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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CLAIMED BY THE ALIEN RAVAGER (STAR MAVERICKS BOOK ONE) by Iona Strom

I couldn’t care less about this human female, though her fierceness intrigues me. I should end her life with a mere flick of my hand. A simple twist of her delicate neck to render her lifeless… if not for the primal beast surging beneath my flesh with an unwavering passion to safeguard her at any cost. Once she is safe, my beast wants to claim her. Make her his. Make her ours! I have no interest in shackling myself to a mate. Females are only good for fleeting pleasure. I will make use of the flesh she bartered with for a flight home and be done with her. Once I sample the delectable little human, one taste will never be enough for me or my beast.     AmazonKU

VORTEX OF DESIRE by Various

Vortex of Desire is an amazing adventure into perilous worlds and exploration of hidden desires which lie beyond the wormhole; discover a torrent of new and exciting stories on earth and throughout the universe while experiencing love that will not be denied. Ride the waves of the multiverse and get ready to experience the twists and turns of desire. Enjoy the voyage.    Amazon

THE FORSAKEN (GALAXY ARTIFICIALS BOOK THREE) by Alana Khan

It was insanity to choose her enemy’s Hunter-Killer robot to help her escape. Jessica – I’ve been alone so long I must have gone space-mad. That’s the only explanation for feeling like I’m falling in love with the robotic soldier I’ve programmed to fly me to safety. Though his metallic carcass is brimming with weapons in every hidden crevice, his mind is now filled with the sweetest emotions. No! Wait! It’s not a mind, it’s a chip. No one who looks like that could ever fulfill my needs. His name is short for Hunter-Killer for goodness sake. There’s only one place this forsaken relationship is headed. Disaster. HK499 – Heartless, abusive, and cruel. How else would you describe reprogramming that gave me enough sentience to love a human female while it keeps me in a metallic body designed to kill? The best thing for all concerned would be for me to deliver her to safety and then fly away. If I really love her, I’ll never contact her again so she can mate with a flesh-and-blood humanoid who can meet all her needs. She deserves better than me, doesn’t she?     AmazonKU

THE ALIEN NOBLE’S LITTLE HUMAN by Athena Storm

Most people would do anything to find their fated mate. I’d do anything to never hear those words again. The mother of my child abandoned our daughter when she found hers. But fate must have a sick sense of humor. When my daughter falls ill, the human healer who arrives in my kingdom to cure her takes over me like a full-body affliction. Zaya might very well be my salvation. She is more dangerous than the deadly peaks guarding the mineral that could restore my daughter’s health. Because with one touch…I know I’ve found my fated mate.     AmazonKU

KIEN’S KINDRED: THE THELLI LOGS (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by A M Griffin

The Player. Albeit Kien could’ve gone without the crash landing to Earth but since he’s here, he might as well enjoy himself and their new mission: use the humans’ idea of a dating app to meet and sample as many human women as possible. This was quickly turning into the best mission—ever. It wasn’t until after his neighbor’s fiery best friend came along and his easy-going single lifestyle was suddenly in question. Unlike Phate, who was a romantic at heart, Kien prided himself in his ability to disconnect from the opposite sex. Romantic entanglements had never been his thing but, here he was, obsessing over a petite female from a planet he hadn’t known existed a few months ago. The smart course of action would be to steer clear of Nisha until the rescue ship arrived, putting her and Earth far behind him. So, why had he accepted a new mission with the very female who could make him unravel? Because he was a glutton for punishment. The Playette. Nisha wants nothing to do with the man she’d had one horrible date with. Kien was not only a player, but a jerk as well. When her help is needed to provide a cover as a doting and loving couple in order to get their Captain the medicine he needed to survive, she agreed, although she would rather be anywhere but with Kein. Nisha could lie to Kien about her feelings, but her heart? There’s no lying to it. It’ll take all her resolve to get through the road trip without losing herself in the sexy as hell alien. How was she going to spend a week with this alien when she could barely last a few minutes in his presence?

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PLANET WOLF: SHIFTER’S WORLD by Rebecca Royce

When I snuck onto Planet Wolf to spy on the Union I didn’t expect to be nearly blown up.
But that’s what happened. And maybe I would have died if I hadn’t been rescued by them. Jadon, Carl and Alfie–three Wolf princes who weren’t supposed to be at that meeting either. Everything would be great–steamy and hot–if only the translators in our ears hadn’t been destroyed in the explosion. Now, we can’t understand each other and we’re stuck in the woods running for our lives. I’m not sure how this is going to work out but they’re sure acting like they like me a whole lot. Maybe certain things can be communicated without words.     AmazonKU

TO PLUNDER A PIRATE QUEEN: DANGEROUS TIDES SERIES by Nina Saxena

VS Note: To see the other releases in the Dangerous Tides Series (which are fantasy) ny various authors see further below in this post.

They called her the Pirate Queen. She is the exiled royalty from a planet of breeders, a species raided and trafficked for their ability to produce children out of a reproductive cycle. Rumor has it that she slit the throat of the man who tried to touch her. He’s a human genius studying antibodies and contraceptive science. Kidnapped from his planet eight years ago, he was locked in an underground lab of the breeder planet, where he worked tirelessly to create a contraceptive to free an entire race. But the enemy found his lab, and he needs the help of the Pirate Queen to save the species that exiled her, that shunned her for fighting for her right to make choices over her own body.     AmazonKU

LIAM (BLUE HALO BOOK EIGHT) by Nyssa Kathryn

VS Note: There’s a relatively small amount of genetic engineering/experimentation  in the backstory. I’ve read several of the Project Arma Series (this series is an offshoot) and enjoyed them but it’s pretty much military romance IMHO. Nothing wrong with that but I don’t normally cover it.

Nylah Walker knows what it’s like to be protected. You don’t grow up with five brothers without having someone close by, watching your back at all times. She craves independence, and Cradle Mountain is her fresh start. Her new beginning. But fate has a terrible sense of humor, because during her first shift at a new job, not only does she meet overprotective, sexy former Marine Liam…she also finds herself in unimaginable danger. Liam Shore knows danger. He lived and breathed it during his time in special forces, then again as a prisoner to Project Arma. He thought living in a small mountain town would mean leaving peril behind. But suddenly, he and his friends are hunted men. Protecting his team is his first priority…until the danger overflows onto others. When the threat shifts its sight to the new woman in town, the one with ice-blue eyes who captured his attention without even trying, Liam is determined to protect her, despite how hard Nylah tries to resist her savior. Because losing Nylah isn’t an option.     AmazonKU

THE RUIN’S REVENGE (SALT PLANET GIANTS BOOK THREE) by Sara Ivy Hill

Skarr giant Alrek was one of the lucky ones. He had a mate—the very last female of their kind. Now the widowed chief of a dying clan, he has only two hopes for the future: saving as many other species as possible from the same extinction…and exacting revenge on the invasive humans who caused it. But then she walks into his territory. Tiny. Sweet-smelling. Infuriatingly human. At first, he just wants her off his land, so he escorts her home. But the more time he spends with the fascinating farmer, the less he can imagine his life without her in it. Can he reconcile his painful past and embrace a former enemy? Or will his need for revenge ruin any chance for love to grow again?   AmazonKU

TRIBUTE TO THE ALIEN WARLORD (WARLORDS OF THYRE BOOK ONE) by Bella Blair

She was given to me as a tribute, but soon she becomes the master of my heart. ALAHNA: Many generations ago, humans fled Earth and sought refuge on the planet Thyre, a world ruled by formidable warlords. In exchange for protection and the right to inhabit Thyre’s lands, each year our outposts pay tribute to the warlords.
This year, we fall short on our tythes, and the village mayor decides to pay the missing taxes in the form of four women. I’m chosen to be part of the tribute given to Brogan, the Warlord of Grymburg. I don’t know what awaits me, but I wasn’t prepared for the warlord to take my breath away and claim me the moment he lays eyes on me. BROGAN: The humans, a tolerated species on Thyre, have many uses, but by far their greatest asset is their talent to breed horses. When it’s time to collect this season’s tribute, I’m dismayed they use human kallinies to pay their debts instead of the horses I expected. At least until my eyes land on HER. The most delectable kallini I have ever seen and who soon heats my cold Warlord heart. Before I know it, she even brings pets into our home.
Our bliss, however, is threatened by the arrival of more humans from Terra, seeking to take what is MINE. A bloody war seems inevitable.     AmazonKU

CHRISTMAS WITH AN ALIEN by Tana Stone

When an alien comes to Earth during the holidays with a list, personal shopper Caroline is tasked to help him find everything he wants…but what he wants is a bride. Caroline isn’t a Scrooge, but the weeks leading to Christmas are not her favorite. The personal shopping department where she works is insanely busy and the clients have crazy requests. Plus, this is her first holiday being single after a bad breakup. When her last appointment of the day is a gorgeous, blue-skinned alien, she isn’t too surprised. After all, everyone knows that aliens are real since a species of interstellar warriors revealed themselves and the fact that they’d been defending Earth for decades. What does startle Caroline is that Griff isn’t looking for unique Christmas presents. He’s on Earth to find a mate. Although she reluctantly agrees to help him, finding a bride for an alien isn’t as easy as it might seem, especially when word gets out that the hottie is on the market. Between the alien-obsessed women swiping right on his new dating profiles and the paparazzi dogging them, Griff is no closer to finding a bride. He is much closer to his personal shopper, though. If only she didn’t think loyal guys were as much of a fantasy as flying reindeer. Can Griff melt the ice in Caroline’s heart and convince her that good things do come in big, blue packages?     AmazonKU

SHAMELESS (WARRIORS OF THE SEVEN STARS BOOK FIVE) by Kallista Dane

Selena left her home, her whole world, for the wicked thrills she discovered in his arms.
But is passion alone enough to make life bearable on his hostile alien planet? Gadolinium is nothing like Earth. It’s icy cold, shrouded in darkness for nearly half the year. The ancient Vikings who settled the planet brought with them their animals, their formidable skills in battle – and their customs, including that of stern punishment for females who disobey the rules. Caught up in the heart-pounding thrill of her first real relationship, Selena thought love alone would be enough to sustain her. But as time passes, she realizes how much she misses not just the perfect weather, but her role as director of medical services in the largest city on Earth. Haldor is busy with his duties as a member of the Gadolinian High Council, and she’s finding it hard to fill the empty hours he’s away without getting into trouble. Haldor can see his new mate is unhappy. But when she ignores the rules he’s laid down to keep her safe and nearly dies because of it, he has a hard choice to make. If he truly wants to do what’s best for her, he needs to send her back to Earth. Does loving Selena mean saying goodbye to her forever?   AmazonKU

TAKEN BY THE SPARE (EUDOXIA BOOK THREE) by Vilyn DeVine

I had one day left on my shift when chaos erupts. Taking a job as a correctional officer on a ship that orbits Earth and Hydor isn’t thrilling, but it pays well. And once my month-long shift is over? I get a month of paid vacation. I work, then I travel. Repeat. I had just one more day to go, and then I’d be shuttled back to Earth and ready to go on my next adventure. This ship was never supposed to stop orbiting, let alone crash land. And I never worried about the prisoners taking it over in a coup against the crown. It’s been an easy job so far. We do our checks. We monitor the screens. We chill. I love meeting new humans and Hydorians from all over the two planets. Nothing was ever supposed to go wrong. The Captain sends us into the escape pods before we get trapped with the prisoners on this flailing ship. But once we land, we find more threats and more rebels when I run directly into the arms of the one man inhabiting Hydor’s vast northern climate. I have determined to survive, even when this man living alone in these cold lands takes me to his home, claiming he’s not human but cursed to live in this form. I don’t know what to think except that he’s taken me to the most remote parts of Hydor, and I might never find my friends from the ship or escape these cold lands.   AmazonKU

CYBEREVOLUTION NINE: REUEL CO469 by Kaitlyn O’Connor

VS Note: Reverse Harem. Listed in Erotica.

When his woman declines to renew their contract, it turns Reuel’s entire world on end. Reuel CO469 is tall, dark, and infinitely dangerous. His is the face that launched a million flyers. He is the first of his kind, the first cyborg to go rogue, the leader of all who’d come after him, and the only rogue nobody has ever come close to catching. Until he literally stumbled upon his Eve–the human woman who personified all he had ever desired–when he had thought he had lost all chance of it when Dalia declined to renew their contract and walked out, shattering the family he had yearned so much for.
Eva is in need of rescue with no expectation of it when the man who calls himself her father takes on three mysterious strangers as passengers and she becomes embroiled in a war many years in the making.

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SAVED BY HER ALIEN EX (LADY SCIENTISTS OF EARTH BOOK ONE) by Lola Blix

I’m trapped on a reality show space wreck with the one man in the galaxy I never want to see again: Kellan, my Xanxian ex who shattered my heart. I want to scream at him and tell him to get lost, but fate has different plans. After a cataclysmic accident aboard the show’s vessel, our options are severely limited. Either we work together or we die together. I’d rather we live, even if that means fighting that desperate attraction that still pulses between us.     AmazonKU

BABY FOR THE SERP GENERAL (ALIEN BABY PACT BOOK SEVEN) by Aurelia Skye and Juno Wells

She’s his reluctant captive, but can she become his willing mate? Captured rebel Natalia expects to be executed, not claimed as a surrogate by General Zath, a fierce Serpentine alien. While wary, she’s intrigued by his unexpected care and eventual admission he desires her as a true mate. Torn between lingering distrust and her growing feelings, Natalia must decide if she can abandon her cause to find love in the enemy’s arms. Seven years ago, the Faction agreed to save Earth from the vorathan invasion in exchange for Earth women giving them one year of proxy rights to act as a surrogate, since the aliens of the Faction faced a dwindling population. With the vorathans feared throughout the galaxy as bloodthirsty, vicious marauders, the Earth’s government agreed. That doesn’t mean the women did.     AmazonKU

SECRETARY FOR THE ALIEN PRINCE (ALIEN RECRUITMENT AGENCY BOOK SIX) by Tammy Walsh

Offending an Ulsen male is never a good idea. Especially when he’s the empire’s Crown Prince…After I mistake Prince Rivvac as a lowly servant, he’s quick to issue retribution. He demands I become his mate for seven days during his species’ fabled Steyatt. In exchange, he’ll give me anything I want. Anything but what I truly desire…I rebel against his tyrannical rules but he’s determined to possess me, no matter the cost. And when I discover he’s tormented by inner demons and consumed by the need to control, we embark on a passionate love affair. When he touches me, I yearn for more. When he kisses me, I surrender in gratitude. When he undresses me, I ache to scream his name.
And when he makes me fly, I soar higher than ever before. When he warns me to keep my distance, it only makes me want him more. I discover my true desires, as well as the dark secrets he keeps hidden away from prying eyes.    AmazonKU

HEART SNARED (SONG OF THE SKY FALLEN BOOK TWO) by Keri Ashe

This alien world has gone mad around me. New beasts stalk the land, the skies are dark with unceasing rain. And Jannik… His demanding kisses, his claiming touch, his constant presence. He’s gone. Or is he? It was probably just my imagination, but I’ll keep that desperate hope burning in my chest, keeping me warm despite the horror surrounding me now. I’ve just now come to realize what Jannik means to me. But is it too late?     AmazonKU

CLAIMED BY THE PRINCE (FATED MATES OF HOGAR BOOK TWO) by Elena Starr

Even though my best friend is mated and married to an alien man, I refuse to believe I have a fated mate myself—until I spill coffee on him when he comes to Earth to claim me. Jameth is the Prince Elder of Hogar, and he’s risking his planet’s safety to come and ask me to go back with him. When rebels from Hogar attack him on Earth, I feel compelled to return and help him make his world safe again. He makes it his mission to charm me and show me why I should accept him as my mate, but I’m not sure I can form such a bond with a man I don’t love. He’s smoking hot and pleases me in the bedroom and across establishments on Hogar, and his underlings respect me and want me to be their queen. But there’s an icy wall around my heart that I’ve never managed to chip away by myself. I think Jameth might be able to melt it if we manage to survive attack after attack from rebels, monsters, and people we thought were our allies.   AmazonKU

THE SPACE OUTLAW’S BOUNTY by Alina Riley

He robbed my farm, and he is stealing my heart. It is a quiet night until these blue, hulky aliens with spiky tails barge into my barn. I’ve fought so hard to carve out a life for myself, yet…Their leader takes me with him onto his stupid spaceship. He says zalcors won’t sell humans, but I’m not sure whether I can trust him. His kisses and his touches are equally, if not more, confusing. What’s his plan other than taking my farm animals? I won’t let him steal my heart along the way. Never.     AmazonKU

BEASTLY TROUBLES: BEASTS OF SILLON by Brandy Roseth

MIA – I swear I’m cursed. In one night, I lost my friends, my planet and everything I’ve ever known. Stolen away by a madman; an insane alien male called The Collector. I know for a fact that his plans for me are not in my best interest. One of his rogue creations frees me and now I am running for my life on a strange planet. I quickly discover that the Sillon fronter is not the place to be for a lone woman. On a planet where males out-number females ten to one, I am a prize to be scooped up by whoever finds me first.
When I accidentally trespass on a very large male’s land, I am absolutely at my wits end. But Ba’gree is a frighteningly primal alien that inspires dirty thoughts and forbidden desires. I have my own plans and a mission to complete and I can’t be distracted by an interesting and enticing alien. With The Collector still on my trail can I possibly hope to escape and return to Earth? Or am I doomed to bring danger right to this innocent male’s doorstep? BA’GREE – Sometimes it only takes a second to change everything. She came into my life in a flash and disappeared just as quickly. But that short time was all I needed to know that I was hers forever. I will go against my people and everything I have ever known to aid her on her mission, even if it ends up exposing our races most well-kept secret. All for my Mia; my treasure and my beloved mate.     AmazonKU

HIDE N SEEK: A DARK DYSTOPIAN ROMANCE by Eden Emory and Ashley Pines

VS Note: The authors state this is a “queer dark, smutty thriller…”

Victoria – I have nothing left. No family. No money. No future. So when the games begin I have no choice but to enter. I know I could die. But without the prize money I’m a goner anyway, the medical debt from my father’s accident will eat me alive. Years of cheer and track had prepared me for this. I was born to win this game. It didn’t matter what it took. Blood. Sweat. Tears. My soul. Nothing would stop me from getting that money. Kohl – She would have been fine if I had never been born. But he took it all from her. I would do anything to repay her for what my father had stolen. Sell my soul. My body. Kill someone. Hide n’ seek. That’s all it was supposed to be. Play the game, get the money. But then I was handed a gun and a mask. She wasn’t part of the plan. So why the hell is she here? Will you be watching or playing? This will be the first book in a series with interconnected standalones. While they can be read out of order, it is recommended to start from Hide n’ Seek. This is a dark book with many triggers, please see the TW on the authors’ website before continuing.     AmazonKU

BRIELLE AND THE ALIEN GEEK (INTERGALACTIC BRIDES ONE) by Jessica Coulter Smith

The moment Syl sees Brielle, he realizes the sassy Earth woman is exactly what he needs in his life. Brielle has waited faithfully for her fiancé to return from Terran Prime, only to discover she’s been engaged to a lying, cheating bastard, who tosses her out on her rear the moment he’s back on Earth. Not one to go down without a fight, Brielle will do anything to ensure her survival — even sign up for a bride exchange on another world.
Syl has lived his life in his lab, always preoccupied with his experiments. But the moment he sees Brielle, he realizes that perhaps his life has been missing something after all. Wanting and having are two different things. What would an exotic-looking female like Brielle want with an alien geek like him?

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MAPPING THE SHADOWS by Becky Black

VS Note: I enjoy her books so I one clicked.

Ash Bowman is lost. Two years ago, he and his cop partner, Evelyn, walked in on a murder in progress that left her dead and him maimed. He left the force and became a private investigator, but Evelyn’s ghost still haunts him when he prowls the dark corridors of the Core of the space station Fraxin Yari. Ash is making a map. If there’s a map, then he won’t be so lost …Journalist Gabe Whitfield is on a mission to learn the truth behind that same murder. He doesn’t expect to stay on Frax after he finishes the job. But meeting Ash Bowman changes his plans. He came to the station a man without ties. He isn’t going to leave the same way. Despite initially mistrusting him, Ash can’t resist his attraction to the fiery Gabe. Gabe responds, though knows he shouldn’t, when Ash is one of the subjects of his investigation. But they come to trust each other and join forces to find the answers Ash had almost forgotten he was still seeking. If they are to have any chance of happiness, Gabe must help Ash lay the ghosts calling him back again and again to the deep darkness of the Core.

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REPTILE DYSFUNCTION by Zora Black

I’ll cover him in kisses…As he covers me in hisses. As a disgraced reporter looking for redemption, I’ve got a small town and its fine mayor in my crosshairs. But I never expected to crave my subject. He’s supposed to be a Greek myth, not look like a Greek god. To get the scoop, I need to stick to his side. But no matter how much I claim it’s strictly professional, my hunger for him grows. And I’ve noticed…My interest isn’t the only thing growing when we’re together. With Mason, lines blur. Wrong starts to feel very right. My guilt mounts with every story I write. Maybe it’s time I put down the pen…
And find a better use for my hands.     AmazonKU

A CAST OF CROWS by Various

VS Note: As one reviewer put it: “Steampunk+Edgar Allen Poe”. I gather each story had to include a crow at some point. Not romance.

Life and Death and All Points In Between – Crows have seen it all, and though they haven’t always lived to tell the tale, still they play their part. We bring you ten tales inspired by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, paying tribute to his undying fascination with mankind’s decaying state, both mental and physical.

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BECOMING HER: A SAPPHIC SCIENCE FICTION ROMANCE by Abigail Taylor

Dr. Julia Rottinghaus, a dedicated scientist, is thrust into an unknown world following a disastrous experiment. Rather than unraveling the mysteries of the cosmic enigma, Julia is abruptly transported into a parallel universe, where she assumes the identity of an unforeseen alternate version of herself—Jules, a modest temp worker with minimal ambition. Jules and Julia—living opposite lives, each faced with the daunting challenge of navigating the other’s existence. As they struggle with this unexpected switch, Julia and Jules discover hidden strengths within themselves, fitting into their new lives more seamlessly than ever imagined. But as the days go by, a dilemma emerges. Should they stay in their altered lives or attempt to return to their destined paths?   AmazonKU

THE GAILL (THE GAILL SERIES BOOK ONE) by Lo Meyer

For three hundred years, the kingdom of Calderone has survived inside the walls built after the Nuclear War of 2060. Eighteen-year-old Jacqueline Livingston knows that her true identity as heir to the throne is only one of her kingdom’s secrets. Then, on the night before she’s to be revealed as heir, she is kidnapped during a raid by the Gaill—the kingdom’s mortal enemy. No one knows who she is, and Jacqueline assumes the role of a servant in the palace of the merciless Gaill prince Daxinius. While plotting her escape, she befriends a group of tattoo-covered servants and learns that the Gaill, far from being traitors, were banished from Calderone for speaking out against the dark secret to the kingdom’s prosperity. And Daxinius is perhaps not so merciless after all. Jacqueline’s people are in certain danger, but it seems the true threat may not come from the Gaill but from inside the kingdom’s walls. She’ll have to risk everything—including her own heart—to save the kingdom she is destined to rule.     AmazonKU

ALIEN WARRIOR ABANDONED (GALACTIC GLADIATOR GAMES BOOK THREE) by Margo Bond Collins

If they can put aside their trust issues, they might live long enough to fall in love. She’s always fallen hard and fast, especially for the bad boy next door. But this time next door is a galaxy away and the boy in question? A seven foot alien with rock hard abs and more scars than she can count. He’s just been burned. The Bonnie to his Clyde turned him in for a reward. Betrayed him. He’s done with relationships. But now he’s got to keep this tiny, ridiculous… beautiful human alive. Welcome to the Galactic Gladiator Games, where the toughest aliens in the galaxy fight for the most prestigious titles. But these games come with a twist: every alien warrior is mentally and emotionally bound to a potential Earth mate, forced to work with her to overcome their enemies–and sometimes each other.     AmazonKU

WINGS: COLONY: NYX #5 (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) aby Demelza Carlton

After losing his job, Kamen is more than happy to help his friend out, tending his new bar. Until someone tries to blow the place up. Kalina thought she’d seen her last disaster when she left Earth. Space was supposed to be safe. Until a quiet drink with a hot alien bartender turns explosive. Seriously, will she have to save the day again?

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TWO ALIENS ARE BETTER THAN ONE (BODYGUARDS IN SPACE BOOK ONE) by Kaylee Pike

VS Note: Re-release of a kindle Vella story. Listed in Erotica.

The guy I’ve always loved is now bound to my pretentious asshole of a neighbor. What are the chances? When I came aboard the Chokreini Space Station, it was the opportunity of a lifetime — to study under the great scientific minds of our time, and be a part of a research project that mattered. What I didn’t count on was how snobby and full of themselves the Chokreini were going to be. And the worst of the snobs is my next door neighbor, Vaelu. I’m in a constant battle with the handsome aristocratic alien. We’re on this space station together — what ever happened to loving your neighbor? No, not like that. At least not until I meet Vaelu’s new lover — a man I’ve been in love with since I was a teenager. How could it get any worse?     AmazonKU

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VS Note: Moving on this week to the second book in my Badari Gladiators series, I worked really hard to tell a different story for Rennyr and Jaine.

RENNYR (BADARI GLADIATORS SERIES BOOK 2) by Veronica Scott

Rennyr was a genetically engineered senior soldier in his Badari Warrior pack until one day he woke up on a strange planet naked, disoriented and about to be sold into the gladiator arena for the rest of his life. Unscrupulous guards faked his death in the lab where he was created and sold him into slavery in the galaxy’s hinterlands. Kill or be killed is the rule in his new life and a Badari never gives up. He’ll fight to stay alive until the Badari goddess sees fit to decree his death and release him from the wretched existence.

Jaine Mitchel of the Sectors was on her way to an exciting research internship until pirates seized the spaceship on which she was a passenger and took her to feature in a gladiator ‘death match’ in the galactic hinterlands. She has no hope of surviving in the arena until a man she only glimpsed in passing breaks out of his cell and saves her life, declaring her to be his fated mate. Given to Rennyr as his reward for winning the death match, Jaine must share a cell and a bed with the handsome, not human, gladiator and together they have to find a way to survive in this merciless world of violence and death. Their mutual attraction is off the charts. Falling in love is the easy part, finding a way to escape or even to remain together is the challenge. At any time their mutual owner could decide thumbs up or thumbs down on one or both of them, or sell them separately.

Their only hope is a mysterious gladiator master from offworld who may be coming to buy Rennyr. Will he take Jaine as well? Could Rennyr win freedom for them both if he does well enough in the arena? Badari Warriors claim their mates for life and Rennyr has no intention of losing Jaine…RENNYR is an 80K word novel and can be read as a standalone. KYDEN is the first book in the series.

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SUGAR SKULLS AND SPECTERS (LATTES AND LEVITATION BOOK FIVE) by Christine Pope

The Day of the Dead is a sweet celebration…until a real ghost starts getting salty. As the town of Las Vegas, New Mexico, prepares to jump on the Day of the Dead bandwagon, Skye O’Malley reluctantly agrees to use her coffee shop kitchen to make several batches of sugar skulls for the celebration…all the while wondering if it’s such a great idea to stir up the local ghosts for fun and profit. When a large mural at the downtown park where the festival is to take place is defaced, Skye is asked to use her psychic abilities to divine who — or what — is the culprit. She encounters the restless, angry ghost of a young woman whose murderer was never caught. Investigating this cold case is tougher than usual, because Skye now wears her superstar boyfriend Max Sullivan’s engagement ring — and the paparazzi are underfoot at every turn. Overwhelmed but determined, Skye calls on all her resources, psychic and otherwise, to find the key to solving this decades-old mystery. Before an angry ghost wreaks havoc — and a killer escapes justice.

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THE INNOCENT SLEEP (OCTOBER DAYE BOOK 18) by Seanan McGuire

For one bright, shining moment, Tybalt, King of Cats, had everything he had ever wanted. He was soon to set his crown aside; he had married the woman he loved; he was going to be a father. After centuries of searching for a family of his own, he had finally found a way to construct the life of his dreams, and was looking forward to a period of peace—or at least as much peace as is ever in the offing for the husband of a hero. Alas for Tybalt and his domestic aspirations, fate—and Titania—had other ideas. His perfect world had been complete for only a moment when it was ripped away, to be replaced by hers. Titania, Faerie’s Summer Queen, Mother of Illusions and enemy of so many he holds dear, has seized control of the Kingdom, remaking it in her own image. An image which does not include meddlesome shapeshifters getting in her way. Tybalt quickly finds himself banished…(more blurn on ebook seller’s page)

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TWINS FOR THE WILD ORC: SWEET MONSTERS TREATS by Michele Mills

A drunken, one-night stand with a wild Orc turns into a life-long commitment. Because I’ve given birth to his twin babies. And now I can’t find the green, horned father of my children, which is really my own fault. He came on strong, calling me his “Bride” and I got scared at the idea of marrying a ferocious Orc. After he passed out next to me, snoring loudly (because he’d finished for the seventeenth time) I slipped out of the hotel bed and sprinted off into the night. A year later, our babies are three months old and it’s nearly impossible, caring for the needs of Orc twins all on my own. My babies need their daddy. And maybe…I need him too? After hiring a private investigator, I’ve found the exact commune he lives on in the wilds of Maine. And I’m bringing him two sweet treats for Halloween—his twin sons.     AmazonKU

ALL OUT OF FLUX (STOLEN HEARTS BOOK THREE) by Nazri Noor

Time is running out. Leon Alcantara and Max Drake are finding help in the most unlikely of places. A third dragon has manifested, promising Leon untold elemental power. Another specter from Max’s past returns to haunt him, presenting a tempting offer. But everything comes with a price. Perhaps the risk is worth the reward. More anomalies are erupting across Dos Lunas. The boys need all the help they can get against the rogue time mage responsible. The Quartz Spider has finally shown his hand, and only Max and Leon can stop him. But how can they stop the enemy when the enemy is time itself?   AmazonKU

HAUNTING AT THE NO RETURN MOTEL by Various

VS Note: Horror.

There is always this place in a town that is vacant or so we think is. But only a few really know the truth behind it. Join these authors as they take us inside showing us the darkness and the stories behind The Haunting At The No Return Motel.

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KILLER’S KISS (THE LIZZIE GRACE SERIES BOOK 11) by Keri Arthur

An ancient vampire has returned to Castle Rock, and with her comes an even older evil intent on revenge.

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GHOSTS IN THE GARDEN (MAGIC INN PARANORMAL MYSTERIES BOOK THREE) by Danielle Garrett

VS Note: From the blurb for book one: “A magical inn bursting with paranormal delight. A picture-perfect seaside town filled with humans who don’t know about their witchy neighbors. This cozy fantasy series has mystery, magic, and a splash of romance!”

