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Venery by C.M. Stunich
I’ve been abducted by an alien in a cowboy hat.He needs me to play the role of fake fiancée to appease his family of tentacle-tailed cops.I’ll keep up the charade as long as I need if it means being reunited with Abraxas and Rurik.Shouldn’t be too hard, right? To play pretend …My life force is now inextricably tied to handsome, gun totin’ Officer Hyt...Categorized as:
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The Surviving Trace by Calia Read
Contemporary Romance/Time TravelWill is my fiancé. The shy man I met years ago in college. The person I’m supposed to spend the rest of my life with. This is the life I’ve always wanted until finding a picture of four men changes everything…Etienne says he’s my husband and the year is 1912. He can’t stand the sight of me, but I don’t know why. Oh, and he’s one of the men from the picture... -
Defy the Future by Keira Andrews
To protect their pack, they must risk everything.Adam and Parker are finally safe.As safe as they can be in a world where the zombie-like infected still roam the night. With other survivors, they’ve built a community—a pack.Until that peace is shattered... -
The Sixth Day by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison
Special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine take on a ruthless mastermind in the fifth highly anticipated thriller in the New York Times bestselling A Brit in the FBI series. When several major political figures die mysteriously, officials declare the deaths are from natural causes...Categorized as:
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Passionate Obsession by D.M. Mortier
Ronin (Mac)After tragically losing everyone in my life that meant everything to me, I had nothing left to live for. Alone, penniless, desperate, I didn’t care whether I lived or died. I allowed myself to be converted to a weapon even the most powerful country in the world couldn’t contain...Categorized as:
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Saved by the Alien Crime Boss by Tiffany Roberts
An alien criminal in hiding. An enticing female he can’t ignore. But can he protect her from his violent past?With her birthday just around the corner, Mina Walker has found herself reflecting on her life.Thirty and still stuck in her tiny hometown.Thirty and still clinging to the ghosts of people she lost years ago.Thirty and still alone. Still a virgin...Categorized as:
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Marvin by J.P. Sayle, Lisa Oliver
Ajani is a shifter without a conscience. Stolen as a child, hidden from the world, trained to kill without remorse. It’s all he knows. He works without question until someone targets the only bright light from Ajani’s dark past—Marvin.Ajani had always known there was something tugging at his soul, or that special someone, but he doesn’t want to bring Marvin into his dark world... -
Remembrance by Jude Deveraux
Bestselling romance writer Hayden Lane has found her soul mate - or rather, created him: he's her latest fictional hero. And she's totally obsessed with him. Barely noticing when her real-life fiance breaks their engagement, she visits a psychic to learn more about him - and is told that in a past life Hayden was Lady de Grey, a promiscuous woman of Edwardian England...Categorized as:
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Stolen By The Scorpio by January Bell
He stole me, locked me away in a tower, and forgot about me. I don't care if everyone says he was cursed. I don’t care if they say he’s my fated mate; I can never fully trust him.But when the things that haunt my dreams become all too real, I’ll have to learn to rely on him to survive...Categorized as:
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The Recruit by Susan Kyle, Diana Palmer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThree years after the unprovoked attack on a peaceful colony, the war between the Rojok dynasty and the Tri-Galaxy Fleet rages on. Born of that war is the Morcai Battalion, a fleet comprised of Centaurians and humans�the first collaboration of its kind and a step toward an intergalactic alliance... -
The Alpha’s Betrayed Mate: Rejected Mate Pregnancy Romance by Kayla Wolf
He betrayed my deepest feelings. Now I’m forced to be his kid’s live-in nanny.He’s a single dad and my brother’s best friend. We grew up together until he rejected me.Today I’m the outcast of the pack. As punishment I’m forced to live in the Alpha’s house.Vulnerable feelings are forbidden…but soon my belly starts to grow with his seed.I hoped I’d never see him again but hope is for the foolish... -
Vicious Love by Romy Lockhart
Cheryl is stunned when she finds out she has to go to a shifter academy. A witch with severe limitations to her magic, she's horrified to learn her fate is to be enslaved as a witch to a pack of wolves.She sets about finding a way out of this fate, determined to escape it... -
Songbird in a Storm: A captivating 1920s time travel romance by Ophelia Lockheart
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratings"A beautiful cross between Outlander and Peaky Blinders." [Audible Reviewer]When paramedic, Roseanna Chapman is tossed back in time and witnesses a murder, she finds herself stranded and under the watchful eye of London's most notorious crime boss.In 1921, Daniel Alderman’s a feared and ruthless gangster...Categorized as:
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Unnatural Selection by Ann Somerville
Four years ago, Nick Guthrie nearly died from a brain tumour until he received an experimental treatment that saved his life, even though the treatment brought bizarre and permanent side effects. Now he drinks fake blood to live, and has had to have his new long canines capped, but it's a small price to pay to keep doing the job he loves... -
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Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown
sweeping love story that crosses time, from a bleak 22nd century to 10th century Iceland - a land of rugged beauty and ax-hewn justice. In a desolate future built on virtual reality, Ginn is a romantic who yearns for something real. She designs environments for people who play at being Vikings...Categorized as:
