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Dark Nights by Christine Feehan
18 ratingsDark Descent and Dark Dream are combined in Dark Nights. #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan revisits and expands her classic novella Dark Descent, bringing to breathtaking new life her story of an immortal Carpathian hunter, a beautiful adventurer, and their dangerous journey toward an unforeseen destiny and an undying love... -
Chance Fur Hire by T.S. Joyce
14 ratingsEmily 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... -
Tears For Her Dragon by Julia Mills
8 ratingsEscaped from hell on earth, lost and alone, a wail in the night calls to not only his beast but also his heart. Finding this tortured woman is all that matters. On the run, hiding in plain sight, the icy fingers of doom invade her soul. The pull of the world she fled tears at the fiber of her being... -
Her Dragon's Soul by Julia Mills
10 ratingsBook 9 in the Dragon Guard series. The books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series. He’d seen the golden highlights of her strawberry-blonde hair glistening in the firelight and it was obvious... -
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When Saint Goes Marching In by Tiana Laveen
6 ratingsWARNING – This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable.It is six years later and Saint and Xenia have two beautiful sons and are enjoying their lives in sunny California... -
Forbidden Claim by R.L. Kenderson
6 ratingsShe’s running for her life. He’s never gotten over her. Will she let him claim her to save her? Wolf-shifter Isabelle Rand is escaping a relationship she never intended to stay in. Fleeing her abusive boyfriend who hates to lose anything, she seeks sanctuary with the only people who can help her... -
Her Vampire Obsession by Lesli Richardson
6 ratingsHER TASTE IS ADDICTIVE AND I WILL NOT SHARE HER. NO ONE GETS HER BUT ME. DexterI've lived a long time. Some might say too long. I honestly don't know what drew me to Lucius' club in Tucson, of all hellish destinations, but dark and self-destructive thoughts have increasingly beckoned to me, as of late.Then I meet her... -
Reign: A Romance Anthology by Nina Levine, Penny Dee
6 ratingsThey say that power changes a person.Love changes them more.Long may they reign...You find them in the boardroom. The throne room. The bedroom.They burn brighter than the rest.They wield power as easily as they breathe.They stop at nothing to get what they want.Royalty, CEOs, mafia kings, demons, and more... -
The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence by Storm Constantine
8 ratingsDarquiel har Aralis lives among the hidden tribe of Olopade, in ignorance of his identity, and as he grows up, Darq realizes he is different from any other har. After a disastrous attempt to incept his closest friend, he attracts the attention of the mysterious Thiede, and learns that his origins are more astounding than he imagined... -
More Than Mated by Celia Kyle
8 ratingsEven the growliest of men need love... All FIVE bestselling Grayslake: More Than Mated novels in one volume! Follow these alpha males—and their luscious mates—from Grayslake and beyond. Where the Abrams brothers, friends, and occasionally enemies fight for their lives, their future, and their mates... -
The Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson
8 ratingsThe Kiss of DeceptionThe Heart of BetrayalThe Beauty of... -
After Twilight by Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan
18 ratingsThree of romance's hottest bestselling authors -- Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan, and Ronda Thompson -- invite you to explore the dark side, to taste the forbidden, to dive into danger with heroes who fire the blood and lay claim to the soul in these striking tales of sensual passion. A man hunts for a woman... -
Caging Ash by Novalee Swan
6 ratings"You can't come in here. It's breaking and entering. You're the law."CAGE DELGADO is the law in Shifter Town. He's a hard alpha lion who's not afraid to lay it on the line to protect his town, or the woman he secretly adores.ASHLEY AMES is a sweet-tempered lioness who works admin in the local law enforcement offices, and secretly fantasises about the town's sexy sheriff... -
Negotiations by Nicholas Bella
6 ratingsTheoden: I am now the official Prince of the City. The reins have been handed over and I am now fully in control. My first order of business is to fortify the defenses of my territory. Thanks to my King, Ara's decree, my plate is exceptionally full. I have to solidify an alliance with Celestial Dragon King, Evander. I also have to make a new alliance with Wolf Alpha, Deacon... -
