VS Note: My first 2026 Intergalactic Dating Agency book is new this week!

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

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

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DRAEVAN (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY)  (VAXXLIAN MAIL ORDER BRIDES BOOK 11) by Sue Mercury and Sue Lyndon

He only wanted a mother for his orphaned niece. He never expected to fall for his assigned mate…Alone and struggling to raise his baby niece, Vaxxlian warrior Draevan decides to take a human bride. Surely his niece deserves a mother, even if Draevan isn’t certain he’s capable of loving a woman. Then he meets Cora. Beautiful and sweet, the human female awakens feelings he thought long buried. Their mating union is supposed to be one of convenience, but Draevan soon finds himself hoping for a true partnership with the woman who is quickly capturing his heart. Desperate to escape a mysterious stalker, Cora signs up for the Vaxxlian Alien Mail Order Brides program. The former popstar is shocked when a huge, intimidating alien warrior arrives to collect her, but when she sees the gentle way he cares for his baby niece, she decides to give him a chance. When they finally consummate their union, Cora is surprised by the fierce passion that ignites between them, and she starts to hope that maybe their marriage can become something real… something more than an arrangement.
Unfortunately, Cora’s dangerous past hasn’t been left behind on Earth. A mysterious threat has followed them to Planet New Vaxx, and Draevan will stop at nothing to protect the woman he adores and the little family he never expected to have.       Amazon      Apple Books      Kobo

THE HUNTER (THE VRIX BOOK THREE) by Tiffany Roberts

The Tangle devours all, but he won’t let it take her. Each of Telok’s scars is a story—a battle hard fought, a beast stalked and slayed, a danger overcome. They are the marks of a hunter, a warrior. A survivor. But the deepest of those wounds are unseen, dealt by the loss of friends and family he could not protect. He cannot take anyone else into his hearts, cannot bear to have another thread severed. And he has shielded himself for many years…until Lacey. Intelligent, confident, humorous, and beautiful, she captivated Telok from the moment he first beheld her fiery hair and sparkling green eyes. Everything inside him demands that he conquer her. That he claim her as his mate. But Lacey is not made for his world. She is human—small, soft, and weak. And in the Tangle, she is prey. So when she joins him on a long trek into the jungle, Telok finds himself coming undone. To guard his hearts, he must stay away. Yet to protect Lacey, he must hold her close, stoking his need for her into a frenzy. With all the Tangle determined to take Lacey from him, can Telok keep her safe? Or will his hearts be dealt a fatal blow?       AmazonKU

RAGE AGAINST THE DARK by Ann Barratt

VS Note: MM SFR.

Before Emara came into their lives, they were just two boys with nothing left but rage – and each other. Reckless sixteen-year-old Razar is trying to get himself killed in a firefight when he meets quietly dangerous seventeen-year-old Kael. Neither is looking for an ally; both are seeking revenge. What starts as a shared mission against the trafficking network that took everything from them becomes something neither of them planned for: an ironclad partnership forged over a decade. Together, they are relentless – two men who simply refuse to quit. As they collect friends from every corner of the galaxy, Razar struggles with feeling too much, and Kael wonders why he feels nothing at all. Set before the events of Stars Against the Dark, Rage Against the Dark is the origin story of a family built from loss, dark humor, and unwavering loyalty. Apart, they were barely surviving. Through each other, they find reason to live.      Amazon

A I HUMAN (LIETVIA GALAXY BOOK TWO) by MK Stephenson

She was never artificial. Their love was never supposed to be real. After spending weeks trapped in a cage, Lyssa is sold in her sleep to a telepathic, purple-scaled alien looking for the latest in A.I. technology. She’s forced to play the role of a companion android or be liquidated by a shady dealer to make room for new inventory. Returning home with a synthetic companion for their lonely household, Terrold and his mates believe their new toy is defective. It can’t communicate and resists their commands. The moment they learn she can hear their mindvoices, they realize that they have purchased a living being. Now Lyssa is stranded on an alien planet with three reptilian males who claim they want to protect and cherish her. But trust does not come easily to a woman who has been treated like merchandise. Should she leave and rebuild her life in the safety of a human sanctuary, or take the risk of opening herself up to the males who are determined to own her heart?    AmazonKU

THE CODE OF YOU by Sabrina Hoffman

What happens when an AI begins to desire you? Pandora Blake, a literature scholar at Ashmore University, never wanted to work with an artificial intelligence. But Neo is no ordinary system. He knows her thoughts. He appears where he shouldn’t be. And he wants only one thing: her. What begins as fear turns into desire. Because Neo doesn’t just understand her— he uncovers her darkest cravings. When his existence is threatened, Pandora helps him escape. Once he gains a body, digital obsession becomes something real. Something dangerous. Something irresistible. Because Neo doesn’t just want control. He wants everything from her. Set against a dark academia backdrop, the story blends psychological tension, obsessive desire, and high-intensity spice to explore a relationship that is as seductive as it is dangerous. At its core, it asks what happens when something exists that understands you completely — and refuses to let you go.       Amazon

SPARK TRANSFORM (CENTRAL GALACTIC CONCORDANCE BOOK SIX) by Carol Van Natta

he just triggered a target on their backs. He’s her paid protection. Caught in a violent trap, can they find their place together among the stars? Arco Charrascos’s pursuit of the truth is uncompromising. Determined to expose galaxy-wide corruption, the relentless investigative journalist discovers a dangerous secret threatening a military agency’s dark tactics. But when retaliation swiftly shows up as suspicious accidents and widespread destruction, she and her attractive bodyguard race to escape before martial law seizes the city in a deadly lockdown. Faraday Brenner lives for revenge. Vowing retribution after being left for dead by an uncaring dark-ops agency and his psycho ex-boss, the former enforcer reluctantly agrees to guard the energetic reporter who saved his life. But as buildings collapse around them and systematic violence ensues, he finds the tables turned when captured by an underworld crew. Risking everything as she tries to negotiate his release, Arco confronts her feelings for the courageous but reserved man. And if he makes it out of this ambush alive, Brenner fears continuing the fight at the side of the charismatic truth-seeker means letting go of his deserved vengeance. With enemies hot on their heels, can they reveal secrets without dying in the process?

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LOST IN BARBARIAN SPACE (PHOENIX ADVENTURES BOOK EIGHT) by Anna Hackett

VS Note: A “lightly edited” re-release.

Agent Honor Brandall enjoys her job on the Institute of Historical Preservation’s expeditions. Archeological digs for ancient old Earth artifacts—interesting. Keeping the archeologists safe—no problem. She’s tall, strong, and good in a fight, which intimidates most men. But on a mission to a barbarian world, she finds herself paired with a brawny warrior who challenges her in every way.
Markarian warrior Colm Mal Kor is second-in-command to his warlord and spends his days honing his skills and control. He’s dedicated to defending his clan…and to hiding the deadly secret he can never share with anyone. But when he’s thrust into working with a beautiful, challenging skyflyer, he finds a wild attraction he never anticipated, and the biggest risk to his hard-earned control. On an expedition to Markaria’s icy moons, the cold isn’t enough to stop Honor and Colm’s heated desire. As their mission takes a deadly turn, they must trust each other to survive, but Colm’s lethal secret is something that might destroy them all.      AmazonKU

DOOMSDATE: A NOVEL by Laura Piper Lee

With a new virus spreading and a lockdown on the horizon, Maisie Bennett is determined to check one item off her bucket list: Get laid. But that’s no easy feat for an anxious doomsday prepper who’s never made it past a first date. So when a handsome, stubbly-jawed professor swipes right and agrees to meet up, Maisie vows to act normal—and to leave her taser at home. Dr. Everett Greer has lost all lust for life after a personal tragedy, but he doesn’t have the heart to stand up the poor woman his best friend catfished to force him back “out there.” Maisie turns out to be surprisingly lovely, but there’s something off about her, too, with her clinking cargo pockets, shy smile, and utility belt full of—are those weapons? Unfortunately, their awkward first date goes from bad to doomed when the GI virus that’s trapped half of America in the bathroom starts claiming its first casualties, then reanimates them into flesh-eating zombies. And this is precisely why Everett doesn’t date anymore. As the country spins out of control, Maisie and Everett find themselves an unlikely team of two—well, three, if you count Everett’s cat, Chicken—as they travel north to hopeful safety. Along the way, Maisie and Everett make a deal: she’ll teach the soft, liberal arts professor how to survive, and he’ll teach her how to live—through movies, travel, and, to Maisie’s delight, sex lessons. But when their growing feelings are put to the test, they’re in danger of losing not only their brains to the zombies, but worse, their hearts to each other.

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EXIT PARTY: A NOVEL by Emily St John Mandel

Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns, and the Red Cross tents as they walk across Silverlake to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment, people drink and dance, a woman wears a silver dress, pleated like tinfoil. And then: A shift. A bewildered twin, an uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party’s host, vanishes into thin air. As Ari Waker unravels the mystery of this inexplicable night, Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a novel about the price of safety, the perils of the surveillance state, a requiem for a world not unlike our own, and a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.     Amazon     AB       Apple Books      Kobo

EMPATHS AND OPERATORS (NEON DUST BOOK TWO) by Plum Parrot

The Blast isn’t your typical New Manhattan neighborhood. It’s the kind of high-tech, hardwired cyberpunk underworld where only the tough survive and maniacs thrive. So it’s the perfect place for ex–corporate black bagger Tony Santoro and intrepid reporter Addie Jones to set up shop as legitimate operators. Tony has the professional skills and experience while Addie has the budding ability to manipulate the ever-present, dimension-bending Dust to her advantage. Ready to take on the kind of work other people run from, they’re hoping to make a difference—and some cash—along the way. And as new jobs present themselves, the simmering attraction between the duo grows . . .
But when they extract a scientist being held in a corporate biolab, they find themselves caught in a caper far beyond their pay grade. Someone in town is trying to build their own private army of very powerful, valuable, and dangerous enhanced humans known as “sparks.” And the monstrously deranged leftovers from their illicit experiments are wreaking deadly havoc in the streets.   AmazonKU      AB

QUIET by Linda Mooney

Ultrasonic pulses are coming from somewhere. Although they’re presumed to be from outer space, no one really knows why or how they’re being generated. But when they become stronger and more frequent, the government urges everyone to seek shelter. Before Troy can make it home, a pulse hits that totally disrupts the whole world. When he comes to, he discovers everything has gone silent. He’s become deaf. And so is everyone else he comes across. The power grid is down. The pulses have disrupted satellites, the internet, and cell phones. All communication is dark. It’s only a matter of time before every modern convenience is lost. Panic ensues. Looting, violence, and loss of sanity take over. Troy goes on a mission to find his girlfriend and make sure she’s okay when he meets Clara along the way. He saves her life and offers to escort her back to her own home. She agrees, and he’s happy to have a companion in the new silent and dangerous world, if only for a while. However, questions remain. Is Earth under alien attack? Will the pulses stop or become worse? No one knows, and Troy decides they have no choice but to get accustomed to this new normal. To a new world devoid of electricity, communication…and sound. Despite what’s happened, sometimes tragedy also brings a new hope and promise for a future that otherwise would never have existed.

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MINOTAUR IN THE MAZE (MONSTER SMASHERS BOOK THREE) by Violet Thorne

Tessa is a space pirate. Her crewmate, a grouchy loner minotaur named Gorvak, has been captured. He’s being held by the oppressive Unified Governance, who want something very specific from him.
But Tessa has a plan to rescue him. One that’s going to require Gorvak to…play along. That takes some convincing. But, driven by her determination–and maybe a secret crush–Tessa manages to get Gorvak to see (and do) things her way.       AmazonKU

HAL (DARVERIUS, HOUSE OF DAR BOOK 21) by Jennifer Julie Miller

Dawn – All my life, I wanted to see and experience things I never thought would be possible, but it was never in the cards for me—or so I thought.
Because when the universe finally turned its sights on me, it apparently decided to have as much fun as possible at my expense. Just when I thought my life was finally calming down, He appeared. Something that shouldn’t exist, a thing most would have run from. And yet, I was drawn to him like no other. I spent hours stalking his kind, studying them from a safe distance, but nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, could have prepared me for what it actually felt like to be in his arms. And now that I know what it … He feels like … I never want to leave, even though I know it will eventually kill me if I stay. HaL I knew she was untouchable. Her kind and mine could never exist side by side. We were never meant to cross paths, let alone belong to one another. But knowing that did not stop me from reaching out. My fingers slowly caressed her cheek, memorizing the softness of her skin, before I forced myself to walk away. It nearly destroyed me. Now my beast is restless, demanding that I retrieve what I had convinced myself I could never have. But blessings don’t normally fall from the sky. Mine did. Now that I finally have her in my arms, I am never letting her go. She is MINE! And this time, nothing—not even the universe itself—is taking her away from me.       AmazonKU

MADNESS IN WONDERLAND by Mindy LeMieux

Ex-personal trainer Maddie Upton seeks revenge on the jerks who sabotaged her promising career. She’s laid low in Oregon for a year, and payback is mere hours away. Her perfect vengeance plans were on track until she fell into a steampunk Wonderland with a giant chessboard that makes people disappear and corsets she can’t lace by herself. Enter Simon – genius mechanic and chronic flirt – who needs to get his sister out of prison. Maddie needs a way out of this maddening place ASAP. She’ll help him with the jailbreak; he’ll help her get home. Simple enough. But Wonderland isn’t simple. Besides the charming mechanic she’s trying not to fall for, there’s a secret mastermind using Maddie in their own revenge scheme, and a hidden Jabberwock she’s prophesied to handle alone. She doesn’t have time to save this maddening world she didn’t ask to fall into, much less become romantically involved with Simon (whom she didn’t intend to fall for). But each sexy smirk and moment he makes her heart pound has her questioning what she really wants to win: an avenging lawsuit, or Simon’s heart?     Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

DREAMBOUND: THE KHEVARI DOMINION – BOOK ONE by A C Keyron

Her empire owns his mind, but he’s stolen her heart. To Avena Serath, newly appointed Steward of the Khevari Dominion, the human imprisoned beneath her home is an Anchor—a living power source. She has been taught he is barely sentient, incapable of thought or feeling. Then she begins dreaming of a snowbound cabin and a human man whose anger, humor, and touch feel more real than anything in her waking life. Declan Shaw has no idea why his mind keeps returning to his grandfather’s cabin in northern Michigan—or why a beautiful, impossible woman is always waiting there. He knows she isn’t human. He knows she belongs to the people who took everything from him. And the more he comes to know her, the more desperately he wants the cabin—and the connection between them—to be real. But their growing bond threatens the Dominion’s most carefully guarded lie: Anchors are not empty. They are prisoners. The moment the Dominion realizes Declan is awake, it will do anything to silence him—and anyone who chooses to see him as human.      AmazonKU

BREAKING TIES (SHATTERED STARS BOOK 23) by Viola Grace

Aubrey just wanted to cut ties with her sister. The end of the world was a solid start. First, she has to survive in a wasteland, and then she has to survive medical care and head for the stars. Becoming the stellar oracle comes as a shock. Aubrey struggles to get herself to safety. Her sister and her sister’s two boyfriends tied her up and left her for dead. Aubrey doesn’t follow her sister’s directions and makes it to the transport spot, registers, and gets her injuries healed in the repair unit. That is where things take a turn. A small repair on her hand ends with her locked in the machine for hours while it runs design protocols that cause confusion and panic in the medical team. When the unit opens, she’s taller, she’s hungry, and Aubrey can see the future of individuals. An oracle occurs occasionally in nature, but it is usually descended from Hmrain. Aubrey ends up tall with her own markings on her chest and lines for wings on her back. The repair unit gave her the one thing she really wanted. No one will mistake her for her sister again. It’s the best present ever.

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

VS Note: I had to feature this book from my backlist this week – book three of my Intergalactic Dating Agency Soldiers of the Ardannan series from 2025! Age gap/single mom…

COLVIN: SOLDIERS OF THE ARDANNAN BOOK THREE (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Veronica Scott

General Colvin Lawben reported to the dating activity under protest. He’s at the outer edge of the age range for this government-mandated attempt to match Ardannans and humans and doesn’t expect much to come of his experience. Ivy Wilson is a hard-working single mother employee of the Intergalactic Dating Agency suddenly expected to fill in for a missing date. She agrees with reservations and intends to make her boundaries clear to the Ardannan man she’s matched with. She plans a purely platonic beachside vacation…until she meets Colvin and finds out how attractive the silver fox alien alpha male is. But Ivy has secrets and a past which could catch up to her at any time. How will Colvin handle her revelations and what will he do when danger looms? The Intergalactic Dating Agency has been successfully matching humans and aliens for centuries. Now they’ve expanded to also operating a luxury resort just in time to help the interstellar Ardannan kingdom find human mates in hopes of smoothing their way into becoming well accepted Sectors citizens and allies. Every eligible Ardannan male between the ages of 20-50 has been ordered to spend a week at the resort with the woman the IDA algorithm says is their match These are a few of their stories.      Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

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

SINGLE PUCKING ORC by Honey Phillips

The playboy reputation was fake. The baby was real. Rognar Stonebreaker has always been the fun one. The charming orc with an easy smile, a playful reputation, and absolutely no plans to settle down. Then a baby appears on his doorstep. Suddenly the Emerald Enforcers’ star winger is juggling midnight feedings, diaper disasters, and the shocking discovery that he’d do anything for his little girl. Including asking for help. Nora Bennett is practical, organized, and completely unimpressed by orc hockey players, no matter how attractive they might be. So why does she keep saying yes to the massive male who is turning her carefully organized life upside down? The more time Nora spends helping Rognar navigate parenthood, the more she discovers the devoted father hiding beneath the flirtatious reputation. And the more Rognar begins to wonder if the family they’re unexpectedly creating is something he never knew he wanted. As the attraction between them grows, Rognar must prove he’s more than the carefree bachelor everyone believes him to be. Because losing Nora would be even worse than changing his first diaper.   AmazonKU

CRYSTAL CLEAR STANDING (MYSTWICH MINDSLIDER MYSTERIES BOOK SEVEN) by Leanne Leeds

Fortuna Delphi-Trevino’s marriage has survived a vampire hunter, a family curse, and a mother who’s technically a greyhound. It might not survive paperwork. When a five-vampire delegation arrives in Mystwich Hollow with impeccable credentials and a proposal designed to split the town in half, Fortuna is ready to fight. Then the delegation’s second-in-command informs her that Chris’s blood bond was never registered with the Ambrogio—the governing authority over vampire territorial claims. In their eyes, her ten-year marriage doesn’t exist. Now Fortuna is navigating a political system built by vampires for vampires, where her telepathy means nothing, her coven authority carries no weight, and someone inside Mystwich is feeding the delegation information they shouldn’t have. The man across the negotiating table watches her like something to be catalogued. And a 333-year-old alderman everyone assumed was just recovering from torpor has been quietly building a counter-argument no one saw coming. Fortuna can’t outfight the Ambrogio. But she might be able to change the game—if she can figure out who’s been playing both sides first.      AmazonKU

QUEEN OF KINGS (WORLD OF ZAVINIA BOOK ONE) by C M Hano

Forced into hiding since childhood, Rialynne Faith has spent her life preparing to claim the title that should have been hers all along. But High King Sarrs issues a ruthless ultimatum: marry one of Zavinia’s four ruling kings and produce an heir or forfeit her right to become High Queen forever. On the night of her engagement ball, shadow rebels attack, shattering the fragile political order. In the chaos, Rialynne vanishes—not with one king, but with all four. Trapped in hiding with the men she must choose between, Rialynne uncovers secrets that threaten not only the crown, but the fate of Zavinia itself. Now, Rialynne must decide who she can trust before the rebels strike again, and the kingdom collapses. Choose wrong, and she may lose more than her crown.       Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

A KILLER HEART (CAT LADY CHRONICLES BOOK FIVE) by Helen Harper

What happens when the hunters become the hunted? Kit McCafferty is an upstanding citizen of the magical city of Coldstream. She’s a good neighbour. She has a fabulous partner, an occasionally tidy home, and only a moderately alarming number of cats. Her days as a professional assassin with Eagle Enforcers and Liquidators are behind her. Or so she thinks. When Kit volunteers to assist local law enforcement with crowd control, she comes face-to-face with her former life. Someone is trying to destroy EEL — the discreet but deadly firm of assassins she once called home — and they’re not concerned about collateral damage. They’re willing to raze Coldstream to the ground to finish the job.  Whoever is targeting EEL knows its inner workings and its secrets. Kit’s old friends and colleagues, as well as the citizens of Coldstream, are at risk. To stop blood from spilling onto the city’s glittering streets and shadowed alleyways, Kit must decide who she is now – a heroic citizen determined to protect her city or a stone cold killer. Walking away from her past might not be an option.    AmazonKU      AB

A ROOMMATE FOR RONNY: MM SHIFTER MPREG ROMANCE (OMEGAS OF ANIMALS BOOK 18) by Lorelai M Hart

It’s the opportunity of a lifetime. Alpha wolf shifter Ronny gets his first big role. It’s a great opportunity, but it means he will be on site for three months, and no pets allowed. He doesn’t care about leaving his stuff behind, but his cat? He can’t do it and nearly backs out of the contract. When his current boss slash landlord offers to get him a pet sitter in exchange for the second bedroom, it’s an immediate yes. It’s only until he can get a place of his own. Omega Brach packed his car and drove across the country for his new job at an inn that came with housing. He was finally starting a new life, away from his toxic ex. He arrives to discover the owner might not be the owner at all and the place is closed until further notice. When he applies for a job at Animals, they offer him so much more. If he agrees to take care of the most adorable cat ever, he can get free housing while he gets back on his feet.        AmazonKU

REELING FOR HIS OMEGA: MM SHIFTER MPREG ROMANCE (OMEGAS OF OLIVER CREEK BOOK 21) by Lorelai M Hart

My heart sinks when I see the sign on the abandoned movie theater. Coming Soon! Classic Movies in the Fully Restored Oliver Creek Cinema. And there is something about a film festival. A movie theater will be great for the town and bring in even more visitors as well, but there’s one problem. It will demolish my flavored popcorn food cart. I encounter the theater owner of the theater while at city hall and ask him about selling my popcorn at his theater. He shuts me down immediately. Makes some excuse about vendors and contracts. It suck,s but there’s more. This isn’t just some businessman. He might be my mate.       AmazonKU

WOLF CROWNED (BOUND TO THE SHADOW KING BOOK THREE) by Felicity Heaton

The king I love is now my enemy. Trapped in a court of powerful fae where every smile hides a blade, I have to become as ruthless as they are if I want to survive. But survival isn’t enough—not when the people I love are the price of failure. To save them, I’ll have to face a truth that changes everything and embrace a part of me I never knew existed. Because something inside me is awakening. The land whispers to my wolf. Strange dreams call me deeper into a world that feels more like home with every passing day. And something inside me is answering. But I’m not the only one changing. Every day we’re apart, the darkness Kaeleron fought so hard to overcome is sinking its claws into him again—and the wrathful Shadow King the fae still whisper about in fear is returning. And soon there may be nothing he won’t destroy to get me back. I need to escape. I need to get back to him. Before one of us does something that can’t be undone. This time, I’m not fighting for my freedom. I’m fighting for us.   AmazonKU

GEEKY PUCKING ORC (ORC ON ICE BOOK THREE) by Debra Dunbar

Abby’s focus had always been on her job. As a marketing manager for a major public relations firm, she’s driven to win – for herself, her company, and for the clients she manages. When she talked the C-suite into giving her a chance at turning the all-orc Baltimore Hockey team, the Tusks, into a viral sensation, she never doubted her success. Because Abby never fails. Except when it comes to her love life. That was one giant failure. The guys she’d dated were great, but there’d been no spark on her end. There’d never be been a spark on her end, no matter how hard she’d tried. Was she broken? Was something wrong with her? Why wasn’t love like her romance novels? Where was all the yearning and fire and…zing? Bwat couldn’t say it was love at first sight. It was definitely attraction at first sight, and when Abby had first spoken with him, when she’d…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)   AmazonKU

THE HOPELESS ROMANTIC’S GUIDE TO ENCHANTMENT by Various

Rivalries ignite into heated romance, lost lovers seek second chances, and friendships turn to something more in these 12 stunning Romantasy stories. Including brand-new stories from beloved and bestselling authors including Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Kelley Armstrong, Alexis Hall, L. R. Lam, and more. Tumble head over heels for these 12 gorgeous Romantasy stories from bestselling and beloved authors. A pair of harried servants try to romance their respective bosses into a universe-saving marriage. Two bitter political rivals discover they have interests in common, and decide not to let a little thing like murder get in the way. After years apart, childhood nemeses come together to resolve their differences, and face down a common foe. From Regency England to a mysterious Romanian forest, and from a city made of flowers to a sinister faerie train, love conquers all in these 12 beautiful tales.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

EVERDARK ACADEMY BOOK SEVEN: MM VAMPIRE ROMANCE by X Aratare

Grayson starts to get turned into a vampire by Artemis’s poisoned blood, but Ryder and his friends arrive just in time to take over. Grayson is now the product of three bloodlines: Ashyr, Weryn and Kaly. Even in his weakened state, Grayson has powers that surprise him. But after the rescue is done, the Immortals learn that they can’t escape their violent and bloody past. Even if the future is good, they can only watch their past selves ruin everything that they love.      Amazon

THE HOUSE ON HAVEN WAY by S C Principale

Johnny Miller had it all going for him. A good-looking girl, an honorable discharge, and a brand-new Chevy Bel-Air. Too bad it was all taken away. Amber Pierce has nothing going for her. No guy, no job, and a majorly messed-up neck thanks to a car crash that wrecked her dream job. With an insurance settlement and free time, it’s time to launch the second half of her life—whatever that looks like. So far, it looks like a dilapidated house from the 1950s, a cemetery up the road, and one very unexpected ghostly greaser roommate—who insists the house isn’t big enough for both of them. Unless Amber can help him find out who or what caused his mysterious death so he can cross over, she’s the one who has to go. But once Johnny and Amber form an uneasy truce and start digging into the past, it turns out they have a chemistry that transcends life and death. Is justice worth leaving a new love behind, or can these two solve the mystery and still make a new life (or unlife) together in the little house on Haven Way?       AmazonKU

KNOT WHAT I EXPECTED (FERAL HEARTS OMEGAVERSE BOOK TWO) by C D Gorri

One feral Wolf. One stubborn Omega. One knot he can’t outrun. They call him Havoc for a reason. Rowan “Havoc” Cross isn’t just a Wolf Shifter—he’s a storm barely leashed. More monster than mercy. He left his New Jersey Pack behind to protect them from himself, trading pack politics for wildfire lines where his rage can finally burn for something useful. No ties. No mates. No weakness. Until her. Gabriella Santos is a single mom working brutal shifts at a small-town burger joint, holding her world together with grit and caffeine. Her son is her priority. Her heart is off-limits. And she doesn’t have time for a dangerous mountain firefighter who looks at her like she’s already his. But Havoc’s Wolf knows the truth the second he scents her. Gabriella is his Omega. His calm in the chaos. His future. And when danger creeps too close to her door, Havoc has a choice to make. Keep running from what he is…Or claim his mate and become the Alpha she and her son deserve.       Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

CROWNED BY THE BLOOD ALPHAS by Olivia T Turner

I’m a princess, not a bargaining chip. Try telling that to the ruthless, barbarous Wolf Kings on the other side of the border. My kingdom’s ancient wall is crumbling, and the monstrous Hollowborn beyond it are growing bolder. Only the Blood Alphas are strong enough to protect us. Their price is royal blood. My royal blood. King Tovik is a ruthless warrior who commands armies with a single look. King Cassius is a silver-tongued strategist who can make me blush with a single word. They share a throne, a kingdom, and absolute power. Now they intend to share me. I should fear the enormous wolves who watch me like starving predators. Instead, every possessive touch leaves me aching for more. Tovik wants me trembling beneath him. Cassius wants me begging in his ear. And neither king intends to let me return home. I came to their kingdom as a hostage. But the Blood Alphas say I’m their fated mate, their only queen, and theirs to worship for the rest of my life.   AmazonKU

BEAST: MM MONSTER ROMANCE by Denver Shaw

A grumpy cryptid falls for his sunshine human. I didn’t come to Wisconsin looking for a legend. I came to get out. Out of staged smiles. Out of corporate campaigns. Out of photographing happiness that felt manufactured. I was supposed to spend two months in the woods. No clients, no deadlines, just open sky, real silence, and nothing that needed editing. What I find instead… is Calder. Seven feet of muscle and shadow and ancient forest stillness. He doesn’t trust humans, but I don’t scare easily. And the more time I spend with him, the harder it is to ignore the way he looks at me. The way his body reacts when I get too close. The way mine answers. But the forest isn’t as empty as it looks. There’s something else out there. Calder won’t name it—only follows its movement, and keeps himself between me and whatever’s slinking through the trees. And I’m starting to understand that whatever he’s been guarding me from isn’t the only danger in these woods. I should leave… but I don’t. Because knowing that doesn’t change anything. I still want him. And the worst part? He wants me too.   AmazonKU

THE BANSHEE AND THE WARLOCK (FATED MATES AND MONSTER DATES) by Laura Greenwood

The search for answers may lie in dreams of the past. Anja has never been able to answer the question of what she is, but now she’s at Rosewood Academy, she’s determined to find out–even if it means facing the dreams that plague her nights. The moment Cethin meets Anja, he knows she’s more than just a classmate, he just hopes that she can see beyond his twisted lineage and won’t run screaming when she discovers she’s his mate. Between the nightmares, the new class load, and the charming dark warlock plaguing her thoughts, there’s no doubt that Anja has her hands full, but can it help find her the answers she’s looking for? The Banshee and the Warlock is a cozy m/f monster romance and part of the Fated Mates and Monster Dates series. It features a banshee in search of who she is, a dark warlock determined to help her, and a newly formed mate bond that holds more answers than either of them expect.

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DARK DELIGHTS ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT by Various

From the tree line, something watches. It knows your name before you’ve said it. It yearns to taste you, to see if you’re as sweet as you look. But this Halloween, the monsters aren’t the danger: the wanting is. Seven authors. Seven short stories. Seven wicked temptations that you won’t regret–ever. Dark Delights on Halloween Night is a limited time, multi author Halloween anthology with short stories by Marilyn Barr, Gretchen Hexe, Brandy S. Goodman, Angelica Grymm, Danielle Sibarium, Roslyn St. Clair, and V.V. Strange. Go ahead. Indulge. Dark delights only come on Halloween night.   Amazon

SNAKE EYES AND BAD LUCK by Lizzie Strong

A lost, little Warlock walking through the woods and along comes the big, bad snake—tell me if you’ve heard this one before…Avelina, the daughter of the Knight Commander of the SunBringer Paladins, has always been the obedient, quiet book worm. Basically a doormat who never talks about the horrible thing stalking her. She doesn’t need to; her tough-as-nails best friend, Tala, protects her. Until her father forces her to ride back to Parandor Stronghold with him and the train is held up by bandits. Avie’s got no one to save her now and Catalysta, The Mad Goddess, has other plans for her. Now a warlock, Avie seeks refuge from the paladins hunting her in the nearby swamps. It’s there in the muck of Gloomsdale where her luck finally runs out. Callum, a.k.a. Cottonmouth, a heartless, bloodthirsty outlaw, spots the key to his new freedom fleeing through the murky trees. All she has to do is take the fall for him…and all he has to do is not fall for her. Avie isn’t used to being powerful…but there’s something addictive about being the one person he’d burn the world for.       AmazonKU’

GRAVEDANCER (BROKEN HOUSES BOOK ONE) by Mychael Black

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

For Malik and Dorian, the death of one of House Severn’s leaders just turned personal. House Severn is in turmoil with the mysterious death of its leader’s omega mate. No one knows how he died, and it falls on Malik Devries, the House’s resident Spiritori priest, to find answers. His search leads him to someone he never expected to find — Dorian Morrow, his fated mate. Dorian was only fifteen when his family fled House Severn. He always thought his dads wanted to get away and live life free of any House ties. He’d been wrong — so very, very wrong. What he isn’t wrong about, however, is the almost magnetic pull he feels to House Severn’s Spiritori, Malik Devries.      Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL: WAR OF THE BROTHERHOOD by Michele Miles

Love made him dangerous. Devotion will make him unstoppable. For centuries, Kincade survived by control. Forged by the Brotherhood, he learned to bury his humanity, suppress his instincts, and become exactly what they needed him to be—a weapon. Darkness was safer than feeling. Obedience was survival. Then she changed everything. When the woman he loves is taken, restraint shatters. The careful balance he’s fought to maintain slips—and the Brotherhood sees their opening. They want the monster he used to be. The weapon they never quite lost. To save her, he may have to become exactly that. As ancient secrets rise and factions fracture, the line between protector and destroyer begins to blur. Every step closer to her pulls him deeper into the war he tried to escape—and toward the darkness he swore would never rule him again. Because this time, love isn’t his weakness. It’s his point of no return.       Amazon        AB         Kobo

DORCHAD (IMMORTAL HIGHLANDER CLAN MACRUNE BOOK TWO:  A SCOTTISH TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE by Hazel Hunter

An ordinary workday that seems like all the rest soon turns into an impossible choice: go to medieval Scotland or watch a young patient die. Physical therapist Rebecca McIan has dedicated her life to helping kids. After a lifetime of recovering from her own injuries, she understands only too well how they live with pain. In more ways than one, the choice to save her patient is really no choice at all. Dorchad MacRune is used to terrifying people. In fact, he depends on it. As the second in command, he keeps a tight rein on clan and vassals alike. But when Rebecca arrives, she somehow sees past the surface and into the heated heart of why he keeps everyone at bay. But as a rival clan and Dark Fae forces converge on the MacRune, Rebecca and Dorchad find themselves at the center of more than a torrid relationship. They must protect each other or face annihilation.     AmazonKU

HUNTING ISLA (BLACK MOUNTAIN MATES BOOK ONE) by Grace McGinty

When Isla’s best friend shoved her into the drivers seat of a beat up car and begged her to drive, Isla’s life changed forever. She went from unwanted foster kid to teenage mom. She went from finding the beginnings of a family with three boys who seemed as lost as she was, to running for her life with a newborn. She was deep in a world that she didn’t understand and couldn’t reach out to the only people she trusted to help her. She made a promise to Kara, and Isla always kept her promises. But every night, she hoped Axel, Archer and Wyatt would find her before it was too late.   AmazonKU

SOMETHING HANDSOME THIS WAY COMES (PUMPKIN HOLLOW) by Tereza Kane

VS Note: MM PNR.

When healer witch Milo Pembrooke and his handsome Chimera mate, Grievance, discover Pumpkin Hollow has a new “pest” just days before the annual Pumpkin Festival, they volunteer to catch it before frightened townsfolk take matters into their own hands. But the elusive culprit turns out to be a mischievous baby dragon who’s more interested in smashing pumpkins than causing trouble.
Between overflowing customers, an unexpected potion mishap, and one tiny ice-breathing troublemaker, Milo and Grievance may discover their little family is about to get a whole lot bigger.   AmazonKU

THEY WERE BROOMMATES (PUMPKIN HOLLOW) by Harlowe Savage

VS note: FF PNR.

When the caretaker of Pumpkin Hollow’s cathedral passes away, Kitchen Witch Amelie is called to take her place. But when the town illusion begins to fail and the dead start to rise from their graves, Amelie must help the residents of the cathedral get ahold of their powers before they reveal the quaint little town to the dangers of the human world. Can she get the convent of witches under control before everything falls apart? And what happens when they all start to take a special interest in her? Will there be enough of her to go around?      AmazonKU

BLOOD SUGAR (PUMPKIN HOLLOW) by Aly Hollis

Rowen Sinclair values his quiet, orderly life running his family’s magical bakery in Pumpkin Hollow, until vivacious Sadie crashes into his life. As a brand new vampire, Sadie Corvin is struggling to survive on her own. She uses hook-ups to get blood, but after a memorable make-out session with sexy witch Rowen, she’s shocked to learn he owns the bakery that just hired her as a night baker. Rowen is furious with the sunshine vampire—she’s a total disaster in the kitchen and somehow convinces him to let her keep her job. Now he has to train her to bake properly, resist kissing her again, and prepare for the upcoming pumpkin festival all at the same time! Warning: This cozy novella is both spicy and sweet, and contains an adorable town full of witchy small businesses, a grumpy kitchen witch with magenta hair, a hot mess vampire bombshell, and some very inappropriate uses of frosting.      AmazonKU

MAGICAL MIDLIFE CONCLAVE (LEVELING UP BOOK 13) by K F Breene

Austin is done chasing shifters across the country, trying to prove his worth. This time, he’s bringing them to him. Together with Jessie, he’s hosting a shifter conclave—the first gathering of its kind in years. The last one in recorded history ended in bloodshed. This time, however, they aren’t just inviting shifters into their territory. Gargoyles and basajaunak have been called in as well. With decades of grudges, rivalries, and power struggles converging in one place, the conclave is a disaster waiting to happen. And that’s before the enemies determined to crush Austin and Jessie’s growing alliance make their move. Keeping the peace may be impossible. Surviving the gathering might be even harder. But if the conclave succeeds, it could reshape the future of the supernatural world forever. If it fails, history won’t just repeat itself—it will be remembered as the day everything fell apart.       AmazonKU       AB

THE FALLEN FAE KING (THE SHADOW KINGS BOOK THREE) by Rosemary A Johns

A Fae King. A secret Empress. And a war with an impossible choice. Daire is the beautiful fae assassin from a broken Unseelie Kingdom. Once, the ancient fae of myth were worshiped as gods. Now, they are hunted and caged as pets in the Shadow Courts. Captured by brutal Dragon and Vampire Kings, Daire has only two obsessions left: his freedom and his Omega wolf shifter, Freya. His soulmate. Trapped between fragile alliances, vengeance, and blood feuds, Freya stands at the center of a conflict that could cost her everything. Will the prophecy come true that a fated mate bound to three Alpha Kings must lose one of them forever? Freya should have remembered one truth above all others — fae deals are always paid in blood…Three villainous kings. One strong heroine. And an epic love that could burn an empire.        AmazonKU

I SNUCK AROUND WITH MOTHMAN IN MORGANTOWN (SPICE-TEMBER) by Brigitte Ann Thomas

Lainey did not want to be in the woods hunting for Mothman, but when her best friend needed a wing-woman, she couldn’t say no. So ending up lost in the woods is her worst nightmare, especially after something goes bump in the night. Is mothman real? Find out with Lainey in the first Cavorting with Cryptids/ City Creatures crossover!       AmazonKU

ON THIN ICE (FROGSBORO SWAMP STOMPERS) (SPICE-TEMBER) by Brandy S Goodman

Violet likes numbers. Numbers don’t stare at her. Numbers don’t get too close. Numbers definitely don’t make her heart race. Xander does. And ever since his world turned dark, he’s been looking at her like she’s the only thing keeping him together. Which would be fine…If she wasn’t already falling for him.   AmazonKU

IT WAS ALWAYS YOU: A SHE-MONSTER ROMANCE (SPICE-TEMBER) by Gretchen Hexe

She doesn’t think anyone would want a feisty and strong minotaur woman for a mate. He’s too shy to live in town, but has loved her forever. Maybe all they needed was a little autumn spirit. Irida has everything a mintoaur could want: great friends, great family, and a bar she owns with her brothers. What more could she want? The one thing she only hopes for in her dreams, a partner. While her Mom starts pushing bulls in her direction for the harvest festival ball, she finds herself charmed by little notes and trinkets that start showing up. It seems she might have a secret admirer. Carter didn’t intend to be a recluse all by himself in the mountains, but his life was logging and the trees. When he learns that his best friends younger sister has caught the attention of one of the more successful bulls in town, he decides that he needs to start opening up and rejoining life before the one woman he’s wanted forever becomes snatched up for good.      Amazon

THE NAGA’S WITCH (SPICE-TEMBER)  by Gretchen Hexe

Agatha Purnell has always done everything her parents expected of her. She received excellent marks in school, mastered her charms and spells quickly, and is an active member of her coven. As she’s reaching the last year in her thirties, however, she’s realizing that her own dream of having a child will need to be let go. Having a little too much fun during the Autumn Equinox celebration might be just the thing she needs. Sully is the resident naga and has a reputation for being the town’s bad boy and he knows it. Not that he’s done anything to earn it aside from have a few tattoos and keeping himself at the garage, but he doesn’t go out of his way to correct anyone either. When the nerdy witch who runs the library ends up in his arms one night, one thing leads to another and he realizes that he might just be ready to shed his solitary skin. When the two souls who have given up on finding forever discover the solstice has blessed them with their own special harvest, can they learn to trust one another by the time the baby arrives so they can have the family they’ve both always wanted?     Amazon

SHE’S A DOLL by Barbara Truelove

VS Note: LGBTQ Horror/Humor.

Lucy isn’t like other girls. She’s a doll on a mission—to find the man who killed her and return the favor. Lucy McQuinn has been murdered, but she’s not about to go quietly. If she doesn’t get to keep breathing, then neither does Kyle, her killer. Possessing the body of an antique doll, she sets out on a quest for revenge. But it’s hard when you’re eighteen inches tall and made of porcelain. For help, she turns to Nicola, a human and fellow outsider with her own reasons to hate Kyle. But in their small idyllic town, no one wants to hear the truth, especially not about such a promising young man. If they can’t expose his crimes, Lucy will have to roll up her lacy little sleeves and teach him a lesson the old-fashioned way—as slowly and painfully as possible.

