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  • Hero by Anna Hackett

    Hero by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim… Raised from birth to be a soldier, Kace Tameron is a disciplined, military-trained gladiator. He is on contract to the Kor Magna Arena to hone his fighting skills on the blood-soaked arena sand and then return to the military. He lives for one thing: to protect his planet, and on his world, love is forbidden...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Combust by Tana Stone

    Combust by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Drexian warrior is brooding and mysterious--and he's claimed me as his tribute.When I don't marry his nephew, I have no idea I'm still promised to Zoran's clan. Imagine my shock when the dark and imposing alien informs me that he will be taking me as his tribute bride--and taking me back to the Drexian home world with him...
  • A Redemption for Ulrek by Lynnea Lee

    A Redemption for Ulrek by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Refuge in the Arms of a Monster This job on board the New Horizon is supposed to be my fresh start, a fail proof plan to escape my poor excuse for a husband and his dangerous friends. But my white horse quickly turns into a nightmare when I discover that my new boss is none other than Ulrek the Horrible, my sworn enemy...
  • Guardian by Anna Hackett

    Guardian by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Rescued from alien slavers, former cop Dayna wakes to discover she’s host to a powerful alien symbiont, and the only man who can help her is the mysterious and dangerous casino owner, Rillian...
  • Damaged by Presley Hall

    Damaged by Presley Hall

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I know the mate bond can never happen for me. But that doesn’t stop my heart from wanting Druxik…When King Khrelan gets word of a group of human women held captive on a trading planet, he decides to send a team to rescue them—led by the hotshot pilot, Druxik...
  • Between Worlds by J.L. Williams

    Between Worlds by J.L. Williams

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Inspired by the likes of James Galloway's Subjugation and John Scalzi's Old Man's War, Between Worlds is a thrilling military sci-fi set in a strange new universe...Jason had thought about punching a Shil’vati...
  • Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen

    Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What does it mean to be human? What if the price of saving humanity is giving up your own? The year is 2322, and we stand upon the precipice of extinction. The invading Metigen armada has decimated the eastern third of settled space in a matter of days, leaving tens of millions dead...
  • 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...
  • Weapons Master by Anna Hackett

    Weapons Master by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A grumpy cyborg weapons master collides with a feisty mechanic from Earth who turns his ordered existence upside down.Abducted from her exploration ship and enslaved on a desert world, mechanic Bellamy Walsh has fought for her survival. She’s had to fight for everything in her life, and she doesn’t ever expect things to be easy...
  • Rubicon by G.S. Jennsen

    Rubicon by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “We are you—the you that you could have been.”The Anaden Directorate has ruled Amaranthe for millennia, subjugating species and galaxies in a neverending quest for control and order. For as many millennia, the anarchs have rebelled, defiantly claiming their own freedom yet without hope of winning it for everyone...
  • Relativity by G.S. Jennsen

    Relativity by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I’d tell you to be careful, but we wouldn’t be here if you’d ever taken that advice. No reason to start now, right?”For millennia the Anadens have ruled the known universe. They believe they’ve crafted the perfect empire, ordered and impervious to challenge. They believe the fight has been crushed out of the species they subjugate. They are wrong.It’s a suicide mission, without a doubt...
  • Abysm by G.S. Jennsen

    Abysm by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the quest to be the masters of their own fate, will humanity rise to become liberators or follow the path of their ancestors into darkness? Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano risked everything to learn the hidden purpose behind the Metigen’s multiverse portal network, but nothing could have prepared them for the answer...
  • Requiem by G.S. Jennsen

    Requiem by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The end of the world began with a library query…how will it conclude?What began as a chance discovery of an anomalous signal is now a multiverse war between humanity and its genetic ancestors over who controls the levers of life and death. Over who decides what life is and whether it will be allowed to exist. For the ruling Anaden Directorate, victory means immortality...
  • Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen

    Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life.Diplomat. Rebel. Fugitive. Nika Tescarav has lived many lives, though she no longer remembers most of them...
  • Roklyn by Alana Khan

    Roklyn by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To stay alive, Roklyn buried his emotions. Can he risk everything to trust the ailing Earth girl he’s sworn to protect?PaigeI’ve come to this medical center to save my life. My grumpy but intriguing bodyguard can receive services also, but only if he’s my “mate...
  • Keran's Dawn by Regine Abel

    Keran's Dawn by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For the people and the crown.When Dawn took over the management of the Braxian hybrid shelter on the sanctuary planet Haven, she never thought its last days would be marked by a series of gruesome murders against its patrons. With local law enforcement failing to capture the murderer, she makes a desperate plea for help to the Braxian Crown Prince, Keran Xeldar...
  • Defender by Anna Hackett

    Defender by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Rescued from alien slavers, the only place she feels safe is in the brawny arms of a big, gruff cyborg... Astrophysicist Dr. Jayna Lennox's life imploded the day her ship was attacked by aliens. Through months of captivity, she's survived by shutting down and not feeling. Then she's freed by the House of Rone cyborgs and finds herself in the arms of huge, tough Mace...
  • Lyel by Ava Ross

