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Chained


Kacey Lee - 2021
    What I didn’t expect to find was a feral vampire, or the wolf who would change everything.The Alpha who caught me is like all the others--all raging temper and muscles. And yet…his pack is different than mine.But no matter how much my wolf cries ‘mate’, I need to break free. It’s time I accept the truth: I don’t belong anywhere. My wolf will never settle for anything less than she is, and no other wolf will accept what I am:Different, an anomaly…A female Alpha.Perfect for fans of Jaymin Eve, Kelly St. Clare, Leia Stone, Linsey Hall, and other PNR Indie Author Goddesses. If you enjoy sexy alpha-holes and a headstrong heroine, with humor, steam, and action, this is for you! Recommended for 18+ due to explicit scenes and language.

Catching a Vampire


Laura Greenwood - 2019
     With her best friend unable to do the simplest spells, her brother determined to find an old family spell to turn them into cats, and hot dates with a vampire, her hands are full enough. Add to that two other guys trying to get her attention, and a teacher that seems to hate her, and Daphne's school year isn't quite going to plan… - Catching A Vampire is a slow burn paranormal academy with a reverse harem theme. It is book one of the Grimalkin Academy: Catacombs.

Love Me to Death


Marissa Clarke - 2014
    But eccentric Aunt Uza is a picnic compared to the other people who enter her orderly life after she is shot in a convenience store robbery.Elena finds herself rocketed from comfortable predictability to supernatural insanity courtesy of her own private angel of death who happens to have the sexiest accent on earth and a body to match. Her death angel is convinced she’s some kind of freaky half vampire thing and that her deceased dad was the real deal: a blood sucking monster. Yeah, right. She’ll play along, but then she doesn’t have much choice seeing how as the guy claims to be some immortal law enforcer and has taken her prisoner.* * *Nikolai Itzov had expected to fight the urge to torture the progeny of his father’s murderer, but he’d never anticipated battling the urge to kiss her her.As a Slayer, an elite law enforcer descended from Azrael himself, his charge from the Underveil General is clear: Kill her or die. He has been told she is one of them--an Undead. Nothing but a parasite to be destroyed. But he has been told wrong. Nikolai and Elena find themselves in a life and death battle to stop a plot designed to lift the Underveil and enslave humans. With her analytical mind and his centuries of training and experience, they might be able to foil the plot with their lives and maybe their hearts intact. But in order to succeed, he must help her become the very thing he hates the most: an Undead.

Full Blooded


Amanda Carlson - 2012
    She wakes up and finds she’s in the middle of a storm. Now that she’s become the only female full-blooded werewolf in town, the supernatural world is already clamoring to take a bite out of her and her new Pack must rise up and protect her.But not everyone is on board. The werewolf Rights of Laws is missing text and the superstitious werewolves think that Jessica means an end to their race. It doesn’t help when Jessica begins to realize she’s more. She can change partway and hold her form, and speak directly to her wolf. But the biggest complication by far is that her alpha father can't control her like he can the rest of his wolves.When a mercenary who’s been hired by the vampires shows up to extract information about the newly turned werewolf only days after her change, they find themselves smack in the middle of a war and there's no choice but to run together. When it’s up to Jessica to negotiate her release against her father’s direct orders, she chooses to take an offer for help instead. In exchange, Jessica must now swear an oath she may end up repaying with her life.

The Marionettes


Katie Wismer - 2021
    A deadly secret. An unlikely ally.Valerie Darkmore’s entire life has been building up to this moment—her initiation into the Marionettes, the prestigious league of witches sworn to serve the vampires. As one of the last remaining blood witches, her spot is almost guaranteed. At least, so she’d thought.The academy is full of sabotage and secrets as the tasks begin, and Valerie quickly realizes she has more than her spot on the line. Her survival seems just as uncertain.The closer she gets to the final trial, the more she learns everything—and everyone—around her isn’t quite what it seems.

Three for a Witch


Lucy Auburn - 2018
     I was supposed to cry my broken heart away. Instead I did a spell to draw three men to me: Orlando, Roman, and Jack. There were my best friends when we were kids. Then something more when we were all fourteen. And I still long for them. But things have changed since we were fourteen. There are cracks and missing pieces. And somewhere out there in the woods, a darkness lurks… a darkness coming for us all. I just hope we can reunite in time to face it, or we might not live to see tomorrow. Three for a Witch is a complete, standalone novel with no cliffhangers in sight.