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Taming the Wild Cougar by Terry Spear
6 ratingsCougar shifter, Dr. Kate Parker, is planning her annual camping vacation alone this year. She runs into trouble before she even starts her trip in the form of one wounded, hot cougar, undercover cop—or so he says... -
Spring Fever: Shifters in Love by Lia Davis, Milly Taiden
6 ratingsThaw winter's chill with FIVE brand new stories about SEXY, alpha male shifters with spring fever from FIVE of today's hottest paranormal authors.Match Made in Hell (A BBW paranormal romance) by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Milly Taiden When quiet Laura Nieves is tossed together with hot as hell warrior Damien Wrath, eternity heats up really fast... -
Laughing At Danger by Zenina Masters
6 ratingsLima enjoys her life as a hunter for the shifter guild and council, but she has no idea that this routine retrieval and rescue will flip her fate into high gear. Lyros knew that the dog-headed creature that came in to rescue him was a shifter and a woman. He admired her fighting skills but was unable to shake the feeling that she was important to his life... -
Bound by Joy - Sweet Edition by Piper Davenport
8 ratings***This is the SWEET version of Bound by Joy, edited to be suitable for a younger audience***Kenna McFadden has waited more than two hundred years for her mate and she finds him in a most unexpected way.On a mission to find his missing niece, prince Gunnar Baldersson finds someone far more precious to him... -
Sinful Seconds by Elisabeth Naughton, Alexandra Ivy
8 ratingsFrom the six USA Today and New York Times bestselling authors who brought you WICKED FIRSTS, comes an all new contemporary set of six sexy, suspenseful and very SINFUL SECONDS. Sinful Surrender by Elisabeth Naughton He's been watching her, and now he's here, in the dimly lit bar of the swanky Vail resort, pretending not to notice her... -
Submission by Nicholas Bella
8 ratingsI lay here, exhausted and more confused than when my night first started. I've just discovered something else about myself that I wish wasn't true. Not only do I have to feed on the blood of humans, I've also found out that I need the "essence of a man" as Theoden called it, in order to survive. If that isn't enough on my plate, I know Theoden wants to break me down even more... -
Monsters and Mistletoe by Cassia Briar, Salem Cross
8 ratingsHot chocolate, snowflakes, jingling bells, and… monsters?That’s what Christmas has in store for you this year!Add a little spice to your holiday festivities by diving into this collection of monster-loving heroines who find love in the most unusual of places.Featuring new, original stories by:Harpie Alexa - USA Today Best Selling AuthorCassia BriarCara BryantRachel CallahanJ.E... -
Shatter Me. Le novelle vol. 2 by Tahereh Mafi
8 ratingsLe esplosive rivelazioni di Defy Me hanno lasciato i lettori sconvolti e alla disperata ricerca di risposte. Grazie alla novella Reveal Me, avranno l’opportunità di tornare nell’universo di Shatter Me e di scoprire attraverso la voce di Kenji cos’è accaduto tra lui e Nazeera prima dell’incredibile finale di Imagine Me... -
Wake Up, Alpha by Anna Fury
10 ratingsPenI’ve seen firsthand the monsters that men turn into when they’re hit with the virus. I’ve been at their bedside in the ER when the Task Force comes and hauls them away. I’ve heard the stories of women getting kidnapped right off the street, never to be seen again... -
Saving Their Omega by Mina Carter
10 ratingsGentle. Tiny. Delicate. Everything I’m not. Everything I want. Everything I’m going to claim in hot, sweaty explicit detail.She’s ours. Mine and Mason’s. She might not wear our marks, but she will… and soon.No one takes what’s ours. It’s suicidal. But she’s gone, snatched off the street and now the monsters inside won’t rest until she’s safely back with us. Whatever the cost.We can’t lose her... -
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Bear With Me by Zoe Chant
6 ratingsA lonely bear shifter + a workaholic conservationist + a sudden storm = one wet and wild mountain adventure Jamie Sullivan doesn’t have time for a relationship – and she definitely doesn’t have time to disentangle herself from the one-night stand she somehow fell into at her best friend’s wedding. She’s tried the dating game before, and it never works out... -
The Way To Yesterday by Sharon Sala
6 ratingsThe Way To Yesterday by Sharon Sala released on Aug 23, 2002 is available now for purchase... -
Snarling at the Moon by Zenina Masters
