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The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews
Long ago, before history broke in half, elder gods exiled the vengeful deity Erynis to a far corner of Earth. When Ryn is found weakened after saving the life of an innocent villager, the U.S. military mistakes the battered immortal for a feral teenager and places her in New Petersburg, a decaying city full of monsters... -
Shield by Audrey Faye
Bailey has problems.A very gimpy shoulder thanks to challenging her alpha, a newborn packmate with the dietary preferences of an angry bear, and a big lug of a wolf who thinks she’s his mate and keeps trying to prove it in really embarrassing ways.But none of those are nearly as bad as a best friend who insists she has the right to dream. To want. To hope. To believe... -
The Queen’s Heart by J.K. Jeffrey
With the future of the Borealis Kingdom uncertain, Selene must do what she can to ensure her future as Queen, but at what cost to Percy? Percy is still unsure whether Selene will ever return her feelings and form a true soul match bond with her, but as she begins to settle into her life with the Princess, political turmoil and jealous love rivals threaten to destroy everything... -
Celestial Magic by Iris Beaglehole
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsRosemary and Athena’s lives are thrown as the big Summer Solstice festival brings a series of mysterious events. Rosemary’s chocolate shop plans are being waylaid by strange disappearances and uninvited visitors. Meanwhile, Athena is sure the astrological lessons at Myrtlewood Academy hold the key to unlocking the town’s latest mystery, even if her mother doesn't want to hear about it... -
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Shifting Nature by Jae
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFaith and Tala’s fake relationship turns real, but can their love survive the secrets they’ve been keeping? Find out in the gripping conclusion to Jae’s paranormal lesbian romance.After a carefully staged fake relationship brought them together, fox-shifter Tala and human Faith are no longer enemies... -
Green Rath: A Cait Reagan Novel by Aoibh Wood
Two thousand years before Cait Reagan was a twinkle in The Morrigan’s eye, Weyna played handmaid to that very same Goddess in the year leading up to the Second Battle of Maighe Tuireadh, where the Tuatha de Dannan faced the forces of Fomori in a climactic final battle... -
In Sea-Salt Tears by Seanan McGuire
Free to download in Mobi, ePub and PDF on http://www.seananmcguire.com/tobyshor... It was 1972, and a teenage girl named Elizabeth Ryan thought that her world was coming to an end. Elizabeth was the daughter of two Selkies, you see, and she had just been passed up for a skin. But then a mysterious cousin who calls herself Annie appears, and Elizabeth finds other things to think about.. -
Midlife is the Cat's Meow by Miranda MacLeod, T.B. Markinson
A witch without powers. A secret to die for. A midlife sapphic awakening.A few months ago, I thought I had it all. My life as a forty-something suburban mom in Cleveland might not have been stimulating, but sometimes excitement is overrated. Like when FBI agents knock down your door on the hunt for your crook of a husband. Thrilling? Maybe. But I wouldn’t recommend it... -
Snow: The White Crow by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen people are in need of location or rescue outside of the walled cities in a werewolf infested world. Gretta Snow, Recovery Specialist and Wolf Hunter, is the woman to call. Her ability with weapons and combat are just as formidable as Her magics and supernatural connection to nature... -
Our Monsters by Jemma Topaz
Rosemary Dulahan, answering a strange job posting, arrives in Monstertown – a place inhabited by magical beings from another world.Navigating the politics of sphinxes, lamias, and secrets, she must learn how to get along with her non-human coworkers and maybe romance a few monster girls along the way... -
True Nature by Jae
When wolf-shifter Kelsey Yates discovers that fourteen-year-old shape-shifter Danny Harding is living with a human adoptive mother, she is sent on a secret mission to protect the pup and get him away from the human... -
Ella: Cinders and Ash by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDrawn to Seattle by the pull of black magics, Ella brings her wrath. A trail of blood and violence left in her wake. By chance, Parker Devareau, meets Ella while rushing home to get behind the safety of her Full Moon Bars on a full moon night. Parker can see, hear and feel things that no ordinary person can... -
Rose: Briar's Thorn by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHer touch is death... her love is worse. For as long as she can remember, Rose has been a monster. Cursed by a man who would one day become one of the most feared creatures on the earth, one of the future Alpha werewolves. Alister Marcus. For hundreds of years she has roamed the earth, living apart from humanity, watching from afar... -
Biding Time by Lyn Gardner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTime is relative. You’re born. You live, and you die, your lifespan predisposed by your species, your health, and your luck. But what if there were a species who colored outside the lines?In Back Bay, Massachusetts, dwells such a person. She goes about her life wanting nothing more than to run her business, right some wrongs, and never love again... -
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Fire & Water by Alexis Hall
I like my whiskey like I like my women: embroiled in a magical warTen years ago I fought for the Witch Queen of London in a mystical showdown against a King Arthur wannabe with a shaved head and a shotgun. Back then, the law did for him before he could do for us.I don’t think we’ll get that lucky again... -
Undertow by Jordan L. Hawk
Note: This novella takes place at the same time as events in Fallow (Whyborne & Griffin 8). Shy secretary Maggie Parkhurst knows there’s nothing special about her. She’s neither sorceress, nor fighter, nor scholar... -
She Came at Midnight by Darva Green
