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  • The Devil and the Dancer by Elizabeth Hunter

    The Devil and the Dancer by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes falling is the safest step to take. Chloe Reardon has a problem, and his name is Gavin Wallace. Okay, Gavin isn’t exactly a problem, unless you consider a highly attractive wind vampire with dubious intentions a problem. Especially if that vampire is your boss. With an affinity for kilts and excellent taste in music...
  • Legacy by Brenda K. Davies

    Legacy by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Melanie left her sheltered, bizarre childhood behind for college, she was determined to embrace her new life, but forgetting her past proved impossible.Though she tries to live a normal life, she shuns anyone who tries to get close to her.Kyle is determined to break through Melanie’s walls, but when she makes it clear she doesn’t talk about her past, he doesn’t push...
  • Knightqueen by Anna Hackett

    Knightqueen by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A queen and her battle-scarred guard are on the run on an alien planet…with a relentless enemy hunting them.Knightqueen Carys of Oron lives a life of duty to her people and planet. After the murder of her parents, she worked hard to become a fair and dedicated leader...
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    aliens  paranormal  steamy  angst  romance  sci-fi  fantasy  age-gap
  • Chromium Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Chromium Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Chromium, the last unmated dragon guard and former royal bodyguard of the Drakkaris court, has a secret. He’s been sneaking out at night to serve vigilante justice and taste new things in the human world. When he runs across a curvy restaurant owner with a sweet personality and a lasagna to die for, he knows he has found his mate...
  • Wolf Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Wolf Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Like every other McCall werewolf in history, Link is headed down a short road to insanity, but he’s determined to go out on his own terms. Those terms? Repay the people the broken McCall pack has hurt before Ian Silver has to put him down. Hope is a dangerous thing for a doomed man like him, but when he meets Nicole, an instant and undeniable connection sparks between them...
  • I'm Just A Small Town Shifter 2 by G.S. D'Moore

    I'm Just A Small Town Shifter 2 by G.S. D'Moore

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A lot has changed for Kirk Jensen. He wasn’t the slightly fat, fast-food slinging, new guy anymore. His whole existence changed that night he was attacked by a bear, and joined the ranks of Kodiak Island’s shifter community. He even managed to land his dream job on the island’s police force. But Kirk is so much more than just another werewolf shifter...
  • Blood Betrayal by Tessa Dawn

    Blood Betrayal by Tessa Dawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Saxson Olaru is one of the select, the few, the elite...As a ruthless sentinel sworn to protect the ancient Vampyr king and the house of Jadon, he has “HOJ” literally inscribed on his heart: a heart that was tragically broken centuries earlier, when human hunters slayed his mother and Dark Ones murdered his father...
  • Whelon by Celia Kyle, Anne Hale

    Whelon by Celia Kyle, Anne Hale

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Experiencing the Knowing is magical… until you have to deal with human in-laws…Local news celebrity Sasha Dane and her mother are fixated on one goal—leverage their media presence to make life supremely difficult for the invading Preor. They want the aliens gone from Earth and for their unnatural hold on human females to end. Permanently...
  • Blood Heart by Lexi C. Foss

    Blood Heart by Lexi C. Foss

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Asset File 4-7: Elizabeth Watkins Genotype: Non-Human That’s the only information Jayson Masters has about his newest assignment. To learn more, he’ll need to infiltrate her life in the most intimate of ways without getting too close. Game on. Lizzie’s new neighbor is loud, seductive, and ridiculously attractive. And he keeps flirting with her...
  • Knighthunter by Anna Hackett

    Knighthunter by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She vows to bring her abducted queen home…even if she has to work with the man she hates.Knightmaster Nea Laurier is tough, dedicated, and lives to be the best Oronis knight she can be. All her life, she’s worked hard to live up to her prestigious family name...
  • Ivoth by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Ivoth by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    He has to choose - love or honour - because he can’t have both.Elle may be a Davenport, but she’s finding she enjoys life as a mostly-grey sheep of the Davenport family. She kicked off the Daven Bio uniform and now works for their corporate enemy - Cole Pharma, now headquartered in Preor Tower. She’s got massive, muscular, winged aliens surrounding her from sun up to sun down...
  • Cobalt Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Cobalt Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The Cobalt dragon is ready for a mate. At least, the bookish intellectual thinks he is. But when he and his crew are sent on a mission to rescue another dragon heart, only to find that she's already rescued herself, Cobalt will find that fate has someone much different than what he had in mind. Sylvie has always been a fighter...
  • In the Roar by Milly Taiden

