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Blood Destiny [MultiFormat]
by Tessa Dawn
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He was a lethal vampire bound by an ancient curse. She was an agent of homeland security, investigating a dangerous cult. Theirs was a Blood Destiny about to unfold? Descended from the progeny of Celestial Gods and humans, Nathaniel Silivasi is handsome, seductive, and powerful beyond measure: a lethal vampire. Belonging to an ancient civilization that sacrificed its females to the verge of extinction, he is also cursed. Like all the sons of Jadon, he is incapable of producing female offspri... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 105866 - Reading Time: 302-423 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Shadow Fox [MultiFormat]
by Ashley Barnard
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Jared Bruin doesn't know who he is. He remembers nothing of his early childhood before the age of seven when he was abandoned in a park in St. Louis, left in an unfamiliar world that terrified him. He knows only that he is driven to learn everything he can about swordplay and sixteenth-century combat. Almost twenty years later, as he is battling a heroin addiction, suicidal tendencies and a violent affliction he doesn't understand, he is hired to teach swordplay to an enigmatic woman with secr... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 102111 - Reading Time: 291-408 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Full Moonster [BUREAU 13 Book Three] [MultiFormat]
by Nick Pollotta
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'Bureau 13' is the ultra-covert branch of the FBI assigned to handle supernatural criminals. The public doesn't know they exist, the President denies any knowledge of their actions, and not every Bureau 13 operative is a human being. Yet these wise-cracking, heavily-armed, federal agents are America's first, last and only line of defense against the growing tide of monstrous evil. (Published: 2009)
Words: 61409 - Reading Time: 175-245 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Immortal Blood [Book One: Raven Blood Trilogy] [MultiFormat]
by Elaine C. Markowicz
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On the cold, dark streets of London lurks a serial killer. Raven Mason is the photographer who covertly takes pictures of the crime as it happens. Her cold indifference to the victims she shoots quickly changes the night she's attacked by the killer. This leads her down the dark, seductive path to the vampire underworld. A world from which she won't return. (Published: 2012)
Words: 32632 - Reading Time: 93-130 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Suspense/Thriller
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Once Bitten [Kita Nekai Series Book 1] [MultiFormat]
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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Twice Dead [Kita Nekai Series Book 2] [MultiFormat]
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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Where Shadows Lie: Hunting Grounds [MultiFormat]
by J. E. Cammon
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Nicholas Hughes has finally gone to ground, but that doesn't mean that he's done running, or that Scarlet's done chasing. When last he saw her, she promised to take his head, but when next he hears of her, she's waist deep in trouble and he's the only one that can help her out of it. This time the problem isn't so much choice. It's price. After all, he has his own battle to fight, with things speaking into his ear and looking over his shoulder. She told him too that all debts come due, and among... more info>> (Published: 2012)
Words: 59846 - Reading Time: 170-239 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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A Dirge for the Temporal [MultiFormat]
by Darren Speegle
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Prepare for a decadant feast. A Dirge for the Temporal, Darren Speegle's second collection of fiction, bursts with sensations. Like Baroque architecture, plush velvet furnishings or the richest chocolate truffle dessert, Speegle's prose delights all the senses. This collection heralds the return of the subtly crafted horror tale. A Dirge lingers on the dark mystery of the supernatural, creates the giddy feeling of fear mixed with excitement, that only comes from partial revelations, things half-... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 67764 - Reading Time: 193-271 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
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A Gathering of Doorways [MultiFormat]
by Michael Jasper
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The forest is reaching out for Gil and his wife, Melissa, but more than anything, however, the forest wants Noah, an adventurous five-year-old with a head full of tales about heroes and distant worlds. And Noah has just stepped inside the dark circle of trees . . . (Published: 2009)
Words: 92925 - Reading Time: 265-371 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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A Vampire in Whitechapel [Secure eReader]
by Scarlet Blackwell
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A bloodsucker discovers he's not the only monster stalking the streets of Victorian London, when his nightly search for sustenance brings him face-to-face with the city's most notorious butcher - Jack the Ripper. A short story from our Spectres horror line.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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After Dark [MultiFormat]
