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  • My Eternal Light by Alanea Alder

    My Eternal Light by Alanea Alder

    Rated: 4.81 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Kincaid Bayberry has been serving with the Eta unit since coming of age and only recently feels like he’s a true warrior. With Kendrick’s help, his magic seems to be cooperating for once, and he’s making a difference. But, with a mate on the way and so much at stake, he knows that even a single mistake could result in tragedy, which has skyrocketed his anxiety...
  • Blackout by Dannika Dark

    Blackout by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The fate of millions rests on Keystone when they embark on their most important assignment of all… After what was supposed to be a simple job, Raven and Christian uncover a sinister plot against the higher authority, and the stakes are as high as the body count. The assassins are merciless, with anyone who stands in their way becoming collateral damage...
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  • Freaky Games by Amanda M. Lee

    Freaky Games by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Look out Sin City, here comes the Mystic Caravan Circus. The city that never sleeps has something lurking in the darkness and Poet Parker can’t decide if it’s friend or foe. The rich history of the area comes into play when research uncovers a mine disaster more than a hundred years in the past … and a tragic outcome that still haunts the locale to this day...
  • Club Vampyre by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Club Vampyre by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Club Vampyre brings together the first three Anita Blake novels, this collection looks at the adventures of the woman vampires call The Executioner.I'm Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night. Vampires call me The Executioner. What I call them isn't repeatable. Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs...
  • Doggone Mess by R.J. Blain

    Doggone Mess by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    from the book's foreword: "While Doggone Mess’s beginning was written before Plaidypus, there are important reasons for why I didn’t renumber the series and insert Doggone Mess before Plaidypus. Doggone Mess’s events after Plaidypus require Plaidypus to truly make sense."Originally a novella in the anthology Dirty Deeds published in Jan, 2021, this edition has been expanded into a full novel...
  • Into the Dark by Gena Showalter

    Into the Dark by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Three otherworldly tales from the master of paranormal romance and a brand-new Lords of the Underworld bonus guide! The Darkest Fire a Lords of the Underworld prequel Geryon is the guardian of hell, more monster than man. Kadence is the goddess of Oppression, more angel than woman...
  • The Protector by Dannika Dark

    The Protector by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    “Love is a battlefield.”The stakes have never been higher in this riveting installment of the Black Arrowhead series.As a member of the Shifter Council, Eden Thompson faces critical decisions every day, yet nothing has proved more challenging than selecting a mate. While she’s busy evaluating potential suitors, a felon with an axe to grind trespasses on her land...
  • Dane by Zoe Chant

    Dane by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    This mysterious island hermit managed to avoid entanglements ... until she walked into his cabin.Mira froze.It wasn't fear. It was a strange mix of curiosity, compulsion, and desire.He was bare to the waist, and she hadn't been wrong about his strong, muscular body. There wasn't a scrap of fat on him anywhere, just lean muscle rippling beneath light bronze skin dusted with curls of dark hair...
  • Hidden by Fate by Shannon Mayer

    Hidden by Fate by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    A prophecy foretold of a journey across the seas that would solve all my problems. But now I'm stuck between an old flame who wants to rekindle what we had, and a jealous vampire who would take the other's head if permitted...
  • Eren by Zoe Chant

    Eren by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eren wasn't expecting the stowaway to be so small or so ... female.He let go in surprise.She immediately tried to duck around him.Eren grabbed her around the waist. She started kicking him. For someone who didn't weigh half what he did, she was extremely energetic."Let me go!" she yelled, struggling...
  • Chade by Montana Ash

    Chade by Montana Ash

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Max’s arrival into Cali’s world has sparked both hope and controversy for their society as a whole. Change is inevitable. For Cali, Max’s unexpected appearance is a blessing, as she is finally free to be herself; a knight, a woman … a lover. Her easy-going, slightly cynical façade hides a scarred woman who yearns to be accepted...
  • Perfect Match: The Dragon King by I. T. Lucas

    Perfect Match: The Dragon King by I. T. Lucas

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    To save his beloved kingdom from a devastating war, the Crown Prince of Trieste makes a deal with a witch that costs him half of his humanity and dooms him to an eternity of loneliness. Now king, he’s a fearsome cobalt-winged dragon by day and a short-tempered monarch by night...
  • Wildfire Phoenix by Zoe Chant

    Wildfire Phoenix by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    His touch makes her burn.And that's the one thing she must never do... Blaise can’t afford to lose control. She can’t let her inner monster rise. Not ever again.Even if that means denying her own feelings… and her fated mate.But that’s okay. She’s used to repressing her animal, and her desires. She can keep her distance from him, no matter what her friends think.Nothing has to change...
  • I Am Only One by Emeline Rousselot

