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  • Mentored in Fire by K.F. Breene

    Mentored in Fire by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    After a life of hiding and laying low so as not to end up trapped in the Underwold, that's exactly where Reagan finds herself.It could be worse, though. She could've had a hostile father as her jailor instead of a man eager to teach her magic. She might've been trapped with someone other than the steadfast Druid...
  • Immortal Fire by Annette Marie

    Immortal Fire by Annette Marie

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Once, Emi believed the heavenly gods were righteous and wise, while the earthly yokai spirits were bloodthirsty and evil. But with a traitorous deity poised to destroy her world, and the yokai standing as humanity's only defense, the lies of her upbringing have toppled to reveal a far more terrifying reality...
  • The Keeper of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Keeper of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bootlace is being hunted.Peace hasn’t come easy for the Stryker Pack, and for Bootlace, the sanctuary they’ve found feels too good to be true. His wolfish instincts are being riled up as a pretty woman with a load of secrets starts visiting him and asking questions she has no business asking...
  • Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews

    Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Maud Demille was a daughter of Innkeepers. She knew that a simple life wasn't in the cards, but she never anticipated what Fate would throw at her.Once a wife to a powerful vampire knight, Maud and her daughter, Helen, had been exiled for the sins of her husband to the desolate planet of Karhari. Karhari killed her husband, and Maud had spent a year and a half avenging his debts...
  • Red Havoc Bad Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Red Havoc Bad Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **Don’t miss the epic finale in T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Red Havoc Panthers series** The countdown is on. Crazy Lynn Matheson has six days until she’ll join all the other shifters who have lost their minds and been put down by their alphas...
  • The Mercy of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Mercy of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Something big is going on in this town.Police officer Darren Callaghan has been hunting for the cause of a burned mountain on the outskirts of Leadville, Colorado, but when a woman goes missing, he can’t help the feeling that they are connected somehow. A call comes in that some fences have been cut, and he finds a ragtag group of trespassers is squatting on some abandoned land outside of town...
  • Zombie Wolf of Piston by T.S. Joyce

    Zombie Wolf of Piston by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He shouldn’t be here.Reaper used to have a life, and friends, and a close-knit Pack. He was Stryker. Even if he was a War Wolf, his life made sense. When he died, something evil needed him to cheat death. A powerful storm is building around him, because Reaper has been brought back to life for a nightmare destiny...
  • The Edge of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Edge of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hell has felt like home lately to Naomi Dunbar, but her Maker is about to change everything. She has a secret crush on the man with the glowing gold eyes who saved her life, and gave her the gift of the wolf, but he is distant, and getting quieter by the day. The handsome, dominant Alpha is focused on healing her from the inside out, but it seems like it’s draining him to do it...
  • First Time Train Wreck by T.S. Joyce

    First Time Train Wreck by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    First Time Train Wreck is one of the top bucking bull shifters in the world. He’s in the middle of a busy off-season. With his free time, he’s secretly hunting down the exact reason bull shifters are disappearing. He has no idea what kind of enemy he’s really facing, but he’s okay with that. The bigger the evil, the harder he will make it fall...
  • My Salvation by Alanea Alder

    My Salvation by Alanea Alder

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Priest Vi’Aerdan wants nothing more than for his mate to be safe, but nightmares plague him with images of her being torn to shreds. Despite consulting Meryn, his anxiety persists. He remembers the helplessness associated with his failure to help his unit brothers when they were trapped in the caves of Noctem Falls...
  • Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh

    Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    NYT bestselling author Nalini Singh’s exhilarating world of shapeshifters and psychics is “paranormal romance at its best” (Publishers Weekly). Now comes the story of an alpha wolf named Hawke used to getting exactly what he wants—and of the only woman who dares tangle with him...
  • Rogue by Karen Lynch

    Rogue by Karen Lynch

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Sara Grey is done hiding and done being afraid. The Master thinks he has her running scared, but she’s taking matters into her own hands and taking her life back. With the help of her friends, she sets out to find the one person who can answer her questions about her past, and who may be able to lead them to the Master...
  • Refuge by Karen Lynch

    Refuge by Karen Lynch

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    To keep the people she loved safe, Sara left everything she knew behind. She soon learns this new world is nothing like her old one, and she struggles to make a place for herself among the Mohiri. But it soon becomes apparent to Sara and to everyone one around her that she is not your typical warrior...
  • Under Him by T.S. Joyce

