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  • Lift Her Up by T.S. Joyce

    Lift Her Up by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    All the ghosts of Wes’s past are coming back to haunt him in a big way. A handwritten letter changes everything when he finds out his brother, Sam, is alive after Wes has thought him dead for years. The one who has tracked him down? The love of Wes’s life, Summer, but when she shows up on his doorstep, she isn’t the bright and cheery girl he left all those years ago...
  • Dead of Winter by T.S. Joyce

    Dead of Winter by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Bucking bull shifter, Dead of Winter, is desperately trying to hold onto one of the top three spots in the PBSRC. He’s coming off a shoulder injury though, and he’s looking for something to keep him motivated to put his body through the strain of bucking in rodeos every week...
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  • For the Heart of the Warmaker by T.S. Joyce

    For the Heart of the Warmaker by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Karis Dunway’s instincts are screaming that there is a storm brewing around Two Claws Ranch. With the odds stacking against them, she and the Clan are in a race to save the ranch. A trail ride for a family of tourists could mean a turnaround for her people, but there is a new threat coming out of the woodwork, and they will have to work together to keep the ride on track...
  • Unlove Me by T.S. Joyce

    Unlove Me by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    **Don’t miss this standalone short story from 80-time bestselling author, T. S. Joyce.** One wild night with friends, and Brock Evans comes up with a plan to rake in the room reservations at his lodge. Instead of celebrating Valentine’s Day, he is going to throw an UnValentine’s Day party for the singles who want to escape the hearts, and romance, and frills of February...
  • A Very Outlaw Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    A Very Outlaw Christmas by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    ****Can be read as a standalone. A holiday short story based off the international bestseller, For the Love of an Outlaw**** Outlaw grizzly shifter, Trigger Massey, has been on the naughty list most of his life, but things are different now. He’s got a new mate, is in a race to save his ranch, and is the brand-new alpha of the Two Claws Clan...
  • Quickdraw Slow Burn by T.S. Joyce

    Quickdraw Slow Burn by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Bucking bull shifter, Quickdraw Slow Burn, has had one focus, and one focus alone—winning that coveted title of number one bull in the world at the final Battle of the Bulls event. He’s trained relentlessly for this day, but he’s been drawn into a small herd of other monstrous bull shifters and is figuring out that he doesn’t have to celebrate his successes, or mourn his losses, alone anymore...
  • Love Her Better by T.S. Joyce

    Love Her Better by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Cassidy Joiner is focused on one thing, and one thing only—her growing horse training business. Her Dad gave her the family farm a few years back, and now she has the challenge of making it run. When a handsome stranger stomps in asking for help training a monstrous horse, she knows she has a huge challenge ahead of her...
  • Hellhound Marshal by Zoe Chant

    Hellhound Marshal by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He’s trapped in a nightmare. She’s a dream come true.Logan Vega has been stuck as a hellhound so long that he’s almost forgotten how to be human. Some days, he can’t even remember his own name.But then a new prisoner is locked in the cage next door. She’s more than the cure for his loneliness: she’s the bravest, kindest, toughest, and most radiant woman he’s ever met...
  • The Griffin Marshal's Heart by Zoe Chant

    The Griffin Marshal's Heart by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. His fated mate? The gorgeous U.S. Marshal transporting him ...Once, Cooper was a U.S. Marshal with a distinguished career. Now he's a prisoner, accused of murder, with his inner griffin suppressed and maybe even dead. He's being transported across the country in leg chains. This isn't how he planned on meeting the woman of his dreams...
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  • Protection, Inc. Complete Collection by Zoe Chant

    Protection, Inc. Complete Collection by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    This team of shifter bodyguards will do anything to protect their mates! Read the complete hot and hilarious series in one binge-ready collection!The bodyguards of Protection, Inc. were misfits until they came together to form a team as close as a family. They can face any danger, from vengeful dragons to evil experiments to rampaging dinosaurs (yes, dinosaurs)...
  • Love of the Dragon by Anna Lowe

