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  • Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

    Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 95 ratings
    From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a fun and action-packed new adventure in the Innkeeper Chronicles! We invite you to relax, enjoy yourself, and above all, remember the one rule all visitors must obey: the humans must never know.Life is busier than ever for Innkeeper, Dina DeMille and Sean Evans...
  • Purity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Purity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 65 ratings
    Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable - it felt like spikes drilling into his brain. And it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened up the door, and started swinging.... The first cop on the scence fired his stunner twice...
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  • Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb

    Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    Eve Dallas tracks a couple whose passion is fueled by cold brutality in the newest crime thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Obsession in Death and Festive in Death. When Lieutenant Eve Dallas examines a body in a downtown Manhattan alleyway, the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue...
  • Guild Boss by Jayne Castle

    Guild Boss by Jayne Castle

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 27 ratings
    Welcome to Illusion Town on the colony world of Harmony—like Las Vegas on Earth, but way more weird.Living in this new, alien world doesn’t stop the settlers from trying to re-create what they’ve left behind. Case in point—weddings are still the highlight of any social calendar. But it’s the after-party that turns disastrous for Lucy Bell...
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  • Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter

    Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Growing up poor on New Chicago’s meanest streets, Ava Sans had two options: be the predator or be the prey. No contest. Now, working for Alien Investigation and Removal, she’s been ordered to capture the biggest, baddest warrior of all—a vampire too beautiful to be real, with the ability to manipulate time...
  • Dark Taste of Rapture by Gena Showalter

    Dark Taste of Rapture by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter captivates with a dark, tantalizing world of humans, otherworlders, and a powerful AIR agent consumed by his desire for a woman he can never have. . . . With one caress, he can give unforgettable pleasure . . . or unending pain. . . . Hector Dean is shaved, tattooed, and totally ripped—and he has a deadly secret...
  • Elfhome by Wen Spencer

    Elfhome by Wen Spencer

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Book Three of the Elfhome series, the follow-up to exciting Wolf Who Rules and the award-winning fantasy-SF novel that started it all, Tinker . Elfhome. A world of powerful magic, beautiful elves, man-eating trees, frost-breathing wargs, and god-like dragons. Pittsburgh. A city that has been stranded deep in virgin elfin forest to stave off an invasion by the merciless oni...
  • Fallen by Stacy Jones

    Fallen by Stacy Jones

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Xerik has been stranded on this primitive alien planet for five rotations—long enough to lose hope of ever returning home and to accept that his life will be a solitary one.And then a scream splits the air.He hadn't planned for his morning to include prying an off-world female from the jaws of a volek. Neither did he plan for her to awaken instincts one of his caste isn't supposed to have...
  • Silver Master by Jayne Castle

    Silver Master by Jayne Castle

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 37 ratings
    Cadence City matchmaker and para-resonator Celinda Ingram meets her match in security specialist Davis Oakes...
  • The Pirate Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    The Pirate Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Shapeshifter Romance Cat-shifter Prince Jarek sails the high sky doing what he pleases…that is until drug dealers kidnap one of his men. But the rescue mission goes wrong and instead of a crewman, he liberates a woman who he believes is desperately trying to escape her captors. He soon discovers he unwittingly kidnaped a princess...
  • Savor Me Slowly by Gena Showalter

    Savor Me Slowly by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    HALF HUMAN, HALF MACHINE...ALL WOMAN Mishka Le'Ace was created to be an undercover operative...literally. Her beautiful body has been mechanically augmented to give her superhuman strength -- strength she's going to need. Her latest mission sends her to rescue Alien Investigation and Removal agent Jaxon Tremain from torture and death. With him, she discovers a passion unlike any other...
  • Alien Tango by Gini Koch

    Alien Tango by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    For Alien Super-Being Exterminator Katherine "Kitty" Katt, anti-alien conspiracies, threats from outer space, and a couple of killer alligators are all in a day's work. It's been five months since Kitty joined Centaurion Division, working with the aliens from Alpha Centauri. She and Jeff Martini have grown closer and life looks rosy...
  • Breakout by Ann Aguirre

    Breakout by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    All hell is breaking loose in the edge-of-your-seat follow-up to Havoc and Perdition from New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre… The prison ship Perdition has become a post-battle charnel house with only a handful of Dred’s soldiers still standing and now being hunted by Silence’s trained tongueless assassins...
  • Obsidian Prey by Jayne Castle

