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  • Trent by Zoe Chant

    Trent by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The last time they met, she shot him.Now, she needs his help…As an elite shifter spy, Zina is used to doing whatever it takes to get the job done - but there’s a line even she won’t cross. Now she’s on the run from her old agency, with a stolen secret that she’ll die to protect...
  • The Blackstone She-Bear by Alicia Montgomery

    The Blackstone She-Bear by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Blackstone Mountain series continues with The Blackstone She-Bear Amelia Walker's heart and bear have been broken once. So, when her ex, polar bear shifter Mason Grimes, breezes back into town, she does her best to stay away from him. But neither can resist the pull of the mating call...
  • The Blackstone Lion by Alicia Montgomery

    The Blackstone Lion by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Luke Lennox knows he doesn’t deserve happiness. After tearing his family apart, he’s been punishing himself by living a solitary life. But when he sees Georgina Mills, the animal inside him knows: she’s his mate. His lonely heart yearns for her, but he knows that it could only end up badly for them both...
  • Nightfall by Terry Bolryder

    Nightfall by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sasha Harrington has horrible taste in men. After her latest fiasco, she has sworn of relationships. But when a handsome man with striking features and a body made of rock-hard muscle wanders into her library, asking for her help, she starts getting ideas again...
  • Doggy Defender Bear by Harmony Raines

    Doggy Defender Bear by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He wants a mate. She needs a doggy defender! Loving and affectionate. It’s a pity Jane is talking about Boomer, an adorable dog, and not Guy’s adorable bear. Don’t tell Guy’s bear he called him adorable or there might be trouble Or more trouble, since Guy is being hired to protect Boomer from an attempted dognapping...
  • Chosen by Tiffany Patterson

    Chosen by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I never belonged until I was chosen by an alpha, but our love is forbidden…Volunteering was supposed to be a way to honor my grandmother’s memory, not a place to meet hot guys. But that’s exactly what happens when Chael lands in my life due to a string of disappearances and deaths at the nursing home I volunteer at...
  • A Handkerchief for Kade by Amy Bellows

    A Handkerchief for Kade by Amy Bellows

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Companion wanted for an old and ornery card player. All I want is a clever person to play cards with at night. No funny business. You sleep in your bed, and I’ll sleep in mine. Must be clean, quiet, sober, and willing to go to bed at a reasonable hour. A preference will be given to applicants who can play cribbage and gin rummy...
  • Alpha's Rescue by Renee Rose, Lee Savino

    Alpha's Rescue by Renee Rose, Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This grumpy bear needs a curvy complication like he needs a bullet in the head.She trespassed on my mountain. The lovely human with bright pink braids.Beautiful and brilliant, she's a knockout who leaves sunshine and mayhem in her wake.But our land is under threat and if she's learned our secret, she can never leave.Now she's my prisoner until I find out what she knows.I shouldn't keep her...
  • Greyriver Shifters by Kristina Weaver

    Greyriver Shifters by Kristina Weaver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The shifters of Greyriver are hot as hell and nothing will stop them in their paths, so cozy up and be ready for some sexy fun! Enjoy 5 Standalone, full length books in this bundle. More than 400,000 words. NO CLIFFHANGERS. UNWANTED MATE I don’t want to feel this pull towards Mika Bright and feel the lust that overtakes me when I smell her...
  • Twisting Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Twisting Fate by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Vaughn Carson vowed never to step foot in Bearclaw Castle again.The cursed place has brought his family nothing but pain for generations, so he doesn’t understand why his brother would want to restore it. Better to tear it stone from stone and hope the bitter memories crumble with the rubble...
  • Redwood Pack, Vol. 5 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Redwood Pack, Vol. 5 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Redwood Pack Vol 5 contains the sixth book in the Redwood Pack series and a special novella in print and digital form.Hidden Destiny (Redwood Pack Book 6)North 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...
  • Hunted in Darkness by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Hunted in Darkness by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I knew I wanted her the first time I saw her. Only problem? She can’t be my mate.I’m a son of a traitor and former Alpha and I know it’s the legacy people see.But I must be the Alpha of my Pack and protect them from the new threat to our world: Vampires.Valac and the others are still in the shadows, and we must find their lairs before we lose more than we already have...
  • Ice Dragon by Minerva Howe

