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  • Air Ryder by T.S. Joyce

    Air Ryder by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Everything is a joke to an easygoing shifter like Ryder Croy. At least on the outside, because inside, he’s on the hunt for a mate and is beginning to feel like he’s not meant for a bond. He’s on the tail end of a slew of bad decisions, but he’s determined to turn it around and get his life back on track...
  • For The Soul Of An Outlaw by T.S. Joyce

    For The Soul Of An Outlaw by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **Don’t miss the thrilling final book of T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Outlaw Shifters series** Genie isn’t what people expected. She isn’t just a squirrel, but a shifter in hiding named Tenlee. She’s dug herself into a deep hole, and now her past has come back to haunt her and hurt her friends in the Two Claws Clan. Not only that, but the man she loves had left the ranch, and left her in despair...
  • Gray Back Broken Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Gray Back Broken Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Easton Novak is hiding something fearsome inside of him. An unconventional upbringing has turned his inner grizzly into a berserker—one who has all but destroyed his humanity. Being around people isn’t easy. Not when he doesn’t understand any of their reactions, or half of what they’re saying. And if he can convince his alpha he’s half sane, he just might let Easton live...
  • Outcast by Lexi Blake

    Outcast by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On the hunt for a vicious killer, Kelsey discovers that the true threat lies closer than she could have ever imagined. It’s been months since Trent Wilcox was sentenced to exile, but Kelsey hasn’t given up on finding a way to bring him home. Grayson Sloane doesn’t share her enthusiasm...
  • Sawman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Sawman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Slow-simmering romance, secrets by the dozen, heart-warming triumph, and a crew of sexy lumberjack werebears come together to tell Brighton’s story in this fourth installment of T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Saw Bears series. Brighton Beck’s inner grizzly is out of control. It’s been months since he killed his tormentor, but just seeing the man who stole his voice has put his bear on a bender...
  • Blackwing Defender by T.S. Joyce

    Blackwing Defender by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Panther shifter, Winter Donovan, has her life all planned out: claiming marks, marriage, cubs, and pledging to the Red Havoc Crew. But when the man she cares for chooses another, her life gets caught in a tailspin. A new crew announcement could mean a change in her stars, but there is a catch. It’s the Blackwing Crew, and is run by fire-breathing dragon shifters...
  • Mystics and Mental Blocks by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Mystics and Mental Blocks by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three days. That was all the reprieve we got before one of the Five showed up, injured and on the run. The snowstorm that had encased the property, as well as stifled the town, hadn’t even melted away.That wounded prey led our newest adversary directly to me, to Christopher. Inconvenient timing, but not unexpected...
  • A Very Beastly Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    A Very Beastly Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    **A Gray Back Bears holiday novella that can be read as a standalone** Dominant grizzly shifter, Easton Novak, hasn’t celebrated the holidays since he was a child, but his mate is about to make this Christmas one for the books. She’s been hiding something from him, and her revealed secrets are about to knock his world upside down...
  • Healing of the Wolf: 5 by Cherise Sinclair

    Healing of the Wolf: 5 by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A decade in captivity tore away all hope.But Margery never lost her resolve to help the sick. The village she’d hoped to serve as banfasa, caring for the ill and injured, is long gone. Humans captured the young shifters and killed the adults. Finally rescued, she has a chance at her dreams—at least for meaningful work...
  • Timberman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Timberman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Danielle Clayton is back in her old stomping grounds after years of avoiding the man she had to leave behind. She’s determined to make Saratoga her home again, but when she sets eyes on her snarly, sexy ex, it’s clear her feelings for him haven’t cooled at all in the years she’s been away. He kept too many secrets the first time around, but Denison has changed...
  • Gray Back Alpha Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Gray Back Alpha Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Creed Barnett has one simple rule—no potential mates allowed in his territory. As if there isn’t enough on his shoulders trying to manage his crew of misfit, broken bear shifters, his past is now coming back to haunt him...
  • Tristan's Lyceum Wolves by Kym Grosso

    Tristan's Lyceum Wolves by Kym Grosso

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An erotic paranormal romance...Charismatic and powerful Lyceum Wolves' Alpha, Tristan Livingston, is out for revenge after a devastating attack on his pack. Not only did he survive a building collapse, he orchestrated the rebuild of his chic, state-of-the-art nightclub within a week...
  • Roman by T.S. Joyce

