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  • The Silver Siren by Chanda Hahn

    The Silver Siren by Chanda Hahn

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Every journey has an end. Unable to find the answers she sought in Skyfell, Thalia, Joss, and Kael travel to Haven with a prisoner in tow. An attack on the road waylays their plans, and Thalia finds herself traveling alone with Kael to the hidden sanctuary of the SwordBrothers. But war is on the horizon and the Raven is amassing his army...
  • 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...
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  • Bonded by Death by Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

    Bonded by Death by Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    I’m torn between three men that I swore I wouldn’t get involved with. I know it’s wrong, but part of me loves it. Craves it. Everyone thinks I’m the good girl, but what they don’t see is that my carefully crafted persona is crumbling around me. My ex taught me that love isn’t sweet, patient, or kind. It’s cruel and it hurts...
  • Tethered Wings by Cameo Renae

    Tethered Wings by Cameo Renae

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Back from their quest into the Underworld, with the threat of Lucian hanging over head, Emma is faced with yet another problem—the Immortal Bond. The bond surpasses any reason and is something so complex, not much is known about it. Once an Immortal Bond is made, it is forever. A conjoining of two fated hearts, destined to be perfect companions...
  • Broken Promise by Julia Crane, Talia Jager

    Broken Promise by Julia Crane, Talia Jager

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Over a year has passed since Rylie returned to her 'human' life. She now knows the truth about her past – and the destiny she can’t yet accept. Rylie struggles to choose between two different worlds, each with a boy she loves. News that her father is alive complicates her life even more. Among the broken hearts and promises, a chance for a new beginning will emerge.
  • Voodoo Kiss by Jayde Scott

    Voodoo Kiss by Jayde Scott

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Aspiring rock star, Sofia, had her whole future figured out. Or so she thought until her sister's sacrificed in a horrific ritual. Now Sofia's haunted by dreadful nightmares and terrifying visions from a past she never knew existed...
  • Darkness Seduced by Stephanie Rowe

    Darkness Seduced by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Immortal warrior Gideon Roarke made an oath five hundred years ago to the woman who died for him. The ancient Calydon is ruthless in his quest to honor that promise, even if it means risking everything by teaming up with the one woman who will either destroy him, or finally bring redemption to his blackened, hardened soul...
  • Broken Wings by Cameo Renae

    Broken Wings by Cameo Renae

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Emma’s world is falling apart, and Kade, the only one who seems to hold her together, is missing. With death lingering right outside their door, decisions must be made before it’s too late. The Midway has refused to send help, so they are left to seek out the only other who can stop Lucian...
  • Wicked Edge by Nina Bangs

    Wicked Edge by Nina Bangs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Nina Bangs once again tempts readers to enter the wickedly sensual Castle of Dark Dreams--a playground where private pleasures and devilish fantasies come true, where the men who breathe life into women's ultimate desires burn with their own supernatural fire. .. As an angel, Passion prides herself on perfection...
  • 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...
  • Perfect Match 3: Captain's Conquest by I. T. Lucas

    Perfect Match 3: Captain's Conquest by I. T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Working as a Starbucks barista, Alicia fends off flirting all day long, but none of the guys are as charming and sexy as Gregg. His frequent visits are the highlight of her day, but since he’s never asked her out, she assumes he’s taken. Besides, between a day job and a budding music career, she has no time to start a new relationship...
  • Hitched to the Dragon by Milly Taiden

    Hitched to the Dragon by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 2 in the Hellscape Holidays Series. Alpha dragon shifter Cooper Dawson didn’t plan on visiting Hellscape Holidays Resort. It’s not his fault he crashed on the beach, barely clinging to life after a battle. Saved by a witch, he owes her a life debt...
  • Fire with Fire by Penelope King

    Fire with Fire by Penelope King

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 13 ratings
    It's been over two months since Lucky and Liora decided their fate outside the cave. Over two months since Kieron left to finish his mission. So why hasn't he returned? Crushed and confused, Liora finds comfort with a mysterious stranger, a guy whose motives include more than just healing Liora's broken heart. Meanwhile, Lucky finds herself in the arms of an old friend. .
  • Valefar Vol. 1 by H.M. Ward

    Valefar Vol. 1 by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The VALEFAR VOLUMES tell the story of Collin Smith and other Valefar. It's 369 days before Ivy loses her soul to a demon kiss. And, Collin Smith, the most powerful Valefar this side of Hell, wants his soul back. He thinks he'll get it too, until a bargain with a powerful demon proves to be more costly than he hoped...
  • Charred Hope by Lizzy Ford

