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  • Hoards and Harbors by S.M. Olivier

    Hoards and Harbors by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Navigating our new reality has its ups and downs. My relationships with my men and most of my family continue to grow. Together, we've made it our duty to help those who can't help themselves. We're determined to ensure good prevails despite the evil forces against us. We make new friends, giving us hope we're not alone in our mission...
  • Mission: Her Shield by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Shield by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s the one woman he’s always wanted and the one woman he’ll never let himself have, but former Delta Force soldier Axel will risk everything to save his covert team’s beautiful archeologist.Axel Diaz knows that fighting the bad guys requires getting down in the muck. He’s done too much and seen too much to ever inflict his nightmares on a woman...
  • Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes, the biggest secrets can bring both salvation and destruction.Emerson Charles grew up luckier than most, going from a difficult life to finding safety and a true home with her stepmother and stepbrother. Years later, when Levi's in trouble, Emerson will do anything for the brother of her heart, her greatest protector...
  • Radiant Darkness by Anna Carven

    Radiant Darkness by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Arkan Kythelian is the last man standing.He's well aware of that fact. The rest of his First Division brothers have succumbed to the Mating Fever, falling for those gentle, alluring creatures—humans.He should probably be more bothered by it, but he's a little preoccupied right now. See, he's just detected the presence of a group of terrified humans onboard a Kordolian slave-trader ship...
  • Flynn by Nyssa Kathryn

    Flynn by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some pasts are harder to escape than others.When Carina Murphy is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, a fresh start in a new town is her only option. Unfortunately, Cradle Mountain may not be the safe haven she’d thought. The son of her new patient may be tall, dark and handsome…but he also knows all about her past.Keeping her job should be the hardest part...
  • Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When archeologist January’s plane is shot down over the Guatemalan jungle, she knows she’s being hunted for the invaluable Mayan artifacts she’s carrying. Only one man and his team can save her…the covert, black ops Team 52, and the distrusting former CIA operative who drives her crazy…Dr. January James has a motto: live life to the fullest...
  • Forged in Ember by Trish McCallan

    Forged in Ember by Trish McCallan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the final novel in the scorching Red-Hot SEALs series, a desperate mother and a Navy SEAL fight fire with fire to protect their love and save the world…Amy Chastain has made a lot of enemies—none so ruthless as the insanely powerful New Ruling Order (NRO). When they killed her husband, it was hell. Then they targeted her children by injecting them with a dangerous, experimental isotope...
  • Rogue Cyborg by Grace Goodwin

    Rogue Cyborg by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He conquers her, body and soul. Makarios of Kronos is a rebel, a smuggler who reports to no one, not even those on Rogue 5. But one betrayal sends him to a Coalition brig, and to a fate worse than death—capture by the Hive. He escapes but exchanges one prison for another. He now lives on the Colony, contaminated and deemed a risk...
  • Forbidden by Tana Stone

    Forbidden by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Be a tribute bride for some brawny alien warrior? Not on your life. Ella is one of the few human females who rejected her Drexian warrior match. Sent to live with the other “rejects” in a special part of the high-tech space station, she has no desire to have her life dictated by a bunch of alphas on steroids. And no way would she ever be charmed by an alien playboy...
  • Fighting for Their Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Fighting for Their Mate by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Once a commander with the Intelligence Core for the Coalition Fleet, a mission gone wrong forced Chloe to return to Earth injured and dishonored. But she's seen too much and is restless in civilian life. This drives her to do whatever it takes to return to space, to where she belongs, so she volunteers as an Interstellar Bride...
  • Big Bad Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Big Bad Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Atlan Warlord in hiding. In pain. In danger of succumbing to a horrible fever.Only one woman can save him.One.All he has to do is find her before he becomes a Big Bad Beast..
  • Raiden by Scarlett Grove

    Raiden by Scarlett Grove

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To find his mate, he'll have to believe the impossible A Driven Scientist For Flora Baptiste, nothing is more important than finding a vaccine against the vampires who kidnapped and changed her. She will stop at nothing until the problem is solved. While working at the House of Storms, she can't be distracted by her attraction to her best friend, Raiden. She isn't even his mate. He's said so...
  • Destruction by J.M. Madden

    Destruction by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Going back into the torture camp where he’d been so brutally abused is the last thing Navy SEAL Drake Fontana wants to do, but if there are other men being experimented upon he has to be the one to get them out. And he has to give them an option other than to be a test subject to the Silverstone Collaborative, the pharmaceutical company funding the diabolical experiments...
  • Nevrik by Regine Abel

