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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... -
![It'll Be An Adventure by Cherise Sinclair]()
It'll Be An Adventure by Cherise Sinclair
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom NYT & USA Today Bestselling author Cherise Sinclair comes an outstanding addition to the beloved Masters of the Shadowlands series.The secret of author Murphy’s success is hands-on research. Murphy loves writing popular Regency thrillers and jumping into new adventures under the guise of research. For one novel, she’d joined a K9 search-and-rescue group—and liked it so much she stayed... -
![Dawson Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce]()
Dawson Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDalton Dawson is reeling on the anniversary of an event that changed his life forever. All he wants to do is hide from his past for a few days, but in walks trouble in the form of a timid human who has his heart thawing for the first time in years. He’s not looking for a mate, but Kate Hawke is a fascinating and complicated woman that his wolf is desperate to figure out... -
![Healing Fate by Julie Trettel]()
Healing Fate by Julie Trettel
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsComing to Westin Pack is supposed to be a fresh start for Lucy. A single mother who spent years in captivity, she arrives with a lot of baggage, scars, and secrets. Finding her one true mate is the last thing she wants. But meeting the sexy Dr. Micah might just be exactly what she needs to heal from the horrors of her past and move towards a future she never dared to dream...Categorized as:
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![Forbidden Desire by Teresa Gabelman]()
Forbidden Desire by Teresa Gabelman
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the moment Marcus Foster saw Roxy Patel, he knew she was his mate. Remaining patient because of her troubled past, he was determined to build her trust. She was his and nothing would change that, not even time. Leaving her past behind, Roxy refused to remain a broken shell of a woman. Determined to start afresh, moving to a new town was just what she needed... -
![Wolf Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce]()
Wolf Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLike 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... -
![TANNER: REAPER-Patriots: Book Fifty-One by Mary Kennedy]()
TANNER: REAPER-Patriots: Book Fifty-One by Mary Kennedy
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTanner Sung is following the dream his parents provided for him by sending him to America a lifetime ago. A retired Navy SEAL, he's now working for the premier security agency in the country, RP. While helping his teammate, Bogey, and his girlfriend, Alice, move her things, he spots a homeless girl. Buying food for the girl, he can't help himself, and follows her down an alley... -
![Ignited: A Fated Mates Wolf Shifter Romance by Anastasia Wilde]()
Ignited: A Fated Mates Wolf Shifter Romance by Anastasia Wilde
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTen years ago, they saved each other's lives.Then she disappeared.But fate has brought them back together...Boomer, explosives and weapons expert, is fine with his life as an Outlaw Ridge operative: illegal missions, daring rescues, and blowing stuff up. But when a woman from his distant past shows up asking for his help, it all threatens to come crashing down...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Tactical Bear by Candace Ayers]()
Tactical Bear by Candace Ayers
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsParker is fighting extinction— Of her own shifter species! She’d already be mated. If not for those bullying polar bears. They've scared away all decent prospects. Maxim has met the one But, she’s an activist with silly notions. And she wants nothing to do with him. As a Tactical Bear, he’ll need all his strategic skills... -
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Covert Bear by Candace Ayers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsVilified by strangers, Friendships aren’t Heidi’s forte. Unless it happens to be with a displaced polar bear. Hey, he’s a great listener! Alexei knows she’s his mate. But she refuses to date him. All he wants is a chance. And, as far as he can tell, there’s only one way to get it—as a Covert Bear. AUTHOR'S NOTE: P.O.L.A.R... -
![Leopard's Blood by Christine Feehan]()
Leopard's Blood by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan cuts straight to the heart of a man who stalks the shadows in an intoxicating Leopard novel.Though born into a leopard’s lair in the bayou, Joshua Tregre’s fighting skills were honed in the rainforests of Borneo. Sleek and deadly, he’s the perfect man to take over a crime syndicate back home in Louisiana’s lush swamplands... -
![Chasing His Puma by Golden Angel]()
Chasing His Puma by Golden Angel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a cynical mutant bunny-bear who never smiles find love with an eternally optimistic puma? Kidnapped as a teenager along with his siblings, experimented on and turned into a mutant shifter, rescued, trained, betrayed by a teammate, and brutally injured before being rescued again... any optimism Brock Bunson ever had has been hammered out of him by life... -
![Lion in Waiting by Bianca D'Arc]()
Lion in Waiting by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo injured shifters get a second chance at life…and love. Matilda escaped into the wild to lick her wounds and heal as best she can from captivity and torture at the hands of people who hunt shifters and imprison them. She is a lioness, but her natural confidence has been shaken by the experience. What she needs is a second chance to live, to heal, and to find her lioness’s roar once more... -
