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

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

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **Don’t miss the thrilling final book of T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Outlaw Shifters series** Genie isn’t what people expected. She isn’t just a squirrel, but a shifter in hiding named Tenlee. She’s dug herself into a deep hole, and now her past has come back to haunt her and hurt her friends in the Two Claws Clan. Not only that, but the man she loves had left the ranch, and left her in despair...
  • Forbidden Temptation: Volume 4 by Teresa Gabelman

    Forbidden Temptation: Volume 4 by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Taking on new recruits has always been tricky business for Dell Farris, head protector of the Lee County Wolves. Add in the knowledge that his mate is one of them makes things even more complicated. He knows she has demons to fight, but he’s determined to take charge of that battle. Nothing and no one will ever hurt her again. Roslyn “Ross” Starr has secrets that she plans to take to the grave...
  • Dragon Baby by Milly Taiden

    Dragon Baby by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lily Cruz doesn’t want a wolf for a mate. She’s totally not going to follow in her cousin’s footsteps. With one failed marriage behind her, she isn’t really interested in relationships period. But she would love to have babies. At almost forty, her biological clock is hammering over her head big time. Thane Dreki won’t get some random woman pregnant just to stay alive...
  • Racing Hard by P. Jameson

    Racing Hard by P. Jameson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Paranormal Shifter Romance In the south, things get real dirty. Especially on Saturdays. Mud on your jeans. Grit in your beer. Your tan washes off in the shower. That's how you know it's racing day. Or as the Dirt Track Dogs like to put it, winning day. Because they aren't racing unless they're winning.Surge, the wildest of all the Dirt Track Dogs, is finally ready to settle down...
  • Maverik's Ashes by Sandra R. Neeley

    Maverik's Ashes by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maverik’s broken. His entire world came crashing down around him without warning, stolen from him brutally in the night by the one female he entrusted his soul to. His Wolf is all he’s got left, both are bitter, wary, untrusting and dangerous...
  • Greyriver Shifters by Kristina Weaver

    Greyriver Shifters by Kristina Weaver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The shifters of Greyriver are hot as hell and nothing will stop them in their paths, so cozy up and be ready for some sexy fun! Enjoy 5 Standalone, full length books in this bundle. More than 400,000 words. NO CLIFFHANGERS. UNWANTED MATE I don’t want to feel this pull towards Mika Bright and feel the lust that overtakes me when I smell her...
  • Home for the Holidays by P. Jameson

    Home for the Holidays by P. Jameson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Racing season is over, but the Dirt Track Dogs are ready to celebrate. Someone’s been naughty, and now the pack is expecting a new addition just in time for the holidays. Scarred up wolf shifter, Blister, has come a long ways since his days of sleeping in a tent in the woods. He’s made a real home with his mate, staked his claim on her bed and heart, and now he’s going to be a father...
  • The Alpha's Promise by Renee Rose

    The Alpha's Promise by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After one loser boyfriend too many, Melissa Bell is done with bad boys. So when her ex puts her life in danger once again and a buff, tattooed alpha shifter shows up to rescue her, it’s the last thing she needs. Cody quickly finds himself wishing that he’d never made an alpha’s promise to keep the haughty human safe, but for some reason his inner wolf craves her more than his next breath...
  • How It's Supposed to Be by T.S. Joyce

    How It's Supposed to Be by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Auxor Bane has made a pact. He and his brothers made a promise to each other that they would let their bear shifter lineage die off with them, for the betterment of mankind. They aren’t fluffy, and they aren’t cute. As one of the three remaining bear shifters alive, Aux struggles daily with the predator inside of him...
  • Doms of Dark Haven by Sierra Cartwright, Cherise Sinclair

    Doms of Dark Haven by Sierra Cartwright, Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Three women, three Doms. One extraordinary night. Welcome to Dark Haven, and may all of your darkest wishes come true...Met Her Match (A Hawkeye Story) by Sierra CartwrightGenre: BDSM Erotic ContemporarySeries: Hawkeye; Previous Book: Bend Me OverHighly trained Mira Araceli can hold her own in the toughest parts of the world, but not, it seems, against her secret crush, Torin Carter...
  • Ceric by Alexi Ferreira

    Ceric by Alexi Ferreira

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    CERICShe's feisty, a real fire cracker but as sexy as hell. She's constantly getting herself and the others into trouble, but she's MINE. She thinks that she can just walk into danger and i will let her, but now she has the MC and me to keep her safe.NOVAHe's bossy, arrogant and possessive, but so damn hot. He thinks he can tell me what to do...
  • Stripe for Love by Anya Nowlan

