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  • The Blackstone She-Bear by Alicia Montgomery

    The Blackstone She-Bear by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Blackstone Mountain series continues with The Blackstone She-Bear Amelia Walker's heart and bear have been broken once. So, when her ex, polar bear shifter Mason Grimes, breezes back into town, she does her best to stay away from him. But neither can resist the pull of the mating call...
  • Nightfall by Terry Bolryder

    Nightfall by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sasha Harrington has horrible taste in men. After her latest fiasco, she has sworn of relationships. But when a handsome man with striking features and a body made of rock-hard muscle wanders into her library, asking for her help, she starts getting ideas again...
  • Miss Mated: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance by Milly Taiden

    Miss Mated: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kasey Sanchez can't believe she's done the unthinkable--slept with a shifter. Oh, but he was so hot and sexy and his tongue...wow! But if he finds out who she really is, he won’t want to see her again. Living a secret life is taking a big toll on her sex life. Brannon Wolfrik knows Kasey is his mate. It's only a matter of time before he wiggles his way into her heart with charm and great sex...
  • Fighting for Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Fighting for Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.There Are No Coincidences….Given a fairy tale life by the clan of dragon shifters that rescued her as a little girl, Emma Sinclair long ago accepted she might never solve the mystery of her heritage. Of course, that was before she could feel the traitor’s pain, before she knew he was slipping away...
  • Only for Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Only for Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There Are No Coincidences...The last bachelor in a Force of elite Dragon Guardsmen, Aaron O'Brien decided long ago that single was the only way to be. Mates and children and happily ever after were for his brethren. He alone has accepted the responsibility of stopping the traitor and restoring peace to his clan. Unfortunately, Fate didn't get the message. The Universe Does Not Make Mistakes..
  • A Twist of Fate by Alicia Montgomery

    A Twist of Fate by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Astrid Jonasson’s life has been a series of disappoints, both to her family and herself, which is why she’s chosen to stay clear of her Lycan clan. When a series of events forces her back into the center of the New York clan life, she bumps into an old childhood crush. Zac Vrost, son of the clan’s Beta, has always been out of reach for her...
  • Twisting Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Twisting Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Vaughn Carson vowed never to step foot in Bearclaw Castle again.The cursed place has brought his family nothing but pain for generations, so he doesn’t understand why his brother would want to restore it. Better to tear it stone from stone and hope the bitter memories crumble with the rubble...
  • Dark Side by Zenina Masters

    Dark Side by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Elly’s exposure as a half-fey was a shock to all around her. Her attempts to hide her ears and the change in her reality were foiled by class bullies. The next thing she knew she was being whisked away to a private school that catered exclusively to the half-breeds left behind by fey who travelled in the human world...
  • Badass Bear by Bianca D'Arc

    Badass Bear by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beth is depressed. Her people are safe in Grizzly Cove, but she feels as if she’s losing all her friends as they pair off two-by-two with their bear shifter mates. She’s only just found freedom by running away from her oppressive home. It’s not fair that she’s losing her new family too...
  • Bitten By The Alpha Boss by Skye Wilson

    Bitten By The Alpha Boss by Skye Wilson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My new boss thinks he owns me. I can’t decide if I hate him. Or if I want to kiss him...I’ll do whatever it takes to impress my super smart, serious boss. Thanks to my secret crush, I’ve moved cities and given up everything to become part of Jacobian’s pack.Shifters from his pack are being hunted down and I've been brought into his elite tech team...
  • Bobcat by Bianca D'Arc

    Bobcat by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can Bob Redstone help a shifter woman hiding from her past, face the demons that shadowed her youth, or will they both fall while trying to prevent disaster?On a mission far from home, he finds a sweet vulnerable lady...Bob is a cougar shifter, one of the elite Redstone Alphas. On a mission for his Clan, he meets a fragile young woman, and finds himself drawn to her as never before...
  • The Girl Nest Door by Zoe Chant

    The Girl Nest Door by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tiger shifter and businessman, Shaun always wanted to spend more time with the child his ex-wife took away from him -- but he wasn't expecting her to abandon five-year old Trevor and force Shaun to move to the tiny town of Green Valley. It’s bad enough that Shaun doesn’t know the first thing about being a father -- now suddenly he’s the father of an unpredictable shifter child...
  • A Tiger's Treasure by Terry Bolryder

