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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... -
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![Fastlander Fighter by T.S. Joyce]()
Fastlander Fighter by T.S. Joyce
Captain Walker was in control of his inner grizzly before he joined the Fastlander Crew. Now, having his brother as his Alpha has his animal riled up and fighting everything. When he sees a woman from his past, he knows she has the ability to understand his history, and that chance meeting dredges up the urge to lean on the fragile human...Categorized as:
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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... -
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![Claim the Bear by T.S. Joyce]()
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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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... -
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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... -
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Love Bites Hard by Lola Glass
I agreed to marry the new werewolf king in exchange for my freedom. But now he's holding me hostage on his pack's land. Did I mention that he bit me, publicly, to claim me? Or that he's so lost in the darkness of his past that he's basically feral? If I could grow fur myself, maybe the situation would be a simpler one, but I can't... -
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The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is... -
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The Body in the Backyard by Lucy Score
From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Left Behind Her spray-tanned, self-absorbed news anchor ex-husband careening back into her life was not on this psychic detective's bingo card. But not only does Griffin Gentry show up unexpectedly at Riley Thorn's door―the real shock is that he's begging for her help... -
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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... -
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A Frenemy in Need by Catrina Bell
Turns out there’s a very fine line between fighting and foreplay…Birdie’s life is in perfect order. She has a Christmas tree farm to run, animals to rescue, and an idyllic small-town wedding on the books. Everything is going her way. Until her fiancé jilts her at the altar... -
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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... -
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Untamed by E.M. Moore
Welcome to the school for shifter rejects…Unwanted.Dismissed.Cast away by their mate, the renounced are directed to attend university together by the Pack Council to salvage what’s left of their shattered lives. The objective? Reform, impress, or get the hell out.There’s no room in the packs for wolves who don’t conform. Who can’t breed future heirs.With living feral, a.k.a...Categorized as:
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![Roar of the Worlds by Milly Taiden]()
Roar of the Worlds by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Standalone PDA Romance in the Haize... -
![Dad Bod Gorgon by Kat Baxter, Violet Rae]()
Dad Bod Gorgon by Kat Baxter, Violet Rae
Gideon: It doesn’t take me long to realize the curvy little human is meant to be mine. She’s reluctant, though. I mean, who can blame her? The first time we met, I turned her to stone. Now, she’s afraid to look me in the eyes. Still, I’m using any excuse I can to spend time with her, and I think it’s finally working...Categorized as:
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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... -
![Santa Got Run Over by a Vampire by Carrie Pulkinen]()
Santa Got Run Over by a Vampire by Carrie Pulkinen
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 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... -
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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... -
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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... -
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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... -
![Aaron's Mate by Abigail Raines]()
Aaron's Mate by Abigail Raines
Aaron always followed pack rules…until he didn’t. Rule#1: Fealty to pack Rule #2: Loyalty to clan Rule#3: Avoid humans. Aaron spent years resisting the charms of the human woman, Michelle. Then, resisting her became impossible. But… Shifters don’t fall in love with humans. And… Shifters can’t get humans pregnant...Categorized as:
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![Alpha's Revenge by Renee Rose, Lee Savino]()
Alpha's Revenge by Renee Rose, Lee Savino
PROTECTING MY PACK COMES FIRST. ALWAYS.I learned the hard way what it's like to lose people you love.As an alpha, I vowed never to let that happen again.That means keeping my focus. Never letting my guard down.And, most of all, staying away from civilians - i.e. humans.But the feisty chocolatier has me breaking my own rules. The beautiful female tests my patience... and all my control...Categorized as:
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![A Grizzly Kind Of Love by Georgette St. Clair]()
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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![John Eyre: A Tale of Darkness and Shadow by Mimi Matthews]()
John Eyre: A Tale of Darkness and Shadow by Mimi Matthews
From USA Today bestselling author Mimi Matthews comes a supernatural Victorian gothic retelling of Charlotte Brontë's timeless classic.Yorkshire, 1843. When disgraced former schoolmaster John Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall to take up a position as tutor to two peculiar young boys, he enters a world unlike any he’s ever known...Categorized as:
