Books like 'The Bond That Heals Us'
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Domination by Leia Stone
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe ghouls have upped their game and retaliated in the worst way. Humans are waking up from the dream wars in random parts of the world, next to people they don't know, in countries they've never been to. When Kit and her team find out that the government is bed with the ghouls, she makes a promise to exploit them... -
Loving Zorn (Zorn Warriors, #1-2) by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRal'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... -
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... -
Saven Denial by Siobhan Davis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSadie has been kidnapped by the Tor, the vindictive alien race who destroyed Thalassic City. As her past, present, and future collides, her worst nightmare looks set to become her shocking new reality.A deliberate pawn in leader Griselda’s vengeful game, Sadie is horrified to learn the truth about her heritage and the destiny that’s already been mapped out for her... -
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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... -
Cyborg Seduction by Grace Goodwin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere is nowhere to hide from a Hunter determined to find his mate. Single mother Lindsey Walters is a blogger and the love of her life is her four-year-old son, Wyatt... -
Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYear 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net... -
Erun by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew Edition found hereHe’s an Ujal who knows he’ll never have a mate. She’s a human who doesn’t want to take another chance on love. One small child doesn’t give them a choice. With her toddler in tow, Vanessa Walker travels to Tampa, Florida to begin her new job at Ujal Station Tau... -
Mission: Planet Biter by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen 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... -
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... -
Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen her parents died in her youth, Anabel Brick—along with her sister, Jessa—was raised as an orphan of United Earth. While her sister became an Alien Research Specialist, Anabel’s skills were put to a different use. She’s a tool for U.E. and its military fleet…a spy…a killer. Her current mission also turns out to be her last... -
Fire and Ice by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFIRE & 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... -
Seduced by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOkay, so he’s not really the devil, but he may as well be. The Tribe King is gorgeous, arrogant, and devious. He refused to hand over crucial information to help us find our friends until I agreed to stay with him. For a year.As far as I’m concerned, deals made under duress don’t count. Anyone who would demand such a thing in exchange for our friends’ freedom simply can’t be trusted... -
Champion by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFighting 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... -
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Reclamation by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe highly anticipated conclusion to the bestselling Ravening Series. The first book in this series, Ravenous, is free. Hunted by alien enemies and desperate to survive the invasion, Bethany and Cade are forced into situations they never imagined were possible... -
Recruiting Measures by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA life of pain is swapped for a rabid urge to collect experiences. Being a recruiter with an elusive species is just as much fun as it sounds.Kyna was shocked when she got an invitation to the Reset Project. She was even more shocked when she found out that her nephew had found her application from decades earlier and forward it to the Volunteer Project... -
Blood Proxy by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrained as a Companion for the Alliance, Eleanor Palmer has had a recurring assignment on the Vimpyr homeworld. When death and treachery takes the king and his heir, she takes action and runs with the only surviving member of the bloodline in tow. As Commander Matias joins both herself and her charge, she learns what it is to become Vimpyr. To be the Vimpyr heir's Blood Proxy... -
Break the Mold by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsProgramming nanites isn’t a hobby; it is in her blood. Time to break the mold and see what she can do. Lucky was holding the bomb that blew the staff of Adaptation Base to pieces. Instead of suffering from the blast, the acid in the device consumed her soft tissues... -
Twisting Sanity by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen her body isn’t hers to command, Windy has to find ways to defend herself. Windy broke her spine in the attack, and she was taken from Adaptation Station and sold to the Splice. Her destiny was to act as their communication conduit. She hated the idea of destiny. When Alphy sent a hunter to come get her, he is shocked by her condition... -
Logic by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA criminal analyst with no social life fascinates a superhero during a hostage taking where she was the hostage, until she wasn’t.Beryl lives a quiet life taking online classes and working on solving cases for her brother when he needs a second pair of eyes. Her skills gain her the notice of the Volunteer Project, and she is encouraged to go and get a life of her own... -
