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  • Beck Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Beck Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Juno Beck is trying to step out from the long shadow of her father and make her place in the music industry. But this bear shifter’s days are numbered and she’s running out of time to make her mark on the world. When she stops for a day trip to visit an old friend, she discovers the hiding place of one of country music’s bad-boys-who-got-away...
  • Bird by Cee Bowerman

    Bird by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **Author note - This is book three in the Texas Kings MC series. It is a happily ever romance that takes place in the MC world. Bird Forrester has never been one to want a wife and children. When his close friends and family find love, and start families of their own, he realizes that there is something missing in his life...
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    alpha-mc  humor  insta-love  adult  biker  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Blood of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Blood of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Marsden Wyland is a walking bag of secrets. He’s walking the line between opening up to his new Pack, and keeping them from finding out what he’s really done. And on top of that, he’s seeing a ghost girl that can only mean one thing—he’s dying. The ghost is beautiful, and is there for him in hard moments, and showing up in memories, and nothing is making sense...
  • Ash Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Ash Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Grim is the reluctant Alpha of the Rogue Pride Crew, and just trying to get from one day to the next without maiming his Crew. Controlling one animal is hard enough for shifters, but Grim is the only one in existence with two animals—a good lion and a monstrous lion named the Reaper...
  • A Very Meowy Christmas by Zoe Chant

    A Very Meowy Christmas by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Being cool as a cat is harder than it looks when unexpected love strikes!Single dad and bobcat shifter Mason has moved to Virtue to raise his toddler in the safety of a shifter community. But minor catastrophe strikes when his daughter escapes to play in the woods, and the last thing Mason expects when she's found is to meet his mate...
  • Wolf's Midlife Nanny by Meg Ripley

    Wolf's Midlife Nanny by Meg Ripley

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m starting over at 43 and found the perfect nannying job.Too bad my hot new boss is my fated mate.When my mate of twenty years started growing distant,My best friend offered to give him advice.Little did I know she’d end up pregnant with his baby.I left Portland and my daycare job behind,Ready to start anew in my friend’s pack down in Eugene...
  • 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...
  • Unlove Me by T.S. Joyce

    Unlove Me by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    **Don’t miss this standalone short story from 80-time bestselling author, T. S. Joyce.** One wild night with friends, and Brock Evans comes up with a plan to rake in the room reservations at his lodge. Instead of celebrating Valentine’s Day, he is going to throw an UnValentine’s Day party for the singles who want to escape the hearts, and romance, and frills of February...
  • Unicorns and Honey Cakes by Zoe Chant

    Unicorns and Honey Cakes by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everything is coming up roses. Way too many roses.Gale has a problem. A really thorny problem.He can’t touch anything made of wood without it bursting into bloom… which is inconvenient, to say the least. Clearly, his unicorn is cranky about something – Gale just wishes he knew what...
  • Day Care Dragon by Zoe Chant

    Day Care Dragon by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Put me down, you ... thing!" ... were not the first words Loretta expected to say to the love of her life. Look, you try having a dragon snatch you out of a burning building when all you're wearing is a towel. He just saved her life. Why doesn't she look happy about it? Billionaire dragon shifter Darius is a man in control—of his business, his family, his life...
  • Mate Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Mate Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **The full-length third book in T. S. Joyce’s new Bears Fur Hire series.** Vera Masterson has been called a lot of names through the years: witch, misfit, mad scientist. She’s let the rumors go because they kept her safe...
  • Tarian Silver Lion by T.S. Joyce

    Tarian Silver Lion by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Talon Lawson is a runner. He’s been on the move to keep his daughter safe for years, and now it’s a habit he isn’t capable of breaking. Too long in one place, and his inner lion pushes him to move on. He’s sworn to himself he will only make sure his daughter, Emerald, is settled in her new home with her mate, and then he’ll leave, but something more is anchoring him to the New Tarian Pride...
  • Lumberjack Bears Boxed Set: Books 1 - 5 by Emilia Hartley

