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  • Untitled by Leigh Bardugo

    Untitled by Leigh Bardugo

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Leigh Bardugo confirmed that her longterm plan for the Grishaverse involves a third Six of Crows book "many years down the line"...
  • Upheaval by Auryn Hadley

    Upheaval by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    VICTORY IS AT HAND! ALL THEY NEED IS A MIRACLE…The evil Emperor is in our heroine’s sights—all she needs now is a military and cultural miracle...
  • Dissent by Auryn Hadley

    Dissent by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    HER MIND IS MORPHING BY THE MINUTE…PREPARE TO HAVE YOURS BLOWN! Cancel your lunch and dinner dates, and clear out your inbox at work before picking up DISSENT, the SEVENTH installment of the action-packed sci-fi fantasy series, Rise Of The Iliri! Because this is the truth: This epic series, spellbinding from the first, only becomes more powerfully enthralling with each adventure...
  • Havoc by Auryn Hadley

    Havoc by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    HISTORY DECREES SHE MUST DIE—OR LOSE HER MIND The world has waited a long time for the Kaisae—Salryc Luxx, leader of the iliri and commander of the allied forces. Kaisaes before her have died or gone mad. But now that they are so close to finally winning the war and finding peace for her species, either option is unthinkable! She's still needed...
  • Risen by Auryn Hadley

    Risen by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the final stretch of the war, the rules are changing faster than Anglia can keep up. The Kaisae of all Iliri is gone. Her mates are holding the army together. Her dreams are changing everything—and Sal? She's not done yet. The Emperor has taken too much from her. Life, loves, and much of her happiness. All she has left is desperation—and blind trust. But she's not alone. She never has been...
  • Hope by Auryn Hadley

    Hope by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    By reader request, Hope is a full-length epilogue novel to show what comes after the series ends. The war is over. The dead have been laid to rest. Peace is on the horizon, and Anglia is a country that needs to be put back together...
  • The Price We Pay by Auryn Hadley

    The Price We Pay by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Everyone wants to give in to temptation, but no one wants to pay the price.I was a child when my father surrendered me to the Temple of All Gods. No one gave me a choice. No one even bothered to explain. I was simply tossed aside, unwanted.That was the day the God of Temptation claimed me as his.Now, I'm studying how to become the perfect priestess...
  • The Avatar's Flight by Kristen Banet

    The Avatar's Flight by Kristen Banet

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Mave Lorren has had many titles. Slave, gladiator, mercenary, warrior, rebel, enemy of the Empire, and her most treasured, Champion of King Alchan.Now she had one more.Avatar.A new title, new powers, and a terrible burden that only Mave can carry.She is the most powerful Andinna of all time. War, death, and darkness are her domain...
  • The Champion's Ruin by Kristen Banet

    The Champion's Ruin by Kristen Banet

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Pride comes before the fall.Riding the high of the victories their rebellion had been able to claim early in their campaign against the tyranny and oppression of the Empire, the Andinna stand tall. They find reasons to celebrate with every won skirmish, every freed slave, and every reunion with their friends from Olost...
  • The Faerie Pawn by Michelle Madow

    The Faerie Pawn by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I need to learn how to control my new magic—before it gets me killed. As the first ever Faerie Games player gifted with magic from the king of the gods—Jupiter—all eyes are on me. Especially since I won the first competition of the Games. Now I need to send three other players to fight in the Coliseum until one of them is dead. The two that survive will be gunning for me later...
  • With Fangs and Claws by Sam Hall

    With Fangs and Claws by Sam Hall

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The duke’s daughterOne girl, two lives. Dutiful daughter of the Duke of Elverston on the one hand, a wilful girl who learns to fight on the other. Her father has let her run wild, as long as she never embarrasses him. And if she does? Consequences are likely to be swift and brutal.Her beastsThe wargen are fierce men who wear two faces, one wolf, one human...
  • Dragon Found by Sam Hall

    Dragon Found by Sam Hall

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I never intended to bond with a dragon.I definitely didn’t intend to become his wife.Now I must wed the Crown Prince, a man who is as cruel as he is handsome.Yet as soon as my dragon and I are presented to the king and queen, we are rejected.My dragon is not big enough, not good enough, and neither am I...
  • Sun Warrior by P.C. Cast

