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  • A House By Any Other Name by Jenny Schwartz

    A House By Any Other Name by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Reality is a complicated multiverse of many species and rare magic. Diplomats are the official envoys and investigators who hold the Union of Worlds together.Raisa never intended to be a diplomat. Like so many things in her life, it was her stepmother's idea.Hector is an elf in disgrace. He chose his cyborged brother over his lying, abusive family. Elves revile augmented people...
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    aliens  romance  fantasy  sci-fi  paranormal  magic  mystery  cyborgs
  • Return of the Dead Guy by Barry J. Hutchison

    Return of the Dead Guy by Barry J. Hutchison

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They may have recently averted a full-scale galactic war, but Cal Carver and Space Team just can't stay out of trouble. When a 'Weird Space Thing™' threatens to destroy planet Earth, Cal is determined to stop it. But when they get there, they find the place is still swarming with parasitic extra-terrestrial bugs, and that there isn't a whole lot left to save...
  • Space Team: The Time Titan of Tomorrow by Barry J. Hutchison

    Space Team: The Time Titan of Tomorrow by Barry J. Hutchison

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Cal Carver's time is about to run out. He and his Space Team are broke. Forced to take low-paying gun-for-hire jobs just to keep the food replicator working, their prospects are not looking good. When they pick up a distress signal from a luxury space cruiser, they think their luck might be about to change. And it does. Sadly, not in the way they'd hoped...
  • The Horns of Avalon by Sam Sisavath

    The Horns of Avalon by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    SOME THINGS ARE STILL WORTH FIGHTING FOR.Killing has never been something Keo shied away from, but the events of the last year have made him rethink his bloody past. Except nothing lasts forever. Now, Keo has embraced his old ways and set his sights on a new target--and there is nothing more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose...
  • The Isles of Elysium by Sam Sisavath

    The Isles of Elysium by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A year after The Purge, mankind is still an endangered species, but the Isles may finally offer the path to...
  • The Tide: Final Surge by Anthony J. Melchiorri

    The Tide: Final Surge by Anthony J. Melchiorri

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 10 in Anthony J Melchiorri's The Tide series.Humanity is on the edge of defeat.Soon no one will be free from the nightmarish effects of the virulent bioengineered Oni Agent. The fanatical organization responsible has pushed mankind to the brink of extinction and is on the verge of victory. In one final surge, they prepare to sweep the globe from ground zero in Siberia...
  • Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry

    Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In the gripping conclusion to the action-packed standard bearer (Booklist) of zombie series, the threat of death is given new life.Benny Imura and his friends have found the jet and Sanctuary, but neither is what they expected. Instead of a refuge, Sanctuary is a hospice, and the soldiers who flew the plane seem to be little more than bureaucrats who have given up hope for humanity's future...
  • Islands of Rage & Hope by John Ringo

    Islands of Rage & Hope by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    BOOK 3 IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to To Sail a Darkling Sea and Under a Graveyard Sky. A hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization...
  • Dark Days by Arthur T. Bradley

    Dark Days by Arthur T. Bradley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Days is the eighth book in a series described as "a cross between Justified and The Walking Dead." Still reeling from the death of President Glass, Deputy Marshal Mason Raines finds himself working for the New Colony. Using his unique skills as both lawman and soldier, he leads an elite team tasked with retrieving critical supplies for mankind's last survivors...
  • I Married a Mothman by Regine Abel

    I Married a Mothman by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s everything she never knew she wanted.When Venus embarked on a luxury cruise, she never expected to rescue a young Promethean demi-god—or that he’d bind her as his guardian...
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    aliens  romance  sci-fi  monsters  fantasy  fiction  magic  paranormal
  • SoL by Jennifer Julie Miller

    SoL by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    AlanaThe question is, do I allow this dark moment in time to rob me of the life I could possibly have here? I have never known such horror or fear. If I hadn’t experienced it myself, I would have never believed any other living thing could possibly do this to another. The scars may be gone on the outside now, but they will remain forever in my soul...
  • Releasing Maladek by Victoria Aveline

