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  • Unwritten by the Gods by Caty Rogan

    Unwritten by the Gods by Caty Rogan

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    In a world ruled by gods and torn by rebellion, a serf-turned-rebel must face the man she once loved—and the betrayal that broke them. As a serf in Selencia, Maera had no right to love Aelric, the son of the overlord. Aelric was forbidden to love her back, and when the gods reveal Aelric is an elite warrior his family tries to erase all evidence of their relationship, including Maera...
    Categorized as:
    military  fantasy  length-novella
  • Callum by Nyssa Kathryn

    Callum by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    One wedding, one fake relationship, and a threat no one saw coming. Attending a wedding is dead last on Fiona Lock’s list of priorities. She has two options: stay home and let the family gossip mill speculate on why she isn’t there; or attend the wedding and pretend she’s just fine. The decision is obvious. Not only does she choose option B…she may have mentioned a boyfriend she doesn’t have...
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  • Sentinel of Time by Lindsay Buroker

    Sentinel of Time by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 15 ratings
    Kaylina must dodge assassins and kidnappers while revelations about her past, and power she never knew she had, stun her to the core. She has the support of Lord Vlerion, the ranger she’s developed feelings for, but he has problems of his own, and an insidious plot threatens to take him from her forever.
  • Arranged by Lexi Blake

    Arranged by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Kash Kamdar is the king of a peaceful but powerful island nation. As Loa Mali’s sovereign, he is always in control, the final authority. Until his mother uses an ancient law to force her son into marriage. His prospective queen is a buttoned-up intellectual, nothing like Kash’s usual party girl. Still, from the moment of their forced engagement, he can’t stop thinking about her...
  • MATTHEW: The Beginning: REAPER-Patriots: Book Forty-Three by Mary Kennedy

    MATTHEW: The Beginning: REAPER-Patriots: Book Forty-Three by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every story has a beginning and the REAPER-Patriots beginning hasn't been told yet. Matthew Robicheaux, the patriarch of the family, has been hiding a secret for years. In fact, he's been hiding dozens of secrets that he wasn't ready to reveal. Prompted by Rachel with one simple question, he sets out to tell the story of the beginning...
  • 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! (Light Novel) Vol. 5 by Touko Amekawa

    7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! (Light Novel) Vol. 5 by Touko Amekawa

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    LADIES FIRST! After the fracas with the church, Rishe’s feelings toward Arnold are starting to change...
  • Small Town Mountain Daddy by K.C. Crowne

    Small Town Mountain Daddy by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Three babies? ? This has got to be a serious mistake. ". How did this happen? Ezra is the last guy I should be creating a human with. Never mind THREE. Sure he's sinfully hot. .. But he's also a cocky Neanderthal. And the man who bullied me since I can remember. One major lapse in judgement leads to three heartbeats in my sonogram visit...
  • My Orc (Fake) Boyfriend by Veronika Kane, Caroline Lee

    My Orc (Fake) Boyfriend by Veronika Kane, Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    He’s growly, he’s green, and he’s no Prince Charming…but he’s about to save my butt! I’m pretty sure there’s a rulebook somewhere that says the owner of a successful small-town bakery must be cheerful, friendly, and a little bit curvy, which means I’m nailing it. But my family doesn’t see it that way, especially since there’s no handsome doctor or lawyer keeping me company...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  fantasy  orcs  explicit-open-door
  • My Orc Silver Fox by Veronika Kane, Caroline Lee

    My Orc Silver Fox by Veronika Kane, Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    I thought my one-night stand with a hot older guy was just a rebound, but it left me with a memento that could ruin my life…or perfect it? My whole life, I’ve been the perfect perfect hair, perfect body, perfect grades, perfect career...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  fantasy  humor  orcs  audiobook  explicit-open-door
  • Billion Dollar Mistake by K.C. Crowne

    Billion Dollar Mistake by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    I should have listened to reason. Now, I’m married to an infuriatingly cocky billionaire. It started with an innocent crush. The popular boy from the wealthy side of town. And a dorky girl he teased mercilessly. Fast forward and the boy I wanted is now a man. Nothing like the star of my teenage fantasies. He's ruggedly handsome and charming. Charismatic. Confident. Sexy...
  • My Millionaire Marine: A Fake Marriage Surprise Twins Romance  (Forbidden Temptations) by Sofia T Summers

