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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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Last Immortal Dragon by T.S. Joyce

    Last Immortal Dragon by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    ** Can Be Read As a Standalone Dragon Shifter Romance or As Part of the Gray Back Bears Series ** Damon Daye is the last immortal dragon shifter, and has been protecting his mountains and the people who live there for years. His outlook on life is simple. Remain cold enough that no one ever touches his heart...
  • 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...
  • The Billionaire Shifter's Final Redemption by Diana Seere

    The Billionaire Shifter's Final Redemption by Diana Seere

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Asher Stanton has devoted his entire, long life to protecting the shifter world — but he couldn't save his own beloved human wife and child. Walling off his emotions and turning his life into a mission to consolidate power, he is ruthless, determined — and most definitely never falling in love with another human again...
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  • Miss Mated: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance by Milly Taiden

    Miss Mated: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kasey Sanchez can't believe she's done the unthinkable--slept with a shifter. Oh, but he was so hot and sexy and his tongue...wow! But if he finds out who she really is, he won’t want to see her again. Living a secret life is taking a big toll on her sex life. Brannon Wolfrik knows Kasey is his mate. It's only a matter of time before he wiggles his way into her heart with charm and great sex...
  • 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...
  • All Kitten Aside by Milly Taiden

    All Kitten Aside by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paranormal Dating Agency Book 11 - STANDALONE BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance Miranda Colilla needs a mate. Fast. This curvy lioness wants a man she can bend to her will, who will stay out of her business, and let her lead like the alpha she is...
  • 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...
  • Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights by Sierra Cartwright, Cherise Sinclair

    Doms of Dark Haven 2: Western Nights by Sierra Cartwright, Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A Good sub Would... by Sierra CartwrightGenre: BDSM Erotic ContemporaryShelby, a wanna-be sub, hasn’t found a Dom strong enough to push past her need to be in control. Her experiences as a sub have been yawn-inducing. She’s fantasized plenty, though, about Trevor Lawton, one of Dark Haven’s legendary, mouthwateringly firm Doms...
  • 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...
  • Dark Alpha's Temptation by Donna Grant

    Dark Alpha's Temptation by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Alpha’s Temptation is a brand new paranormal romance in New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant's Reapers series that features a brotherhood of elite assassins and the women who bring them to their knees. There is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death...
  • Indirect Lines by Dana Marie Bell

    Indirect Lines by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There's only one way to win this game: break the rules. Halle Shifters Book 5 James "Barney" Barnwell is losing his ever-loving mind. Between the threat to the white shifters and a riddle he's been ordered to solve stands the woman who's been driving him crazy: Heather Allen, cousin to the white Fox...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Doms of Dark Haven by Sierra Cartwright, Cherise Sinclair

    Doms of Dark Haven by Sierra Cartwright, Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Three women, three Doms. One extraordinary night. Welcome to Dark Haven, and may all of your darkest wishes come true...Met Her Match (A Hawkeye Story) by Sierra CartwrightGenre: BDSM Erotic ContemporarySeries: Hawkeye; Previous Book: Bend Me OverHighly trained Mira Araceli can hold her own in the toughest parts of the world, but not, it seems, against her secret crush, Torin Carter...
  • Bloodrunner Dragon by T.S. Joyce

    Bloodrunner Dragon by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    **Brand new standalone series from T. S. Joyce. Don’t miss the thrilling first book in Harper’s Mountains.** Harper Keller is a shifter on borrowed time. After failing to find her treasure, her inner dragon is desperate to find anything to connect with. When a plea for help comes through from an old flame, she puts her life on hold to track him down...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Dragon Chains by Becca Brayden, Grace Goodwin

    Dragon Chains by Becca Brayden, Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dangerous. Tortured. Desperate. King Ryker of the Draquonir will make one last sacrifice to save his people and his kingdom before he loses control of the raging beast inside him. Dragon kind are dwindling, no longer able to hunt for their true mates in this contemporary, high-tech world...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Forbidden Hunger by Teresa Gabelman

    Forbidden Hunger by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A shifter without a pack, Janna Lawson goes in search of the man who her mother died trying to protect. What she finds is Garrett Foster, a man who has the power to decide her fate and causes a hunger inside her that is forbidden to them both...
  • Bearfoot and Pregnant by Milly Taiden

    Bearfoot and Pregnant by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Paranormal Dating Agency Book 10 - STANDALONE BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance Cassandra Grimaldi’s boss has lost her mind. Too bad. She really liked the fiery matchmaker. But when Gerri offers to prove aliens are real and multiple orgasms exist, Cassie can’t help but be curious...
  • Bear Naked by Dana Marie Bell

