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Tall, Dark & Hungry by Lynsay Sands
It bites: New York hotels cost an arm and a leg, and Terri has flown from England to help plan her cousin’s wedding. The new in-laws offered lodging. But they’re a weird bunch -- and it isn’t just that they’re Canadian! There is the sometimes-chipper-sometimes-silent Lucern, and the wacky stage-actor Vincent: she can’t imagine Broadway casting a hungrier singing-and-dancing Dracula...Categorized as:
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A Surrender Of Hope by B.M. Clemton
Four Demon Princes. Three Betrayals. Two Realms. One moment… One decision… One life saved. Not many people get a second chance at life, and if I hope to survive, I’ll need to learn how to navigate the world in which I’ve found myself. Lennox, Creed, Valen, and Razar not only turned my life upside down, they completely altered my reality and plan for a future I didn’t know could exist... -
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Under Gorse and Stone by Lily Morton
Cary Sutton isn’t surprised when his boyfriend walks out on him during a holiday in Cornwall at Christmas. It’s far from the first time that someone's accused him of being cold—both inside and out. Cary’s spent his whole life feeling like he’s separated from the world by a sheet of glass. Nothing touches him. Nothing moves him...Categorized as:
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Awaken the Darkness by Dianne Duvall
He awakens encapsulated in dirt with no knowledge of how he came to be there. Riddled with injuries, he can remember neither his past nor who he is. Nor can he remember what he is. But surely no mortal man could survive being buried deep beneath the earth...Categorized as:
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Alan's Utterly Accidental Dream-Cute by Katie Griffin, A.J. Sherwood
What happens when a Havili researcher meets a psychic dreamwalker? A dreamy meet-cute, that’s what. (In more ways than one. ). Tags:... -
Love Bites Harder by Lola Glass
I've been dragged into the fae realm and given no choice but to pick a mate if I ever want to get back home. Thankfully, the fae king has offered up some of his most trusted men in an attempt to find me someone to marry. Unthankfully, he's sort of… possessive. Which means I'm sleeping in his room. In his bed. With him...Categorized as:
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Black Mirror: A Cait Reagan Novel by Aoibh Wood
Terror stalks from beneath the Streets of Boston. Detective Cait Reagan, forever changed by her relationship with Marcella Carson, has survived the opening of the Black Gate and the vampire curse. Now, seemingly cured, Cait has a new lease on her mortal life, but difficulties beset her at every turn... -
Gardens & Ghosts by Maz Maddox
For the past few years, I’ve been living with a ghost. My husband - my mate - was lost because of choices I made. As one of only a few tyrannosaur shifters on this planet, I have resigned myself to an immortality alone, married to my work. I am more than happy to keep my walls up, heart guarded, and my focus set on my missions... -
Satyr's Mate by Maggie Mayhem
The plan was pretend to be my sister and attend the Monsters & Magic Charity Gala in her stead. I score a fancy meal, and she gets to dodge the fortune teller’s prediction that she’ll meet her future husband at the event and be tied down forever. Win-win. Easy, peasy. Everything goes smoothly until a rogue spell goes off, and a smoking hot satyr comes to my rescue... -
Newly Undead In Dark River by Grace McGinty
Welcome to Dark River. Population 0. When Mika McKellen woke up in a stormwater drain while backpacking around Canada, she knew that her mother was right. If you made bad choices, you would end up dead in a ditch. But when she stumbled into Dark River, even her mother could never have dreamed up the residents of this small town in the middle of nowhere, Alberta...Categorized as:
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Koda: A Bear Shifter Romance by Kira Graham
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBad boys are great. Good boys are overrated. Wild boys… they’re just another species entirely. Join the Koda Clan where the men are wild, the women are naughty, and the hot romance is as sweet as it is spicy. Sexy, steamy, and crazy-funny. You’ve been warned. ;). LOVE ME. Trace Koda is a man I hate. I’m terrified of what I feel for Trace. I’m angry...Categorized as:
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The Alpha Wolf's Shattered Mate by Brittany White
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe had to flee her country to escape the shifters who wanted to take her child. The Lion Shifter Teacher. I always longed to be a part of the larger world. While exploring, I met a wonderful mate. Later, I got a teaching degree. We had a beautiful baby cub. But my mate was murdered. Killed in a senseless battle. His parents wanted to steal my child away. They wanted to raise her as their own... -
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Kidnapped by the Vampire by C.C. Wood
