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  • Redemption of a Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Redemption of a Wolf by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Mountain Lion shifter, Trina Chapman, is having a rough year. Trying to find her legs over the loss of her Clan, she has bought a local bar and just needs to keep her focus until it can pay the bills. That would probably be easier to do if she didn’t have a rogue werewolf sniffing around and showing up in unexpected places...
  • Cold Foot Komodo by T. S. Joyce

    Cold Foot Komodo by T. S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 23 ratings
    Sasha Harris is headed into the unknown.In the mountains of Montana, a new Crew is setting up territory, and Sasha has a dozen reasons to pick up her entire life and move to the outskirts of Wreck’s Mountains. Sasha’s sister is paired with the Alpha of that Crew, and though she knows little of shifter life and culture, Sasha has been invited to be a part of their story...
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  • How It Is by T.S. Joyce

    How It Is by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The king is dying. Krome has been the leader of the Crow Blooded for years, but his reign is over if he can’t find a way to heal his wings after a war with the Bane brothers. He’s stuck in the in-between, not quite a crow, not quite a man, and unable to choose a form. When his crows break the rules and abduct a human woman they swear can fix him, he thinks they’ve lost their minds...
  • How It Needed to Be by T.S. Joyce

    How It Needed to Be by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Divar Stockton isn’t supposed to exist.The Bane brothers were supposed to be the only remaining bear shifters on earth, but they aren’t. There is an entire clan of them in hiding, and Divar has escaped his people in an attempt to survive, and maybe, just maybe, learn how to be a good man from Krome’s rag-tag Crew of misfits. His inner animal has different plans though...
  • Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Emily Vega must avenge her father, and as the last of the Hell Hunters, she has one mission: destroy the Galena pack. Werewolves are carefully camouflaged monsters intent on taking over the world—or at least that’s what she’s been taught—but one meeting with the werewolf she’s hunting, and Chance Dawson is changing her mind, little by little...
  • Quickdraw Slow Burn by T.S. Joyce

    Quickdraw Slow Burn by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 19 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...
  • Mate Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Mate Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    **The full-length third book in T. S. Joyce’s new Bears Fur Hire series.** Vera Masterson has been called a lot of names through the years: witch, misfit, mad scientist. She’s let the rumors go because they kept her safe...
  • A Shifter for New Years by T.S. Joyce

    A Shifter for New Years by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Burke Dunne’s Pride of lion shifters is finally growing. One year ago, his brother finally chose a human mate in Leslie, and Turned her. One year ago, he started opening up to the possibility that he would someday be an uncle. One year ago, he watched Leslie’s sister, Kimberly, struggle through a divorce, and has watched her be weighed down by her reality ever since...
  • Behind the Beginning by T.S. Joyce

    Behind the Beginning by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Greyson Crawford means well when he comes to the rescue of a stranger in the woods, but even the best intentions can backfire. One chance meeting out in the middle of nowhere gets him bitten by a monster and his life is altered forever. Being a werewolf is hard enough, but being the vessel for a black-hearted beast like Wolf is nearly impossible...
  • Two Shots Down by T.S. Joyce

    Two Shots Down by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Two Shots Down is blazing his way up the ranks as one of the top bull shifters in the Pro Bull Shifter Riding Circuit. He has a chip on his shoulder a mile wide, and everything to prove. With a dark reputation as a cowboy killer, he has wrecked every interview he’s done in his career. He’s the bull shifter everyone loves to hate, and he’s just fine with that, except there is one he cares about...
  • Hold Steady by T.S. Joyce

    Hold Steady by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A legend is in the making. Don’t miss Grey and Morgan’s continued story in the second installment of T. S. Joyce’s Becoming the Wolf series. Morgan Crawford has everything made. A great man, thriving business, sweet niece, and a pack of growly new friends. Life is good but as a newly Turned werewolf, she has no idea what she’s in for as her new world discovers she is a one-of-a-kind Silver Wolf...
  • Starlight by Terry Bolryder

    Starlight by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Theo Lancaster isn't just the world's best surgeon. He's also a night-stalking monster, a creature of darkness. At least, some of the time. Thanks to his best nurse, Theo has had an ace in the hole for several years now. That is, until she threatens to leave. Only then does he realize she's much more than just another coworker, and the only human his heart could want...
  • Stoneheart Lion by Zoe Chant

