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Tease Me by Julia Ash, Linzi Basset
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon't let love, or lust, pass you by…. Sink into this incredible collection of never-before-released full-length novels! Available for a limited time only! Let us arouse your imagination with dozens of books compiled to satisfy your craving for romance. They'll tease… excite… and tempt you to sin. Get ready to swoon over these seductive stories of craving and demand. Yield and advance. Heat... -
Dangerous Truths by Kris Butler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhat if the reflection staring back at you had become a stranger? Inside, I was dying—empty, dark, alone. Keeping it all together was exhausting and the ‘perfect’ mask I wore was beginning to slip. Pretending to have it all together wasn’t working anymore as the lies I had to tell weighed heavier each day. I’d done everything right my whole life and I still ended up divorced, childless, and alone... -
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Six by Evie Rae, Poppy Flynn
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsA Dark 'Why Choose' Romance Inspired by "Peter Pan & The Lost Boys". First there were Five. Now they are Six. Beck. The sun has dawned on a new day and after a grim fight with a notorious serial child killer, the future looks bright. Even for me. But not everything is as it seems. The man killed in that brutal struggle? He’s not the man I remember as my kidnapper... -
Dark Obsessions Anthology: Volume 1 by C.M. Steele
They’re watching. Waiting. Bound by their desires to own—the uncontrollable hunger that breaks rationality and brings forth their baser needs. To hunt. To take. Morals and humanity have no place in this game, one they’ll win at all costs. A hunter never apologizes. A man claims his woman without guilt or care for the consequences. And in this dark obsession, these demons will own your soul...Categorized as:
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Nirvana In Neon by M.J Knight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWe did it. Our enemies are just bad memories. Or so we thought. Can you ever really be safe from enemies when you and the men you love run the largest crime syndicate in the South? We were celebrating. Preparing. Our life was finally on track. Now new enemies come from the North. They think us weak… Little do they know I’m more bloodthirsty than ever... -
Once a Myth by Pepper Winters
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHe bought her. He trapped her. She belongs to him. Eleanor Grace is a naïve dreamer. Trusting and young, she believes her travel-loving boyfriend can save her when her freedom is snatched and sold. Squirrelled away to an island at dawn, delivered to a man even darkness won’t touch, she’s bound by a contract. Sullivan Sinclair is the giver of fantasies... -
Breaking Bailey by Jarica James
They call themselves the Underground Omega Syndicate, and the dirt they have on me could ruin my life. As an omega myself, I never thought I’d fall victim to an organization that claims to want omegas in power, but I’ve been kidnapped and given a new identity. Now, I’m in the middle of North Harbor’s political scene with orders to take down a corrupt senator...Categorized as:
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Bitter Truths by Livi Weston
Until my eighteenth birthday, life was pretty peachy. Or at least, close. Sure, I was still unawakened and had a secret big enough to blow everything wide open, but hey. .. tiny details. Four scent-matched alphas who also happened to be my brother’s best friends? Check. Fate blessing me with the dreamiest, tastiest-smelling guys I've ever met? Check, check. Weller. Owen. Tristan. Freddie...Categorized as:
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Run for us by Jaye Pratt
Sometimes life hands you a fork in the road. Mine feels more like a tidal wave crashing down on me, just as I’m about to turn thirty. Until now, I’ve been trying to live up to my mother’s impossible standards while drowning in deadlines, but I’ve finally had enough. Bluebell Bay is my escape plan. It’s a chance to figure out what I want from life, a place I don’t have to pretend... -
Kingmakers: Graduation by Sophie Lark
Wild Hearts, Ruthless Games. In the adrenaline-fueled world of Kingmakers, Sabrina Gallo stands as a force of nature. Untamed and fiercely independent, she’s more storm than woman, captivating and terrifying all who cross her path. Bratva bad boy Adrik Petrov has finally met his match. Sabrina won’t be easily claimed—but for Adrik, the thrill of the chase is as intoxicating as the prize...Categorized as:
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Endgame by Jaye Pratt
Even after the death of Mr. Z, he still manages to screw me from the grave. One letter was all it took to irrevocably change my life forever. It not only changes the course of my future, but also for those I am close to. Ending Mr. Z’s life should have made things easier, yet his death has revealed so many more secrets and lies, and unleashed new enemies that were once allies... -
Wicked Pursuit by Katee Robert
Welcome to the Black Rose Auction where every sin can be yours for a price. For three days, the doors to this luxe New York estate are thrown wide for anyone with a taste for the obscenely rich, the ultra-exclusive, and the once in a lifetime thrill of the forbidden: where nothing is off the table and everything―and everyone―can be had for the taking... -
Poisoned Throne by Nikita.
