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  • A Kiss of Frost by Honey Phillips

    A Kiss of Frost by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Can the warmth of the holiday season thaw an alien warrior’s frozen heart?When Katerina is faced with an unwanted marriage, she takes her younger sister and runs, only to discover a small band of misfits hiding in some ancient ruins. Their fight for survival grows even harder as the holidays approach - until a massive horned warrior appears in their camp...
  • Sanctuary for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips

    Sanctuary for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can an alien warrior and an orphaned infant provide a new beginning for a lonely woman? Tired of relentless hours, arrogant clients, and endless demands, Barbara is ready to abandon her career as a corporate attorney for a simpler life. She doesn’t expect that life to involve an alien abduction, an abandoned baby, and an all-too-intriguing alien warrior with a very friendly tail...
  • A Miracle for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips

    A Miracle for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can an alien warrior who’s given up hope save a desperate woman and her unborn child?Lauren knew the decision to have a baby on her own wouldn’t be an easy one. She didn’t know that she would be kidnapped by aliens whose only interest in her is as a breeding vessel. A desperate attempt to escape leaves her trapped and isolated - and about to give birth...
  • Jingle Stars by Jenny Schwartz

    Jingle Stars by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a starship decides to play Santa Claus… Ahab is a mLa’an artificial intelligence embedded in the starship, Orion. The campaign for AIs to be recognized as full citizens of Galaxy Proper is within reach of its extraordinary goal. The only thing that could stop it now is if an AI did something foolish…like take a space station hostage to save seven orphaned children...
  • Skruj by Honey Phillips

    Skruj by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s wealthy, he’s mean… and he’s about to meet his match! Life on the alien planet of Londria is difficult for humans, but Bobbi is determined to make the holiday season a special time for her fragile little brother, Tim. Desperate for funds, she’s even willing to take a job working for the coldest, meanest, most hard-hearted alien in the entire city...
  • Drakkar by Honey Phillips

    Drakkar by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can a vulnerable human become a dragon warrior’s greatest treasure?For generations, Drakkar’s people have chosen to live alone, only coming together for brief periods, but when he joins the battle raging across his home planet, he finds an unexpected family in a set of misfit warriors. After the war ends, he chooses to cut all ties to his past and accompany his new brothers to a backwater planet...
  • Callum by Honey Phillips

    Callum by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Can a weary alien warrior and a wary human widow learn to love again?The life of a warrior is all Callum has ever known, but after a long, meaningless war he is tired of fighting. Instead, he chooses to accompany his brothers in arms to a new life on a backwater planet and finds an unexpected peace in the hard work of restoring their isolated ranch...
  • Sakar by Ella Blake

    Sakar by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My two girls and I are going to be snowed in for Christmas and that’s fine with us, until an alien spacecraft crashes behind our wooded Maine home. I take the gorgeous Virilian, Prince Sakar, home with me. He’s injured and tracking an endangered alien dog with a taste for my neighbor’s goats...
  • I Married Krogal by Regine Abel

    I Married Krogal by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He is the cuddliest of teddy bears. A year after fleeing an abusive partner, Farah’s welcome in the refuge sheltering her is ending. With no money, no job, and no options, she’s floored to be presented with a marriage of convenience to an alien behemoth as a solution. Considering her recent ordeal, entering a relationship with a four-armed giant with herculean strength is the last thing she wants...
  • Lost: A Christmas Novella by Jenny Schwartz

    Lost: A Christmas Novella by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Merry Christmas, son. Don’t come home. Stuck on Central Transit Station, Sergeant Ryan Dabrowski receives a Dear John letter from his family. The home he fought to protect doesn’t want him. He’s left too much of his body out among the stars. The aug-doctors patched him up better than new, but cyborg freaks aren’t welcome on Earth.“Don’t ruin your sister’s life...
  • Temel by Honey Phillips

    Temel by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A proud alien, a desperate widow, and a misfit family…Temel was raised to place duty above all else. Even though the war has ended, his duty is to the warriors who need him rather than his own desires. Until he encounters a curvy, spirited female who makes him long for things he never thought to have...
  • 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...
  • Naffon by Honey Phillips

    Naffon by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A charming alien, a single mom, and an adventurous journey…Dora was fooled once by a charming smile and pretty words; she’s not about to let it happen again, especially now that she has a baby. And especially when those charming smiles come from a reckless, golden-furred alien who irritates her as much as he arouses her.Naffon joined the military looking for adventure...
  • Endark by Honey Phillips

