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  • When She's Common by Ruby Dixon

    When She's Common by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It's lonely for an extrovert on Risda III, the human refuge on the edge of the universe. Maeve craves company and friends, but she knows she can't keep harassing the locals for attention. What she needs is a pet to love on.What she gets is...a stowaway. Sorta. Zhur is actually a praxiian prince on the run, and the cat alien needs a place to hide out...
  • War by A.G. Wilde

    War by A.G. Wilde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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  • 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...
  • Corsairs: Mathiras by Ruby Dixon

    Corsairs: Mathiras by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Someone is illegally stealing humans from their home world and cloning them.For months, we’ve been hunting this ring of criminals and the end is in sight. I’m separating from my brothers and taking my ship to track down the bad guys.One small problem — Helen insists upon joining me on this dangerous mission.Helen herself is a clone, created to be an object of beauty...
  • Kalpar by Honey Phillips

    Kalpar by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A ruthless alien, a lonely woman, and a dangerous plan…Constance has everything she could possibly want - everything except freedom. The material luxuries her father provides are no substitute, especially since his only interest in her is as a pawn in one of his games.When a massive alien warrior snatches her away from her gilded cage, she should be terrified...
  • The Alien's Battle by Ella Maven

    The Alien's Battle by Ella Maven

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I offer myself as bait… but am I really just a pawn? Trix: The red aliens make me a deal I can’t refuse—help them fight their enemies and they’ll rescue my friends. I agree to act as bait to lure the blue Drixonian leader. But the heated, knowing look in his violet eyes makes me suspect I made a bargain with the wrong aliens…Kutzal: This female isn’t like the others...
  • Craved by the Alien Lord by Ella Blake

    Craved by the Alien Lord by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    RaynaIf one male remained alive in the universe, and that male was Lord Ledos, I’d let both of our species die out. He looks like a rock star, swaggers like the galaxy’s greatest gift swings between his leather-clad legs. He’s a force of nature. I’m a wallflower. We couldn’t be more opposite...
  • Blaze by Tana Stone

    Blaze by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I swore to myself that I’d never fall for an alien warrior. Now my life depends on trusting a Drexian I’d hoped to never see again.I was coming on board the Drexian space station to attend my cousin’s wedding. That was it. Despite every other woman on Earth falling all over themselves for one of the tough aliens, I wasn’t interested. Not even a little bit...
  • Conqueror by Anna Hackett

    Conqueror by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After two years of alien captivity, Evie is free, but her captors have changed her. Now struggling to control a terrifying new power, her only hope is one formidable, dangerous alien king.Logistics manager Evie Mason is no longer a prisoner on an alien space station, but she’s far from Earth, suffering nightmares, and fighting to ignore the growing power inside her...
  • Kiss of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Kiss of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    When the vital alliance between Earth and the Eon Empire depends on her playing war games with an arrogant, infuriating Eon warrior, what could go wrong? Terran Captain Allie Borden has her orders. Take her ship, the Divergent, and strengthen the alliance with the Eon by carrying out training exercises with the Eon warship, the Desteron...
  • Corsairs: Straik by Ruby Dixon

    Corsairs: Straik by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    What’s worse than finding a lost ship full of stolen humans? It’s finding out that your family is responsible. This is a wrong I have to somehow right, so I take off to find answers…and discover one of those kidnapped humans has stowed away on my ship.She’s furious that I’ve deserted her friends. She’s determined to make me pay...
  • Heart of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Heart of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Okay, maybe hijacking an alien commander’s warship wasn’t her best idea… Genius computer geek Wren Traynor prefers her high-tech comp lab to socializing with people, and she definitely prefers it over crawling through the bowels of the huge Eon warship she’s hijacked...
  • Using Fejo by Victoria Aveline

    Using Fejo by Victoria Aveline

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She’ll do anything to get home. He’ll do anything to keep her with him, forever…Vanessa doesn’t have the luxury of building a happily ever after on a new planet like her fellow alien abduction survivors. She must get back to Earth. Her family needs her, and she can’t afford to let them down again...
  • Alien Triton's Prize by Lynnea Lee

    Alien Triton's Prize by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Reeled into a fake marriage with a merman...How was I supposed to know my new boss was the owner’s nephew? Now, I’ve been fired for speaking up about his roaming hands. And if that isn’t bad enough, I get home early to find my boyfriend bumping the girl next door!With nowhere to go, I decide to join the Starlight Lottery...
  • 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...
  • Alien Mercenary's Consorts by Mina Carter

