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For the Love of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy
First comes love, then comes mating, then comes the baby and some cupid training. Cupidville is overrun with new cupid recruits, and it’s up to me to train them in time for Valentine’s Day. Too bad I have four mates who keep insisting that it’s time for me to take a break... -
Not Many Options by Jillian West
Riley Thomas has made some mistakes in life. She took a few wrong turns and has no idea what to do next. There's a blizzard baring down on the island and Riley is alone with two kids under the age of four. She's out of options, exhausted, and overwhelmed.An omega on her own always has to be on guard, but with her two girls counting on her to keep them safe, there's no time for a pity party...Categorized as:
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Crimes of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy
What do you get when you have four mates, one psychotic prince, a horde of rebels, and a cupid who just got yanked out of the realm? A big freaking problem, that’s what. I was supposed to take on my first real mission as a spy. I was supposed to go find my missing mate and discover who our real allies are for the war that’s brewing in the fae realm...Categorized as:
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Cupidity: The Complete Heart Hassle Series by Raven Kennedy
Love. Lust. It's my job to spread it around like a virus during cold season. But guess what? Life as a cupid isn't all chocolate hearts and pink arrows. Because even though love makes the realms go round, it seems cruel that cupids don't get to have any of their own. Which might be why I sometimes go on Love strikes and get in trouble with my supervisors. I get a little cranky...Categorized as:
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Signs of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy
You'd think that basically being in charge of love would be an epic job, right? Wrong. Sure, I can blow some Lust into people's faces and watch the show, but I can't actually participate. It gets old, trust me. Same goes for love. I can pass it out like sugar-free lollipops at a dentist's office, but I can't get any love for myself. It totally sucks...Categorized as:
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Sin: The Mate Games by Meg Anne, K. Loraine
I always thought I’d start the apocalypse. Instead I’ve been asked to help end it.How does one stop the end of the world, you might ask? You gotta knock up Lucifer’s vessel before he does.I know, I know. I was surprised too. But let me tell you, if ever there was an incubus made for the job, it’s me.With a name like Sin, you’d think this should have been the easiest task I’d ever been assigned... -
Endless by Devyn Sinclair
What do you do when your sister’s getting married and your ex is the best man?Being dumped sucks. Being dumped after four years and getting kicked out of the house? That sucks more.Sadly, I can’t avoid him forever. Not when he’s the best man in my sister’s wedding. But like hell am I facing him alone...Categorized as:
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Knot Going Anywhere by Alisha Williams
After years of putting it off, I find myself ready for a pack. I’m not much of a social person, books and writing being my whole life, so meeting a pack organically is out of the question.So, when my best friend finds an ad for a Valentine's Day speed dating event, I take the leap and sign up.I only had hopes for at least a date for the holidays, but I end up leaving with a lot more...Categorized as:
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Spin the Shadows by Cate Corvin
I ate six seeds. Now I owe six months of debt to a dangerously sexy Fae hitman.I’d had everything a dryad could want- a job, an apartment, and a scandalous human boyfriend-Until I stole the wrong fruit from the wrong Fae.Dragged into the Seelie underworld of deception and lies, I do anything he commands: steal, spy, even fight as we hunt down a notorious Fae fugitive... -
Blood and Midnight by Sarah Piper
Three sexy-but-psycho monsters. One fiery, determined witch. And a high-stakes heist about to go very wrong…I've made some pretty questionable choices in the name of my witchcraft—dabbling in necromancy, double-crossing vampires—but summoning the dark goddess? That was just plain stupid.Now I’m in her debt, and goddesses don’t exactly do payment plans... -
Knot Her Reality by Miranda May
Season three of Heated is starting out with a bang—public outcry, protests, and boycotts—all before we’ve even begun filming.I know you have to be wondering how a reality dating show could cause this kind of reaction. That would be because of me. My name’s Evangeline, and I'm this season’s omega...Categorized as:
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Witches Be Crazy by A.J. Macey
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNothing in Aris Calisto’s life has ever been basic, and after a cauldron full of unexpected events, she finds herself a fugitive. Going on the run should have been the biggest challenge of her life, but after being separated from her tethers, she’s faced with an impossible choice--submit or run.With time ticking down, Aris and her ragtag band of witches have to risk it all... -
Only Protector Alphas by Rosemary A. Johns
I was gifted three wickedly handsome wolf princes… …but now I’m the wolves’ prisoner.I’m Crimson Tide. For centuries, witches have been at war with werewolves. As a kid, mom drilled into me that I was a Charmer with the badass magical power to control the scorching hot shifters...Categorized as:
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Only Pretty Betas by Rosemary A. Johns
When the witches throw me to the wolves… …they don’t mean the cute-as-a-button kind. The shifters are hot, deadly, and our enemies for centuries. Luckily, I’m Crimson, the last Wolf Charmer with the badass magical power to control the gorgeous werewolves. Except, my powers have been bound, and I’m at their mercy. It’s make or break time in the savage kingdoms behind the wall...Categorized as:
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The 12 Hunks of Herculeia by C. Rochelle
I thought I was living the dream—until the fateful day I found my boyfriend in bed with my boss. As a professional copywriter, it was the tired cliche that hurt me the most.What’s a big city girl to do but pack my bags and go solo on that Grecian cruise I’d booked with my ex...Categorized as:
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The Guards' Haven by Merri Bright
They're guarding her body. She's guarding her heart.After thirty years of cruel captivity in Verdan, Haven convinces the new, magic-wielding queen of neighboring Rimholt to allow her to open a school for poor children. It’s everything she’d hoped.Except the school is an abandoned brothel.The students are tiny criminal masterminds...Categorized as:
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Earth Magic & Hot Water by Lauren Connolly
Her first hate and first love are back in town. Things are about to get heated…Cat Byrne seems sweet, but she’s hiding a volcanic temper. Her anger-fueled fire magic can melt tires off cars. Then her ex-best friend moves back to town, and the guy keeps popping up in inconvenient places, making sure she’s running at a constant simmer... -
Catch Me by Reese Rivers
How do you survive time travel to 17th century France…while wearing a bathrobe…with nothing but a chap-stick and an iPhone? How do you avoid being burnt at the stake as a witch for possessing that ‘magical’ evil iPhone?Start by being rescued by 4 hot AF men dipped in sexy sauce. Accept that vampires and wolf shifters are real and then make peace with the fact that you can have them all... -
They Call Me Wicked by Persephone Steele
A blind psychic.Sounds like a punchline to a terrible joke, right?Well it is. The joke is my life, and I’m the punchline.I was gifted with the sight at a young age. It runs in my bloodline and I was trained to handle it from the moment I was born. What I wasn’t prepared for was losing my actual sight.The world is twisted like that...Categorized as:
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Nothing is Free by Dreia Wells
I was finally free. Or so I thought.New city and a new job with my best friend Mercy. We'd both overcome the odds and came out stronger. I have a pack of adoring Alphas and an obsessive male Omega, my true mate. Everything I never thought I would have.I was no longer just a Beta who hid in the shadows away from a family who disowned me.I had finally found my place in this world...Categorized as:
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Rebels and Psychos by Leigh Kelsey
If a secret wolf society thinks they can take me down, they’ve got another thing coming. There’s a reason they call me Graves.The steamy, crazy Rebels and Psychos series is now in one collection.It’s not my fault I’m a psychopath... -
Second Glances by Kelsey Soliz
I thought having six mate marks was more than I could handle. And then Cyrus and Dar came along and told me that I was theirs, too. Male conduits, looking for their mate for over a hundred years. No pressure, right?I thought that being someone else's fated meant everything would be easy, that our connection would be instant...Categorized as:
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Dinosaurs, Disasters & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe
I have huge man problems.Literally, since one of my mates is a T-Rex.Things are about to get interesting, because my day job happens to be in a museum. A museum full of dinosaur bones, if you know what I mean.It turns out my bloodline is older than dirt, and an ancestral matchmaker decided to send me some gifts…aka, men. And not just any men, but dinosaur shifters from the past...Categorized as:
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Gifted to the Gargoyles by Luna Joya
Two gargoyles face annihilation if they don’t deliver a queen. Here’s hoping their fated mate can save them all. The Twin Gargoyles Who Would Be KingWe’ve spent our long existence seeking the next Gargoyle Queen.Centuries ago we failed and were banished to the cruelest existence.That exile will be nothing next to the catastrophe the realms face if we fail our fated mate...Categorized as:
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And Then There Were Four by Lillith Carrie
"You don't belong here.""Perhaps to you I don't, but I'm not going anywhere," I replied, unwilling to let him scare me.A deep chuckle left his throat as he stepped closer. "I can do terrible things to you-"The sultry sound of his voice wrapped around me and pulled me in. I knew I was playing with fire, but this was a life I couldn't just run from... -
Hearts of Stone by Sam Hall
When the stone gargoyles in the massive estate I just inherited start to move, I should’ve run for the door, right? So why am I still standing here? One, there was a certain cartoon from the 90s that played a pivotal role in my emotional development. Two, each one of them towers over me, blocking out the light with their massive wings, their serpentine tails flicking as they stalk closer... -
Embers & Effigies by Mila Sin
My Omega life was on a carefully planned path until my sister and best friend kidnapped me for my bachelorette bash at a strip show.One thong to the face later…I have a scent match.Here's the catch: the thong owner is part of a sold-out traveling show, and I'm already engaged to someone else.But rules be damned... -
Tainted Wings by Alisha Williams
“Being the daughter of the Devil isn't what it's all cracked up to be, believe me”My name is Abigail Morningstar, and my whole life I’ve felt out of place being the only angel amongst the demons.But, I have a chance to get a break I need in the form of a deal.What deal, you ask? The funny thing is, I have to live with my mother for three years. The very mother who abandoned me as a baby...Categorized as:
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Their Witch Bride by Lacey Carter Andersen
My mother sold me to the shifters, all in the name of peace. For more than a century, the witches and shifters have been at war. So when my mother came home with the news that peace had been struck between us, I should’ve known better. Warning bells should have been ringing in my head, but they weren’t.It wasn’t until the shifters came for me that I knew better... -
A Killer Crescent Valentine by Leigh Kelsey
A killer just made Blake Hall, home of Rebel "Graves" Falcon, their hunting groundsAnd they're picking off residents one by oneThe killer is either ballsy or just plain dumb, because with Rebel - the notorious hitlady - determined to find them, they're a hundred percent dead. No one messes with Rebel's family of criminal weirdos and lives to tell the tale... -
Why Cheese? by Ellen Mint
Rock-hard men in the sheets, delectable cheese in the streets. Violette Reely walks into her great uncle’s abandoned cheese shop then promptly runs back out. You would too if you discovered a secret basement hiding beneath a trapdoor. One second, there’s nothing down there but cheese wheels in an old chest, the next four naked men are chasing her out the door...Categorized as:
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Pack Choice by Hannah Haze
Everyone around me seems to be landing their dream pack. Not me. I'm destined for a life of stress baking with only cats and books for company. Why? No pack wants to date the little sister of the notorious Stormgate brothers. Especially when that sister is an omega with a smart mouth and a scent that's - now how did the last alpha describe it? - spicy... -
Pack Education Part One by Hannah Haze
Returning home to Rockview after three years abroad, I find my stepbrother, Daxton, and his two best friends have formed a pack.Which is just fine, because I no longer think about that summer fling. Or the fact no alphas I’ve met since have been able to compare.Nope, not something I think about. Not at all.I. Am. Over. Them... -
Taken by L.V. Lane
Taken is the third and final book in the Omega Prey series and concludes Priya’s story!More adventures will be coming for new characters in the Omega Prey universe!First I was a broken Beta.Now I am a broken Omega.My mates are worried; I am worried.Trapped, and a prisoner of my home lest my scent send Alphas mad with lust.I just need a moment. But I won’t get one...Categorized as:
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Rage Quit by Kira Roman
Well shiz.Things are not going the way I planned.My danger-noodle stalker is apparently one of my Heart Bonded.Add to that list a lost Orc-Elf Prince…and his brother… That was an awkward conversation, because they didn't even know they were brothers. Surprise! Now you have to share the same girl for all time! Yay you... -
Realm of Sin by K.C. Kingmaker
The legends were wrong. King Arthur and his knights were never the good guys...I’m not the first Guinevere in my family line, or even the tenth. I’m just the newest one. I’m not special. Everyone I know has abandoned me, except Grandma Gwenny, who raised me. And now she’s gone, too...Categorized as:
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Sacrificed to the Freedom Dragons (The Holiday Hedonism Series) by J.L. Logosz, Vera Valentine
The Free Isle of Rouset has a dragon problem, and Magemaster Doaldin has long preached salvation through one simple, terrible solution: sacrificing women to the ravenous beasts. When Riva is torn from her quiet life of candlemaking and thrust into the infamous scarlet dress as an offering, she’s determined to break the cycle once and for all...Categorized as:
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Clouds & Daydreams: Part 1 by Elizabeth Knight
Clouds & Daydreams is going to be the omegaverse so sweet it gives you cavities!Sweet artist omega Bailey-Rose is dumped by the only man she thought would love her because of her congenital heart condition. Cut off from being able to participate in the national Scent Matching services Bailey-Rose has decided she will be single for life after this heartbreak...Categorized as:
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Safe Haven by Jarica James
Who knew that two words could shatter every hope and dream Briar had for her future.You’re pregnant. Most omegas dream of this, but the only thing Briar can think about is that awful night. While she suffers alone, her attacker gets to flaunt his perfect life in her face.Until his assistant finds out her secret... -
Secrets on the Sea by Shona Knight
What would you do if you were thrown into a world overrun by men? When all you want is the freedom to explore it on your own? Disguise yourself as a cabin boy and hitch a ride on a pirate ship! Ria All my life, I’ve chased the thrill of new adventures, but nothing scratches that itch for long... -
Juneau by Calliope Stewart
Boston, 1915. Juneau Wilde is the youngest child of the illustrious Wilde family. Despite her omega designation, she is an adventurous troublemaker that spends her days driving her widowed mother crazy. Juneau constantly bucks against the constraints of society, wanting to live the kind of life that the heroines in her favorite novels live...Categorized as:
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New Blood by L.C. Davis, Joel Abernathy
I know this will end the way it covered in blood.Too much? Me being a demigod now and all, I figure I can get away with a pinch of melodrama.I mean, have you seen Olympus? It's a damn soap opera up there. One I'd rather be watching on the couch with popcorn than playing a starring role in.Not that things are much better down here...Categorized as:
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Their Fated Magic by Lacey Carter Andersen
I thought it was going to be hard saving the shifters with three grumpy wolves at my side, but then fate decided to throw a bear shifter in the mix, and everything went to poop.My wolves have kept me at arm's length since I became their wife. I expected every man I met to be like that, but Garrick’s a whole different man...Categorized as:
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Klutz: Phoenix Down by Sedona Ashe
After I rescued these jerks from a plane crash, you’d think they’d be nicer to me.I die, like all the time. My track record of hilarious, freak accidental deaths would be impressive if it weren’t so embarrassing.And when I come back, I’m naked. Every Dang Time.After my plane was sabotaged and crashed into the jungle, I rescued five male survivors from the wreckage...Categorized as:
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Her Pastry Shifters by Mia Harlan
Rated: 3.36 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHow to get three scrumptious mates... Ingredients: One lonely baker Three sexy shifters An epic bake-off Directions: Combine fated mates in one room at an overbooked hotel. Add a dash of spice, a smidgen of food play, and a pinch of quirky romance. Set your oven to “bake”, turn up the heat, and enjoy! Disclaimer: Not responsible for burned e-readers...Categorized as:
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