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Dance with the Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Zarek's Point of View:Dark-Hunter: A soulless guardian who stands between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. Yeah, right. The only part of that Code of Honor I got was eternity and solitude. Insanity: A condition many say I suffer from after being alone for so long. But I don't suffer from my insanity-I enjoy every minute of it. Trust: I can't trust anyone...not even myself... -
The Mane Attraction by Shelly Laurenston
Even the king of the beasts can find himself unexpectedly tamed by the right woman. . . Weddings have the strangest effect on people. Exhibit 1: Sissy Mae waking up in Mitch Shaw's bed the morning after her brother Bobby Ray's nuptials. Exhibit 2: the gunmen trying to kill Mitch. Exhibit 3: Sissy Mae escorting a bleeding yet sexy lion shifter to her Tennessee Pack's turf for safe keeping...Categorized as:
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Lowlander Silverback by T.S. Joyce
Marked by a notoriously dangerous leader, Kong is gorilla shifter royalty who is being guarded until he is called to perform his fated duty for his people. That duty? Take over a family group and father the next generation of gorilla shifters. Too bad he has no interest in that future. His eyes and heart have been on a buxom beauty who works at the bar his Lowlander Crew hangs out at... -
Lethal Game by Christine Feehan
The sparks of unexpected passion ignite in this electrifying GhostWalker novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. When Malichai Fortunes attacks a problem, he does it full force--a habit that earns the GhostWalker a painful injury and a forced vacation in San Diego, California. With nothing but physical therapy on the horizon, Malichai is starting to get restless..Categorized as:
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Slade by Teresa Gabelman
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsHighly trained VC Warrior, Dr. Slade Buchanan’s, role between lifesaver and lifetaker has been a constant battle, but nothing prepared him for half-breed VC Warrior trainee, Jill Nichols. Slade realizes his struggles from the past were nothing compared to the difficulty of resisting the woman who could never belong to a man like him... -
Alpha Jax: six-pack series book three by C.J. Primer
SIX-PACK SERIES BOOK THREE* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading book one (Alpha Gray) and book two (Alpha Theo) for context before diving into this book. I'm no stranger to one night stands. Lots of girls want to hook up with an alpha, so why should this one be any different? Maybe it's because she was the best I ever had...Categorized as:
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Undone by Brenda K. Davies
It’s been six years since Abigail Byrne laid eyes on Brian Foley, but since then she’s been unable to keep him out of her thoughts and dreams. Determined to try to forget him, she moves on with her life until the day her twin sister disappears without a trace. Abby has no choice but to turn to Brian for help in locating her twin, even if it results in having her heart broken... -
Blackwing Defender by T.S. Joyce
Panther shifter, Winter Donovan, has her life all planned out: claiming marks, marriage, cubs, and pledging to the Red Havoc Crew. But when the man she cares for chooses another, her life gets caught in a tailspin. A new crew announcement could mean a change in her stars, but there is a catch. It’s the Blackwing Crew, and is run by fire-breathing dragon shifters...Categorized as:
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Chased by Anastasia Wilde
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsGabriel Sanchez has never wanted women at Outlaw Ridge. An expert tracker and operative, all he cares about is the mission. Women mean mates, and then cubs, and suddenly dedicated, focused soldiers turn into soft sappy romantics and Little League coaches.Not him. No way.Then Madison Fontaine comes to work at Outlaw Ridge, and suddenly all bets are off...Categorized as:
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Alpha Theo by C.J. Primer
SIX-PACK SERIES BOOK TWO* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading book one (Alpha Gray) for context before starting in on this one.* This book is very different from book one- it's a slow burn, and it's a very bumpy ride. You've been warned! I'm next in line to be the alpha of my pack, but my father doesn't think I'm ready...Categorized as:
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Murder Game by Christine Feehan
View our feature on Christine Feehan’s Murder Game. The new GhostWalker novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. As bodies pile up, a violent new cross-country game is blamed on the GhostWalkers. To clear their name, they infiltrate the dangerous sport. And to survive it, they must ignore the rules... -
Alpha Brock: six-pack series book four by C.J. Primer
SIX-PACK SERIES BOOK FOUR* While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading books 1 - 3 (Alpha Gray, Alpha Theo, and Alpha Jax) for context before starting in on this one.* This book is a slow burn with a very moody, broody protagonist (grumpy/sunshine trope). It will be a bumpy ride for these two to get to their HEA...Categorized as:
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Forsaken by Brenda K. Davies
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDespite knowing Aida was his mate, Julian left her behind to live her dreams. Now that he’s a fully matured vampire, he’s as good as dead without her. Deciding it’s time to say goodbye to his family, he returns to the States. He wasn’t expecting to run into Aida again, but now that he has, he’s not sure he can let her go a second time...Categorized as:
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Styx's Storm by Lora Leigh
When Storme Montague's father and brother are killed by the Breeds, her father's research is also destroyed -- except for a crucial data chip that both the Council and the Breeds would kill to possess. Betrayed to the Council, she is rescued by Styx, a Wolf Breed who is different from most other Breeds she has ever known. Storme has something he wants too -- but it's not a data chip... -
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Enforcer's Redemption by Carrie Ann Ryan
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAdam Jamenson has suffered through the worst loss known to man. The only reason he lives day-to-day is to ensure the safety of his Pack. As the Enforcer of the Redwood Pack, it is his job to protect all in his path, though he was unable to protect the ones he held dear. The war with the Centrals is heating up and Adam must try and grit through it in order to survive...Categorized as:
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Declaration of Courtship by Nalini Singh
A PSY/CHANGELING NOVELLANew York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her explosive Psy/Changeling world as predatory desire becomes a sensual game of control... A dominant changeling wolf, SnowDancer lieutenant Cooper is not known for his patience...Categorized as:
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How to Fall in Lust with a Devil by Lola Glass
My new roommate is a gorgeous demon.The most uptight, boring demon in all of existence.Did I mention that he hates me?I'm only living with him because my brother trusts him to prevent me from having any amount of freedom.Until he loses control for a second.Just a split second, but that second is enough.I learn that he doesn't hate me... he just doesn't want to admit I'm his potential mate... -
The Finding by Nicky Charles
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsShe discovered a dark secret, witnessed a murder and fled into the night fearing for her life. Three years later, Cassie is still hiding from her past, haunted by a dream lover and fighting to control a terrifying beast that seems to grow stronger each day. When Bryan, pack Beta, appears to claim her, Cassie is forced to face the truth of her existence...Categorized as:
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Bear Naked by Dana Marie Bell
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTo win a frightened heart, you have to bare your own. Any woman would be eager to be Ryan Williams’s mate. Any woman but Glory Walsh. The sexy bear shifter is beautiful, strong and persistent, she’ll give him that. But Glory’s past taught her one simple truth: people leave. She can’t get past the fact he left her once before. Okay, so he had a good reason, and he did come back... -
Texture of Intimacy by Nalini Singh
A PSY/CHANGELING NOVELLA New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s phenomenal Psy/Changeling series continues with this sensual exploration of the searing joys and unexpected challenges of mating... SnowDancer healer Lara knows primal ecstasy. She wakes to it every morning, skin-to-skin with the hard male body of the quiet, powerful telepath who is her mate...Categorized as:
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Destiny of the Wolf by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"By the author of Heart of the Wolf, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year" "This delicious alpha hero will leave you wild for more." --Nicole North, author of Devil in a Kilt "All she wants is the truth..." Lelandi Wildhaven is determined to discover the truth about her beloved sister's mysterious death. But everyone thinks she's out to make a bid for her sister's widowed mate..Categorized as:
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Lucas by D.B. Reynolds
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Badlands of South Dakota . . . haunting landscapes, legendary outlaws, and . . . vampires? Lucas Donlon, Vampire Lord, is one of the most powerful vampires in North America and beyond. Charming and irreverent to his friends and lovers, he enjoys everything about his life as a vampire...Categorized as:
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Wulfe Untamed by Pamela Palmer
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThey are called Feral Warriors—an elite band of immortals who can change shape at will. Sworn to rid the world of evil, consumed by sorcery and seduction, their wild natures are primed for release... The most enigmatic and tortured of the Feral Warriors, Wulfe is haunted by the quiet beauty of a human woman who no longer remembers him... -
The Cursed King by Abigail Owen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe will burn. She will rise.Airk Azdajah, the rightful King of the White Clan, spent half a millennium being tortured by the false High King Pytheios. The only reason he’s alive is a curse— the man to kill Airk will be consumed in his own fire. Which is why Pytheios kept Airk alive, barely, unable to shift in his prison cage, driving the creature half of him into madness...Categorized as:
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A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeara Greymere is in charge of the cabin rentals on the rugged Oregon coastline, so her brother and his mate could take a delayed honeymoon. But while Hunter is away, the she-wolf intends to play—she just has to convince the right alpha male to rent one of the cabins, and she’ll take it from there...Categorized as:
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Unawakened Fate by Amanda Nichole
VP Securities. We own this city. As the leader in technological advancements for private and commercial security, we are always in the know, but when our cutting-edge facial recognition software gets stolen, it threatens not only our livelihood but jeopardizes our species as a whole...Categorized as:
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Broken Dove by Kristen Ashley
Far too young, Apollo Ulfr lost Ilsa, his wife, the love of his life and the mother of his two children. The grief of her loss does not settle in his soul, it solders to it. But when he discovers there is a parallel universe where his wife may have a twin, he feels there's hope and sets about bringing her to his world so he can have her back...Categorized as:
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The Keeping by Nicky Charles
Ryne Taylor was a sexy bad-ass Alpha set on establishing a new pack. Melody Greene was a journalism student researching his work as a photographer-or so she said. But could Mel really be trusted or had she stumbled upon his secret? And if she knew, could Ryne save himself and the pack he'd left behind without enacting a deadly ancient law known as The Keeping? Sequel to The Mating...Categorized as:
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Raphael/Parish by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsRAPHAEL The brilliant and dangerous diplomat of the Pantera shapeshifters, Raphael has devoted his life to discovering the key to the infertility that is threatening the extinction of his puma race. Creating a vast network of spies worldwide, he never expected to discover that the answer might be beneath his very nose...Categorized as:
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Wolf Fever by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFate turned nurse Carol Woods into a wolf, but she refuses to let being a lupus garou define her life. Ordered by her pack leader to find a mate and commit to shifting, there is only one gray wolf that catches Carol's interest; but Chaz McKinley makes it very clear that unless she's willing to accept what she is, he wants nothing to do with her...Categorized as:
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Twilight Illusions by Maggie Shayne
Master of the damnedThere could be no doubt that the one called Damien was the master of the shadows, the greatest of his accursed kind. But now his ancient mantle of mystic power was threatened by a terrible weakness-a fatal passion for a woman of mortal flesh and blood.. -
Fireworks for My Dragon Boss by Honey Phillips
Her dragon is turning up the heat! After a series of corporate mergers, Charlotte’s job is hanging by a thread. When her boss orders her to drag an overdue manuscript out of their bestselling author, she’s determined to succeed - even if it means leaving the city for the small Southern town of Fairhaven Falls. She just didn’t expect the elusive author to be so big. And handsome. And winged...Categorized as:
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Steel Beauty by Dana Marie Bell
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsShe's everything a big bad wolf could want. Coping with a devastating injury is hard enough for Belinda--Belle--Campbell. Forced separation from her destined mate while she heals is almost more than she can endure. Until she is strong enough to take up her duties as Luna of the Poconos Wolf Pack, however, the safest place for her is Halle...Categorized as:
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Home by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA short story featuring Clay, Talin, Jon and Noor from the DarkRiver pack. Timeline: Takes place some time after Play of Passion and before Kiss of Snow.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...Categorized as:
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The Strongest Wolf by Eve Bale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGalen calls me the strongest wolf he’s ever known. I wish I could believe him… Not all packs can be like the Stones. Yet, no matter how many times I tell myself that, I expect to walk into one just as toxic as the pack we destroyed.And then there's my wolf...Categorized as:
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Wolf Claim by Heather Long
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsGillian Whitford, darling of Willow Bend, brings out the protective instincts in all the dominants, but none more so than Owen Chase, the pack’s Hunter. A loner by nature and calling, Owen spends less time with his pack mates and more time on the borders of their land. Not even the change in the Alpha and the swearing of a new oath kept him around long...Categorized as:
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A SEAL Wolf Christmas by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsCan an Alpha wolf who's met his match... Navy SEAL Bjornolf Jorgenson has had tough missions before, but going undercover with feisty gray wolf Anna Johnson could top the list. She drives him crazy—in more ways than one. Now he has to investigate a murder, supervise a wild teenage wolf—and handle Christmas with Anna...Categorized as:
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Seduced by the Wolf by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPraise for Terry Spear: "The vulpine couple's chemistry crackles off the page, but the real strength... lies in Spear's depiction of pack power dynamics as well as in the details of human-wolf interaction. Her wolf world feels at once palpable and even plausible." "-Publishers Weekly" "Chilling suspense and sizzling romance... The dark, sexy alpha hero will capture you-body, mind, and soul...Categorized as:
