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Sid by Teresa Gabelman
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRenowned for his playboy lifestyle and wisecrack remarks, Sid Sinclair knows he is the last pick for the lead investigator of human/half-breed trafficking. Never one to play by the rules, Sid takes his new position seriously, but not without driving the leader of the VC Council and fellow Warrior’s crazy. A human with a special gift, Lana Fitzpatrick’s life is complicated...Categorized as:
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Tears of the Moon by Quinn Loftis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTears of the Moon Synopsis Grey Wolves Book 11 The Romanian Grey Wolves have been kicked, beaten, and stomped--assailed from every side. Yet, every time evil thinks it’s gotten the upper hand, the wolves come roaring back to protect their own. No darkness can stand against them, especially when they fight united with their supernatural allies...Categorized as:
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The Blood Witch by Chandelle LaVaun
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll magic bleeds... The life I had is gone. Permanently. No matter how hard I try there’s just no going back. One night had ruined everything. Halloween night my best friend and I made a stupid, reckless, totally avoidable mistake. Two high school girls at a frat party had bad news written all over it. I knew better, but I’d let Elizabeth talk me into it. I should have stayed in my lane...Categorized as:
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Her Dragon Rebel by Roxie Ray
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIs he more than a spoiled playboy?I need people in this town to take me seriously.I’m the only female handyman -- er, handywoman -- around, and my business depends on it.But the town’s men just won’t listen.Enter Rico. He’s a troublemaker, but he needs a job.Nobody else wants to work for me.It’s perfect.There’s no way I’m falling for the playboy.She’s my only hope.Get a job or lose everything...Categorized as:
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Crimson Truth by Samantha Whiskey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor centuries, I’ve been the king’s master of interrogation—his living, breathing lie detector.Mutter a lie in my presence and it appears tattooed into my skin.That’s usually enough to keep people quiet around me.But not her.Jocelyn, heiress to the witch queendom, lives to torment me.And with the disappearance of our princess?She’s become my brand new assignment...Categorized as:
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King of the Shadow Fae by Amelia Hutchins
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNew from USA Today Bestselling Author Amelia Hutchins comes a new Dark Urban Fantasy that will have you begging for more. Spellbinding, action-packed, mystery, and romance.I’d trained my entire life to take over the hunter guild. When the unthinkable happened, my father was taken, and I was forced to step up. The moment I took control, everything began to unravel around me...Categorized as:
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Her Forbidden Alpha by Moonlight Muse
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsScarlett Malone was a feisty headstrong young she-wolf, blessed by the moon goddess as the first Alpha Female.Moving to a new town with her mother to start afresh, they were welcomed into a new pack and a new family.Things became complicated when she begins to feel attracted to her smart and cocky stepbrother, the future Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack...Categorized as:
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Disrespected Chief by Erin R. Flynn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDivision Chief Seraphine Thomas is tired of the men in her world making her life so much more difficult. From Brian getting promoted and bringing Murray into her life to Murray treating her like he’s her boss and she has to play along to set him up because of what Director Galvin wants. Then there’s Enzo’s plans and new crazy all the way up to the damn president...Categorized as:
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The Queen's Shadow by Alexandra St. Pierre
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRaven and Rycon are on a warpath to reclaim what was stolen from them.As Raven fights to protect those she loves, she must also somehow manage to build political allies for the looming war...Categorized as:
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Honor Restored by J.L. Madore
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Fae Why Choose Romance...Categorized as:
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Spell Hound by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSince Morgen Keller arrived in the small town of Bellrock, she’s learned that magic is real, fought battles with werewolves, and managed to turn the local witches into enemies... -
Mystik Warrior by Brenda Trim, Tami Julka
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter suffering a century of torture and humiliation, Jace still bears the scars that have left his heart closed to love and acceptance. He escapes the prison walls only to realize he's mystically bound to his tormentor. Believing he doesn’t deserve a Fated Mate, he keeps his distance from females... -
Second Rite by Geneva Lee
