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  • Dragon Typhoon by Charlene Hartnady

    Dragon Typhoon by Charlene Hartnady

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A dragon shifter series set in the same world as the bestselling Bride Hunt books.Typhoon doesn’t have a mate. It’s not for lack of trying, or interest. He just hasn’t found the right person yet. He’s pretty sure that it will happen in good time. The problem he faces is that he is desperate to have a baby. It’s all he can think about. He’s seen his friends pair up and have whelps...
  • Unicorn Marshal by Zoe Chant

    Unicorn Marshal by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If he’s her fated mate, fate’s made a huge mistake.In the elegant but oppressive unicorn village of Purity, only the best and brightest unicorns are allowed to get married. Iris never expected to be one of them... especially after showing her true self ended in a disaster that left her forever unable to smile. Literally...
  • Forbidden Temptation: Volume 4 by Teresa Gabelman

    Forbidden Temptation: Volume 4 by Teresa Gabelman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Taking on new recruits has always been tricky business for Dell Farris, head protector of the Lee County Wolves. Add in the knowledge that his mate is one of them makes things even more complicated. He knows she has demons to fight, but he’s determined to take charge of that battle. Nothing and no one will ever hurt her again. Roslyn “Ross” Starr has secrets that she plans to take to the grave...
  • Alpha Brock: six-pack series book four by C.J. Primer

    Alpha Brock: six-pack series book four by C.J. Primer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SIX-PACK SERIES BOOK FOUR* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading books 1 - 3 (Alpha Gray, Alpha Theo, and Alpha Jax) for context before starting in on this one.* This book is a slow burn with a very moody, broody protagonist (grumpy/sunshine trope). It will be a bumpy ride for these two to get to their HEA...
  • Boarlander Boss Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Boarlander Boss Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ***New trailer park. New shifters. New lumberjack crew. Are you ready to see how the Boarlanders live?*** ***The Boarlander Bears can be read as a standalone series*** Audrey Foster is a shifter among humans...
  • Grim Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    Grim Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Grim is trying to hold it together for the holidays. He’s vowed to be a better Alpha for the Rogue Pride Crew, but he’s at war with the two lions inside of him, and at war with a certain Red Dragon as well. He was raised to be a weapon and had never celebrated like everyone else. All he wants to do is coast straight through the holiday, but his new Crew is messing with his head...
  • Alpha Reid: six-pack series book five by C.J. Primer

    Alpha Reid: six-pack series book five by C.J. Primer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SIX-PACK SERIES BOOK FIVE* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading books 1 - 4 (Alpha Gray, Alpha Theo, Alpha Jax, and Alpha Brock) for context before starting in on this one. I’ve always exercised complete control in all things. When it comes to my pack, I’m in control as its Alpha. In everyday life, I follow a schedule and value structure and discipline...
  • Tropical Panther's Penance by Zoe Chant

    Tropical Panther's Penance by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He ain't no one’s idea of a true mate. Panther shifter Wrench hasn't got the first frickin’ clue about poems and flowers and all that crap. But he’s gonna learn, or die trying. He ain’t giving up on the best thing to ever happen to him...
  • When He’s Torn by Suzanne Wright

    When He’s Torn by Suzanne Wright

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It has been said that Bailey Bryant lives with her middle finger up in the air. She can agree with that. But there’s one thing she fails to be breezy about: her unrelenting attraction to fellow enforcer Deke Hammond. Broad, inked, and ruggedly masculine, the grumpy cat shifter could attract a stone. He’s also currently riddled with touch-hunger and much crankier than usual...
  • A Pride Christmas in Brooklyn by Shelly Laurenston

    A Pride Christmas in Brooklyn by Shelly Laurenston

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This story is also in The Mane Event (Pride, #1) and is named Christmas Pride.Mason “Mace” Llewellyn has just gotten out of the Navy after a 14 year career as a SEAL. He is also a lion shape shifter. Mace has one thing – one woman – on his mind. Desiree “Dez” MacDermot, his childhood crush and good buddy, has been on his mind since they were both 14...
  • The Dragon's Need by Jessie Donovan

