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  • ‎Magical Midlife Alliance by K.F. Breene

    ‎Magical Midlife Alliance by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Book 7 in the ongoing Wall Street Journal bestselling Leveling Up series!After returning from the basajaunak lands, it's clear that Jessie and her crew need to find an alliance quickly. They need to head to Kingsley's in less than a couple of months. If they go as they are, they'll never be enough to save Austin's brother from total annihilation...
  • The Keeper of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Keeper of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bootlace is being hunted.Peace hasn’t come easy for the Stryker Pack, and for Bootlace, the sanctuary they’ve found feels too good to be true. His wolfish instincts are being riled up as a pretty woman with a load of secrets starts visiting him and asking questions she has no business asking...
  • Boarlander Cursed Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Boarlander Cursed Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **Don’t miss this riveting final installment to T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Boarlander Bears series.** Clinton Fuller has been burned by love, but that doesn’t stop him from thinking of his first mate and what could’ve been. And when she blows into town, with no memory of him or what happened to her, he does his best to stop history from repeating itself...
    Categorized as:
    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  amnesia  book
  • The Mercy of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Mercy of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Something big is going on in this town.Police officer Darren Callaghan has been hunting for the cause of a burned mountain on the outskirts of Leadville, Colorado, but when a woman goes missing, he can’t help the feeling that they are connected somehow. A call comes in that some fences have been cut, and he finds a ragtag group of trespassers is squatting on some abandoned land outside of town...
  • 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...
  • First Time Train Wreck by T.S. Joyce

    First Time Train Wreck by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    First Time Train Wreck is one of the top bucking bull shifters in the world. He’s in the middle of a busy off-season. With his free time, he’s secretly hunting down the exact reason bull shifters are disappearing. He has no idea what kind of enemy he’s really facing, but he’s okay with that. The bigger the evil, the harder he will make it fall...
  • Traitor Wolf of Piston by T.S. Joyce

    Traitor Wolf of Piston by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Vaughn Hall is ready for war.The Piston Mountain Pack has been begging him to get rid of the ghosts he’s been dragging, and he’s finally ready to say goodbye to the things that built him. Everything happens for a reason, and going back to his old stomping grounds puts him right in the path of a girl he used to know. She’s different now, but he glimpses the same old kindness in her...
  • The Break of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Break of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Peace has come to Promise Falls, and Trey hates every minute of it. What is a War Wolf supposed to do with peace? His entire Pack has paired up and seems perfectly fine with settling down into a quiet life—but inside of him, his wolf is howling for war, and he must find it wherever he can to keep the animal sated...
  • Reach of Slaughter Mountain by T.S. Joyce

    Reach of Slaughter Mountain by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Owen Thomas is a man on a mission.He's moved from the city to a small town in the wilds of Alaska, and is determined to carve out a life in the woods he now calls home. He is finding the perfect balance between life in town with his father and brother, and a solitary existence where he has the peace to figure himself out...
  • Air Ryder by T.S. Joyce

    Air Ryder by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Everything is a joke to an easygoing shifter like Ryder Croy. At least on the outside, because inside, he’s on the hunt for a mate and is beginning to feel like he’s not meant for a bond. He’s on the tail end of a slew of bad decisions, but he’s determined to turn it around and get his life back on track...
    Categorized as:
    dragons  humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Brother Wolf of Piston by T.S. Joyce

    Brother Wolf of Piston by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Vander is being pushed into a position of power in his new Pack, and he’s not ready. The Zombie Wolf has taken over as Alpha of the Piston Mountain Pack, and the monster is trying to drag him up to Second, but Vander has never been motivated to rise to power…until now. There is a new female on the outskirts of the Pack, and he is tasked with protecting her...
  • How It Needed to Be by T.S. Joyce

    How It Needed to Be by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Divar Stockton isn’t supposed to exist.The Bane brothers were supposed to be the only remaining bear shifters on earth, but they aren’t. There is an entire clan of them in hiding, and Divar has escaped his people in an attempt to survive, and maybe, just maybe, learn how to be a good man from Krome’s rag-tag Crew of misfits. His inner animal has different plans though...
    Categorized as:
    dragons  humor  paranormal  rural  shapeshifters  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Enemy Panther Next Door by Roxie Ray

