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Dimitri by Kym Grosso
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn erotic paranormal romance…Dimitri LeBlanc, sexy and charismatic beta of Acadian Wolves, survives a brutal attack after his wolf succumbs to a dark force, threatening his very existence. Waking up, tied to a bed, his amusement transforms into lust as a beautiful stranger heals his beast... -
Bear's Redemption by Lisa Ladew
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBruin has never fit in with his kind because the bears hate him for something he can't control. The wolves like him OK, but now that his wolf bff is mated, Bruin prepares for more lonely days and nights... until he meets a female so 'purrfect', the sight of her breaks him... -
Léopold’s Wicked Embrace by Kym Grosso
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn erotic paranormal romance...Seductive and lethal vampire, Léopold Devereoux, returns to the Big Easy to find a killer. His search leads him to a beautiful and mysterious woman, who awakens desires and emotions that he’s long fought to keep buried... -
Mystics and Mental Blocks by Meghan Ciana Doidge
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree days. That was all the reprieve we got before one of the Five showed up, injured and on the run. The snowstorm that had encased the property, as well as stifled the town, hadn’t even melted away.That wounded prey led our newest adversary directly to me, to Christopher. Inconvenient timing, but not unexpected... -
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Forbidden Dragon by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA Dragon Shifter Novel There are secrets that the humans must never find out. Secrets that would bring about the demise of the dragon species. The dragons have something that the humans want and would fight to get. Their weakness to silver is the one area that humans have exploited in the past, almost bringing the dragon species to their knees... -
Tristan's Lyceum Wolves by Kym Grosso
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn erotic paranormal romance...Charismatic and powerful Lyceum Wolves' Alpha, Tristan Livingston, is out for revenge after a devastating attack on his pack. Not only did he survive a building collapse, he orchestrated the rebuild of his chic, state-of-the-art nightclub within a week... -
Dragon Prince by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is the final installment of this bestselling dragon shifter series...Tide isn’t interested in taking part in the hunt. He doesn’t like the concept. It isn’t for him. One thing he does enjoy is the stag run. He plans on finding himself a tasty human female to hole up with for the night. What he doesn’t expect is to find her stranded on the side of the road. A damsel in distress... -
Bear in Mind by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPrivate Investigator, Summer Delgado hopes Gerri can find her twin sister a man. If anyone needs a happily ever after, it's Winter. But not Summer. She’s got no time for romance. Even if it’s wrapped in smoking-hot shifter muscles. She's got to focus on the break-in at Gerri Wilder's apartment. Who needs a sexy, grumpy bear stomping around? Not Summer. Nope. Gerri has other plans, of course... -
A Ghost and a Hard Place by Elle Adams
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to Hawkwood Hollow, where the dead outnumber the living.Maura is settling into her new life. She's working at the local inn, helping Carey hunt for ghosts in her free time, and she even has a date with the local detective.But she's always feared her past would catch up to her, and it turns out she has a good reason to worry when a new Reaper shows up in town... -
Night Magic by Jennifer Lyon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe’s a siren he can’t resist…Phoenix Torq is the devilishly handsome bad boy of the Wing Slayer Hunters. Tormented by a mysterious singing in his head, he tracks the compelling voice and discovers his soul mirror witch and his ultimate salvation. Awesome, except that she’s already engaged—to a demon... -
Sinful Magic by Jennifer Lyon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe rouses the sleeping dragon...Wing Slayer Hunter Kieran "Key" DeMicca has always known he's a monster. Twisted magic saddled him with the spirit of a lethal dragon, and named him guardian of the deadly Dragon Tear. Humans and demons will do anything to get that Tear, including harm those Key loves so he remains alone... -
Captured Dragon by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDragon shifter series set in the same world as The Bride Hunt series One injured dragon. Four terrified humans. A group of ruthless Dragon Hunters. One thing is for sure, nothing good can come from this situation. Several human females are abducted during one of the Bride Hunts. Despite the danger to himself, Flood attempts to rescue the females... -
