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  • A Miracle for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips

    A Miracle for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can an alien warrior who’s given up hope save a desperate woman and her unborn child?Lauren knew the decision to have a baby on her own wouldn’t be an easy one. She didn’t know that she would be kidnapped by aliens whose only interest in her is as a breeding vessel. A desperate attempt to escape leaves her trapped and isolated - and about to give birth...
  • The Segonian by Dianne Duvall

    The Segonian by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall brings readers the second stand-alone novel in a thrilling new sci-fi romance series full of action, humor, and happily-ever-afters.Eliana's life has never been what one might term ordinary. At least, it hasn't been for a very long time...
  • Lab Rat One by Andrea K. Höst

    Lab Rat One by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Part 2 of the Touchstone trilogy:In the months since Cassandra Devlin walked off Earth onto another planet, she has grappled with everything from making blankets to helping psychics battle the memories of monsters. Not able to find a way home, she has instead gained friends and a purpose...
  • Treyvon by M.K. Eidem

    Treyvon by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    General Treyvon Rayner is the Supreme Commander of the Kaliszian Defenses. He is the cousin and trusted friend of the Kaliszian Emperor, Emperor Liron Kalinin, in spite of Treyvon’s ancestor being one of the causes of the Great Infection so many centuries ago. It is never far from Treyvon's mind, and he vowed he'd spend his entire life trying to make things right...
  • Sara and the Spymaster by Honey Phillips

    Sara and the Spymaster by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can a passionate woman awaken a frozen warrior? Sara’s life is turned upside down when she is kidnapped by brutal aliens. Even after she’s rescued by an Imperial ship, she can’t return to Earth. The only person who seems concerned about her future is the icy alien warrior who interrogates her...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  romance  sci-fi  space  slavery  other-world  futuristic  humor
  • Jacinda's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Jacinda's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Jotham is the King of the House of Protection. He was the youngest male ever to assume the position because of the sudden death of his father in Jotham’s twentieth cycle. In the last forty cycles, he married his life mate, Lata, and lost her in a transport accident. He had two sons and lost one due to his son’s own treachery...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  alpha-mc  paranormal  royalty  steamy  adult  audiobook  book
  • Victoria's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Victoria's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Victoria Lynn Chamberlain… at two, she was abducted by an alien race, the Regulians… at nine, her world literally explodes when the Regulians returned, destroying Earth. She and her Aunt are the only survivors thanks to another alien race, the Carinians. Now she’s eighteen, a new graduate from their top medical school, and is ready to claim her life mate...
  • Cassandra's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Cassandra's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alternative cover edition ASIN B00CKXWOM2Cassandra Chamberlain has always stood out. It's hard not to at 6’1” and 165 pounds with jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes. And if that wasn’t enough she is also brilliant, graduating from Harvard at fifteen, teaching at MIT at nineteen and up for the prestigious Magellan Award at twenty five. But she’s never really fit in...
  • Rita and the Raider by Honey Phillips

    Rita and the Raider by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every good mating begins with a kidnapping… Worvak was taught to value honor above all else. When his honor demanded he sacrifice everything to save a friend, he didn't hesitate. But then a dangerous mission leads him to a fragile, dirty female with enough courage for ten warriors - a female he would do anything to call his own. For the first time in his life, his honor and his heart are at war...
  • Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik

    Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The critically acclaimed author of Polaris Rising takes readers on an exciting journey with the start of her brand-new series about a female bounty hunter and the man who is her sworn enemy.Octavia Zarola would do anything to keep her tiny, close-knit bounty hunting crew together—even if it means accepting a job from Torran Fletcher, a ruthless former general and her sworn enemy...
  • Edge of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Edge of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Framed for a crime she didn't commit, a wrongly-imprisoned space captain's only chance at freedom is to abduct a fearsome alien war commander. Sub-Captain Eve Traynor knows a suicide mission when she sees one. With deadly insectoid aliens threatening to invade Earth, the planet’s only chance of survival is to get the attention of the fierce Eon Warriors...
  • My Fair Alien by Honey Phillips

