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  • Redemption by S.J. West

    Redemption by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the final installment of The Redemption Series, Anna must face the challenges of retrieving the rest of the seals from the Princes of Hell. As her relationship with Lucifer grows stronger, she learns more about not only her father's past but also her own. Helena uses her growing influence to strengthen her dominion over Hell and tempt Anna's dark side into joining forces with her...
  • Timeless by S.J. West

    Timeless by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DISCLAIMER: This duology is part of my Watcher series of books. You need to have either read my Watchers Trilogy or Watcher Chronicles. Appropriate for ages 13+.Lilly and Brand’s daughter, Caylin, saw her soul mate for the first time when she was fourteen years old. After a simple exchange of smiles, she knew her life was set on a path which would lead Aiden back into her world forever...
  • Becoming Hank by Maggie M. Lily

    Becoming Hank by Maggie M. Lily

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hank & Darla Trellis have nine adult children that are just a smidge different. But, long before parenthood, they were in love.Take a step back in time to meet a young Henry "Trip" Trellis before he met Darla and changed the course of his destiny.Haven't read the Building the Circle series? No worries...
  • Elf King by Tara Grayce

    Elf King by Tara Grayce

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the story of the elf kings of Tarenhiel.Iron HeartIt all started with an arranged marriage.When Ellarin, heir to the King of Tarenhiel, finds out that he is dying, his father forces him into an arranged marriage with Lady Leyleira...
  • Lucifer by S.J. West

    Lucifer by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Disclaimer: This series is a continuation of my Watcher series of books. You need to have read the following series (in this order) to understand what is happening in this story: The Watchers Trilogy, The Watcher Chronicles, and Caylin's Story. Please be advised that this series will contain sexual situations of a mature nature. If I were to rate this series like a movie, I would rate it 'R'...
  • The Gathering by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert

    The Gathering by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "Darkness is a tricky thing. Especially when it cloaks itself in light." Luka isn't dead. He's not beyond saving. Tess knows because she saw him with her own eyes. After what she saw, she's sure of one thing: If they don't rescue him soon, Luka won't be Luka anymore. If only she could convince the other members of the hub. They're not sure Tess saw what she claims she saw...
  • Devoted Book Two: Caylin's Story by S.J. West

    Devoted Book Two: Caylin's Story by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the finale of Caylin’s Story, Caylin learns more about her descendent and why she will be so important to the future of the world. Together, Caylin and Aiden will face the challenges placed in their path by Lucifer and his men and show why faith, loyalty and love can defeat even the princes of Hell...
  • Malcolm by S.J. West

    Malcolm by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Disclaimer: This series is a continuation of my Watcher series of books. You need to have read the following series (in this order) to understand what is happening in this story: The Watchers Trilogy, The Watcher Chronicles, and Caylin's Story. Please be advised that this series will contain sexual situations of a mature nature. If I were to rate this series like a movie, I would rate it 'R'...
  • Eyes of Ember by Rebecca Ethington

    Eyes of Ember by Rebecca Ethington

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I kissed my best friend…… and now he is trying to kill me.I loved Ryland LaRue from the moment I knew what love was. I loved him so much I risked everything to save him. That risk exploded just like his house, and took pretty much everyone I cared about with it. Including him. Now, my best friend, my first love, and I guess my magical-soul-bonding-husband is hunting me. Yes, hunting me...
  • Guarding Eden by Cameo Renae

    Guarding Eden by Cameo Renae

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tucked away at an upscale, private boarding school in Brindle Hollow, Washington, seventeen-year-old Eden East comes face to face with a hideous creature on her walk back to her dorm. Shaken to her core, she's left questioning the world around her, and soon finds herself entering a friendship with a hot, new student named Alexander...
  • Second Chance by W.J. May

    Second Chance by W.J. May

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The highly anticipated Sequel to the Chronicles of Kerrigan series, by international bestselling author, W.J. May. ‘Take me to the time when things were fine, it’s all broken now.’ The Maine A little persuasion goes a long way... Rae Kerrigan thought that her father's trial was going to be the single most defining moment of her life. Little did she know, the trial was only the beginning...
  • The Bones of Makaidos by Bryan Davis

    The Bones of Makaidos by Bryan Davis

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A wall of fire protects the inexperienced villagers of Second Eden from a planned invasion of dragons and Nephilim, but how long will the flames last? Billy, Walter, Ashley, Elam, and the faithful dragons help the people prepare, but they are woefully outnumbered and will have to go back to Earth and recruit the humans who have the ability to revert to their former dragon states...
  • Fierce Alpha by Eve Bale

