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  • Unification by Dave Willmarth

    Unification by Dave Willmarth

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Allistor just wants to restore the human race. He’s doing his best with the resources he’s gathered to locate other survivors around the world and unite them. His intentions are good, and he pushes hard. The drake eggs are hatching, and his people have dreams of both a murder chicken cavalry and a drake-mounted air force...
  • Dawn of the Void Book Two by Phil Tucker

    Dawn of the Void Book Two by Phil Tucker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The countdown to Nemesis 3 has begun, pushing humanity closer to the brink of extinction. James and his team are now Earth's last line of defense amidst the chaos of New York City.But with each Nemesis wave they defeat and each power James unveils, a grim truth unfolds: they're being manipulated. The enemy not only predicts their actions, it feeds on them...
  • Saving Supervillains 3 by Bruce Sentar

    Saving Supervillains 3 by Bruce Sentar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With Miles's encouragement, Melody, had accepted the physical changes wrought by ingesting monster fruit. But now, it was time to help her through everything else.In the wake of the attack on Point City by Daeva the military had devised a plan to insert Melody into Daeva's stronghold. To gain entry, Melody would have to use her new looks and put her best villain act on...
  • Divinity 36 by Gail Carriger

    Divinity 36 by Gail Carriger

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The aliens are coming for us and they want our voices.New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger brings you a gloriously warm and unique scifi about the power of art, celebrity, and found family.Phex is a barista on a forgotten moon. Which is fine – he likes being ignored and he’s good at making drinks. Until one day an alien hears him singing and recruits him to become a god...
  • Callum by Honey Phillips

    Callum by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Can a weary alien warrior and a wary human widow learn to love again?The life of a warrior is all Callum has ever known, but after a long, meaningless war he is tired of fighting. Instead, he chooses to accompany his brothers in arms to a new life on a backwater planet and finds an unexpected peace in the hard work of restoring their isolated ranch...
  • Dinosaur World 7 by Logan Jacobs

    Dinosaur World 7 by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Before the dino apocalypse, Jason never would have thought he’d be flying a spaceship to jungles of South Korea. Now that he’s done just that, he’s got even crazier hurdles to jump over. Hae-won’s mobster family is more intimidating than he expected, but he’s willing to do anything in order to gain their approval.Even if that means a wedding is in his very near future...
  • Dinosaur World 8 by Logan Jacobs

    Dinosaur World 8 by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Humanity has run out of time. The alien fleet is set to arrive any day, and there’s only one way Jason and his women can save the world now.They have to figure out how to get into space and onto the mothership before life as we know it is wiped out...
  • System Finale by Tao Wong

    System Finale by Tao Wong

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An Apocalyptic Space Opera LitRPGThere's No Way HomeNot for John Lee. His search for answers for the System Quest has taken him deep into the Forbidden Zone, into the very arms of his enemies. He's betrayed family and friends and been betrayed in turn. The most powerful human in the System has come to the final leg of his journey...
  • Banic by Mina Carter

    Banic by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s a doc on a mission. He’s a beast with a heart of gold.Dr. Beth Godwin arrives on Parac’Norr with one goal in curing the Blood Rage mutation that plagues the alien warriors. But she didn’t expect Banic, the most feared feral on the planet, or her reaction to him.A caged monster, she knows she should stay away from him...
  • I Married Krogal by Regine Abel

    I Married Krogal by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He is the cuddliest of teddy bears. A year after fleeing an abusive partner, Farah’s welcome in the refuge sheltering her is ending. With no money, no job, and no options, she’s floored to be presented with a marriage of convenience to an alien behemoth as a solution. Considering her recent ordeal, entering a relationship with a four-armed giant with herculean strength is the last thing she wants...
  • Vende by Celia Kyle, Anne Hale

    Vende by Celia Kyle, Anne Hale

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He had thought he would never experience the Knowing. All he needed was the right woman.After suffering a traumatic injury as a child, Dawn has lived a sheltered life under the shadow of tragedy. Despite her passion for botany, neither her family nor her limitations ever allowed her to pursue her dreams...until the day she encounters the Preor and they need help only she can provide...
  • Blaze by Tana Stone

    Blaze by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I swore to myself that I’d never fall for an alien warrior. Now my life depends on trusting a Drexian I’d hoped to never see again.I was coming on board the Drexian space station to attend my cousin’s wedding. That was it. Despite every other woman on Earth falling all over themselves for one of the tough aliens, I wasn’t interested. Not even a little bit...
  • Alien Crusader's Mate by Mina Carter

