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Senseless by Crystal Ash
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOur home is on the brink of war, and my marriage hangs by a thread.While neighboring armies threaten to march on Four Corners, I’m dealing with a war zone at home. I can’t bring myself to look at Reaper or Gunner, let alone speak to them. I don’t know where my love life stands, or if I even have one anymore. Only Jandro is my rock, and only my work gives me purpose... -
Lor by Lily Mayne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMy role as Moric—ruler of a small and prosperous fiefdom in a quiet corner of the world—has always been painfully dull and stifling.Until a beautiful, otherworldly creature with pink skin and a mane of golden hair falls through a strange void that has appeared in my guestroom.And I am instantly captivated by him.I have never seen anything like him... -
Green Gryphon by J.S. Kennedy
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Dragon Protector asking Mackenzie for a favor—Maybe the sky truly has fallen.Mackenzie works for Catch and Release, a bounty-hunting guild, and she loves her job. She goes after the usual suspects: Rogue vampires, feral shifters, and crazed mages. Nightmare stuff... -
Demons Don't Duel by Hannah Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDea's life is all about his role as a commander of a battlecruiser. At the height of his career, he can take command of any ship he wants, he's well respected, and surrounded by friends and family. Yet, something has been missing for a long time. Part of his soul was left behind at the academy, with someone he walked away from all those years ago. Uri loves control... -
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Twisted Fate by Melanie James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRuby Jean St. James lives her life by the carefully crafted rules she created for herself. Do your job, keep your head down, and your emotions in check at all times. She works hard keeping her act together and avoiding certain people. Bad things tend to happen to those around her when she loses control. Liam Olsen was blessed by the Gods in more ways than one... -
The Rebel's Mate by C.W. Gray
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome back to Charybdis Station and the crew of the Blue Solace: (Seventh Book in the series) Finn Sterling is still adjusting to becoming the lieutenant of the blue fleet of Charybdis Station. As an orphan on Cardinal Hold, he never imagined he would have a position of authority as an adult and the trust his friends put in him makes failure impossible... -
Protected by the Orc by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHer orc bodyguard is determined to keep her close!Holdar doesn’t do commitment. Even his latest security job as bodyguard to a pretty, spoiled - and annoyingly adorable - heiress won’t last, which is just as well. The sooner he gets away from her innocent smiles and tempting curves the better... -
No Longer Alone by Erin R. Flynn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy name is Inez Garner, and my story has sort of been told… But not. I’m turning twenty-three and find out I’m not human; I’m apparently a vampire. Sure, who hasn’t read that story? Oh, but I’m a princess. And there’s a zombie apocalypse—although I’m debating where the line is of apocalypse vs. post-apocalypse... -
Trent: Rogues United 1 by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTrent had to flee his birth pack as a teenager to avoid being executed for killing someone in self-defense. It wasn’t fair and left him all alone, fighting to survive. Over the years, he found other shifters who were unjustly left on their own. Together, they built a pack, making Trent their alpha.They are Rogues United. Trent’s doing his best to make all the right decisions... -
Erun by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew Edition found hereHe’s an Ujal who knows he’ll never have a mate. She’s a human who doesn’t want to take another chance on love. One small child doesn’t give them a choice. With her toddler in tow, Vanessa Walker travels to Tampa, Florida to begin her new job at Ujal Station Tau... -
Mission: Planet Biter by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen his Veslor grouping answers a distress call on planet Biter, Roth discovers a sole survivor. The little female isn't rational and latches onto him like a lifeline. That surprises Roth, since most humans fear him. This one won't let him go, but he must resist his desire for her. It's the only honorable thing to do... -
Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen her parents died in her youth, Anabel Brick—along with her sister, Jessa—was raised as an orphan of United Earth. While her sister became an Alien Research Specialist, Anabel’s skills were put to a different use. She’s a tool for U.E. and its military fleet…a spy…a killer. Her current mission also turns out to be her last... -
Blood Proxy by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrained 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... -
Logic by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA 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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Pilot In Command by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHelen 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... -
Class Zero by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPadana has negotiator training and an imperial bloodline. It makes her valuable to one man in particular…if he can find her.Growing up in the shadow of one of Terra’s champions was a comfortable place to be. Padana was the third child of the Empress Amanda Tyrell of the Haldis Imperium, and she was a very requested bride... -
Freeing Their Heart: A Reverse-Harem Romance by Mira Stanley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a botched attempt to take Cora for themselves, a rival settlement has taken Jud. Now, Cora and the remaining six men of Eagle Peak must leave their home and fight to get their leader back.In the post-virus world, not all fights are won with fists and guns. For better or worse, supernatural Gifts change the battlefield... -