    Roman by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Roman Striker is on the hunt. His brothers may have big plans to save his hometown, but all Roman cares about is ridding the world of one vengeful alpha of the Bone-Ripper Pack, Rhett. Getting to Rhett is easy—mess with a submissive she-wolf in his pack named Mila and the alpha makes mistakes. But Roman and Mila grew up together and their history runs deep...
  • Grim Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    Grim Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Grim is trying to hold it together for the holidays. He’s vowed to be a better Alpha for the Rogue Pride Crew, but he’s at war with the two lions inside of him, and at war with a certain Red Dragon as well. He was raised to be a weapon and had never celebrated like everyone else. All he wants to do is coast straight through the holiday, but his new Crew is messing with his head...
  • Night Magic by Jennifer Lyon

    Night Magic by Jennifer Lyon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s a siren he can’t resist…Phoenix Torq is the devilishly handsome bad boy of the Wing Slayer Hunters. Tormented by a mysterious singing in his head, he tracks the compelling voice and discovers his soul mirror witch and his ultimate salvation. Awesome, except that she’s already engaged—to a demon...
  • Running with the Pack by Lola Glass

    Running with the Pack by Lola Glass

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Never run from your mate.So there’s a name for what I am.Ruby Wolf.And apparently, the rules don’t really apply to us.For one, we come in pairs. The other half of mine is a douche named Ezra, and he’s convinced that walking around naked is all it will take to talk me into choosing him. If we don’t mate, I’ll die. Period. End of story...
  • Forbidden Seduction by Teresa Gabelman

    Forbidden Seduction by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hunter Foster single-handedly exposed the shifter community after shifting in front of humans to protect a Vampire Council Warrior. With no regrets, he heads home to answer for his crime of breaking an outdated law. Back in his town, he is faced with rogue packs challenging their alpha, his brother, as well as the woman he has spent years avoiding...
  • Luna Cursed by Alessa Thorn

    Luna Cursed by Alessa Thorn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ciara Wolf Slayer is the one Ironwood that all wolves fear. When a deranged cult decides to awaken Fenris to start Ragnarök, Ciara must put aside her vicious past and work with the one wolf strong enough to take them down.‘Luna Cursed’ is book four of the new spin-off series in the best-selling 'Fae Universe,' featuring everyone's favorite supernatural hunting family, the Ironwoods...
  • Naya’s Most Important Visitors by Nalini Singh

    Naya’s Most Important Visitors by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A short story involving Naya, Sascha, Lucas and members of the DarkRiver pack. Timeline: Takes place some time during Kiss of Snow.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...
  • Hunt the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Hunt the Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The vampire, Roke, is raw, sensual, always in control. Yet somehow he's allowed the unthinkable to happen: a nymph-like witch named Sally has used her magic to trick Roke into mating with her. The pair will remain bound for eternity unless Sally breaks the spell. The trouble is, she has no idea how. . .Mating with Roke was an accident; at least that's what Sally keeps telling herself...
  • Fated Mates by Alicia Montgomery

    Fated Mates by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A secret Lycan world, hidden in plain sight. An outsider suddenly drawn in...She can't resist him, but he knows he can never have her... Private investigator Alynna Chase is drawn in to the world of werewolf shifter clans when she encounters charming and sexy Lycan, Alex Westbrooke. For centuries, werewolf shifters have moved among human society undetected, hiding in plain sight...
  • The Finding by Nicky Charles

    The Finding by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She discovered a dark secret, witnessed a murder and fled into the night fearing for her life. Three years later, Cassie is still hiding from her past, haunted by a dream lover and fighting to control a terrifying beast that seems to grow stronger each day. When Bryan, pack Beta, appears to claim her, Cassie is forced to face the truth of her existence...
  • Bonded by Nicky Charles

    Bonded by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reno’s a tough Enforcer for Lycan Link who finds himself drawn to Brandi but duty rules his life. Brandi, just on the edge of starting her career as a Disaster Control officer, falls for Reno at first sight, but are they really meant to be? Is it love or lust and does it really even matter? Enforcers and DCs don't get along...unless fate forces them to. Bonded precedes The Mating...
  • Forbidden Drink by Nicola Claire

    Forbidden Drink by Nicola Claire

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I watched as he comprehended what it was that he saw on my face, in my eyes. And I watched as a part of him shut down, locked away from me forever. And I hid the fact that my heart was breaking even as I lied to him, even as I broke his. And I swore I would never let him know otherwise, or I would truly be lost and the war would be over...
  • Take Down by Sam Hall

    Take Down by Sam Hall

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's cut a bloody swathe through my home town, my whole family, but now its time for her reign of terror to come to an end. But right as I gear up for the fight of my life, they arrive.The man who brutalised my mates' mother, who makes it his business to keep women like me down, rolls into town...
  • (Un)bidden by Melissa Haag