    Alien Mercenary's Consorts by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He was done with royal life years ago. One problem… it’s not done with him.Exiled prince turned mercenary, Fin, wants nothing more than to spend his days drinking, fighting and trying to persuade his beautiful crewmate, Red, into his bed.When a summons arrives from his home planet of Navarr, his secret is out. He’s not just any prince, he’s the heir to the throne...
  • Marked Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Marked Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From NY Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Michelle M. Pillow, the much anticipated dragon shapeshifter romance, Qurilixen Lords!Prince Jaxx's inner dragon-shifter is at war with his human side. He knows what is right and what is prudent, and those two impulses rarely line up...
  • Troy by Tasha Black

    Troy by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is his heart the mirror she needs to finally see her true beauty?A terrible accident left Eliza with a troubled heart and an unsightly scar. No Terran man wants a woman with a disfigured face, no matter how kind or hardworking. So when Eliza receives the opportunity to adopt a baby and move to a remote frontier moon, she jumps at the chance...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Niir by Ella Blake

    Niir by Ella Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The job seemed simple: Rescue fourteen abducted females and return them to their settlement.Communications officer Niir Gosk is the picture of diplomacy and skillful negotiation, but few know the brutal mercenary's life he once led. He constantly fights to keep his deadly primal form--lurking in the soul of all Virilians--from permanently transforming him into a monster...
  • The Naga Maverick's Determined Mate by Robin O'Connor

    The Naga Maverick's Determined Mate by Robin O'Connor

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Betrayed, I end up on a Naga-infested planet, and the golden one? He thinks he can be my knight. CosimaAfter a horrible hostage situation, I thought I was rescued, only to find myself betrayed and trapped on the next awful planet. There’s snake people here! They terrify me, and then one shows up with a freaking dragon.When Zsekhet, the dragon rider, casts me intense looks...
  • Grit by Julie K. Cohen

    Grit by Julie K. Cohen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who wants a thief with a target on her back? An alien warrior with nothing to lose. GabriellaThere’s no safe place to hide when you’re supposed to testify against a top leader in the Brotherhood. When the marshals of GI7 offer Gabriella the chance to leave Earth, she grabs it. Sinnad is a closed world, which means the Brotherhood can’t touch her there...
  • 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...
  • The Torid Affair by Laurann Dohner

    The Torid Affair by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When riots erupt on planet Torid, the crew of Defcon Red is tasked with quelling the violence and tending the injured. Even Alien Research Specialist Jessa Brick is pressed into service. Arguably more comfortable in her lab, the doctor is shocked at the obvious inequality on Torid...
  • 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...
  • Vengeful Heart by Tiffany Roberts

    Vengeful Heart by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When his mate is threatened, nothing burns hotter than his wrath.Against all odds, Arcanthus found Samantha, his beautiful, sweet terran mate. His fated one. Her love shattered the barriers around his heart.After defeating a ghost from his past, Arc thinks he and Samantha are safe to move on with their lives. But she has a past of her own, and it refuses to let her go.He nearly lost her once...
  • Cottonmouth by Naomi Lucas

    Cottonmouth by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever since humans arrived, my world has changed. Tensions are high as we quarrel over territory, reforming our fractured clans.I will have none of it. I did not capture a bride.But then my world goes dark—and she appears.A female so lovely she possesses my mind, a bride who blushes every time she catches my eye.She is sweet.She is young.She is everything I am not.Except nothing is as it seems...
  • Tamed by a Beast by Miranda Bridges

    Tamed by a Beast by Miranda Bridges

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I hate this place.Not that my life on Najarie was great, but at least I didn’t have a beastly alien trying to sex me up all the time. And when I say all the time, I mean all the freaking time.I haven’t forgotten Earth or the loved ones I’ve left behind. In fact, I’m willing to use any means necessary to get back to them...
  • Conquered by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Conquered by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I've loathed him since the moment we met.His silver eyes watch me relentlessly, making it clear he doesn't trust me. But it's not his mistrust that makes me hate him. It's not even his spies, who report my every move back to him. It's the little voice in the back of my head that asks me if he could be the one I've been searching for all my life...
  • Resisting Maxu by Victoria Aveline

    Resisting Maxu by Victoria Aveline

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Being kidnapped by aliens and whisked away to another planet isn’t always a bad thing…Meg isn’t like the other alien abduction survivors. She doesn’t missmuch of anything from her former life—least of all her deadbeat husband. Her Clecanian rescuers gave her a fresh start, and she plans to enjoy it. Being recognized as a mate is not on her agenda...
  • Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner

    Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When her parents died in her youth, Anabel Brick—along with her sister, Jessa—was raised as an orphan of United Earth. While her sister became an Alien Research Specialist, Anabel’s skills were put to a different use. She’s a tool for U.E. and its military fleet…a spy…a killer. Her current mission also turns out to be her last...
  • Tempting Auzed by Victoria Aveline

