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  • Undying by Steve McHugh

    Undying by Steve McHugh

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new chapter in the Hellequin Chronicles Saga.Nearly fifty years ago, the small Welsh village of Anfarwol was the scene of a series of brutal murders. Since then, multiple people have met with accidents, or gone missing never to be found, while those responsible have evaded detection for decades...
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    urban  paranormal  fantasy  urban-fantasy  myths  fiction  magic  fae
  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Family Photo Album by Lionsgate

    The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Family Photo Album by Lionsgate

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Take a look inside The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 with Bella’s exclusive family photo album featuring photos and keepsakes of her loved ones and extended friends and family. Experiment with photo filters, listen to music, and view photos of your favorite characters from the film...
  • The Skye Sisters by Desirée

    The Skye Sisters by Desirée

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The order of this series is as followed. Bambino, Opium, Delirious, and what you're about to read. The Skye Sisters. With this story...I don't know yall. I honestly have no way of explaining this. Alot of secrets are revealed, drama finally reveals itself. People aren't who they say they are. People get shot. Protest are heard. Folks marching throughout the streets of Atlanta for justice...
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    black-mc  paranormal  poc-mc  adult  book  crime  dangerous-mc  dark
  • Brimstone Kiss by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Brimstone Kiss by Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    No one told Quinn there was a cover charge to enter Hell - or that Valhalla didn't allow bar tabs.Thanks to a witchy homebrew, Quinn MacKenna—part-time goddess, full-time troublemaker—has slipped past death’s door to rekindle an old flame and snuff out an old friend...
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    paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  coming-of-age  dark  fiction
  • Beginnings by Kelley Armstrong

    Beginnings by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book One: Bitten Where it all began. Elena is leading the normal life she has always dreamed of, including a stable job as a journalist and a nice apartment shared with her boyfriend. As the lone female werewolf in existence, only her secret midnight prowls and her occasional inhuman cravings set her apart. An erotically charged thriller, Bitten will awaken the voracious appetite of every reader...
  • Street Soldiers by L. Divine

    Street Soldiers by L. Divine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    At South Bay High, the drama just keeps on growing... In the long-awaited 15th volume of the Drama High series, Street Soldiers picks up with a murder in front of Jayd's grandparents' house. Mama and Daddy are convinced the police have the wrong suspect in custody and have joined forces to help organize the neighborhood and find the real killer...
  • A Demon's Wrath: Part 2 by Sarra Cannon

    A Demon's Wrath: Part 2 by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Part 2 of Jackson's heartbreaking story of love and loss. Approximately 40,000 words (130 pages)Jackson pours memories of his past into a special stone as he prepares to ask Harper a very important question.Read this series from the beginning!1. Beautiful Demons2. Inner Demons3. Bitter Demons4. Shadow Demons5. Rival Demons6...
  • Black Water by Faith Hunter

    Black Water by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three stories from New York Times bestselling author Faith Hunter, starring shapeshifting skinwalker Jane Yellowrock. In Snafu, a young Jane shows up for her internship with a securities firm...
  • Anybody's Daughter by Pamela Samuels Young

    Anybody's Daughter by Pamela Samuels Young

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Based on the real-life horrors faced by thousands of girls, award-winning author Pamela Samuels Young takes readers deep inside the disturbing world of child sex trafficking in a fast-paced thriller that educates as much as it entertains. Thirteen-year-old Brianna Walker is ecstatic. She's about to sneak off to meet her first real boyfriend—a boyfriend she met on Facebook...
  • Penang Pixie by John P. Logsdon, Noah K. Sturdevant

    Penang Pixie by John P. Logsdon, Noah K. Sturdevant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *** THOUSANDS OF READERS HAVE FOUND A HOME WITH THE PARANORMAL POLICE DEPARTMENT. GET YOUR BADGE TODAY! *** When evil comes home, the only hope is the devil within The Shapers, the ancient enemy of the warlocks, have taken the fight to Mark, attempting to assassinate him and those he cares about...
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    paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  dark  fiction
  • Beware The Boogerman by D. Glenn Casey

