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  • Gingerbread and Ghosts by Agatha Frost

    Gingerbread and Ghosts by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Christmas falls on Peridale, but that does not mean café-owner and part-time sleuth, Julia South, can sit back and enjoy the festivities. When the opening night of the annual Christmas play ends with Julia's elderly gran, Dot, fatally shooting a man in front of the whole village, Julia's world is turned upside down...
  • Unlove Me by T.S. Joyce

    Unlove Me by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    **Don’t miss this standalone short story from 80-time bestselling author, T. S. Joyce.** One wild night with friends, and Brock Evans comes up with a plan to rake in the room reservations at his lodge. Instead of celebrating Valentine’s Day, he is going to throw an UnValentine’s Day party for the singles who want to escape the hearts, and romance, and frills of February...
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  • Beauty's Beasts by Alex Hanson

    Beauty's Beasts by Alex Hanson

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    I am not a woman.But I am also not a man.I won't pretend to be something I’m not, but those around me—both friends and enemies alike—are determined to make me. My village is adamant I marry the pastor's son, dress like a proper lady, and go only by the name given to me at birth...
  • A Court-Ordered Romance by Lark Green

    A Court-Ordered Romance by Lark Green

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    She made a devil's bargain to save her job, but now there's a demon sharing her bed...Vale, Hollywood’s newest demon heartthrob, promised never to return home to Winter Bliss. Until his movie’s press tour forces him back. One drunken night with friends leads to the destruction of a historic statue, landing him a 90-day probation...
  • A Spark of Trouble by Lucy Limón

    A Spark of Trouble by Lucy Limón

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    It’s lust at first sight when Chad, a hat-tipping park ranger meets Iggy, a double-horned, bargain-striking demoness.After a quick passionate encounter, Chad wants more, but when he asks for Iggy’s number, she turns him down flat...
  • Her Purr-fect Christmas Mate by Zoe Chant

    Her Purr-fect Christmas Mate by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    His kiss turned her into a cat.Kissing her fated mate was meant to give Peony the power to transform into a mystical creature-not a cute little kitten. And her true love was not meant to be arrogant, powerful Mordecai Leith, who plans to knock down her beloved bookshop and throw her out of her apartment right before Christmas.Fall in love with him? She'd rather kiss a frog...
  • Christmas Getaway Griffin by Zoe Chant

    Christmas Getaway Griffin by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Always the sidekick, never the heroine...June Lockley knows that life isn’t a Christmas rom-com. Okay, so she’s spending the holidays in a picturesque shifter town that goes way over the top with the decorations. Okay, so there’s ice-skating and hot chocolate and way too many people interested in her personal life. Even if this was a Hallmark movie, she’d be the funny BFF...
  • Draco Malfoy and the House of Black by starbrigid

    Draco Malfoy and the House of Black by starbrigid

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    After going back in time, Draco has tried to follow the path he remembers. But third year brings a new Ravenclaw cousin, a new Boggart, and a newly admiring Harry Potter, along with castle grounds full of Dementors and what they make him remember...
  • A Hellhound for Christmas: Shifters for Christmas Book 5 by Zoe Chant

    A Hellhound for Christmas: Shifters for Christmas Book 5 by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s beginning to look a lot like a Christmas disaster…Things aren’t going quite to plan for Willow this Christmas. Sure, her home repair business is booming… but that’s only because her quaint, snowy hometown of Hidden Valley is being battered by a series of ferocious rainstorms that show up out of nowhere, wreak havoc, and then disappear as quickly as they came...
  • Wed to the Grendel by Cara Wylde

    Wed to the Grendel by Cara Wylde

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    For my birthday, I get the worst gift a bride.My kind lives in the deepest woods of Alia Terra. The humans call us forest giants, but we call ourselves grendels, after our ancestor. We live in small communities, and we'd be happy to have nothing to do with humans, except we need... their females.My brothers are all married, and now it is my turn. I refuse to do it...
  • Dragon Emperor 17 by Eric Vall