    Stoneheart Lion by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She's a shifter fixer who can fix anything ... except herself. Exiled from her clan, jaguar shifter Max is a P.I. who handles unique shifter problems. Incriminating photos, blackmail, mate problems? Max helps others solve their problems because there is no cure for her own loneliness. At least none that she knows. But she's never had a problem like him before ..
  • Her Dragon Lover by Roxie Ray

    Her Dragon Lover by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    He shot me down…why can’t I forget about him?I gathered up my nerve to approach Stefan... only for him to reject me. That was months ago, but I still can't stop thinking about him, no matter how hard I try to get over it. Unfortunately, fate keeps throwing us together...
  • Blackstone Ranger Guardian by Alicia Montgomery

    Blackstone Ranger Guardian by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fighting for his mateWhen John Krieger rescues a stranded fox shifter in the middle of a snowstorm, he never expected that she would turn out to be his mate. However, the darkness lurking in his soul prevents him from claiming her and he pushes her away. When he realizes his mistake, he vows to make himself into someone who deserves her...
  • Silver by Terry Bolryder

    Silver by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A dragon as a coworker? Complicated. Adrien the silver dragon has everything most humans could want. But as a dragon awakened in the modern world he misses his old life, his powers (which have been temporarily restrained) and the way he used to lord his status over others...
  • Silver Basilisk by Zoe Chant

    Silver Basilisk by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    You're never too old for a second chance. What would you do if the love of your life, who vanished without a trace sixty years ago, walked into the cafe where you're peacefully having tea with your friends, as handsome as ever and calling you his long-lost darling? If you're Godiva, you throw a custard pie at him. The course of true love never did run smooth. Godiva gave up on love ..
  • Nightfall by Terry Bolryder

    Nightfall by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Sasha Harrington has horrible taste in men. After her latest fiasco, she has sworn of relationships. But when a handsome man with striking features and a body made of rock-hard muscle wanders into her library, asking for her help, she starts getting ideas again...
  • Bull in a Tea Shop by Zoe Chant

    Bull in a Tea Shop by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    His second chance is her salvation ... Big, tatted-out bull shifter Maddox used to work as a thug for hire, but now he's a drifter with his old life in ruins. All he knows is that he wants to be better than he was. When he hitchhikes into the small town of Silvermine, Arizona, he's not planning to stay...
  • Beasts: New Beginnings by Natavia

    Beasts: New Beginnings by Natavia

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Twenty years ago, Goon and his pack, found happiness, and now it is their offspring’s time. Goon’s sons Kanye and Akea, have grown up and are experiencing love for the first time with their mates. Kanye, is stubborn and is next in line to be the next “Alpha.” Akea, is the outcast in the pack...
  • Baby It's Cold Out Bear Holiday Bundle by T.S. Joyce

    Baby It's Cold Out Bear Holiday Bundle by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Holiday Bride:Maya hasn’t been back to Colorado Springs in years. She’s home visiting for the holidays, but so much has changed. The boy she grew up with is nearly unrecognizable and his animal magnetism is stirring feelings in her that she can’t explain...
  • Her Shifter Wolf Rival Guide by Serena Meadows

    Her Shifter Wolf Rival Guide by Serena Meadows

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I never thought I'd end up running a bed and breakfast in Hogan Falls, but life had other plans.My dream was to climb the tallest mountains in the world, but fate had other ideas. As a girl, I was abandoned at birth by my clan who wanted me dead. But I found a new family in seven other wolf shifter friends who were also abandoned...
  • A Hellhound for Christmas: Shifters for Christmas Book 5 by Zoe Chant

    A Hellhound for Christmas: Shifters for Christmas Book 5 by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s beginning to look a lot like a Christmas disaster…Things aren’t going quite to plan for Willow this Christmas. Sure, her home repair business is booming… but that’s only because her quaint, snowy hometown of Hidden Valley is being battered by a series of ferocious rainstorms that show up out of nowhere, wreak havoc, and then disappear as quickly as they came...
  • Diamond Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Diamond Dragon by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The fourth dragon has been awakened... Alistair Brighton, the diamond dragon, needs to escape. Imprisoned, chained and used for experiments, his only hope for escape is Bridget, the quiet human woman who brings him his meals (and intrigues him for mysterious reasons)...
  • Prince Of Ice by Terry Bolryder

    Prince Of Ice by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Luka, the last unmated ice dragon, knows exactly how to win over the sassy, sweet scientist he fell for at first sight. He's going to take it slow, let her warm up, and show her how hot an ice dragon's kiss can be. All while hiding his identity...
  • Protector Bear by Roxie Ray

