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  • Sanctuary for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips

    Sanctuary for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can an alien warrior and an orphaned infant provide a new beginning for a lonely woman? Tired of relentless hours, arrogant clients, and endless demands, Barbara is ready to abandon her career as a corporate attorney for a simpler life. She doesn’t expect that life to involve an alien abduction, an abandoned baby, and an all-too-intriguing alien warrior with a very friendly tail...
  • Tagan's Chance by Amelia Ford

    Tagan's Chance by Amelia Ford

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If you liked Amazon bestseller Tagan's Child you're going to love Tagan's Chance; book 2 in the Tagan series. Sophie and Ahran's story continues in this fast paced, futuristic, action romance. After settling into a life that straddles two worlds, the problems Sophie thought were buried come back to haunt her...
  • Jacinda's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Jacinda's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Jotham is the King of the House of Protection. He was the youngest male ever to assume the position because of the sudden death of his father in Jotham’s twentieth cycle. In the last forty cycles, he married his life mate, Lata, and lost her in a transport accident. He had two sons and lost one due to his son’s own treachery...
  • Domination by Leia Stone

    Domination by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The ghouls have upped their game and retaliated in the worst way. Humans are waking up from the dream wars in random parts of the world, next to people they don't know, in countries they've never been to. When Kit and her team find out that the government is bed with the ghouls, she makes a promise to exploit them...
  • Binary Pair by Michael-Scott Earle

    Binary Pair by Michael-Scott Earle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What do you get when you mix Firefly, Mass Effect, and Shadowrun together? You get Star Justice. The latest action packed series from New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael-Scott Earle. ***Following the hint given by Persephone, the crew arrives at planet Y-114-a...
  • Going Cold by Viola Grace

    Going Cold by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Going 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...
  • Slag by Alana Khan

    Slag by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Slag is a gentle giant so damaged from his years toiling in the irradiated green salt mines of Rhoid he can barely function except to do his job, eat, and sleep. Something awakens within him, though, causing him to run to KJ’s rescue when she’s thrown into the mine as punishment. Fate has a plan for these two...
  • Stolen Destiny by Viola Grace

    Stolen Destiny by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kidnapped from the education station, Sil is set loose on a huge warship, only to find herself bound in a contract no one expected.Silhouette watches the alien abductors trying to unload the entire shipment of stolen Terrans. She wished that she could sleep standing up, but it wasn’t a skill she had acquired.When a medical team comes in, a grey alien comes by and tests the humans...
  • Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson

    Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 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...
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    paranormal  psychics  adult  aliens  book  fiction  futuristic  humor
  • Saven Denial by Siobhan Davis

    Saven Denial by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sadie has been kidnapped by the Tor, the vindictive alien race who destroyed Thalassic City. As her past, present, and future collides, her worst nightmare looks set to become her shocking new reality.A deliberate pawn in leader Griselda’s vengeful game, Sadie is horrified to learn the truth about her heritage and the destiny that’s already been mapped out for her...
  • Telepath by Janet Edwards

    Telepath by Janet Edwards

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Amber is one of over a million eighteen-year-olds in one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. She’s about to enter the Lottery of 2532, which will assess her abilities and decide her hive level, her profession, her whole future life. Amber’s dream is to be level 10 or above, her nightmare is to be a level 99 Sewage Technician...
  • Saven Defiance by Siobhan Davis

    Saven Defiance by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With war looming in outer space and the Earthen government forced into hiding, the battle for ultimate world domination is only just beginning.Having accepted her identity, Sadie sets out on a daring quest with her friends, which takes them deep into alien territory...
  • Obliteration by Leia Stone

    Obliteration by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They've come back, a situation the humans never conceived of. More ghouls have landed on Earth, and it throws society in chaos. Bridges are burned, alliances are made, and Kit's power grows stronger than ever before. When Dawn reveals a secret she's been hiding, it gives Kit hope. Maybe they can end the dream war... if she can stay alive...
  • Fate of Devotion by K.F. Breene

    Fate of Devotion by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After rescuing their daughter, Marie, from corporate-controlled Earth, Millicent and Ryker thought they were safe on their off-world paradise. They were wrong.Toton, once thought the weakest conglomerate, is now dominating ruined Earth with a sinister new technology. By harvesting minds for use in their supercomputers, they’re enslaving the best and brightest humans to further their agenda...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Command Control by Viola Grace

    Command Control by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maya 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...
  • Blood Proxy by Viola Grace

    Blood Proxy by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trained as a Companion for the Alliance, Eleanor Palmer has had a recurring assignment on the Vimpyr homeworld. When death and treachery takes the king and his heir, she takes action and runs with the only surviving member of the bloodline in tow. As Commander Matias joins both herself and her charge, she learns what it is to become Vimpyr. To be the Vimpyr heir's Blood Proxy...
  • Break the Mold by Viola Grace

    Break the Mold by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Programming nanites isn’t a hobby; it is in her blood. Time to break the mold and see what she can do. Lucky was holding the bomb that blew the staff of Adaptation Base to pieces. Instead of suffering from the blast, the acid in the device consumed her soft tissues...
  • Seized and Savaged by Jude Gray