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Numbers by Laurann Dohner
140 - Dana is visiting Homeland when she meets a New Species who tugs at her heartstrings. As a widow, she knows firsthand the pain he’s suffering after losing his mate. Mourn isn’t so certain that talking to a human female will help him heal but he desires her. It’s possible she could become his new reason for living. 927 - Candi lost the male she loved, but never forgot him...Categorized as:
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Wolf Games by Vivian Arend
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsTrue love's path never did run smooth. Granite Lake Wolves, Book 3 After seven years of total denial, Maggie Raynor's body--and her inner wolf--are in full revolt. Weak and shaky, she literally falls into the very large and capable arms of the Granite Lake Beta, Erik Costanov. The last thing she wants is a mate, particularly when just looking at another wolf scares her to death...Categorized as:
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Linus & The Angel by R.E. Butler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsHe thinks he'll be alone forever: Linus Mayfield has a lot of good things in his life: fourth ranked in the Tressel wolf pack, nice house, decent job, and plenty of friends. What he doesn’t have is what he longs for most – a true mate. His first foray into marriage was a disaster and he's certain he'll never be free to love again...Categorized as:
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Bad Kitty by Eliza Gayle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIf you think you've lost everything. Think again. Kitty lost her father, her home and her clan. Clinging to what's left of her pride, she's forced into the neutral zone, the supposed safe haven for half-breeds and outcasts. An attack forces her to the wrong side of the treaty line and into an even more dangerous situation...Categorized as:
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Bound by the Night by Cynthia Eden
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFor the last fifteen years, vampire queen Iona has been dead to the world. Trapped under the power of a brutal curse, she has been helpless. A prisoner, locked within her own still body. Then alpha werewolf Jamie O’Connell fights his way to her side. After defeating the guards that surround her, Jamie gives Iona his blood…and she rises...Categorized as:
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Bear the Consequences by Rochelle Paige
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAlasdair McMahon isn't focused on finding his mate. He only has one thing on his mind - avenging his sister. Knowing the damage his dad's fated mate had done to his family, he isn't even sure he ever wants to find a mate of his own...Categorized as:
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Savage Surrender: A Dire Wolves Mission by Ellis Leigh
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere’s no escaping a Dire Wolf on the hunt... Long thought to be extinct, the Dire Wolf shifters have been hiding in plain sight—hunting, tracking, and killing those who threaten their beloved Omegas...Categorized as:
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A Wolf's Obsession by Jennifer T. Alli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinding her was easy. Most werewolves spend decades of their immortal lives searching for their mate. Wyatt had found his in years. The problem? They were both children. Forced to wait for the moment he could claim her, Wyatt had had watched her from afar, his every thought of the moment he and his mate could be together...Categorized as:
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Pack Mates by Crissy Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFROM BESTSELING ROMANCE AUTHOR CRISSY SMITH Book six in the Were Chronicles series – newly edited and expanded version! A Pack divided…brought together by love. Nikki Stratton returns to her Pack to find it split in half between the new Alpha and the older members of the Pack. Worse, there is talk about her oldest brother challenging for the Alpha position... -
Forged in Fire by Trish McCallan
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBeth Brown doesn’t believe in premonitions until she dreams a sexy stranger is gunned down during the brutal hijacking of a commercial airliner. When events in her dream start coming true, she heads to the flight’s departure gate. To her shock, she recognizes the man she’d watched die the night before...Categorized as:
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Once Bitten, Twice Burned by Cynthia Eden
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsRyder Duncan keeps his secrets. With a twisted scientist starving him in a 10 X 12 cell, it's not easy to conceal the abilities that set him apart from other vampires, or his plans for escape. But survival - and revenge - are worth waiting for. Until the so-called doctor tempts his appetites with something special: a woman, with a soft Southern accent and a scent like flowers. Sabine...Categorized as:
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Lone Wolf by Sam Hall
One man, one woman, that’s how wolf shifter’s find their mates and mine is supposed to be the next alpha of our town. But when I kiss Mason on my eighteenth birthday, he rejects me politely, but firmly.So I leave town, not giving a damn about the succession, determined to make it as a lone wolf.And I do...
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