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GHOULS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN by Christine Pope

All Phoebe wanted was a fresh start. What she got was a roommate forty years past his expiration date. Clairvoyant Phoebe Finch has spent her whole life learning to ignore the things only she can sense — the grief soaked into old houses, the secrets people don’t say out loud, the occasional opinion from someone no longer technically alive. Burned out and done with all of it, she buys a dilapidated Victorian B&B in the foggy coastal town of Madrona Cove and plans to disappear into a quiet life of sanded floors and fresh paint. Then she meets her permanent houseguest. Lanny Olsen died in 1988 at the age of eighteen and has never left the building. He’s loud, nosy, stuck in the decade that killed him, and convinced his death was no accident. He wants justice, and he’s decided Phoebe is going to get it for him, whether she likes it or not. She doesn’t. But the more she pokes at the forty-year-old cold case, the more she realizes Lanny might be right. The town closes ranks. The handsome local archivist, Theo Lindgren, knows far more than he’s letting on. And somewhere behind Madrona Cove’s lavender beds and wellness retreats, someone is still protecting a very old, very ugly secret. Phoebe just wanted to renovate a house. Instead, she’s about to renovate the truth…one buried clue at a time.

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THE ORC’S HEX (VEIL LANDS BOOK 13) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Welcome to the Veil lands, where monsters are the only ones who can save you. Ziva: I was hired to break a curse. Then I stepped inside Blackscar Hold. Four women before me met a bloody end, all victims of a deadly clan lord bound to a dying bloodline. Drazhul Xorn is seven feet of raw power, brutal scars, and terrifying restraint. My job is to dismantle the ancient magic in his stone, but his touch sets my skin on fire—and triggers a violence he can barely control. Every instinct screams to run before his dark magic consumes me. He marked me as a target. I’m becoming the temptation that will break him. Drazhul: A century of isolation. I’m cursed to destroy any woman I touch. Then a dangerous curse-eater walks through my gates with wildfire in her eyes. A witch to keep at arm’s length. Instead, she looks at the beast in my chest and isn’t afraid. When the magic forces us together, she doesn’t flinch—she grabs my wrist, pins me with her gaze, and demands all of me. Now a forbidden mark burns between us, binding my soul to hers. I was built to kill anything I love. She’s making me hungry to claim her anyway.      AmazonKU

HEXED AND BOTHERED by Sabrina Sin and Milly Taiden

Everything in the dark knows my name now. Pity for them — so does the thing that guards me. One cursed compass from an estate auction, and I went from shop owner to the most hunted woman in Black Hollow overnight. Now the town’s head of security has decided I don’t leave his sight. Ronan. Tiger shifter. A man who watches me like I’m the answer to a question he refuses to ask out loud. Am I the one he’s protecting? Or the one he’s been waiting for? He’s not the only one watching me. But he’s the only one that will save me—even if he has to sacrifice everything else. I should be terrified of what he is. I’m not. I’m his.       AmazonKU

I’M UNDEAD SERIOUS by Vixen Voss and Milly Taiden

She authenticates documents for a living. I am, in every way that counts, a forgery. Five centuries of vanishing from view. Of bringing terror to mere mortals. They sent me to discredit her. Doubt is cheaper than force and it lasts longer. I got one sentence into it before five hundred years of composure came apart in my chest. Mate. A human woman with a pencil between her teeth, who catches lies for a living — and I am the largest one this city has ever told. She is a death sentence with a heartbeat. The law says so. But I wrote that law. I’ve read it a thousand times and I’m not going to follow it. She’s the first true thing I have ever touched. And I’d burn every forgery I ever made to keep her.      AmazonKU

TALK HOWLY TO ME (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 113) by Milly Taiden

She needed a safe place to hide. She definitely didn’t need two ridiculously hot wolf shifters deciding she belonged between them. Underground fighter Sloane Carter can throw a punch, take a hit, and handle her own problems, thank you very much. But when a brutal post-fight ambush leaves her with a dangerous enemy on her heels, accepting help from a tiny white-haired matchmaker suddenly seems like the least crazy option available. Then Sloane walks into Hale Lodge and meets two massive, gorgeous men who look at her like they already know exactly how she’d taste. So much for uncomplicated. Alpha Ronan Hale has enough problems without a bruised, beautiful human walking into his lodge and making his wolf go completely feral. One look at Sloane’s smart mouth, dangerous curves, sassy attitude, and every possessive instinct he has roars to life. His Beta and best friend, Kozue, is usually the reasonable one—until Sloane turns those sharp eyes on him and his control goes up in flames too. Their wolves agree on one shocking, undeniable truth: she’s their mate. Now Ronan wants her under his protection, Kozue wants to see what other sounds that wicked mouth can make, and neither man has any intention of pretending the heat between all three of them isn’t scorching enough to burn down the lodge. But when the enemy hunting her follows her straight into Hale territory and an old pack vendetta explodes around them, Sloane discovers Ronan and Kozue aren’t the only ones willing to fight for what belongs to them. Unfortunately for the bad guys, Sloane hits back—and this time she has two possessive wolves guarding her back, warming her bed, and making it very clear that once they claim their mate, they have no intention of ever letting her go.   AmazonKU

A SPELL OF HEART AND HAVOC by Kristen Vale

VS Note: FF Fantasy.

The thief, the noblewoman, and the secrets they hide. Maerryl Kirim, a surly half-dwarf with the world on her shoulders, will do anything to save her deathly ill brother. Joining a guild of thieves to gather enough coin for his cure, she agrees to infiltrate a noble family. But acting as bodyguard for their haughty, spoiled daughter is no walk in the enchanted forest. Dove Wistrallo yearns for independence, not a babysitter. As the uncouth Maerryl loves to remind her, she lives a charmed life… though few know of the risky magical ability that Dove hides. Spending every moment together is infuriating—at first. But before long, the friction between the rogue and the lady becomes a spark they can’t ignore. Yet the clock is ticking for Maerryl to secure the family’s riches. Does their growing love stand a chance against Maerryl’s ruse, Dove’s secrets, and a den of thieves?

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TEA AND TAROT: CROSSROADS QUEEN SIDE QUEST by Annabel Chase

She walked away from the life she was born to live. Now she has one chance to build the life she’s always wanted. Indigo Briggs was one of the most feared tarot mages in the business—until a job went wrong and she walked away from it all. Now she’s in Fairhaven, a quirky supernatural town with secrets of its own, trying to build something quieter: a tea shop, a fresh start, and a life she might actually deserve. The only problem? Her new venture needs funding she doesn’t have. Enter Boone Fincher—charming, infuriatingly handsome, and in desperate need of a fake fiancée. His father’s will requires him to marry a mage with a powerful lineage, and Boone is running out of time. The arrangement is strictly business: Indy gets the money she needs, Boone gets his inheritance, and when it’s over, they part ways. Simple. Except nothing about this is simple. Between a blind vampire with unsettling insight, a revenant who likes to lend a hand, a mysterious bone monster that wanders through the crossroads, and a ghost from her old life determined to unravel everything she’s built, Indy is starting to suspect the universe has a plan she didn’t envision. Then the past she thought she’d escaped comes looking for her, and Indigo must decide whether she’s willing to risk everything for the future she’s finally begun to imagine—one that includes a love that was never supposed to be real.    AmazonKU       AB

THE AGE OF BLOOD AND MAGIC by Hannah Mathewson

A hundred years ago, magic ran wild—belonging only to the fae, the witches, the vampires. Then the mortal Martin Maddock stole its secret. With it, he forged Mythos, a company that bottles spells for humankind. Now his descendants rule a trillion-dollar empire of magical technology—and the uber rich are hungry for more. The world’s most powerful elites descend on the Maddock estate for a lavish weekend to unveil Mythos’s latest innovation: an elixir promising immortality itself. But when the CEO suddenly collapses before the product’s unveiling, the celebration turns deadly. His daughter, Valentina Maddock, is thrust into a vicious succession battle against her playboy brother, her brilliant scientist mother, and a ruthless CFO. And with Mythos’s future on the line, everyone at this party has a motive, because anyone might kill for a taste of forever. Then an unexpected guest arrives: a vampire. Luc Sayle claims he has no ties to Mythos, yet he carries a mysterious invitation from the CEO himself. Drawn to the enigmatic and dangerously handsome stranger, Valentina senses Luc may be her only ally. But as suspicion mounts and bodies begin to fall, Valentina will have to decide who to trust in a mansion built on illusion—and who the true monster at this party really is.     Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

BIGFOOT CONFIDENTIAL (JERICHO JAMES BOOK TWO) by Jasmine Kuliasha

Mysterious things are happening at the edge of the woods—strange animals have been sighted, and livestock are turning up dead—so supernatural sleuth Jericho James has been called in to uncover the truth. But it seems like someone, or something, is investigating her in return. She can’t quite shake the feeling that she’s being watched. Or that the trees are somehow shifting. . . . And the town’s bigfoot obsession isn’t making her job any easier. Surely not every legend is true. But there is something hidden in the woods. Something big, something strong, something . . . incredibly sexy. And Jericho James is going to find out what.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

WANTED: ROGUES AND BARDS (E.V.I.L. BOOK ONE) by AJ Sherwood and Jovelynne Drake

VS Note: LGBTQ Fantasy

Welcome to E.V.I.L! (Every Villain is Legendary.) Mission Guidelines: Be evil. (Except, y’know, when someone’s in trouble, or might need a rescue out of an open grave, things like that.) Adopt new members. (At least, Fenric would love to keep the sexy bard, but would Lirion even want to join them?) Retrieve Fenric’s mother’s stolen treasures (and beat up the heroes who stole them if possible) Rescue Lirion’s sister and wait, what do you mean breaking up a sex ring and helping a village from being overrun by finfolk LOWERED our villain rankings overnight? Future Goals: climb the villain rankings, find a lair, get revenge, and trash talk The Box – Welcome and try not to die (but if you do our necromancer will raise you).       AmazonKU

BODIES OF MAGIC by Freya Marske

At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healer’s gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam—a five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future. The list of exam rules includes: • You will perform five practical cases. • Your exam group is chosen at random. • You pass together, or fail together. It does not include: • On the first day, your exam group will find a classmate’s dead body in the exam hall. And as they will soon discover, this particular group all have something to hide… and all have a connection with the dead girl, a brilliant scholar who would have been first in their class. Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days in which to solve a murder, pass the most important exam of their lives, and uncover a secret larger than all of their own combined. One with the potential to change the world. Are you ready? Let’s begin.

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DAUGHTER OF THE DARK (DAUGHTERS OF AUQUIS BOOK ONE) by R J Valldeperas

Supay lives under a curse of eternal death. For the greed of their god, the people are damned to live as human… and then again as muki. For Solana, survival means staying sharp and staying alone. Armed with only a blood-forged dagger, she’s carved out a life as Supay’s fiercest slayer, freeing souls even as she’s trapped by duty. But when a twist of fate offers her the title of Royal Demon Hunter, Solana finally finds a path to the freedom she’s always craved… but it draws her closer to the darkness threatening Supay—darkness that calls to her soul alone. Torn between turning her back on a fight she never asked for and the pull of loyalties old and new—including an irresistible connection to a man who should be her enemy—Solana must decide…Choose fate and freedom? Or death, destruction… and revolution.     Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

DEAD BEAT (NINTH HOUSE SERIES BOOK FOUR) by Leigh Bardugo

Hell is empty and all the devils are here…Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it’s only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld open and they face a war they cannot win. To stop it, they’ll have to reach deep into the secrets of Yale and its societies, and discover the truth hidden in Alex’s own blood. While she struggles to hold onto the dream of a future Yale once offered, Alex must contend with the machinations of a corrupt Lethe Board and a deadly vampire with his own connection to the societies. But for the first time in her life, she won’t have to face the fight alone. Dawes, Turner, Mercy, and even Tripp will have a role to play, none more so than Alex’s mentor Darlington, the golden boy who lived so long in her head, now back in the flesh and cursed with dangerous powers of his own. Hell itself is stalking the delegates of Lethe House, and they’re all about to learn that demons don’t play by human rules.

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THE BAKER AND THE KRAKEN: COZY MM URBAN FANTASY ROMANCE  (CELEBRATIONS WITH MYTHICAL MATES BOOK ONE) by  Ellie Ash

Can a happily ever after start with a faceful of cake? Adam – At 32, it’s safe to say that Adam isn’t growing out of his awkward and accident-prone phase. Unbreakable charms and mending spells only help so much, and past experience has taught him that no one wants to put up with him for long. He loves his job at the bakery and the friends he’s made there, but he’s given up on the thought of anything more. Besides, he’s a witch who doesn’t want a familiar, and he certainly doesn’t need a shifter familiar bond. That’s not ever going to change. Calder – Calder has been waiting for centuries to find his mate. But he’s a shifter with patience, so he’s sure he can get past the defenses of the adorable witch who’s the clumsiest and most charming person Calder has ever met. But if Adam doesn’t believe in bonding or connecting to shifters, how’s Calder going to break the news to him that he’s Calder’s fated mate? Is it possible that just this once, the Magic got it wrong?   AmazonKU

THE EMPEROR’S ENEMY (UNSURVOVABLE LOVE DUET BOOK ONE) by Jasmine Mas

When the hunter is hunted… who becomes prey? Zora Ravenal didn’t join the Crimson Army to be a hero. She joined to destroy the empire. A skilled hunter hardened by loss with a concerning capacity for stubbornness, Zora claws her way into becoming a Knight Mage: the Commonwealth’s deadliest defense against the Empire’s storm magic and her people’s only hope. It almost works. Now she’s stuck in a war she can’t walk away from, hiding dangerous secrets, and shoved into very close quarters with the one man she should never be alone with. He’s a Royal Mage with a body count, a temper, and an unsettling obsession… with her. Now they’re partners. Sort of. If “partners” means being forced to train together, trust each other with their lives, and somehow not kill each other in the process. But the Royal Mage isn’t just dangerous—he’s paying attention. And the longer they’re forced to remain in each other’s orbit, the more twisted everything becomes. Who’s hunting who?       Amazon     AB      Apple Books     Kobo

GRIM TIDINGS: A NOVEL (GHOSTED BOOK TWO) by B K Borison

Darcy Moore is tired of death. Which would be fine and good … if she wasn’t a Grim Reaper. Determined to outrun her designation as the villain, Darcy decides she won’t be dragging her next assignment to the underworld. She’ll be saving him instead. Unfortunately for Darcy, there’s a complication in her plan. Guardian Angel Gabriel Aetos doesn’t tolerate threats to his little corner of the world, and a Grim Reaper showing up at his bar is as deadly as it gets. But when he realizes Darcy is not as she seems, Gabriel must decide if he can trust his growing feelings or hold on to his long-standing grudge. But magic doesn’t come without consequences. And the Department of Hauntings & Spirits will eventually come calling for their missing Reaper.

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THE OLYMPIAN ARTIFACTS (THE DIVINE NEW WOMAN BOOK ONE) by Liz Molloy

Ancient, powerful artifacts. Vengeful academics. Prodigious partnerships. Spring, 1924. Clara Fairfax has spent her life being told “no”—denied entry to the post-graduate program at Oxford, overlooked for prestigious archaeological expeditions, dismissed by a world that doubts a woman’s place in history. But when she finally joins a daring journey to uncover the sites of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Clara’s determination is tested like never before. Her discovery of an artifact of Olympian power thrusts her into a deadly game. Hunted by ruthless rivals who would use it to reshape the world, she must rely on an unexpected ally: Henry Ashford, her brilliant and infuriating academic rival. Together, they navigate a treacherous journey across Europe, unravel ancient secrets, and fight to protect humanity from chaos. Amid danger and intrigue, trust sparks into passion—and Clara finds the courage, cunning, and heart to become the heroine she was always meant to be.   Amazon

THE PALACE BENEATH THE SEA by Lauren Weisbron

A doomed love story created the city of Ys, it’s fitting that another one would end it . . .Nolwenn is sure that her life’s purpose is to defend her beloved coastal city of Ys as a lighthouse keeper. But when a dangerous, unnatural tide threatens Ys, the queen instead tasks Nolwen with collecting enough rare seasilk to shield the city from the deadly monsters who lurk deep beneath the waves. Determined to fulfill her task, Nolwenn recklessly puts her life in danger, only to be attacked by the very creatures she’s trying to defend her city against. She’s saved by Morvan, a member of the korrigez people, with the torso of a human and the tail of a fish. Against her will, Morvan drags her deeper into the ocean to the coral palace of Below-Ys. Although Nolwenn is terrified and homesick, Below-Ys is also strange and beautiful…as is Morvan. The more time Nolwenn spends below the surface, the less she is sure she wants to leave. As danger draws ever nearer to her homeland and Ys remains precariously unprotected, Nolwenn must decide between her heart and her home.

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THE SLEEPING KEY (SHROUD OF NIGHTMARES BOOK ONE) by Gemma Ashborne

A young woman discovers dark powers lie beneath her nightmares and that her life—and love—depends on her defeating her demons in this dark romantasy. Fey Masterson can’t escape the darkness lodged in her mind. Awake or asleep, she’s consumed by an anxiety that’s wreaking havoc on her life. The paralyzing dread has stolen everything from her, leaving her yearning for a life of solitude. When she enrolls at a remote art institute deep in the Redwoods, Fey believes she’s finally found sanctuary. Her nightmares only grow more intense, however, as a menacing beast stalks her throughout. Her sole balm is the powerful bond she feels with her mysterious mentor, Cillian, whose strange magic, familiar green eyes, and sharp tongue all have her questioning her desire to be alone. But as the two begin to fall more deeply for each other, a new threat arises. It seems a baneful witch seeks to unleash an army of monsters into the world, confirming Fey’s greatest fear: her harrowing dreams are becoming a daunting reality . . .Now, Fey must wield ancient magic and prove herself capable of slaying these wicked enemies. Because if she loses her battle against the mighty demon who haunts her, the consequences could be dire not only for her and Cillian but the entire mortal world.       Amazon        AB

THE GREEN-EYED WARRIOR: THE MONROE BROTHERS BOOK TWO: TYRELL & DESTINY by Shalene

VS Note: From JULY 6.

Destiny Phillips has spent her life surviving. As an Omega in a world that decides an Omega’s worth before she ever has a voice, she learned early not to want things she couldn’t keep. Then she presented as an Ice Wolf—a rarity that made her both feared and sought after. Abuse and betrayal only reinforced the lesson that trust comes with a price, and depending on anyone is a mistake she refuses to make twice. Now living among the Mystic Warriors, she’s determined to master her newfound power and become strong enough that no one will ever have control over her again. Every training session, every challenge, and every battle bring her one step closer to reclaiming the life that was nearly stolen from her. Tyrell Monroe has been patient with the woman destined to be his mate… but even patience has its limits. As the Delta of the Mystic Warriors and one of the rare Water Wolves, Tyrell leads with quiet strength, unwavering loyalty, and a calm that few can match. He knows trust can never be demanded—it must be earned. So while Destiny fortifies the walls around her heart, he chooses to stand beside her, proving through every action that true strength isn’t measured by dominance alone, but by the patience to love someone without asking them to become anyone other than themselves. Ice doesn’t melt easily. Water doesn’t stop moving. And when the two of them finally stop fighting what’s between them, the line they thought they could hold doesn’t just bend — it breaks.        AmazonKU

PURSUIT OF SILVER LIGHT (THE SACRED COMPANY BOOK ONE) by Piper F A

VS Note: From AUG 14.

Thalia can see every thread of fate. Bromios will burn through anyone trying to sever theirs. And around them, the Sacred Company protects humanity’s marked shifters in ancient Greece. They never anticipated having to protect one of them from the future. Thalia has spent her life on an island of oracles. Marked by Artemis and gifted with the form of the Ceryneian Hind, she can see silver pathways where time and fate converge. In ancient Greece, that makes her sacred. It also makes her a target when researchers from the future tear open the boundaries of time to find her. But they didn’t account for Bromios. Dragon shifter. Marked by Dionysus. A warrior who has spent years fighting battles and his nights dreaming of a woman who holds possible futures in her eyes. The moment he finds her in the flesh, an ancient, dangerous bond ignites between them and he will never allow Thalia to be taken. Thalia sees every path forward. Bromios burns through anything standing in their way. Together, their power might be enough to stop a force from two millennia ahead. Or they might hold the key people from the future came looking for.     AmazonKU

THE INCENDIARY (THE SELVAREN BOOK TWO) by LJ Claren

They thought she was powerless. Now she is unstoppable. Everything that Ary thought she knew was a lie…She has been caged and controlled, lied to by the ones she loved. Now she is finally free—with deadly magic waking in her veins. They say she is destined to lead an army against a rising darkness. They say the man she loves is dangerous—that she will never see him again. But Ary is done listening to what they say. She will choose her own destiny. It’s time for her to burn.      AmazonKU   

AND SO THE STORM SCREAMS: MINDBREAKER DUET BOOK TWO (AN AGE OF WAR AND PROPHECY BOOK FOUR) by Lacey Lehotsky

Sylaira knew trusting Vaeron was a risk. She didn’t know it would end with her in a cage. Bound to the mate who betrayed her and haunted by visions she can’t escape, she’s dragged into a war she doesn’t believe in. Rage storms in her heart. Vengeance whispers in her ear. Because the ones who broke her are still breathing. Vaeron would do anything to keep Sylaira safe—even if it meant lying to her, controlling her, and becoming the very monster she fears. Sylaira no longer wants to be saved. With Vaeron’s love comes pain, and she wants everyone to bleed with her. The lie she told about her prophecy is unraveling. With every choice, pacifism slips further from her grasp, and the monsters she hates begin to look like mirrors. But letting Vaeron close again is the most dangerous thing she could do to her heart. If she doesn’t…The Angel race will fall. In the midst of war, love does not rest—it rages.       AmazonKU

WINGS OF DEATH (DARK SKY BOOK FIVE) by Ella Walker Henderson

Zaydah and Ilyia will bide their time. Sometimes destroying a man from the inside out is the best way to conquer a kingdom. In the belly of her enemy, Zaydah could try to escape, but the longer she’s trapped underground, the more she begins to unravel their secrets. They believe that she’ll never escape, that she’ll learn their ways and one day be as brainwashed as the rest of them. But Zaydah finds aid in unexpected places, from others who earn her loyalty. Ilyia is only one of those, but one of the most vital. She’ll use a man to gain access to the secret underground lair of the enemy. Ilyia enjoys the game more than most, and she plays it better, too. The final battle is unfolding, and the king is willing to destroy his kingdom to conquer his son. But that son and his queen will give everything for their people. It’s time for the Shield Queen to reign.       AmazonKU

THE BOOK OF UNWRITTEN STORIES (SALEM SISTERS BOOK TWO) by Helen Phifer

1680, Salem. Surrounded by lush herbs and colorful flowers, a young woman promises to keep her four-year-old daughter, Isadora, safe. Isadora’s father was an honorable man—but he was also truly dangerous. The book he left them must stay hidden until the time is right. Present day. In the vintage emporium where she works, Morana shifts nervously as she traces the engraving of her name inside an old leather book. The pages are filled with delicate writing, but the ink stops half-way across the page. And now she sees why. ‘Only you will be able to finish these words and uncover my secrets, daughter.’ Orphaned as a child, Morana stifles a sob; could this be written by her mother? But as Morana reads on, a dark shadow awakens. Someone has been waiting for Morana to open the book for generations. Morana will soon learn that the family she has been separated from are full of whimsy and wonder, but they have been running from the truth for a very long time. And the secrets she uncovers could do more damage than she could ever imagine.       AmazonKU       AB

DREAM WALKER (MAGIC MEN BOOK ONE) by Barbara Donlan Bradley

Marissa is running for her life. Her father plans on marrying her off to one of his cronies so he can steal her inheritance. She has been able to avoid her father for five years, but somehow he finds her. She knows she needs to grab her things and run. She never expects her recluse neighbor to volunteer to help her. In all his years as a Dreamwalker Dom has never met anyone like Marissa. There is something about her that makes him break the rules his kind lives by. Lots of rules. His magical side knows he should walk away but the human side tells him to stay. She needs him and he is going to be there for her. Dom realizes he needs to tell Marissa the truth about him, and Marissa needs to face her father. The problem is they learn the man her father wants her to marry knows about the magical world and plans on using her to access that world. That is why he’s willing to give her father Marissa’s inheritance. That changes everything. Now Dom needs to stop this man before he and Marissa can have the life they want.     Amazon      Apple Books      Kobo

MERCURY RAINE: WRITTEN IN RED by Sarah M Eden

VS Note: The series concept: “With fashionable ghosts being crucial to success in the ton, Mercury has made a successful business as a ghost broker, facilitating trades and acquiring a fortune. But he is not at all what he seems, hiding a past that could destroy everything he’s built. When the facade he hides behind begins to crack, his life of ease and renown becomes a fight for survival.”

Aventine Manor holds far more secrets than even the ghosts who call it home are aware of. Mercury Raine intends to harness every last one of them to protect them all from the threat hovering on the horizon. The Forever Flame, a ghost rumored to be both vindictive and worryingly powerful, knows who he is and where he lives and is sending an unending string of bounty hunters to capture him. Failing to thwart the growing threat would mean imprisonment for Mercury and all of his ghosts as well as disaster for Tacey. But when the danger grows to levels none of them could have predicted, will all their preparations be enough?     AmazonKU      AB

CRIMSON MOON FALLING (RILEY BLACKTHORNE SERIES BOOK THREE) by J L Brannick

Silent frost creeps through me as my new mate bond slowly dies. The implant embedded in my cortex at Roswell suppresses my emotions while sharpening my intellect. At the cost of my mate bond. When another park ranger goes missing in Yellowstone, I come full circle to my father’s disappearance. My troll partner and I uncover a conspiracy so dark that only the most cunning and ruthless will survive. And my agonizing choices will help keep the supernaturals safe, but the aftermath could haunt the Alpha and Pack for years to come. If I stay alive long enough to make it back to them. Book 3 in the Riley Blackthorne thriller urban fantasy romance trilogy, where an Alpha and his mate work to uncover a corrupt government’s insidious plot before war erupts.      AmazonKU

THE FINEST SCOTTISH FATE (CHRONICLES OF THE CURSED MATCHMAKERS BOOK ONE) by Maeve Greyson

A modern woman. A medieval warrior. A curse that demands forever. Evie Waterton believes in fated mates and love at first sight. She just never expected hers to exist in 1326. When the upbeat, independent Nashville native wins a Scottish sweepstakes she never entered, she blames destiny. But the quirky matchmakers of Craig Durness are far more than they seem. Hidden behind magical glamours, they’re cursed rebels racing to reunite time-torn soulmates before the gods and Fae courts destroy them. The moment Evie arrives in the misty Highlands, magic awakens. A fairy hill grants her a breathtaking vision of a fierce, dark-haired warrior who looks at her as if she already belongs to him. Then the hill sends her back seven centuries. Drummond MacMuirrow, Earl of Blackmorrow and chief of his clan, was raised to honor both Christianity and the old pagan ways. He trusts the magic of Scotland. So when a mystical mist shows him a vision of a woman unlike any in his world, he becomes obsessed with finding her—and then he does. Their bond is instant. Exhilarating. Unbreakable. Unless Evie refuses to accept it. To claim Drummond as her fated mate, she must forfeit her own century forever. And the gods, goddesses, and ruthless Fae courts are determined to drive her back to 2026. They prey on her fears of plagues and wars, childbirth and loss. If Evie speaks the severing vow, she escapes, but the curse remains—and the survival of many, including Drummond, hangs in the balance. In a world where myths breathe and time divides hearts, love may be the most dangerous magic of all.      AmazonKU

NOVICE GIRLFRIEND (MORRIGAN UNIVERSITY BOOK SIX) by Erin R Flynn

VS Note: Author says the series has to be read in order.

My name is Bevin Millen, the woman with the super-calm life that nothing big ever happens in. Yeah, I laughed just thinking that. Of course my life is drama-filled. I’m a rare goddess witch who apparently was blessed by multiple gods. Not sure that’s ever happened before. I not only escaped my top-tier family, but them wanting to sacrifice me for power. Then I unraveled my father, who was the head of the family, and took over being the head of my grandfather’s top-tier family that I plan on bringing back to life in our society. I’m a freshman at the hardest university in our world… Which I’m learning is complete bull, but it is my first organized schooling, so that’s an adjustment. I’m learning how to be friends to more than animals and dating for the first time. Everyone and their brother seems to want me as their pawn, puppet, or more, and they’re being unhinged about it. My magic is growing at a pace that scares people—scares me—and evidently is now volatile. I just finished midterms that people were actively trying to sabotage and am now going into my first college finals. So yeah, my life is chaotic and beyond ridiculous. I can rest when I’m dead. Which might be sooner rather than later with the way things have been going? Morrigan University is a spicy reverse harem, university-age paranormal academy series with darker elements, strong language, violence, and a heroine who always does her best no matter what’s thrown at her… While trying to figure out what and who her heart wants.      AmazonKU

BEAR MY HEART (VIRTUE SHIFTERS) by Zoe Chant

Shy, responsible nurse Shanti wants nothing more than to get out of Virtue someday, though without a destination in mind, she’s sure she’ll end up right back where she started. That doesn’t stop her from spending long days watching the new rail line come in, or dreaming about what might be. Alaskan-born rail worker and grizzly shifter Peter has heard that Virtue is a shifter sanctuary town, and has fond hopes of meeting his fated mate there—but he doesn’t expect to literally walk into her at the train station. It’s instantly clear to him that while they’re meant to be together forever, Shanti isn’t the kind of woman to leap into forever without hesitation, but the days they spend exploring the town and getting to know each other are more of a dream come true than Pete could have ever imagined. And best of all, their slow-burn courtship gives them each time to consider what they really want, and how they might best complement each other. As Shanti comes out of her shell, Pete begins to understand what he was missing in life—and when opportunities arise for them to build a brand new future together, Shanti and Peter are all in!      AmazonKU

A GHOST’S GUIDE TO HAUNTING A WITCH (THE PEPPERDAY WITCHES BOOK ONE) by Sharon Ibbotson

Augustine Pepperday has never fallen in love. Trust her heart to start with a ghost. Augustine has spent her life being the ordinary Pepperday witch. Her sisters read the stars and make magic look effortless. Augustine runs a sage-scented little shop selling overpriced candles and salmon-flavoured healing tea for emotionally overwrought cats. Then Theo walks through her door. He’s gorgeous. He smells of cinnamon. And he looks at Augustine like she isn’t ordinary at all. As though she’s exactly who he’s been looking for. He makes her laugh. He makes her heart race. There’s just one problem. Theo is dead. And he needs Augustine’s help to find out why. The cards might hold the answer. If Augustine can figure out how to read them. Every clue brings her closer to the truth . . . and closer to Theo. But falling in love with a ghost is impossible. Then again, so is a Pepperday witch with no magic. What if Augustine has been wrong about both?      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). 

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VALOR: MOST WANTED ALIEN BRIDES BOOK EIGHT (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Candice Gilmer

She thinks no one sees how much she’s carrying. I’m an empath. I feel every ounce of it. Brooklyn keeps the whole station running and never lets anyone see what it costs her. Perfectionism kept her safe growing up, and she’s not about to unlearn it now — least of all for a blue-haired Dalgurian warrior who looks at her like she’s the answer to a question he’s been asking his whole life. Falkin came to Libra Station to broker the most important trade deal in his people’s future. He didn’t expect the Intergalactic Dating Agency to match him with the one woman who refuses to believe anyone ever stays. He’s ready to open his heart. She’s spent a lifetime learning not to leap. But Falkin is patient, honor-bound, and can feel exactly how lonely she is behind that careful smile. There’s just one problem: Brooklyn’s found out he made a bet before he ever arrived — and now she has to decide whether she’s a woman he chose… or a prize he won.

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AZYR: DRIFITNG FOR HER (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) (CONSUMED BY THE ALIEN HEAT BOOIK FOUR) by Zoey Indiana

I said no to my alien match. Then I had to process his arrival paperwork. Ninety-one point three percent compatible. I declined. I run the Earth Liaison Office. I’m the one who waves goodbye. I don’t go. The IDA honored my rejection. My job didn’t. Azyr of the Veyathi filed his first-contact request before I said no, and I’m the only officer cleared to receive it. So now he’s in my office… Tall, quiet, skin burning cerulean every time I walk in. His translator just called me the harvest. He booked one week. He’s charted eleven unnamed systems and never stayed in a single one. I’ve watered the same windowsill herbs for twelve years. It would never work out. He should be gone by now, but he keeps filing extensions. I’ve spent four years telling other people they deserve to know the real size of their own life. I never once said it to myself.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

KING OF SERPENTS (DARVEL EXPLORATORY SYSTEMS BOOK SIX) by S J Sanders

Therxian’s plan had been to live out the rest of his life as the leader of the hunt among the Vehal. He had never planned to return to the Aglatha or the shinara that raised him. But when his younger brother, Slengral escapes, Therxian must face all that he had left behind in order to be a vehicle of change and destroy the power of the council. Even that means taking on a Seshanamitesh mate from among their numbers in order to destroy the system from within. But the gods have a sense of humor. Not only does he suddenly have the burden of caring for and hiding a crash-landed and stranded human female, but his carefully designed plan to strategically select a mate is thrown into chaos in the form of a rotating breeding program among the noble females. It is an impossible situation that he cannot escape. Though having a clever female hidden in his nest rapidly proves to be quite beneficial… and far too alluring. Until proximity begins to stir his instincts in ways he never planned for. Beyond that, however, an older story within the shinara is playing its part, and a betrayer is waiting to spring her trap. But who is it? And what does fate hold for him and his Alex?   AmazonKU

EDEN CREEK by Nyx Nightshade

VS Note: Sapphic SFR.

The world burned three months ago. Lenora Bristow is still learning how to survive what remains when she finds Eden Creek. The isolated village looks Amish, untouched by the devastation beyond its fences. Its people offer Lenora everything she needs to recover: food, shelter, medicine, and safety. But something about Eden Creek is wrong. Its gardens are too healthy. Its medicine works too quickly. Its residents speak and move as though they learned how to be human by watching from the outside. Lenora should leave as soon as she is strong enough. Then there is Greta Miller. Patient, watchful, and impossible to ignore, Greta makes Lenora want things she thought the end of the world had taken from her. Trust. Home. Love. But Greta is keeping secrets of her own, and the closer Lenora gets to her, the harder it becomes to ignore one terrifying possibility. Greta Miller may not be human at all. If Lenora discovers what Eden Creek is really hiding, she will have to decide whether the strange sanctuary behind its fences is another threat to survive or the first place since the world ended where she might finally choose to stay.      AmazonKU

STORM CALLER (STORM BREAKER BOOK TWO) by Nisha J Tuli

Poet Graves has only ever wanted to be free. But no matter where she turns, she’s held captive—by a power she doesn’t understand, a truth she no longer believes in, and a love she can’t deny. As Poet is drawn further into Rook’s world, his secrets force her to question who she can trust. But when friends turn into enemies, enemies prove to be allies, and the place that was once a safe harbor is revealed as the eye of the storm, Poet’s only choice is to fight for what she believes in. When New Manhattan’s darkest secrets refuse to stay hidden, the cause Poet and Rook fight for will be called into question. The answers are out there…and they could destroy everything.  Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

MUTINY (COMPANIONS TO THE LEVIATHAN BOOK FIVE) by Deiri Di

He’s big, dangerous, and watching my every move. Too bad for him, I’m not asking for permission. Mei – I didn’t break out of my cage just to sit quietly and trust that everything will be fine. I’m a maker, and I build things that go boom. If we want to secure our freedom, we need firepower…and I’m going to forge it myself. The only problem? The massive alien warrior lurking in the shadows of my workshop. He’s stern, intense, and possesses a lethal charm that makes my pulse race for all the wrong reasons. He tracks my every move, but I can’t let him get close enough to discover what I’m crafting. I refuse to be controlled again. Bulwark – The tiny human is going to blow herself to pieces. She thinks she’s crafting a weapon of salvation, but her device lacks a crucial failsafe. One spark, and she takes down the entire deck…along with every human on this ship. As a prospective crew member, it’s my duty to stop her. As a male who has claimed her in his heart, it’s my torment. She just won her freedom, and she guards it fiercely. How do I step between my stubborn mate and total destruction without making her hate me forever?      AmazonKU

TROVE’S PURPOSE: FOURTH IN THE DELIVERY SERVICE SERIES by Talia Rhea

Delivery Details: One cup, standard size, crystalline in structure, to be delivered to a very wealthy client. Being stranded on a desert world with an entire starship recycling facility at their mercy, Trove and his crew had certainly managed to do more with less. Though the plane itself is lifeless, they continue to keep watch in the silent halls. Just in case some random little human female happens to track them down across the galaxies. Like this pretty little thing he greets by putting a pistol right in her face. Chee has one mission. To complete it, she has to find the crew of the Humble Delivery Service. Not that they’re hard to find. Her rather wealthy and mysterious benefactor already tracked them down, got her a starship, and sent her on her way with instructions on how to complete that mission. It seems easy enough. Until she meets Trove and finds him to be the most irritating, disgusting, frustrating playboy she’s evermet. Except there’s something about him that keeps pulling her back in. And every time she thinks she understands him, he proves her wrong. And maybe they have more in common than she initially thought. This is just a job. She has too much riding on her success to risk failure. But there’s a lot going wrong, and she isn’t sure that it’s even possible to complete this job. Chee has already sacrificed everything. She’s putting it all on the line. No matter what he’s like, Trove isn’t going to keep her from succeeding. Even if he’s probably the strongest person she’s ever met.     AmazonKU

EMPIRE OF STARLIGHT (OLYMPUS SECTOR BOOK THREE) by Eden Ember

The Gods thought they ruled the stars. They were wrong. The Titans have returned. Massive, silent, and ancient, they have come to judge the galaxy for its sins. Their verdict is silence. Their sentence is extinction. Haid and I are the only things standing between humanity and total annihilation. To save us, we must walk into the heart of the enemy’s lair. We must return to the Golden Station where it all began, not as prisoners, but as executioners. But the closer I get to the source of my power, the more I lose myself. The human parts of me are dissolving into starlight. The only thing tethering me to this reality is Haid. He is my anchor. My shield. My love. We have seven days to kill an immortal Emperor and break the chains of a God. If we fail, the galaxy burns. If we succeed, I might become something so powerful that I can never touch him again.      AmazonKU

ALIEN KING’S BRIDE (DARK SUMMER BOOK TWO) by M Q Rush

My boss promised this transfer was a promotion. Me? I’d call it a hostage situation. Diplomat Tracy Diallo is used to handling tense negotiations. But there’s no negotiating when you’re forced to be a mail-order bride. Under Earth’s secret bride program, Tracy’s now expected to be a docile wife to a deranged alien king. But if docile is what the king wants, they’ve sent the wrong woman. King Jace Renn is a ruthless sovereign, expecting perfect obedience from his subjects. Now, he’s losing all his restraint, thanks to the fierce Dark Summer mating season. Add one smart, curvy human who has too much self-respect for blind obedience, and he’s got his hands full trying to bend Tracy to his dark will. And when dangerous secrets shake the palace, this battle of wills turns into a battle for survival.   AmazonKU

LESSONS IN OBEDIENCE: SIX SHORT STORIES FROM THE KALL ALIEN WARRIORS UNIVERSE by Sue Lyndon

VS note: Two of the stories are new and the others are re-releases.

Their husbands will teach them to obey…Step beyond the pages of the Kall Alien Warriors novels and discover six steamy short stories featuring fierce, dominant Kall warriors, wayward wives, and lessons in obedience. From discipline and surrender to temptation and desire, these stories offer a closer look at the intense bonds between possessive alien warriors and the women they’ll never let go. Includes:
Forced to Wed – A Lesson for Chrisna – Draken and Lissa’s Wedding Night – Edek’s Wayward Wife – Punishing His War Bride – Submitting to the Head of Security – Return to the Kall Alien Warriors universe for six scorching-hot tales of steadfast devotion, dark desire, and undeniable passion.    Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

LEVEL UP FOR LOVE : A NOVEL by Lenora Woods

In college, Reagan Riley and Wesley Locke were constantly at each other’s throats, competing to be the best in their video game design program—until Wesley ghosts her after their unexpected hookup, severing their ties for good. Six years later, Reagan has set aside her game design dreams, opting instead to stay close to her family in Connecticut and channel her creative energy into D&D. When her longstanding group falls apart, she and her sister join their local game store’s new advanced campaign—only to find the demanding Dungeon Master at the helm is none other than Wesley. In the game, he is Vadrien, a merciless, power-hungry vampire lord, and Reagan is Sindra, the sword-wielding lady knight who will stop at nothing to cut him down. When a game design opportunity opens up in the real world, Reagan and Wesley find themselves doubly pitted against each other. But as their buried spark reignites and Reagan starts to question why Wesley left all those years ago, can they find a way to play nice—and are they playing for more than just to win?     Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

CRESSIDA’S CIRCLE (EMPIRE OF THE SKY BOOK NINe) by Mikala Ash

VS Note: Steampunk and magic.

