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  • Dark Tarot by Christine Feehan

    Dark Tarot by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sandu Berdardi continues to exist only to protect his people. An ancient Carpathian, his entire long life has been dedicated to honor above all else. He knows his time has passed, especially since he has not been able to find his lifemate — the anchor to keep him sane in a world he no longer understands...
  • The Quarter Moon by Stephanie Hudson

    The Quarter Moon by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    With Keira finding death on her door she is suddenly plunged into a world of the unknown and has to face it alone…or does she? Soon this new life is filled with heartache, shadowed followers and cryptic messages, that only promise to lead her deeper into world of the supernatural like never before. For Keira, even taking a breath without the other half of her soul is painful enough...
  • Dark Operative a Glimmer of Hope by I.T. Lucas

    Dark Operative a Glimmer of Hope by I.T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "You will not be disappointed!! Don't miss this series!! Wow and Wow!!Roller Coaster! Grown folks stuff! Not teenage paranormal romance but complicated, complex adult relationships, intrigue, mystery, hot sex, fantasy, and romance! This is EVERYTHING you'll ever want in a paranormal fantasy series!! It will make you cry, make you laugh, make you cheer for the heroes and heroines! All of the...
  • Steal the Moon by Lexi Blake

    Steal the Moon by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When an ancient artifact enslaves every werewolf on earth, humanity’s only hope is a thief…Zoey Donovan should be happy. Her love life couldn’t be better, her demonic nemesis is on the run, business is booming, and no one has tried to kill her in seven whole months. But without her best friend to share it with, it all seems a little hollow...
  • Afterlife by Dannika Dark

    Afterlife by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Another addicting installment of the USA Today bestselling Crossbreed series.Only a week after solving their last case, Raven is itching for a new assignment. In her downtime, she’s focusing on the two most important men in her life: her father and Christian. But there’s no rest for the wicked.When an old friend seeks Raven’s expertise on a delicate matter, Viktor reluctantly accepts the case...
  • Three's A Charm by Robyn Peterman

    Three's A Charm by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What’s a witch to do when her magic is on the fritz and there’s a huge pile of laundry to be done? Easy. Flood the entire house. Everyone wants a bubbly indoor freakin’ swimming pool… right? Just when everything is right in my life, something has to go wrong—times three. Number one: an unknown evil force wants to steal my power...
  • Sleeper by Lexi Blake

    Sleeper by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Neil’s past catches up to him, Kelsey must choose between her new family and an old love…With tensions rising between the Council and demonkind, Kelsey finds herself investigating a series of murders that threaten the fragile truce between them. If she can’t stop these killings soon, they could ignite a fire sure to burn the supernatural world down...
  • Captured by the Lion by Milly Taiden

    Captured by the Lion by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to the world of the Alpha Claimed. Each story features a strong woman and the man or men that love her. Every book is standalone, but once you read one you'll want to read the others. Leigh Hale is on the run from a dangerous ex-boyfriend after she turned him into the police for running a Ponzi scheme. Now, she’s back home and looking to start fresh...
  • Heartless by Dannika Dark

    Heartless by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Despite the spoils of a solid relationship and an idyllic life at Keystone, Raven is itching for the thrill of another big case. Things begin to heat up when a dangerous assignment falls in her lap.Searching for the mastermind behind an illegal fighting ring is no easy feat, but as the weeks roll by, Raven's undercover job begins to take an unexpected emotional toll...
  • Addict by Lexi Blake

    Addict by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In order to destroy a legendary monster and save the royal family, Kelsey must make a deal with a devil…When Kelsey Owens returns home to Dallas, she is a changed woman. After months of training with Marcus Vorenus , she has more control over her abilities. She’s ready to start her new job, even if it means dealing with the King of All Vampire and his partner, Devinshea Quinn...
  • Bear in Mind by Milly Taiden

    Bear in Mind by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Private Investigator, Summer Delgado hopes Gerri can find her twin sister a man. If anyone needs a happily ever after, it's Winter. But not Summer. She’s got no time for romance. Even if it’s wrapped in smoking-hot shifter muscles. She's got to focus on the break-in at Gerri Wilder's apartment. Who needs a sexy, grumpy bear stomping around? Not Summer. Nope. Gerri has other plans, of course...
  • Dark Enemy Captive by I.T. Lucas

    Dark Enemy Captive by I.T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Engrossing. Enveloping. Enticing. Exciting. This is the world of the Children of the Gods by I.T. Lucas." When the rescue team returns with Amanda and the chained Dalhu to the keep, Amanda is not as thrilled to be back as she thought she'd be. Between Kian's contempt for her and Dalhu's imprisonment, Amanda's budding relationship with Dalhu seems doomed...
  • 101 Ways to Die by R.J. Blain

