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  • Draakenwood by Jordan L. Hawk

    Draakenwood by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Someone is killing members of the old families…and the evidence points to Whyborne. Widdershins has been unusually quiet for months. But now a mysterious creature from the Outside is on the loose, assassinating members of the town’s old families by draining their blood...
  • The Reckoning by Vanessa Nelson

    The Reckoning by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Missing girls. A plea for help she can’t ignore. An ancient enemy with plans of his own. Nine-year-old girls are missing from across the lands. Yvonne has promised to find them, and she always keeps her promises. Even when she doesn’t know where to start looking. There’s more trouble around. Mercenaries are disappearing...
  • Blood by Katie May

    Blood by Katie May

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One of my mates is dead. The rest of them have been taken hostage. And me? I’m just a crazy demon-goddess on a warpath. Zeus has gone too far this time. There are some things I can forgive, but this isn’t one of them. My only option is to recruit an army of monsters to destroy the god who’s supposed to rule over us all. In order to do that, I have to make two trips...
  • Heretic Spellblade 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Heretic Spellblade 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Changing history is harder than it appears. Every time Nathan thinks he has stopped a world-ending war, he learns that somebody is trying to start it again. But once this is over, he’ll be free to relax and spend some quality time with his Champions.As the war heats up, Nathan finds himself caught up in the schemes and fluffy tails of one of his former Champions, Narime...
  • Hexslayer by Jordan L. Hawk

    Hexslayer by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Horse shifter Nick has one rule: never trust a witch.Nick has devoted his life to making his saloon a safe haven for the feral familiars of New York. So when a brutal killer slaughters a feral under his protection, Nick has no choice but to try and catch the murderer. Even if that means bonding with a handsome Irish witch...
  • Chameleon Uncovered by B.R. Kingsolver

    Chameleon Uncovered by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The dark sequel to the best-selling Chameleon Assassin.Libby has a chance to build a legitimate reputation when she’s hired by one of the world’s most prestigious museums to bolster their security. The gig is in Chicago, where her heartthrob lives, so she hopes for a little romance.She's on a first-name basis with larceny, mayhem, and death, but Libby's not used to being on the receiving end...
  • Forbidden Honor by May Dawson

    Forbidden Honor by May Dawson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In my world, dragon shifters rule. Dragon shifters are always royals. They’re always male. They’re always assholes.An orphaned servant like me? Everyone assumes on first shift, I’ll turn into a squirrel.Instead, I grow wings. Breathe fire. Throw the world into chaos.No one wants a girl in the Royal Dragon Guard. So I’m disguised as a man and sent off to military training...
  • Demon Pack by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Demon Pack by Jaymin Eve, Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    I’m no stranger to the dark. The shadows belong to me. But the dark can’t hide me forever...I run with my own pack—my four demon wolves and the two friends I would kill to protect.We might be the rejected shifters of the Vegas supernaturals, different and unwanted, but our pack is strong. Feared. Think of us as your local supernatural vigilantes...
  • Corrupt Me by Everly Frost

    Corrupt Me by Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I am pure.He is pure temptation.There's no place for heart in a coven like mine. We are three witches, working from the shadows, weaving the fate of the new supernatural world. A world in which I know my place.I am The Maiden, pure as can be.Then, a raven shifter finds me.He is darkness and seduction. Danger and forbidden craving...
  • The Searching by Vanessa Nelson

    The Searching by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Oath-sworn to help those in need, Yvonne has been framed for murder.Tracking down those responsible for the destruction of the Stone Walls was a difficult enough task, but someone has made it much harder. The King is dead, and Yvonne is accused of his murder...
  • Sacrificed: Heart Beyond the Spires by Bey Deckard

    Sacrificed: Heart Beyond the Spires by Bey Deckard

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Novel (127,090 words)Genre(s): Historical Fantasy, Erotic Action/Adventure, Polyamory, LGBT+/GSMReunited once more, the crew of Baal’s Heart must make the long and treacherous journey south to the towering spires of the Devil’s Isles...
  • The Vengeance of the Vampire Bride by Rhiannon Frater

