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  • The Heart's Blood Arrow by Kai Butler

    The Heart's Blood Arrow by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 20 ratings
    An old nemesis is out for blood…Parker Ferro’s life would be easier if his enemies stayed gone. When the man responsible for the death of Parker’s mother breaks out of prison, Parker finds himself in the crosshairs of the Bureau of Paranormal Threats when he tracks the criminal down...
  • 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...
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  • His Realm by Mary Calmes

    His Realm by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    On their first meeting, Varic Maedoc, prince of the vampyrs, told Jason Thorpe that loving him was not for the faint of heart. He wasn’t kidding. In the past two years, Jason has been kidnapped, lived through several attempts on his life, and foiled a coup. Now, his new life as the prince’s consort and adviser to the king is made even harder by Varic’s prolonged absence...
  • Dead & Buried by T.K. Eldridge

    Dead & Buried by T.K. Eldridge

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Detectives Kennedy and Donovan were partners for years. Then one of them died. And yet, they're still partners. Kennedy has to solve Donovan's death while his partner's ghost helps him. Sort of...
  • Point Blank by Morgan Brice

    Point Blank by Morgan Brice

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Sexy psychic Simon Kincaide and skeptical homicide detective Vic D’Amato are getting married--if the ghost of a murderous magician doesn’t get them first!Simon and Vic’s wedding is just a few weeks away, and they’re hoping for a little peace and quiet to wrap up work before their honeymoon, but nothing ever goes that smoothly...
  • Lord of Ravens by Amelia Faulkner, A.K. Faulkner

    Lord of Ravens by Amelia Faulkner, A.K. Faulkner

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Hunter and prey. Which is which? Laurence Riley believed that he was nothing. He couldn’t have been further from the truth. Descended from Herne the Hunter, his own need to seek prey has long gone unfulfilled. Now it’s out of control. Something ancient is coming to take Quentin home: a creature of nightmare who feasts on the flesh of children. But Laurence has seen the real monster...
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    queer  horror  fantasy  m-m  paranormal  urban fantasy  magic  mystery
  • No Souls On The River by M. Kato

    No Souls On The River by M. Kato

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Homicide detective Hayashi Teruo and his partner, Miyazaki Shinji are juggling their personal and work lives, trying to keep their relationship a secret from their colleagues at the Tōkyō MPD.In the supernatural realm, the souls of the dead are disappearing from the Sanzu River, before they have reached the end of their journey in the afterlife...
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    queer  suspense  paranormal  mystery  m-m  fantasy  magic  contemporary
  • Cronin's Key II by N.R. Walker

    Cronin's Key II by N.R. Walker

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 32 ratings
    History isn’t always what it seems. With the battle of Egypt behind them, Alec and Cronin are enjoying the thrill of new love. Though fate doesn’t wait long before throwing them back into the world of weird.They know Alec’s blood is special, though its true purpose still eludes them. And given Alec’s inability to be changed into a vampire, Cronin is free to drink from him at will...
  • 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 Forgotten Dead by Jordan L. Hawk

    The Forgotten Dead by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 18 ratings
    Parapsychologist Dr. Nigel Taylor doesn’t work with psychic mediums. Until, that is, a round of budget cuts threatens his job and an eccentric old woman offers him a great deal of grant money. The only catch: he must investigate a haunted house with a man she believes to have a true gift...
  • Cascade Hunger by Gregory Ashe

    Cascade Hunger by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Eli and Dag survived a monster.Two monsters, in fact.A year later, though, they’re still trying to settle into a ‘regular’ life. Dag is working hard in school. It’s not going great. Eli is working hard at…being a better Eli. He’s eating right. Most of the time. He’s thinking about exercise in healthy ways. He’s ok with how he looks, as long as he doesn’t walk past any mirrors...
  • Loose Ends by Morgan Brice

    Loose Ends by Morgan Brice

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Cold cases, old enemies, ex-lovers, and vengeful spirits are making life dangerous for psychic medium Simon Kincaide and his boyfriend, homicide detective Vic D’Amato. The ghosts of Myrtle Beach are restless, trapped by love, secrets, scandals, and spells, keeping Simon busy protecting the living from the unhappy dead...
  • Ghostly Target by E.M. Leya