    101 Ways to Die by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Officer McMarin of the NYPD is in for the ride of her life when the Chief Quinns storm into her station, promote her to the rank of detective, and relocate her to Manhattan. Saddled with the dubious honor of being Chief Bailey Quinn’s primary rider is only the beginning of her woes.Her first case delves into the dark waters of the many ways in which a person can die...
  • Pack in the Face by Milly Taiden

    Pack in the Face by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wolf shifter Kyle Grayson is a scientist who only loves doing experiments in his lab. Alone. The pack Alpha has some lone wolf tendencies. His sister forces him to visit The Breezeway Resort on Gerri Wilder’s recommendation. Kyle only agrees to go because he’ll lock himself in his room with work...
  • Lion's Heat by Lora Leigh

    Lion's Heat by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The mating urge cannot be denied... #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh returns to the world of the Breeds where animal instincts can bring a feral pleasure to every man and his willing female mate..
  • Taken by the Tiger by Milly Taiden

    Taken by the Tiger by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to the world of the Alpha Claimed. Each story features a strong woman and the man or men that love her. Every book is standalone, but once you read one you'll want to read the others. Parker Nolan is home to attend her cousin's wedding after years of living abroad representing her family's nonprofit foundation. She's caught off guard when she has a fling with the best man...
  • Charming by Dannika Dark

    Charming by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    After seven hundred years, Prince has acquired everything a Packmaster could desire. But when he meets the enchanting Nadia Kozlov, he realizes there’s one thing he doesn’t have: answers. Prince owes his life to a man he hasn’t seen in centuries, and Nadia holds the key to his whereabouts, because that man is her father. Destinies collide when Nadia’s sister shows up unexpectedly...
  • Beasts Of Both Worlds by Milly Taiden

    Beasts Of Both Worlds by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fighting a lifetime of learned prejudice against shifters, Harlow Quinn left home to escape her family. Never in her wildest dreams did she expect to find Gerri Wilder of the Paranormal Dating Agency and two smokin’ hot mates. Just thinking of them made her hormones go up in flames...
  • Jake by Kym Grosso

    Jake by Kym Grosso

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Rise to AlphaWith Alpha blood coursing through his veins, charismatic wolf Jake Louvière, can no longer deny his true nature. As his beast demands his rightful place within Acadian Wolves, he’s forced to choose between killing his Alpha or leaving New Orleans forever. When a mysterious woman trespasses into the bayou, Jake is instinctively wary of the creature that is not wolf...
  • Leopard's Run by Christine Feehan

    Leopard's Run by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He keeps his emotions on a tight leash, but she can see the desire burning in his eyes...Timur Amurov has one purpose in life: protect his family at all costs...
  • Bold Mercy by Laken Cane

    Bold Mercy by Laken Cane

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It's hard to concentrate on work when you've just moon-shifted with your alpha...But the council that recruited me doesn't waste any time handing me my first assignment--and it just happens to be personal to me.I have to slay the warped evil that is Avis Vine--a human servant so twisted and changed by her former master's bad blood magic that she's no longer really human...
  • A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day

    A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Bared to You, Sylvia Day, draws us into the shadows of a seductive underworld where lycans, vampires and angels vie for supremacy…Elijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality...
  • Dark Enemy Taken by I.T. Lucas

    Dark Enemy Taken by I.T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Children of The Gods Paranormal Romance Series weaves Myth and Cyberwar into a smart and spicy romance...
  • Beyond the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Beyond the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    He Would Do Anything to Claim HerSalvatore Giuliani is not a happy werewolf. It's his duty as leader to track down the pure-blood females who can keep his people from extinction. But the moment he catches scent of Harley, a pure-blood held by a pack of mangy curs, his savage need for her obliterates all other instincts...
  • Fire Bound by Kayleigh King

    Fire Bound by Kayleigh King

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Remington Weylyn is burned and broken. She made a choice and now she’s paying the price. The girl she once was is gone, replaced by someone she no longer recognizes. What once was her home now feels foreign and the people she was closest to feel like strangers. And it’s all his fault.  Jax Whitlock is dangerous and damaged. With no home or family, his place in the world is unknown...
  • Demons by Esther E. Schmidt

    Demons by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Held captive by the same Demon who took her sister, Tria doesn’t have any other option than to agree to Vike’s terms; accept him as her true mate in return for her sister’s freedom. But her sister might have stumbled onto something else to save herself. As the president of The Demon charter, Vike has been fighting a battle to save his brother and the world all by himself...
  • Chasing Sparx by Milly Taiden