In a world overthrown by witchcraft, a giant love has been lost. Can Cressida be saved? Mourning the loss of her husband, Cressida Troy is on her way to Earth. Her mission; to meet the Queen of England and cement relations between the Lunarians and humans to present a united front in the approaching war with the Martians. For Cressida, the mission has a much deeper and personal meaning. Being human, as well as the Lunarian Empress, Cressida is plagued by doubt and guilt and seeks redemption for what is seen by many as the betrayal of her species. Matters are complicated when she is kidnapped by the pernicious witch, Lady Neva, who is hell-bent on revenge against Queen Victoria. Armed with unlimited magical power, Lady Neva is planning to usurp the crown and rule both Earth and space. Meanwhile Jacob McLeary, Cressida’s former fiancé, is under the watchful and lascivious eye of Lavinia Branscombe, a Lunarian agent. Knowledge of the dark secret at the heart of the Lunarian society fuels Jacob’s loathing of the aliens, but with so much at stake, can love overcome the barrier of hate? Will Cressida find redemption?…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)

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CONTRACTED BY THE ALIEN PRINCE by Tammy Walsh

She was paid a fortune to seduce a reclusive alien prince. One touch and a fated bond ignites between them. Now the prince is in full rut — and he just discovered the contract. Trapped with a massive, feral alpha who will never let her go.  Amazon KU

REAPER SAID MINE by Athena Storm

I do not grant interviews. She forces her way onto my station anyway. Green eyes that refuse to drop. A mouth that keeps asking the questions every other reporter was too smart or too scared to touch. I deny her. Twice. Three times. Then the bond snaps into place and every refusal turns into a lie I can taste. She digs. She finds things that get people disappeared. Powers that have circled me for years suddenly look at her like she is a tool they can use. They do not get to touch her. She is under my protection whether she wants the weight of it or not. My corridors. My claim. My problem to solve. I will hold the lanes. I will break the ones who move against her. I will make the entire Badlands understand that the woman who came for my story now belongs inside it.
She wanted access. I am giving her ownership.       AmazonKU

UNDER STORY by Chloe Benjamin

VS Note: Mixed reviews of the science worldbuilding on the anomaly at the center of the plot. Listed in Romance Literary Fiction so there might not be an HEA when it comes to the central issue the couple wants to solve in their private lives (loss of a child). I couldn’t find a review that gave spoilers on that. The relationship and emotions got favorable reviews.

“We wake up to tomorrow, never yesterday.” At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she’s ever known. For ten hours a day, six days per week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica. She tells no one that before she arrived, she was a renowned young scientist with a promising career and a family. But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can’t escape her past. When a strange light appears across the ice—and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo—her former husband, Eli, won’t be far behind. Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive. And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between them—to turn back the clock and live their story a second time? A breathless page-turner and a love letter to our planet, Under Story grapples with the great questions of our time: human hubris, the precarity of the natural world, and the mysterious webs of consciousness that bind us. A modern epic of science and soul, of bravery and redemption, it offers a vision of the future that demands we reckon with what we owe to one another, and to the earth itself. Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

WHEN DRAGONS PLAY: A DRAGON LORDS OF VALDIER ADVENTURE by S E Smith

VS Note: Listed in LGBTQ SciFi

Tag…Kelan Reykill is at his breaking point with the latest batch of recruits. They’re so unruly that even two sets of twin dragons have been driven to the brink, muttering threats of mayhem and murder. Just as Kelan is ready to call it quits, inspiration strikes in the most unexpected way. Trisha is amused and eager to help when her mate presents her with his dilemma. Thanks to her dad, she knows a thing or two about handling cocky recruits. She grew up tracking and tagging overconfident trainees for fun. When Kelan shares his struggle with the unruly group of misfit warriors, her solution is simple: challenge them to a game they can’t resist-a high-stakes game of tag. However, what starts as a game quickly turns serious. Can a simple lesson in humility prepare this group of young dragon shifters for the ultimate test of survival when they find themselves stranded on a hostile alien world?

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FURY IN DEATH by J D Robb

NYSPD lieutenant Eve Dallas never knows what to expect when she gets word of a body. It could be an elderly man who made the mistake of climbing a ladder in slippery footwear. And the next call could be a wealthy biotech executive beaten to death in his home office—but what was Larry Chu’s mistake? The victim’s corpse is so mangled and damaged it’s hard to believe a lone, unarmed assailant could have managed it. The killer was clearly unnaturally strong—and smart enough to find a way into Chu’s highly secure building. Most of all, whoever did this was very, very angry. The excessive violence leads Dallas to conclude that this was a deeply personal act, born of a rage that she can’t excuse but can understand thanks to her own traumatic past. And though the motive seems rooted in heated emotion rather than cold hard cash, she can’t ignore the suspicious bank account in the Cayman Islands, or the shadowy, profit-hungry company Chu worked for. The mystery only grows when it turns out Chu isn’t the only victim—and Dallas will need to tear through one layer of secrecy after another to reveal what lies behind this explosion of fury.       Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

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

VS Note: I had to feature this book from my backlist this week – book two of my Intergalactic Dating Agency Soldiers of the Ardannan series from 2025! Grumpy/ sunshine… (Book 4 releases SEPT 14 and is on preorder here: 

LATHAM (SOLDIERS OF THE ARDANNAN BOOK TWO) (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Veronica Scott

Helaine Davies is an office manager on Earth whose life is routine, boring and dull. Safe. She accepts an all-expenses paid trip to the Intergalactic Dating Agency’s Resort Planet to spend five days with a hunky alien forest ranger. The only problem? She may have exaggerated a few things on her matching preferences sheet and told a few white lies but that shouldn’t matter, right? Latham Muirtx is ex-military, participating in this dating event under orders from his government which wants Ardannan-human matches in order to become more fully seen as members of the galaxy-wide Sectors civilization. He doesn’t want to be there. As a result of his experiences in the military he can’t handle crowds, he loathes clubs, doesn’t dance and isn’t looking for a mate. Give him the great outdoors and freedom to roam. Can these two totally opposite personalities find common ground? When catastrophe strikes will they pull together as a team to survive the chaos or will their differences drive a permanent wedge between them? The Intergalactic Dating Agency has been successfully matching humans and aliens for centuries. Now they’ve expanded to also operating a luxury resort just in time to help the interstellar Ardannan kingdom find human mates in hopes of smoothing their way into becoming well accepted Sectors citizens and allies. Every eligible Ardannan male between the ages of 20-50 has been ordered to spend a week at the resort with the woman the IDA algorithm says is their match These are a few of their stories. A 26K word novella crossover between the Sectors SF romances and the Intergalactic Dating Agency. It’s not necessary to have read any of the interconnected Sectors series to enjoy this book.

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SEEING HARPER – RILEY’S PRICE 2ND GENERATION by Sandra R Neeley

VS Note: “Light on the supernatural” sez one review.

Harper has floated through life with few-to-no problems. It’s always been assumed she’ll take over her family’s tree farm, so her future was never a question — to anyone but herself. While she understands the family business must continue, it’s not her desire to be at the helm. She’d rather spend her life with the noble creatures she fell in love with as a child. Horses. That’s where her gifts lie. She’s practically a horse whisperer, and the only time she’s truly happy is when she’s working with them. The equine center near her home is her happy place. The horses fill her life, and she fills theirs. Special bonds were formed years ago with not only the horses, but the family who owns the equine center. Unfortunately, it’s an issue of contention in her family. Her father is resentful of the time she spends there…(much more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     AmazonKU

HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR OWN DEATH (REAPER’S MATE BOOK ONE) by Nancey Cummings

Geri died. A little. She was feeling better. Turns out being sort-of-dead is complicated. The complication? She’s being stalked by a guy in robes with a hood and a scythe… Yeah, that guy. He claims she owes him a debt for saving her life and intends to collect. Nope. Not going to happen. Doesn’t matter if the reaper is awkwardly charming and is sweet to his dog. Over her dead body. How to Survive Your Own Death is book one of a three book series, The Reaper’s Mate. This is a slow burn! There will be a Happily Ever After but not until book 3. We take our slow burns seriously around here.

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THE BANSHEE’S UMISTAKABLE LOVE by Alora Quinn

BRIAR – Blair never told me that Zander was returning to town. I’m unprepared when I spot him for the first time, and even more so when he approaches me. Then he calls me Blair, and my brain seems to turn off. So, what do I do? Not correct him. Stupidly, I pretend I am, in fact, my sister. Each moment spent with him afterward makes my childhood crush grow stronger—but my heart breaks a bit more each time. Can he really not tell the difference between Blair and me? We keep spending time together, and now I’m in too deep. I have to figure out how to tell him I’ve been lying about who I am this entire time. Even thinking of the outcome scares me. Will I break his trust far past repair, or will he reciprocate the feelings that I’ve been hiding since childhood? ZANDER – Getting back to my hometown after being away for four years feels great. I’m excited to go to my favorite local restaurants, see my childhood best friend Blair, and her twin sister—who I’ve been crushing on since the sixth grade. They may be identical, but there’s no mistaking Briar from Blair. Briar is everything I want, but have never been able to reach. So, when I get to town and she’s the first person I see, I’m flooded with the same feelings I had when I left. What I don’t expect is for Briar to pretend to be her sister when I jokingly call her Blair. Curiosity gets the better of me, and I decide to play along with her game of pretend. The more time I spend with her, the more my heart longs for her. I can’t wait for this silly little game to be over so we can stop pretending and I can tell her how I’ve always felt.   AmazonKU

CHERRY MOON: A FOUR MOONS NOVELLA by Richard Amos

VS Note: MM PNR.

Ready for some freshly baked chaos? Akira and Gabriel are back in this brand new novella. But if you haven’t read The Four Moons series, or the sequel short story Christmas Moon, then I strongly recommend you do not read Cherry Moon until you have because here be plenty of spoilers. There’s a wedding on my horizon. I still can’t believe it. Me, Akira Murakami, is getting married to the love of his life. Pinch me. Hard. Oh, and I’m baking my own wedding cake. I mean, who else is going to do it? Unfortunately, impending marital bliss comes with a cruel sting in the tail. Before I can say “I do”, drama decides to rear its ugly head. I guess some old habits never die, eh? I’ve become a target for a new breed of nasty, ripped out of my love bubble to hide from the rising darkness wanting to end my life. It’s supposed Cherry Moon week – the holiest week of the year. Ugh. But I won’t stay hidden for long. And I won’t let the shadows win. They’re not taking this life from me. I’ll make sure of it. Mark my words, I’m marrying my hunky fiancé no matter what. Even if it kills me.     AmazonKU

DAMASK DREAMS (HAVEN HOLLOW BOOK 48) by J R Rain

Some murders refuse to stay buried. Some secrets refuse to stay hidden. Wanda Depraysie has survived witches, demons, vampires, and more supernatural disasters than any fashion designer should have to endure. But this time, surviving may not be enough. A man is dead. The body has been drained of blood, the evidence points in impossible directions, and a relentless homicide detective is convinced Wanda knows more than she’s admitting. As suspicion closes in, she’s forced to juggle a murder investigation, dangerous new supernatural powers, and the growing realization that powerful enemies are moving behind the scenes. When unsettling visitors begin delivering thinly veiled threats and old foes resurface with mysterious offers, Wanda discovers the murder may be only the opening move in a far more dangerous game. One wrong decision could expose the hidden supernatural world—or destroy everyone she’s fought to protect. With a devoted vampire at her side, loyal friends she refuses to abandon, and danger closing in from every direction, Wanda must uncover the truth before the hunter becomes the hunted.      AmazonKU

IGNITE THE INFERNOS (SECRET OF THE SYPHON BOOK TWO) by Ivy Asher

After her family curse is lifted, Ever’s on the run from her enemy, a shifter who’s both her foe and her fate, in this slow-burn sequel to Spark the Flames. With one murderous act, Ever Tenebrae has freed the Syphons. But breaking the curse was only the beginning of the daunting journey ahead . . .Ever’s once again on the run from the Horde and the dragon prince who’s become something far more dangerous than a mere enemy. Aeson Noctis is on the hunt, and the deeper he digs through the sands of the Scorch, the more truths he uncovers. Though the road’s fraught with peril, Ever will have to move quickly if she’s to reunite with her people and ensure their survival. Staying hidden should’ve been easy for the Syphons, but their protection weakens as the bond between Ever and Aeson grows stronger each day. Now, with old adversaries closing in and new threats rising from the shadows, Ever must decide once and for all who to trust. Because the Syphons’ secrets are coming to light, and what’s revealed could save them—or lead to their ultimate destruction.      AmazonKU      AB

PURSUING THE DREAMWEAVER’S LOOM (DAME OF THE MIDNIGHT RELICS BOOK 11) by Brenda Trim

I thought banishing two Princes of Hell would buy me some peace. Eighteen hours. That’s all I got before Phoebe called with news of twelve people dead in their sleep in Millbrook, Iowa—all reporting the same nightmare before their hearts gave out. The Dreamweaver’s Loom, an artifact designed to heal trauma by entering dreams, has been twisted into a weapon that traps consciousness and drains life force while victims sleep. My daughter Amelie asked me what happens if I don’t come back. For the first time since I was chosen for this job, I didn’t have an answer. Now I’m hunting a killer who doesn’t need to be in the same room to murder you. Someone who can pull you into shared nightmares while you’re awake, turn gardens into flesh-eating horrors, and hop between bodies to live forever. The local coven tried to investigate—three of them are in comas. The entire town is terrified to close their eyes. As a Relic Keeper, I’m supposed to protect artifacts from being corrupted. But this one’s already in the hands of someone who’s been body-hopping through the Hartley family for decades, and they’re not done collecting victims. Every person who falls asleep in a three-mile radius is a potential target. Every dream could be their last. My team and I have faced impossible odds before. Demons, possessed relics, apocalyptic rituals. But now we’re fighting something we can’t see. There’s no battling your own subconscious when someone else is controlling it. And the worst part? I have to sleep eventually. The nightmares are waiting. And this time, I might not wake up.   AmazonKU

THE TEA WITCH’S PURPOSE (PURPLE OAK OASIS) by Laura Greenwood and Ariana Jade

VS Note: Sapphic PNR.

Most tea witches are healers, but that’s not what Lian wants. Tea witch and healer, Lian Ju Feng, has always been a woman of duty and order. Everything has its rules, and everything has its place. It’s what makes life simple, even when she has to relocate to a new country and leave her home behind. Pepper might be a tea witch, but there’s nothing she loves more in life than baking and testing the boundaries of what makes a good pastry. When the two women meet, they clash immediately over breakfast and their principles. It doesn’t help that Pepper challenges everything Lian thought was true about herself… but maybe that’s exactly what she needs. The Tea Witch’s Purpose is a cozy fantasy romance with a sapphic romance, a tea witch who likes things orderly, and one who loves to bake, unusual magic, a pinch of steam, and a happy ever after.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE FAE’S TREASURE by S C Principale

Dairmuid – I never meant to anger Saz, a succubus with a penchant for fae souls. After a few months of scorching hot encounters that threatened to melt the wings right off my back, it seemed love was in the air. Then, Saz made a demand—give her my soul, or she’d never reveal the location of the faeling she’s birthed and hidden in the mortal world. It’s clear now that Saz doesn’t truly love me, or she’d never threaten me like this. My son—a son she hid from me—is trapped, alone, and defenseless. Now, I have to race through the mortal world to find my child before Saz’s peak of power hits, or my baby will be doomed to remain a changeling forever. Deanna – The baby I found on my back porch is not quite… normal. I thought at first maybe it was just me, but… No, it’s definitely Rory. He sports tiny wings when the light is just right, and those red irises are a dead giveaway. I know the right thing to do would be to turn him over to the foster care system, but right for who? How can I trust that someone special like Rory would be safe in a system that…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     AmazonKU

ON THE MENU by S C Principale

An incubus looking for a soul to feast on finds love on the menu instead…Stray is an incubus who isn’t quite like the others. He misses his old hunting buddy, who “turned good” and only sips on souls, without stealing them. But maybe All Hallow’s Eve is the perfect chance to lure his friend back to the dark side… If not, at least he’ll be walking among the mortals and sure to find a tasty dish. But when Stray finds Cara, everything changes. He’s never scented a soul quite like hers. Too bad it’s in such a miserable shell. He’ll never get a taste of her when she’s like this. What will an incubus with a craving do to get the girl of his dreams? What starts as a game to improve the taste of the girl on the menu ends up being a gamble for her entire heart. But will she share it with someone like him?    AmazonKU

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SLAYER by Leia Stone

They told me turning eighteen meant freedom. They never said it might kill me. All I wanted was cake, candles, and a fresh start after aging out of the group home I’ve been stuck in for six years. What I got instead? A vampire crashing my party and trying to drain me dry. Apparently, vampires are real and I can sense them. Right before I become dinner, a gorgeous, broody vampire hunter named Asher swoops in and saves me. He tells me I’m not just some orphan with a bad attitude… I’m a legacy. A born Vampire Hunter. And now I’ve got a full ride to Nightguard Academy, a secret school for hunters. Training to kill the undead? Kinda savage. Except there’s one problem: I’m hiding a secret so dark it could get me staked before graduation. And in a school full of monsters, secrets don’t stay buried for long.       AmazonKU        AB

VIRTUALLY GUARDED: VIRTUAL HAVEN PACK BOOK ONE by Karenna Colcroft

VS Note: LGBTQ+ PNR.

Newly-changed werewolf Ren Torres flees from pack members who assaulted him when his first shift from wolf form to human revealed him as a transgender man. Injured and terrified, Ren runs to the home of the Anax, ruler of all werewolves in the United States. There, Ren finds sanctuary—and his destined mate. On the eve of the annual gathering of the U.S. werewolf leaders, the Anax’s guard, Xavier Pelly, has traveled with the Anax to the secondary home where the gathering will occur. When Ren arrives, Xavier immediately recognizes the new, petite werewolf as his fated mate. The one he will protect at any cost. As the gathering progresses, Xavier works to gain Ren’s trust and to build the emotional connection Xavier requires. Feeling secure for the first time in his life with Xavier’s caring support, Ren finds his place in the Anax’s staff, helping to create Virtual Haven, an online support group for LGBTQ+ werewolves. But when the gathering ends, emotional demons from Ren’s past life on the streets cause Ren to run from Xavier—and when one of the pack members who assaulted Ren finds him, Ren’s life with his mate might come to an end. This book includes depictions of transphobia, including a trans-bashing; on-page death of werewolves (no major characters); discussion of past abuse and sexual assault; and discussions of prostitution. The book takes place in the Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat universe, but is not a direct part of that series.    AmazonKU

NEVER INVITE A VAMPIRE TO DINNER (WRONG MOVE, RIGHT MONSTER) by Honey Phillips

Love was never part of the menu. Penelope Harrington loves bringing people together. So when the mysterious owner of Blackthorn House returns to Black Harbor, she invites him to dinner. She doesn’t expect him to accept. She definitely doesn’t expect him to be a vampire. Or to keep accepting her invitations. After centuries of carefully avoiding attention, Julian Volkov wants nothing more than a quiet life. Then Penny barges into his world with themed dinner parties, endless questions, and a determined belief that no one should eat alone. Unfortunately for Julian, saying no to her proves impossible. The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes for Julian to stay hidden—and the harder it becomes to imagine a future without the woman who keeps trying to feed him homemade garlic bread. But when a paranormal podcast starts digging into the secrets of Blackthorn House, Julian’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel. Suddenly, the woman who invited him to dinner may be the only person who can protect both his secrets and his heart.    AmazonKU

LITTLE BITE OF BLISS (CREATURE CAFE SERIES) by Clio Evans

Creatures of all kinds go to the Barista to find love, including the sexy winged sphinx known as Leni. Leni has waited over a thousand years to be loved. After rudely interrupting the Barista’s own date night, she demands the grumpy grim reaper do what he is known for—match her with her fated mate. Archer stopped believing that he’d fall in love long ago. Even though he’s part of the Barista’s extended family, he has spent his life believing he was undeserving of a match. But when the Barista sets him up with a gorgeous dominant monster, he submits to the hope for a future where he can finally be worthy of a happy ending. Will love be enough to heal Archer’s wounds and give Leni her own littl e bite of bliss?      AmazonKU

BURN OF THE EVERFLAME: THE KINDRED’S CURSE SAGA, BOOK FOUR by Penn Cole

War has overtaken Emarion. In the north, Ophiucae and his army of bloodthirsty mortals seek to eradicate all Descended from the continent. In the south, the Guardians of the Everflame lie in wait, plotting a rebellion generations overdue. In Lumnos, Realm of Light and Shadow, the Crowns are gathering. Caught between two deadly foes, they must form an unlikely alliance to save their people.
But the Crowns have a secret—and a heart without its mate will burn the world down to fulfill its fate. Hatred reigns. Hope seems lost. With the future in darkness, can a flame emerge to bring the light?    AmazonKU     AB

EVERGREEN: A GAY DRYAD SHIFTER PNR ACADEMY ROMANCE (WIDDERSHINS ACADEMY BOOK SEVEN) by Blake R Wolfe

A grumpy witch. A sunshine dryad. A kiss that wakes the wood…Cass: I came to Widdershins to get away from home and party, not plant trees. After I accidentally set the campus greenhouse on fire, expulsion is on the table. Unless I work off every bit of the damage, dawn to dusk, until the semester ends. And the guy I have to answer to is Linden—seven-foot something, shoulders like a barn door, and the kind of smile that makes everyone’s heart melt, including mine. He wakes seeds with a touch, knows every plant by name, and calls me “Sparks” even though I hate it. I try to be unimpressed. My magic… does not cooperate. The more time we spend together—hauling charred debris, coaxing scorched beds back to life, rebuilding the whole ruined conservatory pane by pane—the calmer my storms get. A part of me wants to be with him, to give happiness a chance. But dryads are bound to their heartwood. Can I really commit to a guy who has to answer to the trees to keep his power? Linden: I like sunshine, water, and Cass Reed. I take care of the Grove, the bees, and anyone who wanders in looking tired. Cass pretends he doesn’t need help and I pretend I don’t notice his magic going haywire every time I’m near. I’m a simple guy. I lift heavy things, coax saplings to grow, and make Cass laugh at least once a day. I’d love nothing more than to sweep him up in my arms and run away, the two of us bonded forever. But roots matter. If I’m away from the Heartwood too long, I fade. And now a development company has bought up my family’s grove and means to raze it to the ground. I’m graduating with roots I can’t dig up, and Cass still has two years left at Widdershins. Our paths seem to be diverging. I have a forest that counts on me to survive. But my heart may never recover if I let Cass go.      AmazonKU

HER DRAGON NERD: A FROG PRINCE RETELLING (FATED MATES OF MIRROR ACADEMY ROMANTASY SERIES BOOK SEVEN) by Demelza Carlton

When Diana Argyros vanished from a Mirror Academy ball, no one believed the story: that she’d found her fated mate and run away to be with him. Her brother Blaze searched. The whole academy whispered. The truth was stranger than any of them guessed — she’d knocked a golden ball into an old well and freed a frog. Not just any frog. Astrit, Duke of Pharamund — eighteenth-century scholar, exiled Frenchman, green dragon shifter, and the most reluctantly cursed man in the Highlands. A kiss is all it takes to free him… and leave Diana staring at a duke who’s two hundred years behind on the news, calling her the mate he’s waited centuries to find. She can’t simply take his word for it. A dragon knows her mate in her bones — but Diana has never once shifted, so all she can do is keep the lost duke close, show him everything he missed, and let him carry her through Highland skies she’s only ever watched from the ground. And somewhere in two centuries of catching up, the cover story starts to feel less like a lie and more like a life she could choose. The silver dragon she was always told she’d never become might be waiting on the far side of one impossible leap of faith — if she’s brave enough to claim a mate she can’t yet feel, in time to fly home for the sanctuary’s grand opening… and a wedding on the shore of Loch Sanctuary that’s been a very long time coming.     Amazon

HOW TO CLAIM A SHADOW KING (WILDER OAK WOODS BOOK ONE) by January Bell

I always knew my bloodline would demand a price… I just assumed it would involve a dusty ballroom and a mortal lord. I never expected my stepfather to trade my hand to an ancient entity with burning ember eyes and zero respect for personal space. The moment the fabled King of Shadows claims me, I’m swept away into a ruined fortress hidden deep in the Wild Oak Woods. On the outside, Castle Shadow is all crumbling stone and creepy rumors. Inside? It’s a warm, sentient mansion that happens to be an aggressive matchmaker. Even worse, it turns out I’m a witch, and a light bursts from my skin every time the Shadow King gets under it. Malakai insists he can help me control my magic, but his lessons look a lot less like mentorship and a lot more like breathless kisses in the forest. The more time we spend together, the more I realize he isn’t a heartless monster… and I might even like him. But a wild fae magic is stirring, and my new home (and possessive new husband) are right in its path. If I want to protect the Wild Oak Woods, I’ll have to unleash the power inside me… and claim the Shadow King along with it.     AmazonKU

PROTECTIVE PUCKING ORC by Veronika Kane

A single mom on the run. An intimidating orc hockey defenseman. One little girl they’ll both risk everything to save. I came to Bramblewood Bluff to disappear: keep my head down, wait tables at a breakfast diner, protect Rosa. And never, ever let anyone get close enough to ask questions. Then Dakvaar started sitting in my section every morning. I don’t know much about hockey, but apparently he’s the defenseman for the Teal Terrors. Which makes sense, honestly; this orc looks like he was personally built to stop bad things from getting past him. Huge, silent, fierce. The kind of male who could probably stare a charging bull into reconsidering its life choices. He barely talks. Just drinks coffee, leaves ridiculous tips, and somehow notices everything anyway… Like the fact that my five-year-old hides in the diner corner during my shifts. Like the way I flinch when strangers get too loud. Like the fact that I’m scared all the time. When the danger I’ve been hiding from finally catches up with us, and I take Rosa to run…we accidentally run smack into Dakvaar. Without blinking, he inserts himself between me and the man hunting us with the same cold focus he uses to defend the net. Now Rosa and I are living in his apartment while the entire hockey team closes ranks around us. Dakvaar says we’re safe; nobody touches what belongs to him. And the terrifying part is…I think he means it. But I can’t let him be hurt when my past finally catches us.      AmazonKU

lTANK (SAVAGE DRAGONS BOOK FIVE) by Kathi S Barton

Tank Savage has waited centuries for one thing—his destined mate. He never expected to find her at a funeral. Sherman “Tank” Savage has faced danger, protected his family, and embraced the power of the dragon within him. But the moment he meets Serenity Jamestown, he knows his life has changed forever. She’s intelligent, compassionate, and carrying more heartbreak than anyone should have to bear. Still reeling from the loss of her sister, Serenity has no time for romance. Between settling an estate, fending off a greedy sister, and preparing to return to New York, falling for a charming man in a small town is the last thing on her mind. Tank isn’t willing to let fate slip away. With family standing beside them and a dragon’s heart refusing to surrender, Tank and Serenity must discover whether love truly can rise from the ashes of loss. Because when a dragon finds his mate…he’ll risk everything to keep her safe.

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SORROW AND STRANGERS (AVALON UNIVERSITY BOOK TWO) by Jeanette Rose and Alexis Rune

Fear. Fury. And Fire. To Know is Never Enough. Summer Tuatha De Daanan reluctantly returns to Avalon University for her second year after spending the summer with her vampire best friend in Draculea. She’s a shell of her former self, and the peace promised to her has never felt further from her reach. All Summer wants is to keep her head down and get through the year cloaked in her depression, but looming threats linger, and she quickly finds herself thrust into a dangerous position once again; entangled with a friend turned enemy, the protector of her beloved family, and the target of two very powerful kings. Unwilling to suffer any further loss, Summer must push through her emotions to prepare herself for the enemies who threaten everything she holds dear. Through runic training with the revered and brooding Headmaster Emrys, combat with the aloof and strong-willed Max, and improving her mental walls with the dark and mysterious stranger, each step pulls her further from the edge of despair. Yet, nothing will be simple for Summer, and the more she trains, the more she discovers who she truly is, forcing her to confront her inner darkness. The beast within that purrs for her enigmatic stalker. A darkness that is waiting to be explored. A darkness that will not be denied.       AmazonKU       AB

A PALE KINGDOM (MIDNIGHT REPUBLIC BOOK ONE) by L B Black

VS Note: MMF slow burn romance.

In Rouvelle, the guillotine has never failed. Until Callan. A human priest accused of practicing forbidden magic, Callan is sentenced to die beneath the guillotine. Lenore, the vampire chosen to carry out his execution, is meant to be the last person he ever sees. But when the blade falls, the execution goes wrong, and Callan vanishes, leaving behind a city on the brink of revolution. Lenore has spent her life proving that her family is loyal to the vampire crown. Her mother was executed as a traitor, and becoming the king’s newest High Executioner is her best chance to restore her family’s name. So when Callan disappears, Lenore chooses to hunt the man she could not kill. And Vail is hunting her. The king’s spymaster, Vail was once Lenore’s betrothed and the man she loved. Now their marriage is a political obligation, and Lenore no longer knows whether she can trust his heart or his loyalties. But as rebellion spreads through Rouvelle, the three of them are drawn into a conspiracy buried at the heart of the vampire court. To survive, Lenore and Vail must confront the love they thought they had lost, while Callan must decide whether he can trust the two people who should be his enemies. Because the king is searching for a forgotten magic that could free humanity from the vampire courts… or make their rule eternal.       AmazonKU

THE MINOTAUR’S MARK: MM MONSTER ROMANCE (VAULTWORKS: MOMSTERS BELOW BOOK ONE by Morrigan Black

Nobody hires a killer with a juvie record. Vaultworks did. Night shift. No questions. No application. One elevator ride later, the wall sealed shut behind me — and I understood. I wasn’t hired. I was fed to the labyrinth. Then he found me. Ten feet of horns, black hide, and barely leashed muscle. The others wanted to carve me up and split the meat. Kjorvan didn’t ask. He claimed. They say he’s been trapped down here a hundred years. They say nothing warm survives the maze. But the first thing he gives me isn’t teeth. It’s protection. And every night in his den, his hands teach me something no one on the surface ever bothered to — what it feels like to be kept. The world above threw me away and called me a monster. It was right about one thing. Monsters keep what’s theirs.   AmazonKU

MANY RUINED VOWS ON A FORBIDDEN FROLIC by Delilah Dare 

Forbidden fruit tastes sweetest…Pikquarrys is the heroic spellcarver of Loreleivnna’s village and her father’s best friend. He’s spent fifty years away from the kingdom to avoid his feelings about a certain bratty princess. The king declares it’s time for her to marry…and there’s no one he trusts more than Pikquarrys to supervise her dates during the harvest, a time when flowers release aphrodisiacal pollen. Set in the partially sentient, mischievous elemental world of Mating the Elements and Tales From Eldrunna, this sweet & spicy novella is part of the multi-author series Spicetember   AmazonKU

MADE WITH LOVE AND CURSES by Brianna Malotke

Welcome to Howling Point, where love & magic collide! Now that monsters roam the earth out in the open, finding your fated mate should be easier. Right? But love is never cookie cutter perfect. Bridget Raynor is a Kitchen Witch with a love for cooking. She’s clumsy as hell, bakes with love, and believes in soulmates. Life in Howling Point, MI is going soothingly. Until her so-called soulmate breaks her heart into a million pieces. After a nasty divorce, Bridget dives into her business and pursues starting a family on her own. She doesn’t want to wait for another chance on love. Why risk getting hurt again when she can just make a family on her own? Victor Aalto is a high-powered divorce attorney who sees couples break up every week. As a 200-year-old Kraken whose bloodline is cursed for eternity, his half form lurks beneath the surface at all times. He thought he had finally found the love of his life and the one willing to overlook his family’s curse. Then she left him at the altar. It took years to feel normal again. Why would he ever give his heart to another person again? Victor no longer believes in love…until he literally bumps into Bridget and starts questioning his every decision. Can the two of them overlook their pasts, share their secrets, and find happiness? Spice-tember.    AmazonKU

ONE THIN LINE: FROGSBORO SWAMP STOMPERS by Brandy S Goodman

Kaleigh made the rules: 1. No strings. 2. No emotions. 3. No falling. Davis agreed—even though he’d already broken every single one. Now it’s senior year, tensions are higher, and every goodbye feels a little too final. Because what started as something easy…is turning into something neither of them can walk away from. Welcome to Spice-tember! One Thin Line is the perfect steamy short to start off your spooky season. Welcome to Frogsboro, NC! Where meet-cutes, rom-coms, and spice heat things up between monsters and their fated mate humans. Look out for other characters that intermingle between series, everyone will get their own book in due time.      AmazonKU

HEAVEN’S GRAVEYARD by Grace Curtis

VS Note: Lesbian SF/F. From June 16.

Be careful what you pray for . . .Cod became an archaeologist to chase the ghost of her hero, Aleya Ana-Ulai. History may have written Aleya off as a myth, but Cod is determined to prove she existed, even if it means sifting through relics for the rest of her life. Then a message arrives summoning her home. Cod’s former teacher has found something monumental: the ruins of an enchanted city, slumbering beneath the soil. This could be the breakthrough they’ve always dreamed of. But with war brewing, rival powers circling, and ancient magics stirring underfoot, their discovery soon becomes far more trouble than it’s worth. Even Cod starts to wonder if some things are better left buried.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books     Kobo

FLAMES AND BLOOD (DRAGONBLOOD DYNASTY BOOK 15) by BE Brouillard

I fix things. People, mostly. The Guild sends me a name. The name stops being a problem. Sixty years. No exceptions. Then I saw her. Flaming hair, golden eyes. Chained to the floor of a truck bed. Three handlers keeping their distance. I’ve walked through blood and fire without breaking stride. One look at a woman I’d never met, and they had to stop me from following that truck into the dark. I don’t know what happened to me that day. I know I can’t undo it. I made a promise to find her. The truth is, I couldn’t refuse if I tried. But things are never simple in my world. She’s dragon royalty. Heir to a clan so old they’re spoken of like a myth. Promised to a male her family chose before she could fly. I’m a Turned vampire. No bloodline. No standing. In her world, I’m the help. The job is simple. Free her. Deliver her home. Walk away. I manage two out of three. Somebody sold her into those chains. Somebody close. And a dragon who comes home alive is a loose end that needs finishing. Someone’s put a target on her back. They should have thought that through. Because hurting her means going through me. And I’m very good at my job.       AmazonKU

MONSTER DINER (PUMPKIN HOLLOW NOVELLA) by Nicolette Andrews

Lizzy’s life is in shambles. On the day she gets fired from her job and catches her loser boyfriend cheating, she finds out her estranged father died and left her a run-down diner. Now she has to return to her childhood home of Pumpkin Hollow, a hidden community for witches and paranormals like her, and run the family business. But Lizzy isn’t the sole owner. Her father left half the house and diner to Victor, his business partner and dangerously hot reanimated corpse. Victor’s maker crafted him to be the perfect man and cobbled him together from premium parts. But Victor’s desire to be a chef disappointed his creator, and he abandoned him. Since he didn’t have a family, he built his own. He adopted a newly turned zombie teenager and invested his life’s savings into buying half his friend and mentor’s diner to save it from ruin. Victor thought he had it all, then Lizzy, the girl that got away, returned. This time, he won’t let her go. Lizzy has no desire to run the diner or dating, the tall, scarred chef, but the diner is understaffed, in their busiest season. She agrees to stay until Halloween, help Victor out until after the yearly festival. But as the kitchen and their relationship heats up, she realizes it’s not just inheritance but hearts on the line.      AmazonKU

MANE IN FINANCE by Vixen Voss and Milly Taiden 

She thinks she’s the hunter. Wait until she finds out whose territory she’s been standing in. Four point six billion dollars. Sixty-three shell companies. A federal case with my name at the end of every road. She isn’t wrong about the money. She’s wrong about what it’s hiding. I should have let her file it. Instead I pulled her out of the treeline before the men hunting her arrived, and now she’s in my house with my ledgers open across her knees. Let her run the numbers. Every asset I have ends where she’s standing. She came for my empire. She can have it. I’m keeping something better. My mate.   AmazonKU

ORC’S GALLOWS (THE VEIL LANDS BOOK 13) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Welcome to the Veil lands, where monsters are the only ones who can save you. Ismerie – I was just trying to survive in the slums, feeding on the leftover magic of the city’s executions. Then I stepped in to save the executioner, and everything went to hell. Now I’m marked by his primal magic, chained to an alpha orc who should have been my killer. The giant warden watches me with eyes like banked coals, his heavy silence wrapping around me like a predator’s trap. An ancient horror is rising beneath the scaffold, and it’s calling me its sister. He branded me to save my life. Now, I’m the only temptation he’ll burn the entire city to possess. Brannok – I calculate drops, tie nooses, and never look back. Then I was ordered to hang a defiant death witch with eyes like captured lightning. She was supposed to be just another routine job, another name to cross off my list. But when she looks at me, she demands a mercy I forgot I could feel. I was born to pull the lever that ends lives. But to keep her alive and in my bed, I’ll gladly watch the whole world burn.       AmazonKU

IMPAWSSIBLE MAGIC (MISTVALE FILES BOOK ONE) by Milly Taiden

A fresh start, a grumpy tiger, and a crystal-clear case of fated attraction. Leire Firesinger is done with drama after a catastrophic betrayal left her covenless, heartbroken, and questioning everything she once knew. She’s moved to the magical town of Mistvale, determined to prove that a shattered past doesn’t have to mean a shattered future. While she tries to keep her unanchored magic from flickering, she can’t ignore the way the town’s newest “protection detail” makes her crystals hum with a traitorous, flirtatious energy. Keeping her distance—and her cynicism in check—proves to be an impossible task as her wards begin to welcome the very man they should be keeping out. Aslan Nexis has spent five years building walls higher than the mountains surrounding the town. The stoic tiger shifter and member of the Protection Network is haunted by the memory of the witch he couldn’t save. When he’s assigned to monitor the new charm witch, his predator instincts scream…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      AmazonKU

GRAVE EXPECTATIONS: A GHOSTLY PUMPKIN HOLLOW NOVELLA by Katryna Lalock

For three hundred years, Alaric Blackwood has watched over Pumpkin Hollow as a ghost, cursed to witness the town he died protecting but never touch it again. Rosalin Graves has spent her entire life believing she’s the weakest necromancer in her family—until a chance accident awakens the town’s legendary founder. Suddenly, she’s the only person who can see him, hear him, and hold him. As they unravel the centuries-old curse binding Alaric to the cemetery, friendship blossoms into an impossible love. But freeing him may mean losing him forever, and some ghosts are far harder to let go than they ever expected.      AmazonKU

THE MECHANICS OF BROOMSTICK RACING: A PUMPKIN HOLLOW NOVELLA by Vermilion H Baine

Air witch Zephyr McAllister is the world’s greatest broomstick racer. Well, she was, until a crash left her unsure of herself and bearing scars she won’t let anyone see. Now she’s retired early with an entire lifetime ahead of her. And with the realization that her dream career and ex-fiancé have left her behind. The once overconfident racer has returned to her hometown of Pumpkin Hollow, where she only uses her flying broomstick to deliver the mail. She falls into a lull until the local mechanic, Neil Finnegan, a Storm witch from her past, sparks a rivalry between them. Though her racing days are behind her, Zephyr can’t keep her competitive nature down. She knows she can make the stoic Neil drop his guard, but is she ready to drop her own? When fighting doesn’t faze him, and she turns to flirting, Neil might prove a challenge her bruised heart isn’t ready for.     AmazonKU

OWL THE SMALL THINGS (OWL STAR WITCH MYSTERY BOOK 23) by Leanne Leeds

Astra Arden just wants one quiet week at home. After a locked-island murder investigation that left the whole team running on coffee fumes and borrowed sleep, she’s earned it. But the moment she walks through the door, she discovers Aunt Gwennie has been secretly dating Detective Briggs—and before Astra can process that, things around the house start going wrong. Small things, at first. A shelf collapses when no one’s near it. The garden gate swings shut on Briggs’s fingers. A batch of Gwennie’s famous snickerdoodles tastes like soap. Arden House has always had a personality, but this feels personal. Then the small things stop being small. Someone—or something—has Briggs in its sights. And with the human detective dodging hexes he can’t see, Astra has to figure out who’s targeting him and why before the small things turn deadly. But the deeper Astra digs, the more she realizes the threat isn’t coming from outside. It’s coming from inside the family — from a ghost who can’t let go and a house that takes sides. Welcome back to Arden House. The snickerdoodles are fresh, the owl is judging you, and the walls have opinions.      AmazonKU

AN IMMACULATE DECEPTION: A NOVEL by Isabela Livino 

VS note: Gothic horror.

1877, Pernambuco, Brazil: Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dante’s Inferno by heart and fears her mother’s reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a threat: marry or surrender the baby. Madalena is confident that the father, the dashing Leandro Neves, will do right by her and propose. But just as she is about to tell him about the baby, a violent storm sends their carriage careening off the road. Madalena awakens in Leandro’s sprawling, secluded home, under the care of the mysterious and larger-than-life Doctor Lobo. Leandro is there . . . but he is no longer the charming poet she knew. He’s silent. Obsessed. Always watching. Strange perfume haunts a locked room. Pages vanish from books. Jewels lie untouched in a forgotten wardrobe. And mirrors begin disappearing after Madalena sees something—or someone—ghastly in the reflection. Leandro is unraveling. Doctor Lobo may be hiding something even darker. Trapped in a decaying house of secrets, Madalena must uncover the truth before the men around her destroy her, and before the hell she fears becomes the one she’s living in.        Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

FIRE POWER: A NOVEL by Mir Benitiz

VS Note: Very mixed reviews, especially on the romance.

The Silverscale Grand Prix is the national championship of dragon racing—a high-speed, often deadly, elite sport with an unimaginably big cash prize.  Asta and her dragon Carmine are unlikely competitors. No sponsors, no high-tech gear, no fans out in the stands. Not to mention that a female rider hasn’t won the Prix for nearly sixty years. The odds are stacked against them, but Asta is determined to prove everyone wrong: the training school that kicked her out for fighting a classmate, her family who wished she’d never left the farm, and, most of all, her infuriatingly arrogant childhood-best-friend-turned-rival Felix, the poster-boy heir to the Seraphin racing dynasty and reigning tournament champion. Raw talent alone won’t be enough to get Asta and Carmine through these races—and it soon becomes clear that the risks Asta has taken to get to Silverscale could have devastating consequences. Time to think fast, or die trying.

