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  • Sempiterno by Joana Marcús

    Sempiterno by Joana Marcús

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Una vez empezado, no tiene...
  • Adonis by L. Sherleen

    Adonis by L. Sherleen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Accused of a hate crime and expelled from school in his final year, Connor returns home to his seaside town to let everything blow over. There, not only does he have to learn to deal with the addition of two new stepbrothers and a new stepdad, but he also has to grapple with a world set against him. It’s not all bad though. Within his dad’s underwater lab, he discovers something in the deep...
  • The Alpha 4: Protect. Procreate. Prevail. by Eric Vall

    The Alpha 4: Protect. Procreate. Prevail. by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Jansen alpha brothers are finally dead, so I’ve got way more territory and shifters to manage, but I’ve also got more omegas to protect and impregnate.Life just never seems to slow down anymore, and with someone new stalking us through our own woods, I can’t afford to set one paw out of line.But these guys don’t seem like our usual species of enemies...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  harem  magic  mystery
  • Trial by Fire by Ariana Nash

    Trial by Fire by Ariana Nash

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third book in the thrilling Shadows of London series.Action, MM romance and adventure combine on the streets of London. Time is running out for John "Dom" Domenici.It's not just Kempthorne's secrets bubbling to the surface of London's streets ..
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    lgbtq  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  magic  mlm
  • Dead Serious Case #1: Miz Dusty Le Frey by Vawn Cassidy

    Dead Serious Case #1: Miz Dusty Le Frey by Vawn Cassidy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the business of unfinished business...Tristan Everett had always preferred the company of the dead because they were quiet and didn’t talk back. As a slightly awkward introvert working as a pathologist at the Hackney Public Mortuary suited him just fine. That is, until a freak accident with a rogue ice cube and suddenly he can see ghosts...
  • Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

    Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Marie Reinhart is an NYPD detective on the trail of a serial killer. When she sleeps, though, she dreams of other lives; she dreams of being a knight, in strange wars and strange worlds. On the other side of the city, Nessa Roth is a college professor trapped in a loveless marriage, an unwilling prop in a political dynasty...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror  magic
  • Dead & Buried by T.K. Eldridge

    Dead & Buried by T.K. Eldridge

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Detectives Kennedy and Donovan were partners for years. Then one of them died. And yet, they're still partners. Kennedy has to solve Donovan's death while his partner's ghost helps him. Sort of...
  • Werepanther 3: Paranormal Hunter by Logan Jacobs

    Werepanther 3: Paranormal Hunter by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A few weeks ago, I was just Carter Hatfield, a broke college student and history major.Now, I’m a werepanther, a hunter of all things paranormal.And I already have two major kills under my belt with Div, the previous owner of my establishment, and Orglan, the former Master of Waters in the Midwest...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  harem  magic
  • Storm by Skye Knizley

    Storm by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On a rainy night in 1971 the cruise ship Crescent Star vanished in the North Atlantic without a trace. No crew, no lifeboats and no wreckage was ever found, in spite of a three-week search. Two days ago, she crashed through and sank a pleasure yacht off the coast of New York, leaving five people dead. The ship has answered no hails and no one appears to be aboard...
  • New Day Rising by J.J. Arias

    New Day Rising by J.J. Arias

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Would you do anything for your happily ever after? After fighting impossible odds to get back to each other, newly-turned Vampire Erin and her Queen Lucía want nothing more than to run off into the sunset and enjoy a moment’s peace. But when a group of Hunters emerges poised to put all supernatural life in their cross-hairs, their bubble barely has time to form before it implodes...
  • Demons Shemons by K.B. Draper

    Demons Shemons by K.B. Draper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Most people come home with a window sticker, a shot glass, or a bottle opener cleverly disguised as a key chain from their summer vacations, not Allison Jo Maddox (a.k.a. AJ, if you want to keep your front teeth)...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  dark  female-mc  fiction  lesbian-mc
  • The Empath by Jody Klaire

    The Empath by Jody Klaire

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aeron Lorelei is a young woman with a troubled past and a troubling gift. Blessed and cursed with the ability to sense the feelings, past, and future of those around her, Aeron lived as a misfit child. When she was sixteen, she took the blame for the death of her best friend’s little brother...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  law-enforcement
  • Raven by Skye Knizley

    Raven by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All Hallows Eve approaches and for once Raven Storm has plans to spend the holiday enjoying a party at Isle of Night with family and friends, something she hasn't done since high school.But someone has other plans and Raven is called to investigate the grisly murder of Monsignor Quinn, a priest left to drown in his own blood...
  • Blood by Moonlight by Cassie Alexander

