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  • The Rings of Hesaurun by Peter Harrett

    The Rings of Hesaurun by Peter Harrett

    Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fleeing an alien menace of galactic proportions, a starship named The Dreamer crash-lands on Earth in the year 2436 BCE. Responding to the crash, the primitive earthlings discover the ship's commander Valerie Dunne is a 5,000-year-old woman from the future, forced to escape her nemesis, the Boecki, by hiding in the past...
  • Jatouche by S.H. Jucha

    Jatouche by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pyre’s humans suffer multiple cultural shocks. They discovered the Messinants dome, an ancient construction that houses a quantum-coupled gate. More shocking, they find that sentient alien races utilize a network of these domes to journey between their far distant worlds in pursuit of alliance matters...
  • The Gatekeepers by Nathan Hystad

    The Gatekeepers by Nathan Hystad

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The portals are failing, the Theos inside mysteriously vanishing. Help is on the way. As Dean Parker takes a moment to celebrate the successful rescue of Magnus and Natalia, he’s reluctantly forced back into the field, the goal: save the dozen Gatekeepers trapped beyond the failing portals...
  • 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...
  • The Fallen Ship 2 by Mark Wayne McGinnis, Kim McGinnis

    The Fallen Ship 2 by Mark Wayne McGinnis, Kim McGinnis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Stayed up all night reading - Love this series!" Carl Manding The epic battle for AI supremacy in the universe between the Geo-Mind and Gia continues. Beneath the isolation zone, 300 alien troops have been dispatched, and if that’s not discouraging enough, the 23rd Silarian Fleet has initiated terra displacement operations outside the energy dome...
  • I Married Krogal by Regine Abel

    I Married Krogal by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He is the cuddliest of teddy bears. A year after fleeing an abusive partner, Farah’s welcome in the refuge sheltering her is ending. With no money, no job, and no options, she’s floored to be presented with a marriage of convenience to an alien behemoth as a solution. Considering her recent ordeal, entering a relationship with a four-armed giant with herculean strength is the last thing she wants...
  • USS Jefferson: Charge of the Symbios by Mark Wayne McGinnis

    USS Jefferson: Charge of the Symbios by Mark Wayne McGinnis

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    "McGinnis has pulled another rip-roaring page-turner out of his hat," Ben StratAfter the recent near-destruction of the USS Hamilton, Captain Galvin Quintos has been lying low, getting the USS Jefferson ready for service. In the midst of refurbishing the vessel, he gets a call for help from his former XO, new starship captain Gail Pristy...
  • Alien Hunter's Fate by Ava Ross

    Alien Hunter's Fate by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alien insists I’m his fated mate. After we escape a deadly alien game called the labyrinth, he says he’s keeping me. This deal was supposed to be simple. Take a shuttle to the space station. Connect with an alien in need of Slaking—their term, not mine. One week between the furs with no hearts involved, something I’m determined to avoid after being burned...
  • 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...
  • Dragon's Destiny by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Destiny by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve been searching for my mate. For my destiny. For the female who is somewhere on Tajss…KhabriThe Zmaj race was dying when humans crashed landed on our planet. Since the moment their coming was revealed to the Order, I've known that one of the females is my mate. My treasure. All I want is her and the beautiful, perfect babies we will have together...
  • Clone Crisis by S.H. Jucha

    Clone Crisis by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Sisterhood’s dangerous militarist sect finds a foothold in a broad swath of space inhabited by the descendants of Earth’s fourth colony ship, Destiny. They’re welcomed by the mining corporations, whose leaders see unbridled opportunity in the sisters’ advanced tech.Five powerful corporations own six mining planets...
  • Fortitude by Jonathan Brazee

    Fortitude by Jonathan Brazee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The aliens arrived… …they weren’t looking to make friends. Can Beth fight back the invasion? She has spent her career building a reputation. No one wants to mess with Beth when she’s behind the stick of her fighter, but this time, she’s not flying it. Can the Navy’s biggest badass ace get the job done without her tech? Now, three years into the struggle, the aliens have made a statement...
  • The Last Revocater by G.J. Ogden

