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Frey by Faith Gibson
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWARNING: Book 4 is full of love, pain, and redemption. This book contains Domestic Violence and non-consensual sex between spouses. It also has a HEA. This book is part of a series, therefore best if read in order. Geoffrey “Frey” Hartley- soldier, helicopter pilot, boxer, martial arts expert - is the biggest, baddest Gargoyle shapeshifter in the Stone Society...Categorized as:
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Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsContagious Chaos, the highly anticipated third book in the Contagium Series, winner of the Contagious Reads Horror Con’s 2014 best horror series, follows Orissa and her friends as they struggle through a zombie filled world...Categorized as:
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Into Darkness by J.T. Geissinger
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn New Vienna, capital of the oppressive global government formed after the Flash, three things are certain: the sun is poisonous, speaking out is dangerous, and being different will get you killed. And Lumina Bohn is extraordinarily different. Living in terror of discovery, Lu knows nothing of her past?but she knows she must pretend to be human to survive...Categorized as:
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Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Two by Rachel Higginson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s not easy being a badass Zombie killer. But somebody’s got to do it. Page Parker is unsatisfied with her post-apocalyptic life in the relative safety of the research station. She knows there’s something bigger out there for her. There’s something… more... -
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Backs Against the Wall by Tracey Ward
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJoss has escaped the Colonies but her troubles have only just begun. She's wounded, exposed and vulnerable but worst of all, she needs help. And there's only one place she can go to get it. Only one place she can stand to be. With Ryan. Together they'll have to delve into the seedy underworld of post-apocalyptic Seattle. A world of gambling, fighting, secrets and lies... -
Foreseen by A.J. Anders
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsForced to attend the Surmata run Suoja Guild, Evie finally has hope for a better life. But her new freedom comes at a cost. Dark forces work against her, even within the safe walls of the demon hunter’s school. With her father still on the loose, Evie must be extra diligent to watch her back...Categorized as:
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Vaulcron by Ditter Kellen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings*****This is a previously published book, revised to be appropriate for all readers***** On a mission to save his people from being destroyed, Vaulcron must team up with a human reporter known as the Great White Shark. She's beautiful, cunning, and definitely hiding something. Vaulcron will do anything for his family, even if it means breeding with the one woman who can destroy them all... -
Tribe of Daughters by Kate L. Mary
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings2020 RONE Awards WINNER for Time Travel/Science FictionBronze Medal WINNER in the 2019 Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Science FictionHonorable Mention in the 2018 SPR Book AwardsSemi-Finalist in the 2019 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy FictionIn this village, women are not the weaker sex...Categorized as:
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Her Dragon's Treasure by Julia Mills, Linda Boulanger
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsBook 29 in the Dragon Guard series. The books in this epic saga can be read as stand-alone stories, or you can experience all the love, thrills and exploits of the whole series from beginning to end. It's up to you. Decades trapped at the bottom of the sea... -
Matter of Time by V. M. Black
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFourth Book in the Serial by the New York Times Bestselling Author of Blood of Life After yet another series of setbacks for the billionaire vampire Dorian Thorne's alliance, Cora Shaw struggles to regroup. She has school to attend and the wedding with Dorian to arrange--not just any wedding but a union that is to symbolize the friendship between humans and vampires...Categorized as:
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Taken by Christine Pope
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter her djinn lover is imprisoned by a survivalist group intent on eradicating all his kind, Jessica Monroe faces a dire choice... -
Taming the Monster by Mandy M. Roth, Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMonsters Need Love Too... Over 15 ALL NEW NEVER BEFORE RELEASED Paranormal Romance Tales by NY Times & USA TODAY Bestselling authors as well as some of today's top paranormal voices combined into one low priced box set for your reading pleasure! Stories filled with seductive alpha males, shifters, monsters, creatures, demons and more! You do not want to miss this limited time collection... -
Broken by Christine Pope
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo leaders. Two worlds. Passion ignites… …just as the storm erupts. Julia Innes, leader of the Immune survivors in Los Alamos, has done her best to ensure that the rest of her fellow Immune have settled into their new lives after the Dying. Even the friendly Santa Fe djinn have followed suit, creating a calm between the two cities — a world of peaceful co-existence... -