A Mate for Lazarus by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStandalone Vampire Novel Have you ever wanted to date a vampire? Human women required. Must be enthusiastic about interactions with vampires. Must be willing to undergo a stringent medical exam. Must be prepared to sign a contractual agreement which would include a non-disclosure clause. Limited positions available… Lazarus is the biggest, strongest, the all time scariest of the vampires... -
Hunger Awakened by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn exciting new series from USA Today Bestselling author Charlene Hartnady The Feral. Self-appointed rulers of all. Strong. Majestic. The most badass of all the species, and yet, the most vulnerable. Their own females died many moons ago from the dreaded clutch sickness. Desperate and desolate, they watch as the other shifters take human females as mates... -
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Stolen by the Alpha Wolf (Chosen #2) by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE COMPLETE EDITION: PARTS 1 - 3 Bestselling Shifter/Vampire Novel.Series Reading order:#1 Chosen by the Vampire Kings#2 Stolen by the Alpha Wolf#3 Unlikely Mates#4 Awakened by the Vampire Prince#5 Mated to the Vampire Kings#6 Wolf Whisperer (standalone novella) Please start with the Chosen by the Vampire Kings series for the most enjoyment... -
Fated Mates by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA secret Lycan world, hidden in plain sight. An outsider suddenly drawn in...She can't resist him, but he knows he can never have her... Private investigator Alynna Chase is drawn in to the world of werewolf shifter clans when she encounters charming and sexy Lycan, Alex Westbrooke. For centuries, werewolf shifters have moved among human society undetected, hiding in plain sight... -
Blood Dragon by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDragon shifter series set in the same world as The Bride Hunt series Bay knew what she was. Definitely not human. Not even close. He knew she was startlingly beautiful. He even knew what she looked like naked. Unfortunately, he didn’t know who she was. Not really. Even her name was a mystery... -
Dark Blood by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAt long last you are truly back with us…Zev Hunter was an elite warrior, a dark-blood dealer of death to rogue Lycans who preyed on mankind. He was a loner, never given to personal attachments, and damned fierce at his job... -
Sadie's Shadow by Julia Mills
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the Dragon Guard Series Arises a Series Unlike Any Other… Seven women, Shifters of Power, ascend from obscurity to battle enemies the likes of which the world has never known. Sadie’s life has never been easy, but then who's is? She's taken every obstacle, every trial…every tribulation and turned it to her advantage. Now the stakes are higher than ever before.. -
The Amplifier Protocol by Meghan Ciana Doidge
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey called me an amplifier. And they had bred me, raised me, and trained me to be a killer with preternatural precision. I was capable of taking, holding, and transferring power that wasn’t my own with a simple touch. Skin-to-skin contact. Along with four others of my generation, I could infiltrate any magical organization, extracting whoever or whatever I’d been ordered to extricate... -
(Un)bidden by Melissa Haag
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsI left home because I didn’t want to end up in a cage like a lab rat. Hitching rides, begging for cash, and sleeping on the ground got old fast. That was the only reason I braved an overgrown path to a group of buildings. I’d hoped to find a bed and a decent night’s sleep. However, what I found was a place overrun by werewolves... -
Accidental Theft by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPART 1: Shifter/Vampire Serial Stolen by the Alpha Wolf is a follow on to Chosen by the Vampire Kings. I strongly recommend that you read this 6 part serial first. The arrogant vampire kings have always proclaimed themselves to be the rulers of all the non-humans making war between the species inevitable. In order to win, it is imperative that the shifters steal the chosen human female... -
Running Beside the Alpha by Lola Glass
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNever run from a werewolf.My life has taught me to expect the unexpected.A serial-killer rampaging through the New York Pack?Sure. Why not?But a serial killer who smells like me?That’s a heck of a lot more than unexpected. With the Alphas of All poking around and my own Alpha on a rampage to figure out who the murderer is, it becomes a race to see who finds the truth first.I'll find the killer... -
Riding Through Fire by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe dragons on Draig Island are not your run-of-the-mill kind. They’re something else entirely…I cannot believe my bad luck when an embossed envelope arrives at my door just one week before my twenty-fifth birthday. Which just happens to be the cut-off date for being called up for the testing of the blood. I thought I was in the clear, turns out that I was wrong... -
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Hope Awakened by Charlene Hartnady
