Books like 'Sunshine Patriots'
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Sigma by Tiya Rayne
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShiloh Green has had the worse luck when it comes to men. For the last seven years she’s been trapped in a relationship with her Kingpin boyfriend. But opportunity to escape comes knocking when a mysterious businessman visits. Now Shiloh is headed to a top-secret military base to be a volunteer breeder for a government experiment... -
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsScientist Ada has a boundless imagination and has always been hopelessly curious. Why are there pointy things stuck to a rose? Why are there hairs growing inside your nose? When her house fills with a horrific, toe-curling smell, Ada knows it’s up to her to find the source...Categorized as:
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No Mercy by L. Divine
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMisty and the rest of Esmeralda's evil brood are busy concocting a sinister plan to not only destroy Jayd and the rest of her powerful lineage, but Esmeralda and Rousseau are also using their powers to take over G's drug business. Mama's in and out of a dangerous dream state due to Esmeralda's wicked manipulation and unable to properly shut her evil neighbor down... -
Ah'dan by Nikki Clarke
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLeft by his soulmate and forced to watch his brothers build lives with their true loves, Ah'dan finds new promise in the beautiful eyes of a human woman, Niya. Still bound to his lehti for life, Ah'dan hopes he isn't too broken for another kind of happiness... -
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The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMurder. Secrets. Sacrifice: Three women seek the truth of the empire's past. And the truth they find has the power to ignite a war in the sequel to The Final Strife, the continuation of a visionary fantasy trilogy inspired by Africa and Arabia.Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens' Empire. But when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her reign is thrown into turmoil... -
Madas’s Falling Star / Madas’s Unexpected Gift by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMadas’s Unexpected GiftCan a small reptile from another world save the Princess he has adopted?L’eon, a Chameleon Lightning Lizard, awakens to find that his planet was destroyed by an unidentified force... -
Apex Predator: Wolf Moon by D.A. Roberts
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey exist in myth and legend dating back to the earliest history of man. Different cultures have different names for the same creature, which has haunted the dark places of our collective psyche. Loup Garou, Werewolf, Lycanthropes, Rougaru, Michigan Dogman, The Beast of Land Between the Lakes, Oolonga-Doglalla, Shunka Warak'in, Skinwalker... -
An Alpha's Claim by E. Bowser
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDax Rayne swore off Hunters long ago for how they treated his kind. That is until a Hunter named Devana Okar entered his life with visions of rogue wolves and with the scent that she is his MATE.Dax wasn’t expecting the True Alpha of all Wolves to come to him with a mission involving working with a Hunter. A mission to stop a rogue wolf from killing other Alpha’s and taking control of their packs... -
Bati by Nikki Clarke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat's blue, black and hot all over?Bati is surprised as anyone when he is leht to his brother's mate's sister, Tiani. Even though they butt heads, she makes him feel things he's been waiting his entire life to feel. Things he wants to feel forever. Unfortunately, a few heated encounters is as far as Tiani's willing to let it go.Tiani likes to think she's smart when it comes to relationships... -
Fumble. Pass. Repeat. by T'Lyn
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKyce Jefferson understood change. His life had been a continuous reminder that nothing last for ever. However, his one constant had always been football. Women come and go but the Chicago Bears was his team, his home and his life. Being traded was the last thing he expected or wanted.Iyoni Nixon lived and breathed for her son. He was her reason... -
The Wraith : Guerrilla Warfare by Jeffery H. Haskell
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhen the Hunter becomes the Hunted… Madisun Dumas is on a roll. She kicked ISO-1 out of Detroit, and then New Orleans. The people who killed her family are six feet under. Now, it’s time to go after their bosses, but not everything is as simple as it appears… Something sinister is brewing within ISO-1. Drugs, corruption, and human trafficking are all just a cover for something far more horrific... -
Claiming Gabriel by Tessa Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a world of danger and destiny, Gabriel must rescue orphaned shifters while grappling with an irresistible bond to Olivia, the waitress who unwittingly becomes his fated mate. GabrielI’m the last of my pack to find a mate, and it’s agonizing. I crave the family life I’ve watched my brothers enjoy for years... -
