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Beck Bear by T.S. Joyce
Juno Beck is trying to step out from the long shadow of her father and make her place in the music industry. But this bear shifter’s days are numbered and she’s running out of time to make her mark on the world. When she stops for a day trip to visit an old friend, she discovers the hiding place of one of country music’s bad-boys-who-got-away...Categorized as:
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Origins by Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 20 ratingseBook box set of paranormal romance novels by Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter, and Sharie Kohler plus teasers from the latest books in their seriesA Hunger Like No Other, Awaken Me Darkly & Marked by... -
Love Bites Extra Hard by Lola Glass
I gave myself to the dragon king, prepared to become his mate to protect my sisters.But that's not why he wanted me.He just needs my help breaking a prisoner in his cell, to keep his people safe. And he doesn't want me to risk my life to do it.When it becomes clear that's the only way?I take it upon myself to make it happen, and almost get myself killed...Categorized as:
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Staked in the Midlife by Lia Davis, L.A. Boruff
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsVampire.Bounty Hunter.Middle-aged babe. Maybe?Now that Hailey is solidly settled in Philadelphia and her new vampire life, she's setting roots, tracking down criminals, and taking names. Things have happened so fast starting the moment she moved into her new home.But she's not one to sit on her duff and let life pass her by. Even an undead life.With her best friend, new friends, and her Mr... -
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The Oh My Gawd Couple by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWelcome 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... -
G.A. Aiken Dragon Bundle: The Dragon Who Loved Me, What a Dragon Should Know, Last Dragon Standing & How to Drive a Dragon Crazy by G.A. Aiken
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnly for those I love would I traipse into the merciless Northlands to risk life, limb, and my exquisite beauty. But do they appreciate it? Do they say, "Gwenvael the Handsome, you are the best among us--the most loved of all dragons?" No! For centuries my family has refused to acknowledge my magnificence as well as my innate humility... -
Winged Wolf Vet by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWho do you call when a winged wolf crashes through the roof of your chicken coop? Shifter Vets!Leslie’s house was already falling apart before mythical animals started plummeting out of the sky. Now she’s got a hole in her chicken coop, an adorable (and impossible) cub hiding in her kitchen, and her nosy neighbor barging in to search for cryptids...Categorized as:
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A Very Meowy Christmas by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBeing cool as a cat is harder than it looks when unexpected love strikes!Single dad and bobcat shifter Mason has moved to Virtue to raise his toddler in the safety of a shifter community. But minor catastrophe strikes when his daughter escapes to play in the woods, and the last thing Mason expects when she's found is to meet his mate...Categorized as:
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Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe
I’m ready for the chaos of Texas to be a speck in my rearview mirror. So when the museum director throws me a bone by arranging for us to visit a fossil dig in Utah, I jump at the opportunity.I need a breather from all the craziness that has become my life since waking multiple dino shifters. A dig in Utah sounds like exactly what I need, the perfect getaway... -
Firefighter Unicorn by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHis touch can heal anything — except her. Her touch can kill anyone — except him. He’s her salvation. She’s his doom. Sarcastic. Short-tempered. Definitely not sparkly. Paramedic and firefighter Hugh Argent is no one’s idea of a unicorn, and he’s careful to keep it that way. His life depends on hiding his secrets…and on never meeting his true mate. Outcast. Unwanted. Untouchable... -
Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe takes care of other people's kids ... but he craves a family of his own.Enter a single mom waitress with a broken heart and a whole lot of trouble behind her.Army vet Dan is still figuring out how to deal with being a three-legged bear, but it turns out kids don’t care how many limbs he has as long as he’s willing to be a climbing frame... -
Pegasus Summer by Zoe Chant, Helen Kestrel
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe's the only human counselor at a summer camp for shifters...Paige isn’t looking forward to spending her summer trying to wrangle kids who can turn into animals. But no matter her own feelings, family comes first. This job is the only way she can afford to send her little brother Archie back to camp this year - and now, more than ever, he has to get better control of his bear... -
