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  • Going Cold by Viola Grace

    Going Cold by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Going from supporting family to being an imperial courier across the stars doesn’t take as long as she thought. She can deal with the assassins.Once the details of her life are sorted out and all impediments removed, Hesker takes on a new name for a new life in a new position. She heads to the stars, is reset, and all traces of her previous life are removed from her body...
  • Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson

    Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A warrior from another universe...A woman running from an abusive relationshipA rip in the fabric of space-time and a malevolent alien race bent on destructionHow does it all tie together? Read Enticed by the Satyr...the first book of the Monstrum Kindred to find outMia could have had a beautiful life. She had a scholarship to Julliard and a future as a concert pianist ahead of her...
  • Loved by the Lion by Evangeline Anderson

    Loved by the Lion by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Monstrum Warrior who has vowed never to Claim a bride…An older woman, who thinks she’s done with Love…Can they come together to save the Earth…and each other?What’s the worst Christmas present imaginable? A cheating husband? An angry mob outside your front door? What about Menopause? Minister Emilia Oxley has gotten all three this Yuletide season and she could do without them all, thank you...
  • Ancient Guardian by Katie Reus

    Ancient Guardian by Katie Reus

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He lost everyone he ever loved before…Alpha dragon shifter Orion woke from his millennia-long hibernation into a different world—and found a band of humans struggling to survive. He’s been living among them, secretly keeping the predators away, but he’s kept his true identity hidden from everyone. Until an enemy threatens everything he’s come to love, including the human female he’s obsessed with...
  • Kinn by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes

    Kinn by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She hates the alien warriors that conquered her world. All of them but one...Serena lived by three rules - Survive. Fight back. Stay hidden. But that was before. Before she was caught and brought to T’Kinn, the most arrogant, annoying alien she’s ever met…and the sexiest. This alien isn’t just a warrior - he’s a healer, and a threat to every secret she has...
  • Forbidden Letters by Elin Peer

    Forbidden Letters by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Curiosity has the ability to turn the smartest person into a reckless fool. "Few dared live as close to the border as us. Not even the long-standing peace treaty between our two nations could make people forget how the savage Men of the North used to hunt down and kidnap women here...
  • Baubles and Ben by Nalini Singh

    Baubles and Ben by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A short story featuring Marlee & Ben from the SnowDancer pack. Timeline: Takes place around the same time as Allegiance of Honor.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...
  • The Genius by Elin Peer

    The Genius by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With three degrees and the highest measured IQ in the Motherlands, Shelly Summers knows that she’s socially awkward. It doesn’t bother her since as the head engineer for Advances Technologies she has little time for social interactions anyway...
  • The Warrior by Elin Peer

    The Warrior by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even the strongest man in the world has a weak spot! Magni knows what he wants and he’s used to getting it. As the second in command in the Northlands, he doesn’t care that he comes across as rude or domineering. Asking for permission or apologizing for his actions is for weaker men. Six months ago, Laura was Magni’s sweet and submissive young wife...
  • His Human Assistant by Michele Mills

    His Human Assistant by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m a corporate whistleblower running for my life, so I take the first job I can find off planet. Now I’m a lowly assistant for some rich devil named Hannibal Hellstone? And when I say “devil,” I mean DEVIL. As in this guy’s skin is dark red, he has shiny black horns, sharp fangs, silver-tipped claws and a barbed tail. This Hyrrokin is scary AF and his eight-year-old son looks just like him...
  • The Forgotten by K.A. Knight

    The Forgotten by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The rules of Paradise are simple: Everyone must work. Everyone must contribute. If you leave, you may never come back. Paradise is the new world, to question that is to question the law. They have been drilled into us since the world ended and those bunker doors shut...
  • Enticed by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Enticed by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Betrayal tastes like ashes on my tongue. I’ve always been the girl who’s nothing but a pretty face. The one used to distract the warriors so the others can move our plans forward.But now? Now I have a chance to save us all. A chance to get us off this planet and back to Earth. Where we belong...
  • Dark Cure by Cynthia Sax

