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  • Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs

    Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham must discover what could make an entire community disappear — before it's too late — in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Alpha and Omega series.In the wilds of the Northern California mountains, all the inhabitants of a small town have gone missing. It's as if the people picked up and left everything they owned behind...
  • Night Broken by Patricia Briggs

    Night Broken by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    An unexpected phone call heralds a new challenge for Mercy. Her mate Adam’s ex-wife is in trouble, on the run from a stalker. Adam isn’t the kind of man to turn away a person in need—and Mercy knows it. But with Christy holed up in Adam’s house, Mercy can’t shake the feeling that something about the situation isn’t right...
  • Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs

    Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, never knows what the day - or night - may bring in a world where "witches, vampires, werewolves, and shapeshifters live beside ordinary people" (Booklist). But she is about to learn that while some secrets are dangerous whose who seek them are just plain deadly..
  • Pearl Sky by Elizabeth Hunter

    Pearl Sky by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It was a friendly visit until a priceless artifact was stolen. Now Ben and Tenzin are up to their necks in secrets that can kill.It’s not just any holiday season in the immortal world. Elder Zhang’s oldest servant is reaching the century mark and Ben and Tenzin are ready to celebrate, but no sooner do they land on Penglai Island than a mystery falls in their path...
  • Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs

    Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    By day, Mercy is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shapeshifter with some unique talents, Mercy has often found herself having to maintain a tenuous harmony between the human and the not so human. This time she may get more than she bargained for...
  • Born to Be Badger by Shelly Laurenston

    Born to Be Badger by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the Honey Badger Chronicles, nothing gets between a honey badger and her prey. And no one spins a bolder, snarkier shape-shifter love story than New York Times bestselling author Shelly Laurenston . . .Emily “Tock” Meyerson-Jackson is on a mission to rid the world of shifters trafficking humans for hunting and cash...
  • Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs

    Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    In this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Mercy Thompson must face a deadly enemy to defend all she loves...My name is Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman, and I am a car mechanic.And a coyote shapeshifter.And the mate of the Alpha of the Columbia Basin werewolf pack...
  • Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs

    Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, faces a threat unlike any other in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman. My only "superpowers" are that I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote and fix Volkswagens. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. It looks like I'm going to need them...
  • Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs

    Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    Patricia Briggs's novel River Marked was praised as "an urban fantasy where our everyday world is believably twisted into the world of fey, werewolves, vampires, and myths made real." Now Mercy Thompson faces a shapeshifter's biggest fear as the realm she has embraced is thrown into chaos...Mercy Thompson's life has undergone a seismic change...
  • Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs

    Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae...
  • Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

    Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    I could smell her fear, and it satisfied something deep inside me that had been writhing under her cool, superior gaze. I curled my upper lip so she could get a good look at my sharp teeth. I might only weigh thirty or so pounds in my coyote shape, but I was a predator...Mechanic Mercy Thompson can shift her shape - but not her loyalty...
  • Midnight Labyrinth by Elizabeth Hunter

    Midnight Labyrinth by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    He's one human caught in a tangled maze of theft, politics, magic, and blood.
In other words, it's just another night.Benjamin Vecchio escaped a chaotic childhood and grew to adulthood under the protection and training of one of the Elemental world's most feared vampire assassins. He's traveled the world and battled immortal enemies.But everyone has to go home sometime...
  • Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs

    Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings. In return, the average law-abiding, solid citizen has little to worry about from the things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I wish I was an average citizen...Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor...
  • Spells for the Dead by Faith Hunter

    Spells for the Dead by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Nell Ingram faces a dark craft known as death magic in the newest pulse-pounding paranormal procedural in the New York Times bestselling Soulwood series.Nell Ingram is a rookie PsyLed agent, using the powers she can channel from deep within the earth to solve paranormal crimes. Together with her team, she's taken on the darkest magic and the direst foes...
  • Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter

    Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock must dig deep and find strength within herself if she is to survive in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series.Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker, and vampire killer-for-hire, but her last battle with an ancient arcane enemy has brought her low...
  • One Second by Dannika Dark

    One Second by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    ***USA TODAY BESTSELLING SERIES*** EXPLOSIVE FINAL INSTALLMENT IN THE SEVEN SERIES Book 1 is on sale for a limited time! Love. Family. Brotherhood. Lexi has faced personal struggles, but nothing has prepared her for the most perilous battle of her life. Shifters are on the brink of war as Northerners target Colorado in an attempt to infiltrate the borders...
  • Fair Game by Patricia Briggs

    Fair Game by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Patricia Briggs, the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson novels, "always enchants her readers." (Lynn Viehl, "New York Times" bestselling author) Now her Alpha and Omega series-set in a world of shifting shapes, loyalty, and passion- brings werewolves out of the darkness and into a society where fear and prejudice could make the hunters prey...They say opposites attract...
  • Omens and Artifacts by Elizabeth Hunter

    Omens and Artifacts by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the elemental world, reputation is everything, but gaining it can get you killed.Setting up shop as an antiquities hunter means nothing if you don't have clients. Benjamin Vecchio, nephew of a famed vampire assassin, is the subject of widespread speculation, but so far that speculation hasn't translated into work.What Ben needs is a job. A big job. A profitable job.A legendary job...
  • Nicole by Teresa Gabelman, Jeffrey Kafer

    Nicole by Teresa Gabelman, Jeffrey Kafer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Listening length: 4 hours, 22 minutesNicole Callahan, mate to fierce and brooding VC Warrior Damon DeMasters, has been trying to find her place in his world. Without a doubt, it’s been interesting, but she believes there’s a lot more she can offer the children she spent so much of her human life fighting for...
  • Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker…and the woman rogue vampires fear most. Jane walks softly and carries a big stake to keep the peace in New Orleans, all part of her job as official enforcer to Leo Pellisier, Master of the City. But Leo’s reign is being threatened by a visit from a delegation of ancient European vampires seeking to expand their dominions...
  • Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Cold Reign by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker…and the woman rogue vampires fear most. Jane walks softly and carries a big stake to keep the peace in New Orleans, all part of her job as official enforcer to Leo Pellisier, Master of the City. But Leo’s reign is being threatened by a visit from a delegation of ancient European vampires seeking to expand their dominions...
  • Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston

    Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Ten years after Blayne Thorpe first encountered Bo Novikov, she still can't get the smooth-talking shifter out of her head. Now he's shadowing her in New York-all seven-plus feet of him-determined to protect her from stalkers who want to use her in shifter dogfights. Even if he has to drag her off to an isolated Maine town where the only neighbors are other bears almost as crazy as he is..
  • Knights Magica by B.R. Kingsolver

    Knights Magica by B.R. Kingsolver

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    If the Knights Magica want a war, I'm willing to give them one.I damned my soul long ago. What I do from this point forward is about redemption. If I burn in Hell because of fighting for others, for shouldering their sins, so be it.The Knights are powerful, and they have taken control of the Universal Church...
  • Night Unbound by Dianne Duvall

    Night Unbound by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Dianne Duvall's Immortal Guardians protect humanity from unspeakable horrors--but their hearts are as fragile as any mortal's. . .For centuries, Lisette d'Alençon has been a warrior against the dark. She fights alongside her brothers and comrades. But when the dreams start coming, she can't bear to confess them to the Immortal Guardians' command...
  • River Marked by Patricia Briggs

    River Marked by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Mercy Thompson: Mechanic, Shapeshifter, Fighter.Car mechanic Mercy Thompson has always known there was something different about her, and not just the way she can make a VW engine sit up and beg. Mercy is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. And she's never known any others of her kind. Until now...
  • Tainted Blood by K.N. Banet

    Tainted Blood by K.N. Banet

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m Everly Abbott, and I work for one of the most dangerous vampires in the world.He’s known as Alexius, the Hunter and he’s also one of the oldest.We’ve been invited to a gathering of ancients like him, and we can’t pass on this opportunity...
  • Shifted by C.P. Rider

