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  • Good Moon Rising by Tricia O'Malley

    Good Moon Rising by Tricia O'Malley

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 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...
  • 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...
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  • Witching For Hope by Deanna Chase

    Witching For Hope 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...
  • Bennett by Milly Taiden

    Bennett by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tiger shifter Dakota Alcott's entire life is one series of adventures. She calls them adventures to feel better about all of her failures. The truth is, she is looking for her place. Her people. Herself. When she interviews for Nick Milan's protection company, she has hope that this might be it.Awkward genius Bennett Huxx has more degrees and Ph...
  • 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 by Jewels Arthur

    Calluna 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...
  • Snowed in with the Bear by Isadora Montrose

    Snowed in with the Bear by Isadora Montrose

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Snowed in with the Bear: A BBW/Billionaire Bearshifter Romance Snarling alpha male bear shifter tempts curvy she-grizzly. Can protective, possessive Calvin prove he’s more than a rich playboy? Fabulously wealthy oil boss Calvin is used to sophisticated city women. This playboy shifter doesn’t understand why his inner black bear has the hots for earthy she-bear Amanda...
  • 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...
  • Cade & Anna by V.A. Dold

    Cade & Anna by V.A. Dold

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When Dr. Marjorie schedules an ultrasound for Anna, Cade begins to go into paranoid meltdown. Something must be wrong! He's sure of it. Seeing his daughter on the computer screen larger than life sets Cade onto a path of foolish, well-meaning choices. In a state of panic, he instigates a series of disastrous projects with the help of Simon, Stefan, and Thomas...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Big Furry Deal by Celia Kyle

    Big Furry Deal by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Panther shifter Millie Walker is finally free, finally knows her real name, and finally… has a mate? Well, crap. For Millie, having a mate is a horrible, no good, he’ll end up very dead, bad idea. She’s got what some refer to as a “control problem.” In other words: she has no control and that’s her problem. So, she stays away from others, keeps to herself, and generally tries not to kill people...
  • 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...
  • Don't Flirt With Demons by Grace McGinty

    Don't Flirt With Demons by Grace McGinty

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    We've all been through that one shitty break-up. The one that breaks your heart, turning you into a sobbing, soggy mess. Where you drink so much you accidentally summon a demon. No? Just Elsie?When Elsie decides to get over a bad break-up with a small fire pit and a large bottle of vodka, the last thing she expects is to summon the sexy as hell demon, Ukobach. He of the Impressive D...
  • 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...
  • Even Villains Fall In Love by Liana Brooks

    Even Villains Fall In Love by Liana Brooks

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A super villain at the top of his game must choose between the world he wants and the woman he loves. If you believe the rumors you know that Doctor Charm, the wickedly sexy super villain, retired in shame seven years ago after his last fight with the super hero Zephyr Girl...
  • Bear With Me by Lucy Eden

    Bear With Me by Lucy Eden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Hi, I’m Celestine Woods, most people call me Chellie. If you are one of my 850K followers, you might know me as the super successful Instagram influencer, but more than likely you probably know me as the woman who got dumped by her former rockstar boyfriend, who then publicly professed his love for his new girlfriend in a song on Spotify before getting engaged a week later...
  • Keeping Her by Kelly Lucille

    Keeping Her by Kelly Lucille

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 42 ratings
    A Contemporary Erotic Romance with a shape shifting Alpha Male trained as a Navy SEAL and the short curvaceous artist who drives him crazy. At 28, Clytie Persephone Jones has reinvented herself into exactly what she wants to be. She changed her name, put herself through school, and is taking chances on a risky art career...
  • High Energy by Dara Joy

    High Energy by Dara Joy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 22 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...
  • 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...
  • What a Bear Wants by Nikki Winter

    What a Bear Wants by Nikki Winter

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a man with the ability to shift into fifteen hundred pounds of honey-loving, occasionally cranky grizzly, Ransom McKenna was used to people moving when he said move—or when he chuffed because the chuffing usually did the trick—at least until he comes across one of the most fierce, adorably ornery canines that he’s ever met, Fallon Wilder...
  • Bear With Me by Moxie North

    Bear With Me by Moxie North

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pacific Northwest Werebears Book 3 - Bear With Me Conner Rochon thought living in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and running a logging company with his brothers was tough work. Add to that, he wasn’t too keen on sharing his body with a grizzly bear. Shifters normally had no problem with their animal side. Conner was not one of them...
  • Ava and the Bear by Elizabeth Kelly

    Ava and the Bear by Elizabeth Kelly

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Grizzly shifter, Bishop King, has two loves – sex and food. So when he meets Ava Lewis, a curvy redhead with the intoxicating scent of sex and chocolate, he knows he’s in trouble. Ava’s looking for love, not a one night stand, and grizzly shifters don’t do relationships...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Flight by V.M. Black

    Flight by V.M. Black

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Curvy Harper Bailey’s ordinary life was turned upside down by a chance encounter with the handsome werewolf Levi Harris. On the run from the vampire mafia, he pulls her into his high-stakes world—and straight into the crosshairs. Now she’s got no car, no job, and not even any dry clothes. To make matters worse, Harper’s falling for Levi hard at the most inconvenient time...
  • 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...
  • Pursuit by V.M. Black