    (Un)bidden by Melissa Haag

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    I left home because I didn’t want to end up in a cage like a lab rat. Hitching rides, begging for cash, and sleeping on the ground got old fast. That was the only reason I braved an overgrown path to a group of buildings. I’d hoped to find a bed and a decent night’s sleep. However, what I found was a place overrun by werewolves...
  • Lucifer by D.B. Reynolds

    Lucifer by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    EPIC Award WinnerMontreal, Quebec . . . A charming city on the St. Lawrence River, historic, sophisticated, but beneath it all lies an extensive underground where treacherous vampires are plotting to seize the country.Lucifer Scuderi is a vampire—handsome and charismatic, a powerful hunter of unusual skill—who arrives in Montreal to take on the most important hunt of his life...
  • Accidental Theft by Charlene Hartnady

    Accidental Theft by Charlene Hartnady

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    PART 1: Shifter/Vampire Serial Stolen by the Alpha Wolf is a follow on to Chosen by the Vampire Kings. I strongly recommend that you read this 6 part serial first. The arrogant vampire kings have always proclaimed themselves to be the rulers of all the non-humans making war between the species inevitable. In order to win, it is imperative that the shifters steal the chosen human female...
  • Waterlocked: An Elemental World Novella by Elizabeth Hunter

    Waterlocked: An Elemental World Novella by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 13: 97813011361863"wa-ter-lockedadjectiveDefinition: enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by waterExample: What happens when the water vampire you’ve promised yourself to actually wants you to go through with the wedding? For Gemma Melcombe, her engagement to Terrance Ramsay was a political maneuver...
  • Running Beside the Alpha by Lola Glass

    Running Beside the Alpha by Lola Glass

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Never run from a werewolf.My life has taught me to expect the unexpected.A serial-killer rampaging through the New York Pack?Sure. Why not?But a serial killer who smells like me?That’s a heck of a lot more than unexpected. With the Alphas of All poking around and my own Alpha on a rampage to figure out who the murderer is, it becomes a race to see who finds the truth first.I'll find the killer...
  • Gentry by T.S. Joyce

    Gentry by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ****Don't miss this first book in the brand new Wolves of Winter's Edge standalone series from T. S. Joyce**** Gentry Striker is right back where he swore he would never be again—his hometown. All he has to do is tie up some loose ends and escape the darkness that has enveloped this place, but he can feel his destiny pulling him deeper into the shadows of this old town...
  • Devoured by Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Devoured by Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Tane is a Charon, sworn to hunt and kill rogue vampires. His new assignment seems like a waste of his talents…until he catches up with the Jinn he's been sent to capture. Half human, half demon, Laylah has a vulnerable streak that strikes right through to Tane's cold heart. He should be furious when she uses her powers to bind them together, preventing him from dragging her before the Commission...
  • Fern Valley by T.L. Haddix

    Fern Valley by T.L. Haddix

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rachel Campbell is doing just fine on her own. The forty-seven-year-old divorced single mother of a nearly grown teenager, she's also a shape shifter. She isn't opposed to the idea of love, but she isn't looking for it, either. But then state trooper Lee Harrison moves in across the street...
  • Hear Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen

    Hear Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "I'd made my bed, now I had to lie in it and hope Jakob didn't climb in beside me."Anja is saved from torture and death only to find a new kind of imprisonment at Jakob's side. Thanks to his stifling restrictions, Anja feels more like she's under house arrest than ever, unable to so much as share an honest conversation with Rob, let alone act on what her heart wants...
  • Seventh Mark - Part 2 by W.J. May

    Seventh Mark - Part 2 by W.J. May

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you discovered something about yourself that was less than pleasant, would you search for the answers or would you be too afraid of what you might find? Like most teenagers, Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. With little knowledge about her past, she has questions but has never tried to find the answers...
  • Never More by Dana Marie Bell

    Never More by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love takes wing faster than a Raven in flight.The Gray Court, Book 6Amanda Pierson’s long-overdue holiday at the Dunne farm unexpectedly turns into a working vacation when she’s roped into throwing together a last-minute dream wedding for Michaela Exton and Robin Goodfellow. No biggie for one of the best party planners at Fantasy Events, Inc., right?Right...
  • Time Without End by V.M. Black

    Time Without End by V.M. Black

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bound to the VampireCora Shaw was bonded twice to the billionaire vampire Dorian Thorne, once though blood and again through her promise to marry him. She knew that her life with him could never be easy. But the dangers that lurk in their bond—the incredible power it gives him over her and the recklessness that it stirs in her—are only a start of the peril that they face...
  • Dreaming of the Wolf by Terry Spear

