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  • A Soul to Protect by Opal Reyne

    A Soul to Protect by Opal Reyne

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All Linh wanted was to feel safe.After escaping vile bandits, Linh is faced with a conundrum. She can either run through the Demon-filled wilds, or seek safety from a serpent monster.The longer she forces her presence in the monster’s territory, the more she learns a Duskwalker’s heart can be nurturing...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  steamy  aliens  dark  romance  fantasy  monsters  dystopia
  • Circus Creeps by Aiden Pierce

    Circus Creeps by Aiden Pierce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Sinner’s Sideshow, the most obscene, blood-pumping, skin-crawling creep show this side of Hell. As a circus brat, show biz is in my blood. And as a half-succubus, I was made for Sinner’s Sideshow—the only circus made to entertain the most depraved of monsters.When I’m plunged into a dark world of death, darkness, and corpse-ridden carnivals, I meet them…The demonic ringmaster...
  • Lord of Bones by Aiden Pierce, R.K. Pierce

    Lord of Bones by Aiden Pierce, R.K. Pierce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rayven Kidnapped. Collared. Trapped. I slink through shadows and steal from the deceased. It’s my passion, until I steal from Death himself…Then it becomes my curse.I’m a prisoner in the realm of the dead, at the mercy of the beast who calls this labyrinthian castle home. The walls are alive, with shifting corridors and eyes that follow me everywhere.He’s given me three days to escape...
  • Swim Deeper by T.S. Joyce

    Swim Deeper by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Reporter, Bre Hayne, is on the hunt for a story. Finally, her big career break has fallen into her lap, and she has chance to get the scoop on one of the notoriously private shifters. Not many of them exist, but one Holt Lachlan has put an ad out for a mate, and Bre is up for the challenge...
  • Bump in the Night by Nik Knight, Lily Mayne

    Bump in the Night by Nik Knight, Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    You never know what’s hiding in your closet...At twenty-six, Ivy has their life figured out. They have a decent paying job at the London office of Somnus Entertainment--the gaming company behind the wildly popular game Black Oasis--a draughty flat they inherited from their wild great aunt, and a few select friends to pass the time...
  • Falling Shadows by K.C. Kean

    Falling Shadows by K.C. Kean

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I am at home in the darkness, where brutality feeds on the weak and fuels the strong. Shadowmoor has forged me into who I am today and I have the mark and scars to prove it. I never thought I’d see the light again, but it seems destiny has other plans for me. My father’s arrival means life as I know it is about to change...
  • Little Red and Her Creatures of Chaos by Ames Mills

    Little Red and Her Creatures of Chaos by Ames Mills

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My grandma always told me that dreams were a manifestation of real life. That what we saw while we slept would come to light while awake.So, when I started having dreams about red eyes and big teeth, I searched for the truth. What I found was a world that I never thought was possible. It’s how I found out about the Creatures of Chaos.And now they think I’m theirs...
  • Conjure by Harleigh Beck

    Conjure by Harleigh Beck

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They’re dead.I watched them die. That’s the only reason we’re here in the no-name town,living in this creepy old house, whose shadows promise more than just darkness.The only thing worse than the house are the woods behind it.Where the whispers in the wind lead you to a deafening silence.Something lurks here, nests here, 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 here. It feeds on us.Our chaos, our anger, our 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦...
  • The Fractured Mate by Susan Trombley

    The Fractured Mate by Susan Trombley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a captive of aliens, Paisley is forced to work as an engineering assistant on an ancient wrecker starship. She knows she has to keep her head down and her behavior humble in order to survive. When the crew responds to an automated distress call from an Akrellian warship that shouldn’t be malfunctioning, she senses a threat, but she knows no one will listen to her warnings...
  • Igni Ferroque by Ashlyn Drewek

    Igni Ferroque by Ashlyn Drewek

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This isn’t a tale of redemption — it’s all about the fall. An outcast amongst outcasts, Phelan Oliver nevertheless takes his duties as a Necromancer with the utmost seriousness. As one of the few in his family devoted to the “old ways,” Phelan has fully embraced the piety and severe discipline required to master demonic magic...
  • Superbia by Colette Rhodes

