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Demons Like it Hot by Sydney Ayers

Matthias Ambrose is a demon mercenary whose life is forever altered when he is contracted by the Infernati to kidnap gifted chef and caterer Serah SanGermano. When he discovers how important she is to the safety of humanity, he saves her life and turns his back on his former life. That is easier said than done when the Fore-Demons assign him as Serah’s bodyguard to protect her from the Infernati, who are determined to find and kill her.
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The Kingdoms of Dust by Amanda Downum

Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, has broken her magical vows, her former master is dead, her magic is weak and she has been exiled from the city she served. With determined assassins shadowing her every move, Isyllt seeks refuge in Assar.

Deep in the desert, a ghost wind is unleashed, a wind that strips flesh from bone and leaves death in its wake. The wind is driven by ancient spirits who after centuries of imprisonment are now finally loosening their bonds.
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To Kill a Vampire by Julianna Sage

Angelica Gentillini had thought there could be nothing worse than the horror she faced as a young girl, but nothing in her imagination could prepare her for what was to come. Celebrating her promotion for taking another child-killer off the streets, Angelica thought she was in another nightmare when a monster-like man tried to take her from the bar and informed her that his master wanted her dead. Read More »

The Ruined City by Paula Brandon

Jianna Belandor, liberated from the rebel stronghold by Falaste, has now convinced him to escort her back to her home so she may be reunited with her beloved father.

What Jianna finds is not the beautiful city she remembers. Not only has her father left the city but much of the Veiled Isles lies in ruin stricken by plague and violent uprisings. Read More »

The Traitor’s Daughter by Paula Brandon

Change is upon the Veiled Isles. A great shift in magic is about to occur and that shift will destroy the world as it is known. Humans will no longer have a place. Time is short and only a small number of people have the ability to sense the oncoming change. They will have to pool their magic to stop the oncoming cataclysm, but can enemies put aside generations of hatred for the greater good?
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Kitty Steals the Show by Carrie Vaughn

Kitty is back for her latest full-length novel in one of her best outings yet. Visiting London for the first International Conference of Paranatural Studies, she has a chance to scout out the Old World’s place in the Long Game — the vampire Roman’s far-reaching, nefarious plan for vampires — and see both old friends and some who do not quite fall into that category.

Visiting London, however, is not quite the diplomatic outing and chance to reconnect that she is expecting. Roman already has allies, also swarming London for the convention, and if Kitty plans to make any progress in summoning together her own forces against him, she has to learn to play by the rules of new kinds of vampires and lycanthropes. Read More »

Heir of Danger by Alix Rickloff

Brendan Douglas has spent years in hiding. Máelodor, an evil mage, is determined to use Brendan to open King Arthur’s tomb so he can claim power for the Fae. But Brendan knows he must be stopped, and the only way to do that is to retrieve a special key which he gifted to a woman he abandoned seven years ago. Elisabeth Fitzgerald is about to be married to a man who can provide a stable home. But just days before the wedding a man she thought was dead, a man she loved deeply, has returned.
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Kitty’s Big Trouble by Carrie Vaughn

Kitty is back in one of her most action-packed, fast-paced novels yet. The action moves out of the Front Range to the Bay Area as the Denver Alpha goes on a quest to track down the mysterious magical device known as the Dragon’s Pearl.

The ever-ebullient and ever-snarky host of the popular talk radio show The Midnight Hour has been on the trail of discovering whether some of the famous figures in history were in fact tied to the preternatural world when she gets a call asking her to come to the aid of one of her old allies. Read More »

Bound by Darkness by Alexis Morgan

Morgan delivers another thoroughly satisfying entry into her Paladins series with this book, as the Kalith warrior Larem gets his story — and the girl.

After the conclusion of Defeat the Darkness, the Paladin warriors, who protect Earth from insane members of the transdimensional alien race known as Others, or Kalith, are at a crossroads. One of the Regents, the administrative keeers of the Paladins, has been exposed as a traitor, and a new administration has come in to manage the Seattle Paladins. Read More »

Defeat the Darkness by Alexis Morgan

The sixth book in Morgan’s Paladins series surpasses all of its predecessors by leaps and bounds with a delightful setting and supporting cast for the story and romance. Morgan has outdone herself with this book, and it is by far my favorite of hers to date.