    Dreaming of the Wolf by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book 3 in Terry Spear's Silver Town Wolf SeriesA FIERCE HUNTER...Alicia Greiston is a no-nonsense bounty hunter determined to bring a ring of mobsters to justice. Her dogged pursuit of the crime family has forced her to avoid relationships- any man would only become a target for retribution...
  • The Billionaire Shifter's Secret Baby by Diana Seere

    The Billionaire Shifter's Secret Baby by Diana Seere

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A masquerade ball in Malibu led to a single night of passion under the stars… and set the wheels of fate in motion.Three years ago, waitress Kara Jablonski gave in to her wilder side with a fellow weretiger, the rock star billionaire Lars Jensen, a sun-kissed blond drummer with a viking's build. Six weeks later, the pregnancy test came back positive...
  • Unforgiven by D.B. Reynolds

    Unforgiven by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A Cyn & Raphael NovellaALLEGIANCE . . . the ties that bind. Friendship, duty, blood. TREACHERY . . . when friendship is abused, duty turns to burden, and blood is not enough. UNFORGIVEN . . . because there are some things that can never be forgotten. Allegiance . . . Treachery . . . Unforgiven.War is imminent, and a spy has infiltrated Raphael’s estate...
  • Hunted by D.B. Reynolds

    Hunted by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Power, it comes down to this... those who have it, those who want it.Revenge, the need for it is a fire in the soul, a goad for the unwise.Hunted, the fate of the foolish when they think to become the hunter.The Lord of the Midwest is dead, and the powerful vampires of North America are gathering to choose his successor...
  • Call of the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Call of the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When tragedy brings former childhood sweethearts Samantha Young and Bronson Cress together in the town they grew up in, Samantha learns that things are not always what they seem. Six years ago, Samantha was devastated when Bron made a decision that shattered their relationship. Determined not to fall for him again, she must avoid the man who broke her heart...
  • Making Dinner by Nalini Singh

    Making Dinner by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A short story involving Riley, Mercy, Bastien and Sage from the SnowDancer & DarkRiver packs. Timeline: Takes place around the same time as Heart of Obsidian.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...
  • Forbidden Hunger by Teresa Gabelman

    Forbidden Hunger by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A shifter without a pack, Janna Lawson goes in search of the man who her mother died trying to protect. What she finds is Garrett Foster, a man who has the power to decide her fate and causes a hunger inside her that is forbidden to them both...
  • Michael & Shyne by R.E. Butler

    Michael & Shyne by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Michael Gerrick was beginning to wonder if he would ever find his truemate. Fate seemed to smile on him, when he fell hard for the delectable fitness instructor, Shyne. The only problem: three were-hyenas want her for their clan and are willing to do anything to get him out of the way.Shyne Jackson was smitten with Michael from the moment they met...
  • Grocery Shopping by Nalini Singh

    Grocery Shopping by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Short Story in the Psy-Changeling Series. Free from Nalini's newsletter dated 5th August 2014. Author's Note This small vignette slots in during the peaceful lull after Kiss of Snow, soon after Naya’s birth, and while Lucas and Sascha are still living in the cabin below their aerie...
  • Healed by the Dragon by Jessie Donovan

    Healed by the Dragon by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Arabella MacLeod was tortured by dragon hunters a decade ago. Ever since, her clan coddled and tip-toed around her, most especially her older brother. Desperate for a chance at freedom, she volunteers to foster with the Scottish dragon-shifter clan. She's determined to stay clear of the charming Scottish leader, but not only does he keep crossing her path, her dragon is drawn to him...
  • Steel Beauty by Dana Marie Bell

    Steel Beauty by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She’s everything a big bad Wolf could want. Halle Pumas Book 4 A devastating injury left Belinda “Belle” Campbell unable to take up her duties as Luna of the Poconos Wolf Pack. When her mate finally tires of waiting to claim her, she’s more than ready for him. But is the Pack ready for a Puma Luna? Rick has waited patiently for Belle to heal enough for him to bring her home where she belongs...
  • Grizzly Love by Eve Langlais

    Grizzly Love by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dr. Jess is his soulmate. His grizzly knows it. He knows it. Suspects she does as well. But he does have one dilemma standing in his way.Her husband.Talk about inconvenient.Good thing Travis is tenacious. Even if he has to travel across an ocean, endure scorching temperatures and survive attempts on his life, he won't give up until he wins her heart.Or dies trying.Jess made a mistake...
  • Betrayed by D.B. Reynolds

    Betrayed by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B008XLF8SM.Love, the ache in your heart when you meet the one. It can take you to soaring heights; and it can leave you bleeding in the wreckage. Loyalty, the thing which binds a Vampire Lord to his children for eternity . . . unless it rots from within, birthing hatred. Betrayal, it comes in many forms and from many sources…love…loyalty…betrayal...
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