Forbidden Wolf


C.R. Robertson - 2021
    But one night changes everything, resulting in a relationship between the two. A relationship punishable by execution should either be caught.Fueled by hate and inflamed by boundary disputes, their warring species will never accept their love. But just as Levi and Tasha plan their escape, a new danger emerges that threatens both of their worlds.As the pair discover why their species have really been kept apart all these years, they soon realize their own secret may be the key to unlock the survival of their species. But if their passion is discovered by the wrong people, they might find themselves dead before they get the chance to save anyone.

Twisted


Rebecca Zanetti - 2013
    The alternate cover edition is here.Maggie is a wolf shifter who was captured and experimented on by the Kurjans. Now that a cure has finally been found for shifters (although not for vampire mates or witches), she can concentrate on creating a new life for herself and finally accepting that her memories are gone forever. Most memories, that is. Sometimes in the hazy world between dreams and dawn, she hears a Scottish voice, dark and deep, that sounds suspiciously like wolf-shifter Terrent Vilks. A man she happened to anger by kidnapping a few years back. Hey, it was for a good cause.Terrent Vilks knows more than he’s let on for the past several years. After digging for answers, he knows exactly why the demons want Maggie dead. And he remembers his past with Maggie…very well. She is finally where he wants her. Now all he has to do is discover what exactly the Kurjans did to her, beat the demons into so much submission they leave her alone, and get her to fall in love with him. Again. Good thing he’s used to wrangling monsters.31,000 Word Count

Nightfall


L.H. Cosway - 2012
    None of them, however, have anything on the handsome stranger who comes in one night and helps her fend off an armed robber. He looks the thief directly in the eye and without confrontation convinces him to turn around and walk out the door.Tegan has never seen anything like it, nor does she understand why he then lays those mesmerising eyes on her and tells her to forget they ever met. She shrugs it off as just another weird night shift encounter, until the following evening when her best friend produces free passes to a new club in the city. Tegan agrees to go and is pleasantly surprised by the tasteful, classy décor and oddly beautiful, intensely ethereal clientele. To her surprise, her mysterious stranger is sitting smack dab in the VIP section. What are the chances?!Tegan is struck by the coincidence of bumping into him again so soon, while he is furious that she remembers him when he insisted she forget their meeting. Tegan has no idea that she’s taken a misstep into a whole new world inhabited by vampires, slayers, dhampirs, witches and warlocks. All of whom display a wholly disconcerting interest in what makes her unique from the rest of the clueless humans who populate the city. On top of this, her handsome stranger keeps turning up at her work and seems intent on getting to know her a whole lot better.Nightfall is book one in L.H. Cosway’s Blood Magic Series. A previous, unedited version of this story was published under the title Tegan’s Blood.

Taste


Kate Evangelista - 2012
    Phoenix McKay soon finds out why when she is left behind at sunset. A group calling themselves night students threaten to taste her flesh until she is saved by a mysterious, alluring boy. With his pale skin, dark eyes, and mesmerizing voice, Demitri is both irresistible and impenetrable. He warns her to stay away from his dangerous world of flesh eaters. Unfortunately, the gorgeous and playful Luka has other plans. When Phoenix is caught between her physical and her emotional attraction, she becomes the keeper of a deadly secret that will rock the foundations of an ancient civilization living beneath Barinkoff Academy. Phoenix doesn't realize until it is too late that the closer she gets to both Demitri and Luka the more she is plunging them all into a centuries old feud.

Coven


K.A. Young - 2013
    She is a thrill seeker, continually craving excitement and adventure. The idea of being tied down to a place or man never interested her, even though a betrothal spell was cast linking her and the Head of Council’s son when they were mere infants. Being a distant third in succession to assume the Head Mistress role, she felt confident that her secret would remain in her past along with Coven life. Unfortunately, nothing in our fun loving heroine’s future is anything she or anyone from the supernatural realm is prepared for.Now, she’s forced to return to the place and the Sorcerer she so desperately sought to forget.Elise has no idea the power and gifts that await her. Can she let go of her own desires and embrace her new role? Or will she surrender to the faceless evil coming for them all? Book one in the tantalizing Elise Michaels Series a spinoff of The Nephilim Warrior Series.

