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Wild Irish Dreamer by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat would happen if dreams came true?It's said that the world is made of dreamers. Which is a lovely thought and all, except for when those dreams come with a foretelling of the future. In order to find out what she really wants, Fiona MacAuliffe has spent her life running from who she truly is... -
Miss Mated: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKasey Sanchez can't believe she's done the unthinkable--slept with a shifter. Oh, but he was so hot and sexy and his tongue...wow! But if he finds out who she really is, he won’t want to see her again. Living a secret life is taking a big toll on her sex life. Brannon Wolfrik knows Kasey is his mate. It's only a matter of time before he wiggles his way into her heart with charm and great sex... -
Evernight Unleashed by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the dramatic conclusion to the Ravenwood Coven series by NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan, this sleeping magical paranormal town knows that war can be a beginning…and an ending.Rowen Ravenwood is the final witch of her line—the only one standing in the way of Oriel, the dark necromancer who wants the core of the town’s magic for his own... -
Fighting for Her Dragon by Julia Mills
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLibrarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.There Are No Coincidences….Given a fairy tale life by the clan of dragon shifters that rescued her as a little girl, Emma Sinclair long ago accepted she might never solve the mystery of her heritage. Of course, that was before she could feel the traitor’s pain, before she knew he was slipping away... -
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Second Rite by Geneva Lee
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe wore darkness with such graceful ease…Thea Melbourne has a broken heart. A month after her world turned upside down, she’s struggling to return to the life she left behind. Her mother is in a coma, she’s selling off designer gowns to pay the bills, and her roommates seem to think she’s made of glass... -
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... -
Keeper by Leia Stone
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAnya has inherited her mother's gift. Born in a set of twins, she is the next Matefinder and her brother, Jaxon, is her sworn protector. But it looks like finding mates for the werewolf kind isn’t what Spirit has in plan for her. And when she starts dreaming about a human guy in trouble, her whole life changes... -
Luther's Return by Tina Folsom
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAfter twenty years incarcerated in a vampire prison, Luther is finally free. But before he can close this chapter of his life once and for all, a kidnapping thrusts him back into the world of Scanguards and into a confrontation with the vampires whose mates he very nearly killed two decades earlier... -
Spirit Bear by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe never thought she would love again…and then he appeared in her life. Rescued alive, but not whole… Laura is a white wolf shifter far from home and out of her element. She’s been held prisoner for years by those who would use her power for their evil purposes, but she’s held strong against them and lived to tell the tale... -
Witch Wants Forever by Victoria Danann
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnly one thing could be worse than never finding the love of your life... finding her and forgetting.YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE GOT TILL IT'S GONE.New York Times bestselling author, Victoria Danann, "mistress of modern romantic fantasy". "...illustrated that love is the strongest magic of all." Rachel can't imagine life without Dashiell Fonteneau... -
Dark Side by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElly’s exposure as a half-fey was a shock to all around her. Her attempts to hide her ears and the change in her reality were foiled by class bullies. The next thing she knew she was being whisked away to a private school that catered exclusively to the half-breeds left behind by fey who travelled in the human world... -
Alpha Bear by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA man with a plan… John is the Alpha bear of Grizzly Cove, a town built to his own design, made up mostly of bear shifters. He brought them all together, so it’s on him when the community comes under attack. A woman of power… Ursula is more than she appears, and when her secret comes out, she’s afraid the shifters aren’t going to take it well, but John surprises her... -
Bobcat by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan Bob Redstone help a shifter woman hiding from her past, face the demons that shadowed her youth, or will they both fall while trying to prevent disaster?On a mission far from home, he finds a sweet vulnerable lady...Bob is a cougar shifter, one of the elite Redstone Alphas. On a mission for his Clan, he meets a fragile young woman, and finds himself drawn to her as never before... -
Slade by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fate of all shifters rests on Slade’s broad shoulders, but all he can think about is her.Slade is a mystery. A warrior and spy who serves two masters - those in the human world and the Lords of the Were. They've sent him to Nevada to track a brutal murderer before the existence of all shifters is revealed to a world not ready to know... -
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Cosmic Spells and Vampire Lairs by Mia Monroe
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAre we destined to be star-crossed lovers or is Fate on our side?My friends are finding mates while I’m stuck with a sexy but silent vampire. Sure, Pietro is everything a boy could want- handsome, strong, brooding, and possessive. It’s just that with my gift, I’m well aware that he’s not the one fate has in store for me. He couldn’t be. For one thing, his mercury is always in retrograde... -
Embrace Me at Dawn by Shayla Black
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNo man will ever define her again. Anka MacTavish lost everything when Mathias D'Arc captured her, shattered her bond with her mate, and broke both her body and spirit. Determined to heal her bleeding soul, she joins the Doomsday Brethren's fight to vanquish the evil wizard and seize her revenge... -
