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  • Zinc Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Zinc Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Zinc dragon has always known the toxic metals in his bloodstream could end him. But now, separated from his friends and barely clinging to the hope of rescue, he's finally resigned to his fate. At least he gets to spend his last days with a wonderfully kind, curvy woman that he would give anything to have met under different circumstances.Leanne doesn't know what to do...
  • Wild Fire by Mika Nix

    Wild Fire by Mika Nix

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s my nemesis, my rival, and the man I can’t get out of my head. We may be star-crossed but there’s enough heat between us to start a wildfire.I’ve never been one to follow the rules, but sleeping with a wolf shifter might be over the line, even for me. So, why can’t I get him out of my head? Or his scent out of my nose. Even on the other side of the world, I swear I can still smell him...
  • Wolf of the Northern Star by S.J. Himes

    Wolf of the Northern Star by S.J. Himes

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ghost, once known as the cub Luca, is finally home. Back among his kind and learning what it means to be both a man and a shaman, Ghost battles the expectations of his people, his family, and the pressures of a society that is both foreign and familiar...
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    age-gap  alpha-mc  lgbtq  mlm  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  abuse
  • Wolf Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Wolf Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Like every other McCall werewolf in history, Link is headed down a short road to insanity, but he’s determined to go out on his own terms. Those terms? Repay the people the broken McCall pack has hurt before Ian Silver has to put him down. Hope is a dangerous thing for a doomed man like him, but when he meets Nicole, an instant and undeniable connection sparks between them...
  • Bear Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Bear Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **The full-length second book in T. S. Joyce’s new Bears Fur Hire series.** Lena Rhodes is a professional runner. Life is a lot easier when she is throwing everything she has into being a nature photographer for an elite outdoor magazine. And now, she is on her biggest assignment yet: Alaskan brown bears...
  • Blood by A.J. Sherwood, Jocelynn Drake

    Blood by A.J. Sherwood, Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Secret identities are hard to keep.Sora finds this to be doubly true after meeting the struggling Burkhard Clan and the mischievous Ravi. The wind dragon has stolen his breath, and heart, away. Sora suspects he might have found his mate. But his inability to be truthful with Ravi eats at Sora. When the Jaeggi attack, Sora can’t keep his secrets any longer...
  • 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...
  • My Treasure to Keep by Lisa Oliver

    My Treasure to Keep by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thomas, paid enforcer in the Cloverleah Pack, was carrying a lot of guilt. He still believed he was to blame for letting Wesley get targeted by the dark elves, almost causing a rift in Cathair and Marius's mating...
  • The Dragon Warrior by Jessie Donovan

    The Dragon Warrior by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grant McFarland is the head Protector of Clan Lochguard. His top priority is finding the traitorous former clan members who attacked the Scottish clan. However, the touch of a female he’s known his whole life has started to set his body on fire. Both man and beast want her, but until he can ensure the clan is safe, he must resist her.Faye MacKenzie used to be in charge of security for her clan...
  • Her Dragon's Soul by Julia Mills

    Her Dragon's Soul by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 9 in the Dragon Guard series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series. He’d seen the golden highlights of her strawberry-blonde hair glistening in the firelight and it was obvious...
  • Fated Mates: an MM Paranormal Romance Charity Anthology by Kiki Clark, Mia Monroe

    Fated Mates: an MM Paranormal Romance Charity Anthology by Kiki Clark, Mia Monroe

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fated Mates is a Paranormal Romance Charity Anthology from some of your favorite MM authors!It features new, exclusive stories from Kiki Clark, Mia Monroe, Louisa Masters, Kelly Fox, Sheena Jolie, Jennifer Cody, Nikole Knight, Vinni George, Chloe Archer, Meghan Maslow, Lee Colgin, Kelex, H.L Day, Grae Bryan, AJ Sherwood, Michele Notaro, Lisa Oliver, Ariana Nash, Michelle Frost, and JP Sayle...
  • His Prince by Mary Calmes

    His Prince by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jason Thorpe was content living a quiet life in New Orleans. He and his best friend Ode opened their cozy curios shop in the French Quarter, and he was making some new, albeit interesting, friends….Then Jason met Varic Maedoc, the prince of the vampyrs, and his life changed forever...
  • Mate by Piper Scott, Virginia Kelly

    Mate by Piper Scott, Virginia Kelly

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Spitfire Disgrace Matthieu Boudreaux has one wish: to age out of the Pedigree he despises, then destroy it...
  • Bond by Piper Scott, Virginia Kelly

