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Unchained Beauty by C.M. Owens
Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI've spent my life thinking I knew the worst that could happen. Battles come and go. Wars are almost always won in the end. It's easy to grow complacent and forget even the deadliest should glance over their shoulder from time to time. We thought we had it all figured out. We were poised for this win before we even went to battle. We didn't win. We didn't lose... -
The HellBeast's Fight by Stephanie Hudson
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBook 2 in The HellBeast King Series... -
The Oh My Gawd Couple by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWelcome to my Hell… and not the good one where I’m in charge. Word on the street is that my brother’s son was potty trained at eight months old. Unacceptable. I shall not be bested by God. I have pilfered plastic potties, Cheerios and bagels. I am prepared to teach my boy to put the pee in the hole. All I need now is a potty song. Or so I thought... -
Psy Changeling Series Collection by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA PSY-CHANGELING COLLECTION BY NALINI SINGH Experience the explosive series hailed by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan as "a must-read for all my fans." In Beat of Temptation, innocent Tamsyn has always had a place in her heart for Nathan, a blooded DarkRiver sentinel... -
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Haunted Plains Drifter by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHannah Hickok and Cooper Wyatt are newly engaged and ready to celebrate. Cooper just didn’t think the celebration would involve a hike to a long-abandoned boom town called Blackridge. He had something more romantic in mind. Despite that, he agrees … and believes the trip will be fine, right up until they stumble across a homeless man warning them away from their destination... -
Jill by Teresa Gabelman
Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOnce again, Jill stood at the crossroads of her life. The decision to leave her role as a VC Warrior had been a devastating choice that shattered her very being. Yet, the Warrior she had been molded into demanded the sacrifice, pushing her toward an uncertain future... -
The Ghoul, the Bad, & the Ugly by Lily Harper Hart
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsZombies in Casper Creek? Say it ain’t so. Unfortunately, it looks to be true … and Hannah Hickok and her motley crew of helpers have a mess on their hands.As Cooper Wyatt struggles with the perfect way to propose, his girlfriend is buried in zombie lore … and seemingly having a good time digging up solutions... -
Ride My Sleigh by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe hot mess Christmas express…Megelle Island is full of supernatural creatures. I came here a few years ago to be among my own kind, to not worry that I’d accidentally shift into a raccoon or turn invisible in front of some poor human. My clumsiness was going to expose us all to the public and get me into big trouble with the angels.The only problem is…I’m the only jinn here... -
Her First Taste of Fire by Kristen Painter
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShadowvale isn’t your typical small town America. The sun never shines, the gates decide who enters, magic abounds, and every resident bears some kind of curse.Most people think Nasha Black lives in Shadowvale because that’s where her father, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, lives. But Nasha has another reason for staying in Shadowvale and it’s not just the bakery she owns and operates... -
Coti's Unclaimed Mate by Elle Boon
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWill they find beauty in the ashes as the fire settles, or will they go up in flames? Shifters and humans don’t mix, at least not in Coti’s opinion. He’s more than just a wolf though, but his pack and fellow MC brothers don’t know everything there is to know about him, and he likes to keep it that way… until one human female comes along and changes everything... -
Southern Witching by Amy Boyles
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe happiest day of Dylan's life has finally arrived...her wedding day! All of Silver Springs is ready for a celebration to remember. But things get off to a rocky start when Grandma Hazel calls down a flock of eagles that try to eat the wedding doves. Then Dylan sees Roman before the ceremony. Things couldn't get any worse, could they? Never ask a question you don't want answered... -
One More Day: Springblood Book 1 by Cee Bowerman
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTremayne Badeaux has lived a thousand lives during his time on Earth. He’s explored the world, made lifelong friends, started empires, and destroyed enemies, but he’s never experienced an all-encompassing love that he’s willing to give up his own life for - until he meets the one woman he can never lose... -
Fashionably Dead and Demonic by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAnastasia I’m dead. He’s demonic. It never would have worked…Getting dumped by the Demon of my dreams wasn’t exactly in the game plan. Game plans suck. Throwing caution to the wind is my new motto.I used to be a semi-happily single Vampyre... -
