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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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  • The Enchanted Garden Cafe by Abigail Drake

    The Enchanted Garden Cafe by Abigail Drake

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    For her sixth birthday, Fiona Campbell’s mother, Claire, made her a peace sign piñata filled with wishes for a better planet instead of candy. When she got her period, her mother held a womanhood ceremony at their café and invited the neighborhood. On her sixteenth birthday, they celebrated with a drum circle...
  • 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...
  • The Iron Butterfly by Chanda Hahn

    The Iron Butterfly by Chanda Hahn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Imprisoned, starved and left with no memories, Thalia awakens to find herself at the mercy of an evil cult known as the Septori. Their leader has chosen Thalia as the test subject for a torture device of untold power, designed to change and twist her into something that is neither human nor Denai. Escaping, Thalia finds an unwilling warrior to protect her and an unlikely Denai to befriend her...
  • 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...
  • Bonded by Death by Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

    Bonded by Death by Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 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...
  • 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...
  • Prophecy: Child of Earth by Elizabeth Haydon

    Prophecy: Child of Earth by Elizabeth Haydon

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    In Rhapsody , a fellowship was forged-- three companions who, through great adversity, became a force to be reckoned with: Rhapsody the Singer; Achmed the assassin-king; and Grunthor, the giant Sergeant-Major. Prophecy continues their powerful epic. Driven by a prophetic vision, Rhapsody races to rescue a religious leader while Achmed and Grunthor seek the F'dor-- an ancient and powerful demon...
  • 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...
  • 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 SeriesAlpha 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Melancholia by Elle Casey

    Melancholia by Elle Casey

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Malcolm's had a problem for as long as he can remember. No matter where he goes or what he does, he leaves misery in his wake. Sadness and negativity are his constant companions, influencing others around him until they cannot bear to live. But then Rae shows up in his life, and everything changes. Darkness cleaves to light. Anger yields to joy...
  • Hear No by Lizzy Ford

    Hear No by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's only the end of the world ... Nathan's job for the past three thousand years has been to clean up supernatural messes. Jaded, ruthlessly effective and selfless, he's seen it all and can handle anything - demons, homicidal angels, even bad bosses. His latest challenge: A creature named Shadowman is seeking out the three keys it believes will open portals between earth and hell...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Saving Helena by Haven Fox

    Saving Helena by Haven Fox

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Maddox The day I joined the Iron Brotherhood MC and set eyes on her, I knew I needed to stay far away from her. She was too young, too beautiful, and completely untouchable.I might have indulged in stalking her while she was away, but who could blame me? Those were empty years without her …, and I needed my fix.Now, she had returned to where it all began, to her home with the Iron Brotherhood MC...
  • 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...
  • Brimstone Academy: Semester Two by Alexis Calder

    Brimstone Academy: Semester Two by Alexis Calder

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Getting involved with a demon is like playing with fire. And maybe I want to get burned. With sexy twins competing to get in my pants and a teacher I can’t have, my love life is complicated. Add in a brooding royal who wants to play dirty and I’m in way over my head. The biggest problem is: I want them all...
  • 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...
  • Forged by Fate by Reese Monroe

    Forged by Fate by Reese Monroe

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new adult novel from Entangled's Embrace imprint... He’s waited more than 900 years to love her… Being the Gatekeeper to Hades is no small feat, and waiting almost a millennia to meet your mate is damn near impossible. But Theo Bradford’s mark has finally surfaced on his intended. Now all he has to do is find her and convince her to embrace her supernatural heritage...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Shift of Fate by Kimber White

    Shift of Fate by Kimber White

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Wolf shifter bodyguard Val is assigned to collect and protect Willow, his mafia boss's fiancé and get her to the altar. But the moment he sees her, Val knows Willow is his fated mate...
  • 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...
  • 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: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time, Volume 1 by Tohko Mizuno

    Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time, Volume 1 by Tohko Mizuno

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Akane is your typical teenage girl...until she swallows a Dragon Jewel, which transports her to the Heian period of ancient Japan! There in the city of Kyou, Akane learns that she has been foreordained to lead the people as the Priestess of the Dragon God!  But all is not well. Akram, the head of the Oni Clan, has sworn death and destruction on Kyou...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Seven Days for an Eternity by Marc Levy

    Seven Days for an Eternity by Marc Levy

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    They’ve tried to destroy each other for centuries, but they’ve failed… So God and the Devil plan a contest to finally decide who will rule eternity: each will send their top candidate to earth. The champions will have seven days to draw mankind towards good or evil, respectively. God picks his favorite angel, a ravishing young woman named Zofia...
  • My Avenging Angel by Madelyn Ford

    My Avenging Angel by Madelyn Ford

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    To save her life, he must break a covenant-and lose his heart. An Angels and Demons story. It's Victoria Bloom's twenty-fifth birthday. But is she out celebrating? Oh, no. She's in a stuffy old attic with the Three Stooges-a.k.a. her so-called spirit guides. There's a demon who wants her dead, the same one that killed her mother two decades ago. No worries, say the Stooges...
  • All American Wolf by Adriana Hunter

    All American Wolf by Adriana Hunter

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a dead, naked body is found frozen in the snow, recently promoted Detective Serena Daniels is assigned to the case. Determined to be taken seriously, she sets to work unraveling the mystery, one suspect at a time. Brody Sullivan is a man with many secrets and he also just happens to be Madison County's newest citizen...
  • Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon

    Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    The brilliant new saga is born ... Rhapsody is a woman, a Singer of some talent, who is swept up into events of world-shattering import. On the run from an old romantic interest who won't take no for an answer, Rhapsody literally bumps into a couple of shady characters: half-breeds who come to her rescue in the nick of time...
  • The Queen's Choice by Cayla Kluver

    The Queen's Choice by Cayla Kluver

    Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Magic was seeping out of me, black and agonizing. I could see it drifting away. The magic that would let me pass the Road to reach home again. When sixteen-year-old Anya learns that her aunt, Queen of the Faerie Kingdom of Chrior, will soon die, her grief is equalled only by her despair for the future of the kingdom...
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