This week’s Sapphic Book Bingo category features sapphic shape-shifter novels. For this square of the bingo card, pick a book with a main character who is a shape-shifter, a werewolf (or another were-animal), or another creature who can shift between a human form and a non-human form.
Typically, you’ll find those characters in paranormal romances or urban fantasy novels.
15 sapphic shape-shifter novels
Below, you’ll find a list of 15 recommended sapphic shape-shifter novels or were-creature novels:
Enemies by Nature by Jae
Fake-dating your worst enemy—what could possibly go wrong?
Ever since shape-shifters revealed their existence to the world, tensions between humans and Wrasa have been dangerously high. To improve their public image, the Wrasa council comes up with a bold plan: a fake relationship between one of their own and Faith MacAllister, the human daughter of their most vocal enemy.
Tala Peterson, an aloof fox-shifter with the attitude of an alpha wolf, is anything but thrilled to pose as Faith’s mate. She doesn’t trust her one bit—and rightfully so, as Faith has her own agenda. Their flirty banter is strictly for show, and if Tala finds Faith’s scent annoyingly irresistible, it’s only because of the mate scent their scientists concocted.
But when the wolf pack that raised Tala insists she bring her new mate home for a visit, the fake lovers are forced to not only share a bed but also to confront old prejudices. Soon, Faith faces a difficult choice: Should she keep spying on the Wrasa for her father, or can she trust Tala and her kind?
Enemies by Nature is the first novel of a two-book saga that concludes with Shifting Nature. While part of Jae’s shape-shifter series, they can be read independently of previous books.
Available at:
Amazon
Apple
Ylva Publishing
The Devil’s Tree by Ali Spooner
Torn between her love for the pack and her need to find what’s missing in her life Devin Benoit travels to New Orleans. She senses something calling to her as she enters a small club off Bourbon Street and her eyes are drawn to the DJ spinning music. Without any doubt, she knew she had found the missing piece of herself.
When her new love Tia is kidnapped, Devin and her brother Damen, alpha of the Baton Rouge werewolf pack, must return to the Devil’s Tree, where lives and souls are lost, and sad memories abound.
Will the previous happenings at the Devil’s Tree help or hinder Devin in the fight of her life, and the life of Tia, the woman who now owns her heart?
Available at:
Affinity eBooks
Amazon
Apple Books
Of Socialites and Prizefights by Arden Powell
She needs a woman’s kiss to break her curse.
When Deepa Patel rejects the wrong man, he curses her: every night, she will transform into a wild animal until her curse is broken by true love’s kiss. The problem is twofold. One: Deepa needs her nights to seduce shallow men into spending money on her—money she desperately needs to buy herself and her mother a better life. Two: she doesn’t believe in love. She’s never met a man she wanted to keep longer than a week, never mind forever.
She never considered her true love might be a woman.
Roz is unlike any of Deepa’s past suitors. She’s working class, with a nose that’s been broken at least once, courtesy of an underground boxing club. And she makes Deepa feel lighter and softer than she ever thought possible. But Roz can’t afford to give Deepa the life of luxury she craves.
Meanwhile, Deepa is posing as a wealthy nobleman’s fiancée. There’s no love between them, but his lifestyle is everything she’s ever wanted. Caught between a real relationship and a loveless fake one, Deepa has to choose: give up on her dreams for a chance at true love, or make her dreams come true but stay cursed forever.
Available at:
Amazon
A Wolf Steps in Blood by Tamara Jerée
Yasmine is a red wolf girl stuck in rural Alabama. Her world is small: pick up shifts at the greasy late-night diner and endure her pack’s petty squabbles. She’s not good at being a wolf or being human, directionless in life and disconnected from her ancestors.
Blessed by a century-old enchantment, the local red wolves have escaped extinction by blending into the human world. But with the old witches’ blessing wearing thin, the wolves face an uncertain future.
An answer arrives in the form of an exiled blood witch whose magic is steeped in reckless grief. Kalta rides into town in her dead brother’s truck, prophecy following on her heels. Despite the danger Yasmine can smell swirling around the witch, a fated bond tangles their futures—and those of all the wolves.
After an accident threatens the wolves’ secret, Yasmine has no choice but to join Kalta on the road, carving a path through the South’s backroads and hoping the magic brewing between them is enough to overcome their bloody pasts.