    Dragon Emperor 17 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Evan continues his quest for power in an effort to defeat the Demon King of the Underworld, but things aren’t easy when you’re a dragon lord.Especially when his quest for the Nobel Swords takes him outside of Rahma and into a neighboring kingdom.Evan’s met a host of different races while in Inati, but he’s never encountered the elves before...
  • Thawing His Hart: A Christmas Novella by Zoe Chant, Elva Birch

    Thawing His Hart: A Christmas Novella by Zoe Chant, Elva Birch

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Escape to a resort for shifters only with a cozy holiday mystery that will melt your heart!A rare white hart shifter who was imprisoned in a cruel shifter zoo, Robert returns to the rebuilt Shifting Sands Resort to prove that he’s put his demons to rest and his memories of captivity behind him...only to meet a mate who doesn’t recognize him...
  • A Witch For Mr. Garland by Deanna Chase

    A Witch For Mr. Garland by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Christmas Grove, the enchanting town full of love, magic, and holiday miracles. Sixteen years ago, on a snowy December night, seer Danny Frost received a message from his spirit guides that sent him running from the love of his life, Marissa Cane. Since then, Christmas has never been the same...
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    christmas  paranormal  witches  fantasy
  • A Witch For Mr. Garland by Deanna Chase

    A Witch For Mr. Garland by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Christmas Grove, the enchanting town full of love, magic, and holiday miracles. Sixteen years ago, on a snowy December night, seer Danny Frost received a message from his spirit guides that sent him running from the love of his life, Marissa Cane. Since then, Christmas has never been the same...
    Categorized as:
    christmas  paranormal  magic  fantasy  length-short
  • Ashes & Bones by M. Sinclair

    Ashes & Bones by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    Magic is real. So where does reality end and the madness begin? Whoever said magic was beautiful didn't mention the blood. The violence. Or are we just special? Better question, where is Lucida? Also, why can't Edwin or Byron answer any of our questions? AND for the love of all that is bloody... why are there bird bones everywhere? The Ravens - ever vigilant...
  • Dragon Arisen by Donna Grant

    Dragon Arisen by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the latest story in the scintillating Dragon King series, Donna Grant, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, unites a sexy, determined Dragon King and an enigmatic woman who holds him enthralled.You have to burn before you can rise.Handsome. Commanding. Powerful. Alasdair isn’t a Dragon King to sit and wait. His carefully laid plans dissolve when he comes upon an enchanting woman...
  • Revolution by Montana Ash

    Revolution by Montana Ash

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With the battle against the chades over, and the evil at the centre of their world eliminated, balance has finally been restored to nature. Too bad the same can’t be said for their society. Beyden is trying to support his fellow paladins as they work to restore order after the upheaval caused by the Revolution...
  • Waffles at the Wake by Addison Moore

    Waffles at the Wake by Addison Moore

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Lottie Lemon, and I see dead people. Okay, so I rarely see dead people, mostly I see furry creatures of the dearly departed variety, who have come back from the other side to warn me of their previous owner’s impending doom.It's the dead of winter in Honey Hollow, and I’ve got jury duty...
  • Ultimate Bear Christmas Magic: Five Bear Shifter Holiday Romances by Ariana Hawkes

    Ultimate Bear Christmas Magic: Five Bear Shifter Holiday Romances by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This Christmas, wrap yourself up in these five smoking-hot bear shifter romances!Bear Home For Christmas An orphaned Noelle alone for the festive season and an ex-soldier bear Granger on a mission to find his wayward brother are thrown together in a snowstorm...
  • Her Christmas Phoenix by Zoe Chant

    Her Christmas Phoenix by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All she wants for Christmas is a sizzling hot shifter... and a flock of movie-quoting penguins.Avery loves working in Antarctica, but when she winds up spending the holidays alone at her research station, it's hard to find any Christmas cheer. Then there's the cascade of unwanted--and unclothed--photos guys on her dating site keep sending her...
  • Hospital for Immortal Creatures by Alexandrina Krusharska

