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  • Collecting Stars by Lexa Luthor

    Collecting Stars by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Any landing Charlie can limp away from is a good one!After crash-landing in Kardos, Charlie returns to New Earth for the first time since her childhood and learns how much life has changed in the human settlement. New Earth is a reformed place of peace, beauty, and security… almost...
  • An Army of One by Lexa Luthor

    An Army of One by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With the pending arrival of the Sworne's armada, what can they expect to face? Do they have enough time to prepare and find alliances? Join Charlie and Kal on their next adventure full of danger, action, and love...
  • Plan B by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Plan B by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    "A real page-turner" (ANNE MCCAFFREY) in the Liaden Universe(r) series.Fugitive Val Con yos'Phelium plans a desperate gamble by forming an alliance with Clan Erob. But his cousin, Shan yos'Galen can't wait. With enemy agents closing in, he invokes Plan B-setting in motion a series of events that will have dire consequences-for all of Liad...
  • Corsairs: Mathiras by Ruby Dixon

    Corsairs: Mathiras by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Someone is illegally stealing humans from their home world and cloning them.For months, we’ve been hunting this ring of criminals and the end is in sight. I’m separating from my brothers and taking my ship to track down the bad guys.One small problem — Helen insists upon joining me on this dangerous mission.Helen herself is a clone, created to be an object of beauty...
  • Kalpar by Honey Phillips

    Kalpar by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A 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...
  • Knighthunter by Anna Hackett

    Knighthunter by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She vows to bring her abducted queen home…even if she has to work with the man she hates.Knightmaster Nea Laurier is tough, dedicated, and lives to be the best Oronis knight she can be. All her life, she’s worked hard to live up to her prestigious family name...
  • Conflict of Honors by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Conflict of Honors by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Priscilla Delacroix was declared legally dead by her mother, High Priestess of the Goddess. Banished to survive on her own, Priscilla has roamed the galaxy for ten years as an outcast—to become a woman of extraordinary skill. . . .An experienced officer assigned to the Liaden vessel Daxflan, she's been abandoned yet again...
  • Carpe Diem by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Carpe Diem by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    On the run from assassins, Val Con yos'Phelium and Miri Robertson are stranded on a distant planet and must learn to trust each other if they're going to survive - and learn to love each other if they're going to heal the dark wounds of their past...
  • Marked Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Marked Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From NY Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Michelle M. Pillow, the much anticipated dragon shapeshifter romance, Qurilixen Lords!Prince Jaxx's inner dragon-shifter is at war with his human side. He knows what is right and what is prudent, and those two impulses rarely line up...
  • Legacy by Tana Stone

    Legacy by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Drexian Academy has four schools and four rules. Beware of the Assassins.Don't cross the Blades.Trust the Irons.The Wings go as one.Break them at your peril.Ariana is the first human instructor at the Drexian Academy and the first female to teach flight to cocky cadets. She’s the best Earth has to offer with a lot to prove...
  • Grit by Julie K. Cohen

    Grit by Julie K. Cohen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who wants a thief with a target on her back? An alien warrior with nothing to lose. GabriellaThere’s no safe place to hide when you’re supposed to testify against a top leader in the Brotherhood. When the marshals of GI7 offer Gabriella the chance to leave Earth, she grabs it. Sinnad is a closed world, which means the Brotherhood can’t touch her there...
  • Claimed By The Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Claimed By The Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I CAN’T CLAIM HER...BUT SHE WILL CALL ME MASTER. I was born blind. My genes are defective. Unsuitable for breeding. That’s the only reason I don’t claim the alluring human we rescued from a slave auction. I have no intention of mating her, especially since she’s meant for another. But when she calls me Master, I can’t help but take command. And command I will...
  • Alien Mercenary’s Bride by Mina Carter

    Alien Mercenary’s Bride by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Stowing away on an alien ship? Idiotic. Stowing away on the Warborne's ship? Suicidal.Marika Ingrassia is desperate. To escape another wedding arranged by her father, she runs. Between a homicidal groom and a ship full of trained killers, she'll take her chances with the mercenaries, thank you very much.Only things don't go quite to plan...
  • 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...
  • Vengeful Heart by Tiffany Roberts