    In the Roar by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alivia Vela is a big girl tired of dating. She's at the point she's going to find a frozen pop and get artificially inseminated. Or she would, until big, growly and oh, so sexy Karel shows up, saves the day and gives her a night she won't soon forget. That, mouth...that tongue. Oh my. Karel Yaghar needs a mate faster than he can growl the word MINE...
  • Brukr by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Brukr by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    He’s willing to lose his honor to claim her, but first he must save her.
 The Preor emperor bestowed honors on warrior Brukr sen Zak’lu centuries ago—honors he does not deserve. Since then, he has fought to prove himself worthy of the emperor’s support. He works to protect and care for the females within Preor Tower no matter how difficult they make his task...
  • Alien Triton's Prize by Lynnea Lee

    Alien Triton's Prize by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Reeled into a fake marriage with a merman...How was I supposed to know my new boss was the owner’s nephew? Now, I’ve been fired for speaking up about his roaming hands. And if that isn’t bad enough, I get home early to find my boyfriend bumping the girl next door!With nowhere to go, I decide to join the Starlight Lottery...
  • Lion in Waiting by Bianca D'Arc

    Lion in Waiting by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two injured shifters get a second chance at life…and love. Matilda escaped into the wild to lick her wounds and heal as best she can from captivity and torture at the hands of people who hunt shifters and imprison them. She is a lioness, but her natural confidence has been shaken by the experience. What she needs is a second chance to live, to heal, and to find her lioness’s roar once more...
  • Savage Exile: A Shifting Destinies Lion Shifter Romance by Cecilia Lane

    Savage Exile: A Shifting Destinies Lion Shifter Romance by Cecilia Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He can't save himself, but he'll save her...Rhys is a disaster: too violent for his old pride, and more accustomed to using his fists instead of his words. He's managed to carve out a place among the Crowley lions, but his temper still rides him hard. The only balm is Sage, a shattered woman with a core of fire. He wants to bring it out of her...
  • Howling Devotion: A Cursed Romance by R. O'Leary

    Howling Devotion: A Cursed Romance by R. O'Leary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Desperate for a shot at claiming his mate, Beau will do anything to get the stubborn owl to give him a chance...even if he has to hijack her investigation.Alice has always prided herself on being an asset to her shifter clan -- that is, until she messed up so badly her Alpha won't even look her in the eye...
  • Troy by Tasha Black

    Troy by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is his heart the mirror she needs to finally see her true beauty?A terrible accident left Eliza with a troubled heart and an unsightly scar. No Terran man wants a woman with a disfigured face, no matter how kind or hardworking. So when Eliza receives the opportunity to adopt a baby and move to a remote frontier moon, she jumps at the chance...
  • Rexx by Tasha Black

    Rexx by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Their sights are trained on love. But will they survive a ride on the Iron Peregrine?Abigail Shaw can’t believe her good luck. The Alien Adoption Agency has selected her to adopt adorable baby Rio. And baby Rio comes with Rexx, a handsome Invicta warrior guard, whose dark eyes seduce Abigail before he even opens his mouth. When he offers her his mate bond, she thinks things can’t get any better...
  • The Yearning by Alana Khan

    The Yearning by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stranded on a deserted asteroid with only a robot for company, Eve discovers circuitry can have more heart and soul than anyone she’s ever met.EveIt’s hard to imagine things could become more desperate than being abducted by aliens, but I’m even more terrified when I wake up to a huge, faceless metallic robot...
  • Second Chance Bear by Harmony Raines

    Second Chance Bear by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Joanna never expected to be left alone to raise her two adopted children. However, when her cheating husband ran off with another woman, that’s exactly what happened...
  • Heartsridge Shifters: Jake by Olivia Arran

    Heartsridge Shifters: Jake by Olivia Arran

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bear shifter Jake Hunter is the resident psycho of team South-One. He lives his life by his own set of rules, screw the consequences or what anyone else might think. His rules are simple: no one is allowed to get too close. The reason? Because they might die. So why is he even wasting time thinking about Harper and what it would be like to be with a woman like her? Because he’s a fool, that’s why...
  • Midnight Awakening by Lara Adrian

    Midnight Awakening by Lara Adrian

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    With a dagger in her hand and vengeance on her mind, Darkhaven beauty Elise Chase prowls Boston’s streets in search of retribution against the Rogue vampires who took from her everything she cherished. Using an extraordinary psychic gift, she tracks her prey, well aware that the power she possesses is destroying her...
  • A Baby for Chashan by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    A Baby for Chashan by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A mother’s plea, a childless alien’s promise, and a Preor warrior torn between his mate and duty… After a hundred years of mating, Healing Master Chashan thought he knew all there was to know about his mate, Heart Master Khaza. But the sudden presence of one adorable human baby shows him that he’s very, very wrong...
  • Lindy & The Wulfen by R.E. Butler

