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  • Draekon Warlord by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Warlord by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Top 3 Reasons I should stay away from Danek:1. He’s on a super-secret, important mission for the Rebellion. He’ll be undercover on a hostile planet, surrounded by people that want to kill him.2. He’s gorgeous. Entirely unattainable. Way, way out of my league.3. I’m forty, but I’m supposed to pose as his fake fiancée.4. And he’s a really, really good actor, because when he kisses me, it feels real...
  • Caveman Alien’s Enemy by Calista Skye

    Caveman Alien’s Enemy by Calista Skye

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mia I’ve caught a dragon. He’s huge, silvery and so beautiful it physically hurts. Or maybe that’s just my urge to run away from such a deadly creature. But a sudden, icy blizzard is raging outside on this dinosaur-infested planet, and I’m stuck with this, our worst enemy. I’ve bound him with steel wire, but if he snaps them I think I might be in for a world of hurt...
  • Going Cold by Viola Grace

    Going Cold by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Going from supporting family to being an imperial courier across the stars doesn’t take as long as she thought. She can deal with the assassins.Once the details of her life are sorted out and all impediments removed, Hesker takes on a new name for a new life in a new position. She heads to the stars, is reset, and all traces of her previous life are removed from her body...
  • Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson

    Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A warrior from another universe...A woman running from an abusive relationshipA rip in the fabric of space-time and a malevolent alien race bent on destructionHow does it all tie together? Read Enticed by the Satyr...the first book of the Monstrum Kindred to find outMia could have had a beautiful life. She had a scholarship to Julliard and a future as a concert pianist ahead of her...
  • Loved by the Lion by Evangeline Anderson

    Loved by the Lion by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Monstrum Warrior who has vowed never to Claim a bride…An older woman, who thinks she’s done with Love…Can they come together to save the Earth…and each other?What’s the worst Christmas present imaginable? A cheating husband? An angry mob outside your front door? What about Menopause? Minister Emilia Oxley has gotten all three this Yuletide season and she could do without them all, thank you...
  • My Ant Monster Mate by Susan Trombley

    My Ant Monster Mate by Susan Trombley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    YeseniaHunting giant ant aliens is never an easy job, but the opportunity to capture a male Menops before he imprints on a queen is too good to pass up. Even if it means putting up with a mouthy Artificial Intelligence and traveling to a planet restricted by the Cosmic Syndicate. Vengeance for humanity—for my family—is too important to let any obstacle stand in my way...
  • 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...
  • Kinn by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes

    Kinn by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She hates the alien warriors that conquered her world. All of them but one...Serena lived by three rules - Survive. Fight back. Stay hidden. But that was before. Before she was caught and brought to T’Kinn, the most arrogant, annoying alien she’s ever met…and the sexiest. This alien isn’t just a warrior - he’s a healer, and a threat to every secret she has...
  • Her Commanders by M.K. Eidem

    Her Commanders by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cali has spent her entire existence hiding everything she truly is from everyone… including her family. Love isn't something she believes in. She's seen the harm that so-called emotion can cause in her own parents' relationship and wants no part of it.Star Base Commander Jamis Dexxirs and his Sub Commander Taarig Ynn are well known for their attitudes toward females and their sexual preferences...
  • 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...
  • Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner

    Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When 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...
  • Ancient Thought by Viola Grace

    Ancient Thought by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is the end of one life the start of the next? It is if you have been reset.Elizabeth has spent her life exploring the world, visiting strangers, and learning all the customs she could. When the first Volunteer Project began, she had been in her fifties and out of the running. Now, at eighty-two, they offer to tune her up and send her to the stars...
  • Dark Cure by Cynthia Sax

    Dark Cure by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A warrior seeking forever faces a medic living in the moment. Gisella, the Refuge’s medic, is dedicated to her role. She doesn’t have the space in her lifespan for love, a mate, or children. Healing is her entire focus. But she’s also a female in her prime. She has needs, wants, cravings…especially for a scarred, long-haired barbarian warrior temporarily residing in the settlement...
  • Command Control by Viola Grace