    A Tiger's Treasure by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This tiger detective is about to discover the greatest treasure of all… Carter Cunningham is all about duty. As a detective for the city where he and his brothers live, he has dedicated his life to protecting both humans and shifters alike in need of help, and tracking down the killers that would do them harm...
  • Tears For Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Tears For Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Escaped from hell on earth, lost and alone, a wail in the night calls to not only his beast but also his heart. Finding this tortured woman is all that matters. On the run, hiding in plain sight, the icy fingers of doom invade her soul. The pull of the world she fled tears at the fiber of her being...
  • For the Love of Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    For the Love of Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Kyra St. Croix is a strong, feisty, independent woman who is not afraid to tell speak her mind. An incredibly powerful white witch born of the High Priestess and a human father, she hasn’t let a little thing like lack of height stop her from having the life she knows she deserves...
  • Caging Ash by Novalee Swan

    Caging Ash by Novalee Swan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "You can't come in here. It's breaking and entering. You're the law."CAGE DELGADO is the law in Shifter Town. He's a hard alpha lion who's not afraid to lay it on the line to protect his town, or the woman he secretly adores.ASHLEY AMES is a sweet-tempered lioness who works admin in the local law enforcement offices, and secretly fantasises about the town's sexy sheriff...
  • Frappé Fox by Ellis Leigh

    Frappé Fox by Ellis Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A town cannot live on baked goods alone, and a teacher won’t find their mate in a book. Welcome to the Kinship Cove Diner, where a good cup of coffee comes with every fated mating. ***It sucks to be invisible. In the diner my family owns, I’m just the sister who gets stuff done. My entire skulk seems to forget about me on a weekly basis...
  • La Patron's Christmas by Sydney Addae

    La Patron's Christmas by Sydney Addae

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s Christmas time at the compound and Jasmine, mate of Silas Knight and Alpha Bitch in the nation, has decided it’s time for the kids to learn about the holiday. Plans are underway for a huge carnival full of games, music and family fun. It’s not until an unexpected guest arrives that Jasmine realizes she and Silas have missed critical elements in their children’s education...
  • Feathers, Fur and Fey by Zenina Masters

    Feathers, Fur and Fey by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maki has lived and tried to love, over and over again. As a griffin, she is privy to the memories of all the griffins who have come before. Every moment of their lives until they died in defense of others. The story is always the same. When she is called back to the Crossroads for the third time, she has only a flicker of hope that this will be the charm...
  • Snapdragon Way by T.L. Haddix

    Snapdragon Way by T.L. Haddix

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Eight in the Firefly Hollow Series. When Eli Campbell is discharged after an accident ends his career in the Army, he isn't sure what kind of homecoming to expect. Shoot, he's not even sure what kind of homecoming he deserves. He did a lot of stupid things as a teenager, and he made a lot of rash decisions that hurt several people...
  • Stardust Valley by T.L. Haddix

    Stardust Valley by T.L. Haddix

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Nine in the Firefly Hollow Series. This is Noah's story. He loves Sophie, has since he was a seventeen-year-old kid, but thanks to a manipulative troublemaker and because he's a stubborn Campbell man (or so his female relatives keep telling him), it takes him a while to figure his feelings out and do something about them. Like more than ten years...
  • Phoenix and the Wolf by Bianca D'Arc

    Phoenix and the Wolf by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Diana doesn’t understand what’s happening to her. She feels drawn to the sun and dreams of flying under her own power, but her commitments in the real world—and the grandmother who depends on her—keep her grounded. Then her car breaks down in front of a high-end repair yard and she meets a man who makes her want to forget all her responsibilities and take a walk on the wild side...with him...
  • Taming the Wild Cougar by Terry Spear

    Taming the Wild Cougar by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cougar shifter, Dr. Kate Parker, is planning her annual camping vacation alone this year. She runs into trouble before she even starts her trip in the form of one wounded, hot cougar, undercover cop—or so he says...
  • Force by Kathi S. Barton

    Force by Kathi S. Barton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Myles ends up at the hotel to meet with the missing woman’s sister only to find her holding a gun to the head of a vamp. The woman has one of the smartest mouths he’s ever heard, not to mention, tasty as hell. Chris Collier only wants to find her sister, Millie, settle her up with whatever she needs to get her out of her life...
  • Spring Fever: Shifters in Love by Lia Davis, Milly Taiden

    Spring Fever: Shifters in Love by Lia Davis, Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thaw winter's chill with FIVE brand new stories about SEXY, alpha male shifters with spring fever from FIVE of today's hottest paranormal authors.Match Made in Hell (A BBW paranormal romance) by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Milly Taiden When quiet Laura Nieves is tossed together with hot as hell warrior Damien Wrath, eternity heats up really fast...
  • Blue Skies on Fire by Zenina Masters