Spring has sprung … and so have the spirits! Renovating the Beechwood Inn’s gardens takes a spooky turn when an angry specter threatens to ruin Holly’s hard work. Continue Blair’s adventures in the third installment of this cozy paranormal fantasy.   AmazonKU

MYSTICAL SCIENCE: SAPPHIC URBAN FANTASY (COASTAL WOLVES BOOK SIX) by Harlowe Frost

With the growing number of people sick and dying in and around Santa Cruz, the local werewolf pack sends a small group to Colorado to see if the research center can help. Caroline, coven witch and biology professor at the local college insists on being included, even though the research center is for werewolves only. She’s done the research thus far and knows they’ll need a witch on their team. Mazzy loves her pack, though as an introvert, feels separate from the boisterous group. With a background in chemistry, she leads the secret research facilities lab. When a serum containing black witch magic is brought to her, she’s excited about the challenge, up until it comes with a witch. They shouldn’t be allowed into werewolf territory. Can the two top scientific minds in the werewolf and witch communities work together to undo the damage of the black witches?     AmazonKU

DUST BORN (CAMBIO SPRINGS BOOK FOUR) by Elizabeth Hunter

Sean Quinn returned to Cambio Springs to help his family find their way out of trouble—not uncommon in this desert town of shapeshifters—but before he can hit the road again, a new threat emerges on the border of his family home, a threat that could leave Sean stuck in the Springs just when he’s most desperate to leave. And one unsuspecting human might be stuck right there with him. Ever since Juniper Hawkins came to Cambio Springs to visit her big brother, strange things keep happening, not the least was running into the man who’d almost made her change her wandering ways. Juni wasn’t the kind of woman who settled down, even when the object of her affection was a tall, dark, and handsome photographer who kissed her senseless then abandoned her in Southeast Asia.Not that she was still irritated about that.     AmazonKU

MIDLIFE WOLF’S PACK (BEAR MATES OVER FORTY BOOK SEVEN) by Aline Ash

In Greenacre’s embrace, shadows fade, secrets unfold, and hearts dare to hope again…
Stephanie – After the sour sting of a failed marriage, romance is the last thing on Steph Walker’s mind. Her compass now firmly points towards her four children, dedicating herself entirely to their laughter and dreams. Yet, when she shifts from the familiar lanes of Ohio to the mysteries of Greenacre, Seattle upon a nudge from her best friend, she’s introduced to a world where folks have a knack for transforming into bears. Amidst these surprises, it’s the enigmatic Sebastian, with his entrancing golden eyes, that truly captures her curiosity. And when she chances upon his shadowed secret, she playfully traps him: “Share with me, or I’ll share with the town.” Sebastian – Sebastian has found solace in Greenacre for a year, yet an ominous past and the pull of revenge against a nefarious doctor keep him restless. Along comes Steph, the spirited newcomer with her infectious zest and a band of joyous kids, who inadvertently shakes his guarded world. It’s just common sense that a lone wolf like him would never want a mate. So why can’t he seem to keep himself from falling for her? Her discovery of his clandestine truth, combined with her light-hearted challenge, makes him question the walls he’s built. With fate playfully twining their paths, can these two guarded souls dare to dream of love again?     AmazonKU

BLACKTHORN (MONSTERS OF THE NEXUS BOOK TWO) by Nancey Cummings

The monster’s widow and the monster. Alone for too long, the last of vampire Draven’s humanity is slipping away. Needing a mate to anchor him and keep the monster at bay, he strikes a bargain with a young hunter to find him a bride. Newly widowed, historian Charlotte is desperate for a fresh start. When she’s presented with the unusual proposition of becoming a vampire’s bride for a year, she cannot pass up the chance to speak with one of the oldest creatures on the planet. Charlotte unwittingly married a monster once, and it ended in disaster. The question is – will she knowingly make that choice again?     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

HIS DAMAGED BEAST: A WAITING HEARTS WORLD ROMANCE (ASILO PACK BOOK FOUR) by Jena Wade and Lorelai M Hart 

VS Note: MM Mpreg shifter romance

Asilo Pack lives in the shadows protecting those without a voice. When I decided to become part of Asilo I made myself one rule; Don’t get attached. Too many omegas and children came and left our pack on a regular basis for that. Getting too close was a fast track to burn out. If only I had been wise enough to follow my own rule. When Shaw arrives to collect his nephew, I am ready to fight for the young boy. Where was this man all the time he needed a relative in his corner? But then I catch Shaw’s scent. He’s mine. The one shifter in the world made just for me. Only… he doesn’t recognize me as his. Facing rejection from my mate was hard enough, but having to watch the child I love as my own build a family that doesn’t involve me was more than I could bear. And if that weren’t enough, we discover that the child’s abusive alpha father is back.   AmazonKU

STEADFAST ALPHA (OMEGAS INN LOVE BOOK TWO) by Lorelai M Hart

Locke – I’ve always had a plan. My life has always gone according to that. However, along the way, I missed something. I thought my regimented life and financial security were enough to sustain me. I was wrong. My bear craves an omega and a family but I’m not interested in the dating scene or one of those apps. So when a wax-sealed envelope arrives in my mailbox offering me a chance to get away, I make plans to travel, sure the rest will quell my bear. Sheppard – Once I retired from being an Olympic gold-medal winning swimmer,, I had no clue what I wanted for or from life. Having lived on a tight schedule since that first daddy and me swimming class when the teacher said I had a talent, I was so ready to be free. But now, those free hours stretch out in front of me, empty. And my rabbit, who has never had a lot to say, has decided a mate will give us purpose. I’ve heard ono one leaves the Bearclaw Inn without a mate, but never dreamed I’d receive an invitation. Good timing? Or just a dead end? Only one way to find out. AmazonKU

THE DARKEST LULLABY: A DARK NANNY ANTHOLOGY by Various

Six authors come together to bring to life thrilling and heart-pounding horror stories of nannies and their wards, creating something unsettling that will haunt the reader long after they’ve finished reading! A governess is plagued by nightmares of her own death each night—but are they mere dreams? Atrocities of the past collide with the future for a nighttime nanny. Secrets surrounding a castle are murderous for a caregiver. A failed witch’s apprentice must take up her late aunt’s babysitting shift at a terrifying house. For one babysitter, discovering the truth about a local house, and her ward, comes with a hefty price. An unsuspecting young woman gets more than she bargained for when she takes on a nannying job… for a doll.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

A SOUL TO REVIVE: DUSKWALKER BRIDES: BOOK FIVE by Opal Reyne

All Emerie ever wanted was redemption. When a monster comes to Zagros Fortress, Emerie is tasked with capturing him. She never would have gone through with it had she known their treatment of him would be inhumane, nor can she stand by and allow it to continue. Unfortunately, agreeing to help him in his goal may not have been the wisest choice. Along the way, he manages to charm her, and what she once found frightening becomes utterly titillating instead. All Ingram ever wanted was revenge. After a traumatic event, Ingram does something foolish. He seeks out aid in his quest for retribution, only to find himself in the clutches of enemies who wear Demon-like uniforms. They’re all cruel – except for her. She is as beautiful as she is broken, but in a way that soothes his own pain. He’s never desired a female of his own, yet her sensuality fiercely calls to him. He starts wanting more, while lacking the humanity to truly understand what he seeks. Will Ingram be able to forgive Emerie for what she has done to him, and erase her doubts at the same time?     AmazonKU

VINE OF THE HEAVENS (FORGOTTEN GODS BOOK 15) by Laura Greenwood

Could the goddess of wine’s annual trip to the afterlife lead her to love? Geshtinanna’s annual trip to the afterlife is upon her, and that means that she finally gets to spend time with the god she’s so drawn to. But when she arrives, she finds that her precious vineyard has been neglected in her absence. Can she restore it before it’s time to leave again? And can she finally admit the feelings she has for Aken?

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BLUE MOON RISING (SILVER CIRCLE WITCHES BOOK TWO) by Erzabet Bishop and Gina Kincade

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble…Marina Naida’s life is unraveling. On the first anniversary of her ultra-messy break up, her spot on the local cooking show goes up in a flaming tray of cupcakes. Never mind the nightmares turning her love of the water into something so frightening she’s afraid to close her eyes. When she lands on her butt in what has to be a haunted patch of mud next to a local brewery, fate knocks her another good one. But this time, will she make the right choice for her head and her heart? Lucia Bellflower spent her life savings to open Lucia’s Botanicals and Brews and damned if she is going to let anyone stand in her way of making it a success. Not a pack of thirsty werewolves with a penchant for breaking barstools and definitely not a woman trying to drown herself right off her back deck. Things are about to get real, and this water witch is about to have the fight of her life. But some things are worth fighting for. Some people even more.

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GUARDIANS OF POWER: THE GUARDIANS VOLUME THREE  (JAYNE THORNE CIA LIBRARIAN) by Joss Walker and R L Perez

An impossible choice that will change the world as we know it…Valeri Rudik has always been wary of his strange Guardian magic. Now a student at Oxford, his only goal is to keep his head down, avoid unwanted attention, and focus on his groundbreaking research into quantum theory. When he meets the enthusiastic Henry Thorne, a fellow Guardian, he realizes there is so much more to his magic than he ever knew. His theories suddenly seem possible, and the power he’s hidden thrums to life. Sharing their research, he and Henry find a mind-boggling connection between their special magic and time travel. But as they get closer to unlocking the secret to traveling through time, the strange and volatile power of their magic threatens to erupt. Their experimentation becomes dangerous and deadly, and without warning, Valeri receives the terrifying summons—there has been a nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, and he must protect the magical forces contained in nearby Pripyat before the pocket is poisoned forever. Always the cautious one, he is caught between his fate and the friendship that’s changed his life. Ultimately, Valeri must make an impossible choice—trust his magical instincts or honor the friendship that will lead to the scientific discovery of a lifetime.     AmazonKU

40 WAYS TO TELL A LIE (TALES OF A MIDLIF WITCH BOOK THREE) by Donna McDonald

Am I really angry or having a midlife crisis? Life is easier when you’re younger. Mulan, the new bestie I never wanted, is in crisis. Rasmus left weeks ago and hasn’t returned, so I’m in crisis. I put a demon compulsion on my ex to make him forget he was evil, so my daughter is in crisis. All Conn seems capable of doing is laughing at me and my pain. We’ll see who gets the last laugh, though. Mulan thinks dating him violates everything in her life and negates the reason she was given her powers. Not that I would laugh at Conn’s pain—I wouldn’t. Okay, well, I would, but I’d feel bad about it. Maybe. Men in general aren’t high up on my “things that make me happy” list at the moment, and I confess my attitude is quite fair to my normally very helpful familiar.     AmazonKU

THE LOST KING: RISE OF THE DRAKENS BOOK SEVEN by Raven Storm

Destined to become the next King of the Drakens, Prince Fane wants what he can’t have: Sakala, his bitter rival since they were draklings. But this year, something has changed that could end their childhood debate once and for all—Sakala has decided to enter the courtship arena. During the annual hunts where males and females battle to test their compatibility for mateship, Fane sees his chance to finally prove to his kingdom who the stronger and faster draken is. However, he soon realizes that his actions have deep consequences, and his desire for Sakala may have more at stake than just his pride. Will Fane rise to become the king he was meant to be, or will his heart lead him down a dangerous path?

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TWISTED TOME (DEVASTATING MAGIC BOOK TWO) by  Vanora Lawless

A stubborn empath. A passionate dreamwalker. A love worth fighting for. For empathic illusionist Warren ‘Sully’ Sullivan dreamwalking Captain Elliot Stone is more than the only thing keeping him sane and safe. He’s the keeper of Sully’s heart, even if he can’t seem to admit it out loud. When an ancient grimoire infused with catastrophic magic comes into play, they’ve got to do everything in their power to keep it from landing in enemy hands. Unfortunately, that means working closely with a man who once shattered Elliot’s heart. Someone he would have done anything for. As insecurity and fear threaten the fledgling relationship between Elliot and Sully, will the darkness closing in around them bring them closer or tear them apart forever?     AmazonKU

TO KIDNAP A PRINCESS: DANGEROUS TIDES SERIES by Katee Robert

It’s been ten years since the love of Juliette’s life sailed away and never looked back. The date they agreed to meet again has long since passed, and Juliette isn’t interested in waiting around any longer. So she kidnaps herself! Unfortunately, things start to go wrong immediately…Maura might have fallen in love with a princess as a teenager, but as an adult she’s all too aware of the obstacles between them. She’s the most-wanted pirate captain in the kingdom Juliette is princess of. It will never work. But when she receives a distress call from her princess, she doesn’t hesitate to ride to the rescue…But it’s not the reunion Juliette wanted. After saving her, Maura is determined to stick her on a ship home. Juliette is having none of it. She’s got a secret key to Atlantis…she just doesn’t realize the portal will take Maura and her entire ship, too. Whoops.  AmazonKU     AB   

TO SEDUCE A SIREN: DANGEROUS TIDES SERIES by Jenny Nordbak

Astrid is a lowly tavern wench on an island ruled by pirates. If anyone discovers what she really is, she’ll be executed. Her world is turned upside down when her father bargains her to pay a debt, and she’s forced to marry Talon the Destroyer, a ruthless pirate captain known for his brutality. Talon Thorvald is an exiled prince of Daneland, a berserker who’s near invincible in a fight. But he’s powerless to fight what he feels for his treacherous wife. She ran from him seven years ago, and now she’s a feared pirate captain in her own right. Now he’s hunting his wife.     AmazonKU

TO WIN A WITCH’S HEART: DANGEROUS TIDES SERIES by Annie J Christopher

When the fastest racing pirate in the world rescues a witch who doesn’t know her own power…lightning strikes     AmazonKU

TO CONQUER A BRIDE: DANGEROUS TIDES SERIES by Naima Simone

My brother stole everything from me. My family. My name. My future. For five years I’ve planned, waited. Now it’s my turn to take from him. Starting with his bride. Niall Hudson is the key to a treasure I’ve spent half a decade hunting down. Yeah, she’s a little upset to find herself a “guest” on my pirate ship. But the mouthy, curvy and beautiful shipping heiress is going to give me what I need…one way or another. This treasure will not only bring me and my crew riches beyond our wildest dreams, but it will restore all that has been stolen from me. But Niall isn’t submitting so easily. Even though my brother is hot on my trail, she’s playing games, issuing terms of her own. And she isn’t above turning the tables on me to get what she wants. Game on, little girl. Because I’ve decided I’m not satisfied with just her help. I want her. All of her. And I’m going to enjoy every second of conquering my brother’s woman. So will she.     AmazonKU

TO RAVISH A ROGUE: DANGEROUS TIDES SERIES by C M Nascosta

Charlotte Davenport is a woman on a singular mission: get onto a ship bound for Atlantis by any means necessary, and get home to her sister. When she joins the crew of the Malediction, she has no idea she’s made herself an unwitting captive of its pirate captain. Captain Lirian Jurel is cocky and secretive and infuriatingly handsome, and she can’t shake the feeling that he’s laughing at her . . . but Charlotte has a secret of her own, and she’ll do anything to keep it. After all, who could possibly understand the life of a monster? Captain Lirian Jurel has only one thing on his mind — the next adventure. Fucking, feasting, and fighting — it’s a pirate’s life for him, and he loves the watery path he’s chosen. He’s never been able to stay away from danger, and Charlotte Davenport — the impudent little witch disguising herself as a member of his crew — seems like the most dangerous creature he’s ever encountered. Striking a bargain to bring her home is an easy trade for having her warm in his bed . . . But bringing her home means saying goodbye, which is harder than he anticipated. When you’re a vicious sea monster like him, being alone is the wisest course of action, but once they reach Atlantis, Lirian vows to help Charlotte see her journey through — wherever it leads.     AmazonKU

IN THE PASS OF GHOSTS by K L Noone

Ghosts are real. And now they’re Aric’s problem. Even legendary swordsmen need time off, and Aric and his half-fairy partner Emrys are traveling south to visit Aric’s brother. But, on a stormy night at a roadside inn, an old friend stumbles in nearly frozen, swearing that the mountain pass is haunted … and deadly. With travelers and friends in danger, Aric and Em will try to solve the mystery of the murderous hauntings, but that won’t be simple. Swords aren’t much use against specters. Any use of Em’s magic will draw attention from a powerful fairy king. And this quest is making Aric think about his past, his future, and settling down in one spot with Em, someday … if Emrys wants that future, too.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

SURPRISED BY A SUPERNATURAL START (DAME OF THE MIDNIGHT RELICS BOOK ONE) by Brenda Trim

In a world where the threads of reality fray and unravel like a well-worn tapestry, my life is abruptly woven into a tangled mess of fate. The cost of my transformation is greater than I could have imagined. A cataclysmic upheaval shakes the foundation of my entire family, threatening to tear us apart. The toll nearly claims my beloved husband’s life, pushing the boundaries of our endurance to their very limits. Unfortunately, I cannot escape this ethereal web of fate. Thrust into a role I never asked for, I have no choice but to evolve until I become a guardian of relics. I will carry the weight of ancient powers and hidden truths like a sentinel in a world teetering on the precipice of chaos, or I will perish while trying. To protect those I hold dear, I accept a task as treacherous as dancing with a witch’s curse, as daunting as taming a raging storm. Desperately racing against time to…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     AmazonKU

IMMORTAL PRINCE (AGE OF VAMPIRES BOOK TWO) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

The immortal prince must fall. Callie: I’m on a quest to reach my sister, to claim her from the clutches of the vampires who seized my family and end the immortal life of the prince who claimed her. But the path this dark slayer is taking me on is rife with danger, though the kind he weaves is fast becoming my favourite temptation. Familiars watch us from the shadows, and one wrong move could see the vampires stalking us in the dark. But they aren’t my only concern anymore, because the gods of old are waking, and now one of them has their sights set on us. No matter what fate throws our way, I will rescue my family, even if it costs me everything. Montana: I fear this game will end in blood. I’m so deeply involved in Erik Belvedere’s cunning plans, and the cost is rising by the hour. I’ll do anything I can to protect my family, but this ritual only ends one way. A human bride for a vampire prince. And the game is getting more deadly. Elite vampires are showing up dead in the city, and I’m sure I’ve seen the killer before…If only I could act on logic, maybe this wouldn’t be so impossible. But I’m starting to crave the monster who holds me captive. If I can’t break free of his allure, how will I ever save myself and those I love?     AmazonKU

SPYMASTER (DRAGON KNIGHTS BOOK 18) by Bianca D’Arc

The Jinn Spymaster of Valdis Maj has been working in secret for years, but that’s all about to change. It’s a turbulent time in the Kingdom of Valdis. There is a new face at the King’s court – a hardened warrior looking to settle down in one place after a lifetime of wandering. He has earned the respect of the King and is asked to liaise with the spymaster. What he doesn’t expect is that the spymaster is a woman. A very intriguing, very beautiful woman. Something about her speaks to him on a very basic level. He wants her. But, more importantly, he wants her in his life…forever. Isolde is a very good spy, but she has never found one man who can make her weak in the knees and also earn her respect. When she meets the general, she suspects he might just be the one. It will take two wild dragons and multiple assassination attempts on their liege lord to throw them into danger – and prove their attraction isn’t just a fleeting thing. They might just have a shot at a real, life-long bond… If they both survive the trials ahead.

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HOSTAGE (THE PRINCE’S SOULMATE BOOK THREE) by Katy Haye

He was trained as an assassin, but Kit’s no murderer. Son of a Lindumian noble, Kit has made peace with his fate as soulmate to Sudharain’s Prince Talal. Making peace with his home country is harder. Kit’s father arrives at court, demanding he stand trial for murder. Kit knows the claim is false. But if this plan doesn’t work, what else will Lindumia try in order to destroy him – and Sudharain? As prince and heir, Talal was raised to always put Sudharain first. But that was before he met his soulmate. Now, he knows he’d burn down the world for the man he loves. He wants Kit’s home country to be an ally, but if they strike against his beloved soulmate he’ll show no mercy.   AmazonKU

DARK FAE’S DESIRE (PROTHEKAN DARK FAE) by Celeste King

She just wanted to take care of her family. She’ll have to degrade herself for me in exchange…She can act as shocked as she wants. We both know that she wants what I have. Her pretty little shows of defiance only harden my will. And when I enter, those protestations will melt away. Her heart will belong to me. The spirit will be broken. And she will be suitable. Not only to spend her life with me. But to give birth to my heir.   AmazonKU

HER DEMON MATE (DEMON MATES OF AERASAK BOOK TWO) by Celeste King

Nothing is beyond his reach. Or his corruption. And I’m eager for him to ruin me. 
I fled the city, thinking I could find justice. All I found was a trap. Cornered by a demon – so brutal, yet so divine. He is as beautiful as he is cruel. And instead of fighting him…
I’m begging him to take a bite. To ravage every inch of me. Only I can be the vessel for him to occupy to defeat his timeless enemies. He will use me in his quest for absolute power. And I will help him. Because even though my mind, my body and my soul all belong to him now. I own the one thing of his that gives me the upper hand – His love.   AmazonKU

FATE CALLS THE ELF QUEEN: THE ELF QUEEN BOOK THREE by J M Kearl

Layala Lightbringer’s worst fears came true when she woke the wicked Black Mage, Hel. He claims she is a goddess reborn… and his wife. For her, the Elf King Thane is the love she desires, the one she fought for, and the one she wishes to marry. She wants nothing to do with her past. Until their lives are threatened and her relationship with Thane depends on remembering who she was in her previous existence as Valeen. But she can’t do it on her own. To get her memories back she must rely on the one she hates most, Hel, and working with him rather than against him poses its own risks. He is a dangerous temptation, and Layala finds herself pulled between two entirely different lives with two very different loves.     AmazonKU

THE COLLECTION AWAKENS (CATASTROPHE INCOMING BOOK TWO) by Aimee Donnellan

“Well, you have armour. It’s the lyre and the goose that have me a bit confused.” The Dragon War has left its mark on everyone, and Reverie Rosetia is no exception. After her brother is struck down in a skirmish, it is on her to take up the family legacy of greatness – no matter what her plans might have been before that. She must find his sword and bring it home. With no better place to start her search, Reverie arrives at the Collection, an isolated place full of magical oddities and artifacts. Soon after her arrival, the eclectic visitors to the Collection and its owner find themselves trapped inside. A magical force has broken free and is determined to break them, one by one. Can Reverie solve the mystery of how their attacker manifested and put it right before it is too late? Reverie meets adventurers Lark and Wren as the trio are trapped in this claustrophobic and irreverent fantasy mystery, which may have more to do with Lark and Wren’s chase than they think.     AmazonKU

TASTE ME by J R Thorn

One word could kill them all. That’s what I was warned about after the first accident when I killed my family’s allies. My powers manifested too young. Powers I never asked for. I can connect with the realm of the dead. My medium? My voice. And so I don’t talk. Ever. Not to anyone—except my sister, of course. She’s the only reason I’m not utterly insane after a lifetime spent hiding. In the darkness. In silence. Under a shroud of loneliness with only the dead for company. Until I meet them. Jasper. Kornelius. Zyran. Three sinfully gorgeous vampires without a House who I don’t trust. Because my words didn’t kill them when they came for me. My time spent hiding is over, because now all of the Houses know about me. And I can choose to run… or I can scream.     AmazonKU

CHRISTMAS AND OTHER HORRORS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SOLASTICE HORROR by Various

VS Note: Yup, listed as horror.

The winter solstice is celebrated as a time of joy around the world—yet the long nights also conjure a darker tradition of ghouls, hauntings, and visitations. This anthology of all-new stories invites you to huddle around the fire and revel in the unholy, the dangerous, the horrific aspects of a time when families and friends come together—for better and for worse. From the eerie Austrian Schnabelperchten to the skeletal Welsh Mari Lwyd, by way of ravenous golems, uncanny neighbors, and unwelcome visitors, Christmas and Other Horrors captures the heart and horror of the festive season. Because the weather outside is frightful, but the fire inside is hungry.    Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

TRAITOR OF REDWINTER (THE REDWINTER CHRONICLES BOOK TWO) by Ed McDonald

The power of the Sixth Gate grows stronger within Raine each day—to control it, she needs lessons no living Draoihn can teach her. Her fledgling friendships are tested to a breaking point as she tries to face what she has become, and her master Ulovar is struck by a mysterious sickness that slowly saps the vitality from his body, leaving Raine to face her growing darkness alone. There’s only one chance to turn the tide of power surging within her—to learn the secrets the Draoihn themselves purged from the world. The book can teach her. She doesn’t know where she found it, or when exactly, but its ever changing pages whisper power that has lain untouched for centuries. As the king’s health fails and the north suffers in the grip of famine, rebellious lords hunger for the power of the Crown, backed by powers that would see the Crowns undone. Amidst this growing threat, Raine’s former friend Ovitus brings a powerful new alliance, raising his status and power of his own. ..(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)

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REBORN by Seth Haddon

When the Rezwyn Empire mysteriously cuts diplomatic ties with the Kingdom of Usleth, merchant lord Oren Radek is sent to investigate. But when he discovers a coup brewing against the emperor, Radek’s life and his country’s safety is suddenly under threat. Izra Dziove, visionary advisor to the Rezwyn Emperor, is trying to hold the turbulent Rezwyn court together while being plagued by dreams of his fated man. But when Izra’s adversaries launch an attack on the diplomatic party from Usleth, he is forced to take action to protect them and prevent a war. Forced to trust one another, both men must put aside their differences to save the future of both their nations, while also contending with the growing attraction between them— all while trying to understand their mysterious connection and the forces guiding their shared destiny. Can their fated love change the destiny of nations?

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WOLF’S FATED (BRIDES FOR BEASTS: WOLVES BOOK FOUR) by Candace Ayers and Kym Dillon

I’m minding my own business when in walks the hottest silver fox I’ve ever seen. He claims I’m his mate. No thanks. I don’t do mates. Especially not arrogant Alpha types. Been there, done that—it left me institutionalized. But those eyes, that smile…Makes a menopausal gal yearn for what she’s been missing. He says I’m the only one for him. But doesn’t he deserve a fertile young breeder? I can’t give him the babies I know he wants.
He says he’ll defy his pack for me. I say this mate pairing is doomed from the start.   AmazonKU

BOUNCING TOWARD IGNOMINY (MIDLIFE MUDDLE BOOK THREE) by Sam Cheever

I was finally going to be able to stay on Earth to do a job. Joy of joys. No endless water dimension. No realm filled with slavering monsters. No dimension with deadly winds. It was going to be a piece of cake. Yep. I’m an idiot. Ghouls. I was ready for them. Or so I thought. Justice and I had been working hard on my magical skills. The borders between dimensions had been quiet for almost a month. And I’d even managed to work my regular part-time gig at The Muddle, helping my best friend keep the human-type boogies at bay. But alas, the sanity was destined to end. And so was my naïve notion that working within my own dimension for a change was going to be familiar and easy. I’m such a putz. But then, what would you expect from a traveler who doesn’t know how to travel?

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DESIRING A WITCH: AN EMERALD WITCHES NOVEL by Heather McCorkle

The moment she arrives in California, Deirdre falls in love with the untamed land that will become the Widows’ Winery. Despite the local cattle baron having convinced everyone in Sonoma county not to sell them building materials, she is determined to find a way to build their homes and the winery before their time is up and the county can reclaim it. Thankfully she has a bit of fae magic on her side when it comes to charming not only all things that grow, but the hearts of people as well. This pursuit keeps her in the company of Kinan O’Leary, a handsome business man full of innovative ideas. But, considering how she married for money the first time—as her family dictated—she convinces herself she will only find true love in a man of lesser means, one who will accept her fae ancestry. Dylan, a strapping young cattle hand who is helping build her home soon catches her eye as well. Her plans for an unconventional romance become derailed when she is forced to spend more time with Kinan during the planning of her closest friend’s wedding. Something more than base attractive begins to build for him, making her resist all the stronger. It doesn’t help that Dylan has a rugged dangerous side that draws her deeper into a world of secrets. With the cattle baron Ainsworth thwarting her every attempt at building the Widows’ Winery, Deirdre’s choice in men may prove their downfall, or their salvation.

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THE REANIMATOR’S SOUL (THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES BOOK TWO) by Kara Jorgenson

When a necromancer turns up dead, Oliver and Felipe think it will be the perfect, straightforward case for their new partnership. That is, until it leads them to a clinic promising a cure for magic, but they aren’t the only ones investigating the Institute for the Betterment of the Soul. Oliver’s ex, Ansley, is in town, and he’s certain the clinic isn’t the paragon of righteousness it claims to be. Forced to help Ansley infiltrate the institute, Oliver fears he is out of his depth in his work and in love as old wounds and bad habits resurface. But Oliver isn’t the only one struggling. Pulled between his cases, Oliver, and his daughter returning home for the summer, Felipe is drowning. Just when he thinks he finally has everything under control, a new reminder of his untimely demise threatens to throw his life into a tailspin once more. Between festering wounds and secrets, Oliver and Felipe’s lives stand upon a knife’s edge. To face the evil lurking behind the clinic’s genteel smiles, they must stand together or face the destruction of the place they call home.

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MONSTER WITHOUT MERCY by Cynthia Eden

VS Note:  Wayyyyy back when, Cynthia Eden was my gateway into reading paranormal romance. I got to thank her in person once – she was so delightful. Looking forward to reading this one…

Anyone can be tempted…Xavier Hollow is the king of destruction. A shifter, a vampire, a demon—every nightmare you have—all rolled into one very smoking hot package. Xavier snaps his fingers, and the world falls at his feet. His enemies tremble in fear. And the women who want him? They tremble with yearning. Life (and death) is one fabulous ride…until a certain very old curse kicks in for him. A curse that threatens to take away all of his dark power. He needs someone good…to fall for him. STAT. Three days. That’s how long Xavier has to tempt one Mercy Josephine. Innocent, pure, the actual descendant of an angel, she’s all the things that normally give him hives—literally. He’s allergic to good and just can’t stand it. Committing a “good” act causes Xavier physical pain. The bigger the act, the more intense his suffering. But, for Mercy, he’ll have to pretend to be someone very, very different. Someone who is—unfortunately and ever-so-disgustingly—good. He’ll corrupt her. She’ll save him. A simple enough task. Go to the costume ball…(more blurb on the ebook seller’s page)

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LOVER FROM VALE LORRAINE (MAGICAL BEGINNINGS) by Melisse Aires

Raised in foster homes, Dara has always been on her own, and always longed for family. A surprise letter from her Aunt Elvira takes Dara on a surprise journey to family, love and magic. This is low-angst, comfort read with a bit of spice and magic. For when you need something cozy. It follows Enchanted Bonds and Her Halloween Vampire in time, but is a stand alone romance.

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OF MISFITS AND MONSTERS by Scarlett Philips

A boogieman that doesn’t want to scare anyone doesn’t deserve to be called a monster. At least that’s what my family and every other boogie monster have told me my entire life. Looked down on and bullied for as long as I can remember, I finally have enough and run away from home. Turns out leaving is the best decision I’ve ever made. I’m not the only monster who doesn’t fit the mold. My new town is full of misfit monsters like me. Monsters who make me feel like I belong. And even a couple monsters who make me feel something I’ve only ever felt with one other monster. For the first time in my life, I find true happiness; with Leo, my surly gargoyle, whose heart was hard as stone before I walked into his library, and Ryan, my sweet kaiju who wants to destroy things even less than I want to scare kids. But my past isn’t ready to let me go. What will happen when it finally catches up to me?     Amazon

PRINCE AND BETROTHED (PERILOUS COURTS BOOK FIVE) by Tavia Lark

Sei’s power isn’t truly his. As a grail, his role is to serve a mage by  augmenting their magic. He’s equally nervous and excited about his arranged betrothal. After a life without intimacy, Sei will finally fulfill his true purpose as a treasured, valuable grail. There’s only one problem: Sei’s new betrothed is the legendary Marek Dire. The dragonrider prince is powerful, intimidating, and larger than life—or at least larger than Sei. Prince Marek doesn’t want a husband, especially one like this. Sei might be captivating, but he’s also too delicate and obedient. Marek vows to break the betrothal, and he refuses to use Sei as a grail. No matter how much Sei wants to be used. But Marek underestimates Sei. Wielding kindness as a weapon, Sei discovers unexpected tenderness in Marek—and new fierceness in himself. But being a grail in power-hungry Draskora is dangerous, and Marek still fears two things. That someone else might hurt Sei…or that Marek himself will. Prince and Betrothed is a high fantasy gay romance, with an arranged marriage, dragons, and shameless displays of affection. The Perilous Courts series is best read in order, and Prince and Betrothed continues the three-book arc about the princes of Draskora.     AmazonKU

LUNATIC DESIRES (LOVING MONSTERS BOOK FIVE) by Faedra Rose

It’s All Hallows’ Eve and Penelope Mathers is determined to change her fate. Heading out to Blackwater Falls with her trusty camera, she has her heart set on capturing a prize-winning snap so that she can get the hell out of West Virginia for good. But her evening doesn’t quite go as planned when she chances upon an antique locket which tempts her down an overground path where she comes face to face with the jaws of death. Luckily for her the Mothman is nearby—but now Penny owes him a life debt—and the winged cryptid knows exactly how she can repay him.

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TEA AND EMPATHY (TALES OF RYDDING VILLAGE BOOK ONE) by Shanna Swendson

Welcome to Rydding, the hidden village you might stumble across if you need a home and a fresh start. For Elwyn Howell, the village is a lifesaver when she finds it just as she’s run out of strength and hope while running for her life. The abandoned healer’s cottage welcomes her, even though she’s given up on that calling. She opens a tea shop instead, using her knowledge of herbs and her empathic gift that allows her to select the perfect tea for each customer. Soon, she’s feeling at home in the village community. She’s afraid it’s too good to last, a fear that’s confirmed when she finds a wounded man unconscious in her garden. Was he sent by the people who are hunting her? Not even he knows, since he has no memory of who he is or how he got there. As she nurses him back to health, they develop a close bond, but the specter of both their pasts—the one she’s fleeing and the one he doesn’t remember—gets in the way. He doesn’t know what life he may have left behind, and she lives in constant fear that her old life will catch up with her and she’ll end up convicted of a murder she’s not entirely sure she didn’t commit. They can’t hide forever, not even in Rydding, and if they want to have a future, they’ll have to confront their pasts.

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SHIFTING HEAT (PROTECT AND SERVE 12) by Cassidy McKay

Special Agent Rob Hunter lives to protect. After all, it’s what unicorn shifters have done since God created virgins. When his best friend asks him to help his little sister recuperate after she’s injured, Rob doesn’t hesitate. He has fond memories of the sweet little tomboy who chased after them when they were kids. But half-phoenix Kenna Monroe has grown up into a sexy, smart-mouthed vixen with a chip on her shoulder when it comes to relationships. As an ex-cop who now leads a crack team of commandos into pockets of paranormal resistance, she needs a champion even less than she needs her childhood crush reawakening all her old feelings. So what’s a traditional unicorn to do when the woman he’s falling for isn’t a virgin, doesn’t need protection and is hotter in bed than any sane man can resist?

