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  • Novak Raven by T.S. Joyce

    Novak Raven by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    His entire life, Weston Novak has been followed by the long shadow of his raven shifter people. He’s kept his distance and settled into the Bloodrunner Crew, but his life has just taken a hard right turn. Not only does he have visions of the future now, but a soft-spoken raven shifter named Avery has just tumbled into his life to shake everything up...
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    alpha-mc  dark  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  abuse  adult  book
  • Blackwing Beast by T.S. Joyce

    Blackwing Beast by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Beast wants only a few things out of life: to be left alone, to join the Blackwings so he can be left alone, and for everyone to stop expecting anything from him and leave him alone. He was king of the lion shifters once, but his fall from power came at a huge personal cost. Rumors run rampant over what really happened to his pride, but the truth has hardened Beast’s heart to stone...
  • Tarian Outcast by T.S. Joyce

    Tarian Outcast by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Katy Craigson is on the run. Not from anything too scary, because she is a safe girl and doesn’t do danger, but she’s running from a past that keeps trying to drag her under. All she needs is a week with her best friend in the mountains of Colorado for a week. But when an unlikely hero comes to her rescue, she’s sent on a path she never saw coming...
  • Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emily Vega must avenge her father, and as the last of the Hell Hunters, she has one mission: destroy the Galena pack. Werewolves are carefully camouflaged monsters intent on taking over the world—or at least that’s what she’s been taught—but one meeting with the werewolf she’s hunting, and Chance Dawson is changing her mind, little by little...
  • Blackwing Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Blackwing Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Dustin Porter is walking a fine line between the Blackwing Crew and the Valdoro pack. He’s been sent to betray Kane, but there’s a complication, and that complication is a smart-mouthed beauty who is also vying for a coveted spot on the crew. Dustin can’t keep his attention from Emma for long, and the more he gets to know about her, the more mysterious she seems...
  • Can't Be Love by Julie Trettel

    Can't Be Love by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lily Westin has waited her entire life to find her one true mate. She has big dreams and expectations of what her perfect man will be like. A dreamer and a lover, Lily patiently waits as each of her siblings finds their mate, just waiting for the day she feels the tingle run down her spine and her happily ever after finally begins...
  • Dark Nights by Christine Feehan

    Dark Nights by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Dark Descent and Dark Dream are combined in Dark Nights. #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan revisits and expands her classic novella Dark Descent, bringing to breathtaking new life her story of an immortal Carpathian hunter, a beautiful adventurer, and their dangerous journey toward an unforeseen destiny and an undying love...
  • 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...
  • Fastlander Fealty by T.S. Joyce

    Fastlander Fealty by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Owen Carson is a big, dominant boar shifter who is finally ready for a mate. Since he was young, he knew he wanted to escape the unfortunate legacy of his people and find something that has always felt just out of reach...
  • Adam by Teresa Gabelman

    Adam by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Half-breed vampire, Adam Pride, has an almighty chip on his broad shoulders. Trying to move on after finding Angelina married to another, Adam has a decision to make. Remove the chip and move on or kill the man who took what he wanted most in the world, his Angel. With his heart in pieces, Adam’s on a mission to become the best VC Warrior he can be...
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    alpha-mc  dark  kidnapping  paranormal  steamy  abuse  adult  audiobook
  • Prey by Hannah McBride

    Prey by Hannah McBride

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    That was then…After escaping her birth pack, being kidnapped, and nearly dying on the mountain, Skye has found a home in Blackwater. Surrounded by friends and family, and her mate, she's ready for her final semester at Granite Peak Academy to be a lot quieter, and a lot more uneventful, than last year...
  • Dark Alpha's Hunger by Donna Grant

    Dark Alpha's Hunger by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Alpha's Hunger is the seventh paranormal romance novel in New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant's Reapers series featuring a brotherhood of elite assassins who wage war on the Fae at Death's behest--and the women who change their hearts.There is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death...
  • Fierce Impact by Julie Trettel

    Fierce Impact by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grant Phillips has always been a team player. He lives his life for the Force and worked hard to land a coveted spot with Team Bravo. He follows the rules, keeps his head down, and never causes trouble. Grant does everything for everyone else and wants for very little. The mission always comes first, until she waltzes into his life.Taylor Maxwell is a wild card. A thrill seeker. A rogue wolf...
  • Crimson Highlander by Samantha Whiskey

