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Mack's Perfectly Ghastly Homecoming by A.J. Sherwood
Mack’s over the moon to not only have Brandon but to finally be done with all their training. With the official FBI stamp of approval, they are ready to start ghost busting. The very last place he wants to be sent to is his hometown of Opelousas, Louisiana, however. But a child is being terrorized, and when he discovers it’s his favorite cousin, all reluctance is forgotten... -
Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu (Novel) Vol. 2 (Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu (Novel) #2) by Fei Tian Ye Xiang
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCRIMES OF PASSIONAlthough the Department of Exorcism has successfully thwarted the fox yao's attempts to infiltrate the imperial examinations, Hongjun, Li Jinglong, and their companions are no closer to uncovering the identity of the yao king of Chang'an. Investigations stall until the group stumbles across a series of bloody murders in the capital...Categorized as:
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Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsParker 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... -
FANGS, Volume 2 by Billy Balibally
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"What kind of guy is unlucky enough to get bitten... and survive?"As the sole survivor of a vampire attack, En wakes up to find that his hair has gone white as snow... and, worse, that he's developed a craving of his own for blood.Fortunately, the vampire health and welfare organization FANGS is there to help with the transition, and the handsome Ichii steps up as his guardian and mentor... -
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Alan's Utterly Accidental Dream-Cute by Katie Griffin, A.J. Sherwood
What happens when a Havili researcher meets a psychic dreamwalker? A dreamy meet-cute, that’s what. (In more ways than one... -
The Deputy and His Enforcer by Kiki Clark
A deputy bent on finding the truth and the Enforcer whose job it is to stop him...Nothing is more important to Marcus Rivera than protecting his pack, so he doesn’t understand why he has the sudden urge to tell a nosy human deputy things he shouldn’t. Marcus follows the rules. Always. But something about Robson’s scent has him tempted to break them... -
Nikolai's Beloved by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen fate doesn’t get it right the first time, second chances at love are a true blessing you didn’t know you needed.As the master of his coven, Nikolai Cardello was happy to watch his vampires finally be blessed with their fated mates. Despite having had a chance at a love that wasn’t meant to be, he had a fulfilling life, and his adopted son had given him the family he’d always dreamed about... -
Frozen Dragon by Minerva Howe
A Dragon Veil Universe mpreg romanceOldest cousin and brother dragon Zeke has resigned himself to being the one lone dragon in his family. As his brother and cousins find their mates one by one, he ignores their protests that he'll find own love someday soon, and contents himself with caring for their growing brood of babies...Categorized as:
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The Elemental Ruins by Sam Burns
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat 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... -
Cam's Chance by Lisa Oliver
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsArrowtown 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...Categorized as:
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A Sterling New Year by J.L. Langley
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsShort story about Rhys and Sterling on New... -
Envy: Wolves of Resurrection Road by Kiki Burrelli
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSavage. Charming. Alpha.Camel always gets what he wants. Except now, the one thing he wants is the one thing he can’t have. His first pack taught him that anything could be taken away if he wasn’t willing to fight for it... -
The Legacy Pack Bundle by Susi Hawke
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAges ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people... but the seal has been broken. The Blood Legacy Chronicles is an mpreg shifter series like you’ve never seen before. The adventurous journey begins in book one where the portal that separates our realm from that of Fae is broken... -
Sloth and other Delights by T.J. Nichols
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNegotiations 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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Where There's a Witch There's a Way by E. Broom
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWho knew letting my walls down would change my life?Titus Compton works for the Witches’ Council. He has nothing in his life but work with the occasional town witch meeting in Cadenbury thrown in.However, Titus has a secret. He’s in love with Kean Stone, the sinfully handsome, fun-loving wolf shifter... -
Legal Drug, Volume 02 by CLAMP
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDuring one of Tokyo's festivals, Kakei sends Kudo and Himura to recover an old vase in a nearby shrine. But the mission turns out to be much more difficult than it seems. The vase has the power to twist the spatial environment around it - misleading anyone with its incredible trompe l'oeil... -
Freefall by Andrea Speed
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds. Conceived bearing the lion strain of the virus, Roan is the only fully functioning virus child in the country—maybe in the world. But that doesn’t mean he’s okay... -
Fables Retold by Rhys Lawless, Sam Burns
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTales as old as time…reimagined. What if your favorite fairy tales…kicked some serious, urban fantasy ass? Fueled by magic, steam, and scorching men, this MM romance anthology has just the thrill you’re looking for.6 paranormal and urban fantasy authors.6 fairy tales retold in modern day.6 gorgeous couples to fall in love with. Over 1,200 pages.A limited edition anthology you don’t want to miss... -