    Protector Bear by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    He’s a shifter who is determined to keep me safe, but I don’t want his protection…Forest Heights was supposed to be a fresh start where I could put the past behind me. But when my ex-husband pays me an unexpected visit, my peaceful existence is torn to shreds. If a restraining order won’t keep him away, I don’t know what will.My ex isn’t my only problem...
  • Howls and Hallows by Melanie Karsak

    Howls and Hallows by Melanie Karsak

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    You're invited to the All Hallows Ball.*Werewolves prohibited.Busy tracking down thieving werewolves in London, Clemeny is surprised when Edwin asks her to lead a new case in the Fenlands of east England.The Cabell family is haunted by a curse. Something in the misty moors surrounding Cabell Manor has come howling just days before the exclusive All Hallows Ball. How gauche...
  • Fake Biker Bear Boyfriend by Roxie Ray

    Fake Biker Bear Boyfriend by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Pretending to be in love with a shifter is dangerous . . .My sister and I have never gotten along, but she’s adamant she wants me to attend her wedding. The worst part is she’s marrying Tony, who was my high school sweetheart.That’s where Sting comes in. He’s my date for the wedding. When he hears Crystal talking me down—like she always does—he stepped in and offered to be my “boyfriend...
  • Shiftr: Swipe Left for Love   BBW Bear Shifter Romance by Ariana Hawkes

    Shiftr: Swipe Left for Love BBW Bear Shifter Romance by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The brand new installment in the best-selling series. * * * Can be read as a standalone book. * * * What if your fated mate was just an app swipe away? As the biggest, gruffest and growliest of all the bears, even Olsen Burchfield has a hard time locating his inner human...
  • Platinum by Terry Bolryder

    Platinum by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A Dragon as a pretend husband? Tempting... Sever, the Platinum dragon, stood by as his friends found mates. With Gold and Silver gone, he's left with only haunting memories of betrayal and a future uncertain as the sea. But when a woman writes Date-A-Dragon asking for help with a unique situation, Sever feels something awakening in him that was long dead...
  • Primal Basilisk by Terry Bolryder

    Primal Basilisk by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A single mom afraid to love, a dangerous legend and a monster who will do everything to protect the family he cares about.Diesel is notorious for being the biggest, strongest and most protective basilisk of the group. But he's also still figuring out the whole "mate" thing...
  • The Descendants by Neicy P.

    The Descendants by Neicy P.

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With the death of his mother, and his father held captive by their enemies, Surreal found himself trusting the ones that surrounded him. But trusting the wrong one will cause a death that Surreal’s inner God can’t handle. 
 Surreal and his friends traveled on the sea and land to get to the Olympia Stadium...
  • Reach of Slaughter Mountain by T.S. Joyce

    Reach of Slaughter Mountain by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Owen Thomas is a man on a mission.He's moved from the city to a small town in the wilds of Alaska, and is determined to carve out a life in the woods he now calls home. He is finding the perfect balance between life in town with his father and brother, and a solitary existence where he has the peace to figure himself out...
  • Sassing Her Dragon (Sassy Ever After Universe) by Julia Mills

    Sassing Her Dragon (Sassy Ever After Universe) by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sassy beyond compare, with a fiery temper, a smart mouth and the determination to let nothing stand in her way, Olivia Kilbride had been a force to be reckoned since the day of her birth… but all the planning in the world can’t beat dumb luck …or your mate coming back from the dead...
  • 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...
  • Switch of Fate 2 by Grace Quillen, Lisa Ladew

    Switch of Fate 2 by Grace Quillen, Lisa Ladew

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “All vampires must die.” Flint Gibson is ready to lay down his life for The Cause, just so long as doing so results in a ton of dead vampires. He’s been planning a kamikaze mission for decades, not-so-patiently waiting for news about the vampires who killed his family. Because all vampires must die. Especially those vampires...
  • Shadow Wolf: True Mates Generations Book 7 by Alicia Montgomery

    Shadow Wolf: True Mates Generations Book 7 by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When tragedy took away everything she loved, Mika Westbrooke hardened her heart and focused her energy on defeating her clan’s enemies. However, when a charming Cajun worms his way into the New York clan, her instincts and her wolf go haywire and she suspects that he may be the one fate intended for her--her True Mate. But Mika doesn't want a mate or to love again...
  • Scorch by Ophelia Sexton