    Lyel by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An alien warrior seeking redemption meets a captured Earth woman being treated as a pet. Will their love survive in a hostile world?Kidnapped by four-armed, blue skinned aliens, Isabelle "Isi" is sold to the head of the Al'kieern kidnapping operation. Isi has accepted she'll live and die as a songbird pet to the queen. If nothing else, performing for the Al'kieern beats being sold as a breeder...
  • Sidespace by G.S. Jennsen

    Sidespace by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Humanity is saved. But its troubles are just beginning. To achieve their extraordinary triumph over the invading Metigen armada, humanity put aside its myriad of political and social conflicts and united against a common foe intent on annihilating civilization. In victory, unparalleled peace and prosperity are theirs for the taking—if they can keep hold of them...
  • Dragon's Heart by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Heart by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kate has had enough. Her research pod went down after the Generation ship crashed and now she's stuck on the steaming hot hell that is Tajss. The handful of people that survived initial contact with the planet's monstrous creatures have been forced underground into darkness. Worse is Annabel, self-appointed tyrannical leader of their small group...
  • Captured by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Captured by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I've been kidnapped by a dragon.Just when I thought my life couldn't get worse, I was abducted by aliens. Now, I'm pretty sure I must be dying. Because only a vicious head injury could make me believe I'm actually flying through the air, trapped between a dragon's claws. Oh, and the dragon?He can talk.And he has all kinds of arrogant, ludicrous, and deranged things to say...
  • Consumed by Presley Hall

    Consumed by Presley Hall

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All I wanted was one hot night with an alien gladiator…Ever since the Kalixian warriors rescued us from our Orkun captors, I’ve made no secret of the fact that I think these bronze, horned aliens are hot as hell.I have no interest in the whole “fated mate” thing, but I definitely wouldn’t mind a roll in the sheets with any of these men.Well… one man, if I’m being honest.Tycran...
  • Saved by the Stryxian by Ella Blake

    Saved by the Stryxian by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Brandy Trentler’s wealthy family insists she marry the jerk who cheated on her, she signs up for the Stryxian mate lottery. Who knew her number would be drawn in the first round? Nothing goes right after that—the transport ship is attacked, she is captured by the enemy Morr-ta aliens and thrown in prison...
  • Daylight by Cheree Alsop

    Daylight by Cheree Alsop

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Liora Day’s fate entwined with the crew the day she joined the SS Kratos. Fleeing the Coalition in their attempt to destroy the Omne Occasus before it falls into the wrong hands, the captain and crew band together to save not only their ship, but the fate of the Macrocosm against those who would use the machine for harm...
  • The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

    The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On a summer night like any other, an emergency call sounds in the quarters of Andira Tal, Lancer of Alsea. The news is shocking: not only is there other intelligent life in the universe, but it’s landing on the planet right now.Tal leads the first responding team and ends up rescuing aliens who have a frightening story to tell...
  • Provoked by Tana Stone

    Provoked by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I snuck onto the wrong ship. Now I’m at the mercy of the most terrifying and deadly of the Vandar warlords—and he refuses to let me go.Running away and joining my sister and her Vandar mate seemed like a great idea. Until I stowed away on the wrong ship.Now I’m on a Vandar warbird flying far away from my home planet, but my sister is nowhere in sight...
  • A Nude Attitude by Honey Phillips

    A Nude Attitude by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can Erica survive the hidden dangers of an alien ocean? And the charms of the alien convict stranded with her?Erica desperately needs a break from her domineering father - especially his latest scheme to marry her off so she can produce an heir...
  • The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet...
  • 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...
  • Imperator by Anna Hackett

    Imperator by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Space station security specialist Sam has done one thing since her abduction by alien slavers… fight to survive. But now one strong alien gladiator stands at her side and Sam knows she is no longer alone. Thrust into a lawless desert arena, Sam Santos has done terrible things in order to stay alive. As the Champion of Zaabha, she’s been fighting to find a way out...
  • Tansy's Titan by S.E. Smith

    Tansy's Titan by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tansy Bell, is the middle daughter of the three Bell sisters. She has always been a little different, even for a Bell. A chameleon, she can change her appearance and personality to blend in almost anywhere. She uses this talent to bring some of the worse criminals in the world to justice.Mak ‘Tag Krell Manok is the wild one of his four brothers...
  • 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...
  • Punished by Tana Stone

    Punished by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The dark and deadly Vandar raider who was exiled to our planet refuses to help me. Not without a price.Corvak is nothing like the men on my planet. He's violent and brooding and wants nothing to do with a human female like me. But he's the only one who knows how to fight. And I refuse to be helpless when the empire comes after our planet--and it's only a matter of time until they do...
  • Rogue: Information Rogue / Desert Rogue by Anna Hackett

