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Kye by Nyssa Kathryn
Sometimes it’s in the depths of hell, that one finds their angel.Samantha Jacobs thought she was aiding her government. She believed the chip she created, the one that could change the world, would be used for the good of mankind. But it was all a lie…and she discovered the truth too late. Now, Samantha will suffer dearly for her mistake... -
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Aidan by Nyssa Kathryn
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSome loves are impossible to leave behind…Cassie Webber had it all. A man who loved her, a mother and sister who were all the family she needed, and a job she adored. Until, in the blink of an eye, everything changed. Now her mother and Aidan are gone, and her sister’s in danger... -
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![High Stakes: A Dark Fated Mates Mafia Paranormal Romance by Delta James]()
High Stakes: A Dark Fated Mates Mafia Paranormal Romance by Delta James
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Mafia don that’s not afraid to get his hands dirty to find the truth, and the reporter that can’t resist his dark charms.Killian O’Neill controls the pulse of the vibrant horse racing world in the Finger Lakes region of New York. He also has ties to a powerful Syndicate in Ireland. Carlyn Murphy is the investigative reporter who took comfort in his arms for one night and then walked away... -
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Blood Song by Hollee Mands
She owes her blood. He’ll pay with his life.Ruthless assassin Gabriel has little fear and even fewer scruples. Every head has a price, and every hunt is a thrill. He saunters through life on a tightrope, mocking fate and defying death with every step. So when he’s forced to hunt down and deliver a prophesied blood sacrifice, Gabriel has no reason to expect trouble... -
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![The Best Bad Things by Jay Crownover]()
The Best Bad Things by Jay Crownover
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsVesper Bell is a good girl. At least, that’s what everyone keeps telling her.She was the perfect daughter. A straight-A student. The very best friend. And an adoring potential girlfriend.However, when her life took an unexpected detour into darkness, suffering, and betrayal, Vesper realized being good hadn’t gotten her anywhere... -
![The Warrior in the Shadows by L.V. Lane]()
The Warrior in the Shadows by L.V. Lane
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratings**Part two of The Girl with the Gray Eyes trilogy. Slow burn with a Cliffhanger ending.An omega living in a beta world, fate sent me to a land where all the alphas live.I want Garren, the playful alpha and brave warrior who effortlessly rocks my world.I also want Tanis, the serious alpha who kisses me and claims me with words, only to send me back to Garren.But Shadowland isn’t my home... -
![King of Air by D.N. Hoxa]()
King of Air by D.N. Hoxa
Being stuck in a time loop sucks, especially when I die on the same day, at the hands of the same man, over and over again. But in Life Number Seven, I'm determined to change my fate.You'd think being the princess of all shifters would come with benefits and glamour and freedom--it doesn't. It comes with isolation, constant fear, and a fabric over my head the whole damn time... -
![Burning Hope by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
Burning Hope by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Nero is a madman and a murderer…and now Hope belongs to him.Hope's life as an enslaved priestess in the Temple of Hera is all she has ever known. Born to slavery and the golden chain she wears around her neck, very little ever came as a surprise. But when she meets Nero, the only thing she can trust is that everything is about to change... -
![The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee]()
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
Jane is a 16-year-old misfit living in an asteroid-altered Earth of the future. Like most girls her age, true love and real happiness seem forever beyond her. Until she meets Silver. He's a robot, yes, but he looks human. To Jane, he's everything she has ever dreamed of... -
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Deceitful by C. Reilly
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a serial killer rocks a small town in Oregon, a young woman with special powers might be the only person able to stop him. As part of a secret branch of the FBI, Tessa is sent on a mission to impersonate Madison, a local teen and the last victim of the brutal attacker, to find the killer before he strikes again... -
![Call of Fire by Beth Cato]()
Call of Fire by Beth Cato
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen an earthquake devastates San Francisco in an alternate 1906, the influx of geomantic energy nearly consumes Ingrid Carmichael. Bruised but alive, the young geomancer flees the city with her friends, Cy, Lee, and Fenris... -
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People Collide by Isle McElroy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians —“a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation” (Mat Johnson)—a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true partnership... -
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Warrior by Holly S. Roberts
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe electromagnetic pulses were just the beginning. In their wake came the hellhounds; vicious, relentless creatures that tried to finish what the bombs started and tore through most of humanity. Marinah lost everything when her father died. Once loyal to the Federation, she believed in their mission until their lies shattered her trust...Categorized as:
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![Alpha Thief by Milana Jacks]()
Alpha Thief by Milana Jacks
He stole her from the Horde. Eron Regha Horde never lingers in one place. They come, they raid, and they leave. I’m counting on that. Because I stole the Omega the Horde raided the house for, and I'm keeping her. Kate Abducted, auctioned, then stolen, I will resist for as long as I damn well please... ***previously published on my website as a three part Thief serial... -
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![Wraeththu by Storm Constantine]()
Wraeththu by Storm Constantine
