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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CRASH COURSE (CLASS FIVE SERIES BOOK SEVEN) by Michelle Diener

VS Note: I LOVE her Class 5 series so I preordered this for sure!

A logistics problem just became a conspiracy . . .Fiona Russell is overseeing the logistics for Paxe’s rebuild of his Class 5 battleship, but when the slow delivery of parts dries up to nothing, she’s forced to go down to Balco, the planet beneath the way station she controls, and find the root cause of the problem. The trouble is, she more or less took Larga Ways from the Balcoans in an audacious power move the year before, and some of them are still not over it. Strange maneuvers on the border just became a flirtation with war . . .Grihan battleship captain Hal Vakeri’s job is to patrol the space boundary between the Grih and the Garmman, but when his ship picks up huge ships on the Garmman side, only for them to disappear faster than any ship should be able to, he realizes there’s a problem. Either the Garmman are playing games, or they’re getting more serious than the Grih are ready for. And both issues are about to come crashing down around them . . .When it becomes clear that Fee and Hal’s problems have the same players at their core, they’ll be forced to walk the line between diplomacy and conflict, and hope that Larga Ways is still standing at the end of it.   AmazonKU

ICE DRAGON’S HEART (DRAGONS ON MARS BOOK TWO) by Honey Phillips

All she wanted was to be left alone. Now, he’s her only chance for survival. Jaz came to the Martian pole for solitude, not company. Especially not the company of a seven-foot-tall alien who just turned her mining rig into a scrap heap in a fit of primal rage. Ajar is a creature of ice and fury, a dragon awakened from a frozen tomb, wounded and cornered. And thanks to the blizzard of the century, he’s her new roommate. As Jaz reluctantly nurses him back to health, his defensive rage gives way to an unexpected vulnerability. She sees the lost soul trapped within the scales, and her hardened heart begins to melt. When a corporate hunting party arrives to claim their prize, Jaz and Adjar forge a desperate alliance. He may have destroyed her past, but he’s the only one who can protect her future.   AmazonKU

SAVED BY THE ALIEN HEALER (MATES OF THE KALUMA BOOK FIVE) by Ella Maven

It finally happened. I stole from the wrong guy. Ethan – I’m a professional thief, but I’m no Robin Hood. The wealthy hire me to steal from others like them. And I’m good at it, until I make my first mistake. Now, the only way to save my neck is to steal something no one else on Earth has—because it doesn’t exist on Earth. The mission: Travel to a planet named Corin, steal a rare plant, and get back home. Or die trying. And the latter seems most likely when everything on this planet seems out to exterminate me. The only thing going my way? Her. Hara – Everyone says my softness will be my downfall, but when I find an injured human, I can’t look the other way. I’m a healer to my core. I convince myself I can take care of him and send him on his way before anyone knows. Until he enters my dreams, and our bond begins. My village is only just recovering from a dark past, and there is no way my fellow Kaluma would tolerate a human mate for me, a child-bearing female. I’m the only thing standing between Ethan and all of those who see him as a threat, but we can’t hide in the shadows forever.      AmazonKU

OUT OF TWILIGHT: HEROES AND VILLAINS BOOK TWO by Elena Abbott

VS note: FF SFR, superheroes.

Victoria Eurille has given up what she knows best. She did it as a promise to her lover, that she would turn over a new leaf, be a better person. Once the villain known as Lady Midnight, she’s now Victoria Jameson, Haven Falls police detective. And as much as she misses the power, she knows that she’s trying to do the right thing. For Lana, as she promised. Lana Blake is dead. In the past this wasn’t much of an issue, but now she’s trapped in the mysterious world between life and death, the Twilight. Unable to find a way home, she grows increasingly desperate as she realizes the longer she’s there, the longer it will be before she gets to go home to her love, to Victoria. As Lana searches for a way back Victoria tries to go against her nature, hoping to do some good and change things from the inside of a corrupt system. But when everything seems to be going wrong, Victoria is forced to return to her old ways, hurting friends, enemies, and lovers alike. When she goes too far, can the love shared between the women fix things? Or are they ultimately doomed to be two sides of the same coin?

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CAPTURED BY THE VOID KING (THE OLYMPUS SECTOR BOOK ONE) by Eden Ember

He is the Warlord of the Void. She is the flower that blooms in the dark. Together, they will burn the galaxy down. Ksara has spent her entire life as her mother’s perfect daughter, a genetically engineered bio-kinetic architect, designed to terraform worlds and displayed like a prize orchid at Apex society’s glittering balls. But when the terrifying Lord Haid steals her from a diplomatic party and drags her to his dying fortress in the Tartarus Belt, she discovers that her touch doesn’t just grow flowers, it can resurrect entire ecosystems from barren stone. Haid needs a miracle. His people are suffocating in the dark, slowly dying while the corrupt Apex Council watches with indifference. What he finds is a woman who was never meant to be controlled, whose power eclipses anything the galaxy has seen, and whose stubborn compassion begins to crack open the frozen wasteland of his heart. From hate to hunger, from captivity to claiming, their connection defies the void itself. But when Ksara’s mother comes to reclaim her “property,” Haid will tear reality apart to bring her home, even if it means awakening ancient forces that have slumbered between the stars for millennia.      AmazonKU

NO HOME WITHOUT YOU (LOVE AND SURVIVAL BOOK THREE) by Lena Gibson

Lissa leaves the Denver Refugee Center with her cats fourteen months after the asteroid struck Earth. Survivalist Cam grew up inside xTerra and feels trapped by its walls. Their lives are worlds apart. When Cam defies orders to help a desperate refugee family, his mother, the mayor, is ousted. She disowns him, calling him a traitor. To let her hurtful words settle, Cam leaves on an extended trip. Solitary for six years, Lissa lives in an abandoned mansion in Nebraska. Fiercely independent, she trusts no one. But one day, spying on a hunting party, she encounters Cam. Fascinated, she watches him, unable to get him off her mind. Injured in an early snowstorm, Cam stumbles upon her refuge. They strike up a friendship, but despite their mutual attraction, Lissa keeps him at arm’s length. After his ankle heals, he returns to xTerra. Alone. When Lissa overhears a plan threatening xTerra, she embarks on a harrowing journey, risking everything to protect the man she’s come to love. If she and Cam can save xTerra and open their hearts, they may find a home together.   AmazonKU       AB

APOCALYPSE WITH AN ALIEN (URF OOMANS BOOK FOUR) by BeBe Harper

Britney has hit rock bottom. In an apocalyptic situation where the world has gone completely dark, she finds herself completely alone. Abandoned by her family, isolated from the rest of humanity. The only person she can rely on is Adam, a neighbor who she has always disliked who might be telepathic alien. As Britney works to find her family, survive a forest fire, and solve the mystery of what exactly happened to planet Earth, Adam (whose real name is Kenthack) sticks with her through it all. As they spend more time together, Britney has to figure out a few things. Can she trust him? Does she like him? And what will happen when she’s reunited with her husband?     AmazonKU

ALIENS DECRYPTED MY HEART  (AWAKENED WOMB BOOK FOUR) by Hawke Oakley

VS Note: MM SFR. There’s no MPREG in this book, per the author.

When Assistant 23 was stranded on a strange planet eight years ago, he expected to perish. But after a whirlwind of events, he now lives anxiously among the alien residents. They’re nothing but nice, yet Assistant 23 can’t let go of his fear. He’s too scared to remove his hazmat suit, show his face, or even reveal his true name. So when an intense—and, fine, attractive—Maeleon named Farr’vye gets too personal, Assistant 23 does the thing he’s best at: panicking. Right into a thorn bush that shreds his clothes and exposes his long-hidden body. Farr’vye is obsessive but caring, and all too willing to nurse the human’s emotional wounds. And despite his best efforts to keep the alluring alien at arm’s length, Assistant 23 can’t help the way his anxious walls start to crumble.     AmazonKU

TUMBLED (SENTIENT OBJECTS ADVENTURES BOOK FIVE) by Skye MacKinnon and Philomena MacKinnon

One lonely washer-dryer. One exhausted woman with a dirty duvet. One laundrette lock-in with extra rinse. After the worst day of my life, all I wanted was clean bedding. My ex took the sofa, the microwave, my favourite mug, and, because apparently there is no bottom to male audacity, the washing machine. Then my cat peed on the only duvet cover I had left. So yes, I ended up in a cheap laundrette at closing time, exhausted, broke, and one minor inconvenience away from losing my mind. I did not expect to fall asleep. I definitely did not expect to wake up locked inside. And I really, really did not expect the washer-dryer holding my laundry hostage to start talking. His name is Dex. He became sentient two days ago thanks to a dodgy smart upgrade and a phone full of romance novels. He’s lonely, bored, absurdly attentive, and far too interested in my delicates. I should be scared. I should keep my distance. I should not be flirting with a commercial appliance who understands consent better than most men and has very strong opinions about detergent.
But Dex says I deserve to be cared for. Dex says he can make me feel better. And Dex has a setting for everything. Tumbled is a filthy, funny sentient object romance featuring a lonely washer-dryer, forced proximity, praise, vibration, premium detergent, and enough extra rinse to ruin laundry day forever.    AmazonKU

THE DIVERGING LIVES OF BETHANY RAVEN by Sarah E Bonner

Physics genius Bethany Raven has spent her entire career trying to stay one step ahead of Tyler Adams – brilliant, insufferably charming, and blessed with the kind of confidence that makes her want to throw things. So when she wakes up to discover she’s slipping between alternate universes with no idea how to stop, the very last person she wants to call is him. But Tyler is the only one who might understand. And across universe after universe, he is proving to be considerably more difficult to despise than she’d like. With every skip between worlds, Bethany’s life shifts a little further from the one she knows – her work, her friendships, her sense of self, and above all her relationship with her beloved sister Cesca, growing more distant with every jump. Some of the lives she lands in are strange. Some are sad. One or two are genuinely alarming. And in all of them, Tyler Adams is right there – different, and yet somehow always him. To get back to her own world, Bethany is going to need every scrap of her considerable genius, an unlikely alliance with her most infuriating rival, and the growing – deeply inconvenient – suspicion that falling for someone across nineteen multiverses might just mean something.

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

VS Note: This week I picked JADRIAN from my backlist to feature. She has amnesia, he rescues her from a burning lab and swears to take care of her…but is she as innocent as she seems? All the Badari Warriors books can be read as standalones.

JADRIAN (A BADARI WARRIORS SCIFI ROMANCE NOVEL): Sectors New Allies Series Book 3

Taura Dancer has been pushed to her limits by alien torturers known as the Khagrish and is ready to die when suddenly the lab where she’s held as a prisoner is taken down by an armed force of soldiers.

The man who rescues her from a burning cell block is Jadrian of the Badari, a genetically engineered alien warrior with as many reasons to hate the Khagrish as Taura has. This set of shared past experiences and the circumstances of her rescue create an unusual bond between them.

Safe in the hidden base where Jadrian and his pack take her, Taura struggles to regain her lost memories and overcome constant flashbacks during which she lashes out at all who come near. Only Jadrian can recall her from the abyss of her visions and hallucinations.

As the war against the Khagrish continues, it becomes increasingly critical to find out who she really is and how she can help in the fight. Until she can control her terrors and trust her own impulses, Taura’s too afraid to pursue the promise of happiness a life with Jadrian as her mate might offer.

When he’s captured by the dreaded enemy, will she step forward to help save him, or will she remain a prisoner of her past?

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WILD SCOTTISH FATE (ENCHANTED HIGHLANDS BOOK 10) by Tricia O’Malley

She’s spent years pushing him away. He’s spent years waiting. And in Loren Brae, fate will not be denied. Agnes Wright has always known two things—books are her first love and Graham Kincaid is her second. The one man who never stopped showing up, no matter how many times she shut the door. Graham Kincaid has pulled pints, kept his head down, and watched the only woman he’s ever loved pretend he doesn’t exist. He’s not a fool. He sees the way she looks at him when she thinks no one is watching. And he’s done waiting for an explanation she refuses to give. But the Kelpies are no longer circling. They’re closing in. The loch is restless, the wards are failing, and every woman who answered the call of the Order has done her part. There’s only one woman left who can save Loren Brae. To break the ancient curse and banish the Kelpies once and for all, Agnes must unlock a power she’s spent a lifetime burying. But saving her village means facing the one thing that terrifies her more than any ancient evil rising from the deep—losing Graham forever. Some fates are written in the stars. Theirs is written in the Stone of Truth.      AmazonKU

CAMLANN (ONCE AND FUTURE HEARTS BOOK 12) by Tracey Cooper-Posey

When kingdoms fall, can love endure? Morfydd of Orkney has lived in exile, fearing the power that once cost her everything. Solitary and guarded, she trusts no one—until the summons to Arthur’s side forces her back into the heart of Britain’s storm. There, amid despair and looming war, she must face not only her past but the man fate places in her path. Constantine of Dumnonia bears the heavy mantle of heir to Arthur’s realm. Burdened by failure and shadowed by doubt, he is unprepared for the enigmatic woman who challenges his every belief. Yet in her eyes he glimpses a chance at redemption—and a love that may outlast the ruin of nations. Together, Morfydd and Constantine must walk through the gathering doom of Camlann. In the twilight of Arthur’s dream, their choices will decide whether hope can survive even the darkest night.

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EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH: HARMONY GLEN by Vivienne Hart

Juliet Crawford doesn’t do anything by halves, so when her perfect life implodes, it does so spectacularly. In the span of a few weeks, she manages to lose her job, her apartment, and her relationship. Staying with her maddening mother is not a long-term solution, so with few options, she moves to the charming, monster friendly town of Harmony Glen, where her cousin Maggie lives. It doesn’t take long for Juliet to settle into a fresh routine, complete with a job at Moonbeam Books, the delightful bookstore run by Spenser Nightwing, a quiet and reserved mothman. Though she loves the work, Juliet is puzzled by her boss, who often seems her opposite: taciturn to her talkativeness, nocturnal to her sun-loving nature, solitary to her need for friends. Despite their differences, late-night inventory sessions, baking experiments, and evening walks eventually shift their working relationship into something new and exciting. With her apartment and job locked down, and romance with Spenser on the horizon, Juliet finally feels her life settling into place again—just in time for someone from her past to arrive and make her question everything. Now she has to decide: does she want to go back to what she thought was her dream life? Or has she actually found everything she ever truly desired in Harmony Glen—and in Spenser’s arms?      AmazonKU

THE PERYTON FAWN (THE SECRETS OF THE GRIFFIN SANCTUARY SERIES BOOK NINE) by Ariana Jade and Arizona Tape

VS Note: Sapphic.

Charlotte has a new challenge: a peryton is pregnant but they’re not entirely sure how it happened. And to make things more confusing, the new fawn is not what they expected at all. To give this new arrival the best care, Charlotte is going to have to her work cut out for her. The Peryton Fawn is book 9 in the modern fantasy Griffin Sanctuary series. It is packed full of adventure, mythical creatures, and a sapphic romantic sub-plot. If you enjoy mythical creatures, zoo documentaries, slow burn sapphic romantic sub-plots, and a heroine who loves animals, you’re going to love The Unicorn Herd.       Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

WORSE THAN HER BITE (ETERNITY COLLEGE CHRONICLES BOOK FIVE) by Lauretta Hignett

Everything is falling into place. There are only a couple of months to go before I turn eighteen, and I can take custody of my baby brother. My mother is still pretending I don’t exist, which is a relief. Ronan is a little further along in the grieving process and not being such a giant sad sack anymore, which is also fantastic. We’ve got the blood witch on the run, and we’ve got plans to shrink the Hellmouth so nothing else can come out. I’ve even started making weapons for my Iron Man suit.
Therapy is going well, too. I’m starting to understand myself a little bit better. Especially with certain… realizations I’ve had lately. Everything in my life is working out for the best. And I can’t imagine anything possibly going wrong…Right?      AmazonKU

BOUGHT BY THE SCORPIUS: MONSTERS RIDE MARKET by Cara Wylde

My time is running out. The curse of the unmated is boiling in my blood, pushing me toward a feral rut that will force my own kind to execute me. Because of an ancient human ancestor, no Scorpii female can be my fated mate. The Marriage Temple has failed me, and now I’m isolated, watched, and waiting to die. Going to the human bride market is a desperate last resort. I don’t expect much, but then she walks onto the stage. She’s not like the others, forced by poverty to sell themselves. She’s highborn, draped in silk and defiance, auctioning herself to monsters to escape an arranged marriage. I see her, and it happens. A deep, involuntary sound vibrates in my vocal cords, a sound I’ve never made before. Click. Click. Click. The ancient mating call. I will outbid them all. I will take her to the desert and unleash the starving beast inside me. Our mating ritual is simple: I give her a head start, she runs, and I hunt her.      AmazonKU

COILED BY THE NAGA (BRED FOR THE RIFT BOOK TWO) by Zara Crowe

My father sold me to cover his gambling debts. He didn’t even stand up from the table. He kept eating while they took my arm. I’m a fisherwoman. I’ve hauled nets since I was nine and worked riptides since I was twelve. You don’t avoid the thing that can kill you. You learn where it pulls and you work the edges. The naga commander has twenty feet of serpent body and heat pits along his jaw that read everything. My temperature. My pulse. My anger. The arousal I haven’t authorized. He tastes the air between us and knows what I’m feeling before I do, and the sentence he won’t finish is the one I’m not supposed to know about yet. His soldiers flatten against the walls when I pass because I smell like their commander’s claim. His coils could crack my ribs. I told him to show me exactly how close. Being held is the nicest thing that’s happened to me this month. Let them come for me. I am not merchandise. I am not going back.     AmazonKU

SHADOW KING (SHADOWMEN BOOK TWO) by S Rodman

VS Note: MM PNR.

I’ve summoned a shadow king from another realm. In my defence, he burned my flat down, destroyed my 90s emo record collection, and tried to use me as bait to get my best friend killed. He had it coming. What I did not expect was for him to be so insufferably, unreasonably, categorically attractive. Or for the binding to work quite so well. He’s trapped in the human world until I decide to let him go. I’m not in a hurry. His name is Dis. As in discord, disillusion, dismay, disaster. I call him Disney. He hates it. He calls me Little Witch. I don’t entirely hate it. He is the most dangerous thing I have ever summoned. He was the weapon that carried out a coup in the Shadow Realm. He has powers that make grown shadow beings step carefully around him. He is ancient and controlled and furious about his current situation in ways he is too dignified to fully express. He’s also stuck in my flat above a coffee shop in Bristol until further notice. This is either the worst idea I have ever had or the best. Probably both.      AmazonKU

VACATION WITH THE ORC by Tina Moss

I didn’t expect Havenlore to feel like a place I’d want to stay. What begins as a simple trip beyond the village turns into something softer—and far more dangerous to my heart—when Guruk offers to show me one of the realm’s hidden wonders: a secluded waterfall tucked deep within the forest… and rumors of a nearby portal that might lead me back to the friends I lost. It should be an easy quest. A quick journey. A way home. Instead, it becomes something else entirely. Between quiet trails, shared meals, and laughter that comes too easily, the world slows down. The search for the portal lingers in the background as we steal moments beneath cascading water and starlit skies. And somewhere along the way, Guruk stops feeling like my protector… and starts feeling like something far more permanent. But Havenlore was never meant to be mine. If the portal is real, it could return me to the life I left behind—the one that still waits for me. The one I should choose. So why does the thought of leaving him feel like losing everything?      AmazonKU

HOWL YOU LIKE ME NOW (SHIFTER MATES OF HOLLOW OAK BOOK RIGHT) by Kala Aster and Milly Taiden

I sank his ship. Now the wolf wants to sink his teeth into me. One uncontrollable storm. One grumpy river captain with storm-gray eyes, wave tattoos, and a growl that does dangerous things to my insides. Rafe Lupeus says I’m his mate. I say I’m a walking natural disaster who’s better off alone. Too bad his wolf doesn’t take no for an answer. And too bad every time he looks at me like he’s already claimed me, the sky answers with lightning I can barely control. Now some rival is digging up my ugly past, trying to break me with artifacts and old ghosts. But I’m done running. Done hiding. If the storm inside me has to come out, I’m aiming it at the man who keeps showing up—wet, shirtless, and way too calm about the fact that I might accidentally electrocute him in bed. He says he can handle my chaos. We’ll see if the big bad wolf can handle me.     AmazonKU

ORC’S WHISPER (THE VEIL LANDS BOOK 10) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Welcome to the Veil lands, where monsters are the only ones who can save you. Aradya: I live in the shadows of the catacombs, letting the dead use my lips to whisper their final secrets. But a routine ritual rips open a forbidden door, unleashing a horde of starving spirits onto the city. Now, the only way to survive the apocalypse I caused is to bargain with the deadliest enforcer in Blackreach. Drokhar. He’s a massive, ruthless Orc who commands the execution pyres, and he has me backed against the stone walls. I don’t get a chance to take in his cold ash eyes, before a brutal, primal mating mark violently burns into our flesh, tying my soul to his. He’s supposed to drag me to the flames. Instead, his heavy hands on my skin make me crave a whole new kind of ruin. Drokhar: For most of my life, my blade and my fires kept the dead silent—I didn’t feel, and I never spared. Then I was sent to eliminate a beautiful, blood-stained witch whose voice commands the graves. She brought me to my knees by channeling the one ghost I couldn’t escape. Now, a dormant mating brand has violently awakened in my chest, screaming that she belongs to me. The chains I put on her wrists do nothing to stop the electric pull dragging us together. I was born to reduce her kind to ash. But all I want is to burn the world and keep her safe.      AmazonKU

FOSSIL AND FURIOUS (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 107) by Milly Taiden

Maple Westen has spent her career chasing the kind of discoveries that make respectable archaeologists clutch their pearls and reach for smelling salts. So when a forbidden dig on Trigg Corporation land uncovers a glowing dragon claim marker, Maple expects trouble, lawsuits, maybe even career destruction. What she does not expect is Gerri Wilder, a hidden dragon town, or one terrifyingly gorgeous Alpha who makes the ancient artifact—and every neglected part of Maple’s body—come alive. Rune Trigg is a five-hundred-year-old dragon Alpha, billionaire CEO, and professional brooder who has spent centuries destroying every claim marker his ancestors ever buried. Fated mates are dangerous. Love is weakness. His father proved that. But when a brilliant, stubborn human archaeologist activates the one marker Rune missed, his dragon has exactly one opinion: mine. Too bad Maple has no intention of handing over her discovery, obeying his orders, or making this easy on his iron control. Gerri insists fate knows what it’s doing. Rune calls it a disaster. Maple calls it the biggest discovery of her life—with annoyingly kissable complications. But when Maple’s academic rival teams up with a rogue dragon shifter trafficking ancient artifacts and targeting Rune’s clan, their sizzling attraction turns deadly fast. Now Maple must decide if proving dragons exist is worth risking her heart, and Rune must choose between the control that kept him safe and the mate who may be the only treasure his dragon was never willing to lose.      AmazonKU

SHIFTER OMEGAVERSE AU by D C Emerson

VS Note: M/X PNR.

Milo has been through a few ups and quite a few downs the past two years, but they and their beta pony don’t let anything keep them down for long. Not grief, not a cheating ex, and not even quite literally being knocked off their feet by a handsome alpha shifter. Especially not that last one, even when they miss their chance to get the tall ginger giant’s number. Thankfully, it seems like fate, or something, wants to give them another chance. Rowan has all but given up on dating, and even making friends seems beyond him. At least he gets to work with his favorite, and only, brother-in-law and see the rest of his family when they have the time. For years, that’s been enough for him and his alpha hawk but everything changes when a bright, and very loud, shifter crashes into his life. Shifter Omegaverse AU is a MX fanfiction style novel, based on the Canon short story written by AM Rose for the multi author series: Because Canon Sucks. In Canon, Milo and Rowan miss out on their happy ever after, so we decided to give them not one, not two, but eleven happy endings, in eleven different alternate universes.      AmazonKU

AMONG THE THORNS (NEVER THE ROSES) by Jennifer K Lambert

Ambitious young sorceress Rose of Northbrooke is about to graduate. She’s the only known dream sorcerer of her generation and she’s a remarkable one—formidably powerful, strikingly beautiful, and destined for greatness. No wonder she has a prince of the realm trailing her skirts. But when rumors of dream magic gone awry reach her ear, Rose discovers she’s not the only oneiromancer of her generation. And she might not be the most powerful. In a faraway cottage, Thorn has lived a simple and isolated life. She’s kept hidden by magic that prevents her from wandering past the cottage fence. Thorn longs to be a part of the world, to learn more about her magic, to be rescued by a prince who could love her with his whole heart. When she discovers there’s another dream sorceress out there who has everything Thorn has ever wanted—freedom, education, prince and all—her acceptance of her isolation transforms into a hunger for everything she has been denied. Everything Rose has. When Rose and Thorn meet, they realize their lives have been a lie and their fates have been carefully planned by political schemers. The outcome is clear: only one sorceress can live in the open, reap all the glory of her kingdom, and claim the prince’s loving hand… condemning the other to a life of perpetual non-existence.

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SAVIOR (THE VIKING TALES BOOK NINE) by W J May

I will anoint a great king…and then I will die. When a magical portal snatched Liv and her friends from the imperial guards and transported them straight into the heart of a jungle, she thought their journey was only beginning. Little did she know, it may have already come to an end. Because the jungle turned out to be a homecoming. And standing right in the middle, was her long lost father. Secretly reeling from the words of a deadly prophecy, Liv is confronted with a past she could never have imagined. One that leads opens an entire world of possibility, but the future may already be set. There are more questions than answers, and old ghosts are hard to shake. It is possible to cheat the words of a prophecy? Is it possible to outrun the fates? Or are some journeys always meant to end in flames? They say some people are favored by the gods. Others need to make their own luck.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

JOURNEY OF THE QUEEN (FORGOTTEN GODS BOOK 23) by Laura Greenwood

With things in the Land of the Dead starting to leak into the Land of the Living, life as the gods know it is in danger. Egyptian goddess Isis has been dutifully guarding her husband’s body while he’s in the afterlife, but as time goes on, she becomes increasingly concerned about the amount of time he’s been there. Soon, she finds herself making the journey from the Land of the Living to the Land of the Dead, facing things she’s never encountered before, because she needs to bring her husband home and restore the balance in the world. Can she find him before it’s too late? Journey of the Queen is the final book in the Forgotten Gods series and is based on Egyptian mythology. It is based on the mythology surrounding Isis, Osiris, and the Land of the Dead, and includes a wife determined to rescue her husband.

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THE PIRATE CAPTAIN’S BARGAIN by Amy Padilla

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

Will – I’ve spent my whole life in service to others. The Davenport children are the closest thing I have to family, so when our ship is attacked by a notoriously cutthroat pirate captain, I do what I must to protect them. Pirates are known for cruelty, and I refuse to leave the girls at the mercy of criminals. So I make the captain a deal: in exchange for information worth a fortune, he’ll see the children returned safely to their father untouched. I expect that to be the end of it. Instead, the captain offers me a place aboard his ship as his cabin boy so I can remain with my charges until they’re returned home. He thinks he’s demanding my servitude. He doesn’t realize he’s handing me my freedom. Damon – When we overtake a merchant ship in the Caribbean, I expect cargo worth stealing and little else. Instead, I find a manservant standing between my crew and his charges with a spine of steel and damned carving knife for protection. Most men would beg for mercy. Will negotiates. Amused by his boldness—and intrigued despite myself—I offer him a position aboard my ship. Serve as my cabin boy, and he can remain at the children’s side until I collect their ransom and return them home. It should’ve been a simple arrangement. Then Will steps aboard my ship… and proves far too bold, stubborn, and spirited to remain just a simple cabin boy.       AmazonKU

THE RISE OF THE HUNTSMAN (DARK EVER AFTER FAIRYTALES BOOK FOUR) by M Guida

The Queen made me her Huntsman—her blade, her curse, her monster. I kill who she commands, including her brother. But I have plans of my own: a man I want dead—Keir—the one who destroyed my life and left me in chains. He was there the night my family was slaughtered. He vanished before I learned the truth. Now fate has brought us face to face again, and this time, I’ll make him pay.   AmazonKU

PROTECTING SEA HAVEN (STONEFIRE DRAGONS UNIVERSE BOOK FIVE) by Jessie Donovan

When Dr. Emily Davies is invited to visit Clan Seahaven in Scotland, she jumps at the chance to get away from Stonefire and her heartbreak at Trahern Lewis mating someone else. However, as soon as she arrives, their head of security starts barking orders and riling her up. Determined to ignore him, she focuses on her research. However, when she learns the dragon hunters have a bounty on her head, she has no choice but to pose as the irritating dragonman’s girlfriend for her protection. She moves in with him, and the more time they spend together, the more she sees a different side to him. Regardless, Emily is determined to protect her heart, no matter how much she wishes for someone to simply want her. Cameron Alexander is protective of his clan, especially since they were banished from Clan Lochguard years ago for having human mates or parents. With his team on high alert because of recent dragon hunter sightings, the last thing he wants to do is protect an outsider. However, once he learns his enemy wants to kidnap her, he has no choice but to amp up security and pose as her pretend boyfriend. What he didn’t expect was to feel a pull toward her and want to win her for real. As the two dance around each other, danger strikes and it’s up to Emily to rescue Cam. Will she be able to use her knowledge to save him? Or, will the dragon hunters win and steal the dragonman she wants a future with?      AmazonKU

A FILLING OF FABLES AND FIRELIGHT: A 1001 NIGHTS RETELLING by Sarah Beran

A slice of bridal competition – A dusting of mistaken identity – And a whisk of love that might be nothing more than a fable. Rana Schehera is fully content with her simple life. Newly employed as a seamstress under one of the most sought-after tailors in El Huram, she’s paid enough for her beautiful creations to both provide for her aging grandmother and keep a steady supply of her favorite sweets. That simple life is threatened, however, when the new Sultan decides to select his bride the traditional way—through competition—and Rana is one of the lucky seamstresses chosen to attend the competitors. Still, it should all be fairly straightforward…until the Sultan mistakes her for one of the princesses he’s meant to be courting and inexplicably keeps coming back. Kamaran knew the throne was inevitable, but he wasn’t prepared for it to be his so soon. Now, reeling from loss and weighed down by the crown he never wanted and the responsibilities he never cared for, his council of viziers has added insult to injury by arranging for him to select a bride. His plan is simple: Go through the motions, eliminate a prospect each week, and hope that by the end, the last one standing will be at least tolerable. What he didn’t plan for was the pragmatic princess with an obsession for needlework and stories that capture his imagination. With each evening that passes, Rana begins to see that Kamaran is more than the fickle, irresponsible Sultan he pretends to be, and she wants to be the one to fill the empty spaces in his heart. But as the end of the competition draws near, it becomes all too clear that the story she’s weaving may never have a happy ending.       AmazonKU

SHE’S MY ETERNITY: SPICY SAPPHIC VAMPIRE ROMANCE (THE GIRL WHO BIT ME BOOK TWO) by Valerie Hunter

Yasmine Sokolov has built a life most people would kill for. She’s the richest vampire on Earth, a professor with nearly unlimited research funding, and owner of a mansion across from Central Park. The only thing she hasn’t managed in a thousand years? A long-term girlfriend. After moving to New York City to help Sylvia and Aster adjust to unexpected parenthood, Yasmine is pushed back onto VampireMatch—where a dozen disappointing dates convince her that another thousand years alone might be her fate. That is, until she meets someone she absolutely cannot fall in love with: the devastatingly beautiful, and devastatingly human barista, Bella Dragomir. But as a string of vampiric killings begins spreading across New York City—killings that seem to draw closer and closer to Bella herself—Yasmine finds herself wondering if the truth is more complicated than she wants to believe. Especially when it comes to Bella.      AmazonKU

DEMONS AND DRYWALL (FORTY, FIRED AND FIGHTING DEMONS BOOK SEVEN) by Brenda Trim

Surviving Hell should’ve earned me a vacation. Instead, I got a drywall job that might actually kill me. Three weeks ago, I clawed my way out of Perdition Point’s Fifth Borough with a shattered magical core, an emotionally lobotomized demon boyfriend, and a fragment of dimensional fabric fused to my soul that no one can explain. I need rest, time to heal, and a chance to process the fact that what I did down there should have killed me three times over. Instead, I’m accepting a drywall contract for a creaky Victorian basement. Why? Because I’m broke and the pay is obscene. It’s supposed to be simple. Hang drywall. Supervise Zane. Collect my paycheck. Prove I’m still functional. But the basement has protection wards carved into the foundation—old ones that make my skin prickle. Then again, half the houses on Saltcliff Island are drenched in weird magic. That’s why I moved here. Turns out those wards are a prison, and I need to learn to trust my instincts implicitly. The demon locked inside quickly figures out I’m related to the woman who trapped him seventy years ago. He’s powerful. Angry. And draining my already damaged magic the minute I walk through the door. Now he’s getting stronger while my core splinters further. Worse? He doesn’t want…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)       AmazonKU

TANGLED BONDS (SHADOW GODS BOOK ONE) by McKenzie Hunter

The curse that should have killed me bound me to a Shadow God. I’ve spent years keeping the city’s most powerful vampire houses from tearing each other apart—maintaining a fragile balance of power built on secrets that could get me killed. It makes me valuable. It also makes me a target. An unthinkable betrayal turns me into a problem worth eliminating. The curse meant to get rid of me leaves my best friend dying—and summons the last being I ever wanted to face. The ruthless Shadow God, Cirrian. I do the only thing I can. I imprison him and offer a bargain: his freedom for her life. For a heartbeat, the ward holds. Then he steps through it as if it never existed. And I’m face-to-face with death himself. Ancient. Cruel. Unwavering. Instead of accepting my deal, he makes his own. His magic buys me time to save my friend. In return, I’m bound to him by an oath—and to a single task. The price of failure? My life. Before I can find a way to break the oath, he drags me into Umbryth—his realm of immense magic, ruthless politics, and laws even gods fear breaking. The Shadow God didn’t choose me by chance. The bond between us isn’t temporary. I’m not just part of Cirrian’s plan. I’m the key.     AmazonKU

PLUS-SIZE AUCTIONED MATE (WILLOW ISLAND MATES BOOK THREE) by Layla Silver

We were friends growing up. Before he abandoned me and I became an Omega outcast. Now I find myself shackled, my plus-size curves up for sale at an illegal auction. When it’s him who buys me openly, I feel relief. Until I remember that we’re enemies now. He didn’t buy me because he’s the hero Alpha. He did it because he wants to use me. I’ve been used all my life. Like I’m just a tool, a means to an end. He was the only one I ever felt safe with. Until he left me for the military. He’s different now. An Alpha, an enemy who plays for the opposite side. An Alpha who traps me in his house and treats me like I belong to him. I hate how he makes decisions for me. How he discovers my still vulnerable dormant powers. I especially hate how my plus-size Omega body reacts to his proximity. I try to escape, but he gets close and pins me down to get his point across. He growls that he’ll protect me, that he’ll keep me right here, by his side. What will the Alpha do now that he’s got me where he wants me?      AmazonKU

HEXES AND HOPS (MAGICAL MISFIT MURDERS BOOK TWO) by Jacki James and Lori Ames

VS Note: MM PNR.

