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Junkyard Bargain by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSometimes before you can face your enemies, you need to confront yourself.Time is running out for Shining Smith and her crew to gather the weapons they need to rescue one of their own... -
![Dark Taste of Rapture by Gena Showalter]()
Dark Taste of Rapture by Gena Showalter
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsNew 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... -
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![Elfhome by Wen Spencer]()
Elfhome by Wen Spencer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsBook 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... -
![Breakout by Ann Aguirre]()
Breakout by Ann Aguirre
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...Categorized as:
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![After Glow by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz]()
After Glow by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz
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...Categorized as:
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![Alien vs. Alien by Gini Koch]()
Alien vs. Alien by Gini Koch
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsJeff 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...Categorized as:
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![Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach]()
Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach
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 ratingsBeing 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... -
![Ghost Hunter by Jayne Castle]()
Ghost Hunter by Jayne Castle
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 Separation by Gini Koch]()
Alien Separation by Gini Koch
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLife's never easy . . . The Mastermind has finally been identified, but before Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini can take him down, they, their daughter Jamie, Charles Reynolds, Paul Gower, Christopher White, and several others are zapped out of their solar system and into another... -
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Alien Proliferation by Gini Koch
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAfter 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 ratingsBeing 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 ratingsIt’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... -
![Rogue Seers by J.C. Andrijeski]()
Rogue Seers by J.C. Andrijeski
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I was now, officially, a real terrorist…”After losing her husband, Allie fights to prevent the human and seer worlds from exploding into all-out war.But her husband, Revik, isn’t really gone.Instead he’s transformed into someone she barely knows.Now they’re on opposites sides of a racial war––a war he wants to see play out, a war he’s ready for, and worse, one he’s already fighting...Categorized as:
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![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 ratingsDespite 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 ratingsWhen 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... -
![Alien in the House by Gini Koch]()
Alien in the House by Gini Koch
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsJeff 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
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... -
![Homeward Bound by Cassy Roop]()
Homeward Bound by Cassy Roop
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWARNING: This book is for mature readers only. Not for children. It contains adult themes, violence, coarse language, sexual situations, nudity, and paranormal themes. The entire world is on the brink of finding out nightmares are real. An army of demons known as the Noctis is growing in strength... -
![Aliens Abroad by Gini Koch]()
Aliens Abroad by Gini Koch
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith the human population growing and alien refugees pouring in from around the galaxy, Earth is becoming too overcrowded to sustain itself--and the solar system is filling up with the alien overflow. Advanced technology from the Alpha Centauri and Vatusan systems offers one possible solution. It's time to explore new planets and see if any uninhabited ones can be claimed... -
![First Contact by Michael R. Hicks]()
First Contact by Michael R. Hicks
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTerran survey ship Aurora finds two habitable planets in an uncharted star system. But Aurora is disabled by gigantic alien warships and boarded by blue-skin females with fangs and claws. The warriors slaughter the crew in ritual one-on-one combat. The sole survivor is returned to Earth. This Messenger bears a real-time globe device that counts down to an impending attack...Categorized as:
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![Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss]()
Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA 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... -
![Heart Duel by Robin D. Owens]()
Heart Duel by Robin D. Owens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn 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... -
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![Bridal Jitters by Jayne Castle]()
Bridal Jitters by Jayne Castle
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsJayne 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... -
![Return of the Asgard by Erik Schubach]()
Return of the Asgard by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Valkyrie Kara stood alone against the Ragnarok horde on Earth to ensure that the Asgard race and Valhalla could escape. For five thousand years she has fought and evaded the Ragnarok race on Earth, just waiting for her people to return. A human woman, Kate, joins her fight against the invading race, showing as much conviction and valor as any Valkyrie... -
![Damia by Anne McCaffrey]()
Damia by Anne McCaffrey
New York Times bestselling fantasy author Anne McCaffrey “interweaves an engrossing romance with a coming-of-age story”(Publishers Weekly) in this novel in the Tower and Hive series. Damia is the daughter of Prime Talents The Rowan and Jeff Raven... -
![The World Before by Karen Traviss]()
The World Before by Karen Traviss
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree 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... -
![A Soldier's Duty by Jean Johnson]()
A Soldier's Duty by Jean Johnson
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIa is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a soldier who will inspire generations for the next three hundred years-a soldier history will call Bloody Mary... -
![Niko by Serena Simpson]()