    Beware The Boogerman by D. Glenn Casey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The fine men and women of the Prattville Sheriff’s Department have a very specific job, one that most law enforcement officers would never have to deal with. Hopefully.They have to look after the peace and quiet in a small town that has the unfortunate nickname “Monster Town...
  • Redefined by Jamie Magee

    Redefined by Jamie Magee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a desperate search for silence in the closing chapters of Synergy Charlie battled her ultimate fear and left the only sanctuary she has ever known. She has paid a devastating price for that fateful move. She lost her foundation...
  • An Alpha's Claim by E. Bowser

    An Alpha's Claim by E. Bowser

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dax Rayne swore off Hunters long ago for how they treated his kind. That is until a Hunter named Devana Okar entered his life with visions of rogue wolves and with the scent that she is his MATE.Dax wasn’t expecting the True Alpha of all Wolves to come to him with a mission involving working with a Hunter. A mission to stop a rogue wolf from killing other Alpha’s and taking control of their packs...
  • An Ugly Girl's Diary by T. Styles

    An Ugly Girl's Diary by T. Styles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the opening night of his restaurant, bad boy Tye Gates finds a diary moments after being unfaithful to his fiancé'. Captivated by the words of a mysterious woman, before long, he's pulled into her drama-filled world that soon impacts his own life...
  • Vengeance of a Witch by Suza Kates

    Vengeance of a Witch by Suza Kates

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A WARRIOR FIGHTING HER FATE Paige Reilley is ready for combat, with the evil Amara, their army of demons, and above all . . . the unwanted love her coven’s prophecy has planned for her. As former military, she’s no stranger to war, but the arrival of a new man in her life brings a much greater threat than potential romance...
  • Suffering of a Witch by Suza Kates

    Suffering of a Witch by Suza Kates

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SHE WON'T GIVE UP Kylie Worthington is in love with a man who doesn't return the sentiment. She's thrown away her pride and all attempts at pretense, yet Quinn St. Germaine still pushes her away. With the arrival of her trial, she will go where Fate dictates and is destined to fall in love. At least she'll finally find the man she was meant for. Whether she likes it or not...
  • The Curse of Dark Root: Part One by April Aasheim

    The Curse of Dark Root: Part One by April Aasheim

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I inspected the small glass orb in my hand and read the words engraved upon its mantle: Dark Root, Oregon, 1968. "Jillian, there's nothing inside," I said, shaking the globe.“You must view it before you go to sleep. The memory it contains will come to you in your dreams.” “What will I see?” I asked, staring deep into the crystal ball.“Secrets, Maggie. Secrets that should have come out long ago...
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    paranormal  urban  adult  book  dark  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Possession of a Witch by Suza Kates

    Possession of a Witch by Suza Kates

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Man She Wants to LoveLucia Ruiz believes in love. Though the reality of it has been scarce in her life, she chooses to look to the future. To have hope. Now fate has thrown a dark, hunk of a demon hunter into her life in the form of Ethan Drake. Set to accompany her on a dangerous quest, he persists in being aloof. Reserved. And downright unsociable. For Lucia to succeed she must do two things...
  • Deception of a Witch by Suza Kates

    Deception of a Witch by Suza Kates

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claudia Grant has officially been called to face her trial. To stand for the Savannah Coven and complete the task that has been set for her. When the antique items she touches show her more of history than she bargained for, she realizes her special talent has taken a dangerous turn. Evil thrives in the present but is also alive and well in the past.And it's been waiting for her...
  • John by Annie Baker

    John by Annie Baker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The week after Thanksgiving.A bed and breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.A cheerful innkeeper.A young couple struggling to stay together.Thousands of inanimate objects, watching...
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    black-mc  poc-mc  21st-century  adult  book  drama  fiction  historical
  • Spell of Love by Auryn Hadley

