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  • Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh

    Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    NYT bestselling author Nalini Singh’s exhilarating world of shapeshifters and psychics is “paranormal romance at its best” (Publishers Weekly). Now comes the story of an alpha wolf named Hawke used to getting exactly what he wants—and of the only woman who dares tangle with him...
  • Born of Fury by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Fury by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The war is on...Counted among the fiercest Andarion warriors ever born, Hauk is one of the five founding members of the Sentella- an organization that has declared war on the League that rules the Ichidian universe with an iron fist and terrifies it with an army of well-trained assassins. Hauk's enemies are legion, but he fears nothing and no one...
  • Shadow Dance by Christine Feehan

    Shadow Dance by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tensions and passions rise in the city that never sleeps in this propulsive novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan's Shadow Riders series. As the head of the New York City Shadow Riders and his branch of the Ferraro family, Geno bears the weight of dual responsibilities on his broad shoulders...
  • Marked by Rebecca Zanetti

    Marked by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Janie Kayrs has known Zane almost her whole life. He was her friend in the dream world. She trusted him. But that was before he kidnapped her, spiriting her away to an isolated cabin to learn what her dreams never told her. Like how dangerous he looks. How he got on the wrong side of the negotiating table...
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
  • Steal the Sun by Lexi Blake

    Steal the Sun by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Zoey thought she would never have to choose, but to save one husband, she will have to betray the other…As Zoey Donovan-Quinn first sets foot in the faery homeland of her beloved Devinshea, life is perfect. Her enemy is defeated, her heart is full, and Neil and Sarah are at her side. Daniel and Dev are happy, so their visit to the sithein should be a pleasant honeymoon full of wonder and joy...
  • The Power by Maggie M. Lily

    The Power by Maggie M. Lily

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What does the physical embodiment of rage look like? He's six-two with light brown hair, blue eyes, and an absolutely ripped body.  He's also a really nice guy; you can't help but like him. A pediatrician and philanthropist, Adrian Trellis runs his wealthy family's charitable foundation while also treating terminally sick kids...
  • Blood Fury by J.R. Ward

    Blood Fury by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A vampire aristocrat, Peyton is well aware of his duty to his bloodline: mate with an appropriate female of his class and carry on his family’s traditions. And he thought he’d found his perfect match—until she fell in love with someone else...
  • Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emily Vega must avenge her father, and as the last of the Hell Hunters, she has one mission: destroy the Galena pack. Werewolves are carefully camouflaged monsters intent on taking over the world—or at least that’s what she’s been taught—but one meeting with the werewolf she’s hunting, and Chance Dawson is changing her mind, little by little...
  • Demon Magic and a Martini by Annette Marie

    Demon Magic and a Martini by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    When I first landed a bartending job at the local guild, I didn't know a thing about magic. These days, I'm practically an expert on the different magical classes, but there's one nobody ever talks about: Demonica. Turns out they have a good reason for that...
  • The Marked and the Broken by Ivy Asher

    The Marked and the Broken by Ivy Asher

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    My name is Vinna, and my magic is an asshole.I mean, what else would you call it when it does whatever it wants, whenever it wants?Now I have Enoch and his coven looking at me like I’m the one, and a bunch of pissed off Chosen.I have no answers and no time to deal with this shit. Lachlan and Keegan managed to get themselves caught by Adriel, the big bad lamia who murders and hunts Sentinels...
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    alpha-mc  dark  female-mc  harem  humor  magic  paranormal  polyamory
  • A Nature of Conflict by Kristen Banet

    A Nature of Conflict by Kristen Banet

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Sawyer Matthews is a retired and presumed-dead assassin. Ripped from her life of shadows and secrets, she’s decided to gamble it all and accept a new chapter in her life—one that may lead to a brighter future. With her first case over and budding relationships with some of her teammates, Sawyer finds herself feeling more secure...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  harem  humor  magic  military
  • Shadow Flight by Christine Feehan

    Shadow Flight by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Chicago’s Ferraro crime family will do anything to protect one of their own in this thrilling entry in the Shadow Riders series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.Nicoletta Gomez was a terrified teenager when Taviano Ferraro and his brother saved her life...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  magic  paranormal  steamy  suspense
  • Dragon Mystics by Jaymin Eve

    Dragon Mystics by Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    When the formidable power of Jessa Lebron's mark was unleashed, during her impulsive foray into Vanguard, the American supernatural prison, she learned the truth. She's a dual shifter: wolf, and as an added bonus, dragon - of the fluffy persuasion. Yep, she's one special cupcake. Now, pursued by the Four, powerful hunters of the dragon marked, she has no choice but to run...
  • Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh

    Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    "The alpha author of paranormal romance" draws us back into her extraordinary Psy-Changeling world, a world torn between violence and peace, passion and ice . . . Assassin. Soldier. Arrow. That is who Vasic is, who he will always be...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  dystopia  female-mc  magic  military  paranormal
  • Deception by D.B. Reynolds

    Deception by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Kauai, Hawaii—tropical paradise, vibrant jungle, turquoise sea... and sensuous nights that hide vampires so powerful they can change the world.Raphael—powerful, extraordinary, arrogant. He’s been eliminating rivals and gathering allies, determined not just to survive, but to demolish the Europeans who think they can steal what he’s worked for centuries to create...
  • Vital Found by Kaydence Snow

    Vital Found by Kaydence Snow

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The electrifying sequel to the International Bestseller Variant Lost.Bradford Hills feels more like home than any other place Evelyn Maynard and her mother lived while on the run. But with everyone reeling from the violent clash between Variants and humans, her new home doesn’t feel safe any more.Navigating four increasingly complicated supernatural bonds in secret doesn’t help...
  • Pack Violet Shadow by C.M. Stunich

    Pack Violet Shadow by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The hunters have become the hunted. The monsters have become the prey. The blood of werewolves runs with the fierce, wild magic of the earth. For millennia, that's what's kept us safe, let us shed our human skins and run as beasts. Now, it's the siren song that calls our enemies...
  • Dark Descent by Christine Feehan, Rebecca Cook

    Dark Descent by Christine Feehan, Rebecca Cook

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    They came from the darkest places: secluded monasteries, the Carpathian mountains, galaxies under siege. They were men with the blackest pasts-warriors, vampire monks, leaders of armies-but whose passions burned like dying stars. They had one purpose: to find those women who fulfilled them, completed them, and made them rage with a fire both holy and profane...
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    alpha-mc  dark  female-mc  humor  magic  paranormal  steamy  suspense
  • Dark Arts and a Daiquiri by Annette Marie

    Dark Arts and a Daiquiri by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    When I found myself facing down the scariest black-magic felon in the city, practically daring him to abduct me, I had to wonder exactly how I ended up here.It all started when I accidentally landed a job as a bartender--but not at a bar. At a guild, populated by mages, sorcerers, alchemists, witches, and psychics...
  • Archangel's Shadows by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Shadows by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Return to New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s sensual and painfully beautiful Guild Hunter world in her new novel of sacrifice, loyalty, and the choices of love that can shatter the heart...
  • The Prince by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Prince by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes a new story in her Wicked series… She’s everything he wants…. Cold. Heartless. Deadly. Whispers of his name alone bring fear to fae and mortals alike. The Prince. There is nothing in the mortal world more dangerous than him...
  • Shadows by Suzanne Wright

    Shadows by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A match made in hell? Devon and Tanner fight like... well, cats and dogs. Which, to be fair, makes sense since hellcats and hellhounds aren't exactly a match made in heaven. Unfortunately, their demons' antipathy towards each other is matched only by the red-hot sexual tension between Tanner and Devon. It's driving them - and their long-suffering friends Harper and Knox - mad...
  • The Alpha’s Pack by Tate James

    The Alpha’s Pack by Tate James

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The time is now.It seems all I’ve ever wanted was vengeance. I did everything right: I protected my friends, I pushed myself to the limits, and I saved lives. Once upon a time, I was an internationally renowned thief known as The Fox. Nobody knew me. Nobody could catch me.Nobody but them, my men, my partners in crime. But their love for me, it's cost them dearly.Our enemies keep coming for blood...
  • Omens by Suzanne Wright

    Omens by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She's the one thing he can't control...Keenan is the mistake Khloe knows she shouldn't make. As an incubus, he's got an inside track into everything that makes her tick, and even though she's immune to his supernatural (and frankly unfair) sex appeal, that doesn't stop her body - and her demon - craving him...
  • When He Was Bad by Shelly Laurenston, Cynthia Eden

    When He Was Bad by Shelly Laurenston, Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Two of paranormal romance's bestselling authors combine their extraordinary talents -- and set the pages on fire with an after-dark anthology -- featuring Alpha males so hot, so wild, and so bad, they may just be the best you've ever had..
  • Klutz: Phoenix Heat by Sedona Ashe

    Klutz: Phoenix Heat by Sedona Ashe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I escaped the jungle, only to end up abducted and held captive. But I’m not waiting to be rescued. Screw that damsel-in-distress garbage! I’m the last Phoenix shifter and I’m about to give them hellfire!Of course, I’d wind up kidnapped. I thought being kidnapped would be sexy or something. I was dead wrong...
  • Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter

    Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Growing up poor on New Chicago’s meanest streets, Ava Sans had two options: be the predator or be the prey. No contest. Now, working for Alien Investigation and Removal, she’s been ordered to capture the biggest, baddest warrior of all—a vampire too beautiful to be real, with the ability to manipulate time...
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    alpha-mc  dark  female-mc  humor  magic  paranormal  steamy  suspense
  • Fierce Impact by Julie Trettel

    Fierce Impact by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grant Phillips has always been a team player. He lives his life for the Force and worked hard to land a coveted spot with Team Bravo. He follows the rules, keeps his head down, and never causes trouble. Grant does everything for everyone else and wants for very little. The mission always comes first, until she waltzes into his life.Taylor Maxwell is a wild card. A thrill seeker. A rogue wolf...
  • Warrior Fae Trapped by K.F. Breene

    Warrior Fae Trapped by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.The truce between the vampires and the shifters is long over. So when the two factions stumble upon a lost fae warrior who has no idea what she is, all hell breaks loose.Charity hasn't had it easy. Growing up in a bad part of Chicago, left by her mother at 16, she's a survivor...
  • The Tiger’s Ambush by Tate James

    The Tiger’s Ambush by Tate James

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    My quest for answers is what’s led me here. Here, to the edge of civilization where shifters are free from persecution and able to live in peace. Or, at least they were until I arrived. In the aftermath of the trouble I brought, one man holds the answers I seek so desperately.Whether he will part with his secrets, that’s another matter...
  • The Dragon's Wing by Tate James

    The Dragon's Wing by Tate James

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    I should have known my quest for vengeance would eventually be my downfall. I should have been more careful, more paranoid--but I'm glad I wasn't. Who knew that getting caught for my crimes would lead to so much happiness? But joy can be fleeting... It turns out, this battle is only just beginning...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  harem  humor  magic  military
  • Three Trials by Kristy Cunning

    Three Trials by Kristy Cunning

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    So, I've checked off some life goals and added a few new ones to my list. Goal #5: Get out of hell's belly without letting my ungrateful charges die. Goal #6: Get a new name that's more badass. Goal #7: Stop wasting my breath on lectures and start annoying the quad hell squad every time they annoy me. Fight fire with fire. Ha! Another hell pun. Goal 8: Find out who the hell killed me...
  • Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh

    Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Hailed by Christine Feehan as “a major new talent,” NYT bestselling author Nalini Singh now brings together two fierce changelings in her most explosive story yet. Though DarkRiver sentinel Mercy is feeling the pressure to mate, she savagely resists when Riley Kincaid, a lieutenant from the SnowDancer pack, tries to possess her...
  • Waking Bel by Jocelynn Drake

    Waking Bel by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beltran Varik believes in science.It holds all the answers he seeks.Except for one.How in the world did he end up falling in love with two werewolves?Of course, there was no way science could account for the beauty, warmth, and mind-blowing sexiness of Wyatt and River.The two shifters are outcasts from their own kind and must seek the protection of a vampire...
  • Tall, Dark & Heartless by R.L. Mathewson

    Tall, Dark & Heartless by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ASIN B007SWLLHE is located here He should have left her and never looked back…....That's not how things played out for Caine, a nearly one thousand year old Pyte, who should have known better. Instead of walking away years ago, he has been watching over the only human who has touched his heart...
  • The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When seventeen-year-old Evie Dasher is caught up in a raid at a notorious club known as one of the few places where humans and the surviving Luxen can mingle freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally beautiful guy she initially assumes is a Luxen...but he is in fact something much more powerful...
  • Conveniently Convicted by Ivy Asher, Raven Kennedy

    Conveniently Convicted by Ivy Asher, Raven Kennedy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nightmare Penitentiary is no joke. The worst of the worst in the paranormal world end up at NP, and I just got sentenced there.For others, this might be cause for freaking the hell out. But for me, it's a fucking relief...
  • Taken by Fire by Sydney Croft

    Taken by Fire by Sydney Croft

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    HIS MISSION WAS TO DESTROY HER. BUT DESIRE GOT IN THE WAY.   A product of genetic manipulation, Melanie Milan shares a body with her malevolent sister, Phoebe. A sleek, blond predator with a heart of pure darkness, Phoebe puts their body through the wicked underbelly of sex for thrills—when she’s not igniting her pyrokinetic skills for an evil organization bent on taking over the world...
  • An Echo of Darkness by Kristen Banet

