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  • Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

    Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 84 ratings
    With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn’t know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won’t keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life...
  • Charon Docks at Daylight by Zoe Reed

    Charon Docks at Daylight by Zoe Reed

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's six years after an infection turned a majority of the population into ferocious, zombie-like creatures that hunt during the day, forcing the living into a nocturnal state of existence. Survival is a continuous struggle when it's hide or fight, and the creatures aren't the only threat in a wasted America. Sometimes fighting is the only answer.Ebook linkhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/cdad-ep..
  • Flor's Fiasco by Ruby Dixon

    Flor's Fiasco by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I'm not supposed to resonate to him.It's been a few years since I've landed here on Icehome Beach, and as resonance after resonance dwindled the list of bachelors, I knew who I'd end up with. As soon as we got past our differences, I'd end up as R'jaal's mate.On an everyday excursion, however, my khui decides otherwise. It sings all right...but not to R'jaal...
  • Lor by Lily Mayne

    Lor by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    My role as Moric—ruler of a small and prosperous fiefdom in a quiet corner of the world—has always been painfully dull and stifling.Until a beautiful, otherworldly creature with pink skin and a mane of golden hair falls through a strange void that has appeared in my guestroom.And I am instantly captivated by him.I have never seen anything like him...
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    lgbtq  age-gap  slow-burn  angst  steamy  humor  romance  fantasy
  • The Strip Down by Honey Phillips

    The Strip Down by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can Amanda discover the secrets behind an alien ruin? And the mysterious alien with the haunted eyes?Amanda is happy with her life as an elementary school teacher - and making plans to expand her family. Waking up naked and alone on an alien planet is not on her schedule.Desperate to return to Earth, she reluctantly accepts the help of the massive alien who appears out of the sands...
  • Devi's Distraction by Ruby Dixon

    Devi's Distraction by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    It's hard to make friends with the other women at the Icehome camp when you'd rather be dissecting the local fauna. Which is why I'm surprised when one of the big, brawny islanders asks me to help him make a prosthetic leg. I don't know N'dek, but since I'm a scientist, he wants my help...
  • Wind Dancer by K.C. Luck

    Wind Dancer by K.C. Luck

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If the lights go out forever, can love survive?Darkness still prevails throughout the world but in Astoria, Chief of Police Taylor Barnes has everything under control. There is only one more thing she wants to do—marry the always challenging Jackie Scott...
  • Adept of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Adept of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Evelyn's deeds are coming back to haunt her.Free to travel among the stars, the former warlord is enjoying her freedom, even if she’s occasionally exasperated by the women who’ve attached themselves to her. They accompany her as she encounters wonders, from dryad terraforming ships to the orcish arenas of Skaloth.Yet Evelyn has enemies, and they have not forgotten her...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  drama  female-mc  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  action-adventure  adult
  • Taunting Krell by Laurann Dohner

    Taunting Krell by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Book 7 in the Cyborg Seduction series. Krell hates humans. They left him scarred and undesirable to females. He’s lived a lonely existence in his home world because of their brutality. So he’s angry when he’s ordered to interrogate the captured human. She’s the enemy, a soldier from Earth. He’ll show her the same mercy they showed him. None...
  • Beyond: Volume Two by Kit Rocha

    Beyond: Volume Two by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This bundle contains Book #4, Book #5 and Book #6 in the bestselling, award-winning BEYOND series.Catch up before the final book comes out at the end of 2016!Beyond Jealousy - Beyond, Book FourWhen Rachel Riley sacrificed a life in Eden to protect the O'Kanes, she earned her place in the powerful Sector Four gang. But the former crime princess is tired of being everyone's sweet little sister...
  • Every Time We Touch by J.E. Parker

    Every Time We Touch by J.E. Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s fighting to keep her head above water… He’s drowning in guilt.-Kyle-As a kid my life was perfect.I had everything I could ever want.Amazing parents, a loving little sister. Then it all changed.In the blink of an eye, my heart died. My soul fractured, my happiness vanished. For years I felt nothing but pain. Then Carissa walked into my life.In an instant, she turned my world upside down...
  • Darkness Remains by K.C. Luck

    Darkness Remains by K.C. Luck

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If the lights go out forever, can love survive? When a group of women from different walks of life are brought together by fate during the end of the world as they know it, each must find a way to survive against the odds as well as learn to rely on each other...
  • Flame by Tana Stone