    Crimson Highlander by Samantha Whiskey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s my enemy…and my mate.For two hundred years, I’ve been the second in command to the Vampire King.It’s my job to predict threats before they happen…but I never saw her coming.Valor Moorehouse isn’t just the daughter of our greatest enemy,she’s a real pain in the ass, and according to the mark that just appeared—my mate...
  • Red Havoc Rogue by T.S. Joyce

    Red Havoc Rogue by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Annalise Sutter is a newly Turned shifter determined to get her life back on track. The problem? Her inner panther is a monster that attacks anything that breathes. She’s had to let go of her old life completely to protect the people she loves, and the one thing that has kept her steady through this transition is Jaxon Barns...
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    alpha-mc  dark  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  abuse  adult  book
  • Midnight Promise by Julie Trettel

    Midnight Promise by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jade Michaels is a coyote shifter who rebels against society and embraces the negative stereotypes of her kind. Her father bailed on her mother the second she found out she was pregnant leaving Jade to believe that true mates are nothing more than fabricated fairytales. At the start of her senior year at the ARC, Jade is determined to leave her mark and embarks on a campus wide inclusion campaign...
  • Curse Touched by Becky Moynihan

    Curse Touched by Becky Moynihan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s no escaping a curse . . .The last thing I expect is for my aunt to kidnap, then abandon me. I’m desperate for answers, especially as to the condition of Lochlan D’angelo, my stalker turned protector. Problem is, I’m still shaken over learning his true identity. I question everything he ever told me, including the realness of the supposed bond between us...
  • The Roman by Sylvain Reynard

    The Roman by Sylvain Reynard

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From the New York Times and international bestselling author of Gabriel's Inferno comes the thrilling conclusion to the dark and sexy paranormal romance series, following a young art restorer and the vampyre prince she loves as they fight against a mysterious figure who holds the fate of Italy's vampyre population-and their souls-in the balance...
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    alpha-mc  dark  kidnapping  paranormal  steamy  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Hunt by Heather Killough-Walden

    The Hunt by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Her entire life, Katherine Dare has been hunting the man – the monster – who destroyed her life. The world has never known a Hunter like her. She has trained vigilantly since she was a child, since the day she saw a massive black wolf rip her father to shreds. There is nothing she wants more than revenge, and nothing she hates more than the demons who call themselves werewolves...
  • After Twilight by Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan

    After Twilight by Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Three of romance's hottest bestselling authors -- Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan, and Ronda Thompson -- invite you to explore the dark side, to taste the forbidden, to dive into danger with heroes who fire the blood and lay claim to the soul in these striking tales of sensual passion. A man hunts for a woman...
  • Silent Predator by Felicity Brandon, Delta James

    Silent Predator by Felicity Brandon, Delta James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Paranormal Shifter RomanceA predator prowls the Sea of Cortez, protecting a mystery that has been kept silent for almost a century—damning information that some are still willing to kill for.Mason Lockheart is a highly decorated Navy SEAL with a mission that he can never reveal to anyone… even the curvy redhead who’s determined to bring everything up from the depths of the sea...
  • Aden by D.B. Reynolds

    Aden by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    She was seeking revenge. What she found was a vampire who swept her into the darkest depths of passion.Chicago, Illinois... the windy city. Home to football greats, dinosaurs named Sue, and, when the sun goes down... powerful vampires battling for the right to rule the city and beyond...
  • Saving Grace  (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc

    Saving Grace (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As Game Warden, Jack Chambers is responsible for the wildlife in and around Grizzly Cove, but he never expected to find a badly injured mermaid washed up on the shore near his house. He takes her in and helps her back to health, only to learn of the much greater danger held at bay, just off shore, and how it’s affecting the ocean-going shifter population...
  • Defiled by Ann Denton

    Defiled by Ann Denton

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Elena When Black tries to force a ring onto my finger, I bolt.I escape the pack leader’s clutches with Jonah, my best friend with benefits…who has become so much more.But then my body betrays me. My stupid wolf shifter hormones send me spiraling into my first heat only hours after I flee.Desire blazes through my veins until it’s so wild and fierce that it takes over my reality...
  • Micah's Calling by Donya Lynne

    Micah's Calling by Donya Lynne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Author’s Note: This is a novella supplement to the All the King’s Men series. It is highly advised that you read Rise of the Fallen before reading this novella. Reading book two of the series, Heart of the Warrior, would also be beneficial, but not absolutely necessary before reading Micah’s Calling...
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    age-gap  alpha-mc  dark  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  book
  • Taken By Moonlight by Violette Dubrinsky

