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  • Wildfire Hellhound by Zoe Chant

    Wildfire Hellhound by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    He knows he's always been a wolf. He's wrong. His past is gone, dead and buried. It isn't. And nothing, nothing, is more important than pack. Until he meets her. This is Fenrir's story...
  • A Very Meowy Christmas by Zoe Chant

    A Very Meowy Christmas by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Being cool as a cat is harder than it looks when unexpected love strikes!Single dad and bobcat shifter Mason has moved to Virtue to raise his toddler in the safety of a shifter community. But minor catastrophe strikes when his daughter escapes to play in the woods, and the last thing Mason expects when she's found is to meet his mate...
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  • The Body in the Backyard by Lucy Score

    The Body in the Backyard by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 37 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Left Behind Her spray-tanned, self-absorbed news anchor ex-husband careening back into her life was not on this psychic detective's bingo card. But not only does Griffin Gentry show up unexpectedly at Riley Thorn's door―the real shock is that he's begging for her help...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  mystery  paranormal  contemporary  fantasy  humor  dual-pov
  • Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant

    Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He takes care of other people's kids ... but he craves a family of his own.Enter a single mom waitress with a broken heart and a whole lot of trouble behind her.Army vet Dan is still figuring out how to deal with being a three-legged bear, but it turns out kids don’t care how many limbs he has as long as he’s willing to be a climbing frame...
  • Good Moon Rising by Tricia O'Malley

    Good Moon Rising by Tricia O'Malley

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Even mermaids fall sometimes…The ladies of The Laughing Mermaid guesthouse are renowned for both their beauty and their enchanting ways. Jolie, one of the owners, has only dated casually for years, as she is searching for the one man who has been foretold to be her future. When he arrives, Jolie is shocked to find him impervious to her charms...
  • Too Good to Be True by Tricia O'Malley

    Too Good to Be True by Tricia O'Malley

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When the oracle predicted that Mirra would need to be rescued…Mirra is shocked to find the premonition unfold literally. When Silas Somerborne races to save the day, and rescues Mirra from certain death, she knows immediately that he’s the one she’s been waiting for. And yet, no matter how hard she tries, Silas pushes Mirra away...
  • Witching For Hope: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel by Deanna Chase

    Witching For Hope: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Hope Anderson loves her life. She has a great business that’s thriving, the best friends a girl could ever have, and a coven she can count on. Oh, and she’s been single for over fifteen years and likes it that way… until the love of her life, Lucas King, walks back into town and throws everything she thought she knew about herself into chaos...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  contemporary  paranormal  humor  witches  fantasy
  • Witching For Clarity: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel by Deanna Chase

    Witching For Clarity: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel by Deanna Chase

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Clarity “Gigi” Martin moved to Premonition Pointe for a fresh start. And that’s exactly what she got when she found a house that was connected to her ancestors and a group of witches who welcomed her into their fold. It’s not easy starting over at forty, but she’s determined to do it on her own terms with her past left firmly behind her… until Sebastian Knight walks back into her life...
  • Griffins and Apple Pies by Zoe Chant

    Griffins and Apple Pies by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Controlling his griffin just got a whole lot harder…Landscape gardener Kieran’s unruly shifter side is getting out of hand. Mowing lawns? Griffin time. Grocery shopping? Griffin in the cart. This is definitely not a good time to finally meet his fated mate… especially when she’s only in town for a mandatory vacation.Workaholic Natasha never intended to return to her small hometown...
  • Pinch of Sass by C.D. Gorri

    Pinch of Sass by C.D. Gorri

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can this stoic Dire Wolf admit the sassy feline is his fated mate and stake his claim?Ariella Golden needs to persuade sexy Dire Wolf Beta, and the amazingly talented chef at Serious Moonlight, Brock Laurent, to use her Pride’s corporation, Eat Well Live Proud, for all the roadhouse’s needs in order to win the coveted quarterly prize at her company...
  • Calluna: A Paranormal RomCom by Jewels Arthur

    Calluna: A Paranormal RomCom by Jewels Arthur

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Calluna is sassy, snarky, and doesn't give a crap about, well, anything. A complete cynic, Calluna doesn't believe in all this love garbage that she keeps seeing all over the town. Nope, she is just fine keeping to herself and her pet store, Beastie Besties. She has a mystery to solve anyway, someone is cursing all the animals in town with dark magic...
  • Luck of the Paw by Milly Taiden

