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  • 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...
  • Out Of The Blue by Elise Noble

    Out Of The Blue by Elise Noble

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chess Lane is getting married. The church is booked, the guests are invited, and in three short weeks her husband will give her a night she’ll never forget. Only her wedding happens a little sooner than she planned when she meets Jed Harker, a CIA agent with a big ego and a bigger… No, she doesn’t even want to think about it...
  • Tyrant by Richard F. Weyand

    Tyrant by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Council Revolt has started. The Council has struck at the Throne.As the Council plots to place their own candidate on the Throne, a single survivor is dragged out of the fires burning in the Imperial Residence.Hoping to take advantage of the capital’s chaos, enemies internal and external move against the Empire...
  • Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When her plane tries to come apart at apogee during a hijack, ballistic airline pilot Michelle Lauden handles the worst day she could imagine. After getting down without losing any passengers or crew, though, she finds her troubles have just begun!The country she's landed in has just declared independence from the Federation...
  • Conqueror by Richard F. Weyand

    Conqueror by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    ANOTHER INTERSTELLAR WAR!The Empire has won the war against the Alliance. But at the close of that war, an invasion fleet from the Democracy of Planets sought to annex Jasmine. So Jasmine annexed to Sintar, and Sintar destroyed that fleet, causing resentment that is driving the Democracy of Planets to go to war with Sintar.The Democracy of Planets is a much more deadly enemy than the Alliance...
  • Reformer by Richard F. Weyand

    Reformer by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    THE EMPIRE NEEDS A REFORMERThe Sintaran Empire rules three hundred trillion subjects on 150,000 planets. Two trillion of them are government employees. Ruling over this vast bureaucracy is the Imperial Council. It’s only check: The Empress, whose every decree is binding law.The uneasy balance of power between the Council and the Throne is eroding...
  • 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...
  • King of Eon by Anna Hackett

    King of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The King of the Eon Warriors has decided to take a Terran as his bride…but finds himself shockingly attracted to the tough, beautiful Space Corps officer in charge of his potential brides’ security.King Gayel Solann-Eon is dedicated to his people and empire. His father was a hard man and a rigid king, but Gayel is doing things his own 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...
  • Lost: A Christmas Novella by Jenny Schwartz

    Lost: A Christmas Novella by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Merry Christmas, son. Don’t come home. Stuck on Central Transit Station, Sergeant Ryan Dabrowski receives a Dear John letter from his family. The home he fought to protect doesn’t want him. He’s left too much of his body out among the stars. The aug-doctors patched him up better than new, but cyborg freaks aren’t welcome on Earth.“Don’t ruin your sister’s life...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Defying Fate by Regine Abel

    Defying Fate by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No more secrets. No more lies.For the past eight years, Tevek has searched for his missing mother and sister. But as a top technological mind of Guldar, he is closely watched. And as one of the secret leaders of the rebellion, he must tread carefully...
  • 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...
  • Delphini: Situation Critical by Hannah Walker

    Delphini: Situation Critical by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bray and Hunter, separated from their teammates, have crash-landed onto an unknown planet. Their first encounter with the inhabitants of this strange, new world is not what they expected. The Avanti finally meet a foe they aren't sure they want to engage in battle, much to the amusement of the men who come to investigate the crash...
  • 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...
  • The Artist by Elin Peer

    The Artist by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For more than four hundred years, women have ruled the world, but things are finally shifting.My father Magni always despised the Motherlands, and I’m no fan either, but I still go to the yearly summer gatherings that started when I was sixteen. The Northlands, Motherlands, and Old Europe each sends five future leaders...
  • 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...
  • Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seven sizzling science-fiction romance novels!If you loved Star Wars and Firefly, but wanted way more romance, this is the series for you...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Keran's Dawn by Regine Abel

    Keran's Dawn by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For the people and the crown.When Dawn took over the management of the Braxian hybrid shelter on the sanctuary planet Haven, she never thought its last days would be marked by a series of gruesome murders against its patrons. With local law enforcement failing to capture the murderer, she makes a desperate plea for help to the Braxian Crown Prince, Keran Xeldar...
  • Capital Games by R.K. Thorne

