These aren’t all strictly dark romances—they can include cute monster or alien romances, or even taboo themes. Basically, my previous book lists were semi-reputable, but this year, I’m embracing the chaos! I’ve decided to create a release list filled with the books I might normally filter out (including all those hockey romances lol). Some of these titles are more tame, while others are spicy and dark, but most are by indie or self-published authors. Since indie books can be hit or miss, I recommend reading a sample (if available) or doing a little extra research before buying.
Anyways, this was fun! If you read any of these books, you’re officially obligated to let me know if they were good or not. 😄 I even added a few to my TBR….
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Jan. 9th, 2025: Bound to the Orc Warrior: A Monster Fantasy Romance (Brides of the Moon Blade Clan Book 5)
My new witch powers tether me to the grumpy orc. I can’t get more than twenty feet away from him!
When I storm out of my ex’s engagement party, a meddling goddess whisks me away to Faerie and marries me to a massive grump of an orc. As if that’s not enough, I can’t leave his side without my teleportation magic throwing me straight back into his arms!
I dreamed of leaving my small town and traveling, but I never imagined anything like this. I feel like I landed in one of the books I love, with fated mates and close proximity dialed up to eleven. Wranth’s gorgeously muscled body and exciting air of warrior prowess sure don’t hurt any either.
Then there’s his swoon-worthy vow to protect me. I’m supposed to reopen the doors of Faerie and return magic to Earth—if enemies don’t stop me first. It’ll also break the tether and allow me to go home to friends and family. But the longer I’m with Wranth, the harder it is to picture life without him…
Bound to the Orc Warrior is a steamy fantasy monster romance featuring a grumpy primal orc who longs for love and a sunshiny witch eager to find her place in the world. Welcome to the Moon Blade Clan, where heart-melting romance, toe-curling steam, magic, and adventure combine into stories you’ll devour.
Jan. 13th, 2025: When the Weaver Met the Gargoyle: A Cozy Fantasy Monster Romance (Leafshire Cove Monsters Book 1) by Lila Appleton
A shire-esque party forces a straight-laced human weaver and a brooding gargoyle guard together in the most delightfully tension-filled ways.
I have one talent, and it’s not relationships. It’s weaving. But I have one chance to keep my cozy little life in the magical Leafshire Cove and it’s going to require a partner.
I swore off romance—my last relationship was a humiliating disaster. But to enter the mayor’s tapestry contest, and win the contract attached, I need a date, thanks to a ridiculous ancient faerie spell requiring attendants to bring a potential partner.
When my frenemy suggests the new watchtower guard, a growly gargoyle named Romulus who never speaks and hides inside a massive cloak, I think she’s finally lost her mind. But said frenemy refuses to back down, and suddenly, the gargoyle and I are forced into a temporary match.
Romulus is employed by the mayor so he has no choice but to go. Because of a past issue with his stone magic, he’s dead set on remaining single, so there shouldn’t be a problem.
Until we share the wrong pot of tea…
Magic and cozy mayhem combine in this spicy standalone fantasy romance. All the books in the Leafshire Cove series are short and sweet, with a happily ever after for their human/monster couples.
Jan. 14th, 2025: Lessons with the Mothman (Monster Smash Agency)
Elias – freelance consultant to Monster Smash Agency, and prestigiously rare moth fae – has never been in love. Granted, he’s never been interested in the emotion, but with his friends mating with their clients, the new curiosity is keeping him up at night. If only he could find someone to draw him in like the moth to the flame.
Victoria is looking for facts not feelings. She wants to understand why the monster species are so much more satisfied than humans, than her. But the handsome mothman who volunteers to aid her academic study wants to stimulate more than her intelligence. She’s willing to explore their physical chemistry, but she wants no part of his designs on her heart.
Love can’t be taught, and it certainly can’t be forced, but falling in love with the woman who refuses to let him in might just teach Elias a lesson.
Jan. 28th, 2025: Barbarian’s Heart by Ruby Dixon *Special Edition*
The next novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, an international publishing phenomenon—now in a special print edition with a bonus novella!
The unthinkable happens when a devastating accident causes Pashov to forget his mate, but Stacy will do whatever it takes to make her family whole again. . . .
The first time I laid eyes on Pashov, we resonated. I was happy and in love, and we were raising a beautiful child together. All of that was torn apart when the world shook.
