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  • Rebel by Jenny Schwartz

    Rebel by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Life is complicated along the Hadrian Line. Decisions made on the border will decide the fate of the entire Human Sector.Nora is adjusting to her new role as a player in the games of the powerful. She's gained some interesting enemies and some even more dubious allies. She has also been presented with a unique opportunity, courtesy of Jonah...
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    aliens  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  ai  angst  book  cyberpunk
  • I Married a Mothman by Regine Abel

    I Married a Mothman by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s everything she never knew she wanted.When Venus embarked on a luxury cruise, she never expected to rescue a young Promethean demi-god—or that he’d bind her as his guardian...
  • Loving Zorn (Zorn Warriors, #1-2) by Laurann Dohner

    Loving Zorn (Zorn Warriors, #1-2) by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ral's WomanAriel never knew aliens existed until she finds herself kidnapped and taken from Earth. When the Anzon declare humans useless, she learns her fate-prize for the winner of a brutal fight between large, muscled alien men. Ral is a Zorn warrior. He has also been kidnapped by the Anzon, along with his crew. Forced into slavery, he's got one thing on his mind-freeing his people...
  • Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews

    Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The World of KinsmenFamily is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet.In a distant, future world Kinsmen—small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families—control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield..
  • Demons Don't Duel by Hannah Walker

    Demons Don't Duel by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dea's life is all about his role as a commander of a battlecruiser. At the height of his career, he can take command of any ship he wants, he's well respected, and surrounded by friends and family. Yet, something has been missing for a long time. Part of his soul was left behind at the academy, with someone he walked away from all those years ago. Uri loves control...
  • Big Dicker by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Big Dicker by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Mighty Minions Resort. Jimmy’s personal hell. All Jimmy wants is a booster shot of DNA scrambler so he never has to find his one-true soul mate. But life rarely goes the way you plan it. After dropping Xyla off on Blue Sand Beach for a little vacay with her sexbot girlfriends the Big Dicker has to make an emergency landing on the demon-themed Mighty Minions Resort...
  • A Monster's Fate by Lynnea Lee

    A Monster's Fate by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    KAT My prestigious new job as the assistant to a colony leader starts as an honor. Then I stumble across the colony’s dirty little secrets. Hell-bent on exposing the atrocities, I reach out to a rebel group to feed them information. Too quickly, the jig is up. I manage one last message to my rebel contact, Zach, before I’m locked in the mad councilman’s basement...
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    aliens  paranormal  psychics  romance  sci-fi  monsters  demons  space
  • The Fractured Mate by Susan Trombley

    The Fractured Mate by Susan Trombley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a captive of aliens, Paisley is forced to work as an engineering assistant on an ancient wrecker starship. She knows she has to keep her head down and her behavior humble in order to survive. When the crew responds to an automated distress call from an Akrellian warship that shouldn’t be malfunctioning, she senses a threat, but she knows no one will listen to her warnings...
  • Rita and the Raider by Honey Phillips

    Rita and the Raider by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every good mating begins with a kidnapping… Worvak was taught to value honor above all else. When his honor demanded he sacrifice everything to save a friend, he didn't hesitate. But then a dangerous mission leads him to a fragile, dirty female with enough courage for ten warriors - a female he would do anything to call his own. For the first time in his life, his honor and his heart are at war...
  • Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net...
  • 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...
  • Star's Storm by S.E. Smith

    Star's Storm by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Star Strauss has always been a fighter. From the time she was born prematurely to her life on the road as a circus performer. She has never let her small stature keep her from achieving her dreams. She is one of the best aerial performers in the world. Her love of being up high and flying free has helped her overcome the challenges she faces when she is on the ground...
  • Fire and Ice by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Fire and Ice by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    FIRE & ICE - Originally published in a stand alone ebook in 1998. Currently available in the OUT OF THIS WORLD anthology that features all the short stories Sherri wrote for Penguin. Livia is a Vistan princess who is to be married to an ambassador from a neighboring galaxy--a brutal man, many years her senior...
  • Seduced by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Seduced by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Okay, so he’s not really the devil, but he may as well be. The Tribe King is gorgeous, arrogant, and devious. He refused to hand over crucial information to help us find our friends until I agreed to stay with him. For a year.As far as I’m concerned, deals made under duress don’t count. Anyone who would demand such a thing in exchange for our friends’ freedom simply can’t be trusted...
  • Born of Vengeance by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Vengeance by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A fate worse than death . . .Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks...
  • 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...
  • Plundered by Tana Stone

