Author: Marsha

Hex by Harmony Raines

Posted April 21, 2020 by Marsha in Shifter Connected, Shifter Seasoned Romance, Shifter Series / 0 Comments

Is he truly cursed? Could fate be that cruel?

Hex by name and hexed by nature. Cursed to dream of his mate dying night after night. To feel the cold water fill his lungs and force the last breath from his body. Just as one day his mate would die in the ice-cold water of the creek.

Perhaps it was a good thing that Hex had never met her. If his mate never entered his life, she wouldn’t suffer the cruel fate he’d relived over and over again.

Then he meets Martha, a cougar from Cougar Ridge and he knows he must see his dream as a blessing, not a curse. What if the dream was given to him as a gift so that he can save her?

Martha has returned to Cougar Ridge to care for her mom who is sick. As a forty-something cougar shifter who longed for a mate and children, she’d put all her energy into forging out a successful career in the city. She had almost given up on finding her mate and then fate brings him into her life and into her heart.

But Hex seems standoffish, as if he isn’t ready to commit, even though he is a bear shifter who should share the same need to find his mate and raise a family.

Martha soon finds out Hex has a secret. A secret that has haunted him his whole life.

Is it possible he has foreseen her death? Can they work together to make sure she stays alive so they can live together forever?

Or has Hex got it wrong? Is it really Martha’s death he dreams of, or his own?

This is an adult 18+ story that contains language, possible violence and sexual situations geared to an adult audience.  A silverback seasoned shifters romance.

Titles in the Winter – Shifter Seasons series include – Hex – Beck –

This series is a spin-off from the Return to Bear Creek world and the Seasoned Silverback Shifters as well – if you love anything by Harmony Raines, including her many connecting series then please visit our Harmony Raines page for lists of series and titles (almost all) reviewed here at Shifter Haven.

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His Cougar Dream by Moxie North

Posted April 19, 2020 by Marsha in Shifter Connected / 0 Comments

Of course, he can’t say no to a shifter.

Titus Payne had been in a relationship that was doomed to fail. He wasn’t about to go through that trouble again, no matter what Gerri Wilder (matchmaker extraordinaire) had in mind. He was a man that knew what he wanted. He wanted to be left alone and enjoy the quiet days of working his bar and keeping to himself. He didn’t want or need a mate, no matter how beautiful she might be.

Sadie Nash watched her brother Levi find his destined mate and was happy for him. Now she wanted that for herself. Gerri Wilder said she was looking, but it wasn’t fast enough for Sadie. When she finally got the call she was waiting for, Sadie didn’t expect to find a reluctant human that only knew the word no.

A reluctant mate, a determined shifter, and a complication that would not catch a clue. Two hearts destined for each other with more than one roadblock in the way.

This is an adult 18+ story that contains language, possible violence and sexual situations geared to an adult audience.

Her Cougar Cowboy – Her Cougar Sunrise – His Cougar Dream – … all share a connection with each title as well as being part of the Paranormal Dating Agency world.

For more titles from Moxie North or titles in the Paranormal Dating Agency world that have been reviewed here at Shifter Haven, please visit their pages.

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Lift Her Up by T.S. Joyce

Posted April 17, 2020 by Marsha in Shifter, Shifter Connected, Shifter Series / 0 Comments

All the ghosts of Wes’s past are coming back to haunt him in a big way. A handwritten letter changes everything when he finds out his brother, Sam, is alive after Wes has thought him dead for years. The one who has tracked him down? The love of Wes’s life, Summer, but when she shows up on his doorstep, she isn’t the bright and cheery girl he left all those years ago. Summer is different now– tough, snarly, independent, angry, and wrestling with an animal side that is relentless. Nothing can hide the dark beauty that radiates from her though. Her anger is Wes’s fault, but he had good reason. And now she is sending him on a mission to avenge his brother and set Sam free from a dominant pack of werewolves that thrive in war. His only ally is the woman who hates him the most.

Summer isn’t so summery anymore. There are no happy rainbows hovering over her life right now as she struggles to control the savage wolf inside of her. She loved hard once and got really burned, and now she’s back to send Wes on a fool’s mission that will probably get him killed. All she has to do is not get attached to the charming alpha of the Kaid Pack. That man was trouble since the day he was born, but there is something about Wes that calls to her. The more he reveals about the reasons he left her, the more she thinks she might have been wrong about everything, and now sending him on a mission to fight an entire pack doesn’t seem like such a good idea. If something bad happens to him, her heart might just get broken…again.

The time has come. Time to heal, time to rise up, time to protect the throat of the man she once loved. Even if it means the end of her.

This is an adult 18+ story that contains language, possible violence, and sexual situations geared to an adult audience.

Titles in the Kaid Ranch Shifters series include – Steal Her Heart – Make Her New – Lift Her Up – Love Her Better

For a complete listing of all the many series, their titles, and links to the reviews done here at Shifter Haven, please visit our T. S. Joyce page.