    Superbia by Colette Rhodes

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Astrid is the kind of Hunter that all Hunters aspire to be.Lethal. Focused. Ambidextrous.In contrast to her disgraced sister, Astrid has done everything right. And now, she’s coming to realize that everything she’s ever known is wrong.Soren wants to be the kind of Shade that all Shades aspire to be.Brave. Decisive. Powerful...
  • Her Alien Husband by Michele Mills

    Her Alien Husband by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’m in a predicament of historic proportions. I’ve learned I can’t inherit my grandfather’s highly profitable business unless I’m married? Yes, an entirely ridiculous rule.I live with a herd of rescue cats and nary a boyfriend in sight. I’m also considered plain, sharp-tongued and overweight. And I’ve never, once been interested in marriage. Hence my reason for applying for a mail-order husband...
  • Better-Off Bunny by Sedona Ashe

    Better-Off Bunny by Sedona Ashe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m a bunny shifter who has been claimed by the wolf shifters.Things are going to get hot…or dead.I’m determined to honor the memory of my family by respecting the rabbit shifter community’s traditions. That is right up until I’m slapped in the face with an unexpected betrayal...
  • Hell Gate by Veronica Eden

    Hell Gate by Veronica Eden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From USA Today & International bestselling author, Veronica Eden, comes an all-new standalone reverse harem paranormal romance with a headstrong heroine and twisted demons who left their morals in the last century.Open the gate...if you dare.The first thing I’m warned about when I arrive at the girls’ home is to stay away from the abandoned graveyard...
    Categorized as:
    dark  kidnapping  paranormal  steamy  adult  anti-hero  book  demons
  • The Stone God by Adrienne Wilder

    The Stone God by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Marud is a god of legend. He has destroyed empires, erased entire civilizations, crushed armies of millions. No man, woman, or child is safe from his wrath. No god or monster. He is an unstoppable force. A god who kneels to no one. At least until Jessie Collins became a part of his life This book is an "end for now". The timeline begins before book 6 and ends after book 8...
    Categorized as:
    captivity  dark  kidnapping  paranormal  steamy  abuse  adult  alpha-mc
  • Dragon in the Dark by Evangeline Anderson

    Dragon in the Dark by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Drake warrior brooding in the DarkA woman whose unique powers are just coming to LightCan they survive the dangers of a hostile planet together?Find out in…Dragon in the Dark*This is a Plus length novel--115,000 words long*Dr...
  • Eternally Yours by Harper A. Brooks, Olivia Boothe

    Eternally Yours by Harper A. Brooks, Olivia Boothe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She wasn’t looking for love. He gave her forever…After being attacked by a wolf-like creature and left for dead, Loren Stone wakes in the house of a mysterious and sexy stranger.Something within her has changed. Her veins crave human blood. But it’s another type of hunger she finds herself fighting to control... her unrelenting need for Nicholas Guerra...
  • Silent Predator by Felicity Brandon, Delta James

    Silent Predator by Felicity Brandon, Delta James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Paranormal Shifter RomanceA predator prowls the Sea of Cortez, protecting a mystery that has been kept silent for almost a century—damning information that some are still willing to kill for.Mason Lockheart is a highly decorated Navy SEAL with a mission that he can never reveal to anyone… even the curvy redhead who’s determined to bring everything up from the depths of the sea...
  • Savage Giant: A Fantasy Monster Romance by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Savage Giant: A Fantasy Monster Romance by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The huge sasquatch says I belong to him.When I need a place to lie low for a while, my late grandfather’s mountain cabin seems like the perfect solution. That is, until I discover there are actual Sasquatches living in the forest. And my solar truck just broke down. Awesome.My plans to hike back to civilization are thwarted by a huge man-beast named Gorran...
  • Rise of the Alpha by Cassie Lein, Bre Rose

    Rise of the Alpha by Cassie Lein, Bre Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The following has been instilled in me from the day I was born…1) Our pack is the best2) Everyone else is inferior and beneath us.3) Women are purely for producing powerful male pups and sexual gratificationI hate it, the whole mentality of the Exodus Pack repulses me.When a rare opportunity presents itself to escape the confines and everyday scrutiny of the pack I loathe, I pounce on it...
  • Monsterland Mayhem by Lexi C. Foss

