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Obsidio by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsKady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao... -
![Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff]()
Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 60 ratingsMoving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault... -
![Age of Deception by T.A. White]()
Age of Deception by T.A. White
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWar hero and daughter to two Houses, Kira is just beginning to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes. Agreeing to accompany her father’s people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She’s agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father’s House must pass... -
![Hero by Anna Hackett]()
Hero by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim… Raised from birth to be a soldier, Kace Tameron is a disciplined, military-trained gladiator. He is on contract to the Kor Magna Arena to hone his fighting skills on the blood-soaked arena sand and then return to the military. He lives for one thing: to protect his planet, and on his world, love is forbidden... -
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![Forever Defend by Michael Anderle, Emily Beresford]()
Forever Defend by Michael Anderle, Emily Beresford
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSome forget why she was called the Queen Bitch. Not Anymore. Bethany Anne is going stir crazy after more than a decade of having to be 'The Empress.' Now, her advisors have to deal with an Empress who is determined to be on the front line.The Ixtali's come to the Etheric Empire, hat in hand.Nathan decides that the best way to handle soft intelligence, is to create a new company...Categorized as:
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![Born of Defiance by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Born of Defiance by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBorn an Outcast, Talyn Batur has spent the whole of his life fighting against the prejudice of his people. An Andarion without a father is not something anyone wants to be... -
![Rules of Redemption by T.A. White]()
Rules of Redemption by T.A. White
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe war everyone thought was over is just beginning. Kira Forrest is a survivor. She’s risen above the pain of her beginnings to become a war hero only to leave it all behind in the pursuit of a simple life. Now a salvager, she makes a living sifting through the wreckage of dead alien ships from a war that nearly brought humanity to its knees... -
![Miles, Mutants, and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Miles, Mutants, and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsContent: Falling free Labyrinth Diplomatic immunity Miles Vorkosigan/Naismith : his life and times.Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume:Falling Free—The Nebula Award-winning novel. Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer: mind your own business and do the job... -
![Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff]()
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsThis morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe... -
![Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada...Categorized as:
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![The Ceph Sector by Jenny Schwartz]()
The Ceph Sector by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe legendary Ceph have been in stasis for forty two millennia. In a century, they’ll wake. History remembers them as an unstoppable force, employing a mysterious power to decimate sentient life on the planets they attacked. Jaya’s first mission as a new Shaman Justice is to lead an expedition into the perilous Ceph Sector...Categorized as:
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![Treyvon by M.K. Eidem]()
Treyvon by M.K. Eidem
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsGeneral 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... -
![I Married a Mothman by Regine Abel]()
I Married a Mothman by Regine Abel
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s everything she never knew she wanted.When Venus embarked on a luxury cruise, she never expected to rescue a young Promethean demi-god—or that he’d bind her as his guardian... -
![Affiliations, Aliens, and Other Profitable Pursuits by Lyn Gala]()
Affiliations, Aliens, and Other Profitable Pursuits by Lyn Gala
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA desire for status has brought Ondry and Liam to a human world to trade, but dealing with humans has brought up all the old pain in Liam’s heart. Even though Ondry would do anything to protect his beloved palteia, he doesn’t know how to protect Liam from himself... -
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![Victoria's Challenge by M.K. Eidem]()
Victoria's Challenge by M.K. Eidem
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVictoria 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... -
![Binary Pair by Michael-Scott Earle]()
Binary Pair by Michael-Scott Earle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat do you get when you mix Firefly, Mass Effect, and Shadowrun together? You get Star Justice. The latest action packed series from New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael-Scott Earle. ***Following the hint given by Persephone, the crew arrives at planet Y-114-a... -
![Heart of Eon by Anna Hackett]()
Heart of Eon by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsOkay, maybe hijacking an alien commander’s warship wasn’t her best idea… Genius computer geek Wren Traynor prefers her high-tech comp lab to socializing with people, and she definitely prefers it over crawling through the bowels of the huge Eon warship she’s hijacked...Categorized as:
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![Cassandra's Challenge by M.K. Eidem]()
Cassandra's Challenge by M.K. Eidem
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlternative 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... -
![Confederation by Michael R. Hicks]()
Confederation by Michael R. Hicks
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the second book of the In Her Name science fiction & fantasy series, Reza Gard has been banished from the Kreelan Empire and is once again a stranger in a strange land as he returns to the human Confederation. Befriended by a marooned Confederation naval officer leading a desperate fight against the Kreelans on a distant colony world, she reunites Reza with Nicole Carré...Categorized as:
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![Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsCordelia and Arol Vorkosigan's plans for a peaceful married life (after all the bloodshed and trials recounted in SHARDS OF HONOR) are soon shattered by the polital tumult on Barrayar. Resisting enormous pressure, they struggle to keep their family alive while while protecting the child Emperor from enemies who would murder him and assume absolute power over all of Barrayar...Categorized as:
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![Mark of Eon by Anna Hackett]()
Mark of Eon by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsOil and water. Fire and ice. Terran space marine and rugged alien warrior.Space marine Lieutenant Jamie Park has a reputation as tough as steel...just the way she likes it. A horrible childhood and her marine training have forged her into a strong woman, and she's never seen a fight she'd back down from...Categorized as:
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![Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews]()
Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsThe World of KinsmenFamily is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet.In a distant, future world Kinsmen—small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families—control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield.. -
![Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen]()
Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life.Diplomat. Rebel. Fugitive. Nika Tescarav has lived many lives, though she no longer remembers most of them...Categorized as:
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![B Free by Cynthia Sax]()
B Free by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsB is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.Or so he believes.When he intercepts a communication mentioning the existence of one of his kind, he has to investigate the source. The message could be a trap set by his enemies... -
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![Roklyn by Alana Khan]()
Roklyn by Alana Khan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo stay alive, Roklyn buried his emotions. Can he risk everything to trust the ailing Earth girl he’s sworn to protect?PaigeI’ve come to this medical center to save my life. My grumpy but intriguing bodyguard can receive services also, but only if he’s my “mate... -
![Lyel by Ava Ross]()
Lyel by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn alien warrior seeking redemption meets a captured Earth woman being treated as a pet. Will their love survive in a hostile world?Kidnapped by four-armed, blue skinned aliens, Isabelle "Isi" is sold to the head of the Al'kieern kidnapping operation. Isi has accepted she'll live and die as a songbird pet to the queen. If nothing else, performing for the Al'kieern beats being sold as a breeder... -
![Claimed by the Warlord by V.K. Ludwig]()
Claimed by the Warlord by V.K. Ludwig
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe’s the female I can’t have. If I take her, she’ll die.As Warlord of the largest tribe on Solgad, my obligations are many. With a new strain of ice fever running rampant among the freeraiders, the team of healers supplied by the Empire is a welcome relief.Until one of them arrives at Noja with her body begging to be bred, the scent of her heat a dangerous temptation...Categorized as:
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![Big Dicker by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss]()
Big Dicker by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Mighty Minions Resort. Jimmy’s personal hell. All Jimmy wants is a booster shot of DNA scrambler so he never has to find his one-true soul mate. But life rarely goes the way you plan it. After dropping Xyla off on Blue Sand Beach for a little vacay with her sexbot girlfriends the Big Dicker has to make an emergency landing on the demon-themed Mighty Minions Resort... -
![Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsKomarr could be a garden with a thousand more years' work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why...Categorized as:
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![Escaping Fate by Regine Abel]()
Escaping Fate by Regine Abel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEnslaved. Exploited. Hunted.Born and raised on a slavers ship, Amalia is one of the rare survivors of the Veredian race. Like all Veredian females, Amalia possesses a unique psi ability which makes her the prized pet of her master Gruuk. She escapes to Xelix Prime, a warrior planet where slavery is prohibited... -
![Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities by Lyn Gala]()
Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities by Lyn Gala
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOndry and Liam have settled into a good life, but their trading is still tied up with humans, and humans are always messy. When political changes at the human base lead Ondry to attempt a difficult trade, the pair find themselves entangled in human affairs. Liam wants to help the people he left and the worlds being torn apart... -
![The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe]()
The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDying 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... -
![Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder]()
Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsYear 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as my ex-friend Jarren, the murdering looter, knows.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills...Categorized as:
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![Imperator by Anna Hackett]()
Imperator by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSpace station security specialist Sam has done one thing since her abduction by alien slavers… fight to survive. But now one strong alien gladiator stands at her side and Sam knows she is no longer alone. Thrust into a lawless desert arena, Sam Santos has done terrible things in order to stay alive. As the Champion of Zaabha, she’s been fighting to find a way out... -
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![Tansy's Titan by S.E. Smith]()
Tansy's Titan by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTansy Bell, is the middle daughter of the three Bell sisters. She has always been a little different, even for a Bell. A chameleon, she can change her appearance and personality to blend in almost anywhere. She uses this talent to bring some of the worse criminals in the world to justice.Mak ‘Tag Krell Manok is the wild one of his four brothers... -
![Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks]()
Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFollowing Confederation, Final Battle is the last book in the saga of Reza Gard. Reza is caught up in a daring plot to assassinate the Confederation President, even as something goes terribly wrong in the Empire and its warriors lose their will to fight. Reunited with Tesh-Dar, Reza and his friends fight to save the woman he loves, with the fate of the Empire and Humanity hanging in the balance...Categorized as:
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![Pregnant by the Alien Healer by Mina Carter]()
Pregnant by the Alien Healer by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsShe’s pregnant without nookie. Someone slap her ass and call her Mary… A ‘guest’ of the Lathar, Jess has become used to being at court, especially as it allows her to be close to a certain tall, handsome healer. But Laarn might as well not know she exists, far more interested in his tests and her genetic code than her as a woman… maybe...Categorized as:
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![Edge of Eon by Anna Hackett]()
Edge of Eon by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFramed 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...Categorized as:
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![Born of Vengeance by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Born of Vengeance by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA fate worse than death . . .Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks... -
![Beth's Stable by Amanda Milo]()
Beth's Stable by Amanda Milo
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThey say that in space, no one can hear you... (Yeah, you know what I'm quoting.) But there are lots of places you can still scream and be heard. Especially if you suddenly find yourself on a ship traveling through space. I’ve been abducted by aliens and auctioned to an alien pirate. My epic love of movies sort of comes in handy, what with all the sci-fi suddenly in my face... -
![Plundered by Tana Stone]()
Plundered by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsMy sister gave herself to the raider warlord to save me. Now I’m hunting him down and getting her back.I’ve never forgiven myself for letting that brute drag her off my ship, and I’ve done nothing but search for his horde of warships since he let my ship go free...Categorized as:
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![Pillaged by Tana Stone]()
Pillaged by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsI was promised against my will to an imperial general. . .so I escaped. Right into the arms of an even more ruthless Vandar warlord.I’d thought things had been bad when I’d been ordered to marry the repulsive Zagrath general. But then I’d been captured by the empire’s most deadly enemy--the Vandar raiders...Categorized as:
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![Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith]()
Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsJo Strauss was committed to two things in her life – her family and her life as an acrobat/high-wire performer. She takes both very serious. Her life was orderly, in control, and she was finally settling down in one place so she could spend more time with her parents instead of moving all over the world every few weeks...Categorized as:
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![Alien Paladin's Woman by Vi Voxley]()
Alien Paladin's Woman by Vi Voxley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes, what the galaxy needs is a hero no one's ever heard of. Tieran, the Commander of the Palian paladins, has never been allowed to have anything of his own, other than the blade in his hands and the honor he serves with. But a feisty, curvy, and utterly impossible human woman is about to change all that... -
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![Taken by Harmony Raines]()
Taken by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChrissi always dreamed of being an astronaut, just like her dad, devoting her whole life to Operation Saviour, the human race’s last ditch attempt to find a new home. But days before her first launch, the project was cancelled, leaving her to pick up the pieces of her life. All thanks to the arrival of the Karal...Categorized as:
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![Alien in Flames by January Bell]()
Alien in Flames by January Bell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI'll do anything to keep Earth safe— even marrying the alien king.When I joined the Earth Federation after the Roth alien invasion, I was put through the most intense spy training on the planet. I took a vow to do whatever necessary to protect humanity, and I meant every word.So when the opportunity presents itself to make myself the queen of the Roth and steer intergalactic history? I'm all in... -
![Dragon's Taming by Miranda Martin]()
Dragon's Taming by Miranda Martin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey see me as broken, but it's up to me to save them all. They keep me locked away, too dangerous to be free, because they don't see what I do. They don't know the truth like I do. I was stopped from accomplishing my mission before but I can't fail. The fate of our entire planet, of every human and Zmaj both, rests in my hands. It was easier before she came...Categorized as:
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![Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen]()
Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook two of Chaos StationAll they can do is live day to day...Felix Ingesson has returned to his duties as the Chaos's engineer with Zander Anatolius, his ex-boyfriend-turned-broken-super-soldier, at his side. Hope means something again. But there's nothing Felix can do to battle the alien poison flowing through Zander's veins, or his imminent mental decline... -
![Cosmic Catalyst by Jenny Schwartz]()
Cosmic Catalyst by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsASIN B076PSPMHH moved to latest edition as per guidelinesEveryone has secrets. But some people will risk the galaxy to protect theirs. When starship shaman Jaya Romanov and her new mate partner, galactic bounty hunter and robot wolf shifter, Vulf Trent, saved the galaxy from the deadly actions of a determined geriatric terrorist, they forgot that old Earth truism: no good deed goes unpunished...Categorized as:
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![Traitor's Mandate by Kelly St. Clare]()
Traitor's Mandate by Kelly St. Clare
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe dreams I once had as a soldier fade to nothing, insignificant as the last battle for Earth looms darker each day.Whatever makes my mind unique could provide our rebellion with an army large enough to crush the Mandate and the other group circling in for the kill.If I can hold on.Because I’m dangerous—a bomb that could detonate and kill my friends and the man I love at any moment...Categorized as:
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