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  • The Rings of Hesaurun by Peter Harrett

    The Rings of Hesaurun by Peter Harrett

    Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fleeing an alien menace of galactic proportions, a starship named The Dreamer crash-lands on Earth in the year 2436 BCE. Responding to the crash, the primitive earthlings discover the ship's commander Valerie Dunne is a 5,000-year-old woman from the future, forced to escape her nemesis, the Boecki, by hiding in the past...
  • Blood Trade by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Blood Trade by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A crime against all – stealing one’s life blood.It prolongs life! It gives strength and power. Such exotic luxuries come at a high price. Those who have been drained? “Donors” but not quite volunteers. That’s why they’re kidnapped, never to be heard from again. Taken from their families and removed from existence...
  • His Name was Wren by Rob Winters

    His Name was Wren by Rob Winters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    During the blackout of 1944, in the small English town of Hurstwick, something mysterious obliterates the church spire and slices through the nearby woods. Was it a secret Nazi weapon, as some locals suggest? Or just a downed plane? Evacuee George Moss finds an otherworldly explanation, then tries to keep it hidden.Years later, Max Cannon moves to town...
  • When Words Fail by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan P. Brazee

    When Words Fail by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan P. Brazee

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Galaxy is growing...and it's more dangerous than ever before.An all-out war within humanity has been narrowly avoided, and peace is finally at hand.Yeah, right.Human ships are being taken, their crews disappearing...
  • The Strip Down by Honey Phillips

    The Strip Down by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can Amanda discover the secrets behind an alien ruin? And the mysterious alien with the haunted eyes?Amanda is happy with her life as an elementary school teacher - and making plans to expand her family. Waking up naked and alone on an alien planet is not on her schedule.Desperate to return to Earth, she reluctantly accepts the help of the massive alien who appears out of the sands...
  • Duchess of Terra by Glynn Stewart

    Duchess of Terra by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When Terra knelt to an alien Imperium They guaranteed our safety and our future But now their enemies are coming for us To preserve humanity’s survival and freedom in a hostile galaxy, Annette Bond tied her world to the A!Tol Imperium, taking on the mantle of Duchess of Terra to rule humanity in the Imperium’s name...
  • Terra and Imperium by Glynn Stewart

    Terra and Imperium by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Secrets both ancient and new. Powers great and greater— With Terra caught in the middle Humanity’s first colony is a project neither the Duchy of Terra nor the A!Tol Imperium can allow to fail. The planet Hope in the Alpha Centauri system has been lavished with resources and attention—but when an unknown alien force attacks the system, all of that is in danger...
  • Cataclysmic Mistakes by Michael Anderle

    Cataclysmic Mistakes by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The ZOO has pushed and pushed hard. What will the response be?Not everyone is happy about rumblings of the wall going up faster.Frustration abounds for everyone. The ZOO has changed tactics and moved the goalposts.Who is going to win, humanity or the Zoo?Niki needs to vent, and Taylor does his best to show her a good time...
  • The Terran Privateer by Glynn Stewart

    The Terran Privateer by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Earth is conquered. Sol is lost. One ship is tasked to free them. One Captain to save them all. When an alien armada destroys the United Earth Space Force and takes control of the human homeworld, newly reinstated Captain Annette Bond must take her experimental hyperspace cruiser Tornado into exile as Terra’s only interstellar privateer...
  • Scarred by Tana Stone

    Scarred by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when a tough, Drexian captain gets trapped on an alien planet with the human tribute bride he’s supposed to rescue? Without his clothes.Brok has vowed to track down the pretty human who was snatched by space pirates and return her to be matched with a Drexian warrior. One who isn’t battle-scarred and damaged, like him...
  • Return by Nathan Hystad, Flynn Earl Jones

    Return by Nathan Hystad, Flynn Earl Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Rift opens once again.  The battle for Earth continues.  Only the Eureka and her crew can turn the tides.   The Eureka returns to Sol through the Rift as an extreme time dilation creates complications. With a familiar face now the Earth Fleet's Grand Admiral, Ace and the others struggle to acclimate to their new reality...
  • Flame by Tana Stone

    Flame by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only thing worse than always being upstaged by your perfect sister? Falling for her alien fiancé.I wasn’t supposed to end up on the Drexian space station or be matched to one of their gorgeous warriors as a tribute bride. My perfect twin sister is the one they wanted. Instead, I stole her spot...
  • Warrior King by Evan Currie

