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  • The Segonian by Dianne Duvall

    The Segonian by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall brings readers the second stand-alone novel in a thrilling new sci-fi romance series full of action, humor, and happily-ever-afters.Eliana's life has never been what one might term ordinary. At least, it hasn't been for a very long time...
  • The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

    The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    The Culture--a humanoid/machine symbiotic society--has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor...
  • Kalpar by Honey Phillips

    Kalpar by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A ruthless alien, a lonely woman, and a dangerous plan…Constance has everything she could possibly want - everything except freedom. The material luxuries her father provides are no substitute, especially since his only interest in her is as a pawn in one of his games.When a massive alien warrior snatches her away from her gilded cage, she should be terrified...
  • Salvage by Jenny Schwartz

    Salvage by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Secrets can get a girl killed. Cherry Pendit knows to keep hers close. But what if it’s whispering to her? What if it’s warning her of danger on the galactic horizon, and only she can save her clan?To save the people she loves, Cherry will have to risk her life to rescue a man she’s never met.A hunted man, a man abandoned on a derelict space station, on the far side of a black hole...
  • S'kal by Honey Phillips

    S'kal by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A troubled alien, a runaway human, and a haunted past…Evie is in trouble. She’s out of money, out of luck, and out of time. Desperate to get out of Port Cantor, she stows away on a trading caravan heading for the remote settlements in the hinterlands of Cresca. When she’s found by the biggest and most intimidating alien she’s ever seen, she’s terrified...
  • Nevrik by Regine Abel

    Nevrik by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She is all he’s ever wanted.With the threat of the rebels’ looming war, romance is the last thing on Tyonna’s mind. But as she prepares to set off on a mission, the new member to join her crew leaves her breathless. Nevrik is the most imposing and intimidating Scelk she has ever seen...
  • The Forgotten Colony by J.B. Ryder

    The Forgotten Colony by J.B. Ryder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zach Croft wants to forget the Prescott colony ever happened.He wants to forget the crimson sand dunes, violent dust storms, and meteor impacts. He wants to forget the sight of his neighbors bleeding from their eyes as boils ravaged their bodies. He wants to forget the fact that his best friend was left to die.Most of all, he wants to forget that, without Prescott, humanity is doomed...
  • Bryk by Ava Ross

    Bryk by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Will a hot-blooded, seven-foot-tall, scaly green alien meet his match in a feisty woman from Earth?After losing her husband, Sadie is afraid of getting her heart broken again. On a dare, she signs up for the Extraterrestrial Matchmaking Service, and she's paired with Bryk, a seven foot tall, scaled alien from a distant world. At their first touch, a gleaming symbol appears on her palm...
  • Seer by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Seer by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "The softest woman requires the hardest men to survive. Dark, gritty, and perfectly filthy--modern MC meets Mad Max in this amazing RH tale.” ~Addison Cain, USA Today bestselling author It was meant to be a simple trip to take care of business. But by the time we get home, none of us will ever be the same...
  • Madness of the Horde King by Zoey Draven

    Madness of the Horde King by Zoey Draven

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    They call him the Mad Horde King for a reason. Now, she’s his…Over a year ago, I was ripped away from my human village to serve the Ghertun, a brutal enemy alien race. With the lives of my family at risk, I am tasked to deliver a message to the one place no human has ever gone before: the capital city of Dakkar.Before I succeed, however, I am captured by a Horde King...
  • Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Destiny is doing everything she can to find her mother and stop the evil traitors from taking over her planet. But explosions, murder plots and chaos are just the beginning. And now she has more on the line than ever before. Now, she's in love. And Nix isn't the sit-by-and-watch kind of guy. He's right there next to her, risking everything. For her...
  • Luna of Earth by Laura Jo Phillips

    Luna of Earth by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There are lots of great ways for a beautiful, wealthy, brilliant young woman to meet a suitable romantic partner. Through the Internet, Church, volunteer groups, or even singles bars. Or, you can do it the way Luna Meadows did--by rescuing an alien from his crashed intergalactic spaceship on the side of a remote mountain in the Rockies just ahead of a three day blizzard...
  • Luna of Kyun by Laura Jo Phillips

    Luna of Kyun by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luna Meadows spent her entire childhood hiking around the world with her father, and learning how to hide a number of unusual abilities she was born with. And wishing she had answers to an ever growing list of questions that her father refused to answer...
  • Ascension Saga: 6 - Faith, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Ascension Saga: 6 - Faith, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The traitor within the Jax household has been found, and the repercussions are staggering, with Faith barely surviving and their mating destroyed. But Faith has always been unpredictable—just ask her sisters— and nothing will stop her from getting what she wants…and she wants Thor. Even if it kills her...
  • Ascension Saga: 8 - Destiny, Part 2 by Grace Goodwin

    Ascension Saga: 8 - Destiny, Part 2 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Destiny has a problem—a six-foot-three, stubborn, gorgeous, deadly, sex-on-a-stick—kind of problem. While her brain might want to kick his ass across the galaxy, the rest of her wants to jump him like a bouncy house. Ardor or not, she’s hunting a killer. Nix is going all protective, alpha male, claiming she’s his mate just because she had a few mind-blowing moments in his bed...
  • Hunted by Harmony Raines