    The Dragon's Need by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tired of overprotective dragon-shifters, Gabriela Santos decides she wants to lose her virginity to a human male via the Tahoe area dragon lottery. After years of trying, she's finally selected as one of the participants. Of the hundreds of humans who want to be with her, it's the male staring at the ceiling who catches her eye...
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    humor  paranormal  poc-mc  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  book  dragons
  • Sanibel Surrender by Talyn Scott

    Sanibel Surrender by Talyn Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Molly’s pristine life crumbles around her, she inadvertently steps over the immortal threshold, finding that her ex-husband led a double life. Through his nefarious secrecy, Wilson exposed her to a dangerous underworld, and she has no other choice but to rely on powerful werewolf males to escape the unthinkable...
  • Howling Devotion: A Cursed Romance by R. O'Leary

    Howling Devotion: A Cursed Romance by R. O'Leary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Desperate for a shot at claiming his mate, Beau will do anything to get the stubborn owl to give him a chance...even if he has to hijack her investigation.Alice has always prided herself on being an asset to her shifter clan -- that is, until she messed up so badly her Alpha won't even look her in the eye...
  • Sanibel Alpha by Talyn Scott

    Sanibel Alpha by Talyn Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tatum, Jayce, and Bren welcome their precious Youngling, the next appointed Alpha, into their loving family. However, their celebration is darkened when Jayce is forced to handle a troubled Pack stricken by rogue vampires. Following his inborn need, Mike Carter takes his place next to his co-mates, protecting Tatum and her newborn son with raw determination...
  • Finding Dragon's Court by Jessie Donovan

    Finding Dragon's Court by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To the world, Dr. Maximilian Holbrook projects himself as a chatty buffoon. It ensures everyone underestimates him, especially when it comes to his rivals. And it's worked, too, until an Australian dragon-shifter starts outsmarting him. That she's a woman doesn't matter to him...
  • Seducing the Dragon: Part 2 by Jessie Donovan

    Seducing the Dragon: Part 2 by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    PART TWO Evie Marshall discovers she has three days to convince Bram to trust her or he won’t take her as his mate. Unable to forget their steamy kiss, she’s determined to prove her usefulness not only for her safety, but also for another chance to kiss the sexy dragonman and become part of his clan. Bram’s dragon wants Evie, but refuses to say why...
  • Seducing the Dragon: Part 3 by Jessie Donovan

    Seducing the Dragon: Part 3 by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    While Evie attempts to behave in the manner of a clan leader's mate during the special dinner in Finn's honor, news of another attack ruins the evening. Now Bram and Evie must work together to not only stop the dragon hunters from hurting anyone else, but to also control Bram's dragon. Without his leadership, the clan will be doomed...
  • Kellen's Tempting Mate by Elle Boon

    Kellen's Tempting Mate by Elle Boon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A NOT SO NAÏVE SHE-WOLF: Laikyn O’Neil has loved Kellen for years. Thinking to prove her love, she sets out to learn how to be a good submissive, only to find herself needing a savior. THE RELUCTANT ALPHA: When Kellen Styles finds Laikyn in the last place he expected, he rides to her rescue, but then can’t stop his dominant needs from taking over...
  • Claiming the Pack by Lindsey Devin

    Claiming the Pack by Lindsey Devin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    We must unite our rival packs. Our child’s future depends on it…If only falling for Night, the alpha of our rival pack, was the least of my problems.Now Troy, the fallen alpha of my old pack, has escaped from prison, and Night wants to hunt down.If we’re going to have a chance of uniting the King and Warg packs, we need to stop the violence...
  • Protected Mate by Candace Ayers, Kym Dillon

    Protected Mate by Candace Ayers, Kym Dillon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bestselling authors Candace Ayers and Kym Dillon bring you SHORT "lunchtime quickie" reads—condensed romances intended to be read in under 2 hours!Welcome to Mystic Hollow where wildest dreams (trust me, they do get wild) come true.I did it.I packed my bags, said adios to city life, and left my troubled past behind for a little town tucked in the bosom of nowhere...
  • Bo & Reika by R.E. Butler

