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Layers of Force by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe exciting conclusion to the Star Kingdom series!Even though Professor Casmir Dabrowski has been fighting for months to help the kingdom and humanity as a whole, few people in positions of power have appreciated his unorthodox methods. Now he's a captive of the king and being taken back to his home world without his friends or the crushers he relies upon to protect him... -
![Home Front by Lindsay Buroker]()
Home Front by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCasmir and his allies have struck a devastating blow to the powerful prince who sent invaders into their star system, but war still rages at home. Worse, the prince has escaped with a lethal bioweapon, and he intends to wipe out all human life on Odin. Casmir could lose his parents, his friends, and everyone he holds dear... -
![Planet Killer by Lindsay Buroker]()
Planet Killer by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCasmir has survived against impossible odds, and now he longs to return home. But an invasion force is blockading the Kingdom’s wormhole gate, and it would be suicidal to fly through it now. Worse, his family and friends are stuck on the other side, with hostile forces attacking their home world. The only way Casmir can help is to find out who’s behind the invasion… and convince him to stop... -
![Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsForced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persuades Emperor Gregor to appoint him Imperial Auditor so he can penetrate Barrayar’s intelligence and security operations (ImpSec)... -
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![The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks]()
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment... -
![Spinward Fringe Broadcast 11: Revenge by Randolph Lalonde]()
Spinward Fringe Broadcast 11: Revenge by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlice's career moves on to the next phase in Haven Fleet, sending her into real action and real danger. All the while she wonders where her father, Jacob Valent and his ship, the Revenge, have gone. If only she knew her father is busy taking an opportunity to strike the Order of Eden behind the front lines, slowing their journey home while taking a big risk for a big reward along the way... -
![Sara and the Spymaster by Honey Phillips]()
Sara and the Spymaster by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan a passionate woman awaken a frozen warrior? Sara’s life is turned upside down when she is kidnapped by brutal aliens. Even after she’s rescued by an Imperial ship, she can’t return to Earth. The only person who seems concerned about her future is the icy alien warrior who interrogates her... -
![Ship of Ruin by Lindsay Buroker]()
Ship of Ruin by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAll Casmir Dabrowski wants is to return to his normal life as a robotics professor on the solid ground and agreeable gravity of his home world. No sane person would want to cavort around in space, being chased by mercenaries, soldiers, and knights—not to mention the unidentified organization that’s been sending robot assassins after him...Categorized as:
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![Knight Protector by Lindsay Buroker]()
Knight Protector by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsA sci-fi romance set in the Star Kingdom universe.The characters from this book will be introduced in book 6 of the series. An arranged marriage she can’t escape. A sexy bodyguard who will protect her at all cost... -
![Spinward Fringe Broadcast 10.5: Carnie's Tale by Randolph Lalonde]()
Spinward Fringe Broadcast 10.5: Carnie's Tale by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlice is given a complex and secretive assignment: she is to review months worth of voice recordings, video and pictures taken by Noah Lucas, better known as Carnie, a member of the Samurai Squadron. The material was recorded while he was on Iora, a technically advanced world as the holocaust virus struck it... -
![Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson]()
Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA warrior from another universe...A woman running from an abusive relationshipA rip in the fabric of space-time and a malevolent alien race bent on destructionHow does it all tie together? Read Enticed by the Satyr...the first book of the Monstrum Kindred to find outMia could have had a beautiful life. She had a scholarship to Julliard and a future as a concert pianist ahead of her... -
![Loved by the Lion by Evangeline Anderson]()
Loved by the Lion by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Monstrum Warrior who has vowed never to Claim a bride…An older woman, who thinks she’s done with Love…Can they come together to save the Earth…and each other?What’s the worst Christmas present imaginable? A cheating husband? An angry mob outside your front door? What about Menopause? Minister Emilia Oxley has gotten all three this Yuletide season and she could do without them all, thank you... -