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen my great-aunt died, she left me her home and business in Devil Springs. The last thing I expected when I came to sell them was to meet an actual vampire–who happened to be the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen. Or that he would kidnap me. At first, I was desperate to escape but, the longer I was the vampire’s hostage, the less he seemed like a villain...Categorized as:
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The Musician and the Monster by Jenya Keefe
Hatred is a spell only true love can break. Ángel Cruz is a dedicated session musician, until loyalty to his estranged family forces him to work for Oberon: the feared and hated envoy from the Otherworld...Categorized as:
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The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 02 by Miyuki Tonogaya
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsSparks fly between the handsome descendant of a snow spirit and the oblivious coworker he has a crush on! A romantic comedy in an office setting that takes coworkers to lovers to new heights within a winter wonderland of emotions! Snow spirit descendant Himuro finds himself infatuated with his somewhat offbeat and aloof colleague, Fuyutsuki... -
Scheme: An On The Shelf Omegaverse Romance by Colette Rhodes
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsMargot doesn’t have time for a mate. Between her legal career, and the multitude of friends and siblings who rely on her, her schedule is full. And if her schedule is full specifically so she doesn’t have time to find a mate? Well, that’s a matter between her and the therapist she keeps forgetting to make another appointment with... -
A Merry Christmas for Art... and His Tentacles by Amy Bellows, Shannon Mae
Dean. When cryptids came out as living among us, there was definitely a settling in period, but now having a loch ness monster as your neighbor and a bigfoot as your security guard at work is just par for the course. Luckily for me, I happen to work with the sweetest, sexiest cephalopod in the entire building. Unfortunately for him, his people skills aren’t the greatest... -
Shadow's Embrace by M.A. Church
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsKage: Am I still a monster? Very much so. Am I loved? Absolutely. Will I burn it all down to protect my mate? You better believe it. Hunters have come to San DeLain once again, and they’re targeting humans and paranormals for their sick experiments. Many have gone missing. Some for many, many years... -
The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 02 by Miyuki Tonogaya
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsSparks fly between the handsome descendant of a snow spirit and the oblivious coworker he has a crush on! A romantic comedy in an office setting that takes coworkers to lovers to new heights within a winter wonderland of emotions! Snow spirit descendant Himuro finds himself infatuated with his somewhat offbeat and aloof colleague, Fuyutsuki... -
How Not to Date a Griffin by Lana Kole
Your ride is arriving soon. .. Nolan Whittier never expected to find a griffin on a rideshare app. He certainly didn’t expect to get the ride of his life, either. One perfect night. That's all it was supposed to be. But when fate draws Nolan and Reid together again, there’s more between them than their insatiable chemistry...Categorized as:
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The Librarian's Vampire Assistant, Book 3 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFrom New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes an uncomfortably hilarious Mystery with a heaping help of sexual frustration, THE LIBRARIAN'S VAMPIRE ASSISTANT, Book Three. (Yep! It's a STAND-ALONE. But why not read them all because. .. fun! ). FALLING IN LOVE WITH A LIBRARIAN JUST CAN'T GET MORE AWKWARD. .Categorized as:
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Ghosting the Griffin by Violet Rae
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the lines are blurred between the dead and the living. Can love find a way for a ghost and a griffin? Galina. When I drank the “harmless” punch at the Screaming Woods annual Halloween party, I never expected to wind up dead. Other townspeople grew tails and claws. Not me. Nope. I’m trapped in a realm between life and death. Doomed to wander in search of a cure for the curse...Categorized as:
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Falling for the Shifter by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 1 in the fun new series, Hellscape Holidays. Ethan Adair might be an alpha wolf shifter, but he’s got zero experience with the paranormal world. Snack-obsessed imps? Fluttering pixies? It’s all new to him. He is a wolf out of the forest and way out of his depth. All he needs from Hellscape Holiday Resort is the magic to break a curse...Categorized as:
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Cthulhu for Christmas by Meghan Maslow
