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  • Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Sometimes, the biggest secrets can bring both salvation and destruction. Emerson Charles grew up luckier than most, going from a difficult life to finding safety and a true home with her stepmother and stepbrother. Years later, when Levi’s in trouble, Emerson will do anything for the brother of her heart, her greatest protector...
  • Hunter's Trial by Lynnea Lee

    Hunter's Trial by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    YVETTE. Of all the muscular purple warriors, I get stuck with the grumpy one. Stuck in the cliffside lodge for months, I’m going stir-crazy while all the other women get to explore with their mates. Even Judy has her biker beau. I need to get out of here, so I ask Bre’k to take me foraging. I’m not surprised when, yet again, he says no...
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  • Claimed Royalty by Betty Shreffler

    Claimed Royalty by Betty Shreffler

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In a world where a woman’s purity is the fine line between being Queen and being killed, he was given one duty—to protect my purity and above all, to protect me. Both were a battle we weren’t ready for. Forced by tradition, and as their chosen Queen, I must endure my trials and the suitor phase, ultimately giving myself to a man from the Royal Houses...
  • Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett

    Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book Seven of the award-winning series, THE PHOENIX ADVENTURES. His career plan never included becoming one of the galaxy's most infamous treasure hunters. And it certainly never included his one weakness: Nera Darc. Astro-archeologist Niklas Phoenix loved his job studying and safeguarding artifacts at the Institute of Historical Preservation. .. until he learned that it was all a lie...
  • Starflower by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

    Starflower by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a cursed dragon-witch kidnaps fairest Lady Gleamdren, the Bard Eanrin sets boldly forth on a rescue mission. .. and a race against his rival for Gleamdren's favor. Intent upon his quest, the last thing the immortal Faerie needs is to become mixed up with the troubles of an insignificant mortal...
  • Psyren #06: Flame by Toshiaki Iwashiro

    Psyren #06: Flame by Toshiaki Iwashiro

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated teen. Ageha Yoshina just got transported to a warped alternate dimension where you've got to fight your way back to our world--or die trying. Flame...
  • Dark Demise by Rebecca Royce

    Dark Demise by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Time isn’t kind…. Waverly Sandler is nothing like her mad father. She’s a nurse. She takes care of people. She is fighting to live down her name. She’s also a sister, a friend, and someday, if the universe is kind, she hopes to be a lover and a wife. Life at The Farm is one of constant activity, because freedom exacts a high price...
  • Baring Grudge by Cynthia Sax, Amanda Kelsey

    Baring Grudge by Cynthia Sax, Amanda Kelsey

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    No one in the universe is more determined than a cyborg warrior tracking his female. ***. Grudge, a C Model cyborg, has been assigned a mission – safeguard a Humanoid Alliance space station for his kind. Honor was once all he had, and he is determined to fulfill his duty...
  • Hunter's Bounty by Lynnea Lee

    Hunter's Bounty by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    SAMMIE. On the run in a brand-new world. Luck has been on my side since the space bugs came and destroyed everything I knew. Now, my luck has run out. Cast out into a dangerous new world with a psycho on my tail, I have to adapt fast to survive. To add to my problems, I’ve caught the eye of a purple monster, and everyone knows the alien warriors are bad news...
  • Breeder by Casey Hays, Spring Lea Henry

    Breeder by Casey Hays, Spring Lea Henry

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beyond the Village, nothing exists . .. except devastation. A war waged by men and their hateful weapons long ago made it so, and my people--the women of the Village--are the only survivors. This is what our history lessons teach us, and this is what we are to believe. But I am sixteen now . .. and I question everything. The Archer has spoken, but I have no desire to heed his command...
  • Angelica by Sharon Shinn

    Angelica by Sharon Shinn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Two hundred years ago, the god Jovah created a legion of land dwelling angels, led by an appointed Archangel.   Now, Jovah has a new appointee: Archangel Gaaron.   For his life-mate, his Angelica, Jovah has chosen a woman named Susannah.   Slowly, an unspoken affection develops between the two...
  • Kieli, Volume 2: White Wake on the Sand (Kieli Novels  (キーリ ライトノベル) #2) by Yukako Kabei

