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Rajmund
by D. B. Reynolds
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Vampires in America Book 3: New York City vampire Rajmund Gregor is the undisputed master of The Big Apple. He bows to no one but his Sire, the Vampire Lord Krystof, but when Krystof summons Rajmund to his headquarters in Buffalo, Raj finds his master slowly descending into madness. Raj is the only one of Krystof's children strong enough to seize power, but he'll have to save his master before he can destroy him. Several women have gone missing and the local police are convinced a vampire is be... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 112242 - Reading Time: 320-448 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between
by J. A. Saare
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No one knows better than Rhiannon Murphy that one bad corpse can ruin your whole day. She left behind the flash and sass of Miami for the no-nonsense groove of New York City, eager for a clean slate and a fresh start. A bartender by trade, a loud mouth by choice, and a necromancer by chance; she managed to keep her nifty talent hidden from those around her--until now. The deliciously good-looking vampire, Disco, knows her secret. When he strolls into her bar to solicit help investigating the m... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 80531 - Reading Time: 230-322 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Jabril
by D. B. Reynolds
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Vampires in America Book 2 Houston, Texas--Cowboy boots, baseball and journeys to the stars ... right? Wrong. Because Houston is also home to Jabril Karim, one of the eight powerful Vampire Lords who control all of North America. And as Private Investigator Cynthia Leighton will soon discover, not all Vampire Lords are created equal. For Jabril is the face of evil in the new world, a vampire who values no life but his own, who enslaves those he desires, steals whatever he covets and destroys any... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 93135 - Reading Time: 266-372 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Raphael
by D. B. Reynolds
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Malibu, California--home to rock-and-roll gods and movie stars, the beautiful, the rich ... and vampires. Powerful and charismatic, Raphael is a Vampire Lord, one of the few who hold the power of life and death over every vampire in existence. Thousands call him Master and have pledged absolute loyalty on their very lives. But when, in a brazen and deadly daylight attack, a gang of human killers kidnaps the one female vampire he'd give his life for, Raphael turns to a human investigator to find ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 78343 - Reading Time: 223-313 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Frost Moon
by Anthony Francis
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The incredible first book of the SKIN DANCER series. In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local cafes, shapeshifters party at urban clubs, vampires rule the southern night like gangsters, and mysterious creatures command dark caverns beneath the city, Dakota Frost's talents are coveted by all. She's the best magical tattooist in the southeast, a Skindancer, able to bring her amazing tats to life. When a serial killer begins stalking Atlanta's tatto... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 94411 - Reading Time: 269-377 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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The Demon's Librarian
by Lilith Saintcrow
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Demons are preying on schoolchildren in her city, so Francesca Barnes does what any red-blooded librarian would do--she does some research and goes hunting. But the books she finds in a secret cache don't tell her the whole story. Chess has no idea what she's just stepped into or just how special she is. Orion is Drakul, part demon, and a loyal servant of the Order. He doesn't expect a motorcycle-riding librarian to be messing around with demonic forces, and he doesn't expect her to smell so dam... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 81988 - Reading Time: 234-327 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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Twice Dead [Kita Nekai Series Book 2]
by Kalayna Price
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This is the much-awaited sequel to the Fictionwise-bestselling dark fantasy ONCE BITTEN, following the passionate liaisons and dangerous feuds of Kita Nekai, a feline shapeshifter trapped in a vampire's world. Rave reviews for ONCE BITTEN crested in January 2010 when the ebook and print editions hit the top of the Amazon fantasy lists. Now, in TWICE DEAD, Kita's new undead life as a rookie vampire immediately plunges her into the intrigues and feuds of Haven's vampire clans. Her extrasensory tal... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 96248 - Reading Time: 274-384 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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Valhalla [The Valkyrie, Book 2]
by Mandy M. Roth
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It's hard to be good when the other side is oh, so bad. The Valkyrie, Book 2 Linnea isn't exactly happy with her life as one of Odin's handmaidens, but she has always done what is expected of her. Yet all the while she knows the truth--the Valkyries are stretched thinner every day. And now Evil has stopped playing by the rules and started recruiting minions from the supernatural gene pool. Her newest assignment: counter the vampires' plan by seeking out brave male souls with supernatural powe... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 56170 - Reading Time: 160-224 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Bloodfever [Fever Series Book 2] [Secure]
by Karen Marie Moning
