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  • Fastlander Fury by T.S. Joyce

    Fastlander Fury by T.S. Joyce

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

    Boarlander Cursed Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **Don’t miss this riveting final installment to T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Boarlander Bears series.** Clinton Fuller has been burned by love, but that doesn’t stop him from thinking of his first mate and what could’ve been. And when she blows into town, with no memory of him or what happened to her, he does his best to stop history from repeating itself...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  shapeshifters  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  amnesia  book
  • The Mercy of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Mercy of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Something big is going on in this town.Police officer Darren Callaghan has been hunting for the cause of a burned mountain on the outskirts of Leadville, Colorado, but when a woman goes missing, he can’t help the feeling that they are connected somehow. A call comes in that some fences have been cut, and he finds a ragtag group of trespassers is squatting on some abandoned land outside of town...
  • The Edge of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Edge of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hell has felt like home lately to Naomi Dunbar, but her Maker is about to change everything. She has a secret crush on the man with the glowing gold eyes who saved her life, and gave her the gift of the wolf, but he is distant, and getting quieter by the day. The handsome, dominant Alpha is focused on healing her from the inside out, but it seems like it’s draining him to do it...
  • Ravensong by T.J. Klune

    Ravensong by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves.It should have been enough.And it was, until the wolves came back, and with them, Mark Bennett. In the end, they faced the beast together as a pack… and won...
  • The Break of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Break of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Peace has come to Promise Falls, and Trey hates every minute of it. What is a War Wolf supposed to do with peace? His entire Pack has paired up and seems perfectly fine with settling down into a quiet life—but inside of him, his wolf is howling for war, and he must find it wherever he can to keep the animal sated...
  • The Fall of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Fall of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Daylen Hoda is a wicked wolf.He’s done the unforgiveable at his Alpha’s order, and now he must face the life he used to have. Coming home should feel like a comfort, but Daylen isn’t the same werewolf anymore. Two years ago, he was pulled away from his Colorado territory by his Pack, and he left someone important behind...
  • Reach of Slaughter Mountain by T.S. Joyce

    Reach of Slaughter Mountain by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Owen Thomas is a man on a mission.He's moved from the city to a small town in the wilds of Alaska, and is determined to carve out a life in the woods he now calls home. He is finding the perfect balance between life in town with his father and brother, and a solitary existence where he has the peace to figure himself out...
  • Brother Wolf of Piston by T.S. Joyce

    Brother Wolf of Piston by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Vander is being pushed into a position of power in his new Pack, and he’s not ready. The Zombie Wolf has taken over as Alpha of the Piston Mountain Pack, and the monster is trying to drag him up to Second, but Vander has never been motivated to rise to power…until now. There is a new female on the outskirts of the Pack, and he is tasked with protecting her...
  • How It Needed to Be by T.S. Joyce

    How It Needed to Be by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Divar Stockton isn’t supposed to exist.The Bane brothers were supposed to be the only remaining bear shifters on earth, but they aren’t. There is an entire clan of them in hiding, and Divar has escaped his people in an attempt to survive, and maybe, just maybe, learn how to be a good man from Krome’s rag-tag Crew of misfits. His inner animal has different plans though...
  • How It Started by T.S. Joyce

    How It Started by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Famous Amos didn’t only earn his nickname from being the only Bald Eagle shifter in existence. He also earned it from a dark past he’s trying to move on from. He’s trying something different by joining a misfit crew of monsters, and pledging his fealty to keeping Nuke, a volatile dragon shifter, from burning the town to ashes...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  book  dragons  family  fiction  humor
  • What He Is Now by T.S. Joyce

    What He Is Now by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nash Hudson has done it.After years of being a bachelor werewolf, the Second of the Pack has finally used his one Turn to save the life of a quirky beauty he spent a fun night with, and now reality is setting in. She survived it. She really survived it, and now he and Summer have to figure out where they belong in each other’s lives...
  • Wild Irish Moon by Tricia O'Malley

    Wild Irish Moon by Tricia O'Malley

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Famous psychic, Iris Moon, seeks refuge in Grace’s Cove after her boyfriend betrays her and sells a fake story to the tabloids. With her business and reputation unfairly shattered, Iris hopes to find space to heal and figure out how to move forward.Little does she expect to find love.Kane Wallace, known to the world as bestselling author, K.L...
  • Red Havoc Rebel by T.S. Joyce