    Releasing Maladek by Victoria Aveline

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Turns out crash-landing into love is possible…Katie is content with her post-alien-abduction life. Not only has she found work as a royal attendant, but her current assignment on a galaxy cruise is enjoyable, too…until the ship is brought down by a malevolent species. Now she must rescue her friends and escape a hostile planet—all by herself...
  • Space Team: Planet of the Japes by Barry J. Hutchison

    Space Team: Planet of the Japes by Barry J. Hutchison

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    While trying to stop a cyber-attacker stealing all Space Team's hard-earned money, the cyborg, Mech, unlocks a secret partition in his hard drive, revealing a mysterious set of co-ordinates. The co-ordinates lead the team to Funworld, a planet-sized theme park with a worrying number of artificially intelligent clownbots, and a shocking disregard for Health & Safety...
  • I Married An Incubus by Regine Abel

    I Married An Incubus by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A match made in Hell…When investigative reporter Malaya Velasco accidentally uncovers the corruption of one of the highest judges of the Obosian justice system, she is framed and condemned to a life sentence on the deadly prison planet Molvi. In her despair, she begs the Prime Mating Agency for an arranged marriage with one of the Wardens of the prison...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  romance  sci-fi  fantasy  monsters  demons  paranormal  fiction
  • Warriors by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Warriors by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The New York Times and USA Today bestselling seriesWhile the Hell Divers cross an ocean to battle the machines, an old flesh-and-blood threat returns to the islands.The mission to Rio de Janeiro ended in victory, but it came at a dire cost, killing most of those who set out to rescue the stranded survivors...
  • Horde by Ann Aguirre

    Horde by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The epic conclusion to the USA Today bestselling trilogy.The horde is coming.Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a Huntress anymore, but she doesn't run...
  • Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Betrayal and sacrifice in the skies …Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart—the boy once known as Tin—has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team...
  • Conquering the Alien Emperor by Bella Blair

    Conquering the Alien Emperor by Bella Blair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ll give up my empire to make her MINE!HEATHER: After being rescued from Earth, I am sent to Pandrax, where a sentinel guardian is appointed to find my mekarry match for me. Unfortunately, my guardian, Lady Natoi, turns out to be a spiteful creature, whose hate for me grows when Emperor Daryus shows an interest in me...
  • Keran's Dawn by Regine Abel

    Keran's Dawn by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For the people and the crown.When Dawn took over the management of the Braxian hybrid shelter on the sanctuary planet Haven, she never thought its last days would be marked by a series of gruesome murders against its patrons. With local law enforcement failing to capture the murderer, she makes a desperate plea for help to the Braxian Crown Prince, Keran Xeldar...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  romance  sci-fi  fiction  torture  suspense  murder  paranormal
  • Captives by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Captives by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Humanity has finally found a new home, but the price is blood ...After a long, perilous journey, Hell Divers Xavier Rodriguez and Magnolia Katib discover the Metal Islands, a sunny habitable zone where thousands of people live by fishing and farming. But this "paradise" is really a violent warrior society ruled by the cannibal king el Pulpo...
  • 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...
  • Xenofall by Kyle West

    Xenofall by Kyle West

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With the final battle looming, the fate of the humanity will be decided. Alex Keener, Elekim, will face down Askala, the Radaskim Xenomind.But as Askala unleashes her final fury, the road to Ragnarok can only be paved with grit...and lives.In this explosive conclusion to The Wasteland Chronicles, Alex will rise to the mantle of Elekim..
  • A Nude Attitude by Honey Phillips

    A Nude Attitude by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can Erica survive the hidden dangers of an alien ocean? And the charms of the alien convict stranded with her?Erica desperately needs a break from her domineering father - especially his latest scheme to marry her off so she can produce an heir...
  • Return to the Lost World by Greig Beck