    Under Him by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tristan is the new Second of the Dart Creek Pack, and trying to support a new Alpha who is recovering from silver poisoning. So much of the Pack’s success rests on his shoulders, so when he is ordered to pair up with a human who has been stalking the Pack, he fights it hard...
  • Blackwing Dragon by T.S. Joyce

    Blackwing Dragon by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    ****Don't miss the epic finale of T. S. Joyce's bestselling Harper's Mountains series**** Kane Reeves is being hunted. He has done well to keep hidden all these years, but Damon Daye has finally come to collect on the blood debt of Kane’s father. Damon has sent a great Bloodrunner Dragon after him, and Kane can see his death coming...
  • Firefighter Unicorn by Zoe Chant

    Firefighter Unicorn by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    His touch can heal anything — except her. Her touch can kill anyone — except him. He’s her salvation. She’s his doom. Sarcastic. Short-tempered. Definitely not sparkly. Paramedic and firefighter Hugh Argent is no one’s idea of a unicorn, and he’s careful to keep it that way. His life depends on hiding his secrets…and on never meeting his true mate. Outcast. Unwanted. Untouchable...
  • Bear's Redemption by Lisa Ladew

    Bear's Redemption by Lisa Ladew

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bruin has never fit in with his kind because the bears hate him for something he can't control. The wolves like him OK, but now that his wolf bff is mated, Bruin prepares for more lonely days and nights... until he meets a female so 'purrfect', the sight of her breaks him...
  • Trolled by Lindsay Buroker

    Trolled by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Busy looking for her missing mother and dodging enemies that are after her magical hammer, Matti Puletasi doesn’t need any more problems. She definitely doesn’t need the person who hired an assassin to kill her mother to show up—and target her.As if that wasn’t bad enough, the handsome elven ally she’s falling in love with… may be working for the other side...
  • Red Havoc Guardian by T.S. Joyce

    Red Havoc Guardian by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Greyson McCarty is hiding big secrets and doing his best to stay invisible in the Red Havoc Crew. By his own choice, he is at the very bottom of the crew, but when he enlists the help of a shifter matchmaking service to find a mate, the one he’s given makes it hard for him to hide what he really is. Genevieve is smart, and funny, and the most interesting woman he’s ever met...
  • Bear the Heat by T.S. Joyce

    Bear the Heat by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cora Wright is walking a fine line between standing up for what’s right, and keeping her job secure. As a local news reporter, her need to defend the Breck Crew of newly outed bear shifters risks everything she loves about her life. But when she meets Boone Keller, tatted up bad boy bear shifter, her world tilts dangerously on its axis...
  • Boarlander Bash Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Boarlander Bash Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sebastian “Bash” Kane is ready for a mate. He’s been fighting for his lumberjack crew of bear shifters to lift the ban on women in the trailer park, and his alpha has just given him the go ahead to find the woman of his dreams. But when he meets a shy newspaper editor in a diner, it becomes clear that finding a mate might not be so easy...
  • Tarian Protector by T.S. Joyce

    Tarian Protector by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Sora Burge doesn’t have any fight in her anymore. After breaking the most important shifter law, she knows her fate is in the Tarian Pride’s hands. She’s counting down to the trial, but something is coming for her. Something she never thought possible. When Ford Owens, the man she used to love, shows up, she can’t believe what he’s become...
  • Tiger by Laurann Dohner

    Tiger by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Zandy’s had too much to drink and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. She knows she’s going to die. When next her eyes open, a beautiful man-creature is holding her in his arms. He’s just too tempting to resist, her very own fallen angel. She wraps herself around his body, determined to have him...
  • 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...
  • THIRDS Beyond the Books: Volume 1 (THIRDS) by Charlie Cochet

