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Blackstone Ranger Guardian: Blackstone Rangers Book 5 by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFighting for his mateWhen John Krieger rescues a stranded fox shifter in the middle of a snowstorm, he never expected that she would turn out to be his mate. However, the darkness lurking in his soul prevents him from claiming her and he pushes her away. When he realizes his mistake, he vows to make himself into someone who deserves her... -
Alpha Theo by C.J. Primer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading book one (Alpha Gray) for context before starting in on this one. * This book is very different from book one- it's a slow burn, and it's a very bumpy ride. You've been warned! THEO: I'm next in line to be the alpha of my pack, but my father doesn't think I'm ready... -
Chromium Dragon by Terry Bolryder
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsChromium, the last unmated dragon guard and former royal bodyguard of the Drakkaris court, has a secret. He’s been sneaking out at night to serve vigilante justice and taste new things in the human world. When he runs across a curvy restaurant owner with a sweet personality and a lasagna to die for, he knows he has found his mate... -
Silver by Terry Bolryder
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA dragon as a coworker? Complicated. Adrien the silver dragon has everything most humans could want. But as a dragon awakened in the modern world he misses his old life, his powers (which have been temporarily restrained) and the way he used to lord his status over others... -
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Fire Maidens: Portugal by Anna Lowe
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA jaded warrior who doesn't want to get involved + an irresistible she-dragon on the run. For centuries, the Guardians of Lisbon have kept shifter forces in check — dragons, vampires, and witches. Now, with their powers dwindling, they’re too busy to respond to a lone woman’s cry for help... -
The Wolf Marshal's Pack by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe never meant to be Little Red Riding Hood. Nature photographer Aria Clarke is most comfortable with her camera in her hands and mud on her boots. And she's a single mom, so she's used to facing down the most dangerous wildlife of all: a group of neighborhood kids on a sugar rush. Taking photos of a wolf should have been no problem... -
The Snow Leopard's Pack by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA librarian with a difficult past + a veteran snow leopard shifter + a dangerous threat = one passionate romance! Divorced, broke, and living at home: Lillian Lowell has given up hope. Ever since her ex-husband left her with a monstrous debt, she’s focused on making her life as small as possible so she can pay it off. Even so, it’s going to take years, and she’s already in her mid-thirties... -
Cobalt Dragon by Terry Bolryder
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe Cobalt dragon is ready for a mate. At least, the bookish intellectual thinks he is. But when he and his crew are sent on a mission to rescue another dragon heart, only to find that she's already rescued herself, Cobalt will find that fate has someone much different than what he had in mind. Sylvie has always been a fighter... -
Mating a Grizzly by Dianna Love
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMATING A GRIZZLY is book two in the unusual League Of Gallize Shifters series (all stand alone paranormal romances). Justin is an elite black ops warrior on a unique shifter team. He’s as deadly as they come and determined to succeed on every mission...Categorized as:
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Lion in Waiting by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo injured shifters get a second chance at life…and love. Matilda escaped into the wild to lick her wounds and heal as best she can from captivity and torture at the hands of people who hunt shifters and imprison them. She is a lioness, but her natural confidence has been shaken by the experience. What she needs is a second chance to live, to heal, and to find her lioness’s roar once more... -
Bear Essentials by Novalee Swan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe wasn't aware of her wet, clinging clothes. Her long hair, sticking to her skin. The melting hail or the dark night. She was only aware of one thing, and he was consuming her.CONNOR REID is complex. An alpha, taller and stronger than anyone else, who has never lost a fight. But the truth is, this grizzly bear shifter is as sweet as a summer breeze and shy as a prairie dog... -
Owen and Addy: A Red Team Wedding Novella by Elaine Levine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRed Team #14 - Owen and Addy: A Red Team Wedding NovellaWriting love letters to a dead woman was the sum total of Owen Tremaine’s romantic prospects without Addy Jacobs in his life... -
KnightForce Deuces by Sydney Addae
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSilas Knight, La Patron, and his mate Jasmine are the top Alphas to over 33 million wolves in the US, have a problem. Just as their den has expanded with four half-breed pups, so has the Wolf Nation. Millions of half-breeds are accepting their rightful place in the nation and Silas couldn’t be happier... -