Earth Dragon's Baby by Scarlett Grove
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWill their fated love prove strong enough to end an ancient war? Agricultural analyst Cora Brighton has worked hard to help reconstruct Earth after the Mulgor invasion decades ago. But now, facing another lonely Christmas, she realizes life has passed her by and signs up for the Draconian Mating Lottery...Categorized as:
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Nurse for an Alien Warrior by Roxie Ray
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsI’m supposed to care for a kid, not create one! Space needs nurses. That’s what they told me, and that’s why I agreed to go.They say Raider is the last place I want to end up, but I’m up to the challenge. I’ll care for the warlord’s child.One problem.He wants me to make said child. With him.No. Not happening. Never.I’m not selling my body to some brute! But Kain isn’t the brute I imagined... -
Circus Save Me by K.A. Knight, Erin O'Kane
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's been over thirty years since the bombs dropped that almost decimated the planet. The fallout changed not only the animals and the landscape, but the people too. Freaks they called them; outcasts of society and hunted for their powers. The Circus has the only people to openly flaunt them, offering a haven for the lost and the damned... -
Mythean Arcana: Paranormal Romance Box Set by Linsey Hall
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn celebration of the release of Fate Undone, Book 5 of the Mythean Arcana series, the first four volumes are available for a limited time for only $0.99! "Linsey Hall's brilliantly imaginative Mythean Arcana is THE must-read series of the year for fans of paranormal romance... -
Alphas for the Holidays by Mandy M. Roth, Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFeaturing OVER 30 Alpha Tales from NYT, USA Today and National Bestselling Authors! Today's top selling authors have come together to form a collection that is filled with magic, mystery, mayhem and most importantly happily ever afters...Categorized as:
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The Beautiful Dead by Daryl Banner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*BOOK ONE IN THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD TRILOGY* She’s dead. In fact, the whole world’s dead. Every single person, apparently. Unburied and reimagined into a beautiful living-dead woman called Winter, she is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in a quaint, peaceful city with no hunger, no sickness and no bills to pay. Her Second Life is perfect in every way possible... -
Guild of Dragon Warriors, Jaxon's Sanctuary: Book 1 by Sassy Queens of Design, Missy Borucki
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaster of the Guild of Dragon Warriors, Jaxon is heading back to their sanctuary, exhausted and injured, after a battle that the human realm has never before encountered. Supernatural beings fighting against the Demon King for survival of not only them, but all of humanity. It was horrendous, tortuous, and downright brutal...Categorized as:
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Past Be Damned by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is the end of days… Ripped from her life and her loves, Teagan spent five hellish years in a demon infested mine. The darkness she experienced, living on within her long after her rescue. Lost without her loves, she worries as the darkness grows—she will not become the evil they have faced...Categorized as:
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Rising Tides by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn embrace can offer comfort… Amber Delacroix Chen reunited with her husbands only to have to send them off to war. Now a doctor, she works tirelessly to patch up the wounded to send them back to the front lines while protecting the people at the heart of the Chen Empire. She delivers babies, tends to the injured, the lost, and even her fellow physicians, everyone—except herself...Categorized as:
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Thunder Rolling by Ripley Proserpina, Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTrue loyalty knows no boundaries… The world around Whitney Lake keeps changing, but with John, Isaiah, Nick, Brandon, Dante, and Carson by her side, her foundation has never been stronger. Together, they are building a sanctuary for the survivors of Roanoke—the living and the newly Uncontrolled... -
Inferno: Alien Castaways 5 by Cara Bristol
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHe's an alien who looks like a devil. She's a church secretary. A match made in heaven...or?Take nothing at face value. That’s Geneva Walker’s motto in life. But when seven feet of devilishly handsome male complete with horns and a tail strolls into the church where she works as a secretary—even a hardcore nonbeliever would jump to conclusions... -
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Shudder by Samantha Durante
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings-- Book 2 in the Stitch Trilogy -- It's only been three days, and already everything is different. Paragon is behind her, but somehow Alessa's life may actually have gotten worse. In a wrenching twist of fate, she traded the safety and companionship of her sister for that of her true love, losing a vital partner she'd counted on for the ordeal ahead... -
