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  • The Wedding by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Wedding by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    "This is the never before seen "real" wedding between Daemon and Kat from the Lux Series. This should not be read unless you have read the Lux series."Found on Wattpad here...
  • Tane by Anna Hackett

    Tane by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens reaches its endgame, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival…Tane Rahia is good at one thing—fighting. Before the alien invasion, he fought as a mercenary in the worst jungle hellholes...
  • Loving Zorn (Zorn Warriors, #1-2) by Laurann Dohner

    Loving Zorn (Zorn Warriors, #1-2) by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ral's WomanAriel never knew aliens existed until she finds herself kidnapped and taken from Earth. When the Anzon declare humans useless, she learns her fate-prize for the winner of a brutal fight between large, muscled alien men. Ral is a Zorn warrior. He has also been kidnapped by the Anzon, along with his crew. Forced into slavery, he's got one thing on his mind-freeing his people...
  • The First She by Waters E

    The First She by Waters E

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kira, a NASA scientist, is teleported to a planet that has no women. When she's saved by an alien that thinks she's a boy with deformations, she fights to keep both herself and secret alive...
  • Rita and the Raider by Honey Phillips

    Rita and the Raider by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every good mating begins with a kidnapping… Worvak was taught to value honor above all else. When his honor demanded he sacrifice everything to save a friend, he didn't hesitate. But then a dangerous mission leads him to a fragile, dirty female with enough courage for ten warriors - a female he would do anything to call his own. For the first time in his life, his honor and his heart are at war...
  • Graves by Laurann Dohner

    Graves by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Graves is a judge, jury and executioner for the Werewolf packs. Not everyone is suited for the job, but a tragedy in his youth changed him into the man he is today, feared by…well…everyone. So when he completes a job for a nearby pack, and the alpha gifts him with a servant, Graves is shocked...
  • Mission: Planet Biter by Laurann Dohner

    Mission: Planet Biter by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When his Veslor grouping answers a distress call on planet Biter, Roth discovers a sole survivor. The little female isn't rational and latches onto him like a lifeline. That surprises Roth, since most humans fear him. This one won't let him go, but he must resist his desire for her. It's the only honorable thing to do...
  • Star's Storm by S.E. Smith

    Star's Storm by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Star Strauss has always been a fighter. From the time she was born prematurely to her life on the road as a circus performer. She has never let her small stature keep her from achieving her dreams. She is one of the best aerial performers in the world. Her love of being up high and flying free has helped her overcome the challenges she faces when she is on the ground...
  • Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner

    Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When her parents died in her youth, Anabel Brick—along with her sister, Jessa—was raised as an orphan of United Earth. While her sister became an Alien Research Specialist, Anabel’s skills were put to a different use. She’s a tool for U.E. and its military fleet…a spy…a killer. Her current mission also turns out to be her last...
  • Tempting Auzed by Victoria Aveline

    Tempting Auzed by Victoria Aveline

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Alejandra is a survivor. So far, she’s lived through abduction, a near drowning, and being lost in an alien forest. She thought things were finally starting to go her way when the most intense, grumpy, and insanely tempting man she’s ever seen rescues her from a monster. But sadly, that’s just when everything gets even more complicated.Auzed has his orders...
  • Champion by Anna Hackett

    Champion by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…Space marine Blaine Strong enjoyed being a composed, controlled member of space station security…until he was abducted by alien slavers. Forced into underground fight rings and pumped full of drugs, he’s now seething with anger and out for revenge...
  • Cornering Carmen by S.E. Smith

    Cornering Carmen by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Carmen Walker has spent the last three years of her life focusing on avenging the murder of her husband. Following leads to the man responsible, she finally has a chance to bring closure to the overwhelming pain and grief that is slowly eating away at her. Catching a ride on the business jet her sister is co-piloting, she heads to California to meet with her informant...
  • 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...
  • Blood Proxy by Viola Grace

    Blood Proxy by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trained as a Companion for the Alliance, Eleanor Palmer has had a recurring assignment on the Vimpyr homeworld. When death and treachery takes the king and his heir, she takes action and runs with the only surviving member of the bloodline in tow. As Commander Matias joins both herself and her charge, she learns what it is to become Vimpyr. To be the Vimpyr heir's Blood Proxy...
  • Quit by Viola Grace

    Quit by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Minerva has been acting as Recruiter Norz for years. Her mind can split into eight different directions and propel the bot bodies in areas where the alien might be in danger. When her daughter was taken from her too soon, she had to split her off time between taking care of herself and monitoring her child growing in the tank. In the battle between her and her child, she was losing herself...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  grief  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  fiction  paranormal
  • Neutral by Viola Grace

