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  • Dragonwitch by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

    Dragonwitch by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Who Will Dare to Face the Dragonwitch? Submissive to her father’s will, Lady Leta of Aiven travels far to meet a prospective husband she neither knows nor loves–Lord Alistair, future king of the North Country. But within the walls of Gaheris Castle, all is not right. Vicious night terrors plague Lord Alistair to the brink of insanity. Whispers rise from the family crypt...
  • Trapped by Claudy Conn

    Trapped by Claudy Conn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    BJ is a Fios (Seer) which means she can see the Fae-dark or light, through their Glamour and their invisibility. The war between the two forces of Fae has heated up and BJ is being drawn into the fray. There is a 17th century hunk who wants to help-but he is trapped...
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  • Blood Charged by Lindsay Buroker

    Blood Charged by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Sardelle Terushan, sorceress and healer, should be lying low. Magic is forbidden in Iskandia, and magic users are drowned, shot, or otherwise slain. The problem? She's fallen in love with ace fighter pilot and national hero, Colonel Ridge Zirkander, a man whom everybody notices, including the king. It's not long before Sardelle has spies dogging her steps and people trying to blow her up...
  • Dominic by Roxie McClaine

    Dominic by Roxie McClaine

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I never lose my cool in front of women. Ever. Until her. Dominic gets his share of female attention. A leading contender of the new Bionic Fighting League, he can have any woman he wants, when he wants. Rented out to a family in need, he’s not thrilled about caregiving. Seriously. How boring is that? I can’t believe androids come programmed with audacity...
  • The Hunt by Susan Bliler

    The Hunt by Susan Bliler

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Kidnapped, corralled, and marked, Vesa Watson refuses to break. A nameless face in the sea of a dozen or so other women who were snatched off the street just like her, Vesa refuses to show any sign of weakness. She can’t. There’ll be no hope of escape if she loses it now. Unsure what is going to happen, she knows one thing for certain...
  • On a Rogue Planet by Anna Hackett

    On a Rogue Planet by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "I've never had a thing for cyborgs before, but, WOW, now I do! " - Amazon reviewer. A sexy, deadly cyborg + a sassy salvage mechanic = a fast, action-packed space adventure. Unlucky-in-love salvage mechanic, Malin Phoenix, didn't intend to get caught up in a coup and kidnapped by a sexy cyborg...
  • Clockwork Tangerine by Rhys Ford

    Clockwork Tangerine by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The British Empire reigns supreme, and its young Queen Victoria has expanded her realm to St. Francisco, a bustling city of English lords and Chinese ghettos. St. Francisco is a jewel in the Empire’s crown and as deeply embroiled in the conflict between the Arcane and Science as its sister city, London—a very dark and dangerous battle...
  • Diplomacy by May Sage

    Diplomacy by May Sage

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    For a thousand years, being born with magic was a death sentence. Hart and his twin have survived by hiding who they truly were until their time came. It started as a whisper, rumors, but when they find out there truly is a mage uprising, they join the fight, tilting the balance in the mages’ favor. The era of magicless mortals has passed in their multi-planetary kingdom...
  • Rogue Instinct by Elin Wyn, Ava York

    Rogue Instinct by Elin Wyn, Ava York

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    People aren't my strong suit. Give me an engine, anyday -- even on a spaceship. And when a giant, sexy bronze-skinned alien decides I'm not good enough to work on his baby? Game on. Even if he does have talented, broad hands. I just hadn't figured Orrin and I would be working together quite so closely. .
  • Deathmaker by Lindsay Buroker

    Deathmaker by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    When Lieutenant Caslin Ahn joined Wolf Squadron, she was prepared for the reality that she might one day be killed in the line of duty. She was less prepared for being shot down, assumed dead by her own people, and dragged off to the Cofah Empire as a prisoner of war...
  • Illusion of Death by Lana Kole

    Illusion of Death by Lana Kole

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Falling to your death…. Walker, Kai, Remi and Levi are finally reunited, their team once again whole. It should be a time of celebration, but they must first conquer their greatest fear: a world without Mori. Working together, they are prepared to overcome any obstacle to return her to their side...
  • Revolution by Kali Argent

    Revolution by Kali Argent

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    By all rights, Helios shifter Sion Jabari shouldn’t be on Xenthian. According to his own mother, he shouldn’t even be alive. His life hasn’t been an easy one, and after witnessing how greed and the desire for power can corrupt something as pure as love, he wants no part of it. When he takes a companion, he swears it will be for all the right reasons, and more importantly, it will be his choice...
  • Alien Giant by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Alien Giant by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A nine-foot-tall alien warrior just kidnapped me. How's your day going? Diana is a survivor. It's all she knows. But she has big plans once she escapes the dangerous outpost where she's been stranded for the last ten years. Plans that involve buying a ship of her very own and traveling to a sparsely populated planet to live out the rest of her days in the sun...
  • Imperial Governess by Viola Grace