    Tempting Auzed by Victoria Aveline

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Alejandra is a survivor. So far, she’s lived through abduction, a near drowning, and being lost in an alien forest. She thought things were finally starting to go her way when the most intense, grumpy, and insanely tempting man she’s ever seen rescues her from a monster. But sadly, that’s just when everything gets even more complicated.Auzed has his orders...
  • Alien Sentinel's Mate by Mina Carter

    Alien Sentinel's Mate by Mina Carter

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

    Mated by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You know your Gaia link is broken when your match is 93.While every Vetusian around me is expecting the arrival of the first hybrids, my mate is living out her final days in a nursing home.With true love unattainable, I concentrate on busting the crime ring responsible for the supply of human females forced into prostitution at the Odheim brothels...
  • Chained by V.K. Ludwig

    Chained by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I conquered her planet and pillaged her body. Now I’m back for her heart.A decade ago, I brought war to Solgad, home of the Jal’zar. I sacked the planet and slaughtered the people, all to save my race from extinction. Until one of their female warriors hissed defiance, promising me death at her hands no matter how her body longed for mine...
  • Roxy's Warriors by Ann Mayburn

    Roxy's Warriors by Ann Mayburn

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

    Kruze: Companion Novellas, includes Allor by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    2 Companion Novellas in the Brides of Driegon Series, KRUZE & ALLORFOR KRUZE:An alien dragon warrior claims she’s his fated mate, but she plans to return to Earth. Will he convince her to stay?ClaraA hot alien dragonish dude seems to think I’m his mate. No way! Sure, I came to the Driegon Kingdom with the matched brides, but I was hired to take pictures...
  • Taming Jax by Mikayla Lane

    Taming Jax by Mikayla Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jaxson Adronatof had vowed as a child that she would spend her life hunting the evil that had slaughtered her parents and help those like her, who were different. For 15 years, she’d been the leader of a resistance force and one stubborn, arrogant and frustratingly gorgeous alien claiming she’s his mate isn’t going to deter her from that vow...
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  • Beyond Galaxy's Edge by Anna Hackett

    Beyond Galaxy's Edge by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ambitious Patrol Captain Nissa Sander has spent three years at the galaxy’s edge keeping the law and order, and chasing scoundrel smuggler, Justyn Phoenix. But the charming rogue has always outwitted her and she’s had a hard time ignoring his hard body and handsome face...
  • Grai's Game by Mikayla Lane

    Grai's Game by Mikayla Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Grai T’Alq has spent hundreds of years on Earth, learning how to manipulate the humans and thriving on their jealousy and greed. Unknown to the Valendrans and their hybrid females, he’d been able to build an empire on Earth and more importantly; he even had their own working for him...
  • Rahim by Kiki Burrelli, Crista Crown

    Rahim by Kiki Burrelli, Crista Crown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A frozen prince calls for a hero. The Fires send him a warrior. For Rahim, life with his warrior brothers couldn’t be better, now that they’re not fighting for their survival on a pirate ship. Free to soar through space, Rahim and his kif are on a mission to explore their way home. When they get a cryptic invitation from a mysterious source, they eagerly answer the call...
  • Samun by Kiki Burrelli, Crista Crown

    Samun by Kiki Burrelli, Crista Crown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Long ago, Samun accepted that the Fires intended for him to be single. He’s too direct, too literal, too focused. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t felt a pang of longing as each member of his kif met their mates and started building families of their own. He’s thankful for his kif. Otherwise, he’d always feel on the outside how he feels on the inside—alone...
  • 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...
  • Subdue by Tana Stone

    Subdue by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As the kalesh of the Taori ship, it's his sworn duty to reassemble his crew and exact revenge on the aliens who destroyed their ship. He has no time for a distraction like her.When Kalesh Naz wakes from crashing in his escape pod, he's enraged to find himself locked in a dungeon...
  • Defying the General by Maddie Taylor

    Defying the General by Maddie Taylor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One look and he stirs something deep within her. A single touch is all it takes for her to awaken his soul. She has a mission. He has a duty. He is her captor. She is his destiny. Fate draws them together, but danger and deceit will wrench them apart...
  • Barbarian Alien Part 6: Forever by Ruby Dixon

    Barbarian Alien Part 6: Forever by Ruby Dixon

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

    Hackles and a Honeymoon by Poppy Rhys

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when an off-planet work trip turns into a sham honeymoon with a fake alien husband? I, Birdie Clayton, a travel agent with a crippling fear of flying and a pile of debt, never thought I'd be doomed to face my worst phobia to avoid getting fired.Yet here I am, lightyears from home and touching alien grass.Everything was running as expected until Omen Bainbridge barged into my life...
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