    Neutral by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ariadne loves calligraphy, the pen and ink meeting paper and the strange rituals that go with it. It gives her a focus and a reason to move forward, day by day. The rituals move her along, and it is her skill with the pen that gets her into the Volunteer Program.Training as a scribe brings her to the empire of Hredu as the means to slow the flow of requests to the emperor...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  fiction  paranormal  royalty
  • Armed And Armoured by Viola Grace

    Armed And Armoured by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kahlia has fought a few battles for the survival of innocents on Allishan 9, but her primary concern is her life as a designer. On one of the school trips that her sister badgered her into chaperoning, she meets her destiny, and her doom. Rupture is a member of the Sector Guard and he has his eyes on the woman stepping out of the battle suit...
  • Hard Hearted by Viola Grace

    Hard Hearted by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Saving her fiancé showed Gralial’s people what a freak she was and they punished her accordingly by removing her soul. Left with only intelligence and her talent, Gray must start a new life in the Alliance as the Sector Guardsman Hard Hearted. She is assigned to Teklan base as their healer and physician and partnered with a being that she never even heard of...
  • Echo in Time by Viola Grace

    Echo in Time by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alara has spent her life under the radar, hiding her nature from the government and those around her. When it came to a choice of letting her cousin fall into servitude to their own government or live a life free in the stars, Alara stepped into the path of disaster and made sure that Tosha went free...
  • Trial By Flame by M.K. Eidem, Michelle Howard

    Trial By Flame by M.K. Eidem, Michelle Howard

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Autumn's Kiss by M.K. Eidem Autumn thought she knew who she was then she discovered she was a rare type of dragon shifter called a Supreme Dragoon. Now she is heading to her new mate’s home world to meet more of their kind. Nerves were to be expected, but Autumn is about to get more than she bargained for. Kirall always knew who he was, a Prime Dragoon, one of the strongest of his kind...
  • Logic by Viola Grace

    Logic by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A criminal analyst with no social life fascinates a superhero during a hostage taking where she was the hostage, until she wasn’t.Beryl lives a quiet life taking online classes and working on solving cases for her brother when he needs a second pair of eyes. Her skills gain her the notice of the Volunteer Project, and she is encouraged to go and get a life of her own...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  fae  fiction  futuristic
  • Walking Haunt by Viola Grace

    Walking Haunt by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Yohwen enjoys her life, but when the Citadel comes knocking she has to face change, danger and a man whose touch can set her on fire.Yohwen has finally reached the pinnacle of her art. She is the Master Haunt and during the festival week, she wakes the dead for their friends and families for one night only...
  • 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...
  • Into the Light by Anna Carven

    Into the Light by Anna Carven

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

    Her Mate and Master by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “I’m your master. When I give you an order, you obey.” Talia didn’t escape her slave master only to be shackled again. Not even by a sexy male built of solid muscle who does wicked things with his fingers and tongue. Not even one of her own species who says he knows her father--the father she doesn’t remember...
  • Alien Shield by Ursa Dax

    Alien Shield by Ursa Dax

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "I have always been a patient warrior. But now that I have her in my sights, I cannot wait to claim her..."SERENATo say I've been busy is an understatement. Between trying not to die on this hostile alien world and helping my newly-pregnant friends (I am a biologist, after all) I've had a lot going on...
  • Dark Planet Warriors: Escape by Anna Carven

    Dark Planet Warriors: Escape by Anna Carven

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

    Shadowed by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Reddix is a Kindred warrior with RTS—a debilitating disease that forces him to endure the emotions of others like a physical invasion every time he is around anyone. Nina is the girl he dreams of but can never have...
  • Mission: Guardian Angel by Laurann Dohner

    Mission: Guardian Angel by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Ever since her friend Vivian mated a Veslor, Abby Thomas has been curious about the mysterious aliens. She also has a vested interest in making sure their newfound relationship with United Earth is a success, prompting her to take a job on a military vessel to ensure the Veslor grouping stationed there are treated fairly. It doesn't hurt that they're easy to look at...
  • Descended by Evangeline Anderson

    Descended by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Charlotte Walker is just an intern trying to get through her surgical rotation in one piece when her life takes an abrupt turn for the weird. A seven-foot tall patient with multicolored eyes and golden skin shows up in the ER asking for her. When he tells Charlotte she's supposed to be the Empress of the entire galaxy, she naturally thinks he's high or crazy or both.He's not...
  • Karma by Viola Grace

    Karma by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A midwife trained to attend another Terran meets a fighter with his eyes on more than the prize. Olive has wanted to take midwife training, but the waiting list is nearly a decade long. When she is offered the chance to take the training and go into space, she takes it...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  fae  fiction  paranormal
  • Psyche's Caress by Viola Grace