    Blue Skies on Fire by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Teebie has spent the last few years making her guests happy and easing them into the life of newly mated couples. Things have been a little more involved with the arrival of the fey, but the basic dance was the same. Keep them fed, keep them happy and nudge them in the right direction. Andor has lived his five centuries pursuing his own happiness, but his mother puts her foot down...
  • Her Vampire Knight by Ines Johnson

    Her Vampire Knight by Ines Johnson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This little panther shifter thinks she’s captured me. Me; one of the most feared vampires in history.She thinks I'm the key to an age old prophecy; one where we join forces and unite to create new life. But that's impossible for a man who's been dead for centuries. With her every touch she makes me crave life.The problem is, the more we fight, the more the beast below stirs, ready to claim her...
  • Bearliest Catch by Bianca D'Arc

    Bearliest Catch by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A woman of mystery…Jetty is a huntress of the deep ocean who finds herself fascinated by a man—a shifter—who sets anchor in her realm day after day. She is obliged to watch him, not fully understanding the fascination the handsome stranger compels within her battered heart.A man with hidden scars…Recovery from major injury isn’t easy...
  • FireStarter by Elle Boon

    FireStarter by Elle Boon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Keanu uses his powers as a Fire Elemental to fight the fiercest forest fires. He lives his life dangerously as a Smokejumper knowing his abilities can save lives where others can’t. Called home to investigate threats, he finds a woman who calls to his soul. He has no clue that the biggest blaze he would ever fight, would be the one that Cammie Masters stirs in him...
  • The Luck of the Shifters (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc

    The Luck of the Shifters (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seamus O’Leary was abducted from his home in Australia and imprisoned for months in the Pacific Northwest. He arrived in Grizzly Cove with his spirit broken from being forced to stay in his animal form for months. Human again, and unable to shift without the crutch of alcohol, he is trying his best just to get through each day…until a chance meeting changes his life forever...
  • Cougar's Gift by Moxie North

    Cougar's Gift by Moxie North

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Cougar's Gift" is the third book Pacific Northwest Cougars series.Communicating with others didn’t require the use of a lot of words in Stryker’s mind. He was a man and a cougar…what more needed to be explained. But when the fates give you a mate that needs to be talked into forever a cougar needs to man up and start talking...
  • Sassy in Diapers by Milly Taiden

    Sassy in Diapers by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is a SHORT. This is NOT a standalone full length story. It is intended to be read in order after you read the previous books. Time to revisit Karla and Nate. Karla Wolfe is scared. Motherhood is coming much faster than she can accept. The last thing she wants is to be a replica of her own mother. Nate Wolfe loves his mate unconditionally...
  • Bear With Me by Zoe Chant

    Bear With Me by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A lonely bear shifter + a workaholic conservationist + a sudden storm = one wet and wild mountain adventure Jamie Sullivan doesn’t have time for a relationship – and she definitely doesn’t have time to disentangle herself from the one-night stand she somehow fell into at her best friend’s wedding. She’s tried the dating game before, and it never works out...
  • Half a Dose of Fury by Zenina Masters

    Half a Dose of Fury by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Saving shifters has been her life, but locking eyes with a fey in a crowded room wakes her beast in all the best ways.Yval has been living to save other shifters from the clutches of the fey. She has had her body modified to make her job easier, but the magic used cut her off from her beast...
  • Hawking a Future by Zenina Masters

    Hawking a Future by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two beasts that won’t show their faces in one body built entirely of curves, Hayley is ambushed to the Crossroads where she meets the elf she never dreamed of.Being a shifter that doesn’t shift has left Hayley living a nice, normal human life...
  • Lost Roar by Zenina Masters

    Lost Roar by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Robbed of her roar, Nicia doesn’t want a lion. She goes to the Crossroads and has a wolf follow her home. No red hood required.Nicia was at the fundamental lion compound and rescued from a life as guard beast for her family.Her mother’s family takes her in and helps her recover from the years of abuse...
  • Wild Need by Donna Grant

    Wild Need by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this third thrilling story in the Chiasson series, New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant delivers a fiery tale about a man who embraces his heritage and a woman trying to escape evil.STALKED BY DEATH…Davena Arcineaux would like nothing more than to put her past of tragedy and magic behind her and stop running. Maybe even find a great guy to share her life with and start a family...
  • Wood Be Magic by Zenina Masters