![Alien Beast's Warrior Bride by Juno Wells]()
Alien Beast's Warrior Bride by Juno Wells
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe higher you reach the more humiliating the defeat.Being the most primitive of the old bloods, Borak is no pleasure to look upon but he's got his sights set on a high status human queen. Nothing will keep him from pursuing the queen of his heart. Not war, not vicious enemies nor his chain of command.JulietOn a dystopian Earth dominated by women, men are rarity... -
![The Athlete by Elin Peer]()
The Athlete by Elin Peer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow do you win a soccer game when you’re not just playing against the other team, but your captain too? When Hunter Hercules, the biggest soccer star in the Northlands, is transferred to play in the Motherlands, he’s mad as hell... -
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![The Warrior by Elin Peer]()
The Warrior by Elin Peer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEven the strongest man in the world has a weak spot! Magni knows what he wants and he’s used to getting it. As the second in command in the Northlands, he doesn’t care that he comes across as rude or domineering. Asking for permission or apologizing for his actions is for weaker men. Six months ago, Laura was Magni’s sweet and submissive young wife... -
![His Human Assistant by Michele Mills]()
His Human Assistant by Michele Mills
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI’m a corporate whistleblower running for my life, so I take the first job I can find off planet. Now I’m a lowly assistant for some rich devil named Hannibal Hellstone? And when I say “devil,” I mean DEVIL. As in this guy’s skin is dark red, he has shiny black horns, sharp fangs, silver-tipped claws and a barbed tail. This Hyrrokin is scary AF and his eight-year-old son looks just like him... -
![Night of the Demented Symbiots: The Dragonlings' Haunted Halloween 2 by S.E. Smith]()
Night of the Demented Symbiots: The Dragonlings' Haunted Halloween 2 by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Dragonlings and their besties are excited about the preparations for another Halloween holiday. As the night of the festival draws closer, the Dragonlings, Roam, and Alice discover a threat to the newest members of their families; the Queen of the Demented Symbiots plans to send her minions to capture the new babies and take them to the land of Halloween where she lives... -
![The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi]()
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsThe Consuming Fire―the sequel to the 2018 Hugo Award Best Novel finalist and 2018 Locus Award-winning The Collapsing Empire―an epic space-opera novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from New York Times bestselling author John ScalziThe Interdependency―humanity’s interstellar empire―is on the verge of collapse... -
![Stealing Her Heart by Evangeline Anderson]()
Stealing Her Heart by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA 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... -
![Dax (The Cyborg Chronicles) by Kelsey Nicole Price]()
Dax (The Cyborg Chronicles) by Kelsey Nicole Price
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the Global Allegiance terminated all Cyborgs, rumors were rampant that they still existed, either hidden away with wealthy collectors or—even more scandalous—part of the Cyborg Rebellion. PoeCyborg is a dirty word.The world wants to forget them. Not me. I have been dying to meet one since I learned of their existence.Okay, I have been dying to meet a certain one.Dax. The Science Model... -
![The Admiral and the Wildcat by Mina Carter]()
The Admiral and the Wildcat by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGabriel 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... -
![Jarmen's Jane Doe by S.E. Smith]()
Jarmen's Jane Doe by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe is a monster who discovers he had a heart; she is a woman who wants to remain unknown…Jarmen D’ju has no memories of his previous life. They were stolen in the lab that changed him into a monster. Though he was rescued, he knows he will never truly have the life he wants. As a being of half organic material and half cybernetic engineering, Jarmen will always need to hide... -
![Wanting The Monster by Rena Marks]()
Wanting The Monster by Rena Marks
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNever judge a man by his looks, even when he has tentacles.Relion has so much more going for him. Protective. Playful. Caring. He’s become my best friend and it doesn’t even matter that we’re male and female. Or that we’re two entirely different species... -
![An Alien To Die For by Sadie Carter]()
An Alien To Die For by Sadie Carter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDesperately wanting to escape her life on Earth, Alice boards a transporter set for Zerconia. The idea of a hunky Zerconian warrior of her very own is both tempting and scary. Clumsy, sweet and slightly naïve, Alice wasn’t prepared for hunky, sexy, commanding Jaxan..Jaxan had almost lost hope of finding his mate when he rescues Alice. Almost straight away, he realizes that she is his mate... -