    Hunted by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Garth is intent on filling the hours aboard the fourth deep space mission with pleasure, in the form of his curvy human female, Tamzin. With his prime upon him, he knows he as to breed a son with Tamzin soon. So what better way to pass the time? Yet soon he learns another side of himself, a softer side, and he begins to feel less like a primal hunter, as his love for his female grows...
  • Rebel Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rebel Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A rebel alien roaming the far reaches of the galaxy. An Interstellar Bride on the run for her life. When her life crash lands into his on a remote planet, they'll need each other to survive.The Interstellar Brides Program guarantees it can match any female on Earth, even a cynical, street-wise, and very jaded Zara, who just wants to start over. But when she arrives on her new home planet..
  • Earth Force Rising by Monica Tesler

    Earth Force Rising by Monica Tesler

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirteen years ago, Earth Force—a space-military agency—discovered a connection between brain structure and space travel. Now they’ve brought together the first team of cadets, called Bounders, to be trained as high-level astronauts.Twelve-year-old Jasper is part of this team being sent out into space...
  • Alliance by S.K. Dunstall

    Alliance by S.K. Dunstall

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the Linesman series continues, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself facing an alien ship he doesn’t understand—and a terrifying political threat he cannot fight…   The lines. The soul of every ship. It was once thought there were only ten, but that was before an alien vessel appeared at the edge of space—before Ean Lambert heard more lines singing...
  • The Outlaw Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    The Outlaw Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Can a cyborg ranger save Mars - and the woman who won’t admit she needs him?Everything Serena Gatling ever wanted was taken away from her by a single horrific act of betrayal. Determined never to fall victim again, she closes her heart and dedicates her life to a cold-blooded quest to regain the one thing that still matters to her...
  • Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach...
  • A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A million universes. A million dangers. One destiny.The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite Caine’s hands. Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud since she first traveled to another universe using her parents’ invention, the Firebird...
  • Ambushing Ariel by S.E. Smith

    Ambushing Ariel by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ariel Hamm has always had a tender heart. Her love for her sister, Carmen, and her best friend, Trisha, has always been a priority in her life. But at twenty-eight, she is ready to start focusing on what she wants. After her fiancée unexpectedly ends their engagement, she is searching to redefine who she really is. A pilot for Boswell International, she knows flying is not her first love...
  • The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

    The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They’re young, they’re fast and strong, and they’re totally without normal human qualms.The universe is a dangerous place for humanity—and it's about to become far more dangerous...
  • A Fistful of Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    A Fistful of Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A cynical cyborg. A woman with too many secrets. A shared past that could tear them apart -- or bring them together.S-756 despises all humans, but he hates the scientists who tortured him and turned him into a cyborg most of all. The long years terraforming Mars have only cemented that hatred...
  • Razor's Traitorous Heart by S.E. Smith

    Razor's Traitorous Heart by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Kali Parks is a shadow in the war between two factions that are fighting to gain control of Chicago. Born and raised on the streets, she stands as a silent sentinel at her brother’s side as he battles to gain control. She will do whatever it takes to bring peace to those she has pledged her life to protect, including fighting against the creatures that came to their world almost six years before...
  • The Magnificent Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    The Magnificent Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A woman with a troubled past. A cyborg with missing memories.W-246 is one of the last cyborgs sent to Mars to work on the terraforming project. While he doesn't remember how he became a cyborg, he has accepted his new role as a territorial judge. Until he encounters Cherry. He knows he could never forget a woman like her -- so why does she seem so familiar?Madam Cherry is through with men...
  • Gracie's Touch by S.E. Smith

    Gracie's Touch by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Gracie Jones was little more than a child when the Earth was invaded by an alien species. Escaping into the subway tunnels of New York City, she hid in fear of being captured. Discovered by four men who became her protectors, she fought alongside them and they became known as the Freedom Five...
  • The Last Colony by John Scalzi

    The Last Colony by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up...
  • Rhys by Vi Voxley

    Rhys by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some men ask for what they want. Some men take. Quinn Ford has nothing left to lose. After the Nayanors took her sister, little else seemed to matter. Now that they're after her, well, maybe she can do something about it, get back her sister and get home...
  • Kol by Vi Voxley

    Kol by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forever is no time at all, sometimes. Jackie Hooper is all out of time. An incurable illness at her side, she's trying to make the best of the opportunities she has left. Getting abducted by a Nayanor warlord was not on that list of things to do. But then again, spending your last moments with the hottest man in the universe can't be all bad..
  • Returned by Jane Hinchey, J.A. Hinchey

    Returned by Jane Hinchey, J.A. Hinchey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Struggling to discover her role in a terrifying new world where everything has changed, she must decide who she can trust.Sierra Walker has been missing for 30 years. Her family thought she was dead, only when Sierra turns up, she hasn’t aged a day. But Earth has changed drastically.Biological warfare has decimated the planet...
  • Earth Dragon's Baby by Scarlett Grove

