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Chayton by Tiya Rayne
ChaytonFive years ago, I walked away from my pack and my true mate to save my son's life. It's a decision I will never regret. Since then, I've lived with only one focus: to protect my son at all costs. Once again, I'm faced with the decision to save his life. I'm forced to either marry the human that saved him or watch my son die. The latter is never an option... -
![Avaritia by Colette Rhodes]()
Avaritia by Colette Rhodes
If there’s one thing Verity will consistently do, it’s spontaneously make terrible decisions. Sometimes they work out well—so far, smuggling her rescue cat into the shadow realm has been a great success—but more often than not, she ends up with a bigger mess to clean up than she started with... -
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![Green and Gold by Gwendolyn Harper]()
Green and Gold by Gwendolyn Harper
Sloane Brady should have watched where she was walking...After upending her high pressure life in Chicago, Sloane elects herself as caretaker of her ailing grandfather, moving in with him in the rural Irish village he calls home... -
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Priceless by Devyn Sinclair
Ocean Caldwell is getting married. To who? She doesn’t know. Yet. What she does know is that it doesn’t matter. This marriage is a way to get away from her toxic, fatphobic family, and a one-way ticket to freedom. One year married, and she never has to speak to her aunt and uncle ever again.She doesn’t count on the fact.Her new husbands are Alphas that she’s met before... -
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![Scheme by Colette Rhodes]()
Scheme by Colette Rhodes
Margot 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... -
![Endless by Devyn Sinclair]()
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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![The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen]()
The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen
From the author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy comes a new heartwarming fantasy rom-com with an opposites-attract twist set in the delightful, donut- and dragon-filled world of Tanria. Immortal demigod Rosie Fox has been patrolling Tanria for decades, but lately, the job has been losing its luster...Categorized as:
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![Saint and the Queen by Desiree .]()
Saint and the Queen by Desiree .
Eve Noelle has been tortured by her mother's careless dreams and delusions her entire childhood that her absent father is actually Santa Claus. The real Santa Claus. She despises Christmas, the music, the children, and anything to do with the holiday but then one day. -
![The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck by Kylie Scott]()
The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck by Kylie Scott
“Be quiet and listen: He is cheating on you. The name of your soulmate is Alistair George Arthur Lennox. You will be passed over for the promotion. The winning numbers are 5-8-12-24-39-43. And I’m very sorry to tell you this, but you will die next Sunday.” When Lilah Goodluck saves the life of Good Witch Willow as they’re crossing a busy L.A... -
![Hard for a Harpy by Lauren Connolly]()
Hard for a Harpy by Lauren Connolly
Zara plans on finding a magical mate, starting a small family, and living a quiet life as a harpy in the town of Folk Haven. She does not plan on dating a sensual witch who hates magic. When Zara’s ex messes up her chance for happily ever after, she decides to organize her approach to love...Categorized as:
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![Shades of Pink by Gina LaManna]()
Shades of Pink by Gina LaManna
One awkward billionaire. One failed psychic. A tale as old as time... Lola Pink He schedules everything. And I mean everything. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I took this job. I thought it would be simple—pretend to be Mr. Dane Clark’s personal assistant, find the missing blueprints, and get out of the Clark Castle for good... -
![Escaping Expectations by A. Winchester]()
Escaping Expectations by A. Winchester
Wolves and humans don’t mix. Declan Byrne almost has it his own business, a loving family, and a strong pack. But what he needs is a wife to fulfill his duty to ensure the future of his pack. He knows what he needs to do, but his heart isn’t it in. Raven Woods had it her gallery, clients who adored her paintings, and the life she always imagined for herself... -
![Sweet Summer Secrets by Jarica James, Chloe Gunter]()
Sweet Summer Secrets by Jarica James, Chloe Gunter
They say that first loves never last, but in Holiday Hollow there’s always time for a second chance.The mark on my neck signifies that I’m a bonded omega, but I haven’t seen my mate or his new pack in years. All of that changes when the secret I’ve been keeping is desperate to come to light and sends me back home to where it all started...Categorized as:
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![Without Pride and Prejudice by Jennifer Peel]()
Without Pride and Prejudice by Jennifer Peel