My mate nearly died.
He woke up from his coma . . . but he can’t remember me. Or our son. Every memory of the past two years is gone. And that changes everything between us. How can I love someone who doesn’t remember me?
How can I not when I know he’s still my mate underneath it all?
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Jan. 28th, 2025: Kissed and Missed: A Forbidden, Girlfriend’s Dad, Valentine’s Day Novella (Daddy Issues Book 2) by Cleo White
So, before you judge me too harshly for what I’m about to tell you, I think it’s important to lead with the disclaimer that this is not like me. At all.
If somebody Googled “cautious, responsible, people-pleasing eldest daughter”, a picture would probably come up of me baking twenty-four loaves of banana bread for all the neighbors in our building after my roommate flooded the bathroom.
So, as you can see, I am not the kind of person to catch feelings for my ex’s tech-billionaire father after spending three days stranded at his house over Christmas.
Nor am I the type to keep in touch with him after I go home, keeping up the façade of friendship when the unspoken “if only things were different” hangs over our heads.
Now, it’s Valentine’s Day, and Julian Ballard is on my doorstep.
It shouldn’t change anything. After all, cautious, responsible, people-pleasing girls do not fall in love with their ex-girlfriend’s father.
…Oops.
Jan. 31st, 2025: Stolen Notes and Broken Strings (Chaos Theory Book 1)
When words are stolen and strings are broken, can love still find a rhythm?I’m Scarlett, a university student clinging to hope in a world that thrives on betrayal. When my professor steals my work, I vow to expose his treachery. But that’s when I collide—literally—with Whit, an enigmatic, rebellious rockstar with a dangerous edge and a past as dark and twisted as his tattoos. His lyrics cut deep, mirroring the shadows that haunt him, and despite every warning, he’s ensnared my heart in his web.
Caught in a tangled web of academic deceit and buried family secrets, I’m drawn into Whit’s chaotic world of music and madness. Neither of us realizes the devastating connection we share—a connection that, once revealed, will blur the lines between right and wrong, love and vengeance beyond recognition.
Can I trust the man who unwittingly holds the key to my professor’s betrayal, or are we doomed to drown in our own darkness?
In this dark and twisted rockstar romance, where every note strikes a chord of danger and every string is woven with secrets, Scarlett and Whit must navigate the treacherous path of trust and betrayal. Passion ignites, trust is shattered, and they must find a way to harmonize amidst the chaos. Will they discover a rhythm that saves them, or will their intertwined fates be consumed by discord?
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Jan. 21st, 2025: Buddy System: A Small-town, MMF, Military Romance (Honeybee Hollow) by Ariella Talix
Buddy System is a gut-wrenching story about enduring love, and it’s full of sexy scenes that will make you blush. All three characters are heroes, but not always in the way you’d expect.
Brooke’s husband Levi returns from Afghanistan a broken man. Brooke is desperate to help him heal emotionally, and she is willing to do anything.
Levi and his best buddy Skyler were close when they left for war. After being wounded in battle they become even closer.
Their new adventure takes them to Honeybee Hollow where the healing can finally begin.
This stunning and emotional small-town, MMF military romance begins the “Honeybee Hollow” series.
Jan. 29th, 2025: Devoted to the Dragon (The Last Shifters Book 1) by Sirena Song
She’s the last omega dragon shifter. If her designation ever awakens.
For centuries, Randi has waited for all her mates to arrive and awaken her omega designation. She spends her days in lonely flight and her nights managing her rut bar, Frenzy.
Now, the wolf shifters are on the verge of extinction. The mate runes have vanished, and alphas are turning feral. With Frenzy’s services in high demand, the Wolf King sets his sights on the dragon, wanting her magic for his own.
As Randi prepares to face off against the King, two of her guards try to prove that even without runes, she’s meant to be theirs. But the visit with the King brings back old enemies and starts the clock on an ancient dragon ritual.
Will Randi and her mate-contenders be able to finish the ritual before time runs out? Can they convince her they will do anything to make her theirs?
Devoted to the Dragon is the first book in a paranormal shifter monster romance series featuring fated mates. This poly-romance includes a fierce dragon FMC, unrequited love, and rejected mates. Check the author’s note for information about the content.
MMMF
Jan. 3rd, 2025: Snowy Secrets: A Mountain Man’s Christmas Baby Reverse Harem Romance (The Why Choose Haremland) by Ajme Williams
Three sinful mountain men want to unwrap me.
