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  • Blood by Katie May

    Blood by Katie May

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One of my mates is dead. The rest of them have been taken hostage. And me? I’m just a crazy demon-goddess on a warpath. Zeus has gone too far this time. There are some things I can forgive, but this isn’t one of them. My only option is to recruit an army of monsters to destroy the god who’s supposed to rule over us all. In order to do that, I have to make two trips...
  • The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune

    The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This edition is out of print. For current Paperback edition see: The Lightning-Struck HeartOnce upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident...
  • Zone of Action by A.J. Sherwood

    Zone of Action by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ren’s homecoming wishlist includes:•Arman not bashing everyone’s heads together (at least not without him)•Getting the fortress built before the Mongs attack (not at the rate they’re going with all the thefts happening)•Going home without incident (also, again, not likely)What it did not include was:•Social reform•A child•A raiding party•Arman actually using his wordsLife once again proved...
  • The Gods We Obey by Auryn Hadley

    The Gods We Obey by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As priests, we are meant to obey - but our duties are to our gods, not mere men.Zeal is back, and he's seen by more people every day. The God of Temptation grows stronger, but High Priest Kinen has found the one thing that can stop a god: disbelief. The return of our gods means an end to his power.And Kinen isn't ready to lose...
  • The Prayers We Pray by Auryn Hadley

    The Prayers We Pray by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Be careful what you pray for - because even gods can be tempted.The Temple of Temptation is broken. The system is failing the priests who serve faithfully, but Zeal isn't missing. He's simply powerless - or was.As more priests believe in our god, the balance of power has been shifting. Temptation is thriving. Miracles are happening. The High Priest is struggling...
  • The Queen's Line by Kathryn Moon

    The Queen's Line by Kathryn Moon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Kingdom of Kimmery is broken…Bryony, Princess of Kimmery, has a secret. She lacks the Hunger, the magical and passionate craving that is responsible for Kimmery's prosperity. Without that power, she will lose the crown and the chance to rule the kingdom she sincerely loves.The Queen's Line must select Chosen to satiate their Hunger with and Bryony's Choosing ceremony has arrived...
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    mlm  polyamory  reverse-harem  royalty  steamy  adult  age-gap  book
  • Eryx: A Spartan Tale by Jaclyn Osborn

    Eryx: A Spartan Tale by Jaclyn Osborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My 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...
  • Forever Claimed by Betty Shreffler, Betty Legend

    Forever Claimed by Betty Shreffler, Betty Legend

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Captured by my enemy and held in his captivity, I have two choices; play his games to survive or die fighting. Surrendering my body or territory to him is not an option. Determined to outlast his manipulations, I utilize every advantage no matter how treacherous. Only my enemy holds the key piece of leverage necessary to break me down to my core, leaving me questioning every move I make...
  • Keeping the Human's Heart by Lyonne Riley

    Keeping the Human's Heart by Lyonne Riley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Esme will not be used again, certainly not as fodder in a war that has nothing to do with her. When she makes a mad dash from the field of battle, she becomes a deserter, with nowhere to go except deeper into trollkin territory.Drazak the orc and Han’zir the troll have lived a quiet, peaceful life together on their farm—until they find a human woman sleeping in their barn...
  • Reign by Donna Grant

    Reign by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant blends the magic of Scottish and Norse tradition in the final installment of her acclaimed The Fated series.Magic holds both beauty and danger…As Lady of the Varroki, Malene was powerful and revered. But after a battle, she awakens in Norway as Dagny, a witch with no memories of her past...
  • Power and Pentad: Part One by Amanda Cashure

    Power and Pentad: Part One by Amanda Cashure

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Pax, heir to the throne, last wolf shifter in the kingdom, and mate to a woman who up until two days ago was mortal and off-limits, is facing the toughest challenge of his life. No, make that the two toughest challenges. Keeping his mate safe from the tyrant who has sent an army of released prisoners, the worst of the worst, after them...
  • Alcott Hall by Emily Rath

    Alcott Hall by Emily Rath

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The 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...
  • Sent to a Fantasy World and Now All the Men Want Me: Volume 1 by Jaclyn Osborn

    Sent to a Fantasy World and Now All the Men Want Me: Volume 1 by Jaclyn Osborn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Evan just wants a quiet life where he escapes into books, drinks a ridiculous amount of coffee, and devours every muffin in sight. But then he's transported to another world with magic, sword-wielding knights with big... hearts, and men who find him too adorable to resist.Complicated? Well, that's the understatement of the century.And for Evan, the adventure is only beginning...
  • Claimed By The Berserkers by Lee Savino

