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The Hunter's Call
D.D. Chance - 2020
Until the night I stumble onto an elite monster hunter academy and into the arms of four hottie hunters who not only know the exact Latin classification of the thing trying to eat me, but how to kill it dead.Then Tyler Perkins, the crazy rich and shamelessly sexy leader of this monster hunting squad, kicks it up a notch. He challenges me to stay. To fight. He’s arrogant and entitled and did I mention gorgeous…and the way he pushes me makes want to push back. Hard.Tyler and his whole smokin’ hot team tempt me in ways that are far more dangerous than a monster throwdown. I know I should split town—but I can’t. Because for all its gorgeous old buildings and shiny bright classrooms, something dark, sinister, and deadly is lurking in the shadows of Wellington Academy, waiting to attack… And I’m just the kind of girl for that job. **THE HUNTER'S CALL is a slow-burn urban fantasy romance with a fast-talking, sharp-witted heroine, four hunters-in-training hot enough to make your palms sweat, and way too many monsters to hide in a closet. Keep your blades at the ready and dive in!**
Witch's Trial
Casey Morgan - 2019
If I can survive my first trial as a witch, I can stay alive.The problem is, I'm not even sure I am a witch. Luckily, I'm surrounded by hot guys with magical powers who might be able to help me figure it out.When a very late 18th birthday present shows up on my doorstep, I have no idea that it's going to change my life forever. The gift, from my grandmother, grants me four years of paid tuition at Ironwood Academy, in a town called Love's Hollow, New York.I've never heard of the school or the town, but I have nowhere else to go, and I'm determined to take what's mine. It turns out this place is full of non-human creatures. I really don't think I fit in here, and Headmaster Thorn seems to agree. He wants me gone. He may even want me dead.I'm going to have to prove to him that I belong at a school for magic. Good thing the student body is made up of strong, handsome guys who all have special powers. From the alpha werewolf to the witch who can make you kill yourself with one look, they're all so dangerous they should be forbidden.But I think I can use them to my advantage. Because my grandmother left me with one more present: a necklace with special powers. I'm beginning to wonder what will activate the spell, though.As Halloween approaches, my time is running out to learn the secrets that will help me pass the test, and the guys all seem enamored with me. I can feel my power increasing each time one flirts with me.Maybe losing my virginity is the key to my survival.And I'll gladly give it away.But I need to choose wisely about who takes it.Halloween Trial is a new adult urban fantasy paranormal academy romance with mature content featuring university-age characters and is for readers age 18 and up. You'll find a feisty heroine, hot guys with magical powers and plenty of steam!
Upended Life
Erin R. Flynn - 2019
Which is almost funny given at nineteen I already know too much of the darkness of the world and people, the secrets they keep. Or so I thought. Turns out those quirky abilities I’ve been keeping secret expose me to a world I didn’t know existed. Sure, I knew I wasn’t human—but how exactly do I find out more without ending up in the wrong hands? And I’m not so sure I’m in the right hands now given some of the reactions to finding me. They say I’m the last fairy. I’m not sure I should trust them when their thoughts are mostly of power and how to use me. But I’m also not sure I have much of a choice. My powers are dangerous and I don’t know how to use them. They promise to teach me what I need to know and give me a chance at something I’ve never had before. A normal life. I don’t think anything about Artemis University and those who attend is normal, but it’s still better than the life I’ve been living if they keep half their promises. I think hoping they’ll keep half is generous. Artemis University is a hot burning reverse harem, university-age paranormal academy series with darker elements, strong language, violence, and a heroine who follows her own moral compass of what is right… And who she ends up giving her heart to.
Pandora's Box
Gracen Miller - 2011
Distrustful of a God she doesn't believe in, she finds herself face-to-face with a world she didn't know existed and discovers her own soul is darkened with demonic connections.With good intentions? Or by demonic design?Phoenix Birmingham bursts into Madison’s life in a whirlwind of sarcasm and sexual appeal. A hero for the masses—and for her jaded heart—but few will ever know the sacrifices he has made or the sacrifices to come. Discovering her entire life has been influenced by multifaceted paranormal beings, Madison is determined to defeat the apocalyptic blueprint fate has decreed, but only one man dares to challenge the supernatural forces manipulating them. Even with Phoenix's aid, can destiny be denied? Or will demonic design prevail while they pay the crucial price with their souls?In a small, sleepy Alabama town the battle for mankind's liberty has begun...
