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  • Sigma by Tiya Rayne

    Sigma by Tiya Rayne

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 37 ratings
    Shiloh Green has had the worse luck when it comes to men. For the last seven years she’s been trapped in a relationship with her Kingpin boyfriend. But opportunity to escape comes knocking when a mysterious businessman visits. Now Shiloh is headed to a top-secret military base to be a volunteer breeder for a government experiment...
  • Throne of the Horde King by Zoey Draven

    Throne of the Horde King by Zoey Draven

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 168 ratings
    The final book of the Horde Kings of Dakkar series is here…. High in the icy northlands of Dakkar, I’ve lived a sheltered, predictable, and safe life. My days are spent caring for an ancient temple and staying out of the priestesses’ way. My nights are spent pouring over the great stories of warrior kings and the queens that stole their hearts. But I have a secret. I’m a hybrid female...
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  • For Certain Values of Family by Manna Francis

    For Certain Values of Family by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Every silver lining has a cloud. After the revolution, stability returns for most of the citizens of the European Administration. Revolution has delivered a little more freedom, if not as much as its architects hoped. Some, however, are finding that change also brings more complications and fresh dangers...
  • Evenfall: Volume 2: Director's Cut by Ais, Santino Hassell

    Evenfall: Volume 2: Director's Cut by Ais, Santino Hassell

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a post-apocalyptic future, the Agency works behind the scenes to take down opposition groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means, even when it comes to their own agents. In the newly revised Director's Cut of Evenfall, the second volume follows Sin and Boyd through a long-term undercover mission in Mexico...
  • Vrexus by Olivia Riley

    Vrexus by Olivia Riley

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    Lee thinks she's safe in the silver city, safe from the monsters. But she's wrong. While on a mission for the alliance, Lee Reimer, a politician's daughter, celebrates a newly made pact with an alien race, unaware a vicious beast stalks nearby, ready to steal her away...
  • Evenfall Volume One by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Evenfall Volume One by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In a post-apocalyptic future, the Agency works behind the scenes to take down opposition groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means, even when it comes to their own agents. Sin is the Agency's most efficient killer. His fighting skills and talent at assassination have led to him being described as a living weapon...
  • JoAyyn by Amanda Milo

    JoAyyn by Amanda Milo

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    My alien keeper rescued me from a man I should have been able to trust: my father. Raised by an alien, I never really learned how to interact with human people. And that’s fine. I’m happy just as I am. I never feel like I’m missing out on anything. . .. So I don’t understand why this new human, Lee, affects me so strangely. Then again, he did just admit that he’s been hunting me...
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

    Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 124 ratings
    Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved...
  • The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 37 ratings
    Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped the pull of a dying planet, and are now bound together to find the truth behind the all-powerful Mercator family and the blight that has been killing habitable planets...
  • Vigilance by Etta Pierce

    Vigilance by Etta Pierce

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    Still reeling from the upending of her life, Dr Amelia Ahlberg finds herself the sole physician of the new human colony on Yaspur. Luckily, a medical delegate was assigned to help her settle in after the trauma of the Paramour. When a young girl falls ill because of a common flower, Amelia begs him to take her on his research excursions into the jungle...
  • Death Adder by Naomi Lucas

    Death Adder by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 47 ratings
    Females have returned to Earth, brought here by technology I do not trust. They’ve been claimed and nested and kept far from me. The broken one. The dark one. I will always be alone. When a ship lands in my territory and a black-suited human female appears, I am in awe. I am in NEED. Only, she is surrounded by men. So, I will sneak up on her...
  • Alpha by Tiya Rayne

    Alpha by Tiya Rayne

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 73 ratings
    Morgan Downs’ life is unexceptional. She’s stuck in an abusive loveless marriage and often made to feel inferior by her parents because of her speech impediment. Although as bad as her life is, she never expected to be kidnapped from her home and taken to a private military base to become a test rat for a science experiment. But things change when Morgan meets Alpha...
  • Trade by Cate C. Wells

    Trade by Cate C. Wells

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 31 ratings
    When my husband replaces me with a younger model, I’m entered into the lottery and traded to an Outsider for fuel. I expect a wasteland, but when the bunker doors open, I see green trees, blue skies, and him—a man half my age with a stone-cold face and a machete strapped to his thigh. I’ll be lucky to escape him alive. That’s what we’ve been told all our lives...
  • Vanguard by Karina Halle

    Vanguard by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    Her kiss may be deadly, but he's indestructible. The year is 2040. Erasmia "Mia" Baxter is her agency's most lethal operative, genetically engineered to have poisonous saliva. But having the kiss of death is hell on her social life. Her future holds no romance, no family, no intimacy of any kind—only killing for her country...
  • Shadow by Alana Khan, Elle Arden

