Books like 'Green Glass Beads'

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  • Saffron Wilds by Kai Butler

    Saffron Wilds by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Someone’s cat is missing and Parker Ferro, San Amaro’s best paranormal PI can’t find it.When Parker goes looking for the wayward feline, he finds himself facing witches’ familiars, dead bodies, and shadows that move. The further into San Amaro’s underbelly Parker goes looking, the more he realizes that he is heading somewhere completely new...
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    fae  queer  paranormal  m-m  magic  urban fantasy  fantasy  mystery
  • Gathering Mage by Michael Taggart

    Gathering Mage by Michael Taggart

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jason is getting ready to have the adventure of his life!He and Sandy are heading to the Gathering, which is a conference where the Heads of the Households of the supernatural world network, talk about problems and solutions facing the Houses, and learn a few things.Jason is going just to support Sandy, and figures he’ll have a mildly interesting time and be home soon...
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  • Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler

    Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Parker Ferro is not okay. In the heart-pounding conclusion to the San Amaro Investigations series, Parker faces down enemies on all sides, including one within his own family. With his city under lockdown, Parker is fighting for everyone and everything that he cares about. The fate of the thousand realms rests on his shoulders...
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    fae  queer  paranormal  fantasy  mystery  urban fantasy  magic  m-m
  • The Dragon's Betrothed, Vol. 1 by Meguru Hinohara, 日ノ原 巡

    The Dragon's Betrothed, Vol. 1 by Meguru Hinohara, 日ノ原 巡

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A country sojourn turns into a forced marriage to a dragon god for troubled writer Chiharu!Troubled writer Chiharu Izunome reluctantly returns to his rural hometown, hoping some R & R will refresh his creative juices...
  • Buried Mage by Michael Taggart

    Buried Mage by Michael Taggart

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Gathering only lasted for seven days, but it ended up being a lot more of an adventure than Jason had expected. Now it’s time to head home, and Jason is excited to sleep in his own bed and hang out with John, Tyler, and Annabeth again.Jason learned a lot, and he’s eager to put that knowledge to use...
  • Mack's Rousing Ghoulish Highland Adventure by A.J. Sherwood

    Mack's Rousing Ghoulish Highland Adventure by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 ratings
    Mack did not sign up for hunting unknown ghost-eating creatures. But that’s what he gets when he and Brandon arrive to help Eli and husbands at an old inn situated in the Scottish Highlands. Now he’s surrounded by terrified ghosts on the run, zombie-ghosts that look eaten, and no one knows what the baddie is...
  • Storm Warrior by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Storm Warrior by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Hale AndersonThe Air Weaver.He was the freaking Air Weaver. Not exactly what he expected when he got kidnapped by the pestilents, but Hale’s good rolling with the punches.He can take a little time away from his pursuit of a doctorate in astrophysics to save the world.Except that the final spell is poised to kill all the Weavers and their last hope lies with him finding his soul mate...
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    queer  m-m  paranormal  magic  fantasy  urban fantasy
  • Mad Lizard Mambo by Rhys Ford

    Mad Lizard Mambo by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kai Gracen has no intention of being anyone’s pawn. A pity Fate and SoCalGov have a different opinion on the matter. Licensed Stalkers make their living hunting down monsters and dangerous criminals… and their lives are usually brief, brutal, and thankless. Despite being elfin and cursed with a nearly immortal lifespan, Kai didn’t expect to be any different...
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    fae  queer  urban fantasy  fantasy  magic  paranormal  m-m  mystery
  • Basil by Michele Notaro

    Basil by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    When I was young, I used to dream of finding my viramore—my soulmate—in all these crazy and amazing scenarios. But then my ex-girlfriend hired a mind-bender to mess with my memories, and well, it’s no surprise that romantic notions flew out of the window for me...
  • Talon by Michele Notaro

    Talon by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Who would’ve thought I, of all people, would be consorting with the enemy?Every fae dreams of finding that one person to complete their soul, but I’ve waited for so long with no sign of my viramore—my soulmate—that I thought I wouldn’t be so lucky.But then I find him.And what a surprise he is. Never in a million years did I think my viramore would be on the other side of things...
  • The Elemental Ruins by Sam Burns