    Nevrik by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She is all he’s ever wanted.With the threat of the rebels’ looming war, romance is the last thing on Tyonna’s mind. But as she prepares to set off on a mission, the new member to join her crew leaves her breathless. Nevrik is the most imposing and intimidating Scelk she has ever seen...
  • Retribution by J.M. Madden

    Retribution by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Dogs of War have rescued American servicemen from research camps run by the Silverstone Collaborative. Now it’s time for the company, and it’s owner Damon Wilkes, to pay for what they’ve done. Wulfe Terberger is the man to bring them to justice...
  • Rexx by Tasha Black

    Rexx by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Their sights are trained on love. But will they survive a ride on the Iron Peregrine?Abigail Shaw can’t believe her good luck. The Alien Adoption Agency has selected her to adopt adorable baby Rio. And baby Rio comes with Rexx, a handsome Invicta warrior guard, whose dark eyes seduce Abigail before he even opens his mouth. When he offers her his mate bond, she thinks things can’t get any better...
  • Alien Knight Teddy Bear Troubles by Becca Brayden

    Alien Knight Teddy Bear Troubles by Becca Brayden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On a dangerous mission to rescue a young royal from a prison cell on an alien warship, Lumerian Knight Taeger Norasair never expects to find a beautiful human woman among the prisoners. Even more puzzling is her refusal to leave. Unwilling to leave Cassie behind, he throws her over his shoulder and makes a dash for freedom. He is an ancient. Nearly immortal. Sparks fly and passions rage...
  • The Magic of Twelve: Hazel by Pepper North

    The Magic of Twelve: Hazel by Pepper North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the face of certain death, a highly unusual rescue will lead her to the new life she could never have imagined. Hazel never expected to be staring down the barrel of a gun on her 22nd birthday. In the blink of an eye, she falls into the arms of an enormous, handsome man, who can’t keep his hands off her curves...
  • Stolen by Tana Stone

    Stolen by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When they told her she’d been abducted from Earth as a tribute bride for a badass alien warrior, Hope thought it was the craziest thing she’d ever heard. That was before she was kidnapped by space pirates.Hope didn’t buy the idea of being a tribute bride. After all, she’d never been into commitment...
  • Rogue Enforcer by Grace Goodwin

    Rogue Enforcer by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cormac of Styx Legion knows his value to his people. He is an enforcer, a weapon to be wielded, an executioner. Nothing more. He is accepted but not loved. Feared but not welcomed. He is part of his legion, brutal, efficient and utterly alone.When he receives a coded message claiming he has been matched with an Interstellar Bride, he knows the match must be a terrible miscalculation...
  • Alien Surgeon’s Seduction by Mina Carter

    Alien Surgeon’s Seduction by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She was his the moment she stepped aboard. He'll fight everyone, even the emperor himself, to keep her... Like most Lathar, First Healer Isan K'Vass didn't expect to ever find his mate. The genetic plague that had ravaged their race meant they had no females, and his tainted bloodline meant he would be last in line for one of the rare human females. Or it should...
  • Beauty and the Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Beauty and the Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No one denies the beast.I am a Warlord. A beast.An assassin for the Intelligence Core.Even so, I've been sent to Earth for a simple mission: Find a mate.I hold no hope. Who would want me? I'm scarred... inside and out.But one look at the human beauty and there is no question, she’s mine.When she is taken from me, I will use all my training to save her from my enemies...
  • Bargain with a Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Bargain with a Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Adrian Davis thought getting on a real-life, ‘beam me up, Scotty’, transport pad was adventure enough. Visiting her mother—and the Atlan beast her mom had chosen as a mate—on another planet? Setting foot in an Atlan prison? Completely crazy. Like totally, bat-shit, what-the-hell-was-she-doing-with-her-life crazy...
  • Guarded by the Snake: Monster Security Agency by Layla Fae

    Guarded by the Snake: Monster Security Agency by Layla Fae

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She stole her way into my cold, serpent heart like a thief in the night.The tiny human hires me to shield her from the vengeance of a powerful organization. There’s nothing wrong with that, except she stole from them, got caught, and now I have to clean up her mess. Add to that her incessant chatter, and I’m in for the most unpleasant job in my career...
  • Storm Gathering by Rebecca Zanetti

    Storm Gathering by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Even before surviving the Scorpius bacterium, Greyson Storm was a lone wolf navigating minefields. As a kid, he learned to take a hit and find safety. As an adult, he joined the military and quickly learned how to protect and defend. When the world ended, he created a mercenary camp with military precision, no entanglements, and a promise to avenge a fallen friend...
  • Cyborg Fever by Grace Goodwin

