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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...
  • Born of Defiance by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Defiance by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Born 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...
  • Born of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In a universe where assassins make the law, everyone lives in fear--except for Syn. Born of an illicit scandal that once rocked a dynasty, he always knew how to survive on the bloodthirsty streets. But that was then, and the future is now…Syn was raised as a tech-thief until his livelihood uncovered a truth that could end his life...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews

    Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Dina DeMille isn't your typical Bed and Breakfast owner. Her inn defies laws of physics, her dog is secretly a monster, and the only permanent guest of the inn is a former Galactic tyrant with a price on her head...
  • Apprentice by Lexie Winston

    Apprentice by Lexie Winston

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lila is nobody special.She didn’t have a bad childhood despite growing up in foster homes, but there was just nothing particularly good about it either. With a boring job and only one close friend, you could say Lila is a little lost in her life.Not to mention, her romantic life is basically nonexistent. In fact, her alien erotica and her BOB are the most actions she’s seen in ages. Until now..
  • Doctor Galaxy by Jenny Schwartz

    Doctor Galaxy by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New ER doctor Alexi Sur always intended to join an aid agency. She'd just expected to work among humans. But when the Pax Galactica Corps becomes her only option (don't ask - the debts aren't hers, but the family is. Much to her regret), Alexi finds herself traveling the galaxy and learning alien physiology and culture, all while becoming a reality TV star...
  • 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...
  • Fire and Ice by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Fire and Ice by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    FIRE & ICE - Originally published in a stand alone ebook in 1998. Currently available in the OUT OF THIS WORLD anthology that features all the short stories Sherri wrote for Penguin. Livia is a Vistan princess who is to be married to an ambassador from a neighboring galaxy--a brutal man, many years her senior...
  • Born of Vengeance by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Vengeance by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A 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...
  • 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...
  • Veronica's Dragon by Ruby Dixon

    Veronica's Dragon by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Resonance. It’s a given on the ice planet, forced upon you by the parasitic symbiont called the ‘khui’. With resonance, a guy and a girl are paired up because they’ll make great babies. It’s a survival mechanism necessary for this sparsely-populated world we’re stranded on… and romantic, in a weird, alien way...
  • 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...
  • Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Destiny is doing everything she can to find her mother and stop the evil traitors from taking over her planet. But explosions, murder plots and chaos are just the beginning. And now she has more on the line than ever before. Now, she's in love. And Nix isn't the sit-by-and-watch kind of guy. He's right there next to her, risking everything. For her...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 Rogue Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    The Rogue Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Shapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Reid is always looking for a good time, and no woman is safe when he turns on the charm. When the opportunity arises to go on an ambassador’s trip, he jumps at the chance–especially when that trip includes exotic destinations and available women...
  • The Bound Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    The Bound Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Shapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Falke commands the Var armies, so it’s a little embarrassing when a beautiful female kidnaps him in his shifted form. Since no one knows where to send a rescue party, it’s up to him to use all his training and powers of seduction to find his way back home...
  • Infinity's Embrace by Anna Carven

    Infinity's Embrace by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Rescued from captivity by a group of rather intimidating Kordolians, Noa finds herself recovering at a strange facility in the middle of the desert. SynCorp's medical experiments have left her with an impossible ability she can't control, and nobody really seems to know how to help her. She's fragile and shattered, a mere shadow of her former self, and she has nowhere else to go...
  • Pursued by Evangeline Anderson

    Pursued by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Elise is fractured inside, stained by a past she refuses to remember.Merrick is scarred both inside and out, a half-breed with a brutal background, at home nowhere in the universe.Now they are tied together by an unstable bond which could kill them both.Their journey will take them to the lawless planet of Rageron—the wildest of all the Kindred worlds...
  • 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...
  • Berrr's Vow by Laurann Dohner

    Berrr's Vow by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    *** THIS IS A RERELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK *** Kidnapped from Earth and transported to planet Zorn to be sold as a sex slave, Shanna is one angry, frightened woman ready to fight anyone who tries to touch her. Raised in foster care, she’s not going to take any crap off some alien men no matter how big, terrifying or muscular they are...
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    aliens  alpha-mc  dark  drama  humor  insta-love  paranormal  steamy
  • Ynyr by M.K. Eidem

    Ynyr by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Ynyr was a third male and while he was a fit and worthy Warrior, he had always known that no female would ever Join with him. His mother’s refusal to leave his manno had most looking down on his family. He knew Ull would be able to overcome this because he was a first male and would one day be a Lord...
  • Revealed by Evangeline Anderson

    Revealed by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Book 5 in the Brides of the Kindred seriesThis book is a plus length novel--around 130,000 words longNadiah has the Sight—the ability to see into the future. But the one thing she can’t see is how she’s ever going to be free of the blood bond her parents forced her into when she was only six...
  • Jaguin's Love by S.E. Smith

    Jaguin's Love by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The Dragon Lords of Valdier universe is vast but each book can stand alone! Jump in at any point in the series.USA Today Bestseller! A human woman recovering from extreme violence and an alien male finally given hope. In this steamy story of love and comfort, what will it take to break free of the past? Jaguin is one of the finest trackers on Valdier...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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    aliens  alpha-mc  dark  drama  humor  paranormal  steamy  abuse
  • Pegasus in Flight by Anne McCaffrey

