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The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion by Mark Cotta Vaz
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsA companion to the film, illustrated with full color photos... -
Feralsong by T.J. Klune
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter Heartsong and before Brothersong comes Feralsong, a short story from four different perspectives about what it means to lose your mind.January 10, 2020Exclusive at tjklunebooks... -
Doggone Mess by R.J. Blain
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsfrom the book's foreword: "While Doggone Mess’s beginning was written before Plaidypus, there are important reasons for why I didn’t renumber the series and insert Doggone Mess before Plaidypus. Doggone Mess’s events after Plaidypus require Plaidypus to truly make sense."Originally a novella in the anthology Dirty Deeds published in Jan, 2021, this edition has been expanded into a full novel... -
The Scars That Bind Us by Michele Notaro
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSometimes the worst scars are the ones you can’t see.World War III broke out 130 years ago when humans found out that magi and shifters were real. Humans have been imprisoning and enslaving the two species since. But now humans need their help protecting the world from the strange monsters they let cross the veil between realms... -
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Triumph Over Fate by Emilia Hartley
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKai wants to see Bearclaw Castle razed, but he can’t destroy the place with his sister inside.Not that Kai is ready to forgive Mimi for leaving him alone to deal with their father, but he does still love her. He figures he should at least tell her the old man has died. He doesn’t expect to find Mimi cozying up to their family enemies, though... -
Ghost Town by Pandora Pine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGhost Detective Jude Byrne has just landed in magical Key West, Florida for two weeks of fun in the sun. He’s looking forward to working on his tan instead of on haunted houses. Sitting at the hotel bar, he overhears a radio call-in show interviewing a terrified man about the harrowing experiences he had with a ghost at Casa Flores, a local bed and breakfast... -
Ghost House by Pandora Pine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBe careful what you witch for… Ghost Detective Jude Byrne is missing the excitement of the high-profile investigations he and his partner have been handling. Every time the bell jingles over the shop door, he finds himself hoping it’s their next big case... -
Edison by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s the created warlock, but can he also be mate to a powerful tiger? Edison isn’t your typical warlock. No, he is the warlock. Created by the goddess, he spent centuries doing what she asked, helping humans and paranormals alike. It isn’t until his third century that he would be given his greatest mission—that of mate and helping others to realize their full potential... -
Cast in Shadows by Alice Winters
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAndrasWhen the light-magic users known as Casters took everything from me, I vowed to make them pay.Little did I know the perfect opportunity would show up in the form of a sweet Caster the moment I took his arrow to the heart… literally. Bastian knows that I’m made of dark magic, the very thing he’s been taught to destroy... -
Dark Dreams and Dead Things by Martina McAtee
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeventeen-year-old November Lonergan spent her whole life feeling like an outsider. She was right. She’s a reaper like her mother and like her two cousins, Kai and Tristin. The supernatural world believes the three teens are part of a prophecy to save them from an evil known as the Grove. Ember just wants to survive high school and fix the fallout from bringing back her friend... -
Visiting the Variks by Jocelynn Drake
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s time to visit the Varik Clan.While everyone has found their happily ever after, the four brothers and their loving father are still finding mischief and tender moments.This collection of EIGHT stories touches on each of the Variks and includes a never-before-release novella, Gideon’s Ghost Story.Fall in love with Aiden, Marcus, Rafe, Bel, and Winter all over again... -
Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights by Sierra Cartwright, Cherise Sinclair
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA Good sub Would... by Sierra CartwrightGenre: BDSM Erotic ContemporaryShelby, a wanna-be sub, hasn’t found a Dom strong enough to push past her need to be in control. Her experiences as a sub have been yawn-inducing. She’s fantasized plenty, though, about Trevor Lawton, one of Dark Haven’s legendary, mouthwateringly firm Doms... -
His Alpha: Curving Straight Lines by Rachelle Mills
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf the moon made me this way, then why does it feel like a curse? He is the Alpha, and I am his Beta. It's time for me to bend straight - there are some lines I must not cross. But every time I see him, the lines curve, gnawing into my soul. This is our destiny, yet nobody can know that the Moon has both blessed and cursed us with this forbidden love. A hidden, dark fire. It was our secret... -
