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  • The Forgotten Queen by Kortney Keisel

    The Forgotten Queen by Kortney Keisel

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's trying to remember. He's trying to pretend. Sydria Hasler is a blank slate. After a tragic accident, her images of the past have vanished. All she wants is to get her memory back and return home—wherever home is. But the more she rebuilds her past, the more she wants to fight for a future with King Marx. Too bad it's all a sham...
  • The High Auction by Misba

    The High Auction by Misba

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the near future, a machinist, a monk, and a mesmerizer are looking for the Source of the universe, but among the ancient scriptures, they only find the devil …Few humans in the future find the secrets of what words and sounds can do, for the Apocalypse and war have led them to evolve in mind and physique. Two of them end World War III with just a four-minute speech...
  • A War of Ruin and Reckoning by Lana Pecherczyk

    A War of Ruin and Reckoning by Lana Pecherczyk

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A reckoning is coming… but who will it hurt the most?When environmental activist Nova Morales wakes thousands of years after a nuclear fallout, she is surrounded by magic, monsters, and war. The earth she fought to protect is in pieces, along with her heart. Everyone she loved is dead. All she wants is to find answers, but instead, she finds herself the unwilling prize in an Unseelie mate hunt...
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    lgbtq  myths  romance  fantasy  fae  paranormal  magic  vampires
  • Gloam by Lily Mayne

    Gloam by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When a strange woman shows up outside our camp in the Wastes with monsters chained up to her RV, it feels like I’m the only one who actually wants to help them.That big, grey-skinned monster with the cage on his head and the chain hanging from his back—something is telling me I need to help him. I need to free him...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  myths  abuse  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  aliens  angst
  • Wyn by Lily Mayne

    Wyn by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I am a monster.A ghoul. A demon. The bogeyman. I have been called all of them. Most creatures fear me, but humans are repulsed by me. They are terrified of me. They have created legends about me, ever since they became aware of my existence when the tear between our worlds grew and we—the monsters from their nightmares—flooded through in our droves.There is only one human who isn’t afraid of me...
  • The Rycke by Lily Mayne

    The Rycke by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Life as a raider in the Wastes, where monsters roam and the military lurks, is as easy as it sounds.I’ve been out here for a long time, and the fear that courses through my blood every time I have to step outside our camp walls to scavenge never fades. No matter how many monsters you face—and have to run for your life from—it doesn’t ever get easier...
  • Their Property: Sons of Odin MC by Crystal Ash

    Their Property: Sons of Odin MC by Crystal Ash

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The men I want are forbidden. What’s worse?I want all three of them.My father isolated me while chaos swept the country. All my life, he hid me away like a precious jewel for being too curious, too attracted to danger.Then I got myself kidnapped.My saviors are three brutal men on roaring motorcycles--the Sons of Odin MC...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  myths  adult  age-gap  apocalyptic  biker  book  cheerful-mc
  • Troll Nation by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson

    Troll Nation by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Build. Evolve. Conquer. The dawn of the Troll Nation has begun … Roark von Graf—former noble and hedge-mage, current mid-level mob in a MMORPG—has taken down the Dungeon Lord of the Cruel Citadel, but the battle has only started.Lowen, right hand to the Tyrant King, has come to Hearthworld, and he is building an army of his own...
  • Through the Belly of the Beast by Apollos Thorne

    Through the Belly of the Beast by Apollos Thorne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Surviving Lord Darius's attack put Elorion's level over the top. He must soon leave the Mistress's Labyrinth for the unknown dangers of the Underworld.There are three paths that stand before him. Should he absorb all the Blue Magic he can find, power level his fellow captives, or take on the bone palace alone?The Underworld is waiting..
  • The Fallen Kingdom by Elizabeth May

