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It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMidlife is madness—magical, messy and one freaking crisis after another.With a new job I didn’t apply for and an extended family I didn’t know I had—midlife has become somewhat problematic. Gluing ghosts back together is easy compared to my new celestial occupation.The Grim Reaper wants to put a ring on it. Tim wants to be a father... -
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Wildfire Hellhound by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe knows he's always been a wolf.He's wrong.His past is gone, dead and buried.It isn't.And nothing, nothing, is more important than pack.Until he meets her.This is Fenrir's story... -
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Dark Tarot by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSandu 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... -
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The Rebel Witch by Chandelle LaVaun
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI’m finally in control of my magic…and it’s much stronger than my Coven realizes.That’s not the only secret I’m keeping. I made a deal with a fairy: her secrets for some of mine. Except I have no idea how to deliver on my oath and crossing the Fae is suicidal. Tennessee knows I’m up to something, but not even my soulmate can help me now, especially when being together is against the law... -
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![The Broken Witch by Chandelle LaVaun]()
The Broken Witch by Chandelle LaVaun
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDesperate times, desperate magic. I finally have the Book of Shadows. The pages call to me, begging me to devour their hidden power. There are more than just spells inside, and there are things only the High Priestess can see. And Now I know everything I wasn’t supposed to.My Coven likes to keep secrets...well they’re about to get a taste of their own medicine... -
![Ridin' for Hell by Nikki Landis]()
Ridin' for Hell by Nikki Landis
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this life, you reap what you sow . . .Not everyone wants to run from their past.Some souls embrace the chance to hunt their prey and seek vengeance.And some bastards just like the carnage a little too much.There's a reason I'm the SGT at Arms.I handle the hard shit.The jobs no one else wants to deal with because its messy.Thing is, I love to lose control... -
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Agony to Ashes by Autumn Jones Lake
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe twenty-third book in the Lost Kings MC series by USA Today bestselling author Autumn Jones Lake... -
![Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle]()
Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in... -
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Smoke's Tigress by Ciara St. James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSmoke found his home with the Archangel’s Warriors. His days of working solely at the whim of the U.S. government are behind him. He chooses when he takes a job and when he doesn’t.He is always the one to save the day for his club, no matter the problem. However, this time he fails and the sexy, brilliant woman who walks into his club not only saves the day, she puts him on alert... -
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Devil Dog's Precious by Ciara St. James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDevil Dog:He never thought his days as a Marine would beneeded like this.A young pregnant mother falls practically at hisfeet: beaten, scared, running and then in labor.Everything about her captivates him in one glance:her, her daughter, and now her newborn son.But she’s not free. Her soon-to-be ex isn’t done withher yet.Devil is willing to bide his time... -
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Viper's Vixen by Ciara St. James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsViper:Viper didn’t get his name for his disposition.He got it from his days as a Navy Seal. He could be the silent killer waiting to strike.He was untamed and loved his brothers in the MCThen he met the woman who tried to take off his head.The one who wouldn’t let him forget her.She was a president’s sister. Off limits.But he’d seen her and now he wanted her... -
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Afterlife by Dannika Dark
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsAnother 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... -
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Royal Bear by Candace Ayers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the search for her missing brother, Free-spirited Grace finds some firsts— friends, family, a home, and a hot shifter who captures her heart. To claim Grace as his mate, Konstantin must not only renounce his title and shun his duties, he must betray his friends. Being a Royal Bear is a royal b*tch. AUTHOR'S NOTE: P.O.L.A.R... -
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Voodoo by Kristine Allen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 23 of the Royal Bastards MC series. I'm Ogun "Voodoo" Dupre. There's no pretty way to put it, I do the dirty work for my club. When my services are required for a particularly delicate situation, I find myself hesitating for the first time in my life. That hesitation might get me killed. Sometimes you gotta work a little black magic to come out alive... -
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![The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets by D.N. Hoxa]()
The Elysean Academy of Darkness and Secrets by D.N. Hoxa
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to the Elysean Academy of Divine Light and Beauty, where darkness lurks in every corner, and secrets just might cost you your life… I never wanted to have anything to do with Elyseans, descendants of the Olympian gods. But when I'm forced to participate in their deadly trials, I also learn that not everything is as it looks, and my past might just be very different from what I remember... -
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Seth by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe was supposed to be focusing on his new businesses. But he couldn’t help it if the first client to walk through the doors was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen. One who had a desperate need to learn to use a gun. One who also wanted to rent out his guest house... -
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Heartless by Dannika Dark
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDespite 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... -
