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Brother of the King Consort by Amizah R
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s been seven years since Cassian pulled the trigger, and six since he left Old Dome territory, hoping never to return. Even with the time spent away, nightmares still plagued his sleep and anxiety still rode his senses... -
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Anarchy Chained by J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEveryone wants revenge.That’s what I tell my new would-be partner in crime, Sadie Scott.“You’re crazy,” she says. “Certifiably insane.”Just a little. But isn’t everyone a little crazy?“And I’m gonna get the hell away from you as fast as I can.”She’s so cute when she’s defiant. “As soon as I get my memory back and figure out who I am.”Yeah. That little problem is definitely working in my favor... -
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![Born for Silk by Nicci Harris]()
Born for Silk by Nicci Harris
Adore.Pleasure.Provide.A thousand years of climate change, genetic testing, and war destroyed civilisation as it was.From the remains came the age of The Trade and The Crown. In return for resources, security, and a meaningful purpose, citizens accepted a life of service to the new world.The land became The Cradle, and humankind was henceforth known as the Cradled Common...Categorized as:
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Subdued by Sara Fields
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey hunted her. They caught her. Now they will subdue her. The resistance sent them, but that's not really why these four battle-hardened Vakarrans are here. They came for me. To conquer me. To master me. To ravage me... -
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![Haven by Imogen Keeper]()
Haven by Imogen Keeper
The gripping fifth installment of award-winning author Imogen Keeper's wild ride After the Plague Series.Summer and fall in the mountains gave us the peace we needed to heal and turn Thornewood into a safe haven. Everything we've always wanted is within our grasp—peace, love, family.Until a confrontation with our neighbors throws our two clans into turmoil, and all our hopes collapse around us...Categorized as:
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![Villain by Chani Lynn Feener]()
Villain by Chani Lynn Feener
Nix Monroe has a plan.Infiltrate the Enigma app and lure out whoever his cousin was last speaking with before everything went to shit. Nix won’t stop until he finds answers, even if that means transferring to a different university and getting entangled with the infamous Demons of Foxglove Grove.Lake, West, and Yejun. Three of the most powerful men on the entire planet, and also the deadliest... -
![Veiled in Shadow by Chloe Parker, Clarissa Bright]()
Veiled in Shadow by Chloe Parker, Clarissa Bright
Can one human woman seduce the most powerful males in the galaxy? I'm about to find out.When the Aelyd mafia took my best friend, I decided to go looking for her. These aliens have been looking for brides - for vessels - and I know she must be in trouble.Now I've found myself entangled with three alien crimelords, all of whom want me as their mate...Categorized as:
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![The Viridian Priestess by Katrina Calandra]()
The Viridian Priestess by Katrina Calandra
She is a telepathic priestess, determined to rise the ranks of her temple. So why do her thoughts keep straying back to the masked commander? Priestess Ferren has devoted her life to her celestial deity, yet she has not been able to ascend the priestess order. But on the eve of a great planetary event, the chance to prove herself arises...Categorized as:
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Wild Thing by Lexi Ray
"He was supposed to be a job.Then became my favorite pastime.Before I knew it, he set my heart on fire."- Katura Ortiz -Archer Crone wears arrogance like a badge of honor, disguising acts of kindness like dirty secrets.But behind the cold mask is a man with a gentle heart that he hides from others.A beautiful heart that I stomped on.A heart that could’ve been mine, but I screwed it all up...Categorized as:
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![Cruelest Oblivion by Michelle Heard]()
Cruelest Oblivion by Michelle Heard
From USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Michelle Heard, comes a new, full-length Dystopian Romance novel.Over the past four decades, the dome over our Ecocity has protected us from the deviants living in the forbidden territory. Since the great war ended, our lives have consisted of virtue and order...Categorized as:
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![Qualia the Purple by Hisamitsu Ueo, Sirou Tsunasima]()
Qualia the Purple by Hisamitsu Ueo, Sirou Tsunasima
