Asagi is a slave, just sold to a new master, when they meet a young boy named Tsukito with whom they form a familial, protective bond. But soon after, Asagi is sold again, into a better life, but the price they pay, both in becoming a blood-drinking youkai and leaving behind Tsukito, is a high one for them to...
Jasper has trained his whole life to be a hunter, but when he's assigned to pretend to befriend a werespider, Crimson, in order to take him down, he realizes not all demons are monsters. The two become genuine friends, maybe more, but they have a lot of enemies, including the hunters who aren't letting them go that...
Dorian (vampire) and Cash (human) are friends, roommates, and partners for hunting gigs, and they've just gotten a new case about murderous weredeer to take care of. But their feelings for each other, and Dorian's insistence on them not making their relationship a romantic one, are complicating...
It's 2065, and when beta versions of the AI in people's heads start turning hostile and people with them start dying and disappearing, Reed will have to decide what to do with his, who seems to have developed feelings for him. In the meantime, he meets his dream guy and starts embracing the Art Deco counterculture he's always...
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Sean has been having the same nightmare every night, so he travels to Ireland and seeks the help of Cormac, a druid. As Cormac tries to help Sean solve the mystery of his nightmares, the two men end up getting tangled in fae games, time travel, and unexpected...
In A Queer Trade, a warlock's papers get accidentally thrown out, and his apprentice tries to get them back from the waste man before they can cause magical chaos. In Rag & Bone, magic practitioner Crispin and waste-man Ned start looking into strange deaths of rag and bottle shop workers when no one else bothers to. In Priddy's Tale, a lonely young man working in a lighthouse rescues someone from...
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Half-kitsune Yumeko and her friends are still on a mission to stop the Master of Demons from summoning the dragon and making a wish that will destroy the world as they know it, and the situation is more dire than ever. But secrets, plans, and enemies, both known and unknown, lie in wait to throw them off course at every...
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After the events of the last book, Noam turned to Lehrer, but with a shield on his mind, Lehrer's hold is broken, and Noam remembers the truth about everything and wants to bring him down. When he finds out Dara is still alive, Noam joins him as part of the resistance, but things aren't the same between them, and Dara knows that Lehrer is more dangerous than Noam...
Cal and the members of House Tepes have spent their time since the last book training Cal's magic and trying to gather intel and figure out where Cooper is and how they're going to stop the Children of Enoch. When a gathering of the vampire house elders brings them to Paris, Cal really hopes to find Cooper but also finds himself embroiled even deeper in battles against powerful supernatural...
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It's 1799 and Cole is traveling through the Ohio Frontier when he's attacked by a strange creature, but he escapes and is rescued by Pakim, a Native American man he finds himself strangely attracted to, and helped by some men in the town he was headed to. The creature is still out there though, and as people start dying, Cole and his new friends find themselves in a fight for their...
