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  • Sigma by Tiya Rayne

    Sigma by Tiya Rayne

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shiloh Green has had the worse luck when it comes to men. For the last seven years she’s been trapped in a relationship with her Kingpin boyfriend. But opportunity to escape comes knocking when a mysterious businessman visits. Now Shiloh is headed to a top-secret military base to be a volunteer breeder for a government experiment...
  • Corsairs: Mathiras by Ruby Dixon

    Corsairs: Mathiras by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Someone is illegally stealing humans from their home world and cloning them.For months, we’ve been hunting this ring of criminals and the end is in sight. I’m separating from my brothers and taking my ship to track down the bad guys.One small problem — Helen insists upon joining me on this dangerous mission.Helen herself is a clone, created to be an object of beauty...
  • Corsairs: Straik by Ruby Dixon

    Corsairs: Straik by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    What’s worse than finding a lost ship full of stolen humans? It’s finding out that your family is responsible. This is a wrong I have to somehow right, so I take off to find answers…and discover one of those kidnapped humans has stowed away on my ship.She’s furious that I’ve deserted her friends. She’s determined to make me pay...
  • Grit by Julie K. Cohen

    Grit by Julie K. Cohen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who wants a thief with a target on her back? An alien warrior with nothing to lose. GabriellaThere’s no safe place to hide when you’re supposed to testify against a top leader in the Brotherhood. When the marshals of GI7 offer Gabriella the chance to leave Earth, she grabs it. Sinnad is a closed world, which means the Brotherhood can’t touch her there...
  • Saven Defiance by Siobhan Davis

    Saven Defiance by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With war looming in outer space and the Earthen government forced into hiding, the battle for ultimate world domination is only just beginning.Having accepted her identity, Sadie sets out on a daring quest with her friends, which takes them deep into alien territory...
  • Corsairs: Kaspar by Ruby Dixon

    Corsairs: Kaspar by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    I live for danger. For excitement. For adventure.When I end up in an escape pod with Alice, though, my world changes. She’s human. Vulnerable. She does NOT love danger, or excitement. But her mind is clever, her retorts sharp, and her smile brings me to my knees. I want nothing more than to keep her safe…and keep her at my side...
  • Loved by a Beast by Miranda Bridges

    Loved by a Beast by Miranda Bridges

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My marriage is in trouble.Jaxar and I didn't exactly have a regular romance since he abducted me and then sent me on a journey that could've resulted in my death. But that's neither here nor there. And what doesn't kill you, makes you bitter. I mean, stronger.Anyway, the point is that my husband, who I adore, is becoming distant...
  • Deb and the Demon by Honey Phillips

    Deb and the Demon by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    An alien prince. A pregnant slave. Deb is ripped away from her comfortable life on Earth and sold as a slave to a vicious alien. Six months later, all she has to live for is the child now growing inside her. Her child’s safety is worth any price, even submitting to the disturbingly attractive alien who has just purchased her. Rastrath hides a sharp mind behind a careless facade...
  • Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ristéard Roald is the powerful and deadly ruler of Elpidios, a planet that is slowly dying without the blood stones needed to absorb the radiation gradually destroying its stratosphere. He has sworn to do whatever it takes to protect his world and his people, but time is running out.Hope comes from an unexpected source, the Kassis...
  • Tamed by a Beast by Miranda Bridges

    Tamed by a Beast by Miranda Bridges

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I hate this place.Not that my life on Najarie was great, but at least I didn’t have a beastly alien trying to sex me up all the time. And when I say all the time, I mean all the freaking time.I haven’t forgotten Earth or the loved ones I’ve left behind. In fact, I’m willing to use any means necessary to get back to them...
  • Draekon Warrior by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Warrior by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Captured in space. Imprisoned. Sold to the highest bidder. But my biggest problem is this bossy, aggravating, impossible, alien who’s supposed to rescue me. The bossy alien I kissed. That might have been a mistake.Kadir is dangerous. I’ve seen him fight, and his body is littered with scars. He’s a soldier. A warrior. And when he loses control, he turns into a big scary dragon and breathes fire...
  • Faith and the Fighter by Honey Phillips

    Faith and the Fighter by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    For readers 18 years and older. A rogue spaceship captain. A human scientist. Faith has spent the past eight years as a scientist locked in an alien research lab. When she finally manages to escape and finds out what the aliens are doing with her work, she is appalled and determined to stop their plans...
  • Alien Sentinel's Mate by Mina Carter