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MAGIC AND MAYHEM (BLUE RIDGE MAGIC BOOK ONE) by M A Innes

Talon – Aliens. Deputy Talon Winslow is pretty sure he’s protecting aliens, but he’s starting to get the hang of it…aside from a few interesting issues that keep popping up, like an armored truck going missing. His new job pays too well to be as simple as it looks, but he hadn’t expected glowing eyes and adorable littles who almost sparkle they’re so fascinating. But if aliens come in cute and kinky, does it really matter they’re not human? Kenzie – Dragons. Kenzie can’t quite decide if the new deputy he’s planning on keeping knows about dragons and mages or not. However, it doesn’t take him long to decide it isn’t the most important question when dating the handsome, slightly puzzling human.   AmazonKU 

GOOD BAD WITCH (GOOD BAD MAGIC BOOK ONE) by Isa Medina

It’s hard being a good witch when your clients want bad magic. I’m a witch. Not a powerful witch, mind, but as Grandma liked to say, it’s all in the kindness, not the power. Grandma is gone now, but her dream of having a witch shop lives with me. So, when the opportunity to run my own shop presents itself, I move across the country to take it, no questions asked. But maybe I should have. The sexy local bounty hunter shifter thinks I’m up to no good, my clients keep asking me to use forbidden dark magic, and someone’s trying to sabotage my shop. Probably the same someone who reported me to the Witch Council and left a dead body in my bathtub. Hah! Joke’s on them. As Grandma also used to say, it’s nothing a positive attitude, excellent cleaning supplies, and the complete annihilation of whoever has in it for me can’t fix. Paraphrasing.   AmazonKU

INTO THEIR WOODS (THE EERIE BOOK ONE) by Ivy Asher and Ann Denton

I didn’t think pulling off for a quick bite to eat in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere would change everything. I was wrong. Now I’m running through the forest wearing nothing but a red cloak, being hunted by wolves. I don’t know what in the fucked up Red Riding Hood role play is going on here, but I’m desperate, terrified, and not ready to die. When they attack, I know this is it. Except…it isn’t. Because the den of wolves that bite me somehow turn into men. Men who swear I’m just like them—a shifter. And as much as I don’t want to believe them, I’m not sure they’re wrong. There’s a wildness brimming inside me, something monstrous that’s threatening to break loose. The den claims they can help me tame it, but they’re not the only ones out here in the woods. There’s someone that’s trying to drag me from the moonlight into the dark. And it’s going to take everything I am, everything I’m becoming, to stop them.   AmazonKU

HOUSE OF AGNI (THE HAREM PROJECT) by Crea Reitan

It’s time to find my home. My family. In a world where strength is hunted and those unlike the rest are sentenced to death, my kind are better off in groups. Fire is not something to dabble in and when given the right fuel, it can destroy anything. Thus, we are public enemy number one in the world of supernaturals. While investigating a connection between the Division of Silence and ORKA, monsters are also trying to find those responsible for giving humans magic with which they use to kill supernaturals. I’m in the middle of these investigations, even as I try to find my own happily ever after. The Harem Project has my family. I’m sure of it. And when I meet the House of Agni, I know without a doubt that they are the matching flames to my fiery soul. There’s just one problem – someone beat me to their hearts mere weeks before me. My name is Zuri and I’m not sure I’m even going to get a happily for now, never mind a happily ever after. Especially not when monsters have just called an all out war on ORKA and I’m left wrecked for the family I was too late to claim. This is a polyamorous story with content not intended for those under 18 years of age due to graphic scenes and situations.   AmazonKU

KISS THE SLIPPER: AN MM CINDERELLA RETELLING (BEAUTIFUL NIGHTMAREAS BOOK FIVE) by Anna Fury and Amy Pennza

As a pixie, I’m a rule-breaker and master of mayhem. I’ve played matchmaker to all four of the Syndicate Lords, but somehow, I never seem to find my own match. That changes when I meet a handsome stranger and fall hard. Vale Gentry may be tall, dark and devastatingly charming, but I should have known better than to get tangled up with an elf. Everyone knows they’re the snobs of the magical world. I’m nothing more than dirt under their gilded shoes. That’s never more clear than when I discover Vale is betrothed—to his stepsister. Heartbroken, I return home with a new rule: never fall in love. But fate isn’t finished with me. Just when I’ve sworn off elves forever, Vale shows up in the Hallows—and he’s every bit as distracting as he was the first time around. When I get the opportunity to punish him, I seize it, locking him in a magical contract that makes him my servant for two weeks. I’ll revel in making the heir to the Summer Court scrub my floors and sweep the attic. I’ll order him to his knees. The only problem? He looks really good down there—and his golden eyes promise deliciously dirty deeds I remember all too well. Vale refuses to let me go. But the elves aren’t willing to release him, either. The clock is ticking on his marriage contract, and his stepmother is determined to see him wed. When his reluctance puts both our lives in danger, I have to decide if my pride is more important than my prince—and if a chance at true love is worth risking everything. I just have to hope I’m not too late.     AmazonKU

MURDER AND THE BOOKSELLER (OSYCHIC LAST RESPONDER BOOK THREE) by Marian McCarthy

May Day, or Beltane, is approaching, and the veil between the world of the Land Spirits, the Fae—the Little People, aka the Good People, and the everyday folk of Vardo has grown thin. The town turns out to celebrate with Maypoles, bonfires, and Yohopa ceremonial dances to welcome the coming summer. During the last week in April, the town is preparing for the grand opening of Gideon’s Grimoire, a new occult bookstore on the Vardo Town Square, when Polly, an elderly employee of the bookstore, is found dead after foraging for Mayapples near the mysterious Mandrake Cottage. The Medical Examiner says the woman could have died of stress caused by fright. The local Yohopa shaman and Perrie’s Aunt Azalea believe a Land Spirit or one of the Fae caused the woman’s death. Perrie’s psychic senses kick into gear as more evidence of the Fae…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     AmazonKU

POET (GHOST MOUNTAIN WOLF SHIFTERS BOOK 10) by Audrey Faye

A long-awaited mating ceremony. A wolf who burns sausages and has no claws. A poet who doesn’t feel worthy. What could possibly go wrong? Read the next installment of Ghost Mountain (or if you haven’t met my wolves yet, go start with Alpha. I don’t write series that can be picked up in the middle!) For this one, Reilly invites you to get into the full spirit of the occasion – dress up in some fancy clothes, skip sleep for a few days, and bring a favorite berry or two for the ceremonial bowl.     AmazonKU

PARTYING WITH PIXIES (HAVEN EVER AFTER BOOK THREE) by Hazel Mack

ALO – A good Protector is focused on one thing—duty. That’s been my guiding mantra since I came to the hidden monster haven of Ever. My roles as Protector and father come first. But I’ve got a secret—I’m desperately obsessed with the beautiful, kind, mischievous pixie who lives across the street. Miriam Saihem invaded my mind first, building a rock-solid friendship I‘ve come to rely on. But my heart demands something more, someone to make it beat again. I don’t want to have to choose between her or my child, responsibility or love. I’m selfish-I want them both. When Miriam learns about a human holiday centered entirely around candy, she asks for my help making Halloween come alive. It’s the perfect chance for me to get closer to her and finally make the first move. But when an evil warlock sets his sights on Ever, those I love are in danger. I’ve got to find—and eliminate—the threat or I’ll never get the chance to make Miriam mine.   AmazonKU

THE DEMON UNDERTAKER: MM PARANORMAL ROMANCE by Alex J Adams

Mal – Perfect Shores Funeral Parlour, the family business; we bury the bodies and reap the souls, it’s what we do. “Be nice to the humans, Mal.” My father insists. “Humans are our business.” I don’t do humans. I don’t like humans. They’re tedious, but I’m cold and unfeeling. They mean nothing to me. But then he walks in; sad eyes, sallow skin, a man grieving for his lost love. It’s all I can do not to hide him away and take care of him. This wasn’t supposed to happen. He wasn’t supposed to happen; now I don’t know how to handle these feelings. Doesn’t he know I’m a demon, not a lover? Jason – “It’s time to move on, Jase.” Kristine’s words ring in my ears as I enter Perfect Shores Funeral Parlour, but that isn’t what I have in mind. You see, I’ve heard of a man that can bring him back from the dead and I’ll do anything to hold him in my arms again. Kieran was my world until his ended. But then there he is. Tall, dark and brooding, but he’s not the one I’m here to see. He’s not the one that can bring Kieran back to me. Something about him, though. I can’t explain how he brings a long-forgotten smile to my face, how my stone-cold heart beats a little faster. This wasn’t supposed to happen. He wasn’t supposed to happen. But he’s a demon, not my dead lover.      AmazonKU

SOUTHERN SECRETS (SWEET TEA WITCH MYSTERIES BOOK 27 by Amy Boyles

Can Pepper get her dragon gift? Pepper Reign is still reeling from the consequences of having her goodness stolen by Wells Morgan—and the results were so bad that cousin Amelia isn’t speaking to her. Determined to reclaim what was taken, Pepper, Axel, and Betty confront Wells about the theft. But he’s dead—stone cold dead. Not only did the man leave a menagerie of dragons, but he also left a house full of suspects—a trophy wife, an adult son, and two apprentices. Turns out, not only does Pepper need to find her goodness before she spirals into darkness, but she and her family must also uncover Wells’s killer. In fact, they’ve been charged with that job—and are supposed to stay at the mansion until the murderer is named. But there are distractions—finding her goodness and acquiring a dragon’s gift. Wait. What? A gift from a dragon? Apparently her dragon Hugo can bestow her with a magical gift. But what is it? And can she receive it before the murderer strikes again?  Because she, Axel, and Betty are stuck in a house with a killer and there are no guarantees that murder is off the table. Can Pepper find the killer before he or she strikes again? Or will she lose not only her goodness, but the most valuable essence of all—her life?     AmazonKU

MOST UNHOLY PUMPKIN SPICE (OF FOOD AND OTHER DEMONS) by Cara Wylde

A demon once summoned is bound to his witch. That is the first rule of demon summoning. But don’t blame me for not knowing! I just found out I’m a witch. All I wanted was a hot pumpkin spice latte on a cozy, rainy day. What I got was a demon crawling into my bed at night. He has horns, a tail, hooved feet, and a body worth being damned to Hell for. I never thought soul corruption could taste so delicious.   AmazonKU

RECALLING MY DEMON: AN MM PARANORMAL ROMANCE by Colette Davison

I’m told Nethermire House is haunted, but the truth is even stranger. Nethermire is home to an eccentric 80-year-old and the young man she claims is her great-nephew. Except he’s not. He’s a demon. Brin’s chaotic, bratty ways draw me to him. When he calls me Daddy, I’m a goner. I want to protect him, take care of him, and call him mine. But when he gets summoned to hell, our happiness is shattered. Can I recall him to my side, or will I lose him forever?     AmazonKU

ALL HALLOWS’ BRIDE (ALL HALLOWS HAREM) by January Bain

She didn’t want to be anyone’s bride, let alone three werewolves’…All Lola Creig wanted was peace and quiet enough to run Lola’s Books & Mortar, her bookshop in Aberdeen, Scotland. But as a minor member of the Highland Heathens with resulting obligations, she’s been chosen to unite ancient enemies of warring shifter clans—by marrying both Nico Luceres and Luca Ribelle! But then Victor Alexander, the guardian wolf tasked with overseeing the nuptials, shows up and confuses her even more with the attraction she also feels for him…a soul-deep attraction that’s returned…These three fierce, proud shifters she’s fated to be with are dangerous weres to cross if things don’t go as planned. They’re members of the powerful rival houses of Luceres and Ribelle and the neutral House of Anche, based in Las Vegas’ Mojave Desert, and Lola’s destined to become their Samhain bride, giving herself to them—fully. But is Lola ready to have a harem of her own? Because these shifters want it all and won’t take no for an answer. And with the wedding being held under a dangerous Samhain moon when the veil between this world and the next thins, anything could happen.     Amazon

TANGLED WATERS (ENCHANTED WATERS MYSTERY BOOK ONE) by Jenna St James and Stephanie Damore

Detective Isla Ceartas is new to Neptune Oasis, but she isn’t new to solving crimes. The PADA detective knows trouble when she sees it…and she sees it in the eyes of treasure hunter and demigod, Jace Solari. He and his glow-in-the-dark, wisecracking dragon reek of mischief and mayhem. But when a prominent lawyer meets a magical end in the Bermuda Triangle, Isla finds herself partnering with Jace to solve the case. Between tracking down suspects, verifying alibis, and going on spell-shrouded stakeouts, the case slowly starts to come together. That is until a new threat emerges. With each twist and turn, Isla and Jace race against island time to unravel the enchanted evidence that will unveil the truth behind the lawyer’s demise. Can the crime-solving duo–with Glo’s help, of course–close the case before the Bermuda Triangle’s enchantments swallow them whole?      AmazonKU

THE VAMPIRE’S KISS: NEON MOONLIGHT BOOK ONE by Destiny Booth

Ryder Clark was a wild child. The day he turned twenty-two, he got in his car, pointed it west, and never looked back. Life was clubbing, booze, and the mornings after. Until today. Swept up in events set in motion decades ago, Ryder can’t run from his past this time—not when his past flies across the country to visit him. Yet even his problems are mundane compared to those of his new boss. James is intelligent, handsome, and… a vampire. He’s also magnetic, and Ryder can’t resist the pull. Apparently neither can the person who keeps trying to kill them. One way or another, today is the day Ryder grows up.     AmazonKU

COOKIE WHISPERS (COOKIE CORNER PARANORMAL COZY MYSTERIES BOOK EIGHT) by Cindy Stark

Evie’s life in the picturesque town of Honeysuckle Springs takes an unexpected turn when an heirloom cookie recipe whispers secrets from the past. It leads her to a decades-old mystery that won’t be easy to unravel. To complicate matters, Amelia, the captivating witch with a dark past, can’t keep her eyes off Caden. Her unsettling presence shadows Evie’s sleuthing, leaving Evie to wonder if she’ll need to fight for her relationship with Caden. While Aunt Birdie assures her that love will find its way, her feisty familiar kitten, Kookie, is ready to pounce at any sign of trouble, especially if it involves Amelia.
Between a covert rendezvous under moonlit skies and old mills that still hold the echoes of forbidden love, Evie dives deep into a world where magic is as real as the town’s history. But every clue she unravels leads her toward danger and the person who’s desperate to keep the past buried. If she can’t solve the case fast enough, she might be the next mysterious murder.     AmazonKU

DECEPTIVE SILENCE (HAILEY ARQUETTE MURDER FILES BOOK TWO) by Reily Garrett

VS Note: Psychic detective.

Hailey Arquette found the ultimate photo opportunity deep in the Texas bayou, a pair of playful panther cubs. Before she can capture the shot, she witnesses a different type of shoot that lands in the crosshairs of a vicious killer. FBI agent Trenton Briner has long known the coastal waters of Texas are ripe for the opportunity for smuggling. His current investigation leads him to a mouthy teen with an uncanny knack for landing in the thick of trouble at every turn. When another body turns up, the trio must untangle the mystery before the smugglers find their target.     AmazonKU

THE HALLOWEEN DANCE by Eve Morton

Jesse Potter still hates Halloween. But he loves his boyfriend Patrick, and plans to spend the last week of April inside Patrick’s large house getting acquainted after months apart. But Patrick’s sister Kayla is staying with him, and she’s nine months pregnant, and so the house may as well be haunted. Then the corn dolls start to appear everywhere. Kayla claims there are demons in her bed. And Jesse becomes haunted by two fairy creatures who won’t leave him alone. When a time-slip six months into the future gives Patrick and Jesse a chance to heal everyone they’ve come across, will they take it? Or will they distrust the fae who say they are here to help, simply because it’s now — once again — Halloween night?

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WHEN A DRAGON FALLS (EMBRACED BY MAGIC BOOK FOUR) by Kerrelyn Sparks

Princess Lenushka of Norveshka prides herself on her courage. She’s faced down the doubters who think a woman dragon shifter is worth less than a man. She will marry to secure the support of her nobles—and ensure she’ll hold the Norveshki throne. A battle-hardened soldier, she’s prepared to destroy the Brotherhood of the Sun, who threaten all Aerthlan. But she can barely look at Bran Morris, the Raven. His dark, brooding beauty is off-limits for a princess who must wed for advantage. And he has far too many secrets of his own for Lennie to trust him with hers. Bran’s quest is for vengeance, against the Brotherhood monsters who killed his brother and abused his sisters. He can’t dream about the sharp-eyed woman warrior whose memory haunts him, not even when she appears to rescue him from an unknown dragon shifter. But when Lennie and Bran discover they’re Aerthlan’s last defense against a powerful, murderous mastermind, they can no longer afford to deceive each other—or themselves. And when a dragon’s passion is freed, anything is possible.

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TEMPT ME WITH DARKNESS (DOOMSDAY BRETHREN BOOK ONE) by Shayla Black

I hate her as much as I can’t live without her. Marrok – I’ve been cursed, and I’m out for vengeance. I’ll do anything to end my damnation, including kidnap an innocent with telling violet eyes. For fifteen hundred years I’ve been an immortal recluse. Suddenly, I’m tortured by filthy dreams that leave me craving my captive. Worse, once I lay rough hands on her soft skin, I demand things from her I shouldn’t. I feel things beyond the hatred that has consumed me. Protectiveness. Possessiveness. And a hunger more demanding than any vengeance. Olivia – The second I meet Marrok, my heart stutters. My world stops. I’m drawn to the brash stranger, until…He abducts me. He vows to slake fifteen centuries of lust on me. He commands me to uncurse him—or he’ll kill me. We should never have met. We’re enemies. Fate makes us lovers. Magic decrees us mates, unlocking secrets and unleashing a dark, paranormal power determined to burn down the world. Unless we band together, we’re doomed.

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THE BATTLE WITHIN (AN AUSSIE SHIFTER ROMANCE BOOK ONE) by Julie Cannings

There was no question about it – Marli would reject her fated mate. Marli lost everything when another pack took over her dingo pack. Her father was the alpha, and he died in battle trying to overcome the enemy. But as soon as he died, her pack had to surrender.
The worst part was that the new alpha was her fated mate. No way was she going to accept him as her mate. She was going to fight any attraction she had towards him. She refused to be mated to the man who killed her father.     AmazonKU

LADY OF THE NIGHTMARES (WILD FAE BOOK TWO) by Kate King

Lonnie Skyeborne is a liar and proud of it. From the moment she was born, her mother sensed there was something extraordinary about her daughter, andtaught her to never reveal the truth of who she is. But now, Lonnie is alone and trapped in her own web of lies. She is the queen in name only, and afraid to trust anyone, even the princes who claim to be her allies. She still has four deadly hunts to complete before she can escape her bargains with the Everlast family, and meanwhile war is looming in the country of Elsewhere. Trusting someone—anyone—and revealing her secrets may save her life, but it could also spell doom for generations to come. So, who to trust? Prince Bael, Lonnie’s beautiful but dangerous part-time ally. Prince Scion, the wicked and powerful former heir to the throne. Prince Gwydion, the brilliant and manipulative healer. Or, perhaps, a new ally could make themselves known under the cover of darkness.   AmazonKU

FATED TO THE WOLF LORD (LUNAR BRIDE BOOK TWO) by Skye Wilson

The solar eclipse is coming and my fated mate is my only hope…My sole intention in finding my fated mate was to break my curse. But after almost losing Celeste to my enemies, now I can’t imagine my life without her. Yet my developing feelings for Celeste won’t protect her from our powerful enemy, Sabine. Or the Solar Sovereign’s evil magic that seeks to prevent me from breaking my curse at the impending solar eclipse. Our only choice is for Celeste to work fast to harness her abilities. She continues to surprise me with her growing powers, but when someone close to us is threatened, the temptation for her to use dark magic becomes dangerously strong. I refuse to let her risk her life for me. Once I would have done anything to break my curse, except that was before my fated mate bewitched me. And now I fear I’ll be forced to make a choice between my freedom and her safety.     AmazonKU

DEN OF SHADOWS (DIVINE HAREM DUET BOOK ONE) by Bella Hall

Lucifer, Gabriel, Nathaniel—My mates. The story of heaven and hell is far different from what I’ve always believed. Lucifer, Gabriel, and their siblings govern hell and every soul within it. But there’s a twist. I’m tied to these fallen angels by an inescapable destiny. Lucifer has been waiting for his mate to fulfill the prophecy for millennia. He’s been waiting for me. Little did he know, I was also destined to be Gabriel’s mate. And when circumstances take a treacherous turn, and I find myself in the clutches of Nathaniel, their father’s loyal soldier, I realize I have three mates. Three brothers. Three Angels. All mine. I belong to them now. I’m theirs in every sense of the word. But I’m not just a pawn to be played with. They crave everything I represent, every promise my existence holds, and won’t rest until they unlock my true potential. They might control my destiny, but will they ever own my heart? I’m going to help them reclaim their lost glory. This mortal? She’s stronger than she looks.     AmazonKU

A KINGDOM OF FLAME AND FURY: WHITNEY’S VERSION (THE FOUR KINGDOMS BOOK ONE) by Whitney Dean

VS Note: All 3 books in the series were released. The information for book one is below.

At ten years old, Raven was mysteriously willed to be the next ruler of Seolia, a kingdom nestled within the realm of The Four Kingdoms. Orphaned as a baby, she has spent fifteen years ruling over a kingdom she believes she did not earn all while hiding secrets: she possesses dark magic, and she thirsts for blood. Now at almost twenty-five years old and with a sudden addiction to stealing life, Raven must fight through her new procured darkness to save her soul, but when a mysterious stranger arrives in her kingdom, she starts experiencing vivid dreams that detail who she truly is. As she slowly starts to unravel her story, what she uncovers at the end of the spool will change the course of her life and her kingdom forever.     AmazonKU     AB

ZORION by Cassi Hart

Kara – It’s no secret that I’ve been down on my luck recently. I’m not really one to complain, but today has been especially bad. I was late to work because of car trouble, and even though it was out of my control, I still got reprimanded. Now that I’m home, I can’t focus on anything. I need to clear my head. Usually, a walk in the woods behind my house works, but not this time. No, I stumble and fall, twisting my ankle. Now I’m in the middle of nowhere and there’s something coming towards me through the trees. Is it someone coming to help me, or some nightmarishly horrible monster? Zorion – I may be a high-ranking demon with the Royal Legion at my beck and call, but even power feels lackluster after a while. I’m tired of these duties that keep me away from things that I love. To escape the stress, I find myself wandering in the mortal plane, taking in nature in all its glory. Every little plant and insect knows exactly what to do next in its life; I wish I could say the same. I need a mate to retire from the militia, but finding a mate is daunting. No one I’ve ever met before has ever appealed to me, but then a little bird quite literally stumbles across my path. Is this her? The mate I’ve been quietly searching for?     AmazonKU

OWNED BY THE FAE KING: FATING FATE by Imani Jay

VS Note: Listed in erotica.

Cole – I’ve wanted my curvy neighbor since the first time I laid eyes on her, but tonight she gets to see the real me, and we’ll finally know if she can handle all that I am…We’re taught that fate knows all. That it leads you down a certain path because that’s where you’re meant to be. But what if whoever is waiting for you at the end of it chooses not to accept your combined destiny and instead fights it? The authors in this series have decided to find out.     AmazonKU

GYPSY GOLD (POPPY’S POTIONS) (HAVEN HOLLOW BOOK 27) by J R Rain and H P Mallory

So, it’s official: Andre and I are now an item. How do I feel about it? Excited and just a little nervous. Okay, a lot nervous—what if I mess this up? I’ve promised myself that I won’t focus on the negative! Instead, I’m trying not to be too depressed because Andre is leaving Haven Hollow for a few weeks. Why? Because he’s a traveling Magician. As a goodbye present, I’ve whipped up a potion I haven’t made in a long while: Gypsy Gold. I figure it will make an impressive stage trick when he’s able to turn things into fool’s gold! But after Andre leaves town (taking with him the Gypsy Gold), things around Haven Hollow start turning into gold…And, of course, I can’t help but wonder if my potion has something to do with it. When word spreads that a tree in the middle of Main Street has been turned into solid gold, everyone descends on our small town, trying to get a piece of the treasure. And that’s not all. Soon, there are robberies occurring all over town. But worst of all? A social media influencer and ghost hunter named Kenzie Chase appears in Haven Hollow, determined to unlock the secrets of our town.     AmazonKU

FORCED WOLF BRIDE (SILVERSTAR WOLVES BOOK FOUR) by Ruby Knoxx

The Alpha took me hostage to force me into marriage. His next step? Get me pregnant. He’s much older than me and the Alpha of the enemy pack. He needs a mate to help his pack re-gain strength. So he kidnapped me to this small town. And even though I despised him, my growing belly speaks its own language. His mansion is an upgrade from the foster homes I bounced around in my youth. But it could never be my home. The Alpha in it is too cruel. His brutal proximity releases a liquid desire in me I’ve never felt before. His viciously teasing fingers bring out my shame in ways I can’t speak of. But the more time passes, the more I see his secret side. The part he hides from everyone but me. He says I shouldn’t think anything of his protectiveness and possessiveness. He says a cruel Alpha like him could never open up to a girl next door like me. He says he could never be a good daddy to our baby. I disagree. Can we be a happy little family after all?   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. I won’t feature a cover in my weekly promo for this post if I believe or suspect it was done with AI.

 

 

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KIAN: ALIEN ADOPTION AGENCY BOOK 15 by Tasha Black

Silent and serious warrior Kian is being forced to leave his brothers-in-arms to watch over an Imberian baby and her adoptive mother. It’s bad enough to feel his ancient heart softening for the little whelp. But after one whiff of the beautiful Terran girl meant to be the baby’s mother, he is wrecked by the knowledge that this is his fated mate. Their long trek across the frontier moon’s dangerous tundra will threaten their very lives. But what good is Kian’s life when his soul is caught up in a fight against his nature, as he begs the gods to release him from the bond that pulls him tighter every day to the woman with the sparkling eyes and achingly soft curves?     AmazonKU

BETROTHED TO THE YETI: A MONSTER BRIDES ROMANCE by Marilyn Barr

Will Jaya’s bitterness unleash the darkness in Pabu’s soul, or will their love save the village of corrupted Alpha from self-destruction? Jaya, human colonist on Enceladus, Moon of Saturn, 2700 AD – As the third daughter of a beggar, my prospects at the Alpha’s betrothal ceremony range from horrific to nightmarish. Sometimes I wonder if I should have taken matters into my own hands…like my eldest sister, Nima. Her fate rests in her baby bump. Where I sleep tonight depends on the mercy of the Seer, and what the colony Leaders voted to do with me. Will I be chained in the brothel or somewhere more terrifying? Do I dare wish for a life far away from Alpha? Pabu, Enceladus Yeti deemed the Protector of Humans – After generations of loneliness, I summoned the courage to request a companion in the villages’ tithes. I yearn for the relationship I had with the first Earthlings to land on this snowy wasteland, the ones who taught me the language and ways of humans. Jaya is an ill-tempered shell of those jovial humans. She says she’s my bride, but will my darkness take her claim as an invitation to consume her? How long can I hide my baser instincts when my fondness for her grows by the day and her angry suit of armor melts faster than snow.     AmazonKU

DEAR GALAXY by Paige Lavoie

To find love, Susie will not only have to go off planet—she’ll have to go off-book. As the school’s advice columnist, Susie Starlight has all the answers. It doesn’t matter that she’s never 1. Been on a date. 2. Traveled off-planet. 3. Made a decision without her trusted guidebook. Working anonymously as Miss Galaxy, she has steered every relationship at Galaxy High. While Susie might not have any experience, The Space Age Ladies’ Guide to Romance and Social Affairs does—and she follows The Guide’s advice to the letter. Even when it means giving up on winning the attention of her longtime crush or sparking a love story of her own. When an anonymous love letter arrives at her desk for Miss Galaxy, Susie gathers her courage, friends, and a souped-up space cruiser to embark on a scavenger hunt through the stars.

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GENERATION SHIP: A NOVEL by Michael Mammay

VS Note: Hard scifi release of note, not a romance. I really enjoy his books and I always love the generation ship trope so I had this pre-ordered.

In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world’s best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they’ve sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren’t responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It’s a time when the entire crew should be coming together to solve the problem, but science officer Sheila Jackson can’t get people to listen. With the finish line in sight, a group of crewmembers want an end to the draconian rules that their forebearers put in place generations before. However, security force officer Mark Rector and his department have different plans. As alliances form and fall, Governor Jared Pantel sees only one way to bring Voyager’s citizens together and secure his own power: a full-scale colonization effort. Yet, he may have underestimated the passion of those working for the other side…Meanwhile, a harsh alien planet awaits that might have its own ideas about being colonized. A battle for control brews, and victory for one group could mean death for them all.

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SCARPER (THE DELPHIC DAME BOOK TWO) by Jenny Schwartz

VS Note: From the blurb for Book One: “Captain Cherry Pendit is a very improper oracle. A proper seer warns the hero, then retires to the luxury of her temple while the hero saves the day. Pfft. Boring.”

A fate-defying chase across the universe. Fate is a tricky witch. On the run across federation space, Cherry has stuffed far too many dangerous secrets into her scout ship. Now the Delphic Dame is the most hunted spaceship in the universe. It may also be the only force in the universe capable of saving humanity. Cherry just has to stay one step ahead of her enemies – and, maybe, of her allies.     AmazonKU

BOUND TO THE ALIEN KING (ALIEN LOVE ISLAND BOOK FOUR) by Lindsey R Loucks

VS note: Cliffhanger.

On Alien Love Island, the days are hot, but the nights are scorching…As I set off alone on this little deranged planet, I begin to learn what makes it tick…and I don’t like what I hear. Not one bit. See, there was an attempted kidnapping, and for once, the victim wasn’t me. She’s innocent. She’s scared. She didn’t almost get whisked away to a reality dating show where the contestants brag about typing their college thesis on a waffle maker and still getting an A. Soon, it’s a race against the clock to find out the truth and maybe, just maybe, salvage what’s left of my broken heart.

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HER ALIEN HEALERS (THE DRIFT: HAVEN COLONY BOOK SIX) by Susan Hayes

She’s ready to move on to the next chapter of her life — but never expected it would be a love story. Jodi Clark has been many things over the years: a doctor, a wife, and a divorced single mother. Now, there’s just one more thing she needs to do – for once in her life, she’s going to put herself first. An unexpected invitation to Haven colony comes at the perfect moment. A new home and new challenges are just what she needs to kick-start her time of self-discovery. At least, that’s what she thought…Haven isn’t as peaceful as its name implies. There are hidden threats, secret societies, and most dangerous of all, a pair of sexy alien silver foxes that are as alluring as they are off-limits. Two alien healers who cannot mend their broken hearts are about to meet their cure…
Tariq and Sulat are Vardarian anrik, blood-bound brothers destined to share their lives, a family, and a mate. When a tragic accident claimed the life of their mahaya, grief shattered their lives and ended their hopes for the future. Joining the exodus to Haven seems like the best way to move forward and rebuild what remains of their family. Their new home is indeed a haven, but one under threat from outside forces and the pressures of traditions best left in the past. Three healers willing to risk their lives to protect their patients… but do they have the courage to risk their hearts?     AmazonKU

KARID: SVESTI FATED MATES BOOK 5 by Wavy Martin

Thirty years ago, the Zuvgran released a virus that killed most Svesti females and rendered the remainder infertile. The Svesti initiate first contact with Earth when their scientists discover that humans and Svesti can interbreed. Humans may be able to save the warrior species that has been protecting Earth’s region of space for a century. Ava is a chef who is enjoying experimenting with the new foods and spices she’s discovering in the universe. After suffering a cruel childhood, food is her way to connect without becoming too close to people. Karid is the tactical officer on the space cruiser. Intelligent, charismatic, and known for his comic relief—until he returns from a secret mission irrevocably changed.

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CLAUDE AND AMATA (ANCIENT ALIENS DESCENDANTS BOOK SEVEN) by Keri Kruspe

Thrown together to thwart an alien invasion, Claude, a seasoned and battle-weary former spy of Earth, found himself entangled with Amata, a captivating immortal that hailed from the enigmatic planet Akurn. As their worlds collided amidst the chaos of conflict, an unstoppable force of attraction between them was unleashed, igniting an undeniable attraction that transcended their differences. Amata is haunted by the agonizing loss of her husband to the ravages of time, making her wary of surrendering her heart to Claude. Claude, still bearing the fresh scars of his own past, fears the pain of loss after having witnessed his beloved wife succumb to cancer. Both carry the heavy weight of their grief, fiercely guarding their hearts against the possibility of enduring further anguish. But when a malevolent criminal captures the woman Claude has lost his mortal heart to, he stops at nothing to save her. Fueled by his unyielding love, the truth becomes clear. Even though their rare love can never have a happy ending, it doesn’t matter. They deserve whatever limited time they have left to be together. Facing untold danger, he defies all odds and sets out to rescue the woman he loves from an unforgiving fate. In the desolate depths of their torment, a flicker of hope dares to rise. Together, do Claude and Amata have the courage to unravel the enigmatic tapestry of life itself to carve out a shared destiny? Or will they forever be doomed to face an eternity apart?

