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  • Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 17 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...
  • Oliver by Nyssa Kathryn

    Oliver by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She may have forgotten her past, but her past hasn’t forgotten her…Tori Blake arrives in Marble Falls with nothing. Nothing but a note in her hand and cash in her pocket. She doesn’t know if those two things will be enough to get her the help she needs. She doesn’t know if they’ll lead her to the past she can’t remember.What she does know is that someone is trying to kill her...
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  • Jason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Jason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Danger throws them together. Attraction keeps them from parting.Having lost her best friend, Courtney Warren lives every day like it’s her last. Because if life has taught her anything, it’s that some are cut far too short without warning. So when sexy former soldier Jason moves to Cradle Mountain, she shouldn't hesitate to express her immediate interest...
  • Wyatt by Nyssa Kathryn

    Wyatt by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A story that could cost her everything…Investigative journalist Quinn Ross isn’t a woman who can just let major news pass her by. So, when she stumbles across a story like no other, she makes it her mission to report it to the masses.She doesn’t count on the lengths to which some may go to keep her story from seeing the light of day...
  • The Short Victorious War by David Weber

    The Short Victorious War by David Weber

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 39 ratings
    The proles are revolting. The families who rule the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble. The treasury's empty, the Proles are restless, and civil war is imminent. But the ruling class knows what they need to keep in power; another short, victorious war to unite the people and fill the treasury once more...
  • B Free by Cynthia Sax

    B Free by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    B is the last remaining B Model cyborg. All of his brethren, the beings he trained with, fought with, cared deeply for, have perished.Or so he believes.When he intercepts a communication mentioning the existence of one of his kind, he has to investigate the source. The message could be a trap set by his enemies...
  • 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...
  • Alien Mercenary's Heart by Mina Carter

    Alien Mercenary's Heart by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Return to the worlds of the Lathar, as you've never seen them before... She wanted a coffee and an easy shift. Instead, she got a smart-alec mercenary and commandos trying to kill her… Medically discharged from the military over a decade ago, Station Chief Eris Archer just wants a quiet life. But life on a frontier station like Tarantus is never dull...
  • Seizing Power by Cynthia Sax

    Seizing Power by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    This cyborg believes he’s in control.Power is the self-appointed leader of the cyborg council. Other members might debate situations. He makes the ultimate decisions.When a threat to the Homeland is revealed, he takes command of a fleet and ventures to the edge of cyborg-controlled space to investigate. He finds a rebellion led by a mysterious upstart he calls Cadet...
  • Bolt: Bolt Saga: Volume One: Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Angel Payne

    Bolt: Bolt Saga: Volume One: Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Angel Payne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Working the night shift at one of Downtown LA’s hottest hotels, Emmalina Crist has had her fair share of strange encounters—but none of them have prepared her for meeting Reece Richards, the charismatic bad boy of the Richards Resorts dynasty...
  • Jingled by Tana Stone

    Jingled by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Naughty or nice? For the women abducted from Earth and claimed as tribute brides for the Drexian warriors, being on the naughty list isn’t so bad. Not when being naughty is so tempting. It’s Christmas on the Drexian space station, and the abducted Earth women are in the mood for some holiday fun...
  • Smolder Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Smolder Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One thing is clear to Lucy Luciano: she and enigmatic survivalist Roan Winters are meant to be together.He disagrees.Life at the Haven survival compound is frustrating for the youngest and only girl of the Luciano clan. In a world torn apart by pandemic and fraught with danger, Lucy struggles to find her role...
  • Logan by Nyssa Kathryn

    Logan by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Her scars are invisible, to everyone but him.Grace Castle lived through hell, and she’s never fully recovered. Nor may she ever. But she’s better than she was, and now devotes her time and energy to helping other women…until someone connects her old life to her new one. Suddenly, she’s forced to do something that goes against her conscience, her moral compass…her heart...
  • Before The Dawn by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue

    Before The Dawn by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Pogue

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THE FOURTH AND FINAL BOOK IN THE ENDING SERIES. A year ago, the Virus killed off most people in the world. A year ago, strange things started happening to those who survived. Some of them transformed into something dark and sinister, while others evolved, becoming something more, something beyond human. A year ago, Dani and Zoe were lost...
  • Throne of Novoxos by Tyler Chase