    Warrior King by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Battle-weary after a desperate fight to save Earth from the Drasin alien onslaught, Confederation Captain Eric Weston is tasked with a perilous new mission. He and the crew of the Odysseus must hunt down those who unleashed the hellish attack on his homeworld and that of Earth’s Priminae allies...
  • De Oppresso Liber by Evan Currie

    De Oppresso Liber by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The war may be over, but the fighting continues as SOLCOM learns of an excursion by the Ross'El against an unaffiliated pre-space civilization in the no man's land between Earth and the Alien Alliance. With always more questions than answers, SOLCOM dispatches a ship to quietly survey the situation and determine what, if any, course of action is best...
  • Open Arms by Evan Currie

    Open Arms by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With the war officially over, and years of fighting weighing on her, Sorilla has officially put in her papers and called in every chit she's owed. It's time to hang up her power armor, lay down her rifle, and try to build something for herself rather than for other people. The War, however, is only over when the powers that be say it is...
  • Slag by Alana Khan

    Slag by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Slag is a gentle giant so damaged from his years toiling in the irradiated green salt mines of Rhoid he can barely function except to do his job, eat, and sleep. Something awakens within him, though, causing him to run to KJ’s rescue when she’s thrown into the mine as punishment. Fate has a plan for these two...
  • Dragon's Redemption by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Redemption by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jormund I have to have her. These other males can't care for her the way I will. They'll try to get her back, of course. What else could they do? I'll have to outsmart them to keep her. And keep her I will. She-who-is-mine will see, eventually. We are fated. She is my heart and my soul. Delilah I'm resigned to my life alone. Well, not really alone...
  • Servant for an Alien Leader by Roxie Ray

    Servant for an Alien Leader by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'm ready for a new start on a new planet… Failed farm. Failed relationship. Failed family. I'm done with Earth and excited for a life with whatever alien will hire me. When I arrive on Macros and meet Urul, my attraction to him knocks the air out of my lungs. He's everything I could possibly want, and the heat burns hot between us, but he's keeping his distance...
  • Revikk by Alana Khan

    Revikk by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can their love survive his deepest secrets? Dawn is immediately attracted to bad boy Revikk and surrenders to her fiery impulses. Confident and skilled, Revikk satisfies. But with every layer Revikk reveals about his past, Dawn must decide whether it spikes her attraction or her fear. Dawn A year ago, I never would have dreamed I’d approach a male like Revikk for a fling...
  • Dragon's Gift by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Gift by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Celebrate the holidays on Tajss Maeve doesn't believe in fate and certainly not one that involves her and Padraig, the enormous and domineering alien dragon. His overly protective and possessive nature rubs her the wrong way. Padraig is certain the fiercely independent human female is the only one for him. His inner dragon has decided and the burly smith knows fate's hand when he feels it...
  • Dragon's Wish by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Wish by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I am a Zmaj hunter and so have only one purpose in life. The feeding and protection of The Tribe is my duty and my honor. Except I have been spending more and more time in The City, entranced by the spirit of the human female Addison. The primal dragon at the core of all Zmaj males fights for dominance over my iron will. It would claim the shy and intelligent beauty at any cost...
  • Captured by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Captured by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I've been kidnapped by a dragon.Just when I thought my life couldn't get worse, I was abducted by aliens. Now, I'm pretty sure I must be dying. Because only a vicious head injury could make me believe I'm actually flying through the air, trapped between a dragon's claws. Oh, and the dragon?He can talk.And he has all kinds of arrogant, ludicrous, and deranged things to say...
  • Hunted by Grace Goodwin

    Hunted by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Trapped... Tortured... Only she can save him from the Hive! Vice Admiral Niobe has resisted the temptation of the Interstellar Brides Program for years, certain there is no male in the universe willing to sacrifice his vision of a perfect life to be with her. Shocked to be matched to her father's home world of Everis, she transports, expecting to find an eager mate waiting for her...
  • Valkyrie Rising by Evan Currie

    Valkyrie Rising by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two years after the initial invasion of Hayden's World, the newly reinforced Hayden Militia is in a state of stalemate with the remaining enemy forces but neither side is content to leave things at that.The alien alliance has dispatched their varsity to clean up the resistance on Hayden while the USF has officially activated Task Force V, the latest and most advanced combat ships built by humans...
  • Derrix by Ava York

    Derrix by Ava York

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Derrix figured a mate would be nothing but asking for trouble.For heartache.Heartbreak. When the teleporter delivers another luscious human female, he can only hope she's not for him.But she is. And unlike the other women, she's happy and excited about her new adventure. They're about to move into a new, dangerous phase of the mission...
  • No Choice by Mel Todd

