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  • Scarred by Tana Stone

    Scarred by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when a tough, Drexian captain gets trapped on an alien planet with the human tribute bride he’s supposed to rescue? Without his clothes.Brok has vowed to track down the pretty human who was snatched by space pirates and return her to be matched with a Drexian warrior. One who isn’t battle-scarred and damaged, like him...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Alien in Chief by Gini Koch

    Alien in Chief by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Mastermind has upped his game . . .As Kitty can tell you, it's not easy being the wife of the vice president - especially not when he's an alien from the Alpha Centauri system. And being a parent of preternaturally talented children, don't even go there. But she and her A-C husband, Jeff, have learned how to roll with whatever life and the bad guys throw at them - they think...
  • 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...
  • Volunteer for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Volunteer for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I didn’t want to compete in the Alien Bride Games. But I would do anything to save my sister.Hannah’s just a kid. Yeah, sure, she’s 21, old enough for her name to be drawn in The Alien Bride Lottery. But she’s got her whole life in front of her.I, on the other hand, have nothing left to live for...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Alien Outcast's Exiled Bride by Juno Wells

    Alien Outcast's Exiled Bride by Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    PernI’ve killed a queen. She was a vicious Draconian queen bent on death and destructionbut she was my queen none the less. And I gunned her down in cold blood. No male hasever killed a queen and lived to tell the tale. Queen Cassandra granted me a pardon andtook me into her favor for siding when her when the war was all but lost...
  • 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...
  • Prisoner by Tana Stone

    Prisoner by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What’s more dangerous than joining the Vandar to crush the Zagrath? Being taken captive by the deadly creatures who rule the sector—and consider prisoners to be expendable.Cassie is eager to join her fellow resistance fighters when they team up with the Vandar hordes, but she isn't expecting to be taken prisoner during the battle...
  • Conquering the Alien Commander by Bella Blair

    Conquering the Alien Commander by Bella Blair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Whatever it takes, I will never leave HER!ASHLEY: Taken by the Cryons during a rescue mission gone wrong, I thought my life was over. I prepared myself to die on an alien planet, swearing I would take some of the hateful Cryons with me.But a chance to escape leads me right into the arms of the Pandraxian’s superior commander, who claims I’m his mekarry—soulmate...
  • 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...
  • Alien Savage's Stolen Bride by Juno Wells

    Alien Savage's Stolen Bride by Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rebecca While fleeing a dying Earth I've endured cold, hunger and thirst. The one bright spot in my nightmare is my friend and fellow red-head, Willow. I've never had a friend like her before, one who I'd do anything for and she'd do the same for me. We're traveling to the Draconian home-world to accept an offer of sanctuary. Of course nothing in the universe is free...
  • Alien Hope by Ursa Dax

    Alien Hope by Ursa Dax

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ABBYI have a secret.I’m pregnant. With a human baby. And not a much-needed girl the Sea Sand Gahns would welcome.Nope. I’m carrying a 100% human male .So when the kind, quiet Bitter Sea warrior Kohka tells me he’s leaving for the Deep Sky settlement, I convince (aka, beg) him to take me along. I just need to get away from here...
  • 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...
  • Alien Hope by Honey Phillips

    Alien Hope by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Torn apart for ten years, can they reclaim their love? For as long as Emlan could remember, T’renan had been part of her life - friend, protector, confidant - but when she tried to show the massive alien warrior she wanted more, he left her. When she heard that he had been killed, she couldn't let herself believe he was really gone...
  • 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...
  • Alien Collective by Gini Koch

    Alien Collective by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Despite not having run for office, nor wanting to remain in office, Representative Jeff Martini is being wooed as the vice presidential running mate for a charismatic senator who seems likely to win the campaign...
  • 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...
  • The Alien's Fire by Ella Blake

