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  • PAX: Voodoo Guardians: Book Thirty-Four by Mary Kennedy

    PAX: Voodoo Guardians: Book Thirty-Four by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paxton Pechkin is finally home for good. After a stellar career as a Navy SEAL, he finds himself staring at a very familiar face. He'd always felt that Deanna was the one that got away, although he was responsible for letting her go. This time, he wasn't going to allow her to go anywhere without him. After suffering a horrible beating, Dee hides away in a place that Pax knows all too well...
  • Wallace by Dale Mayer

    Wallace by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wallace wasn’t sure why he’d answered Jonas’s call to discuss setting up a unit akin to Terk’s remarkable team. Perhaps it was curiosity or something more. But, as soon as he lands in England, he’s thrust into a crisis. One of the MI6 research applicants has vanished, and Jonas fears the worst. Then Wallace hears her name …. Amy, an old friend of Terk’s, had been swept into peril without warning...
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  • 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...
  • A Very Venom Christmas: RBMC: Ankeny IA by Kristine Allen

    A Very Venom Christmas: RBMC: Ankeny IA by Kristine Allen

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m Decker “Venom” Pruitt—President for the Ankeny RBMC. I'm a fair man, but those who've crossed me know my retaliation is swift and lethal. Venom runs through my veins. After the Army, all I needed was my club. Emotionally bankrupt, I had nothing to offer a woman. She wanted me to show her who I really was, but that was impossible. I was her worst nightmare. Two pink lines changed everything...
  • Bojan by Dale Mayer

    Bojan by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Haunted by a painful and unimaginable past, Bojan sought refuge in his work to keep the memories—and Lacy—at bay. But, when she raises the alarm over Bullard’s family, Bojan is forced to step into fray. Bullard is particularly wary of these ”special” skills, except for those of Terk’s team. Plus ignoring the offer of these skills can be dangerous—especially when a threat involves his family...
  • INVASION: Gray Wolf Security: Book Six by Mary Kennedy

    INVASION: Gray Wolf Security: Book Six by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets will be revealed, stories told, and murders solved. All over Belle Fleur, ghosts are seeking peace and suddenly the men of Gray Wolf are completely overwhelmed. Finding a murderer from yesterday is a piece of cake, but finding who killed a man almost four-hundred years ago might be beyond their skills. More than ever, they deserve answers from Irene and Matthew...
  • Sanders by Dale Mayer

    Sanders by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sanders hadn’t been expecting a rescue from his own captivity. Now free, he can do no less than help Ania, another captive, someone he barely knows. Yet his connection to her had kept Sanders alive during his darkest times. He can do no less than help her now. Ania must escape her father’s total control...
  • SCAMMED: Gray Wolf Security: Book Seven by Mary Kennedy

    SCAMMED: Gray Wolf Security: Book Seven by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Scammers are becoming more clever and more persistent. But when they decide to target the Belle Fleur team and all that they do for others, they’ve messed with the wrong group of people. When a young woman is ready to take her own life instead of enduring shame for something she has not done, it’s the most unlikely of our heroes who saves her...
  • MAJOR: Voodoo Guardians: Book Twenty-Five by Mary Kennedy

    MAJOR: Voodoo Guardians: Book Twenty-Five by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Major Carson and his former team of Rangers were home. At least they would be home eventually. Right now, it seemed as though nothing was going his way. Leaving Egypt without Elena was the most difficult thing he'd ever done. Ever bone in his body was telling him to stay; telling him to make her come home with him. But he wanted it to be her decision...
  • Royal by Dale Mayer

    Royal by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A prisoner of the Kremlin and of a failed exchange several years ago, Royal is losing hope of ever being free again—particularly when the firing squad date is already set for his execution. He has exhausted all avenues of escape. Now it seems to be the end of the line …...
  • 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...
  • Angel: RBMC: Ankeny IA by Kristine Allen

    Angel: RBMC: Ankeny IA by Kristine Allen

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Angel is the second book in the Royal Bastards Ankeny Iowa series. I’m Jude “Angel” Bearheart—newly appointed Enforcer for the Ankeny RBMC. They didn’t call me the Angel of Death for nothing. I do the “disposal and cleaning” for the club. Ridding the world of evil, was my justification for my actions. I was the executioner when the judge and jury failed the victims...
  • 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...
  • Langdon by Dale Mayer