    Vengeful Heart by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When his mate is threatened, nothing burns hotter than his wrath.Against all odds, Arcanthus found Samantha, his beautiful, sweet terran mate. His fated one. Her love shattered the barriers around his heart.After defeating a ghost from his past, Arc thinks he and Samantha are safe to move on with their lives. But she has a past of her own, and it refuses to let her go.He nearly lost her once...
  • Surprise Mates by Grace Goodwin

    Surprise Mates by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm on Prillon Prime for a surprise party. Me, the unmated Earth girl, a guest of the queen! I want to dress up and have fun. Not trip over my own two feet and fall into the arms of two of the hottest alien warriors I've ever seen. Ever.What happens on Prillon Prime stays on Prillon Prime. Before they touch me I make it clear that I'm not looking for a mate. Or two...
  • Reckless by Miranda Bridges

    Reckless by Miranda Bridges

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My instructor hates me.If I could use my hacking expertise to fly through the academy’s courses I would, but that doesn’t work in hand-to-hand combat. And this guy? He’s determined to turn me into a soldier. Except I’m more suited to being a nerd than a killer.I’m not here to learn those skills, only enhance my knowledge of alien technology, and it doesn’t include the Lokarian anatomy...
  • Argan by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Argan by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Celia Kyle writing as Erin Tate.Argan’s honor as a Preor warrior made him defend her. Liquid Knot’s heart demanded she save him.  Liquid Knot—hacker extraordinaire—has made mistakes in her life, but none so big as getting an alien warrior sentenced to death.  His head is on the chopping block and the Preor leader is determined to follow the letter of the law...
  • Faith and the Fighter by Honey Phillips

    Faith and the Fighter by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    For readers 18 years and older. A rogue spaceship captain. A human scientist. Faith has spent the past eight years as a scientist locked in an alien research lab. When she finally manages to escape and finds out what the aliens are doing with her work, she is appalled and determined to stop their plans...
  • Alien Sentinel's Mate by Mina Carter

    Alien Sentinel's Mate by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Being rescued by aliens doesn’t mean she’s going to marry one… not unless he’s hot. Asking would help too.The problem is the only alien warrior Gracie is interested in hasn’t asked. Seren K’Vass is the epitome of the strong, silent type. Emotionally avoidant with a bad boy vibe, if he was human, she’d climb him like a tree. Hell, she’d climb him like a tree anyway...
  • Recruiting Measures by Viola Grace

    Recruiting Measures by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A life of pain is swapped for a rabid urge to collect experiences. Being a recruiter with an elusive species is just as much fun as it sounds.Kyna was shocked when she got an invitation to the Reset Project. She was even more shocked when she found out that her nephew had found her application from decades earlier and forward it to the Volunteer Project...
  • Ancient Thought by Viola Grace

    Ancient Thought by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is the end of one life the start of the next? It is if you have been reset.Elizabeth has spent her life exploring the world, visiting strangers, and learning all the customs she could. When the first Volunteer Project began, she had been in her fifties and out of the running. Now, at eighty-two, they offer to tune her up and send her to the stars...
  • 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...
  • Armed And Armoured by Viola Grace

    Armed And Armoured by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kahlia has fought a few battles for the survival of innocents on Allishan 9, but her primary concern is her life as a designer. On one of the school trips that her sister badgered her into chaperoning, she meets her destiny, and her doom. Rupture is a member of the Sector Guard and he has his eyes on the woman stepping out of the battle suit...
  • Rahim by Kiki Burrelli, Crista Crown

    Rahim by Kiki Burrelli, Crista Crown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A frozen prince calls for a hero. The Fires send him a warrior. For Rahim, life with his warrior brothers couldn’t be better, now that they’re not fighting for their survival on a pirate ship. Free to soar through space, Rahim and his kif are on a mission to explore their way home. When they get a cryptic invitation from a mysterious source, they eagerly answer the call...
  • Samun by Kiki Burrelli, Crista Crown

    Samun by Kiki Burrelli, Crista Crown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Long ago, Samun accepted that the Fires intended for him to be single. He’s too direct, too literal, too focused. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t felt a pang of longing as each member of his kif met their mates and started building families of their own. He’s thankful for his kif. Otherwise, he’d always feel on the outside how he feels on the inside—alone...
  • Prison Princess by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Prison Princess by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE BOYS OF HAREM STATION ARE KEEPING LOTS OF SECRETS! Valor joined up with Tray after Beauty’s sacrifice because he knew Luck was destined to be with Princess Nyleena. There was no room in that relationship for a third wheel. But when he teamed up with Tray he had no idea that he’d be the third wheel in that partnership too...
  • Veiled Vixen by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Veiled Vixen by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All his other Harem brothers have found their one true love and they are spectacular princesses. Not Valor’s girl.Veila is the definition of evil.Not the kind of girl a guy falls for. Especially a stand-up guy like Valor. He’s not interested in her sexy glow, her pretty hair, or her glowing eyes.No. Valor only wants one thing for his fated princess.Death...
  • Drakan by Luna Hunter