And I’m ready to be their holiday treat.
My winter getaway turned into a scorching trap.
Three dangerously tempting men who set my body ablaze.
A blizzard sealing my fate.
And the truth that could destroy everything.
One broke me six years ago.
One claimed me just last night.
One hungers to possess me tomorrow.
Wyatt: The silver-fox who demands my submission.
Marcus: The rugged protector who ignites my darkness.
River: The soldier who haunts my nights and owns my past.
They’re my father’s best friends.
My forbidden addiction.
My salvation in this storm.
But I have a secret wrapped in pigtails and dimples.
A gift River planted inside me before walking away.
Our daughter doesn’t know.
He doesn’t know.
When the snow melts, I’ll face my choice:
Keep denying these sinful cravings…
Or surrender to three men determined to mark me as theirs.
Because in these mountains, pleasure knows no limits.
And neither do they.
Three dominant men.
Two pink lines.
One claimed woman.
And a baby to make this the naughtiest miracle of all.
Jan. 7th, 2025: Chasing Thunder: A Why Choose Hockey Novella (Jasmine Hollow Book 11) by Kit Nicole
They’re my dad’s players. I’m the coach’s daughter. But breaking the rules has never felt so right.
Olivia
I just need one night to myself. One night to escape the pressure of being Nathan Reed’s daughter before I face him and have the conversation I’ve been dreading. A trip to the local bowling alley in Jasmine Hollow should be harmless, right?
That’s where I meet them—Jace, Hunter, and Andrew. Gorgeous, funny, and completely distracting. For the first time in forever, I forget the weight of my dad’s expectations.
We laugh. We flirt. It’s electric, and for one reckless, stolen night, I let myself live.
No strings.
No regrets.
Until the next morning, when I walk into my dad’s locker room and see the three guys from last night staring at me like they’ve seen a ghost.
As if being Coach Reed’s daughter isn’t bad enough, Jace is about to become my step uncle. This isn’t just complicated—it’s impossible.
So why can’t I stay away?
Jan. 29th, 2025: Prey: A Dark College Taboo Mafia Romance (The Primal Series Book 1) by P Mulholland
Gunner
Shit went down, and my cousin, Mikael, the leader of the Gothenburg chapter was arrested and is serving time in prison. Annika did this. She was the apple of our eyes when my parents fostered her, and my fondness grew for her in more than a brotherly way. But something changed in her, and she turned against us.
I hadn’t seen her for three years until last week when a girl similar in features to Annika appeared on the Gotland University campus. Her name and hair are different, and she wears glasses, but I know it’s her, and I’ll keep pursuing her from afar, obsessively, until she breaks.
Ronan
The awkward kitchenhand I hired at The Savile Club is a girl I’ve seen before naked, uninhibited, and beautiful. As I watch her closely, the mask begins to slip, dark secrets are revealed, and an insatiable hunger grows to climb between those legs and tear her apart…
The Primal is a dark, gritty, stalker, enemies-to-lovers Mafia, Taboo, Reverse harem series in which the FMC is intimately involved with a brother whose family fostered her. The Main Characters are in their late teens to mid-20s. Set at Gotland University.
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Jan. 31st, 2025: Knot Your Fated M.U.S.E.: A Dark Age-Gap Contemporary Omegaverse (The Parazodiac Nexus Book 1)
I’m an omega who can hear the shadows sing.
Patient #495. Nyx Blackwood. Scorpio.
They call me dangerous. Unstable.
The Fated M.U.S.E.
Mentally insane, they wrote in my file.
Unsatisfactory, they marked on my tests.
Scentless, they whispered in fear.
Excelled beyond control, they warned the others.
For six years, Ravenscroft Asylum has been my prison, their white walls keeping the world safe from me.
Or maybe keeping me safe from the world.
Until four of the most lethal alphas in the Parazodiac Nexus break in.
They don’t just take me. They claim me.
Atlas, Capricorn, with his blindfolded gaze that strips me bare.
Dante, Leo, who reads my silence better than anyone with perfect hearing.
Kieran, Pisces, carrying the weight of a shattered bond that should have killed him.
Vale, Taurus, whose failing body houses an unstoppable will.
They’re feral. Dangerous. Operating outside every law the city holds dear.
And they say I’m theirs.