    The Last Revocater by G.J. Ogden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Last Revocater  is book five of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and adventure of Indiana Jones. With Goliath continuing its rampage through the network of portal worlds, Hudson Powell and Tory Bellona go on with their search for Logan Griff and the crystal. But first they must embark on a final, dangerous relic hunt inside a crashed alien wreck...
  • Revikk by Alana Khan

    Revikk by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can their love survive his deepest secrets? Dawn is immediately attracted to bad boy Revikk and surrenders to her fiery impulses. Confident and skilled, Revikk satisfies. But with every layer Revikk reveals about his past, Dawn must decide whether it spikes her attraction or her fear. Dawn A year ago, I never would have dreamed I’d approach a male like Revikk for a fling...
  • I Married A Dryad by Regine Abel

    I Married A Dryad by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He was her perfect match.Fed up with the deadbeats and jerks infesting the standard dating pool, Maeve reaches out to the Prime Mating Agency, hoping to improve her luck. Her fear of ending up with some weird primitive alien is immediately alleviated when she’s paired with a stunning Edocit...
  • Alien in Charge by Lili Zander

    Alien in Charge by Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I have better things to do than babysit a human. And her cat.Someone has attacked the Human Federation Ambassador in Gehar territory, and out of an abundance of caution, the Empress has assigned me to protect the human until the culprit has been caught.The new Ambassador, and her kitten, Luna. (Short for Lunatic.)Yes, seriously...
  • New Alliance by Nathan Hystad

    New Alliance by Nathan Hystad

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dean Parker thought he was going to coast into retirement. He was wrong.Things have slowed down for Dean and Mary as they manage the expanding human colonies on Haven, New Spero, and Earth-until they receive a distress call from the Keppe.Magnus and Natalia are in the midst of a three-year exploration mission on the alien vessel, but mysteriously vanish with less than a year left to go...
  • The Alien's Blade by Ella Blake

    The Alien's Blade by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What’s worse than waking up from a hibernation cell fifty-two years after being abducted?Nothing. No, wait—a wise-cracking alien hunk with a killer smile who doesn’t let me out of his sight, that’s what.Wulfrex knows every inch of his massive space cruiser and makes it impossible for me to steal it...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Phantom Deadfall by Christopher Hopper, J.N. Chaney

    Phantom Deadfall by Christopher Hopper, J.N. Chaney

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The gods have been angered.Hell will rain down.After Wic and the Phantom’s successful operation on Karkin Four, the team learns of the enemy’s plans for a swift retaliation: an all-out assault on New York City.Together, Wic must rally the team’s resources to plan an emergency counterassault that will push the Phantoms to their limits...
  • Armageddon Cometh by J.K. Accinni

    Armageddon Cometh by J.K. Accinni

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Under the guidance of Netty, Abby concocts her plans to abduct the wildlife at the Big Cat Sanctuary in Sarasota. She enlists the help of the handsome Italian yacht captain, Cobby and his son Kane, forcing her to expose the changes to her body, including her hidden wings...
  • Travek's Treasure by Pearl Tate

    Travek's Treasure by Pearl Tate

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Travek... As a Councilor’s son, I was raised by my uncle to join the Merchant Line on Quasar. I’ve been trained to look for and recognize the profit potential in every situation... When Bren found a Human mate from Earth, I saw the possibilities the females there present for the future of Quasar and for my own financial gain..
  • 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...
  • Crave: Alien General's Obsession by Hattie Jacks

    Crave: Alien General's Obsession by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What’s worse…being abducted by aliens or being a host for one?TARA: Worse turns out to be a terrifying alien General hell bent on claiming me, and my unborn child, for himself.He wants complete submission and there’s no denying what I see in his deep red eyes, or the flash of his electric blue markings. He thinks he's the perfect specimen of a Haalux warrior in every department...
  • No Choice by Mel Todd

    No Choice by Mel Todd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Doing your duty isn't a choice, even if you become a cougar. Officer McKenna Largo's life is thrown into turmoil when she is catapulted onto the worldwide stage as the focal point for a bizarre event occurring across the planet.She finds herself famous and infamous when, in the middle of a bank robbery call, she turns into a cougar...
  • 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...
  • Ronin by Edward W. Robertson