    I Am Only One by Emeline Rousselot

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On WP After Dark App 100 Most Read List!Her body was exquisite. I wanted to run my tongue around her hardened nipples and grasp her hips while sinking inside her. I contemplated what sounds she would make when I nudged her deep, and how long it would take before she screamed my name. It wasn't a matter of if she would scream my name, only when.I shook my head, trying to clear my rampant thoughts...
  • Odds and Ends by Gwen DeMarco, Janine Granda

    Odds and Ends by Gwen DeMarco, Janine Granda

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The thrilling conclusion to the Sophie and the Odd Ones series…A cryptic message from the Great Mother sends Sophie on a mission to uncover her own dark past. This quest will lead her on a journey to the Queen Maeve’s former stronghold on Earth. Sophie soon discovers the shocking truth about her erased history and the destiny that awaits her...
  • Naya’s Most Important Visitors by Nalini Singh

    Naya’s Most Important Visitors by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 22 ratings
    Free short story in Nalini Singh's November Newsletter. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t yet read KISS OF SNOW, you might want to save this short story to read later. This is part of the series of shorts focusing on the everyday lives of the characters, away from politics and danger. Set soon after Naya’s birth, this short story features..
  • Sword of Mercy by Sydney Addae

    Sword of Mercy by Sydney Addae

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Scrambling to stay one step ahead of the Liege, Asia and Hawke discover more than they had bargained for. Hawke discovers his Alpha was also his father and that he had been given to the Liege as part of an experiment gone bad. Mercy has no place in his heart for the treachery he discovers...
  • Tor by Zoe Chant

    Tor by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Bernie," Tor said, reaching for her.She leaned into his grasp and allowed herself to be drawn inside, as if some part of her had crumpled inwardly at the sympathetic touch. And Tor already had her inside before he remembered what she was going to see...
  • Pleasing Platinum by Xavier Neal

    Pleasing Platinum by Xavier Neal

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You hate Mondays? Try finding out that the mother you thought was dead is actually alive, being attacked by elves - who are definitely not Santa's friendly little helpers - and discovering that you're not nearly as human as you believed you were. Yeah. All before five o'clock...
  • Grace by Cebelius

    Grace by Cebelius

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Would YOU love a monster girl?Grace Daytau is a gargoyle with a fresh lease on life. After turning state's evidence gets her witness protection at a university campus, she's determined to play it straight. There's just one problem: she hasn't been to school in almost twenty years! If she can't make the grade Daytau will revoke her witpro scholarship, leaving her at the mercy of the syndicates...
  • Heart of Fire by Lisa Edmonds

    Heart of Fire by Lisa Edmonds

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Join Alice. Private Investigator of the Supernatural. It has been a rough month for mage private investigator Alice Worth. Alice hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep in weeks, her relationship with werewolf Sean Maclin is on the rocks, a federal agent hounds her every step, and a powerful vampire whose ulterior motives have ulterior motives watches her every move...
  • Second Chances by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Second Chances by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Set in the Dark-Hunter universe. Originally included in the Dark-Hunter Collectible Booklet and Dark Hunter Companion.This is the short story that was given away with Unleash the Night about Acheron and his brother Styxx.It can be found in Acheron and Dark Bites...
  • The Stone Curse by Debbie Cassidy

    The Stone Curse by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Gargoyles are meant to be unbreakable, but even stone shatters if you apply the right amount of pressure.The devastating attack on the cadets has the academy in lockdown. With betrayal coming from within our ranks, my circle of trust grows smaller.Everything is about to change...
  • Summoned by C.P. Rider

    Summoned by C.P. Rider

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A telepath with a lethal twist. My name is Neely and I live among shapeshifters in the desert truckstop town of Sundance, California. As a telepath-spiker, I can read a person's thoughts. I can also spike deadly power straight into their brain. I'm in an uneasy relation-friend-ship with Lucas Blacke, an enigmatic tiger alpha that I'm drawn to, but don't fully trust...
  • The Catalyst of Corruption by Becca Andre

    The Catalyst of Corruption by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Addie Daulton wants nothing to do with her dark past as an Alchemica alchemist. Content with her new life surrounded by the people she cares about, she has chosen to live with amnesia rather than face the person she was. She focuses on alchemy’s healing properties, helping others and hoping to find a way to save Rowan before his magic consumes him. But Addie isn’t the only one with a dark history...
  • Darkfire Kiss by Deborah Cooke