    Obsidian Prey by Jayne Castle

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 37 ratings
    Amber tuner and independent prospector Lyra Dore lost her heart—and her discovery of a rare amethyst ruin—to cutthroat businessman Cruz Sweetwater. At least she had her artistically talented dust-bunny to comfort her… But the ruin’s mysterious power has put everyone involved with the project in danger...
  • After Glow by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    After Glow by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 42 ratings
    Life is complicated for Lydia Smith. She's working at that tacky, third-rate museum, Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, trying to salvage her career in para-archaeology - and dating the most dangerous man in town. Just when she thinks she might be getting things under control, she stumbles over a dead body and discovers that her lover has a secret past that could get him killed...
  • Alien vs. Alien by Gini Koch

    Alien vs. Alien by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini and the rest of the American Centaurion Diplomatic Corps are still recovering from their introduction to Washington D.C. politics, parties, and conspiracies. So when compromising pictures arrive, no one’s too surprised. They’re also the least of anyone’s worries...
  • Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

    Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 57 ratings
    When professional mercenary Deviana Morris took the security guard job aboard the Glorious Fool, all she wanted was a fast route into the Devastators --- the elite league of armored fighters entrusted with the most important duty on her home planet of Paradox. But this security job isn't just twelve-hour patrols, armor-polishing, and whiskey...
  • Universal Alien by Gini Koch

    Universal Alien by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Being the wife of the Vice President isn’t easy. Especially when your talents lie in kicking butt and rocking out . . . Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini find out just how easy it is for the wife of the Vice President of the United States to unintentionally insult an ally...
  • Blood War by Connie Suttle

    Blood War by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Tsk, tsk," Erland muttered, shaking his head in mock sympathy. "Perhaps Lissa should raise the topic of Diplomatic Immunity at the Conclave." "That, my friend, would be inadvisable. She is new and many will be waiting, as vultures do when an ox is dying." "I know. At times, I feel the need to cover myself in oil, just to slip through the tripe and garbage of Wylend's court...
  • Killbox by Ann Aguirre

    Killbox by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 32 ratings
    Talk is cheap when lives are in jeopardy Sirantha Jax is a “Jumper,” a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. With no tolerance for political diplomacy, she quits her ambassador post so she can get back to saving the universe the way she does best—by mouthing off and kicking butt. And her tactics are needed more than ever...
  • Ghost Hunter by Jayne Castle

    Ghost Hunter by Jayne Castle

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    RETURN TO THE "FASCINATING"* WORLD OF HARMONY... Where deadly energy ghosts lurk in the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. Where dust bunnies prove to be loyal pets. And where a ghost hunter will discover that a woman's heart is the most dangerous adversary of all... Local Guild boss and powerful ghost-hunter Cooper Boone is everything botanist Elly St...
  • Alien Proliferation by Gini Koch

    Alien Proliferation by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After the wildest wedding ever, Katherine "Kitty" Katt-Martini and her Alpha Centaurion husband Jeff are hoping life will settle down. But alien attacks are on the increase, and someone is testing a dangerous new drug on unwilling subjects within their group. As if that's not enough, they discover that their newborn's talents are off the charts—and the bad guys want their baby...
  • Alien Diplomacy by Gini Koch

    Alien Diplomacy by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Being newlyweds and new parents is challenging enough. But Jeff and Kitty Martini are also giving up their roles as super-being exterminators and Commanders in Centaurion Division while mastering the political landscape as the new heads of Centaurion's Diplomatic Corps. Enter a shadowy assassination plot and a new set of anti-alien conspirators, and nothing will ever be the same..
  • Alien Nation by Gini Koch

    Alien Nation by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s a typical day of bureaucracy and stress for President and First Lady Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini, made more stressful when alien spacecraft are spotted making a beeline for Earth, none of them from the Alpha Centauri system. Then a cryptic request from an old adversary pulls Kitty out of the White House and into an explosion—and an even more explosive situation...
  • Shadow Seer by J.C. Andrijeski

    Shadow Seer by J.C. Andrijeski

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “All what he has done, he has done for the greater good…”Blamed for the abduction of the infamous “Sword,” leader of the anti-human rebellion, Allie is despised by all free seers.As for Revik himself, he turns into a feral animal once free of his dark masters.She only has one shot at saving him. Unfortunately, it means learning more about his past than she ever wanted to know...
  • Alien Collective by Gini Koch

