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  • Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier

    Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 42 ratings
    If you had told me that the world would turn to crap a year ago, I would have never believed you. If you had told me I'd be living with my cheating ex and my manipulative twin sister, I would have laughed. Had you informed me I'd be in a relationship with five men, I would have asked what meds you had forgotten to take. Yet here I am at Sanctuary...
  • Her Day To Die by Sage RelleAnne

    Her Day To Die by Sage RelleAnne

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 13 ratings
    My brother? He’s dead. My first love? Dead. I am alone. Until I’m not. My first love, well he had three brothers, and for some reason they are hellbent on not leaving me alone. No matter where I go or what I do, there they are. Always watching in the shadows, waiting for something to happen, but what? I try my best to steer clear of them, but in doing so I stumble across a mystery...
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  • Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss

    Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    INDIE. I have them all now. Just the way I want them. McKay, the one who loves me deepest. Adam, the one who protects me fiercely. Donovan, the one who tells the truth. They are my friends, they are my lovers, they are my world. And Maggie belongs to all of us—no matter who her father is. This is the family I’ve always wanted. This is the family I deserve...
  • The Nations by K.A. Knight

    The Nations by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    War came to the Wastelands and blood and death followed. The Cities will stop at nothing to take what is ours, even if it brings us to the brink of extinction once again. With many dead or dying, it is my duty to make the ultimate sacrifice to save us all. My name is Worth, The Champion, Berserker Queen…. This is my ending. Long live the Berserker Queen. Long live The Nations!
  • Progeny by Rebecca Rathe

    Progeny by Rebecca Rathe

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 39 ratings
    I don’t know who I am or what happened to me. I know that I’ve been running, but from what I don’t know. And I know that the five men surrounding my hospital bed are important, possibly even precious to me, but they all swear they haven’t met me before. They say they feel it too, this familiarity, this connection...
  • Creeping Beautiful by J.A. Huss

    Creeping Beautiful by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    McKAY. I wasn’t the one who broke her but I played my part. She came to us when she was ten. I raised her. I loved her. I taught her how to survive in a world of evil men. But it wasn’t enough. ADAM. I wasn’t the one who saved her but I did my best. She needed me as much as I needed her. Bought and paid for on the auction block. But not for the reasons you think. She was my weapon. DONOVAN...
  • Broken by C.R. Jane, Mila Young

    Broken by C.R. Jane, Mila Young

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Their obsession will destroy her. .. Ella Monroe is broken and betrayed. After the discovery of the Vepar's secret, Ella would like nothing better than to get away from her three Vepar lovers and hide from them forever. Unfortunately, the Vepar have other ideas for Ella...
  • Pride by Kris Butler

    Pride by Kris Butler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    At 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...
  • Backfire: Sydney's Awakening Book 1 by T.L. Hodel

    Backfire: Sydney's Awakening Book 1 by T.L. Hodel

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    The last thing I expected after ten years in foster care, was to get a new stepdad and be reunited with my mother. What kind of man marries someone fresh off the crazy train? As far as CPS was concerned Angus Adair was an upstanding citizen. Clearly they'd never met his sons. I thought foster care taught me how to deal with dicks. Then along came Devlin Adair...
  • Venomous by Penelope Fletcher

    Venomous by Penelope Fletcher

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 91 ratings
    "She is mine to protect, mine to shelter, mine to feed and mine to cover. When she is weak, I shall be her strength. She was stolen from her world by our captors. Now her survival is my responsibility. It is her duty to endure my lust, respect my nest mates and honour our union with offspring. I revere this giver of life, as is the way. " ~ Venomous One, formerly of Rök, enslaved gladiator...
  • Finding Their Heart by Mira Stanley

    Finding Their Heart by Mira Stanley

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Surviving the worldwide pandemic was the easy part. Surviving the attention of seven escaped convicts determined to share her in every way? That might be the death of her. Two years after the worldwide pandemic, there is no law, no communications, no state lines, and no safety. The few who survived came out stronger, each with a unique power. Except for Cora...
  • Sold by Loki Renard

