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  • A Kiss of Frost by Honey Phillips

    A Kiss of Frost by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Can the warmth of the holiday season thaw an alien warrior’s frozen heart?When Katerina is faced with an unwanted marriage, she takes her younger sister and runs, only to discover a small band of misfits hiding in some ancient ruins. Their fight for survival grows even harder as the holidays approach - until a massive horned warrior appears in their camp...
  • The Strip Down by Honey Phillips

    The Strip Down by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can Amanda discover the secrets behind an alien ruin? And the mysterious alien with the haunted eyes?Amanda is happy with her life as an elementary school teacher - and making plans to expand her family. Waking up naked and alone on an alien planet is not on her schedule.Desperate to return to Earth, she reluctantly accepts the help of the massive alien who appears out of the sands...
  • Scarred by Tana Stone

    Scarred by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when a tough, Drexian captain gets trapped on an alien planet with the human tribute bride he’s supposed to rescue? Without his clothes.Brok has vowed to track down the pretty human who was snatched by space pirates and return her to be matched with a Drexian warrior. One who isn’t battle-scarred and damaged, like him...
  • Sakar by Ella Blake

    Sakar by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My two girls and I are going to be snowed in for Christmas and that’s fine with us, until an alien spacecraft crashes behind our wooded Maine home. I take the gorgeous Virilian, Prince Sakar, home with me. He’s injured and tracking an endangered alien dog with a taste for my neighbor’s goats...
  • Forbidden by Tana Stone

    Forbidden by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Be a tribute bride for some brawny alien warrior? Not on your life. Ella is one of the few human females who rejected her Drexian warrior match. Sent to live with the other “rejects” in a special part of the high-tech space station, she has no desire to have her life dictated by a bunch of alphas on steroids. And no way would she ever be charmed by an alien playboy...
  • Dragon's Redemption by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Redemption by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jormund I have to have her. These other males can't care for her the way I will. They'll try to get her back, of course. What else could they do? I'll have to outsmart them to keep her. And keep her I will. She-who-is-mine will see, eventually. We are fated. She is my heart and my soul. Delilah I'm resigned to my life alone. Well, not really alone...
  • Kensho by Lyn Gala

    Kensho by Lyn Gala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kensho and Other Short Tales and Tails from the Claimings UniverseLiam and Ondry have a stable relationship. However, the universe continues to move on even when their unconventional romance has settled into a comfortable partnership. Humans and Rownt struggle to find a place of mutual respect and understanding. Assumptions on each side make that difficult...
  • Alien Pirate's Plunder by Ava Ross

    Alien Pirate's Plunder by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alien pirate promises to give me a child. But what if he steals my heart?Aliens are real and they’re eager to Slake. What’s Slaking, you ask? It seems Xilan males go into a voracious heat period every three years, and there aren’t enough females to fulfill the needs of these beastly aliens. Enter me and other Earth females eager to have children...
  • Alien Ruler Needs a Nanny by Tasha Black

    Alien Ruler Needs a Nanny by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s in charge of an entire planet, but only she can rule his heart…Ba’shir Kreed is a hardworking single dad who also happens to be the leader of a planet of two billion souls. He is used to dealing with any issue that comes along. But he knows he’s got real problems the minute he lays eyes on his kids’ new Terran nanny...
  • The Start of Time by Marilyn Foxworthy

    The Start of Time by Marilyn Foxworthy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was my second day on the ‘Red Planet’. Today I’d better find water. That had been the instructions in the box: learn to walk; find Water; make a weapon; find a nice Martian girl to teach you to speak the language. I figured that finding food would be a good idea too. It wasn’t exactly like I had expected, but how could it be? I had followed an unbelievable path to an unbelievable destination...
  • Conquering the Alien Commander by Bella Blair

    Conquering the Alien Commander by Bella Blair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Whatever it takes, I will never leave HER!ASHLEY: Taken by the Cryons during a rescue mission gone wrong, I thought my life was over. I prepared myself to die on an alien planet, swearing I would take some of the hateful Cryons with me.But a chance to escape leads me right into the arms of the Pandraxian’s superior commander, who claims I’m his mekarry—soulmate...
  • Jace: Alien Adoption Agency #12 by Tasha Black

    Jace: Alien Adoption Agency #12 by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This grumpy soldier wants to guard her life, but she only wants to guard her heart.Jace’s glorious career as an Invicta warrior is cut short when he is assigned guard duty for a tiny alien baby. Just because he’s a glorified nanny for the frustratingly irresistible little bundle, doesn’t mean he has forgotten his duty...
  • Alien Savage's Stolen Bride by Juno Wells

