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

‘AB’ denotes audiobook and the Amazon buy link.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS note: FF SFR, superheroes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE DIVERGING LIVES OF BETHANY RAVEN by Sarah E Bonner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH: HARMONY GLEN by Vivienne Hart

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

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

VS Note: Sapphic.

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

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

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

BOUGHT BY THE SCORPIUS: MONSTERS RIDE MARKET by Cara Wylde

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

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

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

SHADOW KING (SHADOWMEN BOOK TWO) by S Rodman

VS Note: MM PNR.

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

VACATION WITH THE ORC by Tina Moss

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SHIFTER OMEGAVERSE AU by D C Emerson

VS Note: M/X PNR.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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THE PIRATE CAPTAIN’S BARGAIN by Amy Padilla

VS Note: MM Fantasy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TANGLED BONDS (SHADOW GODS BOOK ONE) by McKenzie Hunter

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

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

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

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

VS Note: MM PNR.

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

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

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

ALL WE HAVE IS TIME: A NOVEL by Amy Tordoff

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

A DATE WITH DEATH: A NOVEL by Kelly Creagh

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

DIE FOR ME: A NOVEL by Shirlene Obuobi

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

THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS by John Wiswell

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

MISERY’S WIFE: A NOVEL by Joan Tierney

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

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UNPREDICTABLE MAGIC by Faith Hunter

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

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

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

BECKY (THE MATE SERIES BOOK 30) by Teresa Gabelman

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

SO PASSES THE NIGHT by Cassidy McKay

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

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HABITS OF THE SEA: A NOVEL by Shea Earnshaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS Note: Re-release.

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

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

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

THE DEMON NEXT DOOR by Amaya Black

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

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

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

RETROGRADE (THE PROSPECTS BOOK THREE) by Erin R Flynn

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

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

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

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

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FIREGLASS (DRYDEN UNIVERSE) by Greta van der Rol

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS Note: Not a romance.

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

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

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

MOSS’D IN SPACE  by Rebecca Thorne

VS Note: LGBTQ SFR.

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

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

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

THE FORBIDDEN DRAGON (TALONIAN WARRIORS II) by Celeste Raye

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

RESCUED BY THE ALIEN DAD by Ivy Knox

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

KITO: GALACTIC CYBORG HEAT SERIES  by Jessie Rose Case

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

ALL WE HAVE LEFT by Emily Paxman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DELIVERED AND DEVOURED (ALIEN RECOVERY FILES) by Lara Roth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LASH: THE WILDS OMEGAVERSE by Callie Rhodes

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

THE LIBRARIAN’S FAMILIAR by TJ Nichols

VS Note: MM PNR.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS Note: MM PNR.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BONFIRE DREAMS (OTHERWORLD TALES BOOK SEVEN) by Yasmine Galenorn

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

THE ORC COMMANDER AND ELF MAIDEN by Jove Chambers

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

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DEVIL’S DELIGHT: MONSTER SUGAR MAMAS by Amelia Lescaux

VS Note: FFF why choose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE SHATTERED CROWN: A MIDLIFE FAIRY TALE by Kristen Painter

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

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

VS Note: MM PNR.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS Note: FF Fantasy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS Note: LGBTQ Fantasy. From APRIL 21.

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

THE RIVER SHE BECAME by Emily Varga

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

THE WINGED GAME: A NOVEL by Sophie Kim

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

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

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

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

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

SILVIE AND THE MOON DANCE by Aurora Springer

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

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

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

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

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

WOLFKISSED by Mona Archer

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

TIMELESS (CLOCKREALM CHRONICLES BOOK THREE) by D N Hoxa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BLOODWORTH AND GRAVE by Melissa Haartz

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

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

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

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

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

MAELSTROM (THE DIVINITY AFFAIR BOOK THREE) by C Marie

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

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

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

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

VS Note: I one clicked.

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

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

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

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

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

HUNGER (CREATURES OF THE NIGHT) by Adrian Blue

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

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

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

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