I have a new release this week too – my new Intergalactic Dating Agency novella!

I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking quite a few as I prepare these posts LOL). 

‘AB’ denotes audiobook and the Amazon buy link.

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NIKKO: SOLDIERS OF THE ARDANNAN BOOK SIX (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Veronica Scott

A reluctant Duke, scarred by an incident in his past…a human woman looking for a fresh start…five days on the resort planet…Nikko, Duke of Winddome, has come to the Intergalactic Dating Agency’s Resort Planet under orders from his government to participate in a five day date. He’s determined to get through the time with as little effort as possible and make it more of a vacation with his military friends. His heart was broken years ago and he refuses to start a relationship with any woman when he knows he can’t truly love her. Kath Alverstan just completed five years as a dentist on a remote, desert mining planet so she’s ready for a complete change of pace on the lush resort planet. She hopes to meet a man she can fall in love with and start building a future together. The Duke certainly checks off most of the boxes on her mental list of what she hopes for but the man is frustratingly hot and cold to her – sizzling in the bedroom where their chemistry is off the charts but distant and distracted the rest of the time. Besides, Kath is a realist and dukes don’t marry dentists. When Kath disappears while on a solo outing, Nikko realizes what he’s in danger of losing. He’ll have to break his own rules if she’s to be found. Will he be able to tear down his protective walls and give Kath the true love she deserves? Will she forgive him?

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FERAL: INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY (VAXXLIAN ALIOEN MAIL ORDER BRIDES BOOK 13) by Sue Mercury and Sue Lyndon

Sadie loses everything during a rebel attack on her city—her brother, her friends, and the new bakery she just opened. After spending several frightening nights on the streets, she reluctantly signs up for the Vaxxlian Alien Mail Order Brides program, believing it’s her only chance at survival. Less than a day later, a huge, musclebound alien warrior arrives to claim her. His name is Feral, and he’s the largest and most intimidating male she’s ever seen. She’s pleasantly surprised, however, when he treats her with unexpected compassion and respect. Maybe, just maybe, she can find happiness with Feral after all. That is, until she learns an unsettling secret that threatens to unravel everything…Vaxxlian warrior Feral is a skilled assassin with a dark past. Now that the war against the Irrcons is over, he’s ready to settle down and take a human mate. The female he’s matched with is the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen, and her sweet nature calms the storm inside him. He longs to claim her, body and soul, but first he must earn her trust. He dreams of raising a family with Sadie and living a quiet life on Planet New Vaxx. But when she discovers the truth about what he is, she tries to run. Can Feral convince his frightened mate that she’s safe with him and he’ll never unleash his darkness on her, or will Sadie always fear the warrior she’s bound to for life?

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CHOSEN BY MY WEREDRAGON (WEREDRAGON MATES BOOK FOUR) by Celeste Raye

She was building a future for his people. He was sent to protect it—and never expected to fall for her. Ganneth has spent years on dying Dobromia, hunting rebels who threaten peace. When weapons reveal a conspiracy on Earth, he is sent to find the hidden traitor. Fiona is an engineer helping Weredragon refugees build a new future. Working beside Ganneth is dangerous enough, but resisting the fierce warrior proves impossible. As sabotage and rebellion close in, Ganneth discovers Fiona is his fated mate. To save worlds, he must risk everything for the woman fate chose for him.      AmazonK+

AN ANCIENT’S HEART (DRAGON LORDS OF VALDIER) by S E Smith

Xerxes is a powerful ancient being whom many species consider a god. Convinced that the civilizations protected by others of his kind are weak and inconsequential, he accepts a challenge to prove his theory. His destination: Earth. His objective: prove that humans will do anything for power and immortality. Vicki Andrews knows all about aliens. They have been visiting the Wyoming ranch her parents manage for years. While most of them are harmless—and some are even cute—she has no desire to become involved with one. She has a boyfriend, a job, and plans for her future that definitely do not include an arrogant immortal from another world. Xerxes is about to discover that some humans aren’t impressed by power. As unfamiliar emotions awaken inside him, the self-proclaimed god faces two things he never expected—the meaning of love and the terrifying possibility of failure.      SESmith online store only

TAKEN BY THE GREEN PRINCE: MM SFR SHORT STORY (THE REGISTRY: ALIEN MATES MATCHMAKING) by Indigo Frey

The Registry matches human men with alien men. The collar on my throat has been dark for six days. The green prince who claimed me files to keep me anyway. Seven days. One house in a tree. One hour of permitted touch per day. He negotiates everything and asks for nothing. So I write him a clause. Once a day, he has to say one thing he wants. It starts with a window. It ends with his fins spread under both my hands, his tail wrapped around my thigh, and the collar going bright as a struck match.       AmazonK+

HE FALLS FIRST AND HARDER (SMUTT BOOKS SHORT ALIEN ROMANCE BOOK 14) by Deiri Di

Cordelia has high standards…and a zero-tolerance policy for boring men. She needs a partner who is sharp and intellectually formidable enough to keep up with her. Unfortunately, her current alien fling is none of those things. But breaking up with an extraterrestrial who doesn’t understand the concept of “moving on” is proving to be a full-time nightmare. She thinks her biggest headache is getting rid of an ex. She doesn’t realize she’s actually in the crosshairs of a deadly alien conspiracy. Aurelionus has been quietly obsessed with Cordelia for months. Calculated, brilliant, patient, dominating yet respectful, he’s waited for his moment. When he uncovers a plot by the ruthless Noscaryn targeting Cordelia, his patience runs out. He isn’t going to let anyone hurt the only woman who catches his interest…even if he has to save her from her own chaotic choices. Swooping in to rescue her is easy. Winning the heart of a woman who gets bored in five minutes? That’s the real test.       AmazonK+

OUTLAW RUIN: DYSTOPIAN MC ROMANCE by Milana Jacks

VS Note: Cliffhanger.

She’s worth a fortune alive. He’s worth seven million dead. Being the most wanted man in Venetus, Mortekai has survived by two rules: protect his brothers and trust no one. But when the Alt Kings MC kidnaps a doctor to save his life, he discovers their hostage is a woman he has every reason to hate. Oli is second in line to the throne and a surgeon trained to understand the human body. But nothing about Mortekai’s biology makes sense. Less than twenty-four hours ago, he suffered several gunshot wounds that should have left him fighting for his life, assuming he survived at all. Yet somehow, he’s healing at a rate that defies everything she knows about medicine. But the more questions she asks, the more she realizes Mortekai’s hatred of her family runs far deeper than she imagined and there are reasons for the destruction his brotherhood leaves across the city. She should despise the ruthless outlaw holding her captive. Instead, she finds herself drawn to the very man determined to ruin everything she holds dear. And he wants her with a desire that threatens everything he’s sworn to destroy.       AmazonK+

ORIANA’S STALLIONS (ORIANA fOUR) by Silvia Violet

VS note: Re-released novellas.

Raya is what Orianians refer to as a techno snob. She thrives on her fast-paced urban life on New Earth. At least she did until she met Calder Brinkley, a horse shifter and regional governor on Oriana. Calder likes wide-open spaces, the fresh air of early morning, and turning off technology in favor of face-to-face conversation. He also likes Raya. He likes her so much he’s willing to alter some of what he enjoys about his low-tech planet. Can Calder convince her that being together is more important than either of them having their way, or will her stubbornness keep them forever apart?

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CLAIMED BY THE REAPER CAPTAIN by Athena Storm

I only steal broken things. She’s the first one I’ve wanted to break. Dr. Lillian Rhodes stands between my blade and nineteen survivors. She tells me to kill her or move…And I step aside. I swear I’ll drop her at the first safe port. I don’t want to admit I’ve already stopped looking for one…Because she’s staying. She won’t stop fighting for every stranger in my hold. I won’t stop fighting for her. The Coalition wants her silenced. They’ll have to drag her out of my arms to do it. If anyone comes for her…They’ll learn every story about Reapers is true. And they won’t live to tell a new one.   AmazonK+

ALIEN RAIDER’S SALVAGE CLAIM by Tara Starr and Athena Storm

My ship has always carried a crew of one. I’ve never wanted room for two…Until her. I claim an abandoned alien station to strip and sell. Delaney Cardoza is here to protect it from men like me. The blast doors seal us in together. Still she won’t give it up. Neither will I. I swear there’s nothing here worth taking. It’s the biggest lie of my life…Because she’s standing right beside me. And she’s worth more than anything I’ve salvaged before. Then a corporate army breaches the hull. They want the station. But most of all…they want her. They think I’ll take their two hundred million for her and walk away. They’re welcome to test that theory. Nothing I claim is for sale. Least of all her.       AmazonK+

THE PRINCESS THIEF by Spencer Rose

VS Note: Sapphic SFR retelling ot the Goose Girl.

Sian is sent to the planet of Phoenix Gate to steady their shattered monarchy after an attack wipes out its royal family, with a marriage as her public cover story. Then, en route, her girlfriend steals her identity and leaves her stranded there with nothing: no money, no identity, no one who believes her. Sian is the princess everyone underestimates. Now she’s the goose keeper everyone ignores. And being overlooked might be exactly what she needs to expose the conspiracy no one else can see, if she can learn to trust the knight investigating it too. To save two worlds, Sian will have to find out who she really is without her crown. Get ready for sword fighting, slow-burn sapphic romance, political intrigue and too many geese.       AmazonK+

SNOWED IN WITH THE ALIEN BAKER by Lara Roth

Noella: The gorgeous guy in the too-expensive coat has ordered the same thing every visit since summer. One gingerbread man. Black coffee. A tip that makes me want to cry. He watches me work like it’s the best show in town, and after a year of grief, unpaid invoices, and a landlord who calls me “sweetheart,” I’ll take it. Then December 22nd happens. A blizzard, a dead van, a catering order I can’t fill alone, and suddenly I’m snowed into my own bakery with the mystery man I’ve been feeding all year. Except… he’s not from around here. Like, at all. Ginzar: I’ve spent months telling myself I’m just a courier who likes her gingerbread. It was easier than admitting I’ve been rerouting half a galaxy to stand in her line. Now a storm has trapped us together with three days until her landlord takes the only home she has left, and every rule I have about revealing myself to humans is suddenly negotiable. I can save her bakery. I can keep her warm. What I can’t do is walk back onto my ship on Christmas morning and pretend I don’t belong to her. Oh, and her oven is named Bertha. Bertha and I have an understanding.       AmazonK+

THE DEPTHS BETWEEN US (BRIDES OF THE DEEP BOOK TWO) by Alison Harrow

I survived being dragged beneath the Atlantic. Falling in love with the monster who did it was the easy part. Kael is my mate, the Deep King of a world humans were never meant to see, and apparently, that makes me something dangerously close to a future queen. There’s just one tiny problem. I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing.
Nereth is beautiful, ancient, and full of people who know exactly what Kael needs from the female beside him. His family is watching me. His court is judging me. And the females who gave him children long before I existed are a very inconvenient reminder that loving a king and belonging in his kingdom are two entirely different things. Meanwhile, something is changing in the waters surrounding Nereth. Something big. For once, being a marine biologist might actually be more useful than being the Deep King’s human mate. As the threat beneath the kingdom grows, I finally have the chance to become more than the fragile human everyone expects Kael to protect. If I can convince my extremely possessive sea monster to let me. Because Kael has never doubted that I belong beside him. Unfortunately, I’m starting to. And the deeper I sink into his world, the more I realize becoming his mate was only the beginning. Becoming his queen might cost me far more.      AmazonK+      AB

GOD’S TOUCH by Marie Harte

VS Note: Re-release. “Extensively re-edited.”

Miranda must cross the Damned Plains to save a princess who’s never deserved her loyalty. Her guide is Danner, a dangerously sexy journeyman who can withstand the gods’ deadly lightning. Unfortunately, he has a few wicked ideas about how Miranda should repay his services. Between blood ravens, cannibals, and mechanical spyders, the nights offer their own delicious dangers. But Danner never expected the fiercely tempting woman in his bed to threaten his freedom more than anything the chaotic world can throw at them. A wanderer doesn’t put down roots… Unless one irresistible woman makes him burn for more.       Amazon

COMPLIANCE FOR CHRISTMAS (CHRISTMAS ON MILLIE LANE) by Halwey Sywak

VS Note: Dystopian.

In the Citadel, emotions are monitored, obedience is rewarded, and instability is the greatest crime a citizen can commit. Nyla Serrano has spent her life believing in the system. As a Bureau Senior Auditor, she enforces the rules of the strict government of the Citadel—while secretly becoming obsessed with one particular citizen: Max McMahon, a former school friend whose movements she has monitored through her work for years. Then Nyla’s own compliance score drops. After an unexplained adjustment to her neural monitor, she begins to question the system she has devoted her life to. Desperate for answers, she reaches out to Max and Dane Aric, a brilliant hacker who abandoned the Bureau. Together, they reveal a terrifying truth: the Citadel has been manipulating more than emotions. It has been controlling lives, erasing records, and deciding who is allowed a future. Worse, Nyla has been marked for reassignment. As Festival Week strains the city’s surveillance network, Max and Dane prepare to escape through forgotten tunnels beneath the Citadel. Nyla is pulled into their plan and forced to confront a world she was taught does not exist—and feelings for Max that have become far more dangerous than she ever imagined. But when freedom, love, and jealousy collide, Nyla must decide where her loyalty truly lies. Because in the Citadel, the greatest threat isn’t breaking the rules. It’s discovering how badly you want to. This novella is one half of a duology, completing 2027.      Amazon

*******************BRIEF BREAK BEFORE THE FANTASY/PNR BOOKS!**************************************

VS: Don’t miss my other Intergalactic Dating Agency novellas, all available wide!

 

 

************************* THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT IF YOU DECIDE TO CHECK OUT THE BOOKS (because my own books pay my bills) AND A BIG THANK YOU IF YOU ALREADY HAVE! AND ONWARD WE GO!*********************

SNOWED IN WITH MY CHRISTMAS WOLF (FAIRHAVEN FALLS) by Honey Phillips

She only plans to stay until Christmas. He intends to keep her forever. Natalie only wants to spend a quiet holiday in Fairhaven Falls. Instead, an unexpected snowstorm leaves her stranded with a charming werewolf park ranger for one unforgettable night. Aidan is sure it’s the beginning of forever. Natalie still plans to leave once the holidays are over. Now Aidan is determined to convince Natalie that some gifts are too precious to walk away from—especially the ones that don’t fit under a tree.       AmazonK+

A DESTINY SO CRUEL (A FATE SO COLD BOOK TWO) by  Amanda Foody and C L Herman

“From now on, it’s destiny that has to defy us.” After a millennium, Summer’s reign over Alderland has ended. Now it is Winter magicians and their Living Wands who lead the country, and it is Summer’s brutal storms and deadly monsters the nation fears. All thanks to Ellery Caldwell, the Chosen One who thwarted the cataclysm—by slaying Domenic Barrow, the boy she loved. Not that Alderland knows that. As far as the public is concerned, Ellery was their lone hero, and Domenic a failure. Yet rather than celebrate her victory, Ellery has spent the past four months shut away in mourning. Until Domenic is mysteriously resurrected on the first day of Summer. Immediately, he and Ellery both are given a new prophecy to repeat their duel, or this time, it will be Summer’s cataclysm that destroys Alderland. Except not even their duel to the death has erased Ellery and Domenic’s feelings for each other—only complicated them. But that doesn’t change the fact that they’re destined enemies. Yet what if destiny isn’t actually all-powerful? And if so, what price are they willing to pay for a happy ending?      Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

THE LAST DRAGON QUEEN (THE DRAGON QUEEN DUOLOGY BOOK TWO) by Sylvia Mercedes

Rosie Harpwood never asked to be the Dragon Queen. But with Mhoryga’s darkness spreading and the fate of the realm at stake, she must embrace the terrifying magic in her blood. Alongside Prince Valtar—her former enemy and the man she now aches to trust—Rosie journeys into the wilds in search of a phoenix shrine that could awaken her full power. But claiming it may mean losing herself…and leaving Valtar behind for good. Far away, Rosie’s long-lost sister and Mhoryga’s most devoted creation, Nyxia, is hunting them down. Fierce and desperate to prove her worth, Nyxia will stop at nothing to carry out her mother’s will. But as doubts take root and forbidden feelings rise, Nyxia must choose between her creator and the one person who truly knows her. As passions entwine with flame and war ignites, Rosie, Valtar, and Nyxia hurtle toward a final reckoning where bonds will be tested, magic will burn, and nothing will ever be the same.       Amazon      AB       Apple Books      Kobo

THE COFFEE HOUSE WITCH AND THE FAMILIAR BOND (THE COBBLESTONE COVEN BOOK SIX) by Ariana Jade and Arizona Tape

VS Note: Sapphic.

Witch Cassie has a busy autumn ahead of her. A new deity is trying to get her attention, she’s taking the next step with her new girlfriend, and she can start planning a future with her familiar. But it’s not all rainbows and sunshine in the Cobblestones. As things heat up between her and Faye, new complications arise. Communicating with Balthazar still proves tricky and when he misses breakfast, Cassie is forced to face a new kind of fear. The Coffee House Witch & The Familiar Bond is book 6 in the Cobblestone Coven series and it follows witch Cassiopeia and her return to her hometown. It’s a cozy fantasy with a sapphic romance in a magical world with talking animals and lots of light-hearted banter.

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HEARTSWORN (FATE OF THE UNDERHILL BOOK TWO) by S E Wendel

Return to the world of Heartsong! A reclusive researcher gets the shock of a lifetime when the (very attractive) gargoyle statue in her rose garden awakens and claims her as his mate. She’s known him all her life…June Parkhurst is a prodigy, a conservator, and…an empath. Yet, her empathic abilities don’t feel like a gift; they’re a curse, one that’s driven her into isolation. Overwhelmed by the feelings of others and her own grief, June sticks to what she loves most: statues. She’s always been fascinated by them, especially the gothic masterpiece in her family’s rose garden. He’s watched over her for years…For centuries, Alaric has despaired. Cursed to stone by the cruel Faerie Queen, Alaric has watched the world pass him by. He holds desperately onto a fleeting hope—that one day, June will come to understand what he’s known for years: she is his heartsong. Magick stolen can be reclaimed, and curses cast can be broken…A new museum with enigmatic owners has just opened, full of statues just like hers. Unable to resist, June emerges from seclusion determined to find answers about her statue. Yet, nothing is what it seems in this curious place, and June can’t ignore how…alive the statues feel. The mysterious statues and their owners are just the start of the strangeness. During an attack by masked thieves, June swears one of the statues comes to life and flies away. But that’s impossible. As impossible as the whispers she hears from her beloved statue…mate.     AmazonK+     AB

WHEN AN ALPHA GROWLS (A LION’S PRIDE BOOK 16) by Eve Langlais

This alpha growls…and bites. As a forest ranger—and alpha of the Isle Pack—Jude can’t wait for the tourist season to end so he can enjoy some peace and quiet. First, though, he needs to survive the trauma of the country’s biggest lion’s pride infesting his park for an impromptu vacation. Is there anything more annoying than a cat? How about dozens of them rampaging through his peaceful oasis? They’re terrorizing the wild herds of moose—usually his job—climbing the trees to pounce on the unsuspecting and sharpening their claws on every damned tree, cabin, and piece of furniture they come across. There’s one feline in particular that’s extra aggravating. Hazel Guerra. A lioness with a flirtatious smile, come-hither glances, and curves he really shouldn’t be noticing. Jude doesn’t want or need a girlfriend, and most definitely not a cat! When it comes time for the lions to leave, he’s ready to breathe a sigh of relief, only not all of them decamp. Hazel ends up staying behind because her niece has gone missing. Locating the missing child—while resisting her sexy guardian—isn’t Jude’s only problem. An enemy from his past has surfaced looking for a fight. All this drama is enough to make an alpha growl—and a lioness purr.

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IMMORTAL EVERLASTING: WAR OF THE BROTHERHOOD by Michelle Miles

Every war ends with a choice. The Brotherhood of Watchers is tearing itself apart. Deserters rise as leaders. Loyalists serve as executioners. And Sebastian Crane will sacrifice anyone to preserve an immortal order built on obedience and blood. For Kincade, the war has always been personal. The Brotherhood made him a weapon. Used him. Cast him out. Now the warrior once forced to enforce its will has become the greatest threat to its survival. But this time, he will not face the final battle alone. Anna Walker has survived prophecy, betrayal, and the brutal cost of being turned into a weapon. She is no longer the leverage their enemies once used against Kincade. She is his equal, his anchor, and the leader who will walk into the darkness beside him. When Sebastian retreats to an ancient stronghold with the True Ledger—a blood-bound record capable of enslaving every Watcher whose name it holds—Anna and Kincade must lead Quiet Watch into one final battle. If they fail, the Brotherhood’s control will become eternal. If they succeed, an ancient order will fall—and Kincade must decide whether he is only the weapon the Brotherhood created or the man who can build something better from its ashes. The old ways cannot survive. This time, salvation will come from love freely chosen, vows no one can command, and the defiance to reclaim every stolen name.

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DEADLY HOWLS AND DOUBLE CROSS: MM PNR (WEREWOLF REGULATION BUREAU FILES BOOK THREE) by Tara Sterling

They hate each other. They’ve betrayed each other. And now the future of an entire species depends on them working together. Sam was thrilled to be arrested and forced to work for the Werewolf Regulation Bureau. Until he found out his partner would be Adrian Sinclair, the uptight, self-righteous lawyer who nearly got Sam’s best friend killed. Adrian has enough regrets to last a lifetime. Now the Bureau is blackmailing him into finding his father’s accomplice with the last person he wants by his side. Sam Parker is a mouthy tech genius with a savior complex and no survival instinct. To make things worse, they have to live together and fake being in love to infiltrate Shadowridge, an elite werewolf society where everyone has something to hide and curiosity can get you killed. Sam is determined to make Adrian’s life hell. Adrian is determined to keep Sam breathing. But between the sabotage and the disappearing clothes, keeping their hatred alive is one challenge they might not win. Walking away was never supposed to be the hard part. Walking out alive might be.       AmazonK+

TRANSFORMATION: A ROAR/VARIANT ALLIANCE by Sandra R Neeley

Prides are lost. Bonds are forged. Leaders emerge. And through it all, love and passion reign supreme. Some of the most volatile males to ever call the Laighin Pride home are learning the truth about themselves. They’re facing their vulnerabilities and hoping it’s not too late to win the hearts of the only females meant for them. But that’s not the only transformations taking place in the Laighin Pride. Lines have been drawn, and strategies are being designed for battle. Those lines and strategies start with Jack Laighin, Alpha of the Laighin Pride. He’s been steadily fighting an uphill battle since the murder of his younger brother. Since then, rumors of kidnapped and missing shifters are whispered by only the bravest of the shifter world. It’s a rumor that proves to be fact when several of the females of Jack’s Pride are hunted on their own Pride land. But that’s only a fraction of what is really happening. And through it all The North American Panthera Council of Justice — the governing body overseeing all Lion Shifter Prides in North America — does nothing. There are too many things occurring for Jack to not believe they’re more than coincidences. Any strategic battle under consideration is pointless without…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)   AmazonK+

RISE OF WAR-MORE by T S Joyce

Sen has lived a sheltered life inside of the walls of Rathmore. For generations, humans have been at war with the mysterious monsters that live and hunt in the woods that surround human territory, but they have never breached the walls. All she knows of War-Mores are the terrifying stories she’s been told, but when she encounters one in real life, she realizes they are so much more terrifying than she’d even known. Or are they? War-Mores are supposed to be mindless killing machines, but when she finds herself in the heart of one of their Mauls, she must come to terms with the fact that nothing is as it seems. The Second of the Maul, Stormir the Unshakeable, is a feared War-More in the battle against the humans but at times, he seems to be protecting Sen from his own people. The longer Sen lives in the clutches of the War-Mores, the more she finds they aren’t just bloodthirsty monsters. They live in a world that is so different than the one she knows. It is forbidden to fall for a War-More, but Stormir is stirring up feelings she’s never experienced before. He is tall, strong, rough around the edges, and has been battle tested a hundred times over. When he turns into his animal, he is a terrifying warrior…but with Sen, he is taking care of her in ways she could’ve never imagined…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)       AmazonK+       AB

OF BLOOD AND BROKEN BONDS (FORBIDDEN BLOODLINES BOOK ONE) by Amber Ella Monroe

They call me Hollow. A wolf without a wolf. In a kingdom where shifting is as natural as breathing, I’ve spent twenty-six years being treated like something broken. But I can heal. And when a dying prisoner staggers into my apothecary bearing the marks of the Crown’s forbidden sorcery, I refuse to turn him away. Suddenly, I’m a wanted woman, hunted for a power I didn’t know I possessed. Becoming a fugitive brings me into the path of three dangerously tempting alphas—two forbidden wolves hunted by the Crown, and one royal investigator who serves it. Torren is a storm wrapped in muscle and scars. His wicked smile makes me forget my better judgment, and the lightning beneath his skin is nothing compared to what his touch awakens in mine. Varek is an exiled shadow alpha who commands warriors with a glance. Fierce, possessive, and infuriatingly controlled, he makes me crave the very thing I’ve spent my life avoiding—belonging to someone. Luceran is a charming royal investigator with sinful promises on his lips and secrets buried beneath that devastating smile. He’s temptation dressed as danger, and trusting him might be the worst mistake I ever make. Three alphas. Three forbidden connections. And a true-mate pull I was never supposed to feel. But desire is the least of my problems. The Crown is imprisoning wolves, binding their magic, and forcing entire bloodlines into obedience. And whatever has kept my wolf buried all these years may be the very thing its rulers fear most. Now the Crown wants me captured. Innocent wolves are dying. And the three alphas I’m falling for are willing to risk everything to keep me free. But I’m done letting others decide what I am. They may have silenced my wolf. That doesn’t mean they can make me obey.       AmazonK+

HOUSEBOUND by Karenna Colcroft

VS Note: MM Psychic Romance.

Dollhouses and miniatures are Riley Andreas’s life. Literally. Since 2020, Riley has been unable to leave his house, held captive by agoraphobia. With the help of his housemate Orrie, Riley has created a business building and restoring dollhouses, but he longs for more. For connection. For love. Caring for his elderly grandmother, Brian Fitzgerald finds what he believes to be Gran’s childhood dollhouse. He brings it to Riley to be restored as a gift for Gran, not anticipating the connection he feels to the dollhouse maker—or that the dollhouse holds the key to a decades-old missing person case. With the psychic ability to gain information by touching an object, Riley immediately knows the dollhouse isn’t Brian’s grandmother’s. Nightmares tell Riley the full story of a little boy hiding from his abusive father and uncle. As Riley and Brian grow closer, Riley shares the truth of his agoraphobia and powers with Brian. Brian is open to Riley’s psychic gift and his inability to leave the house, but when he shares one of Riley’s visions, it’s more than Brian can accept.       AmazonK+

ORC’S COVENANT (VEIL LANDS BOOK 19) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Veyra – When I dive unauthorized into a drowned, forbidden city to find out how my brother really died, I expect dangerous currents. I don’t expect pale, mouthless nightmares dragging me into the dark—or the brutal orc warden who tears through the sea to save me. Garron Tidecleaver is massive, scarred, and downright lethal. He tells me to stay out of his waters. He tells me he’s cursed. He’s right. The moment his mouth covers mine to give me air, an ancient, dark binding burns into our flesh. He thinks he’s fated to die in the abyss, but I don’t run from monsters. I’m going to tear down his walls and break his control, even if we drown this whole coast together. Garron – Thirty days. That’s all I have left before my family’s ancestral curse turns my blood to poison and claims my life. I was ready to die alone in the dark. Then she defied my commands and dove straight into my hell. Veyra is reckless, infuriatingly defiant, and far too soft for a monster like me. I should lock her out before my doom drags her under. Instead, she looks at the deadly shadows clawing inside my chest and doesn’t back away. She steps closer, demanding every piece of me.      AmazonK+

POTIONS AND PROBLEMS (GERRI WILDER’S MAGICAL MIDLIFE RESET BOOK THREE) by Milly Taiden

Truth-telling muffins, a matchmaking eleven-year-old, and one very tempting bear shifter. Rune Taloryn has spent years caring for everyone in Spelltide Cove while carefully ignoring her own needs. Then her magical baked goods start broadcasting feelings she’d rather keep private, and her herb supply turns suspicious. To make her life more difficult, Gerri Wilder decides Rune has hidden behind everyone else’s problems long enough. Apparently, privacy is no longer an option. Lucan Kohen runs a wildlife sanctuary, has a precocious daughter determined to fix his love life, and has zero interest in being anyone’s matchmaking project. Then Tessa points him toward Rune, and his bear immediately decides she’s the one. Lucan plans to stay focused on the strange behavior affecting his animals. Rune’s smile, her lavender-and-cookie scent, and his daughter’s relentless enthusiasm are making that increasingly difficult. When Rune discovers someone is deliberately contaminating Spelltide Cove’s magical herb supply, the investigation turns dangerous fast. With animals under attack, powerful magic spreading through town, and Lucan refusing to let her face it alone, Rune may finally have to stop taking care of everyone else long enough to fight for something she wants.       AmazonK+

THE ORC AND THE SOAPMAKER’S APPRENTICE by Veronika Kane

Falling into a stranger’s arms the first time you meet sounds romantic. Falling into a naked orc’s arms because of the floorboard you’ve been meaning to fix? That’s just very, very me. Here’s what I know about soap: it needs patience, the right temperature, and four whole weeks to cure. Here’s what I’ve got: twenty days until the Harvest Festival, a workshop full of spotted, lumpy, decidedly unsellable batches, and a heat magic that’s supposed to help but only ever scorches the batter or freezes it solid. If I can’t impress the buyers from Capital City, the shop won’t make it to spring, and neither will my place in Moonbell Hollow. So when my mentor rented out the loft for four silvers a week, I was thrilled. Right up until I climbed the ladder, found Rickon wearing nothing but a quilt, and tripped straight into his arms. He set me firmly back on my feet, scowled, and told me he wasn’t here to make friends. Fine. I can do quiet. (I can’t, actually. But I can try.) Except since the night he moved in, my soap has come out perfect. The tinkerer upstairs keeps fixing things I never asked him to fix: my stairs, my door, my impossible curing problem. And every time he stands behind me with his big hands over mine, my magic isn’t the only thing running hot. The trouble is, Rickon’s only staying until the festival. And somewhere between his grumbling, his kilt, and the low growl in his chest whenever I get close, I’ve gone and fallen for a male with one boot already out the door. Oh, curdlecaps.    AmazonK+

ELIXIRS WITH THE VAMPIRE KING: MM MONSTERS AND MISTLETOE by Kota Quinn

Varian – I’m a king amongst vampires, but finding my fated mate almost broke me. Two years ago, while spying on a dangerous rogue faction, I spotted him. A beautiful witch. To save his life, I had to plan a flawless rescue. But when I returned to the rogue’s mansion, I was too late. The rogue was dead, and my mate had vanished. He escaped with the help of another vampire, completely unaware that he belongs to a king. Now, I finally found him. I’ve tracked him to the sanctuary town of Heart’s Hollow. I only have one fear. When this beautiful, haunted witch looks at me, will he only see a monster? Nico – As a half-witch, I always knew vampires were real. I just never expected to be enslaved by one. After surviving, I finally managed to escape my gilded cage with the help of a fellow prisoner. For two years, I’ve built a life in this cozy small town. Here, I’m free to be myself, and free to forget the dark world I left behind. Until he tracks me down. King Varian is everything I should fear. He’s massive, lethal, and devastatingly powerful. But the predatory king from my past is shockingly gentle. He’s patient. He’s attentive. And as the Christmas season starts, we’re sharing elixirs, hot chocolate, and dangerous glances. Now, I’m wondering if the vampire who came to claim me is the one monster I want in my bed.       AmazonK+

THE TROLL KING’S BRIDE (LORDS OF THE NIGHT) by Lisa Edmonds 

VS Note: Re-release. “…revised and expanded.”

The beasts of Geedhollow await their bride…Witch Aveline D’Corsay does her best to help the women who come to her apothecary shop. Far too many have fallen prey to the same man, Lord Forbright, and now he’s determined to have Aveline as his own. To escape, she runs to the last place she should go: the cursed ruins of Geedhollow, den of monsters who hunt unwary travelers by night. For centuries, trolls Vosten and Toved, the twin kings of Iherya, have been condemned to live as immortal beasts in Geedhollow. When their human mate stumbles into their forest domain, her fearlessness breaks their curse, allowing them to shed their beast forms. Vosten and Toved believe Aveline is a woman of great wisdom who would be a fine queen. But staying in Iherya means she must give up her home and her family’s legacy…and worse, allow Forbright to continue preying on women in her village. To find their happily ever after, Aveline and her kings must first return to Geedhollow—and deal with Forbright once and for all.    AmazonK+

RITE OF DOUBTS AND REGENTS (HOUSE OF BLOOD AND ROSES BOOK 10) by Laura Greenwood

With the rest of the royal family indisposed, all eyes are on Beatrice and Linc. After being named regents in the stead of the poisoned royal family, Beatrice and Linc have more to deal with thatn ever before, and have to decide who they can trust in order to keep the court running. But it isn’t as easy as passing laws and witnessing the internal workings of the castle. Someone wants the royal family dead, and they have no idea where their enemies are hiding. Can they maintain the flimsy grip they have on the court? Rite of Doubt and Regents is book ten of House of Blood and Roses, an epic romantasy full of vampires, court intrigue, and a spicy established m/f romance.

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TOO MUCH TO BEAR (SECOND CHANCE SHIFTER ROMANCE) by Ivy Knox

A weekend she’ll never forget…When Sloan’s boyfriend whisks her away to a secluded campsite in the woods, she pictures a relaxing weekend by the fire, drinking wine from a travel mug. She doesn’t expect him to get drunk and aggressive in a way she’s never seen before. She also doesn’t expect to see a giant grizzly bear emerging from the trees next to their tent. Suddenly she’s faced with a horrifying choice: run away with the boyfriend she no longer trusts or take her chances with the bear? She chooses the bear and prepares herself for a swift yet painful death by one swipe of its massive paw. What she gets instead is a bear that shifts into a man from her past. An encounter that’ll change the course of his life…Noah’s night takes a surprising turn when he’s strolling through the woods near his house and hears the loud shriek of a woman in danger. He shifts into his bear form and realizes the woman in need of saving is Sloan, his high school crush. After getting her to safety, they discover an undeniable mutual attraction and find feelings reignited from decades before. The tension between them is inescapable, and it doesn’t take long for them to succumb to it. As things heat up between them, they’re left with one big obstacle: the body they still need to get rid of.   AmazonK+

THE DRAKON KING by Terry J Benton-Walker

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

Two princes, born to rival kingdoms. Heir to a kingdom built on lies, Prince Reverie has one goal: avoid the crown. So when Reverie sees an opportunity to escape a life of pain and cruelty, he takes it and runs. Heir to a kingdom banished into the sky, Prince Xandreth has one goal: find out why his people are going missing, abandoning his kingdom to find the truth, no matter the cost. A meeting that was never meant to be. On the run, pursued by both kingdoms and wild creatures, the princes meet. Xandreth can’t trust a party boy to help find the answers he seeks and Reverie has been taught to hate and fear Xandreth’s people since he was born, but the only way forward is for Reverie to break his vow to never return home. And for both of them to trust the other with their lives. A love that could change the world. But as truths come to light, a myth as old as the world comes to light, as well. A bird on fire and a world turning to ash. Reverie and Xandreth are suddenly at the heart of a crisis—and a love—neither can afford to ignore. Together they must claim the power they left behind and change their world. Or watch it burn.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

RITUALS AND ROLLING PINS (MAGICAL BAKERY MYSTERY BOOK 11) by Bailey Cates

Since Katie opened a busy bakery in Savannah serving up sweet treats—with a little spellwork on the side—she’s always on the go. While Katie is on a run in the local marshland preserve to de-swamp her jumbled thoughts, she encounters the shocking sight of her friend, reporter and druid Steve Dawes, standing over a dead body. The way the victim is displayed suggests a magical ritual may have been involved. It turns out that the deceased was a true-crime podcaster who covered paranormal cases in Savannah. The situation gets stickier than a pecan bun when Katie discovers Steve knew the victim. Steve and Katie have had their differences in the past, but she has his back, so with the help of the ladies of her spellbook club, Katie will have to follow the trail of crumbs to the real killer.

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NO KING OF MINE (REIGN OF OUTLAWS BOOK ONE) by N L Hoffman

My ex came back from the dead, and somehow I’m the one being unreasonable. I own a casino, run a criminal empire, and enjoy being the woman dangerous people are afraid to disappoint. Then Wesley returns. A resurrected king. My unfinished business. Still under the impression he can tell me what to do. Before I can sort out whether to kiss him or shoot him, Finn arrives from Dublin. My other former lover is a rich, ruthless warlock with a filthy mouth and an Irish accent that has talked me into several terrible decisions. Apparently, I’m considering a few more. But someone is attacking my people and coming for everything I built. Keeping my empire means fighting dirty and trusting two men who can barely share a room without measuring something. I’m not becoming a better person. I’m not giving up my criminal life. And if either man wants a queen who follows orders, he can keep looking.      AmazonK+

HORNGARD (PALADIN’S LEGACY BOOK THREE) by Elizabeth Moon

VS Note: From OCT 6.

Moon brings us back to the beloved Paksennarion Universe! Nature abhors a vacuum. And the empty throne of Horngard is no exception. In the absence of a king, the land has been given over to bandits, its potential squandered, its people exploited. Strategically important, the powerful Dragon moves to install one of his own dragonkin there. But there are other forces who covet Horngard. And they will not let it go without a fight. . . .The fates of two pairs of siblings are the key to Horngard’s future: Mikel and Camwyn, Gwenno and Aris. Will they have what it takes to triumph?

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THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID (ECHO ARCHIVES) by Melissa Caruso

VS Note: FF Fantasy/Mystery.

Kembral Thorne is back on the job. Everything is going great—she hasn’t been in mortal peril for months, her daughter is learning to crawl, and she’s thinking about getting serious with her girlfriend, cat burglar Rika Nonesuch. But then a simple mission goes wrong, and a mysterious Echo hires her for her most dangerous case yet. This time, the murder Kembral must solve is her own. Her first warning: Watch out above you. It won’t be her last. The cryptic messages give Kem an edge against her would-be murderer—but there’s more at stake than her own survival. Rips in the very fabric of reality are spreading through the Echoes, and Kem’s blood is the only thing that can close them. A traitor among her allies is willing to kill to stop her. To save all the worlds, Kem must figure out who she can trust—and Rika must decide how much of her humanity she’ll sacrifice for the power to protect the woman she loves.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

PRUDENCE MARSH IS NOT A NOBODY ANYMORE by Emily Krempholtz

Prudence Marsh has always known she’s meant for more than playing violin at small-town taverns, so when she learns of an audition for a royal wedding, she knows this is it: her chance to be somebody. After years of putting everyone else first, Pru sets out to finally pursue her dreams of being a famous bard. Callum DiCorvo, roguishly handsome cursebreaker and bandit extraordinaire, is content with his life of crime. So content, in fact, that he’s determined to keep things exactly as they are. Cheerfully thieving is all he’s good for anyway. When Pru collides with Callum and his crew in a roadside robbery that leaves her beloved violin in splinters, she demands to travel with them until they replace it. Before long, Pru finds herself growing close to the motley bunch, especially Callum, whose sparkling banter and crooked smiles tease her like a song she can’t get out of her head. But the bandits have stumbled upon a heist that could make all their dreams come true—breaking into the mystical Lune Vault at the palace on the same night as the wedding—leaving Pru to decide what’s more important: the dreams she’s held on to for so long, or the ones she’s building right now.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

SON OF THE SERPENT ( GAEL SONG ERA III) by Shauna Lawless

VE Note: From SEPT 10.

Winter 1169. Isolde arrives at the stronghold of the Descendants, her immortal kin. It soon becomes clear that Isolde is magically gifted, but as she learns to harness her abilities, visions of death and fire consume her. Heartbroken at parting from young warrior Cuan, and scarred by the destructive power of her enemies the Fomorians, Isolde struggles to find her place in the immortals’ world. Cuan, nephew to the High King, is growing in fame. Caught between a curse that will destroy him, a desire for revenge, and his love for Isolde, Cuan is offered a new path by a mysterious stranger. But a warrior so close to the king has many enemies, and with Isolde no longer at his side, escaping death a second time may prove impossible. As war between Ireland’s kingdoms continues, Anglo-Norman lords, eager for power, encroach ever further onto Irish soil. Ireland’s clans must choose: work, and fight, together – or risk the destruction of their whole world.

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SWIPE BITE by Alexandra Vasti

As heir to HemoCorp Industries, vampire Sophronia Vega has devoted herself to the company her family founded. Most recently, she’s led the creation of Stokr: the wildly successful dating app that pairs lusty vampires with humans they can’t accidentally, er, eat. But when Stokr’s matching technology goes haywire—and vampires start draining their dates—Sophronia’s disciplined life goes up in flames. Enter Casey Amato, the human software engineer whose team programmed Stokr. Casey knows the Stokr failure wasn’t a glitch—the app’s been sabotaged. To fix it, he’ll have to convince the gorgeous, guarded vampire exec that someone in her inner circle has betrayed her. Sophronia has never met a human who makes her feel quite so . . . thirsty. But to fix her app and save its users, she must team up with the brilliant programmer. As they hunt the traitor, their attraction burns hotter, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Because without Stokr, giving in to temptation could be deadly.

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THE THORNS WE WEAR INSIDE by Amy Avery

VS Note: Sapphic Fantasy.

Raye is cursed. Living things crumble at her touch, drained by the demon who clings to her like a shadow. No wonder the townsfolk want her dead. Tormented and pursued, she seeks shelter in a mysterious castle. The castle is an eerie place. Its residents lie trapped in time like flies in amber, all save one. Mir has a demon of her own, one that forces her to seek blood. When the two women begin to unravel their curses with the castle’s trove of magic, their demons unite, refusing to let their hosts escape. Perhaps even more dangerously, Mir can bear Raye’s poisonous touch: the first caress either of them has felt in years. As monster hunters close in on the castle, Raye and Mir will have to break the binds of their twisted quadrangle before the past catches up with them. Seductive and cinematic, this dark fantasy has teeth. Step into the castle. If you dare.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

ABOUT JAM TIME (TALES FROM THE DRAGON DINER BOOK FIVE) by Lindsay Buroker

Rylana and the dragon chef Jildarin are planning their first date, a delightful escape from work where they can get to know each other. On all levels. But first, they need to find an acceptable assistant chef to take over at the diner. As one might expect from the demanding dragon who won the Golden Whisk, not any assistant will do, but Jildarin finally picks the perfect candidate, an ogre who makes unique and delicious jam. There’s just one problem: the ogre is wanted by the peacekeepers for murdering his former business partner. Is he guilty? Innocent? A threat to the diner? All Rylana knows is that she won’t get her date until she hires the assistant chef that Jildarin wants.    AmazonK+

SIREN’S DAUGHTER (BACCHANAL MATING CRUISES BOOK ONE) by Autumn Montague

Cassiopeia Thalassus has a problem. Under a strict injunction not to come home until she’s pregnant, she’s been sent on an eight-day matchmaking cruise by her father, Poseidon. The Bacchanal Moonrise has a reputation as the perfect place for a fling — casual or otherwise. Cassie’s been sent to meet a prince, and she hopes the guy is someone she can fall in love with. The siren with whom she shares a soul, however, is all too willing to settle for anyone, so this prince had better be worth the potential heartache. Kenta Ōwatatsumi agreed to this date at the encouragement of his oldest brother. Tired of the usual women who only want him for his selkie magic, Kenta is looking for someone who wants him for more than just sex and selkie parlor tricks. His aniki promised him someone different. His first sight of Cassie Thalassus, however, has him questioning his brother’s good sense. Instead of a simple blind date, Kenta’s been tricked into a stud call for a lusty siren. His brother got one thing right, though. Cassie is certainly different from any woman he’s ever known.       Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

DARK EXPLORER: THE DEEP (CHILDREN OF THE GODS PNR BOOK 113) by I T Lucas

Darien has spent nearly eight decades searching for the one thing that could give his immortal life meaning. He chased it on Wall Street, pondered it in the halls of academia, roughed it out on Earth’s highest mountains, and for the past eleven years, hunted it in the deepest caves. Something about the deep calls to him, but all he’s found down there so far is a challenge worthy of his body and his skills. Time is running out, though. An unchanging face gets noticed, and it’s time for a new name, a new address, and something new to explore. This expedition is meant to be his last, the crown jewel before he disappears again. Then he risks everything to save a stranger and finds what he’s been looking for all along.     AmazonK+

DEERLY EXPECTING: CHRISTMAS MM MPREG SHIFTER ROMANCE by Aria Grace

Every Christmas, the carnival comes to town. This year, it brings something Beck doesn’t expect. Beck doesn’t do holidays or crowds or cookies…and he definitely doesn’t do gorgeous strangers who look at him like he’s the shiniest gift under the tree. But when the winter wonderland rolls into his sleepy little town, a pair of warm brown eyes find his across the lights and the snow and he can’t stay away. Ezra quickly learned the most important rule about traveling with the pack is to never get attached to locals. The carnival his family has been running for generations moves on after just a few weeks…and so does he. He enjoys the variety of new faces and people, always up for a flavor of the week. Until Beck. One stolen week. One undeniable connection. One night that changes everything.    AmazonK+

CLAIMED FROM FIRE (DRAGONBLOOD DYNASTY BOOK 17) by BE Brouillard

I knew two things about her before she said a word to me. I didn’t tell her either one. One of them she’d have laughed at. The other would have shattered her. She’s a dragon of an old line, and she’ll tell you so herself. Her mother sold her for it — worth more as a bloodline than as a daughter. She still thinks her people are coming to save her. They are coming. That’s the problem. Not to take her home. To take her back. I found her on the road with nothing. I took her north, because my land is the only place they can’t take her from. She hates it here. No servants. Cold water. Food she won’t touch. And a bear for company — she tells me that’s the worst part. I told her once she could leave. She stayed. I didn’t ask why. She’s decided that means I’m too slow to argue. I let her think it. Keeping her safe is more important than her opinion of me. They find her anyway  Her family sends a lawyer first. The papers are in order, and the signature is her mother’s. The man who bought her won’t bother with a lawyer. He paid for her. He means to collect. He has men. He has standing. Let him come. She knows why she can’t go back. She doesn’t know why I want her to stay.         AmazonK+

THIS WRETCHED ALCHEMY: RUINOUS FATE SAGA BOOK ONE by Tina Mars

BETRAYAL. In a fractured realm ruled by warring noble Houses and the tyrannical Prime, the most coveted power lies in god-shards – divine fragments that grant extraordinary abilities to those who possess them. Revel’s brother was murdered in pursuit of one. A DEADLY GAME. For avenging him, Revel’s life is on the line. Forced into a treacherous bargain, she must compete in the Call – a bloody contest of heirs vying for the throne – on behalf of her enemies, and assassinate the realm’s most formidable alchemist, the Warbringer. Victory means her family’s freedom. Failure means death. A MONSTROUS POWER. The Prime sets the heirs on a brutal race to find the god-shard that could shift the balance of the realms. Everyone wants the win, but Revel just wants the kill. Except, the Warbringer isn’t the monster she was promised. Bound by secrets of his own, he is as dangerous as he is disarming. With betrayals mounting and desire warring with duty, Revel must decide who to trust in a game where even the gods have their favorites.         Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

TONIGHT I BLAZE (WITCHES OF HALSTETT BOOK THREE) by Katherine J Adams

Three lives. One fate. Penny Albright lit the match that sparked a war. Now, she holds the one that will end it. In defeating the Warden, she and her friends released a deadlier foe—and the Sorcerer will stop at nothing to reclaim magic and destroy witchkind. But Penny will do anything to protect the people she loves, even if it means joining forces with Malin’s morally questionable brother, Dante. With Alice held captive in the Sorcerer’s city, forced to spin the evil aimed at Halstett’s heart, and Malin inside Halstett, rebuilding the army to protect their walls, Penny’s only hope is to play the Sorcerer’s games—and she needs Dante to win. As the veil unravels, Penny, Malin, and Alice each fight their own demons to face the end together, side-by-side. In this searing series conclusion, Penny must claim her fate as the witch she was always destined to be—and the only way to defeat a god might be to become one.

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REINDEER HEARTTHROB: MM MPREG CHRISTMAS ROMANCE by Edie Monte

Life gives me everything I want, but what if it’s more than I can handle? Taking my dad’s spot on Santa’s reindeer team makes his retirement dream come true. As much as I love Christmas and the joy that Santa brings each holiday season, I still want to follow my drag-tacular dreams of making Candy Heartthrob my full-time career. I love dressing up fabulously and singing. Bonus: I have my bestie Gus by my side! Without Gus accompanying me on the piano, I’m just another singer. It’s only together that my persona comes alive. Little did I know that my Christmas present from Santa would come during the audition of a lifetime. One deep breath has me scenting for the first time that my bestie is so much more … he’s my fated mate. Now I have a legacy career, a gig at the North Pole’s hottest club, and am pregnant by my fated mate. If only there were forty-two hours in a day. When Santa asks me what I really want to do with my life, it throws my five-year plan into chaos. Is it asking too much to say I want it all?      AmazonK+

WITCHES OF QUESTIONABLE INTENT (BOOKS OF DUBIOUS ORIGIN BOOK TWO) by  Jenn McKinlay

Thanks to her training as a librarian and her newfound magical abilities, Zoe Ziakas thinks she has a handle on her job at the Museum of Literature safeguarding the secret collection of enchanted tomes known as the Books of Dubious Origin. But when Jasper Griffin—the colleague she’s been crushing on—reports that their most volatile acquisition, The Book of Shadows, has been stolen, Zoe’s carefully cataloged world unravels. This isn’t just any magical text. It carries unquestionable power, twisting truth into illusion and turning allies into enemies. Once its power is unleashed, no one can trust what they see or who they are. To track down the book, Zoe, Jasper, and the rest of the BODO team plunge into a perilous hunt that takes them from shadowy midnight markets to demon-infested streets, all while wrangling an unpredictable hellhound puppy. But when the thief begins to invoke the book’s darkest spells, Zoe faces an impossible challenge: How does she stop a curse that can rewrite reality itself? If she can’t separate fact from fiction, the story won’t just end—it will be erased.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

SEVEN NIGHTS WITH A (SECRET) VAMPIRE by Christi Barth

One paranormal investigator. One very reluctant vampire. Seven nights under the same creepy roof. What could possibly go wrong? When paranormal researcher and podcaster Lucy Hinton’s listeners challenge her to spend a week in the spookiest house in the scariest town in America, she’s all in. She’sfascinated–not frightened–by the paranormal. Seven nights in a creepy mansion? Great content. A huge boost for her research funding? Even better. The mansion’s broody new owner? An unexpected complication. Duncan MacKillop wants nothing to do with small towns, mysterious inheritances, or the relentlessly cheerful woman determined to investigate every bump in the night. The New York lawyer is determined to survive a week in the mansion his estranged grandfather left him, sell the place, and get back to his real life. Preferably without Lucy discovering one tiny detail. Duncan is a vampire. No matter what happens inside the mansion, he can’t let Lucy discover that.       AmazonK+

THE PROJECT MANAGER’S GUIDE TO OVERWORKED ASSOCIATES (THE SPELLBOUND SERIES BOOK TWO) by amy Padilla

VS Note: MM Magic Romance.

Louis has spent his entire life proving people wrong. If becoming a successful research engineer means long hours, missed weekends, and surviving on far too little sleep, so be it. Unfortunately, Arthur disagrees. As a project manager, Arthur believes in things like breaks, healthy boundaries, and not working yourself into the ground. So when he notices a brilliant human researcher running on caffeine and stubbornness, he takes it upon himself to intervene. Louis just wants to work. Arthur just keeps showing up. What begins as professional concern quickly becomes something more as Arthur finds himself drawn to the fiercely independent researcher. And despite all his protests, Louis is starting to rely on Arthur’s steady presence, warm purrs, and unwavering support more than he’d like to admit. Now Arthur has a new project: keep Louis from sneaking into the lab after hours, teach him the meaning of work-life balance, and somehow avoid falling for him in the process.       AmazonK+

STILL VAMPIRE PACK (SOULMATE UNIVERSITY BOOK TWO) by Lola Glass

A vampire hockey player broke into my house to steal blood bags for his best friend, and I accidentally ended up mated to him. He didn’t realize I was home. I didn’t realize he was charming, underneath the awkwardness. One thing led to another. Now we’re mated, and we’re trying to figure out how to handle it as friends. Or at least, I’m trying to figure out how to be his friend. He’s trying to win my heart. It’s not going to work, though. Probably. Okay, fine. I’m going to fall in love with him, no matter how hard I try not to. Please send your condolences to the Vampire Pack’s address. Don’t forget the chocolate.       AmazonK+

LEGACY CROWNED (LUFTIS ACADEMY BOOK FOUR) by Jaye Marellen 

I thought I finally knew who I was. Then another heir showed up. Now everything I thought I knew about my bloodline is in question. Am I really the heir to Fourth House? And if I’m not, who is? For nearly three hundred years, someone has made sure the truth about my House stayed buried. I thought uncovering what really happened would finally put the past to rest. Instead, things at Luftis Academy are getting even more dangerous. Someone wants me gone. I just have to figure out who—and whether the conspiracy that destroyed Fourth House ever really ended. At least my love life should be easier by now. The three wolf princes are mine. And Torres is still Torres, although some unexpected visitors from Frosthaven Academy are about to make his life a whole lot more interesting. Then there’s Professor Matthias. Still my professor. Still not my mate. And I’m starting to wonder how much longer either of those things is going to be true. I’ve survived kidnappings, Great House politics, deadly secrets, and discovering I can turn into a freaking direwolf. Now I have one final mystery to solve. Who is the true heir to Fourth House? Who wanted my family erased? And how far are they willing to go to make sure I never claim my crown? This time, I’m not just surviving their secrets. I’m coming for the truth.       AmazonK+

LEMON TEA AND LIBRARY DRAGONS (COZY KINGDOM TALES BOOK ONE) by Emma St Clair

When you want to read about dragons who guard a library instead of doing battle–dragons that might curl up in your lap like a house cat while you’re reading a book–welcome to Castle Briar. The castle is cursed, but to stay safe, you only need to follow three simple rules: Be in your room before nightfall – Don’t enter the cursed count’s wing of the castle – And do NOT let the dragons out of the library – Unfortunately, Mirabella’s curiosity is stronger than her need to abide by the rules. After being traded as a servant to the reclusive count of Castle Briar to pay off her father’s debts, she fully expects to be scrubbing floors or–please, stars, no–chamber pots. But from the moment a gilded carriage arrives at her cottage (making her stepsisters seethe with jealousy), Mirabella is treated more like a princess than a servant. She’s given an opulent bedroom, fine gowns, and exquisite meals served on gold-rimmed china. The only thing withheld from her are answers. How did the count come to be cursed by the fae? What manner of beast is he? Where are the servants who cook her meals and clean her room? And what will happen if she breaks not one but all three rules? The longer she stays at the castle, the more infuriating–and alluring–she finds the count, whom she’s spoken with but never been allowed to see. The count may think he’s lost his humanity, but Mirabella is certain he’s wrong. And she’s determined to break the curse … no matter the cost. Even if it’s her heart.      AmazonK+

DREAM COME TRUE (CHRISTMAS ON MILLIE LANE) by Lauren Jackson

A festive, small-town romance novella for those who love their love stories with a dash of magical realism. Ruby Lawson has spent the last year watching her carefully planned life fall apart. Back in her small hometown, living with her parents and wondering where everything went wrong, Ruby feels like she has hit rock bottom. Then, on one lonely Christmas night out, Ruby makes a very embarrassing mistake: she climbs into the wrong car, convinced she’s found a taxi. The driver is gorgeous. Mysterious. And, as it turns out, very much not a taxi driver. His name is Hudson. What starts as an awkward encounter soon becomes the kind of summer romance Ruby thought only happened in movies. Late-night adventures. Deep talks while watching the waves in their coastal town. Laughter she’d forgotten she was capable of. And a man who makes her believe that maybe the life she thought she’d lost was never out of reach after all. But when something feels too good to be true, can it really last? Ruby thought Hudson was the beginning of her second chance. She just never imagined how much she would have to lose to find out if their love was real.      Amazon

GHOULS OF EX-MAS PAST (CHRISTMAS ON MILLIE LANE) by Anneka-Rose Burrell

Caught between the crush you have on your best friend and the ghost of her ex…As one half of paranormal YouTube channel Ghost Punters, Jesse (sceptic) is used to cold spots, creepy noises, and debunking ghost stories with his best friend and co-host, Mira (believer). Spending his Christmas break from Rugby playing in the Scottish Highlands at a haunted Christmas tree farm, hunting ghosts sounded like the perfect holiday special—until a former worker turns up in the form of a ghost. The ghost claims to be Mira’s dead ex-boyfriend and insists she’s the one who killed him. Caught between a ghost with a grudge and the woman he’s secretly been in love with for years, Jesse has no idea who to believe. As supernatural chaos escalates, accusations fly, and one spectacularly possessed moose turns the festive getaway into a nightmare, Jesse and Mira will have to uncover the truth before an unhinged ghost destroys more than just their channel’s Christmas special.      Amazon

A KNIGHT FOR CHRISTMAS (CHRISTMAS ON MILLIE LANE) by Haley Sywak

Every Yule, Sir Alaric van Dyson returns to the enchanting village of Storybrooke for the famed honeysuckle and birchsap cookies sold at Willow’s Apothecary. For eleven years he has roamed as a knight and upheld his duty to the realm. To protect the innocent and bring justice to those who cannot defend themselves. Now a third-year herbalist apprentice, Mila is finally trusted to harvest the rare and dangerous mooncap mushrooms beneath the Yule moon. When Alaric arrives for his yearly visit, the two find themselves thrown together in the winter forest—and into the path of something far more dangerous than the cold. Mila has been taught to see the wild differently—to believe that even the darkest creatures have their place in the Goddess’s turning wheel. As the two are drawn closer together, the handsome brooding knight and his opposing beliefs become impossible to ignore. And this year, Alaric’s hunt will bring him dangerously close to both the creature he has sworn to kill and the woman who is slowly, and rather inconveniently making a home in his heart. Alaric may have to choose between the oath that brought him to Storybrooke and the woman who might finally give him a reason to stay. As the Yule feast begins and the fires burn brighter, Alaric discovers that the most dangerous thing of all might just be falling in love. This novella is one half of a duology, completing 2027.      Amazon

KRAMPED (CHRISTMAS ON MILLIE LANE) by Bec George

VS Note: Sapphic monster romance.

This holiday rebound is supernatural. Fresh off a spectacular holiday breakup, Clementine is stuck alone in the cozy cabin she was supposed to share with her ex. After drowning her sorrows in tequila, she stumbles upon an ancient spellbook with a how-to guide on how to summon Krampus. Fueled by loneliness and delusion, she attempts the spell, and is shocked by the results. Instead of a monster, she gets K’vaera: dangerously hot, thoroughly unamused, and very much trapped in the human world. They have until Christmas is over to reverse the spell – but between magical disasters and an attraction that’s getting harder to ignore, sending K’vaera home might be the one thing Clementine doesn’t want to do.       Amazon

A PACK FOR THE HOLIDAYS (CHRISTMAS ON MILLIE LANE) by Connor Peterson

VS Note: MM monster romance.