    Charred Hope by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Skylar struggles to save both the shifters and the slayers, but falls prey to the mastermind behind the disappearances of both. With a price on her head and her allies dwindling, she will survive only if she trusts Chace once more. She loves her dragon but fears the man inside will betray her again...
  • Mayhem and Minnie by Veronica Lancet

    Mayhem and Minnie by Veronica Lancet

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He's a neurotic serial killer. She's the woman he cannot kill. Marlowe Spencer-Astor is in a slump. He hasn’t killed a single soul in one hundred seventy four days. Not even therapy could solve his murderous problem, though he promised his mother he’d try. But then he sees a homeless girl by the side of the road. Minnie. She’s naked, dirty and smelly–everything that triggers his OCD...
  • Allegiant by Sara Mack

    Allegiant by Sara Mack

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ** Allegiant by Sara Mack is the second novel in The Guardian Trilogy. It is not affiliated with the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. **. Last summer, Emma discovered that true love never dies. It can return. It can give you hope. It can pull you from darkness. Until it’s ripped from you. Again. As her 22nd birthday approaches, Emma Donohue finds herself back at school and utterly alone...
  • The Acropolis by R.K. Ryals

    The Acropolis by R.K. Ryals

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "We have a new assignment for you, Mr. Reinhardt. ". These words are not comforting to me. At eighteen, I am a gargoyle who has been demoted because I broke the rules. Now I have a new mission, a new mark to protect. But I don't expect Emma Chase. I don't expect to question my own race. I don't expect to care for my own mark. And I am not prepared for what I find at The Acropolis.
  • Red Mortal by Deidre Knight

    Red Mortal by Deidre Knight

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Leonidas has long led his fellow immortal warriors in battle with quiet, unyielding strength. But when Daphne, Oracle of Delphi, confesses to having loved him from afar, Leo finds his stoic shell breaking away. Just as their love ignites, Daphne's half-brother Ares strips Leonidas of his immortality...
  • Captive Heart by Anna Windsor

    Captive Heart by Anna Windsor

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Hot, wet, and bothered. As the world’s only fully trained water Sybil, Andy Myles is too busy battling New York’s demonic population and coping with personal tragedy to trust her broken heart to the wrong man...
  • Pride of the Lion by N.J. Walters

    Pride of the Lion by N.J. Walters

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    "Once upon a time, a writer woke up in the middle of her own book ". "Hades Carnival, Book 3". Araminta Davenport has arrived. After giving up her librarian job to be a full-time writer, all those lonely nights alone with her cat and her keyboard have paid off. She s been invited to participate in one of the biggest reader appreciation weekends as a professional author...
  • The Fire Within by Dana Marie Bell

    The Fire Within by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She will set his world ablaze. Detective Dante Zucco has been tasked with bringing a Shemyaza to justice. As a seris Nephilim, his inner fire comes in handy in battle, but not in love. He's been burned before, but maybe this time he'll find a blaze that matches his own. One of the families of the human victims has hired Elizabeth Rand, PI, to investigate the murders...
  • Riven by Alivia Anders

    Riven by Alivia Anders

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE THIRD BOOK TO THE AMAZON BESTSELLING ILLUMINE SERIES! Captured, imprisoned, and left to burn. You know what they say- where there's smoke there's fire. .. For the last two weeks, Essallie Hanley has been a prisoner, in more ways than one. Held hostage by the Queen, she is forced to endure the mind-numbing pain tearing her body- and soul -apart, killing her with every tick of the clock...
  • Heaven Sent by E. Van Lowe

    Heaven Sent by E. Van Lowe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Readers who devoured Boyfriend From Hell and Earth Angel will be captivated by the third book in the Falling Angels Saga. As summer break for Glendale Union high begins, heartsick Megan awaits Guy's return while struggling to control her emerging abilities. Love is in the air, but can the new loves in Megan, Maudrina, Suze and Aunt' Jaz's life be trusted? Nothing is what it seems...
  • Awaken by Lori Adams

    Awaken by Lori Adams

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The thrills continue in Lori Adams’s addictive New Adult series of paranormal romance—the Soulkeepers—featuring the hottest love triangle in this life . . . or the next. Sophia St. James has every reason to be happy: she survived the kiss of death from the seductive Demon Knight Dante and is free to be with Michael, her sexy Guardian Angel...
  • Secret Twins for the Alien Noble by Athena Storm

    Secret Twins for the Alien Noble by Athena Storm

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I've got a secret that will change everything…And it comes in a pair. I lived a simple life as a bartender on a war-torn planet. Until a Kaleidian mercenary walked in and shattered it. His charm was irresistible, and I let myself give in to him. Big mistake. Suddenly, he was gone, leaving me with more than just a broken heart…. Now, Drex is back...
  • Fang Me by Parker Blue

