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Red Havoc Bad Bear by T.S. Joyce
The countdown is on. Crazy Lynn Matheson has six days until she’ll join all the other shifters who have lost their minds and been put down by their alphas. All she wants to do is get through the next week with the Gray Back Crew as quietly as possible, but some of the big, dominant males in Damon’s Mountains are pushing her to fight her destiny...Categorized as:
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Ash Bear by T.S. Joyce
Grim is the reluctant Alpha of the Rogue Pride Crew, and just trying to get from one day to the next without maiming his Crew. Controlling one animal is hard enough for shifters, but Grim is the only one in existence with two animals—a good lion and a monstrous lion named the Reaper...Categorized as:
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Visible Panther Line by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSky Adler isn't looking for a man. She's happy being Gerri Wilder's newest assistant and excited she's on a mission to scope out a new client. She did not expect the town residents to treat her like she committed a crime and for the client to be hot enough to melt the ozone. She definitely needs a cold shower, but she's a professional, she can handle it. Maybe. Hopefully... -
The Prince's Bargain by K.M. Shea
When Prince Arvel was declared the heir to the throne, he was ignorant of all the forthcoming unpleasantness the title would bring him. Nobles who used to ignore him now seek to manipulate and control him. Even worse, his attendance is mandatory at every social function and party.Every. Party...Categorized as:
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Claim the Bear by T.S. Joyce
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsBreshia’s world comes crashing down around her when the leader of her lion shifter pride deems her ready to bear a cub. When the mate chosen for her turns out to be the man she loathes, she runs for her life to the sanctuary of Hells Canyon. If she can beg mercy and find her place among the legendary clan of bear shifters there, she just might survive the wrath of her people...Categorized as:
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Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon
A merchant’s daughter who yearns for adventure gets more than she bargained for when she falls for a broodingly handsome stranger in this saucy romantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hurricane Wars.This gorgeous hardcover edition features beautiful designed endpapers and a reversible jacket with in-world fan art by Jester Lavorre...Categorized as:
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Fashionably Dead and Loving It : Book Fourteen, The Hot Damned Series by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBeing an undead Princess comes with baggage. And unfortunately, it’s not Prada. Getting shredded in the Daily Fang, The Bloody Times and The National Dhampir is par for the course in the life of a royal Vampyre—especially mine. However, that’s nothing compared to the sh%tshow unfolding in my life. My nightmares are coming true. Satan is throwing fits about changing diapers... -
Bonds of the Vampire King by Bella Klaus
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEnemies to the left of us, schemers to the right, and I'm stuck with the worst of them all.Kresnik has gone too far. Not content with taking over the world, he has to drive a wedge between Valentine and me. Neither will any of our enemies attempts to drive us apart.We're going to will this war, defeat those who stand against us, or die trying.This time, I'm fighting fire with blood... -
Tropical Lion's Legacy by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHe’s looking for forgiveness. She’s looking for a fighting chance. Graham Long left his career—and his real name—behind to make a fresh start for himself at Shifting Sands. He’s done with dueling, and wants nothing more than to quietly raise his strawberries and tend the lawns at the tropical shifters-only resort... -
Kingly Bitten by Lexi C. Foss
Once upon a time, humankind ruled the world while lycans and vampires lived in secret.This is no longer that time.CalinaI have thirty-six hours to live.Thirty-six hours to find a solution.Thirty-six hours to kill them all.My friends. My family. My subjects.It's a cruel fate, one my maker subjected me to over a century ago when she placed me in this hell. I learned then that freedom is a falsehood...Categorized as:
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Wolfing Her Down by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAva North is more comfortable talking to a dead man than a live one. Unfortunately, that also means it's that much harder to find love. She's in her forties and an introvert. Chasing down bad guys and being the best homicide Lieutenant is a piece of cake. Mmm cake. Finding a good man to share life with? That's another story... -
Roar of the Worlds by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Standalone PDA Romance in the Haize... -
Everspell by Donna Grant
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Donna Grant “skillfully melds history and legend” (RT Book Reviews) in an exciting new series – The Kindred... -