    Taken By Moonlight by Violette Dubrinsky

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When she agreed to go camping with her twin to honor a birthday milestone, Vivienne Bordeaux imagined itchy mosquito bites, the possibility of West Nile, and perhaps foot-fungus, but she never anticipated just how much her life would change. After almost dying under the snapping jaws of a rabid wolf—go figure—Vivienne is saved by a gorgeous, dark-haired man, who may just belong to a cult...
  • Mated in Mist by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Mated in Mist by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Talon Pack continues with an outcast witch and a wolf who can see past the darkness. As Heir to the Talon Pack, Ryder Brentwood carries the responsibility of not only protecting his Pack, but ensuring its future. Only no one knows that as he does this, he must also shield his people from their past...
  • Ripe for the Alpha by Olivia T. Turner

    Ripe for the Alpha by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I'm in desperate need of a savior.Kidnapped. Tied to a bed. Out of options. Out of luck.Until the Sheriff comes roaring in and busts the place up.He's just the man I was waiting for.I've always loved older men.I've always loved a man in uniform.With the Sheriff, I don't stand a chance.He has me on board before he even says one word...
  • Bound by Forever by S. Young, Samantha Young

    Bound by Forever by S. Young, Samantha Young

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Niamh Farren has been burdened by knowledge for most of her life. As one of seven fae children born into the human world with the ability to open the gate to Faerie, Niamh’s mission is to guide her fae brethren to do what’s right. Because Niamh has seen what will happen to the human world if she does not protect the gate...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Untamed by E.M. Moore

    Untamed by E.M. Moore

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to the school for shifter rejects…Unwanted.Dismissed.Cast away by their mate, the renounced are directed to attend university together by the Pack Council to salvage what’s left of their shattered lives. The objective? Reform, impress, or get the hell out.There’s no room in the packs for wolves who don’t conform. Who can’t breed future heirs.With living feral, a.k.a...
  • The Pack by Kristin Coley

    The Pack by Kristin Coley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jess Carter only wants to finish out her senior year of high school. No friends, no boyfriends, and definitely not an insanely hot, overprotective guy who might possibly be her mate. No thanks. She only came to the tiny town of Banks, Idaho to make sure her dad doesn't do anything too crazy. Like buy the local motel where you pay by the hour...
  • An Inconvenient Mate by Lora Leigh, Briana Bronte

    An Inconvenient Mate by Lora Leigh, Briana Bronte

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Listening length: 4 hours, 14 minutes.Isabelle Martinez was instantly fascinated by the sexy Coyote Breed she met at the bar, but her sensual flirtation with him was cut short when she saw the man who'd attacked her arrive at the bar.Breed enforcer Malachi Morgan was entranced by Isabelle's mix of shyness and boldness, and he was determined to chase and play with his sensual prey...
  • Hunted by a Jaguar by Felicity Heaton

    Hunted by a Jaguar by Felicity Heaton

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A jaguar shifter with a dark secret, Kyter has spent his entire life running from his demons. When a tragedy takes him back to his pride’s village, he is set on a path of vengeance that will see him collide with the terrible ghosts of his past and a beautiful vision of his future...
  • Dragons Don't Love by D'Elen McClain

    Dragons Don't Love by D'Elen McClain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A dragon shifter fairy tale for adult readers. It’s finally the day of claiming. A dragon charges in breathing fire and leaves with an unwilling captive as his new bride. Roxanne, one of the brides he will chose from, wants nothing to do with the tradition that has gone on for thousands of years. From an early age she’s had one goal... Kill the dragon...
  • Toxic by Kristen Middleton

    Toxic by Kristen Middleton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now that Slade has learned the truth about Vanessa, will he give up Chelsey in order to win back the woman he thought he'd lost, so long ago?And...Melody has set her sights on Liam and isn't willing to give up easily. Trigger warning: Attempted rape scene toward the end of the book...
  • Wolf's Wild Woman by Lacey Thorn

    Wolf's Wild Woman by Lacey Thorn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rebel… I needed a safe place to lay low for the night. Instead, I met him, and all thoughts of leaving this town behind flew out the window. He gave me a safe place. In his arms. In his bed. In his heart. Taylor… As soon as I caught her scent, I knew she was mine. Then she approached me and willingly touched me. No fear for the behemoth with the scarred face and broken vocal chords...
  • Soul Resurrected by Keri Lake

    Soul Resurrected by Keri Lake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As Wrath’s fiercest son, Logan carries the scars of fifty years spent in the most dreaded prison of the underworld, for a sin he’d kill to keep secret. Enduring decades of gruesome torture has left Logan feared by and detached from others, until a female Alexi’s blood resurrects his soul from death and, with it, the pleasures he’s been denied for so long...
  • Flying Fur by Zenina Masters

