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Make Her New by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsEveryone has Hunter Kaid all wrong. Even his own brother writes him off as unintelligent, but not all smarts are the same. He just needs one person to understand him and listen to what he’s really saying. All of his life, he’s been searching for that one person who really takes the time to see him, and just when he’s about given up, he stumbles upon Sadey... -
Alan's Utterly Accidental Dream-Cute by A.J. Sherwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens when a Havili researcher meets a psychic dreamwalker? A dreamy meet-cute, that’s what. (In more ways than one... -
Dire Straits and Entwined Fates by Alice Winters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJulianWhen did fake-then-real dating an ancient vampire become the easy part?Casimir’s ridiculously sweet now that he’s conquered “the art of the flirt,” as he calls it. He tries hard to fit in with my family—if we forget about those silly threatening chocolates he sent my father—and he even makes me popcorn… okay, he tried. I know, I know, I’m just bragging at this point... -
The Magic That Binds by A.J. Sherwood
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll Dag Gates wants is a place to call home. (And to practice magic freely.)All Stefan Bjorne wants is peace in his adoptive country. (And less paperwork.)All Mikkel Vinters wants is both of them. (No, really, he could do wedding bells... -
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Seasons: PsyCop Briefs, Volume 2 by Jordan Castillo Price
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNeither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…will keep a PsyCop from his duty. Because ghosts don’t take snow days.Seasons: PsyCop Briefs, Volume 2 contains four novelettes and fourteen short stories. This all-new, novel length collection begins right where PsyCop 12, Other Half, left off... -
A Comissão Chapeleira by Renata Ventura
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAtormentados pelos crimes que cometeu em seu primeiro ano como bruxo, tudo que Hugo mais queria naquele início de 1998 era paz de espírito, para que pudesse ao menos tentar ser uma pessoa melhor... -
Ghost Ship by Pandora Pine
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLovers separated in death. A family terrorized for generations. Can Jude and Cope solve the mystery before it drags them under?Cope, already plagued by dreams of a watery death aboard the Titanic, is asked to help a haunted family in Nova Scotia... -
The Groovy Alpha by Susi Hawke
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn omega raised as a wealthy human in the lap of luxury... A Harley riding alpha who rules a pack of pot-growing wolves in a commune... what was fate thinking?Sky Blackwood is an omega wolf who’s only ever lived a fabulous, all-too-human existence in the wilds of… Beverly Hills. A place where your best friend will smile in your face while stabbing you in the back if there’s money or fame involved... -
Desert Roots by Anna Lowe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDaredevil she-wolf gets a taste of her own medicine with a bad boy who won't play by the rules.Daredevil Carly Hawthorne, youngest of the Hawthorne wolf shifter clan, doesn't believe in true love. At least, that's what she thinks until bad boy Luke Brandstetter comes along, refusing to play by the rules... -
Petal to the Metal by Annabel Chase
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsForty-two-year-old Mia Thorne is not living her best life. After a disastrous career-and-relationship-ending event, she escapes New York City and moves to a sleepy river town in Pennsylvania, courtesy of a dead aunt she never knew. Aunt Hazel was the reclusive family nut, a self-proclaimed psychic... -
Of Redemption and Vengeance by Alice Winters
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEmeryIt all comes down to this.I should have known my freedom from Mercer would only last so long before my pack was hunted down and I was dragged back into it all. It’s suffocating being back in this place that twisted my shifter side forever and threatened to change who I am. But this time is different.Because I’m not alone... -
Grantham by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey’ve been betrayed by loved ones before. Together, they learn to forgive.Since leaving his birth coven, Grantham has found his home with Master Edison’s warlocks. Though the Amherst Coven has been blessed by the Fates and its members are finding their fated ones, will he find that perfect One that belongs with him?Theodore is on the run with an omega that isn’t his mate... -
Scenes from the Holidays by K.D. Edwards
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsScenes from the Holidays consists of short Tarot Sequence vignettes, released serially beginning in December 12, 2020, on K.D. Edwards’ Twitter account. The scenes take place between the end of THE HANGED MAN and the start of the forthcoming third book, THE HOURGLASS THRONE. The scenes center around Sun Estate activities during an Equinox celebration... -
Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 2 by R.C. Joshua, Potomac Stories
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBoba’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... -
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Last Rites by Nazri Noor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne knife to take a life. One breath to honor Death. Dustin Graves can’t get a break. Murdering an Old One was only the beginning. Enraged, the Eldest have answered with searing rains of ivory fire from the stars, threatening Valero and the world itself. The madness must be stopped.Ancient gods of prophecy, death, and darkness themselves answer the call for battle... -
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAuthor TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention... -
The Cautious Omega by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScott Lawson, recently discharged from the military, wants nothing more than to get to know his eleven year old son, Matty. Something he’s never really had a chance to do. But to do that, he needs a job, a house—a life. Something else he’s never really had a chance at.He absolutely does not need another fling that lands him in more trouble... -