    Spell of Love by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There's nothing stronger than love, except maybe desperation. All Jade wanted was her own happily ever after. Unfortunately, it's never that easy. Being a woman and a mage complicates things. Falling for three men at the same time? At least that's working out. Everything else is a mess. And it's all the Spider's fault. That man just can't help himself...
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    black-mc  paranormal  poc-mc  adult  audiobook  book  dark  fiction
  • Curse of Fangs by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Curse of Fangs by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A vampire's bite sucks, but it's also quite powerful... When Las Vegas Paranormal Police Chief Ian Dex is injected with a healthy dose of vampire venom, he gains access to power like he's never known. He's faster, stronger, and his ability to do magic is on the rise, too.The problem is that he's becoming too powerful...
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    paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  dark  fiction
  • Fell for a Billionaire Vampire by N'Dia Rae

    Fell for a Billionaire Vampire by N'Dia Rae

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zion Teese was broke, frustrated and hating life until one fateful night changed her life forever. When her cousin suggests she goes to a new vampire bar in town, Zion reluctantly agrees. The bar seems normal until she is viciously attacked by a vampire and then saved by their leader, a mysterious vampire named, Knight. Knight and Zion's connection is strong, earth-shattering and fateful...
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    black-mc  paranormal  poc-mc  urban  adult  book  female-mc  fiction
  • The World For My Zombie Kings by LeeSha McCoy

    The World For My Zombie Kings by LeeSha McCoy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I used my mind to kill hundreds of the dead that my three-year-olds gathered in our back garden.Now, I have to tell their dads.My Kings have been bitten and now sleep peacefully while their minds and bodies strengthen. I miss them more than words could ever express, but in a matter of days, they’ll awaken.Then we’ll all be the same...
  • Forsaken by Robert J. Crane

    Forsaken by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    WARNING: Due to extremely disturbing content, this book is intended for MATURE READERS ONLY. Things in Midian, Tennessee are just going straight to hell. Demons rise, allies fall, and some prepare to make the ultimate sacrifice...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  urban  adult  book  fiction  horror  urban-fantasy  fantasy
  • The Other Brother by Brandon Massey

    The Other Brother by Brandon Massey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gabriel Reid seems to have it all - a good family, a great career, a loving fiancee. Until a man named Isaiah Battle comes into his life, claiming to be his illegitimate brother...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  paranormal  poc-mc  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • EXOSKELETON II: Tympanum by Shane Stadler

    EXOSKELETON II: Tympanum by Shane Stadler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The thrilling sequel to 2012's Techno-Horror/Sci-Fi masterpiece, EXOSKELETON. "Stadler - an experimental physicist by trade - effectively uses his background working in government and defense labs in painting vivid, appropriately clinical looks at the very base concept of torture...
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    paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  sci-fi
  • The Children of the Sun by Christopher Buecheler

    The Children of the Sun by Christopher Buecheler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's been two and a half years since the American council defeated the Burilgi rebel Aros Kreskas and restored order to their world. With the Children of the Sun, the militaristic cult of vampire hunters, in a period of apparent dormancy, the vampires of North America have enjoyed a time of relative peace...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  urban  adult  book  demons  fiction  horror  new-york-state
  • Out of Hours by Heide Goody, Iain Grant

    Out of Hours by Heide Goody, Iain Grant

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone is out of time… Morag Murry is about to give birth to the Venislarn anti-Christ and her baby is eager to be born. Very eager. With only Steve the Destroyer to help her through her labours, she knows that when this child is born, the earth will face its final day...
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    paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  dystopia  fiction
  • Salsa Nocturna: Stories by Daniel José Older

    Salsa Nocturna: Stories by Daniel José Older

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A 300 year-old story collector enlists the help of the computer hacker next door to save her dying sister. A half-resurrected cleanup man for Death's sprawling bureaucracy faces a phantom pachyderm, doll-collecting sorceresses and his own ghoulish bosses. Gordo, the old Cubano that watches over the graveyards and sleeping children of Brooklyn, stirs and lights another Malaguena...
  • By Darkness Revealed by Kevin O. McLaughlin

