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  • Origins by Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter

    Origins by Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    eBook box set of paranormal romance novels by Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter, and Sharie Kohler plus teasers from the latest books in their series. A Hunger Like No Other, Awaken Me Darkly & Marked by Moonlight.
  • Red Fury by Charlene Hartnady

    Red Fury by Charlene Hartnady

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    The dragons on Mistveil Island are not your run-of-the-mill kind. They’re something else entirely…. When I’m summoned to the Royal Offices, I expect to be promoted. I’ve earned it. I’m so sure the job is mine, but as it turns out, I was wrong. What I get instead is a one-way ticket to the Mainland on a covert mission so secret, my own people will abandon me if I’m caught...
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  • The Oh My Gawd Couple by Robyn Peterman

    The Oh My Gawd Couple by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Welcome to my Hell… and not the good one where I’m in charge. Word on the street is that my brother’s son was potty trained at eight months old. Unacceptable. I shall not be bested by God. I have pilfered plastic potties, Cheerios and bagels. I am prepared to teach my boy to put the pee in the hole. All I need now is a potty song. Or so I thought...
  • Dragon in Love by Terry Bolryder

    Dragon in Love by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Chadwick, purple dragon and leader of his region, has his hands full. He has to keep visiting fae princes out of trouble, watch for a potential triad to mate with, and ignore the sassy human expert on fae customs who is bent on ruining everything. Still, Isabella is winning Chad over, with her zest for life and her constant misadventures. From the first kiss, Chad knows he’s in danger...
    Categorized as:
    demons  shapeshifters  witches  humor  fantasy  paranormal  m-f
  • Starlight by Terry Bolryder

    Starlight by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Theo Lancaster isn't just the world's best surgeon. He's also a night-stalking monster, a creature of darkness. At least, some of the time. Thanks to his best nurse, Theo has had an ace in the hole for several years now. That is, until she threatens to leave. Only then does he realize she's much more than just another coworker, and the only human his heart could want. Ada has had the hots for Dr...
  • The Hellbeast's Queen by Stephanie Hudson

    The Hellbeast's Queen by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Hope can be a dangerous thing. It can be all consuming. Can be the only thing you think about. The only comfort you have when locked to the darkness of your own mind. The hope to find light at the end of the tunnel. A guiding hand to led you out of the nightmare. But what of love? For Ella it is the thing she clings onto when all that hope is lost. A love that is always worth fighting for...
  • Coti's Unclaimed Mate by Elle Boon

    Coti's Unclaimed Mate by Elle Boon

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Will they find beauty in the ashes as the fire settles, or will they go up in flames? Shifters and humans don’t mix, at least not in Coti’s opinion. He’s more than just a wolf though, but his pack and fellow MC brothers don’t know everything there is to know about him, and he likes to keep it that way… until one human female comes along and changes everything...
  • Rogue Wolf by Terry Bolryder

    Rogue Wolf by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Save a horse, ride a rogue wolf…. Reno has been running from his past for a long time. As a powerful alpha tied to the notorious ruling family of the wolves, he wants nothing more than to lay low and never be found. Even if he still dreams of the woman he was forced to leave behind for her own safety...
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    shapeshifters  demons  paranormal  fantasy  m-f
  • Red Fire by Charlene Hartnady

    Red Fire by Charlene Hartnady

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    The dragons on Mistveil Island are not your run-of-the-mill kind. They’re something else entirely…. In an attempt to escape Draig Island and my duties as Tribute – whatever those might be – I steal a helicopter. Probably not the best idea since I’m still learning how to become a helicopter pilot. I thought I had enough hours under my belt to be able to pull it off...
  • Monster Mate by Ariana Hawkes

    Monster Mate by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Too destructive to love. Brock Redgrave loathes the monster he’s become. The victim of a failed military experiment that was supposed to make him the ultimate weapon, he’s been left with a personality that turns violent and uncontrollable in situations of stress. He was the only one to get out alive, and the military has been looking for him ever since...
  • Fashionably Dead and Demonic by Robyn Peterman

    Fashionably Dead and Demonic by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Anastasia. I’m dead. He’s demonic. It never would have worked…. Getting dumped by the Demon of my dreams wasn’t exactly in the game plan. Game plans suck. Throwing caution to the wind is my new motto. I used to be a semi-happily single Vampyre...
  • Protector Mate by Ariana Hawkes

    Protector Mate by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A brand new mail-order bride series from the author of Shiftr: Swipe Left For Love. Jagger needs a mate. Fast. He’s running from a dark past and his life as the self-appointed sheriff of the outcast community of Ragtown was supposed to keep him on track. But his duties are pushing his bear to the dark side—not least when a new threat appears in town, with the ability to destroy everyone in it...
  • Vlad by Patricia A. Rasey

