Clearly, I didn’t pay attention to just how many times I One-Clicked books on Amazon…or pre-ordered them. I honestly can’t remember the last time I hauled this many eBooks in a month. Have a read any of them…well, a few. I mostly blame the Stolen Brides of the Fae series – because one, it’s a handful of books, and two, I went and bought some of the author’s other books. I mean, of course I had to look at their works and figure out if anything else immediately caught my eye…clearly, they did.
But most of these books are by authors I’ve read before – quite a few are new to me, and I’ve definitely found some new favorites. I don’t regret hauling a bunch of eBooks – they take up less space and honestly, are easier to read. I don’t know about you, but it’s a hell of a lot easier and comfortable to curl up with my Kindle over a physical book. With my Kindle I don’t need lights, or my glasses and at the end of the day, that’s preferrable. Also, eBooks just tend to read faster – I don’t know why that is.
But enough of me rambling on.
Let’s take a look at what eBooks I hauled in June – it’s a lot.
Stolen Shadow Bride (Stolen Brides of the Fate #4)
Author: S.M. Gaither
Pub. Date: May 28, 2021
Pages: 183
Pub: Not Listed
Genre: Fantasy Romance
A desperate sister. A cold Fae prince. A dangerous trick, and a spark of passion that might set a fragile peace ablaze…
Sephia has always known that her younger sister was destined to wed the prince of the Sun Court.
Long ago, the human kingdom of Middlemage struck a bargain with the neighboring Fae that resulted in peace between them. As part of that bargain, one of the two ruling Fae courts lay claim to a human bride from each new generation. As long as anyone can remember, this is how it has been: The Fae come to take their bride on her eighteenth birthday, the humans allow one to be stolen away, and the peace continues.
Until now.
Stolen Ice Bride (Stolen Brides of the Fate #5)
Author: Angela J. Ford
Pub. Date: June 4, 2021
Pages: 110
Pub: Angela J. Ford
Genre: Fantasy Romance
When spring breaks the unforgiving grip of winter, the mages arrive to steal a bride. . .
Solvay is known for her talents with mixing potions but she hides a treacherous power. She’s avoided the watchful eyes of the mages until now. . .
When Solvayh is chosen as a bride for the mage king, she’s terrified he’ll discover her secret and use it to bring war to the northern lands.
To protect the people she flees only to fall into the hands of a ruthless ice lord. He intends to use her as a hostage to secure peace between the mages and ice lords.
Stolen Threadwitch Bride (Stolen Brides of the Fae #6)
Author: Clare Sager
Pub. Date: June 11, 2021
Pages: 238
Pub: Not Listed
Genre: Fantasy Romance
True names hold power. Fae cannot lie. And the women they steal become their brides.
When threadwitch Ariadne is taken by a fae lord as part of a centuries-old bargain, she expects to marry him whether she likes it or not. But, desperate to return home, she won’t give in easily. Even if Lysander claims he doesn’t want her hand in marriage but for its skill with needle and the threads of magic, everyone knows the fae are not to be trusted.
Plotting her escape, she sews spells into cloth and tries her hardest to ignore his charms as well as the fae realm’s equally alluring beauty.
Stolen Thorn Bride (Stolen Brides of the Fae #7)
Author: Kenley Davidson
Pub. Date: June 18, 2021
Pages: 224
Pub: Page Nine Press
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Can a stubborn farm girl steal the heart of an elf king who has sworn never to love again?
After a century of war, the elves of Abreia are losing hope. Their greatest defender—Dechlan, king of the Northwatch—lies near death, and only a soul bond with a human bride can save him. The problem? No humans have set foot on elven lands for over a hundred years.
Kasia is no stranger to the fight for survival—she’s spent her life in the far northern reaches of Garimore, struggling to provide for her three siblings. When she’s captured by a trio of beautiful but terrifying elven warriors, her only thought is to return home, until they inform her she must marry their king… or be put to death.
Stolen Mayfly Bride (Stolen Brides of the Fae #8)
Author: Sarah K. L. Wilson
Pub. Date: June 25, 2021
Pages: 105
Pub: Not Listed
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Sometimes stealing a life is the only way to save it.
Elkhana is the Mayfly Seer. Ripped from her family, drowned, and set into a magical cage, she lives only one day a year to tell fortunes for her former people.
When Vidar meets her, he sees a resource he can use to save himself from his enemies and the torturous demands of his own liege and court.