    Pegasus in Flight by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind's stepping-stone to the stars, she was always ready to welcome new Talents to the Center...
  • Ha'ven's Song by S.E. Smith

    Ha'ven's Song by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ha’ven Ha’darra is the Crown Prince for the Curizans, an advanced species known for their technology. They may not have the power to shift like the Valdier or the Sarafin but they have hidden powers of their own that they guard. Not even his best friends, Creon Reykill of the Valdier or Vox d’Rojah of the Sarafin, are aware of the powers he holds within his deadly frame...
  • Devoured by Evangeline Anderson

    Devoured by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Tess Hughes is on the run from her abusive ex-husband. The problem is, he’s a detective and there’s no place on Earth he can’t find her. Solution? Hide somewhere that’s not on Earth—the Kindred Mother Ship. That’s how she winds up posing as Pairing Puppet—one of the robotic mistresses that service the Unmated Males of the Kindred who need a little sexual stress release from time to time...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Exiled by Evangeline Anderson

    Exiled by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Lissa is madly in love with Saber and it seems he returns her feelings but she has a problem. She and the man of her dreams both come from the same clan of the Touch Kindred. By the archaic laws of their people, they are too closely related to be bonded. Which means that even though there is no blood tie between them, they are doomed to remain apart...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Enslaved by Evangeline Anderson

    Enslaved by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Enslaved is book number 14 in the Brides of the Kindred series. It is a plus-length novel of around 168,000 wordsAnything for you Mistress…Thrace S’ver is an unwilling slave. Drugged and bound, he is taken to the Flesh Bazaar and put up for sale to the highest bidder. But this is not the first time Thrace has been on the auction block—he has a past full of horrors he doesn’t intend to repeat...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  alpha-mc  drama  humor  paranormal  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • Rescuing Mattie by S.E. Smith

    Rescuing Mattie by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mattie Abrams has always had a knack for training animals. Touring with the Cirque de Magik, she knows that she has finally found the ‘home’ she so desperately craves. She would do anything to keep her small family of circus friends and her pets, including going where they went...
  • Earth Fathers Are Weird by Lyn Gala

    Earth Fathers Are Weird by Lyn Gala

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Captain Maxwell Davis and his entire unit scrambled to engage alien ships over Iowa. The aliens snatched him out of his destroyed jet before they continued on their interplanetary hot pursuit. Then they informed Max that Earth was too far outside regular shipping lanes to return him to his planet.So Max ends up in an alien spaceport looking for work...
  • Divided by Evangeline Anderson

    Divided by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    How does a girl who's about to take her vows as a nun wind up with two hot warriors to pick from?That's Becca Malone's problem. After eating a piece of bonding fruit cake, she wound up with Far and Truth, Twin Kindred warriors who were separated at birth and never formed a proper Twin bond. Because the twins hate each other, Becca feels free to choose between them..
  • From a Distant Star by Karen McQuestion

    From a Distant Star by Karen McQuestion

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Emma was the only one who hadn’t given up on her boyfriend, Lucas. Everyone else—his family, his friends, his doctors—was convinced that any moment could be his last. So when Lucas miraculously returns from the brink of death, Emma thinks her prayers have been answered.As the surprised town rejoices, Emma begins to question whether Lucas is the same boy she’s always known...
  • Haunting Blackie by Laurann Dohner

    Haunting Blackie by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    *** THIS IS A RERELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK *** Eve’s mission is to rescue cyborgs from termination centers on Earth. She is blindsided by the overwhelming attraction that draws her to one of them. He’s handsome, sexy, and she wants him, craves his touch as she has no other. She must send him to freedom but she makes him promise to wait for her...
  • Electric Heart by Anna Carven

    Electric Heart by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Electric Heart is Book 7 in the Dark Planet Warriors Series. It will make more sense if you've read the other books in the series beforehand. Chronologically, it picks up where Forged in Shadow (Book 5) left off.Riana's terrified of these fierce Kordolians. They fight like demons and possess strange alien technology which makes them damn hard to kill...
  • Enhanced by Evangeline Anderson

    Enhanced by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Mei-Li Hastings is in trouble. She’s Dream Sharing with a Kindred warrior. Normally that’s a regular part of being claimed by one of the tall, handsome aliens who came to Earth looking for brides. But in Mei-Li’s case, nothing is normal. The dreams she’s having show a huge, frightening male with a red laser for an eye and a metal arm...
  • The Gorison Traveler Incident by Laurann Dohner

    The Gorison Traveler Incident by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Vivian is a cultural specialist on the United Earth fleet ship Gorison Traveler. It's the perfect job for someone who wants to learn everything about aliens. The only problem? The commander won't let her anywhere near the visiting Ke'ters aboard the ship...
  • Lauren's Barbarian by Ruby Dixon

    Lauren's Barbarian by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    A lush, tropical island on an icy planet makes no sense.Then again, not much makes sense anymore after waking up and finding myself not in bed but on a strange world populated by aliens. Since that moment, I’ve learned that nothing is normal anymore and I’ve got to roll with the punches. I can handle this, though. I’m strong and capable.So… washed up on a tropical island? Got it handled...
  • Twin Dragons by S.E. Smith

    Twin Dragons by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Melina Franklin was barely sixteen when she and her grandfather were kidnapped from their small farm in Georgia by an alien trader and sold to an Antrox mining asteroid in deep space. Mistaken for a young boy, she lives in fear of being found out and sold...
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