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Revenge of the Walker by Coralee June
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsI'll build an army to take back what is mine. Revenge may harden the heart, but I'll gladly suffer the consequences. I've lost my family, my best friend, and the men I love. The little Walker girl from Galla is dead. Now, all that's left of her is a girl willing to risk it all. They call me Queen of the Walkers. -
The Book of the Dead: AESLI-00 by V.E.S. Pullen
Azzie Vokaty is living a perfectly normal life in a perfectly normal small town in the midwest, dealing with a rare blood disorder alongside rude classmates and distant foster parents. Except there is no “normal” anymore, not since the JANUS-23 pandemic decimated the world’s population. And it isn’t a town, it’s a military base... -
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Their Perfect Storm by Milly Taiden
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBook 2 of the Wintervale Packs. ***Another sexy reverse harem for you to keep warm***. -
Fight of the Walker by Coralee June
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsI’m desperate to rescue the men I love, so when the smooth-talking Ethros leader, Commodore Cavil, comes along, its almost too easy to agree to his deal. Not that we had much of a choice. I find myself on the beautiful island of Ethros where once a Walker, always a Walker, and all the freedoms of Dormas are ripped from my fingers. It’s hard not to see the irony in it all... -
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Draconians Queen by Juno Wells
Sold from one species to another, isn't the dream I had when I signed up for an alien husband. .. The promise of being electronically matched with a wealthy, handsome alien husband and going from a dying Earth, to a new healthy world, seemed like an impossible dream. After securing a successful match, I left with my meagre possessions and dreams of starting over. .Categorized as:
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Omega Academy by Lily Archer
Drawing, my online clan, and planning my escape from my mother--these are priorities. Or, at least they were, until three huge alien males came to abduct me and take me to their planet. But it's not just a simple process of probing and then releasing me back to Earth. All those movies are lies. These three males keep me...Categorized as:
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The Wife Legacy: Huxley by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe world, at large, is in crisis but so is the marriage between Tia and her husbands. She thought she could trust them all but when one man betrays her, the cracks in the relationship are revealed. In a desperate, emotional finale to the Six Men of Alaska saga, Tia is faced with her worst enemy one last time. A gun is placed in someone’s hands and the trigger is pulled...Categorized as:
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Solace by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The softest woman requires the hardest men to survive. Dark, gritty, and perfectly filthy--modern MC meets Mad Max in this amazing RH tale. ” ~Addison Cain, USA Today bestselling author. More than one evil is waiting for me and my men. Unfortunately, the one who poses the greatest danger to those I love…might be me...Categorized as:
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Saving Them by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsPaloma McQueen is a woman on a mission. Loving the Sandler brothers in the midst of a war tearing their galaxy apart never promised to be easy but Paloma swore an oath to her husbands. Their challenges are hers, their war hers, their happiness… Everything she is and will be, she plans to be with them no matter what changes the conflicts wrought on the map...Categorized as:
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The Wife Code: Banks by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLawson wants what is lawfully his, but Banks is prepared to fight for his bride. Banks and Tia haven't consummated their marriage. He's done waiting. But he isn't like her other husbands. And while they both have a love for learning, Tia is about to get an entirely new sort of education. Banks is ready to teach his wife a few things about his dark desires...Categorized as:
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The Wife Pact: Emerson by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen an ultrasound reveals the truth about Tia’s pregnancy, the compound is riddled with fear. They know that it means one thing -- death. Unless Banks can find a cure. Stress weaves its way into Tia’s heart and a break from the harsh reality is just what the doctor ordered. But a trip to Emerson’s family home reveals yet another hidden secret and Tia is confronted with a shocking reality... -
The Vori's Mate by SJ Sanders
Reggie was a society girl, a castoff wife, soon to-be divorcee, stolen away from Earth, a victim of her own bad choices. Little did she know that one mistake would lead her onto a journey of finding her own happy ever after with a serpentine species of aliens on a strange matriarchal jungle planet. Giant spiders, gargantuan lizards, scrambled green eggs for breakfast... -
The Spider Queen by Wendie Nordgren
