Books like 'Forbidden'
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Tane by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAs the battle against the invading aliens reaches its endgame, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival…Tane Rahia is good at one thing—fighting. Before the alien invasion, he fought as a mercenary in the worst jungle hellholes... -
War by A.G. Wilde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings...Categorized as:
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Sublime Target by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJerik Garul wants a mate.As a former High Commander in the Kordolian Imperial Military, he's used to getting his way. Blunt-spoken and gruff, he has a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.He doesn't know anything about humans and their mating customs. And he's mystified at how several of his battle-brothers—hard, ruthless, and lethal—have succeeded in securing their own females... -
Releasing Maladek by Victoria Aveline
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTurns out crash-landing into love is possible…Katie is content with her post-alien-abduction life. Not only has she found work as a royal attendant, but her current assignment on a galaxy cruise is enjoyable, too…until the ship is brought down by a malevolent species. Now she must rescue her friends and escape a hostile planet—all by herself... -
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Shattered Silence by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsEnki Zakanin just wants peace and quiet. He's completed his mission, and on the journey back to the Kordolian Fleet Station, he'd prefer to be left alone so he can manage the literal demon inside his head. Alone. So when a strange distress call breaks the silence, his first instinct is to ignore the signal... -
Hitched to the Alien General by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsHer perfect man is a big, scarred alien war hero. Pity he only see’s her as a warrior, not a woman... Kenna Reynolds loves life in the Imperial Court. The latharian culture fascinates her, and she values the friendships she’s made amongst the sentinel women, most bonded to Latharian males, and a few with babies on the way... -
Taking Vengeance by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe only force stronger than their hate is their love. Vengeance hates all humans. They killed every being he ever cared about. When the huge C Model cyborg is told he’s genetically compatible with the enemy, he makes it his mission to capture the female and use her to expel all humans from his home planet. That should be disappointingly easy. She’s a weak, fragile human... -
Vengeful Heart by Tiffany Roberts
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen his mate is threatened, nothing burns hotter than his wrath.Against all odds, Arcanthus found Samantha, his beautiful, sweet terran mate. His fated one. Her love shattered the barriers around his heart.After defeating a ghost from his past, Arc thinks he and Samantha are safe to move on with their lives. But she has a past of her own, and it refuses to let her go.He nearly lost her once... -
Alien Surgeon’s Seduction by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsShe was his the moment she stepped aboard. He'll fight everyone, even the emperor himself, to keep her... Like most Lathar, First Healer Isan K'Vass didn't expect to ever find his mate. The genetic plague that had ravaged their race meant they had no females, and his tainted bloodline meant he would be last in line for one of the rare human females. Or it should... -
Key to the Dead Fall by Susan Trombley
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe sequel to Into the Dead Fall, which was released as part of a two-book set with The Scorpion’s Mate. A fated mate she doesn’t want. An enigmatic alien she shouldn’t want. Finding your way in the Dead Fall isn’t easy, but it’s nothing compared to figuring out what your heart truly desires...Categorized as:
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The Arcav Prince's Captive by Hope Hart
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCan you ever truly escape the past? Everly, tough, fierce ex-federal agent has broken with her past, moving to Arcavia and training as the Queen's guard.Along with the challenges of adjusting to a new planet, she's dealing with a disasterous complication: The fallout from an incredible, stolen night with Korva, a broken male known as a traitor amonst both Arcav and humans... -
The Blind Hordesman by Milana Jacks
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMy favorite kill is a Regha Alpha so I went after the imposter king. Easy, no? No, but I’m gonna keep destroying his assets until it becomes easy, and when it becomes easy, I’ll find something else that’s hard. I found her. Destroying her is hard... -
Rescued by her Alien Protector by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPrepared to put her life on the line, she didn’t expect to lose her heart. Vice President Madison Cole is used to having a target on her back. Being captured by aliens? An acceptable risk to get what she needs. What she didn’t count on was falling for the ‘enemy’, a handsome alien warrior with a hero’s heart... -