    Command Control by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maya worked hard jobs all her life, and a devastating explosion at sea turned her from a hard worker into a crispy critter. Bedridden and blind, she accepts the order from the Volunteer Project and gets herself reset into a body that can move and skin that isn’t black...
  • AWOL Alien by Kelsey Nicole Price

    AWOL Alien by Kelsey Nicole Price

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    CharlieWhen alien males started arriving, it brought hope to Earth. Alien mates are the hottest thing on the planet—but only if you can afford one and your tests guarantee alien hybrid babies are in your near future.And guess what? I don’t meet either requirement...
  • Pilot In Command by Viola Grace

    Pilot In Command by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Helen 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...
  • Bringing Heat by Viola Grace

    Bringing Heat by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her life on Earth had died decades earlier; helping to bring heat to a frozen world seems like a good use of her time.The love of her life died when they were teens, and Idalia had no plans for any kind of future. When a woman named Minerva arrived near the lighthouse where she spent her days escorting tourists and made Idalia an offer, it was a no-brainer. Nothing or something...
  • ‎Unexpected Hero by Viola Grace

    ‎Unexpected Hero by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kidnapped, ransomed, and rejected, she didn’t think things could get any worse until she realized that the rescue approaching was going to have conditions.Misty survived a horrible life and terrible parents and siblings to make it across the stars when her world ended. Those that hurt her were on the same ship...
  • Hidden Instinct by Viola Grace

    Hidden Instinct by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Yadeel 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...
  • Clan and Conviction by Tracy St. John

    Clan and Conviction by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The drug Delir is sweeping the Kalquorian Empire, leaving madness and death in its wake. Investigator Dramok Gelan has already lost his enforcer partner in a deadly shootout because of the case. With no clues or suspects, he despairs of putting an end to the epidemic. Then a familiar face enters the picture: new partner and former lover Nobek Wynhod...
  • 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...
  • Claimed by the Alien Shifter by Mina Carter

    Claimed by the Alien Shifter by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She doesn’t need love. She’s getting cats. Lots of them.She absolutely doesn’t need a sexy alien making her think of happily ever afters...Elise doesn’t need a man, she has enough with her job and ensuring her brother, the President, stays out of trouble. Or, at the very least, doesn’t get humanity into an intergalactic war it can’t win...
  • Draekon Destiny by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Destiny by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It took less than ninety days for my happy ending to fall apart. Stuck on an alien planet? I can deal. Abducted by rogue prisoners? No problem. Mated to two powerful, sexy Draekons? Let’s be real. It’s not a hardship. After three months on the prison planet, I think I’m finally free of my demons. I’m far away from home. I can start over. Here, there’s no one to hold me back...
  • His Curvy Mate by Georgette St. Clair

    His Curvy Mate by Georgette St. Clair

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Most shifters give near-feral Alpha Prime Creel a wide berth – and he likes it that way. At least, that’s what happens until he wakes up with a crazy woman in his bed who insists that they’re mated, and seems to know everything about him – right down to the scar on his inner thigh...
  • My Chameleon Mate by Susan Trombley

    My Chameleon Mate by Susan Trombley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    VeraI accidentally launched an escape pod on my miserable honeymoon—with me on it—and crash-landed in the middle of an alien jungle on a forbidden “emerging civilization” planet, breaking about a hundred Cosmic Syndicate laws.Oh, and I robbed a hot lizard guy with sexy black eyes, the most colorful scales I’ve ever seen, and a powerful prehensile tail that curls up like a cinnamon roll...
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    aliens  alpha-mc  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  ai  book
  • Ice Planet Barbarians Part 5: Truth by Ruby Dixon

    Ice Planet Barbarians Part 5: Truth by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now that I've learned the alien barbarian's language, all the holes are filling in. Ahem. Not like that. Okay, like that, too.The problems are mounting. The alien abductors are coming back. My fellow human captives are dying as we speak. And the alien hunks? When they claim, it's forever. We've got to decide how to proceed, and soon, because whatever path we choose?There's no turning back...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  romance  sci-fi  futuristic  fiction  book
  • Zandian Pet by Renee Rose

    Zandian Pet by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “On your knees, pet!” Taramina could survive slavery, even as a pet in Prium’s Intergalactic Emporium. She always knew she’d escape! She just didn’t know escape would come in the form of a powerful handsome male of her own species. Especially one whose rough handling incites a fever in her she hasn’t felt before..
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    aliens  alpha-mc  paranormal  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  dark
  • Warr by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes

    Warr by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    First they stole her planet. Then they stole her sister…Her twin might have surrendered to the enemy, but Max will never stop fighting the alien warriors that conquered Earth.She’s the leader of a rebel army determined to fight for freedom and the future of the human race. The Tolath are her enemies, and she will never surrender to any of them… especially not to him...
  • His Human Ward by Michele Mills

    His Human Ward by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The brooding Fire Lord of Ashmoor Manor receives an adorable, curvy human as his ward!I’m getting married today and I’m so freaking depressed.My bridal gown is exquisite. The ring is enormous. But my groom is evil personified and I’m being forced into this doomed marriage. I’m seconds from breaking into a full-on ugly cry.And right then, as if by magic, the church doors burst open...
  • Transcend by Sandra R. Neeley

    Transcend by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Elite Force Commander Kol Ra’ Don Tol has been obsessed with Earth and its cultures for as long as he can remember. He’s thrilled when the gods smile on him, giving him an Ehlealah, a mate, that is human. But she’s suffered traumas and abuse that no being should have to endure. As a result, she’s not as receptive to his claim that she’s his as he hoped she’d be...
  • Redemption by Sandra R. Neeley

    Redemption by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cast aside and forced to live apart from his family as a child, Rokai ahl has become insolent, resentful, angry, borderline criminal, and a general outcast as an adult. He has managed to build a life for himself in which he answers to no one and nothing. His loyalty lies with only himself...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  alpha-mc  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  abuse  adult  book
  • Captured by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee

    Captured by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    TILLYNo one ever told me the bugpocalypse would be so lonely.I was ready when the man-eating space bugs descended from the skies. I have everything I need in my fortress: food, water, and my dog, Waffles, but I'm bored out of my gourd and lonely AF. So when a Xarc’n warrior breaks into my home, I decide to “detain” my purple intruder...
  • Encode by Viola Grace

    Encode by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Honey Barrow serves the Alliance as an Encoded Courier, putting biologicals into her own body to keep them viable during transport. This job has kept her flying for years, but that is about to come to a screeching halt when she accepts an assignment to transport the semen of an Alpha multi-shifter to the High Prefect of Shoshan...
  • Fated to Fall by Stephanie West

    Fated to Fall by Stephanie West

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blaidd went slightly insane witnessing the small human being abused by her mate. He didn’t care that he was on a foreign planet, as he swiftly ended the vile male. All that mattered was soothing the heart rending pain that radiated from the trembling female. But despite Blaidd’s best intentions, nothing he did for Vivian went right...
  • Cracked Control by Viola Grace

    Cracked Control by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Addy was a lost Terran. Her ship was captured on the way to the Alliance training center, and she and the other occupants were held for experimentation. Months of agony with her fellow humans dying under the test-to-destruction methods of the researchers ended the day that Addy was taken to the edge of her limits...
  • A Hunter's Dream by Viola Grace

    A Hunter's Dream by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Iris has used her ability to dream her target’s location to gain recognition and to be the most efficient hunter she could be. The psychic knives that appear at the ends of her hands help her to stun rather than kill prey when a death is not necessary. Nothing escapes her, not livestock, not lost people. Anything that runs, she can hunt...
  • Astonish by Viola Grace

    Astonish by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ceelie was nothing exceptional until the moment she became the most important woman to an entire world…and its avatar.Trapped in a job working as an assistant for an ambassador, Ceelie is hoping for something better for her life, but she knows that it isn’t likely. While on an assignment to obtain some atmosphere scrubbing trees Ceelie finds herself courted and seduced before she can blink...
  • Asteroid by Viola Grace

    Asteroid by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sebena has spent her time in the Alliance using her accuracy to blow large rocks into tiny rocks suitable for refinement. When she picks up a heat signature she has to pursue it, even if it means doing it on her own time. Finding a life pod is not really a surprise, but having it functioning and its occupant alive is quite the shock...
  • Govern by Viola Grace