Hexes, hops, and a whole lot of trouble. Welcome back to Ravenstone! Declan is finally starting to settle into life as a witch in a magical little town where the coffee is strong, the misfit monsters are delightfully odd, and there’s always something interesting happening. Like the Get Hopped Up Beer Festival. Between sampling new brews, spending time with his very protective (and very handsome) wolf shifter boyfriend, and making plans to open a bakery, Declan is having the time of his life… until a brewmaster turns up dead in a vat of beer. Since, apparently, that’s just how things go in Ravenstone. Declan and Gideon don’t mean to get involved, but with rumors being shared faster than a sourdough starter and whispers of magic and hexes floating through town, staying out of trouble was never really an option. Because in a small town, someone always has a secret. And this time? It’s deadly.       AmazonKU

A COURT OF OBSESSION (UNSEELIE FAE ACADEMY BOOK FOUR) by Ember Raine Winters

The Seelie Princess has been kidnapped and if Maddox can’t find her the realm as they know it will be destroyed. Kidnapped by someone she believed to be dead and her friend and protector, Erica must fight against the Outer Lands elders and Alex’s claim that she’s his mate, or become a puppet queen for their selfish greed. Maddox’s worst nightmare comes to life when his father wakes up and demands he search for Selene and return her to his dungeon or all the Seelie girls in the academy will be rounded up and thrown into his dungeon prisoners in a war they have no part in. If they can’t find each other before Selene reaches the Seelie Kingdom Erica will lose her parents and the kingdom forever.      AmazonKU

ALL WE HAVE IS TIME: A NOVEL by Amy Tordoff

1605, London.Beatrix lives a solitary life in the shadows, wandering the city streets looking for ways to forget. Forget that everyone she has ever loved has been dead for nearly a century. Forget that, for her, love can only ever mean loss. Because Beatrix has a secret: a lifetime ago her deathbed wish was granted, making her immortal. Until one day, whilst picking pockets amidst the raucous crowds of The Globe Theatre, she meets Oliver. They spend a single, perfect day together before he tells her that he has to leave. She’s not surprised; eternity is a lonely place. When Beatrix and Oliver meet again by chance a century later, recognition hits her like a bolt of lightning. It’s impossible. He’s impossible. Just like her. A chance for Beatrix to truly live—and love—again sparks into existence. Woven between the biggest events in history and the quiet moments lost to it, from London in 1605 to Woodstock in 1969 and beyond, All We Have Is Time is an unforgettable love story for anyone who believes love can rewrite the rules of time.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

A DATE WITH DEATH: A NOVEL by Kelly Creagh

When the Grim Reaper develops feelings for the children’s librarian whose soul he is supposed to collect, he finds that with feelings comes something far worse than death—life. Helena Hart isn’t having the best night. Her date just ditched her, her Halloween costume bombed, and her only sympathetic ear is a dead silent partygoer in a Grim Reaper get-up. But when she falls off a balcony and he catches her with a very real skeletal hand, she realizes he may not be a party guest at all. Before she can process the near-death experience, he vanishes, leaving her to wonder if she hallucinated the whole thing. Grim isn’t supposed to save souls. He’s supposed to reap them. And while he’s not sure why he spared Helena, he does know that if his superiors find out, he’s as good as dust—which is saying something for a guy who’s mostly bones. But keeping away from Helena is proving harder than expected—especially when she isn’t the least bit afraid of his monstrous form. Worse, to his horror, Helena makes him feel. And for a reaper, feeling is a fate far more dangerous than death.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

DIE FOR ME: A NOVEL by Shirlene Obuobi

Sean’s not in the market for love. The only female, let alone Black, interventional cardiologist at her hospital, she’s watched too many of her male colleagues divorce their first wives to marry younger models—and then there’s the abusive relationship she’s spent the better part of her early 30s healing from. Her passions are reserved for her best friend, her goddaughter, and her job. Then she meets Julian. Brooding, beautiful and eleven years her junior. In short: A bad idea. Julian pursues her in a way that sets off alarm bells in her mind, but she finds herself unable to resist their undeniable chemistry—even starts fantasizing about him in dreams that feel altogether too real. They also have a lot in common despite their age gap. So, to hell with it: If men can date younger, why can’t she? But the more Sean gets to know him, the more impossible Julian seems: He has a depth and sorrow to him that’s beyond his years, and sometimes there’s a look in his eyes that’s less than human, and leaves her feeling more like prey. Plus, Sean herself has been exhibiting odd symptoms—memory lapses, a lack of restraint that’s unlike her, persistent exhaustion—that all trace back to Julian, making Sean feel more than a little afraid. Who—or what—is she falling, irrevocably, in love with?     Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS by John Wiswell

Garrodigh was once a four-headed dragon, among the most powerful in Kardoša. After an unfortunate incident, he now has three heads, one stump, and a daily whirlwind of internal bickering. Centerhead wants to rain death upon all humanity, Bottomhead is like a feral cat, and Upperhead is under the delicate delusion that he is, in fact, human. When a nearby battle goes awry, Garrodigh sneaks into an elite dragon rider academy, pretending to be tame to get free food and a warm bed. Lucky for him, rider Rania Charvátová is desperate enough for a dragon of her own that she overlooks his eccentricities. As Garrodigh recovers under Rania’s care, all three heads start to turn, for the first time, in the same direction. Each wants to protect her from the invaders who killed their fourth head—the same invaders who seek to conquer Kardoša. When the academy comes under attack, can this wild dragon and his wilder rider save their homeland together?      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

MISERY’S WIFE: A NOVEL by Joan Tierney

Elixane lives in a village ravaged by waves, storms, and the encroaching forest. When she was too young to remember, her elder sisters each picked a flower and were whisked away: Borboleta to marry the King of the Air, Adelina to marry the King of the Sea, and her favorite sister Dores to marry the King of Misery, who promised: No one will ever love you as I will. So when Elixane receives a mysterious message from a toad, she sets out to rescue Dores from the Kingdom of Misery. She is aided by the jester-like Marquês of Luck and his sister Jinx, the contrary and beautiful Marquesa of Misfortune. On the way, she’ll have to reunite with her sisters and their magical husbands, break several unbreakable curses—and, perhaps, find a magical love of her own.

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UNPREDICTABLE MAGIC by Faith Hunter

Angelina Everhart-Trueblood and her brother Evan run Everhart Investigations, a PI firm in Chattanooga that solves paranormal crimes committed by supernatural beings. When their new client wants help finding her friend, who supposedly disappeared during a reception at Angie’s aunt Jane’s winter residence, things get . . . complicated. The client is not who she appears to be, and demons strike the city for the first time since the Witch War. On top of that, evidence is pointing toward the involvement of an overly ambitious vampire—who just happens to be Angie’s ex-husband. As Angie and Evan team up with CPD, they will have to dig deep into their magical reserves—and rely on some friends in high places—to rid Chattanooga of the danger creeping into their city.     Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

FOOLSILVER (BLOOD AND BOND BOOK TWO) by Meg Xuemei X

Two monsters want to own me. The four princes standing between us are ready to burn the continent to ash to stop them. A Fae who hasn’t wanted anyone since the world ended. A vampire who’d rather starve than drink from another throat. A shifter who claimed me in front of his army. A dragon whose own fire chose me when he begged it not to. Wanting all four isn’t loyalty—it’s betrayal. I know exactly what that makes me. But I won’t let a single one of them go. The White Witch tests her lab-grown horrors on us like we’re a field she planted to harvest. And the Collector—the Haven’s tyrant—keeps the Oracle’s severed head alive under glass, feeding on stolen visions. He’s decided I’ll be the centerpiece of his collection. To guarantee I come to him, he’s locked my six-year-old sister in a cage. So the heirs spring a trap. Lure him to the fortress. Take Missy back. End him on our ground. He walks through the gate smiling, a signed blood contract in his hand. Claiming I was promised to him before I was born. Blood contracts don’t break. Not by law. Not by fire. If the magic holds, I don’t belong to the four men willing to die for me. I belong to the monster who caged a child to complete his set.      AmazonKU

BECKY (THE MATE SERIES BOOK 30) by Teresa Gabelman

Becky Spencer is the one woman strong enough to stand toe-to-toe with the leader of the VC Warriors and the only one who can calm the storm inside him. As Sloan’s mate, she knows what it means to be protected by the most lethal vampires in existence. But some dangers wear the face of trust. Sloan has known something is wrong with Becky. He’s felt it in every forced smile and seen it in every moment she tries to pretend everything is fine. But he knows his mate too well, and the warning inside him cuts deeper with each passing day. When the truth finally begins to unravel, it won’t just shake Sloan’s world. It will expose a danger none of them saw coming. Someone thought they could use Sloan’s mate. They’re about to learn how deadly that mistake truly was.     AmazonKU

SO PASSES THE NIGHT by Cassidy McKay

One wild night, two sexy seamen and a voluptuous woman — three broken souls seeking completion. First Mate Cade Talbot disobeyed a direct order, sacrificing himself to save his best friend. Since then, Captain Grant Rowen rules his ship with an iron fist, demanding strict compliance from all aboard. Coffers are low, and when a lone woman requests passage to St. Thomas, Captain Rowen accepts her payment. But the stormy sea crossing holds more than just nature’s surprises. Aurora Journade reveals that she not only speaks to spirits, she makes love to them –and she doesn’t follow orders. With Aurora’s help, Cade has one last chance to reach out to his captain. Not even death can keep them from seeking passion’s redemption.

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HABITS OF THE SEA: A NOVEL by Shea Earnshaw

The night Clay Lockhart’s wife dies, a violent storm tears their home—and the eight hectares of land beneath it—away from the Scottish coast, sending it adrift into the Atlantic. Thirty years later, twelve-year-old Ellie Mills discovers the fabled floating island off the coast of Nova Scotia and finds Clay still living in the weatherworn farmhouse perched on its highest hill. When the island vanishes overnight, Ellie is left questioning whether it ever existed at all. But decades later, the island resurfaces—and Ellie, now in her thirties, returns, determined to uncover the truth. What she finds is even stranger: Clay hasn’t aged a single day. Faced with the impossible, Ellie learns that some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved—and that a life shaped by wonder may hold more promise than one bound by certainty. With her signature atmospheric, lyrical prose, Shea Ernshaw offers us an original work of folklore with a masterful modern touch. A haunting tale, Habits of the Sea spans centuries and coastlines, journeys through time and memory, and redefines the very meaning of love itself.

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FREAKY SHADOWS (MYSTIC CARAVAN MYSTERIES BOOK 21) by Amanda M Lee

Portland was supposed to be a quiet stop for Mystic Caravan, their last stop on the West Coast. Nothing ever goes as expected for Poet Parker, however. On her first day in town, she sees a shadowy figure on a bridge, and that’s followed by a visit from local law enforcement the next morning. It seems women are going missing, but nobody knows what’s happening to them. When Poet digs deeper, she finds another story. This one involves creepy kids in dated clothing harassing people in parks and supermarkets. The kids aren’t normal, however, and nobody appears to notice that they’re hanging out in places they don’t belong. Poet does a deep dive on Portland’s history, but it doesn’t lead to answers. She has more questions than anything else. Who are the kids? Why is nobody missing them? Where are the women? Are they tied to the kids? And what’s going on in Portland’s old tunnel system, the one that was famous because of how many kidnapping victims were transported through it over the years? Poet is determined to find out, even if the answers just might kill her.   AmazonKU     AB

FATES & FAMILY (MEOW: MAGICAL EMPORIUM OF WARES BOOK THREE) by Toni Binns

Welcome to the Magical Emporium of Wares, a bookshop that appears only to those who need to find it. Sable’s life is colliding in strange ways. As the steady heart of the Magical Emporium of Wares, she thought she’d finally mastered the art of brewing magical lattes and managing interdimensional foot traffic. But as the shop’s foundations begin to hum with a restless energy, the role of Shopkeeper and the long-buried secrets surrounding her own family are finally coming to light. They say gifts shouldn’t come with strings attached, but what about ripples through fate? In a rare moment of vulnerability, the Cat offers Sable a selfless present: a gesture of kindness that should have been a blessing. Instead, it triggers a cascade of unintended consequences, leading them both down roads better left untraveled. Every decision pulls on the silver threads that tie the Cat to the shop, and the shop to a tree older than memory. The roots are deep, the magic is binding, and the clock is ticking. If Sable can’t find a way to untangle the knots of the past and free the Cat, he may be bound to the shop, and his feline form, forever. As the Emporium’s floorboards tremble and ancient powers stir, it all comes down to a single question: is the Cat capable of trusting Sable? Or will his own stubbornness be the downfall of them all?       AmazonKU     AB

HEARTS AND HONEY LIGHT (CHARMED LEAF LEGACY BOOK FOUR) by Rachel Morgan

Fae lord Kazrian Rowanwood could have lived a perfectly contented existence never setting foot in Bloomhaven again. But when his formidable grandmother insists he return to repair the magical quirks plaguing her new confectionery before its grand launch, he tells himself it will be perfectly fine. If he should happen to run into the young human woman he was once secretly, hopelessly in love with—the one who broke his heart; the one society says he can never have—it will be no problem. He no longer feels anything for her. Probably. And she is doubtless married by now and settled somewhere far away. Lucie Fields loves the life she has built for herself. She has her confections, her own kitchen, and the faith of the esteemed Lady Rivenna Rowanwood, who saw something in her and gave her a place to shine. The Honeycomb may have its temperamental quirks, but Lucie adores it, and she is determined not to let Lady Rivenna down. Then Kazrian walks into her kitchen, summoned to set the building right before its grand launch, as horrified to see her as she is to see him. Now Lucie must work day after day in excruciating close proximity with the man whose heart she forced herself to break three years ago, all while telling herself she does not love him still.      AmazonKU

HUNTED (THE GIVING CHRONICLES BOOK TWO) by Elayna R Gallea

Nothing is as it seems. The Giving Season has ended, but the onset of winter hasn’t brought Wren peace. The king is still after her, and he has more reason than ever to want her dead. In possession of magic she shouldn’t have, she’s desperate to flee the capital. There’s just one person who can help her: Gabriel Moreau, the Hunter who chased Wren across the country, duty-bound to bring her to justice. Forced to make the most difficult decision he’s ever faced, Gabriel chooses to break his oath and vows anew to protect Wren. Now, he too will be hunted. Together, Wren and Gabriel race across the kingdom to escape the king’s wrath. But the cost of safety is steep, and life on the run is more dangerous than ever. Even with the Hunter by her side, their bond growing stronger with each obstacle, Wren is all too aware that everything, especially the notion of safety, is a lie.     AmazonKU     AB

A STEEP INDEPENDENCE (EERIE ESTES MYSTERIES BOOK SEVEN) by B I Skinner

When a priceless Ansel Adams photograph vanishes from a locked display during the July 4th fireworks, bookstore owner and ghost whisperer Ellie Read can’t resist taking a closer look. Everyone connected to the charity auction seems to have a motive, a secret, and a picture-perfect story that doesn’t quite add up. Meanwhile, a World War I soldier walks into Spines & Steeps searching for a letter he entrusted to a friend more than a century ago. With Baxter, the sarcastic Victorian ghost offering advice, Hobbes, the judgmental shop cat supervising, and her friends steeping themselves in theories, Ellie must bring two mysteries into focus. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous the investigation becomes. Because some family secrets were meant to stay framed. But someone is determined to make sure Ellie never sees the whole picture.       AmazonKU

DARK SECRETS (BLACK LANTERN SERIES BOOK ONE) by Keri Arthur

An arranged marriage, a missing bride, and a father with dark secrets…Hanna Kang has been an investigator for the Black Lantern Society—an organisation of witches, werewolves, and vampires who work behind the scenes to right wrongs via whatever means necessary—for nigh on three years, and has certainly done her part in bringing society’s “wicked witches” to justice. So when she and her shapeshifter partner, Ginny Baker, are given the task of babysitting Monica Ashworth, the pampered only child of one of Canberra’s most prominent witches, she looks forward to the change of pace. But things go very wrong, very fast. Monica is kidnapped from under their noses, a bridesmaid is murdered, and another goes missing. As Hanna and Ginny battle to find the two women before they also end up dead, a mysterious stranger steps in to help Hanna—a man who has no life force but who appears as human as she. A man she is dangerously attracted to. With the body count mounting and the lies of all those around them beginning to unravel, it soon becomes clear that revenge, not money, is at the heart of it all. But Monica and her father are not the only ones holding secrets. Hanna has them too… and hers can kill.

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A HUNGER SO WILD (RENEGADE ANGELS BOOK TWO) by Sylvia Day

VS Note: Re-release.

Come back into the shadows of a seductive underworld where lycans, vampires, and angels vie for supremacy…Elijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality. When the lycans revolt under the iron fist of angelic rule, he steps into command, becoming both an enemy and a coveted ally in the conflict between vampires and angels. Vashti is the second-most powerful vampire in the world, a lethal beauty with a trail of devastation in her wake. Tasked with proposing an alliance between vampires and the lycans who killed her mate, Vash approaches Elijah, whose need to avenge a friend demands Vash’s death even as his passion demands her surrender. Soon, their enmity erodes beneath an all-consuming desire. Elijah has never encountered a woman whose warrior spirit and fierce sexual appetite rival his own, while Vash is faced with the one man strong enough to be her equal. But as war looms, each must decide where their loyalty lies – with their own kind or with the enemy lover they can no longer live without.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

CURSED FOREVERMORE (SHADOWS AND CURSES BOOK THREE) by Khardine Gray

I lived on borrowed time for nearly six years. Every thirty days, my world reset. Not anymore. I remember everything now. My father. My magic. And him. My Hades. My husband. Wolfe Nightblade. I remember loving him with everything I am. And fate chooses that moment to tear him from me. Charged with murder, he’s imprisoned by the Citadel. Buried in a cage I can’t reach. He came for me once. Stole me. Made me his. He bound his soul to mine and swore he’d scorch worlds to keep me. Now it’s my turn. I’ll dance with dead men and bargain with kings to carve him free. He taught me how to love a villain. Now I’ll show him what I learned. Because the Citadel hasn’t merely imprisoned my husband. They’ve struck the first match in a war that will burn through every realm. Realm against realm. Blood against crown. Shadow against the dawn. And when the smoke clears, only one throne will be left standing. Better to stand at the right hand of the devil than in his path.   AmazonKU

THE DEMON NEXT DOOR by Amaya Black

As a receptionist, I never thought I’d be able to afford a house of my own. Then I found the perfect one. A little spooky? Maybe. Suspiciously cheap? Definitely. After years of saving, I wasn’t about to let a few ghost stories stop me from buying my very first home. Unfortunately, nobody mentioned the Hellgate buried beneath the property. Or the possessive Alpha demon next door. Azrael has spent years guarding the Hellgate. According to him, keeping me safe is part of the job. According to me, that’s a convenient excuse for a man who keeps showing up uninvited, growling at every Alpha who comes near me, and looking at me like I already belong to him. The closer we get, the harder it becomes to ignore the heat between us. But Alpha demons don’t fall in love. At least that’s what Azrael keeps telling himself. Too bad his actions say otherwise.      AmazonKU

PATRICK: THE WOLVES (KING LAKE SHIFTERS BOOK TWO) by R E Butler

Cassidy doesn’t do whirlwind romance. She’s seen how that story ends – fast starts, hot sparks, and nothing left but regret. So when one night at The Amber Howl turns into something she can’t forget, she tells herself it was just a one-time thing. Wolf shifter Patrick “Trick” knows the moment Cassidy walks through the doors of The Amber Howl that she’s his truemate, not a one-night stand. Once a wolf finds his forever-girl, there’s no walking away. The only question is how long it will take her to believe it. But when Cassidy’s sister warns her that fast love always burns out, and that wolves don’t build forever with humans, doubt starts to creep in. No matter how hard she’s falling, she’s certain it won’t last. Trick doesn’t make promises he can’t keep, and he’s promised Cassidy that he’s hers forever. Because in King Lake, love doesn’t burn out… it stays.      AmazonKU

RETROGRADE (THE PROSPECTS BOOK THREE) by Erin R Flynn

I am Queen Sagan De la Rosa, also known as Mystic Frost, Nerthus’s top fighter who makes money in illegal cage matches… Bet you didn’t see that one coming, did you? But after my parents, King Rhys and Queen Amelia, left me in hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, I didn’t have much of a choice but to quickly and quietly pay it all off before the people realized what was going on. Or called in their debts in ways that didn’t ask for the money. It’s nearly impossible to keep all my secrets when constantly watched and the wrong people are starting to learn things they shouldn’t. I don’t know who to trust, and carrying so many burdens alone is enough to make a person go insane. Oh right, I’m supposed to mate and share it all with several of them because now it’s been declared that there will be several when I don’t think there’s one I could really trust with any of this. Not one that wants to actually stay and love me the way I deserve. I’m honestly not sure why I’m even doing this to myself anymore. But what’s the other option? Abdicate and prove everyone right that I was sent away because there was something wrong with me and I’m not fit to be queen?     AmazonKU

SUN KING (POPPY’S POTIONS) (HAVEN HOLLOW BOOK 47) by J R Rain and H P Mallory

A royal coronation. An ancient alchemical elixir. A bargain that could cost Poppy everything. Life in Haven Hollow has finally begun to feel… normal. Poppy is settling into her new life as an alchemist, her relationship with Andre has never been stronger, and her son Finn is one step closer to embracing his own magical future. Then the heir to the Summer Court, Cosmo, walks into her potion shop. Cosmo needs a rare alchemical elixir known as Sun King for his upcoming coronation, and he insists that Poppy is the only person capable of brewing it. The request seems straightforward—until a single kiss leaves behind a mysterious magical mark… and strange dreams begin pulling Poppy toward a destiny she never agreed to. As ancient faerie traditions awaken, political tensions simmer between the Courts, and dangerous magic blurs the line between dream and reality, Poppy must uncover the truth before she loses more than her heart. Because in Faerie, every favor has a price. And the Summer Court never asks for anything it isn’t prepared to take.     AmazonKU     AB

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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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FIREGLASS (DRYDEN UNIVERSE) by Greta van der Rol

She found a being made of light. Then someone stole it. Exobiologist Linara Vey entered the Prism Nebula chasing science, not miracles. What she found there was alive, powerful, and terrified, a sentient energy being she calls the lumnith. It saved her life. She promised to take it home. Then her partner betrayed her. Wounded and desperate, Linara turns to Kael Reece, an undercover cop posing as an independent trader. Kael knows criminals. He knows lies. He knows better than to get involved with a woman determined to rescue a stolen alien intelligence worth a fortune. Unfortunately, knowing better doesn’t help much. The lumnith has been taken by men who see only profit, and Linara will risk everything to get it back. Kael’s mission is supposed to be about bringing down criminals, not falling for a stubborn scientist with courage bigger than her survival instincts. Getting the lumnith back is only the beginning. To keep her promise, Linara must return it to the Prism Nebula, a place where ships vanish, systems fail, and old myths warn of things that eat fire and devour power. Kael can protect Linara from the man hunting her. Protecting his heart may be a lost cause.

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ENTER THE NIGHTMARE (A HARMONY BOOK 19) by Jayne Castle

Alice Radstone should have known not to return. Her life before the Hotel of Dreams had been one of a perfectly cloistered teacher at the Ballantine Academy. When the death of her mentor forced her out, she was left to reinvent herself in the big city. Since then, things have not gone well. Ten months ago, after her first trip to the hotel, she woke up in the locked ward of a hospital for the criminally insane and was informed that she had murdered her husband on their wedding night. She has no memory of the husband or the wedding, but after she escapes from the asylum, one thing is certain: She is never going back. Unfortunately, Alice’s second reinvented life is also deteriorating rapidly, which is why she finds herself once more at the Hotel of Dreams—this time hiding in the shadows of her room with a dead body in the shower and two men wearing masks creeping toward the bed to kidnap her. Again. When the enigmatic and decidedly dangerous Owen March shows up and claims he’s there to rescue her, she has no choice but to accept his offer—and hope that he doesn’t also intend to kidnap her. With Alice and now Owen in the killer’s sights, time is running out. They must trust each other and the electric passion between them if they are to make it out of this hotel alive.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

MINT TO BE HIS (ALIENS OF FROSTFALL BOOK TWO) by Lindy Moonhill

She’s fire. He’s ice. When they touch, steam rises. Phoebe Calloway is all heat and passion—a singer who performs for thousands but trusts no one with her real self. Then a stage mishap assigns her an alien bodyguard carved from winter itself. Thorne is pale, austere, and nearly silent. His truth-sensing powers cut through every lie she tells—including the ones she tells herself. His cooling touch should be wrong. Instead, it ignites something she can’t ignore. Late-night walks become confessions. Peppermint tea rituals turn into excuses to be close. And when his icy control finally shatters? Frost explodes across every surface as his hands map fire across her skin. He knew she was his fated mate the moment he saw her. Now he just has to prove that being completely seen isn’t terrifying—it’s freedom. But when Earth offers the recording contract she’s always wanted, Phoebe must choose: the validation of strangers, or the man whose frozen exterior hides a soul that burns only for her.   AmazonKU

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A DRAGONLING (DRAGONLINGS OF VALDIER BOOK 11) by S E Smith

VS Note: Not a romance.

When saving the galaxy falls to Dragonling ingenuity…Trelon Reykill’s relief about finishing the upgrades on V’ager, his brother’s prized warship, is interrupted when Cara and their three kids come for an unexpected visit. Amber, Jade, and James are thrilled at the chance to explore a real working Valdier warship. Armed with an arsenal of inventive gadgets, the kids soon cross paths with three bumbling alien thieves attempting to steal a top-secret device. Little do the thieves know, they’ve met their match. As the Dragonlings transform the ship into a battlefield of pranks, gadgets, and heart-pounding escapes, Trelon and his wife, Cara, must rescue the thieves from their children’s well-meaning “traps” before the ship becomes a total circus. Never underestimate what can happen when Amber, Jade, and James are on the loose in this action-packed adventure that is guaranteed to give Trelon a few more gray hairs before it is over!       Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

THE DRAGON’S FAVORITE STRAYS (FIREBLOOD DRAGON BOOK 11) by Ruby Dixon

Cut off from his people and stranded on the wrong side of the Rift, a drakoni warrior named Murr collects strays. His home is filled with cats and kittens that need a caretaker. His latest strays? A human woman and her daughter who have wandered into his territory. Dakota is a woman used to being on her own. She doesn’t trust or depend on anyone. She certainly doesn’t trust a big naked dragon-man with a friendly smile and a kitten in his arms. As Murr and Dakota get to know each other, their strange gathering of strays grows. Home is where your family is, and they’re determined to make a new one amidst the ruins. This STAND ALONE book features a dragon shifter hero, a world-weary single mom, found family, and all the stray animals I can squeeze onto the page. This story is low on plot and high on cozy vibes. Enjoy!     AmazonKU

MOSS’D IN SPACE  by Rebecca Thorne

VS Note: LGBTQ SFR.

Torian Razner finally bought a starship, and contrary to Amelia’s assessment, it was not “a meteoric sign of stupidity.” Sure, the alien starship may have been abandoned for a century, and it may be covered in moss now… but it’s Torian’s ticket to freedom, regardless of what her ex… ah, captain… said. Except Torian’s first flight reveals a surprise passenger: the moss is actually an organic computer with a snarky attitude and serious abandonment issues. The target of its loathing? The immortal alien who built it (and then parked the starship, with Moss inside, and forgot about it). The same alien who just found Torian and accused her of “stealing” the ship. It’s entirely possible that Amelia was right about this meteoric stupidity.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

SEDUCED BY THE ALIEN MERCENARY (MONSTER MERCENARY MATES BOOK 10) by Robin O’Connor

Flack can steal anything, except his freedom, but he only needs one advantage to escape: her. Irena – I am nothing to the this merciless pirate crew but a scarred, unwanted human. Sent to clean cages, endure insults, and stay invisible. Until the day I meet him; Flack. He watches me like I’m something rare instead of ruined. His voice low and dangerous, his promises even more so. I know better than to trust a pirate… especially one who looks at me like he already owns me. I might not have a choice when the ship steers into danger even this ruthless crew can’t avoid. Flack – Captured by the pirate crew I once ran with, I’m thrown into a locked cell and forced to bargain for my life. Steal the unstealable, and they’ll let me live. It’s a lie, and we all know it. The moment I scent her, I know. She’s my fated mate. Trapped on this ship just like I am, even if her cage has no bars. She’s skittish, like a wounded animal, but soon she’ll learn the truth: I’ll burn this ship to the ground before I leave her behind. Because I’m a Sune in mating rut…and I don’t leave what’s mine behind.   AmazonKU

THE FORBIDDEN DRAGON (TALONIAN WARRIORS II) by Celeste Raye

He was sent to do a job… not claim a human mate. Elex lives by duty—until one mission to Earth puts him face-to-face with a woman who challenges everything he believes. Colleen is human, off-limits, and far too tempting to ignore. As tensions rise between worlds and a dangerous prince threatens peace, Elex must decide where his loyalty truly lies. Against the backdrop of humanity’s expansion into the stars and the colonization of new worlds, one forbidden attraction could alter the future of two civilizations. He was trained to obey. But one forbidden woman may be worth risking everything.   AmazonKU

RESCUED BY THE ALIEN DAD by Ivy Knox

A curvy human woman trying to outrun her past meets a single alien dad looking to build a safe and happy future for his son. Juniper is starting fresh on an alien planet. She’s got a new house, a new life, a new job as her hot neighbor’s nanny, and no one is hunting her down for her past crimes (yet). Zivren is a single dad with an adorable son and a fulfilling career as a firefighter. After being ostracized from the royal family on his home planet due to his ability to read minds, he’s proud to have built himself a simple, quiet life. Though he can’t deny something has always been missing. While their meet couldn’t get any cuter if it tried, the sparks die quickly when June is arrested for murder. She assures him the crime was a big misunderstanding. In order to keep her out of prison, Zivren offers to marry June, knowing she’s a good person deep down. They’re forced to play house in front of the authorities and live as husband and wife for ninety days. If they can pull it off, June gets to keep her freedom. Little do they know, the hardest part of this charade will be keeping their clothes on.     AmazonKU

KITO: GALACTIC CYBORG HEAT SERIES  by Jessie Rose Case

Their ship had crashed. Not their doing. A weather bolt striking it forcing a shutdown. The strike coming out of nowhere. This world had unpredictable weather patterns that were contained by a weather net. They’d been tracking it but it was unpredictable. The result was their craft was damaged and half his crew now held injuries. He was badly damaged. Wrong place, wrong time. So were 5 of his men. Medical had been damaged too. Medbeds needed work. Lots of work but right now, injectors were all they had…(more excerpt on ebook seller’s page, no blurb as such)     AmazonKU

ALL WE HAVE LEFT by Emily Paxman

Thirty years after the end of the world, a young woman enters into a marriage of convenience with a man she hardly knows so she can secure vital medical care for her beloved younger sister. The world might not have ended all at once. But end it did. Kayla Hollins is a survivor. Living in the fragmented wasteland of the Canadian Pacific Northwest, she’s outlived a colony, a cult, a paramilitary group, and most of her family. So when her younger sister April falls seriously ill, Kayla will do anything to save her. They trek to Salt Spring Island, which is rumoured to still have a functioning hospital. But Salt Spring’s utopia comes at a price. Not just anyone can enter paradise or access their medical care, and Kayla’s past is chequered. Desperate, Kayla makes a deal with Sid Charles, an aspiring politician she meets on the island. If Kayla and Sid get married, it will boost Sid’s chances of election, and grant April automatic access to the medical treatment she needs. And in two years, when Kayla is eligible for citizenship herself, they can get a divorce. Simple, right? The more time Kayla spends with Sid and his ragtag group of rescued boys, the more she comes to admire and care for him. But with April’s treatment and Sid’s election on the line, Kayla isn’t sure she can risk trying to change their arrangement. Trapped together in the closest thing left to paradise, Kayla and Sid both know what it means for the world to end. As they try to rebuild with the people of Salt Spring, there may be time left to save—if not the world—themselves.

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TAKEN BY THE ALIEN BODYGUARD (WARRIORS OF THE LATHAR BOOK 22) by Mina Carter

One ship. One bed. Zero chance of escape. Amelia has been fighting off the world since before she was old enough to vote. Evicted, broke, and down to a cat that isn’t even hers, she does what she’s always done when something picks her lock at 2 a.m. She grabs the bat and swings. She doesn’t expect to break the nose of seven feet of alien warrior. She really doesn’t expect him to sling her over his shoulder and carry her off the planet. He crossed the galaxy for a cat, but he’s not leaving without her. Sub-Commander Thyaar has faced blood-crazed Krin and survived enemy charges, so collecting one cat from one human city should have been the easiest mission of his life. Then a half-starved human who barely reaches his collarbone breaks his nose with a baseball bat, and his whole world resets around her. The bond hit the second she swung. So why can’t he make himself tell her she’s his? He’ll give her his life, if the pirates closing in on their crippled ship force the issue…He just won’t make her stay. Even if losing her kills him.

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THE ALIEN MIONOTAUR’S BRIDE: ALIEN OMEGAVERSE ROMANCE by Skye MacKinnon

Resisting fate is hard. Alien minotaurs are harder. I spent nine years alone on a space station at the edge of nowhere, and I told myself I liked it that way. No one to answer to. No one to let me down. Then Keth took me. Eight and a half feet of alien minotaur: curved horns, cloven hooves, a restless tail, and hands that span my whole waist. He lifts me like I weigh nothing, and still handles me like I’m the most breakable thing he’s ever touched. He says I’m his fated mate. The serum he gives me rebuilds my human body into an omega made for his: I run hot for his knot, and I’m built to be bred. My breasts swell heavy and full with milk, aching for a relief only he can give. Among his people, an omega who produces is sacred, and Keth tends to every drop with a reverence that wrecks every wall I have left. He wants nothing more than to keep me full. I’ve never been wanted. Never been kept. But on Keth’s world, a producing omega is a prize, and a higher-ranked alpha has already moved to claim me for himself. If our bond reads as weak, the law can take me from Keth and hand me over. I should be fighting my way home. Instead I’m fighting to keep him.