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THESE BURNING STARS (THE KINGDOM TRILOGY BOOK ONE) by  Bethany Jacobs

VS note: Not listed as a romance. A scifi release of note.

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones of a genocide. A carefully hidden secret that could collapse worlds, hunted by three women with secrets of their own. All collide in this explosive space opera debut from a powerful new voice in sci-fi. On a dusty backwater planet, occasional thief Jun Ironway has gotten her hands on the score of a lifetime: a secret that could raze the Kindom, the ruling power of the galaxy. A star system away, preternaturally stoic Chono and brilliant hothead Esek— the two most brutal clerics of the Kindom—are tasked with hunting Jun down. And tracking all three across the stars is a ghost from their shared past known only as Six. But what Six wants is anyone’s guess. It’s a game of manipulation and betrayal that could destroy them all. And they have no choice but to see it through.

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WARRIOR (THE OUTLAND BOOK CLUB IN SPACE BOOK TWO) by Annie Lucas

Things could be worse. One minute, I was hiking through the Appalachian wilderness with my friends from the Outlander Tuesday Night Book Club. One bright light later, and I’m hundreds of feet below ground, tasked with taking care of the miners in this labyrinth of tunnels—slaves just like me. Except they’re not like me, they’re children… alien children. And kids will be kids, no matter which part of the galaxy they’re from. All they need is love and to feel safe. My task seems hopeless until he shows up. Daicon, war chief of the Bardaga, is not amused when I refuse to leave this desolate moon without the children, effectively quashing his rescue attempt. Despite his aggravation, Daicon formulates a plan for all of us to escape the drudgery of the mines while stepping into the role of surrogate father for tiny beings starved for security and affection. I’m no longer worried about protecting the children with Daicon around. Now, my biggest worry is protecting my heart!     AmazonKU

HYPNOTIZE (CAPE AND COWL BOOK THREE) by

VS Note: LGBTQ superhero romance.

Asher – Ubiquitor is everywhere crime is! Problem is, crime is everywhere and Asher Underwood is exhausted. His wife is gone, his boss is overbearing and he’s missing out on time with his kids. Thankfully, his twin brother is on the ball and signs him up for a nanny. Donovan is a Godsend. He keeps the kids and the house in line. He’s also sweet, funny, and very, very attractive. The last one throws Asher for a loop. He’s never found a man attractive before—and everything about it is confusing him. Donovan – A desperate sprint out of Springdale takes Donovan Domenico out of reach of the Franklins—the family that runs Springdale—and away from the unwanted advances of one the brothers, Winston. The mad dash takes him directly into The Alliance Network—TAN. TAN, an organization that helps heroes, places Donovan with Ubiquitor’s unassuming alter ego, Asher. The superhero is desperate for help and incredibly sexy. Trying to resist his new boss, Donovan tosses himself into caring for the kids, the house and finding some romance. The attraction between Asher and Donovan is too strong to resist. Dangerous and inappropriate, neither of them want to slow down or walk away. But the Franklins are not to be trifled with, and four of the brothers agree Donovan humiliated them. It’s time for a jailbreak and revenge on both Asher and Donovan.     AmazonKU

NEW EARTH ORDER: KATIERAN PRIME SERIES BOOK 18 by KD Jones

Dr. Cara Davenport trained most of her life to save Earth from dying. Every class, every test, every challenge has led her to this point. What she didn’t prepare for was developing feelings for a stubborn, self-absorbed sexy alien that seems to push all her buttons in the worst and best ways. Senior Scientist TanOR travelled through the galaxies to a small and primitive planet called Earth. The humans that lived on the planet were irresponsible and nearly destroyed all natural resources. His mission was to try to save Earth. He would be able to do that a lot better if he wasn’t distracted by the tiny human asking non-stop questions. Come on this journey to not only an alien culture but learn how vital Earth is to us all.    Amazon

ALIEN VIKING’S PLUNDER (ALIEN VIKINGS BOOK ONE) by Calista Skye

Josie was abducted by a Viking. An alien Viking from space, raiding her space station in orbit around Earth. Chief Bragr is huge and blond, his beard is braided and he has an intricate tattoo covering his body. What Josie thought was just a helmet are actual horns growing out of his head. His commanding presence makes it impossible for her to look away. When he locked her in his cabin on his ship, there was no doubt about what he was planning with her: the bulge in his suede pants was ridiculous, and he had a dangerous look in his sky-blue eyes. But Josie is not about to let this gorgeous raider from space have his way with her. She’s more than just an astrophysicist on a life contract. She may in fact be the deadliest woman Bragr has ever met.     AmazonKU

ALIEN CRIME BOSS (DARKLY WED) by Athena Storm

Duty calls. But so does desire. I thought I was a strong and confident woman. But after meeting Renan in a seedy bar, I realized that I was nothing but a toy to this alien mobster. There is no way I’d ever be able to bring him in. But there is every way in which he’ll take me for himself. All my pride and dignity is gone in the hands of this criminal alien beast. He’s brought me to my knees. For him…It’s where I belong.   AmazonKU

MONSTERS WITHIN MEN: AN MM POST APOCALYPTIC ROMANCE by TJ Rose

London, 2053. One of the last remaining civilisations in the world. A decade on from the first wave of human-flesh-craving monsters that wiped out most of society, Noah finds himself stepping up to lead Squad E, part of London’s East Regiment, fighting back against the creatures that threaten mankind. But between battling monsters, struggling with grief, and his rivalry with another lieutenant, Noah is sinking, fast. The last thing he needs is a young, weak conscript with an attitude problem to add to his issues. Especially when he can’t seem to get him out of his head. Zeke, Squad E’s newest recruit, would rather do anything else than be conscripted into the dwindling military force battling to save humanity. But when his research assistant job abruptly ends after his boss is arrested under mysterious circumstances, he must learn to embrace his new life as a soldier. But perhaps his attractive commanding officer—whom he is forbidden from dating—might offer the silver lining he never knew he wanted? As the crisis escalates, London’s time begins to run out. Food shortages, riots, and secrets buried by leadership all push the city towards its boiling point. The ten members of Squad E, along with their faithful dog, Wolf, must band together if they’re going to make it out of this alive.   AmazonKU

LOSING ARES (ARES ASCENDING BOOK TWO) by Kim Conrey

First Sgt. Carlos Gonsalves has pledged his allegiance to the rogue Mars colony and to his best friend, the former rebel aristocrat, Jack Windsor. Going all in for the colony means he’s been declared AWOL and cannot return to Earth, but it was worth it, especially now that he’s found the love of his life: Safia Asfour. With the off-world colony on the brink of civil war, the rebels recruit a savior to tip the balance. Unfortunately, he’s a predator from Safia’s past who threatens to destroy her relationship with Carlos -and she’ll let him if it will save the lives of her friends aboard the starship HMS Ares. Meanwhile, best friend Harlow Hanson has an idea that will help Safia get her power back: Safia will deal out the vigilante justice Harlow once did before marrying Jack. Though Safia becomes a force to be reckoned with, no force in the galaxy can stop the predator determined to claim her as his own. Losing Ares shows just how far the colonists will go to protect the ones they call family. Carlos is about to prove it, even if he must punch a hole through two planets to save the one he loves.     AmazonKU

DARED BY THE ALIEN DEVIL (BRIDES OF THE VINDUTHI BOOK SIX) by Ava York

He says he needs me to help prove his brother’s innocence. If this goes wrong, the small life I’ve carved out for myself on Thodos III will vanish – and take me with it. His heated touches drive me to the edge, sweet words full of promises. But do I dare for anything more?     AmazonKU

DOLLY’S RUSE (SISTERS THREE BOOK 3): A STEAM AND SPELLS STEAMPUNK ADVENTURE by Mikala Ash

London is under attack! At Allenby Hall the net tightens around Dolly Preston and her gentleman friend, Pascal Baudelaire. Lies abound. Who can she trust? The chaos in the heart of the empire requires Agent of the Queen, the predatory Miss Clayton, to make an ultimatum. The snowstorm ends, and Molly, caring for the wounded Mr. Allenby, is in for a shocking disappointment as events reveal the truth behind the Lewellen murder. While London burns, Polly risks her new relationship with the honourable Tom Gold by revealing her extreme carnal desires. The three Preston sisters deal with the threat to their family’s future in their own inimitable styles, but will they succeed?

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REFRACTIONS OF LIGHT (FISA AGENTS BOOK TWO) by BL Jones

VS Note: Listed in superhero romance. LGBTQ. The blurb for book one states they aren’t actually superheroes but there do seem to be scifi elements.

Our eyes are broken windows capable of using light to bring truth into focus. Some months ago, a ruthless assassin and a British intelligence agent met on a dark street in Danger City. One saved the other and from this new alliances were formed that have the potential to change everything. Jack Roth is caught in the liminal space between hero and villain, his every decision planted firmly in the grey. Leo Snow is a good man still desperately trying to make the right choices in a world that constantly forces him to question what that means. Now, both men have been sent out on a rescue mission that will test the endurance of their new partnership and the depth of their feelings for one another as the past comes calling and the future casts shadows neither can escape.   AmazonKU

ATOMIC WASTELAND!: DYSTOPIAN SCIFI WESTERN ROMANCE by Tabitha Lovelace

Nancy just found out she’s a synth. Harrison is a bounty hunter, hired by the powerful SynthTech Syndicate to find her. But they both have other ideas about how they want to spend their time…Steamy, spicy contemporary romance meets sci-fi western adventure.    AmazonKU

BETRAYED BY THE ALIEN BRIDE LOTTERY (KHANAVAI WARRIOR BRIDE GAMES BOOK 16) by Margo Bond Collins

Note: This book takes place before Evading the Alien Bride Lottery and Fighting for the Alien Bride Lottery. I never should have trusted an alien—not with my life, and definitely not with my heart.When I started dating Francisco, I never dreamed his family was connected to the mob. But I learned better when I tried to break up with him. He was absolutely determined to make sure I couldn’t get away from him. What’s a girl to do when she discovers her obsessive ex is a Mafia hitman? I ran as far away as I could get. All the way to Station 21, where I entered the Alien Bride Lottery. Because marrying a total stranger from a different planet has to be better than dying, right? I never dreamed the director of the Alien Bride Games might betray me to the monsters I was trying to escape. I don’t think I can ever trust anyone again—not even the hot alien I was beginning to fall for. The one who promises he can protect me. But everywhere I look, all I can see is betrayal.   AmazonKU

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VS: This week I’m going to highlight KYDEN book one in my Badari Gladiator series. I’ve always been fascinated by gladiators and who doesn’t love a scifi romance featuring them?

KYDEN: BADARI GLADIATORS SERIES BOOK ONE by Veronica Scott

Kyden is the top ranked gladiator in the Five Systems but he’s hardly there by choice. Unscrupulous guards faked his death in the lab where he was created and sold him into slavery in the galaxy’s hinterlands. He has no idea where his home is or how many years have passed since he was condemned to a life of endless combat. Kill or be killed is the rule and a Badari never gives up. He’ll fight to stay alive until the Badari goddess sees fit to decree his death.

Elara Vasclavian is the daughter of a senator, as far removed from the life of a gladiator as a noblewoman can be until through the machinations of a political enemy, she ends up in terrible jeopardy. Abducted and given to a group of drunken gladiators for their amusement the night before the games, Elara vows to put up a fight but there’s no real hope of saving herself. Until Kyden steps in, responding to the goddess’s commandment to protect those who are smaller and weaker. And discovers she’s his fated mate.

Rescued, Elara returns to her life of privilege but she can’t forget the man who saved her life. The gulf between their places in the Five Systems is unbridgeable, no matter how much Kyden longs for even a glimpse of her in the arena audience. No matter how much she feels the pull to be by his side. As matters stand, they cannot be together…Or can they?

KYDEN is the first book in a new series, spun off from my ongoing Badari Warriors series. Kyden is a Generation Five Badari whereas the main characters in the long running series are from a later time and are Generation Eight. This new series stands alone and you don’t have to have read any of the other books to enjoy this one. I couldn’t resist the temptation to tell a few other Badari stories, set in the galaxy’s Hinterlands, and who can resist gladiators?

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THE WITCH’S SILVER LINING (WITCHES OF BEFANA BAY BOOK ONE) by Deanna Chase

Welcome to the magical town of Befana Bay, located on the enchanted shores of the Hood Canal in the Pacific Northwest. Sage Easton is a driven witch. At just thirty years old, she’s an accomplished blown glass artist. Her glass creations are magical. Literally. But when a spell takes away her magic, suddenly Sage is unable to work and the only way to get it back is to learn to love life without her gift. Now she has to seek help from her old high school nemesis, the handsome and fun-loving man who has always gotten under her skin. August West has one goal: enjoy life at all costs. He embraces the motto work to live, don’t live to work. He spends his nights bartending and his days talking to orcas, photographing wildlife, and helping out whoever needs a hand. So when Sage Easton asks him to help her out, he takes it as his personal challenge to show the workaholic how to embrace the beauty of Befana Bay. But the tables are turned when the magic of Befana Bay is threatened, and August is certain he knows exactly who’s to blame. He needs Sage’s help to track down the one responsible before life in Befana Bay is changed forever.

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PREVAIL (BEGINNINGS END SERIES BOOK 10) by W J May

Who says you can never go home again…? When Kiera and her friends are rescued by Eden’s father and whisked away to a distant land, they think their troubles are over. No longer will they face the darkness alone, there is an army of immortals behind them. But all is not well between the fae, and a secret agenda threatens to unravel the delicate balance they’ve worked so hard to keep. The clock is ticking, and the dragon circles ever closer. Freedom will be granted only through compromise, but is the cost too great? What things must they sacrifice? What lies must they tell? By the time the dust settles, will there be anything left? Be careful who you trust. Even the devil was once an angel.   Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

COURT OF DRAGONS AND VOWS  (THE DRAGON CROWN SERIES BOOK TWO) by G Bailey

After barely surviving The Dragon Crown Test, I wake up in the desert at the mercy of the Dragon Riders and their brutal Commander. They come for me, my dragon kings, even when I didn’t expect them to get out alive. The dragon kings make an uneasy alliance with the dragon riders, both with a common goal to stop the Sorcerer before he gets too powerful. But they have secrets and they won’t tell me any of them. My new shadow dragon knew I was coming to him. He claims I’m his destined mate… and he isn’t the only one with that claim. Old magic and Greek Gods are real, and they won’t stop until they have claimed Ayiolyn. In this world of dragon riders, complicated love, and Greek Gods, I need to become stronger. I’m the princess of the Fifth Court, and I was born to rule.     AmazonKU

A MIDLIFE MOON (AGED TO PERFECTION BOOK FOUR) by Sara Bourgeois

When artist Olive Winston is found murdered after the town’s annual Mid-Moon Masquerade, latent witch Tilly Parsons teams up with handsome sheriff Shane Ackers to uncover the killer. With arcane symbols painted on the body and secrets lurking around every corner, Tilly and Shane must navigate a twisted web of affairs, scandals, and lies to expose the truth. But Olive’s murder has ties to Tilly’s own blossoming magic, and the closer she gets to answers, the more danger she attracts. To solve the case and embrace her destiny, Tilly must risk everything to unmask a cunning killer before they strike again.     AmazonKU

FALL OF THE ORC: AN MM MONSTER ROMANCE (ORC FORGED) by Finley Fenn

The orc broke him in battle. Now he’s aiming for his heart…In a world of warring orcs and men, Lieutenant Aulis Gerrard can’t afford to lose one more battle. But when he faces off against the biggest, most brutal berserker in the orcs’ war-band, he knows he’s met his doom…Until the deadly orc drops his axe. Draws Gerrard close. And orders him… to run. In the heat of the moment, caught in the orc’s inexplicable thrall, Gerrard obeys — but the fallout costs him his rank, his position, and his pride. With little left to lose, he decides to hunt down the brazen brute in the forest, and demand a rematch. But the orc doesn’t want just a rematch. He wants to court the pretty human lieutenant. To convert him. To conquer him…But Gerrard would never yield to high treason with an orc… right? Even if the devious devil offers up gifts, sweaty sparring-matches, and sweet surrender in the dark. Because fraternizing with a fearsome, fallen enemy might destroy everything Gerrard has left… and leave his heart shattered, too.     AmazonKU

THE DEMON PRINCE (SEVEN DEADLY DEMONS BOOK THREE) by Emma Hamm

When a demon gets a taste for his own subjects, only one woman will offer herself to stop him. Gluttony has existed in the shadows for centuries. He’s consumed everything possible. Food, wine, magical substances, even the sweet kisses of maidens. But when he realizes the one thing he’s never consumed is a human itself, his kingdom spins into chaos. Katherine lives in the shadows of her village. Injured as a child, she isn’t a suitable match for marriage. So instead, she dedicates herself to having some purpose in the town. Stitching people up after Gluttony has his way with them makes her realize that she could be more of a solution than a problem. So she makes the trek up to his castle and offers him a deal he cannot refuse. Her blood, unlimited, if he will leave the rest of her town alone. Though he’s never even considered such a deal, Gluttony finds himself obsessed with this new human pet. He cannot get her honey scent out of his nose, or the kindness of her touch out of his mind. And swiftly he realizes that she soothes an ache in his chest he had forgotten existed. This little human has reminded him how lonely he is. And now he’ll do anything to keep her.     AmazonKU

IN THE WICK OF TIME (MAGIC CANDLE SHOP MYSTERY BOOK TWO) by Valona Jones

December in Savannah, Georgia, is a sight to behold. With all the festivities—including the traditional riverfront luminary display during the boat parade—twin sisters Tabby and Sage Winslow are busier than ever setting up for the big celebration. But that isn’t the only thing on the sisters’ minds. Both Sage and her fellow employee Mary Nicole are vying for the sought-after assistant manager job at the plant nursery. But when Loren Lee, their boss, is found dead, and Sage becomes the police’s favorite suspect, both Winslow girls know that they’ll need more than a flicker of magic and their sisterhood to solve the murder and clear Sage’s name. Soon, Tabby realizes that this is just one of the many problems they have. If being a suspect for murder wasn’t enough, there are more magical problems that they have to fix: Sage’s boyfriend is having a paranormal experience of his own he can’t control, there’s an energy vampire searching for his supposedly lost cousin, her cat suddenly dislikes her, and oh—every time Tabby hiccups, she turns completely invisible. The suspect list grows with each day and it seems everyone has a reason or a connection to Loren Lee. Tabby and Sage are burning the candle at both ends—but will it be enough to keep their friends safe and find this killer? Or will they be burned by their efforts?

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WHEN DARKNESS MEETS DAWN: OURS EVERMORE, BOOK THREE by R K Munin

When a newly turned vampire, a brooding chimera, and a love-sick sloth bear shifter crash together, blood will flow and love will grow. Imani – Imani Alexander is trying to survive. As a vampire turned less than two years ago, she’s easy prey for a lot of preternatural creatures out there. Not to mention she’s got to earn enough to house herself and buy bagged blood. Although she recently made a new friend, hers is a lonely and fearful life. Cut off from her family and friends for their own safety, she’s got no one to lean on. Always the vivacious one ready to go out drinking and dancing, she now has to keep to herself and stay hyper-vigilant for anyone who might decide she looks like easy pickings. Some nights she even questions if this is a life worth living. Lex – Chimera shifter Lexington “Lex” Granger built a career as a mercenary who can survive the toughest situations. But all of it has taken its toll. He finds it hard to interact with happily ever after…(a lot more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     AmazonKU

SON OF THE ARCH DEMON: AN MM PARANORMAL ROMANCE by Amanda Meuwissen

Avriel – Turning twenty-one is almost universally seen as the age of transformation, of coming into one’s own, reaching adulthood, and sometimes even as a symbol of death and rebirth. I never knew how literal that last part could be until, on my twenty-first birthday, I died and was resurrected as a demon. Well, half-demon and would have died if I wasn’t prophesized to become the Antichrist and take over the world. All I wanted was to survive graduation, achieve my dream of becoming an artist, and maybe have Marc, the hot new guy who I thought liked me for me, be anything other than a lust demon hoping to guide me on my path to the apocalypse. Marchosias – Occasionally, ya gotta make yer own destiny, my lovelies, so when I found a thin spot in the veil between Hell and earth, I leapt right through it. Sensing the soon-to-be successor to the throne of Hell, I insinuated myself on campus and into his life to await his awakening and fell to my knees in supplication once he did. Pity Avi is so set on denying his destiny. But I can convince him. I will serve and aid and arouse my master in whatever manner necessary to get what I want. I’ve been an underling, a doormat, a lesser demon for far too long, and his path to glory is going to be mine.     AmazonKU

REALM OF MIDNIGHT by Various

At the stroke of midnight, creatures of the realm come out to prowl. Beyond the witching hour, darkness and light collide in this limited edition paranormal and fantasy romance collection. These sweet to spicy stories will sweep you off your feet and sate your fantasy cravings. Gods, shifters, fated mates, enemies-to-lovers, alpha heroes, angels, demons, and so much more. Gargoyles watch silently over the realm where alpha shifters hunt, mighty dragons soar, dark fae wreak havoc, and powerful witches own the night. Enjoy numerous full-length novels, filled with paranormal creatures and fantasy romance. Heart-stopping heroes and alluring anti-heroes rule the land of midnight. You won’t find these exclusive novels anywhere else, so don’t miss your chance. These USA Today and international bestselling authors as well as up and coming authors bring you more than 10,000 pages at less than a dime per book. This collection is a steal, but it will only be available for a limited time. Don’t miss your chance to enter the Realm of Midnight.

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HOLLOWED: A SLEEPY HOLLOW REIMAGINING by Jessica S Taylor

Nothing is ever as it seems in Sleepy Hollow…Sleepy Hollow is crumbling. To protect the supernatural town from the mundane world, each year a resident is sacrificed to The Dullahan, the Headless Horseman that protects the veil around the Hollow. Nineteen-year-old Katrina van Tassel knows she’s a disappointment to her parents, for more reasons than one. But as the only daughter of the most prominent family in Sleepy Hollow, she never imagined that she would be chosen as the next sacrifice. Or that in her attempt to escape, she would instead come face to face with the Horseman himself. But the harbinger of death isn’t who they said he was, and Katrina begins to question everything she has ever been told. Evil forces far more dangerous than the mysterious Horseman are at work in the Hollow, and the Horseman is determined to protect Sleepy Hollow. Katrina is tempted to take the Horseman’s offer of assistance in fleeing Sleepy Hollow, rather than staying to fight by his side to save the town. Until he reveals she’s the only one with the power to stop the evil being summoned.

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MONSTERS’ MANOR: AN MMF MONSTER ROMANCE by Leigh Miller

Welcome to Edgar’s Acres, where the frights are delightful and the shadows are always watching. Losing my job was bad, but ending up on my witch of an aunt’s doorstep as a last resort is even worse. Her offer? Embrace the magick I’ve always denied and come work for her at our family’s haunted manor. The one staffed by monsters who aren’t just people in costumes, including two in particular who draw me in immediately. Renwick, the irritating, sexy demon who teases and taunts me to the very edge of my sanity. And Silas, the gentle, shadow-cloaked shade who only seems to want to protect me. They’ve got a history between them I’m not sure how I fit into, but as the autumn nights grow longer and darker, it gets harder and harder to stay away from either of them. My aunt’s given me a deadline—accept my place amongst monsters and witches by Samhain night, or pack it up and head back to the mundane world. Now, I’ll have to decide whether I’m brave enough to reach out and claim my two monstrous lovers and the powers I’ve always feared, whether I’m ready to step into this world of magick and dark desire.   AmazonKU

YULETIDE’S GIFT: MM WOLF SHIFTER ROMANCE SHORT (TALES OF THE TELLURIAN PACK BOOK SIX) by Blake R Wolfe

I know Jake’s been having a hard time staying positive during the holidays. After officially taking me as his mate, his family has been distant. But that’s not going to stop me from giving him the best Christmas ever! I keep joking I’m going to get a puppy for him, but I decided a bedroom swing was a better surprise! The look on his face was priceless, but what he did with it will live in my memory forever. This is a bonus short story following Leo and Jake from Beta’s Bliss. It can be read before or after the book.   Amazon

A CROWN OF IMP AND BONE (IMP SERRIES BOOK 12) by Debra Dunbar

Once more the fate of mankind rests on Satan’s shoulders. A stupid misunderstanding has broken a ten-thousand-year old contract between the fae and the angels, and humans are now paying the price. Fairies are crossing through portals and freely kidnapping men, women, and children without fear of reprisal. The humans have no idea what’s happening to these random people, and the angel’s answer is to close the fae portals every couple of days and establish a committee to study the problem. And nobody has time for that. It’s up to me to get the Seelie queen to back down, to bring peace to a war-torn realm, and to rescue a bunch of teenage fairy girls—all while planning my wedding. Because the solution to every problem is chaos, and that’s what imps do best.

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LYRIC OF WIND (THE WILDSONG SERIES BOOK FOUR) by Tricia O’Malley

The fate of the Fae world hangs in precarious balance. One rainy night, a man drops from the skies and lands at Raven’s feet on the cold streets of Galway. Compelled by the unknown, she palms a unique gold coin from the dying man’s pocket. This one act sets in motion a series of events that have been destined for Raven all along. When Kellen’s best friend is thrown from his alicorn, Kellen races through the night sky only to find Alistair crumpled on a street corner, a slender woman with lavender hair and combat boots bent over his broken body. His loss shatters Kellen, and he buys the woman’s silence before returning to fight a battle the Air Fae just might now lose. Yet the woman with the lavender hair and witchy eyes haunts his thoughts. Inextricably drawn to her, he finds himself returning to Galway to find her cornered in an alley by the Dark Fae. Fate binds the two together, but will blood tear them apart?     AmazonKU

CHASING GOLDIE: A SPICY GOLDILOCKS RETELLING (THE LOST GIRLS BOOK TWO) by Holly Roberds

Ever been stuck between an alpha and a hard place? In a world where mages, faes, and humans coexist, I, Goldie, am taking a stand – swearing off the male species entirely. Ironically, all of them start throwing themselves at me with almost supernatural fervor the minute I make my vow. All except for one man, that is…When I move into a crumbling Victorian mansion, I didn’t know my unexpected inheritance would come with a neighbor who is a rugged alpha bear shifter with an alpha complex. He also comes with not one, but two baggage-laden brothers and a knack for turning my blood into molten lava. Oh, and did I mention the weird habit of finding myself in one of their beds each morning? My grumpy neighbor does *not* appreciate my friendly nature, and now we are locked in a heated feud that may bring down the whole house. As darker threats close in from both our worlds, we’ll need to bury the porridge to navigate the fine line between hate, love, and survival.     AmazonKU

AS KING’S COMPANION by Forrest Greene

Jaime is the fourth son of the Prince of the Heighlands. Always an outsider in his family, Jaime seems unable to ever please his father, no matter how he tries. He longs to be a fighter, a hunter, anything other than the role his father has mapped out for him: future steward to his oldest brother. But Jaime’s set path in life is overturned when the consequences of an indiscretion on his part prove to be the final straw for his father. Infuriated, Prince Halden sends Jaime away from the Heighlands, the only home Jaime has ever known, to serve at the court of the powerful and despised king of Leilani. Alone in a much more sophisticated society than he is used to, Jaime must maneuver to find his way … and struggle to understand his feelings about the handsome King Alder of Leilani, to whom he has sworn fealty. Alder has much on his mind. Fighting a war he can’t end and can’t afford to lose, his widowed state is of far less import. Nonetheless, his Councilors are demanding he choose a Companion — a man to please his bed — as is expected of a widowed Leilani king with heirs. It is a choice he is in no hurry to make. The war and losses on the battlefield are of far greater concern, and the arrival of a disgraced prince from the least loyal part of his kingdom is a minor and unwanted distraction. Until Jaime walks into his court. For the first time in his life, Alder feels a genuine surge of lust for a man. But it’s a hopeless attraction. No Heighlander would admit to wanting another man, ever. Jaime wants to fight in the war. Alder wants to make love to him. Can they both possibly get what they want?

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FIGHT LIKE A GIRL by Various

VS Note: While this collection doesn’t appear to include Fantasy or PNR, I love anthologies and it’s for a very good cause.

From sizzle to spice, we’ve got all your romance needs covered! Dive into some amazing romance stories while supporting a very important cause! Included are 24 short stories of various romance genres including: contemporary romance, dark romance, romantic suspense and rom-com. Grab this limited time collection before it’s gone forever!
FIGHT LIKE A GIRL is a romance anthology to benefit Breast Cancer Research in the US and Canada. This collection of short romance stories cannot be read anywhere else. 100% of the royalties will be split equally and donated to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation & the Canadian Cancer Society-CIBC Run for the Cure, both charitable organizations dedicated to funding breast cancer research.   Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

SPRING OF RUIN: THE SISTERS SOLSTICE BOOK III by J L Vampa

As the Joubert Sisters navigate a world of impending war without their full magic, the Prince of Bone fights for his life—torn between the land of the living and the land of the dead—only to discover the Court of Achlys means more to him than he ever knew. Agatha untangles the prophecy that set their realm aflame. Winnie and the Druids prepare for war. Seleste faces physical setbacks in a foreign land. And Sorscha? Ah, Sorscha and her sass discover secrets in the catacombs of Araignée.     AmazonKU

ANIMALS AND ACTUAL BEASTS (ISAAC TAYLOR MYSTERIES BOOK 11) by Lashell Collins

VS Note: A psychic detective mystery.

A dead and dismembered body has been found at the zoo, the first of many. Now it’s up to Detective Isaac Taylor to find out if those people were killed by an animal or by an actual beast. The kind that walk around on two legs. Sidney Taylor is going through a personal struggle of her own. One that has her fighting constant untamed fear. At what should be one of the happiest times of her life, the ferocious worry has its claws in her throat. When an unexpected opportunity lands in Ike’s lap, and a shocking twist leaves both him and Sidney reeling, they know they’ve got some big decisions to make. But will they choose wisely or will one wild decision destroy their future?

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NEITHER THE SUN NOR THE MOON by Pelaam

Luke works in the kitchen of his family-owned café, but dreams of being a top chef. His entire world is turned on its head when Michel comes into his life. Not only is Michel the son of the owner of the exclusive hotel on the mountain, but a dhampir, and as Luke’s family are lycans, his father has forbidden even a friendship between the two. But it isn’t friendship that develops. Luke slowly realizes they are fated mates, and he longs to be claimed. However, someone isn’t happy their relationship is strengthening and growing and seeks to break their bond. And they’re not above killing Luke to ensure it.

