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Antecedents' Legacy by Daniel Schinhofen
Zander Greaves grew up in Compton, California— violence, pain, and strife were his life for his first eighteen years. His personality was forged by his childhood, and he was determined to find a way to make his past work for him.As soon as he could, Zander decided to find work as a military contractor. The company he’d badgered for a job eventually hired him, earning him the nickname “Badger... -
To Valor's Bid by M. Tress
Desmond McLaughlin was just getting through his life and trying to survive. A 9-5 job and a hobby that cost more than it earned left him just enough money to afford a crappy apartment and time to dream of something better. He was expecting to spend most of his life like this.He hadn’t expected to be greeted by a CIA agent waiting inside his house one evening... -
Knot of Shadows by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen a corpse is found floating face-down in Vilnoc harbor that is not quite as dead as it seems, Temple sorcerer Penric and his chaos demon Desdemona are drawn into the uncanny investigation. Pen’s keen questions will take him across the city of Vilnoc, and into far more profound mysteries, as his search for truths interlaces with tragedy... -
Where Dragons Collide by T.A. White
Tate is about to face her biggest challenge yet—navigating high society.After the events in the Harridan’s city, Tate is settling back into life in her chosen home of Aurelia. Peace doesn’t last long when a simple misjudgment leads to an event Tate would do anything to avoid—making her formal debut to court... -
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Prime Valkyrie by Michael-Scott Earle
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAdam has one mission: Hunt down the Magate Order and recover his kidnapped crew before they are lost forever. Unfortunately, his life has been bound to the Prime Valkyrie, and if Adam doesn’t submit to her powerful father, he’ll be executed... -
King Killer by Michael-Scott Earle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAdam and his crew of beautiful women are together at last, but now they must circumnavigate the rite of passage that will most likely kill the weretiger captain.As if certain death wasn’t enough, there are hunters coming for both Adam and Eve, and if the team wants to survive, they must battle an elite mercenary army before trying to kill a king... -
Shadow Eagle by Michael-Scott Earle
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsReeling for the news of his fate, Adam decides to chase the one clue that might lead him toward answers: his sister. But the other Nordar clans have heard of the change in power, and they come to challenge his rule. The tiger will have to assert control over his new empire and kill all that stand in his way. Before he goes insane... -
Asking Fur Trouble by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBess Campos never imagined that escaping her dead-end job would lead to an interstellar adventure wild enough to change her life forever... -
Binary Pair by Michael-Scott Earle
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFollowing the hint given by Persephone, the crew arrives at planet Y-114-a. What they find throws them into an impossible struggle against an army of deadly robots, a corrupt corporation wishing to enslave the planet, and an evil that is more ancient than the galaxy.And this time, they might not all make it out alive... -
Making Monster Girls 5 by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe duchess has believed my con, and now she is almost mine.As soon as I make her my monster girl, my coup of this city will begin.Then I will make every aristocrat my monster girl and rule this place... -
The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWith her weak eyes and useless lungs that often leave her gasping for air, Nere feels more at home swimming with the dolphins her mother studies than she does hanging out with her classmates... -
Zeta Hack by Michael-Scott Earle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAdam, Eve, and Z have narrowly escaped the clutches of Elaka Nota Corporation and exited hyperspace around the orbit of Queen’s Hat Station- where they intend to re-stock and repair Persephone. Instead, our heroes find themselves in the middle of an undercover police operation, gang war, and terrorist plot that threatens the two million innocent citizens of the immense space station... -
Burning Bright by Michael-Scott Earle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe crew of Persephone only has 300 days to find help for the planet of Uraniel. They return to Queen’s Hat Station with hopes of recruiting more people for their ship, or finding any leads about the super-powered aliens threatening the galaxy.But Elaka Nota is waiting for them on Queen’s Hat, and the conflict sets the crew of Persephone on a path that will change their friendship forever... -
Foreseen by A.J. Anders