    Throne of Novoxos by Tyler Chase

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The brave warrior, Prince Comron Van Laven, lays at death’s door after a near fatal transport crash. His life is in the hands of his mortal enemy who does the unthinkable…she saves him…in so many ways. Together the two must battle for survival against the harsh elements, deadly assassins and vicious animal attacks. But that’s only the beginning of their struggles...
  • Girl From Above: Trapped by Pippa DaCosta

    Girl From Above: Trapped by Pippa DaCosta

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "When are you going to stop running, Caleb?" Taking the synth to the casino capital of the nine systems seemed like a great idea at the time, but as Caleb Shepperd's many enemies close in, he only has one way out. He must betray #1001. Caleb can't make the same mistake twice. Can he? #1001 has a price on her head. The Fenrir Nine and Chitec will stop at nothing to secure her secrets...
  • Demons Don't Date by Hannah Walker

    Demons Don't Date by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Commander Bo’saverin Hevalis, head of the Cobalts, is trying to recover from the injuries he sustained in battle. The enforced downtime is giving him too much time to think, torture for a man of action. The trouble in their sector is weighing heavily on his mind as it seems to be getting ever closer to the demon homeworld...
  • Bell's Beloved by Hannah Walker

    Bell's Beloved by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bellan ‘Bell’ Nimeri loved Niko Dastria with all his heart. Knowing Niko was his lifemate from the moment he set eyes on him was bittersweet. Surrounded by unknown threats, becoming more than friends wasn't an option. Besides, he didn't think Niko had the same feelings as he did. What’s more, Niko would need to accept both sides of Bell’s shifter personality, as he and his darintha are a team...
  • 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...
  • Pride by Lana Pecherczyk

    Pride by Lana Pecherczyk

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Genius. Billionaire. Arrogant. Vigilante. Liar. There are many words to describe Parker Lazarus. Some call him stubborn. Some call him impossible. Some call him a liar. He doesn’t care what anyone calls him, as long as he fulfills his destiny to rid the world of the fanatical Syndicate and leads his family to victory. Of his seven siblings, six have found their lifemate...
  • Raw Desires by Cynthia Sax

    Raw Desires by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    His human female is attempting to kill him.This cyborg finds that adorable.***Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors to have located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus...
  • Rangers at Roadsend by Jane Fletcher

    Rangers at Roadsend by Jane Fletcher

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sergeant Chip Coppelli escaped the manipulative plots of her powerful family by becoming a soldier. After 9 years in the elite Rangers, dealing with thugs and wild predators, she has learned to spot trouble coming, and that is exactly what she sees in the mystery surrounding her new recruit, Katryn Nagata. But even so, Chip was not expecting murder...
  • Chosen by the Vikens by Grace Goodwin

    Chosen by the Vikens by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Kayson, Geros and Mal are not hers. She is not theirs. So why does their every touch set her on fire? Why is it so easy to give in to the pleasure they provide? She must play along. Nothing is real. Every magical touch, every gasp, is just part of the mission. When she begs for more, it's all part of the plan..
  • Agent T3: d'Artagnan by Joni Hahn

    Agent T3: d'Artagnan by Joni Hahn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Credentials: • Rebel son of Former Navy SEAL • Trained under his father Enhancements: • Time Travel d’Artagnan (Dar) Naylor: trained by the best, disciplined by the toughest, and raised by the vilest - his father. He bought into Robert Naylor’s life of crime, until he learned the reasons behind it. Now, he possesses enhancements installed by The D.I.R.E...
  • Deep Shadows by Vannetta Chapman

    Deep Shadows by Vannetta Chapman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All It Takes Is One Night to Plunge the World into Darkness Life in Abney, Texas, is predictable and safe—until the night a massive solar flare wipes out all modern technology. Shelby Sparks, novelist and single mom, had one goal: to provide for her diabetic son. In the wake of this global disaster, her mission hasn't changed...
  • Dax's Desire by Hannah Walker

    Dax's Desire by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Avanti have made their way to Berinias, the capital and heart of Landran society. Not only is it King Kastain’s home ground, but it’s the seat of the Conclave's power. Dax finally gets to see Kastain in all his glory— regal, confident, powerful and downright sexy. As events unfold, Dax and Kastain realize everything happening with the Derin, with Martellon, Nestor and Teriva, is linked...
  • Lethal Intent by Cara C. Putman