    The Fallen Kingdom by Elizabeth May

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    She’s on borrowed time…and she has only one chance to set things right.Find life.Deep in a forest, Aileana Kameron claws her way out of the earth. Back from the dead with no memory of who she is or what has happened to her, the Falconer now possesses even greater otherworldly powers and a ruthless instinct to kill—and the one piece of knowledge that can change everything.Find Kiaran...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  myths  action-adventure  alpha-mc  book  death  dystopia  epic
  • Forgiven by Jana Oliver

    Forgiven by Jana Oliver

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Riley has made a bargain with Heaven, and now they've come to collect.Lucifer's finest are ruling the streets and it seems that Armageddon might be even closer than Riley imagined. But with her soul and her heart in play it's all she can do to keep herself alive, let alone save the world...
  • Malakai by Faith Gibson

    Malakai by Faith Gibson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's a larger than life MMA fighter. She's a quiet paralegal. The world they live in is under attack. Will they survive long enough to get their HEA?Malakai Palamo is the seventh son of a seventh son. He left his Samoan island home in search of his mate. Almost one hundred years later, he faintly catches her scent. Kai doesn’t give up until he finds her...
  • To the Bloody End by Rachel Aaron

    To the Bloody End by Rachel Aaron

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The epic conclusion to the DFZ Changeling trilogy! No Victor lasts forever.Victor thought he won when he became the Hero. He thought he won when he took over the DFZ. He thought he’d made himself untouchable.He’s wrong.Lola isn’t the sad little monster she used to be. She has a plan, she has allies, she has more magic than she ever dreamed possible...
  • Throne of the Ancients: A LitRPG Adventure by Carrie Summers

    Throne of the Ancients: A LitRPG Adventure by Carrie Summers

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Prepare for smashface! The question is, will it be Devon's or the demon horde's?See, that's the problem with the Chosen One trope. Devon Walker really just wanted to power level, ideally solo, and collect some loot along the way. But yeah. Things in Relic Online just haven't turned out like she'd hoped...
  • The Clan by D. Rus

    The Clan by D. Rus

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Once a seasoned gamer, Max has cheated fate swapping his dying body for an immortal avatar in the world of sword and sorcery MMORPGs. He joins the ranks of a new race of people: perma players, forever stuck in the virtual castles and cities of AlterWorld. Now they have to obey the ever-changing rules of their new home while learning to live together in peace, love and justice...
  • Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko

    Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Diving into a revolutionary new video game, Marcus and his friends escape a stagnant society, entering into a world that defies their wildest imaginations. But from the moment that he logs in, Marcus finds himself separated from his friends and thrown into remote village under attack by a horde of goblins...
  • Magic Fury by Meg Xuemei X

    Magic Fury by Meg Xuemei X

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    I'm not what everyone thinks I am.If they discover what I am, both the gods and demons will hunt me to the ends of the universe.The revelation of my hidden origin would tilt the scales of the immortal war, but I don't carry this dark secret alone. The sea demigod, my sworn enemy, now carries it with me and leaves a trail of dead bodies behind to keep me--and my secret--safe...
  • Broken Ice by J.R. Rain, Matthew S. Cox

    Broken Ice by J.R. Rain, Matthew S. Cox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The first book in the new paranormal spy series, by #1 bestselling authors, J.R. Rain and Matthew S. Cox! Mina Barrett is the CIA’s best defense against the Dominion. She’s young, charming, intelligent, motivated… and she’s a vampire. Twenty years ago, vampires revealed themselves to the world. Society hadn’t expected them to be real at all, much less a species entirely separate from humans...
  • Original Sin by Tracey H. Kitts

    Original Sin by Tracey H. Kitts

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Peter was Lilith's first love--and the first person to call her a monster. Despite their past, Lilith would save him if she could, but when Peter is infected with lycanthropy and becomes determined to challenge Marco for the position of lupinus regalis, wolf king, she faces a hard choice...
    Categorized as:
    myths  retellings  adult  alpha-mc  book  dark  female-mc  fiction
  • Born Wild by Nikki Jefford

