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  • The Rise of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    The Rise of Promise by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    bounced around from werewolf Pack to werewolf Pack, fighting anyone who so much as looks at him wrong. His nomadic life has come to an end when he lands in a Pack under the new Alpha, Daylen Hoda. The Promise Falls Pack is terrifying to a man like Stark for two reasons. One, if he allows it, the wolves here could be friends, but friendship comes at a very steep cost to his inner wolf...
  • Betrayed: The Road to Redemption by Nicky Charles

    Betrayed: The Road to Redemption by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    How do you love again when your heart is dead? How do you know when it’s time to let go? Damien’s kicked about the country these past three years. No pack. No purpose. No reason to keep on living. When an old friend, Kane Sinclair, asks for his help, he agrees and heads to Chicago. After all, what does he have to lose? Sam’s grown up on the streets...
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  • Fighter by Micalea Smeltzer

    Fighter by Micalea Smeltzer

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    First she was an Outsider. Then she became an Insider. And now… she’s going to have to be a Fighter. Nothing goes as planned for Sophie Beaumont. She thought that Travis had been defeated. She believed that they would all finally be safe. But Travis never left. He has a plan and it's one that no one could have ever guessed...
  • Melissa: Shiftr: Swipe Left for Love by Ariana Hawkes

    Melissa: Shiftr: Swipe Left for Love by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The third book in the new Hope Valley BBW dating app romance series What if your fated mate was just an app swipe away? Melissa Ericson has a panic attack as her best friend Lauren is giving birth, but sexy shifter doctor, Harley, is on hand to calm her down...
  • Blood Bond by Heather Hildenbrand

    Blood Bond by Heather Hildenbrand

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hybrids. If I had to choose one word to sum up all of my problems, this would be it. Without hybrids, I wouldn’t have to watch my best friend slowly becoming a monster. Without hybrids, I could let go of the mentality “hunt or be hunted.” CHAS wouldn’t be scouring the Earth, intent on slaughtering and using Alex to do it...
  • A Deal with Death by Carrie Pulkinen

    A Deal with Death by Carrie Pulkinen

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    She pissed off the Voodoo Spirit of Death. Now she has to make amends… Death doesn't scare Voodoo practitioner Odette Allemand, but dying sure as hell does. Every time she meets her soulmate, her life ends in a horrific murder. Then she's reincarnated to have it happen all over again...
  • Hidden Promise by Julie Trettel

    Hidden Promise by Julie Trettel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sadie was just an average teenager, or so she thought.The night of her senior prom everything changes leaving her beautiful dress in rags strewn across her front lawn while she cowers under the porch terrified and covered in fur. As a halfbreed human/wolf shifter, the Pack Alpha put a gag order in place on the night of her birth...
  • Highland Werewolf Wedding by Terry Spear

    Highland Werewolf Wedding by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    On The Run... After werewolves Elaine Hawthorn and Cearnach MacNeill almost have a head-on collision on a foggy Highland road, they're pretty well stuck with each other. It'll be hours before anyone can get there to pull his car out of the ditch and they both have better places to be. And Nowhere to Hide From Each Other..
  • The Boss by Abigail Owen

    The Boss by Abigail Owen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Finn Conleth leads his team of enforcer dragon shifters with an iron fist and a cold heart. Every dragon seeks his destined mate, but the process to turn the woman he once thought was his killed her and devastated him. He will never risk his heart again. His team is his family now. When his body eventually gives out, he’ll leave, living his last days alone...
  • Freakn' Out by Eve Langlais

    Freakn' Out by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He's broken in body and spirit, but she's not giving up. Leave me the hell alone. Is that so freakn' hard to grasp? Yeah, Derrick is angry, and bitter, but with good reason. His army buddies should have left him to die instead of dragging him out of the rebel camp--and he meant drag. Shrapnel to his back ensured his legs are useless hunks of meat...
  • Avenger by Micalea Smeltzer

