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  • Layers of Force by Lindsay Buroker

    Layers of Force by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The 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 ratings
    Casmir 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...
  • Perilous Waif by E. William Brown

    Perilous Waif by E. William Brown

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    My name is Alice Long, and I’ve always known I was different. When I was little I used to climb up to the highest branches of the housetree at night, and watch the starships docking at the orbital stations high above. Forty meters off the ground, watching ships thirty thousand kilometers overhead, with senses that could pick out radar pings and comm chatter as easily as the ships themselves...
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    dystopia  lgbtq  action-adventure  ai  aliens  audiobook  book  cyborgs
  • 残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past...
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    lgbtq  dystopia  romance  sci-fi  fiction  mlm  space  space-opera
  • Dawn of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Dawn of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There will be hell to pay.Evelyn’s parents have been missing for more than thirty years, and at last Evelyn has a clue as to their fate. Investigating won’t be easy, even for someone as powerful as she is, yet she won’t be deterred...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romance  fantasy  harem  sci-fi  space  magic
  • Space for More by Emily Antoinette

    Space for More by Emily Antoinette

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    All Dr. Eden Mori wanted was to expand her horizons on the galaxy's largest space station, but when the only way to stop a black market sale of dangerous medical schematics is to get close to the data dealer, she's tasked with stopping him. Her partner on this mission? The dealer's estranged, hot-tempered mate...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romance  sci-fi  polyamory  monsters  space  aliens
  • Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Evelyn enjoyed living a nice, quiet life in an anarchic pirate port, far from the world she’d once conquered.Then came an attack by mercenaries that made her angry...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  aliens  angels  audiobook  book
  • The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

    The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On a summer night like any other, an emergency call sounds in the quarters of Andira Tal, Lancer of Alsea. The news is shocking: not only is there other intelligent life in the universe, but it’s landing on the planet right now.Tal leads the first responding team and ends up rescuing aliens who have a frightening story to tell...
  • Human Omega: Babied by His Guardian Mates by Eileen Glass

    Human Omega: Babied by His Guardian Mates by Eileen Glass

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes you've just got to flip your big dumb alien onto his stomach and teach him a thing about masculinity. It’s not how much you’ve got — it’s how you use it. Finally, everything is going good for Carter. He's not a slave. He has a roof over his head. He's fixed his alien language translator and now can talk to Pykh and Siel, his protectors...
  • 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...
  • The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet...
  • Without a Front: The Warrior’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Without a Front: The Warrior’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An assassin's shot has shattered the Opah family and endangered Lancer Andira Tal. Now criminal forces are racing law enforcement to find the man who could topple Tal's government.With the net closing around them, Tal and Salomen Opah discover the power of their tyree bond, a power Alsea has not seen in a millennium...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book  crime  female-author
  • 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...
  • Trader's Leap by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Trader's Leap by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    NEW ENTRY IN THE LANDMARK LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIESThe only bridge between past and future is a leap of faith. Pursued by enemies, exiled Liaden clan Korval is settling into a new base on backworld Surebleak. Moving is expensive, as is war, and Korval is strapped for cash. Delm Korval has therefore instructed Master Trader Shan yos'Galan to design and implement new trade routes, quickly...
  • Voyage to Ayama by K.A. Knight

    Voyage to Ayama by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The 43rd colony mission was supposed to be a boring space flight to our new home world of Ayama. When tragedy strikes, leaving teenager Indy Stewart an orphan in space, things start to get interesting. Throw in illegal races, flight school, boys and an explosive subterfuge which just seems to keep on unravelling around her and you have one hell of a journey...
  • Independents by Michele Notaro

    Independents by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I’ve wanted to do is keep my family safe. All I’ve wanted was to protect them from the evils of the world… but I’ve failed. I’ve failed so badly, and now all of them are suffering… I’m suffering… We’ve lost so many, and now that we’ve lost one of our own, I don’t know how to keep going. I don’t know how to protect them anymore...
  • Dissolution by Michele Notaro