6 ratingsA wolverine with a painful past collides with an elf who glows like the full moon. Her rage meets his calm.Sera has been trying to make ends meet since her family kicked her out. After years away from home in a fey menagerie, she had dreamed of being normal again. It wasn’t possible, and she lived a subsistence life until a strange woman named Pansy arrived in her field... -
Find Me in Pleasure by Julie Kenner
6 ratingsA doomed woman. A dangerous and mysterious man. And an epic passion that cannot be denied… From New York Times, USA Today, and International bestselling author J. Kenner writing as Julie Kenner... -
Lost Roar by Zenina Masters
6 ratingsRobbed of her roar, Nicia doesn’t want a lion. She goes to the Crossroads and has a wolf follow her home. No red hood required.Nicia was at the fundamental lion compound and rescued from a life as guard beast for her family.Her mother’s family takes her in and helps her recover from the years of abuse... -
Hyacinth by Abigail Owen
6 ratingsBook #2 of the Svatura Series Selene sacrificed everything when she took her brother's place as ruler of the Vyusher, including her secret love for her one-time adversary Griffin Aubrey. When nightmares that are just a little too real start, Selene fears she's turned into a cold-blooded killer...the monster that Griffin thinks she is...Categorized as:
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Black and White by Zenina Masters
6 ratingsTy was raised by a mage who took her on as a favour to her mother. She can read magic, feel magic but not use it. Her skills come in handy while working for the Shifter Council as a hunter or bounty hunter for misbehaving shifters.On assignment to find a man guilty of the ultimate betrayal to their kind, she is doped and caged by some mages, and what a shock, so is her opposite number, Alatas... -
Poisoned Pen by Zenina Masters
6 ratingsA swan shifter suffering from ambush matchmaking attempt meets a quiet snake with an eye toward her articulations.Ivy has dodged matchmaking for five years, but when her family bundles her off to the Crossroads, she hastily concocts a plan to stay away from males for the entire month... -
Cursed to Crave by Loxley Savage
6 ratingsCaptured again. Just when I had a glimpse of what freedom could feel like, the Incubus King ripped my world out from under my feet. I no longer know up from down, right from wrong, or if what I’m feeling is real or a figment of Romero’s power. One thing I know for sure, I’m as addicted to him as he is to me... -
Snake Charmer by Zenina Masters
6 ratingsYvena needs to start over and leaving for the Crossroads is what she has planned. Being followed by the mongoose of her dreams is a shock. Yvena was one of the stolen shifters, and her recovery has not been easy. Six months of healing after two months of torture is not enough to make her whole, but she knows that not everyone is out to get her... -
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Bear 'N Dirty by Vella Day
6 ratingsJett Anderson would take banishment from her bear clan any day of the week over an arranged marriage. Hell, the whole clan could come after her for all she cared, which was why when she crossed the Canadian border into the US she didn’t even glance back. Her luck runs out in Deals Gap, North Carolina, however, when her car breaks down... -
Bearing Secrets by Marissa Dobson
6 ratingsIvy Carter’s life changed in a blink of an eye. An attack on the compound she considered her home destroyed those she considered family and the life she thought she had. With her brother and the Alpha of the clan missing, she’s left on her own until the Alaskan Tigers come to her rescue and whisk her off to safety... -
Red Hot Alphas by Jo Raven, Blair Babylon
6 ratingsReady to get HOT? Eleven top-selling authors have banded together to bring you 11 ALL-NEW titillating novels of love, passion, romance, and thrilling suspense.These sexy, alpha men--from an orphaned tattoo artist, a partying rock star drummer with a secret past, a motorcycle club V.P... -
Flying Fur by Zenina Masters
6 ratingsA small body and a mighty soul send Misty into the arms of the man she rescued before she had seen him. Misty is a hunter for the shifter Council who uses her small body to get into the cracks and crevices of prisons and habitats. She can go where others can’t and save those who had no other chance at freedom... -
Protecting Their Mate, Part Four by Mia Thorne
6 ratingsProtecting Their Mate, Part Four (39 Pages) The alpha, concerned with the growing attachment between Blake and Ashley, sends his second out on a mission. Meanwhile, Ashley meets the elusive last member of her new pack--enigmatic Connor, a hacker who, like her, was raised among humans.For Connor, sex is volatile, dangerous, and being near Ashley draws out the feral edge of the wolf inside him... -
