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  • Light Unfolding by Rebecca Royce

    Light Unfolding by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Reverse Harem Science Fiction Romance Time may be cruel, and space unforgiving, but their love is forever. Hurled across time and space, Waverly Sandler lives in unexpected exile on a planet doomed to be destroyed...
  • Enthralled by Tiffany Roberts

    Enthralled by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    He conquered her, but he is the one enthralled.Ketahn hadn’t wanted a mate. Fate gave him Ivy Foster. Now, he wants nothing more than to enjoy his little human.But fate is not content to make things so simple.With an enraged queen searching for him, Ketahn knows the Tangle is not safe for his mate. They need to leave. Yet Ivy will not forsake her people, and he cannot condemn her compassion...
  • Dark Demise by Rebecca Royce

    Dark Demise by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Reverse Harem (MFMMM) RomanceTime isn’t kind… Waverly Sandler is nothing like her mad father. She’s a nurse. She takes care of people. She is fighting to live down her name. She’s also a sister, a friend, and someday, if the universe is kind, she hopes to be a lover and a wife. Life at The Farm is one of constant activity, because freedom exacts a high price...
  • To Valor's Bid by M. Tress

    To Valor's Bid by M. Tress

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Desmond McLaughlin was just getting through his life and trying to survive. A 9-5 job and a hobby that cost more than it earned left him just enough money to afford a crappy apartment and time to dream of something better. He was expecting to spend most of his life like this.He hadn’t expected to be greeted by a CIA agent waiting inside his house one evening...
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    harem  steamy  paranormal  aliens  polyamory  romance  sci-fi  fantasy
  • The Torid Affair by Laurann Dohner

    The Torid Affair by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When riots erupt on planet Torid, the crew of Defcon Red is tasked with quelling the violence and tending the injured. Even Alien Research Specialist Jessa Brick is pressed into service. Arguably more comfortable in her lab, the doctor is shocked at the obvious inequality on Torid...
  • 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...
  • Crashing Into Destiny by Rebecca Royce

    Crashing Into Destiny by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When one man can't steal her heart, She gives it to five of them. Restless and uncertain, Diana Mallory has no idea what path in life she wants to take. Unable to choose between marriage, pursuing a career, or spending her life praying with the Sisters of the Universe, Diana struggles with the course of her future. But when she's thrown through a black hole, her choices all vanish...
  • Beth's Stable by Amanda Milo

    Beth's Stable by Amanda Milo

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    They say that in space, no one can hear you... (Yeah, you know what I'm quoting.) But there are lots of places you can still scream and be heard. Especially if you suddenly find yourself on a ship traveling through space. I’ve been abducted by aliens and auctioned to an alien pirate. My epic love of movies sort of comes in handy, what with all the sci-fi suddenly in my face...
  • Stealing Her Heart by Evangeline Anderson

    Stealing Her Heart by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 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...
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    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Designed Collision by Viola Grace

    Designed Collision by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A stranger walks through the woods and offers to take her from her broken world. Hell yes. With conditions.With the asteroid looming, she makes a run for a family farm and the animals therein. After the crash with communications cut off, she lives a routine of subsistence and survival with no other soul to speak to...
  • Loving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Loving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Content warning: Reverse Harem (MFMMM). IntenseSaved from a life of suffering, Paloma Delacroix is determined to make the best life possible for herself, and for the four men she loves. Loving them is a challenge she never dreamed she’d be up for and one she refuses to fail...
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    aliens  harem  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  apocalyptic  book
  • Clan and Command by Tracy St. John

    Clan and Command by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Losing the one man he loved convinced Piras he would never have a chance at happiness. He is too different from the other members of the Dramok breed to attract a Nobek warrior and Imdiko nurturer to his clan. Unwilling to pretend to be someone he is not, he faces a lonely future. Nobek destroyer captain Kila’s one night with Piras was a shocking revelation...
  • Saving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Saving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paloma McQueen is a woman on a mission. Loving the Sandler brothers in the midst of a war tearing their galaxy apart never promised to be easy but Paloma swore an oath to her husbands. Their challenges are hers, their war hers, their happiness… Everything she is and will be, she plans to be with them no matter what changes the conflicts wrought on the map...
  • The Admiral and the Wildcat by Mina Carter

    The Admiral and the Wildcat by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gabriel 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...
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    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fiction  fighter  futuristic
  • Victoria's Embrace by Stacy Jones

