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  • A Kiss of Frost by Honey Phillips

    A Kiss of Frost by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Can the warmth of the holiday season thaw an alien warrior’s frozen heart?When Katerina is faced with an unwanted marriage, she takes her younger sister and runs, only to discover a small band of misfits hiding in some ancient ruins. Their fight for survival grows even harder as the holidays approach - until a massive horned warrior appears in their camp...
  • The Strip Down by Honey Phillips

    The Strip Down by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can Amanda discover the secrets behind an alien ruin? And the mysterious alien with the haunted eyes?Amanda is happy with her life as an elementary school teacher - and making plans to expand her family. Waking up naked and alone on an alien planet is not on her schedule.Desperate to return to Earth, she reluctantly accepts the help of the massive alien who appears out of the sands...
  • Callum by Honey Phillips

    Callum by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Can a weary alien warrior and a wary human widow learn to love again?The life of a warrior is all Callum has ever known, but after a long, meaningless war he is tired of fighting. Instead, he chooses to accompany his brothers in arms to a new life on a backwater planet and finds an unexpected peace in the hard work of restoring their isolated ranch...
  • A Home for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn

    A Home for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Can a lonely alien warrior find the family he’s always wanted?When tragedy shatters Claire’s world, she abandons her corporate job and retreats to a remote mountain town. Just when she finally begins to rebuild her life, she is abducted by alien slavers.Unable to escape the scientist who purchases her, she devotes herself to the young alien twins who are also trapped by his twisted experiments...
  • Alien Most Wanted: Mastermind by Honey Phillips

    Alien Most Wanted: Mastermind by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can an icy alien warrior save the woman who finally thaws his frozen heart?Sophie’s life is a mess. She’s broke and on the verge of losing her home. Her former lover - and former boss - wants nothing to do with her or the child growing inside her.Just when she thinks life can’t get much worse, she’s kidnapped and transported to an alien prison...
  • Flame by Tana Stone

    Flame by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only thing worse than always being upstaged by your perfect sister? Falling for her alien fiancé.I wasn’t supposed to end up on the Drexian space station or be matched to one of their gorgeous warriors as a tribute bride. My perfect twin sister is the one they wanted. Instead, I stole her spot...
  • Sakar by Ella Blake

    Sakar by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My two girls and I are going to be snowed in for Christmas and that’s fine with us, until an alien spacecraft crashes behind our wooded Maine home. I take the gorgeous Virilian, Prince Sakar, home with me. He’s injured and tracking an endangered alien dog with a taste for my neighbor’s goats...
  • A Redemption for Ulrek by Lynnea Lee

    A Redemption for Ulrek by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Refuge in the Arms of a Monster This job on board the New Horizon is supposed to be my fresh start, a fail proof plan to escape my poor excuse for a husband and his dangerous friends. But my white horse quickly turns into a nightmare when I discover that my new boss is none other than Ulrek the Horrible, my sworn enemy...
  • Endark by Honey Phillips

    Endark by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can a determined human bride save an alien shifter from his beast?Half human and half Vultor - and rejected by both - Endark has lived his life alone. The only family he knows is the one he has formed with his warrior brothers. But even that bond is not enough to save him from his father’s cruel legacy. His only hope is a mate who will calm his inner beast...
  • 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...
  • Alien Hunter's Fate by Ava Ross

    Alien Hunter's Fate by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alien insists I’m his fated mate. After we escape a deadly alien game called the labyrinth, he says he’s keeping me. This deal was supposed to be simple. Take a shuttle to the space station. Connect with an alien in need of Slaking—their term, not mine. One week between the furs with no hearts involved, something I’m determined to avoid after being burned...
  • Space Mercenary's Prize by Lynnea Lee

    Space Mercenary's Prize by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a tiny form crashes into me in the alley behind my old haunt, I don’t expect to find a half-dressed human female in my arms. Jenny brings out my instinct to guard and protect. Drunk and eager for a fight, I knock out her attacker and vow to take her home to Reka 5.There’s only one problem: Jenny’s owner wants her back.We wake the next morning with an enormous bounty on our heads...
  • Alien Pirate's Plunder by Ava Ross