Enslaved by the Alpha: Part Two by Viola Rivard
6 ratingsEvery time Astrid thinks she’s making progress with Erik, it becomes clear that he has little regard for her feelings. While she’s beginning to find her place in the pack, she still struggles to find leverage over the alpha who owns her. Erik continues to grapple with his wolf over Astrid. The animal seems to think she’s his mate, and there’s nothing he can do to dissuade it... -
Dancer's Heart by R.E. Butler
6 ratingsAdam Cruz has spent the last twelve years of his life wondering if he’d ever find his truemate. As a low-ranked omega wolf, with a body full of scars from a firebomb, he’s had more than his fair share of trauma and shame. All he wants is to find his truemate and settle down, even though he wonders if his mate will care about his scars, or that he can’t hunt as well as other wolves because of them... -
A Cat's Tale by Melissa Snark
6 ratingsAlpha werewolf, Jared Kohl, wakes up in a vampire’s dungeon, swearing revenge upon the wily Siamese werecat who lured him there with her sultry lips and the sweetest tail. To escape his undead captor, all he has to do is seduce the skittish puss and show her that trust is often a hot and hard lesson to learn... -
Alphas Gone Wild (Shifter Paranormal Romance Boxed Set) by Michelle Fox, Catherine Vale
6 ratingsSome alphas are too wild to tame, but our sassy heroines enjoy a beast in the sheets. It's feminine wiles and wanton shenanigans as each of these ladies comes up against the man of her dreams. Alphas Gone Wild features 11 sizzling hot tales of shapeshifter romance from NY Times and USA Today best selling authors... -
Alphas Unleashed by Harmony Raines, Lola Kidd
6 ratingsUnleash your wild side as lions, wolves and bears capture hearts in six shapeshifter stories of romance, love and passion. Loving the Lion - Lola Kidd Curvy Erin Numm is over dating. At the tender age of twenty-eight, she’s seen it all. A string of bad dates and heartbreak has left her ready to put herself on the sideline. Her plans are changed when she meets an agent from Lovely and Kind Brides... -
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Alpha Fever: 22 Contemporary and Paranormal Romance Stories by Elianne Adams, Erzabet Bishop
6 ratingsAlpha Fever is filled with a scintillating, spicy blend of ***BRAND NEW*** contemporary and paranormal romance stories written by 24 USA Today, Amazon, International, and Award Winning Bestselling Authors wrapped up in one amazing boxed set! Pre-Order for 99cents! Won't last long so get your copy today! Elianne Adams – Erzabet Bishop – Muffy Wilson – Rozlyn Sparks –Jacintha Topaz – Elvira... -
Roar, Growl & Kiss: A Box Set of 10 Sexy Shifter Romances by Eliza Gayle, Celia Kyle
6 ratingsA SIZZLING SET OF 10 SEXY SHIFTER STORIES! From a pack of New York Times, USA Today and Amazon bestselling paranormal authors comes a collection of 10 shifter romances that will leave you howling for more! Grab it today before it’s gone forever! Walk on the Striped Side by Jessie Lane —Gage Ivanov is a stupid beast... -
Love Is Always Write: Volume Six (Don't Read in the Closet Events) by Sara York, Em Woods
6 ratingsThe stories you are about to read celebrate love, sex and romance between men. They are a product of the Love Is Always Write promotion sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group and are published as a free gift to you... -
Running For Home by Zenina Masters
6 ratingsJuno is rescue from the clutches of a fey who has tortured and maimed her. Her rescuer is a fey who has been partnered with her brother for the last two years. When she looks into his eyes, she doesn’t see pity, and the music he makes carries her to another world. Once she is deemed recovered, she is offered a job in the Crossroads, and she takes it... -
All the Devils Are Here by Devyn Sinclair
6 ratingsI always wanted to love a monster… I just didn’t think I’d need to be stranded on an island to do it.My name is Meghan Irela, and I’ve just been fired.Not my proudest moment, but I’ll be all right. A trip to Paris is just what I need. Visit my friends, ignore my problems, and pretend I’m not completely alone... -
King Of Ash by Ava Mason
8 ratingsEveryone was born for a purpose. Protecting her was mine. Everyone is born with a purpose in this life. I’ve always known that. As soon as a person takes their first breath, they are endowed with a meaning, a quest. It's what defines them, what drives them. For twenty-one years, I thought I knew what that was for me. Then, everything changed. Now I know that purpose. Her...
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