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Unchained Beauty by C.M. Owens
Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI've spent my life thinking I knew the worst that could happen. Battles come and go. Wars are almost always won in the end. It's easy to grow complacent and forget even the deadliest should glance over their shoulder from time to time. We thought we had it all figured out. We were poised for this win before we even went to battle. We didn't win. We didn't lose... -
The HellBeast's Fight by Stephanie Hudson
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBook 2 in The HellBeast King Series... -
The Oh My Gawd Couple by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWelcome to my Hell… and not the good one where I’m in charge. Word on the street is that my brother’s son was potty trained at eight months old. Unacceptable. I shall not be bested by God. I have pilfered plastic potties, Cheerios and bagels. I am prepared to teach my boy to put the pee in the hole. All I need now is a potty song. Or so I thought... -
Second of the Winterset Coven by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDawn Reed is a small town girl looking for a big adventure. She’s been feeling stagnant for a while, but there is a new coven in town and the Second to the king has captured her heart. Garret has been patiently building a slow friendship, but when he cuts her off, Dawn is bereft. Not only is she losing the man she’s falling head-over-heels for, she’s losing her friends in the coven as well... -
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It Begins with Her by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMorgan is finally hitting her stride with her new life. She’s accepted her inner wolf and is feeling good, getting work done, building a pack with her new mate and finally feeling like she’s on top of the world. Too bad the Silver Wolf world never stays steady for long... -
It Ends with Her by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLevi Wright has spent the last two years on a mission. His old pack thinks he’s been away at school so he could come back and apprentice to the Black Wolf himself, Greyson Crawford. He hasn’t though. He was out learning to protect a girl. And not just any girl. THE girl... -
Protect Mine by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe’s baaack! The one and only Silver Wolf is back where she belongs, with the Dallas pack and right beside her man. Morgan Carter has missed Grey terribly in the time she was away, but after she was hunted by a Montana pack, she knows she can’t run from her destiny anymore... -
Third of the Winterset Coven by T.S. Joyce
Evan Dawe's coven is falling apart. Between wars with competing shifter Crews, an injured King, and attacks from other supernaturals, the vampire numbers in Winterset are dwindling. And every vampire worth his weight in salt knows there is safety in numbers... -
Ride My Sleigh by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe hot mess Christmas express…Megelle Island is full of supernatural creatures. I came here a few years ago to be among my own kind, to not worry that I’d accidentally shift into a raccoon or turn invisible in front of some poor human. My clumsiness was going to expose us all to the public and get me into big trouble with the angels.The only problem is…I’m the only jinn here... -
Fashionably Dead and Demonic by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAnastasia I’m dead. He’s demonic. It never would have worked…Getting dumped by the Demon of my dreams wasn’t exactly in the game plan. Game plans suck. Throwing caution to the wind is my new motto.I used to be a semi-happily single Vampyre... -
Hocus My Pocus by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you’ve got it, haunt it… Once upon a time, I had big ideas, big dreams, and big plans. But when my mother left my kid sister with me when I was only fifteen, I was suddenly the single mother I never thought I’d be. Someone had to raise Torren and show her love and support, the way parents were supposed to love their children, the way our mother never did... -
Carve My Pumpkin by Chandelle LaVaun, Megan Montero
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGive ‘em pumpkin to talk about… The perfect job is only two weeks away. Two. Short. Weeks. All I have to do is survive the trial period for this new position and the future I’ve always wanted will be my reality. Once it’s mine, I’ll travel the world helping my fellow supernaturals blend into the human world and craft the lives they dreamed of. And in turn…maybe I’ll find myself... -
Vlad by Patricia A. Rasey
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsOne woman has the power to bring the king of vampires to his knees. Check out USA Today Bestselling Author, Patricia A. Rasey's latest, emotionally driven novel that has paranormal romance readers clamoring for more. Vlad Tepes, king of the vampires, has a problem on his hands... -
Dante's Circle Reborn by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan returns to her bestselling Dante’s Circle series with a collection of four never before published and highly anticipated romances. FALLEN FOR ALPHAS Liam and Alec watched their Pack fall from grace and fought with tooth and claw to make it rise from the ashes again for the Alpha... -