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A IS FOR ABDUCTION (THE ABC’S OF ALIEN ABDUCTION) by Honey Phillips

Abducted from Earth. Chased across the galaxy. Bound together by a child in danger. Elementary school teacher Emma Carter never expected aliens to be real. She definitely never expected to find herself on the run with a dangerously attractive smuggler and a mysterious infant sought by some of the most dangerous beings in the galaxy. Doren has spent years searching for a legendary treasure known as The Vault. Instead, he finds a stubborn human female, a child who needs protection, and an attraction that’s becoming impossible to ignore. With fanatical Grorn warriors closing in, Emma and Doren must work together to keep the infant safe and stay one step ahead of their enemies. Because some treasures are worth far more than gold.      AmazonKU

DELIVERED AND DEVOURED (ALIEN RECOVERY FILES) by Lara Roth

LORRI: First day. New job at SNAG. The one I cannot afford to lose. The assignment was simple. I have already ruined it. I’ve broken a quarantine seal, trapped myself in a twenty-four-hour lockdown, and the only other person in this cargo bay is the six-foot-three Skiveth courier who just killed something with his bare hands while I stood behind him trying to remember how lungs work. Jazil Ereux is calm. Cocky. Looking at me like I’m the most interesting thing that’s happened to him in a decade, and I need him to stop because my face is doing things I cannot control. JAZIL: My species bonds once. One mate. No second chances. Mine never fired. Forty-one years, and I made peace with the silence. Then she walked onto my ship and every dead thing in me woke up roaring. Now I’m telling her to run. Not because something in this bay is dangerous. Because I am. Run, little human. I’m already counting.      AmazonKU

ELIZABETH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS (STARLIGHT AND PAPERCUTS BOOK ONE) by E S Brandon

Elizabeth Harper’s biggest crisis used to be misshelved books. Now she’s punched holes in alien spaceships, escalated an interstellar war, and become the most feared librarian in the galaxy. She’d settle for a decent latte. When Commander Kaelen Velthar accidentally abducts a Seattle librarian during an emergency hyperjump, he doesn’t expect his fragile cargo to outpunch his entire crew. Turns out human bone density, by galactic standards, is closer to armor than skeleton. Bad for the battlecruiser. Worse for his composure. Then Supreme Warmaster Ash’velkathorinathktu-Zex’ley—or “Ashley,” as Elizabeth keeps calling him—decides he wants the human weapon for himself. He just needs leverage. Unfortunately, Elizabeth is starting to have some. Saving the galaxy is the easy part. She’s been flipping tanks since Tuesday. The seven-foot brooding alien commander she keeps wanting to kiss? Different problem entirely. Latte first. Galaxy second.      AmazonKU

MAELSTROM: A SHORT SPICY COMPANION STORY TO THE LEVIATHAN SERIES by Deiri Di

Lyssa survived captivity by getting stronger. Every day in her prison cell, she trained, waited, and planned her escape. She didn’t need rescuing. Then the ship came under attack and tore itself apart and one of her alien captors scooped her into his arms and carried her out of the destruction like she was something precious. Sunshine was engineered to obey, slaved to a control chip that forces him to follow orders. Until Lyssa hooked him. Now his control chip is silent, his instincts are waking up, and every part of him is convinced of one thing. She’s his. As the freed ship transforms into something strange, the rescued humans and newly liberated aliens have only each other to rely on. But an empire built on cages doesn’t let its property go easily, and the bond growing between Lyssa and Sunshine is becoming impossible to ignore. And the more time they spend together, the more dangerous his instincts become. Because Sunshine isn’t just falling in love. He’s found his mate.   AmazonKU

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VS: Might want to get up to speed on the Badari Gladiators series before the end of July! If you’re not already of course… Hmmm, what could I be writing for my next release? (It’s not Dmitri, sorry, although he will be the next one after this to have his story told.) Here’s the series page on my blog, which has buy links. The series is available wide. (I’m not doing a preorder on the July release.)

************************** 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!*********************

ORC’S BLOOD (VEIL LANDS BOOK SEVEN) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Welcome to the Veil lands, where monsters are the only ones who can save you. Imara – I was a high-ranking healer in a cult that harvests human life. Then I broke the rules to save a child. Now I’m running for my life, my hands stained with the blood of my superiors. The seven-foot orc assassin sent to hunt me down has eyes like dead coals. He’s the only monster strong enough to help me tear this empire down. They built him to be a brainless weapon. I’m teaching him how to crave freedom—and me. Kharvek – Two decades of killing on command. Then I was sent to eliminate a beautiful rebel with fire in her veins. She was supposed to be an easy execution. A name to erase. But she presses her body against mine and demands an alliance instead of mercy. Now, her touch triggers a wild, unholy power inside me that I can’t control. I was bred to be the hand that strangles her. Instead, she’s rewriting my soul, one breathless kiss at a time.      AmazonKU

ONE PACK MIND (PARNORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 106) by Milly Taiden

Harper Lane has built her whole life around fixing everyone else’s problems—because dealing with her own lonely, overworked heart sounds absolutely terrible. When Gerri Wilder shows up with a “purely professional” assignment to help a traumatized teenage wolf shifter in a hidden Washington mountain pack, Harper tells herself she’s only going for the girl. Not for adventure. Not for romance. And definitely not for the six-and-a-half-foot Alpha whose handshake makes her forget her own name. Dorian Holt has spent eighteen years holding his pack together with claws, control, and enough brooding intensity to scare off anyone with sense. His sister is hurting, his people are afraid, and the rival Vex pack is circling closer every day. The last thing he needs is a gorgeous human therapist walking into his home, smelling like jasmine and rain, and making his wolf roar one very inconvenient word: mate. Gerri Wilder swears this is about healing, not matchmaking. Sure. When Harper starts mending Lila’s wounded spirit and challenging Dorian’s iron grip on his pack, sparks turn into fire fast enough to singe the mountain air. But with Ronan Vex determined to destroy the Holt pack once and for all, Harper may have to decide if she’s brave enough to stop running from love—and Dorian will have to learn that protecting his mate means trusting her to stand beside him, not behind him.      AmazonKU

LASH: THE WILDS OMEGAVERSE by Callie Rhodes

An alpha doesn’t ask permission. He takes what he wants…and this time, he wants me. Dreams of success drew me to the Wilds, ready to tell the stories of the women who disappeared behind the massive wall that protects our civilized world from the savage wilderness beyond. But instead, I found him…Lash—a feral beast with a burning hatred for my kind. Ripping me from my world, he drags me into his. Carrying me deep into the heart of the Wilds, he’s determined to use me as a warning to any other woman who might follow my path. Dangerous and deadly, I know he could destroy me with a flick of his wrist. But as days turn to nights, the hostile flames burning deep within his dark eyes start to change into something a lot less lethal…but just as smoking hot.      AmazonKU

THE LIBRARIAN’S FAMILIAR by TJ Nichols

VS Note: MM PNR.

Some secrets keep you alive. Others can get you killed. After nearly twenty years away, August North is heading back to the small Alaskan town he once couldn’t wait to escape. His pro‑sports career is over—ended by an injury even a polar‑bear shifter can’t heal—and the secrets he carried back then still sting: no one knew he was a shifter…or that he was gay. He doesn’t know if Claw Lake is home anymore, but he needs the wilderness in his blood again, even if staying means facing everything he ran from. Charlie Quinlan came to Claw Lake for a job—but not the one the townsfolk think. Yes, he’s the new librarian. No, that’s not why the Coven sent him. Charlie’s dangerous, unpredictable magic has always made him an outsider, and now it’s the reason he’s stationed here as the first line of defense if anything escapes the nearby paranormal prison. When the weather turns, and magic stirs up trouble in the wilds, August and Charlie are pulled together by instinct, magic, and a spark that refuses to die. Two outsiders. One tight‑knit, mostly paranormal town. And a fated‑mate bond neither of them wants. In Claw Lake, the nights are cold, the chemistry is hot, and belonging is something you choose.     AmazonKU

PREY IT BY EAR (APEX ACADEMY CAPERS BOOK SEVEN) by Cassandra Featherstone

Who’s afraid of the big bad bunny? Junior year is here, and I’m hopping back into chaos at L’Académie des Crocs y Girafes with five dangerously devoted professor boyfriends and exactly zero chill. After a summer-long ‘European vacation’ filled with murder, mayhem, and magical espionage, I was hoping for syllabus week and some heavy petting. Instead, we’ve got chaos with a capital fang. The Heathers? All but one are history—but just because the mean girls are mostly gone doesn’t mean the mess is. Disappearing students, a counselor from hell, my abusive mother resurfacing like mold in July, and now the Council is sniffing around with rumors of an in-person visit from their most sinister members. Are they the same families we suspect are tied to the secret Society we’ve been chasing? Of course they are. Meanwhile, the Fae are getting twitchy, the professors are on edge, and this school might actually crumble before finals—especially with me still enrolled. I’m Dolly Drew, bunny shifter, chaos magnet, and unofficial emotional support delinquent. All I want is one semester where I don’t have to save the world or explain why I’m not mated to all my men yet. I’ve got a bad feeling that if something doesn’t give soon, this place will be ground zero for whatever apocalypse we’re barreling toward. But let’s be real—where Dolly Drew goes, chaos is just part of the curriculum.      AmazonKU

THE SHADOW OF A VICIOUS KING (CURSE OF THE FAE BOOK FIVE) by Anya J Cosgrove

Villains have more fun. Even the broken ones. I’m a ghost. A shadow stuck on this earth, cursed to rot. No escape. No mercy. Just a gilded cage I call home. Until she moves in. Little Fox. Hair red as flame against the pillow she clutches at night. Skin pale as the moonlight spilling through her window. Lips red as blood, parted in sleep. I want to touch her, crawl into her bed, and drink her tears. Bad men want her dead, and I’ll kill anyone who tries to hurt her. I’ll save her. Or ruin her. I only break the ones I love. But I crave her beyond reason.     AmazonKU

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OF MASKS AND FURY (KINGDOM OF SHATTERED VOWS BOOK TWO) by Alaya Wells

I returned to Caldrith to save my sister but now I’m trapped, a prisoner in my own court. My sister is alive, tortured, and hidden by the man who raised me, and I stormed the castle to save her. Now I’m trapped behind gilded walls, forced to smile at suitors who might be assassins, while the rebel king I love pretends to be my bodyguard. Every stolen glance could expose us. Every touch is a risk we can’t afford to take. Trew followed me into enemy territory, disguising himself to stay at my side. But my father suspects something, and the castle is crawling with spies. If anyone discovers who Trew truly is, he’ll die in the same dungeons where my sister suffered. I need to find her and discover why my mother’s name keeps surfacing in connection to the wasteland’s darkest secrets. Twenty-three innocent people are scheduled to die on the upcoming Day of Mercy, and my father has told me I must choose a husband to control me before that time. And somewhere beyond these walls, a conspiracy is unfolding that connects my bloodline to the magic my kingdom has spent decades trying to eradicate. I’ve worn the mask of a dutiful princess for sixteen years. Now it’s cracking, and everyone will see what lies beneath. I wield forbidden magic. I love a rebel king. And I will burn my father’s kingdom to the ground before I let anyone I love die. Mercy wore a white mask. Vengeance wears a crown.      AmazonKU

VILLAIN OF MY HEART (A LIBRARIAN’S GUIDE TO WITCHERY BOOK TWO) by Shelby Rhodes

VS Note: MM PNR.

Ollie Cross here, back with more problems. As we learned last time, after much denial, witches are real…and I am one. Witches are real, and I am doing just…fine…if I ignore the fact that my cat and I were almost murdered by a witch hunter. Noble’s here with me, so there is that, and my friend, Jahla, is too. But the latter is starting to act weird, and the former, I think, is possibly…hiding something. Oh, also, it turns out, surprise, surprise, I am not even normal when it comes to being a witch. Because why would I be normal in any way in my life? But I will go on, because what else am I going to do? Find more secret doors in my house? Possibly. Oh yeah, did I mention there is a secret door in my house that leads to a library that is basically a witch’s wet dream when it comes to supernatural and witch-related knowledge? A secret library full of books that possibly lead to me starting a few fires, and ones that may point towards my boyfriend being my mortal enemy… Did I mention I am fine?      AmazonKU

THE WITCH’S HIDDEN GARDEN (WITCHES OF BEFANA BAY BOOK FOUR) by Deanna Chase

Living in a small town hasn’t always been sunshine and cupcakes for Prim Easton. It took years for her to learn to control her magic, and she’s left plenty of victims in her wake. With a reputation like that, dating hasn’t exactly been easy. So, when the handsome Dante Silva walks into her life, she isn’t exactly surprised when he keeps his distance. Thankfully she has other things to be excited about—namely the movie that’s being filmed at her shop. But when the spells cast for the film start to go haywire and someone gets hurt, suddenly everyone is pointing their finger at her. Everyone but Dante Silva. Dante Silva has a troubled past. He’s loved and lost and isn’t interested in trying again. Except he has a soft spot for Prim Easton. The lovely witch has gotten under his skin and no matter how hard he tries, he can’t seem to stay away from her. But when an unwelcome person from his past arrives in town, causing trouble, he knows his past has caught up with him. Now he’ll do anything to keep Prim safe, even if it means opening up his carefully guarded heart.      AmazonKU

MOUNTED BY THE MINOTAUR (BRED FOR THE RIFT BOOK ONE) by Zara Crowe

I stole antibiotics for dying children. They gave me a choice: the stockade or the Tithe. I chose the Tithe. Not because it was better. Because the kids still needed the rest of the course and corpses can’t break locks. The minotaur hasn’t spoken to another person in two years. Twelve feet tall, horns cracked, hands that shake when I’m in the room. He eats standing at a table set for one. He made preserves and labeled the jars. He planted a garden with the rows spaced wide enough for his hooves. He built me a cot with tools too big for the work. Sanded the chest smooth so there wouldn’t be splinters. Left lavender on the pillow, tied with a knot that took him three tries. Then he opened my door at midnight and put his hands on me and my body answered in a language I never agreed to learn. He can taste everything I feel. Fear, fury, the wanting I won’t say out loud. The tasting doesn’t stop. He reads me in real time and I can’t close the channel and the worst part is that I’ve stopped wanting to. They sent me here as a punishment. He treats me like something worth preparing for. We’re both caged. Different cages. Same lock.      Amazon

SAVAGE WOLF VOW (MAFIA PACK BOOK FOUR) by Heather Hildenbrand

In my world, being mated isn’t romantic. It’s blood in the water. A weakness to be exploited. Another way to get hurt. And fated mates? Those are fairy tales for wolves who’ve never buried someone they loved. So, I chose something safer. Control. Strategy. Free will. A refusal to be anyone’s pawn. But then I’m faced with the ultimate betrayal, and suddenly the rules I built my life around start cracking. Enter Nash Cross. Alpha of the Crossvale pack. Ruthless. Disciplined. And infuriatingly gorgeous. The man I swore I’d never see again after one reckless night that almost destroyed my carefully curated self-control. Now we’re forced to work side by side to defend my city. But in between battle strategy, he looks at me like he’s already decided I’m his. And even though I’m certain I shouldn’t, I can barely fight the urge to offer myself to him. If I let Nash in, I risk everything I’ve ever worked for, including the safety of everyone in this city. But if I don’t? I might lose the only man strong enough to stand beside me when the enemy arrives. And this time, I won’t just be fighting for my pack. I’ll be fighting for my heart.       AmazonKU

NIGHTBOUND: A GAY VAMPIRE PNR ACADEMY ROMANCE (WIDDERSHINS ACADEMY BOOK SIX) by Blake R Wolfe

A witch who knows the rules. A vampire who’s lived too long to care. A forbidden spark that refuses to die…VALEN Three centuries teach you discipline—over hunger, over steel, over desire. I teach history at Widdershins Academy, coach its fencing team, and keep to the shadows where a vampire belongs. No attachments. No slipups. Then a sharp-tongued stranger pulls me into an alley during one stolen night off campus, and for the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel alive. I never thought I’d see him again—until he pulls off a fencing mask at tryouts and turns out to be Archer Quinn, my newest student. It would be easy to keep my distance if his laughter didn’t feel like a long-lost sunrise, if feeding from him didn’t steady something I thought had died centuries ago. But the academy forbids a professor from touching a student, and his family forbids him from so much as speaking to the undead. I’ve broken a lot of rules in my life. I don’t want to break him. ARCHER I came to Widdershins to keep my head down—win meets, pass exams, make my family proud. Vampires are dangerous, untrustworthy, off-limits. That was the first lesson the Quinns ever taught me. So I have no business spending one unforgettable night with a stranger in the mountains… and even less business discovering he’s Professor Crowe—the centuries-old vampire now grading my work and running my fencing team. He’s wrong for me in every way—older, immortal, the enemy by tradition. Yet the more he feeds on what burns between us, the more my magic seems to sing to his, like it’s been waiting all along. If I choose him, I gamble my family name, my inheritance, my whole future. If I don’t… I’ll spend the rest of my life pretending I never felt destiny bite down.    AmazonKU

THE SATYR’S PIPE: MM SPICY PNR SHIFTER ROMANCE (BATHHOUSE BEASTS BOOK 13) by Blake R Wolfe

A burned-out lawyer. An otherworldly satyr. And a magical bathhouse that washes away all his stress. Cal is a senior partner at a white-shoe law firm, but he hasn’t felt like a real person in years. Starved for touch and drowning in a high-pressure career, he finally takes his best friend’s advice and visits an exclusive, discreet bathhouse hidden in the warehouse district. He expects a hot soak and maybe a little physical relief. He definitely doesn’t expect to find a magical indoor forest pool—or the gorgeous, goat-legged satyr waiting inside. Kieran is everything Cal isn’t. He’s relaxed, otherworldly, and completely in tune with his desires. The satyr doesn’t just want a quick hookup; he wants to help Cal remember how to be touched, how to let go, and how to surrender. And with his unique anatomy and patient, soul-melting touch, Kieran gives Cal the slow, devoted intimacy he’s been missing.   AmazonKU

THE GLASS UNICORN PART 11 (THE GLASS WARS) by Yasmine Galenorn

When Erenye Green, an editor at a small publisher, and several of her gaming friends find themselves stuck within the fantasy world of Abarria, they must learn to navigate the realities of what it really means to battle monsters, zombies, and all manner of creatures, now that the stakes are life and death, and no longer a simple roll of the dice. Part 11: Erenye and her friends enjoy a brief respite, and Brynn develops a fondness for Aisling, the lycanthroid and they have to decide what to do. They also discover the Waypoint, and a secret that will change the life of Magdala’s adopted daughter forever.   Amazon

BONFIRE DREAMS (OTHERWORLD TALES BOOK SEVEN) by Yasmine Galenorn

We’re the D’Artigo Sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we’re savvy–and sexy–operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch whose magic is as unpredictable as the weather. My sister Menolly is a vampire trying to get the hang of being undead. And me? I’m Delilah. When I’m under stress, I transform into a tabby cat–and a chance meeting with a stray cat leads to a mysterious discovery on our land, one that makes us realize that a looming shadow seems to be forming in our future…There’s a grumpy old gray tabby living on our property we name Cromwell. After some hissing, he and I become friends. I care about him and start feeding him, and one night we head out for a mouse hunt…but as we run through the woods, something catches my eye. It’s a mysterious stone, and I sense a dark magic coming from it–a dark magic that has coyote shifter written all over it. But when we find out who left it in our woods, we realize that our lives are never going to be the same.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE ORC COMMANDER AND ELF MAIDEN by Jove Chambers

She should not crave him, not now, especially not now, not after what he’s done to her. Once, she loved him, but now, he and his orc army are bursting in on her wedding ceremony. Now, he rips the skirts of her gown, lays her down on the altar, and has her there, in front of everyone. A woman can’t forgive a man that, ravaging her, killing her fiancé, keeping her prisoner, staging an uprising against the entire country, killing her kind. He’s always been an orc, and she’s always been an elf. They are not even the same species. So, it’s always been impossible between them, but then everything in this rugged land is impossible, everything is savage, everything is raw and cruel—beautiful, a terrible kind of beauty—but impossible. He has a soul as black as midnight. And he hates her, anyway. Maybe she has done her share of selfish things in the past. Maybe she is not so righteous herself. But, no matter what she has done, no woman deserves to be violated in front of a crowd. So. She should hate him now. She should not crave him. She should not flirt with him when she spits defiant words in his face. She should not be swayed to the orc’s side against the elves. And she definitely should not kiss him. She. Should. Not.       AmazonKU

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DEVIL’S DELIGHT: MONSTER SUGAR MAMAS by Amelia Lescaux

VS Note: FFF why choose.

One anonymous night of passion. Two monster women who made her feel alive. Will her search for both lovers end in happily every after for everyone? Or is it too late to make this hook-up into something more permanent? Kenna – Kenna has it bad. Daydreaming at work, tossing and turning at night—all because she had one night of passion with a harpy and a demoness who rocked her world. At the suggestion of her best friend, she starts searching for the two missing pieces of her life. The risk: either monster woman could reject her and she’d end up alone. The reward: both monsters might want to continue what they started all those months ago. With a bit of luck, she finds her harpy first and is swept up in a world of luxury that she isn’t sure she deserves. All seems to be going well, except Kenna still finds herself drawn to the demoness even after attempts to connect have failed. Should she keep following her heart? Or should she let her go and enjoy a lavish life with the partner she already has? …(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     Amazon

CURVY FORCED MATE (BEAUMONT LOTTERY MATES BOOK ONE) by Layla Silver

The Alpha needs a mate. Women are selected by a lottery. Among them: Me. I was kidnapped to a small isolated shifter town for some ritual. I didn’t even know shifters existed. I’m about to run off when the Alpha asks what a weak human like me is doing here. That’s it. I’ll show him what I’m worth. I’ll participate in his trials, and then go home. That’s the plan. I grew up in foster care and never belonged anywhere, hiding my loneliness. The Alpha is ten years older than me and makes me feel protected, though I’ll never admit that. When he walks into the room, it’s like gravity changes direction. He’s also, annoyingly, the most gorgeous man I’ve ever seen. I hate him immediately. I can’t leave his mansion until the trials are completed. And I won’t. I’m going to prove him wrong. There’s a pull in my chest, and a mark appears on my wrist. I ignore them. The seers say that the Alpha’s fated mate has a magical signature. It can’t be me. I’m not a witch. But the Alpha’s eyes are on me, examining my curvy body from head to toe. It’s embarrassing how hot it makes me feel. Will the Alpha claim me as his fated mate whether I want to or not?      AmazonKU

KNEAD FOR SPEED (TALES FROM THE DRAGON DINER BOOK TWO) by Lindsay Buroker

As the bookkeeper and new co-owner of the Dragon Diner, Rylana Avandar is determined to see the business become successful. Despite an inauspicious beginning, her partner Jildarin—founder, chef, and dragon—has come to trust her, and she doesn’t want to disappoint him. But when a troll curse and an ancient secret threaten Tranquility, Rylana will have to do a lot more than crunch numbers. If she and Jildarin can’t figure out how to appease the troll gods, the diner and the entire city could be doomed.      AmazonKU

VEIL OF RUIN (GRAY WOLVES SERIES BOOK 23) by Quinn Loftis

For centuries, the Nushtonia remained sealed, a cursed prison forged from blood-oaths, broken promises, and the darkest magic ever wielded by the djinn. It was never meant to be opened. Opening the prison meant releasing Raja, the ancient ruler of the realm of the dead. Now Raja walks free, and the corruption unleashed with him is spreading across the realms like rot through roots. Magic is twisting. Mountains are whispering. And something old and hungry is waking beneath the surface of the world. To save an innocent life, Myanin sacrificed herself to the living prison known as the Nushtonia. But she did not enter alone. Inside the sentient book, two are forced to confront the oaths, regrets, and truths they have spent centuries trying to bury. The deeper they journey into the prison, the harder it becomes to ignore the dangerous connection growing between them. Meanwhile, trapped within the Troll Realm while corruption spreads beneath the mountains, Nick and Kara fight to protect both their unborn child and the fragile peace holding their allies together. Something beneath the earth has taken notice of Kara… and it is hungry. As old powers rise and realms edge closer to war, the Grey Wolves and their allies are about to learn a devastating truth. Some oaths do not break quietly. And some loves were never meant to survive.

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ZEPHYR (SPLINTERED BLOODLINES BOOK FIVE): DARK FANTASY MM MPREG ROMANCE by Mychael Black

A one-night stand changes Aaron and Zach’s lives forever. Aaron Pryce has lived a reclusive life for centuries, content with his dogs and his cabin. A one-night stand, however, sends his comfortable existence into a whirlwind. He’s the best candidate to take over the former House Zalis, but nothing is ever easy. When he visits the compound, he gets the shock of his life. Zach Cane couldn’t get the man he’d spent one night with out of his head. So imagine his surprise when they meet at Saridan Tower weeks later. As they work to navigate a new relationship, old secrets from Aaron’s past come to light… none of them good.       Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

DRUID NOVA (DRUID APPRENTICE SERIES BOOK THREE) by M D Massey

I survived a curse and an assassin. Now I’m a diplomat. Someone up there really hates my guts. Queen Maeve has recruited me as a neutral intermediary in treaty negotiations between the Austin Demesne and the Santa Fe court. Apparently, my talent for binding curses makes me useful in ways that don’t involve blowing things up. It’s a great honor. Or so I’m told. Agent Lucas Caruso thinks I need backup. The treacherously attractive alpha, Bleys Vaughan, thinks I need a mate. I think they both need to get out of my way long enough for me to do my job without any…messy distractions. Just when I think I have it all under control, a killer starts hunting the crowds at Aqua Fest. Suddenly, I’m brokering peace talks by day and tracking a murderer by night. Someone is playing both sides—framing the Santa Fe queen’s people for murder while she’s still at the negotiating table. If I can’t expose them before the talks collapse, there won’t be a treaty to save. Two men, vying for my attention. A killer in the crowd. A faction war waiting to ignite. I’ve been through worse. But can I wrap up both the case and the treaty before everything goes up in flames?    AmazonKU

GUARDIAN FALLING (ETERNAL SINS MC BOOK TWO) by K E Osborn and Kathleen Kelly

I had a plan. Work my shifts at the coffee shop, survive my student loans, and stop going home with men whose names I barely remembered the next morning. Getting turned into a vampire on a secluded hillside overlooking the city? That was never part of it. Neither was the Eternal Sins MC. A motorcycle club built from monsters hiding behind leather and chrome, lycans, vampires, warlocks, shifters, and creatures far older and darker than anything I thought was real. And then there’s Rogue. The Lycan who watches me like I already belong to him. Steady, possessive, and unwavering in ways that terrify me more than the hunger burning beneath my skin. The mate bond between us is impossible to ignore. Every glance pulls me closer. Every touch blurs the line between what the sire bond has stolen from me… and what I may truly want for myself. This world runs on blood, power, and secrets. And I’ve become the center of all three. When terrified newborn vampires begin appearing across the city, and an ancient enemy moves through the shadows, I’m forced to confront the truth of what I’m becoming. Rogue was supposed to guard me. Not crave me. But every instinct he has tells him I belong to him now, whether I’m ready for this world or not. I survived the night I died because I refused to be controlled. But surviving this world means standing against powers far older and crueler than I ever imagined. But loving Rogue might mean losing myself to the monster I’m becoming.      AmazonKU

THE SHATTERED CROWN: A MIDLIFE FAIRY TALE by Kristen Painter

With secrets unearthed and the delicate balance between kingdoms on the brink, Queen Sparrow Meadowcroft faces the greatest challenge of her reign. But the cost of peace may be higher than anyone imagined. As shadows gather, Ro must decide what kind of queen she is willing to be, and what she’s prepared to sacrifice to protect the realm she’s come to love. Because some battles aren’t won with power alone, and some crowns can only be held by those brave enough to risk everything.
Across the sea, an old enemy has fallen silent, but silence can be far more unsettling than open war. In Malveaux, power has shifted, and a new ruler guides a wounded kingdom still haunted by its past. Trust is scarce. Alliances are fragile. And the line between rise and ruin has never been thinner. In the epic conclusion to the MidLife Fairy Tales series, the fate of two kingdoms will be decided. Not just by strength or strategy, but by who is willing to step forward when the crown itself begins to crack. The final reckoning has arrived.        AmazonKU

DEAD SENTENCE (COLD CASE PSYCHIC BOOK 44) by Pandora Pine

VS Note: MM PNR.

In this prison, some sentences last forever…When Ten and Ronan take a late-night tour of a decommissioned naval prison, they expect ghost stories, cold spots, and maybe a cheap scare or two. What they find instead is a prison that was never truly abandoned. Deep within the crumbling cellblocks, the spirits of dead inmates still serve out their sentences, trapped in an endless afterlife of isolation, violence, and obedience. The guards still patrol the halls. The cells still lock at night. And the prison refuses to let anyone leave. As terrifying secrets about the prison’s past begin to surface, Ten and Ronan realize the hauntings are not random but part of something designed to keep the dead imprisoned forever. And now the prison has marked them as inmates too. To escape, they must uncover the truth behind the prison’s curse before their own life sentences begin.     AmazonKU

THE ICE PRINCE’S FATED MATE (HOLLOW EARTH ICE DRAGONS BOOK TWO) by Riley Storm

In the Ice Kingdom the strong rule, and the weak are sold to the highest bidder. I learned that lesson when the Hunters captured me and left me less than whole. When I escaped, my friends were the only ones to keep me going. I’d do anything for them. Anything but believe them when they say that this Elite is different. It doesn’t matter that I wear Dirk’s marks on my side. It doesn’t matter what he says. I know the type of people he’s lived among, and I know what they’re capable of. Yet everything pushes me toward him, even my freshly awakened dragon. She preens for him and thinks that he’s the best thing we’ve ever smelled. A cool breeze on a hot day. A clean shirt just off the line. But she wasn’t there for me when I needed her most. When the days were dark, and the pain in my stomach felt like it would never fade. So I can’t listen to her now, when she insists I let him in. Not just because it was dragons like him who broke me. But because after my friends glued me back together, he shattered me with a single truth. Dirk – I want nothing more than to claim her. Yet I cannot. She deserves more than a Prince. She deserves a good man. Something I have never been. Although my dragon and I are united in our desire to hold her tight, I must stay away. I must protect her from everything. Especially myself. Because our pasts are more closely entangled than she knows.       AmazonKU

OKLAHOMA STORMS (DEAD MAN’S RANCH BOOK TWO) by January Rayne

In the rolling thunder and lightning strikes, I’ve lost myself. In sadness. In guilt. In resentment, the kind that sets its roots in and only continues to grow. A fatal storm twenty years ago changed my entire life. And I’m angry it didn’t take me too. Living is hard when you’re sick of it. Life gets even harder when a group of storm chasers trespass on my property. My fangs drop. Crimson colors my vision. Heat floods my body. The breeze carries a scent that awakens my vampire and that can only mean one thing. My fated mate is here. She’s a storm chaser. And I hate chasers. I’m a cowboy wanting to be left alone and yet I’m forced to accept what Fate has given me. I have to learn to love life again for her because if I don’t, we die. I can’t survive losing Nariko. Saving her from what she loves most is better than losing her to my fears. We’re our own storm causing havoc, but how do we chase what is doomed to consume us?      AmazonKU

TWICE DEAD (GULF COAST REAPER MYSTERIES BOOK TWO) by Tegan Maher

I’ve been reaping souls for a while now, so imagine my surprise when my collection du jour turns out to be a vampire with a huge attitude. Though I tended to believe him when he bares his fangs and insists there’s been a mistake, rules are rules. His name was on the list, so my job was to collect him, not help him figure out why his whole immortal gig had come to a screeching stop. When, oh when, would I learn to just tag ’em, bag ’em, and haul ’em in?       AmazonKU

A RISING TIDE (ENDS OF THE EARTH BOOK TWO) by Haley J Munroe

VS Note: FF Fantasy.

She broke the curse, only to become a prisoner to the woman she loves. After her curse was broken, Briar finds herself on a ship heading toward the stronghold of the Earth Court. When she arrives, she comes face to face with the women she’s spent the last decade searching for. Her crew. But there’s one problem—they blame Briar for everything. As her execution looms closer, the castle is attacked by a hoard of wyvern that were rumored to have gone extinct with the fall of the Fire Court. In the chaos, a member of Briar’s crew is kidnapped, along with the Earth Court’s emerald—their source of power. After blackmailing Kressa into taking her, Briar embarks on a quest to track down her missing crew mate. However, once they’re on the open sea and in close proximity, Briar and Kressa can’t deny the bond growing between them. And when Briar receives secret correspondence from Isolde asking for her help, Briar must decide if she will help the woman she is bound to by fate, or the one she promised her life to.      AmazonKU

KISS THE BOY: ROCKSTAR, GENDERBENT LITTLE MERMAID RETELLING (TWISTED RETELLINGS BOOK ONE) by Izzy Elliott

The lights, the stage, the music, and the screaming fans. It’s one night that was supposed to be magical. Erica is miserable. Her relationship is awful, her PCOS symptoms are a nightmare, and without a job she’s stuck. Even though she wants to leave, it doesn’t feel possible. The only time she feels alive is when she’s listening to music. Ari is leading a double life. The singer and frontman of the global phenomenon, Atlantica, is on tour. But the future isn’t as bright as this merman hoped it would be. Something in his life is missing and he’s not entirely sure if he’ll ever find it. Fate collides bringing Erica and Ari together on the Oceanside Cities Tour. Will they be swept away in a hurricane romance or is this their final number?      AmazonKU

IRON WOLVES: SLATER AND LEELEE (IRON WOLVES 2 BOOK FOUR) by Elle Boon

Wounded and hidden for years…I, LeeLee, found acceptance within my wolf. I learned firsthand the harsh reality of never being loved and vowed to protect my heart and body from the same pain ever again. My life was about survival—until Slater stepped into my world. Never one to back down…I, Slater O’Neil, love life and use my shifter abilities to save those in need. Meeting my mate in wolf form changed everything. I never imagined claiming her would be so hard—especially with an unknown evil threatening her and those I care about, a danger far more sinister than the horror movies I enjoy—especially now that LeeLee is part of my world. True love doesn’t always come easy…For the two of us, we need more than just love to make it work. I was just a child when I witnessed a horror no child should ever have to endure. But revisiting old hurts doesn’t always heal old wounds. When you stir a hornet’s nest…you should be ready for the consequences. Slater and I are forced into a new reality where those who should protect us are instead determined to destroy us, and surviving means facing a powerful enemy who wants us dead for their own gain.     AmazonKU

THE ORC’S PROTECTION (SUN VALLEY ORCS BOOK ONE) by Alana Khan

He gave her his coat. In his culture, that means she’s already his. Riona – The school’s handsome security guard is seven feet of careful restraint—quiet, deliberate, gentle in a way that doesn’t match his size. I notice everything about Vraag. The rare touches. The precise control. The way his presence makes me feel safe and dangerously aware all at once. When I shiver in the cold and he wraps his coat around my shoulders, I think it’s kindness. I have no idea it’s a vow. Vraag – Eight years of making myself smaller. Quieter. Less. So humans won’t fear me. Riona Walker has never once looked at me with fear—and the night the temperature drops without warning, eight years of tightly leashed control gives way to instinct. In StoneWatch culture, offering protection is offering yourself. She’s been wearing my scent, wrapped in my warmth, and I’m done pretending I don’t want to make it permanent. Some offers can’t be taken back. Some come with a seven-foot orc who spent eight years learning patience—so he could spend one very long night using none of it.     AmazonKU

PRINCEWEAVER  (LAND OF THE WILDEST SKIES BOOK ONE) by Elian J Morgan

VS Note: LGBTQ Fantasy. From APRIL 21.

Their marriage is to save a warring kingdom. But in the process, it might destroy them both. Born with forbidden, nature-infused magic in an occupied land, anxious apothecary Meilyr survives by keeping his head down. Until he ends up engaged to invading prince Osian in order to save his brother’s life. Now, he is in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to hide his true self. When nobles in Osian’s court are gruesomely murdered by the same magic that flows through his veins, Meilyr realises someone is seeking revenge for his homeland. As suspicion towards him grows, he and the prince work together to uncover the killer or risk losing the crown – or their lives. Between court politics, unwieldy magic and a murderer on the loose, Meilyr must keep his wits about him. Especially as his feelings for Osian grow deeper with every passing day.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

THE RIVER SHE BECAME by Emily Varga

I’m going across the River. And I’m going to save us all. Yaseema is a brilliant scholar and loyal servant of the Empire—or so they think. By day, she catalogs the fae relics of her conquered kingdom. But by night, she reclaims the artefacts in secret to restore magic to her dying land. Until she finds the long lost key to cross the River into the fae world and save her people. But a ruthless realm awaits her there, ruled by monsters wearing beautiful skin—especially the cold-eyed captain who sees through her lies. But even he isn’t what he seems—under the guise of upholding a cruel regime, he works to overthrow it from the inside. To succeed, he needs the same lost relic Yaseema seeks: the crown of an ancient Fae Queen. With magic that is a mystery even to her, Yaseema can help him find the crown and save his family from a fate worse than death. Unless she steals it first to help her own. To survive, they must work together to outwit ancient curses, battle creatures born of nightmares, and find a power that could resurrect their worlds. But as secrets unravel and loyalties blur, they face the greatest danger of all: losing their heart to each other.       Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

THE WINGED GAME: A NOVEL by Sophie Kim

Carriwitchet, the violent, rugby-esque game played atop winged beasts, was once Taissa Cho’s whole life, and she was once the United Kingdom’s most promising player. Until her nemesis, rival player Kion Locke, destroyed her career in a single moment. Expelled from the sport in disgrace, Taissa has spent the last two years dreaming of nothing but revenge and relishing watching Kion’s team plummet to the bottom of the league. So when Taissa is offered the chance to redeem herself and her career, she can’t refuse—even if the offer is coming from the very man who ruined everything in the first place. It’s close to a dream come true . . . except for that pesky clause in her contract that demands she and Kion enter a fake relationship in order to garner some much-needed positive PR for the team. This could not be a worse match. Taissa and Kion only have two things in common: their love of the game, and their undying hatred for each other. Yet as a mysterious illness befalls the winged creatures of the entire league—putting both the beasts’ lives and the very sport itself at stake—the athletes find themselves partnering up in other ways, determined to crack the case of the eerie sickness. As their investigation takes them on a whirlwind adventure, Kion and Taissa are prepared for anything . . .Anything, that is, but their fake-for-the-cameras relationship to maybe, just maybe, become something real after all.

