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Eighth Grave After Dark

Darynda Jones · 304 pages

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A Kiss Before the Apocalypse

Thomas E. Sniegoski · 292 pages

Generations ago, angel Remiel chose to renounce heaven and live on Earth. He found a place among ordinary humans by converting himself into Boston P.I. Remy Chandler, but he can never tell anyone who he was or that he still has angelic powers. Remy can will himself invisible, speak and understand any foreign language (including any animal language), and hear the thoughts of others. All these secre

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Ghost Story

Jim Butcher · 481 pages

" When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn’t doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin. But being dead doesn’t stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has no body, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own. To save his friend

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Once Dead, Twice Shy

Kim Harrison · 232 pages

My name is Madison Avery, and I'm here to tell you that there's more out there than you can see, hear, or touch. Because I'm there. Seeing it. Touching it. Living it. Madison's prom was killer—literally. For some reason she's been targeted by a dark reaper—yeah, that kind of reaper—intent on getting rid of her, body and soul. But before the reaper could finish the job, Madison was able to snag hi

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Pale as a Ghost

Stephen Osborne · 190 pages

Private detective Duncan Andrews' best friend Gina is a witch, his dog is a zombie, and his dead boyfriend Robbie is a ghost. His connection to the supernatural helps him solve cases: Janice Sanderson, richest woman in Indianapolis, wants him to find her stripper daughter, Brenda; another client is having some trouble with a specter haunting her family home. And Duncan has decided to add dating i

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Sleeping Late on Judgement Day

Tad Williams · 439 pages

After failing to rescue his demon girlfriend from the Grand Duke of Hell, fallen angel Bobby Dollar runs into an old friend who has mysteriously lost his memory.

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Wicked Nights

Gena Showalter · 411 pages

Zacharel, the leader of a powerful angelic army, lets nothing stand in his way of his anti-demon missions until he rescues Annabelle Miller from an institution for the criminally insane and from the demons who long to possess her.

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Haunted

Kelley Armstrong · 495 pages

THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF THE SMART, SEXY -- SUPERNATURAL -- WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLDEve Levine -- half-demon, black witch and devoted mother -- has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can't be killed again -- which comes in handy when you've made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn't too bad -- all she needs to do is find a way to communicat

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Death Warmed Over

Kevin J. Anderson · 302 pages

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Black Howl

Christina Henry · 274 pages

Something is wrong with the souls of Chicago's dead. Ghosts are walking the streets, and Maddy's boss wants her to figure out why. At the same time, the pact that Maddy unwittingly made with the local werewolves comes back to bite her when their alpha is kidnapped. As Lucifer's heir, she should be able to discover who—or what—is responsible for both occurrences, but the fallen haven't been too hap

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Succubus Blues

Richelle Mead · 368 pages

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My Soul to Save

Rachel Vincent · 288 pages

When Kaylee Cavanaugh screams, someone dies.So when teen pop star Eden croaks onstage and Kaylee doesn't wail, she knows something is dead wrong. She can't cry for someone who has no soul.The last thing Kaylee needs right now is to be skipping school, breaking her dad's ironclad curfew and putting her too-hot-to-be-real boyfriend's loyalty to the test. But starry-eyed teens are trading their souls

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Masters of Death

Olivie Blake

Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire. But her biggest problem currently is that the house she needs to sell is haunted. The ghost haunting the house has been murdered, and until he can solve the mystery of how he died, he refuses to move on. Fox D’Mora is a medium, and though is also most-definitely a shameless fraud, he isn’t entirely without his uses—seeing as he’s act

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The Lunatic Cafe

Laurell K. Hamilton · 362 pages

You don't fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you're a preternatural expert, like me. My name is Anita Blake. My business brings me up close and personal with all shapes and sizes of monsters. And not all of them want to kill me.

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Labyrinth

Kat Richardson · 368 pages

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The Lost Soul

Jessica Sorensen · 300 pages

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Lifeblood

P.N. Elrod · 208 pages

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The Nymphos of Rocky Flats

Mario Acevedo · 354 pages

The first and only vampire book to be declassified by the federal government . . . Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Now he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue when an old friend prompts him to investigate an outbreak of nymphomania at the secret government facilities in Rocky Flats. He'll find out the cause of all these horny women or die trying! But first h

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Blood Debt

Tanya Huff · 368 pages

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Azagoth

Larissa Ione · 163 pages

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Touched

Elisa S. Amore

Based on a Norwegian legend A Sealed Fate An Angel of Death A Forbidden Love What are you willing to sacrifice when the only person who can save you is the same one who has to kill you? After vampires and werewolves, after wizards and fallen angels, a new breed of Angels is here to usher you into their dark world. An ancient, deadly, inescapable race. No one can see them. They’re shadows of dest

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Acheron Highway

Gary Jonas · 238 pages

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Raziel

Kristina Douglas, Anne Stuart · 384 pages

“You’re dead” is so not what Allie Watson wants to hear. Unfortunately, it explains a lot. Like the dark, angelically handsome man who ferried her to this strange, hidden land. The last thing she remembers is stepping off a curb in front of a crosstown bus. Now she’s surrounded by gorgeous fallen angels with an unsettling taste for blood—and they really don’t want her around. Not exactly how she p

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Aloha from Hell

Richard Kadrey · 438 pages

Lucifer is back in Heaven, God is on vacation, and an insane killer mounts a war against both Heaven and Hell. Stark's got to head back to his old stomping grounds in Hell to rescue his long lost love, prevent God and Evil from completely destroying each other, and stop the demonic Kissi from ruining the party for everyone.

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