    Dark Cure by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A warrior seeking forever faces a medic living in the moment. Gisella, the Refuge’s medic, is dedicated to her role. She doesn’t have the space in her lifespan for love, a mate, or children. Healing is her entire focus. But she’s also a female in her prime. She has needs, wants, cravings…especially for a scarred, long-haired barbarian warrior temporarily residing in the settlement...
  • Pilot In Command by Viola Grace

    Pilot In Command by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Helen 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...
  • The Admiral and the Wildcat by Mina Carter

    The Admiral and the Wildcat by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gabriel Buchanan is a fighter. Once a marine, now he's an Admiral and lawyer for Alliance Fleet. He spends his time taking on the tough cases no one else dares to touch. His life changed course after a messy divorce, making him vow never to love again. Until a hot blonde who matches his drive to fight shows up on his watch. She's a real wildcat--one Gabe wants to get up close and personal with...
  • Pets in Space 4 by S.E. Smith, Anna Hackett

    Pets in Space 4 by S.E. Smith, Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For a limited time only! Pets in Space® 4 is proud to present 13 amazing, original new stories! Join the adventures as today’s leading Science Fiction Romance authors take you on a journey to another world. Pets in Space® proudly supports Hero-Dogs[dot]org, a non-profit charity that provides service animals to veterans and first responders in need...
  • Bringing Heat by Viola Grace

    Bringing Heat by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her life on Earth had died decades earlier; helping to bring heat to a frozen world seems like a good use of her time.The love of her life died when they were teens, and Idalia had no plans for any kind of future. When a woman named Minerva arrived near the lighthouse where she spent her days escorting tourists and made Idalia an offer, it was a no-brainer. Nothing or something...
  • ‎Unexpected Hero by Viola Grace

    ‎Unexpected Hero by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kidnapped, ransomed, and rejected, she didn’t think things could get any worse until she realized that the rescue approaching was going to have conditions.Misty survived a horrible life and terrible parents and siblings to make it across the stars when her world ended. Those that hurt her were on the same ship...
  • Rett by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes

    Rett by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She thought they were on the same side. That mistake cost her everything... including her freedom. Anya dedicated her life to the fight against the alien invaders who had conquered Earth. Now that fight is over. The rebellion failed, the enemy won, and she knows exactly who to blame. He was her lover, her friend, and a spy for the aliens. Worse. He’s one of them… and she’s his prisoner...
  • Age of Wolves by Mariah Stone

    Age of Wolves by Mariah Stone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her suspect. Her lover. Her doom.Boston police detective Ella O’Connor’s job is on the line. And only busting port owner Channing Hakonson for drug smuggling will satisfy her boss. But there’s more to the tattooed billionaire than she imagined—something mystical and ancient.Wolves protect him. Time traveling Viking assassins stalk him. The mafia bails him out of prison...
  • Kept By The Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Kept By The Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    HUMAN FEMALES CANNOT BE TRUSTED.She killed to escape her former slave master.Stowed away on my ship. Injected me with poison.Now she’s been remanded to me for probation.It’s my job to watch her. Rule over her. Discipline her.It’s up to me to decide if she’s worthy of asylum on our planet.And I’m dragging my feet on the decision.Because stars know, I like her right where I have her.In my home...
  • Chaos by Laurie Roma

    Chaos by Laurie Roma

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Katra Tesera is a female Dragon Warrior on a mission. Unsatisfied with the life her family wishes for her back on her home world, she seeks something more for her own future. When the opportunity to visit Earth arises, Katra is eager for the excitement and adventure of traveling the stars...
  • Crashed on an Ice World by Anna Hackett

