Join the Macconwood Pack with this steamy Wolf Shifter fated mates urban fantasy paranormal romance book! When Randall comes to stay at single mom Tulla’s seaside bed-and-breakfast, sparks fly. He feels fiercely protective of Tulla and her young son as their connection deepens — but will she come to terms with his wolfish secret? A delightful shifter romance! He never thought of himself as a family man, but sometimes things changed… Randall Graves spends most of his time writing lines of code in his air-conditioned office at Macconwood Manor. He’d rather be alone than risk involvement of any kind. Everything was going fine, until his Alpha sends him on a forced vacation. It’s all good with Randall, as long as there’s WIFI at the small, beachfront, bed and breakfast in Bloody Point, South Carolina. He could work and get some sun at the same time, but he wasn’t counting on Tulla Nirvelli. The beautiful single mother owned and operated the small B &B with her seven-year old son. Charmed by the small island and the young family, Randall finds himself enjoying his time at the Sea Mist Bed & Breakfast. When trouble starts brewing for Tulla and her son, Randall is ready to jump in, but that means revealing his secret. Will she accept the truth about him? Keywords: alpha, billionaire, genius, werewolf, shifter, wolf shifter, urban fantasy, fantasy romance, HEA paranormal romance, best friend's sister shifter romance, wolf pack series, werewolf romance ebook, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance, computer hacker love story, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy wolf shifter mates, strangers to lovers, unrequited love, instant attraction, heat level, claiming bite, fated mates novella, soul mates, destined mates, wolf shifter pack fated mates series, wolf shifter mates ebook, paranormal romance series, wolf guard fated mate series complete, curvy heroine romance, curvy girl reads, bbw romance, alpha wolf hero, instant love, romantic comedy, PNR romcom, second chance, family life romance, wolf pack lovers

A Were’s forbidden desire tests the limits of loyalty When Seattle detective and alpha werewolf Derek Miller meets Riley Price, the bond is instant. Feral. Their connection entails enormous risk, for he must keep the existence of his kind secret at all costs. But the forces of darkness have Riley in their sights. Now Derek must choose between the Were code of silence and saving the woman who’s set him on fire.

Lust and revenge are best served after sundown… Outlaw werewolves destroyed his home and killed his wife. But they made one mistake: they didn't kill him, too. Now, after ten lonely years honing his skills with a gun, Jacob Constantine is back in New Mexico, hell–bent on justice—until he's ambushed by bandits and saved by an angel on her own deadly crusade. With a gun slung low across her seductive hips and vengeance in her eyes, Serenity Campbell isn't who she seems to be. But neither is the mysterious bounty hunter who threatens to drive her desire into dangerous territory. Together they track their prey with the same intensity they circle one another. But will their growing passion be enough to right the wrongs of the past and bring two damaged hearts together?

Charley gets more than she bargained for this Christmas...When a rogue Wolf threatens his right to lead, Rafe has to convince Charley, a curvy normal, to be his mate before Christmas Eve.Charley Palmieri works a dead-end job, living alone with her cat, Buttercup, until one fated night when her world is changed forever.Instant attraction sparks between them. He is more than convenience, she is his fated mate.But can Rafe convince Charley to be his before the meeting of Pack elders on Christmas Eve?*Find out in this first installment of the Macconwood Pack Novel Series.

He’s a werewolf… …She’s so much more Raised in seclusion, Cara Kirk-Killion knows that she will never find the man who haunts her dreams until she ventures out into the world. But it’s Were cop Rafe Laundau’s job to protect this shape-shifter from her own na•veté. Yet he needs her as much as she needs him—to help his pack rid Miami of a vampire horde, and to satisfy a desire he’s never felt before.

Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.

This two-volume set of LNAI 12340 and LNAI 12341 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2020, held in Zhengzhou, China, in October 2020. The 70 full papers, 30 poster papers and 14 workshop papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 320 submissions. They are organized in the following areas: Conversational Bot/QA; Fundamentals of NLP; Knowledge Base, Graphs and Semantic Web; Machine Learning for NLP; Machine Translation and Multilinguality; NLP Applications; Social Media and Network; Text Mining; and Trending Topics.