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Laila Bissett promised her best friend that she’d track down Gray Lowe and get him to apply for Cybermates, the new shifter mate matching service. She has no idea the sexy wolf shifter, a.k.a. Sunkissed Key’s most eligible bachelor, is about to trigger some painful repressed memories that send her into full blown crisis mode. There’s no going back for Laila. Either she faces some horrifying truths, or they destroy her. Even if she never accepts him as her mate, Gray intends to help Laila.

Six Buddies. Six bears. Six Mates. In the southwestern town of Burden, Texas, good ol’ bears Hawthorne, Wyatt, Hutch, Sterling, Sam, and Matt are livin’ easy. Beer flows freely, and pretty women are abundant. The last thing the shifters of Burden are thinking about is finding a mate or settling down. But, fate has its own plan…

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.

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.

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.

One week. That’s all it took for Megan’s world to fall apart. Her marriage - shattered. Her business - demolished. Her life - ruined. But fate has a plan. In the form of a hot P.O.L.A.R. operative. Roman knows instantly Megan is his. But before he can claim her, he makes it his mission to gather all her broken pieces, and rescue her heart.

Sky Broussard has spent the last nine years of her life fighting for custody and raising her nephews. Between trying to make ends meet as a waitress at the Bon Temps Café, and keeping an eye on two troublesome teens, she’s had zero time for indulgences like romance. No worries, she hasn’t been interested in the opposite sex for a long time. Not until she meets the snarling, growling, hotter-that-an-inferno hunk who caught her nephews trespassing on his swampland deep in the Louisiana bayou.

Allie is running scared. Not from monsters in the closet, or creepy things under the bed; she's scared of commitment. On the run from a would-be fiancé, she finds a temp job as a barmaid in a small Texas town out in the middle of nowhere. True love is not on the agenda until she meets her big, burly boss, hot-as-hell Thorn Canton, who lights her fires in all the right places. Bear shifter Thorn Canton is a successful tavern owner with no plans whatsoever of getting hitched. In fact, to Thorn, a mate might mean a fate worse than death; literally.

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.

Sterling Mallory likes fast - fast cars and faster women, anything to keep the ghosts at bay. Living life on the edge catches up to him when he carelessly makes an enemy of Kyle Barns. Who knew that Kyle’s younger sister would turn out to be Sterling’s mate? Now, his mate hates him. Ophelia Barns left her flourishing journalism career in Nashville to come back home to Burden, Texas. Her brother has always been her rock, and now, it’s her turn to be there for him. When someone crosses him, they cross her.

With a hole in her heart the size of Oklahoma, Hannah’s sworn off men. That was before she ran into the Siberian hottie. Just being near him fills the emptiness in her soul. As the P.O.L.A.R. Team Leader, Serge has a dilemma. Either his team completes their mission or he pursues his mate. Not both. The careers of his entire team hinge on the mission’s success. Is he willing to make that sacrifice?

Chyna Deschamps is on a mission to lose her virginity. Everyone’s moving on: kids, minivans, white picket fences…and she’s stuck. When she spends a hot night with a scorching dragon, he leaves his claiming mark on her and now they’re mated — or so he thinks.

Small-town librarian Cherry Deschamps is perfectly content with her safe, mundane existence even if others might consider evenings spent with a mug of hot cocoa, bowl of Ramen noodles, and a Netflix marathon boring. When the panty-meltingly gorgeous “Mr. Hollywood” enters her life, showering her with gifts and attention, of course she’s skeptical. She’s learned from an early age that exposing her heart will only lead to pain and heartache. Cezar fights every baser instinct he has to win over his human mate - including behaving in the ways of a human male.

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.

Hutch is an a-hole. A giant, scary-looking, Harley-riding, a-hole who has long rejected his mate Veronica, the town's introverted librarian. Lately, Veronica has been coming out of her shell. She's dancing on bar tops, hanging out with the party girls, and has turned Thursday nights at the library into a naughty book club! Hutch screwed up. Big time. He should have claimed Veronica when he had the chance. Now that she's being showered with more male attention than she knows what to do with, Hutch is just about at his wit's end!

Georgia and Wyatt couldn't be more opposite. Wyatt teaches wilderness survival training. A gruff, simple, outdoorsy type, in a survival situation, what he says goes, or somebody could get hurt. Georgia controls her own life - parties, fundraisers, shopping, and spa days. Men come - men go. When Georgia signs up for Wyatt's survival week, it's obvious she's far outside her comfort zone. Everything that can go wrong, does. Wyatt has found his mate. But, how will he survive Georgia as a mate when he's not sure he'll survive the week?

Something’s lurking in the swamplands of the Deep South. These massive dragons have been exiled from their homeland. Each must find his one true mate before it’s too late.

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.

Elizabeth gave up everything and followed her boyfriend across the country, hoping the move would cement their relationship. Then, she found him in the arms of another woman. Alex actually thinks his father's will is funny. The first of his sons to produce an heir will inherit the family's billion-dollar ranch. He'd rather party and play than run a ranching operation. When Alex meets Elizabeth, they share one night of steamy passion. Each has only memories of that night...until Elizabeth receives news about a soon-to-be arriving little bundle of joy.

Carter Ray has sworn off men. She and her daughter, Jellybean, have found refuge in the mostly female-populated town of Helen’s Corner. She wants nothing to do with the visiting wolf-shifter, despite his wickedly delicious scent that drives her bear into a frenzy. The last thing billionaire Alec Patterson expected to find in the small Southwestern town was his mate. Now his biggest challenge is getting rid of the woman he came with before he loses his mate for good.