    Ice Dragon by Minerva Howe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Dragon Veil Universe Mpreg Declan is trying hard not to be jealous of his bestie Justin, who has mated with a dragon and is learning to fly. Owen, who is Justin's mate's brother, and a dragon himself, keeps trying to tell Declan how special he is, but he doesn't believe it. He's just a guy, right? Not as good an athlete as Justin, not a smart as Owen, not as cool as anyone..
  • The Snow Leopard's Home by Zoe Chant

    The Snow Leopard's Home by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A curvy outdoorswoman who’s been forced inside + a snow leopard shifter who wants to help her roam free + a forbidden connection = one thrilling romance! Curvy Teri Lowell is stuck at home. Three months ago, she was terribly injured in a car accident. Now she’s almost recovered—but she’s lost control of her life...
  • Cross to Bear by Sam Hall

    Cross to Bear by Sam Hall

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When your boyfriend is a dud, but his brother and his pack are your perfect match…“You’re our fated mate,” Bjorn tells me. It’s every woman’s fantasy, isn’t it? To hear a big, tattooed bear shifter tell you that you’re the only one for him and his sleuth. So why aren’t I falling all over myself to accept the bond? Sounds great, but I’m not ready to be anyone’s girlfriend, mate, anything...
  • Blackwood: Book 2 by Sunny Mawson

    Blackwood: Book 2 by Sunny Mawson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the conclusion of the Blackwood Duet, Jagger Thorne rules his pack with an iron fist, doling out punishments that go beyond the limits of appropriate standards. He is hellbent on fulfilling his father's twisted legacy and will stop at nothing to capture Isabella Greyson. Making her his mate and ending her legacy drives him over the edge...
  • Wild Card by Jillian West

    Wild Card by Jillian West

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lennox Summers had her life turned upside down in the blink of an eye. She's still adjusting to her new normal, but omega biology waits for no one, and according to her lab work, her first heat is coming right after the New Year.With The Omega Exchange's New England location at winter capacity, Lennox has no choice but to stay at a local bed and breakfast to wait for a spot to open up...
  • Big Bad Boss: Marked by Renee Rose, Lee Savino

    Big Bad Boss: Marked by Renee Rose, Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    RULE #3 OF WALL NEVER BACK DOWNNo one can know I've claimed the human as my mate.The enemies are at the gates–one wrong move and I’ll lose it all. My world will never be safe for her.If my pack finds out that I’ve mated a human, they’ll revolt. The fractures will grow deeper than ever and we'll be picked apart one by one.The lives of everyone I love hang in the balance...
  • The Girl Nest Door by Zoe Chant

    The Girl Nest Door by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tiger shifter and businessman, Shaun always wanted to spend more time with the child his ex-wife took away from him -- but he wasn't expecting her to abandon five-year old Trevor and force Shaun to move to the tiny town of Green Valley. It’s bad enough that Shaun doesn’t know the first thing about being a father -- now suddenly he’s the father of an unpredictable shifter child...
  • A Tiger's Treasure by Terry Bolryder

    A Tiger's Treasure by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This tiger detective is about to discover the greatest treasure of all… Carter Cunningham is all about duty. As a detective for the city where he and his brothers live, he has dedicated his life to protecting both humans and shifters alike in need of help, and tracking down the killers that would do them harm...
  • Tears For Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Tears For Her Dragon by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Escaped from hell on earth, lost and alone, a wail in the night calls to not only his beast but also his heart. Finding this tortured woman is all that matters. On the run, hiding in plain sight, the icy fingers of doom invade her soul. The pull of the world she fled tears at the fiber of her being...
  • 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...
  • Dane by Faith Gibson

    Dane by Faith Gibson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chief of Police Dane Abbott has put off claiming his mate to keep her safe. Until Now. The battle in Greece is over, and he’s ready to make her his. Marley Sperry, everyone’s favorite waitress, can’t believe the handsome Chief has his sights set on her. She is nothing special – but to Dane, she is everything...
  • Frappé Fox by Ellis Leigh

    Frappé Fox by Ellis Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A town cannot live on baked goods alone, and a teacher won’t find their mate in a book. Welcome to the Kinship Cove Diner, where a good cup of coffee comes with every fated mating. ***It sucks to be invisible. In the diner my family owns, I’m just the sister who gets stuff done. My entire skulk seems to forget about me on a weekly basis...
  • La Patron's Christmas by Sydney Addae

