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Hollow Oak Mates, Book 6

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Kaia Monroe had two rules: never trust a fae, and never fall asleep near cursed lakes.

She broke both by accident.

Now she’s stuck in a cozy Appalachian town full of shapeshifters, witches, and suspiciously nice baked goods—and worst of all, she’s mated to a grumpy bear shifter who insists on protecting her from her nightmares. Literally. With claws. And maybe feelings.

Elias Vane didn’t ask for a mate to fall out of the sky. But the moment he fished her out of Moonmirror Lake, his bear called dibs. Now he’s rearranging patrols, dodging fae wedding planners, and trying not to scare the woman who smells like forever.

Unfortunately, Kaia’s childhood trauma summoned a nightmare warlock from the dream realm… and he wants her back.

Permanently.

She’ll have to choose: run from the people who care about her—or trust a sleepy mountain town (and one dangerously hot shifter) to fight for the dream of something real.

He brought her blankets. And snacks. And eternal soul-bonding.

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Paranormal Dating Agency, Book 91
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Quinn Marrow had ninety-nine problems, and a growly, shirtless lion shifter with Alpha delusions of grandeur just became number one.

All she wanted was a quiet six-month sabbatical from her chaotic midwife practice. What she got was an emotionally constipated small-town Alpha with a hero complex, a town full of nosy lion people, and a mystical mate bond that came with pheromones, possessiveness, and absolutely no chill.

Caius Haider had spent fifteen years running a hidden shifter town, micromanaging his pride, and avoiding anything that even remotely smelled like feelings. Then Quinn showed up—bossy, brilliant, utterly off-limits—and knocked the air out of his lungs and the sense out of his head.

Now she’s tangled in pride politics, pregnancy conspiracies, murder plots, and worst of all – she might actually be in love with him.

There’s only one problem: when a wolf shifter starts poisoning their babies, this fiery human midwife and her brooding lion mate are going to have to claw their way through secrets, kidnappings, and a hell of a lot of emotional growth if they want to build their happily-ever-after.

Welcome to Leon. Bring snacks. Pack protection. And maybe… don’t piss off the midwife.

Read on for fated mates, botanical disaster, dryad curses, and a cinnamon roll tiger who only growls when you’re naked. HEA Guaranteed!

Hollow Oak Mates, Book 5

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Freya Bloom wanted to sell tinctures, avoid commitment, and pretend her grandmother’s roses weren’t weeping black sap.

Instead, the town’s magical plants are dying, an ancient dryad is waking up cranky, and Hollow Oak has decided she’s their last line of defense.

Enter Kieran Holt: tiger shifter, reluctant hero, and aggressively hot in a “built my porch and ruined my boundaries” kind of way. The town council says he’s her magical backup. The universe says he’s her mate. Freya says absolutely not.

But the evil in the woods has other plans — and so do her roses.

She’s a legacy witch with control issues. He’s a lone shifter who’s allergic to feelings. Together, they’re Hollow Oak’s least qualified save-the-world plan.

Read on for fated mates, tactical gear removal, found family heat, and a silver-eyed ex-Beta who trades duty for obsession. HEA Guaranteed!

Rebellious Mates, Book 3
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She should’ve known the mission was a trap.

Elena moved like a shadow, struck like lightning—and still lost everyone. Her second-in-command, her base, her belief that survival was enough. Now, the High Council has her marked for death. But they made one fatal mistake.

They sent him.

Damon Gray was born for loyalty. Forged into a Beta by fifteen years of blood, duty, and silence. But the moment he touched her, he knew. His mate. His war. His rebellion. She didn’t recognize the bond. She couldn’t know the truth. And she damn sure wouldn’t survive without him.

Now he’s done following orders.

He’s stripping off his title, carving through enemies, and protecting the hybrid woman destined to burn down the world.

He’ll take the bullets. He’ll take the blame.

But no one touches what’s his.

Not unless they want a war that ends with her on his last breath.

You want dark heat and danger-drunk chemistry? Come closer. Closer. But don’t flinch when fate bites.

Rebellious Mates, Book 2
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She thought her birthday would bring cake.
Instead, it brought claws.

Zoe Raymond was a museum curator with a passion for ancient wolf totems and a tendency to break out in hives under fluorescent lighting. But on the morning she turned twenty-five, her fingertips became claws, her molars sharpened into fangs — and a primal growl she couldn’t control nearly got her arrested. Again.

Enter Logan Cross. Silvercrest’s most feared enforcer. Deadly. Cold. Off-limits. And now the only man standing between Zoe and a kill order from the High Council.

The problem? The second he touches her, the mate bond slams into place. And Logan — disciplined, brutal Logan — starts breaking rules.

They should run. They should hide.

Instead, they go to war.

Because the prophecy isn’t just real. It’s burning in her veins. And the woman Logan was sent to extract might be the key to destroying the Council, healing generations of bloodline secrets, and reuniting a world torn in two.

They tried to cage her magic. But they forgot one thing…

She bites back.

Read on for fated mates, prophecy-fueled rebellion, bloodline magic, and the most lethal alpha in the territory falling hard for the hybrid he was hired to kill. HEA Guaranteed!