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![Her Country Master by Anya Summers]()
Her Country Master by Anya Summers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElise Beauregard is a wedding dress designer on the verge of a total career meltdown, thanks to a particularly vicious former client. Her best friend Kara encourages her to explore the BDSM lifestyle at the Dungeon Fantasy Club in Manhattan. She’s definitely intrigued by what she sees, but unsure how to begin. When she is hired to design the gown for the club owner's fiancée, Elise is elated... -
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Saw Bear by Scarlett Grove
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan Love Heal?A loyal man ...Buck Kincaid runs his family's timber business on Fate Mountain. He's hardworking, steady, and ready to settle down. It won't be that easy, though -- the morning after a human-shifter dating app finally finds his match, his mate sends him a message that they can never meet.A wounded woman ...Maria Reyes knows her sister is happily mated to a bear shifter .. -
![Kellan by Jayne Blue]()
Kellan by Jayne Blue
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you love an outlaw, be prepared for the ride of your life. Kellan - Everything worth having is worth fighting for. I should know. I bear more battle scars than most. I lost half my leg when an IED blew a hole through my Humvee in Afghanistan. Since I got back, I’ve done things to protect my MC that would make you afraid of me. And you should be... -
![Home for the Howlidays by Harmony Raines, Scarlett Grove]()
Home for the Howlidays by Harmony Raines, Scarlett Grove
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEnjoy 13 brand NEW holiday stories from the authors of Shifters in Love! NY Times, USA Today and international bestselling authors bring you heartwarming tales of paranormal true love. Snow’s Beary Christmas (Fate Mountain Fairy Tales) - Scarlett Grove Trapped by her stepmother, Aisha signs up for a shifter dating website and is quickly matched with hunky grizzly shifter Hunter Maxwell...Categorized as:
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![Cursed to the Alpha by Jessica Hall]()
Cursed to the Alpha by Jessica Hall
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAndrei had finally found his mate and he couldn't believe his luck when he found Sage. Second-chance mates have never been heard of.However, he soon realizes that Sage is just as broken as he is. Sage spent years in the hands of monsters and now finds herself in Andrei's forsaken hands, which are just as tainted as those that kidnapped her...Categorized as:
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![Bonded by Nicky Charles]()
Bonded by Nicky Charles
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsReno’s a tough Enforcer for Lycan Link who finds himself drawn to Brandi but duty rules his life. Brandi, just on the edge of starting her career as a Disaster Control officer, falls for Reno at first sight, but are they really meant to be? Is it love or lust and does it really even matter? Enforcers and DCs don't get along...unless fate forces them to. Bonded precedes The Mating... -
![When a Tigon Weds by Eve Langlais]()
When a Tigon Weds by Eve Langlais
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings‘Till death do us part… Dean’s a tigon shifter who’s found himself accidentally married to Natasha, a mob princess. Ever tangled with a (literal) mob of Russian Siberian tiger shifters? It’s a great idea if you’ve ever dreamed of being fitted for cement shoes, but not exactly Dean’s style. Dean always knew his not-so-innocent wife would one day return and it’s been nothing but explosions since... -
![Colt by Jayne Blue]()
Colt by Jayne Blue
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhy do bad boys always feel oh sooo good? Amy - I know his type. The leather cut, the swirling ink over hard muscles, the swagger in his step and smolder in his eyes that sends heat zinging through my core. I swore I was done with bad boys and danger junkies. The last time I loved a member of the Great Wolves M.C., I was left bruised and shattered... -
![Dark Alpha’s Demand by Donna Grant]()
Dark Alpha’s Demand by Donna Grant
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death. And when Death says your time is up, I am coming for you...My secret is an ancient one. I exist to exact vengeance on the Fae for their wrongs per Death's orders... -
![Lori by Ariana Hawkes]()
Lori by Ariana Hawkes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings* * * Complete, full-length novel! Can be read as a standalone book. * * * What if your fated mate was just an app swipe away? Sexy bear shifter Bruno Davis is tortured by a tragic past. Between firefighting and being a single parent to his nine-year-old son, there's no space in his life for anything else... -
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![Submission & Seduction by Lora Leigh]()
Submission & Seduction by Lora Leigh
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSubmission - In her desperation to repair the rift between herself and her daughter, Ella moves back to Virginia, and agrees to allow the ghost of her past back into her life. As a favor to her daughter, she allows James Wyman, Jesse's twin, to stay the week in her new home. James. Dominating. Sexy. Younger. The man that has filled her most secret fantasies, her most forbidden desires... -
![Kiss of Her Dragon by Julia Mills]()
Kiss of Her Dragon by Julia Mills