    Sun Warrior by P.C. Cast

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The blockbuster bestselling series is back! #1 New York Times bestselling author of the House of Night series, P.C. Cast, brings us Sun Warrior, an epic fantasy set in a world where humans, their animal allies, and the earth itself has been drastically changed...
  • To Kill a Nightmare: The Complete Series by Rory Miles, Harper Frey

    To Kill a Nightmare: The Complete Series by Rory Miles, Harper Frey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The best way to ruin a rogue slayer's day? Force an arranged marriage on her. Despite being the best of the best, my parents–who run our region's slayer council–decide it's time for me to get married. Apparently, being the wife of a high-born slayer will finally make me respectable. Or so they say. I see the arrangement for what it really a power grab...
  • The Obsidian Palace by Benjamin Medrano

    The Obsidian Palace by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Ruethwyn’s body had been made whole and her magic restored in the Frostglades to the north, though in a way she’d never anticipated. Supported by her friends, at long last, she looks to the future and her ultimate goal, to rescue those who Resvarygrath had stolen from her...
  • Blood Witch by M. Sinclair

    Blood Witch by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My heart beat only for these men.Any defenses that I had against these men were falling now that they knew the truth about my past—about the darkness that resided under my very skin.After a ritual gone wrong, I find myself even more connected to them than before and embracing the intensity of what was growing between us and the strength it provided me with...
  • Beyond the Faerie Gate by Marie Mistry

    Beyond the Faerie Gate by Marie Mistry

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A secret kept, a queen hidden, and her warriors lost. Afflicted by a mysterious and terrible illness that's haunted me since childhood, I’ve resigned myself to living life as a burden to my family. Until a fae knight comes to my village and tells me that everything I know is a lie. It seems impossible, but he swears that I’m a fae queen, raised in the mortal realm for my own safety...
  • Neutral by Jane Washington, Jaymin Eve

    Neutral by Jane Washington, Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Sometimes, the end is only the beginning. Emmy was born a dweller and she expected to die as a dweller ... until Willa changed everything. Now she has no idea of her path, and she certainly wasn't prepared for what would happen after her death. Caught in the middle of a war that threatened to prove much more significant than anyone had ever expected, there is only one person who can help her ..
  • Marin's Codex by Benjamin Medrano

    Marin's Codex by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a prequel to the Ancient Dreams trilogy, but is best read after the other volumes.Some mysteries are shrouded by both time and wars long since past. One of these mysteries revolves around the discovery of the true nature of magic, and the High Mage who ushered in a new era of understanding. Her name was Marin, and her life's work was consumed in the writing of her research...
  • Witchling by Hickory Mack

    Witchling by Hickory Mack

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    #whychoose Chiori's powers continue to grow at an alarming rate, and they can't figure put where it's all coming from. It gets even harder to control when the hunters finally realize their dreams of capturing and spiriting away Lord Makkai. The demon gives her his fire before their connection is dimmed, leaving Chiori panicked and disoriented...
  • Queen of Ice by Benjamin Medrano

    Queen of Ice by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Ruethwyn hadn’t expected to risk death while attending the most renowned mage academy in the kingdom, but after surviving a dragon’s attack, she hadn’t been willing to back down. Though she’d nearly died due to her efforts, Ruethwyn managed to protect the lives of her friends and earn the grudging respect of some of her opponents...
  • Crisis of Faith by Benjamin Medrano

    Crisis of Faith by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Reconciling two divergent faiths to a single goddess is much more difficult when the conference begins with an assassination attempt. As her followers have to deal with the multiple unknown attackers which are assaulting them, Tyria finds her hands tied by divine law and her struggle to decide who she is, and who she should be...
  • Magic of Lust by Auryn Hadley

    Magic of Lust by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The rules of magic are changing, and she's going to make sure they work for her. Mages are always men. Until her. They harvest the power of simple, primitive emotions. Until her. Jaeda is something new, and the best way to protect herself is to make sure the enemy doesn't have a clue. That's going to be difficult with an Adevian mage about to take her town. Shahwa has become her home...
  • A City of Whispers by Jane Washington

    A City of Whispers by Jane Washington

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A reverse harem, enemies to lovers, slow burn romance.“The relentless clock of fate was groaning over to the next hour, ringing the arrival of a battle as old as time, sounding the final alarm, the final chance to fall to our blades or lift them high. It was repeating infernal hours that grew hungrier with each turn, more vicious than the day, the year, the century before.”The end was here...
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    gods  magic  paranormal  polyamory  reverse-harem  abuse  adult  book
  • Crown of Embers (The Chosen) by Meg Anne

