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Pack Challenge by Shelly Laurenston

What’s an Alpha Male to do when he meets the Alpha Female of his dreams? Step one, hide all sharp objects. All Zach Sheridan ever wanted was to become Alpha Male of his Pack and be left alone. What he definitely didn’t need in his life was some needy female demanding his attention. What he never saw coming was the vicious, scarred female who not only demanded his attention but knew exactly how to get it. Sara Morrighan knew this was the best she could expect from her life. Good friends. A nice place to live. And a safe job. But when Zach rode into her…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming (internalised)
  • Chronic injury cured magically without consent (limp)
  • Graphic animal death

Go Fetch by Shelly Laurenston

Conall Víga-Feilan, direct descendent of Viking shifters, never thought that he’d meet a female strong enough to be his mate. He especially didn’t think that a short, viper-tongued human would ever fit the bill. But Miki Kendrick isn’t some average human. With an IQ off the charts and a special skill with weapons of all kinds, Miki brings the big blond pooch to his knees—and keeps him there. Miki’s way too smart to ever believe in love, and she knows that a guy like Conall could only want one thing from her. But with the Pack’s enemie… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Attempted kidnapping
  • Police intimidation

Born to Be Badger by Shelly Laurenston

Emily “Tock” Meyerson-Jackson is on a mission to rid the world of shifters trafficking humans for hunting and cash. And now that she’s narrowed down her suspects to a brutal coalition of male lions, nothing will get between this honey badger and her prey—not even a dog-loving Tiger with absolutely no time management skills. Doesn’t matter that Shay Malone is ferociously adorable. With a war brewing between cat families, Tock doesn’t have time to lounge around with a football-playing tiger shifter. But when she realize… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Human & sex trafficking
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a father
  • Gun violence

Bite Me by Shelly Laurenston

Livy Kowalski has no time for idiots. When you shapeshift into a honey badger, getting through life’s irritants is a finely honed skill. Until she gets stuck housing her nutso cousin and dealing with her dad’s untimely and unexplained demise. That’s where Vic Barinov comes in—or his house does. Vic can’t step outside without coming back to find Livy devouring his honey stash and getting the TV remote sticky. It gets his animal instincts all riled up. But he’ll have to woo her at high all hell is breaking loose, and Livy is leading the charge…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Death of a father

The Mane Event by Shelly Laurenston

Shelly Laurenston turns up the heat with two sizzling novellas. In “Christmas Pride”: How come all the good-looking ones are insane? That’s what runs through NYPD cop Desiree “Dez” MacDermot’s mind the minute she hooks up again with her childhood buddy, Mace Llewellyn. It isn’t just the way he stares at her with those too-sexy gold eyes, as if he could devour her on the spot. Or the six-four, built-like-a-Navy-SEAL bod-o-death. It isn’t even that he sniffs her neck and purrs, making her entire body tingle. It’s more about that disconcerting, shifting-from-man-to-lion… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misogyny & slut-shaming
  • Fatphobia & body-shaming recounted
  • Divorce recounted (protagonist)
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Medical procedure (on-page, autopsy)
  • Murder
  • Poisoning
  • Military & naval service recounted (protagonists)

Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston

She’s the woman he’s been hired to kidnap. But ZeZé Vargas has other ideas . . . like getting them both out of this nightmare alive. Just one problem. She’s crazy. Certifiably. Because while he’s plotting their escape, the petite Asian beauty is plotting something much more deadly. Max “Kill It Again” MacKilligan has no idea what one of her own is doing with all these criminal humans until she realizes that Zé has no idea who or what he is. Or exactly how much power he truly has. But Max is more than happy to bring this handsome… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misogyny & sexism
  • Racism & mentions of Klu Klux Klan
  • Sex trafficking mentioned
  • Drug dealing mentioned
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Bullying recounted

Bad With Love by Sophie O’Dare

Warren Heardst has never been lucky. He spent his entire life in competition with his high school nemesis, Roman Markham, who has always been better in school, better in sports, and better in love. Working hard, Warren builds a life outside of his overbearing family, but he can’t seem to escape Roman. The other man is always there, pushing Warren to prove he can be successful. But on the cusp of realizing his goal, a family emergency rears up to ruin everything. Suddenly, his dream is being ripped away. With a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Attempted sexual assault
  • Child neglect

Bad Things by R.K. Lilley

Being insanely attracted to bad boys has never helped make it easier. One look at Tristan, and every brain cell she possessed went up in smoke. This man was trouble with a capital T. It was a given. She knew better. Bad boys were bad. Especially for her. Considering her history, it was crazy to think otherwise. So why did crazy have to feel so damn fine? For as long as she could remember, Danika had been focused on the future with single-minded purpose. Tristan came along and taught her everything there was to know about letting go, and living in the present. She fell, hard and… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slut shaming
  • Rape & sexual assault of a minor
  • Cheating
  • Substance addiction

Bad Neighbor by Molly O’Keefe

I gave up everything to save my sister from a monster, and now I’m lying low in this rundown apartment so I can stay out of danger. Hiding from everyone. Except for the guy in apartment 1A. He’s rude. Silent. Muscled, mysterious, and hot as hell. I don’t know if he likes me or hates me, but the more time I spend with him, the less it matters. I want him. And for the first time in my life I’m going to go after what I want.From the second 1B moves in, I know she’s keeping secrets. She doesn’t belong here, much less with a street fighter like me.
But that doesn’t stop me from craving her… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Internalised fatphobia
  • Pregnancy mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Death of a father
  • Murder
  • Physical assault

Bad Mormon by Heather Gay

Drinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memoir about The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star’s departure from the Mormon Church, and her unforeseen success in business, television, and single motherhood. Straight off the slopes and into the spotlight, Heather Gay is famous for speaking the gospel truth. Whether as a businesswoman, mother, or television personality, she is unafraid to blaze a new trail, even if it means losing family, friends, and her community. Born and bred to be devout… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Misogyny & sexism with discussions of purity culture
  • Ableist child abuse
  • Divorce
  • Suicide of business partner’s sibling
  • Alcohol consumption & recreational drug use
  • Pregnancy
  • Cosmetic surgery
  • Death of a father mentioned