The White House: A Novella by JaQuavis Coleman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe young heroine Draya lives paycheck to paycheck, laboring as a maid in a luxurious white house. One day, in the course of performing her duties, she is presented with an irresistible opportunity for a quick--and risky--payday. What unfolds in the white house changes the course of her life... -
Saving Jacob by Tessa Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA witch destined to save her fated mate and their supernatural community from an ancient evil must embrace her hidden powers before it's too late. JacobAfter suffering alone in wolf form for a thousand years, unable to shift back to human, I thought my existence was over. But then the mysterious Hazel showed me that my true mate was out there and gave me hope again... -
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Secret Agent Seduction by Maureen Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn to live a life of intrigue and adventure, beautiful Secret Service agent Lia Charles has never met a challenge she can't overcome. That is, until she receives her latest assignment--rescue the brilliant, boldly charismatic and bona fide hottie Armand Magliore, a revolutionary leader of a war-ravaged Caribbean republic... -
Virak by Ella Blake
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJessa Robson applied to the alien match program for the money. After a string of disappointing relationships and a childhood spent shuffling between foster homes, she doesn’t envision love in her future. When she’s chosen to be a mistress for a Virilian male, she sees that five-million-dollar fee as her ticket to an independent life, free from scraping by and dead-end jobs... -
Summoned by Eve Vaughn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI thought we were untouchable, safe from The Registry and the invaders who essentially turned my people into their slaves. But my idyllic life was brought to an abrupt end when the Enforcers ripped us from our homes, tearing families apart. I was certain my defiance of the new laws would surely result in my death until I heard that fateful Breeder... -
Theirs to Forever by Taylor Vaughn, Theodora Taylor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy Alien Overlords are red, massive, and determined to claim--steal? keep? possibly all of the above--me. Moons, I dunno. My status with the Louxos cousins is set on so, SO complicated.One night of passion with two Xalthurians changed everything. Nope! Try made everything worse... -
Taken to Kor by Elizabeth Stephens
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeenaRhork. He's a space pirate. The bad kind. But he's also been my only source of company for the past rotation that I've been held captive.Halfway across the galaxy, I'm happy to have finally escaped and found more humans...well, I was.But now, I'm not so sure that people are so much better than pirates. And I'm very sure that I'll need Rhork's help to get out of this... -
Long Road to Freedom by Kate Messner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRanger is a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training. In this adventure, he goes to a Maryland plantation during the days of American slavery, where he meets a young girl named Sarah. When she learns that the owner has plans to sell her little brother, Jesse, to a plantation in the Deep South, it means they could be separated forever... -
M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFollowing the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M... -
Craving Carla: A Dark Vampire Romance by Tessa Stone
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a world of supernatural fate, their love breaks every rule. AmariFor centuries, I've walked this earth, a vampire king with golden eyes and ancient power, waiting for the one soul destined to be mine. When I found Carla—the Mother of Spiders, feared even in Wintermoon—I knew my search was over... -
Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great by Nicanor Parra
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Real seriousness," Nicanor Parra, the antipoet of Chile, has said, rests in "the comic." And read in that light, this newest collection of his work is very serious indeed... -
I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend by Jessica Cage
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOpen a book. Read a spell. Whoop, there he is... a demon.The last single friend in her group and tired of being stood up by her girls, a drunken Rayna turns to her first love, a book. After jokingly casting a spell her favorite character used to conjure a loving boyfriend, the results aren’t nearly as funny... -
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Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYou lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib... -
