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  • 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...
  • The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

    The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    The Culture--a humanoid/machine symbiotic society--has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor...
  • 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...
  • S'kal by Honey Phillips

    S'kal by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A troubled alien, a runaway human, and a haunted past…Evie is in trouble. She’s out of money, out of luck, and out of time. Desperate to get out of Port Cantor, she stows away on a trading caravan heading for the remote settlements in the hinterlands of Cresca. When she’s found by the biggest and most intimidating alien she’s ever seen, she’s terrified...
  • 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...
  • Alien Outcast's Exiled Bride by Juno Wells

    Alien Outcast's Exiled Bride by Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    PernI’ve killed a queen. She was a vicious Draconian queen bent on death and destructionbut she was my queen none the less. And I gunned her down in cold blood. No male hasever killed a queen and lived to tell the tale. Queen Cassandra granted me a pardon andtook me into her favor for siding when her when the war was all but lost...
  • The Forgotten Colony by J.B. Ryder

    The Forgotten Colony by J.B. Ryder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zach Croft wants to forget the Prescott colony ever happened.He wants to forget the crimson sand dunes, violent dust storms, and meteor impacts. He wants to forget the sight of his neighbors bleeding from their eyes as boils ravaged their bodies. He wants to forget the fact that his best friend was left to die.Most of all, he wants to forget that, without Prescott, humanity is doomed...
  • 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...
  • Stephanie's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Stephanie's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stephanie Michelakakis worked and sacrificed for her position as a Lieutenant in the Coalition. She was on track to become the first woman ever accepted into a Royal Guard, specifically King Jotham's Royal Guard. Then a life-altering injury shattered her dreams. Now she must figure out how to move on with her life...
  • Mary and the Minotaur by Honey Phillips

    Mary and the Minotaur by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A grumpy, secretive alien. A sweet, not-as-naive-as-she-seems human. A nefarious plot.Although Mary has never had an easy life, she has always tried her best to maintain an optimistic outlook. But when she is abducted by aliens, it is difficult to find anything positive in the experience.When she is temporarily abandoned by her kidnappers, she hopes to escape their clutches forever...
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  • Seer by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Seer by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "The softest woman requires the hardest men to survive. Dark, gritty, and perfectly filthy--modern MC meets Mad Max in this amazing RH tale.” ~Addison Cain, USA Today bestselling author It was meant to be a simple trip to take care of business. But by the time we get home, none of us will ever be the same...
  • Path of the Fury by David Weber

    Path of the Fury by David Weber

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A space adventure with a strong female character in the tradition of Sassinak and Generation Warriors--by the bestselling author of Mutineers' Moon. The "invincible", planet-wrecking pirates made a big mistake when they raided ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries' quiet home world and murdered her family...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Madness of the Horde King by Zoey Draven

    Madness of the Horde King by Zoey Draven

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    They call him the Mad Horde King for a reason. Now, she’s his…Over a year ago, I was ripped away from my human village to serve the Ghertun, a brutal enemy alien race. With the lives of my family at risk, I am tasked to deliver a message to the one place no human has ever gone before: the capital city of Dakkar.Before I succeed, however, I am captured by a Horde King...
  • Hunted by Harmony Raines

    Hunted by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Garth is intent on filling the hours aboard the fourth deep space mission with pleasure, in the form of his curvy human female, Tamzin. With his prime upon him, he knows he as to breed a son with Tamzin soon. So what better way to pass the time? Yet soon he learns another side of himself, a softer side, and he begins to feel less like a primal hunter, as his love for his female grows...
  • Brekk by Alana Khan

    Brekk by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brekk waited a lifetime to find his fated mate. When Isabella discovers his monstrous secret, will Halloween fun turn into her worst nightmare?IsabellaI love living on Hallion, but I miss my favorite Earth holiday—Halloween...
  • Rebel Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rebel Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A rebel alien roaming the far reaches of the galaxy. An Interstellar Bride on the run for her life. When her life crash lands into his on a remote planet, they'll need each other to survive.The Interstellar Brides Program guarantees it can match any female on Earth, even a cynical, street-wise, and very jaded Zara, who just wants to start over. But when she arrives on her new home planet..
  • 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...
  • Conviction by Glynn Stewart

