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  • Fastlander Fury by T.S. Joyce

    Fastlander Fury by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Gunner Walker is on the run.He’s been trying desperately to escape the pull of Damon’s Mountains, but his out-of-control inner grizzly bear has tethered himself to the territory. His reputation is ruined, and he can’t blame his previous Crew for hating him—not after what he’s done...
  • Beck Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Beck Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Juno Beck is trying to step out from the long shadow of her father and make her place in the music industry. But this bear shifter’s days are numbered and she’s running out of time to make her mark on the world. When she stops for a day trip to visit an old friend, she discovers the hiding place of one of country music’s bad-boys-who-got-away...
  • Ash Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Ash Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Grim is the reluctant Alpha of the Rogue Pride Crew, and just trying to get from one day to the next without maiming his Crew. Controlling one animal is hard enough for shifters, but Grim is the only one in existence with two animals—a good lion and a monstrous lion named the Reaper...
  • All for Connor by Alicia Montgomery

    All for Connor by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Connor is the wrongest wrong guy in existence. He’s a Lycan shifter, for one. And he’s rude, anti-social and has never said a kind word to Evie. Yet, there’s something about him she can’t resist. Maybe it’s the brooding, bad boy vibe. Her feet say run away. But her heart says stay. Evie is sweet and kind. He doesn’t deserve her. And he should focus on one thing: Revenge...
  • Blackstone Ranger Scrooge by Alicia Montgomery

    Blackstone Ranger Scrooge by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her Best Christmas PresentSanta arrived early for J.D. McNamara and brought her the best gift of all - her own fated mate. Polar bear shifter Cameron Spenser checks off everything on her list: sexy as sin, hot as hell, and a dynamite in the sack. There’s just one little problem: he hates Christmas. But that’s not going to stop the feisty feline shifter...
  • 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...
  • Blackstone Ranger Rogue by Alicia Montgomery

    Blackstone Ranger Rogue by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The one she’s been searching forDarcey Wednesday’s been looking for love her entire life, with not much luck. Every guy she kisses turns out to be a frog, and not her Prince Charming. But she and her inner swan know that there’s someone out there for them. When her sister’s wedding brings her to the shifter town of Blackstone, she runs into her fated mate, forest ranger Anders Stevens...
  • Blackstone Ranger Hero: Blackstone Rangers Book 3 by Alicia Montgomery

    Blackstone Ranger Hero: Blackstone Rangers Book 3 by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A night he can’t remember.Three months ago, bear shifter Daniel Rogers woke up in a motel room with no memory of what happened the night before. Since then, his bear’s been unmanageable and unruly, while a mysterious woman keeps invading his dreams.When an unwitting heroic act pushes him into the national spotlight, his mystery woman appears and his bear recognizes who she is: his fated mate...
  • Blackstone Ranger Guardian: Blackstone Rangers Book 5 by Alicia Montgomery

    Blackstone Ranger Guardian: Blackstone Rangers Book 5 by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fighting for his mateWhen John Krieger rescues a stranded fox shifter in the middle of a snowstorm, he never expected that she would turn out to be his mate. However, the darkness lurking in his soul prevents him from claiming her and he pushes her away. When he realizes his mistake, he vows to make himself into someone who deserves her...
  • Bad Bear Day by Milly Taiden

    Bad Bear Day by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jasmine has given up on ever being able to find the right man, but Gerri Wilder challenges her to take a chance. Her blind date with Austin is virtually perfect, but Jasmine remains unconvinced. She’s been lied to, cheated on, and hurt more times than she can count.Austin will have to come up with some creative ways to ensure he sees the raven-haired beauty again...
  • Seriously Hot Ship by Milly Taiden

    Seriously Hot Ship by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Valentine’s Day PDA that’ll cruise all over your emotions.Who knew a boat trip wouldn’t be smooth sailing?Tayla Shaw enchants people with her singing voice, but her life is no fairytale. She’s hiding some big secrets and living in fear. The one person who offered her protection treats her like a prisoner...
  • 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...
  • Bear Haven Box Set by Terry Bolryder