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhen an alien species attacks the Talpa Sector, Teagan leads a fleet of warships across the vastness of space to rush to the aid of its peaceful inhabitants. However, being thrust into the center of an alien war is the least of her worries... -
Surrender by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The softest woman requires the hardest men to survive. Dark, gritty, and perfectly filthy--modern MC meets Mad Max in this amazing RH tale. ” ~Addison Cain, USA Today bestselling author. While the evil that’s been hunting me draws closer, my past resurfaces, forcing me and my men into a life or death battle. One thing’s for sure. We won’t give up without a fight... -
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For a Pixie in Blue by Cecilia Randell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Never-Ending Epilogue Continues. .. Blue Faust is trapped, and there are no good choices. Does she remain on Padilra, giving up her own dreams, or rebel and risk starting a war? How is a person supposed to make a choice like that anyway? Forrest and Mo'ata are by her side, of course, and the others insist on accompanying her as well... -
Voyage to Ayama by K.A. Knight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe 43rd colony mission was supposed to be a boring space flight to our new home world of Ayama. When tragedy strikes, leaving teenager Indy Stewart an orphan in space, things start to get interesting. Throw in illegal races, flight school, boys and an explosive subterfuge which just seems to keep on unravelling around her and you have one hell of a journey. -
The Katres' Summer by Laura Jo Phillips
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe 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...Categorized as:
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The Wife Gamble: Salinger by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart
She trusts him with her secrets . .. but can she trust him with her heart? In a world where everyone struggles for survival, Tia is no exception. Enemies are on to her, and she won't be able to keep her husbands safe forever. For two of her men, it might already be too late. When Tia's secret is revealed, she has no choice but to trust Salinger with her life. But he has secrets too...Categorized as:
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Beyond Blue Frontiers by Cecilia Randell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBlue and Forrest made the decision to return to Karran. They’ve said their goodbyes and packed their bags. She even managed to get a Portal open. That was the easy part. The reunion with her clansman is marred by unfinished business. Phillip is still out there, still using that crystal, still killing, and slowly going insane... -
Throne Taker by Heather Long, Rebecca Royce
Everything in Khloe with a K's life changed when she crashed into the side of a food truck. Now with Earth in the rearview mirror, her future lies with Briggs, Goran, Reese, and Dalton...Categorized as:
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The Parvac Emperor's Daughter by Wendie Nordgren
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhile Teagan’s life may have changed from the obscurity of a reclamation worker on Earth to that of royalty in the Parvac Empire, she soon discovers her notoriety places her in danger. After a cunning plot orchestrated by Consul Dano, Teagan is manipulated into a political marriage in order to maintain peace... -
Omnes Videntes by Wendie Nordgren
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThey were created in a lab. Feared and reviled in both the Laconian Sector and in the Galaxic Expanse for their combined empathic and telepathic abilities, the Hybrids have found a home in the Parvac Empire. Having sworn allegiance to Princess Teagan of House Probus of Parvac, the former mercenaries become her personal guard... -
Tina by Tracy St. John
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo be loved is all Tina ever wanted. She never dreamed her prayers would be answered by the enemy. Aspirant Tina Novak, living on Europa’s convent colony, has no place to call her own. First rejected by her father, now being sent away by Mother Superior, where can a young woman with no prospects go? The question is delayed by a Kalquorian invasion that takes the aspirants and nuns prisoner... -
Alien Daddies by Sue Lyndon
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsOn their world, bad girls are punished. When nineteen-year-old Makenna stowed away on a departing spacecraft, she expected a short trip to the resort planet where her friends spend their summers... -
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Ship Called Malice (Wings of Artemis) by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsSaved from a wife auction that would have left her at the mercy of a madman, Priscilla wakes up married to three space pirates on a ship called Malice. They are rough but honorable men who carry secrets and years of pain. Priscilla isn’t sure how she will fit in their life. River, Jordan, and Bo have made their way alone in the universe for twenty years...Categorized as:
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Their Memoriam by Jazz Michaels