    The Vengeance of the Vampire Bride by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was born Lady Glynis Wright, the daughter of English aristocrats. When traveling in the Carpathian Mountains, my family met a tragic end. I was transformed into a creature of the night, and I suffered great horrors at the hands of my evil vampire master, Count Vlad Dracula. I vowed to one day escape him, and live a life free of his brutality...
  • Illusion by S.M. Boyce

    Illusion by S.M. Boyce

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The final chapter in the war for Ourea ends with blood. Kara Magari is an icon. A hero. The people love her. The royalty tolerates her. She has everything—an army, allies, and a close circle of chosen family. They believe she will end the war, and they shouldn’t. She’s as scared as they are. She just can’t show it...
  • Harmony by Jordan L. Hawk

    Harmony by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Whyborne just wants a quiet Christmas Eve at home, but Griffin has other plans.WARNING: Contains spoilers from Bloodline...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  paranormal  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  cosmic-horror  crime
  • The All Souls Real-Time Reading Companion by Deborah Harkness

    The All Souls Real-Time Reading Companion by Deborah Harkness

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A richly illustrated real-time reading guide that brings to life the world created by Deborah Harkness in A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night, retracing the events of the bestselling novels with illuminating behind-the-scenes details   A world of witches, vampires, and daemons. A manuscript that holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future...
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    paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  angels  book  demons  fiction  ghosts
  • Angel Fire by Ella Summers

    Angel Fire by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cadence Lightbringer, daughter of an archangel, has trained from birth to one day drink the Nectar of the gods and ascend to the angels’ ranks. She’s always been the perfect soldier. She’s always known exactly where her life is headed. Until she is assigned to a mission with Damiel Dragonsire, Master Interrogator of the Legion of Angels...
  • A Song of Sky and Sacrifice by Lana Pecherczyk

    A Song of Sky and Sacrifice by Lana Pecherczyk

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When famous human musician Melody wakes two thousand years after a nuclear winter, she thinks she’s landed on the right side of a war. Fae are called the Tainted. They’re warped, mutated creatures who horde the bounty of the new magical land. It’s her job in the human city to sling propaganda in the form of daily songs performed to a select tower of elite...
  • Marked by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Marked by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    With the rebellion now in full swing, shifter-mage hybrid Sunaya Baine has no time for distractions. She must find out the true identity of the Benefactor and pull the plug on the Resistance's funding before they succeed in their grand plans for genocide and destruction. But the heat is upon Sunaya now, and it demands to be sated...
  • Red Elf Ranch by Michael Dalton

    Red Elf Ranch by Michael Dalton

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A cowboy is just a man with guts and a horse.Connor Mills is only trying to earn some summer money for school by working the Green River Drift cattle drive in Wyoming. The Fates have something else in mind for him...
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    steamy  paranormal  romance  harem  fantasy  magic  western  audiobook
  • Incubus Inc. II by Randi Darren

    Incubus Inc. II by Randi Darren

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    ((Minor Spoiler and Warning at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through.))Sameerixis, or Sam for those who actually know him, isn’t what you’d call normal.He had been a door-to-door salesman, of sorts. One that peddled wares, wishes, and whims to anyone willing to pay his prices.Except that life is gone now.His old business model had been modernized...
  • This Cruel Blood by Everly Frost

    This Cruel Blood by Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *Includes an exclusive life after scene for Tessa and Tristan. I am a vampire with a thirst for revenge.Relentless. Fearless. Or so I thought...I swore I'd never be pulled back into my old life. I swore I was done... with him.Aiden Brand. A pyromancer with hands of fire and a heart like ice.Then he shows up asking for my help...
  • Lavish Destruction by Myra Danvers