    Red Havoc Rebel by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kaylee Cummings is back in Covington to change her destiny. She used to be known as the town rich girl, misunderstood by everyone but one boy, Anson Carter. They’d loved hard, and then destroyed each other in their youth, so when she crashes into him again, the residual anger from what he’d done comes back ten-fold...
  • Echoed Defiance by K.N. Banet

    Echoed Defiance by K.N. Banet

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jacky Leon’s duty to her family is to help maintain order and to uphold the Law for her werecat father, Hasan, a member of the Tribunal.But Jacky has a defiant streak.To do what’s right, she’s willing to break the Law and turn her back on everything she’s been told is right. Even those around her know she’s willing to risk everything for what she believes in...
  • Make Her New by T.S. Joyce

    Make Her New by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Everyone has Hunter Kaid all wrong. Even his own brother writes him off as unintelligent, but not all smarts are the same. He just needs one person to understand him and listen to what he’s really saying. All of his life, he’s been searching for that one person who really takes the time to see him, and just when he’s about given up, he stumbles upon Sadey...
  • United by K.M. Shea

    United by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A wolf is attacking the humans of Timber Ridge and changing them into werewolves—against their will.The change process is extremely dangerous and involves bloodshed. It isn’t something that happens by accident, which can only mean one thing.Someone is doing this on purpose...
  • Moment of Tooth by Lindsay Buroker

    Moment of Tooth by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Morgen Keller’s life has been chaotic since she inherited her grandmother’s old house—and her legacy as a witch.Werewolves regularly attack her, familiars spy on her, and enemies she didn’t ask for keep lighting her property on fire.Through everything, she’s been fortunate to have one steadfast ally: Amar...
  • Primal Basilisk by Terry Bolryder

    Primal Basilisk by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A single mom afraid to love, a dangerous legend and a monster who will do everything to protect the family he cares about.Diesel is notorious for being the biggest, strongest and most protective basilisk of the group. But he's also still figuring out the whole "mate" thing...
  • Dig Deeper by T.S. Joyce

    Dig Deeper by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Morgan Holland is a poacher’s daughter looking for a way out of the swamp. She’s been making secret moves to relocate, but it seems like every time she takes a step forward, she gets shoved two steps back. Her dad and friends are on the hunt for the Shifters, and they’re closing in fast. She doesn’t know Liam Lachlan, but he’s in danger, and she’ll take a huge risk to warn him...
  • Lumberman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Lumberman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Haydan Walker is perfectly content as the only remaining bachelor in the Ashe Crew. Sure, his crew seems happy, but his bear is different and has no urge to find a mate. So when one of the Gray Backs begs him to claim his sister, Haydan’s instinct is to run as far away as he can...
  • Librarian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Librarian Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sarah is looking for love under the covers...of a good book!As a small-town librarian, Sarah has her hands full with projects that range from running an in-library day care to planning her best friend's wedding. Romance is a complication she doesn't need...until he walks in...
  • Wolf's Pack by Auryn Hadley

    Wolf's Pack by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Corner a wolf and she will always fight back.I finally did it. I took that last step and it was everything I wanted. My relationship with my five mates has never been better. They've embraced not only me as a part of their lives, but also my daughter, and this feels like the family I always dreamed of.I don't mean just myself and my mates, but the entire pack. They call me "Alpha...
  • Third of the Winterset Coven by T.S. Joyce

    Third of the Winterset Coven by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evan Dawe's coven is falling apart. Between wars with competing shifter Crews, an injured King, and attacks from other supernaturals, the vampire numbers in Winterset are dwindling. And every vampire worth his weight in salt knows there is safety in numbers...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  alpha-mc  book  drama  fiction
  • Shades of Hate by K.N. Banet

    Shades of Hate by K.N. Banet

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    I live a happy life. I have a lover that I am quickly falling for. I have friends and family that rely on me to keep my territory safe and secure for them. My bar’s business is booming.But I’ve made enemies, some that I know and some that I don’t. Hate for me and the life I’m building is creeping in the darkness.Hate can be insidious...
  • Purrfect for Me by Terry Bolryder