A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsElijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality. Vashti is the second most powerful vampire in the world, a lethal beauty with a path of devastation in her wake. They are enemies consumed with a fierce desire...Categorized as:
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Tropical Leopard's Longing by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHer marriage of convenience isn’t as convenient as she hoped... Snow leopard shifter and heiress Darla Grant thought that marrying her best friend would be the solution to all of her problems: it would shelter her from a persistent and unwelcome suitor, unlock her inheritance to save the bankrupt shifter retirement home where she volunteers, and free her from her controlling society mother... -
A Fashionable Fiasco by Robyn Peterman
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s not nice to mess with Mother Nature. Really, it’s not. This is simply not my week. Finding out I can’t cook is appalling. My luncheon with the big-boned Immortal socialites went to Hell in a handbasket. I’ve been hoping to join the Fearsome Five and make it the Psycho Six. However, the chances of that happening now are looking slim... -
Magnus the First by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy stomach sank a little thinking that this bundle of letters had been something my husband had brought home with him, but didn’t want me to see.It made them ominous.“What are they?”“Challenges, mo reul-iuil. Challenges for m’throne, tis time for me tae train tae fight and finally deal with them... -
Santa Got Run Over by a Vampire by Carrie Pulkinen
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFather Christmas has just been damned to darkness. Jane Devereux is adjusting to her new life as a nocturne fabulously. She runs the most popular nightclub in the French Quarter and is married to the hottest vampire in New Orleans. When she accidentally runs over Santa Claus and has to turn him into a vampire to save him, her perfect undead life begins to crumble like a week-old sugar cookie...Categorized as:
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Wolf in his Heart by N.J. Walters
He’s a wolf where it counts—in his heart and in her bed. Salvation Pack, Book 7 Exiled from her wolf pack for rejecting her parents’ choice for a mate, Rina Matheson has been on her own for over a year. Now she’s running for her life from a man who knows what she is and is obsessed with hunting her down...Categorized as:
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A Grizzly Kind Of Love by Georgette St. Clair
Wynona Bennett, owner of The Mating Game, thinks everyone should find true love, so it goes against her instincts to arrange a mating of convenience. It's even worse when it’s for a spoiled socialite with a shopping list where her soul should be. But when powerful people resort to blackmail, she either has to make semi-feral Zane Shepherd into an eligible match, or find herself behind bars...Categorized as:
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The Darkest Captive by Gena Showalter
For centuries, Galen the Treacherous has been the most hated immortal in the Underworld. With good reason! This bad boy of bad boys has lied, stolen, cheated and killed with abandon. Possessed by the demons of Jealousy and False Hope, he has always lived for a single purpose: destroy everything. Then he met her...Categorized as:
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Tempt Me: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Julie Cooper
"He raged inwardly at fate’s gift of the one female he could never, ever have..."IT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED that a single vampyre must be in want of a wife. Someone biddable, her memories easily expunged to allow for strange, inexplicable deeds and baffling circumstances...Categorized as:
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Bidding on Her Orc Boss by Evangeline Priest
Zana Estrada has been living her best introverted life. As a number cruncher for one of the elite orc families in Obsidian City, she works remotely from her cushy apartment two hours away and gets compensated well for it. So long as she continues to provide the data analysis to keep Clan Urkroz profitable, her manager keeps her as far away from social interactions as possible...Categorized as:
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Daughter of Death by Lexi C. Foss
A dead body. A missing daughter. A silver blade. All the clues point to one person: Me. My name is Evangeline, and I’m a retired assassin who wants nothing to do with the underworld. But an edict from a Demonic Lord forces me to return to the man and the life I left behind. I have seven days to prove my innocence. Whoever set me up is going to die... -
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Rowan by Callie Rhodes
She’ll stop at nothing to destroy his kind.As far as special agent Bailey Glazer is concerned, there’s no such thing as a good alpha. After witnessing her parents’ death at the hands of the beasts as a child, she’s dedicated her life to making sure no one else has to suffer the same fate...Categorized as:
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Gladefolk by H.M. Skinner