"If you want to dance through the darkness, I'll let you take the lead..."Being a powerless witch in a family of murderous occultists, Natalia knows better than to make any kind of deal with a supernatural creature. But when she comes face to face with the Nocnitsa who haunts her nightmares, she can’t deny that she’s tempted... -
Witch Unmade by Debbie Cassidy
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSometimes you miss things that are staring you in the faceEverything has led to this. All the threads are finally coming together, and the pieces of the puzzle are slotting into place... -
Bloody Claws by Winter Pennington
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsYule is a time to celebrate the rebirth of the light, but for Preternatural Private Investigator and Paranormal Huntress Kassandra Lyall, it’s about solving yet another series of crimes.When a couple disappears from their quiet neighborhood home, Detective Arthur Kingfisher brings Kassandra in on the case. Faced with a bloody symbol painted on the couple’s bedroom wall, the cops are stumped... -
Shadow Hunt by L.L. Raand
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen shadows fill the night, it’s hard to tell friend from foe.With young to raise and her Pack under attack, Sylvan, Alpha of the wolf Weres, takes on her greatest challenge when she determines to uncover the faceless enemies know as the Shadow Lords... -
The Librarian's Gargoyle by Evelyn Shine
Magic is real, and Viola is going to prove it!Viola is a Parisian librarian by day and parkourist by night. The last thing she wants is an arranged marriage (ick) with a man (double ick.) If Viola can fund the library and keep it open, she might keep her job and freedom, might being the key word. To make matters worse, strange magical shades keep attacking her, threatening her physical safety... -
Demons & Daffodils by A.J. Merlin
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI had a plan. Make a deal with the devil for more power, join a coven, get a boyfriend, and spend the next three hundred years making a name for myself while finding a way to free my eternal soul from servitude to Satan before I’m old.It wasn’t in my plan to die three weeks after my deal by having a helicopter dropped on me.Now I’m dead... -
Natural Family Disasters by Jae
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive short stories that give us glimpses into the lives of Griffin, Jorie, and the other characters from Second Nature. Bonding Time: Griffin has been looking forward to a little feline bonding time with a special lady. Leave it to her sister Leigh to interrupt... -
The Hood of Locksley by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHer faith, unshakable… and her aim is true. The legends of fairytales descend upon Issaquah, Washington from Seattle in response to the report of lemon activity. They find themselves under attack by an archer with uncanny aim and unnatural speed and agility. The group’s beta wolf, Amanda Danes, finds herself in pursuit of a legend. Robyn of Locksley. The fabled Robin Hood of Nottingham... -
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Let Down Your Hair by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe Avatars in Seattle stumble upon the journals of past Avatars, and Parker starts reading the story of Rapunzel in her own words. After spending half her life imprisoned by the dark witch, Dame Gothel, Rapunzel has vowed to hunt her down so that she can cause no more harm to the innocents of the world. In her hunt, she stumbles upon the most unlikely of companions... -
Hair of Gold - Just Right by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe world has not been kind to Katiana, Goldilocks, as the werewolves robbed her of her family when she was young. She was spared a similar fate by three bears who came to her aid and fought off the wolves. Kat finds herself in a strange new world after the loss of her family, but finds happiness again with her new family… her new brothers... -
Expired by C.P. Rider
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAn assassin goes into a bar...Actually, she buys the bar. A truckstop town bar called the Dusty Cactus Saloon. Now, if everyone will stop asking for her help, she might actually find some time to run the damn thing.A full-length novel from Chandra's point of view. Just a little shorter than Neely's books... -
Pigeon Post by Jae
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsKelsey, a submissive wolf-shifter, has always done what she has been ordered to do. But when Madsen, the Wrasa’s highest alpha, sends her a letter via pigeon post, containing very unusual orders, she’s not sure she can obey... -
Trolls by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEvangeline Kane is thrust into a world and a role she never asked for. She finds herself questioning her sanity as she finds herself bound to a bridge as its Troll when the previous champion died in her arms... -
The Devil You Know by Marie Castle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCate Delacy isn’t thrilled to be volunteered as a finder of lost bodies, but she’s not immune to Gemini Roskov’s grief and righteous desire to claim her father’s remains. It means a confrontation with the hostile Council of Supernatural Beings that controls far too much of New Orleans’ darker mysteries and…personalities... -
Cursed by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhile out celebrating her twenty first birthday, Angelina Drake finds herself immersed in a curse that goes back generations, to the time when the first Djinn terrorized the world. She has to fight for her life and her friends when an old evil comes knocking. The wishes of the people around her just complicates the situation as she can hear them all, spoken or not... -
Not A Vampire by Auryn Hadley
They’re destined to destroy each other. When a crusading killer and a mysterious monster choose another path, will their worlds burn?Fighting evil is second nature to Thane Keegan. Raised by the Church of the Holy Inquisition to hunt down and slay demons, the fierce warrior only stays loyal to his role to keep his brother safe... -
Claimed by Stein Willard
