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  • Warlock by Daniel Kensington

    Warlock by Daniel Kensington

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On my eighteenth birthday, I got kicked out of my home, mugged in an alley, and killed a guy with my mind ... then things got weird.I expected aging out of the foster care system to be hard...
  • Fury of Frustration by Coreene Callahan

    Fury of Frustration by Coreene Callahan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ambition can be deadly…Born of a powerful god, but exiled on earth, dragon-warrior Kruger conceals the truth of his origins from the world. Forced to live a lie, he proves his worth by becoming a tycoon in a powerful business empire. But when a beautiful woman with ambitions of her own gets in his way, he must accept what he cannot change, or eliminate the threat once and for all...
  • The Dragon Prince's Betrayal by Elva Birch

    The Dragon Prince's Betrayal by Elva Birch

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A final battle. A betrayal. And a bond that can't be broken.The capture of Alaska's greatest enemy should mean an end to hostilities, a peaceful Renewal, and a restoration of the Compact's balance of power and magic in the Small Kingdoms...
  • The Protection of Ren Crown by Anne Zoelle

    The Protection of Ren Crown by Anne Zoelle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Barely surviving her first term at college, all Ren wants to do over break is relax and bond with her roommate—not get eaten by a sentient building or attacked on the street. But with increasingly open warfare brewing between the magical factions and Layers of the world, this time, Ren will not fail in making sure everyone she loves stays safe and protected...
  • A Twist of Fate by Alicia Montgomery

    A Twist of Fate by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Astrid Jonasson’s life has been a series of disappoints, both to her family and herself, which is why she’s chosen to stay clear of her Lycan clan. When a series of events forces her back into the center of the New York clan life, she bumps into an old childhood crush. Zac Vrost, son of the clan’s Beta, has always been out of reach for her...
  • Wolf of Ashes by Everly Frost

    Wolf of Ashes by Everly Frost

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His dark crown will be mine.My mother was imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. She was locked away in darkness, never to see light again. I was born into that darkness, that perpetual night. I learned to survive without sunlight and to thrive on the scraps that were thrown to me.All because someone didn't want me to claim my birthright.Now I'm free. And I'm coming for what's mine...
  • Claused by Harmony Raines

    Claused by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bear shifter Kain, who also happens to be a lawyer, has just met his mate. There’s just one problem, she’s crazy. Like, two sandwiches short of a picnic crazy. Why? Because his mate, a wonderfully curvy woman, named Marraine Le Fey, thinks someone has stolen her magic wand. That’s right. Her. Magic. Wand...
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    magic  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  holidays
  • Badass Bear by Bianca D'Arc

    Badass Bear by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beth is depressed. Her people are safe in Grizzly Cove, but she feels as if she’s losing all her friends as they pair off two-by-two with their bear shifter mates. She’s only just found freedom by running away from her oppressive home. It’s not fair that she’s losing her new family too...
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    magic  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mermaids
  • Toughest Deal by Alessa Thorn

    Toughest Deal by Alessa Thorn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The occult group Aurora is closing in on the Edgeworths, and they are going to need Altun, the Sorceress of Istanbul, to help them if they are going to stay alive. 'Toughest Deal' is the third book in 'Mercenaries and Magic,' a fast-paced, contemporary fantasy series full of morally gray characters, found family, passionate romance, and dark humor...
  • Bitten By The Alpha Boss by Skye Wilson

    Bitten By The Alpha Boss by Skye Wilson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My new boss thinks he owns me. I can’t decide if I hate him. Or if I want to kiss him...I’ll do whatever it takes to impress my super smart, serious boss. Thanks to my secret crush, I’ve moved cities and given up everything to become part of Jacobian’s pack.Shifters from his pack are being hunted down and I've been brought into his elite tech team...
  • Bobcat by Bianca D'Arc