    Born Wild by Nikki Jefford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FOR THREE YEARS, HUMANS FORCED THE PUREBLOODED WOLF SHIFTER TO FIGHT HIS OWN KINDAfter escaping his human captors, Wolfrik returns to Wolf Hollow covered in scars and hostility. He wants nothing to do with pack politics and refuses to play nice...
  • Path of the Blood Phoenix by J.D. Astra, James A. Hunter

    Path of the Blood Phoenix by J.D. Astra, James A. Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can a single promise change the world?Even with the Crimson Alliance formed, Rowanheath taken, and Carrera dispatched, the onslaught never ends for Abby Hollander. Keeping the Spider Queen in check and handling water provisions was never what Abby wanted to do with her life, but it's what the war demands of her...
    Categorized as:
    myths  retellings  adult  audiobook  book  cyberpunk  dark  female-mc
  • Caught by the Hunter by Viola Grace

    Caught by the Hunter by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An accidental meeting leads to a connection that will last forever... if they ever meet again.Ejected from her home, Nyna is forced to run across the city to her grandmother’s house. If she had known it was the night of her first heat, she might have jumped into the sewers instead of trying to outrun the huntsmen of the Overlord of Y’tel...
  • Mate Me by Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

    Mate Me by Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Beauty and the Beast meets Hades and Persephone in this shifter fantasy romance standalone!A god wants me dead.My ancestors stole half his soul then imprisoned him in Tartarus, thinking he'd be forgotten. That he could never return.They were wrong.The day he rips open a portal between our worlds, my life is over...
  • The Fallen God by T.J. Reynolds

    The Fallen God by T.J. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A building storm. A raging war. A fallen god.Can Dahlia, Madi, and Alysand recruit an army powerful enough to stop the plans of a malicious deity?Having saved Quinn and the town of Taelman's Pond, Dahlia finds herself whisked away into another battle in this endless war. She discovers more about her in-game lineage as a half blood...
  • The Ruined Temple by T.J. Reynolds

    The Ruined Temple by T.J. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A tide of war. A tyrant king. Will Dahlia and her allies be strong enough to withstand the storm of foes?Given a short reprieve from debt collectors, Dahlia must focus on finding the source of a world boss’s power. She’ll have to rely on Madi and Alysand to help her endure a wave of enemies from every direction. And level up fast enough to survive.Slay a God-Tier boss? Done...
  • Road to Ruin by Hana Lee

    Road to Ruin by Hana Lee

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    An electrifying, gritty fantasy from debut author Hana Lee that takes a royal messenger on a high-speed chase across a climate-ravaged wasteland, featuring motorcycles, monsters, and magic.Jin-Lu has the most dangerous job in the wasteland. She’s a magebike courier, one of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles powered by magic...
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    lgbtq  myths  romance  fantasy  sci-fi  wlw  dystopia  post-apocalyptic
  • Asgard's Fall by Robert Hinshaw

    Asgard's Fall by Robert Hinshaw

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Noah didn’t expect much from entering the virtual reality world of Asgard’s Fall. Even the danger of the experimental full immersion technology didn’t put him off. It beat living in a nursing home and was supposed to let him feel young again, at least until modern medicine and his body gave out.But there was something wrong with Asgard’s Fall...
  • The Shattered Sword by T.J. Reynolds

    The Shattered Sword by T.J. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A broke gamer. A deadly online world. Can Dhalia level up fast enough to keep the debt collectors at bay?Dhalia has to pay off her dead father’s bills or risk her life in the lithium mines. Which...no thank you. Besides, the world is run by tech, and this gamer girl is determined to explore the virtual world her father was so obsessed with and get rich while she’s at it...
  • Friends and Foes by Nikita Thorn

    Friends and Foes by Nikita Thorn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now a Level 10 ronin, Seiki is slowly coming to terms with the death of Master Tsujihara and his new life in Shinshioka. Spending his days in the Wilderness, he’s venting his remaining frustration while staying away from the city drama and those griefers, like the Rogami Clan, who had made his in-game experience so challenging thus far. He has even taken up a trade skill...
  • Winter's Arrow by Lexi C. Foss