    Lumberjack Bears Boxed Set: Books 1 - 5 by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is one boxed set you do NOT want to miss! The Lumberjack Bears Box Set has all the rough, rugged and irresistibly sexy alpha males that you've been waiting for. By the time you reach the end you'll be begging for more! Book 1 - To Love a Bear So long as the guys call him Boomer, Theodore Parker is content with his life...
  • A Very Outlaw Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    A Very Outlaw Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    ****Can be read as a standalone. A holiday short story based off the international bestseller, For the Love of an Outlaw**** Outlaw grizzly shifter, Trigger Massey, has been on the naughty list most of his life, but things are different now. He’s got a new mate, is in a race to save his ranch, and is the brand-new alpha of the Two Claws Clan...
  • 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...
  • The Billionaire Shifter's Final Redemption by Diana Seere

    The Billionaire Shifter's Final Redemption by Diana Seere

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Asher Stanton has devoted his entire, long life to protecting the shifter world — but he couldn't save his own beloved human wife and child. Walling off his emotions and turning his life into a mission to consolidate power, he is ruthless, determined — and most definitely never falling in love with another human again...
  • Lion on Loan by Zoe Chant, Murphy Lawless

    Lion on Loan by Zoe Chant, Murphy Lawless

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s just lion around on the job..
  • Sun in the Oven by Milly Taiden

    Sun in the Oven by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    **STANDALONE ** Discover a brand new race of Alpha males ready to find their mates in a dangerous warrior planet. Sassy women traveling with Gerri Wilder are in for the journey of a lifetime and a mate that will love them through the galaxy. Are you ready? Grab the third Galaxan romance between two sexy warriors and their fiery mate. Henley Rourke is a woman who loves a challenge...
  • Winter by Theresa Hissong

    Winter by Theresa Hissong

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Winter Rise of the Pride, Book 2 Winter Blue, Guardian of the Shaw Pride, has sworn to protect the beautiful and stubborn Nova Raines. His panther knows that she is his mate, but Winter’s refusal to touch her causes him to almost destroy their fragile relationship when she is attacked by a human male and left for dead behind the bar that she owns...
  • Dark Alpha's Redemption by Donna Grant

    Dark Alpha's Redemption by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death. And when Death says your time is up, I’m coming for you…My duty to Death drives me forward. I've never once strayed from my path – not even when the future seemed uncertain. However, Maeve's intelligence, cunning and determination challenges me in ways I never imagined...
  • The Griffin's Mate by Zoe Chant

    The Griffin's Mate by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A curvy businesswoman who’s new in town + a lonely griffin shifter searching for someone to share his nest + a small town with a big secret = a hot and heartwarming story of love and family. Lainie Eaves never wanted to return to Hideaway Cove, the small town where her own family rejected her years ago...
  • Covert Bear by Candace Ayers

    Covert Bear by Candace Ayers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 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...
  • All Kitten Aside by Milly Taiden

    All Kitten Aside by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paranormal Dating Agency Book 11 - STANDALONE BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance Miranda Colilla needs a mate. Fast. This curvy lioness wants a man she can bend to her will, who will stay out of her business, and let her lead like the alpha she is...
  • Piece of Tail by Milly Taiden

    Piece of Tail by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    You don't have to read any of the other books in the series to read this one. It's 100% standalone A female Prowl Leader? Unthinkable. It’s what Becca Duran has dealt with since the sudden, tragic death of her brother. Now, the leopard council demands she mates an alpha, whether she loves him or not. Given no choice, Becca takes a chance on Gerri Wilder’s PDA. It should be simple...
  • Shifter's Paradox by Lisa Ladew

    Shifter's Paradox by Lisa Ladew

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Harlan Mundelein, the Knotted Wolf, the soldier at heart who used to be the guy who got things done, is fading. It's been a long and pointless battle, and he can finally see the day coming that he'll be eternally reunited with his Eventine. He's ready and his mind is made up: he is not getting a One True Mate. His mate is gone...
  • Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights by Sierra Cartwright, Cherise Sinclair

    Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights by Sierra Cartwright, Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A Good sub Would... by Sierra CartwrightGenre: BDSM Erotic ContemporaryShelby, a wanna-be sub, hasn’t found a Dom strong enough to push past her need to be in control. Her experiences as a sub have been yawn-inducing. She’s fantasized plenty, though, about Trevor Lawton, one of Dark Haven’s legendary, mouthwateringly firm Doms...
  • Teasing Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Teasing Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wade Santana’s idiot bear thinks it’s found their fated mate—but Carolina’s into women.Dumb beast. It’s been nothing but trouble since Wade woke up with the thing inside him after a feral bear attack. He’s lost his family and steady work. The only upside is the chance of finding forever love, but it doesn’t look like that’s in the cards for him, either...
  • Toying With Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Toying With Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All Ana wants is an explanation.She thought Brandon was her forever love right up until he didn’t show up for their wedding. He left without a word. No apology. No justification. The year since has been grueling, and Ana wants to move on. But she can’t do that while she’s holding onto Brandon’s engagement ring—and his memory...
  • Jade Crew: Hunted Bear by Amelia Jade