    Claimed By The Berserkers by Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "You're ours now, lass. We're claiming ye." My mind and body are weakened by the curse of my magic. My three sisters have mated with Berserker warriors, but I am too frail to be a bride. One night, three warriors break into my home. They steal me away. Now we're on the run from the pack. These warriors tell me I belong to them, and that they'll never let me go...
  • The Marked Prince by M.A. Grant

    The Marked Prince by M.A. Grant

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Torn between two worlds, desperate to save one love.The Summer Court is nothing like Sebastian remembers. The oppressed lower classes are drained of their magick, and around every corner political intrigues threaten an already unstable regime...
  • Taming the Wolves by Lyx Robinson

    Taming the Wolves by Lyx Robinson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    First I was dragged into a fort filled with cursed Vikings.Now I'm to be used as bait.To lure out the enemy with the scent of my heat.And my only protectors are the very Vikings who dragged me here...- - -The world that Tamsin knows is on the brink of disaster.Her kinswomen have been found. Their sanctuary lies open for the plunder, their military strength weakened by treachery...
  • Burn the Stars by Elisha Kemp

    Burn the Stars by Elisha Kemp

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Time-travelling to the Bronze Age Mediterranean was never part of Adrienne’s plans.Adrienne has been doing her best to adapt to life among the Minoans. But the language barrier is nothing compared to the cultural divide – and the ensuing misunderstanding that results in Adrienne falling for a man already promised to another...
  • The Maid and the Orcs by Finley Fenn

    The Maid and the Orcs by Finley Fenn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She’s fallen for an angel… but he’s mated to a monster. In a realm of orcs and powerful men, housemaid Alma Andersson is drowning — in grief, debt, and drudgery. And when her awful employer makes his darkest demand yet, she flees for the forest, and tumbles toward her doom…Until she’s snatched to safety by a huge, vicious green beast. An orc...
  • Anastasia by Sophie Lark

    Anastasia by Sophie Lark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Anastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift.Until she collides with a young Cossack rebel, changing both their lives forever.Damien is taken from everything he knows and raised as a ward of the Romanovs.Anastasia develops a strange kind of magic shared only by the Black Monk Rasputin...
  • Measure of Peace by C. Faron

    Measure of Peace by C. Faron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jason 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...
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    mlm  steamy  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  historical  lgbtq
  • Defender of Hearts by Tanya Bird

    Defender of Hearts by Tanya Bird

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Half merchant. Half noble. Wholly aggrieved.Lyndal Suttone is done watching the merchants suffer. So when an opportunity to help them presents itself, she grabs hold of it with both hands. Now she must leave her family behind and step into a world she has no idea how to navigate...
  • The Harem Master by Megan Derr

    The Harem Master by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lord Demir has spent his life trying to appease a brutal, selfish king, and keep the concubines under his care alive—and now he is on the verge of losing everything. The council wants to abolish the harems, there are no heirs to the throne, and the foreigners control the Steward. One wrong move will tip tensions into civil war...
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    mlm  polyamory  royalty  steamy  adult  bisexuality  book  fiction
  • Vampire's Embrace: A Vampire Queen Series Novel by Joey W. Hill

    Vampire's Embrace: A Vampire Queen Series Novel by Joey W. Hill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nina's twin sister Sher has been groomed to be an Inherited Servant since she was six years old. At twenty-eight, she will be given to a vampire of the Council's choosing and serve him up to 300 years...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  steamy  suspense  adult  age-gap  bdsm  book  dark
  • The Sjöfn Academy by Samantha Sabian

    The Sjöfn Academy by Samantha Sabian

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Ha’kan, an all-female race that reveres sexuality and views monogamy as unnatural, have been at war with the Tavinter for centuries. Queen Halla seeks to end this long-term dispute with the nomadic forest people by extending a unique offer to the Tavinter Chieftain. She invites his daughter, Skye, to attend the most prestigious school in all of Arianthem: the Sjöfn Academy...
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    polyamory  royalty  steamy  adult  book  dragons  epic  fiction
  • Pretty Little Thief by Ashlee M. Edmonds

    Pretty Little Thief by Ashlee M. Edmonds

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve never been good at being a princess, but when my father chooses me as his rightful heir over my brother, I hold my head high and prepare myself for what is to come. Only it is far more deadly than I had anticipated. My brother is a puppet at my grandmother's mercy. Which leaves us pitted against one another in a fight to rule IronHaven...
  • A Brat's Tale by S. Legend

