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  • Calum by Taylor Rylan

    Calum by Taylor Rylan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can a globe-trotting fox alpha settle down with a fae omega? Calum Ward is torn. He loves his job and discovering new things from times past, but after spending an extended vacation with his family in Montana, his desire for a mate and children of his own has become too strong to deny any longer...
  • Linus by Macy Blake

    Linus by Macy Blake

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Never sleigh never. Linus is having a Christ-massive problem. His cousins have all found their fated mates and their sprite magic is making beautiful things happen in the small town of Mistletoe Falls they call home. His magic? Well, it’s making a fa-la-la-la-lasting impression…and not in a good way. No need to Claus a scene! When Colby’s best friend runs away to Mistletoe Falls, Colby follows...
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    christmas  queer  m-m  paranormal  fantasy  contemporary  magic  humor
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  • Prophesy: Book II: The Bringer of Wrath by A.E. Via, Jay Aheer

    Prophesy: Book II: The Bringer of Wrath by A.E. Via, Jay Aheer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Shifter and Vampire True Mates story. Alek’s older brother, Justice—the Alpha Zenith—was the first shifter to mate with a vampire in many generations, and it was believed the rare, fated pairing would stop at him. But, it hadn’t. Aleksei ‘Alek’ Volkov was second beta, next in succession to the most powerful shifter in the world. He was proud of his title and he took his duties seriously...
  • Oberon by Macy Blake

    Oberon by Macy Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Santa Paws is coming to town. When Dr. Miles Lane purchases Paws and Claus, a veterinary clinic in the quirky town of Mistletoe Falls, he doesn’t quite know what he’s in for. The small town offers a fresh start for Miles, his seven year old daughter, Holly, and their rambunctious Saint Bernard...
  • Forbidden by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Forbidden by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Jesse Salvatore has had it. He's the youngest of three brothers -- and the only one born without the werewolf gene. Because he's human, his brothers, Jaxon and Justice, treat him like he's helpless. They constantly battle deadly rogue wolves and won't let him anywhere near the fight. When he meets Noah King, he knows he's found his soulmate in the werewolf and soldier...
  • Fated Mates by Kiki Clark, Mia Monroe

    Fated Mates by Kiki Clark, Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fated Mates is a Paranormal Romance Charity Anthology from some of your favorite MM authors! It features new, exclusive stories from Kiki Clark, Mia Monroe, Louisa Masters, Kelly Fox, Sheena Jolie, Jennifer Cody, Nikole Knight, Vinni George, Chloe Archer, Meghan Maslow, Lee Colgin, Kelex, H. L Day, Grae Bryan, AJ Sherwood, Michele Notaro, Lisa Oliver, Ariana Nash, Michelle Frost, and JP Sayle...
  • History and Haunts by Minerva Howe

    History and Haunts by Minerva Howe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secret Springs historical society manager Hank Vargas has two passions: history and hauntings. By day he's a mild-mannered historian. By night he hunts ghosts in old buildings and antique hotels...
  • History and Haunts by Minerva Howe

    History and Haunts by Minerva Howe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secret Springs historical society manager Hank Vargas has two history and hauntings. By day he's a mild-mannered historian. By night he hunts ghosts in old buildings and antique hotels...
  • Nutmeg Spiced Omega by Susi Hawke

    Nutmeg Spiced Omega by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The first rule of business is that you don’t mix it with pleasure. But if you do get involved with your business partner? Try not to knock him up… it goofs up the dividends. Tired of the playboy lifestyle, Gabe Smythe is ready for change. To start his new life, he’s come to Hollydale with one goal—to reunite with his long-lost brother, Rafe...
  • Not Over Yet by Barbara Elsborg

    Not Over Yet by Barbara Elsborg

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me…. One pissed off Santa…. A whole heap of trouble…. The last thing Phin feels like doing is going to a New Year’s Eve party. After a day dealing with sick animals, all he wants is a glass of red wine, some food and his bed. But as he drives home down a steep, snow-covered hill, he skids and hits a guy dressed as Santa Claus...
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    christmas  queer  paranormal  humor  m-m  fantasy  magic  contemporary
  • Arrow by Fel Fern

