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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Marked by Rebecca Zanetti

    Marked by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Janie Kayrs has known Zane almost her whole life. He was her friend in the dream world. She trusted him. But that was before he kidnapped her, spiriting her away to an isolated cabin to learn what her dreams never told her. Like how dangerous he looks. How he got on the wrong side of the negotiating table...
  • Stoneheart Lion by Zoe Chant

    Stoneheart Lion by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's a shifter fixer who can fix anything ... except herself. Exiled from her clan, jaguar shifter Max is a P.I. who handles unique shifter problems. Incriminating photos, blackmail, mate problems? Max helps others solve their problems because there is no cure for her own loneliness. At least none that she knows.But she's never had a problem like him before ..
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
  • Mission: Her Defense by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Defense by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One former special forces Marine. One tall, handsome police detective who pushes all her buttons. One dangerous investigation that forces them to work together. Blair Mason is badass to the bone. She’s no stranger to loss and barely survived the mission that ended her military career...
  • Shadow Flight by Christine Feehan

    Shadow Flight by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Chicago’s Ferraro crime family will do anything to protect one of their own in this thrilling entry in the Shadow Riders series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.Nicoletta Gomez was a terrified teenager when Taviano Ferraro and his brother saved her life...
  • Deception by D.B. Reynolds

    Deception by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Kauai, Hawaii—tropical paradise, vibrant jungle, turquoise sea... and sensuous nights that hide vampires so powerful they can change the world.Raphael—powerful, extraordinary, arrogant. He’s been eliminating rivals and gathering allies, determined not just to survive, but to demolish the Europeans who think they can steal what he’s worked for centuries to create...
  • Pretend: A Dark Military Romance by Lexie Axelson

    Pretend: A Dark Military Romance by Lexie Axelson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alessia ValentínShe’s an intelligence officer on orders to go overseas on her first deployment. Despite who her parents are, she’s determined to prove she belongs there. After getting informed by her step-father, Admiral Ravenmore, that she’s a target for multiple enemies, he assigns Operator Creature as her personal security to watch over her while she’s on deployment...
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  • Shifter's Innocent by Lisa Ladew

    Shifter's Innocent by Lisa Ladew

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He's hunted, she's living a lie, and an unlikely connection dooms them both…Beckett Oswego has lost himself in his work for years, always looking over his shoulder for the killer who stole his father and brother from him. When he isn’t working, he parties his weekends away. Work, party...party, work. Anything to keep his mind busy and off the constant pain from the past that haunts him...
  • Any Witch Way by Lindsay Buroker

    Any Witch Way by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Thanks to her grandmother’s legacy, Morgen Keller has spent the summer learning about her witch heritage. She’s also spent the summer falling for the sexy werewolf next door.As an unemployed divorcée, she never expected to find love again, but the gruff Amar has been her protector since she arrived in Bellrock. He’s fierce, loyal, strong, and he hardly ever rolls his eyes at her vegetarian ways...
  • Taken by Susan Copperfield

    Taken by Susan Copperfield

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six years following his marriage to Jessica and their coronation, Pat learns just how far greedy politicians will go to safeguard their wealth, status, and power. After being taken from his family and home, Pat decides he’ll just rescue himself and ruin their plans while he's at it. Texas is about to learn their king is far more than the horse loving, bootscraping of a chef they believe he is...
  • Jerrik by Janice M. Whiteaker

    Jerrik by Janice M. Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Spirit is fine.Living a life she didn't chose, keeping secrets she never wanted, on a mountain covered in darkness.But everything's fine.She can handle it all.Including the deputy making her life harder than it has to be.In more ways than one.****Jerrik used to be good at his job.That was before he had to fight something he couldn't see.Chase someone who was always two steps ahead of him...
  • Blood and Buttercups by Shari L. Tapscott

    Blood and Buttercups by Shari L. Tapscott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life is weird. One day, you’re in the garden, tending your tulips and growing your flower farm business, and the next, your doctor is handing you a prescription for synthetic blood and signing you up for vampire support groups.Hi, I’m Piper Edwards, and I’m pre-vampiric. Here are a few things I didn’t know a month cute guy who visits my flower stall at the farmer’s market every week is a vampire...
  • Zane's Redemption by Tina Folsom

