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  • Space for More by Emily Antoinette

    Space for More by Emily Antoinette

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    All Dr. Eden Mori wanted was to expand her horizons on the galaxy's largest space station, but when the only way to stop a black market sale of dangerous medical schematics is to get close to the data dealer, she's tasked with stopping him. Her partner on this mission? The dealer's estranged, hot-tempered mate...
  • Seminal by C.M. Stunich

    Seminal by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I don’t play the role of the kidnapped princess very well.And I really hate the fated mates trope.Hello again, I’m Eve Wakefield, and I refuse to accept that I’m in love with an intergalactic moth prince.No.I don’t care how handsome he is, I don’t want to marry him.I don’t care if his parents have a sentient spaceship capable of eating entire planets.Love is earned, not swindled by pheromones...
  • 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...
  • Pursued by Presley Hall

    Pursued by Presley Hall

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This alien warrior is roguish, charming, and way more experienced than I am.Maybe he’s exactly what I need.All the other women who were abducted from Earth have gotten to make a fresh start on Kalix, but with my overprotective sister always hovering nearby, I feel like I’m stuck in the past—still the naïve little girl Brielle has to look out for...
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    aliens  alpha-mc  dark  humor  paranormal  adult  book  fated-mates
  • Home World by Erin Raegan

    Home World by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    PeytonI fell in love with an alien. Our world was invaded by carnivorous freaks and the Dahk swooped in and saved me and my friends. They want to save the Earth but we are our own worst enemy, or so I thought. The truth is we have no idea what's out there. Now I'm on my way to Home World. The Dahk's world. An alien world. I had no choice, it was taken from me. I tell myself I hate him but I don't...
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    aliens  alpha-mc  humor  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fated-mates
  • 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...
  • Draekon Warrior by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Warrior by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Captured in space. Imprisoned. Sold to the highest bidder. But my biggest problem is this bossy, aggravating, impossible, alien who’s supposed to rescue me. The bossy alien I kissed. That might have been a mistake.Kadir is dangerous. I’ve seen him fight, and his body is littered with scars. He’s a soldier. A warrior. And when he loses control, he turns into a big scary dragon and breathes fire...
  • Voyage to Ayama by K.A. Knight

    Voyage to Ayama by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The 43rd colony mission was supposed to be a boring space flight to our new home world of Ayama. When tragedy strikes, leaving teenager Indy Stewart an orphan in space, things start to get interesting. Throw in illegal races, flight school, boys and an explosive subterfuge which just seems to keep on unravelling around her and you have one hell of a journey...
  • Hothar's Folly by Gail Koger

    Hothar's Folly by Gail Koger

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Undercover psychic investigator Casey Jones’ hunt for a traitor in Central Command gets blown all to hell when the crew of the military C130 cargo plane she's riding on tries to kill her. Drawing on her telekinesis, Casey stops their assassination attempt and bails out as the aircraft goes down in flames...
  • Crossing Quinn by Gail Koger

    Crossing Quinn by Gail Koger

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Quinn Jones is a formidable Coletti warlord. His mission is to capture Xenia and bring her back to Tanith to be mated with a warrior the Overlord has chosen. Problem is, Quinn finds himself falling for the beautiful Farin. Her unusual “psychic powers, combat training and berserker abilities” make her the perfect mate for him...
  • Loving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Loving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Content warning: Reverse Harem (MFMMM). IntenseSaved from a life of suffering, Paloma Delacroix is determined to make the best life possible for herself, and for the four men she loves. Loving them is a challenge she never dreamed she’d be up for and one she refuses to fail...
  • The Admiral and the Wildcat by Mina Carter

    The Admiral and the Wildcat by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gabriel Buchanan is a fighter. Once a marine, now he's an Admiral and lawyer for Alliance Fleet. He spends his time taking on the tough cases no one else dares to touch. His life changed course after a messy divorce, making him vow never to love again. Until a hot blonde who matches his drive to fight shows up on his watch. She's a real wildcat--one Gabe wants to get up close and personal with...
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    aliens  humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  warriors  adult  book
  • 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...
  • Savior of the Domini by Talia Rhea

    Savior of the Domini by Talia Rhea

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    PEONY'S ENTIRE LIFE CHANGED AFTER A LATE NIGHT WALKDrugged and abducted, she wakes up in a small, metal room being brought food by a giant lizard-dinosaur alien. She's not alone either. She's trapped with four other women she's never met and, caged in the corner, a different alien that looks like he's been beaten quite badly...
  • My Matched Monster by Rena Marks