    Arrow by Fel Fern

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two shifter groups fighting for dominance. One headstrong wolf and his protective biker bear caught in the crossfire. Adam Moore has caught the unwanted attention of a monster. It’s the last thing Adam needs. His number one priority is keeping his father’s struggling bookstore afloat. When the situation worsens, Adam has no choice but to ask for a certain biker bear’s help...
  • Broken Bonds by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Broken Bonds by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For years, Jackson Murphy and Jonas Brooks have been dancing around each other in a waltz of uncertainty and longing. One unexpected kiss meant to comfort rattles the two alphas, but neither is willing to make the first move. Now, their meddling packs are conniving to force the two alphas to see what they truly share — a bond of love...
  • Vanilla Spiced Omega by Susi Hawke

    Vanilla Spiced Omega by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ”Shane is my stepbrother; he's family and strictly off-limits. ”. Shane Prescott is a fun-loving omega with a knack for landing in trouble. He prides himself on efficiently running the waitstaff at his brother’s restaurant, Kamasouptra. Between his brother-slash-bestie, Keith, and his dog, Rocky, Shane doesn’t need anything else to make him happy...
  • Blaze by Wolf Specter, Angel Knots

    Blaze by Wolf Specter, Angel Knots

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A dragon who doesn’t know how to love…. Fate hasn't been kind to Ivan, but he doesn’t blame her. He's spent the last couple of centuries doing terrible things to the humans who live in the Eastern European territory once claimed by his sire, Nikolai. .. which makes him the last person with any right to expect kindness from something as fickle as fate...
  • Favourite Hello. Hardest Goodbye. by E.S. Carter

    Favourite Hello. Hardest Goodbye. by E.S. Carter

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ellis. I feel him. Before I even lay eyes on him, I sense him. The air in the room seems charged, my awareness of him heightened, but he is a stranger to me. Unfamiliar, yet familiar. Unknown, yet known. And something inside me says, "Hello, I've been waiting for you. ". Macsen. I see him. I've seen him a hundred times before and I know this will not be the last, but each time I do, I feel it...
  • Human Prince by Aja Foxx

    Human Prince by Aja Foxx

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Humans can't inherit vampire covens. .. or can they? Despite being from an aristocratic family, all I wanted was a normal life. I was more saddened by my grandfather's ill health than I was by the knowledge that my father would get the family title. Having been raised by my grandfather for almost my entire life, I felt as if I was losing more than my grandfather. I was losing my best friend...
  • A Beginner's Guide to Christmas Miracles by Shannon Mae

    A Beginner's Guide to Christmas Miracles by Shannon Mae

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Nachielus (not Nicholas) may have gotten into a bit of trouble over unsanctioned miracles, ending up on the upstairs’ naughty list. Sure, maybe he’d gotten a little carried away with the whole Christmas thing, but he hadn’t meant to become a part of folklore, and surely that wasn’t a reason to bury him in centuries of paperwork...
  • Eldon by Macy Blake

    Eldon by Macy Blake

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Yule be sorry. Eldon doesn’t care what Tatum William Bixby the third thinks, he absolutely will not allow the Snowda Shoppe to become some corporate monstrosity. Mistletoe Falls is Eldon’s home, his life’s work, and some stuck-up, irritating, rich grinch will not ruin their small town spirit—no matter how gorgeous and intriguing Eldon finds the annoying newcomer. Baby it’s cold outside...
  • Grand Adventures by John Amory, J.E. Birk

    Grand Adventures by John Amory, J.E. Birk

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On September 1, 2011, TJ Klune wrote, ". .. it's not about the ending, it's about the journey. .. " in a review of Eric Arvin's Woke Up in a Strange Place. With those words, two men began a journey of love and invited us to ride along. TJ and Eric have shared so much with us: their wonderful books, their smiles, their humor, their lives, and their inspiring devotion to each other...
  • Betrayed by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Betrayed by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Kind, beautiful warlock Chance Christianson has spent a year trying to heal from the pain of losing his boyfriend to a random attack of violence. He has found a home with firefighters Locke Renfro and Logan MacLeod and has slowly put his life back together. Even more wondrous, he has fallen in love again - this time with gorgeous werewolf Logan. If only Logan would look at him that way. ..
  • Irish Wishes by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Irish Wishes by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Super werewolf Wayne Maccon has been fighting his growing feelings for a certain blond man for years. Previously mated to a woman, Wayne just can't seem to take that final step and be with the man who is his new mate. But how long will Conner O’Rourke wait for him to make up his mind? Conner O'Rourke has waited so many years for the alpha of the created wolves to claim him as his new mate...
  • The Tinder Chronicles: Complete 3-Volume Series by Alexa Land

