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  • Of Mice and Murder by Steffanie Holmes

    Of Mice and Murder by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 37 ratings
    Join a brooding antihero, a master criminal, a cheeky raven, and a heroine with a big heart (and an even bigger book collection) in this hot new steamy reverse harem paranormal mystery series. When the local Banned Book Club lose their meeting room, Mina volunteers to host the group at Nevermore Bookshop (against Heathcliff’s muttered protests, of course)...
  • Of Blackened Blood by Isla Davon

    Of Blackened Blood by Isla Davon

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 41 ratings
    Death continues to stalk me…Enemies surrounding me at every corner,wanting to pull the very seams of my new life apart.But I’m no longer alone.I’m surrounded by the men I love and new friends that I trust.And our bonds are only growing stronger.But the demons and nightmares of my past are resurfacing,haunting our every move and attacking not only me,but the people I love...
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  • Wicked Prince by Anya J. Cosgrove

    Wicked Prince by Anya J. Cosgrove

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Never make a deal with a Fae. You'll end up on your knees...I didn't listen. I made a deal with the Fae prince that plagues Dark Falls with his sinful presence. Cole Desirys now thinks he owns me, his psycho best friend hates me, and I loathe myself for the foolish promise I made...
  • Blood Bound by Amy Sumida

    Blood Bound by Amy Sumida

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Award Winning Godhunter Series Continues! Pregnancy is hard on any woman but for the Godhunter it presents a unique set of problems. Like literally burning indigestion, magically induced mood swings, and overprotective alpha males. Then one wrong decision sets Vervain down a catastrophic path and singed furniture becomes the least of her concerns...
  • Succubus Dreams by L.L. Frost

    Succubus Dreams by L.L. Frost

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Adie escaped the Hunters, but not without cost. Nightmares plague her sleep, questioning the choices she made. Or is it something more? After taking down the Hunters, Adie should be living in bliss. She has everything she wanted, her bakery, friendships, and possibly the love of three powerful demons. But nightmares haunt Adie's sleep, reminding her of the danger her love can bring...
  • Much Ado About Murder by Steffanie Holmes

    Much Ado About Murder by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    All’s fair in love and murder. The Shakespeare Festival has come to the village, and all of Argleton has gone bard-crazy. Mina’s excited about Nevermore being the festival’s official bookstore, but a rival bookshop opens up across the green and completely cramps her style...
  • Demon's Touch by Dakota Brown

    Demon's Touch by Dakota Brown

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    The only thing more dangerous than being a mage is other people knowing that you have supernatural abilities. And here I am, untrained, untried, and ripe for the picking. With the magical black market chasing my untrained powers, I'm running a race I can't win. The wolves who have added me to their pack are no match for the dark mages hunting me...
  • SpellBreaker by Connie Suttle

    SpellBreaker by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    History is written by the victors. Truth is written by the Larentii--Nefrigar, Chief Archivist Wylend Arden, Fifth-level warlock and King of Karathia for more than twenty-thousand years, had quite a story to tell. "It began like this," he said, his smile slightly crooked as he lifted his cup of wine to me. "I had an older brother, born to one of my father's legitimate mates...
  • A Dead and Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes

    A Dead and Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 69 ratings
    What do you get when you cross a cursed bookshop, three hot fictional men, and a punk rock heroine nursing a broken heart? After being fired from her fashion internship in New York City, Mina Wilde decides it's time to reevaluate her life...
  • Their Crowned Mate by River Ramsey

    Their Crowned Mate by River Ramsey

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    They know. My former pack, my traitorous father, the alphas who rejected me… and most importantly, the three men I love.I never thought I’d have my pregnancy announced onstage during a fake mating ceremony. I also kind of thought I’d at least know who the father of my baby is, but with the fae emperor trying to break into our world, me and my guys have even bigger problems to solve...
  • Their Banished Mate by River Ramsey

    Their Banished Mate by River Ramsey

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    A shifter, a vampire and a hunter walk into a bar... Sounds like the setup for a joke, right? Well, it's become my everyday life. I went from sheltered pack princess to bartender at a haven for supernaturals overnight. Why not add part-fae hybrid to the list?Getting trapped in the realm of the fae with my boss and sometimes lover, Cole, was not part of the plan...
  • The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon

    The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 163 ratings
    Not many people get a second chance, let alone a second life.I died. Burning in a prison cell I spent years of my life rotting away in.I had been beaten, battered and bruised beyond repair...but not broken.Never broken.By whatever miracle, I’ve been brought back ten years into my past and before I was locked away...But to a different kind of hell…Wensridge Academy...
  • Dying In Flames by M. Sinclair

    Dying In Flames by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    I could no longer run from my past.It had caught up to me, and I was now faced with the reality that Pastor Malcolm may not be my biggest problem. There was something far more terrifying waiting in the shadows that threatened everything and everyone in my life. Something that was setting my world ablaze in a flame that I may not survive...
  • Realm Of Flames by M. Sinclair

    Realm Of Flames by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 44 ratings
    We were leaving Earth and traveling to an entirely new realm… well, new for me. The Dreki realm. Before escaping Louisiana with my mother and meeting my mates, I’d lived trapped like a bird inside of a cage of Pastor Malcolm’s creation. I was free now. I was also starting to realize what that meant for myself, my mates, and my identity as a shifter...
  • Witchling Academy: Semester Three by Avery Song

