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Age of Deception by T.A. White
War hero and daughter to two Houses, Kira is just beginning to learn how deep the rabbit hole goes. Agreeing to accompany her father’s people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She’s agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father’s House must pass...Categorized as:
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Threshold of Annihilation by T.A. White
When her most closely guarded secrets are laid bare, how will Kira survive the inevitable fall out—and will anybody be standing beside her in the end?Traveling to the planet of Jettie in the hopes of finding safe harbor for her niece, Kira arrives only to find their destination host to the quorum—a series of dangerous contests that hold the power to decide the fate of empires...Categorized as:
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Three Babies and the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
Can a jaded alien warrior redeem himself in order to protect the woman and children who need him? After a painful divorce, Linda takes a job as the chief administrator of a rural hospital. Her hard won peace is shattered when strange black-suited men raid the maternity ward and she finds herself on board an alien spaceship... -
Trial and Temptation by Ruby Lionsdrake
After ten years of flying freighter ships from planet to planet, Val Calendula never thought she would apply for a job as a combat pilot in a mercenary outfit. But her brother has gotten himself into financial trouble, and he’s heading to a mining prison if Val can’t pay off his debts. Mercenaries don’t always live long... but they make good money while they’re alive... -
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Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming
From the universe of the Until the End of the World series Sylvie Rossi has the loner thing down pat, with the exception of her best friend, Grace. But when the two are trapped in a hospital during the last gasp of a dying city, alone time is no longer an option...Categorized as:
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Rescued by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
KORIV’N My mate’s scent calls to me. I hunt it, each step taking me closer to the one thing I came to Earth to find.These silly humans think they’ve captured me. What a joke. They’ve captured nothing! I’m here for my female, and nothing can stop me. I will find her, and I will claim her. She is mine!When my mate runs right into me and begs for me to take her away, I can hardly believe my ears...Categorized as:
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Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Book two of The City Series is here! Months into the apocalypse, the zombies show no signs of dying, but it’s clear everyone in Sunset Park will die without enough food to outlast the undead. Add in the less-than-sociable new neighbors only blocks away, and the hunt for sustenance has come to feel more like a race than a ramble...Categorized as:
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Imperator by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSpace station security specialist Sam has done one thing since her abduction by alien slavers…fight to survive. But now one strong alien gladiator stands at her side and Sam knows she is no longer alone. Thrust into a lawless desert arena, Sam Santos has done terrible things in order to stay alive. As the Champion of Zaabha, she’s been fighting to find a way out...Categorized as:
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Kraving Tavak by Zoey Draven
A female is the last thing I want or need.Doesn’t matter if they’re Laoti, or Luxirian, or human….females mean trouble and I’m so vauking tired of trouble.What I want is to spend my days in peace. After years of working in a brothel, of being pawed at and owned and consumed by women, I want to be left alone.Then I see her... -
His Human Assistant by Michele Mills
I’m a corporate whistleblower running for my life, so I take the first job I can find off planet. Now I’m a lowly assistant for some rich devil named Hannibal Hellstone? And when I say “devil,” I mean DEVIL. As in this guy’s skin is dark red, he has shiny black horns, sharp fangs, silver-tipped claws and a barbed tail. This Hyrrokin is scary AF and his eight-year-old son looks just like him... -
Hunted by the Alien Berserker by Mina Carter
She’s a pilot, not a people person. What does she know about keeping a bunch of women alive on an alien planet?Even worse, said planet has alien cavemen intent on carrying them off to their lairs to… do whatever it is alien cavemen DO to their captives. Yeah, that doesn’t take a genius to figure out...Categorized as:
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Unrest by Wendy Higgins