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She is the Darke: A Crow Shifter Forbidden Romance Short Story by T. S. Joyce
Tyler Durock is back in town to handle some family business, but this is not how he wants to spend his October. He’s been haunted by all that he left behind when he moved away from this sleepy little town years ago, and one of those ghosts happens to be his sister’s best friend, Demi Rhone Darke. Tyler wanted to message her when she was outed as crow shifters on the news, but didn’t know how... -
The Nightmare King by Heather Killough-Walden
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen she was fourteen, Adelaide Lane made a choice that landed her in the ICU of her town’s general hospital. Her prognosis was not good. When against all odds she woke up, it was to find that she had re-entered life not only with physical and mental scars, but with the ability to see into the future. For twenty years, Addie has used this power to do good in a world gone bad... -
Irreverent by Bianca Scardoni
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTHE MARKED SAGA CONTINUES...If I thought things couldn't get any worse with Dominic's emotions completely shut off and the Son of Perdition on its way, I was dead wrong. Destiny wasn't done with me and she was about to pull the ground out from me all over again.Old friends and foes have come back to guide me toward a Fate sealed in my blood long before I was born... -
Detective Dragon's Brave Mate: (Runaway Dragon Mates) by Serena Meadows
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI never imagined being engaged to a cold-blooded murderer. When I overhear Chuck confess…I have no other choice—but to run away.Braden is a private investigator and insists on protecting me.Even though he’s an alpha dragon shifter—I’m not certain he or anyone else can save me from my ex.I’m terrified Chuck will hunt me down.Investigators are on Chuck’s trail.The victims’ families crave revenge... -
The Dragon King by Heather Killough-Walden
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMillennia ago, in the time of dragons, love and hate colored the very air monsters breathed. Ancient sorcery coursed through powerful wings like blood, pumped by hearts of magic, and timeless beasts of lore soared over the landscape, terrible and wondrous. Amidst these beasts of yesteryear, a forbidden love bloomed. A child was born of this love... -
Switch of Fate 2 by Grace Quillen, Lisa Ladew
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“All vampires must die.” Flint Gibson is ready to lay down his life for The Cause, just so long as doing so results in a ton of dead vampires. He’s been planning a kamikaze mission for decades, not-so-patiently waiting for news about the vampires who killed his family. Because all vampires must die. Especially those vampires... -
Switch of Fate 3 by Lisa Ladew
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRiot Cofield is a bad-boy mountain lion shifter who scales mountains like fences. He belongs IN the Natahala Forest, but not TO it, and he resents “the Cause” because it turns normal, sweet women into a conniving, savage witches - switches - who will do anything to kill a vampire. Riot tried out the Cause (after all, he is a shifter) but after getting used and discarded twice, he’s over it... -
Not Her Dragon by Annie Nicholas
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSingle female dragons are too rare to be left to their own devices. Or so, Bella was taught.Then her betrothed unexpectedly dies, leaving her wedding contract in the hands of his greedy father. She has no choice but to be auctioned off to the highest bidder or her family will be killed.For one week, she’s enslaved to a dragon who is obsessed with her... -
Itching for Justice by Addison Moore
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn innkeeper who reads minds. An ornery detective. And a trail of bodies. Cider Cove is the premier destination for murder.***Includes RECIPEMy name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds—not every mind, not every time but most of the time and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be... -
Raining Cats and Killers by Addison Moore, Bellamy Bloom
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn innkeeper who reads minds. An ornery detective. And a trail of bodies. Cider Cove is the premier destination for murder.***Includes RECIPEMy name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds—not every mind, not every time but most of the time and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be... -
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A Winter Tail of Woe by Addison Moore, Bellamy Bloom
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds—not every mind, not every time but most of the time and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. It’s a snowy winter in Cider Cove and a show called Mayhem, Baking, and Murder is taping an episode at the inn with me as the guest host... -
Breaking the Beast by Holly Roberds
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDo you have any idea how hard it is to get some alone time to just read a book?I've been too busy dealing with vampires, gods, and supernatural B.S. running amok on the Vegas Strip. But I'm no stranger to duty or kicking ass.That's the reason I'm the keeper of an ancient fae weapon known as the Blade of Bane... -
