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  • Layers of Force by Lindsay Buroker

    Layers of Force by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The exciting conclusion to the Star Kingdom series!Even though Professor Casmir Dabrowski has been fighting for months to help the kingdom and humanity as a whole, few people in positions of power have appreciated his unorthodox methods. Now he's a captive of the king and being taken back to his home world without his friends or the crushers he relies upon to protect him...
  • Home Front by Lindsay Buroker

    Home Front by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Casmir and his allies have struck a devastating blow to the powerful prince who sent invaders into their star system, but war still rages at home. Worse, the prince has escaped with a lethal bioweapon, and he intends to wipe out all human life on Odin. Casmir could lose his parents, his friends, and everyone he holds dear...
  • Planet Killer by Lindsay Buroker

    Planet Killer by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Casmir has survived against impossible odds, and now he longs to return home. But an invasion force is blockading the Kingdom’s wormhole gate, and it would be suicidal to fly through it now. Worse, his family and friends are stuck on the other side, with hostile forces attacking their home world. The only way Casmir can help is to find out who’s behind the invasion… and convince him to stop...
  • Gate Quest by Lindsay Buroker

    Gate Quest by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Roboticist extraordinaire Casmir Dabrowski has a new nemesis: astroshaman leader Kyla Moonrazor. She’s stolen the ancient wormhole gate the king ordered Casmir to retrieve, and she’s entrenched in an underwater base on a forsaken moon. Moonrazor is more educated and more experienced than Casmir, and she has legions of killer robots and cyborg defenders on her side. Casmir has his friends and..
  • Crossfire by Lindsay Buroker

    Crossfire by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    For the first time in his life, roboticist Casmir Dabrowski is headed to another star system as an advisor for the Kingdom space fleet. He’s being given a chance to prove himself to King Jager by helping find the ancient artifact he inadvertently lost. It’s best not to think about what might happen if he fails..
  • Dark Knight Station: Origins by Nathan Lowell

    Dark Knight Station: Origins by Nathan Lowell

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Three MenTwo BrothersOne Failing StationWhen Edgar Vagrant down checks Verkol Kondur’s mining barge, Kondur gets swept up in station politics in spite of his best efforts to avoid them.When Edgar pushes his elder son, Malachai, into working on the station’s freighter, Malachai decides to take matters into his own hands...
  • Forever Defend by Michael Anderle, Emily Beresford

    Forever Defend by Michael Anderle, Emily Beresford

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Some forget why she was called the Queen Bitch. Not Anymore. Bethany Anne is going stir crazy after more than a decade of having to be 'The Empress.' Now, her advisors have to deal with an Empress who is determined to be on the front line.The Ixtali's come to the Etheric Empire, hat in hand.Nathan decides that the best way to handle soft intelligence, is to create a new company...
  • Compete by Vera Nazarian

    Compete by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    It's one thing to Qualify…But do you have what it takes to Compete?With Earth about to be destroyed by an extinction level asteroid, teenage nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl Gwen Lark, and a few of her friends and loved ones, barely Qualified for rescue onboard one of the thousands of ark-ships headed to the ancient colony planet Atlantis...
  • Hero Code by Lindsay Buroker

    Hero Code by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Casmir Dabrowski is finally heading back to his home world, determined to gain an audience with the queen and convince her to tell him the secret of his genes. But the terrorists who have been sending robot assassins after him are still there—and still want him dead. As soon as he lands, the trouble starts...
  • A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold

    A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Miles Vorkosigan has a problem: unrequited love for the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, violently allergic to marriage after her first exposure. If a frontal assault won't do, Miles thinks, try subterfuge. He has a cunning plan... Lord Mark Vorkosigan, Miles' brother, also has a problem: his love has just become unrequited again. But he has a cunning plan..
  • End Game by Lindsay Buroker

    End Game by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Alisa Marchenko has reunited with her daughter, and even though she hasn’t figured out how to get Jelena to accept Leonidas yet, she dreams of the three of them starting a new life together. They can return the Star Nomad to its original purpose of running freight and staying out of trouble (mostly)...
  • 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...
  • The Ceph Sector by Jenny Schwartz

    The Ceph Sector by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The legendary Ceph have been in stasis for forty two millennia. In a century, they’ll wake. History remembers them as an unstoppable force, employing a mysterious power to decimate sentient life on the planets they attacked. Jaya’s first mission as a new Shaman Justice is to lead an expedition into the perilous Ceph Sector...
  • Perilous Hunt by Lindsay Buroker