    Lindy & The Wulfen by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After a devastating blow to her already fragile self esteem, werewolf Lindy Vincent has decided to stop being the pack whore and change her life for the better. With the help of her two best friends, her alpha female, and a feisty she-wolf named Eula, Lindy starts down the road of self-improvement, happy for the first time in years...
  • Betraying Blood by Viola Grace

    Betraying Blood by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Born against the odds, Elurra is hunted by her aunt and saved by seven miners who whisk her to safety until her prince can claim her. Elurra’s mother was infected by a vampire. Magic held the effects at bay, but when her daughter was born, her mother left the world. Raised by her doting father, Elurra was content with the arranged marriage to a young sandman...
  • The Judgement by Lucian Bane

    The Judgement by Lucian Bane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ruin wakes up on Earth knowing only one thing: to Judge and Execute.As an Angel of Judgment with no memory of his origins and no ability to communicate, he seeks help from Isadore, the first human he comes into contact with. Without realizing, he binds molecularity with the OCD Neuroscientist, and slowly becomes permanently attached to her...
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    aliens  paranormal  steamy  action-adventure  adult  angels  book  dark
  • Reborn by Carly Fall

    Reborn by Carly Fall

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Warrior Hudson from the Six Saviors seems to have it all – good looks, fine clothing, expensive jewelry and women just waiting for their turn to sleep with him. But, what he safely keeps hidden from the world is the terrible pain he’s suffered for many years. As he fights his internal demons, he joins his fellow Warriors in waging war on the evil from their planet that has been let loose on Earth...
  • Taming the Wild Cougar by Terry Spear

    Taming the Wild Cougar by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cougar shifter, Dr. Kate Parker, is planning her annual camping vacation alone this year. She runs into trouble before she even starts her trip in the form of one wounded, hot cougar, undercover cop—or so he says...
  • Claimed and Mastered by Delta James

    Claimed and Mastered by Delta James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She vowed she would never be mated. He claimed her anyway.Ava Rhys has always chafed at submitting to the authority of her pack's alpha, but when he tries to sell her body in return for money and influence, she decides she would be better off on her own...
    Categorized as:
    angst  paranormal  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  book  dark
  • Hunted by the Barbarians by Epsilon Angel

    Hunted by the Barbarians by Epsilon Angel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They hunted me, caught me, and claimed me. Now they're going to share me.Barbarians. Just thinking about the shameful things these beasts would do with a human girl like me should have been enough to keep me out of the forest on Hunting Night, but I went anyway.The moment they caught my scent, my fate was sealed...
  • Tchaikovsky by Tasha Black

    Tchaikovsky by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can a homesick space pirate and a broken alien heal each other’s hearts? Angel signed up with the Space Cadets to join her twin brother after he left to explore new frontiers. Instead, her stasis pod was lost in space. Now, hundreds of years later, Angel has been rescued, but all her hopes and dreams are dead. Becoming a space pirate seems as good a way to fill her time as any other...
  • Alien Protector's Shadows: A SciFi Romance: Book 3 of the Fated Mates of the Winged Barbarians Series by Melissa Emerald

    Alien Protector's Shadows: A SciFi Romance: Book 3 of the Fated Mates of the Winged Barbarians Series by Melissa Emerald

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m lost in an alien jungle… and the handsome, 7ft, winged predator stalking me from the shadows has never seen a woman before…I never imagined that manifesting my dream man into my life would include being abducted, sold at auction, abandoned on an alien planet and almost getting eaten by jungle monsters - but here we are!When a huge, winged, possessive alien swoops in to save me from the...
  • Reaver's Return by Elin Wyn, Starr Huntress

    Reaver's Return by Elin Wyn, Starr Huntress

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trapped together in the darkness, a spark threatens to consume us both.LAICERFrom the moment Raelyn crashes into my life, she confuses me. Her soft, round body is unlike anything I've known, and her sharp tongue cuts deeper than any blade. But despite her prickly demeanor, I find myself drawn to her courage and spirit.As we search for escape, danger closes in from every side...
  • The Wolf's Bandit by Milly Taiden

    The Wolf's Bandit by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Robyn Loxley is determined to save every homeless child she can find, even if she has to break the law to do it. Since the royal foundation rudely turned her down, her target has become their crown jewels. She needs only one more job before she’s done for good. Wolf shifter Aitan Hansen is the crown prince of a small country where he runs his royal foundation and takes care of his shifter town...
  • Berserker Babies by Lee Savino

    Berserker Babies by Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This short story gives readers a glimpse of their favorite Berserker characters, with two sweet Berserker babies — and lots of baby-making! Beauty, joy, and heartbreak greet the Alphas as they defend their home from the Corpse King’s evil spells...
  • DragonSeer by S. Rodman

