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  • Mason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Mason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Falling for each other was never part of the plan…Doctor Sage Porter has moved to Marble Falls to be the private physician for a group of men unlike any the world has ever known. But she has a second, secret reason for moving to the small town. A reason she can’t share with another living soul…Especially not the men under her care.Mason Ross is a born guardian...
  • The Life That Mattered by Jewel E. Ann

    The Life That Mattered by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 43 ratings
    Sex isn’t love. Love isn’t sex. And friendship is neither. The son of a French Olympic skier and a Malaysian fashion designer, Ronin Alexander has lived the life of a nomad, traveling the world to find his next adventure. Life takes a dramatic turn when he meets Evelyn, a beautiful scientist who owns a bath shop in Aspen, Colorado...
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  • Moonlight Scandals by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Moonlight Scandals by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    It takes a fearless woman to love the most scandalous man alive in New York Times Bestselling Author Jennifer L. Armentrout’s breathtaking novel Even a ghost hunter like Rosie Herpin couldn’t have foreseen the fateful meeting between two mourners that has brought her so intimately close to the notorious and seductive Devlin de Vincent...
  • Like Grim Death: Part One by K.V. Rose

    Like Grim Death: Part One by K.V. Rose

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “There’s someone you haven’t met yet...All at once, we turn to each other.We realize it was never the 6.It was always us against ourselves.The greatest betrayal.The worst sort of pain.A moment of perfect stillness, disloyalty loud in the silence.Then the chaos begins. But tonight, you will...
  • Grave Mistake by Nikki Landis

    Grave Mistake by Nikki Landis

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sometimes vengeance isn't enough.There are times when a man is forced to choose the wrong side of the law.When everything is stripped away and ruthless, cold revenge is all that remains.They call me Wraith for a reason.When people need to disappear, I'm the one that's called in.I move through the shadows and strike without mercy...
  • Transcend by Jewel E. Ann

    Transcend by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    “In another life, she was my forever.” An unexpected tragedy leaves Professor Nathaniel Hunt a widower alone with a newborn baby. He hires a nanny. She’s young, but well-qualified, with a simple life, a crazy name obsession, and a boyfriend she met at the grocery store...
  • Betrayal Road by Christine Feehan

    Betrayal Road by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    Deception cuts deep in the next propulsive novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan’s Torpedo Ink motorcycle club series.The stranger frequenting Azelie Vargas’s local coffee shop is a sight to behold. He’s tall, dark, muscular, and a complete distraction. She’s worried one look from his striking silver eyes will have her acting a fool...
  • Warrior by S. Massery

    Warrior by S. Massery

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Everything that could go wrong—did. Kade’s loyalties are tangled in something far more treacherous than any of us realized. Reese seems desperate to make amends, and I hate to say, he’s growing on me. And Artemis…. Well, she won’t wake up. According to Gabriel, she might not ever. There has to be a cure—but only if I keep a level head...
  • Killing Emma by Annie Wild

    Killing Emma by Annie Wild

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I abided by one rule, and one rule only... Show no mercy. Not to anyone. Not even my closest friends. So, when I was tasked with hunting Emma down and taking her life, it was just another day on the job. However, I couldn’t have been more wrong. She’s not like the others. She tangles with me without fear of the devil she might discover...
  • Viciously Mine by Nikki Landis

    Viciously Mine by Nikki Landis

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A dual perspective mc romance from twin brothers Rael & Chrome.Chrome:Everything is finally falling into place.I’ve reunited with my twin. The woman I love has become my wife.And to top it off? I’m now patched into the RBMC in Tonopah.With my ol’ lady Cameron, I move to Nevada to start our new life together...
  • The Harsh Bite: Codename: Spithra by Candice M. Wright

    The Harsh Bite: Codename: Spithra by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My gift has always felt more like a curse. Standing up and speaking the truth when nobody wants to hear it is terrifying. But the truth doesn’t erase the horrors I’ve seen It doesn’t silence the whispers, Or blind me to the fingers pointed my way...
  • Judicium by Natalie Bennett

    Judicium by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tick tock…it’s time for judgment. The blood we spilled came after the riddles. Betrayal followed by those we trusted. There are so many things we could have done differently, saving ourselves from future heartache. Now, it’s too late to recast the die. By everything tainted and maleficent, we’re forever bonded. Every tragedy has an origin. This is where ours begins...
  • Jaded Hollow: The Complete Collection by Alex Grayson