    Plundered by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    My sister gave herself to the raider warlord to save me. Now I’m hunting him down and getting her back.I’ve never forgiven myself for letting that brute drag her off my ship, and I’ve done nothing but search for his horde of warships since he let my ship go free...
  • Into the Light by Anna Carven

    Into the Light by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Abbey When your mate is a Kordolian General who's betrayed the most vicious Empire in the Universe, things tend to get a little heavy from time to time. For the last six months, Tarak's had to divide his time between Earth and space, dealing with various... problems. But he's home now, and he tells me he's not going anywhere...
  • Salvation by Laurie Roma

    Salvation by Laurie Roma

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Officer Skylar Aris is a woman with a troubled past. As a Class-A Conduit, she is beautiful and deadly, making her stand out among the rest of the elite soldiers. She has worked hard to succeed as one of the only female interrogators in the Security and Interrogation Division, but everything she has dreamed of is put in jeopardy when she’s given an ultimatum that will change her fate...
  • Her Mate and Master by Renee Rose

    Her Mate and Master by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “I’m your master. When I give you an order, you obey.” Talia didn’t escape her slave master only to be shackled again. Not even by a sexy male built of solid muscle who does wicked things with his fingers and tongue. Not even one of her own species who says he knows her father--the father she doesn’t remember...
  • His Human Rebel by Michele Mills

    His Human Rebel by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a teeny incident with red paint, my hometown votes that it’s done with my activist ways . . .Now I’m on an entirely different planet, holding a single suitcase, standing on a platform, waiting for my new alien husband to arrive . . . I bite my lip as I wait because there’s one serious problem with this whole situation . . . after a best forgotten, one-night stand gone wrong . .
  • His Human Rebel by Renee Rose

    His Human Rebel by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    CONSCRIPTED BY AN ALIEN ARMY, SHE PLOTS HER ESCAPE… Cambry doesn’t believe the aliens’ propaganda for one minute. The Zandians may have saved her from one death, but they planned to send her to another. She bides her time, waiting for her chance to get away and find her brother, enslaved by a different species...
  • 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...
  • Dark Planet Warriors: Escape by Anna Carven

    Dark Planet Warriors: Escape by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Abbey Ever since we left the Fleet Station, Tarak has been his usual cryptic self. For some reason, he’s keeping everything very low-key, to the extent that we’re trying to sneak in to Kythia. Something’s up, and he’s not telling me anything. Every time I try to get answers, he distracts me with his stupid sexiness. Stupid sexy, silver, stubborn, insistent alien...
  • Claimed by the Cyborgs by Grace Goodwin

    Claimed by the Cyborgs by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Prillon warrior Thomar Arcas is the royal heir to his ancestor’s legacy of dishonor, betrayal and death. When he was captured by the Hive, some on his home world cheered. Some sighed with relief. None shed a tear.Thomar, along with his second, Varin, break free and destroy an enemy base, barely escaping with their lives. They transport to The Colony, the last refuge for contaminated males...
  • The Rogue Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    The Rogue Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Shapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Reid is always looking for a good time, and no woman is safe when he turns on the charm. When the opportunity arises to go on an ambassador’s trip, he jumps at the chance–especially when that trip includes exotic destinations and available women...
  • The Bound Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    The Bound Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Shapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Falke commands the Var armies, so it’s a little embarrassing when a beautiful female kidnaps him in his shifted form. Since no one knows where to send a rescue party, it’s up to him to use all his training and powers of seduction to find his way back home...
  • Infinity's Embrace by Anna Carven

    Infinity's Embrace by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Rescued from captivity by a group of rather intimidating Kordolians, Noa finds herself recovering at a strange facility in the middle of the desert. SynCorp's medical experiments have left her with an impossible ability she can't control, and nobody really seems to know how to help her. She's fragile and shattered, a mere shadow of her former self, and she has nowhere else to go...
  • Pursued by Evangeline Anderson

    Pursued by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Elise is fractured inside, stained by a past she refuses to remember.Merrick is scarred both inside and out, a half-breed with a brutal background, at home nowhere in the universe.Now they are tied together by an unstable bond which could kill them both.Their journey will take them to the lawless planet of Rageron—the wildest of all the Kindred worlds...
  • That Irresistible Poison by Alessandra Hazard

    That Irresistible Poison by Alessandra Hazard

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    "I hate you." Please touch me. "You sicken me." Hold me closer. "I want to be free of you." I can't live without you.The messed-up part is, he means everything he says.The youngest prince of his clan, Seyn has been betrothed to the crown prince of another clan since birth. Everyone says he's so lucky to marry one of the most respected, powerful men on the planet, but Seyn knows better...
  • The Lasaran by Dianne Duvall

