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The Segonian by Dianne Duvall
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall brings readers the second stand-alone novel in a thrilling new sci-fi romance series full of action, humor, and happily-ever-afters.Eliana's life has never been what one might term ordinary. At least, it hasn't been for a very long time... -
Victoria's Challenge by M.K. Eidem
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVictoria Lynn Chamberlain… at two, she was abducted by an alien race, the Regulians… at nine, her world literally explodes when the Regulians returned, destroying Earth. She and her Aunt are the only survivors thanks to another alien race, the Carinians. Now she’s eighteen, a new graduate from their top medical school, and is ready to claim her life mate... -
Cassandra's Challenge by M.K. Eidem
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlternative cover edition ASIN B00CKXWOM2Cassandra Chamberlain has always stood out. It's hard not to at 6’1” and 165 pounds with jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes. And if that wasn’t enough she is also brilliant, graduating from Harvard at fifteen, teaching at MIT at nineteen and up for the prestigious Magellan Award at twenty five. But she’s never really fit in... -
Down The Chimney by Debra Dunbar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoped into being the Ruling Council's Christmas ambassador, Sam finds herself more Santa than Satan at a slew of human social events, all while trying to score an impossible-to-get gift for Lux and plan the most amazing Christmas celebration any imp has ever thrown... -
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Madness of the Horde King by Zoey Draven
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThey call him the Mad Horde King for a reason. Now, she’s his…Over a year ago, I was ripped away from my human village to serve the Ghertun, a brutal enemy alien race. With the lives of my family at risk, I am tasked to deliver a message to the one place no human has ever gone before: the capital city of Dakkar.Before I succeed, however, I am captured by a Horde King... -
Unbondable by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA female Blood Kindred who hates her fangs…A fierce warrior who loves her…Can Kara and Raak stay together?Or will their love be shattered because he is…Unbondable?Kara is a rare Blood Kindred female…unfortunately for her, she has the fangs to prove it. To Kara’s dismay, it’s hard to find a warrior who wants to get bitten when things get hot and heavy... -
Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDestiny is doing everything she can to find her mother and stop the evil traitors from taking over her planet. But explosions, murder plots and chaos are just the beginning. And now she has more on the line than ever before. Now, she's in love. And Nix isn't the sit-by-and-watch kind of guy. He's right there next to her, risking everything. For her... -
Warrior by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim… It was supposed to be an exciting job on a space station, but instead, scientist Dr. Regan Forrest finds herself fighting for her life when she’s kidnapped by alien slavers... -
The Commanders' Mate by Grace Goodwin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCommander Karter is a Prillon Warrior. His first duty is to protect his people, to defend the Coalition worlds from a fate too terrible to comprehend. Battle is his life. His heart. He fights. He has never once been selfish enough to believe he deserved an Interstellar Bride. Until he's matched at the worst possible time!Astronomer Erica Roberts has always dreamed of seeing the stars... -
Shadowed by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsReddix is a Kindred warrior with RTS—a debilitating disease that forces him to endure the emotions of others like a physical invasion every time he is around anyone. Nina is the girl he dreams of but can never have... -
Razor's Traitorous Heart by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsKali Parks is a shadow in the war between two factions that are fighting to gain control of Chicago. Born and raised on the streets, she stands as a silent sentinel at her brother’s side as he battles to gain control. She will do whatever it takes to bring peace to those she has pledged her life to protect, including fighting against the creatures that came to their world almost six years before... -
Chained by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMaggie Jordan is not supposed to be having adventures. Her mission is to go to Gaia, a new, unpopulated world, and study the native life forms there... -
Grim by M.K. Eidem
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsKing Grim Vasteri is the most feared warrior in the Tornian Empire. He has been sent by his Emperor to find and retrieve compatible females for their dying civilization... -
Capturing Cara by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsCara Truman is a pint-size pistol whose inquisitive nature has gotten her into trouble on more than one occasion. Her next adventure takes her further than she even expected when she ends up on a journey out of this world.Trelon Reykill thought he had his hands full... -