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Winged Solution by Roxanne Witherell

Posted April 15, 2020 by Marsha in Multi-Author Series, Shifter Connected, Shifter Series / 0 Comments

Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice…shame on me.

Braelynn Summers had one experience with a shifter and it left her in a coma for three weeks, waking up a sex-crazed freak. After three years of living in pain, she does the one thing she never expected to do, give in and look to a shifter to satisfy her intense sexual urges.

Time is running out for Ronan Styles. As a Pegasus shifter, he has until his 38th birthday to find his mate or he will lose his wings and become nothing more than a stallion. He turns to Gerri Wilder and the PDA. Ronan expected to find his mate and continue on with life. He didn’t expect his mate to have a prejudice against shifters.

Can Braelynn move beyond her prejudice and embrace life with Ronan? Or will her past and his secret be their downfall?

This is an adult 18+ story that contains language, possible violence and sexual situations geared to an adult audience.

Titles in the Heads ‘n Tails series which is part of the large Paranormal Dating Agency world include – Winged Solution – For the  Love of Fire and Ice – Bite My Bengal – Covering His Fox – Splash Investment –

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Trying to Find Normal in a World Far From Normal Right Now

Posted April 13, 2020 by Marsha in Shifter Haven Discussion / 0 Comments

Like most folks, my family and I have self-isolated during (and also leading up to) this deadly virus outbreak.  Normal doesn’t look, sound, or feel quite the same – I’m sure that’s true in your home as well.

We’ve been in official self-isolation since March 12, 2020, and as that month anniversary has recently passed – well, I miss like crazy being able to just go out beyond the mailbox or the back patio.  But, I’m content as one can possibly be with staying home, staying in so that not only my family but others can be safe (or as safe as possible) right now.  I’ll admit to a bit of a mourning period for that past life that I so took for granted.  I’ve played more video games, watched more streaming shows, read more books — basically escaping into my own comfort zone.  I’ve not done a lot of writing, my mind just hasn’t been wrapped around many upbeat ways to write reviews lately.

But that changed today.  I came to the realization that “this” is normal now – and I’d better get with the program for wasting one day seems so very foolish considering the world I live in right now.

I’ve read a lot, as I mentioned, and I’ve begun putting those reviews up on the blog.  I’ve tried, when possible to have backdated those posts to around the time I actually read the book.  Once I get caught up then I’ll go back to every other day postings.  It’s my normal, or it was and I’m determined that it will be again.

So, I’m sorta sorry if I’m jamming up your email notifications or your Twitter feed – but they’re all good stories you might want to check out.  🙂

You take care of you and yours as best you can – and I’ll keep doing the same here.  Be well my shifter loving book friends.

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Savage Chase by Cecilia Lane

Posted April 11, 2020 by Marsha in Shifter, Shifter Connected, Shifter Series / 0 Comments

He’s determined to tear down the walls around his mate’s heart before an enemy rips out his soul.

Dash
Ruthless fighter, aimless drifter. Falling in love means getting ripped in pieces when everything goes to hell.

Lion shifter Dash can’t fight the mating fever forever—or deny his insatiable need for the only woman who soothes his inner roar and makes him purr like a kitten.  But another male’s sniffing around his woman. It’s time for Dash to prove he’s the deadliest hunter in the pride.

No rival will take what is his.  He’ll prove to Colette that he’s here to claim, here to stay.

Colette
Men are trouble. Mates are worse. Colette avoids anything more serious than a one-night stand like the plague.  But for once in her life she needs help.  A vow never to out a shifter to humans is going to cost her everything. Especially when the person she’s protecting is giving off stalker vibes.

The only person in her corner is also the only man who tempts her to break her own rules. The man who wants more than her body.  She’ll have to trust that a mate bond won’t chew her up and spit her out. Dash is the last defense against not just her enemies, but a lifetime of emptiness.

This is an adult 18+ story that contains language, possible violence and sexual situations geared to an adult audience.

Titles in the Shifting Destinies: Lion Hearts series include –  Savage Pride – Savage Claim – Savage Chase – Savage Craving – Savage Exile – 

This series shares a connection with the Shifting Destinies series of Shifters of Bear’s Den which includes – Her Christmas Wolf – Forbidden Mate – Dangerous Mate – Hunted Mate – Runaway Mate – Stolen Mate – Untamed Mate

and

Shifting Destinies: Black Claw Ranch which includes – Wrangled Fate – Spurred Fate – Breaking Fate – Wild Fate – Bucking Fate

and

Shifting Destinies: Shifters and Sins in the BAD Alpha Dads line of Howl Romance – Whiskey and Wolves – Tequila and Tigers – Bourbon and Bears

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Dragon in Love by Terry Bolryder

Posted April 9, 2020 by Marsha in Shifter Connected, Shifter Series / 0 Comments

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Chadwick, the purple dragon, and leader of his region has his hands full. He has to keep visiting fae princes out of trouble, watch for a potential triad to mate with, and ignore the sassy human expert on fae customs who is bent on ruining everything. Still, Isabella is winning Chad over, with her zest for life and her constant misadventures. From the first kiss, Chad knows he’s in danger. Though not as much as Isabella will be in if Chad’s visions come true.