    Bear Naked by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    To win a frightened heart, you have to bare your own. Halle Shifters Book 3 Glory has been denying her feelings for Ryan Williams for months. He's beautiful, strong... and a Bear shifter who claims she's his mate. The man is persistent, she'll give him that, but Glory's past has left her wary. Abandoned as a teenager, she's unsure that she can trust in the promises Ryan is making...
  • Found by the Lake Monster by Lillian Lark

    Found by the Lake Monster by Lillian Lark

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A lake monster in heat, a lost human in the woods, and the lie that gets her stuffed…Getting lost in the woods was not the adventure Amy had in mind when she jumped at the chance to search for the local lake monster. She just wanted to liven up her steady but boring life, not wonder if every shadow on the ground is a snake and worry that no one will ever find her.Luckily, someone does find her...
  • Cry of the Pride by Lacey Thorn

    Cry of the Pride by Lacey Thorn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lost and alone…After her mother’s death, Lyra grew up in the foster care system, struggling to hide who she is from the humans who found enough wrong with her. Never fitting in anywhere, she learned to adapt, hiding the damaged parts of herself as best she could...
  • Wolf in his Heart by N.J. Walters

    Wolf in his Heart by N.J. Walters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Half-breed werewolf Sage Gallagher can’t shift, but he’s a member of the Salvation Pack and a wolf where it counts...
  • Eyes on the Pride by Lacey Thorn

    Eyes on the Pride by Lacey Thorn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Watching... Darby doesn’t just know shifters exist. It’s her job to watch them. For the last four years, she’s had her eye on one shifter, Calloway Meyer. She’s obsessed with him, which is problematic since he seems set on avoiding her. LWaiting... Calloway has spent four years keeping an eye on his mate, waiting for her to be ready to be his...
  • Unwrapping Tess: Christmas Encounters by Krystal Shannan

    Unwrapping Tess: Christmas Encounters by Krystal Shannan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    -- FROM BESTSELLING SERIES -- VEGAS MATES Tess Demakis loves the city life. The noise, the lights, the people. Everything about the rush feels like home. The only thing missing is a spark with any of the pack males. After her and her twin sister's twenty-fifth birthday passes, she'd thought for sure one of the handsome men in her aunt's pack might've been meant for her. - No. Such. Luck...
  • Bear Sentry by Ruby Shae

    Bear Sentry by Ruby Shae

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a routine mission turns deadly, bear shifter and former Enforcer, Jase Wagner is lost. The ability to trust his senses disappeared with the death of his partner and left him feeling worthless and unable to protect his clan. In an effort to find a place to fit in, he travels south and ends up in Deals Gap, North Carolina...
  • A Bear's Secret by Roxie Noir

    A Bear's Secret by Roxie Noir

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sloane Garcia is fed up with living by other people’s rules. When she loses her job and her boyfriend all at once, she hits the road to fulfill her dream of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. From Canada to Mexico, Sloane’s got five straight months of time alone to find herself - unless someone else finds her first. Austin Leeds is keeping a lot of secrets, and not just his own...
  • Craving Beauty by K.L. Fast

    Craving Beauty by K.L. Fast

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maximillian Dunn Mad Max is what they called me. Turned into a bear shifter by an experiment gone wrong, every day I try to appease him. Nothing works until I find her. Confused, I wonder why it was just that simple. Craving her isn’t nearly enough Harper Brown I've been looking for a beast my whole life. During the storm of the century, I got more than I bargained for...
  • Beta's Virgin Bride by Lacey Thorn

    Beta's Virgin Bride by Lacey Thorn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ivy… He came out of nowhere, throwing me over his shoulder and carrying me off as if he had any right to. Then he kissed me and all the reasons that kept me saying no to sex spontaneously combusted, leaving me hot and needy for a man I didn’t know. What’s a virgin to do? I ran. Cyan… One look and I knew she was mine...
  • Her Wolf In Shining Armor by Tonya Brooks

    Her Wolf In Shining Armor by Tonya Brooks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dane Lassiter was a wolf in shining armor. He was the sensible, level-headed shifter that everyone relied on to keep the peace and follow the rules, which he did, no matter what the cost to his personal happiness. When he met his fated mate, the one woman created just for him, Dane realized that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no rule he wouldn't break to make her his...
  • Stranded with the Kraken: A Monstrous Holiday Tale by Zoe Ashwood

