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  • 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 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...
  • Target by J.E. Daelman

    Target by J.E. Daelman

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sniper, Marksman, Sharpshooter, call me what you like. The one thing you can guarantee is that Target never misses the mark.TargetBeing brought into a hunt by a former comrade at arms has Target on the trail of a woman he wants to save. He did not know this woman was his, not until he met her and saw all she was capable of...
  • 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...
  • Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emily Vega must avenge her father, and as the last of the Hell Hunters, she has one mission: destroy the Galena pack. Werewolves are carefully camouflaged monsters intent on taking over the world—or at least that’s what she’s been taught—but one meeting with the werewolf she’s hunting, and Chance Dawson is changing her mind, little by little...
  • Blizzards and Bastards by C.M. Stunich

    Blizzards and Bastards by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I did not intentionally get my butt stuck to a frozen toilet seat.I did not mean to spray my favorite singer in the face with pepper spray. I’m just a fangirl, not a stalker.Pop-rock band, Inked Pages, has just rescued this failed bookshop owner from a desolate rest stop.These four spicy rockstars plan to drop me off at home and skedaddle to their ultra-viral holiday concert...
  • Two Shots Down by T.S. Joyce

    Two Shots Down by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Two Shots Down is blazing his way up the ranks as one of the top bull shifters in the Pro Bull Shifter Riding Circuit. He has a chip on his shoulder a mile wide, and everything to prove. With a dark reputation as a cowboy killer, he has wrecked every interview he’s done in his career. He’s the bull shifter everyone loves to hate, and he’s just fine with that, except there is one he cares about...
  • For The Heart Of The Warmaker by T.S. Joyce

    For The Heart Of The Warmaker by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Karis Dunway’s instincts are screaming that there is a storm brewing around Two Claws Ranch. With the odds stacking against them, she and the Clan are in a race to save the ranch. A trail ride for a family of tourists could mean a turnaround for her people, but there is a new threat coming out of the woodwork, and they will have to work together to keep the ride on track...
  • A Song of Destiny by Emilia Hartley

    A Song of Destiny by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    EmberBonding with a mate who doesn’t even know your name is a bad idea.But that’s exactly what happened to her.Cash Montoya doesn’t even know she exists.He’s the local star, his guitar and his voice calling to her beast since the very first time she heard his songs.She writes him letters. Anonymous, of course.And when she finally finds the courage to tell him the truth, he thinks she’s lying...
  • Bear Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Bear Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **The full-length second book in T. S. Joyce’s new Bears Fur Hire series.** Lena Rhodes is a professional runner. Life is a lot easier when she is throwing everything she has into being a nature photographer for an elite outdoor magazine. And now, she is on her biggest assignment yet: Alaskan brown bears...
  • Forbidden Temptation by R.L. Kenderson

    Forbidden Temptation by R.L. Kenderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s a bitter cat-shifter who hates humans. She’s the human he resentfully desires. Since first meeting, Kenzie Swanson and Sawyer Lennar have shared an undeniable attraction. But there is one problem that continues to keep them apart. As a cat-shifter with a traumatic past, Sawyer hates humans—and Kenzie is all human...
  • Koda: A Bear Shifter Romance by Kira Graham

    Koda: A Bear Shifter Romance by Kira Graham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bad boys are great. Good boys are overrated. Wild boys… they’re just another species entirely. Join the Koda Clan where the men are wild, the women are naughty, and the hot romance is as sweet as it is spicy. Sexy, steamy, and crazy-funny. You’ve been warned. ;)LOVE METrace Koda is a man I hate.I’m terrified of what I feel for Trace. I’m angry...
  • Mating Instinct by Celia Kyle

    Mating Instinct by Celia Kyle

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

    Savage by Renee Rose, Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Pack Rule #4: Guard your pups with your lifeWe hooked up one night at Cody’s Saloon.The beautiful nurse wanted a ride and I’d given it to her.Made her scream and sent her home happy.She didn’t tell me there’d been consequences. She’d kept her secret close. For months.But what she didn’t know could change everything.That baby she carried wasn’t human...
  • Steal Her Heart by T.S. Joyce