    My Fair Alien by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can an alien professor decode the language of love?Professor Harak H’gin leads a peaceful life studying linguistics on his native planet of Plumeria. Until the day he stumbles across a bedraggled, beautiful human female. Dared by a colleague to transform the pitiful creature into a true member of their society, Harak takes on the challenge...
  • Earth Force Rising by Monica Tesler

    Earth Force Rising by Monica Tesler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirteen years ago, Earth Force—a space-military agency—discovered a connection between brain structure and space travel. Now they’ve brought together the first team of cadets, called Bounders, to be trained as high-level astronauts.Twelve-year-old Jasper is part of this team being sent out into space...
  • Warrior by Anna Hackett

    Warrior by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim… It was supposed to be an exciting job on a space station, but instead, scientist Dr. Regan Forrest finds herself fighting for her life when she’s kidnapped by alien slavers...
  • The Outlaw Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    The Outlaw Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Can a cyborg ranger save Mars - and the woman who won’t admit she needs him?Everything Serena Gatling ever wanted was taken away from her by a single horrific act of betrayal. Determined never to fall victim again, she closes her heart and dedicates her life to a cold-blooded quest to regain the one thing that still matters to her...
  • Choosing Riley by S.E. Smith, David Brenin

    Choosing Riley by S.E. Smith, David Brenin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Riley St. Claire has always followed her own rules. When she discovers her current employer is not as law abiding as she thought, she has to leave town in a hurry or end up buried with the dead guy she discovered. What she doesn't expect is to find herself being picked up by a passing trader from another world...
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    aliens  alpha-mc  dark  paranormal  royalty  steamy  adult  animals
  • Ambushing Ariel by S.E. Smith

    Ambushing Ariel by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ariel Hamm has always had a tender heart. Her love for her sister, Carmen, and her best friend, Trisha, has always been a priority in her life. But at twenty-eight, she is ready to start focusing on what she wants. After her fiancée unexpectedly ends their engagement, she is searching to redefine who she really is. A pilot for Boswell International, she knows flying is not her first love...
  • Wray by M.K. Eidem

    Wray by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Emperor Wray Vasteri is the ruler of the Tornian Empire, his House has ruled the Empire ever since the great infection struck over five hundred years ago and he fears he will be the last. The number of compatible females is dwindling faster than anyone knows and if compatible females aren’t found soon their entire civilization will cease to exist...
  • Shadowed by Evangeline Anderson

    Shadowed by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Reddix is a Kindred warrior with RTS—a debilitating disease that forces him to endure the emotions of others like a physical invasion every time he is around anyone. Nina is the girl he dreams of but can never have...
  • Razor's Traitorous Heart by S.E. Smith

    Razor's Traitorous Heart by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Kali Parks is a shadow in the war between two factions that are fighting to gain control of Chicago. Born and raised on the streets, she stands as a silent sentinel at her brother’s side as he battles to gain control. She will do whatever it takes to bring peace to those she has pledged her life to protect, including fighting against the creatures that came to their world almost six years before...
  • Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey

    Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Her name was Killashandra Ree. And after ten grueling years of musical training, she was still without prospects. Until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild who could provide careers, security, and wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left. But to Killashandra the risks were acceptable...
  • Chained by Evangeline Anderson

    Chained by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Maggie Jordan is not supposed to be having adventures. Her mission is to go to Gaia, a new, unpopulated world, and study the native life forms there...
  • Gracie's Touch by S.E. Smith

    Gracie's Touch by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Gracie Jones was little more than a child when the Earth was invaded by an alien species. Escaping into the subway tunnels of New York City, she hid in fear of being captured. Discovered by four men who became her protectors, she fought alongside them and they became known as the Freedom Five...
  • Grim by M.K. Eidem

    Grim by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    King Grim Vasteri is the most feared warrior in the Tornian Empire. He has been sent by his Emperor to find and retrieve compatible females for their dying civilization...
  • Capturing Cara by S.E. Smith

    Capturing Cara by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Cara Truman is a pint-size pistol whose inquisitive nature has gotten her into trouble on more than one occasion. Her next adventure takes her further than she even expected when she ends up on a journey out of this world.Trelon Reykill thought he had his hands full...
  • Doc's Orders by Cynthia Sax