    Lavish Destruction by Myra Danvers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “It’s the fight, isn’t it? The struggle. The idea that I’ll pin you down and take what I want…” He smiled, slow and dangerous. Watching me struggle to deny him. Watching me fail… Enslaved to a man I hate, I’m bound. All that I was is gone. Taken. Stripped away, only to feed the beast who dares to call himself my equal, while having the gall to leave me helpless to his whims...
  • Le Roi Du Sang by Tiana Laveen

    Le Roi Du Sang by Tiana Laveen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    IMPORTANT NOTE: This book contains adult content. Please be advised. This book is 452 pages long. ROI & REIN DU SANG BLURB Alexandre Marseille was born during the Hundred Year War in France, a member of the royal House of Valois. His parents, both ruthless underworld monarchs, instilled endurance in their children above all else...
  • The Cottage by Ariana Nash

    The Cottage by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Vasili has a new life and a new name. Niko just wants his prince to be happy. But when has Vasili made anything easy? * The more Niko tries to to carve out a perfect life, the more Vasili pulls away. Niko has one last chance to save them, one surprise that will cement their love forever or have it crumble to dust. * Vasili knows Nikolas is lying...
  • A Shimmer in the Night by Kelley York

    A Shimmer in the Night by Kelley York

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Benjamin Prichard has spent much of his life feeling like an outsider. Growing up, his odd behaviour and visions of ghosts left him isolated, not to mention being the child of an immigrant mother and an absent father. Benjamin walks the line between not being Chinese enough for one community, and not English enough for the other.Whisperwood School for Boys changes everything...
  • Blood & Brujas by Mikayla D. Hornedo

    Blood & Brujas by Mikayla D. Hornedo

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the moment Dayanara could wield a blade, she's been used as a weapon for Caldera, a kingdom of fierce brujas. Whenever her mother, the all-powerful Acna, points her in the direction to kill, Dayanara follows.After centuries of war against the vampire kingdom at their border, her mother offers their king Dayanara's hand in marriage as a truce...
  • White Wolf by Lauren Gilley

    White Wolf by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    NYPD homicide detective Trina Baskin is having nightmares. Vivid ones. Full of blood, and snow, dead wolves…and a young man with pale hair who howls like an animal. She chalks them up to stress and an overactive imagination, too many Old Country stories from her Russian father who, when he’s had too much vodka, starts to rave about dark forces and things that look like men…but aren’t...
  • Copper Coins [铜钱龛世 ] by Mu Su Li, 木苏里

    Copper Coins [铜钱龛世 ] by Mu Su Li, 木苏里

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was the twenty-third year of Tianxi. Rumours traversed the streets that the all-knowing Imperial Advisor suffered a great calamity and could not help but enter seclusion to focus on cultivation. However, the commoners secretly clapped their hands and rejoiced. In the winter of the same year, a young monk appeared in the Hui Zhou Fu’s Ningyang District...
  • Unseen by Jordan L. Hawk

    Unseen by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Librarian Sebastian Rath and his lover Vesper Rune are tasked with seeking and containing the evil Books of the Bound. But one of the Books has been freed from its prison—and is in the hands of a killer.As more bodies turn up, Sebastian finds himself tempted to use forbidden magic to locate the Book and stop the murderer...
  • Chameleon Assassin by B.R. Kingsolver

    Chameleon Assassin by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Libby is a mutant, one of the top burglars and assassins in the world. For a price, she caters to executives’ secret desires. Eliminate your corporate rival? Deliver a priceless art masterpiece or necklace? Hack into another corporation’s network? Libby’s your girl.Climate change met nuclear war, and humanity lost. The corporations stepped in, stripping governments of power...
  • Fairydale by Veronica Lancet

    Fairydale by Veronica Lancet

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐡𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞?August 1955,When Miss Darcy O’Sullivan, an orphaned English teacher from Boston, receives a letter that her biological father passed away, she is surprised to find herself included in his will.There is only one condition.She must travel to Fairydale to attend his funeral...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  paranormal  steamy  adult  age-gap  angst  book  dark
  • Hunted by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Hunted by Magic by Jasmine Walt