    Steal Her Heart by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Maris Thurgood is in deep trouble. Abandoned to care for a ranch on her own, she’s struggling from sunup to sundown to keep up with the work. When a pack of werewolves begins preying on her herd, she has no choice but to sell. A chance meeting at the cattle auction has her wondering why someone as tall, dark, and growly as Bryson Locke would take any interest in a business venture with her...
  • The Shadows of Christmas Past by Christine Feehan, Susan Sizemore

    The Shadows of Christmas Past by Christine Feehan, Susan Sizemore

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dark magic heats up the holiday season as two sizzling New York Times bestselling authors team up for a seductive Christmas anthology!Magic is in the air this Christmas—but is it good or evil? In this sexy yuletide anthology from two of the hottest names in paranormal romance, animal instincts take over..
  • Color Blind by T. Hammond

    Color Blind by T. Hammond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blinded and scarred in an accident a year ago, Teresa has finally found love, and a new career with the help of her companion dog, Red. Red appears to be a typical German shepherd, but he shares a mental communication link with his owner that is anything but ordinary. He’s articulate, sassy and opinionated - he’s also scary-smart, and has a talent for tracking...
  • Bion by Alexi Ferreira

    Bion by Alexi Ferreira

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BION The moment I see her I know, it's like I found the meaning to my existence, but then they try to take her from me. I've waited too long to lose her now, if they think they can take what is mine they will have to go through me...
    Categorized as:
    humor  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  biker  book
  • Desert Roots by Anna Lowe

    Desert Roots by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Daredevil she-wolf gets a taste of her own medicine with a bad boy who won't play by the rules.Daredevil Carly Hawthorne, youngest of the Hawthorne wolf shifter clan, doesn't believe in true love. At least, that's what she thinks until bad boy Luke Brandstetter comes along, refusing to play by the rules...
  • Forbidden Claim by R.L. Kenderson

    Forbidden Claim by R.L. Kenderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s running for her life. He’s never gotten over her. Will she let him claim her to save her? Wolf-shifter Isabelle Rand is escaping a relationship she never intended to stay in. Fleeing her abusive boyfriend who hates to lose anything, she seeks sanctuary with the only people who can help her...
    Categorized as:
    humor  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • KnightForce Deuces by Sydney Addae

    KnightForce Deuces by Sydney Addae

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Silas Knight, La Patron, and his mate Jasmine are the top Alphas to over 33 million wolves in the US, have a problem. Just as their den has expanded with four half-breed pups, so has the Wolf Nation. Millions of half-breeds are accepting their rightful place in the nation and Silas couldn’t be happier...
  • Reign: A Romance Anthology by Nina Levine, Penny Dee

    Reign: A Romance Anthology by Nina Levine, Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They say that power changes a person.Love changes them more.Long may they reign...You find them in the boardroom. The throne room. The bedroom.They burn brighter than the rest.They wield power as easily as they breathe.They stop at nothing to get what they want.Royalty, CEOs, mafia kings, demons, and more...
  • Conquered Destiny by Emilia Hartley

    Conquered Destiny by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BayleeAs a dragon shifter, her duty is to marry and have children.But she wants to live her life by her own rules.She doesn’t want an arranged marriage. She wants Gale Montoya.So what if there has been a feud between their families, lasting for two generations? Her beast has chosen its mate.Their families forbid them from being together, though. Their hatred blinds them...
  • The Arrangement by Christine Pope

    The Arrangement by Christine Pope

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes a curse becomes a blessing in disguise…. Jeremiah Wilcox's wife died cursing him and all the sons of his line. Struggling with his solitary existence, Jeremiah has spent the days since her death ensuring his family prospers…even while wishing for what he knows he'll never have...
  • The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer by S.E. Harmon

    The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer by S.E. Harmon

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    In the archaeology community, Christopher “Kit” Sawyer’s family is a legacy. And while he may be a historian, not a treasure hunter, he thinks he does a pretty good job of living up to the Sawyer name. He's a book-smart research fanatic and does his best work at his tidy desk. No fedora and whip for him, if you please—a nice cup of coffee and a comfy chair will do...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    humor  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  insta-love
  • Forbidden Addiction by R.L. Kenderson

    Forbidden Addiction by R.L. Kenderson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With a tortured past, she’s a cat-shifter who refuses to get close to anyone. Yet she can’t seem to resist the leader of the vampire protectors.Phoenix Kaplan has never felt a connection like the one she has with Dante Leonidas...
    Categorized as:
    humor  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  paranormal
  • More Than Mated by Celia Kyle