    The Elemental Ruins by Sam Burns

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What do you do the day after the world doesn’t end?If you’re River Keyes (yeah, me), you try to figure out how you’re going to live without the internet. Because we might have kept two worlds from being destroyed, but now I’m trapped in a place with no electricity, no takeout, and no phoning home...
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    fae  queer  paranormal  magic  fantasy  m-m  urban fantasy  suspense
  • Hunter's Descent by Alice Winters

    Hunter's Descent by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    LakeSnagging the hunter was the easy part. Now I have to prove to him that a life filled with chaos, the most amazing fish ever, and delightful me is so much better than normal—trust me, he isn’t too hard to convince.But when a group of insolent chimeras laughably think they can target my one true love, they have another thing coming for them—likely death...
    Categorized as:
    queer  humor  m-m  urban fantasy  fantasy  demons  paranormal
  • Next to Nothing by Macy Blake

    Next to Nothing by Macy Blake

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A Gay Paranormal Harem Romance What do you get when you mix a dragon, a vampire, a griffin, a mage, and a human? Sawyer Smith’s life sounds like a punchline, but the mates he’s come to love are no joke. They’re fierce and wonderful, protecting him from the outside forces trying to destroy him...
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    fae  queer  m-m  paranormal  fantasy  shapeshifters  magic  vampires
  • Cam's Chance by Lisa Oliver

    Cam's Chance by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Arrowtown Book 5 Can be read as a standalone Camden "Cam" Stone had a long past and a hard life. For the past ten years he'd kept up the facade of a businessman, running the only bar in Arrowtown. The hours were long, but the people were friendly and if he didn't share much about himself, no one seemed to care...
  • Two Thousand Dreams by Jocelynn Drake

    Two Thousand Dreams by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Blood Witch Has Changed Everything.Chen traveled to the US with his clan, hoping to rescue his kidnapped brother from the fae.They just need a witch to find the exact location of where the door between the human world and the fae world will open.The one thing Moon can’t do.Chen grabbed the wrong type of witch...
  • Sidhe by Amanda Meuwissen

    Sidhe by Amanda Meuwissen

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nathan Grier returns from the Veil a changed man. The consequences of his time with Malak, the dark sidhe king, and the deal made to free him may be more than he can bear. The weakening of the Veil and new enemies foretell of a greater battle still ahead...
  • Storming Snow Falls by Jenn D. Young, Aspen Black

    Storming Snow Falls by Jenn D. Young, Aspen Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Snow Falls, Montana.I’ve found myself in A town full of shifters. Shifters I never wanted to be around ever again. My blood sings being surrounded by my own kind.But they aren’t my kind.I’m a half breed who can’t shift.Useless.But I’ve proved everyone wrong. I’ll show them all I’m more than an abomination.Yet, a snarky Wolf and sexy as sin twin leopards insist I’m their mate...
  • Two Thousand Tears by Jocelynn Drake

    Two Thousand Tears by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He was supposed to be my enemy. Not my lover.Yichen is free at last…sort of.He has escaped his imprisonment, but he’s still blood bound to the crown prince of the fae.Oh gods, how is he going to explain that to his clan?Finding a way to break the bond might not be too hard. Killing the king of the fae even seems possible...
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    queer  fae  m-m  vampires  paranormal  urban fantasy  fantasy  magic
  • Seb & Ailin: Case of the Murderous Mistletoe by Michele Notaro

    Seb & Ailin: Case of the Murderous Mistletoe by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What in the world has my soulmate gotten us into this time? All I want to do is get ready to have our family over for Winter Solstice, but like all things involving Ailin Ellwood, we get pulled into another wild BCA case...
  • Cosmo and the King by Macy Blake

    Cosmo and the King by Macy Blake

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When Cosmo learns the faun king is in the human realm, he panics. See, Silenus happens to be his fiance... and he's never told any of his friends in the human realm that he ran away on his wedding day, leaving his king at the alter. Silenus made a deal with the devil--the queen of the fae--when he learned the human realm was going to be closed, keeping him separated from his mate and betrothed...
  • The Lady Under the Lake by E.J. Russell

