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  • Seminal by C.M. Stunich

    Seminal by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I don’t play the role of the kidnapped princess very well.And I really hate the fated mates trope.Hello again, I’m Eve Wakefield, and I refuse to accept that I’m in love with an intergalactic moth prince.No.I don’t care how handsome he is, I don’t want to marry him.I don’t care if his parents have a sentient spaceship capable of eating entire planets.Love is earned, not swindled by pheromones...
  • Going Cold by Viola Grace

    Going Cold by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Going from supporting family to being an imperial courier across the stars doesn’t take as long as she thought. She can deal with the assassins.Once the details of her life are sorted out and all impediments removed, Hesker takes on a new name for a new life in a new position. She heads to the stars, is reset, and all traces of her previous life are removed from her body...
  • Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson

    Enticed by the Satyr: Kindred Tales #38: A novel of the Monstrum Kindred, by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A warrior from another universe...A woman running from an abusive relationshipA rip in the fabric of space-time and a malevolent alien race bent on destructionHow does it all tie together? Read Enticed by the Satyr...the first book of the Monstrum Kindred to find outMia could have had a beautiful life. She had a scholarship to Julliard and a future as a concert pianist ahead of her...
  • The Makings of a Magi Knight by J.L. Madore, Ruby Night

    The Makings of a Magi Knight by J.L. Madore, Ruby Night

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I survived the first semester and despite Dean Belmont's agenda and the Celestial Council's misogynistic belief that women are the weaker sex and incapable of harnessing power, I showed them just how wrong they are.The Plus One taunting has ended, and instead of disdain, the looks being thrown at me heading into the second semester are wary and confused.Doesn't matter...
  • Tempted by the Traitor Prince by Elin Wyn, Starr Huntress

    Tempted by the Traitor Prince by Elin Wyn, Starr Huntress

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rogue. Drug addict. Betrayer.Mate?Vokal has done terrible things, playing the game of Empire.But when the tiny broken human woman pulls him away from his attempts to start a new life, he is powerless against her smile.Dragged back into the deadly struggle between Empire and Alliance, only one thing is for certain.He'll keep his mate safe, even if the galaxy burns around them...
  • Lover from the Waves by Tiffany Roberts

    Lover from the Waves by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A lonely widow. A determined kraken. An attraction they can’t resist.Long ago, the sea took Kathryn’s husband. She never thought it would give anything back. But now that her children are grown with little ones of their own, she finds her eyes drawn more and more to those restless waters—and she sees part of herself reflected in them. Something out there calls to her...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  mermaids  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  dystopia  fiction
  • Draekon Rogue by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Draekon Rogue by Lee Savino, Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm caught between two alien warriors, sworn enemies intent on destroying each other. The one thing they agree on: I'm their mate! The prison planet is a dumpster fire. War is coming! The Draekons are on high-alert. I'm freaking out...
  • Vixin by Tana Stone

    Vixin by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's the most wonderful time of the year...to be stranded with an alien on an ice planet.Noelle is finally leaving her job on the Drexian space station and going home to Scotland for the holidays. Two things she didn't expect: to be sharing the trip with a hot Neebix named Vixin and for their ship to crash land on a frozen planet...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fiction  holidays  sci-fi
  • Alien Mercenary's Prize by Mina Carter

    Alien Mercenary's Prize by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Natalia Heath is a survivor. She’ll survive an alien fight pit. No problem.On the run from her crime lord father most of her life, Nat knows how to survive in the worst places in the universe. Being kidnapped by aliens and thrown into a gladiatorial arena to fight for her life is just another turn of bad luck in a lifetime of them. She just needs to figure out a plan to escape...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fiction  warriors  sci-fi
  • Alien Sentinel's Mate by Mina Carter

    Alien Sentinel's Mate by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Being rescued by aliens doesn’t mean she’s going to marry one… not unless he’s hot. Asking would help too.The problem is the only alien warrior Gracie is interested in hasn’t asked. Seren K’Vass is the epitome of the strong, silent type. Emotionally avoidant with a bad boy vibe, if he was human, she’d climb him like a tree. Hell, she’d climb him like a tree anyway...
  • Command Control by Viola Grace

    Command Control by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maya worked hard jobs all her life, and a devastating explosion at sea turned her from a hard worker into a crispy critter. Bedridden and blind, she accepts the order from the Volunteer Project and gets herself reset into a body that can move and skin that isn’t black...
  • Brutal Capture by Lee Savino, Tabitha Black

    Brutal Capture by Lee Savino, Tabitha Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Hunter King captures his Omega…They call him the Hunter King. No one knows his real name.He’s big and handsome, powerful and brutal.And he’s just captured me.Let me back up. I’m on an alien planet. I don’t know how I got here or who I am. I don’t remember anything but my name. Haley.I’m the only human among many females who are part of the annual Moonlight Hunt. The warriors are the hunters...
  • Roxy's Warriors by Ann Mayburn