    Drakan by Luna Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can an alpha alien warrior and a curvy human pilot save the universe? Hannah Kingsley has more than enough on her plate. The full-figured blonde delivers intergalactic packages for a living on her trusty spaceship with her best friend Evelyn, trying to save up enough money to send her little brother to a school for the gifted...
  • Tchaikovsky by Tasha Black

    Tchaikovsky by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can a homesick space pirate and a broken alien heal each other’s hearts? Angel signed up with the Space Cadets to join her twin brother after he left to explore new frontiers. Instead, her stasis pod was lost in space. Now, hundreds of years later, Angel has been rescued, but all her hopes and dreams are dead. Becoming a space pirate seems as good a way to fill her time as any other...
  • Barbarian Alien Part 6: Forever by Ruby Dixon

    Barbarian Alien Part 6: Forever by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everything seems to be piling on at once: I'm pregnant, the aliens are revolting against my mate, and not even my human friends have my back. It's time for me to buck the system to get what I want. But can I go against everything to claim the guy as mine?Even if it means exile with him?BARBARIAN ALIEN is a sequel to ICE PLANET BARBARIANS...
  • 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...
  • Help Wanted: Wife by Cara Bristol

    Help Wanted: Wife by Cara Bristol

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They have nothing to lose except their hearts. The only thing keeping widower Larth from succumbing to grief is running the fledgling bakery founded by his late wife. He intends to make the business the biggest, best bakery in all of Caradonia. But he can’t do it alone. Unable to find affordable help, he turns to Cosmic Mates and advertises for a wife in-name-only...
  • Alien Paladin's Redemption by Mina Carter

    Alien Paladin's Redemption by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She knew aliens existed. She didn’t expect them to be so damn HOT!Indra has survived the worse human society can throw at her. Being rescued by aliens was the last thing she expected.Now a guest of the latharian empire, she’s looking forward to eating her bodyweight in chocolate cake and creating her very own army out of the ship’s cleaning bots...
  • Kept By The Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Kept By The Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    HUMAN FEMALES CANNOT BE TRUSTED.She killed to escape her former slave master.Stowed away on my ship. Injected me with poison.Now she’s been remanded to me for probation.It’s my job to watch her. Rule over her. Discipline her.It’s up to me to decide if she’s worthy of asylum on our planet.And I’m dragging my feet on the decision.Because stars know, I like her right where I have her.In my home...
  • Wicked by Hope Hart

    Wicked by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When I left Agron, I wanted only one thing:To make the Grivath pay for what they did to us. When our space fuel lasts just long enough for us to reach the hub planet Brexos, it seems like everything is falling into place. But Brexos is run by the machiavellian Malakaz- an alien who now controls our fate with the swipe of one clawed finger...
  • Turn Left for Stars by V.K. Ludwig

    Turn Left for Stars by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A SciFi Alien RomCom. It’s hard to find the right alien concubine… Finding three of them? Impossible! Watching the future saikhs practice their penetration angles at the saikhmenti alone doesn’t cut it to make a decision. What about other things like… I don’t know. Personality? What I need is insider information. That saikh-in-training who keeps failing his assessments? He’s offering it up freely...
  • On a Rogue Planet by Anna Hackett

    On a Rogue Planet by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Unlucky-in-love salvage mechanic, Malin Phoenix, didn’t intend to get caught up in a coup and kidnapped by a sexy cyborg. But she finds herself swept into an adventure to help the deadly, emotionless CenSec, Xander Saros, retrieve an ancient Terran artifact and save his planet...
  • Silver Spice by Iona Strom