    Bo & Reika by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She's on the run for her life ...As a child, she-wolf healer Reika Snow was promised as a mate to three were-lynxes to prevent a war between her pack and the lynx clan. Her freedom is coming to an end as her twenty-third birthday arrives. With her bleak future as the subjugated bride of the three males looms near, she does the only thing she can think of ... she runs...
  • Unbound by Charlene Hartnady

    Unbound by Charlene Hartnady

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Shifter novel set in the same world as, the bestselling, Chosen and Program series It all started with a dare. One little dare. Just a string of silly words that landed Alice smack bang in the middle of the ‘Dark Horse’ bar surrounded by utter chaos. Like most pick-up joints, the place was a meat market, but on steroids. The guys weren’t just simply guys, they were shifters...
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    humor  paranormal  poc-mc  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  book  demons
  • Blue Bear ARC by Sable Sylvan by Sable Sylvan

    Blue Bear ARC by Sable Sylvan by Sable Sylvan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Curvy college intern Poppy Beaton was in Seattle for one reason and one reason only: for an internship at the Asher Lumber Company that could make or break her career...
  • Zohar by A.K. Michaels

    Zohar by A.K. Michaels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zohar Drake is the Council’s most feared Enforcer. With a soul that’s shrouded in a darkness he keeps hidden from everyone. The deeds he’s been forced to carry out for the Council have left him scarred and tormented…both man and beast. When the Hunger strikes he’s under no illusions…it has to be one of his many enemies seeking revenge and inflicting some magical spell over him...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  animals  book  fiction
  • Unbearable Temptation by R. O'Leary

    Unbearable Temptation by R. O'Leary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Buried under the weight of his role as Alpha, Nate will do anything to find his missing shifters, even if it means babysitting a sassy eyewitness who has an unhealthy obsession with pink--and sugar.Everything in Rainy's life is finally going according to plan...
  • Blood Moon by J.J. King

    Blood Moon by J.J. King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A troubled relationship, a political attack, a backstabbing traitor, and a whole shitload of trouble. Elena Jensen is done being the victim. She's stronger now and ready to begin training her most valuable asset, her natural born Alpha powers...
  • Brandi by Donna McDonald

    Brandi by Donna McDonald

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He says they’re mates. She says they’re done. Agent Brandi Jenkins likes being a werewolf. It’s great to be stronger, smarter, and more sexual. It’s also great being part of family group for the first time in her solitary life. As the Nano Wolves beta, she must protect the other women in her tiny pack. She can't stop until she learns the truth about who funded the crazy scientist who made them...
  • Sanibel Sizzle by Talyn Scott

    Sanibel Sizzle by Talyn Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mistaken for Renee Shirley, Rebecca Walker remains Ciaran's captive. What breaks a blood debt oath when blood demands blood? Rebecca doesn't know, but Ciaran has an idea...or two.Gage holds a secret. Should he make a bold move to save Rebecca if it means turning Tatum's newfound happiness upside down?Curl your toes in the Sanibel sand. Whisk away to cold castles and warm Scottish beds...
  • Tempting Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Tempting Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fixing up Bearclaw Castle is probably a mistake, but Roderick Carson intends to do it anyway.It’s the only thing he can think of that’s sure to bring his long-absent brother back to his life. Roderick knows he’s losing himself to his bear, and he wants to see his brother one last time and say goodbye before that happens. It doesn’t matter that the castle holds horrible, haunting memories...
  • Sugar Dragon by Ellis Leigh

    Sugar Dragon by Ellis Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The next delectable treat from the Cake-ily Ever After bakery in Kinship Cove will have your mouth watering. This recipe for happily ever after includes one feisty baker with a short attention span and a dragon who’s been hunting her for decades. All of the fated yumminess, none of the guilt. * * *
Try everything once. That was my rule in life, food, and dating...
  • The Grisly Grizzlies: Tito and Ronin by Kim Fox

