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  • Rogue's Crisis by Jillian West

    Rogue's Crisis by Jillian West

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Rogue is a rule follower through and through. Working as a bounty hunter for the paranormal council is the perfect job for this Seelie fae, especially considering she can sense mistruths. Things get muddy when what the council believes doesnʼt line up with what she sees with her own two eyes. Everything points to her suspects being innocent, while one of her coworkers begins to look guilty...
  • Calluna by Jewels Arthur

    Calluna by Jewels Arthur

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    Calluna is sassy, snarky, and doesn't give a crap about, well, anything. A complete cynic, Calluna doesn't believe in all this love garbage that she keeps seeing all over the town. Nope, she is just fine keeping to herself and her pet store, Beastie Besties. She has a mystery to solve anyway, someone is cursing all the animals in town with dark magic...
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  • No Rest For Wicked by Persephone Steele

    No Rest For Wicked by Persephone Steele

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    Psychic. What a joke. The only thing I can be sure of these days are the three men who have somehow battered their way past my walls and forced me to, dare I say it, start feeling things. Well…them, and my trusty trash panda partners in crime. But they've always had my heart...
  • Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe

    Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    I’m ready for the chaos of Texas to be a speck in my rearview mirror. So when the museum director throws me a bone by arranging for us to visit a fossil dig in Utah, I jump at the opportunity. I need a breather from all the craziness that has become my life since waking multiple dino shifters. A dig in Utah sounds like exactly what I need, the perfect getaway...
  • Dying for the Dead by M. Sinclair

    Dying for the Dead by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    My mission? To save New Orleans from Nero’s demonic clutches. Should be simple, right? I mean, hell, I am literally the Queen of the Dead. I fear that we are running out of time though. Time to save the missing supes taken by Nero and Asmodeus. Time to get out of the Demonic realm, before we can’t leave. Time to save our city and my kingdom. The biggest snap in my plan? I’ve died...
  • Playing the Field by Elise Sax

    Playing the Field by Elise Sax

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Gladie is back with the fourth installment of the hilarious Matchmaker series. Involved on one level or another—hot sex, almost committed, and crying in her pillow—with three men, Gladie distracts herself by giving up on matchmaking and starting a new career. But when Gladie stumbles on body parts of dead baseball players all over town, she’s dragged into solving yet another murder mystery...
  • Kraken Under Pressure by M.J. Marstens

    Kraken Under Pressure by M.J. Marstens

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    SHIFTERS, MATES, SADISTIC BAD GUYS. When did my life become make-believe? And all because I tried to stop being a sex addict, but thank my lucky dildos I am. Otherwise, I never would've met the men of my dreams. Or he friends ever (the sweetest titmouse and loveliest booby ever), but some major *sshats are trying to tear my world apart. Namely, Dean Stiffd*ck and Dr. F*ckstick...
  • Lucky by J.D. Light

    Lucky by J.D. Light

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Casey has always been pretty lucky in life. Great dads, great cousins, great friends… Ricki. Where Casey went, Ricki was there. Where Ricki went, Casey was there. They work together, live together and when Casey comes up with something crazy, Ricki is right there to make sure things don't blow up...
  • Fate Hollow Academy by Lyra Winters

    Fate Hollow Academy by Lyra Winters

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    Welcome to Fate Hollow Academy, where supernaturals blessed by the Fates cultivate their manifested powers and master ancient magic. Fate Hollow is the academy of the elite, where supernatural beings with special magic train for war against humans. A big-hearted, naïve arctic fox shifter like me couldn’t have prepared for the treachery lurking within the walls of the academy...
  • An Espresso Machine's Guide to Love & Mischief by Mia Harlan, Eva Delaney

    An Espresso Machine's Guide to Love & Mischief by Mia Harlan, Eva Delaney

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I used to be an heiress. Yachts. Parties. Designer clothes. I had it all. Until I died…. Now, my spirit is trapped in an espresso machine! I spend my days plugged into an outlet, making cappuccinos, lattes, and mochas. So when my barista bestie offers to take me to Toronto, Canada to get my fortune back, I say ‘hell yes’. Then I meet my fated mates…...
  • Minnie by Mia Harlan

