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Beautiful & Wild


Lexy Timms - 2020
    She is forced to step into the role despite her hesitations. Her father's best friend recruits a council of five men that will be at her beck and call as well as her advisors. The sexual chemistry between them all is hard to miss.When she discovers her father's death wasn't an accident, her world shatters. Who can she trust? What can she do when his blood calls out for revenge?It's her council that holds her together as she battles against betrayal. She must fight for her father, her pack and herself. It's a battle she refuses to lose, especially with her strong council at her back.Cry Wolf Reverse Harem SeriesBook 1: Beautiful & WildBook 2: MisunderstoodBook 3: Never Tamed

Bitten by Flame


Kimber White - 2020
    To save her from danger, this Alpha wolf must get burned by the flames.CASSIASecrets.I have to hide the truth about myself.As a half-dragon,I'm wanted,Coveted,Hunted.I'm a weapon of mass destruction,With a fiery temperament,That can destroy anyone.And they want me.Hellbent on finding my parents,I'll stop at nothing to rescue them,Even if it means enlisting an unlikely ally,With smoldering eyes and scars of his own,One who's determined to protect me.But at what cost?COLMA price,On her head.But I refuse to give her up.I refuse to let them have her.And when they offer the ultimate prize,I have to choose,My future or hers.Torn between desire and freedom,Love and loss,I have one choice to make.Get burned by the flame,Or die trying.

Forbidden Shifter Protectors (The Quinton Shifters)


Abigail Raines - 2019
    Which means that I have a set of rules to follow. Rules that wouldn’t let me quench my desire for Michelle. For one, she’s human. Absolutely forbidden. Secondly, I’m her boss. And third, making a move on her would mean betraying my pack. This is nothing but torture. Having to look the other way when she’s all I obsess over. I want to make her mine. Claim every inch of her delicious curves. But when my obsession gets the better of me... I have to pay for what I’ve done. Michelle is pregnant.  I’m about to gain a family… does that mean I lose everything else in the process? Book 2 The Tremblay family are notoriously dominant and wealthy. Ever since my best friend married one of the Tremblay brothers, I've been seeing way too much of Micah Tremblay. Funny, flirtatious, and panty-meltingly hot, Micah makes no bones about the fact that he wants me—and not just in his bed.That's the way it's supposed to be with mates, right?Yes, I know he's my mate.The attraction I feel for him is undeniable.But, it can’t happen between us.I won’t risk having my secrets revealed.Besides, if he knew, he'd hate me anyway.And, what’s worse, he'd be in danger.I won’t do that to him.It takes everything in me to continuously reject him, and I don’t know how much longer I can hold out. Damn, the mate pull is incredibly powerful. Book 3 It’s a new world for me. That gorgeous, strong, yet 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 and rescue me from my brother's ruthless pack who kidnapped me.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.Mason Tremblay is my only hope now.But is Mason finding me only the beginning....? Book 4 As the alpha of the Tremblay pack and the de facto leader of my entire clan, I’ve always followed the code of wolf shifters… Rule#1: Fealty to pack  Rule #2: Loyalty to clan  Rule#3: Avoid humans  Though things have been changing.

Dark Waltz


A.M. Hargrove - 2012
    It’s the year 2030 and the human population has been annihilated by a virulent form of small pox. Liasare Davidson is desperately searching for her brother, who has been missing for three months. It’s been eighteen years since she was evacuated from Earth and she is horrified to see it’s become a cesspool of unimaginable things.In her quest to find her brother, she meets Jurek, a powerful and enigmatic being that frightens her, yet she is unable to resist. When things begin to unfold between them, they both discover a paralyzing truth that puts Liasare at grave risk. She must make a choice to join Jurek and find her brother or fulfill a role she believes she is ill equipped to undertake.