    Monsterland Mayhem by Lexi C. Foss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One drink. Three maniacal mates.Drink me.This is no ordinary task. It’s a compatibility test. A way for King Krolic to find a suitable mate. All because he needs an heir.Every eligible maiden in the kingdom has to drink.Including little old me—Alitha Marvel—a simple mortal living in a land of magic and wonder.Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would become the Chosen Omega...
  • A Mate for Oigr by S.J. Sanders

    A Mate for Oigr by S.J. Sanders

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Join the crew of The Lady's Fortune once again for another Mate Index holiday novella.Oigr spent the last twenty-five years as the caretaker of an Indivi orphan. He gave up his future on Vrol, the chance for a mate and family, and everything he knew. Now that Nazzek is mated with a youngling on the way, Oigr must adjust to a new future that he’s not prepared for...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  dark  kidnapping  paranormal  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Wicked Things by Nyla K.

    Wicked Things by Nyla K.

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Step right up and tempt your fate with four stories of deviant fiction. Carnal lusts beyond your wildest dreams! Monsters, Mermen… Sea creatures and aliens… Werewolves, and angels of death. Tales from the tomb, retold with a twist...
  • Dark Cravings by Joel Abernathy

    Dark Cravings by Joel Abernathy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The hunter will become the hunted...I’m a monster. I’ve done things that can’t be undone. Things that can never be forgiven.When I saw him, I thought he was an avenging angel who had come to punish my sins.Instead, he captured me and brought me into his world of saints and hunters. Righteous predators who prey on monsters like me, using the power of the cursed blood that runs through our veins...
  • Ours for Halloween by Violet Taylor

    Ours for Halloween by Violet Taylor

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone knows that Halloween is the one night of the year when monsters, ghouls, and nightmarish creatures of all types can walk freely among us. Caution is needed. But for Evie, caution is the last thing on her mind when she follows a masked stranger into the woods after he saves her from a gruesome fate.He’s promised to keep her safe...
  • Hot as Sin: Monster Between the Sheets: Season 2 by Elle Christensen

    Hot as Sin: Monster Between the Sheets: Season 2 by Elle Christensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Randomly bursting into flames and regenerating on a regular basis made Ash Howell feel like an outsider in a town full of monsters. Afraid of the damage he could do, the phoenix turned into a recluse…until Izzy Riley showed up in town. The beautiful half-fae/half-demon imp knew what it felt like not to belong anywhere. That was why she left Hell, even though she was the King’s sister...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  insta-love  steamy  romance  demons  monsters  fae  fantasy
  • Don't Touch by Letty Frame

    Don't Touch by Letty Frame

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Filthy, ruined, and left for dead. What a perfect birthday gift. Four powerful, mythical men want to claim me as a sweet but possessive light pegasus, a reclusive and scarred bear shifter, a deadly, twisted dark pegasus, and an unhinged imp shifter with a soul as fractured as mine.They’re everywhere I turn—wanting me, loving me, protecting me—no matter how hard I push them away...
  • Wrath & Reign: A Villain Paranormal Romance Complete Series by Nikki St. Crowe

    Wrath & Reign: A Villain Paranormal Romance Complete Series by Nikki St. Crowe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Demon King crossed over to our world looking for something that was stolen from him. What he found was me.It used to be that the president was the most powerful person in the country. That all changed when Wrath came to our world. He’s more powerful than anything we’ve ever faced.Now there are websites dedicated to worshipping him...
  • Knot Running From Fate by Ember Davis

    Knot Running From Fate by Ember Davis

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    JACEIn the years since everything changed in Screaming Woods, including myself, the only place I’ve found solace is in the woods I protect as a park ranger. I’m not sure how to deal with my new…attributes as a wolfman. What if I go feral? What if I can’t control the monster I was made into? Every year this goes on, I retreat farther from humanity and closer to the animal I’ve become...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  dark  omegaverse  paranormal  steamy  abuse  adult  age-gap
  • Devoured by Monsters by Katie May, Ann Denton