A Runaway Prince... A Determined Sister... Teryx is content to live life as an outcast if that is the cost of his freedom. He fled his kingdom, abandoning his title and the expectations of his former position, and he arrived on the outskirts of a small Fyresprite village in the forest. It's a simple existence, and a lonely one, but it is far better than the life he left behind... -
Held by the Hawk by Bella Drake
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHe was raised to hate the lion pride. She was raised to hate the hawk flock. When the mate bond unites them, their families threaten to tear everything apart.FBI agent Ramon Delgado is fiercely protective of his extended family. A hawk shifter, and eldest son of the flock's leader, it's not just his nature but his duty... -
Firefighter Phoenix by Zoe Chant
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom ashes, love will rise again... Swan shifter Rose knows she doesn’t have a true mate. She isn’t the one for Ash, the Phoenix Eternal. She knows he can never be more than a friend, no matter how his dark eyes and hard body make her burn. Everything Rose knows is wrong. Twenty years ago, Ash destroyed everything to save his true love. But he’s never been able to walk away from her... -
Flame Kissed by Annie Anderson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsYou can’t outrun fate. As a phoenix on the run from her Legion, I’ve done my best to stay one step ahead of the hunters on my tail. So far, I’ve managed to hide from everyone—everyone except Rhys. Bonded against my will, I’ve avoided my mate for the better part of a century—hating him for the life he stole from me. But he’s always there. Waiting. Watching...Categorized as:
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Wolf in her Soul by N.J. Walters
She’s ready to run, but so tempted to stay… Salvation Pack, Book 8 Detective Reece Gallagher is a long way from Salvation, North Carolina. He’s spent a decade in Chicago searching for her—the elusive red-haired woman who haunts his dreams. He knows nothing about her, only that she’s in trouble. After ten fruitless years, he’s ready to give up and go home...Categorized as:
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Abandon by Trish Heinrich
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy ex-wife is the only one that can save me. Guess I shouldn’t have eaten her favorite Girl Scout cookies…You know you’ve still got it bad when you haven’t taken the wedding ring off a year after the divorce. Andy has always been the only one for me. The brawn to my brains. The hot fudge to my vanilla ice cream. The… well you get the idea.But this isn’t the reunion I would’ve hoped for...Categorized as:
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The Crimson Thread by Aspen Kilgore
Sisters Elle and Gingel live a cruel existence, barely scratching out a living from their homestead. Forced to flee their comfortable life and trying to care for what remains of her shattered family, Elle uses her wits and determination to keep them afloat...Categorized as:
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Diesel by Callie Rhodes
He was battered but not broken.Diesel barely escaped one hellhole with his life…only to be captured again and forced into an underground fight ring. Nursed back to health by the only tender soul he’s ever met, every day a little more of his strength returns, and he burns, not only for revenge, but also to claim the only woman brave enough to stand by his side.She was damaged but not defeated... -
The Blacksmith Queen by G.A. Aiken
When a prophesy brings war to the Land of the Black Hills, Keeley Smythe must join forces with a clan of mountain warriors who are really centaurs in a thrilling new fantasy romance series from New York Times bestselling author G.A. Aiken. The Old King Is Dead With the demise of the Old King, there’s a prophesy that a queen will ascend to the throne of the Black Hills...Categorized as:
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Hades by Alessa Thorn
A demigoddess with the power over life and death, the God of the Underworld burning for revenge...it's a forbidden obsession waiting to happen.HADES is the third book of The Court of the Underworld, a new paranormal romance series, based in a dark dystopian future where Hades rules a court of gods and monsters in modern day Greece... -
Aveoth by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsJillian Milzner has lived a life on the run. Her biological sperm donor has made it clear he wishes she'd never been born. Most kids get presents from their dads growing up. He sent thugs to make death threats to ensure she never tries to find him. He needn't have bothered, since she wants nothing to do with Decon Filmore. His father, however, thinks Jill might be useful...Categorized as:
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Desire After Dark by Amanda Ashley
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsVicki Cavendish knows she should be careful. After all, there's a killer loose in town—one who drains women of blood, women with red hair and green eyes just like her. She knows she should tell police about the dark, gorgeous man who comes into the diner every night, the one who makes her feel a longing she's never felt before...Categorized as:
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Ransom by Callie Rhodes