Wolf's Bite


Atlas Rose - 2020
    “I’ll scratch and bite.”“You’ll crawl and beg too.” Phantom promised as he strode closer, a glint of desire danced in his eyes. “And that Special Agent…will only be the start of it.” The Costello’s were mine. Mine to corner. Mine to hunt. Mine to bring to their knees.I’ve hunted Ruth for years now. Sat outside her house. Tracked every shady deal she’d ever done. She’s my ticket to her family, and the entire cesspool they play in. The Costello’s are lower than low…they are liars…they are mobsters. They are Mafia. This is more than a case for me. This was personal. The last bullet in my father’s ruined policing career. He’s a drunk now and alone…and I’m his only visitor—pathetic huh? Only a war erupted. A war which I’m now part of…a war between the beasts that roam west of my city and the powerful Immortals they answer to.I replayed that night in slow motion. Fangs. Blood…and Phantom. The Alpha of the Wolves. The one I saved from a rogue Vampire. And the one who saved me. I carry his bite mark on my shoulder…and the memory of his pack. He might think he has a handle on me…He might think this is more than what it was…He’s about to find out how wrong he is.

The Riveauxs: Wolves of the Rising Sun, Vol 1 Box Set


Kenzie Cox - 2015
    And now she’s back, unattached, and ready for the taking. One afternoon together, and he knows she’s the one. Only his world is dangerous, he has secrets, and trust is hard to come by...especially when all signs point to her being aligned with his enemy. Skye Michaels has nothing left to lose. After a bad breakup, she flees to her favourite southern Louisiana town, determined to finally get photographs of the majestic wolves that roam the area. Instead she gets what she really came for ... Jace Riveaux. But when the Riveauxs are threatened by someone she knows, suddenly she has more to lose than ever. Book 2: Aiden:She’s the one woman he can’t have ...Rayna Vincent has wanted Aiden Riveaux since she was sixteen years old. There’s only one problem ... he doesn’t do relationships. So when he offers her a season of stolen nights with no strings attached, she accepts, willing to take him any way she can ... even if she knows her heart will never survive. Aiden Riveaux has a problem. A big one. He’s sleeping with Rayna, his brother’s best friend and the girl everyone thought of as his. Aiden knows he’s has to break it off, but after one hot night everything’s changed, including Rayna. Now she’s his. And he intends to keep it that way ... no matter what. Book 3: Luc:She’s gotten under his skin ...Arianna Simms isn’t looking for anything permanent. Her two week vacation has everything she needs ... her best friend, a quiet bayou town, and the sexy shifter who fills her every desire. He’s everything she thinks she wants ... until she realizes just exactly how dangerous his world can be. Luc Riveaux has closed his heart. Some wounds run too deep. But when the gorgeous model from New Orleans starts sharing his bed, something shifts. She’s the one person who’s managed to break past his barriers. Now he has a choice to make ... chase after her and claim her as his or let her go forever.

The Forbidden Sitter: A Billionaire Holiday Romance (Nightclub Sins)


Michelle Love - 2021
    

Claimed


Bella Night - 2019
     The death of his brother forces Greyson West to take his rightful spot in a pack of outlaw wolf shifters. He accepts his fate in order to protect his family, but when a dangerous encounter brings him face-to-face with his mate, he finds himself risking everything for love. The only problem. . . she’s human. Etti Blackwell is a smart-mouthed tattoo artist with a fierce independent streak. So when a sexy wolf shifter turns her world upside down, she doesn’t take kindly to it. Greyson may have rescued her, but she doesn’t trust him. It’s his fault she’s on the run from werewolves! As the pack’s savage Alpha closes in, Grey does the unthinkable to keep Etti safe, triggering a curse so powerful it may just cost them both their lives. Unless . . . Can Grey win Etti’s heart and prove he’s her mate before the next hunter’s moon? Crescent City Wolves will transport fans of Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, and The Originals to a world unlike any other... Crescent City Wolves Series: A Paranormal Shifter Romance Book 1: Claimed Book 2: Cursed Book 3: Chosen Book 4: Buried Book 5: Betrayed Book 6: Bitten