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Earth Dragon's Baby by Scarlett Grove
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill their fated love prove strong enough to end an ancient war? Agricultural analyst Cora Brighton has worked hard to help reconstruct Earth after the Mulgor invasion decades ago. But now, facing another lonely Christmas, she realizes life has passed her by and signs up for the Draconian Mating Lottery... -
Champion's Trial by J.J. Bookerson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDelving dungeons by day, relaxing with cute monster girls at night.When a God of War barged into his apartment, Jake had no idea what to expect... but it wasn't being forced into a never-ending war against evil invaders, or that the battle would strangely resemble the MMORPG games he loved... -
Saving Verakko by Victoria Aveline
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsWhen Lily is freed from alien captivity, she refuses to wait for rescue—or recapture. She’ll take her chances in the forest. Navigating the exotic terrain won’t be easy, but it beats the alternative. Then, an enormous alien falls into her camp and makes her question everything. He’s rude, grumpy, and annoyingly sexy. Trusting him would be a mistake... -
Warrior Prince by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsParanormal Dragonshifting Romance Revised Expanded Anniversary Edition The Survivor... Though no one could ever command her, this warrior would try to conquer her heart... Physically scarred in childhood in an act of betrayal, Pia has never been considered an attractive woman. One horrible mistake and she is on the run... -
Kissing Steel by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings*** THIS IS A RERELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK *** All Rena wanted was to steal back a spaceship and earn enough money to buy her freedom from her travesty of a life. Her mission to recover stolen property from pirates backfired and she became a possession when she encountered cyborgs instead. Now, one of them will own her... -
Red Handed by Gena Showalter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe's been chosen to fight the elusive enemy among us....Phoenix Germaine has been trying to earn back her mother's trust after going into rehab and kicking Onadyn -- the drug of choice for New Chicago teens. But when a party in the woods turns into an all-out battle with the most ferocious aliens Phoenix has never seen, she's brought home in what appears to be an Onadyn-induced state... -
Blacklisted by Gena Showalter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlien hunting can get a girl killed. It can also get her a date.High school senior Camille Robins and her best friend are determined to snag the attention of their crushes before graduation next month. Armed with red-hot outfits and killer hair, they sneak into the hottest nightclub in town -- which caters to the rich and famous, both human and alien... -
Override by Heather Anastasiu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsZoe is free. She has escaped the enslavement of the Community, disconnected from the hardware that had controlled her every thought and emotion, and evaded capture by the Chancellor intent on killing her. She is finally free, but she is far from safe.Zoe and Adrien hide themselves from detection at the Foundation, an academy that trains teen glitchers to fight in the Resistance movement... -
Dovis by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe second book in The Vorge Crew series.Sold into slavery as a child, Mari was raised on a vessel repair station, growing up to become a highly prized engineer. So she's surprised when her owner not only grants her freedom, but finds her a paying job aboard The Vorge. Mari's determined to impress her new captain and crewmates... -
Raff by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is the fourth book in The Vorge Crew series.Lilly left Earth seeking adventure, and learning about aliens sounded cool. She just didn’t expect to meet any in person -- until her ship is attacked by alien pirates. Now she’s meeting plenty of them. Scary ones who want to do very bad things to her... -
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Legacy Contract by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe didn’t want her. He didn’t request her. But now that she is carrying his legacy he is not letting her go.Dekora travelled the stars to get medical treatment for a friend. Once she arrived on Gryphal, she had to get to work in order to pay for everything her friend needed. New organs aren’t cheap... -
Loving Deviant by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAfter barely surviving a horrific accident, then being held captive for years by Earth Government, Venice must escape the planet. She thinks she’s found the answer to her prayers when she contracts to be a deep-space bride—only to find herself facing an even bigger nightmare... -
