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  • Treyvon by M.K. Eidem

    Treyvon by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    General Treyvon Rayner is the Supreme Commander of the Kaliszian Defenses. He is the cousin and trusted friend of the Kaliszian Emperor, Emperor Liron Kalinin, in spite of Treyvon’s ancestor being one of the causes of the Great Infection so many centuries ago. It is never far from Treyvon's mind, and he vowed he'd spend his entire life trying to make things right...
  • Victoria's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Victoria's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Victoria 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

    Cassandra's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alternative 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...
  • Rita and the Raider by Honey Phillips

    Rita and the Raider by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every 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...
  • Edge of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Edge of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Framed for a crime she didn't commit, a wrongly-imprisoned space captain's only chance at freedom is to abduct a fearsome alien war commander. Sub-Captain Eve Traynor knows a suicide mission when she sees one. With deadly insectoid aliens threatening to invade Earth, the planet’s only chance of survival is to get the attention of the fierce Eon Warriors...
  • Warrior by Anna Hackett

    Warrior by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Fighting 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...
  • Razor's Traitorous Heart by S.E. Smith

    Razor's Traitorous Heart by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Kali 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...
  • Star Navigator by Naomi Lucas

    Star Navigator by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “It’s different because of Atlas,” she whispered, wholeheartedly feeling the truth of that statement. "I can say the most terribly erotic things in your ear," Atlas warned hotly from behind her. Reina stopped caring, and she doesn’t know why...
  • Found by Harmony Raines

    Found by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Karalian warrior, Rikka, is devoted to his species and the Hier Council who rule them. He knows his loyalty is to the Karal first, his mission second and everything else is expendable. But sent into deep space with a female from Earth, it is not only a new planet Rikka finds...
  • The V'Dan by Jean Johnson

    The V'Dan by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A thrilling new perspective of the world created in the explosive, national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series. It’s two hundred years earlier—the age of the First Salik War. And the battle against humanity has been engaged. The V’Dan always believed they were the chosen race, destined to make a mark on the galaxy...
  • The Wide, Wide Sea by Patrick Ness

    The Wide, Wide Sea by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Wide, Wide Sea is set in the past, at a time before the Spackle War, and we get a first look at the fishing village on the sea where some very important things happen at the end of Monsters of Men.Best read after The Ask and the Answer but before Monsters...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  war  action-adventure  audiobook  book  dark  dystopia  epic
  • Dark Minds by Michelle Diener

    Dark Minds by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The mind is the most powerful weapon of all . . . Imogen Peters knows she's a pawn. She's been abducted from Earth, held prisoner, and abducted again. So when she gets a chance at freedom, she takes it with both hands, not realizing that doing so will turn her from pawn to kingmaker...
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    aliens  female-mc  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  audiobook  book
  • Saving Verakko by Victoria Aveline

    Saving Verakko by Victoria Aveline

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When 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...
  • Gravitational Attraction by Angel Martinez

    Gravitational Attraction by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A broken pilot falls for a man who might be a walking weapon. They may need to save far more than each other.A mysterious distress call draws the crew of the Hermes to what appears to be an empty, drifting ship. Empty, except for the gore-spattered corridors and one survivor locked in a holding cell...
  • Alien Warrior's Captive Bride by Juno Wells

    Alien Warrior's Captive Bride by Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every now and then, when all the planets are in proper alignment, fate smiles on one lone warrior... Hope Earth is no longer able to support human life and trying to scratch out a meager existence is nearly impossible. Hope is reluctantly forced to sign up for the intergalactic brides program. Just as she’s getting desperate, she finds a tolerable species willing to purchase her contract..
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    aliens  steamy  war  action-adventure  adult  book  captivity  dark
  • Roark's Bondmate by Hannah Davenport

    Roark's Bondmate by Hannah Davenport

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lara I always knew that aliens were a possibility, but to discover an entire galaxy filled with beings my imagination had trouble believing? Talk about starting over! After the failed mission, I awoke to find myself on a different planet; some savage alien with yellow skin and brown claws was dragging me away by my ankle. I couldn’t ask questions, couldn’t talk with anyone...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  alpha-mc  female-mc  steamy  adult  book  cheating  dark
  • Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik

    Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Interplanetary intrigue and romance combine in this electrifying finale to the Consortium Rebellion series.As the youngest member of her High House, Catarina von Hasenberg is used to being underestimated, but her youth and flighty, bubbly personality mask a clever mind and stubborn determination...
  • Tink's Neverland by S.E. Smith

    Tink's Neverland by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    She 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...
  • Honor's Knight by Rachel Bach

    Honor's Knight by Rachel Bach

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The rollicking sequel to Fortune's Pawn -- an action packed science fiction novel. Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either. After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life. But even though Devi's not actually looking for it -- trouble keeps finding her...
  • The Tower and the Hive by Anne McCaffrey