    Stripe for Love by Anya Nowlan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One curvy belle + One blue collar tiger shifter + Traditions that shouldn't be broken + A baby no one could have expected = Mail-order bride romance with more heat than you can handle! Layla Nash has her ducks in a row and everything's going to work out as planned...
  • His Bunny Kicks Sass by Dawn Sullivan

    His Bunny Kicks Sass by Dawn Sullivan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emery Ericksen fled her herd, intent on escaping an arranged marriage to an abusive alpha. Ending up in a small town, she works as a waitress at the Sassy Wolfe, saving up as much money as possible so that she can move on before she winds up on one of the local wolves’ dinner menu. She managed to stay under the radar, not attracting too much attention, until he walked into the bar...
  • Taken by Susan A. Bliler

    Taken by Susan A. Bliler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nyree was thriving as the best female Sentry assigned to the Skin Walker teams. Placed on special assignment, she was flattered to have been chosen to train the Keepers who’d just arrived at the Estate. Keepers were different from the Walkers she’d been trained with. Highly aggressive toward females, she found out too late that Keeper aggression was sexual and not a disdain for the female species...
  • Bearly Healed by Moxie North

    Bearly Healed by Moxie North

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Beware of shifters bearing cheese puffs...they might be about to steal your heart and make you whole again.What do you get when you mix one feisty sprite of a woman ... Cassidy Hackett knows all about life’s hard knocks. After growing up in foster care, her only family is her friend Effie, who sees past Cassie’s sarcasm to the heart she shields so carefully...
  • Remy by Susan A. Bliler

    Remy by Susan A. Bliler

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unaware of the volatile past between her brother and her Commander, Harlow EnemyHunter doesn’t understand her Commander’s clear aversion to her presence on his team. Determined to fit in, Harlow goes to great lengths to prove her worth, earn respect, and hide her infatuation for her Commanding Officer. Remy McCabe has waited years to get revenge on fellow Skin Walker, Mason EnemyHunter...
  • 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...
  • A Mate's Submission by P. Jameson

    A Mate's Submission by P. Jameson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Hot Paranormal Shifter RomanceAvan is finally Alpha to the largest wolf pack in the country. Her position as one of the few alpha females in existence means shifters will come from all over to challenge her, and try to gain control of Ozarka. Most concerning is the sudden appearance of a Ravendale wolf she never expected to see in her camp...
  • 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...
  • Lover Wolf by Amy Green

    Lover Wolf by Amy Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Werewolf Heath Donovan has always had it all. The favored son of Shifter Falls' hated alpha, Heath was given the easy life - and his looks have women falling at his feet. Now the old alpha is dead, and Heath runs Shifter Falls' favorite werewolf bar. It's hard work, but the women are still easy. Except Tessa Keefe. Not only is Tessa a sexy blonde bombshell, she's Heath's employee...
  • No More Lion by Anya Nowlan

    No More Lion by Anya Nowlan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Curvy Liza Perelli has been looking for a place to call home all her life. From a privileged background, she has done her best to shrug off that lifestyle and seek out the simpler things in life through her art. Still, there is something missing. When she meets sexy werelion Rake at her best friend's wedding, Liza knows she has a chance for something truly spectacular...
  • Eyes on the Pride by Lacey Thorn

    Eyes on the Pride by Lacey Thorn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Watching... Darby doesn’t just know shifters exist. It’s her job to watch them. For the last four years, she’s had her eye on one shifter, Calloway Meyer. She’s obsessed with him, which is problematic since he seems set on avoiding her. LWaiting... Calloway has spent four years keeping an eye on his mate, waiting for her to be ready to be his...
  • Bearing Secrets by Marissa Dobson

    Bearing Secrets by Marissa Dobson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ivy Carter’s life changed in a blink of an eye. An attack on the compound she considered her home destroyed those she considered family and the life she thought she had. With her brother and the Alpha of the clan missing, she’s left on her own until the Alaskan Tigers come to her rescue and whisk her off to safety...
  • Alpha Rogue, Volume 2 by Terry Bolryder

    Alpha Rogue, Volume 2 by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Important! "Alpha Rogue, Volume 2" is the second in the 2nd segment in this serial. (Please read volume 1 FIRST!)Alpha females are super rare in Hawthorne's world...
  • Tamed by the Mistress by Mina Carter

    Tamed by the Mistress by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Mistress rules all, but who rules the Mistress?Mistress of the City, Reena Leroy, picked her partner for the Midwinter Choosing only to have him disappear from her bed before she woke. Now she’s at his pack house to find out why... But things aren’t what she expects. Archer’s not a wolf, or wasn’t until a few days ago. Now he’s chained in his family’s basement as he undergoes conversion...
  • Hunter by D.J. Bryce, D.J. Bryce