    Silver Spice by Iona Strom

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    WynnterMy spirit mate had eyes for another, yet her spirit called to mine. While my ancillary heart pumped andrenalyne through my veins, I warred with my instincts to pummel the male she favored, but her preference can't be forced. She must choose me.Another battle takes precedence to mine when an unimagined conflict wages in the sky above us...
  • Draekon Guardian by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Guardian by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The big, bad, alien hero rescued me from the evil Zorahn.He sees to my every need.He sends me thoughtful presents.If someone threatens me, Yafet destroys them. He’s ruthless in his desire to keep me safe.And despite all of that, I can’t get him to take the next step.Kisses? Yes.Heavy petting? Again, yes.Anything more? Nope. He won’t go further even though he obviously wants to...
  • Unfrozen by Regine Abel

    Unfrozen by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the penitentiary ship she's incarcerated in gets sucked into an anomaly, Lydia barely survives the crash onto an alien planet. Only the sadistic experiments performed on her by the prison's scientist allow her to survive this harsh and dangerous world. The future looks grim until she stumbles upon a magnificent city of ice and its most unusual inhabitant...
  • Rebel by Hope Hart

    Rebel by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It was supposed to be one night.One night with the gorgeous, broken, enigmatic explosives expert who makes me crazy.The problem? Now I can’t stop fantasizing about the way we self-combusted all over each other.But the guilt in his eyes when he looked at me after and remembered I’m not his dead lover? Let’s just say I’m not interested in getting involved with someone who’s clearly still suffering...
  • Earth Files: Book 1 by Anna Carven

    Earth Files: Book 1 by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As much as Rykal thought she was sheer perfection in that outfit, he wanted to flick out a claw and gently slice the garment from top to bottom so he could pay homage to her naked form. Later. She wouldn’t escape his tender clutches. But he would behave himself for now, because this particular outing was apparently an important event in Human culture. He was about to meet the mother of his mate...
  • Greta and the Gargoyle by Honey Phillips

    Greta and the Gargoyle by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A condemned woman. An alien guard. Sentenced to death for killing her alien master, Greta’s only hope is a compassionate guard. Despite his frightening appearance, she is drawn to the massive alien - but is what she feels only gratitude? Mikaroz has been waiting his whole life for the perfect mate but he never expected her to be a condemned prisoner, let alone a small human female...
  • Ella and the Emperor by Honey Phillips

    Ella and the Emperor by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An alien emperor. A silent young woman. Captured by aliens as a child, Ella was raised as the beloved pet of a kind alien couple. One night of blood and terror destroyed her sheltered life and shattered her voice. Now she’s a slave in the emperor’s palace. Alone in a terrifying new world, she clings to the person who saves her - the dashing young emperor...
  • Hierax by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Hierax by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    As a database programmer from Arizona and a fan of sedate, indoor activities, Indi Smith doesn’t belong in outer space. Certainly not in a star system with a broken wormhole gate and no way home. But through no fault of her own, that’s where she’s landed, and nobody on the ship, not even the genius chief engineer Hierax, knows how to repair the gate...
  • Alien Mercenary's Destiny by Mina Carter

    Alien Mercenary's Destiny by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He saved her from certain death. She didn’t count on him being a… nerd.A Tarviisan pit fighter forced to fight for survival her entire life, Zadaenae is sure she’s about to breathe her last when she’s cornered during a breakout. But help comes from an unexpected quarter; an alien with the infamous Warborne Mercenary team...
  • Artifice: Book Two of the Prison Ship Sheol Saga by Nicholas Gaumer

    Artifice: Book Two of the Prison Ship Sheol Saga by Nicholas Gaumer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Bedlam Galaxy lies at the heart of the Laniakea Supercluster and is a focal point for all of the wormhole transits spanning that great expanse. Among the many races drawn to and inhabiting its 10,000+ stars, humanity is one of the most recent and longest anticipated additions...
  • Alien Champion by Ursa Dax

    Alien Champion by Ursa Dax

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    "I don't know how to win Fiona, but I do know how to fight. And I will fight for her with everything I have..."FIONAWhen I spontaneously kiss Dalk at midnight during our Deep Sky New Year's Eve party, I become aware of two I may have a crush on the grumpiest alien warrior at our settlement. I may also be ever-so-slightly sexually harassing him...
  • The Alien's Escape by Ella Blake

    The Alien's Escape by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    So, I have the hots for my alien doctor. Jorok saved my life after being trapped in a filthy cell. He's gorgeous and way too serious for his own good. To get to know him better, I tag along on an errand, but we’re kidnapped and forced to nurse an alien captain’s sick crew. To avoid being sold, I pretend to be Jorok's mate (which isn't difficult). I thought things couldn’t get worse from there...
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