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![Alien Prince's Bride by Ava Ross]()
Alien Prince's Bride by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI'm determined to have a child, which means one week in one bed. With an alien.According to the Xilan-Earth agreement, I'll belong to Prince Vikar, a seven-foot-tall, scaly blue alien, for one week. In exchange for giving him whatever he needs, this cocky "prince" assures me I'll return to Earth with a child on the way... -
![While You Were Creeping by Poppy Rhys]()
While You Were Creeping by Poppy Rhys
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI had zero plans to spend Christmas with an alien convict, yet here I am. In possession of a misplaced interdimensional prison with no idea how to return to sender.Worse yet, this convict has no respect for personal space. It only goes downhill from there when, in a moment of desperation, I strike a bargain with him—be my Krampus for the annual Kringle Parade... -
![Arckon by Ava Ross, Alana Khan]()
Arckon by Ava Ross, Alana Khan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy destination wedding on an interstellar cruise ship just took a turn for the worse. Or was it actually a turn for the better?There’s nothing more embarrassing than having my fiancée’s girlfriend shriek “no, stop!” in the middle of my wedding. Except nearly passing out at my now ex’s feet... -
![Mated on Hades by Golden Angel]()
Mated on Hades by Golden Angel
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Celestial Mates agency always knows what - or who - you need. Tarrik would do anything to avoid breaking his mother's heart, so he begrudgingly signs up for Celestial Mates and agrees to come home and settle down once the agency finds his match. There's just one catch: he's not ready to give up his free and easy life traveling the galaxy... -
![Surrendered by Evangeline Anderson]()
Surrendered by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCommander Thornex is a Hybrid--half Kindred and half Pyro--a much feared people who have the ability to unleash horrific maelstroms of flame whenever they are angered. All his life Thorn has struggled to control the destructive power within him. A horrible accident in his past made him swear to never unleash the fire again and for many years, he has kept himself under tight control... -
![The Broken God by David Zindell]()
The Broken God by David Zindell
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsInto the icy maze of the city of Neverness, a wild boy stumbles, spear in hand, starving, frostbitten and grieving. Danlo the Wild, raised by far-off Alaloi neanderthal cave-dwellers, survived a plague that took all of his tribe. Now he must find who engineered the disease and how he can cure it... -
![Hybrid by T.C. Edge]()
Hybrid by T.C. Edge
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“You want me to go to Inner Haven…you want me to be a spy.” Standing in the church outside of the city, Brie is still in shock. She has a brother, a twin. She isn’t alone after all…. Her world is changing fast. And soon it’ll be her turn. As her powers begin to manifest, and her training begins, Brie finds herself trying to juggle her changing body with her mission... -
![His Curvy Mate by Georgette St. Clair]()
His Curvy Mate by Georgette St. Clair
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMost shifters give near-feral Alpha Prime Creel a wide berth – and he likes it that way. At least, that’s what happens until he wakes up with a crazy woman in his bed who insists that they’re mated, and seems to know everything about him – right down to the scar on his inner thigh... -
![My Chameleon Mate by Susan Trombley]()
My Chameleon Mate by Susan Trombley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVeraI 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... -
![The Master of Mankind by Aaron Dembski-Bowden]()
The Master of Mankind by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAs war splits the galaxy, the Emperor toils in the vaults beneath the Imperial Palace. But his great work is in peril, and the forces of Chaos are closing in…While Horus’ rebellion burns across the galaxy, a very different kind of war rages beneath the Imperial Palace... -
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![Space Deputy by Jenny Schwartz]()
Space Deputy by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA millennium into the future, the Saloon Sector is where the Wild West meets the 1950s, in space, with robots. It’s where careers go to die. Thelma Bach graduated top of her class after four years at the Galactic Justice academy. But she’s a Rock Sector citizen. The core worlders were never going to let her transcend her background... -
![Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold]()
Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn the wake of unexpected planetary peace and the disappearance of the Dendarii payroll, mercenary captain Miles Naismith attempts to discover the link between the insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates. Reissue. AB... -
![Vanished by Evangeline Anderson]()