Once there were boundaries…but now that their chains are broken, these alphas refused to be contained.Eight years ago, Ransom was only a teenager headed for the alpha territory of the Boundarylands when he was captured and held prisoner by a power hungry madman. Since that day he’s been kept deep underground, subjected to experimentation and torture... -
The Dragon Prince of Alaska by Elva Birch
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn unplanned promotion to princess! Carina was just trying to advance to manager at her accounting firm. Instead, she uncovered the dirty secrets of a giant bank, got framed for murder, and fled the country. Now she’s hiding out in a van with a stray dog in the kingdom of Alaska… ..Categorized as:
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Jax by Callie Rhodes
Ten years in a cage would change any man, but for an alpha like Jax, a decade of chains was enough to turn him into a beast.All Victoria Hyde ever wanted was to help eradicate the worst diseases plaguing beta-kind. Still, she can’t believe her luck, when right after earning her doctorate in genetic engineering, she manages to land her dream job in a top laboratory... -
Hunted by the Dragon Duke by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSexy, royal and one of the ferocious black dragons… he’s way out of her league. Orphaned and forced to live under the cruel eye of her stepmother, Saskia spends her days and most of her nights sewing gowns for rich dragonesses to wear to balls she will never see. When a chance encounter brings her into contact with the handsome Callan, Duke and cousin to the Queen, she thinks nothing of it... -
BEARly Mated to the Grizzly by Jenika Snow
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsI’d once been a great dancer. A ballerina. But an injury ended my career, had me longing to go back in time, had me loathing the city and the very profession I’d once loved. So, I decided to get away from it all, go out in the middle of nowhere to clear my head, and focus on what was important. Things were going great until a bear was at my back door, trying to get in... -
How to Claim a Human Mate by SJ Sanders
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLynn Taylor: After fifteen years of marriage, I’m out. I’m finally free while my ex-husband has moved on to greener pastures. I don’t have much to my name outside of a failing coffee shop I inherited and my cat, Casper, but I’m determined to make it a success, even if that means scouting a new location for it... -
Keep Me Close by Cynthia Eden
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFlynn Haddox is a dead man. Literally. As a highly trained Navy SEAL, Flynn once worked covert missions for the U.S. government, but then his life was stolen away. Killed and placed in the secretive “Lazarus” program, Flynn was brought back from the dead and turned into a super-soldier... -
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Allegiance Sworn by Kylie Griffin
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThere is no mercy in the demon realm. No escape. In this place of desperation and conflict, anyone who is not purebred is virtually powerless. Until a demon leader seeks to unify the races… With the alliance of the humans and the half-blood Na’Chi forged, the demon Na’Reish prepare for war by seizing human blood-slaves... -
Bound in Darkness by Jacquelyn Frank
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Frank comes the captivating conclusion to the sizzling series featuring four immortal warrior brothers who love as hard as they fight. After drinking from the fountain of immortality along with his brothers, Maxum is condemned by the gods to be entombed in the earth... -
Pixie The Lion Tamer by Georgette St. Clair
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsPixie Montana is a reformed (mostly) thief and a hustler. Dominick is the sexy lion shifter who’s been voted “most likely to bite Pixie’s head off – literally”. And the two of them are Shifters, Inc.’s, only hope. A mysterious intruder has infected the staff of Shifters, Inc...Categorized as:
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Dad Bod Demon by Violet Rae
Penelope: I live a sheltered existence, locked in a gilded cage and unaware of the dark bargain that sealed my fate before I was even born. Promised to Mammon, the demon of greed, by my father in exchange for wealth and power, my innocence becomes the currency of a twisted deal...Categorized as:
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Excess by Colette Rhodes
Inika has been given everything, and yet happiness has always felt out of her reach. Blake has worked for everything he has, and happiness has always felt like an optional extra. It’s meant to be fun. It’s meant to be easy. Itches will be scratched, and no strings will be attached. All Blake and Inika have to do is not catch feelings... -
Lover Wolf by Amy Green
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWerewolf Heath Donovan has always had it all. The favored son of Shifter Falls' hated alpha, Heath was given the easy life - and his looks have women falling at his feet. Now the old alpha is dead, and Heath runs Shifter Falls' favorite werewolf bar. It's hard work, but the women are still easy. Except Tessa Keefe. Not only is Tessa a sexy blonde bombshell, she's Heath's employee...
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