    Love of the Dragon by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dragons, duty, destined mates, and a deadly rival... Silas Llewellyn, the last of a once-mighty dragon clan, doesn’t have time for anything but work and duty. He certainly doesn’t have time for love — not with a ruthless enemy plotting to destroy everything he holds dear...
  • Rebel Bear by Anna Lowe

    Rebel Bear by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Up-and-coming supermodel Hailey Crewe can’t wait to escape the limelight and return to the modest, anonymous lifestyle she once led. Escaping literally? That was never part of her plan. But when an unwanted suitor — and her scheming mother/manager — go a step too far with a surprise Hawaii wedding, Hailey becomes a bride on the run...
  • Taming Raptor: RBMC: Dallas, TX by Kristine Allen

    Taming Raptor: RBMC: Dallas, TX by Kristine Allen

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book ONE of the NEW RBMC Dallas, TX Chapter!I’m Adrien Krow, but they call me Raptor. As the vice president of the Ankeny, IA chapter, I was happy with my life. Until a platinum haired vixen turned it upside down.Ten years ago Sage was too damn young for my darkness, so I put up a wall. It worked—until the day it didn’t. I thought I knew what I was doing. I was always in control...
  • Rebel Alpha by Anna Lowe

    Rebel Alpha by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dragon heiress and her bad boy wolf shifter get a second chance at forbidden love. Is it too late? All dragon shifter Cynthia “Brown” wants is a safe place to raise her child and heal from bitter betrayal. When Cal — her first love, her only love, and her destined mate — unexpectedly appears on Maui, he stirs up all kinds of other desires too. But trouble — as usual — is hot on his heels...
  • Fire Maidens: Scotland by Anna Lowe

    Fire Maidens: Scotland by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Passion, hope, and forbidden desire…Holly Jennings wasn’t planning on another trip to Scotland. And she certainly wasn’t planning on a trip down memory lane with the hot Highlander who broke her heart. But she’s never been much of a planner — more like a roll-with-the punches country gal. A good thing too, because “one last request” may not be the only thing a beloved mentor left her in his will...
  • Thorn by Kim Fox

    Thorn by Kim Fox

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last book in the bestselling Clawed Squad series! The Clawed Squad’s alpha, Thorn Conway, is the last of the squad left to get married. Only problem is, his mate died a decade ago. The hurt is still real, the pain is still raw...
  • Lure of the Fox by Anna Lowe

    Lure of the Fox by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The steamy, passionate, and thrilling series finale! Desert fox shifter Ella Kitt is better at risking her life than her heart. Not that she's expecting to do either when she flies to Maui to help her Special Forces comrades with an easy security job. Or maybe not such an easy job, because she’s forced to work — and live — in close quarters with smoking hot army hero, Jake McBride...
  • Rebel Lion by Anna Lowe

    Rebel Lion by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lion shifter Dell O'Roarke has never been serious about life, but life is about to get serious with him. The beautiful stranger who's just arrived in Maui isn't just looking for anyone -- she's looking for him. And that's not just any surprise in her luggage -- it's a baby who looks a hell of a lot like Dell. Soon, he discovers there's more at stake than his lifestyle as a swinging bachelor...
  • Top Gun Tiger by Zoe Chant

    Top Gun Tiger by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lost in the jungle. Pursued by dinosaurs. And that’s the least of their problems… Tiger shifter and bodyguard Destiny knows Ethan isn’t the one. No matter that the Recon Marine is the only man who can keep up with her, in a fight or on the dance floor. No matter how he makes her laugh, or how he makes her burn. Shifters always know their mates, and her tiger says he isn’t hers...
  • Fire & Rescue Shifters Collection 2: Books 4-7 (Fire & Rescue Shifters Series Box Set) by Zoe Chant

    Fire & Rescue Shifters Collection 2: Books 4-7 (Fire & Rescue Shifters Series Box Set) by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Four unique shifter romances filled with magic, sass, and a whole lot of heat!Whether it's a rogue dragon or just a scared little lion cub shifter stuck up a tree, the firefighters of Alpha Team can handle any emergency. But there's one inferno even these powerful shifters can't fight..
  • Builder Bear by Scarlett Grove

