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The Secret Wife by Gill Paul
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsA Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world’s greatest mysteries . . . Love. Guilt. Heartbreak. 1914 Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. Grand Duchess Tatiana has fallen in love with cavalry officer Dmitri, but events take a catastrophic turn, placing their romance – and their lives – in danger . . -
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...Categorized as:
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Academy Days by J.J. Pavlov
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBack to school. Kuroe Makoto, now known as Chaos to demons and Chloe Marcott to humans, never thought that in a fantasy world filled with sword and sorcery, she would attend school once more. But her fake human heart beats faster at the fact that this is a magic school - the kind she has read about in many stories... -
Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsHumanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild... -
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A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii by Stephanie Dray, Kate Quinn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined anthology of stories following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts.Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire... -
Arena by Karen Hancock
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA Repackaged Award Winner From Karen HancockCallie Hayes is living a life of fear and disillusionment when she volunteers for a psychology experiment that promises to turn her life around. As her orientation proceeds, Callie becomes frightened by the secrecy and evasion she encounters... -
Kral by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsA stoic Vikir warrior meets his match in a spunky Earth woman determined to show him what he's been missing.After she's kidnapped on her way to Crakair, Mila's not sure she'll ever meet her arranged mail-order alien match. Until Kral falls--literally--on top of her during his heroic rescue mission... -
Alien Awoken by Julie K. Cohen
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsBaby on Board. Blue, horned alien flying ship. Help! JadeJade will do anything to protect her daughter, even cooperate with the blue, horned alien who says a friend sent him to get her, to keep her safe. She’s heard that line before. Jade shouldn’t trust him, but she can’t stay on Earth either. She has to take her chances with Havok... -
By Schism Rent Asunder by David Weber
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the world at Darcos Sound and Armageddon Reef, and broke them... -
Konnitch by Julie K. Cohen
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsOf all the times for his mating heat to strike... right in the middle of an op with a feisty female.KonnitchKonnitch needs a decoy for a dangerous op on Earth. The only qualified human is smart, fast, and too independent for her own good. Worse.... she sparks his mating heat. Just having her near drives him crazy, and now he can’t think about anything beyond bedding her... -
Wolves and Warriors by Chloe Parker, Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhat do shifters, monsters, and aliens have in common?They're the alpha men we crave.Prepare to tame villains and bring kings to their knees. Travel to distant worlds and uncover dark secrets in these 20 stories by your favorite paranormal and sci-fi romance authors.You can't resist falling for these heroes, whether you like them dark and brooding, sweet and sensual, monstrous or beautiful... -
Rejar by Dara Joy
He is a totally sexual creature. Handsome as sin, sensual as silk… This cat will get your tongue. And then some. When Lilac Devere discovers a beautiful cat with dual-colored eyes sprawled across her carriage, the proper regency miss decides to take the handsome fellow home to be her pet. Boy howdy, is she in for it now... -
Heart Secret by Robin D. Owens
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn the faraway planet Celta, there are some things you can never tell—until someone discovers your Heart Secret… When a virulent disease killed the woman he loved and her baby, Garrett Primross was left alive, a reluctant survivor. Now, as a private eye, he strives to banish the memories of his past and rebuild his life...Categorized as:
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On Bended Knee by Tanya Anne Crosby
A daughter of the forest and loyal to no clan, Seana has been whispered to be a child of the faeries, but not even a little Gael magic can help her claim what she truly desires--a home and hearth... before it's too late for her ailing Da. Seana pins all her hopes on Broc Ceannfhionn, and to win Broc's heart, she strikes a bargain with Colin Mac Brodie--the biggest rogue in all of Scotia...Categorized as:
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Heart of a Warrior by Johanna Lindsey
Stunning statuesque Brittany Callaghan isn't used to seeing Nordic gods in her tiny California town. But when the spectacular blond Viking—whose name is Dalden—turns up at her doorstep, Brittany knows her dream man is very real...Categorized as:
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A Forest of Stars by Kevin J. Anderson
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFive years have passed since humans set fire to the gas-giant planets, unwittingly committing genocide of the Hydrogues--an infinitely powerful species of aliens--and igniting a war of epic proportions... -
Rebellious Desire by Julie Garwood
