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  • Perilous Waif by E. William Brown

    Perilous Waif by E. William Brown

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    My name is Alice Long, and I’ve always known I was different. When I was little I used to climb up to the highest branches of the housetree at night, and watch the starships docking at the orbital stations high above. Forty meters off the ground, watching ships thirty thousand kilometers overhead, with senses that could pick out radar pings and comm chatter as easily as the ships themselves...
  • 残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past...
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    lgbtq  dystopia  romance  sci-fi  fiction  mlm  space  space-opera
  • Space for More by Emily Antoinette

    Space for More by Emily Antoinette

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    All Dr. Eden Mori wanted was to expand her horizons on the galaxy's largest space station, but when the only way to stop a black market sale of dangerous medical schematics is to get close to the data dealer, she's tasked with stopping him. Her partner on this mission? The dealer's estranged, hot-tempered mate...
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    lgbtq  wlw  aliens  romance  sci-fi  polyamory  monsters  space
  • Craved by the Hunter: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee

    Craved by the Hunter: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SAMWhen a legendary PIP model shows up in my shop, I jump on the chance to work on the sentient shuttle, until I meet Pip’s owner. The surly hunter hates humans and has earned himself the nickname Loose Cannon...
  • Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Evelyn enjoyed living a nice, quiet life in an anarchic pirate port, far from the world she’d once conquered.Then came an attack by mercenaries that made her angry...
  • Broken Dreamer by Viola Grace

    Broken Dreamer by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Led by her dreams, she finds her way into the stars where fate conspires to put her exactly where she needs to be, in a hero’s path.When her parents died, Lyra was untethered. She left school, followed her dreams, and focused on keeping herself alive. She is not a fan of people and enjoys being alone...
  • Bound to the Warlord by V.K. Ludwig

    Bound to the Warlord by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My love for her might cost me everything. Even my life.Shunned for solar cycles by my own people, I finally found my place beside our future warlord. Upon his father’s death, I will take my position as his personal shaman, forever silencing whoever questions my loyalties and calls me a filthy half-blood. Together, we will lead the tribe to greatness...
  • So'Lan by Alana Khan

    So'Lan by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brutalized as a gladiator, So'Lan's body has finally healed, but his mind is still heavy with the weight of the many abuses he suffered in his owner’s dungeon. Can a gorgeous human pirate help him salvage the wreck that is his heart?PhoenixTempting but broken, So'Lan has baggage I want no part of. Each time he saves my life, I find myself reconsidering the hunky lion-man's appeal...
  • Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett

    Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His career plan never included becoming one of the galaxy's most infamous treasure hunters. And it certainly never included his one weakness: Nera Darc.Astro-archeologist Niklas Phoenix loved his job studying and safeguarding artifacts at the Institute of Historical Preservation...until he learned that it was all a lie...
  • Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I was abducted, sold, then crash-landed on a strange planet... only to be abducted again.  And you know the funny thing? I barely even care.I’m numb. You see, I’ve already lost everything. When you’re doing something you love, you never think that it could be the last time. That someone might take your life from you and leave you stranded on a planet where most of the locals are out to get you...
  • Vera and the Victor by Honey Phillips

    Vera and the Victor by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A grumpy alien warrior, a rebellious almost-professor, and an alien paradise...One moment Vera is peacefully studying for her PhD in Ancient History, the next she is helping an alien race who look like fairies defeat the evil male who had her abducted. They need her help and she’s not about to back down, not even when a huge, grumpy gargoyle shows up on their island demanding their allegiance...
  • The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

    The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On a summer night like any other, an emergency call sounds in the quarters of Andira Tal, Lancer of Alsea. The news is shocking: not only is there other intelligent life in the universe, but it’s landing on the planet right now.Tal leads the first responding team and ends up rescuing aliens who have a frightening story to tell...
  • Human Omega: Babied by His Guardian Mates by Eileen Glass