    Dissolution by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Oh god, no! Oh god help me… how am I going to save them? There’s just so much… blood… everywhere… I was supposed to protect them. I was supposed to keep them safe, but wherever I go more and more people are losing their lives, and nothing I do can save them. After so much loss, my family is breaking apart at the seams. The Taoree Legion is winning this war...
  • Mars Rising by Cidney Swanson

    Mars Rising by Cidney Swanson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the breathtaking conclusion to The Saving Mars Series, Jessamyn prepares to sacrifice her future with Pavel when Lucca invites her to Budapest to prove she's from Mars. Jess knows she's walking into a trap, but if Jess can't convince Terrans the Mars colonists are real, Lucca will destroy Jessamyn's family, her friends, and her world...
  • Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

    Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ocean’s Echo is a stand-alone, romantic space adventure, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit.When Tennal—a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster—is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone whose coercive powers are strong enough to control him...
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    lgbtq  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  mlm  space  space-opera
  • Clan, Honor, and Empire by Tracy St. John

    Clan, Honor, and Empire by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dramok Rajhir has never had to go without. He’s been blessed with the best schooling, a prestigious pedigree, a fine home, plus all the intimate companionship a young Kalquorian male could ask for. But with status comes responsibility. His father insists Rajhir assume his place in Kalquorian society as soon as possible...
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    lgbtq  adult  aliens  book  fiction  mlm  paranormal  politics
  • Sūnder by Lexi Ander

    Sūnder by Lexi Ander

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If Sūnder Alārd had been born female he would have been cherished for being faeborn—born with magick—and his birth celebrated. Instead, his L'fÿn mother insisted on his death. Only his Panthrÿn father's desperate escape through the forest saved him...
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    dystopia  lgbtq  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book  fae  fiction
  • Hers To Command by Cynthia Sax

    Hers To Command by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Battered Hearts. One Perfect Love Ace and Thrasher share a special bond. They’ve never acknowledged that connection and have never fully acted on it. The Humanoid Alliance kill cyborg males like them, deeming the warriors to be defective. Now that Ace and Thrasher have escaped, they don’t trust the cyborg council and their brethren to react any differently...
  • Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer

    Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A deadly competition for the throne will determine more than just the fate of the empire in this duology opener.Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy. Her mother sacrificed everything to bring peace to the quadrant, and her uncle has successfully ruled as emperor for decades...
  • Seed of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Seed of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fame is overrated.Having rescued thousands of people from being sacrificed, Evelyn could use some peace and quiet. Life has other plans. She quickly finds herself drawn into assisting a deity with a small problem, only to return and find that her great grandmother has learned of her existence...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romance  fantasy  sci-fi  space  polyamory  magic
  • The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

    The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton tells a tale of galaxy-spanning friendship, improbable love, and found family. So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t mean to steal this spaceship...
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    lgbtq  wlw  romance  sci-fi  fantasy  fiction  space  found-family
  • Black Sky Morning by Hanna Dare

    Black Sky Morning by Hanna Dare

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A bounty hunter in over his head.Xin knows how to look out for himself, and he knows when something sounds too good to be true. But a forgotten planet filled with riches is too tempting to pass up. Fortunately Xin also knows someone who can back him up - if he doesn't arrest Xin first. A government agent who's lost hope.Jonathan Gray used to believe in a better future. Now he's not so sure...
  • The Wayward Prince by Hanna Dare

    The Wayward Prince by Hanna Dare

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Spaceships, daring heists, and interstellar intrigue!  Since murderous AIs drove humanity from Earth more than a century before, people have been rebuilding civilization. That doesn't mean the galaxy is anywhere close to being civilized. A liar and a scoundrel - and he's the good guy...
  • Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke

    Rebel's Quest by Gun Brooke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On a world torn by war, two women discover a love that defies boundaries, challenges allegiances, and that just might mean the survival—or destruction—of all they hold dear.Roshan O’Landha, a Gantharian resistance fighter, works hard to maintain her cover as a wealthy businesswoman as war on occupied Gantharat seems imminent...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  space
  • Salvation by Caryn Lix

    Salvation by Caryn Lix

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Kenzie and her friends find themselves trapped on a strange planet, they must risk everything to save themselves and Earth in this thrilling final book in the addictive Sanctuary trilogy!Fall down seven times, get up eight. These are the words Kenzie has always lived by. The problem is, she’s fallen down too many times to count...
  • 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...
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    dystopia  lgbtq  adult  aliens  book  colonization  cyberpunk  cyborgs
  • Star-Crossed by Pintip Dunn

    Star-Crossed by Pintip Dunn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Princess Vela's people are starving.Stranded on a planet that lacks food, Vela makes the ultimate sacrifice and becomes an Aegis for her people. Accepting a genetic modification that takes sixty years off her life, she can feed her colony via nutrition pills. But her best friend is still getting worse. And she's not the only one.Now the king is dying, too...
  • Ghosts & Ashes by F.T. Lukens

    Ghosts & Ashes by F.T. Lukens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three months have passed since the events of The Star Host, and Ren is living aboard the Star Stream under the watchful eyes of the Phoenix Corps. Plagued by vivid nightmares that ravage the ship in his sleep, he struggles to prove he isn’t a threat and fears he has traded one captor for another...
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    lgbtq  action-adventure  aliens  book  fiction  mlm  space  young-adult
  • Nightmare by Steven Harper

    Nightmare by Steven Harper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Before Kendi learned to use his talent of navigating the plane of mental existence known as the Dream, he had to escape his physical existence as a slave...
  • Pirate's Fortune by Gun Brooke

    Pirate's Fortune by Gun Brooke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Pirate and mercenary Weiss Kyakh works as a reluctant double agent for the Supreme Constellations. Her mission is to infiltrate a cutthroat band of space pirates along with a sentient bio-android, Madisyn Pimm. Pimm's sole purpose is to bring pirates to justice. Weiss soon realises that Madisyn has her own secrets...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  book  fiction  outlaws
  • Partners - Book One by Melissa Good

    Partners - Book One by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do with much less. People survive on what they can take from the sea and with foodstuffs supplemented from an orbiting set of space stations...
  • Losing Mars by Cidney Swanson

    Losing Mars by Cidney Swanson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jessamyn has survived a terrifying crash but lost her ship, joining Pavel, Ethan, and others in the dissenter settlement of Yucca. Now, Chancellor Lucca Brezhnaya believes Jess is out to destroy the Terran government, and Lucca will stop at nothing to find Jess...
  • The Lowest Depths of Shame by Niall Teasdale

    The Lowest Depths of Shame by Niall Teasdale

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aneka and Ella have secured the end of the Herosian War. The Herosians are in disarray, disorganised and vulnerable. It seems that it is just a matter of time until everything can return to something near normal. There are worlds to liberate, but the Jenlay Navy has help from Old Earth and no one expects there to be any problem...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  ai  aliens  bisexuality  book
  • Skip Trace by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Skip Trace by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book three of Chaos StationZander Anatolius has been revived from the fatal effects of the super-soldier program, but now he has to face his estranged family and tell a story few would believe. With his lover and the crew of the Chaos at his side, Zander returns home to a media frenzy, threats from the military and pressure to join the family business...
  • 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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    lgbtq  adult  aliens  book  children  family  fiction  futuristic
  • Beneath a Trojan Moon by Anna Hackett

    Beneath a Trojan Moon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A flirtatious fortune teller + a sexy, single-minded marshal = a sexy, fast-paced sci fi romance Fortune teller Relda Dela-Cruz is a woman with a secret. One she'll do anything to conceal. She hides in plain sight on the market world of Souk, content with running her profitable fortune-telling business and never letting anyone too close...
  • Scarlet Venom by Frost Kay

