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Ellen Crosháin
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Once a year, in the caves deep below the house, the Family gathers to perform a ritual to appease their god. But Faroust only accepts payment in blood.
Eliza MacTir, youngest daughter of a powerful Irish family, was born into fae gentry without the magical gifts that have coursed through the Family's veins for millennia; she was an outcast from her first breath. Desperate for freedom, Eliza's flight from rural Ireland is thwarted by the Family's head of security. The only weapon she has to fight her captor is her own awakening sexuality. Drawn into the world of magic and gods, Eliza must find a way to break free, even if it means breaking the hearts of those she loves - and letting her own turn to stone. Cruelty, it runs in the Family.
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A thousand years ago, a brutal warrior roamed the Russian steppes, and struck a menacing bargain. For the ability to change at will into a cold-hearted predator, Konstantine promised his soul - and the souls of his descendants - to the devil. One day a dangerous prophecy reveals the truth: one family has been chosen to battle the darkness - or face damnation.
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Cliffhanger- wordy
- By Jem on 12-09-23
By: Christina Dodd
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Fighting Redemption
- By: Kate McCarthy
- Narrated by: Rupert Hamilton, Taryn Eva
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Ryan Kendall is broken. Being broken doesn’t stop him from wanting the one thing he can’t have: Finlay Tanner. She’s the girl he grew up with, the girl he loves, the girl he protects from the world and from himself. At 19, Ryan leaves to join the Australian Army. After years of training, he becomes an elite SAS soldier and deploys to the Afghanistan war. His patrol undertakes the most dangerous missions a soldier can face. But no matter how far he runs, his need for Finlay won’t let go. Returning home after six years, one look is all it takes to know he can’t live without her.
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NO REVIEW WILL EVER DO THIS BOOK JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!
- By ReadingfortheLoveofBooks on 12-30-19
By: Kate McCarthy
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Red Blooded
- A Gods of Midnight Novella
- By: Deidre Knight
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Dillon Fox, sightless after a tour of duty in Iraq, is called to Savannah, Georgia, to help the Shades, a powerful group of paranormal hunters. His friend Mason Angel, a leader of the Shades, needs Dillon's help to take down a vampire clan. Once Dillon embarks on the mission, one woman stirs something inside him that he thought long dead. But as Dillon starts to fall for the sexy and charismatic female vampire, will he have to choose between love and duty?
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Narrator was good, story wasn't.
- By JodyL on 10-18-19
By: Deidre Knight
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Primal Law
- Alpha Pack Series #1
- By: J. D. Tyler
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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After a massacre decimates half his team and leaves him crippled, Jaxon Law must relearn how to fight-and battle the anger and guilt threatening to overwhelm him. But when he rescues a beautiful woman who awakens his primal instincts, Jax is unprepared for the dangers that lie ahead.On the run from her employer, brilliant lab assistant Kira Locke has evidence that leads the Alpha Pack on a hunt for someone targeting human civilians with Psy abilities.
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WOW!! REALLY GREAT START TO A FANTASTIC NEW SERIES
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 03-17-12
By: J. D. Tyler
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The Darkest Fire
- Lords of the Underworld Prequel
- By: Gena Showalter
- Narrated by: Max Bellmore
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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He is the guardian of hell, more monster than man. She is the goddess of oppression, more angel than woman. Together they will enter the flames to battle a dangerous horde of demon lords - and discover a passion unlike any other....
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Not my fire pit
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 10-09-12
By: Gena Showalter
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Unbound
- By: Angela Knight, Jennifer Ashley, Hanna Martine, and others
- Narrated by: Justine O. Keef
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times best-selling author Angela Knight revisits the world of Guardian and genetically engineered Temporal Enforcers Dona and Alerio, who combine their talents - and fight their passions - as they investigate a time-travel murder spree. USA Today best-selling author Jennifer Ashley continues her Shifters Unbound series as Bear Shifter Cormac is determined to take single mom Nell as his mate, despite her objections - until her sons are endangered and she desperately needs help.
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Is the Book Good?
- By Elle M on 04-03-13
By: Angela Knight, and others
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Darkest Caress
- By: Kaylea Cross
- Narrated by: Phoebe Simon
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Two-hundred-year-old Daegan Blackwell is one of the last remaining Empowered, an ancient magical race. Daegan's duty is to lead and protect his remaining Brethren in the coming war foretold by prophecy. The last thing he expects is to meet the one woman who will either save or destroy him - his destined mate. Fiercely independent Realtor Olivia Farrell believes darkly handsome Daegan is simply a prospective client. Until she's attacked by a man with a strange aura - and Daegan fights him off.
