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  • Diamond in the Rough by C.W. Gray

    Diamond in the Rough by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After the adventures of the Blue Solace, the Crellic System is forever changed. Can a diverse and eccentric group of survivors bring back the extinct Crell species and carve out a home of their own in the colony of Dragon's Hollow?Xavier Juren has lived in the shadows of his larger-than-life parents and brothers since the day he was born. As the youngest, he struggled to forge a path of his own...
  • Love You A Sloth by Lorelei M. Hart, Aria Grace

    Love You A Sloth by Lorelei M. Hart, Aria Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You can’t change the past. Darryl knows this all too well. Omega sloth shifter Torin has carved out a nice life for himself as owner of the River’s Edge Thrift Store. He gets to know everyone and helps them find just what they need among the “treasures” in his shop. It’s a calm and quiet existence, one his beast enjoys...
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  • Refuge by H.L. Day

    Refuge by H.L. Day

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    If you no longer recognize someone, how can you possibly be expected to trust them with your life? Some might describe Blake Brannigan’s life in the small Yorkshire village of Thwaite as bordering on mundane. His job in a café doesn’t exactly set the world alight. But, he’s got his own house, a boyfriend, and a close-knit group of good friends...
  • Shax's War by Angel Martinez

    Shax's War by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The boys desperately need a vacation. With the not-quite-ill-gotten gains from the Frog incident, Shax takes the Brimstone's crew to the exclusive resort planet, Opal, for some much needed rest and relaxation. The resort has everything a demon prince and his crew could want, but an incident on the Trauma Ball court has Ness stalking off in anger and sends events swiftly spiraling out of control...
  • My Lover, My Enemy by Tricia Owens

    My Lover, My Enemy by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 5 of Juxtapose City. Black might be a lieutenant and the leader of a special forces police team, but long ago he was something else, something worse. And now his past lovers have risen up to oppose him, becoming enemies where he thought he had allies. Calyx Starr's empathy is a curse rather than a gift, as he and Black struggle to survive conspiracies and obsession...
  • 不死者 [Undead] by Huai Shang, 淮上

    不死者 [Undead] by Huai Shang, 淮上

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
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  • How To Save Your Human Invader by Arden Fox

    How To Save Your Human Invader by Arden Fox

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    With my weapon trapped at my side, the alien leaned in until it was inches away from my face. It inhaled deeply, its eyes drifted closed, and a tremor passed through its body. “Omega.” A strange feeling ran through me that made my heart trip over itself and every hair stand on end. Bryce Two years ago a human pilot was taken captive by the Alder— a ruthless and savage alien race...
  • Love Slaves of the Alphas: Volume 1 by Shannon West

    Love Slaves of the Alphas: Volume 1 by Shannon West

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    FIRST TIME IN ONE VOLUME!  Books One through Three of Shannon's acclaimed sci-fi series. Most Wanted (Book One) Hot porn star Ryan Henderson is desperate. On the run for a murder he didn’t commit, he tries to hide out by selling himself at an auction for love slaves...
  • Fox and Dragon by Jet Mykles

    Fox and Dragon by Jet Mykles

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Drake Ange is a Krystanni, which, in the eyes of most people in the known galaxies, makes him a pirate. Krystanni are known for flouting regulations and stealing from the government. Of course this isn't true of all Krystanni, but it's hard to dispel the rumor. Beth Holliday, callsign Fox, is therefore surprised when Drake applies to join the Emirate Elite...
  • Royal Captive by Shannon West

    Royal Captive by Shannon West

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the outside, it looks as if Janos, the king of Laltana, has everything—looks, wealth, power, and the love of his people. But, few realize his on-going battle with his inner demons. Captured, imprisoned, and abused by the Tygerians, he loathes his enemies and vows revenge...
  • Candy & Her Saints by Rosemary A. Johns

