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  • With Kid Gloves by Macy Blake

    With Kid Gloves by Macy Blake

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    A grumpy tiger thinks he can be a lonely drifter? Not on Ollie Jerrick self-proclaimed Happiness Champion’s watch. Ollie Jerrick has a hero complex. As a wolf shifter, he’s been surrounded by real-life heroes since his dads rescued him from an evil witch when he was six...
  • The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 10 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

    The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 10 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE MARTYR'S PATH. After his failed attempt to kill Hua Binan, Chu Wanning remains at Wushan Palace, held captive once again by Taxian-jun. The opening of the Space-Time Gate of Life and Death has irrevocably changed and merged the two universes, plunging both realms into chaos...
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  • Nugget by Athena Steller

    Nugget by Athena Steller

    Rated: 0.00 of 5 stars
    · 0 ratings
    Stryker. One of the best hackers in the world, Stryker knows how to get what he wants and get away. Getting kidnapped and imprisoned by a coven of evil witches was a complication he hadn’t prepared for...
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    queer  magic  paranormal  urban fantasy  fantasy  m-m
  • Gathering Mage by Michael Taggart

    Gathering Mage by Michael Taggart

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jason is getting ready to have the adventure of his life! He and Sandy are heading to the Gathering, which is a conference where the Heads of the Households of the supernatural world network, talk about problems and solutions facing the Houses, and learn a few things. Jason is going just to support Sandy, and figures he’ll have a mildly interesting time and be home soon...
  • A Ruse to Unchain Us by Michele Notaro

    A Ruse to Unchain Us by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    It’s time to fight back, and by the goddess, I will help free my people. The Cloaked Freeway is finally in a position to effect real change, and I want so badly to be a part of it. Since I was a little kid, it’s been my dream to free my people from under the human’s rule. And now I have the chance to make that dream a reality. But helping them means giving up so much...
  • His Realm by Mary Calmes

    His Realm by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 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...
  • Buried Mage by Michael Taggart

    Buried Mage by Michael Taggart

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Gathering only lasted for seven days, but it ended up being a lot more of an adventure than Jason had expected. Now it’s time to head home, and Jason is excited to sleep in his own bed and hang out with John, Tyler, and Annabeth again. Jason learned a lot, and he’s eager to put that knowledge to use...
  • Moody as a Minotaur by Lori Ames

    Moody as a Minotaur by Lori Ames

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 1 ratings
    Magic isn't real, is it? Parker’s intuition has been itching for months—no, it’s probably closer to years—telling him something isn’t quite right in Willow Lake. But sometimes it’s safer to ignore the feeling than expose truths you don’t want to face. Especially when Levi, the handsome and beefy owner of the local motel, is right in the middle of all the weirdness. Okay, okay...
  • Storm Warrior by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Storm Warrior by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hale Anderson. The Air Weaver. He was the freaking Air Weaver. Not exactly what he expected when he got kidnapped by the pestilents, but Hale’s good rolling with the punches. He can take a little time away from his pursuit of a doctorate in astrophysics to save the world. Except that the final spell is poised to kill all the Weavers and their last hope lies with him finding his soul mate...
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    queer  m-m  paranormal  magic  fantasy  urban fantasy  audiobook
  • The Magic That Binds by A.J. Sherwood

    The Magic That Binds by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
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  • Hunter's Descent by Alice Winters

    Hunter's Descent by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lake. Snagging the hunter was the easy part. Now I have to prove to him that a life filled with chaos, the most amazing fish ever, and delightful me is so much better than normal—trust me, he isn’t too hard to convince. But when a group of insolent chimeras laughably think they can target my one true love, they have another thing coming for them—likely death...
  • The Wandering Prince by H.L. Day

    The Wandering Prince by H.L. Day

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    An ailing father. A missing healer who might have the cure. Now would be a really bad time for Jack and Sebastian to be at loggerheads. Jack never saw the truth coming. And knowing Sebastian has been lying to him changes everything. Yet, despite his misgivings over whether their relationship can be repaired, he finds himself on a ship to Padora, Sebastian’s homeland. Awkward isn’t the word...
    Categorized as:
    hurt-comfort  queer  m-m  fantasy  historical  magic  humor  paranormal
  • Harbinger by Ava Marie Salinger

    Harbinger by Ava Marie Salinger

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Harbinger. COMING DECEMBER 2022.
  • Crimson Skies by Ava Marie Salinger