    Govern by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman, with a foul temper and her own spaceship, ends up an escort for a stunned ambassador. Her perfect mate.Leo runs her ship with precision and an attitude shaped by pain. Gathering an ambassador in stasis, she is surprised to find his ability to match her innermost desires, and he is surprised to find that she wants him in his own form and not the one she craves...
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    aliens  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  ai  book  fiction
  • Ice Runner by Viola Grace

    Ice Runner by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Using heat to skim along ice delivers her into the arms of a botanist who has more than a casual interest in her and her talent.Kescu has been raised under ice. Under the surface of Wanlio 6, the locals live and thrive with the Ice Runner moving emergency and experimental supplies from one city and base to the other...
  • Mandate by Viola Grace

    Mandate by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wren takes care of those around her, but will a bunch of Guardians be more than she can keep in fighting shape?Wren has been a caretaker for all her adult life. The offer to take up a new life in the stars comes as part of her career comes to a sad end.They ask her to change her DNA, she does. They ask her to engage in combat training, she does...
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    aliens  paranormal  space-opera  steamy  adult  book  fae  fiction
  • Molten by Viola Grace

    Molten by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Melting metal is far easier than dealing with a man who sends electricity through her body with the slightest touch. A talent for heat sends Nanette to the Volunteers, and the power of her fire assigns her to a Guardian Base...
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    aliens  paranormal  space-opera  steamy  adult  book  fae  fiction
  • Harness by Viola Grace

    Harness by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Using tech to hold her shape becomes a problem when she meets a man who drives her senses into overdrive.Alfreda has become used to the constant pressure of her harness, keeping her in a basic bipedal form and helping her back into her Terran shape. When she learns that her mixed blood makes the shapeshifter in her far stronger than the human, she has a choice...
  • Magnet by Viola Grace

    Magnet by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Attraction takes a strange turn when Polly finds herself stepping into the position of a planetary guardian, but there is someone in her space.Polly takes the position of Guardian with a talent for magnetic attraction with an open mind. Meeting her first W’lyn sets her sights on a one-night stand, but Loesh wants much more...
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    aliens  paranormal  space-opera  steamy  adult  book  fae  fiction
  • Pact by Viola Grace

    Pact by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mila was living a quiet life. Too old to join the Volunteer program, she was resigned to her position in the middle of nowhere. When a recruiter comes to her and orders her to join she says no. When he explains that due to her genetic heritage she has no choice, she reluctantly enters a pact to gain an education in return for her genes...
  • Prohibit by Viola Grace

    Prohibit by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cleo got a visit from a recruiter, but her parents told her that under no circumstances could she join the Volunteer Project. She was sitting in the project offices, trying to decline their offer when matters were taken out of her control.Waking on the moon was bad enough, but waking in the confined space of a tank with everyone looking at her naked body made her furious...
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    aliens  paranormal  space-opera  steamy  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • Touching Water by Viola Grace

    Touching Water by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lydra wanted to live a life as a researcher and focus on solving mysteries of genetics. She never intended to become one of those mysteries. Trapped in an experiment gone wrong, she ends up blue and powerless on her own world, so she decides to be a freak amongst freaks elsewhere...
  • Blue and Alluring by Viola Grace

    Blue and Alluring by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With a firm grasp on shifting her shape, she meets a man who can always see through her, and she doesn’t mind.Illuma was born of two different species and it created a rift between her parents. Growing up as an elegant young woman crossed with a being of mist made knowing what she was supposed to look like difficult.Recruited as a young adult, she joined the Citadel and pursued xenobiology...
  • Dance of Time by Viola Grace

    Dance of Time by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zez joins the Citadel at age eleven, with a colourful history behind her. Her skills grow with every year, and in a decade, her ability to stop time in a confined area draws the attention of the Sector Guard. Immune is paired with the young woman with the dark past, and he sets his mind to keep her under control and save the innocents she might sweep away with her actions...
  • Mine! by C.L. Scholey

    Mine! by C.L. Scholey

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Mine!" One of the most powerful words in the human language, possession. Desperate need to hold onto what you love with every fiber of your being. Until Huck realizes in order to hold onto what he loves most he will have to let not only Becky go but a part of who he is, what he is, perhaps the best part...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  alpha-mc  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  female-mc  fiction
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