    Hospital for Immortal Creatures by Alexandrina Krusharska

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Amidst the ancient peaks of Sofia, hidden from mortal eyes, stands the Hospital for Immortal Creatures—a sanctuary where immortal creatures seek healing. But now, even the immortal are not safe.Mikhail Korovin, a fierce manticore with a reputation as sharp as his claws, has spent centuries guarding the immortal world’s balance...
  • Fighting Fallon by Sinclair Kelly

    Fighting Fallon by Sinclair Kelly

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    They call themselves the Underground Omega Syndicate and, according to the message they so helpfully left me, I’m being forced to do their bidding, whether I like it or not. They know things no one else does—private details that have been kept under lock and key— and are threatening to expose my dirty little secrets if I don’t play along. Except they’ve made one teensy miscalculation...
  • Married And Bright: A Firecats Holiday Story by P. Jameson

    Married And Bright: A Firecats Holiday Story by P. Jameson

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    She makes him jolly, so he’s gonna put a ring on it.They fell in love when they were snowed in. A broken, unshiftable werecat and a curvy flowershop owner who had no one. Fated mates, who found each other accidentally. Happily-ever-after was inevitable.But their Christmas story doesn’t end there.Malcolm and Francesca both want more. At the top of their holiday list is a family of their own...
  • Fated to the Gargoyle by Lisa Carlisle

    Fated to the Gargoyle by Lisa Carlisle

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    My long-lost grandmother left me a letter with major revelations:I have a twin sisterWe come from a family of witchesGargoyles are real and to trust themStill, reading a note is different than seeing a gray creature with a massive wingspan flying down at me. Instinct kicks in and I run.When it comes to fight or flight, I choose flight every time...
  • Waterborn: Trident Trilogy by Bianca D'Arc

    Waterborn: Trident Trilogy by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A seductive sea siren and a handsome water elemental meet – and try their best to save the world.Molly, a sea siren with dangerous powers, swims to the mainland on behalf of her people. Menaced by an evil supernatural sea monster known as the leviathan, the siren conclave has no choice but to reach out to those on the mainland for help...
  • Dragon’s Obsession For Darkness by Brittany White

    Dragon’s Obsession For Darkness by Brittany White

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love is put to the test when secrets become unraveled.After losing my mother to vampire hunters when I was eighteen, I moved with my siblings and father across the country – until the hunters found us again. That was how my family and I ended up in Snow Haven, Alaska. I saw a dragon shifter, Josiah Bazin, the second day after we moved to the area and I fell in love...
  • Etched in Frost: A Modern Day Jack Frost Retelling by L.R. Friedman

    Etched in Frost: A Modern Day Jack Frost Retelling by L.R. Friedman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Etched in Frost is a contemporary Jack Frost reimagining with Swan Lake vibes. An angsty, fated mates, shifter/mortal romance, this standalone includes some dark themes and content best suited for those over the age of 18.Jolie I always believed ballet was the love of my life.My fate.Until that tragic day that rocked my world...
  • Jingle Bells and Dragon Spells by Harmony Raines

    Jingle Bells and Dragon Spells by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Varn has endured one of the worst fates for a shifter - having his mate whisked away before he could even meet her. But now, fate seems to have granted him the second chance he never thought he'd have. During the festive season in Wishing Moon Bay, he senses that she is near, a feeling he never thought he'd experience again. After a long journey across the seas, Carys has arrived in town...
  • A Unicorn for Christmas by Zoe Chant

    A Unicorn for Christmas by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With an undercover unicorn filling in for Santa, it’s going to be a very magical Christmas...Working over Christmas as one of Santa’s little helpers in her local mall might not be Callie’s dream job, but she doesn’t have much choice if she wants to make rent this month...
  • Substitute Santa by Zoe Chant

    Substitute Santa by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A stand-in Santa. A determined elf. And a mall Christmas Village on the brink of disaster.The holidays are full of surprises, and polar bear shifter Wade just got hit with a he needs to take over as the mall’s Santa.Wade is used to the peace and quiet of his woodworking shop, not the non-stop chaos of the Christmas Village...
  • Cookie Exchange Execution by Addison Moore

