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  • Bound by Tiffany Roberts

    Bound by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Ketahn will protect his mate at any cost.Queen Zurvashi will not rest until everything Ketahn cares about is gone and he belongs to her.His sweet, compassionate Ivy, his sister, his friends, his new tribe of humans—all are in danger. He fears nowhere is far enough away to escape the queen’s wrath.But Ketahn will see the whole jungle burn before he lets any harm befall his mate...
  • Born to Be Mine by Lexa Luthor

    Born to Be Mine by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An F/F Omegaverse Sci-Fi Romance Charlie never meant to trigger more than just new feelings between her and Kal! But now she faces an Alpha in full rut, while struggling to keep her promise and not allow Kal to mark her for life, which could send Kander into another civil war...
  • Loving Zorn  (Zorn Warriors, #1-2) by Laurann Dohner

    Loving Zorn (Zorn Warriors, #1-2) by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ral's WomanAriel never knew aliens existed until she finds herself kidnapped and taken from Earth. When the Anzon declare humans useless, she learns her fate-prize for the winner of a brutal fight between large, muscled alien men. Ral is a Zorn warrior. He has also been kidnapped by the Anzon, along with his crew. Forced into slavery, he's got one thing on his mind-freeing his people...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Hitched to the Alien General by Mina Carter

    Hitched to the Alien General by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Her perfect man is a big, scarred alien war hero. Pity he only see’s her as a warrior, not a woman... Kenna Reynolds loves life in the Imperial Court. The latharian culture fascinates her, and she values the friendships she’s made amongst the sentinel women, most bonded to Latharian males, and a few with babies on the way...
  • Tamed for Their Use by Ivy Barrett

    Tamed for Their Use by Ivy Barrett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Though she is grateful to the Ventori who rescued her from a notorious drug cartel, Nichole Romano is none too pleased at being held in their custody and tested for her compatibility as a mate. Her patience runs out when two huge, handsome warriors carry her off against her will, but despite her fury she is quickly stripped bare and her defiance merely earns her a sound spanking...
  • Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I was abducted, sold, then crash-landed on a strange planet... only to be abducted again.  And you know the funny thing? I barely even care.I’m numb. You see, I’ve already lost everything. When you’re doing something you love, you never think that it could be the last time. That someone might take your life from you and leave you stranded on a planet where most of the locals are out to get you...
  • Vengeful Heart by Tiffany Roberts

    Vengeful Heart by Tiffany Roberts

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

    Torment by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tori wants nothing to do with the gorgeous, sand planet barbarians. Too bad she’s stuck with the cockiest Dothvek alive. Stowing away on the enemy ship to sabotage it may not have been Tori’s best idea, but she meant for it to be a solo mission. She never planned for a huge Dothvek warrior to come along for the less-than-pleasant ride...
  • Deb and the Demon by Honey Phillips

    Deb and the Demon by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    An alien prince. A pregnant slave. Deb is ripped away from her comfortable life on Earth and sold as a slave to a vicious alien. Six months later, all she has to live for is the child now growing inside her. Her child’s safety is worth any price, even submitting to the disturbingly attractive alien who has just purchased her. Rastrath hides a sharp mind behind a careless facade...
  • Protected by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Protected by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    What’s scarier than being abducted from Earth and almost eaten by cannibals? The idea of falling in love with a huge alien warrior.Just a few days ago, I was living my best life. Now? I’m on the run on a strange alien planet. Thanks to my short temper and a severe lack of self-control, I’m being hunted, and it’s only a matter of time before I end up captured or dead...
  • The Arcav Prince's Captive by Hope Hart

    The Arcav Prince's Captive by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Can you ever truly escape the past? Everly, tough, fierce ex-federal agent has broken with her past, moving to Arcavia and training as the Queen's guard.Along with the challenges of adjusting to a new planet, she's dealing with a disasterous complication: The fallout from an incredible, stolen night with Korva, a broken male known as a traitor amonst both Arcav and humans...
  • Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ristéard Roald is the powerful and deadly ruler of Elpidios, a planet that is slowly dying without the blood stones needed to absorb the radiation gradually destroying its stratosphere. He has sworn to do whatever it takes to protect his world and his people, but time is running out.Hope comes from an unexpected source, the Kassis...
  • 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...
  • Rescued by her Alien Protector by Mina Carter