    Shifted by C.P. Rider

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A telepath with a lethal twist.My name is Neely and I live among shapeshifters in the desert truckstop town of Sundance, California. As a wolf shifter, I'm not much of a threat. But as a telepath-spiker, I'm deadly.For six months, life has been peaceful...
  • Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs

    Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Now mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham face a threat like no other–one that lurks too close to home…They are the wild and the broken. The werewolves too damaged to live safely among their own kind. For their own good, they have been exiled to the outskirts of Aspen Creek, Montana. Close enough to the Marrok’s pack to have its support; far enough away to not cause any harm...
  • Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

    Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Anna Latham didn’t know how complicated life could be until she became a werewolf. And until she was mated to Charles Cornick, the son — and enforcer — of Bran, the leader of the North American werewolves, she didn’t know how dangerous it could be either..
  • Addict by Lexi Blake

    Addict by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In order to destroy a legendary monster and save the royal family, Kelsey must make a deal with a devil…When Kelsey Owens returns home to Dallas, she is a changed woman. After months of training with Marcus Vorenus , she has more control over her abilities. She’s ready to start her new job, even if it means dealing with the King of All Vampire and his partner, Devinshea Quinn...
  • A Killer's Kiss by Helen Harper

    A Killer's Kiss by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A twisted killer is making his mark in London, leaving a trail of blood and devastation in his wake. It’s not only humans who are being targeted. Vampires, werewolves and pixies are in mortal danger too.I’ve been called in to help with the investigation but I can’t shake the feeling that there’s more to the murders. Someone is playing a very sick game - and it’s up to me to put a stop to it...
  • Sabotaged by C.P. Rider

    Sabotaged by C.P. Rider

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A telepath with a lethal twist.My name is Neely and I live among shapeshifters in the desert truckstop town of Sundance, California. As a telepath-spiker, I can read a person's thoughts. I can also spike deadly power straight into their brain...
  • Eat Prey Love by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Eat Prey Love by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Wanted: Bride. Must love children. Mortals need not apply.Carlos Panterra is looking for a mate, a woman who will love and care for the young orphans he's recently taken under his wing (or paw, as the case may be). When the shape shifter spies the beautiful Caitlyn, it's like sunshine amidst the darkness. At last, he's found the perfect woman, except...Caitlyn Whelan is mortal...
  • Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs

    Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    For once, mated werewolves Charles and Anna are not traveling because of Charles’s role as his father’s enforcer. This time, their trip to Arizona is purely personal--or at least it starts out that way...Charles and Anna soon discover that a dangerous Fae being is on the loose, replacing human children with simulacrums...
  • Forbidden Nights with a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Forbidden Nights with a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The Best Things in Life Are Always ForbiddenVanda Barkowski is in trouble. As the owner of a hot nightclub, she's more unconventional than most of her fellow vampires, and if some think her a little out of control, then so be it. But after three former employees filed a complaint about her temper, Vanda is sentenced to an anger management class. Worse, Phil Jones agreed to be her sponsor...
  • Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan

    Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light.... Her childhood had been a nightmare of violence and pain until she heard his voice calling out to her. Golden and seductive. The voice of an angel.He had shown her how to survive, taught her to use her unique gifts, trained her in the ancient art of hunting the vampire...
  • Dark Heir by Faith Hunter

    Dark Heir by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Shapeshifting skinwalker Jane Yellowrock is the best in the business when it comes to slaying vampires. But her latest fanged foe may be above her pay grade…For centuries, the extremely powerful and ruthless vampire witches of the European Council have wandered the Earth, controlling governments, fostering war, creating political conflict, and often leaving absolute destruction in their wake...
  • Last Guard by Nalini Singh