Beast Within


Tyffani Clark Kemp - 2013
    No one knows that underneath it all is a man with a frozen heart, cursed to become a beast at every full moon. For seven days he has no choice but to roam the earth as a vicious animal, until he meets a woman who can change it all.Luna Grace has a hatred for everything Gabriel Slade stands for, but she doesn't even know what he looks like. When a chance encounter reveals feelings Luna never knew she harbored, it stands to reason that she would run.Can Luna overcome her hatred and break the curse? Or will Gabriel's temper keep her from realizing her true feelings, dooming him to remain the beast forever?

Running Bear


Kit Fawkes - 2016
    He reluctantly accepts her help as they flee from a secret group sent to eliminate the shifter-soldiers involved in a black-ops experiment, though he’s determined to maintain an emotional distance from her. But bears mate for life, and his human mate is just as stubborn as he is. Nothing could hurt her more than losing him, and she's just the one to help her wounded warrior move from the past and into the future—if they have a future…

Captured & Seduced


Shelley Munro - 2009
    When aliens kidnap her, she’s both terrified and reluctantly fascinated by Ryman Coppersmith. She’s positive the weird attraction to her abductor is an anomaly. Something to ignore. She’ll train the aliens’ horse and they’ll return her home. Simple. There’s no need for sex or a stubborn male kitty-cat to replace the precious memories of her husband... Murder...Betrayal...Banishment... Feline shapeshifter Ry has experienced treachery of the worst kind. When his foster brother - the man who betrayed him - proposes a wager on a hell-horse race, the lure to clear his name is irresistible!Camryn’s arrival triggers a jump in his already overactive sex drive. It’s a struggle to keep his hands off his beautiful captive. Something in his mysterious feline background compels him to chase her and the passion firing between them soars out of control. Ry doesn’t understand the mechanics of their attraction but knows he can’t afford to lose Camryn… despite his promise to return her home...

Her Brave Wolf


Kestra Pingree - 2017
    Maybe someone more sensible would be worried, but not Gwen.She knows she belongs with him.He can’t have a human.Nickolas Sipe is the Alpha of Blue Pack. He has a duty to all of his wolves, and that duty means keeping humans away.Humans have no place in the pack. They’re the ones to blame for wolf shifter misfortunes. It doesn’t matter that she gets him wild with a simple look. This human can’t be the one for him.Fated Mates. Forever Love.

Dowser Series: Box Set 1


Meghan Ciana Doidge - 2016
    Dowser 1, 2, and 3 complete the first of three trilogies in the Dowser Series. The magic and mayhem continues in books four to nine.The customer looked familiar, like maybe he'd been in the bakery a few times before. The vampire, however, was new. - Dowser 1Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1)If you'd asked me a week ago, I would have told you that the best cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate cream cheese icing, that dancing in a crowd of magic wielders -- the Adept -- was better than sex, and that my life was peaceful and uneventful. Just the way I liked it. That's what twenty-three years in the magical backwater of Vancouver will get you -- a completely skewed sense of reality. Because when the dead werewolves started showing up, it all unraveled ... except for the cupcake part. That's a universal truth.Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic (Dowser 2)Three months ago, I lost my foster sister, Sienna, to the darkness. As in blood magic and chaos and general mayhem. No one saw it until it was too late, but I should have. Now, I have a wounded heart and soul that I can't even reveal to anyone around me, because I'm supposed to hate Sienna with the fiery passion of the justified. And I do. I just wish I didn't feel so lost without her, so unsure of the path I thought I had carved for myself, and so outclassed by the powerful Adepts constantly by my side these days. I'm not even sure if they're with me for my own protection or because my shiny new powers are rare and valuable. Assuming I ever figure out who or what I am, and how my magic actually works.Even chocolate can't save the day every time ... just most of the time. At least I've got that going for me.Treasures, Demons, and Other Black Magic (Dowser 3)I hadn't set foot in the human world for more than a few hours in over three and a half months. Sure, I was stronger and faster than I'd ever been before, and I had a shiny new sword, but I was seriously chocolate deprived. I don't recommend quitting cold turkey. And the new sword was a problem -- to my mind, anyway. It represented all the expectations of a powerful father and a new otherworldly life. A life that wasn't the one I'd worked so hard to build. It also represented the responsibility I had to bring my foster sister Sienna to ... what? Justice? I didn't know if that was even possible. What I did know was that Sienna wouldn't stop, and that I couldn't just leave everything up to fate and destiny ... or maybe I was. Maybe I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing. If you believed in that sort of thing.I just hoped that before the chaos and mayhem renewed, I'd manage to get my hands on some chocolate. It didn't even have to be single-origin Madagascar. I was utterly prepared to lower my standards.