    Devoured by Monsters by Katie May, Ann Denton

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Monsters rule the world. And now, they rule me.After an attempt on my life, I find myself saved by an unlikely ally. Injured, confused, and faced with emotions I don’t know how to deal with, I hunker down in a monster’s safe house.But I refuse to stay hidden.With threats coming at us from all angles, I must learn to put my trust in the very monsters I swore to hate.The Grotesque. The Creeper...
  • Thing by Stasia Black

    Thing by Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Being the angel of death’s a lonely gig, so when she trespasses into my realm, I decide to keep her...Thing’s been alone all his life, even when he wasn’t chained to a dungeon wall half-mad for two centuries.He’s not like his brothers.He’s come to prefer his solitude. Or so he thinks...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  steamy  dark  romance  fantasy  monsters  magic  myths
  • Lost and Bound by Eliot Grayson

    Lost and Bound by Eliot Grayson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kidnapped, imprisoned, and experimented on for two years, Jared Armitage has lost the will to live. When his captors give him to another prisoner, one who can and probably will take Jared’s life, he comes face to face with the most terrifying thing of all: hope.Calder’s warlock captors meant to turn him into a monster, and they nearly succeeded...
  • The WitchSlayer by Opal Reyne

    The WitchSlayer by Opal Reyne

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Amalia’s cat brought home a strange flying lizard during a terrible storm, she had no idea that it was a Dragon. Or that he would save her from burning at the stake, only to imprison her in his lair when she saw his human face. Now she is stuck in this cave with a moody, hot-tempered, and arrogant warrior – one who has killed her kind by the dozens...
  • Bite the Terror That Feeds by Penelope Barsetti

    Bite the Terror That Feeds by Penelope Barsetti

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He gave me his word—and he broke it.Kingsnake promised me he would let me go once he found the cure, but he’s known this entire time and never once shared it with me. And now that I know the truth, that there is no cure, he still won’t let me go. Now I’m his prisoner once again.He asks to feed from me several times, but I refuse all his advances...
  • Pretty Wild by K.A. Knight

    Pretty Wild by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Seven sons, each with a bloodline of supernaturals that can be traced back to them, but where did they go?Alejandra has had her whole life planned out since birth, but now that the time has come to take her place in court, everything seems to be imploding...
    Categorized as:
    dark  insta-love  paranormal  steamy  adult  angels  angst  book
  • Hookah Smoking Caterpillar by Beatrix Hollow

    Hookah Smoking Caterpillar by Beatrix Hollow

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I’m falling down the rabbit hole into Cheshire’s Den of Debauchery.I’m obsessed with my deviant desires and only one thing can bring me satisfaction—Caterpillar. Whether by luck or misfortune, he can be bought. I only need to make a deal with Cheshire...and his deals have the tendency to go sideways.They say curiosity killed the cat but I’m the one in trouble...
  • What Dwells by Jeanette Lynn

    What Dwells by Jeanette Lynn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was just another boring day monitoring the Mists, the strange murky clouds that hover in the canyons below the Up Top. Until it wasn't. They say whatever enters the mysterious mist is lost to The Mists. When Novara finds her schooner suddenly being sucked into the clouds of death, she's expecting the worst. She's going to die...
  • Pandora's Heart by Adrienne Wilder

    Pandora's Heart by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her Highest Honor has one last chance to save her son. A creature who could rain destruction down on the world. A beast all gods fear. A Titan. And all she needs is a god who is not a god. A god who loves as a Doxie. A god with a heart of fire. It's the kind of story legends are made from. There's only one problem. It's all a lie...
    Categorized as:
    dark  enemies-to-lovers  paranormal  steamy  abuse  adult  book  demons
  • Stolen By The Dark Elf by Celeste King

    Stolen By The Dark Elf by Celeste King

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The most I can aspire to in my life is to be someone else’s toy.The best I can hope for is that I please whoever holds the title to my deed enough that I get to live another day. Although honestly, death would be a relief from my life most days.All that changes when the Dark Elf, Thirion, steals me from the Orcs.Does it matter though who owns me? Orc or Dark Elf – the outcome will be the same...
  • The Claiming by Adrienne Wilder

