Books like 'Once Upon a Tale'

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  • The Keeper of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Keeper of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bootlace is being hunted.Peace hasn’t come easy for the Stryker Pack, and for Bootlace, the sanctuary they’ve found feels too good to be true. His wolfish instincts are being riled up as a pretty woman with a load of secrets starts visiting him and asking questions she has no business asking...
  • Red Havoc Bad Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Red Havoc Bad Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **Don’t miss the epic finale in T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Red Havoc Panthers series** The countdown is on. Crazy Lynn Matheson has six days until she’ll join all the other shifters who have lost their minds and been put down by their alphas...
  • The Twilight Journals by Stephenie Meyer

    The Twilight Journals by Stephenie Meyer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Twilight Journals set includes four gorgeous journals packaged in a collectible keepsake tin, inspired by Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn...
  • Firefighter Unicorn by Zoe Chant

    Firefighter Unicorn by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    His touch can heal anything — except her. Her touch can kill anyone — except him. He’s her salvation. She’s his doom. Sarcastic. Short-tempered. Definitely not sparkly. Paramedic and firefighter Hugh Argent is no one’s idea of a unicorn, and he’s careful to keep it that way. His life depends on hiding his secrets…and on never meeting his true mate. Outcast. Unwanted. Untouchable...
  • Wildfire Sea Dragon by Zoe Chant

    Wildfire Sea Dragon by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wildfires and demons? No sweat.His bodyguard? She’s the real danger…Noble. Dutiful. Serious. All words that no one would ever use to describe sea dragon shifter Joe, the Crown Prince of Atlantis.As the Heir to the Pearl Throne, he’s supposed to be preparing to rule a vast underwater empire…which is exactly why he’s on a fire crew in the ass-end of Montana...
  • Red Havoc Guardian by T.S. Joyce

    Red Havoc Guardian by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Greyson McCarty is hiding big secrets and doing his best to stay invisible in the Red Havoc Crew. By his own choice, he is at the very bottom of the crew, but when he enlists the help of a shifter matchmaking service to find a mate, the one he’s given makes it hard for him to hide what he really is. Genevieve is smart, and funny, and the most interesting woman he’s ever met...
  • Boarlander Bash Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Boarlander Bash Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sebastian “Bash” Kane is ready for a mate. He’s been fighting for his lumberjack crew of bear shifters to lift the ban on women in the trailer park, and his alpha has just given him the go ahead to find the woman of his dreams. But when he meets a shy newspaper editor in a diner, it becomes clear that finding a mate might not be so easy...
  • Driven by Destiny by Lindsay Buroker

    Driven by Destiny by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Arwen Forester is on a quest to remove her dark-elven tattoo and get her mother’s evil people out of her life forever. The last thing she wants is for them to magically manipulate her into betraying Azerdash Starblade, the half-dragon refugee she has feelings for...
  • Dawson Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Dawson Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dalton Dawson is reeling on the anniversary of an event that changed his life forever. All he wants to do is hide from his past for a few days, but in walks trouble in the form of a timid human who has his heart thawing for the first time in years. He’s not looking for a mate, but Kate Hawke is a fascinating and complicated woman that his wolf is desperate to figure out...
  • Betrayal of the Court by Heather G. Harris

    Betrayal of the Court by Heather G. Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Death. Theft. Marriage. It’s an average day in the Other Realm.Someone keeps bludgeoning people in the Other realm to death. A couple of the murders were virtually in our back garden, so Emory has asked me to try and find the culprit. I’d feel better if I didn’t have Shirdal along with me, cracking jokes and on the verge of a deadly killing spree of his own...
  • The Magical Beings' Rehabilitation Center: The Complete Series by K.M. Shea

    The Magical Beings' Rehabilitation Center: The Complete Series by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Werewolves have fleas. Cyclops need glasses. Dark Elves give villain monologues. Maybe the magical paranormal world isn’t quite what we expect? This special boxset contains the complete urban fantasy series the Magical Beings' Rehabilitation Center: Vampires Drink Tomato Juice, Goblins Wear Suits, and The Lost Files of the MBRC...
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  • Unexpected Heat by Sedona Ashe

    Unexpected Heat by Sedona Ashe

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Things are falling apart.I’ve been betrayed and captured, but that’s not even the worst part…I’m in heat. Three hundred years early.When I get my hands on those who betrayed me, I’m going to punt their butts over the dang moon! First, though, I need to work on escaping this dungeon while also surviving the torture by the traitors trying to steal my power.Idiots...
  • Soul of the Pack by Lola Glass