    Jade Crew: Hunted Bear by Amelia Jade

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Joel Murray has watched his Crew find their mates one by one, until he was the only one unmated. With the ongoing chaos in Genesis Valley, it's been a blessing in disguise. But while Joel may have accepted his single status, his bear certainly hasn’t. Courtenay Laurel is the sole medical doctor employed by the Mining Consortium...
  • Auden by R.E. Butler

    Auden by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the tradition of their people, owl shifter Jessica Thompson’s parents have chosen a mate for her. On the way to a celebratory hunt to meet her arranged mate, a group of hunters spies them and she’s separated from her nest among the flurry of bullets. Injured and disoriented, she crash lands in a zoo...
  • Risk: Part 1  (The Vault) by Nina Levine

    Risk: Part 1 (The Vault) by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A sexy office romance from USA Today bestselling author Nina Levine. I’m comfortable with risk. I deal with it every day of my life. Hell, I fucking live for the adrenaline rush it gives me. The challenge. The gamble. The conquest. When Charlize Cohen walks into my life, she proves to be the biggest risk I’ll ever take. I throw all my strategies out the window...
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    alpha-mc  humor  insta-love  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  steamy
  • Heath by Emilia Hartley

    Heath by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His one chance at happiness ended ten years ago.Heath doesn’t want to be back on his old clan grounds. The ghost of his dead wife haunts him enough when he’s away from this place. Here, where Heath’s old clan leader killed her, the past doesn’t confine itself to haunting a room or a few private moments. It seeps into every place, every time, every thought...
  • Happy Howlidays by V. Vaughn, Olivia Arran

    Happy Howlidays by V. Vaughn, Olivia Arran

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The books included in this Shifters in Love Collection Box Set, are :Snowed in With the Bear – Isadora Montrose – Billionaire black bear tempts curvy grizzly...
  • Wyatt Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Wyatt Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kennedy Mortensen has been drifting for years, travelling and food blogging. It’s a good life, but something’s missing. When she gets to a little hamlet in the mountains of Colorado that isn’t even on the maps, she wonders if she’s found that something—and she’s sure it includes the forceful, but gentle, and oh-so-gorgeous man who runs off a couple of creeps who are bothering her...
  • Unicorn's Instinct by Elva Birch

    Unicorn's Instinct by Elva Birch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All that Tara wants is for her mommy to be happy. (And a puppy.)Kirin are supposed to be lucky, but Vivian feels like her own luck is anything but good. Vivian had a literal unicorn…and tragically lost him while she was three months pregnant and chasing a three-year-old...
  • Kiss My Asteroid by Milly Taiden

    Kiss My Asteroid by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ivy Grimaldi can’t stand change. Ever. But change is something she’s had to deal with a lot lately. Like when her cousin Cassandra moved away to start a new life, baby and all. That all changes when Gerri Wilder shows up at her door with a letter from her cousin. Cassie wants her to come visit. Sure, why not? There’s just one problem. Cassie lives on another planet...
  • Forbidden Heat by R.L. Kenderson

    Forbidden Heat by R.L. Kenderson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s a cat-shifter. He’s a wolf-shifter. They should be enemies…Payton Llewelyn, daughter to the cat-shifter alpha, is attacked by humans, outnumbered, and in the fight of her life.Fearing she’ll never escape, another comes to her rescue, and the scent of a shifter floods her senses—not that of a cat though, but of a wolf...
  • Hot Vegas Nights by Logan Chance

    Hot Vegas Nights by Logan Chance

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s only two rules to being a male stripper in Vegas. #1. Always be attainable. #2. Never fall in love. And I’ve been living by these rules for a very long time. I love my life. I’m one-third of the Trifecta, only the naughtiest male revue show Sin City has ever seen. My days consist of working out, saving money, and entertaining women both on and off the stage...
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    alpha-mc  humor  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Jingle Bears by Moxie North