A vampire art dealer agrees to fake date his werewolf shifter crush for Christmas. Impeccably dressed and centuries-old, antique appraiser Percy Belmont has always preferred his holidays like his NYC condo; quiet, controlled, and strictly solitary. But this year, a creeping, unfamiliar loneliness has left him desperate for an escape. When a fierce East Coast nor’easter grounds his flight at LaGuardia, he finds an unexpected lifeline in Micah Bradley, a broad-shouldered, impossibly warm werewolf carpenter heading home to the Adirondacks. Desperate to escape his pack’s relentless matchmaking, Micah offers Percy a ride to Montreal on one condition: play his fake boyfriend over Christmas. Expecting a few days of awkward deception, Percy instead finds himself inside a mountain lodge overflowing with chaotic wolf-pack traditions, roaring hearths, and effortless hospitality. As the lines blur between pretense and reality, Percy’s cool vampire exterior melts against Micah’s fierce, protective warmth. Surrendering to the heat might mean risking his guarded heart, but with the risk comes a newfound discovery. Home isn’t a place, but the family waiting to welcome you in.      Amazon

BELOVED OF STARS: BOOK FIVE OF THE EMPIRE OF STARS by Melissa Cave

Once upon a time, there was magic in Argence. Stone Teeth in the hills of the Muras, chewing with mossy jaws. In the desert borderland of Ereguil, there were the callers, gu-aallu, who tempted men out into the sands, never to be seen again. In Berebet, it was the Long Man of the Marshes, with the head of a heron. For more than eight hundred years, the Covenant of Stars has protected the Empire from its oldest terrors. And that Covenant rests upon a single sacred family: the House of Agnephus, scions of Ospret Far-Eyes, the children of the stars. So long as they endure, the land will be spared the ravages of magic. But what if one of those scions threatens the Covenant? Bastin Agnephus is a tyrant. A murderer. A madman who has already destroyed entire noble houses and has now imprisoned every living child of the stars within his city, including Ophele of Andelin and her unborn child. As old alliances fracture and the Empire moves irrevocably toward war, Ophele has only one uncertain ally: her half-sister Selenne, who has far more to lose by digging up the past. Trapped within their sacred prison, Ophele and Selenne must unravel mysteries buried long before they were born if they hope to keep the Empire from destroying itself. The secrets behind both their births. What lies beneath the Emperor’s Conspiracy. And the truth about an empire that devours its gods. It begins with a love story. It ends with a reckoning.      AmazonK+

MAZES AND MUMMIES: VAMPIRE KNITTING CLUB PNR COZY MYSTERY by Nancy Warren

A cryptic warning sends Lucy Swift and her vampire husband, Rafe Crosyer, to Egypt, where an ancient papyrus, a luxury Nile cruise and Lucy’s archaeologist parents are about to collide. What begins as a simple mission to authenticate a priceless manuscript soon turns deadly and someone aboard the ship seems determined to reunite the scattered pieces of a secret that has remained buried for three thousand years. With suspicious Egyptologists, deadly “accidents,” and an ancient evil stirring beneath the sands, Lucy and Rafe must unravel a mystery that stretches from the tombs of the pharaohs to the glittering decks of their floating hotel. Because in Egypt, some curses are real. And some mysteries should stay wrapped up forever.       AmazonK+

ONCE BITTEN (DOXLOTHIA UNIVERSITY STANDALONE SERIES) by S L Cokeley

She never thought she’d see him again. After a chance encounter with a handsome stranger on a train, and a tumultuous school year at Doxlothia University, Evangeline is ready to find joy in her life. When she signs up as a camp counselor, she is blindsided with the news that she must choose her specialty or forfeit her enrollment next semester. Nash, an alpha werewolf and common thief, has his next target set on Doxlothia’s rare and precious jewels to pay off his debts. Going undercover at the Doxlothia summer camp seems like the perfect plan, especially when the mysterious girl from the train just might be his key into the castle. But Nash’s criminal past is catching up to him in more ways than one. And after an intimate night together with Evangeline, he begins questioning everything as new fears arise and attachments threaten to form. Nash can’t help but worry about one thing—will the bond he feels between them jeopardize his mission? Is the mate bond enough to make them believe in love? Or will they be the first linked mate pair to forfeit the bond?       AmazonK+

VAUGHN: PARANORMAL COUNCIL ENFORCERS BOOK 19 by Taylor Rylan

VS Note: MM MPREG PNR.

Reserved gargoyle. Full-of-life fae. Did the Fates miss the mark in this pairing? Vaughn Stanton is content with his life. As a centuries-old gargoyle who is doing what he can with the council as an enforcer to help others in need, he’s satisfied with his routine. He doesn’t socialize outside of work, but when one of his fellow enforcers invites him to a group meal, for some unknown reason, he agrees. When he arrives, his beast is overwhelmed by something they had both long ago given up on finding. Lewis Clarke has always dreamed big. When he was a teenager, he wanted nothing more than to run a bakery with his best friend. He was thrilled when that opportunity was gifted to him, but the circumstances weren’t what he expected. As he was surrounded by others finding their mates, he wanted that too. More than he ever wanted to spend hours a day running a business. Was it too much to ask for a different dream to come true? Can the aloof gargoyle truly be mated to a young and energetic fae? Will they find their happiness with each other despite their obvious differences?      AmazonK+

MOONCURSED (THE DROWNED KING BOOK ONE) by Holly Renee

A cursed sea king, a stolen bride, and a fate meant for another. They say madness dwells in the ocean’s depths…and in the eyes of the Drowned King. Cursed to take a human bride and break her mind the moment she sees his face, the Drowned King spends his life in torment, watching. Waiting.  Lou was never meant to be chosen. Branded from birth as a saltwitch, she has always been seen as the cursed shadow of her moonblessed twin. Now, veiled and bound in marriage to a man she must never see, she’s thrust into a life of ancient gods and unraveling fate…and unspeakable desire. Yet even as fear becomes tangled with a perilous longing for the Drowned King’s heated touch, the truth of her choosing looms over her like a siren’s song. It rages louder with every breath she takes as whispers travel through the kingdoms: rumblings of war, of ancient goddesses awakening, of a queen with saltwater on her lips who will change everything. There is no stopping fate, for though she was never meant to be chosen, the moon has already summoned the tide.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

A GRAVE SHOWDOWN (GRUMPY GHOST BOOK EIGHT) by Maggie March

Three weeks ago, Anna McGuffin almost told a dead man she loved him. Now she’s about to risk everything to keep him. When Anna McGuffin moved to Lockwood Cove a year ago, she was looking for a fresh start after a brutal divorce. What she got was a haunted Victorian mansion, a ghost dachshund named Daisy, a circle of women who refused to let her face anything alone, and the unlikely love of her life: Richard Lockwood, a stubborn nineteenth-century ghost with a sharp tongue and sharper green eyes. Together, Anna and Richard have solved murders, cleared old debts, and quietly carved out something resembling a future. But the trial that just rocked the town has changed everything. The choices made in that courtroom have unleashed something terrible, and the ghost of serial killer, Alistair Hawthorne, is coming back for blood. Anna can’t fight Hawthorne alone. She can’t fight him with Richard. She can’t even fight him with the help of a ghost dachshund (though Daisy is, as always, willing to try). To save the town, the ghost she loves, and the future she’s only just allowed herself to want, Anna will have to do the unthinkable. She’ll have to ask for Madame Corrine’s help. She’ll have to tell the Wednesday Wine Committee the truth. She’ll have to trust that the town that took her in will stand with her now.       AmazonK+

THEIR CHRISTMAS CAROL by Morgan B Lee

I am dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. What no one else knows is how I died—not even my two polar-opposite, inconveniently gorgeous eternal co-workers: the Ghosts of Christmas Present and Christmas Future. I’m the Ghost of Christmas Past. Not that one, though. Dickens’s version retired at the exact moment I died on Christmas Eve, 1926, and the suit-clad powers that be promptly handed me the job. It’s been nearly a century since I woke up as a ghost and vowed to never again get romantically involved with a co-worker…A resolution Present and Future have made extremely difficult, considering how often they join forces to flirt straight through my professionalism. Not to mention the mayhem my gorgeous, chain-wearing afterlife supervisor wreaks on my heart whenever I catch him staring. To take my mind off my three ghostly temptations this holiday season, I decide to go on a date with a human. A date that ends so terribly, I wind up trapped in my own past. On the very same Christmas Eve night I was murdered. I wanted to keep my past a secret from my work associates, but I know they’re coming for me—in more ways than one, if we all get our way. This year, instead of my past haunting me, we’re haunting my past.   AmazonK+

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I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking quite a few as I prepare these posts LOL). 

‘AB’ denotes audiobook and the Amazon buy link.

NOTE: Amazon recently renamed AmazonKU as AmazonK+.

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CROWN: MOST WANTED ALIEN BRIDES (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Candice Gilmer

I proposed a marriage of pure strategy. I did not plan on chasing my own wife. Darik of Vorjan House holds final authority over the trade agreement, the weight of an entire noble line, and a simple plan: marry an Earth woman, prove his people’s commitment to the alliance, and manage the whole affair with his usual flawless control. Then he proposes to Beka. She hears him out. She asks questions he isn’t prepared for. And she agrees — on one condition. Equal partnership and genuine respect, or there’s no deal. Then she goes back to work, and Darik realizes he’s just been dismissed for the first time in his life. Beka clawed her way free of a family that tried to own her and built a life entirely her own. She doesn’t need Darik’s rank, his protection, or his approval — and she hasn’t so much as noticed that the most powerful man on the station has started rearranging his schedule just to be in the same room as her. The marriage was supposed to be a performance. Neither of them planned on it becoming real.

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GARNYTH: SMOLDERING FOR HER (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY)  (CONSUMED BY THE ALIEN HEAT BOOK SIX) by Zoey Indiana

She has spent five years making sure the IDA does its job correctly. She did not account for the possibility that the IDA’s job might include her. Skyla Marchetti is the Intergalactic Council’s Earth-based accountability officer for alien-human treaty compliance, which means she knows every clause in the IDA’s reformed operating charter, every oversight protocol, and every instance of noncompliance in the past decade. She is not against the IDA. She simply holds it to its own standards with the focused intensity of someone who takes promises seriously. Garnyth of the Thyren has been the IDA’s alien-species diplomatic representative for three years, which means he has been in Skyla’s quarterly review meetings for three years, which means he has spent three years giving her careful, accurate, complete answers to her questions and not quite managing to give her honest ones. When the compatibility scan flags a 96.8% match between them, Skyla sets it aside to finish the quarterly review. Garnyth sits with it for an entire week before he says anything. She sees through everyone. He has made himself transparent to everyone and available to no one. The IDA, with its usual impeccable timing, thinks this is exactly the point.

Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

MINOS: COLONY: LABYRINTH BOOK TWO (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Demelza Carlton

She can’t stand him, but the Intergalactic Dating Agency swears the alien minotaur is her match. Brit is better with tech than people. A week on an alien farm is supposed to teach her what she needs for her next terraforming project. Falling in love isn’t on the itinerary. Especially with Minos, the horned minotaur farmer who didn’t even try to impress her—and the one man she crossed off her dating sheet. Now she’s stuck on his farm, his machinery is broken, and the harvest has to come in by hand. Their cupid insists they belong together. Brit thinks the electric zing whenever they touch is more of a warning. Fortunately, she can fix anything with a circuit. A few repairs, a little AI assistance, and she’ll be ready to leave. Except Minos is proving much harder to resist than she expected. And on a colony where AIs are forbidden, her clever fix could cost her any chance of a future with him.           Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

DARK MATTER: ELLIS MCFADDEN MYSTERIES by Kristin Painter

VS Note: There is a slow burn romance in the series.

Step into the enigmatic world of the Athos—a vessel that blends the luxury of a cruise ship, the intrigue of a scientific research station, and the might of a military starship. Here, amidst the stars, you’ll find Ellis McFadden, the ship’s head librarian, enjoying the quiet of the fallow phase with her knitting, her android cat Harry, and her growing romance with Frank. Even better that she gets to experience it all while in proximity to her daughter, who just happens to be the vice admiral. But life aboard the ship takes a darker turn when the Athos docks at Bastion 8 to take on three prisoners—including the trillionaire mining magnate accused of brutally murdering his lifelong best friend and business partner. As the ship’s librarian, Ellis is required to provide reading material to the prisoners. When the main suspect insists he’s innocent and begs for law books to build his defense, Ellis can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t right. With the help of Frank, Harry, and her friends, she begins quietly digging into the case—only to discover some key witnesses are also aboard. Armed with her wits, the loyalty of her eclectic friends, and a growing sense that the official story has too many holes, Ellis dives into a mystery as dangerous as the rare and dangerous mineral at the heart of the crime. Can she uncover the truth and clear an innocent man before the real killer strikes again?        AmazonK+        AB

THE ALIEN PRINCE’S FEAST (HOLIDATES OF BOREALIS IV BOOK TWO) by Eden Ember

I needed a sous-chef. I got an alien Prince who thinks “Only One Bed” is a valid diplomatic strategy. As the Head Chef of the galaxy’s most luxurious resort, I have zero time for romance. I have a Harvest Banquet to prep, a staff that’s quitting on me, and a reputation to save. Enter “Varr.” He walks into my kitchen with a hood over his face, forearms of steel, and knife skills that make my knees weak. He’s the best assistant I’ve ever had. He’s calm, efficient, and looks at me like I’m the only dessert he wants to taste. But Varr has a secret. He isn’t just a drifter; he’s the Crown Prince of Borealis IV, hiding from a political marriage he doesn’t want. When his royal mother crashes the resort, Varr begs me for a favor: Pretend to be his fiancée for the week. I should say no. But he looks so good in that apron, and his thumb brushing my lip makes my brain short-circuit. Now we’re sharing a suite, sharing secrets, and—oops—sharing a bed. Fake dating a Prince is dangerous. But falling for the chef might just burn the whole kingdom down.    AmazonK+

STRIKE (RENEGADE ALIEN WARRIORS BOOK ONE) by Hattie Jacks

I’m in trouble, REALLY big trouble. I’m trapped in a cage with an alien…and he growled a word which sounded like MINE. Last thing I remember was blasting off from Earth on the first all female crewed mission to Mars. But somehow I’ve ended up in a cage with an enormous winged alien male and he’s just broken me out. If I had any other options, I’d be running like hell, but instead I throw my lot in with this huge, tattooed alien mercenary. He might appear to be the big bad merc, but underneath he’s as soft as his feathers, even if his time spent with females of any species is very much limited. So I spend my time chasing him out of the bathroom, because he wants to be sure I’m safe, dealing with the fact he has no concept of personal space and…oh, yes…teaching him how to kiss. That part I rather like…and so does he. I’ve done so many dangerous things in my life, including strapping myself to a rocket and been fired into space. But the more I know about him, the more time I spend with him, I think the most terrifying thing of all will be losing my heart to Mav. Especially when there’s something hunting us both, I still haven’t found my ship or crew, and we’re running out of time to find them before all the bad guys in the galaxy work out where we are…and come for us both.       AmazonK+

MONSTERS OF OHIO by John Scalzi

VS Note: Not a romance but a science fiction release of note.

Welcome to Richland, Ohio. Things aren’t great. The town’s biggest employer is closing shop, and Richland’s on the brink. It’s where Mike Boyd, with his own set of problems, finds himself returning to after decades away. He’s not planning to stay. But Richland has other plans for Mike, his old friend Dave, and a newcomer Andi. They’re caught in a swirl of local troubles, private equity, executive theft… and something extremely weird involving Jeremy Keller’s prize cow. Welcome to Richland. Leave your expectations behind. Bring a tarp.     Amazon     AB      Apple Books     Kobo

BIRTH OF THE DRAGON LORDS (DRAGON LORDS OF VALDIER) by S E Smith

A goddess’s gift will ignite a legacy. For the first time in her eternal existence, Aikaterina knew she was dying—and she was at peace. Born alongside the universe itself, she had witnessed the birth and death of galaxies, watched stars rise and fall, and marveled as barren worlds blossomed with life. But there was one rule she and her kind had agreed to never break: they were there to observe, but never interfere. No matter how precious the life, no matter how deep the connection. Until now. On a distant world, in a desperate moment, Aikaterina makes a choice that will echo through time. In an act of compassion, she gives her blood, her essence, and her love—and alters the fate of a dying people. And from that sacrifice, the Dragon Lords of Valdier are born. Discover the origin of Valdier’s most powerful legacy… and the Goddess who broke the rules to protect them.

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THROUGH THE DOOR (SHATTERED STARS BOOK 28) by Viola Grace

Trapped in a job that is killing her, Aya uses every fleeting opportunity to send a call for help. Help arrives in a surprising incarnation, just in time. Aya was always good at calming people, but exposure to the dust of the asteroid has turned it into a measurable skill. Identified as a soother who can calm the most violent of impulses, she takes a position on a station and uses her psychic skills to calm lust and rage, making for safer warships. At first, life in space was exciting, but then she learned she was not being allowed out into the station. She had no window. She couldn’t see the stars, and she was stuck in a room that was large enough for a comfortable bedroom but had no communications and no way out unless a client was coming to sit in the chair and have his lust eased into nothing with her psychic skills. After years, she knew her time was short, so she taught herself to send a plea for help every time the door opened or closed. One day, time stopped, and help arrived. Devran was astonishingly tall and calm, and he supported her through the station and to his shuttle. The weirdest part wasn’t him; it was that everyone on the station was frozen in whatever action they had been doing when he came in. This is when she realized there were scarier things than Hmrain out there, and this one was taking her away.

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CLAIMED BY MY WEREDRAGON (WEREDRAGON MATES BOOK THREE) by Celeste Raye

He was ordered to watch her. He never expected to become her mate. Diana Montanari has spent eighteen months fighting to save a dying world while raising her son and navigating a court determined to control her. Kavren has spent twenty-six years obeying orders, becoming the Dowager’s most trusted guard. When he is assigned to protect Diana, their attraction is impossible to ignore—but so is the danger surrounding them. With Dobromia’s sun dying, a rebellion rising, and enemies determined to destroy the alliance, Kavren must choose between the loyalty that shaped his life and the woman fate has claimed as his. Because once a Weredragon finds his mate, there is nothing he won’t do to keep her.       AmazonK+         AB

WEEKEND WITH A HOSA by Nikki Clarke

Zeba Mayes has been on her new home planet, Rhy’n, for a year and–she don’t like it. Her fellow Earth transplants are either hooking up with their (admittedly hot) alien hosts or trying to make Rhy’n feel like Earth, which is opposite of the alien experience Zeba hoped for. As one day blends into the next, she starts to believe her satisfaction for true other-worldliness might exist elsewhere. After saving a visiting alien emissary’s young son from drowning, Zeba is gifted a life debt: a vacation home on a new planet. Jumping at the chance to see if a change of scenery refreshes her perspective of life off-world, she wastes no time packing a bag. Her new property’s lush, tropical landscape and purple beach access are perfect for a little exploration. Unfortunately, her supposedly private vacation home already has an occupant–a seven-foot-tall, horned Hosan named Treii. Treii is celebrating a promotion from his King with some time at his family’s vacation home. He plans to relax, do some hunting, maybe invite some friends from a neighboring quadrant, but that plan gets blasted into space when Zeba arrives. He wants her, and even as she eye-rolls her way through their every interaction, he hopes to make their weekend one that lasts forever.       AmazonK+

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VS: I’m going to hilite a series which doesn’t get much attention from my backlist…the two books are available wide. I have book three’s plot in my head and I already have a cover for it (I plan it to be a five book series) but it’s just a question of when I’ll get time to write it. I have so many projects!

************************* THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT IF YOU DECIDE TO CHECK OUT THE BOOKS (because my own books pay my bills) AND A BIG THANK YOU IF YOU ALREADY HAVE! AND ONWARD WE GO!*********************

 

A RELIC CLOAKED IN THORNS  (ROGUES OF GOLTHWAINE BOOK TWO) by Krista Walsh

A reluctant thief longing for escape, a dragon shifter desperate for independence, and a one-night stand that binds them together. For years, Ashara’s identity as a notorious mage thief has been held over her head, until her blackmailer offers a way out: Find the fortune-making ring and earn her freedom. Her first step is to seduce a handsome stranger for information. Not a hardship. Except after their night together she can’t get him out of her head, and the distraction might get her killed. When Syrus is promised a king’s ransom to find a stolen ring, he jumps at the chance. He needs to grow his hoard, and this sale will make his future. But a night of passion with a captivating stranger changes his plans. He accidentally mates with her and is struck with a longing he can’t fight. Worse, the incomplete bond has blocked his shift, a disadvantage that will make securing the ring even riskier. The closer they get to the relic, the more they discover the danger is greater than they expected. Tensions flare and desires run hot as they realize they stand a better chance of survival working together than apart, even knowing only one can claim the prize.       Amazon

A BAD GIRL’S RULES FOR A BEARY MERRY CHRISTMAS (PNR ROMANCE HOLIDAY MATES) by Heather K Carson

As if coming home for Christmas—jobless and broke—wasn’t bad enough, I’m still a magic-less human in a small mountain town full of paranormal creatures, without even a tail to tuck between my legs. I can’t let anyone know about my bad luck. My family is great, but I hate being treated like I’m made of glass. If they find out, I’ll have an army of dragons and witches coming to save the day. That’s just my relatives. Don’t even get me started on the bear shifters. On him. Dakota. The bear who stole my heart when I was young, and crushed it before I escaped this town. He’s handsome. Obnoxious. Grumpy. And just as possessive as every other shifter I know. I’m grown enough to see him without stirring up these old feelings…So why does the sight of him rushing to help in a snowstorm bring me right back to the girl who wished she was good enough to stay? You know what? Screw it. I’m not the same woman that left here years ago, and I’m tired of always being the good little human. It’s one Christmas. No strings. No tinsel to tie me down. One week of frolicking in the past, and then I’ll be on my way. After everything I went through, maybe it won’t hurt to be a little naughty this year. I did it once. I’m sure I’ll be able to leave this small, supernatural town again. This time, I plan to keep my fragile human heart intact when I go. Unless fate has other plans.    AmazonK+

SELKIES AND SOUFFLE (SUGAR SHACK WITCH MYSTERIES BOOK 11) by Danielle Garrett

Some people come home from vacation with a sunburn. I’m hoping to come home without a curse. After saving the magical world from disaster, Orion and I have earned a break. A few days at the beach, a little sun, and absolutely nothing to investigate. That was the plan, anyway. Then my sisters invited themselves. And their boyfriends. And our rental cottage turns out to be less “seaside charm” and more “bog witch chic.” Still, a disappointing vacation is better than no vacation. Right? But when a local is hit with a nasty hex, the whole town starts talking, and our host lands at the top of the suspect list. Which means we might be sleeping under a hexer’s crumbling roof. I should have asked for a refund.       AmazonK+

BOO, HISS (NINE LIVES MYSTERY NOVELLA) by Danielle Garrett

Halloween used to be my night. Then the household got a baby, and suddenly everyone’s idea of a wild evening is pizza, a movie, and lights out by nine. And it’s not even a scary movie. So I’m going out. Alone. Unsupervised.  Fabulous. I was promised candy, chaos, and a night of heckling people in unfortunate costumes. Instead, I got a missing grimoire, a panicked protégé, and a town that has no idea how much trouble it’s in. Someone has to save Halloween. Fine. I’ll do it. But I’m billing for my time.      AmazonK+

DEAD SEXY: MM HALLOWEEN ROMANCE (COMMON GROUNDS BOOK FOUR) by Merry Farmer

A haunted house, a Halloween party at Common Grounds, and two men who are about to find out that falling in love is dead sexy. Marco – I moved to Glenside to build a new life on my own terms. That includes good cheese, good neighbors, and a fresh start next door to Common Grounds. The last thing I expected was to also end up with a Victorian fixer-upper with a very opinionated ghost. Turns out the only man in town who can help is the gorgeous, broody funeral director across the street, who looks like he stepped out of a gothic romance novel and talks to the dead for a living. So of course I invite him over for hot pasta and to investigate ghostly cold spots…in the bedrooms. He kisses me like he means it, then runs like I’m the scary one. Bastian – People in small towns have opinions about everything. That includes weirdos with bright red hair who wear black like me. I don’t do reckless. I don’t do public. I definitely don’t do falling for loud, warm, ridiculously charming shopkeepers who bring me manchego and invited me over for a ghost hunt. Except somehow I do, one midnight investigation, one Halloween party, one brush of his hand against mine at a time. Marco makes me want things I stopped letting myself want. All I have to do is stop hiding and embrace my freak as much as he seems to want to.       AmazonK+

A CONSPIRACY OF CHARMING MONSTERS: ILLUSTRATED TALES FROM ELFHAME (THE FOLK OF THE AIR) by Holly Black

A reluctant king is thrown into turmoil when the girl he loves to hate is stolen by the Undersea. An exiled redcap, trapped in the mortal world, must rediscover his inner monster. A mortal girl sacrifices the other half of herself for an unworthy faerie lover. A tiny sprite’s determination to prove herself puts the entire High Court in danger. In this collection, #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black combines her signature wit and lush world-building with stunning full-color art by Frostbite Studios in six irresistible tales that return readers to the world of the Modern Faerie Tales and Elfhame, including two never-before-seen stories: one revealing the interior life of Madoc while in exile and the other featuring the moment that High King Cardan realizes what he most desires.     Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

DEFY THE DUSK: BOOK ONE OF THE SUNDERING DUET by Danielle L Jensen

In the Sundered world, there are two options: Ride the dawn, or face what rises in the night. Twenty years ago, Lirien’s magic fractured the world and unleashed nocturnal creatures that brought civilization to its knees. Amidst the carnage came salvation: The most powerful survivors were invited to board Dawnrider, a high-speed rig that would deliver those aboard into a new era. The rest of humanity was left to die. Instead, a king rose from the darkness to lead them. In the years since, Lirien has dedicated her magic to Dawnrider while secretly plotting to overthrow the tyrant who rules the rig with an iron fist. But just as Lirien is ready to strike against him, she is violently abducted by Vox—the king of the feralists. The mercurial Vox gives her two choices: Fight the creatures that hunt the night or be fed to them. Lirien agrees to join his ranks, but embarks on a strategy of seduction that will return her to Dawnrider. Yet as Vox pushes the limits of her magic, Lirien begins to question whether defying the dusk is the true path to salvation. Intoxicated by both Vox and his war against the night, Lirien must decide where her loyalties truly lie—and how far she’s willing to go for redemption.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

THE DARKEST ART (COLLEGIA MORTIS) by Karina Halle

At Collegia Mortis, a prestigious university for necromancers, Professor Bastian Vale holds his students to impossible standards and keeps every one of them at a distance. Every one except Saturna Greythorn. She’s spent weeks catching glimpses of someone else behind that cold exterior, someone who watches her when he thinks she won’t notice, finding excuses to keep her after class. Eventually the tension between them becomes too powerful to ignore. Flames ignite. Hearts get crushed. And what starts with fire ends in blood. She finds Baz’s body, brutally murdered. So she does the one thing that could expose what she really is—she brings her professor back. Now Baz is bound to her, his life tethered to hers by a bond that could fail at any moment, his memories in pieces, and his killer still walking the halls. Finding the truth means staying close. Dangerously close. But the deeper they dig, the more she realizes his murder was only the beginning. And someone at the Mortis will kill again to keep those secrets buried.     AmazonK+

FATED CHOICE: FF VAMPIRE PNR (THE IMMORTAL REIGN BOOK FIVE) by Ariel Marie

Hunted by her own kind. Protected by her greatest risk. Petra Orsava has spent years serving the Crown as the local commander’s trusted advisor and liaison to humans. She believes there can be peace and a future where both can coexist. When an elite human special forces unit arrives to train under the vampire command, Petra finds herself drawn to someone she never expected. Captain Locara Hayes is lethal, disciplined, and dangerously perceptive. She’s seen the worst of vampires—and refuses to trust easily. Being assigned to Petra’s personal guard detail wasn’t part of her plan… and neither was the undeniable pull toward the vampire she has to protect. Tensions begin to rise amongst vampires with a rogue faction emerging from the shadows. They believe humans are nothing more than prey. With dangerous alliances forming between vampires and lycans, Petra becomes their next target. To them, she is a mistake that must be corrected—or destroyed. With enemies closing in and trust hanging by a thread, Petra and Locara are forced into a fight neither of them expected. They must decide if their bond is worth the cost. Because in a world ruled by blood and power…love isn’t fate. It’s a choice.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

A GLIMMER OF DEATH (MERRY gENTRY BOOK 10) by Laurell K Hamilton

I am Meredith Gentry. Princess of the realm of faerie, private investigator in the mortal land of Los Angeles, mother of triplets, and lover to my men—the royal guards sworn to protect me. With a family and a court to support back home, I can’t say no to a job investigating a string of magical attacks against up-and-coming Hollywood actresses. Not when the case raises old nightmares from my own past. This time when I find out who is responsible for all this pain, I can make him pay. But affairs in the land of faerie keep interrupting my hunt. Aisling is supposed to be the next king of the Seelie Court, but he is doubly cursed once by beauty and once by despair. If we cannot cure him my uncle Taranis, former King of Light and Illusion, may regain the throne. If he does he will destroy me and everyone I care about. Only true love will cure Aisling of his curse but is my love true enough? If not, I will share his fate and lose myself to the haunted magic that torments him. While we fight for one kingdom of faerie, my aunt Andais, Queen of Air and Darkness, claims my deceased best friend, Keelin, has turned up alive and well along with a child supposedly sired by her dead son. If this baby is the true child of my former rival to the Unseelie throne, my enemies might use it to take the throne from me. Mysterious fey babies, curses both ancient and new are shaking the delicate balance of the faerie courts, and I am still hunting a monster terrorizing the women of Los Angeles.

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STARDUST LOST PRINCE by Evelyn Hope

Lara Voss is a drug dealer, just not in human circles. In Midnight City, ruled by monsters, she trades in Stardust. The most sought-after substance among vampires, werewolves, witches, and necromancers. The elite crave it. You can find Lara everywhere that matters, best parties and popular clubs. Her product is rare and expensive, but Lara never seems to have any money left. One problem is her lavish lifestyle, the other is being addicted herself. Haunted by her own demons, she’s breaking the oldest rule in the game: Never get high on your own supply. Problems begin when one of her new clients, a young, wealthy, and influential vampire, disappears. She was the last person to see him, and now vampires are hunting for answers. But the fun doesn’t end there… she also catches the eye of a filthy-rich, powerful werewolf whose interest in her quickly turns obsessive.     Amazon

DAMON’S DAY OUT (AGGIE’S BOYS) by Raven Storm

Aggie has one rule before leaving for a much-needed weekend away: Don’t let Damon out. Three powerful supernatural men. One twenty-eight-pound shadowdemon disguised as a cat. What could possibly go wrong? Thirty-two minutes later, Damon is loose. Now Karl, Luka, and Seth have forty-eight hours to find him before Aggie comes home—and Damon is having the best weekend of his very long life. Stolen cars, angry dogs, questionable decisions, and one terrified village later, this demon cat who has absolutely no intention of making this easy. Damon’s Day Out is a chaotic, bonus novella set in the Forty-Year-Old Virgin Witch world.      AmazonK+

INKED BY PRIDE: BLACK LEDGER SERIES by Raven Storm

Every debt demands payment. An ancient, sentient ledger exists outside time—The Black Ledger. It does not judge good or evil. It records imbalance. Men whose lives have tipped too far—through excess, denial, cruelty, obsession, or neglect—find their names written inside. Once marked, they are collected. Their punishment isn’t death. It’s confrontation. Each man is forced into a supernatural reckoning centered on the very flaw that defined him—made worse by the one thing he never planned for: love. Caleb Hart doesn’t believe in redemption. In a town that keeps its secrets quiet, Caleb lives by one rule: keep his head down, pay what’s owed, and never let anyone close enough to see the mark burned into his skin. The Ledger doesn’t forgive—it records. Every choice. Every failure. Every life crossed in the process. Desiree was never supposed to matter. She’s the bartender everyone underestimates, the woman holding herself together after her father’s death, the last person Caleb should want anything from. But one conversation turns into another. One look turns into a pull he can’t explain. And the Ledger notices. As Caleb is dragged deeper into a system older than sin—one that demands penance instead of mercy—Desiree becomes both his anchor and his greatest risk. Because the Ledger always collects. And loving her might be the most unforgivable debt of all.       AmazonK+

HIS FORGOTTEN LOVE: MM FRIENDS TO LOVERS VAMPIRE ROMANCE  (BOUND IN BLOOD BOOK TWO) by Colette Rivera

The biggest mistake of Mateo Rojas’s life is twenty years in the making. It starts when Mateo meets his roommate freshman year of college. Hunter is the best friend he thought he’d never have, and when their medical careers align, Mateo decides to never leave Hunter’s side. Hunter Beaumont has a crush on his straight roommate, but he’s handling it. He’d never sacrifice his friendship with Mateo. Even when Hunter is turned into a vampire, a monster that isn’t supposed to be real, and he stands to lose everything, Mateo is all that matters. But Hunter’s life has a new dark side, and keeping Mateo safe comes at a price. As the years go by, their friendship shifts. Straight no longer fits Mateo, and Hunter reveals his vampire nature. Magic is destroying Hunter’s life, but perhaps Mateo can fix it. No one has ever scientifically defined vampire powers. What if understanding is the key to breaking Hunter free of his bonds? It’s a brilliant idea. If only it didn’t lead Mateo to ruin. If only working so hard to preserve their friendship didn’t break Hunter’s heart. Mateo did it all for love. For Hunter. The mess he made might be impossible to untangle, but he has to try.      AmazonK+

WAYWARD DAUGHTER (UNNATURAL LORE BOOK ONE) by JB Trepagnier

Logan Ledoux, Monster Hunter extraordinaire at your service. Did your eccentric aunt leave you a bad ass mansion that happens to be haunted by the malevolent spirit of a Victorian child? Did you rescue a werewolf who was hit by a car because you thought it was a German Shepherd and now they think you’re their mate? Did you happen to donate blood to a vampire posing as a phlebotomist And now they’ve gotten a taste for you? If someone in Kansas bought another haunted doll at the antique road show, I’m going to need hazard pay to deal with it because the Governor has banned me from Kansas and the state police would love to arrest me. If you’ve pissed off a witch, you’ve probably got it coming. Call me, baby. It all started thirty years ago when my mother shoved an ornate knife in my hands and stashed me in a trap door under the floor. The sounds I heard in that hole will forever haunt me. When my uncle came to let me out, there was blood all over the walls and my mom was missing. My uncle trained me to hunt monsters so nothing like that would ever happen to me and I could eventually figure out what happened to mom.
I’m getting close. I have to be.       AmazonK+

KINGDOM OF YESTERDAY: BOOK OF ARDEN 3 by Gena Showalter

He conquered kingdoms. Now, he’s coming after her. Cyrus Dolion has claimed his throne, dethroned gods, and fused his soul with the deity of ruin and madness. He’s building a new world—and yet, he cannot reclaim Arden Roosa. She slipped through his fingers once, and he’ll do anything to win her again. Arden knows exactly what Cyrus wants: to use her body as a vessel for his goddess wife, her will dismantled and rebuilt in his image. She refuses. Sworn to Soal, the Source of All Light, she trains under the formidable Domino Crane, learning to wield powers she barely understands, preparing for a war she didn’t choose, and fighting the most treacherous battle of all: the one inside her own heart. Because Domino sees every scar, every fracture, every mistake—and wants her anyway. As kingdoms collapse beneath betrayal and divine ambition, Arden finds herself torn between two impossible forces: the emperor willing to destroy the world to make her his queen…and the warrior willing to destroy himself to stand at her side.    AmazonK+

ABRAXOS (DARK WARRIOR ALLIANCE BOOK 28) by Brenda Trim

A lethal warrior angel with scarlet wings…Though the sultry streets of New Orleans are full of temptation, Abraxos has no time for distractions. As Heaven’s most skilled fighter, he’s on the hunt for Lucifer. But when ancient evil stirs and cosmic barriers begin to crack, Abraxos finds himself drawn to the one female who could shatter his legendary control. And she’s not the simple human she appears to be. A woman discovering her powerful heritage…Sarah Morgan thought owning an occult bookstore was as supernatural as her life could get. Then her carefully ordered world erupts in chaos. She’s suddenly in possession of latent abilities and emerging powers that haven’t been seen since the dawn of Creation, though it’s the irresistible warrior angel haunting her shop that disturbs her most. A date with desire and destiny…As primordial beings known as the Titans awaken from ancient slumber, Sarah and Abraxos team up to prevent a cosmic catastrophe. But Sarah’s newfound powers place her firmly in harm’s way and soon Abraxos is fighting his overwhelming need to claim her as his own. Will their explosive attraction derail their mission to save life as they know it, or can they master their connection before the Titans regain their full power?    AmazonK+

BAYOU BONES AND EVIL THRONES (TWISTED SISTERS MIDLIFE MAELSTROM BOOK 18) by Brenda Trim

The Six Twisted Sisters didn’t survive this long by saying yes to things they didn’t understand. They said yes anyway. One weekend. A cooking competition. Camera crews and string lights and tourists who’d never look close enough to see what lived in the shadows behind the charm. The plantation had played this role before—beautiful, composed, hiding its teeth—and the sisters were good at maintaining a mundane appearance. Probably too good. Turns out they should’ve kept their heads down. Something has been waiting in the bayou south of their property line since before New Orleans had cobblestones. Something long-suffering. Something that perseveres. After all, impatience is for things that haven’t learned to fail well. This has failed a hundred times and still returned, sharpened by each defeat. Now there’s a crack in the ward that held it out for nearly two centuries, and it’s about to overcome that magical bond the way that water finds every weakness in old stone. Then a vampire with knowledge that predates the nation appears like the swell of ocean waves in the hours before a hurricane. She’s not here with a warning. Warning implies time. She’s here because the bloodlines connecting all nine lineages are waking up. And like it or not, if the Sisters can’t hold the line, there won’t be anything left worth protecting. Not the plantation. Not the city. Not the lights strung through the oaks that glow at dusk like something holy. The competition finale is in three days. And the ancient power yearning to break free isn’t going to wait for the credits to roll.      AmazonK+

TENEBROUS: MM DARK MONSTER ROMANCE by Bree Wiley

A simple night shift guarding an old lumber mill deep in the mountains sounded easy enough. Make a quick buck, no people, no reminders of the life I destroyed back home. Then the locals started warning me to stay out of the woods.
None of them will tell me what they’re so afraid of, but I’ve felt it watching me in the dark. Seen its eyes through the trees, felt its breath on my neck. The people here are keeping secrets. And the further I fall down the rabbit hole on the history of this town, the more I understand why my parents fled before I was born. I came here to escape my past. Instead, I may have stumbled into something far worse.        AmazonK+

MORTIS: MM MONSTER ROMANCE by Lily James

Some beasts never wanted to be monsters. The most dangerous ones always did. For sixty years, Kael has survived by hunting anyone foolish enough to enter Barrowfell Woods. Bound to his inner demon, every meal leaves him drowning in guilt. When he finally refuses to kill again, desperation drives him beyond the treeline and into the world of humans. Teddy Adler has spent his life surrounded by the dead. As the mortuary technician at his family’s funeral home, corpses don’t scare him. Demons, apparently, don’t either. Instead of running from the seven-foot cryptid he catches eating one of his clients, Teddy offers Kael a solution neither of them expected. One that lets him feed on the dead instead of the living. But while Teddy teaches a demon how to survive without murder, a centuries-old cult is preparing to finish what its founders started. Their leader has spent a lifetime searching for the beast his family once enslaved, and he’ll burn down an entire town to drag Kael back into chains.      AmazonK+

HUSH: MM MONSTER ROMANCE by Avery Collins

Deep in the Sweet Rivers forest, something ancient is watching…After my life fell apart, a ranger post in my old hometown sounded like the perfect escape. Quiet trails, familiar woods, and enough distance from my past to finally breathe again. I don’t expect the thing watching me from the trees. The locals have always whispered about the Lantern Stalkers—horned creatures with skull faces, swinging lanterns, and a trail of disappearances behind them. It’s all just folklore to me until I see the light in the forest and feel him watching me. Powerful, possessive, and bound to the forest by a forgotten goddess, Onyx is no campfire story. I know I should run from the monster in my woods. Instead, I follow the pull in my blood and discover that being claimed by a monster feels less like ruin and more like coming home. But Onyx isn’t the only thing hiding in the woods. There’s another creature out here—something that has decided if I belong to Onyx…Then I belong to him, too.       AmazonK+

NOCTIS: MM MONSTER ROMANCE by H L Day

The monster never promised to be good. Only loyal. ROWAN – After my mother’s murder sends my life spiraling, my boyfriend carts me off to an isolated rehab facility. He calls it saving me. I call it suspicious. But the therapy and forced sobriety aren’t the worst things waiting inside. Something watches me from the corner of my room. Red eyes. Horns. A body made of shadows. He calls himself Caligo. And wherever I go, he follows. He wants to touch me. To possess me. And the more time I spend with him, the less certain I am that I want him to stop. CALIGO – Humans are fascinating creatures―fragile, flawed, and deliciously dishonest. Rowan Hayes, however, is different. His pain drew predators who mistook him for prey. They were wrong. Anyone foolish enough to betray him will answer to me. And if blood must be spilled to see him smile again…So be it. He thinks he belongs to the human world. He never did. His fear. His grief. His heart. All mine.    AmazonK+

SOLAIS: MM MONSTER ROMANCE by C S Autumn

Caspian – I didn’t die that day. My best friend says a beast saved me. A monster. A legend. A creature from stories told around campfires. But he’s wrong. Monsters don’t exist. That’s what I keep telling myself. And yet my dreams are filled with him—tall and strong, claws sharp like knives, vibrant green eyes that glow like beacons. He shouldn’t be real. He can’t be. Since the accident, I’ve been scrambling to hold my life together, fighting to keep what’s mine from being taken from me. Running my bakery, and caring for my farm, while drowning in grief and jumping at shadows. I’ve never felt so afraid or so alone. Then a stranger arrives in Newbridge, carrying a sense of familiarity I can’t explain and warmth I want to lose myself in. Sterling – I saved him that day. Dragged him from the waves and laid him on the beach in the shadow of his lighthouse. Now I watch him. Protect him. Care for him. And show him the only version of me he believes is real. The man and not the monster. There is nothing I won’t do for him. Because he is mine.       AmazonK+

THE LONG WITCH GOODNIGHT (WICKED WITCHES OF THE MIDWEST BOOK 29) by Amanda M Lee

A late night at work means bad things for Bay Winchester when she’s attacked from behind and knocked out before she can use her magic to protect herself. Upon waking, she finds herself in a dreamscape with a woman she doesn’t know. Bay’s escape from the dreamscape is fraught, and when she wakes in the hospital, she assumes it was all a dream … right until she recognizes the woman in the bed across the room from her. It’s the same woman from the dreamscape. The doctor warns Bay that her recovery is dependent on sleep, and her family decides that needs to happen under the watchful eye of her mother. Bay, however, is not one for bed rest. Upon making a jailbreak with Aunt Tillie, Bay goes searching for answers … and she doesn’t like what she finds. The woman in the other bed has been in a persistent vegetative state for years. No one knows how she got there. Nobody knows how it happened. All Bay does know is that she’s still out there, somewhere, and Bay is going to help her. Bay’s search takes her deep, and what she finds isn’t what she expects. There are different types of monsters. This one might change the entire course of Bay’s life … forever.       AmazonK+       AB

MINOTAUR’S CARNAL FEAST (SEASONAL SIN MONSTERS) by M Q Rush

I set a place at the table for a guest. Instead, I got a captor. Nothing ruins a family dinner like my unconventional choices getting more attention than the turkey. I’ve had enough. This Thanksgiving, I’m staying at the old farmhouse with expensive wine and nobody to judge me. Setting an extra place for the “Lonely Spirit” is my little joke. Until a hulking minotaur accepts my invitation on his own twisted terms. Beros has horns, centuries of pent-up hunger, and the nerve to eat my wineglass. I’ve offered him a feast. According to his rules, that includes the hostess. I planned to spend Thanksgiving alone. He plans to spend it with me at his mercy.       AmazonK+

EMBRACED BY THE GHOST: A NOVEL OF HIDDEN HOLLOW by Evangeline Anderson

GARRIK – A century haunting Blackthorn Manor is enough to make anyone grumpy. Once, I was Guardian of the Veil. Then a wicked witch cursed me, leaving me a ghost trapped in my own home. No one has touched me in a hundred years—until Celeste walks in and SLAPS me! She’s curvy, beautiful, stubborn, and apparently a rare Veil Witch who might break my curse. But Halloween is approaching, something evil is stirring beneath the manor, and I’ll do anything to protect the woman I’m falling for—even if it costs me my chance to live again. CELESTE – I thought hot flashes and mood swings were the worst perimenopause had to offer. Turns out, it’s also awakening my witch powers. Now I’m stuck in Hidden Hollow, a magical town full of monsters where it’s always Autumn, and falling for Garrik Blackthorn—an enormous, handsome, ridiculously grumpy ghost! He’s the first man in years to make me feel beautiful, cherished, and wanted. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to use my new magic! If I can’t break Garrik’s curse before Halloween, the Gateway beneath his haunted mansion could claim him forever. I’ve finally found a man worth loving, and I’m NOT letting him go without a fight—even if saving him means risking my heart and my life!          Amazon     Apple Books     NOTE: Did not see the book on KOBO as of the day I checked.

BROOMSTICKS AND BREAKDOWNS (GERRI WILDEE’S MAGICAL MIDLIFE RESET BOOK TWO) by Milly Taiden

Her kids moved out. Her feelings moved in. Unfortunately, they brought a magical raccoon. Mirelle Ainsley thought becoming an empty nester would mean quiet mornings, too much coffee, and figuring out what to do with herself after decades of being Mom. Instead, one badly timed wave of loneliness cracks open her dormant magic and fills her kitchen with glowing creatures. Now her emotions have paws, her raccoon has claimed the local café, and the witches of Spelltide Cove insist the only way to stop multiplying her magical menagerie is to actually feel her feelings. Horrifying. Tor Varyn has spent years keeping Spelltide Cove’s magical disasters contained, categorized, and preferably nowhere near his personal life. Mirelle ruins that system in about five minutes. His wolf knows exactly what she is to him, her unpredictable magic refuses to follow procedure, and the more time Tor spends teaching her control, the harder it becomes to remember why keeping his distance seemed like such a good idea. Then Mirelle discovers her loneliness isn’t entirely her own. Someone has been deliberately pushing her emotions, using her awakening magic to weaken the town’s defenses. With strange creatures breaking through, a suspicious man stalking her, and her own summoned guardians developing opinions about Tor, Mirelle is done letting anyone else decide what she should feel. Especially when starting over might include one stubborn wolf who makes her feel anything but alone.       AmazonK+

STRIPES AND KISSES (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 118) by Milly Taiden

She’s used to flying high. He’s used to being in charge. Somebody’s about to crash and burn. Pilot Lila Channing loves three things: her jet, her freedom, and telling bossy men to shove their opinions. So when Gerri Wilder offers her a ridiculously well-paid charter flight, Lila figures it’s easy money. What she doesn’t expect is Niko Mercer—a six-foot-plus, growly, muscle-packed tiger Alpha with a killer body and an attitude that begs to be adjusted. The man takes one look at her and starts acting like he owns the cockpit. Too bad for him, Lila doesn’t take orders. Especially from men who make her panties spontaneously combust. Niko Mercer runs a security empire, commands dangerous shifters, and has never met a situation he couldn’t control. Then one sexy, smart-mouthed pilot walks into his life, and his tiger loses its damn mind. She’s his mate. His future. The one woman he wants beneath him more than his next breath. Too bad Lila treats his Alpha authority like a personal challenge. Niko wants to protect her, claim her, and convince her that surrendering to him could be the best ride of her life. Preferably somewhere private, where clothing is optional, and she can argue with him all she wants. But when saboteurs bring down Lila’s jet and rogue shifters come hunting, their simple charter turns into a deadly game of survival. Stranded in the wilderness with killers on their trail, Lila’s determined to prove she can handle herself, while Niko’s tiger is one growl away from going completely feral. Now Lila has to survive a murderous conspiracy, an overprotective Alpha, and the terrifying possibility that falling for one bossy tiger might be the biggest thrill of her life. And somewhere, Gerri Wilder is probably already picking out honeymoon destinations.        AmazonK+

SHADOWS AND STONE by Kota Quinn

VS Note: MM PNR.

You’re formally readmitted to Creelin University, known locally as “Creepin U.” The only things wilder than the monsters prowling around campus are the spicy male/male love stories unfolding between classes. ‘Shadows and Stone’ is a monster romance. This is a fun and steamy novel between a protective gargoyle who lost his memories and the famous K-drama actor he wants to claim. Expect a sexy monster turned bodyguard, a sassy human with purple hair, and a romance that has the perfect blend of spicy and sweet. It’s part of the Creepin U: Season 2 collab series, and each book has a HEA.       AmazonK+

FIRST KISS WITH A MIOTHMAN by CD Rachels

VS Note: MM PNR.

I only want to keep my antennae down at college. That can’t happen while the distracting human boy has me hearing a new type of music. Being the most well-known mothman in the country, I was never meant to live a normal life. My upbringing was far from average. I simply want to get my degree and start working. But then I’m butting heads with a human dude, the only blind guy on campus. When we realize we have more in common than we thought, he asks to hang out. For some reason, he wants to be friends with a grumpy bug like me. Still, I choose to befriend Arie. I find him more fascinating than I should. He’s a vulnerable human who ought to be more scared of the world than he is. He’s cheerful, optimistic, and way too endearing. When his life is irrevocably changed before Halloween, I help him navigate this new identity. I need to be there for him as his friend, his confidante, and so much more. Our lives are so different. Despite this, Arie is a flame I can’t stay away from. If we get together, will we fly into the sunset together? Or is our ballad a tragedy from the start?      AmazonK+

BOY MEETS MONSTER by Leslie McAdam

VS Note: MM PNR.

Matt: Only I could end up in a love triangle between two people. Caleb: Your geometry has a certain logic, given our circumstances. Caleb: Except it can’t be “only” you since you’re conveniently forgetting the second person in this triangle. Matt: I am not. You’re unforgettable. Matt: I see you preening over there. Caleb: What can I say? When you look as good as I do— Matt: Hush, huldrekall. And by the way, no one’s going to know what a huldrekall is. Caleb: Some will. Matt: But for those who don’t, do you think we should tell them? Caleb: No. Let them find out by reading the book. Matt: Are you also going to tell them how you made getting me in your bed the subject of an ill-advised bet with your frat brothers? Or are you going to keep that from them the way you kept it from me?…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)        AmazonK+

GOLDEN RECEIVER by Essie Sloane

VS Note: MM PNR.

Kieran – When I got recruited to transfer to Creelin University to play football, I thought this might be my chance. I would be the first human on the team. I would make campus history. Okay, really, I just liked the full scholarship that came with it. It was a great way to escape the small town I lived in with my Pops my whole life and the not-so-great college I attended. I didn’t expect to feel like a fish out of water. I really didn’t expect there to be a werewolf going after the same position as me. How can I compete with a supernatural creature? Evander – When Coach Shaw said we were getting a human on the football team, I was excited! Except the human in question is grumpy, surly, and I’m not sure he knows how to smile. He also wants to be the number one wide receiver on the team, the same position I’m trying to get. I know I’m the better player, but he keeps distracting me. He smells really good, you know? I really need to stay focused, and not on the distractingly handsome grumpy human.      AmazonK+

ANCHORED TO YOU by Ashley Rayne

VS Note: MM PNR.

Beck – This year at Creepin U, I only have three priorities: get through my classes, play baseball, and work enough to make money for school. I don’t have time for distractions, drama, and especially not hookups. Then I find out my new roommate is the one person I never expected to see again, and I know I’m screwed. After ghosting Talon last year, I told myself it was nothing more than a hookup. And it wasn’t. I had too much going on back then, and I have even more going on now. But living with him makes forgetting impossible. We’re sharing a small space, and the more time I spend with him, the more I want a second chance to prove I’m not the guy he thinks I am. Talon – Getting ghosted hurts. But getting ghosted by the person who’s your new roommate is worse. But he doesn’t need to know that, so I lie. I tell him that night meant nothing and that I’ve moved on. But when he comes back asking for another night together, I can’t help but agree. No feelings, no expectations, only hooking up. But the more I try to prove to him and myself that it means nothing, the harder it is to ignore my feelings. Maybe the biggest mistake wasn’t hooking up again? Maybe it was believing that we could do it again without catching feelings.      AmazonK+

MY SOUL TO KEEP by Rae Simmons

VS note: MM PNR.

Tate – Creelin U has been all the rage since they started accepting humans. I never imagined I’d be one of those humans. I’d only applied on a dare. I wasn’t supposed to actually get accepted, let alone become fascinated with the broody new transfer. But now I knew how Miley felt. I felt so out of place, so desperate to connect with someone that when my roommate asked to host a party, I couldn’t say no. Little did I know what that party would entail, and what my participation would bring. Luc – I wasn’t sure what compelled me to apply to CU. College life had never appealed to me, but there’s a first time for everything, I suppose. Then I found him, the adorable bright-eyed boy who’d summoned me. The first time I laid eyes on him, I knew he had to be mine. Then he made me a deal: his virginity for my experience. You know what they say: Never make a deal with a devil, unless you’re prepared to take the heat.   AmazonK+

ALL ORC NOTHING by Toby Wise

VS Note: MM PNR.

Thane feels like a fish out of water when he enters Creepin U. Most of his life has revolved around taking care of his younger siblings and now that he’s on his own, it hits him all at once that he’s a thirty year old who’s got a lot to catch up on. For one, it might be nice to finally experience his first kiss. Maverick needs a break. When he’s offered the position of taking care of the campus medical center, Maverick jumps at the chance at a slower paced job. That’s where he sees Thane for the first time and sparks fly. The two can’t seem to stop running into each other and what starts as mild intrigue, very quickly turns into something much deeper. Terrible parents, deadlines, jobs, and blood moons threaten to make them stumble but every twist and turn only serves to bring them closer together. All of Thane’s focus is on taking care of his family while Maverick just wants to take care of Thane.     AmazonK+

THE ART OF LIVING FOREVER (THE SUNDERED GODS BOOK ONE) by A T Rainach

A centuries-old rivalry is reignited in A.T. Rainach’s dark romantasy debut, which follows the ancient God of War as he discovers the reincarnated soul of the woman he once loved. He could never forget her. Not in any lifetime. Not even after a thousand years. Grace is desperate to escape the future planned for her—a forced engagement to a vile English lord an ocean away—when a mysterious stranger who looks at her like he’s known her for lifetimes catches her eye. Aris is bound by a past he cannot escape. Haunted by a woman with eyes the same gray-blue as a raging sea, he is determined to have her back. No matter the cost. But in the shadows of Napoleonic Europe, Grace finds herself caught between a love she is only beginning to understand and a darkness that has been waiting for her, setting off a millennia-old conflict between two powerful gods.

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CAPTIVE TRAITOR KING (BRAIDED FAITH BOOK TWO) by Brigid Kemmerer

CAPTIVE. Asher has always sworn loyalty to Jory, the princess he’s loved from afar—but now the King of Incendar has claimed a place in his heart too. Someone wants them both dead, and only Asher’s blade can keep them safe. Yet his past won’t let him go, and he must decide if he can break free—or remain prisoner to his old scars. TRAITOR. Princess Marjoriana of Astranza agreed to marry the King of Incendar to secure peace, but betrayal runs closer than she ever imagined. With her own brother unmasked as her enemy, two kingdoms teeter on the edge. To protect her people, she must take the throne. But there are still dark secrets to unravel that will force Jory to confront where her true allegiance lies. KING. Maddox Kyronan has discovered trust—and something more—with his reluctant bride and her deadly protector, but the fragile alliance between their nations threatens to unravel. His people are starving. His enemies are circling in. Torn between the crown and his heart, Ky risks losing it all. As buried truths surface and tensions reach a breaking point, Jory, Asher, and Ky must confront the desires that could save their kingdoms—or shatter them forever.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

CLAIMED BY THE ORC KING (FATED AND BOUND BOOK ONE) by Roxy Taylor

A fated mates monster romance featuring an orc king, a portal to a brutal fantasy realm, and a heroine who refuses to kneel. Thena came to FantastiCon to survive the weekend with minimal human interaction and maximum sarcasm. She didn’t plan on catching the attention of a seven-foot orc painted in war green—or the way her pulse stutters when he looks at her like she’s already his. Viggo Klausson isn’t a cosplayer. He’s the High Chieftain of the Eastern Orcs, stranded in the human world while searching for the mate fate promised him. The moment he scents Thena, the bond snaps tight. Then a portal drags her into Korule—a fractured kingdom where women are rare, power is carved in blood, and claiming a mate can start a war. Thena refuses to become anyone’s prize. An ancient magic awakens inside her, and suddenly she’s not just the king’s fated mate. She’s dangerous. Viggo may be steady. He may be patient. But when enemies circle, he does not hesitate to bare his teeth. He found his mate. Now he has to earn her.

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THE CURSED DIAMOND: A NOVEL by Anna Rasche

In New York City a century apart, two women’s fates are bound by the dark legacy of the Midnight Diamond – 2010. Jennie is working as a runner in the Diamond District when a friend’s sudden death leaves her with a cryptic note: “Not Safe.” Her search for answers leads her to an antique jewelry box, a clue to a century-old mystery and the legend of the Midnight Diamond—a rare blue gem rumored to bring ruin to all who possess it. As Jennie is pulled deeper into a world of secrets and danger, she realizes she is not just chasing a lost treasure; she is uncovering a story that was meant to stay buried. 1910. On an ocean liner bound for New York, heiress Marcella Porter returns home after being disgraced by scandal in London. Her path collides with a charismatic nobleman and the magnificent Midnight Diamond, which she unknowingly smuggles into the city. Mesmerized by its brilliance, Marcella feels an irresistible pull toward the diamond, and when the glittering façade of her charmed life begins to crack, Marcella must decide whether the Midnight Diamond is her salvation—or her doom. Can Jennie break the centuries-old curse before it brings more ruin? Inspired by history’s most captivating gemstone, The Cursed Diamond is a thrilling mystery about fate, obsession, and the deadly costs of ambition.

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DROWN THE BONES by Alexandra Kennington

The spare heir must work with an enemy prince to discover who murdered her twin in this gripping slow-burn romantasy. As the younger twin, Merridan has never minded being the “spare” to the Rothian royal throne. She knows her brother, Von, will be an excellent king, and she’d rather devote her time to the Goddess, faithfully using her magic to send deceased spirits from the holy lake to the Afterworld. When the unthinkable happens and her brother is murdered, she is certain their rival kingdom, Nova, is to blame. After all, they worship a false deity and use their magic to toy with necromancy. But when the Goddess halts the investigation of Von’s death, Merridan takes matters into her own hands, performing a forbidden Novian ritual to attempt to speak to her brother’s ghost. The last thing Merridan expects is to raise the wrong ghost. Now she’s bound to Phoenix Darragon, the arrogant crown prince of Nova—who was murdered the same night as Von. The prince makes Merridan a deal: if she takes his spirit to Nova to be resurrected, he will help her find her brother’s killer. But uncovering the truth about the murderer means discovering Phoenix’s secrets, too. As the attraction between Merridan and the prince becomes undeniable and the threat of war builds, she must decide whether finding the truth is worth its cost if it means her beloved relationship with the Goddess is changed forever.          Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

MAGE OF TIDES: THE SIREN’S SEA BOOK ONE by Margaret Couplet

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

Everything changed when Jet sank beneath the waves. Outcast for his solitary nature and his mother’s lack of status, Jet holds a dangerous secret that will kill him if anyone finds out. But when the sea god’s High Priestess demands a sacrifice to appease her lord and bring prosperity to their small village Jet is damned anyway. Shashida always knew he’d be King of Merlaton one day but numerous assassination attempts threaten to bring that day closer than anyone would want. After the most recent attempt the prince swims off to a nearby reef to think only to find a strange and wonderful surprise.       AmazonK+

EAST OF ENVY (THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE LAND BOOK TWO) by Nikki St Crowe

Oz smiles like a fairy tale and bites like a curse. And Dorothy is trapped in its teeth. Dorothy Gale has been betrayed by the Wizard of Oz; he used her, broke her, and left her stranded in a strange land. Now she’s forced to team up with the last person she should trust: the Tin Woodman. A heartless mercenary with an axe to grind and nothing left to lose. Because the Wizard didn’t just steal his heart, he took Tin’s little brother, Gabriel, too. Everything about Tin is dangerous. And the closer Dorothy gets, the harder it is to tell what scares her more—his blade, or the fire he ignites within her. But defeating the Wizard won’t be easy. His magic hums beneath every brick and coils through every whisper, until you’re walking in circles on the Yellow Brick Road. He has all of Oz under his spell and more power than anyone. Or does he? Because Dorothy is more than she seems, and the longer she’s in Oz, the more she remembers. Things about her past, about what she is, and about the magic awakening inside her.

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FALLEN BEAUTY by Astrid Scholte

Eighteen-year-old Thorelea Winyard has been a prisoner her entire life, forced to paint dead animals pushed into her cell. She dreams of the world outside her tower and everything she’s been denied. When one of her subjects comes back to life, Thorelea is thrust into a royal court where she can have anything she desires—aside from her freedom. Here, she learns that the king and queen have ruled for centuries; their immortality is gifted through the power of their court painter, who dutifully updates their magical portraits. It is also here that she meets the sole other mortal of the court: Prince Kelter. Desperate to become immortal so he can join the ranks of the battalion waging war against a neighboring kingdom, he offers her a deal. Thorelea will paint the portrait Prince Kelter has been denied by his parents, and he will help her escape from the ruthless royal court. They meet each night in secret. As they grow closer, they must face the monstrous realities of Thorelea’s powers. Will she be forced to choose between her heart and her freedom?        Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

THE FRIDAY BOOKSHOP by Sawako Natori, Yui Kajita (Translator)

Welcome to the Friday Bookshop, a cozy little bookstore tucked inside a rustic train station north of Tokyo. Rumor has it, you’ll find the perfect book there—one that you need at that particular moment, even if you don’t know it yourself….When college student Fumiya visits the Friday Bookshop as a last-ditch effort to find a book for his ill father, he is disappointed in its ordinary appearance despite whispers of its peculiar charm. But he soon discovers that it not only includes a café where the food menu changes daily on the chef’s whim but also a vast underground vault lined with bookshelves, lovingly converted from an old abandoned subway platform. The bookshop, run by a quirky trio who have been close friends since high school, quickly becomes Fumiya’s favorite place—so much so that he begins to work there part-time. Fumiya, who was never really a reader, learns to embrace the joy of reading, and that books can be a means to connect with other people and navigate the twists and turns of life. Through colorful interactions with the zany shop owners and their visitors, as well as mouthwatering dishes inspired by the books the owners recommend, it’s impossible not to fall in love with the seemingly ordinary yet enchanting little bookstore in the subway station in Kanto.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

DRAGON’S REDEMPTION (IRRESISTIBLE DRAGONSD BOOK NINE) by Nora Phoenix

VS Note: MMM PNR.