    Builder Bear by Scarlett Grove

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jamison Stone has been waiting for his mate for ten long years. With the Justice Squad on down time, he will have to occupy himself with a new real estate project to get through the Christmas season.Romance author Ruby Wilson never expected to be left at the altar. But the most humiliating moment of her life might turn out to be a blessing in disguise...
  • Ultimate Bear Christmas Magic: Five Bear Shifter Holiday Romances by Ariana Hawkes

    Ultimate Bear Christmas Magic: Five Bear Shifter Holiday Romances by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This Christmas, wrap yourself up in these five smoking-hot bear shifter romances!Bear Home For Christmas An orphaned Noelle alone for the festive season and an ex-soldier bear Granger on a mission to find his wayward brother are thrown together in a snowstorm...
  • Lure of the Wolf by Anna Lowe

    Lure of the Wolf by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She can’t remember her past. He wishes he could forget his. Nina only has the vaguest memories of who she is or why two men tried to kill her one terrifying night. All she knows is how quickly she’s falling in love with her rescuer — a man with secrets of his own...
  • The Littlest Assassin-Shifters by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    The Littlest Assassin-Shifters by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The men of the Skull Blaster unit have spent most of their lives fighting together for a safer world, first in the military and now as an elite team supervised by Homeland Security. Now they have an even more pressing reason to make the world a better place. Their children are about to be born...
  • The Wolf Marshal's Pack by Zoe Chant

    The Wolf Marshal's Pack by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She never meant to be Little Red Riding Hood. Nature photographer Aria Clarke is most comfortable with her camera in her hands and mud on her boots. And she's a single mom, so she's used to facing down the most dangerous wildlife of all: a group of neighborhood kids on a sugar rush. Taking photos of a wolf should have been no problem...
  • Fire Maidens: London by Anna Lowe

    Fire Maidens: London by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A lionhearted hero + scheming shifter factions = unforgettable PNR! “Rebel with a cause” Gemma Archer flees Boston one step ahead of a creepy stalker. Now she’s in London, trying to build a new normal — and absolutely, positively not getting involved with any men. That is, until an irresistible stranger prowls into her life...
  • Rebel Wolf by Anna Lowe

    Rebel Wolf by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Steamy, suspenseful paranormal romance! Sophie Wilkins — bookworm and smoothie chef extraordinaire — has moved to Maui for a reminder of all the beauty and love in the world. And love is what she gets from shy, retiring, and utterly gorgeous man she meets. Chase is everything her lonely heart has ever yearned for...
  • Waterborn: Trident Trilogy by Bianca D'Arc

    Waterborn: Trident Trilogy by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A seductive sea siren and a handsome water elemental meet – and try their best to save the world.Molly, a sea siren with dangerous powers, swims to the mainland on behalf of her people. Menaced by an evil supernatural sea monster known as the leviathan, the siren conclave has no choice but to reach out to those on the mainland for help...
  • Protection, Inc. Collection Two by Zoe Chant

    Protection, Inc. Collection Two by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Wolf. Lion. Snow Leopard. These bodyguard shifters are waiting to protect you. Brave, passionate, and loving, the shifter heroes of Protection, Inc. will do anything to protect their mates. There's no danger they won't face...
  • Lure of the Bear by Anna Lowe

    Lure of the Bear by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s not much that can get this grizzly shifter worked up — except a threat to the woman he has secretly loved for years. Then all bets are off, and he’s willing to risk anything — including the most closely guarded secret of his lonely shifter soul. ALOHA SHIFTERS: JEWELS of the HEART is a thrilling new series set on the tropical shores of Maui...
  • Heartsridge Shifters: Brent by Olivia Arran