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HERO WORSHIP: A TALE OF ARILLAND (WOODCUTTER SISTERS) by Alethea Kontis

In a series of letters to the man who saved her and her grandmother from a murderous wolf, young Sonya “Red” Vasili begins writing letters to her savior: Jack Woodcutter. At first, she is filled with innocent gratitude. But over time, little Red’s devotion grows into a dangerous obsession. The boundaries blur and admiration turns into possessive love: a dangerous mixture. In this dark epistolary retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood,” a seemingly helpless young woman pursues her hero—and won’t let go.       Amazon

A CUP OF COCOA AND CHAOS: A KING MIDAS RETELLING by Emily Deady

A spoonful of green peas. A sprinkle of cocoa nibs. And a melting pot of opposites attract. Princess Una of Lamera has a secret. In a prosperous kingdom known for its cheerful citizens, flowing wealth, and ever-laden tables, she is a rare thorn. The courtiers don’t say it to her face, but she knows what they whisper. The scowling princess who leaves every banquet early. Too delicate for her own good. Impossible to please. And sometimes, when her stomach is churning after a single bite of honeyed pastry, she believes them. Una learned long ago to avoid the foods that left her ill for days. But when a foreign diplomat arrives bearing trunks of a delicacy Lamera has never tasted—chocolate—she finds herself intrigued despite her suspicions. Matthias is too charming, too generous, and far too interested in gaining her father’s favor. His homeland overflows with cacao, and he claims his family is rich beyond measure. But something about his story does not add up. When Matthias discovers Una’s secret, he offers her something no one else ever has: a simple chocolate dessert that won’t leave her sick for days. For the first time, Una tastes sweetness without pain. But as she discovers a world of flavor she can finally enjoy, she feels her bitter defenses beginning to melt. Matthias sees past her thorny exterior to the lonely woman beneath and she’s not sure whether to savor his attention or fear it. Can she temper her suspicions long enough to crack Matthias’ own facade? A Cup of Cocoa and Chaos is loose retelling of The Princess and the Pea and King Midas.     AmazonKU

SILVIE AND THE MOON DANCE by Aurora Springer

Under the silver glow of the full moon, Silvie danced with an elf and lost her heart. When the moon set, he was gone, leaving only his golden scarf about her shoulders. But in her village, a dance with an elf is a dangerous thing, and now her family insists she must marry a man she does not love. Desperate to avoid that fate, Silvie journeys across Oakenwald to plead with the elf Queen Krisolde. The Queen offers a challenge. Silvie must attend the Moon Dance in the Queen’s rath, masked like all the others, and find the elf who once danced with her. But the night is filled with enchantment and trickery, and Silvie must trust her heart to guide her. Short story and fairytale romance in the Oakenwald Chronicles.     Amazon      Apple Books      Kobo

OATH OF THE GODS (EURA CHRONICLES BOOK FIVE) by K N Lee

The end of the world has arrived. After years of war, betrayal, and sacrifice, Lilae stands on the brink of destiny. The armies of the Dark God Wexcyn march toward Auroria, leaving ruin in their wake. Entire kingdoms have fallen. Ancient realms lie in ashes. And the last free people of Ellowen have gathered behind the walls of a city preparing for its final stand. As Dragon Princess, Lilae must unite humans, elves, fairies, dragons, and immortals before darkness consumes everything she loves. Beside her stands Liam, the prince who captured her heart. Together, they face impossible odds, deadly enemies, and a prophecy that may demand more than either of them is willing to give. Meanwhile, old allies return from the shadows. Forgotten gods stir. Refugees from shattered realms join the fight. And powerful secrets buried in the past threaten to change the fate of the world forever. With war on the horizon and hope fading fast, Lilae must embrace the full power of the Flame—or watch Ellowen burn.      AmazonKU

THE HEART’S CURSE (RIFT SERIES BOOK FOUR) by Stephanie Hudson

The heart wants what it wants. No one ever tells you what it will cost. I crossed worlds for it. Bled for it. And I would do it all again, a thousand times over. But the war I thought I’d won was only the beginning. And the danger I thought I’d outrun had only ever been waiting. Patient. Ancient. Closer than I ever feared. Now every choice carries a price. Every step costs more than the last. And a love like ours was never going to be quiet. Or gentle. Or safe. So when the dark comes to collect, when there is nothing left to barter and no one left to save me from myself, it will not be my life it asks for. It will be the one thing I swore I would never surrender. Because the deadliest thing I have ever carried was never the power in my blood. It was…The Heart’s Curse.      AmazonKU

WOLFKISSED by Mona Archer

What if Little Red Riding Hood ran away with the Big Bad Wolf? Kidnapped as a child by the werewolves, Rosamund still bears the scars. She hides from reality, dreaming of a fiancé she’s yet to meet and a happily ever after. But one fine evening, her stepfather welcomes a werewolf into the great hall and announces the beast will accompany her on her journey to meet her husband… as her bodyguard. Now Rosamund is forced into close proximity with one of the creatures who once tormented her. A dark fae werewolf. The stuff of nightmares. Valerian is every bit a nightmare. Even muzzled and collared, he’s dangerous. A snarling beast, barely contained. So why does he allow her to hold his leash? Why does he take his bodyguard role so seriously? And why, why can’t she look away from his golden eyes?      AmazonKU

TIMELESS (CLOCKREALM CHRONICLES BOOK THREE) by D N Hoxa

My name is Ora Reese. Apparently, I’ve survived the Turning Trials twice—forward and backward. I just don’t remember either time. My memories of the past month are out of my reach. Not gone, but veiled by someone who didn’t want me to remember whatever I saw. The feelings survived, though. The echoes, the flashes, the yearning—it’s all still there, and I’m not the only one who feels it. The other players are running on the same broken clock as me. And when we all wake up in a dark room underground, strangers who somehow know each other, everything changes yet again. The truth pulls us deeper than the Trials ever did. We have no choice but to go back into the Labyrinth, and up the tower of the Great Clock, and down through gaps in time itself. Something is wrong with the Clockrealm—something old and hidden, something powerful people have killed to keep buried. And the proof exists. We’re the only ones willing to try to find it, even knowing that the secrets waiting at the center of it all will be darker than anything the Trials threw at us. I’ve run before. I’ve fought before. This time, I’m staying. For the boy who’s loved me three times without remembering. For the friends who followed me into the dark. For the truth that someone carved out of the world and buried where they thought no one would ever look. And if I have to pay for it with all the time in my body, so be it. The important things are beyond Time’s reach, anyway.      AmazonKU

TRIPLE THREAT (WOLVES OF FMU BOOK THREE) by A J Manney

Riley has been counting down the days to college—finally, a chance at freedom. After a year of constant threats, she’s ready for something normal. Attending the same college as her brother feels safe enough. For the first time in a long time, she’ll get to breathe, make her own choices, and live her life. With a full-ride scholarship and a guaranteed spot on the women’s basketball team, everything is falling into place… until her eighteenth birthday changes everything. Her brother’s best friend, the one guy that’s always been off-limits, is her mate. Desperate to hold on to the independence she’s just found, Riley begs him to wait. No bond. Not yet. She wants time to experience life on her own terms before fate claims her. Reid’s known for years that Riley is his mate, and he’s kept his distance—for her, determined to let her finish high school and live freely without his presence complicating everything. Now that she knows, he’s willing to give her the space she asks for, even if it means fighting every instinct telling him to claim her. But resisting the bond comes at a cost. And when she collapses on the court during a game, Reid realizes waiting is no longer an option. Protecting her means risking everything—including the fragile trust between them. Fate is pulling them together; danger is closing in—and only together can they withstand what’s coming.     AmazonKU

MYSTIC SECRETS (ISLE OF ENCHANTMENT MYSTERY BOOK NINE) by Stephanie Damore

*****A crossover from An Enchanted Waters Mystery Series!***** Aunt Phee’s breakfast rush was running like a well-oiled machine with coffee pouring, grits simmering, and cinnamon rolls disappearing faster than she could plate them. For one blessed morning, Coconut Bay felt normal. Then a customer stormed out of the Sandy Spoon after a heated phone call, vanished behind the café…and turned up dead in the alley, a fresh curse still crackling in the air. PADA is officially back on duty. Iona Vale barely has time to finish her coffee before she and Agent Kai Marinos are swept into a case that hits way too close to home. With Spark diving into full investigation mode (complete with trench coat and unsolicited theories), Iona and Kai track the victim’s final hours through Coconut Bay’s sunlit streets. Their suspect list grows by the minute: a furious ex with a talent for hexes, a smug business rival with something to hide, a nervous café regular who swears they saw nothing, and a local witch whose “protective charms” look a lot like traps. And if the killer is willing to cast dark magic behind the Sandy Spoon in broad daylight, there’s no telling who they’ll target next.     AmazonKU 

DESIRED: THE D’IMMORTALI DYNASTY: 2 (THE D’IMMORTALI VAMPIRE DYNASTY) by L A McGinnis

Emberline’s enemies thought losing her husband would break her. Instead, they signed their own death warrants. Venice belongs to the D’Immortali Dynasty—a powerful vampire mafia built on blood vows, ruthless ambition, and deadly secrets. After challenging the Council, Dante Dominico has disappeared, and if Emberline wants to see him again, she must forge an alliance with the only two vampires capable of finding him. Gabriel Dominico, the powerful mafia heir she was once promised to, who will sacrifice anything to save his brother. Nico Draconi, a warrior once sworn to protect the Dynasty, now willing to betray everything he believes in to burn their empire to the ground. Bound by vengeance, they form an uneasy alliance to hunt the enemies responsible for tearing their world apart. But every step closer to finding Dante drags them deeper into a web of betrayal and dangerous temptation. Because Gabriel and Nico are not simply allies. These powerful males awaken a desire in Emberline she cannot deny. The closer they become, the harder it is to remember they’re supposed to be foes—and the harder it is to resist losing her heart to the very males she should never desire. Her husband’s brother and his best friend. As rival factions close in and the Dynasty crumbles beneath the weight of its own corruption, she must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice to save the male she loves. The Council wants her to bow. But Emberline was not born to obey. She was born to fight.   AmazonKU

HEXES, LIES AND ALIBIS (THE MYTH ELEMENT BOOK ONE) by M K Dean

Morgan Frost is already having a bad day when she receives word of her grandmother’s death. To claim her inheritance, she must drop everything and hurry to the small town of Edgehill and to the Grange, her grandmother’s farm deep in the Appalachian Mountains. But nothing at the Grange is what it seems at first sight. There’s no electricity, no internet. Cars and cell phones don’t work. Life seems stuck in the mid-1850s. Morgan has walked into a world she doesn’t understand and is at the mercy of powerful forces seeking to prevent her from inheriting the Grange. Then the harpies attack.
Turns out the Grange is not just an antiquated homestead in need of major renovations but a portal between a universe that relies on technology and one that functions on magic. It’s Little House on the Prairie where mythological creatures roam at large and the locals practice powerful witchcraft. Morgan herself seems to have magical abilities but someone has placed a block on her memories that has wiped this knowledge from her mind. Worse, her grandmother didn’t die of natural causes but was murdered so that her killer could gain access to the Grange. If Morgan doesn’t recover her supernatural powers soon, she’s next on the killer’s list.      Amazon       Kobo

MATE OF A ROYAL (LORD OF RATHE BOOK THREE) by Meagan Brandy

Their bond could save the kingdom—or burn it to ash. The all-new romantasy duology from bestselling authors Meagan Brandy & Amo Jones. Legend Deveraux was raised to rule. Son of the late King of Dark Magic, he is the youngest King Rathe has ever seen. Haide wasn’t raised at all. Born on Exile Island, where the royals of Rathe toss their most vile creatures, chaos isn’t all she knows. It’s what she is. When their worlds collide, the King’s ancient magic calls to her. The bond ignites, instantly volatile, undeniable, dangerously wrong. She isn’t the mate he expected. Her power is stunted by the cursed land that shaped her. Yet she sets fire to his veins, the only person who makes his fractured soul feel whole. So, Legend takes her to Rathe University to awaken what lies beneath her skin. His brothers warn him against her. His people detest her very existence. He doesn’t care. He wants her at his side, on her knees, and in his bed. She is his. Then the murders begin. The gifted fall without warning. Bloodlines vanish. And with every death, Legend’s magic begins to die with them. Something ancient, violent is rising in Rathe, and every accusation points to the King’s fated mate. If she truly is his at all.      AmazonKU      AB

ENCHANTED LITTLE ENDINGS (FOUR WAYS TO FATE BOOK SIX) by Sara C Roethle

Never have I ever…Nope, I’ve got nothing. Especially now that I’m bonded with four different men, all of us ready to carve new pathways to the far realms. I would like to think things couldn’t get any stranger, but the biggest mystery of my life is yet to be unraveled. I may not yet understand my magic, but I’m determined to save my life, my city, and everyone I hold dear. Never have I ever had the fate of not just the earth realm, but all realms resting on my shoulders. Oh wait… I do. Enchanted Little Endings is the conclusion of Four Ways to Fate, a cozy “why choose” fantasy with slow burn steam and plenty of banter, romantic tension, and magical hijinks.     AmazonKU

THE MATING TRIALS: THE ALPHA (FATED MATES WITH TRIALS) by Anastasia Daniels

Each mating season, every eligible mate must take the journey to the ancient castle and participate in the Mating Trials – This is Ember’s first year eligible to participate in the trials. But what is every female’s dream, is her nightmare because finding a mate might mean losing everything she’s worked for. Thorn’s been participating for ten years and has never found a mate. Making him unworthy to his pack. When his position as Alpha is threatened, Can he find a mate and survive the trials?   AmazonKU

BLOODWORTH AND GRAVE by Melissa Haartz

A dark Romeo and Juliet retelling set in a Victorian era Fantasy world. Finding your mate is supposed to be a blessing from the stars. In our case, it was a curse. Because we didn’t find each other through love letters and stolen glances. Our mate bond was sealed seconds before the leader of a rival family meant to kill me, intertwining our fates forever. How can I love the man that tortured me? How can I see him as anything other than my nightmare? Only the stars know what our destiny holds. And only I know that our story resembles that of the two ghosts who have been showing me their tragic love story. Will ours end the same way?     AmazonKU

A MAGIC SO DEADLY (KINGDOM OF DARK MAGIC BOOK TWO) by Vasilisa Drake

She has become everything she ever wanted… and everything she despises. Samara wakes in a prison cell as her worst nightmare: She’s a vampire, cursed with bloodlust that horrifies her. And though she now has the magic she’s always desperately craved, it’s a secret she must guard with her undead life. Because this same magic marks her as an enemy of all vampires. Especially Raphael—their king. Now, as a vampire, Samara is haunted by an inescapable thirst. In her sleep, she claws at her throat, trying to ease the pain. But when she’s around Raphael, her fangs ache for a deeper reason she can’t explain. A mystical bond ties Samara to Raphael as her sire, preventing her from fleeing before he can discover her identity as the very witch he’s been hunting for centuries. Instead, she must journey with him to the Southern Vampire Kingdom. A journey that has her sharing both his carriage… and his bed. There, Raphael offers her another bargain: Yield to her vampire nature and master her abilities, and he will help her break the bond. But if she lowers her guard too much, if her control over the powers she barely understands slips and Raphael learns she’s the necromancer…He’ll be forced to kill her.     AmazonKU

BOUND TO BURN (CURSED GRIMOIRE BOOK ONE) by S E Berkeley

Only the men I love can save me from my curse… but they are sworn enemies. Can I bind them to me before I burn? After night falls, when the respectable customers have left and her bookshop is quiet, Astoria sells illegal and bloodthirsty grimoires filled with dark magic. It’s dangerous work, but her irresistibly charming book-thief partner, Lucas, makes the risks feel like a game. Astoria has lived in hiding for seven years, after unleashing a devastating curse on her family. When she escaped, she left everything behind… including her magnetic, aristocratic fiancé Valen, whose dark gaze still haunts her dreams. But then a deadly grimoire breaks loose in the shop, shattering Astoria’s control over her magic and nearly killing Lucas. Only one man has what she needs to stop it: Valen. Lucas and Valen hate each other on sight. Yet when Astoria’s curse rebounds and begins to consume her, they’re forced into a fragile alliance to steal the priceless amulet that can save her. Can Astoria face the betrayals of her past and claim a future that might hold all three of them? Or will the rivalry between Lucas and Valen doom them all?        AmazonKU      AB

MAELSTROM (THE DIVINITY AFFAIR BOOK THREE) by C Marie

Affinities can evolve. Three words I should’ve taken more seriously. Things are happening too quickly to process. Truths are being revealed, but many questions are still going unanswered. Through the turmoil, one thing is certain: I’m done being caught unaware. It’s time for some answers. I just wish those answers weren’t so painful. My soul is in knots. My Chain is finally functioning, Wyatt’s attitude aside, but a newcomer threatens our tentative peace. My guys don’t want to accept him. My friends don’t like him. He’s lying to me. One minute he begs me to run away with him and the next he’s pushing me away, self-sabotaging to save himself from heartbreak. Whether biology meant for us to be together or not isn’t important. Fate has put us here for a reason. Sometimes the answers to our problems are right in front of us. Now which of us is the question, and which is the answer?   AmazonKU

WITCHFUL WINKING (MIDLIFE AT THE MAGNOLIA BOOK FOUR) by Jen Lassalle

Simone is ready to wade back into the dating pool. And she’s already got two sexy wolf shifters willing to help her swim. But they all go way back, and being in the middle of their conflict has her drowning in past waters. Emotional baggage is not exactly an aphrodisiac. Things are definitely changing at the Magnolia. Her bestie Brianne is spicing up her marriage in unique new ways. The Twins are working on a very messy remodel led by a contractor who has both of their hearts racing for very different reasons. Lauren’s new assistant whistles why she works… and it happens to be a tune no one can resist. Not even Gumbo. At least the Magnolia is stable. That is, until a new client begs her for treatment. He’s been off his mark, and needs Simone’s uniquely magical methods to help him adjust his aim. She can hardly say no, especially if his problems will threaten her chance at romance. Love is in the air, but can a middle-aged witch overcome magical mayhem and find her inner spark before her second chance goes up in flames?     AmazonKU

BACK TO YOU (THE EDGE OF EVERYTHING) by Ann L Liang

VS Note: I one clicked.

An exhausted career woman on the verge of death has the opportunity to redo her life in this enchanting short story about miraculous second chances from New York Times bestselling author Ann Liang. Burned out and working a postcollege job she hates, Allison Yang drops dead in her office—and wakes up three years in the past. Back at college. She has one chance for a redo at life: from switching majors and facing toxic friends to being fearless with her parents. And, perhaps, approaching the popular athlete she’d always loved from afar. Fingers crossed that this time will count.      Amazon      AB

THIS WITCH IS NOT WICKED (BROTHERS OF FAIRWITCH ISLE BOOK TWO) by Tee Harlowe

An ancient witch with a bad reputation. A charming alchemist with a meddling mother. The fake dating scheme that might save them both. In the thousands of years she’s been alive, Enid’s had time to cultivate her reputation as the “wicked witch” of the bog who no one dares come near. Just how she likes it. But when a sentient castle falls from the sky and lands in her home, Enid’s peace shatters. Now she has to contend with an entire city of people, including Nevan Wolfgang, the town golden boy. And he has a proposal: he’ll date Enid to improve her reputation while she helps him get his marriage-obsessed mother off his back. With her bog infiltrated, Enid doesn’t have much choice. It quickly becomes too much—the dates, the family dinners, the mysterious castle, and her growing feelings for Nevan, the only person who sees her as more than a witch. But when a fake kiss feels too real, Enid’s worried if she doesn’t stop this, her cold, ancient heart is going to get broken. If she does . . . It might anyway.      AmazonKU

FATE BOUND TO THE MONSTERS (SPRING EQUINOX MATES BOOK TWO) by Texa Volt

I escaped the Syndicate’s breeding program. I should be free. Instead, I’m running through the Cascades with six dangerous monsters, a target on my back, and bonds that keep getting stronger no matter how hard I try to pretend my life hasn’t completely changed. Thaw — the alpha who would burn the world to keep me safe. Crull — the orc whose silence means he is choosing his words carefully, and his words are always for me. Harek — the goblin-fae stabilizer who reads my body before I have named what is happening to it. Dean and Daron — twin wolves who look at me like they have already made their choice. And Fen — the demon the Syndicate broke so completely no one believed he could come back. Until he saw what I was becoming. The Syndicate isn’t finished with me. They’ve built a forty-year breeding program around women like me. Women with the biology to carry hybrid bloodlines. Women they hunt, cage, and harvest cellular material from without consent. Now we have discovered something worse. There are others. If we run, they all stay caged. If we fight, we lose each other. And something is happening to my body that nobody — not the Syndicate, not my pack, not even me — has language for yet. Horns are coming up on the top of my head. My voice is putting armed men on their knees. My biology is reading itself across distance. I am not what they made. I am what I am becoming. And the Syndicate wants me home. They are going to find out it does not work that way.     AmazonKU

HUNGER (CREATURES OF THE NIGHT) by Adrian Blue

Jenny – I’d gotten good at needing nothing. Small portions. Short answers. A life scraped down to a dead-end shift, a cold drive home, a phone I let ring. I told myself it was safety — that wanting things was what broke me the first time, and a girl who wants nothing has nothing left to lose. No one saw me, and that was the point. For two years, it worked. No one looked at me twice. Then something in the dark did, and for the first time in longer than I can remember, I felt seen instead of overlooked. I know I should be afraid of what’s watching me. Instead, I’ve never felt safer. That’s the part that frightens me. Farkas – I stopped feeling years. Endless days. Empty nights. A hunger I could always answer in the dark behind some forgotten building, and never once a reason to linger. I told myself she was the same. But the warmth of her caught behind my ribs and would not let go. I’ve waited centuries to be this careful with anything. The longer I watch over her, the more I wonder whether a thousand years of nothing was only ever the waiting, and whether I was ever going to be anything but hers.       AmazonKU

BEFORE THE BLOOD (MOONBORN WOLVES BOOK ONE) by Lily S Moon

Last night during a full moon I heard my neighbor screaming from his house. I moved to this mountain town two months ago with my daughter, and he’s our only neighbor for miles. I told my daughter to stay put and ran over to his house. I went inside to help him and found something had torn through his back door. His furniture was knocked over, and the back door was hanging off its hinges with claw marks down the frame. Then I heard my daughter laughing on the other side of the house. I ran outside and she was laughing and playing with a wolf who was the size of three men. I froze. She was clapping her hands and telling him, “Roll over wolfy, roll over.”     AmazonKU

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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.

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BRIDE OF THE FORBIDDEN ALIEN (SURVIVOR BRIDES OF THE TAJSS BOOK) by Miranda Martin

Hope is what gets you killed on Tajss. In the city, we survived by learning that lesson early. No epis. No strength. No second chances. We became smaller… quieter… harder to notice. And we lived. Until the outsiders arrived bringing power we never had. Now everything is breaking. My people can’t handle epis. Not like they do. It burns too fast. Hits too hard. And if we don’t find a way to control it soon, it won’t save us. It will finish what the desert started. The only answer lies in a fresh zmelja trail—where epis grows in the wake of a creature that devours anything too slow to escape it. No team. Too dangerous. Just me. And him. A cavern-born Zmaj who tracks the worms like he was made for it. Silent. Controlled. Watching me like he’s already decided something I haven’t. Out here, survival means trusting him. But the closer we follow the trail, the more I realize something is wrong. The zmelja aren’t moving like it should. The desert isn’t behaving like it used to. And the way he looks at me—like I belong to him—might be the most dangerous thing of all. Because even if we survive the desert. I’m not sure he’ll ever let me go.      AmazonKU

KAZAN: MINOTAUR MATES (ALIEN MATCHMAKING AGENCY BOOK ONE) by Kate Rudolph

Running away to marry an alien stranger probably wasn’t my smartest decision. But after four years with a controlling ex, crossing the galaxy seemed safer than staying on Earth. Kazan is something completely out of this world. He’s a scarred minotaur gladiator turned frontier farmer. Seven feet of horns, muscles, and quiet strength. He’s the kind of male who could take whatever he wants without bothering to ask. Instead, he keeps giving me choices. The problem? There’s a flag on my file and one ironclad rule attached to my trial marriage: No touching. If we break it, I’ll be deported. Which would be easier if Kazan wasn’t looking at me like I’m the answer to a prayer he stopped believing in years ago. Easier if every day he wasn’t proving that real love looks nothing like possession. But the past I ran from isn’t done with me yet. And when it comes for me, it’s going to discover that beneath Kazan’s gentle smile is a monster who survived the gladiator pits. A monster who has finally found something worth fighting for.      AmazonKU

REBELLION: FREEDOM BOOK THREE by Gun Brooke

VS Note: FF SFR.

They were legends, then they were ghosts. Twelve years ago, Sergeant Major Anya Quinn and her military unit vanished rather than condemn children to Celestial work camps. Now, the infamous Ghost Pack returns, a beacon of hope for dissidents and freedom fighters ready to shatter the corrupt government’s grip. But for Kate “Max” Maxton, the face of rebellion is also the face of her tormentor. Taken as a child, Max has never forgotten Anya Quinn—the soldier who oversaw the roundup that stole her innocence. Against all reason, a dangerous attraction ignites between them. Anya knows her past makes a future impossible, while Max fights a forbidden fascination that defies every bitter memory. As they work to save innocent people, can these two women overcome a history steeped in pain, or will their personal war unravel the very revolution they seek to win?     Amazon

FURY’S CATS RETURN (GALACTIC CATS) by Evelyn Lederman

Get married or save the galaxy…decisions, decisions. Captain Cassidy Ryan balances being the owner of The Fury and ruling a planet as Her Royal Highness, Natalie of the House of Prometheus. Her father’s royal legacy weighs heavily on her shoulders, as well as maintaining the precarious peace in the galaxy. At her side, are the genetically enhanced cats with neurotransmitters. They run her ship and own her heart. Their loyalty is the one constant she can count on in her crazy life, along with Branson Goody. Just before her wedding, the President of the Cosmic Consortium government enlists her to embark on a critical peacekeeping mission. With her cats and General Goody by her side, Cassidy faces friends and foes from her past in a last-ditch effort before the galaxies fall prey to another devastating war.      AmazonKU

SHIFT THE SLIP (WAYFARER ADVENTURE BOOK FIVE) by Eileen Troemel

Are they too late? Eli and Piper return to their galaxy carrying hope and the promise of a brighter future. Instead, they find abandoned worlds, silent cities, and the scars of devastating conflict. Entire populations have vanished. Some planets bear the marks of war; others stand eerily empty. One question haunts them: did they take too long to come home? With the Wayfarers finally able to reach the distant Swahl Galaxy, a grim truth emerges. Their people have been seized by the ruthless Doteans and forced into slavery aboard their ships. Determined to bring them home, Eli and Piper devise a daring rescue plan, but saving a few is only the beginning. Can they free them all before it’s too late? As dictators, tyrants, and power-hungry races spread chaos across the galaxy, the Wayfarers risk everything to help the innocent escape violence and oppression. Relying on stealth, courage, and hard-earned skills, they must outwit deadly enemies, rescue the lost, and lead their people to safety. In a galaxy on the brink of collapse, hope may be the most dangerous mission of all.   AmazonKU

CANCER: AN ALIEN SPICY NOVELLA (ZODIAC BRIDES BOOK THREE) by Laetitia Aldin

Tamara has finally managed to escape. Trading one abusive man for an unknown, alien one, might not sound like the smartest decision, but it’s the first choice she got to make for herself in a long time.
Her new arranged husband can’t be worst than the one she ran away from…Filbur has always loved learning new things about the other species, and he can’t wait to get his loving hands on his new human bride…She’ll finally have the love and protection she always craved.     AmazonKU

KADEN’S MONSTER by Barbara Elsborg

VS Note: LGBTQ SFR.

An alien weapon. A human mistake. An impossible bond. Kaden’s life is stretched thin between journalism, fantasy novels, stand-up comedy and ghostwriting. And an endless series of distractions while his relationship crumbles around him. Something has to change. He has to change. Then, on an assignment at his boyfriend’s biotech lab, Kaden sees something that should be impossible. A small blue blob in a tank trying to escape its pursuers. The blue blob is a Protector: a living armour system engineered to bond with his other in moments of danger. But he’s chosen to betray his own kind rather than help destroy an innocent world. Now he’s stranded on Earth—wounded, hunted, and unable to fully communicate. Kaden’s been warned not to touch anything. But he does far more than that. He smuggles the blob out of the lab, names him Joe and sparks a dangerous connection. Joe was never meant to bond with someone like Kaden, but as uncertainty around them grows, including threats tied to the powerful man Kaden ghostwrites for, Kaden becomes the one person Joe cannot abandon. What begins as a moment of madness becomes friendship, deepens to devotion, and ignites into a love that they might not survive. The universe is stranger, and far more alive, than humanity ever imagined.       AmazonKU

BLAYZE (TALONIAN WARRIORS) by Celeste Raye

He was taken… and she may be the only one who can find him. CIA agent Belle Simons is chasing a deadly conspiracy targeting weredragons—but the only man who can help her disappears before she gets answers. Blayze was never supposed to matter, yet one night changed everything, and now the connection she tried to deny is the one thing she refuses to lose. She won’t walk away. Because saving him isn’t just her mission—it’s the only thing that feels real.   AmazonKU

IRKED BY THE ALIEN DAD by Chloe Parker

He’s a brooding, tortured, morally upright space daddy. She’s the brilliant neuroscientist who’s accidentally hardwired herself for pleasure at his touch. Lyn Walker didn’t mean to test her experimental pain-to-pleasure translator on herself—and she definitely didn’t mean to get caught mid-catastrophe by her impossibly infuriating supervisor. Now her nervous system is rewired in one very specific, very inconvenient direction, and every time Kaelion Rhyss touches her, her body has opinions she cannot afford to have. What she didn’t count on was the daughter. Kaelion Rhyss—brilliant, exacting, and way too hot—turns out to be a dad. A devoted, slightly tragic, completely off-limits one who reads bedtime comics and buys sketchbooks and even has a cute lizard-cat pet. Lyn needs to fix the device, survive the ethics review, and stop noticing Kaelion’s hands before she loses everything she’s worked for. But that isn’t easy…especially when she’s falling harder by the minute.     AmazonKU

CLAIMED BY GAUGE (RAIDEN WARRIORS BOOK FOUR) by Denna Holm

Gauge is an immortal warrior, a vampire, who hunts rogues of his kind for the Laizahlian Council. He lost his fated mate thousands of years ago, and the only thing that keeps him sane is his duty to the council. When a human woman approaches him for help in freeing a dragon female from a Raiden warrior claim, he doesn’t expect there to be life-altering repercussions . . . for him. Zephralena is the daughter of dragon shifters, her father the alpha of their clan. But it doesn’t stop the Raiden warrior from claiming her against her will. Her only chance of escaping his abuse will come at the hands of a vampire, a powerful Hunter for the Laizahlian Council. He alone can strip the essence her abuser injected when he claimed her, breaking his hold over her. When Gauge begins to develop a shaprata, what Raiden warriors use to claim unwilling females, he knows his time is limited. A decision must be made; claim a female for himself or die.     AmazonKU

ROOK TAKES QUEEN (THE FEVER BROTHERS BOOK SEVEN) by Michele Mills

I should be dead by now. I’ve been running for three days on no sleep or food, carrying secrets that powerful Xylan males on Chronos would kill to bury. So I do the only thing I can, I find the one family in the Four Sectors crazy enough to take on the Xylan ancestral home world. The door opens and an enormous, gentle Xylan miner stands on the threshold. He scents me before I can speak and puts himself between me and his entire family, like I’m something precious instead of a walking grenade. “You are safe here now,” he rumbles. Maxon — they call him Rook — is the youngest of the nine Fever Brothers. A brother who has waited his whole life to scent his Bride. He wants to bring me food, braid my hair and sets out a board for a game I thought no one on Timbur had ever played. And they say I’m his mate? What the heck? I will not be the reason this beautiful family loses another brother. (Even if he’s already the only thing in the universe I want.)      AmazonKU

THE GLASS BETWEEN US by Mary Elizabeth Sinclair

Welcome to the Hadal Luxe. Please enjoy the reef. Please respect all safety barriers. Please don’t attempt to bribe the trilobites. Four hundred feet beneath the Pacific, I built the impossible: a pressure-glass paradise where billionaires sip cocktails beside a resurrected Cambrian reef. Ancient life, modern engineering, and the most advanced containment systems in the world holding it all in place. At least, that’s what the models say. When Kevin, the reef’s apex predator, begins changing his patrol route, I call it variance. But the deeper the anomalies spread, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth: the reef isn’t just alive. It’s evolving. Trapped below with me are three men who see me too clearly. Dutch, who trusts my commands even when the walls start breathing. Reyes, the engineer who can feel the facility failing through his hands. And Holden, the ex who once loved me, left me, and has arrived just in time to judge every terrible choice I make. The only way out is through the bay.
Kevin already knows that. And he’s learning how doors work.     AmazonKU

A MONSTER’S FUTURE (KADRIXIAN MATES BOOK SIX) by Lynnea Lee

Grtirr is bossy, overprotective, and everything I don’t need. The alien medic is also hot as sin and ultra-capable to boot. I’ve spent the last few years simultaneously hating him and admiring his perfect physique. When the Ellaston Gazette sends me to cover the high-stakes negotiations between Ellaston and Vossell Industries, I’m ready to get the scoop. Especially since going will absolutely infuriate the arrogant medic. Except the universe has a vicious sense of humor, because guess who gets assigned as my protection detail. And Grtirr’s been hiding a secret. I’m his mate, and he’s known all along! And now that the secret’s out, he’s done holding back. But when the shooting starts and the negotiations turn dangerous, I find myself trapped with the last alien I ever wanted to rely on. Grtirr won’t let me out of his sight, and worse? My body is starting to betray me, and so is my heart.     AmazonKU

BEYOND GALAXY’S EDGE (PHOENIX ADVENTURES BOOK FIVE) by Anna Hackett

VS Note: Lightly edited re-release.