    Imperial Governess by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Too old, too bitter, and ready to retire? Why not have your genes altered and shoot yourself across space to a new world and new career. Amber has always been waiting for her time. Her moment. When she gets to the age of fifty-five and finds that her moment has not shown up, she decides to take on an offer from three decades earlier that has recently been renewed and get her ass into space...
  • Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn

    Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    This is a standalone sequel to Archangel , set 150 years later in proverbially interesting times. Samaria is industrialized; the Manadavvi and Jansai are wealthier; the Edori are marginalized, their roaming lifestyle disrupted; and Jovah seems to be turning a deaf ear to his angels' prayers for abatement of increasingly destructive storms...
  • Nefertiti's Heart by A.W. Exley

    Nefertiti's Heart by A.W. Exley

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00BFTMRBA. A steampunk adventure with a serial killer, romance, and a few broken hearts. Cara Devon has always suffered curiosity and impetuousness, but tangling with a serial killer might cure that. Permanently. London, 1861...
  • On a Cyborg Planet by Anna Hackett

    On a Cyborg Planet by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Can he give a beautiful warrior cyborg the pleasure she's never experienced? A sexy, fast-paced sci fi romance. novella. in the Phoenix Adventures . After a vicious coup, cyborg Axton Saros, Prime of the planet of Centax, is trying to rebuild his world. Still recovering from his captivity and dark guilt, he won't let anything get in his way...
  • The Silver Spider by Emma Alisyn

    The Silver Spider by Emma Alisyn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 2 of the Dragon, Stone & Steam series coming soon! Excerpt. .. She turned, spiders skittering up the loose sleeves of her formal black jacket. She'd refused to wear another gown. Look what had happened last time she'd been trapped in a dress—Cinvarra almost kidnapped and Sere hunting her prey with fancy skirts tripping her up. Her hand rose in automatic response, fingers curled into claws...
  • Dane by Ashley L. Hunt

    Dane by Ashley L. Hunt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Elderhood is in my veins, but she’s the one that has my heart. I am new to the Elder throne, but I am no amateur. With my brother as my predecessor and our father as his, leading my people is all I know. And, right now, I must lead them in war. She is the new Ambassador to Alien Relations. It is her job to work with me and come to a peaceful agreement of coexistence...
  • Echo in Time by Viola Grace

    Echo in Time by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Alara has spent her life under the radar, hiding her nature from the government and those around her. When it came to a choice of letting her cousin fall into servitude to their own government or live a life free in the stars, Alara stepped into the path of disaster and made sure that Tosha went free...
  • Flamethroat by Kate Bloomfield

    Flamethroat by Kate Bloomfield

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Avalon Redding has returned to Mortlock to find her home destroyed, and her family missing. They have been taken by 'The Realm' for harboring an illegal human, Avalon's sister. Desperate to find her family, Avalon travels across the country to the Headquarters of the Realm, with Healer Jack Greenwood, and animal companion Hawthorne...
  • The Bazaar by Lily Archer

    The Bazaar by Lily Archer

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Keeping Beth by my side is turning out to be far harder than I planned. After all, I couldn’t escape her when we were traveling with Leander and Taylor. She dogged my steps, flitted through my dreams, and took up all my waking thoughts. Now? She’s disappeared like smoke through my fingers. But I will always find her...
  • Wrecked by Meljean Brook

    Wrecked by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Elizabeth has spent the past five years running from her father; her father's huntsman, Caius, has spent the past five years pursuing her. But when he finally catches up to her on an airship flying above Europe's zombie-infested cities, Elizabeth discovers that Caius isn't the only danger she has to fear—and now that he's found her, Caius doesn't intend to let her go. .
  • Keys by Amber Kell

    Keys by Amber Kell

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    City of Keys: Book One. My name is Octavius Septimus Stalk, but my friends call me Oss. I live in the City of Keys, a town of gears, keys, locks, and wonder. Our forefathers banished magic long ago, bolted the doors and locked everything up tight to keep people out and the town’s secrets in. Four Lock Lords control what information is left, and everyone else is left struggling to survive...
  • Spy's Honor by Amy Raby