A Holiday to Sustain Us by Michele Notaro
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne kiss under the mistletoe and now I’m hooked. I can’t get him out of my head… and I think I might like it.Convincing my pride to have a holiday celebration was supposed to be a fun way to bring everyone together. But my plan went awry when my younger pride mate convinced everyone I needed a kiss. I hadn’t expected Ash to volunteer... -
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Eradicate by Lisa Oliver
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a horrific time with their first case together, it was understandable that Lucifer and Stefan wanted to take some down time and get to learn more about each other. But on their first day officially back at work, with Monty and Darwin's new anchor division this time, an ex-friend of Lucifer's turns up and things quickly go from bad to worse for the fated pair... -
Forever Together by Shelby Rhodes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOctavius Evander here. I suppose you have come to see how it all ends. Well, ‘ends’, as in, we’ve reached the end of this part of my story. It wouldn’t be proper of me to move on until we finish it all off, right? As this is the last book in this series, I feel it is my duty, to end things with a bang! A glittery bang. By bang, I mean, a giant, super cool, Halloween party... -
Ice Soul by Mary Rundle
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKieran was rescued by one of the brothers after a solitary childhood and spending years as a slave. Now free for the first time in his life, the world beckons him as he thinks about his future. That is until he discovers why the Fates brought him to the Blackwood Pack. Worried his Fated Mate won’t want him because of who he is, Kieran runs away... -
Malachite by Michele Notaro, Sammi Cee
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMalachite~ I have a wonderful life. I have no room to complain; between my brothers and their new mates, this is the most alive our home has felt since my parents died. Unfortunately, all of them being mated is making me miserable. When it was just the four of us, it was us against the world. Now they’re paired up and it’s only me and my dragon, Kesia... -
Hunter's Curse by Pandora Pine
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1418, Wales: Hunter Conroy, the youngest in a family of powerful demon slayers, is captured by the evil warlock Osian. Young Hunter is given a choice: join forces with his enemy and kill his own family, or be cursed to live through the ages as a stone gargoyle. Once a century, Hunter is released from his prison, and tempted with the chance to build a life for himself... -
Cosmo and the King by Macy Blake
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Cosmo learns the faun king is in the human realm, he panics. See, Silenus happens to be his fiance... and he's never told any of his friends in the human realm that he ran away on his wedding day, leaving his king at the alter. Silenus made a deal with the devil--the queen of the fae--when he learned the human realm was going to be closed, keeping him separated from his mate and betrothed... -
Chained by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLost. Stolen. Forgotten… until the Alphabits step in. A Team A.L.P.H.A. spinoff series. Six years ago, Lance Lancaster (no, his parents hadn’t hated him—they were just that snooty) lost the only member of his family who cared about him—his six-year old autistic half-brother, Spencer Maximillian... -
Tricked, Bewildered and Bitten by Sandrine Gasq-Dion
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLoki Kirkberry hasn't had it easy. Abandoned as a newborn, Loki has had to navigate life under difficult and shame-inducing circumstances. When firefighters Cole Ryker and Chaz Savage rescue him from an apartment fire, Loki is embraced by all of their friends and welcomed as family. He quickly finds out that shifters and vampires do exist... -
Just Winging It by J.D. Light
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPresley's late teen were filled with one horror after another... -
Harassing Mitch by J.D. Light
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpence Rodgers Being bodyguarded by a gorgeous, enormous, slightly terrifying police officer might sound like fun and games, but there is a real live serial killer running around targeting blond haired, blue eyed boys… and I happen to be blond haired and blue eyed and a boy. With me not having a big strong mate of my own, my brother has pawned me off on the unflappable Mitch Arborrow... -
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The Wolf Soul by Amy Sumida
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis warlord's more wolf than man. I'm not a submissive man, but one growl from the Wolf Lord, and I want to bare my throat to his teeth. And I've just become his valorian. Dealing with Vathmar's possessive nature is now my job, and after seeing his soul, I want the position—and every other position he cared to put me in... -
Keeping Them Unseen by Michele Notaro
