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Independence by Shelly Crane
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIn the fourth and final installment, Maggie and Caleb must tie up all the loose ends of their lives and make a way to be together completely on their own. With everything that happened with Bish and Maggie's father, she's almost reluctant to move on and move out. And now she must figure out all of this...stuff...with Haddock. But of course, nothing can stay simple for the Jacobsons... -
Dark Prince's Enigma by I. T. Lucas
As the son of the most dangerous male on the planet, Lokan lives by three rules:Don’t trust a soul.Don’t show emotions.And don’t get attached...Categorized as:
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Loving My Pack by Lane Whitt
As the craziest year of her life comes to a close, Kitten finds herself on the brink of a new journey. Motherhood. That’s right, there’s new life coming to the Ivaskov pack. Since meeting her mates, Kitten’s world has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs and everything in between... -
King of Knights by Blue Saffire
Award winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presentsThe Immortal Iron Brothers SeriesKendrickMy brothers and I are unique. We were born with a Power so enormous it has to be harnessed and locked away. Our demi blood both defines and drives us.I’ve lived century after century, running from a curse that blood has inflicted upon us... -
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Fighting for Infinity by Karen Amanda Hooper
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratings"On par with (if not better than) most of the "big six" paranormal releases out there, I would place this highly romantic series among the best of the best, not to be missed... -
Feral Shifter Unleashed by Olivia T. Turner
I've spent my life hunting down feral shifters and now I'm one of them.And it couldn't have come at a worse time.The director of the AFA—the Anti-Feral Agency—is retiring and I'm the top candidate to replace him.It's all I've ever wanted, but my damn grizzly bear keeps getting in the way.Snarling, growling, charging for the surface...Categorized as:
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Talon/Xavier by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNew Year. New Species. Welcome to the Wildlands. TALON After the tragic death of his parents when Talon was young, he’s dedicated his life to protecting the Pantera. To the strikingly gorgeous man, loyalty and honor mean everything. So it’s no surprise that he’s determined to treat Isi Rousseau as the enemy... -
A Contemporary Mythos Halloween by Carly Spade
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen Stephanie became the Queen of the Underworld and goddess of the Elysian Fields, she exchanged her mortal life for an immortal one—a marriage to Hades, the King of Ash and Bone himself. In time she would become submerged into the new life of a Greek goddess, but a human life with human customs was all she knew, leaving her with momentary bouts of homesickness... -
Bayon / Jean-Baptiste by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe fight continues in the Wildlands. Facing extinction, the Pantera have been given a miracle. A child. The first one in over fifty years. But even as they prepare to celebrate, the enemy strikes, putting at risk the fragile female who carries the hope of their people... -
Daric's Mate by J.S. Scott
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsGENRE: Adult Paranormal Erotic Romance Book 5 of The Vampire Coalition: Prince Daric Carvillius is the twelve hundred year old Prince of the Vampire Healers, the most powerful being on earth, and very accustomed to getting his own way in every situation... -
Micaela's Big Bad: A Halloween Novella by Tijan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Halloween NovellaI found my boyfriend mid-thrust in a vampire.Gross. WTH, right? Also, a fork might've been thrown.I expected to spend the night commiserating with my best friend.That didn't happen. I found myself on a mission to save her.And somehow, I woke up in the back of a vehicle, across from a guy who could be described as literal sex on a stick...Categorized as:
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A Stop in Time by R.C. Boldt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author RC Boldt brings readers an intriguing paranormal romantic suspense in A Stop in Time... I’ve been an outcast my whole life. If my scars don’t scare people off, my attitude certainly will. I don’t know what I am or how I got the power to stop time. What I do know is, there are far too many questions I need answers to... -
Pieces of Me by Jacey Davis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when a jaded chimera meets a skeptical and stressed human? True love, of course. Why did I decide to live in the human realm again? I asked myself that question nearly every day lately. Sure, many monsters are thriving here, and I don’t think I could go back to never having coffee or cheese danishes again, but…humans can be so infuriating sometimes and I’m over it...Categorized as:
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Wicked Waves by Sharon Kay