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Midnight Train to Paris by Juliette Sobanet
Dive into the pages of the bestselling third novel in Juliette Sobanet’s City of Light series for a thrilling ride to Paris that you'll never forget… When hard-hitting DC reporter Jillian Chambord learns that her twin sister, Isla, has been abducted from a luxury train traveling through the Alps, not even the threat of losing her coveted position at The Washington Daily can stop her from...Categorized as:
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The Vampires Will Save You by Rebecca F. Kenney
So... I didn't handle the zombie apocalypse well.I used to be a third-grade teacher, but since the Gorging, my life has been...kinda rotten. I lost my group to the undead, became indebted to one of the gangs, and now I've been sold as a blood-slave.My new owner is Atlan, one of the vampire warriors who guard Blue City's walls and defend us from the zombies...Categorized as:
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The Alien's Dream by Zoey Draven
Welcome to Luxiria, where the twin suns are hot and the alien warriors are hotter… Ever since Taylor Glass was rescued by strong, hulking Luxirians, nothing has been the same. Even worse, she can’t stop having sexy, vivid dreams starring one of her rescuers, a panty-melting alien male with mesmerizing gray eyes and the fiercest scowl she’s ever seen...Categorized as:
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A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain
Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates...Categorized as:
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I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming
A hilarious and sexy romance about a woman who gets dropped on a strange planet only to fall for not one, but two, aliens, from the author of I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf.Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she’s attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she’s saved! On the not-so-bright side, it’s because they’re abducted by aliens... -
One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews
Dina DeMille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest… the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about...Categorized as:
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Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews
Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling author, continues her spellbinding series set in the Hidden Legacy world where magic controls everything…except the hearts of those who wield it.As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor and her sisters have extraordinary powers—powers their ruthless grandmother would love to control...Categorized as:
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Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews
#1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews is back with the newest book in the exciting Hidden Legacy series--the thrilling conclusion to her trilogy featuring fierce and beautiful Prime magic user Catalina Baylor... -
Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh
Since the moment of her defection from the PsyNet and into the SnowDancer wolf pack, Sienna Lauren has had one weakness. Hawke. Alpha and dangerous, he compels her to madness. Hawke is used to walking alone, having lost the woman who would’ve been his mate long ago. But Sienna fascinates the primal heart of him, even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf... -
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Born of Fury by Sherrilyn Kenyon
The war is on... Counted among the fiercest Andarion warriors ever born, Hauk is one of the five founding members of the Sentella- an organization that has declared war on the League that rules the Ichidian universe with an iron fist and terrifies it with an army of well-trained assassins. Hauk's enemies are legion, but he fears nothing and no one...Categorized as:
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Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie
I promised to avenge my parents.But their killer is still on the loose, and he's stolen more than my parents' lives. Now, as he draws closer to his mysterious goals, he's poised to destroy what little I have left.I promised to translate an ancient grimoire.But it holds the secrets of my family—and the secret history of demon summoning. I fear its answers as much as I need them...Categorized as:
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Magic Stars by Ilona Andrews
From award-winning author, Ilona Andrews, an original novella, set in the New York Times #1 bestselling Kate Daniels World and featuring fan-favorites, Derek, and Curran and Kate’s very independent ward, Julie. Scarred, solitary Derek Gaunt has separated from his Pack, and is truly a lone wolf. With no family he answers to no one; but is fiercely loyal to a chosen few...Categorized as:
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The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire
Toby thought she understood her own past; she thought she knew the score. She was wrong. It's time to learn the truth... -
Coyote's Mate by Lora Leigh
For six years Anya Korbin worked with Del-Rey Delgato—the genetically altered rebel known as the Coyote Ghost—to free a group of coyote women kept in her father’s lab.As Anya matured into a woman, she and Del-Rey grew close…but then he broke his promise and killed her father. Now she must deal with her animalistic desire for the one who betrayed her... -
Darkness by Laurann Dohner
Kat’s boss wants dirt on the NSO. She is sent to Homeland undercover but everything goes wrong as soon as she enters the front gates. She is arrested by a big, powerful, sexy New Species but she is not frightened. He turns her on and things heat up fast between them. Now, she just hopes he does not break her heart. Darkness admires Kat’s courage but he cannot trust anything she says...Categorized as:
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