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  • Reaper's Wrath by Jamie Begley

    Reaper's Wrath by Jamie Begley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Have you ever wondered how soulmates fall in love after they meet? One touch was all it took to pierce through the hatred, the revenge, the payback that kept Reaper’s sanity in check...
  • Where One Goes by B.N. Toler

    Where One Goes by B.N. Toler

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    What happens when the very thing ruining your life ends up saving it? I was never one to believe in spirits—until six years ago, when a bone-chilling accident changed my life…forever. My name is Charlotte, but most people call me Char…and I have a special gift. I talk to the dead. Make no mistake, I can’t summon them...
  • Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant

    Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He takes care of other people's kids ... but he craves a family of his own.Enter a single mom waitress with a broken heart and a whole lot of trouble behind her.Army vet Dan is still figuring out how to deal with being a three-legged bear, but it turns out kids don’t care how many limbs he has as long as he’s willing to be a climbing frame...
  • Collision Course by Julie Trettel

    Collision Course by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There's little worse than your best friend finding out you're crushing on his baby sister.That was eight years ago. Baine lost everything, the girl, his clan, and his best friend. Smiles and jokes are his defense to cover the pain he still harbors. He hasn't been home since, but a mission to save his clan from a Raglan threat has him on a collision course to face his past...
  • Bear My Soul by T.S. Joyce

    Bear My Soul by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rory Dodson is done running. After one night of bliss with a man she never thought she’d see again, she’s in trouble with a young son who is housing one ferocious little bear cub inside of him. Desperate to keep her baby’s secret safe, she has nowhere to turn but to the man she was determined to keep in her past...
  • The Vixen and the Vet by Katy Regnery

    The Vixen and the Vet by Katy Regnery

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this modern-retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Savannah Carmichael, betrayed by an unreliable source, returns to her hometown of Danvers, Virginia with her once-promising journalism career in ruins...
  • Wild by Renee Rose, Vanessa Vale

    Wild by Renee Rose, Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Pack Rule #2: Always protect your mateI protected my country. Protected my platoon.Now all I wanted to protect was her.Too bad that wasn’t an option.I couldn’t fall for the beautiful slip of a female. The baby sister of my brother’s new mate.She was way too young. Way too human. Still in college. And too bright a force of nature.She had her whole life ahead of her...
  • Alpha's Vow by Renee Rose, Lee Savino

    Alpha's Vow by Renee Rose, Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The sweet human is pregnant with my pup. We had one night together and then she ghosted. Apparently, I'm not part of her "life plan."Whatever, baby. Plans change. She thinks I'm a player. That I won't stick around. She thinks I don't have what it takes to be a dad. That I won't drop everything and dedicate my life to our baby. To our family. To her. She's wrong...
  • Someone to Call My Own by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Someone to Call My Own by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Psychic Emory Jackson and former black ops specialist Jonathon Silver are men from two completely different worlds with one thing in common: heartbreak. Emory still mourns the loss of his husband five years prior, and Jon is reeling with grief from the recent death of his twin brother. Sparks fly when mutual friends introduce them, but it’s so much more than basic attraction...
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    angst  crime  family  military  steamy  suspense  war  action-adventure
  • How to Walk like a Man by Eli Easton

    How to Walk like a Man by Eli Easton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Deputy Roman Charsguard survived Afghanistan where he lost his best friend—his K-9 handler James. Roman was a military dog until two years ago when he developed the ability to shift into a human. It’s not easy to learn how to be a man. He found a place to live in Mad Creek, a haven for the secret world of dog shifters. Finding a reason to live has been harder...
    Categorized as:
    angst  crime  family  humor  military  suspense  war  action-adventure
  • Big Sexy Bear by Terry Bolryder

    Big Sexy Bear by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book 2 of the Soldier Bears series! In the mountains above Bearstone village, a legend will fight to protect his mate. Katrina is a woman on the run. For years, the evil men that destroyed her sister’s life have been on her trail. And now she’s lost, broken down, and without friends or resources in the middle of nowhere, outside of a tiny town called Bearstone Village...
  • Beta Wolf by Lucía Ashta

