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  • Mission: Her Shield by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Shield by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s the one woman he’s always wanted and the one woman he’ll never let himself have, but former Delta Force soldier Axel will risk everything to save his covert team’s beautiful archeologist.Axel Diaz knows that fighting the bad guys requires getting down in the muck. He’s done too much and seen too much to ever inflict his nightmares on a woman...
  • 薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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    time-travel  suspense  paranormal  romance  sci-fi  mystery  lgbtq  mlm
  • 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...
  • Flynn by Nyssa Kathryn

    Flynn by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some pasts are harder to escape than others.When Carina Murphy is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, a fresh start in a new town is her only option. Unfortunately, Cradle Mountain may not be the safe haven she’d thought. The son of her new patient may be tall, dark and handsome…but he also knows all about her past.Keeping her job should be the hardest part...
  • Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When archeologist January’s plane is shot down over the Guatemalan jungle, she knows she’s being hunted for the invaluable Mayan artifacts she’s carrying. Only one man and his team can save her…the covert, black ops Team 52, and the distrusting former CIA operative who drives her crazy…Dr. January James has a motto: live life to the fullest...
  • Forged in Ember by Trish McCallan

    Forged in Ember by Trish McCallan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the final novel in the scorching Red-Hot SEALs series, a desperate mother and a Navy SEAL fight fire with fire to protect their love and save the world…Amy Chastain has made a lot of enemies—none so ruthless as the insanely powerful New Ruling Order (NRO). When they killed her husband, it was hell. Then they targeted her children by injecting them with a dangerous, experimental isotope...
  • Wedding the Highlander by Janet Chapman

    Wedding the Highlander by Janet Chapman

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "A runaway beauty finds love in the brawny arms of a handsome stranger..."Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a pond. She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlander trapped in the modern world by a wizard's spell...
  • Anarchy Chained by J.A. Huss

    Anarchy Chained by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone wants revenge.That’s what I tell my new would-be partner in crime, Sadie Scott.“You’re crazy,” she says. “Certifiably insane.”Just a little. But isn’t everyone a little crazy?“And I’m gonna get the hell away from you as fast as I can.”She’s so cute when she’s defiant. “As soon as I get my memory back and figure out who I am.”Yeah. That little problem is definitely working in my favor...
  • Seminal by C.M. Stunich

    Seminal by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I don’t play the role of the kidnapped princess very well.And I really hate the fated mates trope.Hello again, I’m Eve Wakefield, and I refuse to accept that I’m in love with an intergalactic moth prince.No.I don’t care how handsome he is, I don’t want to marry him.I don’t care if his parents have a sentient spaceship capable of eating entire planets.Love is earned, not swindled by pheromones...
  • Diamond in the Dust by Peggy L. Henderson

    Diamond in the Dust by Peggy L. Henderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 3 in the Second Chances Time Travel Romance Series Reverend Johnson is in the business of granting second chances to those deserving a new start, even if it means bending the rules of time travel on occasion. In Gabe McFarlain’s case, he may have gone too far . . . Abandoned by his father, and raised in a whorehouse, Gabe has grown bitter to the world...
  • Christmas for a Goddess: Dragon Lords of Valdier Novella by S.E. Smith

    Christmas for a Goddess: Dragon Lords of Valdier Novella by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes, even a Goddess needs a touch of magic…Aikaterina has lived since the dawn of time. Her species was born at the same time as the universe, yet she yearns for something more. Her experiences with the Valdier, Sarafin, Curizan, and especially the Dragonlings, has left her craving something she never expected—a sense of belonging...
  • Out of the Ashes: Pisces by Julia Mills

    Out of the Ashes: Pisces by Julia Mills

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zodiac Shifters Paranormal Romance, #3: Out of the Ashes: PiscesThe mission is simple – get into the enemy camp, free the Guardians, return the demons to Hell and go home the victor. For a Daughter of Poseidon, that’s called a good day at work.Everything is going as planned...
  • Retribution by J.M. Madden

    Retribution by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Dogs of War have rescued American servicemen from research camps run by the Silverstone Collaborative. Now it’s time for the company, and it’s owner Damon Wilkes, to pay for what they’ve done. Wulfe Terberger is the man to bring them to justice...
  • Kiss of Luck by Delta James