    Fierce Alpha by Eve Bale

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    EDENAdrift…Pack is everything. Without pack, there is no protection, no home, no family. Abandoned by one and tormented by the other, I tried being alone. I failed.Now, with a broken past and an uncertain future, I’ve tracked down the one person in the world who ever gave a damn whether I lived or died.Instead of finding sanctuary, my arrival threatens to destroy the least deserving...
  • Savage Alpha by Eve Bale

    Savage Alpha by Eve Bale

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    HALLEERejected…I’ve finally found the one thing I want more than anything. Too bad the thing is a commit-phobe alpha who wants nothing to do with me...I’ve always known how to play the game. And most of the time I’ve won—at least when it came to the things that didn’t matter, the things where I could easily cheat my way to victory.But this time, there’s no cheating my way into Kier Savage’s heart...
  • Anna by S.J. West

    Anna by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Disclaimer: This series is a continuation of my Watcher series of books. You need to have read the following series (in this order) to understand what is happening in this story: The Watchers Trilogy, The Watcher Chronicles, and Caylin's Story. Please be advised that this series will contain sexual situations of a mature nature. If I were to rate this series like a movie, I would rate it 'R'...
  • Soul of Flame by Rebecca Ethington

    Soul of Flame by Rebecca Ethington

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Time for the final battle has come. Edmund's armies have surrounded the Rioseco Abbey, trapping the few survivors inside. The sight that Ilyan was given a thousand years ago is about to come to pass. If only Joclyn was able to fight. Joclyn is tormented by the hallucinations that Cail’s mind has left her with, her magic an uncontrollable torrent that even Ilyan cannot control...
  • Scorched Treachery by Rebecca Ethington

    Scorched Treachery by Rebecca Ethington

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    While Joclyn is trapped in the tormenting hell of Cail’s mind, the battle around her only continues to grow and spread.*Edmund has infiltrated the underground hallways of Prague, guiding the massacre that would end the lives of the last of the great magical race. In her attempts to stop him, Wynifred has been captured and her magic restrained...
  • The Awakening by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert

    The Awakening by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    "I can't go home. It's not safe. Nowhere is." Tess Eckhart isn’t crazy. She’s not suffering from psychosis. She and Luka Williams are part of The Gifting. Before they can find out what that means, the man with all the answers turns up dead. The only thing he left behind? A few patient files that lead to the nation’s most lawless city...
  • Vampire in Chaos by Dale Mayer

    Vampire in Chaos by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tessa's life has plummeted into chaos. Her father is missing, Goran is unconscious and showing no signs of healing, her mother has taken several steps off the deep end and David, well, she'll deal with him when she sees him - if she can find him...
  • Garden of Graves by Keary Taylor

    Garden of Graves by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The King has arrived in Boston. Lexington confessed to a crime he didn’t commit to save Elle’s life. Now she’s summoned the one and only person who can spare him, but it comes at a dangerous price: confessing every one of her secrets to the King. That she is the one who has been curing the Bitten, and who the true father of her unborn child is...
  • Nomad by R.J. Anderson

    Nomad by R.J. Anderson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cast into exile, she must return to free her people. Banished from her underground home by Betony, the queen of the Cornish piskeys, young Ivy sets out to forge a new life for herself in the world above. But a deadly threat lingers in the mine, and Ivy cannot bear to see her people suffer while Betony refuses to believe. Somehow she must convince the queen to let them go...
  • Angeldust by Hanna Peach

    Angeldust by Hanna Peach

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The thrilling conclusion to the Dark Angel series...Everything about Michael's dark plan has been hidden - until now. On an island off the coast of Egypt, a fourth Seraphim city has been discovered; a city that doesn't appear on any Seraphim map. This city is hidden, the air smells of blood and there is something very, very wrong with the inhabitants...
  • Leaves of Revolution by Breeana Puttroff

    Leaves of Revolution by Breeana Puttroff

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Adapting to life in a new world would have been challenging in the best of circumstances, and Zander’s circumstances were anything but the best. Trapped in Deusterros with tragedy behind him and only the unknown before him, he wasn’t sure he would ever find his way back to the carefree teenager he’d been such a short time ago...
  • Coven's Revenge by May Dawson

    Coven's Revenge by May Dawson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My oldest enemy is back from the dead. My father. Backed by an army of witches and mercenaries, he’s determined to steal my magic and make me his slave again—and to subject my sister to the same fate. To save us, I’ll need both my packs. The Northern wolves I loved first, the ones who saved me. The dangerous but alluring men of the Atlantic pack who have won my heart since...
  • Wanted: Vampire's Assistant by Dusty Rose, Dusty Lynn Holloway

    Wanted: Vampire's Assistant by Dusty Rose, Dusty Lynn Holloway

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's scrappy and pure sunshine.He's a 1,000 year old vampire.Together they're magic.Ever had life kick you in the teeth after it shoved you down the stairs?Yeah, that’s how my day was heading.And then I saw an ad in the paper that changed my life—Wanted: Vampire’s Assistant...
  • Hard-Headed by Eve Bale