    La Patron's Christmas by Sydney Addae

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s Christmas time at the compound and Jasmine, mate of Silas Knight and Alpha Bitch in the nation, has decided it’s time for the kids to learn about the holiday. Plans are underway for a huge carnival full of games, music and family fun. It’s not until an unexpected guest arrives that Jasmine realizes she and Silas have missed critical elements in their children’s education...
  • Taming the Wild Cougar by Terry Spear

    Taming the Wild Cougar by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cougar 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...
  • Force by Kathi S. Barton

    Force by Kathi S. Barton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Myles 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...
  • Baby Protector Bear by Harmony Raines

    Baby Protector Bear by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He would die to protect her. But he would much rather live with her. Forever. Joel has been a protector of people his whole life. Now the stakes have been raised. When his mate offers to protect baby Sam, he has no choice but to volunteer to stand by her side. One look at her luscious curvy body tells him he’d like to lie in her bed too. But this is serious, this is life or death...
  • Spring Fever: Shifters in Love by Lia Davis, Milly Taiden

    Spring Fever: Shifters in Love by Lia Davis, Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thaw winter's chill with FIVE brand new stories about SEXY, alpha male shifters with spring fever from FIVE of today's hottest paranormal authors.Match Made in Hell (A BBW paranormal romance) by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Milly Taiden When quiet Laura Nieves is tossed together with hot as hell warrior Damien Wrath, eternity heats up really fast...
  • Always Wright by Fel Fern

    Always Wright by Fel Fern

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A conflicted biker bear. A wolf without a mate. Can Mayhem and Wyatt cross the boundaries of friendship and become something more? Omega wolf shifter Wyatt Wright has pined for Mayhem for what feels like forever. He’s watched Mayhem fall in and out of love more times than he can count. Now it’s Wyatt’s turn and he can’t screw this chance up. Wyatt’s been warned by his brothers to be careful...
  • Everett and the Wolf by Vinni George

    Everett and the Wolf by Vinni George

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

    Toucan Love You by Lorelei M. Hart, Aria Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes two alphas are better than one. Just kidding, it’s always. Alpha toucan shifter Monroe was born in The Lab. When he’s rescued, he has no idea what to do and spends a year hiding in his animal form from humans and shifters alike. When he overhears a rumor that River’s Edge is home to some of the former residents of The Lab, he sets out to see if maybe that’s the place for him...
  • Her Vampire Knight by Ines Johnson

    Her Vampire Knight by Ines Johnson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This little panther shifter thinks she’s captured me. Me; one of the most feared vampires in history.She thinks I'm the key to an age old prophecy; one where we join forces and unite to create new life. But that's impossible for a man who's been dead for centuries. With her every touch she makes me crave life.The problem is, the more we fight, the more the beast below stirs, ready to claim her...
  • Broken Daddy by Liam Kingsley

    Broken Daddy by Liam Kingsley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s carrying another man’s child … but I can’t keep away from him … I thought I found my forever, and then he left me for his fated mate. I don’t need another broken heart, but when Troy crosses my path I might not have a choice. He’s carrying another man’s baby, but his scent tells me he’s my destiny...
  • Love by Kiki Burrelli

    Love by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lurking beneath the surface, a monster waits. Possessive. Dominating. Alpha.Aver Walker isn't one to make waves. He's steady, calm and sensible. He and his cousins have carved out a good life for themselves and things around the Walker house are finally starting to look like normal. Their version of normal, anyway.And Aver couldn't be more miserable...
  • The Luck of the Shifters (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc

    The Luck of the Shifters (Grizzly Cove) by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seamus O’Leary was abducted from his home in Australia and imprisoned for months in the Pacific Northwest. He arrived in Grizzly Cove with his spirit broken from being forced to stay in his animal form for months. Human again, and unable to shift without the crutch of alcohol, he is trying his best just to get through each day…until a chance meeting changes his life forever...
  • Cougar's Gift by Moxie North

