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Fifteen cozy spicy romances. Three complete shifter series in one sizzling bundle! Series included in this collection: Brides for Beasts: Bears Brides for Beasts: Wolves Brides for Beasts: Dragons Unlikely Mate: A Fated Mates Romance When a gruff bear shifter alpha collides with a cynical human recruiter for an arranged-marriage program, sparks fly in a fated-mates romance fueled by possessive instincts, small-town magic, and scorching chemistry. Off-Limits Mate: A Forbidden Romance When a curvy, pregnant bride meets a dominant bear-shifter enforcer, he knows she’s his fated mate but his ...

Three complete Bear Shifter Romance series in one sizzling bundle! Series included in this collection: Kodiak Island Shifters Billionaire Bear’s Bride The Alpha's Bride Military Bear’s Mate Shifters of Denver Nathan: Billionaire Bear Byron: Heartbreaker Bear Xavier: Bad Bear Jackson Valley Shifters Werebear’s Mail Order Mate Country Star Werebear Quarterback Werebear Billionaire Bear’s Bride: Fated Mates Romance Colton Sterling is a brilliant business strategist, adrenaline junkie, self-made billionaire, and Kodiak grizzly bear shifter. He has no plans to settle down until he meets ...

All six bestselling novellas in the Cybermates series! While bunny shifter Parker Pettit works to get her new online shifter dating site, Cybermates, off the ground shifters all around Sunkissed Key are finding love.

Wolf shifter Raif Williams is a cynical, hard-boiled detective. The last thing he wants is a mate. He’s already married to the police force. Clumsy, awkward photographer Denny Wade has sworn off men. Why else would she live in a town of mostly females? When chasing a lead brings Raif to the eclectic town of Helen’s Corner, and face to face with clumsy Denny, he's forced to face a truth more frightening than any of the ruthless criminals he chases. He's just found his mate. NOTE: In the late 1800s, on a homestead in New Mexico, Helen Cartwright was widowed under mysterious circumstances....

Carter Ray has sworn off men. She and her daughter, Jellybean, have found refuge in the mostly female-populated town of Helen’s Corner. She wants nothing to do with the visiting wolf-shifter, despite his wickedly delicious scent that drives her bear into a frenzy. The last thing billionaire Alec Patterson expected to find in the small Southwestern town was his mate. Now his biggest challenge is getting rid of the woman he came with before he loses his mate for good.

Sky Broussard has spent the last nine years of her life fighting for custody and raising her nephews. Between trying to make ends meet as a waitress at the Bon Temps Café, and keeping an eye on two troublesome teens, she’s had zero time for indulgences like romance. No worries, she hasn’t been interested in the opposite sex for a long time. Not until she meets the snarling, growling, hotter-that-an-inferno hunk who caught her nephews trespassing on his swampland deep in the Louisiana bayou.

Allie is running scared. Not from monsters in the closet, or creepy things under the bed; she's scared of commitment. On the run from a would-be fiancé, she finds a temp job as a barmaid in a small Texas town out in the middle of nowhere. True love is not on the agenda until she meets her big, burly boss, hot-as-hell Thorn Canton, who lights her fires in all the right places. Bear shifter Thorn Canton is a successful tavern owner with no plans whatsoever of getting hitched. In fact, to Thorn, a mate might mean a fate worse than death; literally.

Bashful Bunny meets Big Bad Bruin The school librarian, Violet Caldwell, is in for a surprise this fall. There’s a new faculty member at Gasparilla Junior High. He appears to be an unassuming history teacher, but Violet knows better. He’s dangerous. He’s dominant. He’s her mate! All she can think to do is to run…and hide! (It’s not her finest moment, but…) She’s riddled with anxiety. She’s frightened of everything. She’s on the verge of a panic attack! B.E.A.R.S. (Bruin Evaluation Assessment and Reconnaissance Specialists) series, Book #1: Knox and Violet. SERIES READING...

Bestselling author Candace Ayers brings you SHORT "lunchtime quickie" reads—condensed romances intended to be read in under 2 hours! Love is blind...and apparently pretty hairy As a celebrity in hiding, on the run from a drug cartel, the last thing I expect is to end up in an underground Sasquatch city with a lovable furball who thinks we're soulmates. He's sweet, protective, and surprisingly sexy for someone of another species. As I navigate this bizarre new world of monster dating, square dancing, and glow-in-the-dark private parts (don't ask), I find myself falling for the big lug and ...

Bestselling authors Candace Ayers and Kym Dillon bring you SHORT "lunchtime quickie" reads—condensed romances intended to be read in under 2 hours! Welcome to Mystic Hollow where wildest dreams (trust me, they do get wild) come true. As Alpha of Mystic Hollow's bear shifter clan, duty dictates my every move. When the Shifter Council responds to our declining population by enacting the BfB (Brides for Beasts) program, the guys are pretty excited to be introduced to human females. I am too, until I fall head over heels for the program coordinator who makes it very clear she is not one of ...