    Capital Games by R.K. Thorne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Two months have passed since Commander Ellen Ryu did the impossible and rescued mercenary Kael Sidassian—along with his mysterious cargo. Now the crew of Audacity is stronger than ever, protecting the galaxy against the abuse of technology...
  • Hitched to the Alien General by Mina Carter

    Hitched to the Alien General by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Her perfect man is a big, scarred alien war hero. Pity he only see’s her as a warrior, not a woman... Kenna Reynolds loves life in the Imperial Court. The latharian culture fascinates her, and she values the friendships she’s made amongst the sentinel women, most bonded to Latharian males, and a few with babies on the way...
  • Taking Vengeance by Cynthia Sax

    Taking Vengeance by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only force stronger than their hate is their love. Vengeance hates all humans. They killed every being he ever cared about. When the huge C Model cyborg is told he’s genetically compatible with the enemy, he makes it his mission to capture the female and use her to expel all humans from his home planet. That should be disappointingly easy. She’s a weak, fragile human...
  • Dark Ambitions by Michelle Diener

    Dark Ambitions by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's been months since Rose McKenzie was taken far from Earth. She's trying to make a place for herself amongst the Grih, with help from her Grihan lover, Captain Dav Jallan, and the dangerous and loyal Sazo, a powerful artificial intelligence who's integrated with an infamous Class 5 battleship...
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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Cyborg with No Name by Honey Phillips

    The Cyborg with No Name by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can a wounded cyborg help an isolated scientist remember her own humanity?Dr. Rose Abbott is the cybernetic engineer who created the robot horses used in the efforts to terraform Mars. Disgusted by the way her creations are treated by the GenCon Corporation, she chooses to leave her work behind and live in isolation...
  • Touch of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Touch of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    She’ll do anything to free her sister and save the Earth from invasion, even if she’s blackmailed into stealing sacred alien artifacts…and becomes the prey of the dark, deadly warrior sent to hunt her down.Special Forces Space Marine Lara Traynor wants to save her sister and her planet from annihilation by the deadly insectoid Kantos...
  • 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...
  • Adaptation by Pepper Pace

    Adaptation by Pepper Pace

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Carmella was still a teen when the Motherships first appeared dotting the skies over the Earth. For years the world tried to normalize while the silent Motherships hovered. And then THEY arrived, promising that they meant no harm. But within ten years eighty percent of the world’s population would be wiped out. Including everyone that Carmella loved...
  • 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...
  • Daylight by Cheree Alsop

    Daylight by Cheree Alsop

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Liora Day’s fate entwined with the crew the day she joined the SS Kratos. Fleeing the Coalition in their attempt to destroy the Omne Occasus before it falls into the wrong hands, the captain and crew band together to save not only their ship, but the fate of the Macrocosm against those who would use the machine for harm...
  • Escaping Fate by Regine Abel

    Escaping Fate by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Enslaved. Exploited. Hunted.Born and raised on a slavers ship, Amalia is one of the rare survivors of the Veredian race. Like all Veredian females, Amalia possesses a unique psi ability which makes her the prized pet of her master Gruuk. She escapes to Xelix Prime, a warrior planet where slavery is prohibited...
  • Soul of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Soul of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The last thing she expects is an instant mating with a handsome alien warrior…just before they are abducted by the deadly Kantos.Commander Kaira Chand of the Australian Air Force knows the meaning of loss. She lost both her beloved husband and her father over recent years, and she vows never to let a man close again...
  • The Arcav Captain's Queen by Hope Hart

    The Arcav Captain's Queen by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She wants her planet back... ...But all he wants is her. Forced to become a monster to survive her father’s cruelties, Saria wants only one thing: To convince the Arcav King to help her lead her people out of the darkness and into the light.She has no intention of mating anyone. Least of all Roax- the bossy bodyguard who the Arcav King ordered to be her shadow...
  • Rescued by her Alien Protector by Mina Carter

