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Boarlander Cursed Bear by T.S. Joyce
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:
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![Wildfire Hellhound by Zoe Chant]()
Wildfire Hellhound by Zoe Chant
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... -
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![Stranded with a Ravenous Shifter by Olivia T. Turner]()
Stranded with a Ravenous Shifter by Olivia T. Turner
I have to get out of this wedding asap. My mom arranged it, but I am so not on board. The groom is a total bore and there is zero attraction between us. Like, seriously. Zero. But I’m a chicken, so I wait until the last possible moment before I hike up my wedding dress and flee the scene. I want more than just a wedding of convenience. I want a passionate love affair...Categorized as:
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![A Good Chance by Tricia O'Malley]()
A Good Chance by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWill she be swept away? If someone had told Avery that she’d be flying to a tiny island in the Caribbean to film a reality show masquerading as her identical twin sister, she would have thought they were crazy. And yet, she finds herself in a tin can of an airplane, about to land on Siren Island where a film crew waits to document her every move for a new reality love show – Swept Away... -
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![The Wolf Witch by Chandelle LaVaun]()
The Wolf Witch by Chandelle LaVaun
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSometimes magic throws a curveball… I thought I had everything figured out. I’d gone to the academy for witches and mastered my magic. I’d opened my own witchy occult store, just as I always wanted. And my family was as close as ever. Everything was going according to plan. Until the wolves showed up and dragged me back to their land. It was all a misunderstanding... -
![Return To The Bear by T.S. Joyce]()
Return To The Bear by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn the thrilling third book in the Bear Valley Shifters saga, Joanna is trying to survive in a clan of battle-hardened bear shifters, where the alpha wants her for his own. When Brody Bannister, Benson Riker's most trusted councilman, accuses her clan of holding Hannah Michaels hostage in their camp, Joanna must decide where her loyalty lies... -
![A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day]()
A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsElijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality. Vashti is the second most powerful vampire in the world, a lethal beauty with a path of devastation in her wake. They are enemies consumed with a fierce desire... -
![Tropical Leopard's Longing by Zoe Chant]()
Tropical Leopard's Longing by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHer marriage of convenience isn’t as convenient as she hoped... Snow leopard shifter and heiress Darla Grant thought that marrying her best friend would be the solution to all of her problems: it would shelter her from a persistent and unwelcome suitor, unlock her inheritance to save the bankrupt shifter retirement home where she volunteers, and free her from her controlling society mother... -
![And Shatter by Reese Rivers]()
And Shatter by Reese Rivers
A love so great and tragic that even erased completely, it causes echoes in Time that can't be denied.Eden Kelly made the ultimate sacrifice to Shatter the mirror and save her men from the pain and suffering that their love caused by erasing it all...Categorized as:
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![Alpha's Sun by Renee Rose, Lee Savino]()
Alpha's Sun by Renee Rose, Lee Savino
HOW TO DATE A HUMAN: 1. Just say no. Sunny Hines is the most infuriating female I’ve ever met. Long hair, big sunny smile, cute little freckles, yoga-tight body. Delicious scent. 2. Resist the urge to claim. Walk away. My wolf wants to mark her, but there’s no way in hell I’m falling for a human. This pretty little hippie human is driving me crazy...Categorized as:
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![Lionheart by Bianca D'Arc]()
Lionheart by Bianca D'Arc
An ex-military lion shifter meets the girl next door amid danger, deception and a battle pitting the forces of good against evil. All the while, attraction sparks between them that just might lead to a love to last for all time...Meg lives alone in a neighborhood with a very special secret...Categorized as:
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![Kane: The Unchained Omegaverse: M/F Alpha Omega Romance by Callie Rhodes]()
Kane: The Unchained Omegaverse: M/F Alpha Omega Romance by Callie Rhodes
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSomething strange is happening in the woods…If there’s one thing Tabitha Dunn’s followers love, it’s a mystery. For years, she’s built a loyal fan base chasing down answers others have been too afraid to search for. But this time, as she enters the wilderness surrounding alpha territory, the only thing she discovers is trouble... -
![Her Dragon by Fiona Davenport]()
Her Dragon by Fiona Davenport
Artemis Drake had good reason to be grumpy. The dragon shifter was older than all of his pack mates, but he still hadn’t found his fated mate. Not until he hunted down the little thief who stole a precious rock from his cave and discovered she was destined to be his. Marielle Beck thought she’d made a discovery that would impress her geology professor...Categorized as:
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![Lian / Roch by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright]()
