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  • The Holy Road by Ginn Hale

    The Holy Road by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 21 ratings
    Once, John Toffler's concerns were limited to wringing rent out of his mysterious roommate, Kyle, and measuring the growth rate of moss for his graduate studies. Then one morning he opened a letter intended for Kyle and his ordinary, modern life vanished...
  • Enemies & Shadows by Ginn Hale

    Enemies & Shadows by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 20 ratings
    Book seven. When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
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  • His Holy Bones by Ginn Hale

    His Holy Bones by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 19 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • The Silent City by Ginn Hale

    The Silent City by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • The Iron Temple by Ginn Hale

    The Iron Temple by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 17 ratings
    When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world...
  • Broken Fortress by Ginn Hale

    Broken Fortress by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 21 ratings
    The Rifter: Volume SixWhen he was ordained as the Kahlil of the Payshmura Church,Ushiri Ravishan left behind his name and home. In the foreignworld of Nayeshi, he watched over the destroyer incarnation ofthe god Parfir, though the young man—John Toffler—had no ideaof his own deadly potential.Only once in ten years does Kahlil desert his duty...
  • Black Blades by Ginn Hale

    Black Blades by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 24 ratings
    Volume Three. Once Kahlil had been entrusted with a holy duty: to watchover the Rifter and protect him in the world of Nayeshi until theIssusha’im Oracles decided whether to summon the destroyergod or kill him while he remained a mortal in Nayeshi. ButKahlil failed his duty, slipping away to rescue his sister froma fire and in that moment allowing the Rifter to cross into theworld of Basawar...
  • Taming of a Wolf by C.J. Ravenna

    Taming of a Wolf by C.J. Ravenna

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    JamieCould a grumpy Viking werewolf be the missing piece my broken family needs?Between being a single parent to my little brother and running my late grandma's bookshop, I've got no time for anyone else. I need a guy who will prioritize my brother like I do. If I can't find someone like that, I'd rather be alone forever...
  • 和宿敌结婚当天一起重生了 Reborn with an Old Enemy on the Day of our Marriage by 林知落

    和宿敌结婚当天一起重生了 Reborn with an Old Enemy on the Day of our Marriage by 林知落

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lin Qian and Zheng PingQing, two people who have wanted to kill each other for many years, fell in love. After a lot of ups and downs, they finally married.But they didn’t expect to get reborn together on the day of their wedding.Back to the year when their feud was at its most intense.The friends around them also saw each other as enemies...
  • For the Love of a Ghost: A Love Across Time Story by Jackie North

    For the Love of a Ghost: A Love Across Time Story by Jackie North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings
    Soulmates across time. A love that conquers even time itself.In present day, all Finn wants is to leave behind the family farm and become a ghost hunter.In 1912, Artie works hard to save enough money to escape the rumors about the kind of man he is, a man who loves other men. He has vowed never to open his heart to another.Finn has taken up residence in a haunted hotel...
  • Never Quite Gone by Greyson Vale

    Never Quite Gone by Greyson Vale

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings
    Two years after losing his husband in a tragic accident, Dr. Eli Monroe has mastered the art of existing without living. His surgical hands never shake, his heart never wavers, and his carefully constructed walls never crack. Until the day Alexander Rothschild walks into his hospital and claims they've loved each other across lifetimes...
  • Last Dance with Mary Jane by John Goode

    Last Dance with Mary Jane by John Goode

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings
    Peter was not prepared when his love Shayne died in a car crash. His days have become therapy and drinking himself to sleep. His only solace is listening to Shayne's voice mail to hear his voice one last time. He is starting to think that fate is against him.He has no idea how right and wrong he is.CONTENT ADVISORY:This title is a love story that does not contain a HEA...
  • Stealing Some Time: Volume 2 by Mark Kendrick

    Stealing Some Time: Volume 2 by Mark Kendrick

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings
    Kallen Deshara has discovered his world’s origin, nature, and destiny; and has fallen madly in love with Aaric Utzman. His decision to stay with Aaric, knowing full well that his presence might change all of history, brings him to the very edge of reality. But his colleagues who have returned to the 25th century have other plans...
  • Borrowed Time by Russell Dean

    Borrowed Time by Russell Dean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings
    Tom Jacob is bored with his life.He’s stuck in a job he doesn’t like, his love life is non-existent, and he’s tired of being seen as boring and dependable, so when his wayward twin brother convinces him to spend a night partying instead of doing paperwork, Tom reluctantly agrees.The following morning he wakes up in a field.In Wales.In 1889...
  • 学神同桌总在钓我[重生] by 见归舟

    学神同桌总在钓我[重生] by 见归舟

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    1 陆氏集团大多数人都觉得,总裁陆潇是个妻管严。 陆总成天伏小做低,每逢夫人叶橙来公司查账,那架势比迎接他爹还要恭敬。 而叶橙在记者采访中,却屡次吐槽自己的恋人。 “希望他戒酒。” “还有少抽烟,睡觉别打呼。” “如果能回到他年轻的时候,我一定会帮他改正这些恶习。”叶橙对着镜头彬彬有礼道。 2 采访结束后,一场意外让叶橙重生回到了高中时代。 他上辈子连高考都没参加,高三直接保送A大,后来被陆老爷子一眼相中。 重活一次,叶橙果断从一中转学,来到了风气极差的十三中——陆潇就读的学校。 此时的陆潇脾气暴躁、性格叛逆,成天和一帮混混喝酒闹事。 3 考试前,昏暗的包间里,一群人吞云吐雾。 叶橙表情冷漠地推门而入,端起酒泼在了陆潇脸上。 众人一片哗然,场面混乱。 陆潇骂了句“操,你他妈找死?”,站起身抓住叶橙的衣领,将他扯到自己面前。...
  • Winter Oranges by Marie Sexton