    The Alien's Fire by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    HarpHe’s my boss on this ship, but not the boss of me. At least that’s what I tell myself every time the gorgeous, icy-eyed—and hearted—Heveian warrior speaks to me. Or rather, growls at me. Despite his clear dislike of me, I have the dirtiest thoughts about the big guy...
  • The Buff Beast by Honey Phillips

    The Buff Beast by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can Mina survive the icy cold of an alien winter? And melt the heart of the hardened alien warrior who rescues her?Her home. Her job. In a few short months, Mina has lost everything, including hope. Freezing and alone on a winter night, she isn't sure if she will make it to the next day. Or even if it matters.She wakes up to find herself naked and freezing, but no longer alone...
  • Tempted by an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross

    Tempted by an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She hates him (not really). He hates her (not really?). But when she's kidnapped by the duskhorde, he mounts a bold rescue, only to be captured himself. Can they escape and find true love together?Zetar: After losing my mate to the disease, I promised never to love another. Then I meet Josie. She’s full of fire, and she tests my patience...
  • Axall by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Axall by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He won’t leave Earth without her.After awakening from cryosleep, Rachel struggles to find her place in a strange new world. Earth isn’t the way she remembers it. Not even close. For starters, humans have made contact with real live aliens. Before she can wrap her head around all the changes, a bossy Vaxxlian warrior shows up in her bedroom claiming to be her mate...
  • Khann by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Khann by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He’s the enemy—and she’s agreed to become his mate.Stranded on war-torn Earth with her young daughter, Belle is devastated to learn she has a terminal illness. Who will take care of her daughter after she’s gone? When she discovers Vaxxlians possess the technology to save her, she doesn’t hesitate to sign up for Vaxxlian Mail Order Brides—even if she does view the powerful aliens as the enemy...
  • Myadd by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Myadd by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The huge alien warrior wants to keep her forever.Pregnant and alone, Sienna feels she has no choice but to sign up for Vaxxlian Mail Order Brides. She’ll have to marry a complete stranger, but she’s desperate to provide a real future for her unborn child. When she meets Myadd, she experiences the first glimmer of hope in ages...
  • Enemy of the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Enemy of the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ll do whatever it takes to destroy the Bride Games.A year ago, I did the unthinkable.I helped a woman running from the Alien Bride Lottery.I spent three months in a federal prison for it, too.As soon as I got out, a secret organization recruited me. Our goal is to end the Bride Lottery program forever.So when my name is drawn in the Lottery this year, I know it’s a setup...
  • Lost to the Alien Lord (Lords of Destra, #1) by Ella Blake

    Lost to the Alien Lord (Lords of Destra, #1) by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Sci-Fi Alien Romance I signed up for a research mission with five other women. Instead, we crashed on an alien planet with too many dangers to count. Separated from the other women, I'm on my own until a huge alien with color-changing skin and a massive sword gets me out of a bad spot. I don't understand Savair's language, but I think he's under the impression that I'm his.I am NOT his...
  • Piper (Alien Surrogate Agency #1) by Tasha Black

    Piper (Alien Surrogate Agency #1) by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She signed up to give him an heir, but what he really wants is her heart.Piper’s infertility sent her childhood sweetheart into the arms of another woman. Now she’s cashing in her credits at the local fertility clinic so she can do the traveling she’s always dreamed of.But when the clinic offers her a secret third option, she can’t resist...
  • 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...
  • Stranded by Heather Fox

    Stranded by Heather Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Liv: Being in a spaceship crash wasn’t on my agenda. I’m meant to be on Alpha Colony, hunting for clues to my sister’s disappearance. Instead, me and twelve other women are stranded on the outskirts of a jungle on a planet we know nothing about, where the flora and fauna are both out to get us...
  • Drex by Ella Blake