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMaking daggers out of raindrops is only the tip of the iceberg for Brooke Bonham. As one of four women who can control the elements, her ability to manipulate water packs a deluge of potential. Eager to learn more, she’s frustrated at the precautions she must take to avoid the wrong kind of attention on Earth...Categorized as:
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Pretty Stormy by K.A. Knight
Seven sons, each with a bloodline of supernaturals that can be traced back to them, but where did they go?Mira has been a prisoner, locked up, for as long as she can remember. Love led her there, betrayal broke her, and now she is left cold and cunning....but one fateful night has her forgetting her past and dreaming of more.Under that lightning lit sky, she found a man... -
Between the Bear's Sheets by Jenika Snow
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTalia Landon, a red fox shifter, knew she was in trouble when she saw Ford Wylde for the first time. The alpha bear shifter was the type of male she should stay away from. He had this darkness he wore like a second skin. It should’ve had Talia keeping her distance, but instead, she was drawn to him even more.But what was supposed to be a one-night stand turned into mating with a Wylde bear...Categorized as:
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Wish You Weren't Here by Gracie Ruth Mitchell
Clementine has accidentally freed a British genie from his ancient British teapot, and she’s not thrilled about it.However, appalled by his living conditions—and grudgingly impressed by his jawline—she vows to set him free. But before he can join the human world, the genie must prove he can live like a human—and he must do it in one month, or he’ll fade away for good...Categorized as:
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Untouchable Darkness by Rachel Van Dyken
To love a Dark One is to invite death... It is wrong to love her. It is worse to want her. It is sin to consume her. I desire all three. I've been given thirty days to prove my love to another immortal--as a human. Cursed to use nothing but the side of myself I've always despised to win her affection. I am Cassius, the King of the immortals, A Dark One... -
Destiny Unchained by Leia Shaw
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey call her The Huntress. A vampire with lethal focus, Natalia hunts rogue werewolves and kills them without mercy. She buried her heart centuries ago. Now she lives only for revenge... -
What a Dog Knows: A Novel by Susan Wilson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Susan Wilson comes What a Dog Knows, another heartwarming novel about humans and the dogs that change our lives.Ruby Heartwood has always lived a life on the move. As a traveling psychic, she makes her living working at carnivals and festivals and circuses around New England. It's a life Ruby has made peace with--settling in one place has never been for her...Categorized as:
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His Primal Kiss by Kota Quinn
Everyone fears orcs and their savage urges. My time with the Goblin Market has ended. I need to find my mate. So, when I hear about a small town where both humans and monsters live together, I’m determined to go.A seer once told me that my mate is human, but no one mentioned that his fiery passion would call to me on a primal level...Categorized as:
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Her Loving Husband's Curse by Meredith Allard
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow far will you go to protect the one you love? Finally, after many long and lonely years, James Wentworth’s life is falling into place. Together with his wife, Sarah, the only woman he has ever loved, he has found the meaning behind her nightmares about the Salem Witch Trials, and now they are rebuilding the life they began together so long ago... -
Firefighter Phoenix by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom ashes, love will rise again... Swan shifter Rose knows she doesn’t have a true mate. She isn’t the one for Ash, the Phoenix Eternal. She knows he can never be more than a friend, no matter how his dark eyes and hard body make her burn. Everything Rose knows is wrong. Twenty years ago, Ash destroyed everything to save his true love. But he’s never been able to walk away from her...Categorized as:
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Chosen By The Grizzly by Ariana Hawkes
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsI used to top "most eligible bachelor lists". Now I’m holed up in my wilderness cabin, far away from civilization.It’s safer for the rest of the world this way.All I want is to be left alone. Just me and my half-feral beast, trying to stay sane.But when I see her, my universe flips on its head.Sweet, curvy, untouched; she’s the most incredible thing I’ve ever laid eyes on...Categorized as:
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Sword-Dancer by Jennifer Roberson
SOUTHRON BLADE SKILL, NORTHERN SWORD MAGIC... He was Tiger, born of the desert winds, raised as a slave and winning his freedom by weaving a special kind of magic with a warrior's skill. Now he was an almost legendary sword-dancer, ready to take on any challenge--if the price was right...or the woman pretty enough... -
Alpha's Vow by Renee Rose, Lee Savino
The sweet human is pregnant with my pup. We had one night together and then she ghosted. Apparently, I'm not part of her "life plan."Whatever, baby. Plans change. She thinks I'm a player. That I won't stick around. She thinks I don't have what it takes to be a dad. That I won't drop everything and dedicate my life to our baby. To our family. To her. She's wrong...Categorized as:
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Nathan's Mate by J.S. Scott
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsJewelry maker Sasha Taylor is from an old and aristocratic line of mages and expected to mate with a mage of the same background to secure a continuing pure line of little magic children. She would probably have complied with the old mage tradition had she not had one tiny problem with the plan... -
Reincarnated Hunger by Marisa Chenery
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsBook five in the Ra's Chosen series.Unlike his fellow warriors, Kysen already found his mate-the woman who stirred his blood like no other. But he'd been mortal at the time. When she died, he vowed to never love again. He feared the day Ra's decree that all his warriors take mates would fall upon him...Categorized as:
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Stone Cold Fox by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCougarville's mechanic, and resident Alpha fox, shelters a mysterious woman who ignites his protective animal instincts when evil forces try to tear them apart. Jo Ferrell has been cast out of her home for reasons she doesn’t understand. The grey streak in her hair is gone, her body is younger, and there’s an ominous shadow chasing her... -
Eternal Desire by Kim Loraine
Izzy Dying young is tragic. Dying young and being reborn over and over for all eternity? That’s exhausting. My goal had always been to reunite with my sister witches and break the curse put on us. Love was a risk I wasn’t willing to take. It wasn’t worth knowing it’d end in heartbreak. Then a handsome beast found me and took me as his mate... -
Liam's Mate by J.S. Scott
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsLiam Hale is a vampire healer with secrets, secrets that he has kept hidden for hundreds of years from his brothers for their own protection. He's resigned to his lot in life, to work only for the benefit of his people...until he meets mage healer Regan Taylor. Regan makes Liam want more, much more than a lonely vampire healer can ever possess... -
Aric by Callie Rhodes
Boundaryland law is simple—whoever trespasses on an alpha’s land becomes his property to do with as he pleases.No woman willingly travels to the Boundarylands.That’s why Aric is so surprised to find a stranger asleep in his bed. She’s not who she says she is…or what she pretends to be. All he knows is that what lies in his bed is his to keep. Jocelyn never meant to come to the Boundarylands...Categorized as:
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Roman by Callie Rhodes
Bartered into the hands of an alpha, there was never a chance of escape.No woman willingly travels to the Boundarylands.It's where they are—the Alphas.They keep to themselves in the wilderness, and beta civilization knows to keep its distance. Especially beta women…for fear they may not be a beta after all... -
Knot Running From Fate by Ember Davis
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsJACEIn the years since everything changed in Screaming Woods, including myself, the only place I’ve found solace is in the woods I protect as a park ranger. I’m not sure how to deal with my new…attributes as a wolfman. What if I go feral? What if I can’t control the monster I was made into? Every year this goes on, I retreat farther from humanity and closer to the animal I’ve become...Categorized as:
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The Hidden by Kelley R. Martin
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLibrarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition of The Hidden (ISBN: 9780615749082, ASIN: B00ARPRXIA) On her first day of college, Emily meets a walking, talking god. With a gorgeous face, killer blue eyes, and a body to die for, it's easy to see why Thomas Paige is the envy of every guy at Potomac Ridge University and why every girl within a fifty mile radius wants to get a piece of him... -
Autopsy of a Fairytale by Nicole Scarano
Beauty & the Beast meets Criminal Minds in this Murder Mystery Romantic SuspenseAfter an attack on the job, Homicide Detective Isobel ‘Bel’ Emerson takes her dog and moves to the small town of Bajka in search of a less stressful life and career, but the quaint town’s peace is disturbed when a local furniture designer is murdered, his body posed to look like a human chandelier...Categorized as:
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A Baby for the Bear by Jenika Snow
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFebruary “Ary” Felina, an ocelot shifter, decided getting drunk on her Dirty Thirty birthday was a bad idea. But at the end of the night, she was in Charlie Wylde’s bed, the intimidating alpha bear shifter in the town of Sweet Water. But then the unthinkable happened. The contraception broke during their wild, passionate night, and Ary found herself knocked up by the possessive, growly shifter... -
Heat of Rejection by Vivian Hawthorne
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsRejected. Humiliated.Shy and bookish, Gracie Reynolds has been an omega her whole life. So when she hears the call of fate after crossing paths with a certain somebody, she knows she must answer. She just never imagined that fate had a mate intended for her, and he’s none other than the son of the pack alpha.Too bad Daniel Vankamp doesn’t believe in fated mates...Categorized as:
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Wings of Snow by Krista Street
I should have won the Rising Queen Trial. The crown that was destined to be placed upon my head now rests atop the vindictive witch who sought to steal my throne.Left with no choice, I flee from the Solis continent even though my heart is shattering at leaving my love behind. But I can’t return to Solisarium until I’ve reclaimed my affinities and am able to fight with the crown prince at my side... -
Mail Order Minotaur by Lilith Stone
A shy human. A minotaur sex worker. A powerful chemistry neither can deny.Tour guide Ivy has always secretly fantasized about minotaurs. So when a Beast Hunters tour to Motham City goes horribly wrong, she’s thrilled to be rescued by wickedly handsome minotaur, Bryn. Until she finds out that he runs a male escort agency with the sole purpose of pleasuring humans... -
Fugitive Mate by Anastasia Wilde
A Fugitive Mate… Emma Wilkes is on the run from her ex-boyfriend—with a stolen laptop containing evidence of his crimes. When she meets a hot guy in a truck stop bar, she pretends to be his date, hoping to throw her ex’s hit squad off her trail. A Desperate Alpha… Alpha wolf Jace Monroe has only weeks to find a true mate and bond with her, or he’ll lose his pack and his territory...Categorized as:
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Zeus by Kamery Solomon
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsVegas is not where Karly had imagined herself to be at this point in her life.She was supposed to be living in California, soaking up the sun and enjoying the life of an artist. Instead, she's just moving out of her parent's house and going to a school that could loosely be called her second choice...Categorized as:
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Omega, Suppressed by Leann Ryans
Moving from the city to a small town, Shailyn knew things would be different, but she didn't realize how difficult it would be. When the town leader makes it obvious he does not agree with omegas using heat suppressants, and his son decides to cancel her order for more, she's left with no choice but to make a trip back to the city to get some before it's too late. Alone... -
A Gargoyle's Delight by Naomi Lucas, Mel Braxton
For centuries I have suffered.Solidified and silenced, all because I failed to destroy what I was created for.Except now, after so long… There is a female.One who always seems to be by my side.Day after day.Night after night.She talks to me. Touches me. Tells me things. She shares stories of a world I no longer know. She is a reprieve from my punishment. A sweet delight... -
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A Midsummer Night's Heat by Judy Mays
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThird story in the Heat series.Belle can finally take a vacation. Her father Artemis is happily married again, and more than capable of managing the family business without her for a few weeks.Alex may be Alpha of his Pack, but he lost the woman he expected to marry to another werewolf. One whose werewolf father had mated a real wolf, then taught their cubs to assume human form... -
Fae King's Temptation by Layla Harper
He's a Fae king with everything to lose.She's the human outlaw who can bring him down.For three hundred years, the four kingdoms have watched me from afar, anticipating the day I succumb to the bloodlust that once ruled my ancestors. Now a human woman has crossed into my borders.Fae law dictates I kill her. But she's not just any human.She's my fated mate... -
Robert by Sam Crescent
Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsBook one in The Valentines Series A war is about to begin. Sophie Ford has a secret. Fear for herself and her friend has her running to the vampire council in search of protection. And she is bonded to a vampire. Robert Valentine knows Sophie is hiding something, but what? She tempts him as no little human ever has in his whole life...Categorized as:
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Perfumed Heat by Judy Mays
Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe start of the Heat series!Since the death of his mate, Artemis Gray has desired no other to take her place. Then Moira Archer, a human, enters his life. Her rich, earthy scent, combined with the perfume she wears, entice's him... -
Young Love Murder by April Brookshire
Rated: 3.49 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsFirst love’s a killer, but so is seventeen-year-old Annabelle Blanc. The teenager was raised to be an assassin and taught to never fall in love. She lives for the job until she meets Gabriel Sanchez, the son of her latest target. Wealthy, spoiled and self-indulgent, Gabriel Sanchez is a teenage playboy...Categorized as:
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Mated to the Monster by Sarah Spade
I really should’ve known better than to play around with that old book of spells…How was I supposed to know that the incantations scrawled inside of it worked? That the first one I read would open a portal into a demon plane — or that the next one was an unbreakable vow to the seven foot tall shadow monster I unwittingly summoned into my bedroom?He says his name is Malphas, that he’s something...
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