    Alien Sentinel's Mate by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Being rescued by aliens doesn’t mean she’s going to marry one… not unless he’s hot. Asking would help too.The problem is the only alien warrior Gracie is interested in hasn’t asked. Seren K’Vass is the epitome of the strong, silent type. Emotionally avoidant with a bad boy vibe, if he was human, she’d climb him like a tree. Hell, she’d climb him like a tree anyway...
  • Champion by Anna Hackett

    Champion by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…Space marine Blaine Strong enjoyed being a composed, controlled member of space station security…until he was abducted by alien slavers. Forced into underground fight rings and pumped full of drugs, he’s now seething with anger and out for revenge...
  • Prison Princess by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Prison Princess by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE BOYS OF HAREM STATION ARE KEEPING LOTS OF SECRETS! Valor joined up with Tray after Beauty’s sacrifice because he knew Luck was destined to be with Princess Nyleena. There was no room in that relationship for a third wheel. But when he teamed up with Tray he had no idea that he’d be the third wheel in that partnership too...
  • Tamed by Alison Aimes

    Tamed by Alison Aimes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Talk or suffer the consequences.”Ruthless warrior Grif McIntyre is known for his brutal interrogation techniques, a skill he learned much too young from a monster even more savage than him. Still, Grif’s skills with ropes, restraints, and unbearable pleasure are unrivaled. His methods merciless, but effective...
  • Savior of the Domini by Talia Rhea

    Savior of the Domini by Talia Rhea

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    PEONY'S ENTIRE LIFE CHANGED AFTER A LATE NIGHT WALKDrugged and abducted, she wakes up in a small, metal room being brought food by a giant lizard-dinosaur alien. She's not alone either. She's trapped with four other women she's never met and, caged in the corner, a different alien that looks like he's been beaten quite badly...
  • Hunted by the Barbarians by Epsilon Angel

    Hunted by the Barbarians by Epsilon Angel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They hunted me, caught me, and claimed me. Now they're going to share me.Barbarians. Just thinking about the shameful things these beasts would do with a human girl like me should have been enough to keep me out of the forest on Hunting Night, but I went anyway.The moment they caught my scent, my fate was sealed...
  • Defying the General by Maddie Taylor

    Defying the General by Maddie Taylor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One look and he stirs something deep within her. A single touch is all it takes for her to awaken his soul. She has a mission. He has a duty. He is her captor. She is his destiny. Fate draws them together, but danger and deceit will wrench them apart...
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    aliens  steamy  kidnapping  paranormal  dark  romance  sci-fi  space
  • Barbarian Alien Part 6: Forever by Ruby Dixon

    Barbarian Alien Part 6: Forever by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everything seems to be piling on at once: I'm pregnant, the aliens are revolting against my mate, and not even my human friends have my back. It's time for me to buck the system to get what I want. But can I go against everything to claim the guy as mine?Even if it means exile with him?BARBARIAN ALIEN is a sequel to ICE PLANET BARBARIANS...
  • Turn Left for Stars by V.K. Ludwig

    Turn Left for Stars by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A SciFi Alien RomCom. It’s hard to find the right alien concubine… Finding three of them? Impossible! Watching the future saikhs practice their penetration angles at the saikhmenti alone doesn’t cut it to make a decision. What about other things like… I don’t know. Personality? What I need is insider information. That saikh-in-training who keeps failing his assessments? He’s offering it up freely...
  • Alien Hero's Claimed Bride by Juno Wells

    Alien Hero's Claimed Bride by Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Abducted from Earth and now I’m being sold… Cassandra... Stranded and alone in a sector of space ruled by vicious queens, I’m losing hope of ever finding freedom. After being abducted, all I wanted was to escape from the aquatic species trying to sell me on the open market...
  • Stolen by Raze by Lolita Lopez

    Stolen by Raze by Lolita Lopez

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Captured in a government raid, Ella is thrown into a prison transport bound for the mountain labor camps. She never expects her rescue to come at the hands of Raze, the handsome sky warrior who all but stole her heart after Dizzy’s wedding. Considered a high-value asset by the Shadow Force, Ella is given to an arrogant brute of a pilot for safekeeping—and collaring...
  • The Arcav King's Mate by Hope Hart