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    With the sudden disappearance of Iannis, the Chief Mage, Solantha has erupted into pandemonium. Citizens are rioting in the streets, the Mages Guild is on a misguided warpath, and shifters and humans are fleeing the city in droves. Ridden with guilt, Sunaya defies the Mages Guild and goes off in search of Iannis, trekking into dangerous, uncivilized territory to try and make things right...
  • The Scarletti Curse by Christine Feehan

    The Scarletti Curse by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The BeastStrange, twisted carvings and hideous gargoyles adorned the palazzo of the great Scarletti family. But a still more fearful secret lurked within its storm-tossed turrets. For every bride who entered its forbidding walls was doomed to leave in a casket.The BrideMystical and unfettered, Nicoletta had no terror of ancient curses and no fear of marriage..
  • Power Mage 5 by Hondo Jinx

    Power Mage 5 by Hondo Jinx

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After winning the range war, Brawley is rich, heavily armed, and surrounded by potential wives.Seven orders. Seven amazing powers. Seven beautiful teachers.Will Brawley bond with the soulful Bender, Tammy? Or will he tame the lovely yet willful Arabella? Can he find a match among the mysterious Cosmics?Meanwhile, the world is going crazy.The Tiger Mage escalates his attacks...
  • Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles, KJ查爾斯

    Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles, KJ查爾斯

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink.With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student flying off the rails, magical law enforcer Stephen Day is under increasing stress. And the strain is starting to show in his relationship with his aristocratic lover, Lord Crane...
  • Bright Familiar by Jeffe Kennedy

    Bright Familiar by Jeffe Kennedy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He wanted her with consuming passion... and so did the monster within.Lady Veronica Elal has been freed from her tower—and entered a life of servitude. It doesn’t matter that her wizard master has odd ideas about circumventing Convocation tradition and making their relationship equal. Nic prides herself on her practicality and that means not pretending her marriage is full of hearts and flowers...
  • The Traitor's Mercy by Iris Foxglove

    The Traitor's Mercy by Iris Foxglove

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the court of Staria, mercy is rarely a blessing…Sabre de Valois is the last of his line. Saved from the gallows while his family hangs for treason, Sabre is given the chance to pay off their debt and clear his family name...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  paranormal  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  dark  dark-fantasy
  • The Stalker by Lauren Gilley

    The Stalker by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rain fell against the roof and the windowpanes, sealing them in together in their den of antiques and crumbling books and the nail polish bottles lined up in the dormer ledges. It was all so ordinary and human; the only monsters were them, just the way he liked it...
  • Vampire Seeker by Tim O'Rourke

    Vampire Seeker by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    300,000 books sold 4000 five star reviews Discover an underground phenomenon Discover Tim O'Rourke Samantha Carter believes a vampire is responsible for the brutal deaths of four women in London and finally she has the chance to catch him. Desperate to prove the killer's identity, she chases him onto a late night tube train...
  • Dark Moon by Kate Douglas

    Dark Moon by Kate Douglas

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Edgy and intense, infused with sensuality and danger. --Jayne Ann KrentzShapeshifting creatures of amazing strength and sensuality, the Chanku now live openly all over the world. Yet the primal power of the pack beckons, calling each one home to surrender to pure pleasure.  .  .Return To SurrenderIgmutaka is her Spirit Guide and protector. But Star desires so much more...
  • Bane of Winter by Debbie Cassidy