by L. M. Prieto
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Andrew Sutter buried a few secrets alongside his brother Tyler that day; the disappearance of his first love, the possibility that he almost lost his current lover, Devon Forsythe. Like his secrets, Tyler won't stay buried. After fighting off Tyler, Andrew inadvertently wakens his own magical abilities. Now able to see magic in the world around him, he discovers that his lover has a few secrets of his own. This was previously released but the story has been re-edited and expanded an additiona... more info>>
Words: 78691 - Reading Time: 224-314 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Gay Fiction
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After Sundown: Redemption [MultiFormat]
by Eden Robins
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When independent, tough as nails motivational speaker, Alyssa Edwards, puts aside her pride and hires Sundown Security to protect her from a stalker while she finishes the last few speaking engagements in her hometown, she's shocked to discover that her new body guard is a two hundred year old vampire. Christian Galiano devotes his immortal life to defending and protecting the humans he ruthlessly preyed upon during the first fifty years of his vampire existence. That duty is his only reason for... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 93503 - Reading Time: 267-374 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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After the Fall of Night [MultiFormat]
by Sherri Lee Claytor
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Jackson County, Wisconsin was a tranquil area of the globe, until murder struck the small community. The local sheriff investigates and begins unearthing things he never imagined possible. An immortal shape-shifter... Nightwalker, Corin von Vadim, inhabits a secluded sprawling estate in the town of Hixton. An enigmatic loner, he hides the fact that during the daylight hours, he rests within the dark confines of the earth, only rising after twilight--a routine he has carried out for five hundred ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 87934 - Reading Time: 251-351 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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All Souls' Night [Blood Ties Book Four] [Secure eReader]
by Jennifer Armintrout
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I have reached my breaking point. And now I will not, cannot be stopped. With the Soul Eater on the verge of god status, it's time for me to take a final stand, even if it means losing everything I love. Even if it means losing my life. I've got plenty of power on my side, and some I didn't know I could count on in the first place. But it's nothing compared to the army of the undead the Soul Eater is building up. And time is running out. They say that good always triumphs over evil. I hope that'... more info>>
Category: Dark Fantasy/Mainstream
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An Ensanguined Path [MultiFormat]
by Brick Marlin
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Maggie May has a dreaded past, hearing the dying screams of her parents' murders under the wrath of a werewolf. Now, years later, after being rescued and trained by the Krimson Alliance who rid out the lycanthrope population across the land, she takes revenge on the beasts. In this heroic quest, Maggie and three others fight against Krimhilde, queen of the lycanthropes, and her breed of werewolves. But Maggie is burning the candle at both ends. She could very well die by the claws of the werew... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 73404 - Reading Time: 209-293 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
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Apocalypse Unborn [Deathlands #82] [Secure eReader]
by James Axler
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Black Flame.... Reborn primeval in the fires of thermonuclear hell, America's aftermath is one of manifest evil, savage endurance and lingering hope. Traversing the lawless continent on a journey without destination, Ryan Cawdor seeks humanity in an inhuman world. In the Deathlands, life is cheap, death is free and survival demands the highest price of all. Circus of Blood Magus is a steel-eyed cybernetic sociopath whose bloodlust knows no bounds. Now, the savage Pacific isles above a long-subme... more info>>
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Apricot Brandy [MultiFormat]
by Lynn Cesar
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Returning to the family homestead after her father's suicide, Karen Fox finds herself haunted by the past and bound by rage and guilt to a place she despises. Overwhelmed by malevolent powers that have seeded the earth with evil, Karen turns to ex-con Kyle and Quetzal, an ancient Guatemalan bruja. (Published: 2008)
Words: 82084 - Reading Time: 234-328 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
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Ashes of Angels [Secure eReader]
by Michele Hauf