    Seized and Savaged by Jude Gray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bran There are worse ways to make a living than traveling the worlds killing men. Especially if you’re a woman with a grudge and a gift. Like me. I am part of the Zyrnx, but apart from them, as well. They believe in rescuing slaves. I believe in killing slave masters. I am not a savior of helpless victims—I am a killer of monsters. But as Taal says, sometimes I see a monster where a man stands...
  • Twisting Sanity by Viola Grace

    Twisting Sanity by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When her body isn’t hers to command, Windy has to find ways to defend herself. Windy broke her spine in the attack, and she was taken from Adaptation Station and sold to the Splice. Her destiny was to act as their communication conduit. She hated the idea of destiny. When Alphy sent a hunter to come get her, he is shocked by her condition...
  • Logic by Viola Grace

    Logic by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A criminal analyst with no social life fascinates a superhero during a hostage taking where she was the hostage, until she wasn’t.Beryl lives a quiet life taking online classes and working on solving cases for her brother when he needs a second pair of eyes. Her skills gain her the notice of the Volunteer Project, and she is encouraged to go and get a life of her own...
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    paranormal  space-travel  adult  aliens  book  fae  fiction  futuristic
  • Walking Haunt by Viola Grace

    Walking Haunt by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Yohwen enjoys her life, but when the Citadel comes knocking she has to face change, danger and a man whose touch can set her on fire.Yohwen has finally reached the pinnacle of her art. She is the Master Haunt and during the festival week, she wakes the dead for their friends and families for one night only...
  • 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...
  • Mylomon by Nancey Cummings

    Mylomon by Nancey Cummings

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This book is the followup to Kalen and should be read in order for maximum enjoyment. Don't be naughty now. He’s an abomination. The lone survivor of a horrific experiment, warrior Mylomon was left with unique and dangerous abilities. He takes care of the necessary dirty work for his clan but he’s yet to earn their trust...
  • Her Mate and Master by Renee Rose

    Her Mate and Master by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “I’m your master. When I give you an order, you obey.” Talia didn’t escape her slave master only to be shackled again. Not even by a sexy male built of solid muscle who does wicked things with his fingers and tongue. Not even one of her own species who says he knows her father--the father she doesn’t remember...
  • Ice Planet Barbarians Part 6: Resonance by Ruby Dixon

    Ice Planet Barbarians Part 6: Resonance by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I've fallen in love with my alien barbarian. But there's a tiny complication with our 'mating' that I've just been made aware of. The timing is awful, because I have to decide - do I stay, or do I go? Staying means a life with him...and an awful, awful side-effect...
  • Ice Planet Barbarians Part 5: Truth by Ruby Dixon

    Ice Planet Barbarians Part 5: Truth by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now 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...
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    paranormal  romance  sci-fi  aliens  steamy  futuristic  fiction  book
  • Jackie and the Giant (Cosmic Fairy Tales) by Honey Phillips

    Jackie and the Giant (Cosmic Fairy Tales) by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He's big and green and looking for a mate...Jackie works as hard as she can to provide for her younger sister, but they’re barely surviving. When she comes home to find that her sister has traded their COW (Comestible Organic Wafer machine) to an alien trader in return for a worthless bean, she is both worried and hurt...
  • The Rogue Prince by Lindsay Buroker

    The Rogue Prince by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Starseer, pilot, and animal lover Jelena Marchenko wants to prove to her parents that she’s ready to captain her own freighter and help run the family business. When she finally talks them into getting a second ship and letting her fly it, it doesn’t faze her that the craft is decades old and looks like a turtle. This is the chance she’s craved for years...
  • Housewarming at the Orchard by Nalini Singh

    Housewarming at the Orchard by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A short story featuring Ivy Jane, Vasic and the Arrow Squad. Timeline: Takes place some time after Shield of Winter and before Shards of Hope.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...
  • Forged in Shadow by Anna Carven

    Forged in Shadow by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Sergeant Arin Varga has a problem on her hands. She's supposed to be in charge of a squad of peacekeepers. That's something she would normally handle with ease, except that now her people are stuck in Earth's orbit on a doomed superfreighter...
  • The Rebel and the Rogue by Grace Goodwin

    The Rebel and the Rogue by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Zenos, from the Astra Legion of Rogue 5, is on a mission to find an antidote to the deadly venom flowing through his body. Without the antidote, one bite during mating will kill a hybrid Forsian's chosen female. Zenos must acquire the serum at any cost, for like his Atlan cousins, his mating instinct will eventually consume him...
  • Untamed Hunger by Tiffany Roberts

    Untamed Hunger by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    SHE’S ONE HUMAN IN AN INFINITE CITY—AND HE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL HE POSSESSES HER.It should have been an easy job—deliver the ID chip, get paid, and get out. But when Drakkal sees a beautiful human in his client’s private zoo and instantly recognizes her as his mate, the situation gets complicated...
  • The Healer by Kelly Lucille

