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Creature (CENTURIES series: Book #7) by TheBibicalSinner
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"What are you?" "Lethal." • • • Humans and Creatures. That's what mankind has come to. Some humans were locked up as infants and genetically altered for the purpose of making a stronger specie, and now their offspring have to be tested to see if they are safe to put out into the real world. Having been locked up in secure facility all of his life, Charlie is to be the first Creature to step outside into the real world. New to the world and to humans who aren't trying to poke a needle in him, he's scared as to what it has to offer. But also curious. Assigned to watch the first Creature and introduce him into modern world, Carly has gotten quite the job. He is like a giant 6'7 baby, and she has to teach him everything from eating with cutlery, to learning natural human behavior, to understanding such a difficult thing as love. He was just supposed to be an assignment, but the more time her and Charlie spend together, the more Carly had to admit he was so much more than just a Creature. Charlie is a brilliant, fast learning, curious specie with a big appetite, so what do you think will happen when such a creature is introduced to a thing like sex? One can only imagine...
Stone (CENTURIES series: Book #6) by TheBibicalSinner
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"We could be more than just colleagues, Sophie." • • • It's been years since Alexander took off into his business and got so absorbed, he lost the one girl who kept his brilliantly smart head out of the clouds. Now they're both grown up and living each their separate lives. Although not so separately after all... - Hold on to your panties, because the genius is loose again.
Swapped Luna ✔️ by Ancientt
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She has been reincarnated as a Luna to an Alpha that despises her. *** ALPHA THORNE met his mate a month ago, and she has already proven her greed, unfaithfulness, and cruelty. He will never love the evil woman but is forced to keep her by his side. When she gets in an accident, he wishes her dead. Little does he know that the moon goddess heard his prayers and made them come true. VICTORIA is a human dying of cancer. As she draws her final breath, she expects peaceful darkness. Instead, she awakens in a healthy werewolf's body. But not just any werewolf. She's a pack Luna. Victoria has been given a new chance at life. A healthy body and a powerful position. But she takes one glance at her leering Alpha and mate, who looks ready to tear her apart, and wonders if she was better off dying from cancer. She wants to escape the cold man but is on an entirely new territory. With no knowledge of the werewolf world, she's forced to live with a mate who despises her for unknown reasons. Her only option is to try and melt the ice in his heart, but this is proven a challenge because he thinks she's still the evil woman who once owned Victoria's body.
Taken For The Alpha ✔️ by Midika
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*18+ read at your discretion!* My hands tremble by my sides. "Don't sleep with her..." He steps toward me, his eyes dark. "Why not?" "Whatever you were planning to do to her tonight, do it to me instead," I whisper. *** Ayah has always been unremarkable in every way other than in the power she wields. Since she was little she has been able to heal even the most fatal of wounds. Because of this, her father has locked her away, keeping her powers safe from the outside world. That is, until a man appears below her balcony, giving her a glimpse into the freedom she could finally have. However, the moment she starts to trust him, he takes her captive, revealing his identity to be a powerful Alpha who needs her to heal his younger sister. But when the girls illness becomes impossible for Ayah to heal, she is dragged on a journey beside the Alpha to find an amplifier. On the way she learns their connection goes deeper than their heated attraction, to a soul bond neither can deny.
Hidden by conleyswifey
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In a desperate attempt to secure a roof over her younger sister's head, nineteen year old Allie Winthrop takes a job that no one else seemed too eager to apply for. The job is a maid position for a well to do family who had made a fortune in both the ranching and railroad industries. Her bosses, Mr. and Mrs. Treadwell, aren't exactly the friendliest of people. Pure snobs truly is what they are, but Allie is used to being looked down on by the wealthy. All she cares about is that the jobs pays well and offers room and board to not only her but her sister, Amelia. The Treadwell's had even agreed to allow Amelia to get schooling from the woman they employed to teach their own children. Life with the Treadwell's is better than the life that Allie and Amelia had known before and Allie feels content and secure until Amelia starts speaking of a man in the attic. Spurred by her sisters stories and by the Treadwell's startling reactions to her questions about the attic, Allie decides to take a look for herself. What she discovers there will change her life forever.
Wicked Beauty (Brazen Bluestockings #3) by EmilyMorgans
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WATTYS 2026 SHORTLIST She meant to trap one man. She ended up compromising another. After giving her heart to a man who never intended to marry her, Miss Alice Burton is done being made a fool of. If Fitzwilliam Montgomery won't honour his promises willingly, she'll make sure he has no choice. There's only one problem. Alice sneaks into the wrong bedchamber. Instead of her faithless former lover, she finds Adam Warble, the Marquess of Richmond. And by the time she realises her mistake, they've been discovered in a thoroughly compromising position. Marriage is inevitable. Adam is convinced Alice deliberately trapped a future duke. Alice is equally convinced he despises her. But beneath her new husband's cold reserve lies a desire he cannot hide forever... and secrets he is determined she will never uncover. Adam's solution is simple: marry Alice, save her reputation, and send her safely away before she discovers the truth about him. Alice has a rather different solution. She's staying.
A Christmas Silence by RobThier
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Many people know the classic tale "A Christmas Carol", where the evil skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by ghosts that manage to turn him into a kind and generous person. But what if the boss of all ghosts had targeted a different miser? One who was just a little more stubborn...? A little parody of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", starring Mr Rikkard Ambrose from Robert Thier's "Storm and Silence" series.
Loves Second Chance by conleyswifey
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Emily and Parker were childhood sweethearts but one terrible accident tears them apart. Six years later Emily returns to their small town, she's on the run from her abusive husband with her young infant son and the instant Parker sees her he knows that his feelings for her have not changed in all these years and he will do anything to keep her safe and claim her and the boy as his own.
The Captain's Entertainer ✓ (Zolan Book 4) by Ancientt
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This is best read after Zolan Book 3 (The King) *** I'm the descendant of Queen Dee and King Vadnar. My family and I have lived our whole lives on an isolated island. After years of staring at the horizon, I decide to leave. My curiosity leads me to a military camp, where I'm forced to enlist as an Entertainer. I try to lay low. But with The Captain's dark, hungry gaze following me, trouble is bound to find me.
Small Town Love by conleyswifey
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*** All places and people in this story are fictional. Any similarities or parallels to real people, places or events is purely coincidence! Enjoy reading :) *** Vince Griffin is all work and no play.Running his company takes every spare second of his life and that is the way he prefers it. He has no urge for a wife, children, or a family. That all changes when he arrives in Grant County Kentucky to do development research and meets Grace, a tired woman caring for her handicapped daughter and aging grandmother. They, and the other hardworking people in this tiny town, teach Vince that there are things other than work and that sometimes, love comes first.