But the shadows are singing louder now, warning of ancient blood feuds and deadly power plays.
The asylum wanted to keep me locked away — they should have worried more about what would happen when I got out.
These alphas think they can protect me from everything.
Everything except themselves.
Everything except what I might become with them.
And in the Parazodiac Nexus, survival means breaking all the rules.
Even the ones written by Fate.
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Jan. 9th, 2025: Poetry On Ice (Totally Pucked Book 1) by Jesse H Reign
I can’t tell if we’re fighting…or flirting?
Being traded to the Seattle Vipers has left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, they’re my team, the team I’ve loved and supported since I was a kid, but on the other hand, he’s here. Him. Ant Decker. Infamous NHL bad boy. Right wing to my left. A man who’s made it his sole purpose in life to be better than me.
Well, the joke’s on him because I’m faster and my stats are better than his.
Not that I’m competing with him. Of course not. I wouldn’t stoop to his level.
He’s the most infuriating person I’ve ever met. A dark, chaotic presence that distracts me.
When we’re not coming to blows on the ice, he tries to provoke me by calling me Princess. And Pretty Boy…and Babygirl.
I hate it. Obviously, I do. It makes me so angry I can hardly see straight.
So why does my body react as if I like it?
Jan. 10th, 2025: The Puck Chase (Fairfield U Book 3) by G.N. Wright
Hockey is my life. It’s my only goal, my only escape, and everything was going according to plan. All I had to do was focus on the game, keep my head down, then get drafted into the NHL.
Starting my senior year at FU everything was as perfect as always, but sometimes just because you play on the same team, doesn’t mean you can play nice. And it turns out I enjoy taunting a certain teammate just as much as I enjoy being on the ice.
Daemon Forbes loathes me, but I love nothing more than fanning the flames of that hatred into an inferno.
Yet lately it seems that fire is burning even hotter than ever, and what I thought was a fun little game, is turning into something else entirely. It doesn’t matter that he hates me, it doesn’t even matter that we are teammates. No, it seems we were doomed the night we met and he found me occupied in his bedroom.
I know he has a dark past, and I know my sights should be on the ice and the life I want, but burning with him feels better than anything else.
But what do I do when the shadows that surround him threaten to consume me whole?
The Puck Secret is book #3 in the Fairfield U series, a series of interconnected standalone college hockey romance stories that contain lots of spice, banter, and a whole rollercoaster of issues and emotions.
Jan. 15th, 2025: Matched with my Alien Boss (Alien Mates) by Sienna Sway
Clay
My alien boss is the worst. He is the epitome of the sleazy business man. He’s a snake. He even looks like one with that green skin and forked tongue, thick tail and devilish red eyes. It’s no wonder that no one wants to cross him.
I’ll do whatever I need to to fly under his radar.
Sal
Crossing work and pleasure is wrong in all kinds of ways. I would never normally do it. But when the cute intern Clay pops up on the alien mates dating app I can’t help but try to match with him. And when that match turns into jokes and texts and a connection deeper than I’ve known since arriving on Planet Earth, there’s nothing I can do but try to win him over IRL too.
Matched With my Alien Boss is the second in a series of short, sweet M/M novellas featuring humans and aliens finding love through the Alien Mates dating app. They can be read in any order.
Jan. 16th, 2025: From Coast to Coast (Offsides Book 4) by J.J. Mulder
NHL forward Remy Stone steps off the plane in Calgary a newly divorced man. While he doesn’t necessarily want to live in Canada, the trade offered a good excuse for a fresh start and he means to capitalize on it.
Defenseman Grayson Brody has played most of his career with Calgary, but has long fallen out of love with his team. After coming out, he has struggled with his teammates and management, and wishes he’d never done it at all.
With the addition of Remy Stone shaking everything up—both on the ice and off—things start looking up for the first time in years. What starts as a friendship between them, turns into a casual, friends-with-benefits relationship.
Except a casual relationship with a teammate is fraught with complications; particularly when it starts to feel less casual to Grayson, and neither of them are sure what the future looks like for them.
Jan. 20th, 2025: Kissing the Shark (Maritime Monsters Book 1) Kindle Edition by CD Rachels
What would you do if a hunky shark shifter dude walked out of the ocean and claimed you as his mate?
