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  • Sigma by Tiya Rayne

    Sigma by Tiya Rayne

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shiloh Green has had the worse luck when it comes to men. For the last seven years she’s been trapped in a relationship with her Kingpin boyfriend. But opportunity to escape comes knocking when a mysterious businessman visits. Now Shiloh is headed to a top-secret military base to be a volunteer breeder for a government experiment...
  • Hero by Anna Hackett

    Hero by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim… Raised from birth to be a soldier, Kace Tameron is a disciplined, military-trained gladiator. He is on contract to the Kor Magna Arena to hone his fighting skills on the blood-soaked arena sand and then return to the military. He lives for one thing: to protect his planet, and on his world, love is forbidden...
  • The Akseli by Dianne Duvall

    The Akseli by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Simone has hunted and slain psychotic vampires night after night for hundreds of years and desperately needs a change. When the leader of the Immortal Guardians offers her an opportunity to guard ten mortal women who are venturing to another planet, she dives right in and finds traveling into space and meeting amazing alien races just as exciting as she'd hoped… until an enemy attacks...
  • The Renegade Akseli Cyborg by Dianne Duvall

    The Renegade Akseli Cyborg by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dive into the next thrilling novel in New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall’s fast-paced, humorous, and adventure-filled Aldebarian Alliance series.Too many years of hunting psychotic vampires night after night have left Rachel with a desperate need for change...
  • Radiant Darkness by Anna Carven

    Radiant Darkness by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Arkan Kythelian is the last man standing.He's well aware of that fact. The rest of his First Division brothers have succumbed to the Mating Fever, falling for those gentle, alluring creatures—humans.He should probably be more bothered by it, but he's a little preoccupied right now. See, he's just detected the presence of a group of terrified humans onboard a Kordolian slave-trader ship...
  • Prince of Storms by Riley Storm

    Prince of Storms by Riley Storm

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My storms brought only thunder and darkness.Until her.She is the lightning that charges my soul and tempts my body. I’m supposed to be composed and regal, a future prince of dragons. But a simple look from her sets the tempest inside me raging. I cannot be expected to control myself around her. I have needs, and they start and end with her...
  • Forbidden by Tana Stone

    Forbidden by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Be a tribute bride for some brawny alien warrior? Not on your life. Ella is one of the few human females who rejected her Drexian warrior match. Sent to live with the other “rejects” in a special part of the high-tech space station, she has no desire to have her life dictated by a bunch of alphas on steroids. And no way would she ever be charmed by an alien playboy...
  • Alien in Chief by Gini Koch

    Alien in Chief by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Mastermind has upped his game . . .As Kitty can tell you, it's not easy being the wife of the vice president - especially not when he's an alien from the Alpha Centauri system. And being a parent of preternaturally talented children, don't even go there. But she and her A-C husband, Jeff, have learned how to roll with whatever life and the bad guys throw at them - they think...
  • SoL by Jennifer Julie Miller

    SoL by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    AlanaThe question is, do I allow this dark moment in time to rob me of the life I could possibly have here? I have never known such horror or fear. If I hadn’t experienced it myself, I would have never believed any other living thing could possibly do this to another. The scars may be gone on the outside now, but they will remain forever in my soul...
  • Fighting for Their Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Fighting for Their Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Once a commander with the Intelligence Core for the Coalition Fleet, a mission gone wrong forced Chloe to return to Earth injured and dishonored. But she's seen too much and is restless in civilian life. This drives her to do whatever it takes to return to space, to where she belongs, so she volunteers as an Interstellar Bride...
  • 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...
  • Varnog by Regine Abel

    Varnog by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The tormented soul of a beast.Created to be a mindless, bloodthirsty monster, Varnog chose to live an honorable life instead. From the day he joined the Vanguard, he’s only had eyes for one female. Petite and delicate in appearance, she awakens his protective instincts and a deep longing for something he can never have. However, his Linette has no need for protection...
  • Teran by Ava Ross

    Teran by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The alien she's hot for seems to hate her. But when they touch, sparks fly. Will their growing love survive a dangerous quest?Emma: I’m pretty sure Teran hates me...
  • Raiden by Scarlett Grove