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPreviously part of the USA Today Bestselling anthology Once Upon a Valentine. Now available as a stand alone story. Book 19 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... -
![Chasing His Squirrel by Golden Angel]()
Chasing His Squirrel by Golden Angel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Brady Bunson first meets Jesse O'Neal, she's sick and dying from one of the illnesses that have ravaged the small shifter population. As a shifter squirrel with a tiger ancestor way back in her family line, Jesse is actually an ideal candidate for Dr. Montgomery's work... all the pain the Bunson family has gone through will finally save a life instead of ruining one... -
![Fang Chronicles: Dmitri by D'Elen McClain]()
Fang Chronicles: Dmitri by D'Elen McClain
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith war on the horizon, Dmitri, liege vampire to the bear clan, offers safe haven to Vorlyk and his new clan. Having another vampire in his territory is difficult but a certain young she-cat makes life impossible. The stalking feline has her eyes set on Dmitri even when his eyes stray elsewhere. The enemy proves that none of the North American clans is safe and it's time to fight back... -
![Hunter's Moon by Silver James]()
Hunter's Moon by Silver James
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDr. Jacey Randolph just might be crazy. A rescued wolf is more than he seems and his ability to get into her head—literally—makes her doubt her sanity. After the death of her husband in the Gulf War, she returned to the family ranch to run an animal sanctuary. Bad enough she has to fend off advances from the local sheriff, but now she’s turning into some sort of Dr. Doolittle... -
![Taming the Wild Cougar by Terry Spear]()
Taming the Wild Cougar by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCougar shifter, Dr. Kate Parker, is planning her annual camping vacation alone this year. She runs into trouble before she even starts her trip in the form of one wounded, hot cougar, undercover cop—or so he says... -
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Force by Kathi S. Barton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMyles ends up at the hotel to meet with the missing woman’s sister only to find her holding a gun to the head of a vamp. The woman has one of the smartest mouths he’s ever heard, not to mention, tasty as hell. Chris Collier only wants to find her sister, Millie, settle her up with whatever she needs to get her out of her life... -
![Stripe for Love by Anya Nowlan]()
Stripe for Love by Anya Nowlan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne curvy belle + One blue collar tiger shifter + Traditions that shouldn't be broken + A baby no one could have expected = Mail-order bride romance with more heat than you can handle! Layla Nash has her ducks in a row and everything's going to work out as planned... -
![Wolf in the City by Skye Jones]()
Wolf in the City by Skye Jones
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Don't miss this exciting new shifter series from Skye Jones," Michelle Fox. Handsome, confident, and cocky, Jake is one alpha wolf who knows what he wants. Nothing but some no-strings fun. But when he bumps into an intriguing human female during a trip to Edinburgh, “nothing” quickly becomes something he’s never experienced before. Something serious. Cait never gets the hot guy... -
![Call of the Cougar by Terry Spear]()
Call of the Cougar by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpecial Agent for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Services, Tracey Whittington, takes down wildlife traffickers and more, but what she doesn't expect is to be in a shootout, multiple times, when the business turns deadly. Nor does she suspect she'll be working with Hal Haverton, who serves as a part-time deputy for Yuma Town, Colorado, and runs his own horse ranch... -
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![Bad Cat Baby Blues by Anya Nowlan]()
Bad Cat Baby Blues by Anya Nowlan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA man's only as dangerous as he allows himself to be... This is a hot and heavy 50 k full military shifter novel with a hot Alpha and a feisty, curvy Latina. This book can be read as a standalone, has a guaranteed HEA and no cheating. Cuddle up with a scorching, growly jaguar this winter and find out the true meaning of danger! Dutch Henley knows that he's never wrong... -
![Scars by Jenika Snow]()
Scars by Jenika Snow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMickey “Scars” Lore wasn’t always the hardened, coldhearted man he was today. But the brutality of living life, of love and loss, tended to make a man nothing more than a shell. Vengeance, violence, and not caring about repercussions was who he was now. And he embraced it... -
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Odin's Honor by Reana Malori
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUSA Today Bestselling Author Reana Malori brings you a steamy, paranormal holiday read to start your holidays off right. Being left alone was all he'd ever wanted. Too bad fate has other plans. ODIN: All he needed was his cabin, his freedom, and his wolf. After all the pain and hurt he’d experienced, Odin Jakobson, was a broken man... -
![Sassy Shifter Brides: Complete Series by Anya Nowlan]()
Sassy Shifter Brides: Complete Series by Anya Nowlan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat a shifter really needs is a good mate! Shifter Grove only attracts the kind of shifters who are looking for something better... Something different. When Warren, Rake, Deacon and the Warfang decide to build a new life, they knew it wouldn't be easy. But it would be worth it...Categorized as:
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![Bear's Christmas Bride by Anya Nowlan]()
Bear's Christmas Bride by Anya Nowlan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne growly Alpha bear + one sassy bbw woman + a wedding no one expected = A Shifter Grove love story sure to heat up your holiday season! Finn Themps is a werebear looking for a simpler life. Good with his hands, the former Navy SEAL thinks he's found what he's looking for, when a woman blows into his life like a hurricane and turns everything over on its head... -
![Cowboy Bear's Fate by Harmony Raines]()
Cowboy Bear's Fate by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis hot, handsome, cowboy is going to make his mate stay, even if he has to put her over his saddle, and carry her off to the Williams Homestead!With her family relocating to Black Bear Ford, due to a family crisis, Monica Williams, is torn between moving to the country with them, or pursuing her career at the museum... -
![Hutch by Cami Carlisle]()
Hutch by Cami Carlisle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeorgia Donnelley is determined to be the boss of her own life by doing the things she never got to do while growing up. That and a few extra adventures added in. The only problem? She is broke, homeless, and hiding from an abusive ex. So instead, she heads back home to Darling, Tennessee...Categorized as:
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![Bear's Little Brat by Cooper McKenzie]()
Bear's Little Brat by Cooper McKenzie
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe has a knack for getting in trouble. But this Daddy knows just how to handle naughty little brats... A prank gone wrong sends Emory off to Bratburg Institute, where she's expected to learn how to become a "proper woman".But as it turns out, it's not the horrible punishment she expects it to be...Categorized as:
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![Third Time's A Charm by Persephone Steele]()
Third Time's A Charm by Persephone Steele
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo the world I’m beautiful, successful, talented.The total package.I’m the founder and owner of the world’s largest animal rescue and adoption center. We can rescue any animal, from a turtle to a lion. And, if we can’t find a pre established sanctuary for it to thrive, we make one.It’s what I’m good at. It’s where my heart belongs.Yet, my family doesn’t understand just how content I am in life... -
![His to Possess by Piper Stone]()
His to Possess by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt wasn't temptation. It was instinct.Stone Keeler is a six-foot-four hunk who could win any girl's heart and then make her scream in bed, but as he claimed my quivering body for the first time the look in his eyes was terrifying... -
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![FireStarter by Elle Boon]()
FireStarter by Elle Boon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKeanu uses his powers as a Fire Elemental to fight the fiercest forest fires. He lives his life dangerously as a Smokejumper knowing his abilities can save lives where others can’t. Called home to investigate threats, he finds a woman who calls to his soul. He has no clue that the biggest blaze he would ever fight, would be the one that Cammie Masters stirs in him... -
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Alexander by Kim Fox
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPolar bear shifter, Alexander Vega, is the last Vega brother who anyone thought would take on a mate. He’s surly, gruff, grumpy and just plain rude. And that’s on a good day. He hates women and doesn’t want them anywhere near the Vega Ranch. But his bear has other plans… BBW news reporter, Elena King, has come to the Vega Ranch to visit her sister Ava... -
![Terr4tory by Susan A. Bliler]()
Terr4tory by Susan A. Bliler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWilla Hutchinson is in trouble. With her Alpha now dead, the lead falls to her. Problem is, she’s an unmated female in charge of a pack of young shifters. Suitors and challengers are coming from miles around to attempt to claim her territory, her pack, and her! Willing to fight to the death to defend her pack, she knows the odds of survival are slim... -
![ETERNAL BEAUTY by Laura Wright]()
ETERNAL BEAUTY by Laura Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAncient and very sexy vampire, Synjon Wise, had the female he loved ripped from his grasp by a bullet. Trying to join her in death, he’s furious when a beautiful stranger pulls him into the shadows and nurses him back to health. Healer, Petra was raised by shifters and has always hoped her true abilities and powers would be revealed... -
![Cougar's Luck by Moxie North]()
Cougar's Luck by Moxie North
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA computer genius, a dedicated gamer, and on some nights a cougar shifter, Everett Hayes had his whole life in front of him. Where that path led he didn’t know. Computers were his refuge until he met Layla.Layla Klein loved her pack, loved her crazy family, and totally dug her job overseeing the hottest club on the Vegas strip... -
![Bear Mine for Christmas by Ariana Hawkes]()
Bear Mine for Christmas by Ariana Hawkes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWrap yourself up in a smoking-hot bear shifter romance this Christmas! Every winter sexy bear shifter Brock Fletcher runs a Christmas-tree store with his uncle Granger and cousin Riley. Despite his smoldering looks and charismatic personality, Brock hasn’t found a mate because a girl named Madison stole his heart many years earlier, before she left town for good...
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