    Return to the Lost World by Greig Beck

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was true – it was all true – and we were never meant to be there. In December 2018, Ben Cartwright, former Special Forces soldier, and a team of naive explorers, followed the clues left by his ancestor to a hidden plateau in the middle of the Amazon jungle. It was said that once every 10 years, a secret pathway was revealed to a world long since gone...
  • Deliverance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Deliverance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    They will dive, but will humanity survive?Left for dead on the nightmarish surface of the planet, Commander Michael Everhart and his team of Hell Divers barely escape with their lives aboard a new airship called Deliverance. After learning that Xavier “X” Rodriguez may still be alive, they mount a rescue mission for the long-lost hero...
  • Brilliant Starlight by Anna Carven

    Brilliant Starlight by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Abbey We're back on Silence, orbiting the Dark Planet while my husband handles unfinished business on Kythia. For some reason, he seems a little bit tense. According to Tarak, Kythian politics can be complicated, especially when the entire Kordolian Empire has just been destroyed. I hope things don't get too complicated, because I don't want to be stuck here for too long...
  • I Married a Naga by Regine Abel

    I Married a Naga by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    She got more than she bargained for.When Serena comes to Trangor to participate in the First Hunt, the last thing she expects is to find herself forced to marry an Ordosian… or be executed. She knows nothing of his people, nothing of him, except that he’s got fangs, scales, and a crazy long tail. Serena only has to play the part of being a wife for six months, and then she’ll be free to leave...
  • Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith

    Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    They never meant to come to Earth. They were never allowed to leave...Welcome to Cottonwood...
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    aliens  dystopia  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • Outpost by Ann Aguirre

    Outpost by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Deuce’s whole world has changed.Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she’s a brat in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk. She doesn't fit in with the other girls: Deuce only knows how to fight.To make matters worse, her Hunter partner, Fade, keeps Deuce at a distance...
  • The Lure of Infinity by Stan C. Smith

    The Lure of Infinity by Stan C. Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some worlds are better left alone.Infinity Fowler has been fighting all her life. As a child, she had to fight for survival. Then she fought professionally. But when humans obtained the technology to bridge to alternate versions of Earth, she saw a chance for a new life. She signed up to become a bridger—an elite fighter and survival expert who protects tourists bridging to alternate worlds...
  • They Called Me Maddest by J. Pal

    They Called Me Maddest by J. Pal

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 3 in the LitRPG Apocalypse MAD Series...
  • Bestiarii by James Tarr

    Bestiarii by James Tarr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Mexican civil war had been grinding on for so long that the U.S. resorted to using private contractors—mercenaries—to prop up the failing Mexican Army. One of the many things the Mexican Army failed to protect was Pangaea, the famed animal park in remote northeast Mexico, a symbol of rampant capitalism. All the creatures inside were killed at the time. At least, that’s what was reported...
  • Vrexus by Olivia Riley

    Vrexus by Olivia Riley

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

    Alien in Flames by January Bell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'll do anything to keep Earth safe— even marrying the alien king.When I joined the Earth Federation after the Roth alien invasion, I was put through the most intense spy training on the planet. I took a vow to do whatever necessary to protect humanity, and I meant every word.So when the opportunity presents itself to make myself the queen of the Roth and steer intergalactic history? I'm all in...
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    aliens  dystopia  romance  royalty  fated-mates  dark  age-gap  space
  • Dragon's Taming by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Taming by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They see me as broken, but it's up to me to save them all. They keep me locked away, too dangerous to be free, because they don't see what I do. They don't know the truth like I do. I was stopped from accomplishing my mission before but I can't fail. The fate of our entire planet, of every human and Zmaj both, rests in my hands. It was easier before she came...
  • Darkness by Kyle West

    Darkness by Kyle West

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Vegas Exodus is at a standstill...Besieged by the Xenoswarm in the town Pyrite, they must shelter in either Bunker 108 or Bunker 84 if they are to survive the winter.But in Bunker 84 lurks a darkness that could end the Exodus. And it may also be that the denizens of Bunker 84, known as "The Community," are not as isolated from the events of the Wasteland as it first appears...
  • Unity by Jeremy Robinson

    Unity by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Euphemia Williams, known to her few friends as Effie, and everyone else as Eff-Bomb, will punch you for looking at her funny, for using her full name or for noticing that she’s a genius. But when an elite global entity known as Unity takes note of her intelligence and offers her a chance to escape the hum-drum life of a foster-child, she signs up...
  • Extinction by Kyle West

