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Arcanist by Marie Mistry
Death. Undeath. Life. The boundaries are beginning to blur. For five hundred years I believed everyone involved in my murder, was dead.I was wrong.As the Librarian, I prided myself on remaining impartial in a world of quibbling arcanists, and watched wistfully as everyone around me got on with the business of living...Categorized as:
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![Signs of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy]()
Signs of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy
You'd think that basically being in charge of love would be an epic job, right? Wrong. Sure, I can blow some Lust into people's faces and watch the show, but I can't actually participate. It gets old, trust me. Same goes for love. I can pass it out like sugar-free lollipops at a dentist's office, but I can't get any love for myself. It totally sucks...Categorized as:
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![No Rest For Wicked by Persephone Steele]()
No Rest For Wicked by Persephone Steele
Psychic.What a joke.The only thing I can be sure of these days are the three men who have somehow battered their way past my walls and forced me to, dare I say it, start feeling things.Well…them, and my trusty trash panda partners in crime. But they've always had my heart.I must have kissed their asses real good, because instead of wanting to kill me, I think they might actually kind of like me...Categorized as:
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![Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe]()
Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe
I’m ready for the chaos of Texas to be a speck in my rearview mirror. So when the museum director throws me a bone by arranging for us to visit a fossil dig in Utah, I jump at the opportunity.I need a breather from all the craziness that has become my life since waking multiple dino shifters. A dig in Utah sounds like exactly what I need, the perfect getaway...Categorized as:
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![Rogue's Crisis by Jillian West]()
Rogue's Crisis by Jillian West
Rogue is a rule follower through and through.Working as a bounty hunter for the paranormal council is the perfect job for this Seelie fae, especially considering she can sense mistruths. Things get muddy when what the council believes doesnʼt line up with what she sees with her own two eyes.Everything points to her suspects being innocent, while one of her coworkers begins to look guilty... -
![Calluna by Jewels Arthur]()
Calluna by Jewels Arthur
Calluna is sassy, snarky, and doesn't give a crap about, well, anything. A complete cynic, Calluna doesn't believe in all this love garbage that she keeps seeing all over the town. Nope, she is just fine keeping to herself and her pet store, Beastie Besties. She has a mystery to solve anyway, someone is cursing all the animals in town with dark magic... -
![Bearly Hanging On by Sam Hall]()
Bearly Hanging On by Sam Hall
When she goes to the hardware store looking for DIY materials and instead finds her fated mates.Harper has two rules: don’t take life too seriously, and never ever fall in love. After growing up with a mum who had a revolving door of boyfriends, she’s learned that love is messy and guaranteed to ruin your life...Categorized as:
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![Knot Going Anywhere by Alisha Williams]()
Knot Going Anywhere by Alisha Williams
After years of putting it off, I find myself ready for a pack. I’m not much of a social person, books and writing being my whole life, so meeting a pack organically is out of the question.So, when my best friend finds an ad for a Valentine's Day speed dating event, I take the leap and sign up.I only had hopes for at least a date for the holidays, but I end up leaving with a lot more... -
![Spin the Shadows by Cate Corvin]()
Spin the Shadows by Cate Corvin
I ate six seeds. Now I owe six months of debt to a dangerously sexy Fae hitman.I’d had everything a dryad could want- a job, an apartment, and a scandalous human boyfriend-Until I stole the wrong fruit from the wrong Fae.Dragged into the Seelie underworld of deception and lies, I do anything he commands: steal, spy, even fight as we hunt down a notorious Fae fugitive...Categorized as:
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![Arcane Mage Omnibus 4-6 by T.S. Snow]()
Arcane Mage Omnibus 4-6 by T.S. Snow
