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  • Bear Vet by Zoe Chant

    Bear Vet by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Who do you call when you spot a baby hellhorse? Shifter Vets!Judy desperately needs to find a home for her nineteen rescue horses. Waylon desperately needs to rein in his headstrong teenage daughter's quest to tame a wild hellhorse. And what both of them need most desperately is love...Waylon, a bear shifter and veterinarian for magical animals, instantly recognizes Judy as his mate...
  • Doggone Mess by R.J. Blain

    Doggone Mess by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    from the book's foreword: "While Doggone Mess’s beginning was written before Plaidypus, there are important reasons for why I didn’t renumber the series and insert Doggone Mess before Plaidypus. Doggone Mess’s events after Plaidypus require Plaidypus to truly make sense."Originally a novella in the anthology Dirty Deeds published in Jan, 2021, this edition has been expanded into a full novel...
  • Broken Alpha by Paulina Vasquez

    Broken Alpha by Paulina Vasquez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Buckle up and get ready for a bumpy steamy ride in the ancient city of the Gods, ATHENS! College in Greece sounds like the perfect escape for Raven LaRue. A strong willed Alpha female trying to break free from the shadows of her five Alpha brothers and heart ache. When she least expects it, she stumbles across a vicious beast who wants her dead...
  • Broken Curse by Jen L. Grey

    Broken Curse by Jen L. Grey

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Destiny not only arrives, but nearly kicks my a$$Even though my foundation has been shaken, Aidan stays by my side, and together, we take the next steps to end the curse. We’ve found four other marked girls like me, but we’re still missing pieces to the puzzle… pieces that are critical for success...
  • Chosen Wolf by Jen L. Grey

    Chosen Wolf by Jen L. Grey

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fate is a b*tch and she will always force your hand.Solidifying my mate bond with Aiden was supposed to be a happy occasion. Instead, our union unleashed a curse, and now our survival hangs in the balance.As I try to right the wrongs of the past, the Hallowed Guild is determined to get in the way. My next steps are clear, but every move I make puts those around me in danger...
  • Triumph Over Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Triumph Over Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kai wants to see Bearclaw Castle razed, but he can’t destroy the place with his sister inside.Not that Kai is ready to forgive Mimi for leaving him alone to deal with their father, but he does still love her. He figures he should at least tell her the old man has died. He doesn’t expect to find Mimi cozying up to their family enemies, though...
  • Worth It by Lisa Oliver

    Worth It by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Worth It – The Gods Made Me Do It #8Zeus's Story Paulie’s life changed for the better when he was saved from a fate worse than death one night just before Christmas. His saviors, Wes a wolf shifter and Cass who was a demon, would only tell him that his innocence had been noted by others and they’d been sent to save him...
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    animals  magic  mlm  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  angst  book
  • Spell Hound by Lindsay Buroker

    Spell Hound by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Since Morgen Keller arrived in the small town of Bellrock, she’s learned that magic is real, fought battles with werewolves, and managed to turn the local witches into enemies...
  • On the Brink by Lisa Oliver

    On the Brink by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cloverleah Pack # 10 Can be read as standalone but if you read the series you will have a better appreciation of the secondary characters and the way the packs are set up. Raff never wanted a lot out of life; his pack, his family and to be accepted for who he was. Yes, Red Wolves were smaller, skinnier and weaker than other shifters, but they were also extremely rare...
  • Finch by Piper Scott, Virginia Kelly

    Finch by Piper Scott, Virginia Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hugh Drake, the most whimsical member of the Drake family, wants a clutch badly… and despite his sanctioned period to reproduce nearing its end, he just might get his wish. New information has emerged that suggests Disgraces are dragons and able to bear eggs...
  • The Enforcers: Kane by Anastasia Wilde

    The Enforcers: Kane by Anastasia Wilde

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Never trust your heart. Kane Colton, Enforcer of the Silverlake pack, has lived by those words for ten years—ever since Selina Douglass captured him in a sick mating bond that led him down a dark path and turned him into a monster. Now he only cares about three things: protecting his packmates, watching his blood brother’s back, and keeping his wolf’s bloodlust under control...
  • Stop Kidding Around by Macy Blake

    Stop Kidding Around by Macy Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    His so-called mate thinks it’s fate. Toby has other ideas.When Toby Sanders shows up to interview for a teaching job at a mysterious estate, he’s not expecting his world to flip upside down and backward.Shifters are real… and the hottest, most protective wolf of all is claiming him as a mate...
  • This Is Not the Dog You're Looking For by A.J. Sherwood

