Books like 'That Forbidden Thing'
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When He´s Ruthless by Suzanne Wright
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBlair Kendrick was just twelve-years-old when she stared into slate blue eyes and sensed that her world was about to change. She’d known down to her bones that the broody alpha cat shifter was her true mate. For the past six years, Luke has watched over and supported her. When she turns nineteen in a few months’ time, he’ll officially claim her and she’ll then join his pride. Or that’s the plan... -
The Blackstone She-Bear by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Blackstone Mountain series continues with The Blackstone She-Bear Amelia Walker's heart and bear have been broken once. So, when her ex, polar bear shifter Mason Grimes, breezes back into town, she does her best to stay away from him. But neither can resist the pull of the mating call... -
Bearheart Healer by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the small town of Bear Creek, bear shifter, Stellan guards an old wound. As a direct descendant of the town's founders and member of the Bear Creek Guardians, he is sworn to protect its secret shifter inhabitants. But now history threatens to repeat itself as shifters fall mysteriously ill—the same sickness that took Stellan's father from him years ago... -
Alpha Rising by Quinn Loftis
Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSupernatural war is on the horizon, and no one will escape unscathed.Enemy after enemy, foe after foe, has fallen before the combined might of the Romanian grey wolves and their allies among the supernatural races. But now the alliance doesn't fight a single supernatural threat. It's no longer a single coven of vampires, alone a deranged warlock, or a rogue pack that threatens their safety... -
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The Blackstone She-Wolf by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsComing May 30, 2018! The Blackstone Mountain series continues with The Blackstone She-Wolf! Kate Caldwell's just not into relationships, but she finally meets her match when a mysterious hunky Greek wolf comes to town... -
Claiming the Alpha by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAdrianna Anderson’s rise to Alpha wasn’t going to be easy. The mages are back and have made it their mission to destroy her and every last Lycan on earth. To make matters worse, a notorious shifter crime organization, The Family, has been building an empire in her territory. When their leader agrees to a truce and offers his fiercest enforcer to keep her safe, she can’t help but feel suspicious... -
Benny by Terry Bolryder
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBig body. Big heart. Desperate to finally claim her.Benny, owner of Club Crimson, is not what he appears to be. Outwardly, he's a handsome, friendly giant of a man who treats everyone like family. Inwardly he's fighting a battle, and if he ever slips, it could mean certain death for those around him... -
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... -
A Highlander's Return by A.K. Michaels
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrant, Alpha of the Pack in the Highlands, returns home triumphantly with his special mate by his side. Blessed by the Goddess herself, as their two hearts beat as one. Anxious to show her off to his Pack he cannot foresee what is about to unfold. Not everyone within the Pack is happy to see his return and even less pleased that he brings back an American as Alpha She-Wolf... -
Fated Shifters: Romance Collection by Lola Gabriel, Juniper Hart
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrue Mates. Secret Babies. Fake Relationships.A shifter collection full of skin-tingling romances that are sexy, suspenseful, and action-packed! Days of the Dragon Complete SeriesHer Dragon BodyguardI was only supposed to protect her. It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this…Alpha’s Secret BabyI accidentally got married in Vegas to a man I don’t know... -
Bearheart Protector by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the leader of the Bear Creek Guardians, it is Thane's duty to protect the town folk—and their secrets. When two hikers go missing in his beloved mountains, the last thing this bear shifter needs is a curious journalist poking around.Even if she is his mate!Soon Thane is torn between the oath his ancestors swore as a Bear Creek Guardian and the bond he shares with his mate... -
Mine Furever by Terry Bolryder
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrayson Carver is in a tight spot. On one hand, he's doing his best to help the local wolf shifter pack and keep a promise. On the other, the wolves only see him as a rogue and an outcast, a troublemaker. But trouble is only the tip of the iceberg when a human woman wanders into their settlement, leaving Grayson to deal with her. Now the battle-hardened wolf may have just found his mate... -