    A Brat's Tale by S. Legend

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tristan, former junior warlord of Markaytia, thought he’d found a cushy hiding place as a prisoner of Aldrien. Life was simple—play with weapons by day, tumble with the beautiful Aldrien warlord by night. Best of all, he can’t be blamed for a thing—he’s the prisoner of this story! His hideaway is ruined when the Aldrien king threatens to kill him (rude) and he’s forced to return to Mortouge...
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    mlm  royalty  polyamory  steamy  romance  fantasy  fae  other-world
  • A Marriage of Necessity: Two Princes this time by Lisa Oliver

    A Marriage of Necessity: Two Princes this time by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Marriage of Necessity - Jasper and Avalon I owe my mother everything. Jasper, the youngest Prince from Lowenthorp, had one driving need - to get away from the castle. After being abducted, abused, and having lost an eye, Jasper believed his only chance of keeping his Mother safe was to be as far away from her as possible...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  suspense  royalty  romance  fantasy  magic  historical  paranormal
  • Traveling with Gentlemen by Kathryn Moon

    Traveling with Gentlemen by Kathryn Moon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    This novella takes place between the last chapter and the epilogue of A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor. It's mainly little slice of life and heap of smut scenes between Esther and her gentlemen, but there's also an adventure at the end that ties in with the over arching conflict of the Tempting Monster series...
  • In Fine Form by Eressë

    In Fine Form by Eressë

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Guile is an asset in foreign relations, but an affliction when it comes to affairs of the heart. A bastard of unknown parentage, Yandro Vaidon was born saddled with a huge disadvantage. The nigh rigid class structure of the dual-gendered realm of Ylandre relegated him to the bottom rungs of the social ladder and promised a dim future...
  • Her Shadowed Wolves by Helen Scott

    Her Shadowed Wolves by Helen Scott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was a lone wolf, now I have three mates. Somehow I know fate isn’t done with me yet...My life is a shadow of what it once was. I barely even have a toothbrush to call my own, and yet I wouldn’t change anything. The bonds with my mates are growing stronger every day...and so am I.Now we’re on a mission to hunt down the oracle and finally get some answers...
  • Into the Seas Embrace by Avery Thorn

    Into the Seas Embrace by Avery Thorn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dear Reader, I hope you find this note before it gets lost in the waves. Before I get to send another letter and tell you about what happened to me.It all started when my family and I came to the quiet town of Argos, Washington to start a new life. Again. However, the more I learned about this run-down seaside town, the more mysterious it became...
  • The Coveted Beta by L.V. Lane

    The Coveted Beta by L.V. Lane

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AlexHe’s been my best friend since we were children, and I’ve admired him all that time.I’ve always known we were different, even before he matured and revealed his animalistic side.I’m a married man with a sweet, beguiling wife who never fails to rouse my ardor while holding my infinite love.Only now, when I see the two most important people in my life together, I realize something has changed...
  • Sol & Lune: Book Two by Kathryn Moon

    Sol & Lune: Book Two by Kathryn Moon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A woman in the shadow of the new moon…Lumen Fenn was torn down by the men who took possession of her home and has sequestered herself in the Lunar Convent, searching for peace. But being left an empty vessel of a woman makes room to be filled by new forces. Called on by her Goddess, Lumen must return to the land and the men she fled...
  • Claimed by Three by L.V. Lane

    Claimed by Three by L.V. Lane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grady took my heart then rejected me... for two years. Now he's back and determined to make me his.There's just one problem. I've moved on, and the sweetly wicked Byron has taken his place.Then there is Declan, Grady's brooding brother-in-arms who watches both Grady and me with the same barely tempered yearning.But I have a secret...
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    mlm  polyamory  reverse-harem  royalty  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Juneau by Calliope Stewart

    Juneau by Calliope Stewart

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Boston, 1915.Juneau Wilde is the youngest child of the illustrious Wilde family. Despite her omega designation, she is an adventurous troublemaker that spends her days driving her widowed mother crazy. Juneau constantly bucks against the constraints of society, wanting to live the kind of life that the heroines in her favorite novels live...
  • The Queen's Nest by Merri Bright

    The Queen's Nest by Merri Bright

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone wants the new queen… but some want her dead.Kings want to marry her, warlords want to steal her, assassins want to poison her… how did a simple brothel maid get this popular?Born long after the Great Plagues that devastated the continent, Vali is the last of her kind...
  • Given To The Berserkers by Lee Savino

    Given To The Berserkers by Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Captured to be a prize in the brutal Berserker Games...My life changed forever when the Berserkers took me. These fearsome warriors must find women to keep their lethal rage at bay...and I am an ideal mate.The Alphas decree that all warriors must compete in a series of Highland Games for my hand. Of all the giant warriors, two have caught my eye, but I have no choice...
  • Fires of Hatred by Erin O'Kane