    Rescued by her Alien Protector by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Prepared to put her life on the line, she didn’t expect to lose her heart. Vice President Madison Cole is used to having a target on her back. Being captured by aliens? An acceptable risk to get what she needs. What she didn’t count on was falling for the ‘enemy’, a handsome alien warrior with a hero’s heart...
  • 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...
  • Seduced by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Seduced by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Okay, so he’s not really the devil, but he may as well be. The Tribe King is gorgeous, arrogant, and devious. He refused to hand over crucial information to help us find our friends until I agreed to stay with him. For a year.As far as I’m concerned, deals made under duress don’t count. Anyone who would demand such a thing in exchange for our friends’ freedom simply can’t be trusted...
  • Recruiting Measures by Viola Grace

    Recruiting Measures by Viola Grace

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

    Ancient Thought by Viola Grace

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

    Rashe by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's looking for happily-ever-after. He can’t touch her. But with her life at stake, he'll sacrifice everything to protect her.Kristy: Chosen for the Driegon bride selection, I’m confident I’ll meet the alien of my dreams. I don’t expect to find true love, but it would be nice to find someone special...
  • 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...
  • Cyborg Boss by Cara Bristol

    Cyborg Boss by Cara Bristol

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His cyborg intuition says hire the liar…Ex-Cyber Operations field agent Dale Homme has kissed danger and betrayal more times than he cares to count and has developed a sixth sense for smelling trouble. Now he runs a clandestine factory beneath the surface of the moon Deceptio, where confidentiality and security matter more than anything...
  • Taken by Terror by Lolita Lopez

    Taken by Terror by Lolita Lopez

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Terror has never wanted a mate. He’s too damaged, too dark, to ever deserve a wife and family. At least, that’s what he tells himself until Maisie enters his life.Born deaf in a world that reviles the imperfect, Maisie has resigned herself to a life of loneliness. Until the day she’s thrust into Terror’s prison cell with orders to keep him alive, that is...
  • Tamed by Alison Aimes

    Tamed by Alison Aimes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Talk or suffer the consequences.”Ruthless warrior Grif McIntyre is known for his brutal interrogation techniques, a skill he learned much too young from a monster even more savage than him. Still, Grif’s skills with ropes, restraints, and unbearable pleasure are unrivaled. His methods merciless, but effective...
  • Pilot In Command by Viola Grace

    Pilot In Command by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Helen needed more from life as a pilot than the Alliance could offer. When a handsome Azon offers her a new position, she can’t say no, to anything.Helen has enjoyed her tenure as an Alliance pilot, but working with unpredictable crews is wearing on her nerves. When an incident of defense of the innocent via mutiny ends her career, controlling warships is over...
  • 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...
  • Jarmen's Jane Doe by S.E. Smith

    Jarmen's Jane Doe by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He 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...
  • Kept By The Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Kept By The Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

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

    The Sands of Argurumal by S.J. Sanders

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With the expectation of a three-year pregnancy, Terri assumed that she had all the time in the world before she had to face the realities of upcoming motherhood. Time for adventures, travel, and working side by side with her mate...
  • Dark Strength by Cynthia Sax

    Dark Strength by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall. Balvan, the Refuge’s Gatekeeper, is huge, green, and has a reputation for crushing skulls. He’s a modified humanoid, genetically designed to be the ultimate warrior. One of a kind and considered monstrous by many, he never expects to find his mate, the one female meant for him...
  • 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...
  • Warlord's Baby by Nancey Cummings

    Warlord's Baby by Nancey Cummings

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What to expect when you’re expecting an alien’s baby... Mercy has been pregnant for-freaking-ever. She’s tired and grumpy and ready to get this kid out of her. Of course, being adored by her alien warlord husband is awesome but she hasn’t seen her feet in a month. And she can’t get over this sneaking suspicion that there’s something Paax isn’t telling her..
  • 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...
  • Lost in Barbarian Space: A Phoenix Adventures Sci-fi Romance by Anna Hackett

    Lost in Barbarian Space: A Phoenix Adventures Sci-fi Romance by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A clash of cultures. Security agent versus barbarian warrior. On an expedition to a newly discovered barbarian world, an experienced security agent doesn’t expect to be working with a big, bossy barbarian warrior. Agent Honor Brandall enjoys her job as security agent for the Institute of Historical Preservation’s expedition ships. Adventures to distant planets – awesome...
  • Claim by Tana Stone

    Claim by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The only reason sexy shapeshifter Bexli would not be able to shift is unthinkable. No way is she pregnant after one stupid night with him.What Bexli knows about the silver fox alien: he’s moody, he rarely talks, and he seems to think she’s some fragile female who needs protecting...
  • Claimed by the Alien Shifter by Mina Carter