    My Matched Monster by Rena Marks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My punishment starts today.Refusing marriage isn’t acceptable, not in my world—separated from the rest of Earth by the large stone walls of our own community. To refuse the most legendary prophet of our time in front of the entire congregation was a sentence of twenty lashes. Halfway in, I entered a hallucinogenic state.A hero came to save me, but he was purple with tentacles...
  • Whisked Away by the Alien by Julie K. Cohen

    Whisked Away by the Alien by Julie K. Cohen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s an alien in my kitchen wearing an apron… and nothing else.There’s something delicious cooking in my kitchen and it isn’t the donuts or latkes. The tall blue alien with horns that hit the ceiling arrived in time to save Hannukah for my family, but he knows nothing about cooking...
  • Shadow Assassin by Erin Raegan

    Shadow Assassin by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    London Taken from my home. Imprisoned on an alien planet. Toyed with. Moved around like a pawn. Terrified. Angry. These are all things that sum up the last few days of my life. Confused. Curious. Anxious. Captivated. All the things that sum up the days that follow. I don’t know what’s going to happen from today to tomorrow. All I know for sure is that I hate him. He infuriates me...
  • The New King by Erin Raegan

    The New King by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mona It’s been a long time since I felt safe. Too long. You would think after all I’ve been through at the hands of an alien monster it would be difficult for me to live near them. That it would be difficult to live under their roof. To sleep near them. To eat their food. To talk to them. The Dahk may not be the Juldo, but they are still alien to me. They are frightening and different from me...
  • Alien Mate by Sadie Carter

    Alien Mate by Sadie Carter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With all the drama and trouble behind her, Zoey is looking forward to arriving on Zerconia and settling down into a normal life as Dex’s mate. Normal? What was she thinking? There is nothing normal about being mated to a sinfully sexy, often times arrogant and overprotective Zerconian warrior. But then normal is overrated, right? Trouble follows Zoey to Zerconia, threatening her very life...
  • Caveman Alien’s Trick by Calista Skye

    Caveman Alien’s Trick by Calista Skye

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Phoebe... A caveman tricked me! It was the oldest trick in the book. And I fell for it! I’m inside a pitch black leather sack, being carried away from my village and the other Earth girls. I scream and kick, but nobody can hear me! I know what this means. The giant caveman carrying me is taking me to his tribe... I’m the only woman he’s been this close to...
  • 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  humor  paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  ai
  • Switched by Evangeline Anderson

    Switched by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A warrior with a talent that could get him killedA girl transported to a new existence with no warningWhen the two of them trade lives, it places them in mortal peril...
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    aliens  humor  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Draekon Heart by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Heart by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There might be a way out of the prison planet... The only problem? I don't want to go! Back on Earth is a man who wants to kill me. Back on Earth, I slept with a knife under my pillow to be safe! There's no coffee on the prison planet! No pizza! No chocolate! I should be thrilled that there might be a way back home. Except I don't want to return. Here, I feel safe...
  • Tribe Protector by Stacy Jones

    Tribe Protector by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lily thought she had her hands full with her conflicted feelings over her quickly progressing relationship with Arruk’s wild twin, Drrak, the uneasy truce with the tribe leader, and trying to prove she’s trustworthy to a people who want nothing to do with her. But all that pales in comparison to what’s coming...
  • Tempest by Poppy Rhys

    Tempest by Poppy Rhys

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They can't break me.I wasn't prepared for what came after I got arrested and sent to prison. Finding my sister in that hellhole should've been easy.I wasn't prepared to survive an alien planet straight out of a prehistoric nightmare. Facing my fears to withstand the creatures that wanted to eat me, and the four alien men that watched me like a morsel they wanted to sink their teeth into..
  • Draekon Abduction by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Abduction by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    How 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...
  • 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...
  • Tribe by Stacy Jones

    Tribe by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Despite being dumped on a primitive alien world, Lily is adapting to life there, with the help of Frrar, Tor, and Arruk. But they can’t stay in the safety of the caves forever. The flood waters have receded and it’s time to join the rest of the tribe… While traveling, their group meets a familiar face from Arruk’s past – a man half feral and covered in vicious scars...
  • Good Deeds by Kathryn Moon