    Crimson Skies by Ava Marie Salinger

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The End is Nigh…. A war to end all worlds is looming. Cassius Black and Morgan King must ready their forces for the fight against Elios, the dark God determined to raise Chaos himself from the Abyss...
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    hurt-comfort  queer  fantasy  paranormal  angels  demons  m-m  mystery
  • The Enchanter's New Kids by Michele Notaro

    The Enchanter's New Kids by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when an enchanter and a witch adopt a few kids? I’ll tell you what: chaos… chaos and absolute mayhem. I finally got my way, I finally convinced my viramore—my soulmate—to adopt with me, but I have to admit that it isn’t exactly going as planned...
  • The Legacy Pack Bundle by Susi Hawke

    The Legacy Pack Bundle by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Ages ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people. .. but the seal has been broken. The Blood Legacy Chronicles is an mpreg shifter series like you’ve never seen before. The adventurous journey begins in book one where the portal that separates our realm from that of Fae is broken...
  • Full Color by Vinni George

    Full Color by Vinni George

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Quin Hunter likes the quiet life. He runs his gallery, forges famous art, and operates a fence where black market buyers get fakes and the real pieces get returned to their rightful owners. Nice and simple. He doesn’t do field work...
  • Priest by Kiki Clark, E.M. Lindsey

    Priest by Kiki Clark, E.M. Lindsey

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 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...
  • Ryde the Lightning by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Ryde the Lightning by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Siberian pack alpha Dane Durov endured a lot in his young life and managed to survive, so he always assumed that he had a special purpose in life. If he’d had to guess, though, ‘bodyguard to the child of an Olympian god’ wouldn’t have been his first guess. Frankly, he still thought it sounded like something out of a romance writer’s imagination. Romance...
  • Messager by Faith Kean

    Messager by Faith Kean

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    « Il n’y a pas de hasard. Il n’y a que ce qu’on déclenche ou pas. ». Après avoir déserté le palais de Ferin le soir de ses noces, Ren se tourne à présent vers un avenir incertain. Guidé par Hosgard, le jeune homme part en quête de réponses et au-devant de nouveaux mystères...
  • Thorn Evermore by Mia Monroe

    Thorn Evermore by Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Catching feelings? No thanks. Love is a cage and I like my freedom. Kyson. They say forty is the new thirty, but maybe that’s for regular people. Not guys like me who spend their days dusting off antiques and fantasizing about mythical beings. After too many breakups, I’ve given up on finding love, but my milestone birthday sent me out looking for a random hookup...
  • Legal Drug, Volume 02 by CLAMP

    Legal Drug, Volume 02 by CLAMP

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    During one of Tokyo's festivals, Kakei sends Kudo and Himura to recover an old vase in a nearby shrine. But the mission turns out to be much more difficult than it seems. The vase has the power to twist the spatial environment around it - misleading anyone with its incredible trompe l'oeil. How can the duo retrieve something they can't even touch?
  • A Little Blessing by R. Cooper

    A Little Blessing by R. Cooper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Yule is the start of the new year, the midwinter festival for the solstice and the days afterward. Traditions are to burn logs and light candles to welcome the return of the sun, to celebrate with food and cheer and family, and to remember connections with the past...
  • Cold Light of Day by Charlie Cochet

    Cold Light of Day by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 15 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...
  • Forgotten Fox by Jennifer Cody

    Forgotten Fox by Jennifer Cody

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Riku:. I dislike living alone in an empty house, but unless something radical changes, I’ve resigned myself to lonely bachelorhood. No one has ever interested me, I didn’t even know I had a fancy to tickle, if you get my meaning. Then a detour through a less than savory neighborhood brings me across one of my own students...
  • As the Raven Flies by Meghan Maslow

    As the Raven Flies by Meghan Maslow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “Even though you’re just a bird, I accept you as my mate. ”. I, Abraham Williams, raven shifter extraordinaire, am not impressed. Not with the pronouncement. Not with the fated mates fairy tale. And most definitely not with sinfully sexy Michael Kashto, the arrogant dire wolf shifter in the thousand dollar suit...
  • Full Color by Vinni George, Declan Winters

    Full Color by Vinni George, Declan Winters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Quin Hunter likes the quiet life. He runs his gallery, forges famous art, and operates a fence where black market buyers get fakes and the real pieces get returned to their rightful owners. Nice and simple. He doesn't do field work...
  • Jump Up by Susi Hawke