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BLAME YOUR HEXES (SHADOW VALE WITCHES BOOK THREE) by Claire Robyns

Welcome to Shadow Vale, where the locals bite, monsters are real and the witches play fast and loose with the rules. It’s National Hex Day in Forget-Me towns around the country! For twelve hours, all fines for magical hex exposure are waivered. There are stringent rules in place, of course, to protect the innocent—and the not so innocent.
It’s all fun and games…until the head of a prominent vampire family is staked through the heart. When Shadow Vale’s very own mayor, Greyson Borne, comes under fire for the deadly incident, Kristen’s not about to let him burn. She has reaper access to the expired vampire and she’s not afraid to use it. Okay, she’s a little afraid, but what’s a little fear when it comes to helping out a friend?     AmazonKU

CRIMSON VENDETTA: A MONSTER ANTHOLOGY by Various

Beware the monsters lurking between the pages of this book. One glance, and you’ll be hooked. Demons, shadow beings, and goblins abound, starving for one thing—you. The proceeds for this anthology go to The Humane Society. This is a collection of monster romance tales that includes MF, MMF, MM, and RH stories.     Amazon

SINGLE ORC DAD: SWEET MONSTER TREATS by Ava Ross

Will my roller coaster romance with my hunky orc neighbor fly off the rails or ignite our hearts forever? After inheriting my estranged dad’s defunct kiddie amusement park, I turn in my corporate badge and return to my old hometown. Despite the issues I had with my dad, I rediscover the fun I missed out on while I lived ten years in the city. I’m determined to turn Quirky Kingdom into the showpiece it used to be. Problem is—more than just the rides need fixing. It’s way more than I can handle on my own. I tap my new neighbor to help—Rexin, a hunky orc handyman who’s also a single dad extraordinaire. Since it’s summer, he brings his twelve-year-old son to the job with him. As we grease wheels on the purple turtle ride and get the elephant carriages running again, sparks ignite between us. I begin to believe moving home was the right idea. But my past makes me gun shy, and I’m not sure if what we’ve started will make me want to live in this town forever. His son playing matchmaker is cute, but it sure isn’t helping. Only time can tell if our rollercoaster relationship will clickety-click its way to something special or veer off track forever.     AmazonKU

THE DEMON YOU KNOW (SOULS WANTED BOOK TWO) by Charity Parkerson

As a man who dates older men for money, it’s not uncommon for Troy to be someone’s toy. Alastor is the first time he’s begged for it or done so for free. He can’t stop answering Alastor’s calls and texts, even though he knows they’ll never be more. When a stranger asks him what he wants most in life, Alastor is the only wish that comes to mind. Then nothing is the same. As a demon lord, Alastor is one of the top dogs in what could—potentially—be considered a pyramid scheme. Of the supernatural variety, of course. As one entity who creates demons, he has never had a soul to sell. He’s never been granted a wish. It’s never been necessary either. At the snap of his fingers, he can have most anything he wants. The last thing he expects is to have someone else do the same, and for that snap of the fingers to be for him. It’s a conundrum to be sure. The Demon You Know is a fun, paranormal short story meant to brighten your day. These stories are best enjoyed when read in order.     AmazonKU

KILL TWO DEMONS WITH ONE STONE (SUPERNATURAL MIDLIFE BOUNTY HUNTER) SHROUDED NATION BOOK 11) by Brenda Trim and Tia Didmon

A death. An artifact. A deadly retribution. When a Djinn child is abducted and I get a lead on my latest bounty, I take the portal to disrupt the latest dark ritual and retrieve the victim. But someone in the council sabotages my magical trip and any trust I had in the governing body of Ravenholde is destroyed. After I think I have stopped the latest shard from being created and a new king of hell from rising, I discover I am a target and a powerful demon will use anyone around me to seek his revenge. When I find myself powerless and my friend in enemy hands, will I allow their destruction or make the ultimate sacrifice?     AmazonKU

MONSTER’S SPELL (BLACKTHORN ACADEMY FOR SUPERNATURALS BOOK THREE) by Ariel Dawn

The magic of love is in the air…Violet – When I arrived at Blackthorn Academy, I was hoping to find answers. Like how to control my chaotic magic, or where I came from. I certainly wasn’t expecting to find Bane Locke—a hot incubus who makes my virginal panties melt and my heart swoon. The fact that I’ve revived a legendary forest, I keep getting visions of castles, and all I can think about is Bane and I all tangled up together, has only given me more questions and fewer answers. Is the bond I feel between us just a product of Bane’s lustful magic, or is it something more? Something legendary? Bane – The last thing I need is another companion to warm my bed after what happened last year, but the moment I run into Violet McCreanor—Blackthorn’s newest little ingénue—I know I’m doomed. Not just because she smells like heaven, or because I can’t stop thinking about her, but because the bond I feel with her is more than magic, more than lust. She is my Anam Cara, my soul’s mate. But with my cursed history, can I overcome my demons with the possibility of finding what I desire most? A mate? Or will history repeat itself and destroy the last bit of hope I have?

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STALKED BY THE ORC: ORCS OF CLAN CUMHDACH by Sandra R Neeley

Upon her mother’s passing, Violet finds herself all alone. She stumbles on an old, well-read letter from a man who seems to think he’s her father. Since she was always made to believe her mother didn’t know who her father was, the letter is a shock. But the temptation of a connection to someone, to anyone, is too great to resist. On a quest to find and hopefully meet her father, she uncovers a whole host of family she didn’t know existed. But they know of her. In fact, they behave as though they’ve been waiting for her all along. With nothing to hold her back, she takes a leap of faith and flies halfway around the world to meet them. She’s decided to make a fresh start in Ireland, a place founded in the stuff fantasies are made of. She feels she’s finally home. She’s where she belongs. She couldn’t be happier. If only she could manage to scare off the brutish stalker who seems to have attached himself to her. Cahl Onar is just about all that’s left of the legendary Clan of Cumhdach. He is the last of a line of an ancient species, creatures who should not exist in the modern world. He is Orc. He takes great pride in  …(more blurb and details on ebook seller’s page)    AmazonKU

LET THE WOODS KEEP OUR BODIES by E M Roy

In the small town of Eston, Maine . . .Weird Things Happen Sometimes – Leo Bates knows what’s behind every corner in her hometown, where she’s lived her whole life. Some disjointed memories and grief for her late parents, sure, but nothing dangerous. Nothing unexplainable. But the familiar becomes strange the longer you look at it. When Tate Mulder goes missing and Leo is pinned as the prime suspect, she can only watch as the town she thought she knew deteriorates around her. She is forced to confront the truth about her parents, Eston, and her relationship if she is to survive an onslaught of conspiracies, cryptic monstrosities, and whatever is hiding in the woods where Tate was last seen. Finding the girl she loves may be the only way to restore balance to Eston-if such a thing ever existed to begin with.     Amazon

MYSTIFIED IN MUSIC CITY: A FROST AND CROWE MYSTERY by Kristen Painter

Jayne Frost and husband Sinclair Crowe are off on another adventure, this time to Nashville, aka Music City, to pay a royal visit to one of the Santa’s Workshops toy stores. Once that’s done, they’ll have a little time to sightsee and play tourist. Which they do. Until something rather peculiar happens in the Country Music Hall of Fame that leaves Sinclair feeling all shook up. Suddenly, they have a new mystery to solve. And time is ticking for Sinclair. Even a necromancer can only take so much. Can Jayne and Sinclair get to the bottom of things before it’s too late?

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DRAGON: DEMONIC DISCIPLES by Lisa Carlisle

When I see a boat approaching my private island, I swim out to investigate. No one can invade my sanctuary. I plan to throw them off course–until I discover what’s happening on board. A man is accosting a woman. I shift into a giant sea serpent and destroy his boat in my fury. There’s something is different about the woman I rescue. I can’t hear thoughts the way I do with other humans. It’s refreshing after all the selfish nonsense I’ve had to endure from others. I bring her to my island and discover she’s my fated mate. When she recovers, our connection is strong. I invite her to stay and explore, and she agrees to do so for a few days. That’s not long enough. She’s the one–the one who can free me from my obligations to hunt. She can’t leave me–even if I have to force her to stay.      Amazon

KISS OF THE DARK ELF’S BLADE  by Celeste King

He’s watching me. I just want to belong. The rebels recruited me before I understood what it meant to be one of them, and for a while, I felt like I was wanted. Now I’m invisible again – to all but him. And then there were the gifts. They were innocent at first, beautiful trinkets. But then they got darker, more sinister. The danger excites me, despite my better instincts. I feel treasured– and hunted. I know I should refuse. He won’t take no for an answer. The notes, the twisted gifts, they keep stacking up. I know I should stay away, but I can’t. He’s forcing them on me, and I know it’s wrong. But I also know…You can’t force the willing.     AmazonKU

HERALD OF THE WITCH’S MARK (ROWAN BLOOD BOOK THREE) by Kellen Graves

Saffron finally has the one thing he’s always wanted: a chance to attend school. To be able to do so alongside Prince Cylvan, even while glamoured as a high fey and pretending not to know one another, Saffron is eager to finally experience the education he’s always dreamed of. But the expectations of being a perfect fey lord are suffocating enough, and are only made more difficult as the unfettered rowan magic in his body runs wild. Outside of the emotionally-charged nosebleeds that come whenever he’s overwhelmed, he’s able to keep the magic subdued–until one unfortunate confrontation outside of the school, where it manifests in the form of a nightmare he never thought he’d have to witness again. He desperately needs help understanding how to control his new magic, but there’s only one person he knows who can offer mentorship: the stranger who appeared in his hospital room after the events on Ostara. Between acting a high fey, pretending to be courted by Cylvan as strangers, the unexpected difficulties of attending school for the first time, and managing the ancient magic running wild in his veins, Saffron has no choice but to trust Ryder Kyteler who can skip through the veil with ease, and who has been gathering disenfranchised humans to teach them arid magic on the outskirts of Avren for years. Otherwise, the new, violent manifestation of Saffron’s magic may hurt the people he cares about most.     AmazonKU

THE CURSE OF MOONSEED MANOR by D Lieber

A haunted hotel. A skeptical photographer. A deadly curse that could cost her everything. Wren Mabry’s life is a disaster. Her last few years have been rife with tragedy and hardship. So when she’s offered a job at Moonseed Manor, a Gothic revival mansion that’s never welcomed visitors, it seems suspicious. Even so, this is her chance to finally turn her life around. The gloom that hangs over Moonseed Manor is enhanced by its cold yet alluring owner, Mr. William Courtland Bennings. And the spooky tales of the flirtatious and sexy caretaker, Watt, play up that feeling. Even though Wren doesn’t believe in ghosts or curses, she’s always had a flair for the darker side. And when she finds a handwritten book of poetry filled with longing, terror, and ghostly revenge, it reawakens her very soul—or rather the unknown poet does. Love, death, secrets, and lies await in this gothic romance.

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A BRIGHT HEART by Kate Chenli

What if you could avenge your own murder? A brilliant young woman gets a second chance at life in this debut YA tale of vengeance, court intrigue, and romance, inspired by classic Chinese tropes. Mingshin outsmarted three princes to help the man she loved become king. But she doesn’t see Ren’s betrayal coming, not until she’s lying in a pool of her own blood on the palace steps. As she’s dying, Mingshin makes a desperate plea to the gods to turn back time and give her a chance to make things right. Mingshin wakes up two years earlier, her prayer granted, and swears two things: Ren will never become king, and she will never fall in love again. But the timeline in this life has changed: a dignitary gifted with dark magic is threatening her kingdom’s peace, and Ren’s thirst for power runs deeper than Mingshin could have imagined. She finds herself allying with Jieh, another contender for the throne. Mingshin knows better than anyone not to give her heart to a prince. But in the viper’s nest of the royal court, she and Jieh prove a phenomenal team. Can Mingshin avert the catastrophe of her past by once again learning to trust…and maybe even love?

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A STRANGER IN THE CITADEL by Tobias Buckell

The life of the youngest musketress of Ninetha has been one of hard training. But Lilith’s days have also contained many pleasures, the royal privileges of her family’s guardianship of the Cornucopia, a mystical source of limitless bounty. Lilith has never seen a book, and she never expects to encounter one within the safety of the citadel.
When Ishmael, an outcast librarian, shows up outside the Afriq Gate, Lilith saves him from immediate execution by her father’s second-in-command, the zealot Kira. As Lilith’s curiosity draws her to Ishmael, she lets slip her family’s most dangerous secret, sparking a deadly rebellion and an unexpected journey full of stunning revelations.

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A LITTLE LUCK: A SAPPHIC COZY FANTASY (ARROWMOUNT SERIES BOOK TWO) by J A Collignon

After the biggest job of her life goes sideways, magical artifact thief Lottie Luck is out of, well, luck. With no job on the horizon and only the clothes on her back, she makes a snap decision to head to Arrowmount, where her estranged sister lives, to regroup and figure out where she’s going next. Kirandir Dulra, a favored Arrowmount town bard, is happy enough with the way her life is. By day, she’s a dishwasher for the local bar, and by night she performs for the regular townsfolk who frequent the Old’n Narrow. The routine works, but she dreams of more: a life in arcane lights with crowds calling her name. However, everything is turned upside down when these two strangers get thrown together to organize the entertainment for an upcoming festival as emergency replacements one month out. As the two try and find a rhythm together, Lottie unearths truths about herself and Kir’s dream starts to become more realistic. In a story full of chilly autumnal nights and the golden glow of lantern light, these two women might just find more in each other than they bargained for.     Amazon

THE UNMAKING OF JUNE FARROW: A NOVEL by Adrienne Young

In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow’s disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It’s been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren’t there. Faint wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door appearing out of nowhere—the signs of what June always knew was coming. But June is determined to end the curse once and for all, even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own. After her grandmother’s death, June discovers a series of cryptic clues regarding her mother’sdecades-old disappearance, except they only lead to more questions. But could the door she once assumed was a hallucination be the answer she’s been searching for? The next time it appears, June realizes she can touch it and walk past the threshold. And when she does, she embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also uncover the lingering mysteries of her small town and entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love.

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THE WITCHES AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Chelsea Iversen

Deep in the birchwoods of Norway, magic courses through the veins of two sisters. For years they’ve been alone, but sweet-tempered Kaija is tired of living in shadows and longs for a life filled with community, even if it means stifling her magic. But Minna is a witch through and through, with wrath always simmering just below the surface. Different as they may be, both will never forget the day they were driven from their village. The day their mother burned. When Kaija leaves to pursue a new life, Minna is left alone in the darkness of the forest. Devastated and outraged at the betrayal, Minna casts a curse to punish those who took everything from her. What she doesn’t realize is that this act will incite a deadly chain of events. Soon it will destroy everything, including the life Kaija has lovingly built. But once a witch’s rage boils, regret means nothing—she can’t take back what’s already done. Someone will have to burn.

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IT’S A HELL OF A MIDLIFE: GOOD TO THE LAST DEATH BOOK 10 by Robyn Peterman

I did not order the extra slice of Armageddonto go with my midlife crisis. Apparently, if you’re an Immortal,it comes free of charge. I have until sundown tomorrow to get to a parallel plane of existence, save my family, and kick bad-guy butt all before the world ends. Impossible, right? Not according to my posse of whackado buddies. They like to remind me that nothing is impossible as long as I believe. Well, I’m about to be the mother of all believers. Armed with nothing but a folder titled ‘Sh*t Pile’ and backed by a few fabulous drag queens, a toothpick-chewing nutjob, a sweetheart with a penchant for sharing disgusting facts, and an ice queen who doesn’t play nice with others, we have our work cut out for us. Time is not on my side, and I am having one hell of a midlife crisis.   AmazonKU

ALWAYS EROS (IMMORTAL ASSASSINS BOOK THREE) by Mia Monroe

Salvation comes in different packages, even murderous ones. Justice – Did you hear the one about the guy who escaped a cult only to find out he had no clue how to survive in the real world? It’s me. I’m that guy. It took me almost thirty years to find the courage to leave the life I was born into and with it everything I’ve ever known. Now on the other side, I learn fast that life in a cult did nothing to prepare me for life outside of it. That’s how I find myself tangled up with a mysterious man who looks like the angels I was raised to believe in. But he’s no angel. He may be soft spoken but I’ve seen his violent side and it’s something to behold. In spite of that, I know I’m safe with him. What I definitely didn’t expect was how drawn I am to the murderous man. Especially because romance should be the last thing on my mind, but the pull between us is undeniable. Do I step out of one dangerous situation into another or cut ties and build the independent life I crave? My heart and my head are at war, but if this angelic man is to be believed, it was Always Eros I was meant to love.     AmazonKU

UNICORNS DON’T CRY: VALKYRIE BESTIARY BOOK EIGHT by Kim McDougall

Critter wrangler rule #20: You can’t save them all. Rage is boiling inside Kyra. Friends are dead, the world is burning, and her husband is…gone, his body and mind taken over by a demon. Death would have been kinder. But she can’t kill a demon, so Kyra must hunt down the creature wearing Mason’s face and do the unthinkable—trap him for all eternity in a bloodstone. In between hunting expeditions, Kyra continues to rescue critters in need, including a unicorn whose rage matches her own after spending years as a frat house mascot, and the shar-lil, a creature of immense power whose destiny has yet to reveal itself. Can Kyra stop a demon, save her growing family and still be an advocate for those creatures who have no voice of their own?     AmazonKU

OWL OUT OF MAGIC (THE OWL STAR WITCH MYSTERIES BOOK 14) by Leanne Leeds

When the Arden sisters are enlisted to sprinkle some magic on Forkbridge’s annual Halloween Festival, they expect nothing scarier than costume contests and jack-o’-lanterns. But the spooktacular celebration takes a sinister turn when Ayla finds Councilman Marcus Clinton’s body chillingly posed in a decorative coffin outside City Hall. With Forkbridge transformed into a carnival of costumes, it’s nearly impossible to separate harmless tricksters from potential killers. Between a zombie flash mob, strange noises in city hall, and a woman walking the streets dressed up like the goddess Athena, there’s too much information and too few clues. Can Astra and her sisters peel back the layers of the killer’s disguise, unmasking them before they blend into the ordinary? Or will the elaborate festival costumes shroud the true face of evil lurking among them? The clock is ticking, and it’s more than just a game of trick or treat!     AmazonKU

THE ORC LORD OF PLEASURE (MONSTERS’ SIN CLUB BOOK TWO) by Rosemary Dark

VS Note: Listed in Erotica.

The massive monster satisfies my every forbidden desire. But can I win an orc billionaire’s heart? I’m suffering through the Sahara Desert of dry spells, unable to find a man who can give me what I most want. Because I’ve got a naughty little secret—I like a guy who can bend me over his lap and give me the spanking I so desperately crave. It turns out I don’t need a man at all. I need a monster. Merk is seven feet of green muscle and power. The way he swings his hockey stick gives me naughty thoughts about him wielding a paddle. So when he invites me to the game’s after-party at the Monsters’ Sin Club, I leap at the chance to visit the hottest “play” club in town. And when I get an even more exclusive invitation to his private play room? Hell yeah, I’m all in. This monster jock has all the right equipment, binding me and offering one new sensation after another with his impact toys. Soon, I’m drowning in pleasure such as I’ve never known. The more time I spend melting under his expert attentions and aftercare, the more I want to give him my heart. How do I temp my orc billionaire to a shared life of pleasure?     AmazonKU

HOW TO HIDE YOUR DRAGON BABY (CLOSET BABY CHRONICLES BOOK ONE) by Anna Wineheart

What’s worse than becoming a single dad? When your baby is secretly a dragon shifter.
Dragons don’t exist. At least, that was what Elson used to believe, until he’s suddenly the legal guardian of a nine-month-old baby. Who breathes fire. There are precious few resources on how to care for a dragon child. Worse, his rent is way overdue, and a towering hulk of a man is at his door demanding payment. In his desperation, Elson offers himself as compensation. One night of service for a week’s shelter. But the problem might be too big for him to handle. Yaeger is no human, and he’s starting to see through Elson’s pretenses that baby Sunnie is just a regular child…This is a 46k-word dragon shifter MPreg novella. 

TAKEN BY THE DRAGON PROTECTOR by Danie Clark

I was taken by a dragon – My ordinary life was turned completely upside down. When this gorgeous man walks into the diner and offers to pay for my sister ‘s meal, for a conversation with me. I’m halted by this man’s beauty and statuesque body. His amber eyes are plastered to me like glue. This is not something that happens to me. Most guys go for Morgan. There is a strange attraction between us, so against my better judgment I agree to meet with him after I get off work. One minute I was talking to my hot date. When he states, “ I’m sorry for this.” His eyes begin to glow like two smoldering amber jewels and a cold wind blows across my face causing everything to go black. Upon waking, I find myself in a room with people I’ve never seen before but I get a strange sense of belonging. A whole new world is opening before my eyes when he tells me that he is a dragon shifter and I’m his mate. I’m confused, pissed and not sure what to believe.     AmazonKU

A WAR OF RUIN AND RECKONING: SEASON OF THE ELF (FAE GUARDIANS BOOK NINE) by Lana Percharczyk

A reckoning is coming… but who will it hurt the most? When environmental activist Nova Morales wakes thousands of years after a nuclear fallout, she is surrounded by magic, monsters, and war. The earth she fought to protect is in pieces, along with her heart. Everyone she loved is dead. All she wants is to find answers, but instead, she finds herself the unwilling prize in an Unseelie mate hunt. Elf Guardian Leaf has always prioritized duty to the Well. His fate is his own, despite what the Prime and that insufferable psychic Clarke say about him being fated to a human from the old world. He doesn’t have time for love when a blight on their magic source has the enemy breathing down their necks. But when avoiding his duty throws him into the path of a beautiful war prize who claims they used to be lovers, he’s forced to question everything—even his memory. The trouble with questions is they lead to answers better left buried. And as more painful secrets come to light, Leaf starts to wonder who the truth will ruin most—the Prime with her machinations, the unhinged Unseelie Queen and her war of vengeance, the crow shifter with a chip on his wings, the lost daughter of an ally… or Nova, the woman he’s falling in love with.     AmazonKU

TOBY AND HIS DRAGON LIBRARIAN (SHIFTERLY EVER AFTER BOOK FOUR) by Lorelai M Hart and Colbie Dunbar

Sometimes you can go home again. Alpha dragon shifter Dane dreamed of running a huge city library, but as he finished his degree, he was hit with the reality that his dragon didn’t want to be trapped in a world of steel and concrete. He longed for fresh air and a place to fly. When a small community in the middle of nowhere advertised for a head librarian, he applied immediately. It might not be the job of his dreams, but sating his dragon and doing what he loved was worth it. Human omega Toby left his small town the day after graduation and never looked back. He had big plans that included a fancy college degree, an office with a window, and a house in the burbs. Toby got all of that and more, but as each year passed, the more he felt called home. When his father had a stroke, he saw it as a sign it was time to leave the city and get back to his roots. When the internet at his father’s house goes out, Toby does the old-fashioned thing and heads to the local library where he meets the epitome of sexy librarians. If only the guy didn’t hide in his office the second Toby walked in.     AmazonKU

A TOUCH OF POISON (SHADOWS OF THE TENEBRIS COURT BOOK TWO) by Clare Sager

In Elfhame, bargains are currency, lies are weapons, and your heart is your greatest weakness. Reeling from Bastian’s revelations, Kat wakes from her dire illness wanting nothing more than to sever all ties with the man who betrayed her. But fate has a different plan—she’s trapped in Elfhame, the fae realm where nothing is as it seems. And worse, she’s trapped with him, reliant on his touch to stave off a poison that threatens her very life. Thrust into the centre of Dusk and Dawn Courts, they must balance the two in order to maintain a delicate peace. But in a world where alliances are forged and shattered in a heartbeat, danger looms. A mysterious group infiltrates the city and spies whisper of an ancient artefact powerful enough to destroy an entire court. As enemies close in from all sides and attacks on the city escalate, Kat and Bastian must unearth deadly secrets and their own complicated feelings to survive—or risk a war to destroy faekind itself.     AmazonKU

FORGED – THE GRAY GATES BOOK FOUR by Vanessa Nelson

Struggling to maintain her independence, and the life she has fought so hard to build, Max finally learns the truth about her own origins and her family. Max has no time to absorb the shocking news. There are dead bodies missing from the mortuary, a demon on the loose somewhere in the city, and terrifying supernatural creatures on the loose that she and her fellow Marshals must contain somehow. Max is used to working alone – can she put aside her past fears and work with her allies to keep the city safe?   AmazonKU

QUEENS AND MONSTERS: A SAPPHIC MONSTER MAFIA ROMANCE (THREE FATES MAFIA BOOK THREE) by Clio Evans

I was born to be her enemy. I’m a hero, she’s a villain. A demigod and a monster. Years of venomous lies and untold favors catch up to us when the Fates intervene. The woman that I’ve secretly loved for centuries is in danger. I’d do anything to keep her safe, anything to make her mine. The gods have forsaken us. The Fates plot to end us. But even if our world burns to the ground, it’s her I will fight to the end for.   AmazonKU

DARK AND DEADLY PREDATORS (FORBIDDEN MATES) by Lola Glass

VS Note: Author note: “This is a steamy enemies to lovers Rapunzel retelling with Beauty and the Beast and Hades and Persephone vibes.”

After eight years in a cave, I was finally rescued… by a terrifying fae king who tells me I’m his mate. He’s rough, growly, and refuses to answer any of my questions as he takes me back to the fae lands. When we get there, I learn that a large faction of his people want him dead, so they paid in blood and magic for an ancient assassin to hunt him down. Our mate bond should hide him from the monster, but if his people find out about it, we’ll be executed. And the bond itself? It’s a mental and physical connection that creates attraction between us—insanely strong attraction that we both struggle to resist. We’re fighting for our lives…yet somehow my mind keeps returning to the tie that binds our souls.     AmazonKU

TEA DIE FOR (THE MAGICAL TEA ROOM MYSTRERIES BOOK NINE) by Erin Johnson

Novice witch and aspiring writer, Minnie Wells, secures the Bath Butler Cafe the job of catering a writer’s retreat at a grand old manor outside of Bath. But when a well-known author with ties to the manor’s history dies under mysterious circumstances, rumors fly that she was killed by the aristocratic ghost of a man who’s rumored to have murdered his whole family within its stone walls. Minnie and her quirky supernatural friends use their special powers to investigate the woman’s death, and get to the bottom of the centuries old manor murders, but discover more than they counted on. As her investigation leads her through secret passages, ancient graveyards and the surprisingly cutthroat writing world, Minnie unravels more mysteries than answers. And when her sleuthing points to an old betrayal that could change everything in the paranormal world of Bath, she finds herself on dangerous ground. Minnie must use her magic, quick wit and the support of her magical friends to discover the truth and bring the killer to justice, before not only she, but all of Bath, falls under the criminal’s thrall.   AmazonKU

DELIVERED TO MY PROTECTORS (MAIL ORDER MATINGS BOOK FIVE) by Mazzy J March

I was a hide in the hollows kind of girl until life caught me in a snare. One event, one stupid walk in the woods and my life was turned upside down faster than a nut fell from a branch. My life has always been very straightforward. Friends, family, and someday, if I’m lucky, a mate and family of my own to love. We stuck together, hanging out with other small shifters like squirrels and mice, and even cooperated with gleaning at the end of the growing season to fill out our stock through the winter. Might sound like a boring life, but I loved it and never wanted it to change. But then, that’s not how life works, apparently. When I witnessed a crime, a target appeared on my back. Not literally, but the weasels, who we did our best to avoid, had committed murder and dumb me walked right in on it. I took off running and never looked back. Couldn’t contact my folks and risk endangering them. They’d always wonder what happened to me, but at least they’d be alive. While sitting at a diner and trying to figure out what to do, I got an ad on my phone for the Male-Order Matings app, and it seemed too good to be true. If I found someone on there who would take me…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)   AmazonKU

MAGIC AND MYSTERY by Jayda Marx

After centuries of loyal service as a detective, Nigel Prince retired from England’s Department of Magical Justice. He’s content spending time alone in his cottage, minding his own business, thank you very much. Others might describe him as a cranky codger and they’d be right. But Nigel is also an extremely powerful mage, and a gifted officer who is knowledgeable on all things paranormal. That’s why his former Chief Constable keeps trying to lure him back to the police force for help with difficult cases. Nigel always refuses, until the Chief Constable brings a file he can’t ignore. In America, a fellow officer’s immortal life was cut short when he was murdered and mutilated in a horrific scene. The American Department of Magical Justice has called upon Nigel’s talents and expertise to assist them avenge the detective’s death, and he reluctantly agrees to travel across the pond to help them. Nigel soon learns that things are even worse than he imagined; the perpetrator is a serial killer with nefarious intent. On top of that, Nigel learns that his new partner Milan is his beloved; his perfect match granted by Fate whom he is destined to love for all time. Of course, he learns that after he spouted off his mouth and earned Milan’s disdain. So now Nigel is tasked with wooing his beloved, stopping a killer, and saving the world.     AmazonKU

SWEET DELIGHT (PROTECT AND SERVE BOOK 11) by Mikala Ash

Love is the greatest shape shifter of all. Love can be humanity’s greatest strength — or our biggest weakness. The poet William Blake knew this, and for the longest time I felt as though I’d been born into his Endless Night, my life destined for eternal misery. Tragedy stalked me with the persistence of an insatiable tiger: the death of my mother, my mistaken belief I had caused the death of my partner, Detective Mal Blake, the betrayal by Anton, my lover of three years, and his subsequent death at the hands of a demon of the worst sort. But then, out of nowhere, Mal returned to me, and with him came Tommy, a divinely beautiful shifter. For almost half a year we’ve been inseparable, a threesome in every meaning of the word. My name is Ciara Callaghan. I’m a cop, and I thought I’d seen love from both sides, seen both the best and the worst it can do. I was wrong. The worst is yet to come.

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THE ACCIDENTAL FAIRY TALE by Crymsyn Hart

VS Note: Re-releases.

Oz may never be the same…Falling for Love: When Micha saves Jasmine by pushing her into the pages of his magic book, she finds herself in a place she never thought existed — the Land of Oz. In this magical kingdom, books write themselves, but Jasmine must keep the magic from disappearing or Jasmine will lose everything she’s found — including Micha the Scarecrow, and Leon the Cowardly Lion, her mates. Bitten For Love: Landing in Oz with the Scarecrow, Micha, and Leon the Cowardly Lion was odd. However, getting sent to Dracula’s castle is even stranger. As they venture farther into the count’s castle, her feelings for both Leon and Micha deepen. Magic is growing within her thanks to the strange book which tells their story. They soon learn they must keep the book away from the evil Dorothy at all cost. Spelled For Love: When the magic book deposits Jasmine, Micha, and Leon at a villains’ convention, all Jasmine wants is some time to unwind before their next adventure. Getting to be alone with her two mates means the world to all of them. All the while, the magic within her starts to go out of control. Meanwhile, the evil Dorothy enlists the villains to kidnap the trio. Only Jasmine’s magic can save the men she loves — and all of Oz.