Ambitious captain Nissa Sander has spent three years at the galaxy’s edge, keeping law and order…and chasing scoundrel smuggler Justyn Phoenix. The charming rogue has always outwitted her, and she’s had a hard time ignoring his muscled body and handsome face. But when one of the galaxy’s most important documents—the US Constitution—is stolen, Nissa finds herself working with the very man she’s been trying to throw in her brig. Justyn Phoenix embraces life and offers everyone a wink and a smile. He’s also in love with the spit-and-polish patrol captain out to arrest him. Yep, crazy in love. When the opportunity arises to work alongside Nissa on a wild and crazy mission, he can’t resist. The hunt leads them to fake documents, rival treasure hunters, and a millennia-old mystery. As the pair travel beyond the galaxy’s edge, Justyn and Nissa will face the firestorm of their desire, and soon learn if they can survive long enough to save the galaxy.     AmazonKU

LEVIATHAN (LEVIATHANS BOOK TWO) by Deiri Di

Bound by a data heist. Trapped with an invisible captor. But the secrets hiding in the dark are larger than either of us can fathom. A high-heat, forced-proximity space opera romance. MARIA – I spent months as a lab rat on an isolated alien research station, dreaming of the day I could escape, until the day I stop dreaming and make my opportunity happen for myself by setting fire to the food supplies. When a mysterious, shimmering black ship docks to resupply the station, I make a desperate move…sneaking on board with a stolen data cube that I hope will buy my passage back to Earth. The problem is, I’m a trap. And I’m at his mercy. Lyrien is the only one on the ship, someone who never shows his face and tracks my every move through a fleet of cold, metallic drones. Yet, despite his physical absence, his deep masculine voice vibrates through my very core, and his fierce, protective nature sparks a primal, dangerous chemistry. I am falling head over tail for a man I’ve never even seen…oblivious to the fact that the stolen data in my hands has turned me into a lethal Trojan horse destined to destroy my invisible savior. LYRIEN – I have spent my life being careful. Never letting anyone on board, never letting anyone get close. Just to keep safe from the ruthless slavers who hunt my kind. I am bound to my sanctuary, anchored by years of hard-won restraint and a history stained in blood. But she needs my help. ..(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      AmazonKU

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

VS Note: Featuring my completed Planet of Last Resort series (just got a couple of really good reviews on JOURNEY and RESOLUTION so I’m beaming). All 5 books are available wide including KOBO Plsu. Here’s the link to the Amazon series page (and don’t miss ESCAPE TO NOWHERE) which they’ve exiled to the bottom of the page).

************************** 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!*********************

NEVER DANCE WITH A DEMON (RIGHT MOVE, WRONG MONSTER) by Honey Phillips

She lives by the rules. He breaks them for a living. Isadora Solis has built her life on precision, control, and perfectly executed steps. She doesn’t make mistakes on the dance floor, and she definitely doesn’t improvise. So when Malachi Vexis strides into her studio—late, arrogant, and completely incapable of following even the most basic waltz—she knows exactly what he is. A disaster. Unfortunately, he’s also her newest student. Bound by a dangerous demonic contract, he needs to win an upcoming competition without using magic, or lose far more than his pride. Which means he needs her. As their lessons heat up and the lines between discipline and desire begin to blur, Isadora finds herself drawn to the one male who could ruin everything she’s worked for. Because the only thing more dangerous than dancing with a demon… is falling for one.     AmazonKU

OSIRIS: THE WOLVES (KING LAKE SHIFTERS BOOK ONE) by R E Butler

Working at a bookstore has taught Juliette all the tropes—meet-cutes, instant sparks, forever love. But she’s learned real life doesn’t work that way. Until one night in King Lake… and one unforgettable wolf. Wolf shifter Osiris is the one who takes care of everyone else, making sure his pack is fed when things get busy at The Amber Howl. He’s spent years imagining what it would be like to have a mate of his own. The moment Juliette walks into the tavern and orders his burger of the week, he knows he’s finally found her. But when the connection between them hits too hard, too fast, Juliette panics and runs—determined to protect her heart before it can be broken again. But Sigh is one wolf who isn’t about to let his mate go. Because in King Lake, some loves aren’t just fast… they’re forever.   AmazonKU

SIREN RISING (GUARDIANS OF THE FOUR REALMS BOOK FIVE) by Caroline Delaney Drew

A prophecy over two millennia in the making. An arrogant angel with his own agenda. A siren who will stop at nothing to protect the ones she loves. As the dust begins to settle after Gabriel’s shocking revelation about Seth’s father, escaping his destiny as The Son of Two Realms is starting to look increasingly unlikely. So when his role as a Guardian takes him on a mission to assess how much of a threat the newly discovered Underworld may present to the Mortal Realm, Zara is determined to use their time apart to learn as much as she can about her siren powers. Because if her worst fears are realised, and Seth doesn’t come back to her, she won’t hesitate to fight for their future with every weapon at her disposal. And the gods help anyone who tries to get in her way. The Prophecy brought them together. She won’t let destiny tear them apart.     AmazonKU

EVERDARK ACADEMY VOL SIX: MM VAMPIRE ROMANCE by X Aratare

At the Kaly party, Grayson discovers that his mother is in danger on Earth. But when he and his fellow Immortals attempt to save her, their plans go very wrong. Grayson mis-teleports to the past, still in his weak human body, where most of the Immortals are dead and Eyros is not a friend. Ryder and the others try to get back to Grayson, only to find out that they have also mis-teleported to the past. A hostile Kaly slice awaits with an army of undead, determined to alter the future. Like Grayson, the Immortals are outmatched… but if they work together, they may have a chance.     Amazon

CLAIMED BY THE ORC (BRED FOR THE RIFT) by Zara Crowe

My sister’s name was drawn in the breeding lottery. She’s seventeen. I’m a field medic with steady hands and three combat deployments. I stepped forward before she could stop shaking. The orc garrison commander is eight feet of scarred green muscle and six years of iron discipline. His hands drip bonding compound the moment I walk through his gate. He can’t hide what his body wants. He fights it anyway. His outpost hasn’t had a medic in two years. His soldiers are patching their own wounds with dirty cloth and pretending cracked tusks don’t hurt. I didn’t come here to be wanted. I came here to be useful. But his compound is on my skin, his scent is in my lungs, and my body has opinions my training never prepared me for. He put a lock on my door before I arrived. He can’t break it. I can open it whenever I want. One mark is want. Six is forever. And I make every decision with my eyes open.       Amazon

MARORIA 1 – DAUGHTER 1 – GRAVEWARDEN’S BARGAIN by Cora Ashwell

Some doors should never open. Some loves refuse to die. Sable Wren has spent her life guiding the dead across the ancient Lychgate that guards her village. For generations, the Gate has stood between the living and the restless dead. Now it is failing. When souls begin returning from beyond and an unknown enemy tears open wounds in the boundary between worlds, Sable finds herself fighting a battle far older than her bloodline. But when the Gate claims the one person she cannot bear to lose-her sister, Lark-Sable faces an impossible choice. To save her, she must descend beyond the threshold itself, into the cold kingdom of the dead. There, she encounters the Still King: an ancient ruler bound to a crumbling realm, a keeper of souls whose power is matched only by the terrible price he demands. As darkness spreads through both worlds, Sable is drawn into a dangerous bargain that will test her loyalty, her courage, and the limits of her heart. For some doors are meant to stay closed.   AmazonKU

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ALLIES: A ROAR/VARIANT ALLIANCE by Sandra R Neeley

The Laighin Pride has weathered many transitions through the years, but none so drastic as when Jack challenged his own tyrannical, oppressive father for the position of Alpha — and won. Since then, the Pride is thriving. He’s earned the support, love and loyalty of not only his people, but of his once completely out of reach mate. Through it all, his lifelong friends, lieutenants really, have stood at the ready for anything he and the Pride needed from them, ready at any time to give all they had in support of Jack and their people. Just when they think most of their struggles are over and begin to settle into a laid-back, slow-paced life for their Pride, a very small group of surviving members of a strong, well-respected Pride arrive in their territory, requesting sanctuary. They are all that’s left from a violent attack on their Pride. Without any hesitation, Jack welcomes them, provides for and protects them. He has no idea that his selfless actions will cause a whirlwind of unexpected challenges to the lives of some of those closest to him. Mates are found, and yet others denied. Painfully impossible to attain dreams once locked safely away, are given new life through tragedy. And an entirely different type of partially human species has taken note of the lifestyle Jack has created and maintains for his Pride of Lion shifters. The Variant people have encountered many different enemies and allies in their quest to find justice and build a safe place for themselves. But none so intriguing as the Lion shifters they’ve discovered…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     AmazonKU

MOLTEN FURY: MM SHIFTER MPREG ROMANCE (BRAMBLE WOODS BOOK TWO) by  Lorelai M Hart and Colbie Dunbar

My flight never wanted me. I wasn’t dragon enough for them. As the child of a human and a shifter, I teeter between both worlds and don’t fit into either. When an opportunity to leave my hometown presents itself, it’s an immediate yes from me. It isn’t until I start planning my move that I realize I’m going to be moving to the middle of nowhere. There’s no turning back now. Besides, one year in a place where no one knows me sounds like bliss. When I arrive, my rental cabin has one small problem. It’s already occupied by a grumpy-ass polar bear shifter who’s barely holding his beast back. The lease? Fake. The landlord? Nonexistent. My deposit? Stolen. My savings? Gone. I have nowhere to sleep, a job starting in two days, and an empty bank account. Why does it feel like I’ve finally come home?      AmazonKU

CURSED IN GLASS by Marina Simcoe

He comes with diamonds. Literally. All I wanted was to get on a flight across the country. Instead, a supernatural slave of a goddess from another world kidnapped me. Now, I’m a hostage in a glass palace of the cursed Siren King of Olathana in the magical world of Nerifir. King Kye’s touch turns everything to glass, condemning him to a lifetime of solitude and heart-crushing loneliness. Feared by his subjects, with his song lost, and his magic waning, Kye is a prisoner in his own palace, maybe even more than I am. And I’m his only companion in almost a century. Entraped in his sorrows, beguiled by his voice, and intrigued by his cynical outlook on life, I form a fragile, uneasy connection with the king. But neither of us is aware of the ancient, mysterious danger lurking in the depths below the palace or of the sinister motives of those who surround us on the surface. I can never accept becoming the pet for the cursed king. But regaining my freedom may cost me everything.     AmazonKU

THE ASSASSIN’S WAY by J M Kearl

Never go out at night. Lock the doors. Ignore the screams. Those are the rules Aesira lives by to survive the monsters that stalk her village. But everything changes when it’s revealed she’s been born with the power to fight the vampires she’s spent her life fearing. Aesira is thrust into the elite and secretive League of Assassins, where mercy is weakness and fear is forbidden. Now her survival depends on her ruthless trainer, Vander–the most dangerous assassin of them all. And the only thing more lethal than his blade is the desire he awakens in her. Because the greatest threat in Nighthaven might not be the monsters lurking in the dark…It might be him.       AmazonKU

SLITHERING INTO HER DM’S (OURS EVERMORE BOOK SEVEN) by RK Munin

When Bec decides to take a risk, she doesn’t expect it to end with supernatural brothers claiming her as their mate! Bec always chose the safe options. After a childhood spent in colorful chaos, Bec was determined to have a life of stability, even if it was boring and bland. Except on a visit to see her best friend in San Diego, everything changed. After a kidnapping, a fight, and being introduced to a magical world she didn’t know existed, she decided to stay. She was determined to live life for the first time. Marduk and Danzig, the world serpent brothers, aren’t happy about the choices she’s making. They want to claim her as their mate, which involves getting in the way of all the fun things she wants to do. Ignoring the brothers is hard, but she won’t be boring ever again!     AmazonKU

HIS THREE WOLVES by Alexa Piper

VS Note: MMMM Omegaverse.

Marcus needs a change of scenery, of pace, of perspective. When he embarks on a short trip to get all that, he has no idea what’s waiting for him on the other end. Lincoln, Dominic, and Ellis are three alpha werewolves, but that’s never hurt their relationship. They love one another. When they find a human who needs their help, it could ruin what they have…or bring something new into their lives.

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HUNTING FOR HIS FAIRY QUEEN (A MONSTROUS HOLIDAY BOOK FOUR) by Charlotte Swan

VS Note: “spicy Ferngully reimagining” per the Author.

A treasure hunter searching for his salvation…A desperate Fairy Queen hoping he’s the answer to her prayers…Treasure hunter Finn has always known he was different. It’s why he’s spent the last thirty years of his life searching the high seas for the one thing that can save him: a fairy wish. After winning a game of cards, he comes into possession of a fairy portal and wastes no time descending into an unknown realm in search of the cure to his curse. What he finds inside the sprawling meadow changes everything. The Fairy Queen’s realm is dying. Decay spreads across Meadowmist, as the Void continues to claim more fairy lives. The Deadlands will consume the rest of her realm if her prayers aren’t answered soon. When a human falls from the sky, she believes this is the miracle she’s been begging the Spirits for. He’s certainly cocky enough for the task. Finn agrees to find a way to destroy the Void in exchange for a fairy wish. If only it were that simple. Despite the danger, the two of them set off to destroy the evil that’s polluting her realm. Finn has never seen anything as beautiful as Queen Arden, but he can’t afford to be distracted. Their relationship is purely transactional, a means to an end. Why then does he feel like he’s known her all his life? The deeper they travel into Meadowmist, the more devastation they uncover. Is this human their savior? Or will he become another casualty of the Void? Will Arden’s fleeting magic be enough to protect them, or will the darkness claim their lives before their budding love can bloom?     Amazon

A DAGGER OF FIRE AND FATE (THE CURSE OF SILVER SECRETS AND CRUEL SHADOWS SERIES BOOK FOUR) by Vera Raye

Turns out I might have been sleeping under the same roof as my father’s assassin. Now I’m trapped in a crater that won’t let me leave, the man I’m furious at is off fighting a war I can’t join, and my favorite cousin is doing something spectacularly dangerous that I’m choosing not to think about. The Protectorate crown is mine to carry. So I’ll run a city under siege, negotiate alliances with creatures that could crush me in one hand, and try not to miss a man who has given me every reason to stay angry. But the crater has secrets. Someone inside these unscalable walls wants me dead. And the truth about my father’s murder is closer than I ever wanted it to be. One wrong move and I lose everything–including him. Falling for my enemy was the risk I never wanted to take. Trusting him again might be the one that destroys me.      AmazonKU

MONSTER, SUITS AND TAMING THE WOLF by Bella Blair

Roman Wolfe built his empire on luxury, control, and never taking no for an answer. As one of New York’s wealthiest wolf shifters, he’s come to Cedar Hollow to help expand the town’s growing supernatural resort community alongside his old friend Gabe McCloud. Roman expects smooth negotiations, profitable investments, and maybe a few weeks hiding from the chaos of Manhattan. What he doesn’t expect is Daisy Hart. The stubborn bakery owner with flour on her jeans and fire in her eyes immediately informs him that Honey Hearth Bakery does not serve six-dollar oat milk monstrosities “in whatever weird little cup you people use in New York.” Roman should walk away. Instead, he insults her business, buys her an industrial espresso machine she absolutely did not ask for, and somehow keeps making everything worse. Unfortunately for him, his wolf already knows the truth. Daisy Hart is his mate. Daisy has no time for arrogant billionaire wolves…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      AmazonKU

THE BROKEN HEARTS AGENCY: A NOVEL by Clarence A Haynes

VS Note: FF Urban Fantasy.

Evelyn Kendricks is having a day. An overworked manager, she’s been dumped by her toxic boyfriend while struggling to cope with the recent ghost invasion that’s shocked the world. Devastated, she is mysteriously summoned to an eerie townhouse where she meets Linda Villaneuva, a private investigator who runs a secret mystical detective agency. She’s able to sense the emotions of others, especially those suffering from heartache. Linda would like nothing more than to help her latest client, but she soon makes a gruesome discovery: People are losing their memories and wandering DC streets in a zombie-like daze. Their eyes, demon red. Their skin, blistered, burning… and no one understands why. Panic has begun to consume the city as more folks succumb, putting Evelyn and other residents at risk. In the biggest case of her life, Linda follows a trail of clues to unearth an evil force far deadlier than anything she could’ve imagined. And all the while, she must reckon with the tragedies of her past and the price she’s paid for her supernatural gifts.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

WOLF HER DOWN by Elliot Ason

A ruined romantic getaway. An isolated cabin. A lone wolf who just found his fated mate. Milly was supposed to be on a romantic couples retreat. Instead, she’s nursing a broken heart after her boyfriend dumped her before the trip. A secluded cabin in the woods seems like the perfect place to cry in peace and swear off men forever—until she discovers she isn’t entirely alone. Sander is a lone wolf in every sense of the word. He stays far away from pack politics and even farther away from humans. But the moment he catches Milly’s scent, the beast inside him recognizes exactly what she is: his. Trapped together in the wilderness, Milly has a choice to make: run back to the safety of the city, or surrender to the wild, protective alpha who refuses to let her go.     AmazonKU

A NOVEL DEATH (WITCHES OF WILLOW COVE BOOK ONE) by Sara Bourgeois

Rowan Page has a plan. It is not a good plan, but it is technically a plan. She’ll come to Willow Cove, sort out the seaside bookshop her late aunt left behind, sell the property before the money runs out, and move on with her life. Quill & Tide has other ideas. The shelves are beautiful but impossible to navigate. The bathroom mirror keeps leaving messages in her dead aunt’s handwriting. And Moss, the sea-glass gray cat who came with the building, keeps glowing every time someone lies. Rowan would love to pretend all of that is normal. Unfortunately, denial gets harder when a bestselling thriller author drops dead at the town’s Masques & Manuscripts festival, right in front of half the waterfront. The police have a suspect. The town has gossip. Moss has strong feelings about everyone involved, most of them unflattering. And Rowan has questions she really should stop asking, especially once they lead to a stolen grimoire and secrets Aunt Oona apparently took to the grave. Willow Cove is charming, magical, and very bad at minding its own business. Rowan was supposed to sell the bookshop and leave. Instead, she may have inherited a murder mystery and one extremely judgmental cat.       AmazonKU

THE GARGOYLE AND THE LADY (NIGHTFALL GUARDIANS BOOK TWO) by Sara Ivy Hill

Hannalinde is a lady no longer. Her father’s treason stripped her of her home and title years ago, and the monster who hunts her at night has taken what little dignity she had left. Now, the half-gargoyle child growing inside her has made her situation urgent. The goblin wars left Rikard a hero, but one with deep scars, ruined wings, and the inability to continue his line. His legacy is slipping through his fingers. He requires a mate and an heir to keep his family’s standing. She needs protection only a gargoyle husband can provide. The logical solution to both their problems? A marriage of convenience with the simplest terms: no bedding and no biting. But the longer they share a home, the harder it is to pretend that it’s just an arrangement. She mends things in him the healers said were beyond repair. He gives her back pieces of herself she thought were gone for good. And the careful distance they agreed upon is disappearing fast. However, the monster who hurt her is still out there. And the secrets holding their marriage together could be the same ones that tear it apart.   AmazonKU

NEMESIS MINE by Amy Archer

VS Note: MM Fantasy. From MAY 19.

Fake nemeses. It’s a dastardly plan that can’t go wrong… until love crashes the act. Nobody is more surprised than Cyrus to learn that he’s no longer considered the greatest villain in the land of Athaca. Sure, he’s lying about the fact that his magical power is making flowers grow. And maybe lately he’s spent more time embroidering pillowcases than tormenting the locals. But that doesn’t mean he’s ready to be yesterday’s evil news. Enter the hero Maximillian: the realm’s golden boy, complete with a blinding smile, chiseled abs, and an infuriating habit of spreading hope and joy. (Gross.) If Cyrus wants to be taken seriously, he’ll have to take this guy down. But Maximillian isn’t quite as perfect as he seems. When he proposes a scheme to fake an epic rivalry and increase their fame, Cyrus can’t resist. Stage the battles, soak up the spotlight, share the spoils—it’s a villainously good marketing plan. There’s just one hitch. Pretending to hate your nemesis becomes a lot harder when you start falling for them instead.      AmazonKU     AB

HEALER’S HEART (WITCHES OF MINGUS MOUNTAIN BOOK EIGHT) by Christine Pope

Some wounds can only be healed from the inside….When a magical artifact yanks Roslyn Campbell from her quiet life at a Cottonwood clinic and deposits her in a decaying Victorian three states away, she finds the last person she expected: the Collector, the mysterious warlock who once terrorized her clan. He’s emaciated, dying, and surrounded by a hoard of volatile magical artifacts on the verge of detonation. Her instincts as a McAllister say run. Her instincts as a healer say stay. The healer wins. Malachi Van Horn has survived banishment, homelessness, and a year trapped in a dimensional void. What he cannot survive is the collapse of his magic — not when four dozen dangerous artifacts depend on his wards to keep them contained. He needs the healer. He doesn’t need the inconvenient discovery that her steady hands and stubborn compassion are dismantling defenses no enemy has ever breached before. Trapped together in a house full of secrets, Roslyn and Malachi forge an uneasy alliance that deepens into something neither of them planned. But with the Van Horn clan closing in to reclaim Malachi’s collection and a local clan growing hostile, their fragile sanctuary won’t hold forever. In the final book of the Witches of Mingus Mountain series, enemies become lovers, and two people who’ve spent their lives putting everyone else first must finally fight for something of their own.

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CANDLELIT HEx (HAVEN SHORES BOOK FIVE) by Milly Taiden

Narla Wright is a professional at disappearing. In Haven Shores, she’s just the quiet candle witch—soft voice, steady hands, nothing to see here. She’s absolutely not hiding from a nightmare with teeth. And she’s definitely not spending way too much mental energy on the suspicious, annoyingly hot sheriff who’s been watching her like she’s a crime waiting to happen. The way he fills out that uniform? Irrelevant. Those hands? Not thinking about them. Six years of avoidance, ruined the moment he finally touches her. Wyatt Gentry doesn’t trust easily, and the candle witch is a puzzle he can’t crack. Too serene. Too secretive. Too damn good at making his panther pace and snarl mine while his brain says absolutely not. Years of watching her. Of keeping his distance. Then the equinox surge puts her in his arms—and she fits like she was made for him. She tastes like honey and bad decisions. And his self-control? Gone. When Narla’s candles start exposing fated mates and her nightmare finally finds her, she needs protection—even if it comes with fangs, a badge, and a growl that makes her knees weak. But safe houses mean close quarters, and close quarters mean his hands on her, his breath against her neck, and six years of tension finally snapping. The monster at her door is terrifying. Falling for Wyatt? Even scarier.       AmazonKU

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HERBAL REMEDIES FOR THE GROWLY HEARTS: A MONSTERS IN UNIFORM ROMANCE by V V Strange

A grumpy Alpha. A cheeky human. One poisoned forest. What could possibly go wrong? Zoe Greenwood is a kick-butt herbalist. She has no magic to her name and not a single fang in sight, but her teas, tinctures, and sunny competence keep Mystic Hollow’s magical community running like clockwork. She might laugh easily but when it comes to her herbs, Zoe is not playing around. She takes her craft as seriously as a wolf guarding his den. Alpha of the Mystic Hollow pack and Park Ranger, Rex goes by few, simple truths: protect the pack. Protect the woods. Keep chaos at bay. Easy enough. Unless Zoe is involved. Then the rules get messy, the forest feels smaller, and Rex’s growl doesn’t quite cover the way she gets under his skin. When a strange sickness creeps through the woods, Rex and Zoe are forced to work together. The problem? Every time they are together, his growl gets softer and her urge to give into an oddly strong temptation grows harder. Rex thought wrangling the pack and guarding the forest was hard. Turns out, not falling for one tiny human woman with zero magic is harder.       AmazonKU

A TREASON OF MAGIC by Melissa Marr

VS Note: FF Fantasy.

Two young women. Heirs to altogether different hereditary burdens. Yet bound by a monstrous threat to their village. Gabrielle is the first woman in Alveus to carry the mantle of Hunter, which comes with an obligation to kill the faery beasts murdering travelers in Brimmond Wood. Wary of the power she wields as guardian of her people, Gabrielle is summoned by her first love, a seductress who shattered her heart into pieces a decade ago. Isabeau is the rarest of nobility―a lady duke. She is also afflicted by a curse that leaves her in a deep sleep between the gloaming and daylight. How can she begin her tenure as protector when she can’t keep her village safe from whatever stalks its darkest hours? For that, she needs the help of the Hunter. Against her will, Gabrielle is falling in love all over again. But what new threats will arise when Gabrielle and Isabeau’s star-crossed destinies collide with the beast of Brimmond Wood?                Amazon      AB

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TEMPTED BY THE DJINN (MONSTER MOGULS BOOK TWO) by Eva Brandt

He’s an ancient, obscenely wealthy monster used to the world bowing at his feet. I just want him to pay for his coffee and get out of my line. In a city where monsters walk openly and wield billions, I make lattes for creatures that could level the building. I’ve served dragons before their board meetings and centaurs on their lunch breaks. It’s not glamorous, but it’s mine. Then Rakan al-Rashid walks into my cafe. Seven feet of obsidian skin. Living fire in his veins. Horns that clip my doorframe. The most powerful Djinn in history, who has the power to fulfill any wish in the world. My wish? Four bucks, and a “Please make room for the next customer.” Big mistake. Suddenly, Rakan is an unwavering fixture in my life, determined to buy my attention with priceless, glowing flowers and extravagant gestures I don’t want. But rejecting a billionaire monster’s advances becomes the least of my problems when I accidentally witness a brutal supernatural murder. Now, there’s a lethal target on my back. And my only protection is Rakan’s obsession. I should hate being trapped in his opulent world. I should hate being guarded by a possessive, ancient being who watches me with predatory devotion. Most of all, I should be entirely immune to the scorching heat of his touch. But as the danger outside closes in, I’m realizing the greatest threat isn’t the killer hunting me. It’s the monster protecting me… and the terrifying fact that I might wish for him after all.       AmazonKU

COURTSHIP OF A MIDDLE AGED DRAGON QUEEN: MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE (MIDLIFE MAYHEM BOOK TWO) by Julia Mills

Two weeks before her Mating Ceremony, Martha Dellencourt should be worrying about flowers, seating charts, and whether her sisters will behave long enough to survive family photos. Instead:
An escaped supernatural convict is creeping around town. Her fiancé vanished The oldest mansion in Dragoon Bootay is hiding something terrifying beneath its foundation. And somebody keeps hinting that Martha is about to become far more than a middle-aged Dragon Queen with a caffeine addiction and a closet full of bedazzled shoes. Frankly? She’d like a refund. Time to get off the ride called life. But when secrets buried for centuries begin clawing their way to the surface, Martha discovers that Fate has bigger plans than weddings and happily ever afters. Now, with danger rising, ancient Magic awakening, and the clock ticking toward the biggest day of her life, Martha must uncover the truth before Dragoon Bootay goes up in flames. Again. Coffee fixes a lot of problems… But probably not the apocalypse.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE CAT’S OUT OF THE BAG: MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE (A CAULDRON FALLS MYSTERY BOOK FIVE) by C S Edwards

One hundred and five cats. And counting. One swamp witch’s alligator hide book. Zero good options. It’s been a quiet October in Cauldron Falls. Right up until every familiar on earth pops up uninvited on the front lawn of FACTS & FIBS and starts cheerfully telling strangers exactly what her witch has been hiding for a lifetime. Stolen pie recipes. Three husbands. Pastries eaten over the sink at two in the morning. The Copy Reveal Device is shrieking. The Marseille sisters are weeping in French. A small fierce Irishwoman in green velvet has barricaded herself in the parlor and threatened to silence the lot of them until Beltane. Something old has stirred under the floor of the world. A Cajun traiteur warned about this once, a long time ago. And somewhere in Cauldron Falls, a liar is about to find out exactly how this story ends. The Hadwins have until the bond holds. If it holds.   Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

STOP KRACKEN ABOUT: MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE (THE KRACKENS OF KRACKEN HOLE BOOK TWO) by J Thompson

In the magical seaside town of Krackens Hole, chaos is practically a way of life. When mysterious bounty hunters arrive searching for a missing dragon heir, Edith’s carefully built world begins to unravel faster than a ghost pirate’s trousers during festival season. Spencer came to Krackens Hole for one last job before retirement. He didn’t expect meddling witches, giant sea guardians, magical mayhem…or the sharp-tongued female who keeps turning his plans upside down. As ancient magic awakens beneath Merlin’s Gate and danger closes in from the mainland, Edith and Spencer are forced into an uneasy alliance that quickly becomes far more complicated than either of them expected. Because in Krackens Hole, secrets never stay buried for long and neither do feelings

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PIGTURE PERFECT: MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE by Ginger Kidd

This is her last chance to prove herself. Too bad she has to rely on a pig of a partner. Olive Jensen has screwed up one too many times as a witch working for the Magical Bureau of Investigation. Fortunately, her boss is giving her one more chance to prove she has what it takes to keep her job. All she has to do is go undercover at a pig show to keep one very bad witch from blowing the whole place up.  Unfortunately, her boss has also assigned her a partner—a pig shifter with a stubborn streak and a knack for getting in the way. And while Olive knows both her career and her life depend on not getting distracted by her muscle-bound partner, her determination is put to the test thanks to late-night stakeouts, a pair of gray sweatpants, and a real shortage of hotel beds. But as she and her partner draw closer, so does a dangerous enemy. And if they don’t stop her, she’ll destroy everything.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

HEX MARKS THE SPOT: MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE (BEWITCHED AND BEWILDERED SERIES BOOK THREE) by Isabel Micheals

When librarian Hazel Pembroke’s ancient grimoire suddenly blazes to life in the middle of the night, she never expects it to choose her a magical partner—especially not Nathan Holloway, the infuriatingly methodical supernatural investigator who analyzes everything, including her feelings, with scientific precision. But ancient prophecies don’t care about personal preferences. As books attack patrons, romance novels explode in showers of glitter, and a centuries-old entity called The Collector begins hunting magical pairs across the region, Hazel and Nate must learn to work together before they become the next butterflies pinned to his collection.

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RISE: ONE CURSE AFTER ANOTHER: MAGIC AND MAYHEM UNIVERSE ( THE CURSED HEARTBREAKERS SERIES BOOK ONE) by Cherie Marks

He wants revenge. She wants survival. To get both, they must fight fire with desire. Liverity Strongwill will stop at nothing to take down her evil tyrant of a father, King Grawl. He is currently hunting her and her siblings to solidify his immortal reign. Only one thing scares his dark heart. If Liv can find the mythic curse breaker and reunite with her twin sister and younger brother, their father won’t stand a chance. Just one problem: a gorgeous, alpha warrior named Riserion just kidnapped her and pulled her into a pocket dimension from which there is no escape. He has a lethal ax to grind with the king, but he doesn’t trust Liv at all. If she can convince him they are on the same team, they might just survive. Riserion Ward finally has the means to his revenge in sight. He wants Grawl’s head for the tortuous enslavement Rise endured as a child, and now that he has Liverity in his grasp, he has the perfect pawn to lure the king to his demise. Yet, as much as he tries to hate her, she’s not the spoiled royal he imagined. His rage begins to blur into an addictive, dangerous hunger that can’t be denied. Trust isn’t something he gives easily, but to kill a monster, he might have to trust the monster’s daughter. As they travel through a barren hellscape, the greatest threat to their mission isn’t the king, it’s the lethal attraction pulling them together. In a world of dark magic and betrayal, a single mistake might cost them everything as they face one curse after another.

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DEARLY DEPARTED by Chip Pons

VS Note: MM PNR.

Hope is a dangerous thing for gods. Even former ones. Hayden Harlow, once the mighty Hades, has spent centuries quietly resenting his fall from immortality. Stripped of his godhood by the allegedly irreversible Immortal Retirement Act, he now runs Harlow and Sons Funeral Home—a front for his eternal sentencing among mortals, and a bleak reminder of the purpose he’s lost. Still, he’s determined to claw his way back…if only the Fates at City Hall would stop toying with him. Enter Levi Wilder: a florist with an artist’s heart, an infectious smile, and a gift for finding beauty in life’s messiest moments. When Hayden storms into Levi’s shop to complain about a bouquet of sunflowers—an offensive choice for a funeral, in his opinion—their worlds collide. Hayden is all restraint and shadows; Levi is all sunshine and charm. But beneath the clash lies an undeniable spark neither can ignore. As their connection blossoms, Hayden finds himself caught between the life he once knew and the bright future Levi dares him to imagine. But trusting Levi means risking the walls he’s kept in place all these years—and it’s not just his heart on the line. Because in the threads of fate, one choice can change everything.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

RUBY AND THE ROYAL: A RED RIDING HOOD MEETS PRINCE CHARMING FRACTURED FAIRYTALE by Christine DePetrillo

One quick shake of the master book of fairy tales creates a jumbled mess of the treasured stories on the pages inside—and Ruby finds herself in a forest that is not her own. Having spent years running through the woods she calls home with a pack of werewolves, Ruby is no stranger to peril. She plots heists with the werewolves by day then carries out the plans by night, all with the intent of stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Ruby does not have much herself aside from the red hooded cloak her grandmother gave her, but she is determined to do good . . . even if it breaks a few laws. When she and the werewolves wake up in an entirely different realm one morning, they resort to their usual strategies in solving problems—scout around and make a plan. They discover a kingdom and hear news of a royal ball to be held there. Recognizing an opportunity for their largest raid yet, they hatch a new scheme, and after a makeover, Ruby attends her first ball. Inside the castle, Prince Henri Charming dreads the task of selecting a bride at tonight’s ball, the duty of becoming king one day, and the planned future ahead of him. He would much rather …(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

DANCE OF NOTHING: COURT OF MIDSUMMER MAYHEM BOOK THREE by Tara Grayce

Fated mates with her childhood nemesis. From the moment Beatrice found a home at the Great Library in the Court of Knowledge, Benedict, the arrogant son of a fae lord, has been her nemesis. Now, all she wants is to secure the open assistant librarian spot and fully solidify her place in the fae court once and for all. Benedict has spent the past few months as a prisoner. Now that the war between the courts has ended, he is allowed to return home. Yet even his freedom is conditional on a vow he would rather not make, forbidding him from telling the secrets that jeopardize his court and the Great Library. He left himself one loophole, but he must track down the most elusive fae in the Fae Realm: the Wild Fae Primrose. When a Midsummer Revel brings Benedict and Beatrice together and reveals that they are fated mates, Beatrice is determined to find a way out of the binding, no matter what it takes. Benedict is just as determined to change her mind. As misunderstandings abound, will these fated mates save the Great Library and fall in love or will their history tear them apart forever?      AmazonKU       AB

BRED BY THE SATYRS (DREAM TOGETHER BREEDING PROGRAM) by Lyonne Riley

What starts as a crush will become a web of lies. When Bree signs up for DreamTogether, she hopes to get matched with Arthur Mangelli, the satyr she’s been crushing on at yoga class. But what she gets? Arthur and his two husbands, Bennett and Jack, who are all in the throes of rutting season—and each of them wants a turn with her on the breeding bench. When breeding is over, though, Arthur, Bennett, and Jack walk away changed. Now all three of them are craving her, and their need to mate is nearly overwhelming. But DreamTogether is anonymous—or so they thought. When Bree’s work as a cam girl brings Arthur and Bennett to her doorstep, the lines blur between the breeding bench and real life. Though Arthur and Bennett are ready to claim Bree as part of their herd, Jack’s painful past may just unravel everything.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE PSYCHIC AND THE VAMPIRE: THE COVEN’S CURSE by Lisa Oliver

NS NOTE: MM PNR.