    Crown of Embers (The Chosen) by Meg Anne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “If it’s a war she wants, I’ll damn well give her one.”Kiri Helena Solene may have gotten her Mate back, but that was just the beginning. The battle lines have been drawn and her nemesis has already struck the first blow.Surrounded by her Circle, Helena’s power continues to grow. However, this time power alone will not be enough...
  • Scent of a Wolf by Alex Lidell

    Scent of a Wolf by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Lera isn’t a hero. The world doesn’t know that. Lera needs to keep her head down—not an easy feat when a giant gray wolf with a fondness for her dorm room starts roaming the Academy...
  • Crime and Punishment by Alex Lidell

    Crime and Punishment by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She broke the rules. Now he sets the consequences. Lera crossed the line when she disobeyed River’s orders and went over the Academy wall. Now River wants Lera gone—and Coal is just the officer to make her quit. For Coal, disciplining a wayward cadet is a matter of routine—--but he may be in over his head with this fiery student...
  • Hide and Seek by Alex Lidell

    Hide and Seek by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What hides in the shadows will escape.Fending off Coal’s memories by night and his overprotectiveness by day, Lera is at her wits’ end—and the muscled warrior is only the start of her problems...
  • Prowess Trials by Alex Lidell

    Prowess Trials by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When you play with fire, everyone gets burned.It’s the first day of the Prowess Trials, with all the royals—and the dark fae Owalin—gathered for Tye’s grand performance. When the magic wards fall right in the middle of Tye’s routine, Lera does what she must to save his life—giving Owalin just the opening he needs.River is in love with Lera, but he can’t be with someone who lies...
  • The Last Bell by Alex Lidell

    The Last Bell by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hostages. Memories. Heartbeats. The long awaited finale to the epic Power of Five story is here.The quint has finally reunited, but their stunning new discovery changes everything.Just as Lera and the males navigate their redefined future, Owalin violently ups the stakes, giving the humans one hour to hand over their kingdoms...
  • Monsters Below by R.L. Caulder

    Monsters Below by R.L. Caulder

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With forces I don't understand out to hurt my monsters and I, time is running out to figure out who–no, what–I am.The weight of the world suddenly crashes on my shoulders, and I’m not sure how long I can carry it...
    Categorized as:
    gods  magic  paranormal  polyamory  reverse-harem  angels  book  dark
  • Captured by Devyn Sinclair

    Captured by Devyn Sinclair

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The ruler of the world has stolen me. He wants me by his side as his possession, as his salvation, as his bride. He offers me everything.I will offer only destruction.The five men who love me are on the run—fleeing for their lives so they can save mine. Nothing will stop the Emperor from hunting them down, and nothing will stop my lovers from rescuing me.If I can survive that long...
  • Power of Lies by Auryn Hadley

    Power of Lies by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Everyone lies.  When working for a sex mage, it's the only way to stay safe. That's the first thing Jaeda learns when she's named as the Chosen.  The mage needs a sacrifice, and she's willing to give it.  Maybe too willing.  After all, this man is lust incarnate; a woman would have to be insane not to want him, even if he is dangerous...
    Categorized as:
    gods  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  polyamory  reverse-harem  abuse  adult
  • Ancient Ruins by Benjamin Medrano

    Ancient Ruins by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Newly edited for clarity. Sistina awakened after millennia of dormancy, her memories in tatters and born anew. Residing in the ruins of an ancient city, she finds herself drawn into a war between two elven nations and the slaver kingdom of Kelvanis when she rescues a princess from slavery...
  • The Silent City by Ginn Hale

    The Silent City by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In this sequel to the novella “Penric’s Mission”, the injured Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, tries to guide the betrayed General Arisaydia and his widowed sister Nikys across the last hundred miles of hostile Cedonia to safety in the Duchy of Orbas...
  • Lera of Lunos by Alex Lidell

    Lera of Lunos by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Two immortal realms on brink of war. One mortal standing in their way. With the quint squaring off against the king of Slait, Lera is running out of time to tame her feral magic. Worse still, just when the quint must weave together to survive, demons from Tye’s past surface to tear them apart. Demons he fears facing, let alone sharing with Lera...
  • Trial of Three by Alex Lidell

    Trial of Three by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Four cords of power. Three trials. Two soul-crushing secrets.For Lera, training has never been so hard. With the males’ power roaring in her veins and River’s cold demand that she master the magic before the third trial, something has to give. Worse still, River is keeping something from her. Something about his past and Lunos’s future.For River and Coal, the past must stay buried...
  • Sheer Cupidity by Raven Kennedy

