Before The Harem Anthology

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Dive into tales of paranormal and fantasy worlds. From gods to shifters, genies to mysterious plots, there's something for everyone in these nine prequels to reverse harem series.

Includes stories from:

Skye MacKinnon - Mother Of Gods

“I’ve been alive for less than a year, but it's been nothing but trouble. I was born to be someone I'm not, created by a lonely Goddess in the image of a random man she met at a party. No wonder it didn't work out. What I have to decide now is how I want to spend the last few days of my life."
Beira, the Mother of Gods and Queen of Winter, has grown tired and lonely. After millennia of living on her own, she decides that it's time to create the perfect lover. But while Colan might look like the man of her dreams, he's not falling in love with her as she'd planned. Can she change his mind or has it all been for nothing?

The prequel to the bestselling Daughter Of Winter series.

Laura Greenwood - Snakes And Ladders

Nathair was never meant to be a shifter, but thanks to his adopted father, he is.
The last thing dryad, Autumn, wants is to get married, but her father has other ideas, and when he sets a challenge to find her a suitor…it’s up to Nathair to save her from it…
…or is it?

Kim Faulks - Redemption

In the darkest moment of my life there was a burning spark. I was bleeding on the inside, my physicals scars all but healed.
I was now an outcast. Now a loner. With a bounty on his head.
The Unseelie Warlord who did the unthinkable… betray his Queen.
Now I’m hiding in the mortal realm…
Until a woman seizes my gaze. Her smile is Hellfire. Her lips will be my undoing. Lorn, she whispers her name and it burns through my veins.
Only I can feel my Queen coming… her rage fills my head.
She’ll take my life…
She’ll take Lorn’s.
Only I know a secret. One that sate my Queen. One that can save us all.
Only Lorn doesn’t know yet. She doesn’t know who she truly is. And I need to tell her.

R. A. Steffan - The Lion Mistress

All Favian wants is a quiet life serving the gods.
Well, that - and maybe finding the kind of companionship society had always claimed he shouldn't have, as a man who desires other men.
The last thing he needs is to be constantly teased and flustered by a scruffy, itinerant lion-shifter. Especially one who’s so blasted infuriating.
But when Favian’s little sister goes missing from their village in the dead of night, he’ll finally discover Ithric's true colours - and quite possibly, his own.
What a pity he and Ithric can't even seem to hold a simple conversation without it devolving into a pitched battle.
Author’s Note: The Lion Mistress: Book 0 contains explicit M/M sex and no HEA. These two idiots will need a strong female character to bang their heads together before they manage to get their shit sorted out.

Lacey Carter Andersen - An Angel And Her Demons
What would make an angel fall in love with three demons?
When Surcy fell for Mark, Tristan, and Daniel, it wasn’t one powerful moment that changed everything for her. In fact, it was a hundred small moments of kindness and beauty that won her heart.
But this is just the beginning of that tale. When they first met.

An Angel And Her Demons is a short prequel to the Mates Of The Realms; Immortals’ series. It’s a paranormal reverse harem involving an angel and her three demons. It’s filled with magic, action, humour, and the occasional naked demon.

May Dawson - Dreamstalker

The weirdest thing about my life isn’t slaying geists or vamps.
It’s not even being fated to do one job for the rest of my life, saving an ungrateful humanity from the dark things that stalk the night. It’s not having a shard of an angel’s soul - although with the way I roll, it must be a pretty small sliver.
The weirdest thing is knowing that there’s only one girl out there that I’m meant to love, and I don’t even know if she’ll laugh at my jokes.

Keira Blackwood & Liza Street - Dragon Forgotten

I used to be a soldier - but now I have no future.
Fighting for my country used to give me purpose. After my tour of duty ends, so does that sense of fulfilment.
I’m lost until the dreams start - dreams of the life I truly desire. In the night, I’m treated to visions of a beautiful woman who I share with two other men. These fantasies feel more real than my waking life. I’m completely captivated, utterly in love with a woman I’ve never met.
There is hope for my future, now - all I have to do is claim her.

Dragon Forgotten is a short story prequel to the Spellbound Souls reverse harem trilogy featuring one strong female dragon shifter and the three hot-as-sin male dragon shifters who win a place in her company... and in her bed.

Brandi Bell & Sarah Louise - Beginnings

Sachi is a djinn who has been hiding her magic her entire life. The King ruling her country is a vile and evil man whose penchant for killing his new brides is widely known. Someone betrays her family, so now she is the one staring down the executioners block as the King’s new wife. Will her magic save her? Or leave her spinning a new tale in the afterlife?

Erica Andrews - The Broken Robin

The red hair I got from my mother.
The revenge I wanted, I would take.
Humiliated and beaten, I watched as the self-imposed King took everything away from me.
With nothing to do and nowhere to go, I sat in my cell, planning my revenge.
Swearing that anyone who crossed me, would remember my name.
Robin.