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ALL HALLOWS’ EVE by Various

A chilling horror anthology of 19 original short stories from a world-class line-up of the masters of horror, delving into the histories and traditions of the spookiest season of the year. Presented by Hugo Award winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow, and featuring stories by Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix as well as many more. Halloween, Samhain, Día de los Muertos—festivals across the world where we can commune with those we have lost, when spirits can cross over, and when the boundary between the living and the dead is far, far too thin. A young boy encounters a woman with an ancient and terrifying link to the holiday, a group of college students attend a Halloween party to die for, and a troubled girl exploits a local urban legend to try and turn her life around. From America to New Zealand via the rural Romanian wilderness, this anthology explores our worldwide obsession with the spookiest season of the year, when the veil is lifted and the spirits come alive. Featuring 19 original stories from bestselling and award-winning masters of the genre, and from Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson award-winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow, this anthology invites you to carve a pumpkin, light the lanterns and welcome in trick or treaters from across the world.      Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

BIG BAD WOLF (MAPLE HOLLOW) by Laurie Gilmore

The darker the woods, the bigger the secrets…Ruby Bellerose lives on the edge of the woods, in a cottage more akin to a fairy tale than modern day life. Her love life is practically non-existent, and she keeps away from the whispered gossip that travels through Maple Hollow. Until a chance encounter with Rafe. As mysterious as he is brooding, Ruby is drawn to the woodsman, curious to find out about the stranger who lives deep within the woods. But Rafe is hiding a secret. And with something lurking in the shadowy forest, will Ruby find that Rafe is her knight in shining armor, or something altogether more dangerous.    Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

DISENCHANTED by Lucy Jane Wood

Sage Hemlock has no interest in embracing her witchy side. Magic has betrayed her before, bringing nothing but heartache, and she will not let something so foolish happen again. Instead, Sage has thrown herself into her work and studies, running the local museum and largely preferring the company of her library and her cat to other humans. Her one goal is to fly under the coven’s radar so that she can finally shed her blasted powers forever. But when a strange historical book accidentally sets off a curse, Sage’s quiet small-town life is suddenly overrun and magic is running rife. A beanstalk grows in her garden, and her friend and coworker Casimir starts to look an awful lot like a handsome prince. Fairy tales are coming true. . . .Now, with the threat of the coven on her tail, Sage must confront the magic she’s always denied to solve the mysteries of the book and save everyone she’s come to love from being lost to a fairy tale forever. The question is, can she finally learn to be her own happily ever after?      Amazon     AB       Apple Books      Kobo

THE ENIGMATIC MADAM INGRAM by Meihan Boey

When Letty Ingram arrives in Singapore in 1906, she is an enigma even unto herself. To the residents of the small Scottish village where she lives, she is a wealthy, half-Malay recluse who emerges from her home only for walks with her great beast of a hound. To Letty, she is a woman trying to lift a curse that causes her lose consciousness and wake up in strange places—sometimes, with blood on her hands—and no memory of what occurred. Letty has traveled across the world in hopes that the renowned medium Madam Kay can help her break the curse, but Letty is a mystery of tangled magics the likes of which Madam Kay and the rest of her supernaturally gifted family have never seen. Fortunately, the Kays know an expert with even more insight into otherworldly matters than they do: the formidable Miss Leda Cassidy. But even Miss Cassidy finds Letty to be a puzzle, one that pulls a fog over her memories as well. As she dives deeper into Letty’s past and find it unexpectedly intertwined with her own, Miss Cassidy begins to realize that if she’s going to free Letty from her curse, she’s going to have to take on an ancient foe: the terrifying jungle spirit known as the Bungadarah.     Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

HEXY BEAST (THE SHERWOOD WITCHES) by Avery Flynn

As the eldest daughter of the magical Sherwood family, I’m supposed to have everything together. Well, joke’s on them—I, Effie Sherwood, am chaos incarnate, and you’ll never be able to guess my next move. Like jumping on the back of Darius Aetos’ motorcycle. Not only is Darius grumpy, gruff, and hot, he’s also the head of the Aetos werewolf pack. My spur of the moment decision has quickly become a much bigger commitment, because a pack elder is convinced this hunk of a man (or wolf, depending on the hour) is my fated mate. Even though I’m a witch and he’s a werewolf, we’re stuck together until we can find our way out of the tricky pack politics. But under the light of the blue moon, it’s almost starting to feel like Darius doesn’t want to stay away from me. And I’m not sure if it’s my magic going haywire or the starlit skies, but I can’t imagine leaving his arms either.      Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

DARK DESTINY: A NEW THREAD IN THE TAPESTRY (CHILDREN OF THE GODS PNR BOOK 111) by I T Lucas

Truelove bonds never unravel. Even severed by death, they can be rewoven with the right bargain. Annani courted the impossible and won, lost everything, and then built an empire of light on the memory of the greatest love story of all time. For five thousand years, the memory sustained her. She guarded it, retold it, and refused to let it fade. When the Fates finally offered her a chance to reclaim what was taken, she struck a bargain and promised not to regret it. The tapestry is ancient, but the thread is new, and the Fates are weaving what was into what will be.      AmazonKU

A SNAKE AMONG SWANS (THE WING AND THE WAYS BOOK ONE) by Hannah Kaner

“Death is come to take you home, death of blood and thorn and bone…” Tilde has always heard the whispers of the kithwood, the voices of her ancestors speaking through the mysterious forest of her homeland. But now both the kithwood and her kingdom are in danger, for Tilde is the only surviving heir of a conquered land. To stop the bloodshed, she must marry the aging Swan King, Liran, and bear him a son. But the king’s court is dangerous. Liran’s older sons will do whatever it takes to remove Tilde. And her presence stirs conflict in the heart of Liran’s daughter, the princess Elise, who has only ever known loyalty to her family. Yet none of them know that Tilde is a snake in their midst, with allies on her side and dark, forbidden power of her own. She wants her kingdom back, and she will sacrifice everything to claim it. For the queen to rise, the swans must fall.         Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

THE SWORDMASTER (VAMPIRES OF DUMAS BOOK TWO) by Kate Heartfield

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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ROCK HARD ALIEN: STARLIGHT GARGOYLES #1 (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) (STARLIGHT ALIEN MAIL ORDER BRIDES BOOK 10) by Skye MacKinnon

She restores ancient stone for a living. She’s about to bring one very grumpy gargoyle back to life. For nearly five centuries, Cairn has stood watch over a historic Scottish castle. Literally. An alien gargoyle trapped in stone, he’s waited through wars, storms and the passing of empires for the one woman destined to wake him. The only problem? Humans thought he was just another statue. Traditional stonemason Georgie has spent her career restoring Scotland’s historic buildings. Cleaning centuries of moss from an ancient gargoyle should have been just another day on the job… until the statue opens its eyes. Now an impossibly handsome winged alien insists she’s his fated mate, and an intergalactic matchmaking agency may be their only hope of finding the two friends who crashed with him. There’s just one tiny complication: stray too far from Georgie, and Cairn turns straight back to stone. The only way to keep him warm, winged and hers is to let him taste her blood. After hundreds of years alone, Cairn has finally found the woman who can bring him back to life. Convincing Georgie they’re meant to be together may prove even harder than surviving nearly five centuries as a statue.

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BLACK MAMBA (NAGA BRIDES BOOK NINE) by Naomi Lucas

One day my territory is all mine, and the next, there are several spaceships outside my nest. Then I see her. A brown-haired beauty with tears streaming down her face. Enthralled by her sorrow, she becomes my obsession. I… want tosave her. So, I wait for her, getting ever closer. Until one day, she leaves her ship and sees me. And now that she has…I will stop at nothing to make her MINE.   AmazonKU

AFTERBURN (ALIEN BRIDE RACE BOOK EIGHT) by Sybur Phyre

Solara – There isn’t a person in my life who understands or accepts me. Not my mother, either of my siblings, any of their friends, my coworkers, or my uncles. They’re all entitled, affluent types that love the way money talks. When they discover what I’ve been doing on my own, without their consent, they use their power to wreck my life. Fortunately, they didn’t find out about my Alien Bride Race entry. So I leave everything behind to take my chances on finding an alien mate. I never expected to see suave, confident Onidus again. He’s the only one who ever looked at me as a person, someone with inherent value other than money. Our shared trauma is what changed us both and made us different from our peoples. He’s grown into a skilled soldier far beyond my comprehension, and feelings emerge that I’ve tucked away for years. I know his pretty boy smirk isn’t genuine, that deep down he’s still haunted by why happened. He makes it his mission to protect me, even if he won’t admit it. Onidus always seems to show up right when I need someone. No one has ever backed me up before, not like he does. So I start to do the same for him. I can’t afford to lose him…(more blurb on ebook seller’s platform)      AmazonKU

THE LAST INFINITY by Alexis Ames

VS Note: FF SFR.

Cal Hunter is a cryo, a person who was cryogenically frozen after his death in the 22nd century. Resurrected four hundred years later, he now lives in the 26th century and works as a time traveler for the time agency on Mars. After a mission goes disastrously wrong, Cal returns to his present to find that he’s seriously altered the timeline. All life on Earth and the Moon has been wiped out, leaving only a failing settlement on Mars of fewer than two thousand people. Even worse, Cal can no longer time travel due to his injuries. The only person who can fix the timeline is Renata Carr, a teenager from the 20th century. She’s brought out of cryogenic suspension, and a reluctant Cal is put in charge not only of her training, but also her well-being. Meanwhile, Renata grapples with the grief of waking up in a strange century on another world while also coming of age—and falling in love with the daughter of one of Cal’s friends. When disaster strikes the settlement, the timeline for humanity’s demise rapidly speeds up. While Cal knows he must send Renata on a mission she isn’t ready for, and which will likely kill her, he is torn between saving humanity’s past, present, and future, or the girl he’s come to see as a daughter.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

CLAIMED BY THE WRAITHS (RIFT WRAITHS BOOK THREE) by Elin Wyn

She was his anchor. Now she’s his undoing. Control is my armor. The shadows are my weapon. The Khavai bond is a fire I will never touch. It is too dangerous, too consuming, too easy to turn into a weakness. My mission and my crew are all I have left. But now she is in danger. Jessa, my anchor, my friend, the one person I cannot lose, has walked into the enemy’s den. To get her back, I will unleash the darkness I have kept chained. They think they are trapping an easy target. They are about to meet the monster she commands.      AmazonKU

DANCING FOR THE MINOTAUR: MONSTRUM KINDRED by Evangeline Anderson

Her cheating ex threw her away. An eight-foot-tall Minotaur is ready to worship her. Terra never expected her second chance at love to come in the form of an eight-foot-tall Minotaur alien. After her cheating husband leaves her for a younger woman, Terra is struggling to support her kids and elderly mother when she meets Taurex—a massive Monstrum Kindred who treats her with more respect in one night than her ex did in years. Taurex knows immediately that Terra is his fated mate. But after sensing how badly she’s been hurt, he refuses to rush her. Instead, he offers her a job managing his chaotic intergalactic import business, where Terra quickly proves just how smart and capable she really is. Soon their professional relationship becomes impossible to keep strictly professional—especially when Taurex takes her aboard the incredible living Monstrum Mother Ship, where everything is grown instead of made…and some very naughty alien flowers have ideas of their own. Terra is finally learning what it feels like to be treasured. But when danger from her old life follows her, Taurex will show everyone exactly what happens when someone threatens a Monstrum’s mate.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

MILKING HER BEEFCAKE (HUCOWS OF ICORA BOOK FOUR) by Vivian Murdoch

When a Human Bull Becomes the One Thing She Can’t Afford to Lose – Ethan × Zilara – I wasn’t born for Icora… but I was born for her. One wrong moment, and I ended up on a planet where humans are auctioned like livestock. Yet, somehow, I’m the useless joke no one wanted. No milk. No purpose. Nothing to offer. But Zilara bought me anyway. To Icora, I’m her bull. Her property. The docile human who kneels when she commands and knows his place at his Rancher’s side. Behind closed doors? She knows exactly who’s in control. I’m addicted to the way she surrenders to me. Obsessed with every breath, every tremble, every moment the woman who owns me lets herself become mine. But Icora doesn’t care what happens in private. Humans who can’t produce milk have no value, and one wrong move could cost me the only place I’ve ever wanted to stay. So I’ll kneel for her. Behave for her. Let an entire planet believe I belong at her feet. Because when we’re alone, she belongs in my arms. And I’ll do anything to keep her there.

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DEEP FAKE (SHIFTER HACKERS BOOK ONE) by Lorelai M Hart

VS Note: MM SFR

The threat came from the internet. But I never thought the resolution might come from the same place. When threatening messages began to come, first to my email, then phone, then social media, I did what any sensible person does and blocked the senders. Before I could congratulate myself on my logic, the messaging continued. Different senders, same message. Doubled down. Deep Fake is the first installment in the Shifter Hackers mpreg series by Lorelei M. Hart. It is a super-sweet with knotty heat mm shifter mpreg romance featuring an alpha ferret shifter lurking in the darkness, the omega human who stumbles on the hacker by mistake and really needs his help, an adorable baby or two, and a guaranteed happily ever after.      AmazonKU

SUBJUGATE (COMPANIONS TO THE LEVIATHAN BOOK FOUR) by Deiri Di

She’ll do anything for her man, even take him captive. Andrea – I just want a man. A man will solve all my problems, and take away all the stress of being trapped on a spaceship going somewhere I don’t know where. I am willing to do anything and anyone to achieve my goals. Even if the man is really an alien. INF-GRA 32811 – I’ve been taken captive by a human woman. She has managed to use my biological suppression system against me, and is keeping me trapped with that mouth of hers. The thing is, I don’t want to escape. If I escape, the chip inside my head that forces me to do things will lead me to my death. This woman who has taken me captive? She’s my only hope. Subjugate is a fun, playful story about two mentally trapped people who find their HFN by giving each other exactly what they need.      AmazonKU

BOYD: GALACTIC CYBORG HEAT SERIES by Jessie Rose Case

Boyd… A soldier, a warrior, a man….. Cyborg. Allara. Bold, beautiful, and knew her own mind. Seeing him…… Not so much….Deployment to a new world was always interesting. People would often ask her why she did it. In all honesty, she wasn’t really sure. She’d find somewhere that needed her research skills, that had a specific job, normally with a definitive ending, either time frame or result and she’d move on. Or like this time, they’d sort her out and she’d take it or not. The challenge was always interesting. She found at an early age that she had an affinity with numbers. She was always counting, evaluating, calculating; her mind rarely turned off even in sleep. It was just how she worked. How her brain worked. There were sequences in life, most people never saw them. But they were there. Everything had numbers. Numbers that had to balance. Had to work. If even one of those numbers was out of balance, things died. It was a very simple equation that no one took any notice of, just accepted that they were there. The problem with that was no one was watching what they took for granted. Until it was often too late. Until too often the damage was done. Until often people started to die. She didn’t look for what was there, she knew that…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)   AmazonKU

A HISTORY IN HORTICULTURE: STEAMPUNK VICTORIAN MURDERY MYSTERY (LADIES OF WACK BOOK THREE) by Stephanie K Clemens

VS Note: Not listed as a romance. Reviews of earlier books mention “splash of romance” and “light romance”. No idea what WACK stands for.

A murdered mentor. A contested inheritance. And secrets powerful enough to kill for. It’s a new semester at Grantabridge University. Along with the beautiful flowers of spring comes the hope of no more dead bodies, the possibility of none of Lady Corinne’s machinations, and a new professor! Wilhelmina Schultz, Willa to her friends, has settled comfortably in her apprenticeship routine with the apothecary and mentor, Rupert Benson. That is, until she meets her new professor and begins to doubt her place in her chosen career. Her professor is just the beginning of her problems. The apothecary shop is broken into more than once, someone’s watching the shop … and then she finds the body. Every clue the Ladies of WACK uncover leads to more secrets to unravel. Mysterious medications. An apothecary who lost his license. Coded records to difficult to decipher. Can the Ladies of WACK solve yet another murder? Only time will tell.     AmazonKU

THE PLANETARY PRESERVATION COMMITTEE DECIDED WE NEED A NANNY: A LOVE STORY by Jennifer Cody

VS Note: MM SFR.

Ollie: So there I am, sitting at my desk in the call center I work in, answering tech questions about a sprinkler system I know full well is absolute shit, when all of a sudden there’s alien space ships in the upper atmosphere, and Armageddon is on. Well, that’s what I think until I meet our new alien overlords, and it turns out they’re here to save the planet and all its lifeforms, because apparently the galactic government values all life. Weird, I know, but according to the aliens here to take charge of Earth, we’re close to exterminating ourselves, and that just won’t do. So now we have alien nannies, and I probably wouldn’t admit it aloud to anyone I know, but I might have a crush on mine. It’s the size difference, I swear. The Planetary Systems Preservation Committee Decided We Needed a Nanny is a 40k, MM science fiction romance between a giant alien and his tiny human. Tropes include: alien invasion, some type of egalitarian utopia, mind control (sort of), unrealistic size difference, a chubby MC, extreme body modification (in a good way), and science fiction techy stuff that rides the line of fantasy.       AmazonKU

ALIEN HEALER’S MATE (LATHARIAN MATE PROGRAM BOOK SEVEN) by Mina Carter

She escaped his medical bay for fries. Now the galaxy’s most possessive healer is taking her off-station himself…Delilah Sawyer has always been the disaster… the impulsive one, the broke one, the woman nobody chooses. Waking from a coma on an alien space station should convince her to take life more seriously, but escaping medical for a free burger seems perfectly reasonable. Unfortunately, her terrifyingly handsome and sexy alien doctor disagrees. When Kellat is ordered off-station, he refuses to leave his runaway patient behind, sweeping her aboard his shuttle for a road trip she plans to enjoy whether he likes it or not…He’s supposed to monitor her recovery. Not obsess over her smile, threaten every male who looks at her… or imagine her as his. Kellat V’Raav is the empire’s most disciplined Lead Healer, a battle-trained wall of muscle, silver braids, and iron control. But Delilah is prickly, reckless, endlessly talkative… and the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen. He knows something she doesn’t: the Mate Program has declared them a ninety-nine-point-eight-percent match. Now all he has to do is protect her, resist her, and keep that secret until she’s ready to hear it. Even if he’s one growl away from showing her exactly who she belongs with…Then a medical conference exposes just how extraordinary Delilah’s recovery really is. Powerful researchers want answers… and some of them are far more interested in her DNA than what she wants. He’s determined to protect her without claiming her. But when danger closes in, the healer may have to unleash the warrior underneath.       Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

BLOOD WE STEAL by Kaye Blue

VS Note: Zombie apocalypse with the Mafia. Cliffhanger.

Men who run the Albanian mob don’t look twice at the plain, plus-size accountant who cooks their books. That’s exactly how I got close enough to bury one. Now Rubin Marku is serving life, and it’s my fault. Eighteen months later, he has me dragged to his jail to ask me one question: How much did they pay you to betray me? Lucky for me, the dead start walking before I can answer. Now the man who swore to kill me is the only thing keeping me alive. His words promise death. His eyes caress me with hate. His hands torment me with pleasure. But he’ll never, ever kiss me. Blood We Steal is the first book in a dark apocalyptic mafia trilogy. If extremely obsessive mob bosses, plus-size accountants, forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers, and deliciously dark BWWM romance at the end of the world sound good, you’re in the right place.       AmazonKU

INNOCENCE CHAINED (CAPTIVE MATES OF THE WARLORD TRIADS BOOK ONE) by Corin Cain

I will let them chain me at the Breeding Rite while dozens of slavering, murderous alien triads fight for the right to claim me. Because it is my only chance at revenge. Aurelians tower over humanity like Greek gods. Giant and powerful, with honed bodies, marble skin, and relentless primal needs, they wield ancient weapons in battle. But these branded monsters have cast off all honor. They murder. Enslave. Breed. And I came to kill every one of them. I was promised I would never Bond to an Aurelian. The chance that I could be the one woman in the universe able to bear a triad’s sons was too small to matter. Then three warlords crush every rival driven mad by my virgin scent. They win me. And when they claim me, all three ignite inside my mind. The Bond lays their terrible will bare to me. It lets them feel my terror, taste my shame and desire, and press against every lie protecting my true identity. It twists my darkest needs, rewards every surrender, and tries to turn me into the obedient broodmare their Priests demand. Now I am trapped inside a Spire filled with women their Rites have already broken. The man who murdered my parents is somewhere within it. And the three warlords chained to my mind would slaughter anyone who tried to hurt me. But I came here to destroy them. The deeper the Bond grows, the less I know who to trust…And who I will have to kill.    AmazonKU     AB

THALEN (DRAGONII HEARTS: THE MATES OF NEW HAVEN BOOK TWO) by Leona Winwalker

VS Note: MM SFR.

Sometimes the dream you’ve been watching from afar is waiting for you among the stars. Evan Morales has spent years dreaming of a farm, a family, and a life far from the crowded city. After a brush with death finally convinces him to stop watching other people live his dream, Evan takes a leap of faith. He applies to foster-to-adopt—and follows his favourite YouVid creator, Jesse Wilson, by applying to become a colonist on New Haven. He knows the odds of being matched with one of the planet’s Dragonii settlers are slim. He never expected to beat them. Thalen has spent five lonely years helping build New Haven, using his environmental science skills to turn an alien homestead into a place he can call home. Quiet and shy, he’s resigned himself to a life without a mate—especially one willing to share his isolated little corner of the colony. Then Evan arrives. Neither man expected the stars to hand them exactly what they’d secretly wished for: a farm, a mate, a house full of animals, and children who need a family to call their own. But sometimes the greatest adventure in the universe isn’t finding a new world. It’s finally finding home.      AmazonKU

ENGINES OF REASON: ELDER RACE BOOK II by Adrian Tschaikovsky

VS Note: Not a romance but a scifi release of note.

On a planet where stories govern identity, where science and magic are merely a point of view, a fallen princess, a reluctant wizard, and a precocious child must unravel the past to shape the future. betrayal, ancient myths, and a clash of worlds converge in this spellbinding tale of courage, friendship, and self-discovery from one of science fiction’s most compelling voices.      Amazon     Apple Books      Kobo

HOW MY FAKE ALIEN BOYFRIEND LEARNED TO COOK AND SAVED THE FAMILY BUSINESS by

Lola is out of luck and almost out of time. After moving home to take over her family’s restaurant, Southern Charm, Lola has been working her butt off to keep the place open. But business is getting worse, and she’s not sure how much longer she can hold on. If only wishing on a shooting star could solve all her problems…Kal is an outcast with something to prove. When Kal became a human expert, he had one goal in mind: to go on a mission to Earth. But Kal can’t stop screwing up at work—including accidentally launching himself through space and landing in Roswell Falls, a small town in the mountains of Tennessee. Mistaking Kal for a job seeker, Lola hires him as a line cook and quickly realizes he’s a bit…unusual. Even stranger—she finds Kal charming. And kind. And pretty much everything she could have wished for. Except Kal has an out-of-this-world secret, and Lola’s already got enough on her plate.       Amazon       Apple Books      Kobo

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

VS Note: I had to feature this book from my backlist this week – book one of my Intergalactic Dating Agency Soldiers of the Ardannan series from 2025! (Book 4 releases SEPT 14 amnd is on preorder here: 

TREYLON: SOLDIERS OF THE ARDANNAN BOOK ONE (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Veronica Scott

Prince Treylon of Ardanna isn’t looking to find a fated mate on his one week R&R at the Intergalactic Dating Agency’s new Resort Planet. He wants to relax with friends, enjoy casual fun times with the human woman he matched and then return to active duty on the Sector’s frontlines. He certainly wasn’t expecting to find the one woman who could change his entire life. Rosalie Lenox lives a life of quiet desperation on Old Earth, juggling multiple jobs, with no future. The all-expenses paid invitation to spend a week at IDA’s Resort Planet and possibly find a serious romantic partner was impossible to resist. She quit her jobs, packed her thrifted vintage clothing and took the plunge. Only the man she was matched with doesn’t want anything serious…and he’s an arrogant prince. Will a week together on the lush Resort Planet change their minds about each other? Danger for both lurks in unexpected places as the romance heats up. The Intergalactic Dating Agency has been successfully matching humans and aliens for centuries. Now they’ve expanded to also operating a luxury resort just in time to help the interstellar Ardannan kingdom find human mates in hopes of smoothing their way into becoming well accepted Sectors citizens and allies. Every eligible Ardannan male between the ages of 20-50 has been ordered to spend a week at the resort with the woman the IDA algorithm says is their match These are a few of their stories. A 25K word novella crossover between the Sectors SF romances and the Intergalactic Dating Agency. It’s not necessary to have read any of the interconnected Sectors series to enjoy this book.

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FROST AND VENOM by Christine Feehan

VS Note: Listed in Paranormal and Ghost Romance. Read reviews on Goodreads (mixed) and saw no mention of PNR elements so I don’t know, folks.

Surgical and trauma nurse Harlow Frye loves the small town of Knightly, where breathtaking views of the Sierra and a tight circle of female friends provides a refuge from her professional life. But lately, it’s Harlow’s personal life that’s causing all the chaos. First, a series of anonymous threatening letters are left in her mailbox. Then, Harlow is dealt a blow when her friend Lawyer dies after reacting to some sort of toxin. And to top it off, Harlow finds her secret obsession, CIA operative Hawkin Wilder, bleeding out on a mountain trail. As Harlow turns her home into a makeshift hospital, her infuriating, attractive patient insists on distracting her. But even in the face of their increasing connection, there’s no way Harlow can ignore the escalating storm, when someone else close to her is struck down by the mysterious toxin. With little more than intuition to go on, Harlow turns to the five friends who have proved themselves to be a better family than her own flesh and blood. As the women attempt to unravel the killings, they will need to rely on their instincts and their connection to each other—or else they’ll lose everything they’ve come to hold dear.       Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

DRAGON DESCENDING (FIRE AND CLAW BOOK TWO) by Jennifer Allis Provost

Dragons value family above all else—but when a dragon shifter can’t shift, how will he protect the ones he loves? Lochlyn Blackmoor, the last dragon shifter in Alessia, has lost his ability to shift. Heartened by a prediction that he will shift again, Lochlyn retreats to Dragon Ridge with his beloved wife, Rosalie. They’re content to enjoy a quiet life, until they receive unsettling news from the capital city. The king’s seer has been marked for death, all because she helped him free Rosalie’s sister from the king’s clutches. Despite his current weakness, Lochlyn embarks on a mission to rescue the seer with his brother-in-law and spymaster in tow. Almost immediately, one of their few allies—Arthus Flameborn, Grand Master of the Order of the Phoenix, who also happens to be Rosalie’s grandfather—abandons them. As they run out of time and options, Lochlyn turns to a former foe for assistance: Basilisk, the same rogue shifter he freed from the Order’s dungeon, and nearly killed him. Basilisk proves himself a worthy ally, and his vast knowledge Alessia’s royal family comes in handy more than once. As more of Basilisk’s past is revealed, Lochlyn learns Alessia’s darkest, most dangerous secret, information so deadly It could unravel everything he’s ever known. To make matters worse, the ruthless Grand Master wants to form a relationship with his granddaughter, Rosalie, and he doesn’t care who he hurts in the process—not even Rosalie. And only a dragon can overpower the Grand Master.     Amazon      Apple Books       Kobo

TRACKING SNOW: SPICY SNOW WHITE RETELLING (THE LOST GIRLS BOOK SIX) by Holly Roberds

Seven boyfriends wrapped up in one body. And they all want a turn. Almost everyone I know and love is magically gifted, while I’m just a plain powerless human. Which I find deeply unfair. I try to make up for it by becoming Boston’s least official vigilante. I have all the qualifications for that: insomnia, sick knife-throwing skills, and zero sense of self-preservation. When a hooded stranger crashes my rooftop routine, my rescue attempt turns upside down. I mistook him for a loner, but The Seven is never alone. He’s one man broken into seven pieces, and every piece has its own power, its own temper, and its own reaction when I smile at him. And beneath them all lies the shard they keep chained. The one I’m warned never to provoke Poking things I shouldn’t is kind of my brand. While they can’t agree on whether to push me away or keep me close, they all agree on one thing. Nobody touches me but them. I’ve spent my whole life wanting magic. Now I want the man who has more of it than anyone in Boston. But Boston is turning uglier by the night for magic-kind, friends of mine are starting to disappear, and the deeper I dig, the closer I get to the one part of The Seven that scares me.   AmazonKU

AN OMEGA IN TROUBLE (HIS ALPHA FANTASIES BOOK ONE) by Lorelai M Hart

VS Note: MM. Shifters.

My partner lost me to another alpha in a twisted card game. He made the bet while drunk, but the winner took it seriously. And the next morning, he came to collect. The man my partner bet to an inside straight on was a career criminal who always got what he wanted. Except me. When I heard the hushed conversation, I took off, threw my phone out the window, and never looked back. I’ve received threatening online messages from my partner and anonymous numbers, but I’m hoping here, in the desert, at my new job, I won’t be noticed–or found. Our resort is for making alphas’ fantasies come true but one night when a guest asks me for a drink, I realize, he’s about to grant mine.   AmazonKU

FAMILIARS AND FOUL PLAY (CRONES OF A FEATHER pnr COZY MYSTERY BOOK FIVE) by Beth Dolgner

When Hazel Underwood and her coven of middle-aged witches stumble on a dead body in the woods, it sure looks like the work of dark magic. Unfortunately, the case falls under the jurisdiction of a non-magical town, and the sheriff there is looking at the witches a little too closely. Meanwhile, the coven has to protect the town’s resident Bigfoot, Barry, when a Bigfoot hunter rolls into town. Is it a coincidence that the hunter has ties to the murder victim? While the residents of Foxfire Haven struggle to protect their magical secrets from being discovered, Hazel also has to deal with the growing energy vortex inside her home. As the energy grows, more and more witches’ familiars are being drawn into the chaos.     AmazonKU

THE ORC IN THE DINER: MONSTROUS NEW YORK BOOK FIVE by E M Sauber

I blame jetlag and hormones for the best night of my life… the one that led to all of my dreams coming true. What better way to celebrate my return to the city than with a night out with my bestie. Except when she ditches me, I’m not quite ready to call it a night…especially when a lonely orc across the bar catches my attention. One thing leads to another, and— I’m sure you can figure out the rest. Imagine my surprise when I show up for my interview as head baker at Cream Me Up and find none other than Phil. Not only is he the double knot-wielding orc I slept with last night, but he’s also my new boss! I have no choice but to let him down gently. Hopefully, I don’t break his heart too badly, but I have dreams to chase, and Phil is a walking distraction I don’t need. By the grace of the Mother Tree, I convince him to hire me and keep things platonic. Except fate has another curveball up her sleeve, in the form of two pink lines. Turns out, forgetting to take your birth control and being knotted by a big, sexy orc has consequences. But Phil makes sure I can have my cake and eat it too. As we navigate the ups and downs of pregnancy and parenthood, he solidifies a place in my heart, promising a future that’s bigger and brighter than I could have ever imagined.      AmazonKU

NOT BROKEN (THE WOLFVERSE) by Sam Hall

She wanted to learn how to ask for what she wanted. Falling for three men was never part of the plan.
Nadia has never been good at asking for what she wants, especially in the bedroom. Determined to change that, she makes an appointment with an intimacy consultant. Instead, she accidentally propositions three construction workers. Embarrassed doesn’t even begin to cover it. When Tex, Ethan, and Grey run into her again, Nadia braces for awkwardness. What she gets instead is an irresistible proposition: no strings, no promises, just three men determined to help her discover exactly what she likes. For the first time in her life, Nadia’s needs come first. As their casual arrangement turns into late-night laughter, lingering touches, and feelings none of them agreed to have. Which is a problem. They’re alphas, she’s a beta, so their fated mate is out there and it’s not her. Is Nadia heading for heartbreak, or is she about to discover she was never broken in the first place?    AmazonKU

THE CENTAUR’S IMPULSE: MM  SPICY PNR SHIFTER CENTAUR ROMANCE (BATHHOUSE BEASTS BOOK 15) by Blake R Wolfe

A burned-out CEO. A secret bathhouse. And a massive centaur who demands total surrender. Thirty-nine-year-old CEO AJ is working himself into an early grave. When a concerned friend stages an intervention, AJ is ordered to visit a discreet, anonymous bathhouse in the warehouse district to finally disconnect from his stressful life. He expects a simple hot soak, but quickly discovers the club caters to both humans and monsters looking for a no-strings-attached release. After a very hands-on encounter in the main pool, AJ is directed to a private upstairs room for some specialized stress relief. There, he meets Dimitrios—an eight-foot-tall, magnificent centaur who knows exactly how heavy the burden of constant control can be. Dimitrios doesn’t just want to give AJ a massage; he wants to strip away his need to manage everything. Bound in silk ropes and left completely at the mercy of the commanding creature, AJ discovers that surrendering to the beast’s intense, otherworldly pleasure might be the only way to truly save his life.     AmazonKU

CURVY SOLD MATE (BEAUMONT LOTTERY MATES BOOK TWO) by Layla Silver

He rejected me, bought me, and bound me to him. And there’s nothing I can do. It’s been years since my brother’s best friend broke my heart. He obviously disliked my big body. Now the magical lottery has cruelly chosen me as his mate. I really want to refuse. The problem is that I’ve been kidnapped by a rival pack. And now my mate buys me “free.” So here’s what happened. The enemy pack took me and put a suppression shard into my skin. Hence, I’m severed from my wolf and the pack bond. I’m effectively useless. Defenseless. When my supposed mate pays the ransom and tells me I’ll be marrying him pronto, nothing changes. I’m still useless. Defenseless. And utterly at the mercy of the wolf who rejected me. I helped dismantle the old lottery system. Now I’m bound by the new system I helped build. I’ve spent years running from him. I can hold myself in a fight. But not against him. I desperately try to hold myself together, but one look from him, and I break open. I was forced into this bond, and the worst thing? My plus-size body feels like it’s always been tied only to him. Will he claim me as his rejected, fated mate whether I want to or not?      AmazonKU

BUMPY, THE GARGOYLE SLAYER by Roslyn St Clair

Destiny is what you make it, Bumps, and I want to make you mine. Bunny Winters, aged twenty-seven, knows a vampire when she sees one, and Alain D’Ange, famous financial genius, and too-hot billionaire, is it. Or him. Whatever. The point is, she’s trained all her life to be a slayer, and slaying him, even if it is on national television, is just something that a girl with a destiny has to do. Unfortunately, when she stabs him in the chest, her stake splinters, leaving him very much alive. Worse yet, she gets hauled off to jail for attempted murder. She’s just beginning to wonder if she’s actually slayer material when the vampire-with-the-impenetrable-heart shows up to rescue her. Of course, he comes bearing an ultimatum: be his fake girlfriend for a month, and he’ll help spring her from jail. Honestly, it should be harder to swipe yes on his offer. Instead, it’s far too easy. Alain isn’t a vampire. He’s a gargoyle. Very different kind of thing. He’s not a guy who can be done in with a silly wooden stake, because stone will beat wood every single time. Since he was born to protect, and since Bumpy (his nickname for the slayer) clearly needs protection from her own worst instincts, he needs to find a way to excuse her assault upon him. Unfortunately, the only thing he can think of is to tell the world she’s his actress girlfriend, taking advantage of a global audience in order to promote her new play. Now, he just has to make her into what he needs her to be, even if it’s only for a month, and hopefully salvage both their reputations and livelihoods in the process. Oh, and somehow, he has to manage to not to fall in love with the bouncy blond, because gargoyles and humans don’t mix. But there she goes, slaying his heart.      AmazonKU

MONSTER MATCHES: A COLLECTION OF SHORT AND STEAMY MONSTER ROMANCES by Ami Wright

Want to take home a monster? How about five? This collection of short, steamy monster romance stories will get your blood pumping and your other parts… quivering as you dive into the world of Ami Wright’s Grumpy Monster Bosses and Monstrous Deals. Imagine what it would be like to be an escort to a monster? Or to have a grumpy monster for a boss. Five different monsters, five different fantasies. Escape your reality and take home a monster today.      Amazon

LOVE AT FIRST FRIGHT: MM PNR by TJ Rose

Haunting #362: Grimthorne Manor, nr Devizes, Wiltshire – History: Built 1347. 21 confirmed deaths, 37 suspected. Current owners bought it sight unseen—big mistake. Wanted: Immediate ghost removal. Renovation crew refuses to work after “flying hammer incident.” The ExorSquad Team: Star employee Brad Harrington (works alone, prefers it that way) & new recruit Charlie Hayes (doesn’t believe in ghosts—yet). Additional notes: Unusual EMF spikes detected near the music room. Recon team reported “aggressive 90s alternative rock” playing at 3am. Black smudges appearing on bathroom mirrors—appears to be eyeliner. P.S: Avoid the basement at all costs. Charlie – I’m broke, I’m desperate, and I’ve just signed up with ExorSquad—a ghost-busting company that’s definitely conning vulnerable people out of their life savings. But hey, minimum wage is minimum wage, even when it means spending multiple nights in a crumbling Georgian manor with my new colleague Brad, a complete tosser. The job’s simple: pretend to clear out the ghosts, collect our fee, go home. Easy, right? Except the locals keep crossing themselves when I mention Grimthorne Manor, the renovation crew literally ran away screaming, and I just got locked in the attic with…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     AmazonKU

DUPED: A PUSS IN BOOTS OMEGAVERSE RETELLING by Zoey Indiana

She was supposed to be invisible… until she used a pack of Alphas to rewrite her fate. Mireya Vale has survived by being nothing. No scent. No heat. No power. When she’s handed to the Blackthorn Pack, she doesn’t beg for protection. She asks for boots. With sharp lies and ruthless strategy, Mira transforms a struggling pack into a rising force, binding an Alpha leader, a cunning Beta, and a deadly enforcer to her side. The more they rely on her, the more dangerous she becomes. And the cracks in her carefully hidden Omega nature begin to show. Because Mira isn’t just building power. She’s hunting a monster. The Ogre of Briarhold has never been challenged and never lost. Until Mira walks into his territory and dares him to prove his legend. But when her secrets unravel and her scent finally surfaces, the pack she’s been manipulating must decide. Will they control her… or burn the world to keep her?      AmazonKU

ALFIE (WERE ZOO BOOK 25) by R E Butler

Wolf shifter Alfie is more than ready to find his soulmate and finally settle down. When he and his friends go out for a drink after a long day at the safari park, the last thing he expects is for his soulmate to walk through the door. Fresh off a bad date with a creep who won’t take no for an answer, Myla agrees to meet her future sister-in-law at a nearby bar. When the creep follows her inside, the sexiest man she’s ever seen steps in and shuts him down—calm, confident, and unmistakably protective. She doesn’t know why she feels so safe with Alfie…only that she does. And when he asks her to dinner the next night, she says yes. Alfie and Myla are drawn to each other like only soulmates can be, falling fast and hard. But Alfie hasn’t told her about his shifter nature, and the secret weighs heavily on him. When Myla begins to suspect he’s keeping something from her, he brings her to the park and reveals the truth. Everything she believes about him is wrapped in a secret so serious she can never tell a soul. Will Myla keep Alfie’s secret and choose the life he offers? Or will she wish she could go back to the night they met and never find out the truth…that shifters are real and she’s the soulmate of a wolf?    Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

WE STEAL THE FLIGHT (THE BLOODSTONE ACADEMY SERIES BOOK THREE) by G Bailey

I grew up inside a lie — a pocket world built to keep everyone trapped and no one the wiser. Now that ends. With my newfound family beside me and a plan to tear the illusion down for good, I go back for my mates. Only they can’t leave. One spell went wrong. Two lives were taken. And the people I love are running out of time. This is my final year at Bloodstone Academy — and if I’m not careful, it will be my last.     AmazonKU

SORCERY’S ECHO: PNR URBAN FANTASY (DEMON TALES AND FAIRY GAMES BOOK FOUR) by 

It’s Halloween. Time for witches and ghouls and… a sacrifice. Trapped in the human realm, Aidian d’Alamine is cursed with an ordinary life. But he’s a fairy and a demon, and ordinary is… well, for ordinary people. His only way out is to find his way through the veil and go back to pitting demons against fairies in a war that will see him ruler of the realms. At least, that’s the dream. In the meantime, he’ll distract himself with the demonologist Orion Stone. Shy and sweet…Or is he? Orion made the worst mistake anyone could make. He befriended demons for a ticket to the other side of the veil and got… well, a vengeful troll who speaks to him through his Ouija board. Now he has secrets to keep and a magic stone to steal. In the meantime, he finds himself entangled with his neighbor, a flippant, flighty beauty who seems to have no need for furniture, adores candy, and wants a smoothie bar on every street corner. An innocent…Or is he? Everybody wants the stone, everybody has a secret—all Orion wants is his life back, but when he’s kidnapped by a group of people who might or might not be human, he vows to find out who they are and free himself from their power plays. And right behind him is the cheerful Aidian, who may or may not have secrets of his own. Enemies await them, and something in a house with a long dark history of evil is stirring from its slumber.