    Human Omega: Babied by His Guardian Mates by Eileen Glass

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes you've just got to flip your big dumb alien onto his stomach and teach him a thing about masculinity. It’s not how much you’ve got — it’s how you use it. Finally, everything is going good for Carter. He's not a slave. He has a roof over his head. He's fixed his alien language translator and now can talk to Pykh and Siel, his protectors...
  • The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet...
  • Without a Front: The Warrior’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Without a Front: The Warrior’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An assassin's shot has shattered the Opah family and endangered Lancer Andira Tal. Now criminal forces are racing law enforcement to find the man who could topple Tal's government.With the net closing around them, Tal and Salomen Opah discover the power of their tyree bond, a power Alsea has not seen in a millennium...
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    aliens  female-mc  lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  crime
  • Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alsea is fractured in the aftermath of war. So is its leader.Though devastated by a personal loss, Lancer Andira Tal must somehow stitch her world together and move it forward when all the rules have changed. Every decision is fraught with risk, and her enemies wait for her to stumble...
  • The Lily and the Crown by Roslyn Sinclair

    The Lily and the Crown by Roslyn Sinclair

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ariana “Ari” Geiker lives an isolated life on an imperial space station commanded by her father. The skilled, young botanist rarely leaves her living quarters, where she maintains an elaborate garden. When an imperious older woman is captured from a pirate ship and given to her as a slave, Ariana’s perfectly ordered life is thrown into chaos...
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    aliens  female-mc  lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  angst
  • Saved by V.K. Ludwig

    Saved by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her body belongs to everyone, but her soul is mine.Patrons call her leska, female, using her body in ways that leave the human in bruises and blood. Each night, I stitch her back together, tend to her wounds, only to watch another male tear them open with pleasure.Sophie. That’s what I call her when no one is listening, that human female abducted from Earth to be seeded by many...
  • Mated by V.K. Ludwig

    Mated by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You know your Gaia link is broken when your match is 93.While every Vetusian around me is expecting the arrival of the first hybrids, my mate is living out her final days in a nursing home.With true love unattainable, I concentrate on busting the crime ring responsible for the supply of human females forced into prostitution at the Odheim brothels...
  • Voyage to Ayama by K.A. Knight

    Voyage to Ayama by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The 43rd colony mission was supposed to be a boring space flight to our new home world of Ayama. When tragedy strikes, leaving teenager Indy Stewart an orphan in space, things start to get interesting. Throw in illegal races, flight school, boys and an explosive subterfuge which just seems to keep on unravelling around her and you have one hell of a journey...
  • Day's Hunt by Cheree Alsop

    Day's Hunt by Cheree Alsop

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Confronted with the truth about her origin, Liora has to make a difficult choice that can change the entire fate of the Macrocosm. Battling loss, Ketulans, and the desires of her own heart, Liora confronts an evil she thought long banished from her life and the cosmos. The fight she faces turns out to be the most difficult of her life in more ways than one...
  • Beyond Galaxy's Edge by Anna Hackett

    Beyond Galaxy's Edge by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ambitious Patrol Captain Nissa Sander has spent three years at the galaxy’s edge keeping the law and order, and chasing scoundrel smuggler, Justyn Phoenix. But the charming rogue has always outwitted her and she’s had a hard time ignoring his hard body and handsome face...
  • Dissolution by Michele Notaro

    Dissolution by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Oh god, no! Oh god help me… how am I going to save them? There’s just so much… blood… everywhere… I was supposed to protect them. I was supposed to keep them safe, but wherever I go more and more people are losing their lives, and nothing I do can save them. After so much loss, my family is breaking apart at the seams. The Taoree Legion is winning this war...
  • Crashed by Kiki Burrelli

    Crashed by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forced together, they are castaways on an unknown planet. The last thing Tannish knew, he was in a nightclub, dancing the night away and pretending his life was fine. But, the moment Tannish feels the warmth of Enzo's arms, he finally feels like he's home. An unbreakable bond that comes with a powerful new ability Until now, Enzo's first passion has always been medicine...
  • Mated to the Alien Warlord by Bella Blair

    Mated to the Alien Warlord by Bella Blair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I was ordered to marry her, but soon she is all I can think about. DAMARIS: Married by proxy to Warlord Vandor to ensure the safety of my father's kingdom, I'm kidnapped before I even meet my groom. But when he rides to my rescue, he is more than I could have ever dreamed of in a man, and I can hardly believe my good luck.But I should have known that there is always a price to pay for happiness...
  • Clan, Honor, and Empire by Tracy St. John