    Drex by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Madison McGurdy didn’t enter herself into the selection process to become mistress to a powerful Virilian male for the money. She did it to escape. When your obsessed ex is one of the most ruthless men in the world and there’s no place on Earth to hide from him (because you’ve tried), going to a faraway planet sounds like an adventure and a chance for a fresh start...
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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Cultivating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Cultivating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My new job gives me the chance to put my past behind me. Only one problem: I’m falling for my bad boy boss…After my ex dumps my possessions on the sidewalk, cleans out our bank account, and steals my landscaping business, I'm once again submitting job applications. It’s that or no roof over my head...
  • 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...
  • Domesticating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Domesticating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve been hired to teach an alien warrior social skills to woo a mate. But now he’s trying to woo me.When the elderly duchess I cared for dies, her slimy son—my ex—tells me he wants me back. Um, no. I flee and at the Intergalactic Employment Agency, I’m offered a job teaching an alien warlord sophistication so he can woo a mate at the upcoming Match-Mating Soiree...
  • 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...
  • Ravaged by L.V. Lane

    Ravaged by L.V. Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fierce, untamed, and brutal, Quin, the alien ravager, is all these things and more.The kind of alien that wants to claim me and make me into his pet.One small problem, he's not real. He's a character in a book.None of this matters anymore, for the lines have gotten blurred. I need to be protected, and my fierce alien ravager is going to protect me...
  • Nkarri by Annabelle Rex

    Nkarri by Annabelle Rex

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was as if his focus narrowed, the rest of the people in the room fading out as he took her in...Jas has spent years regrowing her confidence after getting burned by her ex. Now she has great friends, a beautiful home and a successful career - everything she thought she needed...
  • Raith by Annabelle Rex

    Raith by Annabelle Rex

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If he suggested it, she was absolutely going to unwrap him like a Christmas present.Mia made a promise to always attend her family’s Christmas ‘gathering’. Hard to call it a party when they’re about as much fun as a funeral. It’s the same thing every year...
  • Vykor by Susan Hayes

    Vykor by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Looking for love on all the wrong planets? Try the Star-Crossed Dating Agency. Born without a dragon’s spirit, Vykor has no magic, no clan, and no reason to stay on his home planet of Romak. He’s come to Earth to research old legends – and maybe even find acceptance...
  • AvX by Jennifer Julie Miller

    AvX by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    IvyWhy are the last words ever spoken to our loved ones is in anger? I knew the moment I left it was a mistake, but my stubborn pride urged me forward. I’ve awakened to unimaginable horrors, pain unlike anything the human mind could conceive, until him. Now, I’m too scared to trust my own feelings, as they have only led me astray...
  • Charlie's Order by Miranda Martin

    Charlie's Order by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's a member of the enemy Order, but his dragon staked its claim and he killed a Brother to defend me...CharlieI’m a scientist. Logic has always gotten me through, but there's no logic to love. Lusting over the alpha, domineering alien dragon man, sure, makes sense. But instant love? Fated mates? Impossible.Besides, he’s a member of the evil Order...
  • Rescued by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rescued by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Humans lie. I learned that lesson once before.I thought I found a mate, but she betrayed us all.I won't let that happen again.Not even when I find Sia and four other females nearly dead on a defunct planet.Not when the lovely female is remanded to my custody.She's not being honest about what she knows.But with a little pressure, a little punishment, I might get her to talk.Teach her to obey...
  • Cheating in the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Cheating in the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I have no desire to join the Alien Bride Lottery.But even more than that, I don't want my parents to choose a husband for me. And that's what will happen if I stay on Earth.So I make a deal with them: if I go to Station 21 and don't get chosen by a Khanavai male, I will come home and allow them to plan the rest of my life...
  • Asia's Fate by Miranda Martin

    Asia's Fate by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's an old saying that no plan survives contact with the enemy. But what if the enemy is your fated mate?AsiaFalling in love wasn’t part of the plan.I was supposed to be "captured", gather intel from the inside, then be rescued and returned to safety.But the moment I saw the enormous, electric blue scaled alien dragon warrior, my heart leapt into my throat...
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