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  • The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune

    The Consumption of Magic by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sam of Wilds faced the Dark wizard Myrin and lived to tell the tale. Granted, the battle left him scarred, but things could be a hell of a lot worse. It’s not until he reunites with Morgan of Shadows and Randall that he realizes just how much worse things could be. Because the scars have meaning and hint at Myrin’s true plans for Sam and the Kingdom of Verania...
  • Maelstrom by Jordan L. Hawk

    Maelstrom by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Between his father’s sudden—and rather suspicious—generosity, and his own rash promise to help Christine plan her wedding, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough to worry about. But when the donation of a mysterious codex to the Ladysmith Museum draws the attention of a murderous cult, Whyborne finds himself in a race against time to unlock its secrets first...
  • Draakenwood by Jordan L. Hawk

    Draakenwood by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Someone is killing members of the old families…and the evidence points to Whyborne. Widdershins has been unusually quiet for months. But now a mysterious creature from the Outside is on the loose, assassinating members of the town’s old families by draining their blood...
  • Rise of the Weakest Summoner: Volume VIII by J.R. Saileri

    Rise of the Weakest Summoner: Volume VIII by J.R. Saileri

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With many challenges, trials, and tribulations riddling their path, Asterios and the girls successfully made it through the realm of valkyrjas and reached the Descending Spire's final floor. The task to pierce the inverted tower's defenses was an arduous one but provided them with some great revelations about Ast's past and his true identity. At the same time, Bryn discovered something new too...
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    steamy  demons  paranormal  romance  fantasy  harem  audiobook  fiction
  • Hoarfrost by Jordan L. Hawk

    Hoarfrost by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sorcerer Percival Endicott Whyborne and his husband Griffin Flaherty have enjoyed an unprecedented stretch of peace and quiet. Unfortunately, the calm is shattered by the arrival of a package from Griffin’s brother Jack, who has uncovered a strange artifact while digging for gold in Alaska. The discovery of a previously unknown civilization could revive the career of their friend Dr...
  • The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune

    The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This edition is out of print. For current Paperback edition see: The Lightning-Struck HeartOnce upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident...
  • Dawson Bride by T.S. Joyce

    Dawson Bride by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Werewolves meet the Wild West in this thrilling final installment of the Wolf Brides trilogy. Lucianna Whitlock has her entire life planned out for her by men determined to use her as a pawn in high society marriage games. But when she balks against the cruel man who has won her hand, he rips her life apart...
  • Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereIntroverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has spent the last few months watching his lover, Griffin Flaherty, come to terms with the rejection of his adoptive family. So when an urgent telegram from Christine summons them to Egypt, Whyborne is reluctant to risk the fragile peace they’ve established...
  • Demon's Throne 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Demon's Throne 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rys is still shaking dust from his hair after a thousand years of sleep, and he already finds himself in a two-front war. The sorcerers of the Malus League are summoning a demon lord, while his northern neighbor marches south. Now that Rys has claimed a kingdom, he needs to keep it.Naturally, he'll expand his territory while crushing his new enemies...
  • Test Flight: Otherworld Academy 03 by Deacon Frost

    Test Flight: Otherworld Academy 03 by Deacon Frost

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Venture has taken flight and set off to explore the dimension of Taryl. Their trip should have been an easy one, traveling from town to town, instead they're facing monsters and mayhem at every turn...
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    steamy  demons  paranormal  fantasy  harem  magic  litrpg  western
  • Midnight's Seduction by Donna Grant

    Midnight's Seduction by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Defenders against evil. Bound by the gods. The Dark Warriors are taking their battle from ancient Scotland to the modern world—where a woman's love can set them free…SEDUCED BY PASSIONCaptivating and enticing, Saffron Fletcher is a rarity in the Druid world—a Seer. She is the ultimate prize in an epic battle...
  • Jax by Victoria Danann

    Jax by Victoria Danann

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Being a vampire playboy has worked for Jax for 600 years. That's about to change.The Next Generation of Black Swan knights continues the struggle to rid the world of "deadheads", virus infected vampires who are barely more cognizant than zombies. Jax, one of the vampires turned by the immortals, joined the fight and became Falcon's partner...
  • The Sea by A.H. Lee

    The Sea by A.H. Lee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Knights and necromancers are never on the same side… are they? Sairis has known all his life that knights are not his friends…until the last few weeks, when he somehow forgot, and tumbled into bed with one. He told Roland to leave, hurt him badly, used as many cruel words as possible. And yet Roland stubbornly refuses to leave Sairis alone, half-naked and friendless in the wilderness...
  • WIEDERGEBURT: Legend of the Reincarnated Warrior 7 by Brandon Varnell

