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  • Hero by Anna Hackett

    Hero by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Fighting 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...
  • The Renegade Akseli Cyborg by Dianne Duvall

    The Renegade Akseli Cyborg by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dive into the next thrilling novel in New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall’s fast-paced, humorous, and adventure-filled Aldebarian Alliance series.Too many years of hunting psychotic vampires night after night have left Rachel with a desperate need for change...
  • Loving Zorn (Zorn Warriors, #1-2) by Laurann Dohner

    Loving Zorn (Zorn Warriors, #1-2) by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ral's WomanAriel never knew aliens existed until she finds herself kidnapped and taken from Earth. When the Anzon declare humans useless, she learns her fate-prize for the winner of a brutal fight between large, muscled alien men. Ral is a Zorn warrior. He has also been kidnapped by the Anzon, along with his crew. Forced into slavery, he's got one thing on his mind-freeing his people...
  • Heart of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Heart of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Okay, 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...
  • Shattered Silence by Anna Carven

    Shattered Silence by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Enki Zakanin just wants peace and quiet. He's completed his mission, and on the journey back to the Kordolian Fleet Station, he'd prefer to be left alone so he can manage the literal demon inside his head. Alone. So when a strange distress call breaks the silence, his first instinct is to ignore the signal...
  • Mark of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Mark of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Oil 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...
  • B Free by Cynthia Sax

    B Free by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    B 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...
  • Roklyn by Alana Khan

    Roklyn by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To 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...
  • The Torid Affair by Laurann Dohner

    The Torid Affair by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When riots erupt on planet Torid, the crew of Defcon Red is tasked with quelling the violence and tending the injured. Even Alien Research Specialist Jessa Brick is pressed into service. Arguably more comfortable in her lab, the doctor is shocked at the obvious inequality on Torid...
  • Taking Vengeance by Cynthia Sax

    Taking Vengeance by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only force stronger than their hate is their love. Vengeance hates all humans. They killed every being he ever cared about. When the huge C Model cyborg is told he’s genetically compatible with the enemy, he makes it his mission to capture the female and use her to expel all humans from his home planet. That should be disappointingly easy. She’s a weak, fragile human...
  • 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...
  • Touch of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Touch of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    She’ll do anything to free her sister and save the Earth from invasion, even if she’s blackmailed into stealing sacred alien artifacts…and becomes the prey of the dark, deadly warrior sent to hunt her down.Special Forces Space Marine Lara Traynor wants to save her sister and her planet from annihilation by the deadly insectoid Kantos...
  • 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...
  • Claimed by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Claimed by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What’s worse than being stuck on an alien planet? Being stuck on an alien planet when you’ve made an enemy of the local tribe King. Okay, so I may have stolen his favorite misua and snuck away to find my friends. But he should’ve known better than to forbid me to go. I’m a marine, and we leave no man-- or woman, behind...
  • Brilliant Starlight by Anna Carven

    Brilliant Starlight by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Abbey We're back on Silence, orbiting the Dark Planet while my husband handles unfinished business on Kythia. For some reason, he seems a little bit tense. According to Tarak, Kythian politics can be complicated, especially when the entire Kordolian Empire has just been destroyed. I hope things don't get too complicated, because I don't want to be stuck here for too long...
  • Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ristéard Roald is the powerful and deadly ruler of Elpidios, a planet that is slowly dying without the blood stones needed to absorb the radiation gradually destroying its stratosphere. He has sworn to do whatever it takes to protect his world and his people, but time is running out.Hope comes from an unexpected source, the Kassis...
  • Mission: Planet Biter by Laurann Dohner

    Mission: Planet Biter by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When his Veslor grouping answers a distress call on planet Biter, Roth discovers a sole survivor. The little female isn't rational and latches onto him like a lifeline. That surprises Roth, since most humans fear him. This one won't let him go, but he must resist his desire for her. It's the only honorable thing to do...
  • Imperator by Anna Hackett

    Imperator by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Space 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...
  • Star's Storm by S.E. Smith

    Star's Storm by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Star Strauss has always been a fighter. From the time she was born prematurely to her life on the road as a circus performer. She has never let her small stature keep her from achieving her dreams. She is one of the best aerial performers in the world. Her love of being up high and flying free has helped her overcome the challenges she faces when she is on the ground...
  • Tansy's Titan by S.E. Smith