    Chasing Sparx by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sparx Brady is sick of playing the same role. She’s been on the same soap opera since she was fourteen. She needs change and adventure. When the role of a lifetime comes around, she’s determined to be cast. She quits her job and heads to the mountains for a week-long survivalist course. She’s a stubborn Brady woman; she’s got this.Tiger shifter Dash Jones doesn’t talk...
  • Mating Cinder by Milly Taiden

    Mating Cinder by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cinder Brady has big plans. She wants to use her platform as a social media influence to start her own brand of organic cosmetics. Nothing will stand in her way. Not the company that refuses to do business with her until she has a formal education. And definitely not the grumpy and drop-dead-handsome mathematics professor who is hired to teach her private lessons...
  • Shaw by Milly Taiden

    Shaw by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alpha Geek 6: ShawPanther shifter Poppy Cain has been living a secret life. She’s been hiding her nursing career from an overbearing uncle and terrifying cousins. They run a shady business in town, and when they want to use her as a pawn, Poppy makes a hard decision: run. What she didn’t expect was to find a mate in the process. Shit just got real.Shaw Eagan uses his hacking skills for good...
  • Hear No Evil: Dark Paranormal Romance by Jewel Killian

    Hear No Evil: Dark Paranormal Romance by Jewel Killian

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Demons don't know how to love.And since I don't mix summoning and relationships, that's fine by me.But neither of those facts keep us from sneaking into each other's bedrooms at nightAnd day.And pretty much any time not spent tracking down Em's killer.It was supposed to be a bluff.Going to them after they took everything--my apartment, my job--it was a power move...
  • Scrooged Over by Milly Taiden

    Scrooged Over by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    ***STANDALONE STORY***Priscilla Bryant thought being matched by the famous Gerri Wilder would make her romantic dreams come true. She's wrong. So wrong. The shifter she's been matched with is a complete jerk and no matter how handsome he is, she never wants to see his face again. Talk about being scrooged over.Lake Walker knows that sexy Priscilla is his mate the moment he sees her...
  • The Finding by Nicky Charles

    The Finding by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She discovered a dark secret, witnessed a murder and fled into the night fearing for her life. Three years later, Cassie is still hiding from her past, haunted by a dream lover and fighting to control a terrifying beast that seems to grow stronger each day. When Bryan, pack Beta, appears to claim her, Cassie is forced to face the truth of her existence...
  • Bonded by Nicky Charles

    Bonded by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reno’s a tough Enforcer for Lycan Link who finds himself drawn to Brandi but duty rules his life. Brandi, just on the edge of starting her career as a Disaster Control officer, falls for Reno at first sight, but are they really meant to be? Is it love or lust and does it really even matter? Enforcers and DCs don't get along...unless fate forces them to. Bonded precedes The Mating...
  • The Keeping by Nicky Charles

    The Keeping by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ryne Taylor was a sexy bad-ass Alpha set on establishing a new pack. Melody Greene was a journalism student researching his work as a photographer—or so she said...
  • Spirits and Spells by Michelle M. Pillow

    Spirits and Spells by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Charlotte has had it with the MacGregor clan interfering in her life. There's the overbearing Niall. An overprotective Euann. And, lest she forgets, crazy Uncle Raibeart who keeps proposing marriage to her and every other woman in Wisconsin. Everywhere she turns there appears to be more MacGregors following her around...
  • Curse Touched by Becky Moynihan

    Curse Touched by Becky Moynihan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s no escaping a curse . . .The last thing I expect is for my aunt to kidnap, then abandon me. I’m desperate for answers, especially as to the condition of Lochlan D’angelo, my stalker turned protector. Problem is, I’m still shaken over learning his true identity. I question everything he ever told me, including the realness of the supposed bond between us...
  • Perfectly Wicked by Albany Walker

    Perfectly Wicked by Albany Walker

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Too bad nothing is ever as it seems.I’m back in Hill Crest, and it looks like I may have made an enemy last time I was in town.I’m supposed to lie low, but when a long-time friend of dad comes looking for help to find his missing wife, I have a very hard time telling him no.As if finding a missing woman wasn’t enough, I’m starting to think I might be haunted...
  • Cosmic Spells and Vampire Lairs by Mia Monroe

