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  • Wild Scottish Rose by Tricia O'Malley

    Wild Scottish Rose by Tricia O'Malley

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Is a rose without its thorns any less beautiful? Shona Scott would much rather putter in her garden than deal with brides that get hysterical over floral arrangements. Fed up, she quits the wedding business and renovates a small cottage on her property for holiday rentals. Without the weddings crowding her calendar, Shona will finally get some time to explore a newfound talent...
  • Independence by Shelly Crane

    Independence by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    In 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...
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  • The Best is Yet to Come by Jessica Redland

    The Best is Yet to Come by Jessica Redland

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Escape to the Lake District with million-copy bestseller Jessica Redland, for an uplifting story of family, friendship and love.Emma is having a fresh start.After a successful teaching career, an exciting new chapter awaits Emma – helping her fiancé Grayson run one of Beatrix Potter's farms...
  • The Wolf Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    The Wolf Witch by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Sometimes magic throws a curveball… I thought I had everything figured out. I’d gone to the academy for witches and mastered my magic. I’d opened my own witchy occult store, just as I always wanted. And my family was as close as ever. Everything was going according to plan. Until the wolves showed up and dragged me back to their land. It was all a misunderstanding...
  • Darkyn's Mate by Lizzy Ford

    Darkyn's Mate by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Caught between Fate and the Dark One ... Stuck in Hell, human-Deidre struggles to hold onto her hope that she can change the course of events that landed her as the mate of Darkyn, the Dark One. The chances of her leaving Hell plummet when the Dark One takes a drastic step to ensure he never loses his latest possession and blood binds her in an ancient rite from the time-before-time...
  • Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind

    Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    As his beloved Kahlan lies close to death, Richard Rahl, who distrusts prophecy more than anyone, is confronted by a compelling vision - one that bears a terrible price. It would mean taking Kahlan away to safety while abandoning his people to a grim fate...
  • Confessor by Terry Goodkind

    Confessor by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost...
  • Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind

    Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 78 ratings
    Kirkus called Wizard's First Rule, Book One of The Sword of Truth, "a wonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring epic fantasy debut." Piers Anthony lauded it as "a phenomenal fantasy, endlessly inventive, that surely marks the commencement of one of the major careers in the genre. It starts in early and keeps hitting you with new magical wonders, building into a truly gripping adventure...
  • Talon/Xavier by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright

    Talon/Xavier by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    New 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...
  • Her One Wish by Marie Hall

    Her One Wish by Marie Hall

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ON SALE OCTOBER 26! Nixie is a genie with a problem. She's just killed her Master. Kind of a big no-no for her kind, but really, what did the ruling council of genie's expect her to do? It's not like she was given a handbook on how to be a "proper genie". She was never even supposed to wind up in Kingdom. She'd been born on Earth, Chicago specifically...
  • Bayon / Jean-Baptiste by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright

    Bayon / Jean-Baptiste by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The 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...
  • Goldie's Grumpy Grizzly by Coco Elliot

    Goldie's Grumpy Grizzly by Coco Elliot

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    A grumpy bear shifter with no desire for a mate collides with a car and wakes up with a mating bond locked onto the driver responsible— the blonde bombshell he finds sleeping in his bed.RAEMy weeklong writing retreat in Fable Forest's distraction-free campground was supposed to refill my creative well and help me meet my deadline...
  • Kane: The Unchained Omegaverse: M/F Alpha Omega Romance by Callie Rhodes

    Kane: The Unchained Omegaverse: M/F Alpha Omega Romance by Callie Rhodes

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Something strange is happening in the woods…If there’s one thing Tabitha Dunn’s followers love, it’s a mystery. For years, she’s built a loyal fan base chasing down answers others have been too afraid to search for. But this time, as she enters the wilderness surrounding alpha territory, the only thing she discovers is trouble...
  • Phantom by Terry Goodkind

    Phantom by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end. As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn't soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation...
  • Deception by B.C. Burgess

    Deception by B.C. Burgess

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Deception A Magical Journey of Epic Romance Layla Layla Callaway has found comfort in her new role as a coven member, and she’s declared her love for the heartthrob who led her home, but as beautiful as her life appears, it’s shadowed by the evil threatening to rip it away...
  • Fighting for Infinity by Karen Amanda Hooper

    Fighting for Infinity by Karen Amanda Hooper

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 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...
  • Lian / Roch by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright

    Lian / Roch by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    LIAN The Hunter: Lian isn’t a happy puma. He’s a lethal Hunter who should be out fighting the enemy, not babysitting a human scholar. Still, he’ll do whatever necessary to rid the world of the evil goddess, Shakpi. And there’s the bonus of spending a few hours away from his family of Nurturers who have been smothering him with love...
  • Hook's Pan by Marie Hall

    Hook's Pan by Marie Hall

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Trishelle Page has known pain in her life, but instead of it making her weak, she's stronger. Confident. That is until the day a fairy kidnaps her during her staring role in Peter Pan's play and tells her not only do fairy tales exist, but that she's the soulmate of the pirate they call Hook, making her question everything she ever thought she knew...
  • Daric's Mate by J.S. Scott

