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  • Senseless by Crystal Ash

    Senseless by Crystal Ash

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 46 ratings
    Our home is on the brink of war, and my marriage hangs by a thread.While neighboring armies threaten to march on Four Corners, I’m dealing with a war zone at home. I can’t bring myself to look at Reaper or Gunner, let alone speak to them. I don’t know where my love life stands, or if I even have one anymore. Only Jandro is my rock, and only my work gives me purpose...
  • Vivid Avowed by Kaydence Snow

    Vivid Avowed by Kaydence Snow

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 71 ratings
    Evelyn’s secrets have all been revealed, even questions she never thought to ask. Despite the turmoil surrounding her childhood and true identity, she knows one thing for sure: she belongs with her devoted Bonded Variants – Ethan, Josh, Tyler and Alec. But the truth hasn’t set Evelyn free. The division between Variants and humans continues to widen. Nowhere is safe...
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  • Endless by Crystal Ash

    Endless by Crystal Ash

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    Our love is endless.Endless is an epilogue novella to the Steel Demons MC series. It is not "required" reading, the story ends in Merciless. This book shares a slice of life for the Steel Demons characters after the series ends. Blurb and cover coming soon! We certainly don't want to spoil anything...Reading order: 1. Lawless2. Powerless3. Fearless4. Painless5. Helpless6. Heartless7. Senseless8...
  • Merciless by Crystal Ash

    Merciless by Crystal Ash

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    Not even the gods can save us. Two of my men have been captured. The rest of us are barely holding on. We’re wanted, and our army stands no chance against the swarm of mind-controlled pawns. Failure is not an option. Abandoning my husbands is not an option. But the longer we take to plan, the closer we get to losing them. Even worse, our companion gods are no help. Horus can’t see them...
  • Memoirs of a Garroter by Steffanie Holmes

    Memoirs of a Garroter by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    Murder is bad for business, especially when the hot local crime writer is garrotted between the shelves! With grudging permission from Heathcliff, Mina Wilde has transformed Nevermore Bookshop. She’s running author events, hosting Quoth’s art show, and using her creative flair to attract more customers...
  • BloodLust by Auryn Hadley, A.H. Hadley

    BloodLust by Auryn Hadley, A.H. Hadley

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 55 ratings
    On a world where metal is nearly non-existent, a war for steel has waged for more than a decade. The front lines are populated by pallid iliri and iliri-human crossbreds. Seen as little more than beasts, their lives are cheap and easily replaced, destroying their culture as the body count rises. Being purebred, Salryc Luxx will die, she just wants to make sure it counts...
  • Magic Flame by Meg Xuemei X

    Magic Flame by Meg Xuemei X

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    We lit the match. Now we can't stop the mating flame.The world hasn't seen the likes of me.My power can unmake the gods and the worlds--but only after I mate with the Demigod of Sea and activate the Living Flame inside me.Mate all day and all night long.Peachy right?If only we weren't trapped in the Void where no gods, demons, or mortals are safe...
  • Magic Trials by Meg Xuemei X

    Magic Trials by Meg Xuemei X

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 46 ratings
    The demigods can't decide if they want to screw me or kill me.       My name is Marigold. I'm a hunter living in the Great Merge--Lucifer has brought Hell to half of Earth, and four demigods rule the other half. The smoking-hot Demigod of War round up my team to enroll them in Half-blood Academy, aka Half-death Academy, due to the survival rate of the students...
  • Pride and Premeditation by Steffanie Holmes

    Pride and Premeditation by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune will be gruesomely murdered at the ball. Mina’s excited to attend the annual Argleton Jane Austen Experience at the stately Baddesley Hall...
  • Shattered Princess: A Paranormal Prison Romance by Avery Song

    Shattered Princess: A Paranormal Prison Romance by Avery Song

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Secret princess? Check.Secret princess with hidden powers? Double Check.Secret princess with hidden powers hiding out in prison to avoid death? Triple Check. My hiding plan was pretty foolproof. In fact, I only made one mistake -- not counting on four Deadly Sins being transferred to my penitentiary. But they're here now, and their presence is upending my life.Meet:Sexy Jack of All Trades...
  • Claiming Her Mates: Book Three by Dia Cole

    Claiming Her Mates: Book Three by Dia Cole

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    For us to live, she must die. The happy-ever-after I’m seeking seems farther away than ever. Nathan refuses to accept my other mates and the secret I’m keeping may destroy any possible future between the five of us. Even worse, Tasha’s arrival puts us all in grave danger. No one takes what is hers and lives. Our only chance for survival is to defeat the psychotic Alpha female...
  • Claiming Her Mates: Book Two by Dia Cole

    Claiming Her Mates: Book Two by Dia Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Once she saves his life, he’ll have hell to pay Riding out the apocalypse with my sexy mates in a luxurious mountain lodge sounds like a dream. But for some asinine reason, Liam, Mason, and Gabriel have adopted a hands-off policy. Even worse, my ex hasn’t met up with us as promised. If sexual frustration doesn’t kill me, my growing anxiety over the missing Alpha male might...
  • Diadem of Blood and Bones by Ripley Proserpina

    Diadem of Blood and Bones by Ripley Proserpina

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Sacrifice.... Transformation… It all comes down to the final battle... Forced to choose between her life and the lives of the vampires she loves, Briar made the ultimate sacrifice. For her, a world without Marcus, Hudson, Sylvain, and Valen was inconceivable.  But her vampires didn't accept her decision, and at the last moment, transformed her from woman to immortal...
  • Reborn in Flames by M. Sinclair

    Reborn in Flames by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 72 ratings
    I have spent my entire life in the basement of my father’s church. My sadistic mother and god-fearing father believe I have the devil inside of me because I heal after their abuse. I’d accepted long ago I would die in the very place I’d been born without ever feeling the sun on my skin. Then one day, my mother took me from my father’s religious cult in the wake of his death...
  • Banished From the Pack by Alexa B. James, Calinda B.