    Lethal Intent by Cara C. Putman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Caroline takes a job with a promising medical start-up, she believes she’s on the side of angels . . . until she’s asked to go too far.When the judge she’s clerked for dies, Caroline Bragg starts over as in-house counsel for a pharmaceutical start-up working on innovative adult stem cell research with the potential to save thousands of lives...
  • Charmed By The Alien Pirate by Celia Kyle

    Charmed By The Alien Pirate by Celia Kyle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Out in the fringes of known space, there’s one hope.He’s got golden skin, horns, and eyes that say he wants only me. I’m a greaser girl from Novaria. I know my way around an engine room.And I never got close to anyone. Much less a serious relationship.As for Swipt?The handsome alien pirate that rescued me says I’m his mate.Fated. Destined to be together.Kind of a big commitment...
  • Raging Storm by Vannetta Chapman

    Raging Storm by Vannetta Chapman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the Darkness, Anarchy Awakens When a massive solar flare wiped out all modern technology across the globe, the small town of Abney, Texas, was thrown into chaos. Shelby Sparks and her teenage son, Carter, have found refuge, but Shelby knows she can't simply remain hidden forever...
  • The Alien Commander's Baby: Sci-fi Alien Romance by Shea Malloy

    The Alien Commander's Baby: Sci-fi Alien Romance by Shea Malloy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    In search of me, I found you. Impulsive is Karen Landay's middle name. Sometimes there are perks to leaping first and asking questions later. Sometimes that leap can land you pregnant for a rude as hell alien commander. She should hate Kess Reihan. He's ungrateful, he's arrogant, and he's overbearing. He's exactly the sort of man she's hardened her heart against...
  • Warlord's Baby by Nancey Cummings, Starr Huntress

    Warlord's Baby by Nancey Cummings, Starr Huntress

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    What to expect when you’re expecting an alien’s baby. Mercy has been pregnant for-freaking-ever. She’s tired and grumpy and ready to get this kid out of her. Of course, being adored by her alien warlord husband is awesome but she hasn’t seen her feet in a month. And she can’t get over this sneaking suspicion that there’s something Paax isn’t telling her..
  • Seized by the Alien Pirate: A Scifi Alien Romance by Celia Kyle, Athena Storm

    Seized by the Alien Pirate: A Scifi Alien Romance by Celia Kyle, Athena Storm

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    War shaped him into a soldier. His love for me transformed him into a protector. Kintar has had a hard past. I can see it in his eyes. They speak of unbelievable loss and sadness. The life of a soldier. But his chiseled, muscled, alien body is more than a collection of his past. He towers over me and pushes reality from my view--until there is only him...
  • My Regelence Rake by J.L. Langley

    My Regelence Rake by J.L. Langley

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Before you find your prince, you have to kiss your share of rakes. Sci-Regency, Book 3 With his days occupied with duties as Captain of the Guard, and nights consumed with upholding his reputation as a rake, Lord Sebastian Hastings’s schedule is filled. There’s no extra time to be anyone’s bodyguard, but the royal family’s safety is a task he sees to personally...
  • Agent E2: Aidan by Joni Hahn

    Agent E2: Aidan by Joni Hahn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Credentials: • Second generation Former Navy SEAL • DIRE’s latest SEAL acquisition Enhancements: • Electrical Conductor Former Navy SEAL, Aidan Monroe, embraces risk. Show him a hint of danger – or a beautiful woman - and he’s all over it. The only commitments in his life: his new D.I.R.E. enhancements and finding his father’s killers. Cassandra Naylor, daughter of D.I.R.E...
  • UNIT 78: Rescued by Mina Carter, Evangeline Anderson

    UNIT 78: Rescued by Mina Carter, Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A cyborg soldier with one mission: To rescue an innocent girl from a vicious cult But in order to fulfill his duty, he must do the unthinkable. Can Rich and Kyrin find each other when they are lost in the Breeding Compound? Unit 78, formerly Corporal Richard Hardgraves, is a Cyborg with a mission: to rescue the Admiral's daughter from the dreaded Tr'Low Cult on Beacon 5...
  • The Morcai Battalion: The Recruit by Susan Kyle, Diana Palmer

    The Morcai Battalion: The Recruit by Susan Kyle, Diana Palmer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Diana Palmer's second installment in her thrilling space epic is a vast panorama of far-flung civilizations, interplanetary conflict and galaxy-spanning passion… THE MORCAI BATTALION: THE RECRUIT A prophecy foretold: Three years after the unprovoked attack on a peaceful colony, the war between the Rojok dynasty and the Tri-Galaxy Fleet rages on...
  • The Animal Under The Fur by E.J. Mellow

