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War by A.G. Wilde
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Caveman Alien’s Enemy by Calista Skye
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMia I’ve caught a dragon. He’s huge, silvery and so beautiful it physically hurts. Or maybe that’s just my urge to run away from such a deadly creature. But a sudden, icy blizzard is raging outside on this dinosaur-infested planet, and I’m stuck with this, our worst enemy. I’ve bound him with steel wire, but if he snaps them I think I might be in for a world of hurt... -
Going Cold by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGoing from supporting family to being an imperial courier across the stars doesn’t take as long as she thought. She can deal with the assassins.Once the details of her life are sorted out and all impediments removed, Hesker takes on a new name for a new life in a new position. She heads to the stars, is reset, and all traces of her previous life are removed from her body... -
Broken Dreamer by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLed by her dreams, she finds her way into the stars where fate conspires to put her exactly where she needs to be, in a hero’s path.When her parents died, Lyra was untethered. She left school, followed her dreams, and focused on keeping herself alive. She is not a fan of people and enjoys being alone... -
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Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA warrior from another universe...A woman running from an abusive relationshipA rip in the fabric of space-time and a malevolent alien race bent on destructionHow does it all tie together? Read Enticed by the Satyr...the first book of the Monstrum Kindred to find outMia could have had a beautiful life. She had a scholarship to Julliard and a future as a concert pianist ahead of her... -
Loved by the Lion by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Monstrum Warrior who has vowed never to Claim a bride…An older woman, who thinks she’s done with Love…Can they come together to save the Earth…and each other?What’s the worst Christmas present imaginable? A cheating husband? An angry mob outside your front door? What about Menopause? Minister Emilia Oxley has gotten all three this Yuletide season and she could do without them all, thank you... -
My Ant Monster Mate by Susan Trombley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYeseniaHunting giant ant aliens is never an easy job, but the opportunity to capture a male Menops before he imprints on a queen is too good to pass up. Even if it means putting up with a mouthy Artificial Intelligence and traveling to a planet restricted by the Cosmic Syndicate. Vengeance for humanity—for my family—is too important to let any obstacle stand in my way... -
The Torid Affair by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen 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
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsHer 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... -
Taking Vengeance by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe only force stronger than their hate is their love. Vengeance hates all humans. They killed every being he ever cared about. When the huge C Model cyborg is told he’s genetically compatible with the enemy, he makes it his mission to capture the female and use her to expel all humans from his home planet. That should be disappointingly easy. She’s a weak, fragile human... -
Heart of the Agraak by S.J. Sanders
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAgraadax was shaken by recent events and the breeding facility closed, but it has done little to ease the simmer of unrest rippling through Agraak society. In Aminae, one of the dome cities scattered on the few arid patches of land of the swampy planet, factions are rising against the cruelties of the upper raniks that rule their society. Kaede is a male devoted to the cause... -
Kinn by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe hates the alien warriors that conquered her world. All of them but one...Serena lived by three rules - Survive. Fight back. Stay hidden. But that was before. Before she was caught and brought to T’Kinn, the most arrogant, annoying alien she’s ever met…and the sexiest. This alien isn’t just a warrior - he’s a healer, and a threat to every secret she has... -
Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis career plan never included becoming one of the galaxy's most infamous treasure hunters. And it certainly never included his one weakness: Nera Darc.Astro-archeologist Niklas Phoenix loved his job studying and safeguarding artifacts at the Institute of Historical Preservation...until he learned that it was all a lie... -
Lady Luck by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLuck knew two things when he left Harem Station months ago. One. The silver-haired Cygnian Princess Nyleena was still safely frozen away in her cryopod. And two. There was a good chance she was his soul mate. He left anyway. Nyleena is what you might call feisty. Or sassy. Or maybe just… feral. She is wild. Much too wild for Luck’s taste. But now that he’s home there’s no way to deny it... -
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Claimed by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat’s worse than being stuck on an alien planet? Being stuck on an alien planet when you’ve made an enemy of the local tribe King. Okay, so I may have stolen his favorite misua and snuck away to find my friends. But he should’ve known better than to forbid me to go. I’m a marine, and we leave no man-- or woman, behind... -
Rita and the Raider by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery good mating begins with a kidnapping… Worvak was taught to value honor above all else. When his honor demanded he sacrifice everything to save a friend, he didn't hesitate. But then a dangerous mission leads him to a fragile, dirty female with enough courage for ten warriors - a female he would do anything to call his own. For the first time in his life, his honor and his heart are at war... -
Cottonmouth by Naomi Lucas
