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Alpha Theo by C.J. Primer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading book one (Alpha Gray) for context before starting in on this one. * This book is very different from book one- it's a slow burn, and it's a very bumpy ride. You've been warned! THEO: I'm next in line to be the alpha of my pack, but my father doesn't think I'm ready... -
![Hell's Fury by Nikki Landis]()
Hell's Fury by Nikki Landis
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo Worlds. Two Codes.One Patch.Patriot:She gave my pain purpose.I took a bullet to save her and I’d do it again.I’m a Marine and a patriot.I save lives. Fight for the weak.Bring the guilty and sadistic to justice.When I found Mimi, I knew the ones who tortured her had to die for their crimes.I killed to keep her safe.She’s no longer alone. I own her now.She’s MINE... -
![High Value Target by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole]()
High Value Target by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can run, but you can’t hide from U.S. Army Rangers. With the armies of the enemy smashed at the final battle for the desert port city, the Rangers return to their primary mission to do what they do: eliminate a high-value target with extreme violence of action deep inside hostile territory... -
![The Wolf Marshal's Pack by Zoe Chant]()
The Wolf Marshal's Pack by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe never meant to be Little Red Riding Hood. Nature photographer Aria Clarke is most comfortable with her camera in her hands and mud on her boots. And she's a single mom, so she's used to facing down the most dangerous wildlife of all: a group of neighborhood kids on a sugar rush. Taking photos of a wolf should have been no problem... -
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![The Snow Leopard's Pack by Zoe Chant]()
The Snow Leopard's Pack by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA librarian with a difficult past + a veteran snow leopard shifter + a dangerous threat = one passionate romance! Divorced, broke, and living at home: Lillian Lowell has given up hope. Ever since her ex-husband left her with a monstrous debt, she’s focused on making her life as small as possible so she can pay it off. Even so, it’s going to take years, and she’s already in her mid-thirties... -
![Rome's Lost Son by Robert Fabbri]()
Rome's Lost Son by Robert Fabbri
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe sixth installment in Robert Fabbri's epic Vespasian seriesRome, AD 51: Vespasian brings Rome's greatest enemy before the Emperor. After eight years of resistance, the British warrior Caratacus has been caught. But even Vespasian's victory cannot remove the newly-made consul from Roman politics: Agrippina, Emperor Claudius's wife, pardons Caratacus...Categorized as:
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![Monster Hunter Siege by Larry Correia]()
Monster Hunter Siege by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 29 ratings#6 in multiple New York Times bestseller Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter series.GO BIG OR GO HOME When Monster Hunter International's top hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, was given a tip about some hunters who had gone missing in action, he didn’t realize their rescue mission would snowball into the single biggest operation in MHI's history... -
![Lion in Waiting by Bianca D'Arc]()
Lion in Waiting by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo 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... -
![Owen and Addy: A Red Team Wedding Novella by Elaine Levine]()
Owen and Addy: A Red Team Wedding Novella by Elaine Levine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRed Team #14 - Owen and Addy: A Red Team Wedding NovellaWriting love letters to a dead woman was the sum total of Owen Tremaine’s romantic prospects without Addy Jacobs in his life... -
![Return to Bear Creek Collection Two: BBW Paranormal Romance by Harmony Raines]()
Return to Bear Creek Collection Two: BBW Paranormal Romance by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsForever Bear Can Cal convince Teagan he is her forever bear? Teagan’s mom never got over her mate leaving after a brief relationship. Unable to cope, she handed her baby over to foster care. A part of Teagan always felt abandoned, and yet she never let herself believe she was unworthy of love. Yet her childhood and all the unanswered questions she has stored up, still haunt her...Categorized as:
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![Single Daddy Bear Next Door: Thornberg Ranch by Harmony Raines]()
Single Daddy Bear Next Door: Thornberg Ranch by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCamille moved to Bear Creek to start a new life. NOT a new relationship.So when her neighbor opens the door wearing nothing, but a towel slung around his hips, and the cutest baby in his arms, she knows she is not going to fall for him…Who is she kidding? Ezra is everything she could want in a man. But she is determined not to fall for the single daddy next door... -
![Tom Swan and the Head of St. George Part Five: Rhodes by Christian Cameron]()
Tom Swan and the Head of St. George Part Five: Rhodes by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA young Englishman, Tom Swan, has been ordered by his Cardinal to find a spy-a traitor. At the same time, a rich merchant has offered him a great deal of money to-well, to steal something. Something that belonged to Alexander the Great.Suddenly he's not a thief or a merchant or a scholar-he's a 'donat' or volunteer with the knights of St...Categorized as:
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![True Allegiance by John Spearman]()
