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Mistletoe & Mayhem


Brenda Trim - 2015
    She was born human but after being bit by a demon becomes a dhampir. For the past six months she’s avoided telling her parents, fearing they might reject her but with the holidays approaching she can’t put it off any longer. And truth be told, she craves the nostalgia of Christmas lights, hearing her dad call her Junebug, and her mom’s famous macadamia nut cookies. She arrives home to find her childhood neighborhood overcome by gangs and her baby brother knee-deep in danger. Focused on convincing her family to come live in Seattle, the last thing on her mind is love, but when sexy-wolf-shifter James pulls up on his motorcycle, her libido roars louder than his Harley. What begins as the best night of her life quickly escalates to the worst night of her life and the man of her dreams could end up in a body-bag trying to save her. James Brower is tired of the chaos and bullshit of his job. Being on the front lines of his packmaster’s army is an honor, but he’s itching for adventure of a different kind. Hopping on his bike, he lets the road determine his destination. Fate brings him to San Francisco and the most alluring female he’s ever laid eyes on. He can’t help but follow Jessie and before he knows it, he’s smack dab in the middle of what he was trying to escape. He’s willing to risk it all to protect her and on a chilly winter’s night, the last sound heard is the echo of a howling wolf.

Mystical


Valerie Weekly - 2015
    But first she has to start college with her best friend Dawn Roberts and her feline familiar Jared. If you think college is stressful, try finding your best friend being seduced—nearly to death—by a venomous fairy. Something is horribly wrong, and Eliza must find out what it is.Knowing who’s who in the Mystical world can be a burden—or save her life…Murderous mermaids, seductive fairies, and manipulative elves are terrifying enough, but pure witches can become corrupt…and they’re the most dangerous creatures of all. Eliza struggles to discover the source of this chaos, but is repeatedly attacked—and saved by a shadowy figure. On a very personal note, Eliza must learn whether corruption is beginning to claim her mother.Her strongest ally might be handsome, enigmatic Donovan—but he is hiding a shocking secret…Donovan wants nothing to do with his old gang—not after the things they’d made him do. But when he meets Eliza, he’s both frustrated by her amateur skills and impressed by her emerging strength, and he feels compelled to help her grow into the assassin she’s meant to be.Every answer has a price, and there are beings born to corrupt the pure.Eliza fights to master her skills before it’s too late, while Donovan must determine whether Eliza can be saved…or if she must die to keep her out of the hands of those who would use her powers to reign over all of Mystical.

Something Magical


Leighann Dobbs - 2016
    Today's happy couple? Kaylee Dean and Jordan Parker. But Kaylee's still hurting over a failed engagement from four years ago and Jordan isn't looking for a wife. Will the Seville sisters' magic be enough to bring this mis-matched couple together? Or will Kaylee and Jordan be forced to trust in the power of good, old-fashioned love?

Auctioned for Her Blood (The Vampires' Illuminant, #1)


Mara Leigh - 2021
    If only she’d listened…When I was fourteen, my mom was killed protecting me from witches wielding powerful dark magic, leaving me alone and hunted for a secret contained in my blood.Ten years later, lonely and desperate to escape my boring safe life, I break Mom’s rule and go out after dark, only to land on an auction block where two wealthy and powerful men bid their fortunes for a night with me.I can’t deny that I’m drawn to both of these smoking hot men—one a cultured intellect and the other a dangerous bad boy—and I’m whisked into a glamorous world of powerful vampires, dark secrets and darker desires.My rule-breaking leads to passion like I’ve never known, but ends in disaster when I’m captured and trapped in a dangerous prison full of vicious creatures all hungry for my blood—and my innocence.As I discover the mysterious power I hold deep inside me, can I survive long enough to escape captivity? And as I develop intense feelings for more than one of my protectors, how can I possible choose just one?Auctioned for Her Blood is Book 1 of The Vampires’ Illuminant series. Expect a steamy, exciting story, where the heroine falls for more than one man and doesn’t have to choose.

