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Lucien's Mate


Diana Persaud - 2013
    Her instinct is to run. Will Lucien enjoy the thrill of the chase and have the satisfaction of bedding his mate? Virginal Lanie is shocked speechless when she meets Lucien, a sexy Alpha. From the moment he sees her, Lucien knows Lanie is his mate and he will stop at nothing to make her his. Unfortunately, Lanie is terrified of her attraction to him and refuses his advances. Can Lucien seduce this scared virgin? Will Lanie fight her growing desire for Lucien or will she throw caution to the wind and give her body and her heart to a man determined to have her?

Chances Are


LaVerne Thompson - 2020
    Then on the same day rehired by the new bank president, a man she's got the hots for, but he's her boss and he's got the hots for her too. Until he finds out his bank’s been robbed and Kayla's somehow involved.Talbert Reynolds, III isn't at the top of the financial world because he shied away from risks, and pursuing Kayla could be one of the biggest risks of his life. But she’s worth it.Or is she?

Sacrificed to the Dragon: Part 1


Jessie Donovan - 2014
    Being a sacrifice means signing a contract to live with the dragon-shifters for six months to try to conceive a child. Her assigned dragonman, however, is anything but easy. He’s tall, broody, and alpha to the core. There’s only one problem—he hates humans.Due to human dragon hunters killing his mother, Tristan MacLeod despises humans. Unfortunately, his clan is in desperate need of offspring to repopulate their numbers and it’s his turn to service a human female. Despite his plans to have sex with her and walk away, his inner dragon has other ideas. The curvy human female tempts his inner beast like no other.

Tempting the Beast


Lora Leigh - 2003
    One of six fighting for freedom and the survival of their Pride. Merinus Tyler is the reporter who will tempt him, draw him, until the fury of the "mating frenzy" locks them into a battle of sexual heat there is no escape from.Deception, blood, and the evil Genetics Council are hot on their trail. Callan will use his strength to try and save them both...and do all in his power to keep his woman in the process.

Into the Mist


Maya Banks - 2008
    He was born a shifter. A freak of nature.While on a mission, Eli’s men and their mercenary guide are exposed to a powerful chemical agent, and suddenly his secret has become easier to hide. Now he’s not the only one with the gift. But for his men, this “gift” is becoming more and more of a curse.Tyana Berezovsky’s brother Damiano was the guide for Eli’s team and was the worst affected by the chemical. As he grows increasingly unstable, Tyana fears she’s going to lose him to the beast he is becoming.Tyana will do whatever it takes to help him, even if it means using her body to go after the one man she thinks holds all the blame—and possibly the cure. Eli Chance.Product Warnings: Violence, blood, guns, knives, ass kicking, people who do mean things, bad people dying, explicit sex and smart mouths.

Releasing the Dragon


Stacie Simpson - 2013
    An old enemy enraged. Will his love for her be enough to save her?Shapeshifters, demons, vampires, and sorcerers are all just part of the show at the Myths and Legends Casino Resort.Or are they?Serafina Leroux has always dreamed of becoming a professional dancer. When she responds to a mysterious invitation to the dance auditions at Myths and Legends she not only gets a shot at her dream job, she also meets a tall, dark, devastatingly handsome stranger whose every touch consumes her with desire.Donovan Drake is the charismatic owner of Myths and Legends known around the world as Dragon. His roguish good looks make him one of the most sought after bachelors alive, but only one woman can satisfy his carnal needs and the beast that shares his soul.When Dragon and Serafina come together their passion ignites and she is drawn into his world where myths and legends are very real and danger lurks around every corner.Words: 98,424

Stray Wolf


R.K. Munin - 2021
    That means that when her gift encourages her to reach out to a dangerous and angry looking man sitting in the park near her house, she doesn’t even hesitate. Without fear for her own safety, she offers him food and shelter in her own home, unknowing that she’s about to be exposed to a world she never even knew existed.Eli shouldn’t follow this human home. As a shifter that has trouble getting along with the powerful animal he shares his body with, he tends to be a loner. In fact, he stays away even from other shifters, so why is he agreeing to spend time with this fragile human female? But this cheerful, loyal, and fierce female surprises him at every corner and before he knows it, she’s not only important to his wolf, but manages to insinuate herself with several clan members without even knowing what they are. To add yet another problem, one Clan Leader is hell bent on using her as a means to an end. Then a rival Clan Leader sees her as a threat to his dominance.With two Clan Leaders gunning for her Steph is determined to help the many abused shifters under the dictatorial rule of these men, instead of doing the safe thing, which would be to run. A battle is coming, but who will survive isn’t clear. What is absolutely clear is that Eli will stand by her to his last breath because there’s one thing that he and his wolf finally agree on. Steph is the most important thing in their life.This is an 83K word contemporary fantasy novel with a HEA. This book is meant for mature audiences, 18+ readers only.

Shifter Marked


Eliza Gayle - 2009
    A wicked hot and surly shifter guardian who is strictly off limits. Which means things are about to turn very bad...Lucas Gunn has been kidnapped, examined and tortured. His only remaining tie to the outside world is in his dreams and the incredible woman who appears in them nightly. He thought she was nothing more than a figment of his imagination. Then she came for him.Kira MacDonald is in trouble… Her psychic ability to “see” things has gone haywire. She’s being plagued by false visions and dreams of a man she’s never met. She’s desperate for a cure, which means finding and bonding with a mate. Something she fears more than losing her mind. Too bad fate has other plans for her. Plans that include her rescuing one dark, controlling shifter.Passion and Pride. Duty and Danger. In the end, there's really only one choice...