Tink's Neverland by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsShe touched his hand, and everything changed....Jasmine “Tinker” Bell has always had a love for life, looking forward to any new adventure that happens to come along, but when a friend’s experiment creates a portal to another world, she finds herself immersed in far more adventure than she ever dreamed.J’kar ’Tag Krell Manok had given up hope of ever finding his bond mate... -
Tempting Rever by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratings*** THIS IS A RERELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK *** Brenda spent four years trapped in an unhappy marriage. She’s so desperate to start a new life somewhere safe that she’s agreed to go to another planet with a handsome alien stranger. When he’s killed, she finds herself in the home of a Zorn warrior willing to protect her until the fallen warrior’s brother arrives to claim her... -
Quicksilver by R.J. Anderson
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBack in her hometown, Tori Beaugrand had everything a teenaged girl could want—popularity, money, beauty. But she also had a secret. A secret that could change her life in an instant, or destroy it.Now she’s left everything from her old life behind, including her real name and Alison, the one friend who truly understood her. She can’t escape who and what she is... -
Enemy Overnight by Robin L. Rotham
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen you play power games with aliens, you end up on your knees...The last time Jasmine King was aboard the Heptoral, she escaped by the skin of her teeth. This time she won't be so lucky. Trapped on a ship full of sex-starved aliens and out of the pheromone blocker that holds off her physical transition, Jasmine makes a desperate escape attempt...and fails... -
The Tower and the Hive by Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMuch had been done to limit and destroy the powers of the terrible Hivers, who had torn through space, annihilating every living thing that stood in their way. But still the Alliance had to discover the whereabouts of every last Hiver world and stop the Queens from further colonization... -
The Vault by Emily McKay
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a world where vampires rule and teenaged humans are quarantined as a food source, there is only one choice—resist or die. But fighting the vampires comes at a terrible cost to twin sisters Mel and Lily and their best friend Carter . . . With Lily exposed to the vampire virus and lying in a coma, it’s up to Mel and Carter to search for the cure. Time is not on their side... -
Amorous Overnight by Robin L. Rotham
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat's better than one hot alien at your service? Two hot aliens in your bed! After four months of orbiting Earth in a spaceship bursting with sex-starved aliens, nurse Shelley Bonham will do just about anything to get off. The ship, that is. Not that the aliens aren’t hot enough to put her hormones on red alert... -
Property of the Babymaker by Luna Voss
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPurchased by an alien warlord. Destined for breeding. Julia has grown up knowing that on her Auction Day, she would be sold to whichever alien warrior was willing to pay the highest price. Not wanting to leave her fate to chance, she arranges with a friend to be purchased by a Kyrzon she knows she can trust... -
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Selected for the Shifters by Sakura Black
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMondays usually suck, but this one really took the biscuit.A hot dream about an even hotter fae left me with a strange mark. No, it wasn’t an STD. Instead, it might as well have been a death sentence.I’d never been picked for so much as a raffle prize in my life, but somehow, I’d been Selected...Categorized as:
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Prison Planet Barbarian by Ruby Dixon
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBeing kidnapped by aliens is one thing.Being kidnapped by aliens and then sent to a prison planet is something infinitely worse.Here in Haven's prison system, I'm stranded among strangers, enemies, and the most ruthless criminals in the galaxy. There's no safety for a human woman here, especially not one branded as a murderer. I'm doomed to a fate worse than death. Then.. -
Stranded by Harmony Raines
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDaily lotteries take females from the dying Earth, to the planet of Karal. Their sole purpose has been to breed with the Karal to make their next generation. Until now. Seven lottery winners are chosen to compete, to go on the first deep space mission, to find a new planet for the humans to call home. Only one gets to go. The rest will be sent to the farming belt... -
Sought by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThis Book is a Super Plus length novel--129,000 words longOne Woman, Two Hot Guys, A Galaxy of Problems...Kat O’Connor is no pushover. She’s a no nonsense girl with a commonsense approach to life...Categorized as:
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Freeing Luka by Victoria Aveline