    Zane's Redemption by Tina Folsom

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The last thing vampire bodyguard Zane wants to do is to guard a hybrid, a half-vampire, half-human, whose father wants to keep her a virgin. Known for his violent temper and callous lack of compassion, Zane’s out-of-control rage, born of the cruelty he suffered during the Holocaust, drives him to focus only on revenge. Trying to find the last of his torturers is his only goal in life...
  • Mountain Guardian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Mountain Guardian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A mountain man with a tragic past + a curvy amnesiac + two deadly secrets = one explosive romance! His bear-shifter clanmates know him only as Gannon, a scarred loner concealing a dark past. The mountain man of the Pinerock Bears guards the Circle B Ranch from afar and shuns the company of others, until the day he comes back to his cabin and finds a beautiful, curvy woman sleeping in his bed ..
  • Wolf Detective Next Door by Roxie Ray

    Wolf Detective Next Door by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Help—my new neighbor is dangerously hot and I think he might bite…My publisher thinks that the small, quiet town of Lily Valley is the perfect place to cure my writer’s block. But even she couldn’t have known about the real-life alpha hero living right across the hall.Miles is like a character straight from the pages of one of my romance novels...
  • Fierce Impact by Julie Trettel

    Fierce Impact by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grant Phillips has always been a team player. He lives his life for the Force and worked hard to land a coveted spot with Team Bravo. He follows the rules, keeps his head down, and never causes trouble. Grant does everything for everyone else and wants for very little. The mission always comes first, until she waltzes into his life.Taylor Maxwell is a wild card. A thrill seeker. A rogue wolf...
  • Wolf with Benefits by Shelly Laurenston

    Wolf with Benefits by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Ricky Lee has no plans of getting serious about anyone, but he will protect Toni Jean-Louis Parker. Not just because he’s been hired to do so, but because it’s the right thing to do...
  • Mission: Her Protection by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Protection by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Rowan’s Arctic research team pulls a strange object out of the ice in Northern Canada, things start to go wrong…very, very wrong. Rescued by a covert, black ops team, she finds herself in the powerful arms of a man with scary gold eyes. A man who vows to do everything and anything to protect her… Dr. Rowan Schafer has learned it’s best to do things herself and not depend on anyone else...
  • Mission: Her Security by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Security by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When sweet, smiling Kinsey is kidnapped by unknown forces, former SEAL and Team 52 operator Smith Creed will risk anything to get her back.Kinsey Beck is used to life knocking her down. She escaped her past and came to Las Vegas for a new start. So what if she didn’t achieve her dream of being a showgirl, instead, she now has an awesome job as logistics manager for the covert, black ops Team 52...
  • Consumed by Rebecca Zanetti

    Consumed by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    SOMETIMES YOU MATE FOR LIFEKatie Smith is the best of her class, part of an elite hunting force trained to eliminate werewolves from the hills of Western Virginia. She's good at it because she has the kind of focus and drive that won't back down no matter how steep the odds. Call it southern sass...
  • Her Dragon Protector by Roxie Ray

    Her Dragon Protector by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Can I really trust a dragon with my heart? When I show up in Black Claw with bruises on my face and a split lip, I’m not looking for another man - I’ve made enough bad choices in that department. I’m ready to lie low with my best friend and pray to god that my ex doesn’t come to find me.But Axel isn’t like any of the guys I’ve been drawn to before.I’m not ready for a new relationship...
  • Shifter's Echo by Lisa Ladew, Michael Pauley

    Shifter's Echo by Lisa Ladew, Michael Pauley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Listening Length: 8 hrs He's seen his fated mate die a thousand times... and yet, they've never met. Crew is a powerful, yet tortured, wolf shifter. With a weary heart, he seeks to avoid fulfilling a prophecy that foretells the death of his fated mate...true love lost before it has a chance to begin...
  • Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

    Dust to Dust by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    (New to this angsty, sexy, scary romance series? Start with book #1, Darkhouse, and work your way up through all the slow-burn spookiness) Perry Palomino and Dex Foray. On their own, they’re uniquely brilliant. Together, they’re an unstoppable team. Until now. Because after everything the duo has encountered, they haven’t come across an evil quite like this...
  • Celebration by Anna Lowe

    Celebration by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shifters, holidays, secret babies — ho, ho, ho! It’s been a long, hard couple of months, but the bear and wolf shifters of the Blue Moon Saloon are ready to celebrate their hard-won peace with a few days off. While some couples use the time to relax with breakfast in bed, others head out for small, intimate adventures in the desert Southwest...
  • Forbidden Shifter Protectors (The Quinton Shifters) by Abigail Raines, Ann Russek

