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Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Vol. 2 by Yuu Toyota, 豐田悠
It's A thirty-year-old virgin gets more than he bargained for when his newfound magical power reveals he's the object of his male coworker's affections!Businessman Adachi turned thirty a virgin, and now he's a wizard who can read the mind of anyone he touches.. -
Love vs The Scarecrow! by Cassandra Gannon
Nevermore County, 2000: Lori Hatake’s future isn’t going how she’d hoped. She’s broke, her boyfriend ran off with her cousin, and she just witnessed a grisly murder. A demonic Scarecrow killed a woman at the annual bonfire party, right in front of Lori’s eyes. The monster needs to be stopped, before it strikes again!Unfortunately, no one believes her wild tale, except for Dashiell Mommet... -
So Long, Lollipops by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 30 ratings**WARNING** This novella contains major spoilers from the novel UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DX73ZPY It’s suggested you read the novel before you read SO LONG, LOLLIPOPS... -
Bearly Hanging On by Sam Hall
When she goes to the hardware store looking for DIY materials and instead finds her fated mates.Harper has two rules: don’t take life too seriously, and never ever fall in love. After growing up with a mum who had a revolving door of boyfriends, she’s learned that love is messy and guaranteed to ruin your life...Categorized as:
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Whack The Mole by Maggie March
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLucy is a human lie detector. Her rescue dog Paco is a ghost whisperer. Together, they solve crime in this laugh-out-loud cozy mystery series!Joey "The Weasel" Frizzone has been deep undercover with one of the country's largest organized crime families and the time has come for him to testify against them... -
Wanted: Mistletoe by Stephanie Morris, Kimberly Ann
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDear Santa,Before I explain, how much have the elves told you?Who's ready for a little naughty & nice? With some mistletoe and holiday cheer, anything can--and does--happen during Christmas.Your favorite contemporary authors have gathered around the Wintery hearth to bring you scintillating holiday romances. These sexy stories will deck your halls with filthy balls...Categorized as:
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The Incubus's Angel by Elle Sterling
Living on the edge of the community, Ren’s life in Starry Hill is quiet, predictable, and perhaps a little lonely. Until Maisie prances into the center of his tangerine grove and changes everything. With her bright smile and easy-going nature, a friendship quickly blossoms, and sweet favors turn into spicy adventures...Categorized as:
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A Panicked Premonition by Victoria Laurie
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling Psychic Eye Mystery series continues with P.I. Abby Cooper facing the ultimate locked room murder... Professional psychic and FBI consultant Abby Cooper has used her inner visions to get her out of many a scrape and solve many a crime but she s about to face a murder scene that will put all her powers to the test... -
A Grave Prediction by Victoria Laurie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn Victoria Laurie's latest Psychic Eye Mystery, Abby Cooper learns that following the money often leads to murder....When Abby is sent to Los Angeles to help train FBI officers to use their intuition, she encounters a case that only she can solve: a series of bank robberies in which the thieves made off with loads of cash but left no clues... -
Love is Trash in Hallow's Cove by Emily Antoinette
After a string of awful relationships and cheating exes, Hayley is fed up with dating. Her solution? Swear off dating humans and look for a monster mate in Hallow’s Cove.When she moves to the quaint town inhabited by more monsters than humans, she quickly realizes that finding her match isn’t as simple as she’d hoped...Categorized as:
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Cruel Tides by Shana Brooke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRetrieving the trident was supposed to be the hard part. Now a new storm is brewing on the horizon.That curse the merfolk are under? Still swimming strong.Leander thought the trident could break it, but it’s breaking him instead. Sure, it gives him god-like powers, but they come at a cost too steep to pay—his life... -
My Orc Nanny by Veronika Kane
Just when I think I’m at the end of my rope, the universe sends a gorgeous, talented, and oh-so-caring nanny to rescue me. What’s the catch?Every morning I wake up and remind myself I was the one who decided to kick out my horrible ex, and it’s my choice to raise my kids alone... -
The Cuddle Clause by Roxie Ray
Living with a werewolf is… complicated.Maggie James is thirty-one, freshly dumped, and emotionally scorched.Losing her relationship also cost her the apartment she rented with her ex. Now she’s unmoored and answering a roommate ad from a total stranger.A stranger who turns out to be a neurodivergent werewolf with a detailed lease agreement… and a legally binding cuddle clause...Categorized as:
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Haunted by Love by Keri Lane
Fate and circumstance won’t stop bringing me, Phee Carter-Wright, a paranormal influencer, and Darwin Chen, a paranormal debunker, together. Everywhere I turn, there’s Darwin with that half-quirk smile and a million sarcastic snipes at my job.It’s absolutely infuriating.What’s even more infuriating, though, is the fact that we can’t keep our hands off each other...Categorized as:
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The Demon's Dealbreaker (Possessive Love) by Delaney Rain
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA witch, two fairies, a minor god, and four demons walk into a bar and suddenly Dwyer Eamonn’s life will never be the same.Turns out that Dwyer’s parents promised him—their firstborn—as payment when they made eight different deals with various supernatural beings. At the stroke of midnight on his twenty-first birthday, every single claimant comes calling, ready to make Dwyer their heir... -
Taking Nicole by Krystal Shannan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe last thing Nicole Demakis remembers was getting in the car with Sarah's kidnapper and driving away. Now she faces the cold hard truth. The kidnapper, an agent of the Council, is her mate. But he refuses to claim her, and the Council may take everything away before she even has a chance to convince him to trust her... -
A Mate For Raphael by Selena Scott
He wants her...but his biggest secret stands in their way Raphael Durant has a problem. All he wants is to get to know a woman in a real way… a relationship. But he holds a big secret that means he can’t actually let any woman know him. He’s a wolf shifter in a world where all shifters are required by law to be registered, monitored, and housed in government funded camps... -
Mother of Pearl by A.A. Fairview
The summer has never been so sweet. Lydia hadn’t planned to spend the summer poolside. She was supposed to get an internship in the city and spend nights with her girlfriend. Instead she’s single and making minimum wage as a country club lifeguard. Chlorine might dry out her scales, but it’s not all bad.At least she can flirt on company time... -
The Curious Secrets of Yesterday by Namrata Patel
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secrets and self-discovery by the bestselling author of The Candid Life of Meena Dave.Raised by her mother and grandmother and tutored in the healing wonders of spices, Tulsi Gupta is expected to carry on the ancestral tradition from her family’s Salem spice shop... -
A Gargoyle Gripe by Sabrina Cassidy
When your witchy family has lived on Monster Island for generations there’s certain standards to uphold.Too bad my only claim to magic is being able to heal people through baking. A power my ex-fiancé Brad never fails to give me grief over. After he cheated and left me, I buried myself in pastries. It was better to be alone than to trust my heart to anyone else... -
The Elder Sister-Like One Vol. 3 by Iida Pochi.
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsYuu's bond with his new older sister deepens in the latest volume of this Cthulhu-inspired... -
Party With the Kraken by Elle Sterling
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJuniper loves her life, her thrift store, and all things purple. When she gets an invitation to an important birthday party, this Cape Easton local is keen to explore all the things Starry Hill has to offer.The moment Viggo sets eyes on Juniper, he knows she’s a treasure he wants to keep. Only difficulty is, he has an ink-leaking problem and is not skilled at flirting...Categorized as:
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Accidental Bond by Mika Nix
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but accidentally becoming a mercenary for a demon might be the biggest one yet…My inner dragon has always been more like a devil on my shoulder, talking me into making bad decisions and creating chaos. I have a hoard full of demon artifacts, each one likely to cost me my life if the owners ever come after me... -
What a Bear Wants by Nikki Winter
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs a man with the ability to shift into fifteen hundred pounds of honey-loving, occasionally cranky grizzly, Ransom McKenna was used to people moving when he said move—or when he chuffed because the chuffing usually did the trick—at least until he comes across one of the most fierce, adorably ornery canines that he’s ever met, Fallon Wilder...Categorized as:
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Pretty Fly for a Vampire Guy by Leslie McAdam, C.D. Rachels
ClayI suck at being a vampire—literally. When the Halloween Wave turned a third of the population into monsters, I thought I was one of the lucky ones. I get to have my fit twenty-year-old body for decades. And vampires are supposed to be sexy, right?But now that I’m finally in university, I still don’t fit in. I was supposed to find myself and spread my metaphorical vampire wings... -