    Minnie by Mia Harlan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I'm the witch with the most capital “B" in Silver Springs. A freak that even a quirky, paranormal town won't accept. But no one actually knows the real me. .. I’m taking care of a toddler, working two jobs, and barely holding on by a thread. The carefree socialite everyone sees is just an act, and things keep turning from bad to worse...
  • Kelpie's Ruin by Charlotte Brice

    Kelpie's Ruin by Charlotte Brice

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    I’ve lost my hippo shift beast, and part of my body that makes me who I am, my tattoos. As much as I’m looking forward to a fresh start, some of us are dragging too much baggage with us. Whatever happened in Harlow’s past, isn’t going to leave us alone, no matter where we go. I need to focus on who I am...
  • The Trouble with Trying to Love a Hellion by Jennifer Cody

    The Trouble with Trying to Love a Hellion by Jennifer Cody

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Edovard:. Um…I was told I’m supposed to summarize my story here, but recently I’ve learned that blurbs are hard so I’m not sure what to say. My name is Edovard Durand Folange. I’m twenty seven years old from Fresno, California, and recently I moved across the country to live with my new parents and brother...
    Categorized as:
    magic  m-m-m  queer  age difference  paranormal  humor  m-m  fantasy
  • 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...
  • Rebels and Psychos by Leigh Kelsey

    Rebels and Psychos by Leigh Kelsey

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    If a secret wolf society thinks they can take me down, they’ve got another thing coming. There’s a reason they call me Graves. The steamy, crazy Rebels and Psychos series is now in one collection. It’s not my fault I’m a psychopath...
  • Second Glances by Kelsey Soliz

    Second Glances by Kelsey Soliz

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 40 ratings
    I thought having six mate marks was more than I could handle. And then Cyrus and Dar came along and told me that I was theirs, too. Male conduits, looking for their mate for over a hundred years. No pressure, right? I thought that being someone else's fated meant everything would be easy, that our connection would be instant...
  • Shadow Bonds by Rumer Hale

    Shadow Bonds by Rumer Hale

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 26 ratings
    Death was supposed to be my end. Instead, it was just the beginning. I woke up in someone else’s body, inside the Shadow Academy, a school for elite warriors. Now they think I’m someone I'm not, and until I escape, I’ll have to play along. But things get complicated when strange powers awaken inside me, along with forgotten memories...
  • The 12 Hunks of Herculeia by C. Rochelle

    The 12 Hunks of Herculeia by C. Rochelle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 47 ratings
    I thought I was living the dream—until the fateful day I found my boyfriend in bed with my boss. As a professional copywriter, it was the tired cliche that hurt me the most. What’s a big city girl to do but pack my bags and go solo on that Grecian cruise I’d booked with my ex...
  • Eternally Rare by January Rayne

    Eternally Rare by January Rayne

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    In the dimension where fire meets ice, my mate waits for me. And if I don’t go to him, I’ll die. I know I’m lucky to have a mate at all. Most would rejoice. Most would run to them. Not me. I want to stay with my family. I was trapped in the veil for the majority of my life, fighting to survive...
  • Too Many Beds: A Trope-Subversive Gay Romance Anthology by Adelaide Blaike, Amy Campbell

    Too Many Beds: A Trope-Subversive Gay Romance Anthology by Adelaide Blaike, Amy Campbell

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    Where love knows no limits. .. and certainly not the confines of a single bed! In this limited-run gay romance anthology, ten talented authors take the beloved "only one bed" trope and turn it on its head. From jail cells to academy dorms, empty motels to crowded retail stores, the tales in Too Many Beds prove love can thrive in the most unexpected of places...
  • Aquaculture Affair by Delaney Rain

    Aquaculture Affair by Delaney Rain

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Can a virgin and his dad’s best friend find a way to be together forever with their mersquid fated mate? Larkin isn't sure if he's got his life together or not, but he knows his love life is completely stalled out. He’s never going to get up the courage to tell Dean, his father's best friend, how he feels about him...
  • Behind Closed Doors by Gabrielle Evans

