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Sam has watched his buddies go through the mate bonding process, and he couldn’t be happier for them. Really. He can’t help the little twinge of jealousy, though. He’s been waiting a long time to find his mate, and he’s more than ready. Presley Gray grew up in an authoritarian household run by her father, a fire and brimstone preacher in the small religious enclave of Macon’s Edge. Now that she’s free, she feels a little like a calf that’s just learning to stand on its own.

Substandard job performance. Indebted to a sleazy loan shark. Crushing on a shifter who’s out of her league. Kerrigan is in a heck of a pickle. Dmitry’s not gentle. He’s not the nurturing type. He’s a cold-blooded killer - a P.O.L.A.R. assassin. But, when he steps in to protect her, Kerrigan doesn’t see a killer. She sees a Hero Bear.

In the search for her missing brother, free-spirited Grace experiences some firsts—friends, a family, a home, and...a hot polar bear shifter who captures her heart. To claim Grace as his mate, Konstantin must not only renounce his title and shun his duties, he must betray his friends. Being a Royal Bear is a royal b*tch.

Parker is fighting extinction—of her own shifter species! She’d already be mated if not for those bullying polar bears. They've scared away all decent prospects. Maxim has met the one, but she wants nothing to do with him. He’ll need all his tactical skills to win over his mate!

Vilified by strangers, Heidi's the island pariah. Needless to say, friendships aren’t her thing. Unless it happens to be with a displaced polar bear. Hey, he’s a great listener! Alexei knows Heidi’s his mate. But he can't get near her. All he wants is a chance. And, as far as he can tell, there’s only one way to get it—as a Covert Bear. P.O.L.A.R. (Private Ops: League Arctic Rescue) is a specialized, private operations task force—a maritime unit of polar bear shifters.

Elin has a dream; to mate a shifter and form a family. It’s a rule of nature - shifters don’t leave their mates. Dylan has a duty; to breed his females and build his pride. It’s a rule of nature - lions don’t have mates. Two months ago, the sexy lion shifter with the killer smile and smoldering eyes swept into Elin’s life like a whirlwind, then disappeared just as quickly. When Dylan ran, he hadn’t realized he was making the biggest mistake of his life, or that he was leaving behind more than a beautiful woman and a broken heart.

Matt has known since puberty that the promise of finding a mate that drove other shifters wasn’t for him. Matt is different. Nature doesn’t provide mates for freaks like him. When Cannon enters his life, his carefully constructed world begins to crumble. Cannon threatens to throw Matt’s entire life and career into jeopardy. But damned if he can stay away from the sexy shifter who is determined to claim him.

Mariah Starr comes from humble beginnings. She’s worked her tail feathers off. And her dream is now at her fingertips. Goals require sacrifice. Patton James works for his family’s construction business. As shifters, they know instantly they’re mates. That doesn’t mean they like it. Or each other. Someone also once said, “There's no escaping destiny.” Warning: This book is intended for adults.

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.

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.

Colton Sterling, a Kodiak grizzly bear shifter, is a brilliant business strategist, adrenaline junkie, and self-made billionaire. Colton has no plans to settle down. Not, that is, until he sets eyes on the beautiful Dr. Hannah Cooper. His mate. Hannah is a smart, curvy, bold doctor, who is way out of her league in the Alaskan wilderness. Lucky for her she'll be leaving the state and heading back home. Colton has just 24 hours to make Hannah fall in love with him before she returns to the lower 48. Can he rise to the challenge?

Chloe Carpenter is a natural matchmaker. Smart, funny and talented, she has yet to find her own Mr. Right. That doesn't stop Chloe from playing mix and match with friends. When she sets up a weekend camping trip to match up coworkers, she ends up lost in the forest and face to face with a sexy-as-sin forest ranger who could easily become the stuff of her wildest fantasies. Nathan Varga, a bear shifter and CEO of a highly successful multibillion-dollar Fortune 500 company, always expected that he would one day meet his mate. He never expected that she'd be human.

Matt Long has had a hell of a six months. When he isn't roaming the woods as his bear, he is wallowing in misery and guilt. Is it any wonder he's forgotten all about the mail-order bride website and his drunken mistake? Running out of time, and with a nasty ex literally nipping at her heels, Leila Harold makes a desperate move by bribing her way into Beatrix's Buxom Beauties, a mail-order bride service. When her intended turns out to be a bear, a real bear, she, unfortunately, has nowhere else to go.