    More Than Mated by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Even the growliest of men need love... All FIVE bestselling Grayslake: More Than Mated novels in one volume! Follow these alpha males—and their luscious mates—from Grayslake and beyond. Where the Abrams brothers, friends, and occasionally enemies fight for their lives, their future, and their mates...
  • Montana Fire by Vella Day, L. Watanabe

    Montana Fire by Vella Day, L. Watanabe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    *****************SALE**************LIMITED TIME ONLY****************** GENRE: Romantic erotica medical romance, mystery/suspense/terrorism involving a nurse and a very hot arson investigator. SERIES: Montana Promises(FULL-LENGTH NOVEL) Publisher’s warning: This adult contemporary romance contains explicit sexual content and graphic language. Not intended for those under the age of 18...
  • Their Christmas Baby by Laylah Roberts

    Their Christmas Baby by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After spending years looking after ailing parents and a selfish husband, Jessa decided that it was time to explore the needs she’d supressed for years. She wanted to experience what it was like to be dominated. She wanted to set free the little inside her. She needed to figure out if having a Daddy Dom was truly what she desired. Colt and Brant shared everything. Their house. Their business...
  • Dangerous Lover by Maggie Shayne

    Dangerous Lover by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No sooner had Selene Brand cast her love spell than dark, handsome--and freshly stabbed--Cory Forrester fell at her feet. She felt as destined to save this stranger as she was to love him, even if it meant exposing her secret life as a witch. But the injured amnesiac didn't even know his own name, whether Selene was the cause of his injured state--or his salvation...
  • Cinderella.Com by River Laurent

    Cinderella.Com by River Laurent

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Once upon a... Hot cowboy Loan sharks are circling, I’ve got my dad’s hospital bills to pay, and my landlord is about to kick me out onto the street. It’s all doom and gloom until my best friend, Jesse, tells me that she’s found me a job impersonating the famous hotel heiress, Tamara Honeywell. I get to live on a ranch in Montana for a month and take care of all my money worries...
  • Reece by Stasia Black

    Reece by Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I need a new man like I need a hole in the head.The last one almost killed me. Literally.I barely escaped with my life, and when I end up on a ranch in Central Texas, I’m just looking for a place to hide out and recover.But then Reece Walker saunters in.(Why, God? Do you enjoy torturing me like this? Is it fun for you?)I tell myself it’ll just be one night...
  • Hunter by Stasia Black

    Hunter by Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Snow White’s on the run and sexier than ever… ISOBEL:I’m on the run from my evil stepmother but no one can know.Least of all my new boss and major pain in the ass, Hunter Dawkins.We might have had one amazing night together but the next morning he went colder than a Wallstreet banker’s heart during a charity ball.I have zero tolerance for assholes in my life. No thank you...
  • 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...
  • Ruby Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Ruby Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The third dragon has been awakened...Red used to have it all. Sexy, powerful and attractive to all women, as the ruby dragon he had the world at his feet. But now he's awakened and collared, unable to use his powers and alone in the modern world. His only company is his insane adopted cat and Faye, the curvy, sweet neighbor who makes his dragon sit up and say ‘mate’...
    Categorized as:
    humor  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  dragons  fiction
  • Brandr by Alexi Ferreira

    Brandr by Alexi Ferreira

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BRANDRThey forced her on me, I thought I didn't want a woman to call my own but she is now the light that guides me. She was tortured, nearly killed all because of me. I will go to the ends of the earth to make them pay, they will know never to mess with the Elemental's MC again.ARIAMy life changed from one day to another now he is the only one that calms my mind...
    Categorized as:
    humor  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  biker  book
  • Ceric by Alexi Ferreira

    Ceric by Alexi Ferreira

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    CERICShe's feisty, a real fire cracker but as sexy as hell. She's constantly getting herself and the others into trouble, but she's MINE. She thinks that she can just walk into danger and i will let her, but now she has the MC and me to keep her safe.NOVAHe's bossy, arrogant and possessive, but so damn hot. He thinks he can tell me what to do...
    Categorized as:
    humor  steamy  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  biker  book  contemporary
  • Wicked Cowboy Wolf by Kait Ballenger