    Avenger by Micalea Smeltzer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s all been leading to this for Caeden and Sophie Williams. This should be the happiest time of their life. They’re married and expecting a baby, but Travis is still out there, and they both know he won’t rest until he gets what he wants. The question is, what does he want? They’ll have to figure it out if they ever want to have their happily ever after. The end is near...
  • Redwood Pack, Vol. 2 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Redwood Pack, Vol. 2 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • Saving Margaret by Krystal Shannan

    Saving Margaret by Krystal Shannan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Successful, but lonely, Margaret Taylor finds her mate in the body of a man she least expects it in. A bear! Her human half tries to reason her way out of the match, but her wolf is through with her excuses. Crossing the species line isn’t unheard of, but it’s not often done. Try as she might to avoid him, fate makes sure the big grizzly bear is nearby at all times...
  • Dark Wolf Returning by Rhyannon Byrd

    Dark Wolf Returning by Rhyannon Byrd

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When werewolf Eli Drake is banished from his pack, he leaves a devastated and heartbroken Carla Reyes behind. Three torturous years later, she tracks him down to a hole-in-the-wall Texas bar—the pack is in trouble and war is on the horizon. Carla needs Eli’s help, but wants nothing more to do with him—even though he’s as ruthless, domineering and sexy as ever. Eli hasn’t forgotten Carla...
  • Crave by Felicity Heaton

    Crave by Felicity Heaton

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    USA TODAY Bestselling Author Felicity Heaton presents: Praise for Crave (V.E.T Vampire Romance Series Book 2) "Ms. Heaton has delivered another scorching hot vampire romance book for us to enjoy. This book can be compared to 9 1/2 Weeks and Indecent Proposal combined with Erotic paranormal romance. It truly exceeded my expectations and as the title of the book, it made me CRAVE for more...
  • Dark Wolf Running by Rhyannon Byrd

    Dark Wolf Running by Rhyannon Byrd

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Rhyannon Byrd's latest Bloodrunners romance, passion and secrets collide and only their love will save two werewolves and their pack.  With his sharp gaze locked on the most magnificent female he'd ever seen, Wyatt Pallaton did his best to hold himself back. Of course, Elise Drake was hardly just any female...
  • Bo & Reika by R.E. Butler

    Bo & Reika by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She's on the run for her life ... As a child, she-wolf healer Reika Snow was promised as a mate to three were-lynxes to prevent a war between her pack and the lynx clan. Her freedom is coming to an end as her twenty-third birthday arrives. With her bleak future as the subjugated bride of the three males looms near, she does the only thing she can think of ... she runs...
  • Call of the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Call of the Bear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When tragedy brings former childhood sweethearts Samantha Young and Bronson Cress together in the town they grew up in, Samantha learns that things are not always what they seem. Six years ago, Samantha was devastated when Bron made a decision that shattered their relationship. Determined not to fall for him again, she must avoid the man who broke her heart...
  • Shifter by Angela Knight, Lora Leigh

    Shifter by Angela Knight, Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    WHEN IT COMES TO SHAPESHIFTING PARANORMAL ROMANCE, WHO CAN RESIST..
  • The Protector's Heart by R.E. Butler

    The Protector's Heart by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nila Caruthers doesn’t want anything to do with wolves. Her werewolf ex-husband continues to stalk her and their son, terrifying her to no end. The last thing she wants to do is acknowledge her attraction to the very sexy Malachi Slattery, who has been watching her for weeks. She’s not about to forget that Malachi is a wolf, and she’s learned the hard way that wolves are not to be trusted...
  • Mandy's Story by D'Elen McClain

    Mandy's Story by D'Elen McClain

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Mandy’s Story is a standalone, humorous and little bit kinky side story to the Fang Chronicles series. Every beastkind knows you don’t mess with a Kodiak bear—everyone that is except Mandy, the wolf-pack Alpha’s sister. When Mandy hears whispers that the bad attitude bear, Honey, has chosen a mate, she takes matters into her own hands because her wolf decided months before that Honey was hers...
  • A Silver Wolf Christmas by Terry Spear

