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Rabble: End Game by C. Rochelle
**A just-for-funsies reunion book featuring ALL the MCs from Villainous Things (and Villains in Space), trapped together on an island for Butch & Xander's wedding...Categorized as:
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Submit by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI was bought to be a pretty pawn in my alien captors’ twisted entertainment. But the gorgeous, horned alien who saves me from death is no pawn—and he’s determined to beat the hunt...Categorized as:
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Skruj by Honey Phillips
He’s wealthy, he’s mean… and he’s about to meet his match! Life on the alien planet of Londria is difficult for humans, but Bobbi is determined to make the holiday season a special time for her fragile little brother, Tim. Desperate for funds, she’s even willing to take a job working for the coldest, meanest, most hard-hearted alien in the entire city... -
The Heart of Valor by Tanya Huff
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe third installment in Tanya Huff's action-packed military sci-fi adventure Confederation seriesGunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr was a Confederation Marine’s marine. She’d survived more deadly encounters—and kept more of her officers and enlisteds alive—than anyone in the Corps, and she was determined to keep the record intact... -
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Queen of Their Colony by Evangeline Anderson, Reese Dante
A middle aged science teacher who feels unloved and unwanted meetsThree huge alien warriors desperate to find their QueenWhen Terra agrees to go on a quest with V’rone, Tem, and RiveWill she end up as…the Queen of their Colony?Terra Engels is a regular middle aged science teacher with nothing special about her—or so she thinks... -
Thade by Sue Mercury, Sue Lyndon
That awkward moment when the hunky alien you just met proposes marriage... Alien warrior and single father Thade needs a human bride. He travels to Earth, hoping he'll be matched with a sweet human who will help him raise his four energetic children. When the first human matched to him backs out of their mating contract, he's forced to seek out a bride on his own... -
Alien Commander's Mate by Ava Ross
An alien warrior made me an offer I can’t refuse. In exchange, he can do what wants with me for one week.I want a child, but that’s impossible now that Earth men are sterile. Then a ping from a distant planet reaches us. Aliens are real, and they’re interested in getting to know Earth women better... -
Salt by Liz Shipton
What do you do with a drunken sailor when the world is underwater? In a brutal dystopian water world, where survival depends on sailing, skill, and smarts, Bird Howsley is a beautiful disaster. A drunken sailor, a sharp-tongued back-talker, and a magnet for chaos, Bird is one bad decision away from watching her life go completely down the drain...Categorized as:
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Loved by the Lion by Evangeline Anderson, Reese Dante
A Monstrum Warrior who has vowed never to Claim a bride…An older woman, who thinks she’s done with Love…Can they come together to save the Earth…and each other?What’s the worst Christmas present imaginable? A cheating husband? An angry mob outside your front door? What about Menopause? Minister Emilia Oxley has gotten all three this Yuletide season and she could do without them all, thank you...Categorized as:
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Case Study: Interspecies Bonding by Talia Rhea
Data Lunar Base ExperimentsCase 3 For your consideration, we the research team of the Lunar Base present our findings for the mating of the kreecharma Vigo 773-2695-1132682 and the human Jennifer-Anne 'Jeanie' Wainright.Data -Subject "Mating is a barbaric practice. It's backwards and unnecessary in this modern day. It's better for everyone if its irradicated. She's a challenge... -
Impawsible by Celia Kyle
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA wererabbit and a tiger-wolf hybrid? Impawsible! Wererabbit Bethany Buchanan hopes she can create a new life in Deals Gap, North Carolina. Home to the weird, wacky, and unwanted, it should be a place where she doesn’t have to hide (much) and can be herself (mostly). When she meets Carter, a hotter than hot tiger-wolf hybrid, she knows she’s found her new home... -
Bridging the Distance by Evangeline Anderson, Reese Dante
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne plus-sized Earth girl Two Twin Kindred who need help to reconnect Sometimes 1 +2 = Interstellar sexy times Lorelei Daniels is having a terrible day--her self-driving car repossesses itself, she loses her job, and she's about to get kicked out of her apartment...Categorized as:
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Claimed by the Alien Rogue by Krista Luna
The grumpy blue demon who rescues me is hot as sin. And he’s got one hell of a wicked tail.CARAI went to space looking for adventure, my job to guard the other women of the expedition. When gray aliens wake me from cryo in the middle of a bustling market, it turns out I’m what’s on sale. This sure as hell isn’t the fun I dreamed of!A blue demon with horns and a tail leaps to my rescue...Categorized as:
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Bear Mate: BBW Paranormal Shifter Romance by Natalie Kristen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlake Madden is a bear on a mission. Three missions, to be exact. One: Kick-start the PAC's health program. Two: Sniff out an elusive flower and destroy it. Three: Claim that curvy witch as his mate. Jasynta Morgan is a witch on a mission. Make that three missions. One: Stop a takeover bid for her coven. Two: Find an elusive flower and protect it... -