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Wolven lived by a rigid code of duty and loyalty with any dissent met with swift and brutal punishment. Thus, Leland Oakridge, the most powerful wolf in North America, was stunned when an obvious breach of that code, left her a victim as a result... -
Vampire Blood Drive by Mira Ong Chua
Can love bloom at a blood drive?All Bunny wants is to live a perfectly normal student life, but things aren't what they seem at Bloodhorne University! When she's swept off her feet at her school's annual blood drive by dashing butch vampire Velvet, she's forced to choose between sticking to her ideals..Categorized as:
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The Last Caspian by Taryn J. Dallas, T.J. Dallas
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDevin Edwards is the first geneticist after years of research to fully sequence the genome of the classified-extinct Caspian tiger. Her job at the Tiger’s Eye Sanctuary, the most dedicated tiger rescue and conservation effort in the world, is to pull Caspians back from the literal brink of extinction; the sanctuary hosts one very special tiger that isn’t found anywhere else... -
The Hex Next Door by Lou Wilham
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat’s a little necromancy between family?For the Crow Witch, Icarus "Rus" Ashthorne, Moondale seemed the perfect hiding place. But like they always say, you can't go home again, and Rus finds out quickly that nothing is how she remembered, while at the same time very little has changed. Then she comes face to face with the only woman she's ever loved, Az Elwood, and.. -
The Other Side of Forestlands Lake by Carolyn Elizabeth
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAs kids, best friends Willa Dunn and Lee Chandler spend every summer together at the idyllic Upstate New York community of Forestlands Lake, nestled in the foothills of the Taconic Mountains... -
Mobilized by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTwenty one years ago, Evander Laun and Natalia Havashire went on the air throughout the world on almost every news channel simultaneously, to reveal to the human race that Elves walked among us. It is the most-watched historical event in modern times... -
Reluctant Witch: A Course in Magic, Book 2 by Melissa Marr
The Magicians meets One Last Stop in the sequel to Remedial Magic by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr!After discovering she's a witch and being whisked away to the magical land of Crenshaw, Ellie wants nothing more than to spend time with her new wife, Prospero, who has magically altered Ellie's memories to convince her of exactly that... -
As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 11 ratings"This novel will bend and twist your notion of what love is, while leaving you utterly bewitched." — KIRKUS REVIEWS (Starred Review)"Vivid and impressive...Fans of Addie LaRue will be enthralled... -
A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 55 ratingsAlex Award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark, A Dead Djinn in Cairo is a Tor.com original historcal fantasy set in an alternate early twentieth century infused with the otherworldly.Egypt, 1912. In Cairo, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine... -
nevermore by Nell Stark, Trinity Tam
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA coup. A plague. A falling soul. In this sequel to everafter, Valentine Darrow and Alexa Newland are separated when Alexa is caught in the middle of a Wereshifter civil war halfway around the world. Meanwhile, a mysterious disease begins to ravage the shifter population of New York City... -
Hell's Belle by Marie Castle
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCate Delacey is glad she’s a witch—both kinds. She could have done without the guardian bit that put a bull’s eye on her back. Being a guardian comes with so many risks and rules that immortality ought to be a fringe benefit... -
Bonding Time by Jae
Short story sequel to Second Nature.Griffin has been looking forward to a little feline bonding time with a special lady. Leave it to her sister Leigh to interrupt... -
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Coming to Dinner by Jae
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShort story sequel to Second Nature.Jorie and Griffin are having second thoughts about their decision to invite Griffin’s shape-shifter relatives and Jorie’s mother for dinner on Christmas Day... -
Summoning Shadows by Winter Pennington
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second Rosso Lussuria Vampire Novel Epiphany has risen within the ranks of clan status. Declared Elder and Inamorata before the Rosso Lussuria vampires, to raise a hand against her is to raise a hand against Queen Renata herself. She has taken Iliaria, the Great Siren Dracule, as her lover and ally, wearing Iliaria’s sigil as a sign of their unlikely alliance... -
Wolf Ways by Robin Roseau
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsZoe struggles with her place in the pack along with her relationship with Elisabeth. Michaela meddles with both and becomes perturbed when some of her efforts are thwarted... -
Wolf Women by Robin Roseau
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs Zoe and Portia explore their relationship, Zoe settles more fully into the pack, embracing her new friends and their traditions. Yet, the challenges that come with her attachment to Portia mean that Zoe will need to make decisions that could cost her the plans she'd made for her career -- or the relationship that has fulfilled her... -
Nature of the Pack by Jae
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAs a submissive wolf-shifter, Kelsey Yates has always bowed to the dictates of her powerful alpha wolf parents. That changed when she met Rue, a powerful alpha in her own right, despite the fact that she is human. When Kelsey’s parents learn of the forbidden relationship, they set out to put a stop to it...Categorized as:
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Babysitter Material by Jae
Short story sequel to Second Nature.It's Rufus and Kylin's anniversary -- and no babysitter for the triplets in sight...
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