    The Lasaran by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall brings readers the first novel in a thrilling new sci-fi series full of action, intrigue, humor, and romance.Taelon searches the galaxy for his younger sister, who mysteriously disappeared while on a diplomatic mission...
  • Revealed by Evangeline Anderson

    Revealed by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Book 5 in the Brides of the Kindred seriesThis book is a plus length novel--around 130,000 words longNadiah has the Sight—the ability to see into the future. But the one thing she can’t see is how she’s ever going to be free of the blood bond her parents forced her into when she was only six...
  • Shadowed by Evangeline Anderson

    Shadowed by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Reddix is a Kindred warrior with RTS—a debilitating disease that forces him to endure the emotions of others like a physical invasion every time he is around anyone. Nina is the girl he dreams of but can never have...
  • The Breeding Experiment by Laurann Dohner

    The Breeding Experiment by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Darla Mitts has been secretly protecting her younger sister, Becky, for years. She’ll do anything to continue, even if it means leaving their family to work on a United Earth fleet ship. She thinks they’ll be safe. She’s quickly proven wrong when the sisters’ transport shuttle is seized by aliens instead...
  • When She Purrs by Ruby Dixon

    When She Purrs by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Life on a farm planet at the edge of the universe can be dangerous for a human woman alone.That’s why I need a husband. ANY husband.Unfortunately, all the men I approach keep running off. So I hire a bounty hunter to kidnap me someone capable and strong, someone who will scare off the creeps that are trying to move in on my territory.It’ll be a marriage of convenience only...
  • Pegasus in Flight by Anne McCaffrey

    Pegasus in Flight by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind's stepping-stone to the stars, she was always ready to welcome new Talents to the Center...
  • Devoured by Evangeline Anderson

    Devoured by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Tess Hughes is on the run from her abusive ex-husband. The problem is, he’s a detective and there’s no place on Earth he can’t find her. Solution? Hide somewhere that’s not on Earth—the Kindred Mother Ship. That’s how she winds up posing as Pairing Puppet—one of the robotic mistresses that service the Unmated Males of the Kindred who need a little sexual stress release from time to time...
  • Descended by Evangeline Anderson

    Descended by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Charlotte Walker is just an intern trying to get through her surgical rotation in one piece when her life takes an abrupt turn for the weird. A seven-foot tall patient with multicolored eyes and golden skin shows up in the ER asking for her. When he tells Charlotte she's supposed to be the Empress of the entire galaxy, she naturally thinks he's high or crazy or both.He's not...
  • Out of Darkness by Anna Carven

    Out of Darkness by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The Kordolians are loose on the asteroid mining station Fortuna Tau, and first-rank mechanic Jia Morgan has become caught up in the thick of things. Under the careful watch of these steely-eyed silver warriors, Jia and her team have been tasked with repairing the hull of the Kordolians’ Alpha-Class battle cruiser, Silence...
  • Quest For the Moon Orb by Laura Jo Phillips

    Quest For the Moon Orb by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Quest for the Moon Orb is a full-length, 130,000 word novel...
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    aliens  paranormal  psychics  adult  alpha-mc  animals  book  cats
  • Haldis Imperium by Viola Grace

    Haldis Imperium by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Amy Tyrell has worked for the most arrogant, obnoxious, and handsome guy she has ever seen for the last few years. His Imperial Highness Palden VII was attached to his Negotiator Tyrell, and considered him his best friend. The armor that was worn by the Negotiators both protected her and kept her from contact, until it came off...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Revolution by Kali Argent

    Revolution by Kali Argent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    By all rights, Helios shifter Sion Jabari shouldn’t be on Xenthian. According to his own mother, he shouldn’t even be alive. His life hasn’t been an easy one, and after witnessing how greed and the desire for power can corrupt something as pure as love, he wants no part of it. When he takes a companion, he swears it will be for all the right reasons, and more importantly, it will be his choice...
  • 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...
  • Secret Baby for the Alien Dad by Athena Storm

    Secret Baby for the Alien Dad by Athena Storm

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To save my son, I’ll do anything……Even fall back in love with his father.I ran from Jax because I wanted to raise Nova without worry…Well, I’m worried now. Because Nova is missing.Someone has taken him and there’s only one alien warrior in the galaxy brutal and dangerous enough to help me...
  • 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...
  • Demons Don't Dream by Hannah Walker

    Demons Don't Dream by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being the Terran ambassador assigned to Kenistal, the Demon home world, is not a particularly easy posting. Caris Dealyn wants nothing more than to get this assignment done so he can continue searching for his missing Avanti friends...
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