    Victoria's Embrace by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With explosive trackers embedded in their arms, a psychopath in control of the gladiator arena they’ve come to call home, and slavers closing in, time is running out for Victoria and her guys…They managed to escape a slaver transport, only to find themselves trapped outside the walls of the arena and on the run in a dangerous alien city...
  • Tyr: Warriors of Firosa Book 2  (Warrior of Firosa) by Thanika Hearth, Star Huntress

    Tyr: Warriors of Firosa Book 2 (Warrior of Firosa) by Thanika Hearth, Star Huntress

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is no life for a young, sweet, laughably frail human … one that happens to have the kind of feminine curves I want to press against me to see if she fits; with a scent like soft flowers and sweet spices. No. No life at all. Change always leads to trouble..
  • Clan and Conviction by Tracy St. John

    Clan and Conviction by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The drug Delir is sweeping the Kalquorian Empire, leaving madness and death in its wake. Investigator Dramok Gelan has already lost his enforcer partner in a deadly shootout because of the case. With no clues or suspects, he despairs of putting an end to the epidemic. Then a familiar face enters the picture: new partner and former lover Nobek Wynhod...
  • Reclaiming Their Love by Rebecca Royce

    Reclaiming Their Love by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Diana Mallory lost everything when her five husbands were taken from her on the other side of the galaxy. Back on the Milky Way side of the black hole, she’s deep into the war for Mars Station. Diana will do anything for her family, but every day is a living hell without the loves of her life. She assumes she’ll never see them again...
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    aliens  harem  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  apocalyptic  book
  • Crashed on an Ice World by Anna Hackett

    Crashed on an Ice World by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s her boss. She’s his best friend. These two deep-space convoy security specialists are fighting their simmering attraction…until a starship crash on a deadly ice world changes everything.Elana Korra loves her security job as a medic on the convoy ship, the Sky Nomad…except for the fact that she’s in love with her boss...
  • My Chameleon Mate by Susan Trombley

    My Chameleon Mate by Susan Trombley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    VeraI 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...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  ai  alpha-mc  book  fiction
  • Warriors' Claim by Michele Mills

    Warriors' Claim by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Xylan Warriors. One female Cyborg… Wyric, Zaxon and Bex. Trish can’t stop staring at the three handsome warriors who’ve recently moved in next door. She’s supposed to be helping them upgrade their facility, but Trish can’t keep her eyes off of their perfect physiques. Loving the sound of their harsh voices and their fierce demands. Wanting them. All three of them...
  • Draekon Heart by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Heart by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There might be a way out of the prison planet... The only problem? I don't want to go! Back on Earth is a man who wants to kill me. Back on Earth, I slept with a knife under my pillow to be safe! There's no coffee on the prison planet! No pizza! No chocolate! I should be thrilled that there might be a way back home. Except I don't want to return. Here, I feel safe...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  harem  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  abuse  adult  audiobook
  • Draekon Abduction by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Abduction by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    How to Fail as an Intergalactic Spy: 1. Crash spaceship on wrong planet.2. Break leg.3. Get abducted by rogue prisoners.4. End up with two pairs of dragon-shifters claiming I’m their mate. Here’s a report for the CIA: The aliens are freaking good kissers. The mission was simple: Go to the Zorahn planet. Spy on the aliens...
  • Good Deeds by Kathryn Moon

    Good Deeds by Kathryn Moon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Nötchka Uumian, solo-scavenger and pilot, only came to Bandalier for business. But when her first ever heat cycle hits, she has two choices: get off the planet or find somewhere safe to ride out the heatburns. Determined to never end up mated and trapped in a kitchen, she heads into the Droid district...
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    aliens  harem  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  ai  alpha-mc
  • The Tigrens' Glory by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Tigrens' Glory by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Planet Jasan is mobilizing for war against the evil Xanti, enemies of all. As the warriors of Jasan prepare to strike across the immense void that separates the galaxies to end thousands of years of bloody conflict, into the gathering storm comes Warrior Princess, Gloriani of Ramouri, known as “Glory...
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    aliens  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  book  fiction  futuristic
  • The Falcorans' Faith by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Falcorans' Faith by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    You could say that Faith Myers was one of the unluckiest women in The Thousand Worlds, but that would make her sound a lot luckier than she actually was. Her twin sister, Grace, died in an attack by the reptilian Brethren. Her parents were murdered...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  book  fiction  futuristic
  • Out of Bight, Out of Mind by Tymber Dalton