    Blood by Moonlight by Cassie Alexander

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Angela: My secret is out, and now both Mark and Jack know that I’m a werewolf. Worse, my abusive ex-boyfriend, the one who made me this way, has escaped from prison and he’s after one thing: our son. The Pack is a brutal, criminal motorcycle gang: I don’t want that life for Rabbit. Jack says he can protect us, but the Pack is strong and if they catch us, they’ll kill me and take Rabbit...
  • The House Lost at Sea by R.J. Blain

    The House Lost at Sea by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cursed by the lover of her former captain, Catalina de la Corona, the Pirate Princess of the Seven Seas, has lived an unnaturally long life and longs for the day she can find eternal peace. Hiding in plain sight as an investment banker, she waits for the end of eternity and the death she has rightfully earned...
  • The Wolf's Secret by Claire Cullen

    The Wolf's Secret by Claire Cullen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When is a wolf not just a wolf? When he has magic running through his veins. Fleeing Samhain Pack to protect them from his berserker nature, Barrett is alone in the wilds—and lost to himself. Until he tracks a most interesting prey and finds himself face to face with a mage. But Evan is not just a mage, he’s something their pack desperately needs—a healer...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  magic  medical
  • Shadowstorm by Skye Knizley

    Shadowstorm by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the spring of 1984, just before his daughter's birth, Detective Mason Storm began an investigation into the ritualistic slaying of seven women, their bodies defiled and left covered in black rose petals. The case ended with Storm suspended. The bizarre murders were left unsolved...
  • Bending Ridge by J.D. Light

    Bending Ridge by J.D. Light

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hanson Rodgers My dad's best friend is big and burly and gorgeous and has the ability to make my harpy's blood––yes, I'm a male harpy––boil. When he offered my brother and I a job on Terra Mortis, I knew it was probably a bad idea, no matter how much I wanted to live on the island and be a part of a world where everyone was as much different as they were the same...
  • Heart of Iron by C.M. Alongi

    Heart of Iron by C.M. Alongi

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fresh out of prison, Jennifer Charles (JC) is desperately trying to turn their life around and make things right, and seems to find a golden opportunity in CaFae Latte as an under-qualified but talented baker.However, they soon learn that, as dark and unfortunate as their own history is, it pales in comparison to their kind Fae boss, Violet...
  • Silence of Winter by Avery Blake

    Silence of Winter by Avery Blake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Normal is overrated. At least that's what Oliver Cromwell tells himself when he's being bullied for being different. He's a lover of all things paranormal, and when his nose isn't shoved into his sketchpad, drawing haunted houses and monsters, he and his best friend Bailey hang out in abandoned buildings and take long—very non-romantic—walks through graveyards looking for ghosts...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  book  bullying  fiction  ghosts  magic  mlm
  • Imaginary Lover by Morgan Brice

    Imaginary Lover by Morgan Brice

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “There’s no time. Remember your imaginary lover....”Cory Caldwell woke up by the side of the road with no memory of how he got there. He pieces together who he is but has no idea what happened to him.Dark visions haunt him—flashes of blood, magic, and a brutal fight. Scorching dreams of a faceless lover offer no clues...
  • Fox Lost by Robin Roseau

    Fox Lost by Robin Roseau

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All has been quiet for Michaela and Lara for two years, but the peace of the compound is broken by a daring incursion. Michaela finds herself forced to choose between her own safety and that of a complete stranger's. Fox Lost is an 83,000-word novel, the 7th in the Madison Wolves stories, and continues two years after the events in Fox Dish...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  fae  fiction  mystery  shapeshifters
  • Flame and Ash by Morgan Brice

    Flame and Ash by Morgan Brice

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third novel in the Witchbane series. One hundred years ago, a sheriff’s posse killed dark warlock Rhyfel Gremory, but his witch-disciples escaped, and their magic made them nearly immortal...
  • Ashes of Memory by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Ashes of Memory by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve lost my mind and my mate once … can I risk it again? Three years ago I tried to do the impossible, defying my leaders and facing off with a dark mage in the hope of saving Tam and his fellow dragons. It ended with me barely alive, and it took me a year to recover...
  • Incident of Magic by Kris Michaels, Patricia A. Knight

    Incident of Magic by Kris Michaels, Patricia A. Knight

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sold at the age of twelve to support his mother’s drug habit and rescued from a life on the streets by a cop, thirty-two-year old Tony Locke had had a brutal start in life. He’d risen to the position of homicide detective in the Everlight Police Department—a testament to his intelligence and driving ambition to help other victims of Everlight's prolific industry in sex and drugs...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  crime  fiction  humor  law-enforcement
  • The Case of the Guilty Ghost by Amber Kell, R.J. Scott

    The Case of the Guilty Ghost by Amber Kell, R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bob is lost in grief, Sam is fighting for his life, and there is no middle ground. Can their love survive? Bob is grieving over his brother’s sacrifice. Guilt-ridden and devastated, he buries himself in vampire mourning and pulls away from Sam.Magic tears Sam from the vampire castle and he has to face new adversaries alone, when all he wants is Bob at his side...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  magic  mlm  mystery
  • Legacy Witches by Cass Kay