    This Is Not the Dog You're Looking For by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dunham goes missing, the werewolf pack loses their cool, and Ross is far too sleep-deprived for this nonsense...
  • Freedom Spiced Omega by Susi Hawke

    Freedom Spiced Omega by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two mismatched men. One unlikely friendship. Jordan Kingsley is Hollydale’s most hated alpha. The man is seen as nothing more than a pretentious twit who doesn’t care about anyone but himself. So then, why does he find himself diving into a pond to save a life? Trevor Johnson is the most accident-prone omega around...
  • Omega's Mark by Susi Hawke

    Omega's Mark by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ages ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people… but the seal has been broken Ethan is a charming alpha from the land down under. A retired RAAF pilot, he’s been drawn into the small pack of legacy descendents and their quest to seal the crack in the Fae portal. At 37, he’s not really looking for his true mate - but wouldn’t turn them away either...
  • Definitely Not Paid Enough For This by A.J. Sherwood

    Definitely Not Paid Enough For This by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Company policy forbids me from accepting power from customers in exchange for any product on the shelves, my blood, my soul, or my firstborn child…” When Ross started working night shift at a lonely gas station in Salem, he expected quiet nights. Instead, he found himself face to face—quite literally—with the supernatural...
  • The Book Of Ill Deeds by Phaedra Weldon

    The Book Of Ill Deeds by Phaedra Weldon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ginger Blackstone had been looking for a change in her life. Getting a call from her home town’s Sheriff with the message, “We’ve arrested your grandmother for murder,” wasn’t it.Three bodies later and Ginger finds herself, and the hot new small-town doctor, up to their broomsticks in trouble...
  • Nail 'Em by Sam Hall

    Nail 'Em by Sam Hall

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    We escaped the Institute, but sometimes you bring the cage with you.I feel like I'm a shell of what I was, part of me crying out for the man I left behind, but the other is determined to live no matter what. For my child.But living means dealing with the consequences of our escape...
  • Tricked, Bewildered and Bitten by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Tricked, Bewildered and Bitten by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Loki Kirkberry hasn't had it easy. Abandoned as a newborn, Loki has had to navigate life under difficult and shame-inducing circumstances. When firefighters Cole Ryker and Chaz Savage rescue him from an apartment fire, Loki is embraced by all of their friends and welcomed as family. He quickly finds out that shifters and vampires do exist...
  • Perfectly Imperfect Pixie by M.J. May

    Perfectly Imperfect Pixie by M.J. May

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Size matters. Pixies are supposed to be petite, beautifully lithe creatures with gossamer wings. Sporting luscious, ombre pink hair and fluttering pink wings, Phil meets two out of three of those criteria. At over six feet tall, no one would dare call Phil petite. As a home-and-hearth pixie, Phil yearns to find a home and family he can bond to...
  • Fern Valley by T.L. Haddix

    Fern Valley by T.L. Haddix

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rachel Campbell is doing just fine on her own. The forty-seven-year-old divorced single mother of a nearly grown teenager, she's also a shape shifter. She isn't opposed to the idea of love, but she isn't looking for it, either. But then state trooper Lee Harrison moves in across the street...
  • Aaron's Mate by Abigail Raines

    Aaron's Mate by Abigail Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He'll fight to the death to protect both his child and his woman, But can their love survive with all odds stacked against them?Aaron always followed pack rules...until he didn't.Rule#1: Fealty to packRule #2: Loyalty to clanRule#3: Avoid humansAaron spent years resisting the charms of the human woman, Michelle.Then, resisting her became impossible.But...Shifters don't fall in love with humans...
  • Ryland's Inferno by Giovanna Reaves

    Ryland's Inferno by Giovanna Reaves

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He ran because of fear, but was found because of love. . . The moment Blayze McKnight joins the Pryde Pack he knows it is only a matter of time before everyone finds out that he is not what he claims to be. Being the last of his kind, Blayze was never taught the way of the dragon. Because the man he wants he can never claim as his...
  • Claiming His Desire by Ellis Leigh

    Claiming His Desire by Ellis Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A shifter waiting to end it all...A woman living her life surrounded by death...A destiny few could survive.Book six in the Feral Breed seriesJameson craves death. Former president of the Four Corners Feral Breed den, he's abandoned his post and left behind his brothers to escape the worst day of his life...
  • Tension by Kiki Burrelli

