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  • The Queen’s Heart by J.K. Jeffrey

    The Queen’s Heart by J.K. Jeffrey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Half-witch Percy Flores is beginning to feel comfortable in her role as the secret Soul Match and pet of vampire Princess Selene Borealis. But with jealous love rivals and the future of the Borealis Kingdom uncertain, Percy finds herself in more danger than she could imagine...
  • Shield by Audrey Faye

    Shield by Audrey Faye

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Bailey has problems.A very gimpy shoulder thanks to challenging her alpha, a newborn packmate with the dietary preferences of an angry bear, and a big lug of a wolf who thinks she’s his mate and keeps trying to prove it in really embarrassing ways.But none of those are nearly as bad as a best friend who insists she has the right to dream. To want. To hope. To believe...
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  • Growing Alpha by Erin R. Flynn

    Growing Alpha by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Division Chief Seraphine Thomas knows that progress isn’t made without sacrifices. Their side has lost people, and the cost to her own life is sometimes too high.But now that the political climate for supes shifts widely back the wrong way, everyone is scrambling to secure the protections supes desperately need. It’s simply impossible to play a fair game when the other side cheats...
  • Rand by Silvia Shaw

    Rand by Silvia Shaw

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    An epic story of magic, heroism, love, and treachery, Rand is a magical world ruled by an imperial line of Queens. Three hundred years ago, its most powerful talisman, a medallion called the Circle of Sheda, was taken through the portal and lost. When Dr...
  • Ella: Cinders and Ash by Erik Schubach

    Ella: Cinders and Ash by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Drawn to Seattle by the pull of black magics, Ella brings her wrath. A trail of blood and violence left in her wake. By chance, Parker Devareau, meets Ella while rushing home to get behind the safety of her Full Moon Bars on a full moon night. Parker can see, hear and feel things that no ordinary person can...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  urban fantasy  f-f  paranormal
  • Rose: Briar's Thorn by Erik Schubach

    Rose: Briar's Thorn by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her touch is death... her love is worse. For as long as she can remember, Rose has been a monster. Cursed by a man who would one day become one of the most feared creatures on the earth, one of the future Alpha werewolves. Alister Marcus. For hundreds of years she has roamed the earth, living apart from humanity, watching from afar...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  urban fantasy  f-f  paranormal
  • Snow: The White Crow by Erik Schubach

    Snow: The White Crow by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When people are in need of location or rescue outside of the walled cities in a werewolf infested world. Gretta Snow, Recovery Specialist and Wolf Hunter, is the woman to call. Her ability with weapons and combat are just as formidable as Her magics and supernatural connection to nature...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  urban fantasy  f-f  paranormal
  • Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler

    Cypress Ashes by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Parker Ferro is not okay. In the heart-pounding conclusion to the San Amaro Investigations series, Parker faces down enemies on all sides, including one within his own family. With his city under lockdown, Parker is fighting for everyone and everything that he cares about. The fate of the thousand realms rests on his shoulders...
    Categorized as:
    queer  paranormal  fantasy  mystery  urban fantasy  magic  m-m  fae
  • Witch Unmade by Debbie Cassidy

    Witch Unmade by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sometimes you miss things that are staring you in the faceEverything has led to this. All the threads are finally coming together, and the pieces of the puzzle are slotting into place...
  • Aether by Molly J. Bragg

    Aether by Molly J. Bragg

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    When Maggie Bennett agreed to take a break from her own research to be the test subject in an experiment, all she wanted to do was help her best friend Sierra secure grant funding for the new medical imaging machine she was developing...
  • In Sea-Salt Tears by Seanan McGuire

    In Sea-Salt Tears by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Free to download in Mobi, ePub and PDF on http://www.seananmcguire.com/tobyshor... It was 1972, and a teenage girl named Elizabeth Ryan thought that her world was coming to an end. Elizabeth was the daughter of two Selkies, you see, and she had just been passed up for a skin. But then a mysterious cousin who calls herself Annie appears, and Elizabeth finds other things to think about..
  • Glittering Feather by Merri Bright

    Glittering Feather by Merri Bright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How hard could angelic parenting be? I had no fudging idea .You’d think, with the best birches in the universe and four smoking hot angelic soulmates on my side, I could help raise one Celestial child without too much fuss...
  • Biding Time by Lyn Gardner

    Biding Time by Lyn Gardner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Time is relative. You’re born. You live, and you die, your lifespan predisposed by your species, your health, and your luck. But what if there were a species who colored outside the lines?In Back Bay, Massachusetts, dwells such a person. She goes about her life wanting nothing more than to run her business, right some wrongs, and never love again...
  • Midlife is the Cat's Meow by Miranda MacLeod, T.B. Markinson