    WIEDERGEBURT: Legend of the Reincarnated Warrior 7 by Brandon Varnell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE HEAT IS ON.Eryk has won the Spiritualist Grand Tournament, helped Kari and Fay avoid marrying Grant Leucht, and destroyed the cage preventing Kari from journeying outside of Neveria. But his task isn’t over yet. Now he must convince Fay Valstine to join him, Kari, and Lin in a polygamous relationship...
  • Bring the Heat by G.A. Aiken

    Bring the Heat by G.A. Aiken

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    HE SAYS . . .I, Aidan the Divine, am, well divine. My name was given to me by the Dragon Queen herself! I’m a delight! Cheerful. Charming. And a mighty warrior who is extremely handsome with a very large and well-hidden hoard of gold. I am also royal born, despite the fact that most in my family are horrendous beings that don’t deserve to live...
  • The Plan Commences by Kristen Ashley

    The Plan Commences by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Once upon a time, in a parallel universe, there existed the continent of Triton. The land was filled with beauty, but it was also splintered by war. Out of the chaos grew a conspiracy to reawaken the Beast, a fearsome creature who wrought only tragedy and devastation...
  • Claimed By The Berserkers by Lee Savino

    Claimed By The Berserkers by Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "You're ours now, lass. We're claiming ye." My mind and body are weakened by the curse of my magic. My three sisters have mated with Berserker warriors, but I am too frail to be a bride. One night, three warriors break into my home. They steal me away. Now we're on the run from the pack. These warriors tell me I belong to them, and that they'll never let me go...
  • The Marked Prince by M.A. Grant

    The Marked Prince by M.A. Grant

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Torn between two worlds, desperate to save one love.The Summer Court is nothing like Sebastian remembers. The oppressed lower classes are drained of their magick, and around every corner political intrigues threaten an already unstable regime...
  • Undertow by Jordan L. Hawk

    Undertow by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Note: This novella takes place at the same time as events in Fallow (Whyborne & Griffin 8). Shy secretary Maggie Parkhurst knows there’s nothing special about her. She’s neither sorceress, nor fighter, nor scholar...
  • Death's Angel by Heather Killough-Walden

    Death's Angel by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Since the beginning of time, the archangels have longed to know true love. When four female angels were created for the four archangels, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Azrael, a chaos spurred by jealousy erupted, and the archesses were secreted away to Earth. The four favored archangels followed, prompting a search that has lasted millennia...
  • Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book Two by Ginn Hale

    Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book Two by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Five years after abandoning the Sagrada Acedemy, Elezar Grunito has become infamous in the sanctified circles of noble dueling rings for his brutal temper and lethal blade. Men and women of all ranks gather to cheer and jeer, none of them knowing Elezar’s true purpose. But a violent death outside the ring marks Elezar as a wanted man and sends him into hiding in the far northern wilds of Labara...
  • Lord of the White Hell, Book 2 by Ginn Hale

    Lord of the White Hell, Book 2 by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kiram fought his family and Cadeleonian bigots to remain in the Sagrada Academy to prove himself as a mechanist and to dispel the deadly shadow curse that threatens to destroy his upperclassman, Javier Tornesal.But when his efforts provoke retaliation, Kiram’s family and home are endangered. Both Kiram and Javier risk everything in a desperate gambit to combat the curse...
  • Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book One by Ginn Hale

    Champion of the Scarlet Wolf, Book One by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Five years after abandoning the Sagrada Acedemy, Elezar Grunito has become infamous in the sanctified circles of noble dueling rings for his brutal temper and lethal blade. Men and women of all ranks gather to cheer and jeer, none of them knowing Elezar’s true purpose. But a violent death outside the ring marks Elezar as a wanted man and sends him into hiding in the far northern wilds of Labara...
  • Changeling by Lee Colgin

    Changeling by Lee Colgin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dominus, an incubus who runs a brothel called The Twig and Berries, has become bored with his life and his customers.Sebastian, a changeling fairy swapped at birth for a human infant, has just learned his true heritage. Reeling with the knowledge, and unsafe among humans, he lets a vampire guide him north through Hungary to a place where he can meet others of his kind...
  • Twilight by Megan Derr

    Twilight by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    More than seventy years have passed since Neirin du Lac was banished from the dragon clans he called home. Though he misses them, he and his dragon Troyes have built a happy life with his lover Barra, and their friends Devlin and Midnight. It is a not a life he would ever trade, not even for a chance to return to the clans...
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    demons  mlm  paranormal  steamy  action-adventure  adult  book  dragons
  • Eidolon by Grace Draven

    Eidolon by Grace Draven

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In a bid for more power, the Shadow Queen of Haradis has unleashed a malignant force into the world. Her son Brishen, younger prince of the Kai royal house, suddenly finds himself ruler of a kingdom blighted by a diseased darkness and on the brink of war. His human wife Ildiko must decide if she will give up the man she loves in order to secure his throne...
  • Ghost in the Cowl by Jonathan Moeller