Of all the dukes in England, Jered Marcus Benton, the Duke of Bradford, was the wealthiest, most handsome--and most arrogant. And of all London's ladies, he wanted the tender obedience of only one--Caroline Richmond. She was a ravishing beauty from Boston, with a mysterious past and a fiery spirit...Categorized as:
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Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe odds of the planet next door hosting intelligent life are—that’s not luck. That’s a miracle. It means something.In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students take a cross-country road trip from Boston to Arizona to paint a message in the desert... -
Sold to the Beasts by Sara Fields
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHaving grown up with parents who were more interested in their various criminal enterprises than they were in taking care of her, Michelle Carter is used to feeling unwanted, but it still hurts when she travels to another world as a bride for two men who turn out not to even want one...Categorized as:
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Time and Again by Jack Finney
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsOne of the most beloved tales of our time!Science fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a detailed history of Old New York blend together in Jack Finney's spellbinding story of a young man enlisted in a secret government experiment... -
Keeper of the Heart by Johanna Lindsey
In search of a true and gentle love, fiery Shanelle Ly-San-Ter flees the lustful advances of the blue-eyed barbarian who has been chosen as her lifemate, confused and frightened by the fevered yearnings the handsome brute has awakened in her innocent soul. A warrior, virile and magnificent Falon Vanyer is overwhelmed with intense desire for the spirited beauty who has vowed never to be his...Categorized as:
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Brielle and the Alien Geek by Jessica Coulter Smith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrielle has waited faithfully for her fiancé to return from Terran Prime, only to discover she's been engaged to a lying, cheating bastard who tosses her out on her rear the moment he's back on Earth. Not one to go down without a fight, Brielle will do anything to ensure her survival -- even sign up for a bride exchange on another world... -
The Last Wild Horses by Maja Lunde
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMikhail lives in Russia in 1881. When a skeleton of a rare wild horse is brought to him, the zoologist plans an expedition to Mongolia to find the fabled Przewalski horse, a journey that tests not only his physicality, but his heart.In 1992, Karin, alongside her troubled son Mathias and several Przewalski horses, travels to Mongolia to re-introduce the magnificent horses to their native land... -
Swords of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsOver nineteen hundred miles east of The Twin Cities of Helium, at about Lat. 30 degrees S., Lon. 172 degrees E., lies Zodanga. It has ever been a hotbed of sedition since the day that I led the fierce green hordes of Thark against it and, reducing it, added it to the Empire of Helium... -
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Wild Beast Mate by Milana Jacks
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe will bring his wild thing to his bed… even if it kills him. After Dewlyn’s, third, heart-stopping attempt to escape their mating bed, Vice is more determined than ever to plant babies in his little daredevil’s luscious body. Even if it means feeding the heat between them until she hungers for him alone — and her resistance is starved into submission. But she’s hiding something... -
The Plague Tales by Ann Benson
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium—the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague...Categorized as:
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A Lesson in Passion by Jennifer Connors
Ginny has a successful career, nice home and good friends. The only thing she's missing is love. Her past attempts at dating always seem to end badly, until a friend recommends some romance novels. Meant to be instructional, Ginny laughs off their usefulness. Ian is a powerful Scottish laird, living in Medieval times... -
Cave Alien (Ancient Earth Aliens) by Loki Renard
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI was supposed to die. But he made me his. My tribe has chosen me as sacrifice. I am sent to starve in the dying cave. But I am not alone in this cavern of bones. There is something here. Something not quite human. Something very alien. And he wants me for his own... -
Souls of Steel by Eva Brandt
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo woman has ever piloted a chimera, the legendary mechas that once served to defend Earth from the alien invasion that nearly destroyed us all. No one... until me. Once, I was a normal girl. Much to my mother's dismay, I didn't have any magic, but that was all right. Not every girl carried Gaia's Gift. There were other things I could do to prove myself, even if I couldn't heal the earth...Categorized as:
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Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsIn the far future, Ildirans give Earth the stardrive. Two archaeologists glean forbidden knowledge from the ruins of a dead world. Robot servants of ruling insectoid Klikiss guard the Klikiss Torch, which has the power to create suns. The reasons for the fall of the Klikiss empire may return...
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