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The Rare and the Unknown
Series · 11 books · 2018-2023

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#1

The Shifter Bachelor

2018

Imani has always wanted to be just member of her herd but with her overbearing matriarch mother and grandmother; she's never been given much of a chance. When Imani accepts a job several states away from the rest of her family the only thing on her mind is proving that she can be independent and more than just a breeder for the Herd. Ansel is under constant pressure to mate and have children, many many children as his shifter race is on the verge of extinction. So much pressure, that his mother is hosting an open competition to meet and mate the sexy Alpha. Unfortunately, more than single shifter ladies are after Ansel. After meeting Imani, Ansel is convinced that the only woman he wants to mate with is Imani.
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#1.5

The Crutchfields & The McNamaras

2019

A witch. A warlock. A family feud that’s lasted centuries. An undeniable attraction. Can they set aside their family’s differences to save the world? Bikes with engines that growl, his bar, and well-paid bounty hunting is all his new life is about until an aptly named long-legged witch walks into his bar. When you're a witch with the Sight, you can see the end of the world coming when no one else can. But when your family has been feuding with family of the only warlock who can help you for hundreds of years, the last thing you see coming is Love. The Alpha of the Rare and Unknown will do anything to protect his new mate, the way she protected him. Will Ansel's selfless actions bring about a magical Armageddon? Will the witch from the McNamaras and the warlock from the Crutchfields, two magical enemies make a tentative truce to save the R & U Alpha from his decisions? Will they change the visions that she has of the future or will the world as they know it be forever altered? This is a novella that happens Between the Numbers of The Shifter Bachelor and The Shifter Bachelorette. Old characters and new characters take you on a fast-paced motorcycle ride through the world of the Rare and the Unknown.
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#2

The Shifter Bachelorette

2019

Cheryl Junaid finds herself sucked into the vortex of her twin brother’s mating and shifter society wedding celebration. She keeps trying to pull away gracefully, but everyone just keeps pulling her in deeper and deeper. Then the accident of the century makes her the star of the newest, hottest dating show in the world.
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#3

Bachelorette In Heat

2019

A shifter society wedding may be the perfect place to go into heat, with men from all over society and the world attending. Her maid of honor duties over, Davida finds herself falling head-long into the biggest heat of her life. Will she choose one of the sexy shifters offering to help her survive or all of them?
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#4

Trouble Ex Machina

2019

Trouble McNamara is on a mission to find the dark witch Mahjabeen, with help from her...something Romeo Crutchfield she traipses around the world. Can Trouble corner the dark witch and bring her to justice for her attempts on the leaders of the Rare and Unknown? Or will Mahjabeen escape from trouble? Trouble returns and she causing all manner of trouble...
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#5

Bachelor In Trouble

2019

Six months before, the Tenth Wonder of the World, Samson was dumped unceremoniously on international television for a rich and famous rugby star. To make matters worse after competing for months, no one thought he deserved the girl he wanted to give his mind, body and heart too. The show however must go on and now it’s Samson’s turn to do the dumping as he’s the next bachelor on the newest dating sensation, The Shifter Bachelor. Hopefully he’ll find a mate who will love him unconditionally. Which of the Flirty Dozen contestants will be the first to catch his eye and keep it? The singer whose haunting voice reaches the very corners of his heart. Can the former spelling bee champion, letter a new path to happiness? The Olympic gold medalist with more than gold up her sleeve? This Bachelor is in deep trouble and his future is uncertain if he choses wrong.
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#6

Bachelorette on a Mission

2019

Something is wrong with Corvanna Orkins. Majorly wrong, and the Alpha of Australia and New Zealand knows it. Either she's going insane or her animal is, either way she needs to find a mate before her flirtation with insanity becomes a permanent date. A dozen shifters have assembled to win her heart and drive the darkness from her mind, but the bright spot light of the show may prove too much for her to handle. Will one of the men be the one to help Corvanna settle her mind, body and soul?
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#7