The Shifter King by Heather Killough-Walden
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSam saw him enter the club at the opposite end of the room. Everyone did. He was a dark shadow against the night, no small feat but one he accomplished with frightening ease. His suit was expertly, precisely tailored, black and expensive, and it hugged every intended curve of his six-foot-five frame... -
Raptor's Peak: Switch of Fate 4 by Grace Quillen, Lisa Ladew
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Cause is recruiting. Shifters of all species are flowing into Nantahala Forest, meeting at the Bear Claw Diner, eager to lend a paw or talon in the fight against the vampires. The Cause has already filled one magical coven house with vampire-killing witches – switches – and their leader claims more are on the way... -
Witch Moon Wishes by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt should have been a simple wish. All Merri wants is for Keely to find the man of her dreams.Unfortunately, the consequences are anything but simple and Merri sets of a chain of events that might cost Keely any chance of finding true love.Keely had almost given up hope of finding a man to love her. But thanks to Merri she has no shortage of suitors... -
Hexing on a Hunter's Moon by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHalloween is a couple of days away. Unfortunately, this year it coincides with the Hunter’s Moon. But it’s not vampires and werewolves the people of Wishing Moon Bay should fear.It’s the ghostly fae army that will rise when blood is spilled on their final resting place... -
The HellBeast King Box Set Books 1 - 3 by Stephanie Hudson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first HellBeast King Box set offers great savings and ease.Join Jared and Ella at the start of their epic story including the books The HellBeast King... -
Dragon’s Obsession For Darkness by Brittany White
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove is put to the test when secrets become unraveled.After losing my mother to vampire hunters when I was eighteen, I moved with my siblings and father across the country – until the hunters found us again. That was how my family and I ended up in Snow Haven, Alaska. I saw a dragon shifter, Josiah Bazin, the second day after we moved to the area and I fell in love... -
Esther - Book 1 by Kathryn Moon
On the brink of losing her position as a maid for the Pickering family and with no prospects to go on, the offer of a place at Rooksgrave Manor—a house of ill and unusual repute—sounds like a perfect fit for a young woman with Esther’s inclinations. Even better, the invitation comes by the hand of the handsome Dr... -
Twisted Together by W.J. May
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwisted Together is the 8th Book of W.J. May's bestselling series, The Chronicles of Kerrigan. Rae Kerrigan has been branded a traitor. Arrested with no idea why, Rae suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of the Privy Council and possibly for good. She’s branded a traitor, just like her father. Forced to trust in someone she doesn’t know, she finds herself more confused than ever... -
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Wolf's Bite by Atlas Rose, Kim Faulks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Don’t come any closer,” I warned, my FBI badge useless in the face of this fanged monster. “I’ll scratch and bite.”“You’ll crawl and beg too.” Phantom promised as he strode closer, a glint of desire danced in his eyes. “And that Special Agent…will only be the start of it.” The Costello’s were mine. Mine to corner. Mine to hunt. Mine to bring to their knees. I’ve hunted Ruth for years now... -
A Frightening Fangs-giving by Addison Moore
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn innkeeper who reads minds. An ornery detective. And a trail of bodies. Cider Cove is the premiere destination for murder.Each book in the series can be read individually so dive on in! ***Includes RECIPE***My name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds—not every mind, not every time but most of the time and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be... -
Switch of Fate 1 by Lisa Ladew, Grace Quillen
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShifters and switches are the perfect match; she hunts vampires, he keeps her from destroying entire populations in a fit of magical rage, but the match between shifter and switch is never an easy one to make. this will be a full novel, approximately 60,000 words. Jameson Leggett is a lonely wolf shifter who had one job that was essential to the protection of the human species... -
Unchained by a Forbidden Love by Felicity Heaton
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsLost to the darkness, Fuery wages a daily war against the corruption that lives within him, constantly in danger of slipping into the black abyss and becoming the monster all elves fear. Work as an assassin gives him purpose, but what reason is there to go on when he killed the light of his life—his fated mate? Shaia has spent forty-two centuries mourning her mate... -