    Extinction by Kyle West

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Time is running out for humanity to defeat the encroaching forces of the Radaskim...As settlements fall and the Great Blight spreads, it falls on the New Angels to unite disparate factions before it is too late. But the dark Xenomind, Askala, has her own plans to end humanity before that can ever happen.Only the greatest sacrifice can stop her from achieving her aims..
  • Dragon's Claim by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Claim by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Among the Zmaj, the alien dragon-like race of men who survived the devastation of Tajss, Bashir is different. He's connected to the spiritual nature of the planet itself. However, the scaled and powerful hunter craves a different connection. One with Penelope...
  • I Married Kayog by Regine Abel

    I Married Kayog by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She was his peace and his salvation.His whole life, Kayog has made it his mission to project the image of the male who has it all. But deep down, he’s broken by the endless torment that plagues him. Until Linsea. His impossible dream. His peaceful dove. The mesmerizing song of her soul enthralls him and makes him covet a future he knows he can’t have...
  • Exposed by Tana Stone

    Exposed by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Suspected of kidnapping. Broke. Dumped. Katie thought things couldn’t get any worse. Then, she was abducted by aliens. Sure, they were hot warrior aliens, and the space station she was taken to was the coolest place she’d ever seen...
  • Trapped Outside by Alan Black

    Trapped Outside by Alan Black

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The sequel to #1 best selling science fiction novel Metal Boxes. Blackmon Perry Stone hasn't gotten over his fear of being outside and he still hasn't settled into life in the Empire's Navy. After months of legal wrangling over his last assignment, he has been given a new assignment. He was looking forward to getting an new posting on a spaceship or a station...
  • Revelation by Kyle West

    Revelation by Kyle West

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alex and friends return to a Wasteland in turmoil. The Raiders are scattered, the Exiles hunted, and the feuding Vegas gangs plot one another's destruction. Makara, head of the New Angels, has the difficult task of convincing disparate groups to work together before Emperor Augustus and his legions arrive...
  • Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson

    Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WASHINGTON D.C. HAS BEEN DESTROYED In the wake of a Kaiju assault that left the nation’s capital in ruins, Jon Hudson, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal, is preparing his team for an uncertain future...
  • Reaver's Quest by Elin Wyn, Starr Huntress

    Reaver's Quest by Elin Wyn, Starr Huntress

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was unexpected.No.Our ship getting blown up was unexpected.Crashing on a planet filled with murder-goats was unexpected.Being rescued by a copper skinned, winged hunk with golden eyes and not wearing much more than a leather kilt and a weapon harness was so freaking miraculous that I wondered if I’d actually fallen off that cliff...
  • The Bare Essentials by Honey Phillips

    The Bare Essentials by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can Janet survive the heat of an alien desert? And the heat of the alien warrior who finds her?One minute Janet is sliding into a snow bank. The next she is alone in the middle of a strange pink desert. Alone and naked.When a huge, golden-scaled male appears out of the shifting sands, she is convinced that he is a mirage. But the fiery pleasure of his touch feels too real to be an illusion...
  • Terminal Uprising by Jim C. Hines

    Terminal Uprising by Jim C. Hines

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s been four months since Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos learned the truth. Four months since she and her team of hygiene and sanitation specialists stole the EMCS Pufferfish and stopped a bioterrorism attack against the Krakau homeworld. Four months since she set out to find proof of what really happened on Earth all those years ago...
  • Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts

    Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this apocalyptic sequel to Dark Inside four teens continue the struggle for survival as they face a world gone mad.Aries, Clementine, Mason and Michael have survived the first wave of the apocalypse that wiped out most of the world’s population, and turned many of the rest into murderous Baggers...
  • Project Legion by Jeremy Robinson

    Project Legion by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THE SIGNAL WAS RECEIVEDTen years after a deep space transmission was broadcast from a futuristic citadel hidden in the Arctic ice, Jon Hudson finds himself in a position beyond comprehension...
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