    Bobcat by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can Bob Redstone help a shifter woman hiding from her past, face the demons that shadowed her youth, or will they both fall while trying to prevent disaster?On a mission far from home, he finds a sweet vulnerable lady...Bob is a cougar shifter, one of the elite Redstone Alphas. On a mission for his Clan, he meets a fragile young woman, and finds himself drawn to her as never before...
  • Just Breathe by Kendall Grey

    Just Breathe by Kendall Grey

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Kendall Grey has taken my breath away once again … Just Breathe surpassed my expectations with its brutal harshness and beautiful passion rolled into a story of love, magic, and whales.” —Annie, Booked and LoadedAfter betrayal rocks the foundation of their relationship, Australian Sentinel Gavin Cassidy and whale biologist Zoe Morgan call it quits...
  • Under Fire by W.J. May

    Under Fire by W.J. May

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The highly anticipated fifth book in the Chronicles of Kerrigan. Now that the secret is out, Rae Kerrigan is determined to find her mother. No amount of convincing from Devon, or the Privy Council, is going to make her believe her mother is not alive. Working with Devon and Luke against the PC’s wishes, Rae will stop at nothing to find her...
  • Iron Master by Jennifer Ashley

    Iron Master by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Stuart Reid is an Iron Master—a Dark Fae with a rare ability to make iron do his bidding. Exiled by the High Fae who fear him, he now lives in a simple house in Shiftertown outside Las Vegas, watching over Peigi, a bear Shifter woman, and the cubs she cares for. Peigi, rescued from an evil Shifter and welcomed into the Vegas Shiftertown, knows Reid and the cubs have helped her survive and heal...
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    magic  paranormal  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fae
  • Lucifer by D.B. Reynolds

    Lucifer by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    EPIC Award WinnerMontreal, Quebec . . . A charming city on the St. Lawrence River, historic, sophisticated, but beneath it all lies an extensive underground where treacherous vampires are plotting to seize the country.Lucifer Scuderi is a vampire—handsome and charismatic, a powerful hunter of unusual skill—who arrives in Montreal to take on the most important hunt of his life...
  • Hidden Game by Amy Patrick

    Hidden Game by Amy Patrick

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a royal in the Ancient Court, Nic’s life is planned out for him. Those plans do NOT include falling in love with a human… 18-year-old Macy Moreno meant to spend a few months backpacking around Europe. Instead, she’s ended up in an ancient castle belonging to international soccer sensation Nicolo Buonaccorsi...
  • Fate Of The Minotaur by Harmony Raines

    Fate Of The Minotaur by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fin's story - Fin is the Minotaur from the Her Dragon's Bane series - my wonderful readers thought he deserved a happy ever after of his own, so here it is. After centuries of living alone in his Labyrinth, Fin, the Minotaur, is offered a chance to lead a different life. With a different face, all thanks to a magic potion given to him by Serena and Charlotte...
  • The Cinderella Cook-Off by Sable Sylvan

    The Cinderella Cook-Off by Sable Sylvan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bears + BBWs + BBQ + BDSM = Too Hot To Handle! The last thing that the curvy Quincy sisters expect is to meet their rivals, the Scoville brothers, in the flesh at the reading of their grandfather’s will. What the heck are a bunch of Norwegian billionaires doing at a fair in the middle of Texas? Planning a corporate takeover, of their family’s hot sauce company, The Quincy Hot Sauce Co...
  • Daggers and Smoke: Year One by Avery Song, Quinn Ashwood

    Daggers and Smoke: Year One by Avery Song, Quinn Ashwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Willa Silvers. Academy Investigator. Top agent at the Magic Elite Investigators Department. If only my real biography were half as glorious as the one in my head. Instead, I’m Willa Silvers, a clumsy, disaster-prone eighteen-year-old and daughter of two powerful M.E.I.D. agents...
  • The Luck of the Shifters  (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc

    The Luck of the Shifters (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seamus O’Leary was abducted from his home in Australia and imprisoned for months in the Pacific Northwest. He arrived in Grizzly Cove with his spirit broken from being forced to stay in his animal form for months. Human again, and unable to shift without the crutch of alcohol, he is trying his best just to get through each day…until a chance meeting changes his life forever...
  • Saving Grace  (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc

    Saving Grace (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As Game Warden, Jack Chambers is responsible for the wildlife in and around Grizzly Cove, but he never expected to find a badly injured mermaid washed up on the shore near his house. He takes her in and helps her back to health, only to learn of the much greater danger held at bay, just off shore, and how it’s affecting the ocean-going shifter population...
  • The Witch, the Wolf and the Vampire, Book 2 by A.K. Michaels

    The Witch, the Wolf and the Vampire, Book 2 by A.K. Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Peri has finally stopped running and found safety with Gabe and Josef ... her Wolf and her Vampire. Now she is getting strong, physically and magically, and she is ecstatic with her two mates. She is not about to let anyone take that away and she surprises even herself with her power. However, a psycho sect has been hunting her for over six years, and they are closing in...
  • Exhale by Kendall Grey

    Exhale by Kendall Grey

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gavin Cassidy, rock star by day and Sentinel by night, met his muse in the Dreaming, and now he’s found her in real life. But Zoe Morgan is having a hard time believing the gorgeous guy from her dreams is real, let alone that he’s attracted to her.Gavin’s not the only one who’s interested in Zoe. Her boss wants her too, and he could end her career in marine biology if she refuses his advances...
  • Dealing with Demons by Melissa Haag

    Dealing with Demons by Melissa Haag

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some deals can’t be broken. According to the family curse, Tessa has until her next birthday to select her future husband. However, choosing would mean his premature death. Unwilling to condemn any man to that fate, Tessa searches for an explanation behind the curse and the rules that dictate her life. What she learns is more terrifying than she could have imagined...
  • Forging Darkness by Julie Hall

    Forging Darkness by Julie Hall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No one knows if Steel is dead or alive... except me.For months I kept the late night calls from Steel a secret, until he let it slip that he tracked down his villainous sister, Silver. He needs help—even if the powerful angel-shifter is too stubborn to admit it.But the Steel I find isn’t the same boy from Seraph Academy. He’s darker. Haunted...
  • Missing Angel Juan by Francesca Lia Block

    Missing Angel Juan by Francesca Lia Block

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lonely CityA tangly-haired, purple-eyed girl named Witch Baby lives in glitzy L.A. She loves a guy named Angel Juan. When he leaves for New York she knows she must find him.Looking For LoveSo she heads for the city of glittery buildings and garbage and Chinese food and drug dealers and subways and kids playing hip-hopscotch...
  • Challenging Zed by Joss Stirling

    Challenging Zed by Joss Stirling

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Want to know what Zed Benedict was thinking when he met his soulmate Sky Bright for the first time? Find out for FREE in this compelling short story. The Benedict brothers all have different abilities and powers. One can move things with his mind, another can heal...
  • Beyond Fate by Heather Lyons

    Beyond Fate by Heather Lyons

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There are always two sides to every story . . . His whole life, Jonah Whitecomb has strove to meet everyone’s expectations of him: the perfect student, dutiful son, loyal twin, accomplished surfer, and powerful Magical. But behind his carefully composed façade hides the truth of how his family has fallen apart, leaving Jonah more often than not feeling adrift...
  • Healing Eden by Rhenna Morgan

    Healing Eden by Rhenna Morgan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing good grows in the shadow of secrets.A reluctant warrior in a rebellion he abhors, Reese Theron has buckled beneath blackmail to keep the circumstances of his birth on lockdown. He’s lost everything that counts—the right to fight for his king, the trust of his best friend, and any hope for a family of his own...
  • Snow Time For Love by Zenina Masters

    Snow Time For Love by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Crossroads declared nova unmatchable. After three weeks, it had been decided that she wasn’t going to find anyone there, not even close. Now, with the fey coming in to try life with shifters, she is called back and faces mating with a man who isn’t even her magical species. Reygaer is a fey architect who builds in ice and snow...
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    magic  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fae  fiction
  • Cauldron Bubble by Wendy Knight