    Kieli, Volume 2: White Wake on the Sand (Kieli Novels (キーリ ライトノベル) #2) by Yukako Kabei

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Kieli, the girl who sees ghosts, and her Undying companion, Harvey, return in their second adventure - this time on the high seas of the Sand Ocean! Things are far from ship-shape, though, aboard the vessel carrying these two unusual travelers...
  • Through Uncharted Space by Anna Hackett

    Through Uncharted Space by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A deep-space convoy master who demands everyone follow his rules. .. and the stowaway scam artist who’s never met a rule she wouldn’t break. Dare Phoenix runs his convoy with absolute control. In uncharted space, lives depend on it. When one plain, dowdy woman comes aboard, his gut tells him that something is off about her...
  • Fading Shadows by Lindsey Pogue

    Fading Shadows by Lindsey Pogue

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ross and Kat have butted heads since the day they first met—he’s gruff, grumpy, and always glaring at her; and she’s sarcastic, sassy, and exasperates the hell out of him. But a lot can change in three years, and with a thriving settlement in Whitehorse, Ross and Kat have had to put their differences aside in order to protect their close-knit community...
  • Safe Haven by Angela White

    Safe Haven by Angela White

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    *This is the Large Print (18 Pt. font) Edition. Safe Haven: A place of safety and of light, of duty and honor: A Refuge for survivors. Also: A place of death and darkness, where magic and murder go hand in hand. After months of carrying the burdens alone, Adrian finally has the help he needs. Five of the six have come and he can't wait to get things started...
  • In the Devil's Nebula by Anna Hackett

    In the Devil's Nebula by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He lost it all. His career, his woman, his sanity. Two years ago, on a deadly mission to the lawless Devil’s Nebula, Commander Zayn Phoenix’s life imploded. Now the former Strike Wing pilot fills his days with dangerous adventures alongside his treasure hunter brothers. But his nights are another story: haunted by nightmares of one unforgivable act. Until an assassin lures him into a hunt...
  • Against Time by Dean Wesley Smith

    Against Time by Dean Wesley Smith

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Paleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When they emerged, they found almost everyone in the world dead. Survival became her only thought. Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason...
  • Rebel's Honor by Gwynn White

    Rebel's Honor by Gwynn White

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AN OPPRESSIVE FAMILY OF TYRANTS…. AND A WARRIOR PRINCESS TO DESTROY THEM ALL. Hidden deep in their Dragon’s lair, the Avanovs sole fear is the curse on their bloodline, one promising a warrior will destroy them and the Dragon deity that defends them...
  • The Last Mage Guardian by Sabrina Chase

    The Last Mage Guardian by Sabrina Chase

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her great-uncle, the mage Oron, bequeathed to her his oak-shaded chateau and a debt of magical honor. But Miss Ardhuin Andrews must hide her magical talents. How can she repay the debt? Political intrigue, duty, and echoes of an old war not truly ended combine to create a smoldering crisis in a world where magic and science coexist.
  • His Broken Human  by Loki Renard

    His Broken Human by Loki Renard

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A royal alien tyrant has captured me. He plans to make me pay for the sins of my species. Humans must obey their korabi overlords, but my family crossed this cruel alien king. Krush believes I am a stupid, broken human good only for receiving his wrath. He thinks my pain will absolve his. He is wrong. I am smarter than he imagines. I am stronger than he expects...
  • Collecting by Viola Grace

    Collecting by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Collecting the tools needed for survival is her talent, but a male of the Water Folk is something she is dying to add to her collection. Emharo has spent her time collecting biological samples from the world around her and giving them to her family for analysis. She can find anything you need—you just have to ask...
  • Dark Feather: A Dark Post Apocalyptic Romance by Alta Hensley