I love my job at the Maritime Monsters Institute. I get to help ocean life as well as humans who shift into marine-based creatures. There’s so much to learn about the monster community, and I’d like to think my knowledge has helped all sea creatures.
Dating life? Who’s that, never heard of her.
But then a tall shifter strides in from the ocean and gets down on one knee in front of me. Everyone at my job witnesses him declaring his undying love for me. It’s nonsense because he doesn’t know me. In fact, he’s new to the surface world!
I tell him to stop, but cutting this shark out of my life is more difficult than it seems. My job finds me teaching him all about life on land. It doesn’t help that I find him drop-dead handsome.
This monster is naïve and overbearing. But after weeks of working together, we become friends. The shark becomes…endearing. Charming. Sweet.
I never thought I could be in a human-monster relationship. But this shark threatens to drown me with his love in the best possible way. I want to give this shifter a shot, but if I do, will our hearts sink or swim?
“Kissing the Shark” is an adult male-male spicy paranormal romance novel set in the Creepin U monster universe. This romcom stars an affectionate shark shifter who’s lived in the ocean his whole life, and the researcher he falls head over fin for. With all the Maritime Monsters novels, a spicy good time and a HEA are guaranteed.
Jan. 20th, 2025: The Dragon: Wishing For Mates by Regitse Liljadorff
Nox: Waking up in a dark cave didn’t help my trauma of pitch-black, damp places. Nor did the glowing eyes in the shadows. Meeting the dragon shifter Jax, is only the beginning of my adventure. I’d planned on crossing the ocean in search of my mate, however a lightning storm ruined that plan. Thankfully, Jax saves me from my near-death experience and nurses me back to health. When my mate tells me through our shared dreams that I have more mates than him, I’m wary, but also excited. Could Jax be my mate too? Could the guy I’d been in love with for years?
More dragon fun. Claiming, lots of claiming. Dragon instincts are powerful and sometimes annoying. Flying is the best. Talking trees is a thing.
This is an MM WhyChoose/Harem fantasy series featuring royals, dragons, shifters, familiars, and fated mates. Must be read in order. The book ends on a cliffhanger with a guaranteed HEA in the next and final book.
Jan. 21st, 2025: 24601: A Dark Les Miserables Retelling by Camilla Harlowe
After ten years of imprisonment, Valjean has been released. He has no family and nothing to live for. Until he is tasked to kill Javert.
Javert is wanted for murder. After being haunted by his past, he doesn’t know what he has to live for. Until he’s chained up by Valjean.
The two depend on each other to survive, and realise they don’t want to live without the other.
24601 is an enemies to lovers retelling of a classic story. It is a dark romance and may not be suitable for all readers.
Jan. 23rd, 2025: P.O.O.F. Please!: A Bloodlines of Fate Story (Twilight Temptations Book 2)
Love is magical. Let it POOF into your life.
Hey there, it’s your favorite lovable P.O.O.F agent, Nozzag! Buckle up because I’ve got a wild tale for you. Their meeting? Total “oops, my bad” moment, if you catch my drift. Let’s just say, I may have given fate a little nudge! But don’t fret, Tiki and Amalesh are in for a fabulously happy ending. *winks*
Thikoz aka Tiki – a Dragonkin, Sassy Dragon Esthetician, who is dominant and longs to find his mate.
Tiki has countless fantasies about what his ideal partner would be like. He can only hope that when he finally encounters his mate, they’ll be eager to delve into the numerous interests on his Must Try Before I Die list.
Amalesh – a Vampire, Rare Blood Procurer, reclusive introvert, who simply wishes to be left alone with his collection.
When Amalesh is thrown into Tiki’s path, almost literally, he realizes that the world he has observed from a distance is far more enjoyable as an active participant. It only takes a few hundred years and an energetic, dominant dragonkin to uncover that little truth.
P.O.O.F. Please! is set in the world of Bloodlines of Fate. Twilight Temptations are instalove, high heat, low angst stories that feature various creatures and a guaranteed HEA.
Jan. 25th, 2025: His Age Gap Omega: An Mpreg Shifter Short (Crescent Cove Pack Book 2) by Dylan Reece
When human omega Liam arrives in Crescent Cove to support his pregnant friend, he expects nothing more than a temporary stay in this sleepy beach town. What he doesn’t expect is Marcus: a much older alpha who makes his carefully guarded heart race.
