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Crimson Core: Awakened Desire

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Gabriella's life is upended when her best friend Iris vanishes during a night out. Soon after, she's approached by Argento, a dangerously seductive man, who offers a risky deal: help him regain his lost power, and he'll lead her to Iris.

Desperate, Gabriella agrees.

 As she's pulled deeper into a shadowy underworld where people are hunted for their Cores, her growing desire for Argento complicates everything. With his true intentions unclear and the tension between them becoming impossible to ignore, Gabriella must decide just how far she's willing to go to save her friend.All Rights Reserved

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Catalyst by CMortimer

When Phoebe is woken up by James, the boy she's been crushing on since she can remember, she's surprised to find him in a panic. His sister Kara is missing and he needs Phoebe's help to find her. Following hunches and the wordy clues of an annoying preteen, Phoebe and James discover that Kara has been taken, but she left a message for her brother: Tell Phoebe the truth. James begrudgingly unveils the family secret he's been keeping all his life: he and Kara can "shift" into dragons. Real, winged, magical beasts that have been hunted for hundreds of years! No longer safe, James has no choice but to flee the hunters that took his sister, and Phoebe demands to be brought along. Her gut instinct, which has always been supernaturally accurate, begs her to go, putting her on the path of a wild adventure. Enduring battles, near-death experiences, and their growing attraction for each other, they struggle to survive and stay one step ahead of those that seek to destroy James and all his kind. ~COMPLETE~

Talon the Black (Dragonwall Series # 1) by addicted2dragons

When a wounded dragon falls from the sky, Claire Evans runs into a cornfield to rescue it. This isn't just any dragon, he's a shifter, one of six royal protectors, and helping him has consequences. Claire finds herself traipsing--or rather, flying--across the kingdom of Dragonwall. She must face Dragonwall's king. King Talon is not like those before him. Troubled and temperamental, he is scarred by more than the events that shaped him. Worst of all, he is mateless. With no queen and no heir, his subjects are demanding he abandon tradition and marry into nobility. There is a rising threat at his borders, whispers of a sorcerer. Soon, he will have greater problems than that of finding a wife. Modern meets medieval in this seven-book series filled with magical creatures and adventure. This epic fantasy is a slow burn romance that follows multiple POVs, woven together around Claire, a small town Indiana gal. If you've ever wondered what it might be like to get sucked into a fantastical world beyond our own, look no further! **Read Exclusively On Wattpad**

The Mate (A Fire's Edge Short Story - Prequel) by AuthorAOwen

Maddie Thompson's life just fell down a rabbit hole. Finding out she's a dragon shifter was one thing-she never quite fit into the human world, and this new reality feels...strangely right. However, discovering the next step is to choose a mate, and if she chooses wrong she'll die, is the other side of crazy. Especially when she already left a piece of her heart with someone who didn't want it. To say dragon enforcer Fallon Conleth was shocked when the Mating Council summoned him as a potential mate for a newly found dragon doesn't quite cover it. A mate is rare and precious and many dragons never find theirs. Fallon isn't sure he's worthy of the honor, not when so many deserve it more. He'll just go through the motions and return home alone...until he sees Maddie. The human woman he reluctantly let walk away. Fallon already broke Maddie's heart once, but if he can't convince her that they're meant to be, she'll die... and he won't be far behind.

Shadow Warriors by natz85

Ever since Sarah Weller was five years old, she has been haunted by a cloud of thick black smoke. It lived. It moved. And from its center, two glowing red eyes watched her. Daily nightmares of the tragedy that took her parents kept her awake. Uncertainty of how she survived plagued her thoughts. But a battle is brewing in the Shadow world. A place behind the thinnest of veils and Sarah is about to be pulled into it by a man she never imagined possible. Witches, Dragons, and shapeshifters are meant to be a thing of myths. Legends we tell children in bedtime stories. But, as Sarah is about to find out, everything has an origin story. A fight that seems impossible to win, for the sake off all living things, hangs in the balance. Will Sarah and her new guardian be able to stop the death of millions? Or will the truth tear apart everything she believed was real?

The Necromancer's Dragon by 129cdmuller

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Dream Walker✔️ by Silverfstreak

Dreams have power, a fact Maria Ortiz is about to find out the hard way. Frustrated by reoccurring dreams her entire life, Maria longs to experience the simple pleasure of dreaming about ordinary things, like talking to her crush or flying over a relaxing landscape. However, the monster in her dreams has other plans. Every night, he trains her in the lost arts of being a dragon, arts she'll need on the cruel and unforgiving world of Mystica. Marooned on an alien planet with her sister, her crush, her enemy, and a stranger, Maria must come to grips with her supernatural heritage if she's to escape from a nightmare made reality.

Discovering the Ligon by JadeRyan059

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Dragons,Gods, and Love by melvin_grace

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Shadow of the Sun (Timeless #1) by LauraKreitzer

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Catalyst

When Phoebe is woken up by James, the boy she's been crushing on since she can remember, she's surprised to find him in a panic. His sister Kara is missing and he needs Phoebe's help to find her. Following hunches and the wordy clues of an annoying preteen, Phoebe and James discover that Kara has been taken, but she left a message for her brother: Tell Phoebe the truth. James begrudgingly unveils the family secret he's been keeping all his life: he and Kara can "shift" into dragons. Real, winged, magical beasts that have been hunted for hundreds of years! No longer safe, James has no choice but to flee the hunters that took his sister, and Phoebe demands to be brought along. Her gut instinct, which has always been supernaturally accurate, begs her to go, putting her on the path of a wild adventure. Enduring battles, near-death experiences, and their growing attraction for each other, they struggle to survive and stay one step ahead of those that seek to destroy James and all his kind. ~COMPLETE~