    Forbidden Shifter Protectors (The Quinton Shifters) by Abigail Raines, Ann Russek

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I didn’t want to resist her. I had to. As a Tremblay brother, I’m loyal to my wolf clan. Which means that I have a set of rules to follow. Rules that wouldn’t let me quench my desire for Michelle. For one, she’s human. Absolutely forbidden. Secondly, I’m her boss. And third, making a move on her would mean betraying my pack. This is nothing but torture...
  • After All the Wreckage by L.J. Evans

    After All the Wreckage by L.J. Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if the future is already written? GageWhen Rory Marlowe Bishop walks out of my past and into my bar, I realize she’s not just a kid anymore. Now she’s hell on wheels and a special kind of temptation. But I can’t afford the distraction, not with the responsibility I’ve inherited...
  • Virgin Sacrifice by L.M. Ramirez, Jess Gloom

    Virgin Sacrifice by L.M. Ramirez, Jess Gloom

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For most, death is final.For me, it was just the beginning…My mother gave up everything to save me.When she died last year, I thought my life was over, but Mami raised me to be a survivor. A fighter. And that’s just what I intend to do.Tucked away in rural Connecticut, the elite Hollow Oak University is the perfect place for a new beginning. The plan is simple...
  • The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

    The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.“Clever, dark, and hopeful . .
  • Shadowed Steel by Chloe Neill

    Shadowed Steel by Chloe Neill

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    In the third installment in the Heirs of Chicagoland series, the vampires in Elisa Sullivan's world are out for blood.Elisa Sullivan is the only vampire ever born, and she bears a heavy legacy. After a sojourn with the North American Central Pack of shifters in the wilderness—where she turned a young woman into a vampire to save her life—Elisa returns to Chicago.But no good deed goes unpunished...
  • Lachlan by D.B. Reynolds

    Lachlan by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Scotland—sweeping forests, tumbling waterfalls. . .and towering highlands where vampire warriors have ruled for centuries.Lethal and charismatic, vampire Lachlan McRae woke on his first night to death and devastation—his clan slaughtered, his fortress destroyed...
  • Dangerous Lover by Maggie Shayne

    Dangerous Lover by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No sooner had Selene Brand cast her love spell than dark, handsome--and freshly stabbed--Cory Forrester fell at her feet. She felt as destined to save this stranger as she was to love him, even if it meant exposing her secret life as a witch. But the injured amnesiac didn't even know his own name, whether Selene was the cause of his injured state--or his salvation...
  • Bad Boy Bear by Zoe Chant

    Bad Boy Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Biker bear on the open road + BBW runaway-bride hitchhiker + evil motorcycle gang = an unforgettable red-hot road trip! Tattooed bad boy and bear shifter Remy Hayes never felt like he fit in at his bear clan's rural Montana ranch. Now, after a fight with his alpha, he's taking his Harley and hitting the road. But it's more than just wanting to see what's over the next hill...
  • The Witch's Blood by Michele Notaro, Kenneth Obi

    The Witch's Blood by Michele Notaro, Kenneth Obi

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Listening Length: 9 hours and 36 minutes. I’ve been living with this burden for years, but my secret has finally been revealed, and I feel like I can breathe again. I’ve wanted to ask - to beg - for help, but the spell that’s held me captive wouldn’t allow it. With it out in the open, I’m more determined than ever to break the seal from my chest, so I can truly be free...
  • Alpha Rancher Bear by Zoe Chant

    Alpha Rancher Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A take-charge alpha with commitment issues + a midwife who's not about to give up control of her well-ordered life + a roadside winter disaster = an EXPLOSIVE romance that's about to blow up everything they both thought they wanted!This is the third book in the Bears of Pinerock County series.Alec Tanner isn't looking for a mate...
  • Reece by Stasia Black

    Reece by Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I need a new man like I need a hole in the head.The last one almost killed me. Literally.I barely escaped with my life, and when I end up on a ranch in Central Texas, I’m just looking for a place to hide out and recover.But then Reece Walker saunters in.(Why, God? Do you enjoy torturing me like this? Is it fun for you?)I tell myself it’ll just be one night...
  • Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh

    Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The “smouldering heat, epic romance, and awesome action” of Nalini Singh’s NYT bestselling series continues as two Arrows find themselves caught in a chilling conspiracy that spans all three races . . . Awakening wounded in a darkened cell, their psychic abilities blocked, Aden and Zaira know they must escape...
  • Dark Instincts by Suzanne Wright