Zack has survived the red tent, earned his place as third-in-command, and built a life on never sitting still long enough to process. He is determined to be free, to be happy—even if it is alone. He certainly doesn’t have time for the broad, quiet alpha assigned to guard him at the upcoming tribunal that will judge the worst monsters their world has known—or the hollow-eyed dragon slayer who’s become his unlikely friend. But Blair is the alpha who gives him the entire hallway without saying a word. The one who notices when Zack flinches. And it matters, maybe more than it should. And Duff is the slayer who chose mercy, the man who is determined to atone for what he did wrong. That, too, matters. Maybe Zack should make time for them. For not being alone. As old enemies face justice and a long-buried prophecy stirs at last, Zack, Blair, and Duff will discover that redemption isn’t earned alone, and that the door each of them closed long ago was never locked. It only ever needed three keys.       AmazonK+

A GRIM REAPER’S GUIDE TO LIVING TWICE (A S.C.Y.T.H.E. MYSTERY BOOK THREE) by Maxie Dara

He’s been charged with possession before, but never like this. Jack McCoy was a thief and a liar. Then he died.
Margaret Chen transported souls for the biggest afterlife collection company in North America. Then she met Jack. Possession isn’t really supposed to be possible, but Jack McCoy never let a little thing like reality stop him. Now he’s committing the ultimate identity theft, living a new life in Margaret’s body while his own lies six feet under. Keeping up appearances as a geriatric grim reaper for S.C.Y.T.H.E. is a full-time job, but when Jack is sent to collect the soul of an old friend, his criminal past catches up with him and suddenly he’s planning the heist of his (after)life with a gang of misfits he never thought he’d see again. Now the only woman he’s ever loved depends on his success in stealing a priceless list of souls from S.C.Y.T.H.E., but someone keeps beating him at his own game. Time is running out. If Jack puts one bunioned foot out of line it will cost him not only the people who matter most but also his second chance at life.     Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

JUST LIKE A DREAM by Lauren Evans

Olivia’s life is exactly how she wants it. She lives in the house she’s always loved, she’s close to her family, and her childhood best friend lives down the street. And to top it all off, she loves her job at the World Dream Center, where she designs and implements dreams. As the invisible strings in the giant web that connects everyone, dreams subconsciously influence people to make decisions—move, change jobs, write a book—that move the plot of the world forward. Olivia is great at her job. Stellar, even. But when she’s assigned to create a dream for one of her friends, things start to unravel. Olivia has followed the Dream Playbook to the letter, suggesting that her friend date a certain coworker. But her friend isn’t taking the hint, and it’s holding up other Dream Workers who can’t move forward until this relationship causes its intended ripples. Enter Connor, who’s an expert at handling difficult dreams with unorthodox methods—the same unorthodox methods that drove Olivia crazy when they went to high school together, making her less than enthused when he’s partnered with her to deliver results. Everyone thinks he’s a genius at his job, but to Olivia, he’s just another handsome face skating through life. The more they work together, the more sparks fly between them. But the harder Olivia tries to change someone else’s course in life, the less sure she becomes of her own. With her job on the line, she has to work fast—and if she’s not careful, this assignment could turn into a nightmare.      Amazon     AB      Kobo

THE MERIDIAN FORGE by Tara Sim

The heirs will face their strongest demons yet in the breathtaking conclusion to the Dark Gods Saga. In the shocking aftermath of the battle in Solara, the heirs realize killing gods is trickier than they thought. They need to destroy not only the gods’ bodies but also the sources of their divine power. Each heir must return to their respective world to confront their ancestral deities. But the paths they take are dire and will require calling upon the unknown—and unstable—depths of their power. Meanwhile, Orsus, the long-dead fifth god, seeks to return to full strength, though their motives and methods remain suspect. Only one thing is for certain: The answer lies at the Meridian Forge, the cradle of creation. For every heir there is a fate. But all fates have a cost.

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SLEIGH BELLS AND HOUSE CALLS:  MM MPREG SHIFTER CHRISTMAS ROMANCE by Colbie Dunbar

A man calls at two in the morning and asks me to make a house call to his reindeer farm. I moved up north to escape burnout and bought a vet practice, but nobody warned me about the snow. After my car slides into a ditch during a blizzard, I land in the arms of Cutler, who owns the farm. One of his reindeer has a broken leg, but the patient has an attitude and enjoys watching football. While I’m wearing a pair of borrowed boots and learning to skate on a frozen lake, I’m falling for Cutler who says his life is complicated.      Amazon+

SAVED BY THE SPELL by Tanya Huff

At the High School for Magical Arts, the teachers are dismayed at the rise of a Hero…because it means a Villain isn’t far behind – It’s September, and the teachers at the High School for Magical Arts are gearing up for another school year, and hoping it will be a quiet one. Teach students some magic, help them learn their craft, and get out in one piece. Unfortunately, by the end of the first day, it’s become obvious that they have a potential Hero. All the signs are there. By the end of fourth period, Bex Olynyk has stood up to a bully, turned out to be more powerful than anticipated, and acquired a smart frenemy and a nerdy, loyal roommate. The problem? Where there’s a Hero, there’s bound to be a Villain. And when Heroes and Villains face off, it’s going to be anything but a normal school year. Overworked and underpaid, the teachers at the High School for Magical Arts did not sign up for this, but now it’s also their jobs to keep the Hero alive, keep damage to a minimum, keep math scores up to the national level, and find the student who will turn out to be a power-hungry, amoral villain. Will no one think of the teachers?

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FRIGHTFUL by Renee Rose and Vanessa Vale

PACK RULE 13 – PROTECT YOUR TERRITORY – I might be a happy-go-lucky Christmas tree farmer, but this holiday season, I’m all bah humbug. Blame the beautiful, infuriating Fairchild Hotel heiress, who’s swept into town to open a–gasp–luxury resort. A spa. A freaking yoga retreat on the land next to mine. No one in Cooper Valley hates the idea more than me. But no one needs her more than me because one whiff of her sweet scent, and I know she’s mine. My enemy. My fated mate. The more I fight with her, the more she gets under my skin. When the weather outside turns frightful, we’re stranded together in my cabin. There’s only one territory my wolf is interested in claiming this holiday. Her.       Amazon      AB    Apple Books      Kobo

HEAD FOR THE HORSEMAN (WHAT HAPPENS IN BOULDER BRIDGE…BOOK ONE) by Leigh Kelsey

In Boulder Bridge, most things go bump in the night. No one knows that better than Cleobella Vane, a witch living on the edge of the town’s magical forest. But a horseman with mouth-watering abs and a pumpkin for a head? That might be taking things too far. The headless hunk needs her help. Unless Cleo can help him find his head, he’ll forever vanish from the living plane. In return for her help, the horseman promises Cleo the best night of her life. How can she refuse…?       Amazon

PERFECTLY AVERAGE MONSTERS (PERFECTLY MATED BOOK ONE) by Yve Vale and Aren Vale

I just want a perfectly average guy. Human, please. No fae bros need apply. I don’t need the ripped abs or supernatural good looks of a fae f-boi. No magic or massive… equipment. Just one good man in the sea of jerks. When I move into my new house, I think the Goddess must have a sense of humor. My hot new neighbors are a trio of sweet but quirky guys. They’re flirty, but I’m pretty sure they’re a throuple. Conrad taunts me with au naturel morning yoga in his backyard. Zeke has a huge personality waiting to burst out from behind those button down shirts and nerdy professor glasses. Then there’s Silas, a shy, artistic landscaper, whose reserved nature intrigues me more than I want to admit. Yet, something is a bit… odd. I’m beginning to think they are more than they appear. I just hope my cursed past doesn’t catch up with me. The guys: All we ever wanted was to belong, but we can’t be ourselves no matter which world we’re in. We’re the feared and hunted bogeymen in any realm…Mythics. Monsters. When a cute human moves in next door, we’re tripping over tentacles and tails to win her over. But will she be able to accept our beasts? Could she be the answer to our dreams, or will she be our downfall?      AmazonK+

WATEREDGE (CROW’S COVEN BOOK THREE) by Milena McKay

VS note: FF PNR.

Never Forgive and Never Forget. Hunted as witches during the Salem Trials and haunted by their past sins, the Crowhart women carry a deep secret and an inescapable curse. Lark Thibodeaux is alone. She’d never asked anyone for anything, but she could really use a new start and a little break. After all, she is trying to get as far away as possible from the only place she used to call home and everything it holds. An island off the coast of Massachusetts seems to be the farthest she can go. An island that recently made the news for being a sanctuary for women like her… Women running for their lives. Seren Crowhart, Water Herself, has been waiting quietly for love her entire life. Little does she know that Fate is about to walk into her coffee shop, haunted and hunted by the world. A woman with eyes that hold all the answers. A woman whose very presence will upend Seren’s existence and awaken old ghosts. Step back onto Dragons Island as Water meets Destiny, and the Crowhart family approaches the culmination of an age old curse in Book 3 of Crow’s Coven Quartet, Wateredge.       AmazonK+

DON’T JUDGE A VAMPIRE BY HER FANGS  (MAGICAL MIDLIFE DEATH BOOK 19) by Tia didmon

Power has a price, and this time it wants everything I love. Rene’s collapse sets the entire clan on edge. Whispers of succession spread like wildfire, Edward and Siris circle for advantage, and Constantine steps into the chaos with the full force of the Death Dealers behind him. While the clan fights over leadership, I’m fighting something far more private. Raven’s magic is bleeding into me, stabilizing in ways that terrify us both. Our only hope lies in the final Pentacoris fragment, hidden somewhere on the covenstead. The witches meet us with secrets instead of help, and Cerise attacks without warning, forcing me to draw on my dwindling well. Constantine tries to shield me, but even he can’t stop what comes next. An ambush leaves me bleeding out, and Con is forced to offer me his blood. If his love becomes the very thing that enslaves me, will I survive the price it demands?      AmazonK+

THRONE OF GLASS AND BLOOD (WRATH REAPERS BOOK ONE) by Tia Didmon

Bloodglass was meant to make her an assassin. A forbidden familiar will make her a threat. Callie Rowen is branded a traitor after her family is accused of murdering the Crown Witch of Hartmere. Her punishment is the Bloodglass Passage, a brutal trial where aspiring assassins train for the privilege of bonding with a magical familiar. One that can become any beast it chooses. Most candidates won’t survive long enough to be chosen. Callie must endure deadly trials, ruthless rivals, and Gideon Locke, the merciless commander who believes her family murdered his mother. But Callie has secrets of her own. She was the Crown Witch’s hidden apprentice, she carries forbidden magic inside her heart, and intends to kill the assassin who slaughtered her family. She only needs to survive Bloodglass first. But what happens when a familiar chooses her, and is betrayed by someone she trusts?      AmazonK+

TALK WITCHY TO ME (WITCH ON THE ROCKS COZY MYSTERY BOOK 15) by Lily Harper Hart

Hali Waverly is focused on her future. There’s a new bar in the works. There’s also an old enemy to banish. There’s, unfortunately, also a new enemy on the horizon. When Hali’s best friend witnesses a hit and run, nobody believes it could be paranormal in nature. That assumption switches fast when weird things start happening and somebody infiltrates the hospital to finish off the victim. Hali’s first assumption is that her old enemy is back to start a war. She’s proven wrong quickly, however, and she and her fiancé, Gray Hunter, have no choice but to go undercover in a doomsday cult to figure out who is pulling the strings. There are all kinds of magic, good and evil. What’s fueling this cult is full evil, and the leader is aiming to end the world. Only Hali and Gray—and their motley group of friends—stand in the way. This fight is going to be a doozy, and the apocalypse may be just around the corner.   AmazonK+

SORCERER (MYSTIC GUARDIANS BOOK EIGHT) by Rinda Elliott

VS Note: MM PNR.

Xavier, the most powerful sorcerer known to exist, has made a life running a bodyguard company in Seattle—which is currently under threat. Powerful preternaturals are wreaking havoc with the ley lines under the city and he must put a stop to it. It doesn’t help that he’s being tormented by reoccurring visions of someone dying, visions that haunt him because of his past. Firefighter Jake Novak loves to live to the fullest, but he longs for a real relationship. When he’s saved by an intriguing sorcerer, he is stunned by the power of his attraction to him. By the deep connection he feels instantly. But Xavier seems wary. Xavier has his reasons, but fate is a powerful thing. So is love.      AmazonK+

GHOST ORCHID: A NOVEL by Dani Cessna

Deep in the swamps of Florida, a grieving park ranger forms a friendship with a mysterious recluse—and uncovers long-rumored secrets about a plant that raises the dead. Once ambitious and spontaneous, all park ranger Miranda wants after losing her best friend is stillness. Her new job at Everglades National Park and the rekindled connection with an old flame offer some stability and comfort. But everything changes after a rash decision brings her face-to-face with the so-called swamp witch. In Estelle, Miranda finds an unexpected friendship. The old woman is feisty, independent, and extraordinarily green-thumbed. Plants, Estelle tells her, have a language of their own. Miranda learns to listen to the whispers of peace lilies and desert roses, and witnesses their uncanny power to heal or reveal hidden truths. But a hurricane brews off the coast, and tensions rise. Rumors spread about Estelle’s abilities, including her knowledge of the rare ghost orchid said to resurrect the dead—bringing the most dangerous kind of grief to Estelle’s doorstep. In the lush Everglades, the swamp can grow, transform—or destroy. Miranda discovers that true growth means releasing the grief that keeps us rootbound. And somewhere, in the tangled heart of the swamp, the ghost orchid waits.       AmazonK+       AB

THIEF OF HEARTS (THE HEART OF THE GODDESS BOOK ONE) by Sariah Wilson

Basileia has never lost a fight. Goddess-blessed and battle-hardened, she’s trained her whole life to lead her Thracian clan—until her mother names her sister as heir instead. Desperate to change her mind, Basileia enters a deadly tournament in a hidden desert city. The prize: a diviner stone that can answer any question. But to claim it, she must survive brutal races, bloody combat, and fellow competitor Zain—the devastatingly roguish king of thieves, who’s far too willing to help. Basileia doesn’t trust easily. And she definitely shouldn’t trust a thief whose every word might be a lie. But as the tournament’s dangers escalate and the attraction between them ignites, she begins to wonder if he might be the one person she can rely on. Until he betrays her. Furious but not broken, Basileia finds herself deep in the deadly Wastelands, where gods meddle with mortal lives and monsters guard a weapon that could save—or destroy—everything. To survive, she must give Zain what he doesn’t deserve: a second chance.    AmazonK+     AB

LIGHTWING (CROWN OF HEARTS AND CHAOS BOOK TWO) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

Never listen to the pleas of the dead. Never betray the oaths made to the spirits. Never make a deal with a Hag. Never trust the Fae. The Great Elm placed a task upon my soul which only death or triumph can release me from. I am more than I thought myself to be but less than fate seems to believe I might be. Hendrix Bane has marked me for death as surely as I have marked him as my enemy. I am trapped in the castle of my adversary and all that passed between us before this moment has been cast aside like ashes from a fire that burned too hot and too fast to bask in. My sister is lost to me once more and doubts gnaw at my insides. All the things I never wanted myself to believe have forced themselves to the forefront of my mind. Did I even achieve anything in those trees? Or will the world rejoice at my success only to curse my name for their downfall in the end? I have an impossible task to fulfil and my accomplice in it has nothing but hatred for me in his heart. So now I’m at the mercy of the man who helped me survive the curse of the forest. And his wrath is nothing short of sinful. I only pray I don’t lose myself to the corruption which has taken hold of him. And I don’t know if I will escape him before I’m consumed by it too. But maybe that’s what I’m hoping for.     AmazonK+      AB

INTERNET’S MOST HAUNTED INFLUENCER (SUPERNATURAL SUCKERS BOOK FOUR) by  Silvana Falacon

VS note: MM PNR.

One failed exorcism. One viral haunting. One deeply inconvenient crush. For a ghost, Leo is terrible at haunting. His doors won’t slam. His threats go ignored. The intruder he’s trying to scare away is taking notes. In his defense, he’s working with limited resources. He doesn’t remember his name, his life, or much of anything before an idiotic medium ripped away half his mind. So when another one shows up with a tape measure, a toolkit, and a YouTube channel, Leo reacts about as well as you’d expect. Nate comes from a long line of mediums, but he treats the family gift like a real estate hack: buy haunted, exorcise, renovate, flip. It’s always worked. Until Leo. Nate can’t exorcise him. He can’t sell the house. He can’t even get the ghost to stop criticizing his paint colors and waging war against the Roomba. Leo is annoying, impossible, and far too easy to look at for someone technically dead. Then the renovation bills start piling up, and the haunting starts looking like a solution: bad for property values, great for views. Going viral might save Nate’s career. But falling for the ghost was never part of the business plan.       AmazonK+

BLACK FOREST CAKE AND BIGFOOT (MURDER IN THE MIX BOOK 28) by Addison Moore

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. When the Bigfoot Believers Bonanza descends on Honey Hollow for a week-long convention at my mother’s bed and breakfast, I’m ready to serve sasquatch-shaped cookies and stay far away from the chaos. With twin babies who refuse to sleep, a bossy two-year-old who thinks she runs the world, and the ghost of a creature who’s about eight feet tall and extremely furry, what could possibly go wrong at a wholesome Bigfoot convention? Of course, when the founder of the New England Bigfoot Research Association ends up dead in the woods and a translucent sasquatch starts grunting at me like he’s got something to say, I realize this convention just became a crime scene. Between scorned lovers, embezzlement schemes, and enough secrets to fill a Bigfoot evidence vault, half the attendees had motive to commit murder. And to make matters worse, someone’s been breaking into homes all over Honey Hollow—including mine. But when the investigation reveals this case has more layers than a conspiracy theory, I know I’m dealing with a killer who’s been hiding in plain sight. With my spatula in one hand and my sleuthing skills in the other, plus a ghost who may or may not be trying to tell me something important and enough suspects in flannel to populate a lumberjack convention, I’ll need to solve this case before the killer decides I know too much. Living in Honey Hollow can be deadly.      AmazonK+

BLOODBANE: WITCH BOUND: BOOK FOUR by Opal Reyne

Briar has spent her entire life pretending to be a man – and not just any man, but the noble commander of the most fearsome army in Belsper. So when she’s ordered to go into the perilous barbarian southlands, she doesn’t hesitate.
What she learns there violently skews her whole world. Then there’s the mysterious warlord who delivers the mind-shattering revelations. Despite his physical allure and dangerous aura, their nations are enemies. She cannot fall for him. Volkan and his siblings control Nixnheim. They’re a ruined bloodline, one whose legacy of betrayal shakes the very foundations of the past. They were born to lead and raised to destroy, but he desires more than this life. So when a cunning woman pretending to be something she’s not strikes at him, he finds himself renewed. She’s a dragoness in human form; she was destined to be at his side. He knows she must relinquish everything she’s earned through deception to seize her own happiness, but he cannot snap her unbreakable will by force. However, Volkan’s never been one for gentle, and he will stop at nothing to get what he wants.       AmazonK+

INFERNAL BONDS (ELYRDIN BOOK TWO) by Stephanie Denne

VS Note: Cliffhanger. Also “Elyrdin Fate is a polyamorous romance between one woman and four men (MMFMM), including MF, MM, and group scenes where no one has to choose.”

“Even if Fate stole our Nyrith connection, Rae belonged to both of us—just like we belonged to each other.” I spent my life hiding from monsters no one else could see. Now I’m living in their world, discovering that I might have belonged here all along. Coming to Elyrdin was supposed to give me answers about my family, my blood, and the bonds tying me to Ash, Cyn, Zeke, and Ezra. Instead, my new home comes with royal expectations, dangerous secrets, and a ruler determined to find out what I am. Elyrdin’s council expects me to bond with all four princes. That’s easier said than done—even if I wanted to. Ezra keeps me at a distance, revealing so little that I barely know him. Zeke loves Cyn, and I won’t risk ruining what they’ve built together. And Cyn betrayed me. I should want nothing to do with him, but the attraction to the magnetic asshole hasn’t gone away. Neither has the hurt. At least my bond with Ash gives me someone to lean on. But learning to live with them becomes the least of my problems when someone decides I don’t belong in Elyrdin at all. With every new disaster we face, one dangerous truth becomes clear: the bonds I’m still learning to trust could be the very thing that destroys us. Because losing me won’t just break their hearts. It could cost them their lives.         AmazonK+

STILLWATER (DESIRE AND DECAY BOOK ONE) by Bernie Brackford

VS Note: MM PNR.

Fate is a fickle creature, is he not? Sunday – My name is Sunday Mourning. Yes, you heard that correctly. And no, I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t want to talk about the fact I’m having a dry spell, or that I’m about to lose my job because I told a kid to screw off. And I definitely don’t want to talk about the fact that my impromptu nosebleeds have just proven the existence of the occult. Bellamy – After my marriage rots apart, I take a leap of faith and pursue a job at a museum in Salem. It feels like a lifeline, the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. That is until I stumble upon their resident taxidermist, a ghost from my past I’d thought I’d never see again. But when Sunday gets himself into a spot of my particular brand of trouble and realizes that I was never joking when I said I could see dead people – it seems like our tattered past might stitch itself together again.       AmazonK+

HALF AN ORANGE IN GRETNA GREEN (MIDLIFE RECORDER BOOK SEVEN) by Linzi Day

Galicia should be warmth, wine and golden sunsets. Instead, Niki McKnight finds a realm where every blessing has a price, every sin comes with a fine, and a powerful church has spent centuries collecting anything of value. Following directly on from the end of Spilling the Tea in Gretna Green, the Recorder is called to arbitrate what appears to be a simple goat dispute. Niki expects to hear both sides, deliver a fair decision, and send everyone home with minimal shouting, sighing, and zero divine intervention. But simple ends the moment she starts pulling threads. Behind Galicia’s beauty lies a culture shaped by greed, gold, guilt, and carefully polished lies. Children are controlled. Inhabitants are oppressed. Grief is exploited. And the people responsible are certain the Recorder’s authority does not apply to them. For the first time, they may be right. With Dola out of patience, the truth obscured, the Gateway crew struggling, and a god on the missing list, Niki must separate faith from control and truth from propaganda.    AmazonK+

SHADOW REBORN (SHADOW WAR ACADEMY BOOK THREE) by Rumer Hale

The war with the Hollow is finally over. But it looks like the real battle has just begun. With Levington no longer hiding behind his facade, he’s instead decided to up his game. This time it’s not my mates he’s going after, it’s my claim to the throne. By backing Sasha as the lost heir, his lies spread like wildfire making those in the Volar academy see her as their queen. But instead of being able to come out and reveal who I am, I’ve been left powerless and without the help of my Alita side. At least until I can figure out how to awaken my abilities once more. But it looks like my mates have gotten a little upgrade that should help our fight. And as our bond grows stronger, there’s no telling what else they’re capable of. I’ll just have to learn to accept who I really am once and for all. Because more and more Shadows are turning up feral. And if I don’t figure out how to become the royal they deserve and save them. There will be no Shadows left to rule over.       AmazonK+

KNOTTED BY KRAMPUS (KNOTTED FOR THE HOLIDAYS) by Imani Jay

He’s been keeping a list all year… and she’s been very naughty. Kisha thought the mysterious invitation to San Francisco’s most exclusive Krampusnacht ball was too good to be true. She was right. One look at the hot stranger in the VIP section, and she’s done for. Following him into his dark lair, getting punished in ways she’s only ever read about in her smutty books, screaming his name while he claims her in ways that definitely aren’t human. Turns out Krampus is real. He came to punish a naughty little omega and found his mate instead. And now that he’s got her? He’s never letting go.       AmazonK+

MOONLESS (MOON BRIGHT SERIES BOOK TWO) by Leah Ryan

KESTRIA – I’ve been shot before. It’s never taken this long to get better. It’s never taken anything, either. Whatever was in that bolt is gone now, and it took something with it on the way out. I’m not ready to say what. He pulled me out of his river. Then he told me I’m not leaving. RAUK – The wolves didn’t come when my people died. Now one of them is bleeding on my floor, and I’m the one keeping her alive.       AmazonK+

THE BIGFOOT’S DOUBLE (BATHHOUSE BEASTS BOOK 17) by Blake R Wolfe

VS Note: MM PNR.

A snarky bartender. Two massive Bigfoots. And a bathhouse hookup that’s twice the fun. Kit is a sassy bartender who knows what he wants and isn’t afraid to use his body to get it. When a hot, arrogant werewolf flakes on their date, Kit blocks his number and heads to the local men-only bathhouse to blow off steam instead. He’s looking for a good time, not a relationship, and he definitely isn’t looking for two boyfriends. But when he wades into the steaming Roman bath, he spots a pair of massive, fur-covered cryptids lurking in the shadows. Dale and Milo are college-aged Bigfoots who have never picked up a third at the bathhouse before—mostly because guys are too intimidated by their size. Kit, however, isn’t easily scared. Lured to a private room upstairs, the brave bartender quickly realizes that handling one Bigfoot is a challenge, but taking on two requires some serious dedication. Luckily, Kit is an enthusiastic team player, and he’s more than ready to show these cryptid boyfriends exactly how much he can handle.      AmazonK+

A DRAGON’S GUIDE TO MERMAIDS AND MOUNTAIN TROLLS (DRAGONS OF SAFE HAVEN BOOK FOUR) by Julia Huni

Coral Thistlewick can mix the perfect cup of tea for anyone in Safe Haven. Anyone except herself. And, lately, anyone standing near Oswin Boulden. Eight years ago, Coral broke the mermaid’s first rule to fish a man out of a storm. She tucked his memory away, dropped him safely ashore, and settled into her cozy tea shop, where the biggest excitement is whether Goodwife Terman will complain about the scones. But now that man is mayor of Valebra–and the reluctant groom in a marriage contract his father signed years ago. He’s spent a decade trying to wriggle out of it, since breaking the contract would sink his flax farm that employs half the village. When a helpful sea dragon brings him face to face with the tea shop owner who feels strangely familiar, their unexpected attraction starts to grow. With one meddling dragon, a mer king who mistakes charisma for wisdom, a grandmother with a devious sense of humor, and a half-troll mother-in-law whose stew pot has been bubbling steadily since roughly the dawn of time, Coral and Oswin might discover that the best matches are the ones that were arranged all along.       AmazonK+

HUNTING THANA by Elle Boon

Severin didn’t come to New York looking for a mate. He came to mend what was broken—a bond with his twin brother shattered centuries ago. But the moment he sees Thana, every carefully constructed wall crumbles. She is his Bonded Female, the one Fate herself created for him, and nothing will keep him from claiming her.
Thana has survived over a hundred and seventy-five years on her own terms. She isn’t looking for a male to complete her—until Severin makes her question everything she thought she knew about herself. She’d lived long enough to stop believing in fate. Until fate refused to be ignored. But before their bond can take root…darkness surfaces beneath New York’s shadowy streets. The Society—a corrupt organization obsessed with power—has been hunting humans with special abilities, deceiving them, imprisoning them in secret facilities where they are tortured, tested, and discarded. Their endgame? The creation of hybrids designed to surpass every known species. Severin’s Clan will fight. His brother Scepter and his chosen Family will stand beside him. But the battle ahead may demand more than any of them are prepared to give. He has spent five centuries surviving. Now, for the first time, he has something worth dying for. Can he protect the female who has become his entire world, or will the monsters the Society created take everything he has left to lose?       AmazonK+

MERCURY RAINE: LAID TO REST by Sarah M Eden

Aventine Manor is under siege, with Mercury and his ghosts in hiding. The Forever Flame has powers that defy explanation, leaving even the unshakable Mercury on edge. Protecting his ghosts and the lady he loves may no longer be possible. The dangers in his past collide with secrets Aventine has been keeping for a millennium. Only by unraveling those secrets and restoring what has been broken can Mercury hope to save any of them. With the world around him tearing itself apart and an undefeatable enemy closing in, Mercury may be facing the one battle he cannot win.        AmazonK+       AB

TO LOVE A SIREN (FAIRY TALE HEARTS BOOK TWO) by Christina Farley

An enemies-to-lovers Little Mermaid romantasy where a hunter falls for the mermaid princess he’s sworn to destroy. The song of my heart, the hunter of my soul…Hans Christian Andersen spends his life hunting monsters. He never expects the most dangerous one to be a mermaid princess who steals his heart. Desperate to save her kingdom from the Enchantress, Princess Serena enters the deadly competition for the crown to hunt the undead in order to protect her kingdom. But when Hans and Serena face each other in battle, they realize they might be enemies, but they need each other to survive. Forced into an uneasy alliance, they venture through enchanted forests, haunted waters, icy planes, and a sea witch’s castle, where deadly secrets draw them closer, and truths threaten to rip them apart. Except time is running out and their cursed destinies are as dangerous as a dark-storm sea. To save their worlds, they must choose between those they’ve sworn to protect and the love they can’t bear to lose.       Amazon

LEG DAY IS HELL: MM FANTASY ROMANCE (HOTTER THAN HELL) by Callie Colby

Danny joined the 24-hour gym to get over a breakup, not to accidentally sign his soul away to a personal trainer from the underworld. All Danny wanted was to sweat out his heartbreak on a treadmill and maybe get revenge-body hot. He didn’t read the fine print on the membership contract. If he had, he might have noticed the clause about “eternal commitment.” Now he’s stuck with Brontes. Brontes is a Demon of Physical Agony who feeds on human suffering. He loves the gym. He loves the grunts, the sweat, and the despair of leg day. But he’s baffled by Danny. Danny doesn’t suffer with dignity; he trips over yoga mats, gets tangled in resistance bands, and apologizes to the weights when he drops them. Determined to mold this soft, sad human into a warrior worthy of Hell’s armies, Brontes takes a hands-on approach. A very hands-on approach. But somewhere between the squat rack and the locker room showers, the dynamic shifts. Brontes stops feeding on Danny’s pain and starts hunger for something else entirely. He’s discovering that while Danny might be terrible at cardio, he’s surprisingly good at taking direction—especially when he’s pinned against a locker by a seven-foot demon demanding he feel the burn.       AmazonK+      AB

ARRIVAL IN RED (FIRST DRAGON SHIFTER ACADEMY BOOK ONE) by Eunice Amnell

VS Note: From OCT 15.

Five elite dragon Alphas. One slum-born human Omega. And a secret mission that could bring the entire Shifter Alliance Federation to its knees. In the Federation, your district determines your worth. I’m Sable Ashborn, born and raised in District 10—the slums of the ten districts, burdened with backward infrastructure, restricted travel, and zero future. So when the Federation’s mandatory genetic mate-matching program reveals I’m a ninety-percent-plus match with all five members of the Montgomery unit, the world stops. Everyone wants to know how a slum-born nobody could be the ideal central bond to the only all-dragon battle unit in the Federation. Biologically, I’m exactly what their unraveling inner beasts need. Politically and socially? I’m everything the elite in District 1 despise. Because “fated” mate-match results above seventy percent are automatically broadcast nationwide, the Federation has no choice but to put on a show. They “grant” me a temporary resident permit, a provisional seat at the elite First Dragon Academy, and medical care for my sick little brother back home. They’re stalling for time, waiting for me to fail publicly. They expect me to break. They don’t know they’ve just handed me the opportunity of a lifetime…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)         AmazonK+

WARRIORS SURPRISE (THE PROTECTORS SERIES) by Teresa Gabelman

Some surprises were never meant to exist. The Warriors have learned the hard way that life can change in the blink of an eye. Just when they think they’ve seen it all, one impossible revelation threatens to send shockwaves far beyond the compound. With every answer comes another question, and some truths bring dangers no one could have imagined.       AmazonK+

QUEEN’S ALLIANCE (THEIR VAMPIRE QWUEEN RETURNS BOOK THREE) by Joely Sue Burkhart

Forge deeper alliances. Reveal long-buried secrets. And survive. The old blood may have been purged from the courts, but trouble brews and breeds in the catacombs beneath Paris. Even from beyond the Veil, the Dauphine continues to pose a deadly threat to Shara Isador, Triskeles Triune queen. At least staying a few days in Paris allows her to explore the grand Palais de Isador where her mothers once ruled. However, artifacts from Egypt aren’t the only secrets she uncovers, which makes integrating her mothers’ surviving Blood into her own all the more challenging. Of course she must also sort the Valois siblings to determine who’s trustworthy enough to join her alliance. Unravel the Dauphine’s affairs when they still can’t find her consiliari. Oh, and also survive herself. Because vicious traps laid centuries ago still lie in wait, not just in Paris but also New York City. With the Queen of Camelot on her own grail quest for more Blood, Shara must take control of the former Skye Tower herself. Remember what died in the basement…Because it might prove to be the deadliest threat of all. Not just to House Isador but the entire world.    AmazonK+

DOUBLE SHOT (GOLIATHS OF WRESTLING BOOK FIVE) by Lily Mayne

VS Note: MM PNR.

Klaus – I just want to be loved. Is that so much to ask? Apparently it is, especially when you’re an incubus, which means people only want you for one thing. Yes, that thing. After an endless string of terrible dates, I keep bumping into a certain werewolf wrestler… a very handsome werewolf wrestler who turns out to be sweet and shy and everything I could ever possibly want in a man. And he actually likes me back. He’s perfect. However, he’s soperfect that he’s determined to prove he wants me for more than just… you know. Which means he wants to court me. Real dates with hand-holding and goodnight kisses and, to my horror, no sleepovers. An incubus can only go so long without…Brian – When I briefly met Klaus at that meet and greet all those months ago, I was too flustered to really take him in. But after, uh, bumping into him again at a bar one night, I can’t stop thinking about him. Our first few encounters end up being pretty… hot and heavy. So I put a ‘no intimacy’ rule in place while we start dating properly and get to know each other. It’s almost unbearable, and we’re not great at sticking to it, but I want to prove to Klaus that I want him for him. Except I’m a werewolf. And he’s an incubus. Restraining ourselves only works for so long until certain biological impulses take over. Then restraint is no longer possible.       AmazonK+

ETERNAL STORM (STAR TOUCHED, WITCHBLADE BOOK FOUR) by Michelle Madow

A divine sword. An impossible love. And a choice that could shatter the world. The sea voyage that was supposed to save Jade Harrington destroyed her instead. Now the crew is scattered, the secrets are out, and she’s on the run with the only person she has left—Logan Ashford, the man she loves more than her own destiny. Their destination: Pine Valley, a wolf shifter sanctuary protected by goddesses, where Jade finally comes face-to-face with another star touched champion. But belonging comes with a catch. Because every champion carries a celestial weapon forged by their goddess… except for Jade, whose goddess has been ignoring her for months. It turns out her weapon is buried at the heart of the Eternal Storm—the most violent lightning storm on Earth, which has been raging for five hundred years. Claiming it means surviving the creature that guards it, answering to the goddess who hid it, and facing a truth Jade would give anything to outrun. Because the blade forged to save the world is destined to destroy the man she loves. And when the gods demand a choice between love and fate, Jade will have to decide how far she’s willing to go to defy them both.      AmazonK+

COLT: THE BEARS (KING LAKE SHIFTERS BOOK SIX) by R E Butler

Waverly has one rule: never date another shifter. When her ex promised her the moon and then left her the moment he found his truemate, she learned a painful lesson about shifters and forever. After slipping away from her sister’s birthday party at a tavern, she has a steamy encounter with a guy who seems perfect. Until he growls. Alpha bear Colt left his den to start over and create a home where bears are allowed to mate who they want without being forced into arranged matings. The moment he catches Waverly’s scent in the tavern, he knows she’s his truemate and every decision he made was worth it. But when Waverly discovers Colt’s a shifter, she walks away, convinced that history will repeat itself. When fate brings them together again, Colt is given another chance to prove that Waverly will never be second best, and that not every promise is meant to be broken. Because in King Lake… sometimes forever doesn’t begin with trust, it begins with earning it.      AmazonK+

JUST ONE WISH: A MAGICAL CHRISTMAS SHORT STORY by Kristen Painter

When antique shop owner Evie Halloway uncorks an old perfume bottle on Christmas Eve in Cocoa, Florida, she accidentally releases a cursed genie named Jasper. He’s devastatingly handsome, infuriatingly smug, and magically obligated to grant her three wishes (that always backfire) during the holidays. Desperate to save her failing shop, Evie makes a wish … and chaos ensues. Now, with time on her last two wishes ticking down, the pair must navigate holiday disasters, a meddling Christmas spirit, and a growing attraction neither of them wished for. Because the only way to break the curse? True love’s kiss. Just so long as it happens before midnight.       AmazonK+

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I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking quite a few as I prepare these posts LOL). 

‘AB’ denotes audiobook and the Amazon buy link.

NOTE: Amazon recently renamed AmazonKU as AmazonK+.

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A RUNAWAY FOR THE ALIEN MERCENARY (ALIOEN MERCENARIES: REAPERS BOOK THREE) by Mina Carter

New colony. New life. Lots of cats. Absolutely no men. After her fiancé stole everything she owned and left her in the sights of a crime lord, Blythe has learned her lesson. Men are a liability. So when a suspiciously handsome charter pilot starts flirting with her, she knows exactly what to do. Ignore him. Unfortunately, Rann is difficult to ignore. He’s built like a Greek God and annoyingly useful in a fight. He also looks at her like being nearer to fifty than she’d like, bad-tempered, and covered in grease most of the time is exactly his type. Which is utterly ridiculous. He’s spent years running. Then one beautiful human engineer gives him a reason to stop. Rann is supposed to be hiding from enemies who would kill him if they discovered where he is. Instead, he hijacks a kidnapping operation, becomes the fake pilot for six human women, and falls head over heels for the one female aboard who wants nothing to do with him. Blythe doesn’t need protecting. Rann gets that. Mostly. Yeah, no. Not at all. When the people hunting her close in, he’ll fight beside her, behind her or underneath a herd of homicidal goats if necessary. Whatever it takes to keep his female safe. There’s just one small problem. She still thinks he’s human. Her future has room for a home, her friends and as many cats as she can find. He just needs to convince her there’s room for one enormous alien mercenary as well.

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RAUF: MINOTAUR MATES (ALIEN MATCHMAKING AGENCY BOOK FOUR) by Kate Rudolph

I crossed the galaxy for a husband—not the scarred brute who wants me in his bed but refuses to make me his wife. Rauf is one of the Butchers, a feared former gladiator with a broken horn, a filthy mouth, and enormous hands that make me forget every sensible choice I’ve ever made. He says I’m his mate. My body believes him. But I need more than scorching kisses and nights that leave me unable to walk straight. I want a future, and Rauf is convinced a monster like him can’t give me one. Then dying animals lead us to poisoned water, hidden weapons, and a dangerous stranger. Rauf will tear apart anything that threatens me. Now I need him to risk something harder—his heart.   AmazonK+

DARK GALAXY: WARRIORS OR ORATHION BOOK ONE by Sybur Phyre

His galaxy has fallen into darkness. Her world smolders from alien war. He needs humanity to heal his kind. She needs someone strong enough to protect hers. Ravenna – For months, I’ve dreamt of an angel, even if he doesn’t look like one. I know he is by the way he makes me feel safe. His wings are black and threaded with vibrant colors, and his muscled chest burns with a symbol I know, one my mother painted on every wall in our bunker just before she made her final journey to the afterlife. Desperate to save what’s left of humanity from the alien invaders, I’ve hunted down a fabled stone that will let me summon angels who can lead humans to “salvation.” We’ll take anywhere that’s safer than Earth. I just didn’t expect my shadow angel to guide me via the stone to a hidden chamber with ancient technology that proves I’m not crazy. And when he shows up and opens the gateway to him and his world? Oof… My guardian is a hunky, powerful, protective…god. He’s the portal keeper of Orathion. Resyns have darkened his galaxy, but his kind can fight them the way we can build ships and heal. Together, we stand a chance of surviving. We coordinate a mass exodus, but the Resyns threaten to wreck our plans and take me away from him. I’ve finally found something worth fighting for. I’ll do anything to get back to the one who lights a fire in my cold heart…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      Amazon

BROKEN HALO (WARRIORS OF ORATHION BOOK TWO) by Sybur Phyre

A woman with a powerful secret finds herself under the protection of a fallen angel, on a mission to save not just humanity, but everyone in the Orathion Galaxy. Jaia – Galaxy Orathion…where angels, demons, humans, augmented fae, shifters, and more work together to maintain peace…is at war with an alien enemy. The gods carried the battle on their shoulders until they disappeared. That same day, the alien Resyns retreated to orbit on the fringes of the system. Then the angels, our protectors, fell from the skies, forsaken, their wings broken and their halos gone. No one knows why. Calyx, like all the other fallen angels, walks among us like ancient human texts described demons: burning with desire, anger, and power to waste. He has no wings and hides in plain human clothes, but I know what he is because of his incendiary glare, the one that says bite me as he sips my hard liquor. Angels burn golds, oranges, reds, and whites. Demons, in this galaxy, burn shades of blue. Here, fae are addicted to augmentation. And the soulless drift among us. My regular shadow in the corner, Calyx, never gets involved in bar fights. Until the night someone turns on me. He renders them a deadly blow that surprises us all and forces Calyx and me to run. Every human woman leads a secret life. It’s the only way we survive. Only the gifted, the lucky, and the ruthless endure. I am the latter…and the cursed. Calyx has a secret too…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      Amazon

BEAUTIFUL PREY: MM DYSTOPIAN DARK ROMANCE (DYNASTY OF MONSTERS) by Lola Malone

He’s one of the men deciding my fate. I’m the fool who volunteered for my own nightmare. Everyone in the Reach knows what the Hunt promises. A better life. A way out. A chance to win something worth having. I only need one thing. My twin brother is dying, and the treatment that could save him costs more than I’ll ever have. So I take his name, his place, his chance, and I walk into the Hunt alongside two thousand other people with nothing left to lose. Seven days. Seven waypoints. One brutal competition where elimination can mean losing everything. All I have to do is survive. Then the machine hesitates on my hand, and Ash Clement catches me lying. He should report me, but he doesn’t. Ash is Tempest royalty, wealthy and untouchable, already promised to someone else. Worse, he’s one of the men who decides whether I finish the Hunt. Avoiding him should be easy. It would be, if Ash had any intention of avoiding me. Because somewhere between the storms, the trials, and everything trying to eliminate me, his interest turns into obsession. I entered the Hunt prepared to risk everything for my brother. I never expected to become the prey.       AmazonK+

THE BRIGHTEST NIGHT (DARKEST STARS BOOK TWO) by Debbie Cassidy

Sometimes moving forward means going back. We escaped the strange planet Veridia only to be compelled to return, earlier than expected, because fate has its own timeline that we aren’t privy to. I land the ship perfectly, and what do I get for my efforts? A cell in a settlement on the edge of the northern region. Our captors plan to sell us, or eat us, or something awful—not going to lie, I was too busy formulating an escape plan to listen. Honestly, my crew and I have been in tighter spots than this before. Escaping isn’t the problem. Surviving the north will be. As we make our way deeper into frozen wastelands, in search of the rebel feral camp and answers to Gabe’s origins and my own origins, we’re battling more than the climate. And somewhere in all of it, relationships evolve in ways I didn’t anticipate. I’m on a collision course with the past, ready to demand it reveal all its secrets. Thank goodness I’m not taking this journey alone.     Kindle+

HUGO (NEW CARNEGIE ANDROIDS BOOK EIGHT) by Roxie McClaine

She’ll take on the most dangerous cult in the world. Jayne – I’m on a mission. Determined to find my missing android, I’ve been working tirelessly with the New Carnegie Artificial Crime Unit to try and stop TerraPura, the eco-terrorist, android-worshipping cult that kidnapped her. It’s been years since I had a strong lead. But when my team locates a compromised android with no memories and a damaged vocal projector, I’m quick to intercede for him. He might very well be the key to finding my friend and stopping TerraPura for good. Hugo – I can’t remember what I did and didn’t do as a TerraPura drone. Now freed from the virus, I’m eager to make things right and help Jayne in any way I can, at home and at work as her personal bionic assistant. Being damaged and disconnected from the world means I’ll have to learn some things the old-fashioned way. Close quarters begin to blur boundaries, and with so much on the line, the intrepid New Carnegie detectives are running out of time. Can love help Jayne and I defeat our enemies and reunite with a long-lost friend?     AmazonK+

SEASON OF NAGA VOLUME THREE (BRIDES OF THE SERPENT STONES) by Iona Strom

He was honed in steel and fury. She was never his to claim. Malikor has endured tortures that would break lesser beings, his soul scarred by human cruelty. When freedom beckons, he seizes it and her. She trembles beneath his gaze, a fragile creature thrust into his savage world. Her defiance should repel him. Her softness should disgust him. Instead, her pulse beneath his fingers awakens a hunger more dangerous than his rage. She knows she should run. But in the shadows between terror and desire, she finds herself craving his darkness. The monster who stole her away becomes her shield against greater horrors lurking in the shadows. When ancient magic binds their souls through blood and earth, hatred melts into a primal need that consumes them both. Enemy. Captor. Mate. The boundaries blur with every forbidden touch, every reluctant surrender. Some bonds, once forged, can never be broken.   AmazonK+

TAREK (DRAGONII HEARTS: THE MATES OF NEW HAVEN BOOK THREE) by Leona Windwalker

VS Note: MM SFR.

He came to New Haven looking for a fresh start. He never expected to find forever. Darren Brooks thought he had the perfect life—a husband, three children, a beautiful home, and a future he could count on. Then his husband’s crimes shattered everything he’d built, leaving Darren alone with his children, his reputation in ruins, and nowhere he wanted to stay. A fresh start on New Haven seems like the answer. A new home. A new job as a deputy. A chance to raise his children somewhere no one knows their past. Then he meets Tarek Korvak. The Dragonii security officer has spent years traveling the stars and is ready for something more than cramped ships and unruly crews. Becoming New Haven’s sheriff offers exactly the life he’s been craving—and being matched to Darren gives him something he never dared hope for. But Darren has been betrayed once already. Tarek knows he must give his wounded mate time to trust him, even as their attraction grows impossible to ignore. With three children, one very spoiled dog, a growing frontier town, and a brand-new house waiting for them, Darren and Tarek may have found the family—and the future—they’ve both been searching for. Sometimes the life you thought you’d lost is only making room for the one you were meant to have.       AmazonK+

VIKI (GALACTIC CYBORG HEAT SERIES) by Jessie Rose Case

A story of passions and desires, that brings two very different people together in a way they never thought possible. This is a standalone novel but can and is more complete by reading the series in order starting with Book 1 Rage. But not doing so, will not spoil your enjoyment. It’s gritty, confrontational and steam will be coming out of your ears. If you’re looking for something to get those juices flowing, you just found it. Enjoy! Written mainly in British English with American slang and language. Created, not born. A soldier but not human. A warrior. A Cyborg. Looking at the one thing that would give his life meaning. A Mate. A woman all his own. A woman who was going to be a challenge to the fate that awaited her. So be it.       AmazonK+

WHO’S THERE? (TIME POLICE) by Jodi Taylor

VS Note: Not a romance.

Double, double, Team Weird’s in trouble. It’s Halloween, and something wicked this way comes…The Time Police don’t do Halloween. They like to make that clear. So, it’s just an ordinary day when Luke, Jane and Matthew are despatched on a minor mission to apprehend some insignificant but illegal time travellers. The result is a surprising success – miscreants arrested and artefacts recovered. Congratulations all round. Until it becomes very apparent that miscreants and artefacts are not all they’ve brought back with them. What can Luke hear inside the wall? What’s behind Jane in the corridor? What’s under Matthew’s bed? And then people begin to die at TPHQ and suddenly it’s a race against time.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

THE BOYFRIEND ALGORITHM by Kendall Ryan

Ruby Hart’s life is falling apart. Her bakery is barely staying afloat, her ex just got engaged, and her mother won’t stop sending her dating profiles. The last thing Ruby needs is another problem. Then a man crashes through her window. A very confused man. A very handsome man. A very naked man. He has no belly button, no memories, and he might not be entirely… human. According to the control panel hidden beneath his ribs, he’s one of the decommissioned companion synths—obsolete artificial humans with superior intelligence, questionable social skills, and absolutely no understanding of personal boundaries. Aiden doesn’t understand sarcasm, doesn’t know why he’s not allowed to watch Ruby sleep, and can’t explain why his systems reroute every time she walks into a room. But he’s willing to learn—especially the part where he pretends to be her boyfriend for one weekend. One wedding. One fake relationship. One synthetic man who’s becoming a little less machine every day. Protective. Possessive. Loyal. And increasingly impossible to resist.      AmazonK+       AB

THE UNDERTOW OF YOU (BRIDES OF THE DEEP BOOK ONE) by Alison Harrow

I should have drowned. That’s what everyone says. My guide knew the rules for entering monster territory, but he broke them anyway. He didn’t survive what happened next. Somehow, I did. Something in those waters decided I would. The first time I saw Kael, I thought he was an orca. The second time, I thought I was concussed. By the third, I realized the monster following our ship wasn’t interested in the ship. He was interested in me. So, yeah, my vacation got complicated. Kael is not human, he is not safe, and despite having a degree in marine biology and enough professional experience to know better, I can’t seem to stop going back to the water. It would be easier to blame morbid curiosity if he behaved like any predator I’ve ever studied, but he doesn’t. He watches me, listens to me, and understands far more than he should. I’m starting to think he’s trying to communicate, and the more terrifying possibility is that I’m beginning to understand him. Every rule I know says I should stay away, yet every instinct I have seems determined to drag me closer. Humans have spent generations learning how to survive the monsters beneath these waters. But I’m beginning to wonder if we ever understood them at all, because whatever happened to me out there wasn’t an attack. Now I just need to figure out why the monster who should have let me drown keeps coming back for me.     AmazonK+     AB

EMBER RISING (BLUE ARROW ISLAND BOOK THREE) by Brenda Rothert

The island couldn’t break her. The ravaged mainland might. Only one thing could have made Amira Khalil return to the merciless place that nearly destroyed her: loyalty to the woman who became her sister. But the Idaho Liberation Front has other plans for her—and her assigned partner isn’t one of her trusted friends. He’s quiet and controlled. Capable but enigmatic. Stoic but sharp-eyed. She doesn’t trust him, but she’s forced to rely on him. The road ahead is broken, unyielding, and nothing like either of them expected. Across a flooded, fractured America that doesn’t resemble the country they remember, Amira and Evander will face obstacles that strip every defense away. Their pasts converge in ways neither of them anticipated—and the fire building between them may be the most dangerous thing either of them have faced. An ember is rising. But in order to burn, it must survive the dark. While Amira faces the ghosts of her past, the people she loves most are waging their own wars. Briar and Marcus are risking everything to save her sister, and Pax is fighting to prove he’s not like his iron-fisted father. Scattered across a ravaged continent, all of them are running out of time. The ILF’s battle against the regime that forces women to their knees is on the brink of collapse. Amira can’t risk being hurt again, but she faces an impossible choice when she realizes she’s the key that’s been hiding in plain sight.       AmazonK+

SAVING THE ALIEN PRINCE (BRIDES OF THE BOHNARI BOOK FOUR) by Erin Hale

VS Note: That’s it for a blurb:

Book 4 in the Brides of the Bohnari series: Alik and Devon’s book

VS: From the Amazon Series Page:

The Brides of the Bohnari sci-fi romance series features interconnected standalone stories set on the alien planet of Bohna, where human women are chosen through a bridal lottery to become mates for Bohnari males. The alien males face mating fever—a biological condition that drives them toward madness without a mate—adding urgency to their bonds. Against a backdrop of political upheaval and brewing rebellion between rival factions, the series explores how human brides navigate a world of deception where the truth about their selection remains hidden. Each book pairs a different human heroine with an alpha Bohnari male—from commanding guards to rebel outlaws—in romances featuring possessive aliens, captive scenarios, and enemies-to-lovers dynamics. The heroines, selected from Earth’s disadvantaged class, arrive suspicious and must decide whether the intense attraction they experience is real or merely biological. With themes of trust, deception, and choosing between heart and survival, these alien romances blend political intrigue with romantic tension for readers who enjoy fated mates with high stakes.           AmazonK+

DOTS: DAWN OF THE SOUL by Elisia Violet

In Metropolis, a city that has “perfected” itself by rewriting its own DNA—pearlescent skin, snow-white hair, quartz eyes, and muted emotions—perfection comes at a price few know about and no one dares to name. Kian and Lia have grown up inside that illusion. But when a dramatic event tears apart the city’s most sacred ceremony, the cracks become chasms. A breathtaking journey of love, betrayal, and redemption. The story of how thin the line is between evolution and the loss of the soul—and of how, in order to save the world, you must first shatter the illusion. GENRE: Upper-YA / Adult · Dystopia · Slow-Burn Romance · Coming of Age       Amazon

AETHER AND EGO by Joanne Merrium

VS note: Steampunk.

It is autumn 1845, and Elizabeth Bennet is a part of the second generation embarking on a centuries-long flight to Alpha Centauri, working in the signal room and studying engineering in the new Regency society aboard a massive generation ship. Aether and Ego is a steampunk retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with the addition of space travel, dogs, and accidental death.

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ALIEN COP by Sybil Stone

Being a cop in post-invasion Reno gave me something to do with my rage after the Skurgis turned my family into alien zombies. Eliminating them was half revenge, half public service, and I was damn good at it. Good enough to get a Welfin warrior as a partner—the galaxy’s best Skurgis hunters, and the only reason humans weren’t extinct. Xanzin was honorable, deadly, and never once let me down. Then a Skurgis bit me, and we were out of the shots that stopped the infection. Turns out Welfin produce the cure naturally. He didn’t hesitate. Neither did I. Now he’s all I can think about, all I want. The risk of getting caught is just as thrilling as his touch. We’ve crossed a line we can’t uncross—and under Decree 447, what we’ve done isn’t just against regulations. It’s a crime with a life sentence. But a Skurgis Prime knows our secret, and it taunts us at every turn. Xanzin is about to snap. And a Welfin warrior who loses control is deported. Without the Welfin, Earth falls to the Skurgis. What I didn’t count on was my own government wanting it that way.       AmazonK+

BOUND TO THE ALIEN (BROOD MATES BOOK TWO) by Calista Skye

I survived a Gzet slave station. Then a dying Queen handed me to the coldest creature in the Brood. Inquisitor Brax’tok is eight feet of armored plates and perfect manners. He brings me food with his own hands. He never raises his voice. And he wants one thing from me: the location of Earth. I’m not giving it to him. But the first time he kisses me, something wakes up between us that neither of us can control. I feel his hunger. He feels my nightmares. And when he puts those careful hands on me, I feel my own pleasure come back to me twice as strong. Every touch lands twice, once in my body and once in his. You can’t lie to someone who feels what you feel. At least, that’s what I thought. Because the bond carries feelings, not secrets. And every night, while I sleep, my Inquisitor writes a report about me. I have a secret of my own: an ancient key that could save Earth. Or end it for good. And the Queen’s deadline is almost up.       AmazonK+

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LAST CALL, VAMPIRE (CREATURE COMFORTS) by R L Caulder

Tegan expected running a late-night bar in Moon Bay to involve drunk magical regulars, shitty pickup lines, and the occasional idiot who needed to be shown the door. What she didn’t account for? The grumpy vampire who owns the bookstore next door and has apparently made a hobby out of driving every previous tenant out of her building. Ancient, arrogant, and unfairly gorgeous, Reed dresses like he’s going to a funeral every day, communicates primarily through scowls, and seems personally offended by Tegan’s bubbly existence. Until a string of murders leaves Reed looking like the town’s most convenient suspect. Suddenly, the human who gets under his skin is also the one person he needs to clear his name. Now Tegan’s cozy little bar is tangled up in supernatural trouble, her grumpy vampire problem keeps getting hotter, and the man who insists he wants nothing to do with her is becoming suspiciously good at showing up whenever she needs him. Neither of them are prepared for what happens when those problems collide…especially once the fangs come out.      AmazonK+

STUPID MATCHMAKING LOVE (STUPID LOVE BOOK THREE) by Amy Boyles

If there are two things massage therapist Cristina Palmer is done with, it’s men (thanks to her manipulative ex) and magic (it can make a girl lose control). All she wants is to run the spa at the new Summit resort, make her clay figurines, and avoid her frustratingly attractive boss, Rhett Maddox. Unfortunately, magic has other plans. To boost publicity, the resort is hosting the very first magical matchmaking competition in Mystic Meadows. But when Rhett and Cristina are paired as supposedly perfect soulmates, they’re determined to prove the magic wrong. Six weeks of live stream challenges designed to make them fall in love? Easy. They’ll simply fail. Except their chemistry is anything but fake. And the stakes aren’t, either. A six-figure grand prize could bring Cristina’s manipulative family crashing back into her life—and getting close to Rhett means risking her heart all over again. Because the real challenge isn’t the competition. It’s trusting each other. And maybe—just maybe—embracing the magic.      AmazonK+      AB

SECONDHAND SOUL (PINE RIDGE UNIVERSE) by S C Principale

Lazarus – I hate people. Yeah, I’m people-shaped, but I’m not a person. I’m held together with stitches, science, and sorcery. To be human, or to feel human, you need a soul, and that’s something I don’t have. My adopted family and the community in Pine Ridge tell me revenants do have souls in some cases, but I’m sure I’m not one of them. At least… Until I save her. Victoria – I hate people. Most people. The fewer monsters dressed up in human clothes, the better, which is why I don’t mind my current career of working for bad guys—removing other bad guys. Eventually, I hope I get ‘em all. When I’m told that the ultimate weapon, a human-like killing machine, has escaped from the mafia boss I work for, I know I have to get him back or be the next target. No one warned me about creeping around in cemeteries. Or falling into open graves and almost breaking my collarbone. Or getting saved by the surprisingly gorgeous gray beast. Monsters – He was made to kill. She chose to. Can two enemies turned unlikely friends rise above the title of monster that the world has bestowed upon them, defeat the real creatures of darkness, and let love win?      AmazonK+

CROWN OF ASH (EMPEROR’S ASSASSIN BOOK FIVE) by Kai Butler

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

As fires burn Tavornai and Bemishu marches on the Ariphadeus, something even more horrifying threatens the happiness Tallu and I have found. We have finally found an ally that will allow us to retake the Imperium from Kacha and Bemishu’s clutches. Even as we control the rivers that cross the empire, Kacha and Bemishu move with the confidence of experienced generals, keeping us from total victory. When Bemishu flees into the Ariphadeus, we must follow him because what lives there would change the war in his favor. Can we find it first? And if we do, could we possibly win at last?      AmazonK+

CORPSE AND LACE (KINKTOBER) by YD La Mar

I never expected the end of the world to turn me into both a medic and a monster-tamer. I’m Lyria Hale—early forties, hardened by loss, held together by stubborn compassion and the guilt of the people I couldn’t save. I’ve patched up dying strangers, held friends as they slipped away, and sworn I’d never let myself care that deeply again. So when I found Kade—hive‑linked, dangerous, and barely clinging to his humanity—I should have put him down. From that moment on, our lives became intertwined—my hands keeping him grounded, his obedience keeping us alive. The tether between us grew into something fierce and intimate, something that blurred survival with desire and trust with danger. In a world collapsing under monsters and betrayal, our bond is the only thing stronger than death itself. And every day, I discover that surrendering to this impossible connection—this strange mix of devotion, restraint, and electric tension—might be the only way either of us makes it out alive. And I’m not sure I want it any other way.      AmazonK+

MONSTERS IN LOVE: LOST IN THE CLOUDS: MONSTER PNR ANTHOLOGY by Various

Welcome to Monsters in Love…Clouds drift and swirl overhead as monsters take to the skies, searching for adventure…and their mates. From storm spirits and winged beasts to dreamy creatures hidden among the mist, these lovers sweep you off your feet and carry you somewhere far above the ordinary. So let your head get lost in the clouds, where thunder rumbles, lightning flashes, and love is always just beyond the horizon.    AmazonK+

HER SAVAGE DRAGON LORE (VIKING ANCESTORS: REALM OF FIRE BOOK THREE) by Sky Purington

When a savage Viking dragon king meets a bold, modern woman across the sands of time, sparks fly. What if I told you I was meant for a Viking barbarian living a thousand years in my past, who was born of Hel? A Viking so formidable that he’s tasked with reforming the most ruthless and rebellious of our kind. Well, I am. At least on paper, within the endless lore I’ve been crafting for years. Writings born of vivid dreams made up of a tall, dark, gorgeous warrior with a mighty axe at his back who walks the line between good and evil. Words that soon become reality when I have no choice but to travel back in time, not into his waiting arms but the very opposite. I needed to escape him. After all, my story’s taken a dark turn, and the villain might already be among us — maybe even myself. How else could it be when I’m compelled to stay out of the hands of the man who excels at handling the bad guys, even though I’m drawn to him and know it’s time for us to fulfill our role in the Realm of Fire prophecy? Yet I quickly realize that evading the likes of Drakkar Sigdir is a feat few can manage. When he finally catches me, the encounter ignites a turbulent, searing destiny—one that could either save our kind or unleash chaos that destroys everything.     AmazonK+

A SHIELD MAIDEN’S BEAST (OF SCOTS AND VIKINGS BOOK THREE) by Sky Purington

When a shield-maiden chieftain touched by the Valkyries is summoned by a king to marry, she must set aside the fierce love she feels for her closest friend and second-in-command for the sake of her pre-destined Wyrd. Tove- Born of seers and Vikings of old, I never could have foreseen I would become the earl of my tribe after my father’s death. Nor could I have imagined the King of Norway requesting that I travel to Scotland’s northern isles for an advantageous marriage. One that would suit my father’s dying wishes for me to make a good marital tie for our tribe, despite how much I have long loved my second-in-command, Knud Thorgard. Knud- From themoment we crossed paths as children, I have loved Tove, longing for the day I might make her mine, never giving up hope we would someday be together. That is, until Magnús Óláfsson, King of the Isles, wants to marry her, and I have no choice but to let her go for the sake of her father’s wishes. Bound by honor and brought together by the mystical whims of the Norns, Tove and Knud must set aside their promises and make their way to the Scottish Isles. There, they will face not only the simmering passion they can no longer deny despite the consequences, but a final standoff between Norway and Scotland where shield-maiden sisters devoted to different countries will have no choice but to stand against each other on the battlefield. Will peace finally be found at last? Or is it too late, not just for Tove and Knud’s love, but for the fate of so many?      AmazonK+

GRAVE CONSEQUENCES: A BETYOND THE VEIL MYSTERY by Lissa Kasery

VS Note: MM Fantasy Mystery.