    Wood Be Magic by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A long-standing crush turns into a possibility when a mage embraces her chance at balance.Melwiss has used every opportunity to get Andy over to her house for repairs and renovations. She has also used each chance to get him to take his shirt off. She might be consigned to the single life by the mages, but she can still look...
  • Roar of Magic by Zenina Masters

    Roar of Magic by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Anessa is self-sufficient, bright, reasonably attractive and works at a spell-supply shop. She negotiates with shifters for their saleable goods and sells those same parts to mages on a daily basis. When a fey walks in to purchase some fur, she finds out that touching him will send a shock through her hand. One year later, he returns with startling information for her...
  • Poisoned Pen by Zenina Masters

    Poisoned Pen by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A swan shifter suffering from ambush matchmaking attempt meets a quiet snake with an eye toward her articulations.Ivy has dodged matchmaking for five years, but when her family bundles her off to the Crossroads, she hastily concocts a plan to stay away from males for the entire month...
  • Big Flight by Zenina Masters

    Big Flight by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Molly has lived as a king vulture amongst condors. Her family considers her animal a profound disappointment and has ignored her until she finally decides that she has a right to a life and she wants it.When she is at the Crossroads, she notices the man sent to reclaim her, and while she knows he is in charge of her clan, she isn’t quite sure what he is...
  • Christmas Goose by Zenina Masters

    Christmas Goose by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A goose escapes from her family and seeks out a mate then changes her mind and tries to back out of the Crossroads. He has other ideas. Tyla is a golden goose, creature of myth and legend. She gets a card in the mail and calls a transporter to get her out of her gilded cage and to the Crossroads.Tyla has no experience with men, strangers, bright lights or loud noises...
  • Bear 'N Dirty by Vella Day

    Bear 'N Dirty by Vella Day

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jett Anderson would take banishment from her bear clan any day of the week over an arranged marriage. Hell, the whole clan could come after her for all she cared, which was why when she crossed the Canadian border into the US she didn’t even glance back. Her luck runs out in Deals Gap, North Carolina, however, when her car breaks down...
  • Brock by Kathi S. Barton

    Brock by Kathi S. Barton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emma Cole has had a rough life. She’s a deaf mute on the run from her family. Rayne Golden’s flower shop is as good a place as any to blend into the background and remain anonymous. In her silent world she has no friends and wants to keep it that way. She especially doesn’t want the attention of the huge handsome man claiming to be her mate. Brock Golden is a Weretiger and the streak’s enforcer...
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  • Catching Her Bear by Vella Day

    Catching Her Bear by Vella Day

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kalan Murdoch, the sexiest cop in town, has a reoccurring lead role in curvaceous, flower shop owner, Elana Stanley's, nightly dreams and fantasies, but Elana has never had the courage to approach him.But when tragedy strikes and Kalan's assigned to protect her at all costs, Kalan realizes that his days of sampling all the eligible women in town are over...
  • Misenchanted Shifter by Zenina Masters

    Misenchanted Shifter by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fey enchantment has marked her life until she finds the truth about herself and locates love in the strangest of ways.Eileen has always known she couldn’t control her shifts. She also knows that it is not normal to shift into hundreds of different animals.When she is declared close to her heat, she is ordered to the Crossroads and her payment for the transport causes a stir...
  • Bearing Secrets by Marissa Dobson

    Bearing Secrets by Marissa Dobson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ivy Carter’s life changed in a blink of an eye. An attack on the compound she considered her home destroyed those she considered family and the life she thought she had. With her brother and the Alpha of the clan missing, she’s left on her own until the Alaskan Tigers come to her rescue and whisk her off to safety...
  • Ocelot of Trouble by Zenina Masters

    Ocelot of Trouble by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mina is cursed, Robar is a playboy, the Crossroads brings them together to break old magic and make a new start.Mina is a walking disaster. Any man who dates her ends up with some minor or major trouble in his life, body or vehicle. Her community bands together to send her to the Crossroads in an effort to find her a mate far away from the human world...
  • Hunter by D.J. Bryce, D.J. Bryce

    Hunter by D.J. Bryce, D.J. Bryce

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was only supposed to be one night. Independence Capri is a businesswoman first, but her father's daughter second. Her co-workers see her as just the boss's daughter, so she works extra hard scouting locations and figuring out new ways to market Outdoor Bound, her father's real baby...
  • Batty for You by Zenina Masters

    Batty for You by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The wrong kind of bat in the right place at the right time; she meets a fox who sends her completely batty.Bets has been debating making the move to the Crossroads, but the night she met a fox who was out of her league, she made up her mind. Time to stop pining and go on the hunt. Too bad the only thing she ever hunted was an apple...
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