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  • Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After disobeying orders and saving the planet of Alsea from invasion, Captain Ekatya Serrado returns home a hero and renegade, alongside Dr. Lhyn Rivers, now the foremost authority on a culture that fascinates and terrifies. They share a secret: they are tyrees, linked by an Alsean empathic bond that should be biologically impossible for two Gaians...
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    military  aliens  science fiction  f-f  queer  length-long
  • Resolve by Jenny Schwartz

    Resolve by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The unmissable conclusion to the science fiction series that has it all—ancient aliens, rogue AIs, beleaguered royalty, semi-repentant pirates, and the chance to go where no humans have gone before (well, not for five hundred years)—all wrapped up in the possibility of a happy-ever-after for everyone (bad guys excluded)...
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  • Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As the first Alsean to serve aboard a Protectorate warship, Rahel Sayana thought her empathic sense would be an advantage. She never imagined it could be a weakness.Captain Ekatya Serrado has her hands full with a new empathic officer, an attempted murder, and a missing cargo ship. Finding the lost ship only adds to her problems: its crew lies dead amid signs of alien predators...
  • Betting on the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Betting on the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’ve spent my whole adult life betting on all the wrong men. And I always lose.My best friend Mia ended up with a Khanavai warrior—Commander Gendovi. She’s so lucky.Of course, she went through hell before finding that luck. But now she’s blissfully happy, married—and mated, as the Khanavai said—to the man of her dreams. And pregnant with her third child.I’m happy for her, really I am...
  • Destin's Hold by S.E. Smith

    Destin's Hold by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Internationally acclaimed, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, and Paranormal Romance, S.E. Smith, brings another action, adventure, and suspense-filled story to transport readers out of this world! Destin Parks will do whatever it takes to rebuild the city he calls home, even if it means working with another alien ambassador...
  • Captured for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Captured for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I 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...
  • Seduced by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Seduced by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    Okay, so he’s not really the devil, but he may as well be. The Tribe King is gorgeous, arrogant, and devious. He refused to hand over crucial information to help us find our friends until I agreed to stay with him. For a year.As far as I’m concerned, deals made under duress don’t count. Anyone who would demand such a thing in exchange for our friends’ freedom simply can’t be trusted...
  • Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 4-6 by Anna Hackett

    Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 4-6 by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…When several women from Earth find themselves abducted from a space station by alien slavers, life becomes a battle for survival on a dangerous desert planet...
  • Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 7-9 by Anna Hackett

    Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 7-9 by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…When several women from Earth find themselves abducted from a space station by alien slavers, life becomes a battle for survival on a dangerous desert planet.Includes:Beast: Rescued by gladiators on the alien world of Carthago, starship pilot Mia is working to find other abducted humans who are still lost...
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    military  aliens  m-f  science fiction  length-long
  • Captured by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Captured by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    I've been kidnapped by a dragon.Just when I thought my life couldn't get worse, I was abducted by aliens. Now, I'm pretty sure I must be dying. Because only a vicious head injury could make me believe I'm actually flying through the air, trapped between a dragon's claws. Oh, and the dragon?He can talk.And he has all kinds of arrogant, ludicrous, and deranged things to say...
  • Brilliant Starlight by Anna Carven

    Brilliant Starlight by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    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...
  • Guardian by Anna Hackett

    Guardian by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Rescued from alien slavers, former cop Dayna wakes to discover she’s host to a powerful alien symbiont, and the only man who can help her is the mysterious and dangerous casino owner, Rillian...
  • The Arcav Captain's Queen by Hope Hart

    The Arcav Captain's Queen by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    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...
  • King of Eon by Anna Hackett

    King of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    The King of the Eon Warriors has decided to take a Terran as his bride…but finds himself shockingly attracted to the tough, beautiful Space Corps officer in charge of his potential brides’ security.King Gayel Solann-Eon is dedicated to his people and empire. His father was a hard man and a rigid king, but Gayel is doing things his own way...
  • Protected by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Protected by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    What’s scarier than being abducted from Earth and almost eaten by cannibals? The idea of falling in love with a huge alien warrior.Just a few days ago, I was living my best life. Now? I’m on the run on a strange alien planet. Thanks to my short temper and a severe lack of self-control, I’m being hunted, and it’s only a matter of time before I end up captured or dead...
  • Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen

    Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    What does it mean to be human? What if the price of saving humanity is giving up your own? The year is 2322, and we stand upon the precipice of extinction. The invading Metigen armada has decimated the eastern third of settled space in a matter of days, leaving tens of millions dead...
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    aliens  military  science fiction  war  length-long
  • Storm of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Storm of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    When a Terran weapons scientist finds herself the target of deadly alien assassins, only one fierce alien warrior can keep her safe...
  • Claimed for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Claimed for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I thought I’d escaped being given to an alien warrior. I was wrong.I was one hour away from washing out of the Alien Bride Games.None of the Khanavai warriors had chosen me, and I was scheduled on the next shuttle off the filming station.But then a bright red alien passed me in a hallway—and the next thing I knew, we were all over each other...
  • Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    If life on the border was complicated, life on Capitoline is insane. Nora and Liam struggle to reconcile her abilities and his duty, while caught up in the dangerous games of the powerful.Political intrigue, family drama, and ancient alien technology combine in the fourth novel of the Human Sector...
  • Rescued by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rescued by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    I may have almost died on this planet, but it hasn't broken me yet.At least, I'm working real hard to toughen up and become the kind of woman who'll be ready to board that spaceship and kick some Grivath a**.But, thanks to the way the overprotective warrior at my side insists on hovering, you'd be forgiven for thinking I'm fragile...
  • Doubt by Jenny Schwartz

    Doubt by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Alien mysteries. Parental responsibilities. The scout ship Kangaroo has jumped into trouble.Nora Devi intended to leave her old life behind. But when a quick detour to acquire the funds for a new identity goes awry, she finds herself plunged ever deeper into the troubles she hoped to avoid.The Human Sector is a stash of fuel cells just waiting for a spark to explode...
  • Survivors by Anna Hackett

    Survivors by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on…Survivors contains three action-packed novellas in the Hell Squad series.Includes:Nate – Long before the aliens invaded, former Marine Nate Caldwell came home a broken man. Going off-grid in a cabin he inherited in Australia’s Blue Mountains, he survived the invasion with only his dog Blue for company...
  • Supreme's Kiss by M.K. Eidem

    Supreme's Kiss by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    All Kirall wanted to do was bring his mate home, love her, and make sure she never suffered again as she had on Earth.All Autumn wanted was to make a home on Mondu, love Kirall, and maybe have a family.While some on Mondu embrace and support the return of the Supremes, others do not. Not everyone is happy Supremes have returned. Change causes conflict. Lives are about to change...
  • Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When her plane tries to come apart at apogee during a hijack, ballistic airline pilot Michelle Lauden handles the worst day she could imagine. After getting down without losing any passengers or crew, though, she finds her troubles have just begun!The country she's landed in has just declared independence from the Federation...
  • The Vixen War Bride by Thomas J. Doscher

    The Vixen War Bride by Thomas J. Doscher

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    With the destruction of their home colony, Captain Ben Gibson and his Army Rangers have nowhere else to go. Six months after humanity’s victory in Earth’s first ever interstellar war, a group of soldiers are tasked with running a convoy refueling base in a rural part of the occupied enemy world...
  • Alien AI's Marine by Mina Carter

    Alien AI's Marine by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    He's the lone human male in a sea of lethal alien warriors. He's either gifted or suicidal...Kidnapped by aliens, rescued, and now on a secret base in a system he can't even pronounce, Major Jay Stephens has given up on a wing and a prayer... he's now on kicking butt and taking names. Especially when it comes to the alien AI who's risked everything, even her 'life' to protect him.The only problem...
  • Enemy of the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Enemy of the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ll do whatever it takes to destroy the Bride Games.A year ago, I did the unthinkable.I helped a woman running from the Alien Bride Lottery.I spent three months in a federal prison for it, too.As soon as I got out, a secret organization recruited me. Our goal is to end the Bride Lottery program forever.So when my name is drawn in the Lottery this year, I know it’s a setup...
  • Dark Strength by Cynthia Sax, Amanda Kelsey