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAll of his Feral brothers are falling over themselves to meet human women. They want to mate and procreate as a matter of urgency.Not him!There are more important things for Reece to worry about right now. Like keeping the queen safe from harm. She’s heavy with clutch. The chicks are to be born soon. The future of his people is at stake. The Fallen are circling like vultures... -
The Alpha's Fight by Michelle Fox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen you've lost your wolf, how do you get it back?'Jane Doe' has no idea who she is or why she wakes up in a...nursing home? Full of shifters? She may not be old, but they say she is a shifter—only her wolf is MIA and she's in some kind of trouble she can't remember to boot. And there's this guy, Ryder. Something about him that makes her tingle in all the right places... -
Bear my Fate: A Prequel by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThrust into a world she doesn't understand, Eva is caught between trying to rescue her mom, and the sexy beast of a man who wants to claim her. Jack is a bear shifter, sworn to love and protect his mate.One problem, Eva is a Night Hunter, and the thing she hunts is Jack!Jack and his brothers are degetty fodder, called on by the Council when there is a threat posed by an Other... -
A Trial by Blood by Sherilee Gray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRose After a lifetime of suffering, I'm ready to end it all…Preferably before my Trial begins.I'm more useful dead than alive—Death is demanding my soul as payment for a debt he believes my family owes, and Ronan, the cold-blooded dhampir who can't seem to stay away from me, can help end my pain... -
The Naga Next Door by Maggie Mayhem
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe naga next door has perfect pecs, washboard abs, and the world’s sharpest jawline, but that doesn’t mean he’s off the hook for disturbing the peace.But this time, when I stomp over to give the my noisy neighbor a piece of my mind, I find Zayn’s front door ajar and his groceries scattered on the ground. What the—The sexy serpent has been hiding a curse. On a whim, I offer to help him break it... -
Rush of Darkness by Rhyannon Byrd
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDESTINED TO BE ENEMIES...Raine Spenser is on the brink. Held prisoner because of her abilities, Raine — a powerful psychic as well as vampire - desperately needed a savior. But the last one she expected was the green-eyed soldier who’d once hunted her kind... -
Shadows of the Past by Brandy L. Rivers, Kelley Hazen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings8hrs 25 minsHaunted by memories of her past, Amethyst Lakes left her home to come to Edenton. She was ready to start a new life on her own after being stalked relentlessly. Hayden Hunter is too busy being Sheriff to take interest in a woman. That is until his officer drags Amethyst into his life. For the first time he wants to protect and claim... -
Time Without End by V.M. Black
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBound to the VampireCora Shaw was bonded twice to the billionaire vampire Dorian Thorne, once though blood and again through her promise to marry him. She knew that her life with him could never be easy. But the dangers that lurk in their bond—the incredible power it gives him over her and the recklessness that it stirs in her—are only a start of the peril that they face... -
Dreaming of the Wolf by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBook 3 in Terry Spear's Silver Town Wolf SeriesA FIERCE HUNTER...Alicia Greiston is a no-nonsense bounty hunter determined to bring a ring of mobsters to justice. Her dogged pursuit of the crime family has forced her to avoid relationships- any man would only become a target for retribution... -
Hidden Destiny by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNorth Jamenson has always held his wolf closer to the surface then others. He's the quiet one, the one no one really knows about yet he holds the darkest secret. He’s watched his brothers find their mates and start families, and now it was his turn... -
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Call of the Bear by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen tragedy brings former childhood sweethearts Samantha Young and Bronson Cress together in the town they grew up in, Samantha learns that things are not always what they seem. Six years ago, Samantha was devastated when Bron made a decision that shattered their relationship. Determined not to fall for him again, she must avoid the man who broke her heart... -
Teased by Rebecca Zanetti
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe HunterFor almost a century, the Realm’s most deadly assassin, Chalton Reese, has left war and death in the past, turning instead to strategy, reason, and technology. His fingers, still stained with blood, now protect with a keyboard instead of a weapon. Until the vampire king sends him on one more mission; to hunt down a human female with the knowledge to destroy the Realm... -