    Earth Dragon's Baby by Scarlett Grove

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will their fated love prove strong enough to end an ancient war? Agricultural analyst Cora Brighton has worked hard to help reconstruct Earth after the Mulgor invasion decades ago. But now, facing another lonely Christmas, she realizes life has passed her by and signs up for the Draconian Mating Lottery...
  • His Rebellious Mate by Maddie Taylor

    His Rebellious Mate by Maddie Taylor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Staunchly loyal Eryn Lockwood heads up security on the USIF Odyssey, an all-female research ship charged with finding a new world to call home. Her team is guarding a group of scientists exploring an uninhabited planet when they are set upon by a band of powerful alien warriors...
  • 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...
  • Alien Warlord's Passion by Nancey Cummings

    Alien Warlord's Passion by Nancey Cummings

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She'll do anything for her son ... even marry an alien ...Rosemary left Earth to make a better life for her seven-year-old son. She’s got a good job, a nice house, and one minor problem: she needs to marry a Mahdfel warrior if she wants to stay. Better the devil you know ...She can take her chances and marry a stranger or she can accept an offer from an unlikely candidate: Mene...
  • Found by Harmony Raines

    Found by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Karalian warrior, Rikka, is devoted to his species and the Hier Council who rule them. He knows his loyalty is to the Karal first, his mission second and everything else is expendable. But sent into deep space with a female from Earth, it is not only a new planet Rikka finds...
  • The V'Dan by Jean Johnson

    The V'Dan by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A thrilling new perspective of the world created in the explosive, national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series. It’s two hundred years earlier—the age of the First Salik War. And the battle against humanity has been engaged. The V’Dan always believed they were the chosen race, destined to make a mark on the galaxy...
  • On a Barbarian World by Anna Hackett

    On a Barbarian World by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When an independent deep-space scout crash-lands on an unknown alien world, the last thing she expects is to find herself claimed by a barbarian warrior. Aurina Phoenix spends most of her time zooming through uncharted space and gathering intel for her family’s deep-space convoy, but her life takes an unexpected detour when a meteor shower brings down her ship...
  • Colony Three Mars by Gerald M. Kilby

    Colony Three Mars by Gerald M. Kilby

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Now that the truth of the genetic experiments on Mars has been revealed, new missions are on their way to gain control of this extraordinary technology. In the process, they seek to exploit and enslave the colonists—turning them into nothing more than lab rats...
  • The Wide, Wide Sea by Patrick Ness

    The Wide, Wide Sea by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Wide, Wide Sea is set in the past, at a time before the Spackle War, and we get a first look at the fishing village on the sea where some very important things happen at the end of Monsters of Men.Best read after The Ask and the Answer but before Monsters...
  • Snowscape by Patrick Ness

    Snowscape by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Snowscape is set after the end of Monsters of Men, so that’s when you should read it.That’s all I’ll say, I don’t want to give anything away...
  • High Plains Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    High Plains Cyborg by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    One big cyborg cowboy. One tiny human female. One impossible attraction. When Jo's partner abandons her as soon as they arrive on Mars, it's yet another reminder of what she has always known: the only person she can count on is herself. But she is determined not to let his absence prevent her from claiming the one thing she has always wanted -- a permanent home...
  • Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

    Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the winner of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award...
  • Saving Verakko by Victoria Aveline

    Saving Verakko by Victoria Aveline

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When Lily is freed from alien captivity, she refuses to wait for rescue—or recapture. She’ll take her chances in the forest. Navigating the exotic terrain won’t be easy, but it beats the alternative. Then, an enormous alien falls into her camp and makes her question everything. He’s rude, grumpy, and annoyingly sexy. Trusting him would be a mistake...
  • Chosen by Stacy Jones

    Chosen by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    One minute Lily is trying, and failing, to run her grandmother’s farm—her last remaining connection to her family. The next, she wakes to find herself in a cold, sterile cage surrounded by monsters, with no memory of how she got there. Accidentally abducted by alien poachers, unsure if she will live or die, she is dreading the worst...
  • Stray by Andrea K. Höst

    Stray by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive. The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles...
  • Pythen by Erin Raegan

    Pythen by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    PeytonI was having a cold coffee with my best friend Vivian when the whole world went upside down.Now there are gazelle-glowing-like-a-light-bulb aliens running around eating everybody, and enormous dark purply colored aliens that have a strong resemblance to bats, dive bombing from the sky. One of the bats says I'm his and I need to ease his mating rage. Yeah, not happening...
  • Red Handed by Gena Showalter

    Red Handed by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She's been chosen to fight the elusive enemy among us....Phoenix Germaine has been trying to earn back her mother's trust after going into rehab and kicking Onadyn -- the drug of choice for New Chicago teens. But when a party in the woods turns into an all-out battle with the most ferocious aliens Phoenix has never seen, she's brought home in what appears to be an Onadyn-induced state...
  • Blacklisted by Gena Showalter

    Blacklisted by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alien hunting can get a girl killed. It can also get her a date.High school senior Camille Robins and her best friend are determined to snag the attention of their crushes before graduation next month. Armed with red-hot outfits and killer hair, they sneak into the hottest nightclub in town -- which caters to the rich and famous, both human and alien...
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