    Fires of Hatred by Erin O'Kane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fires of Hatred ‘My name is 625. At least, that’s the number branded into my skin, the only identity I have. My real name, whatever it was, was stripped from me when I was sold into slavery at age eight. I am now 20, and no more than property, my only purpose working in the palace. Until the day I meet him.’ The Elves and Humans have been at war for millennia...
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    polyamory  reverse-harem  royalty  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  dark
  • Heir by Tate James

    Heir by Tate James

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A corrupt King. A murdered Queen. A missing Princess… Found. Once upon a time, The Royal Trials were a sacred ritual designed for a queen to select her king. But nothing is as it was in the kingdom of Tiech. Not since the brutal murder of beloved Queen Ophelia. The town of Ironforge revealed important secrets, but it all came at an unbearable cost...
  • Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin

    Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Bennett Sharp is on the run. Wanted for piracy, she fears neither God nor death nor man. Except Priest Farrell. The unfaithful, stormy-eyed libertine hunts her with terrifying possessiveness. Nothing will stop him from coming for her. Not his unforgivable betrayal. Not when she's captured by the ice-cold pirate hunter, Lord Ashley Cutler. She must escape Ashley's prison and Priest's deceit...
  • Drown the Sea by Elisha Kemp

    Drown the Sea by Elisha Kemp

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Adrienne had everything. The friends, the clothes, the college acceptance letter - not to mention a healthy social calendar. Then one stupid mistake has her packing her bags to spend the summer with her estranged mom in Santorini...
  • MidKnight by Ann Denton

    MidKnight by Ann Denton

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Think you can steal my sister and then hide? Think again. I will find you, and I will destroy you. I’ll make you rue the day you thought you could take from me. As soon as I figure out who you are. Which will happen as soon as my butler, a visiting queen, and a rebellion are put in their place. I won’t lose my sister to you or my kingdom to anyone. I will fight to the bitter end. And I will win...
  • Moon Flower by Christina Lee, Iggy Toma

    Moon Flower by Christina Lee, Iggy Toma

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Galen flees his home and travels to Lunar’s Reach, he does what he needs to survive. But trading his body for food in his belly is always a risky undertaking. After he’s found injured in an alleyway, his new friends take him to Moon Flower apothecary, where the madam in charge offers him the proposition of a lifetime...
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    friends-to-lovers  mlm  suspense  abuse  adult  angst  audiobook  book
  • The Traitor's Mercy by Iris Foxglove

    The Traitor's Mercy by Iris Foxglove

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In 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...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  royalty  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  dark  dark-fantasy
  • Warrior by Violette Dubrinsky

    Warrior by Violette Dubrinsky

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Outspoken, loyal, and skilled with the sword, Princess Jaisyn St. Ives of Lytheria is no princess of fairytales. After the unexpected death of her father, Jaisyn takes control of the kingdom, expecting to be called upon to defend her claim to a throne previously held by men...
  • A Taste for Poison by Aleksandr Voinov

    A Taste for Poison by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even 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...
    Categorized as:
    mlm  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • The Prince and the Ice King by Amanda Meuwissen

    The Prince and the Ice King by Amanda Meuwissen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every Winter Solstice, the Emerald Kingdom sends the dreaded Ice King a sacrifice—a corrupt soul, a criminal, a deviant, or someone touched by magic. Prince Reardon has always loathed this tradition, partly because he dreams of love with another man instead of a future queen.Then Reardon’s best friend is discovered as a witch and sent to the Frozen Kingdom as tribute...
  • To Tempt Highland Fate by Kella McKinnon

    To Tempt Highland Fate by Kella McKinnon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Haunted by a past he cannot change, Drust MacCoinnach has made himself a willing sacrifice in his clan’s fight to keep the balance of Good and Evil. But instead of the heroic death he expected, he awoke to find himself saved by a woman who would turn his life inside out, and make him burn for her so fiercely that nothing can stop him from claiming her as his own...
  • Shattered Destiny by Yumoyori Wilson, Tamara White

    Shattered Destiny by Yumoyori Wilson, Tamara White

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if one act of kindness shatters your destiny? One moment that changed your life forever. Would you embrace it or fight with everything you had? Born to a powerful mother and father, both highly respected in our clan for their magic and strength, I was neither powerful nor respected. I was born a null...
    Categorized as:
    polyamory  reverse-harem  royalty  abuse  adult  book  crime  death
  • Lady in Waiting by Melody Tyden

    Lady in Waiting by Melody Tyden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As princess of a small, wealthy, medieval kingdom, Cordelia always knew her marriage would be a political matter. She doesn't expect love. All she wants is a husband who will let her continue to pursue her own interests rather than trapping her in an endless cycle of domesticity, but even these small hopes seem dashed when she meets the prince she's expected to marry...
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