    Psyche's Caress by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Roha Excelter - code named Psyche - is on assignment on Marketh. She had a simple investigation planned until someone tried to kill her. Twice.The simple problem turned out to be a conspiracy to keep volunteers imprisoned and the population in general, ignorant...
  • Freak Factor by Viola Grace

    Freak Factor by Viola Grace

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

    Enchanted by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Myka Michaels has been a Healer specializing in obstetrics for years. Her assignment on Dremarai is one she both revels in and dreads. She wants to be the best Healer she can be, but riding a horse-beast from town-to-town isn't really her idea of a fun work environment...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  dragons  fiction  paranormal
  • Wyt and Wild by Viola Grace

    Wyt and Wild by Viola Grace

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

    Minder by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aleyn came to Bai's planet with one purpose, to steal his child and run like hell. Erasing his memory of their night together helped her make her getaway, but leaving her scent behind was her undoing. Trapped in Bai's�custody, Aleyn has to come to a few realizations. One, she has chosen him for more than his incredible ass, and two, his people have the right to kill her for her first week there...
  • Hael's Fury by Viola Grace

    Hael's Fury by Viola Grace

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

    Healer by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Evah is a contact healer--she takes the damage and illness from those around her with a touch and cures them. But the damage remains on her body. She believes that no one will want her, but she still strives to care for those around her, hiding her appearance with loose robes and veils...
  • Dragon Summons by Viola Grace

    Dragon Summons by Viola Grace

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

    Imperfect by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Illora has been through a lot and is looking forward to a solitary retirement. All she needs to do is to get past the selection process in the Lorahan seralgio for three more days and she is home free. The Prefect of Lorahan wants Illora and her successful efforts to dodge the selection process has turned him ashen with fury and parts of him blue...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  fiction  harem  paranormal
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  alpha-mc  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  dragons  fiction
  • Running Wyld by Viola Grace

    Running Wyld by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 2 of the bestselling series, Sector Guard.Agreha Wyld had a good life, friends, family and a place she was accepted. When the Sector Guard call for exceptional beings goes out, her planet nominates her and it is over a year later before they get a response. The response's name is Haaro Denler, telepathic Dhemon and Aggie's destined mate...
  • Entropy by Viola Grace

    Entropy by Viola Grace

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

    Enforce by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gwen has been living a life of duty and responsibility. Her first Alliance assignment was as an Enforcer, her next the polar opposite, Matchmaker. She has fought rabid crowds with ease and control, but facing an endless supply of bridezillas is too much to handle when her old boss comes knocking...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  fiction  humor  paranormal
  • Warrior's Paradox by Stephanie West

    Warrior's Paradox by Stephanie West

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    June is bored out of her mind at the New Earth colony. The Miran Sona pamper the human colonists, but June's not a breeder, she's a scientist. So, when the opportunity presents itself, she sneaks aboard the Miran Sona's spaceship, to get a good look at technology she could only dream of. Next thing she knows, June finds herself stranded on a planet of barbaric looking demons...
  • Guiding by Viola Grace

    Guiding by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Taking care of folks in the wild is her hobby, but when two of the Shadow Folk need her help getting everyone out alive, her skills as a guide will be tested.Teyha enjoys being a historian and educating the next generation of Gaia on how they arrived...
  • Fire Dance by Viola Grace

    Fire Dance by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her element is fire, her mind is missing memories and a dream master is her keeper. Hahvi’s dance will reshape a world. Hahvi has spent eight years in the dome with other physical talents. Her body is wrapped in a restrictor suit, but she keeps her mind free to dream of possibilities. She is given to the Citadel, and when she meets the dream master, her world and her options shift dramatically...
  • The Vulfan's Dark Desires by Georgette St. Clair

    The Vulfan's Dark Desires by Georgette St. Clair

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alien wolf shifter Treffon Thorolf has given up on finding his True Mate – after all, he’s only been searching for a century. Before the Darkness can consume him, he’ll go out his own way – in glorious battle against the cyborgs. That is the plan right up to the moment when curvy, clumsy Violet Dufresne literally stumbles into his life and spills a drink down his pants...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  alpha-mc  female-mc  steamy  adult  book  fiction  humor
  • Keen by Viola Grace

    Keen by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Being invited into the Alliance was a shock for Kyna. She was wanted for an archivist assignment on a far-off world that needed her…specifically. Kee gets an implant that allows her instant access to generations of information, and she heads off to Jhenno for her new life in one of the most comprehensive archives in history...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  dragons  fiction  paranormal
  • Intercept by Viola Grace

    Intercept by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maud has known that she is destined for life as a dragon’s wife, but she has contractual obligations that she has to finish first. On her last assignment, everything goes wrong and she goes from filing paperwork to being scooped up by Raiders for use in one of their arena facilities, providing black market fighting to an entertainment hungry universe...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  captivity  dark  dragons
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