    An Echo of Darkness by Kristen Banet

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sawyer Matthews is a retired and presumed-dead assassin. Ripped from her life of shadows and secrets, she’s decided to gamble it all and accept a new chapter in her life—one that may lead to a brighter future. With the Amazon far behind them, Sawyer and her team have settled in for what should have been a relaxing time to themselves, in the privacy of their home...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  harem  magic  paranormal  polyamory
  • A Night of Redemption by Kristen Banet

    A Night of Redemption by Kristen Banet

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Experience the final trial of an assassin once called Shadow in the conclusion to the Amazon Top 100 Bestselling series, THE REDEMPTION SAGA! Sawyer Matthews is a retired and presumed-dead assassin. Ripped from her life of shadows and secrets, she’s decided to gamble it all and accept a new chapter in her life—one that may lead to a brighter future. It slipped between her fingers...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  harem  magic  paranormal  polyamory
  • The Crow’s Murder by Tate James

    The Crow’s Murder by Tate James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Well, I just can't seem to catch a break, can I?None of us saw it coming, no matter what precautions we took or how many contingencies we put into play.What’s the point of having all this power when everyone is out to get me?They say things are darkest before the light, and that the storm gets worse before it clears...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  humor  magic  military  paranormal
  • Duncan by D.B. Reynolds

    Duncan by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Washington, D.C. … capital of an empire. Powerful. Exhilarating. Corrupt. And in the shadows … vampires far older than the nation itself.A power unto himself, Duncan has served at Raphael’s side for a hundred and fifty years. But long laid plans have finally borne fruit, and the time has come for Duncan to leave Raphael and tackle the greatest challenge of his life...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  humor  magic  paranormal  steamy
  • Hectic by T.S. Snow

    Hectic by T.S. Snow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I thought having my diploma as a Magical Engineer would be the answer to all my problems,I couldn't have been more wrong.In an attempt to take down the resistance,I became their target.Now I have no MET, no home,And the entire world thinks I'm dead.Hidden, I need to find a way to flush out the mole who has wormed his way into AMIA,That's the only way I'll have my life and freedom back...
  • Weapon by Lynette Noni

    Weapon by Lynette Noni

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The #1 bestselling WHISPER series concludes with WEAPON:I already knew he was a psychopath. But now?He's more dangerous than ever.And I have less than twenty-four hours to stop him.After escaping Lengard and finding sanctuary with the Remnants, Alyssa Scott is desperate to save those she left behind ─ and the rest of the world ─ from the power-hungry scientist, Kendall Vanik...
  • Guardian's Mate by Jennifer Ashley

    Guardian's Mate by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She wasn’t ready to lead...Chosen as the Guardian of her Montana Shiftertown, wolf Shifter Rae Lyall is facing opposition—for no woman has ever been selected for this powerful position. Still adjusting to the new authority thrust upon her, Rae travels to train with Zander Moncrieff, a Shifter healer, tasked with teaching her about her new role and its responsibilities.He wasn’t ready to love..
  • Vivid Avowed by Kaydence Snow

    Vivid Avowed by Kaydence Snow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The thrilling conclusion to the Internationally Bestselling Evelyn Maynard Trilogy Evelyn's secrets have all been revealed, even questions she never thought to ask. Despite the turmoil surrounding her childhood and true identity, she knows one thing for sure: she belongs with her devoted Bonded Variants - Ethan, Josh, Tyler and Alec. But the truth hasn't set Evelyn free...
  • Klutz: Phoenix Secrets by Sedona Ashe

    Klutz: Phoenix Secrets by Sedona Ashe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    My billionaire dragon mate knows how to pamper a girl!Rich? Check.Hot? Check.Driving my other mates insanely jealous? Check and checkmate!Xerxes, my dragon mate, has whisked me away to Mexico. He keeps showering me with expensive gifts, breathtaking views, and lavish meals. I’m more of a cheeseburger girl, but I’m not one to complain about food...
  • The Viper's Nest by Tate James

    The Viper's Nest by Tate James

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Betrayal has forced us on the run. Evading the very man I considered my family, the organization I once considered good. In hiding, I need to master my new power and find peace with my bonded guardian--or risk exposure. But my heart can't accept the events that led us here. I need answers. Closure.An olive branch is offered and another trap is sprung...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  harem  humor  magic  military
  • Annihilate by Jaymin Eve, Leia Stone

    Annihilate by Jaymin Eve, Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There are two things Charlie Bennett despises: bullies and vampires. Which in her experience, is really the same thing.After their battle with the Quorum, she's left with no other option. The vampire's rule must end.But when more shocking secrets are uncovered Charlie wonders if she'll be alive long enough to follow through with her plan...
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