    Midlife is the Cat's Meow by Miranda MacLeod, T.B. Markinson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A witch without powers. A secret to die for. A midlife sapphic awakening.A few months ago, I thought I had it all. My life as a forty-something suburban mom in Cleveland might not have been stimulating, but sometimes excitement is overrated. Like when FBI agents knock down your door on the hunt for your crook of a husband. Thrilling? Maybe. But I wouldn’t recommend it...
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    queer  paranormal  mystery  fantasy  f-f  magic  witches  time travel
  • Shadow Hunt by L.L. Raand

    Shadow Hunt by L.L. Raand

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When shadows fill the night, it’s hard to tell friend from foe.With young to raise and her Pack under attack, Sylvan, Alpha of the wolf Weres, takes on her greatest challenge when she determines to uncover the faceless enemies know as the Shadow Lords...
  • Bloodmoon: Bound by Emily K. Hardy

    Bloodmoon: Bound by Emily K. Hardy

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Five years after the disappearance of her best friend, Ashley West gets a phone call that sends her on a quest for answers. The only lead she has to follow is the name Dr. Florence Stewart, a powerful, registered vampire ruling the New Orleans club scene...
  • The Lone Hunt by L.L. Raand

    The Lone Hunt by L.L. Raand

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A world of violent passions and inhuman hungers explodes as ancient taboos and primal desires collide. Wolf Were Alpha Sylvan Mir wants nothing more than to keep her pregnant mate Drake safe in their secluded stronghold, deep in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, but enemies, political and praetern, force her into battle...
  • True Nature by Jae

    True Nature by Jae

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    When wolf-shifter Kelsey Yates discovers that fourteen-year-old shape-shifter Danny Harding is living with a human adoptive mother, she is sent on a secret mission to protect the pup and get him away from the human...
  • Ambereye by Gill McKnight

    Ambereye by Gill McKnight

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hope Glassy loves her job at Ambereye, Inc., despite having Jolie Garoul as her new boss. Jolie is a moody workaholic. She is awkward, contrary, and on occasion, just plain mean. Hope is hardworking, popular, and in recovery from a serious illness. She doesn't need a bizarre boss. She doesn't need to work over Thanksgiving either. Nevertheless, that's what she and Jolie end up doing..
  • Contract Bound: A Vampire Lesbian Romance by Elle Mae

    Contract Bound: A Vampire Lesbian Romance by Elle Mae

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    SilviaIf there is one thing you needed to know about me it is this:I hate vampires.They are useless, soul-sucking monsters that destroy everything in their path, even my own family.I joined The Order and became a vampire hunter for revenge, but I never would have guessed that my job would entail baby-sitting the vampire heir to the most powerful clan in the world...
  • Transistor by Molly J. Bragg

    Transistor by Molly J. Bragg

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When Naomi Woodward’s doctor recommended her for a clinical trial, it seemed like the answer to her prayers. She was finally able to get her gender confirmation surgery and the surgery was a resounding success. She finally looked and felt like the woman she always knew she was...
  • Claimed by Stein Willard

    Claimed by Stein Willard

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The Wolven lived by a rigid code of duty and loyalty with any dissent met with swift and brutal punishment. Thus, Leland Oakridge, the most powerful wolf in North America, was stunned when an obvious breach of that code, left her a victim as a result...
  • Stormwind by Skye Knizley

    Stormwind by Skye Knizley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The body of Wade Franks hangs from a gargoyle in Old Town, bathed in the harsh glow of the spring Blood moon. Terrible, bloody wounds cover his body and it’s clear he didn’t give up without a fight. But a fight against who…or what? Detective Raven Storm is assigned to uncover the truth behind Franks’ death, chalking up another ‘unsolvable’ case for the Chicago Police...
  • Cursed by Erik Schubach

    Cursed by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    While out celebrating her twenty first birthday, Angelina Drake finds herself immersed in a curse that goes back generations, to the time when the first Djinn terrorized the world. She has to fight for her life and her friends when an old evil comes knocking. The wishes of the people around her just complicates the situation as she can hear them all, spoken or not...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  urban fantasy  f-f  paranormal
  • Pigeon Post by Jae

    Pigeon Post by Jae

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Kelsey, a submissive wolf-shifter, has always done what she has been ordered to do. But when Madsen, the Wrasa’s highest alpha, sends her a letter via pigeon post, containing very unusual orders, she’s not sure she can obey...
  • Blood Hunt by L.L. Raand

