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Angels' Blood
by Nalini SinghSeries: Guild Hunter #1
Published by Berkley Sensation on March 3, 2009
SubGenres: Paranormal Romance
Format: AudioBook, Paperback
Pages: 339
Source: Purchased
Audience: 18+/Adult
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Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she is the best- but she does not know if even she is good enough for this job. Hired by the dangerously beautiful archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that no mortal wants his attention, Elena knows failure is not an option—even if the task is impossible.
Because this time, it's not a wayward vamp she has to track. It's an archangel gone bad.
The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other—and pull her to the razor's edge of passion. Even if the hunt does not destroy her, succumbing to Raphael’s seductive touch just might. For when archangels play, mortals break.
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Promises in Death
by J.D. RobbSeries: In Death #28
Published by Berkley Books on February 24, 2009
SubGenres: Mystery, Romantic Suspense
Format: AudioBook, Paperback
Pages: 352
Length: 12 Hours And 43 Minutes
Source: Purchased
Audience: 18+/Adult
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#1 New York Times- bestselling author J. D. Robb takes us to the New York City of 2060, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces down a cop killer. A Amarylis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she's been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she's taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her own weapon, for Eve the victim isn't just one of us. Dallas's friend Chief Medical Examiner Morris and Coltraine had started a serious relationship, and from all accounts the two were headed for a happy future together. But someone has put an end to all that. After breaking the news to Morris, Eve starts questioning everyone from Coltraine's squad, informants, and neighbors, while Eve's husband, Roarke, digs into computer data on Coltraine's life back in Atlanta. To their shock, they discover a connection between this case and their own painful, shadowy pasts. The truth will need to be uncovered one layer at a time, starting with the box that arrives at Cop Central addressed to Eve containing Coltraine's guns, badge, and a note from her killer: You can have them back. Maybe someday soon, I'll be sending yours to somebody else. But Eve Dallas doesn't take too kindly to personal threats, and she is going to break this case, whatever it takes. And that's a promise.
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One Foot in the Grave
by Jeaniene FrostSeries: Night Huntress #2
Published by Avon on October 13, 2008
SubGenres: Urban Fantasy
Format: AudioBook, Paperback
Pages: 386
Source: Purchased
Audience: 18+/Adult
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You can run from the grave, but you can’t hide…
Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She’s still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind.
Being around Bones awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline rush of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion that consumed them. But a price on her head – wanted: dead or half-alive – means her survival depends on teaming up with Bones. And no matter how hard Cat tries to keep things professional between them, she’ll find that desire lasts forever … and Bones won’t let her get away again.
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People We Meet on Vacation
by Emily HenryPublished by Berkley, Jove on May 11, 2021
SubGenres: Contemporary Romance
Format: AudioBook
Pages: 400
Narrator: Julia Whelan
Length: 10 Hours And 46 Minutes
Source: Library - Libby
Audience: 18+/Adult
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Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.
Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.
Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows without a doubt it was on that ill-fated final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
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Red Rising
by Pierce BrownSeries: Red Rising Saga #1
Published by Del Rey on January 28, 2014
SubGenres: Dystopian, Science Fiction
Format: eBook
Pages: 382
Source: Purchased
Audience: 18+/Adult
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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.
But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.
Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.
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Beyond the Mountain Sky
by Gwyn McNameeSeries: McBride Brother Lumberjacks #2
Published by Self-Published on January 29, 2026
SubGenres: Contemporary Romance
Format: eArc
Pages: 326
Source: the author
Audience: 18+/Adult
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I’ve always loved McBride Mountain and the fact that it bore my adopted last name…But now that the truth is out, that has changed.What I thought I knew vanished the moment I learned about my past.Everything feels wrong.Nothing can lift me from the darkness I’ve fallen into… Except the beautiful woman with wildly dyed hair who appears in town with a dangerous secret.She’s running from something—or someone.Clearly not interested in getting close to anyone during her time here in our small town.Yet, I’m drawn to her as if her blue eyes hold all the answers I haven’t been able to find anywhere else.She’s the only thing that’s felt right in so long.A sweet haven from my tainted reality.But when the past she’s fleeing comes to the mountain…Protecting the ones I love may mean becoming the very thing I dread.
Beyond the Mountain Sky is the second steamy, angsty contemporary mountain man romance in the McBride Brother Lumberjacks Series about a grumpy lumberjack fighting with his past, a woman on the run, an attraction they can’t deny, and danger from beyond the mountain that threatens everything. The McBride Brother Lumberjacks Series is best read in order, starting with Beneath the Mountain Sky.
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Cold Hearted
by Heather GuerreSeries: Tooth & Claw #1
Published by Self-Published on October 27, 2020
SubGenres: Paranormal Romance
Format: AudioBook, eBook
Pages: 304
Narrator: Natalie Duke
Length: 9 Hours And 39 Minutes
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Audience: 18+/Adult
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A woman on the run…
I came to Longtooth, Alaska looking for a safe place to hide. All I wanted was to keep my head down, do my job, and enjoy the peace and quiet. But there’s no peace to be found once I meet Longtooth’s cantankerous bush pilot. Caleb Kinoyit is surly and rude and mean. He’s also, unfortunately, the most attractive man I’ve ever met. And as the long, Alaskan winter nights stretch on, I find myself warming to his rough charm just as much as I’m falling for the beauty of my new home.
A town with a secret…
There’s something different about Longtooth—something the locals won’t talk about with outsiders. And I am definitely an outsider. But when my dangerous past finally tracks me down, Longtooth can’t keep its secrets from me any longer, and the revelation upends the world as I know it. The only truth I can be sure of anymore are my feelings for Caleb. But will love be enough to save me? Or will I have to sacrifice myself to save the ones I love?




