Torn by Christine Hughes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTORN With the sudden, mysterious death of her father, Samantha discovers her life isn’t what it seems. Not only isn’t she the normal teenage girl she thought she was, Sam must now take her father’s place in the fight between two groups of fallen angels, the Faithful and the Exiled, in a race to save humanity... -
Space Dragon by Scarlett Grove
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat’s a logical human scientist to do when an alien dragon shifter claims she’s his fated mate? MIT robotics student Freda Hayes is forced to abandon her research when the Archon Empire’s cyborgs attack earth. With her little sister Lottie, she takes refuge in a secluded cabin..Categorized as:
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Marked by Light by Heidi Ruby Miller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the first book in the Ambasadora science fiction adventure series. This space thriller contains elements of space opera, science fiction romance, cyberpunk, military science fiction, a galactic empire, anthropological science fiction, and dystopian society. If everyone told you love wasn't real, would you still be willing to die for it? Sara Mendoza and Sean Cryer are... -
To Date A Dragon by Natalie Kristen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the last dragon king of Draca, Rohan Draek vows to keep his people safe. For nearly seven decades, the Dracans have been living on Earth, hiding from their enemies. But when the savage killings begin, Rohan knows that the hunted must become the hunter. Rohan is aided by his two fearless, loyal guards... -
Flamethroat by Kate Bloomfield
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAvalon Redding has returned to Mortlock to find her home destroyed, and her family missing. They have been taken by 'The Realm' for harboring an illegal human, Avalon's sister. Desperate to find her family, Avalon travels across the country to the Headquarters of the Realm, with Healer Jack Greenwood, and animal companion Hawthorne... -
Artifice by Alex Woolfson, Winona Nelson
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsArtifice is about Deacon, a prototype android soldier so advanced he is referred to as an "artificial person." On one of his first missions, Deacon was ordered by his corporate masters to eliminate a team of scientists who knew too much—and he has failed spectacularly. Not only did he let one of the targets live, he attacked the team sent to retrieve him...Categorized as:
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Judgement by Brannan Black
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe world fell apart after a virus killed billions. Those men who didn't die... changed. The media called it Werewolf Syndrome. Life as we knew it pretty much ended. Those of us scrounging for survival in the post-apocalyptic devastation have one chance left -- learn to work together, or face extinction. It wasn’t much of a choice...Categorized as:
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Falling Ashes by Kate Bloomfield
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Final Installment to: The Fire Mage Trilogy. Avalon has made a lot of dangerous enemies. The Realm has issued a bounty on the infamous Fire-Mage's head, labelling her leader of the human-alliance, and traitor to Mage-kind. Soon, strangers begin to recognize Avalon after seeing her wanted poster in the streets, and seek to earn the cash reward for her capture... -
Escapement by Ciara Knight
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTen years after the great war of 2185 the queen’s reign is threatened by uprisings and fear. In celebration of my sixteenth birthday it is my duty as princess to sacrifice a slave to be initiated into the ruling council, solidifying my mother’s empire. When my own erratic powers surface I’m captured and tried for treason...Categorized as:
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Collector of Souls by Naomi Lucas, Cameron Kamenicky
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsOphelia is a half-breed, half-Earthian, half-Trentian. She was raised on a backwater planet on the outskirts of a Trentian controlled sector, on a planet that was so far out in the fringes that the intergalactic council barely knew of its existence. One day changed her life. When she was brutally examined to see if her body was viable to procreate– she was found barren... -
Taken: The Vampire's Concubine: Part Two by Desiree Broussard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRelease Date: 5/30/14 Taken: The Vampire's Concubine - Part Two Genres: Vampire Romance, Erotic Romance Blurb: Abducted by the vampires, Keely has been taken to their foreign world as their concubine. Expected to select a mate from the hoard, she attracts the attentions of a dangerous male... While her lover stands by, helpless to stop it...Categorized as:
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Io Deceneus - Journal of a Time Traveler by Florian Armas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Universe is conscious, discreet, has many avatars, and likes to experiment on … us. Powerful Factions, the supreme form of social evolution in a galaxy where all civilizations are human-like, interfere for their own mysterious ends. When confident enough they challenge The Universe seeding war and political mayhem by altering the fabric of time... -
Eddy by Milana Jacks
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNote to my loyal pumpkins. Eddy is scheduled for a FREE 48 hour promotion June 5 and 6. Finders, keepers. The Ice Age and turf issues with the Nentres stalled things, but I’m finally moving back into my ol' neighborhood. I’ll settle down here with a woman... -