    Roxy's Warriors by Ann Mayburn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a highly decorated soldier in the US Army, Roxy had always accepted that her job was dangerous. And she understood that someday she might make the ultimate sacrifice for her country and never come home. But little did she know that she should have been keeping her sights focused on the sky, not the battlefield, for the real threat...
  • Not Compatible by Viola Grace

    Not Compatible by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She works at a space station catering to everyone else’s virtual fantasies. When a man gets stuck in the scenario she must wake the sleeping prince.Styra works at the Blue Station and has been programming since she was able to reach a keyboard. When she became and adult she went from writing the simple scenarios and backgrounds to guiding tangled clients through the environments they had selected...
  • Armed And Armoured by Viola Grace

    Armed And Armoured by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kahlia has fought a few battles for the survival of innocents on Allishan 9, but her primary concern is her life as a designer. On one of the school trips that her sister badgered her into chaperoning, she meets her destiny, and her doom. Rupture is a member of the Sector Guard and he has his eyes on the woman stepping out of the battle suit...
  • Hard Hearted by Viola Grace

    Hard Hearted by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Saving her fiancé showed Gralial’s people what a freak she was and they punished her accordingly by removing her soul. Left with only intelligence and her talent, Gray must start a new life in the Alliance as the Sector Guardsman Hard Hearted. She is assigned to Teklan base as their healer and physician and partnered with a being that she never even heard of...
  • Echo in Time by Viola Grace

    Echo in Time by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alara has spent her life under the radar, hiding her nature from the government and those around her. When it came to a choice of letting her cousin fall into servitude to their own government or live a life free in the stars, Alara stepped into the path of disaster and made sure that Tosha went free...
  • Mrax by Layla Nash, Juno Wells

    Mrax by Layla Nash, Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Earther and alien. Love and logic. Fire and... thermite. Rowan MacLeod is tough as nails. Life was hard on Earth, but she's determined to let nothing hold her back... even after ending up on a rusty bucket of a spaceship surrounded by barbarian aliens. A special mission to resurrect old fighter craft for the rebels is her best chance to prove herself... until disaster finds her again...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  sci-fi
  • Pilot In Command by Viola Grace

    Pilot In Command by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Helen needed more from life as a pilot than the Alliance could offer. When a handsome Azon offers her a new position, she can’t say no, to anything.Helen has enjoyed her tenure as an Alliance pilot, but working with unpredictable crews is wearing on her nerves. When an incident of defense of the innocent via mutiny ends her career, controlling warships is over...
  • My Matched Monster by Rena Marks

    My Matched Monster by Rena Marks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My punishment starts today.Refusing marriage isn’t acceptable, not in my world—separated from the rest of Earth by the large stone walls of our own community. To refuse the most legendary prophet of our time in front of the entire congregation was a sentence of twenty lashes. Halfway in, I entered a hallucinogenic state.A hero came to save me, but he was purple with tentacles...
  • Barbarian Alien Part 6: Forever by Ruby Dixon

    Barbarian Alien Part 6: Forever by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everything seems to be piling on at once: I'm pregnant, the aliens are revolting against my mate, and not even my human friends have my back. It's time for me to buck the system to get what I want. But can I go against everything to claim the guy as mine?Even if it means exile with him?BARBARIAN ALIEN is a sequel to ICE PLANET BARBARIANS...
  • Barbarian Alien Part 5: Claimed by Ruby Dixon

    Barbarian Alien Part 5: Claimed by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I've claimed my alien for my mate, just in time for both of us to be dragged back to the tribal caves. I'm reunited with my human friends but it's not a happy occasion.Raahosh has broken the laws of his people...and now they want to take him from me.BARBARIAN ALIEN is a sequel to ICE PLANET BARBARIANS...
    Categorized as:
    steamy  paranormal  aliens  sci-fi  romance  fiction  book  adult
  • Barbarian Alien Part 3: Asunder by Ruby Dixon

    Barbarian Alien Part 3: Asunder by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My alien and I have reached a truce, sort of. He treats me like an equal, and I lick him everywhere I can. Well, okay, so that's not the exact terms of the truce, but it's what I'm going with. I'm not falling for the big guy.I'm not.Really.But when he saves my life, I regret not giving in to my body's demands. And now it might be too late...BARBARIAN ALIEN is a sequel to ICE PLANET BARBARIANS...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  aliens  steamy  sci-fi  romance  fiction  book  adult
  • Kyan's Housewarming Party: A Happily Ever After Epilogue by Starla Night

    Kyan's Housewarming Party: A Happily Ever After Epilogue by Starla Night

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can the security-obsessed warrior Kyan really open his house to strangers — or even family and friends? Will Laura’s good intentions increase their happiness or drive a wedge between them and end in disaster? This is a happily ever after bonus story for Dragon VIP: Kyanite...
  • His Little Topaz by Paige Michaels