    Luck of the Paw by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Shaara Patrick dreams of a quaint boutique inn, laughter of kids in the yard, and a loving husband. But her meager clerk’s wages keeps those dreams distant. Then, Gerri Wilder enters her life, bringing with her hope and romance. The shifter she’s set up with is handsome and sweet, so there’s obviously something wrong with him...
  • High Energy by Dara Joy

    High Energy by Dara Joy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the bestselling author of "Tonight or Never" comes the tale of a reporter and the physicist she's sent to interview--and it's turn into the sizzling story of true love and passion. Physics. Zanita Masterson knew nothing about the subject, and cared little to learn--until a reporting job led her to one Tyberius Augustus Evans...
  • Just Her Stripe by Milly Taiden

    Just Her Stripe by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was stunningly beautiful, but that wasn’t the attraction. It was her aura, her presence in the room. It was instant . Their energies entangled, wrapped around each other, like old friends greeting after a long absence. Every nerve ending in his body reacted to her. His skin prickled with electric sparks. She illuminated the room, sending shockwaves of power to his very core...
  • Roar Letter Word by Milly Taiden

    Roar Letter Word by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Addie Swanson, pop singer extraordinaire, is used to being at the top of every chart. But lately, belting her heart out in front of large crowds hasn’t been fulfilling. Then, the enigmatic Gerri Wilder claims to have the perfect solution to Addie’s blues. She just didn’t expect the solution to come wrapped around a big, growly and muscular body with arms straight out of her hottest dreams...
  • The Master Shark's Mate by Zoe Chant

    The Master Shark's Mate by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He's the most feared shifter in the sea. She's a middle-aged grandma from Arizona. He may have finally met his match... Hated and mistrusted. Feared and misunderstood. For decades, the Master Shark has protected the underwater city of Atlantis. Now, his Empress has set him his most difficult mission yet: A relaxing beach vacation...
  • High Intensity by Dara Joy

    High Intensity by Dara Joy

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    WHAT IS HIGH INTENSITY? Silken Caresses. Steak bomb sandwiches. A hot press of lips. A haunted chef. Seductive touches in the dark. Spirits who gobble the haute cuisine. A master strategist. A miscreant ghost. And a very, very fat cat...
  • Tropical Dragon Diver by Zoe Chant

    Tropical Dragon Diver by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Outcasts from two different worlds... Dragons are meant to be creatures of fire and fury, not salt water and mercy. But Bastian isn’t an ordinary dragon. Shunned by his warrior family, he guards golden beaches instead of a golden hoard. But when he rescues a beautiful, mysterious woman from stormy waves, he finally finds something worth fighting for...
  • Unexpected Shift by Sedona Ashe

    Unexpected Shift by Sedona Ashe

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    They took everything from her. Now, her true nature will take over. When the time comes, will she be able to handle it? Tia’s life has always been sheltered. However, one night is enough to destroy everything she once knew. Suddenly, she has to run for her life and fight for her survival...
  • Firefighter Phoenix by Zoe Chant

    Firefighter Phoenix by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From ashes, love will rise again... Swan shifter Rose knows she doesn’t have a true mate. She isn’t the one for Ash, the Phoenix Eternal. She knows he can never be more than a friend, no matter how his dark eyes and hard body make her burn. Everything Rose knows is wrong. Twenty years ago, Ash destroyed everything to save his true love. But he’s never been able to walk away from her...
  • Sweatpants and Spells by Keira Blackwood

    Sweatpants and Spells by Keira Blackwood

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I knew hot flashes were supposed to be hot, but I didn’t expect flames.One day I’m in anger management, normalizing the cordial hate between me and my husband. The next, we’re divorced and he has taken both our house and the business we built together. I’m forty years old and living above our empty restaurant, plotting my next move...
  • Wicked Memories by Nina Bangs

    Wicked Memories by Nina Bangs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Return to the Castle of Dark Dreams, where USA Today bestselling author Nina Bangs lures readers into a world of pleasure, adventure, and revenge… Thorn Mackenzie was a young Viking when he met Sparkle Stardust long ago. She used him and then abandoned him. Over a thousand years later, he has finally found a way to repay her...
  • Taking Nicole by Krystal Shannan

    Taking Nicole by Krystal Shannan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last thing Nicole Demakis remembers was getting in the car with Sarah's kidnapper and driving away. Now she faces the cold hard truth. The kidnapper, an agent of the Council, is her mate. But he refuses to claim her, and the Council may take everything away before she even has a chance to convince him to trust her...
  • Furry United Coalition Bundle by Eve Langlais