    Crashed on an Ice World by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s her boss. She’s his best friend. These two deep-space convoy security specialists are fighting their simmering attraction…until a starship crash on a deadly ice world changes everything.Elana Korra loves her security job as a medic on the convoy ship, the Sky Nomad…except for the fact that she’s in love with her boss...
  • Claim by Tana Stone

    Claim by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The only reason sexy shapeshifter Bexli would not be able to shift is unthinkable. No way is she pregnant after one stupid night with him.What Bexli knows about the silver fox alien: he’s moody, he rarely talks, and he seems to think she’s some fragile female who needs protecting...
  • Claimed by the Alien Shifter by Mina Carter

    Claimed by the Alien Shifter by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She doesn’t need love. She’s getting cats. Lots of them.She absolutely doesn’t need a sexy alien making her think of happily ever afters...Elise doesn’t need a man, she has enough with her job and ensuring her brother, the President, stays out of trouble. Or, at the very least, doesn’t get humanity into an intergalactic war it can’t win...
  • His Curvy Mate by Georgette St. Clair

    His Curvy Mate by Georgette St. Clair

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Most 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...
  • My Chameleon Mate by Susan Trombley

    My Chameleon Mate by Susan Trombley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    VeraI accidentally launched an escape pod on my miserable honeymoon—with me on it—and crash-landed in the middle of an alien jungle on a forbidden “emerging civilization” planet, breaking about a hundred Cosmic Syndicate laws.Oh, and I robbed a hot lizard guy with sexy black eyes, the most colorful scales I’ve ever seen, and a powerful prehensile tail that curls up like a cinnamon roll...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  ai  aliens  alpha-mc  book
  • Ice Planet Barbarians Part 5: Truth by Ruby Dixon

    Ice Planet Barbarians Part 5: Truth by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now that I've learned the alien barbarian's language, all the holes are filling in. Ahem. Not like that. Okay, like that, too.The problems are mounting. The alien abductors are coming back. My fellow human captives are dying as we speak. And the alien hunks? When they claim, it's forever. We've got to decide how to proceed, and soon, because whatever path we choose?There's no turning back...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  steamy  romance  sci-fi  aliens  futuristic  fiction  book
  • The Seducer by Elin Peer

    The Seducer by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Does a curse only work if you believe it does? Chosen to be a priestess from childhood, Athena knows everything about aligning her energy with the universe and spreading hope, healing, and wisdom to people. But her inner balance is disturbed when Finn shows up on her doorstep...
  • Warr by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes

    Warr by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    First they stole her planet. Then they stole her sister…Her twin might have surrendered to the enemy, but Max will never stop fighting the alien warriors that conquered Earth.She’s the leader of a rebel army determined to fight for freedom and the future of the human race. The Tolath are her enemies, and she will never surrender to any of them… especially not to him...
  • His Human Ward by Michele Mills

    His Human Ward by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The brooding Fire Lord of Ashmoor Manor receives an adorable, curvy human as his ward!I’m getting married today and I’m so freaking depressed.My bridal gown is exquisite. The ring is enormous. But my groom is evil personified and I’m being forced into this doomed marriage. I’m seconds from breaking into a full-on ugly cry.And right then, as if by magic, the church doors burst open...
  • Captured by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee

    Captured by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    TILLYNo one ever told me the bugpocalypse would be so lonely.I was ready when the man-eating space bugs descended from the skies. I have everything I need in my fortress: food, water, and my dog, Waffles, but I'm bored out of my gourd and lonely AF. So when a Xarc’n warrior breaks into my home, I decide to “detain” my purple intruder...
  • End of the Walker by Coralee June

    End of the Walker by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The end is here. Dormas is gone. The empire is in ruin, and I'm struggling to come to terms with the girl I've become. My men are the only bright spot left in the empire. We’re stronger than ever. Determined to find Payne and the cure, we comb through all the destruction, searching for him while trying to evade infected Walkers. I just hope we can find him in time...
  • Harry's Sacrifice by Bianca D'Arc