    Cyborg Fever by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Warlord Anghar survives hell as a captive of the evil Hive. Convinced he will never break free, he chooses death over dishonor. When the Coalition ReCon Team sent to kill him frees him instead, he begins the long, tortuous journey back to a true Atlan, a warrior proud of his beast, of his service...
  • Beyond Ecstasy by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Ecstasy by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The next-to-last book in the bestselling BEYOND series... The O’Kanes have a reputation for working hard and playing harder—except for Hawk. He joined the gang with one goal: to ensure his family’s survival through the impending war with Eden. It’s been years since he had the luxury of wanting anything for himself. Now, he wants Jeni...
  • Maid for the Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Maid for the Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An Atlan Warlord in Mating Fever with two choices: Be the latest bachelor beast on an Earth reality television show to find his perfect mate or face certain death in an Atlan prison. Braun's not sure which is worse... until a female enters his hotel suite with towels and cleaning supplies.She isn't part of the television show.She isn't available.She isn't interested in mating with an alien...
  • 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...
  • Shadow Falling by Rebecca Zanetti

    Shadow Falling by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Before the Scorpius Syndrome tore through North America and nearly wiped out the population, Vivienne Wellington was the FBI’s best profiler. The bacteria got her anyway. But she survived. She recovered. And when she woke up from a drug-nightmare of captivity, her skills as a hunter of men had gone from merely brilliant to full-on uncanny. Her mysterious rescuer wants her to put them to the test...
  • Protector by Anna Hackett

    Protector by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim… Cool and driven Madeline Cochran made a successful career for herself as civilian commander of a space station orbiting Jupiter…until the day it was attacked and she was abducted by alien slavers...
  • Tansy's Titan by S.E. Smith

    Tansy's Titan by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tansy Bell, is the middle daughter of the three Bell sisters. She has always been a little different, even for a Bell. A chameleon, she can change her appearance and personality to blend in almost anywhere. She uses this talent to bring some of the worse criminals in the world to justice.Mak ‘Tag Krell Manok is the wild one of his four brothers...
  • Ascension Saga: 4 - Faith, Part 1 by Grace Goodwin

    Ascension Saga: 4 - Faith, Part 1 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Faith Jones is an Earth girl...and she's not. She's half Aleran. And not just any half - a royal half. Her mother is the queen, her sister is the heir, and her twin is determined to kill every alien on the planet if that's what it takes to find their kidnapped mother...
  • Luna of Kyun by Laura Jo Phillips

    Luna of Kyun by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luna Meadows spent her entire childhood hiking around the world with her father, and learning how to hide a number of unusual abilities she was born with. And wishing she had answers to an ever growing list of questions that her father refused to answer...
  • Operation Phoenix by Susan Hayes

    Operation Phoenix by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was the love of his life. Walking away was supposed to keep her safe… Dax’s greatest regret is leaving the woman he loved. His only other regret – not being able to tell her how her brother died. Now, he lives by one rule: mission first. When Trinity re-appears as a suspect in his investigation, he must make a hard choice...
  • Alien Paladin's Woman by Vi Voxley

    Alien Paladin's Woman by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes, what the galaxy needs is a hero no one's ever heard of. Tieran, the Commander of the Palian paladins, has never been allowed to have anything of his own, other than the blade in his hands and the honor he serves with. But a feisty, curvy, and utterly impossible human woman is about to change all that...
  • Trapped in Your Storm by Darien Cox

    Trapped in Your Storm by Darien Cox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Autumn has local DJ and disinformation agent Elliot Nicholson feeling renewed. He’s moved past the depression and anxiety that plagued him over the summer, and lately his job has been blessedly free of crisis. But for Elliot and his colleagues, nothing remains peaceful for long in Singing Bear Village. Baz, their outlandish ambassador, may be missing...
  • Ascension Saga: 8 - Destiny, Part 2 by Grace Goodwin

    Ascension Saga: 8 - Destiny, Part 2 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Destiny has a problem—a six-foot-three, stubborn, gorgeous, deadly, sex-on-a-stick—kind of problem. While her brain might want to kick his ass across the galaxy, the rest of her wants to jump him like a bouncy house. Ardor or not, she’s hunting a killer. Nix is going all protective, alpha male, claiming she’s his mate just because she had a few mind-blowing moments in his bed...
  • Romancing the Alpha: An Action-Adventure Romance Boxed Set by Zoe York, Ruby Lionsdrake