    Alien Crusader's Mate by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She needs money, and fast… or her nephew dies.Halle is at her wits end. She and her sister are working two jobs each, but even that’s not enough for them to eat some days. And that’s before the emotional toll of caring for a sick toddler. When they’re landed with a huge medical bill, Halle has only one option left to her… signing up with the Latharian Mate Program...
  • Hatched by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Hatched by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Taulan joi Lana Coburn, War Master of the Preor third fleet, is finally having his wishes granted. He has a mate and will soon have two dragonlets to protect and love. But only if he can live to see them born. Or, as his Lana says, hatched. This short story is set in the DRAGONS OF PREOR world and does not stand alone...
  • I Married An Incubus by Regine Abel

    I Married An Incubus by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A match made in Hell…When investigative reporter Malaya Velasco accidentally uncovers the corruption of one of the highest judges of the Obosian justice system, she is framed and condemned to a life sentence on the deadly prison planet Molvi. In her despair, she begs the Prime Mating Agency for an arranged marriage with one of the Wardens of the prison...
  • Alien Ruler Needs a Nanny by Tasha Black

    Alien Ruler Needs a Nanny by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s in charge of an entire planet, but only she can rule his heart…Ba’shir Kreed is a hardworking single dad who also happens to be the leader of a planet of two billion souls. He is used to dealing with any issue that comes along. But he knows he’s got real problems the minute he lays eyes on his kids’ new Terran nanny...
  • Dinosaur World 6 by Logan Jacobs

    Dinosaur World 6 by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jason and his three beautiful girlfriends never imagined the dino apocalypse could get this wild.But they’ve finally gotten some long-awaited answers, they have a spaceship and a gorgeous alien pilot, and their most important mission has suddenly come to light.If only they could shake the horde of government officials off their backs so they could get to saving the world...
  • Dinosaur World 5 by Logan Jacobs

    Dinosaur World 5 by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The dino apocalypse has gotten unhinged.Dinosaurs are nesting and banning together, and they only have one goal in mind: slaughter the human race.But Jason and his two beautiful girlfriends are finally within reach of Ravenscar, and nothing will stop them from rescuing Becka’s mum at last.And they might even get some help from another beautiful woman..
  • Dinosaur World 4 by Logan Jacobs

    Dinosaur World 4 by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world has gotten horrific since the dinosaurs arrived, and the fight to survive has become desperate.Jason and his two beautiful girlfriends must set out on a top-priority military mission for the sake of mankind, but with dinosaurs prowling the Earth, nothing’s ever as easy as they think it’ll be. The dinos were already getting bigger before, but they now seem to be getting smarter, too...
  • Alien Avenged by Julie K. Cohen

    Alien Avenged by Julie K. Cohen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No way back to Earth. No ability to speak. Just one warrior who loves her for who she is…Lucy (Chloe)After being sold to slavers and getting caught up in a planet’s invasion, Lucy just wants to be left alone. She’s come to Affinia to heal, to find that part of herself she lost since leaving Earth as a mail order bride. But she’s trapped within herself...
  • Bane: Alien Warrior's Redemption by Hattie Jacks

    Bane: Alien Warrior's Redemption by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alien warrior with nothing to live for... A human with everything to lose...EVE - I didn’t claw my way up the corporate ladder by being kind, generous or caring. I made a million before lunch and lunch is for wimps.My rivals? They can kiss my designer heels.What I thought was a practical joke is rapidly becoming a nightmare. The plane I don’t remember getting on? It crash-landed...
  • Traitor: Alien Hunter's Mate by Hattie Jacks

    Traitor: Alien Hunter's Mate by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A fallen warrior...A forgotten human...A love discovered.STELLA - One minute I’m in my bed, the next…I’m not on Earth anymore. Twin suns beat down and the sounds that creep from the forest tell me all I need to know.I’m on an alien planet, and I’m not alone…I’m being stalked by something terrifying and protected by someone who won’t show himself...
  • Havoc: Alien Captain's Alliance by Hattie Jacks

    Havoc: Alien Captain's Alliance by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wanted by the Empire...desired by two massive aliens...resistance is never futile...Hi, I’m Lexi, soon to be ex-mercenary, thief and assassin. I’ve got one last job and I’m free of this life forever - all I have to do is relieve the galaxy's most evil warlord of one of his prized possessions.Piece of cake, right?My first mistake was stealing Captain Bron’s stealth drive...
  • Prisoner by Tana Stone

    Prisoner by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What’s more dangerous than joining the Vandar to crush the Zagrath? Being taken captive by the deadly creatures who rule the sector—and consider prisoners to be expendable.Cassie is eager to join her fellow resistance fighters when they team up with the Vandar hordes, but she isn't expecting to be taken prisoner during the battle...
  • Roklyn by Alana Khan