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![The Darkest Captive by Gena Showalter]()
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... -
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Heartless Villains by Marion Blackwood
The war between the dark mages has been settled and the new power hierarchy is in place, but the people of Eldar have at last figured out that their great hero is no longer in the city. Determined to take him back, they are mustering the whole city for battle while Lance’s friends race to reclaim an artifact that would leave the dark mages at a severe disadvantage... -
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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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![Daughter of Death by Lexi C. Foss]()
Daughter of Death by Lexi C. Foss
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA 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]()
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... -
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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... -
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How to Slay a Dragon by Mallory Dunlin
The job should have been simple. Get in, slay the dragon, and end the hunting season with plenty of gold. But what you don't know can definitely hurt you.Hui-Seun expects a simple hunt and a clean kill. Instead she finds an angry, ancient half-dragon bent on conquering her home... -
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![Daring to Dream by Nora Roberts]()
Daring to Dream by Nora Roberts
Margo, Kate and Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Margo whose dreams first took her far away . . . Margo Sullivan had everything a young woman could ask for. But while growing up along the rocky cliffs of Monterey, she couldn't help but dream of bigger things...Categorized as:
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Aveoth by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 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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![How to Claim a Human Mate by SJ Sanders]()
How to Claim a Human Mate by SJ Sanders
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 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... -
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Queen Takes Sunfires by Joely Sue Burkhart
Book 1: Karmen A Vampire Queen's Secret Baby I awoke in a pile of garbage in a dark alley with no memory of what happened to me or even who I am. All I know is my name, Karmen. By the vicious scars on my body, I've been through hell and lived to tell about it. Barely. In the hospital, my memory slowly beings to return. Something is after me. It's not safe. I have to get away... -
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A Reign of Rose by Kate Golden
From Kate Golden, author of viral phenomenon A Dawn of Onyx, comes the seductive, action-packed conclusion to her sweeping Sacred Stones trilogy...Categorized as:
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Alpha & Omega by K. Webster
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsOne smile. One damn beautiful smile infected my heart and soul with such a force that I nearly exploded. All hopes of afterlife and the eagerness to leave this one vanished with that one handsome smile. Thump. My heart gave one painful thud and began beating for the first time in its life. And then he spoke. The beautiful smile had an even more beautiful voice... -
![Abandon by Trish Heinrich]()
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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![Bidding on Her Orc Boss by Evangeline Priest]()
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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![The Crimson Thread by Aspen Kilgore]()
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]()
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... -
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![Lies Within the Darkest Tower by Tessa Cole]()
Lies Within the Darkest Tower by Tessa Cole
No one can know the newest guard in the Black Tower is a woman.When my younger brother’s name is called in the lottery for life-long service in the most dangerous army in the kingdoms, I know my ruthless stepfather is responsible and I must take his place.It doesn’t matter that I’m a woman and only men are allowed in the Black Tower...Categorized as:
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![Ransom by Callie Rhodes]()
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... -
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Across Time by Elizabeth O'Roark
In a dangerous time before her own...a dangerous attraction.Amelie Besson is on the cusp of attaining the life she’s dreamed of—until she finds herself stuck in pre-war France, fifty years before her time. The country is about to be under German rule, but her most immediate problem is Henri Durand, the arrogant and infuriatingly handsome vineyard owner upon whom her survival depends...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... -
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Mercy & Her Devils by Rosemary A. Johns
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMy name is Mercy, and I’m an Omega with a broken bond.Devastated, I’m sent to the Omega Institute. I'm held until the auction with a gorgeous single dad, whose scent is like paradise. Both Omegas, we make a pact to form a found family without Alphas. With our heats fast approaching, we’re broken out of the Institute by a mysterious pack of a giant, blazing hot Alpha and his flirty mafia Beta...Categorized as:
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![Flame Kissed by Annie Anderson]()
Flame Kissed by Annie Anderson
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 11 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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