    Winter Oranges by Marie Sexton

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    Jason Walker is a child star turned teen heartthrob turned reluctant B-movie regular who’s sick of his failing career. So he gives up Hollywood for northern Idaho, far away from the press, the drama of L.A., and the best friend he’s secretly been in love with for years.There’s only one problem with his new life: a strange young man only he can see is haunting his guesthouse...
  • Time for Destiny by Michelle Rae

    Time for Destiny by Michelle Rae

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings
    When Daniel Wilson, oldest of five children in a troubled family, joined the military, he expected to see combat in Iraq. But it comes as quite a shock when a Rupee minted a century and a half ago transports him to that dangerous time in war-torn colonial India. After he meets and falls in love with Vir during his visit to 1857, he faces the greatest challenge of his life...
  • Rook's Time by Kim Fielding

    Rook's Time by Kim Fielding

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings
    Simeon Bell just hasn’t been himself.Although he has spent a happy year as a roustabout with the Carnival of Mysteries—accompanied by his beloved, Crow Rapp—lately something has felt off. Maybe he hasn’t been himself because he doesn’t fully know who he is. Abandoned in a foundling home as an infant, he has never known anything about his family and has never met another of his kind...
  • The Depths of Time by Lori Fayre

    The Depths of Time by Lori Fayre

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings
    An obsession with the past becomes his love story.Obsessed with RMS Titanic from a young age, Lucas Thompson has spent his life studying the shipwreck and turning his passion into a career in marine archeology. But, on the one-hundred-year anniversary of the voyage, he’s drawn to the ship’s resting place by a strange sonar ripple that hurtles him back in time...
  • Stealing Some Time: Volume 1 by Mark Kendrick

    Stealing Some Time: Volume 1 by Mark Kendrick

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings
    It is 2479 AD. Technical Sergeant Kallen Deshara and his team have traveled from the 25th century to the 19th. Their mission: to eliminate powerful ion storms caused by the very device that opened the portal to the past. If they don’t succeed, their present may cease to exist! Once done, they’ll return home and the future will be as it should be...
  • One Constant by Dawn Kimberly Johnson

    One Constant by Dawn Kimberly Johnson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    Two weeks from his thirtieth birthday in the year 2020, Temporal Agent Charleston Meeks Jr. is assigned to work for his father on a special project. The government's Restore Point Program sends small teams back in time to save the life of one person, just once, but Charleston's father wants to explore what would happen if the RPP intervened in the life of one person repeatedly...
  • Blue River by Theo Fenraven

    Blue River by Theo Fenraven

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    2nd Edition Photography genius Ethan Mars is out and living the fast life in Los Angeles until a mysterious mist in Topanga Canyon sends him back in time. There he meets Quinn Parker, a farmer who has hidden his homosexuality from everyone, even Margaret, his fiancée. Falling in love is the last thing Ethan expects, and the last thing Quinn can allow—in 1863, being gay can get him killed...
  • Saturn in Retrograde (Time Is Eternity) by Jamie Fessenden

    Saturn in Retrograde (Time Is Eternity) by Jamie Fessenden

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings
    Joshua Bannon has harbored a secret crush on renowned physicist Patrick Riley ever since high school. Now fresh out of college, Joshua has landed a job at the Eloi Institute, assisting Patrick in his work producing time fluctuations in the massive particle accelerator they've affectionately dubbed "Saturn...
  • The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards

    The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 60 ratings
    The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck...
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  • Devils' Day Party by C.M. Stunich

    Devils' Day Party by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 104 ratings
    I crashed my shitty yellow VW Beetle into Calix’s Aston Martin. To be fair, he deserved it. But Calix and his friends, Barron and Raz, they don’t see it that way. Not that it matters. They’ve bullied me for years, and I’ve never known why. At least today, they have something real to be pissed about. All of which would be fine, if today was a normal day. But it’s not. It’s far from normal...
  • Witches' Blood by Ginn Hale

    Witches' Blood by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 22 ratings
    Volume Four. After using a key intended for his roommate, John Tofflerand his two closest friends—Laurie and Bill—are thrown into theharsh world of Basawar. John and his friends survive the winterwilderness with the aid of a rebellious young priest, Ravishan, andeventually join Basawar society in the city of Amura’taye...
  • 薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 18 ratings
    Hyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
  • Bro and the Beast 2 by L.C. Davis, Joel Abernathy

    Bro and the Beast 2 by L.C. Davis, Joel Abernathy

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 108 ratings
    This is what Brad gets for finally "sinking his teeth into a book," like his nerdy brother is always hounding him to. He definitely wasn't expecting the book to sink its teeth into him.With the newfound knowledge that he can get pregnant as an omega, Brad's urgency to get back to his world of touchdowns and keg stands is intensifying by the minute...
  • Bro and the Beast 1 by L.C. Davis, Joel Abernathy

    Bro and the Beast 1 by L.C. Davis, Joel Abernathy

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 154 ratings
    When musclebound frat bro Brad gets run off the road by a reckless driver, he thinks it's game over. When he wakes up inside his twin brother's favorite corny shifter romance novel, he realizes the real game is just beginning...
  • Fluke and the Frontier Farce by Sam Burns

    Fluke and the Frontier Farce by Sam Burns

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    It’s been a long year for Sage and his friends, and all of Junction, California, and it’s not over yet.Freddie's school of magic is still a mystery, and figuring it out would be enough work, but the investigation leads them to the mysterious coded notes of Junction’s long-dead first magical artist, and then to the last place any of them ever expected to end up: the nineteenth century...
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