    Vlad by Patricia A. Rasey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    One woman has the power to bring the king of vampires to his knees. Check out USA Today Bestselling Author, Patricia A. Rasey's latest, emotionally driven novel that has paranormal romance readers clamoring for more. Vlad Tepes, king of the vampires, has a problem on his hands...
  • No Time to Scrooge by Milly Taiden

    No Time to Scrooge by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Christmas PDA Match unlike any you've seen before. It kicks Hallmark in the chestnuts and leaves you full of christmas cheer.
  • Paranormal Dating Agency Volume 6 by Milly Taiden

    Paranormal Dating Agency Volume 6 by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Between Ice and Frost. Raven Casino loves solving mysteries. So it was only natural that she take to the Alaskan wild to find her missing friend, Juliet. She is ready to take on the world to figure out where Juliet could be. But she wasn’t expecting to meet not one, but two hunks in the icy small town of Antler, Alaska. These two were so sexy they radiated enough heat to melt the polar ice caps...
  • The Hellbeast's Betrayal  by Stephanie Hudson

    The Hellbeast's Betrayal by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    THE HELLBEAST’S BETRAYAL (BOOK 11). Love can conquer many things. Sacrifice even more. But what happens when betrayal runs deeper than blood? The journey isn’t over. Jared and Ella’s story continues in the next pulse-pounding installment of the HellBeast Kings story. As darkness looms and the past refuses to stay buried, secrets will be unearthed, alliances shattered, and destinies rewritten...
  • Miss Mated: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance by Milly Taiden

    Miss Mated: BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kasey Sanchez can't believe she's done the unthinkable--slept with a shifter. Oh, but he was so hot and sexy and his tongue. .. wow! But if he finds out who she really is, he won’t want to see her again. Living a secret life is taking a big toll on her sex life. Brannon Wolfrik knows Kasey is his mate. It's only a matter of time before he wiggles his way into her heart with charm and great sex...
  • Dragon Mate by Ariana Hawkes

    Dragon Mate by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Callan Balter’s dragon is dying. Ever since he lost his family and his ancestral home, Ragtown has been a sanctuary to the noble Scottish dragon. But without his clan, his own territory, and his mate, his dragon cannot survive. Arch matchmaker, Florence, believes she has to solution to at least one of these problems--the only issue? He needs to rescue his match first...
  • Winter Takes All by Milly Taiden

    Winter Takes All by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Where’s a curvy girl with a love of snowy mountains and cold, crisp air to find a man who’ll light her fire? Gerri Wilder knows just the place and most certainly the right shifter...
  • Dragon Reformed by Terry Bolryder

    Dragon Reformed by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book 3 in the Reclaimed Dragons series! Landon's story!
  • E.V.I.E.: 13 Slayers, 13 Missions by Amelia Hutchins, Anna Edwards

    E.V.I.E.: 13 Slayers, 13 Missions by Amelia Hutchins, Anna Edwards

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    13 Slayers. 13 Missions. 13 Standalone Stories Set within a Universe of Violence. Welcome to the world of E. V. I. E. A place where vampires come to die. These Slayers don't play. They're fierce, badass, and court the creatures of the night. Some protect our existing reality, while others venture to realms far away to hunt down bloodsucker bounties. Each plot and twist comes at a price...
  • Romancing Paris by Milly Taiden

    Romancing Paris by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Warwick Dragons Book 3. Welcome to the world of the powerful Warwick family. These womanizing dragons are about to meet their matches.
  • Dragon Meets Girl by Terry Bolryder

    Dragon Meets Girl by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When a dragon waiting forever finally finds his fated mate, he'll never let her go. .. Janet Dixon never thought she'd fall in love. That's why she got used to quiet nights alone with her books, dreaming of fantasies that would never come true. But she never expected a ridiculously hot alpha by the name of Xander to suddenly show up into her life...
  • The Descendants by Neicy P.

    The Descendants by Neicy P.

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With the death of his mother, and his father held captive by their enemies, Surreal found himself trusting the ones that surrounded him. But trusting the wrong one will cause a death that Surreal’s inner God can’t handle. Surreal and his friends traveled on the sea and land to get to the Olympia Stadium...
  • Destined to the Lycan by Regine Abel

    Destined to the Lycan by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    She trusts him with her life. Terminally ill, and with no possible medical or magical cure in sight, Amara turns in desperation to the Weaver. To her dismay, the solution she offers sends Amara on a mission even deadlier than the illness slowly killing her. She enlists Remus, the only Lycan guide who consents to take her on this perilous journey...
  • Dalton by Ariana Hawkes

    Dalton by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dalton has only made one enemy in his easy-going life. Too bad that Shiftr has just matched him with her. .. Dalton Tucker has always been the odd bear out of his wealthy family. Years ago, he escaped to live a simple life in Hope Valley. But now he’s off to Running Bear Lodge to be best man at his older brother’s fancy wedding...
  • The Bad Boys of Assjacket: Magic and Mayhem Universe: Magic and Mayhem Book 9 by Robyn Peterman

