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  • The Blood Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Blood Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All magic bleeds... The life I had is gone. Permanently. No matter how hard I try there’s just no going back. One night had ruined everything. Halloween night my best friend and I made a stupid, reckless, totally avoidable mistake. Two high school girls at a frat party had bad news written all over it. I knew better, but I’d let Elizabeth talk me into it. I should have stayed in my lane...
  • Jax by Kym Grosso

    Jax by Kym Grosso

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Kym Grosso JAX (IMMORTALS OF NEW ORLEANS, BOOK 7) Agrestis Wolves’ Alpha, Jax Chandler, is on a mission to exact retribution after being captured and tortured by an enigmatic adversary. When the sophisticated publishing mogul rescues a beautiful wolf, he recognizes the woman he’d once believed to be his mate...
  • Stealing Summer by Lexi Blake

    Stealing Summer by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Lexi Blake comes a new epic-length story in her Thieves/Hunter world…A daughter lostSummer has spent her whole life wondering about the family she left behind. On the night she came into being she only had a few moments with them. In that brief time, she reached out to her father, looking deep into his soul, and gifted him the will to go on...
  • Crimson Truth by Samantha Whiskey

    Crimson Truth by Samantha Whiskey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For centuries, I’ve been the king’s master of interrogation—his living, breathing lie detector.Mutter a lie in my presence and it appears tattooed into my skin.That’s usually enough to keep people quiet around me.But not her.Jocelyn, heiress to the witch queendom, lives to torment me.And with the disappearance of our princess?She’s become my brand new assignment...
  • Fighting for Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Fighting for Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.There Are No Coincidences….Given a fairy tale life by the clan of dragon shifters that rescued her as a little girl, Emma Sinclair long ago accepted she might never solve the mystery of her heritage. Of course, that was before she could feel the traitor’s pain, before she knew he was slipping away...
  • Second Rite by Geneva Lee

    Second Rite by Geneva Lee

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He wore darkness with such graceful ease…Thea Melbourne has a broken heart. A month after her world turned upside down, she’s struggling to return to the life she left behind. Her mother is in a coma, she’s selling off designer gowns to pay the bills, and her roommates seem to think she’s made of glass...
  • Crimson Highlander by Samantha Whiskey

    Crimson Highlander by Samantha Whiskey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s my enemy…and my mate.For two hundred years, I’ve been the second in command to the Vampire King.It’s my job to predict threats before they happen…but I never saw her coming.Valor Moorehouse isn’t just the daughter of our greatest enemy,she’s a real pain in the ass, and according to the mark that just appeared—my mate...
  • Keeper by Leia Stone

    Keeper by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Anya has inherited her mother's gift. Born in a set of twins, she is the next Matefinder and her brother, Jaxon, is her sworn protector. But it looks like finding mates for the werewolf kind isn’t what Spirit has in plan for her. And when she starts dreaming about a human guy in trouble, her whole life changes...
  • 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...
  • Found by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Found by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fog rolls into Tulsa, and with it comes Darkness. Zoey knows something is up, and that the something involves Neferet, but Neferet can't possibly be freed, right?Other Neferet and her companion, Lynette, arrive in Woodward Park to set this world's Neferet free from her grotto prison, and discover there may be those who sympathize with their cause...
  • Luther's Return by Tina Folsom

    Luther's Return by Tina Folsom

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After twenty years incarcerated in a vampire prison, Luther is finally free. But before he can close this chapter of his life once and for all, a kidnapping thrusts him back into the world of Scanguards and into a confrontation with the vampires whose mates he very nearly killed two decades earlier...
  • Dark Side by Zenina Masters

    Dark Side by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Elly’s exposure as a half-fey was a shock to all around her. Her attempts to hide her ears and the change in her reality were foiled by class bullies. The next thing she knew she was being whisked away to a private school that catered exclusively to the half-breeds left behind by fey who travelled in the human world...
  • Unremarkable by Viola Grace

    Unremarkable by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A scheming vampire, a unicorn with a job to do, and a mage who thought her power was gone, leaving her unremarkable.Ally surrendered her magic as a teen. Her sister was the family heir, and Ally just wanted to leave her home and start off in a new city. She takes on odd jobs and ends up as a secure courier...
  • Bobcat by Bianca D'Arc

    Bobcat by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can Bob Redstone help a shifter woman hiding from her past, face the demons that shadowed her youth, or will they both fall while trying to prevent disaster?On a mission far from home, he finds a sweet vulnerable lady...Bob is a cougar shifter, one of the elite Redstone Alphas. On a mission for his Clan, he meets a fragile young woman, and finds himself drawn to her as never before...
  • Wolf Quest by Bianca D'Arc