    Ghostly Target by E.M. Leya

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When someone starts killing police officers in the city, Detective Angus Young prioritizes finding out who's attacking those he works with. He's determined to take down the killer before any more officers are targeted.Having the skill to speak to the ghosts of the dead is usually helpful to a medical examiner, but not when the ghosts can't identify who killed them...
  • Priest by Kiki Clark, E.M. Lindsey

    Priest by Kiki Clark, E.M. Lindsey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    There’s a fine line between lust and love…Feeding on the pleasure of other creatures might sound like the perfect life, but Priest knows the truth. The bottomless hunger and the never-ending need for more will eventually drive him to the brink of madness.It’s the fate of all Incubi...
  • Three Meant to Be by M.N. Bennet

    Three Meant to Be by M.N. Bennet

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Telepathic high school teacher Dorian prepares teen witches for professional casting because going in unprepared is what killed one of his partners. But new state mandates on magical proficiency make it nearly impossible, and Dorian worries he can’t give his students the education they really need...
  • Ghostridden by E.J. Russell

    Ghostridden by E.J. Russell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When ghostwriter Maz Amani inherits a house from an uncle he’s never heard of, he offers heartfelt thanks to the universe, packs up his car, his cat, and his skepticism about mysterious uncles leaving all their worldly goods to unknown nephews, and high-tails it to a small town halfway to the Oregon coast.Anything would be better than week after week of couch surfing his way around Portland...
  • 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...
  • In Plain Sight by K.C. Wells

    In Plain Sight by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Detective Gary Mitchell and psychic Dan Porter are now investigating cold cases that are literally falling from the sky—a headless body in 2006 and a carpenter who fell from a roof two years ago.The first case leads them into dangerous territory. The second feels like a dead end...
  • Cold Light of Day by Charlie Cochet

    Cold Light of Day by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Reaper. Fang. Caine…An alias for each life lived.Government operative turned assassin, Wolf, had lived in the shadows until a secret cabal forced him into the light. The last thing Wolf needed was a confrontation with what—and who—he’d left behind. Now there’s no going back.Agent. Torturer. Killer…An identity fueled by pain...
  • Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben, Vol. 3 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, BOKI

    Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben, Vol. 3 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, BOKI

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Secrets and LiesIn the wake of their intoxicated tryst, He Yu's relationship with his erstwhile physician Xie Qingcheng is more fraught than ever. One taste has left He Yu addicted, and not even his pride can stop him from coming back for more; yet the taciturn Xie Qingcheng is determined to ward off his advances at all costs...
  • 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...
  • I Buried a Witch by Josh Lanyon

    I Buried a Witch by Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Something old, something new, something borrowed…something blacker than the darkest night. Cosmo Saville adores his new husband but his little white lies—and some very black magic—are about to bring their fairytale romance to an end...
  • The Witch's Seal by Michele Notaro

    The Witch's Seal by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ailin~ The demon gate needs to be sealed, at least from higher level demons. I may be the most powerful witch in the world right now, but I know I can’t do it alone. No one wants to help and risk their lives for the greater good, not that I can blame them, really. It kills me to ask my boyfriend, Emrys, but I suck it up because his magic is nearly as powerful as my own...
  • Hero by Kiki Burrelli

    Hero by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Mercenaries. 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...
  • Lethal Control by Gregory Ashe

    Lethal Control by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Werewolves. Witchcraft. Wildlife. It’s all different in the bayou.A year after Eli and Dag survived their second encounter with a monster, things are finally going well. Really well—as far as Eli is concerned, anyway. He’s lost weight. His energy is up. His hair is on point...
  • Like a House on Fire by A.M. Rose

    Like a House on Fire by A.M. Rose

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Right, so … let’s see how he got himself in this mess.An estranged family member left him a house. Which is great. The house looks like it’s a soft breeze away from crumbling. Less great. The house is cursed and now Morgan is trapped inside it. Anything BUT great.Cursebreaker, please! And make him hot. Morgan’s been through a lot.Herbs? Check. Fire? Check...
  • Darkness by Eden Winters