    A Silver Wolf Christmas by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    IT'S A SILVER TOWN CHRISTMASCJ Silver and his brothers have returned to Silver Town eager to reconnect with the pack. And with the she-wolf newcomers renovating the old Victorian Silver Town Hotel, it looks like the holidays are going to be very merry indeed...
  • Her Second Chance Wolf: Shifter romance by Ariana Hawkes

    Her Second Chance Wolf: Shifter romance by Ariana Hawkes

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The fifth book in the Obsessed Mates series!Find out what happens when a flighty little crow shifter runs into her nemesis from high school. He's hotter than ever, and this time he doesn't want to mock her for her differences--he wants to make her his...
  • Last Wolf Watching by Rhyannon Byrd

    Last Wolf Watching by Rhyannon Byrd

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There was nothing simple about what Brody Carter had to do...With any other woman, it would be. But not with Michaela Doucet. He barely knew the provocative Cajun, but already her beautiful face haunted his dreams. True, women like Michaela never took an interest in guys like him--ones who were scared and bitter enough not to care what the world thought about them...
  • The Protector's Heart by R. E. Butler

    The Protector's Heart by R. E. Butler

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nila Patterson doesn’t want anything to do with wolves. Her werewolf ex-husband continues to stalk her and their son, terrifying her to no end. The last thing she wants to do is acknowledge her attraction to Malachi Slattery, who’s been watching her for weeks. He’s not as discreet as he thinks he’s being...
  • Black Magic by Jody Morse, Jayme Morse

    Black Magic by Jody Morse, Jayme Morse

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Though her grandfather’s legendary talisman is in the hands of her biggest enemy, Samara McKinley and the Ima pack have even more important issues to deal with right now—like finding out how to fight against the black magic that Jason Masterson, Alpha of the Vyka pack and their arch rival, is using...
  • Savage by Debbie Viguié

    Savage by Debbie Viguié

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Who do you run to? Out in the forest, tensions are blazing like forest fire. The ancient rivalry between the Fenner and Gaudin packs has reached fever pitch, and only a battle will quell the blood lust. Katelyn is caught in the middle, her pack loyalties tested like never before. The person she needs the most - strong, sexy, loyal Trick - has no idea about her dark secrets...
  • York by Susan A. Bliler

    York by Susan A. Bliler

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    What must it take for a devoted Skin Walker Sentry to find his angel? York McDonnough is willing to sacrifice everything for a mate he doesn’t have. While his fellow Walkers fear the idea of being tied to one female for life, York longs for it. Dejected and heart sick, he accepts a retrieval mission that takes him far from home and brings him face to face with his long-awaited fate...
  • Love Immortal by Felicity Heaton

    Love Immortal by Felicity Heaton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rescued from werewolves by the most breathtaking man she's ever seen, Lauren is dragged into the fight of her life and a dark world she never knew existed. There, she discovers that she's the latest reincarnation of a goddess and must drink the blood of her immortal protector, Julian, in order to reawaken and continue her three thousand year old mission to defeat Lycaon, the original werewolf...
  • Destiny Unchained by Leia Shaw

    Destiny Unchained by Leia Shaw

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They call her The Huntress. A vampire with lethal focus, Natalia hunts rogue werewolves and kills them without mercy. She buried her heart centuries ago. Now she lives only for revenge...
  • Bloodrunners Bundle by Rhyannon Byrd

    Bloodrunners Bundle by Rhyannon Byrd

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the world of the Bloodrunners, a fierce band of hunters and protectors, half-human, half-Lycan. Only through the act of Bloodrunning, the hunting and assassination of rogue werewolves, may these extraordinary warriors gain full acceptance within their respective packs...
  • Wolves at the Door by Veronica Blade