    Winter's Arrow by Lexi C. Foss

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    True love is a myth.A trick.A way to subdue the heroine and take everything from her. Winter SnowMy "true love" conspired with my stepmother to have me killed and stole my throne.But they failed.I've been in hiding and refining my vengeance. I'm no longer the damsel they mistook me for once upon a time. I'm coming for them. And my kingdom, too...
  • The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire by Storm Constantine

    The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire by Storm Constantine

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ‘If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valour, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired sibling of Good; they walk hand in hand—always. And, by the way, whatever it sounds like, that is not an excuse.’ Calanthe, erstwhile companion of Tigron Pellaz, is on the run...
  • The Experiment by Lexi C. Foss

    The Experiment by Lexi C. Foss

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    DacianaI'm an offering. A test. A pawn in an agreement I know little about.Fly to Andorra Sector.Allow them to experiment.Mate an X-Clan Wolf Alpha.Hope for the best.Those are my orders. My fate. My current existence. There's nowhere to run, and the moon is a clock I can't ignore. One of these Alphas will claim me, assuming our genetics are a match...
  • Julian by Faith Gibson

    Julian by Faith Gibson

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He knew right where she was. He thought he was keeping her safe . . . Until the US Government took his mate. Julian Stone, computer genius for the Stone Society, has spent the last few months helping his fellow Gargoyles rescue their mates while keeping hackers at bay. Now, Julian must save his own mate from the hands of the US Government...
    Categorized as:
    gothic  adult  alpha-mc  book  family  fiction  futuristic  mlm
  • Her Dragon King (Her Dragon King Duet Book 2): 50 Loving States, North Dakota Pt. 2 by Theodora Taylor

    Her Dragon King (Her Dragon King Duet Book 2): 50 Loving States, North Dakota Pt. 2 by Theodora Taylor

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The thrilling conclusion to the DRAGON KING duet.Damianos Drákon is insanely hot, ridiculously huge, and incredibly evil. He’s the trillionaire king of dragons. And also my family’s mortal enemy. He’s a carnivorous hunter who will not stop until he seizes his prey. And now...I’m the mother of his child...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  myths  adult  aliens  alpha-mc  anti-hero  black-mc  book
  • Urijah by Faith Gibson

    Urijah by Faith Gibson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Two Alpha Gargoyles… Urijah Aldobrand and Banyan Sorensen spend the first two hundred years of their lives together, first playing as boys, then fighting alongside each other as warriors. Urijah is searching for a female mate, denying what is in front of him his whole life. He sets off alone, in denial, leaving his best friend behind...
  • Soul Eater by Lily Mayne

    Soul Eater by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    M/M Fantasy Romance. Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. Including Wyn the Soul Eater...
  • Touch of Darkness A Paranormal Romance by Delta James

    Touch of Darkness A Paranormal Romance by Delta James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last thing Skylar wants is exactly what she needs.A serial killer is killing women in Crescent City. Skylar Gautier, New Orleans cop, is determined to track and catch the killer herself. As she closes in on the killer, Travis Nichols, her fated mate shows up, ready for happily ever after. He is a distraction she does not need or want...
  • Edin by Lily Mayne

    Edin by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    I was just a boy when the monsters rose on earth, forcing humans to flee to the coastlines and live in cramped, dirty, military-controlled cities. I enlisted as soon as I could to escape.Now, I’ve been in the military for twelve years and have the scars—and missing body parts—to prove it...
  • Cataclysm by James A. Hunter

    Cataclysm by James A. Hunter

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    October, 2042 An extinction-level asteroid, 213 Astraea, is cannonballing toward Earth. Collision, imminent. An international team of scientists is working around the clock to avert the cataclysm—few are optimistic. World governments are preparing for impact with deep earth bio-dome bunkers, but only a select few lottery winners will be saved...
  • Crimson Heart by Kate Avery Ellison

