Is Black Panther Inspired By Black Leopard?

"Get on your knees, wolfless freak, or I will break your legs myself." In the brutal hierarchy of the Blue Claw pack, Betty is a biological anomaly—the top warrior who cannot shift, a protector with no beast inside her. With her twentieth birthday ticking down to midnight, her own parents have consented to her public rejection and permanent exile as a rogue. She has exactly twenty-four hours of stolen freedom left before she is cast out into the wilderness to be hunted. But the northern forests don't just hold exile; they hold the Lycans—predatory kings ruling through iron claws, suffocating dominance, and a scent of burnt ozone and raw power. When Prince Adriel crosses the border, his crushing aura forces every alpha to their knees, yet it only makes the dormant royalty hidden beneath Betty's skin snap awake. She is the ultimate survivor, but matching the gaze of the Alpha of Alphas is a death sentence in itself. Desperate to escape her pack's death warrant, Betty entangles herself with the royal court, stumbling into a dangerous loophole: an artificial link forged by a high coven. This fake bond offers a transactional sanctuary—she gets a shield from her executioners, and the Lycan prince gets a chosen mate to claim before his kingdom. But this substitute union is a beautiful trap; a human or shiftless wolf taking a royal mark risks having the raw power burn her veins from the inside out. If Betty yields to the intoxicating heat of the prince who bought her safety, the psychological stakes are lethal. When a vengeful Madeline unleashes a silver blade and issues a challenge to the death, Betty’s purple-eyed wolf suddenly seizes control and accepts...

What if you discovered your sexy-as-sin college professor was also a panther shifter? Catalina Vargas wasn't looking forward to asking interim Professor Malcolm Wright for an extension on her anthropology paper after it magically disappeared. She expects a stern denial, which is his usual way of dealing with her. But what she doesn't expect is to see a panther in his office or to watch it become a very naked Professor Wright before her eyes…  Professor Malcolm Wright has long denied the call in his blood telling him to mate. But something changes the moment the beautiful and sassy Catalina saunters into his classroom. Now, protecting her from his demons is a priority. If only his panther would listen...  

Cleo has been going it alone since she was a teenager, perfectly content with her solitary lifestyle. Until she starts meeting her mates, that is. While two of them are what every shifter dreams of when thinking of their destined soulmate, the third has far more nefarious plans for her than character building and going on dates together. Every day is something unknown and new to Cleo, making new friends, learning about who she really is and where she came from. But just like Cleo has never gotten to experience what it's like to have a group of shifters around her that care for her, she's also never had to feel what it's like to watch someone you truly love die. How will a shapeshifting panther with bodies under her belt deal with the tragedies she's about to be put through? Only one way to find out.

Samantha, Princess of her leopard clan, goes for a run in her leopard form. There's a rival clan in the bordering territory and she comes across members of her clan closing in on an injured leopard from their rival clan. An intoxicating scent fills her nose, coming from the injured leopard, her mate... Kennedy, grew up an outsider in her own clan. She got regular beatings with no protection from her parents. They were killed when she was a little girl. She manages to escape into forbidden territory only to find herself ambushed by the rival clan until an intoxicating scent fills her nose, her mate...

They always said you should not pick up a stranger from the roadside. However, what if he were devastatingly handsome? I brought home a badly injured man I found by the roadside. When he woke up, he could not remember a thing. I took care of him for three months, and, as expected, we fell in love. Without a ceremony and without guests, we consummated our marriage. It was just the two of us. When I was three months pregnant, that jerk regained his memory. He left me a letter and said he had something more important to do and that he would come back for me once it was done. I knew those were just excuses. When he got his memory back, he must have looked down on me for being a farmer’s daughter and wanted to abandon me after having his fun. However, the day I gave birth, imperial guards showed up at my door with the royal carriage. They brought an official decree, written by the man. He wanted to bring me to the palace, make me his queen, and make my child the prince. As I gazed at the baby leopards sleeping soundly on my bed, I was stunned. “My little ones, could you really become princes?”

In the powerful Black Claw Pack, Alpha triplets—Donovan, Damon, and Devin—rule with strength, fear, and loyalty. But their fated mate is the one girl they’ve tormented for years… and she hasn’t even shifted yet. Evie is only weeks away from her first transformation. Weak. Rankless. Overlooked. Or so everyone thinks. When her wolf awakens, it won’t just change her life—it will shake the entire pack to its core.