    Ghost in the Cowl by Jonathan Moeller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    OverviewCaina Amalas was a nightfighter of the Ghosts, the spies and assassins of the Emperor of Nighmar, and through her boldness and cunning saved the Empire and the world from sorcerous annihilation.But the victory cost her everything.Now she is exiled and alone in the city of Istarinmul, far from her home and friends...
  • Sol & Lune: Book Two by Kathryn Moon

    Sol & Lune: Book Two by Kathryn Moon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A woman in the shadow of the new moon…Lumen Fenn was torn down by the men who took possession of her home and has sequestered herself in the Lunar Convent, searching for peace. But being left an empty vessel of a woman makes room to be filled by new forces. Called on by her Goddess, Lumen must return to the land and the men she fled...
  • Black Blades by Ginn Hale

    Black Blades by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kahlil balances his loyalty to the Bousim house against the revelations of his past. Blood will be shed one-way or the other. While in the heights of Rathal’pesha, John adapts to the hardships of a warrior-priest’s life and secretly searches for anything that will return him and his friends back home...
  • Jackdaw by K.J. Charles

    Jackdaw by K.J. Charles

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    If you stop running, you fall. Jonah Pastern is a magician, a liar, a windwalker, a professional thief…and for six months, he was the love of police constable Ben Spenser’s life. His betrayal left Ben jailed, ruined, alone, and looking for revenge. Ben is determined to make Jonah pay. But he can’t seem to forget what they once shared, and Jonah refuses to let him...
  • The Beginning by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    The Beginning by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Appearing as a bonus story on Sherrilyn's web site and at the back of early editions of Sins of the Night, it can now be found in print form in its entirety in the novel Acheron in the Dark-Hunter series.This is a short story written years ago by Sherri as an intro to the Dark-Hunter world.The Beginning was originally published as a short story in a small press magazine called The Voice in 1990...
  • The Warrior God by Eliza Raine, Rose Wilson

    The Warrior God by Eliza Raine, Rose Wilson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Anger management isn’t so bad when your shrink is gorgeous. It’s less great when you turn up to find him dead on the floor, and an armored giant dressed like a freaking ancient warrior standing over his body though. Ares, the God of War, has lost his power and the only way for him to get it back? Me. Apparently, I’m a goddess. One with the power of war. I mean, it does explain a lot...
  • Brute by Kim Fielding

    Brute by Kim Fielding

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Brute leads a lonely life in a world where magic is commonplace. He is seven and a half feet of ugly, and of disreputable descent. No one, including Brute, expects him to be more than a laborer. But heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and when he is maimed while rescuing a prince, Brute’s life changes abruptly. He is summoned to serve at the palace in Tellomer as a guard for a single prisoner...
  • Edge of the Wild by Lauren Gilley

    Edge of the Wild by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “Your lordship.” It’s a title Oliver will have to get used to: in just a few short months, he’s gone from the bastard son of a dead duke’s equally-dead brother, plain Oliver Meacham, to Lord Oliver, the royal consort of King Erik of Aeretoll...
  • Bright Familiar by Jeffe Kennedy

    Bright Familiar by Jeffe Kennedy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He wanted her with consuming passion... and so did the monster within.Lady Veronica Elal has been freed from her tower—and entered a life of servitude. It doesn’t matter that her wizard master has odd ideas about circumventing Convocation tradition and making their relationship equal. Nic prides herself on her practicality and that means not pretending her marriage is full of hearts and flowers...
    Categorized as:
    demons  paranormal  steamy  action-adventure  adult  angels  book  dark
  • Blood Reign by Selena Kitt

    Blood Reign by Selena Kitt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bridget was an orphan raised by wulvers in a secluded wilderness temple to be its priestess and guardian, but now the outside world has found her and her world will be changed forever...
  • The White Lily by Juliette Cross

    The White Lily by Juliette Cross

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To the north of the Varis empire, a mysterious faction spreads propaganda against the vampire monarchy. Friedrich Volya, the Duke of Winter Hill, seeks to discover who they are before his uncle finds them first. King Dominik will punish the traitors with brutal force...
  • Dark Moon by Kate Douglas

    Dark Moon by Kate Douglas

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Edgy and intense, infused with sensuality and danger. --Jayne Ann KrentzShapeshifting creatures of amazing strength and sensuality, the Chanku now live openly all over the world. Yet the primal power of the pack beckons, calling each one home to surrender to pure pleasure.  .  .Return To SurrenderIgmutaka is her Spirit Guide and protector. But Star desires so much more...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  paranormal  steamy  action-adventure  adult  animals  book  cats
  • Talismaker by Megan Derr

