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  • The Edge of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Edge of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hell has felt like home lately to Naomi Dunbar, but her Maker is about to change everything. She has a secret crush on the man with the glowing gold eyes who saved her life, and gave her the gift of the wolf, but he is distant, and getting quieter by the day. The handsome, dominant Alpha is focused on healing her from the inside out, but it seems like it’s draining him to do it...
  • Redemption of a Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Redemption of a Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mountain Lion shifter, Trina Chapman, is having a rough year. Trying to find her legs over the loss of her Clan, she has bought a local bar and just needs to keep her focus until it can pay the bills. That would probably be easier to do if she didn’t have a rogue werewolf sniffing around and showing up in unexpected places...
  • The Fall of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Fall of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Daylen Hoda is a wicked wolf.He’s done the unforgiveable at his Alpha’s order, and now he must face the life he used to have. Coming home should feel like a comfort, but Daylen isn’t the same werewolf anymore. Two years ago, he was pulled away from his Colorado territory by his Pack, and he left someone important behind...
  • Quickdraw Slow Burn by T.S. Joyce

    Quickdraw Slow Burn by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Bucking bull shifter, Quickdraw Slow Burn, has had one focus, and one focus alone—winning that coveted title of number one bull in the world at the final Battle of the Bulls event. He’s trained relentlessly for this day, but he’s been drawn into a small herd of other monstrous bull shifters and is figuring out that he doesn’t have to celebrate his successes, or mourn his losses, alone anymore...
  • How It Will Be by T.S. Joyce

    How It Will Be by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bron is supposed to be dead. His best friend threw him from the sky to land at the feet of his king in a war Bron never asked for. It’s only three left in his Murder now, and everyone knows the Crow Blooded only survive in numbers. Betrayed by his people, Bron looks to the bears he was supposed to kill for a forbidden alliance, but he and Krome can’t build a crew on their own...
  • Origins by Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter

    Origins by Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    eBook box set of paranormal romance novels by Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter, and Sharie Kohler plus teasers from the latest books in their seriesA Hunger Like No Other, Awaken Me Darkly & Marked by...
  • Under Him by T.S. Joyce

    Under Him by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tristan is the new Second of the Dart Creek Pack, and trying to support a new Alpha who is recovering from silver poisoning. So much of the Pack’s success rests on his shoulders, so when he is ordered to pair up with a human who has been stalking the Pack, he fights it hard...
  • What He Is Now by T.S. Joyce

    What He Is Now by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nash Hudson has done it.After years of being a bachelor werewolf, the Second of the Pack has finally used his one Turn to save the life of a quirky beauty he spent a fun night with, and now reality is setting in. She survived it. She really survived it, and now he and Summer have to figure out where they belong in each other’s lives...
  • How It Is by T.S. Joyce

    How It Is by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The king is dying. Krome has been the leader of the Crow Blooded for years, but his reign is over if he can’t find a way to heal his wings after a war with the Bane brothers. He’s stuck in the in-between, not quite a crow, not quite a man, and unable to choose a form. When his crows break the rules and abduct a human woman they swear can fix him, he thinks they’ve lost their minds...
  • 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...
  • Ash Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Ash Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Grim is the reluctant Alpha of the Rogue Pride Crew, and just trying to get from one day to the next without maiming his Crew. Controlling one animal is hard enough for shifters, but Grim is the only one in existence with two animals—a good lion and a monstrous lion named the Reaper...
  • Boarlander Silverback by T.S. Joyce

    Boarlander Silverback by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **Don’t miss the explosive third book in the bestselling Boarlander Bears series** Alison Holman has been assigned to enforce the new laws around Damon’s mountains, but a chance meeting in the woods with rip-roaring, chest-beating, musclebound gorilla shifter, Kirk Slater, and she’s questioning everything...
  • How It's Meant to Be by T.S. Joyce

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

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Moore is the only one of the Bane brothers who is upholding a blood oath they made years ago. It has left him at a disadvantage. Without the bond from his mate, his brothers are too powerful to destroy. He has a plan, but it will come with big consequences...
  • Unlove Me by T.S. Joyce