    Flame by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only thing worse than always being upstaged by your perfect sister? Falling for her alien fiancé.I wasn’t supposed to end up on the Drexian space station or be matched to one of their gorgeous warriors as a tribute bride. My perfect twin sister is the one they wanted. Instead, I stole her spot...
  • 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...
  • S'kal by Honey Phillips

    S'kal by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A 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...
  • Affiliations, Aliens, and Other Profitable Pursuits by Lyn Gala

    Affiliations, Aliens, and Other Profitable Pursuits by Lyn Gala

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A desire for status has brought Ondry and Liam to a human world to trade, but dealing with humans has brought up all the old pain in Liam’s heart. Even though Ondry would do anything to protect his beloved palteia, he doesn’t know how to protect Liam from himself...
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    age-gap  alpha-mc  angst  humor  lgbtq  slow-burn  steamy  abuse
  • His Human Neighbor by Michele Mills

    His Human Neighbor by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A month-long retreat of rest and relaxation from my high-powered career is just what I need. Until I’m the only human in a rental home community on a distant planet populated by beings who look like satanic devils. Yep.And on day three of my odd vacay, two young Hyrrokin girls enter my home and beg me to marry their dad, my neighbor...
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    steamy  age-gap  female-mc  alpha-mc  humor  romance  sci-fi  aliens
  • Zercy by Kora Knight

    Zercy by Kora Knight

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Emergency landing. Uncharted planet. Erotic captivity of epic proportions. Right when Captain Alec Hamlin thinks it can’t get any crazier, his team is sold to their captors’ mighty sovereign. King Zercy of the Kríe. Ruler of the planet’s most formidable species. Man, is he imposing. So regal and larger than life. And way too savagely handsome for Alec’s liking...
  • Using Fejo by Victoria Aveline

    Using Fejo by Victoria Aveline

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She’ll do anything to get home. He’ll do anything to keep her with him, forever…Vanessa doesn’t have the luxury of building a happily ever after on a new planet like her fellow alien abduction survivors. She must get back to Earth. Her family needs her, and she can’t afford to let them down again...
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    drama  outlaws  steamy  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book  death
  • The Kraken King by Meljean Brook

    The Kraken King by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A 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...
  • Brutal by Hope Hart

    Brutal by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He calls himself an ‘acquisitions expert.’In reality, the charming, handsome Thesian is a space pirate. And I trust the 7-foot tall alien about as far as I can throw him.But at this point, I have to trust someone. Because the Grivath are hunting a little girl. A little girl who had the bad luck to grow up as a royal on a planet that they want to control...
  • Vellmar the Blade by Fletcher DeLancey

    Vellmar the Blade by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An elite warrior. A split-second decision that launches a legend.Lead Guard Fianna Vellmar is the daughter of a champion, raised from childhood to work hard and be the very best. When she is given the opportunity to compete at the highest level and earn her place among Alsea’s elite warriors, a stunning turn of events forces her to choose between life and glory, mercy and pride...
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    female-mc  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  action-adventure  adult  animals  book
  • Savage  (Society of Savages #4) by Hope Hart

    Savage (Society of Savages #4) by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s wild. Vicious. Savage.But deep down, I know he’s in there somewhere. A lost, tortured, confined, boy who grew into an enraged, vengeful man.I have to believe he’s not beyond saving. Because sometimes, when he looks at me, I know he sees more than just the woman who opened his cage and let him free…Only to allow him to be locked up again.Everyone says my plan is too dangerous...
  • Darkness United by K.C. Luck

    Darkness United by K.C. Luck

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If the lights go out forever, can love survive? Twice now, Taylor, Jackie, Lexi, and Anna have faced the darkness brought on by a catastrophic solar storm. With the help of Sam, Laura, and a group of faithful friends, they have rebuilt their lives in a world without power. But when new threats arise, each must find a way to survive against the odds as well as continue to rely on each other...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  lgbtq  drama  angst  romance  dystopia  action-adventure  fiction
  • The Bones Beneath My Skin by T.J. Klune

    The Bones Beneath My Skin by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his older brother wants nothing to do with him, and he's been fired from his job as a journalist in Washington DC. With nothing left to lose, he returns to his family's summer cabin outside the small mountain town of Roseland, Oregon to try and find some sense of direction. The cabin should be empty. It's not...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  angst  drama  humor  lgbtq  slow-burn  action-adventure  adult
  • Ka'Cit's Haven by A.G. Wilde

