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  • Ever After by Kim Harrison

    Ever After by Kim Harrison

    30 ratings
    The ever after, the demonic realm that parallels the human world, is shrinking. If it disappears completely, so does all magic. It's up to witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan to avert catastrophe and keep life from changing... for the worse.While saving the world is important, it isn't Rachel's only motivation...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  ghosts  humor  magic
  • Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

    Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

    32 ratings
    Condemned and shunned for black magic, Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witches’ conference and clear her name, or be trapped in the demonic ever-after . . . forever after.But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, and a pixy in one car going across the country? Talk about a recipe for certain disaster, even without being the targets for assassination...
  • The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

    The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

    34 ratings
    A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking crossover series...
  • Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward

    Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward

    41 ratings
    Rehvenge has always kept his distance from the Brotherhood—even though his sister is married to a member, for he harbors a deadly secret that could make him a huge liability in their war against the lessers...
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    alpha-mc  anti-hero  dark  demons  magic  mystery  paranormal  abuse
  • The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

    The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

    34 ratings
    Note: This book is the same as The Outlaw Demon Wails. It was printed under both titles. To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her...
  • Feversong by Karen Marie Moning

    Feversong by Karen Marie Moning

    27 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning returns with the epic conclusion to her pulse-pounding Fever series, where a world thrown into chaos grows more treacherous at every turn. As Mac, Barrons, Ryodan, and Jada struggle to restore control, enemies become allies, right and wrong cease to exist, and the lines between life and death, lust and love, disappear completely...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

    The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

    28 ratings
    Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

    A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

    30 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the Hollows with the electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed Pale Demon!A Perfect BloodRitually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the I.S...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic  mystery
  • Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

    Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

    33 ratings
    Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter—and lived to tell the tale. But she's never faced off against her own kind . . . until now.Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black magic, her best hope is life imprisonment—at worst, a forced lobotomy and genetic slavery...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    14 ratings
    Long ago, before history broke in half, elder gods exiled the vengeful deity Erynis to a far corner of Earth. When Ryn is found weakened after saving the life of an innocent villager, the U.S. military mistakes the battered immortal for a feral teenager and places her in New Petersburg, a decaying city full of monsters...
  • Shadow Rites by Faith Hunter

    Shadow Rites by Faith Hunter

    18 ratings
    Slaying vampires is child’s play for skinwalker Jane Yellowrock. But handling the complicated politics of New Orleans’ supernatural players is another story... Jane is keeping the peace between visiting groups of witches and vamps in the city, but then trouble comes knocking on her doorstep...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  humor  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Written in Red by Anne Bishop

    Written in Red by Anne Bishop

    35 ratings
    As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut—a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard—a business district operated by the Others...
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    alpha-mc  dark  dystopia  humor  magic  mystery  myths  paranormal
  • Faefever by Karen Marie Moning

    Faefever by Karen Marie Moning

    46 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Darkfever and Bloodfever returns to Dublin’s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  magic  mystery  myths
  • Last Breath by Rachel Caine

    Last Breath by Rachel Caine

    26 ratings
    With her boss preoccupied researching the Founder Houses in Morganville, student Claire Danvers is left to her own devices when she learns that three vampires have vanished without a trace. She soon discovers that the last person seen with one of the missing vampires is someone new to town-a mysterious individual named Magnus...
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    dark  female-mc  friendship  ghosts  humor  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide by J.R. Ward

    The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide by J.R. Ward

    26 ratings
    Prepare to enter the dark, passionate world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and get up close and personal with each of the Brothers....You'll find insider information on the Brotherhood, including their dossiers, stats, and special gifts...
  • Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

    Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

    32 ratings
    Return to New York Times best-selling author Anne Bishop’s world of the Others - where supernatural entities and humans struggle to co-exist, and one woman has begun to change all the rules.…After winning the trust of the terra indigene residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them...
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    alpha-mc  dark  dystopia  friendship  magic  mystery  myths  paranormal
  • Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    29 ratings
    FORBIDDEN TEMPTATIONS Serena Kelley is an archaeologist and treasure hunter-and a woman with a secret. Since she was seven, she's been the keeper of a powerful charm that grants her health and immortality . . . as long as she stays a virgin. But Serena isn't all that innocent...
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    alpha-mc  anti-hero  dark  demons  female-mc  humor  magic  mystery
  • Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong

    Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong

    24 ratings
    War is coming to the Otherworld. A sinister cult known as The Supernatural Liberation Movement is hell-bent on exposing the truth about supernaturals to the rest of the world. Their violent, ruthless plan has put everyone at risk: from werewolves to vampires, from witches to half-demons.Savannah Levine - fiery and unpredictable - stands at the heart of the maelstrom...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Shadow's Bane by Karen Chance