    Sheer Cupidity by Raven Kennedy

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    What happens when a cupid falls in love?From the international best-selling author Raven Kennedy, comes a new fantasy romance about cupids and fae, filled with humor, heart, and heat.I am great at my job.And I'm not just saying that—I have the statistics to back it up. Being a cupid is my passion. Being the best is just the dollop of pink icing on the heart cake...
  • Daughter of the Sun by Effie Calvin

    Daughter of the Sun by Effie Calvin

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Orsina of Melidrie is a paladin of the Order of the Sun, sworn to drive out corruption and chaos wherever she finds it. She has been ordered to leave her home and travel around Vesolda in search of a great evil she is supposedly destined to destroy. But after two years of fighting monsters and demons and evil gods, she does not seem to be any closer to her goal—or ever returning home...
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    gods  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  audiobook  book
  • The Duke's Demon by Iris Foxglove

    The Duke's Demon by Iris Foxglove

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Devon Chastain has always been angry. He burns with it, is consumed by it, lashing out at friend and foe alike and securing his reputation as a difficult noble son for all to see...
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    lgbtq  magic  multi-pov  paranormal  adult  angst  audiobook  book
  • The Autumn Fairy of Ages by Brittany Fichter

    The Autumn Fairy of Ages by Brittany Fichter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Katy and Peter want nothing more than to be married and to begin life together as king and queen of the Third Isle. But before they can take their vows, they must venture to the legendary King's Isle to meet their long-lost people and the chancels of the Lairis Isles must bless the marriage...
  • Consumed by Devyn Sinclair

    Consumed by Devyn Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I am haunted by a madman. Only my power can make him a god, and he won’t stop until I belong to him once again.And I will not stop until he is dead.My lovers and I are finally beyond the Emperor’s reach, but the danger isn’t over. If we ever want to be free, the task that brought us together must be completed.If it’s even possible to find a myth that may not exist...
  • By Blood and Magic by Jamie A. Waters

    By Blood and Magic by Jamie A. Waters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A priceless treasure is hidden within the ocean's depths... Sabine barely managed to escape from Akros with her life.But the ocean isn't safe for someone whose power stems from the forests.When their ship is attacked on the high seas and one of Sabine's companions is taken hostage, only an agreement forged by blood and magic may save her friend's life...
  • Crisis of Faith by Benjamin Medrano

    Crisis of Faith by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reconciling two divergent faiths to a single goddess is much more difficult when the conference begins with an assassination attempt. As her followers have to deal with the multiple unknown attackers which are assaulting them, Tyria finds her hands tied by divine law and her struggle to decide who she is, and who she should be...
  • Clever Witch by Nikki Dean

    Clever Witch by Nikki Dean

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hide your magic. Don't tell anyone you're dating your TA, and now maybe your handler, too. Don't tell anyone about the jaguar in your room, or secret lab under the dorm. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer...
  • Heart of Her Wolves by Tara West

    Heart of Her Wolves by Tara West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A witch with no past…A Fae with no future…Two shifters with no hope. Their entwined fates could be their doom or salvation. I have no memories of whatever life I left behind. No clues indicating why the mage pretending to be my father was hiding me away. And now I’m fleeing for my life, hunted by mercenaries who want me dead...
  • Delightfully Charmed by Lyra Winters

    Delightfully Charmed by Lyra Winters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One mage’s curse was another mage’s gift.The worst burden of my immortality was that being alone hurt less than the pain of losing the ones I loved. That changed after five charming mages crashed into my life, and I craved what I never let myself want; a life with them.Not only did I break their hexes, but I accidentally bound their souls to mine—sharing my curse of immortality with each of them...
  • Autumn Knights Dream by Ariadne Breylard

    Autumn Knights Dream by Ariadne Breylard

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗱𝗼𝗺, 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱.Lyra’s surprising reveal to her Winter Mate leaves her feeling ambivalent. But his unwavering support and dominant reassurance bring out a new confidence within her...
  • The Avatar's Flames by Benjamin Medrano

    The Avatar's Flames by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Ruethwyn’s life was promising. Talented in magic, the young elven woman didn’t fit in in her hometown, but was scheduled to attend the most renowned academy of magic in the kingdom, and was even building up the courage to confess her love in the hope that it might be returned. That all ended in a dragon’s fire...
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