When She's Bold by Ruby Dixon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsOn Risda III, it’s custom for women to marry for convenience. It provides safety and security in a universe that offers none for humans.Me, I don’t really *need* a husband. I just want one. And I want one man in particular. There’s a new guy in town, a by-the-books military man named Rektar. Every day I show up to his office and flirt with him. I bring pies. I twirl my hair... -
Zahara's Alpha: A Vampire Shifter Romance by September Knight
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZahara Nightthorn is a vampire princess. She's bold, dangerous, and absolutely uninterested in the idea of mates. Vampires don’t have mates. So when the commanding and infuriatingly gorgeous Alpha Malachi "Kai" Rivers claims she’s his, she does what any self-respecting vampire would do. She runs.Kai has spent a lifetime at the top... -
Falling for a Zombie Princess by LeeSha McCoy
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnlike the rest of Zombie Royalty, Raeni Clarke hasn’t revealed her identity to the world, so when she rocks up at Gower College, ready to start her new, ‘normal’ life, she’s not expecting to be recognised by anyone.But someone knows who she is. There’s no mistaking the haunting eyes of Zombie_Royalty_Princess01.***Camr’yn.The moment she stepped foot in my English class, I knew who she was... -
Snowed In with an Exiled Alpha by Elle Madearis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter centuries without a mate, Enzo's luck is running dry. When his younger brother finds his mate first, the Orange Moon Pack turns against Enzo, resulting in his exile. Isolated and forced to begin anew, Enzo's hope is fading.For Seven, marriage means submitting to the will of a stranger... -
Ginger's Grizzlies: A Curvy Girl Paranormal Romance by September Knight
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGinger thought she was powerless. Born a witch without magic, she was cast aside by her coven and trapped in a loveless, abusive marriage. But the night she finally decided she had enough, something deep inside her awakened. With it, she unleashed a power unlike anything she had ever known... -
Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn NPR Books Great Read: Two never-before-published stories from the archives of one of science fiction’s all-time masters. The novella “A Necessary Being” showcases Octavia E. Butler’s ability to create alien yet fully believable “others.” Tahneh’s father was a Hao, one of a dwindling race whose leadership abilities render them so valuable that their members are captured and forced to govern... -
Big Papa and the Time Machine by Daniel Bernstrom
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover the true meaning of being brave in this tender and whimsical picture book from Daniel Bernstrom (One Day in the Eucalytus, Eucalyptus Tree) and Shane Evans (Chocolate Me!) that follows a grandfather and grandson who travel through time in a beloved 1952 Ford.A little boy who lives with his grandpa isn’t reprimanded for being afraid to go to school one day... -
Horatio by T.J. Klune
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn October 15, 1979, two men take to the road, leaving their town behind, waiting for the peanut farmer president to come onto the radio to make an important announcement about the future of all mankind. In the hours leading up to the broadcast, Jamie and Harry will look back on their relationship, and what it means to live in defiance like there's no tomorrow... -
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism “Tananarive Due is the master of Black horror, even teaching a class where Jordan Peele guest-lectured. So her new collection, The Wishing Pool, out in mid-April, is a major treat, full of major scares... -
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Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWin “Coal” Keegan has just landed in his latest foster home, with a big, noisy, slightly nosy family named the McKays. They seem eager to welcome Coal, but he’s wary of trusting them. So, he doesn’t tell them that he went for a walk with chalk in his pocket to cover a nearby street with his art. He doesn’t tell them that a neighbor found Coal drawing, pulled a gun on him, and fired it... -
Cry of the Curlew by Peter Watt
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSquatter Donald Macintosh little realises what chain of events he is setting in motion when he orders the violent dispersal of the Nerambura tribe on his property, Glen View. Unwitting witnesses to the barbaric exercise are bullock teamsters Patrick Duffy and his son Tom...Categorized as:
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Bound by the Vori: The Mate Index: Vora by S.J. Sanders
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Kim Harris decides to volunteer for the Mate Index, it’s all about going big or go home. As a statuesque woman with a full figure, she wants a massive male—or better yet, males—who are capable of making all her dreams come true... -
Engine Empire: Poems by Cathy Park Hong
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEngine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future. Through three distinct yet interconnected sequences, Cathy Park Hong explores the collective consciousness of fictionalized boomtowns in order to explore the myth of prosperity... -