    Jingle Bears by Moxie North

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is not a standalone book!The novella is a peek into Christmas with the Rochon Bears and the Hayes Cougars. If you haven’t read any of the Pacific Northwest Bear or Cougar books yet this book will leave you scratching your head! Please check out the Rochon brothers and Hayes brothers stories to fully enjoy this novella...
  • Bearly Breathing by Moxie North

    Bearly Breathing by Moxie North

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Independence has its virtues ... but sometimes you really need a helping paw. She’s not looking for a white knight ... Single mom Gemma Ellis loves her son -- and hates asking for help. Her no-account ex has taught her she can’t rely on anyone but herself, even if that means working two jobs and barely scraping by...
  • Draven by Kim Fox

    Draven by Kim Fox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The thrilling finale to The Shifters of Colwood Firehouse!     Cali has been locked in a tower for five long years. Guarded by vicious dragon shifters, she has no chance at escape. Until a mysterious red dragon flies by her window, and the naked man he turns into offers to take her out of there. But even she's not desperate enough to go away with a naked pervert creeping outside her window...
  • Drilled Deep by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Drilled Deep by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Before today I wasn’t sure I believed in love-at-first-sight. Now? Hell, I feel like my heart’s been drilled deep. Ana Clemente fills it. Entirely. Problem is, how exactly do I explain that to this sweet little bookworm without scaring her away? She’s young, innocent, and way out of my league. I’m a salt of the earth man; I believe in family, faith, and forever...
  • Hot Shot Wolf by Aidy Award, Piper Fox

    Hot Shot Wolf by Aidy Award, Piper Fox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She's off limits and he can't resist...Three years ago my wolf found my fated mate, and she was my best friend's little sister.He's no longer my friend, and she's off limits. Is it any wonder everyone thinks I'm a dick?Now, I'm the star player for the Bay State U Dire Wolves and I've told myself I don't have or need a mate. Fate can go fuck itself.Until Addy walks into my life...
  • Cursed Bear by Harmony Raines

    Cursed Bear by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Twenty-five years ago, Cath’s husband walked out of her life, leaving her to raise two sons alone. She threw herself into raising her boys and showered them with love. Her sense of betrayal ran deep. After all, Hector had told her they were true mates, fated to be together forever. Now, another man is telling her the same thing...
  • Fake Date Mate by Harmony Raines

    Fake Date Mate by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It was meant to be a fake date. Instead, he found his real mate.Bear shifter Rory reluctantly agrees to be the fake date for a friend of a friend. It’s one night. One night when he can forget how lonely he is. One night where he can dance with a woman and have fun.Or at least pretend to have fun, since fun is not his thing. Not when his heart yearns for the woman of his dreams.His mate...
  • Dark Alpha's Temptation by Donna Grant

    Dark Alpha's Temptation by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Alpha’s Temptation is a brand new paranormal romance in New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant's Reapers series that features a brotherhood of elite assassins and the women who bring them to their knees. There is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death...
  • Her Grizzly by Fiona Davenport

    Her Grizzly by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Keane Vetle had called the wilderness his home for decades. It didn’t take much to make him and his inner grizzly happy. The only thing missing in his life was the woman who had been made for him.Heading to the woods with two of her coworkers was bound to be interesting since Laina Ash had never camped a day in her life. But she never expected to end up lost lost in the wilderness...
  • Bearly a Memory by Moxie North

    Bearly a Memory by Moxie North

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Labels on everything ... deeply satisfying. Clothing organized by color ... wonderfully soothing. Witnessing a mob hit at work ... utterly terrifying. Brooklyn Nishi likes order, and stability, and following the rules. Then she has to run for her life -- and everything familiar vanishes in an instant...
  • Leia's Playmaker by Nichole Rose

    Leia's Playmaker by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What we professional athletes. What we stick-wielding madmen who look good in blue, play hard, and love harder. It's a good thing this is Silver Spoon Falls because these hunky hockey players fit right in.Welcome the Falcons to the roster! These over-the-top athletes are about to play the most important game of the game of love...
  • Savage Kiss by Milly Taiden

    Savage Kiss by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sage Primrose dreams of the day she meets the man who will sweep her off her feet. She didn't expect him to abduct her while she wore nothing but a towel. Why did bad men have to look oh, so good? Feral Kincaid will do anything to protect his family. When a human female supposedly kidnaps his niece, he goes to get her, claws blazing...
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