Forgotten Silence by Quinn Loftis
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFilthy. Disgusting. Unworthy trash. The same thoughts keep swirling in Sally's mind. She's broken and no one can fix her--not her friends, try as they might, and not her beautiful mate... -
Imagine Dragon by Julia Mills
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe books in this epic saga can be read as stand-alone stories, or you can experience all the love, thrills and exploits of the whole series from beginning to end. It's up to you. ENJOY! All the planning in the world can’t beat dumb luck. Even if your dad just happens to be Lugh, the Celtic God of the Sun, and you’re one of the most powerful Guardsmen to ever walk the earth... -
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Hexes and Hounds by Mila Young, Kim Faulks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove is complicated. But then so is a stake through the heart. There’s a curse that runs through the Blackthorne Wolves. Gnarled and Ancient. Unbreakable, they say.It started with the Witches and now it’s spread like a disease, infecting Wolves…And now Vampires. Livingstone Vampires.Mom’s frantic calls led me to the Blood Moon Academy, a dangerous place for any Immortal... -
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... -
Black Market Bear by Amelia Jade
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAjax is the Alpha of his crew. Big, strong, intelligent and highly trained. There are few things in the physical world that bother him. But he's alone, and though it is by choice, the happiness of those around him as they find mates has taken a heavy toll. Unwilling to burden his makeshift family with his problems, he sets out on a long delayed vacation. His plan was to see the world and relax... -
Silver Bullet Bear by Amelia Jade
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThings have been relatively peaceful lately for bear shifter Josh Horne, a member of the Sentinels, Genesis Valley’s elite protection squad. The Underground is in a tentative cease-fire with the Agency. So when he’s given orders from the very top to act as a bodyguard to someone coming to King City for a few days, he expects it to be a walk in the park... -
Kingpin Bear by Amelia Jade
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final battle with the Agency looms large as the last unmated shifter of the Underground embarks on his own quest for love. Jared Keppler has watched his team find their mates one by one, dealing with the challenges of love and duty. He has remained alone, until now. When the beautiful brunette comes running into his home with a dire warning, he and his team leap into action... -
Protecting His Fox's Sass by Dawn Sullivan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs 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... -
Celtic Dragons: A Boxset by Dee Bridgnorth
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook One For Kean O’Shea, life is a perfect combination of solving crimes, investigating paranormal activity, and flying high in the Boston skies with the people he loves best—his dragon clan. He’s gorgeous, well-built, and more than confident that he knows exactly what life has in store for him... -
Tequila and Tigers by Cecilia Lane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA surprise baby. A second chance at love. Fated mates betrayed by their own. Wyatt Wolf shifter Wyatt tried to do the right thing—protect and mate the girl he loved. Instead he was framed for murder and run out of town by Alanna's powerful tiger shifter father. Thirteen years later Wyatt returns, struggling to control his wolf while simmering in a dark emotional hell... -
Wild Shifters Collection by Lola Gabriel, Alexis Davie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you love alpha romances, shifters who protect their mates, and bad boys who know how to take charge, then you will love the Wild Shifters Romance Collection... -
The Alpha Decides by A.K. Michaels
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsalternate cover edition for ASIN B00UY3LLY2Cameron Sinclair, multi-billionaire businessman, and now he is also the Alpha Wolf, a position he never wanted.With his instinct to protect the Pack and those he cares for stampeding through his system, he struggles to awaken the white She-Wolf who now lies in a coma... -
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Deceit can be Deadly by Nicky Charles
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGwyneth has no use for Lycans but a string of dead bodies has brought one of the dogs right to her door... -
Wolf Princess by M. Guida
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI am the missing wolf princess. But there’s something different about me. Something that could get me killed.I can’t let anyone know my secret.Not even my two hot protectors.I can’t go to the wolf academy.I’m being hunted.And if I don’t watch my step, I’ll end up in a grave next to my parents.Scroll up and one click Wolf Princess today... -
