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“Morgan Rice has come up with what promises to be another brilliant series, immersing us in a fantasy of valor, honor, courage, magic and faith in your destiny. Morgan has managed again to produce a strong set of characters that make us cheer for them on every page.…Recommended for the permanent library of all readers that love a well-written fantasy.”--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (regarding Rise of the Dragons)From #1 Bestselling author Morgan Rice comes a sweeping new fantasy serie...

His lips were on hers, hard, demanding and devastating. His hands gripped her hips, pulling her flush against him, making her feel every inch of his dominance.
She moaned against his lips, her fingers threading into his dark hair, pulling him closer.
The energy in the chamber shifted. The symbols on the walls glowed, reacting to their unbreakable seething bond.
Damian pulled back just enough to meet her gaze. His silver eyes burned with something she had never seen before, something ancient, so...

She was never meant to exist.
Hybrids that are born under the blood moon in Valeria are persecuted, and their existence forgotten over time.
Kaelia, a Lupherian Omega—wolf-moon spirit—is a special kind. She has managed to live this long by suppressing her scent, masking her strength, and disguising herself as a lowly Beta servant in the king's palace. Her only rule: stay invisible.
But when she’s forced into the path of Prince Alarion, the unmated Alpha heir bound by duty and desperation, a mom...

Being mated to an Alpha who only has eyes for my sister? That’s a pain I can live with. But being offered up as a pawn to a ruthless Alpha King one who takes ten wives every year and shows no mercy? That’s a whole new level of hell.
In a pack where everyone wears a mask and enemies lurk behind every corner, survival is a game I never planned to play. But they’ve made a dangerous mistake: they think I’m weak. They think I’ll fold.
I won’t just survive this. I’ll break their rules, shatter their...

In the shadowed lineage of the Matranga family, a dormant prophecy stirs within the blood of the up-and-coming Heir, Eveet.
Centuries ago, the Lafitte Pirates were cursed with a vision of their empire’s collapse. Desperate to secure their legacy on land, they forge a fragile alliance with the Matrangas, binding their fates through the betrothal of their son, Julien, to Eveet. Unaware that her blood holds the key to their foretold ruin.
When Eveet’s father, Don Sam, dies, she’s thrust into lea...

He left without a word.
Now he’s back — holding a gun and calling himself my bodyguard.
Silas Raveen was my father’s deadliest weapon.
Cold. Precise. Untouchable.
I loved him anyway.
Three years ago, he disappeared the same night my mother was murdered.
Now I’m engaged to a man I don’t love, trapped in a family falling apart.
And Silas? He’s been assigned to protect me.
He won’t say why I’m being hunted.
He won’t talk about the past.
But every time we’re alone, the air cracks — ...

Ten years ago, Mara's older brother disappeared just outside of their hometown. With no clues, everyone believed that he'd just run off. But Mara knew better. She vowed to continue the search.
Despite being called crazy, she believed the local legend about a portal to another world. The Old Oak Archway.
Now, after all these years, Mara has found a way through.
What she didn't expect was to find on the other side was her brother living happily with the Golden Draygons.
Suddenly, Mara is claim...

“The perfect romance or beach read, with a difference: its enthusiasm and beautiful descriptions offer an unexpected attention to the complexity of not just evolving love, but evolving psyches. It's a delightful recommendation for romance readers looking for a touch more complexity from their romance reads.”--Midwest Book Review (For Now and Forever)THE GHOSTLY GROUNDS: DEATH AND BRUNCH is Book #2 in a charming new cozy mystery series by bestselling author Sophie Love, author of The Inn at Sunse...

In a world where magic is norm, and a place where vampires rule, being a blood virgin- someone who has never been drank from- is a coveted thing. Humans are traded as slaves, and Blood Virgins in particular are sold to the highest bidder. So what happens when the daughter of the leader of the rebellion is captured and sold to the prince of vampires? What happens when everything you thought you knew about the world proves to be wrong?
Follow Esme as she discovers herself and her new benefactor. ...

She's pregnant with my brother's baby. And if he doesn't marry her, I will.
It was Austin’s turn to seething with rage. “You are not aborting that child.” His voice echoed menacingly, animosity lingering in the air around them.
My body, my rules.” She shot back with an unbothered shrug.
“I don’t think you have much of a choice.” He barked. The idea of marriage and children had never crossed his mind. It wasn’t a part of his life plan. “I’d chain you to a...

When Sanaya Johnson joined ReefWood Inc. as the CEO, Lancelin Eustein’s Personal Secretary, little did she know that her life was about to change forever. As a Scribt, a human with knowledge of the immortal world, she had to constantly balance her two worlds while keeping the immortal world a secret from her near and dear ones. But trouble arises when Lancelin himself takes an interest in Sanaya, a liking that threatens to shatter her hold on reality.
Lancelin has lived for centuries amongst hu...