Ant and Viktor have settled into mated life, working cases for Ant’s private business while they wait for a case from the Justiciary. But the case, when it comes, is not one either of them expected. While Ant is keen to get justice for the victim, Viktor is staunchly against taking the case at all. Many years before he met Ant, Viktor spent forty years living in a coven – the same coven where the murder he and Ant are supposed to be investigating took place. Viktor always vowed he would never go back. But there must’ve been something wrong with his persuasion skills, and he finds himself back at the Raven Estate and face to face with Claudius Raven – the coven leader. Because of his power levels, and the skills he’d used for years, Ant believed that solving the murder would be as simple as sitting at the murder scene, seeing the details of what happened and writing his report for the Justiciary. But nothing about the Raven Estate or Claudius was simple, especially when Ant realizes how much magic protects the coven leader’s secrets. Magic a vampire shouldn’t have. The Coven’s Curse is book three of Ant and Viktor’s journey and readers would get more out of this story if the first two books have been read first.

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VACATION WITH THE BRIDE by Sayla Masse

Being a Bride is easy; falling in love is the real challenge. Franky: After the world’s worst breakup, my friends meant the best, but being the third wheel on a girls’ only trip only cemented how alone I was. On a whim, I wind up leaving my friends and finding comfort in the muscular arms of a bartender with his own secrets, I find myself falling again. Could it be real love this time, or was I about to fall victim to a rebound relationship? I wanted Manny, but how could someone like him want a monster like me? Manny: Running a dive bar on the outskirts of Orlando was never my dream job. It was supposed to be temporary, but when a monstrous Victorian vixen enters my bar, I knew I was where I was meant to be. Fate always understands. Franky says I wouldn’t understand, but what she doesn’t know is I have a secret of my own. If I get my way, I’ll show Franky I can more than handle her monster.      AmazonKU

VACATION WITH THE SHIFTY SHARK by Annee Jones

I’m Antonella (“Nella”) DeLuca, and I left Jersey to get away from men like him. The gold chains. The cologne. The smile that’s all charm and zero conscience. I know exactly what Nico Torretti is the second he walks into my Miami bar — the same kind of dangerous mistake I’ve been making since I was nineteen. But I’ve always preferred swimming in deep waters. He says he’s here about my debt. I say he can park his designer swim trunks on a barstool and watch me earn it back — one week, then he gets his money and gets out of my life. He agrees. Then he doesn’t leave. Just circles me like I’m something he wants to sink his teeth into. I should be afraid of him. But this hulking loan shark doesn’t scare me. And that’s the part that should terrify us both. A sun-soaked Miami fling with teeth — steamy, sharp, and served with salt and lime.      AmazonKU

CROWNING AARON (WINTERMOON ACADEMY BOOK TWO) by Tessa Stone

Mother Fate has chosen Aaron to be a trueborn siphoner. What that means for him—he can siphon magic from any witch or warlock he comes in close contact with. But Aaron’s magic has a mind of its own, much like Mara’s lion’s tail. It’s difficult to control. Aaron will have to do more than become one with this power. He has to accept what he is. He’s also messing up big time in the love department. Aaron is so afraid of losing Mara that he keeps proving himself right. She will have to learn to be patient with him, and accept that love isn’t the straight road she planned for. Eric and other warlocks have broken out of the Witching Glen, and it’s Aaron’s job to return them to the prison King Amir placed them in—or the Witching Glen falls. The Witching Glen needs a king—a warden. Aaron will have to make hard choices that are difficult for everyone. And Mara will have to choose Aaron again, or risk losing him forever.      AmazonKU

FALLING FOR THE FELID (ELF MAGIC BOOK THREE) by Louisa Masters

VS Note: MM PNR. “Felid” = any mammal in the cat family.

Secrets like mine aren’t compatible with love… so why am I falling for a felid shifter? I’ve never watched a hockey game in my life, so being assigned as the liaison to the Warhammers, the local Community of Species Hockey League team, is the last thing I want. Worse, that’s the team Felix Ansas plays for. How do I build a good working relationship when one of the star players hates me? Not that I blame him. I did accuse him of some pretty awful stuff, and now I need his cooperation if I’m going to fulfil my promises to my king. I’m not the only one with something to prove. Felix needs to impress his new coach with his team spirit, and teaching me about hockey is his solution. Me and Felix, alone together? Hello, disaster. Except… it’s not. Felix is a lot more complex than I thought, and I find myself wishing for things that can’t happen. Like sharing my own past. Like a future together. But if the truth comes out, everything between us will shatter.      AmazonKU

SIDNEY (WALSH’S LAIR BOOK SIX) by Kathi S Barton

Sidney Walsh has spent his life waiting for the one woman meant to be his. He never expected his destined mate would be a fiercely independent deaf woman with a painful past, a grown son to protect, and no intention of trusting any man—dragon or otherwise. Olivia has built a life on her own terms. She survived the unimaginable, raised her son, and carved out a future no one gave her. The last thing she needs is a powerful dragon claiming she belongs at his side. But when dark forces from Sidney’s world close in, Olivia is drawn into a realm of dragons, magic, and ancient enemies where fate has already made its choice. As danger rises and a ruthless enemy threatens everything they hold dear, Sidney must convince the woman destined for him that she is not broken…and Olivia must decide if she can risk her heart for a love written across lifetimes. In a world where magic shifts time, enemies strike from the shadows, and mates are bound by destiny, Sidney and Olivia may discover that the greatest power of all is love strong enough to heal the past.         Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE SHINING CITY (ASPERFELL BOOK THREE) by Jamie Thomas

As they return to Tiralaen, Briony and Elyan must face down their demons once and for all, in this stunning conclusion to the Asperfell trilogy. After countless trials, Briony, Elyan, and their companions have finally made their way back to Tiralaen. But things are worse here than they could possibly have imagined. King Keric’s soldiers stalk the countryside, hanging any dissenters from his cruel reign. The only refuge is in the neighboring kingdom of Sidonia, but between Briony and safety lies a mountain pass not traversed for hundreds of years. And Sidonia is a court of vipers. Nobles from across the realms are vying for a claim to the throne. Elyan must rally an army to his banner if he has any hope of reclaiming his homeland, but after so long away, will they heed his call? As war breaks out across the realms, Briony and Elyan must unlock the true power of her magic. Even if it means sacrificing everything they’ve ever loved. Even if it means tearing down the very kingdom they are hoping to save.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

TRIAL OF IRON: A SHIFTER NOVEL  (TRIALS OF DRAGOMIR BOOK ONE) by Lynn Nodima

When eighteen-year-old wolf shifter Reese Rollins leaves the familiar safety of Texas Ranch to follow his fated mate to Dragomir, he expects resistance. He does not expect war. Named heir to the legendary Obsidian Order by a grieving commander, Reese finds himself trapped inside a society that has spent thousands of years believing dragons should rule dragons. To them, he is an outsider. A wolf. A mistake. While political enemies work behind the scenes to force his failure, Reese faces impossible training, hostile commanders, and traditions older than human civilization itself. Every test is designed to prove he doesn’t belong. But Reese has survived worse. With the support of Premier Elect Ulia Drago, a brilliant young dragon destined to rule, Reese refuses to quit. As sabotage escalates and the Order edges toward collapse, he discovers that the greatest threat to Dragomir is not an enemy army—it is a system too rigid to adapt. Now, Reese must decide whether to become the leader they want…Or the leader they need. As ancient loyalties fracture and dangerous secrets come to light, one young wolf may change the future of dragons forever.      AmazonKU

ANGEL (MYSTIC GUARDIANS BOOK SEVEN) by Rinda Elliott

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

As an angel, Emory Sterling has lived a long, mostly carefree life. He enjoys his job as a bodyguard, and despite his friends settling down, he wants no soulmate of his own. He has never been able to share his full self with anyone anyway. But when he’s hired to protect an uptight CEO, the soulmate bond is stronger than anything he’s ever felt. Julien’s stern need for order drives Emory crazy, but Emory wants him more than anything. Julien Davenport’s life is exactly the way he wants it. Security is everything to him, and the last thing he needs is a bodyguard shaking up his world. Or this surprising, new attraction. But a shadowy creature is coming after him, and company files are telling him it’s not a coincidence. As the unexpected bond between them deepens, Julien doesn’t just want more of Emory—he needs the angel’s help to survive.     AmazonKU

TALES OF A MONSTROUS HEART (THE TALES TRILOGY) by Jennifer Delaney

Be careful of the dark and those that call it friend. Katherine Woodrow is fey, and all she wants is to graduate from the Institute of Magic. But when the prejudiced mortal council threaten her position at the institute, she is left with only one option: accept a Mage Partnership with the elusive Lord Blackthorn. Emrys Blackthorn is a riddle Kat is fearful of solving. The mysterious, cursed war hero with his stormy eyes and unpredictable ways leaves Kat with more questions than answers. What she does know is that she is irresistibly drawn to him . . . no matter how forbidden it might be. In this intoxicating gothic fantasy where passion collides with peril, and sorcery awakens monsters, a string of murders and fey disappearances herald the return of dark magic. Kat and Emrys are thrown into a world of ancient books that hide hideous monsters, dark fiends who play with nightmares, and mortal men who wish nothing more than to see them both burn. But what haunts them both are secrets even ghosts dare not whisper, while insidious shadows lick their teeth and sharpen their claws, waiting for the moment that all tales will come to light—even the monstrous ones.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

FROM THE DEPTHS (OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS BOOK TWO) by Emily Renk Hawthorne

In the wake of a failed coup, peace comes at a cost. A new regime enforces order by erasing the memories of every Shifter. But Nivi remembers everything. Immune to the memory-wiping tincture that silenced her kind, Nivi carries the weight of the past alone. Her powers set her apart, but so does the truth she can’t forget. Once again, Nivi finds herself isolated from her family and friends, and something begins to fracture, within herself and within the forest of her hometown Yuras. Strange happenings are accumulating. A road of abandoned homes in Yuras. A missing crabbing crew in Alaska. A student abduction at the local Shifter school. With danger creeping closer and reality unraveling for both Shifters and Statics, will the fight for what’s been lost be worth unearthing truths they fear?      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

HOW TO WOO THE UNDEAD (ROSEMONT MANOR BOOK THREE) by Lizzie Strong

Austin Rosemont has been undead for countless years. As Lord Sebastian Rosemont’s first creation, he is the blueprint. The protector, the lab assistant, and up until recently, the ray of sunshine. It’s become apparent to his loved ones that he’s grown distant but Austin doesn’t know how to shake this hollow feeling in his chest. Which is entirely why his creator decides to take matters into his own hands, quite literally. When the pair come across a freshly murdered woman in the woods, having scared off her killers, it truly would be a waste to leave such fine clay in the woods to rot! They bring home the pretty, albeit dead, Fae woman and stitch her back together. Hyacinth awakens and she’s extremely curious about shy Austin, who is afraid for her to see his face. Despite his desire to be kept in the shadows, she can’t help but feel lured in by his sweet nature, his comforting presence, and the fact he knows what it’s like to be made. There is something terribly, terribly wrong with the woods. Righteous cleric’s threatening to cleanse Rosemont Manor, a murderer on the loose in King’s Fall, and the woman in all red who haunts Hyacinth, danger lurks around every corner. But could there be love as well? Can Austin teach her what it means to follow her heart, even if it’s stopped beating?   Amazon

INESCAPABLE FATE (D’VAIRE BOOK 46) by Jessamyn Kingley

VS Note: MM PNR.

Pyxlevir Valzadari is a lucky elf. Loving family, wealth, and beauty are among his advantages. Although young, he is determined to have a successful career working for his father’s company. The other thing Pyxlevir wants is a mate. But he dares not dream about his best friend, Gramlithyn, in that role. As a hybrid, Gramlithyn Verdanyth stands out in his tribe despite his mother’s insistence that he follow every elven tradition to the letter. Gramlithyn adores his parents and does what he’s told. All his energy goes into telling anyone who’ll listen that he doesn’t want a mate. It’s a lie. Gramlithyn wants Pyxlevir, but his closet pal is too busy fantasizing about a future with anyone but an elf-zebra like him. Gramlithyn and Pyxlevir met at six years old, and it was an instant connection. For twelve years, they had an incredible friendship. Then Fate intervened and connected their souls. Pyxlevir is shocked, and Gramlithyn is crushed. So, Gramlithyn does the only thing he can think of. He runs from everything and everyone. Now they’re twenty-four and their worlds have collided again, but is it too late to salvage their matebond?      AmazonKU

TOUCHED BY HER FIRE: A SCORCHING IN SIN CITY NOVELLA by Coral Alejandra Moore

In a city built on illusions, the heat between them is the only thing that’s real. Gloriana is a solitary creature, a half-succubus used to being the dominant personality in every room. But after being forced to pull the trigger on someone important to her, she’s reached her breaking point. She needs a place to hide and someone to watch her back who won’t ask any questions. Llanzo isn’t just a charming pixie in a bowler hat; he’s a man who sees through Gloriana’s facade to the person beneath. He’s a smuggler who deals in rare goods, and to him, she’s the most precious find in Las Vegas. He promised her a tip for services rendered, but what he offers is the rare opportunity to be vulnerable. As he dismantles her defenses with unexpected tenderness, Gloriana must decide if she’s ready to trade her solitary life for a partner who will always have her back—and a passion that burns hotter than the Hells.       Amazon       Apple Books      Kobo

THE WIDOW’S FORBIDDEN HEAT: FORBIDDEMN OMEGAVERSE BOOK EIGHT by Evangeline Anderson

Kor: I came to claim my inheritance…and found my mate instead. For twenty years, Vivienne Jamison endured a loveless marriage to a cruel and heartless Alpha. I’ve seen the scars he left behind—the way she flinches instinctively, doubts her own beauty, and blames herself for things that were never her fault. The Pack sees a barren widow whose best years are behind her—I see a strong, beautiful woman who deserves to be cherished. From the moment I met her, I felt drawn to her in a way I’ve never experienced before. Every instinct inside me wants to protect her, care for her, and give her the happiness she’s been denied for far too long. Too bad Pack Law says that as a Moon Widow, she’s forbidden to me. Vivienne: My heart was in the grave…until he came. After twenty years of being called barren because I couldn’t bear my late husband an heir, I thought my life was over. Then Korwyn arrived. This new Alpha is everything my late husband wasn’t—kind, protective, and impossible to resist. However, the Blackridge Pack is governed by ancient laws and cruel traditions—they expect me to remain single and alone, honoring the memory of a man I never loved. As his Moon Widow, no other Alpha may ever mate me. But when I come into my first real Heat at 40, staying away from Kor becomes harder than either of us imagined. It doesn’t matter that he’s ten years younger than me—I want him and he wants me. The Pack says we’re forbidden. Our hearts disagree. But if we’re caught, we’ll pay the price. For breaking the Unbreakable Laws carries only one punishment—death.       Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

DRAGONSLAYER’S VALKYRIE: THE LEGEND OF SIGURD AND BRYNHILDR by Jennifer Ivy Walker

Last of the Völsung line of kings descended from Odin, Sigurd is one of the elite Sjórúlfar—the fearsome Sea Wolves of southern Norway. Endowed with the divine blood of the wolf, he seeks glory at the Sólhjarta Summer Solstice Tournament to avenge his father’s death. Brynhildr, daughter of the Raven King, is the Sun Falcon shieldmaiden and gifted seeress who has glimpsed her fate as a Valkyrie in a seiðr vision. When her father decrees she must wed the tournament’s champion, she summons Freyja for guidance—only to learn her future is bound to Sigurd. As the Norns tighten the intricate threads of fate, Brynhildr must guide Sigurd toward his destiny as a dragonslayer—by defying the web of wyrd and incurring the wrath of Odin.      AmazonKU

THE IMPOSSIBLE GARDEN OF CLARA THORNE: A COZY SAPPHIC ROMANTASY,,, by Summer N England

VS Note: From APRIL 6.

Most stories end with a happily ever after. But mine? Well, it begins with one …After a lonely childhood, Clara Thorne is living out her happy ending as the magically gifted gardener for the town of Moss. Sure, her closest companion is a surly hedgehog, and she’s forever stuck on the first line of her novel, but she has a home. That is, until The Goddess chooses Clara for an important quest—travel to the cursed town of Dwindle and grow them a garden. In less than a month. Only Clara’s hiding a terrible secret: her magic doesn’t work outside Moss. Worse, The Goddess has assigned the absurdly sexy, annoyingly cheerful Hesper Altanfall to keep her safe. Clara would rather eat thorns than accept help—especially since Hesper insists that Clara’s magic is bound to her heart, not her home. Nevertheless, the two can’t help growing closer as they traverse enchanted woods and share tavern beds. But with an ancient evil threatening from the shadows, saving Dwindle will require more than enchanted crops. Clara will need to unearth a magic she’s always believed impossible.     AmazonKU      AB

THE GAME OF HEARTS (LOVE IN NETHERFORD BOOK THREE) by Natania Barron

After his mother’s abduction, Roland de Grateloup—only son of the High Witch, confirmed bachelor and rake, and werewolf—has fled London for the quiet village of Netherford. The prospect of a whole season among country folk yawning ahead of him, he returns to his favourite hobby: matchmaking. Roland throws himself into the Game of Hearts, interfering in the lives of the people of the village and trying to distract himself from his business partner and landlord, the beautiful if awkward Basil Hode. But he and Basil are forced to venture into Faerie together, to rescue their friend Edith Rookwood from her enemies. What exactly is going on between them is a question that will have to wait; as the future of the mortal world itself hangs in the balance, the two men must keep their minds on the task in front of them.

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A CAKE OF CHERRIES AND CHARM: A SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED RETELLING by Brittany Fichter

Six cups of powdered sugar. A country girl out of her element. And a determined troll out to avenge her brother. Rosie was happy with her mother and twin sister and their country life. But after she and her sister broke a prince’s spell, her sister fell in love with the prince, who then whisked them away to his family’s castle. Rosie knows she should be grateful… but surviving catty court politics might be more than this resilient country girl can handle. So she throws herself into the one wedding task she knows how to do–baking the perfect wedding cake for her sister’s big day. Unfortunately, even this is complicated when a spiteful troll appears, determined to ruin the royal wedding. And to complicate matters further, Rosie’s future brother-in-law’s big brother, the crown prince himself, seems far too interested in her cake for comfort. Why else would the future king look her way? Can Rosie discover the recipe to a happy royal life? Or is she doomed to feel out of place forever?      AmazonKU

WHISPERS OF THE WIND (DRYAD CHRONICLES BOOK THREE) by Callie Pey

Aurinia finally has everything she longed for: freedom from her tree, the two druwids she trusts at her side, and the promise of a future shaped by her own will. But the triumph of the summer ritual is short‑lived. The Shadow God lingers in the deepest corners of her mind, taunting her to step out of line. Whispers of prophecy and fragments of the world’s past begin to surface, threatening the fragile peace she’s attempting to build for her triad. When the king of the fae arrives seeking aid against a deadly air‑borne blight consuming the Feywilds, Aurinia must confront the tangled history between their peoples — a history rooted long before she ever took form. Lilise and Ferox urge her toward peace and growth, yet resentment still coils through the grove and all its people. Matters worsen when Helio unveils an ancient scroll: a forgotten promise from Voreios to the Fae Court, one that drags Aurinia into the conversation directly. Now she must choose between the safety of her grove and the calling of her heart. As the Watchtowers prepare her for her full role as a vasilissa, Aurinia begins forging her own path — even if it means dragging Voreios back into the conflict that nearly destroyed them a century ago.     AmazonKU

THE NIGHT THE SEA KEPT ME by M Anderson

VS Note: MM Fantasy. From MAY 19.

The Mourning Tide was a myth—until it dragged Vaelis into the dark, crushing depths. He expected the end, but he found Kael instead: a creature of the Abyss, terrifying and beautiful, who defied his own kind to save a human life. Now, Vaelis is trapped in the center of an ancient, brutal underwater war, bound to the shark-mer who sacrificed everything to keep him. In a world where the ocean demands payment for every act of love, they must decide if their forbidden bond is worth tearing the sea apart. VAELIS – I didn’t believe in monsters until I felt the pressure of the ocean pulling me under. Kael saved me, but his mercy comes with a price I’m not sure I can pay. He is otherworldly, lethal, and the only reason I’m still breathing. Now, I’m caught in a war I don’t understand, fighting for survival alongside a creature who views me as a treasure he’s willing to kill for. I came here a pampered Royal Prince; I fear I’ll leave as something else entirely. KAEL – My world is bound by iron laws: the surface is ruin, and humans are poison. Yet, when I saw Vaelis sinking into my domain, my instincts betrayed me. I broke the most sacred rule of the deep to claim him, and now the ocean itself cries out for my defiance. They want him back, or they want us both destroyed. Let them come. I have survived the dark for centuries, but I will tear the foundations of the Abyss to ash before I let them take him from me.       AmazonKU

CROWN OF WINGS AND WRATH (THE WINDTORN CHRONICLES BOOK TWO) by Brenda Trim

I survived my first year at Thornwick. That was the easy part. They moved me to Stormwind Squadron—the military’s dumping ground for riders who are too dangerous, too valuable, or too damaged for regular units. My new squadmates include a griffin rider who steals memories and a pegasus rider whose healing magic sometimes kills instead of cures. We’re the ones they don’t trust. The ones they can’t afford to lose. The Forsaken are hunting anyone with royal blood. And my ability to amplify other riders’ powers? That’s a signature trait of House Vaelthorne, the royal family everyone thought died twenty years ago. Turns out, I’m not just some foster kid who got lucky. I’m the last heir to a throne that doesn’t exist anymore. And Kael knew. The whole time. Captain Kael Blackwater—the man I’m falling for despite every warning sign—was there the night my family was massacred. He’s been lying to me since we met, protecting secrets that could get us both killed. Now we’re forced to work together on missions that grow deadlier by the day. Our dragons sync in ways that terrify our superiors. And when we finally kiss, the resonance between our bonds creates a firestorm visible for miles…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      AmazonKU

FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME by Kimberly Packard

College party girl Emily Murray bounces through majors and boys until an ill-advised art major leads her to a rebellious relationship with an aspiring rock star. When her father cuts off the college fund—and her boyfriend ditches her to chase a record deal—Emily spirals, hard. One shaved head and emotional black out later, she wakes up thirty years in the future, living a life she doesn’t recognize as a successful therapist and engaged to a total stranger. With no apparent way to rewind the clock, Emily scrambles to make sense of her new reality. With a wedding date looming and a competitive therapist threatening her fragile career, Emily is forced to question: Was this really the future she was meant for?     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE WOLF AND THE ANOMALY: DARK TIME TRAVEL VIKING SHIFTER ROMANCE by Deborah LaFae

She fell through time into a frozen nightmare. He’s the monster who claimed her to keep her safe. Dr. Imani Bell is exhausted. As a brilliant archaeologist fighting for respect in modern-day Chicago, she’s spent her entire life having to be the “strong one.” But when an unearthing goes wrong in a 9th-century Norwegian burial mound, a cursed artifact shatters the fabric of time, throwing her into the brutal, blood-soaked winter of the Viking Age. Lost, freezing, and hunted by ancient, undead draugr, Imani’s modern knowledge is useless. To the superstitious locals, her dark skin marks her as a demon of the underworld. She is utterly defenseless… until a massive, blood-drenched savage steps out of the snow. Bjorn is an Ulfhednar. A feared wolf-shifter and an outcast, he is a beast meant for war and isolation. But when he witnesses the terrified woman from the future
fighting for her life, the feral wolf inside him demands only one thing: Mine….(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)       AmazonKU

THE BLOOD-WOLF’S SUN-QUEEN by Deborah LaFae

Kenna Johnson is a ruthless, highly-paid Manhattan litigator. She’s spent a decade gutting billionaires in the boardroom, only to come home exhausted, paying the bills and cleaning up the messes of her dead-weight, parasitic boyfriend, Greg. She’s entirely done with carrying the load alone. But when a bloody accident with an ancient iron heirloom violently rips Kenna and Greg from their modern apartment, they are dropped into a freezing, brutal nightmare: 9th-century Norway. No cell service. No laws. Just snow, blood, and monstrous wolves. When Greg cowardly tries to sacrifice Kenna to a pack of massive, unnatural wolves to save his own skin, she refuses to cower. She prepares to die on her feet. Instead, the terrifying alpha of the pack shifts into a towering, scarred, and lethally gorgeous warlord. Jarl Bjorn doesn’t see prey. He sees his fated mate. In the Iron Fjord, the weak are culled, and power is the only currency. But Kenna quickly realizes she hasn’t…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)    AmazonKU

MY EMERGENCY CONTACT IS A WOLF SHIFTER by Roxie Ray

Zoey Yates doesn’t ask for help. She fixes things, handles things, and keeps a carefully maintained emotional perimeter around everything that matters. She has a plan, a parrot with a helpdesk vocabulary, and absolutely zero feelings about the wolf shifter she listed as her emergency contact after knowing him for approximately six hours. Zero feelings. Completely fine. The hospital called him anyway. He drove forty minutes in thirty-two. Now he’s in her apartment, cooking eggs she didn’t ask for, and her parrot—who has never liked anyone—has accepted a head scratch. Liam sits across the room, not beside her, because she hasn’t invited anything closer. He waits. He doesn’t push. Zoey has spent her whole life being the person who shows up. She doesn’t have a protocol for someone who shows up for her. She’s building one. Against her will. Slightly faster than planned.    AmazonKU

HER VIKING WOLVES by Kelli Callahan

First they took me captive. Then they took me as their mate. The first time these feral beasts tore off my clothes to …(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      AmazonKU

HALLOWEEN MOURNING (HAUNTED EVERLY AFTER MYSTERIES BOOK 17) by ReGina Welling and Erin Lynn

Everly Dupree has dealt with ghosts before. Witches are another matter—especially dead ones. Mooselick River’s annual Halloween festival is supposed to be the town’s favorite kind of chaos: costumes, candy, hay bales, and enough committee decisions to make Everly Dupree consider hiding behind a pumpkin. Then one of the festival attractions becomes a crime scene. The dead woman is part of a coven that’s been practicing quietly in Mooselick River for years, hidden in plain sight until murder drags it into the open. By morning, rumors are multiplying, Sheriff Ernie Polk is looking hard at the most obvious suspect, and half the town has suddenly become an expert on witchcraft. Typically for Everly, the dead witch isn’t ready to leave, and she wants justice. As Ernie’s investigation tightens around the easiest explanation, Everly keeps tugging at threads that lead somewhere else entirely. The killer must be hiding in plain sight. Because in Mooselick River, the most dangerous people aren’t always the ones dressed like monsters. They’re the ones nobody thinks to fear.     AmazonKU

IRON WOLVES: KELLAN AND LAIKYN (IRON WOLVES 2 BOOK 3) by Elle Boon

A NOT SO NAÏVE SHE-WOLF…I’m Laikyn O’Neil, and I’ve loved Kellen for years. I know he has certain likes and dislikes when it comes to his women, so I decide I’m going to learn how to be submissive—only I find myself needing him to save me and looking even more like a fool. THE RELUCTANT ALPHA…When I find Laikyn in the last place I expect to find her, I ride to her rescue. But I can’t stop my dominant needs from taking over. I’m Kellen Styles, the alpha, and showing her what kind of male I truly am is inevitable. I’m sure she’s too young to be the mate of an alpha like me, but I have no plans to let her run for too long. AN UNDENIABLE BOND…I’m determined to claim my tempting mate and earn her forgiveness, and nothing and no one will stand in my way. When our world is suddenly rocked off its axis by vampires, fey, and more, our pack has to come together and accept help from strangers to defeat the beings who threaten all that we love. Can I convince Laikyn I truly love her, and can she forgive me for making her run from the only place she’d called home?   AmazonKU

PETALS AND PORTALS (ENCHANTED REALMS: CROSSROADS BOOK ONE) by Michelle Miles

Magic brought her home. Love might make her stay. Piper Wakefield hasn’t set foot in Hickory Hollow in a decade. But when her Aunt Alice dies, Piper inherits a house, a flower shop—and a destiny she never asked for. Alice wasn’t just the town florist; she was the Guardian of the Crossroads, the one who kept monsters from slipping through the veil. And now Piper is next in line. The only person willing to help her? Owen McAllister—childhood friend, longtime admirer, and the one man determined to show Piper that coming home might be exactly what she needs. But danger is rising along the magical highway, and Hickory Hollow’s quaint charm hides far darker secrets. When a gate breaks open, unleashing a threat that could destroy the town, Piper and Owen must trust each other—and the spark growing between them—before the road to hell runs right through Hickory Hollow.       Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE DRAGONS’ LOST MATE (THE DRAGONS OF NORTH OAK BOOK ONE) by Melissa Huxley

Keeping my head down was the goal. I wanted to heal and stay safe. Was that too much to ask? Maybe it was, considering that six years ago I woke up in a ditch, barely alive, with no memory of where I came from. Still, I worked hard and became a damn good healer, traveling around the country helping hordes. When my best friend called, begging me to help heal a sick child, naturally, I went. Only, now I have four alphas – dragon shifters – claiming I’m their mate that went missing. The problem is, I’ve never met them before in my life. CAN I TRUST THEM? SHOULD I TRUST THEM – DO I WANT TO?      AmazonKU

THE RAVEN AT THE ASH DOOR (OAK AND HOLLY CYCLE BOOK THREE) by K A Linde

Can love survive an unbreakable curse? Kierse McKenna’s magic is bound to a man she hates—one who has spent lifetimes fighting the man she loves. To end this binding, Graves—her winter god, her monster—will stop at nothing. He discovers that the only hope of freeing Kierse is to locate a stone relic of legend, rumored to lift any curse. The only problem? The stone has been missing for a century. And the Oak King is on their trail. Now Kierse is trapped at the heart of a centuries-long battle while the rest of the world comes unraveled. The Fae Killer is hunting. The peace with monsters is fracturing. And as the very rules of their myth start to shift, escaping the Oak King’s hold may demand more than stolen artifacts and clever heists. For Kierse and Graves, it may mean risking the only thing they have left to lose. But the battle for Kierse’s heart—and the fate of the Oak and Holly kings—doesn’t end here. The Oak & Holly Cycle will continue in Books 4 and 5. The Oak & Holly Cycle series is best enjoyed in order.      AmazonKU       AB

LACE AND POISON (VOW OF DEATH SERIES BOOK TWO) by Alexis Calder

In an empire of poison and lies, love is the one weakness an empress cannot afford. Taylan came to bring an empire down. Instead, she became the pawn that cleared her ex a path to a crown, buried the last of the people she loved, and woke to a wedding ring and a title that was never meant to be hers. Now she is married to the Emperor of Pendralia, the cold man she still means to kill, and her best friend Anya is his prisoner, the only leash strong enough to keep Taylan in line. She does have one weapon he cannot take. The Goddess of Death left her mark, and the magic in Taylan’s blood can wake the dead. But a gift she can barely control is worthless when every enemy she needs gone is still breathing, and even striking at her husband would condemn Anya to die alongside him. She knows she has to stay away from Brevan, the enforcer she betrayed, the man she still wants more than her own revenge. But as his secrets rise to the surface, staying away becomes impossible, and what she feels for him could destroy them both. And Taylan has always been willing to burn it all down to watch this empire fall.      AmazonKU

HUNTED BY THE FAE KING’S SHADOW by Shaylin Gandhi

Good princesses never do wicked things… Sariah is the perfect Aethrolian princess: pious, pure, and obedient. She prays to her goddess, keeps herself chaste, and above all, despises the heathen fae. The Claiming is supposed to be a formality—a two-hundred-year-old tradition that allows the fae king to choose a human bride. Thankfully, he never has. And once he rejects Sariah, she can fulfill her dreams of joining the priestesshood. But then the unthinkable happens. King Amriel chooses her. Desperate to escape him, Sariah accepts the king’s alternative to marriage: run the deadly Wildwood, break his curse, and earn her freedom. It should be simple—survive his maze, go home, forget the fae ever existed. Except the king’s monstrous, beautiful brother is hunting her through the forest. And the deeper Sariah ventures, the more her beliefs begin to crumble. The fae are awakening something inside her, something she was taught to suppress. As the Wildwood closes in, Sariah must choose: break the curse and return to a life of devotion…or surrender to a desire that could be her ruin.   AmazonKU

NIGHT WITCH (WEATHERSTONE COLLEGE BOOK TWO) by Jaymin Eve

Be careful what you witch for. Welcome to year two at Weatherstone College…Last year, after coming face to face with darkness and lethal monsters, Logan Kingston, my sworn enemy and sometimes ally, brought my first year to an explosive ending. There’s a bond between us that I can’t explain, but I just know he’s hiding something. Maybe I don’t fully trust any spellcaster, but there’s no denying my draw to him. I’m not going to lie, I haven’t felt myself since then, and I’m dreading returning to Weatherstone. But secrets inevitably unravel, and when the truth comes to light, I have no idea who will be left standing.

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THREE ALPHAS AND A FOOD TRUCK by Ella Hartwell

I just wanted to sell my vegan tacos in peace. I didn’t plan on parking in the middle of a supernatural gang war, or being “protected” by three undercover cops who are hungry for more than lunch. My name is Suki, and I sunk my life savings into “The Rolling Radish.” I found the perfect parking spot: a quiet alley downtown. Unfortunately, it’s quiet because it’s the DMZ between the Vampires of the East Side and the Shifters of the West Side. I didn’t know that. I just knew that three very large, very handsome construction workers started buying my tofu tacos every single day. They aren’t construction workers. They are the “K-9 Unit”—an elite squad of shifter cops working undercover to prevent a turf war. They’ve been using my truck as a surveillance post. But when the Vampire mob starts threatening me for “protection money,” the guys blow their cover. Now, I’m being whisked away to a safe house (which is just their very messy bachelor pad) while they try to take down the crime syndicates. Baylor: The Sergeant. He’s grumpy, hates vegan food, and is constantly trying to barricade my truck with his own body. He thinks I’m reckless; I think he needs a hug. Clarke: The Demolitions Guy. He’s the chaotic one who accidentally ate a ghost pepper taco and fell in love with me while chugging milk. Ford: The Sniper. The quiet, watchful one who notices everything—including the fact that I’m not scared of them, I’m attracted to them. They have to stop a gang war, keep my business afloat, and keep their paws off the witness. They’re failing miserably at that last part.   AmazonKU

QUINN: AFRICAN AMERICAN PNR ROMANCE (MOON DROP DELIVERY INC) by Melody Lynch

What happens when a down-on-his-luck delivery driver slams on the brakes to avoid hitting a beautiful woman standing in the middle of the road – He doesn’t know this is shifter territory.
He doesn’t know anything about shifters. And he has no idea he’s about to fall fast and hard. Noelle is a bear shifter with a duty to her sleuth: stay hidden, stay loyal, and never mate outside the bloodline.
Humans are off-limits. But the second her bear scents him, the rules start to blur. He’s not supposed to be here. She’s not supposed to want him. But… her bear refuses to let him go.   AmazonKU

VS: And just a gentle reminder of my newest release, a Dragon Riders novel!