    Daric's Mate by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    GENRE: 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...
  • A Contemporary Mythos Halloween by Carly Spade

    A Contemporary Mythos Halloween by Carly Spade

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When 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...
  • Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

    Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing...
  • Deidre's Death by Lizzy Ford

    Deidre's Death by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two women caught in a struggle between Death and the Dark One... Gabriel – Death – is winning the ground war against demons in the mortal realm. But a rebellion is brewing among his army of grim reapers in the underworld he still can’t access...
  • Broken by Layla Frost

    Broken by Layla Frost

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Layla Frost… You know the deal by now. Fated mates. Nefarious baddies. Grumpy-sunshine. And all the spicy tension. I’d been called a lot of things.Cold.Cynical.Jaded. An antisocial basta—You get the point.I’d say it came with being an overworked doctor, but that wasn’t the case. In my own personal purgatory, I’d lost touch with what I was meant to do—who I was...
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  • The Alpha's Daughter by Jacqueline Rhoades

    The Alpha's Daughter by Jacqueline Rhoades

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    There is a balm in Gilead, to heal the wounded soul… Jazz Phillips is on the run, fleeing from a fate most females in her pack accept as their lot in life; an arranged mating, something Jazz thought wasn't in her future as the Alpha's daughter and only child. She doesn't want to be the next Alpha's Mate. She doesn't want to be anyone's mate...
  • Discovering Synergy by Elizabeth Knight

    Discovering Synergy by Elizabeth Knight

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Lots of friends, crazy parties, and unforgettable memories. College was going to be great! So what’s the worst that could happen?Lailah, a small-town girl from Wisconsin, is stuck in her mundane life with no clear ambitions. Surprisingly, she finds herself the recipient of a scholarship to attend Ryevick University...
  • Burn by Penelope Fletcher

    Burn by Penelope Fletcher

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Something deadly lurks beneath the surface of Marina's skin, a wildness, a magickal creature born from fire and ice. After crossing dimensions to the fiery land of dragons, where not only is she a princess, but descendant from one of the most powerful dragons in existence, Marina has chosen to enter the tournamnet Aver to win the Frost Wreath...
  • Embracing the Wolf by Catherine Bybee

    Embracing the Wolf by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Werewolves come in two different categories, good and evil. Although Richard Ritter's family has encouraged him to make the change for years, he never considered embracing his wolf until he meets Kate Davis. One night with her however, and his life changes forever. After a horrifying evening of violence, Kate Davis's life is turned upside down...
  • Fusion by Nicole Williams

    Fusion by Nicole Williams

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Patrick Hayward isn’t used to feeling helpless. He’s a man of action used to controlling his destiny. But falling in love with Emma Scarlett had a way of upending everything, his sanity included...
  • The Mage by Jean Johnson

    The Mage by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    This is the final book in the acclaimed series of "cursed brothers, fated mates, prophecies... destiny and magic."(Robin D. Owens) New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz hails Jean Johnson's writing as "fabulously fresh, thoroughly romantic, and wildly entertaining." Now, Johnson returns for the final book in the series of eight brothers destined to fulfill a strange prophecy...
  • A Dangerous Hunger by J.S. Scott

    A Dangerous Hunger by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dr. Talia Maris had lived her entire life as a freak—a too tall, too plain, too odd woman who sees and senses the presence of otherworldly entities. A total recluse, Talia spends all of her time on her research, living a contented, quiet life with only her loyal feline companion for company. Until that sedate existence comes crashing down around her when she starts being pursued by demon Evils...
  • Morgan's Fate by Dana Marie Bell

    Morgan's Fate by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His Fate is finally in front of him…and he’s never letting go. Morgan and Magnus Grimm return from their search for Skuld, Norn of the Future, only to find that she’s been living under their noses this whole time...
  • Step by Cindy Paterson

    Step by Cindy Paterson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B00A1X69X8. ‘Only her love can restore his trust—only with his trust can she win her battle.’ Kilter, an immortal Senses Visionary, excels at being rude and crass with little hope of finding peace after being betrayed and tortured by his brother more than a hundred years ago...
  • Hemlock Academy : The Complete Series by Kelsey Soliz

    Hemlock Academy : The Complete Series by Kelsey Soliz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I was so close to getting everything I wanted, an internship with my Uncle, an officer with the special-ops team. If it weren't for a stupid boy that had to go and make me angry, causing me to turn a certain part of his anatomy purple and sparkly, I wouldn't have accidentally revealed to my family what I really was. What I had been hiding...
  • Liam's Mate by J.S. Scott

    Liam's Mate by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Liam 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...
  • Animal Instincts by Gena Showalter

    Animal Instincts by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Unleashing your inner tigress isn't easy when you're a doormat by nature! Still, after escaping a wretched marriage to a cheating SOB, Dallas party planner Naomi Delacroix isn't about to let another man sweet-talk her into sheathing her protective claws. Not even hunky millionaire Royce Powell, who's hired her to arrange his mother's surprise party...
  • Nathan's Mate by J.S. Scott

    Nathan's Mate by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Jewelry 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...
  • The Alpha's Heart by R.E. Butler