    Darkfire Kiss by Deborah Cooke

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    For one woman, he will risk more than his life... Rafferty Powell has exchanged challenge coins with his arch-nemesis Magnus Montmorency, and their next battle will be their last. But Rafferty never expected to meet a woman whose desire for Magnus’ downfall matches his own—and whose presence sparks Rafferty’s long-awaited firestorm...
  • A Dragon's Family Album by Thea Harrison

    A Dragon's Family Album by Thea Harrison

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This collection contains Dragos Takes a Holiday, Pia Saves the Day, and Peanut Goes to School (two novellas and a short story in the Elder Races series, previously published separately). All three stories focus on the Cuelebres, the First Family of the Wyr. Dragos Takes a Holiday: When the Cuelebre family heads to Bermuda for some much needed R&R, it’s no ordinary weekend in the sun...
  • When A Lioness Pounces by Eve Langlais

    When A Lioness Pounces by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    There’s a new guy in town, a mysterious and domineering man with secrets. Reba likes secrets. She especially loves swatting at them until they spill their guts—sometimes quite literally. But Gaston isn’t swayed by her sensual allure.
 LIE. 
 This slick club owner is very much intrigued by the cocoa-skinned beauty, but he doesn’t dare show too much interest lest his enemies notice...
  • Earp & Chandra by C.P. Rider

    Earp & Chandra by C.P. Rider

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Family can be found in the most unexpected places.Gila monster shifter Jedidiah Earp is over seventy, prefers to bite first and ask questions later, and he knows the desert scrub outside Sundance, California like the back of his claws.Alpha hyena shifter Chandra Smith is in her late twenties, protective to a fault, and she knows how to hunt down enemies and make them disappear...
  • Silverback Bear by Harmony Raines

    Silverback Bear by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bear shifter, Dean, has almost given up on finding a mate. Instead, he’s carved out a fulfilling role as a foster parent to older kids. Then she walks into his life, the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen. His mate. His life will never be the same again. A birthmark on her face has haunted Elizabeth her whole life. She has always struggled to meet new people and visit new places...
  • Water Witch: A Dustin Walker Anthology and Other Tales by R.J. Blain

    Water Witch: A Dustin Walker Anthology and Other Tales by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Dustin Walker’s witchcraft awakens, he discovers he harbors a leviathan, one that could destroy him—and his family—should he fail to learn how to control his powers. Dustin Walker first appeared in the Witch & Wolf standalone novel, Beneath a Blood Moon, and is featured in the majority of stories in this anthology...
  • Lawe's Justice by Lora Leigh, Brianna Bronte

    Lawe's Justice by Lora Leigh, Brianna Bronte

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Diane Broen's lived to protect her younger sister Rachel from harm. But now that Rachel has been mated off, Diane's occupied herself with less fulfilling tasks at the Genetics Council--until she's paired with a new team member, a Breed male notorious for his attitude, and a touch that makes her recoil.Lawe isn't thrilled with her either. A lion at heart, he prefers a lair of solitude...
  • Sebastian/Aristide by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright

    Sebastian/Aristide by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Coming November 2013 Sebastian A DIPLOMAT WITH THE HEART OF A SAVAGE Sebastian Duval has devoted his life to ensuring the survival of his people. He’ll do whatever is necessary to protect the Wildlands, even if it means working with the human FBI to prove the Pantera aren’t responsible for the sudden rash of puma attacks...
  • The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 04 by Miyuki Tonogaya

    The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 04 by Miyuki Tonogaya

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sparks fly between the handsome descendant of a snow spirit and the oblivious coworker he has a crush on! A romantic comedy in an office setting that takes coworkers to lovers to new heights within a winter wonderland of emotions!Modern-day snow spirit Himuro and his cool and self-assured colleague Fuyutsuki decide to cosplay together for the office's Halloween party...
  • Unicorn Vet by Zoe Chant

    Unicorn Vet by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Who do you call when you find a tiny baby dragon? Shifter Vets!Angel is a small-town veterinarian with a horny secret. Everly is a stressed-out manager on vacation who just found a darling baby dragon. He knows they were made for each other. But a few things stand between them and true love, namely...1. A truckload of mystery fish.2. His suspicious werewolf colleague.3...
  • Blaze by Donna Grant

    Blaze by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Anson is a fierce Dragon King, a dragon shapeshifter born and bred to protect his own. But when a rogue tech company hacks into their world, he must join forces with the unlikeliest of allies: a human female. Her name is Devon Abrams. A rising star at the firm, she has no idea that her boss is in league with the sinister Fae and their secret war against humanity...
  • Awakened by Fire by Erin Kellison