    Bane of Winter by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A land gripped by eternal winter. A queen with a heart of ice. A woman with a destiny. This isn’t the faerie from the storybooks…Tainted creatures hunt me and death haunts my every turn, but my Raven keeps me safe. Together we must navigate the Winter Lands and find the Winter King because only he can aid me in my quest. Only he can help me unite the Tuatha and cut off Oblivion’s power...
  • Of Flesh & Bone by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Of Flesh & Bone by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now that the Darkness has tasted her, it won't let Emma go.Robbed of her memories, Emma feels like a ghost trapped in her own body. She doesn't remember much, but she knows one thing--something happened to her in Arnsmouth. Whatever had happened to her had been terrible...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  steamy  adult  book  dark  dark-fantasy  drama  fiction
  • Of Grave & Glory by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Of Grave & Glory by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emma Mather is having trouble telling friend from foe…and being wrong about whether someone is her ally or her enemy could cost her more than just her life.The Candle has taken Gigi Gage as their prisoner, and Emma will do anything to save her friend from whatever torture Dr. Thaddeus Kirkbride is putting her through in the Arnsmouth Asylum...
  • Curse of the Thorn King by Lisette Marshall

    Curse of the Thorn King by Lisette Marshall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Killing a fae king is hard. Doing so politely is even harder.Briannis Iavi – well-bred lady and accidental assassin – is so close to securing the life of her dreams. All she needs to do is complete one last make her way into fae territory, sneak into the enchanted halls of Rosethorn Keep, and kill the king of Faerie...
  • Selah Gothic: A Dark Priest Romance by Kat Blackthorne

    Selah Gothic: A Dark Priest Romance by Kat Blackthorne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From bestselling author of occult sensation The Halloween Boys, comes a sinfully fictional religious & dystopian story of naughty exorcism and sinful desires steeped in gothic mystery and lore. Dark priests and an even darker romance. Now I lay me down to sleep.Impure thoughts sent me spiraling toward my fate. I was the holy daughter of Lady of Sorrows Church...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  alpha-mc  steamy  romance  dark  horror  dystopia  age-gap
  • Crow's Fate by Kim Fielding

    Crow's Fate by Kim Fielding

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You can’t fly away from destiny.Crow Rapp assumes he’ll spend his life growing corn in rural Illinois, like the grandparents who raised him. But during a visit to a traveling carnival, he encounters a handsome stranger named Simeon Bell—and receives a prophecy of a horrifying future...
  • Creature by Kim Fielding

    Creature by Kim Fielding

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alone in a cell and lacking memories of his past, John has no idea who—or what—he is. Alone on the streets of 1950s Los Angeles, Harry has far too many memories of his painful past and feels simply resignation in facing his empty future. When Harry is given a chance to achieve his only dream—to become an agent with the Bureau of Trans-Species Affairs—all he has to do is prove his worth...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  crime  dark  fiction
  • Blood Song by Hollee Mands

    Blood Song by Hollee Mands

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She owes her blood. He’ll pay with his life.Ruthless assassin Gabriel has little fear and even fewer scruples. Every head has a price, and every hunt is a thrill. He saunters through life on a tightrope, mocking fate and defying death with every step. So when he’s forced to hunt down and deliver a prophesied blood sacrifice, Gabriel has no reason to expect trouble...
  • Lullaby Scars by Hollee Mands

    Lullaby Scars by Hollee Mands

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s the only man she’s ever wanted. She’s everything he can never have.Killian’s scars are all people see, but with his wretched past, he doesn’t want them to look closer. He resigned himself long ago to living as an indentured slave to a powerful and capricious high mage—until a chance meeting with a temptress outside a brothel teaches him to want…If only he hadn’t asked her price for the night...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  steamy  alpha-mc  romance  fantasy  magic  fae  fiction
  • Bastian by Elizabeth Amber

    Bastian by Elizabeth Amber

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Man-gods born to live and love forever, the Lords of Satyr are renowned for their sexual prowess. . .and unquenchable lust. . .Call My NameThe forum excavations in Rome go on, directed by the iron-willed, charismatic Lord Bastian Satyr. Out of nowhere, a mysterious, haunting voice calls out to him. .
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  mlm  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  urban  adult  angels
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