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsLuka has spent his life researching fertility in the hopes of discovering a cure for the Clecanians’ low birth rates. After years of working tirelessly with little progress, he becomes enraged when he uncovers a sinister plot to abduct compatible species from their home planets. But before he can tell anyone what he’s discovered, he’s captured, drugged, and thrown in a cell... -
Enslaved by Jaid Black
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHis glowing blue eyes summoned the primitive weapon from her grasp. Shuddering with fear, she realized she had just lost the only thing standing between her freedom and becoming... Enslaved... -
Soldier Mine by Amber Kell
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRE-RELEASE - don't repurchase. When Kreslan is attacked, little does he know the shape-shifting beast who saves him will completely change his life. When Kreslan Piers is attacked in the cargo hold, he is rescued by a rare shape-shifting beast who transforms into the reincarnated leader of an entire planet... -
Damia's Children by Anne McCaffrey
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsDamia and Afra-Raven-Lyon had reared their children in a brilliant and unorthodox way. All their young had been 'paired' when six months old with the furry, one-eyed Mrdinis, the only other sentient beings in the Alliance, who could communicate with humans by their 'dream messages'... -
Terran by Cara Bristol
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter fleeing loneliness and heartache on Terra, Tara Diehl has adjusted to male-dominated Parseon better than most vendors--until she is kidnapped by Alpha Marlix, one of the five rulers of the planet. At first she’s terrified of her tall, muscled abductor, especially when he doesn’t hesitate to quell her struggle for freedom with a little corporal discipline... -
River's Run by S.E. Smith
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsRiver Knight was looking forward to a peaceful vacation in the mountains with her two best friends, Jo and Star, sisters of the heart. When she travels up into the mountains of North Carolina to the cabin Star has rented for them she is shocked when she finds the two sisters being abducted. Following them, she discovers their abductors are anything but human... -
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Rebellion by Karen Sandler
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this final installment of the Tankborn series, Kayla has been kidnapped by the group that has been bombing GEN warehouses, and she must pretend to sympathize with them in order to escape. In the wake of a devastating bomb blast, severely injured Kayla has been brought to the headquarters of the organization that planted the bomb-and many others like it in GEN food warehouses and homes...Categorized as:
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Planet X by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKrisa Elyison is a bride-to-be—bought and paid for by a stuffy aristocrat. Though she secretly longs for just one adventure all on her own, she knows the reality of her life—she is destined to be the wife of the elderly and pompous Lord Radisson.Kurt Teague is a prisoner—a galactic criminal wanted for multiple murders... -
No Mercy by Jaid Black
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGiselle McKenzie trembled inexplicably as the sound of a low growl reverberated throughout the threads of her consciousness. She knew it couldn't have emitted from her date, the man sitting across from her in the quaint restaurant. Yet every time he placed his hand over hers, she heard that eerie, primitive growl.. -
Alien Warrior by Sadie Carter
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStuck on a military outpost in the middle of nowhere, Zoey had been praying for something to relieve her boredom. She never dreamed that relief would come in the form of a seven-foot tall, sexy alien. One who claimed she belonged to him. Delusional.Except, there was something pulling her to him… a deep, hot attraction she couldn’t deny... -
Hunter's Claim by S.E. Smith
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsJesse Sampson and her two younger sisters have lived a hard life on the streets of Seattle, Washington for the past several years.Four years before, the Earth received its first visitors from space causing mass fear.Alone in a world gone mad with just her sisters, she has learned to use the darkness and the remains of the city to survive and keep what was left of her family alive... -
Abducting Abby by S.E. Smith
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAbby Tanner is content to live on her mountain creating her beautiful works of art and enjoying the peace and quiet. All of that changes when a strange golden space ship crash lands on it. Now, Abby has to deal with a golden ship, a tortured alien, and an insane local sheriff. Zoran Reykill knew he had to find a safe place to heal after he escapes from a Curizan military post...
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