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  • Contested Crown by Kai Butler

    Contested Crown by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    I can’t give him up, even if it costs me my life... Miles and Cade are on the run. Without money, protection, or allies they have only each other to rely on as they flee the most powerful mage house in the country. Unfortunately, the outside world is even more dangerous than the lion’s den they just escaped from...
  • Big Bad Wolf: Wolf at the Door / The Wolf at Bay / Thrown to the Wolves by Charlie Adhara

    Big Bad Wolf: Wolf at the Door / The Wolf at Bay / Thrown to the Wolves by Charlie Adhara

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Male/Male Paranormal Mystery Stories Agent Cooper Dayton gets paired with his enemy, werewolf Oliver Park in Charlie Adhara’s Big Bad Wolf series. WOLF AT THE DOOR Hunting for big bad wolves was never part of Agent Cooper Dayton’s plan, but a werewolf attack lands him in the carefully guarded Bureau of Special Investigations...
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  • Ascendant King by Kai Butler

    Ascendant King by Kai Butler

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    His life is in my hands, but my heart is in his. Miles Castillo has the one thing his mother never did: time. As he gathers new members to his pack and help in his war against House Bartlett, he can’t help but wish that Cade was more than a reluctant ally. But the ice prince has made his position clear and nothing Miles can do will change the history that divides them...
  • The Skinny on Djinni by E.J. Russell

    The Skinny on Djinni by E.J. Russell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Being in tech time-out totally sucks.Hector Gonzales knew the danger when he hacked the magic grid to marry it with human technology. He’d never imagined this system crash: A total tech suspension while the tradition-bound supe council reviews his case...
  • Strong Alpha by Lorelei M. Hart

    Strong Alpha by Lorelei M. Hart

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I’m too busy for an omega. That’s what everyone tells me. My passion is my work and my work is my passion. When those two things collide, there is no such thing as a day off.I’m a strongman, and that means my days are structured from the time I wake up until the time I collapse into bed when I’m prepping for a competition. My meals. My workouts. Even my free time, all of it is consumed by my work...
  • Dead on Arrival by Pandora Pine

    Dead on Arrival by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Newly retired from the Boston Police Department, Ronan O’Mara is looking forward to spending time with his husband, Tennyson, and his daughter. It turns out walking away from his job is harder than he thought. When Ronan is offered the chance to work some cases at West Side Magick, he jumps at the chance...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  m-m  paranormal  fantasy  length-short
  • Frost Dragon by Minerva Howe

    Frost Dragon by Minerva Howe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Dragon Veil Universe Mpreg Brandon is a scholar who is willing to go anywhere to follow the myths and legends he's been obsessed with since he was a child. Dragons. So when his quest for those legends take him from Colorado to deep within the heights of the Uintah range in Utah, where his twin Justin has been hiding out, he happily follows the trail. Abraham is a contented dragon...
  • Snow Dragon by Minerva Howe

    Snow Dragon by Minerva Howe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Dragon Veil Universe Mpreg Romance High in the Utah mountains, dragon Seth feels like his brothers and his cousins are all one step ahead of him. They're smarter or more useful or stronger... When his youngest brother Samuel takes a mate who shares some of Seth's interests. his isolated life improves. and he hopes against hope that his mate is coming soon...
  • Lawful Mates by Liam Kingsley

    Lawful Mates by Liam Kingsley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I can’t believe my mate is covering for a criminal …I’m investigating the disappearance of a senator’s son, and I can’t help but think the man is as dirty as they come. When I see he’s hired Percy to be his lawyer it makes me sick. The alpha is supposed to be my fated mate, but I could never want a man who protects criminals...
  • 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...
  • Death Takes a Holiday by Addison Moore, Bellamy Bloom

    Death Takes a Holiday by Addison Moore, Bellamy Bloom

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An innkeeper who reads minds. An ornery detective. And a trail of bodies. Cider Cove is the premier destination for murder.***Includes RECIPEMy name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds—not every mind, not every time but most of the time and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be...
  • Blood Fall by Crista Crown