    Alien Savage's Stolen Bride by Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rebecca While fleeing a dying Earth I've endured cold, hunger and thirst. The one bright spot in my nightmare is my friend and fellow red-head, Willow. I've never had a friend like her before, one who I'd do anything for and she'd do the same for me. We're traveling to the Draconian home-world to accept an offer of sanctuary. Of course nothing in the universe is free...
  • Dragon's Gift by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Gift by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Celebrate the holidays on Tajss Maeve doesn't believe in fate and certainly not one that involves her and Padraig, the enormous and domineering alien dragon. His overly protective and possessive nature rubs her the wrong way. Padraig is certain the fiercely independent human female is the only one for him. His inner dragon has decided and the burly smith knows fate's hand when he feels it...
  • Dragon's Wish by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Wish by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I am a Zmaj hunter and so have only one purpose in life. The feeding and protection of The Tribe is my duty and my honor. Except I have been spending more and more time in The City, entranced by the spirit of the human female Addison. The primal dragon at the core of all Zmaj males fights for dominance over my iron will. It would claim the shy and intelligent beauty at any cost...
  • Bioluminescent by Auryn Hadley

    Bioluminescent by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They look like us, know all about us, and can even blend in perfectly. That doesn't make them human.When an alien science vessel crashes into the shore of Haven, Hailey has a front row seat. Little does she know that her normal life is about to be turned upside down by the man she bumps into on her way home. He looks completely human.He isn't. He also can't stop thinking about her...
  • Hunter: Desert Hunter / Alien Hunter / Galactic Gladiator Christmas by Anna Hackett

    Hunter: Desert Hunter / Alien Hunter / Galactic Gladiator Christmas by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From the dangerous desert sands to the deadly glitz of the city, the lawless desert planet of Carthago is filled with lethal hunters risking it all for the women who capture their hearts. HUNTER contains two novellas and one short story all set in the Galactic Gladiators series...
  • Native by Stacy Jones

    Native by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was destined to die. Until she changed his fate.Atuk is doomed to die a slow death with his harem brothers, pining for the lost female he didn’t love and who had never wanted him. And then he meets her.Being named a healer gives Lily a place among the tribe and provides protection for herself, her mates—Frrar, Tor, Arruk, and Drrak—and the two shevari children they’ve adopted...
  • Alien Alliance by Honey Phillips

    Alien Alliance by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lizabet always knew she wanted an alien warrior of her own, but can she handle two of them?Tired of waiting for T'kol to decide she's ready, Lizabet is determined to move on with her life and leave the massive horned warrior behind. However, an unexpected blizzard and a wrecked alien flyer alter more than her destination...
  • Chained to the Stryxian by Ella Blake

    Chained to the Stryxian by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Arus Bor'vak understands machines better than people. He likes them better, too, so when human women begin to populate the Stryxian settlements, he finds it best to give them a wide berth. They’re beautiful, soft, and utterly incomprehensible, and none captures his attention like Keira Becker, the strong ex-lieutenant who makes him lose his tongue in her presence...
  • A Nude Attitude by Honey Phillips

    A Nude Attitude by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can Erica survive the hidden dangers of an alien ocean? And the charms of the alien convict stranded with her?Erica desperately needs a break from her domineering father - especially his latest scheme to marry her off so she can produce an heir...
  • The Buff Beast by Honey Phillips

    The Buff Beast by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can Mina survive the icy cold of an alien winter? And melt the heart of the hardened alien warrior who rescues her?Her home. Her job. In a few short months, Mina has lost everything, including hope. Freezing and alone on a winter night, she isn't sure if she will make it to the next day. Or even if it matters.She wakes up to find herself naked and freezing, but no longer alone...
  • Paladin by Anna Hackett

    Paladin by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A cyborg drowning in emotions and an abducted Earth woman trying not to feel.Abducted, enslaved, and constantly worried for her daughter, scientist Dr. Simone Li has had a rough few months. Now that she and her daughter, Grace, have been rescued by the fierce cyborgs of the House of Rone, she’s trying to make a life for them on the desert world of Carthago...
  • Lily and the Lion by Honey Phillips

    Lily and the Lion by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A wealthy, bored alien. A fierce, unlucky woman. A primitive hunting planet. Let the games begin!Lily has never been lucky - not with jobs, not with money, and certainly not with men. Her bad luck continues when she is first abducted by aliens, then shoved into an escape pod and abandoned on a jungle planet.The enormous, and admittedly gorgeous, alien who finds her seems as much beast as man...
  • Hanna and the Hitman by Honey Phillips

