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Dark Voyage Matters of the Mind by I.T. Lucas
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs conflicting expectations strain Dagor and Frankie’s budding relationship, they join a shore excursion to the ruins of Tehuacalo, where an ancient map of dubious origins claims a powerful amulet is buried... -
The Wedding by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 19 ratings"This is the never before seen "real" wedding between Daemon and Kat from the Lux Series. This should not be read unless you have read the Lux series."Found on Wattpad here... -
Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsDon’t miss the thrilling novella that connects the last two novels in the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds trilogy. Sam didn’t think things could get worse at Thurmond rehabilitation camp. Then the Reds arrive. Everyone assumed the kids with firepower had been killed years ago. Instead they were taken away, brainwashed, and returned as terrifyingly effective guards...Categorized as:
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Light by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIt's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil... -
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Dark Voyage Matters of the Soul by I. T. Lucas
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the Silver Swan leaves Acapulco, Frankie and Dagor expect smooth sailing, eight more wedding celebrations, and, hopefully, Frankie’s transition, but fate has other plans.The ancient amulet has more secrets to reveal, and when a new vision necessitates a change of course, Dagor and his teammates are pulled into the millennia-old battle between the clan and the Devout Order Of Mortdh... -
Parallel by Elizabeth O'Roark, Elle O'Roark
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThey've had multiple lives together, but this may be their last. As a neurologist, Nick Reilly believes everything can be explained by science. But he can’t explain her—Quinn Stewart, an irresistible patient who knows things about him she shouldn’t. And insists that at some point, she was his wife. Something else he can’t explain: he remembers her too... -
In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsRuby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds... -
In Time by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDon't miss this exciting short story that connects The Darkest Minds to its much-anticipated sequel, Never Fade. Gabe's life has been devastated in the wake of the economic crash. The only option left for someone like him to escape his tragic past is to leave his small town behind and to attempt to become a skiptracer... -
Wedding the Highlander by Janet Chapman
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"A runaway beauty finds love in the brawny arms of a handsome stranger..."Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a pond. She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlander trapped in the modern world by a wizard's spell... -
In the Requiem by Hailey Turner
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNever let go. Weighed down by scandal, Captain Jamie Callahan must choose between saving his family’s reputation and his father’s political aspirations, or taking down the enemy once and for all. Choosing one over the other will have lasting repercussions he can’t escape. Whatever path Jamie ultimately picks, Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan will be right by his side to face the consequences... -
Tempting the Highlander by Janet Chapman
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsShe has the power to tempt him beyond all reason.... Catherine Daniels arrives in Pine Creek, Maine, at just the right time for Robbie MacBain. She is on the run from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a housekeeper while he travels back in time to medieval Scotland. Unbeknownst to Catherine, Robbie's looking for a book of spells to save the future of his family... -
Only With a Highlander by Janet Chapman
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom bestselling author Janet Chapman comes the fifth novel in her Highlander series featuring a time-travelling Scotsman in modern-day Maine.As soon as Pine Creek’s new mystery man steps into her art gallery, Winter MacKeage is intrigued. This sexy stranger, Matt Gregor, wants her to do some drawings of his dream house. And with his tiger-gold eyes and masculine charm, he’s impossible to resist...Categorized as:
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Red King by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe dragons on Mistveil Island are not your run-of-the-mill kind. They’re something else entirely…Change is coming to our island, and I’m not completely convinced it’s for the better. At least, not where I am concerned.Twenty human Tributes will arrive soon. All female, all young, all healthy... -
Witchling Academy: Semester Eight by Avery Song
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMurder? Threats? Court trials? Shocking revelations?Turning twenty is more about chaos than celebration as my final semester at Witchling Academy kicks off with a bang.Semester Eight will be the most intense one yet; with the cheer squad competition, the football league championships, kendo master matches, and the spring festival art competition, we're going to be busy around the clock... -
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Shifter by Rebecca Zanetti
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***First published in Kindle Vella***She's a wolf-shifting scientist who needs cover...and He’s an alpha without a pack…As the only living wolf pack member with the tiniest drop of alpha blood in her veins, Luna McElhanney should be happy. Instead, she just wants to be left alone in her lab with her experiments, until she discovers something that could end them all... -
The Magic of Twelve: Sienna by Pepper North
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a battle between good and evil, her survival depends on her sorcerer Pappa.Tough and tenacious, Sienna has refused to count on anyone for all of her 22 years. But when she’s swept away to a magical new world full of frights and delights, her stubbornness begins to subside in the arms of the gorgeous sorcerer who claims to be her fated mate... -
The Shifter's Shotgun Mating by Ardy Kelly
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA bad bargain. A botched bounty A binding bite. Adam knew bounty hunting in another pack’s territory had risks, but being at the end of a shotgun for a forced mating was not one he expected. At least it wasn’t permanent. Once he paid the promised cut of the bounty the leader of Pine Hollow would dissolve the mating. Adam just needed to keep his hands (and his teeth) away from the enticing omega... -