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChris~ I used to think vampires were extinct, but it turns out, they’re merely hiding. When my pack stayed with some vamps a while back, I couldn’t believe how prickly and rude they all were… all but one: Dregan. I met him and my wolf went crazy, wanting to be close, wanting to rub up on him, wanting to bite him. It makes no sense. Vampire blood and shifter blood don’t mix... -
Vampire's Soul by Joey W. Hill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLoss left them only rage...Until they found each other…Cai doesn’t want to be with anyone. He doesn’t want a damn servant, he doesn’t want to be associated with damn vampires. Rand just wants to forget his human side, stay in his wolf form and find a satisfying and hopefully violent, bloody way to bring it all to an end... -
Ryland's Inferno by Giovanna Reaves
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe ran because of fear, but was found because of love. . . The moment Blayze McKnight joins the Pryde Pack he knows it is only a matter of time before everyone finds out that he is not what he claims to be. Being the last of his kind, Blayze was never taught the way of the dragon. Because the man he wants he can never claim as his... -
Stormking Road by T.L. Haddix
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook Six in the Firefly Hollow Series. This book is a romance. It's a man + woman = love story. Insta-love? No. Impertinence? Yes. Sex within the first few chapters? Um, no (that comes later). Steamy tension building? Oh, yeah. And lots of interfering family members with good intentions. Sydney Campbell Gibson is all grown up now... -
Bearing Secrets by Layla Nash
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSunshine Wilkes runs a shelter and escape route for women with nasty husbands. She handles whatever the world throws at her... until she rescues a crazy pregnant lady raving about werewolves -- and carrying a little boy with a puppy tail. Sunny realizes she's in over her head in a magical world she didn't know existed... -
Cinnamon Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSugar, spice, and everything fur-bidden… Kimberly Matherson's the curviest freshman in her hall group at Washington College Seattle, but the last thing she expects? For a one night stand at the Bear Buns strip club to turn into something more. But the last thing she wants in her life? More drama... -
He's My Mate by S. Schulties
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the Oracle, the person who can see the past, present and future, tells you that you are now the Alpha of a newly created pack, you pack up the life you know and trade it in for a new one. Even if you don’t know the first thing about being an Alpha. I’m Parker McKnight. I’m eighteen. A wolf Shifter. And now an Alpha. I get it. I’m powerful. The most powerful Supernatural ever known... -
Growing Sanctuary by Susi Hawke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSanctuary B & B—Our wards are strong and our door is open!Hey, y’all. It’s me, Darcy Valentine. I’m still enjoying a fabulous, never-ending first date with my sexy vampire boyfriend Storm. Can you believe we’re coming up on ten months? Yep, we go together like toast and jam... -
Fractured Fang: Beta by Jena Wade, Lorelei M. Hart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrow your own pack, they said. It will be easy, they said. It was not.Alpha and pack Beta, Perry never planned to become part of a fledgling pack, but when the bond between he and his packmates formed, it felt right. Fractured fang is where he belongs and he had the hard work to prove it. Or so he thinks. When the youngest members of his pack become ill, he sets off on a mission to find the cure... -
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Love and Magic: A Crimson Vampire Christmas by B.A. Stretke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove and Magic abound in Crimson, Virginia. Leroy Thibodaux has been the Sheriff of Crimson for a little over a year and he’s really settling into the job. He joined the Crimson Coven after fighting alongside them in the Great War and finds himself very much at home. All that’s missing is his Fate chosen love by his side... -
Throwing a Hissy Fit by J.D. Light
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou point out the scars on a man's face one time, completely by accident, and he suddenly thinks you're a jerk... and proceeds to snark you into wanting to murder him. Rattle snake shifter and alpha of his pit, Cline is actually a pretty laid-back person. There has ever only been one man who makes him want hiss and spit, and that man is one of his son's closest friends, Frazier... -
His Verum Omega by L.C. Davis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA new generation of wolves find love in Mountain Ridge Jaspar is a young alpha who finds himself torn between worlds. Born as the verum Alpha of a land now occupied by the ruthless Alliance of Wolves, Jaspar and his father were forced to flee their own pack when Jaspar was barely old enough to remember all the Alliance took from him: His mother. His throne... -
Epitaph by Andrea Speed
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective solving crimes involving other infecteds. Tiger strain infections start showing up all over Seattle, much to Roan's dismay, and worse yet, they may have a personal connection. Meanwhile, Roan gets hired to look into the puzzling death of Dee's former lover... -