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this powerful and elegant story set in a future Earth very different from our own, a new kind of human has evolved to challenge the dominion of Homo sapiens. This new breed is stronger, smarter, and far more beautiful than their parent race, and are endowed with psychic as well as physical gifts. They are destined to supplant humanity as we know it, but humanity won't die without a struggle... -
![The Lion and the Mouse (Cosmic Fairy Tales) by Emmy Chandler]()
The Lion and the Mouse (Cosmic Fairy Tales) by Emmy Chandler
When she was four years old, Syrie Montgomery was nearly killed when she got lost on Ratera III, the global zoo her family owns. Eighteen years later, she’s back, kidnapped from her bed and abandoned in the location of her childhood trauma—the expansive Fetoji habitat... -
![The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons]()
The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsKihrin is a bastard orphan who grew up on storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests. When he is claimed against his will as the long-lost son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds that being a long-lost prince isn't what the storybooks promised.Far from living the dream, Kihrin finds himself practically a prisoner, at the mercy of his new family's power plays and ambitions... -
![Monster's Mate by Anne Hale, Celeste King]()
Monster's Mate by Anne Hale, Celeste King
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOnly one thing keeps me from turning this world into a nightmare……And that’s the angel of a woman I’ve fallen in love with.Her purity and beauty is the only thing that soothes my tortured soul.The world fears me. It doesn’t matter if you’re a human, orc or dark elf - you shrink away in terror when I come into view.Only Moira can keep me at bay... -
![Ice Planet Prison (Sagittarius Quadrant) by Alexis B. Osborne]()
Ice Planet Prison (Sagittarius Quadrant) by Alexis B. Osborne
“The courts sentence you to ten years of hard labor on Boreas…”Even facing down a decade behind bars on an inhospitable alien world, Keira Wescott is still able to hold her head high. Protecting her little sister from her sleazy stepfather’s advances was worth any penalty, any price.Tired of the world turning a blind eye to injustice, Keira refuses to be cowed by anyone...Categorized as:
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![The Sea of Zemira by D.L. Blade]()
The Sea of Zemira by D.L. Blade
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn the land’s heart of Zemira lives a king—a wicked king who despises magic.For the past twenty years, Nola has watched the king destroy everything she holds dear, and the only magic left in their kingdom is bound to the enchanted crystal of his crown. She’s tired of watching him use his power to charm and coerce all those who oppose him... -
![Son of the Morning by Linda Howard]()
Son of the Morning by Linda Howard
New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard captivates readers in the deeply romantic tale of a contemporary woman who unravels an extraordinary mystery from the past . . . by living it. A scholar specializing in ancient manuscripts, Grace St. John never imagined that a cache of old documents she discovered was the missing link to a lost Celtic treasure... -
![The Moon Represents My Heart by Pim Wangtechawat]()
The Moon Represents My Heart by Pim Wangtechawat
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA lush, buoyant novel for fans of The Immortalists and Everything I Never Told You, The Moon Represents My Heart follows a Chinese-British family of time travelers as they seek connections over borders―both national borders and those created by time.A love lost in time. An eternity to find it. The Wang family are hiding a secret―they all have the ability to time travel... -
![Dante's End by Ariana Nash]()
Dante's End by Ariana Nash
Monsters are made, not born... Most called him the Jailor. Some called him a monster. If he had a name, nobody had survived meeting him long enough to tell it. They said he sat atop a mound of skulls and marked each death on his throne, like notches on a bedpost. Some tales told of how he had wings as dark as night, and of how he wore a crown of razor wire woven around four horns... -
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Mate by Trent Evans
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsShe was offered as a sacrifice. He took her as his mate.The moment her ship crash-landed, Selena Marks knew she was in way over her head, and that was before the natives of this planet took her captive, stripped her bare, and brought her deep into a sacred cave to be given as a sexual sacrifice to the godlike brute whose whims they serve... -
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![Silk Fire by Zabé Ellor]()
Silk Fire by Zabé Ellor
Rated: 2.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in a planet-sized matriarchal city where magic and technology freely bleed together, a male courtesan’s quest for vengeance against his aristocrat father draws him into an ancient struggle between dragons, necromancers, and his home district’s violent history.In the world-sized city of Jadzia, magic and ancient science merge into something dark and wondrous... -
![Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie]()
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... -
![Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare]()
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love... -
![Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir]()
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants... -
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Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs
Anna Latham didn’t know how complicated life could be until she became a werewolf. And until she was mated to Charles Cornick, the son — and enforcer — of Bran, the leader of the North American werewolves, she didn’t know how dangerous it could be either.. -
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Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsJane Yellowrock must dig deep and find strength within herself if she is to survive in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series.Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker, and vampire killer-for-hire, but her last battle with an ancient arcane enemy has brought her low...
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