Paranormal Romance

Paranormal romance blends the real with the fantastic or science fictional. The fantastic elements may be woven into an alternate version of our own world in an urban fantasy involving vampires, demons, and/or werewolves, or they may be more “normal” manifestations of the paranormal—humans with psychic abilities, witches, or ghosts. Time travel, futuristic, and extraterrestrial romances also fall beneath the paranormal umbrella.

These novels often blend elements of other subgenres—including suspense, mystery, or chick lit—with their fantastic themes. A few paranormals are set solely in the past and are structured much like any historical romance novel. Others are set in the future, sometimes on different worlds. Still others have a time-travel element with either the hero or the heroine traveling into the past or the future.

Many paranormal romances rely on the blend of contemporary American life with the existence of supernatural or magically empowered beings, human or otherwise; sometimes the larger culture is aware of the magical in its midst, sometimes it is not. Some paranormal romances focus less on the specifics of their alternative worlds than do traditional science fiction or fantasy novels, keeping the attention strongly on the underlying romance. Others develop the alternate reality meticulously, combining well-planned magical systems and inhuman cultures with contemporary reality.

4.0
17 Apr

Review: Alice’s Alphas by Ann Gimpel

Paranormal Romance

One virgin + three wolf shifters = e-reader ecstasy.

5.0
14 Apr

Review: Bring Me to Ruin by Tess Rider

Dystopian

“You and he are fated to love. Nothing in this universe can stand between that kind of attraction. It crosses time, space and everything else in between… Love is a force of nature.”

4.0
12 Apr

Release Blitz / Review / Giveaway: Demetrius by Marie Johnston

Excerpts

As if overthrowing the vampire government and helping implement a new council to make vampires, shifters, and hybrids play nice wasn’t enough, Demetrius Devereux finds a bigger problem to deal with in an innocent, stubborn, and privileged beauty. In DEMETRIUS by Marie Johnston, a sinfully sexy alpha finds his match in a fiery female vampire, and the sparks fly from the first moment they meet.

4.0
09 Apr

Review: Sunstone’s Fire by Lia Davis

Novella

Hesitant witch and inn owner, Haylee Clark is cursed. Well, not her exactly—at least not yet—but all of the women in her family have suffered the same fate. They fell in love, only to have that passion turn sour and their husbands die tragically, leaving them brokenhearted. So far, Haylee has done well to avoid that destiny, but when the captivating Nate Wilson crashes into her life. A fatal kiss, forbidden love—cursed in stone.

4.3
07 Apr

Reviews: Moonbound 6-8 by Krystal Shannan & Camryn Rhys

Novella

A spinoff of the VonBrandt Wolves from the Somewhere, TX series, the Moonbound series will draw you into the hunt for a madman determined to single-handedly breed his own army. Along the way, his hunters will fall one by one to the magic of the mating bond. Books 6-8 round out and bring an end to the series.

5.0
28 Mar

Review: Underground Heat: Paranormal Romance Boxed Set by Ann Gimpel

Bundle

Shifters keep their friends close and their enemies closer in a shadowy world where the line between hunter and hunted thins, blurs, and finally shatters.
Boxed set contains the complete Underground Heat Series. Three shifter, paranormal romance books. Three HEAs (happy ever after endings). No cliffhangers.

5.0
25 Mar

Release Blitz / Review: A Mate’s Redeeming Touch by Merryn Dexter

Excerpts

A chance encounter between Ven and Caitlyn reveals they are mates, something that neither of them is happy about! He’s mean and angry; she’s timid and shy. Can two such opposites find common ground?

5.0
22 Mar

Review: Claiming His Prize by Ellis Leigh

Paranormal Romance

When another dragon claims Jane as his mate, Piers will have to fight to the death to save her from a fate she didn’t choose. But the biggest obstacle in his way isn’t the fire-breathing dragon set on claiming what isn’t his, but the doctor herself who might choose duty over everything else. Maybe even him. Scales will fly, hisses will sound, and dragons will take to the sky, but only one will end up with the ultimate prize: love.

4.0
19 Mar

Review: Act of Command by Mandy M. Roth

Novella

As a lion shifter, he’s no stranger to fighting his primal instincts. He’s had them well in hand for most of his immortally long life—that is, until he catches a scent that sets his body on fire. The scent of his mate. Fate—and her own supernatural hormones—won’t be denied, and she finds she can’t control the desire burning through her. The only problem is, her fantasy man, the very man who came to rescue her, is now a prisoner too.

4.0
16 Mar

Blog Tour / Review: Wolf on Wheels by Layne Macadam

Author Spotlights

Wolf Shifter Caleb Grayson’s opinion of humans is lower than a rattlesnake’s belly, that is, until Lara Walker comes into his life. But can the pretty veterinarian, with her marmalade curls and flashing green eyes, be trusted with his secret? When the decision to reveal all is snatched out of his hands the revelation, not only turns her world inside out but it has far-reaching repercussions neither could have imagined.

4.0
14 Mar

Blog Tour / Review / Giveaway: Rulers of Darkness Boxed Set by Amanda J. Greene

Author Spotlights

Read 3 sizzling, dark, paranormal romance novels and fall in love with the Rulers of Darkness.
Passion can be lethal…

4.5
12 Mar

Reviews: Stygian & Tyrant by Nashoda Rose

Paranormal Romance

For some Scars, it’s the story of healing and redemption, for others it’s the beginning of a tortured existence. Which will it be for these two couples?
A band of fierce warriors walk in the shadows of the human world with capabilities derived from the senses: Trackers, Sounders, Healers, Tasters, Visionaries and the rare Reflectors. They are known as the ‘Scars.

11 Mar

Blog Tour: Tyrant by Nashoda Rose

Author Spotlights

For some Scars, it’s the story of healing and redemption, for others it’s the beginning of a tortured existence. Which will it be for Kilter and Rayne?
A band of fierce warriors walk in the shadows of the human world with capabilities derived from the senses: Trackers, Sounders, Healers, Tasters, Visionaries and the rare Reflectors. They are known as the ‘Scars.

4.0
01 Mar

Review: Wickedly Ever After & Wickedly Powerful by Deborah Blake

Novella

What impossible tasks will the queen set the Baba Yaga, Barbara to ensure he ages along with her? Find out in Wickedly Ever After… When Baba Yaga, Bella is tasked with discovering who’s setting magical fires, she finds herself working closely with former hotshots firefighter Sam Corbett—and falling hard for his quiet strength and charm in Wickedly Powerful.

4.0
01 Mar

Review: My Tempting Highlander by Maeve Greyson

Paranormal Romance

A sensual novel featuring a wolf-shifting chieftain who travels centuries to modern-day Scotland to tame his one and only.