The dead call to Jude. His heart calls to Angel. The Weave is calling in a favor. Jude Holt is caught between worlds, learning to mend reality itself under the watch of a cranky, overworked deity who sees him less as a student and more as a potential replacement. Zhenjun didn’t save Jude’s life out of kindness. He’s recruiting. Angel Mao is done playing by the rules. With his mate’s soul hanging in the balance and a shadow god’s clock ticking, Angel leads a rogue team of cryptid cops on a near-impossible heist: break into a pocket realm, steal back what was taken from them, and perform a ritual that could either save their future or end it for good. But they’re not the only ones hunting for Erlik’s secrets. A desperate, body-hopping Changeling offers a dangerous alliance, and the military is closing in, ready to claim Jude’s volatile power for themselves. To survive, Jude must master magic that mends the fabric of reality, and Angel must become more than a protector—he must become a leader of a new kind of order. The Veil is fraying, the shadows are gathering, and love might be their anchor, but destiny is weaving a far more dangerous thread.   AmazonK+

WYLD WITCH CALAMITY (WYLD LANDS ACADEMY BOOK THREE) by Janna Ruth

They have no idea what’s coming for them. Once my storm blows through town, nothing will ever be the same. They tried to brainwash me. Abuse me. Kill me. They failed. I’m still standing, and more importantly, I’m free. Free as the wind. After the hostile takeover of Wyld Lands Academy by the witch-hating guardians, I’ve escaped to the Wyld Lands with my friends. For the first time, I can breathe freely and be my true self. But the Wyld Lands are dangerous and nothing here lasts forever. Not even witches like me. Forced back into the real world, I have to dodge the guardians, always looking over my shoulder, never settling anywhere, not trusting anyone. Especially not the pretty boy who betrayed me in the first place. But I don’t want to live my life in fear. I want a future. For all witches. And if that means, I have to bring storm and lightning to my enemies, so be it. Wyld Witch Calamity is the final book in the Wyld Lands trilogy—a YA urban fantasy packed with elemental magic, rebellious heroines, and heartbreak.

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KNOTTED BY THE CARTEL by Mahogany Jaimes

Everything isn’t what you think it is. Kira’s past was stolen from her. She’s left with distorted memories and a heat no beta should feel. Nothing is as she knows it to be, making it hard to trust herself or anybody around her. How much of what she knows is a lie? The throne of the panther realm hangs on one bond. The three men she’s running from are trying to confront her with a truth that’s too difficult to believe: she’s their mate. They must break the curse placed on her and claim their omega before the crown falls into enemy hands. But Kira sees only killers hellbent on finding her and finishing what they started years ago. Determined to protect everything she’s built, she’ll fight every one of them to survive. KNOTTED BY THE CARTEL is a paranormal panther shifter, omegaverse, reverse harem, cartel mafia romance.      AmazonK+

THE PATH THEY PAVED (IMPRINTED MATES SERIES BOOK THREE) by Mahogany Jaimes

Zendaya – As a mind reader working to gather intel from the enemy, I stumble upon uncharted territory and uncover a shocking secret that could compromise my mission. Will I be able to redeem myself, or is failure inevitable? Colton – Amidst being tortured and unable to distinguish between fact and fiction, I rely on something that keeps me grounded and motivates me to fight for my sanity. As I navigate treacherous waters, I question my own mental state and wonder if something else is at play. Redemption comes at a price, and the cost may be too high to bear. As Zendaya and Colton confront their fears, they begin to realize that love could be the ultimate reward in this enemies-to-lovers story.      AmazonK+

THE VAMPIRE’S EMBRACE (BLOOD MELODY BOOK THREE) by Richard Amos

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

The agony of truth. The torture of confusing desires. Dammit. Why did I have to be caught up in both? Things are changing at an alarming rate, the world as I knew it unravelling into one chaotic mess. There is danger around every corner, and more wicked truths waiting to deliver yet another devastating blow. My heart can’t take much more. It’s already mired in confusion over my hunger for the vampire king’s touch. I want him, but it’s becoming too dangerous. I have to break this bond between us before it’s too late. Because there’s nothing but a doomed future for us lurking on the horizon. Ha! Resistance is easier said than done.      AmazonK+

BOUGHT BY THE ANKOU: MONSTERS’ BRIDE MARKET by Lia Frost

VS Note: An Ankou is a servant of Death in Cornish and Welsh myths.

One night. One mask. One stranger I was never supposed to see again. Tomorrow, I’m selling myself to save the only family I have left. Tonight, I want to forget what morning will cost. Then I dance with a masked stranger. He listens when I talk. Touches me like he’s been waiting centuries. And when he asks me to stay, I do what I always do when something good gets too close. I run. By noon, I’ve chosen the Ankou as my husband. He carries the dead. Even the other monsters won’t stand beside him. And he looks me in the eye and tells me he isn’t the man who held me last night. Fine. I can fill his silent house with noise. Argue about his badly hung bell. Make his stone-faced butler almost smile. What I can’t explain is the masked stranger who comes to my door after dark. No names. No questions. Nothing said about daylight. Those are my rules. They should make this easy. But something in the fen is wearing the faces of the people we love, and the man who raised me is running out of time. Saving him means trusting my husband with more than my body. And I know that voice. I know those hands. If I say his name, I’ll have to admit why I keep opening the door.        AmazonK+

CRYPT OF ASH (BLOOD OF THE FAE BOOK SIX) by Sarah Chislon

Death, destruction, and . . . divided loyalties? There are things worse than death—the fae courts have taught Jessa Caldwell as much. After all she’s witnessed of their cruelties, she’ll pay any price to keep her beloved sister Ada from such a fate. She’ll even accept a challenge of impossible odds, one meant to condemn her to a swift, brutal end. Though an unexpected sacrifice preserves her life, she suffers lasting damage, and the brokenness in her body echoes that of the fractured courts around her, divided within and without. If they cannot find unity, the still-concealed Court of Ruin will succeed in their destruction. Tasked with finding answers, Jessa and Riven form unexpected alliances, yet illusion and deceit obscure the truths they seek and threaten these tenuous ties. Jessa’s growing presager abilities may offer a path forward, but they also make her a target, drawing attention from rival powers—most of whom have a vested interest in the dissolution of her deepening bond with Riven. Despite their efforts, long-hidden schemes surface and spill out into the mortal world, where a contagion fueled by Other strips away every vestige of humanity from those it touches. Fear rules mortal hearts, coldness fae ones, and prejudice blinds both.If Jessa can’t find a way to bridge the gap between courts and worlds, the war threatening to sweep the realms will consume all she loves, leaving nothing but ruin in its wake.       Amazon

WITCH WAY BACK (SILVER SISTERS BOOK NINE) by Jennifer L Hart

Time’s a witch. Break her rules and you’ll pay the price. At age forty-two, Carafina Silver has risked everything by traveling into the future seeking her missing sisters. She’s sure they’ll jump at the chance to return to their home in Eckhart. She never expected that finding the way forward would be much easier than the return trip. Or that Alys, Maeve, and Siobhan are reluctant to abandon their loved ones who just got them back. Can Cara convince her sisters to roll the dice and turn their backs on the future they fought so hard to restore? Will she discover a way back to 2026? Or will the Silver sisters be lost in time forever?        Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

SOLIVAGANT by Ronan Marlow

VS Note: MM PNR.

There’s something in the woods. I’ve started sleeping with my boots on and a knife strapped to my leg. The sleep paralysis was torture, but what came next was even worse. Waking up alone and vulnerable in the woods, far from home, following the sound of distant howling like a siren call. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. It feels like there is a beast inside of me, desperate to escape. I’m terrified to let it free, but I’m quickly discovering that I don’t have much of a choice. Every night the dreams return. Another place, another time. A face I can’t quite remember. Every time I wake up, I’ve walked further, until I find myself in an abandoned, crumbling cabin that feels oddly familiar. The decaying kitchen, with the haunting scent of stew and mint, the voices after dark calling a name I almost recognize, and a face in the mirror that isn’t my own. Then there are the eyes I feel watching me constantly, with a weight to them I try not to acknowledge. I don’t know what I’m searching for, only that it feels like the forest itself is summoning me, guiding my sleeping form into its depths, whispering its secrets as phantom wounds across my skin. The dreams are getting worse. I’m starting to think they might be more than dreams…Solivagant is a full-length MM dark monster romance as part of the Mayhem Manuscripts Cryptids shared world collaboration.    AmazonK+

PAREIDOLIA by Lee McCormick

VS Note: MM PNR.

Something always has bigger teeth. Aspen – I’ve spent my life chasing emotions I can’t understand. I don’t feel bad for what I am—I don’t feel much at all, really. I’m a monster, comfortable in my own skin. When I move to a small town where people go missing and they say the woods are haunted by a beast, I think I’ve finally found a place to settle. And then he finds me… A creature made of shadow and moonlight. A beast with wings that feeds on pure emotion. A monster who says I belong to him. Nox – I am the shadow that hangs over my small town by the mountains. I am the thing the children fear and the adults speak of in hushed voices. I’ve never cared to know a human, until Aspen shows up in the woods with blood on his hands. I feed on emotions, but his are volatile… different. He doesn’t feel fear, but I can taste the desire for violence just beneath his skin. I want to consume him. I want to keep him. I want to peel away his layers and wrap him up in my wings until I can taste his heart on my tongue. I never believed in mates, but I know Aspen is mine.      AmazonK+

FERAL by Emmy LaRoux

VS Note: MM DArk Monster Romance.

I bartered my freedom to escape a monster. I didn’t expect to crave the demon who now owns me. Bellamy – 
Running from my powerful, abusive ex isn’t a choice. It’s survival. When his threats turn lethal, I barely escape. Bleeding and desperate, I stumble onto a dirt crossroads and beg a cryptid for a miracle. He manifests from the shadows with striking blue skin, crimson eyes, and a terrifying aura that shatters everything I know. He offers a lethal bargain: absolute protection within his gothic manor in exchange for my total submission. Locked away in his gilded cage, I’m entirely at his mercy. Vesper is a creature of strict rules, tailored suits, and a devastating, possessive charm. I know he’s a monster, but the forbidden heat between us is an addiction. Every wicked, breathless touch ignites a primal physical pull I’m entirely helpless to fight. Vesper – This human should fear me, and yet Bellamy looks into my demonic eyes and demands a savior. Only, my beautiful captive doesn’t know my darkest truth.Bound to my soul is a second, far more savage predator. And the vicious devil dog inside wants nothing but to claim Bellamy completely.    AmazonK+

HOLLOW by MN Bennett

VS Note: MM PNR.

Jack lives his life on social media, cosplaying as the cryptid local legend. Sure, he is an actual monster, but that detail doesn’t really matter when he’s focused on trending posts. All is going well in Jack’s life until a group of hunters show up, intent on taking the famed monster’s head as a trophy. Dimitri has been trapped by hunters for years, forced to use his abilities so their organization can track down other cryptids. When he encounters Jack, he learns that not all monsters are made the same way. Jack easily removes the threat at his doorstep, and Dimitri gains a chance at freedom. Jack introduces Dimitri to the world and the many wonders he’s missed out on during his captivity. Dimitri follows Jack’s lead as he explores this new era. But the hunter’s organization doesn’t take their loss lightly, and they set out to reclaim Dimitri and behead Jack. These monsters will have to trust their hearts and each other if they want to put an end to this threat.      AmazonK+

A COURT OF SPLINTERED HARMONY: THE VALKYRIE CYCLE: MOVEMENT 1 (A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES BOOK SIX) by Sarah J Maas

What was broken will be remade. Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he’s been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands. The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day. To make matters worse, those who rule and protect the Night Court are reeling from recent betrayals and revealed truths. The rifts dividing them seem insurmountable. But to defeat Koschei’s creeping shadow, they must find a way back to each other and resurrect their former alliances. To survive, they must find a way to repair the splintered harmony all around them.       Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

SIGHTLESS (WILLOWDALE VILLAGE COLLECTION BOOK THREE) by M Sinclair

Magnus was the soldier who saved Eliza. Now he’s the man who swears he’s not her hero. Eliza – I’ve lived my life with ghosts at my back. Once paraded across a black-market auction block as a rare unicorn shifter, I escaped with nothing but scars, a pull I can’t untangle…and a gift I don’t fully control. My sight shows me auras, glimpses of what’s coming, but never my own future. And then there’s Magnus. My protector. The man whose presence burns brighter than any aura I’ve ever seen. The man I know is meant to be mine. The only problem? He refuses to see what I see. Magnus – I was the soldier meant to save her. Instead, I waited two months to make my move, and Eliza paid for every day of it. No matter what she believes, I’m no hero—I’m too scarred, too jaded, too late. But when the dangers of her past find their way to Willowdale, I’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe… even if protecting her means losing her. In this village, love has a way of healing the deepest wounds. But if I keep pushing her away, I may destroy the very future I was meant to protect. Because sightless or not, Eliza has always seen the truth: I’ve been hers all along.    AmazonK+

THE DRAGON AND THE BEEKEEPER’S WIDOW by Honey Phillips

She offered him shelter. He offered her forever. The one good thing to come out of Ada Underhill’s marriage was her daughter, Rosie. Now widowed and alone, Ada’s focus is on Rosie and her apiary. Love is the last thing on her mind. Then a wounded male stumbles out of the Wildwood. Towering, winged, and fiercely protective, Sarkan has spent years keeping his distance from the people of Moonbell Hollow. The last place he expects to find refuge is in a cozy cottage with a stubborn little female who refuses to be intimidated by him. Rosie quickly decides the mysterious dragon belongs with them, and although Ada tries to keep her distance, the fierce attraction growing between them soon becomes impossible to ignore. But when a stranger threatens everything Ada has built, Sarkan will do whatever it takes to keep her and Rosie safe—even if it means reminding Moonbell Hollow exactly why dragons are feared. Because once a dragon gives his heart, there’s no turning back.      AmazonK+

CRIMSON ROSES by Amy Horikami

“Oh, Nessy,” he breathed into my hair as he pulled me close. “You think I would ever let you fall.” The Hallow’s Eve ball is coming up and Nessaria knows her friend, Thebeaus, the Lord of Darkness wants her to come. The thing is: she hates balls and would rather tend her garden as any good witch would. Until one night, when things start to change, and she realizes friendship might not be enough. But she may be too late. Read this clean, cozy, and sweet vampire romance today. If you love: -Friends to lovers-Dash of Cinderella- Vampire/Witch romances You’ll love this short story.      AmazonK+

ALASKA LIGHTS: MM COWBOY VAMPIRE ROMANCE (DEAD MAN’S RANCH BOOK THREE) by January Rayne

Two hundred years is a long time to live. And in six more months, I’ll finally be free. My body aches. My blood is thick. I’m losing my temper. I’m out of control. I’m tired of outliving everyone I care about. My soul has taken a beating, and I’m done getting back up. But of course, my plans are ruined. Like always. The bush pilot delivering our supplies crashes. When I find him, the weight of death escapes me. All that matters is saving him. That’s another surprise. Fate decided for my mate to be a man. I don’t know the first thing about being with a man. Neither does he. On top of navigating us, we learn his plane was sabotaged. He’s my reason to live now. No one will jeopardize that. Not even vampire hu nters. Two hundred years of rage is about to be set free. And I’ll bathe in their blood if it means keeping Leo safe. Only one question burns in my mind now…Can I get him to love a man like me?      Kindle+

CHARMED AND DANGEROUS: GRIMM MAWR WITCHES BREWFAST NOVELLA by Sabrina Silvers

He’s a grumpy bear shifter with zero patience for witches. She’s a nervous potions apprentice who just dosed herself with a love spell gone wrong…In the magical town of Grimm Mawr, chaos brews faster than a love potion. When anxious witch Maeve Whisper accidentally drinks her boss’s experimental concoction, she expects mild embarrassment—not a burning attraction to her surly neighbor, Saul Grimsbane, the six-foot-eight grizzly shifter who owns the bakery down the street. Saul’s used to cleaning up the Dupree sisters’ magical messes, but when the shy redhead next door starts making his bear growl for all the wrong reasons, he’s certain something supernatural is at play. The problem? Bears can’t be bewitched. Which means Maeve’s his mate… and that one kiss at BrewFest might’ve sealed her fate. Now a love spell, a town full of gossiping witches, and one very determined bear threaten to turn Maeve’s quiet life upside down. Can a skittish witch learn to stand up to her growly mate before their chemistry causes another explosion—this time straight from the heart?   Amazon

ORC AND ROLL (BACKSTAGE BEASTS by Sabrina Silvers

I thought one night with an orc rockstar would be nothing more than a memory. Back when I was bartending, Kael Blayde sang ancient orc songs into the dark—low, powerful, and unforgettable. By morning, he was gone. I never told him I was pregnant. Now Kael is a famous monster rockstar, the bass-playing heart of The Unbound, and he’s standing in my coffee shop staring at the toddler who hums in harmony with his voice. Kael wants answers. He wants a place in his son’s life. And he wants me. But I built my world around stability, not sold-out tours, screaming fans, and the chaos of fame. Loving a monster like Kael means risking everything I worked to protect. Orcs don’t walk away from their legacy. And Kael Blayde won’t walk away from his family.      AmazonK+

OF HEART AND HONOR by Madisyn Carlin

He’s an ambassador determined to save his land. She’s a noblewoman from the enemy kingdom. All Royal Ambassador Kavan Tarrel wants is to help secure peace for his kingdom. All lower nobleman’s daughter Muirenn wants is to help her land recover from their king’s devastating choices. When betrayal lands both in a situation neither anticipated, they must find a way to stop the war before it destroys everything both hold dear. Of Heart and Honor is a Christian fantasy Goose Girl retelling with light, level one romance. It is a Crowns of Corrend prequel with the tropes opposites attract, introvert x extrovert, unintentional concealed identity, and a dragon.    AmazonK+

THE LIBRARIAN DID ME DEWEY (INFERNAL ARCHIVISTS BOOK ONE) by Lilo Quie

VS note: MM Fantasy.

Alexei – My first real job out of college, and the offer is almost too good to be true—a fairly paid librarian. As a bookish omegaverse addict, I’ve had my nose in one novel or another since I was a kid waiting on my letter admitting me to any sort of magical academy or otherworldly institute. I just…didn’t think it’d come in an email with a job offer attached. Whatever happened to dragons or phoenixes or a fat bewildered owl ten thousand miles out of its native habitat? Hell, I’d have taken a cross-eyed pigeon. Now I’m too old to believe in magic—or fair job offers—and things are a little bit creepy in the stacks. The books whisper my name, watch me from shelves, and I have to write book reports on returned books by antisocial and nervous patrons that never make eye contact. The thing is, none of the books are what I remember, all of them with odd endings or changing scenes straight out of fantasy fanfiction gone wrong. But for what I’m being paid, I pretend it’s normal, ignore the creepiness, the books that bite me, and the occasional encyclopedia that scuttles around on the floor leaving a trail of forgotten words. When I’m finally forced to confront the weirdness, my coworker, an incarcerated librarian bound to the town, shows me a world I’d always dreamed of. Straight out of my favorite author’s smut-i-verse. And when we find ourselves as the side characters in my favorite book—things get complicated… (more blurb on ebook seller’s page)        AmazonK+

SAMANTHA: SHIFTERS OF GRAND JUNCTION by K R Hall

Abigail Hurst and her friends moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, to make their own clan. They dreamed of building a close-knit group where all members were accepted for who they were. However, someone didn’t want them there. A curse was placed on the land and the buildings, and no one could break it. Samantha Winthrop, a daimon, was sent to help break the curse. When her spirit animal, Nolan, helped her uncover secrets and channel her powers, their search revealed only dragon blood could break the spell. When the dragons arrived, Samantha was stunned to find her fated mate among them. Even more astonishing, Nolan revealed his ability to shift into human form and claimed he too was destined to be by her side. Could this new triad break the curse?       Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

SHE CHOSE THE BEAR (VOLUME 1): MONSTER ROMANCE ANTHOLOGY FOR CHARITY by Various

She had to choose. She chose the bear. A viral thought experiment posed the following question to women: If you’d rather be stranded in the woods with a random man or a bear, which would you choose? Unsurprisingly, most chose the bear. Thus, the theme of our monstrously steamy anthology was born. In each of these stories, a woman will find herself in a scenario where she’ll need to choose either a bear or a man, and (spoiler alert) she’ll choose the bear. We’ve got grizzlies and polars and black bears aplenty. Shifters and shadows and kodiaks galore. We celebrate every subspecies of bear that exists––either in our minds or in reality––and the women who choose beasts over men due to past trauma, fear, anxiety, or purely for a night of spicy fun. In honor of survivors past and present, all proceeds from this anthology will be going toward RAINN.      Amazon

ORC’S PYRE (VEIL LANDS BOOK 18) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Fira: I fix broken, dangerous places for a living. When I take a job to repair a dying volcanic fortress, I expect crumbling stone. I don’t expect an ancient evil waking beneath the floorboards—or the brutal orc warlord guarding it. Drogath Embermaw is massive, scarred, and downright lethal. He tells me to run. He tells me he’s dangerous. He’s right. Being near him sets my blood on fire, sparking a dark, possessive hunger neither of us can control. He thinks he’s cursed to die in the flames, but I don’t run from monsters. I’m going to break his control, even if we burn down this whole mountain together. Drogath: Thirty days. That’s all I have left before the black poison in my blood turns me into a beast and claims my life. I was ready to die alone. Then she walked through my gates. Fira is defiant, reckless, and far too soft for a hell like this. I should throw her out before my curse drags her down with me. Instead, she looks at the darkness clawing inside my chest and doesn’t back away. She steps closer.     Amazon+

HOME SWEET ORC by Dominique Crave and Milly Taiden

I’ve made a lot of questionable life choices. Marrying a stranger before coffee is my new personal best. I wake up to a giant green face fogging my van window. Two minutes later, he’s telling the HOA I’m his wife. Obviously, I play along. He’s huge. Grumpy. Measures his towels. Wears a suit like it’s losing a fight with his shoulders. He drafts us a twelve-page contract. I sign it in glitter gel pen. He moves me into his bed…And our pillow wall lasts exactly one thunderstorm. The HOA wants proof. His mother wants a wedding. And for the first time in my life, I want to stay. I’ve always been the one who leaves first. It’s kind of my thing. Too bad my husband has a strict no-returns policy.   Amazon+

BITE AND WRONG (PARANORMNAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 117) by Milly Taiden

Amara Quinn has a ruined career, a shattered heart, and zero interest in arrogant men who think they can run her life. After a devastating workplace betrayal reduces her reputation to ashes, she expects a quiet life hiding out in her hometown. Instead, Gerri Wilder sweeps in with an impossible job offer across the galaxy: travel to the alien world of Nova Aurora to mediate an explosive labor crisis. Amara expects high-stakes corporate diplomacy. She does not expect Alpha lion shifter Raxen Sol—seven feet of pure, brooding authority built like sin. Alpha of Solaryn Raxen Sol likes control, order, and keeping his territory safe from the shadows that killed his father. Facing an impending deadline to claim a mate or lose his title, he hired Gerri for a practical match—not a fiercely independent human who ignores his commands, demands his trust, and makes his lion roar one possessive word: mine. Amara is sharp, fearless, and entirely immune to his intimidation tactics. Worse, every fiery clash leaves him desperate to pin her against the nearest wall. Then a ruthless conspiracy threatens to bring Solaryn to its knees, and an assassination attempt puts Amara directly in the crosshairs. Suddenly, Raxen’s protective instincts go completely feral. With rogue shifters closing in, enemies lurking in plain sight, and enough molten tension between them to ignite a savanna fire, Raxen is ready to tear apart anyone who dares threaten his mate. But Amara is determined to prove she doesn’t need saving—she’s here to win the fight right alongside him.       AmazonK+

DRAGON WINDRIDER (DRAGON HOME BOOK THREE) by Minerva Howe

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

Harden is a grumpy dragon. Everyone knows that, even his best friends, Cade and Tyr. He herds of his animals, takes care of his farm, and sticks to himself. Which is why it comes as such a great surprise to him when he finds out how much he enjoys Guardian Dragon Brayden’s company. Brayden thinks Harden is nothing short of miraculous, and he’ll do whatever he can to spend more time with the big dragon. Brayden might be having a hard time adjusting to living in the dragon world instead of a human one but Harden doesn’t have any doubts about When spending time together turns into more, the two fated mates learn to live together and start a family, but not everything is easy. They have to adjust to being a couple, and they must fight the outside forces that might be trying to tear away everything they hold dear. Can Harden and his mate Brayden take on magic they don’t even understand, or will it be too much for them to take on?       AmazonK+

THE POISON HEART (CURSE BREAKER WITCHES BOOK FIVE) by Claire Robyns

Maddie Crow has broken plenty of curses. She’s never met one with two hearts beating inside. When Felix Dudley—flamboyant illusionist, Stratford’s most theatrical showman, and a man who has never once asked Maddie for anything—sweeps into the bookshop and drops to his knees, she knows it’s bad. His niece Roz is dying. So is Orlando Beaumont, the boy she loves from the wrong side of the feud. And the curse killing them is older than Crooks. The Dudleys and the Beaumonts have hated each other for centuries. They would rather the kids broke up than lift a finger to help, or better still, that the other family’s child died first. Roz and Orlando have other ideas. They’d rather die than stop loving each other. Maddie is their only hope. But this curse is ancient and packed tight around their hearts. She can see it. She can’t touch it. One wrong move and she kills the very kids she’s trying to save. With the clock ticking, two furious families trading insults, and a new boyfriend who’d quite like her to steer clear of curses altogether, Maddie needs answers. Five hundred years of grudges say she won’t get them. A forbidden love. A centuries-old feud. You’d almost think it was a Shakespearean tragedy.      AmazonK+

UNMASKING THE FALLEN ANGEL (MONSTERS IN MASKS) by Annee Jones

Cillian Rook is the man I refuse to touch. The fallen angel at the masquerade is another story. With his tattoos, piercings, eyeliner, and combat boots, saying no should be easy. It isn’t. But mixing work with the man who makes my good judgment evaporate is a line I can still keep. Then Halloween gives me a candlelit ballroom and a masked stranger with enormous black wings that look disturbingly real. No office. No consequences. No reason to wonder whether he belongs in my life tomorrow. And one look at him has me ready to make tonight filthy. I only wanted the fantasy. The trouble with fantasies is that some of them survive daylight.      AmazonK+

GIFT OF THE EMPRESS (THE APPRENTICE OF ANUBIS BOOK 22) by Laura Greenwoood

When the Pharaoh sends a gift, it’s best not to refuse it. Ani has to juggle her duties as an embalmer with the struggles of being a boss to the Apprentice Blessed, especially with the upcoming ordination ceremony. To make matters worse, she’s been sent a gift by the Pharaoh, and the one delivering it is none other than her sort-of-ex, Prince Ramesses. Gift of the Empress is book 22 in The Apprentice of Anubis, an urban fantasy series based on Egyptian mythology and featuring an established couple, a jackal familiar, and the duties of an embalmer. If you love Egyptian mythology, alternative versions of the modern day, temple politics, slow-burn workplace romance, and a world where the gods are real, then start the Apprentice of Anubis series today with Apprentice of the Dead.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

RADIANT (VAMPIRE TALES BOOK TWO) by Alexa Piper

VS note: MM PNR.

Fated to love one another, they are hunted for what they are. Ethan saved a vampire, Auris, and getting close to him nearly cost Ethan his life. But he won’t give up on what he and Auris can have, on what Auris says they are meant to have. They travel to Prague to follow a mysterious rumor, but it’s also a chance for them to get closer to one another and for Ethan to truly leave his old life behind. But the mystery that lured them to the Golden City is not at all what they expected. Radiant is the sequel to Illuminated, an MM vampire romance. The story should be read in order.   Amazon

CLAIM ME (DRAGONS LOVE CURVES BOOK 12) by Aidy Award

Mac: Mac wants to prove his skills as a Red Dragon Warrior to his Wyvern, and this mission to America is just the break he needs. He’ll destroy the demons creating havoc for the Thornminster Fire Department and save the day. But that plan isn’t going great since he just set fire to the warehouse the little bastards were hiding out in and the sexy AF fire investigator thinks he’s a serial arsonist. Oops. Not only does he have to convince her he’s one of the good guys, he needs to claim her. Because she’s his fated mate. Nataly: Nataly knows fire. It’s in her blood. Not literally… that’s just silly. Except since she met the arsonist who also saved her from certain death, weird things have been happening. Like the creepy snakelike dragon beasts trying to steal her necklace and the fact that she made a whole horde of them burst into flames with her mind. This is not her idea of a fun first date.      AmazonK+

DON’T GO BREAKING MY HORN by Hazel Jane North

I didn’t realize buying a house in Screaming Woods came with a resident monster. Or that I’d want to keep him…
I came to Screaming Woods to paint portraits of those transformed by Dr. Karloff’s Frankenpunch. As soon as the grant funding came through, I bought a gorgeous-looking cottage without even zooming in on the pictures. Big mistake. The place is one strong gust of wind away from collapse. My second mistake? Misjudging a curve in the road and rear-ending a motorcycle. The man who climbs off should be furious. Instead, the massive minotaur just stares at me. He’s got curved horns, inked arms, a ring through his nose, and a look on his face that says he isn’t going to forget me anytime soon. Unfortunately, neither am I. Because when I finally arrive at my cottage, I discover the minotaur whose motorcycle I just destroyed has been living here for the past five years. He has no intention of leaving. He’s also the only one in town who refuses to let me paint him. He thinks he can stare me down until I pack my bags. He’s about to find out that I’m not leaving until I get exactly what I came for. And that includes him.     AmazonK+

HUNGRY LIKE THE BEAR by Abi Vale

Barrett – Hazel came to Screaming Woods searching for one impossible plant. Finding it could save her career, prove everyone who mocked her wrong, and justify every sacrifice she’s made. I’m only supposed to keep her safe while she looks. Instead, I start bringing her food, waiting for her after dark, and making sure she never has to face the forest—or anything else—alone. Hazel listens to my thoughts, laughs in my kitchen, and looks at my monstrous body as though she sees something worth touching. Something worth loving. But men like me don’t get chosen. We stand at the edges, keep everyone safe, and learn not to reach for things we know are impossible. Hazel is searching for a discovery that could change her life. I’m trying not to hope she’ll discover that the life she wants could be here—with me.       AmazonK+

TAKE ME FOR GRANITE by Kat Baxter

APRIL – I inherited a crumbling house, a mountain of repairs… and one extremely grumpy gargoyle.
After losing my boyfriend, my job, and my apartment in spectacular succession, moving to Screaming Woods is supposed to be my fresh start. Then I discover the hideous statue attached to my new house isn’t a statue at all. He’s Gabriel Winchester—cursed, infuriating, and unfairly gorgeous when he’s human. Even stranger? I’m the first person in generations who can bring him to life. GABRIEL – I’ve spent generations trapped in stone. Then April arrives. She’s optimistic. Infuriating. Far too comfortable in my house. And somehow, the stronger my feelings for her become, the longer I remain a man. Protectiveness works. Anger works. But desire? Desire works very well. There’s only one problem… The closer April comes to breaking my curse, the closer I come to losing her. She thinks she came to Screaming Woods to rebuild her life. Neither of us realizes what it might cost to give me back mine.     AmazonK+

EVERY LITTLE THING SHE ORCS by Fern Fraser

WREN – I came to Screaming Woods to survey a trail for twelve weeks, not to fall for my field partner. In my defense, Holt is a seven-foot orc ranger with tusks, shoulders that strain his uniform, and one word for every idea I have: Unsuitable. I’m starting to think that includes me. Then a landslide cuts us off, and Holt shows me what he’s kept off every map: a hidden hollow where the moths glow like fairy lights. Nobody has ever seen this place. Now I have, and he’s looking at me like I’m the only thing in these woods worth guarding. Oh, and his hands? I have thoughts. My posting ends in September, and I always leave first. So why does the thought of packing make my chest ache? HOLT – I was a paramedic once. Then one cup of Halloween punch turned me into the thing people scream at, so I gave up on people and kept the forest’s secret instead. Then Wren walks into my forest with purple hair, a lip ring, and not one trace of fear in her scent. She’s sassy and stubborn and far too brave for her own good. I want to keep her safe. Truth is, I just want to keep her. Now a stranger’s photo of me has gone viral, and half the internet is hunting for what I’m hiding. Let them hunt. They’ll never find the glade. Her contract says September. I don’t care what any piece of paper says. Wren isn’t leaving my woods. She’s mine.       AmazonK+

THE STOLEN WOMEN: A NOVEL by Alysandra Dutton

VS Note: LGBTQ+ Historical Fantasy.

Safinia is fine to focus on her training as a warrior, providing for her sisters, and minding her own business. She feels no great need to meddle in anyone else’s, until women in her town, including her former lover, begin disappearing. Quietly, at first, but disappearing just the same. All of the missing women have vanished from powerful households, but their formidable fathers are in utter denial, claiming their daughters are off on trips, sure to be back shortly, with perfectly reasonable explanations for their absences. Dissatisfied with the half-hearted attempts to hand wave away the alarming and mysterious cases of the vanishing women, Safinia takes matters into her own hands, embarking on a journey to a neighboring village in search of answers or at the very least clues that might unearth threads she can begin to pull at. Along the way, she meets an unlikely yet helpful search partner, a historian who calls himself Livy. But despite his eerie sense of knowledge, Safinia is unable to uncover to missing women, thwarted more often than not by the girls’ fathers themselves. As war with Rome looms on the horizon, Safinia must face the reality that the only one she can trust to bring them home is herself. Alysandra Dutton has crafted an expertly researched and indepth look at the Sabine women, one of history’s most overlooked yet crucial stories that has inspired countless works of art throughout the centuries.         Amazon      AB      Apple Books       Kobo

CHATEAU REVERIE by Natasha Siegel

Reverie and Sons humbly requests your attendance at THE AUCTION OF SECRETS. Genevieve de Vienne does not remember the journey to the Château Reverie. She only remembers receiving her invitation to the Auction of Secrets, writing upon it her greatest desire—to forget the woman she once loved—and setting it aflame. Leander Sterne does not remember a life outside of the Château Reverie. When he receives his own invitation, he does not have any secrets to bid, but his greatest desire—his liberty—is worth risking everything. He has nothing to lose. Alongside five fellow attendees, Leander and Genevieve must survive three nights in the Château in order to bid their secrets and win their hearts’ desire. But the Château has a mind of its own. As guests begin to disappear and Leander and Genevieve become more and more entangled, it becomes clear that the rules of the Auction might not be in anyone’s favor…and even those who win might not be allowed to leave.

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HAUNTED HEARTS (THE BOUND DUET BOOK TWO) by Hanna Harp

The haunting has only just begun. Cade Halloway is done running. The Covenant still stands—fractured, desperate, and willing to burn the world to reclaim their power. They still want his sister, Callisto, but Callisto is no longer the girl they marked for death. She trains in secret, learning to wield the power she was born with. And the rules begin to change. With the help of an old friend, a monster forced into human skin, and you—the unseen presence bound to Cade—they prepare for the war coming to their door. As Cade moves to finally dismantle the Covenant, his connection to you deepens into something he no longer questions. You are no longer a ghost, you are a part of him now. And he intends to find you. But while alliances take shape, something else watches from the shadows. Waiting for every piece to fall into place. This time, survival won’t be enough.

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THE JEWEL OF CORLIVO by Kathleen Carr Foster

Raised for the most luxurious pleasure house in mountain-ringed Corlivo, Anna has no illusions about her future. She’ll be a courtesan, as her mother was before she disappeared—and like her mother, gamble that her charms attract a patron rich enough to pay her debts. But when a gruff explorer with connections at the capital notices Anna, it’s her sharp eye that draws him in. Sebastianus thinks Anna’s found a clue within the pages of an ancient book to the lost city of treasure he seeks, and she might well discover more. Together they escape to the imperial court, where marvels are commonplace—and so is treachery. Anna’s courtesan training has hardly prepared her for the dangers of court life, let alone for delving into artifacts from the empire’s past. But when she uncovers a secret tied to her mother’s fate, Anna realizes more than her life is at stake. She holds the key to untold possibilities not only for herself, but for any of the women of Corlivo . . . if she can use it.

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SHELBY’S ANGELS: PNR LGBTQ+ ROMANTIC COMEDY by Stephanie Burke

VS Note: Re-releases in a box set.

Once upon a time, there were seven ex male models turned exotic dancers, all unique and beautiful in their own way. Adan, the fiery Spaniard, is a master of disguise. Barika, the dangerous African Flower, can make any computer obey with a mere touch of a keyboard. Shen, my delicate Chinese Warrior, speaks several languages fluently and knows how to use his pretty face to get what he wants. Blain is my temperamental Irish poet, with the soul of an artist, and the right cross of a heavyweight champ. Nalu, a large chunk of Samoan perfection, knows anything and everything about plants and poisons. Delsin has a way with numbers that is damn near erotic to watch and an understanding of the world that makes me believe his tales of being the offshoot of a rampaging Indian war-god. And then there’s Raidon, my sexy Japanese Shogun. Skilled in several forms of martial arts, Raidon is the smallest — and the most dangerous one of all. Along with my lover Will, a hand model, we form the best detective agency ever! We take on the most obscene and dangerous cases ever to develop in the Red Light District of Baltimore. From cross-dressing vampires to dangerous warrior cults, we’ve seen and done it all. Call me Shelby. And these bold and beautiful men who obey my will, most of the time, are my Angels. And here are our stories.       Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

LIFE OUT OF ORDER by Audrey Niffenegger

Alba DeTamble has never lived a life in order. Born with the same rare Chrono-Displacement Disorder as her father Henry, she slips unpredictably through decades, haunted by the secrets of a future she can witness but cannot change. As Alba strives to maintain a normal life with Zach, her safe, supportive anchor, she forms a tight-knit community of artists and activists who fight to take care of each other in an increasingly unstable world.  At once intimate and expansive, Life Out of Order plunges readers into a world of Niffenegger’s dazzling imagination: from the riot-torn streets of a dystopian Chicago, to a digital museum for forgotten memories and lost artifacts. Curating this ever-expanding museum is Isadora, Alba’s mysterious stepsister and an unsettling presence in their family – whose fate may be intertwined with Alba’s in more dangerous ways than she knows. Told through a kaleidoscope of perspectives, the story moves through a boundless, unfolding universe of virtual reality, skimming the wildest reaches of technology and our natural world. The result is a testament to the power of art and community to sustain us in these fractured times—and an epic tale that’s set to define an entirely new genre in a way only Niffenegger can.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

HEIR OF THE DRAGONS (DRAGON BORN BOOK EIGHT) by K N Lee

Exiled by the usurper who murdered her husband, Rowen has built a fragile life of peace in a remote land hidden by magic. Dragons, court intrigue, and bloodshed are memories she’s tried to bury—but revenge still haunts her dreams. Protecting her son is all that matters now. Until time begins to unravel. When reality blurs with visions of the future, Rowen discovers the truth behind the soul-stealing pirate, Captain Elian Westin, and his relentless hunt for the infamous Red Dragon. The past was never truly buried…and her son was never truly safe. Withrae is her son’s birthright. But Noemie now sits upon its throne—and she will not surrender her crown to anyone.     Amazon   NOTE: I didn’t find the book on either Apple Books or Kobo the day I checked.

TO DREAM IN DARKNESS: A NOVEL by Ann Liang

China in the age of brilliance, where gods freely wander the three realms. Amongst them is the cruel and beautiful Death God, who has never failed to collect a soul on time. Until now. For when he seeks out Rujia, the noble god of healing—and the only god he is fated to kill with his own hands—she makes him an offer he can’t refuse: she will help lift the excruciating, century-old curse placed upon him if he gives her a one-month reprieve. Rujia knows she isn’t as noble as everyone believes. Her deal with Death is merely an excuse to buy herself time while she figures out an escape plan. But when her plan causes the Celestial Palace’s collapse and the beloved crown prince’s disappearance, she and Death are both held responsible. The only way to avoid the wrath of all the other gods is to travel across the realms and safely retrieve the crown prince themselves. Yet the journey proves far more treacherous than expected. As the unlikely alliance between them blooms into more, and Death’s resolve to kill Rujia weakens by the day, neither can outrun their intertwined fate without devastating consequences: A mysterious plague. An empire-destroying flood. A thousand deaths—and rising—to restore the balance Rujia’s disrupted. And if Rujia continues to live despite the will of the Heavens, this is only the beginning.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

AN UNCERTAIN MAGIC (GREEN WITCH CYCLE BOOK TWO) by AM Kvita

VS Note: FF PNR.

Brooklyn’s most chaotic coven is back in An Uncertain Magic. This time all they have to do is take on ancient gods (yes, gods), avoid a magical apocalypse, and save New York City. No big deal. Joan Greenwood has been adjusting nicely to her life away from her powerful family of witches. She has an apartment full of friends, her dream job at an architecture firm, and a constant companion in the sentient magic that makes up New York City. For once,  everything’s coming up Joan. Until her best friend gets possessed. There’s a god wearing his skin, a new cult is springing up around him, and magic is going haywire. Things go from bad to worse when Joan’s rival-turned-crush, Astoria Wardwell, arrives from California with the news that her best friend is also possessed. That’s one hell of a coincidence, and the two have to work together to save their best friends before these gods corrupt them. Unless their pesky feelings for each other get in the way.

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TROPES: STORIES AND POEMS OF THE FANTASTICAL by Sharon Shinn

A man who can shift shapes. A woman who keeps being reincarnated. A world where unicorns are real. A city bound by elemental magic. These are some of the touchpoints in Sharon Shinn’s new collection of stories and poems. It features two brand-new novellas, including a story set in the Elemental Blessings universe.

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COMBAT BOOTS, COFFEE AND THE MIDDLE AGED DRAGON QUEEN: MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE: MIDLIFE MAYHEM BOOK THREE by Julia Mills

Apparently, saving the world requires combat boots. Martha would’ve preferred coffee. Martha Dellencourt has survived menopause, monsters, Magical mayhem, and more prophecies than any sane woman should be expected to tolerate. Now her Mating Ceremony has been postponed; she’s spending her days face-first in a swamp learning how to fight without Magic, and something ancient has decided hiding is no longer an option. The One Below is coming. And she knows Martha’s name. Buried beneath Dragoon Bootay is a truth someone went to extraordinary lengths to hide—a Dragon Queen’s crown, a Witch’s binding, a Guardian destined to fall, and a history that got almost everything wrong. To save everyone she loves, Martha must claim the crown waiting for her. There’s just one problem. Everyone keeps acting like becoming Queen means sacrificing the life she already chose. Martha has a better idea. She’ll keep her family. She’ll keep her coffee shop. She’ll keep her ridiculously protective Fairy King. And she’ll damn well save the world on her own terms. Because Fate may have chosen the Dragon Queen…But Martha gets to decide what kind of Queen she’ll be.      Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

CROW ME A RIVER: MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE: SHIFT FACED BOOK THREE by Teresa Gabelman

Misty Crow has spent her life being told where she belongs, how she should act, and what rules she’s expected to follow. She’s officially done listening. Vin came to Assjacket to visit an old friend, not get tangled up with a stubborn Crow Shifter with more baggage than belongings. But the moment his Jaguar takes notice, walking away becomes impossible. Between unwanted courting gifts, pissed-off Crows, one foul-mouthed cat, and a secret that changes everything, Misty may finally discover that finding where you belong has nothing to do with where you came from.

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SIGNED, SEALED AND BEWITCHED: MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE: WITCH RESOURCES BOOK ONE by C S Edwards

What do you get when you mix a cantankerous opossum, unauthorized prisoner releases, one ridiculously hot Mustang Shifter and eleven jars of Green Goop? Temperance Reed’s perfectly organized world turned completely upside down. As Senior Risk and Compliance Officer, Tempe likes rules, paperwork and problems that come with logical explanations. Prisoners mysteriously walking out of the Salem Pokey? Not logical. Neither is Boone Bullitt. He’s confident, irritating, far too attractive but apparently there to help. Tempe would rather handle the investigation herself, but with her magical chatbot talking nonsense, her opossum familiar playing dead, and the Pokey getting weirder by the hour, she may not have a choice. Now Tempe has to solve this mystery before the Salem Pokey’s reputation goes completely to hell. And somehow keep Boone from turning her carefully controlled life into one giant compliance violation. Aw, Fudge nuggets. So much for keeping things professional.

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LET’S TALK ABOUT HEX: MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE: ONE HOT, HEXY MESS BOOK TWO by Stephanie Berchiolly

A few months after getting hexed and stumbling into Assjacket, West Virginia, chaos witch Tansy Tingle has finally found the impossible: a home, a found family, and a bear shifter named Baz she absolutely, positively, 100% does not love but happens to like an awful lot. Then her curse takes a hard left and catches a mad case of the feels. For her. Offing Baz is no longer a top priority. Her newly sentient curse is copy-pasting everything about him while staging a hostile romantic takeover. Gary, Tansy’s snarky British snail familiar, calls it “emotional catfishing.” Her slimy little blinged-out bestie may have a point. Now Tansy has to teach her curse the difference between truly caring for someone and owning them before it destroys her… and the first place she’s ever called home.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

ON WINGS OF SHADOW (ON WINGS SAGA BOOK THREE) by MD Grimm

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

“I won’t leave you alone, my dragon. Your angel will always return to you.” The Great Union. The Great Assault. The same event with different truths. For some angels, they find their perfect mates among the demons who follow Asagoroth through the heavenly gates. For others, they wish to forget and return to their blessed peace among the stars. For Trystan, he’s trying to balance building a new society alongside his sister, the angelic peers who once shunned and shamed him, and their demon mates, while being a good parent to his adopted son, Adam. Finding himself on the council and a valued member of his community has given Trystan hope and determination to make their venture succeed.       Apple Books       Kobo

SCREAMING FOR JACK (KINKTOBER) by Re Johnson

“Put it on, lover boy. We’ll have a hell of a time.” It’s been years since I’ve seen another soul, one that isn’t trapped in a fucking mask like your boy, Jack. But it looks like my luck is changing because, come Halloween, who should pop into the antique shop where I currently “live” but the hottest piece of ass I’ve ever had the privilege of laying my eyes on. Who cares if those eyes happen to be those of a pumpkin right now? When she takes me home, the tempting Emily reveals she’s not the only one who’s going to have one hell of a holiday if things go my way. Her boyfriend, Tom, is a bit of a buzzkill, but that won’t last long once he slips into something a bit more comfortable. Namely, me. Screaming for Jack is a Halloween ghost romance for adults, with some horror elements.      Amazon

THORN: THE WILDS OMEGAVERSE by Callie Rhodes

I wasn’t the one he was hunting…but I was the prey he found. Every night a beast appears outside my window and slips into my dreams. Dark and dangerous, I know exactly what he is—an alpha. A feral creature that has no place in the civilized world. A brutal killer who refuses to leave until he’s plunged his claws deep into the heart of the one he came for. Thorn. His name sends shivers down my spine, even as I cry it out in my dreams each night. My mind knows I should tremble at the threat he presents, yet my heart refuses to kneel before his power. Something deep within my soul can’t resist this otherworldly pull I feel toward him…even though I’m terrified he’ll be the last mistake I ever make. The Wilds is a hot, new omegaverse from the author of The Boundarylands Omegaverse series. Featuring a new batch of seriously spicy alphas searching for their fated mates, plenty of action, and primal wolf shifter vibes.   AmazonK+

DISHED (PINE RIDGE UNIVERSE) by S C Principale

I moved to Pine Ridge to take a great job at the local hospital and to get away from my picture perfect parents (who are really concealing a ton of dirt under their plastic smiles and Botox bodies). As the spooky, bookish chubby “goth-lite” girl in a family full of sparkly trust fund babies, I love the chance to live my own life and celebrate my own style—starting with the vintage Halloween candy dish I buy at the secondhand shop. It’s just perfect for the spooky season, and it’s a little bit… odd. Like me! Only, the strangest and most delicious dreams begin to unfold when I bring this mysterious dish home. If I didn’t know better, I’d think it was cursed or something. When I find out the truth, it seems that I have a lot in common with my new piece of Halloween decor. There’s more to both of us than meets the eye, and on Halloween night, I might be able to make my sweet, sultry dreams come true…Dished is a steamy sentient object/shifter romance set in the Pine Ridge Universe.      Amazon

DON’T HOOK THE MERMAN (COASTAL CREATURES BOOK TWO) by Grae Bryan

VS Note: MM PNR.

Luke Wainwright never meant to let a monster into his home. A single father living in the same small town he grew up in, Luke’s world has become small and predictable. He takes care of his son, makes custom furniture when he can, and pretends he wouldn’t want to date even if he could. But when Luke is lured to the beach by strange nighttime serenades, only to find a beautiful, naked stranger in need of assistance, his careful routine is quickly blown apart in the most alarming way. Because Syrus isn’t only odd and flirtatious and full of endless secrets—he’s a creature from the depths, with sharp teeth and a powerful tail. A creature who has his sights set on Luke. Syrus never meant to find himself a sweet, single father. Taken from the seas, captured and hurt and weakened, Syrus’s only intention after escape was to call for help, hoping for a human he could trust long enough to heal and return to the ocean. But Luke isn’t any old human. He’s kind, and he’s brave, and he deserves more than bearing the weight of the world on his solitary shoulders. Lucky for him, he has Syrus now. Because whatever Syrus’s original intentions, what he intends now is to take this little family for himself.       AmazonK+        AB

WOOING JANE by Faith Moore

Even though Jane Simpson has spent a lot of time imagining what it would be like if Henry VIII ever time-traveled to the present day, when he actually shows up in her bedroom it’s kind of the last thing she ever saw coming. But now he’s here and she’s got to figure out how to get him back to 1536 or risk altering the time-space continuum…or something. After accidentally teaming up with Oliver Griffin, a professor of Tudor history who hates Henry VIII, Jane discovers she has three days to help Henry break into the Metropolitan Museum of Art and access a portal back to the 1500s. But it’s going to take some doing. Henry has unwittingly become internet famous, Jane is falling in love with whoever is behind an anonymous online Henry VIII account, and Oliver is having some sort of existential crisis because Henry’s old-fashioned relationship advice seems actually to be working on Jane, whom he’s falling for against his will. Can Henry VIII-who isn’t even supposed to be here-sort things out in the present before he’s sent back to the past forever? Only time will tell.        Amazon

I ACCIDENTALLY JOINED A WOLF SHIFTER CHAT by Roxie Ray

POV: You get accidentally added to a stranger’s family group chat. You stay for the drama. You stay for the memes. You stay because Grandma Ruth is hilarious. Then you discover the entire family are wolf shifters. And you fall for the oldest son anyway.      AmazonK+

THRONE OF MOONLIGHT AND MALICE (THE WOLVRYN COURTS BOOK TWO) by G K DeRosa

Calista Vale survived the Blood Hunt and claimed the Moon Crown. Now she might lose everything. Just as Calista and the Savage King finally choose each other, his brother returns from the dead to claim everything Savage has fought for. His throne. His kingdom. And his queen. Now two heirs stand between Lunaris and war, and ancient law forbids Calista and Savage from completing their bond until the rightful king is chosen. One wrong touch could threaten her crown. One buried secret could destroy everything she bled to win. But something far more dangerous is awakening. Wolvryn are succumbing to a mysterious madness, their beasts twisting beyond the moon’s control. And when the afflicted begin answering to Calista, the wolfless queen discovers the power growing inside her may be connected to the darkness spreading across the realm. With enemies closing in, her mother missing, and Savage forced into a brutal succession rite against the brother he once mourned, Calista must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the crown. Because she has already chosen her king. Now she’ll have to survive the moon to keep him.       AmazonK+

GRYPHON’S FIRE: MAGICAL USAGE COUNCIL MISADVENTURES BOOK THREE by M J May

VS Note: MM PNR.

Betrayal is a heavy word, and gryphon, Keir Montenegro, has lived with the burden of its weight far too long. Wise, conscientious, and loyal to a fault, Keir struggles to put the past behind him and embrace his future as the director of the Magical Usage Council—a future filled with promise, possibility, and if he’s truly fortunate, love. Loss has consumed wyvern, Lazarus Azure, since his sister Vidia’s murder. Learning Vidia’s offspring were still alive alleviated that loss. However, protecting his future nieces or nephews from Vidia’s murderer left Lazarus bloody and scarred. Lazarus is ready to heal the wounds festering not only in his heart, but his future mate’s—Keir. Safe and warm within the embers of Keir’s fireplace, Vidia’s eggs are due to hatch any day. Anticipation fills the once morose halls of the Magical Usage compound. That joy is tempered when Keir’s past crash lands just outside the compound—Keir’s younger brother, the emaciated and damaged gryphon lying atop the damaged dirt. The past can be a cruel mistress and Keir’s has come calling, the fate of his remaining, biological family on the line. Keir must decide what more he’s willing to sacrifice to save those he abandoned centuries ago. Unwilling to lose another he loves, Lazarus will travel halfway around the world to support and protect his future mate. Keir no longer needs to fight alone. Wyvern fight for their mates, and Lazarus is more than willing to become his gryphon’s fire.      AmazonK+

REALM OF DESIRE AND DECEIT (DRAGONS OF TIRENE BOOK SIX) by Nina Frost

In a world where magic was restored to everyone, Princess Esme Solvain of Meridia received nothing. As a Warden-in-Training, the only power she possesses is Warden magic, which barely counts in the eyes of her father and perfect twin sister, Calla. Determined to prove she’s more than the kingdom’s greatest disappointment, she takes on a dangerous mission: retrieve an ancient artifact that can stop the deadly Withering from ravaging Meridia. Except the artifact disappears when the seller Esme arranges to meet ends up murdered and Agnar—the fierce general of Tirene who saved her life only moments before—thinks she’s involved. Forced into an uneasy alliance, they race to recover the artifact before the Withering consumes everything. But the more time Esme spends with the ruthless man at her side, the harder it becomes to ignore the undeniable pull between them…or the dangerous secrets they’re both hiding. When they uncover another malevolent darkness threatening not only Meridia but the entire world, Esme’s forced to choose between duty and the first man who’s ever made her feel alive.        AmazonK+

BROOM TO GROW (WICKED WITCHES OF COVENTRY BOOK 12) by Sara Bourgeois

After Coventry’s disastrous flood, Brighton Skeenbauer is ready for a quiet spring with her husband, their one-year-old daughter, and Meri, her talking cat. She even agrees to help with a garden tour raising money for neighbors still trying to put their lives back together. All she has to do is prepare the old cemetery’s flowers and stay out of trouble. Then the tour organizer is found dead in a potting shed. What first looks like an accident doesn’t sit right with Brighton, especially when Annika’s pink pig familiar, Gerty, says she heard an argument nearby. Gerty couldn’t see who was there, and some witches haven’t forgotten the terrible things she did before she became a familiar. Brighton knows Gerty’s past matters. She also knows they shouldn’t ignore a witness. With the tour on hold and Gunner investigating, Brighton and Annika start asking their own questions. Between suspicious neighbors, missing answers, and Kinsley’s sudden interest in making flowers bloom, Brighton’s peaceful spring is slipping away. She promised herself she’d stay out of murder investigations this time.  Meri remembers hearing that exact promise before.         AmazonK+

FORBIDDEN INSTINCT (FORBIDDEN KNIGHTS BOOK ONE) bny Cassandra Chandler

VS Note: Re-release and author states there’s a new ending.

To save the world, she’ll sacrifice anything—even the man she loves. Miranda Lennox knows to trust her instincts no matter what. Her gut feelings aren’t just intuition—she can see the future. Her visions have driven her to keep everyone at a distance, even Darren, the gorgeous, raven-haired guy who shows up every night at the restaurant where she works. Then a vision drives her to risk her own life, throwing the two of them together. Darren Calverton was waiting for the right moment to make a move on the sweet waitress who captured his heart the first time they spoke. He had no idea that move would be to pull her out of the wreckage of her car, or that it would happen right before he’d be fired from a private security firm when an important package is stolen. Tracking down the thief leads him into a head-on encounter with a werewolf that leaves Darren questioning his perception of reality—and saddled with a very real curse. Only Miranda’s touch can ease the rage building within him as the full moon approaches. When their quest for answers leads them to a powerful Fae being determined to wipe out humanity, will they be able to rely on each other to save the world, or will Darren’s curse consume them both?     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

DEAD OR TREAT (COLD CASE PSYCHIC BOOK 47) by Pandora Pine

VS Note: MM PNR Mystery.

It’s Halloween in Salem, and something wicked is going bump in the night…Detective Ronan O’Mara is called to the Salem Witch Board Museum after a staff member is viciously attacked by something no one can see. Ronan suspects an intoxicated man looking for his fifteen minutes of fame, but psychic Tennyson Grimm isn’t convinced. There’s something very wrong about the scene and he thinks whatever did this may not be finished. When more people are attacked over the next several days, including the man who donated the museum’s infamous witch board, Ronan has no choice but to take the supernatural possibility seriously. Jeremy Daniels claims a spirit was imprisoned inside the board long ago. Her name is Delilah Meehan, though history remembers her as the Witch of Devil’s Den. Aurora Fitzgibbon feels an immediate connection to the mysterious spirit. With Everly at her side, she begins digging into Delilah’s past and uncovers a story of cruelty, betrayal, and an innocent woman who may have been wrongly punished. But if Delilah is responsible for the attacks, what does she want? And if she isn’t…what has been unleashed in Salem just in time for Halloween?       AmazonK+

DEATH OF THE GREEN FAIRY (A KARA HILDER MYSTERY BOOK 21) by Jenna St James

VS Note: From SEPT 29.