Rose Point by M.C.A. Hogarth
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsReese is only just getting used to running the Earthrise in the black—and with an Eldritch in her crew—when a trip to a colony world gives rise to a whole new problem: Hirianthial is showing powers that even the Eldritch rarely have, and that only in legend. He badly needs training, support and advice, and the only place he can find them is... at home... -
Laisrathera by M.C.A. Hogarth
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Queen of the Eldritch has offered Reese Eddings a life out of a fairy tale, one beyond the imagination of a poor girl from Mars who’d expected to spend her life eking out a living with a rattletrap merchant vessel... -
Snowed In With A Beta by Elle Madearis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you think blind dates are bad, imagine your date is a werewolf. Ayira Jones doesn’t spend much time around anyone—human or werewolf—so when her date claims that they’re mates, she reacts like any person would. By panicking.Chozen isn’t looking for a mate. As firstborn to the Alpha, he’s busy training and protecting his pack as he prepares for the responsibility of a lifetime... -
A Rose Point Holiday by M.C.A. Hogarth
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith the Eldritch civil war over, a castle to renovate, and a wedding to prepare for, the last thing Reese is thinking about is taking a break. But the new year is coming and the Eldritch take their holidays very seriously, so Reese decides it can’t hurt to observe the local proprieties. Who knows? Maybe it’ll make good practice for what Felith is calling the wedding of the century... -
Snowed In With The Grumpy Shifter by Tessa Stone
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a car crash leaves her stranded in his cabin during a snowstorm, Maya discovers her fated mate is a grumpy shifter who's determined to never let her go. KaiI've been a lone wolf since leaving my pack, avoiding both Alphas vying for my loyalty in Shadow Wolf Creek. Then I catch her scent—sweet strawberries that drive my wolf wild... -
La invención de Morel / El gran Serafín by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEl argentino Adolfo Bioy Casares, nacido en 1914, tiene en su haber una larga y consistente labor literaria finalmente reconocida al concedérsele el Premio Cervantes en 1990. En el presente volumen se ofrecen dos de sus obras más características, la novela La invención de Morel y la colección de cuentos cortos El gran Serafín... -
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Kin Selection by L.B. Gilbert, Lucy Leroux
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAnimal activist Denise Hammond had no idea the wolf cub she just rescued was a shifter--not until the werewolf sent to recover him kidnapped her. Saving a wolf cub from an animal-testing facility changes everything for Denise Hammond, a feisty and dedicated animal activist. Determined to protect the innocent pup, she's shocked when the cub shifts into a toddler right before her eyes... -
Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the year 1863, a primitive village is raided, the men killed, and the women and children captured. The survivors find themselves chained in the dark, filthy hold of a ship crossing the ocean to the New World, where they are sold into slavery. The powerful master of a vast Southern plantation purchases the 11-year-old Irish lad Aidan O'Dere... -
The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBlack Mirror meets Get Out in this gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. Butler, which deftly blends science fiction, horror, and fantasy to examine issues of race, class, and prejudice—an electrifying, oftentimes heartbreaking debut from an extraordinary new voice. Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R. L... -
A Secret for the Alien Prince by Eva O'Hare
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Brides of Rakesh Book 2Now Available in ebook and paperback!Mars needs Black women! Well, not Mars exactly, but a planet called Rakesh. All of the female creatures on Rakesh died during a plague, and now the Rakesh males have no mates. If they don't find mates soon, their species will die. Finding mates won't be easy. Only Black females from Earth will do... -
Genius: The Con by Leopoldo Gout
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThree teen geniuses from diverse backgrounds must work together to stop a vicious warlord, protect their families, and save the world in this fast-paced sequel to Genius: The Game.ON THE RUN!Tunde: This fourteen-year-old self-taught engineering genius from Nigeria is in a race against time to save his village from a ruthless warlord... -
Report from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInfused with feminist, Afro-Caribbean views of the science fiction and fantasy genres, this collection of offbeat and highly original works takes aim at race and racism in literature...
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