Hate To Love Shifters Books in Order
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Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Hate To Love Shifters books in publication order
4 books
Destroyed by Fire
by JL Wilder
2021
With Shifter Town burned and dragons in the sky, Lacey and her mates go into hiding. The deeper they dig into the truth, the clearer it becomes that the fae are after far more than revenge.
Enemies with Bears
by JL Wilder
2021
Pregnant and still haunted by her old pack, Lacey is dragged back into enemy hands. While her mates race to save her, she has to survive long enough to protect both herself and her unborn child.
Hybrid Reclaimed
by JL Wilder
2021
Lacey and her found family try to outrun the war closing around them, but betrayal cuts too close. When the fae strike where it hurts most, the only choice left is to fight back.
Rejected by Wolves
by JL Wilder
2021
Lacey, a wolf-bear hybrid, is rejected by the mate she trusted most after he wins the alpha games. Cast out and starving, she stumbles into a new life where two bear shifters may offer what her pack never did.
Hate To Love Shifters books in chronological order
Rejected by Wolves
by JL Wilder
2021Hate To Love Shifters, Book 1
Enemies with Bears
by JL Wilder
2021Hate To Love Shifters, Book 2
Destroyed by Fire
by JL Wilder
2021Hate To Love Shifters, Book 3
Hybrid Reclaimed
by JL Wilder
2021Hate To Love Shifters, Book 4
Series background & context
Hate To Love Shifters is a connected four-book series that starts with rejection and quickly widens into a much bigger fight. The heroine, Lacey, is a hybrid, part wolf and part bear, and that alone makes her an outsider in a pack that already treats her badly. When the man she loves rejects her after rising to power, the series kicks into motion fast.
From there, everything opens up.
Lacey ends up outside the narrow world that tried to define her, and that is where the series really finds its footing. She is pulled into a rougher, stranger community of shifters, including protective bear brothers and later other allies who complicate the romantic and pack dynamics even more. The books use that setup to explore found family, shifting loyalties, and the difference between being claimed and being chosen.
The background conflict is bigger than one pack. Fae, dragons, hybrids, and hidden agendas all start pressing into the story. That gives the series a more adventurous feel than a simple rejected-mate romance. There are rescues, kidnappings, betrayals, and a growing sense that Lacey's body, bloodline, and future child matter to far more people than she ever wanted. The danger is personal, but it is also political in a very shifter-romance way.
One of the strongest pulls here is the contrast between old and new belonging. Lacey's original pack is cruel, controlling, and obsessed with status. The people she finds afterward are not perfect, but they do create the possibility of a different kind of life. That tension carries the whole series. It is not just about whether the heroine gets revenge or romance. It is about whether she gets a future that is actually hers.
Expect a mix of pack drama, protective mates, escalating supernatural threats, and a central heroine who has to stop seeing herself through the eyes of the people who rejected her. If that blend is what you come to Wilder for, this series delivers it in a connected, bingeable run.
It starts mean, then gets bigger and messier in a fun way.
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