    Dark Feather: A Dark Post Apocalyptic Romance by Alta Hensley

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I had two choices in life—to be a breeder, or to be a soldier. To create life, or to destroy it. I had chosen poorly. The Earth’s thermostat is all but frozen, leaving two opposing factions, the Pennas and the Cyans, to spread throughout the forbidding tundra of a planet forever cast in a dark and deadly ice age, seeking only power and control now that the world has become a frozen ball of ice...
  • Daddy's World by Ava Sinclair

    Daddy's World by Ava Sinclair

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    In this world, Daddy makes the rules. Kit is one of the last holdouts of a female-led resistance to our government's utopian vision. She's tough. Maybe too tough. She's never known real laughter. She's never let herself cry. I intend to change that. I am Senator Roman Daley, and I started the colony of Paternas to reform women like Kit...
  • Seduction by Ellabee Andrews, Helen Scott

    Seduction by Ellabee Andrews, Helen Scott

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Some secrets are meant to be broken— the rewards outweighing the consequences. Some, however, bring about a change unlike any ever imagined. The Mating Games challenged me; not only physically, but mentally, and the emotional toll it wreaked was the hardest part. Yet, I was starting to realize that the worst… and best… was yet to come...
  • Destined by Viola Grace

    Destined by Viola Grace

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    An artist shows a hero his destiny, and it is her face he is looking at. Rhoda works as a portrait artist, painting the destinies of those who sit for her. They choose their subject of wealth, success or love, and she paints their destiny. Most opt for love, and they pay handsomely to know their fate...
  • Drift by Lyn Gala

    Drift by Lyn Gala

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    Allie always enjoyed casual sex with crewmates, but the war never let her get too close to anyone. Now the war is over, and shipmates lost. Somewhere Allie lost some part of herself, too. But no matter how hard she tries, she can't escape the gentle touch of Shank Lacroix, her favorite lover. He insists on standing by her and helping her find the missing pieces...
  • Prison Moon - Dragon Fire by Lily Graison

    Prison Moon - Dragon Fire by Lily Graison

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Abducted by aliens and housed in an airtight room with twenty other girls wasn't Sara's idea of a good time. Neither was being dropped into the jungle of a Prison Moon, but for the rest of the galaxy, it was. She was the entertainment. The game? Survive the lawless alien criminals who ran wild or die trying, but there was no outrunning a dragon, and he didn't seem to be in any hurry to let her go...
  • Get Off the Unicorn (The Talents Universe) by Anne McCaffrey

    Get Off the Unicorn (The Talents Universe) by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Open these pages and discover 14 remarkable stories of fantasy by a grand master of the genre. A wonderful writer, as well as successful and beloved by fans across the world, Anne McCaffrey has created an exciting collection of telepaths, secret gifts, dangerous missions, dragonriders, and more. Contents:. Lady in the Tower. --A Meeting of Minds. --Daughter. --Dull Drums. --Changeling...
  • Grabbed By The Alien Lord by Aana Celestya

    Grabbed By The Alien Lord by Aana Celestya

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A barbaric auction that sets the beginning of wildly passionate and blatantly savage Alien Romance. Amelia has no clue what fate holds for her when she ends up as sex slave in a barbaric world of ruthless aliens. But when a sexy and commanding Alien sets his eyes on this naive earthling, he knows that she belongs to none but him.
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  • Forbidden Letters by Elin Peer

    Forbidden Letters by Elin Peer

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Curiosity has the ability to turn the smartest person into a reckless fool. "Few dared live as close to the border as us. Not even the long-standing peace treaty between our two nations could make people forget how the savage Men of the North used to hunt down and kidnap women here. "...
  • Clockworks and Corsets by Tonia Brown

    Clockworks and Corsets by Tonia Brown

    Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Clockwork, steam and secrets power a passionate adventure in the skies. Everybody's looking for something. Captain Rose Madigan of the airship The Merry Widow is looking for a paying job for her all-female crew. Gabriella Upstairs, her newest recruit, is looking for a reason to be glad she's on board...
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