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Birth of a Raven by M. Sinclair
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Shade
Jeri Smith-Ready - 2009
Birthday. Ever. At least, it was supposed to be. With Logan's band playing a crucial gig and Aura's plans for an intimate after-party, Aura knows it will be the most memorable night of her boyfriend's life. She never thought it would be his last.Logan's sudden death leaves Aura devastated. He's gone.Well, sort of.Like everyone born after the Shift, Aura can see and talk to ghosts. This mysterious ability had always been annoying, and Aura had wanted nothing more than to figure out why the Shift happened so she could undo it. But not with Logan's violet-hued spirit still hanging around. Because Dead Logan is almost as real as ever. Almost.It doesn't help that Aura's new friend Zachary is so understanding - and so very alive. His support means more to Aura than she cares to admit.As Aura's relationship with with the dead and the living grow ever complicated, so do her feelings for Logan and Zachary. Each holds a piece of Aura's heart . . . and clues to the secret of the Shift.
Grave Mistakes
Ivy Asher - 2020
You do stupid things. Like accidentally sign your soul over to Hell.When I interviewed for a new security job, I didn’t bat an eye that it was for a literal graveyard shift...headstones and all. I mean, at the hourly rate they were offering, who cares? I got this.Turns out, I’m not guarding a graveyard like I thought. It seems I’ve just walked my broke ass into protecting a Gate to Hell. Yeah…I don’t got this.Now I’m stuck in a terrifying new reality: a group of hot demons who act like I can solve all their problems, and a battle between good, evil, and balance.This will seriously teach me to read the fine print on Help Wanted ads. Good thing this job comes with a scythe. Maybe I can use it to stop them from dragging my ass into Hell.
Heaven's Embrace
J.A. Cipriano - 2018
She can see angels, and not just any angels, but archangels. There’s Michael, tough, gorgeous, and smarter than Sherlock Holmes. Lucifer, the bad boy you love to, well, love. And Gabriel? Well, he’s like the best friend she always wanted, only with washboard abs. Together they make an awesome team when they aren’t trying to figure out a way to screw like bunnies. Or, at least, they will when a girl goes missing. Now it’s up to Jane and her angels to crack the case, bring the girl home, and save the day. …and this time, she might find that helping gets her what she’s really wanted all along.
Wayward Secrets
K.T. Strange - 2020
Lonely lakeshores, crumbling stone mountains all around me, and a forest, where I can wander into the deep when the time is right.But even the terminally ill need to work, and I'm not dead yet. The Raven Brothers are the local guides, and they need someone to work in their camp supply store, booking hiking packages for tourists, and that sort of thing. It's the kind of job I can do for now, and they won't have too much trouble replacing me once I'm... gone.They're not really brothers. That's the first thing I learn about them. Beau Raven, Kyron Hart, and Grady Ward might as well be related though, with how well they work together and are nearly always finishing each other's sentences. I understand why half the women in town are chasing after them, given that they seem to have a problem with keeping their shirts on most days.It would be the whole town lusting after them, I think, except some of the women keep disappearing, into the woods, never to be seen again.Fallen Mountain might not be the quiet place for my last few months on Earth I thought it would be...And the Ravens not being blood-related is only one secret, the most tame one, that the brothers are keeping...
Inescapable
Amy A. Bartol - 2011
I’d been hoping that once I’d arrived on Crestwood’s campus, the nightmare that I’ve been having would go away. It hasn’t.I may be an inexperienced seventeen-year-old, but I’m grounded…sane. I look for rational explanations to even the strangest circumstances. Since meeting sophomore Reed Wellington, however, nothing makes any sense. Whenever he’s near, I feel an attraction to him–a magnetic kind of force pulling me towards him. I know what you’re thinking…that sounds fairly awesome. Yeah, it would be…if he liked me, but Reed acts as if I’m the worst thing that has ever happened to Crestwood…or him. But get this, for some reason every time I turn around he’s there, barging into my life.What is the secret that he’s keeping from me? I’m hoping that it’s anything but what I suspect: that he’s not exactly normal…and neither am I. So, maybe Crestwood won’t be the making of me, but it could be the breaking of me. I’ve been left to wonder if the dark future my dream is foretelling is…inescapable.
To Crave Darkly
Bailey Grayson - 2020
Well, at least not a good one. The moment the vampire with the killer jaw line stepped into my bar, my life changed forever.A dark prophecy and a destroyer of worlds.After being attacked, kidnapped, and hidden in the Conclave, a safe haven for supernatural creatures, I must find out whether I’m the destroyer in a prophecy that predicts the apocalyptic end of the world, or if this whole thing is just the worst case of mistaken identity ever. I’d like to think it’s the latter, but after discovering the demon hidden in my proverbial closet, I’m not so sure I’m the person I thought I was.I need to control my new powers. And Fast.If I am going to survive long enough to discover the truth, I’m going to have to learn to control the demon buried deep within me. It’s not going to be easy, but with the help of an overly grumpy vampire, an almost always shirtless Hell Hound, a powerful mage and even the dragon shifter who hates my guts, I might just survive long enough to figure out why a powerful demon wants to claim me as their own and if Lucifer is really hellbent on using me to destroy the world.So, bring it on Lucifer. I’m ready. I think…This is a kickass paranormal fantasy with a why choose romance. Vampires, demons, shifters and witches all make an appearance and this book is perfect for those who like fated mates, forbidden romance, enemies to lovers or friends to lovers. Recommended for 18+ due to steamy scenes and characters who like to swear from time to time.