    Bear Haven Box Set by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bear seeking Mate: Curves preferredFour full-length, fast-paced shifter romance novels!  Enjoy these big, growly Montana men as they find the perfect curvy mates for a happily ever after!Mountain BearBear shifter Shane McAllister never thought he'd use an online dating site, but right now he's desperate. He has just months to find a mate before he and his brothers lose the family ranch...
  • Claim the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Claim the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    - Book 4 in the Hells Canyon Shifters series - Breshia’s world comes crashing down around her when the leader of her lion shifter pride deems her ready to bear a cub. When the mate chosen for her turns out to be the man she loathes, she runs for her life to the sanctuary of Hells Canyon...
  • 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...
  • Wolf Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Wolf Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Like every other McCall werewolf in history, Link is headed down a short road to insanity, but he’s determined to go out on his own terms. Those terms? Repay the people the broken McCall pack has hurt before Ian Silver has to put him down. Hope is a dangerous thing for a doomed man like him, but when he meets Nicole, an instant and undeniable connection sparks between them...
  • Tarian Silver Lion by T.S. Joyce

    Tarian Silver Lion by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Talon Lawson is a runner. He’s been on the move to keep his daughter safe for years, and now it’s a habit he isn’t capable of breaking. Too long in one place, and his inner lion pushes him to move on. He’s sworn to himself he will only make sure his daughter, Emerald, is settled in her new home with her mate, and then he’ll leave, but something more is anchoring him to the New Tarian Pride...
  • Jasper Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Jasper Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cora has made a mess of everything. When she ran from the tyrant who claimed her like property, she’d hoped to start a new life, not a dragon war. Now, she’s exhausted in both body and spirit. Her grand plan has led to fires, battles and an unbelievably close mate bond with the scariest dragon she’s ever met...
  • Midnight Mated by Milly Taiden

    Midnight Mated by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Iver Amana is a simple wolf shifter. All he wants is to promote good nightclubs and liven up the New York City party scene. He doesn’t want a mate or a family. His older brothers have a monopoly on that anyway. Of course, all that changes when he sees a bachelorette dancing in his club. He has to let her, his mate, go before he ever has a chance to be with her.Jovi Duke hasn’t had a good year...
  • Heartsridge Shifters: Nate by Olivia Arran

    Heartsridge Shifters: Nate by Olivia Arran

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final book in the South-One Bears series… Bear shifter Nate Dean is the joker of team South-One. The prankster. The one without a dozen skeletons hidden in his closet. He is what he is, and that’s always been good enough, until now. Now he needs to be more. To step up and be the person his fated mate needs him to be...
  • The Alpha's Brother by J.L. Wilder

    The Alpha's Brother by J.L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I woke up in a bed that wasn’t mine,A bed that belonged to the Alpha’s brother.This is the fifth book in the Midlife Shifters series.TysonI never wanted to be alpha.I wanted to remain an eternal playboy,And live like a wild wolf should.Now that my brother is in a coma,I need to step into the alpha role and take care of his kids...
  • Winter by Theresa Hissong

    Winter by Theresa Hissong

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Winter Rise of the Pride, Book 2 Winter Blue, Guardian of the Shaw Pride, has sworn to protect the beautiful and stubborn Nova Raines. His panther knows that she is his mate, but Winter’s refusal to touch her causes him to almost destroy their fragile relationship when she is attacked by a human male and left for dead behind the bar that she owns...
  • Dragon Mate: Dragon Shifter Romance by Ariana Hawkes

    Dragon Mate: Dragon Shifter Romance by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Callan Balter’s dragon is dying. Ever since he lost his family and his ancestral home, Ragtown has been a sanctuary to the noble Scottish dragon. But without his clan, his own territory, and his mate, his dragon cannot survive. The town’s arch matchmaker believes she has a solution to at least one of these problems—the only issue? He needs to rescue his mate before he can claim her...
  • 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...
  • Baby It's Cold Out Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Baby It's Cold Out Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ****Baby It's Cold Out Bear was part of the USA Today Bestselling anthology, A Very Alpha Christmas. It can absolutely be read as a standalone short story.**** Emry Mason doesn’t expect to be pulled out of an icy ditch by a registered bear shifter, and she certainly doesn’t expect her rescuer to be as alluring as Graylan Young...
  • The Griffin's Mate by Zoe Chant