    Dark Strength by Cynthia Sax, Amanda Kelsey

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall. Balvan, the Refuge’s Gatekeeper, is huge, green, and has a reputation for crushing skulls. He’s a modified humanoid, genetically designed to be the ultimate warrior. One of a kind and considered monstrous by many, he never expects to find his mate, the one female meant for him...
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    military  aliens  m-f  futuristic  science fiction
  • Lyel by Ava Ross

    Lyel by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An alien warrior seeking redemption meets a captured Earth woman being treated as a pet. Will their love survive in a hostile world? Kidnapped by four-armed, blue skinned aliens, Isabelle “Isi” is sold to the head of the Al’kieern kidnapping operation. Isi has accepted she’ll live and die as a songbird pet to the queen. If nothing else, performing for the Al’kieern beats being sold as a breeder...
  • Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    I was abducted, sold, then crash-landed on a strange planet... only to be abducted again.  And you know the funny thing? I barely even care.I’m numb. You see, I’ve already lost everything. When you’re doing something you love, you never think that it could be the last time. That someone might take your life from you and leave you stranded on a planet where most of the locals are out to get you...
  • Zakota by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Zakota by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Katie Saunders isn’t used to sitting on her butt, but she’s been stuck doing exactly that as the Star Guardians fly all over the galaxy, trying to get her and the other kidnapped women back home. Now it looks like they have to engage in a battle against evil aliens before making the final flight to Earth. Since they’ve captured an extra ship and are short on pilots, Katie wants to help...
  • The Arcav Guard's Female by Hope Hart

    The Arcav Guard's Female by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She’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...
  • Drace by Ava Ross

    Drace by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can a fierce alien dragon warrior claim his mate before she’s stolen from him forever?Aria: Determined to overcome my scaredy-cat status, I make a dare-me checklist. First on the list? Sign up for the Driegon mail-order bride selection...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  m-f  science fiction  length-short
  • Dom: Scifi Alien Invasion Romance by Anna Hackett

    Dom: Scifi Alien Invasion Romance by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens intensifies, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival… Squad Three berserker Dom Santora has an ugly past he can’t forget. Born and raised in the darkness, he spent his life before the alien invasion as a Mafia enforcer...
  • Seduce by Tana Stone

    Seduce by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I thought being kidnapped by vile, alien slavers was bad enough. Then I woke up on a lust moon.I know all about the Xulonian recreation moons, but I’d hoped to end up on the hunting one. As a security officer for the empire, I know how to fight. I am not prepared to wake up practically naked on a strange island...
  • Subdue by Tana Stone

    Subdue by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    As the kalesh of the Taori ship, it's his sworn duty to reassemble his crew and exact revenge on the aliens who destroyed their ship. He has no time for a distraction like her.When Kalesh Naz wakes from crashing in his escape pod, he's enraged to find himself locked in a dungeon...
  • A Monster's Love by Lynnea Lee

    A Monster's Love by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    TRJUNWhen I charged the enemy to rescue a ravishing female who caught my eye, I didn’t expect the mate bond to drop me to my knees. Captured, I’m locked behind electrified bars in a genetic lab where a researcher throws the female into my cell and demands we reproduce.I vow to do everything in my power to make my little mate happy, but I won’t claim her until I extricate us from this cruel prison...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  m-f  science fiction  length-short
  • Astray by Jenny Schwartz

    Astray by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Nora Devi is a xeno-archaeologist with a complicated past. She has buried more secrets than she’s dug up. Widowed in the recently ended twelve year war between Capitoline and Palantine, she now makes a living as an independent tagger in border space.Captain Liam Kimani could be credited with ending the latest royal war. Instead, he’s blamed for it...
  • Chieftain by Annie Lucas

