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  • Redemption by Erica Stevens

    Redemption by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A year has passed since the war against Jack’s father that freed the humans from their roles as blood slaves and servants to the vampire race. Having left the palace behind in order to ensure that the outer towns are obeying the new laws, Jack struggles to come to terms with the grief and haunting memories that drove him from the palace in the first place...
  • Redemption by Randi Cooley Wilson

    Redemption by Randi Cooley Wilson

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    For Eve Collins, darkness has descended after her love vanished into the night sky. A new protector has been appointed, one who challenges everything she’s believed to be true. In this third installment of The Revelation Series, Eve will become aware of dangers and worlds that exist only in her nightmares, and bloodline secrets that will trigger a centuries old war...
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  • Inferno by Erica Stevens

    Inferno by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Deadly. That is what her time imprisoned by The Commission has made her. Just how deadly, and exactly what was done to her, Cassie doesn’t know but she is terrified of the possibilities. Though they try to hide it, Cassie knows that the people she loves most are also afraid of what she might become...
  • The Lost Soul by Jessica Sorensen

    The Lost Soul by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Spin-off of the Fallen Star Series. My name is Gemma Lucas and my life is good. Alex and I eliminated the star and Stephan and the Death Walkers. Finally I can relax and focus on freeing my father from the Room of Forbidden. At least that’s what I thought. But things are never that easy. Just when I’ve put the past behind, Lost Souls cross over into the Real World...
  • Writing on the Wall by Tracey Ward

    Writing on the Wall by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    I’m a girl stuck in Neverland with The Lost Boys. I’m no Wendy, I can hold my own. I don’t need to wait around for Peter to save me, but I’m also not an idiot. I know my enemies. It's been nearly a decade since the world ended. Since Joss watched her parents die at the hands of a nightmare, a nightmare that stalks her even now, all these years later...
  • Until I Die by Deidra Duncan

    Until I Die by Deidra Duncan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ALCHEMISED meets THE HANDMAID’S TALE in this star-crossed dystopian romance by the author of LOVE SICK, Deidra Duncan. In the ruins of a nation, two enemies risk everything for a chance at justice… and each other. After the Fracture, nothing is safe—not love, not truth, and certainly not women...
  • Shee Willow by Claudy Conn

    Shee Willow by Claudy Conn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Willow Lang has been a loner all her young life. She is an artist working in a famous museum in New York City, restoring classic canvas paintings. Is it magic that put Shayne Bantry in her way? Is it magic that took her to Ireland and opened her eyes to a world she never wanted to be a part of? Is it the handsome gypsy that will steal her heart, or is it her mysterious boss?
  • Storm Mistress by Brandy L. Rivers

    Storm Mistress by Brandy L. Rivers

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nothing is as it seems…. Everything Isadora Starling wants is right there in front of her, but Toryn is off limits. He’s her best friend. She’s been denying her heart all these years, afraid to lose him. Toryn Flame has a long past full of secrets. None of which he can share with Isadora, the only person who truly matters to him...
  • Escaped Daughter by Erin R. Flynn

    Escaped Daughter by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    My name is Bevin Shaw and I’m desperate to escape my family. I don’t want to be a Shaw anymore—I never did. Not when that “family” sacrifices its youngest to make the eldest more powerful to stay at the top of the magical world...
  • Remnanix by Luna May

    Remnanix by Luna May

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Have you ever had a dream where it felt so real, that it leaves you questioning reality when you wake up? Yeah, well…welcome to my world. After almost dying like a noob in my last boss fight and having serious heart to hearts with NPC’s, the wires between reality and fantasy are starting to blur...
  • Compel by Rachel Van Dyken, Patti Stanger

    Compel by Rachel Van Dyken, Patti Stanger

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken and bestselling author Patti Stanger comes a gripping love story of cursed soulmates who are forced to relive tragedy over and over again until their curse is broken…. Compelled to seduce, designed to kill...
  • Free Falling by Claudy Conn

    Free Falling by Claudy Conn

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    They call her Z and she is a handful ready to explode. She has entered the war. against Gais and the Dark Fae and means to take him on all by herself. She is driven. Aaibhe, Queen of the Seelie has other plans, and she sends in Prince Danté to execute and preserve her wishes. Z and the prince meet and hackles go up on both sides. Oooh…no, they don’t like each other one bit...
  • Charred Hope by Lizzy Ford

    Charred Hope by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Skylar struggles to save both the shifters and the slayers, but falls prey to the mastermind behind the disappearances of both. With a price on her head and her allies dwindling, she will survive only if she trusts Chace once more. She loves her dragon but fears the man inside will betray her again...
  • Frost by Kathryn James