    Fang Me by Parker Blue

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The vampires want it. The demons want it, too. And someone is willing to kill Val for it. Val and Fang have to find the powerful Encyclopedia Magicka before either of San Antonio's warring underworld factions locate it or the consequences will be deadly for the entire city. As usual, Val's vampire enemies (they still call her The Slayer) want her dead...
  • FrostFire by Zoë Marriott

    FrostFire by Zoë Marriott

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    This is a literary fantasy about war, racial identity and first love. Frost has left her homeland to travel to the neighbouring country of Ruan in the hope of finding a deity she believes will rid her of a curse: at the sight of her own blood, a berserker rage in the form of a wolf overtakes her and kills everyone within reach...
  • Captive Spirit by Anna Windsor

    Captive Spirit by Anna Windsor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Trapped by temptation, bound by desire. Saving humanity from the supernatural has been challenging lately—even for a well-trained earth Sybil like Bela Argos, who must harness the magic of a fractious group of warrior sisters and battle a new wave of paranormal attacks. Another challenge is Duncan Sharp, the hunky NYPD detective who might turn into a demon overnight and devour Bela in her sleep...
  • Kiss of the Betrayer by Boone Brux

    Kiss of the Betrayer by Boone Brux

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For fifteen years Luc Le Daun has blamed himself for the death of the woman he loved. His secret guilt has led him into a life of danger, risking all and committing to none. Killing Luc Le Daun has been all Jade Kendell has thought about for years. But when her plan goes awry and she’s brought into the Bringers’ fold, her own dark secret threatens to be revealed...
  • King Of The Damned by Juliana Stone

    King Of The Damned by Juliana Stone

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With darkness all around him, The League of Guardians is his only means of redemption…. Azaiel, the fallen, has been given a second chance to atone for the sins of his past. With demons gathering and threatening the league, he must find out if their circle has been breached. What he doesn’t foresee is a woman—a fierce warrior—who will turn his world upside down and awaken his tortured soul...
  • My Cruel Billionaire by Laura Olsen

    My Cruel Billionaire by Laura Olsen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I got pregnant, dumped and fired. .. . .. by my ruthless billionaire boss. I thought I could delete him from my life and move on. And yet I still see him every time I look at my son. Our son. Five years later Michael Wallace returns into my life and turns everything upside down. He is still ten years older than me, infinitely richer than me and insanely hot...
  • Angel of Mercy by Shannon Dermott

    Angel of Mercy by Shannon Dermott

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mercy struggles to put the broken pieces of her life back together, including her relationship. With loss that cuts deep, she’s on a mission to make right all the things that have gone wrong. But nothing is ever that easy. And she’s determined not to stay in the dark any longer. With someone hell bent on coming between her and her heart, her perilous adventures run light speed ahead...
  • Mending Shattered Souls by Scarlet Hyacinth

    Mending Shattered Souls by Scarlet Hyacinth

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Fantasy Romance, M/M] After his betrayal, Pierre D'Argent is tortured and broken by his own people. His only desire is to somehow find salvation in death. But a mysterious man going by the name of X rescues him, bringing a spark of hope in his life. Love blossoms between them, despite Pierre's incurable affliction and X's amnesia...
  • Doomed by Jayde Scott

    Doomed by Jayde Scott

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Enter a paranormal world of dark magic, rituals, love bonds and legends…. Fallen angel Cassandra wasn't supposed to fall in love with Dallas. It should've been just a bit of fun she couldn't resist. The bond they share could save her from her curse before she's forever bound to Hell. Trouble is, she's Lucifer's daughter and Dallas is mortal, and mortals don't survive in Cass's world...
  • Dark Promise by Julia Crane, Talia Jager

    Dark Promise by Julia Crane, Talia Jager

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Rylie has it all - great friends, dream boy, loving family. But on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, her perfect little world shatters. A stranger claiming to be her real mother appears with a secret: Rylie is a faery whose powers will be unleashed on her birthday...
  • Dazzle by Amber Garza

    Dazzle by Amber Garza

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Delaney Scott possesses a special gift. Ever since she was a child she has known about her calling and the duty she's expected to fulfill. However, all Delaney wants is to be normal. That's why she is drawn to Sam. He can offer her the life she's always desired. Only Sam has secrets of his own. Secrets that are deadly. Secrets that can change everything.
  • Destinies in Darkness, Part 1 by Scarlet Hyacinth

    Destinies in Darkness, Part 1 by Scarlet Hyacinth

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, vampires] Eric is a young human psychic, struggling to make ends meet and achieve his dream of becoming a famous painter. His life changes completely when he meets Keenan, a 500 year old vampire. Before they know it, the two fall in love. But Eric has to overcome the trauma of his past, and Keenan needs to learn how to love...
  • Pride & Were by Joyee Flynn

