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  • Tamed by the Berserkers: A menage shifter romance by Lee Savino

    Tamed by the Berserkers: A menage shifter romance by Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “You are wild and disobedient. A threat to yourself and all others. To save your life, we must prove you are bonded and submitted fully to us.” His voice was a guttural growl. I lick my lips and challenged, “And what if you fail?”  Thorsteinn snarled.   “We will not fail,” Vik said. "Sorrel, we’re going to tame you...
  • Bad Boy Alphas Starter Set by Renee Rose, Lee Savino

    Bad Boy Alphas Starter Set by Renee Rose, Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Love dominant alpha heroes, intricate, suspenseful plots and a major dose of full-moon induced passion with your romance? Get pulled into a world of fierce shifters who will stop at nothing to claim and protect their mates. The stand-alone romances in the Bad Boy Alphas series will keep you up reading into the night with stories so hot, they'll melt your kindle...
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  • Taken: An Evan's Alphas Prequel by D.J. Heart

    Taken: An Evan's Alphas Prequel by D.J. Heart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    When someone tries to kidnap his mate, Peter Tank sees red. No one messes with what’s his and gets away with it... Chad thinks it’s a little weird when Peter sends a bodyguard to pick him up at the airport instead of one of the usual drivers, but not that weird. Peter is often a little overzealous where Chad’s safety is concerned...
  • Firelord by Delta James

    Firelord by Delta James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    First he will punish her. Then he will breed her.An arrowhead forged in dragon fire should have killed the beast Caitlyn came to slay, but she missed. Perhaps her aim was poor... or perhaps her body knew its master and betrayed her.Either way, it doesn't matter now. She is at her enemy's mercy, and he is not going to be gentle...
  • Under His Enemy by Kiki Burrelli

    Under His Enemy by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When alpha shifter Orion accepts a mission that takes him behind enemy lines he expects to find hate. He never expects to find a mate. Crow Brownstone's family has known much loss from the hands of shifters. It is that loss that compels Crow's father to create the Protectors of the Pure, an organization committed to protecting humans against shifters. Being a Protector comes with sacrifice...
  • Sweetheart by Athena Steller

    Sweetheart by Athena Steller

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Levi He left behind his clutch, his parents, and siblings for the chance of finding his mate. The person who was meant to be just for him. The perfect match promised by the fates for the chosen ones. Finding his mate nearly brought Levi to his knees with happiness. Mason, a park ranger, was everything he could have ever wanted as a partner. As his boy...
  • Acceptance by Nicholas Bella

    Acceptance by Nicholas Bella

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    This book is the final episode of Season One. It's a new night and that means more of Theoden's lessons, one of which I was still recuperating from. I was so out of control last night and if my current physical condition is any indicator, my brothers definitely had their way with me. As far as my relationship with Theoden goes, I can't help but feel drawn to him...
  • The Complete Horse Mistress Collection by R.A. Steffan

    The Complete Horse Mistress Collection by R.A. Steffan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My secret could save my people.It will also destroy my life.My name is Carivel. I was born female, but I've been secretly living as a boy in my adoptive village of Draebard, doing a job the elders insist could never be done by a woman...
  • Claimed and Mastered by Delta James

    Claimed and Mastered by Delta James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    She vowed she would never be mated. He claimed her anyway.Ava Rhys has always chafed at submitting to the authority of her pack's alpha, but when he tries to sell her body in return for money and influence, she decides she would be better off on her own...
  • Her Vampire Suspect by Brenda Trim

    Her Vampire Suspect by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “You’re in over your head, Agent.”I told her not to come to the club.The beautiful mortal on a mission. She shouldn't be back. But women are dying, and she thinks we're involved.FBI agent or not, she can't take on the vampire king and win.I need to help her find a serial killerBut she won't obey me.So I'll have to make her.And when our enemies close in, I won't throw her to the wolves...
  • Taking His Mate by Delta James