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The Gift by Leeanna Morgan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHannah Williams is an artist and co-owns a successful event management company. For the first time in her life, the things she’s always dreamed about are coming true. When she meets Brett Forster, she knows she has to be careful. Falling for a cattle rancher from Montana is the worst thing she could do—even if he’s the best thing that’s ever happened to her... -
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The Brave Witch by Chandelle LaVaun
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBe careful what you wish for…because magic comes with a price.I’m a witch. All of my dreams finally came true. But now, so are my nightmares.There’s a new monster in town and no one knows how to kill it or where it came from. It lurks in the shadows, preying on our every move. For some reason, it seems to be targeting me.I desperately need Tennessee’s help. Only he is strong enough to train me... -
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Rayne by L. Ann Marie
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRayne is a trusted and valued member of Baxter Security. He works on the compound with Family Security. An accident has him wheelchair bound until his new metal parts fuse with his body. It doesn't take long before he's up and walking with the help of Mitch's technology... -
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Shifter's Innocent by Lisa Ladew
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe's hunted, she's living a lie, and an unlikely connection dooms them both…Beckett Oswego has lost himself in his work for years, always looking over his shoulder for the killer who stole his father and brother from him. When he isn’t working, he parties his weekends away. Work, party...party, work. Anything to keep his mind busy and off the constant pain from the past that haunts him... -
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Prince of Storms by Riley Storm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy storms brought only thunder and darkness.Until her.She is the lightning that charges my soul and tempts my body. I’m supposed to be composed and regal, a future prince of dragons. But a simple look from her sets the tempest inside me raging. I cannot be expected to control myself around her. I have needs, and they start and end with her... -
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A Shade of Novak by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsI never could have imagined that Derek and I would willingly turn back into vampires.But there are some things in life that you just can't predict. Like the strange human disappearances that had started happening on the coasts surrounding us... -
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A Covert Affair by Kennedy L. Mitchell
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA SEAL Romance NovelWOW! This book was crazy suspenseful and insanely sexy! From the first page I was hooked and immediately loved this story…” He wants her off his base . . . and in his bed... -
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![The Woman with the Target on Her Back by Jessica Gadziala]()
The Woman with the Target on Her Back by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe mafia owed her a favor. One she never meant to cash in on. Until one night, she found herself needing help, and desperate enough to call the last man in the world she ever wanted to have to rely on. A man who she couldn’t seem to have a single civil conversation with. But for better or worse, she needed him to keep her safe... -
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Sway by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s an arms-dealing biker tasked with finding a weapon designer who is late on a deal with his organization.He never expected that the designer would be one of the hottest women he’d ever seen.She’s a weapon designer who has real problems... -
![The Woman on the Jury by Jessica Gadziala]()
The Woman on the Jury by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe last thing in the world she needed was to be stuck on a murder trial for some mafia capo. All she wanted to do was hear the facts and get this all over with, so she could get back to rebuilding her family’s crumbling antique business... -
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Charming by Dannika Dark
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAfter 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... -
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Destiny by P.T. Michelle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen destiny is on the line, will love be enough to light the way? In order to save Ethan, Nara gets pulled deeper into his dark world, where everything she thought she knew about Ethan and herself turns on its head... -
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Christian by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCHRISTIAN is Book 1 in Anna Blakely's newest R.I.S.C. spinoff series, Delta Team... -
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Dark Storm by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsReturn to the seductive world of Christine Feehan's New York Times bestselling Carpathian novels as roiling passions collide in a perfect storm of dangerous desire that only a precious few can hope to outrun . . . Awakening after all this time in a world of absolute darkness and oppressive heat, Dax wonders in how many ways the world above must have changed... -
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The Adversary: A Novella of the Elder Races by Thea Harrison
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFrom NYT bestselling author Thea Harrison comes the explosive conclusion to The Unseen!When Dragos and Pia move to the Other land of Rhyacia, they hope starting a new life will bring safety and freedom to their family, especially their young baby, Niall. And at first their new home seems perfect… but looks are deceiving... -
![Bad Medicine by Laken Cane]()
Bad Medicine by Laken Cane
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDo you know what’s stronger than a wolf shifter?A shapeshifter.A shapeshifter is stronger than a wolf shifter.When I discover a shapeshifting serial killer is targeting human women in my city, I have to go after him.Even though he's more powerful than me.Even though he says we're exactly the same. Even though there's a connection between us... -
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Shifter's Echo by Lisa Ladew, Michael Pauley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsListening Length: 8 hrs He's seen his fated mate die a thousand times... and yet, they've never met. Crew is a powerful, yet tortured, wolf shifter. With a weary heart, he seeks to avoid fulfilling a prophecy that foretells the death of his fated mate...true love lost before it has a chance to begin... -