    Cougar's Gift by Moxie North

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Cougar's Gift" is the third book Pacific Northwest Cougars series.Communicating with others didn’t require the use of a lot of words in Stryker’s mind. He was a man and a cougar…what more needed to be explained. But when the fates give you a mate that needs to be talked into forever a cougar needs to man up and start talking...
  • 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...
  • Before Daybreak by Fiona Davenport

    Before Daybreak by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After spending five centuries searching for his destined consort, Braeden Bancroft stumbled across her at his cousin’s birthday party. He couldn’t wait to start their lives together.Callidora Yellen wasn’t ready for her fate. She had goals she wanted to accomplish before settling down with an adoring, but overprotective, daywalker...
  • Protector of the Pride by Terry Bolryder

    Protector of the Pride by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The third and final book in the Lions of Pride Island series! Axel Hunt knows what’s expected from him in life. Find a mate that’s suitable to the oracle, mate her, and rule his country, ensuring peace. But all of that is turned upside down when curvy Lucy comes into his life, drawing his attention as never before. Only problem? She’s his secretary...
  • Forsaken by E.M. Moore

    Forsaken by E.M. Moore

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rejected Mate Academy is back in session.Unwanted. Dismissed. Forsaken.As if it’s not bad enough that I’m the OG at Greystone, Lydia has decided that the school’s apparent generosity is running out. I have two weeks to get my mate to accept me—or I’m out. Left to die. Feral.With the odds already stacked against me, I return to Daybreak for the Winter Solstice festivities. One last chance...
  • A Mate for Lu by Amy Bellows

    A Mate for Lu by Amy Bellows

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two single dads. One accidental pregnancy. Many, many shifter children.Sam’s mate died four years ago, and penguin shifters mate for life. Sam is never allowed to love again. Even when he meets a kind and beautiful omega who his three children gravitate towards.After working with Lu for a year, Sam has fallen deeply in love with him. And Lu’s feelings for Sam are painfully obvious...
  • 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...
  • The Alpha's Protective Mate by Jaymin Snow

    The Alpha's Protective Mate by Jaymin Snow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Being too weak was an original sin for a vampire, but falling for a werewolf was worse than weak…As the weakest vampire, I have always been bullied as a ‘disgrace’, especially since my father was the leader.Humiliated and finally exiled, I adapted to my new life as a normal café waitress.Until that man broke my tranquility...
  • Sassy in Diapers by Milly Taiden

    Sassy in Diapers by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is a SHORT. This is NOT a standalone full length story. It is intended to be read in order after you read the previous books. Time to revisit Karla and Nate. Karla Wolfe is scared. Motherhood is coming much faster than she can accept. The last thing she wants is to be a replica of her own mother. Nate Wolfe loves his mate unconditionally...
  • Sheltered by the Bear by Terry Bolryder

    Sheltered by the Bear by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What happens when a curvy girl wanders into bear country... Riker Brolin has always been the responsible one of his brothers. Whether it's watching out for the entire, tiny town of Bear Canyon or supervising the annual Brawl where bear shifters from all over trek to his mountain, he does it all without complaint...
  • Reckless Beta by C.J. Primer

    Reckless Beta by C.J. Primer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My life has never been perfect, but up until four years ago, I had a pretty good thing going.I held rank as an enforcer for the Stillwater pack. I was close with the pack’s Alpha and Luna, having been practically raised by them in place of my dead mother and absentee father. I was in line to become the pack’s lead enforcer, a prestigious position that others would kill for...
  • Bear With Me by Zoe Chant

    Bear With Me by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A lonely bear shifter + a workaholic conservationist + a sudden storm = one wet and wild mountain adventure Jamie Sullivan doesn’t have time for a relationship – and she definitely doesn’t have time to disentangle herself from the one-night stand she somehow fell into at her best friend’s wedding. She’s tried the dating game before, and it never works out...
  • Lost Roar by Zenina Masters

    Lost Roar by Zenina Masters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Robbed of her roar, Nicia doesn’t want a lion. She goes to the Crossroads and has a wolf follow her home. No red hood required.Nicia was at the fundamental lion compound and rescued from a life as guard beast for her family.Her mother’s family takes her in and helps her recover from the years of abuse...
  • Wolf in his Heart by N.J. Walters

    Wolf in his Heart by N.J. Walters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Half-breed werewolf Sage Gallagher can’t shift, but he’s a member of the Salvation Pack and a wolf where it counts...
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