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  • Such Violent Delights: A Holiday Paranormal Romance Anthology by S.L. Jennings, Stacey Marie Brown

    Such Violent Delights: A Holiday Paranormal Romance Anthology by S.L. Jennings, Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Eleven all new stories from twelve top paranormal romance authors. From Heaven to Hell, fae worlds, superheroes, and even through the looking glass, these holiday themed short stories bring a whole new meaning to the 12 days of Christmas. All proceeds from the sale of the anthology will be donated to charity. Featuring:. Stacey Marie Brown – Descending Into Madness (A Winterland Tale)...
  • 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. ”. ***...
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  • 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...
  • Etched in Frost by L.R. Friedman

    Etched in Frost by L.R. Friedman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Etched in Frost is a contemporary Jack Frost reimagining with Swan Lake vibes. An angsty, fated mates, shifter/mortal romance, this standalone includes some dark themes and content best suited for those over the age of 18. Jolie. I always believed ballet was the love of my life. My fate. Until that tragic day that rocked my world...
  • Firefighter Bear: Slade by J.K. Harper

    Firefighter Bear: Slade by J.K. Harper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A woman trapped by the stigma of the past. .. Fox shifter Everly always ends up cornered and cowering. Growing up shunned by more dominant shifter species taught her there's no such thing as real community—or true love. But she's always secretly longed for the sexiest, most dominant bear shifter around. .. even though he almost destroyed her family. A bear shifter who can't forgive himself. .
  • 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...
  • Eat. Prey. Love by Cassandra Featherstone

    Eat. Prey. Love by Cassandra Featherstone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Remember when I said being a teenager is bullshit? It still is—but so is trying to go to college while dodging murderers, mean girls, and salacious counselors who won’t leave you alone. As the miraculous predatory bunny, I’ve become the lynchpin for everyone’s evil plans. Since the attack at the Yule Ball, the Council isn’t playing games with the rebels...
  • Taken: An Evan's Alphas Prequel by D.J. Heart

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

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 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...
  • 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...
  • Glimmer of Cinders: A Behind the Scenes Compilation by Harper Wylde, Quinn Arthurs

    Glimmer of Cinders: A Behind the Scenes Compilation by Harper Wylde, Quinn Arthurs

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is not a story! Since the Phoenix Rising series began, Quinn and Harper have written extra scenes that were released in their Facebook group. This novella includes all of those scenes plus over 20k of previously unreleased POV's, including Ryder's POV of his first kiss with Hiro! Thank you very much for reading, for all the support, and for loving Nix and her men...
  • 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...
  • Wild In The Woods by Liz Paffel

    Wild In The Woods by Liz Paffel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    She needs an enticing story to keep her job. He needs a fake girlfriend to get his family off his back. Fox Mitchell has made a name for himself teaching high-octane survival classes to city slickers looking for adventure when he’s not busy as acting captain of the Estes Park Search and Rescue Squad. He’s happy being a loner, even if everyone around him is getting hitched. Please...
  • Resistance by Amy Rae Durreson

    Resistance by Amy Rae Durreson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    How do you rebuild a broken nation? Iskandir doesn’t know, but as resistance leader turned peacetime governor, he’s trying his best, even though he believes his best will never be good enough. But things are about to get a lot worse in Tiallat. First, the rats begin to die. Next, humans begin to sicken too...
  • 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...
  • Feral King by Sara Fields

    Feral King by Sara Fields

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The dragon king told me to stay away from him. I didn't listen. When the king of this realm saw me bathing in a stream, he did his best to warn me. Keep my distance or the curse upon him would set his blood on fire and he would ravage me brutally. I didn't, and he did. But he did more than just pin me to the forest floor and mount me like a feral beast...
  • 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 killer. But 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...
  • Cruel Tides by Shana Brooke

    Cruel Tides by Shana Brooke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Retrieving the trident was supposed to be the hard part. Now a new storm is brewing on the horizon. That curse the merfolk are under? Still swimming strong. Leander thought the trident could break it, but it’s breaking him instead. Sure, it gives him god-like powers, but they come at a cost too steep to pay—his life...
  • Dragon's Blood by S. Legend

    Dragon's Blood by S. Legend

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Thrilling Conclusion to the Tristan Trilogy. Tristan's got it made. He fights alongside his beloved, he has two men who dote on him faithfully, and the stars have promised him he's to do great things for his Elven people...
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    shapeshifters  bdsm  angst  fantasy  m-m  spanking  humor  m-m-m
  • Elias by Paige Michaels