    Heartsridge Shifters: Brent by Olivia Arran

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Team South-One Bear shifter Brent Casey has a secret. He’s not the calm, easy going guy everyone thinks he is. Even his team aren't aware of the battle he fights daily to stay in control. Underneath his skin lives his beast. Sounds like every normal, regular shifter, right? Only his bear is broken, ready to erupt at the slightest loss of control...
  • Heartsridge Shifters: Jake by Olivia Arran

    Heartsridge Shifters: Jake by Olivia Arran

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bear shifter Jake Hunter is the resident psycho of team South-One. He lives his life by his own set of rules, screw the consequences or what anyone else might think. His rules are simple: no one is allowed to get too close. The reason? Because they might die. So why is he even wasting time thinking about Harper and what it would be like to be with a woman like her? Because he’s a fool, that’s why...
  • Panther's Passion by Zoe Chant

    Panther's Passion by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A single mom with a terrifying ex… …and a Marine veteran on fire with the need to protect her. Stella Davidson is caught in a trap. She wants a stable life and a good future for her teenaged daughter—but her old home near Glacier National Park isn’t safe. Her ex-boyfriend is stalking her...
  • Tiger's Triumph by Zoe Chant

    Tiger's Triumph by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A woman who’s only ever wanted to be a mother… A man who’s just starting to remember what family means... And three children who need a home. As a waitress and middle-aged divorcee, owl shifter Pauline has given up on her dreams of being a mother. But secretly, in the quiet depths of her heart, she still yearns for a family...
  • Jaguar's Joy by Zoe Chant

    Jaguar's Joy by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A small-town sheriff who’s bitten off more than she can chew… A Marine veteran who steps in to protect her… And a community that comes together to help its own. Sheriff Misty Dale wants nothing more than to keep her town safe and happy. A deer shifter isn’t the first thing people would expect for law enforcement, but she’s made it work—even if she’s ended up middle-aged and married to her job...
  • Lion in Waiting: Tales of the Were by Bianca D'Arc

    Lion in Waiting: Tales of the Were by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two injured shifters get a second chance at life…and love. Matilda escaped into the wild to lick her wounds and heal as best she can from captivity and torture at the hands of people who hunt shifters and imprison them. She is a lioness, but her natural confidence has been shaken by the experience. What she needs is a second chance to live, to heal, and to find her lioness’s roar once more...
  • Justice Squad Complete Series by Scarlett Grove

    Justice Squad Complete Series by Scarlett Grove

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The complete collection of Scarlett Groves suspense filled shifter romance. Rookie Bear Puma shifter Stephanie Page can’t find a mate. Tired of waiting, Stephanie takes a Christmas cruise to the Caribbean. Meeting Stephanie interrupts Max’s mission and changes everything for the shell shocked shifter...
  • Riding with the Kodiak by Kameron Claire

    Riding with the Kodiak by Kameron Claire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    What happens when a bear’s fated mate is a forbidden virgin human on the run from a rival MC? As the eldest shifter in my family, I should be taking care of my siblings in Eternal Lake, but instead made my home with my MC shifter-family one-hundred miles away in Broken Arrow, Montana. I don't know why, but I felt called here two years ago, and I'm waiting for the reason...
  • Warrior Wolf by Zoe Chant

    Warrior Wolf by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A runaway dragon princess who wants to experience life outside of castle walls + an ex-gangster werewolf bodyguard with a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas + uptown parties, downtown nightclubs, and deadly assassins = one action-packed good girl/bad boy romance! Dragon princess Raluca, desperate to escape her pampered but suffocating life, renounced her title and fled her country...
  • Special Forces Bear Shifter Mate by Jade Alters

    Special Forces Bear Shifter Mate by Jade Alters

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My life is simple. Nothing can stand in the way of my duty to my country. I’m alone, but I accept it. As a bear shifter, there is no place for me among humans. My mission was easy. Find six Russian spies; use my training to stop them from harming our country. I found the spies but no one warned me Julie would be involved. Pursued by our mutual enemies, Julie’s life is in danger...
  • Omega’s Choice: An Omegaverse Romance by Mina Carter