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHatou Manabu (nicknamed Gaku) has a very odd friend at school named Marii Yukari. Yukari has purple eyes and a bizarre way of looking at the world: she sees all living things as robots. This has not always worked out well for Yukari, even costing her a best friend when she was younger... -
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Fighting for Rain by B.B. Easton
The world was supposed to end on April 23, but Rainbow Williams’s world ended days before that. The mass hysteria caused by the impending apocalypse claimed everything she’d ever loved. Her family. Her city. Her will to live. Until she met him. Wes Parker didn’t have anything left for the apocalypse to take … he’d already lost it all by the time he was nine years old. His family... -
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Pride by Kris Butler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAt night, I’m free. Free from the restraints I feel growing tighter each day. Free from the pressure placed on me. Free from the disappointment of never being enough. At night I dance and the movement sets me free, and I become whoever I want under the bright lights... -
![The Bounty by Liliana Carlisle]()
The Bounty by Liliana Carlisle
Everything’s gone wrong…all because I’m an Omega.My once normal, relatively happy life has been stripped from me.There's a bounty for my capture.The government wants to keep me in a gilded cage, a prize to be enjoyed by other Alphas.But I refuse.Until three Alphas find me, each more intimidating and handsome than the last...Categorized as:
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![Dust to Smoke by Myra Danvers]()
Dust to Smoke by Myra Danvers
Tritan’s last true priestess is gone.Killed in a trap of her own making, Sasha was swallowed by righteous flames that consumed the only mentor Mila might ever know. And with her, the very last one standing between Mila and true annihilation is dead.And now, no one can save Mila from him.Asherholds a power never seen on this side of the veil.He's a better predator...Categorized as:
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![Dirty Lovely Broken by Emmy Chandler]()
Dirty Lovely Broken by Emmy Chandler
Peace comes at a price only one woman can pay. Jude Camden slaughtered thousands of her soldiers. He executed her brother in front of her. And he was only willing to accept an end to the war—harmony across the planet Syrus—on one condition… Taken by the infamous Camden princes—Jude, Orlann, and Malac—Maari Delayne must cement a fragile planetary peace by merging two rival bloodlines...Categorized as:
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Alien Owner by Loki Renard
I am her alpha, and her owner.I met my human mate when she accidentally sold herself at an alien slave auction.She’s half my size, and she's cute when she's wrong.(And she's wrong about so many things, like who owns who.)I'll thoroughly enjoy teaching this human of mine just who she belongs to.And making the baby my pride demands of me? That's going to be a lot of fun too...Categorized as:
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Ravaged by Sara Fields
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThey rescued her. They tamed her. Now they will ravage her. Though the aliens were the ones I always feared, it was my own kind who hurt me. Men took me captive, and it was four Vakarran warriors who saved me. But they don't plan to set me free... I belong to them now, and they intend to make me theirs more thoroughly than I can imagine...Categorized as:
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![His Darkest Devotion by Addison Cain]()
His Darkest Devotion by Addison Cain
In the dark embrace of their bond, Lorieyn belongs to Cyderial in every sense—except one. She does not love him. As war threatens to tear their world apart, the terrifying general will risk everything in the battle to conquer her fears and draw her to him. To prove himself worthy of possessing her mind, body, and soul. Teach her that she will be fulfilled kneeling at his feet...Categorized as:
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![Beginnings by Sandra R. Neeley]()
Beginnings by Sandra R. Neeley
About This BookWarning: This book is not suitable for sensitive readers. Please do not buy this book if you have triggers to sensitive situations.Black Ops Lieutenant Maddox Larsen is missing. Not only is he missing, his entire team is missing...Categorized as:
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![The Master and the Marionette by Brandi Elise Szeker]()
The Master and the Marionette by Brandi Elise Szeker
Skylenna has left the Chandelier City, The Emerald Lake Asylum, and the twisted societal restraints of women to run away with the patient everyone fears. Dessin. As they hide in the unchartered forests surrounding the city, Skylenna learns that the mystery of the infamous Patient Thirteen is far from over...Categorized as:
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![Controlled by Ivy Barrett]()
Controlled by Ivy Barrett
She didn't know aliens existed until today. Now she belongs to two of them. When alien warriors landed on Earth and carried her off, they didn't pick Flora Hays at random. They came for their mate. She will be stripped bare, spanked until she begs them to claim her, then tamed with one desperate, shattering climax after another as they mount and ravage her... -
![Kingdom of Chains by Tanya Bird]()
Kingdom of Chains by Tanya Bird
She was trained to please. He was trained to kill.Isabel Maddock is living a lie. She is betrothed to a man she loathes, living in a place she does not belong. But the home she craves no longer exists, and the people from her youth are gone. Or are they? The wastelands are calling, but they are not for the faint of heart. Luckily a certain defender is close by to keep her safe. Very close...Categorized as:
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![Blaze of Misery by Brynn Ford]()
Blaze of Misery by Brynn Ford
Mercy endures brutal punishment for her so-called sins, and Arlo's warped worldview begins to fracture. While his affection for her grows, she comes to accept her fate. Knowing her death is inevitable, their passion ignites, setting a blaze across the boundary line between purity and pleasure...Categorized as:
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![Her Dark Protector by Felicity Brandon]()
Her Dark Protector by Felicity Brandon
"Fortorus they called it—for the brave—but as we passed through the colossal iron gates inside the prison, I knew better. This place wasn’t about fortitude or resilience. It wasn’t about hard work or stamina. This was a place to put us until they decided what to do with us. It was a place to torment us, to break us down.It was hell."Great Britain, 2024... -
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Rogue by Piper Stone
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA single purpose compels him. He must find me, claim me, and master me completely.Tracking down cyborgs is my job, but this time I'm the one being hunted. This rogue machine has spent most of his life locked up, and now that he's on the loose he has plans for me...He isn't just going to strip me, punish me, and use me... -
![Swallow it Down by Addison Cain]()
Swallow it Down by Addison Cain
I’ve seen the way he looks at me.The Captain. The unquestioned leader of this ship.A ship I wish to be free of. A man I want to be as far away from as my legs might carry me.The society he’s designed, the rules, the endless battle of wills...Yes, I’ve seen the way he looks at me.I’ve felt his fingertips brush my skin. Heard his laugh. Experienced his smile...Categorized as:
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![Gaslight Her by Quinn Blackbird]()
Gaslight Her by Quinn Blackbird
Gaslight Her is a *dark* tale of all things wrong.From the slums of this dystopian society, Hal claws her way up the impossible ladder when she lands herself a scholarship in Promise Hills.Her future is filled with the hope of tearing it all down to rubble - but her plans are derailed when she crosses paths with Blaise, an arrogant and dangerous Elite who always gets what he wants...Categorized as:
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![His Darkest Deceit by Addison Cain]()
His Darkest Deceit by Addison Cain
Unveil the secrets of a forbidden love in this scintillating tale of desire, danger, and dominance.General Cyderial, a mastermind of control, has meticulously shielded young Lorieyn from a truth she cannot fathom – that she is his coveted jewel, his treasure, his mate.And no other male may have her. Not so long as he can keep her existence secret...Categorized as:
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![When It Ends by Penelope Black]()
When It Ends by Penelope Black
What if the end is just their beginning? They stole my heart at fourteen and broke it before we even graduated high school. It’s been five years since I’ve seen them, and only a twist of fate reunites us when the mountain falls. It’s the first disaster in a predicted apocalypse—a string of natural disasters that could be catastrophic. It’s the beginning of the end of everything. Finis omnibus... -
![Primal Possession by Tabitha Black]()
Primal Possession by Tabitha Black
I never really thought I’d be captured… Despite being born an Omega, I refused to spend my life in a facility, waiting for a suitable Alpha to claim me as his. Instead, with the help of my family, I broke the law, hiding among the Betas, trying to live a normal life. I enjoyed five years of freedom… …then they caught me...Categorized as:
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