True Allegiance by John Spearman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe third installment of the adventures of Captain Jonah Halberd, Royal Navy of the Interplanetary Commonwealth. Join Captain Halberd in the Commonwealth's fight against a new enemy... -
![Surrender Demand by John Spearman]()
Surrender Demand by John Spearman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe fourth in the series of books detailing the adventures of Jonah Halberd, now an Admiral in the Royal Navy of the Inter-Planetary Commonwealth. Tragedy, loss, danger, excitement, a new love and a new beginning accompany our hero... -
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![Pike's Passage by John Spearman]()
Pike's Passage by John Spearman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsPike’s Passage is the second entry in a new series from the author of the Halberd books. Alexander ‘Sandy’ Pike watches as the Planetary Alliance loses its war. With the surrender, Pike embarks on a risky new career, as unexpected turmoil rocks political boundaries.About Pike’s Passage:“Pike’s Passage is Patrick O’Brien and C.S... -
![The Plainswalker by M.A. Rothman]()
The Plainswalker by M.A. Rothman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPeabo Smith is a former Special Forces soldier who volunteers to be a part of a science experiment that rivals the audacity of the moon landing. When the experiment leaves him stuck in a place he can’t escape, Peabo realizes just how unprepared he is for his new mission...Categorized as:
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![The Lost Kingdom by David Leadbeater]()
The Lost Kingdom by David Leadbeater
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Lost Kingdom is the latest in the breathtaking Matt Drake series, packed with enough action to keep you reading long into the night.In 1945 China's greatest treasure, the ancient fossilised remains of the Peking Man, disappeared, last known location: Singapore... -
![Project 19 by Matt Jackson, James Rosone]()
Project 19 by Matt Jackson, James Rosone
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings. What if Saddam Hussein ……hadn’t stopped with Kuwait?Project 19 might have worked.No one knows how close Iraq came to invading Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. They wanted their money, and Saddam wanted revenge. In a world where the USSR ran a lend-lease program with the Iraqis, Saddam felt emboldened... -
![Lindy & The Wulfen by R.E. Butler]()
Lindy & The Wulfen by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter 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... -
![Firestorm Forever by Deborah Cooke]()
Firestorm Forever by Deborah Cooke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis flame will burn for all time… Three key firestorms mark the culmination of the Dragon’s Tail Wars, pitting the dragon shifters known as the Pyr against the evil Slayers. The Slayers have struck a blow against mankind, in bringing a pestilence from the ancient world, which is spreading like wildfire through the human world... -
![Arrows of Revolution by Honor Raconteur]()
Arrows of Revolution by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA tic started jumping near Hendrix’s eye. “You don’t have a plan? You formed a country without a plan on how to deal with Iysh?!” With Hendrix on their side and aiming for the Iyshian throne, Estole knows now is the time to end the deadlock with Iysh before the Iyshian armies arrive and wipe them out for good... -
![Forsaken by Caitlyn O'Leary]()
Forsaken by Caitlyn O'Leary
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaught Between Duty and Love… Seth Natani is one of the DEA’s best operatives thanks to his “found” abilities, but he’s hanging on by a thread. Working undercover for almost two years the evil surrounding him continues to mount. Leaving his lover, Annie Newman, behind was the hardest thing he had ever done... -
![Clash Of Empires by Sam Barone]()
Clash Of Empires by Sam Barone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClash of Empires is the sixth novel in Sam Barone's bronze age historical saga in the tradition of Conn Iggulden, Bernard Cornwell, and Jean Auel. In Dawn of Empire, Eskkar the warrior and Trella the slave girl come together in a mighty struggle to survive a barbarian invasion and build mankind's first walled city... -
![Revolution: Book 3 in the Anarchy series by Megan DeVos]()
Revolution: Book 3 in the Anarchy series by Megan DeVos
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE. INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN CHAPTER.'The Hunger Games meets The Road' MTVYou fight, you kill, you steal, you lie.... or you die.As war breaks out between Blackwing and Greystone, Grace's allegiance becomes clear. But that doesn't make her task any easier.Hayden knows that war is coming... -
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![Annihilation: Book 4 in the Anarchy series by Megan DeVos]()
Annihilation: Book 4 in the Anarchy series by Megan DeVos
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE. INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN CHAPTER. 'The Hunger Games meets The Road' MTV This is the end of us all.For Hayden and Grace, the threat of war has become a reality. The world is running out of resources, driving the survivors to drastic, inhuman measures... -
![Accidental Warrior: The Unlikely Tale of Bloody Hal by Colin Alexander]()
Accidental Warrior: The Unlikely Tale of Bloody Hal by Colin Alexander
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“A rousing what-if look at a decidedly different America persuasively stuck in a historical past.” – Kirkus ReviewsA college party lands freshman Hal Christianson in an America that could have been: no smartphones, no cars, no flush toilets... -
