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The Beastly Hours: A Fairy Tale Retelling by JulieMidnight
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A decopunk retelling of Beauty and the Beast, set in a glittering city where werewolf kings rule with violence and humans push the limits of decadence and depravity. Florence Wheeler lives with a terrible secret: every full moon, she transforms into an unknown beast driven to kill anything in her path. Guilt-ridden and hopeless, she hides from the world with only her beautiful garden for consolation. Yet a chance meeting with Tobias Rosewood, a seductive werewolf with an infamous reputation, offers a glimmer of escape. He doesn't believe in fate but is still willing to help change hers. With his connections to shapeshifting magic, they might find a way to break her strange curse. However, the price to pay will be Florence's heart...
Veiled Secrets (Crescent City Werewolves #2) by JulieMidnight
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Cora Marshall has no regrets over abandoning her old life as a socialite for a career in detective work, especially since her partner is the dashing werewolf Sam Hayes. She brings the connections, he brings the brawn, and by honing both with their intelligence, they've impressed even the most cynical minds of Crescent City's elite circles. Yet they're about to be given an unusual challenge: to prevent a murder before it takes place. Phineas Clayborne, one of the richest men in the city, is convinced he'll be murdered at his very own wedding, and he's further convinced that only Cora and Sam are clever enough to find the potential killer before he carries out his bloody deed. Tasked with posing as wedding guests, they must navigate through cunning magic, dark motives, and a list of suspects both human and inhuman. It won't be easy; everyone has secrets to hide, especially the bride and groom themselves...
F R A C T U R E D by roxann_season
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He'd trained her. Prepared her for this in his own way. She believed his words. Dmitri had been her world world... until he wasn't. One adventure had led her to finally finding a family, one she was willing to go to any lengths to protect should anyone cross her. But how do you fight a war you didn't even know you were a part of? One you were engineered to end? But she wouldn't be anyones tool. The second book in Faith's journey.
The Black Wolf by JulieMidnight
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He is the oldest of the black wolves, cursed to eternal existence as both man and beast. The most dangerous of them. The most feared. And once, the emptiest, having long forgotten his past, his birthplace, even his very name. A shell of a man. A beast starving in many ways and all the more vicious for it until a girl faced his teeth unflinchingly while filling his heart with hunger. Her story of their life together has been told, and now it is time for his. The black wolf speaks... This is a companion novella to Wolf's Wife, Wolf's Bane, and Wolf's Kin written from Colton's point of view. Some of the scenes will be retold through him and some will be entirely new.
Shadow's Kiss (Monstrous Hearts: Fleur's Story) by JulieMidnight
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Fleur Corrigan learned the supernatural was all too real on one terrible night, and even now, years later, it has marked her in ways she refuses to admit. But when she's betrayed and thrown back into a web of dark magic, brutal sacrifices, and creatures who see humans as mere prey, she not only has to face these new dangers but accept help from a figure of that world: Dario Vitale. He's infuriating, seductive, and her best chance of coming out of this unscathed... if she can bring herself to trust a warlock. Shadow's Kiss is a new adult paranormal romance that can be read as a standalone story. For fans of my other Monstrous Hearts books, this takes place five years after Wolf's Kin, and Alice and Colton return as secondary characters.
Tansy's Reign by JuneValentine
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"The Pack, the land, everything else, then us," Rose whispered into her sister's ear. "Say it, Tansy. Say it." The teenager closed her dark eyes to stop a tear from escaping. "The Pack, the land, everything else, then us." *** Thirty-eight shifters lived on the edge of Birch Grove, until they didn't. Teenager Tansy Godspeed grew up in a pack known for its pacifism. When wars were fought, her pack of peacemakers refused to join the fight and instead, isolated themselves from wolves hungry for blood. Tansy is left as the sole heir to the Birch Grove pack after a lethal attack leaves half of the pack dead. With her parents face down in their own pool of blood and her sister declining in health, Tansy is faced with the sudden responsibility of leading a broken pack out of the ashes and into the embers of wars. As Tansy faces the consequences of her pack's past, she must build a future for her pack, even if that means creating an alliance with the man responsible for her parents' death, High Alpha Silas Armstrong is everything Tansy was raised not to be. The shifter is strong, apathetic, and cruel enough to rip Tansy's world in half. Regardless of Tansy's dislike of the man, Tansy will do whatever it takes to keep her sister's promise: The Pack, the land, everything else, then us.