    Taking His Mate by Delta James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She is his to protect, whether she likes it or not.Years ago, Madeline Stone was attacked by a rogue band of wolves. Now they are hunting her again, but to get to her, they'll have to go through Griffen Owen. The ex-Special Forces operative is the rightful alpha of his pack, and the moment he sets eyes on Madeline he knows the beautiful, feisty human is his mate...
  • Tempted by the Wolf by Savannah Sterling

    Tempted by the Wolf by Savannah Sterling

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He's her brother's best friend. She's his fated mate. Can one weekend give them a second chance at love?ElenaI’ve loved Jake since I was a teenager, but he never returned my feelings. As the alpha’s little sister, I’m used to being overlooked, but Jake’s rejection broke my heart.Six years later, Jake is still the man who invades my dreams, but I’m not the girl I used to be...
  • Elias by Paige Michaels

    Elias by Paige Michaels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alpha Daddies is a wolf shifter series that follows the lives of strong Alpha Protectors and the women they are fated to mate.Leah has never wanted to enter into a barbaric union with a stranger. She has spent years grumbling about the norms that dictate she will be mated to a man she does not know on her twentieth birthday. She has no choice, though. Bucking the system is not an option...
  • Her Vampire Bad boy by Brenda Trim

    Her Vampire Bad boy by Brenda Trim

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NO ONE TAKES WHAT BELONGS TO ME. The moment she walks into the club My hunger roars to life. After centuries of walking alone-- feeling nothing. Caring for no one. The demon, the dominant in me--awoke. Something's different about the lovely human with a delicious scent. My curious little innocent. For the first time, I feel. I need. I crave. And only she can satisfy...
  • SHARED BY THE BEARS: A PARANORMAL BEAR SHIFTER REVERSE HAREM ROMANCE by Stephanie Brother, Cosmic Designs

    SHARED BY THE BEARS: A PARANORMAL BEAR SHIFTER REVERSE HAREM ROMANCE by Stephanie Brother, Cosmic Designs

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three reclusive brothers, two dark secrets, and a curious golden-haired woman who’s the key to unlocking their destiny.When a midnight call takes me to a mysterious house in a deep, dark wood, I find a forbidden secret behind a closed door that could be the key to unlocking my darkest desires. But the imposing, intense, handsome triplets there have bigger plans for me and an even bigger secret...
  • Hummingbird and Kraken by Reese Morrison

    Hummingbird and Kraken by Reese Morrison

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    GeirGeir lives alone in the woods for a reason. And he likes it that way.Until Declan lands on his doorstep, with a bubbly personality, shimmery lipstick, and dreams of adventure. Surely Geir can let him stay for a few days without giving in to temptation.Or letting him discover that he’s a kraken shifter. Only Declan has other ideas. Because Declan loves his tentacles...
  • Werewolf in Leather Armor by Minerva Howe

    Werewolf in Leather Armor by Minerva Howe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rian is the lawyer of the werewolf knight brothers, the slick, smooth, one with the alpha side that won't quit. But he has the same need to help people as his brother Symon, so when his youngest brother Quin calls him looking to aid a sweet young fox in trouble, Rian jumps on the chance...
  • The Alpha's Prize by Sassa Daniels

    The Alpha's Prize by Sassa Daniels

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She will be his queen, but first he will put her on her knees.Leonid Sobakhin has known for years that Francesca di Angelo is his mate, but a Russian alpha claiming an Italian princess would have risked a dangerous conflict with her pack. Until now..
  • Dominating The Wolf: Bay Harbor Wolves Vol. 8 by B.A. Stretke

    Dominating The Wolf: Bay Harbor Wolves Vol. 8 by B.A. Stretke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chris McShane has found himself in a bad situation with no way out. He just wanted to explore himself. Act out some of the desires he hasn’t dared show the light of day. Now he’s at the mercy of an evil man, a cougar shifter. What Chris doesn’t know is that his salvation is not far away. Fate won’t let anything get in the way of her mated pairs...
  • Taken by the Wolves by Sassa Daniels