    Raiden by Scarlett Grove

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To find his mate, he'll have to believe the impossible A Driven Scientist For Flora Baptiste, nothing is more important than finding a vaccine against the vampires who kidnapped and changed her. She will stop at nothing until the problem is solved. While working at the House of Storms, she can't be distracted by her attraction to her best friend, Raiden. She isn't even his mate. He's said so...
  • Nevrik by Regine Abel

    Nevrik by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She is all he’s ever wanted.With the threat of the rebels’ looming war, romance is the last thing on Tyonna’s mind. But as she prepares to set off on a mission, the new member to join her crew leaves her breathless. Nevrik is the most imposing and intimidating Scelk she has ever seen...
  • Rexx by Tasha Black

    Rexx by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Their sights are trained on love. But will they survive a ride on the Iron Peregrine?Abigail Shaw can’t believe her good luck. The Alien Adoption Agency has selected her to adopt adorable baby Rio. And baby Rio comes with Rexx, a handsome Invicta warrior guard, whose dark eyes seduce Abigail before he even opens his mouth. When he offers her his mate bond, she thinks things can’t get any better...
  • Alien Knight Teddy Bear Troubles by Becca Brayden

    Alien Knight Teddy Bear Troubles by Becca Brayden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On a dangerous mission to rescue a young royal from a prison cell on an alien warship, Lumerian Knight Taeger Norasair never expects to find a beautiful human woman among the prisoners. Even more puzzling is her refusal to leave. Unwilling to leave Cassie behind, he throws her over his shoulder and makes a dash for freedom. He is an ancient. Nearly immortal. Sparks fly and passions rage...
  • One Fell Sweep [Dramatized Adaptation] by Ilona Andrews, Nora Achrati

    One Fell Sweep [Dramatized Adaptation] by Ilona Andrews, Nora Achrati

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Stolen by Tana Stone

    Stolen by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When they told her she’d been abducted from Earth as a tribute bride for a badass alien warrior, Hope thought it was the craziest thing she’d ever heard. That was before she was kidnapped by space pirates.Hope didn’t buy the idea of being a tribute bride. After all, she’d never been into commitment...
  • Reaper by Regine Abel

    Reaper by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She survived against the odds…Janelle’s life is defined by a crumbling, underground research base. Imprisoned for twenty years after the base was bombed, she and the few Creckel survivors are running out of time as the last of their resources are depleted. With no hope for rescue, Janelle and her companions wait for the dreaded Reaper to finish what the bombs missed...
  • Beauty and the Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Beauty and the Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No one denies the beast.I am a Warlord. A beast.An assassin for the Intelligence Core.Even so, I've been sent to Earth for a simple mission: Find a mate.I hold no hope. Who would want me? I'm scarred... inside and out.But one look at the human beauty and there is no question, she’s mine.When she is taken from me, I will use all my training to save her from my enemies...
  • Saving Runt by S.E. Smith

    Saving Runt by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Amelia ‘Runt’ Thomas’ life revolves around a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the most ruthless criminals in the world. She follows two codes: the code of hackers and her personal code of honor to bring down anyone who thinks they’re untouchable. She is on target until one fateful night when the touch of a strange man sends an unexpected shock wave through her...
  • Raven by Regine Abel

    Raven by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her beautiful mind was her own prison. After betrayal and abuse destroyed Liena’s dreams of becoming a Psychic Operator, she warily accepts a temporary position on Khepri, the homeworld of the bioengineered Xian Warriors. With entire Warrior units getting mysteriously wiped out, she must help devise a critical antidote...
  • Alien Collective by Gini Koch

    Alien Collective by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Despite not having run for office, nor wanting to remain in office, Representative Jeff Martini is being wooed as the vice presidential running mate for a charismatic senator who seems likely to win the campaign...
  • Bargain with a Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Bargain with a Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Adrian Davis thought getting on a real-life, ‘beam me up, Scotty’, transport pad was adventure enough. Visiting her mother—and the Atlan beast her mom had chosen as a mate—on another planet? Setting foot in an Atlan prison? Completely crazy. Like totally, bat-shit, what-the-hell-was-she-doing-with-her-life crazy...
  • Cyborg Fever by Grace Goodwin

