Hunter Bear by Zoe Chant

Posted September 13, 2016 by Faeshifter in Shifter Series / 0 Comments

hunter-bearTitle:  Hunter Bear
Series:  Enforcer Bears #2
Author:  Zoe Chant
Published:  June 11, 2016
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  Kindle Unlimited
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Curvy artist Cleo Waters has inherited an old house by a lake in Linden Creek. With her old life in ruins, she wants to take a break in the lonely forests, restoring the house her grandmother lived in. She didn’t expect that it would come with a secret treasure map — or a sexy, naked man bathing in her pond!

Bear shifter Steven Anders is hunting for a criminal jaguar shifter in the woods of Linden Creek. Steven still wears the scars of the past on his body and in his heart. He has never been fond of company or settling down — until his bear sets his sight on gorgeous Cleo and recognizes his mate. But can he open his heart to love and learn to trust?

When Steven and Cleo decide to follow the directions on the treasure map, they soon end up fighting for survival in the jaguar’s lair. Lost in a system of secret underground caves, is their love enough to show them the way home? And can danger teach them to trust each other despite the ghosts of the past?

Sexy shifters and their feisty mates who aren’t shy about loving each other – so, this is an adult, 18+ reader tale.

Titles in this series:  Bear Cop, Hunter Bear, Wedding Bear

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Mischief In A Fur Coat by Sloane Meyers

Posted September 13, 2016 by Faeshifter in Shifter Connected, Shifter Series / 0 Comments

mischief-in-a-fur-coatTitle:  Mischief In A Fur Coat
Series:  The Fur Coat Society #3
Author:  Sloane Myers
Published:  August 7, 2016
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  Kindle Unlimited
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Drew Brooks is a man among bears. As a human raised by shifters, he’s used to feeling like the odd one out. So he’s not surprised that Hope, an impossibly beautiful polar bear shifter, doesn’t seem interested in him. But he’s as stubborn as they come. When he decides that Hope is the girl he wants, he pursues her until she gives him a chance. But their sizzling, whirlwind romance comes to a screeching halt when Drew unexpectedly finds himself at death’s door…

Polar Bear shifter Hope Pearsons has been going a little stir-crazy. Thanks to the worldwide war on shifters, she’s gone from a fast-paced life in the big city to being cooped up in the middle of nowhere. She never thought she’d say it, but she wishes with everything in her that she hadn’t been born a shifter. Thankfully, she has new love to distract her. After getting over her initial dislike for Drew, she falls head over heels for his sweeter side—and for his drop-dead gorgeous looks. But her newfound happiness goes up in flames when Drew faces certain death. Everything seems hopeless…until Hope discovers that the fact that she’s a shifter means there’s a possibility she could save Drew’s life…

Drew wasn’t born with shifter blood running through his veins, but Hope is about to bring him closer to being a bear than he ever thought possible. Can she save his life in the process? Find out, in this steamy, action-packed bear shifter romance!

Sexy shifters and their feisty mates who aren’t shy about loving each other – so, this is an adult, 18+ reader tale.

Titles in The Fur Coat Society series:  Trouble In A Fur Coat, Alpha In A Fur Coat, Mischief In A Fur Coat, Danger In A Fur Coat

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Protector of the Pride by Terry Bolryder

Posted September 12, 2016 by Faeshifter in Shifter Series / 0 Comments

protector-of-the-prideTitle:  Protector of the Pride
Series:  Lions of Pride Island #3
Author:  Terry Bolryder
Published:  June 13, 2016
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  Kindle Unlimited
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Axel Hunt knows what’s expected from him in life. Find a mate that’s suitable to the oracle, mate her, and rule his country, ensuring peace. But all of that is turned upside down when curvy Lucy comes into his life, drawing his attention as never before. Only problem? She’s his secretary.

Lucy has never planned to put down roots or settle down. She enjoys the single life and her work, and her sketchy family history don’t give her a lot of hope that the right man would give her a chance. But when she meets Axel Hunt, she realizes two things. First, he’s hot and makes her feel all kinds of things she never expected to feel. Second, he’s hopeless with women and has no chance of winning over a mate when one is picked for him. With only a small ulterior motive, she proposes a win win situation. Date her, just for pretend, and learn how to woo a woman.

But when a make believe relationship turns into real feelings on both sides, how will Axel and Lucy reconcile their love with the needs of a nation? And can the fight the dangers lying ahead?

Sexy shifters and their feisty mates who aren’t shy about loving each other – so, this is an adult, 18+ reader tale.

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Blackwing Defender by T. S. Joyce

Posted September 11, 2016 by Faeshifter in Shifter Haven Discussion, Shifter Series / 0 Comments

blackwing-defenderTitle:  Blackwing Defender
Series:  Kane’s Mountains #1
Author:  T. S. Joyce
Published:  September 6, 2016
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  Kindle Unlimited
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Panther shifter, Winter Donovan, has her life all planned out: claiming marks, marriage, cubs, and pledging to the Red Havoc Crew. But when the man she cares for chooses another, her life gets caught in a tailspin. A new crew announcement could mean a change in her stars, but there is a catch. It’s the Blackwing Crew, and is run by fire-breathing dragon shifters. Not only that, but when she finds her bravery to travel to the Smoky Mountains and apply, the crew has somehow attracted the most damaged and terrifying shifters in the world. And one of those has his sexy eyes on her.