    Roklyn by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To stay alive, Roklyn buried his emotions. Can he risk everything to trust the ailing Earth girl he’s sworn to protect?PaigeI’ve come to this medical center to save my life. My grumpy but intriguing bodyguard can receive services also, but only if he’s my “mate...
  • Diplomatic Immunity by Michael Anderle

    Diplomatic Immunity by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes the biggest monsters use their mouths for more than ripping and tearing.They use them to beguile their fellow humans.Taylor and Niki need to find out who is importing a dangerous alien serum and looking to mix it into the drug trade.The consequences might be more dire than humanity could possibly know...
  • Hex Division by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Hex Division by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The war is heating up.Fresh off their first major victory against the Nyctus, the Orbital Navy is moving forward in confusion. Starcasters, led by Thorn Stellers, are not trusted—magic has not replaced the power of steel and naval might, and humanity is at a crossroads.As Thorn and Kira define their roles in the new navy, magic refuses to stay still...
  • Apocalypse Online by Robyn Wideman

    Apocalypse Online by Robyn Wideman

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At first everyone thought it was a game...But aliens have arrived and they are turning people into fertilizer.Brad and Sam are gamers and when they started playing the hot new game Apocalypse Online they had no idea that the game was a preview of reality! With the help of a benevolent alien AI and nanotechnology, our heroes will have a chance to survive the apocalypse...
  • Core Establishment by Jonathan Brooks

    Core Establishment by Jonathan Brooks

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A journey that was a lifetime in the making….Milton Frederick never had the chance to live out his life as a professional gamer on Earth, mainly because he was abducted by aliens. Unfortunately, he wasn’t returned home after the typical probing associated with such things to tell an unbelievable story to his friends...
  • The Alien's Blade by Ella Blake

    The Alien's Blade by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What’s worse than waking up from a hibernation cell fifty-two years after being abducted?Nothing. No, wait—a wise-cracking alien hunk with a killer smile who doesn’t let me out of his sight, that’s what.Wulfrex knows every inch of his massive space cruiser and makes it impossible for me to steal it...
  • Lady Luck by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Lady Luck by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Luck 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...
  • A house of DaR celebration by Jennifer Julie Miller

    A house of DaR celebration by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After the return of ANDI, the information now available about the human race is astounding. What happens when three AI’s, decide to bring a little piece of home to the humans they have all come to love? A Celebration of epic proportions.Be prepared to shed some tears, as new, and old memories tug at the heartstrings...
  • Cosmic Progeny: A Slice-of-Life Sci-Fi Adventure by A.V. Ray

    Cosmic Progeny: A Slice-of-Life Sci-Fi Adventure by A.V. Ray

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An arranged marriage to an alien space elf? Yes please!Growing up on modern day Earth, I had no idea I’d been selected from birth to help a dying race save their population. So when a starship abducts me for a royal wedding with galactic consequences, my only option is to help its crew of beautiful officers complete their mission...
  • Zadri by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Zadri by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    What’s a single, pregnant woman supposed to do when her family wants that baby gone? Go to Preor Choosing Station Tau and hope a dragon shapeshifting alien is her mate, of course. Delaney Cole found her mate among the Preor only to watch him die—through his own eyes thanks to the Knowing...
  • Space Pirate Charlie by Scott Baron, Gary Bennett

    Space Pirate Charlie by Scott Baron, Gary Bennett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Charlie was living the life of luxury... as an alien wizard’s gladiator slave. It was not ideal.He had survived a spaceship crash, alien slave traders, space pirates and fierce gladiatorial combat. Hell, he’d even faced an actual fire-breathing dragon and lived, but now he was presented with an even greater challenge. Domestic living, captive on a strange world...
  • The Alien's Fire by Ella Blake

    The Alien's Fire by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    HarpHe’s my boss on this ship, but not the boss of me. At least that’s what I tell myself every time the gorgeous, icy-eyed—and hearted—Heveian warrior speaks to me. Or rather, growls at me. Despite his clear dislike of me, I have the dirtiest thoughts about the big guy...
  • Seduce by Tana Stone

    Seduce by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I thought being kidnapped by vile, alien slavers was bad enough. Then I woke up on a lust moon.I know all about the Xulonian recreation moons, but I’d hoped to end up on the hunting one. As a security officer for the empire, I know how to fight. I am not prepared to wake up practically naked on a strange island...
  • Cherish by Tana Stone

