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  • A Grimm Sacrifice by Jeffery H. Haskell

    A Grimm Sacrifice by Jeffery H. Haskell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In order to survive, Interceptor must change the rules.The Consortium is in real trouble. Caliphate Naval forces have stepped up their raids on the border planets and are taking people by the thousands. They can defend the wormhole, or they can defend their planets, not both...
  • Nightfall by Jay Allan

    Nightfall by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Night is falling. The unstoppable Hegemony invasion has reached the very heart of the Confederation. Battle after desperate battle has been fought, and each time, the Confeds have been pushed back, columns of battered and blasted ship retreating from system to system. Now, they prepare to grimly defend the capital world of Megara, the very center of the Confederation...
  • Odysseus Ascendant by Evan Currie

    Odysseus Ascendant by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A mysterious entity may be the key to a starship’s survival—or a terrifying new threat—as the Odyssey One series continues… The Empire has set its sights on its next target: human Terrans. As effective allies of the Priminae, the denizens of Earth have proven themselves enemies to the Empire, and now the Imperial forces know more about the Terran home world than ever before...
  • Dauntless by Jay Allan

    Dauntless by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The pulsar…an ancient weapon of unimaginable power, one that threatens the Confederation with total destruction. The Union is preparing for the final invasion, one that cannot fail with the great artifact at the head of their fleet. The clock is ticking quickly toward midnight. There is a chance to avoid annihilation, a small one...
  • Give No Quarter by Jamie McFarlane

    Give No Quarter by Jamie McFarlane

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Alternate cover for ASIN B01FQ57I7G can be found here: Give No Quarter Branded criminals and on the run from the most powerful corporation in the known universe, Liam Hoffen and the crew of Hotspur have a simple choice to make...
  • Excalibur Lost: a Space Opera Novella by Glynn Stewart

    Excalibur Lost: a Space Opera Novella by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A broken speciesA broken manA lost legend…Only dreams and stories remain of the worlds humanity once called home, but scattered refugees live in the corners of the empire of their conquerors, the Sacred Council of Races...
  • Vigilante: Age of Expansion by Natalie Grey, Michael Anderle

    Vigilante: Age of Expansion by Natalie Grey, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One man leaves the life of a lawman behind him and works to clean up a new area in space. On the planet now known as High Tortuga, the mine workers are far too close to being slaves so the ruler of the planet shut them down. Except for the mine owned by Venfirdri Lan. He's taken his mine off the grid and decided to keep everything running. With no need to pay the workers, profits should be good...
  • Earth Unrelenting by M.R. Forbes

    Earth Unrelenting by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A fugitive captured. A hero forsaken. A secret revealed. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Three days. That’s what they promised. But on Earth the danger is unrelenting, and promises are hard to keep. Now Sheriff Duke is the one on the run, chased by an unexpected enemy eager to finish what they started. An enemy with an agenda that begins with killing him but ends with something worse...
  • Call to Arms by Jay Allan

    Call to Arms by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Call to Arms: Blood on the Stars II War. The word spreads throughout the Confederation…the long-expected Union invasion has come. The enemy is strong, their fleets larger and more powerful than intelligence reports had predicted. They have broken through the forward defenses, sent the Confederation’s proud fleets into an ignominious retreat...
  • 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...
  • Double Down by M.R. Forbes

    Double Down by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With the memory of their losses fresh on Hayley and Quark’s minds, they head for a meetup with one of the only individuals in the galaxy who might be able to help them handle the coming storm. But the enemy always seems to be one step ahead of them, ready to intercept at every turn and forcing them to make even more sacrifices along the way...
  • Endure by M.R. Forbes

    Endure by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The journey of the starship Pioneer continues in the fourth thrilling installment of the Forgotten Starship series.The ship is in dire straits, deep behind enemy lines and on the verge of capture. While Tyson fights to prepare a defense, other forces work to ensure his ultimate failure as they seek to claim one of Pioneer’s few remaining secrets...
  • Evolve by M.R. Forbes

