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Healed

Healed

Kelsie Tate

Emery has a special gift, one that would put her in danger if anyone outside of her pack found out about it. On her 21st birthday, she’s excited to find out who she is mated to. But when it turns out to be a cold, distant Alpha of another pack, Emery’s excitement turns into worry. Can she trust this Alpha with her secret? And if he’s truly her mate, why doesn’t he want her?

Evie

Evie

Winta Lily

After six long years away, Evelyn is back—and her timing couldn’t be worse. She’s home for her best friend’s mating ceremony, but the past is waiting for her at every turn.

Old heartbreak. Fresh betrayals. And a magnetic new pull she never saw coming. The pack she left behind holds more than just memories—it’s tangled up in secrets that could shatter everything.

With danger closing in and power plays at every corner, Evelyn’s not just fighting for her place in the pack… she’s fighting for her heart. But when the lines between devotion and obsession blur, will she have the strength to choose what’s right—or just what feels impossible to resist?

The Gold Wolves Series

The Gold Wolves Series

Lydia Rose

After losing her parents, Lily moves to a boarding school full of werewolves, unaware of their existence. She meets her mate, Arlo, who wants nothing to do with her. As she tries to cope with the pain of her parents' death, she also has to learn how to live with Arlo's hate and the hurt he causes her. Hating him will not be easy, especially when she begins to fall for him.

Age Rating: 16+

Heir to the Alpha Spin-off: Alpha Trio

Heir to the Alpha Spin-off: Alpha Trio

B. E. Harmel

At the Moon Ball, Jasmine hopes to find her true mate but instead discovers she has three: Erik, Sebastian, and Aaron. As an alpha, she must navigate her complex feelings and the unprecedented situation of having multiple mates. With dark forces threatening their packs, Jasmine and her mates must unite their strengths and confront the looming danger. Their journey is filled with passion, magic, and the struggle to protect their people and their love.

The Moon's Weapon: Cursed Mate

The Moon's Weapon: Cursed Mate

B. E. Harmel

Barbara was rejected, cast out, and forged herself into a weapon. Feared across packs, she now returns to the territory she vowed to avoid, summoned by Alastor, the Alpha who broke her heart. Old wounds sting, but the mate bond between them refuses to die. As war closes in and secrets surface, desire flares hotter than ever, pulling them together against their will. Every choice feels like a battlefield—trust, love, and loyalty collide in ways neither can control. In the heat of war, Barbara must decide if the man who shattered her is the one who can protect her…and maybe even claim her heart again.

The She Wolf

The She Wolf

Abigail Lynne

Book 2 of The Feral Wars Series

Tally Murdo has spent her entire life caring for wolves on her family's wolf sanctuary. Teased for her passion, Tally is an outcast at school until newcomer Alex Thorn arrives. Fearing rejection because of his past, Alex denies their bond and keeps Tally at arm's length until his presence starts to stir something feral inside of her.

When the citizens of Astoria decide that their forests should be wolf-free, a string of disappearances occur and Tally begins to realize that something far more sinister than wolf poaching is happening in her town. Together, Tally and Alex must fight to save their forests, their pack, and each other.

Mate's Pleasure

Mate's Pleasure

Shanti Aventurin

They say that being rejected by your true mate is the most painful thing a wolf can experience. Well, Scarlett Henry has been rejected twice, and both times sucked about as much as you’d expect. But when you’ve gone through that kind of pain, what else is there to do but embrace it and make it your own?

Rejected Warrior

Rejected Warrior

Melanie Gomez

Being the only human in a shifter family should’ve been hard, but for Tricora it was just how she was raised. From learning what it meant to be a leader from her adopted Alpha father to fighting with her three unruly step-brothers, she loved every second of it...that was until she was rejected by her mate for being a human. Now the Alpha King has claimed her for his own. But will she accept?

The Lycan's Little Witch

The Lycan's Little Witch

Harmony S.

Emily is the daughter of a witch and the stepdaughter of a werewolf. When she’s rejected by her mate, she moves into her godmother’s house to continue her training to become the next High Magus.

Three years later, she attends her brother in spells’s welcome ceremony. There, she meets the third prince of the lycan kingdom, Fabian, who claims her as his amore, the fated mate of a lycan.

But can Emily overcome her initial instinct to reject Fabian? Is she ready to heal the heartbreak of the past? Will she survive being kidnapped by the Necromancer and pass the trials sent her way?

The Wolf Inside

The Wolf Inside

Michelle Torlot

Even in a perfect world, where werewolves and humans are treated equally, there will always be hatred and fear. Erin Blackthorne knows all about the latter, having been trained by her father to hate and kill werewolves her entire life. To say she adores her father would be putting it lightly, but then she’s captured during a raid and discovers something that changes her entire world: the truth.

The Twin Dragons Series: Dragon's Shadow

The Twin Dragons Series: Dragon's Shadow

C. Swallow

Storm is a Dragon who lurks in the dark, surrounded by violence and filled with lust. When he meets Silver, she dares him to follow her into the light. They’re destined mates, but Storm swore he’d never love again. But can he resist their bond?

A Vixen's Human: An Alpha's Vixen Story

A Vixen's Human: An Alpha's Vixen Story

Ms. Nauti Bear

Her: a stripper who meets the beta of the local shifter pack while out partying with her vixen friend Myra.

Him: Alpha Sloan’s beta who takes one look at this little human and falls head over heels.

From the Alpha’s Vixen universe comes the love story fans have been holding their breath for. Megan is trouble incarnate, a human who makes bank grinding against a pole, and she wouldn’t change a thing about her life... until she locks eyes with alpha Sloan’s beta, Declan. With an icy stare and slouching grace, he’s sex on a stick, and Megan wants a taste. But with danger around every corner and ghosts haunting their pasts, will Declan ever have the strength to claim his vixen’s human?

Age Rating: 18+

Heir to the Alpha Spin-off: Refusing My Alpha Mate

Heir to the Alpha Spin-off: Refusing My Alpha Mate

B. E. Harmel

Clair is destined to be the first female Alpha, following in her father’s footsteps and defying traditions. Everything is going according to plan—until Arthur, an Alpha running from his own pack, reveals himself as her fated mate. Determined to stay in control of her future, Clair demands his rejection, but Arthur's fiery passion and undeniable connection make walking away anything but simple. As war looms and betrayal threatens from all sides, Clair must navigate her heart’s desires, her duties as Alpha, and a bond she can't deny.

Will she reject the mate who could ruin her, or is he the one to save her?

The Royal Legacy Series Short: The Royal Trials

The Royal Legacy Series Short: The Royal Trials

Emily Goulden

Before Caspian Storm became King of the Werewolf Realm, he was simply a prince—the middle son of Queen Lydia and King Zeke, still searching for his purpose. His older brother, Malcolm, had no such doubts. As the eldest prince, he believed the throne was his by birthright. Their younger sister, Alice, was content as the cherished princess of the realm. From childhood, Malcolm and Caspian were inseparable—brothers, sparring partners, confidants, and closest friends. Both believed Malcolm was destined to be king. So why wasn’t he? Set before #9, The Lonely Rogue, and after the ministory, Love Within the Realm.

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