    Tension by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Huxley's best friend is his rock.Huxley Might's position as agent within the elite Lunar Council Enforcement Agency has prepared him for a life of service. Being an Alpha is about control and sacrifice. He doesn't have siblings to pass the duty to. It's up to Huxley to become the next Alpha and ensure the Might family legacy continues...
  • Love and Magic: A Crimson Vampire Christmas by B.A. Stretke

    Love and Magic: A Crimson Vampire Christmas by B.A. Stretke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love and Magic abound in Crimson, Virginia. Leroy Thibodaux has been the Sheriff of Crimson for a little over a year and he’s really settling into the job. He joined the Crimson Coven after fighting alongside them in the Great War and finds himself very much at home. All that’s missing is his Fate chosen love by his side...
  • Welcome to my Lair by A.J. Sherwood

    Welcome to my Lair by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The clan's haunted house is finally open for Halloween, and everyone couldn't be more excited. Even Ross is excited, and he's certainly enjoying the screams and cursing coming from within the haunted house.What he does NOT enjoy, however, is being bait...
  • Common Sense, Where Art Thou? by A.J. Sherwood

    Common Sense, Where Art Thou? by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “How about we just negotiate hazard pay here and now?” Ross isn’t one for seizing the day, he prefers poking at it with a stick. So, with the gas station in ashes, he makes the only logical choice: agree to an interview with Glenn to be his PA.The welcome party that starts before he’s even accepted the job is a little worrying, but rather sweet...
  • Everett and the Wolf by Vinni George

    Everett and the Wolf by Vinni George

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when fate intertwines shifters from land and sea?Dr. Everett Voda loves a challenge, which is why he’s spent his entire medical career traveling the world, helping shifters in remote areas. There has rarely been a problem he can’t solve, but Merritt Lucas might be the exception to that rule...
  • Bearliest Catch by Bianca D'Arc

    Bearliest Catch by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A woman of mystery…Jetty is a huntress of the deep ocean who finds herself fascinated by a man—a shifter—who sets anchor in her realm day after day. She is obliged to watch him, not fully understanding the fascination the handsome stranger compels within her battered heart.A man with hidden scars…Recovery from major injury isn’t easy...
  • Claiming His Beauty by Ellis Leigh

    Claiming His Beauty by Ellis Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A shifter living a life hindered by regret…A woman praying for a chance at a future…A moment of fate that refuses to be denied.Book four in the Feral Breed Motorcycle Club SeriesBeast of the Feral Breed has spent years avoiding interacting with people...
  • Treasure for Treasure by R. Cooper

    Treasure for Treasure by R. Cooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Being(s) in Love StoryIn the nineteenth century, the dragon Dìzhèn put the small coastal town of Everlasting under her protection. Her family was supposed to carry on the tradition, but all of Dìzhèn the Great’s heirs eventually left rather than live in the shadow of such a powerful dragon.Only the youngest dragon of the current generation remains: Zarrin, the softhearted disgrace of his family...
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    animals  magic  mlm  paranormal  shapeshifters  slow-burn  adult  angst
  • Claimed By The Soldier by Liam Kingsley

    Claimed By The Soldier by Liam Kingsley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There was never any question that I would be there for him. I've known him since we were kids. We were best friends, sharing everything - until I made a mistake and got a girl pregnant. Pretty soon I was a single dad while I was still a kid myself. Our friendship suffered. He joined the military. And I thought I'd never get another chance to let him know what he really means to me...
  • Diablo by J.M. Wolf

    Diablo by J.M. Wolf

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Trace Black hasn’t forgotten the tragic death of his parents and birth pack. His only focus since then was looking after his twin brother, Casey. Now that Casey has found his fated mate and started a family of his own, Trace has given everyone the cold shoulders, preferring the comfort of solitude...
  • Cattail Ridge by T.L. Haddix

    Cattail Ridge by T.L. Haddix

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book Four in the Firefly Hollow series. After a cutting betrayal by the father of her child, Emma Campbell swore off men. Convinced she'd never find the kind of love her parents had, Emma devoted her life to raising her daughter and building her business. Surrounded by a close-knit family who loved her, she ignored her loneliness. Until the day family friend Archer Gibson kissed her...
  • Sexy Beast IV by Kate Douglas, Dawn Thompson

    Sexy Beast IV by Kate Douglas, Dawn Thompson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    'Sexy Beast IV' contains three stories of men with a fierce, feral power and a sensuality that seduces all who come near. No woman can resist their primal urges for wild and wanton sex...
  • Omega Found by Susi Hawke

