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  • Light Unfolding by Rebecca Royce

    Light Unfolding by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Reverse Harem Science Fiction Romance Time may be cruel, and space unforgiving, but their love is forever. Hurled across time and space, Waverly Sandler lives in unexpected exile on a planet doomed to be destroyed...
  • Enthralled by Tiffany Roberts

    Enthralled by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    He conquered her, but he is the one enthralled.Ketahn hadn’t wanted a mate. Fate gave him Ivy Foster. Now, he wants nothing more than to enjoy his little human.But fate is not content to make things so simple.With an enraged queen searching for him, Ketahn knows the Tangle is not safe for his mate. They need to leave. Yet Ivy will not forsake her people, and he cannot condemn her compassion...
  • Shattered Silence by Anna Carven

    Shattered Silence by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Enki Zakanin just wants peace and quiet. He's completed his mission, and on the journey back to the Kordolian Fleet Station, he'd prefer to be left alone so he can manage the literal demon inside his head. Alone. So when a strange distress call breaks the silence, his first instinct is to ignore the signal...
  • Broken Dreamer by Viola Grace

    Broken Dreamer by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Led by her dreams, she finds her way into the stars where fate conspires to put her exactly where she needs to be, in a hero’s path.When her parents died, Lyra was untethered. She left school, followed her dreams, and focused on keeping herself alive. She is not a fan of people and enjoys being alone...
  • Dark Demise by Rebecca Royce

    Dark Demise by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Reverse Harem (MFMMM) RomanceTime isn’t kind… Waverly Sandler is nothing like her mad father. She’s a nurse. She takes care of people. She is fighting to live down her name. She’s also a sister, a friend, and someday, if the universe is kind, she hopes to be a lover and a wife. Life at The Farm is one of constant activity, because freedom exacts a high price...
  • Taking Vengeance by Cynthia Sax

    Taking Vengeance by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only force stronger than their hate is their love. Vengeance hates all humans. They killed every being he ever cared about. When the huge C Model cyborg is told he’s genetically compatible with the enemy, he makes it his mission to capture the female and use her to expel all humans from his home planet. That should be disappointingly easy. She’s a weak, fragile human...
  • Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett

    Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His career plan never included becoming one of the galaxy's most infamous treasure hunters. And it certainly never included his one weakness: Nera Darc.Astro-archeologist Niklas Phoenix loved his job studying and safeguarding artifacts at the Institute of Historical Preservation...until he learned that it was all a lie...
  • Touch of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Touch of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    She’ll do anything to free her sister and save the Earth from invasion, even if she’s blackmailed into stealing sacred alien artifacts…and becomes the prey of the dark, deadly warrior sent to hunt her down.Special Forces Space Marine Lara Traynor wants to save her sister and her planet from annihilation by the deadly insectoid Kantos...
  • Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I was abducted, sold, then crash-landed on a strange planet... only to be abducted again.  And you know the funny thing? I barely even care.I’m numb. You see, I’ve already lost everything. When you’re doing something you love, you never think that it could be the last time. That someone might take your life from you and leave you stranded on a planet where most of the locals are out to get you...
  • Crashing Into Destiny by Rebecca Royce

    Crashing Into Destiny by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When one man can't steal her heart, She gives it to five of them. Restless and uncertain, Diana Mallory has no idea what path in life she wants to take. Unable to choose between marriage, pursuing a career, or spending her life praying with the Sisters of the Universe, Diana struggles with the course of her future. But when she's thrown through a black hole, her choices all vanish...
  • Imperator by Anna Hackett

    Imperator by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Space station security specialist Sam has done one thing since her abduction by alien slavers… fight to survive. But now one strong alien gladiator stands at her side and Sam knows she is no longer alone. Thrust into a lawless desert arena, Sam Santos has done terrible things in order to stay alive. As the Champion of Zaabha, she’s been fighting to find a way out...
  • 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...
  • Champion by Anna Hackett

    Champion by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…Space marine Blaine Strong enjoyed being a composed, controlled member of space station security…until he was abducted by alien slavers. Forced into underground fight rings and pumped full of drugs, he’s now seething with anger and out for revenge...
  • Stealing Her Heart by Evangeline Anderson

    Stealing Her Heart by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Kindred thief who longs for a female to love... An abandoned woman, trying to start again... When the two of them are thrown together, sparks fly. But what happens when Vicky has to pretend she's a professor Who teaches sexual techniques to younger men? You'll have to read Stealing Her Heart to find out. Vicky Erickson is having a lousy Valentine’s Day...
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    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Designed Collision by Viola Grace