    Blood Hunt by L.L. Raand

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sylvan, the Wolf Were Alpha, forges an uneasy alliance with Detective Jody Gates, heir to a powerful Vampire clan, to battle a shadow army of humans and rogue Weres. With outside forces threatening to destroy the Praetern Coalition, Sylvan battles Pack resistance to her newly-turned Were mate and Jody fights her growing hunger for human reporter, Becca Land. A Midnight Hunters Novel...
  • Fire & Water by Alexis Hall

    Fire & Water by Alexis Hall

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 8 ratings
    I like my whiskey like I like my women: embroiled in a magical warTen years ago I fought for the Witch Queen of London in a mystical showdown against a King Arthur wannabe with a shaved head and a shotgun. Back then, the law did for him before he could do for us.I don’t think we’ll get that lucky again...
  • Babysitter Material by Jae

    Babysitter Material by Jae

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 5 ratings
    Short story sequel to Second Nature.It's Rufus and Kylin's anniversary -- and no babysitter for the triplets in sight...
  • Summoning Shadows by Winter Pennington

    Summoning Shadows by Winter Pennington

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The second Rosso Lussuria Vampire Novel Epiphany has risen within the ranks of clan status. Declared Elder and Inamorata before the Rosso Lussuria vampires, to raise a hand against her is to raise a hand against Queen Renata herself. She has taken Iliaria, the Great Siren Dracule, as her lover and ally, wearing Iliaria’s sigil as a sign of their unlikely alliance...
  • Trolls by Erik Schubach

    Trolls by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Evangeline Kane is thrust into a world and a role she never asked for. She finds herself questioning her sanity as she finds herself bound to a bridge as its Troll when the previous champion died in her arms...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  paranormal  urban fantasy  fantasy
  • Shattered by Lee Winter

    Shattered by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shattergirl, Earth’s first lesbian guardian—a brilliant but aloof alien superheroine who can hurl and destroy large objects—is refusing to save people and has gone off the grid. Lena Martin, the street-smart tracker with a silver tongue and a disdain for the rogue guardians she chases, has only days to bring her home...
  • Bloody Claws by Winter Pennington

    Bloody Claws by Winter Pennington

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Yule is a time to celebrate the rebirth of the light, but for Preternatural Private Investigator and Paranormal Huntress Kassandra Lyall, it’s about solving yet another series of crimes.When a couple disappears from their quiet neighborhood home, Detective Arthur Kingfisher brings Kassandra in on the case. Faced with a bloody symbol painted on the couple’s bedroom wall, the cops are stumped...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  queer  fantasy  f-f  paranormal  contemporary  fae  demons
  • Red Hood: The Hunt by Erik Schubach

    Red Hood: The Hunt by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A third of the world's population are cursed to become werewolves on the full moon, and walled cities like Seattle protect the Clean Bloods. People like Detective Daria McQueen protect the gates of the city to stand against the packs of wolves, three nights a month. When Daria discovers a breach in the wall while on her patrol, and saves a family from infection by three hungry wolves...
  • Nature of the Pack by Jae

    Nature of the Pack by Jae

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    As a submissive wolf-shifter, Kelsey Yates has always bowed to the dictates of her powerful alpha wolf parents. That changed when she met Rue, a powerful alpha in her own right, despite the fact that she is human. When Kelsey’s parents learn of the forbidden relationship, they set out to put a stop to it...
  • The Devil You Know by Marie Castle

    The Devil You Know by Marie Castle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cate Delacy isn’t thrilled to be volunteered as a finder of lost bodies, but she’s not immune to Gemini Roskov’s grief and righteous desire to claim her father’s remains. It means a confrontation with the hostile Council of Supernatural Beings that controls far too much of New Orleans’ darker mysteries and…personalities...
  • nevermore by Nell Stark, Trinity Tam

    nevermore by Nell Stark, Trinity Tam

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A coup. A plague. A falling soul. In this sequel to everafter, Valentine Darrow and Alexa Newland are separated when Alexa is caught in the middle of a Wereshifter civil war halfway around the world. Meanwhile, a mysterious disease begins to ravage the shifter population of New York City...
  • Hell's Belle by Marie Castle

    Hell's Belle by Marie Castle

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Cate Delacey is glad she’s a witch—both kinds. She could have done without the guardian bit that put a bull’s eye on her back. Being a guardian comes with so many risks and rules that immortality ought to be a fringe benefit...
  • Shadows & Dreams by Alexis Hall

    Shadows & Dreams by Alexis Hall

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Second rule in this line of business: be careful who you kill. My name’s Kate Kane. And right now, I don’t know which is more dangerous: my job, or my girlfriend. My job makes me the go-to girl for every supernatural mystery in London. My girlfriend’s an eight-hundred-year-old vampire prince. Honestly, I think it’s probably a tie. A few weeks ago, I was hired for a simple missing person case...
  • Witching Moon by Poppy Woods