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsForced to attend the Surmata run Suoja Guild, Evie finally has hope for a better life. But her new freedom comes at a cost. Dark forces work against her, even within the safe walls of the demon hunter’s school. With her father still on the loose, Evie must be extra diligent to watch her back... -
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Watcher United by J.L. Madore
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDuty. Honor. His brothers. That's all he has.The Egyptian twins. Seth was one half of something great. He and Phoenix were unshakeable—unbreakable. But when the foundation of that life crumbles, Seth is forced to reevaluate everything he thought he knew about: relationships, values, self-image, and scariest of all . . . love... -
Demon Fall by M.J. Haag
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove isn’t blind; it’s devastating.June had her future all planned out, and it never involved hiding in a bunker with her long-term boyfriend during what felt like the end of the world. In fact, surviving the zombie apocalypse never even entered the picture. Yet, that’s exactly what fate gave her.A game of survival. One horror after another. But, at least, she’s not alone... -
Dark Elf's Demand by Celeste King
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsI outran my master.But I can’t outrun fate.I was desperate for my freedom.In my haze, I made a decision that would change my life forever.I collapsed on a dark elf soldier’s doorstep.But Lavin doesn’t throw me in a cell.He gives me a bed, food, and medicine.I think for once I am safe.But soon I realize, a pretty prison is still a prison... -
Adored By Her Orc Avenger by Celeste King
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsOn this Earth, we fear the orcs.But we fear other humans more…Life is not pretty where I am from. It is brutal and deadly.Such can also be said for the orc that saved me.I thought I was dead, but he fought off my attackers. Together, injured we took shelter in an abandoned house.It’s where I got to know him.Where I started to fall in love with him.But this world isn’t pretty... -
Hexbound by Bec McMaster
It should have been an easy task... Verity Hastings has a little trick; she can find anything, no matter where it's hidden. It's a skill that's kept her safe and fed all the way from the orphanages and workhouses of her youth. But when she steals a mysterious item for a masked man, she knows the con is on her this time... -
Sworn by Starlight by Sara Ivy Hill
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe wants to save me. Heal me. Make me his queen.RoseCaged for years by my lizardlike abductors, I’ve given up hope of escape… until a huge alien warrior buys me and carries me off into the grasslands of his planet!I have no idea what he wants with me and I’m too sick to fight, so I brace myself for the worst. But his hands are gentle, and our connection is electric... -
The Minotaur and the Mage by Cora Crane
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA city girl who’s inherited a small town magical storefront, the minotaur single dad next door, and a rivalry that’ll drive them both wild. I thought I had it all figured out—a thriving career in the music industry, a promotion on the horizon, and enough work to keep me distracted from my love life (or lack thereof)... -
Ai no Kusabi Vol. 6 by Rieko Yoshihara
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSeeing Guardian's dark side in full, the pursued Kirie escaped to Riki's place. But Guy handed him over to the visiting Katz Leading to discord between Riki and Guy, Riki left the slums behind to seek out Iason's approval... -
Demon Disgrace by M.J. Haag
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEveryone lives a lie.It replays in my head, the moment of my greatest shame. I'll never escape it. With an exhale, I let go of everything. I fall endlessly, waiting for the sudden stop. Hell would be a welcome respite.A hollow husk of the woman she used to be, Hannah hides from her pain with any alcohol she can find. She’s bleeding out from wounds no one sees... -
Devil in the Hold by Tammy Walsh
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHe’s pushed every Prize beyond her limit. And today he chose me. I’m not new to this game. I was abducted and made to work as a Prize for the past year. Dozens of alien fighters have claimed me. None scare me.None… other than the prisoner known as the “Devil.”When a riot kicks off and the prison is hurled into chaos, no one knows what they’re doing… or how high the stakes are... -
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Dark Elf's Devotion by Celeste King
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHis gaze promised to break me……but it was his touch that ruined me for all other men.I’ve always heard that my values and convictions are useless on Protheka.How they’d be ripped from me, like everything else.I just didn’t want to be used.All that changed when my sister fell ill.To save her, I sold my soul.Now I belong to a monster... -
The Naga's Wife by Celeste King
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsI was bought to be played with and discarded.But instead, I was given something I thought I lost forever.A family.Sold to a snake monster, I feared the worst.He is a beast that fuels nightmares with a harsh exterior hides something much more fragile beneath.His heart.It bleeds for others.But most of all, it bleeds for me... -