    The Lady Under the Lake by E.J. Russell

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    This client is all wet... After receiving a hot tip on the whereabouts of my almost-boyfriend’s nearly-ex-husband (hey, I told you—it’s complicated!), I thought my love life was finally coming up for air. But when we stake out the remote lake, it’s not the ex who surfaces...
  • Sloth and other Delights by T.J. Nichols

    Sloth and other Delights by T.J. Nichols

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Negotiations with the LA vampires have failed.Having survived the attempted razing of their enclave by the dragons, the vampires are now holding Jordan’s sister hostage and are demanding a unicorn for her safe return. There’s only one problem.Unicorns aren’t animals. They are wild magic best left alone.Jordan holds the media responsible for Katie’s capture...
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    queer  fae  urban fantasy  fantasy  vampires  m-m  magic  paranormal
  • Dim Sum Asylum by Rhys Ford

    Dim Sum Asylum by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    * Novel-length expansion of original short story found in Charmed & Dangerous anthology. * Welcome to Dim Sum Asylum: a San Francisco where it’s a ho-hum kind of case when a cop has to chase down an enchanted two-foot-tall shrine god statue with an impressive Fu Manchu mustache that's running around Chinatown, trolling sex magic and chaos in its wake...
  • The Pound Dilemma by A.J. Sherwood

    The Pound Dilemma by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    "I’ve got this.”Translated: Ross certainly did not have this, but be prepared to be thoroughly entertained...
    Categorized as:
    fae  queer  paranormal  m-m  vampires  magic  humor  contemporary
  • Silk Dragon Salsa by Rhys Ford

    Silk Dragon Salsa by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    SoCalGov Stalker Kai Gracen always knew Death walked in his shadow. Enough people told him that, including his human mentor, Dempsey. Problem was, the old man never told him what to do when Death eventually caught up...
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    fae  queer  fantasy  urban fantasy  m-m  magic  paranormal  mystery
  • Forsaken Fae: Book Three by R.A. Steffan

    Forsaken Fae: Book Three by R.A. Steffan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Some people just want to watch the world burn.Unfortunately, those people seem to be in charge right now.Trapped at the mercy of a corrupt Fae Court, Len and Albigard must overcome their harshest challenges yet in order to stop the Wild Hunt and retrieve their friends' lost souls.Albigard's father seeks to use his estranged son as a weapon against their enemies, the demons...
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    fae  queer  fantasy  urban fantasy  m-m  paranormal  magic  bdsm
  • Ashes and Prophets by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Ashes and Prophets by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I don’t know if he’s my ally… or my enemy.As our head of security, it’s my job to secure the weyr from all incursions - but somehow, this slip of a man got through all our defenses and into the very heart of our land.He says he’s here to help. Sent by a god. A prophet to aid us in an impending apocalypse. And worse, he has some of our people already believing him.I don’t trust him...
  • Jump Up by Susi Hawke

    Jump Up by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Watch out for the Assassin’s Claws… Nash Moreno is a paid killer, just like his four brothers. It’s the family business—they fight together, they die together. Whether they’re working as a group or alone, they are a tight unit who protect their own. A live transmission from a rebel group known as OPEN EYES is intercepted before it can be broadcast around the world...
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    queer  urban fantasy  fantasy  m-m  paranormal
  • Kick Back by Susi Hawke

    Kick Back by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Watch out for the Assassin’s Claws…Dearil Moreno is a paid killer, just like his four brothers. It’s the family business—they fight together, they die together. Whether they’re working as a group or alone, they are a tight unit who protect their own...
  • The Dratsie Dilemma by G.L. Carriger

    The Dratsie Dilemma by G.L. Carriger

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A heartwarming urban fantasy from New York Times best selling author Gail Carriger about redemption, destiny, and the enduring strength of found family (and caffeine). Once upon a time, Trick went up against the sea and lost. Badly. Or so he thought.What the sea decides to keep, it keeps forever. Trick is a dratsie shifter, a river otter...
  • The Dratsie Dilemma by G.L. Carriger