    Pursuit by V.M. Black

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Episode 2 of the New BBW Shifter Series The werewolf is just the start of Harper Bailey’s bad day…. Curvy Harper Bailey loves bad boys, but Levi Harris might be one step too far. Within a short time of meeting him, her car was stolen, a grenade blew through their hideout, and several men with ugly guns tried to shoot them...
  • Legal Wolf's Mate by Eve Langlais

    Legal Wolf's Mate by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In Eve Langlais's Legal Wolf’s Mate—previously published in the anthology Growl— taking on a pro bono murder case isn't a problem for a lawyer who enjoys a challenge. Discovering his new client is his mate? A tad more complicated. Gavin has no intention of settling down, especially not with a woman accused of murder...
  • Winning The Alpha by Carina Wilder

    Winning The Alpha by Carina Wilder

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "For twenty-six years I lived, content, without you. I know that I'll go on living even if I don't have you. But I'm not sure that I could ever want to." A reality show with a howling twist...
  • Beloved by Antoinette Stockenberg

    Beloved by Antoinette Stockenberg

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fans of Nora Roberts, LaVyrle Spencer and Kristin Hannah will enjoy this story -- humorous, heartwarming and suspenseful -- by RITA-award winning author Antoinette Stockenberg. A COTTAGE BY THE SEA: it's a dream come true for Jane Drew. Too bad it comes with a ghost -- and a soulfully seductive neighbor who would just as soon boot Jane off the island...
  • Cyn's Dragon by Zena Wynn

    Cyn's Dragon by Zena Wynn

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Heat of Rejection by Vivian Hawthorne

    Heat of Rejection by Vivian Hawthorne

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rejected. Humiliated.Shy and bookish, Gracie Reynolds has been an omega her whole life. So when she hears the call of fate after crossing paths with a certain somebody, she knows she must answer. She just never imagined that fate had a mate intended for her, and he’s none other than the son of the pack alpha.Too bad Daniel Vankamp doesn’t believe in fated mates...
  • Running From the Pack by Mina Carter

    Running From the Pack by Mina Carter

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    It's never easy staying ahead of the pack, but for Penny, it might just save her life… Since ditching her pack after an offer she “couldn't” refuse from her tyrannical pack alpha, Penny’s been on the run. Always on the move, she never stays in one place for long, avoiding other werewolves like the plague...
  • Crazy for You by Kate Angell

    Crazy for You by Kate Angell

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
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  • The Seductive Charm of a Sexy Shifter by J. Kenner, Julie Kenner

    The Seductive Charm of a Sexy Shifter by J. Kenner, Julie Kenner

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Seductive Charm of a Sexy Shifter Maggie is one-hundred percent, head-over-heels in love with Nick, a determined lawyer with his feet firmly on the ground. But Nick is also kind and smart and sexy, and Maggie is certain he’s the man for her.  There’s just one teensy little problem: Maggie is Nick’s pet cat...
  • Playing For Keeps by Kat Baxter

    Playing For Keeps by Kat Baxter

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    PeggyMy life is cozy and predictable. My cats all love me a lot. I really want that to be enough for me. I need that to be enough, because if life has taught me anything, it’s that women who are curvy and shy can’t really expect more than that.Then I met John while gaming on-line. Gaming is the one place I’m not shy. The place I let my sassy-nerd flag fly...
  • Time After Time by Antoinette Stockenberg

    Time After Time by Antoinette Stockenberg

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Time After Time is the story of a Newport working girl who falls in love with one of the richest men in town--and the ghost of his ancestor. The heroine, a divorcee who's built a nice business for herself as a children's party planner, has hopes of breaking into the glitzier and more lucrative events of Newport society...
  • Star Quality by Lori Foster, Lucy Monroe

    Star Quality by Lori Foster, Lucy Monroe

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Meet three people with a little something special whose love lives are about to turn wild, crazy, sensual, and oh-so-hot. Blame it on the moon? Sure. But who's complaining, anyway... Star Quality New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster Once in a Blue MoonIt's all because of that stupid blue moon...
  • In Stockings by Hannah Haze

    In Stockings by Hannah Haze

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    I’ve often dreamed of bumping into the three hot alphas I spent my school days crushing over.In those dreams, I’m sexy and sophisticated. The kind of omega who knocks them off their feet.Unfortunately, the day that dream becomes a reality – the day I’m reunited with Pack Hart – I’m dressed as a Christmas elf.Yep an elf – complete with pointy ears, stripy stockings and bells on my shoes...
  • 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...
  • Dating Cupid by Eve Langlais

    Dating Cupid by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Roxanne knows where she’d like to shove Cupid’s arrow. Tired of cheating men and false promises of love, Roxanne launches a campaign against Cupid’s Dating Service. But it’s hard to smear a company when you’ve got the hots for the owner. Maverick Eros is more than the CEO of CDS, he’s Cupid himself...
  • 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...
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