Zane and Kara are off to New Orleans for their honeymoon. But instead of staying in the bustling French Quarter, they’re staying in Bayou Bay—the hidden supernatural town at the end of Bourbon Street, where witches, fairies, vampires, shifters, and other magicals all live. Unfortunately, their romantic getaway takes a deadly turn when an evening at an absinthe speakeasy owned by a charismatic fairy ends with a patron dead on the floor. Before the newlyweds can really enjoy the fabulous Cajun food, jazz-filled streets, and magical charm of Bayou Bay, PADA assigns them to investigate the murder. With suspects around every corner, Kara and Zane must untangle a web of lies before the honeymoon is over. Because in Bayou Bay, some spirits are served in a glass…and others are out for blood.       AmazonK+

GIVEN TO THE MAZE KEEPER (GIVEN TO THE MONSTERS BOOK TWO) by Zara Crowe

The city chained a monster beneath the mountain. Then it gave him something to protect.      AmazonK+

TRICK OR TREAT FOR THE VEXED VAMPIRE by Melanie James 

Arrhythmia doesn’t forgive. It makes the undead uncoordinated and unbelievably hexed. Being undead was supposed to make Logan Richards dangerous. A vindictive witch had other plans. A year after a stranger turned him into a vampire and dumped him at the edge of Arrhythmia, Texas, Logan has accepted that immortality comes with blood bags, loneliness, and an alarming inability to remain upright. He is the town joke, the bar keeps a first-aid kit with his name on it, and he has no idea why disaster follows him everywhere. Then Carolina Fortman walks into his unlife. She is beautiful, powerful, and completely off-limits. She is also the daughter of High Priestess Jacqueline Fortman, the terrifying witch responsible for Logan’s spectacularly humiliating curse. Carolina has spent her life preparing to inherit her mother’s coven. Falling for a clumsy vampire was never part of the plan. Neither was discovering that Logan is her true mate or that her mother has been tormenting him for nearly a year over one wounded ego and a grudge she refuses to release. Their secret meetings quickly become impossible to hide. The mate bond grows stronger, Logan’s curse turns vicious, and Carolina is forced to choose between the future she was raised to accept and the man fate chose for her. Breaking the curse could cost Carolina her family, her power, and her place in the coven. Keeping it could destroy Logan. In Arrhythmia, happily ever after is never simple. Sometimes it requires forbidden magic, a furious witch, one stubborn vampire, and enough bandages to survive the fall.       Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

CLAIMING AXEL: PITTSBURGH VAMPIRES BOOK 32 by B A Stretke

There is always another path…After his abusive ex-boyfriend kicks him of his business and out of his life, brilliant real estate mind Axel Stone is desperate for a fresh start. A courtesy interview at the corporate giant Hadden Corp seems like a long shot—until a terrifyingly gorgeous executive pulls him from the room and hires him as his personal assistant on the spot. Kieran Lagarde is a ruthless vampire executive tasked with rebuilding Pittsburgh’s dilapidated lowlands, but one look at Axel changes all his priorities. Recognizing the human as his fated beloved, Kieran moves Axel into his luxury penthouse and claims him body and soul. But when Axel’s narcissistic ex returns seeking violent revenge, he quickly learns that Kieran will cross any line to protect his mate. Fate always finds a way.    Amazon

THE WOLF PRICE by C D Gorri

VS note: Frog Prince fairytale retelling.

He only comes out under the full moon. She thinks he’s playing games, but this Wolf has been hers all along. My name is Agatha Daniels. I’m the new Alchemy professor at the Royal Academy for Magical Advancement, and apparently my biggest problem isn’t lesson plans, teenage Witches, or potion explosions. It’s everyone insisting I stop feeding the giant black Wolf lurking outside the Academy. And a best friend who swears my happily ever after is just around the corner. All I know is the mysterious black Wolf watching me from the forest couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the devastatingly handsome Grimm Palermo. He only appears beneath the full moon. One magical night he’s stealing my breath with moonlit kisses. By sunrise, he’s gone. No explanation. No goodbye. Just thirty more days of wondering if the gorgeous stranger is playing some cruel game with my heart. Meanwhile, the black Wolf never leaves. He follows me. Protects me. Growls at anyone who gets too close. As an ancient curse begins to awaken and dark magic stirs beneath the Academy, I’ll have to decide whether to trust the man who only loves me beneath a full moon… or the beast who never leaves my side.

Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

ORCS DON’T FAKE IT by Zora Black

My biggest livestream wasn’t even about me. It was about the shirtless orc frowning in the background. Rude. Also, hot. Now my sponsor wants him in every episode. So I hire the grumpiest contractor alive for one month. He agrees.
Then makes his own rules. No ring light in his face. No other man touches my pipes. No shirtless shots for the internet. He says the only one who gets a show is me. I say sign me up. Then a storm strands us by his fire…And I learn he’s very thorough with his hands. Five million people want the orc. The orc only wants me. Sorry, besties. I’m gatekeeping this one.      AmazonK+

THEIR REJECTED QUEEN (MONSTER GAMES BOOK ONE) by J R Thorn

One minute I’m wearing a ballgown, the next I’m wearing chains. Exiled for my brother’s crimes, my family has completely abandoned me to the shifter-vampire hybrids of Monster Isle. That’s a mistake they’ll pay for with their lives. Once I get off this Godsforsaken island, that is. Godric, my rugged new packmaster thinks I won’t survive a week. His possessive protectiveness is sweet, but he underestimates my rage. Then a visiting royal named Arwan sees something in me that Godric doesn’t, and nominates me for the yearly Monster Games. This isn’t like the Monsters Night I’m used to back home where supernaturals compete for an ideal mate. On Monster Isle, the monsters hunt to kill. And I’ll be lucky to make it out alive. I’m no fool. I’ve found another ally, a mute Hunter named Ze’ev who trades fighting lessons for secrets of the royal court, the only currency I’ve ever known. Only, when I enter the games, I realize they’re rigged. The men in my life aren’t spectators, they’re the hunters. And I’m the prey. Except they aren’t hunting to kill. They’re hunting to claim.        AmazonK+

ALL WE’LL NEVER HAVE by Aria Grace and Della Cain

VS Note: MMM PNR.

They’ve spent three hundred years envying the human families around them, never believing they could have one of their own…until the perfect boy shows up on their doorstep. Oliver and Elijah have a great life with everything rich and powerful vampires could want. Everything except the one thing they know they’ll never have. A boy to love as their own. They’ve made their peace with it. Mostly. Luca is nervous and flustered when his car runs out of gas in the middle of an unfamiliar neighborhood during a storm. A huge Victorian at the end of the road looks daunting, but he’s scared and needs to call for help. The last thing he’s expecting when he knocks on that door are two heartbreakingly gorgeous men who invite him in and offer so much more than just shelter from a storm.     AmazonK+

RAVENROSE (TETHERED KINGDOMS BOOK ONE) by AJ Wilding

Rowan Valrose has spent her entire life trapped beneath the weight of a crown she never asked for. Raised to smile pretty and obey quietly, she is the perfect princess. Ruthless, feared, and consumed by revenge, Ayer is the cold, calculating war captain of a rival kingdom who has vowed to end the Valrose bloodline. When fate forces them together, Rowan becomes caught between her duty to her kingdom… and the dangerous war captain who wants nothing more than to “end her.”        AmazonK+

ROBB (OUTBACK SHIFTERS BOOK SIX) by Zoe Chant

Who says you can’t teach an old shifter new tricks? Tahnee might have broken a few rules in her more carefree years. Okay, maybe more than a few. But these days she runs a sanctuary for rare shifters in the Outback, where they, and she, can shift without fear in all that wide open space. She definitely never thinks about the uptight, by-the-book, and unfortunately very sexy secret agent who pursued her all those years ago – the one who also just happened to be her mate. Absolutely not. Never. But when their two worlds are put on a collision course, Tahnee finds herself in a safehouse in a seedy part of Melbourne. A safehouse with only one bed. And, of course, her mate is there, somehow even more uptight and more sexy than before. Great. Just great. Dingo shifter and Agency leader Robb always has his hands full managing his team of agents. And if keeping them in line stops him from thinking about how he chose his career over the gorgeous outlaw who just happened to be his mate, well, that’s just a bonus. Now, however, that gorgeous outlaw has found her way back into his life – but even though the attraction between them is as sizzling as ever, the two of them can’t stop butting heads, which is a bad thing when enemy agents are doing everything possible to take them down. What starts out as an alleyway attack by a couple of rogue shifters quickly reveals itself to be part of a larger conspiracy – and if Robb and Tahnee can’t find a way to work together, an unimaginable foe will threaten the entire world.       AmazonK+

SALT AND KNOT by Ella Verso

An irresistible urge leads me to the sea, where a tentacled monster holds and pleasures me… And then I pass out. When I wake up, I find I’ve been saved by a gorgeous billionaire Alpha. He claims he’s my fated mate. He’s waited hundreds of years for me. He spoils me in every way. This feels right, except I think he has a secret. And why can’t I stop thinking about the creature in the sea?       AmazonK+        AB

HEXES GO WELL WITH TEQUILA (THE LOST SOULD SERIES BOOK ONE) by Leanna Ehrsam

From the moment Ursula Cambridge, a 38-year-old woman from the Midwest, realizes she’s become invisible in her life and relationship, she and her Irish Wolfhound, Casper get a magical invitation to live in The Lost Souls House in Salem, Massachusetts. There, she finds herself immersed in a magical town, living in a house with a graveyard that hosts the lost souls, one of Salem’s mysteries that keeps the town and tourists guessing, and some would do anything to keep their dark origin a mystery. As she struggles to find her footing in this town, four women come around her, showing her the importance of community, friendship, and magical camaraderie when they wake up with more than margarita hangovers and find that their playful graveyard hexes worked. When Ursula bumps into the town bachelor who is rumored to be cursed, she tries to steer clear of his unreasonably grumpy disposition but finds herself drawn to his surly, yet vulnerable, teenage niece Bess, who forms an attachment to Ursula. Thrown into the middle of a modern-day witch hunt, Ursula has to navigate a mysterious world of magic and mystery, political warfare, and passionate tension with the man who has sworn off women, who bears a striking resemblance to the paper towel Brawny Man. Hexes Go Well With Tequila will bring you on a whimsical journey of found family, and found self, uncovering a centuries-old mystery of ten lost souls and fighting for invisible women.

Amazon      AB     Apple Books      Kobo

BLOOD & MERROW (FOR LOVE OF MONSTERS BOOK ONE) by J J Falconer

VS Note: FROM AUG 31.

A thousand years of deception. A vampire bond forged by blood. A love born from the deep. For two hundred years Ellet has been bound to his sadistic creator, Embla. His devotion curdled into bitter hatred and his maker entering a centuries-long slumber, he seizes his chance and flees to 1860 Pensacola—determined to feed on the most depraved and build his strength enough to defeat his sire at her awakening. One night the ocean introduces him to Naia, a Mermaid. A predatory and ancient Merrow her dark appetite rivals his own. Yet, their supernatural powers have no effect on each other. An intoxicating connection ignites between them. Embla awakens, threatening their love and lives. She will slaughter anyone who stands in her way. To shield the one he truly loves, Ellet must return to the clutches of his creator and unravel a millennium of lies.        AmazonK+

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I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking quite a few as I prepare these posts LOL). 

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STONE COLD ALIEN: STARLIGHT GARGOYLES BOOK TWO (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) (STARLIGHT ALIEN MAIL ORDER BRIDES BOOK 11) by Skye MacKinnon

She spends her days keeping hearts beating. His hasn’t beaten in five hundred years.
ICU nurse Robyn has spent her whole career surrounded by doctors and nurses, so when she signs up to the Hot Tatties Dating Agency, she has one simple rule: match her with someone completely different from her usual crowd. The agency doesn’t send her on a date so much as a dare: a windswept Scottish castle, a weathered stone gargoyle and one deeply unromantic instruction – climb the ladder, touch him and see whether he wakes. He does. Sten has been cold, still and stone for centuries, and he would happily have stayed that way – until Robyn’s touch drags him back into a world he no longer recognises. But there’s a catch: stray too far from Robyn and Sten turns straight back to stone. Her presence keeps him alive, while a taste of her blood gives him the freedom to leave her side. Robyn is used to medical emergencies, but nothing prepared her for a grumpy, possessive alien who insists she’s his fated mate. She’s determined to find a way for him to survive without her. She’s considerably less determined to resist the permanent bite that will complete their bond.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

HIS PREDATOR (THE UNNATURALS BOOK THREE) by Mel Teshco

She was made to kill. He was made to be her target. My name is Nyra. I’m the perfect weapon—silent, fast, and deadly. My handler points, I hunt. I don’t use bullets. I use my teeth. My claws. The way nature intended. A gun is a coward’s weapon. My prey deserves to face their predator. It’s simple. Clean. I don’t question the names on my list because I’m told they’re monsters who deserve what’s coming. Until Barrett. He’s supposed to be my next target. Another evil man who needs to disappear. But when I get close, nothing adds up. He knows I’m hunting him. Worse, he doesn’t seem afraid. And the longer I’m near him, the harder it becomes to make the kill. He’s supposed to be my prey. So why does it feel like I’m the one being hunted? My spots are breaking through my skin, my teeth extending, my eyes burning amber with predator fire—a warning I’m losing control. My claws ache to extend. Not to kill him. To protect him. But my handler is watching. Waiting. And if I don’t complete this mission, we’ll both pay the price. Some prey should never be hunted. Some predators were never meant to be caged.       AmazonKU

HEALED BY THE REBELLIOUS ROBOT: MAPLETOWN MONSTER MATES BOOK THREE by Ivy Knox

A powerful witch whose life is in danger…Mayor Emma Crane prides herself on being the unshakable leader Mapletown needs, but when her closest confidant suffers a violent attack, she doubts whether she’s the right person for the job. Her overbearing family offers an ultimatum disguised as a solution: To ensure her safety, Emma must agree to let a tall, imposing robot guard her every move, or she’ll lose her place in the local coven and her powers will disappear. Emma’s resentment toward her bodyguard, model ABE39, is palpable, especially when he watches her sleep and even follows her into the bathroom. She hates him, and she mourns the loss of her privacy, no matter how much safer she is with him around. A guard bot who’s so much more than he seems…When Emma starts receiving mysterious threats, she has no choice but to accept his presence. After an attempted kidnapping as she’s leaving the office, Abe proves he’ll stop at nothing to protect her. That’s when she starts to see his value, and his once vexing habits become charming little quirks. His programming is limited to keeping her safe, so why does he grow desperate to hear her laugh? To learn how she longs to be touched? He wasn’t built for companionship, but after meeting Emma, he’s eager to remain at her side for all of her tomorrows. The last thing she wanted was to be sidled with a clingy android, but she’s about to find out this machine has a mind of its own.      AmazonKU

VS: A reminder of my new release from last week:

BRADEN (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) SOLDIERS OF THE ARDANNAN BOOK FIVE by Veronica Scott

Braden Hartwell’s five day date on the Intergalactic Dating Agency’s Resort Planet has crashed and burned already. His date failed to show up, having gotten married on her home planet. While he’s absorbing this setback he receives a surprising offer. Elodie Farantson is on Resort Planet to be a bridesmaid for her childhood friend. Her cheating ex-boyfriend is the best man and Elodie has been telling everyone about her wonderful new boyfriend to save face. Except he doesn’t exist. Panicking she takes refuge in a noisy club before going to the first wedding party. Upon seeing Braden all alone at the club, she strikes up an acquaintance over drinks, inviting him to be her fake date to the wedding and all the activities for the week. With nothing better to do and all his friends matched up with IDA dates, Braden agrees. The situation turns out to be much more complicated than Elodie explained. The bride and groom are famous interstellar celebrities, the events are nonstop and he soon realizes he wants something real with Elodie. For her part, Elodie is falling head over heels for Braden but after her last relationship disaster she’s reluctant to take a risk. When danger from an unknown source stalks her Braden has to step up and do whatever is necessary to save her life.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo      NOOK       GooglePlay

AS WE FALL THROUGHH TIME  by Claire North

VS Note: LBGTQ+ Time Travel Romance.

In the beginning, the world will end. This is the story of what happens next. When Cal meets a soldier of the French Revolution, he knows his lover is destined to die. But what’s the point of being a time traveler if you can’t make a few small tweaks to the course of history? A little paradox here, an alteration there—nothing Cal can’t fix, to save the man he loves. When Fadimatu walks into a museum in 2018, she stumbles upon her own mummified corpse, setting her on the path to a betrayal that has already killed her, and a murder that has not yet come to pass. And when a sudden rupture in the fabric of history rips through the lives Cal and Fadimatu have built, breaking both past and future, they must reckon with death foretold, love forsaken, and a secret that will shatter time itself.

Amazon      AB       Apple Books       Kobo

DISCORD’S BLADE (THE MEDUSA SYNDICATE) by Ariadne Webb

A genesplice mercenary. A fallen cop. Shattered trust. When she’s not serving drinks to gruff solar-harvester technicians or cuddling her cat Silas, unsanctioned splice Eris prowls the star quadrant, delivering vigilante justice at the end of her blade. Juggling assignments from The Medusa Syndicate and her life on Janus isn’t easy. And that delicate balance is threatened when she takes matters into her own hands to protect a friend. Disgraced detective turned private investigator Miles Beckett is Nightside City Police Department’s go-to expert for solving tough cases. When a body with a familiar face bearing a distinctive clue is added to his docket, his professional and personal lives collide. Forced to question everything, Beck balances on a knife’s edge with an uncertain future. When secrets are exposed and trust betrayed, estranged lovers must set aside differences and forge uneasy alliances. Will Eris beat the clock — or will she lose it all?       Amazon

ALIEN DEVIL’S CROWN (VINDUTHI STOLEN BRIDES BOOK SIX) by Ava York

He feels nothing. She’s spent six years waiting to burn it all down. And the only way to end the war is to trust each other. Rylos has been the leader so long he’s forgotten how to be anything else. The Architect. The one who plans every job, carries every life, and wants nothing for himself. He’s watched all five of his Vinduthi brothers find their mates and told himself a leader can’t afford the distraction. Then she walks out of the enemy’s inner circle with everything he needs to end the war. Lika is sharp, lethal, and patient. A Conclave strategist who spent six years undercover, building her case, waiting for a weapon capable of destroying the people who murdered her brother and erased his name. Rylos is that weapon. She doesn’t need him to trust her. She just needs him to use what she’s brought him. But cracking the most fortified target in the galaxy means weeks shoulder to shoulder. Two control freaks who think the same way, argue like a blade fight, and cannot stop circling each other. He doesn’t do distractions. She doesn’t do trust. And the closer they get to the vault buried beneath the enemy’s throne, the harder it gets to remember why he’s supposed to keep his distance. One last key. One impossible heist. The full crew assembled for the fight six books in the making. And the one woman who can crack open the coldest male in the galaxy. The Vinduthi Stolen Brides series ends here. Claim your happily ever after.      AmazonKU

THROUGH UNCHARTED SPACE (PHOENIX ADVENTURES BOOK NINE) by Anna Hackett

A deep-space convoy master who demands everyone follow his rules discovers a stowaway on his ship who’s never met a rule she wouldn’t break. Previously published – has been lightly edited – Dare Phoenix runs his convoy with absolute control. In uncharted space, lives depend on it. When one dowdy woman comes aboard, he knows something is off about her. Soon there are assassins and sabotage on his ship, and he discovers his drab passenger is a smart-mouthed scam artist who defies him at every turn. Life has taught Dakota Jones that if you don’t grab what you want, someone else will snatch it. She’s stolen a map to an immense lost treasure from Earth. Okay, so maybe snatching the map from a deadly terrorist group wasn’t her best decision, but she just needs hide out on the Phoenix Convoy and decode the map. Easy. As soon as she sets eyes on the sexy, in-charge Dare Phoenix, she knows she’s made a terrible mistake. Dare and Dakota strike sparks at every turn, but they reluctantly join forces to find the treasure. Every step of their adventure is dogged by danger, and the biggest threat is getting burned by their incendiary attraction.     AmazonKU

MUSIC OF THE OCEAN (DON’T TOUCH THE WATER BOOK ONE) by M A Church

VS Note: LGBTQ+ SFR.

The SC Heathglow’s orders from the Federation were simple: survey and report. Lieutenant Saxby expected another dull “bag and tag” mission. What he finds instead is a sentient world that claims him—rewriting his DNA strand by screaming strand the moment he touches the water. Adapt or die. Those are Saxby’s only choices. Indigo, the planet’s living heart, has seen countless species fail to adapt. But Saxby’s stubborn resilience draws Indigo close. As Saxby develops scaled skin, gills, and a physiology designed for the crushing depths, Indigo helps him navigate the shift, quietly hiding his growing attraction. Saxby flees back to the planet after realizing the Federation may have deliberately sacrificed him. There, as their bond deepens, Indigo’s otherworldly anatomy redefines everything Saxby knew about intimacy. What begins as survival becomes a love that transcends species, space, and the cold ocean depths. Together, Saxby and Indigo must stand against an empire desperate to control what it cannot understand—even if it means revealing the planet’s deadliest secret. Music of the Ocean, book one in the Don’t Touch the Water series, is a story of transformation, belonging, and the terrifying beauty of falling in love with something not quite human.     AmazonKU

KAVAN by Cara Stone and Athena Storm

I was assigned to keep her safe. I never stood a chance. Nineteen years of order, discipline, and control. I have never once let anything matter more than the mission. Then Dr. Sophie Larkin puts her arm into a hole in the ground and pulls out a city no one was supposed to find. She should be easy to manage. She isn’t. She goes where I tell her not to. She laughs like she’s already won. She puts herself in danger, and the only thing I feel is how badly I want to keep her. I tell myself it’s professional interest. It isn’t. My people have a word for what she makes me feel. One I’m afraid to use. One that I don’t dare say out. She thinks I’m here just to keep her safe. I want that and more.
I already know what it will cost. I have already decided I don’t care.      AmazonKU

GUARDED BY MY WEREDRAGON WARRIOR  (WEREDRAGON MATES BOOK TWO) by Celeste Raye

She was the ambassador. He was an exile. They were never supposed to become mates. Athena Livingstone has survived a year on Dobromia by relying on discipline, strength, and never letting her guard down. Then a mysterious Weredragon warrior saves her patrol and disappears back into the wilderness. Varek has lived alone for two years, banished for speaking the truth. Athena is the first person to see the man beneath the exile—and the first thing he can’t walk away from. But danger, politics, and enemies threaten everything they’ve found. When an exiled warrior finds his fated mate, guarding her may cost him everything.      AmazonKU

THIS IS HOW WE LIVE by Ellie Richards

A plumber. An early childhood educator. A zombie apocalypse. Ava needs to get home to her sister in Melbourne. Luke just wants to make it out of Sydney alive. With the dead reanimating and roads becoming increasingly dangerous, hundreds of kilometres stand between Ava and the sister she’s desperate to reach. Making it to Melbourne means trusting strangers, stealing cars, and learning how to fight back against a world that changed while they were in the air. As their temporary alliance becomes something that neither of them had planned for, Ava and Luke discover that surviving the journey might just be the easiest part. Every kilometre brings them closer to Melbourne, and closer to finding out exactly what home means.     AmazonKU

VIOLET MEANS HE LIKES ME by Leevoy Carroll

VS Note: LGBTQ+ SFR. From SEPT 17.

Brandon Penney has spent most of university perfecting the art of not being noticed. Then he gets assigned a seven-and-a-half-foot alien lab partner whose body refuses to stop noticing him. When Wrenford University becomes part of the first full academic merger between a human university and an alien institution, twenty-one-year-old Brandon expects awkward lectures, unfamiliar customs, and plenty of opportunities to embarrass himself. He does not expect Kyith Thenn. Kyith is enormous. Midnight blue. Four-armed. Equipped with a powerful tail, defensive spines, and the kind of intimidating presence that makes most humans instinctively move out of his way. Unfortunately, Brandon has been assigned the seat beside him. Even worse, every time Brandon gets close, violet light begins spreading across Kyith’s skin. Brandon is fairly certain it means the alien hates him. So he apologises. Repeatedly. For three weeks. Because nobody thinks to tell him that among Kyith’s species, violet means attraction. And colour is only the beginning… (more blurb on ebook seller’s page)    AmazonKU

BLOOD SONG: ASAD INTELLIGENCE by Annie Lucas

Leila Hunter never expected to be kidnapped from her quiet Charleston street, trained as an intelligence operative, and sent to negotiate with a planet full of dragon shifters. But when the Alliance awakens Drakhone from seven hundred and fifty years of forced hibernation, someone has to bridge the impossible gap between humanity and the most dangerous warrior species in the universe.
King Kavan has spent centuries haunted by the memory of his blood song—the one woman whose scent called to his dragon soul—murdered before he could claim her. When the Alliance sends a human diplomat to his world, he’s prepared for politics and manipulation. What he isn’t prepared for is Leila’s scent, impossibly familiar, singing to him like a symphony he thought he’d lost forever.
She thinks he hates her. He thinks she’s an Alliance trick designed to break him. The truth is far more complicated—and far more dangerous. But as political conspirators plot against their growing connection and anti-human factions threaten everything they’re building, Kavan discovers something that changes everything. Leila isn’t a ghost of his past. She’s the future he never dared to hope for. But when enemies strike and Leila vanishes, Kavan will burn the world to ash to get her back. Because some bonds are worth fighting for. Some loves are worth any price. And some mates are worth waiting seven hundred and fifty years to find.      AmazonKU

THE CLOCKWORK COUNTESS (MINE THROUGH TIME BOOK FOUR) by Kate Serzenta

How do you steal from the one man who makes you feel alive? Florence, 1499. English-born Cly Varrens is watching her inventor father die slowly. The only cure is a vial held by a stranger five centuries away. To reach it, she must use time traveling powers that once drew the attention of a sinister force, driving her into exile. Los Angeles, 2023. Cole Marshall holds all his devotion for the family business. But its secret, a vial that bends time, is not of his own making. Losing it would mean failing himself, and the company that saved him. Cly shows up posing as Cole’s assistant. She knows he’s a thief, so the plan is simple: seduce him, steal the vial. But their forced closeness reveals the man behind the cold mask, and she realizes he could give her what she yearns for: freedom. If Cole is not the villain, had Cly been manipulated by the same force that stole her childhood? And even if she resist it, can she break Cole’s heart to save her father?      AmazonKU

TALUSH: CYBORG CHRONICLES BOOK EIGHT by Pauline Baird Jones

NOTE: Author states book will come to retail ebook platforms in NOV. Choice of two covers at Author’s online store.

A dead man has just tried to kill Lara. So much for leaving her past behind. She has a new name, a ship of her own, and a small dragon with far too many opinions. What she doesn’t have is peace. A clone carrying another woman’s memories, Lara is still haunted by the man who used her—and stopping him means returning to the abandoned outpost she barely escaped. Tals asked for a mission. Newly restored to a human body, the former cyborg is ready for a problem he can solve. Protecting Lara seems straightforward. Figuring out why her smile matters so much is considerably harder. But the outpost isn’t as dead as it should be. Neither is its master. As time shifts around them and familiar faces conceal dangerous intentions, Lara and Tals must hold on to each other—or risk being stranded in different moments forever. For Lara, survival means trusting the memories she’s tried to bury. For Tals, it means facing a past no amount of cybernetic strength can defeat. And just when they begin to want a future together, their mission threatens to erase it.       Author’sOnlineStore

CLAIMED BY THE CONDEMNED ALIEN: MATES OF THE CONDEMNED WORLDS – BOOK ONE by Clarissa Lake

They declared her dead. Then they dropped her on a condemned world. Kesta Frank was never supposed to survive Kharon-Veil. Officially, she no longer exists. In reality, she’s been abandoned on a brutal prison world where the descendants of condemned prisoners have built their own society—and where an unprotected woman can become someone else’s property. Then Dreven For claims her. Powerful, dangerous, and unmistakably alien, Dreven is a condemned commander with reasons of his own to distrust the empire that sent Kesta to his world. His claim offers her protection, but Kesta has spent too much of her life fighting for control of her own future to surrender it now—even to the male whose touch awakens a hunger she never expected. Dreven tells himself the claim is only necessary to keep Kesta safe. But protecting the stubborn human woman quickly becomes something far more personal. He wants her trust. Her desire. And eventually, he wants the one thing a claim alone can never give him. Her choice. But something about their attraction is wrong. As Kesta and Dreven uncover the truth behind the empire’s secret Helix experiments, they begin to question whether the desire drawing them together is truly their own—or another form of control. Because Kesta’s arrival on Kharon-Veil was not an accident. The empire chose where she would fall. It may even have chosen who would find her.      AmazonKU

TRICKSHOT (HARMONY SERIES BOOK TWO) by Rebecca Writes and  S L Wrights

VS note: There’s a LOT more blurb/backstory on the ebook seller’s page. Dystopian.

Heiress. Performer. Killer. I walked away from the life I knew after shots rang out in that dark alleyway. Shedding the version of me that could live comfortably as long as I conformed, I became something that could only exist cloaked in the shadows of Harmony. Something that shoots first and asks questions second. Trickshot. But now, my past is running to catch up with me as a new player makes a move for power. My friends and I have done what we could to free the city from The Corporation and we aren’t going to let another corrupt mind come into power. Especially not her. All the while, I do my best to not let it show that the man I saved so many years ago is the man I fall asleep thinking about. The man I look for first when I enter a room and search for on my darkest nights. The man who reminds me of my humanity all with a simple glance in my direction. I wonder what we could be if we didn’t live in a world like this. • • •Successor. Brother. Traitor. The only thing I ever wanted was to run the family business. I’d worked for years to make it something worth bringing into the light, but a single act of betrayal changed everything. Disappearing into the night, she and I left behind everything we’d ever known and started over together. While our group has grown and our mission has found a new focus, one thing has never changed. She’s the reason I wake up and choose to live another day. She’s the reason I continue to survive in the bleak world we live in. She’s the one who carries my heart with her. Nothing will get between us and our fight to save the city we call home. Just like nothing will stand between me and protecting the woman who saved my life all those years ago. I wonder if she knows that I’ll love her forever.     AmazonKU

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WANING GIBBOUS by Cassandra Featherstone

Fate and I have beef, and it started long before I learned how hard it hits back. I get yanked back to Faerie fresh off a cultish nightmare in Briarvale and shoved straight onto the road with my Fae prince’s rock band. No recovery time, no answers—just a one-way ticket to the Midnight Court. The Midnight Court is a Goth’s wet dream, and crawling with secrets—and that’s before we’re captured while snooping and hauled into a covert meeting with a shadowy council who swear they’re allies. Sure… because nothing says trust us like secret chambers and ominous silence. That’s when they confirm my worst fear; the documents we found that suggest I’m not who I thought I was are real. These guys want me to claim a destiny that could save Faerie but I just want the truth about who murdered my family. I’m screwed no matter what, but that doesn’t matter. Luckily, Dezi, Rev, Tiernan, and Khol are at my side when the claws come out and the Fae start circling. With the tour only halfway over, my enemies multiplying, and the Fey Stag’s clues dragging us deeper into Midnight and toward the Court of Reaping, time is running out. The question isn’t whether I’ll survive Faerie—it’s whether Faerie survives me.      AmazonKU

THE OGRE & THE TEA WITCH’S DAUGHTER by Ava Ross

One sunshine-y tea witch. One gruff ogre with a crush. And a matchmaking cat familiar. Hijinks ensue. Rain: The storm that eats my roof drops me three miles east, into the ogre’s farmhouse and the ogre’s bed. Goran Brack has delivered vegetables to my tea shop every week for the last two years, and he always brings me the prettiest squash. He gives me smooth river stones without explaining why. He rations his words like they’re a sprite’s hoard. And he blushes all the way to his horns when I tease him. Now I’m sharing his kitchen, his mornings, and the most peaceful home I’ve ever known. If only my heart didn’t keep insisting I belong here forever. Goran: Ogres choose once. I chose her across a market counter two years ago but haven’t told her because her people court with words and mine court with stones she keeps mistaking for river-junk. She sleeps under my roof, close and unclaimed, and my whole chest rumbles when she laughs. I only have a short time to show her what a gift-giving ogre needs before her roof is completed. One copper buys a kiss at the harvest fair booth, and I’ll be standing there waiting. She only has to be brave enough to spend it.       AmazonKU

A VAMPIRE’S KISS (DARK PROTECTORS: REBELS NOVELLAS BOOK FOUR) by Rebecca Zanetti

VS note: A re-release. From SEPT 26.

Unlike several of his brothers, Athan Maxwell accepted the curse inherent in his DNA and solved the problem a century ago by mating his one true mate and saving her life at the same time. Now they only meet up four times a year to exchange blood and keep themselves healthy because that was the deal. Yet after a hundred years, his mate has only become more beguiling and intriguing, and when he discovers a new threat on her tail, his promise of sitting back and leaving her alone goes right out of the window. Ivy O’Dwyer has enjoyed the last century as an immortal being, evolving from being a farmer’s daughter to the successful CEO of an Internet company. Sure, life gets lonely without the chance to date, and yes, she’s grateful to her vampire mate for saving her life so long ago, and yet the dreams she has of the sexy male won’t desert her. So when he storms in to save her life, in all vampire-possessive mode, it’s difficult to stand her ground. Unfortunately, when they finally discover that living forever but alone isn’t worth it, it might be too late.     AmazonKU

A PACT FOR PORTER (OMEGAS OF ANIMALS BOOK 19) by Lorelai M Hart

VS Note: MM PNR.

A mating pact between besties. Alpha wolf shifter Porter and his college roomie promised each other that if they didn’t find their fated before they turned thirty, they would mate each other. Eight years later, it’s time to admit Fate doesn’t have their back. It might not be the happy ever after of Porter’s dreams, but a life with his bestie at his side doesn’t sound too bad. Sometimes you just need a nap. 
Omega capybara shifter Chip is excited to work on Animals’ indoor habitat. It is one thing to have a pool, yet another to bring the outdoors in. The place is spectacular and doesn’t need much work. When they offer to let him use it anytime he wants, he instantly accepts. Who doesn’t want to float the day away, taking a nap? When Porter arrives at Animals, he runs into his college roomie in the parking lot with his fated. He’s happy for him, but it is hard not to be a little jealous. Until the wind shifts.       AmazonKU

WITH HEARTS OF FLAME: A NOVEL (BLOODWING ACADEMY BOOK FOUR) by Briar Boleyn 

They say love makes you foolish. At Bloodwing, it makes you dangerous. I thought surviving a vampire academy was the hardest thing I’d ever have to do. Then I fell in love with a boy who can turn into a dragon. After the attack on Veilmar, I should help to keep the school running. But instead, I’ve been pulled into a secret dwarven quest to recover something the other side can never be allowed to claim. The only problem? The enemy is down here with us—and they’re already ahead. Back at Bloodwing, our friends are caught between the demands of the highblood elite and the fragile revolution blooming in the halls. Regan must reclaim a title she once wielded cruelly. But this time she’ll use it to protect the students she helped oppress. Meanwhile, far to the north, another fight is unfolding. At the Bonewood, love has become both a weapon and a weakness. As dragons rise, the dead stir, and an ancient prophecy tightens its grip, my friends and I must choose once and for all what we’re willing to sacrifice for a better world.      AmazonKU

BETWEEN TWILIGHT (SKYE DRUIDS BOOK NINE) by Donna Grant

She came to destroy me. Now I’ll burn the world to keep her. She gets beneath my skin. Haunts my thoughts. Strips away my control. And I keep going back for more. Every glance pulls me deeper. Every touch weakens my grip. And when she looks at me with those silver eyes full of secrets and fury, I know I’m already lost. Something dark is closing in around us. Power is shifting. Truths are unraveling. And the woman I can’t stay away from may be the key to it all. I should walk away before she ruins me. Before this obsession consumes us. But when she’s in my arms, nothing else matters. Not the lies. Not the danger. Not even what’s coming. Because once I claim something as mine, I never let it go. And I’m beginning to realize she was always meant to be mine.        Amazon     AB      Apple Books     Kobo

RUTHLESS WOLF BOND (MAFIA PACK BOOK FIVE) by Heather Hildenbrand

As a hex witch, I know magic always comes with a price. In a city full of mafia wolf shifters, that price is usually blood. I never thought it would be my heart. The wards around Indigo Hills are failing, leaving the pack exposed to humans, enemies, and a vengeful witch with a blade powerful enough to destroy everything. I should do the job, collect my payment, and disappear before anyone gets close enough to matter. Especially Crow. Quiet. Ruthless. Lethal when provoked. He doesn’t waste words or make promises lightly. And the way he watches me makes me feel like he already knows every secret I’ve spent years hiding. Somehow, that makes him impossible to resist. But when the full moon rises and the enemy comes for us, I’ll have to decide whether love is another kind of trap… Or the one bond ruthless enough to save us all.       AmazonKU

THE DRAGON’S TEMPORARY MANNY: MM MPREG SHIFTER ROMANCE  (PARANORMAL AU PAIR AGENCY) by Colbie Dunbar

My bag’s always packed, but nobody warned me I’d want to unpack it. I take work with an expiry date for six weeks or three months, then I’m gone while it’s still fun. So a temporary manny gig for a single dad and his triplet daughters should’ve been easy with a clean exit. But the girls are always pulling tricks, they talk about dragons like they’re in the room with us, and they never take off their charm bracelets. Their father is the most gorgeous man I’ve ever met, but he keeps his distance even when I catch him looking. Somewhere between bedtime stories and the almost kisses, I stop watching the exits. And wanting to stay scares me far more than whatever this family’s hiding.    AmazonKU

ORACLES AND ODYSSIES (HAVEN HOLLOW BOOK 49) by J R Rain and H P Mallory

Indigo Hallewell would go to hell to save her friends. Unfortunately, that’s becoming an actual travel itinerary. Being High Witch of Scapegrace Coven should be an honor. For Indigo, it means suspicious witches, endless arguments, and hiding a secret that could get Wanda Depraysie burned at the stake. Wanda is a vampire now, and her terrifying new powers make her the perfect vessel for an ancient vampire god. Indigo is determined to find a cure before he claims her. Wanda’s latest attempt to help, involving a possessed porcelain doll, isn’t exactly making the situation less complicated. Neither is RJ. The handsome, infuriatingly kind man Indigo has been trying to keep at a safe distance refuses to stay there. And the closer he gets, the more she stands to lose. Then Dory, the gorgon oracle helping protect Haven Hollow, begins falling dangerously ill. Her search for a cure offers Indigo a desperate possibility: the waters of the River Lethe might help them both. There’s just one problem. Collecting those waters requires venturing into the Greek underworld. With RJ at her side and a crew of vampire bodyguards she’d rather not trust, Indigo sets out for a land where one wrong look can turn her to stone—and surviving the journey means submitting to the judgment of Hades himself. Indigo has spent years regretting the price of power. Now she’ll discover the price of saving the people she loves. Return to Haven Hollow in Oracles & Odysseys, a paranormal adventure filled with sharp humor, dangerous magic, and a witch discovering that opening her heart might be her bravest act yet.      AmazonKU

HEART OF THE LIGHT KINGDOM (THE ELEMENTAL PHASES BOOK SEVEN) by Cassandra Gannon

Randa, of the Stone House has a stalker. Being a civilized, practical woman, she hires the notoriously uncivilized and deadly Light Phases to deal with the problem. Who better to stand guard than muscle-bound barbarians? In exchange, she offers to clean them up and teach them how to attract human women, so they can finally find their fated mates. It should be a very straightforward business arrangement. …Except for him. Kahn, of the Light House’s entire family is dead and he partially blames Randa for it. He doesn’t like her scandalous past. He doesn’t like how easily she navigates the human world, while he flounders to understand grocery stores. He doesn’t like how beautiful she is, even when she’s arguing with him. He doesn’t like the pain and secrets lurking in her dark eyes. …And he especially doesn’t like that this mysterious, aggravating woman might just be the key to his whole future.       AmazonKU

BOUGHT BY THE GORGON: MONSTERS’ BRIDE MARKET by Eva Brandt

I am a shrine maiden of the Wilds, raised to celebrate life. Now, I belong to a Gorgon whose gaze turns flesh to stone. My father stripped away my right to choose. He dressed me in ceremonial silks and entrusted me with a sacred duty. To ensure peace between our people and the Blighted Ones. I walked onto the bride market auction block, knowing I was nothing more than a political sacrifice. Then Eryx steps forward. The Ambassador of Asphodelia. He is a massive monster who hides his ruined eyes behind a band of dark silk. He radiates the same death energy that has been destroying our lands for years. With a fortune in gold that silences the crowd, he claims me as his bride. Banished to an isolated estate, I expect a nightmare. Instead, my terrifying husband treats our marriage as a sterile duty. Haunted by the violent history that scarred his weave, Eryx refuses to touch me. He keeps his distance, convinced his cursed nature will only corrupt me. I disagree. I refuse to be a ghost in his shadowed halls. So when the snakes in his hair reach for me, I reach back. In Eryx’s arms, I find freedom. I find a music stronger and brighter than the song of the Wilds. But our peace is a fragile illusion. An unseen enemy is hiding in the vibrant beauty of my homeland. And if we can’t learn to embrace our bond, the ghosts of his past will destroy us both. Welcome to the bride market! Monsters bid, you choose.        AmazonKU

A DEMON CHEF’S RECIPE FOR LEMON TART (THE FORKED TAIL RESTAURANT) by  Ariana Jade and Arizona Tape

VS Note: Sapphic PNR.

The DemonChef kitchens are calling again and this time, Chef Lana will be faced with her greatest challenge yet. Dessert. Can she create a showstopper dessert to wow the judges and beat her competitors to the race to the top? Maybe. It depends on if she can get a handle on her feelings because someone from Demi’s past has appeared and Lana is experiencing something she’s never felt before. Envy. **** A Demon Chef’s Recipe For Lemon Tart is the third book in the Forked Tail Restaurant series. It’s a cozy urban fantasy series about a determined and ambitious demon chef, a sapphic romance, found family, and mouth-watering food.

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THE CITY THAT SHATTERED THE WORLD (THE CURSED MAGE BOOK TWO) by Fiona Fenn

Happily ever after isn’t all that magical…With Hell’s chasm closed and magic sealed away, Orpheus and Fenrir find themselves at the center of the Empire’s reconstruction. But when mysterious assailants kidnap Orpheus to a city once powered by the chasm he closed—the redeemed villain discovers all magic may not be lost…only his. Presented with a choice: Fix the city or die, Orpheus comes face-to-face with a young mage named Gwen whose magic is too weak to cast a spell, let alone help the broken city. Enamored by the former dark sorcerer, Gwen offers to help keep Orpheus’ missing powers a secret in exchange for magical tutelage, buying Orpheus the time he needs for Fenrir to come to his rescue. But when weeks pass without Fenrir’s arrival while Gwen only grows stronger, Orpheus looks to his unlikely student and wonders…Is there a way to steal Gwen’s magic and save himself?      Amazon        AB        Kobo

A DRAGON MISSING: MORNTAG DRAGONS & KINGDOMS BOOK THREE by Annabelle Raven

A missing sister. A cursed captain. And a dragon trying to un-bond herself. Lilith has always run from fear, but when her sister vanishes without a trace, she’ll do anything it takes to find her again—even if it means sneaking onto a pirate ship. Kadir knows he’s cursed. It’s the only explanation for the fact that everyone who trusts him ends up dead, and he refuses to add one more name to that list. But as Lily’s search uncovers the truth behind her sister’s disappearance, it also reveals another attack that Kadir cannot ignore and an enemy neither he nor Lilith can face alone. Lilith’s dragon hates her, Kadir is haunted by guilt, and neither of them likes to trust others. But if they can’t work together, they will both lose the people most precious to them. And like every good romantasy, the journey they take exposes their deepest fears and feelings neither can afford to indulge. Can they truly protect their own hearts without hurting the other’s? Some disappearances are no accident. And some loves are worth sailing into darkness for.       AmazonKU

CURIOUSITY KILLED THE CAT LADY (COUNTRY COTTAGE MYSTERIES BOOK 34) by Addision Moore

I’m Bizzy Baker Wilder, and nothing says spooky season disaster quite like the Scream Queens Showcase booking my Country Cottage Inn for their week-long horror hosting convention. Between Gothic fashion shows, deadly cocktail parties, and a documentary filming everyone’s darkest secrets, these vintage glamour divas make backstabbing look like a competitive sport. So naturally, when the reigning queen of horror hosting drops dead during the festival kickoff, I’m suddenly investigating a murder where everyone had motive and half the suspects are literally experts on killing people. Have I mentioned I can read minds? Yeah. And believe me, it turns out that animals have far more interesting things to say. My talking pets, Fish and Sherlock Bones, help me navigate a world of rival horror hostesses who smile while sharpening their claws. But someone at this festival is willing to kill to keep their secrets buried, and I’m running out of time to stop them before another body drops. My pets are conducting unauthorized haunted mansion investigations, my sister’s selling “guaranteed soulmate” candles to desperate festival-goers, and my hot detective husband is solving a homicide case during the spookiest week of the year. Meanwhile, I’m juggling a one-year-old vampire, a ghost-kissing octogenarian named Georgie, and enough fake fog to make every ghost jealous. Good thing I can read minds—because when the veil between the living and the dead is this thin, even thoughts can be deadly. And in a group this cutthroat, the trick is figuring out who’s treating murder like a treat.   AmazonKU

SQUAD GHOULS: MM PNR by A M Rose

Haunting #500: The Last Resort B&B – Number of ghosts: between 5 and 34, depending on whether the pirate ship crew counts as they are not, technically, inside the house? TBD? Location: Pembrokeshire Coast,Wales – History: Unknown. Owner made a purchase of the estate in secret and refuses to share information with anyone. Wanted: Immediate ghost removal. Owner being kept against his will. Possible mind control at play as he claims ghosts are his friends. The ExorSquad Team: New recruit on a first assignment, Ryan Brolyn. Additional notes: Do not go on board the pirate ship. Do not accept cookies. Massages are not complimentary and might result in unwanted possession. The shorts on the owner are a style choice, not a seduction attempt. Act accordingly. Owner has no clue his ass has the ability to topple nations. Welsh spoons are not supposed to be used like that. Owain – Listen. Owain was aware of the fact that ghosts in general were considered of…well…a questionable friendliness level, okay? Despite what his exes said, he wasn’t a complete ditz. But his ghosts, the ones that were indefinite guests at The Last Resort B&B when he bought it, were lovely. Were they a bit…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      AmazonKU 

DOOMED BY A DEMON (KINKTOBER) by Ivy Knox

As a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, Fiona surprises her husband, Josh, with a romantic weekend getaway for Halloween. They love geeking out over ghosts and all things horror, so she’s booked them a famously haunted vacation rental. This should rekindle the spark that died long ago, right? During their drive, they can’t seem to stop fighting, and it gets even worse once they arrive. Not only because of their bickering, but because whomever is haunting the house clearly has it out for Josh. When Josh demands they leave, she refuses, determined to enjoy what’s left of the trip. He abandons her there, threatening to file for divorce once he gets home. Mere moments after he slams the front door, the presence in question makes itself known, and it’s no ghost. Arthur reveals himself as the demon she summoned twenty years prior through a spell she uttered with her college friends one lonely Halloween night. He also confesses his lust-filled intentions to give Fiona the time of her life. Once Fiona overcomes her initial shock, she decides she’s game to rebound with the scorchingly hot monster. But when the weekend ends, can she really return to her life as if this demon hasn’t ruined her for all other men?       AmazonKU

HIS STUBBORN MATE (BATTLEBORN ORCS BOOK TWO) by Veronika Kane

He claimed me once. Now he’s back to finish the job. Eight months ago, Maardok of the seafaring Battleborn clan spent a fortnight in my home and in my bed. Oh, I am no fool; a widowed mother like me knows the ramifications of such a reckless act. But everyone knows orcs and humans cannot breed. It turns out, everyone was wrong. Now my son and I have been banished, and face a harsh Highland winter on our own…as I grow great with child. Maardok’s child, an impossible child. But when he returns, he claims me before he even knows the truth of the miracle I carry. Can we make a place for ourselves in his world, even when my past threatens us all?     AmazonKU

WILL CURSE FOR MILK by Sarah Spade

When you open a pie shop in a town that is real big on Halloween, you expect the occasional ghost story as October hits. Maybe even a cranky witch or two—and let’s not even get started about the rumors that we have a pair of vigilante serial killers who rule Shadowvale behind the scenes…What you don’t expect, though? A naked man in your kitchen, claiming to be your recently rescued—and former stray—cat in human form. Mr. Whiskers—sorry, Vincent—insists he’s a cursed warlock doomed to spend eternity as a feline until his fated mate breaks the spell on him. And, apparently, that fated mate is me. Now I’ve got one day—before midnight on Halloween—to figure out if magic is really real, if my new houseguest is a nut job and/or a liar, and if I’m about to fall for a man who once left a dead mouse on my pillow. Welcome to Shadowvale—where the pies are sweet, the men are too gorgeous for their own good, and love might just be the most powerful magic of all.    AmazonKU

MOTHSBLOOD by Lynn D Jung

VS Note: FF Fantasy Dark Academia.

On a rain-soaked night in modern-day Paris, Larkspur Lee and her academic rivals find themselves at the center of an impossible crime-the murder of their university’s headmistress, the immortal Petronelle Flamel. In the aftermath of Flamel’s death, the school devolves into chaos. The mysterious investigator assigned to the case, Violaine, believes a cult known as the Promethean Genesis is responsible for Flamel’s murder. But Lark, who knows all too well what kind of horrors that the Prometheans commit, will do anything to stay out of the cult’s reach. Matters are complicated when the mentor she crossed an ocean and a continent to escape re-enters her life, enticing her to his side once again while secretly wielding an agenda of his own. As the Prometheans’ plans come to fruition and the university’s dark history comes to light, Lark has no choice but to decide whether the power she desires is truly worth the price.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

FOUND BY HER GUARDIAN (YULETIDE SHIFTERS BOOK EIGHT) by R E Butler

Polar bear shifter Winter has spent years protecting Northernmost as one of Santa’s elite Guardians. When a violent winter storm sends an injured snowy owl tumbling out of the sky, Winter rushes to help, only to discover the beautiful shifter is his truemate. Snowy owl shifter True never expected to find her mate in the frozen north, but the handsome, protective polar bear who claims her heart feels like destiny. Even though she’s separated from her owl Parliament and family, at least she has her truemate to keep her warm. But the worsening winter storms aren’t just seasonal bad weather. They’re coming directly from Jack Frost, who spreads darkness, cold, and fear across the world while stealing magic to make himself stronger. When the Guardians rush out to rescue an elf left to die in the snow, they walk straight into a trap and Winter is taken captive. True’s rescue attempt is cut short when she’s captured too. Can these truemates rescue each other before Jack Frost and his new ally, the god of nightmares, destroy good magic and take over the world?         Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE DEMON NEXT DOOR (FORTY, FIRED AND FIGHTING DEMONS BOOK EIGHT) by Brenda Trim

I found a message carved into my basement floor this morning. It wasn’t a grocery list. Or a passive-aggressive note from a neighbor. Instead, it was an interdimensional inscription in a language older than Hell’s entire organizational structure. And it was left by something that opened a door my magic couldn’t find. This entity simply did what it came to do and disappeared without a seam. Vesper is being cryptic about it, which means he knows more than he’s saying. Victoria can’t identify the signature, which has never happened in her years on the council. And Zane has the look he gets when he’s already three steps ahead of the problem, and none of the steps are good. Turns out someone ancient has been watching me since the moment I fully integrated the Echo. It seems as if there’s a woman who’s been holding a failing seal together alone for three thousand years, and I’m apparently the reason she’s been sending signals into the dark. Turns out Hell was built as a buffer zone and not a punishment system, which explains a lot and makes me significantly angrier about everything that happened inside it. Also there are people who think the responsible solution here is to kill me before I become someone else’s problem. Let’s not forget I have a renovation business to run. There’s a subfloor situation at the Kowalski house, and my contractor boyfriend is starting to resent that I say yes to things without calling him first. Believe me, I understand where he’s coming from. But there’s a message in my basement with a blank space in the center, and everything I’ve learned about dimensional architecture tells me exactly what goes there. I’m starting to think I’ve been building toward this since before I knew what I was doing. Either that, or this entire enterprise is about to finally crumble around me.       AmazonKU

BOUND TO BE YOURS: MONSTERS BETWEEN THE SHEETS by Bella Blair

One year after the infamous Frankenpunch turned the residents of Screaming Woods into dragons, fairies, gargoyles, and creatures straight out of legend, nurse Poppy Hale is still painfully, stubbornly human. No magic. No wings. Not even adorable fox ears. Then she discovers she’s been sharing her life with an invisible infernal Demon from Hell. For an entire year. Azaren is ancient, grumpy, and dangerously powerful, a demon ripped from his own realm and magically bound to the one woman who talks to squirrels, rescues beetles, and insists on feeding every lonely soul in town. He should terrify her. Instead, she makes him laugh. But when an ancient creature awakens beneath Screaming Woods, draining the magic that keeps the worlds apart, Poppy and Azaren are forced to confront a darkness older than Hell itself. To save the town—and each other—they’ll have to risk everything, including their hearts. Because falling in love with a demon was never part of the plan. And neither was finding home in his arms.      AmazonKU

HOWL WILL I KNOW: MONSTERS BETWEEN THE SHEETS by Violet Rae

Hewit – I stopped speaking to people a long time ago. I left the world behind, disappeared into Screaming Woods, and convinced myself solitude was the only way to keep everyone safe from the monster inside me. Then Nora Moon moves in next door. She’s sunlight where I’m shadow. Warm smiles, endless questions, and coffee left on my porch as though she hasn’t noticed I’m scarred, dangerous, and barely capable of holding a conversation. She walks through our strange paranormal town like she belongs here—and somehow makes me wonder whether I could belong beside her. Nora doesn’t look at me and see a monster. She sees a man. That should make it easier to stay away from her. Instead, every day she slips further beneath my defenses, awakening instincts I’ve spent years trying to bury. My wolf knows what she is the moment he scents her. Mine. But wanting Nora is dangerous. Touching her could destroy the fragile control I’ve fought so hard to build. And when the past I’ve been running from finally finds me, I’ll have to decide whether loving her means letting her go…Or trusting that even a broken man deserves a mate—and a second chance.     AmazonKU

TOTO’S TORMENTED TRIO: MONSTERS BETWEEN THE SHEETS by Lara London

Intense desire. Burning passion. True love. My brothers and I have fought our attraction to the voluptuous, bubbly firecracker who captured our hearts ten years ago. It was then that we made our pact: our sister’s best friend was strictly off-limits. Especially since we bring a whole host of baggage, including a wicked witch out for blood and a past better left buried. But when Toto needs our help, none of us are willing to let sleeping dogs lie. Who are we to turn down a woman in peril? Particularly when she’s the curvy goddess who stars in each of our nightly fantasies? Oz is our home, yet the demons of our past draw us back to the beginning. When it becomes clear that salvation can only be found in Screaming Woods—a place that also holds the key to our history—we have no choice but to follow the yellow brick road toward our fate. Will we find what we need to make ourselves whole again and win Toto’s heart forever? Or will our pasts come back to destroy our chances of a happily ever after?      AmazonKU

INHERITED CASTLES AND CURSES by TJ Nichols

VS Note: MM PNR.

At fifty-two, Kieran Sherry suddenly finds himself the owner of a ramshackle castle half a world away. Being in the castle unlocks his magic and the family curse. Now he has bigger problems than an inheritance he never asked for. If he doesn’t break the curse, it will claim his life. Owl shifter Lewis Hart’s family has been the caretaker of the property for more than a century. Like most people in town, he’s aware that there is some kind of magic wrapped around the castle, but the truth of the curse has been lost. So when Kieran’s magic awakens and they accidentally become fated mates, tying Lewis’ life to the curse, he becomes more invested in unearthing the truth, even if that means dealing with the spriggans in the woods.     AmazonKU

DEAD TO RITES (LAST CALL BOOK ONE) by Christine Pope

She inherited a haunted house, a Whiskey Row wine bar, and the ability to see ghosts. Then someone got murdered in her men’s room. Designer Lorelei Cosgrove was perfectly content drifting in Scottsdale — mourning her parents, running a small Etsy shop, and not particularly interested in being responsible for anything more demanding than her own takeout order. Then her great-aunt Hazel passed away and left her a Victorian house in Prescott, a wine/beer/mead bar called Copper State Cellars, and one stubborn stipulation: live there and run the bar, or lose it all. A near-fatal reaction to a bee sting on Lorelei’s first afternoon in town wakes up a latent Cosgrove family gift — one Hazel apparently forgot to mention. The Victorian’s most prominent resident is Hazel herself, still wearing her twin sets, still bossy as ever, and apparently not too worried about being dead. Then there’s the 1920s Prohibition-era federal agent who haunts Copper State Cellars and calls Lorelei “doll” and the murdered priest who turns up dead in the men’s room — and immediately starts haunting it himself, unable to remember anything about who killed him…or why. With a local police detective eyeing her as a suspect, a defrocked priest turned bookstore owner she can’t quite figure out, and a local parish where every suspect has a secret worth hiding, Lorelei has to learn the rules of her new gift on the fly. Because ghosts can witness. They can warn. They can mislead. But what they can’t do is solve the case for her.      Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

ORC’S MOON (VEIL LANDS BOOK 17) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Lyessa: I spent seven years being treated like a traitor just for hunting down the truth. Now our city is on fire, assassins are on my tail, and the only thing standing between me and death is a lethal orc captain. Vorren Blackfang is massive, battle-scarred, and completely untouchable. I need him to guide me through the forbidden ruins to unlock an ancient magic, but every time his hands touch my skin, the air between us turns electric. He looks at me like he wants to protect me—and tear into me all at once. I was supposed to be his prisoner. Instead, I’m the one bringing him to his knees. Vorren: I’ve obeyed orders without question for twelve years. Then this fierce, stubborn woman crashes into my world with a target on her back and fire in her eyes. I’m supposed to turn her over to the Council. Instead, watching her hold a blade and talk back to me makes something wild and primal snap in my chest. Trapped alone in a deadly, waking city, every protective instinct I have goes up in flames. I don’t just want to keep her alive—I want to press her against the stone and make her mine. I was built to destroy anyone in my path. Now, I’ll burn the entire kingdom to the ground before I let anyone touch her.      AmazonKU

HOT FLASHES AND HEXES (GERRI WILDER’S MAGICAL MIDLIFE RESET BOOK ONE) by Milly Taiden

Hot flashes, hexes, and one growly wolf sheriff who definitely wasn’t part of her post-divorce plan. Althea Virelli is freshly divorced, has zero patience for mysterious plumbing failures, and has a minor habit of setting local property on fire when she gets stressed. All she wanted in Spelltide Cove was a quiet place to relax, lick her wounds, and reset. She didn’t expect her long-dormant magic to wake up with a bang, accidentally incinerate a boardwalk festival banner, and hurl her straight into the path of the town’s devastatingly handsome sheriff. Sheriff Drayce Varyn likes order, control, and keeping his heart safely locked away. Then one curvy, sharp-tongued brunette nearly burns down his boardwalk, and his wolf announces one very inconvenient truth: Mate. Drayce plans to give Althea all the space she needs. His possessive wolf has other ideas—especially when ancient creatures start coming after her. Worse, he can’t stop thinking about pulling her into his arms and kissing her. When strange creatures start targeting the thinned magic surrounding Althea, Drayce’s territorial instincts go nuclear. Just when she thought things couldn’t get any weirder, they do. Now Althea has a possessive sheriff breathing down her neck, a coven of wine-loving witches insisting she’s powerful, Gerri Wilder meddling with suspiciously good cookies, half the town waiting to see what she sets on fire next, and enough sexual tension to blow up the local espresso machine.     AmazonKU

THE FEEDER LEGACY (THE VAMPIRE DOMINION BOOK ONE) by Louisa Master

VS Note: MM PNR.

When the family secret is a history of being lunch…I don’t have the best track record when it comes to jobs. Since finishing uni, I’ve been drifting from hospo to retail and back again, searching for something that will hold my interest and leaving a trail of irritated wanker bosses behind me. When I once again find myself unemployed, my long-lost cousin steps in with a fantastic opportunity. Turns out, when my parents decided to walk away from the family, they left a generational business as well, and there’s a job waiting for me if I want it. The catch? Vampires are real, and they’ll pay to drink my blood. The Barale family sets the gold-star standard for vampire feeders, and the mere mention of my name gets me a job with a salary and benefits beyond my wildest dreams. In return, I need to move into a vampire’s house and offer him my wrist twice a day. Simple. Except my new community—including my vampire, Tristan—doesn’t know that I’m clueless about their world, and it’s more complicated and dangerous than I thought. I’ve got to keep my head down and mouth shut while I learn the basics. How hard can it be? After all, I’m a legacy.      AmazonKU

CURSED BY FATE (BLIND FURY BOOK THREE) by Annabel Chase

Maya August can barely keep up with her cat’s litter box. So naturally, she’s now responsible for an entire island of supernatural retirees. As Director of Security for the Neighborhood, Maya has no time to catch her breath, especially with a new assistant to train. The local werewolves are stirring up trouble, and something monstrous is lurking in Savannah’s waterways. When Vale shows up asking for her help—or maybe just an excuse to see her—Maya has to wonder: is any of this actually in her job description? But Maya’s biggest threat might not be in the waterways at all. Her new assistant is far too perceptive for Maya’s comfort, asking questions she can’t afford to answer, and if her buried past comes to light, it won’t just cost her the job—it could cost her everything she’s finally found worth protecting.      AmazonKU       AB

RUBY AND THE WOLF by Lisa Carlisle

An alpha wolf tired of war. The human assassin sent to kill him. Ruby has been wearing the red cloak since she was a child. All she knows is her life as an operative in the Crimson Order. When she’s sent to find a wolf shifter hiding in a cottage, he surprises her by opening the door and inviting her inside. He knows her code name. He knows her grandmother. He knows too much. She shouldn’t trust him. He’s her enemy. But what if he’s telling the truth? And the wolf wasn’t the monster?     AmazonKU

A DEMON FOR CHRISTMAS (SEASON’S SUMMONINGS BOOK ONE) by Candice Gilmer

Shelby Foster built a nine-figure meal-kit empire on one carefully guarded secret: she cannot cook. Smoke alarms in three states will testify. So when her family guilt-trips her into hosting Christmas dinner — fourteen Fosters, her grandmother’s recipes, no caterers allowed — Shelby does what any desperate CEO would do. She practices. And burns a turkey. And reads a strange old recipe card out loud over the smoke. Enter Asharoth: nine hundred years old, contractually bound to her penthouse until Christmas Eve, infuriatingly good in the kitchen, and absolutely forbidden from cooking the dinner for her. Contract law says her hands have to do the work. His job is to teach her — knife skills, gravy, and the one lesson she never learned: how to be loved without earning it. The clock says the binding dissolves at midnight on Christmas Eve. Her heart is starting to have opinions about that. And her grandmother’s recipe tin has one more secret in the bottom that changes everything        Amazon

THE INFIRMARY FOR SRAGON BURNS AND MIDAIR MSHAPS (THE EMBER RIDGE SERIES BOOK ONE) by Elizabeth Hrib

VS Note: FF PNR. From AUG 28.