    The Claiming by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Claiming: Book Six in the Bound Gods Series. This is NOT a stand alone book. What begins as a day of celebration, the Claiming of two Doxies to a single god, transforms into a spiraling path of cataclysmic change. Hearts will break. Friendships will shatter...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  dark  steamy  captivity  romance  mlm  fantasy  lgbtq
  • Hunt the Wood by Anna Fury, Amy Pennza

    Hunt the Wood by Anna Fury, Amy Pennza

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m not a powerful witch, just a fortune teller making ends meet. But when my grandmother, the leader of the Rathmore Coven, summons me, I have no choice but to answer her call. To reach her, I must cross the Wood, the realm of Wotan, lord of the hunt. Rumors of his cruelty and brutality precede him, but nothing prepares me to meet the monster face to face.Because Wotan is more than a monster...
  • How to Hide Your Wolf Cub by Anna Wineheart

    How to Hide Your Wolf Cub by Anna Wineheart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Liem has a few secrets. The second-biggest one? He has a baby.A baby who's a secret from his other dad. A baby who's being targeted by shadowy outside forces because... well, Liem slept with someone he wasn't supposed to. And now he's exiled from his pack, his life and baby jinxed.Worse, his baby's daddy has come knocking on his door...
  • The Bear's Brave Omega by A.J. Cane

    The Bear's Brave Omega by A.J. Cane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bear shifter Everett has found his fated mate, but he'll have to defeat another alpha to keep him.When Milo’s date sprouts fangs and tries to bite him, he flees into the nearby forest and ends up lost. The gorgeous man who rescues him seems too good to be true… until Milo discovers his secret...
  • Aliens Hijacked My Heart by Hawke Oakley

    Aliens Hijacked My Heart by Hawke Oakley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only thing Jaeyoung loves is science—until an alien hijacks his heart...Jaeyoung was never supposed to crash-land on Eukaria, but now that he’s there, he might as well make the most of it. As both a doctor and engineer, he’s hungry for knowledge, and his new alien home is brimming with discoveries, including the big shocker—Maeleons can somehow fertilize human males...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  omegaverse  steamy  paranormal  romance  mlm  sci-fi  lgbtq
  • Blooded Labyrinth by S.J. Sanders

    Blooded Labyrinth by S.J. Sanders

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    For centuries the labyrinth was disconnected from the world of men, containing within its walls the monster, Asterion. Though its corridors occasionally connected with the mortal world to feed, mostly it slept in between worlds as the ages of men passed. And with its slumber, though his hunger gnawed at him continuously, Asterion found some semblance of peace from his monstrous existence...
  • Tristitia by Colette Rhodes

    Tristitia by Colette Rhodes

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Tristitia is a monster x monster novella set in the Shades of Sin universe.It is best read as 3.5 in the series, after Gula...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  steamy  aliens  romance  fantasy  monsters  demons  fiction
  • Pretty Stormy by K.A. Knight

    Pretty Stormy by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seven sons, each with a bloodline of supernaturals that can be traced back to them, but where did they go?Mira has been a prisoner, locked up, for as long as she can remember. Love led her there, betrayal broke her, and now she is left cold and cunning....but one fateful night has her forgetting her past and dreaming of more.Under that lightning lit sky, she found a man...
  • Disassembled Creatures by Albany Walker

    Disassembled Creatures by Albany Walker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It all started with a game.It was supposed to be fun, a night with friends. No one was supposed to die, but that’s not what happened.There’s a killer on the loose. People I know are dying, and I think I might be next.We called the boogeyman, and he answered...
  • Circus Save Me by K.A. Knight, Erin O'Kane

    Circus Save Me by K.A. Knight, Erin O'Kane

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's been over thirty years since the bombs dropped that almost decimated the planet. The fallout changed not only the animals and the landscape, but the people too. Freaks they called them; outcasts of society and hunted for their powers. The Circus has the only people to openly flaunt them, offering a haven for the lost and the damned...
  • Monstrous Lies by K.A. Knight

    Monstrous Lies by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thirty years ago the world as we know it was lost. Now humans live like rats, desperate for food and safety, the wall towering before us as a mocking reminder of what happened…The wall that keeps the monsters locked away from us. The wall that keeps us safe.The wall that every day I sneak through...
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