    The Tower and the Hive by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Much 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...
  • Freedom's Ransom by Anne McCaffrey

    Freedom's Ransom by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Enslaved on an uninhabited planet by the alien Eosi, Kristin Bjornsen and her fellow humans not only survived against all odds to colonize the world now known as Botany, but liberated themselves from their captors and claimed it as their home…   The colonists could not have achieved victory without the help of the exiled Catteni alien, Zainal, who helped Kris contact other races subjugated by...
  • Freedom's Landing by Anne McCaffrey

    Freedom's Landing by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the spaceships floated into view above Denver...
  • Freedom's Challenge by Anne McCaffrey

    Freedom's Challenge by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The alien Catteni invaded Earth and enslaved thousands of humans on the planet Botany, where they struggle to survive while colonizing the world for their overseers...
  • Freedom's Choice by Anne McCaffrey

    Freedom's Choice by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Abducted by the alien Catteni, Kristin Bjornsen was one of many humans brought to the planet Botany as part of an experiment to see if it could support life...
  • Soldier Mine by Amber Kell

    Soldier Mine by Amber Kell

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    RE-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...
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    aliens  alpha-mc  steamy  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  animals
  • Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

    Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Devi Morris isn't your average mercenary. She has plans. Big ones. And a ton of ambition. It's a combination that's going to get her killed one day - but not just yet. That is, until she just gets a job on a tiny trade ship with a nasty reputation for surprises...
  • Damia's Children by Anne McCaffrey

    Damia's Children by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Damia 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'...
  • Planet X by Evangeline Anderson

    Planet X by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Krisa 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...
  • Star King by Susan Grant

    Star King by Susan Grant

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An alien king, an Earth woman. Are they fated mates, or is fate stacked against them? Love and war on a galactic scale.Rom B’Kah is fighting for the survival of his people. During combat he encounters a beautiful and mysterious woman who saves his life. When she vanishes without a trace, he vows to find her again...
  • Ruth's Bonded by V.C. Lancaster

    Ruth's Bonded by V.C. Lancaster

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When Ruth finds herself abducted and thrown into a cell with a big scary alien, naturally she's terrified. At first. But when she's forced to get along with her furry, tailed cellmate (and her clothes get stolen) things slowly start to change between them...
  • Grabbed by Vicious by Lolita Lopez

    Grabbed by Vicious by Lolita Lopez

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hallie has never run so fast in her life. One of the frightening sky warriors from the warship Valiant is hot on her heels and intent on capturing her as his new bride. He takes her down and places his collar around her neck. With one word, he claims her.Mine.Born and bred for the military, Vicious has spent the last twenty-four years rising through the ranks...
  • Undying by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Undying by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Earth's fate rests in their hands. Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from the truth they've uncovered, Mia and Jules are desperate to warn their home about what's coming. After a perilous escape in an alien craft, they crash-land on Earth's surface only to realize the awful truth: No one believes in the Undying threat in orbit...
  • Alien's Princess Bride by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Alien's Princess Bride by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Sci-Fi Alien Romance A princess on the run... A hunky alien in need of a wife... Fearing for her life, Elizabeth signs up for Mail Order Human and hopes for the best. It frightens her that marriage to a stranger—an alien!—on a faraway planet is her only option for survival, but she can’t stay hidden in the English countryside forever...
  • No Words Alone by Autumn Dawn

    No Words Alone by Autumn Dawn

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Stranded on a hostile alien planet, a beautiful young translator is forced tochoose between trusting her own crewmates or the noble commander of the alienrace that shot down her spacecraft. Original...
  • Claimed by Evangeline Anderson

    Claimed by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Olivia Waterhouse has just graduated from nursing school and has her whole life ahead of her—until she gets drafted. Problem is, she isn’t being forced into the Army, she’s been chosen as a Kindred bride. The Kindred are huge alien warriors—a race of genetic traders whose population is ninety-five percent male...
  • The Beast King's Bride by Bailey Dark

    The Beast King's Bride by Bailey Dark

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “There’s no point in fighting. You belong to me now. I am your King.” Work sucks. That’s just a fact. And to make it worse, my boss it a total a-hole. But it turns out he’s not just your everyday run-of-the-mill jerk. Nope, he’s also a killer - and not at all human. Now, my late-night overtime assignment has left me caught in the middle of some galactic war...
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    aliens  alpha-mc  steamy  adult  book  dark  far-away-galaxy  fiction
  • Enemy Within by Marcella Burnard

    Enemy Within by Marcella Burnard

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    An intergalactic cold war-and some heated passion- from an inventive new voice in futuristic romance. After a stint in an alien prison, Captain Ari Rose wonders why she even bothered to survive. Stripped of her command and banished to her father's scientific expedition to finish a Ph.D. she doesn't want, Ari never planned to languish quietly behind a desk. She wasn't built for it, either...
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