    Hanna and the Hitman by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An alien assassin. A forgotten human. A planet determined to claim them both.Since being kidnapped from Earth, Hanna has been treated as little more than a performing animal. Her latest indignity is being displayed in a cage in a seedy bar. When a massive alien warrior stops to examine her, she expects the worst.To her shock, the warrior frees her instead...
  • A Son for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn

    A Son for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Can she create a new family with an alien warrior?On the anniversary of the disappearance of Mariah’s sister and nephew, Mariah returns to their last known location, expecting to find only painful memories. Instead, she encounters an alien spaceship and recklessly sneaks aboard, taking one last chance to be reunited with her family...
  • Ransomed by Tana Stone

    Ransomed by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Trista expects her alien warrior mate to be big and gorgeous. She doesn't expect him to take her hostage. She's already been abducted from Earth to be a tribute bride for the Drexian warriors, and Trista has finally gotten used to the idea of marrying a brawny alien warrior. Sort of. He has to be better than the awful guys from home she’s been trying so hard to forget...
  • Tempted by an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross

    Tempted by an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She hates him (not really). He hates her (not really?). But when she's kidnapped by the duskhorde, he mounts a bold rescue, only to be captured himself. Can they escape and find true love together?Zetar: After losing my mate to the disease, I promised never to love another. Then I meet Josie. She’s full of fire, and she tests my patience...
  • Axall by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Axall by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He won’t leave Earth without her.After awakening from cryosleep, Rachel struggles to find her place in a strange new world. Earth isn’t the way she remembers it. Not even close. For starters, humans have made contact with real live aliens. Before she can wrap her head around all the changes, a bossy Vaxxlian warrior shows up in her bedroom claiming to be her mate...
  • Myadd by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Myadd by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The huge alien warrior wants to keep her forever.Pregnant and alone, Sienna feels she has no choice but to sign up for Vaxxlian Mail Order Brides. She’ll have to marry a complete stranger, but she’s desperate to provide a real future for her unborn child. When she meets Myadd, she experiences the first glimmer of hope in ages...
  • Stolen by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Stolen by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    STOLEN FROM AUCTION Khrys My career is on the line here. King Zander demoted me.The planet is in crisis over a viral epidemic affecting the human half-breeds.If I could get my hands on the genetically modified humanshe could be the answer to both problems.But I didn’t expect to fall for the feisty little femalewho stole my heart while I stole her body. Kailani I’m an upgraded human...
  • Derrix by Ava York

    Derrix by Ava York

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Derrix figured a mate would be nothing but asking for trouble.For heartache.Heartbreak. When the teleporter delivers another luscious human female, he can only hope she's not for him.But she is. And unlike the other women, she's happy and excited about her new adventure. They're about to move into a new, dangerous phase of the mission...
  • Enemy of the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Enemy of the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ll do whatever it takes to destroy the Bride Games.A year ago, I did the unthinkable.I helped a woman running from the Alien Bride Lottery.I spent three months in a federal prison for it, too.As soon as I got out, a secret organization recruited me. Our goal is to end the Bride Lottery program forever.So when my name is drawn in the Lottery this year, I know it’s a setup...
  • Actress for an Alien Prince by Roxie Ray

    Actress for an Alien Prince by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The paparazzi is hounding me, my fiancé cheated on me, and I’m sick of living up to everyone else’s expectations. Former child star syndrome much? Yeah, I’ve got a chronic diagnosis.Is running away to another planet drastic? Maybe. But I’m ready and couldn’t be happier to sign my name on IEP’s dotted line. Luckily, I land a sweet job as an assistant on Tracarox...
  • Piper (Alien Surrogate Agency #1) by Tasha Black

    Piper (Alien Surrogate Agency #1) by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She signed up to give him an heir, but what he really wants is her heart.Piper’s infertility sent her childhood sweetheart into the arms of another woman. Now she’s cashing in her credits at the local fertility clinic so she can do the traveling she’s always dreamed of.But when the clinic offers her a secret third option, she can’t resist...
  • Her Fearless Warrior by Roxie Ray

    Her Fearless Warrior by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love ruins everything.I saw it with my parents.I swore it would never happen to me.But Gallix makes me feel things I never imagined.He awakens desires I didn’t know were possible.I want him from the first moment I see him.The bad boy warrior is all wrong for me, but my heart knows he’s my mate.How am I going to resist that?They want a perfect, untouched human.I can’t stop myself from wanting Eve...
  • Stranded by Heather Fox