    Evolve by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Series Finale!The starship Pioneer’s voyage is coming to an end, and it won’t be like anything the passengers or crew could have imagined.If any of them survive to see it.Pioneer needs to reach the Forge, but the Forge is surrounded by the enemy’s massive fleet, which is preparing to launch an assault that could leave the station in ruins...
  • 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...
  • Odysseus Awakening by Evan Currie

    Odysseus Awakening by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Defy the inevitable. Such is the stance of Confederation captain Eric Weston and the crew of the starship Odysseus, patrolling the outer limits of Priminae space, anticipating the Empire’s next attacks. Connected with the Terran FTL tech—the transition drive—humanity might stand a chance against the overwhelming forces. Until the entire planetary system goes dark...
  • Ruins of Empire by Jay Allan

    Ruins of Empire by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Jay Allan's Blood on the Stars... War rages between the Confederation and the Union. Shattered fleets watch each other warily across a war torn frontier. Both sides are licking their wounds, gathering strength to continue the fight...
  • Damnation by M.R. Forbes

    Damnation by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The enemy is everywhere. Our existence hangs by a thread.On Earth we’re dying - the ships have landed.On Proxima we’re ignorant - the sabotage nearly complete.Our strongholds are routed.Our defenses crippled.Our wills are broken.Our hope is gone...… or is it?Three heroes.Two battlefronts.One desperate chance for victory...
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    aliens  first-contact  invasion  adult  ai  book  dystopia  fiction
  • Pursuit of the Bold by Jamie McFarlane

    Pursuit of the Bold by Jamie McFarlane

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A world-shattering invasion. A long-dead rumor. A death-defying risk to save humanity. If the Kroerak Empire had a soft spot, Liam Hoffen would have found it by now. After years of fighting the blasted bug invaders, he’s all but thrown in the towel. To make matters worse, intercepted enemy plans show the empire’s next attack could wipe them off the map...
  • Deep Space - Hidden Terror by Laurence E. Dahners

    Deep Space - Hidden Terror by Laurence E. Dahners

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This hard Sci-Fi novel is the sixth book in the “Stasis Stories,” a series of optimistic tales of technological innovation in the near future. They follow Kaem Seba, a young man with extraordinary math talents. With his friends, he’s come up with a device that allows time to be stopped within limited volumes of space-time...
  • Emerge by M.R. Forbes

    Emerge by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After 100 years crossing the expanse, the generation starship Pioneer is nearly halfway to her destination. The horrors of her first few days in space have been erased by time and forgotten by the residents of the city nestled inside.But all good things must come to an end.Deputy Niko Nori finds that out the hard way...
  • Claimed by the Warlord by V.K. Ludwig

    Claimed by the Warlord by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s the female I can’t have. If I take her, she’ll die.As Warlord of the largest tribe on Solgad, my obligations are many. With a new strain of ice fever running rampant among the freeraiders, the team of healers supplied by the Empire is a welcome relief.Until one of them arrives at Noja with her body begging to be bred, the scent of her heat a dangerous temptation...
  • Triple Threat by M.R. Forbes

    Triple Threat by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hayley Cage never expected to find herself on the other side of the galaxy, as a healer on a team of rough and tough mercenaries hunting Satan's secret army. But then, life doesn't always go as planned...
  • Ashes of War by Kevin O. McLaughlin

    Ashes of War by Kevin O. McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The alien Naga tried to destroy all life on Earth, but what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Six months ago we fought a short but devastating war against the invaders. Our ships burned, and whole cities were annihilated, but we defeated them. Now out of the ashes rises a new Space Force, led by the heroes from that final terrible battle...
  • Big Dicker by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Big Dicker by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Mighty Minions Resort. Jimmy’s personal hell. All Jimmy wants is a booster shot of DNA scrambler so he never has to find his one-true soul mate. But life rarely goes the way you plan it. After dropping Xyla off on Blue Sand Beach for a little vacay with her sexbot girlfriends the Big Dicker has to make an emergency landing on the demon-themed Mighty Minions Resort...
  • Earth Undefeated by M.R. Forbes