    Banished From the Pack by Alexa B. James, Calinda B.

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    I wasn't supposed to be found.After my father's murder, my mother broke with the Jacksonville Pack and became a lone wolf, retreating to the swamp to hide a secret she was determined to keep from the world--me. I grew up there, in the lush but dangerous no man's land populated by ogres, panthers, and bog hags...
  • Wide Awake by Anna Fury

    Wide Awake by Anna Fury

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    My life hangs by a perilous thread. The Awaken Virus began turning men into mindless beasts three years ago. They ravaged and burned and killed, and humanity hasn’t been safe since.CarmenBouncing between friends’ apartments and the shelter was hard enough. But now women are being abducted right off the streets by Awakened...
  • Creation by A.J. Moran

    Creation by A.J. Moran

    Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    My life was ordinary. I was going to college and trying to figure out what I wanted to do in life. Then my mom disappeared without a trace. And I ended up going through a portal to another realm.A realm where deals were currency and four Fae Warriors ruled everything. I could help them find what they were looking for, and they could help me find my mom.A deal seemed like the best idea...
  • Wolf Hunted by Sadie Moss

    Wolf Hunted by Sadie Moss

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    ***Paranormal Reverse Harem*** Four renegade wolf shifters. An innocent young woman trapped in a web of lies. When their fates collide, sparks will fly… Diagnosed with a rare terminal illness, I’ve spent over half my life in the Strand Corporation’s state-of-the-art treatment facility...
  • Discovered by M. Sinclair

    Discovered by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 56 ratings
    Important Note: Discovered is book 3 in the Silver Falls University series. Readers can find Lost and Forgotten, books 1 and 2 in the series, as part of the Kingdom of Wolves Universe Collection. Please note, Lost and Forgotten should be read FIRST before Discovered in order to read the series in proper order. https://geni.us/SFU-1Five broken alphas. One lost wolf. A fate she never expected...
  • Vital Found by Kaydence Snow

    Vital Found by Kaydence Snow

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 107 ratings
    Bradford Hills feels more like home than any other place Evelyn Maynard and her mother lived while on the run. But with everyone reeling from the violent clash between Variants and humans, her new home doesn’t feel safe any more. Navigating four increasingly complicated supernatural bonds in secret doesn’t help. Ethan and Josh can’t keep their hands off her...
  • Demons in Disguise by A. Kirk, E. Kirk

    Demons in Disguise by A. Kirk, E. Kirk

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    It's the Gotta Have Book 3 in the Bestselling Divinicus Nex Chronicles! Continuing the action-packed Divinicus Nex Chronicles, Aurora and fan-favorite hotties The Hex Boys are back with more mystery, non-stop action, romance and laugh-out-loud humor that makes this thrilling series irresistible. Come along for the ride where..
  • Unbroken Bonds by J. Bree

    Unbroken Bonds by J. Bree

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 349 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...
  • Lost by M. Sinclair

    Lost by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 100 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: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 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...
  • War Song by B.R. Kingsolver

    War Song by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    My name is Danica James. I'm a cop with the Arcane Division.My job is to protect humanity from monsters - whether they be human or creatures from the Rift. It beats sitting in a factory cubical all day, which is where magiteks usually work.Most of humanity hates the magic users who rule the world, but the Magi stand between humans and the creatures who came across the Rift...
  • Variant Lost by Kaydence Snow

    Variant Lost by Kaydence Snow

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 137 ratings
    When Evelyn Maynard receives a scholarship to the exclusive Bradford Hills Institute, she’s determined to make a fresh start. The Institute is world renowned for educating and training Variants – the 18% of the population fortunate enough to have superhuman abilities. As a human, she’s lucky to be admitted...
  • Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 163 ratings
    In Circus of the Damned a rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other plans. And to make matters worse, Anita takes a hit to the heart when she meets a stunningly handsome junior high science teacher named Richard Zeeman...
  • Through Illusions and Deceit by Stacy Jones, Harper Wylde

    Through Illusions and Deceit by Stacy Jones, Harper Wylde

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 24 ratings
    Through Illusions and Deceit is the much-anticipated continuation of the A Court of Gilt and Shadow Series by bestselling authors Stacy Jones and Harper Wylde. Danger. Illusions. Deceit. Fairy tales and monsters exist... and Arawyn is one of them. After years of trying to control the strange power living inside her, Arawyn knows she's different...
  • When Monsters Lie by Debbie Cassidy

    When Monsters Lie by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    The world went to shit the day I was born.They say fire rained from the sky for seven days signalling the arrival of the monsters.They say humanity fought hard to beat them.They say the celestials saved us.They say a lot of things.Me? I deal in the present. In scouting for useful things and keeping my team alive outside the protective walls of our base...
  • The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton

    The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 139 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...
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