    Spy's Honor by Amy Raby

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Rhianne, mind mage and Imperial Princess of Kjall, cannot openly challenge the emperor. Instead, she acts in secret to aid the victims of his worst excesses. But now the emperor plans to wed her to the cruel Augustan, the man leading Kjall’s attack against the nation of Mosar. Soon she will be torn from her supporters and shipped overseas, where she can help no one...
  • Falling Ashes by Kate Bloomfield

    Falling Ashes by Kate Bloomfield

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Final Installment to: The Fire Mage Trilogy. Avalon has made a lot of dangerous enemies. The Realm has issued a bounty on the infamous Fire-Mage's head, labelling her leader of the human-alliance, and traitor to Mage-kind. Soon, strangers begin to recognize Avalon after seeing her wanted poster in the streets, and seek to earn the cash reward for her capture...
  • Alien Explosions by Sadie Carter

    Alien Explosions by Sadie Carter

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Sometimes it’s a very fine line between love and hate. Humans were inferior and troublesome creatures, and unlike his fellow warriors, Moroco had no intention of ever mating one. Trust a female again? Never. Not when he knew how easily they could betray you...
  • Poisoned Web by Crista McHugh

    Poisoned Web by Crista McHugh

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Book 2 of the Deizian Empire. The fate of the empire hangs on one slave breaking her silence…. As the Deizian Empire prepares for the upcoming wedding of Emperor Titus Sergius Flavus and Azruha, one mystery remains unsolved—the sudden and unexplained death of the former emperor. And as her wedding gift to Titus, Azurha wants to give him answers...
  • Multiple Organisms by Viola Grace

    Multiple Organisms by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Drahali has lived her life as a freak, a woman who was far more than one of the guys. Her strength was limitless, but it doomed her to a life alone until the day the Sector Guard recruiter arrived and offered her a chance to be his partner and possibly more. Remar suffered the same fate on his home world with his body able to split into multiple incarnations of the original...
  • Past Tense by Viola Grace

    Past Tense by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Mayden Morningside is a Reader who works with contracts and lives a quiet life until her old recruiter from Terra comes asking her to join the Sector Guard. She will have her body changed to match her partner's, a strange but necessary practice when one's partner is a dragon. Harusk is a sleeper, a dragon who chose to preserve his genes through a prolonged hibernation...
  • Hard Hearted by Viola Grace

    Hard Hearted by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Saving her fiancé showed Gralial's people what a freak she was and they punished her accordingly by removing her soul. Left with only intelligence and her talent, Gray must start a new life in the Alliance as the Sector Guardsman Hard Hearted. She is assigned to Teklan base as their healer and physician and partnered with a being that she never even heard of...
  • Ripped And Roar by Viola Grace

    Ripped And Roar by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Cila has spent her life controlling a power that can kill with a word, but will becoming a Guardsman solve her problems, or bring them to the fore with a roar? Cila Wen has lived her life unable to speak for fear destroying those around her. The Sector Guard has offered her a position and assistance in controlling her talent, but Cila is not sure if that is even possible...
  • Harvest Hunt by Viola Grace

    Harvest Hunt by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ashlin wants to save the beast marked for the hunt, but when intelligence sparks in his eyes the idea becomes the gateway to a new life. Ashlin has spent her life trying to move beyond her status as a throw-back. Unlike all of the population around her, she has to fight for respect on a daily basis...
  • Powered Up by Viola Grace

    Powered Up by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ilsa Kimoni has spent the last three years saving her own people in privacy, locked away in the seizure centre on Pahnnan. When a member of the Sector Guard request and demands her skills, she has no choice but to say yes. Controlling technology is her talent, but she will need skill and patience to deal with her new partner, Razer...
  • Unexpected Master by Layla Stone

    Unexpected Master by Layla Stone

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He's in her mind. .. Demanding her attention, terrifying every bone in her body. He's a Master telepath with abilities she's never heard about. He's dangerous but so is the male who bought her and is planning to turn her into a cyborg pet. She's the only one who can hear the telepath. He needs her help to get free and he won’t stop until she frees him...
  • This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger

    This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A gorgeous new package for Paula Danziger’s backlist with an introduction from Ann Martin! In the year 2057 people live in malls, take classes in ESP, and get detention from robots. Fifteen-year-old Aurora loves everything about her life. She’s part of the coolest group of kids at school and has just started dating the best-looking guy in her grade...
  • Moonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer Pape

    Moonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer Pape

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    London, 1859. Engineer Winifred "Wink" Hadrian has been in love with Inspector Liam McCullough for years, but is beginning to lose hope when he swears to be a lifelong bachelor. Faced with a proposal from a Knight of the Round Table and one of her closest friends, Wink reluctantly agrees to consider him instead...
  • Dragon Summons by Viola Grace