Can their love conquer pride and prejudice?Ever since I first read Pride and Prejudice at twelve years old, I’ve dreamed of being Elizabeth Bennet. That dream is now about to come true... -
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![Snowed In With A Rebel Shifter by Tessa Stone]()
Snowed In With A Rebel Shifter by Tessa Stone
Part of the Snowed In Shadow Wolf Creek Collab A lone alpha finds his fated mate and discovers the true meaning of love, loyalty, and family. AsherAs a white wolf and a born alpha, I was destined to leave my pack and forge my own path. But little did I know that my journey would lead me to Jada, a fiercely independent woman who captured my heart from the moment our eyes met... -
![Hearts of Stone by Sam Hall]()
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... -
![Your Coffin or Mine by Jacklyn Hyde]()
Your Coffin or Mine by Jacklyn Hyde
A runaway bride. A grumpy 600-year-old vampire pretending to be human. A disaster waiting to happen.What could possibly be the most infuriating thing to a vampire disgusted by the internet? A twenty-six-year-old social media influencer that just ran out on her cheating ex fiance and insists on staying in Vlad’s quiet castle... -
![One More Wish by Lindsey Lanza]()
One More Wish by Lindsey Lanza
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAlways be careful what you wish for. Maya Bloom has a secret.For as long as she can remember, all her wishes have come true. One quick plea to the universe, and whatever she wants is hers. The they always backfire.Which is why Maya is done wishing. Well, until her wedding day when she’s in desperate need of the truth...Categorized as:
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![The Serendipity by Emma St. Clair]()
The Serendipity by Emma St. Clair
He’s a no-nonsense businessman. She’s a free-spirited baker. But the magical building they live in seems to think they’re a perfect match… When billionaire Archer Gaines needs to escape his father’s corrupt shadow and a related scandal, he purchases The Serendipity, a historic apartment building far from New York City... -
![The Alpha And The Baker by Roxie Ray]()
The Alpha And The Baker by Roxie Ray
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA grumpy-sweet alpha. A broke but brilliant baker. One emergency cake order that might just be fate.When Castiel’s pack reunion turns into a frosting-fueled disaster, the last thing he expects is to find salvation in the form of a tiny bakery—and the fiery, flour-dusted woman who runs it...Categorized as:
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![Seduced by Moonlight by Kenya Wright]()
Seduced by Moonlight by Kenya Wright
Escape into a fun and sexy shapeshifter romance. Imani Imani hates her life and her waitressing job. She’s stuck in the small town of Crystal Lake with no money, education, or way to escape. And then Aiden and his friends come into town. People aren’t sure if they’re a gang of bikers or something else. There’s this odd sense of power whenever they are around...Categorized as:
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![To Trap A Temptress by Jane Cousins]()
To Trap A Temptress by Jane Cousins
What Nell needs is a man - a completely shocking, ridiculously inappropriate, insanely unsuitable, ludicrously improper man. Considered too vanilla in a world full of flavours, Doctor Nell Montgomery’s dating life is a barren waste land with few prospects on the horizon. Tired of being labelled the nice girl, she’s decided she needs a life make-over stat... -
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Good Girl by Tricia O'Malley
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Tricia O'Malley, comes a brand new series about love, self-discovery and embracing your inner mermaid. She shouldn't be on this island. If she was smart, Samantha Jameson would turn around and march right back to the plane that deposited her at a faded hut of an airport on Siren Island... -
![The Curious Secrets of Yesterday by Namrata Patel]()
The Curious Secrets of Yesterday by Namrata Patel
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secrets and self-discovery by the bestselling author of The Candid Life of Meena Dave.Raised by her mother and grandmother and tutored in the healing wonders of spices, Tulsi Gupta is expected to carry on the ancestral tradition from her family’s Salem spice shop... -
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![Knotty New Year by Merri Bright]()
Knotty New Year by Merri Bright
Happy Holidays? Knot.I’m snowed in with my hot-as-hell billionaire boss, who might be my soulmate. Sounds like I’m on Santa’s good girl list, right?Except Nicholas Paxson’s icy glare is almost as cold as the blizzard outside, and when our bond ignites, he makes sure I know all I’ll ever be is the betasitter...even though I'm no beta... -
![Nothing is Free by Dreia Wells]()
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... -
![Cursed by Gina LaManna]()
Cursed by Gina LaManna
Allie Wells is many Doctor. Runaway bride. Fae.Except for two huge She doesn’t believe in magic. The Fae were killed off centuries ago.Alessia “Allie” Wells is a woman of science. She doesn’t believe in things like werewolves and vampires, sparkly or otherwise...Categorized as:
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![War on Christmas by Elle Campbell]()
War on Christmas by Elle Campbell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA witchy loner . . .Freya Nilsen knows exactly how she wants to spend her winter solstice: alone on her couch with a mug of mulled wine watching her favorite spooky TV show. Instead, she’s returning home to Northview, Wisconsin, where she’s always been the moody black sheep of the sunshiny Nilsen family...Categorized as:
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![The Fairy's Return and Other Princess Tales by Gail Carson Levine]()
The Fairy's Return and Other Princess Tales by Gail Carson Levine
Ever since Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine introduced the magical village of Snettering-on-Snoakes in the faraway Kingdom of Biddle, young readers have been laughing their way through her hilarious retellings of famous and not-so-famous fairy tales... -
![A Mate's Bite by Milly Taiden]()
A Mate's Bite by Milly Taiden
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsAfter an explosive night of passion during a scenting ceremony, Karla Alves is sure she was just a one night stand for the man she'd been crushing on for years. She teased him and pleased him, and Nate hasn't been around since. Her fear of becoming clingy kept her from risking her heart and asking for more than a few hours of skin sin. Nathan Wolfe marked Karla. His mate...Categorized as:
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![Doe and the Wolf by Eve Langlais]()
Doe and the Wolf by Eve Langlais
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat happens when a predator falls for his prey? Bounty hunting is the perfect job for a maverick wolf; flexible hours, decent pay, the thrill of the chase. But Everett never counted on a doe stopping him in his furry tracks. Dawn was a prisoner of Mastermind and ended up experimented on, against her wishes...Categorized as:
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![The Bunny Blues by Sedona Ashe]()
The Bunny Blues by Sedona Ashe
Blurb Coming Soon.Hey There, Hop Stuff is a series where each book features a different bunny and her journey to finding happiness and her mates . In most of the books, the female bunny will face cruelty from other rabbit shifters. Throughout the story, she will find love, and safety, among the protective wolf shifters...Categorized as:
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![What a Bear Wants by Nikki Winter]()
What a Bear Wants by Nikki Winter
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs a man with the ability to shift into fifteen hundred pounds of honey-loving, occasionally cranky grizzly, Ransom McKenna was used to people moving when he said move—or when he chuffed because the chuffing usually did the trick—at least until he comes across one of the most fierce, adorably ornery canines that he’s ever met, Fallon Wilder... -
![A Mate For Jackson by Selena Scott]()
A Mate For Jackson by Selena Scott
Jackson Durant is a lone wolf. Literally. As a wolf shifter in a world that is completely hostile to shifters of any kind, he’s taken it upon himself to live a life of solitude as a way of keeping himself safe. If only the members of his family would follow his lead and stop falling in love with people and almost blowing their shifter secret...Categorized as:
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![Love and other Nightmares by Jessica Gadziala]()
Love and other Nightmares by Jessica Gadziala
* “Love and other Nightmares” is a romantic and steamy short story with a HEA *You’d think a global zombie apocalypse and watching everyone you know get brutally murdered, leaving you the only living person in town, would be the worst thing that could happen to a girl.But, as it turns out, things could get worse.Like finally running into another living, breathing, non-brain-eating soul... -
![Knot for You by Aura Riley]()
Knot for You by Aura Riley
Vera has always been an omega, but being just an omega? Never an option. Being just an omega meant that she was too timid, too sensitive, and never enough for anyone, let alone her alpha mother. Now, she is forced to deal with even more complicated matters as the only omega on campus... -
![Bossed by the Boggart by Wendi Guff, Amy Hall]()
Bossed by the Boggart by Wendi Guff, Amy Hall
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBossed by a monster—sounds overbearing, right?It is, and this guy's not just any monster. He's a Boggart—the literal being of nightmares—and I swear his sole mission in life is to make mine a bad dream come true.Every time I turn around, he's there. Bedazzling me. Bewitching me. Befriending me.But I won't back down, not even when Mr. Ettin proposes a friendly little bet... -
![Nanny for the Dragon Daddy by Milly Taiden]()
Nanny for the Dragon Daddy by Milly Taiden
Poppy Dunsfield needs a job. Since she likes kids, a nanny position seems ideal. She thinks she can handle the secluded location, but her employer’s mysterious disappearances and strange happenings are too much. She can’t stay, no matter how handsome he is or how his voice sends delicious shivers down her back... -
