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Dungeon Diving 104 by Bruce Sentar
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith Ken on the run and Crimson missing, he goes to the Elven world with Neldra and Fayeth to hide out until Crimson returns.Lady Rendral isn’t quite what he expected, her reclusive life leads her to happily accept Ken and Fayeth for the summer. But the future Empress of the Elven people isn’t without her own struggles... -
The Diamond Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLibrarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 20-Jul-2017.Baseball analyst is thrown a curveball when she is whisked back in time...And one of those curveballs is thrown by a blue-eyed pitcher!ESPN baseball analyst Amy Spalding is swept back in time by a magical brooch and finds herself in 1909 New York City... -
Deluge by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe Bettarinis and Forellis have found rich fulfillment together in medieval Italia. But after fighting off countless enemies, they now must face the worst foe of all... -
Where Wind Meets Wave by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrawn from Wyoming Territory for the first time in his life, Jake Costner sets off to find his destiny, leaving his love behind in Logan Meadows. NOVELLA Where Wind Meets Wave, Book 6 of the Prairie Hearts series by USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe, will keep you on the edge of your seat... -
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No Time Like The Past by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe fifth book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea.Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t call it “time travel”—these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time...Categorized as:
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Inspiration by Hondo Jinx
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWANT TO BE A CHAMPION? FIRST, YOU HAVE TO BECOME A CONTENDER.Murdered for helping a stranger, Johnny Rockledge awakens in Fight Town, a boxing-based VR system where he earns bonuses by pleasing subscribers living vicariously through him.Johnny grew up in Philly with five brothers, so he can fight. But can he box?If he wins, he will create a great life for himself and others... -
Bourne by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBOURNE picks up right where TORRENT left off...Find out what has happened to men returning from the battle, gravely wounded, to the Betarrinis, fighting for the men they love, and just who is hunting them next.. -
Cascade by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsWhat if you not only fell back through time...but fell in love, too?Gabi knows she's left her heart in the fourteenth century, and she persuades Lia to help her to return, even though they know doing so will risk their very lives... -
A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsSt Mary’s is back and is facing a battle to survive in this, the fourth instalment of the Chronicles. Max and Leon are re-united and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. But, sadly, they don’t even make it to lunchtime...Categorized as:
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The More I See You by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA wish upon a star transports the luckless-in-love Jessica Blakely back in time to the thirteenth century. But her desire for a fair and gallant knight yields the fearsome Richard De Galtres. And it will take her tender touch--and stubborn will--to pierce his armor-clad heart..Categorized as:
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Kalpar by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA ruthless alien, a lonely woman, and a dangerous plan…Constance has everything she could possibly want - everything except freedom. The material luxuries her father provides are no substitute, especially since his only interest in her is as a pawn in one of his games.When a massive alien warrior snatches her away from her gilded cage, she should be terrified... -
Entangled With You by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMagnus and Kaitlyn are trying to heal. To live. To love.But they're entangled in futures and pasts that threaten to pull them apart."You get scared?""Aye, sometimes. Mostly for ye. I am scared I winna be able tae keep ye safe."There are vessels that must be secured. A castle with walls that have been breached. A baby about to be born and a future that demands to be reckoned with... -
Space Rodeo by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the galactic frontier, the Federation’s wildest (and most scientific) citizens have gathered to ride in the Space Rodeo. The Navy’s in charge—of the arena. But beyond the naval perimeter, there is only Interstellar Sheriff Max Smith to keep the peace. Fortunately, he has some extraordinary allies. And enemies. And then, there is his girlfriend... -
S'kal by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA troubled alien, a runaway human, and a haunted past…Evie is in trouble. She’s out of money, out of luck, and out of time. Desperate to get out of Port Cantor, she stows away on a trading caravan heading for the remote settlements in the hinterlands of Cresca. When she’s found by the biggest and most intimidating alien she’s ever seen, she’s terrified... -
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Resisting the Alien Rider by Ursa Dax
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook three of the Cowboy Colony Mail-Order Brides series. Magnolia's story... -
Forged in Fire by Olan Thorensen
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsTo forge: “Make or shape an object by heating in a fire or furnace and hammering.” —Oxford Dictionary Joseph Colsco has survived what many would not have—cast naked on an alien planet amidst humans speaking an unknown language and with a different culture and history... -
The Kraken King by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA former smuggler and thief, Ariq-better known as the Kraken King-doesn't know what to make of the clever, mysterious woman he rescues from an airship besieged by marauders. Unsure if she's a spy or a pawn in someone else's game, Ariq isn't about to let her out of his sight until he finds out... -
Seductive Scot by Julie Johnstone, Cecelia Mecca
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings𝐇𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦.Reikart McCaim doesn’t want to be saved — despite the fact that he’s a time traveler from 2020 New Orleans stuck in medieval Scotland...Categorized as:
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Outlaw by A.G. Wilde
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsOur colony is dying.We’re out of time. Out of hope. Out of options—unless I risk everything on him.The outlaw.One not bound by rules or mercy.With lives at stake, I offer him a deal he can’t refuse. And one I can’t go back on.Bargaining with a demon to save my people, only time will tell if I’ve sealed their fate, or found their salvation. And mine... -
Drace by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan a fierce alien dragon warrior claim his mate before she’s stolen from him forever?Aria: Determined to overcome my scaredy-cat status, I make a dare-me checklist. First on the list? Sign up for the Driegon mail-order bride selection... -
The Cyborg with No Name by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan a wounded cyborg help an isolated scientist remember her own humanity?Dr. Rose Abbott is the cybernetic engineer who created the robot horses used in the efforts to terraform Mars. Disgusted by the way her creations are treated by the GenCon Corporation, she chooses to leave her work behind and live in isolation... -
Tribute by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe gave herself to the aliens to save her friends. Now she’s pledged to be the Crestek warrior’s mate. But will the marriage of convenience become something more? Volunteering herself as tribute to the aliens was the only way Holly could ensure the safety of the rest of her bounty hunter crew. Problem is, now she’s locked in the alien city and engaged to marry a guy she’s never even met... -
Torment by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTori wants nothing to do with the gorgeous, sand planet barbarians. Too bad she’s stuck with the cockiest Dothvek alive. Stowing away on the enemy ship to sabotage it may not have been Tori’s best idea, but she meant for it to be a solo mission. She never planned for a huge Dothvek warrior to come along for the less-than-pleasant ride... -
Saved by the Stryxian by Ella Blake
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Brandy Trentler’s wealthy family insists she marry the jerk who cheated on her, she signs up for the Stryxian mate lottery. Who knew her number would be drawn in the first round? Nothing goes right after that—the transport ship is attacked, she is captured by the enemy Morr-ta aliens and thrown in prison... -
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Secret Things by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAndromeda & NaasirNewsletter, February... -
Provoked by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsI snuck onto the wrong ship. Now I’m at the mercy of the most terrifying and deadly of the Vandar warlords—and he refuses to let me go.Running away and joining my sister and her Vandar mate seemed like a great idea. Until I stowed away on the wrong ship.Now I’m on a Vandar warbird flying far away from my home planet, but my sister is nowhere in sight... -
The Arcav General's Woman by Hope Hart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow do you choose between honour and love? Harmless, fun Methi, can always be counted on to get into trouble. But the cocky Arcav with a heart of gold is slowly being replaced with a cold, bitter male who fights his demons at every turn. Some Arcav can wait for their mates for centuries before risking insanity. But others can’t. Methi knows who is mate is. Seeing her is like ripping his guts out... -
Warrior of My Own by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy husband pushed back his chair and dropped to his knees in front of me. His head bowed — he spoke in a stream like a prayer. “I die when I am in the past, how dost ye know when tae declare me dead? You could decide it, call me dead, and I canna blame ye for it. Because I am. But I daena want tae be, I want tae live — with ye.” — Magnus 1702 There are things left undone... -
Begin Where We Are by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMagnus leaves. He fights. He tries to survive. “Can you tell me what happened tae her, how she ended?” — Magnus in 2381 Magnus is forced to travel to an uncertain future, to fight for a throne he doesn't want.And he couldn't bring Kaitlyn, because it's too dangerous by far.So Kaitlyn tries to live on without him. She's two hundred sixty-three years in the past now. Nothing but dust... -
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsan alternate cover editions can be found here and hereNew York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time-travel romance featuring a present-day heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century!Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an English church... -
Shadows in Time by Julie McElwain
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1816 London, Kendra Donovan tries to track down a missing man, but also finds trouble brewing closer to home in the fifth book in Julie McElwain’s riveting time-travel mystery series. When Kendra Donovan is approached by Mrs. Gavenston with an unusual request—to find her business manager, Jeremy Pascoe, who recently vanished—the FBI agent is eager to accept the challenge... -
The Surviving Trace by Calia Read
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsWill is my fiancé. The shy man I met years ago in college. The person I’m supposed to spend the rest of my life with. This is the life I’ve always wanted until finding a picture of four men changes everything… Étienne says he’s my husband and the year is 1912. He can’t stand the sight of me, but I don’t know why. Oh, and he’s one of the men from the picture... -
Punished by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe dark and deadly Vandar raider who was exiled to our planet refuses to help me. Not without a price.Corvak is nothing like the men on my planet. He's violent and brooding and wants nothing to do with a human female like me. But he's the only one who knows how to fight. And I refuse to be helpless when the empire comes after our planet--and it's only a matter of time until they do... -
The Chronothon by Nathan Van Coops
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRun from the past. Run from the future. Run for your lives. He’s a novice time traveler in a big universe.Ben just wants time with the scientist’s daughter who got him into this, but when he’s rooked into competing in a chronothon–an Amazing Race through time–getting the girl means he’ll need to make the finish line... -