    Wolf Quest by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love and magic lie at the heart of this storm…as well as a whole lot of danger. When Major Jesse Moore, brother to the Wyoming Pack Alpha, is sent to Iowa to check on his sister-in-law’s cousin, knocking politely isn’t an option. Sounds of a struggle send him storming into her kitchen—where he finds anything but a damsel in distress...
  • Slade by Bianca D'Arc

    Slade by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The fate of all shifters rests on Slade’s broad shoulders, but all he can think about is her.Slade is a mystery. A warrior and spy who serves two masters - those in the human world and the Lords of the Were. They've sent him to Nevada to track a brutal murderer before the existence of all shifters is revealed to a world not ready to know...
  • The Magic Hunt by L.L. Raand

    The Magic Hunt by L.L. Raand

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the aftermath of an assassination attempt, Sylvan Mir, wolf Were Alpha, and her mate Drake McKennan turn their backs on the government that has threatened their survival, vowing to protect their own with primal force, regardless the cost in blood...
  • 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...
  • Embrace Me at Dawn by Shayla Black

    Embrace Me at Dawn by Shayla Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No man will ever define her again. Anka MacTavish lost everything when Mathias D'Arc captured her, shattered her bond with her mate, and broke both her body and spirit. Determined to heal her bleeding soul, she joins the Doomsday Brethren's fight to vanquish the evil wizard and seize her revenge...
  • The Lone Hunt by L.L. Raand

    The Lone Hunt by L.L. Raand

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A world of violent passions and inhuman hungers explodes as ancient taboos and primal desires collide.Wolf Were Alpha Sylvan Mir wants nothing more than to keep her pregnant mate Drake safe in their secluded stronghold, deep in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, but enemies, political and praetern, force her into battle...
  • Forgotten by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Forgotten by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Before he was freed by Neferet, Kalona was imprisoned within the earth for centuries because of the Darkness in his heart. But what happened to the Other World's Kalona? It's as though he's been forgotten, or maybe he never existed at allIn the present, Other Neferet may have left her House of Night, but she has far from given up her goal of immortality and world domination...
  • Nikolai by S.L. Jennings

    Nikolai by S.L. Jennings

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author S.L. Jennings We met Nikolai in The Dark Prince (Dark Light #2). Now learn his story... Two centuries ago, I clawed my way into a world of immorality, filth and destruction. A world seething with secrets and lies, both mortal and immortal. Complete and utter Darkness...
  • Entice Me at Twilight by Shayla Black

    Entice Me at Twilight by Shayla Black

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In national bestselling author Shayla Black’s electrifying new novel, the Doomsday Brethren fight their mortal enemy for the newest weapon in a bloody magical war: the one woman a warrior shouldn’t claim . . . yet can’t resist...
  • Luca's Magic Embrace by Kym Grosso

    Luca's Magic Embrace by Kym Grosso

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An erotic paranormal romance…Sexy vampire, Luca Macquarie doesn’t do love; especially not with humans. Yet, ever since he rescued Samantha Irving, he can’t deny the enigmatic attraction he’s developed for the alluring mortal woman. Concerned for her safety, he’s determined to bring Samantha back to her coven...
  • Possess Me at Midnight by Shayla Black

    Possess Me at Midnight by Shayla Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The sexy warrior Ice Rykard finds himself craving beautiful Sabelle RionAs a mysterious dark cloud drains the life of her beloved brother, Doomsday Brethren leader Bram, Sabelle Rion can think of little else. Still, every time she meets Ice Rykard’s intense green gaze, her body aches with need for the sexy warrior. Their attraction is explosive, incredible—and forbidden...
  • The Dragon Knight: The Crimson War by B.A. Stretke

    The Dragon Knight: The Crimson War by B.A. Stretke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Elan Ravenscroft is a Dragon Knight and his father’s heir apparent. He is a battle-tested warrior and ready to defend his family and the Crimson Coven in his father’s name. He expected battle and danger when he accepted his father’s assignment to the Crimson Coven, but he did not expect to find himself face to face with his fated mate in the midst of war. He doesn’t know if he can handle both...
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    lgbtq  magic  paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  contemporary
  • Feathers, Fur and Fey by Zenina Masters

    Feathers, Fur and Fey by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maki has lived and tried to love, over and over again. As a griffin, she is privy to the memories of all the griffins who have come before. Every moment of their lives until they died in defense of others. The story is always the same. When she is called back to the Crossroads for the third time, she has only a flicker of hope that this will be the charm...
  • Missing the Night by Viola Grace