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe wore darkness with such graceful ease…Thea Melbourne has a broken heart. A month after her world turned upside down, she’s struggling to return to the life she left behind. Her mother is in a coma, she’s selling off designer gowns to pay the bills, and her roommates seem to think she’s made of glass...Categorized as:
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Moon-Kissed by Amelia Hutchins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlexandria Helios is on a mission to find her brother. Landon disappeared on his quest to find the Sacred Library that holds the cure to the moon sickness affecting their people. There is one problem. Her journey will take her through the Kingdom of Night and directly into Torrin’s path as the head of the Night King’s army...Categorized as:
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When He’s Torn by Suzanne Wright
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt has been said that Bailey Bryant lives with her middle finger up in the air. She can agree with that. But there’s one thing she fails to be breezy about: her unrelenting attraction to fellow enforcer Deke Hammond. Broad, inked, and ruggedly masculine, the grumpy cat shifter could attract a stone. He’s also currently riddled with touch-hunger and much crankier than usual... -
Thirst by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThaneI’ve been told I’m beautiful to look at, but I’m a monster all the same.Barely contained.Terrifying now that the thirst is upon me…I’m a beast king. That comes with its pros and cons.Big con, I have to take a bride. It’s built into my DNA. We all reach a point where the drive kicks in. I thought I still had time. I was wrong!I need to find her. The one. A vampiress whose blood will quench me...Categorized as:
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Luna Cursed by Alessa Thorn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCiara Wolf Slayer is the one Ironwood that all wolves fear. When a deranged cult decides to awaken Fenris to start Ragnarök, Ciara must put aside her vicious past and work with the one wolf strong enough to take them down.‘Luna Cursed’ is book four of the new spin-off series in the best-selling 'Fae Universe,' featuring everyone's favorite supernatural hunting family, the Ironwoods...Categorized as:
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Keeper by Leia Stone
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAnya has inherited her mother's gift. Born in a set of twins, she is the next Matefinder and her brother, Jaxon, is her sworn protector. But it looks like finding mates for the werewolf kind isn’t what Spirit has in plan for her. And when she starts dreaming about a human guy in trouble, her whole life changes...Categorized as:
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Reaper Untamed by Debbie Cassidy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsActions have consequences, and my actions are about to kick me in the teeth. I’m still reeling from the unthinkable. Lucas is gone. It’s all my fault and if the dominus can’t find evidence that my actions were under duress then the consequences will be lethal...Categorized as:
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Well of Souls by Linsey Hall
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWelcome to the City of Secrets & SinI never imagined that owning a haunted bookstore in New Orleans would be my future, but here I am. For the first time in my miserable life, I’m happy. I have a home.But when my closest friend is cursed by an unknown spell, I realize there’s something far darker going on in New Orleans...Categorized as:
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Infinity Chronicles by Albany Walker
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTurns out, I’m still in for a few surprises. I may have found my mom, or rather she found me, but I still have questions only she can answer. Now, getting her to cooperate has presented new challenges. She’s still ruled by fear. Hellbent on keeping my Infinity safe, we take a few chances... -
Bite of Loyalty by R.L. Caulder
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBeing the sole survivor of the Van Helsing family was never a burden I wanted to carry.Yet here I was, an orphan with a score to settle against Dracula for orchestrating the near genocide of my bloodline.One small kink in that plan: I was turned into the blood sucking creature that I was born to destroy...Categorized as:
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Feral Queen by Alexis Calder
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIvy's quest for freedom might cost her everything.The war between the Shadows and the Umbras will tear the entire shifter community apart. All the packs have picked a side and if something isn’t done, it could mean the end of everything.The feral shifters outnumber the packs and with Ivy’s encouragement, they are ready to bring down the system that has oppressed them for so long...Categorized as:
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Walker by Leia Stone
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWith humans and werewolves on the brink of war, Anya finds herself right in the middle. When she has a terrifying vision, which her Shaman mentor says will come to pass, she stops at nothing to try and save everyone. Armed with new responsibilities, Anya is stalked by the Skin Walker who wants nothing more than to see her dead... -
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Masquerade by Felicity Heaton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTen years have passed since Sophis and Vivek, two vampires of the Venia bloodline, came close to death at the hands of twin hunters Aleksis and Izabella Romanov. The events of that night turned Sophis and Vivek against each other, shattering their close friendship and driving them apart... -