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CURVY GIRL AND THE MONSTER NEXT DOOR (CURVY GIRLS DATE BOOK EIGHT) by Jessa Joy

Mollie – Life gets kind of same-y here in Snowflake Falls. Yet another Halloween when I’m stuck on my own. But then my mysterious high school crush moves next door. So far, so good. The only trouble is, he seems different… but not in a bad way. He’s bigger, hotter and more mysterious than ever. I’m intrigued and I want to find out more. A big Halloween party is the perfect opportunity to get to know him better. Sparks are flying between us faster than a bat outta hell. And why does this handsome devil look like he wants to eat me right up? Brad – I was a big deal in high school but life had other plans. Being turned into an enormous horned monster certainly wasn’t on the agenda. It’s been all tricks and no treats so far while I try to keep myself hidden away. I’ve stayed away from my hometown as long as I can but a family issue means I’m needed back in town. The first thing on my mind is the gorgeous curvy girl who’s haunted my dreams for the last five years. By a quirk of fate, she’s also my new next door neighbor. I can’t help imagining what it would be like to get close to her. Really close. But how could this perfect angel want to be with a monster like me?     AmazonKU

WRATH OF A KING: FF OMEGAVERSE FANTASY ROMANCE by Lily X

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Never trust a friend… especially one that wants you dead. Earth enchanter Olympia has a legacy to uphold. As the only Alpha heir of the Summerstream clan, she’s been browbeaten all her life into accepting her place as a future leader. To her people, Olympia could do no wrong. She’s patient, protective and politically correct—the facade of the perfect future Queen. She’s certainly incapable of ordering the cold-blooded murder of her former friend. Fire sorcerer Zoei Highblade is feared and worshiped by her subjects in equal measure. After years of strife between the royal clans of Summerstream and Highblade, a tremulous peace has descended upon the southernmost kingdoms of the Seventh Star—one that shatters upon the discovery of an earth enchanter assassin masquerading as a maid in Highblade Palace. Zoei is hellbent on revenge. As the head of the Summerstream clan, Olly will pay—with her life. But Zoei has to ignore the pull of nostalgic friendship, and the forbidden allure of the other Alpha’s lips before she fries the life out of Olly’s treacherous bones.     AmazonKU

THE VAMPIRE AND THE CASE OF HER DASTARDLY DEATH (THE PORTLOCK PARANORMAL DETECTIVE SERIES) by Heather G Harris and Jilleen Dolbeare

I awoke dead. It was a real bummer. Being covered in blood and having fangs was the icing on an already terrible day. Things go from bad to worse when I get a summons to attend the vampire king’s court, where I get my marching orders. I’m given one lousy week to get my affairs in order and then I’m to present myself to the conclave to commence my hundred years of indentured servitude, where I get to learn Vampire 101. The thing is, I have an eidetic memory and I’m a fast learner. It’s not going to take me a hundred years to grasp this stuff. And I have plans – mediocre ones, but they’re mine. One hundred years of servitude isn’t going to fit the bill. I need to make my escape now, before they sink their teeth into me (again). The only problem is they’ve sent the vampire that turned me to keep a sharp eye on me, and he keeps looking at me like I’m a fine glass of merlot. Escape isn’t going to be easy. My name may be Bunny, but they’re going to learn there’s nothing fluffy about me.     Amazon KU

HOW TO ACCIDENTALLY GET TRAPPED IN HELL (MADELYNE DANICA BOOK TWO) by Scarlett Philips

What happens when you find out your whole life is a lie? After accidentally summoning three drop-dead gorgeous demons, two of which turn out to be my mates, I’m reunited with my long-lost mother. As if that isn’t life-changing in itself, it turns out that not only is my mother a demon, but she’s the devil’s daughter. What does that make me? A trip to Hell to meet my grandfather answers that question and more. Apparently, my aunt wasn’t lying about the prophecy. Now I have to stay here and learn how to use my new powers. But the longer I stay in Hell, the more at home I feel. Is this where I truly belong? Can I be happy here for the rest of my life? I guess there’s only one way to find out.     AmazonKU

CRAVED BY THE PACK (HOWL’S EDGE ISLAND: OMEGA FOR THE PACK BOOK SEVEN) by Layla Sparks

When an omega singer is hunted by a stalker…I sing for the people of Howl’s Edge. But I’m being stalked. When I see a creepy note about breeding me, I’m desperate to hire bodyguards. Things with the stalker escalates, and the pack is determined to guard me around the clock, even if it means sleeping at my mansion to make sure I’m safe. Until I get kidnapped to the Omega Breeding Camp where omegas have gone missing…My only hope are my bodyguards. Will they find me in time before the Breeding Camp forces me to go into heat and I get pregnant?     AmazonKU

SQUID PRO QUO by Lorelai M Hart

Human omega Wade finds more than he ever dreamed possible when he falls in love with octopus shifter Hurley. Eight more things to be exact. Squid Pro Quo is a sweet with knotty heat M/M romance featuring an alpha squid shifter who spends his days in the ocean and his nights longing for a mate of his own, an omega human lawyer looking for a new beginning, eggs, an aquarium on wheels, some tentacles, true love, fated mates, some legal bologna, and a guaranteed happy ever after.     AmazonKU

WAVERING AFTERMATH (ARTEMIS UNIVERSITY BOOK 21) by Erin R Flynn

My name is Tamsin Vale and I’m about to do something smart… Or something really, really stupid. I give it a 50/50 chance, but keeping quiet on what’s going on with me has bitten me in the arse too many times for me not to admit it. And since my mother’s journal isn’t helping and is heartbreaking to read, it’s time to trust the people who say they care about me. Now that I finally have the answer about Mason, I feel like I can heal from that crazy and focus better on my own needs. No matter what I do, someone will hate it—hate me, so I need to never forget that I have to look to myself for the right answers. It’s also helped me feel more stable. I’m in a good place with four of the five men in my life even if it’s not where they want to be with me. But if I don’t tell Darby the truth about what’s been going on, there might not be a relationship for us to save. Artemis University is an ongoing, hot burning reverse harem, university-age paranormal academy series with darker elements, strong language, violence, and a heroine who follows her own moral compass of what is right… And who she ends up giving her heart to.     AmazonKU

SOME BEAR OUT THERE (GRIZ MOUNTAIN SHIFTERS BOOK FOUR) by P Jameson

Bear shifter, Altyn Phillips, didn’t find his mate in time, and now the moon has locked him in his bear form. With his animal fully in control, he’s helpless to do anything but roam the woods near his clan’s Christmas Tree farm. Until she finds him. The moment he hears her voice, he knows…She’s his to watch over. His to protect. And ultimately… his to forget. Because as long as the animal is in charge, the man will fade until there’s nothing left. But he and his new found mate already share an unexpected connection, and it could be the key to unlocking his moon curse. Time is running out, and there’s always a price to pay for defying nature. But maybe, if they can heal from the past, they’ll find a path forward to the future. Together.     AmazonKU

ESCAPING REJECTION (GAME OF WOLVES BOOK TWO) by Lindsey Devin and Skye Wilson

The game is up—our love is public. Now everyone has turned against us…I knew joining The Reject Project to protect my best friend’s little sister was dangerous. But the ruthless television game show is going too far, with contestants turning feral. If anyone discovers my secret relationship with Kira, it could be the end of us. Our best game plan is to find a way to bring down the show, but then the host reveals shocking hidden footage of Kira and I together, and our worst fears are realized. Everyone turns against us. The challenges are becoming relentless and the stakes have never been higher, yet Kira is still determined to save the other participants. Our plan to help the others escape to safety may be risky, but it’s our last hope. Only nothing prepares us for what comes next. The time to play games is over, because now it’s life or death.     AmazonKU

THE MIDNIGHT VILLAGE by Holly Martin

Star Brightheart bakes cakes that can help a person nail a job interview or mend a broken heart. But when a celebrity food critic nearly bites the dust after eating one of her cakes, she needs to disappear from her flashy public life in London. Fast. She escapes to the one place where no one will find her; the secretive and exclusive village of Midnight.
But what she finds is a village full of witches, a thirty year old curse, a talking cat and a whole world of magic she never knew existed. Yet she feels like she belongs there, something Star has always struggled to feel anywhere else. And it’s not just because of the gorgeous young Mayor Wolf Oakwood who convinces her to stay, or the delightfully meddling resident witches that give her a welcome. There’s more that draws Star to Midnight. Something that goes beyond chance. It’s a discovery that will flip her world – and her heart – upside down once the truth comes to light.     AmazonKU

TAKEN BY THE TITAN: HOMECOMING: MM FANTASY ROMANCE by Morrigan Black

Across worlds, their love remains unbreakable. Crossing into my mate’s Titan homeland flips my life like a coin. With Thorsten’s family in peril, he reluctantly takes the crown amidst a chaotic war, leaving me struggling to find my place in this unfamiliar world of court politics and scheming nobles. To protect our children, I must secure my position at Thorsten’s side. The only way is by undergoing a perilous trial to prove my worth to the Titan royal court. As I navigate the intricate web of politics, and breathtaking power, a shadow looms over the ones I love. Unexpectedly, I find myself holding the key to guiding my mate through the darkness, if only I can harness my newfound gift and embrace my role as Thorsten’s consort. Can true happiness be found in the realm of Utangard? Can we shape our destiny and find the peace we so desperately seek?   AmazonKU

COURT OF TANGLED THREADS by Amanda Pillar

VS Note: From SEPT 30.

Her death magic prevents anyone from getting close to her. Until she meets him. Violet has only three goals: cure her sister’s illness, find a job that doesn’t involve getting into fights with pixies, and hide her soul-stealing abilities at all costs. Sounds easy, right? Wrong. When she accidentally reveals her power, she’s kidnapped and trapped in the realm that separates the worlds of human and fae. And that is a very dangerous place to be. He’s a dark fae prince whose magic prevents him from being able to touch. Until he meets her. Blake wants nothing to do with his royal family, but refusing the queen’s command is never an option. When he’s forced to take on a quest, he sets off a chain of events that lead him to a castle filled with the dead. What he didn’t expect was to find a woman with magic as dark as his.      AmazonKU

CAULDRONS AND CURSES by Jisa Dean

Nova – I’ve traveled to this small town to find the Stone Island Witch, but I soon discover she’s gone. What I find in her place is a hot mayor, her son, and decades of folklore and bedtime stories. Then, the feel-good story I was sent to town to write takes a dark turn when the bodies of young women who look just like me start popping up in the forests and creeks around the area. Is someone angry at me for writing my story on the witch, or did I bring this nightmare with me? Can I trust the one man who might be able to save me or is he the monster lurking in the shadows ready to make this Halloween a very dark one that I won’t come back from? Oh, did I mention I only have two weeks to come up with all the answers or the whole town will suffer because of it. No pressure, right? I’m going to need a whole lot more than luck to make this Halloween a sweet treat instead of a horror story. Nathanial – I have magic in my blood. But nothing I foresaw could have prepared me for the sexy little reporter who came to my town to find my mother. What she gets instead is me… I’m the witch of our island now. And I have to find a way to use what and who I am to save Nova because something tells me that if anything happens to her… I’ll follow. No matter whether either of us likes it or not, we’re connected – entwined destinies that can’t be broken apart. But how far am I willing to go to keep my soulmate safe and how far will I take this overwhelming need to protect her? As far as I need to because she’s my other half…I just have to find a way to show her, so she’ll stay.   AmazonKU

TO SWAY A DEMON HEART (KING AND COVEN) by Madeleine Eliot

After he rejected their mating bond, Brigid is resigned to working with Tyr as no more than a colleague. But when events conspire to throw them together in order to select an heir to the Court of Shadow, the pair are faced with the difficulty of their ignored bond and the reality that the Pull between them is stronger than ever. To Sway a Demon Heart is an epilogue novella in the King and Coven series following the second chance romance between Brigid and Tyr begun in book 3. This book should be read after To Wear a Demon Crown in the series.     AmazonKU

SPOOKILY YOURS (WITCHES OF PLEASANT GROVE BOOK ONE) by Jennifer Chipman

My cat is a demon. No, that’s not a joke. An actual, real life demon. And he needs my help to break a curse. But what happens when that turns into more? It can never be forever, and yet… I’m falling in love with him anyway. Spookily Yours is a spicy, open-door Halloween themed novel, featuring a witch and the demon who falls in love with her. This book is a complete standalone with a HEA guaranteed.     AmazonKU

BLOOD AND BONBONS by Melissa Nicole, Melissa Haag, Nicolette Pierce and M J Haag

Resolution One: Never go hiking again. Resolution Two: Don’t bleed on any more hibernating vampires. An impromptu hike sends Everly toppling gracelessly into a vampire cave. The surly, tall, and devastatingly handsome vampire isn’t interested in the bonbons Everly offers to make amends for waking him. He’d rather have Everly…help him adapt to the modern world, of course. However, after one of her friends disappears, Everly abandons Cross’s lessons and asks for his help navigating the Shadow Trade world instead. Filled with supernatural creatures of every sort, it’s a place she never wanted to enter. A single misstep could cost Everly her life. But she’ll risk anything to keep the people she cares about safe.     AmazonKU

THE ALPHA’S OBSESSION (ASPEN RIDGE PACK; THE ALPHAS BOOK FOUR) by Luna Wilder

She’s always been his. Now he just needs to convince her of that. Maddie: I’ve been working for years to save up enough to get out of this small town and away from my mom. Now that I’m about to turn eighteen, it’s finally my chance to make my escape. Except, when I come home late one night from my shift, I realize that my money is gone. Now I’m scrambling. I can’t stay here any longer, but my chance to escape was just stolen from me. So, I do the only thing that I can. I put myself up for auction. Jonas: I’ve always wanted Maddie. I know that as a shifter, I’m only meant to love my fated mate and that it’s too soon to know if Maddie is mine, but that doesn’t stop me from hoping that she’s meant to be mine. When I find out that she’s trying to sell her virginity, I panic. I buy her before anyone else can. Now, I’ve got my maybe mate right where I want her, but this isn’t how I wanted it to happen. When I find out that she plans to leave, I’m left scrambling. I need to convince her that she’s meant to be with me. I just hope that it’s not too late.     AmazonKU

A SONG FOR CHARLEY: LONE WOLF GENERATIONS BOOK THREE by Alicia Montgomery

For the past decade, Charley Forrest has been keeping two secrets–not only is she a wolf shifter, but she was also former teen pop star. But a tragedy cut her career short and for the last decade, she’s been working as personal assistant, keeping her head down to avoid attracting attention to herself. Unfortunately she’s caught the eye of her new boss, Devon Hale—and not in a good way. The demanding rock star seems determined to make her life miserable, yet despite all that, she can’t help but be drawn to his immense talent and intense stage presence. An arrogant rock star trying to keep his wolf in control – Rock star Devon Hale could have anything or anyone at the snap of his fingers, yet the one person he wants he can’t have—his new assistant, Charley. She arouses an intense desire in him, but the instant attraction confuses him, leading him to mistreat her. But she becomes his obsession and when he offers her a night of no-strings fun, she declines and quits, leaving him angry and frustrated. When their paths cross once more, she ignites more than his lust. The latent wolf inside him breaks free, wreaking havoc among the Supernatural community. If he does not learn to restrain his wolf, he will face fatal consequences and Charley finds herself in the middle when her Alpha orders her to keep tabs on Devon. Can she help him control the wild animal inside him, while keeping the passion simmering between them in check? Or will she have to watch him be put down should he become a real threat to Lycans and human?     AmazonKU

THE ALPHA’S SURPRISE BABY (ROSE VALLEY WOLVES BOOK FIVE) by Electra Cage

He dumped me for being a witch. Now he’s back, as the new biker alpha. His wolf is cursed, and he came back to our small town to find redemption. But my heart is still broken, and I have visions of what’s about to come. Visions of the alpha’s body against mine. Visions of my pregnant belly…He said he didn’t believe in cross breeding, and I watched as he crushed my heart. I’m good at hiding my feelings, but his return is leaving me in chaos. He breaks me open relentlessly until my hungry insides are fed. He strokes away my numbness until I’m too exhausted to resist. The past is cursed, but my future is mine to shape. I could resist while his brooding eyes roam my craving body. Or I could give in to the yearning and open my heart again. Can I let it all go and give my body what it wants so badly? Can I surrender to the alpha for good?     AmazonKU

MONSTER’S HUNT (MONSTERS IN THE MOUNTAINS BOOK SEVEN) by Leann Ryans

VS Note: From SEPT 24.

An omega, the sweetest prey. She’s going to be mine, and I’ll make sure she never runs from me again. My family made my life a misery, but there’s nothing I can do to escape them. I have nowhere else to go. The monster I encounter in the forest overwhelms my senses, calling to the omega in me. I can’t believe I let him touch me, but I’m so starved for affection I can’t help myself. And then I do the only thing that makes sense…I run.
But the monster hunts me down. He says he gave me a choice, but he’s not letting me go. He’s going to claim me as his mate. What reason do I have to deny him when my own family doesn’t want me?     AmazonKU

BULLIED MATE: SINGLE DAD SHIFTER ROMANCE (SILVERDAWN WOLVES BOOK SEVEN) by Layla Silver

He bullied me until he broke me. But I don’t remember him because I have amnesia…I couldn’t shift and was the outcast of the pack. He tormented me relentlessly.
I managed to escape him and locked my memories away. But now we meet again. He’s a single dad now, and irritatingly hot. But slowly, my memories are coming back to me…I don’t know why I dislike him so much. Something tells me to stay away from him.
But I can’t, because the pack is forcing me to work on a project with him. And so I try to resist him until I’m exhausted and let him take control of me. He does what he wants to me until the memories start flooding back. He used to use me for pleasure, and now he’s doing it again. He bullied me back then, and he’s bullying me now. I want to leave this small town, but he says he wants to teach me a lesson. And no matter how much I hate myself for it, I can only give in. Can I surrender my all to my bully?     AmazonKU

BLOOD BORN (THE HALF BLOODS BOOK ONE) by Milly Taiden

VS Note: From SEPT 21.

Wolf alpha Reece Blackstone hates vampires. He was orphaned because of a bloodsucker. When Celestine Longborn prances into his life, Reece’s hatred of vampires gets complicated. Not only is she a Half Blood, the hot blonde is his mate. He can’t believe his bad luck, especially not when Celestine offers to help him deal with the vampire threat. Celestine Longborn doesn’t think of herself as a vampire. She’s a Half Blood who has never drunk a drop of blood. Convincing Reece of that is hard. But if he wants to save his town, he’ll have to lay aside his feelings and work with her. The grumpy and sinful looking wolf is not her idea of the man for her, but fate seems to think so. Of course, some feelings are easier to ignore than others, and both are having a hard time fighting their attraction. With a deadly threat looming, love will have to save the day. But will it be too late for the wolf and the Half Blood or can they do what’s never been done before?     AmazonKU

WARRIOR HEARTS ACADEMY: CENTAUR RIFT by Ellie Horn

I thought I understood the way the world worked. Family was something other people had. Trust was rewarded with betrayal. And survival depended upon brains and brawn. 
Until a stallion in a moonlit cornfield proves that everything I had ever believed is a lie.
Because he isn’t exactly a horse. Although after shifting into six and a half feet of gorgeous human warrior, he’s certainly hung like one. Consider me awestruck. Or completely unhinged, more likely. This guy threatens both my sanity and the walls built around my heart. But he also houses a destructive secret. When he tells me he was once a Centaur who lived in another realm, my jaw drops even further. Just how broken is this dude? To show he’s not, he takes me through a portal and reveals that werewolves, dragons, and warlocks are real. Some of them horrify me, others call to my heart—and a few do both. Could things get any crazier? Apparently so. Turns out, I have secrets of my own. Who knew?     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. I won’t feature a cover in my weekly promo for this post if I believe or suspect it was done with AI.

 

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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DRAXX (FATED MATES OF THE SARKARNII BOOK TWO) by Hattie Jacks

He’s called a monster, a beast, a dragon, and he’s chosen me. I think I’m in trouble. Again. Yeah, alien abduction is for suckers. If I thought my life was bad before I woke up in the alien prison, it’s just about to get a whole load worse, because I’ve been rescued by an alien warrior who is much better at stripping flesh from bone than being a hero. Draxx has glowing green scales, endless muscles, huge claws and very often, a tail. He also prefers not to wear pants. He has cheekbones I could cut myself on and a set of lips which are very good at kissing. Ask me how I know…I’m on a personal mission. Not only am I not going to let alien abduction beat me, I’m going to find the other humans I heard in my part of the prison and free them. Nothing’s going to stand in my way. Not even the big green scaled alien warrior with a domination streak, dirty talk and burning desire to make me his mate. If he doesn’t get out of my way, I won’t be responsible for what happens next. The problem is, I think it’s going to be him stealing my heart.   AmazonKU

KNOX: DRAGON BRIDES #8 (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Kate Rudolph

A wannabe reformed thief and a dragon lord looking for love…After witnessing the skills of the Intergalactic Dating Agency at finding mates, Knox enlists their services to find a woman of his own. He’s collected a hoard of precious stones from across the galaxy, a mate will be his crown jewel. But is he looking for love, or another treasure for his collection? Fresh off a prison colony, Aria wants to go straight. But when her past catches up to her, her only choice to escape a gnarly fate is to infiltrate Knox’s home and steal a gigantic diamond right from under his nose. She’s got the perfect cover: the Intergalactic Dating Agency. But as she gets closer to the fiery dragon lord, the last thing she wants to do is betray him as he rouses feelings in her she never knew she could feel. When Knox finds out the truth, will he help her or will the betrayal be too much to overcome?
How can she keep her dragon mate and escape her past?

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CRAVE: WIFE-MATES FOR THE ORCS #2: INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY (BIG SKY ALIEN MAIL ORDER BRIDES BOOK 20) by Elsa Jade

He’s the littlest orc. She’s the Earther girl fleeing her mistakes. Together, they’re getting into big trouble in outer space! Welcome to the Intergalactic Dating Agency! The Omega Reclamation Crew finally found their fortune—but unfortunately, the orcs can’t spend it. Sil, the DeepWander’s only short orc, has an idea to save the ship and prove his place on the crew separate from his big brother the mighty apex. He just needs someone who’ll believe in him, a.k.a. an accomplice…Kinsley Sullivan meant to be good, honestly. Hacking into the Big Sky IDA dating profiles to stow away on a spaceship, escaping her problems, was supposed to be her last scam. Except now Sil the space nerd is dangling a prize she can’t resist—and not just the enticing alien secrets beneath his orc kilt. Guided by a talking pet rock, they’re on a road trip across the galaxy, where the menace of mercenaries, the risk of rogue comets, and the vulnerability of the void is matched only by the threat of trusting each other—and the hazards of their own lonely hearts.

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MARRIED TO THE ALL HALLOWS’ EVE ALIEN by Alma Nilsson

Sem – I attended a Halloween party in New Orleans with another officer from the Alliance Force. We all need to find wives, and costume parties are some of the best places to meet human women as they think our grey skin is a part of our costume. At this All Hallows’ Eve party, I met Ivy. We talked and then exchanged contact information. Not a day goes by that we don’t communicate with each other. She’s the most wonderful woman I’ve ever met. But the problem is, she thinks I’m human. Now, forces beyond my control have pushed me to tell her the truth. And what’s worse, we are both facing physical punishments for our moral crimes from the sadistic Imperial High Priestess.   AmazonKU

A TRICK TO LIVE WIRES: A SCIFI COWBOYS AND ALIENS ROMANCE by Latrexa Nova

It’s my job to make sure the town’s spookytime celebrations go off without a hitch, and I don’t need any distractions. Especially none in the form of an otherworldy, mysterious stranger who just might be an alien. Our sleepy little town of Dustwood is deep in the heart of cowboy country and this year I’ve been made the Queen of Halloween. It’s my job to make sure the town’s spookytime celebrations go off without a hitch. But strange occurrences keep interrupting my plans, not to mention the arrival of even stranger folk.
One of them’s got his eyes on me—and for the first time in my life, I might have eyes for him too. His meteoric gaze makes me hot all over, but he’s standoffish and cold. With each odd emergency he’s there in a heartbeat and gone in a flash. Yet when his starry eyes meet to mine I know I’d do anything he wanted, if only he’d stick around long enough to ask. I’m determined to find out what’s underneath his old timey cowboy facade, rip that duster off of him and see the man underneath. I bet his body is out of this world.     AmazonKU

MARK OF CHAOS (LEGEND OF THE EMPIRE OF EMBERS BOOK ONE) by K N Lee and C J Jordan

VS Note: From SEPT 8.

Moira thought she was an ordinary girl in a mystical world of hover-boards and slumlords. She couldn’t have been more wrong. When Moira’s older brother died, it fell on her to feed and protect her family, but dystopian world of the Empire of Embers was harsh and its people were even harsher. After being caught hunting wild gryphons on sacred land, Moira finds her life forever changed when she’s brought before the emperor–a horrid man who pings at her memories in the strangest ways. Moira learns that everything she knows is wrong. Her memories, her life, even her family have all been created for her, placed in her mind in order to manipulate her actions. And, the truth of who she is and why her memories were altered will change the course of her life and the future of the kingdom forever. Faced with this knowledge, Moira begins to be plagued by dreams of magic, monsters, and an impending darkness that threatens to swallow the entire empire whole. It’s up to her to save them all–to become the person she was always meant to be.    Amazon     Apple Books

A FIRE BORN OF EXILE: A XUYA UNIVERSE ROMANCE by Aliette de Bodard

The Scattered Pearls Belt is a string of habitats on the edge of a huge galactic empire—a glittering, decadent society rife with corruption. Now, one of its victims—Quỳnh, a scholar betrayed and left for dead—has come back for her revenge, under the guise of the glamorous and enigmatic Alchemist of Streams and Hills. Quỳnh’s path intersects that of Minh, the daughter of one of her oldest enemies, who chafes at her own lack of freedom; and of Hoà, a near-destitute engineer who poses a threat to all Quỳnh’s careful plans. Quỳnh finds herself inexorably attracted to Hoà, even as her plans upend the fragile political equilibrium of the Belt. Falling in love wasn’t part of Quỳnh’s plans; but will she be able to grasp this second chance at happiness, or will she cling on to a revenge that may well consume her whole? A poignant, heartwarming romantic space opera about love, revenge and the weight of the past.

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ATTRACTED TO BEASTS (PLANET OF MONSTERS BOOK THREE) by Eden Ember

My world shattered when the Magellan exploded. Left alone in my stasis pod, I careened through space to an uncharted destination. When I awaken I’m alone. Or so I thought.
Not one but 3 monsters look at me like I’m the main prize. 3 who take me in and care for me on this uncharted planet, lovingly guiding and keeping me close. 3, I can’t choose just one. So why not 3? I’m doomed to being here forever, why not let my crazy heart take charge and live the fantasy of my wildest dreams.     AmazonKU

THE HEART OF A THIEF (ISLES OF MIADHRA BOOK TWO) by Kathleen Bird

Elian never wanted the life of a petty thief and con man. He’s desperate to quit. But there are people depending on him, and he can’t let them down. This new job could buy his freedom; but it requires a partner he doesn’t have. Jaida is used to being just a pretty face. What she wants is to be truly helpful to those in need. When a young man asks her to play the role of his wife, she sees an opportunity to finally be useful. But will he turn out to be more than just a perfect partner? A clean romance retelling of Aladdin set in a brand-new steampunk world.     AmazonKU

SINFUL MATE (INFINITE UNIONS: INTREPID ALIEN MATES BOOK ONE) by Trish Heinrich

KIER’AHN – I have never touched someone with desire, nor given in to the pleasures of the flesh. I am Atavarian, after all, and we cage such primal urges with logic, discipline. And with one innocent brush of skin I am overcome by a deadly rutting fever, and only Chloe can sate this burning hunger and save my life. But when the fever passes I am not free. Instead, I am left with an insatiable craving for this fragile human and a telepathic bond that I am loathe to give up. When a mission requires us to remain linked and pretend to be mates, our ever growing passion tempts me with something I never thought I would have: Love.     AmazonKU

FROST BITE by Angela Sylvaine

VS Note: Not listed as a romance but sounds fun.

Remember the ’90s? Well…the town of Demise, North Dakota doesn’t, and they’re living in the year 1997. That’s because an alien worm hitched a ride on a comet, crash-landed in the town’s trailer park, and is now infecting animals with a memory-loss-inducing bite-and right before Christmas! Now it’s up to nineteen-year-old Realene and her best friend Nate to stop the spread and defeat the worms before the entire town loses its mind. The only things standing in the way are their troubled pasts, a doomsday cult, and an army of infected prairie dogs.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

LIGHTNING STRIKE BLUES by Gayleen Froese

VS Note: LGBTQ Superhero romance.

On Friday, Gabriel Reece gets struck by lightning while riding his motorcycle. It’s not the worst thing that happens to him that week. Gabe walks away from a smoldering pile of metal without a scratch–or any clothes, which seem to have been vaporized. And that’s weird, but he’s more worried about the sudden disappearance of his brother, Colin, who ditched town the second Gabe accidentally outed himself as gay. Gabe tries to sift through fragmented memories of his crummy childhood for clues to his sudden invincibility, but he barely has time to think before people around town start turning up dead, and Colin is the cops’ number-one suspect. Gabe is sure Colin is innocent, but even he has to admit the evidence is compelling. Especially once the home he shares with Gabe burns to the ground. When Eli Samm, a mysterious and attractive stranger, shows up looking for Colin too, Gabe thinks he might finally have an ally. Except it turns out Eli thinks Colin is a supervillain, and his mission is to put him down.

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THEIR HUMAN TO TEASE (UNIT A12 BOOK THREE) by Morgan Robinson

Kendra – When Earth started collapsing, the only thing that kept me going was that I was with my sister. No matter what happened, we promised each other we would never be apart. Well, last month, she was sent to a tribe on a different planet that had all of its women die years ago. Now, I’m about to follow her through the portal and into a whole new world where I’ll apparently find a mate perfect for me. Only when I arrive, there are two aliens that catch my attention. Erkoz – The dreams began many days ago, but they grace me with their presence every night. I see a female…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)     AmazonKU

MATE RUN: CARA: MATE MATCH AGENCY 3 by Zena Wynn

VS Note: First released on Vella. Has been revised and re-edited.

The year is 2124, and the world’s population has been divided into two groups: infected and non-infected. Race, ethnicity, and nationality no longer matter. When a medical mishap leaves noninfected, Cara Rodriguez, a single mother to an infected son, her life is forever altered. Her son can’t live in the noninfected world, and infected clans won’t accept Cara in theirs. After her only support dies under suspicious circumstances, Cara goes to Mate Match seeking an infected mate to protect them. Will Mate Match be their salvation or the biggest mistake of her life? Ready. Set. Go. It’s time for the Mate Run!

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A TREAT FOR STOLEN HEARTS by Alina Riley

I’m done trusting any man, but an alien? I’m going to be fine without going to a party for Halloween, but my roommate refuses to listen to me and makes me look like a pumpkin for it. Worse, there is a hulky and handsome man who also pretends to be one. Even worse, he wants to talk to me. Among all the other people he can talk to, he comes looking for me. He lights a fire in me like no other. He is taller than every other person I’ve met and stronger than them, but it’s Halloween, so that’s probably normal? But when he takes me in his arms and to his place, maybe the orange on him isn’t part of the costume.     AmazonKU

INTO ORBIT: ADVENA ABDUCTIONS BOOK TWO by Hollie Hartwright

VS Note: Cliffhanger. Listed in Erotica.

Maeve was searching for Tessa. She found something else instead. When her friend disappears, leaving only a short note behind, Maeve is convinced that Tessa hasn’t gone willingly. Desperate for answers, she takes a chance on a beautiful stranger – even though it means travelling further from home than she ever thought possible. Elswyth is a Hamadryad, the spirit of her ship’s heartree. Both revered and restricted, she exists on the outside of Tirian life, where forever seems like a fantasy. Maeve is the answer to all her prayers – but Elswyth isn’t the only one praying. Ashton and Willow are Unclaimed, conducting an illicit relationship that, if found out, could cost more than just their positions on the ship. Maeve is strong enough to claim them both – provided she wants to. Can Maeve open her heart to a future she never expected? Or will outside danger threaten her chance to find Tessa – and love? Into Orbit is a fast to medium burn, insta-connection, super spicy MMFF sci-fi alien romance. It contains a lot of swearing, and the human heroine will not be choosing at the end.      AmazonKU

A TREAT FOR HER MATES: AN MMF ALIEN INSTALOVE ROMANCE by Lola Blix

When my friend told me she was sending a Halloween treat, I never dreamed it would be them. Technically, these two hot guys are here to deliver a gift, but they’re more delicious than any sweet I’ve ever had. Huge, ripped, and painted blue. Since it’s Halloween, it’s not as weird as it sounds, right? Except they’re suspiciously out of touch with the modern world. Like they’re from somewhere far, far away. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Aliens aren’t real, but somehow these guys make it feel like my alien abduction fantasies aren’t so ridiculous. Maybe they have similar fantasies of their own. I’m not sure how to ask without stripping down and offering myself to them. Now that would be a treat, wouldn’t it? It’s Halloween night, the perfect cover for an alien invasion. But what if these hot alien men aren’t here too conquer earth? Whatever their plans, a group of plucky heroines will uncover truth. Heaven knows they’re ready to shed some inhibitions and maybe even fall in love. That would be the ultimate Halloween trick and treat.   AmazonKU

CERYS: VALKYRIE EARTH by Merrin Slade

VS Note: From SEPT 19.

When humans are perfect, the future of humanity relies on one imperfect woman. Cerys Skye is an outcast, a fighter, and the last person anyone expects to be recruited into the United Planet’s Space Force Academy. There, she enters a world of genetically modified humans and discovers the system harbours a cyber-evil that threatens humanity. She is sent on a treacherous mission where her imperfections might be crucial for success, but will her newfound allies and her unshakeable courage be enough? When loyalties are tested, Cerys discovers even the most unlikely people can be the bravest of heroes, and that love can be as dangerous as war.     AmazonKU

ALIEN PASSION (STAR ALLIANCE TRILOGY BOOK THREE) by Anasha Vega

VS Note: Ratings/reviews wildly mixed on this.

Ashley Brent – I was married on Earth. I know enough hurt and fear to last me a lifetime. Love? Don’t need it. A male? No way. After being rescued by an alien feline species (who knew that was a thing?!)…I finally regain my freedom and plan to keep it that way. But things take an unexpected twist when tall, dark and hot bodied Ragerion Darklight makes a deal with me to abide by the Star Alliance ownership laws. Rage is nothing like my ex or any man I have ever met for that matter. Then he promises to give me something impossible, something life changing. I make a deal but soon regret it as I suddenly find myself wanting everything I swore I never would. Ragerion Darklight – I am damaged, determined and alone. I have no time to own a human female nor give up on my dreams for anyone. But when the laws force me to acquire my female, I discover that there is more to life than control, restraint and logic. Ashley Brent unlocks the part of me I have sworn never to unleash. With her giving heart, sweet smiles and curvy little body, she awakens the beast within. Can I stop myself from doing the one thing I vowed I would not do? My pride says yes, but my heart begins to beat louder…something tells me that resisting Ashley Brent may be more than I can handle.     AmazonKU

A TRICK TO LOVE BY by Astrid Eliasen

Uunquirk – Visiting an uncontacted planet to find his fated mate is unconventional, but he’s spent years, traveled galaxies, searching with no luck. So when a friend suggests a contact on Earth, he goes. It doesn’t take long for him to find the woman he’s looking for. She’s perfect. But how can he tell her that the green skin and horns are not embellishments put on to celebrate the high holy day of Halloween? Rachel – Taking her sister’s place at the Halloween party should have been a piece of cake. Snap a few pictures. Don’t punch her sister’s evil ex. Easy. But when a hot guy shows up in an alien costume claiming to be her sister’s fated mate things go sideways. He’s got the wrong woman, but Rachel might be falling in love.     AmazonKU

A TREAT FOR THE PIRATE by S R Griffith

He says he’s a pirate but there’s no way a man feels like he does. Work sucks. My boss left me in charge of the entire company fall festival and everything is going wrong. It gets worse when there are rumors about a set of pirates at a ship in the middle of the forest! This was not in the contract! Except it’s weirder than potential creeps in the forest. One pirate stands out with his constant presence and bad pirate speak. silver with sharp teeth and green eyes. He’s nice, sexy and he keeps trying to help me. His skin doesn’t feel like body paint. He thinks this whole event is a holy event!. While I educate him on the basic fall festival, He’s helping me keep this fall festival afloat. The more he follows me around, the more I am sure he is not human at all. I can’t turn away from the feelings developing inside. Can I survive this fall festival with my heart intact?     AmazonKU

WORLD OF BLOOD (CURSED WORLD BOOK ONE) by Kate L Mary

VS Note: You know me and post apocalyptic novels! I enjoyed this one and one clicked on the first book in one of her other series. Romantic elements (mild) in this book toward the end. Doesn’t end on a cliffhanger but definitely much more story to come.

