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Go On Without Me by Markee Anderson - 2.5

A year ago, Lydia’s boyfriend was murdered during a robbery on Halloween night. Lydia is inconsolable over the loss and finds herself inebriated and dressed up in a cat costume at a bar. She runs into her brother’s partner on the police force, an incredibly handsome man by the name of Ian Thomas. Ian seeks Lydia out (at the behest of Lydia’s brother) and attempts to romance the woman out of her funk - but the pair find themselves stranded on the side of the road, with only a spooky old house for refuge. Read More »

Aron is a young man unfortunate to be born to a father who cares more about his pleasures than about ensuring the safety of his family. Aron is left to pick up the pieces when their Thane Wulfgar comes to address missing tithes owed for the protection he provides. When Wulfgar sees Aron, however, he gives the young man a choice: become Wulfgar’s thrall (indentured servant) for a year or watch his family home be burned to the ground. Aron understandably chooses to be a thrall, though he learns what his duties to his temporary master are the hard way.
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Katy has spent several years trying to find her niche in the town of Sleepy Hollow where she grew up. Plagued by memories of childhood teasing for her interest in myths and legends, Katy sets out to prove to herself and the town that she can be normal—only it seems her humble cottage home is working against her dreams. Strange creaking noises and unexplainable fires have driven her only two real boyfriends away from her. Read More »

Jamie, a young, gay man from a small rural town, moves to Sister City on a quest to find himself—and to finally have the opportunity to come out to the world around him. Back home, his sexual identity is locked tightly in the proverbial closet because of his oppressive uncle, and he has high hopes about the new life he’s building. Not only does Jamie have trouble fitting in well enough to come out to anyone, but he’s struggling to find a comfortable place to live amongst a panic-inducing writer’s block that could mean the end of his grant money. Read More »

Nick Gautier believes he is nothing more than a normal (but terribly poor), geeky teenager trying to fit into his posh high school—a difficult feat while sporting hand-me-down threads. All that changes when he’s saved from supposed friends who’ve decided he’s more useful for handgun target practice. Nick’s hero winds up dragging the street-smart teen into the world of the Dark-Hunters, revealing the truth that reality is just a ruse to let humans sleep at night. Read More »

Shealy thought the Book of Fennore was a nothing more than a myth her father was willing to lose his marriage over - until her mother was lost in a car accident that left Shealy scarred, clinging to life. Resistant to ever allowing his daughter to come to harm, Shealy’s father moves them to Arizona. The Book of Fennore, however, has other ideas and allows those who wield it to drag Shealy into Inis Brandubh, a land created by and intimately connected to the Book of Fennore. Read More »

Almost Persuaded by Mary Balogh - 5

Robert and Jane have loved one another for lifetimes—literally. With each life passing, the two soul mates manage to miss the mark with one another, only to start over again. The two lovers now have another chance at a happy union—one that would last through eternity—if only they can learn to trust the words of their hearts, not the judgments of others. Read More »