Survivors by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on…Survivors contains three action-packed novellas in the Hell Squad series.Includes:Nate – Long before the aliens invaded, former Marine Nate Caldwell came home a broken man. Going off-grid in a cabin he inherited in Australia’s Blue Mountains, he survived the invasion with only his dog Blue for company... -
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Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThey never meant to come to Earth. They were never allowed to leave...Welcome to Cottonwood... -
First Awakenings by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInternationally acclaimed, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, and Paranormal Romance, S.E... -
Ancient Thought by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIs the end of one life the start of the next? It is if you have been reset.Elizabeth has spent her life exploring the world, visiting strangers, and learning all the customs she could. When the first Volunteer Project began, she had been in her fifties and out of the running. Now, at eighty-two, they offer to tune her up and send her to the stars... -
Cyborg Boss by Cara Bristol
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHis cyborg intuition says hire the liar…Ex-Cyber Operations field agent Dale Homme has kissed danger and betrayal more times than he cares to count and has developed a sixth sense for smelling trouble. Now he runs a clandestine factory beneath the surface of the moon Deceptio, where confidentiality and security matter more than anything... -
Victoria's Embrace by Stacy Jones
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith explosive trackers embedded in their arms, a psychopath in control of the gladiator arena they’ve come to call home, and slavers closing in, time is running out for Victoria and her guys…They managed to escape a slaver transport, only to find themselves trapped outside the walls of the arena and on the run in a dangerous alien city... -
Kept By The Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHUMAN FEMALES CANNOT BE TRUSTED.She killed to escape her former slave master.Stowed away on my ship. Injected me with poison.Now she’s been remanded to me for probation.It’s my job to watch her. Rule over her. Discipline her.It’s up to me to decide if she’s worthy of asylum on our planet.And I’m dragging my feet on the decision.Because stars know, I like her right where I have her.In my home... -
Alien General's Beloved by Vi Voxley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOnly one general can stand between an ancient nightmare and the safety of his people... This is a 100 k full scifi romance novel featuring a BBW human heroine and a growly alpha male Brion warrior general. It can and should be read as a standalone and has a guaranteed HEA ending! Grab it now for 99 Cents for a limited time! Lana Cormac is a woman with a mission... -
Crashed on an Ice World by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s her boss. She’s his best friend. These two deep-space convoy security specialists are fighting their simmering attraction…until a starship crash on a deadly ice world changes everything.Elana Korra loves her security job as a medic on the convoy ship, the Sky Nomad…except for the fact that she’s in love with her boss... -
Hers To Command by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree Battered Hearts. One Perfect Love Ace and Thrasher share a special bond. They’ve never acknowledged that connection and have never fully acted on it. The Humanoid Alliance kill cyborg males like them, deeming the warriors to be defective. Now that Ace and Thrasher have escaped, they don’t trust the cyborg council and their brethren to react any differently... -
The Dancer by Elin Peer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes the purest love can turn to the deepest hate. I was twelve when I promised Solo that I would one day marry him. Maybe I would have if he hadn’t gotten impatient and ruined everything that summer when I was fifteen. For the last seven years I’ve replaced the love I once felt for him with anger over his almost getting me killed... -
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Salvation by Laurie Roma
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOfficer Skylar Aris is a woman with a troubled past. As a Class-A Conduit, she is beautiful and deadly, making her stand out among the rest of the elite soldiers. She has worked hard to succeed as one of the only female interrogators in the Security and Interrogation Division, but everything she has dreamed of is put in jeopardy when she’s given an ultimatum that will change her fate... -
Chasing Mayhem by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWild. Free. Hers. Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on... -
Zephyr by Miranda Bridges, Kyra Snow