    Hunter by D.J. Bryce, D.J. Bryce

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was only supposed to be one night. Independence Capri is a businesswoman first, but her father's daughter second. Her co-workers see her as just the boss's daughter, so she works extra hard scouting locations and figuring out new ways to market Outdoor Bound, her father's real baby...
  • 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...
  • Alpha Shifter Seductions Boxed Set by Mandy M. Roth

    Alpha Shifter Seductions Boxed Set by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Boxed Set Contains: Blaze of Glory (Prospect Springs Shifters) Pike’s Peak (League of the Unnatural) Tipping the Scales (Stop Dragon My Heart Around) Warriors of Darkness Blaze of Glory (Shifter Paranormal Romance): Sheriff Jonathan MacSweeny is in charge of keeping the peace in Prospect Springs. Frontier living isn't what it used to be...
  • Bear Sentry by Ruby Shae

    Bear Sentry by Ruby Shae

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a routine mission turns deadly, bear shifter and former Enforcer, Jase Wagner is lost. The ability to trust his senses disappeared with the death of his partner and left him feeling worthless and unable to protect his clan. In an effort to find a place to fit in, he travels south and ends up in Deals Gap, North Carolina...
  • Dancer's Heart by R.E. Butler

    Dancer's Heart by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Adam Cruz has spent the last twelve years of his life wondering if he’d ever find his truemate. As a low-ranked omega wolf, with a body full of scars from a firebomb, he’s had more than his fair share of trauma and shame. All he wants is to find his truemate and settle down, even though he wonders if his mate will care about his scars, or that he can’t hunt as well as other wolves because of them...
  • Bear Up (Grayslake: More Than Mated Universe) by Mina Carter

    Bear Up (Grayslake: More Than Mated Universe) by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Girl meets boy = classic love story. Girl meets bear... Wait, what? Small town girl Kacie has always known there was something odd about Lizards Lick, but she doesn't expect that oddity to almost claim her life or land her in the arms of her long-term crush; hot veteran Dean...
  • Alphas Gone Wild  (Shifter Paranormal Romance Boxed Set) by Michelle Fox, Catherine Vale

    Alphas Gone Wild (Shifter Paranormal Romance Boxed Set) by Michelle Fox, Catherine Vale

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some alphas are too wild to tame, but our sassy heroines enjoy a beast in the sheets. It's feminine wiles and wanton shenanigans as each of these ladies comes up against the man of her dreams. Alphas Gone Wild features 11 sizzling hot tales of shapeshifter romance from NY Times and USA Today best selling authors...
  • Alpha Fever: 22 Contemporary and Paranormal Romance Stories by Elianne Adams, Erzabet Bishop

    Alpha Fever: 22 Contemporary and Paranormal Romance Stories by Elianne Adams, Erzabet Bishop

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alpha Fever is filled with a scintillating, spicy blend of ***BRAND NEW*** contemporary and paranormal romance stories written by 24 USA Today, Amazon, International, and Award Winning Bestselling Authors wrapped up in one amazing boxed set! Pre-Order for 99cents! Won't last long so get your copy today! Elianne Adams – Erzabet Bishop – Muffy Wilson – Rozlyn Sparks –Jacintha Topaz – Elvira...
  • Fated And Furr-oscious (Grayslake: More Than Mated Universe) by K. Collins

    Fated And Furr-oscious (Grayslake: More Than Mated Universe) by K. Collins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fawn Blackly has a past she can’t remember and a future she can only imagine. After inheriting her estranged father’s cabin, she moves to Greyslake, Georgia, hoping to solve the mysteries of her past and fill the emptiness that has always consumed her life...
  • Master's Retribution by Mina Carter

    Master's Retribution by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She has everything to lose, and everything to fight for.Born a non-shifter in an ailing pack, Cyan has gone from nothing to the Lady of the City, her mate at her side and a beautiful baby daughter. When the court is infiltrated by an old enemy, she must make a choice between her life and that of her daughter…He almost lost her once, and it’s not happening again. Ever...
  • Craving Beauty by K.L. Fast

    Craving Beauty by K.L. Fast

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maximillian Dunn Mad Max is what they called me. Turned into a bear shifter by an experiment gone wrong, every day I try to appease him. Nothing works until I find her. Confused, I wonder why it was just that simple. Craving her isn’t nearly enough Harper Brown I've been looking for a beast my whole life. During the storm of the century, I got more than I bargained for...
  • Awaken a Wolf by R.E. Butler

    Awaken a Wolf by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book #9 in the Wiccan-Were-Bear series.Natural Wiccan Cinder Knight has a pretty good life. She’s part of the largest coven in North America and has a great job at the Whalen Family Clinic. She has zero complaints, until she finds herself the recipient of unwanted attention from a certain alpha wolf...
  • Devour by Susan A. Bliler