    Witchling Academy: Semester Three by Avery Song

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Finishing our first year at Witchling Academy brings a wave of new experiences. Now with Semester Three approaching it's time for me to decide what path I want to walk as I enter young adulthood. I, Brianne Marie Harlow, am now dating the Notorious Four...
  • Elysian by Addison Moore

    Elysian by Addison Moore

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Addison Moore ELYSIAN is the final book in the young adult Celestra Series. Part One and Part Two together in one e-book. This novel is 184,000 words. Love and destiny wait for no one. Skyla Messenger is in the arms of death. While Skyla awaits the verdict of the faction war, she makes some troubling discoveries...
  • Memoirs of a Garroter by Steffanie Holmes

    Memoirs of a Garroter by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    Murder is bad for business, especially when the hot local crime writer is garrotted between the shelves! With grudging permission from Heathcliff, Mina Wilde has transformed Nevermore Bookshop. She’s running author events, hosting Quoth’s art show, and using her creative flair to attract more customers...
  • Witchling Academy: Semester Four by Avery Song

    Witchling Academy: Semester Four by Avery Song

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Bring on the competition, cheerleader fights, and rebellious repeats. I'm ready to take a stand, prove myself, and save my team once and for all. After triumphing over another exam-gone-wrong, all we want to do is recover. But it seems that there’s no rest for the witches, because another challenge immediately smacks us in the face...
  • Witchling Academy: Semester Eight by Avery Song

    Witchling Academy: Semester Eight by Avery Song

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Murder? Threats? Court trials? Shocking revelations?Turning twenty is more about chaos than celebration as my final semester at Witchling Academy kicks off with a bang.Semester Eight will be the most intense one yet; with the cheer squad competition, the football league championships, kendo master matches, and the spring festival art competition, we're going to be busy around the clock...
  • Wicked by Addison Moore

    Wicked by Addison Moore

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Seventeen year-old, Skyla Messenger is wishing people would just stay dead. With Chloe back, Skyla finds it difficult to live under her tyranny and threats. A seemingly innocent misstep in Skyla’s past comes back to haunt her and could end up costing her relationship with Gage...
  • The Witchwood Boys Are Trending by C.M. Stunich

    The Witchwood Boys Are Trending by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 175 ratings
    They tricked me into a dark and unholy union.Three bastards in witch hats, leather pants, and iron masks.These supernatural stalkers have claimed me for their coven.They won’t go away. These assholes will. not. leave.All because I fell for an urban Touch the Witch’s Tree on a moonless night and discover magic.Wholesome magic kinky rituals, blood sacrifice, and jizz potions...
  • Burn by Addison Moore

    Burn by Addison Moore

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Sixteen year-old, Skyla Messenger is having difficulties with the living and the dead. With Chloe’s diary in her hands, Skyla embarks into the mind of one of Paragon’s most twisted former residents. After accidentally kick-starting the faction war, Skyla finds herself in more danger than ever before...
  • Pride and Premeditation by Steffanie Holmes

    Pride and Premeditation by Steffanie Holmes

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune will be gruesomely murdered at the ball. Mina’s excited to attend the annual Argleton Jane Austen Experience at the stately Baddesley Hall...
  • Tremble by Addison Moore

    Tremble by Addison Moore

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Sixteen year-old, Skyla Messenger is determined to bring back the dead. For Skyla, being an angel from the coveted Celestra faction hasn't been easy. An entire band of wicked angels is after her blood, a Sector is after something far more sinister, and her newfound powers lead her on a quest to save her dead father...
  • Vex by Addison Moore

    Vex by Addison Moore

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Seventeen year-old, Skyla Messenger finds herself lying on an altar as a sacrifice to the enemy. Being an angel of the highest Nephilim order hasn’t been easy. Her first love has cast his allegiance to the Countenance, the Sectors and the Fems see her as nothing more than a celestial pawn, and the dead girl she helped bring back to life has blackmailed her into relinquishing her boyfriend...
  • Fae Hunter by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Fae Hunter by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 20 ratings
    Think you know fae? Think again.Our lives are nursery rhymes and faerie stories now, Allie.When Allie Hunter's twin sister steps through a magic circle into the Faerie realm, she opens the door to deadly fae, bent on causing havoc and harm to Allie's village.Rendered blind to all but the spirit world, Allie is frustrated and angry but determined to bring the fae down...
  • Doves & Demons by Clio Evans

    Doves & Demons by Clio Evans

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 51 ratings
    Welcome to London, where the roaring twenties are filled with fangs and freaks. When Irene is kidnapped by a gang of monsters, she is shoved straight into a world of magic and murder. A Mothman. An Unseelie. A Demonic Plague Doctor. The Freaks are a terrifying group ready to wreak havoc on the world that destroyed their humanity...
  • Adapt by Analeigh Ford

    Adapt by Analeigh Ford

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I thought I was going to lose everything, but I’ve been given a second chance. I have three months to prove I can control my powers. This time, I am going to have to do it alone. The…incident…at Homecoming left the New York Academy of Mages reeling. I don’t mind that Whitney fears me, so long as it means she leaves me alone...
  • Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends... until the night when his best friends try to kill him...
  • Ethereal by Addison Moore

    Ethereal by Addison Moore

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Sixteen year-old, Skyla Messenger is a dead girl walking. When her newly remarried mother moves the family to Paragon Island, to a house that is rumored to be haunted, Skyla finds refuge in Logan Oliver, a boy who shares her unique ability to read minds...
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