Andrea Gray doesn’t belong; her father was Fae, her mother was a werewolf—mortal enemies who managed to fall in love in spite of prejudices only to leave their daughter alone in a world that won’t accept her. Humans hate shifters, shifters hate the Fae, and the Fae resent the shifters’ freedom enough to try and subjugate them once again. Her Alpha’s son has his eye on Andrea as a mate. When Andrea refuses her suitor’s advances, she’s cast out of the pack for being ungrateful. But Andrea is holding back from entering a relationship where a true mate bond won’t be made.
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Zara has made a difficult decision: despite her convictions about humane treatment of others, she’s imprisoned her father and his pixie-people in a house in order to save her small town from chaos. Her victims are blood relations, and yet she struggles to define what their “humanity” might be, considering she’s not entirely human herself. Suddenly, more kings appear and, according to Astley (the supposedly good guy pixie), they’ve come for three things: 1. to kill Zara’s father, 2. to take her father’s people as his own and amass a great army, and 3. to make Zara his queen. Astley goes so far as to claim that Zara is fated to be his queen, that she’s destined for transformation into a powerful pixie. Unfortunately, this isn’t the least of Zara’s concerns; she has a few more difficult decisions to make.
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Kitty and Martini are finally ready to tie the knot: they have set the date, sent out wedding invitations, selected an officiate, and picked a ceremonial location - which seems like a great start, except the wedding is only six weeks away and Kitty has not finalized the bridesmaid list, let alone shopped for a wedding dress. Now that the big day is getting closer, the couple realize that the arrival of unwelcome wedding guests is the least of their worries.
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Kitty might be caught up in the middle of a “wrong place, right time” situation when she finds herself unthinkingly taking out a hostile man-turned-monster on her way back to work from jury duty. Perhaps, however, she is exactly where she needs to be when she discovers that 1) aliens exist, 2) she’s kinda good at taking out the bad ones, and 3) Alpha Centaurions look devastatingly handsome in Armani (especially that Martini fellow). The fact she appears to be the target of the biggest baddie of them all could be overkill, but she is up for the challenge - as long as she has her iPods loaded with enough tunes to Zen out in the middle of a war zone.
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Kitty and Martini have a good thing going together. In fact, they manage to make it five whole busy months together with Kitty as the new Commander of Centaurion’s Airborne Division—that is, until all hell breaks loose when a NASA-manned spacecraft returns under suspicious circumstances, the Alpha Team is thrown into several life-threatening situations that stink of a setup, and Kitty inherits a stalker from her old high school boyfriend. But Kitty and company are already up to their eyeballs in conspiracies and danger when the real threat hits.
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Rory McGrath’s life changed at five years old. His father disappeared while using the Book of Fennore. Ever since that day, Rory has felt he no longer belongs with his family. After relocating from Ireland to America, he realizes he does not fit in anywhere. For twenty-five years Rory suffers through his existence, becoming a hard, unfeeling man. Read More »

Liam Morrissey is a man who’s known loss—at the hands of other shapeshifters, as well as the humans. Third in command to his clan, his job is to work as a liaison between his clan leader and the lower-level members of his clan, along with humans. After watching those he loves have their hearts shattered by the loss of their mates, Liam knows obtaining a mate for himself just isn’t for him—that is until Kim Fraser blithely walks into his life, bent on saving an innocent shifter from execution by the humans.
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Alain Mobry was a skilled illusionist in the 19th century, specializing in automatons. He was as well known for his work as he was for his unfortunate features: short-statured, homely in appearance, with a clubbed foot. Illusions and real magick are what got Mobry through each day, and he longed to share his greatest creation with the man who captured Mobry’s affections - only he never got his chance. 100 years later, Mobry’s greatest creation, now known as Mobry’s Dick, will be rediscovered to realize its true purpose.
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Sergeant Bailey Stevenson and Captain David Wellmine have wanted one another for years, though the other doesn’t know it. Bailey has just about given up on getting David’s attention, sure the man wants nothing to do with his scarred body injured in a deployment. Read More »

The world as Adam Farelli knows it is not safe when beings from alternate worlds known as the Umbrae keep forming portals between his reality and theirs - especially since the purpose of these portals is to transform humans into monstrous creatures, like werewolves and demons, in order to gain control of Adam’s world. Carmichael’s job is to contain the Umbrae outbreaks and shut down the portals, taking out two-thirds of the population under Umbrae control in the process. The distraction Adam poses is sure to make Carmichael’s duties a little more difficult to perform if he can’t learn to accept his own sexual nature.
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Derek Gabriel’s life changed the day he was savagely turned by a rogue werewolf. No longer could he consider the supernatural world - something other members of his family had to deal with - he now is smack dab in it. In the world of werewolves, only those who are born weres have social status within the polite society of the conclave. It’s unfortunate, then, that Derek has fallen in love with the Alpha Heir Apparent to the conclave, Nicole Peyton.
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Brynn Adler has just survived the biggest shock of her life: she learned the hard way that her sister Abby is now a werewolf on the run from a deranged Alan Matthews, an alpha hell-bent on possessing Abby for himself. Brynn is a pawn in the crossfire until the super-sexy Joe Mitchell enters the scene. She can’t help but fall for the protective alpha wolf, even as she struggles to make sense of her new life. The only thing that’s certain is that Brynn no longer belongs in her old life, and she’d do just about anything to stay with Joe in Red Rock.
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Dylan Gennaro spent the last ten years of his life following the orders of his corrupt alpha, orders that put his best friends in danger. He knew that his life was over once he decided to break ranks - he just didn’t know that there was a new one waiting for him on the other side. It isn’t until recently that Dylan finally realizes that he’s been a spectator in his new life and a certain witch named Sasha Wallace might be the anchor he needs to become a participant.
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