    Flying Fur by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A small body and a mighty soul send Misty into the arms of the man she rescued before she had seen him. Misty is a hunter for the shifter Council who uses her small body to get into the cracks and crevices of prisons and habitats. She can go where others can’t and save those who had no other chance at freedom...
  • Bloodrunners Bundle by Rhyannon Byrd

    Bloodrunners Bundle by Rhyannon Byrd

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the world of the Bloodrunners, a fierce band of hunters and protectors, half-human, half-Lycan. Only through the act of Bloodrunning, the hunting and assassination of rogue werewolves, may these extraordinary warriors gain full acceptance within their respective packs...
  • Bash, Volume I by Candace Blevins

    Bash, Volume I by Candace Blevins

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What do you get when you mix a bad-ass werewolf biker with a beautiful she-wolf who grew up as the MC President’s daughter? Sparks. Book one of the Bash trilogy…Angelica was raised not only as a biker’s daughter, but as Bud’s daughter — the president of the Atlanta RTMC, which meant she also had dozens of ‘uncles’ who made sure she was safe, happy, loved, secure...
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    alpha-mc  dark  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  biker  book
  • Warlock Unbound by Dana Marie Bell

    Warlock Unbound by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last Beckett brother is going down. Heart's Desire Book 4 Daniel Beckett's wolf already know who their mate will be: the wilfull, stubborn, beautiful Kerry Andrews. He's only held off on casting the mate spell over fear of the dangers lurking in every warlock-filled shadow. But his brothers are insistent. It's time, and all Daniel can hope for is that Kerry will allow him to protect her...
  • Omega's Trust by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Omega's Trust by Aiden Bates, Jill Haven

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ever since we found the first sacred omega to be born in centuries, I've had my network across the country on the lookout for others - men who hold the key to saving the dragon race. And they've delivered. There's just one problem: the omega, Lucas, is not only located in the territory held by the dangerous dragon known as Calavastrix the Storm, he works for him, too...
  • The Weakest Wolf by Eve Bale

    The Weakest Wolf by Eve Bale

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An Enemies to Lovers Shifter RomanceWeak things never live long in the Stone pack.So to survive, I had to make myself strong. ,/b>This pack took everything I loved from me.They shattered my heart into pieces so small that I knew I could never leave until I made them pay. No matter the cost. To myself, or to my wolf.For years, I pretended to be something I wasn’t. Until he came...
  • Resisting The Alpha by Skye Wilson

    Resisting The Alpha by Skye Wilson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only thing they have in common is they don’t believe in fated mates…Not many PIs would investigate the disappearance of a former drug addict, but Iris was brought up in the system. She knows what it’s like to be alone. No pack. No home. These days, her wolf is virtually non-existent.When she lands in Austin, Texas, she learns that more than one wolf shifter is missing. Another addict...
  • Taming My Alpha by Louise Clément

    Taming My Alpha by Louise Clément

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A she-wolf who goes from weak to strong, an Alpha who is convinced he doesn't need a mate, and a sassy pet unicorn! Calliope is the Delta of Moonstone Pack. After her parents died in battle when she was only 16, everyone dismisses her as the weak she-wolf left behind...
  • Revenge of the Wronged by Hettie Ivers

    Revenge of the Wronged by Hettie Ivers

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s the player no one saw coming who will change all the rules... My brother isn’t as perfect as I always thought he was.My mate Alex isn’t as bad as he once seemed.How can I choose between them when I don’t know who to trust?Which side to believe?Walking away from the connection I’ve found with Alex might break my heart...
  • Feral Shifter Untamed by Olivia T. Turner

    Feral Shifter Untamed by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They hunt shifters like me.With good reason.I'm a threat to everyone. Even myself.My bear has gone feral.It's lost control.Sometimes fate can be cruel.Sometimes it makes us wait too long for our mate.Some bears can't handle it, and my wild grizzly is one of them.He's gone too long without her and he's snapped.This untamed savage creature lashes out at everything it can get its nasty paws on...
  • Shadow Bride by K. Easton, Amanda Richardson

    Shadow Bride by K. Easton, Amanda Richardson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I am a prisoner in the place I once called home.Desolate.I am thousands of miles away from my mate.Waiting.Nothing will ever stop me loving my true mate, Phoenix Adair.Nothing.Not even Willow Creek’s new alpha, my former best friend, Zade Crawford.A boy who became a monster.A man without a moral code whose perverted goal is to destroy Phoenix and lock me away...
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