    Jump Up by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Watch out for the Assassin’s Claws…. Nash Moreno is a paid killer, just like his four brothers. It’s the family business—they fight together, they die together. Whether they’re working as a group or alone, they are a tight unit who protect their own. A live transmission from a rebel group known as OPEN EYES is intercepted before it can be broadcast around the world...
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    queer  urban fantasy  fantasy  m-m  paranormal  audiobook
  • Kick Back by Susi Hawke

    Kick Back by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Watch out for the Assassin’s Claws…. Dearil Moreno is a paid killer, just like his four brothers. It’s the family business—they fight together, they die together. Whether they’re working as a group or alone, they are a tight unit who protect their own...
  • Magic Burning by Kaje Harper

    Magic Burning by Kaje Harper

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alan. I haven't been out with a guy in the last two years. Partly because I'm a gay elementary-school teacher in a fairly small, conservative town. Partly because I'm a sorcerer, and dating ordinary humans only leads to trouble. Sleeping with one though? That's doable, so when my birdbrained familiar Sunny lines up a tall, muscular firefighter for me, I'm not going to say no. Just once, though...
  • Vanity and other Monsters by T.J. Nichols

    Vanity and other Monsters by T.J. Nichols

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All the lines of fate have been pulling Edra Tendric to LA. It is the last place he wants to go, leaving his mate Inspector Jordan Kells in San Francisco to deal with a fractured mytho population and an increasingly tense political situation. Someone wanted Edra removed as Mytho Liaison, and they got their way...
  • Connor by Taylor Rylan

    Connor by Taylor Rylan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When you’re a fae born in the shifter realm, the last thing you expect is to discover your mate is fae, sent from the fae realm just for you. Connor Romano loves his family. Born to a vampire father and a fae mother, he’s spent his entire life witnessing firsthand the level his father would go to protect his mother, him, and their fae sister...
  • Shah Mat by Jennifer Cody

    Shah Mat by Jennifer Cody

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Den:. What does one do when they're responsible for the death of their chosen mate? Kill a god, steal his powers, and reset the timeline, of course. What does one do when their chosen mate keeps throwing away his life to save the universe? Reset the timeline forty two times, obviously. I’m not letting Monet sacrifice himself because I made a mistake that ended the universe...
  • In the Sack with Krampus by Jennifer Cody

    In the Sack with Krampus by Jennifer Cody

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Leo:. I haven’t had the best of luck with roommates because of my horror movie memorabilia, so when my newest one, Jack, leaves an invitation to a Christmas sleepover on my desk, I’m a little wary and a lot curious...
  • Silent Partner by Morgan Brice

    Silent Partner by Morgan Brice

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A psychic moose shifter. A handsome guy who is psychically silent. The chance for a fresh start, and a threat from the past that might get in the way. Brandon Davis is a psychic and a moose shifter. He makes his living as a wilderness guide in Fox Hollow, NY—a town that is a haven for misfit shifters and psychics...
  • Ogres and other Dating Dilemmas by T.J. Nichols

    Ogres and other Dating Dilemmas by T.J. Nichols

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    Sean Lloyd has given up on finding love. It’s easier to concentrate on his work as a mytho biologist than figure out people. But that was easier to believe in his twenties. Now his friends are getting engaged and planning weddings, and he’s only planning his next hook-up. He wants more, even if he isn’t sure what that looks like...
  • Heart of the High King by Jessamyn Kingley

    Heart of the High King by Jessamyn Kingley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    High King Aleksander D’Vairedraconis prefers the comforts of home, rarely leaving his estate. While forthright by nature, his sexuality is a secret Aleksander guards—even his best friend is unaware. With the possibility of his mate showing up at his large estate in Arizona next to impossible, Aleksander focuses on family and building more wealth to allow them to flourish...
  • Guerrier by Faith Kean

    Guerrier by Faith Kean

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    « Je t’attends. Au Rideau d’Hosgard. ». Le crépuscule se lève sur l’Île de Nuit et avec lui, la promesse de jours sombres. Les Ombres se révèlent au cœur du Royaume d’Infeijin et Ren s’est juré d’y opposer toute la force de sa détermination. Le jeune homme sait que malgré les épreuves déjà endurées, celles qui restent à venir seront déterminantes pour l’avenir de ce monde...
  • Liam by Minerva Howe