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I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who'd get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe--seers, people who can see the Fae. Not only can I see the terrifying otherworldly race, but I can sense the sacred Fae relics that hold the deadliest of their magic. When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dubli... more info>>
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Cloud Watcher [Watcher Series #4]
by Lilith Saintcrow
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Anya Harris's talents have made her a refugee, flying from city to city ahead of a tide of burning terror nobody else can see. She's hoping Santiago City will be safe--but deep in her heart of hearts, she knows nowhere is safe enough for someone with her secrets. When the gray-eyed man with guns and a sword shows up, claiming to be sent to protect her, Anya has to believe him. After all, she has nowhere else to go. Jack Gray is one of the oldest Watchers around, scarred by the battle between Cir... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 77522 - Reading Time: 221-310 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Grave New Day
by Lina Gardiner
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Book Three in the award-winning Jess Vandermire Vampire Hunter Series Vampire and New York City Police Black Ops Captain Jess Vandermire is faced with the hardest Decision of her life--become human again and regain her soul or remain a vampire forever and fight an ancient evil that is a threat to every human on the planet. Ensnared in a plan that might go terribly wrong, she has little choice. As a human she can't fight the ancient enemy. Then a mysterious stranger shows up and offers to help... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 64962 - Reading Time: 185-259 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Once Bitten [Kita Nekai Series Book 1]
by Kalayna Price
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Back cover: Kita Nekai, on the run and the smallest of her shifter clan--a calico cat among lions and tigers--is being hunted. She was expected to accept her role as her father's successor whether or not her cat was up to the task of leading the clan. She disagreed. Now she's less than a step ahead of the hunters, bone-tired, cold, and living hand-to-mouth in the city of Haven. And that's the high point of her day. She's also drugged, "accidentally" turned into a vampire, and sentenced to death ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 98001 - Reading Time: 280-392 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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Curse of Innok: Dragon Legacy Book I
by R.G. Porter
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A curse placed by evil was just the beginning? Gabriel is a man who is cursed to live a half life. Images and visions of the past haunt his dreams while the loss of his love shatters his soul. He wanders alone, fearful of eternal life and unable to seccumb to death. Sure he will live his life alone he wanders in from the night to wallow in his dispair while he eats only to find the pull to a woman who tugs at heart but is more than she seems. On the run from her family and the man they want he... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 84383 - Reading Time: 241-337 min.
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Dark Watcher [Watcher Series Book 1]
by Lilith Saintcrow
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The Lightbringer : Theodora Morgan knows she's a little strange. Her talent for healing has set her apart, marked her as different all her life--a life spent moving from town to town when too much notice is taken of her abilities. Unfortunately, her talent for healing has brought her to the attention of the Crusade--and the Dark. The Crusade wants her dead because she's psychic, the Dark wants to feed on her talent--and then there's Dante. Tall and grim and armed with black-bladed knives, guns a... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 61270 - Reading Time: 175-245 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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The Society
by Lilith Saintcrow
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The black-ops government agency called Sigma broke Justin Delgado, trained his psionic talent and turned him into a killer. Then he escaped and joined the Society, an underground resistance movement of psions determined to use their talents to bring Sigma down. Competent, cold, and cruelly efficient, he's the best operative the Society has, a legend among the psions who fight a shadow war against an enemy that owns the courts, the press, and the police. Feared even by his own teammates, hunted b... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 77277 - Reading Time: 220-309 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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A Kiss of Shadows [Merry Gentry Series Book 1] [Secure]
by Laurell K. Hamilton
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"My name is Meredith Gentry, but of course it's not my real name. I dare not even whisper my true name after dark for fear that one hushed word will travel over the night winds to the soft ear of my aunt, the Queen of the Air and Darkness. She wants me dead. I don't even know why." Meredith Gentry, Princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, living as a P.I. specializing in supernatural crime. But now the Queen's assassin has been dispatched to fetch her back--whet... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 100000 - Reading Time: 285-400 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Mainstream
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Beyond the Grave
by Lina Gardiner
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Book Two in the Jess Vandermire Vampire Hunter Series Vampire Police Captain Jess Vandermire is hunting a serial killer vampire. The trouble is, Jess is experiencing blackouts, and every time she does, another woman turns up dead. Has she slipped over the dangerous slope into full vampirism? Is she the serial killer she's hunting? Lieutenant John Brittain makes it his job to find the killer and prove Jess innocent, but it's hard to be human in a world of super-strong, super-fast vampires. His be... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 65679 - Reading Time: 187-262 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Mindhealer [Watcher Series Book 5]