    DragonSeer by S. Rodman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two lovers, our dragons, eggs on the way, and one cottage.It’s everything I need to be happy. But my partners were meant for greater things, I can feel it in my bones.Kirby is radiance and light. His presence is too big for a Welsh valley in the middle of nowhere.Cai is doing so well, but he is clearly a shattered man.They both need more and I need to give it to them. The world needs them too...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  steamy  aliens  romance  fantasy  mlm  dragons  magic
  • Silver Spice by Iona Strom

    Silver Spice by Iona Strom

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    WynnterMy spirit mate had eyes for another, yet her spirit called to mine. While my ancillary heart pumped andrenalyne through my veins, I warred with my instincts to pummel the male she favored, but her preference can't be forced. She must choose me.Another battle takes precedence to mine when an unimagined conflict wages in the sky above us...
  • Guarded By A Grumpy Grizzly by Ariana Hawkes

    Guarded By A Grumpy Grizzly by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    People think I'm the hottest property in town.Every time I turn around, there’s a camera lens there.Snapping my side-boob. Trying to catch me pantie-less.But the truth is, I’m so tired of being watched. Pursued.I just want to be left alone. Then my manager—AKA my dad—hires a thug to protect me from a crazed stalker.A huge, grumpy, grizzly shifter...
  • Baruk the Cursed by Cara Wylde

    Baruk the Cursed by Cara Wylde

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the orcs invaded the human dimension, no one could stop them. War raged for years, and now the monstrous beasts have agreed to peace on two conditions: one, the human scientists must rebuild the machine that brought them into this world; and two, they must be provided with fertile brides to bear them orc babies. Jenna Cole is done with her family, and the world of humans in general...
  • Shattered Omega: Part Three by Marie Mackay

    Shattered Omega: Part Three by Marie Mackay

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Part Three of Shattered Omega. Blurb to come...
  • The Darkness Beyond by Alexis Morgan

    The Darkness Beyond by Alexis Morgan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An online game of cat and mouse leads a Paladin warrior on a deadly rescue mission to claim the irresistible lover who should be his greatest enemy.D.J. Clayborne has finally met his match. After weeks of playing cyber tag, a mysterious hacker bests D.J. at his own game. His nemesis downloads a top-secret history of the Paladins, forcing him to go on the hunt. The trail leads D.J...
  • Devoted To The Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Devoted To The Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    In the riveting second book in the Bear Valley Shifters series, Hannah Michaels must find her way among the bear shifters she's promised to help Benson Riker lead. And he's going to show her just how hot being mated to the alpha can be...
  • A Girl in Black and White by Danielle Lori

    A Girl in Black and White by Danielle Lori

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Not in publication at this timeMy once upon a time didn’t end with happily ever after—but with blood-stained hands and cold blue eyes. The story of my life had been laid beneath my feet since childhood, but until death, I’d never known that road was paved with stones called lies. In this city of sun and heat, cloaked in dark, both inside and out, I became somebody other than Farm Girl...
  • Alien Champion by Ursa Dax

    Alien Champion by Ursa Dax

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    "I don't know how to win Fiona, but I do know how to fight. And I will fight for her with everything I have..."FIONAWhen I spontaneously kiss Dalk at midnight during our Deep Sky New Year's Eve party, I become aware of two I may have a crush on the grumpiest alien warrior at our settlement. I may also be ever-so-slightly sexually harassing him...
  • The Alien's Escape by Ella Blake

    The Alien's Escape by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    So, I have the hots for my alien doctor. Jorok saved my life after being trapped in a filthy cell. He's gorgeous and way too serious for his own good. To get to know him better, I tag along on an errand, but we’re kidnapped and forced to nurse an alien captain’s sick crew. To avoid being sold, I pretend to be Jorok's mate (which isn't difficult). I thought things couldn’t get worse from there...
  • Force of Attraction by Mandy M. Roth

    Force of Attraction by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the heart sets its course, even home is no escape... Alpha male shifter, Lieutenant Commander Bradi Janelle isn't looking for a mate. Hell, he goes out of his way to avoid the prospect altogether-until the sexy little number in the infirmary makes a mockery of his ladies' man facade. Now, trapped with her in an escape pod, she's way too close for comfort...
  • Close Enough by Viola Grace

    Close Enough by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Offered up by her government, Cyreen is given over to an ancient hero to placate him into cooperation. No pressure. When the Hero of Morcud was betrayed and put in stasis, he demanded that if they were to ever wake him, he needed the woman that they had denied him.Five hundred years later, his help is needed and Cyreen is one of three women with the DNA profile that he demanded...
  • Hunter's Shadow by Victoria Sue

    Hunter's Shadow by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stolen as a child… Held prisoner… Dumped and injured on purpose to be found by someone that can heal his body… but can never be allowed to touch his mind. Jax desperately wants to spill every one of his secrets to Riley. Trusting the empath with his body is easy… The real risk is trusting him with his heart...
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