Niko by Serena Simpson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNiko sat back and watched as his eldest brother mated, all the while keeping his eye on Dee. He thought he had time, but now time is the one thing he doesn’t have as he watches Dee slip further away every day. Dee has been fighting her own personal demons since she has been a child. Now her demons come with more complicated issues...Categorized as:
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![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 ratingsOn 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 ratingsThis 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
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... -
![Silent Blade by Ilona Andrews]()
Silent Blade by Ilona Andrews
Old hatreds die hard. Old love dies harder. On Meli Galdes' home planet, the struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport--in business and on the battlefield. For years her lethal skills have been a valuable asset in advancing her family's interests. She's more than earned her right to retire, but her kinsmen have one last favor to ask. Kill the man who ruined her life...Categorized as:
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![Marked by Alex Hughes]()
Marked by Alex Hughes
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFORESEE 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 ratingsIf 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 ratingsThe 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... -
![The Empress Game by Rhonda Mason]()
The Empress Game by Rhonda Mason
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRachel 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 ratingsCassandra 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... -
![Liquid Lies by Hanna Martine]()
Liquid Lies by Hanna Martine
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMagic is corporate America's best-kept secret, and Gwen Carroway is the best at selling it... With her ability to pick up any language in an instant, Gwen Carroway is taking her family business global. As dutiful future leader of water elementals, she'll do anything to protect her people's secrets and bloodlines--including enter an arranged marriage...Categorized as:
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![Shades of Treason by Sandy Williams]()
Shades of Treason by Sandy Williams
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAsh would have given her life to save her teammates.Instead, they gave their lives to save hers. Lieutenant Ramie Ashdyn is an anomaly, a person whose genetic makeup makes her stronger and smarter than the average human... -
![Aran by Serena Simpson, Lori Merlotti]()
Aran by Serena Simpson, Lori Merlotti
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAran has come to a new planet looking for something he couldn't find on his. Rena has given up on love and men in general. She has a good life and plans to enjoy every moment of it. When she meets Aran everything changes. She desires the life she gave up on. When Rena starts to think she can have it all, she realizes someone wants to make sure she never gets a chance at a happy ending... -
![Captured & Seduced by Shelley Munro]()
Captured & Seduced by Shelley Munro
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA shapeshifter and a wizard slugging it out, an alien world and a hell-horse... Jockey Camryn O’Sullivan is an alcoholic on a downward spiral after the death of her husband. When aliens kidnap her, she’s both terrified and reluctantly fascinated by Ryman Coppersmith. She’s positive the weird attraction to her abductor is an anomaly. Something to ignore... -
![After Dark by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz]()
After Dark by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz
Welcome to Harmony—where the rules are a little different. Life is tough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed para-archaeologist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work part-time in Shrimpton’s House of Ancient Horrors, a very low-budget museum. She has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isn’t going well. Stuff keeps happening... -
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![Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter]()
Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsFrom the author of the best-selling Jane Yellowrock and Soulwood series comes a tough new heroine who is far more than she seems.After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human... -
![Close Encounters by Katherine Allred]()
Close Encounters by Katherine Allred
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsKiera Smith is not like ordinary Genetically Engineered Persons . . . The Bureau of Alien Affairs needed a special GEP agent with empathic abilities to handle their most extraordinary assignments—and a rogue geneticist saw to it that Kiera fit their specifications. But she turned out stronger, faster, smarter, and more impervious to harm than anyone anticipated...Categorized as:
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![Clutch by J.A. Huss]()
Clutch by J.A. Huss
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow long can you lie to yourself before it all comes apart? In 2152 the avian race is on Earth looking for something stolen from them decades ago – their genetics. At the center of the search lies the Rural Republic; a small backwards farming country with high hopes of military domination and a penchant for illegal bioengineering... -
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Fall by Scarlett Dawn
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA savagely wicked new adult sci-fi serial blasts off with Fall, the first installment in The Cold Mark Saga... Only one thousand Humans survived The Travel from the shattered Earth. Some Humans say it was their penance for crushing such beauty. Eighteen-year-old Braita merely thought it was pathetic - pathetic that her people had been that blind...Categorized as:
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![The Crimson Hunt by Victoria H. Smith]()
The Crimson Hunt by Victoria H. Smith
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCollege junior Ariel Richmond is working on year three of Project Normalcy. Her house reeks of keggers past and her bestie is just a slight bit vulgar. But the thing is—they both aid in making life refreshingly uneventful. So much for hard-earned mediocrity when Luca Grinaldi appears on the scene. Luca’s sudden presence on campus is hard to ignore... -
![The Alien's Handler by Gemma Voss]()
The Alien's Handler by Gemma Voss
An alien species dedicated to eradicating emotions and relationships--If these aliens can’t feel sexual attraction… Then why is he staring at my ass?The Earth’s been alien-occupied for five years now, and Ella’s just fine with that. She loves her job as a Handler at the local research facility where she helps aliens navigate life on Earth...Categorized as:
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