    Unlove Me by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    **Don’t miss this standalone short story from 80-time bestselling author, T. S. Joyce.** One wild night with friends, and Brock Evans comes up with a plan to rake in the room reservations at his lodge. Instead of celebrating Valentine’s Day, he is going to throw an UnValentine’s Day party for the singles who want to escape the hearts, and romance, and frills of February...
  • Dawson Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Dawson Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dalton Dawson is reeling on the anniversary of an event that changed his life forever. All he wants to do is hide from his past for a few days, but in walks trouble in the form of a timid human who has his heart thawing for the first time in years. He’s not looking for a mate, but Kate Hawke is a fascinating and complicated woman that his wolf is desperate to figure out...
  • Woodsman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Woodsman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Danger, betrayal, and redemption come together in the sixth installment in T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Saw Bears series. Riley Miller is on the run. In an effort to do something nice, she lands right in the middle of danger. A trek to the wilderness will put her under Damon Daye’s protection, but it’ll also dump her in the direct path of one sexy, snarly lumberjack werebear, Drew...
  • Boarlander Boss Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Boarlander Boss Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ***New trailer park. New shifters. New lumberjack crew. Are you ready to see how the Boarlanders live?*** ***The Boarlander Bears can be read as a standalone series*** Audrey Foster is a shifter among humans...
  • Bite Deeper by T.S. Joyce

    Bite Deeper by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Mae Dafoe is back in her hometown chasing ghosts. She’s forgotten what it’s like to be around her big crazy family, and it’s a big adjustment coming from the life she’s created for herself in the years she’s been gone. Three days here, and then she can go back to her apartment in the city, and far away from the swamps of Uncertain. All she needs is closure...
  • Third of the Winterset Coven by T.S. Joyce

    Third of the Winterset Coven by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evan Dawe's coven is falling apart. Between wars with competing shifter Crews, an injured King, and attacks from other supernaturals, the vampire numbers in Winterset are dwindling. And every vampire worth his weight in salt knows there is safety in numbers...
  • Cured by the Dragon by Jessie Donovan

    Cured by the Dragon by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dr. Cassidy “Sid” Jackson’s inner dragon went silent over twenty years ago. Ever since, she’s battled episodes that have tested her sanity. Aware she doesn’t have much time left, she prepares for a new doctor to come to Stonefire and take her place. However, before the new doctor arrives, Sid is attacked. Dr...
  • The Christmas Dragon's Heart by Zoe Chant

    The Christmas Dragon's Heart by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A curvy hotel manager longing for a real home + a broken fire dragon shifter who hates Christmas + a lost dragon hoard = a magical Christmas romance! Curvy workaholic Claire Corbett has just landed the job of her lifetime: a position managing the Snow Castle, a winter retreat in the mountains. With her little brother along for the ride, Christmas promises to be all work and no play this year...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  book  dragons  fiction
  • Mate Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Mate Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **The full-length third book in T. S. Joyce’s new Bears Fur Hire series.** Vera Masterson has been called a lot of names through the years: witch, misfit, mad scientist. She’s let the rumors go because they kept her safe...
  • Wolf Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Wolf Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Like every other McCall werewolf in history, Link is headed down a short road to insanity, but he’s determined to go out on his own terms. Those terms? Repay the people the broken McCall pack has hurt before Ian Silver has to put him down. Hope is a dangerous thing for a doomed man like him, but when he meets Nicole, an instant and undeniable connection sparks between them...
  • Born With a Silver Moon by Milly Taiden

    Born With a Silver Moon by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Discover a brand new race of Alpha males ready to find their mates in a dangerous warrior planet. Sassy women traveling with Gerri Wilder are in for the journey of a lifetime and a mate that will love them through the galaxy. Are you ready? Grab the next Galaxan romance between a sexy warrior and his fiery mate...
  • Under His Wing by Mandy M. Roth

    Under His Wing by Mandy M. Roth

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a warrior and prized soldier for the Royal Hawks, Gardelle is known to be fierce and loyal. This immortal bird-shifter gave up the life of a bachelor to raise his niece in the human realm and now that she's mated to the future king of the falcons, he's been able to focus on his commitments to his people and the men who serve under him...
  • Mating Instinct by Celia Kyle