    THIRDS Beyond the Books: Volume 1 (THIRDS) by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Join us as we celebrate the THIRDS universe with this collection of flash fiction stories written to prompts submitted by fans. Sometimes we want to know more about our favorite characters. Where they came from, how they became who they are, their families, friendships, and past heartaches. These snippets of moments in time offer an inside look at the lives of our favorite THIRDS characters...
  • Dawson Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Dawson Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dalton Dawson is reeling on the anniversary of an event that changed his life forever. All he wants to do is hide from his past for a few days, but in walks trouble in the form of a timid human who has his heart thawing for the first time in years. He’s not looking for a mate, but Kate Hawke is a fascinating and complicated woman that his wolf is desperate to figure out...
  • 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...
  • Arsenic Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Arsenic Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Arsenic, second in command of the Drakkaris dragon guard and legendary assassin, knows that he's not worthy of a mate. How could a professional killer possibly find love? And yet, when a dangerous mission to save an imprisoned human leads to the task of being her personal bodyguard, the stand-offish dragon just might have to reconsider everything he knows (or thinks he knows) about love...
  • Stone Sentinel by Jex Lane

    Stone Sentinel by Jex Lane

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    As a gargoyle, Jet would prefer to spend his days sitting on the corner of a building, but when Samantha insists that Krampus is going to ruin Christmas, the two of them set off on an adventure to stop the creature. At least that’s the plan...
  • The Independent Fairy by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle

    The Independent Fairy by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Not all who want love, want it for the right reasons.Some just want power.However, Paris Beaufont won’t allow bullies to ruin love for selfish reasons.Even if she doesn’t want romance for herself.Paris’ heart is being healed, but that’s just the beginning.There’s so much more of her story to unravel.And with it, there are many layers to the Fairy Godmother Agency to understand...
  • Dark Song by Christine Feehan

    Dark Song by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two Carpathians find hope in the bond that ties their souls in this passionate novel in Christine Feehan’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.   Stolen from her home at a young age and tormented for centuries, Elisabeta Trigovise is scared to show herself to anyone...
  • Elven Doom by Lindsay Buroker

    Elven Doom by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Dragons make life complicated. Extremely complicated.After returning from Idaho, I was hoping to have time to figure things out with Zav—also known as Lord Zavryd, the dragon who claimed me as his mate without asking—but the dark elves are up to their old tricks again.Actually, they’re up to far more deadly tricks, using more powerful magic than I knew existed...
  • Cadmium Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Cadmium Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Cadmium dragon has found his mate, and now he’s on the hunt. The hunt for things to buy online so he has an excuse to see the curvy delivery woman that brings him his packages. And when a chance occurrence gives him the opportunity to get to know her better, he springs into action to show her just how much a dragon can offer—inside the bedroom and out...
  • Sword of Mercy by Sydney Addae

    Sword of Mercy by Sydney Addae

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Scrambling to stay one step ahead of the Liege, Asia and Hawke discover more than they had bargained for.Hawke discovers his Alpha was also his father and that he had been given to the Liege as part of an experiment gone bad. Mercy has no place in his heart for the treachery he discovers...
  • Collision Course by Julie Trettel

    Collision Course by Julie Trettel

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

    Remington's Mate by Anastasia Wilde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Remington McCall has always had his identical twin brother Colt at his back: teammate, partner in crime, drinking buddy, and wingman. Until Colt met his true mate.And Remy didn’t.He’s happy for his brother. Really. In fact, everything is just effing fine. His two shifter animals at war inside him? It’s cool. His illegal, addictive trips to the spirit world? He can quit any time he wants...
  • Son of the Cursed Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Son of the Cursed Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    ****Don’t miss the exciting first book in T. S. Joyce’s brand new standalone series, Sons of Beasts**** Bounty Hunter, Nox Fuller, has been challenged to do the impossible. He’s supposed to bring the Red Dragon in for a year long stint in shifter prison, but this job could be the death of him...
  • Wild Hunger by Suzanne Wright

    Wild Hunger by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When half–wolf shifter Frankie Newman receives an e-mail from a family member she didn’t know existed, a secret is revealed: as a child, Frankie witnessed her father killing her mother…and then himself. Frankie was torn from her pack by her mother’s human relatives, and the trauma was erased from her memory. Realizing that she’s been lied to her entire life, she’s never felt more alone...
  • Rebel Dragon by Anna Lowe

    Rebel Dragon by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can this rebel dragon learn to play by the rules when his destined mate’s life is at stake?Off to Maui for a relaxing vacation? Surfer Jenna Monroe can only wish. Instead, she’s on the run from a stalker who lusts after her blood. She’d rather comb the beach for lost treasures than venture any deeper into the terrifying world of shapeshifters...
  • Surrendering to the Dragon by Jessie Donovan

