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  • The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner

    The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every heart is meant to break.THE NAMELESS. As a warden, Soren’s duty is to guard against the dead, but he was never trained to guard against his heart. Drawn into a web of Solarian politics, Soren finds himself at the center of a storm of his own making, unwilling to break free if it means losing the man he loves...
  • The Liar's Knot by M.A. Carrick

    The Liar's Knot by M.A. Carrick

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Trust is the thread that binds. And the rope that hangs.In Nadežra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city’s filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look.Derossi Vargo has always known...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  dark
  • Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Her city is under siege.The zombies are coming back.And all Nona wants is a birthday party.In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back...
  • Dead Sea by Pandora Pine

    Dead Sea by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a new client asks the West Side Detectives to look into the Redcoat Murders on Dead Man’s Rock in the years before the start of the Revolutionary War, Ronan O’Mara thinks he might have the perfect case to put his new detective agency on the map. The only problem is that while Ronan’s specialty is cold case murders, he’s never investigated a case nearly three centuries cold...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book  crime  drama  fiction
  • 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 Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone

    The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Max Gladstone returns with The Ruin of Angels, the sixth novel in the Craft Sequence, which The Washington Post calls "the best kind of urban fantasy" and NPR calls "sharp, original, and passionate"The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place...
  • 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
  • Fated With Firelight by Ashe Moon

    Fated With Firelight by Ashe Moon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As the shrine priest, omega Enry’s matehood is prized and sought after by the less-than-eligible alphas of his secluded human village. It’s the night of the claiming competition, and just when it seems like Enry’s fate is decided, a winged figure appears in the moonlit sky...
  • 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...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • 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...
  • Little Dip by Gill McKnight

    Little Dip by Gill McKnight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s 1977, and Connie Fortune has an easy, freewheeling life as a wildlife photographer and illustrator. A new contract brings her to the Little Dip valley in Oregon to track down a rare bird, but a clash with Sylvie Garoul, the valley’s owner and matriarch of the mysterious Garoul family, and her daughter, the haughty, frustrating, but somehow bewitching Marie Garoul, ruins the deal...
  • 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...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • Jane Doe and the Key of All Souls by Jeremy Lachlan

    Jane Doe and the Key of All Souls by Jeremy Lachlan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jane Doe is in more danger than ever before. Her father is still imprisoned. The Manor, the hallowed world between worlds, is still dying. The villainous Roth is still searching for the mythical, all-powerful Cradle Sea. Worst of all, Jane has learned that she is, literally, one of the keys needed to stop him...
  • Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

    Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek. In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, New York Times bestselling author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books...
  • 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...
  • Nitro by Fel Fern

    Nitro by Fel Fern

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tommy is determined to win the heart of his biker bear.Tommy Quinn has concocted the perfect plan. Move to Moon Burrow. Learn to be independent after years of following someone else’s orders. On top of that, he wants to convince Nitro they’re somehow perfect together despite how messed up he is. It’s a tall order, especially when the past refuses to stay buried...
  • Rangers at Roadsend by Jane Fletcher

    Rangers at Roadsend by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After nine years in the rangers, dealing with thugs and wild predators, Sergeant 'Chip' Coppelli has learned to spot trouble coming. That is just what she sees in the unexplained discrepancies surrounding the new recruit, Katryn Nagata, but even so, Chip was not expecting murder...
  • Dynasty of Rogues by Jane Fletcher

    Dynasty of Rogues by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When you're short on friends and long on enemies, things can't get much worse. Until they do... Ranger Riki Sadiq is known as a troublemaker, and in the close knit heretic community, a ero name is hard to lose. Standing sentry duty on a winter's day, all she can see lying ahead is an afternoon of being cold, miserable, and bored...
  • The Curse of Redwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    The Curse of Redwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets lie within the walls of Redwood Manor.The murders, alleged curse, and ghost stories have fascinated Carter ever since he moved to Ivy Grove. After attending a Halloween ball at the mansion and meeting a man almost too beautiful to be real, Carter is captivated even more.But the man disappears after that, leaving Carter with nothing but the memory of a kiss...
  • Soaring Flame and the Dragon-transcending Magimal by Weiqi Wang