    Endark by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can a determined human bride save an alien shifter from his beast?Half human and half Vultor - and rejected by both - Endark has lived his life alone. The only family he knows is the one he has formed with his warrior brothers. But even that bond is not enough to save him from his father’s cruel legacy. His only hope is a mate who will calm his inner beast...
  • Guarded by an Alien Assassin by Honey Phillips

    Guarded by an Alien Assassin by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When Julie's past comes back to haunt her, she finds an unexpected savior in the form of a towering, blue-skinned alien with a fierce scowl and muscles for days.She should be terrified. Instead she wants to get closer - much closer - to the brooding warrior, and not just because of the safety he promises.Q’tar's mission is eliminate his target and get the hell off of Earth...
  • Defying Fate by Regine Abel

    Defying Fate by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No more secrets. No more lies.For the past eight years, Tevek has searched for his missing mother and sister. But as a top technological mind of Guldar, he is closely watched. And as one of the secret leaders of the rebellion, he must tread carefully...
  • Dragon's Redemption by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Redemption by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jormund I have to have her. These other males can't care for her the way I will. They'll try to get her back, of course. What else could they do? I'll have to outsmart them to keep her. And keep her I will. She-who-is-mine will see, eventually. We are fated. She is my heart and my soul. Delilah I'm resigned to my life alone. Well, not really alone...
  • Alien Hunter's Fate by Ava Ross

    Alien Hunter's Fate by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alien insists I’m his fated mate. After we escape a deadly alien game called the labyrinth, he says he’s keeping me. This deal was supposed to be simple. Take a shuttle to the space station. Connect with an alien in need of Slaking—their term, not mine. One week between the furs with no hearts involved, something I’m determined to avoid after being burned...
  • Space Mercenary's Prize by Lynnea Lee

    Space Mercenary's Prize by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a tiny form crashes into me in the alley behind my old haunt, I don’t expect to find a half-dressed human female in my arms. Jenny brings out my instinct to guard and protect. Drunk and eager for a fight, I knock out her attacker and vow to take her home to Reka 5.There’s only one problem: Jenny’s owner wants her back.We wake the next morning with an enormous bounty on our heads...
  • Her Cyborg Champion by Susan Hayes

    Her Cyborg Champion by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She risked everything to escape from Earth - but her new life came with a cost.Haven colony is Maggie’s new home and her one chance at freedom. Clean water, free air... As far as she’s concerned, it’s paradise. But getting here meant leaving her best friend behind...
  • Alien Pirate's Plunder by Ava Ross

    Alien Pirate's Plunder by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alien pirate promises to give me a child. But what if he steals my heart?Aliens are real and they’re eager to Slake. What’s Slaking, you ask? It seems Xilan males go into a voracious heat period every three years, and there aren’t enough females to fulfill the needs of these beastly aliens. Enter me and other Earth females eager to have children...
  • Dragon's Destiny by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Destiny by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve been searching for my mate. For my destiny. For the female who is somewhere on Tajss…KhabriThe Zmaj race was dying when humans crashed landed on our planet. Since the moment their coming was revealed to the Order, I've known that one of the females is my mate. My treasure. All I want is her and the beautiful, perfect babies we will have together...
  • Craved by an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross

    Craved by an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s hot and he has huge assets, but he irritates the heck out of me.Savvy: A deadly vine is unleashed on our world, scorching everything in its path. The only solution is to pair up with Skydar—a warrior bad boy in major need of a kick in the… You know what. He thinks he can settle our rivalry by staking his claim on me...as his fated mate...
  • Dragon's Isolation by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Isolation by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I've lost my happily ever after...My story was supposed to be over. We were supposed to grow old together in each other's arms and watch our tiny son become a man with a life of his own.The Zmaj, seven foot tall winged and scaled dragon warriors, are getting sick. It's stealing their memories and making them regress into primal barbarians, losing themselves completely...
  • The Start of Time by Marilyn Foxworthy

    The Start of Time by Marilyn Foxworthy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was my second day on the ‘Red Planet’. Today I’d better find water. That had been the instructions in the box: learn to walk; find Water; make a weapon; find a nice Martian girl to teach you to speak the language. I figured that finding food would be a good idea too. It wasn’t exactly like I had expected, but how could it be? I had followed an unbelievable path to an unbelievable destination...
  • The Alien Tyrant's Conquest by Bella Blair