    Chieftain by Annie Lucas

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    One would assume that turning sixty would protect a woman from certain things; cat calls, being propositioned every time you sat at a bar by yourself, the monthly menace, being kidnapped by aliens, the office letch, and a plethora of other annoyances weathered in her youth.Did I mention being kidnapped by aliens?Yeah, I was wrong about that one...
  • Soul of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Soul of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    The last thing she expects is an instant mating with a handsome alien warrior…just before they are abducted by the deadly Kantos.Commander Kaira Chand of the Australian Air Force knows the meaning of loss. She lost both her beloved husband and her father over recent years, and she vows never to let a man close again...
  • Holmes by Anna Hackett

    Holmes by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The battle of survival against the invading aliens heats up…but Hell Squad never quits. General Adam Holmes’ life is dedicated to keeping his small band of survivors alive. On the run, with only Hell Squad and the other soldiers for protection, they are making their last dangerous drive to the secret stronghold of the Enclave...
  • Faith, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Faith, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The traitor within the Jax household has been found, and the repercussions are staggering, with Faith barely surviving and their mating destroyed. But Faith has always been unpredictable—just ask her sisters— and nothing will stop her from getting what she wants…and she wants Thor. Even if it kills her...
  • Aeson: Black by Vera Nazarian

    Aeson: Black by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Prince, soldier, hero of Atlantis.Haunted by death and the blue eyes of a stranger.Faced with an impossible choice.Love or Duty.Aeson Kassiopei, Imperial Crown Prince, survived his fiery death at Ae-Leiterra, saved the Fleet, and became the man we know today...
  • Holdouts by Thomas J. Doscher

    Holdouts by Thomas J. Doscher

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    It just got awkward... With the Va'Shen villagers home safe, Army Ranger Captain Ben Gibson is ready to settle in for an easy deployment overseeing a sleepy refueling base on the occupied enemy homeworld and its small contingent of soldiers and sailors...
  • Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 10-12 by Anna Hackett

    Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 10-12 by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…When several women from Earth find themselves abducted from a space station by alien slavers, life becomes a battle for survival on a dangerous desert planet...
    Categorized as:
    military  aliens  m-f  science fiction  length-long
  • Transcend by Sandra R. Neeley

    Transcend by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elite Force Commander Kol Ra’ Don Tol has been obsessed with Earth and its cultures for as long as he can remember. He’s thrilled when the gods smile on him, giving him an Ehlealah, a mate, that is human. But she’s suffered traumas and abuse that no being should have to endure. As a result, she’s not as receptive to his claim that she’s his as he hoped she’d be...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  m-f  science fiction  length-medium
  • Mayhem's King by Lindsay Cross

    Mayhem's King by Lindsay Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They call him the quiet one. But they don’t know him. They only know him as the King of mayhem. The elite of the elite. The man his team relied on to save the unsaveable. Kingston Kenrich could save anyone…except those who he’d loved most. King thought he’d survived the worst, until his own teammate’s betrayal left him blind in one eye. Before, he lived for pain, now he lives for revenge...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  science fiction  length-short
  • Cheating in the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Cheating in the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I have no desire to join the Alien Bride Lottery.But even more than that, I don't want my parents to choose a husband for me. And that's what will happen if I stay on Earth.So I make a deal with them: if I go to Station 21 and don't get chosen by a Khanavai male, I will come home and allow them to plan the rest of my life...
  • The Last Symbiotes 2: Living Starship by Dante King

    The Last Symbiotes 2: Living Starship by Dante King

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    James Decker, captain of the living starship Farrago, has a mission: locate the seven symbiotes scattered across space. This mission will bring him credits beyond his imaginations, but it could also save the universe.He has found three, but there are still four more out there.And all the while, the strange faceless man from the Cloud Sea is never far away...
  • Revealed: A Sci-Fi Alien Warrior Romance by Tana Stone

    Revealed: A Sci-Fi Alien Warrior Romance by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Maxxon was sent to Earth to procure a tribute bride for the Drexians. There’s only one problem. The woman he’s protecting as violent aliens invade Earth is not her.Maxxon’s job is to locate and retrieve the human females targeted to be tribute brides. The key is to find them, charm them, and return with them to the space station without anyone noticing. And he has a perfect success rate—until now...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  m-f  science fiction  humor
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