    The Griffin's Mate by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A curvy businesswoman who’s new in town + a lonely griffin shifter searching for someone to share his nest + a small town with a big secret = a hot and heartwarming story of love and family. Lainie Eaves never wanted to return to Hideaway Cove, the small town where her own family rejected her years ago...
  • 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...
  • Fealty of the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Fealty of the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After years of stagnancy, Muriel Marsden leaves the legendary clan of Hells Canyon bear shifters and goes rogue in order to discover herself. Her trip is cut short when she stumbles upon an injured man alone in the wilderness. As his only chance for survival, Muriel brings him to her cabin and works to save his life. The man is half feral and all sexy...
  • Heart of the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Heart of the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    - Book 5 in the Hells Canyon Shifters series - Rae Lynn Dormer is about to find out just what kind of monsters are lurking in the wilderness of Hells Canyon. Determined to do a good deed, she gives a stranger a ride to a ranger camp nestled deep in the Seven Devils Mountains. The problem is, when she gets there, her new acquaintance turns into a lion in the front seat of her Honda...
  • Avenge the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Avenge the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    - Book 3 in the Hells Canyon Shifters series - Reese Evans is still reeling from the death of her childhood sweetheart. Determined to find her place in the clan of legendary Hells Canyon bear shifters, she must avenge her fallen friend before she can move on with her life...
  • Forbidden Seduction by R.L. Kenderson

    Forbidden Seduction by R.L. Kenderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's always felt like she's lived between two worlds. He never thought he'd want to share his with her.As the only child of a cat-shifter and a human, Demi Cross has always lived between two worlds, always feeling alone. As long as she can remember, she’s been warned to hide her identity from those who don’t want her kind to exist. But hiding is easier said than done...
  • Polar Opposites by C.D. Gorri

    Polar Opposites by C.D. Gorri

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's got a thing for bad boys, and he's as bad as they come!Bowie Atiqtalaaq was new to Barvale, but not to the prejudices of man and Shifter alike. He'd heard the vicious slurs against him for the way he'd been conceived for most of his life...
  • Redwood Pack Vol 4 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Redwood Pack Vol 4 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Redwood Pack Volume 3 contains the fifth book in the Redwood Pack series, plus a novella in a print copy and digital form. Forgiveness (Redwood Pack 4.7) Adam Jamenson’s courtship of his mate wasn’t the most conventional. In fact, it didn’t exist. Though he knows Bay loves him with every ounce of her soul, he needs to prove to her that he’s worth it. Not only for her, but for himself...
  • Auden by R.E. Butler

    Auden by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the tradition of their people, owl shifter Jessica Thompson’s parents have chosen a mate for her. On the way to a celebratory hunt to meet her arranged mate, a group of hunters spies them and she’s separated from her nest among the flurry of bullets. Injured and disoriented, she crash lands in a zoo...
  • Griffin Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Griffin Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Griffin Drake always gets left behind. While his cousins leave Grove to have adventures, he’s stuck babysitting his increasingly distant and crazy cousin, Jasper, the king of the mountain. When his cousins come home to help, they all find mates, one after another. Griffin is left alone, without even a way to meet a mate. He’s always been bad at talking to women...
  • Ryker Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Ryker Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mina has always known her place in the dragon hierarchy of Grove—at the bottom. Her king’s court is so far out of her league that she feels like she’s intruding even when she comes to work as a maid at Ryker Drake’s house. The attraction she feels for the rock-blasting, nipple-pierced sweetheart she works for is inappropriate on so many levels. But Mina can’t help herself...
  • Wyatt Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Wyatt Drake by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kennedy Mortensen has been drifting for years, travelling and food blogging. It’s a good life, but something’s missing. When she gets to a little hamlet in the mountains of Colorado that isn’t even on the maps, she wonders if she’s found that something—and she’s sure it includes the forceful, but gentle, and oh-so-gorgeous man who runs off a couple of creeps who are bothering her...
  • 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...
  • Spurred Fate by Cecilia Lane