    Blood Fall by Crista Crown

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Josh Thomas had been turned into a vampire three years ago, and every day had been torture ever since then. Until he escaped his captors. But he wasn't trying to grab a chance at life, he was trying to find escape in true death.Kaden Ward had never imagined he could be so compatible with someone he could hear their thoughts, but he's found that in Josh. And Josh's mind is a dark and broken place...
  • 울프 인더 하우스 1 [Wolf in the House 1] by Park Ji-yeon, 박지연

    울프 인더 하우스 1 [Wolf in the House 1] by Park Ji-yeon, 박지연

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “나는 웨어울프야. 시베리아에서 온 종족의 후손.”믿고 보는 BL 작가 박지연의 신작 단행본!프리랜서 기자인 민석은 우연히 SNS에서 유기견 시베리아허스키 종 백산이의 공지를 발견한다. 입양이나 임시 보호자가 나타나지 않으면 내일 안락사를 할 수밖에 없다는데. 유달리 마음이 쓰이는 민석. 결국 백산이를 데리고 온다.민석은 백산이가 먹을 사료를 사러 나가고, 그 사이 집에 있던 백산이는 사람의 모습으로 변해 있는데?!낮에는 개 아니 울프, 밤에는 사람이 된다고 하는 백산이. 개를 키우는 것 같기도, 사람과 함께 사는 것 같기도 한 상황...
  • Angel in Black Leather Pants by Lisa Oliver

    Angel in Black Leather Pants by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cloverleah Pack Series, Book 9 Adair was tired of waiting. He knew he had a mate, although they'd never met, and his waiting wasn't made any easier watching Tobias snuggling close with his two mates. He'd thought a lot of the smaller wolf at one time. All he had was the company of his two brothers, and endless patrols trying to keep the Cloverleah pack lands safe...
  • Detective Daddy by Liam Kingsley

    Detective Daddy by Liam Kingsley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’m not looking for a mate, but then Rick walks into my life … Work hard. Play hard. Never fall in love. I’ve never needed anything else, no matter what the other members of my pack think. But when a sweet omega brings his daughter to my self-defense studio, suddenly I’m thinking of turning over a new leaf. Rick’s scent calls to me like nothing before and I need him in my bed...
  • His Determined Bear by Skye R. Richmond

    His Determined Bear by Skye R. Richmond

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Graham’s biggest passion is baking delicious treats. So when his favorite teacher asks him to bake a wedding cake, he can’t turn it down! However, he isn’t prepared to meet Cooper, the son of the bride who looks good enough to lick. One sniff and he knows Cooper’s his mate...
  • Dead To Me by Pandora Pine

    Dead To Me by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Psychic, Tennyson Grimm, was kicked out of his house and disowned by his religious parents when he came out to them as gay and psychic. The last thing Tennyson’s father said before the teenager boarded a Greyhound bus to Boston was that his son was dead to him...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  queer  m-m  paranormal  fantasy  length-short
  • Harassing Mitch by J.D. Light

    Harassing Mitch by J.D. Light

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Spence Rodgers Being bodyguarded by a gorgeous, enormous, slightly terrifying police officer might sound like fun and games, but there is a real live serial killer running around targeting blond haired, blue eyed boys… and I happen to be blond haired and blue eyed and a boy. With me not having a big strong mate of my own, my brother has pawned me off on the unflappable Mitch Arborrow...
  • Omega's Savior by Kian Rhodes

    Omega's Savior by Kian Rhodes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An Alpha from a bloodline so long forgotten that most believed them to be fictional characters. An Omega who was (for all intents and purposes) locked up and forgotten after the tragic death of his Dad when he was in his teens...
  • The Basilisk Baby by Hawke Oakley

    The Basilisk Baby by Hawke Oakley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jett the alpha basilisk wears his sunglasses 24/7. Even in human form, his gaze petrifies all who look into his eyes. Terrified of turning his fated mate into stone, he's given up searching for his true love. Now he spends all day running his garden store while daydreaming of an omega mate and a baby of his own. Tomah is on the hunt for the perfect statue for his apartment balcony...
  • Aiden by Minerva Howe