    The Alien Tyrant's Conquest by Bella Blair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I can offer her a queenship, but not my heart, still, I need her to be MINE.AUDRA: I knew pissing my boss off was a bad idea. But I didn't know how bad until I am sent to The Tribulations to become fodder for the contestants. Resigned to my fate, I can hardly believe it when this golden god appears from out of nowhere to save me...
  • Virilian Mail Order Mates, #1-6 by Ella Blake

    Virilian Mail Order Mates, #1-6 by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Virilian Match ProgramIt seems like a straightforward become mistress to a gorgeous, alien Virilian male until an offspring is produced, then return home with five million dollars.Nothing turns out straightforward for the women who are chosen or the males they are matched to. Danger and adventure might be expected in far-off alien worlds, but none of them expect to fall in love..
  • I Married A Dryad by Regine Abel

    I Married A Dryad by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He was her perfect match.Fed up with the deadbeats and jerks infesting the standard dating pool, Maeve reaches out to the Prime Mating Agency, hoping to improve her luck. Her fear of ending up with some weird primitive alien is immediately alleviated when she’s paired with a stunning Edocit...
  • Alien in Charge by Lili Zander

    Alien in Charge by Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I have better things to do than babysit a human. And her cat.Someone has attacked the Human Federation Ambassador in Gehar territory, and out of an abundance of caution, the Empress has assigned me to protect the human until the culprit has been caught.The new Ambassador, and her kitten, Luna. (Short for Lunatic.)Yes, seriously...
  • 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...
  • Dragon's Secret by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Secret by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This isn't how I saw my life going. It's not what was supposed to happen and damn it, I want to live my dreams! As if. Every day it becomes clearer that I'm going to be the Mary Poppins of Tajss. I do love helping with all my friends' half-Zmaj, half-human babies but it also fuels the empty ache of wanting one of my own to hold and raise...
  • Dragon's Temptation by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Temptation by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's a simple mission, right? Not a thing. Go, meet the new group of massive alien-dragon Zmaj warriors who call themselves 'The Order', make friendly and come home with everyone on good terms and willing to work together. Survival on Tajss is hard, everyone needs more allies, it's a no-brainer. Easy. No problem whatsoever...
  • The Alien's Blade by Ella Blake

    The Alien's Blade by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What’s worse than waking up from a hibernation cell fifty-two years after being abducted?Nothing. No, wait—a wise-cracking alien hunk with a killer smile who doesn’t let me out of his sight, that’s what.Wulfrex knows every inch of his massive space cruiser and makes it impossible for me to steal it...
  • Doctor Galaxy by Jenny Schwartz

    Doctor Galaxy by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New ER doctor Alexi Sur always intended to join an aid agency. She'd just expected to work among humans. But when the Pax Galactica Corps becomes her only option (don't ask - the debts aren't hers, but the family is. Much to her regret), Alexi finds herself traveling the galaxy and learning alien physiology and culture, all while becoming a reality TV star...
  • Chained to the Stryxian by Ella Blake

    Chained to the Stryxian by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Arus Bor'vak understands machines better than people. He likes them better, too, so when human women begin to populate the Stryxian settlements, he finds it best to give them a wide berth. They’re beautiful, soft, and utterly incomprehensible, and none captures his attention like Keira Becker, the strong ex-lieutenant who makes him lose his tongue in her presence...
  • Alien Commander's Mate by Mina Carter

    Alien Commander's Mate by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alone. Ill. She’ll do anything to find her kids. Both her children taken by the Lathar and her home destroyed in the process, Amanda Kallson is at her wits end and desperate. With nothing left to tie her to Earth, she’ll do anything to track down her daughters… even take an alien warriors crazy deal. It doesn’t hurt that said alien warrior is tall, ripped and as handsome as hell...
  • I Married Wonjin by Regine Abel

    I Married Wonjin by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She once feared him but now cannot resist him…After decades of violence, the war pitting the human colony on Cibbos against the Yurus tribe has finally ended. Lara never expected that peace between their species would lead to a romantic entanglement with one of their former enemies. Resembling a cross between an orc and a minotaur, Wonjin looks nothing like how Lara had imagined a potential mate...
  • Erun by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Erun by Erin Tate, Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New Edition found hereHe’s an Ujal who knows he’ll never have a mate. She’s a human who doesn’t want to take another chance on love. One small child doesn’t give them a choice. With her toddler in tow, Vanessa Walker travels to Tampa, Florida to begin her new job at Ujal Station Tau...
  • Artek by Honey Phillips