    Frost by Kathryn James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Last time Nell went into the mist she rescued her sister. This time she’ll have to go farther than the Elven forest, farther than the frozen wastes beyond and onto a lake of primal ice so treacherous she’ll be lucky to return at all. It’s the New Year, Woodbridge School is closed and the country is snowed in...
  • Ripley: Lost in a Sea of Secrets: A lost love, second chance novel by Jacqui Penn

    Ripley: Lost in a Sea of Secrets: A lost love, second chance novel by Jacqui Penn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A secret. A suspicion. A shattered heart. Ripley Bradford’s world is torn apart. Her lover and best friend, Joe, has mysteriously disappeared without trace, and everything points to her father, who she suspects has been involved in foul-play in the past. Years pass, and with the realisation that Joe is gone forever, Ripley marries...
  • Immortal Craving by Magen McMinimy

    Immortal Craving by Magen McMinimy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kale, the youngest of the elite Light Fae Warriors chosen to protect the Human World from the dark creatures that lurk in the shadows, has had a life that’s been hard fought and racked with betrayal, loss and heartache...
  • The Final Omen by Heather Topham Wood

    The Final Omen by Heather Topham Wood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Psychic Kate Edwards had seen her death in a premonition. She was given the opportunity to stop her murder from happening and finally reconnect with her love Detective Jared Corbett. However, fate had different ideas…. Kate finds herself trapped between life and death. Her only companion is Rose Corbett, Jared’s long dead mother...
  • Portrait of Death: Uncovered by Isabel Wroth

    Portrait of Death: Uncovered by Isabel Wroth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    "It’s time to go home, Jo. ". I hear the voice in my dreams, but I don't understand what it means. I am home. I haven’t left for two weeks because once again, my name and my private life is the hottest topic in local news, only this time, it’s not a drug-addled ex-boyfriend dragging me through the mud...
  • The Alpha King by Emily North

    The Alpha King by Emily North

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A sheltered omega dreamed of the perfect mate. Elizabeth Cypress has lived her entire life under the shadow of an impossible destiny—she must become the perfect omega. But she never felt further from that dream than when she learned that the scarred and brutal alpha, Rill, was her fated mate. High up in the mountains, an alpha king ruled a crumbling kingdom...
  • Through Time-Whiplash by Claudy Conn, Karen Babcock

    Through Time-Whiplash by Claudy Conn, Karen Babcock

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Why do second chances have to come with complications? Trevor, Prince of Lugh, had been thwarted from putting Pestale, the eldest Dark Prince, to death, but now he's been asked to investigate whether the Dark Prince has evaded punishment. This time, Trevor plans to make sure Pestale is taken care of permanently...
  • Ellie's Wolf by Maddy Barone

    Ellie's Wolf by Maddy Barone

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a post-apocalyptic world where women are rare and valuable, Ellie Overdahl is a widow far from home at the mercy of strangers. Sold to be a prize in a Bride Fight, she manages to send word to her cousin, begging for rescue. For six years, Quill Wolfe has mourned the loss of the woman his wolf chose to be his mate...
  • Broken Magic by Alexis Calder

    Broken Magic by Alexis Calder

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 ratings
    What’s worse than having untamed magic? Not having any magic. My magic is broken after being attacked by the magic thief. And I need it back fast, before she tries again. I’ll do anything to get it back - including private tutoring with a crazy professor and private time with the sexy billionaire twins - and their mother. FML...
  • Queen of Fire by D.N. Hoxa

    Queen of Fire by D.N. Hoxa

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    When we summoned the Ether, we thought we were saving the world. We thought we were ending the reign of dragons, freeing the people of power-hungry Azarius kings and queens once and for all. Turns out, none of us had any idea what the reign of dragons truly means. Secrets finally come to light...
  • Prince Prelude by Claudy Conn

    Prince Prelude by Claudy Conn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Prince Prelude-Legend, begins the Legend story. It tells you why and how Spellbound-Legend came to be. Seductive, powerful Lamia DuLaine is used to getting what she wants—and she wants Julian Talbot...
  • Taken Home By The Grizzly by Ariana Hawkes

    Taken Home By The Grizzly by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nanny wanted for three lively kids, the ad said. Traditional mountain home. What it didn’t mention was that the kids totally wild, and the house is a creepy dump. Then the parents disappear, leaving me all alone. The furnace is broken, it’s freezing cold, and the only person in sight is the big, surly mountain man who lives next door. The kids say he’s scary and walks around naked a lot...
  • Seduced: Rose's Story by Karpov Kinrade

    Seduced: Rose's Story by Karpov Kinrade

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Forbidden passions. Deadly secrets. A love that will stand against it all. Rose and Derek come from different worlds. Different families. Different destinies. But nothing can stop two souls meant to be together. Faced with supernatural threats beyond their control, and a power that could destroy everyone they care about, Rose and Derek hold onto their love...
  • Barely Breathing by Heather Allen