    Soul of the Pack by Lola Glass

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ALONE. POWERLESS. HUMAN.Tendira is a world of beastly shifters and deadly animals… except me.The Human Queen.When my home is taken over by an angry pack who wants me dead, I'm forced to run, so I go to the one place my attackers won't dare follow:The Blood Lands.But the Blood Alpha watches his territory more closely than I imagined. His people catch me, and drag me to their pack's capitol...
  • Revelations by Lindsay Buroker

    Revelations by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Power that’s growing ever more impossible to hide… Captain Telryn “Trip” Yert is on the most important mission of his life. Accompanied by Captain Kaika, the sentient soulblade Jaxi, and Rysha Ravenwood—the noble-born scholar and officer he definitely shouldn’t be developing feelings for—he must find a way to close a portal that’s allowing more and more dragons into the world...
  • Mated to the Fire Dragon by Zoe Chant

    Mated to the Fire Dragon by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A powerful fire dragon. A human prisoner. True mates always save each other... War is threatening the dragon world - and curvy human journalist Alyx finds herself caught in the crossfire. Imprisoned by hostile fire dragons, she takes a million-to-one chance at escape... Only to run straight into the arms of another fire dragon. One who's frustratingly handsome and charming...
  • Dark Dragon's Wolf by Anastasia Wilde

    Dark Dragon's Wolf by Anastasia Wilde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mayah, princess of the Draken House of Al-Maddeiri, has been haunted by ghosts for years. Visions, dreams, and nightmares—ghosts reaching out to her, begging her to save them...
  • DRAGON'S GAP #1-3 by L.M. Lacee

    DRAGON'S GAP #1-3 by L.M. Lacee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    L.M. Lacee introduces her first omnibus edition in the popular Dragon's Gap Saga. This digital box set contains the first, second and third romantic adventures PLUS a bonus novella: Reighn & Sage's Story: Reighn had no idea when he woke one morning what the day was about to deliver...
  • The Dragon Warrior by Jessie Donovan

    The Dragon Warrior by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grant McFarland is the head Protector of Clan Lochguard. His top priority is finding the traitorous former clan members who attacked the Scottish clan. However, the touch of a female he’s known his whole life has started to set his body on fire. Both man and beast want her, but until he can ensure the clan is safe, he must resist her.Faye MacKenzie used to be in charge of security for her clan...
  • Fairytales From Verania by T.J. Klune

    Fairytales From Verania by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you back to the land of Verania in a new collection of short stories starring the beloved characters from the Tales of Verania series.In the opening story—The Unicorn in the Tower—Gary is a princess trapped in a stone tower by the evil Lady Tina DeSilva, who plans on sacrificing him on the first full moon after his eighteenth birthday...
  • Charmed Mate by Candace Ayers

    Charmed Mate by Candace Ayers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fern Day is barely holding it together most days. The single, fully-human mom of a fifteen-year-old-shifter-with-an-attitude has no time for herself. Her life is chaos, she’s a hot mess, and her daughter is her first priority. Sunkissed Key’s handsome pediatrician sure is tempting, though. When he offers to teach her daughter how to handle her animal side, Fern can’t refuse...
  • Descending Darkness by Kaitlyn Hoyt

    Descending Darkness by Kaitlyn Hoyt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A magical prophecy, scorching secrets, and descending darkness.Ryanne’s had enough. Though only eighteen, she has the pressure of an ancient prophecy and the weight of an entire magical race pressed upon her shoulders. Because of that, she’s been surrounded by fighting and death for months...
  • Warrior Wolf by Zoe Chant

    Warrior Wolf by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A runaway dragon princess who wants to experience life outside of castle walls + an ex-gangster werewolf bodyguard with a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas + uptown parties, downtown nightclubs, and deadly assassins = one action-packed good girl/bad boy romance! Dragon princess Raluca, desperate to escape her pampered but suffocating life, renounced her title and fled her country...
  • 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...
  • A Throne of Ruin by K.F. Breene

    A Throne of Ruin by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The only thing protecting me from the demons...is the beast. Nyfain, the golden dragon prince, tried to set me free. But there is no freedom in this kingdom. Not for anyone. The demons have sought me out. They want to trap me. To use me against Nyfain. It's only a matter of time before they call in the demon king. Nyfain thinks I should save myself...
  • The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa

    The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    My name - my True Name - is Ashallayn’ darkmyr Tallyn. I am the last remaining son of Mab, Queen of the Unseelie Court. And I am dead to her. My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl…To cold faery prince Ash, love was a weakness for mortals and fools. His own love had died a horrible death, killing any gentler feelings the Winter prince might have had. Or so he thought...
  • Starflower by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

    Starflower by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Black Dogs are on the hunt, but who is their prey?When a cursed dragon-witch kidnaps fairest Lady Gleamdren, the Bard Eanrin sets boldly forth on a rescue mission...and a race against his rival for Gleamdren's favor. Intent upon his quest, the last thing the immortal Faerie needs is to become mixed up with the troubles of an insignificant mortal...
  • How To Train A Witch by Donna McDonald