    Alien Pirate's Plunder by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alien pirate promises to give me a child. But what if he steals my heart?Aliens are real and they’re eager to Slake. What’s Slaking, you ask? It seems Xilan males go into a voracious heat period every three years, and there aren’t enough females to fulfill the needs of these beastly aliens. Enter me and other Earth females eager to have children...
  • Dragon's Isolation by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Isolation by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I've lost my happily ever after...My story was supposed to be over. We were supposed to grow old together in each other's arms and watch our tiny son become a man with a life of his own.The Zmaj, seven foot tall winged and scaled dragon warriors, are getting sick. It's stealing their memories and making them regress into primal barbarians, losing themselves completely...
  • The Start of Time by Marilyn Foxworthy

    The Start of Time by Marilyn Foxworthy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was my second day on the ‘Red Planet’. Today I’d better find water. That had been the instructions in the box: learn to walk; find Water; make a weapon; find a nice Martian girl to teach you to speak the language. I figured that finding food would be a good idea too. It wasn’t exactly like I had expected, but how could it be? I had followed an unbelievable path to an unbelievable destination...
  • Bane: Alien Warrior's Redemption by Hattie Jacks

    Bane: Alien Warrior's Redemption by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An alien warrior with nothing to live for... A human with everything to lose...EVE - I didn’t claw my way up the corporate ladder by being kind, generous or caring. I made a million before lunch and lunch is for wimps.My rivals? They can kiss my designer heels.What I thought was a practical joke is rapidly becoming a nightmare. The plane I don’t remember getting on? It crash-landed...
  • Traitor: Alien Hunter's Mate by Hattie Jacks

    Traitor: Alien Hunter's Mate by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A fallen warrior...A forgotten human...A love discovered.STELLA - One minute I’m in my bed, the next…I’m not on Earth anymore. Twin suns beat down and the sounds that creep from the forest tell me all I need to know.I’m on an alien planet, and I’m not alone…I’m being stalked by something terrifying and protected by someone who won’t show himself...
  • Havoc: Alien Captain's Alliance by Hattie Jacks

    Havoc: Alien Captain's Alliance by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wanted by the Empire...desired by two massive aliens...resistance is never futile...Hi, I’m Lexi, soon to be ex-mercenary, thief and assassin. I’ve got one last job and I’m free of this life forever - all I have to do is relieve the galaxy's most evil warlord of one of his prized possessions.Piece of cake, right?My first mistake was stealing Captain Bron’s stealth drive...
  • Conquering the Alien Commander by Bella Blair

    Conquering the Alien Commander by Bella Blair

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

    The Alien Tyrant's Conquest by Bella Blair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I can offer her a queenship, but not my heart, still, I need her to be MINE.AUDRA: I knew pissing my boss off was a bad idea. But I didn't know how bad until I am sent to The Tribulations to become fodder for the contestants. Resigned to my fate, I can hardly believe it when this golden god appears from out of nowhere to save me...
  • I Married A Dryad by Regine Abel

    I Married A Dryad by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He was her perfect match.Fed up with the deadbeats and jerks infesting the standard dating pool, Maeve reaches out to the Prime Mating Agency, hoping to improve her luck. Her fear of ending up with some weird primitive alien is immediately alleviated when she’s paired with a stunning Edocit...
  • Claimed for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Claimed for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I thought I’d escaped being given to an alien warrior. I was wrong.I was one hour away from washing out of the Alien Bride Games.None of the Khanavai warriors had chosen me, and I was scheduled on the next shuttle off the filming station.But then a bright red alien passed me in a hallway—and the next thing I knew, we were all over each other...
  • Ensnared by the Alien Lord by Ella Blake