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins brings you the second book in this thrilling apocalyptic world... Being on the run in the desert means food and sanctuary are hard to come by, but Amber Tate and her crew are not about to give up. Not after having the things they love brutally ripped from them by an unknown enemy who sent their world into the apocalypse... -
Fighting Captivity by R.K. Munin
Born deaf, Zia Higgs never let that stop her from going after what she wants. After growing up poverty-stricken on the human colony of Wimol, she found a high-paying job with a scrap trawler that allows her to send money home and also save for new implants... -
Tordan by Jennifer Julie Miller
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLunaThey stole my dreams, my hopes, my very identity, and I had no idea. Years went by and I did everything I was told, I was always the perfect specimen, and the perfect lab rat. I was dissected, even maimed all in the name of science. Then one day a strange smoky voice entered my head, and I knew things were not as they seemed...Categorized as:
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Sanctuary for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
Can an alien warrior and an orphaned infant provide a new beginning for a lonely woman? Tired of relentless hours, arrogant clients, and endless demands, Barbara is ready to abandon her career as a corporate attorney for a simpler life. She doesn’t expect that life to involve an alien abduction, an abandoned baby, and an all-too-intriguing alien warrior with a very friendly tail...Categorized as:
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Cornering Carmen by S.E. Smith
Carmen Walker has spent the last three years of her life focusing on avenging the murder of her husband. Following leads to the man responsible, she finally has a chance to bring closure to the overwhelming pain and grief that is slowly eating away at her. Catching a ride on the business jet her sister is co-piloting, she heads to California to meet with her informant... -
Argan by Celia Kyle
Argan’s honor as a Preor warrior made him defend her. Liquid Knot’s heart demanded she save him. Liquid Knot—hacker extraordinaire—has made mistakes in her life, but none so big as getting an alien warrior sentenced to death. His head is on the chopping block and the Preor leader is determined to follow the letter of the law... -
The Explorer by Elin Peer
Flirting with danger is Aubri’s idea of fun. Ever since we were children, I’ve known Aubri wasn’t like other females. She’s the daughter of Magni and Laura Aurelius, who raised her to be a fearless warrior. Men are blinded by Aubri’s beauty, charm, and social status. Yet, at twenty-seven, no one has succeeded in making her his wife... -
Help Wanted: Wife by Cara Bristol
They have nothing to lose except their hearts. The only thing keeping widower Larth from succumbing to grief is running the fledgling bakery founded by his late wife. He intends to make the business the biggest, best bakery in all of Caradonia. But he can’t do it alone. Unable to find affordable help, he turns to Cosmic Mates and advertises for a wife in-name-only... -
Tracking Trisha by S.E. Smith
Trisha Grove enjoyed her job as a pilot for Boswell International but realizes something is still missing from her life – her family. She is ready to call it quits and head back home to Wyoming where her father lives. She never expected her last flight for Boswell would end with an unplanned trip out of this world... -
Banic by Mina Carter
She’s a doc on a mission. He’s a beast with a heart of gold.Dr. Beth Godwin arrives on Parac’Norr with one goal in curing the Blood Rage mutation that plagues the alien warriors. But she didn’t expect Banic, the most feared feral on the planet, or her reaction to him.A caged monster, she knows she should stay away from him...Categorized as:
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Alien Duke's Fated Mate by Mina Carter
She's the best pilot in the galaxy... He's an arrogant alien dukeMajor Zara Reid has one mission - prove human pilots can fly alongside the alien Latharians. She didn’t expect their arrogant Lord Starfighter to try and undermine her at every turn... -
Mated by V.K. Ludwig
You know your Gaia link is broken when your match is 93.While every Vetusian around me is expecting the arrival of the first hybrids, my mate is living out her final days in a nursing home.With true love unattainable, I concentrate on busting the crime ring responsible for the supply of human females forced into prostitution at the Odheim brothels... -
Krampus and the Crone by Honey Phillips
Can a horned alien warrior and an isolated woman grant two children their holiday wish for a family?Jaelle is lonely. Ostracized by the village, like her mother and grandmother before her, she poses as an old witch in order to eke out a meager living selling herbal remedies to people who don't want to admit they need her help... -
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Alien Barbarian's Queen by Juno Wells