    Shadow by Alana Khan, Elle Arden

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Can two broken people release their demons, open their hearts, and find lasting love? Petra's strong, take-no-prisoners attitude is severely challenged when she's abducted by aliens, destined to be sold as a sex slave. To escape she needs the help of the most irritating, hunky alien this side of the Milky Way...
  • Everything Under the Sun by J.A. Redmerski, Justine Carver

    Everything Under the Sun by J.A. Redmerski, Justine Carver

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Thais Fenwick was eleven-years-old when civilization fell, devastated by a virus that killed off the majority of the world’s population. For seven years, Thais and her family lived in a community of survivors deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains...
  • Bargain with a Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Bargain with a Beast by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Adrian Davis thought getting on a real-life, ‘beam me up, Scotty’, transport pad was adventure enough. Visiting her mother—and the Atlan beast her mom had chosen as a mate—on another planet? Setting foot in an Atlan prison? Completely crazy. Like totally, bat-shit, what-the-hell-was-she-doing-with-her-life crazy...
  • Savages by Natalie Bennett

    Savages by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    Calista. "I am the monster they created. I’m the whore they’re ashamed of. ". When life tried to break me I grabbed that b*tch by the throat and squeezed. I thought I could overcome anything. I swore I could handle him, but after being forced to play at the Devil's playground I ended up craving his touch. One taste of his poison made my loyalties begin to waiver. Romero...
  • Sigil by Addison Cain

    Sigil by Addison Cain

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 42 ratings
    He will possess her in every way. After a century, The Irdesi Emperor has finally cornered their species’ only female. Sovereign and his fanatic brothers are closing in, driving Sigil to desperation. They outnumber her, they are stronger, and they are relentless. Sovereign knows her secrets better than Sigil knows herself. He knows she was conditioned to hate him. It changes nothing...
  • Swallowed by Meg Smitherman

    Swallowed by Meg Smitherman

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    Earth is broken beyond repair. The Planet is our last hope. Humanity's first mission to the Planet ended in tragedy, but botanist Jill Jones won’t let that stop her from joining the second. Perfect climate, perfect terrain, perfect flora and fauna; the Planet has called to Jill all of her life. She knows, with bone-deep certainty, it's home. A new beginning for humanity...
  • Matched by V.K. Ludwig

    Matched by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    My female matches two Vetusians: me, and the warrior she just killed. Fate is unpredictable. One moment I lose my destined female. The very next, I walk in on the kill of the other male who intended to claim her. For the Empire, the punishment for murder is death; her execution inevitable. Until I steal Katie and her daughter away to Odheim...
  • Savage Prince by Alison Aimes

    Savage Prince by Alison Aimes

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    He's a notorious crime lord—and he’s on the hunt for her. Maxheim Skolov is mafia royalty. Worlds above her. Ice-cold and merciless. Driven by duty and dark secrets. Tess is property. Expected to submit. Imprisoned by ruthless criminals determined to break her for information she can’t afford to give...
  • Iron Butterfly by mousegirl05

    Iron Butterfly by mousegirl05

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Temple apprenticeship in an unfamiliar world, home to an unfamiliar race. Amid thorns of hatred and misunderstanding, can a human find true friendship and love among the rae'lir temple keepers? M/M-sorta; read and see! Status: Complete. Words: 139,849.
  • His to Keep by Taylor Vaughn, Theodora Taylor

    His to Keep by Taylor Vaughn, Theodora Taylor

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 56 ratings
    My alien overlord is green, feral, and determined to keep me. All of us girls growing up on New Terrhan know that when we become of age, we must submit to our overlords in a special ceremony. To my surprise, though, the alien warrior who hunts me down gifts me with hours of bliss. .. and a beautiful little girl who becomes my only happiness in life after he’s gone...
  • Saving the Cyborg: An Alien Abduction Romance Series by Jude Gray

    Saving the Cyborg: An Alien Abduction Romance Series by Jude Gray

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Calen. I live in a fairy tale. But this is a dark fairy tale. Abducted and sold to the Latrusian Prince of North Orangh, I go from a life of peace on a farm to a life of depravity, darkness, and fear in a castle full of wicked aliens. My freedom, security, and control over my own body have been taken from me. I want to go home...
  • Matched to Xycho by C.Y. Croc

    Matched to Xycho by C.Y. Croc

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Beauty and the Beast type alien romance. With monstrous romantic suspense, action and adventure, some dark moments. .. and a giggle or two. More than anything, I want to work my own space station. To do that, I'm required to join the internal dating app of the space company I work for. Today I received confirmation of a possible space station placement...
  • The Golden Line by Addison Cain