    Sold by Loki Renard

    Rated: 3.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    A Dark Reverse Harem Romance. My body had never been touched by a man. Then I was sold to seven of them. The city was my only chance to survive, but I didn't make it an hour before I was caught. They stripped me, punished me, and then auctioned me off. Not to just one man, but to seven battle-hardened brutes hungry for a woman to claim and ravish in the most shameful ways imaginable...
  • Savage Bonds by J. Bree

    Savage Bonds by J. Bree

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 676 ratings
    With my gift coursing through my veins, the tables have turned on the Draven Campus. I’m no longer the Giftless reject, no longer the girl who’s fair game to the other students for daring to run away from my Bonds. But there are bigger problems heading my way. With destiny pushing me closer and closer to each of my Bonds, I’m fighting tooth and nail against nature to keep my distance...
  • Seminal by C.M. Stunich

    Seminal by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 137 ratings
    I don’t play the role of the kidnapped princess very well. And I really hate the fated mates trope. Hello again, I’m Eve Wakefield, and I refuse to accept that I’m in love with an intergalactic moth prince. No. I don’t care how handsome he is, I don’t want to marry him. I don’t care if his parents have a sentient spaceship capable of eating entire planets...
  • Lost by M. Sinclair

    Lost by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 107 ratings
    Five broken alphas. One lost wolf. A fate she never expected. * Silver Falls University *. There was no reason for a female bitten wolf like myself to be here. More so, there was no reason that someone who grew up as poor as I did, in an overcrowded pack house in the South side of Chicago, should be making her way up north to one of the most prestigious supernatural universities in the country...
  • Twilight Terrors by Rory Miles, Harper Frey

    Twilight Terrors by Rory Miles, Harper Frey

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    It’s hard to build an empire on a crumbling foundation, but my parents are determined to try. With my wedding to Valen nearing, they can taste the power, and they’re practically drooling. Meanwhile, I’ve got secrets piling up on top of secrets, and it’s only a matter of time before the whole house of cards comes crashing down...
  • Unbroken Bonds by J. Bree

    Unbroken Bonds by J. Bree

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 388 ratings
    The gods live among us. I thought that the death of the man who tortured me, broke me, and then hunted me to the ends of the Earth would be the end of our fight; but it’s only the beginning. After thousands of years of being apart, our god bonds are reunited once again; and they’re not ready to go down without a fight. They’ve woken up hungry...
  • From the Fire by Candice Wright

    From the Fire by Candice Wright

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    An asset. An experiment. A liability. A freak. I'm all those things. And so much more. The Phoenix Group might have all the power. But underestimating someone with nothing left to lose will be their downfall. They took the only thing in my life that was pure and untainted. And destroyed it, leaving behind nothing but rubble and ash. Now there’s nothing but revenge on my mind and rage in my heart...
  • Their Champion Complete Series: Books 1-4 by K.A. Knight

    Their Champion Complete Series: Books 1-4 by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Enjoy over 1000 pages of excitement in one box set! This set contains the first four books in Their Champion series—The Wasteland, The Summit, The Cities, and The Nations — plus extra never before published scenes! The world ended and with it so did the rules. I was stolen from my family and raised in the Wastelands to the North. I did what I had to ensure my survival...
  • Blood of Eve by Pam Godwin

    Blood of Eve by Pam Godwin

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    Two years into the aphid plague, there’s little hope left. Food and ammo are scarce. The mutated monsters are growing faster, smarter. And the ratio of men to women is millions to one. Mankind faces imminent extinction. But Evie carries a cure for women. Fiercely protected by three men, she sets out to heal as many infected females as possible...
  • The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton

    The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 147 ratings
    Dating both a vampire and a werewolf isn't easy. But just to complicate Anita's already messy life, someone has put a price on her head. Love cannot save her this time, so she turns to Edward, hitman extraordinaire, for help. But finding the person behind the threat won't be easy, because as both a vampire hunter and zombie reanimator, Anita has made a lot of enemies-both human and otherwise.
  • Beneath Dark Skies by S.A. Ashburne

    Beneath Dark Skies by S.A. Ashburne

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    In the wake of the zombie apocalypse, I thought things couldn’t get any worse. I was wrong. Struggling to survive in a world turned upside down, I'm haunted by the loss of my parents and the recent disappearance of my twin, Holden. I can’t shake the feeling that everything is on the brink of falling apart again...
  • Midnight Poison by A. Kirk, E. Kirk

    Midnight Poison by A. Kirk, E. Kirk

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A new paranormal urban fantasy romance thriller from the bestselling authors of The Divinicus Nex Chronicles! It's action, adventure, suspense, and crazy fun characters! -. No Memory. No Mind. No Mercy. Kiara Blackwood has a few problems. She's older than she looks - by several centuries. She can't remember who she is...
  • Fleeing Fate by Sabrina Day

    Fleeing Fate by Sabrina Day

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 42 ratings
    Nature knows where you belong. For more than two decades, my entire world was made up of three square miles, buried deep in the woods. The same three people, the same daily routine. Life revolved around trying to keep my mother, brother, and myself safe from my father's "corrections. "...
  • Ravaged by Monsters by Katie May, Ann Denton

    Ravaged by Monsters by Katie May, Ann Denton

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 80 ratings
    Monsters own the world. And now, they own me. There are two roles for a human—either you’re a monster’s pet or you’re dead. When I’m ripped from my family and the resistance at the age of eighteen, I think my life is over. One second, I’m fighting against the monsters who enslaved us for years, and the next, I’m on a stage, waiting to be bid on by the very beasts I hunted and killed...
  • Fixing Their Heart by Mira Stanley

    Fixing Their Heart by Mira Stanley

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 28 ratings
    It’s a new world with new rules, but that won’t stop the only surviving female from making some rules of her own. It’s a new world, and there are new rules. Like the superpowers all survivors of The Virus are Gifted with. Like how a single man serves as Judge, jury, and executioner, doling out capital punishment with barely a blink. Like how one woman can be shared by seven men...
  • Checkmate by Jaye Pratt

    Checkmate by Jaye Pratt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Team Zeus were designed to protect Jolie and they swore that they would do whatever it takes to keep her safe, even if that meant she would never forgive them. They have been trying for years to take down the owner of Olympia Corp–Mr. Z. Which has proven easier said than done...
  • Sweet Violence by Leigh Kelsey

    Sweet Violence by Leigh Kelsey

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 28 ratings
    Here’s a tip: when you fall into Hell, seduce the devil. Not that the devil needs much seducing. He’s seen all the twisted, blood-soaked things I’ve done on Earth, and he’s already obsessed with me. A little too obsessed, if you ask me. I already have four mates, and they’re more than enough trouble...
  • The Beauty of Hate: A Dark Why Choose Omegaverse Romance by Kitt Lynn

    The Beauty of Hate: A Dark Why Choose Omegaverse Romance by Kitt Lynn

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    I’m broken. Bitten, marked, and knotted—but I still don't have a mental bond with my pack alpha. .. and he’s unraveling because of it. Every day, his anger sharpens, turns cruel. The bruises are getting harder to hide. Not that the rest of my pack cares anymore. But I guess it doesn't really matter. I don’t know where my pack alpha is taking me, but I know it isn’t anywhere good...
  • Dreams of Lethe by Lexie Talionis

    Dreams of Lethe by Lexie Talionis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Hell let her go. .. but not all the way. And every time Jo falls asleep, it drags her back to be consumed by creatures of the dark. The men who love her can't save her, and the only person who can wants to save her from more than her dreams. She fights him for her freedom while he fights for her soul, but with each battle, a fire grows that both fight with even greater fervor...
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