Condor Deck Party by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen Ros’s best friend offers her an all-expenses paid vacation to a cabin in the Northwoods, Ros jumps at the chance to get away from it all. Her apartment’s flooded, she lost her job, her boyfriend ran off to France, and it seems like her luck can’t get any worse… and that’s when the fire condors show up... -
Bear and Square by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFamous Hollywood actress, Paige Kirby, is sick of the limelight. Can’t a woman eat a donut without the tabloids snapping her picture? No matter how hard she tries, Paige can’t outrun the paparazzi. They always find her. After a narrow escape, Paige meets Gerri Wilder, who recommends Bear Paw Protection. A vacation with a well-paid bodyguard might be just the ticket to happiness... -
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Hold My Bear by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIf you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen...Chef Charlee has spent a lifetime trying to outrun her difficult past. A head chef job in a small town might be the start of something new—but she never expected the boss to be more sizzling hot than anything she’s ever cooked! But Charlee has been burned before, so keeping her mind on the job is the only safe choice... -
Salvation by Elle Lincoln
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhelp, I didn’t see that coming.No pun intended—well, maybe a little pun with special sauce.Somehow I’ve landed in a weird space where I’m not quite dead but not quite alive either, standing on the edge of something incredible—if only I take the chance and dive into the unknown. My mates taught me to jump on in without hesitation.I hope the water is warm... -
Fashionably Dead and Demonic by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAnastasia 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... -
Somebunny to Love by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe’s having a bad hare day...Rabbit shifter Emmy didn’t mean to get caught in a quick-release trap. Luckily, the hiker who rescued her is purely hop stuff—and Emmy is sure he’s her fated mate, too. But he’s clearly a through-hiker, probably not even stopping in her home town, so even if he’s hare today, Emmy is afraid he’ll be gone tomorrow! He finds her ear-resistible.. -
Holly Jolly Lycan Christmas by Alicia Montgomery
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDante Muccino’s wolf is restless. After watching all his friends and family pair up with their True Mates, the animal inside him wants what they have. Children. Family. And a woman to call his own. When he runs into rival Holly Taylor, his wolf is intrigued, but the frosty chef won’t give him the time of day... -
Forbidden Shifters Complete Series by Selena Scott
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA FIGHT FOR LOVE, AND A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL! GET LOST IN A WORLD OF SHIFTER PASSION AND DESIRE WITH THIS IRRESISTIBLE SIX BOOK STEAMY PARANORMAL ROMANCE SERIES. Books included in this series: A Mate for Seth - Book 1 Sarah, as drawn to Seth as he is to her, can’t understand why the kind, generous hottie next door is so secretive... -
Defended by Darkness by Terry Bolryder
One kiss is all it takes for the Commander of Darkness to know that he's found true love. Now he just needs to survive his new job. There isn't much that scares Tynan (Tanner) Shadeson. But now that the warrior prince of darkness has found his soul match in an overworked, frustrated human woman, he'll do whatever it takes to awaken her latent fae powers and protect her from all evil... -
A Hellhound for Christmas: Shifters for Christmas Book 5 by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s beginning to look a lot like a Christmas disaster…Things aren’t going quite to plan for Willow this Christmas. Sure, her home repair business is booming… but that’s only because her quaint, snowy hometown of Hidden Valley is being battered by a series of ferocious rainstorms that show up out of nowhere, wreak havoc, and then disappear as quickly as they came... -
Koalafied for Love by Zoe Chant, Murphy Lawless
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsKoala shifter Oliver Campbell has spent most of his life working hard at embracing calm, because koalas are anything his koala would fight an armchair, given the chance...or a gorilla, for that matter... -
Dinosaurs, Disasters & Albert Einswine by Sedona Ashe
I have huge man problems.Literally, since one of my mates is a T-Rex.Things are about to get interesting, because my day job happens to be in a museum. A museum full of dinosaur bones, if you know what I mean.It turns out my bloodline is older than dirt, and an ancestral matchmaker decided to send me some gifts…aka, men. And not just any men, but dinosaur shifters from the past... -
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Bear's Midlife Bridesmaid by Meg Ripley