A secluded tribe. An ancient evil. An event that will change the world…From the moment Andra hears about the mysterious illness spreading the globe, she knows it’s the end. Sheltering in place with her daughter, ex, and his new family, they watch in dread as the world begins to crumble around them, while rumors of survivors turning into monsters spread. When the dust finally settles, all Andra wants to do is keep her daughter safe as they build a new life for themselves. But a fresh horror awaits, and it’s going to take all of them working together to survive the new world they’re facing. And maybe not even then.     AmazonKU

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VS Note: Last week I featured book one in this series (five books are planned but only two are released so far) so here is book two! I drew on some of my own wildfire experiences in Southern California when writing this one, as well as doing a huge amount of research. The series follows the same couple.

COLONY ON FIRE HAVEN COLONY BOOK TWO by Veronica Scott

When she came to Haven Two Dr. Saffia Mandell expected to grimly do her five years of medical service as the colony’s only doctor, work off her medical school debt and leave. Then she’d fallen in love, handled an epidemic and become an accepted member of the community. Now, in her second year, she faces new challenges as the tinder dry planet heads into a fire season and a mysterious food allergy threatens the local restaurant’s reputation. Chief Ranger Micah Navonn of the Calinurra never expected to fall in love with a human woman but Saffia was a special person who captured his heart and now means everything to him. Not all of his people are as enthusiastic about the situation and his efforts to handle the politics are getting complicated. Add to that an infestation by insects from another world, causing portions of the forest to die off and his plate is full.
When the jet stream shifts course and the fires rage, will the colonists and the Calinurra set aside their differences? With Saffia’s life hanging in the balance, can Micah arrive in time to save her and the colonists in jeopardy? Life on Haven Two never lets up.

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HER WOLF FOR THE HOLIDAYS (HIGHLAND WOLF BOOK SEVEN) by Terry Spear

Edeen Campbell has heard many wild stories about the MacQuarrie clan living in the castle next door to her new home. She is determined that not even Lachlan MacQuarrie, the pack leader’s brother, can ruin her holidays, no matter how hard he may try or how intrigued she is by him. But as Lachlan proves to her over and over that he is a wolf to be trusted, Edeen begins to change her mind about the pack and the very handsome wolf dedicated to making her first Highland Christmas a special one.

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SINGLE MOM AND THE ORC: SWEET MONSTER TREATS by Honey Phillips

Her grumpy orc is going to hammer his way into her heart! When Pippa finds herself in Fairhaven Falls with empty pockets and a brand new baby, she’s thrilled when a sweet – and slightly scary – old lady offers her a job and a place to live. Their new home isn’t much, but it offers a desperately needed shelter. Then her grumpy orc neighbor comes charging into their lives. She should be wary of the huge male, but when she watches him handling his hammer, fear is the last thing she feels. And when he cradles her daughter so tenderly against that big muscular chest? Her heart isn’t the only thing melting! Trogar likes his own company just fine, thank you very much. When his grandmother insists he help out his new neighbor, he reluctantly agrees. But the more time he spends with the curvy human and her adorable daughter, the more he wants to claim them both as his own. When Pippa’s past catches up with her, can Trogar keep her and her daughter safe? And when the dust settles, will he have a new family – or the solitary life he no longer wants?     AmazonKU

THE SCARECROW’S QUEEN: A MONSTER ROMANCE by Mel Braxton and Naomi Lucas

Once, I was feared by all who gazed upon me. For the past century I have served, defending my crops in solitude, baring my scythe as an omen. But when the crops aren’t seeded, I find myself standing over a field of dirt and weeds. It is her fault. The female who has inherited the farm. She might be the new queen of these lands, but in her wake, she brings only ruin. So, I will scare her away. I will claim these fields, and she will learn to fear me! Until one evening, she is attacked by no other than the Crow King. She cowers behind me for protection, begging him to spare her life.Her terror and desperation stir me into action…Nobody, not even a god, is allowed to frighten what is MINE.     AmazonKU

THE DAY DEATH STOPPED by Rebecca Thorne

This shouldn’t be her problem. Listen. Claire Bishop is Las Vegas’s greatest stage magician, and she’s perfectly happy with that fame. Ozarik is the next Zaro, the leader of the world’s witches, the modern-day Darcy everyone swoons over. Just because Claire shares a Zaro’s unfathomable magic doesn’t mean she shares the responsibility. So, if Ozarik wants to make himself a villain by casting an ultra-dangerous spell to stop death on Earth “for her,” to “protect her,” that sounds like a him-problem. Claire has a show in four hours. Skipping it to save the world might give her manager a heart attack. Ozarik may be her friend, but it sounds like a lot of work. … Ugh. Fine.     AmazonKU

FROM BAD TO WORSE (SAINT lAKES BOOK 12) by April Kelley

Wesley is always scared. He never thought of himself as naïve, but he realizes he is when the senator he used to work for turns on him. When a wolf shifter, who claims to be his fated mate, comes to his rescue, Wesley knows he’s in even more danger. Paranormals are the enemy, after all. Sully’s mate is the enemy. He’s sure of it before he even meets him. His assignment is to protect Wesley with his life, but he can’t protect him from a past that comes back to haunt him. Wesley has to leave his fears and prejudices aside if he wants to get out of danger. But his past comes back to haunt him. Can Sully save his life in time for him to embrace love?     AmazonKU

PERILOUS POTIONS (A LUNA THORN WITCHY MYSTERY BOOK TWO) by Amanda M Lee

Luna Thorn sprang into being in the middle of the night in a downtown Detroit park years ago. She had no memory of her past and no idea what the future would hold for her. The only thing she possessed was magic…and the determination to win at all costs. She’s finally about to get the answers she’s been looking for. There are zombies popping up on Detroit’s mean inner city streets. They’re not normal zombies, however. They move fast and don’t go down under the usual methods. They have a mission, though, and the only thing that stops them is death. Luna knows someone is controlling them, but who? She’s determined to find answers on her own, but the people who know her best and love her most refuse to let her fight this battle without backup. Luna has been a loner for as long as she can remember, but her blood is running hot these days after joining with a phoenix, and news that she’s a traveler—a being that can jump through time—has her second-guessing every decision she’s ever made. Detroit is about to be rocked by death and destruction. The question is, will Luna be the saint protecting it or the sinner bringing it down? Things are about to change for everybody, and it’s impossible to know who will rise from the ashes. The fight between good and evil, the past and the present, is on, and Luna will be right in the middle of it for better or worse. THe world is about to burn.     AmazonKU

AS THE COOKIE CRUMBLES ( A TWO BROOMSTICKS GAS AND GRILL WITCH COZY MYSTERY BOOK EIGHT) by Amanda M Lee

Christmas is right around the corner, and Stormy Morgan is ready to celebrate for the first time in years. She’s been dreaming of one thing…Shadow Hills’ infamous Christmas festival. There’s just one little problem. When helping her new friend Easton pick out clothes in the thrift store, Stormy discovers the owner is missing. What’s worse, it looks as if there was a struggle in the back room. What happened to the married mother of one? Stormy gets her boyfriend Hunter Ryan involved and they start searching. The only thing they can ascertain with any certainty is that there’s a hint of magic pulsing around the town, and maybe it has something to do with the disappearance. Stormy has her hands full with gnome shifters and her old high school nemesis, so a missing person’s case isn’t something she’s looking forward to. She has no choice but to dig, though. Her conscious won’t allow the alternative. Stormy might be new at the magic contest, but she understands winning. When another person disappears, she realizes she’s playing the wrong game. In a world where fire rules, cold is about to claim them all. Can Stormy win?     AmazonKU

QUEEN OF CHAOS (LEGACY OF THE 9 REALMS BOOK FIVE)  by Amelia Hutchins

A queen in chaos . . .A kingdom left in ashes . . .A fate that may turn to ruins . . .A king who continually stokes her flames….What’s a girl to do? Some women rise from their ashes, Aria tends to be the one making the ashes nowadays. Aria’s world is unraveling into utterly, beautiful chaos. Will she become the savior the Nine Realms need, or will she become the monster they’ve made? Are you brave enough to enter the Nine Realms? 
There’s a queen rising, and in chaos, she’ll reign.  Amazon     Apple Books

HEXES AND OHS  by Various

Witch, please. That’s just one of the things a lucky lover may be crying out in this sexy witch-themed paranormal romance collection. Will love cast its spell this Halloween? Hexes and Ohs (and “More, please.” and “Do that again.”) abound in this steamy-not scary collection of stories from USA Today best-selling and award-winning romance authors curated by The New Romance Café, with ALL proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

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BEAUTY’S BEASTS by Alex Hanson

I am not a woman. But I am also not a man. I won’t pretend to be something I’m not, but those around me—both friends and enemies alike—are determined to make me. My village is adamant I marry the pastor’s son, dress like a proper lady, and go only by the name given to me at birth. When I refuse, they cast me into The Deadwood: an enchanted forest of vines and brambles crawling with deadly demons and wicked magic. What I find waiting for me there are no demons like our legends describe, but four cursed warriors from another world, victims of a spell cast by an evil sorceress. It’s said they can be freed from their torment by a human, but not just any human, one that is neither a man nor a woman. We soon discover I’m the key to breaking this spell, but just how I’m supposed to do that remains a mystery. I must get close enough to each of the warriors to somehow lift this curse, or we’ll all be doomed to spend eternity in The Deadwood.     AmazonKU

SPOOK’S POSSESSION: RBMC TONOPAH, NV AND ROYAL HARLOTS CROSSOVER by Nikki Landis

VS Note: Author says there’s a paranormal reaper twist.

Spook: She was the right girl at the right time. Heather showed up at the lowest point in my life. She saved me from ruin. As a boy, I grew obsessed. As a man, I’m downright possessive. Until she breaks up with me and disappears. My heart refuses to recover. Georgia, a Royal Harlot, aches as badly as I do. We find a way to ease each other’s burden until Heather shows up again. But the choice isn’t simple. The devil likes to play tricks. I’m a Royal Bastards MC prospect, not a pawn in his game. This Halloween, I’ll prove I have what it takes to ride with the Reaper. Then I’ll reclaim my beautiful, hostile treat, and Heather will be mine. Heather: I was the right girl at the wrong time. The story of my life. Taken as a small child, I faced evil. My world shattered. Rescued by a gang of bikers, it forever changed. I became an MC princess who hid a dark secret. When I met the new boy with a nervous tick and soulful eyes, I knew he was the only one who could make me whole again. But when the past returns and I’m forced to face my demons, Can Spook save me from myself?     AmazonKU

WOLF’S PRIZE (BRIDES FOR BEASTS: WOLVES BOOK THREE) by Candace Ayers and Kym Dillon

They say I’m wild, untamed, savage. They’re not wrong. I prefer my fur rather than skin. I haven’t set paw in the village in sixteen years. Nor have I wanted to. Until now. Until her. My claws scrape the floor as I circle her, staking my claim. She trembles under my hot breath, her heart racing. I know she’s mine the second I lay eyes on her. I don’t care who I have to fight to prove it. I’ll kill them all to claim her, to possess her, to keep her. MINE. **This is a SHORT, feel-good, instalove-inspired, fated mates wolf shifter romance.**     AmazonKU

DARKEST NEED: A DARK ONES NOVELLA by Rachel Van Dyken

I see everything. I feel everything. I watch people fall in love. I watch them burn with hate, anger, rage, and I see the cycle repeat over and over again. I take it on every night I work at Timber, aka Anubis’s bar in downtown Seattle, and then I help the rest of the immortals keep the very intense balance between Heaven and Earth. I see everyone’s future but mine, and when I try to look, all I see is darkness, despair, need…Until she walks into my bar with bruises on her face, getting pulled by one of the lesser demons. I do what any good bartender would do… I beat him within an inch of his life and turn my eyes to her.By then, it’s too late. She already has me in her grasp. A succubus that has no other plan than to suck me clean of every inch of power that’s been bestowed on me by the Heavens. I never thought my future involved getting kidnapped and tied up or that I’d die by way of sex—then again, maybe that’s for the best. Dying at the hands of my enemy rather than being one more burden to my already mated friends. After all, giving into one last need before death, while selfish, may be exactly what my darkness means. My need is great. And she’s about to find out just how much.     Amazon     AB

DEATH UNDONE (NECROMANCER RISING BOOK FOUR): MM PARANORMAL URBAN FANTASY SERIES by Richard Amos

Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, the crap really hits the fan. Now what? How do you clear up a mess as big as this? Is there any coming back from absolute chaos? I have to believe in hope. I have to believe in my love for Death, for a future beyond this pain and drama. But why does hope feel like such a foolish dream at this point? Damn. An ending is coming…I just hope I survive it.     AmazonKU

HALLOWEEN MATE: FIGHTING FATE SERIES by Riley Onyx

One fae shifter determined to claim his mate…one woman who’ll do anything to escape the Fairy realm – Owin – After dropping out of the hunt to seek some fun, I run into a woman who my magic recognizes as my mate. I’m not sure I want a mate, though many from Fairy would take my place in a heartbeat. That is until I realize she is a vampire. Mira – The bar has been busy all night, and most people are in some kind of costume. I dressed up as a fairy with fake wings to replace the ones I lost. Having fled Fairy, to escape a bargain my mother made with my life, I’ve grown used to living on halfling blood instead of magic. When the yellow-eyed fairy man walks in, I know he is here to kill me.

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CREEPY COURT: A MONSTER MALL ANTHOLOGY by Various

VS Note: Listed in Erotica.

Welcome to the ‘80s – Bright neon lights are humming. Tunes are cranked to the max. And everyone from preppies to punk rockers are chilling out at the Creepy Court Mall—the happening place in town.But behind the glam, things are stranger than they seem. Gnarly monsters hide in plain sight, and they’re on the prowl for their perfect mate. So mallrats, tease out those bangs and tight roll those jeans, and bounce to the mall today.   Amazon

FOR THE LOVE OF VILLAINS: ANTHOLOGY by Various

VS Note: I have no idea what genres these may be. Cool idea for an anthology theme though. You know me and anthologies!

I shouldn’t be falling in love…Fear fuels my every move…the pulsating adrenaline tickling my spine. I shouldn’t sacrifice safe and secure for dangerous and deranged…I shouldn’t be attracted to morally corrupt…Yet…Desire is coating my traumatized heart…And I’m running right into the arms of the wrong person. The villain. Some of your favorite authors have teamed up to bring to you SIXTEEN new stories in every shade of morally gray you can think of. From mafia to bully, dark romance and age gap… you will find villains living in these pages. Do you dare to fall in love with bad?     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

VAMPIRE’S DELIGHT by Holly Day

Vampires, blood witches, and murders! All Duncan Caddock wants is to make people believe he’s human, and for the most part, he succeeds. He’s working as a detective and is solving human crimes. But he’s not a human; he’s a blood witch. The life of a blood witch isn’t pleasant, though, and he refuses to live like one. It all works out great until he outs himself by using his powers on a vampire. Urien Sayer wants to hide in his house, but as second in command in the kingdom of supernaturals, he has to be seen. Then one night, he accidentally tries to take a bite out of the town’s new detective, only to realize the detective isn’t as human as he pretends to be. Blood witches are valuable, and Urien wants to keep Duncan in the kingdom and preferably in his bed. Duncan isn’t sure staying in Norbridge is a good idea, but when people are starting to get murdered, he gets dragged further into the world of the supernaturals than he’d ever planned on. And if he’s gonna solve murders on the supernatural side of society, who better to have by his side than the top vampire?

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BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE (WITCHES OF ARCHER’S HOLLOW BOOK FOUR) by Constance Barker and Savannah Mills

Where there’s smoke, there’s a mystery—and this one’s about to ignite. A baffling blaze claims a life, and though many see it as a tragic accident, Fiona and Levi sense a more sinister story smoldering beneath. The victim, enshrouded in a past of treachery and grudges, wasn’t short of adversaries. But would someone truly fan the flames of vengeance to this deadly extent? Together, the duo dives deep into a sizzling cauldron of suspicions and secrets. Every clue heats up the trail, and every whisper could either be a warning or a confession. In the aftermath of the mysterious fire, Fiona unearths an enigmatic orb among the victim’s treasures. Glowing with concealed knowledge, the orb might just hold the key to the deadly inferno. But its cryptic whispers bring more questions than answers. And as if the blaze’s riddle wasn’t enough, a ghost from Fiona’s past returns with a vengeance. An old school rival, with bitterness and power to match, challenges her to the ultimate witch duel. With stakes higher than ever, the battleground of magic is set. Dive into the heart of Archer’s Hollow where spells, secrets, and old scores await settlement. As ancient powers and personal vendettas intertwine, will Fiona prove herself in both the realms of mystery and magic?     AmazonKU

MEDUSA (SPEED DATING WITH THE DENIZENS OF THE UNDERWORLD BOOK 30) by Gina Kincade and Erzabet Bishop

Fly away on the back of a green dragon? Yes, please! Maddie Gordon is stuck in a bit of a rut. Work. Home. Wine. Sleep. Rinse and repeat. Providing daycare in the Underworld can be hellish fun, but she needs some adult time in her life. When the perfect guy to jolt her out of the mundane cycle arrives in her life like a whirlwind, Maddie is literally swept off her feet. Unfortunately, all she got other than a pleasantly sore body was his first name… until he needs an alibi! Dragon shifter Jaden McKellen is a fighter at Valhalla’s Throne, and he’s damn good at it. Forced to lose a fight, his brothers send him to the DeLux Café to blow off steam. Reluctant at first, he’s grateful once he meets the gorgeous Maddie. After a night of passion, Jaden returns home to find the police on his doorstep. Now his only alibi is a woman he thought he’d never see again. Their chemistry is undeniable, so why does Jaden keep running away?     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

ODIN: A PARANORMAL PROTECTOR TALE (HEART OF ICE SERIES) by Demelza Carlton

One corpse killed her career. Now a new one could resurrect it. Until it disappears…When a patient’s dying wish gets Freyja fired, she’s forced to consider a career change – as the forensic pathologist for a Viking archaeological dig. At first, it’s the most boring job in the world – until the team dig up an actual body. Dubbed the discovery of the century, the iceman arrives in her lab, hot on the heels of a snowstorm. Only the next morning, it’s gone. As if being snowed in with the hot, mysterious new caretaker isn’t trouble enough, can she find the missing iceman before the snow melts and the news crews arrive?

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A LIGHT MOST HATEFUL by Hailey Piper

Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower.
Olivia figures she’ll die in Chapel Hill, if not from boredom, then the summer night storm which crashes into town with a mind-bending monster in tow. If Olivia’s going to escape Chapel Hill and someday reconcile with her parents, she’ll need to dodge residents enslaved by the storm’s otherworldly powers and find Sunflower. But as the night strains friendships and reality itself, Olivia suspects the storm, and its monster, may have its eyes on Sunflower and everything she loves. Including Olivia.

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CRUISES AND BRUISES (AMETHYST’S WAND SHOP MYSTERIES BOOK 10) by Laura Greenwood and Arizona Tape

A cruise should give Amy and Ambrose time to relax, but when there’s a death on board, all of that changes. Its up to Amy, Ambrose, and their friends to solve the murder before they reach land and the murderer has a chance to flee.

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HERBAL CONCOCTIONS AND OUT OF OPTIONS (CAULDRON’S COFFEE SHOP BOOK 11) by Laura Greenwood

Willow and Azíl are back in their penultimate adventure in Herbal Concoctions And Out Of Options! Herbal Concoctions And Out Of Options is book eleven of the Cauldron Coffee Shop Series, a cozy urban fantasy featuring a coffee shop-owning witch, an ancient warlock cursed to live in a teapot, and a cheeky cat. It includes an m/f romantic subplot.

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FLAME AND SPARROW by S M Gaither

On the eve of her twentieth birthday, Karys woke to the sight of a divine creature dying outside her home. Two weeks later, her sister disappeared, leaving nothing but a trail of blood in her wake. Convinced the gods were responsible for the disappearance, Karys has spent the past five years plotting her revenge with the help of a cutthroat band of likeminded elven rebels. So when Dravyn—one of her world’s most powerful deities—descends upon her kingdom in search of humans worthy of serving him, Karys knows what she must do. Earning a place at the god’s side will allow her to find out what truly happened to her sister…and then destroy the gods from the inside out for what they did. Thrown into the dazzling but deadly world of the divine courts, she must navigate complicated politics, strange magic, and dangerous trials to prove herself worthy of standing among the gods. Among the most dangerous of these trials is Dravyn himself. Karys knows better than to trust the enigmatic God of Fire. The flames of passion that stir between them are only divine trickery. And yet, the more she learns about him, the hotter the forbidden sparks burn. The more she begins to question all she thought she knew about the world of gods and mortals and everything in-between. And the more she risks betraying her own secrets, which may be the most dangerous thing of all.     AmazonKU

MISFIT MAGE AND HIS DASHING DEVIL: DIABOLIC ROMANCE BOOK ONE by MN Bennet

Apprentice mage Wally spends his days cataloging rare artifacts and dreaming about finally mastering his magics and living the adventures he’s always desired. Bez, a once mighty devil who craves the freedom of the outside world again, despises his confinement inside a powerful object. His only company now comes from the mages working within the archives he’s stored. Among them, the most annoying of them all, an anxious and considerate Walter. When the archive is attacked, Wally and Bez each seize the opportunity to achieve their dreams—and inadvertently create a magical link between them. With so many lives lost in this assault on the mage headquarters, Wally’s connection to a dangerous devil makes him a threat and a target, forcing the pair on the run. Wally sees Bez as a sadistic devil, and Bez finds every word out of the mage’s mouth grating. Even so, they’ll have to work together to unravel the true threat in the city or they won’t live long enough to enjoy the lives they’ve both desperately wanted.   AmazonKU

VIRTUE SAVED (NYC SHIFTER TALES BOOK THREE) by C D Gorri

Virtue comes in all shapes and sizes…Alina Petrova has gone from practicing ballet as an understudy in Russia to being cooped up in her big brother’s fancy house in New Jersey. She is finished waiting for the men in her life to come rescue her. Especially the big Grizzly with the gorgeous brown eyes. If he won’t claim her, then she will have to take matters into her own hands. Eduardo Valens is a Bear Shifter and an ex-mercenary working for one of the biggest, baddest Tigers in NYC. He owes the guy for saving his life more than once, which is why there is no way in hell he is going to take the man’s little sister as his mate. Until matters are taken out of his hands. When the son of the Bratva boss they sent to prison sets his sights on Alina, there is nothing Eduardo won’t do to save her life…and her virtue.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

HAUNTED SWEETS (SAMANTHA SWEET MAGICAL COZY MYSTERIES BOOK 17) by Connie Shelton

When Emily Plankhurst is visited by the ghost of Gabriel Graystone, and learns he was murdered, she knows she must find justice for him. The only problem is, Gabriel was killed a hundred years ago, shortly after he broke off his engagement to the daughter of a prominent Taos family, and there aren’t many other clues to go by in finding his killer. Emily, who runs a private research library—a place that’s known to harbor its own share of ghosts—teams up with Samantha Sweet and her daughter to investigate. As they delve into the case they discover that the story goes much deeper than a broken engagement or an old feud. There are hidden places in Taos that no one knows about, and plenty of ghostly old secrets. With danger lurking in the shadows, can they uncover the truth before those secrets catch up with them?

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LUCK OF THE PAW (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 77) by Milly Taiden

Shaara Patrick dreams of a quaint boutique inn, laughter of kids in the yard, and a loving husband. But her meager clerk’s wages keeps those dreams distant. Then, Gerri Wilder enters her life, bringing with her hope and romance. The shifter she’s set up with is handsome and sweet, so there’s obviously something wrong with him. Right? Lincoln Travis, the alpha of his bear clan, seems to have it all—wealth, looks, and women dying for his attention. Yet, an emptiness lingers; he craves his fated mate. When Gerri reappears in his life, Lincoln’s spirits soar. And when he meets Shaara, he knows that this strong, beautiful and hard-working woman is the one for him. Gerri’s matchmaking magic intertwines Shaara and Lincoln’s paths. But Shaara’s heart isn’t easily won. Their first meeting is a disaster, yet Lincoln refuses to give up. Can he make her fall for him despite his own failings and the fact that his brutal bearish nature may scare her? And can romance win the day when danger lurks around every corner?     AmazonKU

EVERYTHING UNDER THE MOON: FAIRY TALES IN A QUEERER LIGHT by Various

Some damsels don’t want to be rescued. Some curses don’t need to be broken. And some of the best happy ever afters won’t be found in storybooks. Think you know fairy tales? Think again. These twelve fairy tales have been spun through a queered lens to reflect our world in stories as old as time. From the furthest reaches of space and the darkest depths of the forest to the street just around the corner, this anthology will excite, challenge and move you. Featuring stories from some of the biggest names in young adult fiction, Everything Under The Moon is an illuminating celebration of queer love and identity.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

FAE LIS BRIDE (FAE BRIDE SERIES BOOK TWO) by Jessica M Butler

To save her sister, a desperate human woman is willing to kidnap the handsome Lord of Wind and Spring – Daphne must bring a powerful elemental fae lord to the mountain before the full moon or her little sister dies. Kanek, a fine-dressing but reclusive elemental fae, knows something has to change, but he doesn’t know what to do or how. A human woman showing up in his sanctuary and attempting (unsuccessfully) to render him unconscious and abduct him is not part of his plans. But her utter gall and desperation are enough to convince him that maybe cooperation is better than ignoring her. It’s not the quest he expected. He’s not the man she thought. She might be harder to live without than she is to live with. And right from the start, he can’t stop thinking about her. But it is just because she’s annoying? Right?     AmazonKU

SOLSTICE WEB (MOONSHADOW BAY SERIES BOOK 10) by Yasmine Galenorn

It’s December, two years since I returned to Moonshadow Bay, and I’m about to marry Killian on the Winter Solstice. In the past two years, I’ve fought ghosts and urban legends, and each time I’ve come out triumphant. Now, with the curse on the women of my family lifted, I can look forward to a long life doing what I love most, with the people I love best. And our work at Conjure Ink has been thankfully quiet. But a new threat arises to threaten not only the town, but the region. The Covenant of Chaos has been growing in strength, and their new leader–Mill McFarland–moves to town. The Court Magika charges the Crystal Cauldon with invoking a protector for Moonshadow Bay. But we find ourselves facing yet another problem that could prove deadly when one of our members falls under Mill’s spell. Now we must not only find a way to protect the town, but to rescue our friend and coven-mate from the Covenant of Chaos. All in the weeks leading up to my wedding!     Amazon      Apple Books     Kobo

FRIGHT NIGHT CHOCOLATE DELIGHT (MURDER IN THE MIX BOOK 48) by Addison Moore

My name is Lottie Lemon, and I see dead people. Okay, so I rarely see dead people, mostly I see furry creatures of the dearly departed variety, who have come back from the other side to warn me of their previous owner’s impending doom. My mother’s B&B is hosting a Fright Night Festival for the entire month of October and since my bakery is out of commission I’ve opened up a booth there to sell my sweet wares. But Not only is that lunatic, the Prankster, still terrorizing me, but a body turns up at the festivities. There are more pumpkins, candy, haunted hayrides, and ghosts than you can shake a magic wand at in Honey Hollow this time of year. And just when I thought my honey-glazed doughnuts would be the talk of the festival, it’s a grim-faced ghoul stealing the show. But when I find a chilling clue hidden within my very own sweet wares, I realize that this Fright Night may just turn into my worst nightmare. Can I sift through the madness, unmask the Prankster, and stop a killer before the final trick is on me?   AmazonKU

BROOMS by Jasmine Walls

It’s 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those who need the money, or the thrills…it’s there to be found. Meet Billie Mae, captain of the Night Storms racing team, and Loretta, her best friend and second-in-command. They’re determined to make enough money to move out west to a state that allows Black folks to legally use magic and take part in national races. Cheng-Kwan – doing her best to handle the delicate and dangerous double act of being the perfect “son” to her parents, and being true to herself while racing. Mattie and Emma — Choctaw and Black — the youngest of the group and trying to dodge government officials who want to send them and their newly-surfaced powers away to boarding school. And Luella, in love with Billie Mae. Her powers were sealed away years ago after she fought back against the government. She’ll do anything to prevent the same fate for her cousins. Brooms is a queer, witchy Fast and the Furious that shines light on history not often told – it’s everything you’d ever want to read in a graphic novel.

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IMPOSSIBLE TASKS by Alexa Santi

To Lady Mirade, it seems a simple task: abduct the sorcerer son of her clan’s greatest enemy and persuade him to teach her the magic she needs to defend her family and her keep. She never expects her greatest battle to be against the forbidden desire that burns between them. The Lord Sorcerer Lorien’s task is to escape and return to his own clan so they can resume their feud. But even as he remains Mirade’s prisoner, he finds himself enchanted by her determination and passion to protect her people. As they grow ever closer, finding a way to resolve the feud so they can be together may prove to be the most impossible task of all.     AmazonKU

HOUSE OF BLOOD AND WHISPERS by Natalina Reis

Kidnapping Cahki might have been the worst mistake of Emperor Min’s life. Cahki – I was kidnapped and brought south across the seas to warm Emperor Min’s bed. I may be small, but inside of me live the strength and ferocity of a fjord dragon. When the prince offers me a way back to freedom, I take it. Even if it means marrying him, a stranger and an enemy. I can always kill him if things go awry. One thing is certain: I’ll be a slave to no one! Sung-jin – I’m the sole heir to the throne of the Southern Kingdom, the one thing that keeps me alive. Alive but not unharmed. My father is a believer in ruling by fear, and that applies even to me. I have the scars to prove it. The white-haired woman my father kidnapped could be the answer to all my prayers. As long as she doesn’t kill me first. No matter what, I will free my people from my father’s cruelty or die trying. A people who lives in fear. A court that hates its ruler. A cruel emperor with unsavory appetites and no morals. When Prince Sung-jin and his new wife, Cahki set out to rescue the kingdom and its people, the odds are not on their side. But they are still willing to give it a try. There are only two choices: win or die!

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THE CANE, THE PUZZLE AND MAGIC by Vicky Burkholder

Facing down an ancient evil, special agent Elizabeth St. John is outnumbered, outgunned, and outmatched. Local cop Kaeden Pike is the perfect choice to help her but letting him—or anyone—into her life and heart is the most difficult challenge she’s ever faced. Kaeden has never found the one person who fit him, until now. But how can he convince Liz that they make the perfect pair, especially when the end of the world is coming? Someone has to gather the forces of good to win this fight, but when Liz accepts the role, she finds that being alone isn’t a choice she has to make. Almost losing Kaeden to the evil who already took the only other person she’s ever trusted convinces her to open her heart and let him in…where he belongs.      Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

MATE OF HER OWN by Elena Abbott

Heather McKenna has no idea how to be a werewolf. Her wolf might be free from its cursed cage but has shut the door between the two of them, leaving Heather still reeling from the emptiness. When Heather discovers her mother is in the hospital, she is certain that closure from the person who cursed her in the first place will settle her wolf’s grudge and is quick to pack a bag. V Raines sees the problems with werewolf society all around them. Despite being a nonbinary outcast in their own pack, they still have the responsibilities of being the Alpha’s only child. When their father attempts to pair them off with a dominant male pack member, V is all but ready to abandon their pack. When V is called to the hospital to take care of a possible rogue shifter, they aren’t ready for the consequences of finding their true mate in Heather. V’s all in as Heather worries she’s not wolf enough to stand between V’s intense pack and her true mate. Fate just made their lives a lot more difficult.     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

THE ART OF DESTINY: A NOVEL (THE WAR ARTS SAGA BOOK TWO) by Wesley Chu

Once there was a prophecy that a chosen one would rise to defeat the Eternal Khan, an immortal god-king. But the prophecy was wrong. Now Jian, the former chosen hero, is just an ordinary young man trying to find his own way. But he may yet have an extraordinary destiny, because he joins forces with Taishi, his grumpy grandmaster, who instructs him in the ways of her family’s powerful war art. Jian still has a long way to go before he can become her heir, so she recruits a band of elderly grandmasters who come out of retirement to whip him into shape and help with this one last job. And there are others who are also seeking their own destiny, like Qisami, an assassin on a secret mission to protect a powerful noblewoman from her enemies. But as Qisami goes undercover to complete her mission, she takes on a new identity that gives her something she never had before: friendship, found family, and new purpose. Sali also thought her fate was laid before her. She was supposed to be looking for the next Eternal Khan and now finds her clan exiled from everything she’s ever known. As she leads the survivors in search of a new home, Sali discovers that she’s something she never thought she could be: a leader and a revolutionary. Because sometimes destiny is grander than any prophecy can foresee. And the greatest destiny of all is the one you choose for yourself.