    Kiss of Luck by Delta James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She got away once. It won't happen againSaylorMy unique relationship with Beck ten years ago made me the perfect choice for an undercover operation. My job... bring down Randall Beckett and his Phoenix Syndicate. In all these years I have never shared his secrets, what makes me think I can now?BeckA decade ago my uncle sent Saylor, my beautiful curvy girlfriend, away...
  • The Magic of Twelve: Hazel by Pepper North

    The Magic of Twelve: Hazel by Pepper North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the face of certain death, a highly unusual rescue will lead her to the new life she could never have imagined. Hazel never expected to be staring down the barrel of a gun on her 22nd birthday. In the blink of an eye, she falls into the arms of an enormous, handsome man, who can’t keep his hands off her curves...
  • The Magic of Twelve: Sienna by Pepper North

    The Magic of Twelve: Sienna by Pepper North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a battle between good and evil, her survival depends on her sorcerer Pappa.Tough and tenacious, Sienna has refused to count on anyone for all of her 22 years. But when she’s swept away to a magical new world full of frights and delights, her stubbornness begins to subside in the arms of the gorgeous sorcerer who claims to be her fated mate...
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    paranormal  steamy  romance  mlm  sci-fi  supernatural  horror  fiction
  • Alien Beast by Lili Zander

    Alien Beast by Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This human I’m saddled with is… happy.Cheerful, even.She likes to sing to the cat.Kill me now.A year ago, an explosion – the same explosion that killed my best friend – destroyed me.Ruined me.Made me look like a monster.I’m a shadow of the man I once was.I want to be left alone.Instead… there’s Bella.Bella, who sings when she’s happy.Who likes to talk...
  • Alpha Collects by Milana Jacks

    Alpha Collects by Milana Jacks

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It takes a special kind of Omega to bring an Alpha to his knees. Kind. Sweet. Beautiful. With legs that go on forever, colored eyes, perky protruding nose, funny ears, and… Were was I? Ah yes, I collected one such Omega, and I’m bringing her before my king. I am Tayseer, the Collector, the Legend. And I will deliver my people the queen...
  • 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...
  • Eliza's Miracle by S.J. Sanders

    Eliza's Miracle by S.J. Sanders

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eliza is the new ambassador from Earth. It fulfills all her career ambitions, but her life is a lie. Her husband, who ruled her career with an iron fist, is not her Prince Charming in a storybook marriage that everyone assumes. He is cruel and manipulative. Living at the space station gives her some reprieve, but not entirely...
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    kind-mc  paranormal  steamy  abuse  adult  aliens  alpha-mc  book
  • Valentine for My Vampire by Honey Phillips

    Valentine for My Vampire by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Her vampire is heating up the kitchen!Wendy’s first visit to a supposedly gourmet restaurant in the sleepy little town of Fairhaven Falls did not go well - especially her interaction with the arrogant and annoyingly attractive restaurant owner - and she didn’t hesitate to tell her readers all about it. She has no intention of returning, but she never could resist a challenge...
  • The Color of Forever by Julianne MacLean

    The Color of Forever by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Recently divorced television reporter Katelyn Roberts has stopped believing in relationships that last forever, until a near-death experience during a cycling accident changes everything. When she miraculously survives unscathed, a deeply-buried memory leads her to the quaint, seaside town of Cape Elizabeth, Maine...
  • All Because of Me by Tatiana Machado

    All Because of Me by Tatiana Machado

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE THE MAN YOU LOVE?Nineteen-year-old Sarah Williams was never supposed to fall for her brother’s best friend—and she was never supposed to be running for her life, either...
  • Loving the Highlander by Janet Chapman

    Loving the Highlander by Janet Chapman

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills... When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can't resist taking his photo -- and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce stranger. Discovering the identity of this irresistible warrior will complicate Sadie's search for a legendary gold mine...
  • Envy by Kaitlyn Ewald

    Envy by Kaitlyn Ewald

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An MC romance with a little comedy, a little violence, and the right amount of sexy. Sinning never felt so good... Prettyboy knows he isn’t winning any awards in the looks department. When an accident burned through half of his face, he wanted nothing more than to disappear right into the flames...
  • A McMillan Christmas by Bethany Claire

