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  • Midlife Vampire Hunter by Shannon Mayer

    Midlife Vampire Hunter by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 28 ratings
    The final installment in the Forty Proof Series is HERE. The story is broken into two POV's, Crash and Bree, as they fight their way to one another. Crash: I had her in my arms, only to lose her moments later. Frantic doesn't even begin to describe my state of mind as I search for Bree. That search takes me deep into my past and to a family home that I swore I would never return to...
  • Warlock: Book 1 by Daniel Kensington

    Warlock: Book 1 by Daniel Kensington

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    On my eighteenth birthday, I got kicked out of my home, mugged in an alley, and killed a guy with my mind ... then things got weird.I expected aging out of the foster care system to be hard...
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  • Archangel's Lineage by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Lineage by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 42 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s dangerous and beautiful world of archangels, vampires, and mortals has never faced a threat this cataclysmic…Raphael and Elena are experiencing their first ever year of true peace. No war. No horrors of archangelic power. No nightmares given flesh...
  • One Night at the Refuge by Nalini Singh

    One Night at the Refuge by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A little glimpse into the past, when two of our favorite dangerous angels were just beginning to grow into their wings.Guild Hunter Short story featured in the April Newsletter...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Corners by Maggie M. Lily

    The Corners by Maggie M. Lily

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Available for pre-order now!The Trellis family's plunge into the world of psychic energy and love-ever-after continues in The Corners, book four of six in the Building the Circle Series.Luke has known Talise as long as he's known of circles and energy. After years trapped in her mind, she's free to live her life on her terms. And, she's decided those terms include Luke...
  • 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...
  • Cliff's Descent by Dianne Duvall

    Cliff's Descent by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    For the first time, New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall brings readers a novel--set in the "fast-paced" (Publishers Weekly) and "totally addictive" (RT Book Reviews) world of the Immortal Guardians--that revolves around a vampire... one who has become a friend and trusted ally of the powerful warriors.Every mortal who works at network headquarters knows that vampires reside below them...
  • House In Hiding by Jenny Schwartz

    House In Hiding by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Reality’s newest sorcerer doesn’t want trouble, but it finds her anyway.Just when Kira thinks she is getting a handle on what it means to be a sorcerer, the Emperor calls and drops a bundle of trouble in her lap. And he’s not the only one. For a woman intent on protecting her privacy, a whole lot of people seem to know how to contact Kira to draw her into their problems...
  • Elena's School of Horror by Nalini Singh

    Elena's School of Horror by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Short story from authors July Newsletter. Part of the Guild Hunter Series...
  • Valley of the Shadow by Elizabeth Hunter

    Valley of the Shadow by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    “I’m sure of you. Everything else, we’ll figure out along the way.” For eight years, Baojia and Natalie have pursued their goals: family, career, friendship and love—trying to carve out an ordinary life in an immortal world. And for eight years they’ve been mostly successful save for a world-bending adventure every now and then. Except that their life was never ordinary...
  • On a Clear Winter Night by Elizabeth Hunter

    On a Clear Winter Night by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Holiday price of only $0.99! Sale lasts through January 1st. A very special holiday short story for readers of the Irin Chronicles Join Ava, Malachi, and their friends for Midwinter holidays in Prague. The Irin might not celebrate Christmas, but that doesn’t mean Ava has to give up on the holidays...
  • 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..
  • Queen of Death by Chandelle LaVaun

    Queen of Death by Chandelle LaVaun

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m not who I thought I was.Something has awoken inside of me. Something ancient and powerful. It sings in my veins a song of glory and pain. I see memories of a life long ago, that couldn’t possibly be mine and yet they feel like coming home. Just when I think I’m losing my mind I find the prophecy of the reborn that speaks terrifying words I know in my heart are true.I have been reborn...
  • City of Blood by Jocelynn Drake