But the bond between Elkhana and Vidar is growing. She’s slipping into his dreams and changing how he sees the world and he doesn’t know if he can keep on using her now that he sees her as a person.
Without her visions, he’s powerless against his enemies, but if he has the chance to steal her away from her cage, shouldn’t he take it?
To succeed, he’ll need a plan, a lot of nerve, and all the bargains he can strike. Will it be enough?
Unlike (Heartsblood – A Vampire Romance Series #1)
Author: Selina A. Fenech
Pub. Date: June 7, 2021
Pages: 234
Pub: Not Listed
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Held captive by a vampire in love with her blood…
Kaitlyn knows her new role as a vampire’s victim is dodgy, but as an out of work actress, she needs the cash.
She never thought it would leave her at the mercy of a real vampire… A vampire who thinks she’s the tastiest of them all.
She’ll do anything to escape his cold lips alive, because being part of a blood-sucker’s ongoing meal plan isn’t high on her list of life goals. She’s playing a dangerous game, but she’s in too deep to stop.
Learning vampires are real is one thing. What happens after that Kaitlyn would never see coming…
Beneath Black Sails (Beneath Black Sails #1) – Clare Sager
Author: Clare Sager
Pub. Date: March 30, 2021
Pages: 386
Pub: Not Listed
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Sometimes it takes a pirate to catch a pirate.
With weather magic on her side, Lady Vice is the bane of the high seas, but she isn’t captain of her own ship. Yet. If she can persuade her captain to give her a command, she’ll be in charge of her own fate.
To pay off his family’s debts, Knigh Blackwood hunts pirates for the Royal Navy. And he’s damn good at it. When the bounty on Lady Vice increases, he’s determined to make her face justice, even if that means using unorthodox methods.
Forced to work together, neither can deny their mutual attraction. As they face battles at sea and schemes aboard their ship, they discover hints about a long-lost treasure that could be the answer to both their problems.
Ice Planet of Barbarians (Ice Planet Barbarians #1)
Author: Ruby Dixon
Pub. Date: April 3, 2015
Pages: 188
Pub: Ruby Dixon
Genre: SF Romance
You’d think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you’d be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they’ve left their cargo of human women – including me – on an ice planet.
And the only native inhabitant I’ve met? He’s big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me…
Barbarian Alien (Ice Planet Barbarians #2)
Author: Ruby Dixon
Pub. Date: June 24, 2015
Pages: 211
Pub: Ruby Dixon
Genre: SF Romance
Twelve humans are left stranded on a wintry alien planet. I’m one of them. Yay, me.
In order to survive, we have to take on a symbiont that wants to rewire our bodies to live in this brutal place. I like to call it a cootie. And my cootie’s a jerk, because it also thinks I’m the mate to the biggest, surliest alien of the group.
Tin (Faeries of Oz #1)
Author: Candace Robinson & Amber R. Duell
Pub. Date: December 9, 2020
Pages: 216
Pub: Midnight Tide Publishing
Genre: Fantasy Romance Retellings
Tin is the most famous fae in Oz for all the wrong reasons. Cursed with a stone heart, he is the perfect assassin: ruthless, efficient, and merciless with thousands of kills to his name.
Dorothy Gale lost everything—her family to illness, her dog to age, and now her farm to foreclosure. The entire town thought she was crazy for believing in a faerie world called Oz, but even after ten years have passed, she can’t help knowing she was right. So when an emerald green portal opens in her wheat field, she jumps at the opportunity to return to the only place she ever felt like she belonged.
Tin wasn’t expecting a grown woman to step through the portal, just as Dorothy wasn’t expecting Tin to have his stone heart back, but Oz holds more unexpected things than either could have imagined.
The Cursed Witch (The Coven: Fae Magic #1)
Author: Chandelle LaVaun
Pub. Date: June 30, 2020
Pages: 454
Pub: Wanderlost Publishing
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy
What is magic?
My name is Saraphina Proctor…and that’s the only thing I can remember.
I woke up alone, surrounded by darkness with no memory. No one here knows who I am, I don’t fit any of the missing persons reports, and the doctors can’t find a single thing wrong with me…my memory…my life…they’re just…gone.
But something lurks in the shadows in Salem, watching me…waiting. I feel its eyes on my back and my name whispered in the wind. Even in the light of day the friendly smiles around town put me on edge.