    Langdon by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Langdon hasn’t been in a good place for a long time, but it was time enough to chase away the woman he’d loved since forever. Unable to reach her to make it right, he realizes she’s disappeared—and not by choice. He then finds out why Molly was kidnapped and by whom. Molly would do just about anything for Langdon, yet being used as leverage to force him to act wasn’t part of the plan...
  • The Archer's Heart Book Three by Astrid Amara

    The Archer's Heart Book Three by Astrid Amara

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the ancient kingdom of Marhavad, noblemen dominate the lower castes, wielding mystic weapons, known as shartas, against any who oppose them. For generations the rule of Marhavad’s kings has been absolute. But now the line of succession is divided, and whispers of revolution are heard in even the royal palace. Keshan Adaru, an outspoken man of unearthly charms, welcomes these changes...
  • My Orc in Uniform by Veronika Kane

    My Orc in Uniform by Veronika Kane

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    I’ve been a single mom for sixteen years, and I know there’s no place left in my life for fun. Right? I grew up in the south, where there are three things you’re never supposed to A woman her age, a man his salary, and a single mother how the duck she’s managing to juggle a job, a mortgage, and a teenaged son who’s suddenly become too big for his britches...
  • Decked by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown

    Decked by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An MM Mpreg Romance. Deck the halls with knives, chains, and dangerous children’s toys! Team Alpha is celebrating the holidays, but a surprise blizzard has snowed them in at Bossman and Papa P’s house, along with a few friends. Not that Papa P minds. He’ll take any excuse to keep his loved ones close and stuff them full of good food. It’s not only snow that’s flying through the air, however...
  • 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...
  • Bad Blood Leopard by Anastasia Wilde

    Bad Blood Leopard by Anastasia Wilde

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sloan McCall is a dead shifter walking. A former Shifter Special Forces operative, he’s been in hiding since his last mission imploded, causing the death of his former love, Kayisha, and leaving his snow leopard irreparably broken. Now his past is hunting him down: the military, the Shifter Intelligence Agency, and Kayisha’s vengeful ghost—who’s trying her damnedest to kill him...
  • 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...
  • Walker by Dale Mayer

    Walker by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Having precog abilities didn’t guarantee having answers, but it did mean Walker knew when trouble was in a specific area. In this case it was Finland and involved someone associated with Levi and a friend to Walker. So he wants in on this job – even if Levi doesn’t have a job there. Yet. However, a quick phone call to Terk confirms Walker’s suspicions. And he’s already on the move...
  • Nate by Dale Mayer

    Nate by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nate is pulled into a mission to rescue a kidnapped woman, being held in Paris. But a normal mission versus one run by Terkel is a whole different story. Nate’s first telepathic communication tells him that this will be like nothing else in his life...
  • SOR: Voodoo Guardians: Book Twenty-Nine by Mary Kennedy

    SOR: Voodoo Guardians: Book Twenty-Nine by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mark "Sor' Teller has always served those around him faithfully and to the best of his abilities. He wasted those skills on his ex-wife but was grateful that it led him to someone amazing. When her life is in danger because of something he allegedly saw in Cambodia, he's at a complete loss...
  • FINNEGAN: Shadow Warriors - Book Four by Mary Kennedy

    FINNEGAN: Shadow Warriors - Book Four by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Finnegan Jordan has come home and home means finally confessing his love for the woman he knows belongs to him. Fortunately, he didn't miss that window and she's as much in love with him, as he is with her. But something is wrong with Willa Crawford's master's degree classmates. One is dead, and one is missing. Yet no one knows why...
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  • Sentinel: Reckless Desires by Olivia Arran

    Sentinel: Reckless Desires by Olivia Arran

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s my past. Not my future. Angel is gorgeous, flirty, and smoking hot. An alpha wolf shifter with piercing blue eyes and a cocky smile. Five years ago I succumbed to his charms in a delicious moment of weakness, and then I ran, never looking back. I’ve craved him ever since, but it doesn’t matter what my body— or my heart —wants. I have a vow to keep: to never let a man hold power over me...
  • Defender: Reckless Desires by Olivia Arran