    Ensnared by the Alien Lord by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ScaronI go out on a hunting expedition and what do I return with? An alien female. I’d toss her out, but…she’s absurdly appealing to me. The longer I allow her to live on my ship, the less I want to kill her. With a looming showdown against our enemy to prepare for, the last thing I need is a female distracting me, but I cannot stay away and I would kill to protect her...
  • The Alien's Blade by Ella Blake

    The Alien's Blade by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What’s worse than waking up from a hibernation cell fifty-two years after being abducted?Nothing. No, wait—a wise-cracking alien hunk with a killer smile who doesn’t let me out of his sight, that’s what.Wulfrex knows every inch of his massive space cruiser and makes it impossible for me to steal it...
  • Consumed by Presley Hall

    Consumed by Presley Hall

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All I wanted was one hot night with an alien gladiator…Ever since the Kalixian warriors rescued us from our Orkun captors, I’ve made no secret of the fact that I think these bronze, horned aliens are hot as hell.I have no interest in the whole “fated mate” thing, but I definitely wouldn’t mind a roll in the sheets with any of these men.Well… one man, if I’m being honest.Tycran...
  • Chained to the Stryxian by Ella Blake

    Chained to the Stryxian by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Arus Bor'vak understands machines better than people. He likes them better, too, so when human women begin to populate the Stryxian settlements, he finds it best to give them a wide berth. They’re beautiful, soft, and utterly incomprehensible, and none captures his attention like Keira Becker, the strong ex-lieutenant who makes him lose his tongue in her presence...
  • The Alien's Fire by Ella Blake

    The Alien's Fire by Ella Blake

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

    The Buff Beast by Honey Phillips

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

    I Married Wonjin by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She once feared him but now cannot resist him…After decades of violence, the war pitting the human colony on Cibbos against the Yurus tribe has finally ended. Lara never expected that peace between their species would lead to a romantic entanglement with one of their former enemies. Resembling a cross between an orc and a minotaur, Wonjin looks nothing like how Lara had imagined a potential mate...
  • The Arcav Prince's Captive by Hope Hart

    The Arcav Prince's Captive by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Can you ever truly escape the past? Everly, tough, fierce ex-federal agent has broken with her past, moving to Arcavia and training as the Queen's guard.Along with the challenges of adjusting to a new planet, she's dealing with a disasterous complication: The fallout from an incredible, stolen night with Korva, a broken male known as a traitor amonst both Arcav and humans...
  • A Son for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn

    A Son for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Can she create a new family with an alien warrior?On the anniversary of the disappearance of Mariah’s sister and nephew, Mariah returns to their last known location, expecting to find only painful memories. Instead, she encounters an alien spaceship and recklessly sneaks aboard, taking one last chance to be reunited with her family...
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    aliens  first-contact  invasion  steamy  adult  book  children  family
  • Ransomed by Tana Stone

    Ransomed by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Trista expects her alien warrior mate to be big and gorgeous. She doesn't expect him to take her hostage. She's already been abducted from Earth to be a tribute bride for the Drexian warriors, and Trista has finally gotten used to the idea of marrying a brawny alien warrior. Sort of. He has to be better than the awful guys from home she’s been trying so hard to forget...
  • The Alien's Revenge by Ella Maven

    The Alien's Revenge by Ella Maven

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "All I lived for was revenge. Until her."Miranda: I'm on a strange planet surrounded by blue aliens and women who clearly have Stockholm Syndrome. I'm not content to pump out alien babies and have dinner cooking for my guy after he returns from a long day of hunting and gathering...
  • First Awakenings by S.E. Smith

    First Awakenings by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Internationally acclaimed, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, and Paranormal Romance, S.E...
  • Stolen by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Stolen by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    STOLEN FROM AUCTION Khrys My career is on the line here. King Zander demoted me.The planet is in crisis over a viral epidemic affecting the human half-breeds.If I could get my hands on the genetically modified humanshe could be the answer to both problems.But I didn’t expect to fall for the feisty little femalewho stole my heart while I stole her body. Kailani I’m an upgraded human...
  • Enemy of the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Enemy of the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