    Crimson Heart by Kate Avery Ellison

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The latest book in the riveting Sworn Saga!Red Rider has been many things. A Chosen girl. A veiled mate of a Sworn officer. A runaway. The fabled White Mask.Now, she's simply... alone. Abandoned by family and allies.And Kassian, who traded his life for hers, is imprisoned somewhere she cannot find and awaiting execution.Red is determined to find a way to rescue her captured mate...
  • Return of the Ancients by Greig Beck

    Return of the Ancients by Greig Beck

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Arnold Singer is just like any other fifteen-year-old boy growing up in the suburbs – average height, average looks. The love of his life thinks he’s a geek ... that is if she notices him at all. Pretty normal, and pretty boring, really.But this normal life is about to change forever...
  • Sacrifice the Sea by Anna Fury, Amy Pennza

    Sacrifice the Sea by Anna Fury, Amy Pennza

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Deserted by a father I can no longer remember, I’m used to being alone, my only companions the cheerful sea nymphs who frequent my shipwreck. But lately, something powerful brews inside me—an aching restlessness to explore the dark depths beyond my cave.Then I meet Ari, a beguiling merman who tempts me past the edges of my territory...
  • Keystone by Misty Provencher

    Keystone by Misty Provencher

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s a man-made storm coming, like a rip in the world, and it’s called the Cusp. Struggling to fit into the destiny she’s accepted, Nalena Maxwell has been left with one objective: she must find her murdered grandfather’s Memory. Stolen and hidden away by her own father over seventeen years ago, the Memory could be the key to ending the Cusp and destroying the Ianua’s rival community, The Fury...
  • Run for Home by Claire Cullen

    Run for Home by Claire Cullen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tristan knew one thing for certain—he should never have left his pack.Ambushed on the way to another wolf pack, Tristan finds himself a prisoner of the hyenas. At first, he isn’t sure who to be more wary of. His captors. Or his hostile cellmate. But Dash, an alpha fox, has good reason to be distrustful. And that reason might just be the cub hiding in the shadows of their cell...
  • Temper the Flame by Anna Fury, Amy Pennza

    Temper the Flame by Anna Fury, Amy Pennza

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You don’t tempt a dragon unless you’re willing to pay the price. Powerful, merciless creatures, they revel in their dominance over us mortals. I’ve heard whispers that Fuoco, leader of the Fire Syndicate’s dragon clan, is the most brutal of them all. Arrogant and ruthless, he has no qualms about reducing lawbreakers to ashes...
  • Sword in the Stars by A.R. Capetta, Cory McCarthy

    Sword in the Stars by A.R. Capetta, Cory McCarthy

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In this epic sequel to Once & Future, to save the future, Ari and her Rainbow knights pull off a heist...thousands of years in the past.Ari Helix may have won her battle against the tyrannical Mercer corporation, but the larger war has just begun...
  • Rose: Briar's Thorn by Erik Schubach

    Rose: Briar's Thorn by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Her touch is death... her love is worse. For as long as she can remember, Rose has been a monster. Cursed by a man who would one day become one of the most feared creatures on the earth, one of the future Alpha werewolves. Alister Marcus. For hundreds of years she has roamed the earth, living apart from humanity, watching from afar...
  • Omega Dragon by Bryan Davis

    Omega Dragon by Bryan Davis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Omega Dragon is the fourth book in Children of the Bard, a sequel series to the best-selling Dragons in our Midst and Oracles of Fire series. This book concludes the adventures of Matt and Lauren, twin siblings born to Billy and Bonnie Bannister...
  • The Knight and the Butcherbird by Alix E. Harrow

    The Knight and the Butcherbird by Alix E. Harrow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow weaves a dystopian fairy tale that follows the town storyteller as she struggles to protect a local demon from the knight hired to kill it.In this gritty, haunting tale about doing whatever it takes for love, a small-town storyteller resolves to keep the local monster—and her own secrets—safe from a legendary knight...
  • Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones

    Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Controller Borasus receives a strange letter from Earth he is both curious and alarmed. Someone has activated an ancient machine and is using it for most trivial purposes...
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