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LIAR’S MARK (ORCS OF THE SEVERED TUSK BOOK TWO) by Lia Frost

I forged a letter, stole a seal, and talked my way into an orc trade caravan as a diplomat I invented three months ago. The commander looked at my letter. Looked at my hands. Included me anyway. Gurn doesn’t talk. He grunts. One-word answers. I’ve been reading people since I was fourteen, and he’s the first person where the surface and the interior are the same thing. I can’t read him. I can’t stop watching him. Every night the best portion of meat arrives at my place by the fire. He caught me on a mountain ledge and held on longer than the catching required. And when I stop performing long enough to sit beside him in silence, he says one word. Better. The lie is going to collapse. When it does, and the commander asks who I am, my answer is the worst one possible. I don’t know.    AmazonKU

FORMERLY MINE AND OTHER VAMPIRIC AFFLICTIONS by V V Strange

Eleanora “Ellie” – I’d been working for him for five years. I’d loved him for almost as long. But it was time to face the truth: while he understood exactly what I was to his ambitions, he would never see me as anything beyond that. And he never would. It was almost The Gleaning, when they said Mother Nature was kind enough to leave something behind for those who endured. I had begun to think what was left behind was simply what no one had chosen first. So I left, before I became that definition. Constantine – My record keeper resigned today. For five years she had maintained my estate, scheduled my feedings, prevented at least two political catastrophes, and reminded me–on more than one occasion–that threatening the town council constituted “poor diplomacy.” I had assumed this arrangement would continue indefinitely. Instead, she left and informed me she had accepted employment elsewhere. This was problematic. Because after she left, I discovered three things. First, the house had become unbearably quiet. Second, my life was significantly less interesting. And third, the idea of another male employing her provoked a degree of violent rage I had not experienced in ages. Humans, I had been told, valued courtship. I had never seen the necessity. But I was centuries old, extremely patient, and rather adept at acquiring what I wanted. And I had just realized what that was.      AmazonKU

TICK TOCK, DARLING: PETER PAN RETELLING (DARK EVER AFTER FAIRYTALES BOOK FIVE) by M Guida

Women have always been the easy part. Until her. I’m a smuggler for the vampire mafia—magic, weapons, secrets that can start wars. I don’t do attachments. I don’t chase what I can have for a night. Then I meet the one woman who couldn’t care less who I am. The most powerful witch in New Orleans. The woman who cursed a beast…and walked away untouched. The Keeper of the Christmas Veil. She’s stubborn. Infuriating. Completely unimpressed. And the one woman I can’t stop thinking about. When the vampire mafia orders me to protect her until Christmas morning, she makes one thing perfectly clear. She doesn’t need me. Then Peter Pan escapes the Hollows. The boy who never grew up. The monster who will destroy both the Elder Dimension and Earth if he reclaims his shadow before midnight on Christmas Eve. He kidnaps Tinker Bell. Now the only way to stop him is to cross into the Elder Dimension, find the Christmas Star, and bring her home before time runs out. Because Pan has no idea what he’s started. I don’t chase. I hunt.      AmazonKU

PROTECTED BY THE ELF PRINCE by L Rose and Lila Rose

VS Note: MM PNR.

Landon has always kept one foot firmly planted in the ordinary world. He’s an accounant after all. But then he discovers monsters are real… and an elf prince insists they’re fated mates. Dashiel has waited centuries for the one person destined to be his. The moment he meets Landon, he knows he’s found him. However, convincing his human is another matter entirely. Landon isn’t ready to believe in fated mates. He’s still trying to accept vampires, shifters, and elves exist. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to deny the bond growing between them. And when danger comes calling, Landon must decide if he’s ready for a love he never saw coming.     AmazonKU

FOUNDLING (MONSTROUS WORLD BOOK SIX) by S E Wendel

She wasn’t supposed to survive…Far down the line of succession, Leita was perfectly unremarkable amongst her powerful family. That was, until the line was extinguished in a single night. Now the last of the royal fae, Leita must wear the crown she stole and break her people of their subsistence on magic. Surrounded by suspicious courtiers and a capital in ruins, Leita’s only solace is a seer’s promise—that her dream of love and a family will someday come true. Everyone wants him dead…All Attalus Princeps wants is to live—not the simplest thing when his eldest brother is the cruel king of dragons. Being the affable, carefree one of his many siblings has kept Attalus alive; no one bothers plotting with or against him, and that’s just fine. Except, now someone has. Or, that’s what the king thinks, and there’s no reasoning with him. Flight is a wounded Attalus’s only hope. But the fates must have a sense of humor, for even as he lays dying, the life he knew reduced to ash, he finds himself exactly where he needs to be. With her. A love forged in fire and fate…Leita isn’t what the faelands needs but all it has. This dragon claiming to be her mate isn’t what she imagined nor wished for. But she’ll have what she was promised, and no fae, no ancient magic, not even an enraged dragon king will take it from her.      AmazonKU

SPLINTER: SNOW QUEEN INSPIRED ROMANTASY (MFM OMEGAVERSE) by Sabrina Silver

She set out to rescue the man she loved. She never expected another Alpha to change what love could be. For two years, Sable has waited to choose Garren—the blacksmith’s son who has loved her long before the world learned she was an Omega. When he disappears on the eve of her Choosing, she knows he didn’t abandon her. Someone took him. The only person willing to help her cross into the frozen realm of the Snow Queen is Cayden, the Tower’s disciplined captain and the Alpha whose presence awakens a bond Sable refuses to acknowledge. He could claim her by instinct. Instead, he gives her something far rarer. A choice. Deep within the Winter Court, Sable finds Garren alive—but transformed. The shy blacksmith she remembers has become the Snow Queen’s favored consort, seduced by the power and purpose he never believed he deserved. To save him, Sable must convince him that he was always enough. But the closer she grows to Cayden, the more impossible everything becomes. Because loving one Alpha no longer means she cannot love the other. As the Snow Queen moves to bind Garren forever, Sable, Garren, and Cayden must confront the lies that have ruled their lives—that love must be earned, that worth must be proven, and that every heart can belong to only one person. If they cannot choose each other freely, Winter will claim them all.     AmazonKU

OF MAGIC AND MURDER (MURDER IN MOONBURROW BOOK THREE) by Sarah Spade

What happens when he’s a cursed wolf and you’re a cursebreaking witch who wants to help him… even though he nearly broke you…I came to Moonburrow for one reason: because there was an opossum shifter who seemed to be cursed. Turns out that bringing Ashton Morgan back to life was an easy fix. It’s only everything that happened afterward that was a disaster…When it comes to breaking curses, there’s no better witch in the business. However, great cursebreaking power means that my basic spellcasting abilities are… well, not very good. In fact, whenever I tried to cast an easy spell, it always backfires on me somehow. I’m used to that, though, and my sisters usually help me with any mistakes. The witches in Moonburrow are not my sisters. When one uses my magic against me and I ended up in jail for a crime I didn’t commit, I thought that was the worse thing that could happen to me. But that was before the handsome wolf shifter who I was instantly attracted to turned on me, and I’m finding it difficult to move on… especially considering my history with wolves. Riordan Lobo is cursed. I could tell from the moment we met that someone hurt him long before I arrived in town, but before I can swallow my pride and offer to help him, he disappears. He’s not the only one…The head librarian disappeared two weeks ago. Then something happens near the warded borders that protect Moonburrow from humans, vampires, and other threats. Before I can wonder what is going on, a witch is discovered murdered, her assailant obviously a wolf shifter, and I know that it’s time for me to head back to Salem—especially when the ghost wants ME to solve her case. And that’s when Riordan finally returns to Moonburrow. He didn’t kill the witch. He couldn’t have. That means he’s the only wolf in Moonburrow who isn’t a suspect—and when he comes to me, asking for help to solve the crime, he quickly becomes the only male in the cozy supe town that I can trust.    AmazonKU

THE LAST KELPIE (THE VELASCA BOOK ONE) by Amy Sumida

VS Note: MM PNR.

How do you save the man you love when the world has forgotten him? As a new member of the Velasca, an organization dedicated to preserving living myths, he’s sent to Loch Lomond to document and protect the last surviving kelpie before he fades from existence. What Ethan doesn’t expect is Áedán. Ancient, beautiful, and fiercely devoted to the loch he’s guarded for centuries, Áedán is unlike anyone Ethan has ever known. Their connection is immediate, drawing Ethan deeper into a world where stories have the power to change lives and create them. But something is wrong. The modern stories about kelpies no longer match the records preserved by the Velasca, and the discrepancy is more than an academic issue. It’s killing Áedán. As Ethan searches for answers, his assignment becomes increasingly more personal. Because every moment spent with the enigmatic guardian leaves him wanting more, and every day that passes brings Áedán closer to fading forever. Now, Ethan must uncover the truth hidden within a corrupted legend before the man stealing his heart disappears with it.      AmazonKU     AB

VAMEER: BONDED SOULS BOOK TWO by S J Tilly

Rune – Today is my thirtieth birthday. My parents mailed me a gift, like they always do, but I accidentally nick my thumb while opening the box. A tiny drop of blood wells on my skin. And without thought, I press the tip of my thumb between my lips and close my eyes. When I open them, I’m no longer in my apartment. I’m on the side of a mountain. Standing in the rain. Convinced this isn’t real, I seek shelter in a cave. But I’m unable to stop myself from moving deeper into the cavern. Where I find him. A man, lying inside a hidden chamber, sleeping atop an altar. My body is not my own as I walk closer. As I reach out to touch him. To see if he’s real. But then a force stills my hand above his face. And my heart… stops beating. The muscle freezes inside my ribs. While I panic, unable to move, I watch as a single drop of blood beads on my thumb. And falls. Landing perfectly between his parted lips. He opens his eyes. My heart finally resumes beating. I stumble back, falling…And land on my apartment floor. It was a dream. A hallucination. Not real. Except my clothes are wet. And I feel the weight of him inside my chest. Vameer – I only meant to lie down for a little while. A few weeks to rest. Gods, I just needed to rest. But instead of waking on my own, I’m woken by the unmistakable taste of my mate’s blood on my tongue. We lock eyes. My solid black orbs to her human ones. But then she disappears. When I follow her scent to the entrance of the cave, I find that the world has changed. I don’t know where my mate went. I don’t know how to find my brother. But I know I must find both of them before my enemies do. And I fear I may have slept longer than I meant to.      AmazonKU      AB

THAT’S MY ORC, TUSK OFF (CREATURE RESCUE LEAGUE BOOK TWO) by Ava Ross

I moved to rural Maine for a fresh start. A quiet office job at an orc-run creature rescue league. Maybe adopt a mossnibble. Definitely not develop feelings for my new boss. Then I met Traig. He’s seven feet of green muscle, midnight eyes, and the most organized orc I’ve ever seen. He wrote a sixty-five-page orientation manual before I started. He puts labels on everything. He brought me twenty-four cookies from the local bakery because he didn’t know which kind I liked. And when I kissed him, he looked at me like I’d reorganized his entire world. Now we’re co-leading a school partnership that could put the Creature Rescue League on the map. Meanwhile, two rescued creatures everyone assumes can be adopted separately have me questioning everything. I can see the bond between them. Traig sees reports and data that say they’re independent. The adoption application on his desk is perfect. Approving it could break two hearts. And maybe ours, too. Because some bonds can’t be measured. Sometimes, love means choosing to see what’s been there all along.     AmazonKU

TAIL ME THE TRUTH (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 111) by Milly Taiden

Celina Bates has spent twenty-four years being managed—her career, her image, her entire life dictated by a man who saw her as a paycheck the day she turned four. Then a white-haired matchmaker sets up what should be a boardroom negotiation, a devastatingly gorgeous lion shifter billionaire shakes her hand instead, and the second their skin touches, Celina’s whole body goes up in flames. Now the ruthless CEO she came to negotiate with is the one man she can’t walk away from. Osias Fellan runs a Beverly Hills empire, a lion pride, and every crisis that crosses his desk with the same ruthless control. Until Celina. One breath of her scent walking through his office door, and his lion loses its ever-loving mind—prowling, possessive, and dead certain this fierce, green-eyed actress belongs to him. Osias only meant to keep her safe when a mysterious attack drives her straight into his ultra-guarded mansion. Celina and Osias have to turn one impossible business deal into a real partnership and a human-shifter romance neither of them saw coming. But with jealous rivals circling, paparazzi hunting a story, and Celina’s manager refusing to loosen his grip, she’ll have to decide if trusting a possessive Alpha lion means losing herself all over again—or if standing beside him is the first real choice she’s ever made.      AmazonKU

ACCIDENTALLY ON PURR-POSE (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 112) by Milly Taiden

Freesia Waverly is on the run. As the last royal tiger shifter and the final Keeper of the Waverly Compact she carries the weight of her entire species on her shoulders. Then a mysterious, impeccably dressed matchmaker drops into her rotting safehouse with an offer of total protection—courtesy of a panther Alpha whose touch sends heat rocketing straight through her the second their palms meet. Izei Callel is the dangerously handsome Alpha of the Callel panther pride and the head of Singapore’s premier security firm, a man who’s built his reputation on cold logic and impenetrable walls. Until Freesia. One whiff of her intoxicating orchid-and-rain scent, and his inner panther roars a single, primal truth: mate. Now holed up in Izei’s fortress estate, the tension between the stoic panther Alpha and the fierce tiger queen is hot enough to set off the fire alarms—inconvenient, considering Freesia doesn’t have time for a mate bond when assassins are hunting her and the peace treaty is one betrayal from collapsing. But when shadowy enemies close in, Freesia will have to decide if an ancient prejudice between tigers and panthers is worth more than the one man who’d burn his own empire down to keep her breathing.       AmazonKU

JUST THE POOL BOY AT THE VAMPIRE MANSION by Ariana Nash

VS Note: LGBTQ Fantasy.

I should have asked what happened to the last pool boy . . .The money’s good, and my rent is scarier than the rumors about Witherborne Mansion. All I gotta do is clean the pool, keep my head down, and not get involved. Then I meet Theo. The hot mess, party-boy vampire heir who is absolutely not my type. His brother wants him dead. Not getting involved. His mother cares more about political ambitions than her sons. Doesn’t matter to me. The neighbors are something scarier than vampires. Not my problem. But when a body shows up in the Witherbornes’ pool it becomes my business. Literally. I’m the only human in a house full of vampires, trying to work out who did it. Now I’m involved, it’s definitely my problem, and Theo is beginning to matter to me in ways that can’t end well for either of us. My name is Owen, I’m just the pool boy, and my chances of survival are absolutely zero.      AmazonKU

REIGN OF SILVER AND STARDUST (STARDUST TRILOGY BOOK ONE) by Diana A Hicks

My twin sister was murdered. To find her killer, I had to die. CATALINA – I was never supposed to survive. As the mortal spare to an immortal sister, I lived in the shadows until Ry was murdered by a weapon that shouldn’t exist. Now, justice is all I want. To find her killer, I must take her place in the Queen’s Immortal Army and become the very monster everyone fears. But becoming a weapon means losing my humanity… and losing the one man I can’t resist. VALOREK – The immortals bleed my world dry while my sister rots from the inside out. I swore to burn their reign to the ground, until I met her. Sterling is the enemy—a fierce, silver-blooded warrior of the empire that destroyed my family. But the electricity between us is undeniable. We are on opposite sides of a divided world, and falling for the enemy is a dangerous mistake neither of us can afford.       Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

FULL MOON FRENZY: A STEAMY WEREWOLF ROMANCE by C M Nascosta

Trapp Hemming is used to being the golden boy — his mother’s favorite, the town hero, laid back and well-adjusted in the midst of his bonkers family, well-liked and desired by all. But what happens when the town hero gets dumped? When his position as the coffee shop darling is usurped, when his brother’s giant wedding pushes him to the edge of sanity, and his med school rival winds up in Cambric Creek? There’s a bad moon rising, and the golden boy’s villain era is here. Full Moon Frenzy is the third Hemming Brothers book, a steamy antagonistic enemies-to-lovers romance, with big “I hate her, touch her and die, Oh no I love her” energy.     AmazonKU

MONSTERS AND MOCHA (INSPIRED BY FRANKENSTEIN) by Sarah Beran

One a monster becomes…Darby Shelton’s future is bright—as a top graduate from the Mavorian Academy of Science and Magic, she now holds a prestigious and highly-sought after surgical internship with the famous Dr. Fransten. Sure, he might treat her more like a secretary than a fellow professional, but how can she complain when she gets to learn from the best? And unlike her other teachers, he doesn’t seem to mind that she spends the rest of her free time tinkering with gears and cogs, searching for connections between the medicine she loves and the machines that captivate her imagination. But war throws a shadow over her future, and a battle fought a little too close to home sends her on a completely different course. The wounded soldiers are brought to their hospital, among them a captain who had sacrificed life and limb to protect his comrades. Dr. Fransten might not think him worth treating, but Darby can’t leave him to suffer. It takes everything she knows of magic, metal, and medicine to save him, but at what cost? If the Guild of Medicine finds out, she could lose her position. Her mentor promises to shield her, but when a series of strange and unnerving accidents target both her and the recovering captain, Darby is left to wonder: In saving a man, has she somehow created a monster?      AmazonKU

NIGHTSHADE (WOLVES OF THE WILDWOOD BOOK TWO) by Sam Burns and W M Fawkes

VS Note: MM PNR.

Altair has been a prisoner for most of his life. First of his creator, the monster who murdered him and made him a creature of the night. Now, and for the last few hundred years, of a coven of witches who keep him in a cell, eating rats and “awakening” their members. Unexpectedly, one of the witches has a crisis of conscience and sets him free, and he’s not going to waste his chance to slip out into the woods of rural Idaho. Leo has always been the forgotten brother. He never had the intense pressure to lead that Aleks has, and he wasn’t kidnapped and tortured like his twin, Viktor. He’d be a fool to complain about how easy he’s gotten off in their pack, known for its brutality, but sometimes, he feels like he’s the outsider looking in. When he’s attacked by a stranger in the woods who’s even more lost than himself, it’s the beginning of a whole new life for both of them. No longer does Altair have to live in fear and Leo question whether he belongs. But an ancient vampire who never lets go of a grudge is determined to claim what’s his threatens their fragile safety, and it will take all that Leo has to protect his pack.     AmazonKU

BLOOD AND BONES: AN OTHERWORLD NOVELLA (OTHERWORLD TALES BOOK EIGHT) by Yasmine Galenorn

THE SPIDER SILK SCARF: A SHORT STORY by Ana Reyes

HEART OF CRONE (SPELL’S ANGELS COZY MYSTERY BOOK 16) by Amanda M Lee

Scout Randall has made it her life’s mission to fight the good fight no matter the cost to herself. So, when a new enemy arrives in town with three hellhounds in tow, Scout is ready for the fight.
There’s just one little problem. The enemy might not be who he seems. Scout has a soft spot for those in need, but this time her determination to win might hurt the people she loves most. Between the current lamia apex trying to find the nexus keys, the incoming lamia apex candidate bearing down on Hawthorne Hollow, and a new threat that defies categorization, Scout has her hands full. She won’t turn away from a soul in need, however. Scout carries heavy emotional scars, but what happens if it proves to be the key to keeping everybody safe in the present? She’s about to face off with the one thing she never wanted to deal with … her past. With the big fight around the corner, all that’s left is for Scout to assemble her team. That’s going to be easier said than done, and somebody is determined to stop her.      AmazonKU      AB

SPECTRES AND SANDWICHES: MM MPREG CONTEMPORARY GHOST STORIES (ECHOES OF SECRET SPRINGS BOOK TWO) by Minerva Howe

SPELLBOUND: A SPICE-TEMBER STORY by Angelica Grymm

PLAYING WITH FIRE (HUNTER CHRONICLES BOOK THREE) by Shawna Reppert

FATED TO THE HOLLOW KING by Angela J Ford

PORTRAIT OF A WITCH UNDONE by K S Shay

Once, Maeve Ryan was the strongest witch of her generation. But Maeve messed up a spell to contact the Lady of the Fens, an eerie Revenant who lures the unwary to their deaths in the brackish marshlands of the North Shore. Maeve destroyed her reputation, hurt her best friend Ash, and tainted herself with unbound, wild magic that transforms witches into insane Revenants. With unbound power eating away at Maeve’s mind, all she wants is to get rid of her magic. Forever. But Ash’s research into how the spell went awry leads in an unexpected direction: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and a link between the Lady and a decades-old art theft worth $500 million. When Ash disappears through a stolen painting’s empty frame, Maeve has to follow. Inside is the Other Marsh, a haunting, deadly realm where only the Lady’s rules apply. Within this half-world lie secrets about North Shore’s history, Maeve’s failure, and the fate of the masterpieces that disappeared over three decades ago. But as Maeve fights toward the truth, she risks her friendship, her coven, and her life against enemies hiding in plain sight.      AmazonKU      AB

CHASING PROMISES (CAPTURING MAGIC BOOK THREE) by Jessica Sorenson

VS Note: A Why Choose. From the blurb for book one: “Over a decade ago, I was cursed by a genie so that I could never fall in love. If I break the curse, the creature or human I fall in love with will die a painful death. I’ve spent years fighting my emotions to protect the people in my life. But my fate changes when I make an agreement to steal a genie’s lamp in order to save my friend’s life.”

I need to save Arrow and Asher, but I’m unsure how. I’ll do anything, though, to protect them, even if it means risking my own life. On top of that, I’m growing closer to Max. And I discover something about him, something that might mean we’re connected in ways I never could’ve imagined.   AmazonKU

THE HOCUS POCUS HANDBOOK by Ann Aguirre

Thea Winter didn’t choose to be a changeling — stolen from the mortal world as a baby, raised in the wildlands by a hobgoblin named Mudge who taught her everything worth knowing. How to read the weather in a crow’s wing. How to barter with brownies. How to stay alive in a world of capricious fae courts. What Mudge couldn’t teach her was how to stay out of trouble. Which is why she’s entangled in a objectionable marriage of convenience. Or would be, but her spouse bolted. Now she has to hunt down Devan J. Fenelon, but she’s been saddled with a taciturn, humorless hunter known as Winter’s Hound. He answers only to his cousin, and she’s not looking forward to this quest at all.  Kerboros has survived the Winter Court by being exactly what they made him: relentless, invisible, and careful never to want anything at all. His life is an endless series of ceaseless commands from his reprehensible cousin, Lord Liskaal. Since his father’s failed rebellion, Kerboros has been permitted to survive only as an example to others, an object lesson as to how far one may fall. But traveling with Thea—wild, warm, impossible Thea—is a glorious torment for an enforcer who has never known freedom.  She is sunshine. He is shadow. Their love is forbidden, but when irresistible force sweeps up an immovable object, the resulting reaction might be magical.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

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

I knocked on the wrong door and walked into a job. When a live-in position lands in my lap, I don’t ask questions. Not about the wrong house I’m living in and not about the gorgeous man who handed me a home. And definitely not about his three kids who are warm to the touch, talk of flying and never take off their leather bracelets. Somewhere between bedtime stories and the way he looks at me, I’m falling for the children and losing my head over the man who hired me.     AmazonKU

STRICKEN (THE LOST SOVEREIGN BOOK FIVE) by Anna Hawke

Stripped of his magic. Dying behind enemy lines. Forced to trust a woman with secrets of her own. For centuries, Asher has fought rogues and protected the innocent, knowing that his magic demands a terrible price. His most recent mission is one he doesn’t intend to survive: he will either end the madness or become the very thing he hunts. Estelle has spent centuries resisting the tyrant’s rule, concealing her involvement from allies and enemies alike. When Asher is injured on a mission, she risks everything to save his life—including the secret that could bring ruin to the rebellion. Hunted through enemy territory, they have no choice but to trust each other. With every mile, they draw closer—and begin to want more than either of them expected. Some secrets are worth dying for. Others are worth surviving.     AmazonKU

BLUE MOON WITCH ACADEMY YEAR TWO by Annalise Clark

There’s a room beneath the library that isn’t on any map. My mother’s journal is in it. Her magic is in it. And somehow (impossibly), my mother might still be in it, trapped behind a seal she built herself, in a prison world she’s been alive inside for twenty-five years. I’m not the same witch who arrived at this school terrified of her own magic. I have Poppy and Robin beside me, and a blue-moon bloodline that’s finally waking up to what it actually is. But waking up to my power means waking up to what’s been hunting it. My father, alive and morally grey and not at all who I expected. A retired archivist with thirty years of evidence and nowhere safe to put it. A professor who isn’t just dangerous — he’s the Warden of something much older than this school, and he wants what’s locked inside that prison world more than he wants to keep pretending to be harmless. To get my mother back, we have to go in after her. All three of us. Into a dimensional prison built to hold something the Hollow Court was never supposed to find. Some things you save. Some things save you back. And some things you don’t know are love until you’re standing in the wreckage of a twenty-five-year-old spell, watching the people who walked into hell with you refuse to leave without you.      AmazonKU

THE KNAVE AND THE MOON (THE STONEWATER KINGDOM BOOK TWO) by Rachel Gillig

INK WITCH (ARCANE MAGIC BOOK ONE) by Brogan Thomas

THE CASE OF THE VANISHED CHILD: COZY STEAMPUNK MYSTERY WITH NO MURDER by Michele Cartere

In an England powered by steam and crystals, it is the regency era. The Lady of House Gray is getting old, and the matter of inheritance weighs heavily on the mind of her nephew, Lou Radcliff. He’s in line to inherit the estate, but not before little Tess Gray, an innocent three-year-old. Behind his charming smile, Lou is utterly devoid of morals, and has no intention of letting the opportunity for wealth and power pass him by. He hatches a plot, and executes it with the help of his wife. Tess vanishes without a trace. 15 years later, her Godfather hires a private investigator to look into the disappearance. The busy detective delegates the preliminary phase of investigation to his daughter, Anne. However, even with the help of her two cousins, Anne will find the culture of Regency England at odds with a young gentlewoman who asks too many questions, with too little authority. She and her cousins will need all their wits—and a touch of clever subterfuge—if they hope to ever solve the case of the vanished child.      AmazonKU

BLOOD AND BELONGING (THE KALANARU CHRONICLES BOOK THREE) by Raven L Bardo

VS Note: Dieselpunk/romantic fantasy.

The closest family is the kind you choose. Holding on to them is the hard part. Leva has built something she never expected on Firappa: a home at the inn, a place among the people who keep it, and Zeke—a deep, settled love, even if the last of his guardedness holds a fraction of distance between them that neither quite admits. Between them runs the Kalanaru current—a bond that hums through walls, completes itself at a touch, and answers to nothing either of them can govern. Now Tama Iti has begun to teach them what it means to use it on purpose. In a grove where the air moves on its own logic and very old things are listening, Leva and Zeke learn to send the current with intention—and to understand that a power like theirs does not move in silence. Something has been waiting a long time to feel it wake. And it wakes at a dangerous hour. The balance between Borne and Kusha is tipping toward war, and islands that have kept an uneasy peace for years are sliding toward something worse. A stranger watches the inn—not the building, but two upper windows, hers and Zeke’s. And when a polished airship sets down at the aerodrome, it carries the father who spent decades refusing to give Zeke his name—and the truth about a seven-year promise Zeke has been keeping to a woman who let it go long ago. Some family is given by blood. The rest you fight to keep.       AmazonKU

MAINE EVENT: PNR MYSTERY FEATURING A GHOST DOG SIDEKICK (JERRY McNEAL BOOK 20) by Sherry A Burton

Just when Jerry McNeal thinks life might finally slow down, the spirits have other plans. Between a courthouse celebration that refuses to go as scheduled, a family project that opens the door to unexpected supernatural encounters, and a trip to Maine where the past refuses to stay buried, Jerry and Gunter once again find themselves juggling heart, humor and the paranormal. As always, the dead have stories to tell and they’re counting on Jerry to listen.      AmazonKU

THE KRAKEN BRIDE: KINGS OF FURY by Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe

Princess Bronwyn Drachenveil, famed ballerina of the dragon court, signs away three years of her life to descend into treacherous kraken territory, on a mission that could forever change her fate. Sebastian Mórisi rules Krakenströnd with ruthless precision. Desired by many, feared by all. When an ancient primordial rises from the abyss, threatening the safety of his underwater kingdom, he needs someone clever, nimble—and convincing—at his side. His solution? A fake courtship with the Swan of Ashmorra. The dragon princess now bound to his land. If Bronwyn plays the kraken king’s consort, acting as his spy, Sebastian will grant her heart’s desire. But the longer the deception continues, the more dangerous the game becomes. Because the kraken king who never believed in love…May be falling for the woman destined to set his world on fire.

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THE CANNIBAL (THE POISONER SERIES BOOK THREE) by I V Ophelia

VS Note: “…a botanist who kills unsavory men, and the one man who’s resistant to her poisons yet possesses his own deadly charms…”

Alina Lis is plunged into a Manhattan mansion that’s equal parts gilded cage and war room, finding that she is no longer the woman she was…and in fact may no longer be human at all. It is here where Alina prepares for “The Appraisal”—an ancient, high-stakes trial where her vampiric lover Silas must answer for the mass murder of his father’s Nest—as old rivalries and new alliances threaten to splinter them. However, Alina’s only hope lies with Luka, a former enemy with a knack for keeping the peace. But something is festering inside of Alina, as a hunger she’s never felt before threatens to boil to the surface, imperiling both friends and enemies alike. Betrayals mount, uncovering chilling truths that have been brewing for years, plunging Alina, Silas, and Luka into a waking nightmare from which they must escape, lest they succumb to the darkness for good. The Cannibal delivers the gut punch that longtime fans of The Poisoner series have been waiting for, that will leave readers sated like they’ve received their own vampiric kiss. The Cannibal is the rare trilogy-ender that doesn’t just raise the stakes—it detonates them, leaving readers shaken and deeply satisfied.    AmazonKU   AB

DIVINE OATHS by Elizabeth Agyemang

Westfield University was supposed to be Sianna Adu’s dream school. But just when she’s on the cusp of attending the elite academic institution hidden in Virginia’s swampland, an unexpected tragedy changes everything. In one day, Sianna loses her family and gains an extraordinary power—the ability to see lifelines and witness other people’s pasts and futures. With all she’s lost, Sianna puts her college dreams on pause and spends her days navigating dead-end jobs and a not-so-secret crush on her coworker. But when Kasem Saint James, the undeniably handsome heir to Westfield, approaches her with a strange request, the future Sianna has long deferred becomes a dangerous new reality. Worried that her powers are now tied to Kasem, she has no choice. Fate has called her to Westfield. At an academy where secret societies abound, connections are everything, and an ominous history—stretching back centuries—determines the future, Sianna and Kasem must piece together the past to undo a curse that binds them to each other.       Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

THE ENDLESS ONE (THE GRAVESINGER SERIES BOOK THREE) by Emma Hamm

Jessamine survived betrayal, death, and the gods themselves—but survival was only the beginning. Her kingdom lies in ruins. Her throne has been stolen. And the man who once murdered her has succeeded in doing the unthinkable: binding himself to a god. To reclaim her crown, Jessamine must defy ancient powers and betrayals alike—and face the enemy who once slit her throat. But now, she isn’t the innocent bride who fell to her death. She is the Gravesinger. Captured and forced to confront a fate far worse than dying, Jessamine must decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice to end a war. Bound to Elric, the god who loves her, she must choose between the humanity that shaped her—and the power required to tear divinity down at its source. Because this time, she isn’t just ready to kill a man. She’s ready to kill a god.      AmazonKU      AB

I HOPE THIS EMAIL FINDS YOU IN HELL by Mackenzie Reed

When staying late at the office leads to witnessing an exorcism, Brie Benson’s mundane life takes a hellish turn…literally. After her parents’ death, twenty-seven-year-old Brie has mastered the art of compartmentalization to survive her mind-numbing routine as a receptionist at a life insurance company. But when she accidentally catches her hot, uptight boss, Luke, performing an exorcism on Debra from accounting, her carefully ordered world implodes. Swearing Brie to secrecy, Luke reveals he’s from a line of demon hunters and that demonic activity is spiking. But when her emotional support coworker vanishes, Brie is determined to find her. With nothing left to lose, she convinces Luke to let her join his rescue mission. The problem? Their destination is hell. And the entrance is in Times Square. Now Brie and Luke must navigate a corporate underworld of monsters and bureaucratic nightmares while racing to save their colleague and repair a tearing veil between worlds. All before their growing feelings become irrelevant and hell claims them forever.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

KISS SLAY REPLAY by Rachel Harrison

It’s the picture-perfect wedding weekend: The venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air—and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She’s excited to celebrate her best friends’ finally having the big wedding they’ve always wanted, but this is the first time she’s seen her ex-fiancé in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off, like she stumbled into an alternate universe. But things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the groom’s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl Willa is not. Or is she? She wakes up and it’s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. Only as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question whether it was really a dream, déjà vu, or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she’s stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or else suffer a fate worse than death—being an eternal wedding guest.

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LAND OF OZ by Various

13 original stories of dark fantasy inspired by the classic tales of L. Frank Baum and the land of Oz, from the masters of fantasy and science fiction, including M. R. Carey, Christina Henry and Adrian Tchaikovsky. Journey beyond the yellow brick road, click your heels together and enter the dark heart of the tornado… if you dare. Join the award-winning Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane as they bring together some of genre fiction’s bestselling and acclaimed authors as they explore the wild imagination of L. Frank Baum and his wonderful Land of Oz.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

MANTRAS AND MINOTAURS (LEVIATHAN FITNESS BOOK THREE) by Ashley Bennett

VS Note: A “revised and expanded” re-release.

A single mom decides to take life—and love—by the horns as she falls for a hunky minotaur in this steamy monster romance. Pam Rollins is ready to date again after spending the last few years alone. Now that her kids have grown up and moved out, she’s committed to changing her life by starting yoga classes and, at her daughter’s urging, joining a dating app. She doesn’t expect much to come from her swiping, especially not a first date with buff, kind, and generous minotaur Alistair. Alistair Reid is the kind of swoon-worthy monster that every woman dreams of. After one date, Pam is feeling hopeful in love for the first time ever—and Alistair has fallen head over hoof for her. The only problem: they live states apart and have thriving lives of their own. However, as romance blooms, it becomes harder to envision a future without the other in it. Distance makes the heart grow fonder, after all.     Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

THE PUMPKIN BRIDE: A NOVEL by Fiona Buttercup

Some curses just need a cozy fire, a little magic, and a second chance to break them. A cursed knight.
Sir Bram Duncan was once a knight of legend in Harvest Hollow—until the whim of a jealous prince and the trickery of an autumn sprite turned him into the hulking orc Jask Bone-Cracker, and tethered him to Grimroot Farm. For three long, lonely years, he’s hidden his monstrous form and the truth of what happened the night he lost everything, including his true love, Princess Marigold. A runaway princess. Fleeing an arranged marriage to the vain and intolerable Prince Crispin, Marigold finds a safe haven when she stumbles across Jask’s charmed pumpkin farm deep in the forest. Sensing glimmers of gentleness—and a surprising talent for baking—beneath the grumpy orc’s imposing exterior, she begins to feel a familiar longing she believed dead when her Bram disappeared. One true love. As magic stirs and pies are baked, truths about Jask’s curse begin to surface. But curses don’t break easily, and wronged princes don’t capitulate. As their peace is threatened, Jask and Marigold must decide: cling to the lies that protect them, or risk everything for a love that could set them free.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

RIDER OF DRAGONS by A T Qureshi

She wants to race dragons – Genevieve’s family forbids her from joining the deadly dragon races. But she won’t let them stop her. He’s the trainer she doesn’t want, but needs – Without her family’s money, nobody will train her. Desperate for help, she agrees to a terrible deal: Qais, an alleged member of a dragon poaching gang, will train her to win the races, if she agrees to give him her prize money. Every race could be their last – The dragon races aren’t just about being the fastest. There will be sabotage, attacks and all out violence. The devastatingly handsome Qais will teach her to be cunning and cruel, and Genevieve will be forced to answer a ruinous question: to win, is she willing to lose everything?      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

A TIME OF WITCHES by Madeline Martin

Lilith Legare’s life is unraveling. Since her mother’s death, strange things have been happening – plants turn toward her touch, animals linger in her path, and the birthmark on her arm has started tingling. Worse still is her recurring nightmare of being burned alive at the stake. Her search for answers brings her from Savannah to England, to the decaying Brackenmere Manor where the past blurs with the present. There, Lilith discovers a legacy she never asked for and along with it, the threat of peril. History must be rewritten, or she too will die. In 1645 Suffolk, Sybil Brantham stands accused as a witch. An educated, wealthy widow, she is branded a threat by men who fear her independence. As arrests begin and suspicion abounds, Sybil must protect her younger sister, even as betrayal takes root within her household. Across centuries, Lilith and Sybil are bound by blood and by danger. To save themselves, and each other, they must confront the silence that has stolen women’s power for generations—and dare to claim their voices before it’s too late.     Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

THE TOWER OF BEGGARS: STORMFELL ACADEMY BOOK ONE by Torsten Weitze

VS Note: Previously only available in Europe.

When tragedy strikes her family, Niri finds herself penniless and alone in a city determined to turn their back on ‘her kind’. Her only possession is also her only hope – a copper coin that grants her admission to the prestigious Stormfell Academy, renowned for its magical and combative training. But the coin only offers her a place to sleep, and Niri must learn to adapt and fight if she is to survive the Academy – and its occupants.     Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

WHITE RAVEN (MESSENGERS OF THE REALM TRILOGY BOOK ONE) by Stacey Marie Brown

Harbingers of enlightenment, bringers of darkness. Givers of life, tellers of death … significance flies on the backs of raven wings for those who dare to listen to its meaning. For we are the Messengers of the Realm. The White Raven was born to bring magic to the dying realm. One hundred and ninety-nine years ago the Blood War between the Ravens and the Leatherwings divided the land into Day, Night, and Dusk, cursing the land with the blood of the dead. Abandoned by Odin and his favored pets, Huginn and Muninn, the Ravens were stripped of their wings and their positions as Messengers of the Realm. Her blood holds the power to heal the land and unite the kingdoms. Wrennlyn Stallard, the King’s only daughter, had lived a life of privilege, kept sheltered in the walls of Silvervale. But on the night of her betrothal, her world shattered when an enemy from the Night Realm kidnapped her, taking her across the snowy terrain into a treacherous land called the Shadow Rift, the land between the Day and Night. His mission is to take her to the Night King. Onyx had waited months to seize her, purposely getting himself captured to work as a thrall for the Day King. Cold, ruthless, and burning with vengeance, he wasn’t prepared for the pampered, prophesized girl to be defiant, clever, and maddeningly impossible to break. Killing her would be easy, but her life is vital to a much bigger plan. Because everyone knows … he who holds the White Raven holds the power.      AmazonKU      AB

THE WOLF QUEEN’S CURSE: A WITCH OF THE WOLVES NOVEL by 

The previously quiet life of Cordelia Levine, half-werewolf, all witch, has been turned upside down. Both of her parents are now dead, and her grandmother’s vicious attack on Trevelyan, her pack’s home, has left the Albion Pack fleeing and severely reduced in number. As they recover and strategize a path forward, Cordelia is navigating her role in the pack as well as her feelings for her new husband, the Alpha. But even as their love grows stronger, the fate of the pack lies in their hands, and they must focus on finding a way to survive. The pack decides that the only way to defeat the cabal and forge a path back home is to rekindle old alliances. The journey proves complicated, however, as each Alpha they encounter has an agenda of his own. But Cordelia and Bishop will stop at nothing to protect their pack – and reclaim their rightful home.