Walking Haunt by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYohwen enjoys her life, but when the Citadel comes knocking she has to face change, danger and a man whose touch can set her on fire.Yohwen has finally reached the pinnacle of her art. She is the Master Haunt and during the festival week, she wakes the dead for their friends and families for one night only... -
Broken Wings by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Enjel who lost her wings and everything else learns that there is more to life than a past that can’t be changed.Minerva loses her wings when her home is attacked. She takes control of a mech and walks the bot into battle. When she is removed from the wreckage, it is determined that the bot ceased to work two days earlier and her latent talent has risen... -
Lost and Sound by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSonic senses and determination take her to the Citadel, but only a sense of purpose can keep her there.Yllin has been raised in privilege and has never felt like it was the right life for her. She honed her skills for sonar as a waitress at a busy restaurant and jumped at the chance to apply for a position in Citadel Ohkhan.Her acceptance is a delightful surprise that isn’t enjoyed by her family... -
Pilot In Command by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHelen needed more from life as a pilot than the Alliance could offer. When a handsome Azon offers her a new position, she can’t say no, to anything.Helen has enjoyed her tenure as an Alliance pilot, but working with unpredictable crews is wearing on her nerves. When an incident of defense of the innocent via mutiny ends her career, controlling warships is over... -
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Class Zero by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPadana has negotiator training and an imperial bloodline. It makes her valuable to one man in particular…if he can find her.Growing up in the shadow of one of Terra’s champions was a comfortable place to be. Padana was the third child of the Empress Amanda Tyrell of the Haldis Imperium, and she was a very requested bride... -
Hidden Instinct by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYadeel finds herself fired, kidnapped and threatened with dissection on the same day. Being rescued is needed but it doesn’t turn out the way she expects.Yadeel has been teaching for the last six years as far away from home as she can get without coming back. She gets fired and abducted two weeks from the end of her contract and wakes in a cell... -
Inferno by Cara Bristol
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe's an alien who looks like a devil. She's a church secretary. A match made in heaven...or?Take nothing at face value. That’s Geneva Walker’s motto in life. But when seven feet of devilishly handsome male complete with horns and a tail strolls into the church where she works as a secretary—even a hardcore nonbeliever would jump to conclusions... -
I Dated a Hot Assassin by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe has something he wants, and it’s embarrassing. Pretending she’s normal loses its appeal in the arms of her own assassin.Khytten Danforth has spent her adult life getting by. She spends her days at work and her spare time volunteering at the hospital as a wetnurse. It sounds generous, but since her lactating talent activated after puberty, she’s been stuck with the effects... -
Holmes by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe battle of survival against the invading aliens heats up... but Hell Squad never quits. General Adam Holmes’ life is dedicated to keeping his small band of survivors alive. On the run, with only Hell Squad and the other soldiers for protection, they are making their last dangerous drive to the secret stronghold of the Enclave... -
Into the Light by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAbbey 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... -
Dark Flight by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis mission. His challenge. His forever. Orol, the Refuge's second-in-command, has been given what he believes is a simple mission — escort two human females to the settlement. The winged warrior arrives at the meeting site to find one of the females missing and the other aiming a gun at his head. To rescue the first, he must capture the second... -
Jessabelle's Beast by Susan Trombley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGorzo has journeyed across a vast ocean to join the umbrose in Sanctuary, but finds himself alone among them because of differences between his tribal upbringing and their city culture. When Lady Lilith convinces him to try a new matchmaking service to find a human mate, he’s at first reluctant... -
Balfor's Salvation by Susan Trombley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDangerously unstable and exceptionally violent are definitely not qualities Stacia Dornan looks for in a mate, especially after the harrowing experience of having half of her jaw torn off by an adurian warrior. Yet, when she meets Prince Balfor to discuss a trade alliance between her father’s company and the umbrose, sparks immediately fly between them... -
