Books like The Warlord by Gena Showalter

Ashlyn Darrow in Budapest seeks help from supernatural men—especially the dangerous Maddox—but their instant hunger leads to a passionate love that could destroy them both.

Sterren, the ninth hereditary Warlord of the tiny kingdom Semma, is whisked from the Spice trade city Ethshar to an obscure southern realm, where he must confront looming invasions, a dire war, and hidden magical secrets.

Beneath the shimmering, sunlit surface of the ocean there lives a race of rare and wondrous men and women. They have walked upon the land, but their true heritage is as beings of the sea. Now their people face a grave peril. And one woman holds the key to their survival... SHE WAS A SULTRY SIREN WITH AN UNDISCOVERED HERITAGE A scholar of sea lore, Meredith had come to the Greek island to follow her academic pursuits. But in one magical meeting she gazed into the mesmerizing blue eyes of a proud, determined warrior of the sea...and was eternally linked with a world far more elusive and mysteriously seductive than her own. For she alone possessed a scroll that held the secrets of his people. She alone was their only hope. And she alone would surrender to the powers of a love destined by the tides. HE WAS AN AZURE-EYED WARRIOR OF A LONG-FORGOTTEN RACE With eyes that told the stories of eternity, Galen lured this exquisite woman to join him in a battle for power beneath the sea. For now Galen's clan faces two enemies: Anastas, who wars against his own people, and a deadly unseen foe. He will cross into Meredith's world to choose her as a bold warrior for his people--and as his only love. He will share with her the secrets of a realm beyond time and imagining, and together they will emerge victorious as the keepers of its fate...or see its fragile beauty destroyed forever. Merfolk Trilogy: Across a Wine-Dark Sea (Merfolk Trilogy, #1) Dawn on a Jade Sea (Merfolk Trilogy, #2) Beneath a Sapphire Sea (Merfolk Trilogy, #3)

Tess of Remmington Castle seeks peace, but her return brings a perilous bargain with Kenric of Montague, England’s fiercest warlord, and tests her loyalty, love, and courage.

An investigative reporter, Jane Colby, discovers a time‑traveling killer with a centuries‑old grudge, and only she and genetically engineered warrior Baran can stop him. A companion novella, "Warfem," follows seductive Alina and dynamic Warlord Baird.

In New Orleans, a fortune-teller’s ominous warning spirals into a deadly hunt for vampires as lovers clash, danger lurks, and the city’s uneasy truce with the undead hangs in the balance.