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsValda Bashan woke to the inexplicable—a biosphere where she and four others were the only occupants. She had a life before she woke, a life which seemed many years away and just like yesterday. A computerized voice welcomed her to Memoriam, the biosphere’s name and the job she’d accepted... -
Abducted by Sara Fields
Mya Wilder’s family fled Earth before the Vakarrans arrived, and she thought she had escaped their grasp forever, but even the Celestial Mates Dating Agency proves unable to protect her. When four Vakarran warriors claim her as their mate, Mya is skeptical of their intentions, but she quickly discovers that these aliens are not the heartless brutes she expected...Categorized as:
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Emerald by Jade Waltz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey say good things come in threes. .. . and for those who wait. Emerald used to believe that until her thirty-third birthday, when her life got turned upside down. Her pet Godzilla dies, she loses her job and to top it all off, her car breaks down in this weird town called Silver Springs...Categorized as:
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Meeting Them (Wings of Artemis) by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsPaloma Delacroix has suffered greatly for a mistake in her youth. She dreams of a future she wonders if she can ever have. But for all her imagination, Paloma can’t predict what is about to happen. Thomas, Clay, Keith and Quinn McQueen are men with secrets and a past that keeps them on the run. But when life explodes around Paloma, the McQueens will be all that stands between Paloma and death...Categorized as:
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Queen of the Ravagers by Sara Page
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlackspire, the home of the Ravagers, is supposed to be a safe place for my family. Cut off from the Other Side, the monsters in the dark cannot reach us here. But something is stirring in the hearts of the unmated. A sickness that makes them aggressive and turns their eyes black...Categorized as:
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Controlling the Elements by N.R. Spratlin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Manipulator Series. Book 1. Controlling the Elements. " My name is Dillon Danvers and I have no control over my life. ". Dillon Danvers, a once confident and successful twenty-five-year old woman, finds herself picking up the pieces of her shattered life after the tragic death of her twin brother and his wife... -
The Space Merchants of Arachne by Wendie Nordgren
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTeagan Alaric Montgomery Lee has travelled through Galaxic space, married the man of her dreams, and gained the loving family she always has needed. However, news of her father’s capture and execution by the Parvac Empire throws Teagan’s life into turmoil. Fearing her Parvac grandfather, General Valen, plans to abduct her, Teagan is desperate to avoid her grandmother’s fate... -
The Wife Protectors: Giles by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart
Six husbands. One Wife. A secret that will tear them apart. Tia thinks running from her husbands will keep them safe - but she never expected to have a gun in her hand, or to pull the trigger. A single bullet changes everything. The life she escaped is catching up to her, but she's not the only one at risk. Giles sacrificed everything by coming to her rescue. .. now he's paying the ultimate price...Categorized as:
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A Girl Named Blue: The Adventure Begins by Cecilia Randell
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 15 ratings***Note: This is the first book in a Reverse Harem series. If you expect her to end up with just one guy, then this is not for you. ***. **Also, there is violence, and just a little bit of foul language. **. *Oh, and it's a slow burn, so no sexy times till the second or third book*. Blue Faust and her mother have just moved to a new city, and Blue has a Plan and a List...Categorized as:
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Perfect by Adell Ryan
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy name is Thessaly, and at 22, I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. Living with my parents, going to college, and hanging out with friends is pretty much the extent of my mediocre life. The biggest drama I have going on with me is fighting a growing attraction toward my best friend Bram. Oh and avoiding needles—specifically ones that draw my blood...Categorized as:
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Achieve by Jade Waltz
An abomination or a savior… I can't be both. My welcome at the CEG Space Station didn't go as planned. Arriving as a new mother and meeting the male responsible for my situation was only the beginning of my problems...Categorized as:
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The Other Side by Sara Page
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeing pregnant with Ravager babies isn't easy. You have to deal with things like having not one but two overprotective baby daddies breathing down your neck all the time. Cravings for disgusting food combinations. And weird alien side effects, like randomly falling through the floor and into another dimension called the Other Side. The Other Side is a place of darkness and void... -
Celestial Beauty by Angela Castle