    Cyborg Fever by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Warlord Anghar survives hell as a captive of the evil Hive. Convinced he will never break free, he chooses death over dishonor. When the Coalition ReCon Team sent to kill him frees him instead, he begins the long, tortuous journey back to a true Atlan, a warrior proud of his beast, of his service...
  • Maid for the Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Maid for the Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An Atlan Warlord in Mating Fever with two choices: Be the latest bachelor beast on an Earth reality television show to find his perfect mate or face certain death in an Atlan prison. Braun's not sure which is worse... until a female enters his hotel suite with towels and cleaning supplies.She isn't part of the television show.She isn't available.She isn't interested in mating with an alien...
  • Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ristéard Roald is the powerful and deadly ruler of Elpidios, a planet that is slowly dying without the blood stones needed to absorb the radiation gradually destroying its stratosphere. He has sworn to do whatever it takes to protect his world and his people, but time is running out.Hope comes from an unexpected source, the Kassis...
  • Protector by Anna Hackett

    Protector by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim… Cool and driven Madeline Cochran made a successful career for herself as civilian commander of a space station orbiting Jupiter…until the day it was attacked and she was abducted by alien slavers...
  • Tansy's Titan by S.E. Smith

    Tansy's Titan by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tansy Bell, is the middle daughter of the three Bell sisters. She has always been a little different, even for a Bell. A chameleon, she can change her appearance and personality to blend in almost anywhere. She uses this talent to bring some of the worse criminals in the world to justice.Mak ‘Tag Krell Manok is the wild one of his four brothers...
  • Cosmos' Promise by S.E. Smith

    Cosmos' Promise by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Cosmos Raines is considered to be one of the most brilliant inventors in the world. A prodigy, he is a self-made billionaire who would rather be in his lab than jet-setting around the world. Things change when his latest experiment literally opens a Gateway into a whole new world...
  • Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith

    Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Jo Strauss was committed to two things in her life – her family and her life as an acrobat/high-wire performer. She takes both very serious. Her life was orderly, in control, and she was finally settling down in one place so she could spend more time with her parents instead of moving all over the world every few weeks...
  • Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Destiny 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...
  • Ascension Saga: 4 - Faith, Part 1 by Grace Goodwin

    Ascension Saga: 4 - Faith, Part 1 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Faith Jones is an Earth girl...and she's not. She's half Aleran. And not just any half - a royal half. Her mother is the queen, her sister is the heir, and her twin is determined to kill every alien on the planet if that's what it takes to find their kidnapped mother...
  • Luna of Earth by Laura Jo Phillips

    Luna of Earth by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There are lots of great ways for a beautiful, wealthy, brilliant young woman to meet a suitable romantic partner. Through the Internet, Church, volunteer groups, or even singles bars. Or, you can do it the way Luna Meadows did--by rescuing an alien from his crashed intergalactic spaceship on the side of a remote mountain in the Rockies just ahead of a three day blizzard...
  • Mated by V.K. Ludwig

    Mated by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You know your Gaia link is broken when your match is 93.While every Vetusian around me is expecting the arrival of the first hybrids, my mate is living out her final days in a nursing home.With true love unattainable, I concentrate on busting the crime ring responsible for the supply of human females forced into prostitution at the Odheim brothels...
  • Rashe by Ava Ross

    Rashe by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's looking for happily-ever-after. He can’t touch her. But with her life at stake, he'll sacrifice everything to protect her.Kristy: Chosen for the Driegon bride selection, I’m confident I’ll meet the alien of my dreams. I don’t expect to find true love, but it would be nice to find someone special...
  • Alien Paladin's Woman by Vi Voxley

    Alien Paladin's Woman by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes, what the galaxy needs is a hero no one's ever heard of. Tieran, the Commander of the Palian paladins, has never been allowed to have anything of his own, other than the blade in his hands and the honor he serves with. But a feisty, curvy, and utterly impossible human woman is about to change all that...
  • Hunted by Harmony Raines