    My Millionaire Marine: A Fake Marriage Surprise Twins Romance (Forbidden Temptations) by Sofia T Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Step #1: Refuse my marriage proposal. Step #2: Get a new job. Step #3: Take my eyes off my hot new boss. The first two steps were fairly simple, but it’s obvious that I have zero control over my own eyes. In my defense, I didn’t know that he was my boss when I first saw him. I had no idea that he was a millionaire and a former marine pilot. But the thing that shocked me the most was worse…...
  • Doctor's Duties by K.C. Crowne

    Doctor's Duties by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'll forget all about my feelings for my professor. Medical school is enough stress as it is. But then mother nature's monthly gift decides to ghost me. Now I'm totally screwed! ! The way we met was out of a movie. Then he showed up as my professor the very next day. He's the man with two titles. Dr. Frost. And Professor Mc. Hottie. All that and a panty-dropping New Zealand accent. .
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  humor  urban  contemporary  suspense  fantasy  pregnancy
  • Mayhem's Betrayal by Lindsay Cross

    Mayhem's Betrayal by Lindsay Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this sizzling and suspenseful Operation Mayhem novel by USA Today Bestselling author, a soldier betrayed falls for the doctor who changed him. He’s searching for revenge. She’s searching for redemption. The answer to their dilemma lies in each other…. Dr. Melissa Averton devoted her life to saving Team Mayhem...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  fantasy  length-short
  • Punishing Penelope by Nicolina Martin

    Punishing Penelope by Nicolina Martin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    UP FOR PREORDER. “It’s time to teach Penelope Wilder a lesson, and I’m the man for the job. ”. Tragedy tears a group of high school friends apart. Peter can never forget the girl he once loved. Literally. Still fierce, and obnoxiously sexy, she has become a hotshot journalist who harasses him and the rest of the police force at every turn, and he’s had enough. “Peter Hale is the enemy...
  • Beast Daddy by Kelli Callahan

    Beast Daddy by Kelli Callahan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He's a beautifully broken beast, and I just walked into his lair. .. I was lost and looking for my way home. Instead, I found an old abandoned mansion in the woods. Those walls were hiding a lot of secrets. And I didn't realize I was in the beast's lair until it was too late. Something about him intrigued me. .. Maybe I should have ran when I had the chance...
  • Miss Bramble and the Leviathan by Kristen Painter

    Miss Bramble and the Leviathan by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The last thing she planned to steal was his heart. The Company. Military institution, protector of Praeton and the nation of Grand Isle. Dirty rotten thief. When Pandora Bramble steps aboard the Company s premiere airship Daedalus it s not for the exclusive VIP tour. It s to secure proof that the Company stole the regulator valve her father designed even if it means tearing the engine apart...
  • Of War and Ruin by Ryan Cahill

    Of War and Ruin by Ryan Cahill

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 32 ratings
    Solian ata'yar. Dauv ata'yar. Nur temen vie'ryn valana. Live as one. Die as one. For those we've lost. The city of Kingspass burns, and Calen Bryer's world has been shaken to its core. With Valerys at his side, Calen must battle his demons and push forward. There are people who need him, people who need what he must become, and he will not let them stand alone...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  fantasy  high fantasy  magic  dark  vikings  young adult
  • Red Havoc Guardian by T.S. Joyce

    Red Havoc Guardian by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Greyson McCarty is hiding big secrets and doing his best to stay invisible in the Red Havoc Crew. By his own choice, he is at the very bottom of the crew, but when he enlists the help of a shifter matchmaking service to find a mate, the one he’s given makes it hard for him to hide what he really is. Genevieve is smart, and funny, and the most interesting woman he’s ever met...
  • Red Havoc Rebel by T.S. Joyce

    Red Havoc Rebel by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Kaylee Cummings is back in Covington to change her destiny. She used to be known as the town rich girl, misunderstood by everyone but one boy, Anson Carter. They’d loved hard, and then destroyed each other in their youth, so when she crashes into him again, the residual anger from what he’d done comes back ten-fold...
  • Redemption of a Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Redemption of a Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Mountain Lion shifter, Trina Chapman, is having a rough year. Trying to find her legs over the loss of her Clan, she has bought a local bar and just needs to keep her focus until it can pay the bills. That would probably be easier to do if she didn’t have a rogue werewolf sniffing around and showing up in unexpected places...
  • Tarian Traitor by T.S. Joyce