    Taken by the Wolves by Sassa Daniels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was given to them to teach her a lesson. Then they took her as theirs.When Carolina di Angelo ends up banished by her pack as a result of her sister's scheming, she is sent to stay in the home of Neil and Duncan MacDonald. But the two devilishly handsome Scottish shifters have no interest in a ward or a houseguest. They plan to take her as their mate...
  • Vampire Boss by Emily Cane

    Vampire Boss by Emily Cane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ### I had one job - get my life back in line. It didn't say anything about me falling for the office vampire. ####My specialty: steering myself into insanely absurd situations. First day in the job, and my new boss turns out to be my mysterious hookup from the other weekend. Whoops! Classic Charly...
  • Big Bad Daddy by Morganna Williams

    Big Bad Daddy by Morganna Williams

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her scent told him she was his mate. Her blushes told him she was his little girl.Dax Trace came to Wolf Creek to meet his long-lost brother, not to find a mate for himself, but the moment he set eyes on Layla Haynes they both knew she was his to claim.But taming this sassy little wolf will require more than an alpha's mark and his knot...
  • Punishment by Nicholas Bella

    Punishment by Nicholas Bella

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My worst nightmare has come true, I'm one of them now, a monster... the very thing I fought against. If that wasn't bad enough, I've been sired by one of the most powerful, sadistic and calculating vampire Lords in the city; Theoden. It's just the beginning of my new life, hell, i'm not even one night old as a vampire and already I wish they had decided to kill me instead of turn me...
  • Whatever it Takes by D.J. Heart

    Whatever it Takes by D.J. Heart

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Owen Owen Olsen needs a familiar. His magic is unbound, pure, and utterly vulnerable to the many witcheaters roaming the world just looking for a tasty little morsel like Owen to swallow up whole. Only bonding with a familiar will make him safe. But no matter how many times Owen performs the ritual to summon an animal to be his servant, guardian, and protector, it just doesn't work...
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    shapeshifters  bdsm  witches  m-m  paranormal  fantasy  magic  queer
  • Love Bears All: The Omega Auction Book Seven by Kian Rhodes

    Love Bears All: The Omega Auction Book Seven by Kian Rhodes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson My head bobbled and jerked, my chin bouncing against my chest when my neck became too rubbery to support its weight. I screwed my eyes closed against the tears, but the salty, warm water leaked through, stinging the raw, abraded skin around my eyes. The pain shooting through my body was worse than usual. Much worse. My large muscle groups convulsed, clenching with every forced movement...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  bdsm  m-m  fantasy  paranormal  queer
  • Love Someone Like Me by Silvia Violet

    Love Someone Like Me by Silvia Violet

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Waverly I'm not a typical omega. I like control, and I'd rather take than be taken. After years of fantasizing, I finally find an alpha who will submit to all my desires. Our connection is beyond intense. My wolf says we're fated for each other, but I know better. Even if a test strip says I'm pregnant, I don't want a mate...
  • Logan's Alpha by D.J. Heart

    Logan's Alpha by D.J. Heart

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Logan Barnes is a beta and an omega rights worker. When his offices are attacked, his friend and coworker, Chad Brand, sends a bodyguard from his mate's company to protect him. The bodyguard is cocky, brash and every inch the alpha, and Logan is reluctantly charmed. Merchant knows that he's not a good person...
  • Claimed and Mated by Delta James

    Claimed and Mated by Delta James

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He tried to romance her, but now it is time for his mate to be claimed.When Catherine Livingston travels to Italy to investigate her sister's disappearance, it isn't long before she crosses paths with the man who has been ravishing her almost every night in her dreams...
  • Badlands: The Lion's Den by Georgette St. Clair