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 to the End by Terry Bolryder
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCharlotte is need of a bodyguard. But when she comes to Bear Claw Security looking for help, the last thing she expects to see is Mr. Perfect, with his fitted clothes and expensive appearance and perfect smile. All wrong for her, all too much of a reminder of something she desperately wants to forget. So Mr. Perfect’s tough, rough twin brother will have to do instead... -
Bound by Spells by Stormy Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAidan Montgomery hadn't been prepared for Amelia Bradbury to walk in and then out of his life. He also hadn't expected to find the powerful magic hidden deep within him for the last nineteen years, but he's embracing it -- finding more control and more answers every day. Now, with the help of Amelia's best friend, Bethany, Aidan is on a quest to understand his destiny and find Amelia... -
Bear-ly a Hero by Terry Bolryder
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJosh "Limes" Harris is good with computers, great at fighting, terrible with people. As an accomplished hacker for Bear Claw Security, he's used to providing support from the office…and never leaving it. So when he's forced to take a bodyguard job because the client insists on hiring him, he's one grumpy bear. Especially when the client mistakes him for one of the bad guys and attacks him... -
Bear Meets Girl by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s leaving her old life behind and hitting the road, but peril follows her path... Marilee has got to be the most timid werewolf King has ever met. She’s also the most beautiful. There’s something special about her pure white coat that speaks to his inner grizzly, but also protects her in ways he never expected. On the run, and headed for Grizzly Cove, King has to help her get there safely... -
Running With the Wolves by Lynn Leite
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShifted book 9 Brendan Woodland is a genius when it comes to technology, but someone or something is sabotaging the cameras he has placed on the edge of town. Fixated on the ghostly female image he captured on the night his sister-in-law was attacked he is determined to find out who she is... -
Lone Wolf by Lynn Leite
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMatt Woodland has dreamed of being a pack enforcer for most of his life. When his brother Aiden asks Matt to join his pack as his Beta, it is more than he could have ever hoped for.There’s only one problem.Aiden already has one Beta, Brianna Robbins, and she and Matt don’t really get along. The two Betas are forced to work together when King turns out to be more of a threat than they once thought... -
Crown of Shadows by Keri Arthur
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNever mess with the relics of the old gods… or the pixies who once guarded them.After her mom’s disappearance six months ago, Bethany Aodhán has been running their tavern in old Deva—something her family had been doing ever since a light-fingered pixie lost them the job of guarding the treasures of the old gods eons ago... -
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Craved by her Cougar by Felicity Heaton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor the last twenty years, Cobalt has burned with a need of one female, a beautiful raven-haired cougar who captured his heart the moment he set eyes on her... -
Her Vampire Lord by Ines Johnson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHE OWNS MY DEBT BUT HE WON'T TAKE MY MONEY. ALL HE WANTS IS ME.Gaius Serrano is a mysterious figure in the world of wine. He’s arrogant. Darkly handsome. And—my instinct warns me—dangerous. He’s the last person I want owning my family’s debt. Since my parents died, I’ve been responsible for my sibling's future and fortunes in the form of our family’s business. I’ll pay any price to get it back... -
Veil of Lies (9) by Nicky Charles, Jazer Designs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPatience is a virtue, but inaction can lead to losing the one you love. It was a lesson bear shifter, Armand St. John, had learned the hard way. Now getting a second chance at love, he’s determined not to make the same mistake again... -
Dragon Her Home: Paranormal Dating Agency by Julia Mills
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCutoff from his Clan with his Dragon unresponsive, time was up. There was only one choice - go down fighting and take as many of the bastards with him as Dragonly possible.Waiting for the Executioner to claim his life, he stood at the ready. Refusing to waver under the weight of his chains, time stood still...A flash of scales, burning emerald in the darkness, a memory of pain and loss.. -
Always Remembered by Kelly Risser