    Last Guard by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    NYT bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to a world devastated by change in her award-winning Psy-Changeling Trinity series, where two people defined by their aloneness hold the fate of the Psy in their hands . . . Termed merciless by some, and a robotic sociopath by others, Payal Rao is the perfect Psy: cardinal telekinetic, CEO of a major conglomerate, beautiful—and emotionless...
  • Death's Rival by Faith Hunter

    Death's Rival by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker you don’t want to cross—especially if you’re one of the undead…For a vampire killer like Jane, having Leo Pellisier as a boss took some getting used to. But now, someone is out to take his place as Master Vampire of the city of New Orleans, and is not afraid to go through Jane to do it...
  • Two Minutes by Dannika Dark

    Two Minutes by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    After years of living abroad, Maizy returns home to the only family she’s ever known—a pack of wolves. When she confronts her childhood watchdog to see where they stand, his resentment leaves her uncertain about where she really belongs.Behind Denver’s charming smile is a tragic past—one that’s made his wolf savage and unpredictable...
  • Shattered by C.P. Rider

    Shattered by C.P. Rider

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A telepath with a lethal twist.My name is Neely and I live among shapeshifters in the desert truckstop town of Sundance, California. As a telepath-spiker, I can read a person's thoughts.I can also spike deadly power straight into their brain...
  • His Realm by Mary Calmes

    His Realm by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On their first meeting, Varic Maedoc, prince of the vampyrs, told Jason Thorpe that loving him was not for the faint of heart. He wasn’t kidding. In the past two years, Jason has been kidnapped, lived through several attempts on his life, and foiled a coup. Now, his new life as the prince’s consort and adviser to the king is made even harder by Varic’s prolonged absence...
  • Alpha & Omega by Patricia Briggs

    Alpha & Omega by Patricia Briggs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In Cry Wolf, New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs started a new urban fantasy series set in the world of Mercy Thompson — but with rules of its own. Now, read "Alpha and Omega," the novella that inspired the new series, and see how it all began...Anna Latham never knew werewolves existed, until the night she survived a violent attack... and became one herself...
  • Summoned by C.P. Rider

    Summoned by C.P. Rider

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A telepath with a lethal twist.My name is Neely and I live among shapeshifters in the desert truckstop town of Sundance, California. As a telepath-spiker, I can read a person's thoughts. I can also spike deadly power straight into their brain.I'm in an uneasy relation-friend-ship with Lucas Blacke, an enigmatic tiger alpha that I'm drawn to, but don't fully trust...
  • Vampires are Forever by Lynsay Sands

    Vampires are Forever by Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Vampires Don't Exist...Do They?Inez Urso is beginning to have her doubts. Her business associate Thomas Argeneau has some interesting traits, like an allergic reaction to the sun, excellent night vision, and not much of an appetite for food. And to top it all off, he just tried to bite her neck...but maybe that was a sign of passion...
  • Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

    Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney. MaryAnn is human, but she knows all too well the overwhelmingly aggressive instincts of Carpathian males...
  • Building From Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter

    Building From Ashes by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Power, passion, and politics collide in an Elemental World that is ruled by the ancients.For a thousand years, earth vampire Carwyn ap Bryn has sacrificed for the good of others: God, his family, his friends. But tragedy rips his world apart, causing him to question everything about his eternity...
  • Bold Mercy by Laken Cane

    Bold Mercy by Laken Cane

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It's hard to concentrate on work when you've just moon-shifted with your alpha...But the council that recruited me doesn't waste any time handing me my first assignment--and it just happens to be personal to me.I have to slay the warped evil that is Avis Vine--a human servant so twisted and changed by her former master's bad blood magic that she's no longer really human...
  • Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Something wicked is at work in Colorado’s supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison…a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the already-fractured alliance between witches and the undead.The state’s cardinal vampire, Maven, summons boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther to stop the killing before it ignites a war...
  • A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day

    A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Bared to You, Sylvia Day, draws us into the shadows of a seductive underworld where lycans, vampires and angels vie for supremacy…Elijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality...
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