    Barely Breathing by Heather Allen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ever Harding used to believe in love. That is until she was left heartbroken by the only person she ever really loved, Jack, the mysterious boy from her history class. Little did she know he was born of the sea, on land to watch over her. But was he really? She made the ultimate sacrifice, to live in the sea as a mermaid, for Jack and for love...
  • Falling Away by Devon Ashley

    Falling Away by Devon Ashley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "I remember," he said softly. "I remember everything. You. Me. Us. ". Jenna’s first two years of community college are almost over and it’s time to decide where to finish her degree. Should she attend Yale to be with Robert, or off to Rutgers, where she really wants to go? As Sophie and Jhett’s engagement is announced, she begins to question if she'll live happily ever after too...
  • Empath Found: The Complete Trilogy by Colette Rhodes

    Empath Found: The Complete Trilogy by Colette Rhodes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Fi has always known there’s something not quite right about herself. Not quite human. For as long as she can remember, Fi has been sensitive to other people’s emotions. So sensitive, she works a night job as a cleaner to avoid being overwhelmed by all of their feelings. After a night on the town goes wrong, Fi comes to the attention of the Academy of Avalon...
  • Stone of Destiny by Laura Howard

    Stone of Destiny by Laura Howard

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Allison thought it was crazy enough when she found out her father, Liam, wasn't entirely human. But now she has to join his magical allies to unravel his former mistress's plans. Aoife wants to keep Allison's parents apart forever. Despite Allison's efforts to keep Ethan, the only guy she's ever cared about, out of this supernatural mess, fate keeps throwing him back into the mix...
  • Bella Mia by Mandy M. Roth

    Bella Mia by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sins of our past are never far behind. .. On the run from two men who want her, Gwyneth Stevens finds herself at the door of a third-Giovanni Baldassare, master vampire and former henchman of her father, the King of the Dark Realm. When Pallo and Caleb resurface, all hell breaks loose and old habits die hard...
  • Brimstone by S.L. Gavyn

    Brimstone by S.L. Gavyn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Working for Prima, an organization created to help right wrongs, she thought she was on the right side only to be manipulated by the leader of the company into stealing an ancient knife belonging to the one species on the planet that she had been avoiding at all costs. .. the Fey. It wasn't that she didn't like the Fey. Oh, she liked one particular Fey a little too much...
  • Marked by Hades by Reese Monroe

    Marked by Hades by Reese Monroe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A new adult novel from Entangled's Embrace imprint. .. One choice away from eternity…. For 911 years, Gatekeeper companion Justin Bradford has denied the possibility of being mated to only one woman. He enjoys them all too much to settle down. So when he feels his mate’s Ahavah mark surface, his first instinct is to ignore it...
  • Crowns of Ice by Krista Street

    Crowns of Ice by Krista Street

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 73 ratings
    The time has come to return to the Solis continent. With my mate at my side, my strength strong and imbued, Norivun and I venture back to the capital to fix all of the wrongs that have not yet been made right. But victory won’t come easily. Choices must be made. Lives will be lost. And in the end, only the true royals will rise...
  • Waiting for You by Natalie Ward

    Waiting for You by Natalie Ward

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When I was a boy, I met a girl. She changed my life. In such a good way. She taught me so many amazing things. Like how to expect the unexpected. How to want something, but also how to wait for it when circumstances forced you to. She taught me about bravery and facing your fears, about beating the odds when it felt like everything was against you...
  • Beguiled by Maureen Child

    Beguiled by Maureen Child

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "USA Today" bestseller Maureen Child -a paranormal romance so good it's out of this world. Maureen Child's sexy, feisty heroine, Maggie Donovan, a descendant of Otherworldly Faeries, returns to face her greatest challenge-a certain ex-queen who has not been destroyed and wants her crown back...
  • The Hidden by Kelley R. Martin

    The Hidden by Kelley R. Martin

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition of The Hidden (ISBN: 9780615749082, ASIN: B00ARPRXIA). On her first day of college, Emily meets a walking, talking god. With a gorgeous face, killer blue eyes, and a body to die for, it's easy to see why Thomas Paige is the envy of every guy at Potomac Ridge University and why every girl within a fifty mile radius wants to get a piece of him...
  • Fey Born by R. Garland Gray

    Fey Born by R. Garland Gray

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Lana is a frail farm girl who never could have imagined being magically fated to become a fey host for the sword spirit, Valor. Keegan, a fearless fey guardian of the waters, who must find the magical sword for his king, never expects to meet his match in the small, spirited beauty he needs to guide him to the sword.
  • Save Me by L.J. Baker