    Omega’s Choice: An Omegaverse Romance by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    No one wants the attention of an alpha. Huge, Brutal, dominant… but what happens when you’re pretending to be one?I’ve always been an alpha. At least, that’s what I’ve been told all my life. But one look at Thale Barnes, and I’m running scared. Something about the big, brutal alpha gets my motor running. And it shouldn’t...
  • Heartsridge Shifters: Austin by Olivia Arran

    Heartsridge Shifters: Austin by Olivia Arran

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    It’s a new world. Shifters are no longer a secret and they’re ready to fight for their right to live free. Everything is different. Six years ago, the Registration Act forced shifters out into the open and the world changed. Towns were created to provide a safe haven for those shifters who chose to follow the law, and those who didn’t were declared rogue...
  • Bear-ly Human by Terry Bolryder

    Bear-ly Human by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Hercules is an ex special forces soldier working as a bodyguard, and a mystery to everyone around him. His friends just know him as an extremely competent soldier and a great teammate and person. But beneath his bronzed, muscled exterior is a heart scarred by a complicated past. A past in which he loved only one woman, but wasn't allowed to be with her...
  • Operation Wolf Rescue by Zoe Chant

    Operation Wolf Rescue by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Four puppies (one of them his lost nephew… but which?)Three days trapped in a motel with his oblivious fated mate.One bed.When someone on the mountain wants to surrender a pack of wolf-hybrid pups, animal rescue volunteer Pearl Nguyen throws some puppy chow and her biggest crate into the back of her station wagon, and she's on her way...
  • Redwood Pack, Vol. 2 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Redwood Pack, Vol. 2 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Redwood Pack Volume 2 contains the third book in the Redwood Pack series, plus a novella in a print copy. Trinity Bound Redwood Pack book 3 Hannah Lewis, a rare earth witch, is taken from the only life she’s ever known. Held at her will by a sadistic wolf, she almost gives up hope that she’d ever see her real life again...
  • Alexander by Kim Fox

    Alexander by Kim Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Polar bear shifter, Alexander Vega, is the last Vega brother who anyone thought would take on a mate. He’s surly, gruff, grumpy and just plain rude. And that’s on a good day. He hates women and doesn’t want them anywhere near the Vega Ranch. But his bear has other plans… BBW news reporter, Elena King, has come to the Vega Ranch to visit her sister Ava...
  • Wild Magic by Alisa Woods

    Wild Magic by Alisa Woods

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's training an elite team of wolves. She's a witch with a dangerous secret. The magic they make together is WILD. Daniel Wilding’s family is being meticulously stalked by the Wolf Hunter. Daniel takes a leave from the Army to fight back by assembling a team of white wolves—shifters who can tap into an ancient witchy magic...
  • Claimed by a Beast by Jade Alters

    Claimed by a Beast by Jade Alters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Mated to a Beast.Being a TSA agent can have some pretty exciting moments.But I never thought that I’d end up being targeted by terrorists.Nobody warned me that my rescuer would be drop-dead gorgeous and even more dangerous than my enemies.Jace is part of a Special Forces Operative. And he has a lot of secrets..Including the one that has me drawn to him.Call it fate or whatever you want...
  • Bad Cat Baby Blues by Anya Nowlan

    Bad Cat Baby Blues by Anya Nowlan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A man's only as dangerous as he allows himself to be... This is a hot and heavy 50 k full military shifter novel with a hot Alpha and a feisty, curvy Latina. This book can be read as a standalone, has a guaranteed HEA and no cheating. Cuddle up with a scorching, growly jaguar this winter and find out the true meaning of danger! Dutch Henley knows that he's never wrong...
  • Cats Got Your Tongue by Anya Nowlan

    Cats Got Your Tongue by Anya Nowlan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No such thing as going easy in love or war.... This is a full 50 k novel with a guaranteed HEA. It has violence, steam, a forbidden pregnancy and lots of hot shifter commandos that are sure to knock down all your walls. Read it as a standalone and fall for the scorching werecougar twins who know just what to do to save the day! Kelis Murdoch has her life set out on a line...
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