    Cauldron Bubble by Wendy Knight

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “You’ve just always been the powerful one. I’m the smart aleck.”  “We’re the same. I’m night, you’re day. You have to have both to have life.”  “You can hide in the shadows.”  “And you can shine like the sun. This prophesy is about both of us.”  Destiny doesn't think she's anything special. The daughter of an outcast witch. Her twin, Fate, is her best friend, so that's awesome...
  • Tiger's Tease by Kate Kent

    Tiger's Tease by Kate Kent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tiger’s Tease - STANDALONE Mail Order Bride Romance Pretty and pierced BBW has rough and ready tiger shifter burning with need! Ava Adams has had her share of troubles; a rough childhood, drug addiction and even a stint in jail. Her last boyfriend was a jerk and the prospects of finding a hot and caring man to love aren’t very good...
  • A Lonely Magic by Sarah Wynde

    A Lonely Magic by Sarah Wynde

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing is what it seems…Fen, a street-smart orphan with anxiety issues, thinks she has her life under control. Then a gorgeous stranger tries to kill her. WTF?A mysterious boy and his sexy older brother come to her rescue, whisking her off to a glamorous Caribbean island and supposed safety. But the island’s atmosphere simmers with unnerving undercurrents...
  • Heart Of The Dragon by Harmony Raines

    Heart Of The Dragon by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Part Three of a Three Part Serial Contains strong sexual themes/language. Pregnant with Connor’s child, a reluctant Serena goes with him to Spellholm. At last, Tara’s motives become clear, but their futures are put in jeopardy when they meet the dragons who live there...
  • Tamed by the Mistress by Mina Carter

    Tamed by the Mistress by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Mistress rules all, but who rules the Mistress?Mistress of the City, Reena Leroy, picked her partner for the Midwinter Choosing only to have him disappear from her bed before she woke. Now she’s at his pack house to find out why... But things aren’t what she expects. Archer’s not a wolf, or wasn’t until a few days ago. Now he’s chained in his family’s basement as he undergoes conversion...
  • Batty for You by Zenina Masters

    Batty for You by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The wrong kind of bat in the right place at the right time; she meets a fox who sends her completely batty.Bets has been debating making the move to the Crossroads, but the night she met a fox who was out of her league, she made up her mind. Time to stop pining and go on the hunt. Too bad the only thing she ever hunted was an apple...
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    magic  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fae  fiction
  • Lost Howl by Zenina Masters

    Lost Howl by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A wolf raised by humans meets a ram who wants independence. Fur flies and they butt heads. Amira was raised by humans and has lived her life knowing she is different. When she is found on her birthday, she is offered a chance to join with one of the shifter families that run in her bloodline. She learns her history and plans her future...
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    magic  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fae  fiction
  • Protecting Their Mate, Part Five: A BBW Shifter Werewolf Romance by Mia Thorne

    Protecting Their Mate, Part Five: A BBW Shifter Werewolf Romance by Mia Thorne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Protecting Their Mate, Part Five As Ashley connects more closely with Blake--and with the alpha, Lucas--an outside force threatens the peace of the Last River pack. This is the fifth installment in PROTECTING THEIR MATE, an erotic BBW paranormal romance serial set in the world of The Last Pack. It contains strong language and explicit sex with multiple partners. For adult readers...
  • Orc Owner by Kylie Marcus

    Orc Owner by Kylie Marcus

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    RiverEvery weekend, I don my Elvish garb and head to the woods with my fellow role-playing nerds. My favorite part of the fantasy world should be the escapism, but a certain orc lord who dominates deep in the woods stimulates my imagination in ways I’ve never experienced...
  • Lonely Bear by Harmony Raines

    Lonely Bear by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lonely Bear is set in Bear Bluff and can be read as a standalone story Curvy girl Chloe has just found her fiancé, Jerry, in bed with another woman. Worse, he only dated her and asked her to marry him, so that he could get a promotion from her father. Now he has a new job, Chloe is surplus to requirements...
  • Luna Wolf by G. Bailey, Regan Rosewood