    Shadow's Bane by Karen Chance

    17 ratings
    Half-human, half-vampire Dorina Basarab is back—and facing her biggest challenge yet in the next urban fantasy in the New York Times bestselling series.Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. As one of the Vampire Senate’s newest members, Dory already has a lot on her plate. But then a relative of one of Dory’s fey friends goes missing...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  humor  magic  mystery  myths
  • Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong

    Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong

    27 ratings
    Smart, sexy, supernatural—the men and women of the Otherworld live and love, fight and die, among us. Unseen and unsuspected, this realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves is now threatened with exposure by a brutal series of bizarre murders that has left even the supernatural world baffled—and cold with terror...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  mystery  myths
  • A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

    A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

    35 ratings
    The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that order.Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  humor  magic  mystery
  • Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

    Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

    28 ratings
    Deep in the heart of Texas, Morganville is a small college town full of laid-back students and eccentric townies, not to mention the sort of creatures you wouldn't want to run into after dark. Despite their obvious differences, the human and vampire residents of Morganville have learned to coexist, but that doesn't stop genius student Claire Danvers from keeping up her guard...
  • Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

    Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

    39 ratings
    She's a mortal with dark powers...After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude..
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    alpha-mc  anti-hero  dark  female-mc  humor  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Black Dawn by Rachel Caine

    Black Dawn by Rachel Caine

    24 ratings
    Ever since the draug—mysterious creatures that prey on vampires—took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil. Most of the town’s residents have evacuated, but Claire, Shane, Eve and Michael have chosen to stay and fight.Using the city’s water system to spread, the draug have rapidly multiplied...
  • Dark Descent by Christine Feehan, Rebecca Cook

    Dark Descent by Christine Feehan, Rebecca Cook

    24 ratings
    They came from the darkest places: secluded monasteries, the Carpathian mountains, galaxies under siege. They were men with the blackest pasts-warriors, vampire monks, leaders of armies-but whose passions burned like dying stars. They had one purpose: to find those women who fulfilled them, completed them, and made them rage with a fire both holy and profane...
  • Death's Mistress by Karen Chance

    Death's Mistress by Karen Chance

    25 ratings
    Dorina Basarab is a dhampir-half-human, half-vampire. Back home in Brooklyn after the demise of her insane Uncle Dracula, Dory's hoping her life is about to calm down. But soon Dory realizes someone is killing vampire Senate members, and if she can't stop the murderer, her friends may be next..
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  humor  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

    Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop

    30 ratings
    The Others freed the cassandra sangue to protect the blood prophets from exploitation, not realizing their actions would have dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before; both from their own weaknesses and from those who seek to control their divinations for wicked purposes...
  • Imp Forsaken by Debra Dunbar

    Imp Forsaken by Debra Dunbar

    16 ratings
    Sam is banished to Hel, the bond with her angel, Gregory, broken. Six Elven kingdoms are battling for supremacy, and she’s broken and injured in the middle of the most hostile one. Shooting the top off a royal throne, committing fraud in the completion of a contract, and threatening a high lord hasn’t endeared her to the elves, either...
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    alpha-mc  anti-hero  dark  demons  female-mc  humor  magic  mystery
  • Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost

    Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost

    33 ratings
    An immortal war has been brewing in the darkness . . . And now one woman has stumbled into the shadows. Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she's only imagined in her worst nightmares...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  humor  magic  mystery
  • City of Ghosts by Stacia Kane

    City of Ghosts by Stacia Kane

    21 ratings
    The third book in this gritty, sexy, urban fantasy trilogy.Rogue spirits and psychopomps are terrorising people, and now someone is planning to open the gates to the City of Ghosts and unleash the dead on humanity.Faced with her greatest challenge yet, Chess has to travel to the spirit city to finally lay all her ghosts to rest… Chess Putnam has a lot on her plate...
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    alpha-mc  anti-hero  dark  demons  dystopia  female-mc  ghosts  magic
  • Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    24 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong has bewitched audiences with her Otherworld series of supernatural thrillers. Now, in this new collection of shorter fiction, some of Armstrong's most tantalizing lead characters appear alongside her unforgettable supporting players, who step out of the shadows and into the light...
  • Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    Tales of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

    24 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong has bewitched audiences with her Otherworld series of supernatural thrillers. Now, in this new collection of shorter fiction, some of Armstrong's most tantalizing lead characters appear alongside her unforgettable supporting players, who step out of the shadows and into the light...
  • The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    24 ratings
    Danger turns her on. Desire turns her dangerous…Riley Jenson hunts evildoers—and does it with a style all her own...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Bite Club by Rachel Caine

    Bite Club by Rachel Caine

    26 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine is "a first-class storyteller" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris). After discovering that vampires populate her town, college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble...
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    dark  female-mc  friendship  ghosts  humor  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    14 ratings
    A gemstone might destroy the world before I get the chance to do it myself.Interdimensional rifts are opening, spilling supernatural creatures into the world of the humans. Locating and closing the gateways takes two—an angel and a demon. It’s the opportunity I’ve been waiting for, the common goal that might allow demons and angels to put aside nearly three million years of hate...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  humor  magic  mystery  myths
  • Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    Kingdom of Lies by Debra Dunbar