    Romancing the Alpha: An Action-Adventure Romance Boxed Set by Zoe York, Ruby Lionsdrake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A multi-author anthology of action-packed adventure novellas. Let the adrenaline flow! ***ZOE YORK, RUBY LIONSDRAKE, ZARA KEANE, ANNA HACKETT, EMBER CASEY, ANNA LOWE, SADIE HALLER, LYN BRITTAN, LYDIA ROWAN, A.J...
  • Pets in Space 5 by S.E. Smith, Regine Abel

    Pets in Space 5 by S.E. Smith, Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Are you ready? Pets in Space® 5 is back for the fifth amazing year! Twelve of today’s top Science Fiction Romance authors have written 12 original, never-before-released stories filled with action, adventure, suspense, humor, and romance that will take you out of this world. The giving doesn’t stop there...
  • Desired By Dragons by Scarlett Grove

    Desired By Dragons by Scarlett Grove

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The ultimate dragon mega-bundle from Scarlett Grove For the first time, all the dragon shifter stories that have enthralled Scarlett's readers have been gathered into one huge collection. Here's what you'll find inside: Alien Commander's Bride: Lexi Garcia will do anything to protect her family … even mate with one of the Draconians she hates...
  • The Keys by Chloe Gunter

    The Keys by Chloe Gunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    More Secrets. More Suspense. More Steam. When Charlie finds herself on the wrong side of Ethos, the secret society she just joined, she’ll have to prove her worth to show just how valuable of an asset she can be. As Gage and Gavin are sent on a mission, Charlie has to address the tension between her and her roommate Reed...
  • Help Wanted: Wife by Cara Bristol

    Help Wanted: Wife by Cara Bristol

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They have nothing to lose except their hearts. The only thing keeping widower Larth from succumbing to grief is running the fledgling bakery founded by his late wife. He intends to make the business the biggest, best bakery in all of Caradonia. But he can’t do it alone. Unable to find affordable help, he turns to Cosmic Mates and advertises for a wife in-name-only...
  • Reactivated: Oz by Charissa Gracyk

    Reactivated: Oz by Charissa Gracyk

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Project Phoenix…Find Oz…”Those were the last words her brother Jonah said when he died in her arms. Convinced that he was murdered, Navy Intel Officer Allegra Steele learns that “Oz” is her brother’s former Navy SEAL teammate, Jack “Oz” Cullen.When Allegra asks for Jack’s help, she doesn’t expect the undeniable electricity that sparks between them...
  • Into the Light by Anna Carven

    Into the Light by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Abbey When your mate is a Kordolian General who's betrayed the most vicious Empire in the Universe, things tend to get a little heavy from time to time. For the last six months, Tarak's had to divide his time between Earth and space, dealing with various... problems. But he's home now, and he tells me he's not going anywhere...
  • Never Cuff an Alien by V.K. Ludwig

    Never Cuff an Alien by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My alien concubine refuses to please me.That gruff, muscled Vandalar saikh I bought myself keeps running away. So I do what every lonely woman in her thirties would: I cuff him to my bed until he comes to his senses. At least now I don’t have to chase behind him in high heels, and can concentrate on starting my mail-order-saikh business...
  • Turn Left for Stars by V.K. Ludwig

    Turn Left for Stars by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A SciFi Alien RomCom. It’s hard to find the right alien concubine… Finding three of them? Impossible! Watching the future saikhs practice their penetration angles at the saikhmenti alone doesn’t cut it to make a decision. What about other things like… I don’t know. Personality? What I need is insider information. That saikh-in-training who keeps failing his assessments? He’s offering it up freely...
  • Alien General's Fated by Vi Voxley

    Alien General's Fated by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This general will never lose...This is a full 100 k sci-fi romance novel, featuring a growly Alien Alpha general and a feisty, curvy human woman going against all the odds...
  • Alien General's Beloved by Vi Voxley

    Alien General's Beloved by Vi Voxley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Only one general can stand between an ancient nightmare and the safety of his people... This is a 100 k full scifi romance novel featuring a BBW human heroine and a growly alpha male Brion warrior general. It can and should be read as a standalone and has a guaranteed HEA ending! Grab it now for 99 Cents for a limited time! Lana Cormac is a woman with a mission...
  • Stolen by Raze by Lolita Lopez

    Stolen by Raze by Lolita Lopez

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Captured in a government raid, Ella is thrown into a prison transport bound for the mountain labor camps. She never expects her rescue to come at the hands of Raze, the handsome sky warrior who all but stole her heart after Dizzy’s wedding. Considered a high-value asset by the Shadow Force, Ella is given to an arrogant brute of a pilot for safekeeping—and collaring...
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