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  • Born of Legend by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Legend by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    It is in the darkest hours of a universe’s past that their legends are born and their heroes rise…No one knows exactly how much heart they have until their mettle is put to the hazard and they reach the lowest point of hell. There, they have only two choices. Lie down and die. Or find the strength to push themselves to their feet and fight back with everything they have...
  • Age of Deception by T.A. White

    Age of Deception by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    War hero and daughter to two Houses, Kira is just beginning to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes. Agreeing to accompany her father’s people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She’s agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father’s House must pass...
  • Born of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Born of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In a universe where assassins make the law, everyone lives in fear--except for Syn. Born of an illicit scandal that once rocked a dynasty, he always knew how to survive on the bloodthirsty streets. But that was then, and the future is now…Syn was raised as a tech-thief until his livelihood uncovered a truth that could end his life...
  • Jingle Stars by Jenny Schwartz

    Jingle Stars by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a starship decides to play Santa Claus… Ahab is a mLa’an artificial intelligence embedded in the starship, Orion. The campaign for AIs to be recognized as full citizens of Galaxy Proper is within reach of its extraordinary goal. The only thing that could stop it now is if an AI did something foolish…like take a space station hostage to save seven orphaned children...
  • Rebel by Jenny Schwartz

    Rebel by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Life is complicated along the Hadrian Line. Decisions made on the border will decide the fate of the entire Human Sector.Nora is adjusting to her new role as a player in the games of the powerful. She's gained some interesting enemies and some even more dubious allies. She has also been presented with a unique opportunity, courtesy of Jonah...
  • Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If life on the border was complicated, life on Capitoline is insane. Nora and Liam struggle to reconcile her abilities and his duty, while caught up in the dangerous games of the powerful.Political intrigue, family drama, and ancient alien technology combine in the fourth novel of the Human Sector...
  • Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Evelyn enjoyed living a nice, quiet life in an anarchic pirate port, far from the world she’d once conquered.Then came an attack by mercenaries that made her angry...
  • 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...
  • Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews

    Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The World of KinsmenFamily is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet.In a distant, future world Kinsmen—small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families—control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield..
  • Fate of Draga by Emma Dean

    Fate of Draga by Emma Dean

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The queen is the deadliest piece.The finale to this epic space fantasy series is here. Adelina, Varan, Kaiden, and Nash have to find a way to survive what comes. Adelina will give her life for her people, but her mates will give their life for her.Find out who survives, who doesn't, and how all your favorite characters make it through the battle of a lifetime...
  • Grower's Omen by Audrey Faye

    Grower's Omen by Audrey Faye

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes the right choice feels like anything but. Tyra Lightbody lives steeped in family, community, and promises made long before she was born. Her next mission will try to take all that away. She’s being sent to an experimental-species biome to see why the locals are having bad dreams and throwing beakers at each other...
  • Shield by Jenny Schwartz

    Shield by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If Cherry was a selfish witch, she'd keep running. She's an oracle. She KNOWS that trouble is closing in. However, there's an instant in which she could escape, and so could those she loves.Too bad she's surrounded herself with ridiculously noble allies. The kind of self-sacrificing, kind, clever, and resolute people who force you to love them ..
    Categorized as:
    space-opera  aliens  romance  sci-fi  audiobook  fiction  monsters  fae
  • Doubt by Jenny Schwartz

    Doubt by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Alien mysteries. Parental responsibilities. The scout ship Kangaroo has jumped into trouble.Nora Devi intended to leave her old life behind. But when a quick detour to acquire the funds for a new identity goes awry, she finds herself plunged ever deeper into the troubles she hoped to avoid.The Human Sector is a stash of fuel cells just waiting for a spark to explode...
  • Doctor Galaxy by Jenny Schwartz

    Doctor Galaxy by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New ER doctor Alexi Sur always intended to join an aid agency. She'd just expected to work among humans. But when the Pax Galactica Corps becomes her only option (don't ask - the debts aren't hers, but the family is. Much to her regret), Alexi finds herself traveling the galaxy and learning alien physiology and culture, all while becoming a reality TV star...
  • Demigod 12 by Gail Carriger

    Demigod 12 by Gail Carriger

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Puts the opera back into space opera.New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger continues her cozy and engaging scifi about the power of art, celebrity, and found family.Phex and his pantheon have become demigods and are taking their show on a galaxy-wide tour...
  • Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net...
  • Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

    Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Year 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as my ex-friend Jarren, the murdering looter, knows.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills...
  • Caszandra by Andrea K. Höst

    Caszandra by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Part 3 of the Touchstone Trilogy.Cassandra Devlin doesn’t know what she's for. But she knows she's running out of time.Since Cass was rescued from the abandoned world of Muina, the Aussie teen has proven more than useful to the people of Tare. Expeditions to their home world no longer end in slaughter. The teaching city of Kalasa has been unlocked...
  • Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Getting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But surviving Eden may be the biggest reward of all.Emmett Atwater thought Babel’s game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn’t take long for him to learn that Babel’s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one...
  • Quest for the Sun Orb by Laura Jo Phillips