    Cookie Exchange Execution by Addison Moore

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A baker who sees the dead. One too many suitors.And a killer. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder.*A laugh out loud standalone cozy mystery by New York Times Bestseller Addison Moore* All books in the series can be read individually, so dive on in!.***Includes RECIPE*** My name is Lottie Lemon, and I see dead people...
  • To No End: Tales of Forgotten Fae by Lexy Night

    To No End: Tales of Forgotten Fae by Lexy Night

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One Fae son or daughter from each High Court family will be delivered in the Offering to the king. Cress Blackthorn has thirty days of freedom until she can never see, speak to, or hear from her family again. And in that time, a cryptic Seer and a dangerous rogue will complicate her destiny...
  • The Christmas Dragon's Heart by Zoe Chant

    The Christmas Dragon's Heart by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    A curvy hotel manager longing for a real home + a broken fire dragon shifter who hates Christmas + a lost dragon hoard = a magical Christmas romance! Curvy workaholic Claire Corbett has just landed the job of her lifetime: a position managing the Snow Castle, a winter retreat in the mountains. With her little brother along for the ride, Christmas promises to be all work and no play this year...
  • Christmas Hellhound by Zoe Chant

    Christmas Hellhound by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    All Caine wants for Christmas is to get rid of his hellhound. Twelve months ago, Caine Guinness was attacked by a pack of hellhound shifters and became one of them. All he wants is to be human again. His search for a cure brings him to snowy Pine Valley, home of magical dragon shifters, Christmas cheer... and Meaghan Markham. All Meaghan wants for Christmas - is a merry Christmas. Just one...
  • Christmas Pegasus by Zoe Chant

    Christmas Pegasus by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    It isn’t fate. But it is love. Owl shifter Olly has always trusted her inner animal. So when her owl makes it clear that handsome, rugged Jackson isn’t her mate, she knows that what she feels for him can’t be true love… right? Last Christmas, Jackson gave Olly his heart. And her owl chewed it up and spat it back at him. He’s tried to stay away from her…but a year apart hasn’t changed anything...
  • Omega’s Choice: An Omegaverse Romance by Mina Carter

    Omega’s Choice: An Omegaverse Romance by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    No one wants the attention of an alpha. Huge, Brutal, dominant… but what happens when you’re pretending to be one?I’ve always been an alpha. At least, that’s what I’ve been told all my life. But one look at Thale Barnes, and I’m running scared. Something about the big, brutal alpha gets my motor running. And it shouldn’t...
  • The Lethal Touch: Codename: Rana: Apex Tactical Book 4 by Candice M. Wright

    The Lethal Touch: Codename: Rana: Apex Tactical Book 4 by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Born to a man of faith who let his vision for the future twist his mind,I learned to stay in the shadows, collecting the kids that ended up in this godforsaken place with me.They’re the lost ones, and I’m their Wendy.The forgotten one, the dud, the failure.My only use now is as a future breeder to the cause.But they’ve taken enough, and I’ll be damned if I let them take more...
  • Handle With Bear by P. Jameson

    Handle With Bear by P. Jameson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Bear shifter, West Phillips, wasn’t looking for a mate… but he finds her anyway when a sweet and curvy delivery woman shows up at his doorstep. And at the least convenient time possible. His clan isn’t safe. It harbors lost and troubled youth, and hides a gnarly mutant shifter that no one can control. Not exactly the right place to settle down with the woman of your dreams...
  • Love at Frost Bite: Kris by Harper B. Cole

    Love at Frost Bite: Kris by Harper B. Cole

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    There may not be room at the inn, but is there room in his heart?Omega reindeer shifter Kris was never one for Christmas cheer. Getting his extended family together over the holidays always led to one thing: drama. When Kris wins a week at Winter Bird Christmas Tree farm and Inn, he’s thrilled...
  • Whisky and Wishes by Donna Grant

    Whisky and Wishes by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Return to New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant's Dark King world for a special holiday novella.Finally free of the dangers surrounding him and the burden of pining after his mate, the King of Dragon Kings is ready for some peace—time to enjoy the woman he loves without interruption...
  • Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher

    Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In Victorian England, a young woman inherits her father’s curiosity shop and all its ghostly secrets in a bewitching novel by the author of Salt & Broom.It’s 1851 in old York. Lizzy Grimm struggles to save her late father’s charmingly creepy yet floundering antique shop, Grimm Curiosities. Then, during a particularly snowy December in this most haunted city in England, things turn…curiouser...
  • Operation Wolf Rescue by Zoe Chant

    Operation Wolf Rescue by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Four puppies (one of them his lost nephew… but which?)Three days trapped in a motel with his oblivious fated mate.One bed.When someone on the mountain wants to surrender a pack of wolf-hybrid pups, animal rescue volunteer Pearl Nguyen throws some puppy chow and her biggest crate into the back of her station wagon, and she's on her way...
  • Draco Black and the Prisoner of Nurmengard by starbrigid

    Draco Black and the Prisoner of Nurmengard by starbrigid

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WHORE. BLOOD TRAITOR. MURDERER. I will accept no restitution but your life.Those are the words Theo sent Draco, once Draco Malfoy and now Draco Black. The words Draco will never tell anyone that Theo sent. As Draco enters into that fatal sixth year, those are the words that hang over him as he tries to protect his friends, his new family, his godfather...
  • Knotting Hill by Ami Wright

    Knotting Hill by Ami Wright

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m just a girl, standing in front of a wolf, asking him to love her…If only life was that simple, but being a famous actress means nothing in my life is simple. When I bump into the guy of my dreams I know it’s doomed from the start. Will is everything I have a weakness smart, funny, a little shy. Plus he’s tall and handsome and completely obsessed with me...
    Categorized as:
    monsters  fantasy  shapeshifters  paranormal  humor
  • A Pinerock Bear Christmas by Lauren Esker

    A Pinerock Bear Christmas by Lauren Esker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    At Christmastime, anything is possible ... Gloria Munson thinks she's about to have the worst Christmas of all time when her car breaks down during a blizzard in rural Pinerock County. But then she's rescued by a very special bear shifter clan who invite her to share their rural ranch Christmas ..
  • Lover's Awakening by R.A. Steffan, Jaelynn Woolf

    Lover's Awakening by R.A. Steffan, Jaelynn Woolf

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Is she the hunter or the hunted? A week ago, Trynn would have said she had the best job in the world. By day, she’s a globetrotting corporate security consultant. By night, she and her fellow hacktivists in the anonymous group MASQUE hunt down the worst criminals the underworld has to offer. Now, those underworld criminals are hunting her...
  • Dragon VIP: Peridot by Starla Night

    Dragon VIP: Peridot by Starla Night

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Disgraced. Damaged. Dull. Dragon-shifter Peridot has been called all that and more. Exiled to Earth, he will prove himself and answer his boss's question: What is the mysterious "spirit" of Christmas? One enticing woman can give him that answer. The more time he spends with her, the more he wants to forget his past and taste her forbidden sweetness... Curvy. Klutzy. Cinnamon-scented...
  • Dragons Don't Do Happy Holidays by Harmony Raines

    Dragons Don't Do Happy Holidays by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Brooding dragon shifter Flint wants a new start. So, when he arrives in Wishing Moon Bay the plan is simple. Get in. Get out. And avoid the merriness as much as possible.However, with a dark past, and nothing to his name, getting any supplies for his journey is all but impossible-so much for the season of giving.But, as they say, when one door closes, another opens...
  • Ripples For Skies by Teshelle Combs

    Ripples For Skies by Teshelle Combs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The griffin monsters have been at war with the Tru human tribes for as long as Emyri can remember. She must live as a Tru spy in the house of a griffin general, posing as a servant…until the new black wing general enlists her to spy on his behalf. Of the dangers Emyri faces, the most violent is her growing desire for her new master...
  • The Christmas Dragon's Love by Zoe Chant

    The Christmas Dragon's Love by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A dragon with a frozen heart. A woman lost in an unnatural blizzard. And a passion that will melt the ice... For ten years, dragon shifter Jonathan has slept in the ice, bound by a promise that he made to save his family. But when a freezing woman stumbles into his cave in the middle of a blizzard, Jonathan finds himself drawn back into the land of the living...
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