    City of Blood by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Final ConfrontationCaelan is done being a pawn of the gods.He’s been herded and molded by the liars and manipulators.He’s put the lives of his family in danger again and again.And he is done.It’s time to face the mad Goddess of the Hunt in the last place any of them want to go—the Ordas.If they’re lucky, the special assistance he’s called in will arrive in time...
  • The Beast in Him / The Mane Event / Big Bad Beast / Bear Meets Girl by Shelly Laurenston

    The Beast in Him / The Mane Event / Big Bad Beast / Bear Meets Girl by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In The Mane Event, Shelly Laurenston introduced a whole new breed of heroes--sexy, shape-shifting hunks who redefine the term Alpha male. Now, in The Beast in Him, one gorgeous lone wolf is about to meet his match... Some things are so worth waiting for. Like the moment when Jessica Ward "accidentally" bumps into Bobby Ray Smith and shows him just how far she's come since high school...
  • 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...
  • A Taste of Midnight by Lara Adrian

    A Taste of Midnight by Lara Adrian

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    For fans who have been been waiting to devour Darker After Midnight, as well as new readers tempted by the seductive thrills of her Midnight Breed novels, New York Times bestselling author Lara Adrian offers up a tantalizing appetizer in A Taste of Midnight...
  • Knives and Sheaths by Nalini Singh

    Knives and Sheaths by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Free short story in Nalini Singh's Newsletter. What she writes about this story: "The original version of this short story was meant to be a scene in ARCHANGEL’S STORM, but I deleted it in an earlier draft and the information shared here about Lijuan eventually became part of chapter 8 in the book...
  • Broken Dawn by Dianne Duvall

    Broken Dawn by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    Delve into an exciting new stand-alone novel in New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall's "fast-paced and humorous" (Publishers Weekly), "utterly addictive" (RT Book Reviews) Immortal Guardians series.Nick Belanger can't stop thinking about the single mother who lives next door. She's smart. She's funny...
  • A Walk on the Cliffs by Nalini Singh

    A Walk on the Cliffs by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Short story in the July Newsletter:Authors Note:This vignette stands alone, so you can read even if you’ve never read the Guild Hunter series.For series readers, A Walk on the Cliffs fits into chapter 6 of Archangel’s Shadows...
  • Griffins and Apple Pies by Zoe Chant

    Griffins and Apple Pies by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Controlling his griffin just got a whole lot harder…Landscape gardener Kieran’s unruly shifter side is getting out of hand. Mowing lawns? Griffin time. Grocery shopping? Griffin in the cart. This is definitely not a good time to finally meet his fated mate… especially when she’s only in town for a mandatory vacation.Workaholic Natasha never intended to return to her small hometown...
  • Mint Freeze by Laurel Chase

    Mint Freeze by Laurel Chase

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Talk about rags to riches. Cinderella had nothing on me. I have a sparkly new crown, a remodeled ancient castle, and I’m mated to six of the most delectable princes a girl could conjure. But my happily-ever-after honeymoon still seems a long way off. There are plenty of magical creatures in Haret and Earth who would kill to see me dethroned - literally - and we can’t let our guard down yet...
  • The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3 by Auryn Hadley

    The Demons' Muse: Books 1-3 by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Demons' Muse: Volumes 1-3 is the first of two box sets in this series. The Kiss of Death - Book 1 : I always imagined Death's final kiss would be cold. It wasn't. Four years later, I can still remember the exact shade of his skin: a blue so pale it looked like moonlight. I dream of his touch...
  • Weapons Training by Nalini Singh

    Weapons Training by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 25 ratings
    Free short story in Nalini Singh's Newsletter. A short story about Jessamy and Galen. For those of you unfamiliar with the Guild Hunter series, this story features Galen, Weaponsmaster to the Archangel Raphael, and Jessamy, Historian of the angelic race and teacher of their young...
  • Wild Night by Nalini Singh

    Wild Night by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A short story about when Hawke visits the nightclub Wild after being notified about a brewing fight involving SnowDancer juveniles. Timeline: Takes place during Chapter 9 of Kiss of Snow.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...
  • Making Dinner by Nalini Singh

