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NetGalley: Devious Prey by Scott Reintgen

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Published: 5/31/2026 Pages: 304 Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi Review: NetGalley and Publisher ARC Amazon When an airship’s windmaster dies mid-flight, the crew and its passengers are swept out to sea by a violent storm. They crash on a desolate island, but they’re not alone. A dragoness had been stashed in the hold. After escaping a damaged cage, it begins preying on the surviving travelers in the hopes of remaining free. The stranded group’s best chance of making it home alive is the young woman who smuggled the dragoness on board in the first place—and the mysterious teen boy who was led onto the ship in chains before takeoff. Both have secrets that could help them survive on the island…but those same secrets could deliver a death sentence if they ever make it home.

Library book: Black Dagger Brotherhood #1 Dark Lover J.R. Ward

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Publisher: Berkley  Published: 9/6/2005 Pages: 490 Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Adult Review: Library book Amazon In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the leader of The Black Dagger Brotherhood. The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuries ago. But, when one of his most trusted fighters is killed-leaving his half-breed daughter unaware of his existence or her fate-Wrath must usher her into the world of the undead-a world of sensuality beyond her wildest dreams.

The Sirens by Emilia Hart

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Publisher: St. Martin's Press Published: April 1, 2025 Pages: 352 Genre: Fantasy Review: ARC from NetGalley and Publisher Amazon 2019:  Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister’s house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack―but Jess is nowhere to be found. As Lucy awaits her return, the rumors surrounding Jess’s strange small town start to emerge. Numerous men have gone missing at sea, spread over decades. A tiny baby was found hidden in a cave. And sailors tell of hearing women’s voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy finds and begins to read her sister’s adolescent diary. 1999:  Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and matu...

Library book: A Court of Frost and Starlight 3.5 by Sarah J. Maas

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Published: 5/1/2018 Pages: 263 Genre: Fantasy Review: library book Amazon Feyre, Rhysand, and their friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly altered world beyond, recovering from the war that changed everything. But Winter Solstice is finally approaching, and with it, the joy of a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, her concern for those dearest to her deepens. They have more wounds than she anticipated-scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court. Bridging the events of  A Court of Wings and Ruin  with the later books in the series,  A Court of Frost and Starlight  explores the far-reaching effects of a devastating war and the fierce love between friends.

Library book: Year One #1 by Nora Roberts

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Publisher: St. Martin's Press Published: 12/5/2017 Pages: 419 Genre: Fantasy/Dystopian Review: library book Amazon It began on New Year’s Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed—and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river—or in the ones you know and love the most. As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and ...

Kindle Unlimited: The King of Blood and Bone (Shadow and Stone Series Book 2) Rue Volley

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Publisher: Rue Volley Books Published: 9/21/2023 Pages: 275 Genre: YA/Paranormal/Romance Review: Kindle Unlimited Amazon The wheels of fate have turned in the Isles of Ellian as those coming into power move closer to truths that could bring about a war that threatens to destroy them all. A Newborn Witch Everleigh Aeress wakes to find herself in a golden cage, trapped in the Kingdom of Shadow. The truth of her identity is still unknown. She has lost her treasured journal that contains her visions. Now, in the hands of her enemies, it may become weaponized against those who wish to help her. A Shadow Heir Cullen Moore has returned to The Kingdom of Shadow with his companions. He is now searching for a cure to combat a mysterious disease threatening to destroy his kind. But once inside The Black Gates, he is forced to face his past and a beautiful girl who is built to kill him. The Heir of The Crystal Garden Talen Freeborn has accepted her destiny, choosing to teach a newborn witch how t...

Kindle Unlimited: The Librarian by Christy Sloat

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Publisher: CHBB Publishing Published: 6/15/2017 Pages: 267 Genre: Time Travel/Romance Review: Kindle Unlimited Amazon He’s from 1892 England, she’s in a small library in 2017. And that's just the start of their troubles. Emme never meant to stay in Maine. She'd come only to find a librarian for her Gram's library, a custodian for the collection of mysterious books she'd promised to protect. On a dark, wintery night, alone in the library, she takes her first glance into one of the antique novels and finds herself transported to 1892 England staring into the eyes of handsome and dashing hero Jack Ridgewell. As each chapter passes she learns you can truly fall in love with a character in a book, that book boyfriends are real and Emme must choose between the real world, and his. When the last page is read he's gone and Emme feels the cold loneliness of lost love. Will she find Jack again, or will their love be forever lost? The answer lies within the pages…