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  • Compelled by Jaymin Eve

    Compelled by Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A standalone story in the Shadow Beast Shifters world. Best read after Deserted for storyline continuity. Simone, of the Torma shifters, thought she was finished with the world of supernaturals that existed outside of Earth. She'd been there, done that, and had the near death experience to show for her time.Then a summons back to Valdor-the vampire world- is dropped in her lap...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • Compelling Infinity by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Compelling Infinity by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was a dragon. Dragons didn’t run from any situation. Not even a dragon disguised as a witch. Well … at least not from any situation that involved the archive or my duty, because apparently I fled before anything even remotely personal. Including surprise double dates.A masked gala. A solstice celebration with the werewolves...
  • 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...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  book  drama
  • The Blackstone Wolf by Alicia Montgomery

    The Blackstone Wolf by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Blackstone Mountain series continues with wolf shifter Nathan Caldwell...
  • 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 Twilight Saga: Eclipse by Howard Shore

    The Twilight Saga: Eclipse by Howard Shore

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    (Easy Piano Songbook). The third installment of the megahit Twilight saga was released in movie theatres nationwide on June 30th. This songbook includes 10 selections from the score penned by Howard Shore, arranged for easy piano solo: As Easy as Breathing * Compromise/Bella's Theme * Eclipse (All Yours) * First Kiss * Imprinting * Jacob's Theme * Jasper * The Kiss * Victoria * Wedding Plans...
  • Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5 by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5 by Laurell K. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Long before Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series and Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels, [there was] sexy, strong-willed vampire hunter Anita Blake."-USA Today...The first five Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels in the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestselling series...
  • Bear in Mind by Milly Taiden

    Bear in Mind by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Private Investigator, Summer Delgado hopes Gerri can find her twin sister a man. If anyone needs a happily ever after, it's Winter. But not Summer. She’s got no time for romance. Even if it’s wrapped in smoking-hot shifter muscles. She's got to focus on the break-in at Gerri Wilder's apartment. Who needs a sexy, grumpy bear stomping around? Not Summer. Nope. Gerri has other plans, of course...
  • Chosen by Tiffany Patterson

    Chosen by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I never belonged until I was chosen by an alpha, but our love is forbidden…Volunteering was supposed to be a way to honor my grandmother’s memory, not a place to meet hot guys. But that’s exactly what happens when Chael lands in my life due to a string of disappearances and deaths at the nursing home I volunteer at...
  • Betray the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Betray the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On the verge of war, Chase Hale has no time to think about anything other than preparing his clan to battle the savage Long Claws, who are intent on annihilating Bear Valley. But when a supposed mate of the enemy shows up, he can’t help but be intrigued by the unsettling mysteries that swirl around the beautiful bear shifter...
  • In the Roar by Milly Taiden

    In the Roar by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alivia Vela is a big girl tired of dating. She's at the point she's going to find a frozen pop and get artificially inseminated. Or she would, until big, growly and oh, so sexy Karel shows up, saves the day and gives her a night she won't soon forget. That, mouth...that tongue. Oh my. Karel Yaghar needs a mate faster than he can growl the word MINE...
  • Savage Hunger by Milly Taiden

    Savage Hunger by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Isaline Primrose doesn’t let anyone cut the line at her mom’s bakery, no matter how tall or sexy he his. His custom suit, expensive haircut, and deep brown eyes are making her want things. Very dirty things. It’s totally fine to look even if he is a bossy jerk...
  • To Find a Mate by Camryn Rhys, Krystal Shannan

    To Find a Mate by Camryn Rhys, Krystal Shannan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's nursing a broken heart, and he's her first love... she just needs to tell him... Everyone in Adam VonBrandt's world seems to have found their mate. Except him. With several families of wolves in town for a moon run, there have never been so many choices. Surely, he can find a mate among all those single women. Paige Wheeler sees the big, smiling rancher every Friday morning for six years...
  • Snow Wolf by Heather Long

    Snow Wolf by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Don't miss the highly anticipated installment in the Wolves of Willow Bend as we travel north to one of the most secretive packs in the U.S. Ranae is the youngest of the Buckleys— the only girl among three powerful male siblings. Her restlessness and dominant nature affected her every relationship within Willow Bend, not to mention testing the patience of her Alpha...
  • Redwood Pack, Vol. 5 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Redwood Pack, Vol. 5 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Redwood Pack Vol 5 contains the sixth book in the Redwood Pack series and a special novella in print and digital form.Hidden Destiny (Redwood Pack Book 6)North Jamenson has always held his wolf closer to the surface then others. He's the quiet one, the one no one really knows about yet he holds the darkest secret...
  • Blood Bond: 14 by Helen Hardt