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THE BONE ROOTS by Gabriela Houston

The Bone Roots is a slavic-folklore inspired fantasy that explores how far a mother will go to protect her child…It’s been 40 years since the Fox took Kada’s brother. Though she ran and kept herself hidden, she fears it may be stalking her again, this time to steal her daughter. Every year, Vedma Kada gives thanks to the bone roots – those that belong to the child-bearing tree who gave Kada her desperately-wanted baby, Secha. Kada lives her life in service of the bone roots and the goddess Zemya, but they cannot keep her daughter safe. Not when Secha’s emerging powers, both mysterious and brutish, threaten to out her for who she truly is…Meanwhile Sladyana, a rich noblewoman, has spent the last fifteen years searching for her missing daughter, Luba. She was snatched from their home by the Fox thief and Sladyana has heard nothing from her since. But the one who gave Sladyana her daughter has come within her grasp once again, and so has the secret of her daughter’s fate.

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IRONHEART (FEATHER AND STONE BOOK ONE) by Alessia Thorn

Once upon a time, a sorcerer trapped a swan princess in a tower and she waited for a prince to save her…this isn’t the story you know. ‘The Swan Princess’ meets ‘Gargoyles’ in this brand new series that’s full of sinister magic, warring gods, and scorching romance. Zori has spent her entire life knowing she could die at any moment from a rare brain disease. Protected by Maxim, her doctor and guardian, she watches the world pass her by. That is, until one night her loneliness forces her to escape her tower and she has a most unexpected encounter. Gargoyles were created to protect the swan priestesses of Morana. When Vladik stumbles across an unknown swan priestess, he has no idea what to do. Not only does Zori believe she’s a normal human, but her guardian isn’t who he appears to be. Vladik knows he must save Zori from her prison, but neither one of them will be ready for the power running through Zori’s veins or the war that is about to be fought over her. Vladik’s duty is to protect, but he will soon learn that the love between him and Zori will be the most powerful weapon of all.     AmazonKU

AWAKENING (THE ARCHITECT’S GUARDIAN BOOK ONE) by Octavia Atlas

Armando Medina suffered a tragic loss at the hands of some Nitelvosa, supernatural beings who control his world. For decades, he’s been unable to forget the horrific night when his life changed. Izdahl Amasi, a member of a prominent Nitelvosa family, had briefly dated Armando. He’d hoped for much more, but Armando’s trauma drove a painful wedge between them. With each passing day, Izdahl’s heart grew heavier, as he thought of what could have been. Now, Armando and Izdahl find themselves connected in unexpected ways. Despite how much Armando tries to avoid the truth of their attraction, he’s drawn to Izdahl. Looming over them are events from Armando’s youth and the mystery of who’s responsible for his anguish. Can Armando open his heart and trust Izdahl? Or will Izdahl stop believing they have a chance?     Amazon     Apple Books     Kobo

SILENT KEY by Laurel Hightower

After the loss of her husband under mysterious circumstances, former Detective Cam Ambrose learns how little she truly knew him. Reeling with the grief of her loss and the realization that the man she loved was a stranger, she must learn how to keep her young daughter safe from a world of the supernatural she never knew existed. With the help of her best friend Dimi and reclusive neighbor Eric Morgan, she sets out to solve a decades-old mystery entangling the machinations of an obsessed killer, her husband’s mistress, and a series of deadly hauntings.

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A STROKE OF THE PEN: THE LOST STORIES byt Terry Pratchett

A delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett, the award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld fantasy series. This special trove—featuring charming woodcut illustrations—is a must-have for Pratchett fans of all ages and includes a foreword by Neil Gaiman. These rediscovered tales were written by Terry Pratchett under a pseudonym for British newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. The stories have never been attributed to him until now, and might never have been found—were it not for the efforts of a few dedicated fans. ..(more blurb on ebook seller’s page)

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SWORD CATCHER by Cassandra Clare

In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill. Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but Kel knows that his destiny is to die for Conor. No other future is possible. Lin Caster is one of the Ashkar, a small community whose members still possess magical abilities. By law, they must live behind walls within the city, but Lin, a physician, ventures out to tend to the sick and dying of Castellane. Despite her skills, she cannot heal her best friend without access to forbidden knowledge. After a failed assassination attempt brings Lin and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, the criminal ruler of Castellane’s underworld. He offers them each what they want most; but as they descend into his world of intrigue and shadow, they discover a conspiracy of corruption that reaches from the darkest gutters of Castellane to the highest tower of its palaces. As long-kept secrets begin to unravel, they must ask themselves: Is knowledge worth the price of betrayal? Can forbidden love bring down a kingdom? And will their discoveries plunge their nation into war—and the world into chaos?

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PERFECTLY CHARMED PIXIE: PARSNIP’S STORY (PERFECT PIXIE SERIES BOOK THREE) by MJ May

Youthful arrogance and misplaced trust left Parsnip’s once beautiful aqua colors little more than shades of muted gray. As a social pixie and host of a popular TV show, Parsnip desperately needs to fool everyone into believing he’s that same, stunningly colorful creature. Warlock-made charms are all Parsnip needs to keep up the rouse. But the financial cost is high, and each activated charm steals more of his life force. Despite this, Parsnip’s willing to pay any price. After all, who would want a faded pixie?
Everyone knows warlocks have no moral compass. But if that’s true, why does Vander Kines turn down more commissions than he accepts? Barely able to keep a roof over his head, his shop open, his brownie ward fed, and beer in the fridge, Vander should jump at the large sums of money clients are willing to throw in his direction. But no amount of cash is worth the cost of his soul, and his only true concern is keeping the young brownie safe. When a magical mishap with Parsnip’s warlock sends the pixie through Vander’s door, Vander refuses his request until he discovers Parsnip is his one and only. Now, he will go to any lengths to make Parsnip happy—even trading his own life force in place of Parsnip’s. Unfortunately, Parsnip isn’t fooling everyone, and a witch with a vendetta is determined to expose his secret, and she’s willing to kill Vander and hand Parsnip over to his worst ogre nightmare to get what she wants. True, unvarnished love is hard to find and sometimes even harder to accept. Having found it, Parsnip’s willing to do anything to keep it safe…even if that means giving up his charmed life.     AmazonKU

THE WITCH OF MARACOOR: A NOVEL (ANOTHER DAY BOOK THREE) by Gregpory Maguire

Following a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the one-time Wizard of Oz, Rainary Ko—the granddaughter of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West—has re-upped in a mission to settle a few scores and right a wrong or two. Her memory and her passions reviving, Rain turns her gaze back to her native Oz. Though the Grimmerie, which she had cast into the sea, retains its arcane power over her, the lover she left behind in Oz proves no less haunting. Traveling companions and arrivistes can befuddle a young witch coming into her own, but Rain marshals a steely determination to stare her troubles in the eye and see who blinks first. In the Another Day cycle, a lost young woman grows through a cautious adolescence into an adult state of fervor and daring. Enchantment imprisons and it also liberates. Pay heed, pay respect, but above all, pay attention.

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SONG OF FLAMES (SISTERS OF SONG BOOK ONE) by M D Grimm

She tried to steal treasure from the dragons’ hoard… and stole their hearts instead. 
To save her sister from a lascivious lord, Venya must steal a piece of treasure from a legendary dragon’s hoard. Dragons haven’t been seen in several generations, so imagine her surprise when she wakes not one, but two dragons from their hibernation. While the battle-honed Onyx is intent on having her for lunch, the graceful Gold appears more curious than angered by the theft. Abyss and Ray have very different ideas about what to do with the thief when they catch her. Abyss wants to punish her while Ray is intrigued by her audacity. After Ray turns his mate’s anger to desire, the dragons set out on a rescue mission, intent on capturing the brazen thief and learning more about her. And to see if her Song matches theirs. Neglected and discarded by her parents, Venya has never bonded with anyone except her sister. Now she has two mighty dragons wanting to woo her and take her as their mate. While she finds delight in their company, she must reassess her own self-worth before she can trust them enough to love them. But the dragons have exposed themselves to the outside world, and many covet not only their hoard but Ray’s golden scales. And when Venya’s closely held secret is revealed, she becomes a prize worth killing for.

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SOPHIE (TERRARIUMS BOOK ONE) by Linda Mooney

Sophie is a victim of spousal abuse, but her husband hadn’t always been like that. She still loves him and refuses to give up on her marriage, despite his treatment of her. Until there came the day when she stepped into a unique floral shop that offered her a world where her most fervent wishes could come true. Welcome to BEWITCHERY Floral Arts & Gifts.

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WHERE FOXES SAY GOODNIGHT by Sam Hall

Max is living the screenwriter dream. He’s not even thirty, he’s just won an Oscar, and he’s dating the gorgeous star of his movie. But after that one magical night, everything crumbles. The movie star dumps him, and his latest screenplay is a blank document that stubbornly refuses to write itself. So Max decides to disappear into the middle of nowhere, and maybe obscurity. He’s just getting settled into his new life when suddenly someone is trying to kill him. Gorgeous Gentry Fox seems like he wants to help, but the way he keeps showing up at just the right times is suspicious. Is he the aw-shucks good ol’ boy he seems, or part of the plot to kill Max? Just as importantly, is he single? Where Foxes Say Goodnight is a paranormal romance featuring one heartbroken screenwriter, one down-on-his-luck hunk, some missing jewels, and a grandmother’s meddling ghost. It’s a standalone novel with a guaranteed HEA.     AmazonKU

MANEATER (MONSTERS OF MOONVALE) by Emily Antoinette

VS Note: Listed in Erotica.

A witch seeking connection…If something ever seems too good to be true, it probably is. That’s how the “friendly” invitation to join a new coven turned into a surprise demon summoning. At least it wasn’t a virgin sacrifice. Then I really would have been screwed—and not in the way they plan for with the succubus they’ve bound. When I help free her from the bindings and offer her a ride back to work, things get even weirder. She tells me she wants to see me again. This captivating woman wants to see me—a nerdy witch who spends his free time playing D&D. There’s no way she means it. Because that’s definitely too good to be true. Still, there’s no way I can resist the opportunity to spend more time with a goddess like her. A succubus with a soft heart…Nothing like getting summoned by a bunch of cultists to ruin your night. These creeps trapped me and won’t let me leave until I “feed on their desires”. I may be a succubus, but I’m not that desperate. Thankfully, an unexpected savior helps free me. He’s adorable. So shy and earnest, valiantly trying to suppress the desire he feels in my presence. At first, I think it’s an act. But he proves his sweet nature is genuine. Something about this witch calls to me. Not just to take him to the darkest depths of desire and see him undone—though that sounds fun. But to let myself open my scarred heart to someone who might not crush it.     AmazonKU

BRIDGE IN THE MIST (STEAM THROUGH TIME BOOK THREE) by Carolyn Bond

Rayne Fields, a virologist working on a universal flu vaccine unwittingly time travels to 1890 by the strength of a Victorian widow’s broken heart. Eleanora Anderson wishes more than anything that she could have saved her husband Fletcher from succumbing to the Russian flu pandemic. Rayne’s spirit inhabits Eleanora’s body during the months prior to the outbreak in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. Fletcher senses his bride is not the same since she came back from a trip. When he finds out the truth, he has to come to terms with the deal his widow made to save his life. The question is, will Rayne stay and try to save him in a time when women had few rights and would never have had a man’s job, and when medical science was still fraught with old wives’ tales? Maybe her heart will help her decide.     AmazonKU

TAKEN FROM MY CLAN (SHIFTER PROTECTORS) by Lily Wilder

Two rival dragons kidnap me. Being the clan leader’s mate is an honor. Yet I feel dread at being forced to mate with him. As a good girl, I’d never disgrace our dragon clan. So I resign myself to my fate. That’s when Ayrvan and Tarsi kidnap me. Stoic, stubborn, and tight-lipped. They’re the opposite of me. I should hate them. Instead, I feel pulled towards Tarsi’s pitch-black dragon. In his human form, his thick, black hair falls to the middle of his muscular back. I want to caress his sunkissed skin. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Ayrvan stirs dangerous desire within me too.His dark eyes make me want to confess all my secrets. He’s the enemy, but my body feels safe in his strong arms. Being with them is a sin. Yet that’s all I want. I must escape before my treacherous, forbidden feelings bubble over.    AmazonKU

FANGED SECRETS (THE NEW HEMLOCK WOLF PACK SAGA BOOK NINE) by Maggie Hemlock

Omega vampire, Shepard, is pretty sure he’s out of options to find a way to heal the bloody visions that he’s had most of his life. They leave him thrashing around on the floor and crying tears. His last hope lies in Heartville. Liam Moonscale has become somewhat of a self-taught expert on the Omega Sight, and Shepard desperately needs someone to solve the riddle that has become his life. Alpha Wolf, Daniel, is happy with his lot in life. He has a loving family and loves what Heartville is growing into. He has plenty to keep him busy, and that’s enough for him. At least, it was enough for him until Shepard stumbles into his life and collapses on the pavement right in front of him. Now, the Alpha wolf is desperate to do whatever it takes to find the mysterious cause of the horrible visions that leave his true-mate in shambles. Will love and grit be enough for the New Hemlock Wolf Pack to save Shepard or will he be lost in the labyrinth inside his head forever?      AmazonKU

REBORN: THE SKOLL CLAN SHIFTERS BOOK TWO by Dallas Ryan

Exiled from his own time, a lone wolf shifter must seek redemption through an unlikely alliance, as a maiden’s powers become the key to saving all they hold dear. When Brandur woke up on a strange beach, he realized he’d not only been hurled from his home in Wyoming but also from his time. When a striking woman took aim at his neck, his wolf was immediately captivated, but his human side wanted only to escape her. Ulfhild spent years resisting her magickal powers, wanting her father to accept her as a warrior regardless of her gender. Bringing her father a likely spy should have earned her some praise. But when the Chieftain treated him as a guest instead, Ulfhild was livid. This man even made a ridiculous claim that he was from a legendary clan who disappeared long ago. He was arrogant, sly, and strange altogether. She couldn’t stand him, but she couldn’t seem to force him from her thoughts or control her desire for him. When both of their true natures are revealed, will Ulfhild and Brandur accept that they are fated mates and play their roles in an enigmatic, ancient prophecy, or will they risk losing everything, and everyone, they love?     AmazonKU

THE WAYS OF WAYWARD WITCHES (A TALE OF THREE SUISTERS BOOK ONE) by Evelyn King

“It’s a dangerous time for a Witch.” The scars left behind by the Blood Massacre of 1888 still run deep through the Witches of Britain a hundred and thirty-five years later. Queen Mara, who led the Witches to victory on that harrowing night, must once again face her old enemy as well as a mysterious group of rebels with seemingly no motive. Tired and ready to retire, Queen Mara wants nothing more than to pass the baton on to her only living heir…too bad Lumen doesn’t want to be Queen. With only a few weeks left until she turns twenty-one and must officially claim the title of Heir to the Blood Crown, Lumen is determined to spend her last moments of freedom doing what she loves best – sneaking out to walk among mortals and getting outrageously drunk at the upcoming Samhain Ball. Fate has a different idea. As a night of debauchery drags on, Lumen is embroiled in a mystery that will rewrite history, shed light on the recent attacks on Witches, and send her on a path to discover the true culprit behind her parents’ murders.
A hundred and thirty-five years in the past, two brothers are the only reason that the ignorant Witches of Gallows End haven’t been slayed in their entirety. Though the Grave brothers’ names may never make it into the history books, that doesn’t mean they’ll be entirely forgotten.     AmazonKU

IN PREY WE TRUST (APEX ACADEMY CAPERS BOOK THREE) by Cassandra Featherstone

My second year at Apex is going to be different. That’s what I’ve been telling myself, but I’m no fool. The Council can repair the damage to campus from last year, but it won’t change the rot beneath the surface. Someone is killing students and we don’t know why, much less who. My gut tells me my mother is paw deep in this nightmare, but is she the one pulling the strings or there a darker force at play? With my besties and the five professors who have sworn to protect me, I’m coming back to a viper’s nest of enemies and dark secrets. Until we figure out who the murderer lurking in our midst is, I’ll never be safe. ‘Run, rabbit run’ isn’t just a taunt anymore. It’s the only way I’ll stay alive.   AmazonKU

DOMINIC AND THE DOLPHIN (LAND AND SEA: A SHIFTER SERIES BOOK THREE) by Vinni George

What happens when fate intertwines shifters from land and sea? Dante Perez knows what it’s like to be an omega in an alpha’s world. He’s fought to make his company one of the best, and when he gets the opportunity to sponsor the summer’s air and water show circuit, he’s not going to let anything stand in his way, especially not alpha flyboy Dominic Pavone. Or his inconvenient attraction to the irritating man. For Dominic, being a stunt pilot for the summer is usually the best part of his year. Until Dante ruins everything by traveling with the show. Now Dom can’t escape Dante no matter how hard he tries… and maybe he’s not trying all that hard. When a hotel mix-up leaves Dante and Dominic sharing a room, the sparks that normally fly between them turn into flames of a different kind—the type that set the sheets on fire, and both men realize there is more between them. A lot more. As summer and their arrangement comes to an end, a surprise changes everything they thought they knew about each other, but maybe a new beginning—the kind that leads to forever—is exactly what Dom and Dante need.   AmazonKU

CELESTIA: YEAR THREE (ASLAN ACADEMY: UNICORN BLESSED CHRONICLES BOOK THREE) by Avery Phoenix and Yumoyori Wilson

Celestia Rainbow never expected to find out the truth about her birth or the role she now plays in the crisis going on throughout the dimensions. Forsaken are getting stronger and are attacking hunters and huntresses across the dimensions out of their desire for immense power. Celestia must deal with learning how she can help while also balancing her classes at Aslan Academy and dealing with the tension that’s growing within her team. With Theo returning home, Hunter dealing with his own issues, and Cairus and Caio feeling stuck on deciding whose side they’re on, Celestia, Finn, and Orion are having to work overtime to try and bring Team Misfit back together. Now that they know the identity of the mysterious man from Celestia’s dreams, it’s time to fight Darkness with Light, with the help of new comrades, familiars, and a little sprinkle of glitter. Will Aslan’s Elite unicorn shifter be able to hold onto her badass name and finally defeat the growing Darkness? Or will she and her lovers finally crumble beneath their own insecurities? Only one way to find out.     AmazonKU

GRAVE DUTY: A PARANORMAL PSYCHIC SUSPENSE MYSTERY (SHELBY NICHOLS ADVENTURE BOOK 17) by Colleen Helme

After the turmoil of the last few weeks, Shelby is hoping for a little less excitement and drama in her life, but her duty to a mob boss, the police, and her family, make that nearly impossible. Soon, the biggest danger she faces comes from an unexpected source, and she finds that some coincidences are part of a bigger scheme that could lead her to an early grave. Let’s hope she can dig her way out, or this adventure might be the last chapter in the life of Shelby Nichols.     AmazonKU

NECTAR OF WAR: THE SONG OF VERITY AND SERENITY (THE VECTOR OF WAR SERIES BOOK ONE) by Leilani Helen Aki

A deadly mutation has reached its peak within Vaigon—The Realm of the Wolves—forcing High Prince Laven and the Leaders of his Court to seek out other Realms for a cure. Throughout Laven’s search for alliance, he discovers The Realm of the Fae may be their only hope at surviving not just the mutations but the coming war. As a now separated world, the nations of Voschantai Universe must put their differences to rest and live as the Orviantes of their world once did ages before to stop the darkness looming over them all. In Vaigon, Maivena, a captive servant, and Prince Laven become a contracted pair. As they grow closer Maivena discovers powers within herself that provide her with the strength she once thought lost. During this age of war, sacrifices are made, love is tested, families are broken, and lives are to be taken. Even those who are known as the strongest of their world falter in the wake of disaster, all but one.   AmazonKU

DINNER AT fOXY’S (LAW AND SUPERNATURAL ORDER BOOK THREE) by Sylvia Onyx

Whenever he enters my restaurant, I can’t take my eyes off rookie officer Silas Bixby. He’s much too young for me—and too human. I’m a fox shifter. Few humans will have anything to do with my kind, and those who will are criminals, not cops, but still… I can’t stop fantasizing about how I could show Silas everything a shifter can do. When my uncle tries to force me back into the family fold, he puts Silas in danger. I vow to do everything I can to see my family brought to justice. I might not survive, but if I do, there might be a chance for Silas and me.     AmazonKU

THE HAUNTED FIRE (LIN COFFIN MYSTERY BOOK 17 by J A Whiting

VS Note: Author states there are “some paranormal elements”.

Lin Coffin has been able to see ghosts since she was a little girl and living on the island of Nantucket provides plenty of opportunities to interact with spirits. It is early May and Lin and Leonard are doing spring cleanup for their landscape clients, Jeff and his partner continue to renovate houses, and Viv is getting the bookstore-café ready for the tourist season. Lin hasn’t seen a ghost since November and has enjoyed the peaceful winter and the bustle of spring, but there is a problem on the island. Fire has engulfed two houses and their interiors have been a total loss, and the townsfolk are worried there might be an arsonist on the loose. Lin and Viv discover a third fire and there is something about it that makes the cousins think it has something to do with a ghost.
Will they be able to help restore calm to the island by finding the person responsible for the fires while also helping a ghost find peace, or will everything go up in smoke?   AmazonKU

WHERE FATE LEADS: FIGHTING FATE by Reina Torres

Brought to an exclusive Brazillian Resort for her wedding, Rosalicia finds her fiancé in bed with another woman. Heartbroken and rejected, she finds herself on a walk through the wild gardens surrounding the resort. Blinded by tears, she walks straight into the arms of an aroused shapeshifter. His soul is split in two. Half man, half jaguar, he has lived his entire life searching for the one who can merge his soul into one. Drawn to a resort carved into the jungle of his people, he hears the soul rending tears of a woman moving through the exotic gardens and when he finds her she stumbles into his arms. He knows, deep in his soul that she is the one for him. Rosalicia is his mate. His future lover. Mother of his heirs. He vows that if she lets him love her… worship her… she’ll never have a reason to cry again. He’ll do whatever it takes to make her blissfully happy for the rest of their lives.     AmazonKU

HALFLING (MONSTROUS WORLD BOOK ONE) by S E Wendel

A half-orc, half-human belongs nowhere…Orek has spent his life trying to prove himself to a clan that despises him. The son of a deposed orc chief and human captive, he must try twice as hard to prove himself a worthy male, a strong hunter, a potential mate…
Resigned to a thankless place in the shadows, Orek ekes out a living on the fringes of the clan, just waiting for an opportunity. But what he finds instead one cold autumn night could ruin everything he’s worked so hard to gain—a human woman, captured just as his mother was so many years ago. The choice to protect her from the clan isn’t a choice at all, but what will protect him and his lonely heart from her? A life about to begin, usurped by fate…Sorcha has spent her life helping raise her many siblings, but now finally has the chance to seek her own adventures. At least, she did, before she was snatched from her horse and peddled by slavers. Taken far from home, she’s brought to the worst place imaginable—the craggy western mountains infested with brutal, brutish orcs. All humans know to fear them and stay away, and now she’s been sold to the cruelest clan-chief of them all. But the first orc she meets is nothing like the stories. He’s gentle. He frees her. Nothing is what it seems as they lose themselves in the forest, hunted by trackers and slavers. Out of her depth, Sorcha has no choice but to rely on the mysterious halfling who saved her—but she’s been betrayed already and cannot afford to trust him. Even if, little by little, the quiet male reveals himself to be everything she could ever want. A human and a halfling, lives ripped apart, brought together by coincidence or fate. Running for their lives, they may find the most dangerous place is together.   AmazonKU

CURIOSITY CAUGHT THE DEMON by Travis Beaudoin

It’s hard to surprise Gremory. He’s been around for millennia, after all. But when this Duke of Hell is accidentally summoned by Scotty Campbell, the big-hearted owner of a struggling antique shop, he realizes there are still people in the world who can provoke his curiosity. As Gremory lets himself get tangled up in human emotions and earthly delights, Scotty’s big heart and quiet strength become irresistible. What started out as strictly business will blossom into a connection that will stretch the laws of Heaven, Hell, and the local village council. From witty banter to steamy encounters to the genuine joy two kindred souls find when they work toward a common goal, their relationship will push them farther than they ever expected to go. Sparks will fly, but will they be able to save Scotty’s shop in time for the town’s annual Halloween Festival?     AmazonKU

LOVE IN THE TIME OF LIONS: CAT SHIFTERS BOOK EIGHT by Severine Wolfe

Neither of them was looking for love, or even lust. However, once they met it was a key fitting into a lock that opened and showed them the world neither of them had really paid much attention to before. Cressida Turbett wanted a mate, someday, at some nebulous point in the future. She wanted a man who loved her for her and not who her father was. She was happy and content as she was. Then Destiny gave her a wake-up slap. Dr. Bashir Khalfaoui was going on sabbatical when he was grabbed by the Shifter Council to see to a former council member’s son. The brilliant psychiatrist takes the job, takes the pay, and meets an intriguing women who punches every button he has.   AmazonKU

FATE OF A FAUX (LORD OF RATHE DUET BOOK TWO) by Meagan Brandy and Amo Jones

The King of Darkness is dead. It’s time for a new one to rise…London Crow isn’t who I thought she was. She’s worse. My hate for her knows no bounds. My need for her has no end. But it’s my inability to have her that might just end us all, as the fates refuse to be ignored. Now, there’s a darkness sweeping the streets of Rathe, threatening to destroy the Kingdom we know and love, and it’s all because of her. The mate I can’t have. The bond I can’t let go. There is only one way to restore balance, and it begins and ends with her. The problem? I broke the girl into a thousand tiny pieces without a second thought. Earning her forgiveness won’t be easy, but that’s fine. If she won’t give it freely, I will take it. One mistake at a time.     AmazonKU

NEVER TRUST AN ALPHA (WOLVES OF BLACKWOOD BOOK ONE) by Sadie Sears

Ever since I discovered I’m not human, I’ve always believed wolf shifters are monsters, me included. Except the alpha and mayor of Blackwood Creek isn’t a monster at all. He’s my fake fiancé for my own protection. As the prime suspect in a murder investigation, I’ve got no choice but to take sanctuary with Ridge until I can clear my name. But my presence in town means the entire pack in Blackwood Creek are in danger from the hunters who are after me. Not even Ridge’s strong protective instincts can save me—or the town—if I don’t leave soon. And if I stay much longer, my heart will be at risk of believing that shifters can be trusted and that my fake fiancé is the real thing.     AmazonKU

STRANDED WITH THE KRAKEN (CLEARWATER MONSTERS BOOK ONE) by Zoe Ashwood

“The thought of you dating another man makes me want to punch through a wall. You’re magnetic.” I signed up for the new Bone-R app for monster dating thinking I’d get a fun one-night-stand out of the deal. Instead, I’m now stranded at the hot kraken’s house at Christmas because of a massive snow storm, and what started as a very hot hookup (who knew tentacles were so…flexible?!) now feels like so much more. But surely it’s too early to be talking about serious things like family and forever, isn’t it? Stranded with the Kraken is a long novella with a human heroine and a kraken shifter hero who fall for each other hard and fast. You’ll love it if you enjoy monster romance stories with low angst, happy endings, and tentacle play.     AmazonKU

THE SHADOW ELF’S MISSION (ELVES OF ELDARLAN BOOK FIVE) by Elisa Rae

Favian lives torn between two worlds. As a shadow elf, he serves Eldarlan as a warrior in the spymaster’s ranks. All the while, evidence of his gargoyle blood remains hidden beneath a spell. Despite this, he is content in the life he has chosen until one day, he spots his fated mate, but she is out of his reach in more ways than one. Years pass before he is offered the opportunity to actually meet her, but she isn’t who he thought she was. Cersei has spent her life hiding in plain sight as the companion of an oligarch’s daughter. By blending in and not calling attention to herself, she has avoided the fate that took her father’s life. Then, political factions change, tensions rise, and her employer and his family are in danger. To make matters worse, the elven bodyguard they hired for protection won’t stop challenging her perceptions of those around her.     AmazonKU

A GODDESS OF LIFE AND DAWN (PINE HOLLOWSERIES BOOK THREE) by K M Moronova

Once upon a time, there were two Rhythm Gods: one of brilliance and one of darkness. But there was much more to the realms than the two gods alone could provide, so the Maker created a third, unknowingly unbalancing the Rhythm and setting the realms on a path of suffering. The God of War has stolen that which I hold dearest. Though I am reunited with my beloved gods, a hole remains and my heart is in shambles. Together we must look to the past to preserve the future, for if we cannot restore the Rhythm, the realms will crumble.      AmazonKU

GRIFFINS AND APPLE PIES (SHIFTERS AND SWEETS BOOK THREE) by Zoe Chant

Controlling his griffin just got a whole lot harder…Landscape gardener Kieran’s unruly shifter side is getting out of hand. Mowing lawns? Griffin time. Grocery shopping? Griffin in the cart. This is definitely not a good time to finally meet his fated mate… especially when she’s only in town for a mandatory vacation. Workaholic Natasha never intended to return to her small hometown. And she’s definitely not planning to stay. But between the delicious pies and the even more tempting Kieran, it’s hard to remember why she ever left. Still, it would be foolish to fall for a guy who keeps disappearing… right? But Kieran’s not the only mystery in town. Between the possibly haunted house and a definitely charming hunk, Natasha becomes torn between the life she knows or embracing the unexpected – whatever that turns out to be. In a town of treats, legends, and unexpected flights of fancy, can Natasha find love that truly lifts her off her feet?   AmazonKU

TURNED ON BY THE MIDLIFE WOLF (SHIFTER NATION: MARKED OVER FORTY) by Meg Ripley

VS Note: From SEPT 23.

At 46, I went back to college to learn about mythical creatures. I never thought my hot professor would turn me into one. After giving my life to raising my daughters, It was time for me to live out my dream And go back to school to get my degree. Meeting a cute guy my age in the coffee shop, I thought my first day was off to a great start. Until I got to class and realized Sean was my professor. My daughter says he’s the campus crush, But just like the creatures in his folklore lectures, His private life is shrouded in mystery—Which only made me want to find out more. I signed up for an extra credit field trip, Looking for Bigfoot in the woods. But when my car broke down and he drove me home, The professor gave me an education I’ll never forget. I’m his student, so we’re forbidden to be together, But that’s just the beginning of my troubles. During another outing, I’m shot by a hunter, And as I lay dying in the forest, Sean offers me a second chance at life. He changes into a wolf right before my eyes, And when he bites me, I return from the brink of death—As a wolf, just like him.     AmazonKU

DADDY WOLF’S FAKE MARRIAGE (PROSPECT SHIFTER DADDY MATES) by Serena Meadows

I was trying my hardest to stay away from the sexy rancher at work… until he discovered a huge secret. It’s almost comical to watch Mitchell care for the baby that he just found out he had. I’m a veterinarian at the same ranch he works at, and his glances haven’t escaped me. Mitchell is a tall and handsome alpha. Asking for help isn’t in his DNA but this unique situation calls for something drastically different. Different… as in… me.
He’s struggling with his new baby, and I’m struggling to get my hands on my trust fund that would allow me to build my dream clinic. A fake marriage would solve all our problems. All problems… except one. The secret about his identity that he would no longer be able to keep. Mitchell must embrace his new role as a dad, and as a protector…
While I find a way to keep my heart locked away in a safe place.     AmazonKU

BULL-HEADED (COLD-BLOODED ALPHA BOOK NINE) by Eve Bale

Colorado was supposed to be my haven. A place to lie low and avoid my abusive ex for a couple of days. In no way did I expect to stumble into a naked man’s garden and watch him change into a wolf…Dean Blackshaw, the delicious-smelling, naked guy I witnessed do the impossible, seems dead set on proving not all men should be avoided. That some might actually be worth falling for. But he isn’t in my future. I have a life waiting for me in Nebraska and a career that I spent years building. One I have no intention of abandoning for someone I suspect is keeping secrets from me. I’m used to managing on my own, in life and in business. To have someone watch my back is a pipe dream that belongs to someone else. Dean says I’m bull-headed, and maybe I am. Unfortunately, so is the abusive ex who followed me to Colorado and intends to do me harm. If heroes exist in this world, I’ve never come close to finding one. But if I want to survive what’s coming, I’m going to need one. Dean is determined to be that guy. Can I trust him?   AmazonKU

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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. I won’t feature a cover in my weekly promo for this post if I believe or suspect it was done with AI.