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Daughter of the Dragon by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat's a girl to do when her heart gets broken? Fly halfway across the world, and hope digging for mummies will help her forget. At least that's what Deedee Creed does. But then a fierce sand storm sweeps her up and sends her straight into the bed of a hot prince... -
Dragon Typhoon by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA dragon shifter series set in the same world as the bestselling Bride Hunt books.Typhoon doesn’t have a mate. It’s not for lack of trying, or interest. He just hasn’t found the right person yet. He’s pretty sure that it will happen in good time. The problem he faces is that he is desperate to have a baby. It’s all he can think about. He’s seen his friends pair up and have whelps...Categorized as:
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Unicorn Marshal by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf he’s her fated mate, fate’s made a huge mistake.In the elegant but oppressive unicorn village of Purity, only the best and brightest unicorns are allowed to get married. Iris never expected to be one of them... especially after showing her true self ended in a disaster that left her forever unable to smile. Literally... -
The Blackstone Wolf by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Blackstone Mountain series continues with wolf shifter Nathan Caldwell... -
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The Blackstone Lion by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLuke Lennox knows he doesn’t deserve happiness. After tearing his family apart, he’s been punishing himself by living a solitary life. But when he sees Georgina Mills, the animal inside him knows: she’s his mate. His lonely heart yearns for her, but he knows that it could only end up badly for them both... -
Dig Deeper by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMorgan Holland is a poacher’s daughter looking for a way out of the swamp. She’s been making secret moves to relocate, but it seems like every time she takes a step forward, she gets shoved two steps back. Her dad and friends are on the hunt for the Shifters, and they’re closing in fast. She doesn’t know Liam Lachlan, but he’s in danger, and she’ll take a huge risk to warn him... -
Doggy Defender Bear by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe wants a mate. She needs a doggy defender! Loving and affectionate. It’s a pity Jane is talking about Boomer, an adorable dog, and not Guy’s adorable bear. Don’t tell Guy’s bear he called him adorable or there might be trouble Or more trouble, since Guy is being hired to protect Boomer from an attempted dognapping... -
Claiming the Alpha by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAdrianna Anderson’s rise to Alpha wasn’t going to be easy. The mages are back and have made it their mission to destroy her and every last Lycan on earth. To make matters worse, a notorious shifter crime organization, The Family, has been building an empire in her territory. When their leader agrees to a truce and offers his fiercest enforcer to keep her safe, she can’t help but feel suspicious... -
The Blackstone Bad Dragon by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Blackstone Bad Dragon is Book 2 of Alicia Montgomery's latest series Blackstone Mountain and features sexy dragon Jason Lennox as he tries to fight his attraction to his fated mate.Jason didn’t want a mate.But the moment his dragon sees her, it knew.She was the one.The problem?She hates him.Christina came back to Blackstone for her sister’s wedding.That’s all...Categorized as:
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A Highlander's Return by A.K. Michaels
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrant, Alpha of the Pack in the Highlands, returns home triumphantly with his special mate by his side. Blessed by the Goddess herself, as their two hearts beat as one. Anxious to show her off to his Pack he cannot foresee what is about to unfold. Not everyone within the Pack is happy to see his return and even less pleased that he brings back an American as Alpha She-Wolf... -
Cursed Fae by Brogan Thomas, Poppy Royana
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s got green skin, twisted tusks, and a ferocious love of canned pineapple. And her high-stakes day job just landed her a do-or-die mission… Pepper Sterling relies on her gifts to hide and stay safe. Born with the ability to manipulate stone with ease and disappear at will, the young troll left her unwelcoming clan and found work running messages between Earth and Faerie...Categorized as:
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Taught by the Dragon by Jessie Donovan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dragonwoman who doesn’t know how to shift, a single dad struggling after an injury, and a student/teacher relationship that turns into something more… After spending seven years as a prisoner inside an illegal dragon research facility, Persephone “Percy” Smith is rescued by Clan Stonefire and taken back to their land... -