Hunter Fitzsimmon was the tortured—literally—Paladin of the last novel, relocated for reconnaissance and recuperation to a sleepy Washington town in pursuit of an illicit ring of Others—aliens crossing over to earth through a shaky transdimensional barrier. Read More »

The Lord of Illusion by Kathryne Kennedy

Once again, Kennedy returns us to her fantasy England, but this time, our hero is someone who has gone through a hellish life because of magic. Drystan Hawkes is an amazing character.

In this third book, the conclusion to The Elven Lord series, Kennedy gives us Drystan and Camille. Both have horrific backgrounds but both have managed to overcome them. Read More »

The Gathering Dark by Christopher Golden

The Gathering Dark, book four in the exciting Peter Octavian series, picks up five years after the events of the previous installment, with Peter’s friends and supporters scattered over the globe. Now human, but retaining his power as a mage, Peter lives alone in New York, working as a painter. Nikki Wydra, Peter’s former lover, has successfully launched her singing career, though the horrors of the showdown between vampire factions in New Orleans five years earlier still haunt her. Kuromaku, vampire and ronin warrior, has not seen his friend Peter in a while, though they keep in touch. Read More »

The Old Races: Origins by C.E. Murphy

The Death of Him
Eoin broke one of the covenants of the Old Races: he told a human what he really was. Somehow, his selkie genes mixed with those of a woman, Roisin, to make new life. Instead of giving up a rare child of the Old Races, Eoin broke from his fellow selkies and made a life with his new family. Several female selkies followed in hopes of mating with the human men. Children were rare for the selkies; the younger generation was desperate to keep their species alive. The older generation had different, deadly ideas.
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Unbound Heart by Jane Atchley

Aimery Duncan has given up his pampered life on his family’s sugar cane plantation to serve in the Allied Kingdom’s army. Preferring anonymity, he is not happy when Captain Kree Fawr appoints him as Field Marshall, and neither are the officers he is now commanding. But, what the Captain wants, the Captain gets and he is smart enough to realize that Duncan has what it takes to win the war against the Descendants.
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Blood and Silver by James R. Tuck

Blood and Silver, the explosive second installment in the high-octane Deacon Chalk, Bounty Hunter series finds our hero having enjoyed a calm, relaxing day with Tiff, his colleague and still-sort-of-working-up-to-it girlfriend, at a carnival. Deacon’s day and good mood get ruined on the way back to the car when the couple comes upon a man beating a dog. The situation becomes trickier when Deacon realizes the man is a were-lion and has five friends with him. Thanks to Tiff arriving in the nick of time with the car, Deacon manages to rescue the dog, a pregnant shapeshifter, he discovers, and they get her back to the nightclub. Read More »

Haunted Vows by Lynn Hones

Jaylyn Withers had been abandoned in the middle of nowhere. How could Hugh, her fiancé –no, EX-fiancé- bring her to the horrible old mess of a house, miles from Manhattan, and then leave her for someone else? She supported his dreams of being lord of the manor, and followed along when he bought the old Virginia plantation, but the reality of living with no electricity or running water became too much, and he dumped Jaylyn for his boss’ daughter, leaving Jaylyn stuck with no money and no way to get home. Read More »

Red Hood’s Revenge by Jim C. Hines

Red Hood's Revenge (PRINCESS NOVELS) by Jim C. HinesRumplestilzchen is up to his same old tricks when his accomplices show up at Danielle’s castle with an interesting new story. However, Danielle and her friends are not so easily fooled. Then a sudden turn of events brings the wolf (or is it Red Hood?) to her doorstep and Danielle becomes a prisoner in her own castle. The chase begins and Danielle, Talia and Snow end up in the faraway land that was once Sleeping Beauty’s home. Read More »

Rescuing Rapunzel by Candice Gilmer

First off, the cover of Rescuing Rapunzel is gorgeous and absolutely what I imagined Rapunzel to look like, complete with the crown of braids! Second, I am so happy that I picked up the first in the Charming Noble series because Candice Gilmer retold the Rapunzel fairytale amazingly, and I’m already looking forward to Penn’s and Bryan’s books. Read More »