Amnesia


Canada Jackson - 2019
    Incapable of love and devoid of compassion, he was only saving a human colony to appease his younger brother who ruled their planet in a solar system far away.  When evacuation negotiations become difficult, he defies his brother’s blue print and changes the deal. After months of coveting the chief negotiators repressed and dominated fiancé - he offers her liberation she doesn’t even realize she needs and finds a devious way to make her his own. THE STORY BEGINS: Months later, when Amber wakes up after a crash landing to find herself on a hostile planet with a "man" beside her that "shifts" into a demon warrior whilst protecting her from the wild creatures they run into.She can't remember him, nor can she remember the end of Earth and how she came to be in a new solar system with an alien who claims they are lovers. Even though she is wildly attracted to him something feels amiss, especially his recount of how they came to be together after Earth's mysterious ending, or why they can't immediately return to his home planet where he is the Monarch's son.As their adventure continues, Amber is hurtled into worlds that both stun and defy her imagination. Her continued flashbacks of another lover, the mystery surrounding her departure from Earth and how she came to be the coveted spouse and princess on his planet are slowly revealed to her along with the terrifying choices she has made to survive. Who should read this book? This is a hybrid series: It has everything paranormal romance readers love: with a handsome alien monarchy who shift into demon warriors when attacked AND It has everything that fantasy readers love - New Kingdoms and New Worlds with magic and sorcery. It's packed with adventure and intrigue in every chapter and contains lots of romance & simmering sex too. It takes the reader on a wild ride from a hostile foreign planet with savage creatures to a new kingdom filled with intrigue and mystery.AUTHOR NOTE: This IS NOT a quick steamy read, it's both a Space Opera and Epic Fantasy all rolled into one action packed series. There is a HEA for the main characters but a cliff hanger lead up to the second book.

Zero's Heart


Mina Carter - 2020
    Instead, she got a smart-alec mercenary and commandos trying to kill her…Medically discharged from the military over a decade ago, Station Chief Eris Archer just wants a quiet life. But life on a frontier station like Tarantus is never dull. The wild west of space, she’s used to less than scrupulous characters crossing her path.So when handsome cyborg, Zero, charms her with fantastical tales of being non-human, she takes it with a pinch of salt. When commandos storm the base, trying to kill her and she ends up with a price on her head, she has to trust him with her life… but can she trust him with her heart?He doesn’t know where he came from, but he knows one thing… his destiny is with her.Zero is a mystery, even to himself. Since waking up badly damaged in a wrecked shuttle, he’s made his home with the Warborne, a band of Latharian Mercenaries with a lethal reputation. He lives fast and he expects to die young…Until he meets her. Eris Archer captures the attention of all his instincts, human and cyborg. Drawn to her like a targeting lock… he wants to get to know her better. But his plans for a date in the station’s brig are foiled by people with guns and they have to get off the station. Fast.Between murderous commandoes, betrayals and an unexpected rescue mission; can Zero prove to her that he’s all the man, or machine, she’ll ever need...