Bully
Atlas Rose - 2019
But I know that’s a lie. I call it what it is. My prison. My cell. My end. They brought me here in handcuffs, dressed me in a stranger’s clothes and pretended to care. But the food they give me is poison, and the other girls are not my friends. They corner me, they hurt me…they bully. Until one day in the training yard someone comes to my defense. Orphic. I’ve heard his name whispered…along with three others he sits with. The Pack, they call them. Boys with no families. Brothers in arms. They take me in, protect me…they make me one of them. Until one day Orphic leads me out into the training yard…And there’s no one but the bully’s there. They’ll spill my blood. They’ll break my bones. They think I’ll crumble. They think I’ll cave. But there’s only one way to deal with people like them. Bully is book 1 in The Academy of Lies series This is a Paranormal Romance you'll fall in love with.
A Brush with the Moon
Raquel Lyon - 2010
Away from home & back with her best friend, she’s doing the one thing in the world she loves, art. Life’s perfect, or is it? Something’s strange about her new home. People are dying; an old house pulls her towards its doors. Sophie’s changing too; is it the recent fox bite? All becomes clear when she meets the seductive Sebastian and learns his family’s secret.
Night Of The Shayde
Lili Zander - 2018
The
second
night, I was hunted. The
third
night—the night I was marked for death—I attracted the attention of three dangerous, enigmatic vampires. Saber, Zeke and Nero. To earn my freedom,
I just need to survive one more night.
I need to make it through the ultimate trial. The tournament of warriors. The Night of the Shayde.
But the vampires want me for their own.
...And everyone knows that whatever vampires want, vampires get. Night of the Shayde is a reverse harem paranormal vampire romance. Adult situations. Snarky heroine who likes to swear from time to time. 18+. A previous version of this book was published. This version has been significantly altered and rewritten.
Goddess Legacy
M.W. Muse - 2013
rather Adin Shepard was the hottest guy in school before he graduated a couple of weeks ago. Now it's summer vacation and she's not sure when she'll get to see him again. Until he shows up at her surprise seventeenth birthday party. Cue saliva glands--it's time to drool.But her giddiness is cut short when her guardian delivers an emotional blow, telling Legacy her mother hadn't died when she was baby, but that she'd left for Legacy's protection all those years ago. After the initial shock, she expects some story about how her mother was in the Witness Protection Program or something else just as crazy, but when she's told that her mother is a Greek Goddess and that Legacy is changing into one too, she thinks her guardian needs a trip to a mental hospital. Legacy a goddess? Um, yeah. Right. And her BFF is the Easter Bunny.While trying to make sense out of something that was impossible to believe, Adin asks Legacy out on a date. She is thrilled that her fantasy might become a reality, but when she meets the new guy in town, River, she discovers everything isn't always as it seems, and the legacy she wants just might not be the legacy she is destined to have.
Awaken
Heather C. Myers - 2013
She's awoken from a coma by a kiss from a mysterious stranger who's more prickly than prince. As she tries to assimilate to normal teenage life, she learns she now has the power to see the future, which apparently, requires careful training. Enter Prickly Prince, who seems to find more enjoyment being a witty drunk than honing her craft.When a girl is taken by Onyx City's most notorious criminal, who may or may not be a demon, Reese is thrust into the forefront of the impending war well before she's ready. Her new friend, Andie Shepherd, is intent on getting her sister back from the demonic criminal at all costs, and if Reese doesn't help, Andie may have to rely on the assistance of a vigilante known only as Black Wing, dangerous as he is tall, dark and handsome. And that's only if he's in a particularly generous mood. Just because he has wings doesn't mean he's always an angel, after all.
A Whisper Before Dawn
K.C. Kingmaker - 2020
It finds me: murderous teachers, sexy supernaturals, devious plots.My name is Dawn Rose. I was the food-scavenger for my group of outcasts in the Fringe—what used to be LA County before the Abnorms and supernaturals turned it into a hellscape. But I never expected to witness a brutal murder-by-magic. Now I’ve been whisked off to Briarwitch Academy, the place where magic goes to grow. The faculty think I have an ancient untapped power. Yeah, right. Like I’m going to fit in with drunken gnomes and goth pixies. And then there are the smoldering shifter dudes. One of them basically stalks me. The other hates me. I want them both.I’m just trying to survive the bullies and my classes and the magical weirdos who don’t think I belong here. But when evil threatens the academy, I have to stop it from reaching back home. And that whole murder thing? I know who did it. And he knows I know. And life’s about to get way more complicated… This is a slow-burn reverse harem paranormal romance with more heat than a fresh ghost pepper and more mystery than that missing Tupperware lid in your kitchen.If you like badass female leads, snarky sidekicks, conflicted alpha males, and straight-up evil baddies, one-click now!