    Dragon Summons by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Assigned as Inventory Master to the newest Sector Guard base on Teklan, Roxanne is sure only of one thing, if the seductive singing in her mind doesn’t stop, she is going to go nuts. With a little investigation, she finds the source of the nocturnal music and tells it to shut up...
  • Moonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer Pape

    Moonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer Pape

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    London, 1859. Engineer Winifred "Wink" Hadrian has been in love with Inspector Liam McCullough for years, but is beginning to lose hope when he swears to be a lifelong bachelor. Faced with a proposal from a Knight of the Round Table and one of her closest friends, Wink reluctantly agrees to consider him instead...
  • Malachi by Ashley West

    Malachi by Ashley West

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Earth is in chaos. It’s a sort of organized chaos to be sure, but when a planet is inhabited by the Alva, a hostile race of aliens from a far off world, chaos is inevitable. The Randoran from planet Dorn are a warrior race who has feuded with the Alva for centuries, and when they discover that the Alva have taken the Earth for their own, they want to help protect the humans if they can...
  • Badge by Viola Grace

    Badge by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A routine peacekeeping effort throws Lee into the path of werewolves and their Alpha who happens to be looking for a mate. Leeahan has spent her time as a badge, acting as peacekeeper, police, counsellor and confidant. Being alone on a shift is nothing new, but having twenty-six werewolves charging toward her town is something she wasn’t planning on...
  • Astonish by Viola Grace

    Astonish by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ceelie was nothing exceptional until the moment she became the most important woman to an entire world…and its avatar. Trapped in a job working as an assistant for an ambassador, Ceelie is hoping for something better for her life, but she knows that it isn’t likely. While on an assignment to obtain some atmosphere scrubbing trees Ceelie finds herself courted and seduced before she can blink...
  • Junk Mage by Elliot Cooper

    Junk Mage by Elliot Cooper

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When technomancer Quillian Defote crash lands on remote planet Marutuk, he has limited time to repair his ship and get off world. If he fails, he'll forfeit his position as professor of mechanical transmutation at the prestigious Ivy Arcanarium, and ruin his employment prospects in yet another sector...
  • Cards  Caravans by Cindy Spencer Pape

    Cards Caravans by Cindy Spencer Pape

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book five of The Gaslight Chronicles. Belinda Danvers isn't a witch. But that won't stop them burning her at the stake…. Connor McKay can tell at a glance that Belinda's magickal powers are minimal at best. She can't be guilty of murdering village children. There's something suspicious about her arrest and lightning-quick sentence...
  • To Summon A Demon by Lisa Alder

    To Summon A Demon by Lisa Alder

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    To gain revenge, she summons a Demon. .. and loses her heart. After Lili is viciously attacked by the Fae, she wants revenge. Who better to help her than the sworn enemies of the Fae, Demons. So she uses an ancient sex ritual to summon a Demon lover and offers her body in exchange for his aid. Prince Gaap, commander of the Water Elemental Demons, is curiously drawn to the mysterious Lili...
  • Ether & Elephants by Cindy Spencer Pape

    Ether & Elephants by Cindy Spencer Pape

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Gaslight Chronicles Novel. Sir Thomas Devere and Eleanor Hadrian have loved each other most of their lives—but sometimes love doesn't conquer all. Their chance at happiness was ruined by Tom's hasty marriage to someone else. Heartbroken, Nell left home, finding a new life as a teacher at a school for the blind...
  • His Clockwork Canary by Beth Ciotta

    His Clockwork Canary by Beth Ciotta

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 8 ratings
    History is repeating itself. For ambitious engineer Simon Darcy, winning Queen Victoria’s competition to recover lost inventions of historical significance is a matter of pride—and redemption. After all, it was Simon’s failed monorail project that left his family destitute, and winning the tournament would surely restore the Darcys’ reputation...
  • Heart of the Kraken by A.W. Exley

    Heart of the Kraken by A.W. Exley

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Legend says if you consume the heart of a mermaid, you will know all the secrets of men. Ailin doesn't care if the legend is true or not - she's stuck in a crate on her way to feature as the main course at a lavish banquet. Her heart to be served while still beating for a cruel noble while the rest of her is sliced into sashimi. Unless she can escape...
  • Cards & Caravans by Cindy Spencer Pape

    Cards & Caravans by Cindy Spencer Pape

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Belinda Danvers isn't a witch. But that won't stop them burning her at the stake…. Connor McKay can tell at a glance that Belinda's magickal powers are minimal at best. She can't be guilty of murdering village children. There's something suspicious about her arrest and lightning-quick sentence. Unfortunately, telling anyone how he knows would mean revealing his own powers...
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