Savage Exile: A Shifting Destinies Lion Shifter Romance by Cecilia Lane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe can't save himself, but he'll save her...Rhys is a disaster: too violent for his old pride, and more accustomed to using his fists instead of his words. He's managed to carve out a place among the Crowley lions, but his temper still rides him hard. The only balm is Sage, a shattered woman with a core of fire. He wants to bring it out of her... -
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Savage Silence by Ellis Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's no escaping a Dire Wolf on the hunt...Dire Wolf Thaus preferred the silence, having spent most of his time alone as the weaponry expert of his pack. But a mission outside of his expertise will challenge him more than he ever expected and threaten more than just his life. Some memories are too horrific to forget... -
Danny by Janice M. Whiteaker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCraig is the best at what he does. He can find anyone. Anywhere. Any time.Doesn’t matter how hard they try to hide. But locating his friend’s lost family is proving to be more of a challenge than he anticipated. Shadow Pine, Washington is Craig’s last lead, one built on nothing but rumor and hearsay. But sometimes that’s all you need... -
Return to Bear Creek Collection Two: BBW Paranormal Romance by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsForever Bear Can Cal convince Teagan he is her forever bear? Teagan’s mom never got over her mate leaving after a brief relationship. Unable to cope, she handed her baby over to foster care. A part of Teagan always felt abandoned, and yet she never let herself believe she was unworthy of love. Yet her childhood and all the unanswered questions she has stored up, still haunt her...Categorized as:
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Single Daddy Bear Next Door: Thornberg Ranch by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCamille moved to Bear Creek to start a new life. NOT a new relationship.So when her neighbor opens the door wearing nothing, but a towel slung around his hips, and the cutest baby in his arms, she knows she is not going to fall for him…Who is she kidding? Ezra is everything she could want in a man. But she is determined not to fall for the single daddy next door... -
Saw Bear by Scarlett Grove
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan Love Heal?A loyal man ...Buck Kincaid runs his family's timber business on Fate Mountain. He's hardworking, steady, and ready to settle down. It won't be that easy, though -- the morning after a human-shifter dating app finally finds his match, his mate sends him a message that they can never meet.A wounded woman ...Maria Reyes knows her sister is happily mated to a bear shifter .. -
Heartsridge Shifters: Brent by Olivia Arran
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTeam South-One Bear shifter Brent Casey has a secret. He’s not the calm, easy going guy everyone thinks he is. Even his team aren't aware of the battle he fights daily to stay in control. Underneath his skin lives his beast. Sounds like every normal, regular shifter, right? Only his bear is broken, ready to erupt at the slightest loss of control... -
Heartsridge Shifters: Jake by Olivia Arran
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBear shifter Jake Hunter is the resident psycho of team South-One. He lives his life by his own set of rules, screw the consequences or what anyone else might think. His rules are simple: no one is allowed to get too close. The reason? Because they might die. So why is he even wasting time thinking about Harper and what it would be like to be with a woman like her? Because he’s a fool, that’s why... -
Enforcer: Reckless Desires by Olivia Arran
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI’m a stone cold killer… I’m the assassin. The one they send to do the jobs no one else wants. They think I don’t have a heart, that I don’t care, and they could be right. So, why does Frankie insist on ignoring the warnings? She’s there, everywhere I look, her lush body calling to me, her words punching craters in my ego. She’s not afraid of me. She wants me, any way she can have me... -
Survivor Bear by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA shifter mating bond can survive anything. Can't it? When bear shifter bodyguard Linda gets on a small plane with her best friend she has no idea how her life is about to change. Especially when her mate climbs on board too. But what should be a happy event soon ends in disaster when the pilot bails on them and the plane crashes into the side of a mountain... -
Bear-ly Human by Terry Bolryder
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHercules is an ex special forces soldier working as a bodyguard, and a mystery to everyone around him. His friends just know him as an extremely competent soldier and a great teammate and person. But beneath his bronzed, muscled exterior is a heart scarred by a complicated past. A past in which he loved only one woman, but wasn't allowed to be with her... -