    Good Deeds by Kathryn Moon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Nötchka Uumian, solo-scavenger and pilot, only came to Bandalier for business. But when her first ever heat cycle hits, she has two choices: get off the planet or find somewhere safe to ride out the heatburns. Determined to never end up mated and trapped in a kitchen, she heads into the Droid district...
  • The Tigrens' Glory by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Tigrens' Glory by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Planet Jasan is mobilizing for war against the evil Xanti, enemies of all. As the warriors of Jasan prepare to strike across the immense void that separates the galaxies to end thousands of years of bloody conflict, into the gathering storm comes Warrior Princess, Gloriani of Ramouri, known as “Glory...
  • Her Alien Rogue by Presley Hall

    Her Alien Rogue by Presley Hall

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He claims we’re fated mates. But does that mean it’s true love?When Kaide declares—in front of the whole village, no less—that we’re fated mates, he acts like that’s the end of it. Like it’s all been decided, and we’ll just live happily ever after.Uhhh… not so fast, buddy.I barely know the guy...
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    aliens  alpha-mc  humor  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fated-mates
  • The Falcorans' Faith by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Falcorans' Faith by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    You could say that Faith Myers was one of the unluckiest women in The Thousand Worlds, but that would make her sound a lot luckier than she actually was. Her twin sister, Grace, died in an attack by the reptilian Brethren. Her parents were murdered...
  • Out of Bight, Out of Mind by Tymber Dalton

    Out of Bight, Out of Mind by Tymber Dalton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    [Siren Ménage Everlasting: Erotic Futuristic Sci-Fi Ménage a Quatre Romance, M/M/M/F, reverse harem, HEA]Emi Hypatia loves her job exploring the galaxy with her three husbands, Aaron Lucio, Caph Bates, and Ford Caliban. When a nonhuman crewman is temporarily assigned to the Tamora Bight for a mission, Emi hates and mistrusts him at first sight due to what her empath training tells her...
  • Ticees by Shae Mills

    Ticees by Shae Mills

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ripped from her world during a chance encounter with an alien landing party, Chelan MacKay suddenly finds herself on board the galactic battleship RIBUS 7. Korba, an ebony-clad god of war, the Iceanean Commander of RIBUS 7, is irresistibly drawn to her. Defying all the laws that govern his people, he risks all to make her his...
  • The Kindred Warrior's Captive Bride by Evangeline Anderson

    The Kindred Warrior's Captive Bride by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Needrix is a Kindred warrior with a tragic past. After losing his pregnant mate during childbirth, he has sworn never to even look at another female again. So he tells himself to ignore the auction going on where a lovely young woman is being sold. But when Need's disgusting crewmate, a three-headed Trollox called Drung, starts bidding on her, he knows he can't abandon her to such a cruel fate...
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    aliens  alpha-mc  humor  paranormal  steamy  adult  audiobook  book
  • Hunting Purity by Tracy Lauren

    Hunting Purity by Tracy Lauren

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stolen from her world, Purity can hardly fathom what’s going on around her. Released from a cage, face-to-face with apparent monsters… This has to be some kind of sick fraternity prank, because surely, she hasn’t been abducted by aliens. But when a scaled beast rescues her from certain death, regardless of appearances, she knows she’s found her hero...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  alpha-mc  dark  humor  paranormal  warriors  adult  barbarians
  • Rescued by the Alien Prince by Miranda Martin

    Rescued by the Alien Prince by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Senator Ling Richards is passionate about saving the Earth. So when she refuses to allow the latest mega-corporation the right to destroy one of the last nature reserves, it puts her very life in danger. To get their way, they'll kill Ling and all her allies...
  • Forbidden Alien Prince by Miranda Martin

    Forbidden Alien Prince by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Big, blue, ripped as sin and totally off limits. Drevakin Lo'ara, prince of a minor noble house, is desperate. He goes to the Celestial Mates dating agency in the hopes of fulfilling his dreams of finding his fated mate. The only problem is, unknown to everyone, the Celestial Mates agency has agreed that if a match is found, she goes to the prince of a major house...
  • The Space Merchants of Arachne by Wendie Nordgren