Someone isn’t telling me the truth but I will find out what happened to me…and I think Riah knows more than his pretty mouth is telling me. There’s a story in those golden eyes of his, now I just need to get close enough to him to find out…
Pippa of Lauramore (The Eldentimber Series #1)
Author: Shari. L. Tapscott
Pub. Date: March 15, 2015
Pages: 334
Pub: Shari L. Tapscott
Genre: Historical Fiction Fantasy Romance
Thirty Knights. Five Events. One Determined Princess.
In order to avoid a loveless arranged marriage to a man she cannot stand, eighteen-year-old Princess Pippa of Lauramore makes a bold move: she begs her father to hold a marriage tournament.
Knights travel from far and wide for a chance to win the princess’s hand, but she immediately sets her sights on one—Galinor of Glendon. He’s strong. He’s handsome. He’s a girl’s dream come true.
But as the events progress, Pippa learns her valiant knight is prettier than he is capable. Left with no other choice, the princess enlists the help of the one man with the power to shatter the fragile balance of the tournament—a man she should keep at arm’s length.
The Night’s Chosen (The Cursed Queen’s #1)
Author: E.E. Hornburg
Pub. Date: September 24, 2020
Pages: 310
Pub: Not Listed
Genre: Fantasy
CHOSEN OF THE MOON GODDESS. DESTINED TO RULE. FATED TO MARRY.
A QUEST TO SAVE HER FAMILY, KINGDOM, AND HEART.
In this retelling of Snow White, for the past five years Princess Eira has run from her impending wedding. As much as she loves her goddess and kingdom, she’s searched the kingdoms for another way to rule as queen someday while also choosing her own husband. Yet, Eira’s claim to the crown falls into jeopardy when her father, King Brennus, is poisoned and fated to a sleep of living death and Eira is next on the assassin’s hit list – who happens to be her stepmother, Queen Amelia. After Eira escapes Queen Amelia’s clutches she journeys to the northern Paravian mountains in search of an enchanted cup to save her father.
Of Shadows and Elves (Of Goblin Kings #2)
Author: Emma Hamm
Pub. Date: March 15, 2021
Pages: 234
Pub: Independently Published
Genre: Fantasy Romance
To save the Goblin King, she must risk her life on a journey to the ends of the faerie realm…
Freya couldn’t have known she would destroy the entire faerie court by beating the Goblin King. All she wanted was her sister back, not to imprison the king. But with her sister refusing to return home, Freya is left trapped in her own mess. She has to fix what she broke or the faerie realm will get infinitely more dangerous.
Bring the Goblin King back. Save the people she harmed. And do her best to avoid the temptation of falling into the Goblin King’s arms. Considering the Goblin King is locked away in a magical prison, at least one of her goals may be impossible to achieve…
…unless she’s willing to go through hardships unnumbered.
Road To Fire: A Dark Royal Romance (Broken Crown #1)
Author: Maria Luis
Pub. Date: April 23, 2021
Pages: 524
Pub: Alkmini Books, LLC
Genre: Dark Romance Suspense
“I’m not scared of you.”
He meets my gaze. “You should be.”
All of England knows his name.
Saxon Priest.
Savage. Ruthless.
A man bent on all-out destruction.
His target? The royal family.
I’m not looking for a knight in shining armor when I approach him for a job—but I never anticipated how my heart might quicken when faced with London’s most notorious killer.
His eyes are cold.
His mouth scarred and sneering when he dismisses me as fragile, weak.
He couldn’t be more wrong.
I have blood on my hands and hate in my heart—just like him.
But with England on the brink of war, Saxon is my last hope. And when he risks everything to save me, I succumb to the ice in his veins and the blistering heat that tethers us together.
He may be the devil in disguise but I’m Isla Quinn, and I killed the king.
The Cursed God: A Hades and Persephone Romance (Hades Redemption #1)
Author: Skye Wilson
Pub. Date: June 17, 2021
Pages: 519
Pub: Not Listed
Genre: Fantasy
Hades is coming for me. But that doesn’t mean he can have me . . .
He says he knows me. Who I am. What I am.
I’m pretty sure my boss Hayden is on some sort of weird power trip. He’s sexy as hell, but has an arrogance that spells danger. I’m only serving drinks in his seedy strip club until I can afford my own flower shop. I just have to avoid the inexplicable pull between us in the meantime.
Then he claims I’m Persephone and he’s Hades, the God of the Underworld. He says I was taken from him and now he’s here to awaken my spirit so he can take me back to the underworld. That his position in the underworld depends on it.