Burn nurse Eden has accepted a job from her old mentor at the Infirmary for Dragon Burns and Midair Mishaps, hoping for peace and quiet in Ember Ridge — a charming mountain town famous for singed tourists and reckless dragon riders. Instead, she arrives to find the infirmary in chaos. Her mentor is stranded out of town, wild dragons are causing havoc and Eden is left running the infirmary on her first day. Worse, she keeps crossing paths with Vaela, the town’s dragon wrangler, whose talent for surviving impossible situations is matched only by a talent for getting under Eden’s skin. Vaela is everything Eden hates: brooding, reckless and arrogant. But when local dragons begin acting strangely and the kingsguard descends on Ember Ridge, whispers spread of the Wretch — the most feared dragon in the realm. Eden and Vaela are forced into an uneasy partnership to save the town, but every argument between them sparks into something hotter and far more dangerous than they expected. Because falling for a dragon wrangler was never part of Eden’s plan. But neither is watching Ember Ridge — and her guarded heart — go up in flames.     AmazonKU       AB

FORSAKEN FATE: PART TWO (FORSAKEN FATE TRILOGY) by Kimber White

A steamy wolf-shifter paranormal romance with forbidden fated mates, a dangerous mating bond, revenge, stolen magic and supernatural politics. She took the wrong wolf’s mark to save her father. Now the man fate chose has to watch her wear it. Brynna has made an impossible choice. To find the father who was taken from her years ago, she has accepted the mating mark of Theo’s greatest enemy. His brother. She tells herself it’s only temporary. One dangerous deception. One chance to uncover the truth before walking away forever. But mating magic was never meant to be used as a weapon. The mark gives Brynna the access she needs, but every secret she steals brings her enemy one step closer to discovering hers. And every stolen moment with Theo makes it harder to remember why she chose this path in the first place. Theo knows Brynna is his fated mate. Watching another wolf mark her was almost unbearable. Watching her risk herself to finish what she started may be worse. He would burn the world to protect the woman fate chose for him. But how do you save someone determined to sacrifice herself? Especially when loving her may be the very thing that destroys them both.      AmazonKU

FATED TO THE WOLVEN MAGE by R L Perez

She thinks he killed her grandmother. He thinks she’s plotting against his kingdom. And they have to work together to uncover the truth. Cerise is a witch training under her grandmother, eager to uncover the secrets of her past. But when she discovers her grandmother has been murdered, she yearns for retribution. And the only person who can give her the answers she seeks is the wolf shifter she suspects is behind the murder. Alaric is a Wolven Mage who shares a soul with a wolf. As the captain of his tribe, he is in charge of tracking down criminals and protecting his people. When he finds out the Mage King has been killed, he finds evidence that Cerise and her grandmother were involved. With the growing hatred between witches and Wolven Mages, Alaric is convinced Cerise is guilty. As they work together to solve both murders, they realize the connection between the grandmother and the Mage King goes deeper than they thought. And the more they uncover, the more they realize that everything they thought they knew was wrong. Including their feelings for one another. As secrets are unearthed and tension between them burns hotter, Cerise and Alaric find themselves caught up in an elaborate conspiracy that has been ongoing for decades. And if they aren’t careful, the secrets and lies could destroy them both.     AmazonKU

FATED TO THE FROZEN PRINCE by Clara Hartford

VS Note: From SEPT 29.

Every winter must have a summer. Yet eternal winter sweeps across the continent, freezing everything in its path. Unfortunately, there’s nothing Wrenora hates more than the cold, other than Prince Callan Vostbain, whose magic is rumored to be the cause of the winter blight. As a human prisoner of war, she tries to keep out of his way to avoid punishment, but when Callan learns she’s an imbuing mage, capable of creating a gem that can harness his power, he offers Wrenora freedom in exchange for her help. But Wrenora hasn’t used her imbuing magic since before the war. She’s not sure she can help him. And she’s certainly not prepared for the man she finds hidden beneath the icy mask, much less the real reason Callan wishes to control his magic. As more assassins are sent to kill him and rumors of an uprising grow, Callan struggles to keep the fiery human from melting the armor he’s carefully frozen around his heart. Or to focus on controlling his magic and stopping the winter blight before the entire continent is solid ice. The cure for the winter blight may be at his fingertips, if only he can keep from freezing his only hope with a single touch.      AmazonKU

FATED TO THE PUMPKIN PRINCE by Rebecca L Garcia

Elle’s lifelong dream was to manage her family’s bakery, and perhaps, just once, catch the prince’s eye. Little did she know, the day she gained his attention would be the same day she’d face total ruin.
After years of working under her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, Elle strikes a bargain that unknowingly shackles her fate to the very prince who wronged her. With little to their names, Elle and the prince are forced to work together to find a way out of the terrible mess they’ve found themselves in. Their only hope lies in a half-sunken city where an ancient enchantress trades in tears, but magic always demands its price and the closer they come to breaking the spell that binds them, the more they must reckon with the truth that some spells only reveal what was already there all along.   AmazonKU

FATED TO THE NIGHT KING by Krista Fox

Sena survived the Silver Sickness—but it stole her ability to shift, her place in the pack, and the future she thought she’d have. When her Alpha sends her to spy on the Night King, ruler of the vampire court, she expects a monster. She finds a man carved from shadow and devotion. Alkan recognizes Sena instantly—something rare, something powerful, something his. As danger coils between their warring peoples, Sena is drawn deeper into his dark kingdom… and into a bond she was never meant to claim. But secrets are rotting the shifter world from within, and Sena’s past is far more dangerous than the Night King’s teeth. When betrayal strikes, she must choose between the pack that raised her and the man who would burn the world to keep her alive.     AmazonKU

FATED TO THE GROTESQUE: A GARGOYLE ROMANCE by C M Hutton

It’s the absolute worst time of the year. Fortunately, I, Miko Gowdie, planned to spend the miserable summer tucked inside the air-conditioned halls of Eldritch University, surrounded by Victorian architecture while finishing one of the last three courses needed for my Master of Architecture degree. Once I landed a job to meet my financial aid requirements, nothing would stand in my way. At least, that’s what I thought. Then, I discovered the magical and paranormal world exists, and my carefully planned future unraveled thanks to a hulking stone brute who grins more than he breathes. Creatures like him belong perched on rooftops, not stalking my every move. Unfortunately, all those years spent reading Grimm’s Fairy Tales did nothing to prepare me for this new reality. Now, I have one question: can I survive long enough to earn my degree, keep my sanity, and make it to the fall semester?   AmazonKU

THE SECRET OMEGA’S SECRET BABY: AN MM MPREG ROMANCE (BABIES FOR BROKEN DADS BOOK EIGHT) by Anna Wineheart

Uriel has two secrets: Secret #1: Even though he looks like an alpha, he’s actually an omega. Secret #2: His baby’s other dad… is his enemy. And the alpha, Bruiser, has no idea that Cassie is his daughter. It’s for the best. When a rescue mission turns complicated and Bruiser is the only one left with Uriel and his baby, he starts to notice things about Cassie that seem… off. Things that remind him of himself. Like the color of her eyes. The weird birthmark on her belly. Uriel’s an alpha who wants nothing to do with Bruiser, so… What the heck is going on?     AmazonKU

THE NETHER CROWN (CAMP NETHERWORLD BOOK ONE) by K N Lee

Falsely accused. Betrayed. Abandoned. When Sylvia finds herself at Camp Netherworld, she discovers that everything that led to her enrollment was planned by an elite organization of supernatural beings. The camp is odd; with magical creatures, a ‘mean girl’ from back home; and two ridiculously hot faction leaders who have their sights set on her. But, what surprises Sylvia the most, is that she has a rare special ability, and that there is a target on her back that can be deadly.     AmazonKU

THEIR FIERCE LITTLE MONSTER (MONSTER GAMES) by Mila Young

Welcome to the Day of the Choosing. Where the sacred Chalice decides your fate. And monsters always take those selected as their brides…I’ve spent my whole life fearing the moment my name might be called. But before the ceremony even begins, I’m dragged away and branded a heretic for what I am. Then sentenced to burn alive. Only, I don’t die. Instead, the fire wakes something inside me. Something savage and unworldly. The problem is that a Monster Lord claimed me before the Chalice ever could. And according to village law, that means there’s only one way to prove I’m his to keep. Go before the Elite Mountain King. Now I’m being hauled into the dangerous city with two Monster Lords and a hunter who swears he’s here to protect me. Escape might no longer be an option. Because the more they close in, the harder it becomes to deny the truth. I was never meant to survive them. I was meant to belong to them.     AmazonKU

FATE AND REVEL (CROWNS AND RUIN BOOK ONE) by Tess Oliver

He’s sworn to protect me. Forbidden to touch me. Two princes were promised my body. Neither of them has ever seen my face. My whole life, I’ve believed I’m human. Now I know the truth. I was born in Troikana, fated to both. Two crowns. One bride. A death sentence. So my mother hid me among the humans. Untouched. Unaware. But now the princes’ armies are hunting me. And only one man can keep me safe. Revel. The massive Valian warrior sent to bring me home. And I was never supposed to want him back. The armies are closing in. Every touch is treason. Every look, a war. The kind that could finally set me free…Or get us both killed.     AmazonKU

ROUGE: MM MONSTER ROMANCE by L Waltree

Will – I’m not well. Never have been, really. Monsters have chased me most of my life. And recently, I let them get out of control. Now I’m a divorced single dad trying to get my life back on track. I do everything I can to make the monsters go away. But one stays. Nothing stops him. I’m at my breaking point. Until slowly, I find myself chasing him…Even if it ends up ruining me. Rouge – He’s not like the others. My sweetling. His misery is unique. A taste that I do not wish to give up. I have a role to fulfill. I should move on from him. But I won’t. I’ll stay. Even if it ends up ruining him.     AmazonKU

WYLDER MAGICK by Camille Anthony

 

 

 

 

 

I have a new release this week too! My next Intergalactic Dating Agency novella…

I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking quite a few as I prepare these posts LOL). 

‘AB’ denotes audiobook and the Amazon buy link.

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BRADEN (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) SOLDIERS OF THE ARDANNAN BOOK FIVE by Veronica Scott

Braden Hartwell’s five day date on the Intergalactic Dating Agency’s Resort Planet has crashed and burned already. His date failed to show up, having gotten married on her home planet. While he’s absorbing this setback he receives a surprising offer. Elodie Farantson is on Resort Planet to be a bridesmaid for her childhood friend. Her cheating ex-boyfriend is the best man and Elodie has been telling everyone about her wonderful new boyfriend to save face. Except he doesn’t exist. Panicking she takes refuge in a noisy club before going to the first wedding party. Upon seeing Braden all alone at the club, she strikes up an acquaintance over drinks, inviting him to be her fake date to the wedding and all the activities for the week. With nothing better to do and all his friends matched up with IDA dates, Braden agrees. The situation turns out to be much more complicated than Elodie explained. The bride and groom are famous interstellar celebrities, the events are nonstop and he soon realizes he wants something real with Elodie. For her part, Elodie is falling head over heels for Braden but after her last relationship disaster she’s reluctant to take a risk. When danger from an unknown source stalks her Braden has to step up and do whatever is necessary to save her life.

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ERRIK: INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY (VAXXLIAN MAIL ORDER BRIDES BOOK 12) by Sue Mercury and Sue Lyndon

The fierce warrior has finally found his mate. Now he’ll do anything to keep her…Vaxxlian warrior Errik has always had a restless spirit. After the war, he postpones settling down on the new planet his people have claimed, choosing instead to travel the galaxy as a cage fighter. He never loses a battle and soon makes a fortune, but it’s a hollow existence. He finds himself yearning for something more. A mate. A home. A reason to finally stop running. Holly has spent years traveling North America in her RV, taking odd jobs wherever she goes. But with unrest spreading across Earth, her nomadic lifestyle is becoming increasingly dangerous. Then she discovers she needs lifesaving surgery she can’t afford. When a friend suggests she sign up for the Vaxxlian Alien Mail Order Brides program, Holly reluctantly agrees. In exchange for becoming an alien warrior’s mate, she’ll receive the healing nanobots that can save her life. She’s not prepared for Errik. The handsome and attentive warrior is nothing like she imagined. His kisses leave her breathless, his touch makes her burn, and she soon begins to wonder if the mating union she entered into out of desperation could become something more. But when Holly is suddenly offered a way out, Errik fears his mate will choose freedom over him. And the warrior who spent years running from commitment becomes more determined than ever to keep the woman who has finally given him a reason to stay.       Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

RIVER DRAGON’S SONG (DRAGONS ON MARS BOOK THREE) by Honey Phillips

A hidden river. An impossible discovery. A dragon who’s been waiting in the darkness. When Frankie is separated from her team, she doesn’t expect a single wrong step to plunge her deep beneath the surface of Mars. Lost in a vast underground world, she discovers the impossible—an ancient river flowing through the darkness and evidence that she’s not alone. Korrak has been wandering the hidden waterways alone since he awakened, listening for a song that never comes. Until her. The pretty female is stubborn, determined, and far too tempting. Korrak knows he should keep his distance, but every instinct urges him closer. The longer Frankie remains trapped beneath the surface, the harder it becomes to resist the dragon who has quietly claimed her heart. Finding a way home should be her first priority. If only she could convince herself to leave him behind.   AmazonKU

TRUTHFUL DECEPTIONS (ORIGINS + ABDUCTION BOOK ONE) by RK Munin

It could be worse, but Opal wasn’t sure how. Then she found out! Everything was going wrong, and Opal didn’t know how to fix it. Well, that’s not true; she knows one thing that would fix all her woes–wealth. With things too dire to ignore any longer, Opal did the one dangerous job she swore never to do; she agreed to work a night at a contract brothel. She braced herself for a full day and night of unpleasant roughness and discomfort. What she didn’t expect was for her time with a male from a species called Talin to be the most pleasurable of her life. Maybe working at a brothel wasn’t such a bad idea. Then she finds herself kidnapped. Nope, not happening. Despite the good time she experienced, she won’t be kept as a slave.      AmazonKU

VIGILANTES OF DANGER (FISA AGENTS BOOK FIVE) by BL Jones

VS Note: MM Superhero SFR. 

Hell isn’t a place you go to. It’s a place inside you. Hell is a pit inside your mind, a dark hole where nightmares are born and hope dies screaming. Sami Malik isn’t a hero. He was raised an OI assassin. When he was rescued by Damon North, he became the first Liquid Onyx FISA agent. Years later, Sami comes home from an extended mission and finds himself unwillingly dragged into a dangerous, messy situation with another volatile superhuman assassin. There will be dire fall outs from exposed secrets and fractured relationships in need of healing. Nothing and no one will remain untouched by what came before, and everyone will need to move forward into their uncertain futures with a bravery born from hope.      AmazonKU

THE FROST WARDEN’S CAPTIVE (THE HOLIDATES OF BOREALIS IV BOOK ONE) by Eden Ember

I offered the galaxy’s coldest billionaire a deal: Three holiday dates for the contract he needs. I didn’t expect him to play for keeps. Drax is the owner of the Aurora Grand, and he is the definition of a Grinch. He’s seven feet of violet-skinned arrogance, richer than a star system, and he needs my signature. I own a tiny share of a mine he’s desperate to buy. He thinks he can intimidate me with his sharp suits and high-tech visor. He’s wrong. I’m not selling—unless he proves he has a heart. My terms? Complete three Solstice traditions with me. Cut a tree. Buy a gift. Share a meal. He agrees, thinking it’s just business. But as we check off the list, the icy CEO begins to crack. I see the possessive heat in his eyes when he shields me from the snow. I feel the tremble in his massive hands when he pins me against the wall of his penthouse. His glowing tattoos are telling me a truth he refuses to speak: I’m not just a business acquisition. I’m his mate. But Drax has spent a lifetime guarding his heart, and I have one rule: I don’t give myself to men who only know how to take.     AmazonKU

VALDIER’S HIDDEN WORLD (DRAGON LORDS OF VALDIER) by S E Smith

A hidden magic comes alive…Ariel Hamm-Reykill has always shared a unique bond with animals. On the secluded sanctuary she’s created with her mate, Mandra, and their son, Jabir, she offers refuge to creatures from across the universe. When Ariel’s dragon senses a creature in need, she sets out on what should be a quick rescue mission. Returning home early, Mandra is eager to surprise Ariel with some much-needed time together-only to find their sanctuary empty. His search leads him deep into the untamed wilderness of Valdier, where he uncovers a secret hidden beneath the surface of their world. What began as a simple rescue turns into a journey that will test their bond and reveal an ancient, forgotten magic. As Ariel and Mandra delve into the heart of Valdier, they’ll discover that the planet they love holds mysteries they never imagined-and a power that could change everything. Are you ready to uncover the secrets of Valdier? Join Ariel and Mandra on this unforgettable journey of love, adventure, and discovery-and let the magic of their story sweep you away.

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MAY THE DEAD STAY DEAD (OM1N0US, NOM1N0US bOOK TWO) by Lizzie Strong

Vivian Darkwater is about to embark on the next chapter of her life: Personal Healer to the Mphronatch, Aka, her college roommate and bestie Aphrodite. As the mate to a prince of the Vroskrowz and very pregnant, Aphrodite created a brand new job for the sarcastic, fiery Vivian. Today’s her last day. In a few short hours, she’s going to be on a ship to the other end of the stars. Until patient zero for a horrifying outbreak enters her healing bay. The dead begin to walk again and they’re mutating rapidly in a way she can’t explain. And the dead are hungry. Trapped in the Council Station, Vivian must keep her wits about her in order to survive. Good thing the flirty, charming Reevar, a Vroskrowz hunter, is stuck in there with her. If only it wasn’t for that pesky fated mate thing! She’s ready to risk it on him but she’s afraid to get her heart broken when he finds his Fated Mate…because he would have said something if she was his mate, right? Reevar has known Vivian is his mate for a few months now, but after witnessing the massive political scandal of Xexis and Aphrodite, he’s sworn to himself to do better. Smoother, subtler, slower, if only Vivian wasn’t so curious about all the ways he could make her see the stars. Danger lurks out in those stars and an age old foe has returned to destroy the Vroz. But that’s what Reevar was built to be, the one who takes the hit. He’s the one who takes the final blow, the spare, the right hand to the Kannatch and the one whose never afraid to die. Until the day, that is, he’s actually got something…someone to lose.   AmazonKU

AS YOU WAKE, BREAK THE SHELL by Becky Chambers

VS Note: FF SFR.

Life on the resource-poor planet of Fortune is challenging, but for its inhabitants, it’s home. For two of them, Signy and Cora, this home might no longer be enough. Signy is a brilliant but reclusive botanist who bio-prints medicine from her small plant shop, often bending the rules to help those the system leaves behind. Her life is filled with the green of her store, the warmth of her one elderly friend, and the quiet determination to help others without putting herself in danger. Cora is a rorqual pilot, one of the few with the unique ability to navigate the massive, living ships that connect the scattered settlements of their solar system. Her bond with her rorqual, Colibri, is profound—a connection that is both her greatest gift and a threat to her career. It is that threat—the “mindbleed,” a dangerous side effect of her piloting—that brings her to Signy’s shop, and her appearance puts Signy in the danger she so fears. But it’s soon apparent it’s not just about losing her license—this delicate balance between risk and trust has the potential to change everything for them. Told in an alternating timeline of their initial coming together and a not-so-distant future where they have found domestic bliss, this is a story harrowing and haunting, heartfelt and hopeful. Through a love story centered around survival, we are given a glimpse into the very best of what Becky Chambers does in her writing: explore what it means to be human, and what it means to come together.

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FAKE DATING THE ALIEN BOUNTY HUNTER: GALAXY HUNTER GUILD by Tai James

How did I end up on the hot mess express? I’m Zoe Marshall, stuck on a backwater moon serving fai’kia flakes and coffee until the alien bounty hunter I’ve been secretly lusting after makes me an offer I can’t refuse. Axion Tarr needs a fake girlfriend to crash an exclusive couples retreat on a remote planet. Five days. All expenses paid. Enough credits to fix every one of my problems. The catch? There’s only one bed. And neither of us can keep our hands to ourselves. What could possibly go wrong pretending to be in love with the hot alien I’ve been in love with all along? (Spoiler: almost everything.)       AmazonKU

SHIELDED IN THE SHADOWS (FORTUSIAN MATES BOOK FOUR) by Lisa Edmonds

She’s a criminal who always flies solo. He’s the intergalactic lawman who breaks the rules to steal her heart. Smuggler Keela Wren has a problem. There’s a bounty on her head big enough to attract the attention of every mercenary and privateer in the sector, and even her allies can’t be trusted anymore. When a lead on her missing sister forces her out of hiding, bounty hunters converge, plunging Keela into a desperate battle for her freedom. Intelligence agent Jarrix Tov’ok is just surviving. His latest undercover assignment aboard a pirate ship is disrupted when the captain sets aside their planned raid to go after a lucrative bounty on a female smuggler. The moment he encounters their target, Jarrix realizes the fierce human warrior is his true mate, forcing him to betray his crew and his mission to get her off the space station alive. Keela has no use for a mate, even one as well-trained and apparently devoted as Jarrix. The sooner she can be rid of this absurdly attractive male, the sooner she can get back to tracking down her sister. But Jarrix is equally determined to use their temporary alliance to prove he’s the ideal mate for a woman who’s fought too long and too hard to compromise on anything—especially command of her ship, her destiny, and her heart.      AmazonKU

EMPIRE OF STARS BOOK FOUR: MM SFR by X Aratare

Humans, AI, Tha’fell and Altaeth get a lesson in working together is the only way they have a chance of holding their own against the Khul. Even the Osiris discovers it has more to learn. But after the battle, Jace and Khoth finally become bonded mates, a status that has great personal happiness for their families, but worrying consequences should something happen to one of them. And finally, Chili the pig gets a new bow, and Gehenna gets a new terrifying form in this action-packed fourth book.   Amazon

STUFFED BY THE ALIEN (HOLIDAY HEARTMATES BOOK SIX) by Julie K Cohen

He needs a mate. She needs a safe place to hide. Together, they find something neither expected—home. Tammi came to the alien world of Zyan for a job—and to escape a past that nearly destroyed her. She never expected to be claimed by a scarred warrior… or to fall in love with his mute son. Torvikk sought a mate to secure his child’s future. He never expected a human woman to awaken what he thought he’d lost forever—need, desire, and a bond that goes far beyond duty. But when Tammi’s dangerous ex resurfaces and powerful forces at the embassy threaten to tear them apart, she must choose: run like she always has… or fight for the family she’s found and the love she never dared hope for. Torvikk has already made his choice. Tammi is his heartmate—and no one will take her from him.        AmazonKU

VICTORIOUS (VILLAINS BOOK THREE) by V E Schwab

VS Note: Not a romance. Superheroes and villains. A release of note.

Eli Ever. Victor Vale. Two men, first best friends, then mortal enemies, each destined to be the other’s shadow. One left standing—but the game isn’t over yet Against all the years–and the odds—a group of allies and arch rivals meet on a chess board set by an opponent they couldn’t have predicted… to see who will be victorious.

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WRITTEN IN STARLIGHT: A NOVEL by Sloane Brooks

Della Farley has always known her place: scrubbing floors, keeping her head down, and dreaming of something more. But when she stumbles upon a strange book that seems to be writing itself—a story about a man named Ansel Tulzok, a wanted fugitive traveling the stars—her quiet life turns extraordinary.  Light-years away, Ansel finds a mirror copy of the same book. Page by page, the story unfolds with details of a woman he’s never met—one whose words feel achingly familiar. As the two begin writing to each other through the mysterious pages, they open doors not just to each other’s worlds, but to their most vulnerable hopes and fears. But every story has its price. And as their worlds entwine and their hearts collide, Della and Ansel must decide how far they’re willing to go to change the ending fate has written for them.

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ABDUCTING THE ALIEN (HALLOWEEN TEMPTATIONS) by Val Simons

VS Note: MM SFR.

Fun-loving August is just trying to get some air when he finds a guy in an alien costume alone, half-naked, and shivering in the forest. The second they lock eyes, August wants him, and before he knows it, he’s sneaking the stranger into his home. Clay knows August is his mate. That’s not a bad thing, since August seems more than willing to explore their mutual attraction. There’s just one complication. Okay, two: August doesn’t know soul bonds exist, and Clay is a kissless virgin who’s spent his whole life saving his strongest bond for the person he was destined for. Their attraction is immediate, and one very steamy night later, Clay is more sure than ever that August is his future. But Clay’s career on his home planet is only just beginning, and he can’t stay on Earth forever. Convincing August to leave his entire life behind is harder than surviving a crash landing. But Clay crossed the galaxy to find his mate, and he’s not going home without him.     AmazonKU

I MARRIED A SYLLEN (PRIME MATING AGENCY) by Regine Abel

She heard Fate’s call from across the stars. The Syllens become Mirella’s obsession from the moment she discovers their existence, and she dedicates her life to studying them. Today, after centuries of being dormant, the mythical species finally awakens, and she is in the front row to meet them. Despite the tragedy that brings them together, once she lays eyes on Taelen, she knows he is who Fate always intended for her. The last thing Taelen needs is to deal with a new wave of off-worlder colonizers. But as soon as he stirs from the Long Sleep, he finds himself not only contending with the humans and their deadly schemes, but entangled with Mirella, a delicate female with sun-filled hair. Why would the Goddess pair him with one of those evil creatures? And yet, as they join forces to eradicate the menace, the bond between Taelen and Mirella is undeniable. Even the land claims her. As even more insidious attacks threaten the very survival of the Syllens, can the two of them prevail, or will the clash between their worlds tear them apart? NOTE: It is highly recommended to read I Married Kayog first as the Syllens are introduced there with important context that will let you better appreciate this book.      AmazonKU

STARFIGHTER’S SALVATION (STARFIGHTER TRAINING ACADEMY: SECOND WAVE BOOK TWO) by Grace Goodwin

Gina Reyes thought Starfighter Training Academy was just a game—until winning it got her abducted by the dangerously real alien warrior she’d spent months fantasizing about. Corvan is everything Gina designed him to be: lethal, controlled, infuriatingly honorable…and determined to keep his distance. Eighteen months ago, Corvan made an impossible choice during a rescue mission. He saved twelve lives and left his best friend behind. He made the right call. He also knows he could never make it again. Not if Gina were the one he had to sacrifice. As a combat rescue pilot, Corvan’s judgment has to be absolute. But loving Gina would make him dangerously biased, because if the choice ever came down to saving her or saving everyone else, he already knows the truth. He would choose her. Every time. Now Gina has been pulled into a real interstellar war, wounded soldiers are trapped behind enemy lines, and she and Corvan must fly straight into the fire together. He refuses to become the kind of man who would let the world burn to save one woman. Too bad he’s already halfway there.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

MY UNDEAD LOVE LIFE (LIFE AFTER ZOMBIES BOOK TWO) by Lyra Winters

Three minutes changed everything. One minute, my boyfriend and I were trapped in a subway train car surrounded by the undead. The next, Keith stayed behind and pushed me into the arms of three strangers. With Keith gone, I was stranded in the city with the three men who had become my only chance at survival. To make it home, we’d have to brave a relentless blizzard, wait out an endless horde of undead, and escape the infected snow leopards stalking us through the storm. After months on the run, the last thing I expected was to fall for the three men who never gave up on me. But survival has a funny way of changing your heart. Especially when the past isn’t as dead as you thought.     AmazonKU

SUBMERGE (COMPANIONS TO THE LEVIATHANS BOOK SEVEN) by Deiri Di

VS Note: A short read.

Trust can’t be stolen, but on a dangerous alien world, it might just be rescued. Abducted from Earth and stranded on an enigmatic starship, Wren survives by relying on no one. Her golden rule is simple: never trust anyone, alien or human. But when a routine sample-gathering run on a dead planet turns lethal, her self-reliance isn’t enough to keep her alive. And the person who comes to her rescue is the last one she expected. UNI-CAL 56109 knows one thing for sure: the human females on board are dangerous. They use their wiles to incapacitate his fellow Calicium units, and even though they’ve removed his mind-control chip, he’s convinced they still have sinister plans for him. He knows he should stay far away. But when Wren needs help, he doesn’t hesitate. Rescuing her means risking the one thing he has left: his freedom. The only problem? He isn’t sure he knows what to do with freedom anyway…or what to do with the human woman making him question everything he knows.   AmazonKU

HOMICIDE IN HELIX SECTOR (LADY ELIZABETH COZIES IN SPACE BOOK EIGHT) by Diana Xarissa

VS Note: Not a romance.

I should have known what was coming. After everything that had happened over the past seven sectors, I should have expected exactly what happened, really. All I want to do is get to Val Segas. Long-distance space travel isn’t fun, even on a luxury spaceship, especially not when murders keep happening in nearly every sector. When Edwardo Beezle sat down next to me at breakfast and started talking about problems on the Lady Elizabeth, I should have immediately seen what was coming and done something to stop it. Instead, I agreed to try to set up a meeting between him and Colonel Jonathan Brazee, a man I considered a friend, especially during murder investigations. I will admit to a sense of impending doom as Jonathan and I took the elevator down to C Deck for the meeting. At the time, I just ignored it. And then we found Edwardo’s body. And I realized that on some level I’d been expecting exactly that. Nothing that happened after that was at all expected, though. First, Jonathan told me to stay out of the investigation. Then Becca, the Chief Medical Officer, ruled that the man’s death was an accident. Just when it seemed as if things couldn’t get any stranger, people started asking me to investigate the murder behind Jonathan’s back. And I found myself agreeing to do so.       AmazonKU

WILD SILVER AND LEAD (SNAKE OPS BOOK ONE) by Lexie Axelson

VS Note: Cliffhanger.

In a world undone by a terrifying virus, a fierce female survivor and a cruel military captain fight the living, the dead, and their lethal desire in this genre-shattering dark dystopian romance. I survived ten years after the Raven virus turned the dead into monsters. Then elite soldier Slade Reece put a bullet through my chest. I was searching for my family, torn from me in a raid, when the ruthless ex–Delta Force captain found me. He should have left me to die. Instead, he dragged me to his military base, where a lethal, classified armed force guards civilization in the frozen North. Outsiders are forbidden. Execution is the penalty. Our chance encounter ignited an obsession he can’t control. His solution? Marriage—the only way to keep me alive. The deal: my body for his protection, help finding my family for my vows. I should hate him—I do—but hate turns to fire as he kills anyone who threatens me. Falling for Slade is blurring everything I know about survival. But now his enemies have discovered my existence—and they’re hunting me. I must choose: the family I’ve lost, or the devil who’s claimed me.       AmazonKU

TEMPTING FATE: STARKISSED MATES BOOK TWO  by Lyra Strake

He’s suffering a desperate, unnatural desire—and all he wants is her. Imani didn’t ask for a new life on a distant planet, but she’s going to make it work. Helping an inexperienced alien through his heat? Not part of her plan. Except… he’s seven feet of muscle, wears nerdy little glasses, and he begs so beautifully. There’s plenty of time to get back on track afterwards, right? Airida thought he’d be safe on the refuge of Vadias. While he struggles through his body’s physical awakening, Imani is the only bright spot in this daunting new world. As she teaches him pleasure he never dreamed possible, he melts under her praise—and craves far more than the ‘friends with benefits’ she’s offering. She plans to walk away. The past isn’t going to let him go so easily. As bounty hunters close in on their quiet sanctuary, so does a soul bond, the last thing Imani wants. But after years of being told he could never have a mate, Airida is convinced she’s his fated one—and he’ll do anything to keep her.    AmazonKU

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VS: Just a reminder, DERIUS was my first Intergalactic Dating Agency novella for 2026.

DERIUS: SOLDIERS OF THE ARDANNAN BOOK FOUR (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY by Veronica Scott

Ordered by his planet’s government to enter this year’s round of dating as arranged by the Intergalactic Dating Agency Derius Tate reported to the resort planet with low expectations. He’d never been able to get over the mystery woman he’d had a passionate one night stand with prior to his last, disastrous deployment as a Special Forces operator. Leonie Bradnum signed up for the five day date trip hoping to get over her feelings once and for all for the handsome soldier who’d seemed like her dream man and then cruelly ghosted her three years ago. The IDA’s infallible algorithm paired her up with…Derius, the very man she’d been pining for and hating equally since the morning she woke up to an empty bed and no way to contact him. Will five days and nights on the luxurious IDA Resort Planet be enough for the two of them to resolve the events of three years ago and find their way back to each other? And when danger strikes can Derius do what has to be done to save Leonie? Fate has given them a second chance.

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BOUGHT BY THE GREEN MAN: MONSTERS BRIDE MARKET by Ava York

I chose him off the auction block. He didn’t even know he’d bought me. By the time I found out the cold lord at the other end of this contract never agreed to any of it, I was already standing in his forest, soaked through and furious, while a four-hundred-year-old monster twice my size told his court to send me back. But they couldn’t. So now I live here. In the dark, in the green, with a creature of bark and branch, who says he doesn’t want me. But his forest isn’t listening to his words. It grows me a room I never asked for. It blooms white flowers in his footsteps outside my door. It gives me better food than it gives him, warms the floor where I walk, and betrays every single thing the lord won’t let himself say out loud.       AmazonKU

ORC’S HARVEST (VEIL LANDS BOOK 16) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Zalie: I’ve spent my life hiding on our quiet farm, keeping my dangerous plant magic buried in the dirt. Now our boundary wards are breaking, and nightmare creatures are rising from the wheat fields, ripping away the memories of everyone I love. To save my people, I’m forced to make a deal with the territory’s fiercest warrior. Kalthor Wildstorm is seven feet of raw muscle, wicked battle-scars, and terrifying, lethal control. He takes over my land, claims my kitchen, and commands me like he owns the ground I walk on. He’s supposed to be my weapon against the monsters, but every accidental brush of his skin lights a dark, reckless fire between us. Instead of keeping my distance, I’m daring him to cross the line and take everything I have left. Kalthor: I’m a warlord built for one thing: bloody obedience to my clan. I expected a fragile human farmer when I marched onto Bouchier land. Instead, I find a stubborn witch tangled in deadly thorns, glaring up at my tusks without a shred of fear. She defies my orders, mocks my authority, and makes my blood boil in ways that have nothing to do with battle. When we’re forced into a forbidden blood ritual to survive the horde, our minds lock together—and the fierce, untamed want radiating from her destroys the last bit of my restraint. I swore to protect this valley with my life. Now, my dark, dangerous instincts are screaming for only one prize: to pin her down and make her mine.      AmazonKU

OVERBEARING by Neve Raine and Milly Taiden

She thinks she’s chasing a killer. She’s about to find out he’s been across the garage from her the whole time. And he’s the only thing in this town keeping her alive. Sadie Quinn came to my town to find out why her brother never came home. She’s sharp, relentless, impossible to lie to twice — exactly the kind of stubborn that got Owen killed. So every question she asks pulls her closer to the people who did it, and every day she stays, I get more desperate to keep her breathing. Because someone already wants her gone the exact same way. What she doesn’t know is I’ve started closing the shop early just to walk her back, and making two cups of coffee at the open bay door like the second one isn’t hers. I let one Quinn slip through my hands already. I’m not burying another. My clan’s law says send her home before she digs any deeper. The bear already decided: she’s already home.   AmazonKU

VAMPIRE’S STAKEHOLDER by Dominique Crave and Milly Taiden

Five centuries of discipline taught me to want nothing. One journalist just undid all of my restraint. Juno Maddern is relentless. Unflinching. The first person in five centuries to look past my money and ask what I actually am. My oath says keep the Compact’s secrets buried. My heart just handed her the shovel. But I can’t hide what I am anymore. Not when she sees past my walls. And I’m desperate to let her in. Someone in my ranks is setting her up. Every lead she follows gets a little more lethal. And I’m the only thing standing between her and a trap she doesn’t know is waiting. She thinks she’s uncovering a financial cover-up. She’s about to find out the cover-up has fangs. I’ve buried everything I’ve ever loved across five centuries. I am not burying her too.      AmazonKU

CAN’T TAME THE FLAME (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 116) by Milly Taiden

Romily Devlin has hot glass, overdue bills, and absolutely no patience for rich men with control issues. So when Gerri Wilder shows up with cookies and a too-good-to-refuse job at Sharpe Global, Romily takes it. She expects a corporate art commission. She does not expect Norden Sharpe—broody, gorgeous, built like sin, and staring at her from across the room like he already knows what she looks like naked. Eight-hundred-year-old dragon shifter Norden Sharpe likes order, obedience, and having everyone do exactly what he says. Then Romily storms into his hotel, insults his marble, ignores his rules, and makes his dragon roar one very inconvenient word: mine. She’s stubborn, sexy, and completely immune to his authority. Worse, every argument leaves him wanting to pin her against the nearest wall, and every accidental touch has Romily wondering whether getting burned by a dragon might be worth the risk. Then someone starts hunting the strange magic hidden inside Romily’s glasswork, and Norden’s protective instincts go nuclear. Now Romily has a rogue dragon on her trail, one possessive Alpha breathing down her neck, and enough sexual tension between them to melt steel. Norden is ready to scorch anyone who threatens his mate. Romily is ready to prove she doesn’t need saving. And Gerri is already wondering if she should go ahead and open her own wedding venue.       AmazonKU

OPERATION: OGRE: MM MONSTER ROMANCE (CREEPIN U SEASON 2) by Mars Quinn

We’re just friends. Nothing more. Jaxon – My crush on the hot ogre goalie isn’t going anywhere, but my best friend and roommate, Christopher, is certain that he can help me and Aaron get together. Chris should know; he’s famous on campus for his hook-ups and dates. I’m hesitant about his plan, but I can never say no to Christopher. And then I will be with Aaron, and that’s what I want, right? Christopher – Jaxon, my shy ogre best friend, needs my help to get Aaron, one of the most popular guys in school. I’ll help him, of course–I’d do anything for Jaxon–but I have no experience with romance besides fictional. So armed with romance books and a foolproof plan, I decide we’ll pretend to date each other to make Aaron jealous. It’s genius and will definitely work! Nothing is going to get in the way of my plan, not my annoying siblings, not my lack of dating experience, and definitely not this odd feeling I have when I see Aaron and Jaxon together.     AmazonKU

TEMPTING DEATH (MORTAL MISHAPS BOOK ONE) by J L Jackola

An urban fantasy with a rom-com twist. She wasn’t supposed to see the reaper, and she definitely wasn’t supposed to die…over and over and over again. Lilly is an average mortal with a penchant for talking too much and coordination skills that are frequently challenged. She doesn’t mean to see the Reaper collecting souls, nor does she mean to step into the path of the car that heralds her first death. When Eclipse, aka the Reaper, steps back into the mortal world after eons of self-imposed seclusion, he doesn’t expect Lilly to see him because he’s invisible to mortals. But she does, and that creates a complication, especially since she dies every single time, in the clumsiest ways. And that’s a problem in a world where mortal deaths are predetermined and falling for one is forbidden.   AmazonKU

THE GARGOYLE AND THE EXECUTIONER’S DAUGHTER (MOONBELL HOLLOW BOOK ONE) by Olivia T Turner

It’s a usual day at work. Head. Chop. Neck. Hang. Line-up. Fire. Strap-up. Electrocute. One after another, it’s boring work being the assistant to the town’s only executioner (aka my dorky dad). It’s just another day at the dark dank office until we get a strange customer (aka condemned soul awaiting execution). A gargoyle. They’re rare enough to be interesting. And strong enough to cause quite the inconvenience. My father’s saw breaks on its impenetrable skin. The rope snaps when we try to hang him. Needles, axes, swords—nothing works. When my father leaves to get reinforcements, I’m left alone with the strange, but alluring statue with the large muscles and giant… ahem… rock. If I rub it will he come alive or is that only a genie’s lamp? I try it and find out…Boy, does he come alive. And even though I’m supposed to be the executioner, he’s the one slaying me…With those wicked eyes, those skilled hands, and that oh so delicious tongue. Maybe my dad will let this one go? Yeah, I didn’t think so either.      AmazonKU

FANGS AND FIRST AID by Maison De Loup

Cordelya – Leaving my fiancé at the altar was the easy part. Staying gone is harder. I’ve packed up my pets, buried every trace of my old life, and found myself a fresh start where no one knows me—or why I’m so determined to keep it that way. Then one accident puts Augustus in my path. He’s a devastatingly handsome paramedic with old-fashioned manners, an instinct for taking care of me, and a habit of making it very difficult to remember that getting attached is the last thing I can afford. I came here to disappear. Falling for the man determined to spoil me was never part of the plan. Augustus – I’ve spent a very long time in complete control of myself. Then I smell Cordelya’s blood. One second, I’m treating an injured woman at the scene of an accident. The next, my fangs drop. That hasn’t happened before. Now I can’t stop thinking about the curvy, secretive human who has somehow awakened instincts I don’t understand—and every one of them is telling me the same thing. Mine. Cordelya keeps her secrets close, so I keep my suspicions to myself. For now. I can be patient. I can be a gentleman. I can even pretend I’m only checking on her because I’m a dedicated paramedic. But the closer I get, the more certain I become that our meeting wasn’t an accident. And if Cordelya really is the woman fate chose for me, I have no intention of letting her disappear.   AmazonKU

THE NECROMANCER’S REIGN (THE BEACON HILL SORCEROR BOOK NINE) by Sheena Jolie

VS Note: MM Urban Fantasy.

The final book in the bestselling Beacon Hill Sorcerer series has arrived….Angel Salvatore has been battling the High Council of Sorcery for far too long, and he’s decided to end the war before it gets even worse. A duel to the death, and to the victor goes the spoils. Angel has started something he cannot stop–not that he wants to. Meanwhile, Simeon has trouble brewing at home in the Bloodclan to contend with while Angel trains for the toughest fight of his life. Angel feels he’s ready to take on the Grandmaster of the Council, confident he can beat the blood mage one on one. Simeon has faith in his mate Angel, but none in the rest of humanity. Facing a corrupt politician skilled in ancient blood magic is no guarantee of a fair fight, even with powerful witnesses on both sides attending the duel to keep things honest. Simeon expects things to go awry, and when he’s proven right, Angel and his expanded family come together to save themselves and the city. Yet even as their situation grows dire and things get deadly, Angel and Simeon grow closer, their soulbond forged by love and blood, unbreakable even in the face of powerful enemies. The pair share a destiny and they refuse to be separated, even by death.      AmazonKU

HER WICKER GUARDIAN (WICKER MEN BOOK ONE) by Alana Khan

I didn’t come to the bonfire to burn the last piece of a marriage I barely managed to escape. My friends and I are supposed to be working on the wicker bear we’ve spent weeks building for the town festival. Instead, after too much wine and too much truth, somebody brings up the question women have been arguing about for years: would you rather meet a man or a bear alone in the woods? I say there ought to be a third choice. The joke should end there. Instead, later that night, I throw my wedding ring into the bonfire and whisper a wish I’ve never said aloud to another living soul. The wicker bear begins to move. Willow twists. Branches rearrange. And when I press my palm to the chest of the Wicker Man standing where the bear used to be, something beats beneath my hand. He’s alive. Locke is powerful enough to frighten half the town and gentle enough to make me question everything I thought I knew about strength. Somehow, he also heard us before he ever had ears, including the things women say when we think no men are listening—and the wish I never wanted any man to know. I wanted to feel safe again. I never expected safety to look at me like I’m the only woman in the world. And I definitely never expected people in town to decide a man like him shouldn’t exist.       AmazonKU

DARK SUBMISSION (REJECTED MONSTER MATES BOOK FOUR) by Taylor Spratt

The High Tower has fallen. The shifters are scattered. And Malek is coming for me. I’ve been running from my feelings for my demi-god mates since the beginning. But surviving the end of the world together has a way of breaking down walls. My heart wants to forgive them. Wants to love them. Wants to let go of the past and just be theirs. But can I really forget what they took from me? And even if I can , the man I once loved is now the monster I have to stop. No more excuses. No more hesitation. The only problem? Stopping Malek means forging alliances with a cowardly mage king hiding behind his castle walls and a human president with secrets of his own. Neither can be trusted. Both are essential. What could possibly go wrong? Three possessive alphas pulling at my heart. One demon god who destroyed everything I loved. A web of alliances that could unravel at any moment. Some wars are won with power. This one will take something far more dangerous — me.   AmazonKU

EARTH’S REAPER (EARTH’S MAGIC BOOK SEVEN) by Eve Langlais

The sunderer of souls had his heart stolen. Thaddeus is half Grim Reaper with the power to take people’s souls. As a child, his ability led to him having issues at school, as his strangeness made him a target for bullies—who never stood a chance when he got mad and let loose. Needless to say, his social life sucked. His best friend growing up? The ghost in the graveyard up the street. As for girlfriends? Only ever tried dating once and let’s just say it didn’t end well. Upon his rescue from a lab where scientists forced him to use his ability, this loner tries to get through life without any trouble, but apparently Mother Earth has other plans. She’s set him on a quest to find the person behind his creation and expects him to put an end to their experiments once and for all. The problem is finding the culprit. The decades-old trail is cold, unlike his super-hot female companion. Must not give in to temptation. The last thing Thad needs is to lose control and accidentally steal her soul. It would help if she wouldn’t tease and tempt at every turn. Fiona’s convinced he won’t hurt her, but he’s afraid she’ll end up screaming like the last woman he dared to touch. Thankfully, he’s got the mission to concentrate on, which has now switched to rescue mission. The mastermind behind his birth has taken his mom hostage, and it’s up to Thad to free her, but infiltrating the secret lab, with his ghostly sidekick and Fiona, leads to revelations that are almost too much to handle. To prevail, he’s going to have to do the impossible, but if he succeeds, he might finally have a chance at happiness.

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SHADOW LORD: COZY MM MONSTER ROMANCE (SHADOWMEN BOOK THREE) by S Rodman

I have a crush on my shadow. Ok, he’s not actually my shadow, he’s a shadow man from the Shadow Realm. But he follows me around like he’s attached to me. Wherever I turn he’s there, watching me from a shadowy corner with those fathomless amber eyes. He’s silent, looming, brooding and terrifying. Me? I’m annoyingly cheerful, apparently. So having a being called Dark decide to stalk me is, you know. Ironic. Not that I mind, because for a literal monster, he’s kinda sweet. Considerate. Extremely attentive. All in all, moving to the city really has been wilder than I thought. I work in a coffee shop where the owner is engaged to a shadow prince and my manager is a witch, and that’s how I met my shadow. Although he isn’t actually mine. But I think I want him to be. There’s just the small matter of saving the world from a doomsday prophecy to deal with first.      AmazonKU

COMMANDING SCYTHE AND SKY (GRAYSHELL RISING BOOK FOUR) by S J Barnett

When humanity is the price, all will stand united… or all will fall. The Great Commander vowed to dismantle Moros’ regime of terror, but it came at a devastating cost: his mate now captive in the mentalist’s lair. Now, alongside a splintered alliance of warriors, healers, and shadows, August embarks on a bloody quest to avenge humanity and bring her home before Moros shatters her mind entirely. Still cut off from their hierarchy, an elite squad of warriors make a desperate bid to reunite Grayshell’s forces by traversing the treacherous and illusion-riddled wasteland of The Middle—and time is not on their side. With every moment that passes, the enemy’s talons sink deeper into the Seer of the North, twisting her reality until even lies look like the truth. Still reeling in the wake of their fractured Mate Bond, Freya and Cyrus are left Earthbound, ensnared in history’s twisted threads. As the newly-ascended Paladin queen attempts to secure a tense—but crucial—alliance with the Northern assassins, the young historian must sort through the charred riddles of his ancestor’s mercurial past. But only by working together can they maneuver all of the necessary pieces onto the board and maintain hope of reclaiming their lost souls. Forced into servitude behind the enemy’s brutal walls, Blythe clings to her loyalties as she navigates hidden motives, ancient curses, and political turmoil. Humiliated and downtrodden, she fights to conceal the secrets lurking beneath her skin in hopes of escaping with Alvara. With revenge at last in her grasp, Blythe must choose between her convictions and protecting the last heiress of a fallen bloodline. Loyalties are tested. Ancient bonds are frayed. And only one thread remains.       Amazon

YORK (CLAN OF MALONE BOOK ONE) by Kathi S Barton

He’s spent centuries hunting monsters. He never expected his mate to be the one woman who could drive him mad. York Malone is no ordinary vampire. As the vampire slayer, he’s spent centuries enforcing the council’s laws and destroying rogues who prey on humans. Powerful, wealthy, and more than a little set in his ways, York has no interest in changing his life for anyone. Then Rose MacIntyre walks into it. Rose is a talented mechanic with a sharp tongue, an independent streak, and no patience for the arrogant man who insists he owns the cars she’s been hired to repair. She certainly doesn’t believe his ridiculous claim that he’s a vampire—and she has enough problems already. Her violent father and brother have made her life a constant battle, and Rose learned long ago that the only person she can depend on is herself. But York knows something Rose doesn’t. She’s his mate. 
Keeping her safe awakens every protective instinct he possesses, but convincing Rose that she belongs at his side may prove harder than killing any rogue vampire. She doesn’t need a savior; she refuses to be controlled, and the more York pushes, the harder she pushes back. Yet the attraction between them is impossible to deny, and when danger closes in, Rose may discover that trusting York could change her life forever. A vampire slayer has finally met his match—and she has no intention of surrendering without a fight.       Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

DEATH SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS (SHROUDED NATION BOOK 38) by Brenda Trim and Tia Didmon

The dead keep rising, but losing my gargoyle could ruin me. The plague spreading through our magical town is getting worse. As my friends fight to save me, my bond with Cal deepens into something fierce, fragile, and impossible to ignore. But the closer we get to the truth, the more I fear the enemy isn’t lurking in the shadows at all… but standing beside us as an ally. And then there’s the egg. Even weakened, it calls to me. Pulls at me. Changes me. If I can’t stop the dead, my town will fall. But if I hold too tightly to the power binding me to the egg and to the man I’m starting to love could kill me. Will I save the people depending on me… or lose myself, Cal, and everything I’m trying to protect?       AmazonKU

TWISTED IRON MARKS (TWISTED LEGACIES BOOK TWO) by Hailey Turner

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

When the Council of Witches demands Bran Gallagher cast aside his dying coven and join a new one, he flees to the Otherworld with the man he loves to escape his sentencing. Cillian Dunne returns to the Otherworld as the long-thought-dead Winter Prince, his past still lost to him in his mind. To win back the Winter Court stolen from him, Cillian must seek allies in the Fae who judged him guilty of associating with witches long ago. Among the Fae, who are his sworn enemy, Bran will do and become anything to stay by his lover’s side, even if it means wearing Cillian’s collar and being seen as his pet. Journeying with Bran to the Autumn Court, Cillian rejoins Fae high society during the Midsummer Festival. Little do they know the pitfalls that await, including an adversarial King Lugh, who wants Bran for his personal entertainment. Cillian will do whatever it takes to keep Bran safe. Navigating a dance of long-forgotten manners and insidious words, he strikes an unbreakable bargain with Lugh that sets the clock ticking for Cillian to prove his innocence. But as a threat to the Autumn Court creeps ever closer, the stakes become impossibly high. In the end, Cillian must choose between keeping his bargain and his life…or lose forever the witch who owns his heart.      AmazonKU      AB

MISTRESS OF FEAR (A LEGACY OF VENGEANCE AND MAGIC BOOK ONE) by Lauretta Hignett

All I ever wanted in life was to fall in love. Which was a little ironic, all things considered. I grew up in a secretive commune of magical warrior women. We were the hidden powerbrokers of the supernatural world; spies, assassins and undercover operatives, trading in secrets and death. We didn’t help anyone except each other, and we didn’t trust anyone at all. Especially not men. Only my sisters mattered. Everyone else in the world was a target, a tool to be used, or totally irrelevant. The Flowers of the Sword didn’t fall in love. I never really fit in with my family, though. Even from a young age, I knew I wanted a different life. A soft life—one without pain, without fighting, without hiding, without deception. A life where I didn’t need to use my magic as a weapon. A life where I could trust people, and use my powers to help them heal. So I turned my back on my family, and I walked away. And I did it; I fell in love. I thought I was going to be happy forever. I was wrong. My family was right all along. Men weren’t to be trusted. Love isn’t real. Now, vengeance will be my legacy. I’m going to rip the whole world apart to find the people who did this to my sisters. The path to revenge will take me right to the doorstep of the powerful political factions that rule the biggest supernatural city in the whole continent. Witches and wizards, vampires, combat mages, shapeshifters and fae… it doesn’t matter to me. The Senate of Magical Detroit won’t know what hit it.      AmazonKU

A WALTZ OF SINISTER IMPORT  (SUPERNATURAL ADVENTURES OF LADY AND LORD RIVEN BOOK THREE) by Stephanie Burgis

When the notorious Lady Riven is summoned to Vienna to solve a supernatural mystery, her debonair vampiric husband insists on accompanying her. However, neither of them is prepared for the true scope of the danger lurking within the sprawling Hofburg Palace…and by the time they uncover the truth behind every glittering illusion, their relationship may change forever. The third and final (for now!) sparkling installment of The Supernatural Adventures of Lady and Lord Riven contains copious amounts of delicious cake, a protective vampire husband, unexpected new friendships, and a waltz that might just sweep the whole continent into war unless Margaret is stubborn enough to prevent it.       Amazon      Apple Books      Kobo

THE FERRYMAN’S REST INN AND GROGSHOP (SAM QUINN BOOK NINE) by Sean Kelly

Meg, or Megaera, is one of the Furies you probably read about in Greek Mythology. She’s also been sitting on one of Sam Quinn’s stools in The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore & Bar since it opened, glaring into silence anyone who tries to strike up a conversation with her. Sam, being Sam, eventually broke through Meg’s walls and a tentative friendship grew—not a warm one, certainly. Meg doesn’t do warm. She has, though, in a crisis situation, shown up to fight alongside Sam. Until recently, that is.
Sam’s getting more and more concerned about Meg’s strange absences and then she and Clive receive a text that turns their lives upside down. Meg tells Sam and Clive it’s their turn to help her…in Greece…in the Underworld. Sam badgers her friend Stheno into coming with them. I mean, if you have to descend into Hades’ realm, a Gorgon can be pretty handy. Keep your fingers crossed. Things are about to get downright mythological around here.

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MOONKISSED: AN UNHINGED MM MONSTER ROMANCE (POOK BOYS BOOK ONE) by Rhea Fox

Hector has his life under control. Mostly. He’s got a steady job, a plan to dig himself out of debt, and exactly zero room for distractions—especially not gorgeous ones with teasing smiles and too much confidence. At twenty-nine, Hector is a virgin by choice, a grumpy wolfman who keeps his head down, works hard, and refuses to rely on anyone. He’s learned the hard way that family is a liability. Unfortunately, his job comes with Mason Grant. Mason is everything Hector isn’t: charming, infuriating, tattooed, pierced, and impossible to ignore. A Pooka with biker vibes and a face that promises trouble, he used to needle Hector relentlessly—until one day, he didn’t. Now there are soft words, lingering looks, and a warmth that sinks under Hector’s skin no matter how hard he fights it. Mason knows exactly what Hector is. And more importantly, who he is. Hector is his mate—fierce, loyal, breathtaking—and Mason is done pretending otherwise. If banter pushed him away, then devotion will pull him close. He’ll be patient. He’ll be gentle. He’ll worship every sharp edge and stubborn refusal until Hector finally understands that wanting doesn’t make him weak, and that being claimed doesn’t mean being owned. The moon is rising. The bond is pulling tight. And Mason’s demon agrees on one thing: Hector belongs with them.      AmazonKU

THE MEMORY TREE by Heather Davey

VS Note: Gothic, dual timelines.

When her husband, Ben, takes on his first parish in the rural community of Hope-under-Barrow, Kate Greenwood feels like it could be a fresh start for the family. But from the moment they arrive, something just feels… off. It could be the locals, with their strange rituals and rites. Or it could be the yew tree which stands in a graveyard bordering their garden, whose presence brings headaches, visions and disturbing, unfamiliar memories that do not belong to Kate. As she investigates the strange things happening to her, Kate begins to delve into the history and memories of Hope-upon-Barrow, and the more she uncovers, the more she risks losing herself to something deadly and ancient.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

OWL HALLOWS’ EVE (OWL STAR WITCH MYSTERIES BOOK 24) by Leann Leeds

A Halloween festival in a town full of mediums. A medium dead in the corn maze. And a debt to the god of the dead that just came due. Astra Arden has avoided Cassandra—hard to feel welcome when the mayor blames you for her son’s death. But when the town’s ghosts go silent and Hades calls in her mother’s old favor, avoiding it stops being an option. Someone in Cassandra is keeping a soul that belongs to the Underworld, and the Arden sisters have until the festival ends to bring it home. Then a medium turns up dead under a sign in her own handwriting, the town closes ranks, and the mayor bans Astra from the grounds. Now she’s solving a murder from the couch above a gas station—in a town that won’t talk, hunting a soul in a town that talks to nothing else. And midnight is coming either way.      AmazonKU

LEVI (SEVEN DEADLY SINS BOOK THREE) by N J Walters

Bounty hunter, bodyguard, and werewolf Levi Sin takes a temporary protection detail in New York for reclusive singer and songwriter, Etta Storm. She refuses all public appearances and disguises her appearance for online events. The attraction between them is explosive, but past trauma and a present threat have her keeping her distance. All Etta wants is to write songs, make music, and live a quiet life with her dogs. Captivated by her music and by the woman herself, Levi knows she’s hiding something, but even he has no idea just how explosive it is or how it will change his life forever. When the past threatens, secrets are revealed that jeopardize their relationship. Needing to protect her, Levi takes her to home to Sin Mountain to face the final battle.      Amazon      Apple Books      Kobo

CRASH COURSE IN BECOMING A MEDIUM by Andrea Meuwissen

VS Note: MM PNR.

Phillip Gregory, or as his students affectionately call him, “Professor Gory,” is deeply dedicated to the field of thanatology—the study of death and bereavement. Yet at nearly sixty years old and well-versed in the effects of death on the living, even after a decade, he still hasn’t gotten over the loss of his husband. Determined to take his sabbatical finally and further his research into artistic depictions of specters, death gods, and other undead around the world, the last thing Phillip wants is company, least of all in the form of a handsome young grad student he never asked for. Only Corbin Fearnley might be more than he appears. A stray touch to Corbin’s hand awakens something in Phillip—a connection to the dead he never expected. Suddenly able to see the spirits in his library that he once thought a quirk of his imagination, Phillip is brought into a world beyond the study of death and into the real reason Corbin was sent to him. A malevolent spirit somehow tied to Phillip’s library is growing in power, and Corbin and the society of death he belongs to, Aborientes Umbrae, are the only ones capable of stopping it. With Phillip’s newfound abilities, and Corbin boasting powers of his own, the two embark down a path of danger, discovery, and mutual attraction. But is Phillip ready to accept new love into his life or is the malicious force growing in power around them destined to keep them apart?      AmazonKU

DEATH: A TOWERFALL NOVEL by Kristin Cast

In a world built on illusion, the truth is often deadly…Juniper Chase has perfected the art of being exactly what everyone needs, especially her best friend’s older brother, Beckett Davenport. He’s the one man she’s spent years pretending she doesn’t want…and the one man she cannot have. When a magickal tarot card rips her and Beckett from their world and into the enchanted Kingdom of Swords, Juniper is mistaken for their future queen, but slipping into the role should be instinct. After all, she knows how to play a part. Except things in the Kingdom of Swords are not what they seem. Prince Luca Sterling, the man she’s meant to marry, is hiding something beneath his devastating charm. Juniper can feel it, because in this kingdom, her instincts are literal power. And the deeper she falls into the prince’s glittering, carefully crafted world, the clearer it becomes: This kingdom is built on lies, and it’s collapsing under their weight. To uncover the truth behind the throne and the ancient Tower pulsing at the heart of the kingdom, Juniper will need the help of the man who sees her more clearly than anyone ever has. And when Beckett takes to his position as her guard with a fierce yet gentle protectiveness that brings new heat between them, Juniper uncovers the truth between them, too. But exposing Luca’s lies could send the realm crashing down around them. And choosing the truth might cost Juniper her future, her heart, and any chance of making it home.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

UNMASKING THE ORC by Leslie Chase

Kor is the most aggravating monster I’ve ever met. Unfortunately, he’s also the hottest. Six foot six of glowering, muscular orc, Kor makes my heart flutter every time he gets too close. His gravelly voice does extremely inconvenient things to me, but when I listen to what he says, I remember exactly why I can’t stand him. It would be manageable if we weren’t stuck planning the Halloween Ball together. For one enchanted night of the year, monsters and humans mix freely, their identities hidden beneath magical masks. It’s an important part of Blackrose Hollow’s culture, and I’m determined to make this year’s the best one yet. So far, Kor has blocked my fog machines, vetoed my inflatable pumpkin, and developed an infuriating habit of stepping in to fix every problem before I’ve finished being properly annoyed by it. The worst part? Every argument leaves us standing a little too close. Every glare lasts a little too long. And I am absolutely, positively not wondering what those tusks would feel like against my skin. Nope. Not thinking about that. Falling into bed with Kor would be a terrible idea. And falling for him would be even worse.    AmazonKU

UNMASKING THE MUMMY by Sayla Masse

Merytamun “Mary” has spent her career uncovering Egypt’s past. But after a disastrous excavation awakens something that should have remained buried, nothing feels right anymore. The stars have changed. An impossible fifth canopic jar refuses to leave her thoughts. And the mummy she uncovered seems determined to follow her home. Then her new neighbor moves in. Kind, handsome, and hopelessly out of his depth in New York City, Kayvon should be the perfect distraction from Mary’s spiraling obsession. Between rooftop stargazing, pizza dates, museums, and Halloween costumes, falling for him feels effortless. More unsettling still, every moment together feels strangely familiar… as though they’ve loved each other before. As ancient forces awaken and forgotten forces begin to stir, Mary and Kayvon discover they’re connected by a history older than memory itself. To save the world from a darkness that once nearly consumed it, they’ll have to uncover the truth buried beneath centuries of lies—even if it means confronting the lives they left behind.    AmazonKU

UNMASKING THE TROLL by Sabrina Silvers

She came to Iceland looking for forgotten monsters. She found a love story instead. Professor Dana has spent her career proving myths and legends belong to everyone, not just scholars locked away in libraries. Her latest research project, The Forgotten Monsters of Iceland, is supposed to help secure her academic future—not lead her straight to a very real troll. Eirikr prefers books to people and history to the uncertainties of real life. He’s spent centuries preserving Iceland’s stories while secretly writing Viking romances under a human pen name. Falling in love is something he writes about, not something he intends to experience. Until Dana. Thanks to his twin brother’s spectacularly misguided matchmaking scheme, Dana and Eirikr are thrown together among ancient legends, hidden archives, and more than a few secrets. But when mating marks appear and the truth finally comes out, they’ll have to decide whether their growing feelings are just another story…Or the happily ever after neither of them expected.      AmazonKU

ONCE UPON A LIBRARY WISH (CITY WISHES & ENCHANTED DREAMS BOOK THREE) by Jessica E Subject

VS Note: MM PNR.