    Alien Collective by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Despite not having run for office, nor wanting to remain in office, Representative Jeff Martini is being wooed as the vice presidential running mate for a charismatic senator who seems likely to win the campaign...
  • Alien Research by Gini Koch

    Alien Research by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When rumors of a new super-drug surface, the FBI comes to Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini for help. It becomes quickly apparent that the drug is merely the tip of a deadly iceberg and a much more insidious plan is underway involving Titan Security, Gaultier Enterprises, and YatesCorp...
  • Honor's Knight by Rachel Bach

    Honor's Knight by Rachel Bach

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 44 ratings
    The rollicking sequel to Fortune's Pawn -- an action packed science fiction novel. Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either. After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life...
  • Alien in the House by Gini Koch

    Alien in the House by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini have learned the ins and outs of Washington politics, not to mention how to prevail in intergalactic war and foil dangerous plots. But, in the aftermath of Operation Destruction, the Gower girls’ powers are burned out, the entire A-C population has been “outed” as the aliens living on Earth that they are, and, worst of all, ACE is nowhere to be found...
  • Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    The Conglomerate’s most dangerous convicts have made the prison ship Perdition their home. And they will defend it… Perdition is under siege. Mercenaries have boarded the station with orders to take control of the facility—and execute the prisoners. Their commander is offering full pardons to the first five inmates willing to help the mercs complete their mission...
  • Heart Quest by Robin D. Owens

    Heart Quest by Robin D. Owens

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Tucked away in the Druida City of Celta, Trif Clover knows she has a HeartMate. She wants him so badly she’s actually going door-to-door with her charmkey to find him. What she doesn’t know is that he has already found her. Guardsman Ilex Winterberry knows that Trif is his HeartMate, but fears that being twice her age, with a short life ahead of him, he will only scare her away...
  • The Lost Night by Jayne Castle

    The Lost Night by Jayne Castle

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    Even the mysterious world of Harmony has people who don't quite fit in. They're drawn to places like Rainshadow Island, a beautiful sanctuary where anyone can feel safe—and where secrets are closely guarded...
  • Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss

    Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A female cop seeks refuge on another planet after being infected by an alien virus in this science fiction fantasy novel from a New York Times bestseller.Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a lost colony on a distant and dangerous planet—a hostile world coveted by two alien races and fiercely protected by a third...
  • Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair

    Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 32 ratings
    The universe isn’t what it used to be. With the new Alliance between the Triad and the United Coalition, Captain Tasha “Sass” Sebastian finds herself serving under her former nemesis, biocybe Admiral Branden Kel-Paten–and doing her best to hide a deadly past. But when an injured mercenary winds up in their ship’s sick bay–and in the hands of her best friend, Dr...
  • Heart Duel by Robin D. Owens

    Heart Duel by Robin D. Owens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In HeartMate and Heart Thief, award-winning author Robin D. Owens built a world where psychic talents and desires of the heart flourish. Now, she returns to Celta with a story of star-crossed lovers... Healer Lark Collinson hates the street dueling that is a way of life among the noble families on Celta--it was just such a skirmish that killed her Healer husband and left her a grieving widow...
  • Eye of the Tiger by Michael-Scott Earle

    Eye of the Tiger by Michael-Scott Earle

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Imprisoned and subjected to brutal genetic experiments, space marine Adam has been changed into a perfect predator. A super soldier that is part man, part tiger, and all killing machine. When his latest mission has an unexpected outcome, Adam finds himself free of his explosive control collar and honor bound to protect a mysterious woman...
  • Bridal Jitters by Jayne Castle

    Bridal Jitters by Jayne Castle

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Jayne Castle From "seasoned pro" (People) Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Jayne Castle, comes the ultimate tale of adventure: falling in love. Virginia Burch, a psychic archeologist, can't believe her luck when she meets Sam Gage, a ghost hunter and owner of prime real estate in the Old Quarters of Cadence, above the Dead City...
  • The World Before by Karen Traviss

    The World Before by Karen Traviss

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three strikingly different alien races greeted the military mission from Earth when it reached the planet called Bezer'ej.Now one of the sentient species has been exterminated—and two others are poised on the brink of war.The fragile bezeri are no more, due to the ignorant, desperate actions of human interlopers...
  • Sergey: Love Me Harder - Alien Paranormal Romance by Serena Simpson

    Sergey: Love Me Harder - Alien Paranormal Romance by Serena Simpson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the world Sergey came from everything happened in birth order, as the second born he had been skipped and there would be no mate for him. Lorali use to believed in sunshine and roses until her world came crashing down. With nothing left to do she enlisted, she might as well be all she could be. Then one day the military let her down also...
  • Distant Desires by Cambria Hebert