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Connor by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you’re a fae born in the shifter realm, the last thing you expect is to discover your mate is fae, sent from the fae realm just for you. Connor Romano loves his family. Born to a vampire father and a fae mother, he’s spent his entire life witnessing firsthand the level his father would go to protect his mother, him, and their fae sister... -
Vanity and other Monsters by T.J. Nichols
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAll the lines of fate have been pulling Edra Tendric to LA. It is the last place he wants to go, leaving his mate Inspector Jordan Kells in San Francisco to deal with a fractured mytho population and an increasingly tense political situation. Someone wanted Edra removed as Mytho Liaison, and they got their way... -
Gluttony and other Hungers by T.J. Nichols
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsJordan and Edra aren’t the only ones thinking about their wedding, and some people don’t want it to happen. The destruction of several Mythological Services buildings around the country has revealed there are still people who view the mythological refugees as something less than human, despite the law now recognizing them as equal... -
Signs and Wonders by Morgan Brice
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a coven of dark warlocks killed Seth Tanner’s brother, Seth became a man driven by vengeance, sworn to stop the cycle of ritual killings, willing to die for the cause. He never expected to fall head over heels in love with the witches’ next intended victim... -
Death Rites by Theophilus Monroe
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe Voodoo Trials have been evoked. One student from each College will be called.Kalfu has taken a host. Lives have been lost. Most blame Annabelle. If the Academy—and all of Vilokan—is going to stand against Kalfu they must find a way to unite. Headmistress Erzulie has evoked the Voodoo Trials. A new High Hougan or Mambo must be chosen to unite the Academy’s five colleges... -
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Sunshine by Kiki Clark, E.M. Lindsey
There’s a fine line between hate and fated mates…Jeremiah has better things to do than babysit the bratty crown prince of the Sirens. His personal protection agency is the best though and the king and queen won’t settle for less.Being a practically invulnerable Hellhound doesn’t hurt either...Categorized as:
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Struck by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn MM Mpreg Romance Team: A.L.P.H.A.:Six battle-hardened alphas with one goal—to save any omega in peril. David Dempsey, the younger omega brother of Team ALPHA’s crazy twin duo, has gone missing after a camping trip with some human friends... -
An Enemy Dragon by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDragons 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... -
Hero by Kiki Burrelli
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMercenaries. Outcasts. Alphas.Knox knows all the five of them have left now is each other. That, and the driving desire to find who had slaughtered their pack and make that person pay.But investigating a tragedy with only rubble as evidence requires money and time. Knox can find one and use it to buy the other... -
Pixie Little Liar by Arden Steele
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThere’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
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...Categorized as:
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Forgotten Fox by Jennifer Cody
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsRiku:I dislike living alone in an empty house, but unless something radical changes, I’ve resigned myself to lonely bachelorhood. No one has ever interested me, I didn’t even know I had a fancy to tickle, if you get my meaning. Then a detour through a less than savory neighborhood brings me across one of my own students... -
Checkmate by Kian Rhodes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLevi 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... -
Playing You by Claire Cullen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNeeded—one omega assistant. Should be proficient in filing, typing, and, um, role-play.Riley just can’t catch a break. With no job and no place to live, things are tough. He clings to his love of acting—pretending to be someone else, even for a day—but he can’t get hired to wait tables let alone get a bit part in a play. Just when he’s at his lowest, he meets Brendan. And his luck changes... -
True Order by Patricia Logan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBloodthirsty vamps. Dire Wolf royalty. The Prince of unicorns. What's next? All out war of course.When I came to Prosper Woods, the last thing I expected was to be walking into a world of magic. Horror movies at the theater hadn’t prepared me for the realization that vampires, werewolves, witches, shifters, and ghosts were real... -
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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... -
Curse of Silver & Blood (Infinite Arcana) by Sheena Jolie, S.J. Himes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlec has been held prisoner for months, coerced into using his magic to manufacture illegal drugs for the mountain mafia. His gifts are profitable and dangerous, and his captors have no intention of letting him go. Alec engineers his escape--which lands him in the territory of a local legend--an ancient werewolf, a lone alpha cursed by silver and blood.Leif has been alone for a thousand years... -
Dawn by A.J. Sherwood, Jocelynn Drake
Ha Na has had her eye on Rodrigo, King of the Ice Dragons since the first day she met him.She’s been taking her time, letting the sexy dragon woo her properly.But she’s done waiting. Time to claim this dragon as her mate... -