CONOR (DRAGONS OF CLADDARE) by Veronica Scott

Lyra is a White Witch in the distant countryside of the land. She tends her herbs and does healing and small spells for the nearby village and dreams of a different life. When the legendary dragon riders of Claddare fly overhead she watches them, longing to soar the skies just once. She wishes for one of them to swoop down and carry her away from her humdrum existence to their Fortress but knows fairy tales aren’t meant to come true. Conor is the Commander of the Western Fortress Dragon Riders. When he’s severely injured in an assassination attempt far from home, his dragon brings him to the cottage of the nearest healer. Lyra cares for him while his dragon goes to fetch help. When Conor’s men come to rescue him, he takes Lyra with him. The attraction between them is undeniable. Once at the Fortress Lyra isn’t sure why Conor insisted she had to be there. Life in the dragon riders’ home isn’t exactly the fairy tale she imagined and there are plots and problems on every side. She’s falling in love with her patient but he gives her conflicting signals about his feelings for her. Conor’s never before contemplated asking a woman to be his one and only, to take the title of Commander’s Lady and bond with him and his dragon. His hesitation to declare his love leaves an opening for agents of the Shadow to sweep in and threaten Lyra. Will Conor place everything on the line to save the woman he’s come to realize he can’t live without? Find out in Conor (Dragons of Claddare). This 47K word novel takes place in my established fantasy world of Claddare and is a standalone with an HEA.     Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo      NOOK      GooglePlay

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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.

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TREASURED BY THE DRAGON WARLORD (FATED MATES OF THE SARKANII WARLORDS BOOK FIVE) by Hattie Jacks

This huge scaly alien dragon warlord thinks I belong to him…he is wrong. My life in the last few years hasn’t been easy, but being abducted by aliens, kept in a pit and made to fight until I nearly died, only to be revived and made to do it all over again was a hell I thought I would never escape from. Until Dalox. The huge, silver fox of a Sarkarnii warlord, a scaled creature with wings and tail, all growls and snarls. He rescues me, but in return, he says I belong to him. I want to go home to Earth, I want to be anywhere but this galaxy, and just when I expect him to refuse me, instead he offers me everything I want. He wants me to be healed. He wants to see me whole. Little does he know, I can never be whole. Not after everything which has happened to me. My strength is my shield and I will not lower it for anyone…even him. But, as he flies me through the stars, showing me what could be, is it possible I could be wrong? Is it possible I could fall for a Sarkarnii warlord?      AmazonKU

UNDER THE RADAR (OUTCASTS OF OLORIA BOOK FOUR) by Bea Tama

Keep calm, Nicole. You’ve only been abducted by an alien. Nothing to freak out about. Trapped aboard a ship hurtling through deep space at god-knows-what speed, Nicole does what any sensible horse therapist would—plans her escape. She has no map, no plan that actually works, and zero patience for the arrogant alien who took her. But she’s not giving up until she’s back on Earth, with her friends and her horses. Any opportunity. Any opening. She’ll take it. Arture’s got himself a handful of trouble when he abducts Nicole, but he’s determined to get her to his home planet in one piece for his mission. What his mission is he can’t remember, nor can he recall a lot about his past… but that doesn’t matter, he has orders he can’t disobey. When their ship is attacked, survival forces Arture and Nicole to work together… and the line between enemy and ally starts to blur. The more they pretend to trust one another, the more real it becomes. But the closer they get, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because when Arture finally remembers who he is—and his deadly mission—Nicole’s heart will be the price of his obedience. One impossible truth remains: He was never meant to love her, but now he can’t let her go.    AmazonKU

VACATION WITH THE PHOENIX by Harper Rosling

She came to a volatile fire planet to feel alive and found the one alien who could burn away her defenses. Tove – I came to the luxury resort of Cynder Bay looking for a jumpstart for a heart that went numb years ago. They promised me the thrill of a lifetime behind thick, soundproof glass, safely separated from Ignis IV’s magma oceans. But the real danger isn’t the tectonic instability of the planet; it’s the towering, obsidian-skinned Warden patrolling the perimeter. Kaen is a walking inferno with magma glowing beneath his cracked skin, radiating a brutal heat that calls to the absolute zero inside my chest. When the resort’s artificial safety shatters and we’re stranded in the freezing wilderness, I finally get what I wanted: I feel *something*. He looks at me like I’m the only thing that can soothe his pain, but if I let him get close enough to keep me alive, his fire might consume me completely. Kaen – My Rebirth Cycle is accelerating, a biological supernova that demands I isolate myself in the Dead Zone before I incinerate everything I’m sworn to protect. I have no business going near the fragile human tourists, especially her. Tove Sorenson is …(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     AmazonKU

VACATION WITH THE ALIEN DEVIL by Kate Sinner

Nothing says “romantic getaway” quite like fake-engaging an alien rockstar to escape his stalker. When Fercer catches me hiding in his closet (don’t ask), we strike a deal: I pretend to be his fiancée, he gives me passage to the Alien Hotel. Simple. Temporary. No complications. And absolutely no catching feelings for the red-skinned rockstar with the criminally perfect everything. Except nothing about this “vacation” goes according to plan. Between dodging his obsessed manager and navigating our forced proximity, I’m discovering the male behind the persona. Turns out, the Devil is dangerously tempting. The problem? I’m terrible at pretending. Especially when every touch starts feeling less like performance and more like promise. I’m starting to think the real danger isn’t getting caught; it’s falling for a devil who might actually be my salvation.     AmazonKU

PRIDELANDS by Jade Buchanan

VS Note: LGBTQ+ SFR. Re-release.

Stranded… on Earth. Thrust together by fate, can these offworlders find a way to connect? The Pridelands 1: Darren’s Surprise Darren is looking for his brother, but he ends up finding something a little more alien. Durai has come to claim his mate. He won’t let anything get in his way. Not even Darren. The Pridelands 2: Zula’s Stand – Jai realizes he’s found two people that complete him. Only, one wants nothing to do with him, and the other claims he’s only interested in women. The Pridelands 3: Sheer’s Choice – Jai’s sister, Rabi’a, isn’t going to sit down and let any man determine her future. She has claws of her own, and Tigris Sheer Ma’at and Leo Rais Steinsson are about to feel them. The Pridelands 4: Griffin’s Joy – Griffin and Mazin have finally found a woman who completes them both. All they have to do is seduce her. Easy, right? Not if Joy has her way. The Pridelands 5: Khalid’s Challenge – Khalid Steinsson and Pran Devan were once deeply in love. It will take something monumental to bring them back together. The Pridelands 6: Achan’s Peace – Achan’s nightmares won’t let him move forward. Hunter Miles needs to be able to express his love for Achan. Tafa Morn never expected to find two wounded souls that needed his particular brand of care. Now that he has, he doesn’t plan to let them go.       Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

ROMANCED BY THE ALIEN DADS (SINGLE ALIEN DADS IN SPACE) by Carlotta Page

Trapped on a desert planet Halley refuses to call home, she stows away among the first group of travelers she meets. It’s led by two cowboys, able to meld their bodies together to create one giant alien. Halley would’ve been terrified, except that they’re protecting a child. So maybe that means they’ll protect her too. Eot and Keelo gave up everything when they stole a youngling, determined to provide a better life for her than the one she was suffering. Now, all three are outlaws, planet hopping along the far edge of civilized space. It’s a rough life, but they’ve finally managed to build some stability, even if it means their only job is bounty work—like hunting the monster that’s tormenting a local farmer and his herd. Crossing the desert is no small feat, especially when caring for a youngling. But even more troubling is their new human…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     AmazonKU

HESHER (TALONIAN WARRIORS) by Celeste Raye

Would you risk your world for the one woman who could destroy it? Commander Hesher sacrificed everything for duty—love included. Protecting Talonia always comes first. But when a human ship crashes onto his world, the last thing he expects is her. Lydia is fierce, defiant, and willing to die for her crew. She challenges him at every turn, refuses to submit, and awakens a dangerous need he buried long ago. The closer he gets, the more he realizes she’s not just a distraction—she’s a threat to everything he’s sworn to protect. If he lets her go, he risks his world. If he keeps her… he risks his heart.       AmazonKU

THE SOLE SURVIVOR (THE WASTELANDER BOOK THREE) by E S Luck

A love stronger than tyranny. A truth darker than the apocalypse. 
Ripped away from her husband on their honeymoon, Claire finds herself lost, alone, and inside another compound. Face to face with the Delta’s shadowy leadership, she learns that they intend to use her for their war propaganda, in a desperate bid to bolster confidence in a regime infiltrated by the Order of Odessa. On the other side of the walls, John struggles with his grief as he tries to find a way into a fortress built to keep people out. Determined to rescue Claire at any cost, he and Kimmy enter into an uneasy bargain with a ragtag crew of resistance fighters intent on toppling the Delta’s leadership. They promise John entry into the impenetrable compound…for a deadly price. Trapped and threatened at every turn, John and Claire grapple with the dark secrets and espionage that lurk around every corner, revealing haunting answers to the questions that have plagued them from the beginning. Battling forces greater than themselves, they fight to preserve the one thing that still matters in a world forever altered by apocalypse: the fierce, unyielding love between them.   AmazonKU

CLAIMED BY AN ALIEN PIZZA GUY (SPACE DADDY SERIES BOOK ONE) by Alison Voss

Burnt out from a soul-crushing job and stuck dealing with the client from hell, Rosie is barely holding her life together. So when a company event leaves her desperate for a date, one impulsive decision seems harmless enough. What starts as a simple arrangement soon becomes far more complicated than either of them expected. And before she knows it, Rosie is in way deeper than a stuffed-crust pizza.      AmazonKU

BREAKING THE RULES (DRAGONLINGS OF VALDIER) by S E Smith

She will break the rules to find answers…Phoenix Reykill can’t stop thinking about the world she wasn’t meant to see—the hidden realm that brushed against her awareness before vanishing like a dream. The more she tries to ignore it, the stronger the pull becomes, until she makes a dangerous choice: break the rules and follow the call… wherever it leads. Adam Jefe is tired of living in the long shadow of his legendary parents. What he wants—what he’s never been brave enough to admit—is a destiny of his own. So when a girl made of fire and mystery appears during a routine school trip, he isn’t scared. He’s captivated. One moment binds them. One choice changes everything. And one impossible meeting reveals a truth neither expected: fate has plans for them. But when worlds collide and time unravels around them, Phoenix and Adam must face the hardest question of all: Are they meant to be only a brief, bright spark in each other’s lives? Or is their story just beginning?      Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

CRAVE: AN ALIEN INVASION ROMANCE (WHEN THE WORLD BREAKS BOOK ONE) by Ayla Keiser

VS Note: From MAY 18.

Las Vegas fell in a single night. First the power grid failed… then the phone service died. Then the ships arrived: enormous black structures hovering silently above the Strip while armored alien soldiers spread through the city. Emily Harker survives by staying inside and watching. A former surveillance analyst, she knows how to read patterns. Using the last surviving casino camera feeds, she watches the occupation spread. And then she notices something impossible. One of the invaders keeps returning to her neighborhood. He’s different from the others. Bigger, more lethal, moving with a slow, controlled menace that makes the rest of the soldiers feel mechanical by comparison. The others clear streets and manage civilians. He’s clearly in charge. And he watches. Her street. Her house. Her. Emily tells herself it’s a coincidence. Because five years ago, two soldiers arrived at her door in dress uniforms with a folded flag and condolences she can’t bear to remember. Her husband never came home from Afghanistan. There was no body. No goodbye. Nothing. But the closer the alien commander gets, the more inexplicable the feeling becomes. Recognition.     AmazonKU

SNOWED IN WITH THE ALIEN SOLDIER: NOVA BRIDES HOLIDAY ROMANCE by Thea Dane

HOLLI – Getting snowed in with the giant alien soldier I’d been secretly crushing on for years was never part of my Solwinter plans. Especially not when Elaro Solfrost started looking at me like I was the only warm thing left in the Glimmereach province. But that’s before I learned he’s having a biological crisis that only I can fix. ELARO – I came back home broken and believing my life was already over. I didn’t expect the quiet human woman caring for my grandmother’s tree grove to become the reason I wanted a future again. Then a storm trapped Holli in my house, my instincts lost their mind, and suddenly protecting her became the only thing that mattered. Snowed in With the Alien Soldier is a steamy alien romance set in the Nova Brides series. Journey to the northern provinces of planet Xaxos where the traditions of Solwinter warm the coldest corners (and hearts) of the universe!       AmazonKU

ESCAPING PROJECT S.T.Y.X. (PROJECT S.T.Y.X. BOOK ONE) by Alex Joy

Ivy’s plan for surviving the apocalypse was simple: get north to the bunker her parents built and try not to get eaten on the way. Then she tried to steal fuel from the wrong man. In hindsight, throwing gravel in Fox’s face probably wasn’t her smartest decision, but panic makes people creative. Or stupid. Now she’s trapped in a camper with a grumpy ex-soldier who barely speaks, sleeps with a rifle within arm’s reach, and seems to regret offering her a ride more with every mile north. Ivy can survive the dead. Fox is another story.      AmazonKU

COPS IN SPACE (COLETTI WARLORD SERIES) by Gail Koger

VS Note: Not listed as a romance.

Once upon a time, I was a “normal” teenager. Now I’m a galactic cop with a deadly predator as my boss. I get to deal with flesh eating monsters, alien babies, hunky warlords, space battles and not so bright bad guys. Plus, the fate of the universe rests in our hands. What could possibly go wrong?     Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

PENAL PLANET BRIDE (ALIEN INMATES BOOK ONE) by Lizzy Bequin

This planet is a prison. A dumping ground for the worst criminals in the galaxy. Aliens who take what they want and kill to keep it. Most of them haven’t seen a female in years. None of them have ever seen a human at all. I am both, and that makes me valuable. A prize on a planet built for monsters. Something to be hunted. Something to be claimed. I try to hide, but they find me. Three of them. The cunning thief. The horned giant. The ruthless warrior with conquest in his eyes. They belong different factions. They are not supposed to share. But in my case, they just might make an exception. They might decide I’m theirs.       AmazonKU

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VS Note: Have you booked your Star Cruise yet? 15 voyages to choose from! Available wide. Here’s the Amazon series page.

************************** 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!*********************

WITCH’S GRADUATION (BLACKTHORN ACADEMY BOOK FIVE) by Gina Kincade

On Halloween night, Siobhan and Aiden don’t just wear their costumes… they become them. Their final year at Blackthorn Academy was supposed to be their reward. Time with friends. Time to breathe before the real world begins. Instead, a prophecy warns them a dark curse is coming. They prepare. They fight. They refuse to lose. But when Halloween arrives, the curse strikes. Forced into the forms of their costumes, Siobhan and Aiden are trapped in a transformation they may not survive. If they can’t break it in time, they’ll lose each other. And Aiden will burn the world to ash before he lets anyone take what’s his.     AmazonKU

VS Note: A reminder of my new dragon riders romantasy, released last week!

CONOR (DRAGONS OF CLADDARE) by Veronica Scott

Lyra is a White Witch in the distant countryside of the land. She tends her herbs and does healing and small spells for the nearby village and dreams of a different life. When the legendary dragon riders of Claddare fly overhead she watches them, longing to soar the skies just once. She wishes for one of them to swoop down and carry her away from her humdrum existence to their Fortress but knows fairy tales aren’t meant to come true.

Conor is the Commander of the Western Fortress Dragon Riders. When he’s severely injured in an assassination attempt far from home, his dragon brings him to the cottage of the nearest healer. Lyra cares for him while his dragon goes to fetch help. When Conor’s men come to rescue him, he takes Lyra with him. The attraction between them is undeniable.

Once at the Fortress Lyra isn’t sure why Conor insisted she had to be there. Life in the dragon riders’ home isn’t exactly the fairy tale she imagined and there are plots and problems on every side. She’s falling in love with her patient but he gives her conflicting signals about his feelings for her. Conor’s never before contemplated asking a woman to be his one and only, to take the title of Commander’s Lady and bond with him and his dragon. His hesitation to declare his love leaves an opening for agents of the Shadow to sweep in and threaten Lyra. Will Conor place everything on the line to save the woman he’s come to realize he can’t live without?

Find out in Conor (Dragons of Claddare). This 47K word novel takes place in my established fantasy world of Claddare and is a standalone with an HEA.

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VACATION WITH THE WOLF SHIFTER by Mary Ashe

Sophie – A big birthday plus a breakup that was a long time coming equals a dire need for a getaway in Sophie Norwood’s opinion. On a whim, she books a remote cottage in Scotland. It’ll be great. No ex to hassle her, no small-town biddies picking apart her love life, just gorgeous mountains, crumbling castles, and a highland cow or two. Except someone is stalking her and the town she chose for her escape is filled with wolf shifters, including a particularly grumpy one who looks darned good in a kilt. Torin – As the laird and alpha of his clan, wolf shifter Torin Matheson has his hands full keeping his people safe and prepping for the upcoming Wolfcraig Highland Games. So when trouble walks into town in the form of a beautiful woman, his hackles raise. She’s a distraction he doesn’t need in his life. But she’s smart, tempting, and in danger. And, as much as he tries, he never could resist a damsel in distress.       AmazonKU

BRIGHT DEAD THINGS (BITYTER LEGACIES BOOK ONE) by Hailey Turner

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

If the forest stares back at you, you’re already prey. Bran Gallagher grew up with three rules passed down through his coven: beware forest paths that lead to dangerous mounds, always keep iron close, and never speak of magic. Cillian Dunne grew up with his mother’s love, his father’s absence, and secret warnings to never trust a witch. In Pelham’s forest, where bright lights haunt the trees and hunt the lost, there are traditions kept for survival and others out of habit, none of which should be broken. Bran and Cillian unknowingly broke tradition and ruined each other in the aftermath of a kiss years ago. Reunited in the wake of a family tragedy, they cross paths with something old, something terrifying—something that wants them dead. When Bran’s younger sister is stolen away by a nightmare into the Otherworld, they can only follow and try to keep each other alive in a strange and haunting land. Trapped in a dangerous Fae Court, Bran learns being a witch comes with a death sentence. To save him, Cillian must fight against those who seek power from a past he has no memory of, and the only person he can trust is the witch who broke his heart. But it might be too late. For the Fae have never been kind, and they have always hungered, and this time, what they hunger for is revenge.      AmazonKU      AB

BOND OF A VAMPIRE (DURAND SUPERNATURAL ACADEMY BOOK THREE) by Erin Bedford

Being kicked out of Durand Supernatural Academy was supposed to keep Jackie safe. It didn’t. Now she’s stuck at home, sidelined from the mission that was supposed to prove her worth—while everything around her spirals out of control. The rebels aren’t done with her. The witches want to study her. And whatever the power is growing inside of her? It’s getting stronger… whether she can control it or not. And she’s not the only one feeling the fallout. Tate refuses to leave her side. Julian is furious—terrified of losing her again. And Kyren? Kyren is done pretending he doesn’t want her. As enemies close in and secrets start unraveling, Jackie is forced to face the truth.. She was never meant to stay out of the fight. And when the people she loves are pushed to the edge, she’ll have to make a choice that will bind them together… or destroy them completely. Because this time? Love isn’t just a weakness. It’s a weapon. And Jackie is about to learn exactly what it costs to use it.    AmazonKU

INKPOT GODS (ALCHEMICAL JOURNEYS BOOK FOUR) by Seanan McGuire

The gods live and die at our whim. More than a century has passed since Asphodel Baker refined the process allowing her to imbue alchemically created life with power in a way no one else had ever been able to achieve. More than a century since she built the Impossible City on the ruins of Olympus, forging it from nothing more than imagination and spite, and penned it in plain view, enabling it to be read and cherished and believed by children the world over. And now, so long after her exit from the world, the descendants of her dark alchemy—who exist in a reality that inches ever closer to the hellscape of her imagination—step into a place of birth, of discovery, of horror, to make amends for the sins of the past. Can the gods of today defeat the evils of their maker, or will the legacy of the most powerful alchemist the world has ever known prove to be their undoing?        Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

FRAGMENTS OF FATE (THE HUNTED OMEGAS) by April L Moon

Shay – All my life, I’ve had questions. Where did I come from? Why was I left alone in the human world with no memories? But there was no one to ask, and I just had to live with the unknown. Being abandoned as a child sucked in more ways than one. But now, Dirge and I are taking a trip to the fae realm. I have no idea who my parents were, but I’ve never been this close to finding out where I came from. But when the fae queen herself assigns me three deadly trials to achieve my mission? I’ll have to survive to find my roots.      AmazonKU

THE COFFEE HOUSE WITCH AND THE FIRST DATE (THE COBBLESTONE COVEN BOOK FIVE) by Ariana Jade and Arizona Tape

VS Note: Sapphic.

For the first time in a while, things are looking up for witch Cassie. She’s got an almost-girlfriend and an almost-familiar, and there’s a new deity that’s trying to get her attention too. Everything might actually be going too well because now Cassie has to figure out how to balance her love life, family, and magic while also tending to the whims of a cat. The Coffee House Witch & The First Date is book 5 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.    Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

BITTEN BY LOVE: HARMONY GLEN by Andie Fenichel

When the oldest living vampire finally finds a place to call home, could he also find his fated mate in a devoted single mother—or is that nothing more than a fairytale? Ion – The failure to save a vicious vampire still haunts me. Even if he didn’t deserve redemption, I mourn every one of my kind who chooses a mortal end. Returning to Harmony Glen was always the plan. I just didn’t expect to be reunited with my granddaughters so quickly. Seeing them safe, happy, and in love should be enough for a vampire who has lived for millennia. I came here seeking peace, not purpose. But when a desperate mother asks for my help, I cannot refuse. The police dispatcher with fiery hair and a wounded heart awakens something I thought long buried. The pull between us is undeniable—and dangerous. Lori – Having both my daughters home safe should be enough, but Livi is still trapped in the shadows of her abduction, and I am helpless. I should be terrified of the ancient vampire everyone whispers about. But I’ve heard his kind can erase painful memories, and if anyone can help my child heal, it’s Ion. He may look forty, but he’s lived countless lifetimes. Why would someone like him want a human woman with twin daughters and more baggage than she can carry? Falling for him feels impossible. But resisting him? Even harder.      AmazonKU

ORC’S DESIRE (THE VEIL LANDS BOOK EIGHT) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Welcome to the Veil lands, where monsters are the only ones who can save you. Arwen: I spent ten years playing the perfect, broken puppet. Then, I tore myself free and ran. Now, I am bleeding out in a forest that poisons your mind. A massive Orc executioner blocks the path, surrounded by the bodies of the men hunting me. He watches me as if deciding if I’m useful, or just an obstacle to remove. There is no running. I traded my secrets for a front-row seat to a massacre. And that Orc…he’s my blade. Zrynok: Two and a half centuries of killing for pay. She was supposed to be a transactional asset. A tool to burn a monastery. But she looks at me like I’m a savior, not a monster. Now an unholy infection is singing in my veins. It’s weaponizing my deepest cravings and turning my need for her into a physical tsunami. I was paid to leave fire and silence behind. And for her I’ll burn the world to ash.      AmazonKU

BEARLY HEXED (HAVEN SHORES BOOK THREE) by Milly Taiden

Flour in her hair. Fire in his eyes. Sparks everywhere. Dahlia Moon is everyone’s rock, and she’s exhausted. She runs her family’s bakery, stress-bakes anxiety croissants at 4 a.m., and hasn’t thought about her Paris dreams in years. But when a territorial dispute threatens her grandmother’s legacy, this soft-hearted witch finds her edge. She doesn’t need complications—especially not the grumpy, stupidly handsome bear shifter who keeps showing up for honey scones and watching her with eyes that make her forget how to frost a cupcake. Callum Ursa doesn’t do feelings. He’s in Haven Shores to fix his family’s mess—six months, tops, then gone. Then he walks into a bakery and the soft, flour-dusted witch behind the counter makes his bear go still—then desperate. She smells like temptation, argues with him like it’s foreplay, and keeps tucking her hair behind her ear in a way that makes him want to trace the path with his mouth. When a ruthless rival targets the bakery, Dahlia needs help—even if it comes with emotional baggage and a bear who won’t stop hovering. But between honey harvests and late-night baking sessions, the tension rises faster than her bread—and keeping their hands to themselves becomes a battle neither wants to win.       AmazonKU

DUSTY ROPES AND RUSTY SPURS: ALPHA PNR GAY ROMANCE (BUCKET LIST BUDDIES BOOK FOUR) by JP Sayle and Lisa Oliver

Rick isn’t looking for an omega or beta—will a Bucket List Buddies event find him his perfect match? Rick, an alpha bear, once upon a time, worked the rodeo circuit, now he’s content working in the florist business with his best friend. Or so he thought after he takes a chance and some unsolicited advice, and buys a ticket to a “Cowboy for a Day” event. Ian, an alpha honey badger, seeing his best friends find their mates, yearns for what they have. Just he has a secret—he wants an alpha, not some sweet omega. Given a ticket to the next Bucket List Buddies event, Ian grumbles and complains. Except cowboys in tight jeans and Stetsons, what more could an alpha ask for? Finding they are mates is the straightforward part for Rick and Ian. Discovering common ground between them is something else when Rick rekindles old friendships, and his dangerous past come with old scores to settle. Will Ian and Rick get their HEA, or will a bull called “Devil” take it from them?      Amazon

CROWNED BY THE DARK VAMPIRE by Michele Mills

Everyone warned me about the Dark Vampire Prince. “Don’t look him in the eye.” “Don’t speak unless spoken to.” “The last three nannies quit in tears.” Eeeek. Well, I need this job. His four-year-old daughter needs stability. And honestly? How scary can one vampire really be? Very. Viktor is six-foot-two of cold, brooding, sexy, black-leather-wrapped danger. Big muscles. Sharp fangs. And he’s a widower who doesn’t smile and barely speaks. His staff scurries out of his path like he might drain them dry in the hallway. Then I catch him tucking his little girl into bed. He’s reading to her. Reading. His massive hand gentle on her hair, his deep voice soft. When the story ends, he promises to chase away the monsters. And something in my chest cracks wide open. Now I can’t stop noticing the way his eyes follow me through the castle. The way his jaw clenches when I laugh. The way his fangs seem longer and sharper every time I accidentally brush against him in the doorway. “You need to leave,” he growls one night, cornering me in the darkened nursery. “I’m your daughter’s nanny,” I whisper back. His black eyes flash with heat. “That’s the problem.”      AmazonKU

HELL AND THE HEART: A NO OTHER GODS STORY by Piper CJ

When a god loves a human…The human became my human. Then, she became, simply, Love. On one of my first trips from Hell to the surface, I stood on the shore of salt-crusted sea and watched a human die. At least, I would have, before she peered through the veil, looked me in the eye, and made a simple request. “Don’t leave me.” Curiosity turned into obsession, passion, and sorrow. The chase for her soul consumes me, whether she sees me and burns for me as I for her, or if it’s a life where I remain a phantom, rejected entirely. The world should have been ours to discover…before the prophecy. The war sees you as a tool, Love. Friends and enemies grow on every side, gods shuffling you like a pawn, testing whether or not they’re truly immortal as I fight for you. 3,000 years, scores of gods, over a dozen pantheons, and the very apocalypse itself couldn’t keep me away. I will always find you, for I am yours, and you are mine.

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COLDIRON (BLOOD AND BOND BOOK ONE) by Meg Xuemei X

The world ended eighty-one years ago. A quantum bomb shattered civilization and split North America into four warring kingdoms ruled by magic, teeth, and fire. I grew up in the wreckage—a slave in a Coldiron mine, disguised as a boy, protecting my little sister, the only thing keeping me human. Then I escaped. Half-dead. Starving. Hunted. I didn’t claw my way to freedom to fall at the feet of four immortal princes. But here I am. Heart pounding. Skin on fire. Secrets unraveling. A Fae heir whose touch commands the chaos inside me to still. A vampire prince who’d burn down his own kingdom to keep me, even as his fangs ache for my blood. A shifter prince who fought his way across the fortress just to be the first face I saw when I woke. And a dragon prince who looks at me like he wants to destroy me because he believes I carry the bloodline of the White Witch, the queen who dropped the Q-bomb, caused billions of deaths, and orphaned every one of them. I should focus on rescuing my sister. On surviving a war between queens and monsters. On hiding the biggest, darkest lie of my life. Instead, I’m burning for all four of them. And when the dragon’s fire in the trial of Sorting strips me bare and exposes me as a woman in front of the entire army, it isn’t their shock that undoes me. It’s the way every single one of them steps forward.     AmazonKU

MACK’S HORRIBLY HELLACIOUS GHOST TOWN (MACK’S MARVELOUS MANIFESTATIONS BOOK FOUR) by AJ Sherwood

VS note: MM PNR.

Apprentices, and two ghost towns, and almost-demons oh…no. Mack doesn’t mind the apprentice part of this job; in fact, finding Gwyn is delightful, though he hates she grew up in such a haunted town with parents who don’t believe she’s a Medium. Mack really hates the old mining ghost town is locked down with weird energy and none of the ghosts can see them, which makes passing them difficult. Mack especially hates that in Black Rock there’s an almost-demon ghost inciting other ghosts to cause a mob, how is that allowed to be a thing?! Who you gonna call for help when you’re the experts? Mack wants to know for a friend. (Him. He’s the friend.) Tags: Mack has found hell on earth, this was not on his bucket list, Accidental apprentice acquisition, Lachlan is back!, ghost gangs, chaos magician, Seiji is a new bonk bro, wedding, almost demons lurking, too much water and limestone for a medium’s peace of mind, uncharted haunted mines make Lachlan’s day, Eli is her usual scary self, Mack goes Wild West, Brandon can see ghosts here, that’s not a good thing, Brandon gets to have an apprentice too and can’t be happier, ghost pranks, Mack has picked too many battles, he’s putting some back, Ghost-hunting squad–assemble! Tropes: MM Romance, Multicultural Romance, Ghost Town, Ghost Medium, Age Gap, Apprentices, Wedding, HEA      AmazonKU

TARTS AND TIARAS (FALHAVEN CASTLE) by Laura Greenwood

With her birthday approaching, Evie has to deal with the inevitable: her parents are going to expect her to dance. While she’d much rather be in the kitchens with Nate. Tarts & Tiaras is book three in the Falhaven Castle series, a cozy fantasy with a baking dragon, a princess who wants to be in the kitchen over the throne room, and the baker who wants to be there with her. There is a slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance, with a pinch of steam in later books, and an ace heroine.

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ESCAPE WITH MIDLIFE DRAGON (ESCAPING MIDLIFE HOTEL) by Lisa Daniels

Dylan’s my reluctant guardian. Neither of us asked for this. I didn’t want these powers, and he didn’t want to babysit a grown woman so she didn’t get herself killed. But together, we might hold the key for freedom, to finally escape this place. I didn’t think he liked me at first. We argued, we insulted…But at some point, things began to change between us. I didn’t want to like him. I’m sure he didn’t want to like me, either. Time and proximity can change a lot…And if my heart beats faster around him, then maybe I don’t dislike him as much as I thought.      AmazonKU

WICKED PUCKING ORC (ORC HOCKEY LEAGUE) by Veronika Kane

A prim figure skating heiress. A savage orc hockey enforcer. One month to a charity performance that will save both careers. I’ve been secretly obsessed with Kardok the Wicked for two seasons. The penalties, the fights…that thing he does with his tongue every time he scores. Unfortunately, I’m also the daughter of the man who owns the rink where Kardok’s team plays—which means I know exactly how much trouble he is. The OHL calls him reckless. The media calls him feral. My father calls him a walking lawsuit. And now I’m supposed to teach him figure skating. I’m silk blouses, pearl earrings, and years of comportment lessons and perfect posture. Kardok is seven feet of tusks, muscles, bad decisions, and raw power on skates. He swears during rehearsals, turns every practice into a spectacle… And he keeps looking at me like he already knows exactly how I’d sound if I stopped being such a good girl. But… He’s trying. Trying to learn control. Trying not to start fights. Trying to master figure skating without checking someone into the boards. And somewhere between the lifts, the spins, and teaching hockey’s wickedest orc how to glide, I start wanting things I’ve spent my entire life pretending not to want. Like him. But the closer we get to opening night, the harder it becomes to ignore that if this goes wrong, it won’t just ruin the show—it could destroy his career, my father’s business, and my very carefully controlled life. Which would matter more if Kardok didn’t make losing control feel so good.      AmazonKU

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PHONING FAUST by Sophie Mutiara Nova

VS Note: LGBTQ Fantasy.

Queer mixed Indonesian college student Dian Faust attempts to call the suicide hotline only to dial the wrong number, her finger slipping and typing in six three times (the mark of the Devil). The mysterious voice on the other end of the line is revealed to be a charming scam caller named Memphis with a penchant for chattiness, trapped in a dingy bus stop bathroom, wanting to learn a concerning amount about the lonely Dian’s life. But this scam caller is more than just a Mr. Robot hacker wannabe-a sinister presence lurks in the pixels on Dian’s laptop screen in the shadows of her apartment. The Devil themself has come to collect Dian’s soul, and “Memphis” is actually Mephistopheles-Hell’s foremost golden-tongued agent and notorious liar. In this loose retelling of Goethe’s Faust, will Dian save her soul before time runs out-or will she fall prey to the renowned storytelling deception of the infamous Mephistopheles?    Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

FOX GOT YOUR TONGUE (CHARMED DESIRES BOOK FIVE) by Rianne Burnett

She wants an anonymous night of passion. He wants revenge. Neither of them expects old sparks to re-ignite. With the burden of accepting the throne’s responsibilities weighing heavily on her shoulders, Kaelythra finally decides to follow through with a lifelong wish. She cloaks her appearance with spell work and heads for the wizard’s annual gathering of debauchery. Once there, Kaelythra sets her eyes on a fox shifter hybrid that she knows will be her nightly fun. Everything seems perfect until she wakes in the morning and her voice is gone. When she seeks the truth, Kaelythra finds Jareth–the one man whose life she swore to take. But as they dig through the complexities of the past, neither of them can deny that the spark they had is still alive. Can they find common ground and make things work this time around, or are they doomed to be enemies forever?      AmazonKU

TAIR (IMMORTAL HIGHLANDER CLAN MACRUNE BOOK ONE) by Hazel Hunter

On a sunlit morning in a beautiful garden, a young woman faces a bizarre choice: go to medieval Scotland or die. Lucy Brooke is at the top of her game, creating exquisite landscapes for wonderful clients. But as she waits to unveil her latest creation, she receives an alarming phone call. Little does Lucy know that she is stepping onto a path from which there can be no return. In fourteenth-century Scotland, Laird Tair MacRune broods as he walks along the shores of his clan’s island. But when a lovely blonde wrapped in a silk shawl drops into his arms, his sour mood only worsens. No matter her confusion—or how he would wish otherwise—she must be treated like all outsiders. In order to protect the clan, she must go to the dungeons.      Amazon

EMBER AND THE EMERALD (NO MONSTERS LIKE HERS BOOK TWO) by Gena Showalter

She escaped the monster realm. Fate dragged her back—twenty years earlier. Waking up in the past wasn’t on Moriah Shaker’s bingo card, but after surviving a brutal world of cannibals, rabdogs and lethal poppy fields, it happens anyway. Now, she has one chance to save her mother, undoing the death that started it all. First, she must return to Hakeldama, where survival is never guaranteed and destiny always demands sacrifice. At her side is Jasher, the ruthless, axe-wielding executioner who melts only for her. Until he’s trapped in a monstrous form, becoming a weapon for her destruction. To him, she’s an enemy. To her, he’s everything. Armed with only a cryptic journal that whispers of a lost gemstone, Moriah is forced to bargain with a tricky water maiden who is equal parts redemption and ruin. Worse, she’s transforming into something she no longer recognizes: The Oracle Great and Terrible. As secrets unravel and a forbidden attraction rekindles, Moriah must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to unravel time: the past she’s desperate to save…or the man she isn’t supposed to love.