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![Dark Blood by Christine Feehan]()
Dark Blood by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAt long last you are truly back with us…Zev Hunter was an elite warrior, a dark-blood dealer of death to rogue Lycans who preyed on mankind. He was a loner, never given to personal attachments, and damned fierce at his job... -
![Bold Mercy by Laken Cane]()
Bold Mercy by Laken Cane
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt'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... -
![Throne of Death by Veronica Shade, Rebecca Hamilton]()
Throne of Death by Veronica Shade, Rebecca Hamilton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMadison’s search for the Soule Grimoire could get her expelled…if it doesn’t get her killed, first.Madison enrolled at La Voisin hoping to get control of her magic abilities; she never expected that to lead her to series of murder mysteries in the supernatural community... -
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Jackson's Nanny by Meg Ripley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeverly Hills, 1985 Jackson Casey’s nightclubs are exactly the kind of places Hollywood’s A-listers flock to. His newest club, Indulgence, is no different, quickly becoming the most exclusive place to be seen in L.A. Life is fabulous for this dragon shifter -- until his wife decides to follow her spirit guides, -- abandoning him and their two children... -
![Rancher Wolf's Runaway Bride by Serena Meadows]()
Rancher Wolf's Runaway Bride by Serena Meadows
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWilla ran away from her wedding and ran into the arms of a wolf shifter… me.Her ex-fiancé, Bill, was not only utterly wrong for her.He might have also killed her father.I saw Willa’s helplessness when I found her.A muddy wedding dress and her wrinkled forehead told me all I needed to know.Those rosy cheeks and full lips were inviting.It was hard to ignore the instant attraction between us... -
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Bulldog by Delta James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe wears the collar because she is his. She is his because her body knew its master.The moment Olivia Miles resorted to fighting dirty in a fencing match, Lord Nigel Pederson decided to teach her a shameful lesson, but as her quivering bottom reddened under his punishing hand the arousal pooling between her thighs made it clear she needs to be mastered completely... -
![Beautiful Devil by Piper Stone]()
Beautiful Devil by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI made my name and my fortune carrying out every hit with absolute precision. But this time it wasn’t a job, it was personal, and something went horribly wrong. This time there was a witness... -
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Crusher by Elyse Kelly
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI never should’ve saved him that day. But now, he’s the one saving me…Crusher gets under my skin in ways I never could’ve imagined. He’s been relentlessly pursuing me at every turn since the night I snuck out of his bed.Not that I owe him any kind of explanation, but I had my reasons for leaving. Good ones that include the eleven-year-old boy I’m now solely responsible for... -
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Pretty Little Island by Rhea Ryan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTorn between two lovers on a pretty but deadly island, London King must survive the ravages of the wilderness and a battle for her heart.My first day at New Ocean Prep was supposed to be a fresh start. A chance to return to my hometown—leaving my ruined life behind me. My goal is simple. Keep my grades up, my head down, and focus on securing my spot in a top journalism program... -
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Murder Before Dawn by Delta James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe only thing more exciting than a famous local author staying at the bed and breakfast is a real murder mystery.Mystery novelist and member of the Mystery Writer’s Murder Club, Jessica Murdoch, heads off for a staycation at a bed and breakfast in her hometown of Badger’s Drift, Maine for some rest and relaxation... -
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![Ritual of Magic by Veronica Shade, Leigh Anderson]()
Ritual of Magic by Veronica Shade, Leigh Anderson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew teachers, new students, and new magical secrets.The statues at La Voisin aren’t what they seem, and one in particular appears to have changed his position since last semester. But statues can’t move.Can they?A single touch to the stone figure reveals a life before this one. One where the statue made a brother pact with another man. A very familiar man... -
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![The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts, Dan John Miller]()
The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts, Dan John Miller
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’ electrifying trilogy comes to an end, as three men and three women join forces—and hearts—to battle the ultimate evil.Years ago, after their blood brother ritual, Gage, Fox, and Caleb each emerged from the woods with a piece of bloodstone. Now, it will become their weapon in the final fight against the demon they awakened... -
![Protecting His Runaway by Measha Stone]()
Protecting His Runaway by Measha Stone
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter she uncovers her wealthy father's ties to a prominent Chicago crime family, twenty-four-year-old Addison St. Claire flees to a small town in Michigan where she hopes to start a new life. Things are not that simple, though, and she is quickly tracked down by a stern, handsome police detective who makes it clear that Addison will be coming with him whether she likes it or not... -
![Dante's Demons by K.L. Barstow]()
Dante's Demons by K.L. Barstow
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDanteAs President of the Demon Dawgs, I don’t always keep my hands clean. After all, dogs love to dig in the dirt. While my MC brothers and I may work on both sides of the law, we draw the line at hurting women. So when we find a young woman, broken and dumped outside our clubhouse, we swear to find her attacker and stop him. Permanently... -
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Cato by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe was idling by the curb, waiting for one of his friends when a woman jumped on the back of his bike, wrapped her arms around him, and begged him to drive...
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