5-STAR URBAN FANTASY NOVELS WITH KICKASS FEMALE LEADS
5-STAR URBAN FANTASY NOVELS WITH KICKASS FEMALE LEADS
If you love Kate Daniels, Mercy Thompson, Jane Yellowrock and Anita Blake, and you’re looking for a new badass heroine to idolize, this list is for you.
Here are five top-rated, fast-paced urban fantasy series starters from some bestselling urban fantasy authors featuring kickass heroines, heart-pounding action, and brutally hot love interests.
Bloodfire by Helen Harper
Mackenzie Smith knows what it’s like to feel the fire of absolute fury running through her veins.
She knows it when she’s bullied because of her status as a human hiding in a pack of rural shapeshifters.
She knows it when John, her mentor and sole father figure, is brutally murdered.
And she knows it when the Lord Alpha of all shapeshifters comes to investigate the murder and upturns her entire life with his enigmatic green-eyed gaze.
What she doesn’t know is the truth behind her existence or the extent of her potential to wield extraordinary power.
Magic like this doesn’t come easily.
Immortal by Lauretta Hignett
Smart mouth and a death wish. What’s not to love?
Immortality sucks. Just ask Imogen Gray – over two-hundred thousand years old and teetering on the edge of total insanity.
All throughout history, she’s been hunted by an ancient creature who finds her and rips her to pieces every time she dares to access her deepest powers. But Imogen always regenerates. Slowly. Painfully.
She’s on a mission to find answers. She’s almost found them.
Unfortunately for her, there’s a delinquent psychic kid, a dangerously hot Vampire King, and a power-crazed blood witch hell-bent on bringing about the apocalypse standing in her way.
Cursed Wolf By Brogan Thomas
Loathed by those who should love her, can one fierce woman discover the secrets of her unique blood in time to be her own rescuer?
Forrest Hesketh desperately clings to humanity. Trapped in an infuriatingly inept wolf form since she was nine years old, the traumatised girl’s hope of regaining her ability to shift is slowly fading. But as her abusive pack plots to kill her, a desperate act to protect her kind stepbrother finally triggers the broken young woman’s transformation.
Stunned that suddenly everyone wants her after years of horrific treatment, Forrest struggles to relearn basic skills while dodging kidnappers and assassins. And with a powerful shifter councilman determined to claim her as a mate, even the protection of a gorgeous dragon can’t guarantee her safety.
Pursued by monsters in both suits and fur, will Forrest’s undaunted courage be enough to keep her alive?
Glimmer of the Other by Heather G. Harris
Burn through this complete, multi-award-winning series!
I can tell when you’re lying. Every. Single. Time.
I’m Jinx. As a private investigator, being a walking, talking lie detector is a useful skill – but let’s face it, it’s not normal. You’d think it would make my job way too easy, but even with my weird skills, I still haven’t been able to track down my parent’s killers.
When I’m hired to find a missing university student, I hope to find her propped up at a bar – yet my gut tells me there’s more to this case than a party girl gone wild. Firstly, she’s a bookish soul who’s as likely to go off the rails as Mother Theresa. Secondly, I’m not the only one on her trail; she’s also being tracked by the implacable and oh-so-sexy Inspector Stone.
Stone and I team up, and he shoves me into a realm where magic is real – a place where there are vampyrs and werewolves, dragons and trolls. And where my skills are more than just detecting lies…
Oh, and my dog? He’s a freaking hellhound who can manipulate the magical realms themselves.
I need to find the girl.
I need to discover who killed my parents.
And I need to find out more about the attractive but mysterious Zachary Stone…
Grab Glimmer of the Other here.
Blood & Ash by Deborah Wilde
Missing teens. Illegal magic. And the sexy nemesis who might drive her to murder.
Ashira Cohen built her detective agency from the ground up. Small, yes—but even Sherlock Holmes started somewhere. Then a routine stakeout goes sideways, leaving her with a concussion, a mysterious tattoo hidden under her hair, and the ability to see shadow creatures that kill people.
Shadow creatures no one else can see.
Worse? She accidentally summons a weapon made of her own blood. In front of Levi Montefiore. He’s the arrogant, infuriatingly gorgeous head of the magical community. Her long-time nemesis. And he immediately throws her in a cell on suspicion of being a Rogue.
Turns out the tattoo was a magical ward suppressing dangerous blood magic she never knew she had. Magic that’s not just rare—it’s forbidden. One word from Levi and she loses everything: her agency, her freedom, her future.
Except Levi needs her. Teens are vanishing, and Ash is the only one who can track the creatures behind it. She’ll have to infiltrate a magical black market, outwit a cunning queen who trades in secrets, and navigate the thin line between investigating Levi’s world and wanting to strangle him. Or kiss him. The jury’s still out.
Smart is the new kickass, and Ash’ll prove she’s both.
Wild Knight by Annabel Chase
In a world of darkness where royal vampires are in charge, I spend my days working as a knight in the city formerly known as London. Instead of a lance and a horse, I rely on my trusty axe, Babe, and ride the occasional dragon. Every day new threats emerge that require a dash of magic and a dollop of attitude.
Good thing I have both.
Naturally danger comes with the territory. What no one knows is just how dangerous it is for me. If our vampire overlords discover what I am, they’ll execute me on the spot—no questions asked—which is why I avoid them at all costs.
Until now.
If only this one didn’t have a lethal reputation, a princely pedigree, and a quest that leads to more questions than answers. The heat between us doesn’t help matters.
Unfortunately I can’t refuse a royal command, so I’m stuck until the job is complete.
And even if the job doesn’t kill me, the truth just might.
California Demon by Debra Dunbar
In New Hell, only the monsters survive.
Eden Alvaro is a licensed Vulture, picking through the aftermath of violence in demon-plagued LA, and fencing her finds to help support her family. But when a crooked cop reports her for a salvage she didn’t take, all hell breaks loose.
Stripped of her license, Eden finds herself with a price on her head. When the mercenaries hunting her raid her home, brutalize her family and abduct one of her sisters, Eden turns to the enigmatic Bishop—a man with a reputation for violence who, for the right price, can find just about anything or anyone.
With time running out to find her sister before she’s sold into slavery, Eden is determined to get her back—even if she has to slaughter her way through a gang affiliated with the traffickers and face down one of the powerful demons in control of the city.
She’ll need every bit of her burgeoning magical powers to bring her sister back alive—and she’ll need to put herself in debt to Bishop. But when it comes to her family, no price is too high for Eden to pay.