    Furry United Coalition Bundle by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    It started with an energetic bunny and a grumpy bear. It continued with a geeky swan and her playboy bear. And then we encountered an ornery croc who couldn't help falling for a foxy lady. The three F.U.C. stories you've come to love are now available in one handy bundle. Hours of romantic and humorous entertainment...
  • A Mate's Bite by Milly Taiden

    A Mate's Bite by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    After an explosive night of passion during a scenting ceremony, Karla Alves is sure she was just a one night stand for the man she'd been crushing on for years. She teased him and pleased him, and Nate hasn't been around since. Her fear of becoming clingy kept her from risking her heart and asking for more than a few hours of skin sin. Nathan Wolfe marked Karla. His mate...
  • Doe and the Wolf by Eve Langlais

    Doe and the Wolf by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What happens when a predator falls for his prey? Bounty hunting is the perfect job for a maverick wolf; flexible hours, decent pay, the thrill of the chase. But Everett never counted on a doe stopping him in his furry tracks. Dawn was a prisoner of Mastermind and ended up experimented on, against her wishes...
  • Bear Me Away by Lynn Red

    Bear Me Away by Lynn Red

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s hard to say that Elena St. Claire – an arctic fox-shifting, private investigator – is “down on her luck.” She’s got stable work, a couple of close friends... but when it comes to finding a mate? All she knows is that if she DOESN’T find one, and quick, she’s gonna go crazy from staring at every bear or wolf who tears through Jamesburg on a motorcycle...
  • Bones and Arrows by Carolyn Haines, Kate Forbes

    Bones and Arrows by Carolyn Haines, Kate Forbes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Love hurts… In Zinnia a criminal Cupid turns into a case for Delaney Detective Agency. Gods, goddesses, slaves, centurions—all are gathered at Tinkie Richmond’s elegant home to celebrate the holiday for love. The costume Valentine’s party is the hot ticket in the Mississippi Delta. But Tinkie’s title of Queen Bee of Delta Society becomes jeopardized when her Valentine’s guests are all robbed...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  mystery  paranormal  humor  contemporary  fantasy
  • Monster Roommate by Amanda Aggie

    Monster Roommate by Amanda Aggie

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A witty heroine and a sexy, alpha-hole hero.I'm Nora and in my entire afterlife, I never expected to be roommates with a possessive, cocky, sexy-as-sin vampire. Since I've been dead, no one has been able to see me, but that changed the second he stepped through the front door of my internal prison--aka my old house from before I flew the coop...
  • The Billionaire Shifter's Secret Baby by Diana Seere

    The Billionaire Shifter's Secret Baby by Diana Seere

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A masquerade ball in Malibu led to a single night of passion under the stars… and set the wheels of fate in motion. Three years ago, waitress Kara Jablonski gave in to her wilder side with a fellow weretiger, the rock star billionaire Lars Jensen, a sun-kissed blond drummer with a viking's build. Six weeks later, the pregnancy test came back positive...
  • Bear With Me by Lynn Red

    Bear With Me by Lynn Red

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA TODAY and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Lynn Red comes a steamy, seductive, sensuously heart-felt alpha werebear romance! Curvy, scrappy, and slightly self-conscious, Lilah Jorgenson is a raccoon-shifting painter with a white streak in her hair and a longing to find the family she never really had. As a kit scraping by in back alleys, Lilah had to steal to survive...
  • Bearly Breathing by Lynn Red

    Bearly Breathing by Lynn Red

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bear-shifting, rogue biker Orion Samuelsson is on the run and nursing more than a little bottled up rage. For years, he’s been haunted by the cruel, brutal leader of his old club, the Dirty Devils. Love? Happiness? All distant fantasies. That is, until he lays eyes on a gold and black lynx-shifter dashing through a river. Clea Kellen is the owner of Jamesburg's most popular daycare...
  • The Flamingo's Fated Mate by Elva Birch

    The Flamingo's Fated Mate by Elva Birch

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    To win his mate, he'll have to put his foot down.Anita is tickled pink when billionaire Frank Wilson picks her little bakery to provide desserts for The Wet and Wild Charity Gala. But what was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime turns into the storm of a century...
  • You're Lion by Celia Kyle

    You're Lion by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Newly turned lioness Maya Josephs is so not good at being the prima of the Ridgeville pride. She doesn’t give a damn about protocol or hierarchy, and the last thing she wants to do is play nice with the pretentious tigress shifter leader who’s come to pay her respects. Especially since the little bitch seems entirely too grabby with her mate, Alex, for Maya’s taste...
  • Fantasy Island: Cyn's Dragon by Zena Wynn, Shirley Burnett