Six accidental tentacles, five naked neighbors, four evil mages, three ugly sweaters, two dead bodies, and one crush on my straight best friend . .. Some things are simple fact: Santa Claus isn't real and magic doesn’t exist. As a former foster kid turned cop, I know this for a fact. My life is anything but magical and Santa sure as hell never visited me as a kid... -
Priest by Kiki Clark, E.M. Lindsey
There’s a fine line between lust and love…. Feeding on the pleasure of other creatures might sound like the perfect life, but Priest knows the truth. The bottomless hunger and the never-ending need for more will eventually drive him to the brink of madness. It’s the fate of all Incubi... -
Dangerous by Charlie Cochet, Macy Blake
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNew Paranormal Romance from Bestselling MM Authors Charlie Cochet and Macy Blake. A grumpy lion shifter duke with secrets, a sassy human who knows nothing of the shifter world, and a fiery arrangement neither of them expected. Cormac Donegan, Duke of Everard, is all too familiar with the perils of his shifter world, especially as a Dahlia, one of the dragon king’s elite spies...Categorized as:
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Wolf Detective Next Door by Roxie Ray
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHelp—my new neighbor is dangerously hot and I think he might bite…. My publisher thinks that the small, quiet town of Lily Valley is the perfect place to cure my writer’s block. But even she couldn’t have known about the real-life alpha hero living right across the hall. Miles is like a character straight from the pages of one of my romance novels...Categorized as:
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Happy Endings by Alice Winters
Smart men never dabble with demons. I never claimed to be smart, but at least I’m powerful enough to control them. When I bound Havoc to me nearly three hundred years ago, I never realized how difficult he’d make my life, although “accidentally” lighting him on fire every now and then does bring a smile to my face... -
The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl 04 by Miyuki Tonogaya
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSparks fly between the handsome descendant of a snow spirit and the oblivious coworker he has a crush on! A romantic comedy in an office setting that takes coworkers to lovers to new heights within a winter wonderland of emotions! Modern-day snow spirit Himuro and his cool and self-assured colleague Fuyutsuki decide to cosplay together for the office's Halloween party... -
To Seduce a Witch's Heart by Nadine Mutas
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAlternate cover edition of ASIN B00WYKHE0S. An irreverent demon is her last hope of finding her sister. If she can control him. .. Desperate to save her demon-abducted sister, witch Merle MacKenna breaks the law when she summons Rhun, another demon, from the magical prison of the Shadows... -
Moth Manager by Luna Cantrip
It's a bird, it's a plane, no wait, it's true love. Pontius Pleasant is a Mothman who's never been lucky in love, so he has no idea what to do when he meets his fated-mate. Piper Hamilton is recently single and looking for a quick hookup. But things are quick to get a lot more complicated when the Mothman of her dreams turns out to be a bit obsessed...Categorized as:
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Dad Bod: Troll by Hattie Jacks
One billionaire troll, one accidental auction, one huge mistake…. 'Earn extra £££ in just one night, human females only. ' Never look a gift. .. troll in the mouth. Or answer a flyer pushed through your door. .Categorized as:
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Magic Burning by Kaje Harper
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlan. I haven't been out with a guy in the last two years. Partly because I'm a gay elementary-school teacher in a fairly small, conservative town. Partly because I'm a sorcerer, and dating ordinary humans only leads to trouble. Sleeping with one though? That's doable, so when my birdbrained familiar Sunny lines up a tall, muscular firefighter for me, I'm not going to say no. Just once, though... -
Alan by Harley Wylde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJolene – My life wasn’t perfect, but I didn’t have any real complaints -- until something went horribly wrong and one of my potions blew up, killing my husband. Raising our son on my own hasn’t been easy. Grief and guilt keep getting in my way. But a certain biker keeps stopping by to lend a helping hand...Categorized as:
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Midlife Faerie Unexpected by Melle Amade
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsNow I feel like I should be walking around splitting my fingers and saying “Peace, live long, and prosper. ” But this isn’t science fiction. This is my life and apparently, I’m Fae. I thought I was having a midlife crisis when I left my husband and ran off with a guy twenty years younger than me... -
Beastly & Bookish by Catrina Bell