    Designed Collision by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A stranger walks through the woods and offers to take her from her broken world. Hell yes. With conditions.With the asteroid looming, she makes a run for a family farm and the animals therein. After the crash with communications cut off, she lives a routine of subsistence and survival with no other soul to speak to...
  • 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...
  • Alien Paladin's Woman by Vi Voxley

    Alien Paladin's Woman by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes, what the galaxy needs is a hero no one's ever heard of. Tieran, the Commander of the Palian paladins, has never been allowed to have anything of his own, other than the blade in his hands and the honor he serves with. But a feisty, curvy, and utterly impossible human woman is about to change all that...
  • Saving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Saving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paloma McQueen is a woman on a mission. Loving the Sandler brothers in the midst of a war tearing their galaxy apart never promised to be easy but Paloma swore an oath to her husbands. Their challenges are hers, their war hers, their happiness… Everything she is and will be, she plans to be with them no matter what changes the conflicts wrought on the map...
  • Taken by Harmony Raines

    Taken by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chrissi always dreamed of being an astronaut, just like her dad, devoting her whole life to Operation Saviour, the human race’s last ditch attempt to find a new home. But days before her first launch, the project was cancelled, leaving her to pick up the pieces of her life. All thanks to the arrival of the Karal...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  warriors  adult  book  fiction  fighter
  • 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...
  • Tyr: Warriors of Firosa Book 2  (Warrior of Firosa) by Thanika Hearth, Star Huntress

    Tyr: Warriors of Firosa Book 2 (Warrior of Firosa) by Thanika Hearth, Star Huntress

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is no life for a young, sweet, laughably frail human … one that happens to have the kind of feminine curves I want to press against me to see if she fits; with a scent like soft flowers and sweet spices. No. No life at all. Change always leads to trouble..
  • Reclaiming Their Love by Rebecca Royce

    Reclaiming Their Love by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Diana Mallory lost everything when her five husbands were taken from her on the other side of the galaxy. Back on the Milky Way side of the black hole, she’s deep into the war for Mars Station. Diana will do anything for her family, but every day is a living hell without the loves of her life. She assumes she’ll never see them again...
  • Crashed on an Ice World by Anna Hackett

    Crashed on an Ice World by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s her boss. She’s his best friend. These two deep-space convoy security specialists are fighting their simmering attraction…until a starship crash on a deadly ice world changes everything.Elana Korra loves her security job as a medic on the convoy ship, the Sky Nomad…except for the fact that she’s in love with her boss...
  • 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...
  • Oryon by M.K. Eidem

    Oryon by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Please note this book was previously released in Love Without Boundaries (Tornians, #2.5)Lord Oryon and Lady Isis of House Rigel are returning home from a historic meeting of the Assembly of Lords. Their universe has drastically changed in the last weeks since they arrived on Tornian and both are trying to adjust.For Oryon, he was amazed how his Isis had blossomed...
  • Chasing Mayhem by Cynthia Sax

    Chasing Mayhem by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wild. Free. Hers. Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on...
  • Zephyr by Miranda Bridges, Kyra Snow

    Zephyr by Miranda Bridges, Kyra Snow

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This story is about Daxis discovering he's mated to a human female. And he is not happy about it. Actually, that's an understatement...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  ai  alpha-mc  book  fiction
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fiction  futuristic  mlm
  • Sithe by Starla Night

    Sithe by Starla Night

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s a routine mission. Hunt down the ones who dared – dared – steal our sacred procreation metal from us, the rulers of the empire.The Arrisans conquered Earth in a day. They smashed into our helpless planet like a wrecking ball, and overnight, everything changed.That’s what our history books say.The truth is, I’ve never seen an Arrisan face-to-face...
  • Scarred by Susan Hayes

    Scarred by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Laesa Fen left her home planet, Tartarus, in search of a new life. A recently freed harem slave, she is finally traveling the galaxy and visiting the places she could only dream of while she was the property of a Tarin warlord. On her own for the first time, she is finally free to pursue her art and to discover who she is and what she wants out of life...
  • Playing Cards With Aliens by Erin Raegan

    Playing Cards With Aliens by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Small town. Small life. Smaller dreams.I’m content. Happy. It might not make sense to most people but this is the life I chose for myself.If there’s a small part of me that wants to travel and see the world, I’m okay with appeasing that desire with travel magazines and planning future vacations. I want this life and a life full of adventure. I don’t see why I can’t have both...
  • Star Breaker by Viola Grace