    By Darkness Revealed by Kevin O. McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What can you do when the thing you hate most in the world is also the only thing which might keep you alive? ★★★★★Ryan Blackwell never wanted to have magical abilities. He'd rather leave them as far behind him as possible - and never look back! Arriving at the military college of Northshield University was supposed to be a chance to start over and build a new life for himself...
  • Demon Dawn by William Massa

    Demon Dawn by William Massa

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Over the years, I’ve racked up a pretty interesting resume. Monster Hunter. Demon Slayer. Paranormal Investigator. Now I’m about to add "thief" to the list. The mastermind behind this high-risk heist is Vincent Taske, a billionaire dying of cancer. A man desperate to cheat death no matter what the cost. His plan? Break into the Hagen Bank...
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    paranormal  urban  action-adventure  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror
  • Ibenus by Seth Skorkowsky

    Ibenus by Seth Skorkowsky

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After surviving a demon attack, disgraced police detective Victoria Martin tracks down the Valducans in search for answers. Recognizing her potential, and despite the warnings of the other knights, Allan Havlock, protector of Ibenus, takes her in as his apprentice...
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    paranormal  urban  adult  audiobook  book  demons  fiction  horror
  • To Kill a Unicorn by John Corwin

    To Kill a Unicorn by John Corwin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The gods are dead. The fae rule Gaia.Cain used to kill for the fae. The only human to become a member of the Oblivion Guard, he killed one time too many and had enough. Leaving it all behind wasn't as easy as turning in a resignation. But the fae had trained him well and soon it was they who bargained for him to leave Feary and live in exile in Gaia...
  • Ancient Enemy by Michael McBride

    Ancient Enemy by Michael McBride

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sani Natonaba's ancestors have lived in these canyons for more than seven hundred years, but they aren't the only ones. When he awakens to the bleating of his family's sheep being slaughtered, he learns that something is stalking this isolated corner of the reservation, a predator unlike any he has encountered before, one that attacks with alarming stealth and ferocity...
  • Broken Home by Glenn Bullion

    Broken Home by Glenn Bullion

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even a demon has a beginning.The year is 1973. Janet Fields is living the stereotypical American Dream. She has a loving husband, two wonderful daughters, and a beautiful home away from the hustle of city life. Life couldn’t be any better.That changed the day the stranger invaded her home, and tore apart not only everything Janet knew about her life, but also the world around her...
  • Honeybear Halloween by Jacqueline Sweet

    Honeybear Halloween by Jacqueline Sweet

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Double Shot of Shifters! Two steamy Halloween novellas will get your blood pumping, and your heart racing. This pair of stand-alone paranormal romances are hot enough to steam up your Kindle. In Midnight Feast, a mischievous shifter spikes the punch at the town's Halloween party. Only Sebastian, the Alpha's son, can stop the mayhem before it rips the tavern apart...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  poc-mc  adult  anthologies  fiction  ghosts  horror  humor
  • Tokyo Night Parade by J.P. Takahashi, Minako Tomigahara

    Tokyo Night Parade by J.P. Takahashi, Minako Tomigahara

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Spirited Away meets Where the Wild Things Are by way of yokai   mythology in this enchanting picture book by debut author J. P. Takahashi and illustrator Minako Tomigahara. The night parade is about to begin . . . The ground thunders in Tokyo. A gust of wind blows. The pitter patter of paws and claws draws closer. The air is thick with swirling, swooping demons...
  • Ghostroots: Stories by 'Pemi Aguda