    The Healer by Kelly Lucille

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    As a powerful Healer in hiding on old Earth, Serenity has managed to avoid the notice of both the Order of Intergalactic Peace and the rebel factions opposing them. That is about to change. Paying off an old debt brings her to the attention of both sides, but it is Lord Mal Ryn of the OIP who stakes his claim...
  • The Edge of Dawn by Anna Carven

    The Edge of Dawn by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Since the accident, Jade's world has become so loud.Something's wrong. The voices of hundreds of souls echo loudly inside her head.The doctors, the administrators, and even those closest to her are convinced she has a condition. They say she needs to be under the care of the authorities.Nobody listens to her. Nobody believes her.She has no choice but to run.Her once-predictable life is in tatters...
  • Haldis Imperium by Viola Grace

    Haldis Imperium by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Amy Tyrell has worked for the most arrogant, obnoxious, and handsome guy she has ever seen for the last few years. His Imperial Highness Palden VII was attached to his Negotiator Tyrell, and considered him his best friend. The armor that was worn by the Negotiators both protected her and kept her from contact, until it came off...
  • Encode by Viola Grace

    Encode by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Honey 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...
  • Raven's Children by Sabrina Chase

    Raven's Children by Sabrina Chase

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Moire Cameron, former NASA explorer and web pilot, now has a working ship, a loyal crew, an unexpected son, and a valuable Earthlike planet to protect from the clutches of Toren. Then Ennis, the only one to discover her secret, is captured by Toren--and Moire discovers crucial information that could help end the crab-human war...
  • Krayter by Kate Rudolph

    Krayter by Kate Rudolph

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Earth. Try not to die. When his brethren begin to discover human mates, Krayter knows his best chance at surviving the Denya Price is to journey to Earth and find the woman he’s been waiting for. Otherwise, he’ll waste away and die by the age of thirty like most other Detyens. But when his speeder crashes in a hostile human settlement, a mate is the last thing on his mind...
  • Altered Design by Viola Grace

    Altered Design by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alphy needs a guide, a pilot, and a companion. Who knew that Lexo could fit all requirements? Alone on a station with only the voices in her head, Alphy needs to get in touch with the humans who are left out in space, and that means moving her ship. The trouble that she has is that the station was never designed to be flown by someone who didn’t even have a driving license...
  • Doc's Orders by Cynthia Sax

    Doc's Orders by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She wants both sides of her cyborg—the medic AND the beast. *** A fully functional cyborg is balanced. His machine half and his organic half work together to produce the perfect warrior. Doc isn’t fully functional. The G Model operates at the two extremes. When his machine is in complete control, he’s the logic-driven medic, saving lifespans...
  • The Hunchback (Cosmic Fairy Tales) by Regine Abel

    The Hunchback (Cosmic Fairy Tales) by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her heart’s desire would be her downfall.After spending her life in training, Esmerelda still can’t believe she’s been appointed to serve as the Vestal of Our Lady of Paris—the greatest temple on any planet in the Nine Circles...
  • Shalia's Diary: Book 4 by Tracy St. John

    Shalia's Diary: Book 4 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, Books 1, 2, and 3 before reading this story. Shalia’s Diary Book 4 picks up immediately where Book 3 left off. Shalia feels ready for a little fun when the Kalquorian transport docks for shore leave at the Xniktix Space Station...
  • The Space Merchants of Arachne by Wendie Nordgren

    The Space Merchants of Arachne by Wendie Nordgren

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Teagan Alaric Montgomery Lee has travelled through Galaxic space, married the man of her dreams, and gained the loving family she always has needed. However, news of her father’s capture and execution by the Parvac Empire throws Teagan’s life into turmoil. Fearing her Parvac grandfather, General Valen, plans to abduct her, Teagan is desperate to avoid her grandmother’s fate...
  • Dancer's Luck by Ann Maxwell

    Dancer's Luck by Ann Maxwell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    DAEMEN --a forgotten place at the very edge of the galaxy, a dying planet where people lived by luck alone. This was the number-one stop for Rheba, the Senyas fire dancer, and Kirtn, her Bre'n mentor, as they sought to fulfill their promise to return a whole shipload of ex-slaves to the widely scattered worlds they called home...
  • Warrior's Mate by Emma Alisyn

    Warrior's Mate by Emma Alisyn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    3rd book in the Yadeshi Brides series.A Dark Alien Prince + his unquenchable desire x his insatiable thirst = a warrior willing to defy a galaxy to claim his mate.Born with a platinum spoon in her mouth, warrior bride-in-training Gayle throws it away in order to sneak aboard a Yadeshi military vessel to escape imprisonment by her family...
  • Cracked Control by Viola Grace

    Cracked Control by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Addy was a lost Terran. Her ship was captured on the way to the Alliance training center, and she and the other occupants were held for experimentation. Months of agony with her fellow humans dying under the test-to-destruction methods of the researchers ended the day that Addy was taken to the edge of her limits...
  • Light of Battle by Viola Grace

    Light of Battle by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jiska has grown up as her people’s fiercest general. When peace breaks out, she is reassigned to Citadel Lowel and given a partner who needs a bodyguard. After a few minutes in his presence, she knows why. She is assigned to protect him, even if she wants to kill him.Deskin is a Negotiator specializing in hostage situations...
  • 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...
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