    Enemy Panther Next Door by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s a powerful panther shifter who needs my rejection…Returning home to help my sick father and finding out that I’m fated to Blayne Walker must be the universe’s idea of a cruel joke.Especially because the stubborn panther shifter with the hard look in his blue eyes is the reason I left Lily Valley in the first place...
  • 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...
  • For The Heart Of An Outlaw by T.S. Joyce

    For The Heart Of An Outlaw by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Karis Dunway is looking for a complete overhaul of her life. On the tail-end of a heartbreak, she makes a desperate move and applies to be a part of a matchmaking program for big predator shifters. Colt seems charming and sweet over messages, but meeting the scar-faced man in person sets Karis’s life on a path she can’t escape from...
  • Red Havoc Guardian by T.S. Joyce

    Red Havoc Guardian by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Greyson McCarty is hiding big secrets and doing his best to stay invisible in the Red Havoc Crew. By his own choice, he is at the very bottom of the crew, but when he enlists the help of a shifter matchmaking service to find a mate, the one he’s given makes it hard for him to hide what he really is. Genevieve is smart, and funny, and the most interesting woman he’s ever met...
  • Red Havoc Rebel by T.S. Joyce

    Red Havoc Rebel by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kaylee Cummings is back in Covington to change her destiny. She used to be known as the town rich girl, misunderstood by everyone but one boy, Anson Carter. They’d loved hard, and then destroyed each other in their youth, so when she crashes into him again, the residual anger from what he’d done comes back ten-fold...
  • Bear the Heat by T.S. Joyce

    Bear the Heat by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cora Wright is walking a fine line between standing up for what’s right, and keeping her job secure. As a local news reporter, her need to defend the Breck Crew of newly outed bear shifters risks everything she loves about her life. But when she meets Boone Keller, tatted up bad boy bear shifter, her world tilts dangerously on its axis...
  • Asher by T.S. Joyce

    Asher by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ****Don't miss this thrilling final book in the bestselling Wolves of Winter's Edge trilogy**** Asher Striker is full of dark secrets. His brothers think he’s quiet because he’s moody, but Asher had to learn at a young age that if he doesn’t focus on controlling the power within him, he could destroy everything and everyone around him...
  • Make Her New by T.S. Joyce

    Make Her New by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Everyone has Hunter Kaid all wrong. Even his own brother writes him off as unintelligent, but not all smarts are the same. He just needs one person to understand him and listen to what he’s really saying. All of his life, he’s been searching for that one person who really takes the time to see him, and just when he’s about given up, he stumbles upon Sadey...
  • Axman Werebear by T.S. Joyce, Mackenzie Harte

    Axman Werebear by T.S. Joyce, Mackenzie Harte

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Arranged marriage, hidden agendas, deep secrets, and heart-pounding romance come together to tell Bruiser’s story in the 5th installment of T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Saw Bears series. Diem Daye has led a sheltered life. As the only breeding female of her kind, her father has kept her tucked away and heavily guarded...
  • 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...
  • Lumberman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Lumberman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Haydan Walker is perfectly content as the only remaining bachelor in the Ashe Crew. Sure, his crew seems happy, but his bear is different and has no urge to find a mate. So when one of the Gray Backs begs him to claim his sister, Haydan’s instinct is to run as far away as he can...
  • 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...
  • Librarian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Librarian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sarah is looking for love under the covers...of a good book!As a small-town librarian, Sarah has her hands full with projects that range from running an in-library day care to planning her best friend's wedding. Romance is a complication she doesn't need...until he walks in...
  • The Vampire's Former Flame by Kristen Painter

    The Vampire's Former Flame by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town where Halloween is celebrated 365 days a year. The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better. Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all.Ephelia Moreau doesn’t know she’s in danger...
  • Warlander Grizzly by T.S. Joyce