Super Dark
Tanith Morse - 2013
Ten years ago on Halloween night, grotesque creatures snatched her best friend Elliot and Sam narrowly escaped with her life. Now a decade on, the police investigation has ground to a halt and Elliot’s whereabouts remains a mystery. Traumatized by her ordeal, Sam finds it hard to make friends. She is mistrustful of authority and changed schools more times than she cares to remember. To her, the world is cruel and unforgiving. Then she meets the enigmatic Lee Weaver. With his gorgeous face and magnetic presence, he turns heads wherever he goes. Sam has never wanted anyone as much as she wants Lee, but there are things about the alluring stranger that don’t add up, leading Sam to ask unsettling questions about her past. Soon she discovers the boy of her dreams is keeping a terrible secret: one that threatens to destroy everything Sam holds dear . . .Super Dark is a seductive love story that will keep you guessing right until the final page ...
The Society of Imaginary Friends
Kristen Pham - 2011
But a visit from the imaginary friend of her childhood opens a world of possibilities, including a new life half a universe away on a planet that is bursting with magic.The Society of Imaginary Friends follows Valerie on a journey that straddles two worlds. In order to survive, she must travel many light years away to a realm where anything is possible.On the Globe, imaginary friends come to life, the last of the unicorns rules the realm, and magic seeps from the pores of all the Conjurors who live there.But choosing to embrace her potential will set Valerie on a treacherous course–one filled with true love, adventure and perilous danger.
Heir of Shadows
Kel Carpenter - 2016
Period.The day my sister broke that rule one too many times, I knew there would be consequences. I expected us to be sent to one of those schools for “troubled” kids—and maybe Daizlei Academy was, in a way. But really, it was far more complicated than that.You see, I thought that world had forgotten me. Forgotten us. For years we were left alone, and one day . . . we weren’t.It was only when I got there that I remembered the second rule:Trust no one.Because in our world? They would kill me if they knew the truth of what I am.Daizlei Academy is a school for Supernaturals.And me? I’m so much more.*This is a YA+ Academy series with slow-burn romance and a strong but flawed heroine. It is labeled YA(+) for stronger language and some mature situations. As the heroine ages and grows so does the content of the stories.*
Cursed Luck
Serenity Ackles - 2019
Late for class and missing an exam: Check.
Chased by monsters for a magic inside of me that has the power to tip a battle between gods and demons either way and potentially destroy humanity in the process: Check.
I didn't think my run of bad luck could get any worse.Then I get caught up in a spell gone wrong and now I have the magic of Luck bonded to me.Let’s let that irony sink in…Now, I have demons with no eyes and no mouths hunting me, trying to get Luck out of me - and they don't care if they drain all my blood to do so.Oh, yeah... Demons – apparently, they exist.And so do gods.I can't work out if my luck has taken a turn for the better or if it has gotten much worse, because I've got three gods claiming they're the guardians of the magic inside me, and until that magic is gone, they my guardians too. They’re sexy as hell, and as attracted to me as I am to them but that could be because of magic.Good luck? Bad luck? It’s time to start making my own luck.
Cursed Luck is the first book in the Goddess of Fate and Destiny series. This is a medium-build RH novel, meaning the FMC won't choose just one guy - she will choose all of them!The Goddess of Fate & Destiny series will contain sex, swearing, a smart-ass squirrel shifter, some MFM scenes, and might be more suitable for an 18+ audience. While the series will end on a HEA, there may be cliff-hangers and HFN endings.
Kingdom of Storms
Jasmine Walt - 2018
Three sexy heroes. A reverse harem fantasy full of magic, adventure, hot sex, and much, much more... As a half-breed with no family name and illicit magic singing in her veins, Tariel has spent her entire life trying to hide who she is and fighting the forbidden desires in her heart. But when Tariel's warden tries to foist her onto a man with a reputation for killing his wives, she realizes that all her efforts have been for naught. If she is to survive, she will have to embrace her magic and fight for her freedom--two things women in Fjordland have always been forbidden from. Thankfully, Tariel is not alone. With a desert spirit to guide her, a fierce knight to protect her, and a handsome scholar to advise her, she might just have what it takes to escape death and seize her destiny. That is, if they can find a way to defeat the deadliest witch hunter in history… Don't miss out on the decadent pleasure of this brand-new reverse harem romance. Scroll up and grab your copy today! IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a TRUE reverse harem romance, meaning that the heroine does NOT have to choose between her men. Expect to find danger, intrigue, hot sex, action, and magic between the pages of this book. For 18+ readers. You have been warned!