    Elias by Paige Michaels

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 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...
  • Thomas & Julia by V.A. Dold

    Thomas & Julia by V.A. Dold

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the owner of The Backwater shifter bar, Julia Le Beau is happy with her place in the shifter community. The only thing missing in her life is a man. Until he arrives on his white horse, she has stacks of romance novels to fill her nights. Too bad, her crazy mother doesn't see it that way. Thomas James' childhood has molded him into the man is today, extremely protective and relationship shy...
  • 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. She’s MINE.
  • Sweeter Than Honey by Liz Paffel

    Sweeter Than Honey by Liz Paffel

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s on the run. He’s her reluctant protector. Will there be a second chance for the alpha bear shifter mountain man? Or will he lose it all… again? One minute Cara Neal is celebrating her win as Kansas City’s Entrepreneur of the Year by maybe drinking too much and finding the wrong guy… the next, she’s carrying a secret and every male bear shifter in three states is after her...
  • Of Witches and Queens by Mona Black

    Of Witches and Queens by Mona Black

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My witchy cousin has grabbed my four boys and put them under an enchantment that won't let them think straight or remember what has happened before. Worst still, she hurts them when they think of me. How am I ever going to break the spell and set them free? How can I stop her before it's too late? Finding an ally in the Academy is hard work. Training my own newfound powers even more so...
  • Her Vampire Temptation by Alexis Alvarez

    Her Vampire Temptation by Alexis Alvarez

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SHE’LL LEARN TO CALL ME MASTER. The redheaded mortal is intoxicating – young, smart, beautiful. I took her to the dungeon and delivered a lesson in pleasure. And a little pain, to make her blood sweeter. Then I wiped her mind and sent her home. Because immortals and mortals don’t mix. But now three young women matching her description are missing, and the vampire I sired is up to no good...
  • 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...
  • Mikhail by Skye R. Richmond

    Mikhail by Skye R. Richmond

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Mikhail knew he found his mate the first moment he set eyes on Rowan. There was only one problem—Rowan doesn’t believe in fated mates. Will Mikhail be able to change his mind? Or will Rowan run as far away as he can before he gets a chance? Rowan doesn’t realise Mikhail will do whatever it takes to prove to him that they’re destined to be together. All he needs is a chance to show him...
  • The Erised Effect by Ada_P_Rix

    The Erised Effect by Ada_P_Rix

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hermione and Pansy work in a shop together. Draco, Harry, Theo and Blaise all work together at the Ministry. They all meet up every Friday at the pub to have drinks. Pansy has a new fantasy potion that she likes to call 'The Erised Effect' that she's keen to try out on willing participants . .. Boys are so easy to manipulate when alcohol is involved . .. .
  • 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...
  • Broken by Trish Heinrich

    Broken by Trish Heinrich

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    "Her love was a disease. But I didn't want a cure. I just wanted HER. ". Ten years. That’s how long I’ve been haunted by the love of Selene Campbell. We were kids when the feud between our families ripped us apart, but in all this time I’ve never felt anything half as brilliant as being loved by that woman...
  • The Complete Horse Mistress Collection by R.A. Steffan

    The Complete Horse Mistress Collection by R.A. Steffan

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 10 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...
  • Whatever it Takes by D.J. Heart

    Whatever it Takes by D.J. Heart

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 13 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...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  bdsm  witches  m-m  paranormal  fantasy  magic  queer
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Stripping His Armor by Mia West

    Stripping His Armor by Mia West

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Dolphin shifter Vince just got his dream mission… and his mission the ex who inspired his love of command in the bedroom. To give in again would be a disaster. Too bad hawk shifter Lachlan is just the kind of kilted trouble Vince loves to set straight. +He wants to control the map…but his ex marks the spot. Dolphin shifter and treasure hunter Vince Ito just got his dream find King Arthur’s sword...
  • Logan's Alpha by D.J. Heart

    Logan's Alpha by D.J. Heart

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 12 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...
  • Saving Sorell by Kiki Burrelli

    Saving Sorell by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 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...
  • Kiss and Mate Up by J.D. Light

    Kiss and Mate Up by J.D. Light

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Before I even saw your face, your voice called to my soul. .. When West first meets his mate, Graysen––a shifter who can't shift––he is absolutely captivated by the shy, fingernail biting beauty that was meant to be his, but before he can even get a full sentence out, their first meeting is interrupted, and the two are pulled in different directions each believing the other has rejected them...
  • 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...
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