    Wolves at the Door by Veronica Blade

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: As with any Veronica Blade book, this is a ROMANCE NOVEL, meaning it's romance FIRST and everything else is secondary. Rated PG-13 for sexual situations and mild profanity. THIS IS BOOK #2 IN THE SHAPES OF AUTUMN SERIES Their forbidden love could cost them their lives... Autumn’s just learned she’s a shape-shifter — something her parents should’ve told her long ago...
  • Thrown to the Wolves by Lynn Leite

    Thrown to the Wolves by Lynn Leite

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bitten by a werewolf and left for dead, Amber Douglas has come to terms with the fact that life will never be the same. Refusing to shift is her way of holding on to her humanity, and it’s killing her. Aiden Woodland never expected to be the Alpha of his own pack. That was his twin brother Bryce’s job, not his...
  • Totally Shifted by Lynn Leite

    Totally Shifted by Lynn Leite

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Maddox, Rory and Maverick’s son, is threatened at gun point by Department of Environmental Protection officers, who are looking for a killer wolf, Xavier steps in to save his nephew. Gwen Reynard, nicknamed “The Wolf Whisperer,” by the department, knows the huge black wolf staring down the barrel of the tranquilizer guns her men are holding is not the killer they are looking for...
  • Cry of the Pride by Lacey Thorn

    Cry of the Pride by Lacey Thorn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lost and alone… After her mother’s death, Lyra grew up in the foster care system, struggling to hide who she is from the humans who found enough wrong with her. Never fitting in anywhere, she learned to adapt, hiding the damaged parts of herself as best she could...
  • Blood Moon by C.L. Bevill

    Blood Moon by C.L. Bevill

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sage Ingram has been changed to a werecougar against her will, kidnapped, and locked in Under, a magickal place with monstrous creatures so alarming, she’s shaking in her paws. Per Forester, a Cat Clan Warrior, has just come back from another mission to find Emma Lucia, his clan’s Second, returned from being hunted by vicious humans...
  • Heart of the Huntress by Tess Oliver

    Heart of the Huntress by Tess Oliver

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Camille Kennecott has finally found true happiness. Her twin sister, Emily, has returned home after years of self-inflicted seclusion within the austere confines of Bethlem Hospital. Nathaniel Strider, the boy who has captured Camille’s heart, has tamed the beast within him and joins her whenever he is not living his dream as a sailor on the open sea. And her guardian, Dr...
  • Stealing Snow by Skye Alder

    Stealing Snow by Skye Alder

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He could show her that they're meant to be. Sayer is used to getting what he wants. He's got more money, more power, then most and he's used it to get to where he is today. Now that he's settled, he's looking for the missing piece of his life. His mate. When he catches her scent, he figures that mating her will be as easy as everything else in his life. He was wrong...
  • Mason's Mate by Abigail Raines

    Mason's Mate by Abigail Raines

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s a new world for me. That gorgeous, strong, and gentle Mason Tremblay is the best part of it. How do I not fall in love with him? When I saved one of the Tremblay brothers, Mason Tremblay became indebted to me. But he has to find me first. My brother is as ruthless as my old pack was. He’s taken me hostage, determined to start a new pack with me whether I like it or not...
  • A Siberian Werewolf in London by Caryn Moya Block

    A Siberian Werewolf in London by Caryn Moya Block

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Grigori Solovyov goes to London to track down a Russian mobster who is stealing from the pack. Then Melisande Reule walks into his hotel, bringing his wolf howling to the surface. He knows he has found his mate. But when she is targeted by a Russian assassin, Grigori must fight to keep her safe and at his side...
  • Rabbit Creek Santa by Jacqueline Rhoades

    Rabbit Creek Santa by Jacqueline Rhoades

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    It's Christmas!... Things are going well in Rabbit Creek. Elizabeth has taken her duties as the Alpha's Mate to heart and as the story opens, that heart is breaking for the loneliness and isolation of one of her pack. It's Christmas Eve and no one should be lonely at Christmas. Lindy doesn't feel like she has much to celebrate...
  • SEAL Wolf In Too Deep by Terry Spear