Jules's Sanctuary by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJules knows that as an alpha he must fight against those that set out to hurt others. But he’s tired and it’s been well over a year since he’s seen his family. He doesn’t even know if they were able to escape from their old den’s alpha and flee to safety. He can only hope that the fates were on their side. Orin has only ever wanted two things. A mate and cubs of his own... -
Sterling's Treasure by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSterling grew up knowing exactly who he was. He is from an ancient line and as such, he knew what was expected of him and how that would impact his future and that of his fated mate. But there were those that wanted what he had, and they’d stop at nothing to get it... -
Diablo by J.M. Wolf
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTrace Black hasn’t forgotten the tragic death of his parents and birth pack. His only focus since then was looking after his twin brother, Casey. Now that Casey has found his fated mate and started a family of his own, Trace has given everyone the cold shoulders, preferring the comfort of solitude... -
Cattail Ridge by T.L. Haddix
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook Four in the Firefly Hollow series. After a cutting betrayal by the father of her child, Emma Campbell swore off men. Convinced she'd never find the kind of love her parents had, Emma devoted her life to raising her daughter and building her business. Surrounded by a close-knit family who loved her, she ignored her loneliness. Until the day family friend Archer Gibson kissed her... -
Raphael's Power by Mary Rundle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDr. Ian Wallace, a rare Scottish Wolf, has dedicated his life to saving and healing wolf shifters by joining Frontline Doctors. Determined never to take a mate, he avoids relationships and is content to live a nomadic life, taking assignments to wild and remote places. That is, until an old friend asks him for a favor which Ian’s wolf will not let him refuse... -
Prancer's Fated Mate by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKerri’s excited to be able to help plan the wedding of her sister’s friend. Decorating her sister’s middle-of-nowhere cabin and taking some R after finally finishing cooking school is exactly what she needs before she starts her job hunt. Unable to sleep, Kerri heads out into the woods before dawn on Christmas Eve to cut pine boughs to decorate the fireplace mantel... -
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Alpha's Dom by Susi Hawke
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAges ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people… but the seal has been broken Lion alpha Tau Jabari is on sabbatical from his medical career in Kenya when he stumbles over a pregnant omega in the jungles of Belize about to give birth. Assisting him is an efficient omega who smells like... mate. Red Panda shifter Jun Chen is a sassy little omega... but an omega Dom... -
Claiming His Potential by Jena Wade, Lorelei M. Hart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOmega Seymour came to Northbay with one goal; getting his son to safety. What he found there was so much more. Welcomed into the pack as one of their own, Seymour starts to build a future he never dared dream could be his, one filled with safety, love, and full acceptance. He should’ve known it was too good to be true.Alpha Hutch's first duty is to his pack... -
Fractured Fang: Alpha by Jena Wade, Lorelei M. Hart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStart your own pack, they said. It will be easy, they said. It was not.Alpha Wilder’s life has never been sunshine and roses, but he refused to let that keep him down. When he and his two closest friends couldn’t find a pack to call their own, they decided to forge one of their own... -
Blood Song by Pandora Pine
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpellbound bartender and Salem State biology major, Luca Pennington, has recently developed a rather disturbing allergy as a result of volunteering for a medical trial in order to supplement his tuition. It seems spending even a second or two in the sunlight causes his skin to blister and burn as if he were being exposed to an open flame... -
Capture by Jennifer Cody
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMonet:Qis is everything I have ever desired in a mate. The lovely little snake shifter ticks all my boxes: the ones that make me want to wrap him up in a warm blanket and the ones that make me want to blanket him myself. I’d love to bathe in the ache of his tortured soul. His emotional pain calls to the most basic desires I have... -
Twisted by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLost. Stolen. Forgotten… until the Alphabits step in. A Team A.L.P.H.A. spinoff series. Patton Ryder has always taken pride in the differences between him and his twin brother, Ozzy. But now that Ozzy is mated and has a growing family, Patton is starting to realize that maybe being completely different isn’t all it’s cracked up to be...
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