Lian / Roch by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLIAN The Hunter: Lian isn’t a happy puma. He’s a lethal Hunter who should be out fighting the enemy, not babysitting a human scholar. Still, he’ll do whatever necessary to rid the world of the evil goddess, Shakpi. And there’s the bonus of spending a few hours away from his family of Nurturers who have been smothering him with love... -
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![Hook's Pan by Marie Hall]()
Hook's Pan by Marie Hall
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsTrishelle Page has known pain in her life, but instead of it making her weak, she's stronger. Confident. That is until the day a fairy kidnaps her during her staring role in Peter Pan's play and tells her not only do fairy tales exist, but that she's the soulmate of the pirate they call Hook, making her question everything she ever thought she knew...Categorized as:
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![Bo & Reika by R.E. Butler]()
Bo & Reika by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsShe's on the run for her life ... As a child, she-wolf healer Reika Snow was promised as a mate to three were-lynxes to prevent a war between her pack and the lynx clan. Her freedom is coming to an end as her twenty-third birthday arrives. With her bleak future as the subjugated bride of the three males looms near, she does the only thing she can think of ... she runs... -
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Darkness Bound by J.T. Geissinger
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTough, smart, and seriously ambitious, reporter Jacqueline “Jack” Dolan despises the secretive clan of shape-shifters known as the Ikati—and has become determined to destroy them. After she writes an editorial arguing for their extermination and turns public opinion against them, the Ikati vow to fight back... -
![The Boss by Abigail Owen]()
The Boss by Abigail Owen
Finn Conleth leads his team of enforcer dragon shifters with an iron fist and a cold heart. Every dragon seeks his destined mate, but the process to turn the woman he once thought was his killed her and devastated him. He will never risk his heart again. His team is his family now. When his body eventually gives out, he’ll leave, living his last days alone...Categorized as:
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![Choices by Bryce Evans]()
Choices by Bryce Evans
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the Alpha of his Jaguar clan, Judd Walsh is supposed to be open minded and objective in all decisions. However, he draws the line when it comes to vampires. A vampire stole the life of someone important to him, and he would rather be protecting anyone else. Until a pretty vampire sparks his jaguar like no one else ever has... -
![Bad Blood Panther by Anastasia Wilde]()
Bad Blood Panther by Anastasia Wilde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’ll always find you, Jenny. Jenny Castile can’t forget the chilling words of Alton Raines, alpha of the Broken Hill panther clan—the man who wants to take her baby son from her and raise him to be a killer. Her last hope is to track down her old friend Alex Fierro, now Xander of the infamous Bad Blood Crew. They’re the only monsters badass enough—and crazy enough—to protect her and Brandon... -
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Mine by J.R. Ward
The hotly anticipated thrilling conclusion of the Lair of the Wolven series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward.In this finale, Lydia and Daniel are bracing themselves for his inevitable decline but first, they must go on a rescue mission that will put both their lives in danger... -
![Lindy & The Wulfen by R.E. Butler]()
Lindy & The Wulfen by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter a devastating blow to her already fragile self esteem, werewolf Lindy Vincent has decided to stop being the pack whore and change her life for the better. With the help of her two best friends, her alpha female, and a feisty she-wolf named Eula, Lindy starts down the road of self-improvement, happy for the first time in years...Categorized as:
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![Edge of Darkness by J.T. Geissinger]()
Edge of Darkness by J.T. Geissinger
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSix years after a shocking tragedy left her emotionally and physically scarred, Ember Jones lives a life of quiet isolation in Barcelona. Determined to keep her troubled past a secret, she keeps her head down and her heart locked up tight. Until the day a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into her life, and her carefully controlled world is shattered forever... -
![Fighter by Micalea Smeltzer]()
Fighter by Micalea Smeltzer
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFirst she was an Outsider. Then she became an Insider. And now… she’s going to have to be a Fighter. Nothing goes as planned for Sophie Beaumont. She thought that Travis had been defeated. She believed that they would all finally be safe. But Travis never left. He has a plan and it's one that no one could have ever guessed... -
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![The Protector's Heart by R.E. Butler]()
The Protector's Heart by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsNila Caruthers doesn’t want anything to do with wolves. Her werewolf ex-husband continues to stalk her and their son, terrifying her to no end. The last thing she wants to do is acknowledge her attraction to the very sexy Malachi Slattery, who has been watching her for weeks. She’s not about to forget that Malachi is a wolf, and she’s learned the hard way that wolves are not to be trusted... -
![Burn by Penelope Fletcher]()
Burn by Penelope Fletcher