    The Bad Boys of Assjacket: Magic and Mayhem Universe: Magic and Mayhem Book 9 by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A dare is a dare. No self-respecting, slightly chubby, good-lookin’, crime lovin’ cat would ever pass up a dare. So I didn’t. Now, me and my boys are in hot water trying to figure out how to live on the right side of the law for a whole freakin’ week! This is complicated by a couple of hairy issues…. — The half-headed bear in town had his privates pilfered...
  • Cowboy Dragon's Secret Promise:  (Cowboy Dragon's Inn) by Serena Meadows

    Cowboy Dragon's Secret Promise: (Cowboy Dragon's Inn) by Serena Meadows

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The hot cowboy I met in Colorado will definitely get me into trouble if I don’t stop him…. Yes, my boss harasses me. It’s true and I hate it. But I’ll end up losing my job if I approach the matter right now. Brian doesn’t get it. He’s pressuring me to do something and I’ve had it with him. Despite his annoying behavior, we got close. Of course we did...
  • Master of Frost by Terry Bolryder

    Master of Frost by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dmitri, newly awakened ice dragon and former bodyguard to the Lord of Winter, is in big trouble. He knows his curvy, prone-to-trouble roommate with a heart of gold is his mate, but she hasn’t come to the same conclusion...
  • Rebel Mate by Ariana Hawkes

    Rebel Mate by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A brand new mail-order bride series from the author of Shiftr: Swipe Left For Love. Aidan has been on the run for too long. From his psychopathic family; from the mountain of secrets he’s been hiding from everyone; and from himself. He wears his heart on his sleeve—that’s what everyone thinks anyways—always full of pranks and jokes. But deep down, his heart is tortured and dark...
  • Titan's Mate by Anastasia Wilde

    Titan's Mate by Anastasia Wilde

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    He was sworn to protect his people. He couldn’t. Now a dying shifter woman tells him he’s the only one who can help her. He knows she’s wrong, but his heart won't listen…. After Titan’s entire clan was killed by rogue panthers, he tried to start a new life with the Wild Blood Crew...
  • Paranormal Dating Agency Volume 5 by Milly Taiden

    Paranormal Dating Agency Volume 5 by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Kiss My Asteroid. Ivy Grimaldi can’t stand change. Ever. But change is something she’s had to deal with a lot lately. Like when her cousin Cassandra moved away to start a new life, baby and all. That all changes when Gerri Wilder shows up at her door with a letter from her cousin. Cassie wants her to come visit. Sure, why not? There’s just one problem. Cassie lives on another planet...
  • Unbound by Lucy Auburn

    Unbound by Lucy Auburn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New teacher, new class, and a brand new challenge. My four demons may have changed my life, but now it’s time to say goodbye. They’re killing me, it turns out—or so my new Grim teacher Leo Meyer tells me. If they don’t return to Purgatory soon, my powers will be drained forever. Too bad I can’t figure out how to send them home. .. even worse? I don’t want to...
  • Baby Got Bear by Milly Taiden

    Baby Got Bear by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lucy Benton, daughter of the Pack Benton wolf alpha, knows there’s only one man for her. Beau. He’s gentle and strong, and she just can’t seem to stay away from him. Training horses at his ranch was her way to get his attention, but it’s been two years and nothing has happened between them. What is going on? Beau Sampson can’t live without Lucy...
  • Loving York by Milly Taiden

    Loving York by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 2 of the Warwick Dragons. Welcome to the world of the powerful Warwick family. These womanizing dragons are about to meet their matches. York Warwick, dragon shifter, widower, and owner of the most renowned bank in the world, is adamant that working twenty hours a day is normal. No, he doesn’t need to open his heart to love again, no matter what his meddling mother believes...
  • Titanium by Terry Bolryder

    Titanium by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A dragon contractor? Expensive. Unless you're the woman Titus Kroll just fell madly in love with. As a decisive, capable, and newly awakened metal dragon, Titus is used to seeing what he wants and going after it. Right now that's Bree Durell, a sweet, curvy woman who needs help with her house badly and can't afford to pay...
  • Purrfect for Me by Terry Bolryder

    Purrfect for Me by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hunter Raines thinks it might just be time to pick up stakes and head out. With his friends happily mated, the cougar inside is getting restless. That is, until a mysterious woman wanders into the bar one night, with more secrets than answers and a body that makes his animal sit up and take notice. Kelly Anderson is tired of running...
  • Goldie and the Bears: Paranormal Shifter Romance: A Howls Romance by Milly Taiden