    Mating Instinct by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    **This is a boxed set of ALL Ridgeville books. If you own these titles individually, DO NOT purchase this book.** The shifter men and curvy, growly ladies of Ridgeville have all huddled together in one massive volume. From Maya and Alex and all the way to Grayson and Honor, they're having fun, kicking butt, and getting mated in this collection...
  • Baby It's Cold Out Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Baby It's Cold Out Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ****Baby It's Cold Out Bear was part of the USA Today Bestselling anthology, A Very Alpha Christmas. It can absolutely be read as a standalone short story.**** Emry Mason doesn’t expect to be pulled out of an icy ditch by a registered bear shifter, and she certainly doesn’t expect her rescuer to be as alluring as Graylan Young...
  • Gray Back Ghost Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Gray Back Ghost Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Georgia Ames is a tough-as-nails park ranger hired to protect the mountains where three crews of registered bear shifters call home. The only problem is she’s terrified of bears after a year in Alaska going head-to-head with the notoriously aggressive Kodiak grizzlies. She swore up and down she’d never work around brown bears again, yet here she is, pledging to protect the crews at all costs...
  • Piece of Tail by Milly Taiden

    Piece of Tail by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    You don't have to read any of the other books in the series to read this one. It's 100% standalone A female Prowl Leader? Unthinkable. It’s what Becca Duran has dealt with since the sudden, tragic death of her brother. Now, the leopard council demands she mates an alpha, whether she loves him or not. Given no choice, Becca takes a chance on Gerri Wilder’s PDA. It should be simple...
  • Forbidden Seduction by R.L. Kenderson

    Forbidden Seduction by R.L. Kenderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's always felt like she's lived between two worlds. He never thought he'd want to share his with her.As the only child of a cat-shifter and a human, Demi Cross has always lived between two worlds, always feeling alone. As long as she can remember, she’s been warned to hide her identity from those who don’t want her kind to exist. But hiding is easier said than done...
  • Protecting His Fox's Sass by Dawn Sullivan

    Protecting His Fox's Sass by Dawn Sullivan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a shifter enforcer, Teine Carlson lived a life of adventure and purpose. She may not have agreed with everything her alpha did, but she followed the rules. Until, she is suddenly thrust into an existence she’d never imagined for herself. Now she has a new purpose…to protect the life of an innocent child. Nolan Channing was a playboy. He worked hard, and played even harder...
  • Forbidden Heat by R.L. Kenderson

    Forbidden Heat by R.L. Kenderson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s a cat-shifter. He’s a wolf-shifter. They should be enemies…Payton Llewelyn, daughter to the cat-shifter alpha, is attacked by humans, outnumbered, and in the fight of her life.Fearing she’ll never escape, another comes to her rescue, and the scent of a shifter floods her senses—not that of a cat though, but of a wolf...
  • Forbidden Addiction by R.L. Kenderson

    Forbidden Addiction by R.L. Kenderson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With a tortured past, she’s a cat-shifter who refuses to get close to anyone. Yet she can’t seem to resist the leader of the vampire protectors.Phoenix Kaplan has never felt a connection like the one she has with Dante Leonidas...
  • Purrfectly Mated by C.D. Gorri

    Purrfectly Mated by C.D. Gorri

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s the leader of his pride, she’s a normal with no idea Shifters exist. Can Hunter convince Elissa she’s his purrfect mate? The leader of the Maverick Pride needs a mate and who better to help him out than the incomparable Gerri Wilder! Hunter Maverick is having trouble keeping his Tiger under control...
  • Oh, My Dragon by Lani Lynn Vale

    Oh, My Dragon by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The reclusive Ian barely participates in life, only doing so when his powers demand that he use them or pay the consequences. It seems that there’s not a single person on this planet who doesn’t want something from him, but the pain and suffering of others is nearly unbearable at times, leaving him no choice but to act...
  • Oh, My Roared by Milly Taiden

    Oh, My Roared by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paranormal Dating Agency Book 12 - STANDALONE ***You don't have to read any of the other books in the series to read this one. It's 100% standalone*** Francesca Virgata wants a mate. She longs for the perfect kind of love her parents had. There’s only one problem, she has zero prospects. Thankfully, she’s heard of Gerri Wilder who promises to make all her mating dreams come true...
  • 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...
  • Tarian Alpha by T.S. Joyce