Liam’s been burned before by young city alphas who flee at the mention of commitment or babies. But Marcus is different—patient and protective, with a hunger that goes beyond physical desire. As their connection deepens, Liam wonders if he’s found an alpha he can trust—a man whose protective instincts run deeper than any smooth-talking promise he’s heard before.
But secrets have sharp teeth.
Marcus leads more than just his construction crew—he commands a hidden wolf pack. With his heat rising and Marcus’s true nature exposed, Liam faces an impossible choice. He can run back to the city… Or let Marcus claim him and give him a home, a mate, and a whole litter of pups.
His Age Gap Omega is an MPREG shifter romance featuring an age gap, found family dynamics, beachside bliss, and steamy scenes. It’s book #2 in the Crescent Cove Series but can be read as a standalone novella.
Jan. 25th, 2025: One Last Chance (Venusverse) by Kat Sinclair
Dayton is in a place in his life where he’s just about to give up on finding a suitable partner to start a family with. As a male omega over thirty, his biological clock is ticking louder and louder. If it weren’t for his mothers, he probably would have given up on dating already. He’s one of the few unlucky individuals whose pheromones smell nothing like the sweet, lovely scent they should. Following a string of unsuccessful relationships, he starts to believe that he might have to settle with either being alone or ending up with a beta, even to the dismay of his well-meaning parents.
Rowland‘s circumstances are a little complicated. No matter his successful career and good looks, there’s no sugarcoating the fact that he’s a thirty-eight-year-old divorcee with three children, at least one of which is becoming more and more of a handful by the day. Never having recovered from his wife’s cruel departure, he’s far too aware that his pheromone condition would be too much to handle for most people. When his mother sets him up on yet another blind date, he relents. Under the condition of it being the last.
One Last Chance is a non-shifter, gay omegaverse standalone romance novel set in Kat Sinclair’s venusverse. It’s an angsty but light-hearted story with some explicit scenes, a HEA, and no on-page mpreg.
Jan. 27th, 2025: Heart of a Wolf (Viking Wolves Book 1): Paranormal Enemies-to-Lovers Romance
How to get over a breakup:
1: Go to Iceland
2: Get sent back in time
3: Get abducted by a hot, moody Viking werewolf
The tour guides sure didn’t prepare me for this…
Kieran
After my boyfriend cheats, my best friend spirits me away to Reykjavik for a scenic getaway. I think this may be just the escape I need to get over the jerk.
What was supposed to be a beautiful boat cruise ends in chaos when I find myself transported to the age of the Vikings. Before I can catch my breath, I’m taken captive by Wulfric, a powerful and terrifying Viking warrior. But he’s not just a fearsome fighter. He and his clan are Ulfhednar, wolf shifters.
Humans are the natural enemies of Wulfric’s pack and the longer I linger in his time, the more dangerous my already precarious situation becomes. Despite our mutual dislike, Wulfric vows he will keep me alive until I can return to my time… but only if I let him claim me as his mate.
Turns out, there’s a thin line between love and hate. Passion erupts, burning hot enough to melt the glaciers. As I see a soft and loving side to this strong, wounded warrior, I begin to wonder just where it is I call home.
Can Wulfric’s past be my new present?
Heart of a Wolf is book 1 in the Viking Wolves series and features enemies-to-lovers, mating of convenience, a dash of time travel, mental health rep (PTSD and GAD), and a happy-ever-after.
Jan. 28th, 2025: Host Club on the Pleasure Planet: An M/M Alien Romance by Cherry Pickett
A monk walks into a host club …
It sounded like a bad joke, which was exactly how Benedict would describe his life since he’d discovered his aunt had made him the heir to her restaurant empire on the notorious Pleasure Planet. The punchline was that her empire had been more of the criminal nature than he’d been led to believe.
Now, with mobsters knocking on his door, demanding payment for mysterious loans, Benedict must enlist the help of his host club employees, including one sarcastic, street-smart bartender named Oz.
Mobsters are’t the only thing Benedict must battle on Kateria, though, as the Pleasure Planet—and his growing attraction to Oz—puts the monk’s morals to the test time and again. Everything he’s ever known about right and wrong is about to be challenged—will he choose feelings over faith, or will he sacrifice his chance at happily ever after?
Jan. 31st, 2025: The Fated Mate Bandit (Trash Pandas Book 2) by Amy Bellows
I fell in love with Silver in the third grade. He was my first everything. First best friend, first crush, first kiss. When he chose me out of all the omegas chasing after him, I felt like the luckiest guy in the world.