    Clan, Honor, and Empire by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dramok Rajhir has never had to go without. He’s been blessed with the best schooling, a prestigious pedigree, a fine home, plus all the intimate companionship a young Kalquorian male could ask for. But with status comes responsibility. His father insists Rajhir assume his place in Kalquorian society as soon as possible...
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    aliens  lgbtq  adult  book  fiction  mlm  paranormal  politics
  • Sūnder by Lexi Ander

    Sūnder by Lexi Ander

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If Sūnder Alārd had been born female he would have been cherished for being faeborn—born with magick—and his birth celebrated. Instead, his L'fÿn mother insisted on his death. Only his Panthrÿn father's desperate escape through the forest saved him...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  dystopia  lgbtq  action-adventure  adult  book  fae  fiction
  • On a Cyborg Planet by Anna Hackett

    On a Cyborg Planet by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a vicious coup, cyborg Axton Saros, Prime of the planet of Centax, is trying to rebuild his world. Still recovering from his captivity and dark guilt, he won’t let anything get in his way. But a priceless artifact, stolen during the attack, is still missing and Axton wants it back...
  • Lost in Barbarian Space: A Phoenix Adventures Sci-fi Romance by Anna Hackett

    Lost in Barbarian Space: A Phoenix Adventures Sci-fi Romance by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A clash of cultures. Security agent versus barbarian warrior. On an expedition to a newly discovered barbarian world, an experienced security agent doesn’t expect to be working with a big, bossy barbarian warrior. Agent Honor Brandall enjoys her job as security agent for the Institute of Historical Preservation’s expedition ships. Adventures to distant planets – awesome...
  • Falling for Kindred Claus by Evangeline Anderson

    Falling for Kindred Claus by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can a Case of Mistake Identity end in True Love? A warrior who knows nothing about Christmas forced to play Santa...with disastrous results. A girl running from her past, who lands in a dead-end job as Santa's Helper Elf. Can Lisa keep herself from... Falling for Kindred Claus? It's a week before Christmas and Lisa James is stuck in a dead-end job, playing Santa's little Elf at the local mall...
  • Chasing Mayhem by Cynthia Sax

    Chasing Mayhem by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wild. 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

    Zephyr by Miranda Bridges, Kyra Snow

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This story is about Daxis discovering he's mated to a human female. And he is not happy about it. Actually, that's an understatement...
  • Tribe Protector by Stacy Jones

    Tribe Protector by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lily thought she had her hands full with her conflicted feelings over her quickly progressing relationship with Arruk’s wild twin, Drrak, the uneasy truce with the tribe leader, and trying to prove she’s trustworthy to a people who want nothing to do with her. But all that pales in comparison to what’s coming...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  dystopia  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  harem
  • Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer

    Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A deadly competition for the throne will determine more than just the fate of the empire in this duology opener.Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy. Her mother sacrificed everything to bring peace to the quadrant, and her uncle has successfully ruled as emperor for decades...
  • Her Alien Rogue by Presley Hall

    Her Alien Rogue by Presley Hall

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He claims we’re fated mates. But does that mean it’s true love?When Kaide declares—in front of the whole village, no less—that we’re fated mates, he acts like that’s the end of it. Like it’s all been decided, and we’ll just live happily ever after.Uhhh… not so fast, buddy.I barely know the guy...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  female-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  fated-mates  fiction  humor
  • Clan and Crown by Tracy St. John

    Clan and Crown by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As Crown Prince of the Kalquorian Empire, Dramok Clajak seems to have everything he could possibly want. He lives a life of carefree adventure, with scores of lovers to indulge himself with. Yet he still wishes for what he can’t have: the two men he loves above all others. Imdiko Egilka has been promised as Clajak’s clanmate for 14 years...
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    aliens  lgbtq  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  military  mlm
  • Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke

    Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On a world torn by war, two women discover a love that defies boundaries, challenges allegiances, and that just might mean the survival—or destruction—of all they hold dear.Roshan O’Landha, a Gantharian resistance fighter, works hard to maintain her cover as a wealthy businesswoman as war on occupied Gantharat seems imminent...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  space
  • Salvation by Caryn Lix

    Salvation by Caryn Lix

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Kenzie and her friends find themselves trapped on a strange planet, they must risk everything to save themselves and Earth in this thrilling final book in the addictive Sanctuary trilogy!Fall down seven times, get up eight. These are the words Kenzie has always lived by. The problem is, she’s fallen down too many times to count...
  • Full House by Susan Hayes