Mad Girl: Locked Up (Supernatural Asylum Book 1)


Karpov Kinrade - 2020
    I can feel it in my bones. The voices are inside me, clawing at my consciousness. I see my face—her face—everywhere I look, and I know the truth. The curse of my ancestors has come to pass. I have fallen victim to my own insanity. After tragedy strikes, awakening the demon within, I am taken to an asylum for the sick of mind and soul. They say they want to heal me, but the voices say they lie. A doctor too beautiful to be real almost has me believing I can be normal, and at first I cling to him as a life preserver in a storm. But the haunted eyes and feral looks of the Woodland brothers give me doubts. They say I can’t be cured because I’m not crazy, I’m a witch. A night witch born under a new moon, and the only one who can save them all. My soul hungers for the brothers, who are my stalwart guardians in this house of horrors. And my heart yearns for the doctor, who offers the promise of a light in the darkness, even if that promise might be false. My mind is playing tricks on me, and when patients start going missing, I begin to fear everyone, most of all myself. In the bowels of an ancient French abbey, the screams can wake the dead. Welcome to Le Reve Asylum. We’re all mad here, but some of us are also dangerous. *** Mad Girl is a reverse harem why choose paranormal romance with potentially triggering themes of suicide and institutional abuse. For fans of sexy romance with mystery, werewolves, vampires, and witches, and readers who enjoy Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me series, Jaymin Eve, Kristy Cunning, Tate James, Alex Lidell, C.M. Stunich, Cece Rose. Other books by Karpov Kinrade & Heather Hildenbrand: The Winter Witch (a standalone novella) Mad Girl: Locked Up Mad Girl: Fights Back Bad Witch

Into The Light


Katherine Hastings - 2020
    then her whole heart started coming with it. Broke. That's what I was after my husband ran off with another woman. Not just my heart, either. My bank account took the hit, too. Thanks to the debt he left behind, I struggled to get by while I pieced my life back together. Until I'm made an offer I can't refuse. Five million dollars, and all I have to give is five years of my life as a blood donor - to a vampire. It was supposed to be a business transaction. He gets my blood; I get his money. Simple. Easy. I should have known better. I wasn't the only one broken. Except, the truth was, with him around ... I didn't feel broken anymore. When the truth comes to life, when there are more than just two options, we both have a choice to make. He can either join me in the light, or I can embrace the darkness.

Immortal Embrace


Charlotte Blackwell - 2011
    That is until her family decides to move to Wenham, Massachusetts. Her and her siblings have been ordered to protect their little sister, and must return to High school. This is where Sophia finds her soulmate, Nathanial and life as she knows it is about to change.As a vampire, Sophia has always kept to herself, but as a high school student, will she learn to step out of her comfort zone a little? Sophia has found a best friend in a powerful witch and a love to call her own. That is until something tragic happens and blood is spilled. Will Sophia be able to resist the sweet scent of her beloved’s blood?This is Sophia’s story, a story of a girl who finds herself, love and everlasting friendship. The excitement of this story wraps mortals, vampires, witches, and more all into a romantic tale of young love, friendship, the meaning of family. The story of a girl who tries to finds herself when she thought it was all lost.

Sanguine Scent


Reina Torres - 2021
    And not in that order. He’s as wild as they come, but when he crashes a garden party he discovers the one woman who may be able to tame the wild within.Then she’s snatched from him and he has hell to pay.What’s the use of vampiric immortality if he’s forced to live alone forever? All he has left is a thirst for revenge.But when his friend brings him to Othercross he catches a glimpse at a second chance…Alba Pacetti uses her love of nature to create the most beautiful gardens in the world. Her ability to tap into the magic of the earth makes her a hot commodity for the warlock who wants to own her, but her heart belongs to someone else. Someone she lost a long time ago.When Amaro finds himself within reach of the woman who was torn from his arms, he’ll stop at nothing to make her his Beloved.**Part of the "Real Men Romance" multi-author world.**