    Hard-Headed by Eve Bale

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    JENNAWeak…A submissive wolf doesn’t argue back, keeps silent, needs saving from the world. Will always need saving. I don’t want to be that girl anymore…These rules threaten my future with the man I love, the only man I will ever love. I can choose to break those rules or break both our hearts...
  • Central by Raine Thomas

    Central by Raine Thomas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    **Optioned for movie rights by multiple-award winning producer Chase Chenowith of Back Fence Productions.**For avid student Olivia Murdoch, life on the Estilorian plane is filled with wondrous adventure. Every lesson about her new existence is both exciting and challenging. Along with her sisters, she embraces this non-human half of herself.Helping with her lessons is her Gloresti, James...
  • Foretold by Raine Thomas

    Foretold by Raine Thomas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    **Optioned for movie rights by multiple-award winning producer Chase Chenowith of Back Fence Productions.**Centuries before she was born, Skye Tomaganuk was a subject of the most important prophecy in Estilorian history. As one of three half-human daughters born of the Corgloresti, Saraqael, she is part of the fulfillment of Knorbis’ Great Foretelling...
  • Forgiven by S.J. West

    Forgiven by S.J. West

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the finale to The Watchers Trilogy, Lilly and Brand prepare for their wedding and search for more clues to uncover Lucifer’s plans for her. With the help of her fallen angel friends, Lilly must face the ultimate battle between good and evil to decide the fate of both Heaven and Earth.This is a young adult novel which contains some violence and mild sexual situations...
  • Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 2 by R.C. Joshua, Potomac Stories

    Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 2 by R.C. Joshua, Potomac Stories

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Boba’s on the menu. So far, the Demon World has shown Arthur nothing but love. Now? It’s time for him to reciprocate.Arthur’s finally finding his place in the demon world. ****He has his own tea shop in a city that accepts him and a family that he’s beginning to call his own. But when Milo’s father sends word that he’s returned from his latest expedition, Arthur is faced with an impossible choice...
  • Kindled by Erica Stevens

    Kindled by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Fueled by rage and a thirst for revenge, Cassie no longer recognizes the person she has become. Determined to destroy Julian, no matter what the cost, Cassie pushes away the ones that love her most. Though she tries to deny it, and fights against it, Devon’s love may be the only thing that can bring her back from the brink of madness she is teetering upon...
  • Season of Glory by Lisa Tawn Bergren

    Season of Glory by Lisa Tawn Bergren

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the third and final volume of the Remnants series—Seasons of Glory—the power of the Remnants and their people are growing, threatening Pacifica’s careful plans for domination. Among the Trading Union, village after village, outpost after outpost, and city after city are drawn to people of the Way, and agree to stand against those who hunt them...
  • Vampire in Deceit by Dale Mayer

    Vampire in Deceit by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Note: This book ends on a cliffhanger as did the other books in the series. Book 5 is likely to be the conclusion of this series and will be out soon. Hurt and hurting, Tessa wages war against her own as she tries to protect those she loves and save those that can't save themselves...
  • The Afterlife of Alyx & Israel by Hanna Peach

    The Afterlife of Alyx & Israel by Hanna Peach

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once upon a lifetime, Alyx & Israel lost each other... In their new mortal lives, Alyx & Israel don't remember anything about their past. And they have never crossed paths. Until some old friends decide to secretly nudge destiny along, their efforts almost destroying everything… Now Alyx’s life lies in the balance, trapped in a coma deep within a DreamScape maze city...
  • Engraven by Lila Felix

    Engraven by Lila Felix

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tarrow Rivers is determined to wait on his mate, he scents her in the swamps, can see her in the trees, but he knows she's not ready to meet him. Yet fate has other plans. Dahlia Branch has been groomed for an independent life since birth. Clans are something she's always been warned against. She knew she would never be a part of one..
  • Garden Of Thorns; Blood Descendants Universe by Keary Taylor

    Garden Of Thorns; Blood Descendants Universe by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s easy to blend in and disappear on the streets of Boston. Elle Ward has finally taken control of her own destiny—away from the dark shadow of her family’s reputation. Putting her botany and chemistry degree to work, she’s the successful owner of her own apothecary. But she lives by a secret identity...
  • Kate by Sherry Foster

    Kate by Sherry Foster

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They call her a guest. She knows she’s a prisoner. With females being so scarce some feel they should be collected and parceled out to males who deserve them. Others think they should be protected and given the choice of who they will call mate. Kate watched as her guardians were murdered. The killers don’t know she saw them. Claiming to rescue her they take her to a guarded location...
  • Black Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan

    Black Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    These black bears…are black sheep… Curvy Ann’s always the bridesmaid and never the bride, but when her friend Chastity’s bachelorette party is held at Bear Buns, fate changes everything Ann had planned. The headliners at Bear Buns are the black bear shifters, Liam and Nick, but these sensual men aren’t just black bears. They’re their family’s black sheep...
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    religion  spirituality  adult  book  fiction  humor  mlm  paranormal
  • The Fiera Princess by Emilia Finn

    The Fiera Princess by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Over four hundred years ago, Malachai Noble’s family murdered mine.Days ago, he personally ordered the death of my best friend, and in doing so, stole whatever future Roman DeLuca and I were tiptoeing toward.Now I’m Malachai’s prisoner, with no way home, and nowhere to go but forward.He’s my escort toward execution...
  • Love's Catalyst by L.M. Lacee

    Love's Catalyst by L.M. Lacee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lars and Claire This inspirational story about Lars and Claire is set in the epic world of Dragon's Gap. It can be read alone although the story concentrates on characters that are present throughout the entire series so would probably be better read between book two, (Sharm and Edith's Story) and book three (Storm and Charlie's Story)...
  • Montrose Paranormal Academy The COMPLETE Box Set by Barbara Hartzler

    Montrose Paranormal Academy The COMPLETE Box Set by Barbara Hartzler

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Montrose Paranormal Academy— where the Three Societies rule all.Hi, I’m Lucy. And I just found out I’m not normal... Three years ago, my brother went missing in Europe without a word. I just have to play nice with the Three Societies long enough to dig up some dirt. Before they figure out who I really am ..
  • Solstice at Stonewylde by Kit Berry

    Solstice at Stonewylde by Kit Berry

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Yul stands at the threshold between life and death. Poisoned at the festival of the dead, his life now hangs by a thread. More than his own will to survive, it's his fellow Stonewylders who must save him. But will they, when Magus has done so much to undermine Yul and turn the people against him? Yet there are cracks in Magus' following...
  • The Bear Is Back In Town by Harmony Raines

    The Bear Is Back In Town by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ten years is a long time to hide from your past. After a terrible accident, Dylan left Bear Bluff, his grandpa told him never to return. If he wanted to make a good life for himself, he was better off starting again, where no one knew who he was and what he’d done. Dylan took that advice, and worked hard to achieve success. But now he’s back...
  • His Bear's Necessity by Harmony Raines

    His Bear's Necessity by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Growing up, was tough for Jed Creswell, his family struggled for money, and sometimes he had to be a little creative to help put food in his younger sibling’s stomachs. But that’s the past, and for the last few years, he’s been working away from Bear Bluff...
  • The Rose Gate: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast by Hanna Sandvig

    The Rose Gate: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast by Hanna Sandvig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once upon a time, a girl from our world found a gate to the Faerie realm... All Isobel wants is a quiet place to read, but apparently that's too much to ask. She only needs to make it through one last summer with her broken family before she can leave for university and get on with her life. At least she has her books and the solitude of the woods. But there are wolves in these woods...
  • Vampire in Design by Dale Mayer

    Vampire in Design by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tessa and her friends were supposed to be on their way home. On their way to safety. Instead she wakes up alone, with her friends kidnapped. Targeted and hunted, Tessa goes on the attack, desperate to find her friends and family. But her attackers want her throwback genes and will do anything to have her locked down in their lab...
  • Black by Angelina J. Steffort

    Black by Angelina J. Steffort

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The sequel to White."I was the weak link in the chain, and the best I could do was surround myself with forces of the good. It would increase my chances of survival. But I couldn't replace Adam; not the way Ben meant. My heart was full of Adam's memory. There was little space to fit anyone else in."After Adam’s death, Claire has to readjust to life...
  • Crown of Bones by Keary Taylor

    Crown of Bones by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The time for blood has returned. Logan’s biological father has been building an army to rise against the Crown, to challenge Cyrus and Sevan for control over the vampires, and their voices will be heard: every one of them is a rightful Royal. He is not the only one who is tired of hiding in the shadows...
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    religion  spirituality  adult  angst  book  drama  fiction  paranormal
  • Boundless by Cynthia Hand

    Boundless by Cynthia Hand

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    The past few years have held more surprises than part-angel Clara Gardner could ever have anticipated. Yet from the dizzying highs of first love, to the agonizing low of losing someone close to her, the one thing she can no longer deny is that she was never meant to live a normal life...
  • House of Ravens by Keary Taylor

    House of Ravens by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alivia has returned to Silent Bend, and the House of Conrath is stronger than it has been in centuries. She knows exactly who she is as a leader, and those that surround her are loyal—family willing to die for one another.She will need each and every one of them, because an army has been building in the dark, biding its time, ready to break out into civil war...
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