    Jaded Hollow: The Complete Collection by Alex Grayson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Now you can get the entire Jaded Hollow Series in ONE Complete Collection!Dark memories, horrific events, brutal kidnappings, and heartbreaking lies and deceit. Welcome to Jaded Hollow, where you’ll learn just how jaded love can be.Bailey’s running from her abusive past, while Jaxon stops at nothing to save her from the terrifying monster committed on destroying her...
  • When Sinners Kneel by R. Scarlett

    When Sinners Kneel by R. Scarlett

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. Lex Harvey came to The Pit to find her missing friend. Someone who fights there must have the answers she’s seeking. Instead, she found him. The damage inside her matches the darkness inside him. She’s only eighteen, but the feelings she has for him are as old as time. Beau Knight should have ruled New York...
  • Ruse by Siobhan Davis

    Ruse by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    This is a companion prequel short story to Cruel Intentions. Only available via a link in the back of Cruel Intentions. This book will not be published on Amazon or any other retail store.Although it's a prequel story it gives spoilers to the main story hence why it is listed as #1.5 in the series as it should only be read AFTER reading Cruel Intentions...
  • Honed in Havoc by Albany Walker

    Honed in Havoc by Albany Walker

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 28 ratings
    They want an heir and I’m the only way they can get it. With or without my cooperation. I thought Cadieux Island would be a new beginning, but the privileged estates and elite college turned into a nightmare...
  • The Isle Of Sin And Shadows by Keri Lake

    The Isle Of Sin And Shadows by Keri Lake

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    This island alone boasts more ghost stories than all of Louisiana combined.And I'm one of them.In the Louisiana swamplands, ghost stories are as much a part of childhood as chasing fireflies and crawfishing. They never much scared me, though, nor the possibility of evil out to do me harm. Until the night I watched shadows come to life and butcher everything I loved...
  • One Fateful Night Bleeding Hearts, #2 by Michelle B.

    One Fateful Night Bleeding Hearts, #2 by Michelle B.

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    AMAZON TOP 30 BEST SELLER!He was everything my mom neglected to warn me about, and I was everything he hated about his mother. I spent one reckless, lust filled night in the back of a man’s SUV in the alley behind my job on a whim. A revenge tryst in retaliation against my husband for his brutal sins against me turned into more as the hours passed between us. Months later, we met again...
  • Her Vampire Master by Maren Smith

    Her Vampire Master by Maren Smith

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    I take my pleasure where and when I please. But nothing’s sweeter than the taste of a submissive woman--one who wants revenge. She’s smart, brazen, fearless when she ought not to be. I’ll teach her the monster living in the shadows can and will hunt her back.But the creatures who killed her sister want to take her from me.I won't allow it. She belongs to me now.Only by me.Forever...
  • This Is Halloween by Melody Rose

    This Is Halloween by Melody Rose

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Margo was just your normal Christmas elf, and sure maybe she had a bit too much Christmas cheer, but hey, if starting to decorate for Christmas in July was wrong, she didn't want to be right.At least, until the three lords of Halloween decide to kidnap her and bring her back to Halloweenland.There’s Jack, the hopelessly sexy and tall King of Halloween, who’s harboring a monster inside of him...
  • Appetite by Carmen Rosales

    Appetite by Carmen Rosales

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    GiaGia has found Dravin’s truth, and he isn’t the only one she belongs to. Can she accept what she means to his family? When she finds out how dangerous they are and what they are capable of, will she accept how far they will go to keep her?Her best friend is in trouble, but the danger surrounding her and Jess has Gia questioning everything except the love in her heart...
  • Bump in the Night by Cassie Mint

    Bump in the Night by Cassie Mint

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    He’s smart, handsome, and we have an instant connection.Pity all these ghosts keep interrupting our moments…All my life, I’ve wanted a ghostly encounter. It’s my greatest dream, and it’s never happened for me—not even in Belladonna Bay, where every other building is haunted...
  • Buried Destiny by Anne Malcom

    Buried Destiny by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Death.For everyone, even immortals, there is nothing after death. No takebacks, no comebacks. It's a full stop. The end of a story. The end of everything.For Sophie, it's little more than a comma. A prelude. A footnote in her true destiny.She was fated to die.Many times.To know what lay beneath in the underworld. To bring the darkness back with her...
  • Monster Of Ruin by Marlowe Mack

    Monster Of Ruin by Marlowe Mack

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Elliott Knight is a hunter. And I’m his prey. He’s obsessed. I’m his addiction. He won’t stop until he’s made me his. He’s decided I’ll be his no matter what. He makes the rules. And I can only live by them. He stalks me. He calls me his flower. Every bit of him is dark. Haunted. Possessed. Elliott is an evil man, a real-life nightmare. The kind your mother warns you to stay away from...
  • Riot Reunion by Callie Hart