Little Bird | Book One by JuneValentine
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"I said I would protect her," Finn's voice cut through the tension in the air like a glass shard to soft skin. "I didn't say she wouldn't be scared." "I don't-" Dove begged. She hated it. Hated the way the howls only grew louder, and how she couldn't run. She hated Finn, how he could watch her writher and struggle with a cool gaze, like he didn't care how scared she was, how much she wanted to disappear into the mattress beneath her body and never reappear. "Let me go." * Dove Bravermen's homecoming to the small town of Glome's Valley awakens a past she can never outrun. With her mother's handsome new deputy, Finn Armstrong, Dove realizes the town she left behind has more secrets left to uncover and a past she can't remember. Dove, unable to deny her attraction to the mysterious Finn, must learn to trust the near stranger as the people of Glome's Valley start turning up dead. As Dove and Finn intertwine, they face a fate they can't escape-- love.
A Raven's Tale by JuneValentine
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"It's not your fight," Fenris shouted loud enough to make Rory's ears ring. He glared at the clumsily wrapped fabric around her slender wrist, physical proof that he couldn't always keep her safe. "How many times do I need to tell you that?" "You're right," she hissed through her teeth. It burned-- the pain, it hurt like hell. "It's our fight." She glared at the Alpha. "So, start fighting." * Rory Ravencraft's life has been normal for the past five years, or as normal as it can be after her parents' sudden deaths. With her older sister, Amanda, they packed up their lives and tried to forget their hometown, Mirkwood, and all its secrets. Unfortunately, Rory's life is finally catching up with her. Fenris Ulfrich, the Alpha of Mirkwood, needs help. With each passing day, an unstoppable rage grows inside of him, one that only a Ravencraft can soothe. Despite his desperation, Rory and Amanda rather let the wolf rot than to help a pack responsible for their parents' passing. Unfortunately, fate had something else in mind as Rory discovers Fenris may be more than just a hopeless Alpha. cover by baneen121
MIRKWOOD by JuneValentine
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Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to good kids. Ten years ago on a hot July night, four children's lives were pulled apart after they went missing for 48 hours in Mirkwood Forest. Now, they're being pulled back together after their savior, a local history teacher known as Cedric LeCruz, is found dead in that same forest. Charlie Braverman, one of the four children, now a nineteen-year-old, has been reluctant to come back to her hometown Glome's Valley. She carefully created a new life at her state college as a seemingly average girl. Despite her desires, she realizes her past is unwilling to let her go. Her life begins to unravel as her estranged ex-almost-boyfriend goes missing and her mother's new mysterious deputy becomes the key to helping Charlie understand what happened in Mirkwood a decade ago, and what is happening in Mirkwood now. But everything is not as it seems in tiny Glome's Valley, and everyone, even Charlie, even the deputy, have secrets of their own.
SKIN {rewritten} by JuneValentine
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When college student Schuyler Bradshaw discovered the mangled remains of what once was a werewolf, her life was turned upside down by the hands of Lennox Armstrong. Something is killing the wolves of Hale's Valley, and something even darker is pulling Lennox and Schuyler together. Lennox Armstrong is a nomad, a self-proclaimed recluse forced out of hiding as he searches for the culprit behind local pack killings. Lennox recognizes something in Schuyler, something that makes the past he buried so deep come to the surface. Overcome by the need to be near Schuyler, the two are driven into betrayal, murder and something to dig your teeth into. Lennox is forced to face his own primal instincts, and Schuyler must learn what it means to be human. ❝All wolves are the same. Some are closer to being a real monster, and others are just hiding in sheep skin.❞