    Blood Bond: 14 by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Erin Hamilton follows Dante Gabriel back into hell—the underground compound where he was held for a decade—to confront the woman who held him captive. Finally unmasked, she seems to hold Dante under her influence. Erin has faith in Dante’s strength and determination, though, especially when the mysterious Vampyre Texts reveal their first secret...
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    humor  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fiction  mystery  supernatural
  • Peculiar Mysteries by Renee George

    Peculiar Mysteries by Renee George

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shifters, Romance, Humor, and Mystery. Check. Check. Check. Check. Peculiar Mysteries are Paranormal Shifter Romance Mysteries that give readers a whole town of characters they will grow to love with each additional story added to the series...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  book  cozy  fiction  mystery
  • Petunia's Pandemonium by Robyn Peterman, Erin Mallon

    Petunia's Pandemonium by Robyn Peterman, Erin Mallon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mix one part Mermaid - one part Genie. Throw in an intoxicated God of the Sea and and a few smack-talking Pirates. What have you got?Pandemonium.Petunia's Pandemonium to be more accurate.PetuniaLetting the ocean current take me where it may for the last 25 years hasn't worked out so great. So, instead of getting my tail in a knot, I'm making some swimmingly simple changes...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  cozy
  • A Valentine's Chase by Layla Nash

    A Valentine's Chase by Layla Nash

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meadow Crawford sees things that no one else does. When a blind date goes badly wrong, she discovers that the world of fae and a city full of shifters actually exist. And that Rafe O'Shea isn't the kind of man to let a disastrous first date deter him from asking for a second...
  • The Grisly Grizzlies: Kneecap by Kim Fox

    The Grisly Grizzlies: Kneecap by Kim Fox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wild. Ferocious. Untamed. Vicious. And that’s just Kneecap in his human form. His savage grizzly bear on the other hand… watch out! Nothing and no one has been able to tame this half barbarian/half shifter in thirty years, but there’s a glimmer of hope when a curvy girl named Nora walks onto the ranch. Nora Marchesi has come to Montana to find her sister...
  • Icescrape by Milly Taiden

    Icescrape by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***Standalone Romance***Bookish librarians are totally capable of finding missing people in the Alaskan wilderness. Said no one. Ever. So why is Grace Tumbler jetting off to do just that? She doesn’t know. All she has are books and a somewhat positive attitude that she can survive her first-ever trip away from home...
  • Rescue Bear: Cortez by J.K. Harper

    Rescue Bear: Cortez by J.K. Harper

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Haley Adams used to have what she thought was a good life. Then it imploded in spectacular, awful fashion. After a long time, she’s finally ready to get out and live again. Leaving everything behind for a fresh start, she lands in the mountain shifter town of Deep Hollow, home to the Silvertip grizzly bear clan...
  • Bite the Bullet by C.C. Wood

    Bite the Bullet by C.C. Wood

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I don't know what happened to my life. Just a few months ago, I was independent and had an exciting job I loved. Now, along with my friends, I'm in hiding. Why? Because I'm one of the Five, a group of human women bestowed with powers and abilities to fight and control supernatural beings. A prophesy was written about us centuries ago...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book  comedy
  • Lion's Honor by Celia Kyle

    Lion's Honor by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes the Queen of the Jungle needs to lean on her King. Okay, she’s really not the queen and he’s totally not the king, but damn it, they need each other. Four years ago, werelioness Honor Mauer walked away from Ridgeville and hopped on a plane bound for London. She had college dreams and none of them included her pesky maybe-mate Grayson...
  • Bound in Darkness by Milly Taiden

    Bound in Darkness by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lexi Eden’s life has always revolved around helping others in need. So when all her romantic relationships end in disaster, she blames it on trying to fix men who don’t want to be fixed. Enter Clacher. He’s big, bad and tattooed all over. And he’s got a tongue piercing that’s making her biggest wet dreams come true...
  • Bound in Ashes by Milly Taiden

    Bound in Ashes by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    COMPLETELY STANDALONE Check out the conclusion of the Drachen Mates Series in this sexy novel. Tiana Jonas’s life is unexciting. Nothing happens. Except her technical support calls with Ker Drachen. He’s got the sexiest voice if her wet panties are any sign. Boring goes out the window when her house is burglarized and an undiscovered body bleeds out on her kitchen floor...
  • In the Midnight Howl by Renee George