Bestselling authors Candace Ayers and Kym Dillon bring you SHORT "lunchtime quickie" reads—condensed romances intended to be read in under 2 hours! Paranormal passion only a shifter can deliver. Let the games begin. I'm minding my own business when in walks the hottest silver fox I've ever seen. He claims I'm his mate. No thanks. I don't do mates. Especially not arrogant Alpha types. Been there, done that—it left me institutionalized. But those eyes, that smile... Makes a menopausal gal yearn for what she's been missing. He says I'm the only one for him. But doesn't he deserve a fertile...

Wolf shifter Holt Monroe has a big decision to make. Retire from the military, or re-enlist? When he meets his sister’s best friend, sassy little Sonnie Chaplan, Holt craves every inch of her milky skin and luscious curves. After succumbing to one night of passion, Sonnie swears it will never happen again. But, as soon as Holt learns she’s carrying his baby, he’ll move hell and high water to make her his. NOTE: In the late 1800s, on a homestead in New Mexico, Helen Cartwright was widowed under mysterious circumstances. Knowing there was power in the feminine bonds of sisterhood, Helen...

Who knew justice was so poetic? Maverick has a rep as a hard-boiled investigator. He’s never had a case he’s been unable to crack. When a decade-old cold case falls on his desk, his homicide investigation leads to Sunkissed Key, and to his main suspect, Sinclair Townsend— his mate. For almost ten years, Sinclair has managed to deny the events that forever changed her life. But when her house of cards falls, it implodes. By a twist of fate, Kade Maverick is her mate—and her nemesis. B.E.A.R.S. (Bruin Evaluation Assessment and Reconnaissance Specialists) SERIES READING ORDER: 1. ...

Part of a world-wide, clandestine army comprised of the best of the best shifters, P.O.L.A.R.’s home base is Siberia…until the team pisses somebody off and gets re-assigned to Sunkissed Key, Florida and these arctic shifters suddenly find themselves surrounded by sun, sand, flip-flops and palm trees.

Bestselling author Candace Ayers brings you SHORT "lunchtime quickie" reads—condensed romances intended to be read in under 2 hours! Love is blind...and apparently pretty hairy My slimeball boss embezzled from the company and framed me! I think I can prove I’m not guilty, but a trial will take months. I don’t have months. I may not even have weeks. I'm incarcerated, terminally ill, and out of options. My lawyer's solution? Well, let’s just say the guy's legal advice lands me in the furry arms of a legendary cryptid. Luckily, the big, possessive, cinnamon roll might be exactly what I...

Something’s lurking in the swamplands of the Deep South. These massive dragons have been exiled from their homeland. Each must find his one true mate before it’s too late.

Six bestselling rom-com novellas from Candace Ayers containing a handful of favorite tropes—secret baby, mail-order bride, unexpected pregnancy, reclusive hero—and, of course, plenty of spicy hot romance. These grizzly bear ranchers are gruff, tough, fiercely possessive, and 100% alpha. When the patriarch of the Long family dies, he bequeaths the family’s multimillion-dollar ranching operation to the first of his sons to produce an heir. It’s game on! Five Brothers. One Ranch. Six stories of fated mates and happily ever afters. Rancher Bear’s Baby - Her life is a country song—no...

Bestselling author Candace Ayers brings you SHORT "lunchtime quickie" reads—condensed romances intended to be read in under 2 hours! Dragon scales and bridal veils—billionaire shifters find their fiery mates! In the high-powered world of Los Angeles, my kind reigns supreme. From the shadows, that is. Power? Check. Wealth? Check. Heirs? Here’s where things get tricky.BfB is my shot at passing on my legacy. And my fortune. With an arranged marriage, I can check the last box on my list. Our union, of course, will be impersonal and unemotional. But when my eyes meet hers, something ...

Six Buddies. Six bears. Six Mates. In the southwestern town of Burden, Texas, good ol’ bears Hawthorne, Wyatt, Hutch, Sterling, Sam, and Matt are livin’ easy. Beer flows freely, and pretty women are abundant. The last thing the shifters of Burden are thinking about is finding a mate or settling down. But, fate has its own plan…

One, two, three four, I declare a cyberwar. Lukas Torres is both brawn and brilliance. He’s a skilled coder as well as a hardcore field agent. His social skills, though…well, they’re lacking. He needs help to win over his mate. So Lukas (accidentally on purpose) hacks into her server. Needless to say, that doesn’t go over well. When Brennan Malkovich gets a digital smackdown, it’s time to up her cyber game. And where should she turn for help? The cocky, arrogant hacker himself—Lukas Torres. Only he’s not so arrogant. Or cocky. In fact, he’s kind of sweet. In a snarly, growly...