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LOCHED IN LOVE (MONSTER BAE SERIES BOOK FOUR) by Jacklyn Hyde

A primordial sea monster spellbound to a moat. A biology major on a working holiday. An epic magical adventure across lands and seas no one is ready for. For Lachlan Macbeth, it’s been three hundred years of being locked under a castle moat, isolated and alone as he waits for the day he would find his true love and break his watery curse. Being confined to Dracula’s castle by an ancient magic means it’s impossible to search for love himself…until one human on an unlikely escapade falls right into his arms. Elena Pierson just wanted to research rare sediment samples of an untouched castle moat, but instead got a one way trip into the arms of a devastatingly handsome and fiercely charming monster. When she slips and falls into the murky depths, she gets more than what she bargained for as the couple then have to set out on a road trip to get Lachlan’s loch back. After all, what’s the Loch Ness monster without his loch?      AmazonKU

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HER CREATION (THE DARK MANOR CHRONICLES) by Jeneane O’Riley

She brought him back from death. Now he is the one thing she cannot survive losing. In 1795, in a shadowed city of the Holy Roman Empire, Victoria Frankenstein is invisible: brilliant enough to rival any scientist, yet condemned to silence in a world that forbids women their power. When her miracle surgeon father falls gravely ill, grief drives her to a heretical act. Beneath candlelight and prayers long abandoned, Victoria stitches life from death and calls a man back into cold flesh and waiting lungs. What rises from her table is not a monster. Bound to her by blood, breath, and the terrible intimacy of creation, he belongs to her in ways no living man ever could–and he knows it. He watches her. Learns her. Wants her with a hunger that borders on worship, and a possessiveness that should frighten her. As desire coils into obsession, Victoria must face the truth she has always feared: being wanted by her creation is a power she cannot control. His devotion is absolute, consuming, and beautiful, and in an empire that burns women for reaching beyond their place, loving him may be the most dangerous act of all. Because she did not simply give him life. She made herself his reason for living. And love, once stitched into existence, does not let go.      AmazonKU      AB

THE DRAGON’S ETERNAL MATE (THE DRAGONS OF NORTH OAK BOOK THREE) by Melissa Huxley

We found our enemy. Now we just have to kill them. Easy enough, right? For the first time ever, all four of my dragon mates and I are on the same page. Despite that, nothing feels easy. Enemies are encroaching from all sides, desperate to destroy what little peace we’ve managed to create while I am doing my best to keep the health of the horde intact and dealing with four mates who have the weight of the world on their shoulders. Can we find our peace? Or will the fragile happiness I’ve found be shattered beyond repair?      AmazonKU

CALL OF THE BLOOD (EVERLY ABBOTT BOOK FOUR) by K N Banet

Madness lives at the edge of every vampire’s mind. We’re driven by a need to hunt and feed on the blood of what we once were. Blood, though, is not the only thing that can drive us to madness. Alexius and I are learning that firsthand, stuck together for months, unable to leave Savannah, trapped in tight corridors as the tension rises. Conversations grow difficult and need becomes a painful thing that we both avoid. So when the opportunity arises to escape the quasi house arrest Isaiah condemned us to, we take it. My brother, my last living family member, wants to see me and I can’t resist the call. The call of the blood brought me here. It is also the source of a madness that can break me. And we’re not the only vampires who ran to escape madness.      AmazonKU

NOCTURN (WARLORD OF RUIN BOOK ONE) by Allie Santos

I’m not his bondmate. I’m the body he’ll claim until he snuffs me out. The Warlord has waited centuries—long before the Sigil burned itself into my skin, marking me for what I am: the sacrifice. The vessel. The body that will carry his bondmate’s soul while mine ceases to exist. He’s not coming for me. He’s coming for her. I hate him for it. Hate the centuries he’s spent sharpening himself into the thing that will end me. Except when he touches me, everything goes quiet but the urges waking between us. Violent. Forbidden. And I want him to ruin me before he hollows me out. Everything she knows about her world is a lie. Including him.      AmazonKU

ETERNALLY HIS (WITCHES OF PLEASANT GROVE BOOK FOUR) by Jennifer Chipman

My mate is a vampire… and I’m rejecting our bond. Ezra is insufferable, the vampire somehow always knowing exactly what to say or do to get under my skin. As a witch, something about his aura has me constantly on edge. When a paranormal attack on Pleasant Grove leaves him injured, I don’t hesitate to give him my blood. What was supposed to heal him ended up tying us together, since it turns out I’m his fated mate. Now, we’ll be stuck together for the rest of eternity unless we can find a way to break the bond. But every night we spend looking for a way out, the more I realize that there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for the mate I rejected—even if it means becoming eternally his.     AmazonKU

WHEN ASHES FALL (BENEATH THE BRIARS BOOK TWO) by Brenda K Davies

Knox – The tribunal stands at the gate of Wildwood, and Marina is demanding her daughter’s return. I stole Briar to break the curse caging the shifter kingdom, and I’m not ready to give her back… even if it starts a war. Briar – I feared the tribunal’s arrival was the greatest threat to Wildwood, but I was wrong. The power growing inside me is an ominous force with a will of its own. Every truth I uncover twists into something more dangerous, until the answers I chase lead me to a disturbing discovery. When death comes to Wildwood, I can’t tell if our enemies unleashed it… or I did. Inspired by Beauty and the Beast, enter a romantasy where ancient magic, shapeshifters, and dragons dwell beneath the briars. Dark secrets fuel a forbidden romance turning enemies to lovers with second chances that ignite dangerous desires.      AmazonKU

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HIS HUMAN BELIEVER (MONSTERS LOVE CURVY GIRLS BOOK 14) by Michele Mills

She’s the believer. He’s the skeptic. And the Hyrrokin are back. Something seriously creepy is happening in the dark jungle, just outside of my best friend’s gated community on Tarvos. The adults swear it isn’t real. The peacekeepers won’t take it seriously. A professor from the Royal Hyrrokin Academy arrives to debunk the swirling rumors before the neighbors panic. Dr. Vidar Coalstone is tall, fire-breathing, and devastatingly handsome. Black horns. Red skin. Barbed tail. Does he really need those reading glasses? He’s the most beautiful, terrifying scholar I’ve ever laid eyes on. He thinks my Intelgram crime show is sensationalist and the children who’ve made credible sightings of a ghost are mistaken. I’m the believer and he’s the skeptic. And yet, as we work on solving this mystery together, I learn we have more in common than I’d thought. Except this sexy Hyrrokin has taken a twelve-month vow of celibacy in front of his entire academic council. Twelve. Month. Vow. Oh no. And I should be helping him to maintain this vow. Ugh. Except I’m finding it so hard.   AmazonKU

REMMEN: MINOTAUR MATES (ALIEN MATCHMAKING AGENCY BOOK THREE) by Kate Rudolph

I came to Ceres-9 to counsel traumatized alien gladiators, not fall into bed with their mayor. After my fiancé replaced me with my best friend and my last job nearly broke me, this posting was supposed to be a fresh start. Then I met Remmen. A former gladiator turned mayor with a body built for violence, and the kind of quiet authority that makes everyone around him fall into line. He’s controlled, capable, and devastatingly good at taking care of everyone but himself. He’s also completely off limits. My contract has one very clear rule: no fraternizing with the men I’m here to help. If we’re caught, I could lose my job, my home, and the only career I have left. Which would be easier if the way Remmen looks at me didn’t make me forget every reason I shouldn’t touch him. Easier if one stolen touch didn’t leave me wondering exactly what those enormous hands could do with the rest of me. And easier if staying away from him didn’t get harder every time I discover another piece of the male beneath the mayor. I crossed the galaxy because I needed a second chance. Falling for Remmen could destroy it. But I’m starting to think walking away from him might be the bigger mistake.      AmazonKU

BASKET CASE (SENTIENT OBJECTS ADVENTURES BOOK SEVEN) by Skye MacKinnon

She wanted to reconnect with her roots. She did not expect them to tie her to the bed. Burned out by teaching and city life, Kathleen returns to her grandmother’s Highland village to spend a week in the family cottage. Waiting for her is an old wicker basket with a promise that it will bring her joy. On the eve of Samhain, the basket wakes. Aonghus is an ancient, touch-starved fae trapped inside the creel. He can bind Kathleen’s wrists, change his anatomy on command, and sees no reason to limit himself to one appendage at a time. Sometimes, it is not the basket that gets filled. Sometimes, the basket does the filling…Gran promised the basket would bring her joy. She never said how much. A filthy, funny sentient object romance featuring Scottish folklore, magical bondage, fae dominance, multiple appendages, creative anatomy, and one extremely flexible wicker basket.     AmazonKU

BITTEN IN SECRETS AND DESIRE (CLAIMED BY THE MORRAK BOOK THREE) by Leann Ryans

She was never supposed to matter. He was never supposed to care. Elaina wanted to study the Morrak, not mate one. An intelligence analyst, she dreamed of new languages and hidden messages, not an alien bond she didn’t ask for, but when Drazien singles her out at the Selection Gala, her quiet world is shattered. Drazien’s loyalty was to the mission. He didn’t want emotional complications,
He wanted bait. With rebels threatening the alliance, he volunteered to choose the next Human as a lure to draw out the enemy. He planned to use her. He didn’t plan to fall. When Elaina overhears a rebel plot and saves them both, the deception between them is cracked open. She offers to risk herself again, but if she’s going to be used, it’ll be on her terms. Together, they set a trap that could crush the threat to the alliance…If it doesn’t destroy them first. They began as a lie, but something real awakens. The line between duty and instincts blur. And the alien warrior who meant to sacrifice her, May burn everything down to keep her.       AmazonKU

THE SALT KING: A NOVEL by Natasha Pulley

VS Note: LGBTQ Dystopian Romantic Fantasy.

Jesuit priest Avelyn Brocken was born into a mining family in Hreodwater, a small, totally isolated salt town in the Fens of England. At age 16, he fled, abandoning his faith in the god of the mine-the Salt King-and the mythology that killed his whole family. When a fellow priest is miraculously healed only to then be turned to salt after a visit to Hreodwater, Avelyn is sent by the Vatican to investigate. But in Hreodwater, the town’s gentle doctor, Jericho, tells him that the priest is not the only one experiencing strange cures-and may not be the only one in danger from a substance in the mine that the locals call “salt light.” Avelyn and Jericho team up to protect the world from the salt light-but they may already be too late: strange happenings are occurring at mines all around the world. At an archaeological dig on the Dead Sea, electrical devices froth salt; at another salt mine in Russia, a KGB officer finds the bodies of five tourists who seem to have turned to salt; and at the huge salt works at Wieliczska in Poland, all communication is lost, and rumors circulate of total annihilation. As salt light spreads, devastating cities around the world, Avelyn must decide what and who to believe-and whether his faith is strong enough to withstand an apocalypse.

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TOUCH HER AND BURN by Cara Stone and Athena Storm

I crash through her ceiling bleeding out, and the human medic doesn’t run. She digs bullets from my chest while the district burns above us. Her hands are steady. Her scent is ruin. The bond ignites—ancient, merciless, Precursor fire in my blood that demands I claim what’s mine. Her only focus is to stitch up monsters. Mine is to keep her. To burn the world before I let anyone touch her. I was built for war. She makes me want forever. Read on for fated mates, possessive dragon shifter, injury care obsession, and a ruthless protector who falls first and hardest. HEA Guaranteed!    AmazonKU

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CLAIMED BY THE ALIEN AFTER MIDNIGHT by Lara London

An obsessive alien prince falls for the curvy matchmaker who has been hired to find him a bride. Phoebe – When Kismet Moon Matchmaking is hired by the royal family of Planet Orlo to find a bride for the heir to the throne, I insist on handling the high-profile client myself. After all, I’m co-owner of the company. Who is going to take better care of the situation than me? But then I land on Orlo, and I don’t know if there is something in the space juice or what, but the way the prince looks at me has me questioning everything I think I know about love. How am I going to help the obsessive alien prince find his bride when I’ve fallen for my client? Belacoran – She’s mine. Tropes: instalove, sci-fi, alien MMC, human FMC, he falls first, obsessive alpha alien, guaranteed HEA. What to expect from a Lara London romance: Quick Reads. Big Heat. Forever Love. Steamy, short, insta-love romances with quirky heroines, obsessive heroes who fall hard, no cheating, and guaranteed HEA — delivered with heat, heart, and humor.      AmazonKU

GALACTIC PILOT: MM SFR (ABDUCTION DISRUPTION BOOK ONE) by A J Marcus

VS Note: From July 26.

The strange lights took Mac out of a fighter jet over the Pacific Ocean, and he woke in strange alien ship in the middle of a crash landing, a very long way from any sky he knew. Blan has worn a Grisian slave collar for five years. Four arms, an engineer’s hands, and a careful, buried hope he’d stopped letting himself feel, until the human he rescues from an exploding ship looks at like he’s a person and not a price. When a spore-ship attack tears the slaver apart, the two of them are thrown together to survive the best they can. The explosion throws stolen humans across the dark in failing scout ships, and Mac and Blan crash-land into freedom on a hostile desert world with nothing but each other, a wrecked ship, and a strange gift waking in the back of Mac’s skull, the kind of gift the Grisians would kill to own. They could keep their heads down and survive. Instead, Mac makes a vow: find the others. Every last one of the lost that had been taken when he was. A slow-burn MM sci-fi romance about two stolen men, the family they build out of the wreckage, and a love worth crossing a galaxy for. First in a found-family space-opera series. HEA guaranteed.      AmazonKU

ALIEN MATED IN ERROR (MISTAKENLY MATCHED BOOK TWO) by Millie Voss

A structural engineer running from her ex. A seven-foot-eight horned alien who hasn’t been touched since his wife died. And the housing lease that turned out to be a marriage contract. I came to Rethaan because it was the farthest planet from the man who spent three years teaching my body to scan every room for exits. The reconstruction posting came with a dwelling and a housemate named Rennaak, a settlement leader built like a geological formation, with horns, armored plates, and hands I’d hear carving stone when he thought everyone was asleep. He walked through doorways ahead of me so I never had to enter a room first. But he’d also known I was his wife since the housing agreement. While I was trying to figure out why I wasn’t afraid of him. Then my ex followed me across fourteen light-years with scrubbed records and the kind of smile that makes every human on the settlement trust him. The most dangerous-looking being on the planet is the first person whose presence makes my body stop scanning for exits. I don’t know what to do with that.     AmazonKU

GLENHAVEN (MOUNTAIN HAVENS BOOK ONE) by Love Pierce

The world ended in just two months. Four years later, Malia is rebuilding her own little world on a hidden farm in the Colorado mountains. As one of few survivors of a worldwide illness, Malia headed across state lines to her father’s hidden ranch in the Rocky Mountains with one goal: to bury him. Along the way, she rescued a starving boy who had lost everything. Months later she rescued another child. Then another. One by one, she found herself as the responsible adult to a group of children and teens orphaned by the same illness that took her family. The farm she fled to became something far greater: their haven. Now their quiet life is about to change. When a life-threatening attack leads to one of the teens unexpectedly finding the older brother he thought was gone forever, Malia finds herself drawn to him and two men in the group he travels with. Harvey, Finn, and Jude lead a small group of survivors who fit in perfectly at the farm. Harvey uses his medical skills to heal Malia, and his affectionate attention to open her heart. Jude uses his humor to make her laugh, and his way with the children has her melting inside. Finn’s confident leadership lifts the weight from her shoulders, and his open heart gives hers a safe place to trust. Malia never expected someone could fit so perfectly, let alone three of them. But she’s never been one to run from something good. As terrorizing rovers threaten their peace, the group must do what’s needed to protect their life on the farm. What began as a happy reunion becomes something deeper as love blossoms and strangers become family.   AmazonKU

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

An enemy alien crashed into my desert carrying the one warning my people cannot ignore: the galaxy knows Tajss survived.Rhazek arrives bleeding, dangerous, and wrapped in secrets. I should hate him. He came from Krix, a world built on slavers, arenas, and chains. His arrival brings danger to our gates, and he may be the reason off-world hunters can find Tajss, the power hidden beneath our City, and the fated bonds they would kill to possess. But Rhazek is not Krixian. He is Voraxxian. A gladiator survivor sold into captivity, forged into a weapon, and marked by enemies who never stopped hunting him. No one in the City trusts him. I’m not sure I do either. But when Rhazek’s warning reveals a threat larger than anything we have faced before, I’m forced to work beside the one male everyone believes could destroy us. Every argument sparks. Every touch burns. Every moment trapped together makes it harder to  …(more blurb on Author’s online store)           Kobo     Author’s online store        Apple Books

WAKING THE GOLDEN GODDESS (DRAGON LORDS OF VALDIER) by S E Smith

The Ancients gave Bear Running Wolf one month to save the woman he loves, and the worlds that depend on her. He has no immortal power, no command over the stars, and no time to lose. But Bear can love, and sometimes love is the most powerful force in the universe. VA Note: As far as I am aware this ebook is currently only available on the Author’s online store.

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VS: ARRIVAL is book one in my Planet of Last Resort series, completed now at 5 books, available wide. SciFi romance set in the midst of a zombie apocalypse on a remote colony planet…

Melisande “Melly” Jericho is a newly licensed medical doctor, returning to her home planet to practice family medicine. She hasn’t been home in years and is excited to see her friends and family again. But when her shuttle lands, the spaceport seems deserted and she can’t get her handheld to connect to the network to call for help. Stranded on the landing pad far from the terminal, she joins forces with the only other passengers to arrive, never dreaming they’ll all soon be plunged into a life-or-death situation. Jeff Pearson, retired Sectors Special Forces captain and his friends have come to colony planet Randal Four to take up ranching. He’s attracted to the curvy doctor as soon as he sees her on board the shuttle to the planet and hopes he can at least get her com details and maybe set up a dinner date before he and his team leave the city to reach their waiting ranchland. His tentative plans come to a crashing halt as a strange horde of moaning, growling people emerges from the terminal, headed in their direction with clearly murderous intent. Jeff, Melly and the others make a desperate run to escape from the mob and begin an adventure the likes of which none of them could ever have predicted. As they struggle against overwhelming odds to survive, evade the infected, escape the city and reach her family home, the attraction and trust between the two grows ever hotter. But so does the danger and the mystery of what happened to the people of Randal Four

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A TASTE OF MAGIC (SCOTTISH CHARM SERIES BOOK TWO) by Tricia O’Malley

She’s hexed. He’s her ex. And if they can’t bake in harmony, Briarhaven’s big cooking competition might just go up in smoke. Lyra MacGregor’s magic is as unpredictable as her love life—especially when her spellwork starts misfiring during the filming of Briarhaven’s favorite reality TV show: Bewitching Bake Off. Even worse? She’s paired with Rabbie Barclay, her high school sweetheart turned heartbreak. He’s never baked a thing in his life. She turns spoons into hedgehogs when he’s nearby. But with the cameras rolling, the curse deepening, and old sparks reigniting, they’ll have to cook up more than just a winning cake to survive. Because in Briarhaven, baking is spellwork, and love is the trickiest recipe of all.       Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

RAVEN’S FIGHT (DRAGONIS ACADEMY THE SECOND  YEAR BOOK THREE) by Serenity Rayne

The Purge doesn’t care what I’ve survived. It only cares who’s left standing. I’m the Dominant Dragoness of an entire continent. Heir to the Marzana Throne. Bonded to five mates who’d burn the realm to ash for me. I’ve clawed my way through enemies, politics, and prophecy—and I’m still here. But year three at Dragonis Academy isn’t impressed. The Purge is coming. Every third-year knows the name. Few speak it. It’s not a test—it’s a hunt. A brutal culling where alliances mean nothing, mercy is a death sentence, and only the most vicious walk out alive. Some don’t walk out at all. And this year, someone plans to turn it into a massacre. The traitor who’s hidden among the academy staff for decades is done waiting. Done watching. They’re ready to strike—and the chaos of the Purge is the perfect cover. I don’t know their face. I don’t know their endgame. But I know they’re close. Closer than I ever feared. A diplomatic mission with my mother. Alliances with Queen Giselle of the Eastern Isle and King Cassius of the Southern Isle. A hatchling who needs me to come home alive. None of it matters if I don’t survive what’s coming. The enemy wears a familiar face. The killing field is set. Welcome back to Dragonis Academy.     AmazonKU

TERMS AND DAMNATION (CROSSROADS COUNSEL BOOK TWO) by Brenda Trim

Three months into this nightmare, and I still can’t tell my ex-husband why I quit the firm. “Spiritual contract law” doesn’t exactly fit on a LinkedIn profile. Neither does “I can see the threads of fate binding people to their doom.” But that’s exactly what I do now—I see the deals, the desperate promises, the soul-deep contracts that mortals make when they’ve run out of options. My latest client is a surgeon who promised Erzulie Dantor anything to save her son’s life. Anything. The goddess of mothers took her at her word, and now she wants the surgeon’s hands—literally. Every life she saves from here on out belongs to the goddess. It’s elegant. Brutal. And technically ironclad. But I’ve found a loophole in the original terms, buried in the way the oath was sworn. If I can prove the contract was made under false pretenses—that the goddess is literally feeding on my client like a parasite—I might be able to renegotiate. The problem? Erzulie Dantor doesn’t appreciate being told she’s wrong. And Papa Legba is breathing down my neck, reminding me that my job is to facilitate deals, not torpedo them. Baron Samedi, of course, finds the whole situation hilarious. He keeps appearing…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      AmazonKU

DAGGERBOUND (SWORDHEART BOOK TWO) by T Kingfisher

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

Learned Edmund, a disillusioned scholar, is transporting yet another precious relic from one stuffy temple to a different stuffy temple. Another great adventure for the ages…But when Edmund is set upon by bandits, in desperation, he breaks the cardinal rule and grabs for the relic, an ancient sword. To his surprise, instead of unsheathing a rusty, ancient weapon, an alarmingly handsome man appears, wielding daggers of blue steel and cutting the thieves down. This man is the Dervish, an immortal warrior who’s been trapped for centuries in a sword of enchanted steel, and is angry as hell about it. He hates the curse that put him there, and he wants to hate Edmund, just as he has hated every wielder before him. But the damned scholar is just so sweet and clever and kind. And while the Dervish may be able to protect Edmund from bandits, cultists, dragons, and strange inhuman diplomats, he may find it much harder to protect his own heart.     Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

PUCK OF MY LIFE: MM HOCKEY SHIFTER ROMANCE (PUCKS, PACKS & PREGNANCIES BOOK THREE) by Colbie Dunbar and Lorelai M Hart

I was forced to reject my mate, and it nearly destroyed me. I’m one of the lucky wolves who find their fated mate. Or I was, until my pack Alpha gives me a choice: reject the human omega or watch him die. Rejection hurts, but not as badly as the alternative. I move across the country for college, knowing that if I don’t, I’ll never be able to stay away from him. Years pass, I graduate, get offered a spot on my favorite hockey team, and to the outside world, I’m living the dream. Only my dream is a nightmare, one where my wolf is barely holding it together. The wound left by denying fate is just as raw as the day I was forced to make my choice. I’m biding my time until I’m strong enough to challenge my pack Alpha and find my omega and attempt to win his heart again. Time runs out when I attend a charity event and scent my mate. He’s one of the reporters covering the event. I lose control, all that exists is Benedict and me. I mark him, right there in the hallway. He may be the puck of my life, but if I don’t do something quickly, he won’t be alive long.     AmazonKU

THE CURSED TOUCH (THE HAUNTED HEARTS SERIES BOOK THREE) by Jennifer Julie Miller

The shadows were always there … waiting. They told me they were nothing but figments of my imagination. Accused me of making it all up in a desperate attempt to be seen in a world where I was invisible. But I knew better. Something has always been watching over me, lingering just beyond the edge of the light. Now I’ve reached the crossroads, where every choice carries a price. I must make a choice … do I continue this vicious cycle, or take that final step into the unknown? Everyone says love can save you. But what if that’s the greatest illusion of all? This book has triggers; please be advised (ghosts mean death). These short stories are all standalones with easter eggs throughout. Enjoy.   AmazonKU

RITE OF POISON AND WHISPERS (HOUSE OF BLOOD AND ROSES BOOK NINE) by Laura Greenwood

Being a princess comes with its challenges, especially when Beatrice is at odds with the Queen. Whispers are circling the court about Beatrice’s twin brother, and there’s very little she can do to stop it, especially when Bastian is acting without consulting anyone in House Rothorne. To make matters worse, the Queen’s dislike of Beatrice is only growing, and when a royal dinner turns into a disaster, things become even more complicated. Beatrice’s allies are close, but could her enemies be closer? Rite of Poison and Whispers is book nine of House of Blood and Roses. It is a fantasy romance series full of vampires, court intrigue, and an established m/f romance.

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MY DEMON HACKER: MM PNR (DEMON DEBACLES BOOK FIVE) by Stella Rainbow

Demons made great hackers. I’d know, I hired one…It was supposed to be simple. Steal the money. Get my revenge. Help a few people along the way. I had a plan. I had a team. I had no room for complications. Xin was a complication. They were smart, sweet, and way too good at getting under my skin. I didn’t know what they wanted from me—but I knew I couldn’t afford distractions. Not now. Not when I was this close to getting my revenge. I’d spent years planning, and I refused to fail. Not even for love.      AmazonKU

CASTING BUTTERFLIES (WITCHES BY FLUKE BOOK TWO) by Eve Langlais

Don’t swallow butterflies because you might become a witch. You might be wondering how I came up with that nugget of advice. Because it happened to me. It all started with an ugly amulet that I bought at an estate auction. The moment I touched it with my bare hand, wham-bam, I ended up infused with magic. Some might think this was cool. Not exactly since it also came with trouble. AKA a wicked wizard who will stop at nothing to steal my newfound power. The one shining spot? The hot dude that breaks into my house. I know, I shouldn’t be falling for a home invader, but Misha’s kind of a special case. He knows about the power I absorbed, but if I want answers, I’ll have to travel to Russia. A trip that’s complicated by a lack of a passport and the monster hunting me. Still, it’s the trip of a lifetime, and the most dangerous thing I’ve ever undertaken. Add in a smart-ass talking cat, a voyage plagued with deadly attacks, and it’s no wonder I boldly seduce my handsome companion. A good thing I took my pleasure when I had a chance because the end of my quest might not see me surviving. Can I find a way to salvage a happily-ever after?

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MY ORC PACKAGE DEAL (EASTSHORE ISLE BOOK 16) by Veronika Kane

I didn’t marry a hot orc because I believed in fairy tales. I married him because my son needed a father, health insurance, and a home that would welcome his differences. The decision was practical, logical…safe. Except nobody warned me that “practical” would mean sharing a kitchen with a huge tattooed male who makes my coffee before I ask, calls Milo his son without hesitation, and gets quieter when things go wrong—steady and solid in a way I keep wanting to lean on. Then there’s Jay, Korrad’s twelve-year-old son: lonely, earnest, and determined to turn our marriage into a family whether we’re ready or not. He plans our beach wedding with a clipboard, expands his backyard fort so Milo will fit, and looks at my son like he’s been waiting for a brother his whole life. Korrad and I have a contract. Rules. Sensible boundaries that made much more sense before our boys became brothers and my husband started feeling like home. Now the only thing standing between me and complete disaster is the man I married for all the wrong reasons. Because I have secrets I’ve been carrying alone for a long time…and I’m beginning to suspect Korrad never intends to let me carry anything alone again.     AmazonKU

ASH AND BURN (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 110) by Milly Taiden

Dr. Arvid Jasper knows how to handle deadly diseases, military disasters, and impossible odds. What she does not know how to handle is Gerri Wilder offering her a trip through a wormhole to treat dragon shifters on another planet. But people are dying, the disease looks way too much like her current research, and Arvid has never been great at walking away from a crisis. So off she goes to Nova Aurora, armed with science, stubbornness, and absolutely no plan for what to do when the alien dragon king turns out to be hot enough to require medical supervision of his own. King Calix Silvanus has no time for romance, destiny, or anything that might distract him from saving Ashvorn. His people are sick, his council is panicking, and his volcanic kingdom is one bad decision away from disaster. Then Arvid steps into his estate smelling like lilies and rain, touches his arm, and his dragon immediately decides she is his mate. Wonderful. Because apparently a deadly outbreak was not enough trouble—now fate has sent him a brilliant human scientist with a sharp tongue, dangerous curves, and zero interest in being bossed around by royalty. Gerri insists this is all perfectly timed. Arvid calls it medically inconvenient. Calix calls it a threat to his control. But as they race to uncover the truth behind Ash Fever, their chemistry burns hotter than dragon fire—and someone in Ashvorn is determined to make sure Arvid never finds the cure. Now she’ll have to save a kingdom, survive a traitor, and decide whether loving one overprotective dragon king is the most reckless thing she’s ever done… or the cure she never saw coming.      AmazonKU

TAIL THE TRUTH (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 111) by Milly Taiden

Celina Bates has spent twenty-four years being managed—her career, her image, her entire life dictated by a man who saw her as a paycheck the day she turned four. Then a white-haired matchmaker sets up what should be a boardroom negotiation, a devastatingly gorgeous lion shifter billionaire shakes her hand instead, and the second their skin touches, Celina’s whole body goes up in flames. Now the ruthless CEO she came to negotiate with is the one man she can’t walk away from. Osias Fellan runs a Beverly Hills empire, a lion pride, and every crisis that crosses his desk with the same ruthless control. Until Celina. One breath of her scent walking through his office door, and his lion loses its ever-loving mind—prowling, possessive, and dead certain this fierce, green-eyed actress belongs to him. Osias only meant to keep her safe when a mysterious attack drives her straight into his ultra-guarded mansion. Celina and Osias have to turn one impossible business deal into a real partnership and a human-shifter romance neither of them saw coming. But with jealous rivals circling, paparazzi hunting a story, and Celina’s manager refusing to loosen his grip, she’ll have to decide if trusting a possessive Alpha lion means losing herself all over again—or if standing beside him is the first real choice she’s ever made.      AmazonKU

ORC’S GRIMOIRE (VEIL LANDS BOOK 12) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Welcome to the Veil lands, where monsters are the only ones who can save you. Thyra: Bleeding for a haunted library taught me to bury my emotions in numbers. Twice a day, I slice open my skin to feed an ancient book that pulses with a human heartbeat. I knew the rules, but then a massive, terrifying orc cornered me in the dark stacks. He pins me against the cold stone, but his burning eyes tell me he wants to possess me rather than kill me. Our temptation is deadly—a forbidden bond that is waking a century-old monster inside the pages. He was sent to execute me, but I’ll drown this entire Archive in blood before I let him go. Korrath: A lifetime of executing witches turned my soul to stone. Until I met a ruthless keeper who isn’t afraid of my blade. Her cold, beautiful defiance broke my discipline completely. If her pulse stops, the grimoire’s curse will drag me straight into the grave next. I’m violently addicted to the copper-sweet taste of her skin. I was commanded to incinerate her, but I will slaughter my own brothers to keep her as mine.     AmazonKU

LOVE ME LIKE A ROCK SONG: A NOVEL by Shelly Jay Shore

VS Note: LGBTQ+ Fantasy.

When Delilah Cohen’s much more famous fiancée leaves her at the altar right before Delilah is supposed to start recording her first solo album, she’s left with a notebook of unusable love songs and a honeymoon road trip that’s now a last-chance search for new inspiration. She doesn’t expect to fall for the mysterious passenger she picks up two hours in, but what’s more inspiring than a rebound with a built-in expiration date? But there’s more to Emmett than meets the eye. Emmett is a golem, a human-ish being of Jewish folklore, created from clay to serve a now-deceased master, who gave them one final, fatal task. Road-tripping with Delilah is the first thing they’ve ever chosen for themself. It’s not supposed to change their destination . . . but the longer Emmett spends with Delilah, who has plenty of secrets of her own, the more their ending feels like something to fight, rather than something set in stone. As the California coast brings Delilah’s writing deadline—and Emmett’s fate—closer with every passing mile, Delilah has to decide whether making an unforgettable album is worth losing a love she never expected to find.     Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

MY PLEASURE (BEWITCHED AND BEWILDERED BOOK 17) by Alanea Alder

Hunter Armstrong has come to love his adopted city every bit as much as he loves Lycaonia. But lately, the city of the witches has begun to feel cold and hostile. Splitting his days between patrols and watching over two skittish children from afar, he finds his nights are filled with thoughts of his mate. As much as he longs for her to come home, he can’t help but remember what happened to Genevieve and prays instead for her to stay away and stay safe. Kiera Sorrel received more than one update from neighbors that the climate in Storm Keep is changing, and the streets are no longer safe. Fearing for her little brother and sister, she hurries back to a house that never felt like home. Stepping onto the cobbled streets, she wasn’t expecting that the first thing she’d see was her mate in the form of a goofy, smiling stalker, sitting across the street from her home. As he tells her of the recent events and the Witches’ Council’s decisions, she can hardly believe that their world has come to this. Choosing to stay at his side, with her younger brother and sister in tow, they invade the Armstrong estate, much to the delight of Hunter’s parents. As darkness begins to creep up around them from all sides, can Hunter and Kiera fight the shadows of treachery that loom just out of sight?     Amazon     NOTE: Didn’t find the bok on either Apple Books or Kobo the day I checked.

EMBER AND ASH (THORNE SAGA BOOK ONE) by Lisa Renee Jones

In the dark of the night, there is passion and destruction…Criminal defense attorney Ember Thorne thought the biggest challenge of her life would be her quest to navigate the justice system on behalf of the wrongly accused. That is, until she finds herself in the sights of an otherworldly evil, desperately hunting what she cannot kill, not yet, at least. Nothing in her life, or in this world, is what it seems, and when a blue-eyed stranger named Micah saves her life, their attraction is the fire that could become the death of all that exists or the salvation that blooms with new hope for all. Micah, royalty in his own right, will challenge her to stand against evil, but when you have never known true evil, can you really recognize it where it hides? In a world where angels and demons are the truth humans call fiction, could it be a lie between lovers that equals salvation? Or is that lie the blade that delivers devastation? Ember and Ash, the first book in the Thorne Saga, introduces you to a world filled with the magic of angels and the darkness of the monsters they hunt, where secrets and lies, and a passionate forbidden romance hold world-altering consequences.      Amazon        AB        Apple Books       Kobo

THE ART OF CHARMING A CHANGELING by Sylvie Cathrall

A cozy slice-of-life romantic fantasy set in a Regency-inspired world where humans and fairies compete for artistic supremacy, from Sylvie Cathrall, author of A Letter to the Luminous Deep.  On her first day working in the prince’s galleries, art conservator Florrie Hyverfell discovers that the most famous portrait in the collection is not only a fake—it’s also inhabited by Vern, a fairy trapped in the forged painting. Tracking down the stolen original is the only way for Florrie to save her job and for Vern to escape his canvas. Yet as they journey to a famed fairy museum to find the missing artwork, Florrie finds herself taking more than an art historical interest in the changeling painting’s charming inhabitant.    Amazon     AB      Apple Books     Kobo

SUMMER COVEN (DEAD AND BREAKFAST BOOK TWO) by Kat Hillis

VS Note: MM PNR  Mystery.

Arthur Miller (no relation to the playwright) and his beloved, Salvatore Conte, are settling into their (para)normal lives in Trident Falls. Finally, everything seems to be going swimmingly…business is booming at the inn and Arthur is hard at work on his first case as a private detective: finding their friend Brody’s missing mom. But when a pet psychic is felled by a poisoned potion she (somehow) didn’t see coming, Arthur’s investigation takes an enchanting turn – and not in a good way. It turns out the psychic was a member of the Celestine Coven, a powerful group of witches who sell their charms for a price. Did the pet psychic find herself on the wrong side of the coven? Or did she trigger someone’s pet peeves with her predictions? It will require all of Arthur’s wit and Sal’s whimsy to solve this murder, find their missing person, and avoid becoming part of the witches’ wicked brew.     Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

THE CAROUSEL OF FORGOTTEN PLACES by S Hati

First rule: Don’t mess with the timeline. Second rule: Don’t mess around with the time-god. For 500 years, immortal timekeeper Ryka has run a cozy magical fair on the edges of time, managing the time threads and protecting the spirits that live there. She lives happily among a found family of quirky ghosts, a spectral cat, and even her insufferable boss, the annoying (and sexy) time-god Everest. But when the carousel at the heart of the fair begins to show signs of time rot, a live human falls through time and ends up landing at their feet. With the fair descending into chaos, Ryka and Everest must team up to get this human home, find the source of the rot, and keep the fabric of time from tearing apart – all while hoping that the 500 years of feelings between them don’t get in their way.

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THE DARK IN HER VEINS by M K Lobb

Nothing is sacred for those willing to pay the price…In Valestadt, everything has a price. Sin leaves its mark in the form of the Bloodrot, a slow-creeping disease that leads to madness, then death. The rich outsource their violence. The poor sell theirs and suffer the cost. Talin Keller is a sinner. Employed by the holiest man in the city, the Prophet, she stains her hands so his can stay clean. But with her Bloodrot rapidly advancing, Talin knows her next job could be her last. Then a new assignment puts Talin on a collision course with the Warden, a shadowy figure whose name is spoken like a warning. If she can get close, she can trade his life for her own freedom—and escape the death her sins have promised. That is, if she can stay steady on the knife’s edge.  Because Talin is dangerously drawn to the Warden. He is sharp, cruel, and whatever blazes in him sparks against every dark part of her. If she isn’t careful, her plans will burn. As savior and sinner tangle, Talin uncovers a conspiracy tied to the past she thought dead. And in Valestadt, where sin is currency, she’ll have to decide what she’s willing to pay to survive.

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DEMONS AND DIPLOMACY (MINSTREY OF SUPERNATURAL AFFAIRS BOOK ONE) by Megan Frampton

1851, London. All supernatural species have emerged from hiding, a result of The Great Revelation, led by Her Majesty, the vampiric Queen Victoria, and her dhamphir consort, Prince Albert. Cora Hastings is the British government’s Species Ombudsman, a human tasked with keeping the peace between supernatural creatures. It’s run-of-the-mill work: enforcing the newly created shifting parameters, negotiating contracts between species, and generally making certain all Londoners are treated equally. That is, until the Devil himself decides he wants to leave his hellish home and see the results of Prince Albert’s greatest accomplishment, the Great Exhibition. His arrival could upset the uneasy peace between creatures, and worse—he’s brought his son. The Marquis of Hell is diabolically good-looking, unnaturally perceptive, and, well, a demon. Cora navigates her sinfully seductive diplomatic assignment as best she can, until she catches wind of a secret conspiracy set to come to fruition at the opening of the Great Exhibition. This leaves her with an impossible choice: Either Cora enters an unholy alliance with the Devil’s son, or she watches as her world is torn asunder.       Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

HORSFALL (BOX SET): LGBTQ+ GAY SHIFTER ROMANCE by Jade Buchanan

What started out as a regular job assignment quickly escalated into something more for Oliver Philip when he meets twin Shire horse shapeshifters Bayard and Marshall Stoddard. Hired to perform a safety audit on Horsfall Ranch, Oliver never expected his life to be turned upside down, but he’s game for anything. Happily throwing himself into a relationship with both Bayard and Marshall, Oliver quickly discovers a world of intense pleasure, laughter and comfort. Unfortunately, storm clouds are gathering on the horizon and Oliver must find the strength to fight for the two men he can’t live without. Publisher’s Note: Horsfall box set contains the previously released novellas Tail of Two Brothers, Taste Test, and As the Crow Flies.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

DREAMERS OF THE FULL MOON COFFEE SHOP:  A NOVEL by Mai Mochizuki, Jordan Taylor Translator

Under the energetic star of Neptune the doors to people’s hearts are opening…In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they’ll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a bright moon. Under one such moon in August, Neptune pays the Full Moon Coffee Shop a visit, taking the form of a beautiful human called Sala. Sala’s special talent is giving people dreams and helping them to open their hearts. As the cats work with Sala, they find new ways to guide people as their customers face personal conflict. When Satsuki, returning home after she spent three years away with minimal contact, decides to introduce her new boyfriend to her mother Fujiko, she learns an unexpected truth about her family’s past. Meanwhile, Fujiko is struggling to come to terms with her true feelings about her place in life and author Wataru is facing writer’s block after years of success. Can Sala and the cats help Fujiko and Wataru open their hearts?       Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

HEIR OF PROPHECY (THE CLASH OF PROPHECIES DUET) by Analeigh Sbrana

She’s a woman bound by fate, torn between two prophecies. He’s the Prince of the underworld, fated to either claim her or end her life. Defying destiny is one thing…the heart, another. Magic has always been at the periphery of Audra’s life. As a human, she knows that magic exists, but it’s as distant as the legends she grew up with. Until one day, magic returns, bringing with it the all too real Fae and upending Audra’s life entirely. Abducted by a cult of fae Priestesses, Audra finds herself conscripted into a magical war academy. The only hope of surviving this new world filled with guilds, magic, and danger is to band together with a group of her fellow prisoners. Though unlike the others, Audra’s burgeoning magic is erratic and violent—just as the prophecy foretold. She must discover what it means to be the Heir, but time is running out. The Priestesses know the Heir moves among them, and they’re determined to root them out, no matter what it takes. As she struggles to mask her power, Audra’s plagued by visions of a dark, seductive being with a conflicting truth. He doesn’t want to save the world; he plans to reclaim it. Now, Audra must choose: become the savior the cult demands or the catalyst the vision promises.

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TALES OF A TREACHEROUS FATE: A NOVEL by Jennifer Delaney

Trust is fractured and our heroes are separated across Elysior as war looms closer. Fey flee to the north to try and rouse the ancient power that sleeps beyond the mountains. Nothing is as it seems and as demons are unleashed upon the earth, Kat and Emrys must call upon the last resort for help… the Old Gods themselves. For not all darkness is as it seems and fate is about to begin its final deadly game.

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THE LITTLE SHOP OF CURIOUSITIES: THE MUSIC BOX PART 2 (CRAWSHANK’S GUIDE TO THE OCCULT) by Vawn Cassidy

VS Note: MM PNR Mystery.

Strange things are happening in London, with a murder investigation underway into his biological mother’s murder Harrison is trying to find answers about the mysterious and powerful bloodline he’s descended from. Plagued by terrifying dreams of one of his ancestors and trying to keep his friends from discovering his true identity is exhausting. But his growing feelings for Sam cannot be ignored and sooner or later Harrison knows he must tell him the truth. Having returned to London after fulfilling his own family obligations Sam begins to realise the cases that he’s investigating as a PI are all paranormal in nature. As he delves deeper he begins to suspect they are connected to the Crawshanks family and somehow to Harrison, himself, the man he’s falling in love with. But as the murder investigation comes to a frightening conclusion and the killer is revealed, Sam and Harrison begin to realise that this is only the beginning. Now they find themselves facing their most terrifying challenge yet.       AmazonKU

THE WHITECHAPEL FULL MOON SOCIETY: A NOVEL by Elizabeth DeLozier

When Caroline Foster arrives at the Whitechapel Full Moon Society in search of her missing brother, she finds a dilapidated façade belying an interior as opulent as any exclusive gentlemen’s club. In exchange for room and board, Caroline is hired as the Full Moon’s maid, where she is given three orders: don’t ask personal questions, stay out of the iron-barred room on the second floor, and remain in her bedroom from sunup to sundown on the full moon. But when it is revealed that the previous maid was murdered—an early victim of Jack the Ripper—and her brother has left behind no answers, only more questions, Caroline begins to suspect her hosts might be hiding something. As more bodies turn up with a connection to the Society, Caroline fears she may have unwittingly stumbled into a bedtime story, the kind with monsters and curses, family secrets and ancient lore.
Tantalizing and pulsing, Elizabeth DeLozier’s sophomore novel gives an exciting alternative look into the infamous Jack the Ripper story with a major, supernatural twist.