    Darkness by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Darkness follows Lieutenant Morrisey James.As an Atlanta PD detective, Morrisey understands the worst atrocities the city has to offer—or believes he does. His recent cases present something a killer who unleashes unbridled terror in victims before moving in for the kill. Morrisey has an edge, though, the terrifying ability to gain flashes of insight from each victim...
  • 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...
  • Death Enraptured by Richard Amos, Cooper North

    Death Enraptured by Richard Amos, Cooper North

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Follow my heart and make a mess...That’s putting it mildly.My life has really taken a complicated turn here in Oakthorne. I keep hoping some fairy godmother will show up and offer me a nice bit of time reversal. Not too much, just enough to ease this pain.Yeah. Right.Anyway, as much as there’s hurt, there’s also Death...
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    queer  horror  fantasy  m-m  paranormal  urban fantasy  magic  mystery
  • Midsummer Days: Tales of Midsummer's Night by Megan Derr

    Midsummer Days: Tales of Midsummer's Night by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the town of Midsummer's Night, the only thing out of place is normalcy... Midsummer Moon - A homeless werewolf travels to the town of Midsummer's Night, following a rumor that a doctor there has developed a cure for the lycanthropy that has always been the bane of his existence. But the cure he discovers is the very thing he ever expected to find..
  • 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...
  • Lone Wolf by Aja Foxx, Ciena Foxx

    Lone Wolf by Aja Foxx, Ciena Foxx

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Retired 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...
  • Dead End by Stephen Osborne

    Dead End by Stephen Osborne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Duncan Andrews’s best friend Gina is a witch, his bulldog Daisy is a zombie, and his boyfriend Robbie is a ghost. Duncan himself is just your average private detective, who happens to specialize in paranormal cases. Robbie's cousin, Jason, has a problem. The house he's living in is haunted by the ghost of serial killer Dr. Stanley Moore...
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    suspense  queer  contemporary  paranormal  m-m  fantasy  mystery  humor
  • Phoenix Spy by T.J. Nichols

    Phoenix Spy by T.J. Nichols

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Many deaths ago phoenix shifter Dalmon Vecker created the Coven, and once again he is running it instead of being king, or heir, or any of the other roles he has played to safeguard the secrets he and his brothers keep. Now the Coven is under threat as some want to expose shifters to humans...
  • Broken Warrior by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Broken Warrior by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Clay GreenA brotherhood? Monsters? Goddesses? Magic?The world has become a strange place.After a life on the run, Clay Green is rescued by a crazy old lady with a shotgun and an even crazier story about monsters, goddesses, and a secret brotherhood.Gifted with the power of the earth, Clay must locate his missing “brothers” before invading monsters can destroy everything...
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    suspense  queer  m-m  paranormal  fantasy  magic  urban fantasy  aliens
  • Tied to You, Vol. 1 by What, Chelliace

    Tied to You, Vol. 1 by What, Chelliace

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wooseo 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...
  • Starlight Kisses for the Omega by Lacey Daize

    Starlight Kisses for the Omega by Lacey Daize

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Josh is looking forward to his biggest test so far in his career: managing an event all by himself, while his boss is out on paternity leave.Josh never strayed far from Mountain Springs, and had relegated himself to a life of service jobs, when he was able to get a job with the new event coordinator in town...
  • Feral Dust Bunnies by Angel Martinez

    Feral Dust Bunnies by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An orphaned kitten may be the only witness to romance and the impossible.Officer Alex Wolf responds to a lot of ‘paranormal’ calls that aren’t. Exotic pet birds aren’t monsters and unusual dog breeds aren’t aliens. It’s a good thing he likes the animal control officers, but he both yearns for and dreads those calls where he runs into ACO Jason Shen...
  • Ascendance by Lissa Kasey

    Ascendance by Lissa Kasey

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seiran Rou knows life isn’t a romance novel, but he didn’t expect the honeymoon to end so soon. After a rough four months of people either trying to break up his relationship with vampire Gabe Santini or kill them both, now their own inability to communicate is getting in the way...
  • Blood Hound by James Osiris Baldwin