    Bond by Piper Scott, Virginia Kelly

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Adorably naive and shockingly brilliant Harrison Lessardi only needs two things in life: his pet iguana, Steve, and his undying love of science. That is until he witnesses his best friend lay eggs, and a third must-have strolls into his apartment—the sardonic and mischievous Everard Drake...
  • Smolder by Mika Nix

    Smolder by Mika Nix

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I was hired to protect him, but will our smoldering attraction ignite into love?When my hot headed brother found his fated mate, a deep, aching desire opened up inside of me for my own. Everyone knows dragons are covetous, jealous… possessive. I am all of these things, but never more so than when I set my eyes on Dempsey for the first time.Beautiful. Awkward. Sweet. Shy. Perfect...
  • The Hard Rhoade by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    The Hard Rhoade by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finding out that he is adopted is a shock to Travis Rhoades, and he isn't happy that his father hasn't been honest with him. Discovering that he is a demigod, the son of an actual Olympian god? Well, butter his butt and call him a biscuit. Now, he's full-on pissed off.Werewolf-vampire hybrid Lucian Tenebris has had up to his eyeballs with his charge's childish and annoying antics...
  • Omega's Mark by Susi Hawke

    Omega's Mark by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ages ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people… but the seal has been broken Ethan is a charming alpha from the land down under. A retired RAAF pilot, he’s been drawn into the small pack of legacy descendents and their quest to seal the crack in the Fae portal. At 37, he’s not really looking for his true mate - but wouldn’t turn them away either...
  • Cursed to the Alpha by Jessica Hall

    Cursed to the Alpha by Jessica Hall

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Andrei had finally found his mate and he couldn't believe his luck when he found Sage. Second-chance mates have never been heard of.However, he soon realizes that Sage is just as broken as he is. Sage spent years in the hands of monsters and now finds herself in Andrei's forsaken hands, which are just as tainted as those that kidnapped her...
  • 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...
  • Binding Ecstasy by Setta Jay

    Binding Ecstasy by Setta Jay

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Beautiful Weapon Contained.Natasha and her sister were created with sinister purpose. They were Apollo's most deadly and potent weapons. After finally escaping the evil God long ago, they made a secret life concealed among humanity in Earth Realm...
  • Searing Ecstasy by Setta Jay

    Searing Ecstasy by Setta Jay

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Librarian Note: See Alternate Cover Edition HERE.Drake, the powerful dragon and leader of the Guardians, has spent his long life protecting all inhabitants of the four Realms, but fails to save the one who matters most. His mate. In the month since finding her feral, he’s been slowly losing control of his beast and soon he fears the dragon will reign free unleashing it’s fury upon the Realms...
  • Taken by a Vampire by Joey W. Hill

    Taken by a Vampire by Joey W. Hill

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Joey W. Hill’s Vampire Queen novels keep the pages turning, your imagination running, [and] your dreams carnally vivid” (Bitten by Books)...
  • Tricked, Bewildered and Bitten by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Tricked, Bewildered and Bitten by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Loki Kirkberry hasn't had it easy. Abandoned as a newborn, Loki has had to navigate life under difficult and shame-inducing circumstances. When firefighters Cole Ryker and Chaz Savage rescue him from an apartment fire, Loki is embraced by all of their friends and welcomed as family. He quickly finds out that shifters and vampires do exist...
  • Nothing Gained by Macy Blake

    Nothing Gained by Macy Blake

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sawyer Smith's life is a hot mess.Hot, because he's found six of his eight mates. To say things are heating up between them is putting it mildly.A mess, because he's the Chosen One, the son of a goddess with no powers of his own, tasked with fixing the broken magic in his world... and he has no clue how to do it...
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    age-gap  dragons  lgbtq  mlm  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  abuse
  • Prophesy Book II: The Bringer of Wrath by A.E. Via

    Prophesy Book II: The Bringer of Wrath by A.E. Via

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shifter and Vampire True Mates story. Alek’s older brother, Justice—the Alpha Zenith—was the first shifter to mate with a vampire in many generations, and it was believed the rare, fated pairing would stop at him. But, it hadn’t. Aleksei ‘Alek’ Volkov was second beta, next in succession to the most powerful shifter in the world. He was proud of his title and he took his duties seriously...
  • Pleading the Fifth by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Pleading the Fifth by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A simple trip to the airport brings Scott Delange just about everything except the passenger he was planning to pick up. Texting back and forth with a raunchy, unknown man leads to a case of mistaken identity and one hell of a huge surprise.Who knew a trip to Seattle would land Tristan Miles in the arms of his mate? Certainly not Tristan, who stopped looking for love a long time ago...
  • Fury of Desire by Coreene Callahan