    Stranded with the Kraken: A Monstrous Holiday Tale by Zoe Ashwood

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “The thought of you dating another man makes me want to punch through a wall. You’re magnetic .” I signed up for the new Bone-R app for monster dating thinking I’d get a fun one-night-stand out of the deal...
  • Devour by Susan A. Bliler

    Devour by Susan A. Bliler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Modess Wilder, Alpha of the Blood Lust pack, hates just about everything and everyone. Right now, the thing he hates most is being in Shadow Wolf territory listening to the offer of exchange from the Shadow Wolf Alpha. A fierce and violent Alpha, Modess, has ensured that his pack has everything it needs...
  • Warlock Unbound by Dana Marie Bell

    Warlock Unbound by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last Beckett brother is going down. Heart's Desire Book 4 Daniel Beckett's wolf already know who their mate will be: the wilfull, stubborn, beautiful Kerry Andrews. He's only held off on casting the mate spell over fear of the dangers lurking in every warlock-filled shadow. But his brothers are insistent. It's time, and all Daniel can hope for is that Kerry will allow him to protect her...
  • Stripe-Club by Milly Taiden

    Stripe-Club by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    FUR-ocious Lust SHORT #5 - Tigers A BBW. A Tiger. Lots of roaring loving! Emilia Roca, curvy flower-shop owner, adores her body and all things curves. She loves her Uncle Charlie’s strip club so much she wants to open her own, until some jerk by the name of Tigris takes her plans out of her hands. She’d give the stupid man a piece of her mind if she ever got him in her sight...
  • Real by Amy Bellows

    Real by Amy Bellows

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Buddy is nothing but a forgotten plastic love doll. Long ago, an alpha paid a warlock to bring him to life with magic, but that man hasn’t wanted Buddy in years. Every night Buddy goes into heat all alone.Until Buddy meets an alpha named H. H is the kindest man Buddy’s ever known, and he gives hugs that make Buddy feel happy and safe.If only Buddy could be a real omega made of flesh and blood...
  • The Alpha Won't Be Denied by Georgette St. Clair

    The Alpha Won't Be Denied by Georgette St. Clair

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alphas? Wolf shifter Virginia Battle has had her fill of them. She’s grown up with an Alpha dad and four bossy, overprotective older brothers - so there’s no way in hell she’s going to give arrogant, sexy Carver Lawrence the time of day. Yet he keeps showing up everywhere she goes, scaring off all the guys who want to date her – and not making a single move on her...
  • Stripe-Tease by Milly Taiden

    Stripe-Tease by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Curvy Vanessa Soler, seamstress at her dad's strip club, never expected her father to bet her in a poker game. And lose! Now she's got to deal with big, bad shifters wanting to claim the prize...ie her. On top of all that, she'll have to dance. On stage. Shit just got real. Cash Tigris went to pick up a prize at a local curvy dancers strip club...
  • His Runaway Lioness by Mina Carter

    His Runaway Lioness by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He can't shift, she can't control hers... Half-breed lioness Renae Brogan is a cat on the run. Leaving her asshole ex meant leaving her pride or losing her life. Now she's hiding out in Deal's Gap, Tennessee, with a new name and a new look. Pity she can't do anything about her inability to control her chaotic shifts. But nobody's perfect..
  • The Blackest Night by Fiona Davenport

    The Blackest Night by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stephan Bancroft was happy for his brothers, but seeing them blissfully settled made him feel the lack of his own consort even more. Taking on extra missions for the vampire council didn’t help. Nothing would except finding the woman who was destined to be his.Bronwyn O’Brien had no idea vampires existed until she was attacked while walking home from a party...
  • Cougar's Victory by Moxie North

    Cougar's Victory by Moxie North

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is the first book in the Pacific Northwest Cougars series.Dax Hayes knew what it meant to be the Alpha of a cougar pack. He also knew that his responsibilities to family were his first priority. But Dax wanted more. He’d been around a long time and he simply wanted to find his One. His one true mate to start a family with. A temporary break and a fresh start was just what he needed...
  • Shiftily Ever After by Georgette St. Clair

    Shiftily Ever After by Georgette St. Clair

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Single female shifters from all across the country are flocking to the brand new territory in Greenlands, New Hampshire. After all, there's land to be claimed, sexy male shifters lurking behind every towering pine tree, and - death challenges? Apparently, Dakota Sheffield picked the wrong woman to impersonate when she decided to go undercover for a little vacation...
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