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将进酒 [Qiāng Jìn Jiǔ] by Tang Jiuqing, 唐酒卿
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratings中博六州被拱手让于外敌,沈泽川受押入京,沦为人人痛打的落水狗。萧驰野闻着味来,不叫别人动手,自己将沈泽川一脚踹成了病秧子,谁知这病秧子回头一口,咬得他鲜血淋漓。两个人从此结下了大梁子,见面必撕咬。“命运要我一生都守在这里,可这并非是我抉择的那一条路。黄沙淹没了我的手足,我不想再臣服于虚无的命。圣旨救不了我的兵,朝廷喂不饱我的马,我不愿再为此赴命。我要翻过那座山,我要为自己一战。”-The Six Prefectures of Zhongbo were ceded away in surrender to the external enemies, and Shen Zechuan was taken into custody in the capital, reduced to *a drowning dog loathed and condemned by all... -
A Midwinter Night's Dream by Tiffany Reisz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTiffany Reisz turns back the clock on her Original Sinners series to the Victorian era in this kinky Christmas romance...Two days before Christmas 1871, the newly-minted Baron Marcus Stearns returns to London for the reading of his long-estranged and much-despised father's will, fully certain he will inherit nothing but the title... -
余污 [Yu Wu] by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, 肉包不吃肉
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe traitor Gu Mang returned to his home kingdom again. Everyone rejoiced in his banishment. It was said the one who hated him most was his closest friend – the cold and stoic Young Master Mo.A rumour: Young Master Mo prepared three hundred and sixty-five methods of torture to try on Gu Mang, enough to play with him for a year without repetition... -
Eryx: A Spartan Tale by Jaclyn Osborn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy father once told me, above all else... Live and die for Sparta. Honor. Loyalty. Duty. These were the things that mattered most. And then Axios came into my life, teaching me other lessons: humility, brotherhood... love. There were moments when the brutal training stripped me of my humanity, where it turned me into a mindless beast of flesh and muscle set to destroy everything in my way... -
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Alcott Hall by Emily Rath
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Lady has an offer. The Vicar has a Confession.Lady Madeline Blair is on a mission. Her eccentric late aunt left her a small fortune with one condition: to claim it, Madeline must marry by New Year’s Eve…which is now only three weeks away! When she receives an invitation to spend Christmas at Alcott Hall, she sees this as the perfect chance to snag herself an unsuspecting beau...Categorized as:
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Golden Terrace, Vol. 2 by Cang Wu Bin Bai, 苍梧宾白
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the bond between Fu Shen and Yan Xiaohan deepens, the looming threat above the empire of Great Zhou remains omnipresent. After the settlement of the Kuangshan Academy case, Yan Xiaohan accompanies Prince Qi southward to Jingchu. However, an unexpected storm traps Prince Qi’s party inside a mysterious temple and leads Yan Xiaohan into a hidden lion’s den... -
Measure of Peace by C. Faron
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJason and Kale have made a nice life for themselves in Naiara, but all is not as it seems. Jason’s hiding a letter with life-changing news, and Kale is plagued by nightmares he can’t discuss with Jason. Peace is within their grasp, but unfinished business threatens to disrupt everything. In order to move into their future, they must first face their past and seek answers in the country they fled... -
She Who Would be King by Kim Pritekel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCateline is the twenty-one-year-old daughter of a nobleman in fourteenth-century France. It's a time when children aren't seen as those to be loved and cherished, but instead are used as pawns and bargaining chips on the chessboard of control and privilege.She is married off to a prince in the country of Sursha, a Gaelic-speaking island nation near Ireland... -
A Shimmer in the Night by Kelley York
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBenjamin Prichard has spent much of his life feeling like an outsider. Growing up, his odd behaviour and visions of ghosts left him isolated, not to mention being the child of an immigrant mother and an absent father. Benjamin walks the line between not being Chinese enough for one community, and not English enough for the other.Whisperwood School for Boys changes everything... -
Sanctuary by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsParis’s path is clear, his future settled. He’s trained his whole life in politics and the running of a kingdom. He’s going to be an adviser to the future king, his beloved prince. But when his father dies unexpectedly, the current king takes the opportunity to get rid of him, sending him to the barbaric southern tribe lands of Nemeda as a diplomat.No one has ever returned from the tribes alive... -
Fool Me Once by Ariana Nash
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe king of the Court of Love wants me dead, the queen wants me in her bed, and the prince… He wants the only piece of me I will never surrender.They call me jester, dancer, trickster, lover.I exist to entertain.But behind my sideways smiles, my quick hands and magicians tricks, I trade in their lies, their secrets. I know their deepest desires, their wicked schemes. Their sins are my currency... -
Measure of Strength by C. Faron