    Goldie and the Bears: Paranormal Shifter Romance: A Howls Romance by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ash Goldenlochs hasn't touched another person in years. Her gift--or curse, as she thinks of it--forces her to experience the past of anything against her hands. When she meets two of the most gorgeous men she's ever seen, she wants to rip her gloves off and let her fingers do the walking. Bear shifters, Spencer Hartz and Chaz Coco, are partners in a trio who couldn't be more opposite...
  • Fire Bound by Kayleigh King, Najla Qamber

    Fire Bound by Kayleigh King, Najla Qamber

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Remington Weylyn is burned and broken. She made a choice and now she’s paying the price. The girl she once was is gone, replaced by someone she no longer recognizes. What once was her home now feels foreign and the people she was closest to feel like strangers. And it’s all his fault. Jax Whitlock is dangerous and damaged. With no home or family, his place in the world is unknown...
  • That Girl is Poison by Milly Taiden

    That Girl is Poison by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A HOT Standalone. Dr. Mara Maxwell is having a crappy day. She’s covering an extra shift at the hospital, it’s a full moon bringing out all the crazies, and the senior doctor is mysteriously sneaking out with medical supplies. Too curious for her own good, she follows the doctor to the hospital’s basement. Waking in a cage wasn’t in her plans, but that’s not the worst part. Now she’s…growling...
  • Wanna Buy a Howl by Milly Taiden

    Wanna Buy a Howl by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New PDA.
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  demons  paranormal  fantasy  angels  witches  m-f
  • Shifters Gone Alpha by Michele Bardsley, Reneé George

    Shifters Gone Alpha by Michele Bardsley, Reneé George

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When it comes to love, it doesn't take long for shifters to go alpha. This boxed set of NEW stories from bestselling authors shows how there's nothing a shifter won't do for their mate's pleasure. Her Alpha Mate by Michele Bardsley. As the Fire Pack alpha’s wife Alice Mason will do anything ensure the future of her wolf pack and the ancient bloodline of her husband...
  • Her Dragon, His Demon by Julia Mills, Linda Boulanger

    Her Dragon, His Demon by Julia Mills, Linda Boulanger

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 12 in the Dragon Guard series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series. Her Dragon is strong and loyal, a leader among his kin. He makes her feel things she never thought possible and…he is her only hope for survival. His Demon is beautiful and alluring, the other half of his soul...
  • Shiftr: Swipe Left for Love  : BBW Bear Shifter Romance by Ariana Hawkes

    Shiftr: Swipe Left for Love : BBW Bear Shifter Romance by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Selma Gaskill is in big trouble. She needs to find a fake boyfriend to take to her sister’s engagement party--and fast. What was she thinking telling everyone she was in a relationship, to hide the pain and embarrassment of being dumped by her first boyfriend? The sexy guy who’s working on her house seems like a perfect candidate - except that the moment she tries to hire him, he runs away...
  • Warrior King: New Worlds by Milly Taiden

    Warrior King: New Worlds by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 6 of the Crystal Kingdom. Lilah McClure may be mouthy, bossy, and overly bold, but she knows what’s fair and hates injustice of any kind. When she and her cousins are captured by the mountain fae, she learns they’re living in the freakin’ stone age. Equality between genders? Nope, not even as a joke...
  • Wildest Dreams by Terry Bolryder

    Wildest Dreams by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jerrek's book, #3 in the Rogue Dream Fae series. Only #1, Sweet Dreams, is out now!
  • Guiding Blight by Robyn Peterman

    Guiding Blight by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I crashed the Immortal party and it ended with a surprise encore… a big one. I thought being a Demon sucked, but being a Demon Goddess is a whole ’nother level. Life had been so much easier when I was just a forty-year-old has-been actress trying to make a comeback in the land of Botox and BS...
  • Wild Mate by Ariana Hawkes

    Wild Mate by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    As the wildest and shyest of the Ragtown bears, Timon doesn’t expect to find a mate, let alone a human one. Rejected by his clan for his different-colored eyes, all he wants is to live in Ragtown in peace, running his pizza parlor. But when a petite, dark-haired human and her scatter-brained friend crash into town in their RV, his life is thrown into a spin...
  • Exploring Fae by M. Sinclair

    Exploring Fae by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    My name is Maize. Poisonous to the touch. The bastard child of one very dead Dark Fae King. A refugee of a war that freed me from my three-year imprisonment. Eager to explore a kingdom that while not welcoming, could hold everything I’d ever dreamed for. Hope. Hope for a real future. That was if someone didn’t kill me first, due to their hatred of what I represented...
  • Midnight by Terry Bolryder

    Midnight by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Nathan Lancaster. Elusive billionaire. World-wide philanthropist. Monster. From the moment he was born, Nathan knew he couldn't let anyone know who, or what, he was, but that hasn't stopped him from trying to make his way in the world. And he's fine alone, seriously. Until a curvy, persistent reporter steps up and turns his whole world upside down...
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