“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery! The author did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side that is so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. The plot is very intelligent and will keep you entertained throughout the book. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.”--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)Women are being murdered in upstate New York, their bodie...

“Sophie Love's ability to impart magic to her readers is exquisitely wrought in powerfully evocative phrases and descriptions….[This is] the perfect romance or beach read, with a difference: its enthusiasm and beautiful descriptions offer an unexpected attention to the complexity of not just evolving love, but evolving psyches. It's a delightful recommendation for romance readers looking for a touch more complexity from their romance reads.”--Midwest Book Review (Diane Donovan re: For Now and Fo...

Robert was the Prince of the Kingdom of Western Wind. And he had everything.
The crown. The adoration of the people. The utmost respect of noblemen inside and out of their borders.
But amidst all the riches and privileges given to him by birth, Robert was unhappy with his life.
Shackled to an arranged marriage and struggling with his estranged father, Robert wanted more from life. But at the same time, he didn't want to disturb the peace of everyone surrounding him.
That was until sh...

My name is Themis and I am not supposed to be alive.
I survived the hunt, saddled with a husband and still I have to waddle my way through so many things to remain alive at the end of the day.
The one person I can count on other than myself is my new husband who saved my life from the get go.
And my gift of prophecy.
Maybe, just maybe it is also enough to save the Dar Empire too.
My name is Themis and this is my story.

She's wounded. He can't let her die. They find more than help in the nearest town.Rhys decides to abort their mission and seek a healer. This puts them on a path to intersect the scourge of the land.Not at full strength, Kiera confronts her father. But will it be with words or her sword?As the Curse approaches its climax, the brothers realize they must combine their abilities to escape with their lives.

She has lived hundreds of lives and each one ended horribly.
He, once her companion, cannot forget her beyond time.
She, kidnapped into a world unknown to her, tries everything to get back home. But what are these dreams?
[…] Stones are thrown at dirty mutts… Rats are burned… […]
Immerse yourself in the world of Athaerion.

"Sophie Patterson. Don't you dare walk away from me." Logan's menacing stare bore at me. I suddenly didn't feel drunk anymore. I sobered up quickly.
"What, Logan? You're gonna tell me that you suddenly love me again? That you're here to sweep me off my feet? Please! I didn't need you all this time, and I don't need you now." He clenched his jaw, fisting his hands.
"Enough. Stop being so damn stubborn. You know I do. I love you. I never stopped loving you, Sophie. It was always you."
I left...

“Do it again.”
“Be more specific, baby.” I heard a smile in his words. He was enjoying this and wanted me to beg.
“Fuck you. You know what I mean.” I grunted in frustration.
“I actually don’t.” He stopped again. His rough hand remained between my thighs.
“Stop playing games, or I will stroke myself until I come.” I wiggled my ass, seeking a quick relief from the throbbing in my core.
Breathing raggedly, he said, “No one is playing games here, baby. I just want to know what you want.”
“You...

“A dynamic story line that grips from the first chapter and doesn't let go.” --Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (regarding Once Gone) From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. In CAUSE TO RUN (An Avery Black Mystery—Book 2), a new serial killer is stalking Boston, killing his victims in bizarre ways, taunting the police with mysterious puzzles that reference the stars. As the stakes are upped and the pressure is on, the Boston Police Dep...

SKEPTIC IN SALEM: AN EPISODE OF CRIME is Book #2 in a charming new cozy mystery series by bestselling author Fiona Grace, author of Murder in the Manor, a #1 Bestseller with over 100 five-star reviews (and a free download)!When Mia Bold, 30, learns that the pharmaceutical company she works for only cares about money, she quits on the spot, walking away from a high-powered career—and from her long-time boyfriend, who breaks up with her.With the podcast taking off, and with a romance brewing, Mia ...

Brianna has held it together on the outside. Claiming her seat on the council of witches in New Orleans and rocking the political world of the witches of North America. She is a force no witch wants to be against and weeding out the allies from the foes is no easy task. On the inside however, she is falling apart at the seems for the choices she's made and the war within her forces her to face the pain she's caused to those she loves most in this world.
Wyatt and Beau haven't taken her absence ...

"The demon is back..."
I stand by my locker. "Puberty must've hit him like a fucking truck. When did he become so freaking hot?"
His strong and big hands tightly gripped around my wrists as he forcefully held them pressed against the door and at the level of my shoulders, feeling my bones hurt so fucking much that I thought they were going to snap after just a little more pressure added.
Yet despite the sickening pain I refused to shed a single tear, challengingly looking right back into hi...