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEver since humans arrived, my world has changed. Tensions are high as we quarrel over territory, reforming our fractured clans.I will have none of it. I did not capture a bride.But then my world goes dark—and she appears.A female so lovely she possesses my mind, a bride who blushes every time she catches my eye.She is sweet.She is young.She is everything I am not.Except nothing is as it seems... -
Deb and the Demon by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsAn 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... -
The Warrior by Elin Peer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEven the strongest man in the world has a weak spot! Magni knows what he wants and he’s used to getting it. As the second in command in the Northlands, he doesn’t care that he comes across as rude or domineering. Asking for permission or apologizing for his actions is for weaker men. Six months ago, Laura was Magni’s sweet and submissive young wife... -
Healing Her Patient by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman who struggles with infertility has given up on finding loveA warrior who thinks he will never be able to bond a brideThrown together on a mission where they must pretend to be Joined MatesWill their lie become a reality? Dr. Danielle Adams isn't looking for love. Health issues have rendered her unable to have kids and she has given up on finding a relationship... -
Dark Cure by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA warrior seeking forever faces a medic living in the moment. Gisella, the Refuge’s medic, is dedicated to her role. She doesn’t have the space in her lifespan for love, a mate, or children. Healing is her entire focus. But she’s also a female in her prime. She has needs, wants, cravings…especially for a scarred, long-haired barbarian warrior temporarily residing in the settlement... -
Command Control by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaya worked hard jobs all her life, and a devastating explosion at sea turned her from a hard worker into a crispy critter. Bedridden and blind, she accepts the order from the Volunteer Project and gets herself reset into a body that can move and skin that isn’t black... -
Warrior's Pain by Stephanie West
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRiley was sick of constantly getting the short end of the stick. If it wasn’t enough that she’d been sent to prison for her brother’s crimes, then got abducted by aliens; being hauled onto the auction block certainly took the cake.“You know what, fine, bring it on!”Unwittingly, Riley goaded Fate into throwing everything it could at her, and it did... -
Playing Their Parts by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo detectives, hot on the heels of a killer...Undercover as adult actors on the wild planet of BachanaliusWill Steel and Cassie find passion while...PLAYING THEIR PARTS? Cassandra Steel and Commander Stone are a unique pair. Together, they comprise the first human/Kindred detective team on the Tampa PD... -
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Designed Collision by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA 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... -
Teril's Fire: A Mate Index Alien Romance by S.J. Sanders
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Calysii prince wants Crystal Inola Rivers dead and it’s all her ex-boyfriend’s fault. Ex-boyfriend because the louse ran off, leaving her to deal with the fallout. She told him that stealing from the royal Calysii ship docked was suicidal. Now they are looking for what he’s stolen, and she’s being held responsible... -
Unexpected Hero by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKidnapped, ransomed, and rejected, she didn’t think things could get any worse until she realized that the rescue approaching was going to have conditions.Misty survived a horrible life and terrible parents and siblings to make it across the stars when her world ended. Those that hurt her were on the same ship... -
Rett by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe thought they were on the same side. That mistake cost her everything... including her freedom. Anya dedicated her life to the fight against the alien invaders who had conquered Earth. Now that fight is over. The rebellion failed, the enemy won, and she knows exactly who to blame. He was her lover, her friend, and a spy for the aliens. Worse. He’s one of them… and she’s his prisoner... -
Dark Fire by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat the Beast wants, the Beast gets. Dare’s savage nature has made him an outcast among his kind. The silver-scaled Dracheon warrior can’t control his inner beast. It’s too strong. When his primitive instincts told him his destined mate was on Carinae E, he had no choice. He had to travel to the outlaw planet. There, he hoped to meet a female powerful enough to survive his Drache... -
Dark Hysteria by Naomi Lucas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlexa has one purpose in life and it’s to take down the war machines called Cyborgs. Specifically, the one known as Hysterian, also known as the Tormentor, the Twitch, the Jumper. The Cyborg killed her father and she’s determined to see the same thing happen to him.First, she needs to get close to Hysterian.Second, she needs to get him to trust her... -
Alien God: A SciFi Fantasy Romance by Ursa Dax
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWYLFRAELI’ve been cursed with a prophecy. I will murder my own fated mate. Though it nearly destroys me, I vow never to find her.What I do find are humans invading my world and stealing from my land. Those I do not kill flee from my rage, leaving behind one terrified yet defiant woman.I take Torrance back to my castle to interrogate her, though I have neither time nor patience for a prisoner... -
Mated on Hades by Golden Angel
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Celestial Mates agency always knows what - or who - you need. Tarrik would do anything to avoid breaking his mother's heart, so he begrudgingly signs up for Celestial Mates and agrees to come home and settle down once the agency finds his match. There's just one catch: he's not ready to give up his free and easy life traveling the galaxy... -