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

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

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

    Travek's Treasure by Pearl Tate

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Travek... As a Councilor’s son, I was raised by my uncle to join the Merchant Line on Quasar. I’ve been trained to look for and recognize the profit potential in every situation... When Bren found a Human mate from Earth, I saw the possibilities the females there present for the future of Quasar and for my own financial gain..
  • Actress for an Alien Prince by Roxie Ray

    Actress for an Alien Prince by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The paparazzi is hounding me, my fiancé cheated on me, and I’m sick of living up to everyone else’s expectations. Former child star syndrome much? Yeah, I’ve got a chronic diagnosis.Is running away to another planet drastic? Maybe. But I’m ready and couldn’t be happier to sign my name on IEP’s dotted line. Luckily, I land a sweet job as an assistant on Tracarox...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  first-contact  invasion  poc-mc  steamy  adult  audiobook  book
  • Her Fearless Warrior by Roxie Ray

    Her Fearless Warrior by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love ruins everything.I saw it with my parents.I swore it would never happen to me.But Gallix makes me feel things I never imagined.He awakens desires I didn’t know were possible.I want him from the first moment I see him.The bad boy warrior is all wrong for me, but my heart knows he’s my mate.How am I going to resist that?They want a perfect, untouched human.I can’t stop myself from wanting Eve...
  • Her Fated King by Roxie Ray

    Her Fated King by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Could she be my queen?I was tasked with retrieving the would-be queen from Earth. King Brixta is no friend to me, but I will do my duty.Except Alora haunts my dreams.She isn’t mine and can never be.One taste of her will never be enough.When I dream, I am the one placing a crown on her head.I’m the one sitting on the throne.It is my duty to surrender her...
  • Stranded by Heather Fox

    Stranded by Heather Fox

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

    Drex by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Madison McGurdy didn’t enter herself into the selection process to become mistress to a powerful Virilian male for the money. She did it to escape. When your obsessed ex is one of the most ruthless men in the world and there’s no place on Earth to hide from him (because you’ve tried), going to a faraway planet sounds like an adventure and a chance for a fresh start...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  first-contact  invasion  poc-mc  steamy  adult  book  fiction
  • Allies by Harmony Raines

    Allies by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Petra never wanted to go to Karal, but when her mother becomes the new President of Earth, thanks to the Karal, she is part of the deal. Never having entered the lottery, she feels used, but soon begins to appreciate the huge Karalian who is her mate. Sent into deep space with him, their bond grows, as they race to find a new planet suitable for a human colony...
  • Scorched by Heather Fox

    Scorched by Heather Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rachel: Mama always said that when I open my mouth, stupid comes out. I guess that's why instead of telling Grace the real reason I'm at the medical hut, I tell her I want to train to be a healer. It's not so bad, though. It's nice to give something back to the tribe, and also, it means I get to care for injured warrior Vantos...
  • Silenced by Heather Fox

    Silenced by Heather Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Carrie: The new arrivals at our tribe may have their minds only on one thing, but I can't even think about finding my mate. Not when my voice has been stolen away by a broken promise. Unable to communicate with the others, I'm relegated to the edges of the tribe. But I'm not the only one. Endzoh, the quiet warrior I've always thought didn't much like us girls, is right here with me...
  • Seduced by Heather Fox

    Seduced by Heather Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lorna: After the awful mess that was my life back on Earth, living in the raskarran village is great. It's a simple life, but the big green guys provide for us, our huts are cosy and I get to spend my days looking after two adorable children. There's only one problem - the dreamspace. Much as I might want to have a family one day, I can't have anyone inside my head...
  • Nkarri by Annabelle Rex

    Nkarri by Annabelle Rex

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

    Raith by Annabelle Rex

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

    Caveman Alien’s Call by Calista Skye

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the ground split open, he threw himself into the chasm with me.But that was not because he wanted to save me…HaisleyA tribe of crazy cavemen wants to eat me.They’ve even put me in a pot and hung it over a fire.It’s a little much after I’ve been buried alive for the second time in two weeks and barely survived a terrible earthquake that tore the ground open...
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