    Soaring Flame and the Dragon-transcending Magimal by Weiqi Wang

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the first book of a teen fantasy book series that nurtures the bloom of MAGIC in the soil of SCIENCE - something rarely attempted. The transition from magic to science will be bit by bit, so the early books do read like a "mainstream" magic fantasy.Soarame has a pair of special eyes. He can see magic elements in this world, which are supposed to be invisible...
  • 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...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Homecoming by Denise Grover Swank

    Homecoming by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Will Davenport returns home from Iraq a broken man. While he can learn to live with his dishonorable discharge, the memories of the incident that precipitated it is a different story. His mother’s rejection sends him into a downward spiral of self-loathing until he finally accepts what he has really become. Unredeemable...
  • Whatever happened to the young, young lovers? by georgia_sk

    Whatever happened to the young, young lovers? by georgia_sk

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Regulus Black, presumed dead for over 2 years, shows up at an Order of the Phoenix meeting with 6 mangled horcruxes and Voldemort's corpse...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romance  fantasy  fiction  mlm  dark  action-adventure
  • The Mossheart's Promise by Rebecca Mix

    The Mossheart's Promise by Rebecca Mix

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When 12-year-old fairy Ary Mossheart sets out in search of a cure for the mold eating her mother alive, she makes a horrifying discovery: her entire world is actually trapped inside of a giant, rotting terrarium they were meant to leave 100 years ago. Worse, her former childhood-chosen-one Gran knew about the terrarium, and lied...
  • Silhouette by Robin Hale

    Silhouette by Robin Hale

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dr. Molly Fawn’s life is surprisingly normal, considering that she spends her days running support for a man who can fly and lift city buses with one hand. But when Molly interrupts the Silhouette — the city’s most notorious thief — in a middle of a job, everything gets a bit more exciting...
  • Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

    Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    "You like tea. I like books. Care to open a shop and forget the world exists?"All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the rafters… all complemented by love and good company. Thing is, Reyna works as one of the Queen’s private guards, and Kianthe is the most powerful mage in existence...
  • Second Nature by Jae

    Second Nature by Jae

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Lesbian Fiction: Shape-Shifter Romance. Novelist Jorie Price doesn't believe in the existence of shape-shifting creatures or true love. She leads a solitary life, and the paranormal romances she writes are pure fiction for her. Griffin Westmore knows better - at least about one of these two things. She doesn't believe in love either, but she's one of the not-so-fictional shape-shifters...
  • Point of Sighs by Melissa Scott

    Point of Sighs by Melissa Scott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Autumn downpours soak the city of Astreiant and cast a gloomy pall over its streets, while storms at sea have delayed merchant ships bearing important cargoes from distant lands. For Philip Eslingen, whose stars are bad for water, the season adds damp misery to the complications of organizing the new and controversial City Guard...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Lion's Legacy by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Lion's Legacy by Lev A.C. Rosen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo’s life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Worse, they expect him to just accept his ex’s new relationship and make nice...
  • Night Owls by A.R. Vishny

    Night Owls by A.R. Vishny

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore, two estries—owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition—face New York's monstrous underworld to save the girl one of them loves with help from the boy one of them fears before they are, all of them, lost forever.Clara loves rules...
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    lgbtq  wlw  paranormal  romance  fantasy  young-adult  vampires  myths
  • The Traitor and the Chalice by Jane Fletcher

    The Traitor and the Chalice by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tevi has made a new life in the Protectorate - a life that includes Jemeryl - something she could never have expected when she was exiled from her home. Even more surprising is that she finds herself seriously engaged in the search for the chalice. The fake quest has suddenly become very real...
  • Thornfruit by Felicia Davin

    Thornfruit by Felicia Davin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There were two secrets in Varenx House, and Alizhan was one of them. Alizhan can’t see faces, but she can read minds. Her mysterious ability leaves her unable to touch or be touched without excruciating pain...
  • Hollow Empire by Sam Hawke

    Hollow Empire by Sam Hawke

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Moving from poison and treachery to war and witchcraft, Sam Hawke's Poison Wars continue with Hollow Empire, a fabulous epic fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Robin Hobb, Naomi Novik, and Scott Lynch.Poison was only the beginning.... The deadly siege of Silasta woke the ancient spirits, and now the city-state must find its place in this new world of magic...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  epic
  • The Temple at Landfall by Jane Fletcher

    The Temple at Landfall by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lynn feels more like a prisoner than the chosen one of the Goddess. Her transfer to another temple provides her with a chance to taste a little freedom, but all does not go according to plan and her dull life is shattered by the dangers and choices that await her...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Forest at the Heart of Her Mage by Hiyodori