Surrendered by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCommander Thornex is a Hybrid--half Kindred and half Pyro--a much feared people who have the ability to unleash horrific maelstroms of flame whenever they are angered. All his life Thorn has struggled to control the destructive power within him. A horrible accident in his past made him swear to never unleash the fire again and for many years, he has kept himself under tight control... -
My Chameleon Mate by Susan Trombley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVeraI 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... -
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Ice Planet Barbarians Part 5: Truth by Ruby Dixon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNow that I've learned the alien barbarian's language, all the holes are filling in. Ahem. Not like that. Okay, like that, too.The problems are mounting. The alien abductors are coming back. My fellow human captives are dying as we speak. And the alien hunks? When they claim, it's forever. We've got to decide how to proceed, and soon, because whatever path we choose?There's no turning back... -
A Darkside Interlude by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCommander 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... -
Zandian Pet by Renee Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“On your knees, pet!” Taramina could survive slavery, even as a pet in Prium’s Intergalactic Emporium. She always knew she’d escape! She just didn’t know escape would come in the form of a powerful handsome male of her own species. Especially one whose rough handling incites a fever in her she hasn’t felt before.. -
Planet Zero by Lydia Hope
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA 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... -
Warr by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFirst they stole her planet. Then they stole her sister…Her twin might have surrendered to the enemy, but Max will never stop fighting the alien warriors that conquered Earth.She’s the leader of a rebel army determined to fight for freedom and the future of the human race. The Tolath are her enemies, and she will never surrender to any of them… especially not to him... -
His Human Ward by Michele Mills
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe brooding Fire Lord of Ashmoor Manor receives an adorable, curvy human as his ward!I’m getting married today and I’m so freaking depressed.My bridal gown is exquisite. The ring is enormous. But my groom is evil personified and I’m being forced into this doomed marriage. I’m seconds from breaking into a full-on ugly cry.And right then, as if by magic, the church doors burst open... -
King Cobra by Naomi Lucas
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDaisy. 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... -
Heart of the Deep by Tiffany Roberts
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHIS 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
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBehind ‘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... -
Cursed by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCommander Stavros Rii of the Kindred is a Sin Eater - thick black lines cover his back and neck causing him to feel the pain of others. It is a curse that threatens to shorten his life and makes him unable to bond with a female - not that he's ever found one he wants to bond with. Until he meets Charlie.. -
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Tammy and the Traitor by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA scarred alien warrior. A fragile human woman. Too many secrets. Growing up in the slums of Kaisar, Vorkan learned to fight for what he wanted. As an Imperial warrior, he learned the importance of honor and duty. But when they rescue a delicate human female, he knows she is destined to be his... -
Ghost of a Machine by Cynthia Sax
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFragile. Stubborn. His. Ghost, a C Model cyborg, has disconnected his machine from his human side. Severely damaged, he knows two things—the curvy human female on his ship belongs to him and he must keep her safe. He’ll stop at nothing to protect her, claim her, make her his. Primitive. Damaged. Hers. Lethe has seen the savage side of beings... -
Harry's Sacrifice by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmbracing the unexpected can lead to all sorts of adventures.Resonance Mates, Book 5 The prophesied time has arrived ... and Harry, born of an alien Alvian mother - Mara 12 - and a human father - Justin O'Hara - and forever caught between two very separate worlds .... must journey to the top of the world to unlock a mysterious ship found trapped in an icy crevasse... -
Encode by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHoney Barrow serves the Alliance as an Encoded Courier, putting biologicals into her own body to keep them viable during transport. This job has kept her flying for years, but that is about to come to a screeching halt when she accepts an assignment to transport the semen of an Alpha multi-shifter to the High Prefect of Shoshan... -
JoAyyn by Amanda Milo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy alien keeper rescued me from a man I should have been able to trust: my father.Raised by an alien, I never really learned how to interact with human people.And that’s fine. I’m happy just as I am. I never feel like I’m missing out on anything....So I don’t understand why this new human, Lee, affects me so strangely.Then again, he did just admit that he’s been hunting me... -
Fated to Fall by Stephanie West
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlaidd went slightly insane witnessing the small human being abused by her mate. He didn’t care that he was on a foreign planet, as he swiftly ended the vile male. All that mattered was soothing the heart rending pain that radiated from the trembling female. But despite Blaidd’s best intentions, nothing he did for Vivian went right...
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