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Tainted Blood
Ellabee Andrews - 2019
Once they begin to decay, they’re not very fast, but they’re guaranteed to break through the clenched fists of the other team when they run through them. Sometimes they break those fists off completely. When you’ve watched a dead man do the chicken dance upon your order, it’s hard to take them seriously. So death is the one thing I don’t fear. Not when the living are more terrifying. I grew up with a certain set of rules that my dads and mom instilled inside of me. 1. Always be aware of my surroundings. 2. When shit hits the fan, stay calm and keep a cool head. And 3. Never reveal my secrets. Keep them guarded closely or risk the interest of those that would seek to use my power for their own gain. Those rules used to be easy. They were what I lived and breathed. That was until I met Nate. Ever since I fell into his dark eyes, nothing has been the same. Four years have passed, and guarding my secrets has only become more difficult, especially when I have the world’s biggest crush on my boss and have grown as close as family to the crew I work with day in and out. Yet even though guilt is a bitter pill I swallow each time I lie to my crew to cover up some oddity of mine that’s surfaced, it's what must be done. And I could have continued to do so. The dead don’t tell my secrets, so confiding in them is cathartic, until everything changes, and everything I thought I knew is tested. You see, dealing with the living is tough, but the problem with the dead, is that sometimes, they don’t stay dead.
Institute of Rebels
Clara Hartley - 2019
I hid behind the name of Stace, and I lived in the slums of the Republic of Nations. The gangs here constantly engaged in gunfights. I’d gotten used to them. In fact, I’m great at them. Mostly, I kept to myself and listened to orders. It left people out of my skin and I excelled at being alone. I hadn’t noticed that in my time here, I’d let someone in. But in a raid carried out by the militia, I’m captured and torn away from that someone. My captors tell me I’m one of them—a Rebellia. A force of underdogs that exists solely to serve our rulers. I’m sent to their institute to train and become one of their special forces. They’ve grouped me with two of their most elite trainers. I’m afraid of them. Not because they might hurt me physically. But because they might make me fall in love and I don’t want to. Institute of Rebels is the first book in the Lost and Betrayed series. It is a medium burn reverse harem story that contains mature themes, such as strong language, violence, and sexual situations.
Lightning Strikes
Ripley Proserpina - 2018
Whitney Lake has had a lot of time to contemplate the end of the world. In the blink of an eye, an infection wiped out most of the human population, and her life changed forever. In one of the few safe cities left, Whitney tries to keep her head down, and stay alive. But the world needs saving, and she may be the only one who can do it. When a letter from her long-dead best friend arrives, Whitney takes a chance. Can she save those she thought were lost? Out in the wilderness, where she never dared to go, she'll discover a world she never expected, and six men who would come back from the dead just to be with her. Will she fight for the men who chose her, or will she lose everything in the coming storm?
For the Blood
Debbie Cassidy - 2018
No attachments, no looking back, no emotion. The last thing my father gave me was a key. No explanation, no details, just a key. The last thing he asked of me was to take the key to a set of co-ordinates. But survival in a fallen world filled with Feral isn't easy. The Fangs and the Claws, once upstanding members of society are now slave to the virus, hunting indiscriminately under a perpetually full moon. There is no hope. There is no haven. Not alone. Not until them. They are a new breed of monster—beasts of both fang and fur. Unaffected by the sickness, they crave only one thing, and it runs through my veins. Survive, my father said. Look out for no one except yourself. But sometimes the only way to survive is to make attachments. Sometimes the only way to live is to accept a dance with death. And right now, for me, the path to survival is in the blood. Here’s to hoping it doesn’t kill me.