    Rogue: Information Rogue / Desert Rogue by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Abducted by alien slavers and taken to a lawless desert world, the last thing she expects is to be claimed by a handsome alien rogue... Rogue contains two action-packed novellas in the Galactic Gladiators series. Novella #1: Information Rogue Arrogant information merchant Zhim doesn't know what hits him when he collides with feisty human hacker Ryan..
  • Beth's Stable by Amanda Milo

    Beth's Stable by Amanda Milo

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    They say that in space, no one can hear you... (Yeah, you know what I'm quoting.) But there are lots of places you can still scream and be heard. Especially if you suddenly find yourself on a ship traveling through space. I’ve been abducted by aliens and auctioned to an alien pirate. My epic love of movies sort of comes in handy, what with all the sci-fi suddenly in my face...
  • Sentinel by Anna Hackett

    Sentinel by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fighting for love, loyalty, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim… When Quinn Bennett’s exploration ship is attacked, the security chief finds herself abducted by alien slavers. Unable to save her crew, she is taken across the galaxy and sold to a desert scavenger on the lawless planet of Carthago...
  • Plundered by Tana Stone

    Plundered by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    My sister gave herself to the raider warlord to save me. Now I’m hunting him down and getting her back.I’ve never forgiven myself for letting that brute drag her off my ship, and I’ve done nothing but search for his horde of warships since he let my ship go free...
  • Pillaged by Tana Stone

    Pillaged by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I was promised against my will to an imperial general. . .so I escaped. Right into the arms of an even more ruthless Vandar warlord.I’d thought things had been bad when I’d been ordered to marry the repulsive Zagrath general. But then I’d been captured by the empire’s most deadly enemy--the Vandar raiders...
  • Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith

    Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Jo Strauss was committed to two things in her life – her family and her life as an acrobat/high-wire performer. She takes both very serious. Her life was orderly, in control, and she was finally settling down in one place so she could spend more time with her parents instead of moving all over the world every few weeks...
  • Bound by Presley Hall

    Bound by Presley Hall

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    My fated mate is a prince. Can I truly be his princess?After watching my friends find bliss with their gorgeous alien mates, I’ve secretly been hoping the same thing would happen to me.Still, when Prince Khrelan singles me out and invites me to stay in his palace so he can learn more about the human race, I’m terrified...
  • Stolen by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Stolen by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    STOLEN FROM AUCTION Khrys My career is on the line here. King Zander demoted me.The planet is in crisis over a viral epidemic affecting the human half-breeds.If I could get my hands on the genetically modified humanshe could be the answer to both problems.But I didn’t expect to fall for the feisty little femalewho stole my heart while I stole her body. Kailani I’m an upgraded human...
  • Mated by V.K. Ludwig

    Mated by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You know your Gaia link is broken when your match is 93.While every Vetusian around me is expecting the arrival of the first hybrids, my mate is living out her final days in a nursing home.With true love unattainable, I concentrate on busting the crime ring responsible for the supply of human females forced into prostitution at the Odheim brothels...
  • Striking Mars by Cidney Swanson

    Striking Mars by Cidney Swanson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fleeing for their lives, Jess and Pavel make it to the Moon, narrowly avoiding the attack on Space Station 92-AE. They should be safe and happy, but they discover they are not alone on Tranquility Base. The stranger they encounter seems uniquely qualified to leak their presence to Chancellor Lucca Brezhnaya, especially when the Marsians contemplate airing Lucca's political dirty laundry...
  • Taken by Harmony Raines

    Taken by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chrissi always dreamed of being an astronaut, just like her dad, devoting her whole life to Operation Saviour, the human race’s last ditch attempt to find a new home. But days before her first launch, the project was cancelled, leaving her to pick up the pieces of her life. All thanks to the arrival of the Karal...
  • Vrexus by Olivia Riley

    Vrexus by Olivia Riley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lee thinks she's safe in the silver city, safe from the monsters. But she's wrong.While on a mission for the alliance, Lee Reimer, a politician's daughter, celebrates a newly made pact with an alien race, unaware a vicious beast stalks nearby, ready to steal her away...
  • Crashed by Kiki Burrelli

    Crashed by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forced together, they are castaways on an unknown planet. The last thing Tannish knew, he was in a nightclub, dancing the night away and pretending his life was fine. But, the moment Tannish feels the warmth of Enzo's arms, he finally feels like he's home. An unbreakable bond that comes with a powerful new ability Until now, Enzo's first passion has always been medicine...
  • Alien in Flames by January Bell

    Alien in Flames by January Bell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'll do anything to keep Earth safe— even marrying the alien king.When I joined the Earth Federation after the Roth alien invasion, I was put through the most intense spy training on the planet. I took a vow to do whatever necessary to protect humanity, and I meant every word.So when the opportunity presents itself to make myself the queen of the Roth and steer intergalactic history? I'm all in...
  • Stranded by the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Stranded by the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's not the warrior I wanted. But now we're stranded together, and I can't quit thinking about him.I made it all the way through the Alien Bride Games without being chosen by a Khanavai male, even though I'm certain it's the only way I'll ever find anything resembling love...
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