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Salvation by Laurie Roma
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOfficer Skylar Aris is a woman with a troubled past. As a Class-A Conduit, she is beautiful and deadly, making her stand out among the rest of the elite soldiers. She has worked hard to succeed as one of the only female interrogators in the Security and Interrogation Division, but everything she has dreamed of is put in jeopardy when she’s given an ultimatum that will change her fate... -
His Curvy Mate by Georgette St. Clair
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMost shifters give near-feral Alpha Prime Creel a wide berth – and he likes it that way. At least, that’s what happens until he wakes up with a crazy woman in his bed who insists that they’re mated, and seems to know everything about him – right down to the scar on his inner thigh... -
Rowan by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA short story featuring Sahara, Kaleb, Zach, Annie & Rowan. Timeline: Takes place some time after Allegiance of Honor.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...Categorized as:
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The Trouble With Trying to Bag a Blood Witch by Jennifer Cody
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElijah:Imagine coming home from an extended stay in a foreign country to find a letter from a house sitter you didn’t hire warning you to get a protection order against your ex and informing you that you’re a terrible plant dad.I mean, I am a terrible plant dad, and I probably should get a protection order against Stalker Steve, but that letter isn’t the weirdest thing to happen to me today... -
The Pirate Prince by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Jarek sails the high sky doing what he pleases…that is until drug dealers kidnap one of his men. But the rescue mission goes wrong and instead of a crewman, he liberates a woman who he believes is desperately trying to escape her captors. He soon discovers he unwittingly kidnaped a princess... -
Draekon Abduction by Lee Savino, Lili Zander
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow to Fail as an Intergalactic Spy: 1. Crash spaceship on wrong planet.2. Break leg.3. Get abducted by rogue prisoners.4. End up with two pairs of dragon-shifters claiming I’m their mate. Here’s a report for the CIA: The aliens are freaking good kissers. The mission was simple: Go to the Zorahn planet. Spy on the aliens... -
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Housewarming at the Orchard by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA 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... -
Dorian by Nalini Singh
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA changeling who can never shift lives a life of quiet frustration—until he learns how to let his leopard come out and play . . . Timeline: Takes place right after Hostage to Pleasure.This story can be found in the short story anthology Wild Embrace...Categorized as:
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The Rogue Prince by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Reid is always looking for a good time, and no woman is safe when he turns on the charm. When the opportunity arises to go on an ambassador’s trip, he jumps at the chance–especially when that trip includes exotic destinations and available women... -
The Bound Prince by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShapeshifter RomanceCat-shifter Prince Falke commands the Var armies, so it’s a little embarrassing when a beautiful female kidnaps him in his shifted form. Since no one knows where to send a rescue party, it’s up to him to use all his training and powers of seduction to find his way back home... -
Choosing Riley by S.E. Smith, David Brenin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRiley St. Claire has always followed her own rules. When she discovers her current employer is not as law abiding as she thought, she has to leave town in a hurry or end up buried with the dead guy she discovered. What she doesn't expect is to find herself being picked up by a passing trader from another world... -
That Irresistible Poison by Alessandra Hazard
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratings"I hate you." Please touch me. "You sicken me." Hold me closer. "I want to be free of you." I can't live without you.The messed-up part is, he means everything he says.The youngest prince of his clan, Seyn has been betrothed to the crown prince of another clan since birth. Everyone says he's so lucky to marry one of the most respected, powerful men on the planet, but Seyn knows better... -
Vanished by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHarper Wilde is sitting on the beach, minding her own business when a huge, muscular Kindred warrior with black hair and blazing white eyes demands that she accompany him into the future. Harper has no choice--she is dragged against her will into a dystopian nightmare--the world as it might become if something isn't changed.And that something that needs changing is Harper herself... -
The Breeding Experiment by Laurann Dohner
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDarla Mitts has been secretly protecting her younger sister, Becky, for years. She’ll do anything to continue, even if it means leaving their family to work on a United Earth fleet ship. She thinks they’ll be safe. She’s quickly proven wrong when the sisters’ transport shuttle is seized by aliens instead... -
Devoured by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTess Hughes is on the run from her abusive ex-husband. The problem is, he’s a detective and there’s no place on Earth he can’t find her. Solution? Hide somewhere that’s not on Earth—the Kindred Mother Ship. That’s how she winds up posing as Pairing Puppet—one of the robotic mistresses that service the Unmated Males of the Kindred who need a little sexual stress release from time to time... -
Quest For the Moon Orb by Laura Jo Phillips
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsQuest for the Moon Orb is a full-length, 130,000 word novel... -