    The Dratsie Dilemma by G.L. Carriger

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A heartwarming urban fantasy from New York Times best selling author Gail Carriger about redemption, destiny, and the enduring strength of found family (and caffeine). Once upon a time, Trick went up against the sea and lost. Badly. Or so he thought. What the sea decides to keep, it keeps forever. Trick is a dratsie shifter, a river otter. He is charming, loads of fun, and a little bit slippery...
    Categorized as:
    fae  queer  fantasy  urban fantasy  paranormal  werewolves  humor  m-m
  • Seer by Bix Barrow

    Seer by Bix Barrow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paranormal creatures are dying. A psychic computer geek and a mysterious pet resort owner join forces to track down the supernatural murderer. Killer attraction has never felt so dangerous.I’ve had visions since I was 13 years old. Minor stuff on the whole, usually nothing to get excited about...
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    fae  queer  m-m  paranormal  magic  fantasy  humor  found-family
  • Brandywine Investigations: Family Matters by Angel Martinez

    Brandywine Investigations: Family Matters by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    With his career firmly established and his reputation as a successful PI growing, Hades should have the perfect life with his human lover, his faithful ferryman, his dogs and the parts of his family still speaking to him. But murder and chaos are never far away for death lords as his nephew Dionysus and his oldest friend Charon are drawn into the maelstrom...
  • Heart of the High King by Jessamyn Kingley

    Heart of the High King by Jessamyn Kingley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    High King Aleksander D’Vairedraconis prefers the comforts of home, rarely leaving his estate. While forthright by nature, his sexuality is a secret Aleksander guards—even his best friend is unaware. With the possibility of his mate showing up at his large estate in Arizona next to impossible, Aleksander focuses on family and building more wealth to allow them to flourish...
  • Lich Reaper's Lament by Jessamyn Kingley

    Lich Reaper's Lament by Jessamyn Kingley

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ripped apart by life, Lich Reaper Grymington Daray is drowning in sorrow. Each day, he strives to find the people responsible for killing his best friend, and he wishes his own existence had more meaning. The last thing on Grymington’s mind is finding the other half of his soul. While a loving family surrounds him, the coldness growing in his heart keeps him separated from joy...
  • Forsaken Fae: Book Two by R.A. Steffan

    Forsaken Fae: Book Two by R.A. Steffan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Len needs to track down a handbasket ASAP, because things are going straight to hell.In the aftermath of the disastrous battle to close the rip between realms, he's stuck with a Fae who seems convinced that the only way to fix things is to leap directly into the maw of the Wild Hunt...
  • The Marked Prince by M.A. Grant

    The Marked Prince by M.A. Grant

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Torn between two worlds, desperate to save one love. The Summer Court is nothing like Sebastian remembers. The oppressed lower classes are drained of their magick, and around every corner political intrigues threaten an already unstable regime...
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    fae  queer  fantasy  urban fantasy  m-m  paranormal  royalty  magic
  • Sinless Demons by A.K. Koonce

    Sinless Demons by A.K. Koonce

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A Forbidden Fated Mates Reverse Harem Series There's hate and there’s hostility. And then, there's family. Maybe they’re all one in the same. I'm surrounded by the very people I vowed revenge upon. Instead of lashing out with sharp blades and knives, I'm stuck buying my time. I need the Shadow Guard's help if I'm going to save my demon mates from the claws of my enemies...
    Categorized as:
    fae  queer  reverse harem  fantasy  demons  paranormal  m-m  magic
  • Abandoned Things by Chani Lynn Feener

    Abandoned Things by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Frankie is a fifth-year college student with a secret. He's the writer and creator of the popular web novel Gold and Silver. At least, he thought he was the creator of it.That belief is tested when one night Rook, the book's fan-favorite anti-hero, shows up outside Frankie's apartment, alive and very much real...
  • Gloombringer by Sam Burns