Adored by the Alien Assassin by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsGo to earth. Find a woman. Bring her back. Simple. The Emperor’s Shadow, Xaandryn, is not a warrior. He’s something else, whatever else, the Emperor needs him to be. An assassin, and, it seems… now he’s a delivery boy... -
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Salvation by Laurie Roma
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOfficer Skylar Aris is a woman with a troubled past. As a Class-A Conduit, she is beautiful and deadly, making her stand out among the rest of the elite soldiers. She has worked hard to succeed as one of the only female interrogators in the Security and Interrogation Division, but everything she has dreamed of is put in jeopardy when she’s given an ultimatum that will change her fate... -
Reaver's Quest by Elin Wyn, Starr Huntress
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe was unexpected.No.Our ship getting blown up was unexpected.Crashing on a planet filled with murder-goats was unexpected.Being rescued by a copper skinned, winged hunk with golden eyes and not wearing much more than a leather kilt and a weapon harness was so freaking miraculous that I wondered if I’d actually fallen off that cliff... -
Shattered Earth by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe scum of the galaxy are using Earth as a nuclear winter death camp. It outrages pirate captain Kohia Jekyll’s sense of justice. No one deserves to die agonizingly of radiation poisoning, especially not on the planet humanity had to evacuate seven generations ago. So Kohia intends to close the prison camp down... -
His Human Rebel by Michele Mills
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a teeny incident with red paint, my hometown votes that it’s done with my activist ways . . .Now I’m on an entirely different planet, holding a single suitcase, standing on a platform, waiting for my new alien husband to arrive . . . I bite my lip as I wait because there’s one serious problem with this whole situation . . . after a best forgotten, one-night stand gone wrong . . -
The Pirate Prince by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Jarek sails the high sky doing what he pleases…that is until drug dealers kidnap one of his men. But the rescue mission goes wrong and instead of a crewman, he liberates a woman who he believes is desperately trying to escape her captors. He soon discovers he unwittingly kidnaped a princess... -
Mated to the Cyborgs by Grace Goodwin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFBI Agent Kristin Webster has spent the last eight years tracking and taking down the worst of humanity. She's seen to much to believe she could ever trust a human man, but the promise of a perfect match through the Coalition's Interstellar Brides Program has her settling into the testing chair to be matched to her alien mate... -
Draekon Abduction by Lee Savino, Lili Zander
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow to Fail as an Intergalactic Spy: 1. Crash spaceship on wrong planet.2. Break leg.3. Get abducted by rogue prisoners.4. End up with two pairs of dragon-shifters claiming I’m their mate. Here’s a report for the CIA: The aliens are freaking good kissers. The mission was simple: Go to the Zorahn planet. Spy on the aliens... -
Dark Planet Warriors: Escape by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAbbey 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
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShapeshifter 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
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShapeshifter 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... -
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Infinity's Embrace by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsRescued 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... -
The Lasaran by Dianne Duvall
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall brings readers the first novel in a thrilling new sci-fi series full of action, intrigue, humor, and romance.Taelon searches the galaxy for his younger sister, who mysteriously disappeared while on a diplomatic mission... -
Revealed by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsBook 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... -
Gabe by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHell Squad soldier Gabe Jackson has lost everything that mattered, including his twin brother. Now he just wants to kill the invading aliens anyway he knows how…and he knows a lot of ways. Previously part of a secret Army super-soldier project, he’s faster, stronger, deadlier…but on the inside, he’s a mass of rage, and pain, and grief—all waiting for a chance to drag him under. Until he finds her... -
Vanished by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHarper Wilde is sitting on the beach, minding her own business when a huge, muscular Kindred warrior with black hair and blazing white eyes demands that she accompany him into the future. Harper has no choice--she is dragged against her will into a dystopian nightmare--the world as it might become if something isn't changed.And that something that needs changing is Harper herself... -
Cursed by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCommander Stavros Rii of the Kindred is a Sin Eater - thick black lines cover his back and neck causing him to feel the pain of others. It is a curse that threatens to shorten his life and makes him unable to bond with a female - not that he's ever found one he wants to bond with. Until he meets Charlie..
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