    The Space Merchants of Arachne by Wendie Nordgren

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Teagan Alaric Montgomery Lee has travelled through Galaxic space, married the man of her dreams, and gained the loving family she always has needed. However, news of her father’s capture and execution by the Parvac Empire throws Teagan’s life into turmoil. Fearing her Parvac grandfather, General Valen, plans to abduct her, Teagan is desperate to avoid her grandmother’s fate...
  • Waking Christmas by Viola Grace

    Waking Christmas by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After taking her courses and mastering the talents she was born with, Minya just wants to go home and hold her family close. When her drop pod spins out of control and lands her in the dead zone, she doesn’t know how she is going to survive in the ice and snow. She can’t communicate with family and she doesn’t know where she is, so following her instincts and hiking for the distant hills...
  • Submitting to the Shadow by Evangeline Anderson

    Submitting to the Shadow by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A human girl, desperate for a job...A Warrior who demands her complete submission...Can Sammi give herself over to Roark?And can Roark save her from a deadly fate?Read Submitting to the Shadow to find out…Samantha Grey is in deep trouble—someone is stalking her and he’s getting closer every day. Desperate to escape, she goes to the one place she knows she can’t be followed—the Kindred Mother Ship...
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    aliens  humor  paranormal  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Victoria's Discovery by Stacy Jones

    Victoria's Discovery by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Turns out getting abducted by aliens isn’t the worst thing ever. Terrifying at first, of course, because Victoria doesn’t know why she and the rest of the captives have been taken, but when they aren’t immediately set upon with probes and horrible experimentation, it’s not looking so awful.That is, until something goes wrong.Crash landing is bad. Finding out it’s on an alien slave planet is worse...
  • 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...
  • American Werewolf in Space by Alisha Sunderland

    American Werewolf in Space by Alisha Sunderland

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On board this spaceship I’m only certain of two things:1. The movies lied to me.2. I’m about to mark an alien and take him like the beast I am. Look, I didn’t believe in aliens either — until I was abducted by them.Waking up on board a spacecraft among several other naked, terrified women prisoners mostly ruled out my government lab fears. Thank God...
  • The Alien Pirates' Treasure by Harpie Alexa, Charity Wells

    The Alien Pirates' Treasure by Harpie Alexa, Charity Wells

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They never expected to rescue a human from a terrible fate. And she never expected her life to be shanghaied by alien pirates and pregnancy…They most certainly weren’t supposed to fall in love!Polly always dreamed of a simple life. A job she enjoyed, and a loving family to call her own. But when she wakes in a lab, pregnant and surrounded by terrifying viktoids, her dreams turn to nightmares...
  • Sold to the Alien Mobsters by Corin Cain

    Sold to the Alien Mobsters by Corin Cain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Captured. Sold. Three brutal alien mobsters on the brink of war. A curvy heroine who won't give in. We're brought kicking and screaming to the alien auction house. I was supposed to be an artist. I was supposed to be a sculptor, creating beauty. Instead, I am reduced to nothing more than my body. The men who come to a slave auction care about one thing, and one thing only..
  • The Captain by Elaine Waters

    The Captain by Elaine Waters

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s hard enough being the only human on this alien planet with no memory of how I got here. I have no business being imprisoned by a military Captain. But here I am, handcuffed for weeks to a brooding, powerful warrior that’s convinced I’m a spy. I’ve been a servant at the Captain’s camp for months—cooking, cleaning, and living peacefully...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  warriors  steamy  paranormal  humor  dark  romance  sci-fi
  • Owned by Ivy Barrett

    Owned by Ivy Barrett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It will take two to tame her.Since Raina Hays was taken from Earth, she has not merely been told she will be shared by two aliens, she also gets so intensely, helplessly aroused she can barely sleep at night. But when she's captured by a Torretian mercenary and brought aboard his vessel, her situation grows desperate...
  • Claimed for Their Use by Ivy Barrett

    Claimed for Their Use by Ivy Barrett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Held captive by a brutal drug cartel and facing an uncertain fate, the last thing Jessica Saint Claud expects is to be rescued by two huge, fiercely handsome alien warriors, but the real shock comes when the two Ventori commanders make it clear that she now belongs to them. They will use their beautiful little human as thoroughly as they please, and she will submit or be punished...
  • The Katres' Summer by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Katres' Summer by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The galactic adventure begun in The Dracons’ Woman and The Lobos’ HeartSong, takes everything to a new level in the most exciting installment yet in Laura Jo Phillips’ thrill-packed “Soul-Linked Saga,” The Katres’ Summer...
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