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Captive to the Shadow Prince by Mallory Dunlin
My answer to being kidnapped by a fae prince? A knife to his throat. Falling into another world and getting captured by an arrogant, shadow-wielding fae prince wasn't on my to-do list. Neither was being told I’m his soulmate, or discovering that behind the glamor of a beautiful, violet-haired prince stood a seven-foot-tall winged beast. Stabbing him seemed like the best option...Categorized as:
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![Tempt Me by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray]()
Tempt Me by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLove is a weakness for a man like me…. Two years ago my enemies murdered my wife. They took away the mother of my newborn son. That’s how I became the beast…. A merciless, heartless, soulless creature. That’s why I made the deal with Ava:. Take her to repay her father’s debt…. I couldn’t resist. Not when I saw she feared me as much as she wanted me. I wanted the beauty, a woman nearly half my age... -
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![Cursed King by Julie Saman]()
Cursed King by Julie Saman
A deliciously steamy, suspenseful, and darker contemporary royalty Beauty and the Beast retelling about a grumpy single dad and the woman who brings him to his knees. Welcome to the cursed kingdom of Messalina…. When my sick father wanders into the off-limits palace where the widowed king of Messalina lives with his three children, I know we're in trouble... -
![Wednesday: A Dark Monster Romance Novella by Adrian Blue]()
Wednesday: A Dark Monster Romance Novella by Adrian Blue
When Carmen takes a night security job at Oakwood Cemetery, she's desperate enough to overlook the warnings about previous guards who left without notice. The position comes with housing—a small cottage on the grounds—and after weeks of living in her car, she can't afford to be picky... -
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![King of Patriam: Outlaws by Amizah R]()
King of Patriam: Outlaws by Amizah R
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe combat trials. He's going. Cassian's only qualm is that he has to do the wrong thing to do the right thing. The city's fate rests on his shoulders, but that's not what plagues his thoughts and hurries his heart. She'll never forgive him. He knows it, but he still has hope that he can claim the heart of the woman he left behind. If he makes it out alive. .. He left her... -
![Once a Myth by Pepper Winters]()
Once a Myth by Pepper Winters
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHe bought her. He trapped her. She belongs to him. Eleanor Grace is a naïve dreamer. Trusting and young, she believes her travel-loving boyfriend can save her when her freedom is snatched and sold. Squirrelled away to an island at dawn, delivered to a man even darkness won’t touch, she’s bound by a contract. Sullivan Sinclair is the giver of fantasies...Categorized as:
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![Ruins of Temptation by C. Hallman, J.L. Beck]()
Ruins of Temptation by C. Hallman, J.L. Beck
I’ve spent years trying to be someone I’m not. Controlled and humanized. Still, the darkness lurks inside me, waiting for a chance to break free. As the headmaster at Corium University, I must maintain professionalism and keep myself in check. I manage to do that until the day I discover I have a daughter and all the carefully constructed walls I’ve built around myself start to crumble...Categorized as:
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![Wicked Deceit by Aly Beck]()
Wicked Deceit by Aly Beck
My enemy is The Apocalypse Society: Three brothers, a hidden agenda, distorted masks, and minions who do their dirty work. They tried to kill the rabbit. They injured two of the men I love. They thought they could cut me down. Not only my life, but the lives of my four men, are now in danger. Time is running out. The rabbit is almost in their trap. The next time they may succeed in killing me... -
![The Unseelie War by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
The Unseelie War by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
When love and vengeance collide, three worlds hang in the balance. Ava Cole thought her biggest problem was dropping out of college. Then she got pulled into the Web—a realm between dreams and nightmares—and discovered she's the prophesied Weaver, destined to reshape reality itself... -
![His Little Red by Vivi Paige]()
His Little Red by Vivi Paige