by Lilith Saintcrow
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The attacks are brutal, leaving the victims unconscious and broken. Circle Lightfall doesn't even know who--or what--to suspect, so Caro Robbins, a Mindhealer who might be able to piece together what's happening to these crushed bodies and shattered minds, is called in. Unfortunately, a Mindhealer is also vulnerable to the Dark--and Caro refuses even the idea of having a Watcher. She won't have another man die in front of her, and that's that. The witch Merrick rescues from the dogs of the Dark ... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 77744 - Reading Time: 222-310 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Hunted
by S.W. Vaughn
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Some angels do not suffer their children to live. Grace Carrington has never been normal--she's a Nephilim, half human and half angel. The same psychic powers that make her a freak also make her a target, and she's on the run from an exploitative mother and two enemy beings whose powers far exceed her own. One of them controls the Stalker, an inhuman killer no Nephilim has ever outrun. How long can a woman survive when angels want her dead? (Published: 2009)
Words: 70160 - Reading Time: 200-280 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Hunter-Healer [Sequel to The Society]
by Lilith Saintcrow
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The black-ops government agency known as Sigma has shattered the resistance, destroyed its infrastructure, and taken its best operative captive. It's about as bad as it can get, but Sigma's forgotten one thing. Rowan Price. Rowan is no longer a civilian in the shadow war. Her talents are almost fully trained, and she's become something she never dreamed of--a cool, clinical, lethal psionic operative. Working as Henderson's second-in-command, she's utterly focused on two things: repairing the Soc... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 73199 - Reading Time: 209-292 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Scrying
by Mike Dillon
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A young NYU assistant professor and sceptic grudgingly takes his girlfriend to see one of Manhattan's many "psychics."He is struck with a severe case of Love-at-First-Sight almost before the beautiful dark-haired woman opens the front door. Not only is this psychic the real thing but Professor Brian Traylor inadvertently travels back in time to seventeenth Century New England. He suffers cold and wet imprisonment; he is tortured during his time in stocks, and all the while waiting for his day o... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 83073 - Reading Time: 237-332 min.
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Storm Watcher [Watcher Series Book 2]
by Lilith Saintcrow
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All Mariamne Niege wants to do is finish her thesis and get a job. Unfortunately, her life isn't that simple. She's a Guardian now, and her visions of the future have grown so intense she is literally blind to the world while in their grip. Not to mention that her Watcher, Hanson, is sleeping on her couch and scaring her roommates when he's not shepherding her through the visions and calming her progressively worsening nightmares. Then the earthquakes start, warning of an even bigger disaster ap... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 63570 - Reading Time: 181-254 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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The Darkest Facts: A Lords of the Underworld Companion [Secure]
by Gena Showalter
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I, Cronus, King of the Titans, powerful warrior god, defender of the people, hereby command you to read and enjoy this Lords of the Underwold guide. I am not mentioned nearly enough, but that is neither here nor there. What you will find in this guide includes: notes from those vile fools, the Hunters; interviews with the Lords of the Underworld, as organized by that irreverent whelp William the Ever Randy; a candid discussion about the Lords of the Underworld among their women; answers to quest... more info>>
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Fire Watcher [Watcher Series Book 3]
by Lilith Saintcrow
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Elise Nicholson isn't your ordinary witch. For one thing, she can light candles with a look, and plays a mean guitar. Unfortunately, being able to call fire out of the air isn't the most useful skill around. To top it off, she's a Guardian of the City, and the other Guardians--her two best friends--have no time for her. They're too busy with their Watchers, the grim black-coated warriors sworn to protect Elise and her friends from the Dark. Lonely and terrified because she isn't certain she can ... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 69309 - Reading Time: 198-277 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Shadow of the Wolf
by R.G. Porter
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A woman of nature, Saleene has answered only to herself. Born with the gift of magick, she is endeavored by the council to seek out the source of the evil that has spread across the lands. What she didn't expect was the help of a man who set her soul on fire. Dartian is a warrior without equal, his sword and his strength of will legendary throughout the lands. He is asked to lead a group of men on a quest to rid the world of the darkness that is spreading through their world, a task he takes on ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 95571 - Reading Time: 273-382 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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