    Missing the Night by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One night, ten years ago, they satisfied her hunger, and she ran as fast as she could. Now, they are back in her life, and they want more.Nessa has stayed away from home for ten years, but a plea from estranged family brings her home. Nessa is half faerie, half human, and drains sexual energy from the people around her...
  • Protecting His Vampire Mate by Jay Castle

    Protecting His Vampire Mate by Jay Castle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BRYANAfter everything I've done, I don't deserve love. Especially not from Tobias Hawthorne—the brave, gorgeous, annoyingly perfect warlock who insists he's my fated mate.Actually, I might already be halfway in love with him, but Tobias doesn't need to know that. Because it can't happen. I can't put him in danger. Not when I've hurt so many people already...
  • The Bear's Healing Touch by Bianca D'Arc

    The Bear's Healing Touch by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sirena has been gravely injured by a mighty sea monster known as the leviathan and put into the care of Grizzly Cove’s only doctor. Sven is a retired soldier, like most of the other guys in Grizzly Cove, but he had dedicated his life to medicine and helping the new town get on its feet...
  • The Vampire's Club: Book Five by X. Aratare

    The Vampire's Club: Book Five by X. Aratare

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucas Daniels senses secrets all around him. Lucas left home for good and believes he is safe at Club Dyavol. His whole world is now Konstantin’s world. But though he trusts Konstantin completely, the more time he spends in the club, the more questions he has about those that call it home...
  • One Girl in All the World by Kendare Blake

    One Girl in All the World by Kendare Blake

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    New York Times best-selling author Kendare Blake takes us back to the demon capital of the world in this highly anticipated sequel to In Every Generation, set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Frankie Rosenberg is coming to terms with the fact that she’s the newest slayer, but that doesn’t mean she has it all figured out just yet...
  • Blood, Breath, and Desire: A Tales of Blood and Magic Novel by Nadine Mutas

    Blood, Breath, and Desire: A Tales of Blood and Magic Novel by Nadine Mutas

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’ll show her that the dark side has more to offer than just cookies… An attack with mysterious dark magic turns young witch Lily Murray into the very being she’s been fighting all her life – a demon. While struggling with her new dark instincts – and desperately trying not to kill her loved ones – she unwittingly earns the protection of a male of her demon species...
  • Lord of the Vampires: 4-in-1 Bundle by Gena Showalter

    Lord of the Vampires: 4-in-1 Bundle by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lord of the Vampires Royal House of Shadows #1Once upon a time…the Blood Sorcerer vanquished the kingdom of Elden. To save their children, the queen scattered them to safety and the king filled them with vengeance.Only a magical timepiece connects the four royal heirs…and time is running out...
  • Forever Yours by Lynn Hagen

    Forever Yours by Lynn Hagen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, vampires, werewolves, HEA] Kory Kendrick thought taking a shortcut through the woods would shave off time, until he runs across a corpse buried under a pile of leaves. He soon finds that the guy isn't as dead as he thinks he is...
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    lgbtq  magic  paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  contemporary
  • The Tinder Chronicles: Complete 3-Volume Series by Alexa Land

    The Tinder Chronicles: Complete 3-Volume Series by Alexa Land

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tinder’s world is black and white, good and evil clearly defined. The young vampire hunter was taught to hate his enemy with a passion, and hating them is easy since they killed his entire family. His attraction to Bane, a gorgeous, mysterious vampire, contradicts everything Tinder believes in, but the heat between them is undeniable...
  • Eternal Demon by Laura Wright

    Eternal Demon by Laura Wright

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Erion’s son is kidnapped by the evil vampire Cruen, Erion vows to stop at nothing to find his hideaway—including intercepting the traveling party of Cruen’s beautiful bride-to-be. But instead of a vulnerable caravan, Erion is met by a feral band of female demons that includes Hellen, the bride—a creature of dark magic and darker passion...
  • Panahasi by Lynn Hagen

    Panahasi by Lynn Hagen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    [Siren Menage Everlasting ManLove: Erotic Alternative Fantasy Menage a Trois Romance, M/M/M, demons, werewolves, HEA] Ten thousand years ago Panahasi made a deal with the keeper. It was a deal that not only brought about the creation of the demon warriors, but paved the lonely road he walked on a daily basis. All of that soon changes when he finds two wolf shifters to call his own...
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    lgbtq  magic  paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  contemporary
  • Ceri by Lynn Hagen