    Tarian Traitor by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Annamora Fredrickson is turning a new leaf. Four months ago, she saw a picture of herself that made her determined to change her whole life. She’s a shifter on a mission, and nothing can stand in her way…except for perhaps one person. One hot as fire, smooth-talking heir to the Deadlies throne, Orion Burge...
  • Tarian Protector by T.S. Joyce

    Tarian Protector by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Sora Burge doesn’t have any fight in her anymore. After breaking the most important shifter law, she knows her fate is in the Tarian Pride’s hands. She’s counting down to the trial, but something is coming for her. Something she never thought possible. When Ford Owens, the man she used to love, shows up, she can’t believe what he’s become...
  • For the Pride of a Crow by T.S. Joyce

    For the Pride of a Crow by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Ethan Blackwood has a dark destiny that will make him the next Blackwood Crow. He’s being haunted by his past and is slowly morphing into the man he never wanted to be. Every decision he’s made to get to this point in his life has been a misstep, and he’s desperate to get turned in the right direction before it’s too late...
  • For the Soul of an Outlaw by T.S. Joyce

    For the Soul of an Outlaw by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Genie isn’t what people expected. She isn’t just a squirrel, but a shifter in hiding named Tenlee. She’s dug herself into a deep hole, and now her past has come back to haunt her and hurt her friends in the Two Claws Clan. Not only that, but the man she loves had left the ranch, and left her in despair...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  shapeshifters  fantasy  paranormal  audiobook
  • Grim Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    Grim Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Grim is trying to hold it together for the holidays. He’s vowed to be a better Alpha for the Rogue Pride Crew, but he’s at war with the two lions inside of him, and at war with a certain Red Dragon as well. He was raised to be a weapon and had never celebrated like everyone else. All he wants to do is coast straight through the holiday, but his new Crew is messing with his head...
  • Bitten Beauty by C.M. Owens

    Bitten Beauty by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    ZEE. I didn't choose this life. I didn't choose my fate. In fact, fate seems to have thing for fucking me over. Leah is just one more thing I didn't choose, and now I'm fighting everything in me not to turn her into the monster I never wanted to be. But we both know what's going to happen in the end, because as always, I have no control. LEAH. He's wrong and right in the same breath...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  witches  fantasy  vampires  paranormal  length-medium
  • How It Is by T.S. Joyce

    How It Is by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The king is dying. Krome has been the leader of the Crow Blooded for years, but his reign is over if he can’t find a way to heal his wings after a war with the Bane brothers. He’s stuck in the in-between, not quite a crow, not quite a man, and unable to choose a form. When his crows break the rules and abduct a human woman they swear can fix him, he thinks they’ve lost their minds...
  • Tarian Silver Lion by T.S. Joyce

    Tarian Silver Lion by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Talon Lawson is a runner. He’s been on the move to keep his daughter safe for years, and now it’s a habit he isn’t capable of breaking. Too long in one place, and his inner lion pushes him to move on. He’s sworn to himself he will only make sure his daughter, Emerald, is settled in her new home with her mate, and then he’ll leave, but something more is anchoring him to the New Tarian Pride...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  shapeshifters  fantasy  paranormal  audiobook
  • For the Heart of the Warmaker by T.S. Joyce

    For the Heart of the Warmaker by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Karis Dunway’s instincts are screaming that there is a storm brewing around Two Claws Ranch. With the odds stacking against them, she and the Clan are in a race to save the ranch. A trail ride for a family of tourists could mean a turnaround for her people, but there is a new threat coming out of the woodwork, and they will have to work together to keep the ride on track...
  • Mages of Buldoun by Daniel Schinhofen

    Mages of Buldoun by Daniel Schinhofen

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    Gregory, Yukiko, and Jenn were thrilled— not only had they won their first apprentice tournament, their friends finally joined them in Aether’s Guard. Daciana, Nessa, and Victoria were only halfway through their novice year, but had made an impact during their novice tournament. Besides the three novices, more friends joined their clan: Ling and Clover...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  fantasy  magic  erotica  paranormal  poly  menage
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