    Quest for the Sun Orb by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tiari Zora, whose name means light of dawn, has lived a dark, lonely, and isolated life. Until the mysterious and powerful Lady Techu comes to her tiny hut in the forest and tells her that she is the fabled Maiden of the Sun, and invites her to join the Orb Quest. From that moment, Tiari’s closed, dark world is exchanged for a life of light, and also one of adventure and danger...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  adult  book  dragons  fiction  ghosts  high-fantasy  paranormal
  • A Name Among The Stars by Mark Henwick

    A Name Among The Stars by Mark Henwick

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Heiress? They've already stolen the estates. I'm heir to nothing." When disgraced aristocrat Zara Aguirre barely escapes with her life from her home world, she hopes that she's found safety on the planet Kernow. She wants nothing more than to be left in peace, hidden away in a remote town on the wild and untamed western coast...
  • Dissolution by Michele Notaro

    Dissolution by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Oh god, no! Oh god help me… how am I going to save them? There’s just so much… blood… everywhere… I was supposed to protect them. I was supposed to keep them safe, but wherever I go more and more people are losing their lives, and nothing I do can save them. After so much loss, my family is breaking apart at the seams. The Taoree Legion is winning this war...
  • Into the Light by Anna Carven

    Into the Light by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Abbey When your mate is a Kordolian General who's betrayed the most vicious Empire in the Universe, things tend to get a little heavy from time to time. For the last six months, Tarak's had to divide his time between Earth and space, dealing with various... problems. But he's home now, and he tells me he's not going anywhere...
  • Sūnder by Lexi Ander

    Sūnder by Lexi Ander

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If Sūnder Alārd had been born female he would have been cherished for being faeborn—born with magick—and his birth celebrated. Instead, his L'fÿn mother insisted on his death. Only his Panthrÿn father's desperate escape through the forest saved him...
  • The Commanders' Mate by Grace Goodwin

    The Commanders' Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Commander Karter is a Prillon Warrior. His first duty is to protect his people, to defend the Coalition worlds from a fate too terrible to comprehend. Battle is his life. His heart. He fights. He has never once been selfish enough to believe he deserved an Interstellar Bride. Until he's matched at the worst possible time!Astronomer Erica Roberts has always dreamed of seeing the stars...
  • Salvation by Laurie Roma

    Salvation by Laurie Roma

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Officer 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...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  dystopia  abuse  action-adventure  adult  amnesia  angels  book
  • Shattered Earth by Jenny Schwartz

    Shattered Earth by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The scum of the galaxy are using Earth as a nuclear winter death camp. It outrages pirate captain Kohia Jekyll’s sense of justice. No one deserves to die agonizingly of radiation poisoning, especially not on the planet humanity had to evacuate seven generations ago. So Kohia intends to close the prison camp down...
  • His Human Rebel by Renee Rose

    His Human Rebel by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    CONSCRIPTED BY AN ALIEN ARMY, SHE PLOTS HER ESCAPE… Cambry doesn’t believe the aliens’ propaganda for one minute. The Zandians may have saved her from one death, but they planned to send her to another. She bides her time, waiting for her chance to get away and find her brother, enslaved by a different species...
  • Dark Planet Warriors: Escape by Anna Carven

    Dark Planet Warriors: Escape by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Abbey Ever since we left the Fleet Station, Tarak has been his usual cryptic self. For some reason, he’s keeping everything very low-key, to the extent that we’re trying to sneak in to Kythia. Something’s up, and he’s not telling me anything. Every time I try to get answers, he distracts me with his stupid sexiness. Stupid sexy, silver, stubborn, insistent alien...
  • Astray by Jenny Schwartz

    Astray by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Nora Devi is a xeno-archaeologist with a complicated past. She has buried more secrets than she’s dug up. Widowed in the recently ended twelve year war between Capitoline and Palantine, she now makes a living as an independent tagger in border space.Captain Liam Kimani could be credited with ending the latest royal war. Instead, he’s blamed for it...
  • Infinity's Embrace by Anna Carven

    Infinity's Embrace by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Rescued from captivity by a group of rather intimidating Kordolians, Noa finds herself recovering at a strange facility in the middle of the desert. SynCorp's medical experiments have left her with an impossible ability she can't control, and nobody really seems to know how to help her. She's fragile and shattered, a mere shadow of her former self, and she has nowhere else to go...
  • Navigating the Stars by Maria V. Snyder

    Navigating the Stars by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “The answer is no, Lyra,” my mother utters her favorite—I swear—phrase. No means I have to travel with them to another planet—again. No means leaving all my friends fifty years in the past. Thanks, Einstein. Seventeen-year-old Lyra Daniels can’t truly blame Einstein or her parents for their impending move across the Milky Way Galaxy...
  • Starseers by Lindsay Buroker