Ravage by A.L. Rook
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWe promised to stick together. And then they betrayed me.In a world where more children are being born with special abilities, we were six of the ones kidnapped and hidden away for testing and training.We banded together and became a family…until one of us was killed.The others turned on me and left me for dead...Categorized as:
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Gareth by Diane Darcy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRead THE GATHERING first to avoid spoilers. They say revenge is sweet... Lissa Stuart is thrilled to get a job researching for an upcoming movie in Scotland--supposedly the land of her ancestors. When she brags about possibly being related to Bonnie Prince Charlie, she captures the attention of an angry, embittered warrior... -
Jessica by Ariana Hawkes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree best friends separated for ten years, the laws of a clan, and a forbidden love clash in the latest episode of this bestselling series.Curvy geek girl Jessica Schmidt works as a developer for the dating app Shiftr. When her two best friends, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances ten years earlier, come to the office looking for mates, she couldn't be more shocked... -
Intersect by Elizabeth O'Roark, Elle O'Roark
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe stunning conclusion to Parallel. Someone has torn them apart in the past, and she plans to do it again… As Nick and Quinn piece together the truth about the life they once shared, they discover it was much deeper and darker than they ever imagined... -
Howl for the Gargoyle by Kathryn Moon
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHannah never wanted to be a werewolf. After over thirty years as a human, she finds her new life on the other side of the species line too full of sudden changes. Especially when those changes risk her band's chance at a world tour...Categorized as:
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Loving the Highlander by Janet Chapman
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills... When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can't resist taking his photo -- and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce stranger. Discovering the identity of this irresistible warrior will complicate Sadie's search for a legendary gold mine... -
In Lieu of You: A British Time Travel Adventure by Keith A. Pearson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKeith A Pearson's time-travel adventure, 'In Lieu of You', centres on a relationship question many have where would I be today if I hadn't met that one person?Hypothetically, we might want to know the answer. In reality, though?Gary and Clare Kirk are set to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary … except they’re not...Categorized as:
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Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDestiny is doing everything she can to find her mother and stop the evil traitors from taking over her planet. But explosions, murder plots and chaos are just the beginning. And now she has more on the line than ever before. Now, she's in love. And Nix isn't the sit-by-and-watch kind of guy. He's right there next to her, risking everything. For her... -
Kilty Conscience by Amy Vansant
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhile investigating the kidnapping of an actor’s child, Broch suspects a woman at the scene is the beauty who’s been haunting his dreams. Worried his reoccurring fantasies are memories of a former life in nineteenth-century Scotland, he vows to discover if the mysterious Fiona is his true love... -
The Successful Life of Jack Rybicki by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJack Rybicki is a high school senior who loves his girl, likes to party, and doesn't have much of a plan for his life. Then fate plucks him from obscurity and Jack, now renamed Jack Samuels by his management team, becomes one of the most famous people on the planet. A teenager who likes to indulge himself with limitless resources is not the best recipe for a successful life... -
Bewitched by Kelly Moran
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDestiny waits for no one...Kaida Galloway has dreamed about him all her life. Her mysterious stranger, a man who’s not real, yet knows everything about her—including the weird anomalies she’s dealt with since a teenager like her ability to manipulate water. When a letter arrives from a birth mother she’s never met, she jumps at the chance to get answers... -
The Magic of Twelve: Marigold by Pepper North
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill this bookish beauty enjoy life as a Little as much as she always dreamed? The quiet life of a librarian is almost everything Marigold has ever wanted. But she longs for the passion and excitement of a love as true as the ones between the pages of those books. If only she had someone to call Daddy, just like her favorite heroines... -
Reactivated: Oz by Charissa Gracyk
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Project Phoenix…Find Oz…”Those were the last words her brother Jonah said when he died in her arms. Convinced that he was murdered, Navy Intel Officer Allegra Steele learns that “Oz” is her brother’s former Navy SEAL teammate, Jack “Oz” Cullen.When Allegra asks for Jack’s help, she doesn’t expect the undeniable electricity that sparks between them... -
Dawn of Eve by Pam Godwin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDaughter of Eve. Leader of the Resistance. Mankind’s savior. Dawn is supposed to be the ultimate weapon against the bloodthirsty hybrids that control the desolate planet.But she didn’t inherit superhuman speed or virus-curing blood.She’s just a human... -
Hitting The Target by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA girl sent to kill the one she is dreaming of Her target? A Kindred warrior with a beast inside Can Mia complete her mission? Or is Trey Hitting the Target when he aims for her heart? Ormyu Five is the world divided in two To the north, a police state ruled by the heavy hand of The EYE, which spies on its people constantly and keeps iron control over their lives... -
Résurrection by Edith Kabuya
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCe que Vince m’a fait, la nuit où il m’a sauvée ? Je ne saurais vous l’expliquer. Je peux toutefois jurer de deux choses : Je n’ai pas que frôlé la mort : j’étais morte. En me ramenant à la vie, Vince a fait de moi une Maudite. Hantée par le Monde des Morts à jamais...Categorized as:
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Healing The Broken by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKindred Tales Sarah Michaels is running for her life! Abducted into a cult called The Brotherhood of Peace at age twelve, she has grown up in an abusive system. Now as an adult, she is desperate to get away before she must become a “Bride of the Prophet” and is forced to have sex with the leader, the lecherous Father Caleb... -
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Her Alien Ghost by Michele Mills
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirebrook Castle is haunted. What utter nonsense! I never believe silly ghost stories… until I suddenly inherit the crumbling Firebrook estate. And now I’m a human bravely staying the night in an old ruin to prove that tales of ghostly Hyrrokin soldiers are just that…tall tales... -
A Spell is Cast by Alanea Alder
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne of several Bewitched and Bewildered short stories released by the Author on her website... -
Housewarming at the Orchard by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA short story featuring Ivy Jane, Vasic and the Arrow Squad. Timeline: Takes place some time after Shield of Winter and before Shards of Hope.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website... -
Dorian by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA changeling who can never shift lives a life of quiet frustration—until he learns how to let his leopard come out and play . . . Timeline: Takes place right after Hostage to Pleasure.This story can be found in the short story anthology Wild Embrace...Categorized as:
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Taken Over by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLibrarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0086Q7UNK.Devastated by the loss of Cade, struggling to survive in a world she no longer knows, Bethany is determined to exact revenge upon the aliens that have shredded her life, and the lives of her family and friends. Presented with an opportunity to uncover the secret that Dr... -
Bear the Burn by Anya Nowlan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe burn might be hotter than either of them could handle... Tiana Rossum's mad. Really mad. The owner of a successful bakery in Dallas, she's learned to not trust those around her the hard way... -
Her Wolf In Shining Armor by Tonya Brooks
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDane Lassiter was a wolf in shining armor. He was the sensible, level-headed shifter that everyone relied on to keep the peace and follow the rules, which he did, no matter what the cost to his personal happiness. When he met his fated mate, the one woman created just for him, Dane realized that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no rule he wouldn't break to make her his...Categorized as:
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Earning His Trust by Shea Balik
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIniko had a problem. His mouth often said things that his brain hadn’t thought through. It didn’t make him very popular with anyone. How he hadn’t been kicked out of Miracle was in itself a miracle. Iniko also had a gift to help others find their niche in life. But to do that, the men of Miracle would have to find a way to give him a chance... -
Touched by Grace by Alicia Rades
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRyn Tyler finally found her home—and demons are out to destroy it.After a lifetime of searching for where she belongs, Ryn knows it's in Eagle Valley... but war threatens to take that all away. Attending an angels-only high school should help her master her magical abilities, but stopping the upcoming battle is more important... -
Unchained by Samantha Wilde
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer good deed will cost her everything—maybe even the man she saved. Keeping a low profile is Camryn Bayfield’s plan when she takes a nursing job in Utah’s desert. Her vindictive nephew won’t find her there. But on her first night, the sight of one of her patients makes her heart race. His muscular body is bruised and dirty, screaming of neglect... -
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Kilty as Charged by Amy Vansant
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA blend of suspense, romance and laughs with just a dash of time-traveling Highlander from author Amy Vansant.When Catriona spots a plaid posterior passed out on the Hollywood movie lot where she works, she doesn't know her life as a fixer for Hollywood's spoiled elite is about to grow more complicated... -
Citun’s Storm by C.L. Scholey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCitun, powerful leader of the northern Zargonniis, vows there is a female human for him out there somewhere. He and his warriors are drawn to a far corner of the universe, where rogue Tonans swear a small colony of women has been cultivated. The race is on; it appears every male in the galaxy is after a human, but some want them dead. Citun hungers for a mate... -
Corked by Delta James
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGrace’s life is on a roll, but San Francisco’s hills are steep and one small misstep sends her tumbling into the arms of Lincoln Steele.A lone wolf, loosely attached to his brother’s pack, Linc has been consumed with eradicating the humans known as Hunters. He has returned to the City by the Bay to renovate a small boutique hotel and a famed BDSM club... -
Unbound by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey tore him from his family, erased his past, even stripped him of his name—all to mold him into the perfect fighting machine and ultimate bodyguard. They call him Varin—the Bound One—and he is utterly devoted to one woman alone, the Princess Brynalla of Galen Prime.Though he doesn’t know it, Varin is a Vision Kindred—able to see and decimate any enemy’s weakness immediately... -
The Dragon Claims His Treasure by Georgette St. Clair
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Stand up for yourself,” Rosamund’s best friend Talia said. “Don’t let anyone push you around,” Talia said. Why didn’t she warn Rosamund that this didn’t apply to sexy, terrifying Kodran Sky-Reign, leader of a clan of alien dragon shifters? Unfortunately, when Rosamund mouthed off to Kodran, he apparently took it as a marriage proposal... -
Seeing With The Heart by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBraxx is a Beast Kindred with a painful past. A traumatic crash stole his brother and his bride from him and left half of his face horribly scarred. Desperate to avoid the pitying and disgusted looks he gets whenever he goes out, he takes a job as a scout, travelling across the universe to find new trade partners and power sources for the Kindred...
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