    Legacy Witches by Cass Kay

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Coming from a long line of murderous witches hasn’t exactly been sunshine and rainbows for Vianna Roots. When she inherits the family’s haunted house after her mother dies, she decides flipping the rundown dump is her smartest move—but the ghosts that haunt her have a different plan...
  • White And Black by Fernando Trujillo Sanz

    White And Black by Fernando Trujillo Sanz

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A man has been murdered. He is blond, blue-eyed and is wearing a white suit. His surname is White. The murdered man is dark, black-eyed and his suit is black... the same as his surname. And, as if that isn't enough, they look like perfect twins except for the details of eye colour and complexion. Two policemen are in charge of the hottest crime in London..
  • Kennard's Story by N.R. Walker

    Kennard's Story by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kennard and Stas have been enjoying being newly bonded mates, hidden away for the last six months in Stas' cabin, deep in the forests of Northern Russia. When they get a visit from Alec, Cronin, Eiji, and Jodis, Kennard and Stas decide to return to London where they get news of a supernatural disturbance in India...
  • Casually Cursed by Kimberly Frost

    Casually Cursed by Kimberly Frost

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the national bestselling author of Slightly Spellbound comes the latest Southern Witch novel featuring Tammy Jo Trask...
    Categorized as:
    literary-fiction  paranormal  adult  book  epic  fae  fiction  magic
  • Hot Blooded by Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié

    Hot Blooded by Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What do you run from? Katelyn had only been in Wolf Springs a short time before she was bitten by a werewolf. And now she carries that creature's curse in her veins. But she's not alone. Wolf Springs is home to a hidden family of werewolves, the Fenners - who swear none of them bit her. Apparently there's a monster on the loose - something wild and uncontrollable...
  • Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 4 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, BOKI

    Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 4 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, BOKI

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A TOXIC REMEDYHe Yu and Xie Qingcheng barely escape a harrowing life-or-death ordeal, but with Xie Qingcheng's darkest secrets now exposed, can they ever return to normal? Xie Qingcheng is determined to try, yet the revelations have given He Yu a new, profound understanding of his doctor--and of his own conflicted feelings...
  • Shadowbound by Dianne Sylvan

    Shadowbound by Dianne Sylvan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Spread throughout the dark corners of our world lies the Shadow World, a society of vampires who feed off the living. In Austin, Texas, one woman must quell the cravings rising within her, as the very fate of the world rests in her hands… Ever since her Prime, David Solomon, returned from the dead, Miranda Grey has been hungry...
  • Fox Play by Robin Roseau

    Fox Play by Robin Roseau

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Having now agreed to a commitment relationship, Michaela and Lara turn their attention to a new threat. Durian, alpha of the Chicago wolves, wants Lara's pack for himself in order to replenish his dwindling power.In the meantime, Michaela faces her fears built from the past while struggling to find her place in the pack.Fox Play continues the story first begun in Fox Run...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  abuse  adult  book  fiction  lesbian-mc  mystery
  • Mandrake and a Murder by Silver Nord, Ruby Loren

    Mandrake and a Murder by Silver Nord, Ruby Loren

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not many people move to Wormwood. The witches aren’t welcoming. The fortunetellers are frauds. And the recent murder is only going to make things worse. Hazel Salem just wanted a story for her magazine. Instead, she finds herself at the centre of an investigation that’s about to turn into a witch hunt...
  • Fox Afield by Robin Roseau

    Fox Afield by Robin Roseau

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lara and Michaela depart on their honeymoon, combining a vacation into an opportunity to practice diplomacy with another werewolf pack. Their honeymoon is interrupted by a frantic phone call to Michaela from an old friend.The wolves along with Greg Freund's team rush back to Wisconsin to right a wrong, but the clock is ticking.Michaela and the wolves must go undercover to solve the mystery...
  • Fox Revenge by Robin Roseau

    Fox Revenge by Robin Roseau

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lara is pregnant with twins, and Michaela is fiercely protective. This turns out to be a very poor time to take in a refugee from a neighboring wolf pack, and things grow more difficult when the neighboring alpha demands the wolf's return.The resulting troubles put Michaela on the opposite side of the issue from Lara, Elisabeth and the rest of the pack, adding stress to all relationships...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror  kidnapping
  • Knight's Fall: A Xavier Knight Novel  (Xavier Knight Series Book 1) by Angela Henry

    Knight's Fall: A Xavier Knight Novel (Xavier Knight Series Book 1) by Angela Henry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Xavier Knight was an angel—until Heaven kicked him out. Now he’s a private detective in New Orleans, trying to put his old immortal life behind him while avoiding Lucifer’s bounty hunters. But when his latest case uncovers a plot to end the world with a supernatural drug, he’ll need all the otherworldly help he can get to stop it...
  • Claimed in Forbidden by Keira Blackwood, Liza Street