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A Baby for Chashan by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA mother’s plea, a childless alien’s promise, and a Preor warrior torn between his mate and duty… After a hundred years of mating, Healing Master Chashan thought he knew all there was to know about his mate, Heart Master Khaza. But the sudden presence of one adorable human baby shows him that he’s very, very wrong... -
Lindy & The Wulfen by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter a devastating blow to her already fragile self esteem, werewolf Lindy Vincent has decided to stop being the pack whore and change her life for the better. With the help of her two best friends, her alpha female, and a feisty she-wolf named Eula, Lindy starts down the road of self-improvement, happy for the first time in years... -
Gunner by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA bear shifter in need of redemption. A mate in need of revenge. Something called to Gunner. Something he could not describe. A need to go into the mountains. He’d heeded the call even though he had no idea what he’d find. Certainly, he’d never expected to find his mate. Gunner had long stopped hoping she would walk into his life. Not that Sadie did walk into his life... -
Hero Bear by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBear shifter Knox has never had it easy. Whatever he touches, whatever he loves, ends up dead. Or so he thinks when he moves to Bear Creek to stay with his old army buddy, Jamie. But fate is not ready to give up on this hero bear and when he meets Hannah, his true mate, he starts to believe in happy endings. Hannah is a social worker, with a problem... -
Firestorm Forever by Deborah Cooke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis flame will burn for all time… Three key firestorms mark the culmination of the Dragon’s Tail Wars, pitting the dragon shifters known as the Pyr against the evil Slayers. The Slayers have struck a blow against mankind, in bringing a pestilence from the ancient world, which is spreading like wildfire through the human world... -
Savage Sanctuary: A Dire Wolves Mission by Ellis Leigh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's no escaping a Dire Wolf on the hunt... Even as the playboy of the Dire Wolves, Levi isn't exactly a soft touch. He likes his liquor, his women, and his photographs...but he also has an affinity for sharp knives and claws... -
Forsaken by Caitlyn O'Leary
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaught Between Duty and Love… Seth Natani is one of the DEA’s best operatives thanks to his “found” abilities, but he’s hanging on by a thread. Working undercover for almost two years the evil surrounding him continues to mount. Leaving his lover, Annie Newman, behind was the hardest thing he had ever done... -
My Next Breath (The Obsidian Files) by Shannon McKenna
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZade 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... -
Sexy Beast VII by Kate Douglas, Anitra Lynn McLeod
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBig and bold, primal and powerful, these men have a seductive sensuality that no woman can resist. Come enter their world of carnal desires and wanton sexuality...if you dare... "Chanku Challenge" by Kate Douglas When Beth and Nick first discovered the amazingly sensual power of their Chanku birthright, the desire to mate was fierce and uncontrollable...Categorized as:
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Baker Bear by Scarlett Grove
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a big-city lawyer and a small-town baker find love in Fate Valley?An unexpected return ... Donika Devon's career has taken her to Harvard and the most powerful law firm in New York City. When a shocking discovery at work leaves her life in shambles, she has nowhere to go but back home to Fate Valley ... where she signs up for a shifter-human dating website. An unconventional courtship .. -
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Hunter's Moon by Silver James
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDr. Jacey Randolph just might be crazy. A rescued wolf is more than he seems and his ability to get into her head—literally—makes her doubt her sanity. After the death of her husband in the Gulf War, she returned to the family ranch to run an animal sanctuary. Bad enough she has to fend off advances from the local sheriff, but now she’s turning into some sort of Dr. Doolittle... -
Exposed by Kate Douglas
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Final Chapter: Gifted with exceptional strength and extraordinary sensuality, the shapeshifting Chanku have learned to survive on their own, far away from their one true home in the mountains of Montana. But as the years pass, the packs begin to long for one another, for the incredible passion they enjoy together and for the erotic pleasure they find only with their own kind.. -
Taming the Wild Cougar by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCougar shifter, Dr. Kate Parker, is planning her annual camping vacation alone this year. She runs into trouble before she even starts her trip in the form of one wounded, hot cougar, undercover cop—or so he says... -