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Pillaged by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsI was promised against my will to an imperial general. . .so I escaped. Right into the arms of an even more ruthless Vandar warlord.I’d thought things had been bad when I’d been ordered to marry the repulsive Zagrath general. But then I’d been captured by the empire’s most deadly enemy--the Vandar raiders... -
Trapped with the Alien by Luna Kingsley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Yinean may be gone but their human victims are left to deal with the aftermath.Two months after the destruction of the Yinean and MIla still can’t move on. Going home isn’t an option and even if it were, she’s no longer the woman she was before she was taken. Every day she wakes from a fitful sleep and searches for something that will make everything better again... -
Bound to the Orc Brute by Celeste King
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy world is savage. All I can count on is that one day I will die.On this blasted Earth, the strong conquer the weak and being vulnerable means preparing to die. Except I’ve already made myself vulnerable.To an orc, no less.As a physician, my skills are needed to treat these monsters in their constant wars.But when I treat Ur, there is more than savagery that beats in his heart.There is honor...Categorized as:
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A Lesson in Patience by Jennifer Connors
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook #3 of the Lesson SeriesThey say that third times a charm, but that couldn't be further from the truth for Ginny. In her latest adventure as a modern day woman trapped inside the body of a romance novel heroine, she finds herself in the late 19th century, on the frontier of America... -
Caveman Alien's Treasure by Calista Skye
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDollyI can’t take my eyes off him.He’s huge, strong and so confident the other cavemen become invisible next to him. His stripes are a vivid pink and his eyes totally black. Whenever he looks at me, my knees threaten to buckle under me from the intensity in his gaze.I’d love to find out what that darkness is that he’s obviously carrying. The word ‘brooding’ doesn’t even cover it... -
A Chance for Arus by Lynnea Lee
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPlaying with fire.Recently rescued from a Dominion slave ship, the last thing Mia needs is to be bogged down by a relationship. But she can’t get the sexy mercenary and the things he did to her body out of her head. The guy is built like a god, and even better with his mouth.Mia knows it’s dangerous to keep seeing him... -
Falling for the Chieftain by Keira Montclair
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFate reaches across time to bring them together. Can love bridge their differences? Allison Sutton isn’t the sort to take risks. She’s a nurse, so she’s seen exactly where risk-taking can lead. But she leaves her comfort zone to visit Scotland with her sisters, and then takes a further leap of faith when one of them insists they jump from a waterfall that’s supposedly enchanted...Categorized as:
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The Queen's Nest by Merri Bright
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEveryone wants the new queen… but some want her dead.Kings want to marry her, warlords want to steal her, assassins want to poison her… how did a simple brothel maid get this popular?Born long after the Great Plagues that devastated the continent, Vali is the last of her kind... -
Roses in Moonlight by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEscaping Into The Past…Derrick Cameron, antiquities dealer and adventurer, is furious when the priceless piece of Elizabethan lace he's been pursuing slips right by him, in the improbable custody of a mousy textile historian! But he will retrieve it, even if it means dragging a very skeptical, albeit adorable, Samantha back in time with him... -
Wrangled by the Alien Rancher by Ursa Dax
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFallon and Darcy's story. Book two of the Cowboy Colony Mail-Order Brides series... -
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Silent Vows by Catherine Bybee
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMyra, a medieval virgin druidess, flees five hundred years into the future to escape death at the hands of a cursed witch and lands in the arms of a handsome but cynical twenty-first century cop. Officer Todd Blakely knows Myra is hiding something but can't resist her innocent charms. Destiny throws them both into a world of intrigue and mysticism... -
The Passage by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the spring of 1685, Lord Hugo Everly, ardent supporter of the Protestant upstart the Duke of Monmouth, vanishes without a trace just before the Monmouth Rebellion, leaving future generations forever baffled as to what might have become of him... -
Tamed By an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHe’s shy and scarred and thinks no one will ever love him. She’s determined to show him he’s the hottest alien in the universe.Durran: The Earthling females are settling into our clan, finding new homes high in the forest's canopy. Matches are being made, but not for me. Scarred as I am, none will ever glance my way. But one Earthling.. -
A Fistful of Cyborg by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA cynical cyborg. A woman with too many secrets. A shared past that could tear them apart -- or bring them together.S-756 despises all humans, but he hates the scientists who tortured him and turned him into a cyborg most of all. The long years terraforming Mars have only cemented that hatred... -
Her Alien Warrior by Presley Hall
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsGemma and Kzuri's story. Full blurb coming soon!Her Alien Warrior is a full-length standalone sci-fi romance featuring blue-skinned alien warriors, a sweet but determined heroine, and a quiet, fiercely devoted hero.If you like sexy aliens, steamy romance, and thrilling adventure, you’ll love this series... -
The Magnificent Cyborg by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA woman with a troubled past. A cyborg with missing memories.W-246 is one of the last cyborgs sent to Mars to work on the terraforming project. While he doesn't remember how he became a cyborg, he has accepted his new role as a territorial judge. Until he encounters Cherry. He knows he could never forget a woman like her -- so why does she seem so familiar?Madam Cherry is through with men...
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