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPublicly, Jason Wadsworth is a young steel magnate. Privately, he is slowly unraveling. Gripped by depression, he is haunted by the memory of Kale, the slave he sold and the man who still holds his heart. Jason clings to his only source of comfort: the belief that he sent Kale away to a better life.As grim as Jason’s life is, Kale has fared worse. Each day is a brutal struggle... -
The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTommy Zane hates lions, a major obstacle in a family of lion tamers. But Tommy's dreams, and talent, fly higher, up in the rigging with the trapeze. When rising star Mario Santelli offers him flying lessons, it looks like the start of wonderful new life, and to Tommy's surprise, his relationship with Mario deepens even as his skill soars in the rigging... -
The Traitor's Mercy by Iris Foxglove
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the court of Staria, mercy is rarely a blessing…Sabre de Valois is the last of his line. Saved from the gallows while his family hangs for treason, Sabre is given the chance to pay off their debt and clear his family name... -
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Aleksey's Kingdom by John Wiltshire
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Royal Affair: Book Two Doctor Nikolai Hartmann escaped the Hesse-Davian dungeons. He fled civilized Europe to come to the vast wilderness of the New World, where he carved out a home in which he could love openly and without censure—Aleksey’s Kingdom. However, there is an irritating green-eyed, dark-haired flaw in his new paradise... -
The Holly Groweth Green by Amy Rae Durreson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s Christmas 1946 and wounded doctor Laurence is struggling to find a way to live during peacetime. Lost in the Hampshire countryside on a snowy Christmas Eve, Laurence stumbles across lonely Mistletoe Cottage and its owner: Avery. Avery is bright and beautiful, welcoming Laurence to his home with warmth and joy. But Laurence can’t stay forever, and Avery’s secrets mean he can never leave... -
A Taste for Poison by Aleksandr Voinov
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEven a king gets stung when he reaches for a scorpion.After barely surviving an assassination attempt, King Adrastes is a changed man—one who mistrusts even his allies and friends. He readies his Empire for war against an enigmatic enemy, the Elder of Vededrin, but not everyone approves... -
A Token of Time by Ethan Day
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the run from his family, Zachary Hamilton was cursed with a gift he neither wanted nor asked for. The recent murder of his lover unleashed a chain of events revealing Zachary's connection to the recently deceased legendary matinee idol, Marc Castle... -
Shiver Her Timbers by Alex Westmore
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s been six years since Quinn started dressing as a man in order to sneak aboard the most notorious pirate ship ever to set sail upon the seven seas—and those years have definitely begun to take their toll... -
Cold Sands by 牧云岚卿
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s just a low-ranking deputy general and he’s a prince. They meet on the battlefield but it turns out to be the beginning of a complicated and beautiful story.Murong Yu is a very confident man – until he meets Han Xin.There’s nothing he cannot get; there’s nothing he cannot destroy.To let live or not, is all up to him... -
The Naiad's Gift by Isabel Murray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYour value is in your beauty. It is your weapon and your worth. You are powerful but you are alone. You are one against them all, so choose your human lovers wisely. Never let them catch you, or you will suffer. Sayan’s naiad mother taught him well. He has lived for uncountable centuries, following her rules and roaming the perimeter of his vast northern lake... -
The Ashes of Ackonir by Jennifer Cody
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife beyond the walls of Eoam, the commune where my mother raised me, has never tempted me. My needs are fulfilled as long as I work, and if my life is full of more sorrow than most, it’s because I was born for it. But even I have my limits, and when the people who’ve raised me do the unthinkable, I burn the walls down and walk away... -
The Bone Heart by Ivy Warren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Elise Barnett, daughter of the duke of Beauris, stows away on a merchant vessel to scandalously elope with her elegant, refined and much older art tutor, she thought she was on her way to a blissful island paradise. She could not have been more mistaken... -
残疾暴君的掌心鱼宠 [The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish] by Xue Shan Fei Hu, 雪山肥狐
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne day, Li Yu transmigrated into a fish. Furthermore, this fish even had a master. This master was the sinister and terrifying, mute tyrant from a novel. The system gave Li Yu a task. If he wanted to change back into a human, he had to obtain the tyrant’s heart.Li Yu full of tears: System, please wake up. I’m only a fish. He can’t even speak. How can we interact?System: Stop jabbering... -
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The Ghost of Buxton Manor by Jonathan L. Ferrara