The Separation by K.D. Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA short story about baby Rune and baby Brand. Available to download in the extra content page on the author's website... -
Our Radiant Embers by Zarah Detand
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTheir rivalry? Explosive. Their chemistry? Magical. When a regrettable drunken hookup becomes your partner in a high-stakes magical project, sparks are bound to fly—just not the kind Liam Morgan was hoping for. Teaming up with Adam Harrington, the golden boy of a legendary magical lineage, was not on his to-do list... -
Rogue Community College by David R. Slayton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the same universe as the Adam Binder series, Rogue Community College is a delightful fantasy with lots of magic and mayhem … and more than a few dinosaurs.Isaac Frost is an Undertaker, a magical assassin sent to infiltrate and destroy the elves’ new school for wayward practitioners... -
Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsTwo rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of In Deeper Waters and So This Is Ever After.Edison Rooker isn’t sure what to expect when he enters the office of Antonia Hex, the powerful sorceress who runs a call center for magical emergencies... -
This is Why I'm Hot by J.D. Light
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Fake Boyfriend MPreg What do you do when your Da backs you into a corner about getting a boyfriend? You lie.My Da wants to marry all his boys off, and he wants those grand babies! But I'm almost debilitatingly shy around omegas––aside from my brother's boyfriends––to the point of really just not even wanting to try. Why be that uncomfortable, right? The problem is, I crave hugs and cuddling... -
The Orc and the Manny by Chloe Archer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Monsters Hollow, where love knows no bounds—even in a town full of monsters!Targan WildethorneA confirmed bachelor, and a historian by training, I haven’t the faintest clue how to care for twin orclings when I unexpectedly become their guardian... -
The Tribulations of Ross Young, Supernat PA: Additional Incident LARPing by A.J. Sherwood
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe clan goes LARPing. Do they understand it’s a game? No. Does Ross regret all life decisions? Yes. LARPing is now on Ross's shit list... -
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The Wonderful Adventures of Geoffrey Scrutinous by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA short story written by Derek Landy dedicated to the winner of the character competition, Charlie Smith, containing the winning entry of "Geoffrey Scrutinous"... -
Taste of Wrath by Matt Wallace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith seven books for seven sins, Taste of Wrath is the adrenaline-fuelled finalé to the Sin du Jour series, which Chuck Wendig calls “a raucous, riotous tale of culinary madness”!Bronko and his team of crack chefs and kitchen staff have been serving the New York supernatural community for decades. But all that could be about to change... -
Blindspot by A.M. Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStanding out in a town like Daydream, Colorado should have been impossible to do, yet somehow Drew managed. All his life he had been the one everyone was looking at when he walked down the street. No matter how hard he'd tried to fit in, fingers pointed at his back and whispers followed his every step. Until it all got too much and he'd left Daydream. For good... -
An Evidence of Magic by Kris Michaels, Patricia A. Knight
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Evidence of Magic-69K M/M procedural crime romance in an alternate reality. Forty-year-old, hard bitten, foul-mouthed, homicide detective, Hiro Santos, suspects the owner of the art studio committed the gory killing. Too bad. There are other things he'd like to do to the gorgeous young man than book him for murder. Worse, his sexy suspect is certifiable... -
Three Little Spells by J.A. Armstrong
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife is predictable for Beth Carmichael. When she’s not caring for patients in the cardiac ICU, she’s avoiding the heaps of leaves in her yard. When a beautiful woman with three young daughters moves into the house next door, Beth’s routine existence takes an unpredictable turn.Bridget Dobbins spends her days teaching online classes, researching family histories, and corralling three little girls... -
A Little Bad by Queenie Wise
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShock.It was an emotion Peter had grown disturbingly familiar with over the past year. So familiar that he thought he had mastered the feeling by now. Case in point:1. Werewolves exist? Sure.2. He was one now? Whatever.3. Brom, Chad, Knave (insert name here) wanted to assault, kidnap, and/or kill him? Not ideal, but Peter had dealt with it all like a champ.4... -
Last But Not Lease by Jordan Castillo Price
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLocation, Location, Location! Yuri knew his idyllic beachfront cabin wouldn’t last forever—but he wasn’t expecting to come home to an eviction notice. And with Uncle Fonzo back in town, Dixon’s attic apartment is getting crowded. Unfortunately, real estate in Pinyin Bay is surprisingly scarce... -
Cold Light of Day: A TIN Novella by Charlie Cochet
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReaper. Fang. Caine…An alias for each life lived.Government operative turned assassin, Wolf, had lived in the shadows until a secret cabal forced him into the light. The last thing Wolf needed was a confrontation with what—and who—he’d left behind. Now there’s no going back.Agent. Torturer. Killer…An identity fueled by pain... -
Thief in the Light by Jaime Samms
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucky Denver has wandering feet, sticky fingers and an unreliable moral compass-he's never had a home and he's not so sure he cares about what he's missing.Arnold Kreed, who runs a small-town B&B, knows what a home should be. So does his home, The Oaks-aka Mildred-and she has some very definite opinions on who should stay and who should go... -
