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  • Tenacity by Auryn Hadley

    Tenacity by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    WAR, HEARTBREAK, MORE WAR…AND A NEW FRIEND In the fifth epic of the Rise of the Iliri, Auryn Hadley interjects a compelling sci-fi action fantasy with a heart-warming tale of everyday community and the heart-wrenching reality of war—and the loss it mandates...
  • Resilience by Auryn Hadley

    Resilience by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    THE FINAL SHOWDOWN IS NEAR…BUT WHO IS THE REAL ENEMY? Auryn Hadley’s sixth action-adventure in The Rise of the Iliri fantasy series asks how far mankind will go to protect their pride. Because it seems they’ll guard it at the expense of all else...
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  • Instinctual by Auryn Hadley

    Instinctual by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 26 ratings
    The Black Blades are the best special operations unit in the Conglomerate of Free Citizens, but none of them are free. They're iliri, a race of humanoids specifically designed to be the perfect soldiers. No one can remember where they came from, but the histories say they were made to kill - and it's what they do best...
  • Havoc by Auryn Hadley

    Havoc by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    HISTORY DECREES SHE MUST DIE—OR LOSE HER MIND The world has waited a long time for the Kaisae—Salryc Luxx, leader of the iliri and commander of the allied forces. Kaisaes before her have died or gone mad. But now that they are so close to finally winning the war and finding peace for her species, either option is unthinkable! She's still needed...
  • Multiplying Storms by Erin R. Flynn

    Multiplying Storms by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    My name is Tamsin Vale and I’m the only living heir to all of Faerie. It’s still hard to accept that, but given how often people call me “Princess” or “Your Highness” like it’s my actual name, I can’t deny it.I simply hate that I am.Yeah, it’s going that well.The councils’ win might have seemed small, but the ripples from that decision are drowning me at every turn...
  • Shadow's Savior by Cassie Cole

    Shadow's Savior by Cassie Cole

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alyssa's Quintelaide stands disgraced.After a violent confrontation forces them to flee the capitol, Alyssa and her Quintmates struggle to cope with the fallout. Warrior Jaxon focuses on their path forward, while Frost Mage Arthur contemplates their place in history. Alyssa doesn’t know how to feel about her decision to disobey the Archon, and whether to blame herself for the events that followed...
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  • Fractured Souls by M. Sinclair

    Fractured Souls by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lorcan's fractured soul will save everyone . Note from The Tears of the Siren series will feature characters from both the Reborn series and the Descendant series. It will not be necessary to read either of those to understand the plot, however, they do intertwine in a way that enhances the universe...
  • Loving Nightmares by M. Sinclair

    Loving Nightmares by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I would go to war to protect the nightmares I loved. War was at our doorstep threatening to kill my father, and with him were enough humans that if battle ensued, it would make national headlines. Ones that would only further divide and enhance the hatred between humans and nightmares.War had to be defeated, I just didn’t know how...
  • Through Battle and Blades by Sam Hall

    Through Battle and Blades by Sam Hall

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Out of the frying pan and into the fire, they say. Well, I'm about to learn just how true that aphorism is.First I have to meet a queen in hand to hand combat and hope I come out as the victor, because only one of us will walk away from the training grounds alive.Second, I have to try and find a way to live with the fact that three of my four mates unwittingly betrayed me...
  • Dinosaurs, Disasters & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe

    Dinosaurs, Disasters & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    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...
  • Phoenixfall by K.T. Strange

    Phoenixfall by K.T. Strange

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book 2 in the Rogue Witch Series follows Darcy Llewellyn, fourth year university student, music intern, secret witch, and the werewolves that make up the band Phoenixcry: Finn Gunner, Elias Gunner, Charlie Gage, Wesley “Ace” Rivers, and Cash Legend...
  • Snapped Strings by M. Sinclair

    Snapped Strings by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was going to give him a performance he’d never forget. With our plans set to travel to the Demonic realm, my thoughts turn to the torture I endured while imprisoned in Broken House, and I find myself fearing that the experience will be a trip down nightmare lane. What I find instead is a complex, beautiful realm that in a matter of days draws out of me a determination and strength to defend it...
  • Fighting Monsters Part 2 by Sam Hall

    Fighting Monsters Part 2 by Sam Hall

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    I need to free my monsters, give them a chance to truly live, but it feels like everything is against me. A centuries old curse, the fact I have no idea how my power works, and then there's my family.Everyone wants thing to stay the same, but me.But I'm not about to keep quiet and let the sins of the past become those of the future...
  • Beautiful Beast by Devyn Sinclair

    Beautiful Beast by Devyn Sinclair

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Standing in front of a dragon means dying by fire, but the heart knows there’s more than one way to burn.Humans and dragons are at war, and I am a pawn in the battle.Princess of a dying land, my life is not my own, and a marriage to a vicious, dragon-hunting prince will save my people from deadly famine or death by fire...
  • Cheating Death by Sarah Reynolds