    Doc's Orders by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She wants both sides of her cyborg—the medic AND the beast. *** A fully functional cyborg is balanced. His machine half and his organic half work together to produce the perfect warrior. Doc isn’t fully functional. The G Model operates at the two extremes. When his machine is in complete control, he’s the logic-driven medic, saving lifespans...
  • Returned by Jane Hinchey, J.A. Hinchey

    Returned by Jane Hinchey, J.A. Hinchey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Struggling to discover her role in a terrifying new world where everything has changed, she must decide who she can trust.Sierra Walker has been missing for 30 years. Her family thought she was dead, only when Sierra turns up, she hasn’t aged a day. But Earth has changed drastically.Biological warfare has decimated the planet...
  • Star Navigator by Naomi Lucas

    Star Navigator by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “It’s different because of Atlas,” she whispered, wholeheartedly feeling the truth of that statement. "I can say the most terribly erotic things in your ear," Atlas warned hotly from behind her. Reina stopped caring, and she doesn’t know why...
  • Found by Harmony Raines

    Found by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Karalian warrior, Rikka, is devoted to his species and the Hier Council who rule them. He knows his loyalty is to the Karal first, his mission second and everything else is expendable. But sent into deep space with a female from Earth, it is not only a new planet Rikka finds...
  • The V'Dan by Jean Johnson

    The V'Dan by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A thrilling new perspective of the world created in the explosive, national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series. It’s two hundred years earlier—the age of the First Salik War. And the battle against humanity has been engaged. The V’Dan always believed they were the chosen race, destined to make a mark on the galaxy...
  • Out of the Ashes by L.A. Casey

    Out of the Ashes by L.A. Casey

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For Nova, a twenty-three-year-old survivalist, wandering a barren wasteland was a lonely existence. But her day-to-day life was about to drastically change forever. Gone were the days when her only worries were rabid animals, augmented humans, the unforgiving scorching sun, and rogue watchmen. Now, Nova found herself faced with a new threat, and he was tall, grey, and horribly stubborn...
  • Tamed by the Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Tamed by the Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Tiffani is mated to an Atlan warrior believed lost to mating fever, she will stop at nothing to save him, including sneaking into an Atlan prison to seduce his beast....Sick and tired of the dead-end path her life is taking, Tiffani Wilson heads to the nearest Interstellar Bride processing center to start over...
  • The Wide, Wide Sea by Patrick Ness

    The Wide, Wide Sea by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Wide, Wide Sea is set in the past, at a time before the Spackle War, and we get a first look at the fishing village on the sea where some very important things happen at the end of Monsters of Men.Best read after The Ask and the Answer but before Monsters...
  • Dark Minds by Michelle Diener

    Dark Minds by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The mind is the most powerful weapon of all . . . Imogen Peters knows she's a pawn. She's been abducted from Earth, held prisoner, and abducted again. So when she gets a chance at freedom, she takes it with both hands, not realizing that doing so will turn her from pawn to kingmaker...
  • Nikhil by M.K. Eidem

    Nikhil by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    As the Squad Leader of the Elite Warriors, Nikhil Kozar was the largest warrior in the Kaliszian Empire. When a shuttle crashes on one of their planets the search and rescue mission turned into something much more complicated.Mackenzie ‘Mac’ Wharton had agreed to guide a group that had wanted an adventure on her mountain...
  • A Grim Holiday by M.K. Eidem

    A Grim Holiday by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It's the Holidays on Luda or at least the Tornian version of the Holidays. When Lisa learned about the Festival of the Goddess she was initially excited, that was before she learned just how Tornians celebrated. The blending of families and traditions was never easy but Lisa and the girls were determined to bring their version of the Holidays to Luanda and the people they had come to love...
  • Saving Verakko by Victoria Aveline

    Saving Verakko by Victoria Aveline

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When Lily is freed from alien captivity, she refuses to wait for rescue—or recapture. She’ll take her chances in the forest. Navigating the exotic terrain won’t be easy, but it beats the alternative. Then, an enormous alien falls into her camp and makes her question everything. He’s rude, grumpy, and annoyingly sexy. Trusting him would be a mistake...
  • Her Rogue Mates by Grace Goodwin