    Conviction by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A starfighter squadron driven to desertionHunted by friends and enemies alikeWith one final hope for a new beginningThe last reward Kira Demirci expected for heroism in a time of war was to spend the rest of her life dodging assassins—but when her government betrays her as part of their surrender, she and her comrades flee the star system of Apollo to the edge of civilized space...
  • Taken by a Beast by Miranda Bridges

    Taken by a Beast by Miranda Bridges

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's a thief.And what did he steal? Yours truly.I get it that women are a hot commodity on this planet, but why me? It's not like there weren't others to choose from. Besides, I've just found my sister and I have no desire to be away from her.But this alien doesn't take no for an answer - in English or in his language...
  • The Commanders' Mate by Grace Goodwin

    The Commanders' Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Commander Karter is a Prillon Warrior. His first duty is to protect his people, to defend the Coalition worlds from a fate too terrible to comprehend. Battle is his life. His heart. He fights. He has never once been selfish enough to believe he deserved an Interstellar Bride. Until he's matched at the worst possible time!Astronomer Erica Roberts has always dreamed of seeing the stars...
  • Alien Mate by Sadie Carter

    Alien Mate by Sadie Carter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With all the drama and trouble behind her, Zoey is looking forward to arriving on Zerconia and settling down into a normal life as Dex’s mate. Normal? What was she thinking? There is nothing normal about being mated to a sinfully sexy, often times arrogant and overprotective Zerconian warrior. But then normal is overrated, right? Trouble follows Zoey to Zerconia, threatening her very life...
  • Greta and the Gargoyle by Honey Phillips

    Greta and the Gargoyle by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A condemned woman. An alien guard. Sentenced to death for killing her alien master, Greta’s only hope is a compassionate guard. Despite his frightening appearance, she is drawn to the massive alien - but is what she feels only gratitude? Mikaroz has been waiting his whole life for the perfect mate but he never expected her to be a condemned prisoner, let alone a small human female...
  • Mating Fever by Grace Goodwin

    Mating Fever by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Megan Simmons is a soldier sent into space to protect Earth as a member of the Coalition Fleet. After eighteen months of ruthless fighting on a Hive controlled planet, she is separated from her unit, lost and trapped behind enemy lines. Nyko of Atlan never hesitates to charge into battle against Hive scum...
  • Alliance by S.K. Dunstall

    Alliance by S.K. Dunstall

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the Linesman series continues, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself facing an alien ship he doesn’t understand—and a terrifying political threat he cannot fight…   The lines. The soul of every ship. It was once thought there were only ten, but that was before an alien vessel appeared at the edge of space—before Ean Lambert heard more lines singing...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach...
  • A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A million universes. A million dangers. One destiny.The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite Caine’s hands. Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud since she first traveled to another universe using her parents’ invention, the Firebird...
  • 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...
  • A Fistful of Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    A Fistful of Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A cynical cyborg. A woman with too many secrets. A shared past that could tear them apart -- or bring them together.S-756 despises all humans, but he hates the scientists who tortured him and turned him into a cyborg most of all. The long years terraforming Mars have only cemented that hatred...
  • 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...
  • The Magnificent Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    The Magnificent Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A woman with a troubled past. A cyborg with missing memories.W-246 is one of the last cyborgs sent to Mars to work on the terraforming project. While he doesn't remember how he became a cyborg, he has accepted his new role as a territorial judge. Until he encounters Cherry. He knows he could never forget a woman like her -- so why does she seem so familiar?Madam Cherry is through with men...
  • 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...
  • The Last Colony by John Scalzi

    The Last Colony by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up...
  • 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...
  • Rhys by Vi Voxley

    Rhys by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some men ask for what they want. Some men take. Quinn Ford has nothing left to lose. After the Nayanors took her sister, little else seemed to matter. Now that they're after her, well, maybe she can do something about it, get back her sister and get home...
  • Kol by Vi Voxley

    Kol by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forever is no time at all, sometimes. Jackie Hooper is all out of time. An incurable illness at her side, she's trying to make the best of the opportunities she has left. Getting abducted by a Nayanor warlord was not on that list of things to do. But then again, spending your last moments with the hottest man in the universe can't be all bad..
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Cold Seduction by Zoe Ashwood

    Cold Seduction by Zoe Ashwood

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She escaped Earth and ran across galaxies…into his arms. Hanne won’t return to Earth. Ever. No matter that the rest of the human delegation is flying back from Rendu and she is one of the few humans to remain on this strange, frozen planet. What awaits her back home is way worse than any ice storm…or the brooding alien general she can’t stop thinking about...
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