Immortal Beloved


Cate Tiernan - 2010
    She feels nothing and cares for no one. But when she witnesses her best friend, a Dark Immortal, torture a human, she realizes something's got to change. She seeks refuge at a rehab for wayward immortals, where she meets the gorgeous, undeniably sexy Reyn, who seems inexplicably linked to her past.Nastasya finally begins to deal with life, and even feels safe--until the night she learns that someone wants her dead.

Wickedly They Come


Cathrina Constantine - 2013
    Together with their formidable angels they find themselves in peril when a wicked sorcerer is determined to fulfill the prophecy to his lord, Lucifer. After an ominous vision of spirits inhabiting teenagers in a local school, Jordan enrolls in the social culture of teendom at Elma High to combat soulless demons. She encounters Mark, a mysterious new classmate, who is hell bent on keeping her unscathed from the forces of evil. The battle between Heaven and Hell is escalating—and Earth is their battleground.

The Bear On The Train


Maria Amor - 2017
    One Train. One INCREDIBLE story. When paranormal assassin Leah Pratt was tasked with the job of killing dangerous WereBear Jake Overman she knew it would be a mission like no other. But she really had no idea. As Leah got sight of her target aboard a train heading north she knew this was the perfect time to strike. But she had no idea that fate was about to intervene and Leah's journey and her destination were going to be dramatically changed forever.... The Bear On The Train is a Paranormal Romance like no other you will have read before. A special blend of Mystery, Suspense and Thriller alongside some touching and sensual romantic scenes. This really is a book that both women and men will enjoy equally. Download now and enjoy the ride!

The Dragon's Fated Mate


Lola Kidd - 2017
    She’s going to marry a nice human man and live a nice human life. After spending years as an outsider in her shifter hometown, she’s ready to move to the human world and live her life. But before she can leave and start her new life, she has one last job to do. Dragon shifter Jasper Collins is ready to find his mate and settle down. He has one last job to finish before starting his search and it’s a big one. When these two meet the sparks fly. But Leigh wants nothing to do with the dragon shifter. She’s done with shifters. Can he convince her to look past his dragon nature to the man inside? Find out in the first book of the Shifter Brides Everafter series!

Harley


Claudy Conn - 2015
    When that life is taken away from her, Harley doesn't want to serve revenge up cold. She wants to serve it up now, and she wants to serve it up HOT. And then Kian enters her life and she knows, she just knows she is in trouble because it isn't wise to let yourself look too long at a hunk that takes your breath away when you think his heart might belong to someone else. But what can you do, when he is in your face every single time you turn around and dark magic, and werewolves keep getting you into trouble?

The Thousand Year Curse


Taylor Lavati - 2013
    After being thrown down the social hierarchy, Ryder Mason has one goal for her senior year- survive. Within the first month of school, Ryder goes from bullied teen to a cursed half goddess with two boyfriends. As if that wasn't enough, she travels into the Underworld to confront Hades about the curse and her missing mother. Ryder delves head first into a Godly world as her two knights fight to seek her approval, her best friend's loyalties are tested and people's true intentions are shown in the first Curse Books novel.

Once a Witch


Carolyn MacCullough - 2009
    She will be a beacon for us all."Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of witches, and on the day she was born, her grandmother proclaimed she would be one of the most Talented among them.But Tamsin's magic never showed up.Now, seventeen years later, she spends most of her time at boarding school in Manhattan, where she can at least pretend to be normal. But during the summers, she's forced to return home and work at her family's bookstore/magic shop.One night a handsome young professor from New York University arrives in the shop and mistakes Tamsin for her extremely Talented older sister. For once, it's Tamsin who's being looked at with awe and admiration, and before she can stop herself, she agrees to find a family heirloom for him that was lost more than a century ago. But the search - and the stranger - prove to be more sinister than they first appeared, ultimately sending Tamsin on a treasure hunt through time that will unlock the secret of her true identity, unearth the past sins of her family, and unleash a power so strong and so vengeful that it could destroy them all.In a spellbinding display of storytelling, Carolyn MacCullough interweaves witchcraft, romance, and time travel in a fantasy that will exhilarate, enthrall, and thoroughly enchant.