Logan is decisively deadly when it comes to protecting the fledgling Blackwing Crew, but the grizzly in his middle is a monster. He’s here for one reason, and one reason alone – to go out fighting. But the quiet beauty, Winter, has him wishing he could be saved. When the alpha of the new crew, Dark Kane, finds out what Logan really is, the choice of life and death may not be up to him anymore. And now he and Winter will have to go to war if they want a chance at forever.

Sexy shifters and their feisty mates who aren’t shy about loving each other – so, this is an adult, 18+ reader tale.

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Grizzly Fate by Keira Blackwood

Posted September 11, 2016 by Faeshifter in Shifter Series / 0 Comments

grizzly-fateTitle:  Grizzly Fate
Series:  Riverwood #3
Author:  Keira Blackwood
Published:  August 24, 2016
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  Kindle Unlimited
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Loving her came as naturally as breathing, as essential to my life as the heart beating within my chest. She accepted my claim, bore my mark. But the greatest challenge to our happiness, to our survival, was yet to come.

One disaster after the next has left small town sheriff Emma Hiller in a stressful position. When the existence of shifters is exposed, tension between the two species grows larger than the small police force can handle. With dark forces closing in, Emma struggles to maintain peace between the humans she’s sworn to protect and the shifter man she loves above all else.

After a lifetime of combat and solitude, grizzly shifter Liam Blake is ready to share every part of himself with another. But before he can, he must fight for his mate and the happiness that they deserve.

Sexy shifters and their feisty mates who aren’t shy about loving each other – so, this is an adult, 18+ reader tale.

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Stone Bear: Sentinel by Amelia Jade

Posted August 23, 2016 by Faeshifter in Shifter Series / 0 Comments

Stone Bear SentinelTitle:  Stone Bear: Sentinel
Series:  Stone Bears #1
Author:  Amelia Jade
Published:  February 9, 2016
My Rating:  3 stars
Source:  Kindle Unlimited
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Gabriel is a Stone Bear—one of the the elite shifters trained by the Lionshead Mining Consortium to protect their precious goods. He’s given up almost everything to be the best at his job, including the chance to take a mate. But after meeting his boss’s new assistant, he can’t help but wonder about the possibilities. Gabriel can withstand just about anything a shifter can throw at him in a fight, but when it comes to this strong, gorgeous, and witty woman, he finds himself weak in the knees. Could she truly be the one?

Caia Rowan is tougher than she seems. Hired straight out of school to go through training as a police negotiator, she’s seen her fair share of the ugly side of society. So when she’s offered a job in Genesis Valley, the harsh lifestyle and brutal nature of its inhabitants doesn’t faze her. But the tall, utterly intoxicating, and surprisingly well-mannered bear shifter she’s partnered with has the butterflies in her stomach doing circus acts.

As the pair investigate a series of odd occurrences within the Valley, they find that they can’t ignore the tension growing between them. But one wrong move could cost them not only their jobs, but their lives. The darkness invading Genesis Valley is more perverse than either of them suspected, and it will take the power of their bond to burn it away. Can they survive the journey, or will the brash actions of one doom the other?

 Sexy shifters and their feisty mates who aren’t shy about loving each other – so, this is an adult, 18+ reader tale.

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Words Can Change The Mood Completely

Posted August 23, 2016 by Faeshifter in Shifter Haven Discussion / 0 Comments

words powerWe all have those trigger words – words that make us cringe – words that lift us up – you know what I mean.  Words that just bring an emotion, a visual completeness to whatever we’re reading.  I had a run-in with a word last night as I was reading the latest Shifter Romance to cross my Kindle.  And, sadly, it wasn’t a good experience but it did make me think and perhaps be more aware of how words affect me.

Let’s be honest here – we all are aware that the majority of Shifter Romance is erotica within a paranormal setting.  Shifter couples are sizzling, smoking hot and not afraid to show us exactly how they enjoy their sexual moments.  And I am totally fine with that – heck, I wouldn’t be reading so many of then if I wasn’t, ya know?

Yet last night I was completely taken out of the moment by one word that was put in the wrong place… for me.  It shattered my illusion of a hot, sexy couple doing one of the most natural acts that any species does.  Suddenly this wasn’t a man and woman expressing their love physically.  It felt crass and I stopped reading at that moment.  I was completely out of their world and into a cringe moment of my own.

Please, don’t get me wrong here – there is no “fault” yet there is “reaction” that is personal to me.  I’m certain that as readers we all have words that are like fingernails on a blackboard to us… they simply jar and make us shudder or take us out of the experience of the story.