    Aiden by Minerva Howe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Griffin thinks he might be watching dragons through his binoculars while he's on a research project for his graduate program. He desperately wants it to be true, but he also wants to warn any dragons that might be up in the Sierra Nevada mountains that his professor wants to study them. He wants to help keep them safe...
  • Fractured Fang: Omega by Jena Wade, Lorelei M. Hart

    Fractured Fang: Omega by Jena Wade, Lorelei M. Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Go home, they said. It will be easy, they said. It was not.Alpha and pack Beta, Macs loves his pack, but something about the fire changed everything. He no longer feels at home there and spends most nights in the woods in wolf form. He wants to move on, but something is standing in his way. Macs just needs to figure out what.Omega wolf shifter Gabriel hasn’t seen his parents in years...
  • Sparkles and Scowls by M.A. Innes

    Sparkles and Scowls by M.A. Innes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lorne Sparkles. As the most fabulous dragon that has ever graced the skies, Lorne always pictured his mate as…well…at least slightly shiny. He knows he’s incomparable, but he thought his mate would match him in some wonderfully glittery way. What he’s not expecting are two mates who seem to think black is a lifestyle and not a sin against fashion.MonroeMages...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  queer  fantasy  paranormal  m-m
  • The Dragon King by B.A. Stretke

    The Dragon King by B.A. Stretke

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Harkin Ravenscroft, The Dragon King, never thought he would find his true mate. Harkin figured he had already lived that part of his life. Not wanting to wait, he took a squire dragon as his mate and they had five sons before Roland died at the hands of a hunter. Now his sons are grown and his son Quinn has already started a family of his own...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  queer  m-m  vampires  paranormal  fantasy
  • The Demon Lord: The Crimson Vampire Coven 11  (The Crimson Coven) by B.A. Stretke

    The Demon Lord: The Crimson Vampire Coven 11 (The Crimson Coven) by B.A. Stretke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Lord Nael DuFour, the Demon Lord, has been sealed in the Demon Sphere for a Millennia. The Dragon Stone has set him free. Little did Jai and his chosen Levi realize what they were unleashing when they made their deal with the Demon Lord to help save the Crimson Coven. Nael is just looking for a little fun when he drops in on the Crimson Plantation...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  queer  m-m  vampires  paranormal  fantasy
  • Under His Cover by Kiki Burrelli

    Under His Cover by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Will two men, as different as can be, find love? Jaesun Park isn’t a spy, not until the Protectors of the Pure, an organization bent on eradicating shifters from the world, blackmail and coerce him into using his job at The National Press to uncover and publish anti-shifter propaganda...
  • Trust in the Moon (Tales from the Tarot) by Delaney Rain

    Trust in the Moon (Tales from the Tarot) by Delaney Rain

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fresh off of a bad breakup, Zeke Castro is done with men and love even though he’s in a resort town in Colorado for his cousin’s big gay wedding. After a ruggedly handsome man kisses him in the hotel lobby, though, Zeke realizes his heart might not be so frozen after all.Sacha Lupescu knows he’s found his fated mate and though he’s thrilled, he already knows that his mother won’t be...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  queer  m-m  fantasy  paranormal
  • The Carpenter's Dilemma by Noah Harris

    The Carpenter's Dilemma by Noah Harris

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Family secrets can be buried but never erased. Eventually, the unspoken shadows of the past will threaten even the strongest promise of love. Dean Matthews should be enjoying the steady and fulfilling life he’s built for himself. He’s triumphed over the land, making a real go of a new life working and rebuilding his late grandfather’s farm...
  • Collateral Omega by Hope Mae

    Collateral Omega by Hope Mae

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Holi Holi is a sweet and sheltered omega who dreams of meeting a wealthy alpha to bond with. His omega father does everything in his power to bring that dream to pass, even though their poor status doesn’t allow. Holi gets a wakeup call about how bad his family situation is when his omega father dies, and the creditors come calling...
  • The Power Of The Bite by Lisa Oliver