A Fang in the Sass by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAria Valderi is a day walker, a vampire that can walk in the sun. Being a descendant of the original queen of the vampires has its perks, but finding out her mate is a wolf shifter isn't one of them. He's insufferable, bossy, and too damn sexy for his own good. Trevan Stone knows Aria is his... -
Dmitri by D'Elen McClain
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith war on the horizon, Dmitri, liege vampire to the bear clan, offers safe haven to Vorlyk and his new clan. Having another vampire in his territory is difficult but a certain young she-cat makes life impossible. The stalking feline has her eyes set on Dmitri even when his eyes stray elsewhere. The enemy proves that none of the North American clans is safe and it’s time to fight back... -
Brother Bear Mated by P. Jameson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThames, the eldest brother bear of the Ursa Gemini twins—the only remaining members of the Deadclaw bear shifter clan—has spent the last ten years of his life working as a bouncer at a shifter bar and trying to forget the brutal life he was born into. Now his brawling bear is ready to settle down and catch a mate... -
The Demon Lord: The Crimson Vampire Coven 11 (The Crimson Coven) by B.A. Stretke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsLord Nael DuFour, the Demon Lord, has been sealed in the Demon Sphere for a Millennia. The Dragon Stone has set him free. Little did Jai and his chosen Levi realize what they were unleashing when they made their deal with the Demon Lord to help save the Crimson Coven. Nael is just looking for a little fun when he drops in on the Crimson Plantation... -
Spoils of War by Susan A. Bliler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThey took her! Before Alpha wolf shifter, War Vox could explore his odd infatuation with Nora, before he could even consider the implications of his inexplicable draw to the she-wolf who’d been dumped in his territory, she’s ripped away from him. Calling out War is a huge mistake, but taking something from War’s wolf is tantamount to suicide... -
Marked By Rejection: A Paranormal Shifter Romance by Avery Stone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAt eighteen, my life should have ended with the last beat of my bleeding heart, but instead, a scorching press of lips ignited a mark that resurrected me into a world of shadows. Alas, my survival proves to be a curse. I'm thrust into a pack I’ve never heard of, where arrogant Alphas — with antihero tendencies, dominating chiseled bodies, and mysterious ranks — wrestle for control... -
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Big Bad Boss: Mated by Renee Rose, Lee Savino
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsRule #4 of Wall Keep your enemies closeThe Vampire King wasn't on the invite list for our engagement party, but that won't stop him from demanding his due.He insists Madi and I make an appearance at his club.He wants a performance where we're the players.I would refuse--war be damned, but my bride is intrigued.And what she wants, she gets... -
The Dragon and The Vampire by A.K. Michaels
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs Director of the Supernatural Enforcement Bureau, powerful Vampire Ronan, thought he had seen it all...until he discovers that Dragons actually exist. Can he help the Dragon being hunted on his patch? He certainly has the means at his disposal...if they can find it first...before the dark magic-wielding Witches and their Vampire cohorts... -
Stained Bonds by Serena Akeroyd, Helen Scott
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll her life Marcella strove for one thing. Becoming a Sixth. Now, she’s got so much more than she bargained for. Not only does she have six mates to contend with, but her powers are growing and changing too, and, just to top it off, her father is trying to kidnap her. Daddy dearest is evil. There's no denying that. But that propensity for darkness? It's inside her... -
Immoral by G. Bailey
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is Kaitlyn Lightson and my home is with the vampires. After the destruction of the Angel Academy, I’m found a traitor to my own race and I wish it was just me that is found guilty. Vesnia and many others are trapped with me, and I’m not sure how I can save them... -
Eternally Lost: Shallow Cove™ Dimensions by January Rayne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI loved her when I wasn’t allowed to, and in death, she’s all I think about.Purgatory is the life I never knew I wanted.I’m able to release the rage I’ve kept locked inside my entire life.When the fog hovers above the ground, I am in one place.The Graveyard. A fighting ring where I can unleash the violence my werewolf craves... -
The Court of Truth by K.C. Kean
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, that’s what they say. Who knew my biggest enemy would share my blood. I’ve been dreaming of this moment my entire life. The day I reclaim my birthright, ascend the throne, and claim my crown. Yet the instant I am proclaimed Queen of Floodborn, chaos ensues. My aunt is fueled by revenge, her sights set on me and my kingdom...
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