The Skinny on Djinni by E.J. Russell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeing in tech time-out totally sucks.Hector Gonzales knew the danger when he hacked the magic grid to marry it with human technology. He’d never imagined this system crash: A total tech suspension while the tradition-bound supe council reviews his case... -
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Against the Grain: A Human's Guide to Wooing an Asexual Incubi by Nik Knight
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem...Ellian has a problem, and its name is Felix Masters. When Ellie, a high society succubus, joins Against the Grain, he has a foolproof plan: attend the support group for supernatural misfits, discover the secret to correcting his… abnormality, and then return to the Incubi compound to join his incubus betrothed... -
Present Tense by Jordan Castillo Price
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChristmas is a festive time of year, one filled with food, family and tradition—Dixon Penn’s ideal holiday. Too bad Spellcrafters don’t celebrate Christmas.Dixon’s parents have always been strict about their no-present rule, reluctant to entrap anyone in an “endless cycle of reciprocal obligation... -
Trust in the Moon by Delaney Rain
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFresh off of a bad breakup, Zeke Castro is done with men and love even though he’s in a resort town in Colorado for his cousin’s big gay wedding. After a ruggedly handsome man kisses him in the hotel lobby, though, Zeke realizes his heart might not be so frozen after all.Sacha Lupescu knows he’s found his fated mate and though he’s thrilled, he already knows that his mother won’t be... -
Hooked on the Otter Doctor by Delaney Rain
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTobias Ahlberg is a reluctant sixth generation fisherman in a country that no longer wants to support fishing. His entire focus is on getting his stubborn father to follow him into aquaculture, while also earning money any way he can. While he wasn't looking for love, he's thrilled to discover that fated mates are real and he's one of them... -
Grizzly Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBear better have my honey… The last thing on curvy Helen’s mind after she gets dumped? Finding true love. But it’s the only thing that’s on the minds of Ryan and Owen, the two bear shifter strippers that call her up on stage, and make it their personal mission to make her smile by the end of the night…even if that means spending three hours in their private room, on their dime... -
Ricochet by Xanthe Walter
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the right dom is all wrong!Even in a BDSM universe, where everyone is bisexual and identifies as dom or sub, finding the right partner isn’t always easy.Matt is a big star on the hit TV show, Collar Crime, and he’s looking for a dom who ticks all the right boxes, including being as tidy and organized as himself... -
Misfit Mage by Michael Taggart
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe went searching for a fresh start. He didn’t expect to find unusual friends, fierce enemies, and primal powers.Jason thought that it was the end of his life after being hunted and attacked by a band of ruthless thugs. Instead, he tapped into the source of creation and emerged from his Death Experience with magical powers... -
A Sterling New Year by J.L. Langley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShort story about Rhys and Sterling on New... -
American Monsters by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe epic conclusion in the mind-blowing supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant.Bigger, meaner, stronger, Amber closes in on her murderous parents as they make one last desperate play for power... -
Demon Dating Service by Jocelynn Drake
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEven demons get bored...Luke is a poor grad student, desperate for a cheap place to live.Desperate enough even to live in a house full of demons.(Anything is better than his last roommate.)When the demons find it’s nearly impossible to scare Luke away, they decide on a new plan to amuse themselves.They’re going to help Luke with his love life... -
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Love is Trash in Hallow's Cove by Emily Antoinette
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a string of awful relationships and cheating exes, Hayley is fed up with dating. Her solution? Swear off dating humans and look for a monster mate in Hallow’s Cove.When she moves to the quaint town inhabited by more monsters than humans, she quickly realizes that finding her match isn’t as simple as she’d hoped... -
A Lot To Be Thankful For by J.L. Langley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShort story about Sterling and... -
The Beast of Talesend by Kyle Robert Shultz
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition of ASINB01NBVJF02. Fairy tales aren’t real. Private detective Nick Beasley knows that. This is 1922 E.A. (Ever After), an age of big cities, automobiles, and airships. Nobody in the Afterlands believes in magic and monsters anymore. Especially not Nick, who’s made a name for himself in the city of Talesend by debunking fraudulent “magical” phenomena... -
Death & Honey by Kevin Hearne, Delilah S. Dawson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeath & Honey contains three novellas by New York Times bestsellers Delilah S. Dawson (as Lila Bowen), Kevin Hearne, and Chuck Wendig. Each of the stories features a full-color, full-page illustration by Galen Dara, who also contributed the cover and a full-color frontispiece... -
Magic Mansion by Jordan Castillo Price
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsProfessor Topaz is tired of fending off advice that he should retire in Vegas where magicians his age have an easier time finding work.Ricardo Hart's career has sunk so low, he's resorted to shaking his moneymaker at bachelorette parties... -
Frank-in-Love by Aggy Bird
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA modern day romance about monsters in love.For your reading pleasure, a valentine's day horror story. Kind of.http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2322849..
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