So I put that book aside and will return to it in a day or so.  It’s a very entertaining story and I don’t want to miss the conclusion of it – but not yet.  I need to get that hero and heroine back into a loving relationship in my mind and not the situation that one word put them into in my mind.  Silly?  Perhaps.  But it’s also an honest human reaction that I needed to express.  Truthfully, I wondered if there are other readers who react to certain words enough that they are taken out of the story because of them.

There is no right or wrong to this post.  It’s an opinion, a thinking out loud moment of mine.  The truth is words do have power – and for each of us, that word is different.

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Protected Mate by J.H. Croix

Posted August 16, 2016 by Faeshifter in Shifter Series / 0 Comments

Protected MateTitle:  Protected Mate
Series:  Catamount Lion Shifters #1
Author:  J.H. Croix
Published:  November 12, 2015
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  Kindle Unlimited
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Dane Ashworth, a sexy, solitary mountain lion shifter, comes from one of the founding shifter families of Catamount, a town deep in the woods of Maine where mountain lion shifters have existed in secret for centuries. The community is in turmoil after the startling death of one of their shifters. In the midst of upheaval in the shifter world, Dane encounters the unassuming, curvy and deliciously sexy Chloe Silver who injures herself hiking along the Appalachian Trail.

Chloe set out to hike the famed trail in the aftermath of heartbreak. She’s lived a well-planned life, only to learn that the best laid plans could blow up in her face. She’s looking for a fresh start, but trust doesn’t come easily for her. The mere idea of shifters has never crossed her mind, but Dane calls to her in a way that no man ever has. She finds herself tossed and turned by the depth of her attraction to him. The mountain lion in Dane knows Chloe is meant for him, but he has to find a way to earn her trust and make her believe in him and in what lies between them.

Passion burns like wildfire between them while events in Catamount put them both in danger. In a love story filled with passion, steamy romance, adventure, betrayal and secrets, Chloe will have to decide if she can accept Dane for who he is, and if she’s willing to believe in the power of love.

Sexy shifters and their feisty mates who aren’t shy about loving each other – so, this is an adult, 18+ reader tale.

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Lion Lost & Found by J.H. Croix

Posted August 15, 2016 by Faeshifter in Shifter Series / 0 Comments

Lion Lost and FoundTitle:  Lion Lost & Found
Series:  Ghost Cat Shifters #2
Author:  J.H. Croix
Published:  July 21, 2016
My Rating:  4.5 stars
Source:  Kindle Unlimited
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Heath Ashworth is a mountain lion shifter from a family whose roots go back to the birth of shifters. A strong alpha male and former Marine Special Forces operative, he stumbled and lost his way after a car accident where he barely escaped with his life. His grueling recovery led him down a path he never imagined. After he tangled with the shifter smuggling network, all he wants is to make it right again. Now he’s trying to live up to the man and shifter he once was.

Vivi Sheldon once harbored a secret crush on Heath. He’s her best friend’s older brother and all kinds of tall, dark, strong and sexy. She shelved her youthful fantasies when Heath moved away for his military career. In the meantime, her heart took a few bumps and bruises. She’s a busy single mother and has convinced herself life without love is better than putting her heart on the line again.

Vivi is bold, brash and beautiful. As Heath pulls his life back together, he finds he can’t stop thinking about her. The spark between them burns so hot and bright, he doesn’t want to ignore it anymore. One kiss sets the tinder between them alight in flames. Heath isn’t sure he’s shifter enough to live up to Vivi, while Vivi struggles to let down her guard.

In a love story filled with passion, steamy romance, suspense and adventure, Heath and Vivi are bound tighter and tighter together as they face down the secrets threatening shifters everywhere. Can Heath be the shifter he believes Vivi needs? Can Vivi have faith in the love between them?

*This is a spin-off series from the Catamount Lion Shifters Series.

Sexy shifters and their feisty mates who aren’t shy about loving each other – so, this is an adult, 18+ reader tale.

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Papa Bear by Kit Fawkes

Posted August 15, 2016 by Faeshifter in Shifter Series / 0 Comments

Papa BearTitle:  Papa Bear
Series:  Finding Fatherhood #1
Author:  Kit Fawkes & Kit Tunstall
Published:  June 9, 2016
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  Kindle Unlimited
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U.S. Marshal and bear-shifter Lucas Anderson failed to protect his pregnant witness, so when she asks him to adopt her daughter as her dying wish, he can’t refuse. Angel is a sweet baby, and he soon feels like Papa Bear, and maybe she’ll be the key to help him wear down his mate’s resistance.

Libby has shut him down for months, and he knows they belong together, but she won’t give him a chance to prove it. Can the stubborn bear and his baby win her over to their ready made family? Can he keep his mate and child safe when the cartel that killed his witness comes after him, putting all three in danger?

Sexy shifters and their feisty mates who aren’t shy about loving each other – so, this is an adult, 18+ reader tale.

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