Alpha Reid: six-pack series book five by C.J. Primer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSIX-PACK SERIES BOOK FIVE* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading books 1 - 4 (Alpha Gray, Alpha Theo, Alpha Jax, and Alpha Brock) for context before starting in on this one. I’ve always exercised complete control in all things. When it comes to my pack, I’m in control as its Alpha. In everyday life, I follow a schedule and value structure and discipline... -
A Twist of Fate by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAstrid 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... -
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Walker by Leia Stone
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWith humans and werewolves on the brink of war, Anya finds herself right in the middle. When she has a terrifying vision, which her Shaman mentor says will come to pass, she stops at nothing to try and save everyone. Armed with new responsibilities, Anya is stalked by the Skin Walker who wants nothing more than to see her dead... -
Bewitched Avenue Shuffle by T.R. Cameron, Martha Carr
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMore magic, more problems, more chances to get it right. Cali and her bonded dragon-lizard Fyre are stuck fighting members of a gang from Atlantis.Her parents left behind mysteries that could change her destiny.But figuring out what they mean is downright irritating. A win just means another battle. A loss could be deadly...Categorized as:
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Malakai by Faith Gibson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe's a larger than life MMA fighter. She's a quiet paralegal. The world they live in is under attack. Will they survive long enough to get their HEA?Malakai Palamo is the seventh son of a seventh son. He left his Samoan island home in search of his mate. Almost one hundred years later, he faintly catches her scent. Kai doesn’t give up until he finds her... -
Howling Devotion: A Cursed Romance by R. O'Leary
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDesperate for a shot at claiming his mate, Beau will do anything to get the stubborn owl to give him a chance...even if he has to hijack her investigation.Alice has always prided herself on being an asset to her shifter clan -- that is, until she messed up so badly her Alpha won't even look her in the eye... -
Alpha Bound by Sloane Murphy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI used to want nothing more than to escape my destiny.Except escaping wasn’t an option. The fates are a cruel mistress, and running got me nowhere.Rejected. Tormented. Betrayed.With my world under attack from someone I considered family and the one person I thought hated me most standing by me, my entire world is upside down.The pain of rejection was nothing compared to the pain of betrayal...Categorized as:
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Rebel Unicorn by Brogan Thomas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer heart is broken, and her wrath is boiling over. Will she atone for her violence or fall to darkness? Tru Dennison is tired of being judged a freak. Sick of monstrous villains wreaking havoc and mayhem on her city, the half-unicorn, half-vampire shifter channels her energy into an undercover role as a black-ops assassin...Categorized as:
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Seducing the Dragon: Part 2 by Jessie Donovan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPART TWO Evie Marshall discovers she has three days to convince Bram to trust her or he won’t take her as his mate. Unable to forget their steamy kiss, she’s determined to prove her usefulness not only for her safety, but also for another chance to kiss the sexy dragonman and become part of his clan. Bram’s dragon wants Evie, but refuses to say why... -
Rumpled Bear Skin by Sable Sylvan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA BBW Bear Shifter Billionaire Paranormal Romance NovellaCurvy public relations intern Artemis Miller can spin anything into gold, but can she save the Asher Lumber Company’s image? With a little help from billionaire bear Jasper Dixon, anything is possible. The last thing that Artemis Miller wants is to get burned by thehandsome shifter she’s been paired with by their boss... -
Hidden Dragon by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe’s been hidden away for centuries. Now he intends to claim her heart. Finally, she’s here. He can feel her, she stirs his blood, stirs him into consciousness. His time is in the past, but his mate is in the present and together they will build their future. Doran can’t remember anything about his past, it’s lost, his memories blocked... -
Survivor Bear by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA shifter mating bond can survive anything. Can't it? When bear shifter bodyguard Linda gets on a small plane with her best friend she has no idea how her life is about to change. Especially when her mate climbs on board too. But what should be a happy event soon ends in disaster when the pilot bails on them and the plane crashes into the side of a mountain... -
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Her Choice To Bear by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMae is a bear shifter, although she doesn’t really know what that means, because she has been raised by her non-shifter gran since the death of her parents. Determined to find her mate, she signs up to Fated and Mated, but gets no reply from the man she knows is her mate. Only when she checks the profile, does she find something is wrong... -