    Full House by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Opportunity doesn’t always knock. Sometimes, it crash lands.A veteran of the Resource Wars, Raze is a cyborg with a simple plan. He wants to be left alone, forever. Planetary scout Sevda Rem is light-years from civilization when her ship is damaged, forcing an emergency landing on an unoccupied planet. At least, it was supposed to be unoccupied …He’s trespassing on a corporate-owned planet...
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    aliens  dystopia  lgbtq  adult  book  colonization  cyberpunk  cyborgs
  • Sassing Saul by Gail Koger

    Sassing Saul by Gail Koger

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Annie used to believe in all that happily ever after crap, until the day she found out her Prince Charming husband was a conman with a wandering eye. On the same day she booted him to the curb, an alien fleet double-parked over Earth and life as she knew it ended. To survive she joined a militia unit and used her unique physic powers to fight off the alien invaders...
  • Guiding by Viola Grace

    Guiding by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Taking care of folks in the wild is her hobby, but when two of the Shadow Folk need her help getting everyone out alive, her skills as a guide will be tested.Teyha enjoys being a historian and educating the next generation of Gaia on how they arrived...
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    aliens  female-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  fiction  paranormal  space
  • Day's Journey by Cheree Alsop

    Day's Journey by Cheree Alsop

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Liora's brother is kidnapped as thinly-veiled trap, she follows with the intent of springing it on her own terms. But her plans fall away when she finds that the danger has a greater reach than she could have imagined. Waylaid and nearly dead, Liora finds herself fighting for not only her life, but for mortalkind...
  • Outlaw by Kali Argent

    Outlaw by Kali Argent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After 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...
  • Star-Crossed by Pintip Dunn

    Star-Crossed by Pintip Dunn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Princess Vela's people are starving.Stranded on a planet that lacks food, Vela makes the ultimate sacrifice and becomes an Aegis for her people. Accepting a genetic modification that takes sixty years off her life, she can feed her colony via nutrition pills. But her best friend is still getting worse. And she's not the only one.Now the king is dying, too...
  • Command Performance by Linnea Sinclair

    Command Performance by Linnea Sinclair

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Evil aliens, an amorous cyborg and an unexpected trip to an alternate universe: just another day in the life of Captain Tasha Sebastian. And tomorrow's even better. .
  • Traitor by Emmy Chandler

    Traitor by Emmy Chandler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I have no business even thinking about using her as bait.” Sold into slavery as a teenager, Mallory Landrum was held captive by Varian Roys until she was coerced into testifying against him, and despite their promise to protect her, the corrupt government of Kallisto sends her to Rhodon...
  • Unchained: a science fiction romance adventure by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Unchained: a science fiction romance adventure by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One geeky neuroscientist sent to research the inmates of a prison asteroid. Two cyborg criminals determined to free the inmates. A forbidden romance among the stars. Dr. Skylar Russo, a woman known for her research skills rather than her people skills, wants nothing more than to forget that her fiancé left her at the altar...
  • Ghosts & Ashes by F.T. Lukens

    Ghosts & Ashes by F.T. Lukens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three months have passed since the events of The Star Host, and Ren is living aboard the Star Stream under the watchful eyes of the Phoenix Corps. Plagued by vivid nightmares that ravage the ship in his sleep, he struggles to prove he isn’t a threat and fears he has traded one captor for another...
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    aliens  lgbtq  action-adventure  book  fiction  mlm  space  young-adult
  • The Significant by Kyra Anderson

    The Significant by Kyra Anderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The beloved leader of a planet... A non-citizen fugitive... And a secret love that could kill them both. Kailynn Evada was born on the most powerful planet in the Altereye System, but was raised in the non-citizen district of Trid. She always dreamed of revolution and changing the injustices of the planet Tiao. But when her brother’s plot to destroy the A.I...
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    dystopia  lgbtq  wlw  adult  audiobook  bisexuality  book  fiction
  • Nightmare by Steven Harper

    Nightmare by Steven Harper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Before Kendi learned to use his talent of navigating the plane of mental existence known as the Dream, he had to escape his physical existence as a slave...
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