Claiming Their Royal Mate: Part One


Andie Devaux - 2014
    But when her body is overtaken by a need so fierce it defies human explanation, she turns to the one man she instinctively knows must have the answers she seeks—her sexy-as-sin neighbor. But his explanation isn’t one she can easily accept, and it means her sexual heat won’t go away without his help. But it turns out her neighbor isn’t the only male she has to worry about. The prime of his people has laid claim to her. And though he radiates sexuality in a way that makes her mouth water, he’s more beast than man. With one weretiger charged to protect her, and the prime's plan to claim her for his own, Daniella must fight to maintain her sense of self, even while they fight for her.

FURever


Kate Kent - 2015
    She longs to find her forever man but she's afraid to take another chance on love. When temptation comes calling in the form of two hunky alphas she has to fight off her lustful feelings. While Alicia is struggling with her desires for the powerful Alpha shapeshifters, she discovers something is not right at the nursing home her beloved Nana lives at. Can she find her forever man and protect the elderly woman she loves?FURever is a 26,000 word Paranormal Shapeshifter Romance. This is a standalone novella and the first in the Sexy in Fur series. These paranormal romances can be read in any order. The story includes strong sexual themes and language.

Legal Action


Kimball Lee - 2013
    She’s built a reputation as a cool, on the rise lawyer while trying to escape the ‘naughty cheerleader’ pictorial in American Jock magazine that she posed for to pay her way through law school. She shares the top floor of a historic San Diego building with her best friends from college who happen to be two very male, very sexy Special Forces operatives. Her ex is a celebrity NFL quarterback who could pass for a Viking God. She’s surrounded by hot men but her life revolves around work and she doesn’t have time for love or sex.Until Alexander Bly, the stop-the-clock gorgeous, billionaire publishing magnate becomes her newest client at the law firm. He’s the man responsible for the magazine cover that turned Charlotte into everyman’s sex fantasy. Bly has had women and the world at his beck and call, but no woman has ever rocked his world. Charlotte is about to. When they come together the desire and sex are white-hot and all-consuming, but falling in love takes them completely by surprise. As Charlotte handles Bly’s lawsuit against Huang Worldwide Corporation, scary, smooth and sexy Jamey Huang kidnaps her. But, Huang doesn’t want Bly’s billions, he wants Charlotte’s secret, former lover. Legal Action is a sexy romance filled with burn-up-the-pages sex, tender love and witty, sharp-tongued characters with a little espionage thrown in for even more spicy fun. The novella is part one of the Surrendering Charlotte Chronicles.

Sleeping With the Wolf


Maddy Barone - 2010
    After the plane crashes in the year 2064 she learns that nuclear war destroyed technology and unleashed a plague that devastated the female population. Even now, decades after the plague has dwindled to isolated outbreaks, women are precious commodities to be fought for, and Carla finds herself offered as the prize in a Bride Fight. Alpha wolf Taye knows Carla is his mate. Losing her is unacceptable. He wins the Bride Fight. But can he win her heart?

The Cajun's Captive


Selena Blake - 2008
    The handsome Deveraux brothers of Louisiana are going to meet their match this Hurricane Season.Sebastian Deveraux is the Alpha of his pack and like all the Deveraux men, he's sexy as pure sin. He's waited for decades for just the right woman. For his mate. And ten years ago he'd been sure he'd found her in Amanda St. James. But she'd run from him.Now she's back. He'll do anything to keep her. Even if it means chaining her to his bed.

The Billionaire Shifter's Curvy Match


Diana Seere - 2016
     Biotech billionaire Gavin Stanton had one taste of the new, curvy server and his craving could never be satisfied until he had her fully. Completely. Eternally. Fate brought them together, but a centuries-old secret could tear them apart, for the Stanton family holds a shifter legacy that no human has ever threatened. Until now. Gavin Stanton is the billionaire CEO of a Boston biotech firm. He’s also a werewolf, the son of a large, ancient family with roots in the British aristocracy. His work is his life. But then he feels the Beat—an irresistible urge to mate with Lilah, a beautiful human who inflames his passions like no other—and he abandons everything he thought he knew in his need to claim her. Lilah Murphy is broke and desperate. All she wants is a job to support herself, her sister, and her ailing mother. The last thing she needs is to get involved with a rich, powerful guy who would discard her after a few hot nights together and get her fired at her new, high-paying job. But she, too, feels the Beat. She hears him in her mind, feels him in her soul, and the urge to answer the ancient call is undeniable. Is she strong enough to embrace his secrets—and her own? The Billionaire Shifter’s Curvy Match is the first in an all-new series of hot (did we mention *hot*?) romances about the billionaire shifters and the women they’re fated to love. * * * Welcome to the most exclusive club in the world. The Novo Club. Novo is Latin for “change.” Our members prefer the word “shift” though. It’s the hottest club in town. The price of membership is your heart and your secrecy. All you need to do to join is to be loved beyond your wildest imagination by someone powerful with an…alpha side so primal it’s in their blood. Are you ready? Good. Then let’s begin. The Billionaire Shifters Club is a new series featuring the five Stanton siblings, four brothers and one sister who are all part of an ancient shifter family living in modern America. The subterranean club-within-a-club beneath the streets of Boston, Massachusetts holds secrets only the Stantons and their fellow shifters know.

Hot Vampire Kiss


Lisa Renee Jones - 2011
    The Brooks brothers pursue one such rogue werewolf to Temple, Texas. It is in Temple that Evan encounters a beautiful nurse named Marissa who instantly melts the hundred years of ice running through his veins. When she is brutally attacked by the wolf, he breaks the rules of the Vampire Council and uses his blood to save her. Now, if he doesn’t kill the wolf by the next full moon, Marissa will become a killer wolf, and he will be sentenced to death.Book 2, Aiden’s story — Hot Vampire Seduction -- Late 2011Book 3, Troy’s story — Hot Vampire Touch -- Late 2011