I stole her from her life. I’ll go even further to keep her in mine. She was a job. Nothing more. Nothing less. I took her from the party. It wasn’t personal. It was a contract. Grab her, head to the safehouse, and wait for the ransom. Scarlett is so gentle, so trusting. She doesn’t know that men like me exist. Doesn’t know the brutal nature of this world. Me? I come from a world of violence... -
![The Witch's Pet by Tiana Warner]()
The Witch's Pet by Tiana Warner
A young woman accidentally binds herself to a powerful witch who must feed on her life force in this lesbian dark romantasy. When Hannah accidentally breaks an ancient spell and binds herself to Julia Moreau, a powerful witch who was cursed to an enchanted sleep a century ago, the reluctant duo must hunt down Julia’s old coven to sever the bond...Categorized as:
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![Owned by Liliana Carlisle]()
Owned by Liliana Carlisle
I've been stolen by a monster. Cold and calculating, he's nothing like the knight in shining armor I hoped would rescue me. He tortures me with his hands and mouth, my inner Omega calling to him even as hate pulses through my veins. He's the leader of the Saviors, the brutal Alpha bastards that kidnap Omegas like me. Every part of me belongs to him and him alone. I'm his to touch. His to take... -
![Brutal Prince: Bonus Scene by Sophie Lark]()
Brutal Prince: Bonus Scene by Sophie Lark
Aida and Callum go to a Halloween event.Categorized as:
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![Hades & Persephone by Amelia Wilde]()
Hades & Persephone by Amelia Wilde
He wants her submission. She demands his secrets. Hades has acres of diamonds and precious little patience for a world that has stolen his compassion. So, when lifegiving medication is withheld from him, Hades steals something more valuable—the daughter of his enemy—and holds her for ransom. The night Persephone left home, she had just one thing on her freedom... -
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![Prince of Chaos by Amelia Wilde]()
Prince of Chaos by Amelia Wilde
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy mother keeps me prisoner to keep me safe. Safe from the world. Safe from boys. And especially safe from Luther Hades, the most dangerous man in the world. She’d rather die than send me on an errand. But now she has no other choice. And someone new is waiting at the gate. . -
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Entangled by Vera Kane
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI’ve lived the last several years of my life under the control of my step-mother. Every decision taken away from me, completely suffocating me. At eighteen, she sold me off to the highest bidder and traded one gilded cage for another. I’ve never been anything but a dollar sign to her. Until two years later Kade Luchetti kidnapped me from my tower, making me yet another dictator’s rag doll...Categorized as:
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![Broken Beauty by Jaclin Marie]()
Broken Beauty by Jaclin Marie
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAsh. I hated her. I thought I liked this. This summer seemed like such a blissful memory but god when I found out who she was I swear I saw red. Then I decided that I’m going to fucking ruin her. Ariella. If I knew what his last name was I swear I never would have spoken to him. I never would have spent my summer with Ash Jones...Categorized as:
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![All He'll Ever Be by W. Winters]()
All He'll Ever Be by W. Winters
A USA Today bestselling, gripping and heart-wrenching romantic suspense. I get why Beauty fell in love with the Beast, but it doesn’t change who Carter is. There’s no magical rose or kiss that will turn him into a prince. All Carter Cross will ever be is a beast. A cold-hearted and ruthless, mafia king, trapped in a castle of his own making. I’m the daughter of his enemy and his new possession...Categorized as:
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![Taking What's Mine by Alexa Riley]()
Taking What's Mine by Alexa Riley
Rated: 3.39 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAlternate Cover Edition: B0103J7IMK. Alone at night in the middle of nowhere. The town sheriff pulls me over. I should be safe. I'm not. Being forced shouldn't turn me on. Being pushed to the ground and taken by him isn't supposed to get me hot. Nothing could have prepared me for what he had planned. And my darkest desires should have remained a secret. But it seems he knows everything about me...Categorized as:
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![Ashes by Suzanne Wright]()
Ashes by Suzanne Wright