    The Power Of The Bite by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Standalone Wolf Shifter/Vampire Novel Dax Portrain has it all - he's the next Alpha of the only pack in town, he owns a successful night club and he has men falling all over him every night of the week. So when he catches sight of a new vampire in town, he tries to shrug off the instant attraction he feels. After all, everyone knows that wolf shifters and vampires do not get along...
  • Mating Martigan by J.D. Light

    Mating Martigan by J.D. Light

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Martigan Phillips In junior high, I was that kid. You know the one. The one that was somehow always on the outside looking in. The one that never understood why people made it their life goal to find everything that was wrong with me. I was that kid that kids picked on to fit in with other kids...
  • Creatures of Habit by J.D. Light

    Creatures of Habit by J.D. Light

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Watching his across the street neighbor as he goes about his life has been one fo Boyce's favorite pass-times for several months. There is just something about the man that draws his attention even before he meets the man. Imaging how surprised he is when the object of this small obsession asks him for help. Not only does he jump in feet first, so does his dog...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  queer  m-m  paranormal  fantasy  omegaverse
  • Omega Glow: An M/M Mpreg Shifter Romance by Lorelei M. Hart

    Omega Glow: An M/M Mpreg Shifter Romance by Lorelei M. Hart

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fate doesn’t always send you the mate you think you are looking for—they send you the mate you need…Widowed omega Saxon once lived the dream: a wonderful marriage, a beautiful baby, and a career he loved—then it all came crashing down when cancer came and stole his wife. Now a single parent, broke and underemployed, he is doing all he can to give his son the best life possible...
  • Two Nights and a Day by Kat Silver

    Two Nights and a Day by Kat Silver

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    This short novella can be read as a standalone, but details a day from Dark Flame: an enemies to lovers MM urban fantasy.This is the day, Michael and Gabriel, the two protagonists from Dark Flame spent with each other when Michael was in a sexual trance brought on by too much of the supernatural energy called Flame...
  • Knot Likely by Crista Crown, Susi Hawke

    Knot Likely by Crista Crown, Susi Hawke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Take one omega with a neglected childhood, add a giant dollop of insecurity from a shitty ex, a good dash of yearning for a mate and family with a sprinkling of fear that he’ll turn out just like his absent addict mother and what do you get?Me.So when I discover my true mate and my abandoned baby brother (who I hadn’t known existed!) on the same day, you can guess how well I’m doing.But it’s fine...
  • End Street Volume 2 by RJ Scott, Amber Kell

    End Street Volume 2 by RJ Scott, Amber Kell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE CASE OF THE DRAGON'S DILEMMADragons, battles, a deal Sam may come to regret, and a Siren attack, leave Sam and Bob in danger, and Mikhail finding a mate.Bob and Sam take their kind-of-adopted-now vampire daughter, Mal to look round new schools.Mikhail is left to babysit the last remaining rescued child whilst they are away...
  • The Golden Dragon's Unexpected Mate by Kiki Burrelli

    The Golden Dragon's Unexpected Mate by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mpreg Romance Dragon King Damari is the last dragon of his kind. After a curse killed his family, Damari is left the only one with the power to sustain his tribe. But when years go on and Damari doesn't find his dragon mate, he must venture out into the human world, and search for other ways to protect his people...
  • Fated: Wolf and the Lion by Hawke Oakley

    Fated: Wolf and the Lion by Hawke Oakley

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An omega whose never had a heat.Even in a pack as diverse and quirky as his own, wolf shifter Sage has always been the odd-one out. He’s an adult omega whose never experienced a single heat. But that’s okay with him—he’s content being the funny uncle and the annoying yet lovable youngest brother. That’s enough for him… Right?When his first heat finally strikes, everything changes...
  • Wrong Number, Right Dragon by Colbie Dunbar, Lorelei M. Hart

    Wrong Number, Right Dragon by Colbie Dunbar, Lorelei M. Hart

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sometimes the wrong number is the exact one you need.I never answer my phone, especially not when the caller’s number is “private.” Today is no exception, only unlike normal, they leave me a message and for the first time, I’m kicking myself for not answering...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  queer  omegaverse  paranormal  m-m  fantasy
  • 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...
  • Howl For Me by Dana Marie Bell