    Out of Bight, Out of Mind by Tymber Dalton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    [Siren Ménage Everlasting: Erotic Futuristic Sci-Fi Ménage a Quatre Romance, M/M/M/F, reverse harem, HEA]Emi Hypatia loves her job exploring the galaxy with her three husbands, Aaron Lucio, Caph Bates, and Ford Caliban. When a nonhuman crewman is temporarily assigned to the Tamora Bight for a mission, Emi hates and mistrusts him at first sight due to what her empath training tells her...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  mlm  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  book  fiction
  • Wild Card by Susan Hayes

    Wild Card by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The game of love can change in a heartbeat when fate deals you a wild card.Technician Lieksa Kiv saw firsthand what the corporations did to their cyborg soldiers during the Resource Wars. Her job: repair their damaged cybernetic components and send them back into battle...
  • Full House by Susan Hayes

    Full House by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Opportunity doesn’t always knock. Sometimes, it crash lands.A veteran of the Resource Wars, Raze is a cyborg with a simple plan. He wants to be left alone, forever. Planetary scout Sevda Rem is light-years from civilization when her ship is damaged, forcing an emergency landing on an unoccupied planet. At least, it was supposed to be unoccupied …He’s trespassing on a corporate-owned planet...
  • Playing Cards With Aliens by Erin Raegan

    Playing Cards With Aliens by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Small town. Small life. Smaller dreams.I’m content. Happy. It might not make sense to most people but this is the life I chose for myself.If there’s a small part of me that wants to travel and see the world, I’m okay with appeasing that desire with travel magazines and planning future vacations. I want this life and a life full of adventure. I don’t see why I can’t have both...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fiction  futuristic  outlaws
  • Star Breaker by Viola Grace

    Star Breaker by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With an asteroid heading to Morganti, Kale volunteers to retrieve the Star Breaker, a weapon that has the ability to shatter anything in it's way. When he takes possession he feels a familiar presence, a star's Avatar is trapped within the sphere. Carella has been waiting for her freedom, and when her sphere collides with the asteroid, she is naked, free, and in the mood to blow something up...
  • Shalia's Diary: Book 2 by Tracy St. John

    Shalia's Diary: Book 2 by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a compilation from the free serial story blog ‘Shalia’s Diary – A Clans of Kalquor Story’ by Tracy St. John. It is highly recommended you read Shalia’s Diary Book 1 before reading this story, which picks up immediately where that book left off. Told in the passages of her ongoing diary, Shalia Monroe’s adventures continue while she prepares to leave the dying Earth...
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    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  apocalyptic  book  dark  dystopia
  • Astonish by Viola Grace

    Astonish by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ceelie was nothing exceptional until the moment she became the most important woman to an entire world…and its avatar.Trapped in a job working as an assistant for an ambassador, Ceelie is hoping for something better for her life, but she knows that it isn’t likely. While on an assignment to obtain some atmosphere scrubbing trees Ceelie finds herself courted and seduced before she can blink...
  • Asteroid by Viola Grace

    Asteroid by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sebena has spent her time in the Alliance using her accuracy to blow large rocks into tiny rocks suitable for refinement. When she picks up a heat signature she has to pursue it, even if it means doing it on her own time. Finding a life pod is not really a surprise, but having it functioning and its occupant alive is quite the shock...
  • Harness by Viola Grace

    Harness by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Using tech to hold her shape becomes a problem when she meets a man who drives her senses into overdrive.Alfreda has become used to the constant pressure of her harness, keeping her in a basic bipedal form and helping her back into her Terran shape. When she learns that her mixed blood makes the shapeshifter in her far stronger than the human, she has a choice...
  • No Limit by Susan Hayes

    No Limit by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three hearts. Two worlds. No limits. Tyran and Ket are on a mission. Find an inhabitable planet. Start a new colony. Escape the archaic rules and traditions of the Vardarian homeworld. They never expected to find their mate along the way, and they never imagined she’d be a diminutive human female with pink hair and a warrior’s spirit...
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    aliens  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  book  cyberpunk  cyborgs
  • Claimed for Their Use by Ivy Barrett