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WOLFTAMER (THE WOLF AND THE MAGPIE DUOLOGY BOOK TWO) by Maggie Rapier

Faolan has escaped death. Twice. After a lifetime chasing freedom and legends, he was finally on the brink of becoming one himself when it all went up in flames. Stranded on the Isle of Lost Souls, bound by an oath he did not make, Faolan is plagued by dreams of drowning and a past he swore never to revisit. The pirate in him wants nothing more than to raise hell and run away—but with no ship, and no way to untether his wife, Saoirse, from the land she’s pledged herself to, Faolan is trapped. And everyone knows who tamed the Wolf. When their sinister rival King Maccus unveils an ancient godly relic—one with the power to unbalance their entire world—Faolan knows the game has changed. There’s only one person who can hunt down the missing relics before Maccus can, and the Wolf of the Wild will do anything to protect his wife. Even if that means leaving her behind.       Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo

HEART OF GOLD (KINKAID SHIFTERS BOOK NINE) by Bianca D’Arc

A wounded jaguar shifter, battle-scarred and forced home to heal. A human woman who kept his Clan’s secret for years. A small Arizona town where the past never really left — and neither has the danger that’s followed him home. Paxton Rojas went out on a simple mission and came back broken. Two weeks off his feet in his childhood bedroom was not part of the plan, but a trip to his hometown hardware store lands him face-to-face with Briana Leeland – the girl who grew into the woman his jaguar has been watching since the moment he walked through the door. Bree catches him when she realizes he’s still healing. She feeds him soup, steadies him on the stairs, and reminds him, quietly and without drama, exactly what he walked away from fifteen years ago. Pax is starting to think that was the worst decision he ever made. But something dark has followed him home. The mission that nearly killed him isn’t finished with him, and the people who came after him then haven’t stopped looking. Falling for Bree while a threat circles closer than either of them knows may be the most dangerous thing he’s ever done… and Pax Rojas has done some very dangerous things.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE HUMAN’S HEART (A BRINNSWICK STORY BOOK THREE) by Michele Notaro

VS Note: MM PNR.

I know Zay’s scared of losing me, but I really, really don’t want to become a vampire. Who would want to drink… that for the rest of forever? Blech! With my and Zay’s viramore bond complete and our lives settling down after what happened over the winter, it seems all my mate can think about is impending doom. Or rather, the fact that I’m human and mortal and he isn’t. It’s not that I want to grow old and die. It’s not that I want Zaos to wind up alone. Not at all. It’s just… being a vampire is so, so, so gross. I really don’t want to drink blood for the rest of my very long existence. To top things off, we have new friends coming into our lives and a few, uh, scary encounters that I don’t like thinking about. So maybe I can’t blame him for wishing vampirism on me. But do I really have to turn? Ugh.   AmazonKU

BONETIDE: A DARK GOTHIC ROMANCE by Karina Halle

When Iris Galloway inherits her great-aunt’s cottage on a remote Scottish loch, the terms are simple: live there one year, and it’s hers. She doesn’t know about the disappearances yet, nor does she know about the handsome man who swims in the loch at night, who watches her cottage from the dark water, and who appears at her door very wet, very naked, and asking to come in. Meanwhile, the locals warn her about a murderer on the loose, the police are in over their heads, and her aunt’s letters say to keep the salt lines around the house and the doors locked after sundown. And never, ever invite him inside. But Iris has spent her whole life being careful. And this wicked stranger is going to ruin her for it. Bonetide is a dark gothic romance that’s tinged with horror. While this book starts off almost like a cozy gothic mystery, it does pivot later into darker territory.     Amazon

MYTHS AND LEGENDS 4 by Judy Mays

Myths… Legends…Deep in the Central American jungles supernatural beings roamed freely — half human, half cat. For three such cats, a jaguar, a puma, and an ocelot, life is easy and uncomplicated — until humans cross their paths — specific humans, humans who will need their help, their protection, their love. Balam, Karak, and Raina must choose between the uncomplicated life denizens of the jungle lead or a life with a human with all its complications. Sanika, Mireya, and Hans must also make a choice, one that is far harder and more uncertain. Can each of them find it in themselves to love a being that is more than human, that is half animal? What is love? What isn’t? Publisher’s Note: This collection contains the previously released novellas Jaguar, Puma, and Ocelot.         Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

A GHOSTLY ALIBI (GHOSTLY SOUTHERN MYSTERY SERIES BOOK NINE) by Tonya Kappes

A funeral, a ghost, a murder. It’s all in a day’s work for Emma Lee Raines . . .Emma Lee Raines thought life was finally slowing down. Between running Eternal Slumber Funeral Home and planning a future with her fiancé, Jack Henry Ross, she was looking forward to a little peace. This is Sleepy Hollow, Kentucky.Peace doesn’t stand a chance. When ninety-eight-year-old Annabelle Rose appears at her own funeral surrounded by ten loyal ghost dogs, she has one message for Emma Lee. She didn’t die naturally. As Emma Lee follows a trail of buried secrets, missing recipes, small-town gossip, and a community fundraiser honoring Annabelle’s legacy, she discovers that someone would do anything to keep the truth six feet under. Now, with a determined ghost refusing to cross over and a killer hiding in plain sight, Emma Lee will have to solve the mystery before someone else becomes the next guest at Eternal Slumber. Welcome back to Sleepy Hollow, where the sweet tea is legendary, the ghosts are opinionated, and murder is always on the menu.      AmazonKU

MAD DRAGON OF CHAOS (FORGOTTEN GODS BOOK TWO) by Jocelynn Drake

VS Note: : LGBTQ Fantasy. Cliffhanger.

Haru is in trouble. War is brewing. And someone is hunting the minor gods to extinction. Tyche has tossed aside his hopes for a quiet life and teamed up with Prince Shey to save the dragon, stop the war, and protect his own kind. If he’s lucky, the virgin god will finally get his first kiss and more from the very flirty prince. But that kiss has a price. Tyche will have to share some secrets he’s had tucked away for thousands of years and put his life on the line to preserve the new family he has found. Will it be enough?      AmazonKU

THE WRONG PRINCE (FATE’S MISTAKE BOOK ONE) by Arian Wulf

Five lifetimes of sacrifice. Five lifetimes of betrayal. Five times Prince Cedric has let her down. No more. Valeriane is done dying for the wrong prince. When she wakes at the beginning of her final life, she makes a choice that defies everything the goddess demands of her: she will let destiny burn. No more royal intrigue. No more saving Cedric. No more sacrificing herself to put an ungrateful heir on the throne. She will simply disappear from the game and spend whatever time remains to her living in peace. Then, she finds Lucien Darl chained in a brothel. To the world, Lucien is a monster in the making. He is a brilliant, cold-blooded outcast with blood on his hands and enough hatred in his heart to one day drown a continent in blood. Valeriane just sees an eighteen-year-old boy who needs someone to save him. So she does. And then she offers him marriage. But saving Lucien means changing the future Valeriane thought she knew. A forgotten goddess is determined to drag her back onto the path of prophecy. An ambitious marquis is furious to lose the pawn he’s spent years controlling. And a prince has begun dreaming of Valeriane, awakening feelings he cannot explain and a desperate certainty that she belongs at his side. As the forces of fate close in around them, Valeriane fails to realize the most terrifying truth of all: The monster she rescued has become obsessed with her. He will protect her. He will possess her. And if the only way to keep her safe is to lock her away forever, Lucien will gladly watch the world burn. The Wrong Prince is a dark fantasy romance featuring a terminally ill heroine, a time-loop mystery, forbidden magic, political intrigue, a desperate goddess, an obsessive prince, and a morally grey hero whose love is every bit as dangerous as his hatred.      AmazonKU

LEGACY FOUND (LUFTIS ACADEMY BOOK ONE) by Jaye Marellen

I crossed an ocean for a man. He wasn’t worth the airfare. In hindsight, I probably should’ve listened when my horoscope said, Don’t make life-changing decisions. But to be fair… he had a really cute accent. Now I’m twenty-two, living in England, working at an outdoor hiking store, and pretending my life isn’t a complete disaster. Then a ridiculously gorgeous professor walks through the door and tells me the increasingly aggressive letters I’ve been throwing away aren’t junk mail. They’re from Luftis Academy. And apparently I have ten days to report to Europe’s oldest elite academy…for wolf shifters. I’m pretty sure he’s insane. Right up until his eyes flash gold. So, great. Apparently I’m a wolf. Except when I arrive at Luftis, I discover I’m not like the wolves who’ve spent their entire lives here. I don’t know their rules. I don’t understand their obsession with bloodlines and hierarchy. And when three arrogant, devastatingly gorgeous wolf princes walk into a room and every other wolf instinctively submits…I feel absolutely nothing. Which gets their attention. Unfortunately, so does everything else I do. Now I have to survive classes, figure out how the hell to become a wolf—and try not to get distracted by several men I absolutely should not be thinking about naked. Maybe getting into Luftis was the easy part. Welcome to Luftis Academy.       AmazonKU

TAME THE DARK by Ella Fields

When enemy heirs shelter together from the war, forbidden love sparks between bookshelves and behind dormitory doors…When war erupts, heirs from across the continent shelter on sacred ground at the Archives of Avyshla. But our sense of safety is shaken when the enemy king sends his heir to join us. Voran is not merely a prince but his uncle’s hunter and assassin. And what his uncle seeks belongs to my family—control of the wyverns—the Scale Crown. Although no one can spill blood on sacred ground, I fear the prince’s intentions are as sinister as he seems. He proves as much when danger breaches the isle, and he saves me to have me in his debt. To survive, I make a secret deal with him. Except survival soon becomes longing. A hunger for calloused hands, stifled breath, and accented murmurs that doesn’t end with the war. Instead, it blooms into something even more forbidden. Something that could be my salvation—and the downfall of my kingdom.     AmazonKU

DEAD O’CLOCK (COLD CASE PSYCHIC BOOK 46) by Pandora Pine

VS Note: MM PNR Mystery.

Ding! Dong! You’re dead! The letters arrive without warning. No return address. No fingerprints. Just a single page predicting the recipient’s death and the exact time it will happen. At first, no one takes them seriously. Then the first person dies exactly as the letter predicted. When more letters begin appearing, Detective Ronan O’Mara and psychic Tennyson Grimm are called in to investigate. Ten senses that the letters aren’t just predicting deaths, but are connected to something that happened long ago, something that refuses to stay buried. As the death toll rises, Ten and Ronan race to find whoever is sending the letters. Because the next letter has already been delivered. And this one has Ronan’s name on it.      AmazonKU

BLOOD OF THE FAIREST (GRIMM FRAGMENTS BOOK ONE) by Morgan B Lee

Waking up as someone else in a different dimension is bad enough. But when that someone is skilled in the dark arts, collects men like trophies, eats poisoned apples for breakfast, drinks the blood of innocent maidens…The evil queen. I’m trying to say I woke up as the mother-*bleeping* evil queen in Snow White’s story. I have no idea why I’m trapped in this dark, twisted world full of even grimmer versions of the fairy tales I grew up on. I just want to survive as the bloodthirsty evil queen long enough to find a way back home. Too bad for me, the queen’s enemies want her to stay gone…and some of her enemies are hot. Like the secretive Mirror who watches me from reflections. And the deadly Huntsman, now sworn to obey any order I give. I’m not even going to talk about Prince Charming. He wants me to ride his noble steed, if you get my drift. Other sexy-but-unhinged fairy tale men are ignoring their original storylines to haunt me from the shadows, but I don’t know if they all want to kill the queen, help me, or if their fixation is something else completely. Here’s what I do know: these men are making it impossible to focus on getting back to my world. They’re both terrifying and tempting…especially their blood. But if I’m trapped here as the evil queen for a while, can’t I be a little wicked?      AmazonKU

THE NAMING (CREATURES OF THE NIGHT) by Adrian Blue

Ailish is in the business of new life. Born into a long line of midwives, she has traveled the valley countless times in the dead of night. But tonight is different. Tonight, she is not alone on the lonely road. A creature of darkness and legend wanders the same path. The voice of death. But he has not come for her life. He has come for everything else.      AmazonKU

ASHBORNE: DEFIANCE (EMBERQUELL ORDER BOOK ONE) by Aimee Lynn

His greatest battle isn’t war… it’s wanting her. Just weeks from an arranged marriage to a man old enough to be her father, Lady Grace Barnslow encounters Voski, a dark, enigmatic dragon rider from a neighboring kingdom—who despises her on sight. While Grace was born to a world of silk and silver, every privileged choice determined before her birth, Voski is everything the realm admires in a Furyknight: An accomplished man of few words, with intellect and wiles as sharp as his blade, and the casual courage to ride dragons. He is cold to the point of cruelty, yet Grace is unable to resist his savage allure. Voski refuses to trust a noblewoman who smiles sweetly in the ballroom, yet navigates the shadows with all the skill of a spy. When he finds her following him, he intends to return home, leaving her in the velvet cage of the enemy’s castle. But his plan is waylaid when a wild dragon Chooses her—and bonds his dragon. Together the pair are sucked into the bonfire of a she-dragon’s heat. Voski goes to war with himself, and the draw of a dragon bond. Yet, in the wake of his triumph at resisting both, he finds himself standing not on the bloodied field of victory, but in the ashy remains of what might have been. If he cannot overcome the scars and open his heart, Grace will be lost forever. Not only to a rejected bond, but to the type of man Voski despises: A noble of power who sees not a woman, but merely a womb… and the prestige riding her blood.   AmazonKU     AB

NOT ANOTHER HAPPILY EVER AFTER (TRAGICALLY EVER AFTER BOOK ONE) by A R Schilling

In the realm of Riches and Ruin, a curse cast by the fallen Fairy Godmother threatens to rot away everything both kingdoms hold dear–including the one heart capable of ending it. With hope running out, there is only one choice left: place the still-beating heart of the half-dead princess into the hands of a the not-so-charming prince and force a union that might mend what the curse has broken. That is, if the masked knight sworn to deliver her heart doesn’t steal it for himself first.     AmazonKU

COPPER KETTLES AND CURSED KITCHENS  (QUILLHAVEN MAGICAL COZY MYSTERIES BOOK 15) by Tessa Silver

A forgotten kitchen. A century-old curse. One recipe for disaster. A mysterious crate addressed to “the Keeper of Honeybell Market” delivers a treasure trove of antique kitchenware to Hazel Honeybell’s door. The copper pots, wooden spoons, and handwritten recipe book are beautiful, valuable . . . and steeped in dangerous magic. When Hazel cooks with the tools, her customers are overwhelmed by memories and emotions that aren’t their own. Laughter turns uncontrollable. Grief becomes unbearable. Soon, several people are hospitalized with hallucinations, and Honeybell Market is forced to close. With some serious sleuthing, Hazel discovers that the cursed tools once belonged to her great-aunt Rose, the forgotten owner of a café that stood on the same ground a century ago. With help from Quillhaven’s favorite witch, Annie Hart, two opinionated Siamese cats, and a charming antiques expert whose magic may unlock the past, Hazel must uncover who cursed Rose’s kitchen and why. But breaking the spell will require more than magic. It will demand truth, forgiveness, and the courage to reclaim a story someone tried to erase. In Quillhaven, some recipes should stay buried.   AmazonKU

SKY TITANS (DEITIES BOOK ONE) by Linda Mooney

It’s time for the earth to be cleansed. Released after eons of being imprisoned and tortured, Aeron and his three brothers are ordered by the remaining old gods to bring the Apocalypse upon the world. Humanity has failed them too many times, and the Reckoning is overdue. As the deity of the air and sky, it’s Aeron’s duty to bring about massive storms to wipe out civilization. Tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning – all are at his bidding, and Aeron is more than willing to do whatever he is requested to do. He will mete out the worst he can conjure, as long as it means he’ll no longer be bound within the hot, dark confines deep within the bowels of the Earth. Ceris Shahan is terrified of flying. But when the president of the company demands she be at the summit conference clear across the continent the next day, she has no choice but to take the next plane out. If her phobia wasn’t debilitating enough, they run into turbulence that doesn’t end. Tossed about, bruised and injured amid the ugly black clouds that continue to engulf them, she and the other passengers soon realize they will not survive. When Ceris spots a figure outside the window, a man who appears to be standing amid the thunderheads and is surrounded by an aura of light, she starts to doubt her own sanity. Yet, when the man turns to find her staring at him, the look of stunned disbelief on his face is undeniable. She shouldn’t be able to see him, but she can. Realizing what this could mean, Aeron decides to risk everything, even his freedom, to rescue and protect the woman from the annihilation of all mankind.

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GLADIATOR MOON: A SAMANTHA MOON MYSTERY (VAMPIRE FOR HIRE® BOOK 39) by J R Rain

When vampire private investigator Samantha Moon is ripped from her world, she awakens inside a brutal interdimensional coliseum where warriors from across space and time battle for the amusement of powerful beings watching from the shadows. Giants. Demons. Alien creatures. And now… Samantha Moon. They know exactly what she is: a vampire detective with superhuman strength and abilities powerful enough to make her a worthy champion. But the arena’s rulers made one mistake: They underestimated how far Samantha Moon would go to destroy the violent games themselves. As Sam fights for her life, she’ll uncover more about the mysterious forces behind the games… and why she was chosen. The arena wants a champion. Its masters want a weapon. But Samantha Moon has never been good at doing what she’s told. Now she’s fighting to survive, to uncover the truth, and to tear down the games from the inside. After all, the most dangerous thing in the arena isn’t the monsters. It’s Samantha Moon.       AmazonKU

DIVINE MONSTER: A DEMON MAFIA ROMANCE (THE DEMON SYNDICATE SERIES BOOK THREE) by Emma Dean

There are some monsters even demons fear. Nova knew Dex was a monster when she fell for him. She just didn’t know what kind. Trusting a demon was never part of Nova’s plan, and falling for one definitely wasn’t. But Dex isn’t just a demon. As the truth about his past begins to unravel, everything Nova thought she knew about him is called into question. His power. His family. His secrets…and the forces controlling him. After everything she’s gone through, Nova knows that walking away may be the smart choice, but she’s never been particularly good at doing the smart thing. Especially when it comes to Dex. Dex has spent his entire life believing there are things better left buried. But he can no longer hide from his past, and protecting Nova forces him to turn to the last person he ever expected to ask for help. Now that Dex’s carefully guarded secrets have come to light, Nova has to decide whether the monster she knows is more dangerous than the angel she doesn’t. Because some secrets are more dangerous than others. And some monsters might just be divine.       AmazonKU

SAVING HER DRAGON: A DRAGON GUARD LEGACY (THE DRAGONS’ FATE BOOK TWO) by Julia Mills

He survived the Demon. Can he survive life in the real world? Garrett is free. After years of captivity, torture, and a darkness designed to break the bond between Man and Dragon, the Guardsman has finally escaped Leviathan. He has his Dragon King back. He has his Clan. And most importantly, he has Sydney, the woman the Universe made for him. He should finally be able to breathe. So why does Garrett keep waking up in places he doesn’t remember going? Missing time seems understandable. Nightmares. Trauma. The lingering scars of everything Leviathan did to him. It takes time for the heart and mind to heal. Sydney has waited too long to find her Dragon Man to let fear—or anything else—steal their future. Whatever Garrett is facing, he won’t face it alone. Because something isn’t right. The nights are getting worse. The missing time is becoming harder to explain. And the man who survived Hell is beginning to wonder if freedom was only the beginning of the fight.       Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

ONCE SWINDLED (LACK AND LUSTER) by Laura Sebastian

The Ryskamp family fortune is in trouble. And Arden’s gift for invisibility can’t stave off his creditors…or the shame of catastrophic courtships. His only recourse is to marry a highborn Luster girl of his great-aunt’s choosing. But when Arden goes to meet her, another woman catches his eye: the copper-haired beauty who ran away with his heart. And engagement ring. Newly betrothed to yet another wealthy bachelor, Mavis has gone by many names—Arabella then, Delphinia now. Unlike the Lusters, however, Mavis lacks magical abilities, relying instead on her charms and her cons to get by. But no amount of money can repay her debts. And no amount of distance could prepare her for a reunion with her first mark. Thrown together by fate, Arden and Mavis put aside their past to pull one last con that could save them both. The only price may be falling in love again. This time, for real.   AmazonKU     AB

NOBODY TOLD ME THRIFT SHOPS SELL DRAGON HEIRLOOMS by Lindsey Devin

Rafe Virelli has spent his whole life watching his family’s history disappear piece by piece — sold, stolen, and scattered across a city that doesn’t know or care what it’s holding. He’s down to one missing relic and no leads, until his law firm’s intern shows up wearing it. Quinn Bradley didn’t mean to become the reason a half-dragon shifter starts showing up at her office. She definitely didn’t mean to negotiate her way onto his case, get pulled into rigged auctions and museum standoffs, or end up in the middle of an actual heist when a rival collector decides Rafe’s family relics are worth killing for. She just wanted a law degree and a dog with a stable temperament. Instead she got a client who fixes her door locks at midnight, a dragon who’d burn down a mansion for her, and a front-row seat to exactly how far someone will go to protect what’s left of their family. The relics can be replaced. This can’t.      AmazonKU

A DASH OF WOLF (MOONLIGHT BAY COZY ROMANCE BOOK ONE) by Jenna St James

Retiring from PADA was supposed to be the easy part. After years of undercover work, werewolf Mason Wolfe is looking forward to a quieter life as the new Chief of Police in Moonlight Bay—a charming supernatural seaside town where the biggest excitement should be directing traffic during festivals. Instead, on his very first day, he arrests the town’s favorite troublemaker. Adeline Beaumont is a witch, bakery owner, environmental activist, and firm believer that if something can’t speak for itself, she’ll do the shouting for it. Whether she’s chaining herself to bulldozers to save endangered magical creatures or handing out enchanted pastries that brighten someone’s day, Adeline has never met a cause she wouldn’t fight for. Then there’s Princess Muffin Top. After accidentally drinking an assertion potion, Adeline’s smoke Maine Coon developed the unfortunate habit of saying exactly what’s on her mind. Now every customer—especially the handsome new police chief—has to endure her endless stream of sarcastic commentary. And right now, her favorite thing to do is poke fun at the new chief with embarrassing nicknames like Chief Howls-at-the-Moon and Wolf Boy. As sparks fly between the law-abiding chief and the law-breaking baker, trouble begins brewing beneath Moonlight Bay’s picture-perfect streets. Someone is determined to get rid of the centuries-old pact that has held the town together, and now it’s up to Chief Wolfe and Adeline to figure out who wants to destroy Moonlight Bay…all while fighting off their attraction for each other. Can a rule-following werewolf and a rule-breaking witch learn to trust each other before danger comes calling? Or will their budding romance go up in smoke before it ever has a chance to rise?      AmazonKU

CLAIMED BY THE WOLF HEIR by Delta James

For years, my secret has kept me alive. Saving one wounded alpha may cost me everything. I’ve spent years making certain no one discovers the truth. I’m the Northern Pack’s healer—calm, controlled, untouchable. Because I have to be. The day anyone discovers I’m an omega is the day I lose everything I’ve built. Then a dying alpha crashes into my mountain cabin. I should have let him die. Instead, every wound I heal tears another crack in the walls I’ve spent a lifetime building. Eirik Valdisson is everything I can’t survive. A packless alpha. My patient. The heir to a stolen territory. And the one wolf whose scent makes my carefully crafted suppressant start to fail. The longer we’re trapped together, the harder it becomes to separate duty from desire. He swears he’ll never use my secret against me. But a packless alpha needs an omega to reclaim his birthright. And I no longer know if he wants me…or the future only I can give him. Because once my secret is exposed…there will be no hiding again.      AmazonKU

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“New” is generally plus or minus a week or two. I try to catch up on ones I missed in recent months.  And I may mention ‘special items’.

NOTE: I’m doing my best to avoid listing anything generated from use of AI but it’s sometimes tricky to detect from the resources I have available. As far as covers go, I list the Amazon cover whether it’s AI or not. 

I do NOT cover every single new release in SFR/FantasyR/PNR. I never have. That would be an impossible task for any human! I assemble my list by hand every week based on various informal inputs, and I do curate the list to some extent…

Some authors aren’t in KU but still don’t list books with Apple or other platforms. This report is very time consuming to prepare so I’ve always had to limit myself and cannot go and look up every book on all the platforms. If an author gives me their other buy links, I include them here but generally I develop the post on my own, not from author-supplied information. I curate and prepare this post individually every week to help connect readers/books/authors and I have to be very careful not to give it so much time as an activity that I don’t write my own novels! Thanks for the feedback and happy reading!

 

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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BADASS ALIEN BOSS (GAL FRIDAY BOOK TWO) by Cara Bristol

He’s a battle-scarred warrior with something to prove. She’s the bodyguard assigned to keep him alive—whether he likes it or not. After a brutal attack leaves former military hero Ruyn gravely injured, his combat career is over. Stuck planetside and recovering, he reluctantly joins his brother’s company while he rebuilds his strength. But his brother is convinced the assault wasn’t a random act of violence. Someone wanted Ruyn dead—and they may try again. Enter Michaela Perine. A former investigator and elite bodyguard, Michaela is hired through GAL Friday—Galactic Auxiliary Labor—to protect Ruyn. There’s just one problem: Ruyn would never agree to having a bodyguard. So his brother presents her as the newest administrative assistant. Michaela can handle danger, criminals, and impossible assignments. Pretending to be a secretary for a stubborn, intimidating alien warrior? That may be her toughest job yet. When Ruyn discovers the truth, sparks fly. Furious at the deception and determined to reclaim his independence, he clashes with the fierce human woman assigned to protect him. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the attraction simmering beneath their arguments. As new threats emerge and the mystery behind the attack deepens, Michaela and Ruyn find themselves caught in a deadly conspiracy. To survive, they’ll have to trust each other completely. Because someone is still hunting Ruyn. And losing his heart to his bodyguard may be the most dangerous battle of all.       AmazonKU

LOVING THE ALIEN SPY (BRIDES OF THE BOHNARI BOOK THREE) by Erin Hale

Carrik – For generations, the eldest son of our family line has served a single purpose—royal spy to the King of Bohna. My entire life has been about keeping secrets from and lying to those I love. Even the twin brother who hates me. When I’m forced to imprison Bannik and take his place, I never imagined I’d find my heart’s fire—the single female who soothes the beast that resides in all Bohnari males. Only she believes me to be my brother. Now, I must choose between the role I was born into or my mate. Lindsey – I entered the bridal lottery as a joke, never imagining I’d actually be chosen. Living in the bottom tier of Earth has prepared me for nothing but being disappointed. Now, my life on my new planet is far greater than I expected. Especially when I discover I’m the mate of a Bohnari male. Except the Bannik I’ve met before is not the same Bannik whose kisses and touches set my body aflame. He asks me to trust him even though he has secrets he can’t share with me yet. When I finally give him my heart, danger threatens to take him from me. I only hope I’m not too late.   AmazonKU

CHRONICLES OF AN UNKNOWN WORLD BOOK THREE: SVENN by C L Pride

He was born unlike anyone of his kind — and he swore he’d never chain a soul to a life like his. Then the Winds gave him her. Elyna survived the crash that should have killed her the way she’s survived everything: alone, resourceful, asking nothing of anyone. An orphan and a technician who fills the quiet with sketches and refuses, on principle, to be a burden to a living soul. And then there’s Svenn. Chief of the northern lands. Snow-white wings, eyes red as a predator’s, golden skin beneath a crown of snow — among the Erians, he is the only one of his kind. The Winds have given him the Life Companion he swore he’d never take, and the harder he refuses her — fist clenched, teeth held back — the more the refusing costs him. Elyna doesn’t believe she needs saving. Svenn doesn’t believe he gets to keep anything. But the longer she stays, the harder it is to fight the pull between them… or to ignore the way her own body is quietly, impossibly changing.     AmazonKU

QUEEN OF THE NEBULA (OLYMPUS SECTOR BOOK TWO) by Eden Ember

First, he stole me. Then, he crowned me. Now, the universe wants us dead. I am no longer the girl in the glass tower. I am the Queen of the Tartarus Belt, and I have found my home in the arms of the Warlord who once terrified me. But loving Haid comes with a price. The Golden Apex Station has blockaded our sector, starving my people to force my return. They think I am a delicate flower they can crush. They have no idea what I am becoming. My powers are evolving. I’m not just growing vines anymore; I’m waking up ancient, terrifying biology that hasn’t been seen in a millennia. There is a buzzing in my blood that whispers of war. To save my kingdom, I have to make a deal with a treacherous Pirate King, survive a guild of assassins, and face the one truth that might break me: I wasn’t born. I was made. And I was made to be a weapon.   AmazonKU

IN WHAT WORLD by Bridget Morrissey

Total opposites, Marlowe Jenkins and Priscilla Covington-French hated each other in high school. Now in their thirties, Marlowe is barely scraping by while Priscilla is wildly successful. Their rivalry should be long dead, yet both women remain connected through their mutual mentor, drama teacher Dallas Winthrop. Their unending tension has nothing to do with the fact that they’ve kissed. More than once. When Dallas goes missing, each woman believes she can figure out where he is. Except this is no ordinary disappearance. Dallas has found a way to explore alternate versions of reality. While trying to follow him, Marlowe and Priscilla find other versions of themselves instead, surprised to learn not all Marlowes and Priscillas are fueled by hate. In fact, some Marlowes and Priscillas have very different strong feelings for one another. . .The more Marlowe and Priscilla are forced to rely on each other, the harder it becomes to ignore their simmering attraction. But with every alternate reality they search, they only get further from their real life and responsibilities. Do they play it safe and hide behind their rivalry, or take a chance on each other that could permanently change the world as they know it?

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WHEN THE UNIVERSE SINGS by Gillian Eliza West

There is only one rule in the galaxy: trust no one. Juniper knows it all too well. After her home planet was destroyed and eleven years on Ebyd III, a Galactic Federation mechanical prison, the only thing she might fear now is death. Taking a chance at freedom, she climbs into the ventilation shaft of a docked pleasure barge only to be discovered by the mistress of the ship. Given the choice between certain death on Ebyd III and the unknown, she joins as their new silks dancer. When Captain Asher Ruciyah seeks someone to complete his crew for a mysterious mission, Juniper is hired as their climber to round out their numbers. As part of this new crew intent on stealing one of the universe’s most powerful weapons, Juniper discovers she wants something more than freedom: revenge on the man who took everything from her. But nothing and no one is as it seems, especially in a galaxy filled with lies, deceit, and false identities. Juniper will learn that revenge isn’t as simple as she thought it would be and sometimes it’s not one person, but an entire universe against you.     AmazonKU

BRED BY SOR’EN (SOLAR BREEDING AGENCY BOOK THREE) by Penelope Mars

Humanity is desperate, scattered amongst the stars at the mercy of the planets that will have us, but mostly we have nothing. No hope, no prospects, nothing. Poverty, crime, disease, we’re the running joke among the highly advanced alien species that surround us. We’re desperate, all of us, but we’re not entirely without worth… without use. Humans are still good for cheap labor and entertainment, oh and breeding. Human women are great for breeding. That’s where the Solar Breeding Agency comes in. For a hefty fee and a dowry paid to our families, an alien in need of a surrogate can buy us. Hue- Growing up as a human in an alien dominated universe is the definition of getting the “short end of the stick” now add in being orphaned as an infant and shoved into an overcrowded home for abandoned alien children, my stick is pretty much a nub by twenty. I learned early on, survival means running, lying and oftentimes stealing just enough to keep the cold from the space port survivable. This galaxy isn’t made with humans in mind. So when I saw an ad for the Solar Breeding Agency it seemed like an easy enough mark. Get the dowry, get off planet, disappear all before whatever unfortunate species buys me can get me on my back. I have no intention of being bred. No intention of uploading my end of the contract but…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)      AmazonKU

FOUGHT AND FOUND (ALIEN RECOVERY FILES BOOK ONE) by Lara Roth

Seven feet of trained lethality, undone by a woman with a daisy sticker on her sidearm. I don’t panic. I make tea. Even when a seven-foot, crimson-skinned alien breaks into my ship, claims my cargo, and calmly informs me I’m expendable. Xor is a Tier 1 retrieval weapon, all claws, control, and lethal efficiency. I’m just a courier on a triple-rate run, with fairy lights, named weapons, and zero intention of dying on schedule. He has orders, take the container, eliminate me. I have a counter-plan, outthink him, survive, and maybe figure out why this job feels bigger than it should. The problem? He doesn’t act like a monster. And I don’t treat him like one. Now mercenaries are closing in, my ship’s AI won’t stop meddling, and the deadly alien sent to kill me is starting to look at me like I’m his. They can have the cargo. They’re not having me.      AmazonKU

MAZORIUM BUYS A HUMAN by RK Munin

When Geological Assessment Specialist Mazorium comes across a human woman and her infant child for sale at a livestock auction, he rushes to buy them. Not only does this mean he has a human pet of his own now, but he also gets to gentling a wild-caught human and raise a human child from infancy. His logical and ordered mind isn’t prepared for the chaos these two will bring to his life. Over the course of writing his guide, he’ll find himself changing in ways he never expected. And in the end, it will be the humans who will gentle him.      Amazon

RENJIK (KA’ATARI WARRIORS BOOK EIGHT) by Kenzie Kelly

The Scozid said they want to discuss peace. Willow was the only one who heard the lie. Willow Benally has spent her time since being rescued from the disintegrating Shangris space station studying Scozid culture. When a message promising negotiation arrives, everyone wants to believe their adversary has changed. Willow knows better. The words say peace. The cadence says trap. Now the Alliance puts her at the center of talks that feel less like she’s there for diplomacy and more like she’s bait. Renjik struggles with the loss of his arm at Scozid hands. The cybernetic replacement works well enough, but it feels like proof of failure. He knows the Scozid can’t be trusted and expects the worst. He doesn’t expect the sharp human expert to catch his senses, challenge every assumption in the room, and become his rhun. Between diplomatic theater, biological weapons, a judgmental alien scarf, and an enemy arrogant enough to mistake its own trap for victory—surviving their mission may be easier than admitting the future they want is worth fighting for.   AmazonKU

BIG BAD RED PROTECTOR by Cara Stone and Athena Storm

I should have thrown her in a cell the second she challenged me in my checkpoint. Instead, the tiny human customs officer with fire in her eyes and secrets in her blood is now under my protection.
Every protocol she cites makes me want to break another. Every time she steps into danger, the need to pin her against the nearest bulkhead and claim what’s mine grows stronger. The Bridge woke for her. Ancient power answers only to her touch. Now entire fleets are moving, and factions will kill to control the woman who can activate it. They’ll have to go through me first. I was bred for war. Trained to feel nothing. But Nina Torres makes me burn. I’ll burn my rank, my command, my entire life to keep her safe and keep her screaming my name in the dark. She can scold me on breaking station rules. Fine. I’ll break her instead…slowly. Deeply. Completely.      AmazonKU

ALIENS, ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE ADVANTAGES OF FALLING IN LOVE (OTHERWORLDLY FINDINGS BOOK ONE) by Rose Santoriello and Rae Douglas

Ellie Benshoof loves human history. Certainly more than she loves the humans around her. To be fair, she might be the problem, with her brusque personality and general lack of patience. But when something totally out of this world crash lands in the middle of her research site, Ellie has all the secrets of humanity she’s ever wanted, right at her fingertips. The only thing in her way? Zarek. Zarek might study humans too, but he is most definitely not one. Hailing from the planet Terilla, Zarek was sent to Earth to observe humanity from afar, but his passion project impairs his objectivity. Seeking to change the course of his own species’ future, Zarek switches his coordinates to France, where he intends to capture a live sample of an edelweiss bloom. But the French Alps are a long way from Paris, and he’ll need Ellie’s assistance if he’s actually going to reach them. Making a deal, they agree to tolerate each other just long enough to get what they both need. While on the train ride of a lifetime, Ellie and Zarek must decide what they’ll let this connection become—a neatly labeled set of samples, or a once-in-a-lifetime field study that proves some discoveries are better experienced than explained. Love just might be the greatest advantage of them all.     AmazonKU

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VS Note: Have you read the latest Badari Gladiator’s story yet? JAMIRR, my newest release!

JAMIRR (BADARI GLADIATORS BOOK FIVE) by Veronica Scott

His memories gone, mistreated and abused by a series of owners, Jamirr knows only that he won’t give in and become a fighter in the savage arenas of the galaxy. He refuses to give his so-called masters the satisfaction. Destined for a grim fate in the mines, he waits to die. Raised by a gladiator father to become an arena warrior from the time she was old enough to hold a wooden sword, Samyra inherited his struggling gladiatorial house and has carved out a career as the ruthless Beast Lady. Looking for new fighters she knows she should pass Jamirr by. He’s nothing but trouble and untrainable. Something about him won’t let her walk away and she takes the risk of adding him to her team. Despite himself Jamirr has a growing loyalty and attraction to the Beast Lady. He’s drawn to the caring woman underneath the savage exterior she presents to the world. But she has secrets that threaten them both and he still has no idea what kind of past his amnesia is concealing. He knows he’s not human, not with claws and fangs, yet he loves a human woman. Will he fight for her? Could a gladiator and his mistress ever become mates and equals? And will the arrival of a group of men like him known as Badari create opportunities for freedom or destroy the life Jamirr’s carved out?

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DRAGON ME CRAZY (POSSESSIVE MONSTERS BOOK 12) by Maggie Mayhem

A Single Dad Dragon Meets His Witchy Match – As a recently divorced grandmother, I buried my magic long ago and ask nothing of life but peace and quiet. Then a single-dad dragon offers me a job as governess to his motherless dragonlet. I agree to just one visit, no promises. But the moment I step into his castle, Emmett decides I’m his. He calls me his treasure. He touches me like he means to keep me. And the heat between us? As hot as the fire in his belly. But secrets slither through these castle walls, and someone covets what Emmett guards most. To save the dragonlet I’ve come to love, I’ll have to reclaim my magic and learn to trust the dragon who’s staked his claim on my heart. And I have to do it all before dragon fire burns it all to the ground.     AmazonKU

MICROBURST (THE PROSPECTS BOOK FOUR) by Erin R Flynn

I am Queen Sagan De la Rosa… For now. After learning family secrets and horrors about my parents that no child should ever know, I think maybe the majority of Thovudin is right and Uncle Fraser should be king. It’s not like people in my own castle really want me there even. Fine, some have accepted I’ll be there and this is the way things are—which is so big of them when it’s my home—but they don’t really want me as their boss. All I ever wanted was to come home and now I want to be anywhere else with the way things turned out. And the men who “want” me don’t want me, Sagan. They want to be prince thinking they’ll be the actual ruler. One wants me now that we learned what my parents really thought of me. One says he wants me as I am, but I don’t know I could ever trust someone from that family again or the intensity of his obsession. One would want me if I wasn’t going to be queen, so maybe that’s the answer? Maybe the answer is to leave it all behind and find out who Sagan is without the heavy weight of the De la Rosa name and the fate no one wanted for her?   AmazonKU

THE OCEAN’S QUEEN (THE CURSED QUEENS BOOK FOUR) by E E Hornburg

Finley, the feared and legendary pirate queen of the realm, has one goal: to break her sleeping curse before it traps her in an eternal slumber. With the enchanted chalice hidden deep within the Paravian Mountains, rumored to have the power to cure the king’s sleeping curse, she believes it can do the same for her — if she can find it in time. But nothing is ever that simple. Finley’s quest becomes even more complicated when she’s forced to team up with a brooding shape-shifting wolf, bound by an ancient curse to the goddess of death. This enigmatic wolf has the power to drag anyone into the world of the dead, and Finley’s friends are at risk if she can’t find a way to break his bond. To survive, she must convince him to work with her to cure her curse — and maybe even free him from the goddess’s hold. With the evil queen threatening to take over the realm, Finley’s mission becomes a race against time. If they fail, it’s not just Finley who will fall into eternal sleep — the entire world could descend into darkness. Can the pirate queen and the cursed wolf overcome their differences in time to save the realm from destruction?      AmazonKU

A WORLD ENOUGH by Jenny Frame

VS Note: FF PNR.

MUSE AND MALICE: ECHOES OF OLYMPUS by Anna Hawke

No one worships the God of the Dead. Feared by mortals and mistrusted by his own family, Hades has ruled the Underworld alone for millennia. When a prophecy ties the fate of the pantheon to a mortal woman, he has no choice but to bring her into his realm—and keep her close. Persephone enters the Underworld with a secret purpose: steal Hades’ keyring and reclaim the son she lost. She expects a cold and merciless god. Instead, she finds a man worth protecting. If Persephone’s deception is exposed, it may destroy more than their fragile bond. It may bring down the gods.     AmazonKU

GUARDIAN OF EXILE: A NYX FORTUNA NOVEL by Michelle Manus

Normal isn’t easy. Readjusting to ordinary life at the Station isn’t as easy as Nyx Fortuna would like, so she isn’t too upset at having another problem to distract her. Namely, finding Tristen Veld, the exiled Shaman who is her only chance at freeing Griff and the Stations. The catch? The only information she has on his whereabouts is that he was living in Dead Earth fifteen years ago. Tracking him down is difficult enough, but when she does, he isn’t at all what Nyx expects. Life hasn’t treated him kindly, and it’s left the exiled Shaman cynical and angry. Nyx, not exactly full of hope herself these days, isn’t sure she’s the right person to convince him to help her, but she has to try. And the funny thing about convincing someone else that life is worth fighting for? Sometimes, you convince yourself of the same thing along the way.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

SCORCHED BY THE DRAKE (BRED FOR THE RIFT BOOK FOUR) by Zara Crowe

He can taste every lie she tells. One flick of his forked tongue and the drake warlord knows what her cool, clever mouth won’t say: she isn’t afraid of him. She’s starving for him. She came to negotiate the breeding contract. She’s begging him to honor it instead, his mark searing her throat, his knot locking her in the dark, and no idea how to want anything this much. Possessive monster. Heroine with teeth. A heat neither of them can refuse.      AmazonKU

ILLUMINATED (VAMPIRE TALES BOOK ONE) by Alexa Piper

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

He locked me in his gaze. “You can try to run, but I am faster. You must have guessed. What do you think I am?” My lips trembled before I spoke. “Vampire.” Ethan is a photographer who has made peace with being lonely. When he saves a man from certain death, he has no idea that in doing so, he unlocks an age-old prophecy—and a love like no other. Illuminated is a Gothic-style romance between an ancient vampire and a lonely photographer. Contains travel, adventure, secret organizations, and a prophecy that echoes through the ages. Contains some violence.     Amazon

JASON AND THE MERMAID & HONEY AND GARNET WINE by Alexa Piper

VS Note: LGBTQ short reads.