I don’t think this wish was meant for me… but that didn’t stop me from making one. I need a new job. Due to budget cuts by the township, today is my last day working at the library. And I dread spending any time at the home I half own ever since my mom’s latest parasite of a boyfriend moved in. As I’m shelving a paranormal romance novel, a white business card drops out of it. I pocket it for later, expecting it to be some kind of bookmark promoting the author. At the end of the day, I reach into my pocket for the key to my bike lock when the card falls out. Instead of the author’s website or a QR code to scan, it tells me to make a wish. Why not? I would love to meet a hot dragon shifter like the one on the cover of the book the card came from. It wasn’t as if I was going to have any luck finding love in my small town. That’s when everything changes. Instead of biking home, I am standing on the edge of a field, watching a minotaur come charging toward me. He promises to introduce me to a dragon, but not until I agree to stay in their world. It seems like a dream, or perhaps a nightmare, but what if I finally found everything I’ve ever longed for?      AmazonKU

VERY MERRY DEMONS by Eva Chase

This Christmas visit home is going to be different. I’m done hearing my family fret about my lack of job prospects and love life. So I’ll take that job at the cozy inn… even if it’s a teensy bit haunted. I’ll gamble that my totally human self can use a dusty spell book to summon my true love. One mispronounced word later, and instead of my Prince Charming, I’ve summoned three fanged, purple demons. Oops. Thankfully, the demons are more excited than annoyed by my accidental summoning. They’ve got a paranormal problem only a witch can fix. They offer me a deal: they’ll solve my romantic crisis, and I’ll use my newly discovered magic powers to set them right. All three demons guide my awkward attempts at dating in their own tempting ways: one sweet, one grouchy, one seductive. Flirting practice evolves into scorching kisses and taking turns posing as my fake human boyfriend for Christmas… until I’m wondering if the love spell worked after all. Are these incredible paranormal men exactly what my wounded heart needed? Or will they vanish from my life as soon as our deal is done?     AmazonKU

THE BAKER’S SHADOW by Lilliana Rose

When grief calls to darkness, sometimes darkness answers. Kaia Brennan is drowning. Her husband is dead, her bakery is failing, and she’s kneading dough at 3 AM just to feel something, anything, other than the crushing weight of loneliness. Then he comes. Malak is an ancient incubus, bound to hunt during the blood moon eclipse. He should take a virgin and disappear into shadow. Instead, he’s drawn to Kaia’s grief like a moth to flame and makes a catastrophic mistake. He doesn’t just feed on her darkness. He fills her emptiness with something of his own. Something that shouldn’t be possible. Now Kaia is pregnant with a child that pulses with shadow-magic, her bread is enchanted with emotions that manipulate the town, and a corrupt businessman is determined to destroy the supernatural barrier protecting them all, even if it means unleashing an ancient evil that devours everything in its path. With the barrier cracking and monsters clawing their way into the world, Kaia and Malak must choose to run and let the town fall, or stand together and risk everything for a family that was never meant to exist.      AmazonKU

THE WEAKNESS OF JUSTICE (SCALES OF JUSTICE) by Laura Greenwood

Rera wants to support the Temple of Ma’at, but is she able to? Having accepted that she wants a career as a Priestess of Ma’at, Rera knows what she has to do next. The only problem is that her personal ties lead her to make decisions for the wrong reasons. To make matters worse, she finds herself faced with having to reveal secrets that she doesn’t want to share with anyone from either side of her life. Can she find her way back to the Halls of Justice? The Weakness of Justice is book seven in the Scales of Justice series, an urban fantasy series based on Egyptian mythology and set in the same world as The Apprentice of Anubis. It includes a slow burn m/f romance, a morally grey main character, and clashing worlds. If you love Egyptian mythology, alternative versions of the modern day, temple politics, slow-burn workplace romance, and a world where the gods are real, then the Scales of Justice series is for you!

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SEARCH FOR THE LOST: CHAOS AND ORDER BOOK TWO by J Scott Coatsworth and Kim Fielding

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

Leopold Lane—after being “collected” for the Office of the Lost by Crispin Eladrin Moss’caladin—is tucked away cozily with his beloved office fae in their treehouse. Happily ever after, right? Not so fast. Before Leo can even get settled, Crispin’s mother disappears, leaving Crispin in charge and his brother Aspin in a panic. As Queen of the Fae, she has also left them a little surprise: a bit of oxymoronic magic that turns their world upside down. Crispin and Leo set off in search of the queen and a solution to their predicament. Aspin tags along, with some less-than-helpful friends. On the way they will discover important family secrets and learn new things about each other… and themselves. Nothing is simple when Chaos and Order get involved. Besides, it wouldn’t be a proper quest if it was straightforward, would it?     Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

THE CALL OF THE SEA: A COLLECTION OF DARK FANTASY TALES by Various

The Call of the Sea cannot be ignored…Beneath the waves lies another world, one filled with creatures of myth. Mermaids and sirens who find themselves torn between the land and the sea. As they struggle to choose, they will encounter danger, betrayal and love that cannot be. Dive into the pages and discover a world you have never seen before. Will they find love or will it all end in tragedy?   AmazonKU

FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS by Cassandra Khaw

Antigone is no stranger to death. For the women of her family, death always comes in the form of a black dog. When Antigone’s own black dog arrives, she isn’t afraid. She invites it inside, where it soon becomes a daily source of companionship and comfort. It also forces her to reflect on the life she’s led―the parts of herself she’s hollowed out for the sake of others, and the bone-deep exhaustion that’s hounded her every step. Her Death’s arrival must be a sign, permission to finally let go. To rest. Because while mortality is inevitable, living is a choice. But a good death comes at a price.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

HEAR THE DEAD: A THRILLER by Ann Davila Cardinal

One woman. A string of unsolved murders. Only she can hear the victims. For more than forty years, Elena Altieri has been hiding from the tragedies of her New York City punk rock youth. Tragedies that left her best friend, Sin, dead, and other women in their orbit missing. Now, the past is catching up with her in more ways than one. Not only is she hearing strange noises under the hum of her tinnitus, but the photographs she took of a recently deceased musician are going viral, thrusting her back into a world she hoped would remain locked away forever. When Elena begins to hear the screams of a woman ringing in her ears, she becomes convinced that she’s somehow hearing Sin’s murder. Desperate for answers, she has no choice but to revisit her past, and what she’ll uncover will not only force her to reckon with her own fractured memories, but might prove that Sin, and other innocent women from their youth, were the victims of an unspeakable crime that only she can solve.  Old punks never die, and Elena’s going to prove that.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

MONSTERA by Delilah S Dawson

VS Note: Sapphic gothic horror.

When Lucy McClintock moves into a dreamy Victorian in downtown Savannah after years of suffering under the rule of her overbearing grandfather, she feels like she’s won the lottery—well, outside of the creepy landlord. She soon notices a glorious green haven in the backyard and meets her downstairs neighbor, Saskia, a weightlifter who lives in a magical apartment overflowing with plant life and beautiful artwork. Naïve and lonely Lucy is drawn to strong and secretive Saskia, and as the two women grow closer, they discover they share more than just an apartment building…A seductive, heady, sinister read: breathless romance and bone-chilling suspense collide in this sweet and deadly tale.       Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

THE HOUSE BUILT ON ALLIGAOTR BONES: A NOVEL by Sophia Honeycutt

VS Note: Southern Gothic with romance.

Dartrine Beaumont believes her mother’s sudden death has left her alone in the world—until she learns of long-lost wealthy relatives living in Florida. Confused but delighted by the possibility of extended family, Dart travels to her grandmother’s stately Gilded Age mansion on Amelia Island for answers, just in time to stake a claim on an unusual inheritance: an alligator farming empire. Her arrival at Greer House isn’t everything she hoped. Without warning, Dart finds herself in fierce competition with her grandmother’s arrogant heir apparent, and tensions rise as threats escalate on one of the farms. More unsettling is her hostile grandmother’s fanatical belief that the danger stems from a curse; according to legend, a larger-than-life alligator hunted down by a bloodthirsty ancestor haunts the family. Yet Dart can’t deny that the farm’s alligators hiss only at Greers, or that a shadowy figure creeps through the mansion’s halls. As Dart uncovers the truth about her violent birthright, she faces a terrible choice: accept her place in her family’s grim legacy or forge a new path by slaying a different beast entirely.       Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

THE LAST CRANE: A HELLSING UNIVERSE SHORT STORY by Margaret Couplet

Oscar Crane, the last of his Hunter Family, finds a fae’s head in his newly inherited attic. Blackwell has been waiting generations to escape the Crane’s attic, he just wasn’t expecting his freedom to come at the hands of one of those Cranes. This short story takes place a few years before the first book in The Hellsing Siblings Series but may be best enjoyed after finishing the series.    AmazonKU     AB

PORTRAIT OF A HAUNTING by Madison Taylor Nelson

To Tatum Alexander, the Sight—her ability to see spirits—has always been more of an affliction than a gift. Having inherited the power from her mother, Amarina, an infamous artist known for murdering her lover and using his blood for her final painting, Tatum has been reluctant to step into her talent or even get close to the man she loves. She’s been able to find a safe space to hide her Sight with the largest witch coven in Manhattan and her best friend, Mischa. But when Mischa is murdered, the act eerily connected to Amarina’s own crime, a traumatized Tatum must reckon with both the loss and the sudden surge of spirits vying for her attention and her life. The spirits have a message: the murderer is coming for her next and a price must be paid. To learn the truth of her past and catch the killer she’ll have to rely on her loved ones’ helping hands—some witchy friends, the man who won’t let her go, and her eternally perplexing mother—in order to embrace her Sight while keeping them all safe. The clues will lead Tatum to a dangerous secret that Amarina has spent decades trying to keep. And when the secret is out, Tatum will be forced to risk it all.

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BAITING THE WEREWOLF: SPICY MM PNR (HALLOWEEN TAMPTATIONS) by Tara Sterling

When I stalked my best friend into the woods, I didn’t expect to get my reality shattered… or my world thoroughly rocked. Logan and I are just friends. Nay, best friends. Do I want more? Sure. But why would a giant Greek god who can have anyone he wants choose a tiny introvert with an attitude problem? Besides, Logan is extremely straight. Which is probably why following him into a dark forest wasn’t my brightest idea. But I need to know why he’s been lying to me. So, when my poor life choices make me bait for the monsters lurking in the darkness, I’m not even surprised. But when rescue comes in the form of a very familiar wolf, I have a lot of questions. Starting with how the giant animal that’s been randomly showing up at my doorstep for years ended up here? Turns out those visits weren’t random at all. Will the truth break the one relationship I can’t live without? Or will it finally unleash the desires I’ve spent my whole life denying?       AmazonKU

BIRD KING RISING: LETTERS FROM MAYNARA BOOK TWO by Samantha Bansil

A new queen reigns. A rebellion stirs. Will she risk it all to rule? Newly crowned queen Laya Gatdula is determined to prove her worth to her subjects, her family, her rivals—and herself. When whispers of rebellion and rumored sightings of a giant raptor in the mountainous Skylands reach the capital, Laya must face the terrifying realization that her ex-lover and rival, Luntok, might still be alive and coming for the throne. Though she already wields power over wind and rain, to quell the threat from the north, Laya seeks the ultimate weapon: lightning. Torn between the counsel of two men—her beloved confidant and her ruthless uncle—Laya must trust herself to cement her legacy and hold the throne. Is it better to earn her nation’s loyalty through benevolent rule, or risk everything to become an all-powerful god? And with Luntok rapidly gathering his army, will she live long enough to make the choice?    Amazon     AB     Kobo

THE DANCER AND THE DREAM THIEF by Rowenna Miller

Evelyn Pulaski spends her evenings selling dreams working at the Palace Ballroom. For a dime a dance, she plays into a cheap fantasy of romance before returning to the gritty reality of everyday life. When dance hall girls start disappearing, a mysterious group of elfin bootleggers is the prime suspect. Raife is also in the business of selling dreams. He is part of an operation stealing dreams from humans and peddling them in the elfinlands. Raife takes a shine to Evelyn, telling himself his interest is purely professional, but there is something…entrancing about her. When Evelyn’s best friend disappears, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with Raife. And together they’ll discover the power of dreams to change, or even remake, the world.     Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

DARK READING MATTER: THE LAST THURSDAY NEXT NOVEL BOOK EIGHT by Jasper Fforde

Ex-Literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final fictional adventure, and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are aware of it, too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: to disrupt the narrative and make the last Thursday Next novel, Dark Reading Matter, not just unreadable but unpublishable. Thursday can’t let that happen, and needs to use all her guile and narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists. It won’t be easy. The Martians have broken out of their H. G. Wells novel and threaten both the real world and the BookWorld. Agents from a higher reality want unfettered access to the Dark Reading Matter, the realm where deleted books and unrealized literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantage’s Shakesmania, the nation’s second-worst Shakespeare theme park, and the cozy world of Enid Blyton has been hijacked by ultra-right-wing nationalists. With Reality Field Distortion experiments going haywire, a partially redacted donkey, a BookWorld on the brink of losing its imaginative energy to Big Tech and a murderous stamp collector with philaticide on their mind, Thursday has to navigate a tightrope of borderline unusable narrative devices to bring the series to a satisfying conclusion. It’s a tall order, but Thursday has several secret weapons: her own adaptability; her husband, Landen; a host of stalwart friends and ultimately the most loyal compatriots she can call upon—her readers.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

CRAVING THE INCUBUS (HALLOWEEN TEMPTATIONS) by Jules Simon

VS Note: LGBTQ PNR.

A nerdy gamer, an exiled incubus, and one night to break a curse. Halloween parties aren’t my thing, so I opt for a late-night jaunt into the forest to explore reports of a supernatural phenomenon. When I trip and sprain my ankle, a hulking guy donning super realistic horns appears out of nowhere. He offers to carry me to his nearby (hopefully not a murder) cabin so I can ice my injury. By the time we arrive, I’m an overstimulated mess. It’s not my fault! He’s wearing me like a backpack and, uh, things bump and rub a lot. Finally relaxing in his surprisingly swanky digs with my leg elevated, I doze off and experience the most sensual dream of my life, featuring none other than my big horned host. I wake craving him for real, but I’ve never been with a man. When he confesses a secret that leaves me questioning everything I know, he makes me an offer I can’t refuse. I have the power to break his curse, and in exchange, he’ll give me everything I desire. Am I brave enough to accept?   AmazonKU

ENTITIES TO LOVERS by Mallory Marlowe

Paranormal medium Rory Woods spends her days offering psychic readings at Ye Olde Spirit Shop and nights haunting the streets of Boston as a ghost-tour guide. Sure, business could be better, but she’s proud of the shop she runs with her mom. Enter Ezra Blackwell: adjunct history professor, noted thorn in Rory’s side, and—though she’d only admit it under threat of medieval torture he surely knows too much about—a distractingly handsome, charismatic coworker. Rory can’t stand Ezra’s know-it-all, show-offy behavior. Ezra loves to tease the gorgeous, brilliant medium at the shop. And when the two are forced to host a tour together? It’s no wonder they end up hexed after disturbing a matchmaking ghost. Saddled with perpetual bad luck unless they’re physically near each other, Rory and Ezra will try anything, from séances to kissing, to stop the jinx from wreaking havoc on both their lives. But in their quest to appease the spirit, they realize that growing closer might not be the curse they once thought it was.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

LOVE YOU TO DEATH by Jenna Levine

Lucy McKenzie’s life has always been a disaster. So it should come as no surprise when one day she’s hit by an inconveniently-timed bus—and dies. Unfortunately for the handsome grim reaper who shows up to take her to the afterlife, Lucy is not about to go quietly. Daniel is tired of his job collecting souls. While working for the Agency beats the heck out of going to Hell, he’s been doing this for literal ages. The drudgery has him yearning for more. Touched by Lucy’s plea for more time on earth, he convinces the Agency to make a deal: Lucy can have six more weeks of life if Daniel can observe her and report back on humanity. But as Lucy and Daniel navigate the chaos of life and afterlife together, they discover that a second chance at living might be their real chance at love.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

MYSTERY PLAY: A NOVEL by Elizabeth Kostova

After his beloved mother passes away suddenly, Jay Turner finds himself at a crossroads. She was always secretive, and when he returns to their Boston home to clear out her possessions, he finds an unusual item: a partially burned scrap of newspaper bearing the name “Gael Brogan.” Soon after, a deliveryman leaves behind a package containing a small antique volume bound in leather—and two bloody footprints. The sight of the volume is chilling. As a young scholar, his mother had been given the medieval book—one of a set commissioned by Vlad Țepeș, otherwise known as Dracula, just before his death in 1477. She’d always warned Jay of the dangers associated with it, and had donated it to a museum before she died . . . yet here it is, back in his possession. Jay sets out to learn more about Gael Brogan, a prominent nineteenth-century actor whose last and most famous role was based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. As Jay begins to dig deeper—with the help of a mysterious woman named Rhiannon—he uncovers the frightening story of a young actress who fell under Brogan’s sway long ago. Before long, Jay and Rhiannon realize that something similarly implacable is pursuing them.     Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

BLITHE SPIRITS ON THE PUMPKIN PATCH (GHOSTS OF ROWAN VALE BOOK FIVE) by Sharon Booth

VS Note: FF PNR.

Halloween is fast approaching, and in the beautiful Cotswold living history village of Rowan Vale, a day of events is planned. There’ll be pumpkin carving, apple bobbing… and a not-so traditional midnight séance. The spirit medium will be Melissa, better known as ‘Madam Mariska’ on television’s It’s Haunted! But Melissa is keeping a career-threatening secret: she’s lost her ghost-whispering abilities, and it’s her sister and general dogsbody assistant Verity who she relies on to contact the spirits. With the resident village ghosts going on strike in protest at the booking, and sibling rivalry at its highest, it’s no wonder Verity is unhappy, and her feelings aren’t helped by her unexpected attraction to the calm and beautiful Mia. Leaving her sister to the midnight séance, Verity follows an illuminated pumpkin path to the stone circle on the edge of the village and does something very out of character… and which she hasn’t a clue how to fix. Has she just changed life – and afterlife – in Rowan Vale forever?       AmazonKU      AB

ONCE IN A TIMELINE by Iman Hariri-Kia

Get ready with me… to break out of the algorithm – Laia Grace is the New York City lifestyle influencer… or at least, she’s determined to be. After leaving her past behind to pursue her dreams, failure is not an option. Every day, she films her aesthetic routine — the perfect light, the perfect latte, the perfect life. Until one morning, her day starts to… glitch. Her neighbors flicker. Her best friend loops. And Laia realizes she’s no longer the creator, but the content — and she’s trapped inside of her last “day in the life” video, forever playing on an endless, infinite loop. That’s when a brooding, unshaven, decidedly unfiltered man (literally) crashes into frame. Noah’s been stuck in Laia’s timeline, too, and he’s desperate to get them both out. Together, Laia and Noah fight to outsmart the algorithm that’s captured them, uncovering secrets and confronting biases along the way.  As they grow closer, the line between performance and personhood blurs, and Laia realizes she might have to face the one thing she’s been avoiding all this time: herself.

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STONE MAD by D M Pulley

Life fell apart for Mannie Wallace after her daughter’s best friend was abducted from the playground right under Mannie’s nose. Six years later, Mannie is working as an engineer turned insurance investigator and barely holding the pieces of her family together. When an eccentric developer hires her to survey an infamously haunted Gilded Age mansion, Stone Mad Castle, it could be just the thing she needs to get her career and life back on track. But once inside the abandoned castle, her dream job becomes a nightmare when the motley crew of investigators discovers a dead body in the basement and Mannie starts seeing ghosts. Probing deeper into the mansion, she begins to suspect that Stone Mad’s sinister past may be connected to the little girl she lost. Her daughter, now fourteen and obsessed with true crime, is convinced that girls have been mysteriously disappearing near the haunted house at an alarming rate for more than a century. Twist follows twist, like the hidden passageways that honeycomb the castle, as Mannie risks everything to unravel the mansion’s secrets and uncover the fate of her daughter’s missing friend. In the end, Mannie must solve the mystery of Stone Mad once and for all … or become the next chapter in its haunted story.     Amazon     AB

UNDER THE IRON SKY by A T Emerald

Vordell was beautiful once. Its people lived in harmony, and their civilization flourished as they learned to harness and control the power of Light. Then the darkness came. The Iron Sky unfolded dark clouds across the land, thick enough to choke out the light of the suns. The ground cracked, releasing vicious creatures and evil magic-wielding soldiers. The Dar’rak—an enemy long believed to be buried and forgotten—returned to claim the world above. Soraya Tollmere has spent most of her life on the front lines of the brutal war that followed. Now a high-ranking commander, she knows loss better than anyone. By day, she leads troops across ruined landscapes and guides covert teams through enemy territory. By night, she meets with a Dar’rak defector who has kept humanity alive with his steady stream of secrets. On a mission to investigate his latest lead—one that could turn the tide of the war—Soraya is captured by the Demon, the Dar’rak’s most feared soldier, his true identity unknown. His orders are simple: Break the human commander and uncover where the humans are keeping a weapon that could win them the war. But as he gets to know the fierce warrior, the lines between interrogator and enemy, prisoner and ally, begin to blur. Devastating truths surface and loyalties shatter, forcing Soraya to decide who to trust in a world where Light is dying—and where her greatest enemy may be her only salvation.        Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

THE SPELLREADER AND THE PHOENIX: MM URBAN FANTASY ROMANCE (CELEBRATIONS WITH MYTHICAL MATES BOOK TWO) by Ellie Ash

Can a happily ever after start with an accident? Max – Owning a bookshop would be perfect if only it didn’t involve customers. As a witch who’s also a rare Spellreader, Max can find the spells that other witches need, as long as they’re not so rude that he hangs up on them. This keeps his store afloat, and his life follows a predictable pattern, just the way he likes it, until Rory crashes—literally—into his life. Max has never met anyone like this cheerful shifter, and he doesn’t know quite what to do with him, but he’s also… intrigued. Rory – Rory’s spent the last ten years—he’s pretty sure it’s not more than ten years!—in his bird form. He takes life as it comes, and he’s happy flying place to place as he waits to find his mate. When his excitement at finally spotting the man leads to him crashing right into his mate’s window, he seizes the opportunity to get to know him. Together, Rory’s certain there’s nothing they can’t do… if he can convince his grumpy mate that they’re meant to be together.   AmazonKU

THE WITCH by Freida McFadden

VS Note: I one clicked. I love her books, so twisty and I’m always surprised by the ending.

Some secrets don’t die―they wait. When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family’s sprawling seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she’s there to check in on her aging grandmother. Unofficially, she’s hoping the old house will give her a place to disappear. Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her. Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia’s bedroom door. As Julia digs into the house’s dark history, she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692―and realizes the past may not be finished with Pemberton yet. When decades of family lies begin to surface, Julia must confront a terrifying truth: Pemberton may be haunted by women whose voices refuse to stay silent.    Amazon     AB

HOTEL HEX (SALEMDIPITY INN WITCH COZY MYSTERIES BOOK ONE) by Lily Harper Hart

Being a real witch in Salem isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Just ask Piper Knight, who fled the East Coast for the West Coast after graduation—grand plans of being a “normal” naturalist taking up residence in her head—only to have to return to her hometown if she wants to save her grandmother’s failing boutique hotel, the Salemdipity. As a descendent of one of the original women accused of being a witch during the trials hundreds of years ago, Piper is determined to keep her grandmother’s legacy alive. Unfortunately, the old witch might be going a little batty. Since Piper’s parents refuse to help—they’re threatening to lock up Wanda Alden and throw away the key if she causes one more public incident—that means Piper is on her own. She’s a witch, so everything should be okay. Or maybe that’s just witchful thinking. Jasper Cage grew up in Salem hating witch stories. There are other paranormals in the world after all, thank you very much. Why should witches get all the attention? As a half-vampire—he’d much prefer being a whole one but he didn’t get a say in the matter—he has attitude to spare. That’s why, when he collides with Piper over a dead body, things immediately come to a head. Jasper wants…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)        AmazonKU       AB

WICKER by Ursula Wills

VS Note: A short read.

A comedic fable about sex, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Alexander Skarsgård and Olivia Colman!In a small coastal village, a fish-gutter lives a lonely existence, shunned by neighbors and smelling of brine. Desperate for companionship, she trades her life savings — three gold coins — to a local basket-maker with a single request: make me a husband. Woven from willow, her new partner is broad-shouldered, gentle-spoken, and utterly devoted. As he mends her leaky roof, shares her bed and restores her happiness, the woman blossoms, wearing flowers in her hair and singing as she works. But her transformation sparks deep jealousy among the villagers, whose own marriages begin to curdle with envy. Driven by malice, the townspeople hatch a wicked scheme to convince her that her wicker spouse has betrayed her.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

WITCHES ANONYMOUS by Alyson Root

VS Note: Sapphic PNR.

Wren Fletcher just wants to survive her court-mandated support group without wrecking her life any further. One drunken dive into a fountain, one brutal breakup and one bogus firing later, she arrives at her first compulsory meeting expecting stale biscuits and total anonymity. Instead, she finds a room full of women looking at her as though they know something she does not. They are right. Wren is a water witch—born into a hidden magical world she never knew existed, with powers she cannot control and a babysitter she definitely did not ask for. Maisie Stonecroft is composed, infuriatingly capable and next in line to lead the country’s most powerful coven. She does not do chaos. Wren is chaos, armed with razor-sharp sarcasm and no patience for rules, magical or otherwise. They should not work. But between disaster-prone lessons, dangerous coven politics and a spark threatening to become a wildfire, Wren begins to wonder whether she is ready to stop hiding—from magic, from Maisie and from life itself.      AmazonKU

TRICK OR TREAT FOR THE DEAD DRAGON: MONSTER ROMANCE WITH HEART by Julia Mills

Love wasn’t supposed to happen– but in Arrhythmia, the sweetest treats are the ones you never see coming. Everyone thought Knox MacAllen died a century ago. He didn’t. Presumed dead after an oil-rig explosion, the Texas Ranger and Dragon Guardsman spent the last hundred years trapped in Hell– fighting, surviving, and forced to serve a Demon Lord.  Then a Hellmouth spits him back into the land of the living. But Hell still knows exactly how to find him. Alicorn Shifter Maisie MacDonald takes one wrong turn through the Magical Wards surrounding Arrhythmia, Texas. She finds herself trapped with demons, ghouls… and one supposedly dead Bronze Dragon whose Dragon King immediately declares her their Mate. The Alicorn Princess with whom she shares her soul agrees. Maisie does not, no matter how good-looking the man is, have time for a Mate. But something marked Knox. Something is tracking him… And that is just not cool. She needs to help him… and keep her raging hormones and her Alicorn Princess at bay. Then Knox says he’s leaving. He thinks it’s the only way to protect everyone he loves. Maisie thinks he’s an idiot. Just another day in the Dragon Guard…Welcome back to Arrhythmia, Texas—where monsters fall in love, Magic goes wrong, and Fate refuses to behave.       Amazon      Apple Books      Kobo

FALL OF THE FORSAKEN: WAR OF THE BROTHERHOOD by Michelle Miles

Some wars begin the moment he chooses her. The Brotherhood turned Anna Walker into a weapon. Escaping them should have set her free. It didn’t. Now her dream-walking is awakening again—violent, invasive, and impossible to control. The nightmares leave blood in her mouth, bruises on her skin, and the horrifying sense that someone is reaching for her from the other side. Kincade knows how to protect what’s his. He can lock down Walker Manor, station guards at every entrance, and kill anything that crosses the line. But this threat doesn’t come through the gates. It comes for Anna in the dark, through the part of her the Brotherhood already broke once. And Kincade is running out of ways to save her without turning her into a prisoner. When Sebastian Crane makes his move, Kincade must open the door to the darkness that forged him and become the very thing he swore he’d never be again. Because if the Brotherhood wants Anna back, they’ll have to come through him first. And Kincade will burn them to the ground before he lets her go.

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ON BRUTAL THRONES (SHIELD OF THE GOD BOOK THREE) by Lacey Carter Andersen

The final trials have begun, and this time, there’s nowhere left to run. The strongest teams still stand between me and my sister’s freedom, and the gods are more determined than ever to see us fall. If I’m defeated now, Lyra will be lost forever. But I’m not the same woman who entered these trials. The hidden power I’ve spent my life concealing is finally awakening, and for the first time, I’m strong enough to fight back. At my side are three dangerously powerful men. A darkly brooding half god wreathed in fire. A fiercely protective berserker who becomes a monster for those he loves. And a wickedly seductive vampire whose heated touch leaves me craving far more than I can afford. What began as survival has become something far more dangerous. Every trial pushes us closer. Every heated glance and stolen touch deepens the bonds between us. And with the end finally in sight, the temptation to claim all three men as mine burns hotter than ever. Now we must face the gods, defeat the deadliest competitors left standing, and survive the brutal final trials. Because if we lose, I won’t just lose my sister. I’ll lose the future waiting for all four of us.       AmazonKU

THE DISCARDS (TALES OF TAVAMARA BOOK NINE) by Megan Derr

VS note: LGBTQ Fantasy.

Farrokh sacrificed everything to build a life of his choosing, instead of being a dutiful son and living the life his parents wanted. Then he lost everything to a scheming, backstabbing wife who left him broken and alone. Now he spends his days a mere tutor of wealthy, entitled brats—and the beautiful, fascinating Crown Prince Bakhtiar, wishing for things he will never have. Kurosh does not usually take loud jobs. The money isn’t worth the risk or attention. But when he’s approached to assassinate Crown Prince Bakhtiar, he’s at least intrigued enough to investigate the matter further—and finds not only a man who doesn’t deserve to die, but a man worth dying for.

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THE SPELLBOUND COTTAGE (THE SPELLBOUND SERIES BOOK ONE) by Genevieve K Thomas

Freshly single and heartbroken, Beatrix Bilberry moves to a tumbledown cottage in the magical village of Little Sparrow. But her new home comes with unexpected company: gnome infestations, troublesome pixies, a melodramatic ghost haunting the attic, and Barnaby, an adorably sleepy hearth dragon. Her annoyingly handsome neighbour Angus takes delight in teasing her about the impossible renovation work. Tall, tattooed, and effortlessly charming, Angus has a way with people and animals that makes him far too easy to fall for… to everyone, it seems, except Beatrix, as his careless comments grate on her nerves. Besides, Beatrix has no time for romance. Winter is approaching fast, and she’s racing to restore the cottage before the first snowfall. She’s promised her family a magical festive season – and she’s determined not to let them down. Beatrix works around the clock, but with a complete lack of plastering skills and magical creatures constantly undoing her hard work, she soon realizes there’s only one way to fix Spellbound Cottage. She’ll have to swallow her irritation and accept Angus’s help…But when the meddling cottage keeps locking them in rooms together, Beatrix realizes she’s facing something far more dangerous than rebuilding a home: opening her heart to love again.       AmazonKU      AB

BLOODBOUND (SCROLLS OF THE ESHANI BOOK ONE) by J A Good

Six strangers. One soul-bound Ring. No way out. Isara Virelle has spent her entire life avoiding people. Unfortunately, becoming Eshani means binding your soul to five of them. When the Binding Ceremony assigns her to Ring Six—the most elite fighting unit in Veryuun—Isa is forced into the last place she wants to be: surrounded by strangers who can hear her thoughts, feel her emotions, and know her secrets. Worst of all, their commander is Niko Veyshar. Feared across the continent as Rathvenorn’s deadliest weapon, Niko is everything Isa has been taught to hate. Cold. Dangerous. Untouchable. And now they’re bound together. As political tensions rise between nations and whispers of forgotten gods begin to spread, cracks appear within Ring Six. Ancient powers stir beneath the surface, forbidden magic awakens in Isa’s blood, and the bond tying her to her team may be unraveling before it has a chance to hold. To survive, Isa must learn who she can trust. Because in Veryuun, loyalty is sacred. And betrayal can cost far more than your life.      AmazonKU

KING OF BLOOD AND SIN (CURSED CROWN SERIES BOOK ONE) by Jessica Hall

Alessia enters the bloodbank to save her sister. She leaves as the Vampire King’s prisoner. Magic is a death sentence in Purgatory, so Alessia has spent her life concealing the power in her veins. But when Sable is taken and sold, hiding no longer matters. Alessia needs money, and in a world where blood is currency, she has only one thing left to trade. Then King Kylian tastes her. Her blood exposes the secret she has protected for years. It should earn her an execution. Instead, it awakens something inside the cursed Vampire King. A need. An obsession. A cure. Kylian promises to help find Sable in exchange for Alessia’s obedience. Trapped in his kingdom, she becomes bound to a king who is as addictive as he is dangerous. But Alessia’s heart already carries another secret. Arlo is the boy she was forbidden to love, the one person who knew her before blood and magic changed everything. When she finds him beaten and imprisoned among Kylian’s captives, Alessia realizes the price of the Vampire King’s jealousy. Kylian does not share. With war spreading between the cursed kingdoms and the sea swallowing what remains of the world, Alessia must choose between the love she once trusted and the dark king who refuses to release her. Every path may lead her closer to Sable. Every choice may cost someone she loves.        AmazonKU

MY BOYFRIEND FORGOT TO MENTION HE’S A WOLF SHIFTER by Roxie Ray

Apparently, there’s a fine-print problem with boyfriends. One is a neurodivergent roommate who agrees to fake dating and accidentally catches very real feelings. One is a charming cooking instructor whose biggest secret is considerably bigger, hairier, and more complicated than expected. And one is an emergency contact who goes to therapy, communicates his feelings, and occasionally turns into a wolf. They aren’t alphas looking for mates. They aren’t brooding supernatural kings waiting to claim anyone. They’re just men falling messily, sweetly, and sometimes hilariously in love. Three complete wolf-shifter rom-coms. Three different couples. Three happily-ever-afters.      AmazonKU

HER VAMPIRE, HIS RUIN by Bea Paige

Edie Valenti is done with men. At 44, perimenopausal and newly divorced, she has no interest in risking her heart again. Until she meets Dorian Crow. He’s charming, dangerous, and exactly the kind of man she swore she’d avoid. He’s also a three-hundred-year-old vampire carrying a curse he doesn’t know exists: if he ever falls in love, he’ll die. Dorian has spent centuries keeping his relationships shallow, but Edie is different. He can’t compel her, can’t feed on her, and can’t stay away from her. What starts as a no-strings affair soon turns into an obsession neither of them can resist. For Edie, falling for Dorian could end in heartbreak. But for Dorian, falling in love will be the death of him. Can a love doomed from the start break an ancient curse, or will it destroy them both?    AmazonKU

RED MARKED (THE DRAGON TRIBUTES BOOK 13) by Charlene Hartnday

The dragons on Mistveil Island are not your run-of-the-mill kind. They’re something else entirely…
Star – I died five years ago. At least, that’s what my family thinks. Instead, a group of us were left in the heart of the feral jungle to rot. I wasn’t supposed to survive, or to keep the other females alive.
I did both. I just stopped living somewhere along the way. Then he came along and turned my world upside down. Flint – We were told that there were no females in the mountains. That what I saw that day was the light playing tricks on me. It wasn’t. Now I’m wrapped up in something I can’t get out of. I need to help Star get her life back. More importantly, I need to keep my hands off her while doing it.
Both feel impossible.        AmazonKU

OWED IN BLOOD (DRAGONBLOOD DYNASTY BOOK 16) by BE Brouillard

Every man I take to my bed forgets me by morning. I remove the memory myself. Clean, permanent, and I have never once failed. Then my Court sends me into a room with a dragon. He is the last of his line and the oldest enemy my kind has. He has personally guaranteed the good behavior of a prisoner the rest of us would rather see buried, and nobody has been foolish enough to doubt his word in centuries. My Court wants someone there to watch him keep it. Someone who will report the moment he doesn’t. He picks me. I have wanted him dead since before I knew his face. He doesn’t seem to care. He watches me, and he notices the things a man notices about a woman. Then I do the one thing I should never have done and let him too close. I already know how the night ends. I reach into his mind to take myself out of it, the way I have with every man before him. Nothing happens. For the first time in my long life…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      AmazonKU

CINNAMON BAKER BEAR (FALLING FOR THE BEAR CREEK BOOK ONE) by Harmony Raines

She came to Bear Creek to take the vacation her ex ruined. She didn’t expect to find a bear shifter who already knows she’s the one. Mara Benton was supposed to spend ten romantic fall days in Bear Creek with the man she thought she’d build a family with. Instead, she arrives alone, newly single, and determined not to let a broken relationship steal the vacation too. Then she walks into a bakery filled with cinnamon, coffee, and one very distracting baker. Gabe Roper knows the instant Mara enters Bear Creek that he’s found his mate. His bear is delighted. Gabe is trying very hard to behave like a normal man. Because Mara has only just ended a long relationship, she knows nothing about shifters, and the last thing Gabe wants is to turn fate into another man telling her what her future should look like. So he gives her time. Time for fall-color walks and lantern-lit evenings. Time for cinnamon bears, family chaos, and ordinary days behind the bakery counter. Time for Mara to discover that Bear Creek might offer more than a beautiful place to escape to, and for Gabe to show her that knowing she’s his mate isn’t the same as expecting her to choose him. But Mara’s old life isn’t quite finished with her yet. And before Gabe can tell her the truth, the man she left behind comes to Bear Creek wanting her back.     AmazonKU

HAUNT ME, MAYBE (AMBER GROVE SERIES) by E M Rinaldi

Aven Ashwood just wants one thing: a quiet place to hide. After barely escaping the warlock who slaughtered her family, she’s pretending to be human while hiding in the small town of Amber Grove; keeping her illusion magic buried and her familiar—a giant, snarky toad named Fenn—on stealth duty. Everything’s going according to plan…until the attic room she rents turns out to have a tenant. A very loud, very grumpy ghost. Wes Hale has been haunting the Harvest Hill Inn since the 1950s, when a séance meant to debunk magic left him permanently dead and permanently annoyed. He doesn’t trust witches—especially not the stubborn, lavender-haired kind who can see him, touch him, and refuses to move out. She wants peace. He wants her gone. Too bad they can’t stay away from each other. As autumn settles over the town and shadows from Aven’s past creep closer, her fragile illusions begin to unravel—and Wes’s ghostly magic reacts to hers in ways neither of them can explain. Working together might be the only way to survive the warlock hunting her…But every spark between them makes it harder to remember that one of them isn’t alive.      AmazonKU

RIGGS: THE BEARS (KING LAKE SHIFTERS BOOK FIVE) by R E Butler

A steamy instalove paranormal romance featuring a protective bear shifter, a sweet library assistant, and a small-town happily ever after that begins with one perfect day. Bear shifter Riggs knows he’s found his truemate the moment he catches Shyla’s scent in Mill Creek’s park. One conversation turns into dinner, and when their perfect date leads to an unforgettable night together, Riggs knows he’s finally found the woman he can build a life with. Shyla never expected leading the library’s summer reading program would change her life, and then she met Riggs. Falling for the big bear shifter was easy. Trusting that a love this fast could be real isn’t. Can Riggs convince Shyla that love doesn’t have to happen slowly to be real? Because in King Lake… forever doesn’t follow a timeline.     AmazonKU

SHIFTED DESIRE (MONSTERS OF MOONVALE BOOK THREE) by Emily Antoinette

A steamy masked encounter leads to forbidden desires in this high-heat paranormal romance. Samantha Pierce has always been the mess of her family, but when she loses her job and has to move back home in her late 30s, she’s hit a new low. What’s a commitment-phobic half-succubus to do when she’s feeling down? Have an anonymous hookup with a stranger, of course! Except it turns out the masked man she spent her night with is none other than her dad’s best friend, Nathan—the handsome older werewolf she had a youthful crush on. After forty years of suppressing his transformations and corporate drudgery, Nathan is desperate for a fresh start. But accidentally hooking up with his best friend’s daughter is not the kind of change he’s looking for. Neither is hiring her as his assistant, but he can’t say no to his friend’s request to give Samantha an interview. Nathan’s resolve to turn her away and forget about their unfortunate encounter crumbles when Samantha makes an unconventional proposal: Hire her to help not only as his assistant, but to sate the intense mating urges that come from ignoring his curse. Everything about their secret arrangement is forbidden. Bound to end in disaster. But as they explore their taboo connection, ruined friendships aren’t the only stakes. When lines of their contract blur, will indulging in their desires be worth risking their hearts?       AmazonKU

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EMRYLD: FORGED FOR HER (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Zoey Indiana

She has spent two years documenting everything the IDA did wrong. The IDA just told her she has a 94.1% match. Dr. Novalie Ikenna is not the kind of woman who signs up for alien matchmaking services. She is the kind of woman who writes peer-reviewed papers about why alien matchmaking services require stronger accountability frameworks. When the reformed IDA’s notification arrives — 94.1%, a Drevhari security specialist named Emryld — she prepares a formal objection and keeps working. Emryld of the Drevhari does not do subtlety. He is built wide, dense, and burns emerald when he’s feeling anything he hasn’t chosen to feel, which is something he cannot control and has stopped pretending otherwise. He was sent to Earth to meet his match, not to be interrogated about the ethics of the matching process. He did not anticipate that his match would ask better questions than anyone who has ever debriefed him. He finds this unexpectedly difficult to leave. She needs to finish her research. He needs to convince her he’s worth the risk. Both of them are going to have to reckon with the possibility that the institution she’s been critiquing just got one thing exactly right… and that the same institution is hiding a crime her research is about to expose.         Amazon       Note yet on Apple the day I checked       Kobo

CROWN: MOST WANTED ALIEN BRIDES (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Candice Gilmer

I proposed a marriage of pure strategy. I did not plan on chasing my own wife. Darik of Vorjan House holds final authority over the trade agreement, the weight of an entire noble line, and a simple plan: marry an Earth woman, prove his people’s commitment to the alliance, and manage the whole affair with his usual flawless control. Then he proposes to Beka. She hears him out. She asks questions he isn’t prepared for. And she agrees — on one condition. Equal partnership and genuine respect, or there’s no deal. Then she goes back to work, and Darik realizes he’s just been dismissed for the first time in his life. Beka clawed her way free of a family that tried to own her and built a life entirely her own. She doesn’t need Darik’s rank, his protection, or his approval — and she hasn’t so much as noticed that the most powerful man on the station has started rearranging his schedule just to be in the same room as her. The marriage was supposed to be a performance. Neither of them planned on it becoming real.

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BROKEN RIVAL: A NOVEL by Tessa Bailey

Magnolia Brown loves Friday night football games, volunteering and dominating at high school swim meets. Just your average everyday eighteen-year-old. Except for one thing: She’s from fifty years in the future. Magnolia’s parents, two brilliant scientists, are the inventors of time travel, but due to widespread destruction and rampant abuse of the technology from a corrupt few, time travel is outlawed and punishable by death. When Magnolia’s parents are seized and executed for illegally traveling to the past, they leave Magnolia stranded in 2026 without a way to get home. Now Magnolia has nowhere to turn but a complicated Kansas family with two sons—Fallon, her high school sweetheart with secrets of his own, and Ramsey, the brooding militia commander who hunts and kills criminals like her. Magnolia knows Ramsey resents and hates her, but how can he be her true enemy when he looks at her with such hunger, despite his callousness, and guards her with his very life? Which brother can she trust and is the real danger coming from inside the house?      Amazon     AB      Apple Books     Kobo

CAPTIVE OMEGA: ALIEN MM OMEGAVERSE ROMANCE  (STARVERSE OMEGAS BOOK ONE) by E M Riley

An awakened Omega. A dangerous High Lord. A prophecy written in the stars. At twenty-three, Brenner McKinney was already struggling with his sexuality on Earth. Now he’s stranded on a rogue alien planet where his earthly riches mean nothing and survival isn’t guaranteed. When the powerful and enigmatic Pytharian High Lord, Torin Kange, offers him a way out, Brenner knows he should be cautious. But walking away from a man so commanding, intelligent, and impossibly captivating may be harder than he expected. After a brutal attack leaves Brenner in the hands of a lethal Eclipsian hunter, Faelixz Saurox, everything changes. Drawn to the fierce warrior in ways he doesn’t understand, something deep within him begins to awaken, binding them in ways neither can ignore. As ancient instincts stir and a long-forgotten prophecy comes to light, rivalries ignite and loyalties are tested. Can Torin and Fae set aside their differences for the fate of the galaxy, or will their growing obsession with the Omega between them destroy everything first?      AmazonKU

STRANGE LIGHTS by Mira Gonzalez

Parenting is never easy, but it’s a hell of a lot harder when your toddler is a chupacabra. Paranormal investigator and cryptozoologist Reggie has embraced her fate as parent to an adopted toddler, Eldi—a bloodsucking chupacabra with a fondness for goats. Reggie wants nothing more than to put her complicated past in the rearview mirror and fade into as much obscurity as her toddler will allow. But a rash of UFOs in the night sky and a couple of crop-circle-carving Roombas force Reggie into an investigation that attracts the attention of an old enemy, an anti-supernatural agency hunting for creatures like Eldi. To outwit them, Reggie must team up with Calvin, a podcaster-turned-werewolf whose charm is a real threat to Reggie’s rule against romantic attachments. With Reggie’s history quickly catching up to her and Eldi in the agency’s crosshairs, any shred of normalcy evaporates. Reggie must decide: Can she confront her dark past to save Eldi—and an entire alien species—from getting wiped out of the universe?        Amazon     AB        Kobo

A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD by Annaless Newitz

VS Note: LGBTQ SFR.

Gardenpath is a graduate student. They also happen to be an amoeba–a slime mold, to be exact–from an ancient civilization that dwells in the space between the stars. And when they turn their many eyes to researching a remote spot on one spiral arm of the galaxy, they stumble upon a discovery that will change everything they thought they knew: a mysterious planet teeming with unexpected life, language, and culture. One of these alien animals is a creature named Murtis, who lives in a city she calls Pompeii and works in a brothel known as “the lupanar.” Unfazed when her strange visitor says she’s from the stars, Murtis takes Gardenpath into her care, introducing her to the seaside tourist town full of immigrants and shopkeepers who are just trying to get by. Before they met Murtis, Gardenpath expected to finish their research, present their discovery, and return home to become an acclaimed scientist. But as they look into their new friend’s bizarre sensor bulbs from within the suit that allows them to survive and blend in on her surprising planet, they are beginning to wonder if there’s more to life than academic achievement. They’re not sure what it is, but they’re going to use science to find out.         Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

WOMEN IN COMICS: ICONIC CHARACTERS AND INFLUENTIAL CREATORS FROM THE 1890’S TO TODAY by Susan E Kirtley, PhD and Nhora Lucia Serrano

VS Note: Nonfiction. Only available in hardback as far as I can tell.

A beautifully illustrated and in-depth look at the important roles women have played in comics history, from the late nineteenth century to today. Comics in the form of editorial cartoons, comic strips, digital comics, comic books, and graphic novels have combined words and images to tell stories of hundreds of years. Though often overlooked, women have played a vital role in shaping this genre, both as creators and characters within the stories themselves. Through six archetypes frequently found in comics―the patriot, the working woman, the socialite, the fashionista, the reporter, and the spy―Susan E. Kirtley and Nhora Lucía Serrano trace some of comics’ most influential women. This insightful exploration of international characters celebrates the feminist role model Wonder Woman, the warrior-maiden Oscar François de Jarjayes in the gender-defying manga tale Berusiyu no Bara (The Rose of Versailles), the real-life groundbreaking journalist Nellie Bly, and many others. Profiles throughout the book highlight the important work of female creators, heralding the bravery of political cartoonists such as Corinne “Coco” Rey and Rayma Suprani, the power of biography as reportage with Marjane Satrapi and Sophia Glock, and the value of visibility with Alison Bechdel and Mariko Tamaki. Women in Comics is a richly illustrated, essential guide to the importance of women in the comics space from across time and around the globe.      Amazon

BITE FOR SORE EYES (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 115) by Milly Taiden

VS Note: Takes place on another planet.

Lana Morales has one year left to live and zero intention of spending it being careful. So when Gerri Wilder offers the former NSA cybersecurity specialist one outrageous final adventure on the alien world of Nova Aurora, Lana says yes. She expects danger, excitement, and maybe a few questionable decisions. She does not expect two enormous, devastatingly handsome bear shifters waiting for her on the other side. Co-Alphas Rath and Torren have shared battles, leadership, and responsibility for years, but never a woman. Then Lana walks into their lives and both bears instantly roar mate. Rath wants to pull the brilliant, curvy human against his chest and keep her there, preferably where no other male can look at her. Torren wants to coax out every smile, every laugh, and every breathless sound she’s capable of making. She’s smart, fearless, sexy as hell, and completely irresistible to both of them. For the first time, the two Alphas agree on something without question—they want Lana between them, and neither bear has any intention of letting her go. But someone is sabotaging Varkesh Hollow, and Lana’s cyber skills make her the perfect person to uncover the traitor—and the perfect target. Rath and Torren are ready to tear apart anyone who threatens their mate, while Lana is determined to fight right beside them. Between rogue attacks, dangerous secrets, and enough heat to scorch an alien moon, Lana came to Nova Aurora expecting one final adventure. Gerri, naturally, intends to give her forever.       AmazonKU

TOPPING OFF THE ALIEN (HALLOWEEN TEMPTATIONS) by Jenny Pineapple

VS Note: MM SFR.

I leave the Halloween party after finding out my girlfriend cheated on me. Then I meet a seven-foot alien in the woods, and what he needs from me is something I’ve never done with a man. Solverian needs physical contact to restore his powers and get home. It should be simple enough. I help him, he gets what he needs, and we go our separate ways. Except when I put my hands on him, it gets harder to remember that’s all I’m here for. The more he lets go, the more I want to know what makes him shake and beg for it. Before long, I’m not sure who’s really in control, and I’m discovering I want things of my own. Things I never expected to want from a man. I know Solverian will have to leave by the end of the night. Which is probably why I shouldn’t get too attached, or start hoping for more.   AmazonKU

HUNTER’S HARVEST (XARC’N WARRIORS) by Lynnea Lee

After my shuttle goes down in the ruins with a shipment of citrus and my trade crew aboard, I wake up with a Xarc’n warrior wrapped around me and purring like a big cat. Var’n is a seven-foot-tall, muscle-bound Xarc’n warrior who spent years hiding out instead of learning to live with humans. The plan is simple: talk him into finding my crew, then get us to New Franklin before the Halloween Harvest Haunt. Too bad his translator is borked. He barely understands me, and he has already decided I’m his to protect. And worse? Var’n’s chest rumbles every time he looks at me. I know what it means, but I’m pretending I don’t. It’s a cruel world out there, and I’ve sworn off relationships to save myself from heartbreak. But how long can I keep this up when he’s the only warm thing for miles?   AmazonKU

THE HAUNTED ALIEN’S MATE  (A SCIFI ALIEN ROMANCE BOOK ONE) by Arcadia Shield

I fix impossible starships. His happens to be haunted. I’m the best starship salvager in the business. Ex-Army bomb disposal, unshakable under pressure, and worth every credit I charge, I’m the reason aliens cross half the galaxy to Eden Shore. So a cursed alien spaceship won’t scare me off. Except the Hollow Chorus doesn’t want to be fixed. It whispers through empty corridors. Guards decades of buried secrets. And now the sentient starship is trying to bond with me in a way no human should survive. Then there’s its owner. Rennick is seven feet of stubborn, possessive Kelvane alien. Huge, protective, and too tempting for my peace of mind. And he’s discovered I’m something even rarer than a functioning ghost ship. I’m his bond mate. His one true mate. His only chance at forever. I don’t believe in fate, and I certainly don’t intend to belong to an overprotective alien jerk just because his biology says so. Unfortunately, resisting Rennick gets harder as we work on the haunted spaceship. The attraction between us is impossible to ignore, and my alien mate has no intention of letting me face the danger alone. Because someone close to Rennick needs the secrets buried inside the Hollow Chorus silenced for good. And I just became the human standing in their way.   Amazon

WATERED DOWN (SHATTERED STARS BOOK 24) by Viola Grace

Running a food stall on an alien world is Cloudy’s new normal. Things are going great until a group of guardians comes for lunch, and one wants to stay for more. Cloudy and her entire village came through the end of the world with minimal fatalities. They were assigned as a group to a world run by the descendant of a Hmrain named Vecchin. Five hundred people were slowly trying to settle on their new world, and things were going fairly well. Cloudy opted to change her pigment to make her look more like the locals. The gills she had installed were just for peace of mind, as her food stall was on a dock, and behind her was endless ocean. Working with her business partner is profitable, and things have a reliable rhythm until the day the guardians arrive, and one of them begins to ask questions—a lot of questions. Hazor is the grandson of the Hmrain who owns the world she lives on, and his uncle has recently had a very successful union with one of her people. Hazor is interested in seeing if lightning can strike twice, and he has chosen her as his target.

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JARRAN (VIRILIAN MAIL ORDER MATES BOOK SIX) by Ella Blake

He’s an imprisoned intergalactic supercriminal with amnesia. She’s a doctor sent to help him recall his past crimes so he can stand trial. They have no business falling in love, but fate makes her own business, and rarely listens to reason. Dr. Evie Carr is a neurologist and psychologist sent to see if her new patient’s memories of his past as the notorious Pella Rin can be unearthed. She doesn’t expect her new, high-profile patient to be a gentle, kind Virilian male who farms in the agricultural bay of the ship he’s imprisoned in. Working with Jarran every day, she ignores the growing forbidden attraction simmering between them. When he begins to remember snippets of his past, Evie learns that the story of Pella Rin is far more complicated than that of a man who turned evil. Jarran Bando can barely form words when he meets Evie. He is happy and at peace tending the acres of crops, but seeing her is like pure sunlight cutting through fog. Soon, she is the brightest part of his day. Even though he knows his love for her will always be one-sided, he works hard to speak better and remember what he can of his past. But it comes at a cost. As memories seep back, he’s devastated to learn the atrocities committed by this past version of him. He doesn’t remember being Pella Rin, but begins to understand that the villain still lies beneath the surface of his mind. When the “Sifters,” the criminal group he used to lead, return for him, Jarran must fight not only for Evie’s life and safety, but also for control of his own mind. For just as Jarran is learning who he is, Pella Rin is fighting to regain control of the empire that terrorized the galaxy.       AmazonKU

FEVER BOUND: A POST APOCALYPTIC ROMANCE by Anna Callaway

One hundred and forty-eight years after a virus wiped out civilization, Beckett has learned that survival comes down to two rules. Trust no one, and never miss a dose of the medication keeping the infection in his blood under control. When a poker game leaves him responsible for returning a runaway woman to one of the last uninfected cities left standing, he takes the job for only one reason. Ruby is his ticket behind the walls, and the best lead he’s had in over a century to find his missing sister. Returning home is the last thing Ruby wants. An arranged marriage waits for her within the city’s walls. Freedom lies somewhere in the wasteland, if she can escape the grumpy, fang-bearing infected man determined to drag her in the wrong direction. She fights him every step of the journey. Beckett doesn’t trust her for a second. She talks too much, asks too many questions, and looks at a ruined world like it could still be beautiful. The more she pushes, the more he refuses to let his guard down, no matter how often she …(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)       AmazonKU

ALIEN’S NURSE MATE (COSMIC CONNECTIONS ALIEN DATING AGENCY ROMANCE STORIES BOOK SIX) by Emerald Cox

She came to the alien dating agency with an unopened match notification and no intention of rushing it. The station’s consent software had other plans. Amira has spent her nursing career being everyone’s steady place. On Vrax Prime, she wants time to decide what she needs—and whether she wants a match at all. Rhelan, the station’s medical-response coordinator, is all formal competence, careful restraint, and a tail that reaches to help before he remembers to ask. When a glitched routing system starts treating them as each other’s comfort contact, they have to work together to stop an algorithm from making their choices for them. Fixing the software is one thing. Resisting the alien who keeps learning how to care for her is another.      AmazonKU

ALIEN’S RUNAWAY MATE (RESONANCE FRONTIER) by Emerald Cox

My alien rescuer is enormous, silver, and far too good at making room for me. That last part might be the real danger. I’m Romilly. I used to manage backstage disasters with a headset and a roll of tape. Alien abduction was beyond my job description. So is wanting the gentle giant helping me find my feet on a planet where I can’t even read the signs. Tavren offers me safety without a price. He listens to my ridiculous jokes. And when I touch him, those luminous markings make keeping our attraction quiet a spectacular failure. Between a chaotic riverport festival and an unexpected little creature with opinions, staying close to him is easy. Keeping my hands to myself is proving considerably harder. But someone still sees me as cargo. I need a way to stay free—and Tavren is giving me far too many reasons to stay near him.      AmazonKU

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT ZOMBIES by Hazel Graves

Smoothie shop owner Zoey has always had a thing for men with brains. So, when she meets the brilliant and stunningly handsome local mushroom farmer, Nick she’s instantly drawn to him. Wanting a reason to call her new crush, Zoey enlists Nick help (and his mushrooms) with her latest brain-boosting smoothie recipe. Before long, they have a viral sensation on their hands. Sparks fly as Zoey and Nick grow closer, but when the locals start behaving weirdly—with strange mumblings and a fondness for biting—they wonder just how viral the side effects might be for their brand-new drink. Can they find an antidote to the zombie apocalypse they may have unwittingly started before everything falls apart… literally?     AmazonKU      AB

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VS Note: Something a little different today if you’ll indulge me for a moment – I’m doing a Kickstarter for a gorgeous Special Edition of my DANCER OF THE NILE Trilogy. These 3 books are romantasies set in ancient Egypt and there’s plenty of romance and adventure in all three. There are fun extras too, like these chibis! Kickstarter Link   

 

 

 

 

 

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HELLGOLD (BLOOD AND BOND BOOK THREE) by Meg Xuemei X

We lure the Collector to the fortress. He walks through the gate smiling, holding a marriage contract sealed in my infant blood. It hands me to him. Kill him, and I die with him. Blood contracts don’t break. Not by law. Not by fire. Not by four princes willing to raze the continent to keep me. Woven into the ink is a geas. Any man who touches me with desire burns. So do I. Aelindor reaches for me. Burn. Nikolai’s mouth finds my throat. Burn. Caspian pulls me under him. Burn. Four men I’d bleed for, and not one can put his hands on me without both of us screaming. Then an Oracle’s severed head whispers through the glass. One bloodline can break the contract. My father’s. So Drakken goes into Hell with me. Demon law sets the price. I have to mate him in front of the entire court, and Hell watches me come. Fake it and the geas holds. And I belong to the Collector forever.     AmazonKU

THE VAMPIRE AND THE CASE OF THE GHASTLY GOLEM (PORTLOCK PARANORMAL DETECTIVE SERIES BOOK EIGHT) by Heather G Harris and Jilleen Dolbeare

Dead bodies are bad. Dead bodies that break the laws of magic are worse. Finding a dead fox in someone’s garden isn’t normally a police matter. Finding a dead fox shifter who should have turned human the second he died? Yeah, that’s more my department. Remmy has no wounds, no blood and no obvious cause of death. He’s simply dead, trapped forever in his fox form. Apparently there’s only one thing that can do that to a shifter: drain every last drop of magic from them. Great. Because what Portlock really needed was another magical murderer. I’ve got an eidetic memory, a badge and two extremely questionable sidekicks. One is a traumatised werewolf who prefers being a German Shepherd, and the other is an ever-growing lynx with a criminal disregard for personal property. Between us, surely we can crack one impossible murder. Then some local teenagers report seeing a huge creature stalking through the woods, covered in branches and leaves with blazing red eyes. And red eyes are always bad. I’m starting to think our mysterious monster and our dead shifter might be connected, which means I need to find whatever is prowling Portlock before anyone else ends up magically drained. Unfortunately, murder isn’t my only problem. Connor’s father, the Vampire King of the US and an all-round arsehole, has announced he’s coming to town. And he’s bringing the other vampire leaders with him. So now I have a supernatural killer to catch, a creepy forest monster to find and the most powerful vampire in America heading straight for my home. Portlock has survived murderous shifters, deadly conspiracies and more supernatural disasters than any tiny Alaskan town has a right to. Hopefully we can survive this too. Preferably without anyone else turning up dead.   AmazonKU

THE STOLEN CROWN (THE EVER SEAS BOOK FOUR) by LJ Andrews

She is the life of the party. He is the villain you never wish to meet alone. Tait Heartwalker may be the cousin of the Ever King, but royally good company he is not. He’s ill-tempered and unapproachable, sharpened by the hard responsibilities of life and loyalty. But to the dismay of Mira Sekundär, princess of the glamour fae, he’s also intoxicating to look at. Despite doing their best to avoid each other, fate has other plans when an otherworldly storm shipwrecks Tait and Mira far beyond the boundaries of the Ever Kingdom. They are forced to break through the thorny barriers between them and work together to find their way home. One wrong step and they’ll never return alive…Yet as their feelings deepen, a new threat rises from the waters. And this enemy is so dangerous, even the history books tried to forget their existence.