Hocus My Pocus by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you’ve got it, haunt it… Once upon a time, I had big ideas, big dreams, and big plans. But when my mother left my kid sister with me when I was only fifteen, I was suddenly the single mother I never thought I’d be. Someone had to raise Torren and show her love and support, the way parents were supposed to love their children, the way our mother never did... -
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Carve My Pumpkin by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGive ‘em pumpkin to talk about… The perfect job is only two weeks away. Two. Short. Weeks. All I have to do is survive the trial period for this new position and the future I’ve always wanted will be my reality. Once it’s mine, I’ll travel the world helping my fellow supernaturals blend into the human world and craft the lives they dreamed of. And in turn…maybe I’ll find myself... -
Witches Behaving Badly by Kim Richardson
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWitches, wereapes, and pregnancy cravings… What could possibly go wrong?Just when I think I’m getting the hang of this whole “married to a wereape” thing, life throws me a curveball in the form of pregnancy. And let me tell you, pregnancy and magic do not mix well. My cravings are bizarre, my magic is on the fritz, and I’m pretty sure I accidentally hexed the toaster. Twice... -
Vlad by Patricia A. Rasey
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsOne woman has the power to bring the king of vampires to his knees. Check out USA Today Bestselling Author, Patricia A. Rasey's latest, emotionally driven novel that has paranormal romance readers clamoring for more. Vlad Tepes, king of the vampires, has a problem on his hands... -
Dante's Circle Reborn by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan returns to her bestselling Dante’s Circle series with a collection of four never before published and highly anticipated romances. FALLEN FOR ALPHAS Liam and Alec watched their Pack fall from grace and fought with tooth and claw to make it rise from the ashes again for the Alpha... -
Blood Dark by Lindsay J. Pryor
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 11 ratings‘There are guardian angels, and there are monsters with wings’ Caitlin Parish should have been the last person to fall for a vampire. A member of the Vampire Control Unit, her relationship with master vampire Kane Malloy had explosive consequences. Caitlin’s colleagues count her as the enemy. And now she’s going back... -
The Duskfire Dragon's Mate by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fated mate of her dreams… is her grumpy ex-boss.The moment she met Corin Blackburn, Maya Flores’s life fell apart. The man who should have been her soulmate rejected her. Lost and alone, she ran away to Hideaway Cove, where she built a new life for herself and her dragon shifter son. And left Corin Blackburn behind. For good.Or so she thought... -
Winter Takes All by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhere’s a curvy girl with a love of snowy mountains and cold, crisp air to find a man who’ll light her fire? Gerri Wilder knows just the place and most certainly the right shifter... -
E.V.I.E.: 13 Slayers, 13 Missions by Amelia Hutchins, Anna Edwards
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 10 ratings13 Slayers. 13 Missions. 13 Standalone Stories Set within a Universe of Violence.Welcome to the world of E.V.I.E.A place where vampires come to die.These Slayers don't play. They're fierce, badass, and court the creatures of the night. Some protect our existing reality, while others venture to realms far away to hunt down bloodsucker bounties. Each plot and twist comes at a price... -
Switch of Fate 2 by Grace Quillen, Lisa Ladew
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“All vampires must die.” Flint Gibson is ready to lay down his life for The Cause, just so long as doing so results in a ton of dead vampires. He’s been planning a kamikaze mission for decades, not-so-patiently waiting for news about the vampires who killed his family. Because all vampires must die. Especially those vampires... -
Switch of Fate 3 by Lisa Ladew
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRiot Cofield is a bad-boy mountain lion shifter who scales mountains like fences. He belongs IN the Natahala Forest, but not TO it, and he resents “the Cause” because it turns normal, sweet women into a conniving, savage witches - switches - who will do anything to kill a vampire. Riot tried out the Cause (after all, he is a shifter) but after getting used and discarded twice, he’s over it... -
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Rebel Reborn by Sarah Piper
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen darkness descends, who will survive the Battle for Blackmoon Bay?The fight at the cemetery was hard-won. But from the enemy’s perspective, the cemetery was just a minor outpost. Blackmoon Bay is ground zero for their entire operation, and it’s no longer simply the home we’re desperate to reclaim. It’s the spark that will eventually set the whole world on fire. If we fail, we will all die... -
Hunter: Immortals of New Orleans, Book 10 by Kym Grosso
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom NYTs and USA Today Bestselling Author Kym Grosso...a novel in the IMMORTALS OF NEW ORLEANS series now optioned for film. Hunter Livingston’s trip to Hell had been a calculated risk. Best case scenario, the Alpha would save a friend and come out unscathed; at worst, he’d burn in flames for eternity... -