    Cosmic Spells and Vampire Lairs by Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Are we destined to be star-crossed lovers or is Fate on our side?My friends are finding mates while I’m stuck with a sexy but silent vampire. Sure, Pietro is everything a boy could want- handsome, strong, brooding, and possessive. It’s just that with my gift, I’m well aware that he’s not the one fate has in store for me. He couldn’t be. For one thing, his mercury is always in retrograde...
  • Midnight by Terry Bolryder

    Midnight by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Nathan Lancaster. Elusive billionaire. World-wide philanthropist. Monster.From the moment he was born, Nathan knew he couldn't let anyone know who, or what, he was, but that hasn't stopped him from trying to make his way in the world. And he's fine alone, seriously. Until a curvy, persistent reporter steps up and turns his whole world upside down...
  • Zeke by Milly Taiden

    Zeke by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lioness and personal security to the stars, Alexa Milan doesn’t do romance. But when she meets her latest job, she’s unsure how to proceed. The sexy geeky scientist is making her girl parts tingle and her heart do flip flops...
  • Indirect Lines by Dana Marie Bell

    Indirect Lines by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There's only one way to win this game: break the rules. Halle Shifters Book 5 James "Barney" Barnwell is losing his ever-loving mind. Between the threat to the white shifters and a riddle he's been ordered to solve stands the woman who's been driving him crazy: Heather Allen, cousin to the white Fox...
  • Fighting Fate by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Fighting Fate by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With her blue-black hair and striking green eyes, Cailin Jamenson is the epitome of beauty and the exemplar of strength. She has fought the enforced boundaries of being the lone Jamenson daughter and Redwood Pack princess, but it is the potential future with the dark wolf in her path that threatens everything she thought she desired...
  • Jade Calhoun Series Boxed Set by Deanna Chase

    Jade Calhoun Series Boxed Set by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author, Deanna Chase, the first three books in the Jade Calhoun series The boxed set of the first three books in the Jade Calhoun Series. Includes: Haunted on Bourbon Street Witches of Bourbon Street Demons of Bourbon Street. Book 4, Angels of Bourbon Street is available now!  amazon...
  • Otherworld Secrets by Kelley Armstrong

    Otherworld Secrets by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The next Otherworld anthology from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong...More than a decade after Kelley Armstrong first opened the doors to the Otherworld, fans are still clamoring for more. In response to their demands—and to coincide with the Syfy Network show based on the series—Plume has signed up three Otherworld anthologies, each of which revolves around a different theme...
  • Eternal Captive by Laura Wright

    Eternal Captive by Laura Wright

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Lucian is faced with his biggest fear - becoming the next breeding male - he knows his only options are imprisonment or death. But when he learns that the key to his salvation may lie in the body of the veana he's trying to forget, he's forced to choose between sanity and the destruction of the only woman he's ever loved...
  • Beneath the Skin by Lauren Dane

    Beneath the Skin by Lauren Dane

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A whole world exists…beneath the skin.De La Vega Cats, Book 3Gibson de La Vega is the Bringer, one of the Alpha’s right-hand cats. It is his job to mete out justice and defend the law that holds their jamboree together.After a contentious meeting with another jamboree, he’s shot—Mia stumbles onto the scene and saves his life...
  • My Dark Amazon by I.T. Lucas

    My Dark Amazon by I.T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "I. T Lucas is on her way to becoming a an author in league with some of the best. Like Hamilton in her early days and Singh. I can't wait for the next installment of this series. Lucas blends history, mystery, magic, and romance in a way that pulls you in and makes you fall for her characters...
  • The Unseen by Thea Harrison

    The Unseen by Thea Harrison

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    **THIS STORY ENDS IN A CLIFFHANGER***Saying goodbye to their old life in the Wyr demesne in New York may be hard, but Dragos and Pia are determined to create a new life in the Other land of Rhyacia.At first, everything seems idyllic. Rhyacia is paradisiacal. Accompanied by old friends and new allies, the future looks safe and bright for Dragos, Pia, and baby Niall...
  • Moonlight's Ambassador by T.A. White

    Moonlight's Ambassador by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Aileen has always been certain of a few undeniable facts—black raspberry is the only ice cream flavor that matters, vampires can't be trusted, and her loyalty, once given, is unquestionable. When a late-night visitor shows up needing her help, she agrees without hesitation. It's not long before a pounding at her door reminds her that nothing is ever as straightforward as it seems...
  • Midnight's Master by Cynthia Eden

    Midnight's Master by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a world of shadows, desire conquers all…Tall, dark, and formidable, Niol Lapen is the last demon on earth most people would ask for a favor, yet the sexy little reporter who wanders into his club dares to do exactly that. Holly Storm already knows too much about his kind, and Niol has no wish to help her get in deeper over her head...
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