    Blood Hound by James Osiris Baldwin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is an alternate-cover edition for B019EE6PW4. "One of the first things every new mage learns about magic is that—despite your newly discovered powers over the universe—you are forever a struggling speck of krill in a very large, very cold, very dangerous ocean." My name is Alexi Sokolsky: blood mage, occult scholar, and hired killer...
  • An Evidence of Magic by Kris Michaels, Patricia A. Knight

    An Evidence of Magic by Kris Michaels, Patricia A. Knight

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Forty-year-old, hard bitten, foul-mouthed, homicide detective, Hiro Santos, suspects the owner of the art studio committed the gory killing. Too bad. There are other things he'd like to do to the gorgeous young man than book him for murder. Worse, his sexy suspect is certifiable. The nutcase claims he's some kind of high wizard from an alternate reality and needs Hiro's help to save their worlds...
  • The Bodyguard's Familiar by T.J. Nichols

    The Bodyguard's Familiar by T.J. Nichols

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The son of an assassin is in need of protection...Discover the world of the Familiar Mates mm fated mates paranormal romance series. The Bodyguard's Familiar has a mind reading witch and a boar shifter who are both getting drawn back into their dangerous families, finding out they are fated mates is the last thing they need but exactly what they want...
  • Reclamation by Lissa Kasey

    Reclamation by Lissa Kasey

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After killing with magic to save his own life, Seiran Rou is persona non grata with the Dominion, the ruling body of magic. Though he has the support of his vampire lover, Gabe, his half-brother, Jamie, and his friend Kelly, Sei suffers when Dominion supporters continue to harass him...
  • Prey by Andrea Speed

    Prey by Andrea Speed

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Infected, Book One In 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. The murder of a former cop draws Roan into an odd case where an unidentifiable species of cat appears to be showing an unusual level of intelligence...
  • Creature Feature 2 by Rhys Ford, Poppy Dennison

    Creature Feature 2 by Rhys Ford, Poppy Dennison

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two Men. One Apocalypse. Rise of the Revenants by Poppy Dennison Vampyres are on the loose in Detroit, and novice hunter Taz Cohen is on the job. The mission seems simple: stop the vamps. But Taz knows nothing about the mythical creatures, so he’s in for the fight of his life. Then he meets insanely attractive construction worker Darren Foster, who jumps into the battle with both feet...
  • Chasing Ghosts by Dean Cole

    Chasing Ghosts by Dean Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Haunted pasts. Terrifying apparitions. Dark secrets.Quentin Strange is … well, strange. But it isn’t just his anachronistic sayings and dress sense, the fact that he’s a socially awkward, book-loving loner who’s possibly still a virgin at nearly thirty. He’s seeing and hearing things. Odd things. Ghostly things...
  • Skim Blood & Savage Verse by Angel Martinez

    Skim Blood & Savage Verse by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Words damage more than just feelings as Carrington hunts feral books menacing the city.When a ferocious book attacks Carrington at his own birthday party, he believes it’s an isolated incident. But similar books soon pop up all over town, menacing innocent people with harsh bits of poetry and blank verse that deliver damaging physical blows...
  • Faces by A.M. Rose

    Faces by A.M. Rose

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He drew a thousand faces, but none of them were his…His whole life, the one thing Dorian wanted more than anything else, was to know who his soulmate was. But while he can find everyone else’s soulmate, he can’t do the same for himself.Resigned to a life of solitude, he spends his days giving people the key to their happiness, borrowing their joy and basking in the beauty of their love...
  • Everyone's Afraid of Clowns by Jordan Castillo Price

    Everyone's Afraid of Clowns by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Vic and Jacob brave a haunted house attraction that turns to be a lot scarier than they expected. This novella doesn't affect the timeline and is designed to be read outside the main PsyCop novels, though it may contain spoilers through Agent Bayne, PsyCop 9...
  • The Spy's Familiar: shifter fated mates mm romance by T.J. Nichols

    The Spy's Familiar: shifter fated mates mm romance by T.J. Nichols

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    This is Tooth and Jacob's story.Will they be able to bring down the shadow board?Discover the world of the Familiar Mates mm fated mates paranormal romance series with book 1, The Witch’s Familiar.Each book in the Familiar Mates series has a new couple and a HEA/HFN...
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