Again by Morgan Brice
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe fast, furry, and furious! A lynx shifter, pursued by a cryptid trophy hunter. A wolf shifter desperate to rescue a lover who's not just his fated mate—but his one true pairing across past lives. And a love that transcends time. Lynx shifter Noah Wilson narrowly escaped being captured by the Huntsman. While recuperating in Fox Hollow, he meets his fated mate, wolf shifter Drew Lowe... -
Lone Wolf by Aja Foxx, Ciena Foxx
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRetired Sheriff Dan Miller thought life was pretty good until he was attacked by a man bent on using him against the Wilde Wolf Pack. When he's made into a shifter to save his life, he discovers that the world he knew as a human was nothing compared to that of a wolf. He just can't seem to figure out how to shift.Lion shifter Sean is running for his life...Categorized as:
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The Seduction of James Gray by Colette Rivera
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMystery, temptation, and risking it all.James Gray lives a life free of complications. Even in Moonlight Falls, a town known for supernatural activity, he stays away from the more sinister magical arts, preferring the simple work of a magical electrician. Sebastian Storm is a man James hasn’t thought about in years until he hears Sebastian inherited the haunted house north of town... -
Dropping Like Flies by H.L. Day
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsQuickest way to catch a killer? Bring the victim back and ask who did it. Only, nothing’s that easy.When the bodies of young gay men start piling up in London, DCI Ben Weaver would do anything to bring the massacre to an end. Well, almost anything. He didn’t have the powers-that-be recruiting a necromancer on his bingo card. Or who that necromancer would turn out to be...Categorized as:
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Wolf Hunt by T.J. Nichols
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo save his pack, he’ll need to be caught. But can he be saved?Taylor Walsh is a snake shifter with a reputation for doing what it takes to get the job done. This time it means catching the hunters before they take any more shifters. When the perfect bait appears, all he has to do is convince Justin Brook to play the part.There are only three Justin isn’t an agent; he’s a lawyer... -
Phoenix Mate by T.J. Nichols
What happens when the Chief of Security wakes up as the familiar to a man who doesn’t know he’s a witch? Chaos.Quentin Silverbrook has never really belonged anywhere. At fifteen, his parents divorced, and his father took a job in Mont de Leucoy... -
Havesskadi by Ava Kelly
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsNevmis, the red dragon, is hunting her own. Up in the icy peaks of the northern mountains, Orsie spends his lonely days hiding from her, but eventually he is found and his dragon magic stolen. Cursed to wander the lands as a mortal unless he recovers his magic before twenty-four rising crescents have passed, Orsie embarks on an arduous journey... -
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Dragon It Out by Arden Steele
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAs some of the last remaining dragon shifters in the world, Uriah Maddock and his siblings are regarded as something akin to royalty in the paranormal community. It’s one of the main reasons their hotel has become such a coveted destination for Otherlings. All he wants, though, is to be left alone. He’s not looking for love or romance... -
Brimstone by L. Eveland
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBecoming Brimstone’s head chef is a dream come true, even though I’m the only human on the staff.Working for Chef Inzo Amoretti? Not so much. Sure, he’s a talented genius and distractingly gorgeous, but he’s also a demanding incubus with impossibly high standards, especially when it comes to me. It seems nothing I do in the kitchen is good enough for Chef Inzo... -
The Wolf's Secret by Claire Cullen
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen is a wolf not just a wolf? When he has magic running through his veins. Fleeing Samhain Pack to protect them from his berserker nature, Barrett is alone in the wilds—and lost to himself. Until he tracks a most interesting prey and finds himself face to face with a mage. But Evan is not just a mage, he’s something their pack desperately needs—a healer... -
Tied to You, Vol. 1 by What, Chelliace
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWooseo Shin was never one to believe in fate...until a ring of red thread appears around his finger, that is! This ring marks a person’s meeting of their soulmate, and with it, neither can fall asleep if the other is absent. This development is not a welcome one for Wooseo, who decides to keep it from his close friend and crush Jiseok Kang at all costs...Categorized as:
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Legal Drug, Volume 01 by CLAMP
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA drugstore that deals in medicine ... and danger! Kazahaya Kudo has a gift. When he touches a person or an object, he sees visions. With no money and no place to stay, Kazahaya was out of luck until fate brought him to the Green Drug pharmacy. Now, in exchange for working in the store, he gets room and board. But in order to make ends meet there a catch .. -
The Caster's Alpha by Claire Cullen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs the last unmated alpha in his pack, all Ronan wants is a mage and a bond… but be careful what you wish for.With no wolf mage and no magic, Ronan knows he’s holding Samhain back. When he wakes up in the forest with a mage, a bond, and no memory of what happened, it seems he’s been given everything he wanted—so he knows it’s too good to be true...
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