    Stranded by Heather Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Liv: Being in a spaceship crash wasn’t on my agenda. I’m meant to be on Alpha Colony, hunting for clues to my sister’s disappearance. Instead, me and twelve other women are stranded on the outskirts of a jungle on a planet we know nothing about, where the flora and fauna are both out to get us...
  • Drex by Ella Blake

    Drex by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Madison McGurdy didn’t enter herself into the selection process to become mistress to a powerful Virilian male for the money. She did it to escape. When your obsessed ex is one of the most ruthless men in the world and there’s no place on Earth to hide from him (because you’ve tried), going to a faraway planet sounds like an adventure and a chance for a fresh start...
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  • Crashed by Kiki Burrelli

    Crashed by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forced together, they are castaways on an unknown planet. The last thing Tannish knew, he was in a nightclub, dancing the night away and pretending his life was fine. But, the moment Tannish feels the warmth of Enzo's arms, he finally feels like he's home. An unbreakable bond that comes with a powerful new ability Until now, Enzo's first passion has always been medicine...
  • Theirs to Control by Ivy Barrett

    Theirs to Control by Ivy Barrett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To Bailey Mitchell, the Kobar were just test subjects… until she was taken for breeding.Studying a huge, intimidatingly sexy alien in the safety of her science lab was one thing. Being carried off over his shoulder with her bottom already burning was something else entirely.Now her specimen has made himself her master, and he won’t be keeping her for his use alone...
  • Nkarri by Annabelle Rex

    Nkarri by Annabelle Rex

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was as if his focus narrowed, the rest of the people in the room fading out as he took her in...Jas has spent years regrowing her confidence after getting burned by her ex. Now she has great friends, a beautiful home and a successful career - everything she thought she needed...
  • Raith by Annabelle Rex

    Raith by Annabelle Rex

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If he suggested it, she was absolutely going to unwrap him like a Christmas present.Mia made a promise to always attend her family’s Christmas ‘gathering’. Hard to call it a party when they’re about as much fun as a funeral. It’s the same thing every year...
  • Ragoru by S.J. Sanders

    Ragoru by S.J. Sanders

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hundreds of years before RedCivilization is failing in a steady decline. In a last-ditch effort to save themselves, humanity has turned to trying to understand their world even as they seek to protect themselves from the monsters within it...
  • Rescued by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rescued by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Humans lie. I learned that lesson once before.I thought I found a mate, but she betrayed us all.I won't let that happen again.Not even when I find Sia and four other females nearly dead on a defunct planet.Not when the lovely female is remanded to my custody.She's not being honest about what she knows.But with a little pressure, a little punishment, I might get her to talk.Teach her to obey...
  • Stranded by the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Stranded by the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's not the warrior I wanted. But now we're stranded together, and I can't quit thinking about him.I made it all the way through the Alien Bride Games without being chosen by a Khanavai male, even though I'm certain it's the only way I'll ever find anything resembling love...
  • Cheating in the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Cheating in the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I have no desire to join the Alien Bride Lottery.But even more than that, I don't want my parents to choose a husband for me. And that's what will happen if I stay on Earth.So I make a deal with them: if I go to Station 21 and don't get chosen by a Khanavai male, I will come home and allow them to plan the rest of my life...
  • Asia's Fate by Miranda Martin

    Asia's Fate by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's an old saying that no plan survives contact with the enemy. But what if the enemy is your fated mate?AsiaFalling in love wasn’t part of the plan.I was supposed to be "captured", gather intel from the inside, then be rescued and returned to safety.But the moment I saw the enormous, electric blue scaled alien dragon warrior, my heart leapt into my throat...
  • Space Fighter's Mate by Lynnea Lee

    Space Fighter's Mate by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chloe always wanted to travel, so when she’s offered a job on board a luxury cruise vessel, she immediately accepts. The Star Beauty tours on beautiful, untamed planets, serves delicious meals, and offers amazing pay. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime until she finds herself running from space pirates on a lawless moon...
  • Belle's Knight in Shining Armor by Miranda Martin

    Belle's Knight in Shining Armor by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bahr is my happily ever after.The seven feet tall, Adonis built alien Zmaj men know the moment they set eyes on someone that they're their one true pairing. Or that’s the way it’s supposed to work. And I’m all in.The human survivors have a simple plan to escape from the evil of the Order to a new home. Lucky for me, I get to travel with Bahr...
  • Slate by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Slate by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    They weren't supposed to fall in love...Still grieving the loss of his former mate, alien warrior Slate arrives on Earth with no intention of falling in love with the human female he's agreed to marry...
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