    Defender: Reckless Desires by Olivia Arran

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He makes me forget what’s important…. Vincent Charles Brownstone III—alpha wolf shifter, British, and an arrogant playboy. He’s the firstborn son of one of London’s elite families. He’s also sinfully handsome, with a rock hard body and eyes that make me think of wicked things...
  • Lure of the Wolf by Anna Lowe

    Lure of the Wolf by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Don't STAHP Me Now by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown

    Don't STAHP Me Now by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My team at STAHP likes to joke that my to-do list has a to-do list: The joke’s on them, because I prefer spreadsheets for maximum efficiency. And if my master spreadsheet has a list of individual ones? Well, that’s nobody’s business but mine...
  • 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...
  • The Archer's Heart Book Two by Astrid Amara

    The Archer's Heart Book Two by Astrid Amara

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the ancient kingdom of Marhavad, noblemen dominate the lower castes, wielding mystic weapons, known as shartas, against any who oppose them. For generations the rule of Marhavad’s kings has been absolute. But now the line of succession is divided, and whispers of revolution are heard in even the royal palace. Keshan Adaru, an outspoken man of unearthly charms, welcomes these changes...
  • Marrying Her by Kelly Lucille

    Marrying Her by Kelly Lucille

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In Keeping Her we fell in love with a scarred, tattooed x-Navy SEAL wolf shifter from an unconventional pack, and his sassy full figured mate. Now, my Christmas gift to you is a glimpse into the life they have made together. In times of trouble and times of Joy, find out if happily ever after looks as good from the other side...
  • The Alpha's Mystery by Reece Barden

    The Alpha's Mystery by Reece Barden

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Chase Walker is a man on a mission. Convinced Grey Ridge is the home base for a criminal organisation, he plans to use his military experience and connections to help his sister's escape from the men who've captured them. First, he has to get proof the Joneses are up to no good. Hayley and Leah think they're in love and deliriously happy, Chase thinks they've been brainwashed...
  • 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...
  • An Ignited Passion by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    An Ignited Passion by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Preston Dalton knows who his mate is. At thirteen he met the wolf who would eventually become his. The problem? His mate was only seven. Eleven long years have passed and Preston is finally going to tell his mate who he is. Imagine his surprise when he finds Wyatt Quinton in the arms of another man. Wyatt Quinton knows he has a mate. They met when he was seven; he’s sure of it...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Darkening by Caris Roane

    The Darkening by Caris Roane

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A tortured warrior and a peace-loving counselor battle to protect Second Earth against a powerful dark force…. He thwarted connection of any kind…. Fearing that his newly emerged grayle power will kill innocent ascenders, Samuel Daman struggles to keep his distance from beautiful Vela Stillwell. But the breh-hedden has struck and her light floral scent tears at his restraint...
  • 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...
  • Royal by Kim Fox

    Royal by Kim Fox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Grizzly bear shifter, Royal, needs a princess. Unfortunately the tiny mountain town of Colwood, Montana is fresh out of them. Every bear shifter in the Clawed Squad must find a mate, and soon, and the pressure on Royal to drop his dream of marrying a princess is starting to get intense. It’s too bad there’s no way in hell that he’s ever going to drop it. Camilla Hill is a master con artist...
  • The Twins by Kim Fox

    The Twins by Kim Fox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Layla Winters is out of shape, out of breath, and out of luck. After a series of strange circumstances, she finds herself hanging from Montana's highest cliff without a hope to survive. That is until two identical twin bear shifters come racing up the mountain to save her. Slate and Karl Ember are two bear shifter twins looking for a mate...
  • Kitten Me Twice by Anya Nowlan

    Kitten Me Twice by Anya Nowlan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two's always better than one. .. but they're also harder to get away from. Kayla Malone has been running for most of her life. First from her problems, and then after their solution. As the mother of twin boys taken away from her as suddenly as she lost their fathers, she thought she'd never see her kids, or the men she loves again. But she never stopped fighting for it...
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