    The Forest at the Heart of Her Mage by Hiyodori

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After years of city life, Tiller is finally ready to revisit the magical forest where she grew up. But the forest has turned deadly, and Tiller has no magic of her own. To survive, she’ll need a bodyguard.Tiller finds only one mage willing to escort her. A woman named Carnelian: a soldier with a pretty face and a dodgy reputation...
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    lgbtq  wlw  paranormal  romance  fantasy  magic  fiction  lesbian-mc
  • Nothing's Gonna STAHP Us by Crista Crown, Susi Hawke

    Nothing's Gonna STAHP Us by Crista Crown, Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I've seen a lot of shit in my time with STAHP and I thought I was prepared for anything. But when a sassy, green-haired omega marched into my office demanding my help with a trafficking case, I knew I was in trouble. Because one sniff told me the brave little spitfire was my fated mate. Jesse's got a smart mouth, a reckless streak a mile wide, and a heart too big for his own good...
  • Ghost Girl in the Corner by Daniel José Older

    Ghost Girl in the Corner by Daniel José Older

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    H E L PTrying to shake off the strange malaise that separates her from even her girlfriend Izzy, Tee decides to take over the Bed-Stuy Searchlight for the summer. But then she finds an alluring violet dress in the newspaper office, and a cute ghost girl no one else can see...
  • Fairytales Slashed: Volume 2 by Megan Derr, Sasha L. Miller

    Fairytales Slashed: Volume 2 by Megan Derr, Sasha L. Miller

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In this second volume of fairy tales, see what happens when magic is put to the best and worst of uses. In The Beast (Megan Derr), a beautiful but spoiled young man is attacked by a dark faerie seeking vengeance... vengeance that destroys the young man's world, and leaves him hideously disfigured and afflicted by a terrible curse... The Wizard's Tower (Sasha L...
  • Indigo Moon by Gill McKnight

    Indigo Moon by Gill McKnight

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The road trip from Hell is paved with good intentions.Hope Glassy and Godfrey Meyers are on a mercy mission. Their friend Isabelle has been attacked by a rogue werewolf and is in the throes of lycanthropic fever. With their respective partners out of town all Hope and Godfrey can do is get Isabelle to the safety of Little Dip and the Garoul clan before her sire comes to claim her...
  • Silver Collar by Gill McKnight

    Silver Collar by Gill McKnight

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Twenty years ago, Emily Johnston’s father drowned in the Silverthread River, and no one in the town of Lost Creek believes it was an accident. For years, Emily has been spying on the reclusive family that lives in Little Dip Valley. She has some ideas of her own as to what they really are. Now her chance has come...
  • They Stay by Claire Fraise

    They Stay by Claire Fraise

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nothing is as important to sixteen-year-old Shiloh Oleson as her little brother Max. So when the six-year-old goes missing without a trace, a heartbroken Shiloh refuses to believe nothing can be done and sets out to find him.When one of Shiloh’s classmates says she knows where Max is, Shiloh hesitates to believe her. Francesca is creepy...
  • The Last Soul Among Wolves by Melissa Caruso

    The Last Soul Among Wolves by Melissa Caruso

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Last Soul Among Wolves is the dazzling second instalment in Melissa Caruso's bestselling Echo Archives series, a whip-smart fantasy adventure packed with murder, mystery and mind-bending magic.All Kembral Thorne wants is to finish her maternity leave in peace...
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    lgbtq  wlw  paranormal  romance  fantasy  audiobook  mystery  fiction
  • A Pirate's Heart by Catherine Friend

    A Pirate's Heart by Catherine Friend

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Four women, a long-lost treasure, and more than one “thief of hearts” share a destiny beyond time.To foil a map thief, librarian Emma Boyd searches for a pirate's long-lost treasure map. She’s aided in her search by investigator Randi Marx, who proves to be as frustrating as she is beautiful...
  • 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...
  • Divine Touched by Cassandra Duffy

    Divine Touched by Cassandra Duffy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Harper, Sword Maiden for the illustrious Goddess of the Open Sea, has returned to the fabled city of Griffon's Rock at the end of the Last Road to rest for the winter months after a disappointing year treasure hunting...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  assassins  book  epic
  • 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...
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