    In the Midnight Howl by Renee George

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When an anonymous whistleblower from Peculiar, Missouri alleges that the mayor’s wife is a fraud, the Shifter Tri-State Council sends one of their best investigators: werebobcat Wilhelmina “Willy” Boden. Willy’s reluctant to investigate her friends who live in the small shifter town, especially handsome werecoyote Brady Corman—but she has a job to do. Yeah...
    Categorized as:
    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  book  cozy  fiction  murder
  • Remi by Elaine Barris

    Remi by Elaine Barris

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Vampire’s Thirst… Dark… Dangerous and Undeniable In the world of high stakes poker, Remi Bellerive is the undisputed champion, his name renowned in gaming circles. With his lover, Michelle, at his side, Remi is living his vampire life according to his rules with no apology...
  • River Wolf by Heather Long

    River Wolf by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brett Dalton, Alpha of Hudson River, isolated himself from his pack mates after one betrayed him. The once, easygoing Alpha has become taciturn, remote and unforgiving. His pack worries for him, but they too have suffered a devastating blow...
  • Darkside of the Moon by Jodi Vaughn

    Darkside of the Moon by Jodi Vaughn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a high ranking Guardian in the Arkansas Pack, Zane Steele, doesn’t have time for nonsense. He lives a life of control and discipline. But during a drug takedown of a rogue pack, Zane is injected with something and he no longer can control when he shifts...
  • Reed by Kathi S. Barton

    Reed by Kathi S. Barton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kerry Stephens is beyond excited. The job promotion with the cable company came through taking her out of the office in into the field. She needs this job and didn’t know how much more she could stomach her current boss. Anything has to be better than working for him, right? So much for wishful thinking...
  • The Flame of the Dragon's Heart by Willa Hart

    The Flame of the Dragon's Heart by Willa Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Just when things can’t get any worse, they do. My bestie’s been kidnapped and I’m desperate to find her…but my inability to sprout wings like my dragon shifter guys means we have to adopt a more mundane form of flight. We just have one more important task to complete before we can hop on a plane and follow the kidnapper’s trail to Romania...
  • Accidental AF by Dakota Cassidy

    Accidental AF by Dakota Cassidy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A stranded human and his lifelong skepticism walk into a paranormal bar…Sounds like the start of a bad gag, but the joke’s on Kash Samuels when he stumbles into a bar called NOPE, looking for warmth and a working phone, only to get caught in the middle of a bar fight...
  • A Chase Christmas by Layla Nash

    A Chase Christmas by Layla Nash

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Natalia Chase just wants the first family Christmas with her husband and his pride of unruly lion shifter brothers to be perfect. But a simple trip to pick out a Christmas tree turns into a rescue mission when they discover three shifter wolf cubs abandoned in the forest...
  • When a Liger Mates by Eve Langlais

    When a Liger Mates by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lawrence is in trouble. That’s nothing new. What is unexpected is how he accidentally ends up mated to a human. Oops. To make matters worse for this tomcat, Charlotte has no idea what he is, and when he finally shows her his majestic liger shape? She is less than impressed and dares to ask if he’s up to date on his shots...
  • Candy Bear by Scarlett Grove

    Candy Bear by Scarlett Grove

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can a New York City orphan find happiness in Fate Valley?Big hopes ... Orphan and magazine journalist Samantha Cooper is in Fate Valley after a DNA test says she’s related to one of the town’s founders. Her research gets sidetracked when a human-shifter dating website matches her with big, burly confectioner Benjamin Darling...
  • Bending Ridge by J.D. Light

    Bending Ridge by J.D. Light

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hanson Rodgers My dad's best friend is big and burly and gorgeous and has the ability to make my harpy's blood––yes, I'm a male harpy––boil. When he offered my brother and I a job on Terra Mortis, I knew it was probably a bad idea, no matter how much I wanted to live on the island and be a part of a world where everyone was as much different as they were the same...
  • Loving the Omega by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Loving the Omega by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maddox Jamenson almost lost his mate before he knew she existed, but his life is now exactly how he’d dreamed it. The war with the Centrals is over, and his family is healing one day at a time. Ellie is reveling in the simple perfection that is her life and family now, but that doesn’t mean she can shed the self-doubts and concerns that come with being a new mother, mate, and Redwood...
  • Alpha's Dream by Susi Hawke