    Ka'Cit's Haven by A.G. Wilde

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Not the best of ways to introduce myself to you…A gentleman would have at least greeted you first…… but I’m no gentleman.”He’s the Bone Crusher. A man in a mask.His face is hidden alongside his intentions.He doesn’t do things for free…or to be nice.So just how did Nia end up stuck on a ship with him by her side?She’d wanted adventure, but Ka’Cit Urgmental was SO. MUCH. MORE...
  • The First She by Waters E

    The First She by Waters E

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kira, a NASA scientist, is teleported to a planet that has no women. When she's saved by an alien that thinks she's a boy with deformations, she fights to keep both herself and secret alive...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  alpha-mc  humor  steamy  romance  fantasy  aliens  sci-fi
  • Unity and the Usurper by Honey Phillips

    Unity and the Usurper by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A barbaric alien king. A fierce human female. A galactic conspiracy...After leading a rebellion to overthrow a tyrannical king, Cronan discovers a beautiful, defiant human female. She’s a responsibility he doesn’t need in the chaotic aftermath of the rebellion, but one he can't abandon...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  alpha-mc  humor  steamy  sci-fi  aliens  monsters  space
  • Claimed by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Claimed by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What’s worse than being stuck on an alien planet? Being stuck on an alien planet when you’ve made an enemy of the local tribe King. Okay, so I may have stolen his favorite misua and snuck away to find my friends. But he should’ve known better than to forbid me to go. I’m a marine, and we leave no man-- or woman, behind...
  • Beyond Happily Ever After: Closed Doors by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Happily Ever After: Closed Doors by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Caution: this story is not meant to stand alone. The Beyond Happily Ever After stories are vignettes and outtakes showing the O'Kanes in their daily lives, in between the adventures and often after their happy endings. These stories were written exclusively for readers and fans of the series, and will probably not make very much sense to anyone not familiar with the characters...
  • Consumed by Presley Hall

    Consumed by Presley Hall

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All I wanted was one hot night with an alien gladiator…Ever since the Kalixian warriors rescued us from our Orkun captors, I’ve made no secret of the fact that I think these bronze, horned aliens are hot as hell.I have no interest in the whole “fated mate” thing, but I definitely wouldn’t mind a roll in the sheets with any of these men.Well… one man, if I’m being honest.Tycran...
  • The Arcav Guard's Female by Hope Hart

    The Arcav Guard's Female by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s on a quest for revenge… ...But he’s on a mission to make her his... After being abducted by aliens and rescued by the Arcav, all Peyton wants is revenge. Well, that, and a trip straight back home to Earth where she belongs. She’s not interested in the handsome Arcav Guard who stares at her so intently. Even if he does make her wish she’d met him before her captivity...
  • Survival Instincts by May Dawney

    Survival Instincts by May Dawney

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Civilization ended long before Lynn Tanner was born. Wild animals roam the streets, but mankind is still the biggest threat to a woman alone in the ruins of a world reclaimed by nature. Lynn survives by sleeping with one eye open at all times and trusting no one but her dog...
    Categorized as:
    angst  drama  lgbtq  slow-burn  wlw  action-adventure  adult  animals
  • Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After disobeying orders to save the planet of Alsea, Captain Ekatya Serrado has returned home to something less than a hero’s welcome. At her side is Dr. Lhyn Rivers, now the foremost authority on a culture that fascinates and terrifies.Ekatya and Lhyn share a secret: they are tyrees, linked by an Alsean empathic bond that should be biologically impossible for Gaians...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book
  • Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities by Lyn Gala

    Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities by Lyn Gala

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ondry and Liam have settled into a good life, but their trading is still tied up with humans, and humans are always messy. When political changes at the human base lead Ondry to attempt a difficult trade, the pair find themselves entangled in human affairs. Liam wants to help the people he left and the worlds being torn apart...
  • 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...
  • Uprising by Fletcher DeLancey