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI didn’t catch the bouquet, but at forty, I caught something better—My fated mate.When my childhood best friend asked me to be her bridesmaid,I didn’t realize that meant spending a week on a yachtWith her obnoxious, conceited new friends.Sounds like a trip from hell for a 40-year-old shifter witch—Until my inner bobcat zeroes in on her mate on board...Categorized as:
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The Bad Boys of Assjacket: Magic and Mayhem Universe: Magic and Mayhem Book 9 by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA 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... -
Firebird of Glass by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHer first Christmas might be the last ChristmasTadra has known her entire life that she was meant for a great destiny. But she never expected it to happen like this: trapped in a strange new world, her magic broken and her voice silenced, unable to shift to anything other than a tiny shadow of her firebird's glory.Ansel's kiss releases Tadra from her glass prison.. -
Not Her Dragon by Annie Nicholas
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSingle female dragons are too rare to be left to their own devices. Or so, Bella was taught.Then her betrothed unexpectedly dies, leaving her wedding contract in the hands of his greedy father. She has no choice but to be auctioned off to the highest bidder or her family will be killed.For one week, she’s enslaved to a dragon who is obsessed with her... -
Purrfectly Naughty: A Maverick Pride Tale by C.D. Gorri
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPamela has turned her life around for the sake of her son and the Pride, but is this Tigress ready for more than one night of naughtiness?Pamela Brown is a Tigress with one singular focus, to provide her cub with the best life possible.She’s worked hard to mend her past mistakes and to forge relationships with the members of the small, but strong Maverick Pride... -
Pinch of Sass by C.D. Gorri
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan this stoic Dire Wolf admit the sassy feline is his fated mate and stake his claim?Ariella Golden needs to persuade sexy Dire Wolf Beta, and the amazingly talented chef at Serious Moonlight, Brock Laurent, to use her Pride’s corporation, Eat Well Live Proud, for all the roadhouse’s needs in order to win the coveted quarterly prize at her company...Categorized as:
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Silver Chimera by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn SILVER SHIFTERS, Godiva Hidalgo opened her home to women with nowhere to go. Godiva's House is a place to stop running, a place to rest and heal—and a place to fall in love.Wendy just met the man of her dreams. Too bad she's wearing a chicken suit...At fifty-two, Wendy is a single mom with a shy son and a terrible ex-husband, working as caretaker for Godiva’s House... -
Pack Alpha's Redemption by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWolf alpha Wilder Wolverton is known for two things – being CEO of Blood Moon Agency and his grumpiness. He runs the pack and the protection agency with an iron fist, but his hardened exterior hides a secret. Five years ago, Wilder met his mate but she couldn’t be his. At least, until she walks back into his life. Amelia Sunderland didn’t choose her husband... -
Nanny for the Polar Daddy by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA shifter in need of a nanny. A nanny looking for a job. And the family neither expected. This is the romance they were both afraid to find but needed... -
Firefighter Midlife Wolf by Meg Ripley
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA midlife career switch just ignited a new chapter—With a single dad wolf as hot as the flames he fights.After my divorce, working in the same ER as my arrogant ex was off the table, so I decided to try visiting nursing instead... -
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I'll Stand By You: Springblood, Book 3 by Cee Bowerman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAksel Nilsen and Anastacia Yeamans have known each other for years - well over a hundred, to be more specific. When they come together, anger turns to lust until they start to argue again. Since they met, their fights have only been rivaled by their passion, but something changed the last time they were forced to be around each other... -
Savage Kiss by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSage Primrose dreams of the day she meets the man who will sweep her off her feet. She didn't expect him to abduct her while she wore nothing but a towel. Why did bad men have to look oh, so good? Feral Kincaid will do anything to protect his family. When a human female supposedly kidnaps his niece, he goes to get her, claws blazing... -