    Fury of Desire by Coreene Callahan

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Dragonfury series, book 4.No warrior of the Nightfury pack is more complicated or damaged than Wick. Scarred from a childhood of slavery and torture, Wick cannot bear the touch of another person. But all bets are off when he meets J.J. Solares. When she is unjustly imprisoned, Wick agrees to help rescue and keep her from harm...
  • Psychic Men by Adira August

    Psychic Men by Adira August

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hunter Dane and Camden Snow have settled into a satisfying routine of solving murders and hanging at the club, when they aren't expressing their affection for one another. Vigorously. A great life in an idyllic location. Until a skinny kid who barely came up to Cam's chin sought out Detective Lieutenant Dane... "I saw my father last night," Asher Gamble told him...
  • Call of the Cougar by Terry Spear

    Call of the Cougar by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Special Agent for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Services, Tracey Whittington, takes down wildlife traffickers and more, but what she doesn't expect is to be in a shootout, multiple times, when the business turns deadly. Nor does she suspect she'll be working with Hal Haverton, who serves as a part-time deputy for Yuma Town, Colorado, and runs his own horse ranch...
  • Diabolical: Demon of Royal Paynes by Kiki Burrelli

    Diabolical: Demon of Royal Paynes by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two men from different worlds, thrust together by fate.Demon king and all-around perfect specimen, Claus is the only ruler of the underworld to have stopped an apocalypse. He’s earned a break, and his job in hell can wait for him to explore the pleasures and delights of the human world.County sheriff and mediocre fisher, Jake lives a quiet existence...
  • Ashton Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Ashton Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Ashton Drake’s family calls him home to help keep his cousin Jasper, the king of the mountain, in line, Ashton wants to laugh. He knows he’s in no shape to help anyone. His sanity is hanging by a thread; he’s failing at the job the Drakes sent him to the city to do; and many days he can’t even handle his own dragon...
  • Omega Found by Susi Hawke

    Omega Found by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ages ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people… but the seal has been broken Heath is a human… or is he? Rescued from a horrible fate by the group of legacy descendants, he needs to embrace his inner beast in order to deal with the fate the gods have for him. But first, he has to accept the fact that he might not be exactly human...
  • Alpha's Dom by Susi Hawke

    Alpha's Dom by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ages ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people… but the seal has been broken Lion alpha Tau Jabari is on sabbatical from his medical career in Kenya when he stumbles over a pregnant omega in the jungles of Belize about to give birth. Assisting him is an efficient omega who smells like... mate. Red Panda shifter Jun Chen is a sassy little omega... but an omega Dom...
  • Blaze by Wolf Specter, Angel Knots

    Blaze by Wolf Specter, Angel Knots

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A dragon who doesn’t know how to love…. Fate hasn't been kind to Ivan, but he doesn’t blame her. He's spent the last couple of centuries doing terrible things to the humans who live in the Eastern European territory once claimed by his sire, Nikolai... which makes him the last person with any right to expect kindness from something as fickle as fate...
  • Alpha Deceived by Susi Hawke, Piper Scott

    Alpha Deceived by Susi Hawke, Piper Scott

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After thousands of years, they’re back… Proud dragon warrior and healer Sana has a secret… one that may forever turn his friends against him, and one that he’ll do anything to keep. He’s worked too hard to keep who he truly is from the world, and he refuses to let the charade drop, even after waking up thousands of years in the future...
  • The Omega's Alpha by Ann-Katrin Byrde

    The Omega's Alpha by Ann-Katrin Byrde

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Barren, unwanted—a lot of omegas would have given up. But not Holland. Tired of living down to other’s opinions, he reaches for something more and seduces the new Alpha, only to fall so far in love he can’t see the moon for the trees. Quin’s ghosts won’t leave him alone. He lives like a ghost himself, but Holland’s shining light gives him courage to reach for healing and, maybe, a family...
  • An Assassin's Touch by Stephani Hecht

    An Assassin's Touch by Stephani Hecht

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nobody realizes better than Shane that he has no real future. As a Leopard, he’s destined to live alone and be reviled by his fellow feline shifters. Instead of letting that hurt him, Shane just throws himself into his work as the coalition’s top assassin. A job that his breeding makes him perfect for. He tells himself that he doesn’t need anyone else—that he’s fine living a solitary life...
  • Irish Wishes by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Irish Wishes by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Super werewolf Wayne Maccon has been fighting his growing feelings for a certain blond man for years. Previously mated to a woman, Wayne just can't seem to take that final step and be with the man who is his new mate. But how long will Conner O’Rourke wait for him to make up his mind?Conner O'Rourke has waited so many years for the alpha of the created wolves to claim him as his new mate...
  • When No Doesn't Cut It by Lisa Oliver