![The Forever Man Box Set - 6 Books: The Complete First Series by Craig Zerf]()
The Forever Man Box Set - 6 Books: The Complete First Series by Craig Zerf
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll 6 Books for One Great Price...Lee Child meets Lord of the Rings - Individual Books Have Over 500 Top Reviews. "This is one of the best epic fantasy books that I have ever read. It is in a class of its own. Zerf has created a cross between the heroic epic fantasy of David Gemmell and RR Martin as well as a good slice of Steven King"...Categorized as:
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![Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools Volume 2 by Hisaya Amagishi, 甘岸久弥]()
Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools Volume 2 by Hisaya Amagishi, 甘岸久弥
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHaving escaped her doomed engagement, Dahlia is relishing her new life of freedom as an independent magical toolmaker. One day, she learns that her friend Volf, a knight from the Order of Beast Hunters, is to be sent out to the marshlands on a mission. But there’s a problem—traversing the marshes soon leaves the knights with soggy boots full of sweat and swamp water... -
![Max and Hope: A Red Team Wedding Novella by Elaine Levine]()
Max and Hope: A Red Team Wedding Novella by Elaine Levine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe holidays have come fast to the team at Tremaine Industries. So much has happened since spring—families destroyed and reunited. Several threats have been terminated and others are just beginning.Max Cameron finally has time for a breather, something he hasn’t had since he found Hope in the midst of a violent biker gang, hunting for her brother... -
![My Next Mistake by Sarah J. Brooks]()
My Next Mistake by Sarah J. Brooks
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy next big mistake has a name: Cole Cumberland. Whoever created him used the following recipe: Dreamy eyes, playful smile, and rock-hard muscles that give you chills. Add a pinch of humor, coupled with quick-witted intelligence and a mysterious aura that will make you feel slightly insecure. When I met him on a winter climbing excursion, I didn’t expect to wake up in his tent the next morning...Categorized as:
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![Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start With Magical Tools Volume 6 by Hisaya Amagishi]()
Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start With Magical Tools Volume 6 by Hisaya Amagishi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDahlia’s quiet evening with Volf gets interrupted when a rain-soaked Marcella appears at her front gate pleading for help. Not all problems can be remedied with mere words, and Dahlia must fly into the face of danger now that lives are on the line... -
![The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent (Light Novel) Vol. 4 by Yuka Tachibana, 橘由華]()
The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent (Light Novel) Vol. 4 by Yuka Tachibana, 橘由華
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAt long last, Sei knows how to control the power of the Saint that resides within her...which means it's time to wield it. She must cleanse the forest of Klausner's Domain, or her new friends will never again know peace and prosperity. But Sei's first foray into the forest depths nearly ends in disaster... -
![Winter's Rising by Mark Tufo]()
Winter's Rising by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom birth to death, The War is all the citizens of Dystance know. As children it is drilled into their heads that war is the purpose behind all existence. Winter doesn't agree. She's stumbled across remnants of life the way it was before The War began and now she longs to be as free as her ancestors. With help from her best friend Cedar and the boy she is forbidden to love, Tallow...Categorized as:
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![Last of the Zinja by Robert Shea]()
Last of the Zinja by Robert Shea
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeautiful young Taniko struggles under oppression as the mistress of the cruel Kublai Khan, and Jebu, a young monk, is transformed into a fierce warrior, in a saga of the ancient Orient during a time of bloodshed and magic. Reprint...Categorized as:
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![Royal Guard Lion by Zoe Chant]()
Royal Guard Lion by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA curvy American shocked to learn that she's a lost princess + a warrior lion shifter sworn to protect her + a hidden shifter kingdom in desperate need of a leader = a sizzling romance fit for a queen! Signy Zlotsky grew up thinking everything about her (except her hard-to-pronounce name) was ordinary and all-American. Then the father she barely remembers leaves her a royal inheritance... -
![1001 Dark Nights Short Story Anthology 2020 by Fiona Archer, Louisa Bacio]()
1001 Dark Nights Short Story Anthology 2020 by Fiona Archer, Louisa Bacio
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1001 Dark Nights Press is excited to present the winners of the 2020 short story challenge...When we started 1001 Dark Nights back in 2014, it was with the goal of discovery—creating a way for readers to find new-to-them bestselling authors and fall in love with their stories and their worlds... -
![The Spider by Leo Carew]()
The Spider by Leo Carew
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA battle has been won, but the war still wages on...Roper, the Black Lord of the northern people, may have vanquished the Suthern army at the Battle of Harstathur. But the greatest threat to his people lies in the hands of more shadowy forces.In the south, the disgraced Bellamus bides his time... -