    Riot Reunion by Callie Hart

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Callie Hart comes a brand catch-up book in the Crooked Sinners Series, featuring interwoven storylines told from multiple POVs.The residents of Riot House have graduated, but the events of the past year are far from forgotten...
  • Sinful Saint by Lana Sky

    Sinful Saint by Lana Sky

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Traumatized by a family tragedy, Frances “Frey” Heywood resorts to committing the unthinkable—only to be saved at the eleventh hour by a man more troubled than even she can comprehend.Daze Keaton is bad news. A criminal and a drug dealer, he’s a far cry from the safe harbor Frey craves, but all her doubts pale in the face of the way he numbs that cold, broken place inside her...
  • The Life You Stole by Jewel E. Ann

    The Life You Stole by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Sex. Lies. Revenge. On the heels of a devastating loss, Evelyn fights to put her life back together. Only … part of her husband belongs to another woman, and the devil owns her soul. “If you tell her the lie, I will tell her the truth...
  • Rise of the Cinder Fae by Whitney Dean

    Rise of the Cinder Fae by Whitney Dean

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Born and raised in the forgotten and broken kingdom of Ashbury, Elora has spent years resenting the royals of Pumpkin Hollow, the kingdom that forced the fall of Ashbury and procured the town as its own...
  • No Redemption by Alexis Winter

    No Redemption by Alexis Winter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    “It’s not the big bad wolf you need to be afraid of kitten; it’s the devil in disguise that you sleep next to.”

She thinks she’s found the perfect husband—the one in a million who isn’t like the rest...my best friend Dane Ashford.
He would never betray her.
He would never lie or cheat on her.
He loves her...
  • Heart of Wrath by Effie Campbell

    Heart of Wrath by Effie Campbell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Emily's whole life has brought her to the brink. No-one believes that a black-eyed demon killed her father, incarcerating her for her delusions instead. When he pins her to a wall and steals a kiss five years later, she falls down a dark rabbit-hole that leaves her killing the people who hurt her just to see her demonic paramour.It's a dangerous game, and she can't resist play..
  • Boneyard Tides by Amo Jones, Wander Aguiar

    Boneyard Tides by Amo Jones, Wander Aguiar

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Picture this…you’re sitting by the ocean, sipping your favorite cocktail. The sun is setting over your skin, and the sound of waves crashing against the sand offers the perfect background music for the mellow reggae tunes that play through the salty air. Life is good...
  • Jaden Baker by Courtney Kirchoff

    Jaden Baker by Courtney Kirchoff

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jaden Baker is unique, talented, special. And for a while there, things were looking up. Adopted by an upper-middle class couple of suburbia, Jaden believed he'd finally gotten that second chance everyone raves about. It came with potato salad. But something happened. Something always happens...
  • Her Vampire Rebel by Zara Zenia

    Her Vampire Rebel by Zara Zenia

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'M KEEPING HER. The sweet psychology student with a troubled past. Her ex is stalking her, but I won't let him hurt her again. I'll finish him if he even tries. Because I love the way she submits. Her sweet soft yes, sirs. The way she gives herself over to me. I should let her go--she has her whole life ahead of her. But I can't. I'm buying her a collar and making her mine. Mine alone...
  • Bloodthirsty by Cassandra Featherstone

    Bloodthirsty by Cassandra Featherstone

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    “Forgive me.”Those were Professor Arnaud’s final words before I sliced through his neck. His was the first head I took, but it wouldn’t be the last.Severing my connections to l’Academie d’Invisible was harder, but eventually, I escaped and built a reputation of my own.Infamy suits me, and the harsh lessons of my childhood have served me well. I’m untouchable, undetectable, and untraceable...
  • Temptation in Shadows by Gena Showalter

    Temptation in Shadows by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tall, lean, muscular—and definitely rough around the edges—Sean Walker is not your typical nightclub bodyguard. He’s a controller of shadows, able to wield darkness at will...
  • Fractured Wings  by M.T. Morgan

    Fractured Wings by M.T. Morgan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Starlette doesn’t remember the crimes everyone seems to assume she committed. And without any evidence of transgression, she is set free. Only for her parents to have her committed to Mount Point Psych Ward.She’s had countless therapists, none of them lasting, except him. The brooding, beautiful doctor who’s come in to rain on her parade...
  • My Heart Still Beats by Helen Hardt

    My Heart Still Beats by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Helen Hardt comes a deeply emotional tale of being lost, until light—and love—brings you back to shore…Some days I can almost see the person I used to be. See the version of myself that felt joy, even passion. But she's gone...just out of reach...
  • Threading Carefully by Ashlynn Mills