    Tarian Alpha by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Tarian Pride is right in the middle of a historical power-shift. Ronin Alder is taking over as the New Tarian Alpha, but the entire Pride of lion shifters needs to be completely rehabilitated. Back in the Pride after years hating it, his job is to push the monsters here to a new future, one where they will stop warring with every shifter Crew in existence...
  • Unbearable Temptation by R. O'Leary

    Unbearable Temptation by R. O'Leary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Buried under the weight of his role as Alpha, Nate will do anything to find his missing shifters, even if it means babysitting a sassy eyewitness who has an unhealthy obsession with pink--and sugar.Everything in Rainy's life is finally going according to plan...
  • A Wish for Their Woman by R.E. Butler

    A Wish for Their Woman by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Teck Stalking Horse, a bear shifter with Wiccan power, has spent the last few years dreaming about a female. He has no idea who she is, but he’s going crazy with need. His twin brother, Shy, has never had dreams about the pale-haired female, so Teck does his best to distance himself from his twin so he doesn’t hurt him when he leaves the den to find his mate...
  • Tyler by Kim Fox

    Tyler by Kim Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Skin 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...
  • Cinnamon Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan

    Cinnamon Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sugar, spice, and everything fur-bidden… Kimberly Matherson's the curviest freshman in her hall group at Washington College Seattle, but the last thing she expects? For a one night stand at the Bear Buns strip club to turn into something more. But the last thing she wants in her life? More drama...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  book  fiction  mlm
  • Dragon My Heart Around (Paranormal Dating Agency Universe) by Marianne Morea

    Dragon My Heart Around (Paranormal Dating Agency Universe) by Marianne Morea

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A dragon shifter, a curse, a rare book, and the woman who is the key to setting him free… Finding the love of a lifetime won’t happen between the dusty pages of old books, but for researcher Camille Forester, it’s her job...
  • Saving Scarlett by R.E. Butler

    Saving Scarlett by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Scarlett Jamison, the daughter of a powerful alpha wolf, knows her freedom is slowly slipping away. As a Breeding Queen, her hereditary destiny is to be given away to a male of her father’s choosing. She’ll have no say in the choice of her mate; her only duty will be to give her future mate as many pups as he wants...
  • 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...
  • Beneath a Blood Lust Moon by Jodi Vaughn

    Beneath a Blood Lust Moon by Jodi Vaughn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Werewolf Braxton Devereaux would do anything to protect his mother from his abusive father, even commit murder. Or so everyone assumes.Pack Law justice is swift and unforgiving when it comes to murder, and soon werewolf Assassins are out to balance the scales - Braxton’s life for his father’s...
  • Cougar's Luck by Moxie North

    Cougar's Luck by Moxie North

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A computer genius, a dedicated gamer, and on some nights a cougar shifter, Everett Hayes had his whole life in front of him. Where that path led he didn’t know. Computers were his refuge until he met Layla.Layla Klein loved her pack, loved her crazy family, and totally dug her job overseeing the hottest club on the Vegas strip...
  • Stripe-Search by Milly Taiden

    Stripe-Search by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gabriella Cantur is a curvy dancer who's not interested in hooking up. No way, no how. As a matter of fact, she's too busy being a big sister to have a life. When her lying brother gets into trouble, it's Gabby who's going to pay the price. Suddenly the girl who grew up feeling unwanted is chased by the sexiest tiger she's ever seen. Slade Tigris knew the moment he saw Gabriella she was his...
  • Sassy in Diapers by Milly Taiden

    Sassy in Diapers by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is a SHORT. This is NOT a standalone full length story. It is intended to be read in order after you read the previous books. Time to revisit Karla and Nate. Karla Wolfe is scared. Motherhood is coming much faster than she can accept. The last thing she wants is to be a replica of her own mother. Nate Wolfe loves his mate unconditionally...
  • Savage Bite by Milly Taiden

    Savage Bite by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN moved from this editionZuri Primrose hasn't been on a date since her divorce over a year ago. About to turn the big 4-0, she's living the life of a hermit without any sex. Her mother isn't going to let her daughter stay single for long. She's gotten Zuri an invite to a shifter ball where she hopes Zuri will find the man who’s going to screw her into a pretzel and give her a dozen babies...
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