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BEAR WITH ME (BIKER BEARS BOOK THREE) by Minerva Howe

VS Note: MM PNR.

Milo has been a bear shifter in captivity for a long time. So after his brothers, Race and Nolan, and their mates rescue him, he kind of becomes a hermit. The one unattached grizzly brother, Warrick, has taken him in, and is trying to ease him back into the world, but Milo just isn’t sure he wants to participate. Oldest brother and protector Warrick knows Milo needs to let his bear self heal him, and for that he needs to shift. His human side needs closure, too, so he sets out to make sure the people who held him hostage pay for what they did. Milo learns to trust Warrick, and to love his mate dearly, but he also knows he has to stand on his own two feet or four paws and defend himself. Can he find the courage, with Warrick’s love, to live with his past and move on to the future? Bear with me is a MM bear shifter omegaverse romance with a big, protective grizzly, an uncertain black bear, and a kick butt campaign to take down a trafficking ring.      AmazonKU

THEIR ROYAL PET by Lexi C Foss

Welcome to Monster Island. Once a year, candidates are chosen to participate in mating games. And by chosen, I mean sacrificed…When my name is picked from the sacred Chalice, I know my time in this world has come to an end. A week from now, I’ll be hunted by monsters from other realms. There’s nowhere for me to hide. But that doesn’t mean I won’t fight fate. Only, it seems I’ve attracted the attention of the Elite Island King. As well as two rival royals from alternate kingdoms. The problem is, they want me to choose between them. And I refuse. In a world where monsters reign, choice is a subjective term. But these royals are determined to win my heart. And I just might let them all claim me in the end.      AmazonKU

OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE: A TALISMAN NOVEL (THE TALISMAN TRILOGY BOOK THREE) by Stephen King and Peter Straub

This is Stephen King and Peter Straub’s epic and unforgettable finale to the Talisman Trilogy (including the novels Talisman and Black House) and a wrapping up of the fate of the worlds in King’s iconic, fiercely beloved Dark Tower epic. It is also a magnificent stand-alone novel, that will appeal to new readers, as well as to King’s Constant Readers. Other Worlds Than These is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was twelve, crossing America and “the territories” to save his mother’s life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King (among other evils). In Other Worlds Than These, Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World, before it destroys our world and all worlds. Jack is older now; his Ka-tet (echoing the world of Roland) is fraying; and his task, nearly impossible. Magnificent, riveting, full of heart, and humor, Other Worlds Than These is a spectacular, propulsive adventure, and features thirty-six exclusive black-and-white illustrations by artist Gabriel Rodriguez. The title instantly announces to readers who already know these other worlds that King has returned to them. Other Worlds Than These will appeal to new King readers and his Constant Readers.     Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

FELINE PURRALYSIS: A PAWSITIVELY PURRFECT MATCH (CATS OF THE GODDESSES BOOK 19) by Pepper McGraw

The matchmaking cats of the goddesses are back in Villa del Ukumari. Why? Because bears, that’s why. Despite their determination not to match any more bears, the matchmaking cats of the goddesses have four on their radar in desperate need of both mates and lap kitties. This, of course, means finding the purrfect cat companions and fated mates for the bears. Good thing the matchmaking cats of the goddesses know just where to start–a few cat shifters and some earthbound cats on their caseload and these matches will be pawsitively purrfect. Of course, South America isn’t exactly on the list of territories they’ve been assigned, nor are the cloud forests of the Andes the purrfect location for a clowder of domesticated cats, but Bygul and his matchmaking colleagues have never left a mission incomplete and they’re not about to start now. Four very stubborn bear shifters are about to learn even they are no match for a determined team of matchmaking cats who specialize in happily furever afters.       Amazon      Apple Books      Kobo

VENGEFULLY MATCHED: A NOVEL by Audrey Goldberg Ruoff

VS Note: Sapphic witch romance.

Priscilla Hart does not do regret—except maybe for the spectacularly disastrous choice of fleeing her own wedding in a cloud of magical fireworks. Now the town’s most infamous runaway witch, she’s determined to rebuild her reputation on the Witchery Council and prove she’s more than a scandal in designer heels. Agatha Vanderbilt Voisin, the newly elected council president, is everything Priscilla can’t stand: composed, proper, and infuriatingly perfect. But when a string of dangerous magical explosions points to Priscilla as the culprit, Agatha makes an impulsive move—announcing that they’re dating—to save her from exile. Faking a relationship in public should be simple even for such opposites…until late-night arguments turn into slow-burn attraction, and the two discover that something wicked is brewing in Hallowcross. To survive the magic—and their feelings—they’ll have to stop pretending and risk falling for real. Can they outwit a magic powerful enough to destroy them, or will trust be the most dangerous risk of all?       Amazon     AB      Apple Books       Kobo

WITCHY CHICK (MARRIED TO A MONSTER BOOK FOUR) by Juliann Whicker

He cheated. And now she’s raising the dead. Marigold Carnell, stay-at-home mom is living the life when she realizes that her husband of sixteen years has been cheating. She moves to a house on the outskirts of the city, where the kids can run wild and free, and she can come to grips with her new single status and have meltdowns without any neighbors to see. But the thing is, the house has as many feelings as her teenager, and it wants her to be the next heir of dark magic and necromancy. When she realizes that her husband isn’t who he seems, and there are more conspiracies and enemies that you can raise a cemetery to fight, it’s time to reevaluate her marriage and face the music.   AmazonKU

THE BLOOD QUEEN (SPY AND GUARDIAN) by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis

Alyth and Samson finally know the identity of the High Blade, leader of the bloodthirsty Red Cap army, and it’s someone they never suspected. They’ll use every bit of courage, smarts, and luck they have to escape her grasp and flee to the fae court, where they hope to find aid in the fight against the Red Caps. But the fae princes have been apathetic since the Faerie Queen disappeared years ago at the hands of the High Blade. They seem unwilling to help. And if they find out Samson’s true identity, he’ll be killed and Alyth banished. Alyth and Samson can only depend on each other and their love as they navigate fae politics, try to win allies, search for the missing queen, and face down the greatest threat the two worlds have ever known.

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BANSHEE: IRISH MYTHS RETOLD by Various

Editor and journalist Ailbhe Malone was raised on these legends—but the women, always cast as mothers, warriors, or witches, were never given the lead. And so, Banshee was born: not just a retelling, but a radical reclamation. Banshee transports you to treacherous landscapes and crashing seas, generational curses and mystical islands. Here you’ll find unruly mothers, rule-breaking queens, and women outrunning their destinies—their stories pulsing with desire, danger, and defiance.’?     Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

HIS LONELY MONSTER: MM VAMPIRE ROMANCE NOVELLA (SHEARWATER LANDING SHORTS) by Colette Rivera

VS Note: A re-release.

A shy human – A lonely vampire – A fright that turns into a lasting love – The last thing Lucas expects when he sets out to explore a supposedly haunted house is to run into a vampire. He doesn’t believe in paranormal entities, but what else would you call a man with glowing eyes and fangs dripping blood? Lucas should put the incident behind him, except he can’t get the vampire out of his head. What if he isn’t the only lonely one looking for more in life?        AmazonKU

DEVOURED: A BITTEN NOVEL by Jordan Stephanie Gray

Welcome back to the Wolf Queen’s Court. Vanessa Hart is done being a victim. After the brutal winter massacre stole everything from her, she vows vengeance against her enemies once and for all—even if that means killing the boy she once loved …Vanessa bides her time playing the role of a docile subject. But beneath her mask, she sharpens her powers, embracing the werewolf within while weaving a complicated web of lies, betrayals, and alliances to topple the throne. Unfortunately, vengeance isn’t easy, and nothing in the Wolf Queen’s Court is ever as it seems. As the darkness of the castle bleeds into human society, it’s clear no one is safe. Cora’s vicious reign grows stronger by the day, Sinclair continues hiding deadly secrets, and Calix—the boy Vanessa might loathe most of all—is threatening her every plan. With nowhere to run and no place to hide, Vanessa sheds the last of her humanity to play this lethal game of werewolves. And if she doesn’t win, the consequences will destroy her life—and the entire world as she knows it—forever.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

THE DUES AND DON’TS OF MAGIC (THE MAGIC DUES TRILOGY BOOK ONE) by Delemhach

Spidena Kettle runs a quiet magic shop at the edge of town, selling just enough spells and potions to keep herself afloat—and out of trouble—when Benthrop Hozel enters her shop one day. On the run from the nefarious sort, he simply wishes to be forgotten by his pursuers. In exchange, he promises a favor to Spidena. Such a deal could have dire consequences if Ben is unable to fulfill his end of the bargain. Not that the witch is overly concerned—after all, there’s no risk to her making such an arrangement with a normal human. Only Ben may be more than he seems. With their fates forcibly intertwined for a full journey, Spidena and Ben must not only evade their enemies and use precious magical resources to get by, but confront the secrets they’ve long kept…that is, if they can manage to stop getting on each other’s last nerve for long enough to do so.

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HALLOWED BONES: A SONS OF SALEM NOVEL by Lucy Smoke

Four men. One woman. Five families accused of witchcraft. A dark desire they all share. I was warned to stay away from the Sons of Salem. Not because they’re monsters—but because they’re broken enough to recognize one. Ezra Bishop. Cameron Goode. Lyall Corey. Reyes Scott. And me—Haven Wardwell. Legacies. Witches. Something far worse than myths. Now that I’m here, there’s no telling what the Gods will ask for in return. Ghosts haunt the corridors of Ipswich College, and if I’m not careful, I might just become one of them.

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DIES IRAE: LGBTQ+ GAY VAMPIRE REGENCY ROMANCE by Autumn Montague

Makoto and Will must accept their bond in order to stop a madman’s killing spree. London, 1816. Someone is killing vampires and their Hosts, leaving brutalized bodies on display in the heart of London. Makoto Morinaga, minore and lead hunter for the Baron of Colbourne, must find and stop the madman. Yet the mission is in peril almost from the moment it starts. In despair over loving his master’s Host, he breaks his oath and finds himself bound through Compulsion to the last person he would choose as his Host — the flamboyant young man who has spent years pining over their master. Makoto can ill afford this appalling distraction while he hunts for a monstrous killer. Will Carter is an experienced Host who has offered up body and blood to vampires since reaching his majority. He spent years learning the duties of the Colbourne Host, only to have his dreams crumble when his master finds a man more perfect than Will. In his frustration, he taunts Colbourne’s lead hunter into committing a forbidden act. His punishment? Being bound to the last person he would ever wish to hold his contract — Makoto Morinaga, a man whose body he knows well, but whose heart is a dark mystery and whose stoicism grates on Will’s every nerve. An unexpected emotional connection heats their hearts even as their Host bond heats their bodies. Just as they begin to find common ground, the madman strikes again. Finding the madman’s lair might end the violence, but the price might destroy them both.

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THE HAUNTED LIBRARIAN by Auralee Wallace

It’s a dark and stormy night…and Amelia Bates is caught in the rain. Life hasn’t always been kind to her, and being a ghostseer certainly doesn’t make things any easier. Glowing warmly through the autumnal downpour is her safest haven: the library. Amelia, the newly hired librarian, has always relished the comfort of curling up with a novel, vastly preferring it to the company of humans (alive or ghostly). But Amelia is shocked to discover the building is full of more than quiet stories and warm cups of tea. There are curious, talkative patrons, a shy, bespectacled head librarian who makes her heart skip a beat, and three quirky spirits causing paranormal havoc that endangers the future of the library. To help the ghosts and save the building, Amelia will have to gather all her bravery and wits, because learning to trust others might just be the first step to a happily ever after she only thought was possible in books.

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HOUSE HAUNTERS by KC Jones

Grace Wonderly needs a hit show, or her career is dead. But saving her job might just kill her. With her studio relying on AI to greenlight new projects, finding the next breakout series is Grace’s only shot to save her job. And her sanity. Her solution may be Frank Pendleton: a brilliant but abrasive – and admittedly handsome – ghost hunter who claims he can’t feel fear, making him uniquely attuned to the paranormal. Frank is either a fraud or the real deal. Skeptical, but hoping for TV gold, Grace assembles a crew to shoot a proof of concept. But when the production descends into a nightmare, Grace is forced to face the impossible: ghosts are real, and though cold and distant, Frank may be their only chance of getting out alive.

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THE LOST GUARDIAN by Natalia Hernandez

The stories we’re told aren’t myths. They’re warnings. Santiago Rios didn’t plan to leave his quiet life in Los Angeles. But when his grandfather sends him a map to the lost tomb of the final Incan emperor, the young archaeologist is thrust into a brutal race across the Andes, pursued by ruthless tomb raiders who will stop at nothing to steal the emperor’s treasure. His only hope is Ali, a fierce Peruvian woman whose secrets could unlock Santiago’s map—or spell his doom. The closer they grow, the more certain Santiago becomes. Ali is trouble…just the kind of trouble he likes. To save their world, Santiago and Ali must solve ancient riddles, outwit deadly enemies, and lay a spirit to rest before it’s too late. Because if they fail, the past won’t stay buried—and neither will the curse.

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CLEAN SLATES AND CHECKMATES (FANGED MISTAKES BOOK FOUR) by Alice Winters

VS Note: MM PNR.

Yorick – Pretending that I’m not in love with the thousand-year-old vampire who is the bane of my existence is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I know what you’re thinking… “Yorick the Great, you are far too good for Atticus the Old and Boring,” and you would be right… but I’m determined to woo this man if it’s the last thing I do. And it might very well be when someone stabs me with a poison that limits my healing. This is the perfect opportunity for Atticus to step up and pamper me, but instead, he tosses me a poisoned-coated weapon and throws me right into the lion’s den! Sent off for some revenge nonsense when what I want is so simple: for Atticus to moon all over me while showering me with love, giving me presents, and moving into my house with me (a dog wouldn’t hurt as well). Atticus – Nearly five hundred years ago, Yorick fell into my life, stole from me, set me on fire, and ran off. That meeting set the tone for the rest of our lives. The problem is that my past haunts me, and no matter what I do, no one in my life is safe from the consequences. I know Yorick wants more, but it’s something I can’t give him when every move I make is being watched. Then a poison that affects vampires sets my world spiraling as truths come to light about that fateful night all those years ago. One thing I know: no matter how many years pass, the only piece of my life that keeps me moving forward is the man I vowed to never love.       AmazonKU

A MASTERPIECE IN BLOOD by Megan Scott

Nicole and Kyan are playing a dangerous game. Nicole is on the run, hiding from The Wake as she attempts to track down her mother’s last artistic clue and the truth of her death. Kyan is pretending to still be The Wake’s loyal Empyreal assassin, even though his feelings for Nicole—and the mate bond that ties them together—have changed everything. Separated, yet determined to be together, Nicole and Kyan must embark on a quest that will take them from the most powerful Vampire in England, to ancient Celtic treasures, and lost Druid sites. Meanwhile, the Wake sees all, and the Wild Hunt is stirring. As Nicole and Kyan get close to the dark secrets at the root of the organization, they court complete destruction—of themselves, each other, and all they hold dear.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

A MEMORY OF BORROWED BOOKS: A NOVEL by Meg Anderson

Deep in the library lives a hidden room where magic lines the shelves and memories lie in wait – Ready for readers daring enough to finally discover the truth. In the coastal town of Foxhollow Bay, librarian Claire Ashford keeps her life as meticulously ordered as the centuries-old library she calls home. But when the town announces plans to shut it down, her sanctuary, and the life she’s built within its walls, begins to crumble. One night, while wandering the stacks after hours, Claire discovers a door that shouldn’t exist. And behind it lies a secret room filled with books no one else can see. Each book pulls her into the memories of those who have passed through the library’s doors—moments half-lived and stories left unfinished. Buried within these pages is a message the library has been trying to share, urging Claire to uncover the path to saving it. With the demolition looming and time running out, Claire must piece together what the library is trying to show her. But one book keeps calling her back, and in its pages is a memory that could change everything. One that reveals the key to saving the library may be tangled in her own memories more than she ever could have imagined. An ode to the power of community and hope, The Memory of Borrowed Books is a sweeping story about what’s at stake when the places we love—and the memories they hold—are threatened. A reminder that what we fight to preserve just might be the very thing that saves us in return.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books       Kobo

REAP & SOW by Charlotte B Plumb

The penniless in Blackbridge have only two choices: Sell the body or sell the soul. And thanks to Eda Shaw, business is booming. Indentured to a capricious demon known as Mr. Night, Eda and her brothers arrange illicit Pacts on his behalf, luring the city’s most desperate into trading years of their lives for their deepest desires. When a Pact goes awry and her brothers are arrested, Eda realizes she’ll need an infernal ally of her own: Kit’rath, an infuriating demon with a curious penchant for humanity and the only being in Blackbridge that Mr. Night seems to fear. As they race to rescue her family and save the city from ruin, an undeniable connection sparks between mortal and demon. But Kit’s help doesn’t come cheap. Now Eda risks losing her heart to the one who claims her years—and saving herself may prove the steepest cost of all.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books     Kobo

IN YOUR LIGHT (TENEBRAE COVE SERIES BOOK FOUR) by N R Walker

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

Hadeom had always revelled in the darkness. The belief that he was doing the righteous thing fed him, sustained him. But as time stretched on, the world around him changed. Humans changed. And somewhere in the thick of it all, Hadeom lost his way. Fyn is the embodiment of sunshine and all things good in this world. His life in the faun camp he grew up in is simple and peaceful, but he yearns for more. He wants excitement. He wants love. He wants the tall, dark, and handsome stranger who’s lodging at the hut. As Hadeom heals and finds his true form again, he can no longer hide who he really is. His identity is revealed, and he knows Fyn deserves so much better than his darkness and shadows. But as humans threaten life in Tenebrae Cove, Hadeom must first fight his past, and Fyn must fight for Hadeom. Because after everything Hadeom has done, it will be Fyn who brings him out of the darkness and into the light.     AmazonKU

THE SECRETS OF EVERLIGHT (SHATTERED KINGDOMS BOOK ONE) by Julie Hall

For nineteen years, Rowan has fought to survive: first on the streets scavenging for scraps, then bound by a decade-long contract to a corrupt master. She longs for freedom but spends her days stealing from the highborn to pay off her servitude. When a mysterious fae buys her contract, Rowan seizes her chance to escape. But her freedom comes at a price: she must uncover the assassin targeting Prince Dryden of the Ember Kingdom. To do so, she will pose as a princess among the royals competing for his hand in marriage. Thrust into a world of silks and finery, Rowan has just weeks to master her role while hunting a killer hidden in plain sight. Eavesdropping and sneaking through gilded halls may come naturally, but the bonds she forms with the other princesses—and Dryden’s growing interest in her—are complications that threaten to unravel everything. As whispers of danger beyond the kingdom rise, Rowan realizes the stakes are far greater than she imagined. And every stolen glance with the prince pulls her closer to a desire that could cost her not only her future but the kingdom itself.     Amazon     AB       Apple Books      Kobo

THIS SHATTERED TEMPEST: HURRICANE WARS FINALE by Thea Guanzon

When the storm swallows the world, who will be left standing? Throughout their political marriage, Alaric and Talasyn struggled to resist the undeniable pull between them, even as rising tensions forced them on opposite sides of a looming war. Hand in hand, they vanquished the cataclysmic threat of the Moonless Dark—and started to hope for a future together. That hope is shattered when a devastating attack sets off a chain of events that tears them apart once more. Now, as two rival nations prepare for a final, decisive clash, the Master of the Shadowforged Legion and the last Lightweaver fight to find their way back to each other. But the odds are stacked against them, and time is running out…Is love enough to rewrite destiny? Can a new beginning rise from the ruins of the past? Or are Alaric and Talasyn doomed to meet as enemies on one last battlefield? This explosive third and final book brings the beloved Hurricane Wars series to a stunning conclusion—where passion and power collide, and the fate of a divided world hangs in the balance.        Amazon     AB       Apple Books       Kobo

WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHTFALL: A NOVEL by Lauren Willig

In the sprawling Gothic expanse of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, some secrets refuse to stay buried. Recently laid off and searching for purpose, Jess reluctantly joins her best friend on a supposedly fun nighttime cemetery tour. Separated from her group by accident, she discovers a bunch of terrified boys and a strange, ancient key. Both lead to Green-Wood’s surprisingly handsome resident arborist, Adam Chervinsky. Recently widowed, Adam has more to protect than the leafy residents of Green-Wood. His children, still dealing with the loss of their mother, are acting strangely. A haunting is afoot, and Jess seems to know more than she’s letting on. Sparks fly between Jess and Adam—and the unquiet spirits of Green-Wood rise from their century-long slumber. As Jess and Adam delve deeper into the cemetery’s haunted history, they uncover a Gilded Age curse, a ghostly socialite, and a demonic pact that stretches across generations. What lies hidden in the Green-Wood’s splendid Vanderwilt mausoleum? As the line between the living and the dead blurs, and the shadows of Green-Wood begin to stir with malevolent intent, Jess must confront not only the supernatural forces but a shocking connection to the past if she and Adam truly want to live happily ever after.      Amazon     AB       Apple Books       Kobo

TAUNTING THE GHOST: MMM PNR (HALLOWEEN TEMPTATIONS)  by Pat Lewis

Caleb had a secret. The kind that would destroy his tough guy reputation as the enforcer on his college hockey team. Not that he was gay – that’d be easier to hide. He had a girlfriend, he couldn’t be gay. No, it was much worse. He was afraid of ghosts. And now he was trapped in a cabin in the woods. It was haunted. The ghost knew his secret. And strange things kept happening. Like falling forward and kissing his best friend Isaac. The ghost had pushed him! And now Isaac wanted to try being filled. They had nothing better to do. It’s not gay if he’s the one doing the filling, right?     AmazonKU

MATING HER DRAGON (DRAGON GUARD LEGACY BOOK THREE) by Julia Mills

Fate made them Mates. Choosing each other could open the road to Hell. Sydney Kavanaugh has spent her life being told she is the Special One—a prophecy, a Dragon Queen, a power the Universe has been waiting centuries to unleash. She’s done letting Destiny make her decisions. Garrett Acheson survived a hundred years of imprisonment, torture, and a Demon Lord determined to turn him into something he was never meant to be. Now he’s finally free, reunited with his Dragon King, and standing beside the one woman he was born to love. But freedom came with a price. Buried deep within Garrett’s soul is a scar that was never meant to heal—a doorway between Realms created by an Ancient Elven Sorceress and connected to the Demon Lord still waiting on the other side. And completing their Mating may be exactly what he needs to open it. Sydney and Garrett have one choice: walk away from the Bond the Universe created…Or finish it on their terms. Because Leviathan thinks Mating her Dragon will finally give him the Special One. He’s about to discover the door swings both ways. Fate may have brought them together, but this time, Destiny doesn’t get the final say.      Amazon      Apple Books      Kobo

SASQUATCH’S MATE (NORTHERN REALMS) by AC Ruttan

His secret heartache…Caleb is happy for his brothers who have found love, but inside his heart is broken and cold. Worst of all, he can’t tell anyone why. It’s his secret. He’s had a mate, but she’s been missing for years. Caleb still yearns for her and blames himself for her disappearance. Now, he knows who took her and he’s out for revenge! Colette doesn’t remember much, except that she’s been trapped in a dark cell for a long time. At least she has her child. She doesn’t know her son’s father, but remembers the love deep in her heart. Now, she’s worried her captors will take away her son. She has to escape, but doesn’t know how. All she wants is freedom and safety for her and her child. Her wish is granted. A tall, hairy beast comes to her rescue. He seems familiar. He’s quiet, but gentle with them both and has the same eyes as her son. Could he be her missing mate? She’s completely drawn to him, her silent protector. And even though she doesn’t know him, her body longs for his touch. Caleb can’t believe he has Colette back in his life and he’ll do his best to make her remember him and keep her and his son safe. She’s his mate. His. However, her former captors won’t let her go without a fight and the northern realm has to band together to protect their own.       AmazonKU

STORM OF A SONG (FALLING KINGDOMS BOOK SIX) by M Lynn and Melissa A Craven

A fragile truce. A rising tide. A love the world will not forgive. The seas have not been appeased, the dragons have not departed, and prophecy has only tightened its grip. Prince Damien Maris has done everything required of him—denied his heart, shouldered a broken crown, and bound himself to a future devoid of love. Yet the waters continue to rise, as if daring him to fail. Odessa Chrysos was never meant to return to prophecy’s grasp. Exiled, hardened, and determined to pay for the sins of her past, she agreed to stand beside Damien only as a solution—never as a temptation. Never as something more. But the song beneath Sheema is changing. Ancient magic stirs in the flooded tunnels below the city. Dragons answer calls no one remembers making. And the closer Damien and Odessa grow, the more the prophecy seems to watch… and wait. Because it was never just about love. It was about choice. And the price of defying fate is far steeper than either of them imagined. As alliances strain and the sea threatens to claim everything, Damien and Odessa must decide what they are willing to sacrifice—each other, their people, or the land itself.

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SHARED WITH THE PACK: SPICY MMMM SHIFTER ROMANCE (HALLOWEEN TEMPTATIONS) by J J Jude

One runaway witch. Three alpha werewolves. A happily ever fated (and mated) Halloween. I’m supposed to be walking down the aisle. Offering my neck to a fanged immortal to secure an alliance between my coven and a vampire clan. Instead, I grab my broomstick and fly directly into the eye of a storm to escape my wedding. I think I’m finally free. I thought wrong. I end up crash landing in the dark woods. Lost. Hurt. Alone. My rescue comes from the most unlikely source: a pack of rugged werewolves. Griff, the grumpy leader. Ridge, the gentle giant. Heath, the feral one. Shifters hate witches. Yet these flannel-clad beasts don’t hesitate to help me. Taken to their rustic cabin, they tend to my wounds. Each promises to protect me. They keep calling me mate. I’m about to learn everything my coven kept hidden from me. My first lesson? How to be shared between all three of my unlikely rescuers.      AmazonKU

POSTPARTUM SPELLS AND INFANT HELLS (MYSTICAL MIDLIFE IN MAINE BOOK 21) bty Brenda Trim

Two weeks of peace. That’s all I got. After defeating the Harvesters, I thought my biggest challenge would be functioning on zero sleep with three-month-old triplets. Lucky for me, supernatural motherhood has a few more surprises in store. Like ghost children appearing in my nursery. Translucent kids with haunting silver eyes, begging for help I don’t know how to give. And the thing that’s hunting them is also hunting my babies. Of course, I can’t just let lost souls suffer. So despite the warnings, despite the cost (hello, instant aging), I perform a ritual to help them cross over. Because that’s what we do in this family—we help, even when it’s stupid. Big mistake. Huge. Turns out, saving those echo children caught the attention of something ancient. Something that’s been stealing convergence-born children for centuries, trapping them in a place between worlds. And my triplets? They’re broadcasting their location like a magical lighthouse. Now I’ve got a choice: hide and hope this thing gets bored, or figure out what the hell it’s building with all those stolen children before it comes for mine. You know me. I’m not great at hiding. So even though I’m sleep deprived, it’s time to go on offense and take the fight to an entity that can literally reshape reality. With a network of questionable allies, a familiar who thinks I’m insane, and a husband who’s definitely not thrilled about me using our babies as bait. What could possibly go wrong?       AmazonKU

QUEENS WILL PLAY (OTHERWORLD UNLEASHED BOOK ONE) by Yasmine Galenorn

We’re the D’Artigo Sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Delilah is a werecat and also the consort of the Autumn Lord. She’s finding out that motherhood to an Elemental princess isn’t so easy. And Menolly? She’s living on the edge of the Crimson Veil and neck-deep in vampire politics. As for me? I’m Camille–a wicked-good witch and now, the Queen of Dusk and Twilight. Life in the royal Fae Courts has it’s issues, and now I’m stuck in the middle of a delicate situation that could blow sky=high with one wrong move…Two years has passed since Shadow Wing bit the big one. Now that the dust has settled, we’re adapting to our new roles. But not all is safe, sound, and comfy. The Queen of Darkness and Night is furious with Vanzir, and out for revenge, putting me smack in the middle of their argument. Meanwhile, I discover a new type of astral nasty is threatening a friend, and to the dismay of my advisors, I enlist my sisters to help find out what the creature is, where it’s from, and how to stop it before my friend ends up dead.       Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

MANE BREW (MISTVALE FILES BOOK FOUR) by Milly Taiden

She’s 100% chaos. He’s 100% documentation. Together, they’re 200% trouble. Zephyra Grimwood is a brew witch whose magic hasn’t behaved since her familiar died. Her Mistvale brewery is a haven for mishaps, featuring everything from sentient foam to beer that makes alpha shifters speak in rhymes. She’s mostly fine with the chaos until her latest batch triggers a shared historical hallucination that hits every supernatural in town. Now, she has to solve a mystery while ignoring the fact that the grumpy lion investigator has a pair of hands she’s spent four years trying not to notice. Rhodes Blackthorn, the Pride Leader of the Sunridge Lions, is a man who schedules sunbathing, color-codes his filing cabinets, and has a fifty-three-page file dedicated solely to Zephyra’s safety violations. He’s officially assigned to investigate Zeph’s latest brewing disaster. But between bickering over alphabetized ingredient jars and surviving magical explosions, he’s struggling to file away the realization that her magic is the only thing that makes his orderly heart skip a beat. To save Mistvale from an ancient curse, the lion and the witch must admit that their professional antagonism is actually fated devotion. It’s time to find out if love can be properly categorized.    AmazonKU

GRIZZLY BUSINESS by Kala Aster and Milly Taiden

Every instinct in me says protect the secret. Every look at her says protect her instead. Nora Ellis came to Graywater Cove to study seals. She has no idea the harbor’s biggest mystery walks on two legs. Just one problem…My eight-year-old already picked her out for me. She’s sharp. Steady. Patient with things nobody else is. Like a guarded widower who gives her nothing to work with. My job is keeping this clan hidden. My heart just outed itself instead. Somewhere between the tide pools and my daughter’s laughter, careful stops being something I can afford. She thinks she’s just documenting seals. She’s about to find out what’s really guarding this coastline. And how far it’ll go to protect what’s his. I buried my heart once already. I’m not burying this too.      AmazonKU

THE PANTHER’S EDGE: GAY MM SPICY PNR ROMANCE (BATHHOUSE BEASTS BPOOK 16) by Blake R Wolfe

A burnt-out nurse. An exclusive bathhouse. And a werepanther who will keep him teetering on the edge of bliss for as long as it takes…Wes has worked the ER night shift for seventeen years, leaving his life empty, lonely, and hopelessly stuck in the dark. After the heartbreaking loss of a beloved patient, he breaks down in the parking garage. Recognizing a man on the edge, his seasoned charge nurse hands him an address to an unmarked warehouse and orders him to take his long weekend to go feel alive again. The address leads Wes to a discreet, men-only bathhouse where anyone can let go and just exist. After indulging in the main pool, a kind stranger gifts Wes an expensive private session with the house masseur. Ravi is a hulking, gorgeous werepanther whose treatment plan is as thorough as it is unconventional. Binding Wes in pure pleasure, the massive panther uses warm oil, gentle words, and a deep massage to strip away years of emotional armor. Under Ravi’s careful, commanding touch, Wes finally surrenders the crushing weight of his loneliness, discovering that letting go might just be the exact medicine he needs to start living again.       AmazonKU

HEARTFLAME: GAY DRAGON SHIFTER MM PNR ACADEMY ROMANCE (WIDDERSHINS ACADEMY BOOK EIGHT) by Blake R Wolfe

A stubborn witch. A rare red dragon. A bond he doesn’t dare name… And a betrayal that brings a whole world down. Quill: I don’t chase legends. I chase mileage. Run the course, go to class, keep my head down. Graduate, go home, and drag my parents’ failing potion shop into this century. That’s the plan. I’ve never needed a better one. Then Aeron Pyre walks through the gates. A red dragon — the first at Widdershins in two hundred years, grandson of the dragon who runs the Elder Council, and so far up his own tail he can’t see daylight. The entire academy loses its mind over him. But I want nothing to do with him. Apparently that makes me the most interesting person on campus, because now he’s on my running route. Across the table in the library. In the doorway of every room I walk into, smirking like he already knows how this ends. He says he’s going to make me beg for it. What he won’t say is why he’s started looking at me like I’m something he’s terrified of losing. Aeron: Dragons choose once. One mate, one time, out of a life that runs for centuries. I’m eighty-five, practically a teenage, and planning to spend the next eighty exactly like the first. No titles, no politics, no promises, no committment. Then I ended up in the dark with a mouthy ginger witch who hates everything about me, and a word surfaced in me like it had been waiting there since I hatched. Mate. He can’t know. Not while he…(more blueb on ebook seller’s page)      AmazonKU    AB

BOUGHT BY THE MASKED CANTOR (MONSTERS’ BRIDE MARKET) by Cara Wylde

I’ve been worshipped. I’ve never been loved. For centuries, I’ve lived alone. Cantors are rare, and we can’t stay together. Our song poisons minds. People kneel, build cults around us, and forget they ever wanted anything but to please us. I’ve imagined a companion for longer than I care to admit. Someone of flesh and blood to sit next to me, speak to me because that is what she wishes. A woman whose affection I could trust. A foolish dream. I’ve never allowed myself to hope. Then, one night, the people above lower an offering into my den. A bride with pale hair, bright eyes, and skin marred by deep scars, yet beautiful enough to make me ache. I dread the moment my voice will steal her mind. My first words to her are that I will not harm her. She shakes her head, points at her ear, and tells me: “I’m deaf.” She can’t hear me. She can’t be compelled by my song. Whatever she thinks of me, whatever she feels, belongs to her. I promise myself I will free her. Too soon I discover it was easy to be unselfish when I had nothing I wanted to keep.    AmazonKU

JEALOUS JINXES (A LUNA THORN WITCHY MYSTERY) by Amanda M Lee

Luna Thorn has a lot on her plate. Between construction at the Cathedral — she’s getting a second greenhouse, thank you very much — and all the pesky time travel stuff she’s been dealing with, she doesn’t have time for much else. Of course, that’s when her boyfriend, Jesse, has a past girlfriend show up … and she seems interested in getting her high school paramour back. She’s going to ply him with baked goods until he sees things her way, at the very least. Luna would love to work up a full head of jealous steam, but she has one other problem to deal with. It seems she’s fallen victim to a bad luck curse. What’s worse is that she’s not the only one suffering. A myriad of do-gooders—people who donate their time and money to help those less fortunate, like the homeless—are literally being jinxed to death. And who is investigating it? The one man who has something to gain if he can cover up the death of Luna, along with the others. That’s right, her father. He’s knee deep in jinxes and jealousies of his own. The Grimlocks are determined to keep Luna safe, whatever it takes, even as she’s determined to keep her distance from them. She won’t let her bad luck rub off on the people she loves most. With time running out, though, Luna is her own worst enemy. It’s going to be a fight to the finish to figure out who jinxed her, and what that means for everybody Luna holds dear.
Something evil is afoot in Detroit, and it’s coming for Luna. Again.      AmazonKU

PUMPKIN’S WICKED PATCH (SEASONAL SIN MONSTERS) by M Q Rush

VS Note: Also listed in Erotica.

I came to this creepy farm looking for a scoop. Instead, I became the harvest. The pumpkins look like peens. Seriously. Every gourd at this pumpkin patch is anatomically indecent, and what kind of agriculture journalist would I be if I didn’t find out why? My nosy instincts are on fire, leading me straight to the source. Too bad the source turns out to be a menacing plant-man who refuses to let me go. Rootface is huge, with a pumpkin for a head and thick roots making up his body. He’s obsessed with my plus-size curves, and he plans to sow his roots deep inside me. I’m putting up a fight, like any smart person would. But what if he finds out my body’s begging to be plowed?      AmazonKU

HUNGRY FOR THE VAMPIRE: SPICY MM COLLEGE ROMANCE (HALLOWEEN TEMPATIONS by Sylvia Wetwood

I want him to hold me in his big arms all night long. Getting lost in the woods isn’t fun. Getting cornered by wolves is even worse. Getting saved by a huge guy in a cape…well, that part I liked.
Roman goes to my college, but we’ve never really talked. Now, I’m wondering how I never noticed him before. And after saving me in the woods, Roman seems very protective of me. He wants to spend a lot of time together. The strange thing is…I want to be with him, too. I’ve never felt this way about another guy before. And I’m so focused on his ripped body and his surprising sweetness, I hardly have time to wonder how he scared off a pack of wolves, or how he gets from place to place so fast without a car. Roman can have his secrets. I just know there’s something that I want to tell him.    AmazonKU

LORD OF TIDES: GREEK MYTHOLOGY RETELLING by K D Stark

Gods watch. Men bleed. Tides rise. Lord of Tides is a retelling of Homer’s Odyssey as a dark, character-driven epic in which the journey home proves to be the most brutal trial of all, and the greatest threat Odysseus faces is the man he must become along the way. The war is over. Troy has fallen. And Odysseus, king of Ithaca and architect of the war’s brutal victory, turns his fleet toward home, not knowing the harrowing journey that lies ahead. When he earns the wrath of Poseidon, storms scatter his ships. Monsters rise from the deep and men vanish beneath waves. With every trial, the cost of survival grows steeper, and honor erodes as Odysseus comes to understand the man who reaches Ithaca may not be the one who left its shores. But in Ithaca, Penelope fights a different kind of war. With Odysseus gone, wolves have come to the kingdom to claim its throne and queen. Led by ruthless Antinous, they camp on Ithaca’s shores and abuse its wealth and people while Penelope works tirelessly to preserve peace and raise their son, Telemachus. When Odysseus at last sets foot on Ithaca, he arrives not as a king but as a grief-worn outcast. His men, gone. His palace, overrun. His wife and son, besieged by strange men. But for every ruin, there is a reckoning…Now the tides turn.    Amazon

EAGLE EYE (KING OF PREY BOOK EIGHT) by Mandy M Roth

An ancient eagle warrior with a sworn grudge. A human bartender running from a past she doesn’t understand. And a collision on a dark city street that changes everything. Alok of the Eagles has spent centuries fighting wars and decades nursing a blood feud against the ruthless vultures who shattered his family. Stationed in the concrete chaos of New York City to track dangerous enemy cells, the battle-hardened commander never expects to be knocked flat on his back by a tiny mortal woman. Kelsey Nesbit is just trying to survive. Juggling three jobs, dodging city creepers, and shaking off childhood memories of her late mother’s ravings about “demons with wings,” she keeps her head down and keeps moving. But when a late-night commute turns into a terrifying chase, she collides headfirst with a golden-eyed stranger who feels impossible, lethal, and intoxicatingly safe. One touch ignites a primal fire neither of them can control. When deadly predators shatter her apartment door to tear Kelsey away, Alok will unleash every lethal instinct he possesses to protect her. But Kelsey is tied to a dangerous secret that threatens to upend two realms—and with enemies closing in, the raptor who swore off mercy will have to risk everything to keep her safe.       Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

THE TRUTHS WE HOLD: GREYSON ACADEMY YEAR THREE by Serenity Rayne

The world knows what she is now. The world is still deciding what to do about it. Ashley Dawn walked out of Greyson Academy’s shadows with crimson wings and a Voice that freezes Hunters where they stand and the quiet knowledge that the girl she used to be is not coming back. The institution can’t eliminate what three hundred witnesses saw. So it’s doing something worse — it’s evaluating her. Wrapping the bridge in six months of procedure while the people who built the broken world figure out how to keep it broken. She has a possessive ancient vampire whose claim on her predates her birth and whose darkness shelters her the way only a fated mate bond can. She has a forbidden professor who burned his career to the ground and would burn the rest of the world to follow. She has a Voice that rewrites minds and shadows that think for themselves and the growing, structural weight of every morally grey choice she’s made to survive. What she doesn’t have is the third bond. The prophecy carved in bedrock says three. Blood. Fire. And something else — a light she hasn’t met, a presence her vampire hasn’t named in centuries, an ancient force walking toward her from a distance measured in time, not miles. He is coming. And when he arrives, Ashley will discover that the bridge between shadow and light requires something she hasn’t been asked to give yet. The harbinger rose. The institution answered. And from the deep places where the world was broken, the missing piece begins to move.      AmazonKU

BEAR AND BOOK (SUGARPAW SPRINGS BOOK THREE) by Fel Fern and Ria Lake

VS Note: MM PNR.

He’s sunshine and cinnamon rolls. His fated mate? A grumpy, reclusive fox shifter. Leo has always been the easygoing one, Sugarpaw Springs’ golden-retriever bear shifter, quick with a smile and always ready to help. But when a storm sends him to repair a damaged bookstore, he meets Elias, the prickly, older fox shifter who wants nothing to do with him. Elias has built walls around his heart after a painful past, and the last thing he needs is a younger, overly cheerful bear barging into his sanctuary. Yet fate does not care what he wants. The bond between them crackles stronger with every touch, every glance, every argument that feels far too much like flirting. When danger from Elias’s old life slinks back into Sugarpaw Springs, Leo refuses to let go. He may be soft around the edges, but when it comes to protecting his fated mate, this bear has claws.       AmazonKU

BANE BLOOM by Sharon Lynn Fisher

In 1850, Catherine Gray, a botanical illustrator from London, travels to a remote estate in the Lake District to catalog and paint the specimens thriving in a mysterious glasshouse garden. The most bewildering find is a water lily that somehow alters its appearance. Nearly as puzzling is Thomas Bane, the brooding groundskeeper, who closely guards the estate’s secrets—including the disappearance of Catherine’s predecessor. The mystery deepens when Catherine discovers the diary of Prudence Bane, Thomas’s late mother, which contains revelations about the odd flora and its hold on a family touched by madness. The more she uncovers, the more the line between fantasy and reality—and superstition and fact—begins to blur. Unable to trust her own thoughts, Catherine draws closer to Thomas, her only anchor in this strange place. But even he can’t fully protect her from the house and his otherworldly family. Only Catherine can break the Bane family’s cycle of heartbreak…but first she’ll have to confront her own.       Amazon

LITTLE CURSE OF DEATH (CREATURE CAFE SERIES BOOK 20) by Clio Evans

Creatures of all kinds go to the Barista to find love. But some fated mates bonds are cursed. Like the one between Layla and Death himself. Death is trying to make things right. He’s picked a new, less ominous name to go by—Nox. He’s attempted to understand why his body suddenly feels desire after an eternity of nothing. He’s even tried to reason with the little reaper who haunts him. But Layla is determined to take matters into her own hands. When her world is ripped apart, she rushes to the only place that might have the answers. Hell. Unfortunately, that means Layla is not in the realm she is meant to be, and her former fated mate has no choice but to hunt her down and return her to where she belongs. Did fate truly make a mistake, or will Layla and Nox finally get their own happy ending?   AmazonKU

TRICK OR TREAT FOR THE DESPERATE DEVIL by C D Gorri

Love was the last thing I was looking for—but in Arrhythmia, every trick comes with a treat. There’s nothing normal about Arrhythmia, Texas—and I should know. I’m Damian Leeds, resident Jersey Devil, professional recluse, and currently one magical mishap away from losing control completely. My magic is running amok. My shifts are getting harder to control. And according to every supernatural law I’d rather ignore, there’s only one thing that can fix me. My fated mate. Too bad I’ve given up on finding her. Then Belinda Ramos rolls into town and reopens her recently deceased aunt’s haunted bed-and-breakfast. She’s a Witch with practically no magic, my brand-new neighbor, and a walking invitation for everything I hate. Her B&B caters to lovesick newlyweds, honeymooners, and longtime couples looking to rekindle the romance. In other words, my own personal hell. With Halloween approaching, I decide a few well-placed tricks might convince Belinda—and her ridiculously romantic clientele—to leave me in peace. Except Belinda doesn’t scare easily. And the more I try to drive her away, the more my Devil wants her close. Turns out my annoying new neighbor isn’t just the Witch next door. She’s my fated mate. And this desperate Devil just found the one Halloween treat he intends to keep forever.

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RAVISHED BY THE RAVENS: SPICY MMM SHIFTER ROMANCE (HALLOWEEN TEMPTATIONS) by T M Moon

“Do you normally snatch people from the woods?” “No, only you,” one answers. “Because you’re ours,” the other adds. Asher takes the long way home, not wanting to feel the loneliness of his apartment just yet. In the woods, he comes across two strange ravens. They follow him, croak at him, and dance around him until he can’t look away. And when they turn into humans right before his eyes—Asher doesn’t want to leave them. So, they whisk him away to their castle. They’re broad, covered in tattoos, and demanding. And they keep calling him theirs. They teach him things about pleasure he’s never experienced. Twice the men. Twice the fun. And twice the chances to rile them up until they snap.     AmazonKU

BOUND AND UNBOUND: PNR NOVELLA DUOLOGY by Ali Hazelwood

Bound – A reluctant con artist and a professor with too many secrets are bound by an arcane text—in more ways than one. Veronica “Vero” Mercer grew up with grifters for parents, and she knows her way around a con. When grad school bills pile up and her friends are in trouble, she turns her art history skills into a forgery side hustle. It’s supposed to be a short term deal, but her work draws the attention of Dr. Viktor Ashworth, a reserved, very British professor. Instead of turning her in, Ashworth kidnaps her—politely—and makes an unusual offer: forge a mysterious ancient manuscript for him. Soon Vero finds herself spending long nights with Viktor, bent over rare vellum samples and obscure inks. But as the con grows riskier, Vero has to wonder: what does Viktor really want, and why can’t she stay away? Unbound – A five-thousand-year-old woman who has outlived empires. A doctor who has spent his life fighting death. They fates collide in a blood game of vengeance. Lilit of Nineveh has spent millennia in control. As a powerful revenant, she enforces one rule above all: protect mortals. Disciplined and focused, she has never made the same mistake twice, and she has learned that attachments can only lead to ruin. Enter Roman Martin. An overworked and relentlessly kind ER physician, he is the one mortal Lilit cannot quit. Any relationship between them is against everything Lilit has fought for. Still, she keeps coming back to him. Until someone starts hunting Lilit, and Roman is caught in the crossfire. When everything comes crashing down, Lilit must choose between the world she has sworn to protect and the man she was never meant to love.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

INFINITE RAGE (HERCULES MUST DIE BOOK TWO) by Eliza Raine

The stakes could not be higher in the Immortality Trials. With four crews competing for eternal life, nothing is off limits. Alliances and enemies are made, and secrets are formed and shared. But Lyssa still doesn’t know why Alexios bound himself to her. Their fake relationship is holding up to scrutiny, but behind closed doors, she can’t stop herself reacting to him. In all the wrong ways. Worse, she still doesn’t know how to kill her father. He’s too strong, and his cruelty grows daily. With the people she loves in constant danger, she’s starting to wonder if her revenge mission has come at too high a cost.   AmazonKU

LOOKING FOR SETH (JINX PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 16) by Laura Greenwood

Avoiding goddesses was easy until Seth started to fall for one…Seth prefers to live his life away from the other gods, and that definitely means avoiding dating one. But when he turns up to a speed dating event to discover the woman he’s been talking to online is a goddess, everything could change.
Menhit never meant to hide her identity from Seth, but not having realised who he was when they first started talking, she’s now in too deep to want to walk away. Can she convince him to take a chance on their budding relationship? Looking for Seth is a mythology-inspired paranormal m/f romance and part of the Jinx Paranormal Dating Agency series. It features a reclusive Egyptian god of chaos, a determined war goddess who isn’t afraid to pull him out of his shell, dating app flirtations, and a case of mistaken identity.       Amazon     Apple Books     NOTE: Did not see the book on Kobo yet as of the day I checked

RIDING THE REAPER (HALLOWEEN TEMPTATIONS) by Lucas Blaze

VS Note: MM PNR.

Death never looked this good. Halloween night. Freshly dumped by my girlfriend in front of the whole party. And now there’s a Grim Reaper in the woods telling me he’s here to collect my soul. Sure, buddy. Great costume. But I’m enjoying his little roleplay. And secretly, this six-foot-seven tower of muscle in that dark robe is exactly what I’ve been craving. I’ve spent years fantasizing about a big dude stretching me open. I just never had the guts to admit it out loud. And hey, I’m about to die, right? So maybe he can give me one last ride before I go.      AmazonKU

BETROTHED TO THE BONE KING (MONSTER MATRIMONY FILES BOOK SIX) by Evangeline Priest

She expected a monster. She got a king who memorized the world for her. When Reverie Datura agrees to a Monster Matrimony match, she’s running out of options. Her eyesight is fading, life inside Sanctuary is becoming harder every day, and a monster husband offers stability, protection… and apparently, a crown. But she wasn’t prepared for Sevaereth. The Bone King rules a strange kingdom suspended between realms—a land of moonlit gardens, ancient magic, wandering souls, and mischievous bone fairies. Hidden behind a mask of carved bone and a rack of imposing horns, he looks like something pulled from a nightmare. Yet beneath his fearsome appearance is a patient, tender ruler who notices every hesitation, every stumble, every detail Reverie can no longer see for herself. As Reverie learns to navigate the enchanting realm between worlds and Sevaereth slowly lowers the mask around his lonely heart, an arranged marriage begins to feel like something far more dangerous. Like love. Even at the edge of darkness…Reverie can still find her happily ever after.   AmazonKU

VASMORA (THE EATING WOODS) by Keri Lake

Fate has never been entirely kind to Maevyth Bronwick. Though, after having survived a sinister plague, grotesque monsters, and gut-wrenching tragedy, she never imagined things could possibly get worse. But cursed gods, she was wrong. It seems fate was only sharpening its claws. Ensnared in the golden gauntlet of the most sadistic general in Aethyria, Maevyth faces the wrath of a jealous tyrant who longs to watch her suffer a slow and painful ruin. A torment said to be worse than death. Without the protection of her blood magic, Maevyth is no more than a powerless mortal and must fight the urge to succumb to the cruelty. Not an easy task, given the devastating loss she refuses to accept—and rightly so. Because Zevander “The Scorpion” Rydainn isn’t dead, after all. He’s very much alive and seething with vengeance. Brimming with rage. Merciless in his pursuit to reclaim his beloved mate and bring the ancient godsflame to anyone who stands in his way. A necessary brutality when a slumbering god awakens and Aethyria’s foretold destruction reignites the hunt of those who seek Maevyth’s precious blood. Prophecies will unravel. Walls will crumble. Kingdoms will fall. And through it all, a monolith of truth stands unbroken: Their love may conquer all, but death will tear them apart.       AmazonKU

IMMORTAL VAMPIRES OF LONDON by Colleen Gleason

VS Note: Re-releases.

Dark and decadent, Immortal Vampires of London gathers three full-length Regency vampire romances—sultry, witty, and shadowed with danger—following the immortal Dracule and the mortal Woodmore siblings whose fates become bound to theirs. Three immortal rogues. Three mortal hearts. One decadent trilogy. Immortal Rogue. After centuries of lust and hedonism, Voss, the Viscount Dewhurst, is rarely bored—a rogue of the first order who wants little more than a warm woman, an excellent vintage, and a puzzle to occupy his mind. Then one of his idle manipulations sets him on a course to seduce the beautiful Angelica Woodmore, and nothing stays simple, or safe, for long. Immortal Saint. For decades, Dimitri, the Earl of Corvindale, has denied himself every pleasure in a grim bid to break his covenant with the devil. But when he’s made guardian to two young women—among them the maddening, stubborn Lady Maia Woodmore—the solitude he’s armored himself in begins to crack. Immortal Siren. Trained as a warrior and enslaved by her brother Cezar, the cruelest of all the Dracule, Narcise has every reason to trust no man—not even Giordan Cale, who vows to free her, and whose promise gives way to a betrayal that shatters her. Her one hope may lie with vampire hunter Chas Woodmore, a man who wants her, worships her, and will kill for her.     AmazonKU

AMUSING THE ANGEL OF DEATH (HALLOWEEN TEMPTATIONS): SPICY MM PNR by J B Warrick

“You are delightful, especially when you run.” Publicly dumping my girlfriend at a frat house Halloween party should be the most dramatic thing to happen to me this semester. Then I take a short cut on the way home. He’s waiting in the trees, shirtless, sporting a pair of black angel wings. And wearing a grin like he’s been bored for a thousand years and has finally found someone who sparks his interest. I’m not gay. He doesn’t seem to care. He’s already waited centuries for me, and he’s not waiting any longer. He’s not here for my soul. He’s here for the rest of me.    AmazonKU

THE PROMISE OF THE GILDED FLAME (THE FAE SPARK TRILOGY BOOK THREE) by Jen L Grey

One moment, Kai was holding me beneath the stars. The next, his castle exploded. Now its heart is destroyed, its magic is gone, and the Night King is closer than ever to unleashing the New Night. And Dusk won’t be the last court to fall. Something inside me is changing too. Magic is answering me in ways I don’t understand, secrets are surfacing, and the bond between Kai and me has become impossible to ignore. Especially when I can feel exactly how far he’d go to keep me. Kai would burn every kingdom in this realm before letting anyone take me from him. The problem is, he’d sacrifice himself just as quickly to save me. He should know by now I’d never let him. With the courts unraveling and the Night King closing in, we’re running out of time. Because whatever Fate has been leading us toward, stopping the New Night may cost us the one thing neither of us is willing to lose. Each other.      AmazonKU

BOUND BY THE SCARRED MOON (BONDS OF SILVER AND SPELL BOOK ONE) by Hannah Haze

An enemies-to-lovers why choose romance where fate bites deep, desire is dangerous, and love is most definitely forbidden. I was trained to kill shifters—not fall into their arms. I clawed my way out of the orphanage to the top of the academy—twenty stars on my belt, one for every shifter I’ve killed, and a single promise in my heart: make them pay for the family they stole from me. Then one mistake sends me plummeting toward death—and into the grasp of the enemy’s most feared alpha. He doesn’t kill me. He saves me. Then he sinks his teeth into my arm and marks me as his mate, binding me to the monster I swore to destroy. A mage marked by a shifter is a dead mage. A mage who hides it is a traitor. If the academy finds the bite, I won’t be punished. I’ll be erased. But the wound won’t heal. My senses are sharpening into something inhuman. I’m becoming the very thing I’ve spent my whole life learning to hate—and the alpha whose bond now runs in my blood isn’t the only one who’s caught my scent. A masked executioner is closing in on a bitten mage. A wolf who’s seen me in his visions won’t let me go. And something ancient is waking in the mountains—something that will hunt us all. I belonged to no one. Now fate has decided I belong to them.      AmazonKU

CROWN OF ASHES (DRAGON TRIALS BOOK THREE) by M K Dawson

The Fae stole our magic. Now I’m taking it back. I survived the Dragon Trials. I awakened an ancient and deeply unenthused dragon. And I made the lying, scheming dragon prince my husband. Now Fear and I are coming for the queen. Her monsters are tearing through the sky, my brother fights at her side, and the clans don’t know whether to follow us into war or beg for her mercy. If we can’t unite them, the queen will keep sending dragon shifters smoking to the pyres and crushing mortals beneath Fae boots. But I am the only one in the kingdom who can rip away the queen’s stolen power. I have a dragon of my own, Bismyth behind me, and my trickster prince at my side. I never wanted a crown. But I’ll turn hers to ashes.     AmazonKU

THE BAKER’S DRAGON MATE (SHIFTER NATION: MONTANA MATES) by Meg Ripley

A wolf shifter baker. A hot dragon uncle on babysitting duty. And five cupcake-fueled dragon toddlers who accidentally play matchmaker. Brianna Montclair has no time for romance. She’s finally living her dream: running a bakery with her best friend in Red Lodge, Montana. The hours are brutal, the to-do list never ends, and Brianna is determined to make her bakery a success. Then Flynn Ashford walks through the door with five sugar-hungry dragon toddlers in tow. He’s charming. Ridiculously handsome. And according to her wolf? Her mate. As if that weren’t complicated enough, meeting Flynn awakens magic Brianna never knew she had. Suddenly, her carefully organized life is spinning out of control. Flynn Ashford has been guarding the hidden dragon world beneath the mountains. But throughout the centuries, no challenge has been as great as babysitting his sister’s five toddlers. He bribes them with the promise of cupcakes. Then he meets Brianna at the bakery. Flynn falls first—and hard. Now, he’s juggling five dragon toddlers, stolen moments with Brianna, and the growing certainty that he wants a life he never imagined outside the mountain. But choosing his wolf mate could cost him his position, his home, and his place among his own kind. And as tensions rise between the dragons determined to stay hidden and those longing for freedom, Flynn must decide how much he’s willing to risk for the she-wolf his dragon has already chosen.     AmazonKU

A BOND SO DEADLY (FATED MATES OF SHADOWBONE ACADEMY BOOK THREE) by Mia Hartson

Graduates of Shadowbone Academy. Stand as one, our forgotten, lost warriors. For without you… there will be no times at all. When the queen finds out I’m fated to Thane and the others, I think my time is up, but now my bestie Blake, the demon queen, is here, and everything has changed. An unlikely alliance is forged, but there’s no telling how long it will last. If I’m going to survive, I need to claim my immortality, but even though I have most of my memories, I’m still prophesied to destroy my mates. Thane, Knox, Galen, Raith, and I work hard to unravel the truth, but in the end there’s only one thing we know for sure: one way or another, my mates and I are the ones who will end this war. I just hope that when the shadows clear, we’ll be standing over more than just ashes. Let the battle begin.        AmazonKU

BLOOD TIES (BLOOD CROWN DUET BOOK ONE) by Blake Quinn

As a probate solicitor, I was used to strange final instructions. None had ever sealed me under a country house with a starving vampire king. Stellan Varen was chained, dangerous and certain my blood was his way out. Staying in control grew harder when feeding him felt nothing like a sacrifice. Every willing bite loosened another chain and deepened the bond between us. Freeing Stellan was our only escape, but the vampire who imprisoned him was waiting for me to claim the Crown. If I did, he could force me to command Stellan to surrender his heartblood and steal the Blood King’s power for himself. Escaping meant trusting a king who first saw me as his way out. Failing meant becoming the weapon that killed him.      AmazonKU

SNATCHED BY THE SCARECROW (HOLIDAY HOOKUPS BOOK THREE) by Kayla Grosse

HARPER VEIL is looking for a fresh start. Leaving the city behind, she settles into an old farmhouse in the quiet town of Silas Valley, hoping a little peace and solitude will help her start over. Then she notices the scarecrow in her field. He’s been there for as long as anyone can remember. The townspeople swear he’s the reason their harvests are so bountiful, but there’s something about him Harper can’t quite shake. Something about the way he seems to watch her. When she’s invited to a small gathering on Halloween night, Harper expects a quiet evening with the locals, but she gets something else entirely. There’s more to Silas Valley than meets the eye…And the scarecrow in Harper’s field may be far more than straw and old clothes.       AmazonKU

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