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A Treasure for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
Can an alien commander allow himself to choose love over duty? Jessica’s orderly life changed forever when she became the guardian of her orphaned niece and nephew. She is still trying to learn how to be a parent when they are taken by aliens. After a desperate attempt to escape their captors ends on a deserted planet, she faces an entirely new set of challenges... -
Yasmin and the Yeti by Honey Phillips
Abducted. Sold. Left to freeze. Yasmin’s life shatters when she’s abducted by alien slavers and dragged across the stars. Escape seems impossible – until a raid throws the ship into chaos and she flees into the blinding snow of an ice world. But the frozen wilderness is just as deadly as her captors, and when her strength finally fails, she’s certain death has come for her...Categorized as:
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Zeke by Mina Carter
Rescued by an alien berserker. One bed. Zero control. Michelle came to Parac'Norr for construction work, not to lose her mind over a handsome alien with yellow eyes that make her forget how to breathe. Zeke is unfairly gorgeous, all carved muscle and controlled power, and he watches her like she's the only thing worth looking at in the galaxy... -
Zinnia and the Zombie by Honey Phillips
Her alien abductors made one fatal mistake: they put her in a cell with him. When Zinnia is uprooted from her life on Earth by alien slavers, she is thrown into a cell with a huge, golden statue. Desperate to escape her harsh new reality, she finds herself talking to him, baring her soul to the silent male... -
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A Home for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn
Can a lonely alien warrior find the family he’s always wanted? When tragedy shatters Claire’s world, she abandons her corporate job and retreats to a remote mountain town. Just when she finally begins to rebuild her life, she is abducted by alien slavers. Unable to escape the scientist who purchases her, she devotes herself to the young alien twins who are also trapped by his twisted experiments...Categorized as:
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Three Babies and the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
Can a jaded alien warrior redeem himself in order to protect the woman and children who need him? After a painful divorce, Linda takes a job as the chief administrator of a rural hospital. Her hard won peace is shattered when strange black-suited men raid the maternity ward and she finds herself on board an alien spaceship...Categorized as:
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Rescued by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
KORIV’N. My mate’s scent calls to me. I hunt it, each step taking me closer to the one thing I came to Earth to find. These silly humans think they’ve captured me. What a joke. They’ve captured nothing! I’m here for my female, and nothing can stop me. I will find her, and I will claim her. She is mine! When my mate runs right into me and begs for me to take her away, I can hardly believe my ears...Categorized as:
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Daughter of the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn
Can a grieving alien warrior and a desperate mother overcome their painful pasts through the shared love of a child? One year ago, Jade’s husband was killed and the baby she had wanted for so long disappeared. She has been searching for her daughter ever since. Nothing - not even being abducted by aliens - is going to stop her...Categorized as:
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Coveted by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
HEATHER. When I offered to help the scary alien hunter rescue his friend, I had no idea the seven feet tall brute planned on abducting me. Now I’m stuck in a shuttle with my growly, purple captor, speeding away from everything I ever knew. Nov’k is sinfully handsome, covered in muscles, and claims he wants to wake up every day with me in his arms. He makes me feel beautiful for once in my life...Categorized as:
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Hope for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
A cynical alien, an optimistic human, an impossible attraction…. Felicity’s life is safe, predictable - and boring. Until a simple celebration turns into an alien kidnapping, a desperate escape attempt, and an encounter with the most dangerous, unpredictable - and exciting male she’s ever met. Luxor gave up on his dying race the day they gave up on him. Since then he’s lived by his own rules...Categorized as:
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Baby for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
A warrior with nothing left to give. A woman who’s lost too much. A miracle that changes everything. Dr. Corinne Vale thought her life of quiet study ended the day she was abducted and sold across the stars. Now, she’s on the run with a traumatized teenage girl and a baby she risked everything to save...Categorized as:
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Victoria's Challenge by M.K. Eidem
Victoria Lynn Chamberlain… at two, she was abducted by an alien race, the Regulians… at nine, her world literally explodes when the Regulians returned, destroying Earth. She and her Aunt are the only survivors thanks to another alien race, the Carinians. Now she’s eighteen, a new graduate from their top medical school, and is ready to claim her life mate...Categorized as:
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A Family for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
A grumpy alien warrior. A pregnant librarian. A ready-made family? Wanda has never hankered after excitement - or romance. A quiet life as a small town librarian suits her just fine. But while she doesn’t need a man, she does want a child. Just as her hard-earned dreams come true, she is abducted by aliens...Categorized as:
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The Arcav Prince's Captive by Hope Hart
Can you ever truly escape the past? Everly, tough, fierce ex-federal agent has broken with her past, moving to Arcavia and training as the Queen's guard. Along with the challenges of adjusting to a new planet, she's dealing with a disasterous complication: The fallout from an incredible, stolen night with Korva, a broken male known as a traitor amonst both Arcav and humans...Categorized as:
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Captured for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI refused to be in the Bride Lottery—so now I’m a runaway bride. Somehow, I knew my name was going to be drawn in the Bride Lottery—the hellish agreement that Earth’s leaders had made to sell us to the aliens who protected our planet. I’d grown up with the propaganda. It was our civic duty. Men registered for the draft, women registered for the Bride Lottery...Categorized as:
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Gracie's Touch by S.E. Smith
Gracie Jones was little more than a child when the Earth was invaded by an alien species. Escaping into the subway tunnels of New York City, she hid in fear of being captured. Discovered by four men who became her protectors, she fought alongside them and they became known as the Freedom Five...Categorized as:
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Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith
Jo Strauss was committed to two things in her life – her family and her life as an acrobat/high-wire performer. She takes both very serious. Her life was orderly, in control, and she was finally settling down in one place so she could spend more time with her parents instead of moving all over the world every few weeks... -
Conqueror by Anna Hackett
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...Categorized as:
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Krac's Firebrand by S.E. Smith
Section K Replication Alluthan Clone, or Krac as he was now called, had one focus in his life; protecting the descendants of the Freedom Five who ruled Earth’s council. Rescued by members of the family from a secret facility, he pledged to do what he could to always keep them safe. Things become personal when insurgents target a special member of the Freedom Five, Gracie Jones-Jefe and her family...Categorized as:
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Vera and the Victor by Honey Phillips
A grumpy alien warrior, a rebellious almost-professor, and an alien paradise. .. One moment Vera is peacefully studying for her PhD in Ancient History, the next she is helping an alien race who look like fairies defeat the evil male who had her abducted. They need her help and she’s not about to back down, not even when a huge, grumpy gargoyle shows up on their island demanding their allegiance... -
Endark by Honey Phillips
Can a determined human bride save an alien shifter from his beast? Half human and half Vultor - and rejected by both - Endark has lived his life alone. The only family he knows is the one he has formed with his warrior brothers. But even that bond is not enough to save him from his father’s cruel legacy. His only hope is a mate who will calm his inner beast...Categorized as:
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Enticed by the Alien Chef by Robin O'Connor
Twice abducted. That’s me—always unlucky until I met him. Kara. I never thought I'd end up homeless inside a terrifying alien spaceport. Everyone seems out to get me, with danger lurking around every corner—until I meet him. Rex is huge, four-armed, and always silent, thanks to a knot of scars on his throat. He doesn’t need words to draw me out from my hiding spot; his gestures say it all...Categorized as:
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Legacy by Tana Stone
The Drexian Academy has four schools and four rules. Beware of the Assassins. Don't cross the Blades. Trust the Irons. The Wings go as one. Break them at your peril. Ariana is the first human instructor at the Drexian Academy and the first female to teach flight to cocky cadets. She’s the best Earth has to offer with a lot to prove...Categorized as:
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Brilliant Starlight by Anna Carven
Abbey. We're back on Silence , orbiting the Dark Planet while my husband handles unfinished business on Kythia. For some reason, he seems a little bit tense. According to Tarak, Kythian politics can be complicated, especially when the entire Kordolian Empire has just been destroyed. I hope things don't get too complicated, because I don't want to be stuck here for too long...Categorized as:
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Legacy for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
He offered them escape. He never expected to find a family. Former trauma nurse Kara Macintosh is a survivor. When she and her non-verbal son Rory are abducted by aliens, she fights with everything she has to keep them together, only to have the pair of them sold to the owner of a brutal asteroid mine...Categorized as:
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The Arcav Captain's Queen by Hope Hart
She wants her planet back. .. . .. But all he wants is her. Forced to become a monster to survive her father’s cruelties, Saria wants only one thing: To convince the Arcav King to help her lead her people out of the darkness and into the light. She has no intention of mating anyone. Least of all Roax- the bossy bodyguard who the Arcav King ordered to be her shadow...Categorized as:
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Hunted by the Alien Berserker by Mina Carter
She’s a pilot, not a people person. What does she know about keeping a bunch of women alive on an alien planet? Even worse, said planet has alien cavemen intent on carrying them off to their lairs to… do whatever it is alien cavemen DO to their captives. Yeah, that doesn’t take a genius to figure out...Categorized as:
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Help Wanted: Wife by Cara Bristol
They have nothing to lose except their hearts. The only thing keeping widower Larth from succumbing to grief is running the fledgling bakery founded by his late wife. He intends to make the business the biggest, best bakery in all of Caradonia. But he can’t do it alone. Unable to find affordable help, he turns to Cosmic Mates and advertises for a wife in-name-only...Categorized as:
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Treasured by the Hunter: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee
ABBY. Years after the end of the world, my life is falling apart again. This time, I know exactly how to survive in the bugpocalypse. What I don’t know is what to do with the brawny purple alien following me around. Harb’k isn’t just big and strong, with a protective streak a mile wide, but he’s funny as hell too...Categorized as:
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Saved by the Alien Hybrid by Lynell Miles
Commander Cordelia Normandy is desperate for redemption. After her catastrophic final flight mission, she sees her new assignment delivering colonists as a fresh start. At least, until she wakes from cryosleep to find herself caught in an interstellar war between an alien empire and their hybrid creations. As a hybrid rebel fighting against the empire that made him, Rentir has only known conflict... -
Sanctuary for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
Can an alien warrior and an orphaned infant provide a new beginning for a lonely woman? Tired of relentless hours, arrogant clients, and endless demands, Barbara is ready to abandon her career as a corporate attorney for a simpler life. She doesn’t expect that life to involve an alien abduction, an abandoned baby, and an all-too-intriguing alien warrior with a very friendly tail...Categorized as:
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Callum by Honey Phillips
Can a weary alien warrior and a wary human widow learn to love again? The life of a warrior is all Callum has ever known, but after a long, meaningless war he is tired of fighting. Instead, he chooses to accompany his brothers in arms to a new life on a backwater planet and finds an unexpected peace in the hard work of restoring their isolated ranch...Categorized as:
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The Arcav Guard's Female by Hope Hart
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShe’s on a quest for revenge…. . .. But he’s on a mission to make her his. .. After being abducted by aliens and rescued by the Arcav, all Peyton wants is revenge. Well, that, and a trip straight back home to Earth where she belongs. She’s not interested in the handsome Arcav Guard who stares at her so intently. Even if he does make her wish she’d met him before her captivity...Categorized as:
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Heart Fate by Robin D. Owens
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWed to a wealthy older man when she was just a girl, Lahsin Yew runs away from her abusive home to find a new life. At seventeen, she? s about to enter her Second Passage, when her Flair? and perhaps her HeartMate? will be revealed. Lahsin finds sanctuary in a secret garden, where she meets Tinne Holly...Categorized as:
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A Kiss of Frost by Honey Phillips
Can the warmth of the holiday season thaw an alien warrior’s frozen heart? When Katerina is faced with an unwanted marriage, she takes her younger sister and runs, only to discover a small band of misfits hiding in some ancient ruins. Their fight for survival grows even harder as the holidays approach - until a massive horned warrior appears in their camp... -
The Fractured Mate by Susan Trombley
As a captive of aliens, Paisley is forced to work as an engineering assistant on an ancient wrecker starship. She knows she has to keep her head down and her behavior humble in order to survive. When the crew responds to an automated distress call from an Akrellian warship that shouldn’t be malfunctioning, she senses a threat, but she knows no one will listen to her warnings... -
The Arcav Commander's Human by Hope Hart
A lifetime of duty to his people…. …Or the woman who could be his? Jaret has been completely dedicated to the Arcav race for centuries. His only focus is the continuation of his species. Known for being cold and remote, no one is more surprised than Jaret when he insists on leading the mission to rescue the humans kidnapped for slavery...Categorized as:
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Home World by Erin Raegan