    Harry's Sacrifice by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Embracing the unexpected can lead to all sorts of adventures.Resonance Mates, Book 5 The prophesied time has arrived ... and Harry, born of an alien Alvian mother - Mara 12 - and a human father - Justin O'Hara - and forever caught between two very separate worlds .... must journey to the top of the world to unlock a mysterious ship found trapped in an icy crevasse...
  • Encode by Viola Grace

    Encode by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Honey 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...
  • Asylum by Kali Argent

    Asylum by Kali Argent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a male dominated world, Alliance Commander Olivia Jacobson has spent most of her adult life clawing her way up the ranks, but her dream of commanding her own post has always been just beyond her grasp. With the discovery of a new planet, a new race, and the relocation of Alpha Station: X21, her dream is finally within reach...
  • Fated to Fall by Stephanie West

    Fated to Fall by Stephanie West

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blaidd went slightly insane witnessing the small human being abused by her mate. He didn’t care that he was on a foreign planet, as he swiftly ended the vile male. All that mattered was soothing the heart rending pain that radiated from the trembling female. But despite Blaidd’s best intentions, nothing he did for Vivian went right...
  • Outlaw by Kali Argent

    Outlaw by Kali Argent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After being implicated in a murder she didn’t commit, Isla Blevins seeks sanctuary on the one planet where the Alliance can’t reach her. On Earth, she’s the heiress to a fortune, but on Xenthian, she’s an outsider without a single credit to her name. Heartbroken over the loss of her mother, afraid she could be next, and not knowing who to trust, she can’t imagine how things can get much worse...
  • Star Breaker by Viola Grace

    Star Breaker by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With 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...
  • Tested by Janelle Stalder

    Tested by Janelle Stalder

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.Faced with the scariest decision of her life, Missy is going behind enemy lines to save the rebel that seems to haunt her every dream. Finding courage is one of the hardest things she’s ever done, especially when she comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality. The green eyes that have fascinated her, no longer gleam with recognition...
  • Shalia's Diary: Book 2 by Tracy St. John

    Shalia's Diary: Book 2 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 Book 1 before reading this story, which picks up immediately where that book left off. Told in the passages of her ongoing diary, Shalia Monroe’s adventures continue while she prepares to leave the dying Earth...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  paranormal  steamy  adult  aliens  apocalyptic  book  dark
  • 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...
  • Govern by Viola Grace

    Govern by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 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...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  shapeshifters  steamy  adult  ai  aliens  book  fiction
  • Ice Runner by Viola Grace

    Ice Runner by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Using 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...
  • Harness by Viola Grace

    Harness by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Using 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...
  • A Perfect Muse by Viola Grace

    A Perfect Muse by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Running from a broken heart sends her home, but home ends up a thousand worlds away, and she ends up at the mercy of the master of the shattered world.Keva has been having the worst day. She has found out her boyfriend was cheating, gone home to her father’s house, and been teleported across the stars. It has been trying...
  • Alien Soldier's Baby by Luna Hunter

    Alien Soldier's Baby by Luna Hunter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can their interspecies romance achieve the impossible? Wanted: distracting assignment for third-wheel researcher Kelly Graham feels like an intruder since her bestie and fellow scientist Jillian Archer married sexy alien warrior General Vinz...
  • Genesis by Laurie Roma

    Genesis by Laurie Roma

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mya Spartan has lived a privileged life. She has a family who adores her, work that fulfills her, and enough credits to have everything she’s ever wanted. However, what she really wants isn’t something that can be bought…Alphas of their pack, Maddox, Daimon and Tavius Adaro, have created an empire with no equal...
  • Targeted by Susan Hayes

    Targeted by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alliance Commanders Brandt Carver and Hawke Summers have a new mission. Take command of Space Station: Alpha X2, get it running smoothly again, and find out how the last station commander wound up murdered in the middle of a Krytos sanctuary...
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