I feel an urgent throb deep between my legs, and I lift my hips up invitingly as the wetness blossoms between them. I bite my lip as I imagine Aleksandr sliding his long cold tongue into my hot wet pussy, exploring the tight pink folds while he eats me out. My nipples harden under the silky fabric of the night dress as heat surges through me, a rush of primal need. But as I moan out his name in my moment of lust, I feel a cold, strong hand clamp around my throat, pinning me to the bed.
His icy ...

The Shadow will rule. A hero will rise. Keriya Soulstar awakens on the other side of the world, far from Allentria, far from the dragon god Shivnath, far from everyone she's every known and loved. She can't remember what happened during her final battle with Necrovar, and she doesn't want to. Besides, she's comfortable in Jidaeln, a country where no one wields magic. She fits in. But Keriya knows she can't hide forever. With her sword—the only reminder of her troubled past—she ventures to a scho...

"In the shadows of fate, blood is the ink that writes the prophecy. No matter how hard you fight it, destiny flows through your veins." Her blood was like liquid fire; it attracts and destroys, but what if it attracts the wrong and destroys the good?
Gwen had always thought there was nothing particular about her. She was just a normal she-wolf living with her grandma who restricted her from most things for unknown reasons and a best friend whom she wasn't so sure considered her as one. Then she...

—Don't look at me like you want to eat me! - I yell getting up from my chair, in a sudden and unexplainable rage.
Alex stares at me impassively, swirling the wine in his hand a couple of times untill he drains it in one gulp.
— I look at you like I want to eat you. - He repeats amusedly. - You're absolutely right, little witch. I want to devour you and not only in a sexual way.
I step back in fear shaking my head.
—Are you some kind of cannibal or something?
His eyes sweep over me from head to t...

"A criminal is what you are and what you will always be. You are weak and pathetic, and you do not deserve to live for what you have done."
His voice was cold, but it was his eyes—filled with so much hate and disgust shattered me. My mate. My fated one. And the man who cast me aside. I ran—banished, hunted and marked for death—never daring to look back.
Claudia Wayne believed finding her mate would be the beginning of her happily ever after. Instead, she’s accused of a heinous crime just so s...

Christian Hall is a young science student who travels to Pennsylvania to visit his parents for the summer , without imagining that strange events in the city would lead him to meet a world he had only read in old and fanciful history books , in which he never believed . After being bitten by an unknown creature in the forest , he begins to feel changes he had never experienced , until he realizes that he has ceased to be human forever . Hiding his new identity will be a challenge as he struggles...

Half Vampire half Werewolf, meet Van Floyd Vaughn the goofiest of the Vaughn brothers. He loves Aphrodite so much but he never thought that he would also learn to love a woman who would change the course of his life. Cleopatra was always by his side whenever he needed someone to talk to, whenever he was sad and whenever he was hurt. Cleopatra is a cold and rugged white alpha. He was the one who reminded Van that not everything he wants is easy to get. Despite their love, the Black Alphas who wan...

"Legend has it there is always a reason why souls meet. Maybe they found each other for reasons that weren't so different after all. They were two souls searching and found a home lost in each other. When souls find comfort in one another, separation is not possible. The reasons they are brought together are no accident... Maybe she needed someone to show her how to live and he needed someone to show him how to love."
-N. R. Hart
From "Beauty and the Beast"
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A deal was made...
One life in ex...

"Mother,"
I opened my eyes. Everything around me is a haze. I gazed at the candlelight. It was wobbling from side to side. I noticed a woman seated near me, but everything was fuzzy.
I heard a voice unexpectedly. It was a woman's voice, echoing in my ear.
She was singing a low-toned lullaby.
"Mother, is it you?"
I heard my name, "Maxilin, I am here."
"Mother," I said with a tremble in my voice. I have no idea what's wrong with me.
I reached out cautiously to touch her, but she was out of my r...

Blood contract is an enthralling series that chronicles the captivating journey of Rosy, who after losing her job and her sense of purpose, meets Sam, a wealthy vampire who proposes to hire her as his contract bride. Although Rosy feels intimidated by Sam's dark world, she takes the offer, thinking that it could be her only chance to make something of her life.
As Rosy navigates her new position as a contract bride, she becomes increasingly aware of the dangerous and enigmatic world of vampires...

"You really intrigue me, Nara," He flashes another smile, but it disappears just as fast.
A confession that makes my cheeks burn.
"I intrigue a lot of people." I try to control my breathing. "Most are always bad."
He shakes his head slowly, not wanting to pry his eyes away from my rising chest. "You intrigue me in a different sense."
"And what sense is that?"
"In the sense that I ask myself... why is it—" His neck bobs as he swallows hard, the tip of his finger now grazing the side of my u...