Seriously Hot Ship by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA Valentine’s Day PDA that’ll cruise all over your emotions. Who knew a boat trip wouldn’t be smooth sailing? Tayla Shaw enchants people with her singing voice, but her life is no fairytale. She’s hiding some big secrets and living in fear. The one person who offered her protection treats her like a prisoner... -
Rejected Midlife Wolf by Meg Ripley
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsI thought Gage and I were destined to be together forever.Until he rejected me and abandoned our pack.I found my fated mate over twenty years ago,But got impatient waiting for him to admit his feelings.In my infinite teen wisdom,I cast a love spell to give him a nudge.But my plan failed miserably when I botched it,And Gage rejected me in front of our whole pack instead... -
Wolf's Midlife Runaway Bride by Meg Ripley
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAs if being a 40-year-old runaway bride wasn’t bad enough,I had to shift at the altar and become a runaway wolf. My human fiancé may not be my fated mate,But we share a child, so I thought I could make it work.I never understood how a wealthy real estate mogulCould be interested in a meager seamstress like me anyway,But he was persistent on making me his bride... -
Next Door Midlife Alpha by Meg Ripley
I expected dating after divorce to be weird.But nothing like this.I was a workaholic executive—until I almost died. It took a near-death experience to get my priorities straight,And I knew big changes had to be made.Priority #1 was spending more time with my kids and mother,So I quit my job and bought a beach house on Cape Cod... -
Joy to the Squirrel by Lauren Esker
Joy isn't exactly living up to her name lately.This stressed-out squirrel shifter is on a constant treadmill, struggling to pay the bills and raise her younger sister.Christmas at a beautiful mountain lodge sounds like exactly the medicine to cure her winter blues.But Fated Mountain Lodge isn't having a merry Christmas either... -
Wolf's Midlife Nanny by Meg Ripley
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’m starting over at 43 and found the perfect nannying job.Too bad my hot new boss is my fated mate.When my mate of twenty years started growing distant,My best friend offered to give him advice.Little did I know she’d end up pregnant with his baby.I left Portland and my daycare job behind,Ready to start anew in my friend’s pack down in Eugene... -
Dragon's Forever by Candace Ayers, Kym Dillon
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDragon kings of LA need queens…In the high-powered world of Los Angeles, my kind reigns supreme.From the shadows, that is.Power? Check.Wealth? Check.Heirs? Here’s where things get tricky.BfB is my shot at passing on my legacy. And my fortune.With an arranged marriage, I can check the last box on my list.Our union, of course, will be impersonal and unemotional... -
Unlikely Mate by Candace Ayers, Kym Dillon
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWelcome to Mystic Hollow where wildest dreams (trust me, they do get wild) come true.As Alpha of Mystic Hollow's bear shifter clan, duty dictates my every move.When the Shifter Council responds to our declining population by enacting the BfB (Brides for Beasts) program, the guys are pretty excited to be introduced to human females...Categorized as:
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Snow Wolf by Heather Long
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDon't miss the highly anticipated installment in the Wolves of Willow Bend as we travel north to one of the most secretive packs in the U.S. Ranae is the youngest of the Buckleys— the only girl among three powerful male siblings. Her restlessness and dominant nature affected her every relationship within Willow Bend, not to mention testing the patience of her Alpha... -
Bigfoot's Wife: Fated Mates Monster Romance by Candace Ayers
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsBestselling author Candace Ayers brings you SHORT "lunchtime quickie" reads—condensed romances intended to be read in under 2 hours!Love is blind...and apparently pretty hairyLove robbed me of everything.The public scandal stole my pride, my joy, and my self-worth.Grotto offers me a fresh start... -
The Ice is Right by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA new PDA in a chilly new location... -
Flame it Up by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMazie Kettler left home to make the world a better place. She’d heard things about Gerri Wilder she wasn’t sure she believed. Until she meets Pyrus. Big, strong, handsome, and fiery Pyrus is so much more than she ever expected in a man…erm shifter. The dragon came flying into their camp to save the day and made Mazie’s heart go pitter-patter... -
One and the Flame by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe’s on his planet to help him, but can he convince her to fall in love?Deimos Uannsvo is the leader of the Zehvrd dragon clutch on Nova Aurora. To provide for his planet’s new influx of Earthlings, he’s established a cattle ranch on his territory, but the once-thriving cows are becoming sick...
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