    Omega Found by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ages ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people… but the seal has been broken Heath is a human… or is he? Rescued from a horrible fate by the group of legacy descendants, he needs to embrace his inner beast in order to deal with the fate the gods have for him. But first, he has to accept the fact that he might not be exactly human...
  • Omega's Destiny by Susi Hawke

    Omega's Destiny by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ages ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people… but the seal has been broken Jaguar alpha Peter is a self-professed manwhore...
  • Alpha's Dom by Susi Hawke

    Alpha's Dom by Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ages ago, the gods locked away a dangerous, powerful people… but the seal has been broken Lion alpha Tau Jabari is on sabbatical from his medical career in Kenya when he stumbles over a pregnant omega in the jungles of Belize about to give birth. Assisting him is an efficient omega who smells like... mate. Red Panda shifter Jun Chen is a sassy little omega... but an omega Dom...
  • An Embrace to Hearten Me by Michele Notaro

    An Embrace to Hearten Me by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I can’t seem to choose between the two shifters who mean the world to me… but what if I can have them both?Trying to navigate my feelings has never been easy. Growing up, I had to keep my emotions locked down and hidden from the world or suffer the consequences. But now, well, now I’ve had a taste of freedom, and with it, my heart has been running wild...
  • Wicked Wolf by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Wicked Wolf by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The war between the Redwood Pack and the Centrals is one of wolf legend. Gina Eaton lost both of her parents when a member of their Pack betrayed them. Adopted by the Alpha of the Pack as a child, Gina grew up within the royal family to become an enforcer and protector of her den...
  • Forever Yours by Lynn Hagen

    Forever Yours by Lynn Hagen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, vampires, werewolves, HEA] Kory Kendrick thought taking a shortcut through the woods would shave off time, until he runs across a corpse buried under a pile of leaves. He soon finds that the guy isn't as dead as he thinks he is...
  • Panahasi by Lynn Hagen

    Panahasi by Lynn Hagen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    [Siren Menage Everlasting ManLove: Erotic Alternative Fantasy Menage a Trois Romance, M/M/M, demons, werewolves, HEA] Ten thousand years ago Panahasi made a deal with the keeper. It was a deal that not only brought about the creation of the demon warriors, but paved the lonely road he walked on a daily basis. All of that soon changes when he finds two wolf shifters to call his own...
  • Ceri by Lynn Hagen

    Ceri by Lynn Hagen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, vampires, HEA] He watches his mate from afar, unable to touch, hold, or claim the man. Distance is Ceridian's reality, his torment. He exists outside the vampire population, living with an unnatural craving that seems to grow stronger whenever he is near Virgil--a man who haunts his very dreams...
  • Keeper by Claire Cullen

    Keeper by Claire Cullen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Every pack needs a Keeper, an omega to smooth their rough edges. And Josh definitely isn’t it. Forced to babysit some spoiled and disgraced omega actor, Cole is not a happy alpha. He’s determined to send Josh packing, whatever it takes. But first impressions aren’t everything. All Josh has to do is keep his head down and survive his month of ‘volunteering...
  • 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...
  • Infinity Chronicles: Book Two by Albany Walker

    Infinity Chronicles: Book Two by Albany Walker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I’m learning to accept that my entire life has been a lie, and that with my mother’s disappearance there are mysteries I may never uncover. Not to mention, my abilities are manifesting and I’m just beginning to understand what being part of an Infinity really means. As my relationship with each guy grows, so does the Infinity bond between us...
  • Half a Dose of Fury by Zenina Masters

    Half a Dose of Fury by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Saving shifters has been her life, but locking eyes with a fey in a crowded room wakes her beast in all the best ways.Yval has been living to save other shifters from the clutches of the fey. She has had her body modified to make her job easier, but the magic used cut her off from her beast...
  • Fated Love by Claire Cullen

    Fated Love by Claire Cullen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Orion has always felt different to his brothers. He doesn't have Thane's strength or Cal's easy-going nature. A lonely bear with an abrasive temperament, he's too busy protecting his territory to go searching for true love. So when his mate literally falls from the sky in front of him, his first instinct is to push him away. He doesn't have time for this...
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    magic  mlm  paranormal  shapeshifters  abuse  adult  book  contemporary
  • Wood Be Magic by Zenina Masters

    Wood Be Magic by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A long-standing crush turns into a possibility when a mage embraces her chance at balance.Melwiss has used every opportunity to get Andy over to her house for repairs and renovations. She has also used each chance to get him to take his shirt off. She might be consigned to the single life by the mages, but she can still look...
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