    The Grisly Grizzlies: Tito and Ronin by Kim Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tito and Ronin have always known they were destined to share a mate. Nothing is stronger than a bond between twin bear shifters. Well, except maybe a hot curvy veterinarian named Zoe. While in a two-year-long cold streak, Zoe gets propositioned by two gorgeous bear shifters...
  • The Bear Prince by Sable Sylvan

    The Bear Prince by Sable Sylvan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The last thing curvy human reporter Crystal Wordsworth expected was to end up with an invitation to Seattle’s most exclusive charity event, the Asher-Dixon family’s Golden Ball…but before she’s even had it in her hands for fifteen minutes, she manages to lose the gilded ball shaped invitation when it falls into…a well...
  • The Fire of the Dragon's Heart by Willa Hart

    The Fire of the Dragon's Heart by Willa Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My best friend is still missing, time's running out, and I'm all out of ideas...My five guys and I travelled to Europe to rescue Zoe from her dragon kidnappers, but my newly developed powers are failing me. Instead of pinpointing her location, the most I can manage is a little static and a lot of frustration...
  • Cinnamon Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan

    Cinnamon Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sugar, spice, and everything fur-bidden… Kimberly Matherson's the curviest freshman in her hall group at Washington College Seattle, but the last thing she expects? For a one night stand at the Bear Buns strip club to turn into something more. But the last thing she wants in her life? More drama...
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    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  book  fiction  mlm
  • The Cinderella Cook-Off by Sable Sylvan

    The Cinderella Cook-Off by Sable Sylvan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bears + BBWs + BBQ + BDSM = Too Hot To Handle! The last thing that the curvy Quincy sisters expect is to meet their rivals, the Scoville brothers, in the flesh at the reading of their grandfather’s will. What the heck are a bunch of Norwegian billionaires doing at a fair in the middle of Texas? Planning a corporate takeover, of their family’s hot sauce company, The Quincy Hot Sauce Co...
  • Panda Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan

    Panda Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    These panda bears can’t be bamboozled… Ashley Ortiz goes to Bear Buns with her coworkers Linda and Miranda to have a good time and watch their premier show staring The Twelve Dancing Bears, but the last thing she expects is to become part of the show! When she meets the hot cocoa sweet Onyx and his dance partner Jet, she learns that panda bear shifters can be downright sexy…but when a fire...
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    humor  paranormal  poc-mc  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  book  fiction
  • Koala Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan

    Koala Bear Buns by Sable Sylvan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    These bears are ready to go down under... The last thing that curvy Natalie thought she’d find at Bear Buns was true love, but just as her friend predicted, Fate was going to have someone fall in her lap…literally...
    Categorized as:
    humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  book  fiction  mlm
  • Saving the Bear by Ruby Shae

    Saving the Bear by Ruby Shae

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a routine mission turns deadly, bear shifter and former Enforcer, Jase Wagner is lost. The ability to trust his senses disappeared with the death of his partner and left him feeling worthless and unable to protect his clan. In an effort to find a place to fit in, he travels south and ends up in Emerald Haven, North Carolina...
  • Frosted Kiss by R. O'Leary

    Frosted Kiss by R. O'Leary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Cursed Romance Christmas Novella! Banished to a trailer park with nothing but the clothes on his back, Carter has lost every thing worthwhile in his life. The tiger inside of him isn’t so sure… There’s nothing Shelby wants more than to finish up her degree and keep her hellion siblings out of trouble through Christmas break… but her new neighbor is making it hard to focus...
  • To Love a Vampire by Jody Offen

    To Love a Vampire by Jody Offen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kayla backed up for every step he advanced. Her heart pounded painfully against her chest. She swore she saw flames flickering behind the vibrant colors in his eyes. She had never felt so afraid, so...alive? When she realized she couldn't escape him, she stood her ground, lifting her head defiantly in challenge. Tray didn't move, standing over her like a warlord about to pass judgment...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  humor  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fiction  suspense
  • Taken by Susan A. Bliler