    Surrendering to the Dragon by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nikki Gray has reason to hate the dragon hunters—they brutally murdered one of her friends a year ago. Not only that, they have caused havoc on several of the British dragon clans, injuring countless individuals. Determined to defeat the hunters by kidnaping their leader, Simon Bourne, she teams up with a human male in the British special forces...
  • Covert Bear by Candace Ayers

    Covert Bear by Candace Ayers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vilified by strangers, Friendships aren’t Heidi’s forte. Unless it happens to be with a displaced polar bear. Hey, he’s a great listener! Alexei knows she’s his mate. But she refuses to date him. All he wants is a chance. And, as far as he can tell, there’s only one way to get it—as a Covert Bear. AUTHOR'S NOTE: P.O.L.A.R...
  • Tactical Bear by Candace Ayers

    Tactical Bear by Candace Ayers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Parker is fighting extinction— Of her own shifter species! She’d already be mated. If not for those bullying polar bears. They've scared away all decent prospects. Maxim has met the one But, she’s an activist with silly notions. And she wants nothing to do with him. As a Tactical Bear, he’ll need all his strategic skills...
  • Aiding the Dragon by Jessie Donovan

    Aiding the Dragon by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    STONEFIRE DRAGONS BOOK 9Teagan O’Shea is a rare female dragon-shifter leader. While her Irish clan has a tradition of female leaders, they have had to hide behind a public male face for centuries to keep the other clans from viewing them as weaker and attacking...
  • The Midnight Dragon's Mate by Zoe Chant

    The Midnight Dragon's Mate by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    His worst nightmare could be a dream come true... Single dad Lachlan only looked away for a second. And now his six-year-old son is gone, lost in the wild woods. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare...but most parents aren’t dragons. Mad with fear for his son, Lachlan is fully prepared to rip the whole forest apart to find him..
  • Whatever for Hire by R.J. Blain

    Whatever for Hire by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Warning: This novel contains excessive humor, action, excitement, adventure, magic, romance, and bodies. Proceed with caution. Fetching a cat out of a tree should’ve been a quick, easy fifty bucks in Kanika’s pocket. Instead, following one stray thought, the devil pays her a visit and leaves her with a debt to repay...
  • Bear My Soul by T.S. Joyce

    Bear My Soul by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rory Dodson is done running. After one night of bliss with a man she never thought she’d see again, she’s in trouble with a young son who is housing one ferocious little bear cub inside of him. Desperate to keep her baby’s secret safe, she has nowhere to turn but to the man she was determined to keep in her past...
  • Bear the Burn by T.S. Joyce

    Bear the Burn by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Quinn Copeland is starting fresh in a new town where nobody knows about her past. Chronically shy, she is determined to find her courage at her new job at the town veterinary clinic. But when a stoic stranger catches her in a moment of emotional turmoil, she learns that even the toughest looking men can have warm hearts...
  • Guardian's Mate by Jennifer Ashley

    Guardian's Mate by Jennifer Ashley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She wasn’t ready to lead...Chosen as the Guardian of her Montana Shiftertown, wolf Shifter Rae Lyall is facing opposition—for no woman has ever been selected for this powerful position. Still adjusting to the new authority thrust upon her, Rae travels to train with Zander Moncrieff, a Shifter healer, tasked with teaching her about her new role and its responsibilities.He wasn’t ready to love..
  • Novak Grizzly by T.S. Joyce

    Novak Grizzly by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Daughter of Beaston is hurting. Remington Novak is stuck in a city, her whole life altered for a man who didn’t keep her. A life change comes in many forms, but for Remi, it comes as a newspaper clipping, sent by her best friend. A Last Chance Crew up in the mountains is looking for help, and her skillset matches the requirements. Must like animals? She was a grizzly shifter...
  • Klutz: Phoenix Secrets by Sedona Ashe

    Klutz: Phoenix Secrets by Sedona Ashe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    My billionaire dragon mate knows how to pamper a girl!Rich? Check.Hot? Check.Driving my other mates insanely jealous? Check and checkmate!Xerxes, my dragon mate, has whisked me away to Mexico. He keeps showering me with expensive gifts, breathtaking views, and lavish meals. I’m more of a cheeseburger girl, but I’m not one to complain about food...
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