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  • Crossfire by Lindsay Buroker

    Crossfire by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    For the first time in his life, roboticist Casmir Dabrowski is headed to another star system as an advisor for the Kingdom space fleet. He’s being given a chance to prove himself to King Jager by helping find the ancient artifact he inadvertently lost. It’s best not to think about what might happen if he fails..
  • Forever Defend by Michael Anderle, Emily Beresford

    Forever Defend by Michael Anderle, Emily Beresford

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Some forget why she was called the Queen Bitch. Not Anymore. Bethany Anne is going stir crazy after more than a decade of having to be 'The Empress.' Now, her advisors have to deal with an Empress who is determined to be on the front line.The Ixtali's come to the Etheric Empire, hat in hand.Nathan decides that the best way to handle soft intelligence, is to create a new company...
  • Compete by Vera Nazarian

    Compete by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    It's one thing to Qualify…But do you have what it takes to Compete?With Earth about to be destroyed by an extinction level asteroid, teenage nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl Gwen Lark, and a few of her friends and loved ones, barely Qualified for rescue onboard one of the thousands of ark-ships headed to the ancient colony planet Atlantis...
  • Stolen Legacy by Lindsay Buroker

    Stolen Legacy by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even though Captain Jelena Marchenko has Starseer talents, such as telepathy and telekinesis, she has grown up feeling ostracized by the Starseer community. She longs for an opportunity to prove that she deserves a place among them.  When an old friend of the family shows up, seeking transportation to the site of an ancient Starseer relic, Jelena believes this may be her chance to prove herself...
  • The Renegade Akseli Cyborg by Dianne Duvall

    The Renegade Akseli Cyborg by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dive into the next thrilling novel in New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall’s fast-paced, humorous, and adventure-filled Aldebarian Alliance series.Too many years of hunting psychotic vampires night after night have left Rachel with a desperate need for change...
  • Perilous Waif by E. William Brown

    Perilous Waif by E. William Brown

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    My name is Alice Long, and I’ve always known I was different. When I was little I used to climb up to the highest branches of the housetree at night, and watch the starships docking at the orbital stations high above. Forty meters off the ground, watching ships thirty thousand kilometers overhead, with senses that could pick out radar pings and comm chatter as easily as the ships themselves...
  • 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...
  • End Game by Lindsay Buroker

    End Game by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Alisa Marchenko has reunited with her daughter, and even though she hasn’t figured out how to get Jelena to accept Leonidas yet, she dreams of the three of them starting a new life together. They can return the Star Nomad to its original purpose of running freight and staying out of trouble (mostly)...
  • 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...
  • Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If life on the border was complicated, life on Capitoline is insane. Nora and Liam struggle to reconcile her abilities and his duty, while caught up in the dangerous games of the powerful.Political intrigue, family drama, and ancient alien technology combine in the fourth novel of the Human Sector...
  • Catalyst by S.J. Kincaid

    Catalyst by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    S. J. Kincaid has created a fascinating dystopian world for Insignia, her futuristic science-fiction adventure series perfect for fans of Ender's Game. Earth is in the middle of WWIII, battling to determine which governments and corporations will control the resources of the solar system.Teen Tom Raines grew up with nothing, some days without even a roof over his head...
  • Usurper by Richard F. Weyand

    Usurper by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    THE REFORMS MUST CONTINUEAt the age of twenty-seven, Deanna Dunham Garrity has become the Empress of Sintar, absolute ruler of 150,000 worlds and their 300 trillion inhabitants. She would continue the reforms of her predecessor, but the Imperial Council stands in her way...
  • The Ceph Sector by Jenny Schwartz

    The Ceph Sector by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The legendary Ceph have been in stasis for forty two millennia. In a century, they’ll wake. History remembers them as an unstoppable force, employing a mysterious power to decimate sentient life on the planets they attacked. Jaya’s first mission as a new Shaman Justice is to lead an expedition into the perilous Ceph Sector...
  • Perilous Hunt by Lindsay Buroker

    Perilous Hunt by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    After failing to catch up with her daughter Jelena so many times, Alisa's optimism is battered, but her determination has never waned. She, Leonidas, and their eclectic crew are hunting down a Starseer research station in the heart of the Kir Asteroid belt—Jelena's supposed location. Alisa vows that she will find her daughter if she has to search a million asteroids to do so...
  • Space Rodeo by Jenny Schwartz

    Space Rodeo by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On the galactic frontier, the Federation’s wildest (and most scientific) citizens have gathered to ride in the Space Rodeo. The Navy’s in charge—of the arena. But beyond the naval perimeter, there is only Interstellar Sheriff Max Smith to keep the peace. Fortunately, he has some extraordinary allies. And enemies. And then, there is his girlfriend...
  • Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen

    Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What does it mean to be human? What if the price of saving humanity is giving up your own? The year is 2322, and we stand upon the precipice of extinction. The invading Metigen armada has decimated the eastern third of settled space in a matter of days, leaving tens of millions dead...
  • 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...
  • Rubicon by G.S. Jennsen