    SEAL Wolf In Too Deep by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Love spells danger for an alpha SEAL wolf and the woman who steals his heart in this steamy shifter romance from USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear His love is dangerousAs a Navy SEAL and police diver, alpha wolf shifter Allan Rappaport knows how to handle tough situations, but the arrival of a human diving partner-especially one as attractive as Debbie Renaud-is a whole new challenge...
  • The Scarred Heart by R.E. Butler

    The Scarred Heart by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kammie Townsend has always kept to herself. She doesn’t want anyone to see the scars of her childhood, left behind by her abusive uncle. Everything changes for her on the night of the full moon, when she follows a reindeer and gets tackled by a bear shifter...
  • SEAL Wolf Hunting by Terry Spear

    SEAL Wolf Hunting by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    HOTTEST OF THE HOT ON THE NAVY SEAL WOLF TEAM Paul Cunningham has eluded many traps in his long career as a Navy SEAL, but there's no way out of this one. On a rare visit home, he gets "volunteered" for a local charity bachelor auction, and the community is counting on him. Then he discovers that the sexy she-wolf with the winning ticket is Lori Greypaw-the one woman he could never resist...
  • Redwood Pack, Vol. 1 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Redwood Pack, Vol. 1 by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Redwood Pack Volume 1 contains the first 2 books in the Redwood Pack Series in a print copy. An Alpha’s Path Redwood Pack Book 1 Melanie is a twenty-five year old chemist who has spent the whole of her adult life slaving at school. Now she is finally done and about to start her dream job, however before she does that she needs to let her hair down...
  • Lucas by V.A. Dold

    Lucas by V.A. Dold

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Krystal Le Beau has a secret—she's a psychic matchmaker. Little does her cousin, Lucas know she’s worked her magic on him. Lucas Le Beau’s dream of owning a ranch has come true. He thought he had everything he wanted…until the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen knocks him flat on his back. Three times!Kensie Brown has a plan...
  • Forever Bound by Cynthia Eden

    Forever Bound by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    FOREVER BOUND includes the following four best-selling titles by Cynthia Eden: BOUND BY BLOOD BOUND IN DARKNESS BOUND IN SIN BOUND BY THE NIGHT Word Count: 90,000 The BOUND stories are dark and sexy tales of paranormal romance. Vampires and werewolves must trust each other in these stories--their lives are on the line, and so are their hearts...
  • Doe and the Wolf by Eve Langlais

    Doe and the Wolf by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    What happens when a predator falls for his prey? Bounty hunting is the perfect job for a maverick wolf; flexible hours, decent pay, the thrill of the chase. But Everett never counted on a doe stopping him in his furry tracks. Dawn was a prisoner of Mastermind and ended up experimented on, against her wishes...
  • The Alpha's Heart by R.E. Butler

    The Alpha's Heart by R.E. Butler

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alpha wolf Acksel wakes up one morning in the bed of the one human who was kind to him in school. Now, ten years later, Brynn Mara is snuggled up at his side, smelling like passion and sweet dreams. Even though Acksel has declared that his pack members can mate with humans from now on, he knows that any woman he takes as his mate will have a target on her back. Especially if she’s a fragile human...
  • Dark And Dangerous - Six-in-One Hot Paranormal Romances by Jennifer Ashley, Bonnie Vanak

    Dark And Dangerous - Six-in-One Hot Paranormal Romances by Jennifer Ashley, Bonnie Vanak

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six hot paranormal romances from six best-selling authors. Whether you like shifters, weres, vampires, fae, magic or secret portals, there's a sexy story here that's sure to tantalize your darkest, most dangerous desires. DARK AND DANGEROUS USA Today Bestseller Indie Reader Top 10 Bestseller Jennifer Ashley - Hard Mated (Shifters Unbound #3...
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