The Vampire Diaries meets The Walking Dead in this Post-Apocalyptic Urban Fantasy with a slow burn Why Choose romance
Life and Limb
Michaela Haze - 2021
A town on the edge of Haven City, and ruled by greed and fear.I might be a mercenary, but I'll do anything to protect my people. Our ragtag community looks out for each other. We kill for each other.When a set of important blueprints goes missing, my boss wants the mess fixed pronto.The offer is too good to be true.Find the plans, and he'll buy my freedom.But there's a catch.I have to work as part of a team. Four men chosen for their skills. Each one more dangerous than the last and I've had enough of dangerous men to last me a lifetime.I'll do anything to protect the Bend. But what about protecting my heart?**Life and Limb is a standalone zombie reverse harem dystopia romance, contains scenes of violence, multi-partner sex, and same-sex relations**
Infected
Maya Riley - 2019
The Void Virus has been let loose on the Earth. Caused by experiments gone wrong, an outbreak has ravaged the world. Anyone infected has turned into a decaying empty shell, void of their former selves. The animate decomposing bodies have become known as Rotters, stumbling around for the scent of the living. Alone in the dark new world where even the dead don’t die, I must fight to survive. Not only against the Rotters, but the remaining uninfected who have turned savage in their plight of survival; the scavers. As the world I once knew is lost, a new one emerges. Strange things begin to happen. Some are able to wield power over the elements. I develop a strange healing ability. It is unknown if this is a rogue symptom of the virus, or if the solitude is driving me crazy. Puppy, my German Shepherd, and I have been on our own until four guys enter my life and refuse to leave. Strangely enough, they’re just as broken as I am. My name is Blyss and we will set this world on fire if necessary. After all… What’s the worst that could happen? **18+ Reverse Harem Romance. Warning: this book contains some scenes and references of abuse that some readers may find triggering**
Wolf Shunned
Laurel Night - 2021
Love isn’t everything, I know; but even the most powerful she-wolf submits to her mate. If you can’t be dominated, you can’t be mated.And an unmated wolf has no place in the pack.My one hope is the clan gathering in the Blackwood Forest. Every wolf in the continental Americas attends, and a few seriously sexy wolves catch my eye. I’m bound to find at least one who can match me, right?Then there’s my other problem: My alpha is a grade-A jerk. After treating me like a genetic freak my whole life, he suddenly decides to stake a claim.But I can’t refuse the challenge, and my wolf won’t back down. Either I submit to the alpha and become mated to his skeezy pelt, or I win the challenge and my freedom… by taking his place as alpha.Only no one has ever heard of a female alpha, and if I become one, I’ll never find a mate.Wolf Shunned is the first book in The Alpha Queen Legacy, featuring a badass heroine, a dark fantasy world, and loads of sexy wolf shifters. Be warned: This is a slow burn, why choose romance. Once you pick this story up, you won’t be able to stop devouring it until the very last page.
Born of Embers
Quinn Arthurs - 2018
I’d thought it had to be hidden - to stay a secret. I didn’t know my secret would become the key to my survival. Turning eighteen and getting accepted into college brings me everything I need to escape from the nightmares of my past but I never could have imagined my nightmares - and dreams - were just beginning. Finding myself thrown into a world of fantasy, politics, friendships, and rules that are nearly impossible to understand, I feel like I’m drowning in a world of shifters I never knew existed. As I struggle to find my place and prevent my nightmares from tearing me apart, I find myself surrounded by an unusual group of sexy men. With Hiro, Killian, Theo, Damien, and Ryder I’m trying to become the woman I’ve always wanted to be, if my past, and my future, will let me. *Warning this book contains scenes and references of abuse that some readers may find triggering. This book also contains some m/m themes.*
The Pale Rider
J.B. Trepagnier - 2020
“Come with me if you want to live.” I know I’m supposed to know that from somewhere, but I don’t. I know the world outside me is not right. People either die or they are Rage Heads. Somehow, a virus got out that has turned people into red eyed freaks who eat flesh. They are fast, their flesh is rotting off their bodies and they have one goal—kill.I don’t know my mystery man in the hazmat suit, but he says I can trust him. He was at that lab looking for something. He claims not to have found it. He only found me. I see the way he looks at me when I ask what he was doing in that lab. I might feel safe with him, but he’s lying to me. He knows everything about me, including the nickname people used to call me, but he tells me I ask too many questions. Maybe I’d be safer on my own.
The Pale Rider is Book 1 of End of Days, a Post Apocalyptic slow burn reverse harem romance. The harem will slowly grow as the books progress. The harem features the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Spells and Necromancy
Candace Wondrak - 2018
For Lena, a mage in Rivaini’s College, that cost has always been great. Almost too much. It's why she refuses to cast spells when she can. But fate and destiny won’t wait for her. It will come whether she’s ready or not. And she won’t be ready, because when she gets involved in magic, bad things tend to happen. Death, an uncontrollable fire…oh, and black magic. Forbidden magic that was outlawed in Rivaini centuries ago. If the King or the High Enchanter catches wind of what she’s capable of, her execution will be swift. She knows that. Still, somehow Lena happens to stumble across an ancient tomb of heroes. Even worse, she accidentally raises the entire crypt in a fit of uncontrollable magic. Most end up being nothing more than skeletons, but two are more. As in, handsome and practically naked more. Tamlen and Valerius. Enemies from a time long past, but together they make her feel things she never thought she’d feel. Normal, loved, desired. Having thralls, being a necromancer—not something Lena wants. Tamlen and Valerius? They’re a different story. She hungers for them, and she’ll have them. Both of them. Maybe together they can stop the ancient being whose eyes are set on Lena, the old god who will bring nothing but death and destruction in its wake. Spells and Necromancy is the first in a trilogy of Unfortunate Magic. It is a fast-burn Reverse Harem romance and contains explicit sexual scenes, along with some M/M elements. It is not intended for anyone under 18 years of age.