    When No Doesn't Cut It by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Scott Peterson, beta wolf in the Cloverleah Pack, has a good life. He loves his cars, riding his Harley, and going out with pack members and friends. But when an attack on his pack by a bear shifter, brings his mate into his world, from Texas of all places, Scott realizes he could lose everything he ever held dear...
  • Hell on Earth by Macy Blake

    Hell on Earth by Macy Blake

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    His job is to protect the world. But can he protect his heart? Protector. Boogeyman. Hellhound. Meshaq has been called it all. As alpha of the hellhounds, his goddess has tasked him with protecting the secrets of the supernatural world. He’s the police of other creatures and the enforcer of the goddess’s rules...
  • Queen Takes King by Joely Sue Burkhart

    Queen Takes King by Joely Sue Burkhart

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How many Blood will come to the vampire queen's call... and will they be able to protect her from the king?For the first time in her adult life, Shara has plenty of money thanks to the Isador legacy--and she's not alone. Daire and Rik are devoted lovers, but they know other Blood are coming. Blood who may challenge Rik for the coveted alpha spot at her back.As her power grows, so does her hunger...
  • Cry of the Pride by Lacey Thorn

    Cry of the Pride by Lacey Thorn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lost and alone…After her mother’s death, Lyra grew up in the foster care system, struggling to hide who she is from the humans who found enough wrong with her. Never fitting in anywhere, she learned to adapt, hiding the damaged parts of herself as best she could...
  • The One and Only by M.A. Church

    The One and Only by M.A. Church

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Turmoil in the West Falls clowder has reached a boiling point. Brier Fendon, the last unmated beta, is sweating bullets. His goddess has swept through their ranks, handing out mates willy-nilly. While he would be okay with a human as a mate now, thanks to the changes his Alpha has brought, he’d still prefer a werecat...
  • Stop Dragon My Heart Around by Rachel Langella

    Stop Dragon My Heart Around by Rachel Langella

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    (You may know them better as Ari McKay). Sometimes Fate has a bizarre sense of humor. Or at least it seems that way to Gus, owner of the Rainbow Room, Asheville’s main hangout for gay paranormals. He’s seen Fate catch up with the patrons of his bar while he served drinks and listened to their stories for three hundred years...
  • Shield of the Dragon by Megan Derr

    Shield of the Dragon by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the aftermath of destroying two powerful syndicates and joining league with the last person he expected, all Ken wants is a chance to catch his breath, and maybe regain the attention of the man who said he wanted Ken as more than just a Steward but now seems to have lost interest...
  • The Dragon King by B.A. Stretke

    The Dragon King by B.A. Stretke

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Harkin Ravenscroft, The Dragon King, never thought he would find his true mate. Harkin figured he had already lived that part of his life. Not wanting to wait, he took a squire dragon as his mate and they had five sons before Roland died at the hands of a hunter. Now his sons are grown and his son Quinn has already started a family of his own...
  • Kiss of a Dragon King by Amy Pennza

    Kiss of a Dragon King by Amy Pennza

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When you love someone, you’ll do anything to save them. Even if it takes a lifetime. Even if it takes a thousand years…Cormac is my mate, my love, and my king. He’s also the last pureblooded dragon in the world—and I’ve spent the past few centuries watching him slowly descend into madness. The weight of time drove him to the edge...
  • A Dragon's Fortune by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes

    A Dragon's Fortune by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cillian Roarke is the world’s sweetest dragon. He’s a great boss, a good person, and he spends his days making honey-glazed caramel treats in the shape of bunnies for his bakery, Honey Bunny. Still, the highlight of every day is watching the adorable college student who’s Much Too Young For Him stuff his face full of Cillian’s sweet buns...
  • Dark Seduction by T.A. Grey

    Dark Seduction by T.A. Grey

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a lunatic vampire escapes from prison, Dmetri Demidov is called in to help protect the Kategans. After all, out of all the Justicars he was the only one who used to have an intimate relationship with one of the Kategans. Dmetri’s grumbling over having to “babysit” the Kategans is quickly extinguished though when he meets the pack’s healer—Christine Barrows...
  • 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...
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