Forbidden Hunger by Teresa Gabelman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA 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... -
Michael & Shyne by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMichael Gerrick was beginning to wonder if he would ever find his truemate. Fate seemed to smile on him, when he fell hard for the delectable fitness instructor, Shyne. The only problem: three were-hyenas want her for their clan and are willing to do anything to get him out of the way.Shyne Jackson was smitten with Michael from the moment they met... -
Poker Night by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor those of you unfamiliar with this series, this story features the DarkRiver Leopards (Alpha: Lucas) and the SnowDancer wolves (Alpha: Hawke). The narrator is Nate, the most senior sentinel in the DarkRiver pack. *Found in Nalini Singh's 10/2/12 newsletter... -
Hunted by a Jaguar by Felicity Heaton
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA jaguar shifter with a dark secret, Kyter has spent his entire life running from his demons. When a tragedy takes him back to his pride’s village, he is set on a path of vengeance that will see him collide with the terrible ghosts of his past and a beautiful vision of his future... -
Hunter's Heart by Kimber White
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sexy, scorching hot standalone shifter romance involving the hunky Alpha wolves of Wild Lake.Jessa Lyle thinks the only good werewolves are dead ones. She should know. Her father has earned his fortune hunting some of the most brutal, rogue shifters around... -
Prosperity: A Judgement of the Six Mating Novella by Melissa Haag
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's been almost a year since I learned that werewolves are real and months since I Claimed Emmitt, the werewolf who found me and offered me a safe place to hide. Life isn't any safer. I'm on the run again, this time with other women like me. I'm tired of living in fear. It's time to take something for myself. It's time to make Emmitt mine... -
Wolf's Wild Woman by Lacey Thorn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRebel… I needed a safe place to lay low for the night. Instead, I met him, and all thoughts of leaving this town behind flew out the window. He gave me a safe place. In his arms. In his bed. In his heart. Taylor… As soon as I caught her scent, I knew she was mine. Then she approached me and willingly touched me. No fear for the behemoth with the scarred face and broken vocal chords... -
Bloodrunners Bundle by Rhyannon Byrd
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the world of the Bloodrunners, a fierce band of hunters and protectors, half-human, half-Lycan. Only through the act of Bloodrunning, the hunting and assassination of rogue werewolves, may these extraordinary warriors gain full acceptance within their respective packs... -
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The Alpha's Justice by Michelle Fox
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat's an alpha to do when he's found his fated mate, but she reacts to the news by kicking him in the balls? Gretchen Halbmond became a diehard Daddy's girl the day her mother ran out on them both... -
Warlock Unbound by Dana Marie Bell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe 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... -
Dark Wolf by Kimber White
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLuke Tully has a dark side. He's spent a decade under the control of a powerful, ruthless Alpha who made him do things that would have broken lesser men. Though he found the strength to break free, he knows he can never live under pack rule again. He comes to a far off outpost on Wild Lake lands to see if there's anything left of the good man he knows he once was... -
Touch of Temptation by Rhyannon Byrd
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDark temptations lead to darker pleasures… Driven to make amends for his past mistakes, Watchman Kellan Scott is on a deadly mission to save the life of Chloe Harcourt, the beautiful young woman who’s been taken captive by the sadistic enemy Kellan and his friends are fighting to destroy... -
Hearts Untamed by Pamela Palmer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOriginally appeared in the print anthology Bitten By Cupid.Ten years after he spurned Julianne's declaration of love and then vanished, Zee's back—only this time he's the one being rejected. Now, in the midst of a Valentine's Day celebration, he's realized she's more beautiful than ever…and just as stubborn. Julianne's in desperate straits, and involving Zee could jeopardize his immortality... -
The Alpha Wolf’s Sacrifice by Brittany White
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a female bear ran away to pursue a life of independence, could she allow herself to give love a second chance?The Independent Bear ShifterFor my entire life, my clan tried to stifle me.I was smothered by traditions, customs, and rules.All I wanted was to live my dreams.But I couldn’t even work at my career without my brother’s interference...
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