    Candy & Her Saints by Rosemary A. Johns

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    My name is Candy, and I’m the only Omega baker.A dating app pairs me with my enemies for my heat. They’re impossibly gorgeous, powerful…and my scent matches.When the dangerous Alpha deputy mayor and beautiful but broken male Omega protect me in their mysterious mansion, I’m shocked to discover that fated mates aren't a myth...
  • My Little Human by M.A. Innes

    My Little Human by M.A. Innes

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Weirdest munch ever.Dane isn’t expecting much from the mostly straight munch he’s somehow ended up at. As awkward encounters turn into a boring meet-and-greet, he’s ready to escape when the most interesting Daddy in the room sets eyes and tentacles on him.When an earnest new Daddy and a slightly confused little come together, sparks and laughter fly because tentacle Daddies make the best Daddies...
  • Beauty and His Beast by Stormy Glenn

    Beauty and His Beast by Stormy Glenn

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Someone is out to kill Jynx K'Vada and the only way he can protect himself is to buy a guardian beast, something he is loath to do. When he visits a lab and discovers a man being horribly abused, he buys him on the spot. He has no idea that he's just changed the entire course of his life...
  • The Found by J.E. Lorin

    The Found by J.E. Lorin

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    More than two years after nearly dying at the hands of a serial killer, sort-of psychic August Goodson is living his best life. He has a great relationship with his dreamy cop boyfriend, Luke. He works for his twin brother, Finn, with whom he’s built a company. And he has the loving support of his long-time best friend, Cherry...
  • Omega: A Baby For The Alpha Billionaire by Savannah Quinn

    Omega: A Baby For The Alpha Billionaire by Savannah Quinn

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Twenty-one-year-old Sam has just started working for world renowned billionaire Edward Drake. Drake’s ancestry can be traced back to noblemen and kings, and the six-foot-six, broad-chested Alpha has set his sights on the fertile young Omega. Sam, having a boyfriend at home, just wants to be treated the same as everyone else, but Edward Drake is used to getting whatever he desires...
  • Omega: Found By The Alpha King by Aiden Bates

    Omega: Found By The Alpha King by Aiden Bates

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Free With Kindle Unlimited! Download Your FREE Ebook Gift Inside! Planet Aris was nothing more than a pile of sand. It had no water, no life and the environment was deadly. Only a few villages of colonists were able to survive in the dunes. They lived a simple life, surviving off of imports. They suffered constantly because of the harsh environment...
  • Smoke & Mirrors by Charlie Cochet

    Smoke & Mirrors by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 54 ratings
    Life for Dexter J. Daley has never been easy, but he’s always found a way to pick himself back up with a smile on his face. Taken from his home and the arms of Sloane Brodie, his boyfriend and THIRDS partner, Dex finds himself in a situation as mysterious and lethal as the Therian interrogating him. Dex learns what he’s secretly believed all along: his parents’ death wasn’t an accident...
  • Blood & Thunder by Charlie Cochet

    Blood & Thunder by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 76 ratings
    When a series of bombs go off in a Therian youth center, injuring members of THIRDS Team Destructive Delta and causing a rift between agents Dexter J. Daley and Sloane Brodie, peace seems unattainable. Especially when a new and frightening group, the Order of Adrasteia, appears to always be a step ahead...
  • Little Mushroom [小蘑菇 上] by 一十四洲

    Little Mushroom [小蘑菇 上] by 一十四洲

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    An Zhe was a mushroom whose lifelong mission was to raise his own spore.One day, he lost his spore.He searched all over the world for a long time before finally seeing a familiar spore on the news.An Zhe desperately knocked on the door of a colonel in the human military.“Hello, Sir. Did your research turn out well? Can I have my son back after the research?”The colonel looked cold...
  • THIRDS Beyond the Books: Volume 1 (THIRDS) by Charlie Cochet

    THIRDS Beyond the Books: Volume 1 (THIRDS) by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Join us as we celebrate the THIRDS universe with this collection of flash fiction stories written to prompts submitted by fans. Sometimes we want to know more about our favorite characters. Where they came from, how they became who they are, their families, friendships, and past heartaches. These snippets of moments in time offer an inside look at the lives of our favorite THIRDS characters...
  • Rack & Ruin by Charlie Cochet