    No Choice by Mel Todd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Doing your duty isn't a choice, even if you become a cougar. Officer McKenna Largo's life is thrown into turmoil when she is catapulted onto the worldwide stage as the focal point for a bizarre event occurring across the planet.She finds herself famous and infamous when, in the middle of a bank robbery call, she turns into a cougar...
  • A Chance for Arus by Lynnea Lee

    A Chance for Arus by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Playing with fire.Recently rescued from a Dominion slave ship, the last thing Mia needs is to be bogged down by a relationship. But she can’t get the sexy mercenary and the things he did to her body out of her head. The guy is built like a god, and even better with his mouth.Mia knows it’s dangerous to keep seeing him...
  • Claim by Tana Stone

    Claim by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The only reason sexy shapeshifter Bexli would not be able to shift is unthinkable. No way is she pregnant after one stupid night with him.What Bexli knows about the silver fox alien: he’s moody, he rarely talks, and he seems to think she’s some fragile female who needs protecting...
  • Bolo Rising by William H. Keith Jr., Keith Laumer

    Bolo Rising by William H. Keith Jr., Keith Laumer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the human colony of Cloud is mercilessly attacked and its people imprisoned in a slave camp, Major Jaime Graham struggles to bring Bolo protector Hector, who has been reprogrammed by their enemies, back to the good side. Original...
  • Rescued by the Warrior Lord by Roxie Ray

    Rescued by the Warrior Lord by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    First my heart got ripped out of my chest...then I woke up on a slaver’s ship…I had the perfect life: wedding on the horizon, a job I love, and a great family, but when I find my fiancé in bed with another woman everything falls apart. And before I know it I’m waking up on a slaver’s ship in the depths of space.When another group of aliens comes to my rescue, I don’t know what to think...
  • Halo: Die Gesandte by Tobias S. Buckell

    Halo: Die Gesandte by Tobias S. Buckell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Gallery Book. Gallery Books has a great book for every reader...
  • Manxome Foe by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor

    Manxome Foe by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the midst of recovering from their successful if casualty prone first mission, the crew of the Alliance Space Ship "Vorpal Blade" are suddenly scrambled back into action. All other priorities take second place as word arrives on earth of a gate colony which has fallen to an unidentified alien assault...
  • The Ellimist Chronicles by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate

    The Ellimist Chronicles by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.He is called the Ellimist. A being with the ability to alter space and time. A being with a power that will never be fully understood. He is the reason Elfangor came to Earth. He is the reason the Earth now has a fighting chance...
  • The Hork-Bajir Chronicles by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate

    The Hork-Bajir Chronicles by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dak Hamee, born into the Hork-Bajir tribe, is something special from the start. "Strange," says his mother. "A seer," says the Old One, Tila Fashat. "A seer is one who is born to show a new way. Many, many seasons pass, then our father, the Deep, and our mother, the Sky, say, 'Send a seer to the people. The people have need.' And so one is born who is different...
  • The Rebel and the Rogue by Grace Goodwin

    The Rebel and the Rogue by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Zenos, from the Astra Legion of Rogue 5, is on a mission to find an antidote to the deadly venom flowing through his body. Without the antidote, one bite during mating will kill a hybrid Forsian's chosen female. Zenos must acquire the serum at any cost, for like his Atlan cousins, his mating instinct will eventually consume him...
  • Javik by Ava York

    Javik by Ava York

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's ready for his mate. Wants her. Needs her.But will she ever want him back?Brilliant scientist. Dedicated doctor.But beneath that cold, blue, analytical exterior beats a hungry heart.He's watched the other warriors meet their mates. And he can't wait to meet his own. Taste her. Claim her.But when she arrives, she's not like anything he ever imagined...
  • Star Mate Matched by Margo Bond Collins

    Star Mate Matched by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This alien warrior has finally met his match. But she's not who he thinks she is...Nora MarlinFired from my job. Kicked out of my apartment. And dumped at the altar. All in the same week. So of course, that’s when an alien swoops down in his spaceship and steals me away.FML...
  • Invasion Day by Scott Moon

    Invasion Day by Scott Moon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    David Osage is a dangerous man with a dangerous past, but these days he’s just trying to keep his head down, driving big rigs. One night he saddles himself with a hitchhiker, a nuisance who’s more than she seems. And that’s when everything changes.No one was ready for an alien invasion. Death is raining from the sky and the only question left is do you run, fight, or submit...
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    aliens  invasion  war  action-adventure  adult  book  dystopia  fiction
  • Invasion: Book I: Resistance by J.F. Holmes