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsPeyton. I fell in love with an alien. Our world was invaded by carnivorous freaks and the Dahk swooped in and saved me and my friends. They want to save the Earth but we are our own worst enemy, or so I thought. The truth is we have no idea what's out there. Now I'm on my way to Home World. The Dahk's world. An alien world. I had no choice, it was taken from me...Categorized as:
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Protected by the Alien Mercenary by Robin O'Connor
Trapped in a terrible situation, I decide to hire a mercenary to help me escape. Pay him? I’m sure we’ll figure that out…. Rikki. I’ve been kidnapped and auctioned off. I’m not waiting around for my new ‘owner’ to do whatever he wants with me. When he leaves me with his guard in a sleazy bar, I see my chance...Categorized as:
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Agent of Change by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
IT STARTS WITH A MAN WHO WAS NOT WHAT HE SEEMED. .. “The man who was not Terrence O’Grady had come quietly. ”. Introducing Val Con yos’Phelium – interstellar spy, starship pilot, musician, and incidentally, a brother to Clutch Turtles...Categorized as:
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Alien General's Beloved by Vi Voxley
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnly one general can stand between an ancient nightmare and the safety of his people. .. This is a 100 k full scifi romance novel featuring a BBW human heroine and a growly alpha male Brion warrior general. It can and should be read as a standalone and has a guaranteed HEA ending! Grab it now for 99 Cents for a limited time! Lana Cormac is a woman with a mission... -
Oh No, I Stole An Alien Furball And Kissed A Beastmaster by Kate Sinner
In space, no one can hear you squeal over cute, trouble-making alien furballs. .. or a unexpected romance. All I wanted was a fluffy friend, but now I'm knee-deep in an adorable infestation threatening to destroy everything we've built. As the furry menace multiplies, our once-bustling hotel teeters on the brink of ruin... -
Double Take by Cara Bristol
The second time around will be double or nothing…. Getting over the death of her husband has been a long, slow process for pottery artist Faith Hammond. But five years have passed, and she’s making a new life for herself, moving from Earth to planet Terra Nova and opening up a pottery shop. She’s finally finding the calm and focus she’s been seeking. Until there’s a knock at her cottage door... -
Qim by Nikki Clarke, L.M. Byfield
Half-Lyqa and half-Yuk, Qim has the best of both worlds—the brute strength of his father’s people and the kind, compassionate nature of his mother’s. He also has a First heart, which identifies his biological mate, Cris, while he visits Earth...Categorized as:
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Khann by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon
He’s the enemy—and she’s agreed to become his mate. Stranded on war-torn Earth with her young daughter, Belle is devastated to learn she has a terminal illness. Who will take care of her daughter after she’s gone? When she discovers Vaxxlians possess the technology to save her, she doesn’t hesitate to sign up for Vaxxlian Mail Order Brides—even if she does view the powerful aliens as the enemy...Categorized as:
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Dragon's Redemption by Miranda Martin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJormund. I have to have her. These other males can't care for her the way I will. They'll try to get her back, of course. What else could they do? I'll have to outsmart them to keep her. And keep her I will. She-who-is-mine will see, eventually. We are fated. She is my heart and my soul. Delilah. I'm resigned to my life alone. Well, not really alone... -
Fated to the Alien Rebel by Erin Hale
Sage. I’ve built a new life on the planet Tavikh, spending every day seeking penance. And despite witnessing three of my new-found friends find their fated mate, I don’t dare hope to find mine. Not when there’s a chance someone from Earth will arrive to take me back to face the consequences for what I did...Categorized as:
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Alien Commander's Mate by Mina Carter
Alone. Ill. She’ll do anything to find her kids. Both her children taken by the Lathar and her home destroyed in the process, Amanda Kallson is at her wits end and desperate. With nothing left to tie her to Earth, she’ll do anything to track down her daughters… even take an alien warriors crazy deal. It doesn’t hurt that said alien warrior is tall, ripped and as handsome as hell...Categorized as:
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A Very Arcav Christmas by Hope Hart
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsBabies, weddings, and Christmas. .. oh my! For the human women on Arcavia, there's plenty to celebrate during the holidays. Sure, the Grivath are a constant threat, but with a surprise wedding to plan, a baby on the way, and even a visit from Santa, the first Arcav Christmas is sure to be incredible... -
Saved by Heather Fox
Ellie: I always knew the only person who would save me after crash landing on a primitive jungle planet was myself. Our corporate overlords won't be coming for us, and the alien I've been dreaming about might say a lot of pretty words about coming to find me, but he's not real. Definitely not. It's up to me to keep everyone fed, but it's slim pickings on the beach where we've landed...
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