"Fast paced, packed with aaction and engaging dialogue, Unleashed was a book I thoroughly enjoyed." — Brandon Sanderson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of: The Stormlight Archives. In the bone-chilling spring, spice trades are lucrative and exhausting, and Emiel Dharr wants nothing more than to come home to a hot meal with his beloved daughters. But when he returns to an empty home and a note detailing his daughters’ kidnappings, the horror-stricken spicetrader will lose them forever unle...

I stare at him, watching his chest expand.
How is it that someone so strong, so powerful, so dangerous to find become so small when faced with an adversary? The adversary being me.
I see him, knees on the cold tiled floor, his eyes fixated on me in equal parts disbelief. I disconnect my vision from his small form, looking briefly at what I'm wearing.
This morning when I woke up, the sun was shining, snow melting on my front lawn. My kids were sleeping, my husband gone, as usual, working, maki...

Turning into a tiny snake isn't quite the dream Hydra had on the night of her eighteenth birthday. So, with a failed morph, a Kin that doesn't want her and parents set to commit treason on her behalf the only thing she can think to do is get away from the life she's lived for the past eighteen years.
Only running away doesn't go as smoothly as she hoped it would, because it never does, and she finds herself among a unique clan, set to change the world she's knows it. Through meeting new friend...

Jenna, an exemplary daughter, lives alone with her father who raised her with a lot of love, discipline and responsibility. Mark Black, a very upright man who was widowed very young, but did not make another commitment to his daughter, to live happily. But life is like that, both contacted a blind date company, where they did not speak, wore masks that did not let recognize anything of each other's identity, without knowing it, they do something that would cause pain, regret, tears. Even so, the...

All About You (Love & Hate Series #1)
I start hating Oliver just after his older brother Christian’s death. I drag him down a road of humiliation and pain to try to cope with what his brother did to me.
A few months after Christian’s passing, Oliver leaves town, and for the next two years, he is absent from my life. The demons claw their way back in, and I must learn to live with the secret that has destroyed me.
Now I’m starting a new life, away from Gargle and away from my past, but everythin...

His life is full of violence, blood and death. His name is Cerberus, that's what they call him because he's vicious, cruel, and ruthless. To be The Mafia leader you have to be, fearless, heartless and shameless, to have what you want, to get what you want and to own what you want. Gabriel 30 years, the leader of the black cross mafia or family as he calls it, he's well known everywhere due to his cruel acts. Ariel a sweet 18 years high school girl innocent, shy, kind and pure. The girl who alway...

Mei Liu learned suffering from an early age. After experiencing great loss, she spent years enduring abuse at the hands of a sadistic pack of wolves, while hiding her identity. All until the day she was saved by her fated soulmate arriving at her doorstep.
Mei was finally free, loved and accepted, with her happily ever after on the horizon. But an unknown enemy has been searching for her and once he finds her he has no intention of letting her go.
Dark secrets will be revealed, and she will ...

When an old friend’s husband goes missing, she calls Cindy for help. Fresh from her own tragedy, Cindy returns to the Caribbean, this time to the gorgeous, lush island of Grenada, to find him.Cindy, still grieving her own husband’s death, stays at her friend’s incredible villa on the ocean, as she does her best to help track down her friend’s husband, Ames. As Cindy investigates, she meets the different characters on the island, some local, some fantastically rich, all of whom seem to be involve...

After escaping the brutalities of her pack, the rogue she-wolf is only interested in protecting those she cares for. While protecting the innocents during a royal raid, she runs into a wolf claiming to be the Alpha King and worse yet, he claims she is his Mate. She barely escaped that life alive and has been living as a human since she was a teenager and no one was going to make her go back.
Little did she know how much both worlds need her to bring peace and true freedom.

Maevyrn (Maeve) Grew up in the human world. Beaten daily by her mother. A stranger who claims to be her father swoops in and brings her to moonlight academy where all things that go bump in the night attend. She had read about these creatures but had never thought she could be one of them. All the lies and betrayal lead to only one thing.
Will Maeve choose to fight against them and save their pack, or fight with them and destroy everything.
My fingers pressed to the fresh ...

Drea Campbell, an entertainment reporter, has properly improved her life from a miserable childhood, she is proud of the strides she's taken to put her past behind her and continue as a strong independent lady. She found out the truth behind her parent's death and wanted revenge but falls in love with Jason Beckham, a movie star. Jason Beckham just wants to get in her pants and dump her like he always does with women, will Drea be special or will she be dumped like other girls? Curious? Read mor...

Yildiz was created by the Goddess Zarseti for one purpose: to uphold truth and justice in the supernatural world. Unlike her sisters, Yildiz came into being blind, but she sees beyond what others can.
For tens of thousands of years, she and her sisters continued their duties as the Delegation, but life just got more interesting for Yildiz. She learns her creator blessed her, of all people, with a soulmate – an unwilling soulmate at that.
Darkness surrounds this mystery man, but he is far more ...