    Perilous Hunt by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    After failing to catch up with her daughter Jelena so many times, Alisa's optimism is battered, but her determination has never waned. She, Leonidas, and their eclectic crew are hunting down a Starseer research station in the heart of the Kir Asteroid belt—Jelena's supposed location. Alisa vows that she will find her daughter if she has to search a million asteroids to do so...
  • Space Rodeo by Jenny Schwartz

    Space Rodeo by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On the galactic frontier, the Federation’s wildest (and most scientific) citizens have gathered to ride in the Space Rodeo. The Navy’s in charge—of the arena. But beyond the naval perimeter, there is only Interstellar Sheriff Max Smith to keep the peace. Fortunately, he has some extraordinary allies. And enemies. And then, there is his girlfriend...
  • Jacinda's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Jacinda's Challenge by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Jotham is the King of the House of Protection. He was the youngest male ever to assume the position because of the sudden death of his father in Jotham’s twentieth cycle. In the last forty cycles, he married his life mate, Lata, and lost her in a transport accident. He had two sons and lost one due to his son’s own treachery...
  • Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor’s life as a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Cousin to imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, Ivan is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far from the byzantine court politics of his home system...
  • 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...
  • Binary Pair by Michael-Scott Earle

    Binary Pair by Michael-Scott Earle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What do you get when you mix Firefly, Mass Effect, and Shadowrun together? You get Star Justice. The latest action packed series from New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael-Scott Earle. ***Following the hint given by Persephone, the crew arrives at planet Y-114-a...
  • Knight Protector by Lindsay Buroker

    Knight Protector by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A sci-fi romance set in the Star Kingdom universe.The characters from this book will be introduced in book 6 of the series. An arranged marriage she can’t escape. A sexy bodyguard who will protect her at all cost...
  • Confederation by Michael R. Hicks

    Confederation by Michael R. Hicks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the second book of the In Her Name science fiction & fantasy series, Reza Gard has been banished from the Kreelan Empire and is once again a stranger in a strange land as he returns to the human Confederation. Befriended by a marooned Confederation naval officer leading a desperate fight against the Kreelans on a distant colony world, she reunites Reza with Nicole Carré...
  • Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Cordelia and Arol Vorkosigan's plans for a peaceful married life (after all the bloodshed and trials recounted in SHARDS OF HONOR) are soon shattered by the polital tumult on Barrayar. Resisting enormous pressure, they struggle to keep their family alive while while protecting the child Emperor from enemies who would murder him and assume absolute power over all of Barrayar...
  • Stolen Destiny by Viola Grace

    Stolen Destiny by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kidnapped from the education station, Sil is set loose on a huge warship, only to find herself bound in a contract no one expected.Silhouette watches the alien abductors trying to unload the entire shipment of stolen Terrans. She wished that she could sleep standing up, but it wasn’t a skill she had acquired.When a medical team comes in, a grey alien comes by and tests the humans...
  • To Valor's Bid by M. Tress

    To Valor's Bid by M. Tress

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Desmond McLaughlin was just getting through his life and trying to survive. A 9-5 job and a hobby that cost more than it earned left him just enough money to afford a crappy apartment and time to dream of something better. He was expecting to spend most of his life like this.He hadn’t expected to be greeted by a CIA agent waiting inside his house one evening...
  • Dark Ambitions by Michelle Diener

    Dark Ambitions by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's been months since Rose McKenzie was taken far from Earth. She's trying to make a place for herself amongst the Grih, with help from her Grihan lover, Captain Dav Jallan, and the dangerous and loyal Sazo, a powerful artificial intelligence who's integrated with an infamous Class 5 battleship...
  • 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 ..
  • Relic of Sorrows by Lindsay Buroker

    Relic of Sorrows by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Captain Alisa Marchenko finally has a lead on finding her daughter, but her passengers want her to take them on their quest instead. Even though the Star Nomad is her ship, they have power she cannot fight, and she finds herself with no choice but to accept another detour. But the ancient relic they seek has the ability to destroy worlds and is coveted by many...
  • 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...
  • Arkadian Skies by Lindsay Buroker

    Arkadian Skies by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    With the man who kidnapped her daughter imprisoned aboard her ship, Captain Alisa Marchenko is closer than ever to reuniting her family. But her new guest has been in a coma for weeks, with the secret to her daughter's location locked away in his mind. She must find a way to sneak him into a state-of-the-art hospital on Arkadius, a planet in the heart of Alliance territory...
  • Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Komarr could be a garden with a thousand more years' work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why...
  • 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...
  • Cleon Moon by Lindsay Buroker

