Paranormal Passions
Action-packed stories filled to the brim with fantastical elements, sensual romance, and heart-pounding suspense 
Ilona Andrews
Writing under their joint pseudonym, Ilona and Andrew Gordon’s novels feature strong heroines and macho heroes in a fantastical take of the American south.
 
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Anne Bishop
Known for her sensual fantasy, Bishop tactically bridges the gap between horror and romance to show how love always prevails in the end. 
 
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Patricia Briggs
Briggs’ novels take an edgier approach to urban fiction, as she writes about the battles between humans and otherworldly forces.  
 
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Christine Feehan
Seductive, dark, suspenseful, modern. Feehan’s works follow strong female leads, often purveyors of dark magics, as they battle the men they are meant to be with and the men that stand in their way. 
  
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Jeaniene Frost
Frost’s tales of romance exist to follow the lives of vampires and demons in a world where, though they are commonplace, the common folk have no idea that they exist. 
 
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Heather Graham
Writing books filled with passion and peril, Graham creates evocative settings, evoking countless moods, to curate books fit for anyone of any taste. 
 
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Laurell K. Hamilton
Hamilton’s books follow a strong female protagonist as they aim to gain power and deal with the dangerous world in which the creatures of legend live.
 
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Charlaine Harris
Author of the popular True Blood series, Harris’s stories are often the middle ground between love, mysteries, and vampires. 
 
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Kim Harrison
Featuring an alternate world where humans and mystical beings coexist, Harrison details the life of Rachel Morgan, a witch who makes her living bounty hunting. 
 
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Darynda Jones
Jones's action-packed novels feature tough, sassy women who often find themselves fighting in steamy situations between the human and paranormal worlds.
 
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
A genre-defining author, Kenyon’s deeply mythological inspired novels blend magic and love to create stories where villains in one novel are the heroes in the next. 
 
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Jayne Ann Krentz
Former librarian Krentz’s novels of romantic suspense, sprinkled in with supernatural elements, follow strong heroines as they “…celebrate a woman’s heroic virtue.”
 
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Karen Marie Moning
Blending the world of the Fae and our own, Moning’s romances feature elements of fantasy, mystery, and suspense to create captivating novels that you can’t put down. 
 
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Gena Showalter
Playing on the idea of the battle of good versus evil, Showalter takes paranormal romance and seamlessly fuses it with fantasy to create vivid tales of love and adventure. 
 
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J.R. Ward
Ward writes novels with strict lines between good and evil to create adrenaline-fueled, sexy stories where good and evil can battle it out in her take on paranormal romance. 
 
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