Available at:
Amazon
Apple Books
Empress of Air and Fire by Brenda Murphy
Love, power, and destiny collide in the final fight for the survival of Mahon. Mara and Reika embark on a dangerous mission to retrieve the legendary Seven Elements from the Kingdom of Xixon. Their hopes for a peaceful resolution are shattered when the ruthless Ardat, driven by her lust for power, strikes. Mara and Reika face an army of Ardat’s supernatural creatures, more formidable than any they’ve encountered before.
As Ardat’s army sweeps through the Southlands, chaos erupts in the heart of the Mahon. When Empress-to-be Seraphina is poisoned, her mate, Ava, calls upon her dormant dragon powers to save her mate.
With the assimilation of the Seven Elements, Seraphina is the most powerful being in existence. With time running out and Ardat’s malevolence spreading, she is forced to confront Ardat and the intoxication of her new found powers. Will Seraphina rise to claim her Empire or be consumed by Ardat’s evil?
Available at:
Amazon
Trusting the Wolf by Brooke Campbell
Seven years ago Mac was forced to leave behind her mate, Kate. Now she’s come home and Mac is determined to win back her love.
Mac’s hidden life, however, makes things complicated. Secretly protecting Kate in her wolf form, she desperately tries to rebuild their bond. Mac will need to navigate her two lives carefully, if she’s to rekindle their relationship.
Their journey takes a dangerous turn when Kate becomes a target, forcing Mac to confront her own fears and secrets. Grappling with threats both internal and external, Kate must decide whether she wants to embrace the extraordinary world Mac belongs to.
Available at:
Amazon
Apple Books
Elite Born by Chad Maske
Aurora has always been different. She was marked from birth as an Elite and born with an additional skill that allows her, a phoenix, to take human form as naturally as breathing. Now, after five years of living with a cult that worships her kind, learning the local tongue and culture, it’s time to spread her wings and venture out where few of her kind have been before. Filled with tales of the city, the lands beyond, and other fantastical creatures, she yearns to see it all and start a life unlike any other phoenix. But Aurora must remain cautious, for phoenix feathers are powerful, rare ingredients, even from one as young as her. The young phoenix must blend in, lest she end up in a cage.
Available at:
Amazon
Aurora’s Angel by Emily Noon
Joined in a battle for survival, a broken-winged angel and a shapeshifter huntress with a bloody past form a bond that may change their world. Alone since her father’s murder, Aurora has spent years hunting his killers. Battle-weary she’s ready to start over where no one knows who or what she is – she just has one last mission. Everything is going to plan until she discovers the beautiful winged girl caged underground. Her decision to rescue Evie and to help her get home safely, despite avians being infamous for selling out shifters like Aurora to cutters and black-market flesh dealers, will put her on a perilous path.
As the women travel together their attraction grows but Aurora is guarding her lonely heart almost as much as her dangerous secrets and Evie is struggling to accept how important Aurora has become to her.
With their enemies conspiring to kill them, they may be each other’s only hope. Aurora is powerful but she’s also emotionally scarred. It will be up to Evie to save her from herself and to fight for them, or innocent people will die along with the guilty ones and Aurora will disappear from Evie’s life forever.
Available at:
Amazon
Audible
Royally Sarah by Hadiya Hayes
It takes being tackled in the park to get Sarah out of her rut.
Although, Sarah wouldn’t call it a rut. At 22 years old she’s comfortable where she is in life – living with her dad, hanging out with her best friend, and working at the same job since she was 14 years old. Life has so much more to offer, but she’s not taking any hand-outs. Not even from her best friend Nina who is desperate to get her back on the dating horse. When Riak Royal attacks her in the park, Sarah finds herself more attracted to the tall, dark, and animalistic werewolf than she is afraid. With her dark purple eyes and disarming grin, Riak shakes up her life by claiming Sarah as her mate right then and there. Now instead of maybe rekindling something casual with her ex, Sarah has to figure out how Riak fits in her life no matter how commitment-phobic she is, because the alternative would be insanity.
With the help of Nina, and a whole lot of introspection, Sarah will find herself on a journey of self-discovery she never would have expected, while maybe falling in love with the werewolf she never asked for.