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSomething deadly lurks beneath the surface of Marina's skin, a wildness, a magickal creature born from fire and ice. After crossing dimensions to the fiery land of dragons, where not only is she a princess, but descendant from one of the most powerful dragons in existence, Marina has chosen to enter the tournamnet Aver to win the Frost Wreath... -
![Holly's Unjolly Christmas by Lark Green]()
Holly's Unjolly Christmas by Lark Green
Just because she’s snowed in with a monster doesn’t mean she can’t enjoy herself a little…or a lot… Holly loves people. But that doesn’t mean she wants to be around any over the holidays. So, booking an isolated cabin on top of idyllic Mount Winter Bliss is exactly the escape from reality she needs...Categorized as:
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![Seduction's Shift by A.C. Arthur]()
Seduction's Shift by A.C. Arthur
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey hide their true nature from the world—part man and part animal—sworn to defend the human race against the untamed beasts among them… She was his first love, his only love. But trying to rescue his beautiful Ary from captivity is one wild risk no man should take. Luckily, Nick Delgado is no ordinary man... -
![Ink Ever After by Carrie Ann Ryan]()
Ink Ever After by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Montgomery Ink and Talon Pack series comes an anthology filled with eleven bonus After-the-HEA novellas and short stories in most of her series.Their Wicked Future (A Redwood Pack and Talon Pack Novella) Quinn and Gina almost sacrificed everything to save their Pack and their mating... -
![Rough Rider by Jayda Marx]()
Rough Rider by Jayda Marx
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRider’s packmates have found happiness with their fated ones, and while the Alpha is thrilled for them, he is also lonely and withdrawn. When his friends force him out of isolation, Rider comes face-to-face with his mate Trey, but things don’t go as planned, as Trey wants nothing to do with the big man... -
![Embracing the Wolf by Catherine Bybee]()
Embracing the Wolf by Catherine Bybee
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWerewolves come in two different categories, good and evil. Although Richard Ritter's family has encouraged him to make the change for years, he never considered embracing his wolf until he meets Kate Davis. One night with her however, and his life changes forever. After a horrifying evening of violence, Kate Davis's life is turned upside down...Categorized as:
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![Freakn' Out by Eve Langlais]()
Freakn' Out by Eve Langlais
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe's broken in body and spirit, but she's not giving up. Leave me the hell alone. Is that so freakn' hard to grasp? Yeah, Derrick is angry, and bitter, but with good reason. His army buddies should have left him to die instead of dragging him out of the rebel camp--and he meant drag. Shrapnel to his back ensured his legs are useless hunks of meat... -
![Bidding on Her Orc Boss by Evangeline Priest]()
Bidding on Her Orc Boss by Evangeline Priest
Zana Estrada has been living her best introverted life. As a number cruncher for one of the elite orc families in Obsidian City, she works remotely from her cushy apartment two hours away and gets compensated well for it. So long as she continues to provide the data analysis to keep Clan Urkroz profitable, her manager keeps her as far away from social interactions as possible... -
![Shielding Her by Kelly Lucille]()
Shielding Her by Kelly Lucille
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsEli Ramsay is the last unmated adult male of the Lionsgate pack, but that doesn't mean he's looking for anything more complicated than some after hours fun in the sun when Lionsgate is called back to “A Bene Placito” on a job... -
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![The Scarred Heart by R.E. Butler]()
The Scarred Heart by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsKammie Townsend has always kept to herself. She doesn’t want anyone to see the scars of her childhood, left behind by her abusive uncle. Everything changes for her on the night of the full moon, when she follows a reindeer and gets tackled by a bear shifter... -
![The Alpha's Second Chance by Melody Tyden]()
The Alpha's Second Chance by Melody Tyden
Serena Baker is just an ordinary woman living an ordinary life. She works as a medical resident, has a little house of her own and a close group of friends. The closest thing she has to a man in her life is the portrait that hangs on her bedroom wall that she talks to when she's on her own...Categorized as:
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![A Siberian Werewolf in London by Caryn Moya Block]()
A Siberian Werewolf in London by Caryn Moya Block
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsGrigori Solovyov goes to London to track down a Russian mobster who is stealing from the pack. Then Melisande Reule walks into his hotel, bringing his wolf howling to the surface. He knows he has found his mate. But when she is targeted by a Russian assassin, Grigori must fight to keep her safe and at his side...Categorized as:
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![Furry United Coalition Bundle by Eve Langlais]()
Furry United Coalition Bundle by Eve Langlais
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIt 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... -
![Predator's Serenade by Rosanna Leo]()
Predator's Serenade by Rosanna Leo