Summer by V.L. Dreyer
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe world changed overnight. A deadly virus struck, killing billions outright and reducing many more to harmless, hapless zombies. Only a handful of unlucky souls were spared, thanks to a rare genetic immunity. Now, a decade after the virus devastated humanity, cities that once teemed with life are empty, the streets silent and crumbling. Those few who survived are alone in the world...Categorized as:
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Dark Reality 7-Book Boxed Set by Jennifer Martucci, Christopher Martucci
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe Dark Reality Boxed set is a compilation of work by authors Jennifer and Christopher Martucci. It includes Planet Urth (Book 1), Arianna Rose (Part 1), Arianna Rose (Part 2), Arianna Rose: The Gathering (Part 3), Dark Creations: Gabriel Rising (Part 1), Dark Creations: Gabriel Rising (Part 2), and Dark Creations: Resurrection (Part 3)... -
Two by LeighAnn Kopans
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsElias and Merrin’s story continues in TWO, coming October, 2013... Elias and Merrin are on the run. After escaping the Biotech Hub, they thought they could breathe easy, or at least a little easier. But when bombs slam into the Social Welfare Hub only hours after their arrival, it becomes clear there's nowhere to hide - and no end to what Biotech will do to get them back... -
The Broken Destiny by Carlyle Labuschagne
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"You cannot know what light is if you have not experienced darkness" Ava and her people have been exiled to the planet Poseidon for reasons she can't fathom. Upon meeting a boy from a different sector, her life turns into a beautiful chaos... -
Alternity by Mari Mancusi
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsImagine waking up in a post-apocalyptic, nightmare world--and being told your whole life is but a dream. Skye Brown thought she was your typical teen--good grades, hot boyfriend, and an afterschool job that pays her to play videogames. But then she started having the dreams. In her dreams, there is no Earth. Only Terra, a bleak, underground wasteland where people live in squalor and oppression... -
Moongazer (Apocalypse Later) by Mari Mancusi
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn enthralling combination of The Matrix and Snow Crash with a bit of Blade Runner thrown into the mix, Moongazer immediately draws the reader into one woman's terrifying struggle to understand her identity--is she Skye Brown, a successful game designer living in Manhattan or is she really Mariah Quinn, a woman haunted by the post-apocalyptic dreamland she escapes to every night? But what is... -
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After Life by Jaron Lee Knuth
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSince the seventh grade, Alex, a retail slave, has secretly been in love with his best friend, Morgan, a web cartoonist. Unable to overcome social awkwardness, they both find themselves in very separate lifestyles as they reach adulthood. Amidst these distanced and inhibited lives, Alex and Morgan are suddenly faced with the literal end of the world... -
To Summon A Demon by Lisa Alder
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTo gain revenge, she summons a Demon...and loses her heart. After Lili is viciously attacked by the Fae, she wants revenge. Who better to help her than the sworn enemies of the Fae, Demons. So she uses an ancient sex ritual to summon a Demon lover and offers her body in exchange for his aid. Prince Gaap, commander of the Water Elemental Demons, is curiously drawn to the mysterious Lili... -
The Demon's Seduction by Lisa Alder
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen they fight for the love of the same Demon, the battle seduces them all. One of the three Graces, Thalia's purpose is to serve the Lesser Demons, but she's in love with her boss Zepar, The Demon of Seduction. Zepar has unresolved feelings for his friend and former lover, Leraye, the Demon of Battle... -
Night of the Fallen by Diana Bocco
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings** Book 2 is coming out soon ** Isabelle’s mission seemed so clear: kill the king of the vampires to give humanity a fighting chance. Except she didn’t count on falling in love with him. And she didn't realize he held secrets that could actually end up saving the human race. As the kingdom falls and Isabelle’s heart is torn between two worlds, everything changes...Categorized as:
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Zoo by Tara Elizabeth
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA chronicle of my time living in a zoo . . . I'm not really sure where to start, and you may have trouble believing me even as I tell you my story. My family did. They laughed the first time I told them, so now I just say it was all a crazy dream. You see, I died in a totally preventable car accident . . . or so I thought... -
Apocalypse Island by Mark Edward Hall
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA Maine city has turned into a killing ground.Is it a serial killer, someone with a penchant for the macabre and a need to destroy?Or is it a darker force, an ancient legend from a mysterious Island come ashore to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting?Amid the backdrop of Portland's burgeoning night scene, Police Lieutenant Rick Jennings discovers that no one is safe, and that evil has many faces...Categorized as:
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