    The Arcav King's Mate by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Give up my life as a cop to rule over aliens? No way. My life changed forever when my name was announced as mate to the Arcav King. Within just a few seconds, I was no longer a cop. Now, I'm expected to hand myself in and travel back to Arcavia with an alien I've never met.I don't think so...
  • Draekon Holiday by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Holiday by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Day Two-Hundred-Something on the Prison Planet... ...And things are finally settling down. Life is slowly getting back to normal. Babies that won't sleep through the night? Check. Pregnancy cravings? We've got those, too. Fresh starts? Check. A new chapter in our lives? Check again. And people are leaving. Wait, what? If this is our last chance to be together, it's time to celebrate...
  • Tempted by Presley Hall

    Tempted by Presley Hall

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I promised myself I would never trust an alien. But with Zhori, I may not have a choice. After being kidnapped by aliens, nearly rescued, and then snatched back by my captors, I don’t have much hope of getting rescued again. Still, I’m determined to fight back on my own, to break free and find some way off this horrible planet...
  • Ghan-Zahr by Bella Blair

    Ghan-Zahr by Bella Blair

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I came for vengeance, but fate guided me to the one female I can’t live without…Rachel: I’m an investigative reporter, not a damsel in distress. So when I’m kidnapped by an alien warrior—one who’s as dangerous as he is captivating—it’s hard to wrap my head around. One moment, I’m ready to interview Dr. Weidenhof about the wormhole that connects Earth to Vandruk...
  • Alien Mercenary's Destiny by Mina Carter

    Alien Mercenary's Destiny by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He saved her from certain death. She didn’t count on him being a… nerd.A Tarviisan pit fighter forced to fight for survival her entire life, Zadaenae is sure she’s about to breathe her last when she’s cornered during a breakout. But help comes from an unexpected quarter; an alien with the infamous Warborne Mercenary team...
  • The Arcav Commander's Human by Hope Hart

    The Arcav Commander's Human by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A lifetime of duty to his people… …Or the woman who could be his? Jaret has been completely dedicated to the Arcav race for centuries. His only focus is the continuation of his species. Known for being cold and remote, no one is more surprised than Jaret when he insists on leading the mission to rescue the humans kidnapped for slavery...
  • Minder by Viola Grace

    Minder by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aleyn came to Bai's planet with one purpose, to steal his child and run like hell. Erasing his memory of their night together helped her make her getaway, but leaving her scent behind was her undoing. Trapped in Bai's�custody, Aleyn has to come to a few realizations. One, she has chosen him for more than his incredible ass, and two, his people have the right to kill her for her first week there...
  • Broken And Beautiful by Jude Gray

    Broken And Beautiful by Jude Gray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As I walk across the parking lot, my mind on another day of teaching third-graders, I'm taken. Abducted by nonhumans. Aliens. Monsters, one might call them. I certainly do. When I'm taken again - from aliens by aliens--my dire circumstances are worsened by an immensely irritating male named Jax. He is brutal, crude, arrogant, and obnoxious. Everything I dislike in a man...
  • Fated to Fall by Stephanie West

    Fated to Fall by Stephanie West

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blaidd went slightly insane witnessing the small human being abused by her mate. He didn’t care that he was on a foreign planet, as he swiftly ended the vile male. All that mattered was soothing the heart rending pain that radiated from the trembling female. But despite Blaidd’s best intentions, nothing he did for Vivian went right...
  • Alien Conqueror by Sara Fields

    Alien Conqueror by Sara Fields

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I 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...
  • Ragnar by Vi Voxley

    Ragnar by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When you take what you want, you can't let it slip away again. Selena Gordon is done with running, or so she hoped. Fleeing from an abusive relationship is a reality she has to face, but when it comes to the possibility of giving another man control over her, she's ready to stand her ground. No man, Nayanor or not, can make decisions for her ever again...
  • Frrar by Layla Nash, Juno Wells

    Frrar by Layla Nash, Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's lost in the past.She's lost in the mission.When they're lost in space, will love find them?Maisy Cunningham was the youngest doctor to graduate from the Fleet Academy, but that doesn't stop the rest of the crew from treating her like a helpless little sister...
  • Indigo Alloy by Frost Kay

    Indigo Alloy by Frost Kay

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fact 417 - Kidnapping was not sexy. The old Earth romances had it wrong. Being captured by an attractive elfin alien was anything but glamourous. It was slave labor with a pinch of harassment. But Allie Sai wouldn't take anyone's gruff, even if it meant challenging the scariest man she'd ever met, erm.. alien.Fact 359 - Southern belles never played by the rules...
  • The Aliens' Mate by Delaney Rain

    The Aliens' Mate by Delaney Rain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luc Martin was abducted by aliens over a month ago and has been stuck in a cage on a spaceship with three women ever since. On either side of their cell are two alien prisoners who both seem to have a thing to staring at Luc. Oh and everyone’s naked...
  • Ajax by Olivia Hutchinson