    Rubicon by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “We are you—the you that you could have been.”The Anaden Directorate has ruled Amaranthe for millennia, subjugating species and galaxies in a neverending quest for control and order. For as many millennia, the anarchs have rebelled, defiantly claiming their own freedom yet without hope of winning it for everyone...
  • Relativity by G.S. Jennsen

    Relativity by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I’d tell you to be careful, but we wouldn’t be here if you’d ever taken that advice. No reason to start now, right?”For millennia the Anadens have ruled the known universe. They believe they’ve crafted the perfect empire, ordered and impervious to challenge. They believe the fight has been crushed out of the species they subjugate. They are wrong.It’s a suicide mission, without a doubt...
  • Abysm by G.S. Jennsen

    Abysm by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the quest to be the masters of their own fate, will humanity rise to become liberators or follow the path of their ancestors into darkness? Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano risked everything to learn the hidden purpose behind the Metigen’s multiverse portal network, but nothing could have prepared them for the answer...
  • Requiem by G.S. Jennsen

    Requiem by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The end of the world began with a library query…how will it conclude?What began as a chance discovery of an anomalous signal is now a multiverse war between humanity and its genetic ancestors over who controls the levers of life and death. Over who decides what life is and whether it will be allowed to exist. For the ruling Anaden Directorate, victory means immortality...
  • Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen

    Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life.Diplomat. Rebel. Fugitive. Nika Tescarav has lived many lives, though she no longer remembers most of them...
  • Lyel by Ava Ross

    Lyel by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An alien warrior seeking redemption meets a captured Earth woman being treated as a pet. Will their love survive in a hostile world?Kidnapped by four-armed, blue skinned aliens, Isabelle "Isi" is sold to the head of the Al'kieern kidnapping operation. Isi has accepted she'll live and die as a songbird pet to the queen. If nothing else, performing for the Al'kieern beats being sold as a breeder...
  • Dissonance by G.S. Jennsen

    Dissonance by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Know this: you need not be afraid. They own the fear. They fear us because they believe we are powerful, and they are correct to do so. The technology behind Project Noetica is on the loose. Prevos—individuals and AIs sharing a single body—are spreading across the galaxy...
  • Sidespace by G.S. Jennsen

    Sidespace by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Humanity is saved. But its troubles are just beginning. To achieve their extraordinary triumph over the invading Metigen armada, humanity put aside its myriad of political and social conflicts and united against a common foe intent on annihilating civilization. In victory, unparalleled peace and prosperity are theirs for the taking—if they can keep hold of them...
  • Shield by Jenny Schwartz

    Shield by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If Cherry was a selfish witch, she'd keep running. She's an oracle. She KNOWS that trouble is closing in. However, there's an instant in which she could escape, and so could those she loves.Too bad she's surrounded herself with ridiculously noble allies. The kind of self-sacrificing, kind, clever, and resolute people who force you to love them ..
  • Relic of Sorrows by Lindsay Buroker

    Relic of Sorrows by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Captain Alisa Marchenko finally has a lead on finding her daughter, but her passengers want her to take them on their quest instead. Even though the Star Nomad is her ship, they have power she cannot fight, and she finds herself with no choice but to accept another detour. But the ancient relic they seek has the ability to destroy worlds and is coveted by many...
  • 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...
  • Arkadian Skies by Lindsay Buroker

    Arkadian Skies by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    With the man who kidnapped her daughter imprisoned aboard her ship, Captain Alisa Marchenko is closer than ever to reuniting her family. But her new guest has been in a coma for weeks, with the secret to her daughter's location locked away in his mind. She must find a way to sneak him into a state-of-the-art hospital on Arkadius, a planet in the heart of Alliance territory...
  • Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Year 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net...
  • The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet...
  • Cleon Moon by Lindsay Buroker

    Cleon Moon by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Now that she’s retrieved the Staff of Lore, Captain Alisa Marchenko can finally dedicate herself and her ship to finding her kidnapped daughter. Her scant clues lead her to Cleon Moon. Unfortunately, since the fall of the empire, mafia clans have taken over the domed cities on the harsh moon, and exploring there isn’t easy...
  • 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...
  • Striking Mars by Cidney Swanson

    Striking Mars by Cidney Swanson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fleeing for their lives, Jess and Pavel make it to the Moon, narrowly avoiding the attack on Space Station 92-AE. They should be safe and happy, but they discover they are not alone on Tranquility Base. The stranger they encounter seems uniquely qualified to leak their presence to Chancellor Lucca Brezhnaya, especially when the Marsians contemplate airing Lucca's political dirty laundry...
  • A Name Among The Stars by Mark Henwick

    A Name Among The Stars by Mark Henwick

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Heiress? They've already stolen the estates. I'm heir to nothing." When disgraced aristocrat Zara Aguirre barely escapes with her life from her home world, she hopes that she's found safety on the planet Kernow. She wants nothing more than to be left in peace, hidden away in a remote town on the wild and untamed western coast...
  • Taken by Harmony Raines