    Cheating Death by Sarah Reynolds

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    The last thing Sunday Prescott wanted to do was rescue her brother from another problematic adventure, but that is exactly where she ended up.When Colton found himself in the holding cells of the Ruby Star Casino, Sunday knew that the only way to get him out what to appeal to the casino's owner...
  • Bonded by Death by Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

    Bonded by Death by Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    I’m torn between three men that I swore I wouldn’t get involved with. I know it’s wrong, but part of me loves it. Craves it.Everyone thinks I’m the good girl, but what they don’t see is that my carefully crafted persona is crumbling around me.My ex taught me that love isn’t sweet, patient, or kind. It’s cruel and it hurts...
  • Dungeons and Dreamers by Alex Lidell

    Dungeons and Dreamers by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Two dark pasts. One bond beyond their control.For a month, Coal has tried to stay away from the beautiful cadet who makes him feel things he shouldn’t, each day of separation spiraling him deeper into worsening nightmares. Already on edge, it takes Coal one split second to plunge into violence—and find himself in shackles once more...
  • Power and Pentad: Part Two by Amanda Cashure

    Power and Pentad: Part Two by Amanda Cashure

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ♥ Power & Pentad Part-Two promises the reuniting of our beloved harem, the introduction of long-awaited key players in the battle to win this war, Shade finding her Alpha voice and Pax learning to trust mortals (well, a select few mortals) as well as a bubble bath scene, shower scene, and the beginning of answers to so many of the questions we've all been waiting for (though not all of them)...
  • Resting Witch Face by A.J. Macey, Jarica James

    Resting Witch Face by A.J. Macey, Jarica James

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Aris Calisto is no longer the newest student at Aether Academy but after her creepy headmaster finds out about her relationship with a professor, she’s finding her seemingly new home is quickly becoming hellsticks. To make matters worse, when someone leaks Aris’s new powers, her and her guys are faced with a Council inquiry...
  • Pack Possessed by J. Kearston

    Pack Possessed by J. Kearston

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    You can’t outrun your demons, but you sure as hell can give them a run for their money. The monster that’s tormented us from the shadows has finally stepped into the light, and he has his sights set on me. But discovering that my entire life has been orchestrated as a twisted form of training to help him literally unleash hell on earth? Not exactly my idea of a romantic gesture...
  • Veiled Flame: A Paranormal Shifter Demon Academy Romance by Cassandra Featherstone

    Veiled Flame: A Paranormal Shifter Demon Academy Romance by Cassandra Featherstone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One letter.That was all it took to change the course of my life forever.Typing too quickly in the application program cost me my dreams of finally being accepted for who I am and now I'm stuck here.Discordia University's acceptance made everything I knew go up in a puff of sulfur.Demons are real and they just admitted me into their elite boys' school...
  • Gift from the Tree by Willa Rae

    Gift from the Tree by Willa Rae

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Waking up on my twenty-sixth birthday, I had hoped to be left alone for one day, just one.What I didn’t expect was to receive a life-changing gift from a stranger.Or for my body to be offered up as a rite of passage for my husband’s initiation into a sick and twisted cult...
  • Power of Draken: A Fated Mate Fae Romantasy by Alex Lidell

    Power of Draken: A Fated Mate Fae Romantasy by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The next generation of the bestselling Power of Five must find their fated mate—and Kai’s just happens to be human... and his sworn enemy.ROWANI’m an alchemist, not a soldier. But when your mother is an ambitious war hero and your rare magic is the key to defending the kingdom from draken-riding fae, you don’t get a choice...
  • Birthright by Elizabeth Knight

    Birthright by Elizabeth Knight

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Cassarah, the firstborn child of a baron, is finally ready to be presented at the royal court. Every step of the way, her mother has been planning out each detail of her life—who she's going to marry, how she's going to dress, and even what she's allowed to say. But Cassarah’s ability to quietly submit to her mother has come to an end...
  • House of Fae and Mist: Brides Selection by Meg Xuemei X

    House of Fae and Mist: Brides Selection by Meg Xuemei X

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I have no intention of being anyone’s bride, let alone fighting tooth and nail to get there.All the vicious catfights in the school nauseate me. I have bigger things to worry about, like being hunted by my father, who’s getting closer every day.Yet no one leaves me alone. The princes believe I’m playing hard to get, so they pursue me fiercely...
  • Silenced by Crystal North

    Silenced by Crystal North

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m not crazy.My parents had me tested.And much to their disappointment, my diagnosis set me free from under their oppressive thumb.Travelling across the world to attend Santa Catalina University with my best – only – friend brings me freedom and happiness…To a point.What I don’t expect is a mountain of a man to bring silence and calm to my otherwise chaotic brain...
  • Enemy Tyes by Alex Lidell