Sadie's Shadow by Julia Mills
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the Dragon Guard Series Arises a Series Unlike Any Other… Seven women, Shifters of Power, ascend from obscurity to battle enemies the likes of which the world has never known. Sadie’s life has never been easy, but then who's is? She's taken every obstacle, every trial…every tribulation and turned it to her advantage. Now the stakes are higher than ever before.. -
Snow Magic by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvie has been a lone wolf since the disappearance of her mate, Sir Rayburne, a fey knight from another realm. Left all alone with a young son to raise, Evie has become stronger than she ever was. But now her son is grown and suddenly Ray is back.Ray never meant to leave Evie all those years ago but he’s been caught in a magical trap, slowly being drained of magic all this time... -
Cam's Chance by Lisa Oliver
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsArrowtown Book 5 Can be read as a standalone Camden "Cam" Stone had a long past and a hard life. For the past ten years he'd kept up the facade of a businessman, running the only bar in Arrowtown. The hours were long, but the people were friendly and if he didn't share much about himself, no one seemed to care...Categorized as:
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Bobcat by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan 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... -
Bright Wicked by Everly Frost
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne forbidden touch.Two champions sworn to destroy each other.Three days to break the spell ... or die.When Aura Lucidia becomes the fae Queen’s Champion, her only goal is to destroy the dark Fell who killed her parents and stole her memories...Categorized as:
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Wolf Quest by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLove and magic lie at the heart of this storm…as well as a whole lot of danger. When Major Jesse Moore, brother to the Wyoming Pack Alpha, is sent to Iowa to check on his sister-in-law’s cousin, knocking politely isn’t an option. Sounds of a struggle send him storming into her kitchen—where he finds anything but a damsel in distress...Categorized as:
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The Fall by Jenika Snow
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSebastianI was a ruthless monster. A right-hand enforcer to the most powerful sociopathic vampire in the world.The only thing that mattered was satiating my bloodthirst for killing.When it came time to take out the Assembly, a group of demented humans who used creatures of the Otherworld for their own sick entertainment, I was ready to litter the ground with their corpses.And I did my job well... -
Phase of Hate by Coralee June
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI was a prodigy. A grieving sister. A girl falling for him.I died, and now I’m reborn.Stronger. Deadlier.Angrier.I’m determined to punish those that turned me into a monster. The curse kept me alive, but at what cost?I’m at war with my nature.I refuse to ever accept my fate.Once a prodigy, now a curse.Once love, now hate... -
First Ritual by Kelly St. Clare
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’m Tempest Corentine—twenty-one, single, and already dreading the next twenty-one years. Except one month ago, the impossible happened. I formed a magical bond with someone I’ve never met. The link appeared in my darkest moment, and finding this person is my sole purpose.Two issues:The magus probably lives in The Buried Knolls.The coven there might have murdered my family...Categorized as:
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His Rejected Mate by Lindsey Devin, Skye Wilson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe show is over, but I’m not giving up on our love without a fight…The deadly hit television show The Reject Project may have stopped filming, but that doesn’t mean we’re done fighting for our lives. We’ve been abandoned on the island while war wages on the mainland, and Kira’s been kidnapped by a dangerous scientist... -
Inner Demons by Stacia Stark
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsHe’s an arrogant control freak.I’m a stubborn, loose cannon.We’re a match made in hell.Luckily, that’s Samael's hometown. After the Mage Council publicly excised me, I've finally got my first real case. And I've even taken on a brand-new employee: A werewolf with impulse control issues.But my sister just lost everyone she loves, and she’s begging me to ask Samael for help... -
Wolf of Fire by Krista Street
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen her twin sister goes missing, Tala hires the Shadow Zone’s most notorious dark hunter—a fiery hot werewolf with secrets that rival her own. Practically Perfect. That’s the name of the magic shop my witch twin and I own in Chicago’s supernatural marketplace. In reality, things are not so perfect.Tessa is the face of our shop...Categorized as:
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The Billionaire Shifter's True Alpha by Diana Seere
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSophia Stanton is a confident billionaire bear shifter who enjoys the finer things in life — especially fine men. Unlike her twin brother, Derry, she has no plans to settle down with just one mate. Why limit yourself to a single taste when you can have a little lick of everything? She's rich. Powerful. Well-educated...Categorized as:
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Choose The Bears by Sam Hall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI met a man and a bear in the woods, and I chose the bear.Not just one either, but three hot bear shifters.No sooner had I escaped my awful ex when a creepy stranger advances on me in the woods. I’m alone, exposed, vulnerable… until three massive men come charging out of nowhere to save me.And when the creepy stranger turns scary stalker, they insist on sticking around to offer their protection...Categorized as:
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Crimson Covenant by Samantha Whiskey
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor two hundred years, I’ve held the Vampire throne. I’ve upheld our ancient traditions, and led the Order of Onyx Assassins. I’ve never questioned our rules...until now.The Covenant states that if humans discover the supernatural world, their lives are forfeit,but one run-in with human Lyric O’Brien, and I’m hooked. Smart, fierce, and sexy-as-sin, Lyric’s blood tempts me with unbridled need...Categorized as:
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Forbidden Sin by Alexis Calder
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSince returning from the Umbra Estate, I’ve traded one prison cell for another. Dax keeps me under guard, tracking my every movement. He says he wants to be with me, but I know he wants to use me for whatever dark power he thinks I possess.The mating bond gets stronger by the day, pulling me to Madoc. I can’t be with my mate, but I can’t be with Dax, either...Categorized as:
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Hot Vampire Next Door: Season Three by Nikki St. Crowe
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the scariest vampires in Midnight Harbor loves me. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but I'm not going to look too closely at it. Not when secrets are coming out about my past and a rival vampire is hellbent on not only possessing me, but my sister too. If I want to survive the secrets and plotting, I'm going to need Bran Duval by my side. Having him in my bed is just a bonus... -
Crypts and Crimes by Scarlett Dawn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThrough time and crime,The crocodiles cried tears.Furious hearts will not die,Run away, my dears.Once were charmed,Forever enslaved.Rage! Rage!The Fae cannot change.The heart has no mercy... King Athon is a shifter prick.If only my dastardly soul mate was a little less intelligent... -
Shattered Warrior by Brenda Trim, Tami Julka
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian Note: This is the updated cover for ASIN B06XD67KFPDetective Orlando Trovatelli is a glutton for punishment when it comes to matters of the heart and not even his shifter instincts can keep him on course. It’s bad enough that he has feelings for the Vampire Queen, who is mated to one of the most powerful males of the Tehrex Realm, but then he falls for Jaidis, a mated cambion... -
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Lone Wolf by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s a holy woman. He’s a holy terror. Josh is a werewolf who suddenly has extra, unexpected, and totally untrained powers. He’s not happy about it - or about the evil jackasses who keep attacking him, trying to steal his magic. Forced to seek help, Josh is sent to an unexpected ally for training... -
Suvi's Revenge by Brenda Trim, Tami Julka
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian Note: There is an updated cover for this edition with ASIN B013RSMVJOSuvi is the youngest of the Rowan triplets and prefers high heels to combat boots and parties to battles. Unfortunately, lately, she finds herself fighting more than she does drinking martinis. If she isn’t rebuilding the business she shares with her sisters, she’s searching for their archenemy, Cele... -
Tempt Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“There are times when you should respond to a crisis with dignity and a level head. This was not one of those times.” Whether it stems from love or a sense of responsibility, Anja will do whatever it takes to break the curse and set Rob free, but the price might prove too high... -
My Sunrise Sunset Paramour by J.J. McAvoy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sequel to My Midnight Moonlight Valentine, book two of the Vampire’s Romance Series…“What must come must come,What must be must be,Nothing can stop fate…Not even thee.”The threads of fate are woven and in the heart of it all is a young vampire by the name of Druella... -
Shot in the Dark : A Spellbinding Enemies-to-Lovers Urban Fantasy Adventure by Mary Dublin, Anne Kendsley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsObey the curfew. Never fly past Elysia’s boundaries. Above all — never speak to humans. For twenty-one summers, Sylvia has evaded the ironclad rules set by her village, driven by an insatiable curiosity to know the world beyond the confines of the willow her fellow fairies call home... -
A Vampire’s Mate: A Dark Protectors/Rebels Novella by Rebecca Zanetti
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere’s nothing Jasper Maxwell likes better than a good chase. He is patient and cunning, and he is known as one of the coldest hunters in the immortal realm. As a vampire with a hint of demon blood in him, he stands out even amongst the finest trackers in the shifter world...Categorized as:
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