![Sorry Knot Sorry by L.L. Frost]()
Sorry Knot Sorry by L.L. Frost
When Chloe rents a cabin at Misty Pines Resort, she never expects the Alpha owners to throw her life into chaos. And that’s before disaster strikes.At the end of her book tour, Chloe sets off to a secluded island to plot the direction of her life while under pressure from her publishers to write the next bestseller... -
![Claimed in Forbidden by Keira Blackwood, Liza Street]()
Claimed in Forbidden by Keira Blackwood, Liza Street
I don’t date—especially when it comes to humans. She rolls in like a bulldozer, smashing all my rules to bits. She’s human, and she’s my mate. She’s got scrapbooks. She’s got dreams. She’s got an obnoxious tendency to micromanage everything I do. It’s her bed and breakfast and her renovation project, but I don’t take orders. I can’t stop watching her... -
![To Woo A Warrior by Jane Cousins]()
To Woo A Warrior by Jane Cousins
It was common knowledge that Hadleigh Valhalla was a complete failure when it came to men. Too blood thirsty. Too tall at 6.6ft and without a coy bone in her too voluptuous body. If there had been a ‘fun, flirty and feminine’ test she would have failed it hands down... -
![Roll for Romance by Lenora Woods]()
Roll for Romance by Lenora Woods
Two fledgling tabletop gamers find themselves falling for each other—both in and out of their weekly D&D sessions—in this charming, fantasy-tinged romance...Categorized as:
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![Defended by Love by Keri Lane]()
Defended by Love by Keri Lane
If it wasn’t for the superhero, the Garnet Defender, I’d be dead.Late one stormy night, I snuck into my work building just before it was set to be fumigated. While I’d always been told that my workaholic tendencies would be the death of me, I assumed that it would be in a stress-induced heart attack sort of way, and not because the building would collapse with me inside... -
![From Cocktails to Sleigh Bells by Wren K. Morris]()
From Cocktails to Sleigh Bells by Wren K. Morris
It was one night before Christmas, but for Cole and Kris, one night might not be enough.Nicole “Cole” Barnes can’t seem to summon any Christmas cheer, not even while donning her best irreverent reindeer sweater for her bar’s annual contest. Slipping on the ice after a long Christmas Eve shift feels like the perfect nightcap to her lackluster holiday… until she’s rescued by a handsome stranger... -
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![Heat of Rejection by Vivian Hawthorne]()
Heat of Rejection by Vivian Hawthorne
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRejected. Humiliated.Shy and bookish, Gracie Reynolds has been an omega her whole life. So when she hears the call of fate after crossing paths with a certain somebody, she knows she must answer. She just never imagined that fate had a mate intended for her, and he’s none other than the son of the pack alpha.Too bad Daniel Vankamp doesn’t believe in fated mates...Categorized as:
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![The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson]()
The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson
Two wolf shifters agree to be fake mates but unexpectedly find something real in this steamy paranormal romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson. Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail—she hasn’t had a successful date in months... -
![Charmed by Koko Brown]()
Charmed by Koko Brown
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCharmed Koko Brown What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? Unfortunately this isn't the case for recently married Chloe. She believes she's just left behind the biggest mistake she's ever made in her life in Sin City-her sexy as sin husband Tristan, who although a walking Adonis, is nuttier than her Grandma Violet's fruitcake... -
![Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson]()
Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson
A woman discovers that not all monsters are her enemy—the opposite, in fact—in this new paranormal romance by Lana Ferguson, author of The Fake Mate.Keyanna “Key” MacKay is used to secrets. Raised by a single father who never divulged his past, it’s only after his death that she finds herself thrust into the world he’d always refused to speak of... -
![Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie]()
Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie
Andie Miller is ready to move on in life. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever... -
![Wish I Were Here by Melissa Wiesner]()
Wish I Were Here by Melissa Wiesner
Opposites attract when a buttoned-up professor and carefree doorman must restore a magically missing identity in this sparkling romance, perfect for fans of Sophie Cousens and Ashley Poston.For type-A mathematician Catherine Lipton, growing up with a free-spirited single dad who worked part-time as a clown was more than a little stressful...Categorized as:
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