    Cherish by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The bounty hunter babes are ready to celebrate Christmas, but are they ready to return to the sand planet where they were marooned?When the bounty hunter babes escaped from the Dothvek planet, they took their barbarian mates with them (and some babies on the way)...
  • I Married Wonjin by Regine Abel

    I Married Wonjin by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She once feared him but now cannot resist him…After decades of violence, the war pitting the human colony on Cibbos against the Yurus tribe has finally ended. Lara never expected that peace between their species would lead to a romantic entanglement with one of their former enemies. Resembling a cross between an orc and a minotaur, Wonjin looks nothing like how Lara had imagined a potential mate...
  • Oblivion III by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Oblivion III by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    L’alieno più sexy mai sceso sulla Terra questa volta deve combattere contro qualcosa di molto più grande di lui per proteggere la sua famiglia da un pericolo più che reale. Ma Daemon non è solo, lui e Katy sono diventati inscindibili e questo significa che dovrà soprattutto proteggere la sua amata...
  • Axall by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Axall by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He won’t leave Earth without her.After awakening from cryosleep, Rachel struggles to find her place in a strange new world. Earth isn’t the way she remembers it. Not even close. For starters, humans have made contact with real live aliens. Before she can wrap her head around all the changes, a bossy Vaxxlian warrior shows up in her bedroom claiming to be her mate...
  • Khann by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Khann by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He’s the enemy—and she’s agreed to become his mate.Stranded on war-torn Earth with her young daughter, Belle is devastated to learn she has a terminal illness. Who will take care of her daughter after she’s gone? When she discovers Vaxxlians possess the technology to save her, she doesn’t hesitate to sign up for Vaxxlian Mail Order Brides—even if she does view the powerful aliens as the enemy...
  • Zane by Tasha Black

    Zane by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s about to discover a whole new world...Sarah Flynn longs for a child of her own, and the excitement of settling a frontier moon.But she isn’t ready for the baby to come with an Invicta dragon warrior, who has sworn to protect the child with his life.And she certainly doesn’t expect the burly warrior to awaken feelings in her that she thought she left behind forever...
  • Star Fighter Charlie by Scott Baron

    Star Fighter Charlie by Scott Baron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A magic wielding astronaut fighting off an alien invasion with his dragon friend? Charlie thought they might actually pull it off... that is if Lady Luck decided to play nice for a change. Unfortunately, knowing his fortunes, the odds of that were slim to none...
  • The Rift War by Alexandra Moody

    The Rift War by Alexandra Moody

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a thousand years of separation, humans and Unfaih have clashed in a bloody and devastating war. But now a more powerful force is threatening to destroy both their worlds.The dust has barely settled on the battlefield, but the Brakys are readying to strike. These dark creatures have kept to the shadows, waiting for the perfect chance to claim what they have thirsted over for centuries...
  • Cultivating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Cultivating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My new job gives me the chance to put my past behind me. Only one problem: I’m falling for my bad boy boss…After my ex dumps my possessions on the sidewalk, cleans out our bank account, and steals my landscaping business, I'm once again submitting job applications. It’s that or no roof over my head...
  • Alien Betrayed by Julie K. Cohen

    Alien Betrayed by Julie K. Cohen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trust no one…. Not the Brotherhood… nor the enticing human female working for them.RemmikovTrust no one. It’s a motto Remmikov has lived by since before the war. Now, he’s been framed for the bombings in Zyan’s capital and he is on the run from his own people. As the son of a traitor, no one will believe he’s innocent...
  • Domesticating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Domesticating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve been hired to teach an alien warrior social skills to woo a mate. But now he’s trying to woo me.When the elderly duchess I cared for dies, her slimy son—my ex—tells me he wants me back. Um, no. I flee and at the Intergalactic Employment Agency, I’m offered a job teaching an alien warlord sophistication so he can woo a mate at the upcoming Match-Mating Soiree...
  • Ravaged by L.V. Lane

    Ravaged by L.V. Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fierce, untamed, and brutal, Quin, the alien ravager, is all these things and more.The kind of alien that wants to claim me and make me into his pet.One small problem, he's not real. He's a character in a book.None of this matters anymore, for the lines have gotten blurred. I need to be protected, and my fierce alien ravager is going to protect me...
  • Lorran by Nancey Cummings

    Lorran by Nancey Cummings

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Checklist for a top secret mission:Pack your favorite knifeBefriend your fellow badassEnsure that you have plenty of explosivesWhat’s this about a stowaway?Lorran has wanted nothing more than to find his mate for years. Now fate unexpectedly delivers a luscious human female in the midst of a dangerous mission.His warlord says he lacks focus and discipline...
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