Wolf Forgotten
Maya Nicole - 2020
No one knew who had abandoned the gray-eyed baby with fiery red hair and a cry loud enough to make a man's nuts retract.I moved to Arbor Falls to find myself. Little did I know I'd be thrown into a world I didn't know existed. A world with wolves at each other's throats and enough pack politics to make my head spin.Then there's the fact that I have more than one mate. Not all of them accept me because there's one gigantic problem... I'm not what they expected.Wolf Forgotten is book 1 in the Arbor Falls series and is a reverse harem wolf shifter romance told in multiple POVs. It contains MM, mature scenes, and language.
Wolf Bonded
Eden Beck - 2020
They have a reputation to uphold and me… I have a reputation to avoid. I need to stay hidden. I need to stay safe.Or else he’ll find me, just as he always has.But there’s a problem with that.I’m not very good at staying hidden, and these boys… they’re not very good at keeping secrets.Between the four of us, we’re bound to run into chaos. Just like we’re bound in other ways.Wolf Bonded is a full-length romance novel with multiple love interests. It’s the first book in the Wolfish trilogy, a paranormal series where the main character has no intent to choose just one of the sexy werewolves who’ve fallen head-over-heels for her—whether they like it or not.
The Ghost and the Goth
Stacey Kade - 2010
Is it my fault I was born with it all-good looks, silky blond hair, a hot body, and a keen sense of what everyone else should not be wearing? But my life isn’t perfect, especially since I died. Run over by a bus of band geeks—is there anything more humiliating? As it turns out, yes—watching your boyfriend and friends move on with life, only days after your funeral. And you wouldn’t believe what they’re saying about me now that they think I can’t hear them. To top it off, I’m starting to disappear, flickering in and out of existence. I don’t know where I go when I’m gone, but it’s not good. Where is that freaking white light already?Will Killian–Senior in high school, outcast, dubbed “Will Kill” by the popular crowd for the unearthly aura around him, voted most likely to rob a bank…and a ghost-talker.I can see, hear, and touch the dead. Unfortunately, they can also see, hear and touch me. Yeah, because surviving high school isn’t hard enough already. I’ve done my best to hide my “gift.” After all, my dad, who shared my ability, killed himself because of it when I was fifteen. But lately, pretending to be normal has gotten a lot harder. A new ghost—an anonymous, seething cloud of negative energy with the capacity to throw me around—is pursuing me with a vengeance. My mom, who knows nothing about what I can do, is worrying about the increase in odd incidents, my shrink is tossing around terms like “temporary confinement for psychiatric evaluation,” and my principal, who thinks I’m a disruption and a faker, is searching for every way possible to get rid of me. How many weeks until graduation?
Topaz
J.E. Cluney - 2019
A complete and utter jerk of a shifter.I didn’t get a say in it, clearly.I’m not about to write my life off to be the mate to some egotistical, self-centered asshat.But when my best friend tries to help and cheer me up, things go from shit to complete crazy when we hit a shifter on the road.Things keep spiraling out of control, and I find myself crazily attracted to three unexpected men. I’d never have thought I’d feel this way for any of them, but here we are.What the hell is going on?
The Platypus and Her Wolves
Laura Greenwood - 2019
But April has dreams, and won’t be so easy to convince, even if they are her fated mates.Will she deny fate, or will she give in to the pull between them?-The Platypus and Her Wolves is a standalone steamy paranormal reverse harem set in the same universe as the Valentine Pride series.
Isle of Night
Veronica Wolff - 2011
When Annelise meets dark and seductive Ronan, he promises her a new life-if she has the courage to chance the unknown. Now, she's whisked away to a mysterious island and pitted against other female recruits to become a Watcher-girls who are partnered with vampires and assist them in their missions. To survive and become a Watcher, Annelise has to beat out every other girl, but she's determined to do so, because to fail doesn't mean dishonor-it means death.
The Sharing Spell
Jade Alters - 2019
Which I knew of course, I’m not that much of an idiot but I did have my mother’s grimoire guiding me, after all. I just didn’t count on things going so disastrously wrong.Who knew one teeny mixup would bring all of the weirdos out of the woodwork? Looking on the bright side however, the police detail they’ve assigned me almost makes up for all the creepy stalkers. Four unbelievably hot officers that are all attracted to me. It has to be the spell at work, right? Unfortunately this isn’t the part where they protect me and we live happily ever after. Magic has its own rules and it seems I’ve broken them. I’ve just been told I’ve got 24 hours left to live.
The Sharing Spell
is a steamy insta-love reverse harem paranormal romance in the Mates & Magic collection of stand-alone stories. Great for a quick and steamy escape without all the commitment. Meant for adults 18+
Wild Moon
C.R. Jane - 2021
You'll love this paranormal romance if you love True Blood, Twilight, or Vampire Diaries.Wild Moon is book 1 in a new wolf shifter trilogy by C.R. Jane and Mila Young. More books coming in this series.
Blood Owed
Rory Miles - 2020
Instead they want to use me for their own gain.Now that they’ve captured me, I’m determined to escape and stab a few vampires on my way out. The only problem is my freedom comes at a price.My heart.Mateo, Colt, and Grayson speak to my soul in ways I never expected. I want to hate them, but I’m not sure I can escape them without leaving a piece of myself behind.