    Claimed for Their Use by Ivy Barrett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Held captive by a brutal drug cartel and facing an uncertain fate, the last thing Jessica Saint Claud expects is to be rescued by two huge, fiercely handsome alien warriors, but the real shock comes when the two Ventori commanders make it clear that she now belongs to them. They will use their beautiful little human as thoroughly as they please, and she will submit or be punished...
  • The Katres' Summer by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Katres' Summer by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The galactic adventure begun in The Dracons’ Woman and The Lobos’ HeartSong, takes everything to a new level in the most exciting installment yet in Laura Jo Phillips’ thrill-packed “Soul-Linked Saga,” The Katres’ Summer...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  book  dragons  fiction
  • Defender by C.L. Scholey

    Defender by C.L. Scholey

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Endless destruction defines human life in a world run amok. There are those who will pick the uncertainty of the alien sky, are the Tonans life or are they death? Macey learns first hand a Tonan warrior doesn't apologize for who or what he is or will do. In an unforgiving new world there is one who battles his heritage...
  • Alien Sacrifice by Sadie Carter

    Alien Sacrifice by Sadie Carter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sent 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...
  • The Harvest: A Tah'Narian Christmas by M.A. Church

    The Harvest: A Tah'Narian Christmas by M.A. Church

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    So what’s an alien to do when his mate refuses to say what’s bothering him? Why, he sends a deep space message to his mate’s mother on earth, what else? Keyno not only learns the importance of Christmas to his chosen, he’s also shocked and confused as to why Dale hasn’t shared this with him...
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    aliens  mlm  steamy  adult  book  children  family  fiction
  • Demons Don't Dream by Hannah Walker

    Demons Don't Dream by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being the Terran ambassador assigned to Kenistal, the Demon home world, is not a particularly easy posting. Caris Dealyn wants nothing more than to get this assignment done so he can continue searching for his missing Avanti friends...
  • Mine! by C.L. Scholey

    Mine! by C.L. Scholey

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Mine!" One of the most powerful words in the human language, possession. Desperate need to hold onto what you love with every fiber of your being. Until Huck realizes in order to hold onto what he loves most he will have to let not only Becky go but a part of who he is, what he is, perhaps the best part...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book  female-mc  fiction
  • The Lobos' HeartSong by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Lobos' HeartSong by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The sexually-charged interstellar adventure begun in the best-selling The Dracons' Woman ramps up the action in Book Two of the Soul-Linked Saga, Lariah Daniels, newly-bonded Princess and pregnant soul-mate to the three Royal Princes of Jasan, has invited her best friend from Earth, library security guard and martial arts practitioner Saige Taylor, to visit her on that distant planet...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book  dragons
  • Three Of A Kind by Susan Hayes

    Three Of A Kind by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the chips are down and the stakes are high, winning takes three of a kind Dr. Alyson Jefferies treats everyone who comes through the doors of her medical clinic, regardless of species or social standing. The corporations who run the Drift don’t approve of her open-door policy, but Alyson is determined to fight for her patients, no matter what...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  book  cyberpunk  cyborgs
  • Stowaway by Susan Hayes

    Stowaway by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sonja Grekov has spent her life in a gilded cage, trapped by her wealthy family’s expectations and the scroll tattoo on her face that declares her to be one of the coveted fertile women on Earth. No longer willing to be a pawn to further her parents’ ambition, she finally finds the courage to break free before she can be claimed in a loveless match...
  • Stud by Cheryl Brooks

    Stud by Cheryl Brooks

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They're galaxies apart...but one force can bring them together Even for a Zetithian, Tarq Zulveidinoe's sexual prowess is legendary. Believing it's all he's good for, Tarq sets out to perpetuate his threatened species by offering his services to women across the galaxy...
  • Finding the Jewel by Evangeline Anderson

    Finding the Jewel by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This 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...
  • Undying by Tiffany Roberts

    Undying by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BRINGER OF DEATH… Orishok is the last of his kind — a valo shaped by the Creators to embody death. He’s stood vigil over his people for centuries, watching them fade away, one by one succumbing to the entropic energies they hold inside...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  abuse  adult  book  contemporary
  • Kayzon's Wish by Michele Mills

    Kayzon's Wish by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kayzon of Twenty-Six is beastly. Small offspring cry at the sight of his hulking frame and the vicious scar that bisects the right side of his face. Banished from his home world and deemed unworthy of a Bride—his mere presence strikes fear into the hearts of most beings. Except for one fierce, tiny female. She alone is unafraid...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  adult  book  family  fiction  futuristic  space
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