    The Tinder Chronicles: Complete 3-Volume Series by Alexa Land

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tinder’s world is black and white, good and evil clearly defined. The young vampire hunter was taught to hate his enemy with a passion, and hating them is easy since they killed his entire family. His attraction to Bane, a gorgeous, mysterious vampire, contradicts everything Tinder believes in, but the heat between them is undeniable...
  • Walk a Mile by Sarah Madison

    Walk a Mile by Sarah Madison

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sequel to Unspeakable Words. Six months after starting their hunt for a serial killer who is still at large, FBI agents Jerry Lee Parker and John Flynn are partners in every sense. But Jerry has serious doubts about their relationship and whether they would even be together if not for the way Flynn changed after touching a mysterious artifact in a museum...
  • Psychic Men by Adira August

    Psychic Men by Adira August

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Hunter Dane and Camden Snow have settled into a satisfying routine of solving murders and hanging at the club, when they aren't expressing their affection for one another. Vigorously. A great life in an idyllic location. Until a skinny kid who barely came up to Cam's chin sought out Detective Lieutenant Dane. .. "I saw my father last night," Asher Gamble told him...
  • So Stinkin' Deer by J.D. Light

    So Stinkin' Deer by J.D. Light

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Friends to Lovers Shifter Mpreg. Barnabi is an alpha deer shifter who loves his best friend Fowler more than anything else in this world. Fowler is an omega skunk shifter who just wants to spend the rest of his life with his best friend Barnabi, and he'll take it any way he can get it...
  • Pain in the Ice by Arden Steele

    Pain in the Ice by Arden Steele

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Thade Maddock would literally rather die than spend four weeks aboard a cruise ship with nine hundred strangers in the middle of the Pacific. When it happens to be his best friend’s dying request, however, he can’t exactly refuse the invitation. On the bright side, the ship’s pool does offer some stunning views. Like the human male with fiery red hair and a smile to rival the sun...
  • For Never and Always by Ana J. Phoenix

    For Never and Always by Ana J. Phoenix

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Valentine's Week Sales Price! Seth finds himself alone at an abandoned train station, with no idea what happened, or how he got there. He boards a train, only to discover it’s a special express transporting the recently deceased to their final destination. The conductor tells him he’s having a near-death experience...
  • My Christmas Spirit by K.C. Wells

    My Christmas Spirit by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I knew I had problems when I woke up in the middle of the night to find Mike Stubbins sitting at the foot of my bed, stark naked, still as gorgeous as every one of my memories of him. So what’s the problem, I hear you cry? Gorgeous, naked man in my bedroom? Well, there’s the not-so-small, highly significant detail that he died six years ago. Yup. You read that right. And now he’s everywhere...
  • Jake Plus Conner by Ann-Katrin Byrde

    Jake Plus Conner by Ann-Katrin Byrde

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Conner. Jake was my best friend. My first crush. The love of my life. Until he screwed up. We both did, really. Now I tell everyone that I’m over him. I tell them that it doesn’t matter, because I’m an independent omega, out to change the world. The truth is that I miss him. The bigger truth is that I want to lose myself in him, but I’m afraid to lose myself in the process. Jake...
  • Love At Frost Bite: Benji (Mated to His Reindeer) by Toby Wise

    Love At Frost Bite: Benji (Mated to His Reindeer) by Toby Wise

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can a self-proclaimed grinch find love in time for Christmas? Benji prefers a quiet life, and he’s gotten to the age where he’s used to being alone. Despite being a reindeer, he hates ‘the Christmas spirit’ and the only thing softening his grumpy exterior is a certain otter shifter who seems determined to slip his way into Benji’s life. Mason is a single dad working at the food court in the mall...
  • Love at Frost Bite: Rudy (Mated to His Reindeer) by Victoria Sue