    Distant Desires by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is PART TWO of the Distant Desires serial series. An erotic tale from beyond the stars Sophie Perez has never believed the stuff she reads online about possible life in space. Aliens are for the movies, for the weirdoes, and they most definitely are not real. One night on the way home from a late shift at work, her car breaks down...
  • Illusion Town by Jayne Castle

    Illusion Town by Jayne Castle

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    A new adventure begins on Harmony…    With its opulent casinos and hotels, the desert city of Illusion Town is totally unique—and will take you on a thrill ride you’ll never forget.   Hannah West isn’t the first woman to wake up in Illusion Town married to a man she barely knows, but she has no memory of the ceremony at all. For that matter, neither does Elias Coppersmith, her new husband...
  • Marked by Alex Hughes

    Marked by Alex Hughes

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    FORESEE NO EVIL. Freelancing for the Atlanta PD isn’t exactly a secure career; my job’s been on the line almost as much as my life. But it’s a paycheck, and it keeps me from falling back into the drug habit. Plus, things are looking up with my sometimes-partner, Cherabino, even if she is still simmering over the telepathic Link I created by accident...
  • Verita by Tracy Rozzlynn

    Verita by Tracy Rozzlynn

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    If your world suddenly crumbled, leaving you with nothing but heartache, would you risk your life for a chance at a new beginning on a new world? Brett Bradbury's parents are dead, her boyfriend's a cheater, and her best friend essentially dumped her. Truly alone in the world, Brett agrees to help colonize the newly discovered planet, Verita. Now Brett's on a strange new world...
  • Children of Scarabaeus by Sara Creasy

    Children of Scarabaeus by Sara Creasy

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The crib is everywhere . . . Edie Sha'nim believes she and her bodyguard lover, Finn, could find refuge from the tyranny of the Crib empire by fleeing to the Fringe worlds. But Edie's extraordinary cypherteck ability to manipulate the ecology of evolving planets makes her far too valuable for the empire to lose...
  • Automatic Reload by Ferrett Steinmetz

    Automatic Reload by Ferrett Steinmetz

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ferrett Steinmetz's quirky, genre-mashing cyberpunk romance Automatic Reload a high-octane adventure about a grizzled mercenary with machine gun arms who unexpectedly falls in love with a bio-engineered assassin In the near-future, automation is king, and Mat is the top mercenary working the black market. He's your solider's solider, with military-grade weapons instead of arms..
  • Demon Lost by Connie Suttle

    Demon Lost by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The High Demon race is dying, and nothing short of a miracle will save it. Kifirin has promised to provide that miracle, in any way he can. Reah has worked in the kitchens of her family's restaurants since the age of eight. The only daughter among Addah Desh's 27 children from eight wives, Reah has been ignored, belittled and abused all her life...
  • A Taste of Ice by Hanna Martine

    A Taste of Ice by Hanna Martine

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There is an untapped world of magic that any man would covet... Five years ago, Xavier escaped from the Ofarian Plant. Today he calls a Colorado mountain town home. It’s there he buries himself in his work, swearing off magic and relationships—until a woman threatens every promise he’s made to himself. Cat has always known she is different...
  • The Empress Game by Rhonda Mason

    The Empress Game by Rhonda Mason

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rachel Bach, author of Fortune's Pawn, said -- "Fast, smart, complex, and fun as hell, THE EMPRESS GAME was an unexpected delight and one of the best books I've read this year. A near perfect blend of romance, action, and interstellar politics in a well thought out and original universe with a tough-as-nails heroine you can't help but root for...
  • Marked By The Alpha Wolf Part 1 by Scarlett Grove

    Marked By The Alpha Wolf Part 1 by Scarlett Grove

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cassandra Kline is taken in by Pyramid Corporation in the midst of global nuclear war. For the next five years, she lives safely inside a protective domed city. Working in The Program, a virtual reality simulation, she is confronted by her dead mother who tells Cassie she is in danger...
  • Seduce Me in Dreams by Jacquelyn Frank

    Seduce Me in Dreams by Jacquelyn Frank

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 30 ratings
    From the "New York Times" bestselling author of the Nightwalkers and Shadowdwellers series, "Seduce Me in Dreams" begins a sexy new futuristic series featuring an elite group of military heroes. Dark. Mysterious. Sensual...
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