    Tansy's Titan by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tansy 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...
  • 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...
  • Champion by Anna Hackett

    Champion by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…Space marine Blaine Strong enjoyed being a composed, controlled member of space station security…until he was abducted by alien slavers. Forced into underground fight rings and pumped full of drugs, he’s now seething with anger and out for revenge...
  • Cornering Carmen by S.E. Smith

    Cornering Carmen by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Carmen Walker has spent the last three years of her life focusing on avenging the murder of her husband. Following leads to the man responsible, she finally has a chance to bring closure to the overwhelming pain and grief that is slowly eating away at her. Catching a ride on the business jet her sister is co-piloting, she heads to California to meet with her informant...
  • Plundered by Tana Stone

    Plundered by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    My 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...
  • Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith

    Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Jo 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...
  • Alien Paladin's Woman by Vi Voxley

    Alien Paladin's Woman by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes, 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...
  • Victoria's Embrace by Stacy Jones

    Victoria's Embrace by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With explosive trackers embedded in their arms, a psychopath in control of the gladiator arena they’ve come to call home, and slavers closing in, time is running out for Victoria and her guys…They managed to escape a slaver transport, only to find themselves trapped outside the walls of the arena and on the run in a dangerous alien city...
  • Into the Light by Anna Carven

    Into the Light by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Abbey When your mate is a Kordolian General who's betrayed the most vicious Empire in the Universe, things tend to get a little heavy from time to time. For the last six months, Tarak's had to divide his time between Earth and space, dealing with various... problems. But he's home now, and he tells me he's not going anywhere...
  • 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...
  • Hers To Command by Cynthia Sax

    Hers To Command by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Battered Hearts. One Perfect Love Ace and Thrasher share a special bond. They’ve never acknowledged that connection and have never fully acted on it. The Humanoid Alliance kill cyborg males like them, deeming the warriors to be defective. Now that Ace and Thrasher have escaped, they don’t trust the cyborg council and their brethren to react any differently...
  • 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...
  • Her Mate and Master by Renee Rose

    Her Mate and Master by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “I’m your master. When I give you an order, you obey.” Talia didn’t escape her slave master only to be shackled again. Not even by a sexy male built of solid muscle who does wicked things with his fingers and tongue. Not even one of her own species who says he knows her father--the father she doesn’t remember...
  • His Human Rebel by Renee Rose

    His Human Rebel by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    CONSCRIPTED BY AN ALIEN ARMY, SHE PLOTS HER ESCAPE… Cambry doesn’t believe the aliens’ propaganda for one minute. The Zandians may have saved her from one death, but they planned to send her to another. She bides her time, waiting for her chance to get away and find her brother, enslaved by a different species...
  • Kyele's Passion by Michelle Howard

    Kyele's Passion by Michelle Howard

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Being a Jutak warrior is all Kyele Bastien cares about until one mission changes everything. The Earth female has carved a place in his heart without even trying and now he’ll do anything to make sure nothing ever hurts her again...
  • Dark Planet Warriors: Escape by Anna Carven

    Dark Planet Warriors: Escape by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Abbey Ever since we left the Fleet Station, Tarak has been his usual cryptic self. For some reason, he’s keeping everything very low-key, to the extent that we’re trying to sneak in to Kythia. Something’s up, and he’s not telling me anything. Every time I try to get answers, he distracts me with his stupid sexiness. Stupid sexy, silver, stubborn, insistent alien...
  • 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...
  • Saved by Venom by Lolita Lopez

    Saved by Venom by Lolita Lopez

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    To escape her father's debt to a loan shark, Dizzy seeks refuge in the upcoming Grab. She’d rather belong to one of those terrifying sky warriors from the battleship Valiant than to the sleazy criminal who wants her as his plaything.The years of constant war haven’t been kind to highly decorated sniper Venom. Only the promise of earning a wife kept him going through deadly battles...
  • Tracking Trisha by S.E. Smith

    Tracking Trisha by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Trisha Grove enjoyed her job as a pilot for Boswell International but realizes something is still missing from her life – her family. She is ready to call it quits and head back home to Wyoming where her father lives. She never expected her last flight for Boswell would end with an unplanned trip out of this world...
  • 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...
  • Dark Horse by Michelle Diener