    His Little Topaz by Paige Michaels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s Kendra’s turn to find out what it means to have a Papi of her own.Engaged to a man she can’t stand, Kendra visits Club Zoom several times in hopes an Eleadian hunk will claim her and whisk her away from her looming arranged marriage. It’s a longshot, but it’s her only hope.Bialar watches the blond from the control room for several nights. He knows better than to approach her...
  • His Enemy Wife: Dread Lord's Fated Mate by Emma Alisyn, Celeste King

    His Enemy Wife: Dread Lord's Fated Mate by Emma Alisyn, Celeste King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dread Lord Delgen thinks I'm his space order bride, a rich Earthen socialite whose credits will save his people. Only I'm not—I'm the imposter sent to kill him.Which should be easy, since he's a scary bloodsucking warrior hiding the truth about my sister's death. It's not easy to keep my distance—the matebond has taken us both...
  • Ensnared by the Rabbit Genius by Delaney Rain

    Ensnared by the Rabbit Genius by Delaney Rain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ellis Cole is an FBI research analyst assigned to observe a giant white rabbit while he’s on Earth. Wherever he goes, Ellis must follow. Never told to be covert about it, Ellis finds the only way for him to keep up is by slowing his bouncy bunny down. Getting naked wasn’t part of the plan, but it seems to be working...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  mlm  shapeshifters  steamy  paranormal  romance  fantasy  lgbtq
  • Clan, Honor, and Empire by Tracy St. John

    Clan, Honor, and Empire by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dramok Rajhir has never had to go without. He’s been blessed with the best schooling, a prestigious pedigree, a fine home, plus all the intimate companionship a young Kalquorian male could ask for. But with status comes responsibility. His father insists Rajhir assume his place in Kalquorian society as soon as possible...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  mlm  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fiction  lgbtq
  • Chimera's Gift by Susan Trombley

    Chimera's Gift by Susan Trombley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The chimera is a mystery that baffles the residents of New Omni—when his attitude isn’t making them want to kill him...
  • His Human by M.A. Innes

    His Human by M.A. Innes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All Trip wants is the man of his dreams. If that guy comes with tentacles and an interesting sense of humor, that’s even better. When Trip meets Mr. Right—who’s actually more like Mr. Sexy With Tentacles—at the grocery store, of all places, he’s expecting fun and hoping for a bit of domination if he’s lucky...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  mlm  paranormal  steamy  adult  bdsm  book  fiction
  • Embrace the Passion by S.E. Smith, Anna Hackett

    Embrace the Passion by S.E. Smith, Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Pets in Space is back! Join us as we unveil eleven original, never-before-published action-filled romances that will heat your blood and warm your heart! New York Times, USA Today and Award-winning authors S.E...
  • The New King by Erin Raegan

    The New King by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mona It’s been a long time since I felt safe. Too long. You would think after all I’ve been through at the hands of an alien monster it would be difficult for me to live near them. That it would be difficult to live under their roof. To sleep near them. To eat their food. To talk to them. The Dahk may not be the Juldo, but they are still alien to me. They are frightening and different from me...
  • Ice Planet Barbarians Part 5: Truth by Ruby Dixon

    Ice Planet Barbarians Part 5: Truth by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now that I've learned the alien barbarian's language, all the holes are filling in. Ahem. Not like that. Okay, like that, too.The problems are mounting. The alien abductors are coming back. My fellow human captives are dying as we speak. And the alien hunks? When they claim, it's forever. We've got to decide how to proceed, and soon, because whatever path we choose?There's no turning back...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  steamy  romance  sci-fi  futuristic  fiction  book
  • Ice Planet Barbarians Part 2: Captive by Ruby Dixon

    Ice Planet Barbarians Part 2: Captive by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My new alien friend has claimed me for his own. Which is good, because he's feeding me and making sure I don't turn into a human-shaped popsicle......and bad, because I need to rescue my friends and he seems happy to carry me off to his love nest. So now I have to pick: survival or rescue? Problem is, this big, sexy, and possessive alien male has ideas of his own..
  • Switched by Evangeline Anderson

    Switched by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A warrior with a talent that could get him killedA girl transported to a new existence with no warningWhen the two of them trade lives, it places them in mortal peril...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  mlm  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Falcorans' Faith by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Falcorans' Faith by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    You could say that Faith Myers was one of the unluckiest women in The Thousand Worlds, but that would make her sound a lot luckier than she actually was. Her twin sister, Grace, died in an attack by the reptilian Brethren. Her parents were murdered...
  • Karma by Viola Grace

