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  • Willow and the Wraith by Honey Phillips

    Willow and the Wraith by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Ruthless alien bounty hunter Wraith has buried his past so completely that not even he remembers his original name. All that matters now is that he's the best at what he does. He lives by two ironclad never break a contract and never get involved with a target...
  • Skruj by Honey Phillips

    Skruj by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s wealthy, he’s mean… and he’s about to meet his match! Life on the alien planet of Londria is difficult for humans, but Bobbi is determined to make the holiday season a special time for her fragile little brother, Tim. Desperate for funds, she’s even willing to take a job working for the coldest, meanest, most hard-hearted alien in the entire city...
  • 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...
  • Alien Ruler by Honey Phillips

    Alien Ruler by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can a protective alien warrior save a fragile woman from his enemies - and his own desperate need?Leslie is used to be being the quiet twin, but she has no intention of remaining silent when her sister could be in danger. Nisani, the Vulfar Ruler, is big, gruff, and intimidating - but he’s the only one who can help her...
  • Emperor by Anna Hackett

    Emperor by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When an experimental starship test goes horribly wrong, a scientist from Earth finds herself fighting for her survival, and her only lifeline is a wild, powerful alien king.Waking on an alien world, wracked by pain, Dr. Poppy Ellison is confused and adrift…until his voice calls to her in the darkness...
  • Guarded by an Alien Assassin by Honey Phillips

    Guarded by an Alien Assassin by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When Julie's past comes back to haunt her, she finds an unexpected savior in the form of a towering, blue-skinned alien with a fierce scowl and muscles for days.She should be terrified. Instead she wants to get closer - much closer - to the brooding warrior, and not just because of the safety he promises.Q’tar's mission is eliminate his target and get the hell off of Earth...
  • Brutal by Hope Hart

    Brutal by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He calls himself an ‘acquisitions expert.’In reality, the charming, handsome Thesian is a space pirate. And I trust the 7-foot tall alien about as far as I can throw him.But at this point, I have to trust someone. Because the Grivath are hunting a little girl. A little girl who had the bad luck to grow up as a royal on a planet that they want to control...
  • 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...
  • Savage (Society of Savages #4) by Hope Hart

    Savage (Society of Savages #4) by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s wild. Vicious. Savage.But deep down, I know he’s in there somewhere. A lost, tortured, confined, boy who grew into an enraged, vengeful man.I have to believe he’s not beyond saving. Because sometimes, when he looks at me, I know he sees more than just the woman who opened his cage and let him free…Only to allow him to be locked up again.Everyone says my plan is too dangerous...
  • Craved by an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross

    Craved by an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s hot and he has huge assets, but he irritates the heck out of me.Savvy: A deadly vine is unleashed on our world, scorching everything in its path. The only solution is to pair up with Skydar—a warrior bad boy in major need of a kick in the… You know what. He thinks he can settle our rivalry by staking his claim on me...as his fated mate...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • A Prize for Ckzarr by Lynnea Lee

    A Prize for Ckzarr by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What’s worse than falling in love with my sexy, musclebound alien boss? Falling in love with my alien boss when I know I’m not his mate. That’s why I keep my emotional distance, even though we work side by side every day.Ckzarr has the body of a god and is a beast in the bedroom. How do I know? Because we’ve already failed compatibility testing. Multiple times. I’m not his mate. End of story...
  • Jace: Alien Adoption Agency #12 by Tasha Black

    Jace: Alien Adoption Agency #12 by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This grumpy soldier wants to guard her life, but she only wants to guard her heart.Jace’s glorious career as an Invicta warrior is cut short when he is assigned guard duty for a tiny alien baby. Just because he’s a glorified nanny for the frustratingly irresistible little bundle, doesn’t mean he has forgotten his duty...
  • Virilian Mail Order Mates, #1-6 by Ella Blake

    Virilian Mail Order Mates, #1-6 by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Virilian Match ProgramIt seems like a straightforward become mistress to a gorgeous, alien Virilian male until an offspring is produced, then return home with five million dollars.Nothing turns out straightforward for the women who are chosen or the males they are matched to. Danger and adventure might be expected in far-off alien worlds, but none of them expect to fall in love..
  • Ravenous Predator by Piper Stone

    Ravenous Predator by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years I’ve run my family’s organization in Philadelphia, ruling the city’s underworld with an iron first. I thought no one would dare to steal from me… until someone did. Now she must pay...
  • So'Lan by Alana Khan

    So'Lan by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brutalized as a gladiator, So'Lan's body has finally healed, but his mind is still heavy with the weight of the many abuses he suffered in his owner’s dungeon. Can a gorgeous human pirate help him salvage the wreck that is his heart?PhoenixTempting but broken, So'Lan has baggage I want no part of. Each time he saves my life, I find myself reconsidering the hunky lion-man's appeal...
  • Ruthless Monster by Piper Stone

    Ruthless Monster by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I went to Miami on the tail of an assassin, but when he turned the tables on me it was mafia kingpin Sebastian Dupree who saved my life...
  • 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...
  • Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I was abducted, sold, then crash-landed on a strange planet... only to be abducted again.  And you know the funny thing? I barely even care.I’m numb. You see, I’ve already lost everything. When you’re doing something you love, you never think that it could be the last time. That someone might take your life from you and leave you stranded on a planet where most of the locals are out to get you...
  • Vera and the Victor by Honey Phillips