![Grunge by Larry Correia, John Ringo]()
Grunge by Larry Correia, John Ringo
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen Marine Private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the Marine barrack bombing in Beirut, somebody who might be Saint Peter gives him a choice: Go to Heaven, which while nice might be a little boring, or return to Earth. The Boss has a mission for him and he's to look for a sign. He's a Marine: He'll choose the mission. Unfortunately, the sign he's to look for is "57... -
![Nyx by G. Eilsel]()
Nyx by G. Eilsel
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNinety-one years ago, I stumbled upon a window to a strange new world. Beyond, there were blue skies and odd trees, and flowers like nothing I’d ever seen. Curiosity got the better of me, and life as I knew it changed forever.Ljómur was the military’s best kept secret. Behind those walls, I was experimented on and studied, torn apart and put back together... -
![Fallen Empire by Marc Alan Edelheit]()
Fallen Empire by Marc Alan Edelheit
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter years of catastrophic fighting, the rebellion is over. The First Galactic Empire has fallen. The Keeper of the Unknowable, Guardian of the Gates, the Eternal Emperor, is dead. Entire star systems have been ravaged by war, planets cracked by powerful weapons, and suns sent into supernova. The infrastructure of an advanced civilization that spanned thousands of stars is ruined...Categorized as:
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![Parno's Gambit by N.C. Reed]()
Parno's Gambit by N.C. Reed
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn a post-apocalyptic world thrown back into medieval times, young Prince Parno McLeod's family troubles have gone from bad to worse of late. His father has been murdered by his insane sister and his brother has only narrowly escaped death at her hand...Categorized as:
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![Close Enough by Viola Grace]()
Close Enough by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOffered 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... -
![The Storm by David Drake]()
The Storm by David Drake
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE THRILLING RE-TELLING OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND FROM MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY DAVID DRAKE CONTINUES! A young Champion must rescue a friend and battle an enemy at the heart of a chaotic world. The universe has shattered into chaos and monsters... -
![Virtually Hers by Gennita Low]()
Virtually Hers by Gennita Low
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCyber punk spy-fy with erotic elements (see warning below)Super Soldier Spy, Book 2 He can't get her out of his head...literally. In Helen "Hell" Roston's elite black ops world, failure isn't listed as an option in the rule book. As the leading guinea pig in a dangerous combination of virtual reality training and a mind-altering serum, though, every day offers a thousand ways to blow it... -
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![The Unthinkable by C.R. Daems]()
The Unthinkable by C.R. Daems
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPreviously published in 2015 as The Kazak Guardians, Book II The Unthinkable, 2015. Only the Cover design in new. Lynn the Fox has been a Kazak for several years and thought she had seen it all. She was, after all, a Master Kazak having killed more than five Assassins—professional killers with wizard-like talents. But life is unpredictable and the unimaginable is about to happen... -
![Hearts of Ice by David Hair]()
Hearts of Ice by David Hair
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSummer is gone, and the world is turning to ice.The Rondian Empress Lyra has lost her husband, her army is defeated and the deadly Masked Cabal have seized the Holy City. Her allies have abandoned her and her empire is spiralling into chaos - and her only weapon is a forbidden magic she dare not use... -
![Conan the Destroyer by Robert E. Howard]()
Conan the Destroyer by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first in a new series of Conan reprints! Conan the Barbarian is one of the most famed figures in fantasy fiction. With the success of the new film starring Jason Momoa and Ron Perlman, the time is right to revisit Robert E. Howard's classic stories... -
![The Serpent Queen by Joshua Reynolds]()
The Serpent Queen by Joshua Reynolds
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe bestselling Gotrek & Felix series continuesGotrek and Felix: unsung heroes of the Empire, or nothing more than common thieves and murderers? The truth perhaps lies somewhere in between, and depends entirely upon whom you ask.. -
![Bulletproof by Regan Black]()
Bulletproof by Regan Black
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA soldier is nothing without his honor.To avoid a dishonorable end to his decorated military career, John Noble made a deal with the devil. He gave up his name, endured harrowing training, and accepted every mission thrown at him for one purpose: redemption... -
![Red Hot Alphas by Jo Raven, Blair Babylon]()
Red Hot Alphas by Jo Raven, Blair Babylon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReady to get HOT? Eleven top-selling authors have banded together to bring you 11 ALL-NEW titillating novels of love, passion, romance, and thrilling suspense.These sexy, alpha men--from an orphaned tattoo artist, a partying rock star drummer with a secret past, a motorcycle club V.P...
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