    Star Breaker by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With an asteroid heading to Morganti, Kale volunteers to retrieve the Star Breaker, a weapon that has the ability to shatter anything in it's way. When he takes possession he feels a familiar presence, a star's Avatar is trapped within the sphere. Carella has been waiting for her freedom, and when her sphere collides with the asteroid, she is naked, free, and in the mood to blow something up...
  • Shalia's Diary: Book 2 by Tracy St. John

    Shalia's Diary: Book 2 by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a compilation from the free serial story blog ‘Shalia’s Diary – A Clans of Kalquor Story’ by Tracy St. John. It is highly recommended you read Shalia’s Diary Book 1 before reading this story, which picks up immediately where that book left off. Told in the passages of her ongoing diary, Shalia Monroe’s adventures continue while she prepares to leave the dying Earth...
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    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  apocalyptic  book  dark  dystopia
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  warriors  adult  book  fiction  futuristic
  • Love on Impact by Alana Khan

    Love on Impact by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Abducted by space pirates to breed human women, Zoriss is one angry male when he hits atmosphere. After breaking his bonds and stealing an escape pod, he crash lands in remote Idaho. When Lumina rescues him, their bodies communicate beautifully, but with translator troubles, could he ever grow to trust her? Lumina It’s been ninety years since the last man was born on Earth...
  • 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...
  • Alien Guardian's Baby by Luna Hunter

    Alien Guardian's Baby by Luna Hunter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can their interstellar romance prevent a galactic war? Where no human has gone before Isabella Parker is en route to Vortex Station in response to a mysterious message on her datapad...
  • Alien Mine by Sadie Carter

    Alien Mine by Sadie Carter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She was his mate.He hadn’t touched her. Had barely spoken to her. But the moment Thor saw her he had known.She was his.But there was something in her eyes that warned him to go slow. That old demons still held her in their grasp.It would take time and patience to convince her that they were meant to be together.Unfortunately, he had neither on his side...
  • Alien Sacrifice by Sadie Carter

    Alien Sacrifice by Sadie Carter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sent to Zerconia as a spy, Annabel is certain she’ll discover some nefarious plot to lure human women to Zerconia. Instead, she encounters a race of honorable, protective, gorgeous Alpha aliens.Not that she's attracted to any of them. Nope, not at all. Particularly not arrogant, grouchy, stick-in-the-mud Macon.Macon has his future mapped out. He likes his life well-ordered...
  • Found by Harmony Raines

    Found by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Karalian warrior, Rikka, is devoted to his species and the Hier Council who rule them. He knows his loyalty is to the Karal first, his mission second and everything else is expendable. But sent into deep space with a female from Earth, it is not only a new planet Rikka finds...
  • 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  paranormal  steamy  warriors  adult  alpha-mc  book  female-mc
  • Stowaway by Susan Hayes

    Stowaway by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sonja Grekov has spent her life in a gilded cage, trapped by her wealthy family’s expectations and the scroll tattoo on her face that declares her to be one of the coveted fertile women on Earth. No longer willing to be a pawn to further her parents’ ambition, she finally finds the courage to break free before she can be claimed in a loveless match...
  • Stud by Cheryl Brooks

    Stud by Cheryl Brooks

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They're galaxies apart...but one force can bring them together Even for a Zetithian, Tarq Zulveidinoe's sexual prowess is legendary. Believing it's all he's good for, Tarq sets out to perpetuate his threatened species by offering his services to women across the galaxy...
  • Finding the Jewel by Evangeline Anderson

    Finding the Jewel by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is a Kindred Tales PLUS novel--95,000 words A warrior has a choice to make: Rescue the woman he loves Or complete a quest to heal himself Which will he choice? You’ll have to read Finding the Jewel to find out Chloe Deems is a plus sized girl with pink hair and an attitude –she owns her curves...
  • Kayzon's Wish by Michele Mills

    Kayzon's Wish by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kayzon of Twenty-Six is beastly. Small offspring cry at the sight of his hulking frame and the vicious scar that bisects the right side of his face. Banished from his home world and deemed unworthy of a Bride—his mere presence strikes fear into the hearts of most beings. Except for one fierce, tiny female. She alone is unafraid...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  adult  book  family  fiction  futuristic  space
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