    A McMillan Christmas by Bethany Claire

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Morna’s magic returns in this new Holiday story sure to warm your heart and make you believe in the miracle of love. A Time For Second Chances When the worst snowstorm of the century hits the Scottish Highlands just in time for the Christmas holiday, Harper knows she must seek shelter from the storm...
  • The Successful Life of Jack Rybicki by Shawn Inmon

    The Successful Life of Jack Rybicki by Shawn Inmon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jack Rybicki is a high school senior who loves his girl, likes to party, and doesn't have much of a plan for his life. Then fate plucks him from obscurity and Jack, now renamed Jack Samuels by his management team, becomes one of the most famous people on the planet. A teenager who likes to indulge himself with limitless resources is not the best recipe for a successful life...
  • Pets in Space 5 by S.E. Smith, Regine Abel

    Pets in Space 5 by S.E. Smith, Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Are you ready? Pets in Space® 5 is back for the fifth amazing year! Twelve of today’s top Science Fiction Romance authors have written 12 original, never-before-released stories filled with action, adventure, suspense, humor, and romance that will take you out of this world. The giving doesn’t stop there...
  • The Keys by Chloe Gunter

    The Keys by Chloe Gunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    More Secrets. More Suspense. More Steam. When Charlie finds herself on the wrong side of Ethos, the secret society she just joined, she’ll have to prove her worth to show just how valuable of an asset she can be. As Gage and Gavin are sent on a mission, Charlie has to address the tension between her and her roommate Reed...
  • 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...
  • Beyond McCarron's Corner: Sassy's Story by Sharon K. Middleton

    Beyond McCarron's Corner: Sassy's Story by Sharon K. Middleton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sassy and Owen Winslow were historical experts on the Revolutionary War and the Culpers, Washington’s spy ring. After her husband dies unexpectedly, Sassy struggles to find new meaning in her life. When she goes exploring in the Cohutta Wilderness, she falls through a hole in time, and finds herself in the Indian Territory in 1778, falling in love with Big Sexy Will Selk...
  • Reactivated: Oz by Charissa Gracyk

    Reactivated: Oz by Charissa Gracyk

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Project Phoenix…Find Oz…”Those were the last words her brother Jonah said when he died in her arms. Convinced that he was murdered, Navy Intel Officer Allegra Steele learns that “Oz” is her brother’s former Navy SEAL teammate, Jack “Oz” Cullen.When Allegra asks for Jack’s help, she doesn’t expect the undeniable electricity that sparks between them...
  • His Captor by M.M. Farmer

    His Captor by M.M. Farmer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Indulging in a Dark Fantasy can lead to deep consequences in reality… HaydenIt wasn’t my first time indulging in that particular fantasy. I was on a business trip and looking for something fun. I didn’t plan on going into heat while playing around, or to like the alpha I played with so much.I also didn’t expect to end up pregnant...
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    paranormal  steamy  suspense  romance  omegaverse  mlm  lgbtq  dark
  • Twisted by Evangeline Anderson

    Twisted by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nikki Davis is having a terrible time. Her three sons are in trouble in school and her husband is divorcing her while a nasty coworker steals her best commissions at work. Is it any wonder she's thinking of offing herself? But when she steps into the foaming surf of Clearwater Beach, she feels something hard under her foot...
  • 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...
  • Pythen Blessing by Erin Raegan

    Pythen Blessing by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    LydiaMy life is unrecognizable. I live on an alien planet. I talk to aliens. They’re my friends, my protectors. There is no familiarity to home. The landscape is alien. The sky is alien. Everywhere I look reminds me that I am an impossible distance away from everything I’ve ever known. But I’m safe here. Safer here than I would be anywhere else...
    Categorized as:
    kind-mc  paranormal  steamy  suspense  adult  aliens  alpha-mc  book
  • Stolen by Raze by Lolita Lopez

    Stolen by Raze by Lolita Lopez

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Captured in a government raid, Ella is thrown into a prison transport bound for the mountain labor camps. She never expects her rescue to come at the hands of Raze, the handsome sky warrior who all but stole her heart after Dizzy’s wedding. Considered a high-value asset by the Shadow Force, Ella is given to an arrogant brute of a pilot for safekeeping—and collaring...
  • The Realm of You by Amanda Richardson

    The Realm of You by Amanda Richardson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition ASIN: B016W2RJ8UWhen Marlin Winters awakens in an alternate universe, living in Vermont and engaged to a man she doesn’t recognize, she’s determined to figure out why she’s here and what sequence of events lead her to this moment. Over the course of one day, she begins to piece together the last week of her real life...
  • First Contact by S.J. Sanders