Arcane Mage Omnibus 4-6 is a collection of the final three books of the Arcane Mage Frenetic, Ecstatic, and Charismatic, with an extended epilogue. Blurb for book 4: Being a Magical Engineer is easy.You know what’s not easy?Trying to help stop a coup against one of the Arcane families.Or fighting against a bloodthirsty rebellion...Categorized as:
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![Catch Me by Reese Rivers]()
Catch Me by Reese Rivers
How do you survive time travel to 17th century France…while wearing a bathrobe…with nothing but a chap-stick and an iPhone? How do you avoid being burnt at the stake as a witch for possessing that ‘magical’ evil iPhone?Start by being rescued by 4 hot AF men dipped in sexy sauce. Accept that vampires and wolf shifters are real and then make peace with the fact that you can have them all...Categorized as:
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![Fate Hollow Academy by Lyra Winters]()
Fate Hollow Academy by Lyra Winters
Welcome to Fate Hollow Academy, where supernaturals blessed by the Fates cultivate their manifested powers and master ancient magic.Fate Hollow is the academy of the elite, where supernatural beings with special magic train for war against humans.A big-hearted, naïve arctic fox shifter like me couldn’t have prepared for the treachery lurking within the walls of the academy...Categorized as:
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![Earth Magic & Hot Water by Lauren Connolly]()
Earth Magic & Hot Water by Lauren Connolly
Her first hate and first love are back in town. Things are about to get heated…Cat Byrne seems sweet, but she’s hiding a volcanic temper. Her anger-fueled fire magic can melt tires off cars. Then her ex-best friend moves back to town, and the guy keeps popping up in inconvenient places, making sure she’s running at a constant simmer...Categorized as:
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![They Call Me Wicked by Persephone Steele]()
They Call Me Wicked by Persephone Steele
A blind psychic.Sounds like a punchline to a terrible joke, right?Well it is. The joke is my life, and I’m the punchline.I was gifted with the sight at a young age. It runs in my bloodline and I was trained to handle it from the moment I was born. What I wasn’t prepared for was losing my actual sight.The world is twisted like that...Categorized as:
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![Nothing is Free by Dreia Wells]()
Nothing is Free by Dreia Wells
I was finally free. Or so I thought.New city and a new job with my best friend Mercy. We'd both overcome the odds and came out stronger. I have a pack of adoring Alphas and an obsessive male Omega, my true mate. Everything I never thought I would have.I was no longer just a Beta who hid in the shadows away from a family who disowned me.I had finally found my place in this world...Categorized as:
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![Rebels and Psychos by Leigh Kelsey]()
Rebels and Psychos by Leigh Kelsey
If a secret wolf society thinks they can take me down, they’ve got another thing coming. There’s a reason they call me Graves.The steamy, crazy Rebels and Psychos series is now in one collection.It’s not my fault I’m a psychopath... -
![Second Glances by Kelsey Soliz]()
Second Glances by Kelsey Soliz
I thought having six mate marks was more than I could handle. And then Cyrus and Dar came along and told me that I was theirs, too. Male conduits, looking for their mate for over a hundred years. No pressure, right?I thought that being someone else's fated meant everything would be easy, that our connection would be instant...Categorized as:
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![Dinosaurs, Disasters & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe]()
Dinosaurs, Disasters & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe
I have huge man problems.Literally, since one of my mates is a T-Rex.Things are about to get interesting, because my day job happens to be in a museum. A museum full of dinosaur bones, if you know what I mean.It turns out my bloodline is older than dirt, and an ancestral matchmaker decided to send me some gifts…aka, men. And not just any men, but dinosaur shifters from the past...Categorized as:
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![Gifted to the Gargoyles by Luna Joya]()
Gifted to the Gargoyles by Luna Joya
Two gargoyles face annihilation if they don’t deliver a queen. Here’s hoping their fated mate can save them all. The Twin Gargoyles Who Would Be KingWe’ve spent our long existence seeking the next Gargoyle Queen.Centuries ago we failed and were banished to the cruelest existence.That exile will be nothing next to the catastrophe the realms face if we fail our fated mate...Categorized as:
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![Hearts of Stone by Sam Hall]()
Hearts of Stone by Sam Hall
When the stone gargoyles in the massive estate I just inherited start to move, I should’ve run for the door, right? So why am I still standing here? One, there was a certain cartoon from the 90s that played a pivotal role in my emotional development. Two, each one of them towers over me, blocking out the light with their massive wings, their serpentine tails flicking as they stalk closer...Categorized as:
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![Cursed Waters by Shana Brooke]()
Cursed Waters by Shana Brooke
Me, a mermaid? Not anymore.Life is wonderful until the morning I catch a merman in my net. One look at his perfect, pretty boy face, and I recognize him—Leander, Crown Prince of the Atlantic.Not only does he recognize me, too, but he wants to take me back to the ocean with him. A curse has fallen over our people, and I can break it...Categorized as:
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![A Killer Crescent Valentine by Leigh Kelsey]()
A Killer Crescent Valentine by Leigh Kelsey
A killer just made Blake Hall, home of Rebel "Graves" Falcon, their hunting groundsAnd they're picking off residents one by oneThe killer is either ballsy or just plain dumb, because with Rebel - the notorious hitlady - determined to find them, they're a hundred percent dead. No one messes with Rebel's family of criminal weirdos and lives to tell the tale... -
![Why Cheese? by Ellen Mint]()
Why Cheese? by Ellen Mint
Rock-hard men in the sheets, delectable cheese in the streets. Violette Reely walks into her great uncle’s abandoned cheese shop then promptly runs back out. You would too if you discovered a secret basement hiding beneath a trapdoor. One second, there’s nothing down there but cheese wheels in an old chest, the next four naked men are chasing her out the door... -
![First Addition by Kelsey Soliz]()
First Addition by Kelsey Soliz
I was so close to getting everything I wanted, an internship with my Uncle, an officer with the special-ops team.If it weren't for a stupid boy that had to go and make me angry, causing me to turn a certain part of his anatomy purple and sparkly, I wouldn't have accidentally revealed to my family what I really was. What I had been hiding... -
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![Knot for You by Aura Riley]()
Knot for You by Aura Riley
Vera has always been an omega, but being just an omega? Never an option. Being just an omega meant that she was too timid, too sensitive, and never enough for anyone, let alone her alpha mother. Now, she is forced to deal with even more complicated matters as the only omega on campus... -
![Rage Quit by Kira Roman]()
Rage Quit by Kira Roman
Well shiz.Things are not going the way I planned.My danger-noodle stalker is apparently one of my Heart Bonded.Add to that list a lost Orc-Elf Prince…and his brother… That was an awkward conversation, because they didn't even know they were brothers. Surprise! Now you have to share the same girl for all time! Yay you...Categorized as:
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![Clouds & Daydreams: Part 1 by Elizabeth Knight]()
Clouds & Daydreams: Part 1 by Elizabeth Knight
Clouds & Daydreams is going to be the omegaverse so sweet it gives you cavities!Sweet artist omega Bailey-Rose is dumped by the only man she thought would love her because of her congenital heart condition. Cut off from being able to participate in the national Scent Matching services Bailey-Rose has decided she will be single for life after this heartbreak... -
![Her Donut Shifters by Mia Harlan]()
Her Donut Shifters by Mia Harlan
My name is Jetta, and I'm not a psychopath. I just hate donuts. When the Squishy Shifters Donut Emporium opens down the street from my house, I want it gone...Categorized as:
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![New Blood by L.C. Davis, Joel Abernathy]()
New Blood by L.C. Davis, Joel Abernathy
I know this will end the way it covered in blood.Too much? Me being a demigod now and all, I figure I can get away with a pinch of melodrama.I mean, have you seen Olympus? It's a damn soap opera up there. One I'd rather be watching on the couch with popcorn than playing a starring role in.Not that things are much better down here... -
![Broken Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti]()
Broken Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Me and my kings have come as close to breaking as I ever could have feared.Just as we were finding a way to get past our difficulties, the stars have torn us apart...
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