    Love at Frost Bite: Rudy (Mated to His Reindeer) by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Christmas Curse. .. Not only had Rudy drawn the short straw as far as family names went, but he'd lucked out on his shifter genes as well. Male reindeers capable of getting pregnant were as rare as rocking horse poop. .. well, you get the idea...
  • Conviction by Stella Rainbow

    Conviction by Stella Rainbow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A half-troll hiding his insecurities behind his mask. A human who has finally found a home. Silas. When I turned eighteen, I left the place I'd called home for five years and ventured out into the world. It didn't take me long to realize the world outside was an effed up place that would never accept me...
  • Dr. Hottie's Alpha by Allie W. Scott

    Dr. Hottie's Alpha by Allie W. Scott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A calm, focused Omega. An eager, young Alpha. Can they accept their differences to become what they were meant to be? Chance Reeves is a doctor dedicated to his profession. Bringing babies in this world keeps him in business, but it also leaves him wanting more...
  • Recalling My Demon by Colette Davison

    Recalling My Demon by Colette Davison

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I'm told Nethermire House is haunted, but the truth is even stranger. Nethermire is home to an eccentric 80-year-old and the young man she claims is her great-nephew. Except he's not. He's a demon. Brin's chaotic, bratty ways draw me to him. When he calls me Daddy, I'm a goner. I want to protect him, take care of him, and call him mine...
  • The Sugarplum Fairy by Dallas James, Samantha Cole

    The Sugarplum Fairy by Dallas James, Samantha Cole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *****Previously published under the pen name Dallas James. Now published under Samantha Cole. Jasper Sugarplum holds one of the most respected elf positions at the North Pole. He works in the Department of Naughty or Nice Affairs and takes his job seriously. After checking on the children on his list one November night, he’s heading home when disaster strikes...
  • Play With Me by Sophie O'Dare, Lyn Forester

    Play With Me by Sophie O'Dare, Lyn Forester

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Fate gives every horned a tailed mated. But what happens when a horned only has eyes for another horned? The moment Sen transitioned into a horned, he knew the life he wanted would never be his. Horned are supposed to be aggressive. They can’t work in childcare, can’t be seen as soft, and certainly can’t date other horned. Which is fine...
  • Santa's Secrets by K.C. Wells, Meredith Russell

    Santa's Secrets by K.C. Wells, Meredith Russell

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Anthony has a secret. One Christmas Eve when he was twelve, he found Santa laying presents under the tree. He never told a soul. And the following year he snuck out of bed to see if he could repeat the event. Every Christmas Eve for more than forty years, he and Santa have met, only now, they’re friends. But although Anthony is ageing, Santa hasn’t changed since that first night...
  • The Winter Spirit by Indra Vaughn

    The Winter Spirit by Indra Vaughn

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Nathaniel O’Donnelly likes his life quiet, his guests happy, and his ghosts well-behaved. Although a boyfriend wouldn’t go amiss. Someone to share his beautiful B&B with, even if it is in the middle of nowhere and he’s long past the wrong side of thirty. Problem is, Nathaniel’s living with a ghost who thinks he’s cupid, and whose arrows fly a little too straight...
  • Winter's Heart by Leta Blake

    Winter's Heart by Leta Blake

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 12 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found here. A short winter holiday-themed story set in the Heat of Love universe! This story is best read as an addition to the Heat of Love series, and preferably after reading Bitter Heat. Dedicated to my patrons at Patreon who support the business end of making books and audiobooks...
  • Truth and Consequences by Sarah Madison

    Truth and Consequences by Sarah Madison

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Sequel to Walk a Mile. The Sixth Sense: Book Three. When FBI agent Jerry Lee Parker wakes from a coma after a murderous attack on his life, he has no memory of his immediate past. In the blink of an eye, he has gone from having a nearly photographic memory to recalling nothing of the last six months of his life, including his partner and lover, John Flynn...
  • An Omega for Christmas by L.C. Davis