    Enemy Tyes by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lera burned him. Now it’s Tye’s turn.Tye has sacrificed everything for his chance at the Prowess Trials, and Lera’s betrayal in reporting his injuries nearly ended it all. Now there is nothing left but to kick Lera out of his world—and ensure the eviction stays...
  • Forged in Blood by K.F. Breene

    Forged in Blood by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Before Shanti was the most wanted woman in the land, she had yet to master her sword and the potent Gift with which she was both blessed and cursed. But the threat won't rest, and her people may pay the price.This story is also found in Legends: Fifteen Tales of Sword and Sorcery Anthology.You can also get a copy by signing up for K.F. Breene's newsletter...
  • Mage's Mercy by Cassie Cole

    Mage's Mercy by Cassie Cole

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Alyssa’s finally getting the hang of being an elite Dragon Pyromancer. So why did the Archon have to go and foul it up?After their victory at the Academy, the Ninety-First Quintelaide returns home as heroes. Alyssa’s name is on everyone’s lips: the girl who killed a Silithik Queen...
  • Magic Awakened: The Complete Series by Sadie Moss

    Magic Awakened: The Complete Series by Sadie Moss

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This complete reverse harem series is ready to be devoured! Book One: Bound by MagicOne badass mercenary. Four sexy-as-sin rebels. Bound together by powerful magic and dangerous desire...In a world ruled by magic, surviving without it means I have to be quicker, smarter, and fiercer than the magical beings that run this city.I get by just fine working as a bounty hunter..
  • Whispers Beneath the Deep by Aleera Anaya Ceres

    Whispers Beneath the Deep by Aleera Anaya Ceres

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maisie never expected to care about the most notorious criminal of Thalassar. But with the Black Blade on the brink of death, she must decide if she’s going to assume her role as princess and watch him die… or risk everything to save his life.With danger lurking around every corner, no decision comes easily...
  • Prowess Trials by Alex Lidell

    Prowess Trials by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When you play with fire, everyone gets burned.It’s the first day of the Prowess Trials, with all the royals—and the dark fae Owalin—gathered for Tye’s grand performance. When the magic wards fall right in the middle of Tye’s routine, Lera does what she must to save his life—giving Owalin just the opening he needs.River is in love with Lera, but he can’t be with someone who lies...
  • Ranger's Risk by Cassie Cole

    Ranger's Risk by Cassie Cole

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    A young Pyromancer teams up with five sexy soldiers in this action-packed Paranormal Reverse Harem Romance. Alyssa’s Quintelaide is getting another chance to test the Tinker superweapon.And this time it’s against a real Silithik hive...
  • Fortuna Academy Box Set Books 1-4 by J.B. Trepagnier

    Fortuna Academy Box Set Books 1-4 by J.B. Trepagnier

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Complete Fortuna Academy Series, Available in one boxed set. Hayley Killoran was not ready to find out she was the daughter of Lucifer and a powerful witch. Lucifer was not ready for one of his brothers to stage a hostile takeover of Hell. Hell was not ready for Hayley Fortuna Academy is an adult reverse harem Academy series with one snarky female and five fated mates...
  • Dark Arts by Fiona Starr

    Dark Arts by Fiona Starr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Three wolf shifters tormented by a deadly secret. Two worlds torn by a twisted legacy. One girl determined to choose her own fate.They say being called to the world's oldest magic organization is the pinnacle of achievement for a witch. The lottery is done in secret. The names appear by magic. Membership in this exclusive club is like receiving a golden ticket...
  • Institute of Supernaturals: Savage Heart by J.E. Cluney

    Institute of Supernaturals: Savage Heart by J.E. Cluney

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Turns out, evil has a way of returning, and now we need to watch our backs.I have mates. I’m a kitsune. And I’m stronger than I ever thought.My life really has changed in just a few short weeks.My new mates and I have been through a lot since becoming bonded, but now we have a chance to settle in and begin our bounty hunting life together.Take a step towards a future.Or so I thought...
  • Elemental Shadowed by Helen Scott

    Elemental Shadowed by Helen Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An ancient secret and a set of murals could save the world or doom them all.Tessa doesn’t have much to go by if she’s going to rescue humanity. The prophecy she needs to understand is a closely guarded secret and the murals she found are giving nothing away. After barely surviving her last fight with the demons, she’s thrown into this one before she’s ready...
  • Delivered to My Gargoyles by Mazzy J. March