Alpha's Redemption by Skye Wilson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey’ll fight to be together, but secrets could tear them apart…Luna always knew that falling for Remus, the alpha from the rival clan, was risky. Now Remus has been betrayed by those he trusts, and Luna’s pack has given her an ultimatum—stay away from Remus or be banished forever.Those closest to Remus will go to any lengths to make him to forget about Luna so he can find his true mate... -
Claiming the Pack by Lindsey Devin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe must unite our rival packs. Our child’s future depends on it…If only falling for Night, the alpha of our rival pack, was the least of my problems.Now Troy, the fallen alpha of my old pack, has escaped from prison, and Night wants to hunt down.If we’re going to have a chance of uniting the King and Warg packs, we need to stop the violence... -
DO NOT Date the Dragon Next Door by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo, seriously DO NOT date the dragon next door.After a bitter divorce from her mafia ex - husband, she’s moved to the small town of Wishing Moon Bay with her children to start a new life - without any brooding men in it. Unfortunately, the only apartment she can afford is owned by a dragon shifter that everyone tells her is powerful and dangerous... -
Blackwood: Book 2 by Sunny Mawson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the conclusion of the Blackwood Duet, Jagger Thorne rules his pack with an iron fist, doling out punishments that go beyond the limits of appropriate standards. He is hellbent on fulfilling his father's twisted legacy and will stop at nothing to capture Isabella Greyson. Making her his mate and ending her legacy drives him over the edge...Categorized as:
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Howl for the Gargoyle by Kathryn Moon
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHannah never wanted to be a werewolf. After over thirty years as a human, she finds her new life on the other side of the species line too full of sudden changes. Especially when those changes risk her band's chance at a world tour...Categorized as:
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Gregor by Faith Gibson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGregor is Book 2 in The Stone Society series. While the books can be read as stand-alone stories, you will enjoy them more if you read them in order. Gregor Stone is a full-blood Gargoyle and the Warden at the New Atlanta Penitentiary. He spends his days running the prison and his nights looking for Unholy...Categorized as:
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Sacred Silence by Quinn Loftis
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSacred Silence is a novella in the award-winning Grey Wolves Series. This novella takes place after Sacrifice of Love. It is the events that happened the days after Thia is born. I thought there couldn’t be anything eviler than Desdemona, Reyaz, or any villain we’ve faced or would face. But there is. They’re called postpartum hormones... -
Gunner by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA bear shifter in need of redemption. A mate in need of revenge. Something called to Gunner. Something he could not describe. A need to go into the mountains. He’d heeded the call even though he had no idea what he’d find. Certainly, he’d never expected to find his mate. Gunner had long stopped hoping she would walk into his life. Not that Sadie did walk into his life... -
Running With the Wolves by Lynn Leite
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShifted book 9 Brendan Woodland is a genius when it comes to technology, but someone or something is sabotaging the cameras he has placed on the edge of town. Fixated on the ghostly female image he captured on the night his sister-in-law was attacked he is determined to find out who she is... -
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Lone Wolf by Lynn Leite
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMatt Woodland has dreamed of being a pack enforcer for most of his life. When his brother Aiden asks Matt to join his pack as his Beta, it is more than he could have ever hoped for.There’s only one problem.Aiden already has one Beta, Brianna Robbins, and she and Matt don’t really get along. The two Betas are forced to work together when King turns out to be more of a threat than they once thought... -
Dane by Faith Gibson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChief of Police Dane Abbott has put off claiming his mate to keep her safe. Until Now. The battle in Greece is over, and he’s ready to make her his. Marley Sperry, everyone’s favorite waitress, can’t believe the handsome Chief has his sights set on her. She is nothing special – but to Dane, she is everything... -
Dominating Alpha Wolf by Skye Wilson, Lindsey Devin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’m the pack alpha. She’s human. And my wolf is convinced she’s my mate…Our pack’s enforcer has gone missing, and I’ve tracked his scent to his mate’s old hometown. In a town this small, it won’t take long to uncover them, but what I didn’t count on was Morgan.I know instantly she’s my mate. It must be a joke. She’s human, and that’s unheard of in our world. But my wolf doesn’t care... -