    Hunted by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Garth is intent on filling the hours aboard the fourth deep space mission with pleasure, in the form of his curvy human female, Tamzin. With his prime upon him, he knows he as to breed a son with Tamzin soon. So what better way to pass the time? Yet soon he learns another side of himself, a softer side, and he begins to feel less like a primal hunter, as his love for his female grows...
  • Allies by Harmony Raines

    Allies by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Petra never wanted to go to Karal, but when her mother becomes the new President of Earth, thanks to the Karal, she is part of the deal. Never having entered the lottery, she feels used, but soon begins to appreciate the huge Karalian who is her mate. Sent into deep space with him, their bond grows, as they race to find a new planet suitable for a human colony...
  • Desired By Dragons by Scarlett Grove

    Desired By Dragons by Scarlett Grove

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The ultimate dragon mega-bundle from Scarlett Grove For the first time, all the dragon shifter stories that have enthralled Scarlett's readers have been gathered into one huge collection. Here's what you'll find inside: Alien Commander's Bride: Lexi Garcia will do anything to protect her family … even mate with one of the Draconians she hates...
  • 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...
  • Shared by the Monstrum by Evangeline Anderson

    Shared by the Monstrum by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mirabella is running for her life when two huge, muscular alien warriors come to guard her. Will she lose her heart when she is…Shared by the Monstrum?Mirabella is a reluctant ruler—she never asked to be the Ruling Member of the Sacred Seven—the governing body of Opulex. But things get much worse when all the other members of the Sacred Seven are murdered by a ruthless serial killer...
  • Help Wanted: Wife by Cara Bristol

    Help Wanted: Wife by Cara Bristol

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They have nothing to lose except their hearts. The only thing keeping widower Larth from succumbing to grief is running the fledgling bakery founded by his late wife. He intends to make the business the biggest, best bakery in all of Caradonia. But he can’t do it alone. Unable to find affordable help, he turns to Cosmic Mates and advertises for a wife in-name-only...
  • Escape Clause by Cara Bristol

    Escape Clause by Cara Bristol

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only thing they can’t escape is love… After a nano-virus devastates Caradonia, leaving the planet in desperate need of women, leader Krogan launches a last-ditch effort to save their civilization—convince men to accept human brides through Cosmic Mates.Krogan himself has no time or desire for a wife...
  • Dragon's Fated Mate by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Fated Mate by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everyone deserves a second chance...AnnabelIt doesn't matter that my husband was killed. I still love him. Now I go through my days doing the only thing that matters - making sure my girls survive. What else is there?I can't fall for the hot, sexy dragon-man Calaun. One of the Zmaj native to the hellish desert planet we crashed on. I've had my one shot at love...
  • Rogue by Regine Abel

    Rogue by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was lost, until he found her.For years, Shuria was a monster, the ultimate assassin created as a result of countless painful experiments. At the end of the war, she finds refuge on the Kryptid homeworld as an advisor to the Queen. But even here, she doesn’t belong...
  • Never Cuff an Alien by V.K. Ludwig

    Never Cuff an Alien by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My alien concubine refuses to please me.That gruff, muscled Vandalar saikh I bought myself keeps running away. So I do what every lonely woman in her thirties would: I cuff him to my bed until he comes to his senses. At least now I don’t have to chase behind him in high heels, and can concentrate on starting my mail-order-saikh business...
  • Turn Left for Stars by V.K. Ludwig

    Turn Left for Stars by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A SciFi Alien RomCom. It’s hard to find the right alien concubine… Finding three of them? Impossible! Watching the future saikhs practice their penetration angles at the saikhmenti alone doesn’t cut it to make a decision. What about other things like… I don’t know. Personality? What I need is insider information. That saikh-in-training who keeps failing his assessments? He’s offering it up freely...
  • Alien General's Fated by Vi Voxley

    Alien General's Fated by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This general will never lose...This is a full 100 k sci-fi romance novel, featuring a growly Alien Alpha general and a feisty, curvy human woman going against all the odds...
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