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Encode by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHoney 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... -
Fear of Frogs by Angel Martinez
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhile Shax recovers from a near fatality, his shipmates have been busy. He's rather proud of them for taking the initiative and finding them a lucrative cargo run. His pride turns to outright horror, though, when he finds out what sort of cargo. Frogs. The one thing in the universe that incites mindless panic in Shax... -
Scarred by Susan Hayes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLaesa Fen left her home planet, Tartarus, in search of a new life. A recently freed harem slave, she is finally traveling the galaxy and visiting the places she could only dream of while she was the property of a Tarin warlord. On her own for the first time, she is finally free to pursue her art and to discover who she is and what she wants out of life... -
Star Breaker by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith 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... -
Revolution by Kali Argent
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBy all rights, Helios shifter Sion Jabari shouldn’t be on Xenthian. According to his own mother, he shouldn’t even be alive. His life hasn’t been an easy one, and after witnessing how greed and the desire for power can corrupt something as pure as love, he wants no part of it. When he takes a companion, he swears it will be for all the right reasons, and more importantly, it will be his choice... -
A Hunter's Dream by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIris has used her ability to dream her target’s location to gain recognition and to be the most efficient hunter she could be. The psychic knives that appear at the ends of her hands help her to stun rather than kill prey when a death is not necessary. Nothing escapes her, not livestock, not lost people. Anything that runs, she can hunt... -
Astonish by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCeelie was nothing exceptional until the moment she became the most important woman to an entire world…and its avatar.Trapped in a job working as an assistant for an ambassador, Ceelie is hoping for something better for her life, but she knows that it isn’t likely. While on an assignment to obtain some atmosphere scrubbing trees Ceelie finds herself courted and seduced before she can blink... -
Asteroid by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSebena has spent her time in the Alliance using her accuracy to blow large rocks into tiny rocks suitable for refinement. When she picks up a heat signature she has to pursue it, even if it means doing it on her own time. Finding a life pod is not really a surprise, but having it functioning and its occupant alive is quite the shock... -
A Healing Caress by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrenawyn has lived life with one goal, survival. When Tracker of the Sector Guard lands on her planet she tries to buy herself some time at his expense and ends up with him and travelling to the Citadel.Training and teaching for four years, no one is more surprised than Bren when Tracker comes in, his body desperately needing her attention... -
Bound by Law by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPhysical talents are illegal on Resicor, they fear an uprising and so lock their active talents away.Col knows her talent for flight can get her arrested and if she dares to show it in public, her life will end in the dome.A robbery at a museum ends up with her being thrown off a roof and it is fly for her life or die a free woman... -
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Govern by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman, with a foul temper and her own spaceship, ends up an escort for a stunned ambassador. Her perfect mate.Leo runs her ship with precision and an attitude shaped by pain. Gathering an ambassador in stasis, she is surprised to find his ability to match her innermost desires, and he is surprised to find that she wants him in his own form and not the one she craves... -
Ice Runner by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUsing heat to skim along ice delivers her into the arms of a botanist who has more than a casual interest in her and her talent.Kescu has been raised under ice. Under the surface of Wanlio 6, the locals live and thrive with the Ice Runner moving emergency and experimental supplies from one city and base to the other... -
Mandate by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWren takes care of those around her, but will a bunch of Guardians be more than she can keep in fighting shape?Wren has been a caretaker for all her adult life. The offer to take up a new life in the stars comes as part of her career comes to a sad end.They ask her to change her DNA, she does. They ask her to engage in combat training, she does... -
Molten by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMelting metal is far easier than dealing with a man who sends electricity through her body with the slightest touch. A talent for heat sends Nanette to the Volunteers, and the power of her fire assigns her to a Guardian Base... -
Harness by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUsing tech to hold her shape becomes a problem when she meets a man who drives her senses into overdrive.Alfreda has become used to the constant pressure of her harness, keeping her in a basic bipedal form and helping her back into her Terran shape. When she learns that her mixed blood makes the shapeshifter in her far stronger than the human, she has a choice... -
Magnet by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAttraction takes a strange turn when Polly finds herself stepping into the position of a planetary guardian, but there is someone in her space.Polly takes the position of Guardian with a talent for magnetic attraction with an open mind. Meeting her first W’lyn sets her sights on a one-night stand, but Loesh wants much more...
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