    Vera and the Victor by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A grumpy alien warrior, a rebellious almost-professor, and an alien paradise...One moment Vera is peacefully studying for her PhD in Ancient History, the next she is helping an alien race who look like fairies defeat the evil male who had her abducted. They need her help and she’s not about to back down, not even when a huge, grumpy gargoyle shows up on their island demanding their allegiance...
  • 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 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...
  • Protected by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Protected by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    What’s scarier than being abducted from Earth and almost eaten by cannibals? The idea of falling in love with a huge alien warrior.Just a few days ago, I was living my best life. Now? I’m on the run on a strange alien planet. Thanks to my short temper and a severe lack of self-control, I’m being hunted, and it’s only a matter of time before I end up captured or dead...
  • Tempted by an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross

    Tempted by an Alien Warlord by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She hates him (not really). He hates her (not really?). But when she's kidnapped by the duskhorde, he mounts a bold rescue, only to be captured himself. Can they escape and find true love together?Zetar: After losing my mate to the disease, I promised never to love another. Then I meet Josie. She’s full of fire, and she tests my patience...
  • Axall by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Axall by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He won’t leave Earth without her.After awakening from cryosleep, Rachel struggles to find her place in a strange new world. Earth isn’t the way she remembers it. Not even close. For starters, humans have made contact with real live aliens. Before she can wrap her head around all the changes, a bossy Vaxxlian warrior shows up in her bedroom claiming to be her mate...
  • Myadd by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Myadd by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The huge alien warrior wants to keep her forever.Pregnant and alone, Sienna feels she has no choice but to sign up for Vaxxlian Mail Order Brides. She’ll have to marry a complete stranger, but she’s desperate to provide a real future for her unborn child. When she meets Myadd, she experiences the first glimmer of hope in ages...
  • 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...
  • Ravenous Alien Mate by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Ravenous Alien Mate by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her freedom comes with a price—her hand in marriage.After spending ten years behind bars, Leah is offered early release if she agrees to become an alien mail order bride. Though she’s nervous about the prospect of marrying a complete stranger—a huge Martian, no less—she’s also desperate for freedom...
  • Alien Skin Market by Lizzy Bequin

    Alien Skin Market by Lizzy Bequin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who’s going to save my skin?My FBI training never prepared me for this.First I was abducted. Then I was locked in a cage. Now I’m standing on a stage, exposed and sweating, while a crowd of terrifying aliens bid for my ownership.And the ones who end up claiming me may be the scariest of all. These guys are like nothing I’ve seen before...
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    first-contact  gothic  adult  aliens  anti-hero  book  dark  female-mc
  • Piper (Alien Surrogate Agency #1) by Tasha Black

    Piper (Alien Surrogate Agency #1) by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She signed up to give him an heir, but what he really wants is her heart.Piper’s infertility sent her childhood sweetheart into the arms of another woman. Now she’s cashing in her credits at the local fertility clinic so she can do the traveling she’s always dreamed of.But when the clinic offers her a secret third option, she can’t resist...
  • Saved by the Rakian Scout by Elin Wyn

    Saved by the Rakian Scout by Elin Wyn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bewitched by her scent, can he discover the truth behind the secrets of the past?Spy and scout Jormoi must prevent a secret document from falling into the hands of the sworn enemy of his brothers - who has already befriended the book's beautiful keeper.But the shy, lovely Rhela is hiding more than he realized...
  • 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...
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    first-contact  adult  aliens  book  fiction  humor  invasion  poc-mc
  • 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...
  • Rescued by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rescued by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Humans lie. I learned that lesson once before.I thought I found a mate, but she betrayed us all.I won't let that happen again.Not even when I find Sia and four other females nearly dead on a defunct planet.Not when the lovely female is remanded to my custody.She's not being honest about what she knows.But with a little pressure, a little punishment, I might get her to talk.Teach her to obey...
  • Stranded by the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Stranded by the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's not the warrior I wanted. But now we're stranded together, and I can't quit thinking about him.I made it all the way through the Alien Bride Games without being chosen by a Khanavai male, even though I'm certain it's the only way I'll ever find anything resembling love...
  • Cheating in the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Cheating in the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I have no desire to join the Alien Bride Lottery.But even more than that, I don't want my parents to choose a husband for me. And that's what will happen if I stay on Earth.So I make a deal with them: if I go to Station 21 and don't get chosen by a Khanavai male, I will come home and allow them to plan the rest of my life...
  • Schooling the Alien by Ava Ross

    Schooling the Alien by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Do I dare give my broken heart to an alien as wounded as me?When I took a nanny job in a distant colony caring for two young boys who recently lost their mother, I expected I’d grow to love them. Having experienced loss myself, I knew how hard it was to heal. What I didn’t expect was to fall for their father, a big, burly alien with scars on his body that mirrors those in my soul...
  • Rogue Warrior by Elin Wyn, Ava York

    Rogue Warrior by Elin Wyn, Ava York

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I don’t know if I can save Valtic from the darkness. But I’m damn well going to try.Every day I make a choice. Spread the light. Help where I can. Make sure my friends, my new family, are safe.But the darkness inside of Valtic calls me. I can see him fighting it with every breath.I want to, need to, help him. And not just as a doctor. His heated glances and fiery touch beckon me...
  • 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...
  • Escape Clause by Cara Bristol

    Escape Clause by Cara Bristol

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only thing they can’t escape is love… After a nano-virus devastates Caradonia, leaving the planet in desperate need of women, leader Krogan launches a last-ditch effort to save their civilization—convince men to accept human brides through Cosmic Mates.Krogan himself has no time or desire for a wife...
  • Asia's Fate by Miranda Martin

    Asia's Fate by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's an old saying that no plan survives contact with the enemy. But what if the enemy is your fated mate?AsiaFalling in love wasn’t part of the plan.I was supposed to be "captured", gather intel from the inside, then be rescued and returned to safety.But the moment I saw the enormous, electric blue scaled alien dragon warrior, my heart leapt into my throat...
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