    Uprising by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A caste Prime with a personal grudge that may bring down the government. A captured soldier seeking peace with his former enemies. A rural landowner thrust into the highest levels of political power.As Alsea looks to the future, its foundations are cracked by the past...
  • Conquered by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Conquered by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I've loathed him since the moment we met.His silver eyes watch me relentlessly, making it clear he doesn't trust me. But it's not his mistrust that makes me hate him. It's not even his spies, who report my every move back to him. It's the little voice in the back of my head that asks me if he could be the one I've been searching for all my life...
  • Sea Wolf by Anna Burke

    Sea Wolf by Anna Burke

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the year 2514, the only thing more dangerous than the seas is those who sail them.Life aboard the mercenary ship Man o’ War is rarely dull as hurricanes, swarms of jellyfish, and man-eating squid pose daily doses of danger...
  • Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alsea is fractured in the aftermath of war. So is its leader.Though devastated by a personal loss, Lancer Andira Tal must somehow stitch her world together and move it forward when all the rules have changed. Every decision is fraught with risk, and her enemies wait for her to stumble...
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    female-mc  lgbtq  steamy  wlw  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book
  • 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...
  • The Surviving Trace by Calia Read

    The Surviving Trace by Calia Read

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Will 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...
  • Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner

    Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When her parents died in her youth, Anabel Brick—along with her sister, Jessa—was raised as an orphan of United Earth. While her sister became an Alien Research Specialist, Anabel’s skills were put to a different use. She’s a tool for U.E. and its military fleet…a spy…a killer. Her current mission also turns out to be her last...
  • Tempting Auzed by Victoria Aveline

    Tempting Auzed by Victoria Aveline

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Alejandra is a survivor. So far, she’s lived through abduction, a near drowning, and being lost in an alien forest. She thought things were finally starting to go her way when the most intense, grumpy, and insanely tempting man she’s ever seen rescues her from a monster. But sadly, that’s just when everything gets even more complicated.Auzed has his orders...
  • The Lily and the Crown by Roslyn Sinclair

    The Lily and the Crown by Roslyn Sinclair

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ariana “Ari” Geiker lives an isolated life on an imperial space station commanded by her father. The skilled, young botanist rarely leaves her living quarters, where she maintains an elaborate garden. When an imperious older woman is captured from a pirate ship and given to her as a slave, Ariana’s perfectly ordered life is thrown into chaos...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  angst  drama  female-mc  grumpy-mc  lgbtq  outlaws  slow-burn
  • Enticed by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Enticed by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Betrayal tastes like ashes on my tongue. I’ve always been the girl who’s nothing but a pretty face. The one used to distract the warriors so the others can move our plans forward.But now? Now I have a chance to save us all. A chance to get us off this planet and back to Earth. Where we belong...
  • Alien Hit and Run: A Sci-Fi Romance Novella by Lizzy Bequin

    Alien Hit and Run: A Sci-Fi Romance Novella by Lizzy Bequin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    She wanted revenge. He needed a mate. One moment is all it takes to change your life forever. For Kris Morgan, that moment comes when her car collides with a mysterious stranger in the middle of the desert. He ought to be dead, but he doesn’t have a scratch on his perfect, muscle-bound body.He doesn’t have any clothing, either...
    Categorized as:
    steamy  humor  female-mc  alpha-mc  aliens  sci-fi  dark  fated-mates
  • Her Secret Champion by Roxie Ray

    Her Secret Champion by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is he playing at being my master, or is he playing me?Things have gone from bad to far, far worse since I was abducted from Earth and then thrown in the dungeon.Apparently attempting to assassinate the queen is a no-no around here, even if she is a total psycho.I need to find a way out. I’m done being a prisoner and a pawn.But to escape I need help, and a terrifying alien warrior is my only hope...
  • Flying in Spaceships with Aliens by Erin Raegan

    Flying in Spaceships with Aliens by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I once had what I thought were small dreams. Dreams that I was never sure if I would have the chance to pursue. Even so, I had been content. Happy. Or so I thought.All that changed when Killian entered my life. But just as quickly as he lifted me up, he shoved me down so far I didn’t think I would ever have the strength to find myself again...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  humor  steamy  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book
  • Beyond Galaxy's Edge by Anna Hackett

    Beyond Galaxy's Edge by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ambitious Patrol Captain Nissa Sander has spent three years at the galaxy’s edge keeping the law and order, and chasing scoundrel smuggler, Justyn Phoenix. But the charming rogue has always outwitted her and she’s had a hard time ignoring his hard body and handsome face...
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