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As a muse, Cassandra Stevens had been warned of the Fallen angel who'd one day come to impregnate her with a nephilim, an evil offspring. But no one could have foreseen that Samandriel-the raven-haired, silver-winged Fallen one-would sweep her off her feet. Against all good sense, Sam stirred her suppressed desires, yet for her own sake she dared not arouse his carnal ones. For Sam had been summoned to earth by a dark vampire lord. And more Fallen were on their way. Despite the dangers, Cassandr... more info>>
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Astronomy [MultiFormat]
by Richard Wadholm
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At the end of World War II, an American task force investigates a Nazi project to reanimate the dead and summon strange monsters from other dimensions. Deranged by their own studies, the Nazi scientists have been difficult to find, much less talk to. Only the linguist Susan Gilbert has had any luck getting their cooperation. When it turns out that the biggest, most horrific experiment of them all has yet to be completed, she ends up leading the effort to save the world. But she's not a mad geniu... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 55000 - Reading Time: 157-220 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Atherina [MultiFormat]
by Catherine Thomas
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Atherina has been imprisoned for a century for a crime she didn't commit. The Old Ones, the leaders of the vampires, release her early to be their personal bounty hunter. If she finds the one who made the existence of the vampires public knowledge and returns the individual to the Old Ones for punishment, her sentence will be commuted. She travels to America and tries to assimilate to the changes a new century brings. She teams up with Detective Forest Green and the first vampire, Wesley Linton... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 43374 - Reading Time: 123-173 min.
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Avenging Dreams and Other Curious Occupations [MultiFormat]
by Patrick Welch
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terrifying secret. If you think you have a dead-end job, then you may change your mind after reading Avenging Dreams and Other Curious Occupations. The new collection includes: "Avenging Dreams", "Money Player", "Bitter Streets", "Border Crossing", "An Investment In Murder", "A Case of Low Spirits", "Blue Notes", "Neighborhood Watch", "Garden Party", "Modern Inconveniences", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "In the Corner Office", "Good Provider", "The Snares of Christmas", "Far Site", "Road Show", ... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 58944 - Reading Time: 168-235 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Suspense/Thriller
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Back From Hell [Night Stalkers Series #1] [MultiFormat]
by Shiloh Walker
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They are Night Stalkers, two sisters born to hunt and destroy evil. For years a man has joined Jenai in her dreams. He makes sweet, hot love to her,and knows her better than anyone else. Now she has finally met him. After years of searching, Ronan has found her. His mate, the woman he has dreamed of for decades. He has been sent to recruit her and her sister Stephanie to join the powerful organization he works for. If he can't recruit them ... he has orders to kill them. A trap has been set--int... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 48536 - Reading Time: 138-194 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Beside the Darker Shore [MultiFormat]
by Patricia J. Esposito
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To forsake all that is good ? to dive into desire What might the ethical Governor David Gedden give up for one man's exquisite beauty? It's terrifying to consider when the man is a destructive blood prostitute and David is responsible for the state's peaceful vampire community. Blood sales in Boston are up, blood taxes support a thriving new nightlife, neighborhoods have been refurbished, and deaths by vampires have plummeted. David is assured reelection. However, the blood addict Stephen Sala... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 86514 - Reading Time: 247-346 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Besides the Darker Shore [MultiFormat]
by Patricia J. Esposito
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To forsake all that is good ? to dive into desire What might the ethical Governor David Gedden give up for one man's exquisite beauty? It's terrifying to consider when the man is a destructive blood prostitute and David is responsible for the state's peaceful vampire community. Blood sales in Boston are up, blood taxes support a thriving new nightlife, neighborhoods have been refurbished, and deaths by vampires have plummeted. David is assured reelection. However, the blood addict Stephen Sala... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 58287 - Reading Time: 166-233 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Beyond Bizarre: Stories of the Strange and Surreal [MultiFormat]
by Bill Wilson
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Get ready for a very weird ride with these ten stories. Each is designed to chill your spine as you wander the border land between fact and fiction, reality and imagination, reason and insanity. Aliens, vampires, ghouls, ghosts, zombies and unbalanced lunatics all await you within these pages. A terrific assembly of twisted tales for Halloween or anytime. (Published: 2002) Knowbetter Suggested Reading List
Words: 28669 - Reading Time: 81-114 min.
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