The Bad Boys of Assjacket: Magic and Mayhem Universe: Magic and Mayhem Book 9 by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA dare is a dare. No self-respecting, slightly chubby, good-lookin’, crime lovin’ cat would ever pass up a dare. So I didn’t. Now, me and my boys are in hot water trying to figure out how to live on the right side of the law for a whole freakin’ week! This is complicated by a couple of hairy issues…— The half-headed bear in town had his privates pilfered... -
Witchery & Weight Gain: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Romance by Lisa Manifold
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne week ago, I became the queen of the Oracles. One day ago, I learned the cost of such a power. One hour ago, I decided this isn’t all it’s cracked up to be... -
Trick My Treat by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMischief night meets magic… I never realized just how trapped I felt under the water until my sister married the wolf pack alpha last year. Suddenly, a life on land was actually possible. I love the ocean and my family, and I’m super protective of them…I just feel like I’m living life for the first time... -
Baby Got Bear by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsLucy Benton, daughter of the Pack Benton wolf alpha, knows there’s only one man for her. Beau. He’s gentle and strong, and she just can’t seem to stay away from him. Training horses at his ranch was her way to get his attention, but it’s been two years and nothing has happened between them. What is going on? Beau Sampson can’t live without Lucy... -
A Very Alpha Christmas: Over 25 Paranormal Holiday Tales of Werewolves, Dragons, Shifters, Vampires, Fae, Witches, Billionaires, Magics, Ghosts, Demons and More by Mandy M. Roth, Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the creators of the NY Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Anthology Taming the Alpha comes... A Taming the Alpha Big Box Set of Spicy Paranormal Romance Tales featuring OVER 25 ALL NEW, NEVER RELEASED stories from New York Times, USA Today and Bestselling Authors Limited Time Boxed Set Stories include:Mandy M. Roth - Heated Holiday: Bureau of Paranormal Investigation She's fire... -
Fighting For Her Dragon by Julia Mills
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThere Are No Coincidences…. Given a fairy tale life by the clan of dragon shifters that rescued her as a little girl, Emma Sinclair long ago accepted she might never solve the mystery of her heritage. Of course, that was before she could feel the traitor’s pain, before she knew he was slipping away. And before the unthinkable happened… he called to her in the language of his kin... -
Romancing The Paranormal: All New Tales by Stephanie Rowe, Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 11 ratings13 BRAND NEW paranormal stories from your favorite USA Today, New York Times, and Amazon Bestselling authors. Here’s a list of all 13 paranormal anthology authors! 1. Stephanie Rowe 2. Robyn Peterman 3. Victoria Danann 4. Kym Grosso 5. Dakota Cassidy 6. Claudy Conn 7. Teresa Gabelman 8. Melanie James 9. Gena D. Lutz 10. D’Elen McClain 11. Julia Mills 12. Brandy L. Rivers 13... -
The Witch's Handbook to Hunting Vampires by Amy Boyles
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAll Andie Taylor wants is a quiet life. Andie Taylor is your average single mom. She's got a beautiful toddler, a great job at the local preschool, a neurotic best friend and one huge secret—she used to hunt vampires. Now retired, Andie would much rather be wiping kid snot off her clothes than stalking the undead... -
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Goldie and the Bears: Paranormal Shifter Romance: A Howls Romance by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAsh Goldenlochs hasn't touched another person in years. Her gift--or curse, as she thinks of it--forces her to experience the past of anything against her hands. When she meets two of the most gorgeous men she's ever seen, she wants to rip her gloves off and let her fingers do the walking. Bear shifters, Spencer Hartz and Chaz Coco, are partners in a trio who couldn't be more opposite... -
Raptor's Peak: Switch of Fate 4 by Grace Quillen, Lisa Ladew
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Cause is recruiting. Shifters of all species are flowing into Nantahala Forest, meeting at the Bear Claw Diner, eager to lend a paw or talon in the fight against the vampires. The Cause has already filled one magical coven house with vampire-killing witches – switches – and their leader claims more are on the way... -
Thanatos by Felicity Heaton
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThanatos, god of death, has a mission: scour the unknown realms of the Underworld and retrieve the only daughter of his god-king, Hades. Murdered six centuries ago and her soul captured before it could pass on, she now falls under Thanatos’s domain... -
Karma's Spirit by Helen Scott, L.A. Boruff
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat does Karma have to do with the ghostly world? Apparently, everything.When I meet a psychic in Mystic Hollow, I’m skeptical. Even though, you know, I’ve accepted most of the supernatural world. But who could blame me when the psychic acts like a stereotype from a really corny show?Yet when our hands touch, everything changes.Suddenly, I’m seeing ghosts all over our little town... -