    Making Dinner by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    A short story featuring Riley & Mercy from Nalini Singh's July 2013...
  • Hero Bear: Paranormal Romance by Harmony Raines

    Hero Bear: Paranormal Romance by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bear shifter Knox has never had it easy. Whatever he touches, whatever he loves, ends up dead. Or so he thinks when he moves to Bear Creek to stay with his old army buddy, Jamie. But fate is not ready to give up on this hero bear and when he meets Hannah, his true mate, he starts to believe in happy endings. Hannah is a social worker, with a problem...
  • Highway to Hell by Cerise Cole

    Highway to Hell by Cerise Cole

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    The journey concludes...Highway to Hell is a complete paranormal romance novel with a slow burn romance where the heroine doesn't have to choose between her love interests. Book 4 of 4 - Release scheduled - Dec 3, 2021 This is a joint writing project between Auryn Hadley and Kitty Cox, we've teamed up under a combined pseudonym, Cerise Cole...
  • This Changes Everything by Denise Grover Swank

    This Changes Everything by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ellie Dare Lancaster is only eight years old, but the secret she carries stretches back four hundred years, to the doomed pioneer colony of Roanoke Island—and the dark pact made by her ancestor, Ananias Dare...
  • An Unexpected Guest by Nalini Singh

    An Unexpected Guest by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Short story that features in the December 2016 newsletter complementing the Guild Hunter series...
  • 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...
  • A Heart To Revitalize Me by Michele Notaro

    A Heart To Revitalize Me by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Lately my straight best friend has been very… handsy, which is killing me because I’ve been in love with the idiot for years.I love my best friend, I always have, but I never wanted him to realize just how much. He’s never seemed to notice before, but since he broke up with his girlfriend, he’s been really clingy. Like way more than I’ve ever seen.I love it. And it’s killing me...
  • Drake of Tanith by Heather Killough-Walden

    Drake of Tanith by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eons ago, the darkly handsome and infamous bounty hunter Drake of Tanith turned his back on his diabolical heritage in favor of freedom from the infernal influences of his kind. But now his indomitable father has delivered the worst kind of ultimatum: He must give up his soul and return to the life he left behind – or he must give up his love...
  • Surge of Heat by Lacey Carter Andersen

    Surge of Heat by Lacey Carter Andersen

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    Dragons exist. I’m one of them. And I’m not alone.From the moment he shifted into a dragon, everything changed. Now, I’m torn between two men. One that my dragon has claimed. One that my heart has claimed.I’ve tried to fight my animalistic needs, but it’s impossible. So, I stop fighting.Except that it’s not that easy, a terrifying dragon wants me for his own...
  • Choices by Liz Schulte

    Choices by Liz Schulte

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Hearts break. Loved ones are lost. Life keeps moving. Olivia Martin’s afterlife was more dangerous and confusing than her life ever was. She thought she was ready to come back, to forget about Holden and to let go of the rage consuming her. Fulfilling her destiny as a guardian was all that mattered—the past could stay hidden in the crevices of her mind...
  • Hide and Seek by Nalini Singh

    Hide and Seek by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    This short story was in Nalini Singh's newsletter dated June 3, 2014.This story takes place a few weeks after the end ofHeart of Obsidian...
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    m-f  urban fantasy  fantasy  paranormal  open-door
  • Betsy the Vampire Queen by MaryJanice Davidson

    Betsy the Vampire Queen by MaryJanice Davidson

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's been a helluva year. First I lose my job. Then, I'm in a car accident. Next, I'm waking up dressed in clothes I wouldn't be caught dead in (pink polyester and cheap shoes courtesy of my evil stepmother). But guess what? I am dead and what really bites is that I can't seem to stay dead. Every night, I wake up with a horrible craving. Not chocolate—mom would approve of that...
  • Chosen Mate by Lola Glass