    Pride & Were by Joyee Flynn

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    [Siren Allure ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, public exhibition, sex toys, HEA]. Cody knew who he was and never made any apologies for it. He was a shifter with a high libido and enjoyed not only lots of sex, but life. And he saw nothing wrong with that, no matter what people might say about him at times. Besides, he had other issues in life to deal with...
  • Destinies in Darkness, Part 2 by Scarlet Hyacinth

    Destinies in Darkness, Part 2 by Scarlet Hyacinth

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Eric is building a new life at Keenan’s side. An unlikely visitor from a different world changes the course of his destiny. While out on an expedition to eliminate the threat of the demons in New York, Keenan and Eric rescue Gabriel from his captors. Almost at once, Eric befriends Gabriel, finding kinship in the other man's pain...
  • The Demon Who Fed on a Shark by Scarlet Hyacinth

    The Demon Who Fed on a Shark by Scarlet Hyacinth

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Fantasy/Paranormal Romance, M/M, demons, shape-shifters, HEA]. Darling or dinner? For incubus Alexis, shark-shifter Morgan is both, and so much more. But when Alexis is severely disfigured, Morgan also becomes a dream beyond his reach. After all, Alexis is a sex demon...
  • Heavenly Hell by Aria Williams

    Heavenly Hell by Aria Williams

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition of ASIN: B00CIPRA9Y. You'd think being stuck in the body of a beautiful seventeen year old girl forever would be a gift. But when you are fallen, it is more like a curse. Indiana was a beautiful angel, enjoying the perks of Heaven, until she was tricked by a demon to fall in love with him...
  • One Year Ago in Spain by Evelyn Skye

    One Year Ago in Spain by Evelyn Skye

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings
    A woman must woo her lover’s soul back into his body to wake him from a coma—or risk losing him forever—in this moving novel from the author of The Hundred Loves of Juliet. Claire Walker has always had her life in perfect order, including her high-powered job at one of Manhattan’s top corporate law firms...
  • Sympathy for the Devil by Christine Pope

    Sympathy for the Devil by Christine Pope

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When God offers the Devil a chance to redeem himself if he can make a woman fall in love with him, Lucifer is confident it’s a done deal…until he meets Christa Simms, the woman hand-picked by the Almighty to be a part of the cosmic wager. If there’s one thing Christa knows, it’s how to recognize Mr. Wrong when she sees him...
  • The Deception Dance by Rita Stradling

    The Deception Dance by Rita Stradling

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    After a year of preparation, eighteen year old Raven Smith has researched and planned out every detail of her summer vacation in Europe; those plans DO NOT include boys, romance, or falling in love (definitely not the last one). But, even before the plane touches-down her well-laid plans go dreadfully off-course...
  • Hold Me If You Can by Stephanie Rowe

    Hold Me If You Can by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Stephanie Rowe is an acclaimed author whose high-octane romances are attracting a growing readership. The third in a paranormal romance series packed with danger, sensuality and clever twists features Nigel Aquarian, a warrior with an artistic bent, and Natalie Fleming, a chocolatier who has a new lease on life. But her freedom comes with a dangerous gift she doesn't want...
  • The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France, Keith Busby

    The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France, Keith Busby

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England...
  • The Date from Hell by Gwenda Bond

    The Date from Hell by Gwenda Bond

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 12 ratings
    "The apocalyptic beach read that everyone needs. " - Alix E. Harrow, Hugo Award-winning author on Not Your Average Hot Guy. In The Date from Hell, the sequel to Not Your Average Hot Guy, New York Times bestselling author Gwenda Bond brings the journey of Callie, Luke, and their friends to a wonderful close. This is another laugh out loud, action-packed romantic adventure you won’t want to miss...
  • 꼬리 있는 연애 [Dating With a Tail] by Jinha, Hepon

    꼬리 있는 연애 [Dating With a Tail] by Jinha, Hepon

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the dawn of her 29th birthday, unlucky-in-love Yunha discovers a shocking family secret: she’s started growing a fox tail, the mark of an ancestral curse. She must find her fated love before her 30th birthday or she is destined to become a fox forever! Even with her new-found enchanting power to attract men using her scent, will one year be enough to break the curse before it’s too late?
  • Falling in Between by Devon Ashley

    Falling in Between by Devon Ashley

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Finally! A private conversation. And all I had to do was throw myself off a cliff, drown in a pond in my undies and let him put his hands on my breasts to bring me back to life. Yay me! (yeah, that’s sarcasm). Yep, that pretty much sums up the most craptastic night of Jenna Baker’s life...
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