    Claimed in Forbidden by Keira Blackwood, Liza Street

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I don’t date—especially when it comes to humans. She rolls in like a bulldozer, smashing all my rules to bits. She’s human, and she’s my mate.She’s got scrapbooks. She’s got dreams. She’s got an obnoxious tendency to micromanage everything I do. It’s her bed and breakfast and her renovation project, but I don’t take orders.I can’t stop watching her...
  • One Step Sideways by Victoria Sue

    One Step Sideways by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The difference between a hero and an ordinary man is One Step Sideways"When he was sixteen, Kane Diaz went to prison for assaulting the father who had abused him since he was small.Nobody in the system took notice of the hundreds of scars on his body, simply the one on his face that marked him as an enhanced...
  • Kieran by Toni Griffin

    Kieran by Toni Griffin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 4 in the Atherton Pack Series Previous Book: COREY "You need to go to Atherton," they said. Easy for them. The higher-ups at headquarters don't have their whole world on the line. When Detective Damon Kelly's bosses send him across the state on a "simple" cyber fraud case, he never thinks he'd meet his mate, then risk losing Kieran by doing his job...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • The Mage's Game by Claire Cullen

    The Mage's Game by Claire Cullen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The love between an alpha and a mage is not easily forgotten. Even if one is a headstrong wolf and the other an untrustworthy sorcerer.Five years after he walked out of Declan’s life, Jasper returns to Samhain Pack begging for help. Declan doesn’t believe a word of the tale his ex is spinning. He wants Jasper gone from the pack before he brings trouble down on them...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  magic
  • The Infernal by Kim Wilkins

    The Infernal by Kim Wilkins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Australian musician Lisa Sheehan has got life sussed, but then, one-by-one, her fans start to turn up dead, their bodies hideously mutilated, and Lisa is haunted by memories that are not her own...
  • Kellen's Awakening by Bellora Quinn, Angel Martinez

    Kellen's Awakening by Bellora Quinn, Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The staff at AURA has had a busy summer. Between chronic understaffing, dealing with warring goblin factions and an unusual number of hazardous Events, everyone is overworked. Sinistrus the incubus, newly hired as an AURA medic, actually enjoys his busy new life of responsible employee and faithful lover to his gorgeous police sergeant, Ness the centaur...
  • The Apprenticeship of Julian St. Albans by Amy Crook

    The Apprenticeship of Julian St. Albans by Amy Crook

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this sequel to The Courtship of Julian St. Albans, Julian – once a member of the pampered elite and Courted by the cream of society – is now an Apprentice and the still-pampered boyfriend of consulting mage Alex Benedict. He arrives one bright August morning at the plant nursery where he's working through his apprenticeship, only to find a dead body among the lucky clover...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  magic
  • Fox Dish by Robin Roseau

    Fox Dish by Robin Roseau

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    While pack shows its delight with the arrival of Lara and Michaela's babies, MIchaela vows to keep Celeste and Rebecca safe from all directions. This includes dealing with old enemies.Michaela's actions have unexpected results, landing Michaela in a fight for her very existence, squared off against everyone she once thought was a friend...
  • The Truth is Even Stranger by Charlie Richards

    The Truth is Even Stranger by Charlie Richards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Into the Paranormal World: Sometimes the truth is even stranger than fantasy.Officer Tian Chavez goes undercover at a college in Durango, Colorado as Tian Whithern, a gangster. It’s not the first time he’s taken such an assignment, since he looks years younger than he actually is...
  • Renounced by Bailey Bradford

    Renounced by Bailey Bradford

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing is as simple as it seems, or as safe.Dallas Smith just wanted a nap in the hammock but he ends up being abducted by a jaguar shifter named Tiago. They have a distinctly different take on several subjects, and Dallas is shocked to learn just what Tiago really is.Tiago thinks the wolves in the rainforest are an invasive species that need to leave...
  • Silver Moon Academy: Year 2 by Storm Song

    Silver Moon Academy: Year 2 by Storm Song

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Things at Silvermoon Academy are heating up as details about who I once was are revealed.But there are enemies lurking, both inside and out of the school's walls. The pressure is on and I find myself questioning if I really have what it takes to be a student at the elite paranormal college...
  • Faeted Under Fire by Cassidy K. O'Connor, Sheri Lyn

    Faeted Under Fire by Cassidy K. O'Connor, Sheri Lyn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A human cop, a paranormal agent, and nine missing kids. Prejudice aside, they have to work together if they want to stop number ten.Tristan James didn’t know he had a latent paranormal gene in his body until he was attacked on the job as an officer with Tampa PD and killed. As a phoenix shifter, he rose from the ashes and came back stronger than ever...
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