Spice Index:
Tropes: enemies-to-obsession, possessive alpha, forbidden bond, mark-that-burns
Mood: moonlit, feral, silk-over-steel

Read on for grumpy-sunshine tension, sacred mate marks, ghost tour chaos, and a bear shifter who builds furniture like foreplay. HEA Guaranteed!

Hollow Oak Mates, Book 4

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Luka Ashe was perfectly content being Hollow Oak’s resident grizzly grouch.

He had a quiet workshop, a collection of haunted woodworking commissions, and zero interest in mating, dating, or feeling anything deeper than oak grain. Until a necromancer with too much eyeliner and a snark problem summoned half the spirit world—and his inner bear got very interested in sharing territory.

Leenah Carrow talks to ghosts, rolls her eyes at supernatural politics, and doesn’t do “help.” But when a spiritual uprising starts brewing, she somehow ends up soul-bonded to the town’s most emotionally constipated shifter.

Now the two of them are knee-deep in ancestral curses, magical prenups, aggressive dead people, and one sacred grove that definitely isn’t zoning-code compliant.

There’s also kissing. And spiritual warfare. And a bear who keeps carving her name into things.

They’re saving the town.

Probably.

He thinks she’s his fated mate. She thinks he needs therapy and maybe a rabies shot.

Read on for dragon-fire tension, forbidden magical bonds, slow-burn unraveling, and a reclusive MMC who will burn down the world to protect one librarian. HEA Guaranteed!

Mistwhisper Falls, Book 4

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Mistwhisper Falls was finally quiet again. Until Ivy Chen cracked open the wrong magical book.

She didn’t mean to bond with a draconic consciousness older than civilization. And she definitely didn’t mean to bind herself to the town’s most reclusive—and dangerously attractive—dragon shifter.

Dorian Ashwind didn’t do partnerships. But the shadows whispering in his mind aren’t going away, and the only person who can translate the Chronicle’s cursed pages is the painfully smart, infuriatingly brave librarian next door. The one who smells like old paper, ink, and a kind of magic he hasn’t tasted in centuries.

Now they’re tethered by a bond neither of them understands. The town is slipping into a dream-state, reality is fracturing, and Ivy and Dorian are the keys to either saving the world… or rewriting it entirely.

And every time she looks at him like she wants to risk everything, Dorian’s dragon gets a little harder to leash.

He was never supposed to fall for the girl who opens forbidden books.

But she already opened him.

Hollow Oak Mates, Book 3

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Moira Marsh just wanted to digitize some dusty records, not get yeeted into a magical town with a possessed book, a bloodline full of secrets, and a grumpy panther shifter claiming she’s his fated mate.

Lucien Vale was supposed to be a mild-mannered bookstore owner. He’s also the town’s supernatural enforcer, emotionally repressed cat dad, and apparently the only thing keeping Moira’s runaway magic from cracking the fabric of reality.

Now the grimoire won’t shut up, ancient evil’s knocking at the veil, and Moira might be the only one who can stop it—if she doesn’t set something on fire first.

No pressure.

Read on for small-town secrets, shadow curses, mate-marking magic, and a grumpy wolf who falls hard for the woman digging up the past. HEA Guaranteed!

Hollow Oak Mates, Book 2

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Katniss Greaves came to Hollow Oak chasing a missing girl — and walked straight into the arms of something ancient, angry, and breathtakingly alive.

The town wasn’t on any map. The mist watched her. And the man across the street? He didn’t smile. He growled.

Emmett Hollowell doesn’t like strangers. Doesn’t like questions. Doesn’t like the way the seer with the sharp tongue and haunted eyes makes his wolf pace like it remembers her.

He tells her to stay out of the woods. She doesn’t listen. Now the Veil has opened, the past is bleeding through, and the only thing more dangerous than what’s waking beneath Hollow Oak… is what’s waking inside them.

Because the girl he was sent to protect is his mate.

And the monster who broke him once wants her next.

Read on for rogue alpha redemption, court politics with claws, slow-burn possession, and a heroine who drags her monster into the light—then lets him burn for her. HEA Guaranteed!

Alpha’s Propehcy, Book 2

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She should’ve left me to die.

Instead, she dragged my half-conscious body into her den, stitched me up, and stared at me like I was still worth saving.

Now the only thing left of my soul belongs to her.

Ava Monroe doesn’t flinch. Not when I shift, not when I bleed, not when I growl her name in the dark like it’s a prayer I never earned. She’s human, stubborn, reckless—and the only creature in this war-torn borderland with the guts to fight beside a disgraced wolf like me.

I was supposed to die with Roman’s secrets buried in my chest.

Instead, I’m bleeding out truth at her feet.

But there’s a prophecy rising. Old packs rallying. And a child on the way who could either unite the fractured species… or burn this fragile peace to ash.

And if the Silent Sons or Gideon’s Torch touch a hair on her head?

I’ll show them exactly how savage the wronged become.

She didn’t just patch up a wolf.

She built a war machine with her bare hands.