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne clue… what does it mean? Ken, the leader of the Blue Men of the Minch, has kidnapped Evan. Before they left, Evan was able to leave a package for Meara—her grandfather's necklace wrapped in a cloth napkin with one word written in blood. Azuria. Unfortunately, Meara doesn't understand it and neither does her dad or Kieran... -
Phoenix Rising by Lisa C. Morgan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaggie Henning has lived the last ten of her 16 years surrounded by the constant reminders of her father’s crime, but never knowing the truth behind it. One letter. One last visit to the psychiatric hospital. Just one night, and Maggie’s world changes forever. She is the last of an ancient race of protectors to a world filled with the creatures of myths, legends, and nightmares... -
The Turning Tides by Derrolyn Anderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarina has been through a lot in the past year; she knows what she wants, and she decides to take matters into her own hands to get it. When a twist of fate takes her away from Aptos, she returns to find that her whole world has changed once again... -
The Wolf King (The Dark Kings) by Jovee Winters
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy name's Red. My friends call me Violet, but I was once known by another name, The Heartsong...aka the darkness of the land. Once upon a time, I was a killer, a hunter, with only one goal in mind. Ending the Big Bad Wolf and taking back my power. But somewhere along the way, I realized the real enemy was myself. We fell in love, we made a life. And then a curse came and ripped it all apart... -
Thrilled by J.K. Harper
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDark, dangerous dragon shifters who just need true love ... Loss froze his heart. She is either his salvation—or his total destruction.Gorgeous water dragon shifter Kai Long has suffered agonizing loss. Now, he lives only for momentary, forgettable pleasure with any willing woman, numbing out anything that veers too close to pain... -
Stealing Fire by Mallory Crowe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Ella's father is missing, she finds him held captive by a dangerous and devastatingly handsome a man, who gives her one choice: Her father may go free, but she must stay with him--for good. There is more to Lucian than what Ella initially sees. He isn't just a crazed kidnapper wrapped into irresistible eye candy... -
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Bear Cuffs by Ariana Hawkes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs teenage sweethearts, Rocco Silvester and Harper Waverly knew they were meant to be together forever. Then fate stepped in and tore them apart, leaving Rocco with a secret he could never share and Harper with a deep hatred of the man she once adored. Fast-forward five years, and Rocco is forced to take a mate of his Alpha’s choosing to save the clan from ruin... -
Which Wolf is Witch by Lynn Leite
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhich Wolf is Witch Book 11 in the Shifted series.Colin Woodland has watched as each of his siblings found their true mates. When he meets the spunky dark haired witch Rina Blackwell his attraction to her tells him he might have found his mate as well. The problem is she doesn't seem to feel the same... -
Bad Boy Firefighter Shifters by Bella Love-Wins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBad boy shifters never felt so hot. Take a wild ride with these Bad Boy Firefighter Shifter book boyfriends. Save eighty percent by grabbing this box set for 99 pennies. AVAILABLE ONLY FOR A LIMITED TIME. ***Warning: Contains hundreds of pages of alpha males, steamy sex, some sensitive topics, and Kindle-melting shifter romance... -
Bad Bad Bear Dad: A Fated Mate Romance by Amelia Jade
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBear shifter Gray likes his life the way it is. Familiar and uncomplicated. He’s got a good thing going, and all he needs now is a mate to share it with. So when he stumbled upon her several weeks ago, he couldn’t have been happier. Until she started ignoring him, even going out of her way to avoid seeing him... -
Lost Creek Shifters: The Complete Collection by Samantha Leal
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to LOST CREEK... a quiet mountain town full of secrets... FINALLY Get the COMPLETE COLLECTION including all 8 Novellas! When Poppy takes a vacation with her overbearing family, the last thing she expects is to find herself in the idyllic surroundings of Lost Creek, and what comes as even more of a surprise is one of the first people she meets, the handsome and mysterious Arlo... -
Werebears Of Glacier Bay Box Set by Meg Ripley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe majestic splendor of the vast Alaskan Southeast can be harsh and unpredictable—especially when it comes to finding a mate. But even in this most remote place, these bears are searching for a love that will warm their frigid hearts...
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