Fighting Fate by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWith her blue-black hair and striking green eyes, Cailin Jamenson is the epitome of beauty and the exemplar of strength. She has fought the enforced boundaries of being the lone Jamenson daughter and Redwood Pack princess, but it is the potential future with the dark wolf in her path that threatens everything she thought she desired... -
Possess Me at Midnight by Shayla Black
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe sexy warrior Ice Rykard finds himself craving beautiful Sabelle RionAs a mysterious dark cloud drains the life of her beloved brother, Doomsday Brethren leader Bram, Sabelle Rion can think of little else. Still, every time she meets Ice Rykard’s intense green gaze, her body aches with need for the sexy warrior. Their attraction is explosive, incredible—and forbidden... -
Her Dragon's Treasure by Julia Mills
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 29 in the Dragon Guard series. The books in this epic saga can be read as stand-alone stories, or you can experience all the love, thrills and exploits of the whole series from beginning to end. It's up to you. Decades trapped at the bottom of the sea... -
Hidden World Academy: The Complete Series by Sadie Moss
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis complete, steamy reverse harem series is ready to be devoured!Mistaken identities, a human in a magical world, and three sexy warlocks. Sounds like the start of a joke, but nope…It’s my life.After one too many kamikazes on my twenty-first birthday, I’ve made a few interesting discoveries.First of all… magic is real.Secondly… there’s a whole supernatural dimension that exists parallel to ours... -
Feathers, Fur and Fey by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaki has lived and tried to love, over and over again. As a griffin, she is privy to the memories of all the griffins who have come before. Every moment of their lives until they died in defense of others. The story is always the same. When she is called back to the Crossroads for the third time, she has only a flicker of hope that this will be the charm... -
Claiming His Desire by Ellis Leigh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA 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... -
Bearliest Catch by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA 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... -
The Bear's Healing Touch by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSirena has been gravely injured by a mighty sea monster known as the leviathan and put into the care of Grizzly Cove’s only doctor. Sven is a retired soldier, like most of the other guys in Grizzly Cove, but he had dedicated his life to medicine and helping the new town get on its feet... -
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Constantine by Taylor Rylan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes, the greatest gifts are several centuries in the making. At just over four centuries old, Constantine had come to accept that he isn’t going to find his One. He has a good life, a place of prestige as his coven’s doctor, and a close coven family... -
Dark Magic by Cheyenne McCray
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings**Author note below Jake Macgregor, San Francisco's head of the Paranormal Special Forces Unit, has his hands full. He and his team face a powerful enemy threatening to bring down the City by the Bay. With the weight of the world already resting on his broad shoulders, and after a long, hard day's fight against evil, the last thing he has time for is romance... -
Blood, Breath, and Desire: A Tales of Blood and Magic Novel by Nadine Mutas
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’ll show her that the dark side has more to offer than just cookies… An attack with mysterious dark magic turns young witch Lily Murray into the very being she’s been fighting all her life – a demon. While struggling with her new dark instincts – and desperately trying not to kill her loved ones – she unwittingly earns the protection of a male of her demon species... -
Wicked Wolf by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe 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... -
Black as Midnight: An Ariel Kimber Novel by Mary Martel
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBlack as Midnight is the next full-length novel in the Ariel Kimber series.Ariel Kimber has finally settled into her life. Not only does she have a safe place to call home, one she actually loves living at, but she's got the best roommate a girl could ask for. Oh, and he comes with an adorable little black cat as well.And that's not all that's looking bright and shiny in Ariel's life... -
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... -
The Devil's Angel by Rachel McClellan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLucien, a centuries old vampire, lives a solitary life with his mind and heart blocked to the past. But all that changes when he meets Eve, a witch who not only stirs an ancient power within him, but who also teaches him to love again. This new life is threatened, however, when a powerful vampire who calls himself the Dark Prince vows to unleash a plague upon the earth...Categorized as:
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An Alpha's Choice by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBrynn Brentwood has spent the whole of her life protecting the Talon Pack through terrors only she will ever know. She’s never asked for more in life other than to live to take her next breath and to ensure her family is safe. Regardless of her selfless wishes and the atrocities the former Alpha committed, she has always known that fate would provide for her as it had countless others... -
Her Guardian Angel by Felicity Heaton
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA love so strong it will shake Heaven and Hell.A guardian angel dedicated to his duty, Marcus will do whatever Heaven asks of him, but even his loyalty has its limits. When his superior orders him to gain Amelia’s trust through seduction, Marcus starts to question his mission and his feelings for the beautiful woman he has watched over since her birth... -
Half a Dose of Fury by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSaving 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... -