    Warlander Grizzly by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Landon Fuller has been lusting over Lucia for years. There are a few problems that are keeping him from pursuing her. One, she is a seer coming into her powers, which is equal parts hot, and also terrifying—which is sexy, because Landon, in true Fuller fashion, is attracted to things that scare him. Problem number two? She doesn’t know he exists...
  • The Dragon's Pregnant Mate by Zoe Chant

    The Dragon's Pregnant Mate by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s pregnant, in danger, and thinks she’s alone. He’s going to prove her wrong. Lawyer and lioness, Elizabeth is used to making her own way and solving her own problems. That’s what she did with her corrupt pack leader: he’s going to jail, and she made it happen, because she wanted a better world for her unborn child. But the repercussions could be deadly...
  • Micah by Louisa Masters

    Micah by Louisa Masters

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wanted: Demon assistant for incubus genius. Personal services required…Nobody ever expected to find a secret cave protected by a giant puzzle door in the mountains near our village. Even more surprising was the knowledge that it’s been there for thousands of years and was created by a dragon. I’m not the only one who’s dying to find out what’s inside...
  • The Reaper Rescues The Genie by Kristen Painter

    The Reaper Rescues The Genie by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town that celebrates Halloween 365 days a year. The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better. Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all. Death is what grim reaper Lucien Dupree knows best...
  • Leap of the Lion by Cherise Sinclair

    Leap of the Lion by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She shifts for the first time on the day of her escape. After a decade of captivity, Darcy MacCormac escapes the corrupt, clandestine organization called the Scythe, leaving family and friends behind. She must find a way to rescue them. Discovered by other shifters, the brand-new cougar gets two mentors. Blademage Gawain is an easy-going blacksmith with a steel-hard core...
  • The Vampire's Priceless Treasure by Kristen Painter

    The Vampire's Priceless Treasure by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town that celebrates Halloween 365 days a year. The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better. Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all...
  • Bloodrunner Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Bloodrunner Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Alana Warren has her entire life planned out. She’s making big changes and going after the future she wants, but one thing she doesn’t plan on is the tatted up bad-boy bear shifter who saunters into her coffee shop. The constant snarl in his throat says something is wrong with that man, but for some reason, she can’t get him out of her head...
  • Misty by Tabitha Barret

    Misty by Tabitha Barret

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Misty is the name of the woman who once had everything, a powerful pack, a family who protect her and a man who loved her deeply. Gray is the shell of a woman who was forced to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and move on.After my father's death, my lover suddenly wasn't good enough for me, according to my mother, so I was expected to love another wolf, breaking our rules and traditions...
  • Timberman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Timberman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Danielle Clayton is back in her old stomping grounds after years of avoiding the man she had to leave behind. She’s determined to make Saratoga her home again, but when she sets eyes on her snarly, sexy ex, it’s clear her feelings for him haven’t cooled at all in the years she’s been away. He kept too many secrets the first time around, but Denison has changed...
  • Fastlander Fealty by T.S. Joyce

    Fastlander Fealty by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Owen Carson is a big, dominant boar shifter who is finally ready for a mate. Since he was young, he knew he wanted to escape the unfortunate legacy of his people and find something that has always felt just out of reach...
  • Any Witch Way by Lindsay Buroker

    Any Witch Way by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Thanks to her grandmother’s legacy, Morgen Keller has spent the summer learning about her witch heritage. She’s also spent the summer falling for the sexy werewolf next door.As an unemployed divorcée, she never expected to find love again, but the gruff Amar has been her protector since she arrived in Bellrock. He’s fierce, loyal, strong, and he hardly ever rolls his eyes at her vegetarian ways...
  • The Vampire's Fake Fiancée by Kristen Painter

    The Vampire's Fake Fiancée by Kristen Painter

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Welcome to Nocturne Falls, the town where Halloween is celebrated 365 days a year. The tourists think it's all a show: the vampires, the werewolves, the witches, the occasional gargoyle flying through the sky. But the supernaturals populating the town know better. Living in Nocturne Falls means being yourself. Fangs, fur, and all. Sebastian Ellingham isn’t known for being a happy vampire...
  • Collision Course by Julie Trettel