Dead End
Penn Cassidy - 2021
The one time of year when you can dress up and be anyone or anything you want to be. For me, it was the day those costumes became real.Raising the dead... along with some witches, vampires, and a werewolf or two, was just another boring day in Midnight Hollow. But being stuck in this nightmare with four of my smoking hot arch enemies and my best friend Maddie, will force us to work together when nothing else makes sense...Who will live and who will die? Who will rise again? My name is October, and this is my story.This is a dark reverse harem bully book. 18+ due to mature themes and graphic content.
Bound by Magic
Sadie Moss - 2018
Power I can’t control. And four alluring men who are the key to it all.Ever since the Great Death killed two thirds of the magical population, the magically Gifted have used their powers to oppress the Blighted—anyone without magic. Surviving as one of the Blighted in a city like Denver means I have to be quicker, smarter, and fiercer than the magical beings that rule the city. I get by just fine working as a mercenary and assassin until I take a job on my twenty-fifth birthday. What should be a routine take-down of an incubus and his buddies turns into a major clusterf#ck when something inside me goes haywire. Turns out, I do have magic. And it’s so powerful, it’s bound these four men to me. Jae, the thoughtful, intelligent mage with a sadness in him I can’t help but want to heal. Fenris, the sexy, devil-may-care wolf shifter with the killer grin. Akio, the incubus who pushes all my buttons—in the best and worst ways. And Corin, the human from my past who still holds a piece of my heart.They’re part of an underground rebellion working for equality among the races and fighting back against the magical elite. And according to them, I may just be the missing piece in their battle. I’m Lana Crow. Mercenary. Gifted. Rebel. And my story is just beginning…-------------------------------Bound by Magic is the first book in the Magic Awakened trilogy, a slow-burn reverse harem urban fantasy series featuring a badass heroine, magical intrigue, and four sexy-as-sin men. Bound by Magic (September 25th 2018)Game of Lies (October 11th 2018) Consort of Rebels (Nov 1 2018)
Claiming the Nanny
Dia Cole - 2019
Problem is, he’s never encountered temptation like the new nanny before. For the first time in his life Nathan is desperate to claim a woman and not even watching his best friend seduce her will sate his hunger. With the Strip Club Serial Killer on the loose, ex-dancer, Havana, knows her life may depend on her new position. Even so, she can’t help the scorching attraction she feels for her boss. She knows the gorgeous, rich, single dad is off-limits. But limits are meant to be tested, right? ***Claiming the Nanny is the prequel to the why choose paranormal romance series Claiming Her Mates***
Dead of Eve
Pam Godwin - 2012
Few men survive. The rest are monsters. The women are dead, except Evie. Through a quirk in her genetics, she survives. When her physiology begins to evolve, she must come to terms with what she is and accept her role in finding a cure.The mutated hunt her. The men brutalize her…except three. Cryptic warrior, contrite lover, caring enemy; they are fiercely protective of the last living woman, but divided in their own agendas. Can they come together to protect the only hope for humanity?Evie must survive.
Queen of the Vamps
Serena Akeroyd - 2019
It will take a congress of four to save humanity. If they can stop bickering, that is... QUEEN OF THE VAMPS is the first book in a slowly developing Reverse Harem series! LYSSA COULDN'T be normal if she tried, and when she met billionaire businessman Nikolai, he embraced her quirks and made her fall for him. But Niko is no regular entrepreneur. He has secrets, secrets that are tied up with his partner, Dmitry. Lyssa never wanted to be the Queen of the Vamps, but the King had other ideas. She didn't want two husbands, either, but the King and his Alpha mate were bound to her in ways her human sensibilities could never understand. In less than a day, Lyssa's whole world shifts. Literally. With her life in flux, and suddenly in danger, Lyssa clings to the two males who brought the chaos to her, but who are the only ones who can keep her safe. Or so she believes. A third male is waiting in the wings, ready to embrace his new mates, his new life, his new world order... Find out more in QUEEN OF THE VAMPS. Word Count: 105k (A Paranormal Why Choose Novel).