    Dark Instincts by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    It happens whenever wolf shifter Roni Axton is near Marcus Fuller: a crackle of sexual awareness that’s intoxicating…and deeply annoying. Marcus is a pack enforcer who oozes power, but Roni is lethal in her own right—nothing like the flirty females who flock around him. Even still, his possessive gaze makes one thing clear...
  • Strength of the Mate by Kendall McKenna

    Strength of the Mate by Kendall McKenna

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Adam Madison is in Iraq, driving suply trucks for the Marines, but he still can't outrun his personal ghosts. Outside the wire, insurgents are a relentless threat. Inside, renegade werewolves are a constant danger.Dawson Rivers is on a mission for the True Alpha - bring the rampaging shifters under control. Adam proves to be invaluable to his task...
  • Hunter by Stasia Black

    Hunter by Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Snow White’s on the run and sexier than ever… ISOBEL:I’m on the run from my evil stepmother but no one can know.Least of all my new boss and major pain in the ass, Hunter Dawkins.We might have had one amazing night together but the next morning he went colder than a Wallstreet banker’s heart during a charity ball.I have zero tolerance for assholes in my life. No thank you...
  • Chasing Morgan: Book Four: The Hunted Series by Jennifer Ryan, Coleen Marlo

    Chasing Morgan: Book Four: The Hunted Series by Jennifer Ryan, Coleen Marlo

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book four in The Hunted seriesFBI agent Tyler Reed trusts only facts and evidence, until the day a beautiful blonde delivers a life-saving warning based on nothing more than a vision.Five years later, the mysterious Morgan Standish has used her talents to help Tyler and the FBI bring down countless criminals. Still, Tyler knows next to nothing about her...
  • Wake A Sleeping Tiger by Lora Leigh

    Wake A Sleeping Tiger by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    On a moonless Navajo night, the recessed Bengal Breed known only as Judd became Cullen Maverick, grandson to one of the Chiefs of the Six Tribes of the Native Americans.Bengal genetics, usually so fierce as to be labeled primal, was recessed so deep inside Judd that no hint of it can be found. A phenomena so rare it’s been notated only a few times...
  • For the Hope of a Crow by T.S. Joyce

    For the Hope of a Crow by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ramsey Hunt is caught in a spiral no one can save him from, and he’s taking his entire Clan of crow shifters down with him. A broken mating bond has him going insane, and all he can do is try to hold onto his Alpha position as long as possible. But when a spirited beauty comes waltzing into his MC’s clubhouse demanding an audience with him, he can’t help but think he’s dreaming her up...
  • Hearts of Fire by L.H. Cosway

    Hearts of Fire by L.H. Cosway

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Circus Spektakulär is proud to present Jack McCabe: Fire-breather, knife-thrower, risk-taker. By night Jack McCabe captivates audiences. He is a fire-breather, a spectacle desired by women and envied by men. But by day Jack is a loner few people truly know...
  • My Next Breath (The Obsidian Files) by Shannon McKenna

    My Next Breath (The Obsidian Files) by Shannon McKenna

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zade Ryan. Rebel supersoldier. Nearly superhuman. On a desperate quest to rescue his missing brother Luke by any means possible. To do it, he must seduce the elusive Simone Brightman, inventor of the ingenious and deadly tech used to capture Luke and hold him prisoner, location unknown. Zade will do whatever it takes to get close to Simone...
  • Healed by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Healed by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A WOMAN BETRAYEDDr. Sarah Johnson has been gifted with the power of healing, and when she rushes to help a friend in need she gets more than she bargained for, and all hell breaks loose.A MAN ON A MISSIONAfter finding himself tangled up with the most stubborn woman in the world, Navy team leader Nate Goodman knew his life was never going to be the same...
  • The Protector by Abigail Owen

    The Protector by Abigail Owen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The cousin of the High King, Lyndi Chandali has lived with the constant threat of being pawned off as a political prize. A rare, female-born dragon like Lyndi can’t truly mate—not in the way it counts. Which is why she's kept her distance from a certain sinfully delicious Beta. Instead, she's built a life for herself giving orphaned dragons in the Americas a home...
  • Force by Kathi S. Barton

    Force by Kathi S. Barton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Myles ends up at the hotel to meet with the missing woman’s sister only to find her holding a gun to the head of a vamp. The woman has one of the smartest mouths he’s ever heard, not to mention, tasty as hell. Chris Collier only wants to find her sister, Millie, settle her up with whatever she needs to get her out of her life...
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