Books like 'Initiation'

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  • Susix by Amelia Rademaker

    Susix by Amelia Rademaker

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 48 ratings
    Being abducted by aliens is terrifying. Everything after that? Pretty boring. Cece Levine didn’t believe in aliens. That is, right up until she was abducted. Life in space is not what she expected. She lives in a cage. She's left alone all the time. And the boredom is driving her insane. When a thief who is more snake than man, mistakes her for an exotic pet, Cece decides to just roll with it...
  • Hoards and Harbors Part 2 by S.M. Olivier

    Hoards and Harbors Part 2 by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 25 ratings
    One of my worst nightmares came to fruition, and I was separated from some of my guys. Not knowing their fate left me in a state of constant anxiety. We were determining our next move and waiting for the hordes to pass only added to the stress of the unknown. Of course, leaving the prison and embarking on our next journey was also fraught with additional dangers...
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  • Seeking Asylum by S.M. Olivier

    Seeking Asylum by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 51 ratings
    I was once an average college student with dreams of the Olympics. A better future had been within my grasp. I was weeks away from graduating from college, and I had just received my invitation to the National Team. Sure, I was still nursing a broken heart and coming to terms with the betrayal delivered to me at the hands of people I once trusted and loved dearly...
  • Between Worlds Two by J.L. Williams

    Between Worlds Two by J.L. Williams

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Inspired by the likes of James Galloway's Subjugation and John Scalzi's Old Man's War, Between Worlds is a thrilling military sci-fi set in a strange new universe. .. Effectively exiled to the edge of the Imperium for his actions in his final training exercise, Jason finds himself stuck on a new ship filled with unfamiliar forms and faces…...
  • The Katres' Summer by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Katres' Summer by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The galactic adventure begun in The Dracons’ Woman and The Lobos’ HeartSong, takes everything to a new level in the most exciting installment yet in Laura Jo Phillips’ thrill-packed “Soul-Linked Saga,” The Katres’ Summer...
  • Knot All is Whole by Holly Monroe

    Knot All is Whole by Holly Monroe

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 22 ratings
    Athena Valentine always wanted an Omega. Atlas Cassidy just wanted to save them. But what we ask for isn’t always what we receive. When Atlas and Athena wake up caged across from each other in an abandoned warehouse after being captured and locked away, the two Betas make a pact: survive and escape. Together. The experiments take their toll, and their opportunities for escape are slim...
  • Wolves and Warriors by Chloe Parker, Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Wolves and Warriors by Chloe Parker, Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    What do shifters, monsters, and aliens have in common? They're the alpha men we crave. Prepare to tame villains and bring kings to their knees. Travel to distant worlds and uncover dark secrets in these 20 stories by your favorite paranormal and sci-fi romance authors. You can't resist falling for these heroes, whether you like them dark and brooding, sweet and sensual, monstrous or beautiful...
  • I Am the Fire by Chloe Parker, Mariah Ankenman

    I Am the Fire by Chloe Parker, Mariah Ankenman

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    We will not go back. A 1920s illusionist uses smoke and mirrors to deceive her clients into thinking they're being seduced. A princess recovers from a procedure with the help of four hot fae. A lawyer witch plans a protest, falling in love with a werewolf along the way...
  • Starved by Violet Fox

    Starved by Violet Fox

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    My whole life, I have been starved. Starved of love and starved of affection. My caretaker, Francis, refuses to touch me, and he makes me feel as worthless as dirt. The only love and affection I've ever found are inside the pages of the books he gives me. At least those books make me feel less alone—less starved. They give me hope that I'll find love of my very own one day...
  • Dancer In The Waves by Farrah Fox

    Dancer In The Waves by Farrah Fox

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    When the clock strikes midnight on New Years Eve, the world unites in celebration of a ground-breaking medical advancement. The once-unimaginable technology promises to vanquish disease, extend life expectancy, increase intelligence, and physical prowess. But unknown to most people it also grants extraordinary abilities and unearthed latent powers to those converted into a rare alpha dynamic...
  • Apprentice by Lexie Winston

    Apprentice by Lexie Winston

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 52 ratings
    Lila is nobody special. She didn’t have a bad childhood growing up in foster homes, there was just nothing particularly. good about it either. You could say Lila is a little lost. Her job is boring and repetitive, she only has one friend and there is no significant partner in her life. In fact her romance novels and her BOB is the most actions she’s seen in ages. Until now...
  • April's Fools by Ivy Asher, Raven Kennedy

    April's Fools by Ivy Asher, Raven Kennedy

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 50 ratings
    We were Army Rangers, the best of the best. And then one day, everything that we worked so hard to become was ripped away. Now, we’re in some podunk town, trying to find a sense of normal amongst the crazy, and learn how to live again. That gets a hell of a lot harder to do when a virus spreads mercilessly across the country, killing 85% of the people who contract it...
  • Sold to the Beasts by Sara Fields

    Sold to the Beasts by Sara Fields

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Having grown up with parents who were more interested in their various criminal enterprises than they were in taking care of her, Michelle Carter is used to feeling unwanted, but it still hurts when she travels to another world as a bride for two men who turn out not to even want one...
  • Alien Shadow Market by Lizzy Bequin

    Alien Shadow Market by Lizzy Bequin

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    Five aliens. One human. All the steam. It was supposed to be my job to rescue wayward humans. I never expected to find myself imprisoned with one. And a female at that. Her scent calls to me in ways no female of my species has ever done. I just hope my teammates can rescue us both before my animal urges get the better of me...
  • Belong by C.R. Jane, Mila Young

    Belong by C.R. Jane, Mila Young

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    My love for you has no regrets. .. Ella has made her choice, and Derrial, Thane, and Corran belong to her. Desperately in love and with a baby on the way, they want nothing more than to ride off into the sunset together. But Veon is on the brink of destruction and the Council’s infection continues to spread. Veon will fall if something isn’t done...
  • Breaths of Desire by Octavia Kore