    14 ratings
    A gemstone might destroy the world before I get the chance to do it myself.Interdimensional rifts are opening, spilling supernatural creatures into the world of the humans. Locating and closing the gateways takes two—an angel and a demon. It’s the opportunity I’ve been waiting for, the common goal that might allow demons and angels to put aside nearly three million years of hate...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  humor  magic  mystery  myths
  • Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

    Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

    28 ratings
    For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate—both within themselves and within their community..
  • Fade Out by Rachel Caine

    Fade Out by Rachel Caine

    28 ratings
    Withoutthe evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville,the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again… Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the localtheatrecompany...
  • Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine, Cynthia Holloway

    Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine, Cynthia Holloway

    28 ratings
    A new chapter in the New York Times bestselling Morganville Vampires saga. Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big- time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some gigs-which means Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he's been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael's all-too-human friends...
  • Broken by Kelley Armstrong

    Broken by Kelley Armstrong

    29 ratings
    In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on the twenty-first century — and become his next target…Ever since she discovered she’s pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, she’s never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one who’s given birth...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine

    Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine

    30 ratings
    In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. Then comes Bishop, the master vampire who threatens to abolish all order, revive the forces of the evil dead, and let chaos rule. But Bishop isn't the only threat...
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    dark  female-mc  friendship  ghosts  humor  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong

    Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong

    24 ratings
    At twenty-one, Savannah Levine-orphaned daughter of a notorious dark witch and an equally notorious cutthroat sorcerer-considers herself a full-fledged member of the otherworld. The once rebellious teen has grown into a six-foot-tall, motorcycle-riding jaw-dropper, with an impressive knowledge of and ability to perform spells...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Dangerous Games by Keri Arthur

    Dangerous Games by Keri Arthur

    24 ratings
    To catch a killer, Riley Jenson will use every seductive trick in the book. But this killer has found a new way to play…In Melbourne’s urban underworld, there’s a nightclub for every fantasy and desire. But for Riley Jenson, one such club has become an obsession...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    The Darkest Kiss by Keri Arthur

    24 ratings
    Danger turns her on. Desire turns her dangerous…Riley Jenson hunts evildoers—and does it with a style all her own...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Jealousy by Lili St. Crow, Lilith Saintcrow

    Jealousy by Lili St. Crow, Lilith Saintcrow

    26 ratings
    Dru Anderson might finally be safe. She’s at the largest Schola on the continent, and beginning to learn what it means to be svetocha—half vampire, half human, and all deadly. If she survives her training, she will be able to take her place in the Order, holding back the vampires and protecting the oblivious normal people...
  • Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

    Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

    32 ratings
    It was in Bitten, Kelley Armstrong's debut novel, that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman and the only living female werewolf...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  low-fantasy  magic  mystery
  • Unhinged by A.G. Howard, Nathalia Suellen

    Unhinged by A.G. Howard, Nathalia Suellen

    27 ratings
    Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the guy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly seductive Morpheus and the vindictive Queen Red. Now all she has to do is graduate high school and make it through prom so she can attend the prestigious art school in London she's always dreamed of...
  • Phantom Embrace by Dianne Duvall

    Phantom Embrace by Dianne Duvall

    15 ratings
    Across dimensions . . . A gifted one, Yuri Sokolov was born with the ability to see spirits, but he knows better than to make contact with them. Yet he’s never seen one as lovely as Cat Seddon, the woman who haunts his home and his dreams. But amid their star-crossed love, a new danger may have Yuri facing a different kind of eternity.Previously published in On The Hunt...
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    alpha-mc  dark  female-mc  ghosts  humor  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost

    First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost

    38 ratings
    The night is not safe for mortals.Denise MacGregor knows all too well what lurks in the shadows – her best friend is half-vampire Cat Crawfield – and she has already lost more than the average human could bear. But her family’s dark past is wrapped in secrets and shrouded in darkness – and a demon shapeshifter has marked Denise as prey...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  ghosts  humor  magic  mystery  paranormal
  • Blue-Blooded Vamp by Jaye Wells

    Blue-Blooded Vamp by Jaye Wells

    19 ratings
    The epic conclusion to the amazing Sabina Kane urban fantasy series. Sabina Kane is on the hunt. Her prey: Cain, the father of the vampire race and the one who murdered her family and her friends. Unfortunately, Cain is hunting Sabina, too. The one man who holds the key to defeating Cain is, of course, Abel. A mage with secrets to spare and, hopefully, the power to match it...
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    alpha-mc  dark  demons  female-mc  ghosts  magic  mystery  myths
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