    An Omega for Christmas by L.C. Davis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A stolen child, an omega who never gave up, and an Alpha who will stop at nothing to bring them together again…. Detective Dean Garza has almost everything an Alpha could ask for: a challenging career, a big, wonderful, wacky family and a comfortable place to come home to at the end of a long day...
  • Christmas Spirit by Annabelle Jacobs

    Christmas Spirit by Annabelle Jacobs

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dylan’s Cornish retreat wasn’t supposed to include a hot bloke and a cupid-playing ghost…. After tearing his Achilles tendon, recuperating by the sea sounds like a fantastic idea, and Dylan happily accepts his best mate’s offer to stay with him and his uncle for a few weeks. But he hadn’t counted on the uncle being smoking hot, or the fierce attraction that blossoms between them...
  • How to Save a Life by Eli Easton

    How to Save a Life by Eli Easton

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Rav Miller looked into the terrified, intelligent eyes of the chocolate Labrador on death row, and knew he’d do anything to save him. When the dog, Sammy, escapes and heads to Mad Creek, Rav follows. Mad Creek. The town had become legendary in Rav’s mind after he’d met that bizarre group last year. Rav dismissed his crazy suspicions back then, but when he arrives in Mad Creek, he knows it’s true...
  • Finding Nessie by Edwina Lindsey

    Finding Nessie by Edwina Lindsey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    What happens when a Highland witch falls for the Loch Ness Monster? When Cam Walker, the last remaining Witch of the Highlands, heads to Loch Ness to investigate a potentially dangerous monster, the last thing he expects is to wind up working with that monster… let alone end up attracted to him...
  • Omega May by Anna Wineheart

    Omega May by Anna Wineheart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Madden had one job—to kill an alpha. Instead, he fell in love. Trapped in a pack that murdered his parents, twenty-year-old Madden craves one thing: freedom. For three years, he's been living on the streets, afraid the Dastrels will target him next. On a failed escape attempt, the Dastrels make him an offer: end the police officer patrolling their territory, and he can leave...
  • Tinsel Time Treasure by Lacey Daize

    Tinsel Time Treasure by Lacey Daize

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Justin's dating life has just gone from bad, to worse. Justin's never had the best luck meeting alphas, and for more than a year it's been a string of disappointing dates. So when he meets a seemingly nice guy at a charity party for the Valle Granja Art Museum, he thinks his luck has changed. Instead he finds himself trying to ghost a man who refuses to take 'no' for an answer...
  • Kiss Me Please: Masa x Sota by Lyn Forester, Sophie O'Dare

    Kiss Me Please: Masa x Sota by Lyn Forester, Sophie O'Dare

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Holidays Are Here, But Will They Be Filled With Happiness? Masa and Sota are on break for Yule, but Sota finds it difficult to get excited about the holiday when his mate is acting weird. Masa’s with him every day, so why does it feel like he’s pulling away? Can Sota figure out what’s going on before their holiday is ruined?
  • Kings and Monsters by Clio Evans

    Kings and Monsters by Clio Evans

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    Dying was supposed to be a once in a lifetime event. And yet, after falling off an overpass onto a mafia boss’ car, not only am I still alive—I’m a demigod in a world where myths are reality and monsters are hot. My unlikely hero is the Minoan Bull, a fierce Minotaur hated by many. Embers ignite between us, leading to an unforgettable night and a pact to never see each other again...
  • Sweet to the Core by Amy Aislin

    Sweet to the Core by Amy Aislin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Dev has pined for his cousin's best friend for years, but no matter how hard he wishes, Clark sees him as nothing but a friend. And it's as a friend that Clark comes to him for help. Clark’s father is on the brink of losing his house and the fastest way to make a quick buck is to win the $10,000 prize in the inaugural Sweet to the Core apple baking contest...
  • Edward's Bunny by C.K. Noel

    Edward's Bunny by C.K. Noel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Fate is a cruel mistress – especially when it comes to fated mates. When lion shifter and leader of his pride Edward learns about his fated mate, his life turns upside down. After losing the love of his life, his wife, he vows to never love again. but he does remarry, to give his infant son a mother. Too bad his new wife—now his ex-wife—was a raging psychopath...
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