    First Contact by S.J. Sanders

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Before humanity met the Budo, before humans were sold for breeding compatibility experimentation to the Agraak, there was a crash landing on an unknown world—Earth. If a male wasn’t born into the upper tiers of Forad society, he would never know the comfort of his own mate. Ehmhy was not such a fortunate male, he was a trader of a long line of traders...
  • Wild by Sara Fields

    Wild by Sara Fields

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She's going to scream for me and I don't care who hears it.I traveled to this city to disrupt the plans of the Brotherhood's enemies, not tame a defiant omega, but the moment Revna challenged me I knew punishing her would not be enough...
  • War for Earth by Erin Raegan

    War for Earth by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three weeks ago, an alien species called the Vitat, invaded the earth. They broke through the earth’s atmosphere and decimated the human population in moments. Their goal? Nothing but destruction and to feed their endless appetites. Their hive queen orbits earth in their warship, waiting until her hive have taken over the planet and she can consume earth’s sun to grow her massive hive...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  steamy  adult  age-gap  aliens  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Down and Dirty by Sandra Hill

    Down and Dirty by Sandra Hill

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Punished for an indiscretion, Navy SEAL and all-around tough guy Zachary Floyd is forced to head a new SEAL-like program for women. There he meets an alluring Norsewoman, who's escaped a nunnery, her father, and the eleventh century altogether.A NAVY WARRIORHe's a world-class player -- nicknamed Pretty Boy -- and a tough guy who's not afraid to get down and dirty...
  • Anarchy Missing: Alpha Case by J.A. Huss

    Anarchy Missing: Alpha Case by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Even the bad guy deserves a happily ever after. The Alphas of Cathedral City are overflowing with sexy and it'll take a very special super woman to tame them. It's Deadpool meets Mr. Robot. With more sex, more fun, and of course--the trademark plot twists, dark undertone, and shocking ending that only JA Huss can deliver...
  • Alpha Dominated by Olivia T. Turner

    Alpha Dominated by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I've been waiting for my mate for a long time.So, when I see Ivy trapped, vulnerable, and easy pickings for this possessive bear shifter, I take her.But Ivy got her name for a reason...She's like poison ivy even though she looks like an innocent flower.She bites and snaps.And won't easily be tamed.That's okay.I've never shied away from a fight or stepped down from a challenge...
  • Switched by Evangeline Anderson

    Switched by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A warrior with a talent that could get him killedA girl transported to a new existence with no warningWhen the two of them trade lives, it places them in mortal peril...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  steamy  adult  aliens  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Alien Warrior's Secret by Mina Carter

    Alien Warrior's Secret by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Being captured by aliens is better than being sent home… Pilot Randy Rivers always has had a sassy mouth. This time though, it’s not her mouth but her temper that lands her in trouble and given her marching orders home. That and apparently slamming a superior officer’s face into a table is a no no. Even if the guy is a misogynistic asshole. And groped her...
  • Claimed by an Alien Warrior by Tiffany Roberts

    Claimed by an Alien Warrior by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An otherworldly warrior desperate to escape Earth. A curvy human female who’s his only hope—and his deepest desire.After losing her job, apartment, and boyfriend in one afternoon, Zoey doesn’t think things can get any worse. Then an uninvited passenger—green, four-armed, and sexy as sin—proves her wrong by dragging her into his frantic escape...
  • 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...
  • Raven's Return by Ruby Dixon

    Raven's Return by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    No one ever comes back for me.I’ve always been on my own, and why should it be any different on an ice planet? So when I’m kidnapped by a feral outcast, I suspect I’d better learn to love raw fish and rough living.Then…U’dron comes to my rescue.He’s always understood me more than anyone else. He’s been my friend and my confidante. We’ve made music together...
  • Claimed by Cipher by Lolita Lopez

    Claimed by Cipher by Lolita Lopez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After spending all of her life working in the mines, Brook jumps at the chance to earn a one-way ticket to the colonies. All she has to do is provide some maps and plant some explosives to help the sky warriors rescue one of their operatives.Easy enough, right?But what should have been a simple mission spirals into a fight for her life when she discovers a stolen stash of nerve gas in the mine...
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