The Elder Sister-Like One Vol. 2 by Iida Pochi.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsYuu is now living with his new big sister-an inhuman being he encountered in his uncle's basement! It's the middle of summer, and the two of them are enjoying their days, playing in the garden, splitting watermelons, and taking naps together. Life as a family is simple yet pleasant for these unlikely siblings... -
Trauma for the Neighbors: The Summoning of Athanasius by Tierra Cox
When Ione discovers a strange box buried in her garden, she doesn’t expect it to contain the ring of a long-lost primordial god. But the moment she slips it on, she’s bound to Athanasius—lord of death and darkness, and an infuriatingly smug immortal with an agenda of his own... -
Holiday Horrors: A Heartwarming Christmas Tale by Sydney St James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWhen Mary drops an old book haunted by the ghost of a supernatural matchmaker, she gets more than she bargained for in the form of four holiday monsters. When they claim she's their promised mate, things get a lot more complicated...Categorized as:
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Number One Zombie Wife by Jin Yuanbao, 金元宝
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTransmigrated into his own novel, Mu Yifan was very conflicted!Transmigrated into his own novel and become a zombie, Mu Yifan was even more conflicted!Transmigrated into his own novel and become the zombie king that killed the male lead, and the male lead reborn to one month before the apocalypse to take revenge, Mu Yifan has lost his calm!Therefore, he decided to become heartless, he has to get...Categorized as:
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The Archdemon in Auditing: A Sweet and Steamy Monster Romance by Ella Beck
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWhen I landed a dream job in the Underworld, I never expected my boss would be the infuriatingly handsome archdemon, Bax Daemonus.As Chief Soul Auditor, he's been cutting corners for centuries - but I'm here to reform his corrupt department. Bax fights me at every turn, yet the tension between us crackles hotter than hellfire...Categorized as:
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Vexing the Viper by Ashley Rayne
NikoBeing a Gorgon in a world predominantly run by humans isn’t easy. Creelin U was supposed to be my sanctuary, the one place I could be myself without the stares and whispers.Until it wasn’t.They have officially opened their doors to humans, and now there’s one in particular who seems to get under my skin. A human who’s sunshiny aura has me wondering if I should change my ways... -
A Selkie's Secret by Lauren Connolly
She’s here to claim her mate. So, why is she looking at his best friend?Isla Brown saw the will of the Gods when they revealed her fated partner at the age of sixteen. But who needs to rush into a mating that young? Older now, Isla has returned to her childhood home on Lake Galen and is ready to build a life with her selkie mate...Categorized as:
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Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet by Samantha Allen
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s the gig of a lifetime for this ghostwriter, except there’s a the client, a closeted A-list actor finally ready to come out in his memoir, is an actual ghost.Adam Gallagher has knocked on thousands of doors. An ex-Mormon and almost-famous memoirist, he is used to sharing his life story with strangers. But this day, this house, is different... -
Fantasy Island: Cyn's Dragon by Zena Wynn, Shirley Burnett
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsCyn reads erotic romances to escape from reality. A reality involving a no good ex-husband, too many bills, and too many demands on her time. Her favorites are paranormal stories featuring dragon shifters. When she finds a winning lottery ticket, Cyn uncharacteristically decides to do something for herself and damn the bills... -
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The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur
“A fantasy-tinged sapphic romance with perfect banter.”—PeopleA down-on-her-luck woman makes a deal with a crafty demon to win back her ex-girlfriend after a proposal gone awry, only to discover the girl of her dreams might be the devil she knows, from nationally bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur.Samantha Cooper is having a day from hell... -
Love in the Time of Zombies by Cassandra Gannon
Scotlyn Summerline was having a bad day even before the zombies attacked. Her diet was blown, her credit cards were all maxed out, and she was working the nightshift at a sleazy miniature golf course in Las Vegas. An army of the undead rampaging through the city is just the final proof that bad things happen to nice girls...Categorized as:
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Demonic Dora by Claire Chilton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSHE'S FINALLY MANAGED TO SUMMON HER FIRST DEMON... Dora Carridine is trying to summon a demon, but she's not very good at Latin and nothing ever works out the way she plans. Her life is fraught with weekly exorcisms and having to watch her father’s fire and brimstone TV show every Sunday... -
Dating the Undead by Juliet Lyons