    Purrfect for Me by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hunter Raines thinks it might just be time to pick up stakes and head out. With his friends happily mated, the cougar inside is getting restless. That is, until a mysterious woman wanders into the bar one night, with more secrets than answers and a body that makes his animal sit up and take notice.Kelly Anderson is tired of running...
  • The Dragon's Pregnant Mate by Zoe Chant

    The Dragon's Pregnant Mate by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s pregnant, in danger, and thinks she’s alone. He’s going to prove her wrong. Lawyer and lioness, Elizabeth is used to making her own way and solving her own problems. That’s what she did with her corrupt pack leader: he’s going to jail, and she made it happen, because she wanted a better world for her unborn child. But the repercussions could be deadly...
  • Zachary by Louisa Masters, Joel Leslie

    Zachary by Louisa Masters, Joel Leslie

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A dragon with endless secrets meets a demon with nothing to hide…I’m the easygoing one. The fun one. The rare member of my family who gets along with anyone. Except there’s a chance I may have got off on the wrong foot with our new dragon liaison, Ronan. In my defense, he rubs everyone the wrong way...
  • Dawson Bride by T.S. Joyce

    Dawson Bride by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Werewolves meet the Wild West in this thrilling final installment of the Wolf Brides trilogy. Lucianna Whitlock has her entire life planned out for her by men determined to use her as a pawn in high society marriage games. But when she balks against the cruel man who has won her hand, he rips her life apart...
  • For The Heart Of The Warmaker by T.S. Joyce

    For The Heart Of The Warmaker by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Karis Dunway’s instincts are screaming that there is a storm brewing around Two Claws Ranch. With the odds stacking against them, she and the Clan are in a race to save the ranch. A trail ride for a family of tourists could mean a turnaround for her people, but there is a new threat coming out of the woodwork, and they will have to work together to keep the ride on track...
  • 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...
  • Fastlander Fealty by T.S. Joyce

    Fastlander Fealty by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Owen Carson is a big, dominant boar shifter who is finally ready for a mate. Since he was young, he knew he wanted to escape the unfortunate legacy of his people and find something that has always felt just out of reach...
  • Any Witch Way by Lindsay Buroker

    Any Witch Way by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Thanks to her grandmother’s legacy, Morgen Keller has spent the summer learning about her witch heritage. She’s also spent the summer falling for the sexy werewolf next door.As an unemployed divorcée, she never expected to find love again, but the gruff Amar has been her protector since she arrived in Bellrock. He’s fierce, loyal, strong, and he hardly ever rolls his eyes at her vegetarian ways...
  • Purrfectly Kissed by C.D. Gorri

    Purrfectly Kissed by C.D. Gorri

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s a curvy Tigress searching for the purrfect kiss, he’s a Black Bear who doesn’t want a mate. Will Brayden change his mind once he gets a taste of Jessica? The Beta of the Maverick Pride has no desire to find a mate. He’s tried that once and all it got him was hurt and alone...
  • Inferno by Ophelia Sexton

    Inferno by Ophelia Sexton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Accidentally mated to her family's worst enemy… Bear shifter Kayla Swanson is trapped. While fighting a wildfire in New Mexico, she makes a grave mistake and the flames are getting close. Lucky for her a tall, ruggedly handsome shifter comes to her aid. The fire may have been extinguished but their passion sparks a heated encounter...
  • Evernight Unleashed by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Evernight Unleashed by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 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...
  • Knox by Elizabeth Dear

    Knox by Elizabeth Dear

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When I broke my year-long vow of celibacy for a one night stand with a beautiful, intriguing wolf girl I met in a Las Vegas bar, I thought I’d be chalking it up to just another notch on my bedpost—as much as I’d actually wished it could have been more...
  • An Omega for the Lycan Prince by Isa Rinner

    An Omega for the Lycan Prince by Isa Rinner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sweet and kind Annalise has just started her college life. As an Omega she-wolf, she doesn't have high expectations in life or love. Happy to spend her days with her friends and family, her life gets turned upside down when she meets her mate. Strong, powerful and of high rank, he is the exact opposite of her...
  • Jerrik by Janice M. Whiteaker

    Jerrik by Janice M. Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Spirit is fine.Living a life she didn't chose, keeping secrets she never wanted, on a mountain covered in darkness.But everything's fine.She can handle it all.Including the deputy making her life harder than it has to be.In more ways than one.****Jerrik used to be good at his job.That was before he had to fight something he couldn't see.Chase someone who was always two steps ahead of him...
  • The Sinner by Dannika Dark