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A New Take on The Paranormal
- By Maria on 06-05-12
By: Kaylea Cross
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The Bad Guy
- By: Celia Aaron
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Lance Greenfield, Erin Mallon
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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My name is Sebastian Lindstrom, and I'm the villain of this story. I've decided to lay myself bare. To tell the truth for once in my hollow life, no matter how dark it gets. And I can assure you, it will get so dark that you'll find yourself feeling around the blackened corners of my mind, seeking a door handle that isn't there. Don't mistake this for a confession. I neither seek forgiveness nor would I accept it. My sins are my own. They keep me company. Instead, this is the true tale of how I found her, how I stole her, and how I lost her.
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PSYCHOPATH ! YES PLEASE
- By Ya Book Girl on 12-19-17
By: Celia Aaron
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Heart of Stone
- Gargoyles Series, Book 1
- By: Christine Warren
- Narrated by: Laurel Wilson
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Ella Harrow is trying to carve out a normal life for herself. Well, as normal as an art geek with psychic abilities can hope for. As museum docent and gift shop manager, Ella is able to keep her distance from people - and her powers in check - while surrounding herself with the artifacts she loves. But how on earth is she supposed to act normal when a thousand-year-old statue on the museum's terrace suddenly comes to life?
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Pass
- By Candateshia Pafford on 02-25-14
By: Christine Warren
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Unleashed
- The Amoveo Legend, Book 1
- By: Sara Humphreys
- Narrated by: Arika Rapson
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Samantha Logan's childhood home had always been a haven, but everything changed while she was away. She has a gorgeous new neighbor, Malcolm, who introduces her to the amazing world of the dream-walking, shapeshifting Amoveo clans... but what leaves her reeling with disbelief is when he tells her she's one of them.
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AMOVEO FUR, FEATHERS OR FANGS BUT ALSO...TRUE LOVE
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 05-11-13
By: Sara Humphreys
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Deep Desire
- Deep, Book 1
- By: Z. A. Maxfield
- Narrated by: Caleb Dickenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Indiana Jones of historical erotica, there is no document existing - or just rumored to exist - Adin Tredeger can't unearth. Why he would risk the biggest coup of his career to join the mile-high club is beyond him. But the disarming, dark-eyed man who somehow enters Adin's locked airplane washroom has him completely nude and coming apart. All without a whimper of protest.
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Better in audio format
- By Kathleen on 10-07-15
By: Z. A. Maxfield
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The Crown of Light
- Lightness Saga, Book 1
- By: Stacey Marie Brown
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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A War is Brewing. Kennedy is one of the last known Druids. Wanted dead by the Seelie Queen and as a coveted asset to defeat this cruel ruler, Kennedy has become a mark. Especially by a sexy, merciless....
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This is just a retail of one of the darkness books
- By Shauna Erickson on 12-15-19
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Beyond Shame
- By: Kit Rocha
- Narrated by: Lucy Malone
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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All Noelle Cunningham has ever wanted is a life beyond - beyond the walls of Eden, where only the righteous are allowed to remain, and beyond her stiflingly restrictive existence as a councilman's daughter. But only ruins lie outside the City, remnants of a society destroyed by solar storms decades earlier. The sectors surrounding Eden house the corrupt, the criminal-men like Jasper McCray, bootlegger and cage fighter.
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Ok... Yup!! My kinda of Erotica!!!
- By Candateshia Pafford on 01-27-13
By: Kit Rocha
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- Kd
- 03-15-17
Did her means justify the ends? Nope
Overall & Story or more like a 2.5
Unfortunately, I lost interest in this story pretty quickly. I had hopes based on the reviews. And 11+ hours is a long time to listen to a story in which I have little interest. But it's definitely not the worst story I've purchased and listened to.
There's Eliza, her mom, Ruby, her dad, Jacob, her friend Julian, the god Faroust, and her ?, Cornelius. All of them are in or connected with fae royalty. All of the characters were ok except Eliza. I didn't like Eliza. She was cold, manipulative, deceitful, and petulant regardless of her justified reason for feeling unwanted and ignored. The author failed to make her a sympathetic character. I was hoping this would change over the 11 hours, but it didn't. The story also failed to be sexy AT ALL. There was sex in it, not gratuitous, but more than 2, I think. Most of them were not highly detailed, and none were drawn out or used explicit words beyond f**k and, maybe, cock. Part of the lack of sexiness or sensuality was the narrator. The narrator did ok. But she sounded too childish during the sex scenes and cursing, so it came across, again, as just petulance. Additionally, I didn't like much of the dialogue. There was nothing that created or held my interest. It was all simplistic. Even the bit of unexpected shift in the story to a bit of a mystery didn't help. I was pleased about the shift, initially, thinking that the story might, then, improve. But it was all for nothing. Along with the simplistic nature is its not flowing naturally. It's not that there were coincidences or manufactured plot points to move the story unnaturally, but the movement of the story did leave me wondering, at times, how the story moved from one point to another. The story shifts were not smooth. Finally, the plot point to have a god who doesn't know when someone is lying to him was the last straw to me. Most of the story flowed from that construction. But that type of god just didn't make any sense to me. He could do almost everything else but not that. Really?! That seems basic god-level stuff. But maybe that's just me….
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