For those mortals wanting to get up close and personal with the beautiful undead, there's... V-DATE, THE UNDEAD DATING SERVICE Silver Harris is done with clingy men—maybe men altogether. But when she shares a toe-curling kiss with a sexy Irish vampire on New Year's Eve, she decides maybe it's human men she's done with. Silver turns to the popular vampire dating site, V-Date...Categorized as:
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In Love With a Haunted House by Kate Goldman
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe last thing Mallory Clark wants to do is move back home. She has no choice though, since the company she worked for in Chicago has just downsized her, and everybody else. To make matters worse her fiancé has broken their engagement, and her heart, leaving her hurting and scarred... -
The King and His Vigilant Valet by Charlie Cochet
JEAN The past has a way of catching up with you, even if you are immortal. I’ve spent thousands of years as the valet and companion to the powerful King of All Shifters. It has been my honor and duty to protect, serve, and advise him. I never intended to fall in love with him. My past is filled with death and bloodshed, but I never once regretted keeping Alarick safe... -
Charmed by Koko Brown
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCharmed Koko Brown What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? Unfortunately this isn't the case for recently married Chloe. She believes she's just left behind the biggest mistake she's ever made in her life in Sin City-her sexy as sin husband Tristan, who although a walking Adonis, is nuttier than her Grandma Violet's fruitcake... -
The Loch Ness Monster by Siggy Shade
When my fiancé jilted me, I turned the wedding into a party and went on the honeymoon with my best friend.Loch Ness was beautiful. What a pity the vacation was not.As I sat on a row boat trying to fight away the tears, a deep voice emerged from the water, offering to fulfill my deepest wish.I said yes, but I didn't realize I'd become entangled with the Loch Ness monster...Categorized as:
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And They Lived Happily Ever After by Therese Beharrie
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFans of Payback’s a Witch and The Ex Hex won’t want to miss this charming and humorous novel featuring a South African writer facing her past and literally living her dreams—and conjuring a real-life hero. A USA Today Best New Rom-ComA Goodreads Most Hotly Anticipated RomanceOne unexpected kiss . .Categorized as:
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Dealing with a Desperate Demon by Charlotte Stein
Charlotte Stein perfectly blends spicy and cozy in a new paranormal rom-com about a bewitching bookseller who helps a demon win the girl of his dreams...only to realize she might be the one he's fated for all along.Nancy has just about given up on finding her special person when Jack Jackson—big, scary and the town loser—walks into her bookstore... -
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The Weekend Girlfriend by Emily Walters
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJessica has worked hard to be the paralegal that hotshot, sexy attorney Kyle needs. Unfortunately he doesn’t see her as just his paralegal but also his own personal assistant. When he blames her for a mix-up in his personal life, Jessica sees no other option but to quit, thinking that her time with him is over... -
Undead and Unwed: A Novel by Sam Tschida
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“The found-family vampire Hallmark movie I didn’t know I needed.”—Jenna Levine, USA Today best-selling author of My Roommate Is a VampireBridget Jones’s Diary meets What We Do in the Shadows in this bitingly funny supernatural romance about a vampire finding herself and falling in love during the Christmas season.Tiffenie may be three hundred years old, but she’s still a hot mess... -
A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
A contemporary Southern Gothic from award-winning master of modern horror, T. Kingfisher. A House With Good Bones explores the deep, dark roots of family.Sam Montgomery is worried about her mother. She seems anxious, jumpy, and she's begun making mystifying changes to the family home on Lammergeier Lane... -
Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places by Claire Kann
Rated: 3.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLucky Hart has an affinity for the supernatural, but almost no one takes parapsychology seriously. She’s estranged from her family, has lost her friends, and has been rejected from graduate school—twice. But her big break finally arrives when she gets insider info about a troubled production company... -
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Rated: 3.27 of 5 stars · 23 ratings'Wise, funny, suspenseful' JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER 'Reads like a botanist's cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Speculation' Emma Straub Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in Biological Science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor, Dr...
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