    Witching Moon by Poppy Woods

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Alandra Michaels is your everyday, run-of-the-mill, ordinary witch. She doesn't have an affinity for an element, like her sister. She can't speak to the dead, like her mother. Even her familiar--Beezelbub the moth--is a plain, non-threatening insect. Alandra is fine with that; she knows what she is and what she isn't. Or so she thought . .
  • An Encore of Roses by S.T. Gibson

    An Encore of Roses by S.T. Gibson

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 18 ratings
    An Encore of Roses is the A DOWRY OF BLOOD epilogue short story in Alexi’s POV. It was originally sent out in S.T. Gibson's newsletter as a subscriber bonus, and can be read for free on Substack. Content guidance: This is a story about long-distance relationships and ethical nonmonogamy...
  • Bonding Time by Jae

    Bonding Time by Jae

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 6 ratings
    Short story sequel to Second Nature.Griffin has been looking forward to a little feline bonding time with a special lady. Leave it to her sister Leigh to interrupt...
  • Fox Afield by Robin Roseau

    Fox Afield by Robin Roseau

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lara and Michaela depart on their honeymoon, combining a vacation into an opportunity to practice diplomacy with another werewolf pack. Their honeymoon is interrupted by a frantic phone call to Michaela from an old friend. The wolves along with Greg Freund's team rush back to Wisconsin to right a wrong, but the clock is ticking. Michaela and the wolves must go undercover to solve the mystery...
  • Fox Dish by Robin Roseau

    Fox Dish by Robin Roseau

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    While pack shows its delight with the arrival of Lara and Michaela's babies, MIchaela vows to keep Celeste and Rebecca safe from all directions. This includes dealing with old enemies. Michaela's actions have unexpected results, landing Michaela in a fight for her very existence, squared off against everyone she once thought was a friend...
  • Awakening by Erik Schubach

    Awakening by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Doctor Myra O'Connell is researching myths and folklore. In a strange twist she discovers that she is one of the legends she is researching. Then all hell breaks loose. Myra and the woman assigned to be her protector, Special Agent Quinn Trask must fight for their lives, and those of the people of Denver and the world, against a madman bent on obtaining immortality...
    Categorized as:
    queer  f-f  witches  paranormal  urban fantasy  fantasy
  • Silver Collar by Gill McKnight

    Silver Collar by Gill McKnight

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Twenty years ago, Emily Johnston’s father drowned in the Silverthread River, and no one in the town of Lost Creek believes it was an accident. For years, Emily has been spying on the reclusive family that lives in Little Dip Valley. She has some ideas of her own as to what they really are. Now her chance has come...
  • sunfall by Nell Stark, Trinity Tam

    sunfall by Nell Stark, Trinity Tam

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    In the final installment of the everafter series, Valentine Darrow and Alexa Newland work to rebuild their relationship even as they find themselves at the heart of the struggle that will determine a new world order for vampires and wereshifters...
  • Guardian by Jen Lawrence

    Guardian by Jen Lawrence

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Every Guardian was born a warrior with powerful magic and a soulmate to complete her. All except for Luna, it seemed, who despite having mastered her craft, continued her fight in solitude.She was an enigma in their society—alone for far longer than any Guardian before her. Still, Luna remained hopeful that one day her soulmate would find her, and all the tender yearning would have been worth it...
    Categorized as:
    queer  fantasy  f-f  magic  angst  paranormal  urban fantasy
  • Battle of Forces: Sera Toujours by Ali Vali

    Battle of Forces: Sera Toujours by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    In book two of the Forces series, Kendal and Piper return to New Orleans, both now immortal. The peace along the Mississippi River is short-lived with the arrival of Kendal’s old friends, Morgaine and Lenore. They come with an order from the Genesis Clan for Kendal to return with them to face judgment for mixing the elixir of the sun for Piper without their consent...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  queer  f-f  paranormal  urban fantasy  fantasy  magic
  • Becoming Forever by Heather McVea

    Becoming Forever by Heather McVea

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Becoming Forever" is the second book in the "Waking Forever" series, Heather McVea's debut urban fantasy collection. Homicide detective Ash Haines is not fazed by violence, but the brutal murder of a man covered in bite marks sends her spiraling into an unfamiliar world filled with danger and intrigue...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  queer  urban fantasy  fantasy  f-f  paranormal
  • The Crimson Dragon by Cinnamon Jay

    The Crimson Dragon by Cinnamon Jay

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After sixteen hundred years on this earth, Bryn Arthur has reached the end of her rope. Year after year, the only thing that changes is the number of human-eating fey that stalk the night. Each night, Bryn ventures out to reduce those numbers and protect a family she's no longer sure deserves protecting...
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