Knox and Harper's story continues as the Las Vegas lair - and its two infamous Co-Primes - face their most terrifying enemy yet . . . Together, Harper and Knox have overcome just about every evil thing you can think of - from Horsemen of the Apocalypse to dark magic practitioners to Lucifer's insistent belief that he's hilarious...Categorized as:
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![Embers by Suzanne Wright]()
Embers by Suzanne Wright
Harper and Knox are back and better than ever! The fourth book in Suzanne Wright's globally bestselling The Dark in You series is not to be missed. The final horseman awaits . . . and the stakes have never been higher. With the birth of their son, Asher, Harper and Knox are both more powerful and more vulnerable than they've ever been before...Categorized as:
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![The Wicked King by Holly Black]()
The Wicked King by Holly Black
You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself strong. After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne...Categorized as:
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![Revenant by Larissa Ione]()
Revenant by Larissa Ione
HELL HATH NO FURY . . . For five thousand years, Revenant believed he was alone in the world, a fallen angel beyond any redemption. Now he finds he has a twin brother who had all the light and love Revenant was denied...Categorized as:
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![Darkness by Laurann Dohner]()
Darkness by Laurann Dohner
Kat’s boss wants dirt on the NSO. She is sent to Homeland undercover but everything goes wrong as soon as she enters the front gates. She is arrested by a big, powerful, sexy New Species but she is not frightened. He turns her on and things heat up fast between them. Now, she just hopes he does not break her heart. Darkness admires Kat’s courage but he cannot trust anything she says... -
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![Sleeping with Monsters by Amelia Hutchins]()
Sleeping with Monsters by Amelia Hutchins
When everything is on the line, how far will you go to protect those you love? What if the cost of saving them is your soul? Would you pay it? I thought I was prepared for what was coming; that if I made sacrifices, I could win this game. I’m no longer afraid of the darkness or the monsters that hide in the shadows. I’ve become what I feared most, allowing it in to protect those I loved... -
![The Faire by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
The Faire by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Will Cora break, or will she bend…is this the beginning, or the end? Everything Cora thought she knew about Harrow Faire was a lie. All of it. Now as the lines in the sand are drawn, as a war for the Heart of the Faire builds, she must discover how much she is willing to sacrifice to save the people she has come to think of as Family... -
![Becoming his Monster by Amelia Hutchins]()
Becoming his Monster by Amelia Hutchins
Sacrifice your soul? Check. Die to protect those you love? Check. Come back as something the world hasn’t seen since the dawn of mankind? Check. Make those who hurt me wish the Gods had never created them? I’m still working on this one…. Are you ready to play? I’m coming back. I’m more, darker, deadlier, and I’m pissed... -
![Reaver by Larissa Ione]()
Reaver by Larissa Ione
WARRIOR OF HEAVEN. Reaver is an angel with a past, a record, and a less-than-heavenly attitude. Powerful enough to fight alongside the fiercest battle angels-and crazy enough to risk his wings on a one-way mission to hell-he's agreed to go where no angel has ever gone before. .. to steal the most seductive and dangerous prize of Satan himself. ANGEL OF HELL...Categorized as:
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![Compelled by Jaymin Eve]()
Compelled by Jaymin Eve
A standalone story in the Shadow Beast Shifters world. Best read after Deserted for storyline continuity. Simone, of the Torma shifters, thought she was finished with the world of supernaturals that existed outside of Earth. She'd been there, done that, and had the near death experience to show for her time. Then a summons back to Valdor-the vampire world- is dropped in her lap... -
![The Puppeteer by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
The Puppeteer by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Silver strings she can’t outrun…her trouble now has just begun. After Cora Glass’s life was stolen by Harrow Faire, things just keep going from bad to worse. Unable to run, unable to escape, there seems to be no way to avoid what she’s become—the Contortionist. But a girl can only take so much. Haunted by an abandoned and seemingly sentient circus? Fine...Categorized as:
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