Bachelor In Paradise

2020

Lights. Camera. Deception. Disaster. Despair. Xi Sing, the Asian Alpha of the Rare and the Unknown is suffocating under the role he's played for the entirety of his adult life – perfect son. For far too long, he's allowed others to dictate his choices and lifestyle, but he refuses to allow them to dictate his choice of mate. Behind the scenes of his season of The Shifter Bachelor, the pressure mounts as seemingly everyone points him toward the woman he least wants, but who makes the most politically expedient choice. The lady he sees himself with may not be the best political match, but she is the best match for his heart. Can he convince her that love doesn't have to be perfectly choreographed to work? Can he convince himself?
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#8

Bachelor in the North

2020

For months, Mahjabeen and her followers have perpetrated a series of terror attacks all over the world striking fear into the very psyche the populace. The world is afraid, and is crying out for feel good comfort television and the number one rated show must reluctantly return to air with an even more reluctant Alpha in the hot seat. Philippe Pelletier and his grumpy inner bear would rather be hibernating or fishing or doing anything else but facing the glaring lens of the camera and letting other people find him a mate. He seriously contemplates running, but familial obligations keep him in the Yukon, and the cameras catch him and so does a certain doe eyed beauty. Evangeline Longfellow has a secret. She's an anonymous gossip blogger. Since the very first season she's been trying to get the low down on the alphas of the Rare and Unknown, but no one has been sharing any secrets. Well as they say if you can't beat them, join them. Infiltrating the production of The Shifter Bachelor was surprisingly easy, getting away from the hunky Philippe is way too hard.
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#9

Undercover Bachelor

2020

Bazyli Kaczmarek is a man of action, too bad he's been tethered to the alpha role and what feels like desk duty since his brother Thomas' marriage to the Persian spitfire Ziba Baraghani. When the Alpha of the Rare & Unknown, Ansel Junaid asks him to go undercover to infiltrate Mahjabeen's inner circle he leaps at the chance, but a forced pairing with a sexy, uptight Steward Agent was not what he saw coming. Special Agent LaDonna Freeman-McGovern hates undercover work. The lies, the secrets, the deception weigh on her heart and soul too much. Unfortunately, she's way too good at her job that she can't seem to escape the assignments. She vows this assignment will be her last especially as she's being paired with a non-Steward agent who is impulse, arrogant, and an all around grade A jerk hole albiet a totally handsome one. Can Bazyli and LaDonna work together to infiltrate Mahjabeen's inner circle or will the two of them be discovered and exposed?
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#10

Twice the Bachelors

2023

War is coming. Evil is surging. Alliances are made and broken. The Rare and The Unknown are under constant attack. Usually unfazed by the chaos that hardly ever reaches her shores, Angelique Thinta, the demigoddess alpha of Atlantis assumed this too, would pass. Instead, a deacade of bliss is blown by fate, bringing chaos straight to her heart leaving her once firmly anchored life adrift. With her world shattered, the last thing she wants to do was focus on anything other than her broken heart. But the world, and her Alphas Ansel and Imani Junaid demand she get over her broken heart by getting under a new duo of men. The Shifter Bachelorette comes to the island nation of Atlantis! Which pair of the twenty partners of men presented will assuage her broken spirit? Can any one offer the demigoddess peace and help heal her heart.

Author

Shai August
Shai August
Author · 14 books
Shai August is a country girl with a big imagination, more than a touch of wanderlust and a never-ending desire to live in both an RV traveling the world and a library. Her love language is words of affirmations followed by books, bacon and bourbon. She’s a born and bred Louisiana native, but is currently doing an impression of a yellow rose of Texas. She is fluent in English, sarcasm and memes. Her goal is to write fast paced; character driven paranormal fiction for women of color. She’s found all over the internet and social media as @ShaiAugust (Facebook,Instagram, Pinterest (author assumes no responsibility for your falling into her Pinterest board traps), Twitter,etc.) feel free to follow and start any kind of conversation with her.
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