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ENDLESS BLUE BENEATH (DAUGHTERS OF ATLANTEA BOOK ONE) by  Shannon English

VS Note: FF Fantasy.

On land, Eppie will never be anything more than the outcast girl who kissed the grocer’s daughter. But beneath the water’s surface lies a future and a society she could never have imagined. Stolen from the shore, she is transformed. Eppie is stronger, swifter—and hungrier. Human flesh smells like heaven on earth, and Eppie is ravenous. She has become a monster of the deep—a mermaid. Despite the horror of her new appetites, Eppie learns to love this strange second life. The mermaid colony is mesmerizing and Eppie’s new sisters are fiercely loyal. And when Eppie meets Marie, a stunningly beautiful mermaid with a past as shadowed as her raven-black scales, she finds she no longer needs to resist the desires that were denied to her on land. But dark sails are on the horizon. The mermaid hunters are coming, armed with cannons and Biblical wrath. Eppie must decide whether to protect the new, monstrous family she’s found or leave it all behind for a chance to live above the waves once again.

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RANCE (OHIO VAMPIRES BOOK THREE) by Kathi S Barton

He didn’t want a mate. She didn’t want a vampire. Too bad fate didn’t ask. Rance Smith has lived for centuries—and he likes his life exactly the way it is: controlled, quiet, and very far away from humans. The last thing he needs is a stubborn, sharp-tongued woman crashing into his world…and turning it upside down. Kimmy Hamilton has spent her life fighting to survive. When a sudden inheritance changes everything, the last thing she expects is a dangerously arrogant man claiming she belongs to him. A vampire, no less. They clash. They argue. They refuse to back down. But when a brutal attack nearly costs Kimmy her life, Rance is forced to do the one thing he swore he never would—risk everything to save her. Now bound by blood, magic, and a connection neither of them understands, walking away is no longer an option. And something far more dangerous is coming. Rance’s past isn’t done with him—and it wants Kimmy dead. Thrown together by fate and hunted by a ruthless enemy, they’ll have to decide: keep fighting each other…or fight for each other. Because in a world of vampires, magic, and deadly secrets…love might be the most dangerous thing of all.      Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

CLAIMED BY HIS GLOW (ASGARHEIM RUNEVALD INSTITUTE BOOK TWO) by C D Gorri

Can a forgotten witch claim the light of a monster… or will she be burned by it? Amrin – Graduate school at the Asgarheim Runevald Institute was supposed to change everything. Instead? I’m still invisible. Still overlooked. Still the Witch who doesn’t quite fit. At Runevald, power isn’t optional—it’s survival. And I still don’t know where mine belongs. For the Cordoza Coven, that’s failure. For me? It’s terrifying. So when Professor Kenna assigns a Spring Equinox project—chart your magic through emotional resonance—I take the risk. Even if it means working with him. Sten – I didn’t come to Runevald to be seen. I came to disappear. A descendant of Máni, the Norse God of the Moon, I carry a power that doesn’t forgive weakness—light that consumes, magic that demands control. So I stay in the shadows. Alone. Untouched. Until she asks for my help. Amrin doesn’t fear me. She sees something in me I’ve spent my life trying to bury. The closer we get, the stronger the pull becomes. Not just attraction. Something deeper. Something dangerously close to fate. But Monsters like me don’t get happy endings. And Witches like her? They don’t survive them. So if she chooses me, neither of us will walk away unchanged.     Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

DARK CHAINS SECOND LINK (CHILDREN OF THE GODS PNR BOOK 108) by I T Lucas

She was his childhood best friend. Now she is the woman he would risk everything for, even if it means breaking the connection that keeps him alive. The three-meter concrete walls of the compound are not the biggest obstacle keeping them apart. To love Sullha, Yaaf has to become the boy she once knew, but to save her, he has to remain the weapon he has become. Meanwhile, across the world, Kian is finalizing a plan built on precise timing. The five chests must be removed from the hidden chamber before Losham’s brothers discover what lies inside them, and the success of the operation depends on eight enhanced soldiers and two Russian scientists he has no reason to trust.    AmazonKU     AB

HER SHARP EMBRACE (THE NIGHTSHADES BOOK ONE) by Kate Koenig

VS Note: FF Fantasy.

The first in a sweeping queer fantasy duology set in a shimmering, New Orleans-inspired world. In the glittering city of New Soleil, beauty masks danger at every turn. The Nightshades, a crew of magical outlaws, are no different. Their glamorous facades conceal the terror they strike into the hearts of the rich and powerful as they steal from the corrupt and fight for the forgotten. Noa Toussaint fled her cossetted life as a Saint to join the Nightshades. Infatuated with their ferocious leader, Lennon, Noa aims to capture her heart and keep it. Her talent for alchemy is valuable, but her connection to her family puts all of the Shades in danger. Now enemies are closer than Lennon knows and Noa must uncover the threat and keep them both alive. Because in a city where lies are lethal and magic is fading, secrets aren’t just costly—they’re deadly.     Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

LIGHT WIELDER: FIRE AND METAL BOOK TWO by Rachel Schneider

It’s been four years since Jovie betrayed Acker, fracturing their relationship. Her decision to take King Edmond’s magic, sparing his life at Acker’s request, has sparked a brutal war. The Kenta and Strou forces ally against the Roison and Alaha, with Maile perched dangerously on the edge of their battles. Jovie is determined to keep the innocent Maile people from a conflict she helped start—even if it means suppressing the Matching Bond and sacrificing any hope of repairing her relationship with Acker. Yet, visions of him continue to haunt her dreams. Acker is resigned to aid in his father’s war while in an arranged marriage with a wife who detests him. Though still pained by Jovie’s deception, he can’t stop his thoughts from turning to her. And Acker has found a way to slip into Jovie’s dreams despite her attempts to stifle the Matching Bond. There he watches her, torn between his loyalties and desire. When he discovers the chilling reason behind the return of his father’s magic, as well as Edmond’s dangerous new alliance, Acker must finally decide which war he wants to fight: the one for his king or the one for his heart.

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THE REIMAGINING OF THORNWOOD HOUSE (MAGIC OF ISKENDRA BOOK ONE) by Jaleigh Johnson

Evelyn Sharpe is accustomed to dealing with natural disasters as a land witch, but she longs for a life with a little less danger for her and her adopted daughter, Ruby. So when the opportunity to take over as Caretaker of Thornwood House—a sentient home that acts as the magical heart of the village of Iskendra—arises, it seems almost fated. When they arrive in sunny Iskendra, Evie and Ruby find the house is nothing like what they expected: First of all, it has walked away from the address. Thornwood House is also grumpy, guarded, and extremely hesitant to allow the two witches through its doors. Armed with gentle hearts and wild magic, Evie and Ruby begin to form tentative bonds with the house and the citizens of the small town. But there’s something deeply damaged about the building seeping into the forests surrounding Iskendra, and Evie will have to use all her power to protect the roots she’s started to grow.

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THE SOURDOUGH COMPENDIUM: DARK AND DANGEROUS FAIRY TALES by A G Slatter

Within these pages, coffin-makers work hard to keep the dead buried and their own murderous urges in check; poison girls are schooled in the art of marital assassination; books carry forth stories and forbidden secrets; a young witch wreaks a terrible revenge on an old lover; the Little Sisters of St Florian devote their lives to knowledge good and bad; a dying forest god is reinvigorated; mermaids and seamstresses make dangerous bargains; changelings bring havoc. Saints slumber, hind-girls dance across the countryside, bears show their true colours, and the fate of the upper and lower worlds rests on the whim of a volatile plague maiden…Comprised of three collections (Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings and The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales) these award-winning storms form much of the foundational mythology for Slatter’s dark fairy-tale gothic Sourdough novels. Exquisite, compelling and rich with unforgettable characters, these tales layer and intertwine in the dextrous hands of a master storyteller.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE AFTERLIFE’S MOST ANXIOUS REAPER (SUPERNATURAL SUCKERS BOOK THREE) by Silvana Falcon

VS Note: MM PNR.

One rookie reaper. One reckless daredevil. Zero chance of this going by the book. Fresh out of training, Greg has high hopes for his very first solo job as a reaper. That is, until his target—a BASE-jumping adrenaline junkie named Dustin—survives a fatal accident, dusts himself off, and walks away with an infuriating smile. Convinced it’s a cosmic clerical error, Greg takes matters into his own hands. Soon he’s tampering with gear, cutting parachute cords, and maybe (but not technically) trying to murder a man who treats Greg’s polite requests to “please die already” as some kind of joke. At first, Dustin figures the anxious guy with the clipboard is just an overeager fan with dark humor. Odd, but cute. Then he realizes no one else can see him. Then he catches him walking through a wall—right after sabotaging his parachute. Unhinged cosplayer or Death himself, Dustin doesn’t care. No one touches his parachute. If Greg wants to interfere with his life, Dustin’s more than happy to return the favor. Not only is he going to survive, he’s going to save everyone else on Greg’s list. After all, if Greg wanted an easy target, he shouldn’t have picked someone who flirts with death for a living.      AmazonKU      AB

STEELBOUND (TALES FROM THE RIVEN ISLANDS BOOK FOUR) by W A  Simpson

In the epic conclusion of the Tales from the Riven Isles series, Ursa, a once selfish princess turned bitter exile, and Lucea, a determined chronomancer, must unite to stop the Rot threatening their world. Tasked with recovering the Steel Driver’s Hammer, a powerful relic, they face internal demons and external threats. Their journey through a world teetering on the brink of destruction reveals secrets that could save or doom the Riven Isles. Steelbound is a gripping tale of redemption, resilience, and the power of unity in the face of overwhelming darkness.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THIS IMMORTAL HEART: A NOVEL OF APHRODITE by Jennifer Saint 

From the moment Aphrodite emerges fully formed from the sea, she is devastatingly beautiful and imbued with ancient power. Driven by passion yet strategic in how she moves through the halls of Olympus and the earthly realm alike, the free-willed goddess wields unparalleled influence over every living being. When fate brings her face to face with Ares, she bristles at this surly, hot-tempered warrior who’s seemingly her opposite: disliked by everyone and devoted to stirring up conflict. Yet these gods are no more immune to the dizzying highs and lows of love and loss than anyone else, and soon, they are irresistibly drawn to one another. As their love affair spans mortal lifetimes, Aphrodite begins to question the gods’ games and her role in them. But there’s only so much room for fire and passion in Zeus’s kingdom. Before long, she must test her devotion to her own divine purpose—and to a love that can only lead to ruin.

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TWENTY SOMETHING ELSE by Stephanie Mack

VS Note: Put this on my TBR.

Sutton Layne is almost-forty and fabulous, with a happy marriage, three beautiful children, and a successful interior design business. But there’s plenty of chaos behind the scenes of early midlife. Her preteen son is going off the rails, her husband is bailing on the party he was supposed to throw her, and that thriving business? If she can’t land her next big client, it might all come crashing down. Then a surprise DM from someone in her past sends her spiraling into what-ifs. What if she settled down too young? Walked away from her big break? Never had her great adventure? Despite her simmering mini-crisis, Sutton can’t wait for the birthday luncheon and pickleball tournament her friends have planned in her honor. But when an accident on the court knocks her out cold, she wakes up somewhere else . . . and is offered the chance to do it all over again. She can revisit her twenties—out of order and on her own terms. And this time around, anything goes: cities, careers, friendships. Even love. From star-studded Hollywood nights to the jungles of Nicaragua, from the heat of Coachella to the snowy summit of the Matterhorn, Sutton chases the life she fears she might have missed, with unexpected results. With a wink to the classic It’s a Wonderful Life, Twenty Something Else is a witty, wistful journey through the dreams we outgrow, the life choices that shape us, and the surprising detours that can lead us home.        Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

THE PRINCE’S SACRIFICE: MM FANTASY ROMANCE  (PRINCELY PLANS BOOK TWO) by Ellie Ash

The plan is slightly more complicated. But they can still make it work, right? Tor – Tor now needs to convince his brother the High King that the asinine plan to marry him off is actually the best plan that ever existed—as long as it’s to that most objectionable, most inappropriate prince who has proved to be the best thing that’s ever happened to Tor. He needs to convince Pel to bond with him. Instead, when the exiles’ raids take a violent turn, Tor finds himself rushing to try to prevent a war. Pel – The last thing Pel expected was to fall for Tor. Now he has to face the reality of a relationship with the High Prince of the United Realms—and the very real possibility that High King Varex isn’t going to approve, no matter what Tor says. Before they can set off to talk to Tor’s brother, though, they find themselves marching to face the banished exiles. Will they even get the chance to pursue their relationship, or will unexpected dangers tear them apart?      AmazonKU

WHITE LIGHTS by Lauren Kate

When mysterious Rafe de la Cruz rolls into Desdemona’s life to recruit her to the elite film school Acheron, Dez has no reason to trust him—and no other option. A violent attack has just put her brother in the hospital…and Dez is the only suspect. Guilt-ridden and grieving, she finds herself running from the law to chase her longtime dream of making movies, at a school she’s never heard of. Soon, she’s dropped into Acheron’s cutthroat world of seductive intrigue, power on an otherworldly scale, and deadly competition. Acheron may seem like the ticket to a future Dez has always wanted, but as she delves deeper into the secret work being done there, she finds herself trapped in an existential conflict on a cosmic scale—with more than her heart on the line.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

AN ANGEL’S TREASURE (CUPID DATING AGENCY BOOK SIX) by Celia Breslin

That moment when you realize you want your bestie…Pastry chef Maya adores her friend group, especially a certain angel whose smile could dazzle the sun and whose heart is made of one-hundred-proof awesomeness. He’s her partner in hijinks, and the best ride or die a girl could ever have. At least he was…until the wedding reception incident. Cue hormonal fireworks and a secret crush guaranteed to splinter their carefully curated friendship—if she ever dared to tell him. Which she won’t. Warrrior-class angel Raziel has a problem—a pint-sized fireball with a PhD in snark and sass. While he enjoys the heaven out of every moment with her, the slow burn in his soul has flared hotter than a supernova, so he’s burning to step beyond friendship into something more. Too bad she doesn’t seem to feel the same. Cupids stick their meddling noses into the mix, sending them off with other partners. Maya welcomes the distraction from watching her flirty friend date someone else. Raz, on the other hand, has a new-found possessive streak and celestial flame sword ready to detach a certain rival suitor’s head from his shoulders. With the cupids seeking to keep Maya and Raz apart, it may take a miracle—or thousands of party-crashing wendigos—to flip these friends into lovers.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

AS TIME GOES BY by Lynn Kurland

Some secrets are harder to keep than others . . .When Harriet Brewster gets the chance to go to England and meet her favorite author—the possibly geriatric but insanely talented TD Piaget–she has to go. Her list of Perils to Avoid in Quaint English Villages in hand, she’s prepared for anything . . . except to discover that her favorite writer is a gorgeous, thirty-something hunk with a lovely pair of gray eyes—and not at all who he claims to be. Samuel de Piaget is drowning in drama: a show in Stratford going sideways, match-making ghosts infesting his kitchen, and being bamboozled into pretending to be his twin brother at a mystery conference. He expects dodgy doings from the writers; he doesn’t expect to encounter a lovely faery named Harriet behind a ficus tree and find himself thoroughly smitten. But time and events aren’t through with Sam and Harriet—or several others in their little orbit—and romantic doings in a pair of centuries are absolutely waiting in the wings to go onstage.     Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

BUZZING FOR HIS OMEGA: MM SHIFTER MPREG ROMANCE (OMEGAS OF OLIVER CREEK BOOK 19) by Lorelai M Hart

My temperament, my parents always said, was like the bees I keep. Fussy. Brooding. A bit stinging. No way to catch an omega. But sweetness did. I began selling our honey to the locals a long time ago, but since my parents passed on, I’ve expanded the business. Honey spoons. Honey straws. Bee pollen for sale. Merch. It might be easier to find an omega if I left my land for five seconds, but I like it here. I am a homebody. The bees keep me company. Always have. There’s a new natural remedies shop open in town and when I get sick, I never have before, this bear of mine thinks it’s the place to go. It doesn’t hurt that the omega owner is sweeter than my finest honey and twice as gorgeous.   AmazonKU

BREAKING THE MOLD by Amanda M Lee

Stormy Morgan has faced diabolical demons, evil witches, and murderous ghosts. Nothing is as bad as what she’s facing now, however. Her grandfather is moving in. Stormy and her fiancé, Hunter Ryan, are only weeks away from moving into their new home. Before then, however, they have an unwanted roommate. One who doesn’t like knocking before entering a bedroom or shutting the bathroom door. If that wasn’t bad enough, a young woman with a colorful past is found dead in downtown Shadow Hills. Her story is both tragic and gossip-worthy. Nobody knows who killed her. Was it a monster or man? It seems there’s a new enemy in town, but nobody knows who it is. The enemy is dangerous. The enemy is cunning. The enemy is out to get Stormy. A war is about to break out in Shadow Hills. Stormy and her friends are on one side. The other side is much more powerful than anybody wants to admit. Things are about to get hot in Stormy’s world. Just who will get burned?      AmazonKU       AB

ANGEL OF ASHES (NEVERBOUND ACADEMY BOOK ONE) by KC Kean

Two years ago, my fated mates rejected me. Now they want a second chance. All my life, I’ve been a symbol of hope and a portrait of perfection, the daughter molded by legacy and duty. On my 21st birthday, I stood before the Fates, ready to meet my mate and become something more than the pedestal I’d been placed on. In a cruel twist, the ritual ended with four sets of eyes staring back at me and one word waiting on their lips. Reject. In one breath, they stole my future, along with any hope of ever claiming my power or my place at Neverbound Academy. Two years have passed, full of fake smiles and hidden shame, reduced to a bargaining chip for my father’s political gain. Now I stand in bridal lace, walking toward the altar, but it’s not my father’s match waiting for me. Instead, I’m greeted with the same four sets of eyes that haunt my soul. It seems they’ve changed their minds. Now I must decide what’s more important – changing my fate or protecting my heart.     AmazonKU

BETWEEN SEA AND SKY byLeena Kazak

VS Note: A POV flip.

Author’s Note: It is highly, highly recommended that readers first read BETWEEN TIDES & THUNDER in its entirety before reading BETWEEN SKY & SEA. The internet-breaking, heart-wrenching, soul-crushing experience will not be the same otherwise. He was raised to destroy her kingdom. Now she’s the only thing he refuses to conquer. Prince Zevayr of Arbinj has built his name on fear and blood. As the Dark Commander, he is a weapon first and a man second—honed for war and hollowed out by loss. The battlefield has taken everything from him, including his closest friend, leaving behind something sharp and cold, more monster than man. When he’s ordered to escort his brother’s betrothed back to Arbinj, he expects an inconvenience. He does not expect her. He doesn’t hesitate. He doesn’t regret. And he certainly doesn’t have room for love. Mayah of Tundrayn is the crown princess of the kingdom that killed his friend—and everything he was raised to despise. Yet she’s defiant where she should yield, soft where he is sharp. She was raised to see him as a monster, but she looks at him like she sees the man beneath the Dark Commander’s cloak. As they travel across rebel-torn lands, Zevayr’s icy barriers begin to melt, and he does the unthinkable—he loses his heart.
Back in Arbinj, where the glittering court is eager to see Mayah fall, Zevayr faces a new war—one that demands he choose between his duty … and her. Because the harder he falls, the deeper the knife twists in his heart—and Zevayr learns the truth doesn’t always set you free. The question is not whether Zevayr will defy his kingdom—but how much of it is he willing to burn for her?    AmazonKU

BEAR MANY HATS (WICKED WITCHES OF CAULDRON HOLLOW BOOK FIVE) by Sara Bourgeois

Blythe Fairfield was just starting to settle in. She has a tea shop on Main Street. A talking cat who critiques her blends. A boyfriend who runs a fever nobody can explain but kisses her like he means it. And a town that’s almost stopped whispering about her. Then someone shoots the sheriff. Paine is found on the side of a country road with a bullet wound and no explanation for how he got there. The town is terrified. Deputy Dewey is in over his head. And Blythe is not going to sit in a hospital waiting room while whoever did this walks free. Between an ex-girlfriend who keeps calling the hospital, a parolee who won’t explain where he was that night, and an elderly woman loudly telling everyone at the post office that the sheriff had it coming, Blythe has too many suspects and not enough answers. But something about the case doesn’t fit. The evidence points in too many directions. And Paine, when he’s awake long enough to talk, keeps mentioning dreams he’s been having. Vivid ones. The kind that feel real. Pippin says the dreams mean something. Pippin says a lot of things. And Baba Grimm has started showing up with gifts that aren’t entirely safe and advice that isn’t entirely free. Some mysteries are about who did it. Some are about what’s been hiding in plain sight. And some answers change everything, including the person you thought you knew best.   AmazonKU

SWIPE UP FOR SIN: MM FANTASY ROMANCE (HOTTER THAN HELL) by Callie Colbie

A desperate influencer chasing clout. A gluttony demon who thinks “going viral” involves a plague.  I didn’t want a soul contract. I just wanted a verified checkmark and a decent skincare sponsorship.
Instead, I summoned Vraz. He’s a demon of Gluttony and Excess who usually handles Roman orgies, not TikTok algorithms. Now he’s crashing on my couch, threatening my trolls with eternal damnation, and trying to eat my ring light. He’s the worst manager in history. He thinks “engagement” means a blood oath and refuses to understand that I can’t eat a whole boar for breakfast. But Vraz is also seven feet of insatiable, predatory hunger. And the way he watches me record? It’s intense. He looks at me like I’m the only snack he’s ever wanted to taste. I summoned him to feed my ego. But with the way he’s looking at my lips, I think he’s planning to feed on something else entirely.      AmazonKU      AB

EXILE (FALSE DOOR SERIES BOOK ONE) by Wren St Clair

He’s a god who doesn’t believe in love. She keeps falling for the wrong men. Hathor thinks this is hilarious. Exiled to modern Cairo and dying by the day, Djehuty — Djet — doesn’t have time for the peculiar sensations his human colleague is evoking. He needs to break Hathor’s curse, outrun the demons hunting him, and get back to the realm of the gods before chaos consumes everything — and everyone — he’s ever cared for. He doesn’t need her. Except that every moment they’re thrown together, it feels less like accident and more like inevitability. Like something older than either of them has ever known. Like souls that have been looking for each other across millennia and finally found their way home. Audrey knows this feeling. She also knows exactly where it leads. She falls anyway. With a found family of gloriously unlikely misfits at their side — a street kid running on audacity, a wisecracking dwarf, and an undercover cop who absolutely did not sign up for demons — Djet and Audrey tear through ancient Cairo and into the realm of the gods themselves in a race against time, chaos, and their own hearts.     AmazonKU

ALL HALLOWS LEGACY (SICK AND TWISTED BOOK FIVE) by Leigh Kelsey

There’s no winning a game played by the gods. I escaped Cruelty’s insane masquerade, but something shattered in me at Darkmore Manor. We flee without Tor, with my mind in pieces, and with no real idea of what Cruelty wants. She’s determined to see the domain fall, to strip all power from my husbands, but her endgame is an unsettling mystery. So is her obsession with my dad. And with Tor trapped, we have no choice but to play along with her every command. Even if it calls us back to Ford, into another psycho game. All Hallows Legacy is a dark paranormal romance with psycho gods, a snarky heroine who finds her inner badass, twisted romance, and a secret society of sadists. Expect twists, turns, and enough spice to make your kindle steam.      AmazonKU

NO PLACE IN TIME (THE TIME FRACTURED SERIES BOOK ONE) by Patti A Pierucci

TIME IS CLOSING IN…Sitting hidden in the branches of an oak tree, Cecily de Malet watches a woman die slowly in the window of a great manor house. The woman’s face is her own. She would rather vanish from time itself than become her. Sixteen-year-old Cecily has fourteen days to escape a forced marriage to a man old enough to be her grandfather—a powerful lord who collects young wives the way other men collect land. Her only option is her grandfather Anton’s forbidden machine, a device she was warned never to touch. She touches it anyway. What follows is a breathless journey through medieval England—from the mud and blood of Edward I’s Scottish campaigns to the candlelit great halls of Kent—as Cecily fights to survive a century that isn’t hers. Stranded sixty years in the future, penniless and hunted, she has only one unlikely ally: Finn de Veyron, infuriating, fiercely capable, and hiding a secret that could destroy everything between them. As the past closes in and time itself begins to fracture, Cecily and Finn must find their way back to each other—and back to their own time—before the future rewrites itself without them. Because somewhere in a sunlit manor window, another version of Cecily is running out of time. And so, somewhere, some when, is she.     AmazonKU

FIELD GUIDE FOR THE FORMERLY VILLAINOUS (EVERYDAY MAGIC BOOK ONE)   by Autumn k England

VS Note: LGBTQ+ Fantasy.

When Oaklin Nettlewood accidentally joined an evil world-ending cult, mind control magic forced them to do unspeakable things. Years later, the realm’s heroes have finally saved the day, defeated the villain, and shattered the last remnants of the spell…leaving destruction in their wake. And so, with a spell-damaged memory and whole bushel of trauma, Oaklin escapes to a small farm on the edge of Mossley’s Rest and swears an oath: After all the things they were forced to do with their magic, they will never use it again. Ever. The no-nonsense ghost granny who lives in Oaklin’s house has other ideas. As she coaxes Oaklin out of their shell and back into the world, they find companionship (a grumpy horse and a very good dog), friendship (a local bard and magical baker who should just kiss already), and tentative romance (a paladin-librarian who makes Oaklin’s heart come alive for the first time in ages.) Magic even seems possible again—though strictly for foraging magical mushrooms and protecting the farm from bugs. Healing comes in gentle waves, and Oaklin doesn’t have to do it alone. So what does it mean when an inquisitor comes to town to hunt former cultists just as Oaklin begins to think that maybe, just maybe, they deserve a happy ending after all?

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IT VARIES (BETAS IN WAITING BOOK 38) by Viola Grace

After being used as a caterer, drugged, chained to a blood alpha in rut, and then thrown off a cliff. Jenn is not going to join her twin for another holiday. Ever. Jennika was surprised to get an invitation to her sister’s alpha’s holiday event. When she gets there and is handed an apron, the reconciliation makes sense. She gets to work while reminding herself not to be stupid in the future. After the events of the night have concluded, Annika brings her a glass of pineapple juice and thanks her for her help. When the juice is down, Annika mentions one more thing as Jenn begins to sway. There is a blood alpha in rut who has agreed to restraints if the lady of the house will assist him. Ann has no intention of rutting a strange alpha, no matter what her own alpha says, so Jenn will do. They look the same, after all. The next morning, Annika has her thrown off the nearby cliff, and things only get more interesting from there. Jenn has notified friends she might need help, and thankfully, they paid attention. The ladies have been through rough patches themselves and are ready for anything. Reuniting with her blood alpha, Jenn starts looking for matches for her friends. These ladies are warriors and need someone who can respect their pain and journey.    Amazon       Kobo        NOTE: Did not see it on Apple Books yet as of the day I checked

THE INSTRUMENTS OF REVIVAL (A VOW OF BLOOD AND TEARS BOOK TWO) by Cate Corvin

Jesamin – Only the desperate would depend on a vampire. As an Artificer, no machinery is beyond me—except that of flesh and blood. The one thing my instruments can’t mend is my own wounded heart. But when every soul in a small town vanishes overnight, we find mysterious Fae artifacts left behind. The tracks of the humans that used them lead Below, into the nightmare world of the long-dead Fae. Only one fiend can get us down there, and bring us back alive. Wroth’s ruinous temper is legendary. There’s something broken beneath his beastly skin, a fracture in his soul that seeps rage and shadows. But as the darkness of the Below forces us together, a light begins to shine through those cracks. His hope is delicate, as fragile as clockwork, easily crushed. But I’ve already put my faith in a vampire once. Never again. Wroth – Only a fool would trust in a human. After fifty years of hell, the shackles of unholy matrimony have finally loosened—and freed me to lick my wounds and bury the pain. Never again will I subject myself to the loathing of a woman, even if it costs my throne. Until a bespectacled, half-Forian noblewoman bursts into my castle, demanding I hunt down traitorous loyalists. In the dark Below, where unbreakable bonds are forged, Jesamin guards my back as I guard hers. There’s something compelling in her grit and determination. Her trust is a fragile, precious thing, a butterfly cradled in my brutish hands. I will be her shield against these shadows. I might even grow somewhat fond of her. But love her? It’ll never happen.      AmazonKU

A COURT OF SWORDS AND SILVER: THRONE OF THE BLOOD FAE (THE FORTH GUILD BOOK FIVE) by Tia Didmon

When the wards fall, only blood and flame will decide who survives. Lady Belana’s assassination sends Warriath into chaos. The noble courts splinter, alliances fracture, and whispers of war rise with every heartbeat. As Zander and Ashe hunt for the killer, a darker truth emerges beneath the palace stones: the ancient fae wards protecting their realm are dying. And once they fail, nothing will stop the dark fae from consuming them all. Desperate to preserve the realm, Ashe delves into forbidden magics and dragon trials that test not only her strength, but her fragile, evolving bond with Kaelith. Her dragon’s shocking transformation, and deepening connection to Hein, shifts everything Ashe thought she understood about power, loyalty, and love. But the Blood Fae King will not be thwarted. To force Ashe’s surrender, he abducts someone Zander cannot live without. As the prophecy unfurls will Ashe choose to follow the path fate carved for her… or break it entirely and become the weapon the world fears most.      AmazonKU

FERAL OMEGA: MM OMEGAVERSE SHIFTER ROMANCE (OMEGA REFUGE) by Quinn Michaels

One feral omega. One patient Alpha. One isolated cabin. Rue has survived five years alone in the mountains after escaping the traffickers who collared him, suppressed his heat, and stole his name. More wolf than man, he trusts no one. Then a hunter’s trap shatters his leg. Alpha Oren finds Rue half-dead in the snow and carries him to his remote cabin on the edge of Refuge territory. He should hand him over. Instead, he leaves the door cracked open and waits. Food. Warmth. Patience. Rue doesn’t remember how to trust an Alpha. But Oren’s scent starts to feel like safety. And when Rue’s heat finally breaks through years of suppression, survival becomes something far more dangerous. Need. But the hunters who set the trap know Rue is alive. And when they come back to claim what escaped them, Oren will prove that some Alphas don’t cage what they love. They protect it.   AmazonKU

IRON WOLVES: LYRIC & ROWAN (IRON WOLVES 2, BOOK 1) by Elle Boon

I would give my life to protect the woman I love. Lyric is determined to save me, even if it’s from her own pack. When we collide, everything changes…A WOMAN IN NEED OF SAVING…I’m Lyric Carmichael, and I know there are rules when it comes to our kind. My brother is the beta of the Iron Wolves, and my best friend’s brother is the Alpha. I’ve been taught how to handle myself as a female, even with odds stacked against me—only this time, I might’ve bitten off more than I can chew. A BADASS SOLDIER…I’m Rowan Shade, a Navy SEAL who’s used to wading into battles. I didn’t hesitate when I saw a group of men attacking a gorgeous woman — only this time I might be the one needing saved.      AmazonKU

THE SONG OF SALT AND SHADOW by Seren Rose

A siren born without a tail. A song meant to drown pirates. A pirate ready to drown for her. Hunted for her blood and the scales that grant humans magic they should never wield, Eryse flees the hunters and climbs aboard a vast black ship. The crew is cursed, and in the darkness, ghosts roam the deck. As she steps aboard, a silver thread of light appears — the Glim. Believing she may be the key to breaking the curse, the captain does not let her go. Caught between a curse that tightens its grip and a sea that never forgives, Eryse cannot live in water and cannot live without it. To claim the tail she was never given, she is forced to confront her own voice and follow a path that leads straight through a pirate who may be just as dangerous as the sea itself.      AmazonKU

FORTUNE: A TOWERFALL NOVEL by Kristin Cast

They matched on a dating app. Then the universe dropped them into a magickal fire kingdom. Amanda Ward has a five-step manifestation routine, a ritual kit in every purse, and a dating profile designed to reflect the version of herself she wishes she could be: grounded, glowing, and in total alignment. In reality, she’s overwhelmed, under-satisfied, and one passive-aggressive email away from a full-blown meltdown. When a sext thread with her in-app temptation, Declan Thorne, leads to an invitation she can’t resist, Amanda finds herself face-to-face with the man behind the messages—a devastatingly hot, emotionally constipated venture capitalist. And the moment she tries bringing a bit of magick into their night, a tarot-triggered portal yanks them both into another realm entirely. Now stranded in the Kingdom of Wands with an aggravating, broody CEO-turned-reluctant-bodyguard and zero clue how to get home, Amanda’s facing nightly on-stage performances, suspicious queens, and magick that refuses to cooperate. What’s worse is that her biggest issue might not be the kingdom—it might be catching real feelings for the one man who makes her want to drop the act. To survive and find their way back home, she’ll have to ditch the affirmations and the carefully controlled persona she’s been clinging to and learn how to wield something way more powerful—her truth. Even if it burns everything down.

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SIT, STAY, HOWL: MM SHIFTER ROMANCE (FUR REAL LOVE) by Lance Roddick

Miles needs a blue ribbon to save his grandma’s house. Cole just wants a treat. Miles is a serious, high-strung dog handler. His life is charts, clickers, and agility courses. When his prize Border Collie gets the flu the day before the Regional Championship, he’s ruined. Until his neighbor Cole makes a drunken offer. Cole is a slacker, a flirt, and secretly, a wolf shifter. He volunteers to shift and enter the competition as a “rare Siberian Husky mix.” Miles is desperate enough to say yes. It’s a disaster. Cole doesn’t weave through poles; he pees on them. He doesn’t jump hurdles; he walks around them. He growls at the judges and winks at the poodles. But when Miles uses his stern “handler voice,” something shifts in Cole. He suddenly really wants to be a Good Boy. Miles thinks he’s training a dog, but he’s about to learn that taming a wolf requires a much firmer hand—and a lot more praise.        AmazonKU     AB

LUCIFER: THE MATE GAMES (APOCALYPSE BOOK SIX) by K Loraine and Meg Anne

People always say, better the devil you know…but that’s me. And, apparently I just so happen to be one of the good guys now. Or am I? It’s really quite the conundrum. The one man destined to take down heaven is…waffling. But wouldn’t you be if you were in my situation? I’m in love, and I don’t care who knows it. But that also means, I have to clean up the mess I made. If we’re splitting hairs, I didn’t make the mess, but at the end of the apocalypse, it is my antichrist I’d been trying for. Unfortunately, finding my mate means doing whatever I can to keep her, and if the world ends, I don’t think that’s an option. So…betrayal it is. What can I say? Turns out, I’m nothing if not consistent.       AmazonKU      AB

GINGER OMEGA: BBW SHIFTER ROMANCE (DISOWNED MATES BOOK ONE) by Mazzy J March

My bites never took. No scars. My omega rejected the bites of my mates. My pack was patient, but not for long. They insisted I was doing something to cause the problem. They took me to healers, thinking there was something wrong with my skin, my DNA, anything but the real problem. They weren’t my scent match and my omega didn’t want them. No way to get around that. So, despite their promises to love me no matter what, they disown me. Kick me out of our home. Report me to the Omega Bureau for investigation. I take what little money I’ve saved and flee. I’d rather be alone than known as the omega who couldn’t be marked.      AmazonKU

THE ALPHA’S UNBROKEN BOND (MATED BY FATE BOOK FOUR) by Heather Foxglove

FIGHTER WOLF: STEEL PROTECTION (RETURN TO FATE MOUNTAIN BOOK NINE) by Scarlett Grove