    Breaths of Desire by Octavia Kore

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A forbidden attraction, an unexpected love, and a madman willing to risk it all to keep humanity pure...
  • Queenmaker by Heather Long, Rebecca Royce

    Queenmaker by Heather Long, Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Everything changed when I crashed into a food truck. It all started with a brutal hill. An incline that I was determined to crest. One, long, punishing climb with my thighs screaming as I pumped the pedals for all I was worth. That hill could have been a metaphor for my whole life. I was climbing out of the crater left by a broken heart, ready to seize control again...
  • My New and Improved Alien Lovers by Kelsey Soliz

    My New and Improved Alien Lovers by Kelsey Soliz

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    When dating men becomes too pathetic for Margaret to continue doing, she does what any self-respecting woman would do; gets rip roaring drunk and semi-accidentally marries three aliens. Who abduct her in the middle of the night like true heroes. They're beautiful and so attentive and everything the men she's dated in the past aren't; but life in space isn't without its own challenges...
  • The Ozar Triad by Charmaine Ross

    The Ozar Triad by Charmaine Ross

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three Alien Warrior Princes. One human female abducted by an evil race of Reptiles intent on taking over the universe by any means possible. Riley. Riley Sharp can fight her way out of anything. She’s a special ops soldier. Trained for war and hardened for battle. Nothing surprises her, but when she finds herself in a battle with Reptile aliens, she fights for her life as well as her sanity...
  • Bailey by N.A. Jameson

    Bailey by N.A. Jameson

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    There are rules to the apocalypse, and not falling in love is one of them. Bailey hasn’t had the best life. When the zombie outbreak happened, she was ten years old and became responsible for her infant brother. To protect her brother, she endured eight years of abuse before being able to strike out on her own, with Matty by her side...
  • Mate Hunt by Amber Kell

    Mate Hunt by Amber Kell

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Joriah is banished to the dragonworld by his father to find his mate. But when he arrives he finds things aren't always what they seem. Kings, dukes and baby dragons all vie for attention as Jory tries to figure out who is really his mate and who is trying to kill him. Warning: There is hot man/man action.
  • Adaptation by Kaitlyn O'Connor

    Adaptation by Kaitlyn O'Connor

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Dr. Kate Drexel had just begun to suspect that the ‘beasts of Sirius’ were far more intelligent than they’d believed when the Sirians escaped containment. What no one hadn’t suspected was the reason behind their amazingly complex genome or that their rapid cell regeneration pointed to more than an extraordinary adaptability...
  • Handsome Hero Wanted by James Cox

    Handsome Hero Wanted by James Cox

    Rated: 3.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Five men. One harem. Drayton Starberg takes his ship to the planet Falla Bray to join a harem in hopes of scoring money to fix up his old space ship. He has to compete with four other human like species to please the king and be chosen to use his DNA for the new heir. Problem is, each of the other males are growing on him and the king is having a hard time picking just one...
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  • The Loving Dead by Ivy Crimson

    The Loving Dead by Ivy Crimson

    Rated: 2.70 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Battling the undead really put a damper on Addison’s love life. Nurse Addison was searching for the one when the pandemic hit eight months ago. Her attention quickly shifted to trying to save humanity one injured person at a time. When the last FEMA camp is overrun and the world is in full blown apocalypse she is left utterly alone...
  • Stowaway by Talya Bosco

    Stowaway by Talya Bosco

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stowaway Talya Bosco Aurelia is on the run. Stowing away on an interstellar cargo ship seems the perfect solution. Except for the fact it's crewed by three very large, scary and extremely sexy men. Ursine traders Dov, Tarlo and Ardal are a bonded family. That means they share everything. When the golden-haired beauty reveals herself, they fully intend to share her...
  • Our Pet by S.M. Matthews

    Our Pet by S.M. Matthews

    Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    Abducted by aliens? Yes. Mistakenly bought as a family pet? Yep. Actually, unexpectedly starting to enjoy the ride? I just might be. I've been abducted, sold, and then sold again, all before I even knew what was going on. Luckily for me, I might just have been bought by the three nicest. .. .guys. .. .in the universe...
  • Discovered by M. Sinclair

    Discovered by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 63 ratings
    Important Note: Discovered is book 3 in the Silver Falls University series. Readers can find Lost and Forgotten, books 1 and 2 in the series, as part of the Kingdom of Wolves Universe Collection. Please note, Lost and Forgotten should be read FIRST before Discovered in order to read the series in proper order. https://geni. us/SFU-1. Five broken alphas. One lost wolf. A fate she never expected...
  • Venery by C.M. Stunich

    Venery by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 102 ratings
    I’ve been abducted by an alien in a cowboy hat. He needs me to play the role of fake fiancée to appease his family of tentacle-tailed cops. I’ll keep up the charade as long as I need if it means being reunited with Abraxas and Rurik. Shouldn’t be too hard, right? To play pretend …. My life force is now inextricably tied to handsome, gun totin’ Officer Hyt...
  • Beyond Jealousy by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Jealousy by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 51 ratings
    She’s been looking for the perfect man. She found two. When Rachel Riley sacrificed a life in Eden to protect the O’Kanes, she earned her place in the powerful Sector Four gang. But the former crime princess is tired of being everyone’s sweet little sister...
  • Beyond Haven by S.M. Olivier

    Beyond Haven by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 31 ratings
    Having my dad and Uncle Scott back at Sanctuary seems like a dream come true. Unfortunately, I still have to deal with my sister Emery’s delusional antics. If that wasn't bad enough, a blast from one of my men’s past intrudes on our haven, bringing their toxic energy with them...
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