    Karma by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A midwife trained to attend another Terran meets a fighter with his eyes on more than the prize. Olive has wanted to take midwife training, but the waiting list is nearly a decade long. When she is offered the chance to take the training and go into space, she takes it...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  space-travel  steamy  adult  book  fae  fiction
  • Out of Bight, Out of Mind by Tymber Dalton

    Out of Bight, Out of Mind by Tymber Dalton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    [Siren Ménage Everlasting: Erotic Futuristic Sci-Fi Ménage a Quatre Romance, M/M/M/F, reverse harem, HEA]Emi Hypatia loves her job exploring the galaxy with her three husbands, Aaron Lucio, Caph Bates, and Ford Caliban. When a nonhuman crewman is temporarily assigned to the Tamora Bight for a mission, Emi hates and mistrusts him at first sight due to what her empath training tells her...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  mlm  paranormal  polyamory  steamy  adult  book  fiction
  • Psyche's Caress by Viola Grace

    Psyche's Caress by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Roha Excelter - code named Psyche - is on assignment on Marketh. She had a simple investigation planned until someone tried to kill her. Twice.The simple problem turned out to be a conspiracy to keep volunteers imprisoned and the population in general, ignorant...
  • Harry's Sacrifice by Bianca D'Arc

    Harry's Sacrifice by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Embracing the unexpected can lead to all sorts of adventures.Resonance Mates, Book 5 The prophesied time has arrived ... and Harry, born of an alien Alvian mother - Mara 12 - and a human father - Justin O'Hara - and forever caught between two very separate worlds .... must journey to the top of the world to unlock a mysterious ship found trapped in an icy crevasse...
  • Enchanted by Viola Grace

    Enchanted by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Myka Michaels has been a Healer specializing in obstetrics for years. Her assignment on Dremarai is one she both revels in and dreads. She wants to be the best Healer she can be, but riding a horse-beast from town-to-town isn't really her idea of a fun work environment...
  • Minder by Viola Grace

    Minder by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aleyn came to Bai's planet with one purpose, to steal his child and run like hell. Erasing his memory of their night together helped her make her getaway, but leaving her scent behind was her undoing. Trapped in Bai's�custody, Aleyn has to come to a few realizations. One, she has chosen him for more than his incredible ass, and two, his people have the right to kill her for her first week there...
  • Healer by Viola Grace

    Healer by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Evah is a contact healer--she takes the damage and illness from those around her with a touch and cures them. But the damage remains on her body. She believes that no one will want her, but she still strives to care for those around her, hiding her appearance with loose robes and veils...
  • Imperfect by Viola Grace

    Imperfect by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Illora has been through a lot and is looking forward to a solitary retirement. All she needs to do is to get past the selection process in the Lorahan seralgio for three more days and she is home free. The Prefect of Lorahan wants Illora and her successful efforts to dodge the selection process has turned him ashen with fury and parts of him blue...
  • Encode by Viola Grace

    Encode by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Honey Barrow serves the Alliance as an Encoded Courier, putting biologicals into her own body to keep them viable during transport. This job has kept her flying for years, but that is about to come to a screeching halt when she accepts an assignment to transport the semen of an Alpha multi-shifter to the High Prefect of Shoshan...
  • Running Wyld by Viola Grace

    Running Wyld by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 2 of the bestselling series, Sector Guard.Agreha Wyld had a good life, friends, family and a place she was accepted. When the Sector Guard call for exceptional beings goes out, her planet nominates her and it is over a year later before they get a response. The response's name is Haaro Denler, telepathic Dhemon and Aggie's destined mate...
  • Entropy by Viola Grace

    Entropy by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alia Morgan is a geothermal specialist assigned to the ice planet Yana, but she experiences a disruption to her routine when her best friend's brother arrives to invite her to participate in Ember's wedding, in two days. They are halfway to the main city when Symon drops the bomb...
  • Enforce by Viola Grace

    Enforce by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gwen has been living a life of duty and responsibility. Her first Alliance assignment was as an Enforcer, her next the polar opposite, Matchmaker. She has fought rabid crowds with ease and control, but facing an endless supply of bridezillas is too much to handle when her old boss comes knocking...
  • Damaged Control by Viola Grace

    Damaged Control by Viola Grace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She would do anything to survive, including getting herself damaged and off the companion list. A Hmrain finds her in an unlikely place for an unlikely partnership. Athena made it to a pickup point, past the physical, and up to the education station. Her training was difficult, but when she found out she was a likely candidate for companionship to a Hmrain, she took drastic action...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  paranormal  space-travel  adult  book  fiction  space  sci-fi
  • Fated to Fall by Stephanie West

    Fated to Fall by Stephanie West

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blaidd went slightly insane witnessing the small human being abused by her mate. He didn’t care that he was on a foreign planet, as he swiftly ended the vile male. All that mattered was soothing the heart rending pain that radiated from the trembling female. But despite Blaidd’s best intentions, nothing he did for Vivian went right...
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