    How To Train A Witch by Donna McDonald

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s the Jezibaba, not the Jezibooboo. Sleeping with Professor Hottie is out of the question… or is it? After three hundred years of keeping the magical peace in the world, Jezibaba is a hundred years past being ready to hang up her witch’s hat. The Council of Witches still can’t be trusted but she will happily step aside to leave their treachery to her successors to punish...
  • Down The Chimney by Debra Dunbar

    Down The Chimney by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Roped into being the Ruling Council's Christmas ambassador, Sam finds herself more Santa than Satan at a slew of human social events, all while trying to score an impossible-to-get gift for Lux and plan the most amazing Christmas celebration any imp has ever thrown...
  • The Kingpin of Camelot by Cassandra Gannon

    The Kingpin of Camelot by Cassandra Gannon

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Queen: Guinevere must save Camelot. Ever since Arthur died, the evil Scarecrow has been trying to marry her and gain the crown. If she and her daughter are going to survive his mad schemes, Gwen needs to find Merlyn’s wand. Fast. Unfortunately, the only man strong enough to help her on her quest is Kingpin Midas, a flashy, uneducated mobster dealing with a curse...
  • Defender: Reckless Desires by Olivia Arran

    Defender: Reckless Desires by Olivia Arran

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He makes me forget what’s important… Vincent Charles Brownstone III—alpha wolf shifter, British, and an arrogant playboy. He’s the firstborn son of one of London’s elite families. He’s also sinfully handsome, with a rock hard body and eyes that make me think of wicked things...
  • Healed by the Dragon: Part 1 by Jessie Donovan

    Healed by the Dragon: Part 1 by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    PART ONE Arabella MacLeod was tortured by dragon hunters a decade ago. Ever since, her clan coddled and tip-toed around her, most especially her older brother. Desperate for a chance at freedom, she volunteers to foster with the Scottish dragon-shifter clan. She’s determined to stay clear of the charming Scottish leader, but not only does he keep crossing her path, her dragon is drawn to him...
  • Goblins Wear Suits by K.M. Shea

    Goblins Wear Suits by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Morgan thought the most difficult decision of her life was deciding to become an official employee of the MBRC. But now, a senior in high school, she’s realizing it only gets worse...
  • Earthbound by Leia Stone

    Earthbound by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    After finding out about her unique heritage, Sloane is taken under the wing of an Earth druid. She’s told she must learn to control both of her warring powers or they will consume her. She needs a special staff, made just for her, to help channel her unique magic. The problem? It’s only made by one very reclusive elf...
  • Tarian Alpha by T.S. Joyce

    Tarian Alpha by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Tarian Pride is right in the middle of a historical power-shift. Ronin Alder is taking over as the New Tarian Alpha, but the entire Pride of lion shifters needs to be completely rehabilitated. Back in the Pride after years hating it, his job is to push the monsters here to a new future, one where they will stop warring with every shifter Crew in existence...
  • Dragon Frost by Viola Grace

    Dragon Frost by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the winter has almost no sun, monsters wake and torment the locals until a dragon rises in the frost. Kabyl’s family has run a careful supply business, keeping the essentials in stock in order to help her town and the villages around it survive the long, dark winter...
  • Unbearable Temptation by R. O'Leary

    Unbearable Temptation by R. O'Leary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Buried under the weight of his role as Alpha, Nate will do anything to find his missing shifters, even if it means babysitting a sassy eyewitness who has an unhealthy obsession with pink--and sugar.Everything in Rainy's life is finally going according to plan...
  • Betrayed: Ruby's Story by Kaylin Lee

    Betrayed: Ruby's Story by Kaylin Lee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A lonely girl. A dangerous Wolf. A plan that will either save them or break them. Ruby Contos is the best young journalist in her city. She has interviewed hostile criminals and a former assassin without flinching. Just don’t ask her to stand up to her grandmother, the blunt newspaper editor who rules her life with an iron fist...
  • Tyler by Kim Fox

    Tyler by Kim Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Skin shifter, Tyler Jones, hasn’t been home in almost a decade. Why would he? His community of skin shifters excommunicated him, Jacob, the ruler who happens to be his older brother, is a psychopath, and the girl who he spent his whole youth loving broke his heart when she turned him away. So yeah, he’s just fine staying on Clawed Ranch. Skin shifter, Isabelle Lexington, is desperate...
  • Corrupting Lust by Lyra Winters