Alien Prince's Claim by Tammy Walsh
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsClaim. Mate. Breed.After human females are no longer capable of becoming pregnant, I enter a program to be seeded by an alien male . . .. But when the facility is attacked, I discover I’m now the target of disgusting creatures called the Goblar. They wish to breed me… and the only thing that can stop them is my gorgeous alien mate, Yaltah... -
The Tentacle Awakens by J.J. Pavlov
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsDeath and Reincarnation. Kuroe Makoto, the tomboyish ace of her high school track and field club, never spared a thought for these things before. However, when she falls asleep in her Tokyo home after an exhausting marathon and wakes up in a fantasy world, those concepts become her reality... -
Nanny For The Alien Primal: A SciFi Romance by Athena Storm
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHe may be a king but my rank is higher. Its called 'mom'. One day I get a knock on my door.It’s the Drokan King.Turns out that the two orphaned kids my best friend left behind when she died are royalty.He says I need to bring them to the Palace. And I need to come be their nanny.He’ll pay me handsomely and ensure I live a life of privilege and comfort. But there’s something more... -
Xurek by Ava Ross, Alana Khan
It’s the intergalactic cruise of a lifetime, a chance to meet aliens and travel to exotic locales.On a lazy river excursion, I’m stuck sharing a float with Xurek, a cocky orc commander in the interstellar military. Leave it to him to insist on taking an axe on an inflatable float.The more anxious I become, the calmer he gets, which only irritates me more. I should ignore him, but I can’t...Categorized as:
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Legendary Rule by Bruce Sentar
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTired of the main character one shotting every boss? Every girl inexplicably in love with him on first sight? Legendary Rule is certainly not an 'easy mode' harem. Ajax Demos finds himself lost in society. Graduating shortly after artificial intelligence is allowed to enter the workforce; he can’t get his career off the ground... -
Heart of a Kraken: A Sci-Fi Monster Romance (Monster Hearts) by Cara Wylde
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsI became a marine veterinarian because I wanted to make a difference in the world. No one gets it, because why would I want to work when I come from old money? I don’t care. I want to make something of myself, not marry well and spend my life playing tennis and throwing yacht parties.I get my chance to prove my skills when Dr... -
Hunted By The Dark Elf by Celeste King
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWhat am I to do when my prey becomes my predator......And I enjoy it?Kidri is a fierce warrior but he has a dark side even his Prince doesn't know about.When he takes me away from Emberforge, I fear I won't be able to escape him.But the chase is what we both want.And as he hunts me through the woods, I find I want to be caught.I want to be his prey. To be devoured.In me, Kidri has met his match... -
Fated Mates of Breeder Prison: The Complete Series Box Set by Tammy Walsh
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsGET ALL 3 BOOKS IN THE FATED MATES OF THE BREEDER PRISON SERIES IN 1 COMPLETE BOX SET.BEAST IN THE CAGEWhat happens when an alien slave master gets greedy?After being thrown into cages to pleasure brutal alien fighters, I’m broken—a mere shell of who I used to be.I’ll be used and forced to do the monsters’ bidding, it’s too much to expect a male to watch over me.Then the Beast claims me... -
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Gem Knight 2 by Kirk Mason
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsADVENTURE TO THE TOWERS, SAVE THE PRINCESSES, GAIN NEW POWERS.When we rescued the first fluffy-eared princess, I didn't realize how lucky we’d been. She was a kind soul, and gentle—everything you’d imagine a sweet princess to be.Though atop the second tower, the next stripey-tailed princess bore a rage as wild as the sun... -
Demons and Damiana by Violet Taylor
Demons and Damiana is a Dark Romance Monster Smut ShortThe Dream Eater comes for the children, snatching them in the night while they sleep. That is how it has always been. Pru will do whatever it takes to keep the children in her care safe from harm. But when tragedy strikes once again too close to home, she’s forced to make a life-altering decision.She’s going to kill the Dream Eater... -
Gantz/23 by Hiroya Oku
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe battle-hardened Osaka Gantz team has fought with courage and fury to wipe out most of the lower-level (but highly lethal) alien invaders. Now firing on all cylinders, the OGs set out to go toe-to-toe with the insanely powerful boss-class offworlders, including the elusive, shape-shifting "100 Point" boss, a creature that can appear as beautiful as it is deadly... -
Her Alien Ghost by Michele Mills