    Talismaker by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Since losing his arm and being discharged from the army, Millé has been struggling—for money, for work, for a home. Though he is a highly skilled talismaker, his 'devil eyes' keep anyone from hiring him...
  • The Exile's Curse by M.J. Scott

    The Exile's Curse by M.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To save her new life, she needs the man who destroyed her old one...Chloe de Montesse never thought she’d return from exile. Now she has a chance to reclaim the life she fled after her husband was executed for treason. But coming home again isn’t as simple as it sounds. Her magic is rusty, her family want her to wrap her in cotton wool, and Illvyan society views her as a scandal waiting to happen...
  • In Despair by Megan Derr

    In Despair by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Prince Telmé Guldbrandsen has been groomed since childhood to become a Prince of the Blood and Commander of the Legion. He will be the youngest person to ever take the Blooding—if he can behave long enough to prove he can be trusted with the responsibility...
  • Gnome Place Like Home by A.J. Markam

    Gnome Place Like Home by A.J. Markam

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rampaging orc armies. Vicious bounty hunters. Hot lady robots. Just another day in the life of Ian the Warlock and his succubus Alaria. On the run from a goblin mob boss, Ian and Alaria travel to a distant land to kill her next ex-master - who just happens to be a gnome. Like the other villains before him, this one plans to make SHORT work of our heroes! (Sorry, bad joke...
  • Prince and Betrothed by Tavia Lark

    Prince and Betrothed by Tavia Lark

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being claimed shouldn’t feel so lonely.Sei’s power isn’t truly his. As a grail, his role is to serve a mage by augmenting their magic. He’s equally nervous and excited about his arranged betrothal. After a life without intimacy, Sei will finally fulfill his true purpose as a treasured, valuable grail.There’s only one problem: Sei’s new betrothed is the legendary Marek Dire...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  paranormal  steamy  romance  fantasy  magic  dragons  lgbtq
  • The Reckoning by Jennifer Ashley, Joy Nash

    The Reckoning by Jennifer Ashley, Joy Nash

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three USA Today bestselling authors combine their talents in an anthology of sexy, action-packed novellas set in the hugely popular world of the multi-author series, Immortals.---For centuries they have walked among us ... vampires, shape-shifters, the Celtic Sidhe, demons, and other magical beings...
  • Heart Legacy by Robin D. Owens

    Heart Legacy by Robin D. Owens

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The award-winning author returns to her “wonderfully imaginative”* world of Heart Fire and Heart Fortune for an all-new Celta novel about a young woman’s destiny, and the one man whose love could be her downfall. After the death of GrandLord Yew years ago, the Yews withdrew to their self-sustaining estate and disappeared from Celtan society...
  • Fires of Ballian by M.L. Rhodes

    Fires of Ballian by M.L. Rhodes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 3 in the Draegan Lords series A hundred years ago, the high sorcerer of Velensperia launched a swift and deadly attack against the draegans—a race of dragon shapeshifters who’d always lived in harmony with the humans. The draegans were all but destroyed, with the few who remained, scattered and in hiding...
    Categorized as:
    demons  mlm  paranormal  steamy  abuse  action-adventure  adult  book
  • The Alpha Heir by Victoria Sue

    The Alpha Heir by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereMan and wolf. Sworn enemies in the battle for Askara. Can hate and betrayal ever lead to love? Caleb Harken has spent six years wrongfully imprisoned for his father’s treachery...
  • By Chance Met by Eressë

    By Chance Met by Eressë

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A chance meeting heralds the convergence of two heretofore wildly divergent fates.From the moment he laid eyes on the handsome Lord of Ilmaren, Naeth Orosse fell head over heels in infatuation with him. And after that first meeting in the middle of a tavern brawl in the dual-gendered realm of Ylandre, Reijir Arthanna did not forget the orphaned youth who came to his aid unasked...
  • Another Place in Time by Tamara Allen, Joanna Chambers

    Another Place in Time by Tamara Allen, Joanna Chambers

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to another place in time...where one can be swept away into lands and eras long forgotten. This collection of short stories was birthed because a sworn "I don't like historicals" reader fell in love with what have become some of her favorite books by most of her favorite writers. Surprisingly, they were all historicals...
  • Song of Oestend by Marie Sexton

    Song of Oestend by Marie Sexton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On the Oestend prairie, only the strong survive.Artist Aren Montrell has heard tales of the Oestend wraiths – mysterious creatures that come in the night and kill anyone who’s not indoors. Aren’s never believed the stories, but when he takes a job as a bookkeeper on the BarChi, a dusty cattle ranch in the furthest reaches of Oestend, he learns the wraiths are very real...
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