    Corrupting Lust by Lyra Winters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They say orgasms are heavenly, but mine brought me to Hell.As a sex-talk podcaster, sex wasn’t new to me. However, having my one-night stand shove his bleeding wrist over my mouth and stab me in the heart with a dagger mid-orgasm wasn’t a kink I was familiar with.Waking up in Hell with a self-proclaimed prince of Lust, who sported two horns and a tail, made me question my sanity...
  • Ashton Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Ashton Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Ashton Drake’s family calls him home to help keep his cousin Jasper, the king of the mountain, in line, Ashton wants to laugh. He knows he’s in no shape to help anyone. His sanity is hanging by a thread; he’s failing at the job the Drakes sent him to the city to do; and many days he can’t even handle his own dragon...
  • Dragon Fixation by Amelia Jade

    Dragon Fixation by Amelia Jade

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Pretend to be the mate to a hunk who thinks he’s a dragon shifter? It’s not exactly what Corporal Carla Giannone signed up for when she joined the military, hoping to help protect those who didn’t have a voice. But his muscles and charm say yes, as does the forty-eight hours of leave that she just started...
  • Craved by the Dragon by Jessie Donovan

    Craved by the Dragon by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All non-Irish dragon-shifters are being banished from Ireland and Brenna Rossi’s only chance to stay with the clan she’s grown to love is to mate one of the Irish dragons—Killian O’Shea. Even though he’s lost his memory and and his dragon, she’s drawn to him and looks forward to some no strings attached heat between the sheets...
  • Beyond Neverland by Heather Killough-Walden

    Beyond Neverland by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the wake of Neverland’s destruction, Michael Darling harbors a heart that cannot find its place in the real world. John Darling is haunted by the memories of a native princess’s kiss. Tootles is a Lost Boy well and truly lost. And Wendy Darling writes of longing, and wears a gold button on a chain around her neck that once belonged to a notorious pirate captain...
  • Enchanting the Fae Prince by Alisha Klapheke

    Enchanting the Fae Prince by Alisha Klapheke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An outcast maiden. A fae prince. A match bound by fate.When outcast cobbler Rhianne braves the enchanted wood to find her fated love, absolutely everything that could go wrong does. The Matchweaver witch’s magical loom reveals Rhianne is fated for the most powerful fae prince in history...
  • Twisted: Belle's Story by Kaylin Lee

    Twisted: Belle's Story by Kaylin Lee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Belle has it all—beauty, brains, and an extravagant inheritance from her father, the most powerful banker in the city. There’s only one problem. Her glittering life is a waking nightmare just beneath the surface. When Belle’s brain is damaged in a horrible attack on the morning of her final exam, everything unravels. Before long, she’s lost it all—her memories, her inheritance, and her freedom...
  • Wiedźma opiekunka, Część 2 by Olga Gromyko

    Wiedźma opiekunka, Część 2 by Olga Gromyko

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    W. Redna powraca…i jest jeszcze w.redniejsza!Życie Wolhy właśnie zaczynało się układać. Skończyła szkołę. Miała pracę. Miała najlepszego przyjaciela pod słońcem, czy raczej księżycem.I oczywiście wszystko poszło nie tak.Staż na dworze nieudanego króla, praca o wiele bardziej skomplikowana niż by się można spodziewać, a przyjaciel… Nagle okazał się kimś więcej, niż tylko przyjacielem...
  • Burning Bright by Chris Cannon

    Burning Bright by Chris Cannon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bryn is back for her senior year at the Institute for Excellence, also known as shape-shifting dragon school. She isn’t sure which is scarier, the life-force sucking dragons stalking campus or the fact that she’s officially betrothed to Jaxon, a guy who will never love her. Not that she could ever love him, either… That’s just ridiculous. Senior year should be fun...
  • Red and the Wolf by Vivienne Savage

    Red and the Wolf by Vivienne Savage

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sorcha knows every inch of the forest, but a spontaneous visit to her grandmother thrusts her into the middle of a brutal conflict between shifters and an unknown force in the woodlands.As the alpha of clan TalWolthe, Conall is obligated to protect his fellow wolves at all costs--even if it means his life...
  • Vampires Drink Tomato Juice by K.M. Shea

    Vampires Drink Tomato Juice by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    High School student Morgan Fae is beginning to question her sanity. After witnessing a weird incident involving a werewolf, a substitute teacher/possible vampire, and a thermos of tomato juice, she is taken to the Magical Beings' Rehabilitation Center. The MBRC is an organization that strives to integrate magical beings into human society and hides itself in Chicago’s Union Station...
  • Darkfire Kiss by Deborah Cooke

    Darkfire Kiss by Deborah Cooke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For one woman, he will risk more than his life...Rafferty Powell has exchanged challenge coins with his arch-nemesis Magnus Montmorency, and their next battle will be their last. But Rafferty never expected to meet a woman whose desire for Magnus’ downfall matches his own—and whose presence sparks Rafferty’s long-awaited firestorm...
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