The Trouble with Spells


Lacey Weatherford - 2009
     Portia Mullins had always lived the life of a normal teenager, up until her sixteenth birthday. She is then informed by her grandma that she is actually a witch who is a descendant of a long line of witches and warlocks. After overcoming her disbelief she finds that being a member of the coven comes with one great perk in the form of the school's handsome bad boy, Vance Mangum. Vance and Portia have an immediate connection as a budding romance begins, only to be threatened by turbulent skies on the horizon as Vance's checkered past rears its ugly head to haunt them. Portia is forced to use her untried powers in defense of everything she loves in a desperate attempt to hold on to the one thing that really matters in her life.

The Great Disapurrance


Anya Nowlan - 2016
    What other explanation could there be for being sent by his employers, The Firm, to track down and kill one of the most influential lieutenants in the premier shifter crime organization in the region! And to make matters worse, this weretiger's heat is right around the corner, making the seasoned SEAL more aggressive than ever. But his mission has to take a backseat when the right woman happens to be at the wrong place, and Arlen has to focus on protecting her as much as trying to keep his paws off of her. Even an elite weretiger SEAL can't be faultless... Sienna Marquez has spent her lifetime trying to distance herself from a past that's too painful to think back on, but that past doesn't want to let her go. When the Chicago shifter mob takes an interest in her, Sienna would have never guessed that the path to her salvation would come from a man as dangerous as the jerks who took her hostage, but a whole lot sexier. With heat and uncertainty mixing together, no wonder the sheets aren't the only thing getting tangled up. And when there's no doubt about there being a baby on the way, Sienna knows that she has the fight of her life on her hands. Not only for her own future, but those of her baby, and maybe the growly, Alpha tiger who she can't keep her hands off of... The Great Disapurrance is a full shapeshifter military surprise baby romance, with a guaranteed HEA and no cheating. Pick up this book if you want plenty of heat, danger, and a shifter who won't quit until he gets his way! NB! This book includes a bonus novella, Bear the Burn at the end, about a werebear fireman on his quest to find his fated, with the bonus content beginning at location 2601!

Of Light and Darkness


Shayne Leighton - 2011
    Raised among a secret society of Witches, Shifters, and Elves, human-born Charlotte Ruzikova finds that she is the freak in her world of magic and monsters. When she stands before an army of impossible obstacles, the likelihood of survival in this coming-of-age modern fairy tale is slim. After Charlotte captures the attention of the young Elven prince, her scorn results in an all-out war between light and darkness.Charlotte knows no other home than the one nestled deep in the woods of the Czech Republic, where Witches draw spells of enchantment, Shifters throw tea parties, and Elves are the closest in kin. But as genocide and war threatens life as she knows it, Charlotte will fight for what she believes in...truth, bravery, and most importantly...love. Fighting with a coven of rogue monsters is tougher than it seems, but she will stop at nothing to save them...and she'll do it before the sun comes up and light takes over forever.Filled with Slavic folklore, Of Light and Darkness is the first part of an epic series not to be missed!.

Ever Shade


Alexia Purdy - 2011
    A dark twist on faeries. For Shade, a chance meeting with a powerful Teleen faery warrior who wields electrical currents and blue fires along his skin, has her joining him on a treacherous mission for the good Seelie Faerie Court across the land of Faerie. Paperback includes the prequel: Evangeline. Books in this series: Prequel: Evangeline, Book 1: Ever Shade, Book 2: Ever Fire, Book 3: Ever Winter, Book 3.5: The Cursed, Book 4: Ever Wrath, Book 5: History of Fire, Book 6: Ever Dead, Book 7: Legends of Fire, Book 8: Guardians of Fire