    Cleon Moon by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Now that she’s retrieved the Staff of Lore, Captain Alisa Marchenko can finally dedicate herself and her ship to finding her kidnapped daughter. Her scant clues lead her to Cleon Moon. Unfortunately, since the fall of the empire, mafia clans have taken over the domed cities on the harsh moon, and exploring there isn’t easy...
  • Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks

    Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Following Confederation, Final Battle is the last book in the saga of Reza Gard. Reza is caught up in a daring plot to assassinate the Confederation President, even as something goes terribly wrong in the Empire and its warriors lose their will to fight. Reunited with Tesh-Dar, Reza and his friends fight to save the woman he loves, with the fate of the Empire and Humanity hanging in the balance...
  • Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book two of Chaos StationAll they can do is live day to day...Felix Ingesson has returned to his duties as the Chaos's engineer with Zander Anatolius, his ex-boyfriend-turned-broken-super-soldier, at his side. Hope means something again. But there's nothing Felix can do to battle the alien poison flowing through Zander's veins, or his imminent mental decline...
  • Cosmic Catalyst by Jenny Schwartz

    Cosmic Catalyst by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ASIN B076PSPMHH moved to latest edition as per guidelinesEveryone has secrets. But some people will risk the galaxy to protect theirs. When starship shaman Jaya Romanov and her new mate partner, galactic bounty hunter and robot wolf shifter, Vulf Trent, saved the galaxy from the deadly actions of a determined geriatric terrorist, they forgot that old Earth truism: no good deed goes unpunished...
  • Her Robot Wolf: Gift of Gaia by Jenny Schwartz

    Her Robot Wolf: Gift of Gaia by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jaya Romanov is an independent star ship shaman. She studies the energy flows of the universe and—for a price—will harness them to her employer’s purpose. Wormholes are a whole lot safer to travel when a shaman guides the jump. Vulf Trent is a bounty hunter. It was that or join the family business, piracy, and Vulf is too much the lone wolf to tolerate the demands of a large pirate crew...
  • 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...
  • The Rogue Prince by Lindsay Buroker

    The Rogue Prince by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Starseer, pilot, and animal lover Jelena Marchenko wants to prove to her parents that she’s ready to captain her own freighter and help run the family business. When she finally talks them into getting a second ship and letting her fly it, it doesn’t faze her that the craft is decades old and looks like a turtle. This is the chance she’s craved for years...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    This Hugo-nominated novella adds a delightful extra chapter to Bujold's Vorkosigan series, describing the wedding of Miles and Ekaterin and events leading up to it. In the festive season of Winterfair on the planet Barrayar, Lord Miles Vorkosigan is making elaborate preparations for his wedding...
  • Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey

    Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Her name was Killashandra Ree. And after ten grueling years of musical training, she was still without prospects. Until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild who could provide careers, security, and wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left. But to Killashandra the risks were acceptable...
  • The Healer by Kelly Lucille

    The Healer by Kelly Lucille

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    As a powerful Healer in hiding on old Earth, Serenity has managed to avoid the notice of both the Order of Intergalactic Peace and the rebel factions opposing them. That is about to change. Paying off an old debt brings her to the attention of both sides, but it is Lord Mal Ryn of the OIP who stakes his claim...
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  • Qualify by Vera Nazarian

    Qualify by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    You have two options. You die, or you Qualify. The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.But there's a catch.They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth's population back to the colony planet Atlantis...
  • Breakout by Ann Aguirre

    Breakout by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    All hell is breaking loose in the edge-of-your-seat follow-up to Havoc and Perdition from New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre… The prison ship Perdition has become a post-battle charnel house with only a handful of Dred’s soldiers still standing and now being hunted by Silence’s trained tongueless assassins...
  • 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...
  • Raven's Children by Sabrina Chase

    Raven's Children by Sabrina Chase

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Moire Cameron, former NASA explorer and web pilot, now has a working ship, a loyal crew, an unexpected son, and a valuable Earthlike planet to protect from the clutches of Toren. Then Ennis, the only one to discover her secret, is captured by Toren--and Moire discovers crucial information that could help end the crab-human war...
  • Shalia's Diary: Book 4 by Tracy St. John

    Shalia's Diary: Book 4 by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a compilation from the free serial story blog ‘Shalia’s Diary – A Clans of Kalquor Story’ by Tracy St. John. It is highly recommended you read Shalia’s Diary, Books 1, 2, and 3 before reading this story. Shalia’s Diary Book 4 picks up immediately where Book 3 left off. Shalia feels ready for a little fun when the Kalquorian transport docks for shore leave at the Xniktix Space Station...
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