    Her Rogue Mates by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    No rules. No laws. No mercy. She belongs to them now. An Earth member of the medical recovery team on Transport Station Zenith, Harper meets two mysterious strangers from an unknown world. With intense eyes and even more intense desires, it's easy for the two sexy-as-sin aliens to prove how good it can be with them...
  • Kissing Steel by Laurann Dohner

    Kissing Steel by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    *** THIS IS A RERELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK *** All Rena wanted was to steal back a spaceship and earn enough money to buy her freedom from her travesty of a life. Her mission to recover stolen property from pirates backfired and she became a possession when she encountered cyborgs instead. Now, one of them will own her...
  • Chosen by Stacy Jones

    Chosen by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    One minute Lily is trying, and failing, to run her grandmother’s farm—her last remaining connection to her family. The next, she wakes to find herself in a cold, sterile cage surrounded by monsters, with no memory of how she got there. Accidentally abducted by alien poachers, unsure if she will live or die, she is dreading the worst...
  • Stray by Andrea K. Höst

    Stray by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive. The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles...
  • Pythen by Erin Raegan

    Pythen by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    PeytonI was having a cold coffee with my best friend Vivian when the whole world went upside down.Now there are gazelle-glowing-like-a-light-bulb aliens running around eating everybody, and enormous dark purply colored aliens that have a strong resemblance to bats, dive bombing from the sky. One of the bats says I'm his and I need to ease his mating rage. Yeah, not happening...
  • Her Mate's Secret Baby by Grace Goodwin

    Her Mate's Secret Baby by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Natalie Montgomery wants a new life. While she may be rich, her life is empty. Her parents were never around, too rich and important to be bothered with a child. And when they present her with a emotionless fianc�, she's done...
  • Gravitational Attraction by Angel Martinez

    Gravitational Attraction by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A broken pilot falls for a man who might be a walking weapon. They may need to save far more than each other.A mysterious distress call draws the crew of the Hermes to what appears to be an empty, drifting ship. Empty, except for the gore-spattered corridors and one survivor locked in a holding cell...
  • Her Viken Mates by Grace Goodwin

    Her Viken Mates by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Isabella Martinez was always good at rebelling, against her parents, her school, her boyfriends. She had needs no one could meet, desires so dark no one could tame her. When her wild side gets her in trouble with the law, she doesn't think twice when given a choice between prison or transport to a new world as an Interstellar Bride. Alone on Earth, the decision was easy...
  • Dovis by Laurann Dohner

    Dovis by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The second book in The Vorge Crew series.Sold into slavery as a child, Mari was raised on a vessel repair station, growing up to become a highly prized engineer. So she's surprised when her owner not only grants her freedom, but finds her a paying job aboard The Vorge. Mari's determined to impress her new captain and crewmates...
  • Alien Warrior's Captive Bride by Juno Wells

    Alien Warrior's Captive Bride by Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every now and then, when all the planets are in proper alignment, fate smiles on one lone warrior... Hope Earth is no longer able to support human life and trying to scratch out a meager existence is nearly impossible. Hope is reluctantly forced to sign up for the intergalactic brides program. Just as she’s getting desperate, she finds a tolerable species willing to purchase her contract..
  • Roark's Bondmate by Hannah Davenport

    Roark's Bondmate by Hannah Davenport

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lara I always knew that aliens were a possibility, but to discover an entire galaxy filled with beings my imagination had trouble believing? Talk about starting over! After the failed mission, I awoke to find myself on a different planet; some savage alien with yellow skin and brown claws was dragging me away by my ankle. I couldn’t ask questions, couldn’t talk with anyone...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  alpha-mc  dark  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  cheating
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A desperate widow in need of a helping hand… even a cybernetic one. Hattie came to Mars with high hopes. Hopes that she and her husband would be able to claim a plot of land, to create a home, perhaps even to start a family - all of the things that were now impossible on a troubled Earth...
  • Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik

    Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Interplanetary intrigue and romance combine in this electrifying finale to the Consortium Rebellion series.As the youngest member of her High House, Catarina von Hasenberg is used to being underestimated, but her youth and flighty, bubbly personality mask a clever mind and stubborn determination...
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