    Spurred Fate by Cecilia Lane

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Joss Warren packs her bags to head off to the unforgiving wilds of Montana where she's got a job as the new chef of Black Claw Ranch. Secretly, she hopes to heal her broken heart and learn more about her people. She's heard about the good folks of Bearden, Montana. They are kind and generous, so people say. But her first run-in with a growly cowboy has her wondering if that's just a tall tale...
  • Shifter Reunion by J.L. Wilder

    Shifter Reunion by J.L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s been twenty years since I’ve seen my ex-husband,and now we’re both back for the shifter reunion.This is the fourth book in the Midlife Shifters series.Going back to Gulch Point for the shifter reunion,Was a HUGE mistake.First, I made out with my ex-husband.A charismatic man I’d swore never to forgive...
  • Guarding Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Guarding Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Book 17 in the Dragon Guard series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series. What happens when a Christmas elf with way too much sass for her little pointed ears finds a centuries old Guardsman buried in the snow?Well, she takes him home and nurses him back to health, of course...
  • Tame Me by Jayda Marx

    Tame Me by Jayda Marx

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Archie is a fox shifter who has only ever known a wild life of living off the land, as he's forbidden to pass boundaries set by his Alpha. He's never been valued or appreciated, all because of birthright and ignorance. He's been tossed aside by his family and used by his skulk until he can no longer see his own worth...
  • Oh, My Roared by Milly Taiden

    Oh, My Roared by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paranormal Dating Agency Book 12 - STANDALONE ***You don't have to read any of the other books in the series to read this one. It's 100% standalone*** Francesca Virgata wants a mate. She longs for the perfect kind of love her parents had. There’s only one problem, she has zero prospects. Thankfully, she’s heard of Gerri Wilder who promises to make all her mating dreams come true...
  • Sassing Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Sassing Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sassy beyond compare, with a fiery temper, a smart mouth and the determination to let nothing stand in her way, Olivia Kilbride had been a force to be reckoned since the day of her birth… but all the planning in the world can’t beat dumb luck …or your mate coming back from the dead...
  • Caging Ash by Novalee Swan

    Caging Ash by Novalee Swan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "You can't come in here. It's breaking and entering. You're the law."CAGE DELGADO is the law in Shifter Town. He's a hard alpha lion who's not afraid to lay it on the line to protect his town, or the woman he secretly adores.ASHLEY AMES is a sweet-tempered lioness who works admin in the local law enforcement offices, and secretly fantasises about the town's sexy sheriff...
  • Bear Meets Girl by Bianca D'Arc

    Bear Meets Girl by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s leaving her old life behind and hitting the road, but peril follows her path... Marilee has got to be the most timid werewolf King has ever met. She’s also the most beautiful. There’s something special about her pure white coat that speaks to his inner grizzly, but also protects her in ways he never expected. On the run, and headed for Grizzly Cove, King has to help her get there safely...
  • 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...
  • Shiftless by Sarah Kay Carter

    Shiftless by Sarah Kay Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Claire always thought she was a freak, but never could imagine how much of a freak she really was, which is saying a lot for a non-shape-shifting shape-shifter. If the newest revelation to her life was not enough enter the dashingly handsome Crown Prince, blowing into her life like a force of nature...
  • Royally Screwed by Godiva Glenn

    Royally Screwed by Godiva Glenn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Otherworld Shifters #1 - STANDALONE One sultry BBW + A too hot to resist fae shifter duke = Pure Magic Brook Donovan isn't looking to settle for a 'possible' happily ever after. She wants all or nothing, and all includes charm, intellect, frequent flier miles, and hot sex. Unfortunately, her high demands haven't attracted anyone even close...
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