    Save Me by L.J. Baker

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Andi was doing just fine on her own. Sure the world had been hit with an outbreak that turned anyone infected into flesh eating zombies. Not to mention that everyone she ever loved was now dead. She was alive though, taking care of herself. She had little desire to indulge in building relationships with anyone. People just couldn't be trusted...
  • Five Shades of Fantasy by W.J. May, Tiffany Evans

    Five Shades of Fantasy by W.J. May, Tiffany Evans

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    5 thrilling full length fantasy/romance novels in one volume - 5 sexy heroes 5 strong heroines All for FREE! 5 bestselling novels by 5 bestselling authors with a bonus excerpt bring you Five Shades of Fantasy. This is five complete novels from some of today's most exciting authors. Each shade is a different genre of the fantasy and romance you love the most...
  • Unless You Can Be a Unicorn by Delphina Henley

    Unless You Can Be a Unicorn by Delphina Henley

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Always be yourself. That was the last advice Scout's Grandma Nora gave her before she died. Scout has spent her life trying to be anything but, but she has a chance to start anew as she moves several states away to college...
  • Reading Between the Lines by Lauren Dane

    Reading Between the Lines by Lauren Dane

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The end of a curse is the beginning of a magical love. Celtic language expert Haley OBrien is thrilled when she gets the chance to translate a scroll written in Ogham, an ancient Celtic text used in magic and divination. While translating the text, she unwittingly frees Conall macCormacs Fae soul from a millennia-old curse that kept him imprisoned in a human body, lifetime after lifetime...
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    fae  contemporary  paranormal  fantasy  m-f  length-short
  • Dust by Devon Ashley

    Dust by Devon Ashley

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    4. The number of times my delicate wings have been broken and clamped behind my back. 68. The number inked upon my skin, marking me the sixty-eighth pixie to be stolen. 87. The number of days I’ve been wrongfully imprisoned. 88. The first day the faeries will regret stealing me. Healthy. Cheery. Vivacious...
  • Ice Lord's Bride by Ava Ross

    Ice Lord's Bride by Ava Ross

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I must marry one of the fae, but the forbidden ice lord wants me. To secure a human-fae truce, I'm one of five women traveling to their magical kingdom, where we'll be courted by fae aristocracy. We have one month to choose a husband from among them. Only Elion, the arrogant, beastly ice lord is forbidden. His torturous scars make the other women gasp. His icy words rip them to shreds...
  • Broken Prime by Tiffany Allee

    Broken Prime by Tiffany Allee

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Evie loses her way in the woods during a terrible storm, she is determined not to die. But snow and darkness close in and all seems lost-until a stranger finds her. Warm and safe at his cabin, she can't help notice how sexy her rescuer is, and things go from warm to scorching hot. But Nicolas lives alone on the mountain for a reason...
  • Forever by Kamery Solomon

    Forever by Kamery Solomon

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Raith has never been in love. In fact, he’s spent his entire existence as the terror in mortal nightmares. When he enters Emilee’s dream, he discovers that not only do his powers not work on her, but she can see him as well. Being Fae, he isn’t allowed to show himself to a human, but there is something different about Emilee. Will he be willing to risk it all?
  • Forged by Jennifer Rush

    Forged by Jennifer Rush

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Before Anna and Sam, there was Dani and Sam. There's one rule that all Branch operatives must live by: No attachments. When Dani O'Brien entered the Branch, she planned to trade her freedom so that her family could have a better life. But joining up with the mysterious organization is more than she bargained for. Branch head Connor watches over her closely--too closely...
  • Turned by Alex Anders

    Turned by Alex Anders

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if suddenly every hot guy wanted you? The curvy, eternally-awkward wallflower, Sakina Lightbourn, knows exactly what that’s like. Picked on, or even worse, flat-out ignored by every member of the opposite sex since puberty, she’s dragged across the globe to a new school in the hauntingly beautifully Bahamas. Her first day was no paradise, though...
  • School of Broken Souls by C.R. Jane, Mila Young

    School of Broken Souls by C.R. Jane, Mila Young

    Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Adeline Jones is perfectly average. Or at least she thinks she is until she receives an invite to attend Raven Academy, complete with a full scholarship. Raven Academy is the mysterious school that only the elite of the elite go and despite Adeline's misgivings about giving up her whole life to attend, there's no way her parents are going to let her give up such an opportunity...
  • Mirror Sight by Kristen Britain

    Mirror Sight by Kristen Britain

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Karigan G'ladheon is a Green Rider--a seasoned member of the elite messenger corps of King Zachary of Sacoridia. This corps of messengers, each gifted with a brooch of office that imparts a unique magical ability to its wearer, was founded over a thousand years ago during the terrible time of the Long War...
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