    Ghostroots: Stories by 'Pemi Aguda

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties.’Pemi Aguda opens her collection of twelve stories with the chilling tale of a woman who uncannily resembles her sinister, deceased grandmother...
    Categorized as:
    urban  horror  fiction  anthologies  supernatural  adult
  • Grave Creatures by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Grave Creatures by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How exactly do you kill someone who's already dead?Playboy Police Chief Ian Dex didn't believe in zombies...until now.An old necromancer has been summoning the dead. His goal is to overrun the world, one city at a time. Too bad he started in Vegas.With the horde of zombies heading in from the old cemeteries, Ian and his crew soon realize they can't handle this threat alone...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  urban  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Starling by Robert J. Crane

    Starling by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    WARNING: Due to extremely disturbing content, this book is intended for MATURE READERS ONLY. Midian, Tennessee is a city on the brink of ruin. Coming off a cataclysmic event that has changed the course of the town and revealed the threat to all, no respite comes to the beleaguered people of Midian...
  • The Kindred of Darkness by Barbara Hambly

    The Kindred of Darkness by Barbara Hambly

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When James Asher and his wife Lydia's baby daughter Miranda is kidnapped by the Master Vampire of London, the stakes are high: blindly follow the Master Vampire's instructions, keep out of the way of the human networks that serves the vampires, destroy the interloper who seeks to seize control of the London Nest, and find the key to the Nest's tortuous inner workings: The Book of the Kindred of...
  • A Wind in the Night by Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee

    A Wind in the Night by Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In her quest to find the Orb of Spirit, Wynn Hygeorht is torn between two men who hate each other—her vampire protector, Chane Andraso, and the elf Osha, who has tender feelings for her. Now a strange series of clues leads them to a remote keep built on the dark cliffs of the coast of Witeny...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  urban  adult  book  dark  dark-fantasy  epic  fiction
  • The Secret of the Dread Forest by Gillian Summers

    The Secret of the Dread Forest by Gillian Summers

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now that she has (sort of) defeated a diabolical elf, Keelie Heartwood reluctantly joins her father in the Dread Forest. Her "real" friends are gone, her dad is preoccupied with his new responsibilities as Lord of the Forest and now it seems that her budding romance with the hunky Sean is dashed...
  • Dear Vicky by Octavia Grant

    Dear Vicky by Octavia Grant

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Delusional /dəˈlo͞oZH(ə)nəl/ (adjective) - characterized by or holding false beliefs or judgments about external reality that are held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, typically as a symptom of a mental conditionGrocery store bag boy, Andrew, hates his job. No career growth, rude customers, and the forced customer appreciation greeting have taken a toll on his mental stability...
  • A Ghost Or A Goon by Thee Tasha Marie

    A Ghost Or A Goon by Thee Tasha Marie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Roses are red.Pumpkins aren’t black.It’s that time of year again.And Ghost is back!It’s been a year since Shadow’s world was rocked and filled with a presence so intense only to realize it was just a dream. Or was it? That presence, by the name of Ghost, resurfaces just in time for Halloween, only to realize there’s a new thug in Shadow’s life...
  • My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due

    My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiancé is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her, believes that if she doesn’t stay away from Michel, they will become the Witnesses to the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation...
  • Between Their Worlds by Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee

    Between Their Worlds by Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "A unique tale of vampires and half-vampire undead hunters set against a dark fantasy world ruled by tyrants." the Noble Dead saga continues to entrance readers with action-packed adventures and an intriguing mythology. Now national bestselling authors Barb and J.C. Hendee present the long-awaited return of dhampir Magiere and half-elf Leesil...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  urban  adult  book  dark  dark-fantasy  epic  fiction
  • The Dog in the Dark by Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee

    The Dog in the Dark by Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Barely escaping the city of Calm Seatt - and the assassins hunting them - Magiere, Leesil, and the elven dog Chap sail south to continue their quest to find the powerful orb of Air before their enemies do. But they are not alone, much to their frustration.Aging elven assassin Brot’an has forced himself on them by offering his protection...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  urban  adult  book  dark  dark-fantasy  epic  fiction
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