    The Golden Line by Addison Cain

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 80 ratings
    They call me brutal. They call me unrepentant. They call me possessive. I am all these things and much worse. But to her, I will be conqueror. The Golden Line is a dark, sinister Omegaverse romance for those with twisted tastes and a love for delicious villains. Complete power exchange dominates these pages, as does an attentive Alpha hero you will adore. An Omegaverse Dark Romance.
  • Captured and Claimed by Jude Gray

    Captured and Claimed by Jude Gray

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    She's abducted from Earth and sold into slavery. Can love break the chains that bind her? Grabbed from the street in broad daylight, Briony is soon sold to a cruel alien leader who needs human women for a very specific purpose. They must "recharge" the vicious warriors he forces to fight in his arena...
  • The Beast by Jenny Foster

    The Beast by Jenny Foster

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A human female. A ruthless alien. A dangerous beast she awakens inside of him. His name is Ar’Van. He is the best hunter money can buy. Tall, dangerous, non-human – and the last of his kind. When a new assignment brings him to Earth, he doesn’t expect much resistance. The women he is supposed to deliver to the warlord of the Qua’Hathri are easy targets...
  • Wrecked by Loki Renard

    Wrecked by Loki Renard

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    She was intended for the auction block. Now she is mine. Aspel didn't even have a name when I plucked her from the wreckage of the Vargon ship. The beautiful little human was meant to be sold, but there is no need to find a buyer for her anymore. She belongs to me now. Aspel has never known freedom, but having tasted it for a moment she will always long for it. She will need to be broken of that...
  • Radakk's Mate by Sue Lyndon

    Radakk's Mate by Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 20 ratings
    Claimed by an alien emperor. Made to submit night after night. .. I didn't mean to catch Emperor Radakk's eye. As a reluctant spy aboard the human worldship, my life depends upon my ability to go unnoticed, to be nothing but a lonely shadow moving about the ship as I collect intel for my mutinous father...
  • Pythen by Erin Raegan

    Pythen by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Peyton. I was having a cold coffee with my best friend Vivian when the whole world went upside down. Now there are gazelle-glowing-like-a-light-bulb aliens running around eating everybody, and enormous dark purply colored aliens that have a strong resemblance to bats, dive bombing from the sky. One of the bats says I'm his and i need to ease his mating rage. Yeah, not happening...
  • Hold by Claire Kent

    Hold by Claire Kent

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 343 ratings
    Find the strongest man there. Give yourself to him in return for protection. It’s the only way you’ll ever survive. Convicted of a minor crime, Riana is sentenced to a prison planet—a dark primitive hold filled with convicts vying for power. Her only chance of survival is with Cain, a mysterious loner who has won his territory in the prison through intelligence and brute strength...
  • Tarik by Madison Savage

    Tarik by Madison Savage

    Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    When this captive gladiator holds his mate, he's a brutal beast only on the outside. .. Mostly. After her abduction, Kaci was given to an alien gladiator--a huge male whose sentence was reduced when he agreed to spend ten years fighting for the wardens of Sikoda prison. She was meant to boost his morale, reenergize him, give him a reason to continue being the best fighter in Sikoda...
  • Alien Enemy by Ursa Dax

    Alien Enemy by Ursa Dax

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 72 ratings
    "They Call me the Mad Gahn. But I never felt truly mad until I saw her face. .. ". CHAPMAN. So, our mission on an alien planet fell apart before it even got started. Great. Now I’m the only surviving military crew member, leading a gaggle of civilian women in unfamiliar terrain. But it turns out one soldier isn’t enough to protect them from the monsters of this planet...
  • The Scorpion's Mate by Susan Trombley

    The Scorpion's Mate by Susan Trombley

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 77 ratings
    The Scorpion’s Mate. Claire has never really fit in with everyone around her, but she's carved out a life for herself using her own unique style and artistic ability to support herself on the Internet. The last thing she expects is to be abducted by aliens and dropped into a research facility, where a genetically-engineered alien soldier chooses her as his life-mate...
  • Filthy Beasts by Loki Renard

    Filthy Beasts by Loki Renard

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    They told me the men who live on the surface were filthy beasts. .. They were right! For a highborn daughter of the great tower, never touched by the hands of a man, there is no greater shame than exile to the surface...
  • Thirst by Addison Cain

    Thirst by Addison Cain

    Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 31 ratings
    Smooth as chocolate, like the tickle of champagne bubbles bursting on your tongue. Twisted as your sheets after a wild night. Deceptive as that first kiss from a bad man. Dark, dangerous, and wild! Whatever your Valentine’s Day plans may be, heat up the night with this special release. THIRST will be available for ONE DAY ONLY...
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