    Rack & Ruin by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 67 ratings
    New York City’s streets are more dangerous than ever with the leaderless Order of Adrasteia and the Ikelos Coalition, a newly immerged Therian group, at war...
  • Cloak and Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Cloak and Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 42 ratings
    One of the fiercest soldiers the Phrixians have ever produced, Maris Sulle has been an outsider the whole of his life. He grew up with a secret that cost him everything- His birthright, his family and his military career. In all his life, he’s only had one love and he has sacrificed his own happiness to see his best friend reunited with the woman he loves...
  • Rise & Fall by Charlie Cochet

    Rise & Fall by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 58 ratings
    After an attack by the Coalition leaves THIRDS Team Leader Sloane Brodie critically injured, agent Dexter J. Daley swears to make Beck Hogan pay for what he’s done. But Dex’s plans for retribution are short-lived. With Ash still on leave with his own injuries, Sloane in the hospital, and Destructive Delta in the Coalition’s crosshairs, Lieutenant Sparks isn’t taking any chances...
  • Tried & True by Charlie Cochet

    Tried & True by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 38 ratings
    When THIRDS agent Dexter J. Daley met Team Leader Sloane Brodie, he couldn’t have imagined how slamming into his new partner—literally—would shake both their worlds. Now four years later, they’ve faced dangers, fought battles both personal and professional… and fallen deeply in love. Now their big moment is finally in sight, and they’re ready to stand up together and make it official...
  • The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    The Ghost and the Darkness Vol. 2 continues with Reaver and Elish desperately trying to find Killian and Jade. Forced to work together, they scour the northern greywastes for clues of their whereabouts. Though finding the two boys isn't as simple as following a trail. Something happened to them that no one expected...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  dystopian  futuristic  m-m  fantasy  paranormal  dark
  • The Shackles That Hold Us by Michele Notaro

    The Shackles That Hold Us by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    As if crushin’ on a shifter wasn’t bad enough, I had to go and date one. A mage and a shifter walk into a bar… No, that’s the whole joke. Magi and shifters don’t mix, and yet I find myself in a relationship with Cosmo, a lion shifter. And on top of that, Cosmo, and all his pride members, consider my brothers and me to be a part of their pride. Three magi in a shifter pride...
  • Adonis by L. Sherleen

    Adonis by L. Sherleen

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 24 ratings
    Accused of a hate crime and expelled from school in his final year, Connor returns home to his seaside town to let everything blow over. There, not only does he have to learn to deal with the addition of two new stepbrothers and a new stepdad, but he also has to grapple with a world set against him. It’s not all bad though. Within his dad’s underwater lab, he discovers something in the deep...
  • The Suicide King Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    The Suicide King Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    After being broken in almost every way imaginable, it is now time for the phoenixes to emerge from the flames and take flight. The men who had become shadows of their former selves have resolved the issues that had plagued them, and now it is time to take back what they had lost...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  m-m  dark  science fiction  abuse  dystopian  paranormal
  • Gummy Bears & Grenades by Charlie Cochet

    Gummy Bears & Grenades by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    A THIRDS Novella THIRDS agent Dexter J. Daley can’t wait to marry his fiancé, Team Leader Sloane Brodie, but first he’s looking forward to celebrating his bachelor party—which he intends to be a shenanigans-free evening of getting his groove on with family and friends. Of course events don’t work out as planned, but for Dex that’s nothing new...
  • Severing Sanguine by Quil Carter

    Severing Sanguine by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    After being exiled from his only home Sami found himself alone in the greywastes at the age of seven. From then on it was just him and Barry, his old teddy bear who kept him company and didn't mind that Sami had red eyes and pointed teeth. Though Sami always longed for a real friend, someone who wasn't always telling him to hurt himself and others like Barry sometimes did...
    Categorized as:
    angst  queer  m-m  dark  abuse  science fiction  dystopian  rape
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