    Awakened by Fire by Erin Kellison

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Get lost in a world of danger, secrets, and desire in the newest installment of bestselling author Erin Kellison’s action-packed Dragons of Bloodfire series. Billionaire dragon shifter and Bloodkin Triad member Warrick Voclain is no stranger to power...
  • Burning Up by Angela Knight, Nalini Singh

    Burning Up by Angela Knight, Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    Passion runs as hot as a fever dream in these all-new stories by four New York Times bestselling provocateurs of the paranormal... In Angela Knights's Blood and Roses , a vampire warrior and his seductive captor join forces to stop a traitor from unleashing an army of demonic predators on their kingdom...
  • Desert Wolf by Heather Long

    Desert Wolf by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cassius, Alpha of Sutter Butte, leads the most ruthless and dangerous pack in the United States. A pack comprised of misfits who didn’t fit in their previous packs, cast offs discarded by their packs and forgotten wolves who rose to create a pack more than a century before it utter defiance of the order of the day...
  • Defying Eternity by Viola Grace

    Defying Eternity by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An Obscure Magic series, book 5.Trading her services to a vampire king is a price Leo pays gladly, but her human life is not on the table. Leonora has managed to save her pregnant sister from a vampire attack, but to insure the safety of her sister and niece, Leo is willing to pay with everything but her life...
  • Shape Shifting 201 by Viola Grace

    Shape Shifting 201 by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A would-be magus with studying on her mind must deal with a possible suitor and her feisty hellkitten.Imara made it through her first term without too many issues, but now that she is in the second term, a magic-draining fiend is stalking the students and her familiar is bored with guiding her through the early stages of magic...
  • Sky Breaking 301 by Viola Grace

    Sky Breaking 301 by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Her magic is coming along, her kitten is still deadly, and she is about to make an actual friend. Controlling weather is simple by comparison. Sky Breaking seemed like a useful course, but its usefulness lay in the amount of credits that would count toward Imara’s degree.Once she is in the course she meets the only other student and they strike an unlikely friendship...
  • The House Lost at Sea by R.J. Blain

    The House Lost at Sea by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cursed by the lover of her former captain, Catalina de la Corona, the Pirate Princess of the Seven Seas, has lived an unnaturally long life and longs for the day she can find eternal peace. Hiding in plain sight as an investment banker, she waits for the end of eternity and the death she has rightfully earned...
  • Dragon's Luck by Lauren Esker

    Dragon's Luck by Lauren Esker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jen Cho is a gecko shifter and infiltration expert for the Shifter Crimes Bureau. But this time she's in over her head—out of touch with her handler and head over heels for a sexy gambler who mistakenly thinks she's as much of a bad girl as he's a bad boy. Ambrose "Lucky" Lucado has been playing in high-stakes games of chance since he was big enough to see over the table...
  • Dragos Meets Stinkpot by Thea Harrison

    Dragos Meets Stinkpot by Thea Harrison

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Short-Story from May 2016 newsletter...
  • The Shadow of Mist by Yasmine Galenorn

    The Shadow of Mist by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    AVAILBLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME It’s been more than a century since Siobhan Morgan fled Ireland to start a new life in America. As a selkie, she kept much of her life a secret, even from her good friends the D’Artigo sisters. But now a dark presence from her past has found its way across the ocean, in the form of a man obsessed with possessing her...
  • Lion Eyes by Jennifer Ashley

    Lion Eyes by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Bree has just decided to give up trying to be a Shifter groupie when a lion Shifter slams into her truck and tells her to drive. Seamus is on the run from hunters, other Shifters, and who knows who else. All Bree knows is that he’s compelling, needs her help, and most intriguing of all, wears no Collar … Seamus McGuire fears he’s gone crazy—feral—and become a killer...
  • Soul Casting 101 by Viola Grace

    Soul Casting 101 by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Imara needs a familiar, but what she ends up with is the toughest kitten in the magical world. Imara has lived a life separate from her family. She wasn’t shunned, just never acknowledged. The seventh child of a seventh child, she had had the bad taste to be born a girl. Her father’s family had no use for a girl, so she was sent to a city where the populace didn’t use magic...
  • Rowan by Nalini Singh

    Rowan by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A short story featuring Sahara, Kaleb, Zach, Annie & Rowan. Timeline: Takes place some time after Allegiance of Honor.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...
  • Darkest Wolf by Rebecca Royce

    Darkest Wolf by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Rex Kane has always known he was different than his brothers, down to the fact that when he shifts into his wolf form, his coat is completely black. Always in trouble, he is given one more chance by his brother Tristan, the alpha of the Westervelt pack, to bring back to their island a witch who can stop some of the magical assault that has plagued their war-torn home...
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