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Michael, don’t forget our Neverland.”For nearly a century, the ghost of 17 year-old Rupert Buxton has been trapped in his childhood home. He spends his days reading, roaming, and trying desperately to recall his former life. Hope is restored when a boy his own age moves into the manor—a boy he quickly becomes fascinated by... -
The Sins of the Orc by Finley Fenn
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe’s fallen too far to save… but his enemy is going to try. In a world of warring orcs and men, Kesst of Clan Ash-Kai is a pawn. A pretty, pliant plaything, bound to the cruelest orcs in the realm. Until the new healer storms in. He’s huge, hostile, and hideous, with a powerful scarred body and terrifying ancient magic... -
Fated: Blood and Redemption by Bey Deckard
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNovel (117,000+ words)Genre(s): Historical Fantasy, Erotic Action/Adventure, Polyamory, LGBT+/GSMWith the captain’s mind in shambles, Jon and Tom set out to find the passage home through the black mountain range, hoping to find a cure for Baltsaros’s madness... -
This is Not a Vampire Story by Simon Doyle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Victor Callahan holds a secret as ancient as the shadows.Employed as a night porter in a quiet Irish nursing home, the teenager watches over a group of men he once knew a long time ago. Victor has orchestrated their reunion for a final farewell, a goodbye to those whose lives have shaped him through the years... -
The Palace by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrancesco Ragoczy da San Germano, the immortal vampire, seeks only to hide himself in his Florentine palace. But after falling for Estasia, a cousin of Botticelli, the wealthy foreigner loses all his desire for isolation. Her unquenchable passion more than matches his -- and San Germano must have her. While happiness seems imminent, danger lurks around the corner... -
Desires of a Monster by Roe Horvat
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSubmerged in ecstasy, blind with love… With every second we spent joined, I became less of my own person. Sometimes, I felt he was turning me into an extension of him, and if he ever ordered me to leave, I’d decay like a severed limb. Sometimes, I lay awake at night, empty inside, carved out and hollow, as if he’d already taken everything from me… As if I could only be whole while he was in me... -
The Pillar by Kim Fielding
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDuring his youth, orphaned thief Faris was flogged at the pillar in the town square and left to die. But a kind old man saved him, gave him a home, and taught him a profession. Now Faris is the herbalist for the town of Zidar, taking care of the injured and ill. He remains lonely, haunted by his past, and insecure about how his community views him... -
Seducing a Barbarian by Amy Padilla
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTomas was a jealous little shit. He should’ve known he wouldn’t win going up against the best. Everyone knew I was the most popular in the brothel. There was no point pretending otherwise. In a shameless act of revenge, he had the guards called and had me arrested for offending the man who’d chosen me over him. They, in turn, sold me off to the barbarians. They don’t know who they’re dealing with... -
Sous les étoiles de Bloomstone Manor by Mary Orchard
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAgathe Langley a dix-neuf ans en cette année 1898. Contrairement aux attentes de ses parents, la jeune femme boude les bals mondains et ne vit que pour l'astrophysique, qu'elle étudie en cachette avec la complicité de sa gouvernante... -
Sandstorm by Megan Derr
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsStories are told of the wild Tribes who control the untamable Desert, the bloody battles that are waged in a place where alliances are as shifting as the sands. Amongst the Tribes of the Desert, the most mysterious and feared is Ghost, led by the bloodthirsty Sheik Hashim and his son Sahayl, called the Sandstorm.But Sahayl is not his father... -
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Pirate's Witch by Jessamine Rue
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA dark, spicy 'why choose" romance reminiscent of 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' with a dash of 'Treasure Island' and a hint of 'Peter Pan.' A desperate crew of pirates kidnap the witch who is the key to their freedom from a terrible curse. But she's more difficult to handle than they expect, in so many ways.. -
Marked by Fire by Mia West
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn older cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. When two warriors collide in secret, no legend is set in stone. Eighteen-year-old Arthur burns for two things: a warrior's ink, and Bedwyr, his older brother's shieldmate.Though the warlord's son is beyond his reach, a Saxon incursion finally brings Arthur's chance at the tattoo that will brand him a fighter... -
The Devil to Pay by Katie Daysh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a world of gunpowder, smoke and blood, two men’s love will rise above the chaos. In 1802, The Treaty of Amiens brings the French Revolutionary Wars to an end. After the drama of the past few years, Lieutenant Arthur Courtney returns home to England where he hopes to spend a blissful summer with his close friend, Hiram Nightingale. But within weeks, HMS Loyal goes missing en route to Malta... -