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsForced to land their scavenger ship on a remote planet, the last thing Demos quads Zeb, Raz, Kue, and Loc expect is to find is a lovely and feisty human female. Celeste has survived a life of abandonment and abuse on Earth, being abducted by cruel aliens, and the ship crashing on a strange planet... -
Pirate Nemesis by Carysa Locke
A smuggler running from her past, Mercy desperately wants answers to her mother’s disappearance. All roads lead her to the one place she can’t return: home. Killers. Thieves. Pirates. Family. Mercy has spent her life evading the Pirate Queen who attempted to murder her as a child... -
The Space Merchants by Wendie Nordgren
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsTeagan Green dreams of escaping the drudgery of Earth and traversing the stars. Will her dreams come true, or will events from her past destroy her? As soon as Teagan Green turns eighteen, she leaves her painful childhood behind and travels as far as her credits will take her. In Union Port City, she is homeless until she becomes a reclamation worker...Categorized as:
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Brooklyn's Baggage by Belle Harper
A Sci-fi Alien Reverse Harem Romance. My name is Brooklyn. I applied to a job ad that sounded amazing. Anything was better than the boring job and depressing life I had. Being sent to an Alien Planet to marry an Alien guy with four-arms sounds like the start of new adventure. The Aashi males all love hugs and it made me feel happy to hug them also. Who knew that it wasn't just a hug. .. -
Behind These Blue Eyes: Between The Adventures by Cecilia Randell
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***Note: This is a short novella, not a full-length book, and covers the period after Blue's first adventure, and before her next. ***. Blue and her friends have returned to Earth. Now, they need to deal with the aftermath of their (mis)adventure. Blue hopes to keep what really happened silent, but old resentments and tensions come to the fore, and the rumors can't be avoided... -
The Indarian's Ghost by K.C. Morgan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy name is Keta. I’m an elite soldier for the interplanetary military, a G. H. O. S. T. operative. I’ve lived my whole life preferring solitude. I'm content to live my life without males trying to control me. Who needs love, I have my blasters, right? But fate changes my lonely existence. Somehow I’ve ended up mated to an Indarian triad - a shapeshifting race of Alpha Males. Lucky me... -
Chosen By Them by Skye MacKinnon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey want to make me their captain. I can't even fly a bloody spaceship. I'm no longer a captive. No longer alone. But we're still on the run. And the four alien males who seem to think the universe of me are only making it more complicated for me. New life. New rules. We can't be free until we escape the Athions hunting us, even if it means accepting the help of untrustworthy space pirates... -
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The Wasteland by K.A. Knight
The world ended and with it so did the rules. I was stolen from my family and raised in the Wastelands to the North. I did what I had to ensure my survival. I became The Champion, with my history carved into my skin for all to see. Now I spend my days drinking and hiding from my past until four newcomers offer me a job I can’t refuse. When my past and future mix I must once again rise and fight...Categorized as:
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Aria's Awakening by Stacy Jones
A deadly alien arena isn’t the place to fall in love…. For the last three years, Special Agent Aria Taylor’s nights have been filled with images of battling alien beings in a foreign land with purple skies and two suns... -
Night of the Shayde by Lili Zander
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Vampyrs of Shayde want more than just my blood…. The. first. night, I was bitten. The. second. night, I was hunted. The. third. night—the night I was marked for death—I attracted the attention of three Shayde enforcers, the dangerous and enigmatic Vampyrs, Saber, Zeke and Nero. To earn my freedom, I just need to survive one more night. I need to make it through the ultimate trial... -
Paused by Heather Long
Their lives are on hold…. Dr. Valda Bashan wakes to the inexplicable—a biosphere where she and four others are the only occupants. Before this place, she possessed a life and a career. A computerized voice welcomes her to the biosphere and the job she’s apparently accepted...Categorized as:
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A Reluctant Companion by Kit Tunstall
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen electricity is a scarce commodity, power is everything…. A century ago, a catastrophic event disabled most electronic devices and killed hundreds of millions in the ensuing chaos. After The End, governments eventually reformed, but countries split into smaller factions. The United States is long gone, replaced by ten distinct territories...Categorized as:
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Belong by C.R. Jane, Mila Young
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMy 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...
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