    Dark Horse by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Some secrets carry the weight of the world.Rose McKenzie may be far from Earth with no way back, but she's made a powerful ally--a fellow prisoner with whom she's formed a strong bond. Sazo's an artificial intelligence. He's saved her from captivity and torture, but he's also put her in the middle of a conflict, leaving Rose with her loyalties divided...
  • Mission: Guardian Angel by Laurann Dohner

    Mission: Guardian Angel by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Ever since her friend Vivian mated a Veslor, Abby Thomas has been curious about the mysterious aliens. She also has a vested interest in making sure their newfound relationship with United Earth is a success, prompting her to take a job on a military vessel to ensure the Veslor grouping stationed there are treated fairly. It doesn't hurt that they're easy to look at...
  • Ghost of a Machine by Cynthia Sax

    Ghost of a Machine by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fragile. Stubborn. His. Ghost, a C Model cyborg, has disconnected his machine from his human side. Severely damaged, he knows two things—the curvy human female on his ship belongs to him and he must keep her safe. He’ll stop at nothing to protect her, claim her, make her his. Primitive. Damaged. Hers. Lethe has seen the savage side of beings...
  • Descended by Evangeline Anderson

    Descended by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Charlotte Walker is just an intern trying to get through her surgical rotation in one piece when her life takes an abrupt turn for the weird. A seven-foot tall patient with multicolored eyes and golden skin shows up in the ER asking for her. When he tells Charlotte she's supposed to be the Empress of the entire galaxy, she naturally thinks he's high or crazy or both.He's not...
  • Breakout by Ann Aguirre

    Breakout by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    All hell is breaking loose in the edge-of-your-seat follow-up to Havoc and Perdition from New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre… The prison ship Perdition has become a post-battle charnel house with only a handful of Dred’s soldiers still standing and now being hunted by Silence’s trained tongueless assassins...
  • Out of Darkness by Anna Carven

    Out of Darkness by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The Kordolians are loose on the asteroid mining station Fortuna Tau, and first-rank mechanic Jia Morgan has become caught up in the thick of things. Under the careful watch of these steely-eyed silver warriors, Jia and her team have been tasked with repairing the hull of the Kordolians’ Alpha-Class battle cruiser, Silence...
  • Raven's Children by Sabrina Chase

    Raven's Children by Sabrina Chase

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Moire Cameron, former NASA explorer and web pilot, now has a working ship, a loyal crew, an unexpected son, and a valuable Earthlike planet to protect from the clutches of Toren. Then Ennis, the only one to discover her secret, is captured by Toren--and Moire discovers crucial information that could help end the crab-human war...
  • The Skypirate by Justine Davis

    The Skypirate by Justine Davis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dax, a skypirate hunted to the ends of the universe by the cruel interstellar Coalition, can't escape the allure of Captain Califa Claxton. A chance to destroy the Coalition awaits them, and in the white heat of their explosive union a new bond may be forged - souls joined by a magnificent love...
  • Ransomed by Kashatok by Tamsin Ley

    Ransomed by Kashatok by Tamsin Ley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Captain Kashatok has one rule: NO women on board.But undercover film reporter Joy has her own plans.Disguised as a male mechanic, she's determined to capture footage of the swashbuckling world of deep-space piracy. Anything to get her powerful mother off her back.When a trooper attack damages the ship and blows her secret, she's trapped among a crew full of vengeful, sex-starved pirates...
  • Saving His Mate by Ivy Knox

    Saving His Mate by Ivy Knox

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sold at auction on an alien planet, Chloe assumed death was around the corner. But she found love instead.Dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Chloe decides to embrace spinsterhood by adopting one (or five) dogs. Those plans are squashed when she's kidnapped from Earth and shoved into a glass cage with two other terrified human women on an alien planet...
  • Aydarr by Veronica Scott

    Aydarr by Veronica Scott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jill Garrison, a maintenance tech at the Sectors Amarcae 7 colony, goes to sleep one night as usual only to wake up in her nightgown stranded in the middle of a forest on an unknown world. There’s no time to think as she’s stalked by carnivorous predators and rescued by genetically engineered warriors calling themselves the Badari...
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