    Chosen Mate by Lola Glass

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND REJECTION My fated mate rejected me years ago, but now he wants me back. The problem? My best friend, who has less-than-no interest in me. Dante, my rejected mate, sees this as the perfect opportunity to sweep in and bite me, taking back his rejection as if that's going to make me forget about the years he left me without a home, mate, or pack...
  • Marked by Gwen Knight, Michelle Fox

    Marked by Gwen Knight, Michelle Fox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to the Shadow World…where vampires are real and blood is a financial asset. This is the world I live in. Being the baby sister in a family chock-full of slayers isn’t easy. My entire life, I’ve watched my brothers venture out into the darkness to hunt the things that prey on the innocent. Vampires are evil, they tell me, but they refuse to let me fight...
  • Final Days by C.L. Quinn

    Final Days by C.L. Quinn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Love at first sight doesn't exist...right? So how could Alisa explain the instant intense attraction to a man she collided with on a lovely night in Paris at a streetside café? She was dying, a diagnosis that left her with perhaps three years left in her life...maybe that was why...
  • Visiting the Variks by Jocelynn Drake

    Visiting the Variks by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 9 ratings
    It’s time to visit the Varik Clan.While everyone has found their happily ever after, the four brothers and their loving father are still finding mischief and tender moments.This collection of EIGHT stories touches on each of the Variks and includes a never-before-release novella, Gideon’s Ghost Story.Fall in love with Aiden, Marcus, Rafe, Bel, and Winter all over again...
  • Ember by Liz Schulte

    Ember by Liz Schulte

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Holden told Olivia it was only a matter of time before Hell came for them. After all, one doesn’t just walk away from the life he lived unscathed, but the longer Hell waited, the more Olivia let down her guard. She believed maybe happily ever after was possible—he knew it wasn’t. But when Baker shows up beaten and bloody on their doorstep with a message, all hope evaporates...
  • Sin by Faith Gibson

    Sin by Faith Gibson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sinclair Stone is the leader of the Stone Society's West Coast Clan. He is the King’s brother and also his right hand. Over the centuries, Sin has shared his bed with males and females alike. He has loved human women, even taking a few as wives, thinking he would never find a mate. Watching his brothers find their mates is bittersweet until Sin is knocked to his knees. Literally...
  • Pinked by J. C. Mells

    Pinked by J. C. Mells

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Negotiating the relentless pull of the mate bond is tough. Especially when one is still traumatized by memories of childhood sexual abuse and the other point blank refuses to acknowledge (out loud at least) that there is a mate bond at all...
  • Courage of the Witch by Deanna Chase

    Courage of the Witch by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Keating Hollow, the magical village full of love, family, and spirit. After Hanna Pelsh lost her sister over a decade ago, she vowed to live her life to the fullest. And she does just that. When she’s not running the family coffee shop and volunteering her body to research for the mysterious disease that took her sister, Hanna dives head first into every adventure she can find...
  • When A Gargoyle Investigates by E.A. Price

    When A Gargoyle Investigates by E.A. Price

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Awakened after years of enforced slumber, betrayed by one of their own kind, it is difficult for the gargoyles to know who to trust… Melissa Sanchez believes in the supernatural with all her heart. An obsession as a child led to her becoming one of the few agents devoted to investigating the W cases – the weird cases...
  • Ice Shards by Yasmine Galenorn

    Ice Shards by Yasmine Galenorn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn comes "Ice Shards," a passionate story of redemption long overdue, and "Shattered," an all-new, never before published short story. Finnish house sprite Iris Kuusi has fallen in love again. But she is carrying a dark secret...
  • Serial Killer Princess by R.J. Blain

    Serial Killer Princess by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Why would anyone put a mermaid and a gorgon in the same room together? While Tulip enjoys being alive, her lineage brings her nothing but trouble. Snakes eat fish, and the mer love tearing apart their serpentine nemeses with their hands and teeth. As for the gorgons… she’d rather not think about them at all. The last thing Tulip wants is to rule the mer kingdom. First, she can barely swim...
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