    Earth Undefeated by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    3 enemies... 2 cities... 1 sheriff... BOOM! For Sheriff Duke, the danger has reached the final countdown. Captured, tortured, beaten but undefeated, it's sixty seconds to midnight and the only way to save his wife and daughter is through the fugitive he left home to hunt. The real enemy isn't what they seem and the history of the forgotten Earth is about to be rewritten..
  • No Planet for Good Men by M.R. Forbes

    No Planet for Good Men by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Sheriff Duke StoryEarth. After the invasion. The planet is in ruins. Humankind struggles to survive. Hayden is a Sheriff in a world without law. A good man in a world gone bad. He knows the fallout of an alien attack when he sees it. He's never seen anything like this before. Isaac is a Marine in a world without order. A good man with troubles of his own...
  • Tides of War by M.R. Forbes

    Tides of War by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After being saved from annihilation by the Old Gator’s daring plan, Gabriel and the crew of the Magellan find themselves in the most unlikely of places: a captured enemy starship. While learning to control the alien vessel introduces a new set of challenges, the secrets they discover within may prove to be the edge they so desperately need...
  • 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...
  • Formation (Forgotten Space Book 2) by M.R. Forbes

    Formation (Forgotten Space Book 2) by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After narrowly escaping destruction, Nicholas and his crew find themselves flung far across the universe with no way home. When a distress call from a nearby planet catches their attention, they decide to investigate with the hope the signal is somehow connected to their arrival.It isn’t long before the truth of Foresight’s mission comes into clearer focus, and Nicholas doesn’t like what he sees...
  • Weapons of War by M.R. Forbes

    Weapons of War by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the year 2280, an alien fleet stole our Earth. For fifty years they hunted us. For fifty years they enslaved us. For fifty years we lived in fear. Nothing lasts forever. They can try to quell us. They can try to break us. They can chase us to the ends of the Earth. They can chase us to the ends of the Universe. We’ve won our first battle. We’ve earned our first taste of hope...
  • Invasion by M.R. Forbes

    Invasion by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two hundred years ago, aliens invaded Earth. A violent war followed. The enemy won. Some of us escaped... ...most of us didn’t. On Proxima they flourished - the invasion forgotten. On Earth we floundered - the horror began. Their world is advanced, peaceful, and secure. Our world is broken, savage, and overrun. A new invasion is coming. A hunger that has swallowed half the universe...
  • Destruction by M.R. Forbes

    Destruction by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Deliverance isn’t alone.That’s not a surprise. The planet was chosen for a reason.But the situation is more dire than Caleb ever imagined. The enemy he’s encountered isn’t the enemy he was seeking, and the conflict is expanding in ways he can barely conceive...
  • The Forgotten: The Complete Trilogy by M.R. Forbes

    The Forgotten: The Complete Trilogy by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some things are better off forgotten.Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the Pilgrim, and he expects to die on the Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him.That's the way things are on a generation starship centuries from home. He's never questioned it. Never thought about it...
  • A Pocket Full of Lies by Kirsten Beyer, Martin Frei

    A Pocket Full of Lies by Kirsten Beyer, Martin Frei

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Full Circle Fleet has resumed its unprecedented explorations of the Delta Quadrant and former Borg space. Commander Liam O'Donnell of the U.S.S. Demeter makes a promising first contact with the Nihydron—humanoid aliens that are collectors of history...
  • 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...
  • Point of Origin by M.R. Forbes

    Point of Origin by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A starship lost. A creator found. A frantic race to save them both. For Colonel Mitchell “Ares” Williams, there is no giving up. There is no going back. The Goliath may have fallen into enemy hands, but the war must go on. After all, he and the Riggers have what they need to locate the Creator, the man responsible for the alien threat and the key to unraveling their unstoppable attack...
  • Invasion by Jay Allan