Blood Moon by J.J. King
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA troubled relationship, a political attack, a backstabbing traitor, and a whole shitload of trouble. Elena Jensen is done being the victim. She's stronger now and ready to begin training her most valuable asset, her natural born Alpha powers... -
Biker Bears Redemption by Roxie Ray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’m in trouble from the moment I find my mate...After breaking things off with my abusive ex, I needed somewhere safe to rebuild my life, and you don’t get any safer than living with a group of protective bear shifters.When Trey comes home from college, we know right away that we’re mates... -
Stealing Fire by Mallory Crowe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Ella's father is missing, she finds him held captive by a dangerous and devastatingly handsome a man, who gives her one choice: Her father may go free, but she must stay with him--for good. There is more to Lucian than what Ella initially sees. He isn't just a crazed kidnapper wrapped into irresistible eye candy... -
Baby Protector Bear by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe would die to protect her. But he would much rather live with her. Forever. Joel has been a protector of people his whole life. Now the stakes have been raised. When his mate offers to protect baby Sam, he has no choice but to volunteer to stand by her side. One look at her luscious curvy body tells him he’d like to lie in her bed too. But this is serious, this is life or death... -
Which Wolf is Witch by Lynn Leite
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhich Wolf is Witch Book 11 in the Shifted series.Colin Woodland has watched as each of his siblings found their true mates. When he meets the spunky dark haired witch Rina Blackwell his attraction to her tells him he might have found his mate as well. The problem is she doesn't seem to feel the same... -
Wolf Destinies by Lucía Ashta
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy whole life is one tangled lie. A horrible deception. All my past choices steered by the woman who hunts me without pause.She’s powerful, vicious, and cruel, feared by the entire supernatural community. She’s also an immortal. Yeah, she can’t be killed—supposedly...Categorized as:
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Her Russian Bear by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA standalone bear shifter dating agency romance A Russian bear on the run, Artem is not sure finding his mate is the best thing for him right now, or her. He has seen what happens when life gets in the way of the mating bond and sacrifices have to be made. However, when he sees his mate on the Fated and Mated website, he has to act... -
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Totally Shifted by Lynn Leite
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Maddox, Rory and Maverick’s son, is threatened at gun point by Department of Environmental Protection officers, who are looking for a killer wolf, Xavier steps in to save his nephew. Gwen Reynard, nicknamed “The Wolf Whisperer,” by the department, knows the huge black wolf staring down the barrel of the tranquilizer guns her men are holding is not the killer they are looking for... -
The Luck of the Shifters (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSeamus 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... -
Angel Lost by Susan A. Bliler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDominant Skin Walker, Monroe StoneCrow’s mate, Eden, has been injured in an attack on the Estate. Not only does Eden not have any memory of Monroe or their children, but she believes she is in a relationship with another and is asking that the man be brought to the Estate... -
Taken by Susan A. Bliler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNyree was thriving as the best female Sentry assigned to the Skin Walker teams. Placed on special assignment, she was flattered to have been chosen to train the Keepers who’d just arrived at the Estate. Keepers were different from the Walkers she’d been trained with. Highly aggressive toward females, she found out too late that Keeper aggression was sexual and not a disdain for the female species... -
Three Grizzlies Gruff by Sable Sylvan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCurvy marionberry farmer and beekeeper Daisy Craston has no truck with trespassers, and when she catches three gruff grizzlies, all named William, in her marionberry fields, they don't just get her goat: they end up facing her trusty shotgun's barrel... -
Baymac by Susan A. Bliler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings**Book 13 in the Skin Walker series. This book can be read as a standalone. Grace Rowland is on the run from an abusive ex-boyfriend. Her decision to move on couldn't have come at a worse time because the blizzard blasting the state has made it impossible for her friend to retrieve her from the small town she's holed up in...
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