    Badlands: The Lion's Den by Georgette St. Clair

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Lion’s Den is a kinky club where shifters of all species can satisfy their wildest desires. Battle-scarred war veteran Fin Hudson’s been working as muscle there for long enough to know when something’s off. And there’s definitely something going on with the shy, full-figured lynx shifter sitting in a corner by herself, nursing her Shirley Temple and nervously watching the door...
  • Hunted, Part 1 by Chloe Cole

    Hunted, Part 1 by Chloe Cole

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Now with two FREE bonus novellas included! Bookish librarian or vampire hunter? When nightwalker Gabriel Thorne is tasked to do recon on Zara Matheson, he thinks it’s a waste of time. This shy bookworm’s edgiest achievement is winning a blue ribbon for the county’s best pumpkin pie. It’s only when he meets her face to face that he realizes his mistake...
  • Hunter's Moon by Minerva Howe

    Hunter's Moon by Minerva Howe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a rogue wolf brings a sweet omega to Derek Lowell's tattoo shop, he takes one deep breath and knows he can't let Ethan leave with the jerk. This omega is meant to be his, and Derek will do whatever he needs to do to save him.Ethan is a Worthless One, an omega sold to a bad pack as a child, but he has a core of steel under his vulnerable exterior...
  • Married Off by Raven Willow

    Married Off by Raven Willow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She was given as a bride. She will be claimed as his mate. Though Llyr recognized Ivy as his mate by her scent alone, he asked her father for her hand before carrying her off like a beast. But his plans for his new bride are far from gentlemanly..
  • Claiming Bite by Silvia Violet

    Claiming Bite by Silvia Violet

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if the one thing you wanted most was forbidden? Alpha werewolf King Howler seems to have everything he could want: power, wealth, and his own club where he can act out his dominant fantasies. But the one thing he lacks is his fated mate. Shy loner Emerson has always craved submission, not to another human—to a shifter...
  • Bubbles by Candace Blevins

    Bubbles by Candace Blevins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    NOTE: Bubbles is a supernovel at 545 pages. This story can be read as a standalone if you haven't read the other books in the series or universe. ------------------------------------------ Lexi is late for her cosmetology class. She races another car for the only parking space close to her building -- and wins...
  • Omega Replaced by Tanya Chris

    Omega Replaced by Tanya Chris

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Alpha Donovan is certain about one thing. His work recovering missing omegas who’ve been separated from their protectors is a service—to the alphas who hire him and to the omegas themselves. What he’s less confident about is his unconventional desire to be dominated by someone as strong as he is. No alpha is supposed to want that...
  • Saving Sorell by Kiki Burrelli

    Saving Sorell by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Felix is a handsome doctor who uses discipline and control to survive his tortured past. Sorell is a loyal shifter stuck in a bad relationship in order to protect his pack. Will they give in to the urges between them or will they forfeit their love to guard their pack? Sorell may only be twenty-three but he knows how bad things can be and he’ll do anything to protect his new pack--his family...
  • Marked by the Wolf by Sassa Daniels

    Marked by the Wolf by Sassa Daniels

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    She meddled in the affairs of an alpha wolf. She ended up marked and claimed.Lisa Hunter knew rescuing her friend from a pack of wolf shifters would be no easy task, but she didn't expect to end up naked, bound, and completely at the mercy of one of the fearsome beasts...
  • Blood of the Alphas by Shannon West

    Blood of the Alphas by Shannon West

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    While working on Cade and Jax’s new lodge, their beta, Rayce, notices someone watching them from the hillside. Taking the man captive, Rayce is shocked to find his own blood mate. The new man, Tyler Adams, is a good looking actor, and surprisingly, his father was a Werekin. He says he’s only there to see the wolves in action, but no one believes him. The alphas believe the Hunters have returned...
  • King's Mate by Piper Stone