But fate had other plans.
Just after graduation, I met Daryl. From the moment I laid eyes on him, I knew he was my fated mate. I tried to hide my disappointment. My heart still belonged to Silver, even though I was destined for someone else.
I did my very best to be a good mate to Daryl. Even when he hurt me, I forgave him and kept trying to make things work. It wasn’t until I got pregnant that I realized I couldn’t stay any longer.
Showing up on Silver’s doorstep isn’t the world’s best plan. He might turn me away. But I have nowhere else to go.
The Fated Mate Bandit is book two in the Trash Pandas series. It has MPreg, knotting, cute raccoon shifter children, and hurt/comfort. Trigger warning for memories of domestic violence. No on-page altercations.
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Jan. 10th, 2025: Taken to the Deadlands by Elle Mae
From Elle Mae comes a spicy sapphic novella series where super-powered humans are kidnapped and sold at demon auctions.
Who knew faking seeing ghosts could send me straight to hell? Literally.
One moment I was in my shop, minding my business, and the next a crazy winged lady knocked me out and the next time I woke up, I was in the demon realm.
Turns out, humans with special abilities are highly valued… because they taste better.
When they forced me out on that stage, I was prepared to be eaten. What I didn’t prepare for was a hot yet exceedingly annoying demon to buy me.
She says she wants help and needs my powers to do so… but what happens when she finds out it’s all a lie?
Jan. 14th, 2025: Of Dreams and Poison: The Dragon and the Devouring Tree Part 1 (Happily Ever After Dark Book 2) by Darva Green
Sleeping Beauty meets Robin Hood in the first book of this high-heat sapphic retelling.
It was always meant to be a tale of the dragon and the devouring tree…
Rosemary
Three years ago I was freed from the jailer’s cart and sentenced to a lifetime of servitude at the Briar Apothecary, located at the edge of a forest filled with devouring trees. I spend my days blending herbal remedies for my mistress and concocting poisonous treats to weed out her enemies.
I’ve learned firsthand that the prince isn’t the hero the rebellion wants him to be. His careless bet invites danger to my doorstep, but it turns out a bit of danger is exactly what I need. Now I’m falling for a woman willing to be ruthless for me. The only problem is I’ll have to betray her to free my godmothers from the Ivy Keep. Can I break my own heart to save my family?
Carabosse
The little witch must have cast a spell on me. The job was supposed to be easy. Get the dragon eggs and be discreet. Take care of any loose ends and leave a message for the brat prince who dared to steal from the Dragon Valley…
Jan. 16th, 2025: Blood Moon: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance (QueerWolf Book 2) by Harmony Fuller
A lone wolf, a stolen daughter, and an infuriating spark she can’t ignore…
The Hunters have taken everything from me—my lover, my pride, and my daughter. Alone and desperate, I’ve been clawing my way toward one goal: getting Luna back. No allies, no strings, no distractions. That’s the only way I survive.
And then there’s Princess. Too clever, too optimistic, and entirely too noisy for her own good. I should hate her easy charm, her relentless drive to help, her singing – but instead I find myself drawn to her in ways I can’t explain. She’s a constant thorn in my side, but her fire makes me wonder if I’ve been running alone for too long.
As we dive deeper into the Hunters’ twisted plans, every step feels like walking a razor’s edge. Trust doesn’t come easy—not for someone like me—but Princess’s stubborn loyalty might be the one thing that keeps me from falling apart…
Jan. 17th, 2025: Omega Abandoned: A F/F Omegaverse Romance (The Omega Problem) by Elizabeth Dunlap
Ten years ago, Sue abandoned her mate, and left everything behind to raise her brother, a choice that has haunted her every day since.
Alice has spent the past decade trying to move on, but everything changes when Sue reappears in her life. Forced to work together, Alice doesn’t know how she feels seeing her mate again after all this time, but it’s getting harder and harder to stay away from the woman who stole her heart.
Time has done nothing to erase the pull between them, but can they forgive the pain of their past, or will they lose each other forever?
This omegaverse story has an 18+ warning and is intended for mature audiences. F/F
Jan. 18th, 2025: Pop For Me (Taffin Book 1) by Olyve Grey
A sapphic romance featuring a wrestler and one spicy bartender.
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