    Taken by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chrissi always dreamed of being an astronaut, just like her dad, devoting her whole life to Operation Saviour, the human race’s last ditch attempt to find a new home. But days before her first launch, the project was cancelled, leaving her to pick up the pieces of her life. All thanks to the arrival of the Karal...
  • 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...
  • Baring Grudge by Cynthia Sax

    Baring Grudge by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No one in the universe is more determined than a cyborg warrior tracking his female.***Grudge, a C Model cyborg, has been assigned a mission – safeguard a Humanoid Alliance space station for his kind. Honor was once all he had, and he is determined to fulfill his duty...
  • Sinful Mate by Trish Heinrich

    Sinful Mate by Trish Heinrich

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I wanted more. More of her blood. More of her thoughts. More of her touches that set me aflame. More of her flesh under my hands.”KIER’AHNI have never touched another being with desire, nor given in to the pleasures of the flesh. I am, Atavarian after all, and we cage such primal urges with logic, discipline. With one innocent brush of skin, I am overcome by a deadly rutting fever...
  • Dark Universe by Cheree Alsop

    Dark Universe by Cheree Alsop

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Captain Nova Ardis rescued her brother but lost her planet.As a Lady of the Accord Systems, she has to figure out the depths of betrayal before she can go home.˃˃˃ Kovak’s Life has taken a Dangerous Turn.. In helping Nova free her brother and choosing to fight the arena battle in his stead, the gladiator has made some very powerful enemies...
  • Warlord by Richard F. Weyand

    Warlord by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    INTERSTELLAR WAR!Their resentment of Sintar’s success fanned by the Democracy of Planets, the Alliance has voted to wage war on Sintar. They are mustering their fleets and gathering their strength to take on the Imperial Navy. Over three million warships are gathering to deliver the blow that will bring the Empire to its knees, with seven million additional warships in reserve...
  • Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book two of Chaos StationAll they can do is live day to day...Felix Ingesson has returned to his duties as the Chaos's engineer with Zander Anatolius, his ex-boyfriend-turned-broken-super-soldier, at his side. Hope means something again. But there's nothing Felix can do to battle the alien poison flowing through Zander's veins, or his imminent mental decline...
  • Shattered Earth by Jenny Schwartz

    Shattered Earth by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The scum of the galaxy are using Earth as a nuclear winter death camp. It outrages pirate captain Kohia Jekyll’s sense of justice. No one deserves to die agonizingly of radiation poisoning, especially not on the planet humanity had to evacuate seven generations ago. So Kohia intends to close the prison camp down...
  • The Rogue Prince by Lindsay Buroker

    The Rogue Prince by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Starseer, pilot, and animal lover Jelena Marchenko wants to prove to her parents that she’s ready to captain her own freighter and help run the family business. When she finally talks them into getting a second ship and letting her fly it, it doesn’t faze her that the craft is decades old and looks like a turtle. This is the chance she’s craved for years...
  • Astray by Jenny Schwartz

    Astray by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Nora Devi is a xeno-archaeologist with a complicated past. She has buried more secrets than she’s dug up. Widowed in the recently ended twelve year war between Capitoline and Palantine, she now makes a living as an independent tagger in border space.Captain Liam Kimani could be credited with ending the latest royal war. Instead, he’s blamed for it...
  • Alight by Scott Sigler

    Alight by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “If it’s war they want, they messed with the wrong girl.”M. Savage—or Em, as she is called—has made a bewildering and ominous discovery. She and the other young people she was chosen to lead awoke in strange coffins with no memory of their names or their pasts. They faced an empty, unknown place of twisting tunnels and human bones...
  • Starseers by Lindsay Buroker

    Starseers by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The mysterious and powerful Starseers have Captain Alisa Marchenko's daughter, and she will do whatever she must to get her back, even if it means traveling to their stronghold and confronting them personally. Unfortunately, her strongest ally, the cyborg Leonidas, may become a liability since the cyborgs and the Starseers have a long history of hating each other...
  • Vertigo by G.S. Jennsen

    Vertigo by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Where do you run when there is no escape? Where do you turn when the enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy unknown?The year is 2322 and humanity is under attack. An engineered war between rival superpowers escalates even as the shadowy Metigen armada begins attacking colonies on the frontiers of settled space...
  • Borgaz by Honey Phillips

    Borgaz by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A grumpy alien, a stubborn human, and a chance at a new future…Nothing has gone right for Mary since her parents were forced to sell their farm. Alone and desperate, she seizes a chance to return.Although the home she once loved is now a rundown shack and the once prosperous farm is little more than weeds and dirt, she knows she can make it work...
  • Qualify by Vera Nazarian

    Qualify by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    You have two options. You die, or you Qualify. The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.But there's a catch.They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth's population back to the colony planet Atlantis...
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