    Ajax by Olivia Hutchinson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's not easy being a girl, especially when there are only a few thousand of you left in the galaxy.Ajax fell from the sky on the same day my entire world shifted on its axis. The little safety I had was ripped away in a single morning, leaving me alone and destitute on an alien moon...
  • Protecting His Mistress by Evangeline Anderson

    Protecting His Mistress by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s undercover and she’s naive, what happens when they find each other?When Karn, a member of the Kindred Elite Espionage Corps, is given the assignment to go undercover as a bodyslave at the home of a cruel Mistress, he doesn’t hesitate to take the job. After all, lives are on the line and he has to find the list of Kindred warriors who have been taken prisoner...
  • His by Command by Maddie Taylor

    His by Command by Maddie Taylor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two 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...
  • Touched by the Alien Barbarian by Jude Gray

    Touched by the Alien Barbarian by Jude Gray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This world is all about survival.I survived being abducted from Earth, being discarded on a planet of barbarian warriors, and then traded to a clan who isn't quite so freaked out by my red hair.But I may not survive being stolen by the brutal Votris clan.I may not survive the damaged, savage beast they cage me with...
  • Taken Captive by Marlee Wray

    Taken Captive by Marlee Wray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What she did to them was wrong. What they do to her will be shameful.When her sister's life was saved by a member of an infamous group of spacefaring renegades, Zawri lied to keep her from being disgraced, but that false testimony put her rescuer in prison. He's out now, but all is far from forgiven. His crew has plans for Zawri. Very shameful plans...
  • Zivan by Luna Hunter

    Zivan by Luna Hunter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mia’s new partner? An arrogant, cocky, seven-feet-tall alien warrior. Mia Frost prides herself on her work ethic. There’s not a single detective in the entire New Atlanta Police Department who works harder than the curvy redhead. Ever since her little sister disappeared without a trace, she’s poured every waking minute into her job...
  • Vukan by Luna Hunter

    Vukan by Luna Hunter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The fate of the entire universe depends on me working alongside Vukan, a dominant alien general. The only problem? I hate him and everything he stands for. I don’t take orders from any man — and certainly not some alien general. I don’t care that he’s a seven-foot-tall, deadly warrior with a body to die for...
  • His Rebellious Mate by Maddie Taylor

    His Rebellious Mate by Maddie Taylor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Staunchly loyal Eryn Lockwood heads up security on the USIF Odyssey, an all-female research ship charged with finding a new world to call home. Her team is guarding a group of scientists exploring an uninhabited planet when they are set upon by a band of powerful alien warriors...
  • Taken as His Pet by Sassa Daniels

    Taken as His Pet by Sassa Daniels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Desperate to escape the stifling confines of Earth's repressive society, Lucy Bainbridge has only one hope. She proposes a deal to a warrior of Taar-Breck, promising to serve as his pet in return for passage to his home planet, but when the huge, fiercely handsome alien immediately orders her to strip and kneel at his feet, Lucy wonders if she has gotten herself in way over her head...
  • The Overlord's Pet by Evangeline Anderson

    The Overlord's Pet by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *This is Book 5 of the Alien Mate Index but it can be read as a stand-alone novel* I never wanted to be a pet—especially not the pet of an arrogant, Alien Overlord. Now I’m stuck on his spaceship, learning to walk on a leash and eating a disgusting concoction called “human chow...
  • Captor by Piper Stone

    Captor by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A dark sci fi...
  • Chosen for the Warrior by Sassa Daniels

    Chosen for the Warrior by Sassa Daniels

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When nineteen-year-old Victoria Walton runs away from home to avoid being forced to marry the man chosen by her cruel stepbrother, she is terrified that she will be caught and harshly punished. The last thing she expects, however, is to be tracked down by a huge, brutishly handsome Taar-Breckian warrior, tossed over his shoulder, and carried aboard his ship despite her best efforts to resist...
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    aliens  steamy  paranormal  kidnapping  dark  romance  sci-fi  alpha-mc
  • Bound by the Alien Pirate by Alana Khan

    Bound by the Alien Pirate by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when a cynical pirate plucks Izzy out of the jaws of danger, flies her to his cave, and vows to keep her prisoner?IzzyOne moment I was touring the Supercollider, the top thing on my bucket list, the next I’m falling into a marsh on a prehistoric planet. The most handsome male I’ve ever seen, complete with lush, luminescent wings, flies in...
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