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis story is about Daxis discovering he's mated to a human female. And he is not happy about it. Actually, that's an understatement... -
Earth Files: Book 1 by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs much as Rykal thought she was sheer perfection in that outfit, he wanted to flick out a claw and gently slice the garment from top to bottom so he could pay homage to her naked form. Later. She wouldn’t escape his tender clutches. But he would behave himself for now, because this particular outing was apparently an important event in Human culture. He was about to meet the mother of his mate... -
Rebel's Crusade by Kelly St. Clare
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn organisation called the Mandate took my memory.That’s what the staring people—including a grey-eyed man called Atlas—are saying. But if they’re right, why was I targeted?Freed from my chains, I long to start living at last, but the Mandate stands firmly in the way—enslaving my fellow soldiers in space to control Earth’s inhabitants.The answer to everything rests inside my mind... -
Warriors' Claim by Michele Mills
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree Xylan Warriors. One female Cyborg… Wyric, Zaxon and Bex. Trish can’t stop staring at the three handsome warriors who’ve recently moved in next door. She’s supposed to be helping them upgrade their facility, but Trish can’t keep her eyes off of their perfect physiques. Loving the sound of their harsh voices and their fierce demands. Wanting them. All three of them... -
Guarded by the Spider by Cassie Alexander
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor my kind, to be without a mate is to be doomed. I know it is too late–all that awaits me is retirement and death, and I’ve embraced it.But when a suicide mission lands on my old boss’s desk, I’m the one he calls... -
A Darkside Interlude by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCommander Iskar Gar-Kurai isn't impressed by humans or their backwater planet. If he had his way, he'd be working closer to home, on a planet where it wasn't so infernally hot... But orders are orders, especially when they come from the very top. If he's going to be on Earth for the long term, Iskar needs to learn more about its strange inhabitants... -
His Human Rebel by Renee Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCONSCRIPTED BY AN ALIEN ARMY, SHE PLOTS HER ESCAPE… Cambry doesn’t believe the aliens’ propaganda for one minute. The Zandians may have saved her from one death, but they planned to send her to another. She bides her time, waiting for her chance to get away and find her brother, enslaved by a different species... -
Claimed by the Horde King by Zoey Draven
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsShe broke their laws. Now, he has come to punish her… In my human settlement on the hostile plains of Dakkar, I am an outcast, a strange girl orphaned since birth, alone, and dreaming of a life I don't have. I hunt to survive, though it is forbidden, though it breaks the strict Dakkari laws that we all must follow... -
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King Cobra by Naomi Lucas
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDaisy. Daisy. Daisy.From the moment her name is spoken, it is all I can hear. Her frightened tears bring me anger. I vow to wipe them off her face and banish her fear. To make her my queen.But I have to catch her first.I have to convince her to trust me.I have to show her she is safe.But only with ME.Because if any other naga male tries to take Daisy away from me, I will kill them... -
Rising from the Depths by Tiffany Roberts
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTwo years after a bloody battle nearly tore his people apart, Kronus finds himself plagued with guilt and without a place to truly call home. And when he saves a blue-eyed human from a razorback, his world is once again turned upside-down. Though he once opposed relations with her kind, he is undeniably drawn to Eva’s pain, loss, and inner strength... -
Bonded To The Alien Centurion by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBehind ‘enemy lines’ the last thing she expects is a sexy alien warrior determined to make her his… When things screw up in diplomatic talks with the Lathar Dani Black finds herself lined up for the one thing every dyed in the wool soldier dreads… a diplomatic function... -
State of Fear by Summer Lane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsComing JULY 20th, 2016!The world has gone nuclear, and the militias have met their first major defeat. Torn and desperate, Cassidy Hart and her team make a difficult decision to relocate their forces to the cold, barren wilderness of Alaska. Yukon City has become a stronghold for survivors of the apocalypse. Or has it?Cassidy is on her own... -
Ghost of a Machine by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFragile. Stubborn. His. Ghost, a C Model cyborg, has disconnected his machine from his human side. Severely damaged, he knows two things—the curvy human female on his ship belongs to him and he must keep her safe. He’ll stop at nothing to protect her, claim her, make her his. Primitive. Damaged. Hers. Lethe has seen the savage side of beings... -