    Behind Closed Doors by Gabrielle Evans

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Myst doesn’t know how to get the things he needs without pushing everyone away. His darkest desires have driven a wedge between them, and he’s at a loss when it comes to bridging the gap. The irony that he’ll need to face his own inner demons isn’t lost on him, either. With so much discord in their home, it’s a wonder anyone even remembers they have one final challenge before the equinox...
    Categorized as:
    magic  mystery  m-m-m  queer  shapeshifters  menage  paranormal  m-m
  • Cam's Treasure by Stella Rainbow

    Cam's Treasure by Stella Rainbow

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Cam and Micah have been waiting for their mates for years, but they didn't expect them to crash into their lives. Literally. Cam. After roaming the world looking for our two mates, Micah and I returned home to Mistvale because we missed our family and clan. Of course, if we'd remembered Mistvale was Fate-blessed, we might have saved ourselves all that trouble. Micah...
  • Four Trials by Kelsey Soliz

    Four Trials by Kelsey Soliz

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 28 ratings
    I've FINALLY succeeded in closing my conduit after the Goddess kept making it get bigger, and bigger. (Double entendre? ) We have been facing off against creatures of the Night, with strange warnings that the worst is yet to come. The Goddess wants us to prove ourselves to her, to show her we can work together to defeat our greatest enemy. And no, I'm not talking about carbs or sugar...
  • Phoenix Reign by Charlotte Brice

    Phoenix Reign by Charlotte Brice

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    My Phoenix is out, my visions are out. I’ve been sent into hiding, but everything about this feels wrong. Maybe I’m just out of my depth? Not only am I plagued by doubt, I'm also hounded by the Phoenix Goddess to do good. Trouble is, I can't obey the goddess while serving my country...
  • Charmed by Rainbow by Jax Stuart

    Charmed by Rainbow by Jax Stuart

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    A witch, a werewolf, and a vampire bound by the magic of fate. Rainbow. There's nothing scarier than a vampire, so when my coven is taken over by a nest of the creatures, I do the smart thing and flee. Umberwood is supposed to be a fresh start, except for the fact that I've somehow picked up a stalker and my grumpy next-door neighbor already seems to hate me! What's a witch to do? Griffin...
  • Cursed Waters by Shana Brooke

    Cursed Waters by Shana Brooke

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Me, a mermaid? Not anymore. Life is wonderful until the morning I catch a merman in my net. One look at his perfect, pretty boy face, and I recognize him—Leander, Crown Prince of the Atlantic. Not only does he recognize me, too, but he wants to take me back to the ocean with him. A curse has fallen over our people, and I can break it...
  • A Killer Crescent Valentine by Leigh Kelsey

    A Killer Crescent Valentine by Leigh Kelsey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    A killer just made Blake Hall, home of Rebel "Graves" Falcon, their hunting grounds. And they're picking off residents one by one. The killer is either ballsy or just plain dumb, because with Rebel - the notorious hitlady - determined to find them, they're a hundred percent dead. No one messes with Rebel's family of criminal weirdos and lives to tell the tale...
  • Origins by Lyla Oweds

    Origins by Lyla Oweds

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 13 ratings
    The things I see aren’t for the faint of heart. And I am no longer willing to ignore them. Not even when my family, and my best friend, tell me to keep quiet about what’s happening. They say people will think I’m crazy. Maybe I am. But the spirit haunting my professor’s house is definitely trying to tell me something, and I’m the only one who can see it...
  • Phoenix Fall: Paranormal shifters gay harem romance by Charlotte Brice

    Phoenix Fall: Paranormal shifters gay harem romance by Charlotte Brice

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    I once heard someone say the phrase "let sleeping dogs lie. " I'm not sure that I ever truly understood it before. The key word in that sentence is "before" as I now have a much better understanding of it. After the disaster of my first posting, and ending up back where I started, everything begins to fall apart...
  • Wanted Beta by Romy Lockhart

    Wanted Beta by Romy Lockhart

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    After a study date gone horribly wrong, Beth Moore is on a dating ban. So, of course, that’s when the hottest guys she’s ever been around in real life would walk into her life. A few awkward encounters later, and those insanely hot men offer her the chance of a lifetime. The job she’s always dreamt of is within her grasp. All she needs to do is say yes...
  • Getting Down on the Farm by Kathryn Moon