Available at:
Amazon
Audible
Heart’s Claim by Issy Waldrom
When two worlds touch, for only the briefest of moments, the effect is far more reaching than anyone realises. Especially for two woman for whose contact was just as brief as the event.
After a lot of struggle, Elara is finally starting to forge the life that she wants. To write, share her stories, and be accepted for who she is. And find true love. Though that last one seems very much like a dream, something that she pens, but that will never happen to her. Even if the events of the Convergence still haunt her mind.
Riley is a dragon, one of those from the other side who was caught up in the Convergence. A rather dominant force, all things considered. While humanity is largely unaware of her existence and oblivious to her true nature, this side is now as much her home as the other. Not that she’s complaining. She’s enjoying this life that she now has. Mostly.
Except that fate decides that they should meet again, their lives becoming intertwined in ways that neither of them imagined, and suddenly things start surfacing. Thoughts, desires, dreams. And a growing attraction. Yes, there is chemistry between them. Or is it something more? A claim was made after all…
Available at:
Amazon
Apple Books
Elemental Attraction by K. Aten
Two people find themselves in a quandary: Aderri, a powerful dragon shifter with some light defensive magic, and Ellys, a half-elven swordswoman for hire, one of the best across the six nations.
When Aderri gets news that she must come home for the naming ceremony of a new hatchling, she’s forced to hire Ellys and her telepathic steed, Roccotári, to see her safely there. Of course, things are never as simple as they seem. Not only do they have to traverse the land between two kingdoms on the brink of war, but Aderri’s Clan expects her to return with a romantic interest. So, for the added promise of triple Ellys’s normal fee, the half-elf agrees to pretend to be Aderri’s suitor.
Ellys and Aderri have to convince a Clan full of magical mixed-shifters for a week that creatures of differing elements can burn with the flames of love, without actually lying. A situation made even more difficult by a matchmaking mare, steamy baths, and an innkeeper with mischief on the mind.
Caught between the weight of the past and expectations of the future, they must find their true destiny within the heat of fire.
Available at:
Flashpoint Publications
Amazon
Her Wolf in the Wild by Rien Gray
The Hounds of God MC live outside the law and protect their own. They only have three rules:
(1) look out for each other
(2) obey the club president
(3) never show a human your werewolf form.
Christiana Arjean needs to get out. She tried to fix her relationship, but making a break for it is her only shot. She almost doesn’t make it, until a butch biker with a shock of white hair tosses Christiana on the back of her bike. Micah is as mysterious as she is attractive, and Christiana wants to know what’s under that tough exterior.
Micah Nubilo knows a little bit about keeping secrets. Rescuing Christiana is a bad idea, and letting her hang around is even worse. But there’s something calling to Micah: an impossible bond no werewolf should ever feel for a human, even one as beautiful as Christiana.
Their growing intimacy is threatened when they realize their pasts are connected in ways they never could have imagined. Christiana and Micah must fight against threats both outside the pack and inside themselves for a chance at putting it all behind them and finding a way forward—together.
Available at:
Amazon
Apple Books
Bearfaced Lie by Ryann Fletcher
There’s no place like someone else’s home for the holidays…
Leah is working at Syndicorp because she can’t find work as a geologist – but when her manager messes up her shift schedule, she needs to find someone to cover for her, and fast. If she doesn’t, the wrapping paper aisle is going to look a look furrier than it should.
Jasmine is trapped in a dead-end job with a mom who can’t leave the past behind. If she only had a girlfriend for the holidays, she might be able to convince her to lay off and let her move away – but will the farce be uncovered before the presents are opened?
Available at:
Amazon
First On Scene A Howling Sirens Novel by Selina Rossman
In a small town shattered by violent animal attacks, four first responders must confront their pasts and embrace their destinies as they become humanity’s last line of defense against a supernatural threat.
In the quiet, quintessential small town of Hudson, Massachusetts, a dedicated group of first responders—Kitty, Zuri, Angell, and Eric—commit themselves to the safety of their community. Kitty, a Southern transplant and new medic, is eager to prove her worth and find her place, not knowing that the woman of her dreams, Zuri, is more than just an EMT. Eric, who struggles in his role as a paramedic, learns to lean on his partner, Angell, a skilled medic with a mysterious, bewitched past.