Vanished by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHarper Wilde is sitting on the beach, minding her own business when a huge, muscular Kindred warrior with black hair and blazing white eyes demands that she accompany him into the future. Harper has no choice--she is dragged against her will into a dystopian nightmare--the world as it might become if something isn't changed.And that something that needs changing is Harper herself... -
![Between Life and Death by Ann Christy]()
Between Life and Death by Ann Christy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn endless, broiling summer bakes the deaders that roam the world. Veronica feels stuck in limbo while she waits for news that might bring an end to the nightmare that has overtaken their world. Between bashing heads and scavenging for what's left, it's all she can do to keep on going... -
![On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe]()
On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsOn Blue's Waters is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the years after Wolfe's four-volume Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story. Though life is hard on the newly settled planet of Blue, Horn and his family have made a decent life for themselves... -
![Dark and Light by Evangeline Anderson]()
Dark and Light by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo NEW Kindred Tales novels in one book!One Light and Sweet,The other Dark and Sexy.Which Kindred of Kindred do you prefer?Read Dark and Light and decide for yourself… LIGHT: In Saved by the Drake , Lucia Ramirez is having a terrible day when a huge, scary male confronts her on a dark street. But the scary male turns out to be a Kindred warrior -- Raze... -
![A Sky Warrior Christmas by Sadie Carter]()
A Sky Warrior Christmas by Sadie Carter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCome and join the Sky Warriors for their very first Christmas. Well, that’s if Christmas actually happens... -
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![Zerberu by Athena Storm]()
Zerberu by Athena Storm
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.Probably not a good sign when you start reading the refund policy on your mail order bride… Vera Kronus has only one choice after a long criminal career. Stay shackled and wait for her transport to a brutal prison planet or switch her ID and be sent to who knows where in the galaxy. She chooses the second option... -
![Rebellion by Loki Renard]()
Rebellion by Loki Renard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAuthority Rule #1: Never Cross A Kitari Warrior“Ensign Tessil!”Jerri turned around at the sound of her name boomed in rasping, rough tones. That was not a voice that had ever used her name before. She liked the way it sounded.It was an alien.The alien.Commander Atlas had set all the tongues wagging, a Kitari officer serving on a largely human vessel... -
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![Alien Pleasures by Sinistre Ange]()
Alien Pleasures by Sinistre Ange
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDesperate to escape Earth and the overbearing chieftan who wants to make her one of his miserable wives, Shansa's only option is to flee with the Torians who visit her village regularly. The alien traders are willing to do just about anything for the right price, and Shansa's in no position to bargain over their terms... -
![Alien Explosions by Sadie Carter]()
Alien Explosions by Sadie Carter
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes it’s a very fine line between love and hate. Humans were inferior and troublesome creatures, and unlike his fellow warriors, Moroco had no intention of ever mating one. Trust a female again? Never. Not when he knew how easily they could betray you. So why did he care so much about a certain prickly, irritating female who seemed to take great delight in rousing his temper? And his need... -
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Alien Sacrifice by Sadie Carter
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSent 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... -
![Drinking Sapphire Wine by Tanith Lee]()
Drinking Sapphire Wine by Tanith Lee
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFour-BEE was an utopian city. If you didn't mind being taken care of all your long long life, having a wild time as a "jang" teen-ager, able to do anything you wanted from killing yourself innumerable times, changing bodies, changing sex, and raising perpetual hell, it could be heaven. But for one inhabitant there was always something askew... -
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Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA classic science fiction adventure from the backlist of Megan Lindholm, who also writes as Robin Hobb. Generations ago humanity abandoned Earth. Now they have returned. Far from home, the Human race tries to atone for killing Terra thousands of years ago... -
![Finding the Jewel by Evangeline Anderson]()
Finding the Jewel by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis 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...
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