    Starseers by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The mysterious and powerful Starseers have Captain Alisa Marchenko's daughter, and she will do whatever she must to get her back, even if it means traveling to their stronghold and confronting them personally. Unfortunately, her strongest ally, the cyborg Leonidas, may become a liability since the cyborgs and the Starseers have a long history of hating each other...
  • Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn’s a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth...
  • Pegasus in Flight by Anne McCaffrey

    Pegasus in Flight by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind's stepping-stone to the stars, she was always ready to welcome new Talents to the Center...
  • Out of Darkness by Anna Carven

    Out of Darkness by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The Kordolians are loose on the asteroid mining station Fortuna Tau, and first-rank mechanic Jia Morgan has become caught up in the thick of things. Under the careful watch of these steely-eyed silver warriors, Jia and her team have been tasked with repairing the hull of the Kordolians’ Alpha-Class battle cruiser, Silence...
  • Freak Factor by Viola Grace

    Freak Factor by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Living life on Kaddaka station was predictable and profitable. Mala's talent for undetectable repairs has made her quite wealthy and the station quite popular. When a Reflex ship comes in hot, out of control and unable to stop, she is the woman for the job...
  • Wyt and Wild by Viola Grace

    Wyt and Wild by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 7 of the Sector Guard series.Alessandra Wyt has been hooked to computers for the majority of her tenure in the Alliance for her talented intuition, but when an opportunity for reassignment to the Sector Guard came up, she jumped at the chance, so to speak. With her mind unable to handle space travel, she is shipped unconscious across the galaxy...
  • Hael's Fury by Viola Grace

    Hael's Fury by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Minimizing natural disasters was all that Liv Hael lived for. Her matriarchal family tree had a long history of doing their duty to Drai and she was following in their footsteps. When she meets the dragon that she dreamed about, and he offers her a position in the Sector Guard, she can't believe her ears. Only one thing stands in the way of Liv and Vasu joining...
  • Dragon Summons by Viola Grace

    Dragon Summons by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 8, in the bestselling Sector Guard series.Assigned as Inventory Master to the newest Sector Guard base on Teklan, Roxanne is sure only of one thing, if the seductive singing in her mind doesn’t stop, she is going to go nuts. With a little investigation, she finds the source of the nocturnal music and tells it to shut up...
  • Entropy by Viola Grace

    Entropy by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alia Morgan is a geothermal specialist assigned to the ice planet Yana, but she experiences a disruption to her routine when her best friend's brother arrives to invite her to participate in Ember's wedding, in two days. They are halfway to the main city when Symon drops the bomb...
  • Scarred by Susan Hayes

    Scarred by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Laesa 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...
  • Hiding by Viola Grace

    Hiding by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Making herself unseen was Daphne’s skill until a forest encounter made her want to be noticed by the new Ambassador of the Nine. Daphne has spent her adult life since the Tokkel invasion fighting for jobs to support herself. With her parents dead, her family consists of one...
  • Guiding by Viola Grace

    Guiding by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Taking care of folks in the wild is her hobby, but when two of the Shadow Folk need her help getting everyone out alive, her skills as a guide will be tested.Teyha enjoys being a historian and educating the next generation of Gaia on how they arrived...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  adult  alpha-mc  book  female-mc  fiction  paranormal  space
  • Star Crossed: 7 Novels of Space Exploration, Alien Races, Adventure, and Romance by Christine Pope, C. Gockel

    Star Crossed: 7 Novels of Space Exploration, Alien Races, Adventure, and Romance by Christine Pope, C. Gockel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sci-fi to fall in love with… 7 full-length novels that explore the future without forgetting that the most dangerous battles will always be within the human heart. Aliens, AI, cyborgs, galactic empires, space battles, and romance...you’ll find them all here, along with heroines and heroes you’ll cheer for...
  • Victoria's Discovery by Stacy Jones

    Victoria's Discovery by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Turns out getting abducted by aliens isn’t the worst thing ever. Terrifying at first, of course, because Victoria doesn’t know why she and the rest of the captives have been taken, but when they aren’t immediately set upon with probes and horrible experimentation, it’s not looking so awful.That is, until something goes wrong.Crash landing is bad. Finding out it’s on an alien slave planet is worse...
  • Imperial Guard by Viola Grace

    Imperial Guard by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dealing with the family who refused to let her bury her father is difficult, but Isabi keeps her grounded as she fights for the survival of her estranged family.� In the mean time, Isaro, Isabi's sister, is with them using her appearance altering skills to forward the work of the Sector Guard...
  • Revolution by Kali Argent

    Revolution by Kali Argent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    By 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...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  dystopia  action-adventure  adult  book  dark  dragons  fae
  • Astonish by Viola Grace

    Astonish by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ceelie 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

    Asteroid by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sebena 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...
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