When a series of violent animal attacks shatters the town’s tranquility, it unearths hidden secrets and thrusts these healers onto a warrior’s path. As they rush from one medical emergency to another, each pulse-pounding call brings them closer to each other and their destiny. The perils of the paranormal threaten to destroy everything they hold dear, forcing them to confront their pasts to save their future.
In this adrenaline-fueled world of EMS, the lives of Kitty, Zuri, Angell, and Eric intertwine in ways they never expected. Their call to duty transcends the ordinary as they become humanity’s last line of defense against a supernatural threat. Every siren heralds a potential showdown, challenging them to redefine what it means to be ‘of service.’ Follow these warriors on a gripping journey where every heartbeat could signal a supernatural confrontation.
Available at:
Amazon
Audible
The Last Caspian by Taryn J Dallas
Devin Edwards is the first geneticist after years of research to fully sequence the genome of the classified-extinct Caspian tiger. Her job at the Tiger’s Eye Sanctuary, the most dedicated tiger rescue and conservation effort in the world, is to pull Caspians back from the literal brink of extinction; the sanctuary hosts one very special tiger that isn’t found anywhere else.
Rexleigh Murdoch is the head keeper in charge of the last living Caspian tiger, Balkhash. No one knew Balkhash had been trapped since she was a cub in the backyard of a private collector who didn’t realise what he had until his compound was raided by an animal welfare charity. Balkhash was brought to the sanctuary, and millions of pounds has been spent trying to find a way to continue her rare lineage.
Though when Balkhash and Rex are never seen at the same time, the genetic data doesn’t make sense, and both creatures that have captivated Devin have eyes that are reminiscent of the gorgeous tiger’s eye gemstone that the sanctuary is named after, she begins to suspect something that defies the laws of biology.
Available at:
Amazon
The Manor by Tiffany E. Taylor
Ashton
In the dark of one dimly moonlit night, a pair of piercing emerald green eyes peers out through the thick foliage that surrounds Vaughan Manor, intensely observing the pretty human female who had stepped out onto the wide stone stairs to look at the moon. The sleek black jaguar shifter turns and silently vanishes, but not before wondering why she is feeling such an unusual pull to a human, of all things. Because human women, no matter how pretty, are best avoided in a place like Jaguar Grove.
Lillibet
When Lillibet Vaughan inherits Vaughan Manor unexpectedly from an unknown family member, she is startled to learn the mysterious mansion has long been considered a supernatural portal by the members of the tiny town of Jaguar Grove—and she is now its Guardian. Scoffing at the silly superstition, the human Lillibet nevertheless moves the one hundred twenty miles from her home in Tampa to Jaguar Grove, welcoming the chance to escape her suffocating ex-girlfriend and thankful her career as a romance writer makes it possible for her to live anywhere.
When Lillibet meets Ashton Panthera, she is at a loss to explain the strange, inexplicable attraction she has to the masculine of center Native American arborist. Ashton, however, realizes that Lillibet is in fact more than human: She is a hereditary witch of considerable power, with access to ancient knowledge, spells, and lore. Bound at birth by her long-dead mother for her own protection, Lillibet holds a formidable power and knowledge within herself that has been blocked from her for her entire life.
And Lillibet is Ashton’s mate.
Zagan Salazar, the Black Warlock of The Tombs in The Underneath, has been biding his time for centuries, waiting for an opportunity to destroy the Vaughan witches and free the demons trapped in The Tombs. Just as he thinks he wins—that the Vaughan witches are finally no more—Lillibet’s binding is shattered by her jaguar shifter mate, her transcendent power flaring for every magickal creature from miles around to see. In a killing rage, Zagan vows that the last surviving Vaughan witch will not impede his plans to control the supernatural world.
When it becomes clear that Zagan is a dangerous threat to Lillibet, Ashton and the town of Jaguar Grove vow the warlock will not get his hands on Ashton’s witch mate and her magick for his own evil use. But Zagan is determined to enslave Lillibet and hold her prisoner in The Underneath, siphoning her powers for himself until every magical creature in existence—including Ashton Panthera—is a slave to him and his villainy.
Or until they are wiped from existence forever.
Available at:
Amazon
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