    Threading Carefully by Ashlynn Mills

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Lonely and bored with life, I was talked into going on a trip to the Monster world.I planned on seeing new things and visiting places different from what I'm used to, but I never planned on him.Nova wasn't like the others of his kind or anything like me. He was a combination of several humans but didn't think like one or share the same experiences...
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  • The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb

    The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In the tourist town of Wharton, on the coast of Lake Superior, Tess Bell is renovating her old family home into a bed-and-breakfast during the icy dead of winter…As the house’s restoration commences, a shuttered art studio is revealed. Inside are paintings Tess’s late grandfather, beloved and celebrated artist Sebastian Bell, hid away for generations...
  • Mr. Rook by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Mr. Rook by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Comes Part One of Mr. Rook's Island, a Sexy, Dark, Romantic Suspense. ~~~~~ He's Enigmatic, Dangerously Handsome, and COMPLETELY OFF-LIMITS ... The women who vacation on Mr. Rook's exclusive island are looking for one thing and one thing only: to have their wildest romantic fantasies come to life...
  • Between Faith and Fear by J.A. Dennam

    Between Faith and Fear by J.A. Dennam

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    TESTING THE LIMITS Melanie Parker's life takes a gut-wrenching turn when she wakes up in a crumbling, unfamiliar environment. Even worse, her small child is in the arms of a certifiable killer, but Rena Hellberg isn't the only immediate threat. Melanie's abductor lurks in the shadows, a quiet, hooded stranger who's calling the shots...
  • Deceitful by Cora Reilly

    Deceitful by Cora Reilly

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a serial killer rocks a small town in Oregon, a young woman with special powers might be the only person able to stop him. As part of a secret branch of the FBI, Tessa is sent on a mission to impersonate Madison, a local teen and the last victim of the brutal attacker, to find the killer before he strikes again...
  • The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

    The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 121 ratings
    Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father’s antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too late, and she wants Margaret to be the one to capture her history...
  • Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton

    Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    She's been watching us for a while now... Now you see her Gillian is haunted by the disappearance of her little girl two years ago. A devastating fire burned down their home, but she remains convinced her daughter survived. Now you don't Ten year old Tom lived by a neglected church...
  • The Thief and the Painter by Candice Clark

    The Thief and the Painter by Candice Clark

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AmeliaPaint smudges and secret grudges.Despite the occasional ball gown and glass of champagne, my life is anything but glitz and glamor.I’m the daughter of The Southern Black Widow and a girl so full of darkness that it bleeds from my very fingers onto high-priced canvas.But what is darkness but the absence of light?Insert Merrick Stratford—my light.His cold demeanor doesn’t fool me...
  • Scarlet by Kayleigh Hilton

    Scarlet by Kayleigh Hilton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thinking I was free was a mistake...I have spent the last six years running, hiding, and thinking I would never be found.Scarlet was the creation of pure evil, where everyone was numbered, tattooed, and categorized like animals for slaughter and assigned a place within the programme...
  • Departed Whispers by J. Rose

    Departed Whispers by J. Rose

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Departed Whispers by J. Rose is a dark, paranormal reverse harem romance set within the haunting world of twisted legends. Following Emery Lockwood, a powerful dark witch with necromantic abilities, the story unfolds through themes of betrayal, vengeance, forbidden magick, and an unbreakable bond between her and her human best friends...
  • Their Hallowed Queen by Carly Claire

    Their Hallowed Queen by Carly Claire

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’m the final girl.Or at least, I was, three years ago after my best friend was murdered in a haunted house on Halloween. Her death set off a chain reaction that culminated in me running from home and never looking back… until now.The last few months, I’ve known someone was watching me, following me, sneaking into my apartment. I just couldn’t prove it...
  • Das geheime Turmzimmer: 2 CDs by Laura Andersen

    Das geheime Turmzimmer: 2 CDs by Laura Andersen

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The Gallagher family has called Deeprath Castle home for seven hundred years. Nestled in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland, the estate is now slated to become a public trust, and book lover and scholar Carragh Ryan is hired to take inventory of its historic library...
  • The Way You Break by K.J. Jackson

    The Way You Break by K.J. Jackson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There are some that want to exploit my powers. There are some that want me dead. Then there is one that just wants me.A shadow world exists. One where gods that aren’t quite gods walk amongst us. One I didn’t know about when I woke up by a cold mountain river…soaked…freezing. With pain cracking my skull in two and no memory of who I was or what I was doing there...
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