Cowboy Dragon's Bride: (Cowboy Dragon's Inn) by Serena Meadows
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe made me break my oath to never fall in love. That was after I watched her ditch her wedding. As a dragon shifter, I had all I wanted.Now I only wanted to see her happy.I was content with just running my ranch and hotel with my best friends until she came along...A troubled bride at our hotel.I helped her escape and gave her a job.Seeing her with another man made my blood boil... -
Witch Moon Wishes by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt should have been a simple wish. All Merri wants is for Keely to find the man of her dreams.Unfortunately, the consequences are anything but simple and Merri sets of a chain of events that might cost Keely any chance of finding true love.Keely had almost given up hope of finding a man to love her. But thanks to Merri she has no shortage of suitors... -
Hexing on a Hunter's Moon by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHalloween is a couple of days away. Unfortunately, this year it coincides with the Hunter’s Moon. But it’s not vampires and werewolves the people of Wishing Moon Bay should fear.It’s the ghostly fae army that will rise when blood is spilled on their final resting place... -
Talyn: Repose by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTalyn wants a vacation.As war breaks out to destroy Abydon’s Blight, Talyn has decided to take a much-needed vacation, and to explore some of the world with her friends and lovers.Unfortunately for Talyn, just because she wants peace and quiet doesn’t mean the world is going to give it to her. World walkers are agents of chaos on Garloth whether they like it or not, and Talyn is no exception... -
The Darkest of Dreams by Emigh Cannaday
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA heinous crime. An empire in turmoil. And a modern girl at the center of it all. Darkness has fallen on the Marinossian family, leaving ruined lives in its blood-stained wake and leaving Annika to pick up the pieces. With a deadly doppelgänger still loose and most likely in deadly pursuit, she’s escorted back home to wait out the storm and heal her broken heart…however long that may be... -
Her Dragon, His Demon by Julia Mills, Linda Boulanger
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 12 in the Dragon Guard series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series. Her Dragon is strong and loyal, a leader among his kin. He makes her feel things she never thought possible and…he is her only hope for survival. His Demon is beautiful and alluring, the other half of his soul... -
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Jake by Kym Grosso
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRise to Alpha With Alpha blood coursing through his veins, charismatic wolf Jake Louvière, can no longer deny his true nature. As his beast demands his rightful place within Acadian Wolves, he’s forced to choose between killing his Alpha or leaving New Orleans forever. When a mysterious woman trespasses into the bayou, Jake is instinctively wary of the creature that is not wolf... -
Death Untold by Sarah Piper
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll magic comes with a price tag.It's a lesson witches are taught from a young age, along with the ones about how we'll never survive a vampire turning, how hunters will always seek to eradicate us, and how a devil's bargain can never be broken. But together, my rebels and I have shattered every last rule, ignored every last warning... -
Fearless: A Vision of Vampires 4 by Laura Legend
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCassandra Jones can usually see what's coming—that's part of the whole mystical seerhood gig. And life at the Shield monastery is pretty good: she's training to save the world with a petit, frightening witch, and her relationship with Zach is provoking all kinds of salacious rumors among the Shield's younger occupants, which is pretty amusing, all things considered... -
Christmas Embrace: An Immortals of New Orleans Novella by Kym Grosso
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoyeux NoëlA supernatural wedding brings everyone together during the holidays. But it doesn’t feel like Christmas for Detective Sydney Willows. She finds solace in the arms of her sexy vampire but with a fragile heart, not quite mended, she’s afraid to commit to an eternity... -
A Sky Full of Stars by Kristen Painter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShadowvale isn’t your typical small town America. The sun never shines, the gates decide who enters, magic abounds, and every resident bears some kind of curse.Lexi Gardner is a rare creature with a nearly unlimited supply of magic. Unfortunately, that magic has gotten a little low. That’s all right... -
Only For Her Dragon by Julia Mills, Lisa Miller
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 5 in the Dragon Guard series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series. There Are No Coincidences... The last bachelor in a Force of elite Dragon Guardsmen, Aaron O'Brien decided long ago that single was the only way to be. Mates and children and happily ever after were for his brethren...
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