I do not desire death, but if that is my destiny to protect my Queen, then so be it...EveAfter the fall, homeless folks like I became were shut out of the system. Not even my medical degree saved me from the fate so many experienced. Living rough with a group of women and children, we end up attached to a roving military unit when hostile aliens attack Earth... -
Levi by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the middle of an alien invasion, a bad boy berserker collides with a spunky mechanic on a dangerous sabotage mission. Levi King has always lived rough. Raised by a biker dad, he fought for everything he had—including being president of the Iron Kings motorcycle club. But when the aliens invaded, he lost it all...Categorized as:
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Chaos: Love After the Apocalypse by Imogen Keeper
Before the apocalypse, we were strangers. Now our lives will forever be entwined.The gripping, intensely romantic sixth installment of award-winning author Imogen Keeper's wild ride After the Plague Series.There’s no law anymore and no justice.As power consolidates in post-apocalypse D.C. and Ben holds me captive in the mountains, chaos is the only rule.It’s calling to Yorke.It’s calling to me... -
Warrior's Taken by Emma Aliysn, Sora Stargazer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbducted by her one night stand. Confined on a ship. Stalked by a traitor.She wanted a prince, but it just *ucking figured Shira Perez's alien baby daddy turned out to be an intergalactic pirate.Slick, amoral, hot as hell, Malko thinks just because his DNA helped create her son that she is his genetic fated mate, and permission is a pesky detail... -
Monsters Love Curvy Girls Boxed Set, Books 1-3: Nanny, Surrogate, Assistant by Michele Mills
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe first three books in the bestselling Monsters Love Curvy Girls series!Ferocious flame-throwing, satanic-looking males with tender-hearted marshmallow interiors who passionately love their human females exactly as they are... -
Finn by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on… For Hawk pilot Finn Erickson, flying is in the blood. Since the aliens decimated the planet, he spends most of his time flying Hell Squad into combat. With communication to other survivor bases cut off, he has no idea if his family is still alive and feels their loss keenly...Categorized as:
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The Tracker's Dilemma by Ruby Lionsdrake
Sergeant Heath “Tick” Hawthorn, the best tracker in Mandrake Company and the captain’s right-hand man, has been admiring microbiologist Lauren Keys from afar for months. Unfortunately, she’s dedicated to her science and doesn’t seem to have any interest in relationships. He’s not even sure she knows his name...Categorized as:
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7SEEDS 1 by Yumi Tamura
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsScientists had predicted this disaster, and in response, the leaders of every country met to develop a plan for human survival before the meteor hit. The 7Seeds project was developed out of this meeting. Each country froze a number of young healthy people, which allowed them to survive the meteor... -
Wildling of Ravia by L.A. Holloway
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsCommander Ekhor has never known a universe without war. As a proud member of a warrior race, he has defended his people from the threat of the Rha'ku'tan Empire for his entire life, rising in the ranks of the Alliance military to become one of its most respected leaders... -
I Married A Catman by Regine Abel
He was the dream mate she never expected.When Ophelia seeks the services of the Prime Mating Agency to find her soulmate, she’s floored to learn that her perfect match is Gaelec, an intimidating, feline-looking ex-convict... -
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Cruz by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBattle-hardened soldier Cruz Ramos is running on empty. As second-in-command of the deadliest commando squad fighting the invading aliens, he doesn't know why he’s fighting anymore. He’s seen too much destruction, devastation, and far too much death. Still, every day he goes out to protect those humans left, and every day the growing numbness threatens to take over...Categorized as:
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Noah by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe battle of survival against the invading aliens heats up…but Hell Squad never quits. Tech genius Noah Kim works day and night to keep the survivors at Blue Mountain Base with lights, power and hot water. He’s also working on a top secret project to help keep them safe. He’s tired, stressed and under pressure—and one woman adds to it all...Categorized as:
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Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis
A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy.Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter’s rights won’t get her far when she’s got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air...Categorized as:
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Cavas by Laurann Dohner
Career military man Cavas Vellar has joined his older brother, Cathian, aboard The Vorge for one purpose—to rescue their youngest littermate. Their father has resorted to having him kidnapped to hide one of his most vile secrets. They need to go down onto a planet full of criminals, find Crath, and rescue him. This mission is the most important one Cavas has ever led... -
Venomous Heart by Mary Auclair
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAfter drowning his soul in blood, can this alien warrior be saved? As the only doctor on Aveyn, Ava works day and night for the people she considers hers. Only… she’s not really one of them, is she? She’s a hybrid, a highly illegal creature created by Trade Minister Knut for his personal enjoyment... -
Fiasco by Constance Fay
Cynbelline Khaw is a woman of many names. She’s Generosity, a cultist who never quite fit in. She’s Bella, the daughter who failed to save her cousin’s life. And then there’s Cyn, the notorious bounty hunter who spaced a ship of slavers. She’s exhausted, lonely, and on her very last legs—but then a new client offers her a job she can’t refuse: a bounty on the kidnapper who killed her cousin... -
Safe by Imogen Keeper
The addictive fourth installment of author Imogen Keeper's wild ride After the Plague Series. Frankie and Yorke are trapped in a post-apocalyptic pot, the flame's on high, and they're a breath away from boiling over.For months, we fought to get out of the city, away from the gun collectors and kidnappers at the White House...Categorized as:
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Planet Zero by Lydia Hope
A spaceship crash survivor, Addie Rye is lucky to be alive. But being stuck on a primitive planet isn’t exactly the epitome of luck. With no way home, Addie has no choice but learn how to use stone tools and catch her dinner before cooking it while attempting to befriend a tribe of wild nomads who inhabit this planet... -
Artek by Honey Phillips
Worn down by war and conflict, Commander Artek and his brothers - the soldiers under his command - have chosen to start a new life on a backwater planet. As hard work and peaceful surroundings start to heal old wounds, he realizes that something - or rather someone - is missing from his new life...Categorized as:
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Kraving Dravka by Zoey Draven
Welcome to Madame Allegria’s, where your Krave will satisfy your every desire…Being brave?Valerie Browen doesn’t remember how to be brave, especially when she has an evil, corrupt aunt tracking her every movement, whose wealth and power extends across all the New Earth colonies... -
State of Pursuit by Summer Lane
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsABSOLUTELY HEART-STOPPING!" - Leti Del Mar, author of Land of the Unaltered "[Summer Lane] IS QUITE A TALENTED WRITER WITH AN AMAZING GIFT FOR NARRATION." - Janice White, Editor & Author of Clarity: A Text on Writing Cassidy Hart is alone. Her Commander and the love of her life, Chris Young, has gone missing in action... -
Capturing Cara by S.E. Smith
Cara Truman is a pint-size pistol whose inquisitive nature has gotten her into trouble on more than one occasion. Her next adventure takes her further than she even expected when she ends up on a journey out of this world. Trelon Reykill thought he had his hands full... -
Dark Deeds by Michelle Diener
Rescue might just be the death of her. Far from home . . . Fiona Russell has been snatched from Earth, imprisoned and used as slave labor, but nothing about her abduction makes sense. When she's rescued by the Grih, she realizes there's a much bigger game in play than she could ever have imagined, and she's right in the middle of it. Far from safe . .Categorized as:
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Axrel by Olivia Riley
A deadly rogue warrior and enemy of the alliance has been placed in her care.Dr. Charlotte Lockley is taken aboard the military vessel, Tarus, carrying high-risk inmates and ordered to treat those badly injured, including Prisoner Zero--a dangerous vrisha prisoner captured on a human trade world...Categorized as:
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The Fallen Empire Collection (Books 1-3 and prequel) by Lindsay Buroker
A fighter pilot on a mission to reunite with her daughter. A cyborg soldier on a quest to regain his humanity. Mortal enemies during the war, they must now work together to salvage a seventy-year-old freighter and navigate the gauntlet of pirates, scavengers, mercenaries, and other pitfalls that stand in their way after the fall of the largest empire mankind has ever known...Categorized as:
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