    Invasion by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    War…like none that has come before. The Hegemony has launched the invasion Tyler Barron and his Confederation comrades have feared, and all the Rim is ablaze with the fires of war and destruction. The Hegemony has brought its vast fleets, its advanced technology, and its endless legions of grim cyborg warriors to impose its system of rigid genetic hierarchy over all humanity on the Rim...
  • Black Dawn by Jay Allan

    Black Dawn by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    War is coming, darker and more terrible than any that have come before. The Hegemony is coming to impose its brutal system of genetic supremacy on the Confederation and the other nations on the Rim, to make its elite Masters the unchallenged rulers of all human habitation in the galaxy...
  • Artifact by Joshua James

    Artifact by Joshua James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS, SATURN HID AN ALIEN SECRET.IN 2065, HUMANITY WILL FIND IT.Lowell Carpenter is a disgraced Marine assigned to a remote US research station on Saturn's moon Enceladus, where scientists have made an extraordinary discovery in the ocean below.A special forces team, led by Lowell’s murderous former commanding officer, shows up to investigate...
  • 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...
  • No Way Back by M.R. Forbes

    No Way Back by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Sheriff Duke StoryWhen the going gets tough, Sheriff Duke gets tougher. He’ll have to if he’s going to survive long enough to see justice done. The monsters infecting the forgotten Earth don’t sleep, and neither can he. There’s no time to rest. There’s no time to recover...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  first-contact  invasion  adult  ai  apocalyptic  book  dystopia
  • Earth Unending by M.R. Forbes

    Earth Unending by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A menacing wasteland.A destructive new weapon.A planet on the edge of catastrophe.Sheriff Duke can’t rest. There’s no time to slow down. The threats are unending. The enemy unyielding...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  first-contact  invasion  adult  ai  apocalyptic  book  dystopia
  • 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...
  • Unidentified: A Science-Fiction Thriller by Douglas E. Richards, Dan Bittner

    Unidentified: A Science-Fiction Thriller by Douglas E. Richards, Dan Bittner

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    UFOs are real. When Jason Ridley discovers their shocking agenda, his actions will either transform humanity...or destroy it entirely. Unidentified details the actual evidence that UFOs are here, while offering a mind-blowing fictional take on the reasons why. A riveting pause-resister packed with nonstop action, epic ideas, and astonishing twists...
  • Star Kill by M.R. Forbes

    Star Kill by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Out of the fire, and into…Alliance Navy Commander Grayson Stone is a prisoner. His encounter with the alien invaders is behind him, a reckoning years in the making ahead. War in the galaxy is about to explode in a way he never imagined. The fate of humankind rests on a razor’s edge.He won’t remain idle. One way or another, he’s determined to escape...
  • Declaration by M.R. Forbes

    Declaration by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    SERIES FINALE! The Deliverance is on the brink of destruction. The planet is more dangerous than anyone realized - the crossroads of a war millennia in the making - and the colony is Ground Zero. But the courage of a few can move mountains, and the fight isn’t lost yet. The enemy thinks they have Caleb right where they want him. They ought to think again...
  • Isolation by M.R. Forbes

    Isolation by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The enemy is coming. The enemy is already here. For years they’ve prepared. Plotted. Planned. For years they’ve waited to strike. From above… … and below. Earth is under siege. The enemy covers the landscape. Proxima is unharmed. But that’s about to change. No armies can stop this menace. No defenses can slow the advance. We are scattered and isolated. We are ignorant and weak...
  • Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

    Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called Rama, disappears...
  • 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...
  • Death World by B.V. Larson

    Death World by B.V. Larson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. Our only worthwhile trade goods are our infamous mercenary legions, elite troops we sell to the highest alien bidder. In the fifth book of the Undying Mercenaries series, James McGill meets new challenges...
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