Fantasy - Contemporary

Taken (An Alex Verus Novel)

By: Benedict Jacka

This time last year, I could go weeks without seeing another mage. In mage society I was an unknown and, all in all, that was how I liked it. It's hard to say what changed. Whatever it was, I got involved in the magical world again and started...

Shadow Chase

By: Seressia Glass

Second of the thrilling Shadowchaser series featuring a multiracial heroine who serves the Universal Balance.

The First Stone: Book Six of The Last Rune

By: Mark Anthony

The Pale King has been defeated, his legions decimated. The Dark God Mohg has been destroyed. And the evil corporation, Duratek, has been disbanded, foiled in its efforts to strip-mine the world of Eldh. And for our heroes, three years have passed...

Finch

By: Jeff Vandermeer

In Finch, mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fantasy state Ambergris and put it under martial law. They have disbanded House Hoegbotton and are controlling the human inhabitants with strange...

Hard Magic

By: Larry Correia

Twilight meets The Maltese Falcon  in the first entry of the hard-hitting Grimnoir Chronicles urban fantasy saga by the New York Times best-selling creator of Monster Hunter International.Magical creeps dispatched in heaps!  Jake Sullivan is a...

Master and Apprentice

By: Sonya Bateman

A DEADLY CULT. AN UNBREAKABLE CURSE. THE RULES ARE SIMPLE: LEARN TO KILL . . . OR DIE. Luck has never been on Gavyn Donatti's side. Anyone else with magic abilities inherited from a distant genie relative would have it made, but not Donatti,...

Our Lady of Darkness

By: Fritz Leiber

Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window…and...

Phantasm (A Zoe Martinique Investigation)

By: Phaedra Weldon

The newest in a series that's "part paranormal whodunit, part urban fantasy"(Publishers Weekly) by the author of Wraith and Spectre. Just when Zoë Martinique, formerly ordinary twenty-something, was getting used to the idea that...

Shadow Fall

By: Seressia Glass

In a job like this, one mistake can cost you everything.As a Shadowchaser, Kira Solomon has been trained to serve the Light, dispatch the Fallen, and prevent the spread of chaos. It's a deadly job, and Kira knows the horror of spilling innocent...

Shriek: An Afterword

By: Jeff Vandermeer

An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris--previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen--Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and...

Tales of the Otherworld

By: Kelley Armstrong

New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong has bewitched audiences with her Otherworld series of supernatural thrillers. Now, in this new collection of shorter fiction, some of Armstrong's most tantalizing lead characters appear alongside her...

The Last Hot Time

By: John M. Ford

After saving the life a beautiful woman, Danny is propelled into a strange world where men and elves interact freely, with bizarre and violent results, and finds himself transformed into Doc Hallows, house medic for the powerful and dangerous Mr....

The Neon Court (Matthew Swift)

By: Kate Griffin

A daimyo of the Neon Court is dead and all fingers point towards their ancient enemy - The Tribe. And when magicians go to war, everyone loses.But Matthew Swift has his own concerns. He has been summoned abruptly, body and soul, to a...

The Rainy Season

By: James P. Blaylock

While grieving over the unexpected death of his young wife, Phil Ainsworth finds his life further shaken by the death of his sister and the arrival of his young niece, Betsy, a child with a special talent to hear the voices of the dead and to see the...

Yarrow

By: Charles De Lint

Cat Midhir has made a name for herself as the author of popular fantasy novels, but her fans do not know that Cat's mysterious Otherworld is no fantasy--it is a real place where she wanders at night with the bright lords and the horned woman beneath...

Frostbitten

By: Kelley Armstrong

Smart, sexy, supernatural—the men and women of the Otherworld live and love, fight and die, among us. Unseen and unsuspected, this realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves is now threatened with exposure by a brutal series of bizarre murders that...

Dark Cities Underground

By: Lisa Goldstein

Bloody Bones

By: Laurell K. Hamilton

Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Her 9-to-5 turns into 24-7 when three Missouri teenagers are killed-slaughtered in a way she has never seen before.Romantic thrills, erotic chills and the sexiest vampire in the business. (Jayne Ann Krentz)

Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2)

By: Jim Butcher

When the corpse of a brutally mutilated murder victim turns up at the time of the full moon, accompanied by some most unusual paw prints, professional wizard and supernatural investigator Harry Dresden finds himself searching Chicago for the werewolf...

Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3)

By: Jim Butcher

Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden confronts his latest and most dangerous challenge in the person of a ghost of an evil wizard who possesses the power to invade people's nightmares and uses other ghosts to wreak havoc on the living. Original.

Hunting Ground (Alpha & Omega, Book 2)

By: Patricia Briggs

Mated to werewolf Charles Cornick, the son—and enforcer—of the leader of the North American werewolves, Anna Latham now knows how dangerous being a werewolf is, especially when a werewolf who opposes Charles and his father is struck down....

Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, Book 6)

By: Jim Butcher

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas-a vampire of dubious integrity-only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.

Embraced By Darkness

By: Keri Arthur

Part vamp, part werewolf, Riley Jenson plays by her own rules, whether it's her stormy love life or her job as a guardian. But when her family's alpha male demands that she solve the mystery of a vanished girl, Riley can feel a trap closing in around...

Industrial Magic: Women of the Otherworld

By: Kelley Armstrong

This paranormal thriller is the fourth book in the Women of the Otherworld series, in which demons, witches, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures live secretly among us. Kicked out of her Coven and exiled from Massachusetts, witch Paige...

Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson)

By: Patricia Briggs

All-new action in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series When mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she'd previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore...

Kitty and the Silver Bullet

By: Carrie Vaughn

Kitty's radio show is as popular as ever and she has a boyfriend who actually seems to understand her. Can she finally settle down to a normal life? Not if this is just the calm before the storm. When her mother falls ill, Kitty rushes back to...

White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9)

By: Jim Butcher

In Chicago, someone has been killing practitioners of magic, those incapable of becoming full-fledged wizards. Shockingly, all the evidence points to Harry Dresden's half-brother, Thomas, as the murderer. Determined to clear his sibling's name, Harry...

Personal Demon (Women of the Otherworld, Book 8)

By: Kelley Armstrong

In her acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series, Kelley Armstrong has created a scintillating realm where the supernatural and the human coexist on the edge of darkness, romance, and eternity. Now Armstrong tells the captivating tale of a young woman...

Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, Book 3)

By: Ilona Andrews

Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide, that's saying a lot. But when Kate's werewolf...

On the Edge (The Edge, Book 1)

By: Ilona Andrews

The Broken is a place where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is nothing more than a fairy tale. The Weird is a realm where blueblood aristocrats rule and the strength of your magic can change your destiny. Rose Drayton lives on the...