    Devour by Susan A. Bliler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Modess Wilder, Alpha of the Blood Lust pack, hates just about everything and everyone. Right now, the thing he hates most is being in Shadow Wolf territory listening to the offer of exchange from the Shadow Wolf Alpha. A fierce and violent Alpha, Modess, has ensured that his pack has everything it needs...
  • Press Paws by Celia Kyle

    Press Paws by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s no pause button in life? Ha! She’s just the fabulously fluffy werefeline to create one. Hannah Buchanan is the oldest daughter to the Buchanan werelion clan leader, twin to Katie Buchanan, and… and blah, blah, blah. Hannah is a lot of things, but she refuses to be defined by her family and their connections. She’s more than an honorable, fertile womb destined for a political mating...
  • Dirty Alpha by Olivia T. Turner

    Dirty Alpha by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I think my cheeks are going to stay pink forever.Because this grizzly bear shifter keeps making me blush with the filthy things he's saying.Julian is not shy to let me know what he wants.And what he wants is me.He's obscene, vulgar, lewd, crude, and just plain dirty whenever he opens his mouth.I can't believe this man is my fated mate.Oh, well... clean is overrated anyway...
  • Her Mate by Fiona Davenport

    Her Mate by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Luke Besnik wasn’t looking forward to visiting the Badlands Territory. His alpha has given him the impossible task of talking some sense into his selfish sister. But the moment he met Adley Hoyt, his trip was more than worthwhile.
Adley has yearned for a fated mate ever since her adopted parents told her about shifters. Just when she almost gave up hope, Luke turned up in town...
  • Every Sunset Forever by R.E. Butler

    Every Sunset Forever by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Raised by wolves, were-hyena Whisper Callahan has spent the better part of her life struggling to fit into a world where she’s the odd one out. Her adopted family loves her, of that she has no doubt, but now they’re encouraging her to connect with her own kind...
  • Jingle Bear by Ruby Shae

    Jingle Bear by Ruby Shae

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Quinn Miller, a polar bear shifter, is an enforcer at the North Pole. Protecting Santa’s Village is his number one priority, and the job leaves little room for anything else. A mistake made years ago hardened his heart, and he’d rather live alone than allow love to alter his judgment again...
  • 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...
  • Owned by the Outlaw by Jenika Snow

    Owned by the Outlaw by Jenika Snow

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stinger, a member of the Grizzly MC, leads a life that is dangerous and violent. When The Brothers of Menace, an MC in the next town over, ask the Grizzlies for help, they don’t hesitate to step-up. They are asked to help transport abused prostitutes to a safe house. It’s easy enough, except Stinger sees Molly Clark, a nurse for the battered women, and instantly knows she will be his...
  • Shiftily Ever After by Georgette St. Clair

    Shiftily Ever After by Georgette St. Clair

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Single female shifters from all across the country are flocking to the brand new territory in Greenlands, New Hampshire. After all, there's land to be claimed, sexy male shifters lurking behind every towering pine tree, and - death challenges? Apparently, Dakota Sheffield picked the wrong woman to impersonate when she decided to go undercover for a little vacation...
  • A Mate's Wish: by P. Jameson

    A Mate's Wish: by P. Jameson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Christmastime at Lake Haven Lodge is the stuff of legends. Tucked away in a crook of the Ouachita Mountains, visitors come to relax and unwind for the holidays. What they don’t know is that it’s run by a clan of virile mountain cats. Handyman, Renner Blackfoot, is bored with his existence. Filling his bed with random females for his panther’s pleasure isn’t enough anymore...
  • Racing the Alpha by P. Jameson

    Racing the Alpha by P. Jameson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Previous cover edition for ASIN B00WJCC8GGFor all editions see hereBook #1 of the Dirt Track Dogs series. **Can be read as a standalone (NO CLIFFHANGER)** **Warning: this book contains dirty, dirty things. Including but not limited to dirty talk, dirty sex, dirty minds, dirty mouths, and dirty looks. Do not read this book if you are a germaphobe. In the south, things get real dirty...
  • Nothin' But Trouble by Jenika Snow

    Nothin' But Trouble by Jenika Snow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lilly Winters gave her virginity to Court Devlin—her brother’s best friend—at the age of eighteen. Losing it in the back of his pickup truck hadn’t been romantic, but it didn’t matter because she loved him. But afterward, Court distanced himself from her and Roan, and she knew it was because he felt like he betrayed her brother.Court Devlin is a bear shifter and a member of the Grizzly MC...
  • The BEARy Possessive Grizzly by Jenika Snow

    The BEARy Possessive Grizzly by Jenika Snow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cason 
I devoted my life to working, building a career and business, making sure I was secure and stable in my life for the sole purpose that I’d find her, that everything would be ready and perfect for her.
 My mate.
 The one woman who would complete me.
 The one woman who was born to be mine alone...
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