by Kara Douglas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A brewing war, and a prophecy to doom them all. Lu’s life as she knows it is over. Her wishes of freedom have finally come to fruition, but at what cost? Her worst nightmares have become reality as monsters, fae, and dark magic corrupt the only home she’s ever known. Old, broken memories come to light, and the war from long ago seems doomed to repeat itself, with Lu stuck in the middle...
  • Cruelly Bitten by Lexi C. Foss

    Cruelly Bitten by Lexi C. Foss

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once upon a time, humankind ruled the world while lycans and vampires lived in secret. This is no longer that time. Ismerelda The male I’m forever bonded to is now a monster. A cruel beast. A vampire without remorse and no memories of our previous existence together. He has no idea who I am. What I mean to him. Who we used to be together. But I’m not giving up. He will remember me. I vow it...
  • Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent

    Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tell me, little butterfly, what would you do for love? In the wake of a crushing defeat, Tisaanah and Maxatarius have been ripped apart. Tisaanah is desperate to rescue Max from his imprisonment, even as her people’s fight for freedom grows more treacherous...
  • Stormy Nights by Elle Middaugh

    Stormy Nights by Elle Middaugh

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alexis Ravenel: Damaged. Determined. Deadly. In order to control me, the Storm King does his best to damage me. And unfortunately, he’s quite good at it. But I suppose what doesn’t kill me, ticks me off enough to make me stronger. I’m now more determined than ever to rid the world of his wicked ways, but for that, we’ll need allies...
    Categorized as:
    dark  humor  myths  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  audiobook  book
  • Barbarian Outcast by Aaron Crash

    Barbarian Outcast by Aaron Crash

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The lands to the South are full of depraved women driven mad by forbidden sorcery. Now that sounds like fun for a barbarian from the Black Wolf Clan. The barbarians of the frozen north live to fight, drink, hunt, and screw, and Ymir is a true son of the Ax Tundra, until a demon curses him with magic...
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