    Gloombringer by Sam Burns

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For decades, the four families who rule the Summerlands have been locked at an impasse. No one is fighting, but neither has anyone been speaking.We don’t have time for that anymore.Mount Slate, the volcano that sits in the middle of the Summerlands, is threatening to erupt, and only the four family heads working together can avert disaster...
    Categorized as:
    queer  paranormal  magic  fantasy  m-m  urban fantasy
  • Incubus by Amanda Meuwissen

    Incubus by Amanda Meuwissen

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Nathan only ever wanted a normal life, but for him, life, family, and love are anything but normal. On the other side of the Veil, dark and light fae exist outside the knowledge of most humans. Nathan Grier was born human, but his twin brother Jim is a changeling. On the run since they were children, time for both of them is running out...
  • An Enemy Dragon by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    An Enemy Dragon by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Dragons are scum. I know this. So why does this one make me feel so good? I know I should be proud to be a Templar. My daddy was one, and my granddaddy, too. And I am proud, don’t get me wrong. Of course I want to be part of ridding the earth of dragons before they can hurt anyone else. It’s just that the money doesn’t hurt, either...
  • Blood Omen by Sheena Jolie, S.J. Himes

    Blood Omen by Sheena Jolie, S.J. Himes

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    Set in the Infinite Arcana Universe, BLOOD OMEN is a fascinating peek into the wider world of the Beacon Hill Sorcerer by SJ Himes.... Remi has been doing the same job for the last two thousand years: specialist courier of valuable magical objects and sensitive information...
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    fae  queer  vampires  urban fantasy  magic  fantasy  m-m  paranormal
  • Pixie Little Liar by Arden Steele

    Pixie Little Liar by Arden Steele

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    There’s a heaviness to the air, the kind that makes the hairs on the back of Emrys Whitehill’s neck stand on end. Something is going to happen. Something big. Something that will change him forever. Despite his powers of precognition, however, a hellhound walking into the hotel to arrest him for a crime he didn’t commit is the one scenario he never saw coming...
  • Zale by Michelle Frost

    Zale by Michelle Frost

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Davis~ It was just another job—at least it was supposed to be—but snaring the feisty blue dragon I’d been contracted to collect and her rider in my trap changed everything. Hunting dragons was my job, and I was damn good at it. I’d never missed a target. Never failed to make a delivery...
  • A Haunting at Midwinter by Kai Butler

    A Haunting at Midwinter by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A paranormal PI. A cop who doesn’t believe in ghosts. And one very pissed off poltergeist. What a way to ring in the New Year.Parker Ferro is San Amaro’s top magical private investigator. It helps that he’s the only supernatural investigator in the city...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fae  paranormal  m-m  urban fantasy  fantasy  mystery  magic
  • Checkmate by Kian Rhodes

    Checkmate by Kian Rhodes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Levi Objectively, Zade was a great catch. He was funny, good-hearted, gentle, affectionate, and very, very attractive – everything that Lee said he was. But he was still an Alpha. So, in other words, he was absolutely not for me. "It's just that I don't want to be claimed. I don't want to belong to an Alpha." Zade frowned at me. "But you're an Omega...
  • Wildfire by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes

    Wildfire by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wilder Pratt has given up trying to get his life together. Passed up for a promotion, left by his long-term boyfriend, nothing in his life seems to work how he planned. Wilder is just treading water . . . right up until the moment he trips over a dead student outside his office with a golden would-be murderer standing over the body...
  • Cold Moon by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes

    Cold Moon by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An alpha torn apart, his heart stitched back together by the gentle hands of one sweet doctor’s assistant…Dante Reid has never fit in with his pack of feral, dangerous alphas. He hates his own nature, and his monster of a father makes him question his very DNA...
  • As the Raven Flies by Meghan Maslow

    As the Raven Flies by Meghan Maslow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Even though you’re just a bird, I accept you as my mate.”I, Abraham Williams, raven shifter extraordinaire, am not impressed. Not with the pronouncement. Not with the fated mates fairy tale. And most definitely not with sinfully sexy Michael Kashto, the arrogant dire wolf shifter in the thousand dollar suit...
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