Mechanic Bear by Scarlett Grove
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes fate works in mysterious ways … A desperate woman ... Fox shifter Dana Myers is on the run. After two years of indentured servitude to the Updike hyena pack on Fate Mountain, she finally makes her escape in a stolen car. When it breaks down, she discovers that mechanic and bear shifter Jessie Kincaid is her match on a shifter dating website...Categorized as:
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Force by Kathi S. Barton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMyles 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... -
Wolf in the City by Skye Jones
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Don't miss this exciting new shifter series from Skye Jones," Michelle Fox. Handsome, confident, and cocky, Jake is one alpha wolf who knows what he wants. Nothing but some no-strings fun. But when he bumps into an intriguing human female during a trip to Edinburgh, “nothing” quickly becomes something he’s never experienced before. Something serious. Cait never gets the hot guy... -
Tyler by Kim Fox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSkin shifter, Tyler Jones, hasn’t been home in almost a decade. Why would he? His community of skin shifters excommunicated him, Jacob, the ruler who happens to be his older brother, is a psychopath, and the girl who he spent his whole youth loving broke his heart when she turned him away. So yeah, he’s just fine staying on Clawed Ranch. Skin shifter, Isabelle Lexington, is desperate... -
Kitten Me Twice by Anya Nowlan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo wounds are deep enough to keep werelion twins from claiming what is theirs. If they get to kick some ass along the way, all the better... -
Max and Hope: A Red Team Wedding Novella by Elaine Levine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe holidays have come fast to the team at Tremaine Industries. So much has happened since spring—families destroyed and reunited. Several threats have been terminated and others are just beginning.Max Cameron finally has time for a breather, something he hasn’t had since he found Hope in the midst of a violent biker gang, hunting for her brother... -
The Traitor by Abigail Owen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDecades ago, rogue dragon shifter Rune Abaddon took a stand against the decaying, corrupt systems governing their people. He now uses his bad-ass reputation to protect the innocent as it all comes crashing down. But he’s pushed the limits one too many times... -
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Dragon Fixation by Amelia Jade
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPretend to be the mate to a hunk who thinks he’s a dragon shifter? It’s not exactly what Corporal Carla Giannone signed up for when she joined the military, hoping to help protect those who didn’t have a voice. But his muscles and charm say yes, as does the forty-eight hours of leave that she just started... -
What a Wolf Dares by Amy Pennza
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when the species' most notorious womanizer meets the woman of his dreams?As a werewolf Alpha's daughter, Sophie Gregory was raised to understand she has two important purposes in life--to be wed and bred. When she fails at the first, she wants nothing to do with the second, even if it means spending the rest of her life alone... -
His Captive Omega by P. Jameson, Kristen Strassel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn omega in trouble will make this alpha general challenge his king… After falling victim to the humans on a rebellious trip to the Keep, Rielle needs help more than she needs discipline. With his medical background, Evander’s the perfect alpha to help her recover, but he also has a reputation for showing no mercy to traitors... -
Rugged Rock by Ellie Pond
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI thought we’d escaped. Wrong. Oh, so wrong.The five of us—my mates and protectors, beat the enemy mermen in the Boston battle. But we’ve yet to win the war.A haven turns into a New Year’s hell. Kidnapped, separated, with a life in jeopardy, we have to combat a mystical kind of greed...Categorized as:
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His to Possess by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt wasn't temptation. It was instinct.Stone Keeler is a six-foot-four hunk who could win any girl's heart and then make her scream in bed, but as he claimed my quivering body for the first time the look in his eyes was terrifying... -
FireStarter by Elle Boon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKeanu uses his powers as a Fire Elemental to fight the fiercest forest fires. He lives his life dangerously as a Smokejumper knowing his abilities can save lives where others can’t. Called home to investigate threats, he finds a woman who calls to his soul. He has no clue that the biggest blaze he would ever fight, would be the one that Cammie Masters stirs in him...
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