    Ceri by Lynn Hagen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, vampires, HEA] He watches his mate from afar, unable to touch, hold, or claim the man. Distance is Ceridian's reality, his torment. He exists outside the vampire population, living with an unnatural craving that seems to grow stronger whenever he is near Virgil--a man who haunts his very dreams...
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    lgbtq  magic  paranormal  steamy  vampires  adult  book  contemporary
  • Crave Me by Lexi C. Foss

    Crave Me by Lexi C. Foss

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once upon a time, a series of portals opened on Earth, allowing magic to spill into the human world.Houses were created. Supernaturals were assigned. And a new balance was formed.All new arrivals are required to join a House.But this is the tale of a Goddess who refused and the House King who brought her to heel.Nyx.Mistress of Night.My newest obsession.The daring female killed one of my men...
  • The Devil's Angel by Rachel McClellan

    The Devil's Angel by Rachel McClellan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lucien, a centuries old vampire, lives a solitary life with his mind and heart blocked to the past. But all that changes when he meets Eve, a witch who not only stirs an ancient power within him, but who also teaches him to love again. This new life is threatened, however, when a powerful vampire who calls himself the Dark Prince vows to unleash a plague upon the earth...
  • Hawking a Future by Zenina Masters

    Hawking a Future by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two beasts that won’t show their faces in one body built entirely of curves, Hayley is ambushed to the Crossroads where she meets the elf she never dreamed of.Being a shifter that doesn’t shift has left Hayley living a nice, normal human life...
  • Wild Need by Donna Grant

    Wild Need by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this third thrilling story in the Chiasson series, New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant delivers a fiery tale about a man who embraces his heritage and a woman trying to escape evil.STALKED BY DEATH…Davena Arcineaux would like nothing more than to put her past of tragedy and magic behind her and stop running. Maybe even find a great guy to share her life with and start a family...
  • Wood Be Magic by Zenina Masters

    Wood Be Magic by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A long-standing crush turns into a possibility when a mage embraces her chance at balance.Melwiss has used every opportunity to get Andy over to her house for repairs and renovations. She has also used each chance to get him to take his shirt off. She might be consigned to the single life by the mages, but she can still look...
  • A Kingdom Lost by Barbara Ann Wright

    A Kingdom Lost by Barbara Ann Wright

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Princess Katya Nar Umbriel has little left to lose. Her uncle Roland took her home, scattered her family, and forced her to abandon Starbride, her dearest love. Slim hopes and righteous anger carry Katya into Starbride's homeland to raise an army and take back all that was stolen from her.Starbride never dreamed she’d lead a pack of foreign rebels against a Fiendish usurper...
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    lgbtq  magic  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  contemporary  demons
  • Roar of Magic by Zenina Masters

    Roar of Magic by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Anessa is self-sufficient, bright, reasonably attractive and works at a spell-supply shop. She negotiates with shifters for their saleable goods and sells those same parts to mages on a daily basis. When a fey walks in to purchase some fur, she finds out that touching him will send a shock through her hand. One year later, he returns with startling information for her...
  • Stripes of Fury by Zenina Masters

    Stripes of Fury by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Born to a shifter in horse form, Nika has always had trouble dealing with family. Her mother’s herd cast them out because of the pedigree of Nika’s father. Fey shapeshifters are not acceptable genes. Keeping her heat at bay has taken up a lot of Nika’s energy, but she has no option. No other shifter will come near her because of what her father is...
  • Pathway to Love by Zenina Masters

    Pathway to Love by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ida has had her eye on Dromer for years, but the restrictions against shifters and elves having relationships have kept them on a business level. If she can’t have him, she didn’t want anyone. When she returns home one day to find that her parents have arranged her mating with a swan shifter she doesn’t know, she does the only thing she can. She runs...
  • How to Accidentally Summon A Demon by Scarlett Philips

    How to Accidentally Summon A Demon by Scarlett Philips

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I never expected to have proof of Hell’s existence pop into my home.In one night, with one small action, I go from a complete non-believer to summoning an actual demon.After a few accidental summons I’m now surrounded by demons and having the time of my life.When my creepy admirer turns more stalker than harmless sap, my demons come to my rescue...
  • The Ostin Heir by Michelle Dare

    The Ostin Heir by Michelle Dare

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventy years ago, Theo Ostin witnessed his family murdering a town of humans. He also watched as stakes were driven into his parents’ chests. Since then, he’s lived on an island no one knows still exists, let alone that he survived.He prefers it that way.There’s something about Desolate Beach that calls to Paxton Huxley on a visceral level...
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