    Collision Course by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There's little worse than your best friend finding out you're crushing on his baby sister.That was eight years ago. Baine lost everything, the girl, his clan, and his best friend. Smiles and jokes are his defense to cover the pain he still harbors. He hasn't been home since, but a mission to save his clan from a Raglan threat has him on a collision course to face his past...
  • Knox by Elizabeth Dear

    Knox by Elizabeth Dear

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When I broke my year-long vow of celibacy for a one night stand with a beautiful, intriguing wolf girl I met in a Las Vegas bar, I thought I’d be chalking it up to just another notch on my bedpost—as much as I’d actually wished it could have been more...
  • Son of the Cursed Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Son of the Cursed Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    ****Don’t miss the exciting first book in T. S. Joyce’s brand new standalone series, Sons of Beasts**** Bounty Hunter, Nox Fuller, has been challenged to do the impossible. He’s supposed to bring the Red Dragon in for a year long stint in shifter prison, but this job could be the death of him...
  • Enthrall by Sandra R. Neeley

    Enthrall by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vampires are often irresistibly sexy, powerful and misunderstood. Enthrall is all of those, and more. Being the leader of Whispers — a community of paranormals hidden deep within the south Louisiana swamps — is a difficult and lonely existence. He’s waited centuries to find his love, his mate. Then finally, when he’s all but given up, she’s there...
    Categorized as:
    dragons  humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  angels  book  dark
  • Fractured Silence by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Fractured Silence by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Talon Pack continues with a dark secret that could shatter the future of the Packs, or save them all. Parker Jamenson is the son of three Packs, the sole mediator between every Pack in the United States and Europe, and…he’s dying. He knows he doesn’t have much left in him and is in desperate need of a mate...
  • Season of the Wolf (The Lost Royals Saga) by Rachel Jonas

    Season of the Wolf (The Lost Royals Saga) by Rachel Jonas

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is book four in THE LOST ROYALS SAGA. Full description coming soon! Books 1-3 available now. Series Order: *Book One: The Genesis of Evangeline *Book Two: Dark Side of the Moon *Book Three: Heart of the Dragon The Lost Royals Saga is an upper YA/NA crossover. This is a tale of long-forgotten royalty and a fated love too powerful for time to erase...
  • The Bronze Dragon's Baby by Zoe Chant

    The Bronze Dragon's Baby by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A woman on a mission to build a better world for her baby… Red dragon shifter Athena is sick and tired of her clan’s never-ending wars. She and her brother grew up orphans because of them, and Athena is not allowing that to happen to her daughter. But no one wants to help her—so she takes off to Oak Ridge, where their current enemies live...
  • The Witch and His Doctor by Kiki Clark

    The Witch and His Doctor by Kiki Clark

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this series finale, the Kincaid Pack is forced to put everything on the line… or lose everything they hold dear.Damien has a secret.Actually, he has more than one. His entire life within the Kincaid Pack has been a lie. Now that the truth is starting to come out, he’s faced with accepting the consequences he set into motion years ago.And hoping his mate will forgive him...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  shapeshifters  family  romance  mlm  magic  fantasy  lgbtq
  • Witch Summer Night's Cream by H.Y. Hanna

    Witch Summer Night's Cream by H.Y. Hanna

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.Murder, mystery, and a chocolate love potion... Caitlyn is looking forward to Midsummer's Eve in the tiny English village of Tillyhenge...
    Categorized as:
    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  animals  audiobook  book  cozy
  • Destroy by Sandra R. Neeley

    Destroy by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Destroy is beautiful, strong, charismatic and charming. He is also selfish, shallow, petty and jealous — or is he? One misunderstanding centuries ago resulted in his being labeled as not good enough, untrustworthy, self-serving. To hell with them, he knew who he really was! A strong, dependable, good male of strong character who was very pleasant to be around and even more pleasant to look at...
  • The Midnight Dragon's Mate by Zoe Chant

    The Midnight Dragon's Mate by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    His worst nightmare could be a dream come true... Single dad Lachlan only looked away for a second. And now his six-year-old son is gone, lost in the wild woods. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare...but most parents aren’t dragons. Mad with fear for his son, Lachlan is fully prepared to rip the whole forest apart to find him..
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