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

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

HIS PREDATOR (THE UNNATURALS BOOK THREE) by Mel Teshco

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

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

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

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

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

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

AS WE FALL THROUGHH TIME  by Claire North

VS Note: LBGTQ+ Time Travel Romance.

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

Amazon      AB       Apple Books       Kobo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS Note: LGBTQ+ SFR.

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

KAVAN by Cara Stone and Athena Storm

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

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

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

THIS IS HOW WE LIVE by Ellie Richards

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

VIOLET MEANS HE LIKES ME by Leevoy Carroll

VS Note: LGBTQ+ SFR. From SEPT 17.

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

BLOOD SONG: ASAD INTELLIGENCE by Annie Lucas

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

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

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

TALUSH: CYBORG CHRONICLES BOOK EIGHT by Pauline Baird Jones

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS: Have you seen my spooky backlist books, perfect for reading in this season? All available wide, including on Kobo Plus!

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

 

WANING GIBBOUS by Cassandra Featherstone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS Note: MM PNR.

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

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

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

BETWEEN TWILIGHT (SKYE DRUIDS BOOK NINE) by Donna Grant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS Note: Sapphic PNR.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SQUAD GHOULS: MM PNR by A M Rose

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

DOOMED BY A DEMON (KINKTOBER) by Ivy Knox

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

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

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

WILL CURSE FOR MILK by Sarah Spade

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

MOTHSBLOOD by Lynn D Jung

VS Note: FF Fantasy Dark Academia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

INHERITED CASTLES AND CURSES by TJ Nichols

VS Note: MM PNR.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS Note: MM PNR.

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

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

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

RUBY AND THE WOLF by Lisa Carlisle

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

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

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

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

VS Note: FF PNR. From AUG 28.

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

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

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

FATED TO THE WOLVEN MAGE by R L Perez

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

FATED TO THE FROZEN PRINCE by Clara Hartford

VS Note: From SEPT 29.

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

FATED TO THE PUMPKIN PRINCE by Rebecca L Garcia

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

FATED TO THE NIGHT KING by Krista Fox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THEIR FIERCE LITTLE MONSTER (MONSTER GAMES) by Mila Young

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

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

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

ROUGE: MM MONSTER ROMANCE by L Waltree

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

WYLDER MAGICK by Camille Anthony