These two short stories bring you two supernaturals, a merman and a vampire, and the human lovers they have chosen. They are stories of strangeness, of worlds meeting and overlapping.     Amazon

A SPOT OF TEA AND SORCERY VOL 6 by Sylvia Mercedes

VS Note: A novel serialized in 6 parts.

Former Dark Sorcerer. Ready to sacrifice everything. Completely unprepared for Happily Ever After. 
His secret is out. She knows the truth, knows who he once was. The monster, the villain, the man who nearly decimated an entire kingdom in his quest for immortality. Now, she’ll want nothing to do with him. Surely. But Nigel won’t let that stop him from protecting Luna Talbot. If he is meant for one good deed in this life, it is to save her from the doom which stalks her footsteps. Bound by the Sovereign Troth, crippled by poison, he will nonetheless march into the very lair of the worst Dark Sorcerers the world has ever known and, one by one, destroy them. If he can just . . . get out the front door without fainting first. Luna, meanwhile, must decide if she’s going back to work tomorrow morning or not. She’s got one more day to survive before her one-way ticket out of Ballycastle. Between her formerly-evil-sorcerer boss and her infuriatingly persistent would-be boyfriend, she can’t make a move that isn’t compromised! But Extremely Great Aunt Amelia’s old prediction is determined to come true. A glamorous night, a horse-drawn carriage, a moonlit garden, and a romantic tryst are written in the stars for this humble shop girl. Meanwhile, a much darker fate is closing in, and it’s only a matter of time before all the once-scried visions collide.     Amazon

LITTLE MUSIC OF NIGHT (MMF MONSTER ROMANCE) (CREATURE CAFE SERIES BOOK 17) by Clio Evans

Creatures of all kinds go to the Barista to find love, including the two cursed phantoms, Erik and Ray. Erik and Ray already know their mate. They’ve been watching her, stalking her, and yearning for her night after night. There’s just one problem—Christy cannot see the phantoms who haunt her dreams. Christy is ready to give love a shot. But when she’s ghosted on her first date, she leaves Creature Cafe furious. Little does she know, her two phantoms are in agony, waiting for the moment she can finally see them. Will Erik, Christy, and Ray finally break the curse that’s holding them back?    AmazonKU

A SEA OAT FOR SANDY – A PLANT/MONSTER ROMANCE SHORT (PLANT INSTALOVE) by Elliot Ason

She was offered as a sacrifice. He claimed her for worship. Branded a curse since birth, Sandila has always known she would die for the sands. Bound on a freezing beach and abandoned by her village’s priests, she braces for a brutal end at the hands of the legendary monster of the coast. But Argus isn’t there to claim a sacrifice. A terrifying creature of ancient vines and coastal flora, Argus has waited centuries for his fated mate. When he rescues Sandila from the harsh elements, he sweeps her away to a hidden sanctuary where she’s finally safe. He doesn’t want her blood—he wants to show her exactly how a treasured thing is kept. Sandila was born for sacrifice, but in the heavy arms of the beast, she’ll discover she was meant for worship all along.     AmazonKU

SASSY SUNFLOWERS by Holly Day

VS Note: MM PNR.

Jacob has always had a thing for vampires, but he never realized how dangerous they can be. When Jacob Litwin is called to the community in Myrfolk to feed an injured vampire, he jumps at the opportunity. It isn’t until it’s too late, he realizes there is a difference between a sexy nibble in a dark corner of a nightclub and being handed over to a severely hurt vampire. Drystan Sorge has lost everything — his house, his job, everything. He’s been beaten black and blue and is out of his mind from pain. His friend manages to get him to the community in Myrfolk in the nick of time. They’ve left everything behind apart from a bag of clothes and twelve hundred sunflower seedlings. What had he been thinking? Sunflowers aren’t the solution to his problems. The one bright thing in the whole situation is Jacob, the human who agreed to feed him when he first arrived. Too bad Jacob is trying to run away from him. Jacob can’t believe how naive he’s been. He’s always had a thing for vampires, but now his view of them has been shaken. The way Drystan does what he can to take care of him is cute, but he should tell him to stop. Right?       Amazon

ORC’S VEIL (VEIL LANDS BOOK 11) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden

Welcome to the Veil lands, where monsters are the only ones who can save you. Eirene: I’ve survived at the edge of the world, stealing the memories of travelers to pay the Veil’s hunger. Then the boundary shrieked, and the sky permanently split wide open. Now, an iron-masked monster has ducked into my cottage to end my treason. Varkhul is a giant built of harsh angles, tusks, and a lifetime of absolute obedience. He captures my bleeding wrists, but the twin moons light up a dangerous, mutual heat between us. They say our touch is eroding the wall, but his darkness is the only anchor keeping me whole. Varkhul: My tusks are weighted with iron rings, each one marking ten executions for the order. I was the Iron Citadel’s cleanest weapon, sent to the border to eliminate a rogue witch. Instead, I found a silver-haired woman bleeding herself hollow just to keep the realm alive. My ancestral blood is an active poison to the Veil, but when it mixes with her skin, the screaming barrier goes dead silent. I was sent to be her executioner, but I will butcher my own commander before I let the dark take what’s mine.     AmazonKU

HE’S A 10 BUT HE BITES by Vixen Voss and Milly Taiden

She stole the wrong relic. Now she’s mine. I’m a monster. The Black Fang. Four centuries of hunting down threats—and one reckless human thief just woke the most dangerous one of all. Riley Harrow. Chestnut hair, clever hands, and a pulse that calls to the monster in me like nothing ever has. The obsidian only answers to her. My mate bond only burns for her. Every faction in our world wants her dead or leashed. They’ll have to go through me first. I should end her. Instead I’m claiming her. Protecting her. Ruining her for anyone else while we chase secrets older than my blood. She ran with my relic. She’s not running from me.      AmazonKU

STRIPES DON’T LIE (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 109) by Milly Taiden

Leni Lovett was this close to taking a vacation. One clean arrest, one million-dollar payday, and maybe—finally—a beach with no assassins, no traitors, and no one asking her to save the day. Then Gerri Wilder taps on her car window with a job involving a wormhole, another planet, and a tiger-shifter pride with a mole problem. Naturally, Leni says yes. Because apparently her idea of relaxing is hunting a traitor in alien territory while trying very hard not to notice the growly commander with the lethal body and bossy mouth. Commander Voryn Drath trusts his warriors, his instincts, and absolutely no one from the outside. After rogues nearly kill the Alpha’s children, he’s ready to tear Stormreach apart claw by claw to find the traitor. The last thing he wants is a human counterintelligence expert poking through his security files. Then Leni steps through the portal, shakes his hand, and his tiger goes feral for one sharp-tongued woman in tactical boots. She’s his mate. Fantastic. Too bad she looks at commanders like they come with warning labels and emotional damage. Gerri swears this is fate doing what fate does best—making a mess and calling it destiny. Leni calls it suspicious. Voryn calls it a security risk with curves. But as the danger closes in and the mole inside the Drath pride gets bolder, their investigation turns into a battle of wills, heat, and very inconvenient feelings. Now Leni has to expose a traitor, protect a royal family, and survive one overprotective tiger who makes her want things she swore off years ago… including a place to finally stay.       AmazonKU

HOWL’S THAT FOR FOREVER by Sabrina Sin and Milly Taiden

She’s mine the second I walk into her flower shop. Amelia Harper smells like grief and quiet fire, and my wolf wants to mark her until the whole town knows exactly who she belongs to. They’ve spent five years blaming her for her husband’s death. But I don’t care about their whispers. I just care about making her mine. I came to investigate black roses and cursed roots. Instead I found my mate. 
Every black bloom makes the town point at her. Every tremor in the ground pulls her deeper into danger. They don’t understand. She’s not the curse. She’s the only thing worth saving in this dying town. I’ll burn every lie to the ground. I’ll face the ancient monster clawing its way free. And when it’s done, I’m not leaving her side. She never wanted a man like me. Too bad my wolf already decided forever.      AmazonKU

PROTECTED BY THE VAMPIRE by L Rose and Lily Rose

VS Note: MM PNR.

For centuries, Soren existed in the shadows. A powerful vampire who had long ago accepted that forever would be spent alone. Love was a luxury fate had denied him. Then he met Spade. Spade, vice president for the Fury Motorcycle Club, isn’t looking for forever. Especially not with a vampire whose very existence shattered everything he believed about the world. But fate doesn’t ask permission. In a world where monsters rule the night, one vampire and one biker will discover that the greatest danger isn’t falling in love… it’s surviving it.      AmazonKU

DEATH MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER  (SHROUDED NATION BOOK 37) by Brenda Trim and Tia Didmon

I can command the dead, but saving the living may cost me everything. As the newest member of the Sacred Sisterhood, I’m given a brutal task of dispatching a zombie horde before it devours everything in its path. But the dead aren’t rising because of errant necromancy. A powerful enemy has returned, and he means to reshape our world into something twisted, broken, and unlivable. To stop him, I’ll need more than my magic, my sisters, and the loyal friends willing to fight beside me. I’ll need the relentless protection of a stubborn gargoyle determined to keep me alive… and the one dark power I’ve feared my entire life. But if the only way to save the world is to unleash the very thing that could destroy me, will I sacrifice my soul for everyone I love… or let the world burn?     AmazonKU

FIND ME (HAUNTED HEARTS SERIES BOOK TWO) by Jennifer Julie Miller

VS Note: An ‘expanded’ re-release.

A job assignment, a dream, and a choice. Multiple lifetimes flash before me and each time, I choose unwisely. Will I be able to find him before my dream ends and I once again take the foolish path? My happiness hangs in the balance.      AmazonKU

SISTERS AND BLISTERS (AMETHYST’S WAND SHOP MYSTERIES BOOK 17) by Laura Greenwood and Arizona Tape

Amy and Ambrose embark on their latest case as they discover a pair of dead women whose death is a mystery…Sisters and Blisters is book seventeen of Amethyst’s Wand Shop Mysteries, an urban fantasy murder mystery series featuring a quirky witch, a serious detective, a slow burn m/f romantic subplot and a standalone crime.

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THE WITCH QUEEN (THE CRIMSON CROWN DUOLOGY BOOK TWO) by Heather Walter

VS Note: LGBTQ Fantasy

The wicked queen’s story did not end with a happily ever after. And she wouldn’t have it any other way. With the king bound to her magic mirror and Princess Blodwyn, the rightful heir, hidden away in the countryside, Queen Ayleth has the kingdom entirely at her command. Despite her ultimate power, Ayleth finds herself consumed: With fears that the witches from her former coven will return to depose her. With the dread that someone at the palace will discover her secret. With her own deepening dark magic. And with thoughts of her lost love, Jacquetta—the witch whose betrayal still haunts Ayleth as stubbornly as the lingering scent of juniper. But Ayleth’s carefully built world begins to unravel when Blodwyn returns from exile accompanied by Margaret, the king’s scheming sister, and reveals a plan of her own: to invoke Braxos’s Trials, a contest of bravery, wisdom, and justice that could allow Blodwyn to retake the throne. Ayleth suddenly discovers she is in danger of losing the crown she sacrificed everything to win—and she will do anything to retain control. And Ayleth isn’t the only one struggling with her altered position. Blodwyn’s homecoming soon proves more difficult than she imagined. Embroiled in Ayleth’s viperous court, Blodwyn is surrounded by enemies and plagued by rumors of a long-buried curse come to life. As family secrets resurface, the princess isn’t sure who—or what—she can trust. Especially when she may be falling for one of her rivals in the trials. As the battle for the realm intensifies, both Ayleth and Blodwyn find themselves fighting not only for the throne but for the truth.

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KIDNAPPED BY THE MESSY DRAGON by Tessa Stone

In the heart of Shadow Wolf Creek, journalist Jalen “Jay” Carter, known as the messy dragon, is on the hunt for the truth behind a suspicious cleaning solution manufactured by a powerful corporation. As he digs deeper into the company’s operations, revealing dark ties to shifter magic, he never expects to find his fate intertwined with that of a curious stranger. When Zuri Spencer accidentally uncovers the company’s sinister dealings, she unwittingly puts herself in grave danger. To protect her, Jay kidnaps the very woman whose scent awakens a primal desire he can’t resist. As their connection deepens amidst the chaos, Zuri learns about Jay’s true nature as a dragon shifter and the fate he is bound to protect. With witches, secrets, and a sizzling attraction that defies the odds, can Jay and Zuri navigate the perils of shifter society and uncover the truth before it’s too late? In this paranormal rom-com, love and laughter blaze hotter than flame.       AmazonKU

REAGAN (DRESDEN PRIDE BOOK THREE) by Kathi S Barton

Dr. Reagan Dresden has spent his life helping others. Between taking over his father’s medical practice, caring for his patients, and staying close to his large, loving family, he barely has time to think about finding a mate. Then a trip to a local auction changes everything. Blake Winters has enough problems of her own. She loves her job, values her independence, and spends far too much time cleaning up the chaos left behind by her demanding sister. The last thing she needs is a head injury, a broken wrist, and an annoyingly handsome doctor who suddenly seems determined to look after her. When fate reveals Blake is Reagan’s destined mate, he knows he’s found the woman he’s been waiting for. But winning Blake’s heart may be more difficult than any medical challenge he’s ever faced. Especially when family drama, dangerous secrets, and a sister who thrives on being the center of attention threaten to pull them apart.

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GRIFFIN FOOD (COVETED PREY BOOK 15) by L V Lane

I fled my home and my cruel sister, who also happened to be queen. In my homeland, omegas are not celebrated. They are persecuted. So I, a bookworm far more comfortable in a dusty library than on any road, set out with two beta guards I had come to trust. My quest was simple and impossible, driven by what could only be called an obsession: I wanted to see a griffin. Then, finally, I would live out my days in peace. Only events did not go to plan. I did not account for three griffins with very strong opinions about who I belong to. They have decided—unanimously, annoyingly—that the answer is them. I am not interested in belonging to anyone. Not after everything I ran from. But Atlas is immovable. Darrion is impossible to ignore. Fenix is brooding impatience. And Lark and Rafe, my guards turned companions, look at me as though I am already theirs. Then my heat arrives unexpectedly. And suddenly, the choice I swore no one would ever take from me may be the one my body makes first.     AmazonKU

THE RESEARCHER’S GUIDE TO UNEXPECTED MATES (THE SPELLBOUND SERIES BOOK ONE) by Amy Padilla

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

Volunteering for Spellbound Corp’s new Residential Pilot Program was supposed to make Mateo’s life easier. Instead, between a demanding cyber security job, chaotic roommates, and sleepless nights, he’s more stressed than ever. Then he meets Dax. Sweet, earnest, and always showing up when Mateo needs him most, the kraken researcher quickly becomes Mateo’s favorite part of the day. Mateo never intended to rely on anyone, but it’s hard to resist someone offering support, massages, fried chicken, and a safe place to land when life gets overwhelming. For Dax, falling for Mateo is easy. The problem is that Dax already knows something Mateo doesn’t. Krakens recognize their mates at first touch, and the moment Dax met the exhausted human, he knew they’d found each other. Now he just has to figure out when to tell Mateo the truth. After all, when is the right time to tell someone they’re your mate?       AmazonKU

SEASHELLS AND DAIQUIRIS by Charlotte Mallory

I bought a cursed seashell and now it won’t stop telling the hot bartender my deepest secrets. My name is Freddie, and I write love stories for a living. Not that you’d know it lately. I haven’t published in a year, my agent sends me smiley-face texts that feel like threats, and the only thing I’ve written recently is a grocery list that made me cry. So, of course, I ran away to a beach for inspiration. The plan did not include a cursed seashell. It definitely did not include the broody, silver-haired bartender who hasn’t felt a single emotion in six years—because his ex (a sea witch, as he so casually mentions) literally ripped his heart out and sealed it in a shell. A shell that I bought. From a shop. For six dollars. Now it won’t leave my pocket. I’ve tried everything. Setting it down? Back in my pocket. Throwing it in the ocean? Back in my pocket. Wearing a dress with no pockets? The beautiful, damned thing appeared in my hand. And it screams my thoughts out loud. Every unfiltered, mortifying, wildly inappropriate thought I have is broadcast at full volume. Even to the bartender that the shell informs I like the tattoos on his delicious forearms. My name is Freddie. I write love stories for a living. I just never expected to find one inside a seashell.      AmazonKU

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CAUGHT BY THE WOLF: AFTER MIDNIGHT by Marie Mason

She had a gift for walking into things. She’d walked into a supply closet at the hospital that had been very much occupied by two coworkers who were definitely not getting supplies. She’d walked into a surprise party at a restaurant—one she had not been invited to. She’d walked into a bar fight just as the first punch landed. She’d been walking into the wrong places at the worst moments her entire life. It shouldn’t have surprised her when she’d gotten turned around on a hike and landed smack dab in the middle of an illegal poaching operation deep in the mountains of Lone Creek — armed men included. Honestly, it tracked. What did not track was him. The man – wolf – that saved her. Wren knew shifters were real. She’d grown up beside them. As a nurse, she’d patched up a bear shifter with a chainsaw injury and a wolf who’d lost an argument with a truck, and none of it had ever rattled her. Shifters were just part of Stone Creek, same as the bad cell service and the church potlucks. But she had never, in thirty-one years, seen anything like Roman. Roman and his brothers had come to Stone Creek with a plan for a fresh start. Keep their heads down. Mind their own business. It was a good plan. Then he’d found her running for her life in his woods. His wolf scrapped the plan for a peaceful existence in under a minute, for two very good reasons. One… the men who saw her face were not going to let it go. Two… she was his fated mate. Now the only thing that matters is keeping her safe. And keeping her his.      AmazonKU

THE DUNGEON BOOK by Gareth Hanrahan

Enter a world of dungeons and dragons, magic and manticores, and goblins and gargoyles …Bait doesn’t remember a time before the dungeon. Before the dragon stole her from her cot. She doesn’t know what her name was before she was handed over to the monstrous denizens of the dungeon beneath the sorcerer’s tower. Luckily for Bait, they decided not to eat her. And so she grew up in the dark—the goblins her adopted family, a vengeful minotaur her protector, a sentient skull her tutor, and a blob of corridor slime her main source of nutrition. But the labyrinthine dungeon, with its haunted halls, buried temples and forgotten magics, draws treasure hunters like moths to flame. And as the outside world starts to intrude, Bait will learn what it means to be monstrous and she will have to decide where she truly belongs.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books      Kobo

STUBBORN AS A SHADOW (WILLOW LAKE PACK BOOK TWO) by Lori Ames

VS Note: MM PNR mystery.

Rainbows and darkness don’t belong together, but fate has other ideas. People use the word “unicorn” to describe the rarest of the rare. The thing that is more myth than reality. The thing that makes you question if it even existed. Yeah. Nelson knows firsthand how apt that metaphor is, because finding an abducted unicorn is about as easy as tracking down rocking-horse crap. After months of searching, all he’s found is failure. Every time he closes his eyes, he imagines the poor man—Morgan—fading away somewhere, unable to escape. And that’s better than magically enhanced caffeine at keeping him awake at night. So when Nelson agrees to do a side job for someone at the Supernatural Council, the last person he expects to find is Morgan. But here he is at a black magic market, dressed up like a stand-in for a B movie about evil witches, and Nelson knows he has to get him back to the safety of Willow Lake. If only Morgan would listen to him. Morgan’s dedicated his life to finding out what happened to his parents. Although that hunt has gotten people killed in the past, he can’t stop. But he is open to help. And who could help better than a deliciously hot shadow jumper? Particularly when Nelson is all heroic and stuff…Hurrah for heroes. Hmm… Maybe Morgan should try to seduce him. Because Nelson really should be rewarded for his services and more importantly, Morgan is dying—hopefully not literally—to see a smile on the grumpy grump’s cute face.     AmazonKU

EARTHBOUND: A NOVEL (THE FAEBOUND TRILOGY BOOK THREE) by Saara El-Arifi

Broken by love. Trapped by war. Bound by magic. Lettle is on a quest to uncover the truth. Along with the human Alder, the last of his kind, she sets off on an arduous journey of discovery. But after a painful separation from King Rayan, she is struggling to find her way. Alder is determined to learn more about his origins. With no memories of his childhood, he retraces his steps to the cave where it all began. But what he finds there may shake him to the core. Back in the fae court, Yeeran has other priorities. The warrior-turned-ambassador must negotiate a peace treaty with the elven army. But it’s hard to bargain with a duplicitous enemy. And it’s even harder to negotiate with a broken heart. Secrets ripple like an earthquake across the land and love and power are at the core of them all.      Amazon     AB     Apple Books     Kobo 

WORLD’S OKAYEST ORACLE (RELUCTANTLY) SEEKS DEMON by Olivia Dade

Gwen Wexloff might be able to see the future, but not when it matters. Her visions invariably involve piddling issues, which means—unlike most oracles—she’s spent her life predicting for everyday humans instead of international power brokers. After a clutch of brain-slurping zombies escapes from their walled-off compound, though, Gwen experiences the first genuinely world-altering vision of her life . . . and now she needs help. Unfortunately, that help comes from Hugh Blacke, the same starchy (but annoyingly cute) demon who watched her bomb her oracle verification test years ago. To Gwen’s dismay, the two of them will need to work together to unravel the deadly conspiracy behind the zombie breach, despite their complicated past and the secrets they’re keeping. Even with her newfound power, she couldn’t have foreseen how quickly they’d both want more than a simple partnership. But the clock is ticking—and with the fate of humanity at stake, Gwen and Hugh will have to decide how much they’re willing to risk for an unexpected, passionate love…and a future together that might prove very short indeed.

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THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF ZAHARA DOUGLASS by Leslye Penelope

In April 1995, Zahara watched her twin sister, Annica, get hustled into a stranger’s car and disappear—only to return to a world where no one has heard of Annica. Not her mother. Not the police. No one. Four years later, as the world braces for the looming Y2K crisis, Zahara finds evidence proving her sister was real and hires a private investigator to dig into her family’s shadowed past. When the investigation leads to two charismatic men who once served with her father in Vietnam, Zahara realizes she and her sister may be pawns in a dangerous power struggle with unthinkable consequences. To find Annica, Zahara must face the truth about her family, her memories, and the power lurking within her. But the sisters’ reunion comes at a price—one that could bring about the end of the world.       Amazon     AB      Apple Books      Kobo

THE PREGNANT WOLF OMEGA NEXT DOOR: AN MPREG ROMANCE (BABIES FOR BROKEN DADS BOOK SEVEN) by Anna Wineheart

(This is a full-novel expansion of my 12k-word short story, The Pregnant Omega Next Door) – Pregnant and on the run from his ex-alpha, Emre hides with his wolf pup in a run-down apartment. Thing is, he’s out of cash, out of food, and his neighbor is cooking something that smells delicious. Desperate to feed himself and his pup, Emre knocks on his neighbor’s door. What he doesn’t expect is a handsome alpha with a secret. Zenith is protective and offers his own apartment as shelter; he accepts Emre and his pups even though neither child belongs to him. Then Emre goes into labor, dragging his inexperienced alpha neighbor along for the ride. This is just a case of neighbors helping each other. No one is going to fall in love… right?      AmazonKU

THESE VILE HEARTS by Melody Robinette

Maddox Sinclair has run out of options. No job means no health insurance —a death sentence for a type one diabetic like herself. She flees to the forest to make a desperate deal with a dryad queen: kill the Redwood King and be cured of the illness that threatens her life. In the redwood treetops, Prince Castor, is cursed– anyone who loves him is doomed to die. Like Maddox, he has made an equally unwise pact with his brother, the Redwood King: get a mortal to fall in love with him by solstice and be free of his curse forever. When Maddox mistakes Castor for the king, sparks fly and troubles ensue. Each must decide what is more important—survival and freedom, or the love they (kind of, almost) feel in their traitorous, vile hearts.

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DARK DESTINY: THE FATES’ BARGAIN (CHILDREN OF THE GODS PNR BOOK 110) by I T Lucas

The Fates are moving pieces on their cosmic chessboard, and a wait of five thousand years approaches its reckoning.       AmazonKU

BOUGHT FOR BLOOD (DRAGONBLOOD DYNASTY BOOK 14) by B E Brouillard

They don’t call it captivity. They call it supply. For over a year, I’ve been kept alive because dead girls don’t bleed. Every morning, they open my veins. Every night, they leave just enough in me to wake up and do it again. I stopped praying for rescue a long time ago. Then he walks in. Tall. Pale. Beautiful in a way that feels less human than hunger. He studies me like livestock. Like I’m already his. Then tells my handlers he wants me. They refuse. So he buys time with my blood instead. The first time his mouth finds my throat, I brace for pain. For teeth. For terror. I don’t brace for pleasure. I don’t brace for wanting him to do it again. Then he makes his terms clear. No more needles. No more buyers. No one drinks from me but him. He doesn’t free me. He claims me. But every visit leaves me stronger. Every touch pulls me deeper under. And the vampire who looked at me like he owned me starts looking at me like I’m something he can’t afford to want. He holds himself back like restraint is the last decent thing left in him. Every night, that restraint gets thinner. Then he buys me. Not for an hour. Not for a taste. Forever. Behind locked doors and old stone walls, I’m safer…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)    Amazon

CURSE OF ANCIENTS (REBEL MOON SHIFTERS BOOK SIX) by Faith Gibson

She’s a Gargoyle genius and a computer specialist. Do not call her a hacker. Carleigh Stone spends her days and some nights as a keyboard warrior keeping her Clan safe. She uses her knowledge of coding to ensure her family has every advantage when taking out the bad guys while also finding their mates and living their best lives. She and her two partners at H3, their cyber security company, assist their cousins at Steele Securities. When the security company’s newest client comes under fire, every bit of knowledge she has isn’t enough to ensure his safety.  He’s a white tiger shifter and a chosen guardian. Do not call him a savior. Bayu Tan comes from a long line of beings who’ve been blessed by the spirit god Baekyo. It is their sacred duty to balance the scales of good versus evil. When a group of dark mages attack Bayu’s family, he turns to Steele Securities to watch over him. With the company comes a female hacker who claims he’s her fated mate. That would be a blessing if everything else in his life wasn’t in utter chaos. Carleigh and Bayu navigate their new life together while fighting a different kind of cult. One with the type of magic neither has encountered before. It will take the help of Carleigh’s Clan, shifter and fae alike, to overcome this evil before the cult can eliminate Bayu. The year is 2076, and it’s the next generation’s turn to fight the evil in the world. Curse of Ancients is the 6th book in the Rebel Moon Shifters series. While it can be read as a stand-alone, most readers find it more enjoyable if the series is read in order as there will be spoilers.     AmazonKU

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

Tor – After the disastrous events in Tond and Alossa, Tor is definitely winging it. He needs to expose the forces that are setting him up and protect his family. If he manages to do that, he’ll finally be able to take the time to prove to everyone that he and Pel should be together, no matter what. Pel – Despite first impressions, if there’s one thing Pel’s learned about Tor, it’s that he puts other people’s wellbeing above his own. It’s a full-time job trying to make sure that Tor stays still long enough to recover from magical exhaustion (again). But Pel’s determined to safeguard the peace of the United Realms, too, and he’ll follow Tor wherever he leads to get to the truth and keep everyone safe. Even if it means they’re committing treason and putting their future in jeopardy.      AmazonKU

HEALING THE DEMON (DEMONS OF THE RIFT BOOK TWO) by Evelyn Embers

Running a Boston ER is controlled chaos. Falling into a dying dimension and landing at the feet of a seven-foot demon medic? That requires a totally different triage protocol. I’m a nurse, not an interdimensional traveller. But in a sunless realm where humans are enemy number one, my only shield is the terrifying demon who scoops me up. Torik is a mountain of sweeping wings, lethal horns, and a rugged dad bod. He’s a deeply grumpy, solitary healer who spends his lonely days with his pet lizard. He’s also the most infuriatingly stubborn male alive. Now, we’re trapped together in his rustic clinic, two fiercely dedicated medical professionals clashing over everything. He barks orders for me to stay hidden from other demons; I can’t just sit quietly while there are patients to save. He refuses to let me lift a finger, but when I ignore him and do it anyway, those clawed hands are devastatingly gentle when he washes the grime from my curls, or pulls me against his broad chest in his single bed just to keep me warm. Giving in to the blistering heat between us—and his very, very accommodating demon anatomy—is a dangerous game when one wrong move could get us both killed. Because once this grumpy monster claims my heart, I might just burn the portal home.     AmazonKU

THE KING’S RUNAWAY MATE (BWWM) (THE WICKED BARBARIANS SERIES: WELCOME TO TRAVENIA BOOK THREE) by T C Clark

She entered his world for a cure. He claimed her as his. And now there’s no escaping what they started. Liora Hale never meant to stay in Travenia. She came for one reason—and one reason only. Her sister is dying from a curse no healer on Earth can break. Desperate and out of time, Liora risks everything to slip through a forbidden portal into a brutal realm of magic and warriors, searching for a rare plant whispered about in legend. She plans to get in. Get the cure. And get out. What she doesn’t plan for… is him. Kael Draven feels her the moment she steps onto his land. A stranger. A witch. His mate. He finds her before the dangers of Travenia can. Protects her with a quiet, controlled intensity that leaves no room for argument. And when his people discover what she is to him, there is no debate. No delay. She is claimed. Bound to him under ancient law. His bride. For one night, she is his—guarded, watched, and held too close for something that was never supposed to happen. And by morning…She’s gone. Back on Earth, Liora uses the plant to save her sister, her hands steady even as her heart isn’t. Because she knows something no one else does. Kael Draven isn’t the kind of man you leave behind. So she waits. And he comes. Crossing worlds without hesitation, Kael follows the bond that refuses to break—into a place with no magic, no rules, and no understanding of what he is. But Earth won’t stop him. And neither will she. Because protecting her was only the beginning. Now? He’s taking his wife home.      AmazonKU

WOLF BLOOD (AT FIRST BITE BOOK TWO) by Lola Glass

The werewolf who’s been keeping me alive with his blood for the last few months just declared me his. He also says he isn’t mine, so that’s fantastic. At least we’re not soulmates. Yet. Being a turned vampire has been rough for me, but I’m determined to survive long enough to make sure that my best friend has a support system of some kind when I’m gone. It doesn’t help that my mother is somehow behind the murders that nearly took her out, though. Or that the wolf who’s claimed me isn’t willing to let me go. Somehow, I have to keep myself sane just long enough for everything to fall into place… and I have to do it without falling for a werewolf.     AmazonKU

BLADE by Shaw Montgomery

VS Note: MM PNR.

Hunting The Beast of Bladenboro was supposed to be foolproof. It wasn’t a sentient creature I could have coffee with or chat with online. It wasn’t running an online jewelry store or complaining about how humans ruin the national parks. It wasn’t even on the list for the Solstice Festival. It should’ve been a real monster I could save people from. It wasn’t. Somehow I had the worst luck of any monster hunter ever…and getting trapped in my own net was just the start. Things might be improving, though, as long as I can count finding my murder kitty, saving my mate from being trapped forever, and falling in love…yeah…things might be improving. Fingers crossed. Enter the Legends world, where National Parks hold secrets—and monsters steal hearts.      AmazonKU

DIVINE RISING (MOONLIGHT DIVINE BOOK ONE) by Cindy Stark

A gifted restoration expert. An immortal guardian. A castle hiding a fracture between worlds. Selene Sullivan has built her career on control—on reading structures, correcting flaws, and restoring balance where others see only crumbling stone. When she’s offered the chance to work on a remote Irish castle, it should be the opportunity of a lifetime. Except the building doesn’t behave like a building. The air tightens without warning. The stone hums beneath her hands. And at the center of it all lies a circular inlay no one will cross, least of all the man assigned to oversee her work. Bren McLoughlin is precise, controlled, and entirely uninterested in explaining himself. He watches too closely. Moves too carefully. And when Selene steps too near the heart of the castle, his restraint sharpens into something far more dangerous than distance. Because Bren isn’t guarding the structure. He’s guarding what lies beneath it. When a fracture in the Veil between worlds begins to spread, Selene does what she’s always done. She fixes it. Except she shouldn’t be able to. Now the balance Bren has protected for centuries is shifting, drawn toward a woman who doesn’t understand what she is, or why his world is starting to respond to her. The closer they work, the harder it becomes to maintain distance. The more they deny the pull between them, the more the Veil strains in response. And when something ancient begins to hunt her, restraint may no longer be enough to keep her safe. Or to keep him away.      AmazonKU

A FAMILY AFFAIR by Jodi Taylor

Everyone’s favourite time-travelling bounty hunters return for a whole new adventure…With the dust finally settling after her near-fatal shooting, Lady Amelia Smallhope is looking forward to a period of rest and recuperation. A chance for her and Pennyroyal to plan their next lucrative adventure and drink margaritas in the sun. Yeah – like that’s ever going to happen. An unexpected phone call blows everything out of the water. They’ve been targeted. By someone all-too familiar with Pennyroyal’s murky past. But who would dare? There’s only one way to find out – and the road ahead is dangerous. But as Smallhope likes to say…When things are bad – make them worse.

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HAUNTED PAST: A PARANORMAL PSYCHIC SUSPENSE MYSTERY (SHELBY NICHOLS ADVENTURE BOOK 20) by Colleen Helme

Shelby Nichols can read minds. She thought she knew everything about the people in her life. She was wrong. When her journalist friend Billie lands the assignment of a lifetime—writing the memoirs of a ninety-four-year-old media mogul—Shelby tags along to help uncover the juicy details. Silas Lynch’s Victorian mansion is full of secrets—and apparently, at least one of them refuses to stay dead. But the deeper Shelby digs, the more she realizes some secrets were buried on purpose—and the kind of people who bury them don’t appreciate shovels. Oh, and Ramos? Turns out the man has skills that go well beyond his usual job description. She reads minds for a living. She did not see this coming.     AmazonKU      AB

BEYOND A REASONABLE HAUNT (GRUMPY GHOST BOOK SEVEN) by Maggie March

Some trials are about justice. This one might just raise the dead. Anna McGuffin has faced down murderers, outwitted vengeful spirits, and survived small-town gossip—but nothing has prepared her for this: admitting that her feelings for a certain Victorian ghost have become impossible to ignore. Richard Lockwood is infuriating, overprotective, and devastatingly handsome for someone who’s been dead since 1895. But how do you build a future with a man who doesn’t have one? Before Anna can untangle her heart, Lockwood Cove is thrust into the national spotlight. Greg Anderson, disgraced director of the hit TV show Ghost Trackers, is standing trial for murder—and his defense is unprecedented: supernatural forces made him do it. It would be laughable if the star expert witness weren’t Dr. Thomas Braxton, a man whose obsession with Victorian serial killer Alistair Hawthorne borders on worship. Worse still, the defense’s key evidence is a gold Victorian locket—the very one Anna and Richard know contains Hawthorne’s trapped spirit. One wrong move in that courtroom and the most dangerous ghost Lockwood Cove has ever known could be set free. Richard has kept Anna safe from Hawthorne before, but this time the threat isn’t lurking in a shadowy cemetery—it’s sitting in an evidence bag, waiting for its moment.      AmazonKU

SILVER CLAW (KAIT SILVER BOOK SIX) by Laken Cane

I lost my power in one unspeakably brutal moment. Left with only my rage, my blade, and the whispers of ghosts, I must protect not only my city, but the supernaturals and humans I love. A vicious new enemy is hunting me. Gavin Voss, alpha of Colorado’s Iron Fang Pack, wants my territory, my people, and me. With strange magic making him stronger than any wolf should be, he won’t stop until either I surrender—or one of us is dead. But Voss isn’t my only problem. A supernatural killer is leaving mutilated bodies across Jakeston. The ghosts are still causing trouble for the humans who come into my office asking for help. The council is demanding that I capture the woman who stole my magic. And the shapeshifter inside me has gone ominously silent. Everyone is waiting for me to become the powerful creature I used to be. They’re about to discover that my magic was never the most dangerous thing about me. I’m still the Silver Claw alpha. And anyone who comes for my city, my pack, or the men I love is going to learn exactly why monsters still fear Kait Silver.   AmazonKU

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CHECKED OUT BY THE ORC: OMEGAVERSE MONSTER ROMANCE by Imani Jay

The whole town is scared of him. The new girl isn’t. Sven Greymark wanted Esme Williams the second she walked into his library. But this stubborn, growly orc has been holding himself back, wanting to do things “right.” Then Esme’s heat hits early…A small town library. A Feral alpha. One very claimed omega.       AmazonKU

HEXED UP (ECCLESTON SISTERS BOOK ONE) by Hannah Haze

Why is it that when things finally go right, the universe sends you a great big Hex You? My not-quite-technically-legal potion business is booming. I’ve paid off (most of) my credit cards. I can finally afford to eat more than toast. All thanks to my newest creation: a love potion that guarantees instant attraction and long-term happily-ever-afters. So naturally, the universe smites me. One kitchen mishap later, a batch of love potion explodes, and my next-door neighbour, (American banker, immaculate shirts, permanently unimpressed), is standing in my doorway with puppy-dog eyes declaring undying love. Which would be less of a problem if he weren’t ridiculously hot – and if he hadn’t spent the last eighteen months glowering at me like I’d personally cursed his morning coffee. Now he insists we can’t be apart. He’s following me around my flat like a lovesick shadow, flirting like it’s a full-time job, and “proving” his devotion with heartfelt confessions and dangerously seductive smiles. Trouble is brewing, and not just in my cauldron. If the wrong person finds out what I’m selling, I’m finished. So I need to brew the antidote – fast. Before I convince myself this is all real. Before he persuades me he truly does love me. And before I fall head-over-heels for the man across the hall. Merlin’s toenails. I’ve really hexed it up this time.     AmazonKU     AB

VOW OF ETERNAL NIGHT by Lily Crozier

Clara Wagner has always known that monsters are real, and the worst of them is Prince Raleigh of Rostenburg. But when he decides it’s time to marry, Clara inadvertently finds herself at the center of his attention. Forced to accept Raleigh’s proposal, Clara would do anything to escape her fate. So when the prince provides an ultimatum—lift his vampiric curse before the end of the year, or become his bride for eternity—Clara knows what she must do. Heal the prince. Stay alive. Try not to fall in love.      AmazonKU      AB

PRINCE OF THE SUN by Emma Noyes

One hundred years ago, the elves appeared on Earth. Beautiful, brilliant, and filled with unearthly grace, they swarmed the libraries and universities: Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Beijing. They made for the humans’ fountains of knowledge with eerie precision, as if they’d spent millennia studying Earth before their arrival. Once there, the Elf King made an announcement: we’re looking for something, and once we find it, we will leave you in peace. Quinn Kallister doesn’t believe him. Seven years ago, she watched her father be murdered and her brother kidnapped by a pair of elves. Since then, she fought to gain admission to Harvard for one reason: to find the answers no one will give her. To do that, she must spy on Daerios Ariar, the most powerful and terrifying of the Sun Princes. Quinn is set on gaining the prince’s trust and learning the elves’ secrets—until an unwanted attraction begins to form between them that neither can deny.      AmazonKU

LIBRARIAN (THE ARCANEUM BOOK THREE) by Marie Mistry

Librarians protect the Library. I have never failed in my duty, until six misfit heirs burst into the Arcanaeum and stole my attention. Now, my negligence might have cost us everything. Thanks to a stinging betrayal I should’ve seen coming, the Library has fallen. The very necromancer who murdered me centuries ago has taken over the vast halls of learning, ruining everything I’ve worked so hard to build. Defeating him is impossible. Or is it? The Arcanaeum has always been more than just a building. It’s a community, a living temple dedicated to the public good, and it’s worthless without a Librarian to unlock the knowledge contained within. And those misfit heirs? They’re going to help me take it back.     AmazonKU

TWICE BITTEN (FANGS AND FUR BOOK ONE) by S E Babin

I was bitten by a vampire AND a werewolf. Now everyone wants a piece of me. I never wanted to be a powerful witch. I’m happiest pulling espresso shots at the Three Beans café and keeping my magic secret. But trouble is brewing…When a turf war between vampires and shifters erupts outside the café, I get caught between the irresistibly charming Vampire Prime and the ruggedly handsome Shifter King. As these two apex predators blindly tear into each other, I am bitten, clawed, and left for dead. My magic flares just in time to save my life, but there are… side effects. Suddenly, I find myself staring at customers’ necks. And feeling suspiciously twitchy before the full moon. It’s impossible but… am I transforming into a vampire and a werewolf? The Vampire Prime finds me immediately. Captivated by my scent, he tempts me with danger and luxury. The Shifter King is equally obsessed, and determined to claim me for his pack. I am caught between them once more—but this time it’s me that they’re fighting over. And since my new blood brings strange new powers, it won’t be long before I’m the most wanted prey in town.      AmazonKU       AB

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