Warlord Sky by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one grounds a barbarian warrior. Qulpa, a Chamele warrior, lost everyone he loved in the brutal Succession Wars. Flying is the only thing that brings him joy. Serving as his team’s pilot is the sole duty he has left. Then a horrific crash leaves him injured and unable to fly. The one being who can help him is also his gerel, the female destined to be his... -
Scarred by Susan Hayes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLaesa Fen left her home planet, Tartarus, in search of a new life. A recently freed harem slave, she is finally traveling the galaxy and visiting the places she could only dream of while she was the property of a Tarin warlord. On her own for the first time, she is finally free to pursue her art and to discover who she is and what she wants out of life... -
Asylum by Kali Argent
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a male dominated world, Alliance Commander Olivia Jacobson has spent most of her adult life clawing her way up the ranks, but her dream of commanding her own post has always been just beyond her grasp. With the discovery of a new planet, a new race, and the relocation of Alpha Station: X21, her dream is finally within reach... -
Krayter by Kate Rudolph
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to Earth. Try not to die. When his brethren begin to discover human mates, Krayter knows his best chance at surviving the Denya Price is to journey to Earth and find the woman he’s been waiting for. Otherwise, he’ll waste away and die by the age of thirty like most other Detyens. But when his speeder crashes in a hostile human settlement, a mate is the last thing on his mind... -
Alien Outcast by Tracy St. John
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe escaped to Kalquor to warn the empire…but did she bring its destruction instead? When a rogue Kalquorian raider snags a Bi’isil cruiser in Empire space, the outlaw crew is hoping for supplies. Instead, they find a Tragoom and an Earther woman with a dire warning: Bi’is is set to unleash a fatal plague on the Kalquorian Empire... -
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Brhex by Sabine Ferruci
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeri's Alien-Capture To-Do List Survive the Lizards Escape Said Lizards Thrive on a New Planet Captain Keri Hampton is stuck on number three of her list. Her human crew has moved into nice digs on Obos. But they need jobs. They need rights. They need a freaking purpose, which might just be assisting with a planetary girl power movement... -
Shalia's Diary: Book 4 by Tracy St. John
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a compilation from the free serial story blog ‘Shalia’s Diary – A Clans of Kalquor Story’ by Tracy St. John. It is highly recommended you read Shalia’s Diary, Books 1, 2, and 3 before reading this story. Shalia’s Diary Book 4 picks up immediately where Book 3 left off. Shalia feels ready for a little fun when the Kalquorian transport docks for shore leave at the Xniktix Space Station... -
Outlaw by Kali Argent
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter being implicated in a murder she didn’t commit, Isla Blevins seeks sanctuary on the one planet where the Alliance can’t reach her. On Earth, she’s the heiress to a fortune, but on Xenthian, she’s an outsider without a single credit to her name. Heartbroken over the loss of her mother, afraid she could be next, and not knowing who to trust, she can’t imagine how things can get much worse... -
Alien Conqueror by Sara Fields
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI was sent to kill him, but as this alien brute rips my clothes off and mounts me with my bottom still burning from his punishing hand it is clear what is in store for me isn't mere vengeance.It is conquest.He will claim my virgin body the way our planet was claimed, without gentleness or remorse, and when he is done I won't just be utterly broken and begging to be used even more shamefully... -
His by Command by Maddie Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo worlds. Two leaders. One dominant race, the other must yield and submit.He wants her, she desires him, but duty to their people must come first.Fate has twists and turns in store for them both. Leading an all-female crew on a deep space expedition weighs heavily on Maggie Vohlmer's young shoulders. Their mission, find a habitable planet to replace the dying Earth... -
Mate Exposed by Pearl Tate
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShould an Ajnara alien warrior ignore his superior's orders, and instead, protect and rescue a human female from certain death?Victoria loves her job as a teacher, especially since there's no baby in her future. So when the world falls into an apocalypse, it’s not surprising she ends up stranded and protecting some children at her school...
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