    Scorch by Ophelia Sexton

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Her connection to an enemy wolf shifter is forged in flame...When a plane falls from the sky and crashes on Ethan Jacobsen’s ranch, the NTSB investigator who arrives is smart and sassy, with curves that Ethan longs to explore. She's a fascinating mix of contradictions. On the outside, she’s gutsy and in control. But on the inside, she’s vulnerable. Fragile...
  • Dragon Devotion by Emilia Hartley

    Dragon Devotion by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If she knows the kind of person he is, she’ll dump him faster than an overloaded dragon can fall out of the sky.Althea has time for everybody in the pack but herself. She’s too busy to sleep, but not busy enough to distract herself from her aching loneliness...
  • Tasting the Forbidden by Emilia Hartley

    Tasting the Forbidden by Emilia Hartley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Her mom always told her that dragon shifters would burn her to death for her magic, and now the local dragon-clan leader is hunting her down.Nellie loves her small town, but ever since a rag-tag bunch of dragon shifters moved in and snapped up her friends as mates, she’s considered leaving. Even being in the presence of a dragon shifter can send her into a panic attack...
  • Rescued By The Secret Wolf: Small Town Shifter Romance by Serena Meadows

    Rescued By The Secret Wolf: Small Town Shifter Romance by Serena Meadows

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ivy was wounded when I found her... physically and mentally. Her bloody wedding dress was all the explanation I needed. I gave her shelter and she told me a story she barely believed herself.Ivy’s father attempted to use her to pay his debt, marrying her to a man that didn’t deserve her in the least.She witnessed violence, and some men shifting in wolves.Ivy doesn’t know who I really am...
  • Loving Lizzie: Lone Wolf Generations Book 1 by Alicia Montgomery

    Loving Lizzie: Lone Wolf Generations Book 1 by Alicia Montgomery

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A fake dating romance with a paranormal twist!A hopeless geeky girl, looking for the oneBrilliant, but clueless Lycan/witch hybrid Lizzie Martin is tired of hiding behind her computer screen. After a close brush with death, she now wants to experience everything life has to offer. But for now, she’d settle for a certain billionaire CEO to notice her...
  • Her Rich Shifter Playboy: by Serena Meadows

    Her Rich Shifter Playboy: by Serena Meadows

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I escaped death when I was little and led a normal life as a wolf shifter until Patrick Wentworth ended up in my town.Hogan’s Folly isn’t meant for men like him.Patrick is an absolute jerk and doesn’t belong in my world.His entitled attitude is supposed to make me hate him but instead. ..I’m drawn to him like a moth to a flame.Getting him a room at my bed and breakfast was the end of it...
  • His First Shifter Wolf Love: by Serena Meadows

    His First Shifter Wolf Love: by Serena Meadows

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She called the sheriff on me when we first met.I saw the hatred in her eyes when she found me digging up a tree, looking for a beetle thought to be extinct.Penny is a force to be reckoned with, but also a wall flower among her friends that she runs a bed and breakfast with.My attraction to her was undeniable before I even knew she was like me.A wolf shifter...
  • Nanny for the Polar Daddy by Milly Taiden

    Nanny for the Polar Daddy by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A shifter in need of a nanny. A nanny looking for a job. And the family neither expected. This is the romance they were both afraid to find but needed...
  • Beers, Bears, and Betrayal by Harmony Raines

    Beers, Bears, and Betrayal by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bear shifter Calvin thought his future lay in the World Beyond. But he was wrong.So, when he gets a cryptic message about his best friend’s engagement party, he heads back to his hometown of Wishing Moon Bay...
  • Conquered Obstacles by Erin R. Flynn

    Conquered Obstacles by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Spring is here and now that the “elite” warlock elders are handled, Arabella has one less thing on her plate… While tons more are added. That’s the life of any successful business owner, but being a goddess makes things slightly more complicated.Slightly.But she has a new house, with hope that her broken heart could heal and all the growth with the bakery could be worth the headaches...
  • A Heart to Bear: Small Town Shifter Romance by Harmony Raines

    A Heart to Bear: Small Town Shifter Romance by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After being jilted a week before her wedding, Tammy swears off love and escapes her old life to care for her injured Uncle Gavin in the peaceful small town of Bear Creek...
  • Master of Frost by Terry Bolryder

    Master of Frost by Terry Bolryder

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dmitri, newly awakened ice dragon and former bodyguard to the Lord of Winter, is in big trouble. He knows his curvy, prone-to-trouble roommate with a heart of gold is his mate, but she hasn’t come to the same conclusion...
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