    The Alpha's Heart by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Alpha wolf Acksel wakes up one morning in the bed of the one human who was kind to him in school. Now, ten years later, Brynn Mara is snuggled up at his side, smelling like passion and sweet dreams. Even though Acksel has declared that his pack members can mate with humans from now on, he knows that any woman he takes as his mate will have a target on her back. Especially if she’s a fragile human...
  • Rory's Mate by J.S. Scott

    Rory's Mate by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Callie Marks never knew that when she had caught the bouquet at her best friend’s wedding…she would also meet her destiny in the same place. Rory Hale was the nicest, sweetest man she had ever met. He was also the most unattainable. Gorgeous, rich and smart, Rory would never be interested in her. He wouldn’t go for a plump, boring woman that was a chef and suffered from the rejections of her past...
  • Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind

    Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Ancient sorcerous barriers have been overthrown, freeing the sadistic Imperial Order to pillage the rest of the world. Far from the land he rules, his life and powers draining with each day, Richard Rahl must help a desperate people-and teach them the meaning of freedom...
  • Chance's Game by Eve Langlais

    Chance's Game by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a world where magic is common, Breanna is among the rarest of her kind and highly sought after – by all the wrong men. With a roll of his dice, in steps the God of Chance, who sets her up on a quest to free the Realm from a powerful spell. There’s just one problem. Chance expects her to team up with a wizard – who is also a devilish rake...
  • Daughter of Fire and Ice by Marie-Louise Jensen

    Daughter of Fire and Ice by Marie-Louise Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book by Marie-Louise...
  • Feudlings in Sight by Wendy Knight

    Feudlings in Sight by Wendy Knight

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Boys of war suck at romance. Charity Delyle has lived in the shadow of her Prodigy cousin and his powerful Guard since the day she was born. And she doesn’t mind—really. Except that being in Hunter’s shadow means that he can’t see her. And she’d like that to change. Hunter has one purpose in life: Protect the Prodigy, or die trying...
  • Color Me Wicked by Nina Bangs

    Color Me Wicked by Nina Bangs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Amanda Harcourt had one scorching night of incredible sex with Conleth Maguire on a Galveston, Texas beach ten years ago. Then she’d left Con for a career in New York City. She’s back in Galveston now as the interior designer for the weird and wacky Castle of Dark Dreams, a theme park attraction. Old memories surface when she finds out that Con has been hired to paint the castle...
  • The Shifter by Jean Johnson

    The Shifter by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Before the Sons of Destiny came to be, shapechangers ruled the heart of a shattered empire and navigated the uncertain shifts of fate… Years have passed since there was any sighting of Family Mongrel on the Shifting Plains. Yet traces remain, and they lead south into the Correda Mountains...
  • The Queen's Knight, Volume 2 by Kim Kang-Won

    The Queen's Knight, Volume 2 by Kim Kang-Won

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *Creator of the top-selling series I.N.V.U. *Kim Kang Won is not only a top creator among girl titles, she also drew quite a sizeable crowd at the 2003 Comic Con Now that Yuna is Queen of Phantasma, the dashing knight Rieno doesn't want her to go back to her home. Yuna's heart is torn between returning to Germany and moving forward with her new life as queen. She attempts to leave..
  • The Queen's Knight, Volume 3 by Kim Kang-Won

    The Queen's Knight, Volume 3 by Kim Kang-Won

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *Creator of the top-selling series I.N.V.U. *Kim Kang Won is not only a top creator among girl titles, she also drew quite a sizeable crowd at the 2003 Comic Con Yuna is angry with Rieno after eavesdropping on his decision to send her away from his castle... but that doesn't stop her from receiving his "dreamy" kiss...
  • To Kiss a Frog by Elle James

    To Kiss a Frog by Elle James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Wanted: Single woman, very near-sighted, who doesn't care about height (3") or skin flaws (green and bumpy), who can see past minor details (like not being entirely human) to find and love the man beneath the warts. Craig Thibodeax was cursed. Frog by day and man by night, he had until the next full moon to free himself - by finding someone to love him. Elaine Smith seemed perfect...
  • Raven Dexter, Paranormal Midwife by Viola Grace

    Raven Dexter, Paranormal Midwife by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Raven was off to a good start as a midwife until an elf demanded she attend a royal goblin's birth. It was downhill from there. Raven Dexter chose to pursue midwifery the moment she helped a teen friend deliver her baby. Fed up with unconcerned physicians, she studied until she could open her small practice in a moderately sized town...
  • Onyx Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Onyx Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The dragons are back, and they're our last chance...  Isaac Morningstar III, or Zach to the few who know him, has hit rock bottom. Once an immortal, nearly-invincible dragon, he's been awakened only to have his powers and his treasure locked away until he can prove himself to be a trustworthy protector of humans...
  • With the Sunrise by Fiona Davenport

    With the Sunrise by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Athan Bancroft was drawn to a ring with a striking amethyst a century ago and has been wearing it all those years. He had no idea the piece of jewelry was meant for his destined consort—until he looked across a crowded ballroom straight into eyes that were a perfect match for the stone. Selene Brassard has always been fascinated by stories about vampires, but she had no idea they really existed...
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