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Wet and Wired by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was just there to work, until she tangled with a man who smelled of sea and sunlight. Electricity and water mix surprisingly well.Leda was at the Crossroads to do a job. She was hooking up the WiFi and thinking about getting home. A special request from the Guardians diverted her plans and had her working at the side of a lovely merman, but she still wanted to head home... -
Hawking a Future by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo beasts that won’t show their faces in one body built entirely of curves, Hayley is ambushed to the Crossroads where she meets the elf she never dreamed of.Being a shifter that doesn’t shift has left Hayley living a nice, normal human life... -
Snow Time For Love by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Crossroads declared nova unmatchable. After three weeks, it had been decided that she wasn’t going to find anyone there, not even close. Now, with the fey coming in to try life with shifters, she is called back and faces mating with a man who isn’t even her magical species. Reygaer is a fey architect who builds in ice and snow... -
Waking Her Tiger by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA tiger born to prairie dwellers is seduced by a djinn who has never set foot in a burrow, but he does like her stripes.Maddy is a random. She is a tiger born to a community of prairie dogs who can only encourage her, love her and ask her to stand guard when they hit the burrow... -
Wood Be Magic by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA 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... -
Waking Sarah by Krystal Shannan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCouncil threats and Renata's deadly attack leave the Vegas pack scrambling to regroup... Heartbroken over the death of her fiance and tortured by a voice in her mind that's haunted her since childhood, Sarah McLain learns her true ancestry after attending her best friend Margaret's wedding... -
Roar of Magic by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnessa is self-sufficient, bright, reasonably attractive and works at a spell-supply shop. She negotiates with shifters for their saleable goods and sells those same parts to mages on a daily basis. When a fey walks in to purchase some fur, she finds out that touching him will send a shock through her hand. One year later, he returns with startling information for her... -
Eyes on the Pride by Lacey Thorn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWatching... Darby doesn’t just know shifters exist. It’s her job to watch them. For the last four years, she’s had her eye on one shifter, Calloway Meyer. She’s obsessed with him, which is problematic since he seems set on avoiding her. LWaiting... Calloway has spent four years keeping an eye on his mate, waiting for her to be ready to be his... -
Big Flight by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMolly has lived as a king vulture amongst condors. Her family considers her animal a profound disappointment and has ignored her until she finally decides that she has a right to a life and she wants it.When she is at the Crossroads, she notices the man sent to reclaim her, and while she knows he is in charge of her clan, she isn’t quite sure what he is... -
Sealed with a Kick by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA cute baby seal has no chance for a mate unless she hits the Crossroads and goes looking for a stallion to call her own. Stuck with an awkward beast and shunned by her own herd, Berry has to make some decisions on her own, and one of those is to find a mate.Out of the gate, she decides to pursue a fey, but with years of defense under her belt, her means are not particularly usual... -
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Misenchanted Shifter by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFey enchantment has marked her life until she finds the truth about herself and locates love in the strangest of ways.Eileen has always known she couldn’t control her shifts. She also knows that it is not normal to shift into hundreds of different animals.When she is declared close to her heat, she is ordered to the Crossroads and her payment for the transport causes a stir... -
Seeing Spots by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith terrible timing, Sable arrives at the Crossroads as the link to earth is cut and the steady attentions of a patient tiger help bring her back to reality.Rushed to a Crossroads transport far before her scheduled time, Sable finds herself in the portal as it collapses from an unseen force... -
Unwrapping Tess: Christmas Encounters by Krystal Shannan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings-- FROM BESTSELLING SERIES -- VEGAS MATES Tess Demakis loves the city life. The noise, the lights, the people. Everything about the rush feels like home. The only thing missing is a spark with any of the pack males. After her and her twin sister's twenty-fifth birthday passes, she'd thought for sure one of the handsome men in her aunt's pack might've been meant for her. - No. Such. Luck... -
Stripes of Fury by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn to a shifter in horse form, Nika has always had trouble dealing with family. Her mother’s herd cast them out because of the pedigree of Nika’s father. Fey shapeshifters are not acceptable genes. Keeping her heat at bay has taken up a lot of Nika’s energy, but she has no option. No other shifter will come near her because of what her father is... -
Butting In by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the last unmarried daughter in her family, Gera has only one choice left—a trip to the Crossroads to find a mate before her sister’s wedding seems like a good idea.Riox has been at the Crossroads helping his brother set up the new bed and breakfast. He was there to assist and to flirt with all the pretty ladies.Meeting the first guest surprises him... -
Pathway to Love by Zenina Masters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIda has had her eye on Dromer for years, but the restrictions against shifters and elves having relationships have kept them on a business level. If she can’t have him, she didn’t want anyone. When she returns home one day to find that her parents have arranged her mating with a swan shifter she doesn’t know, she does the only thing she can. She runs...
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