    Artek by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Worn down by war and conflict, Commander Artek and his brothers - the soldiers under his command - have chosen to start a new life on a backwater planet. As hard work and peaceful surroundings start to heal old wounds, he realizes that something - or rather someone - is missing from his new life...
  • Alien AI's Marine by Mina Carter

    Alien AI's Marine by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He's the lone human male in a sea of lethal alien warriors. He's either gifted or suicidal...Kidnapped by aliens, rescued, and now on a secret base in a system he can't even pronounce, Major Jay Stephens has given up on a wing and a prayer... he's now on kicking butt and taking names. Especially when it comes to the alien AI who's risked everything, even her 'life' to protect him.The only problem...
  • Travek's Treasure by Pearl Tate

    Travek's Treasure by Pearl Tate

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Travek... As a Councilor’s son, I was raised by my uncle to join the Merchant Line on Quasar. I’ve been trained to look for and recognize the profit potential in every situation... When Bren found a Human mate from Earth, I saw the possibilities the females there present for the future of Quasar and for my own financial gain..
  • Ravenous Alien Mate by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Ravenous Alien Mate by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her freedom comes with a price—her hand in marriage.After spending ten years behind bars, Leah is offered early release if she agrees to become an alien mail order bride. Though she’s nervous about the prospect of marrying a complete stranger—a huge Martian, no less—she’s also desperate for freedom...
  • Alien Lover by Luna Kingsley

    Alien Lover by Luna Kingsley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Drevath is a warrior to his core. His first priority is his warrior brothers and the safety of his kingdom. The last thing he expects is for a human bride to be delivered to their camp on the southern border while they’re under attack from the Thren. She’s nothing but a distraction as her safety falls to him. Hannah enrolled as a mail-order bride to give her younger siblings a better life...
  • Dragon's Protection by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Protection by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes your greatest fears bring you where you need to be, no matter how hard the road is... Victoria... I was stupid. Scared and stupid when I followed the racist leader of the anti-Zmaj into the desert. We were exiled from the rest of the human survivors but hey, at least I was getting away from the huge and intimidating, dragon-like Zmaj warriors...
  • 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...
  • Allies by Harmony Raines

    Allies by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Petra never wanted to go to Karal, but when her mother becomes the new President of Earth, thanks to the Karal, she is part of the deal. Never having entered the lottery, she feels used, but soon begins to appreciate the huge Karalian who is her mate. Sent into deep space with him, their bond grows, as they race to find a new planet suitable for a human colony...
  • Scorched by Heather Fox

    Scorched by Heather Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rachel: Mama always said that when I open my mouth, stupid comes out. I guess that's why instead of telling Grace the real reason I'm at the medical hut, I tell her I want to train to be a healer. It's not so bad, though. It's nice to give something back to the tribe, and also, it means I get to care for injured warrior Vantos...
  • Callim's Challenge by Pearl Tate

    Callim's Challenge by Pearl Tate

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shelly... Abducted from Earth, contracting a deadly disease, getting matched up to an alien I’ve never met… welcome to the chaos that’s my life. Now, I’m on a spaceship travelling to Quasar, to get the vaccine that I need to survive and meet my future mate! I’m used to being at the mercy of others. First, it was my drug-addicted mother and eventually the foster care system...
  • Silenced by Heather Fox

    Silenced by Heather Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Carrie: The new arrivals at our tribe may have their minds only on one thing, but I can't even think about finding my mate. Not when my voice has been stolen away by a broken promise. Unable to communicate with the others, I'm relegated to the edges of the tribe. But I'm not the only one. Endzoh, the quiet warrior I've always thought didn't much like us girls, is right here with me...
  • Seduced by Heather Fox

    Seduced by Heather Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lorna: After the awful mess that was my life back on Earth, living in the raskarran village is great. It's a simple life, but the big green guys provide for us, our huts are cosy and I get to spend my days looking after two adorable children. There's only one problem - the dreamspace. Much as I might want to have a family one day, I can't have anyone inside my head...
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