    Invasion: Book I: Resistance by J.F. Holmes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In space, when you lose the high ground, you lose the war. Eleven years before, General David Warren was the best and brightest, in charge of defending the Earth from an attacking fleet. Overmatched in battle, the Earth forces were devastated, and the enemy moved into the high ground and proceeded with orbital bombardment...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  invasion  war  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  military
  • Without Mercy by Eric Thomson

    Without Mercy by Eric Thomson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What is the value of one life in an interstellar war that has already claimed millions? And if that single life doesn't matter, are any others worth saving?A distress signal draws Siobhan Dunmoore's Q-ship Iolanthe, a battlecruiser disguised as a bulk freighter, away from her devastatingly successful hunt through Shrehari occupied space and plunges Dunmoore into a dark, merciless universe of...
  • Alien Mate by Jude Gray

    Alien Mate by Jude Gray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fate decided long ago that Iscer and Zyva belong together.Good thing Fate loves a challenge, because the cold mercenary and the woman who hates him may be her biggest challenge yet...After she attacks her tentacled Aktovi owner, kills his wife, and escapes the city of Agroeos, Zyva Tanza knows her time on Xaensskar is coming to an end when she's quickly and violently captured...
  • Doctor Who: Dalek by Robert Shearman

    Doctor Who: Dalek by Robert Shearman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ‘The entire Dalek race, wiped out in one second. I watched it happen. I made it happen!’ The Doctor and Rose arrive in an underground vault in Utah in the near future. The vault is filled with alien artefacts. Its billionaire owner, Henry van Statten, even has possession of a living alien creature, a mechanical monster in chains that he has named a Metaltron...
  • Retribution by Andrew Beery

    Retribution by Andrew Beery

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is the fourth book in the best-selling Catherine Kimbridge series. This book picks up the story immediately following book 3. The GCP is facing an adversary called the Syndicate that has no respect for freedom or life. Even worse... the Syndicate may not be the ultimate power behind their empire...
  • Jardun's Embrace by Rayna Tyler

    Jardun's Embrace by Rayna Tyler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Their differences separate them—the fate of their world binds them.Laria never planned to make an alien planet her permanent home, and she certainly never planned to get caught in the middle of a power struggle between members of the inhabitant’s ruling family...
  • Foreigner by Robert J. Sawyer

    Foreigner by Robert J. Sawyer

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Far-Seer and Fossil Hunter, we met the Quintaglios, a race of intelligent dinosaurs from Earth and learned of the threat to their very existence. Now they must quickly advance from a culture equivalent to our Renaissance to the point where they can leave their planet...
  • The Riss Survival by C.R. Daems

    The Riss Survival by C.R. Daems

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Raider clans have been defeated and their planet under the supervision of the Riss, with Captain Reese the station commander. But while Reese sees the Raider clans as on probation, many in the SAS task force she commands, perceive them as prisoners and hope to break the Treaty and get revenge.As Nadya attempts to maintain the fragile peace, the three empires are being invaded...
  • Hss! by Zeta Star

    Hss! by Zeta Star

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Without Hss - I can't pronounce it, okay? - I'd have no hope of getting out of this arena. His sleek, pettable pecks almost make up for his bad attitude. Almost.I've just had my worst month ever. First, my fiancé jilts me. Next, I'm abducted by aliens and sold into a gladiatorial arena.Luckily, I tie a mean surgical knot, so they've put me to work stitching up the wounded...
  • Fallen Star by Richard Turner

    Fallen Star by Richard Turner

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A sudden and brutal attack on a coalition training camp in Iraq wipes out all but two survivors: Captain James Grant and Australian SAS Sergeant David Maclean. Drawn into a clandestine world that deals with unusual encounters the two soldiers volunteer to help with the investigation into an alleged UFO crash in Alaska...
  • Unexpected Hero by Willow Summers

    Unexpected Hero by Willow Summers

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author, Willow Summers, comes an action packed romance you won't want to put down. "Peppered with Summers' brand of humor, the Skyline Trilogy makes for an exquisite read." MarKat ★★★★★ "I love that Jenna is such a strong heroine and Josh is the strong and deadly silent type...
  • The Answer by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate

    The Answer by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Barnes & Noble ReviewThe end is near -- very near. Every Animorph question is about to be answered. There's only one more book in the popular series, and The Answer epitomizes everything the books have stood for -- suspense, struggle, and fights to save planet Earth.The war is raging on, and the Yeerks are everywhere...
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