    King's Mate by Piper Stone

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A king takes what is his, and she is mine.Her scent drew me to her, but something deeper and more powerful told me she was mine. Something that would not be denied. Something that demanded I claim her then and there.I took her the way a beast takes his mate. Roughly. Savagely. Without mercy or remorse.She will run, and when she does she will be punished, but it is not me that she fears...
  • The Alpha's Punishment by Renee Rose

    The Alpha's Punishment by Renee Rose

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It started with a small deception… Now, five long months later, Ashley’s alpha shifter fiancé still thinks they’ve been trying to conceive a pup when she’s secretly been taking the pill the whole time. When he finds out, there’s going to be hell to pay, and that means a hot punishment from her dominant wolf...
  • Liam's Mate by Olivia Black

    Liam's Mate by Olivia Black

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liam McMillian is looking forward to the future after a tragic past. Wanting to help out the wolf pack that welcomed him in, he gets a job at the Silver Bullet. One night while picking up empty glasses, he notices a gorgeous stranger checking him out from across the room. When the vampire heads down to the dungeon, Liam follows. Oscar Fitzgerald is a regular at the club...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  bdsm  vampires  paranormal  fantasy  m-m  queer
  • Needing a Vampire's Aggression by Charlie Richards

    Needing a Vampire's Aggression by Charlie Richards

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vampire Nikolai Kuznetsov enjoys his life of blood drinking and torture. The first he must do to continue living, and the second he does to keep his family safe. Plus, it gives him a chance to play with his knives. He loves his blades, wielding them with elegant precision. At his brothers’ urgings, Nikolai attends poker night…just to do something that they deem as normal...
  • Rough Alpha by Maggie Carpenter

    Rough Alpha by Maggie Carpenter

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The moment Faith saw Hunter, something about the ruggedly handsome construction worker called to her, but when her curiosity gets the better of her will Faith end up in over her...
  • Talk To Me: Noah's Alphas by D.J. Heart

    Talk To Me: Noah's Alphas by D.J. Heart

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Noah thinks that his relationship with Grant is going well. He's happy, safe and well cared for, and he doesn't regret giving up his hard earned freedom to become the impressive alpha's omega even for a second...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  bdsm  m-m  paranormal  fantasy  menage  poly  omegaverse
  • Human Omega by D.J. Heart, Riley Trent

    Human Omega by D.J. Heart, Riley Trent

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    John Tate, police officer and alpha werewolf, never planned on turning a human into an omega. He was supposed to be civilized. Nice. The exception to the rule. But one whiff of Ian Bones on the full moon and all of Tate's morals and ideals go right out the fucking window. Ian smells like his , and Tate's wolf has no intention of denying them what is rightfully theirs..
  • Taming Her Beast by Michelle Fox

    Taming Her Beast by Michelle Fox

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meet Hunter. He’s tall, dark and handsome....and ready to make Miranda howl.Miranda knows how to survive on the streets, but she has no idea how to be a werewolf or live with a pack. She thought things were looking up when the Moon Bay pack took her in, but all she seems to do is cause trouble...
  • Gypsy Moon by Evangeline Anderson

    Gypsy Moon by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Alissa O'Malley is having a rough twenty-fifth birthday. She get an eviction notice on her apartment, gets into a car wreck and loses her job, all on the same day. But as bad as her life is, it's only going to get worse. At a mortifying birthday dinner with her politically incorrect Grandmother, she gets bitten by a hyperactive Pomeranian that's been 'infected' by a run-in with a wolf...
  • Knocked Up by His Werewolf Dom: Gay Mpreg by Anya Byrne

    Knocked Up by His Werewolf Dom: Gay Mpreg by Anya Byrne

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jessie Orwell has a secret. He likes a little pain with his pleasure, and he craves the freedom he can only find in another man’s domination. But that secret has cost him, and now, he no longer dares to indulge in his true needs. One night of loneliness and desire makes his path cross with that of Andreas Brandt...
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