    Howl For Me by Dana Marie Bell

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "For a love that will last through the ages, they must fight an evil older than time. " "True Destiny, Book 3" Jeffrey Grimm's grandfather, Odin, tortured and nearly killed his twin sister. He's on a mission to return the favor. To get the job done, he needs the world's oldest living laser-hair-removal candidate: Fenrisulfr, the werewolf prophecy has decreed will kill Odin at Ragnarrok...
  • Stay True To Me: An MM Vampire/Wolf Shifter Standalone Story by Lisa Oliver

    Stay True To Me: An MM Vampire/Wolf Shifter Standalone Story by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    An MM Vampire/Wolf Shifter Standalone Story Prince Venedict Semyonov (Ven to his friends) enjoyed running the town of Rockville. An ancient vampire, he had pretty much seen it all and done it all, if the stories told about him were all true. So when he was informed he was due to meet with an alpha wolf shifter, who was asking for sanctuary in his territory, he didn't think a lot about it...
  • Hunter's Moon by M.J. O'Shea

    Hunter's Moon by M.J. O'Shea

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Miles craves adventure. Freedom from his monotonous routine; but he's started to believe that perhaps adventure isn’t in his stars—until a late night encounter makes him wonder if the creatures he creates in his stories could possibly be real. PC is a wolf. A lycan since birth, he’s spent the first twenty-four years of his life trying to be the exact opposite of what everyone expects of him...
  • Duke's Baby Deal by Ann-Katrin Byrde

    Duke's Baby Deal by Ann-Katrin Byrde

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All his life, Bram’s been told what he would be, and what he would do. No one ever gave a thought to what Bram might think he wanted. There was only one career option for an omega—a mating and pups and looking after the household. But Bram wants more. He wants adventure and excitement and romance, and something different than looking after pups for the rest of his life...
  • Sex, Wolves and Rock & Roll by Mina Carter

    Sex, Wolves and Rock & Roll by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rockstar. Sex God. Werewolf. Trent Savage has it all… apart from the one thing he really wants. His mate. The trouble is, the man Sav wants, the one who smells like home to him is none other than his band-mate, Karlan Rixx. The epitome of the playboy rocker, he’s sexy and gorgeous with the feral edge of a werewolf that gets Sav’s motor running every single time...
  • Shane's Inner Anger by Stephani Hecht

    Shane's Inner Anger by Stephani Hecht

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shane has everything he ever wanted—a sexy mate, a wonderful daughter and he actually gets paid for killing. So, he should have known that something would come in and mess with his perfection. Declan, one of the highest ranking Ravens and a constant thorn in every feline’s paw attacks Shane’s home...
  • Fated: Wolf and the Buck by Hawke Oakley

    Fated: Wolf and the Buck by Hawke Oakley

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A wolf hunting for his mate—literally.As the oldest alpha in the pack, wolf shifter Dax has a big responsibility. He hunts and provides food for his family, including his brand-new niece and nephew. Though Dax wants a mate and children of his own, he hasn’t met another wolf shifter to fall head over heels with and he’s starting to give up hope...
    Categorized as:
    shapeshifters  queer  paranormal  m-m  fantasy  omegaverse
  • Single White Incubus by E.J. Russell

    Single White Incubus by E.J. Russell

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Does a bear shift in the woods?Well, partially. That was what got grizzly shifter Ted Farnsworth into trouble. He wasn’t trying to break the Secrecy Pact. He just wants people to see the real him. So he signs up with the mate-matching service Supernatural Selection—which guarantees marriage to a perfect partner...
  • Daniel's Mate by Lynn Tyler

    Daniel's Mate by Lynn Tyler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Some secrets aren’t meant to be kept. Big, bad wolf shifter, Daniel Carter has been on the run for years. Finally settling down near the Smooth Rock Falls werewolf pack as a lone wolf, he feels he may actually have a chance at protecting the secret he’s been carrying with him. Trevor Armstrong is still recovering from half a year of horror...
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