    Wicked Cowboy Wolf by Kait Ballenger

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To his enemies, he's known as the Rogue. To her, he's her only chance at survival...Years ago, Grey Wolf Jared Black was cast from the pack for a crime he didn't commit. Now, he's the mysterious criminal wolf known only as the Rogue, a name his former packmates won't soon forget...
  • His Scandalous Love by Anya Summers

    His Scandalous Love by Anya Summers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Carter Jones is a fairly simple man. He loves his ranch, his horses, and dominating women in the bedroom. He's the owner and founder of the exclusive Cuffs and Spurs Club in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, yet for the past year Carter has achieved something of a monk's status within the ranks of his club...
  • Marcus: Grizzly Guardians by Kat Baxter

    Marcus: Grizzly Guardians by Kat Baxter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve never believed in fated mates.It’s not common among bear shifters, so I never gave it much thought. I do know one thing for sure, humans and bears do not mix.So when voluptuous and sassy Aspen Reeves moves to my small town, I do everything I can to ignore the pull I feel towards her. My bear is certain she belongs to us...
  • Our Radiant Embers by Zarah Detand

    Our Radiant Embers by Zarah Detand

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Their rivalry? Explosive. Their chemistry? Magical. When a regrettable drunken hookup becomes your partner in a high-stakes magical project, sparks are bound to fly—just not the kind Liam Morgan was hoping for. Teaming up with Adam Harrington, the golden boy of a legendary magical lineage, was not on his to-do list...
  • Stampeded by B.J. Daniels

    Stampeded by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    To escape a killer, she muct accept the Chisholm brand of protection...Alexa Cross has spent a lifetime outrunning the "curse" of her bloodline. Now she must confront her past to save her family from an extraordinary force of evil. Haunted or not, the eerie Wellington Manor radiates danger and Alexa has nowhere to run except to her strongest--and most irresistible--ally...
  • Beneath a Blood Lust Moon by Jodi Vaughn

    Beneath a Blood Lust Moon by Jodi Vaughn

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

    Texas Sunrise by K.C. Klein, R.L. Syme

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Somewhere, TX Five Authors, One Town, No Limits...The Cowboy Rockstar by KC Klein She's off-limits and he's off his game, but together, they could make perfect harmony...Saddle Up by Jodi VaughnShe can heal his broken ribs, but it will take more than medicine to repair her reputation… Things are about to get a whole lot hotter in Texas. Fire Away by R.L...
  • Sinful Seconds by Elisabeth Naughton, Alexandra Ivy

    Sinful Seconds by Elisabeth Naughton, Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the six USA Today and New York Times bestselling authors who brought you WICKED FIRSTS, comes an all new contemporary set of six sexy, suspenseful and very SINFUL SECONDS. Sinful Surrender by Elisabeth Naughton He's been watching her, and now he's here, in the dimly lit bar of the swanky Vail resort, pretending not to notice her...
  • The Bear Comes Home For Christmas by Zoe Chant

    The Bear Comes Home For Christmas by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A curvy woman who's alone at Christmas + a hard-working bear shifter who needs to get in touch with his animal side + a cozy cabin in the middle of nowhere = a red-hot holiday romance! This Christmas has been more naughty than nice for Hazel Granger. Her now very much ex-boyfriend stood her up for the vacation she’d painstakingly planned, leaving her all alone over the holiday season...
  • Cowboy in Wolf's Clothing by Kait Ballenger

    Cowboy in Wolf's Clothing by Kait Ballenger

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Born a cowboy and bred a warrior...High Commander Colt Cavanaugh has spent his life defending his pack and its sprawling ranchlands. But the hardened Grey Wolf soldier has a dark secret that could destroy his life forever.Belle Beaumont is a wanted woman, on the run from the wolf pack that kidnapped her...
  • Sheltered by the Orc: Monster Brides by Sandra R. Neeley

    Sheltered by the Orc: Monster Brides by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fall through an ancient Fae portal to a time when Orcs ruled the Irish countryside. Stumble into an arranged marriage with an Orc who wants you less than you want him. And when it’s all said and done?Frantically search for a way to travel through time back to his side...
  • Reckless Roulette by Alice Winters

    Reckless Roulette by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seven days until game over.LenKade has seven days left to live… unless I do something about it. I amone of the best assassins around, after all. But… I’m not sure I exactly care what happens to Kade. He’s rude, only cares about himself and his casino, and did I mention he doesn’t know a single thing about video games?Okay, okay...
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