    Delivered to My Gargoyles by Mazzy J. March

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    So I take a dare. As a “human” I have no real right to be looking for a “mate” on an app for shifters and other paranormal beings. But I never have been able to hold my liquor, which is why I rarely drink to excess. I am not entirely sure shifters or vampires or whoever exist beyond cosplay anyway...
  • Caresses Between the Sand by Aleera Anaya Ceres

    Caresses Between the Sand by Aleera Anaya Ceres

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The secrets of the kingdom are finally unravelling, and now that Maisie knows the truth of why Kappur and Thalassar are at war, she will do everything she can to make it right. Starting with finding out where the missing royal is.To do that, she’ll need to retrace Princess Odele’s every move, and she knows she can’t do it alone. Not with the queen monitoring her every move...
  • A Game of Veils by Eva Chase

    A Game of Veils by Eva Chase

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Play for a husband. Don't fall for his enemies...As the second-born princess of a kingdom conquered by a brutal empire, I'm nothing but a pawn. Little do I expect my parents to arrange my marriage to the most powerful bachelor of the son of the emperor himself...
  • Forbidden Bond: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance by Fiona Starr

    Forbidden Bond: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance by Fiona Starr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They’re the ones in power, so why are they are so afraid of me? Newly minted magic user? Check. Hot-as-hell boyfriends who want only me? Check. A fresh start after surviving a murderous attack? Yeah, about that… They said choosing a life at Stormwood Academy wouldn’t be easy. But nobody mentioned it would make me a target...
  • Crazy Witch by Nikki Dean

    Crazy Witch by Nikki Dean

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Hide your magic.Hide your boyfriends.Hide your real power.Mallory Serra is in over her head. Finals are coming up, Christmas is around the corner with two and a half boyfriends to buy gifts for, and the Defense Department is still trying to kill them all.Oh, and she might be a murderer on top of all of that. Fun stuff...
  • Fates Mark by Demi Warrik

    Fates Mark by Demi Warrik

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Fate always has a plan for us, which is likely why it sends me stumbling face first into my mate’s crotch. Literally.Imagine my surprise when I first hold his hand and, bam, a bond clicks into place throwing me into a supernatural world I know nothing about...
  • Shadows Spark by C. Rochelle

    Shadows Spark by C. Rochelle

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rejected by HellHunted by HeavenA destiny written in the starsCurrent mood: Over itHave you ever had the kind of week where you're supposed to be escorting souls to Hell but instead you save a handsome human with some lightning power you didn't know you possessed then end up in a naughty angel's bed?Well, that's what's new in my life..
  • Arrested By Magic by Avery Song

    Arrested By Magic by Avery Song

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Homeless at the age of twelve. Misfit among my peers at sixteen. Unemployed by eighteen. I have bad luck, but never thought I'd be in handcuffs by the golden age of twenty. Some would blame the universe for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I know better. So does the Alpha wolf hidden inside me...
  • Academy of the Forsaken by Eva Chase

    Academy of the Forsaken by Eva Chase

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When I arrived at Roseborne College searching for my foster brother, I had no idea what I was in for. In the past few weeks, I've endured torments both physical and emotional. I've looked death in the face. And I've made an unnerving discovery that's left me scrambling to pick up the pieces of the quest I started out on.But the supernatural beings who run this school haven't conquered me yet...
  • Séance by Stacey Brutger

    Séance by Stacey Brutger

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Book one in the Spirit Realm Duet... I see dead people.While it might sound cool, I can assure you, it’s not. The dead are even bigger assholes than the living.I learned at a young age to be invisible. Even breathing wrong could set my father off. The beatings have become progressively worse as I’ve gotten older, and I fear I won’t survive to see my eighteenth birthday...
  • Dark Gods by River Ramsey

    Dark Gods by River Ramsey

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    At the Academy of the Gods, winner takes all and the games are about to begin. The name’s Kore, daughter of Demeter, crown goddess of spring, but you can call me Kory. Along with my invitation to attend the elite Olympus Academy where all the top deities send their brats for training, comes the news that I’m betrothed to Hades, tall, dark and brooding god of the underworld...
  • Princess Taken by Tyler Parker

    Princess Taken by Tyler Parker

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Zane, Daniel, and Blaze - My Protectors.The men I must fall in love with to save the word... wait, what?Imagine my excitement when I find out there's more to my dreary life and that I'm powerful beyond my wildest belief.In fact, I'm apparently the key to to kicking Venom's ass.But then I learn that I'll only be able to reach my full potential once I fall in love with all my protectors...
  • Lies Within the Darkest Tower by Tessa Cole

    Lies Within the Darkest Tower by Tessa Cole

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    No one can know the newest guard in the Black Tower is a woman.When my younger brother’s name is called in the lottery for life-long service in the most dangerous army in the kingdoms, I know my ruthless stepfather is responsible and I must take his place.It doesn’t matter that I’m a woman and only men are allowed in the Black Tower...
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