    The Animal Under The Fur by E.J. Mellow

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 10 ratings
    From award-winning author E. J. Mellow comes an action romance dripping with vengeful delight. Orphaned on the streets as a baby, Nashville Brown, a.k.a Kill Operative 3, knows better than to rely on anyone. With heightened senses and superhuman strength to survive, she’s been raised as the perfect assassin. The trick to her success? Keeping everyone, even her best friend, at arm’s length...
  • 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...
  • Agent M4: Riordan by Joni Hahn

    Agent M4: Riordan by Joni Hahn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Credentials: • Former D.I.R.E. Enemy Agent • Mongolian Prison Survivor Enhancement: • Magnetism Sent to a Mongolian prison against his will, former enemy agent Riordan St. James is suddenly back in civilization. With his hands crushed, and littered with scars, he trusts no one. When he accepts D.I.R.E...
  • Pirates by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Pirates by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tamryn and Makkon must work together to fight off a new threat, one that threatens both of their peoples. ~ Frost Station Alpha is a science fiction romance published in six parts, with new episodes available each week. Kindle Unlimited subscribers may read the story in its entirety for free...
  • Edge of Eternity by Randy Alcorn

    Edge of Eternity by Randy Alcorn

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Imagine Being Pulled Into the Hereafter. While You’re Still Alive. A disillusioned business executive whose life has hit a dead-end, Nick Seagrave has lost loved ones to tragedy and his family to neglect. Now, at a point of great crisis, he unbelievably and inexplicably finds himself transported to what appears to be another world...
  • Surviving the Wall by L.K. Magill

    Surviving the Wall by L.K. Magill

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    She thought they were safe. She thought wrong.Hannah Linfield didn’t know who she was. Not really. But over the past nine months some of her memories had begun to return. Only… along with them, came more questions.Questions about her brother. Questions about her past.And it looked like both of those things were catching up to her. Which left Hannah torn...
  • The Radiant Seas by Catherine Asaro

    The Radiant Seas by Catherine Asaro

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Living in exile on a deserted planet, Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. Interstellar war erupts and Jaibriol is snatched away to be the unwilling ruler of the Highton Aristos. Sauscony must lead an invading space fleet to rescue him from his own Empire-without revealing that they are married...
  • Oxygen by John B. Olson, Randy Ingermanson

    Oxygen by John B. Olson, Randy Ingermanson

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Take a Deep Breath ... It Could Be Your Last Valkerie is tough, beautiful, and has an uncanny knack for survival. When NASA chooses her for the first mission to Mars, Valkerie is thrilled -- until she learns she's displacing America's heartthrob, celebrity astronaut Josh Bennett. Bob, the ship's mechanic, is paid to be paranoid -- and he's good at it...
  • Bone Music by Christopher Rice

    Bone Music by Christopher Rice

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    There’s more than one way to stoke the flames of revenge… Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew—a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued...
  • Obsidian Eyes by A.W. Exley

    Obsidian Eyes by A.W. Exley

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    1836, a world of light and dark, noble and guild. The two spheres intersect when seventeen-year-old Allie Donovan is placed at the aristocratic St Matthews Academy. More at ease with a blade than a needle, she finds herself ostracised by the girls and stalked by a Scottish lord intent on learning why she is among them...
  • 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...
  • Overload Flux by Carol Van Natta

    Overload Flux by Carol Van Natta

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 18 ratings
    The Central Galactic Concordance has been stable for two centuries, but trouble is brewing. A pandemic is affecting hundreds of civilized planets, and someone is stealing the vaccine... Brilliant investigator Luka Foxe's hidden mental talent is out of control, making him barely able to function in the aftermath of violence, and the body count is rising...
  • Loss of Reason by Miles A. Maxwell

    Loss of Reason by Miles A. Maxwell

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One Of The Most Disturbing Stories You'll Ever Read Distant for many years, Franklin out of Pennsylvania and his step-brother Everon out of Nevada are connected by a single link: Their sister Cynthia. Enter The Nightmare A nuclear bomb is detonated in New York. Banker, wife, mother, Cynthia lives in New York. The military has quarantined the city...
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