    Taken by Susan A. Bliler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nyree was thriving as the best female Sentry assigned to the Skin Walker teams. Placed on special assignment, she was flattered to have been chosen to train the Keepers who’d just arrived at the Estate. Keepers were different from the Walkers she’d been trained with. Highly aggressive toward females, she found out too late that Keeper aggression was sexual and not a disdain for the female species...
  • Three Grizzlies Gruff by Sable Sylvan

    Three Grizzlies Gruff by Sable Sylvan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Curvy marionberry farmer and beekeeper Daisy Craston has no truck with trespassers, and when she catches three gruff grizzlies, all named William, in her marionberry fields, they don't just get her goat: they end up facing her trusty shotgun's barrel...
  • Baymac by Susan A. Bliler

    Baymac by Susan A. Bliler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **Book 13 in the Skin Walker series. This book can be read as a standalone. Grace Rowland is on the run from an abusive ex-boyfriend. Her decision to move on couldn't have come at a worse time because the blizzard blasting the state has made it impossible for her friend to retrieve her from the small town she's holed up in...
  • Siren Craving by R. O'Leary

    Siren Craving by R. O'Leary

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cam’s a mystery, even to other monsters. But the fire he feels for the klutzy new girl?There’s nothing mysterious about it.Raven Falls Romances:1. Furbidden Attraction2. Unbearable Temptation3. Howling Devotion4. Deathly Desire5. Bewitching Allure6. Siren CravingNovellas:1. Frosted Kiss2...
  • Remy by Susan A. Bliler

    Remy by Susan A. Bliler

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unaware of the volatile past between her brother and her Commander, Harlow EnemyHunter doesn’t understand her Commander’s clear aversion to her presence on his team. Determined to fit in, Harlow goes to great lengths to prove her worth, earn respect, and hide her infatuation for her Commanding Officer. Remy McCabe has waited years to get revenge on fellow Skin Walker, Mason EnemyHunter...
  • Trapping Quincy by Nicole Riddley

    Trapping Quincy by Nicole Riddley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He teases her. He challenges her. He fascinates her while he irritates her like no other. He drives her insane. He makes her...ughh, so mad she could scream! The only thing he won't do is let her go.Quincy: I'm a human living among the werewolves. My mom is a werewolf. She had drunken fun one night with a stranger, a human. The union was not supposed to bear offspring...
  • RedKnife by Susan A. Bliler

    RedKnife by Susan A. Bliler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cindy Sambrano hates her life. She lives in a crappy little house, drives a crappy little car, and has a crappy younger brother, Cody. After their parents’ death, she feels compelled to take care of him, to try to keep him on the straight and narrow, but--as usual--he’s messed up again. Owing a huge debt some seriously bad dudes, Cindy’s brother needs help getting the cash...
  • BirthControl  (La Patron, The Alphas Alpha) by Sydney Addae

    BirthControl (La Patron, The Alphas Alpha) by Sydney Addae

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When you’re the top wolf on the continent with the backing of the Goddess, how does an enemy topple your kingdom? By challenging you to a fight? No. By changing the rules.After three hundred years of fighting and service to the Goddess, Silas Knight is the Patron, Alpha to the Alphas on the North American continent. As the top wolf, he fears little and has seen most things...
  • Wicked Howl by Celia Kyle

    Wicked Howl by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can cats and dogs get along? Maybe. What about werelions and werewolves? If it’s Tilly and Mitchell, definitely. Or rather, maybe. If he’d just get his head out of his… Half-werelion Tilly McBride owns Bless Your Tart, the South’s latest and greatest bakery. Or at least the best one in Georgia. Fine. It’s the best in Wilder, Georgia, mainly because it’s the only one...
  • Defy Me by Aidy Award

    Defy Me by Aidy Award

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No soul, no soulmate.Until she shows up.Jett~I know full well I don't get to even feel love, much less fall in it.No soul, no soulmate. Ever.I don’t have room for stolen kisses and fantasies of of making her mine. I've got to break the curse on my brethren and take down the King of Hell...
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