This beauty didn’t ask for a beastly bookworm for Christmas, but maybe she should have . . . All Noelle wants is to save the Winter Bliss library. She has a plan, too—a New Year’s Eve fundraiser during the annual fire-magic festival. The last thing she needs is a distracting romance with the sexy, binge-reading demon she hasn’t seen in over a decade...Categorized as:
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Dad Bod: Vampire by Kat Baxter
This is the story of how I, Rosie Breit, intrepid assistant to eccentric, reclusive, hotel mogul, Hudson Wells, finally met face to face. Turns out, the stories aren't true. They're worse. He isn't agoraphobic. He's a cranky vampire staying out of the spotlight. So why did I practically beg him to bite me? ! There is no real happy ending when one of you is immortal... -
A Blue Ribbon Romance by C.M. Nascosta
Morning Glory Milking Farm was just another quick tug - machine operated facility, no different from all the rest. Sure, they had big pharma money and special hands-on amenities the other milking joints couldn't boast, but at the end of the day it was the same old story — cash he didn't actually need in the bank, all for doing what he would have done for free anyway... -
Silence of the Wolf by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGray werewolf Tom Silver is determined to find the wolves who have been attacking local livestock. While tracking the pack through the Rockies, a blizzard forces him into a remote cabin where he hears a plane crash nearby. When he discovers the sole survivor is a beautiful female werewolf/coyote shifter mix, bound as a prisoner, he knows it's his duty to hide her... -
Struck by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn MM Mpreg Romance. Team: A. L. P. H. A. :Six battle-hardened alphas with one goal—to save any omega in peril. David Dempsey, the younger omega brother of Team ALPHA’s crazy twin duo, has gone missing after a camping trip with some human friends... -
How to Summon a Boyfriend by Aja Foxx
Herby. I needed a boyfriend to keep my father from marrying me off to a man handpicked by him. What better way to get one than to summon a demon? When I found a book of shadows in my grandfather's attic, I knew I'd found the answer, but something went wrong. Instead of summoning a demon, I ended up in hell. What was I supposed to do now? Hades. Judging souls was boring... -
Cosmic Spells and Vampire Lairs by Mia Monroe
Are we destined to be star-crossed lovers or is Fate on our side? My friends are finding mates while I’m stuck with a sexy but silent vampire. Sure, Pietro is everything a boy could want- handsome, strong, brooding, and possessive. It’s just that with my gift, I’m well aware that he’s not the one fate has in store for me. He couldn’t be. For one thing, his mercury is always in retrograde... -
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Escaping the Friendzone by Emily Antoinette
A woman trapped with her crush…. When I agreed to go to an escape room with friends, I didn’t expect everyone to bail and leave me locked in a room with the hottest, most unattainable person I’ve ever met—my brother’s minotaur best friend. Tension from the tight quarters and frustrating puzzles leads to heated confessions, and the wildest night of my life. He says he wants more... -
Dad Bod Dragon by Ava Ross
I’ve fallen for a grumpy dad bod dragon shifter—who’s also my boss. When my old boss makes unreasonable demands, I quit. Now my rent’s overdue and my cupboard’s bare. Blackballed by her, no one will hire me. That’s when I spy a nanny position in my old hometown. Moving back home feels like a failure, but the salary’s amazing... -
Northern Lights: An Imp World Novel by Debra Dunbar
Raphael is an Angel of Order. . . sort of. His affinity for chaos makes him the perfect choice to investigate the trespass in Alaska of supernatural creatures not seen in eons. But the locals in Juneau have been keeping a secret for thousands of years –the disgraceful offspring of an angel and a demon...Categorized as:
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Ancient Enforcer by Katie Reus
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAn ancient dragon warrior determined to protect what’s his…. Former general Mikael lost everything thousands of years ago. His clan, his family, his honor. Now he’s awakened in a new world that has devolved into chaos—fire, blood and destruction. He and his brothers are ordered to live with Avery, a human female, and her younger brothers. Avery is nothing he should want... -
His Prince by Mary Calmes
Jason Thorpe was content living a quiet life in New Orleans. He and his best friend Ode opened their cozy curios shop in the French Quarter, and he was making some new, albeit interesting, friends…. Then Jason met Varic Maedoc, the prince of the vampyrs, and his life changed forever... -
Drop Dead Demon by B. Ripley
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsRoth. From the moment I first saw Brady, I knew he was my mate. He thought I was just his imaginary friend and I let him believe that because at his side, I felt more complete than I ever had before. I didn’t mean to ever leave him, but I didn’t have much of a choice...
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