Liquid Glass by Zathyn Priest
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLillyport House was one of Britain's most haunted residences. Originally home to Viscount Eldon Davenport, one of history's most controversial poets, the house was sold by Davenport's parents after he was found dead of a gunshot to the head, the pistol that killed him in his hand... -
Stitch by Sue Brown, Eli Easton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGothika: Volume One When a certain kind of man is needed, why not make him to order? Such things can be done, but take care: Much can go wrong--but then, sometimes it can go wonderfully right. Imagine.. -
Dreams of the Past by Kian Rhodes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Bollocks!" Lucas finished retching into the chamber pot but stayed on his knees, staring in disbelief at the slight protrusion around his middle. He didn't bother calling Lucille, the house mother, for help. He already knew what the bulge meant. He was pregnant. Lucas also knew that he alone bore the blame for his predicament... -
Nights of Silk and Sapphire by Amber Jacobs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbducted from a land of wealth and privilege, Dae is chained to a slaver’s caravan crossing the vast Jaharri desert. It is a strange world of blistering sun, rolling dunes, and wind-carved plains, ruled by the Scion Zafirah Al’Intisar, a powerful and mysterious woman with seductive eyes of sapphire blue... -
Lover's Knot by Donald Hardy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJonathan Williams has inherited Trevaglan Farm from a distant relative. With his best friend, Alayne, in tow, Jonathan returns to the estate to take possession, meet the current staff, and generally learn what it’s like to live as the landed gentry now. He’d only been there once before, fourteen years earlier... -
Taming The Wild Highlander by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdana Chattan senses concerns where people she knows could be in danger. When her brothers warn her they're in trouble, she can't convince her father to listen to her, so with an escort, she tries to locate them.Separated from her escort during a storm, she is discovered by Angus MacNeill, who is tasked to return her home... -
His Scottish Pet: Dom of the Ages by Red Phoenix
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the 1400’s Ryce Leon moves to Scotland to escape the horrors of his past. The lusty Englishman is content to wear kilts and share his unique talents with the satisfied lasses of Rannoch. However, fate brings a forsaken young waif into his life, Chrisselle Buchanan... -
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La Douleur Exquise by Amelita Rae
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA young, beautiful Omega is caught in a love triangle between a pair of identical Alpha twins, one who loves him and one who only loves himself. He has been wed to one, but bred by another. The problem? He has no idea that the man who loves him so passionately in the dark of the night is not the same one whose ring he wears on his finger... -
A Delicious Descent by Amanda Meuwissen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDracula retold, with Jonathan as the object of the legendary vampire’s obsession.Engaged to his dear friend Mina, Jonathan Harker jumps at the chance to delay their wedding by accepting an assignment in far-off Transylvania. Jonathan loves Mina but not in the way a man should love a wife, for his true passion lies with the company of men, an illicit craving he can never indulge... -
Race Traitor: BWWM Romance Novel for Adults by Jamila Jasper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings0.99 cents for a limited time only! Get the discounted price for this standalone full-length 50,000+ word interracial romance novel with NO cliffhanger and guaranteed HEA. This BWWM novel is an extra-steamy read so hot it might melt your Kindle. Janie Ross meets the hottest guy she’s ever seen in the Mississippi backwoods... -
Home by Jordan L. Hawk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Whyborne & Griffin Christmas Short StoryAuthor’s note: “Home” takes place shortly after the events of... -
The King's Harem by Megan Derr
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe country of Tavamara is renowned for its famous Market, its decadent wines, the harsh climate in which it manages to flourish. It is also well known for the harems kept by the royal family. King Shahjahan's harem is especially infamous, for his concubines are comprised of an unusual, many say dangerous, assortment... This volume also contains three additional stories... -
Lying with Scorpions by Aleksandr Voinov
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"If you lie with scorpions, you'd better have a taste for poison." Now that Kendras's lover Adrastes has claimed the throne of Dalman, Kendras is tangled deeper than ever in politics and intrigue. As the new leader of the Scorpions and Adrastes's one true friend, he and his men stand between Adrastes and those who wish him dead.And many do...
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