    Rescued by her Alien Protector by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Prepared to put her life on the line, she didn’t expect to lose her heart. Vice President Madison Cole is used to having a target on her back. Being captured by aliens? An acceptable risk to get what she needs. What she didn’t count on was falling for the ‘enemy’, a handsome alien warrior with a hero’s heart...
  • Storm of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Storm of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a Terran weapons scientist finds herself the target of deadly alien assassins, only one fierce alien warrior can keep her safe.Weapons scientist Dr. Finley Delgado wants to get her new laser defense weapon operational to protect Earth from the insectoid Kantos invasion. She has to make this work. She’s failed in the past and people paid with their lives, and she won’t fail again...
  • Alien AI's Marine by Mina Carter

    Alien AI's Marine by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He's the lone human male in a sea of lethal alien warriors. He's either gifted or suicidal...Kidnapped by aliens, rescued, and now on a secret base in a system he can't even pronounce, Major Jay Stephens has given up on a wing and a prayer... he's now on kicking butt and taking names. Especially when it comes to the alien AI who's risked everything, even her 'life' to protect him.The only problem...
  • 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...
  • The Barren by Jessie Donovan

    The Barren by Jessie Donovan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Vala Yarlen is one of the Barren—an infertile female ostracized from the rest of Kelderan society with others of her kind. So when she’s given the opportunity to join the new colony on a human-occupied planet, she jumps at the chance for a fresh start. The only downside is that she has to serve General Thorin Jarrell for the duration of the journey...
  • Destiny by Grace Goodwin

    Destiny by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Destiny Jones is a princess with a bad attitude. She doesn’t play nice with others, she doesn’t dress up in pretty clothes, and she has absolutely zero interest in behaving like a lady. Especially when she’s so close to catching the people who tried to have her killed. Oh, and kidnapped her mother, queen of the planet Alera...
  • 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...
  • Operation Cobalt by Susan Hayes

    Operation Cobalt by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Protecting the doctor was part of his mission…falling in love with her wasn’t. Dante’s assignment should have been simple. Sneak onto a corporate controlled planet and find a missing medical team. Simple goes out the airlock when a beautiful woman charges headlong into his life. She’s one of the missing doctors, and the sexiest woman he’s ever seen. Keeping her alive won’t be easy...
  • The Warrior's Stone: A Military SciFi Romance by Matthew O. Duncan

    The Warrior's Stone: A Military SciFi Romance by Matthew O. Duncan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The year is 2319. The war with the Serken has finally turned to the favor of the Allied worlds for the first time in over a decade, yet it is far from over. Lt. Commander Roy O’Hara leads his squadron of combat fighters against the enemy’s latest Super Destroyer and is shot down over an unexplored planet...
  • Alien Lover by Luna Kingsley

    Alien Lover by Luna Kingsley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Drevath is a warrior to his core. His first priority is his warrior brothers and the safety of his kingdom. The last thing he expects is for a human bride to be delivered to their camp on the southern border while they’re under attack from the Thren. She’s nothing but a distraction as her safety falls to him. Hannah enrolled as a mail-order bride to give her younger siblings a better life...
  • His Feverish Embrace by Celia Kyle, Marina Maddix

    His Feverish Embrace by Celia Kyle, Marina Maddix

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One night of passion. Two secrets revealed. Three lives changed forever.Dragons do it better. At least, that’s Thrett Lacerta’s motto—at work and at play...
  • Ren by Nancey Cummings, Starr Huntress

    Ren by Nancey Cummings, Starr Huntress

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The red guy. Again.Emry thought she was done with alien Romeos who made promises and then ditched you, but their paths continued to cross. What’s a girl to do when the same guy keeps turning up like a bad penny?Steal his shipThe wrong thing for the right reason.Four years ago, Ren made the mistake of choosing duty above his mate, a fragile human female unsuited for his toxic planet...
  • The Barbarian's Fate by Bella Blair

    The Barbarian's Fate by Bella Blair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I swore I would follow my fated mate to hell and back. . . and now I will follow through on that oath.Calli: My entire world is turned upside down when I'm suddenly accosted by Intergalactic Space Force soldiers and placed into a space capsule destined for Yistercallen. The mysterious planet where all outlaws are sent to.My fate seems sealed. With death as the only outcome...
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