Isabella is hiding secrets. On the run from a past she’d do anything to forget, she never expected to be charmed by the sweet, soft-spoken, utterly dominant dragon hosting her and the fae. From the first kiss, she can’t seem to resist teasing him, chasing him, and getting him alone any minute possible. Because she knows that what they have can’t last. Not with what is coming for her.

As Chadwick and Isabella give in to the overwhelming chemistry between them, they both fall deeper than they intended. Now Isabella will have to decide if she still plans to run from what’s hunting her, or stand and fight, even if it means endangering the man she loves.

Titles in the Forgotten Dragons series include – Dragon Next Door – Dragon Meets Girl – Dragon to the Rescue – Dragon with Benefits – Dragon in Love

This is an adult, 18+ story, it contains language, possible violence and sexual situations geared to an adult audience.

This series has a growing connection to the other dragon series within Ms. Bolryder’s dragon world.  Please visit the Terry Bolryder page for a more complete listing of connecting series.

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The Great Wolf Escape by Mia Taylor

Posted April 7, 2020 by Marsha in Shifter, Shifter Series / 0 Comments

It was fitting that her name meant “the fiery one” because Serafina was hot!

Somehow, I knew from the second I laid eyes on her in that hospital that she was going to be mine for eternity.

I had a bet to win, one that would free me from the prison in which I’d been cast after being framed for a crime that my brother committed.

And the stakes were higher than any I’d ever known in this life or the next.

But the way I felt for Sera had little to do with the wager and everything to do with the fact she was my mate.

Everyone is conspiring against us, dark forces and light but love always wins, in the end, …doesn’t it?

This is an adult 18+ story that contains language, possible violence and sexual situations geared to an adult audience.

Titles in the Scandalous Shifters series include – The Great Wolf Escape –

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The Dire Bear’s Witch by Jessica Ripley

Posted April 5, 2020 by Marsha in Multi-Author Series, Shifter Series / 0 Comments

Dixie Reade is a newly immortal witch, looking for some excitement in her life. She’s in for more than her fair share when she runs across famed matchmaker, Gerri Wilder, who drags Dixie to a party at Dire Bear Estate.

Slade Galath is content with life the way it is. He’s spent centuries as an immortal dire bear, and despite Gerri’s regular teasing, he’s not interested in finding a mate and settling down. That all changes when Slade meets Dixie, his fated mate.

Neither of them trusts love, but that’s the least of their problems because the local wolf pack has targeted Dixie and set the immortal council on her. If she can’t convince the local coven to sponsor her, the council will exterminate her, and Slade is not about to let that happen to his mate.

Can these two get over their stubbornness and figure out the best way for Dixie to get set up with the council, and accept the best way for each other?

Titles in the Immortal Affinity series include –The Dire Bear’s Witch – The Dire Bear’s Mate – The Dire Bear’s Wolf 

If you absolutely love a Paranormal Dating Agency story (and who doesn’t?) then you might be interested in our PDA page.  I certainly haven’t read them all, but many and links to even more.  Check it out if you’d like even more of Gerri’s shenanigans.

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Fire Maidens: Rome by Anna Lowe

Posted April 3, 2020 by Marsha in Shifter Connected, Shifter Series / 0 Comments

The one woman this lone wolf can’t resist…

New Yorker Lena Castamolino has trouble. Big trouble. Every time the full moon shines, her body tries to turn into a wild beast, and she has no idea why. Her skin goes all leathery, and her shoulders begin the agonizing transformation into wings. Wings! Could it have to do with her recent move to Rome — a magical city that called to her for years? Or does the answer lie in the father who abandoned her at birth? Either way, she needs help, because all the grit and determination in the world can’t stop the moon — or the evil forces hot on her trail.

Rome may be known as the Eternal City, but eternal banishment is more like it for members of the despised Monseratti clan. But wolf shifter Sergio Monseratti has been granted one last chance to return to the city he loves, and he’s not about to blow it. “All” he has to do is bring down a ruthless mafia boss, and he can’t afford any distractions now. And he absolutely, positively cannot fall in love with the mysterious woman who could be the key to saving the city, no matter how high the passion between them builds.

Dazzling starlets, billionaire playboys, vengeful enemies, power-hungry dragons, secret heirs… It’s impossible to know who to trust, but one thing is for sure — destiny is on the move, and Rome is its stage.

This is an adult 18+ story that contains language, possible violence and sexual situations geared to an adult audience.

Titles in the Fire Maidens – Billionaires & Bodyguards series include – Fire Maidens: Paris – Fire Maidens: London – Fire Maidens: Rome – Fire Maidens: Portugal – Fire Maidens: Ireland

(There is a connection to the Aloha Shifters: Jewels of the Heart and Aloha Shifters: Pearls of Desire series – do you have to have read those first – No. — but you’ll be missing some amazing stories.  For a list of those series’ titles or other Anna Lowe series please visit our Anna Lowe page.)

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