    Luna Wolf by G. Bailey, Regan Rosewood

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’ve been rejected by everyone—but an alpha heir wants me to be his pretend mate.As the only wolf shifter in my pack not to shift, being rejected from my home when I turned eighteen was not unexpected when the shifter war is so close. But being sent to a secret academy full of immortal wolf shifters, demons, and teachers with no morals wasn’t something I planned for...
  • In the Company of Witches by Joey W. Hill

    In the Company of Witches by Joey W. Hill

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Experience Joey W. Hill’s scintillating blend of modern-day witchcraft, ancient evil, and the magical tricks men and women play in the name of love…All witch and part succubus, savvy businesswoman Raina has converted a Southern plantation house into an extremely profitable old-fashioned bordello...
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    magic  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  demons  fiction
  • Silent Bear by Ruby Shae

    Silent Bear by Ruby Shae

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tracey Johnson, an arctic fox shifter in Santa’s Village at the North Pole, is tired of waiting for her mate to notice her again after a drunken kiss almost a year ago. She might be thin, flat-chested and love pink a little too much, but she deserves a mate who will love her despite her flaws...
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    magic  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  holidays
  • Natural Magick by Kathi S. Barton

    Natural Magick by Kathi S. Barton

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dominic Marshall is sick to death hearing about Pete. The way the women keep going on about him Dominic swears that the first time he sees the guy he's going to punch him in the nose, then drain him. There is no way in Dominic's mind that any one person could be that great.Piccadilly Bartholomew or "Pete" to everyone who knows her is in trouble...
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    magic  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fae  fiction
  • Kiss the Crystal Sun by Penelope King

    Kiss the Crystal Sun by Penelope King

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book #2 in the magical Spellbound trilogy.With Nicholas gone and Justin fighting for his soul, Calista attempts to get back to a normal life. But when Ana reveals a shocking secret about the family's past, and Callie discovers the most important truths in her life are lies, she is faced with a devastating choice...One that will change everything...
  • Blood of the Dragon by Harmony Raines

    Blood of the Dragon by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Part Two of a Three Part Serial - Contains Cliffhangers Contains strong sexual themes/language. With her choice made, Serena has to learn to live with the consequences of her actions. As her love for her dragon grows stronger, her fear for her sister strengthens also...
  • Christmas Before the Magic by W.J. May

    Christmas Before the Magic by W.J. May

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Learn how it all began … before the magic of tatùs. When Argyle invites his best friend, Simon Kerrigan, home for the Christmas holidays, he wants to save Simon from staying at Guilder Boarding School on his own. Simon comes along and doesn’t expect to find much more excitement in the tiny Scottish town where Argyle’s family lives. Until he meets Beth, Argyle’s older sister...
  • Forever Valentine by Bianca D'Arc

    Forever Valentine by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Valentine date gone wrong is the start of a romance for the ages. Ian has seen a lot in his time, but the lovely doctor he's been assigned to follow calls to him like no other woman. Jena has had a hard introduction to the world of vampires, and she knows Ian is watching to make sure she keeps their secret...
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    magic  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  holidays
  • Dark Warrior Untamed by Alexis Morgan

    Dark Warrior Untamed by Alexis Morgan

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Alexis Morgan’s electrifying new Talion adventure, a sexy warrior fights to save his headstrong lover from the crossfire of an evil plot to overthrow the Kyth’s leader. He questions everything. No one thought Chief Talion Greyhill Danby would report to work so soon after wrapping up his affairs in London...
  • Dark Wolf Running by Rhyannon Byrd

    Dark Wolf Running by Rhyannon Byrd

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Rhyannon Byrd's latest Bloodrunners romance, passion and secrets collide and only their love will save two werewolves and their pack. With his sharp gaze locked on the most magnificent female he'd ever seen, Wyatt Pallaton did his best to hold himself back. Of course, Elise Drake was hardly just any female...
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