Like many little girls, I too used to dream of fairytales. Until that illusion was shattered, and I saw firsthand just how cruel life could be. Now I just wished my nightmare would end. The life I knew ceased to exist as I suffered at the hands of my stepmother, who hated me... -
The Zodiac Queen: Season Two by Gemma James
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Gemma James brings you season two of the Zodiac Queen, a unique and steamy tale of a young queen caught between twelve signs. Intended for mature readers who enjoy dark and explicit themes. Reader discretion is advised. Twelve men, a virgin queen, one arranged marriage…. Cancer: Vance Morgan—a kinky doctor with an exhibitionist streak...Categorized as:
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The Pack's Request by Tea Ravine
They walked away from me five years ago with one request- stay away. I’ve had five years to change my life, five years to discover who I am, and who I want to be. To grow strong in the agony of their rejection. Still, when I see them, I come alive and no matter how much we promise to stay away, fate’s not done with us yet...Categorized as:
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Vengeance of The Fallen by Dani René
USA Today Bestselling Author, Dani René, brings you a brand new dark and steamy reverse harem romance which is part of the Twisted Legends Collection! A new persona. A new life. But none of that would save me from them. The Fallen are ruthless, demanding, and vicious, and they want me. I thought I could hide from my past, but they know who I am, what I am. They want vengeance... -
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
Would you trade your soul mate for your soul? A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love...Categorized as:
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Gypsy Origins by Kristy Cunning
I'm like a snowball rolling downhill. That's the first thing that pops into my mind when I try to explain my life. I don't know exactly 'what' I am, but I do know who I am. At least. .. I did. Sometimes life sends things your way that upend everything you thought you knew, and then slings you in another direction without any sort of harness or warning...Categorized as:
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Embraced by Marissa Honeycutt
Devin has achieved his goal of becoming Chairman and all seems peaceful. .. until Devin performs an act of cruelty that pushes Anna to fight back for the first time in her life. Meanwhile, Alex is working hard to give her something that Devin can never take away. As her Masters work around her, Anna must navigate a life she never wanted... -
Restless Stars by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsOrphans. Changelings. Princesses. Queens. We are all and nothing now, our fate weighed on the scales of the stars and counterbalanced by the forces that oppose us. The shadow of the false king spreads as thick as oil across the kingdom we were born to rule, and none remain untouched by its darkness. Our crowns lay within reach if only we can claim them... -
Playboy Princes by Jaymin Eve, Tate James
She's my last chance. Those four words echo in Violet Spencer’s mind, tugging at her curiosity even as rage builds within her. Arbon Academy was supposed to be a bright new start. An opportunity for greatness, and something an orphan girl could only dream of. For a while there, it seemed to be exactly that. But Violet's bright future is suddenly looking dim...Categorized as:
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Princess Ballot by Jaymin Eve, Tate James
You have been chosen. Those four words change Violet Spencer’s whole life, when against staggering odds, she's selected in the "princess ballot. ". Arbon Academy is affectionately known as the school for Royals. Only the rich, powerful, or heir to a throne gain entry . .. except for the one scholarship student accepted every five years...Categorized as:
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Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures vol 1 by Laurell K. Hamilton
New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton brings Anita Blake to the world of graphic novels. Anita Blake lives in a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves have been declared legal citizens of the United States. Anita Blake is an "animator" - a profession that involves raising the dead for mourning relatives... -
A Blackened Bond by Isla Davon
Death once claimed me, stole the air from my lungs as I burned alive…only I didn’t stay dead. Instead I was returned to my past, and back to a living hell. The Academy. Where those who I believed were friends were actually foes. My enemies thought they could break me, but I proved them wrong. Two months ago I was given a second chance…A second life. With it I now wanted answers…and revenge... -
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Shattered Omega: Part Two by Marie Mackay
I thought I’d faced the worst. Blackmailed and claimed before the whole academy, the Kingsman pack stole me from my mates and kept my scent for themselves. Now, struggling to fit in in class, I only have one friend, and I’m forced to watch, every day, as my mates fall for her. But these alphas’ obsessions sink their claws deep, blurring right from wrong...Categorized as:
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Reclaimed by Jaymin Eve
They all made a terrible mistake. One they will pay for. For the past ten years I’ve been a victim. A victim to my pack. A victim to my true mate, who rejected me in the most brutal of ways. And a victim to Shadow Beast, who used me for his own gains. Or did he? The beast of mystery never reveals his whole hand, but one thing is for sure… in my time with him, I've changed...Categorized as:
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Door of Bruises by Sierra Simone
𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬. We are all, for better or worse, doomed to love each other until death do us part. My heart belongs to Proserpina and St. Sebastian—even if he no longer wants it. Even if she has left it behind to follow him. Delphine’s fled back home, and Becket’s holy calling is in peril... -
Watercolour Smile by Jane Washington
“Maybe I was stupid to have agreed to this, but when all of the options that you have in life are dangerous ones, you can only choose to do something reckless, or turn a blind eye and allow the cards to fall as they may… and I was sick of being blind. ”...Categorized as:
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The Chosen One Universe Volume Three by Macy Blake
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHave You Been Chosen? For the first time, Macy Blake’s two bestselling paranormal fantasy series are being published in a three-volume mega-verse box set! Each volume will feature three full-length MM novels with dragons, hellhounds, vampires and more, with never before published bonus material. All in reader-requested chronological order. Volume Three:... -
Don't Tempt Me by Jackie May
Something is wrong with Nora. There’s a darkness inside her that she can’t seem to control. As she and her men search for answers to her siren’s dark nature, someone puts out a hit on her clan. Now, mercenaries from all over are trying to kill them. On top of all that, Nora must take on her first official case for the FUA...
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