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFirebrook Castle is haunted.What utter nonsense! I never believe silly ghost stories… until I suddenly inherit the crumbling Firebrook estate. And now I’m a human bravely staying the night in an old ruin to prove that tales of ghostly Hyrrokin soldiers are just that…tall tales... -
My Orc Bosshole: A Monster Romantic Comedy by Zora Black
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMy new boss may be green……but he makes me see red.I hate Zouk and his bosshole attitude.Sure, I missed him after he left the company - I missed watching those large muscles flex under those expensive shirts.What I didn’t miss was that the total douchebag persona he’s so good at.Until one day I got a knock on the door.…And there he was. Demanding I come work for him... -
Gantz/24 by Hiroya Oku
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAs the mind-boggling 100-point alien boss unleashes its horrors upon the overmatched Osaka Gantz team, the Tokyo team is forced by the Gantz orb to join the battle, but even their numbers fail to turn the tide. When all hope seems lost, the legendary alien fighter Hachira Oka returns from exile and enters the battlefield with his fearsome arsenal of weapons... -
The Infinity Gate by Sara Douglass
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 26 ratings“Sara Douglass has the breadth of vision necessary to create sweeping epics and the storyteller’s gift that makes readers love her... -
Aurian by Maggie Furey
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn ages past, there had been four magical weapons, fashioned to be used only by the Magefolk. But their history had been lost, together with the Artefacts themselves, in the Cataclysm which had wrought changes on land and water alike. Lost also had been the history of the Magefolk, and the Winged Ones, the Leviathans and Phaerie... -
Shield of Fire by Boone Brux
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsProtecting humans is the Bringers' duty. Sending demons to the Shadow World is their pleasure. In one night, Ravyn's life plunges from barely tolerable to deadly. Forced to flee the only home she's known, she stumbles headlong into the clutches of Icarus, a powerful demon intent on stealing her powers. Unfortunately for him, she has no intention of cooperating...Categorized as:
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The Witches of Wenshar by Barbara Hambly
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOnce, it was said, Wenshar had been a city of witches, summoning and controlling demons for their evil magic. But in nearby Tandieras, Kaltha claimed to have found their lost book of spells to perform only white magic. When Sun Wolf arrived, he discovered increasing signs of evil magic and demon-controlling spells... -
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Paramount by Nadia Scrieva
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe broke her heart. Now, it's time for him to pay... Pax Burnson has been in love with Thorn Kalgren since she was fourteen. Long before he became the CEO of one of the world's largest tech companies, and an arrogant jerk. Their families have always been close due to their shared secret; both Pax and Thorn are descended from devas, powerful demigods with vast supernatural abilities... -
The Naga's Mate by Celeste King
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsHe may slither and hiss. But he’s all man where it counts. Rule Number One if you’re a human woman on the alien hell world of Protheka: Don’t ever stop running.Because if the orcs that burned your village stop chasing you, that means you strayed into Nagaland – the territory of the fiercest nightmares on the planet.Their scales and forked tongues will mesmerize you as they catch you...Categorized as:
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Grumpy Orc Boss: A Monster Romantic Comedy by Zora Black
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsYou think your boss is a monster?Will yours threaten to eat you if you clock in late? No?Then you have no idea.Well, hello there, Mr. Tall, Dark, and Growly. He knows I can see him checking me out. I can see his tongue licking his tusks as he watches me make photocopies.He may have put down his axe for suits and CEO salaries, but only I know he's still a warrior at heart... -
Divine and Dateless by Tara West
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDivine and Dateless by Tara West Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go all the way.. -
The Mistwalker by Regine Abel
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTo be loved by a shadow in the Mist. Every month, for three days, a mysterious fog filled with demonic creatures swallows the world. Since its first appearance a decade ago, I’ve diligently secured my home against the danger. Today, my sister’s negligence has allowed something in. A Mistwalker. A part of him now resides inside of me, his brand on my chest a constant reminder of his presence...Categorized as:
demons monsters science fiction paranormal fantasy futuristic fated-mates non-human-hero
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