    Claimed by the Alien Shifter by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She doesn’t need love. She’s getting cats. Lots of them.She absolutely doesn’t need a sexy alien making her think of happily ever afters...Elise doesn’t need a man, she has enough with her job and ensuring her brother, the President, stays out of trouble. Or, at the very least, doesn’t get humanity into an intergalactic war it can’t win...
  • Earth Files: Book 1 by Anna Carven

    Earth Files: Book 1 by Anna Carven

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

    Reaver's Quest by Elin Wyn, Starr Huntress

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was unexpected.No.Our ship getting blown up was unexpected.Crashing on a planet filled with murder-goats was unexpected.Being rescued by a copper skinned, winged hunk with golden eyes and not wearing much more than a leather kilt and a weapon harness was so freaking miraculous that I wondered if I’d actually fallen off that cliff...
  • A Darkside Interlude by Anna Carven

    A Darkside Interlude by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Commander Iskar Gar-Kurai isn't impressed by humans or their backwater planet. If he had his way, he'd be working closer to home, on a planet where it wasn't so infernally hot... But orders are orders, especially when they come from the very top. If he's going to be on Earth for the long term, Iskar needs to learn more about its strange inhabitants...
  • Tempest by Poppy Rhys

    Tempest by Poppy Rhys

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They can't break me.I wasn't prepared for what came after I got arrested and sent to prison. Finding my sister in that hellhole should've been easy.I wasn't prepared to survive an alien planet straight out of a prehistoric nightmare. Facing my fears to withstand the creatures that wanted to eat me, and the four alien men that watched me like a morsel they wanted to sink their teeth into..
  • Planet Zero by Lydia Hope

    Planet Zero by Lydia Hope

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A spaceship crash survivor, Addie Rye is lucky to be alive. But being stuck on a primitive planet isn’t exactly the epitome of luck. With no way home, Addie has no choice but learn how to use stone tools and catch her dinner before cooking it while attempting to befriend a tribe of wild nomads who inhabit this planet...
  • Kyele's Passion by Michelle Howard

    Kyele's Passion by Michelle Howard

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Being a Jutak warrior is all Kyele Bastien cares about until one mission changes everything. The Earth female has carved a place in his heart without even trying and now he’ll do anything to make sure nothing ever hurts her again...
  • King Cobra by Naomi Lucas

    King Cobra by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Daisy. Daisy. Daisy.From the moment her name is spoken, it is all I can hear. Her frightened tears bring me anger. I vow to wipe them off her face and banish her fear. To make her my queen.But I have to catch her first.I have to convince her to trust me.I have to show her she is safe.But only with ME.Because if any other naga male tries to take Daisy away from me, I will kill them...
  • Savage by Tana Stone

    Savage by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The exiled alien barbarian has been living alone in the desert--until he takes the female pilot as his captive. She wants to get back to her crew, but he thinks she's fated to be his. Can she escape before he can claim her as his mate?Caro thought the Dothveks who helped them when they crash-landed on the planet were big and brawny and intimidating...
  • Rising from the Depths by Tiffany Roberts

    Rising from the Depths by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Two years after a bloody battle nearly tore his people apart, Kronus finds himself plagued with guilt and without a place to truly call home. And when he saves a blue-eyed human from a razorback, his world is once again turned upside-down. Though he once opposed relations with her kind, he is undeniably drawn to Eva’s pain, loss, and inner strength...
  • Heart of the Deep by Tiffany Roberts

    Heart of the Deep by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    HIS HUNTRESS AND HIS HEART Larkin has spent almost a year hunting the monstrous kraken in the hope that they knew the whereabouts of her missing brother. Her efforts finally come to fruition when she and the other rangers capture three of the beasts — but the reality is nothing like the stories they’ve been told, and the kraken are not the monsters she expected...
  • Bonded To The Alien Centurion by Mina Carter

    Bonded To The Alien Centurion by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Behind ‘enemy lines’ the last thing she expects is a sexy alien warrior determined to make her his… When things screw up in diplomatic talks with the Lathar Dani Black finds herself lined up for the one thing every dyed in the wool soldier dreads… a diplomatic function...
  • Claimed by Cipher by Lolita Lopez

    Claimed by Cipher by Lolita Lopez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After spending all of her life working in the mines, Brook jumps at the chance to earn a one-way ticket to the colonies. All she has to do is provide some maps and plant some explosives to help the sky warriors rescue one of their operatives.Easy enough, right?But what should have been a simple mission spirals into a fight for her life when she discovers a stolen stash of nerve gas in the mine...
  • The Alien's Escape by Ella Blake

    The Alien's Escape by Ella Blake

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