    Scarlet Venom by Frost Kay

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fact 437 - Allie was a piss poor bootlegger. It was laughable that her blackmailers expected her to create a truth serum. If they’d done their homework, they would’ve known her brewing capabilities were nil, she flunked chemistry, and her moonshine was on the toxic side. So for once in her unlucky life, luck was on her side… until she almost blew up the lab...
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    dystopia  aliens  book  comedy  drama  fiction  humor  paranormal
  • The Greatest Heights of Honour by Niall Teasdale

    The Greatest Heights of Honour by Niall Teasdale

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Aneka Jansen, born on Earth in the twentieth century seems to have been revived after a thousand years of relative peace only to find herself in the middle of a war. As the Herosians manoeuver themselves into a better position for victory, their actions hidden behind subterfuge and high technology, there seems to be little anyone can do to stop the coming war...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  ai  aliens  bisexuality  book
  • Starlight by Lisa Henry

    Starlight by Lisa Henry

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Brady Garrett is back in space, this time as an unwilling member of a team of humans seeking to study the alien Faceless and their technology. It’s not the first time Brady’s life has been in the hands of the Faceless leader Kai-Ren, and if there’s one thing Brady hates it’s being reminded exactly how powerless he is...
  • Human Omega: Trapped in the Alien Jungle by Eileen Glass

    Human Omega: Trapped in the Alien Jungle by Eileen Glass

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Carter isn't sure what to call his two alien protectors. Friends? Boyfriends? Mates?Or merely indiscriminate lovers with sexy purrs and tangling tails?He would be lost without them, he knows that. When their home is invaded by a dangerous new kind of alien slaver, they strike out into the jungle. He depends on them for food, protection, a direction to walk in...
  • Ice Planet Barbarians Part 1: Stolen by Ruby Dixon

    Ice Planet Barbarians Part 1: Stolen by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women - including me - on an ice planet.And the only native inhabitant I've met? He's big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me..
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  romance  sci-fi  aliens  paranormal  steamy  fantasy  space
  • Fallen Star by Morgan Hawke

    Fallen Star by Morgan Hawke

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Isabeau Fallon, the Fallen Star is one of the finest thieves on Dyson's Ring station--until she's caught by the Skeldhi hunter, Sobehk. Trapped and altered into a skeldhi-human hybrid sex-pet known as a "rehkyt," her past is a closed door -- until it literally comes back to haunt her in the form of E'sey Khan...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  aliens  alpha-mc  book  dark
  • Distortion by Victor Dixen

    Distortion by Victor Dixen

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After a speed-dating show that is literally out of this world, twelve young astronauts are set to become the first humans to colonise Mars. They are also the victims of the cruellest of plots.Léonor thought she was a pioneer on an extraordinary mission. She thought she had left all regrets behind her on Earth. But when memories are this painful, there can be no forgetting .
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    dystopia  audiobook  book  fiction  mystery  space  young-adult  sci-fi
  • Leviathan by Erik Schubach

    Leviathan by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When the Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, mankind embarks upon a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet across the stars. The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  colonization  fae  female-mc
  • The Merro Tree by Katie Waitman

    The Merro Tree by Katie Waitman

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the far reaches of our galaxy, the artist will face the ultimate censorship.Mikk of Vyzania, the galaxy's greatest performance master, commanded stages on all the myriad worlds. His sublime, ethereal performances were unforgettable, drawing on the most treasured traditions of every culture, every people, throughout inhabited space...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  lgbtq  adult  book  female-author  fiction  mlm  space
  • Ascension by Victor Dixen

    Ascension by Victor Dixen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    'This thrilling space odyssey will keep you turning pages late into the night.'C. J. Daugherty, author of NIGHT SCHOOLSix girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras...
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