    Getting Down on the Farm by Kathryn Moon

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 38 ratings
    Sometimes I discuss SA in fiction very consciously and with real care, and sometimes (like in these farm shorts) I go sideways and it's part of erotic content. I know this is not for everyone, and I respect anyone's need to protect their peace and avoid this content, the same way I respect the right to read it and write it. As adults, we get to make decisions about the content we enjoy...
  • Rage Quit by Kira Roman

    Rage Quit by Kira Roman

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Well shiz. Things are not going the way I planned. My danger-noodle stalker is apparently one of my Heart Bonded. Add to that list a lost Orc-Elf Prince…and his brother… That was an awkward conversation, because they didn't even know they were brothers. Surprise! Now you have to share the same girl for all time! Yay you...
  • Tainted Hearts by Alisha Williams

    Tainted Hearts by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    So everything the pure bloods have been taught all these years was a lie? Does God really know what his right hand men are doing in his name? And how the hell do I tell three of my mates that their fathers are lying, deceiving sorry excuses of Archangels? My life got turned upside down the moment I stepped onto this island and it never seems to stop. I went from two mates to five...
  • Her Donut Shifters by Mia Harlan

    Her Donut Shifters by Mia Harlan

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    My name is Jetta, and I'm not a psychopath. I just hate donuts. When the Squishy Shifters Donut Emporium opens down the street from my house, I want it gone...
  • In Stockings by Hannah Haze

    In Stockings by Hannah Haze

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 ratings
    I’ve often dreamed of bumping into the three hot alphas I spent my school days crushing over. In those dreams, I’m sexy and sophisticated. The kind of omega who knocks them off their feet. Unfortunately, the day that dream becomes a reality – the day I’m reunited with Pack Hart – I’m dressed as a Christmas elf. Yep an elf – complete with pointy ears, stripy stockings and bells on my shoes...
  • First Addition by Kelsey Soliz

    First Addition by Kelsey Soliz

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 48 ratings
    I was so close to getting everything I wanted, an internship with my Uncle, an officer with the special-ops team. If it weren't for a stupid boy that had to go and make me angry, causing me to turn a certain part of his anatomy purple and sparkly, I wouldn't have accidentally revealed to my family what I really was. What I had been hiding...
  • Boss Level by Kira Roman

    Boss Level by Kira Roman

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Moonlight's story isn't over yet. .. This is the last, and final book of the series. It's an MMFMMMMMMMMM PNR Romance. HEA.
  • New Blood by L.C. Davis, Joel Abernathy

    New Blood by L.C. Davis, Joel Abernathy

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    I know this will end the way it covered in blood. Too much? Me being a demigod now and all, I figure I can get away with a pinch of melodrama. I mean, have you seen Olympus? It's a damn soap opera up there. One I'd rather be watching on the couch with popcorn than playing a starring role in. Not that things are much better down here...
  • Omega Twink by Judith Shale

    Omega Twink by Judith Shale

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    For years, Spencer's been crushing on his two bosses. The pride alphas are so smart and sweet - and dangerously sexy. Together they make a perfect couple, and their omega assistant would never want to interfere with that. Except now Spencer's going into heat, and being around Lane and Harley has him turning into a puddle of jelly...
  • Milk of the Birth Father by Sarah Havan

    Milk of the Birth Father by Sarah Havan

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    Evan’s life isn’t going anywhere, or at least that’s what he thinks until he plummets through a portal and ends up in a strange world where he’s greeted by Lynwhelk, a unicorn shifter and king. He’s told his bearing a child will save the realm, but first Evan must mate with him along with another, Groskillan, a dragon shifter and the other king of the land...
  • Her Pastry Shifters by Mia Harlan

    Her Pastry Shifters by Mia Harlan

    Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How to get three scrumptious mates. .. Ingredients:. One lonely baker. Three sexy shifters. An epic bake-off. Directions:. Combine fated mates in one room at an overbooked hotel. Add a dash of spice, a smidgen of food play, and a pinch of quirky romance. Set your oven to “bake”, turn up the heat, and enjoy! Disclaimer: Not responsible for burned e-readers...
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