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere are three things that make bear shifter Soren Snow’s skin crawl: mothers, their children, and the great outdoors. Soren is a famed musician and playboy, and he would rather spend his days pressing the flesh with the women in his fan club than developing meaningful relationships... -
![Chasing His Mate by M.L. Briers]()
Chasing His Mate by M.L. Briers
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCassidy knew that she should have said no when the Alpha came knocking at her door. She knew that you just didn’t go around messing with fate. One little spell… Ha! Now she was stuck up a mountain, on pack land, with a wolf after her Fae blood. But this wasn’t just any wolf. It was an Alpha and a rogue. Chase had just one rule. You didn’t mess with a witch. But fate had other ideas...Categorized as:
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![Pixie The Lion Tamer by Georgette St. Clair]()
Pixie The Lion Tamer by Georgette St. Clair
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsPixie Montana is a reformed (mostly) thief and a hustler. Dominick is the sexy lion shifter who’s been voted “most likely to bite Pixie’s head off – literally”. And the two of them are Shifters, Inc.’s, only hope. A mysterious intruder has infected the staff of Shifters, Inc...Categorized as:
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![Bear Seeking Bride: Trent by Ruby Shae]()
Bear Seeking Bride: Trent by Ruby Shae
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDown on her luck, curvy chef Olive Campbell has reached the bottom of the barrel. She has no job, no money, no boyfriend and no prospects. The way things are going, she'll never get the chance to work with food again. When she sees an ad asking for a mail order bride who can cook, it seems like her luck is beginning to change...Categorized as:
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![Bruin: An Alpha Bear Shifter MC Romance by Hope Ford]()
Bruin: An Alpha Bear Shifter MC Romance by Hope Ford
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Alpha Bear Shifter MC RomanceMy only plans were to escape…until I fell in love.PennyI escaped the Eater’s MC. My father died and I have nothing left except my stepbrother who is out to get me.I have to pass through the New Law’s territory and I think I have it made… until I don’t.When I’m discovered, I’m put under the supervision of Bruin, the Sgt. Of Arms of the New Law MC...Categorized as:
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![Hemlock Academy : The Complete Series by Kelsey Soliz]()
Hemlock Academy : The Complete Series by Kelsey Soliz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI was so close to getting everything I wanted, an internship with my Uncle, an officer with the special-ops team. If it weren't for a stupid boy that had to go and make me angry, causing me to turn a certain part of his anatomy purple and sparkly, I wouldn't have accidentally revealed to my family what I really was. What I had been hiding... -
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![His Impossible Elf Mate by Jax Stuart]()
His Impossible Elf Mate by Jax Stuart
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAn elf with a secret.Tearlach is on a mission to find the reason behind the beta sickness and how the plight relates to the elven fertility crisis. The last thing he expected to find is the man who feels like a part of his soul.Or how determined he’d be to keep Axel. No matter what.A shifter with an impossible dream... -
![Coveted by the Bear by T.S. Joyce]()
Coveted by the Bear by T.S. Joyce
Damaged goods, unlikely friends, good intentions, and dark deeds come together to create T. S. Joyce’s newest full-length, stand-alone shifter romance novel, Coveted by the Bear. Mira Fletcher is crazy. At least that’s what her sleepy hometown thinks. She lives in a dilapidated house in the wilderness with her imaginary uncle, talks to soup cans, and rumor has it she’ll eat anything... -
![Doe and the Wolf by Eve Langlais]()
Doe and the Wolf by Eve Langlais
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat 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...Categorized as:
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![The Alpha's Heart by R.E. Butler]()
The Alpha's Heart by R.E. Butler
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAlpha wolf Acksel wakes up one morning in the bed of the one human who was kind to him in school. Now, ten years later, Brynn Mara is snuggled up at his side, smelling like passion and sweet dreams. Even though Acksel has declared that his pack members can mate with humans from now on, he knows that any woman he takes as his mate will have a target on her back. Especially if she’s a fragile human...Categorized as:
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![Avenger by Micalea Smeltzer]()
Avenger by Micalea Smeltzer
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIt’s all been leading to this for Caeden and Sophie Williams. This should be the happiest time of their life. They’re married and expecting a baby, but Travis is still out there, and they both know he won’t rest until he gets what he wants. The question is, what does he want? They’ll have to figure it out if they ever want to have their happily ever after. The end is near... -
![Freeing the Feline by Lacey Thorn]()
Freeing the Feline by Lacey Thorn
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHe’s only human… The only thing Logan despises more than a weak man is one who preys on others. He finds himself in a battle between a group of people he never dreamed existed, and those who want them dead. A captured lioness… Clara has always known she carried the spirit of a lioness within her. An impulsive quest finds her at the mercy of a man she’s spent her entire life hearing about...
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