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Chosen by Stacy Jones
One minute Lily is trying, and failing, to run her grandmother’s farm—her last remaining connection to her family. The next, she wakes to find herself in a cold, sterile cage surrounded by monsters, with no memory of how she got there. Accidentally abducted by alien poachers, unsure if she will live or die, she is dreading the worst...Categorized as:
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Alien Explosions by Sadie Carter
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSometimes it’s a very fine line between love and hate. Humans were inferior and troublesome creatures, and unlike his fellow warriors, Moroco had no intention of ever mating one. Trust a female again? Never. Not when he knew how easily they could betray you... -
Taming the Tiger by Evangeline Anderson, Reese Dante
A wounded warrior tormented by madness…Finds the one woman who can bring him back from the brink.Can Christine and Roarn fight the odds to be together?And will she dare to try…Taming the Tiger?Christine is a single mom with an empty nest. Now approaching menopause, she thinks she has nothing to look forward to but loneliness... -
Star Crossed by J.A. Huss
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwenty years before Serpint brought Queen Corla home to Harem Station she met Crux for the very first time. They were destined to be soul mates but could never be together. All they had was just one night. This is the story of Crux and Corla and how all the outlaw brothers came to reside on Harem Station... -
Head Over Tail by Celia Kyle
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBeing kidnapped sucks…but then you find your mate… Maddy Lane did not enjoy the whole “being kidnapped” thing. Then her knight in tight leather showed up to rescue her lioness-y ass and he turned out to be her O-M-G mate. Rawr. Sure, she’s a Sensitive. And, yeah, Sensitives are usually pushovers... -
Peyton 313 by Donna McDonald
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWorst epic fail of her scientific career? Falling for a cyborg she helped create. Kyra Winters never meant for her cyber science discoveries to be used for evil, but that’s exactly what happened. Now returning Peyton 313’s humanity is the last chance she’ll ever have to atone... -
American Werewolf in Space by Alisha Sunderland
On board this spaceship I’m only certain of two things:1. The movies lied to me.2. I’m about to mark an alien and take him like the beast I am. Look, I didn’t believe in aliens either — until I was abducted by them.Waking up on board a spacecraft among several other naked, terrified women prisoners mostly ruled out my government lab fears. Thank God... -
Crex by A. G. Wilde
There are two types of hell. The one priests preach about and then this. Stuck on an alien slave ship, Piper is auctioned and thrown into a cell with … something. He’s an alien with a reputation. A warrior. A beast. A killer. He is dangerous. A creature with a cold, cold heart…one not unlike her own...Categorized as:
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Desperate Measures by Staci Hart
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratings* 11,000 word novella *A girl's got to have priorities, even in the zombie apocalypse, including, but not limited to: 1) Cheese Doodles2) Trusty dog3) Swedish porn4) BatteriesAnnie's survived for two years all by herself. But what she finds when she finally leaves her shelter is better than all of the above... -
Divine and Dateless by Tara West
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDivine and Dateless by Tara West Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go all the way.. -
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One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews
Dina DeMille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest… the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about...Categorized as:
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Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh
When a brilliant changeling researcher is kidnapped, DarkRiver sentinel Mercy, a cat, and SnowDancer lieutenant Riley, a wolf, must work together to track the young man-before his shadowy captors decide he's no longer useful...Categorized as:
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Blood Heir (Kate Daniels World) by Ilona Andrews
An all-new novel set in the Kate Daniels World and featuring Julie Lennart-Olsen, Kate and Curran's ward. Atlanta was always a dangerous city. Now, as waves of magic and technology compete for supremacy, it’s a place caught in a slow apocalypse, where monsters spawn among the crumbling skyscrapers and supernatural factions struggle for power and survival... -
Magic Stars by Ilona Andrews
From award-winning author, Ilona Andrews, an original novella, set in the New York Times #1 bestselling Kate Daniels World and featuring fan-favorites, Derek, and Curran and Kate’s very independent ward, Julie. Scarred, solitary Derek Gaunt has separated from his Pack, and is truly a lone wolf. With no family he answers to no one; but is fiercely loyal to a chosen few...Categorized as:
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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants... -
Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh
Nalini Singh steps back into the shadows of her heartbreakingly original world where angels rule, vampires serve, and the innocent can pay the greatest price of all ...Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux and her lover, the lethally beautiful archangel Raphael, have returned home to New York only to face an uncompromising new evil ..Categorized as:
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