    Alpha's Dream by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ages ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people... but the seal has been broken... Clark, a bear descended from one of the original omega lines, has always known Kent was destined to be his mate, thanks to his visions. Clark's ability to see past, present, and future is powerful, but even he can't see a straight line out of the dark days ahead of them...
  • Ostrich and the 'Roo by Eve Langlais

    Ostrich and the 'Roo by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ranger and crypto containment specialist Jaxon Jones has seen some interesting things, but a purported giant ostrich terrorizing suburbia is new, even for him. Especially when he finds the so-called menace, and she’s fast asleep, head buried in a bush. But since Jax was hired to bring the beautiful Mari home, he’ll endure her sass. Especially since it’s what draws him to her...
  • Wicked Howl by Celia Kyle

    Wicked Howl by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can cats and dogs get along? Maybe. What about werelions and werewolves? If it’s Tilly and Mitchell, definitely. Or rather, maybe. If he’d just get his head out of his… Half-werelion Tilly McBride owns Bless Your Tart, the South’s latest and greatest bakery. Or at least the best one in Georgia. Fine. It’s the best in Wilder, Georgia, mainly because it’s the only one...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book  comedy
  • Witchin' Impossible by Renee George

    Witchin' Impossible by Renee George

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Small town. Dead bodies. Horny familiar. Hot high school crush. Just another day in Paradise Falls. When FBI agent and witch Hazel Kinsey and her familiar Tizzy the Squirrel left the paranormal town of Paradise Falls, she swore she’d never return. She didn’t want witch and Shifter politics to be a part of her adult life...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  book  cozy  fiction  killer
  • Tropical Tiger Spy by Zoe Chant

    Tropical Tiger Spy by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A unique shifter in search of her past + a tiger shifter spy on an undercover mission + a shifters-only resort with secrets to hide = a dangerous and thrilling romantic adventure Amber Allen comes to Shifting Sands Resort for a vacation escape and one last fling before she settles down to the boring life she's resigned herself to...
  • Hunting a Mate by Celia Kyle, Mina Carter

    Hunting a Mate by Celia Kyle, Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Does love at first sniff exist? Archer and Paige seem to think so. Well, more like Archer says yes and Paige says no. But don’t worry, they’ll work it out in the bedroom.Wereferret Paige Baxter has an itty-bitty shifting problem. Mainly she spontaneously shifts, and that’s a problem...
  • Big Furry Deal by Celia Kyle

    Big Furry Deal by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Panther shifter Millie Walker is finally free, finally knows her real name, and finally… has a mate? Well, crap. For Millie, having a mate is a horrible, no good, he’ll end up very dead, bad idea. She’s got what some refer to as a “control problem.” In other words: she has no control and that’s her problem. So, she stays away from others, keeps to herself, and generally tries not to kill people...
  • Sealed with a Purr by Celia Kyle

    Sealed with a Purr by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Going to Georgia in order to watch over a handful of women is not Harding’s idea of a good time. With the death of Alistair McCain¬—ex-leader of Freedom—there’s a lot of clean up going on. That includes helping Freedom’s released captives recover in a safe environment. Hence, Harding having to make the trip down south. Really…how hard could it be to keep five women safe? Harder than he thinks...
  • Drive Me Wild by Christine Warren

    Drive Me Wild by Christine Warren

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tess Menzies can work a spell with a few blinks of her baby blue eyes. But this dedicated witch can’t summon up a single good reason she’s been made an envoy between her kind and Manhattan’s fiercest were-creatures. The two sides haven’t spoken in four hundred years, and she’ll need every miracle in the book to broker any kind of truce...
  • 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...
  • MC Bear My Baby by Bella Love-Wins

    MC Bear My Baby by Bella Love-Wins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They wanted an escape. They got a baby. Tate Roman is a walking contradiction. He's a badass, tech savvy bear shifter. A mohawk-wearing, trouble-making, woman-claiming member of the Beartooth Brotherhood MC who lives to protect his bear shifter MC family...
  • Micah by Kathi S. Barton

    Micah by Kathi S. Barton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Micah Bentley is a third generation cop and a panther. He always wanted to be a homicide detective like his dad, but kept getting passed up for the job because he was too good at what he currently did working the beat. Micah has a gift, he can read people's minds. Such a gift could be a help and a hindrance on a job...
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