    The Sinner by Dannika Dark

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “She had wrecked him, body and soul.” An addictive page-turner in the Black Arrowhead series. Cecilia is an introvert who rarely leaves the house, but she must overcome her fears in order to sell her late father’s extensive book collection. When she encounters a handsome wolf from her past, her world turns upside down. She can’t seem to escape him, and the secret they share could destroy her life...
  • Enthrall by Sandra R. Neeley

    Enthrall by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vampires are often irresistibly sexy, powerful and misunderstood. Enthrall is all of those, and more. Being the leader of Whispers — a community of paranormals hidden deep within the south Louisiana swamps — is a difficult and lonely existence. He’s waited centuries to find his love, his mate. Then finally, when he’s all but given up, she’s there...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  shapeshifters  adult  angels  book  demons  dragons
  • Dandelion Season by Zoe Chant

    Dandelion Season by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love in any seasonTawny Summers has her retirement all planned out: catch up on her books, work on her garden, and teach piano lessons to children in the sleepy town of Green Valley.Her plan doesn't include a gorgeous city billionaire with piercing silver eyes who is determined to upend her quiet life and frighten her cats...
  • Christmas Pegasus by Zoe Chant

    Christmas Pegasus by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It isn’t fate. But it is love. Owl shifter Olly has always trusted her inner animal. So when her owl makes it clear that handsome, rugged Jackson isn’t her mate, she knows that what she feels for him can’t be true love… right? Last Christmas, Jackson gave Olly his heart. And her owl chewed it up and spat it back at him. He’s tried to stay away from her…but a year apart hasn’t changed anything...
  • Sealed With a Kiss by Zoe Chant, C.E. Murphy

    Sealed With a Kiss by Zoe Chant, C.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can he get her seal of approval?Missy has 99 problems, and her funnel-cake booth at the Virtue town fair is 98 of them. Looks like this is another year she's going to spend with a spatula in hand, splattered in hot grease, watching other people have fun.Her 99th problem is that the hot guy manning the dunk tank across from her booth just turned into a seal...
  • Bear Lover by Candace Ayers

    Bear Lover by Candace Ayers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This series is a spin-off of the Bears of Burden series, although each book can be read as a standalone. Luna is a tiny, timid bunny shifter, so shy she’s practically a recluse. Pratt is a huge bear shifter in the Raging Bears outlaw biker gang. How is it that fate has paired such an unlikely match? It really doesn’t look like these two are destined to be mates…until friends step in...
  • Next-Door Bear Daddy by Brittany White

    Next-Door Bear Daddy by Brittany White

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I Left Snow Haven with a Broken Heart and PregnantI had been in love with the bear shifter next door practically since I was born. James always looked at me like I was a little sister. I was heartbroken when he joined the Army and left. However, when he returned, he looked at me with new eyes and saw me for the grown woman that I was...
  • The Midnight Dragon's Mate by Zoe Chant

    The Midnight Dragon's Mate by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    His worst nightmare could be a dream come true... Single dad Lachlan only looked away for a second. And now his six-year-old son is gone, lost in the wild woods. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare...but most parents aren’t dragons. Mad with fear for his son, Lachlan is fully prepared to rip the whole forest apart to find him..
  • The Golden Griffin's Baby by Zoe Chant

    The Golden Griffin's Baby by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A single mom in danger… …and a Marine veteran griffin who’ll stop at nothing to protect her.In the last year, Lila has lost everything. Her husband. Her home. Her community. All she has left is her children…and the kindness of the town of Oak Ridge, who took her in when her husband’s pack leader showed his true colors. Griffin shifter and Marine veteran Flynn is a naturally suspicious man...
  • The Griffin's Mate by Zoe Chant

    The Griffin's Mate by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A curvy businesswoman who’s new in town + a lonely griffin shifter searching for someone to share his nest + a small town with a big secret = a hot and heartwarming story of love and family. Lainie Eaves never wanted to return to Hideaway Cove, the small town where her own family rejected her years ago...
  • Forever Mine by Julie Trettel

    Forever Mine by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What do you do when you're confronted with the ghost of the only girl you ever loved? Liam Westin has carried a secret crush on his twin sister's best friend for most of his life. When she goes missing and is presumed dead as a teen, it nearly destroys him...
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