    Beta Wolf by Lucía Ashta

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A wolf that can’t be caged.Zasha is all in with her new family … her pack.The Smoky Mountain Pack’s alpha is missing and feared dead.There is no time to mourn. Only for vengeance.Zasha and Quannah have become close, maybe too close.The sensations running through her body are heightened in a new way.He is feeling it as well...
  • Promise Cove by Vickie McKeehan

    Promise Cove by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Librarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here.Sometimes, a promise kept can change your life.Reeling from the violent death of her husband in war-torn Iraq, Jordan Phillips is at her wit's end, left to fend for herself and her baby. Alone and desperate in backwater Pelican Pointe, she faces an uphill battle against a judgmental and hostile town as she tries to rebuild her life...
  • Hunter Moon by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes

    Hunter Moon by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The prodigal alpha returns from the navy to a whole new sea of trouble...Aspen Grove left his pack to ensure its future, and his own. After ten years in the navy, his father is dead, his brother is pack alpha, and he’s ready to return...
    Categorized as:
    family  military  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Stay With Me by Cynthia Eden

    Stay With Me by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shelly Hampton intends to spend the holidays alone in her family’s mountain cabin, but when a snow-covered stranger appears on her door-step, her plans are shot straight to hell. The man before her seems oddly familiar, and he stirs a dark need within her...
  • Outfoxed by Love by Eve Langlais

    Outfoxed by Love by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Don't moose with his fox!A bullheaded moose doesn't stand a chance when a fox decides to make him her mate.Boris left to defend his country still a boy. He came back a changed man. A damaged man.But Jan still wants him.A man of few words, Boris has a firm way of saying No, but this determined vixen knows he's her mate...
  • Daddy Bear by Harmony Raines

    Daddy Bear by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For bear shifter Jamie, the army was easy compared to taking on the duties of a daddy bear to two orphaned children. When his best friend dies in a car crash, Jamie is solely responsible for Jasper and Juliet. When he meets his mate, in the form of delectable Dani Darling, he is scared he will be torn between his love and duty toward the children, and his love and need for his mate...
  • Big Bad Bear by Terry Bolryder

    Big Bad Bear by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the mountains above Bearstone Village, a legend has found his mate. His name is Zeus, and for years he brought the thunder as an elite special forces squad leader and undercover bear shifter. Now that he’s out of the service and living quietly in the woods above a remote mountain town, he has just one mission left. Win over the heart of the curvy waitress that his bear knows is his mate...
  • Falling for the Omega by C.W. Gray

    Falling for the Omega by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Story takes place in the Omegaverse. Book One in the Hobson Hills Omegas series: Carter Benson is a lonely, scarred mess of an alpha. Honorably discharged from the army after being injured, he is left with very little that really matters. All he has is a Trust fund he refuses to touch, burns on his face, and a brand new prosthesis...
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    family  humor  military  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Kiss of Darkness by Jennifer St. Giles

    Kiss of Darkness by Jennifer St. Giles

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Werewolf warriors sworn to protect two worlds, the Shadowmen band with their human allies in a desperate battle against the forces of evil. But when one of the comrades is injured, it is to a mortal woman's healing magic they must turn.When Sheriff Sam Sheridan is wounded in an encounter with the malevolent Dr...
  • Running Out of Moonlight by April Kelley

    Running Out of Moonlight by April Kelley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They thought finding each other would heal them both, but life in Saint Lakes doesn't make it that simple.Sage Rickman is a snake shifter who changed the day vampire's kidnapped him and decided to use him as their plaything. Now that he's back in Saint Lakes he should feel safe, right? Hallucinations and the constant paranoia made daily life impossible at times...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  dark
  • Croc's Return by Eve Langlais

    Croc's Return by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Coming home doesn’t always solve things … but it does pave the way for second chances.Take one deadly bite and, bam, a man’s life is changed forever, or so Caleb discovers when a loss of control leads to him joining the military and leaving everything behind.Time goes by … years spent silent and alone, cut off from those he loves...
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