    Liam by Minerva Howe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Liam Calhoun has been looking up the mountain he lived at the bottom of for years, but in the last six months or so, the feeling has become urgent. Not only is his brother, Rory, up there with a pack of werewolves, but the old homestead at the edge of the treeline is calling to him. Something up there needs him, what he finds there when the snows clear changes Liam’s life forever...
  • Lich Reaper's Lament by Jessamyn Kingley

    Lich Reaper's Lament by Jessamyn Kingley

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ripped apart by life, Lich Reaper Grymington Daray is drowning in sorrow. Each day, he strives to find the people responsible for killing his best friend, and he wishes his own existence had more meaning. The last thing on Grymington’s mind is finding the other half of his soul. While a loving family surrounds him, the coldness growing in his heart keeps him separated from joy...
  • Die Pretty by B.A. Stretke

    Die Pretty by B.A. Stretke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Eddie Boone is being chased by the most terrifying creatures he’s ever seen in his life and he has no idea why. He thinks it has something to do with that he saw at the Italian restaurant he works at. He saw something he shouldn’t have and now the men who work for Louis DuCane are after him...
  • Forsaken Fae: Book Two by R.A. Steffan

    Forsaken Fae: Book Two by R.A. Steffan

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Len needs to track down a handbasket ASAP, because things are going straight to hell. In the aftermath of the disastrous battle to close the rip between realms, he's stuck with a Fae who seems convinced that the only way to fix things is to leap directly into the maw of the Wild Hunt...
  • Hacked by Susi Hawke

    Hacked by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Team: A. L. P. H. A. :Six battle-hardened alphas with one goal—to save any omega in peril. Pax is the mysterious, faceless hacker the team turns to when their usual sources fail--and he likes to keep it that way. But when one of their information requests ends up with his bunker being raided by the cartel, they’re the only ones he can turn to...
  • Flame and Ash by Morgan Brice

    Flame and Ash by Morgan Brice

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Witchbane Novel #4. One hundred years ago, a sheriff’s posse killed dark warlock Rhyfel Gremory, but his witch-disciples escaped, and their magic made them nearly immortal. To keep their power, each year one of the witch-disciples kills a descendant of one of the men in the posse, a twelve-year cycle that has cost dozens of lives, including that of Seth Tanner’s brother, Jesse...
  • Bell, Book and Scandal by Josh Lanyon

    Bell, Book and Scandal by Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Black Magic. Blackmail. Little Black Books. Must a witch break his vows to save his marriage? Cosmo Saville loves that his husband has finally accepted his witchy ways. And in return, his promise to stay out of police business guarantees them a happily ever after. At least, until he discovers he might be responsible for a dangerous game of blackmail…...
  • Forsaken Fae: Book Three by R.A. Steffan

    Forsaken Fae: Book Three by R.A. Steffan

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Some people just want to watch the world burn. Unfortunately, those people seem to be in charge right now. Trapped at the mercy of a corrupt Fae Court, Len and Albigard must overcome their harshest challenges yet in order to stop the Wild Hunt and retrieve their friends' lost souls. Albigard's father seeks to use his estranged son as a weapon against their enemies, the demons...
  • Zane: Lords of Otherworld, Book 2 by Stella Rainbow

    Zane: Lords of Otherworld, Book 2 by Stella Rainbow

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A badass soul collector. A haunted soul. An evil haunting them all. Zane. When I launched the knife to stop the warlock aiding the enemy's escape, it took me a moment too long to realize the man I'd killed was my mate. When I met Wren again in Otherworld and he thanked me for killing him, I realized my hasty action had turned out to be his salvation...
  • Pixie Little Liar by Arden Steele

    Pixie Little Liar by Arden Steele

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There’s a heaviness to the air, the kind that makes the hairs on the back of Emrys Whitehill’s neck stand on end. Something is going to happen. Something big. Something that will change him forever. Despite his powers of precognition, however, a hellhound walking into the hotel to arrest him for a crime he didn’t commit is the one scenario he never saw coming...
  • There's A Bat In My Room! by Michele Notaro

    There's A Bat In My Room! by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Have a flying bat problem? Tennis Assassin to the rescue! I’ve never been so scared in my life, but armed with a ski mask, a leather jacket, and a tennis racket, I’m ready to take on the flying demon… er, bat. When one swing connects, and the bat hits the wall and turns into a man, my life changes forever...
  • Midsummer Days by Megan Derr

    Midsummer Days by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 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. .
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