    Fantasy Island: Cyn's Dragon by Zena Wynn, Shirley Burnett

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Cyn reads erotic romances to escape from reality. A reality involving a no good ex-husband, too many bills, and too many demands on her time. Her favorites are paranormal stories featuring dragon shifters. When she finds a winning lottery ticket, Cyn uncharacteristically decides to do something for herself and damn the bills...
  • Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind by Karen Kelley

    Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind by Karen Kelley

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beam Me Up, Hottie. . . Sex with the perfect man is overrated, especially if your Mr. Perfect is a robot, and you know there's something better out there. Can Mala help it if "out there" is way out there? Her grandmother, an intergalactic traveler, left a diary behind describing the exceptional lovemaking talents of Earth men...
  • Charmed by Koko Brown

    Charmed by Koko Brown

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charmed Koko Brown What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? Unfortunately this isn't the case for recently married Chloe. She believes she's just left behind the biggest mistake she's ever made in her life in Sin City-her sexy as sin husband Tristan, who although a walking Adonis, is nuttier than her Grandma Violet's fruitcake...
  • Scent of a Mate by Milly Taiden

    Scent of a Mate by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Mission: Scent a Mate Jordan Alvarez knew that a promise to her best friend involved staking out the local wolf pack's scenting ceremony and recording the graphic details, but she was the writer and the only one with the balls to finish the task. No one would know that four human women had sneaked proof of their rituals, or at least, that was the plan until Aric Wolfe showed up...
  • Taming Her Wolf by Eve Langlais

    Taming Her Wolf by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dumped by his girlfriend, Gareth doesn’t think things can get any worse until he’s captured by some vampires. But he’s not about to become an all-you-can-eat-buffet without a fight. With great age comes boredom, which suits Helen just fine until she goes looking for a blood servant and finds herself intrigued...
  • Catch of a Lifetime by Judi Fennell

    Catch of a Lifetime by Judi Fennell

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mermaid Angel Tritone escapes a shark by jumping into single dad Logan Hardington's fishing boat...
  • Bearly Hanging On by Marina Maddix

    Bearly Hanging On by Marina Maddix

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Nothing can stand in the way of a werebear and his woman…not even crazed valley girls! Take a trip in the wayback machine to 1986, when the hair was big and the shoulder pads were even bigger. Yuppie bear shifter Chet Pearce is used to living the high life in L.A. His days (and nights) are filled with hot fashion, hot parties and hot chicks — and not necessarily in that order...
  • The Werewolf Tycoon's Baby by Celia Kyle

    The Werewolf Tycoon's Baby by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    She thinks he's after her child, but what he really wants is… her.
 For Melissa Hill, a relaxing vacation to Greece involved not only sand, but billionaire Galen Liakos as well. Their passion burned hot and bright, but when their love was threatened and their differences became painfully clear, Melissa disappeared with a hastily scribbled note...
  • Animal Magnetism (Don't Read in the Closet Events) by Willow Scarlett, Andrea Speed

    Animal Magnetism (Don't Read in the Closet Events) by Willow Scarlett, Andrea Speed

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dear Author,Do you laugh when you read a blurb about another book with an obscure animal shifter? Do you ever want to write a shifter story of your own but tire of those wolves and big cats and dragons? Well, here is your chance to write a character that changes into an animal your readers will be rushing to Google!This man changes into one of these amazing creatures (your choice)...
  • He Ain't Lion by Celia Kyle

    He Ain't Lion by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 37 ratings
    Life sucks... And then you get turned into a werelion... Curvaceous, blonde bombshell Maya Josephs is looking for a little action to take her mind off of her recent break-up. Crazy werecats or not, an evening at Genesis is exactly what she needs. And when she meets the hotter than hot, super-sexy owner, Alex O'Connell, the alpha lion shifter is just the man to fit the bill for a one-night stand...
  • Howling for My Baby by Beverly Rae

    Howling for My Baby by Beverly Rae

    Rated: 3.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Romeo and Juliet never had to worry about being skinned alive. Sydney Skeller’s father is spitting bullets over her reluctance to join the family business as a shifter hunter. The last thing Daddy needs to know is why—she yearns for a lover who’s man enough for a relationship but animal enough to give her the wild ride of her dreams...
  • Bearing It All by Lynn Red

    Bearing It All by Lynn Red

    Rated: 3.26 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From USA TODAY best-selling author Anya Karin writing as Lynn Red comes a steamy, seductive, hilarious and delicious alpha werebear romance. Curvy, witty, carrot-topped Violet Larue is a fox shifter with a goal – she NEEDS to find herself a mate before she goes absolutely nuts...
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