The Queen’s Line (Inheritance of Hunger #1)
Author: Kathryn Moon
Pub. Date: September 1, 2020
Pages: 315
Pub: Kindle Direct Publishing
Genre: RH Fantasy Romance
The Kingdom of Kimmery is broken…
Bryony, Princess of Kimmery, has a secret. She lacks the Hunger, the magical and passionate craving that is responsible for Kimmery’s prosperity. Without that power, she will lose the crown and the chance to rule the kingdom she sincerely loves.
The Queen’s Line must select Chosen to satiate their Hunger with and Bryony’s Choosing ceremony has arrived. On her first night with her newly assembled men—a prince, an ambassador, a stablehand, a sculptor, and a rogue—her own secret, and the secrets of Kimmery, spill out between them.
North of Kimmery’s capitol, the people are starving. When her truth is revealed to her iron-hearted grandmother, Bryony invents a plan to buy time. She and her Chosen will go to the desolate Winter palace where she can pretend to explore her Hunger while investigating the kingdom’s failings.
The Princess’s Chosen (Inheritance of Hunger #2)
Author: Kathryn Moon
Pub. Date: October 6, 2020
Pages: 360
Pub: Kindle Direct Publishing
Genre: RH Fantasy Romance
The peace Princess Bryony and her Chosen enjoyed in the north is broken, disturbed by the arrival of her family to the Winter Palace. Camellia is crueler than Bryony ever imagined, and her grandmother’s faith is hard won. Nothing will come easily, not even with her men at her side, their affections growing deeper.
When Bryony’s most reluctant Chosen, Aric – King of Thieves, learns of her Hunger, it all fractures. There is more to the magic of the queen’s line than anyone imagined, and Bryony is losing the grip on her own control.
As the weather turns colder, obstacles rise from every direction, even from within the Winter Palace’s own residents. Bryony must master her magic and her passions in order to protect herself and her Chosen from the enemies that circle closer every day. If she falls, so will Kimmery.
The Kingdom’s Crown (Inheritance of Hunger #3)
Author: Kathryn Moon
Pub. Date: December 29, 2020
Pages: 376
Pub: Kindle Direct Publishing
Genre: RH Fantasy Romance
The path to power never did run smooth…
Princess Bryony and her Chosen have been challenged, threatened, and attacked, but it’s news from the capital that lands the hardest blow.
Bryony’s greatest ally is at risk, and if she loses her grandmother’s support she may lose the crown as well. Returning to the capital introduces new enemies and dangers, as well as painful memories. Her grandmother is dying, her sister is feasting on flesh and wasting magic in the shadows, and the Queen is hiding from the ugly truths of Kimmery.
With her patience at its end and her Chosen gathered close, it’s time for Bryony to break the grip the council has on the kingdom, forge new alliances, and learn the depth of her own magic.
The kingdom’s crown will be hers, even if claiming it comes with painful sacrifice.
The Broken and Sinned (The Everlasting Curse Series #1)
Author: G. Bailey
Pub. Date: November 24, 2020
Pages: 386
Pub: Independently Published
Genre: RH Paranormal Fantasy
There is no place for love in a world of vampires who own your soul.
On Riona Dark’s eighteenth birthday, being kidnapped by strangers in the night was not the surprise party she was expecting.
Riona is taken to the hidden world of vampires, a remote island called The Onyx, where being human means you are less than nothing. Riona is soon locked up with other humans and finds out that she will be sold at The Auction.
When two vampire princes, with dark eyes and even darker souls, come to view her and the others, Riona knows the vampires here are just as dangerous as they are gorgeous.
Once sold, Riona is told that her life belongs to the vampires that own her. They will own her soul, mind and body. Resisting means only death.
Riona won’t be sold without a fight, and the only power in The Onyx is blood, desire…and death.
Helios & Zelena (Sky Realm #0.5)
Author: Jessica Gleave
Pub. Date: May 31, 2021
Pages: Not Listed
Pub: Not Listed
Genre: Fantasy
Helios, the newly appointed controller of the sun orb, isn’t keen on meeting the Moon Controller, Zelena, especially after a negative encounter with the other Domagersens sent to work in the Sky Realm.
What he certainly didn’t expect was for her to be a beautiful young maiden who captures his heart at first sight.
Helios has a similar effect on Zelena, who can’t seem to avoid him. She knows they shouldn’t be together. The Sun and Moon races never interact.
But their growing love for each other is too strong to ignore.
Can a Sun and Moon be in love?
Especially when they come together, so do their orbs, forming an eclipse that has the potential to wreak havoc on the Land Below if they remain together for too long.
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