    Ronin by Edward W. Robertson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Hive has survived their first fleet action against FinnTech. But in the process, they've lost the Hive itself. With their manufacturing base in Finn's hands, it's only a matter of time before they're outnumbered and destroyed. As Rada searches for a path to victory, she stumbles on a horrifying secret: the aliens who've kept humanity confined to the Solar System are about to make their move...
  • 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...
  • Dragon's Protection by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Protection by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes your greatest fears bring you where you need to be, no matter how hard the road is... Victoria... I was stupid. Scared and stupid when I followed the racist leader of the anti-Zmaj into the desert. We were exiled from the rest of the human survivors but hey, at least I was getting away from the huge and intimidating, dragon-like Zmaj warriors...
  • Her Fated King by Roxie Ray

    Her Fated King by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Could she be my queen?I was tasked with retrieving the would-be queen from Earth. King Brixta is no friend to me, but I will do my duty.Except Alora haunts my dreams.She isn’t mine and can never be.One taste of her will never be enough.When I dream, I am the one placing a crown on her head.I’m the one sitting on the throne.It is my duty to surrender her...
  • 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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    aliens  first-contact  invasion  poc-mc  adult  book  fiction  humor
  • Orion Rises by G.J. Ogden

    Orion Rises by G.J. Ogden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Orion Rises  is book two of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and action of Indiana Jones. Kicked out of the Relic Guardian Force, Hudson Powell has started down the path to becoming a relic hunter. Fortune awaits inside the mysterious, alien hulks found on every planet throughout the vast network of portal worlds...
  • Goliath Emerges by G.J. Ogden

    Goliath Emerges by G.J. Ogden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Goliath Emerges  is book three of the Star Scavenger Series. A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and action of Indiana Jones. News has spread of Hudson and Liberty’s unique ability to discover new portals; now every relic hunter wants a slice of the action.Starting out from Deimos Station near Mars, Hudson and Liberty take the Orion to a new portal world...
  • Virak by Ella Blake

    Virak by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jessa Robson applied to the alien match program for the money. After a string of disappointing relationships and a childhood spent shuffling between foster homes, she doesn’t envision love in her future. When she’s chosen to be a mistress for a Virilian male, she sees that five-million-dollar fee as her ticket to an independent life, free from scraping by and dead-end jobs...
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    aliens  first-contact  invasion  poc-mc  adult  book  fiction  steamy
  • Callim's Challenge by Pearl Tate

    Callim's Challenge by Pearl Tate

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shelly... Abducted from Earth, contracting a deadly disease, getting matched up to an alien I’ve never met… welcome to the chaos that’s my life. Now, I’m on a spaceship travelling to Quasar, to get the vaccine that I need to survive and meet my future mate! I’m used to being at the mercy of others. First, it was my drug-addicted mother and eventually the foster care system...
  • Abraxx by Alana Khan

    Abraxx by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Abraxx, a recently-freed gladiator, risks his newfound freedom in a daring attempt to rescue Juno. They have an immediate attraction even though he hides his alien body in a robe that covers everything except his eyes—and shields his neglected heart...
  • Silenced by Heather Fox

    Silenced by Heather Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Carrie: The new arrivals at our tribe may have their minds only on one thing, but I can't even think about finding my mate. Not when my voice has been stolen away by a broken promise. Unable to communicate with the others, I'm relegated to the edges of the tribe. But I'm not the only one. Endzoh, the quiet warrior I've always thought didn't much like us girls, is right here with me...
  • Seduced by Heather Fox

    Seduced by Heather Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lorna: After the awful mess that was my life back on Earth, living in the raskarran village is great. It's a simple life, but the big green guys provide for us, our huts are cosy and I get to spend my days looking after two adorable children. There's only one problem - the dreamspace. Much as I might want to have a family one day, I can't have anyone inside my head...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Pirate's Tribulation by Bella Blair

    The Pirate's Tribulation by Bella Blair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I will fight and die for her, but I will never let her go! She is MINE!Raven: There are no female pirates in the universe and that is just that. Or so I was told, before I changed things a bit. Keeping Rognar from knowing my true identity is a bit trickier though, I would love to throw the truth into the arrogant male's face, who challenges me in more ways than one...
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