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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... -
![The Alien's Charge by Ella Maven]()
The Alien's Charge by Ella Maven
I don’t play by the rules… until her.Maisie: I’m tired of being scared, but fear is like a constant companion these days. Some big blue alien stole the last of my friends, and now I’m alone as a prisoner on a spaceship on my way back to the planet that stole everything from me... -
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![The Alien's Bounty by Ella Maven]()
The Alien's Bounty by Ella Maven
She’s something I didn’t want, but everything I crave.Lu: This planet is the pits. I’m being handed off to different aliens one after another like I’m a dog-eared novel. My latest captors are about to take me off planet when a big blue alien botches the rescue mission... -
![Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith]()
Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith
Jo Strauss was committed to two things in her life – her family and her life as an acrobat/high-wire performer. She takes both very serious. Her life was orderly, in control, and she was finally settling down in one place so she could spend more time with her parents instead of moving all over the world every few weeks... -
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![Alien Chief by Honey Phillips]()
Alien Chief by Honey Phillips
Can a fake relationship between a spirited woman and a fierce alien warrior turn into something more?After a lifetime in the spotlight, Lillie hoped that leaving Earth would provide a fresh start for her and her twin sister. But while her sister is thriving, Lillie finds herself struggling to adjust to her new life... -
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Stronghold by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAbbey's thrown in the deep end.Tarak creates an alliance with a furry being.Ami has her father wrapped around her tiny little finger.It's just another day in the life of our fearsome Kordolians and their human mates. A light-hearted peek into Tarak and Abbey's life on Earth.Sanctuary is a 22000 word "slice-of-life" novella set in the Dark Planet Warriors/Darkstar Mercenaries universe... -
![Rescued by her Alien Protector by Mina Carter]()
Rescued by her Alien Protector by Mina Carter
Prepared to put her life on the line, she didn’t expect to lose her heart. Vice President Madison Cole is used to having a target on her back. Being captured by aliens? An acceptable risk to get what she needs. What she didn’t count on was falling for the ‘enemy’, a handsome alien warrior with a hero’s heart...Categorized as:
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Obsession by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA Blade and an Iron.An Instructor and a Cadet.Brawn and Brains.Fire and Ice.Forbidden.At the Drexian Academy, there are few rules. As a Blade instructor, Kann prefers pushing limits to following regulations. But he knows better than to fall for a cadet. That's why he is only friends with Britta, a human cadet and brilliant engineer... -
![His Human Assistant by Michele Mills]()
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]()
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... -
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Jameson by Anna Hackett
We survived the invasion and beat the aliens. But they left something behind…Humanity is rebuilding after a devastating invasion. But the growing towns all have walls to protect them from the monsters. Created in alien labs, the monsters hide in the swamps, rivers, and forests—breeding, mutating. Every now and then, they crawl out of the shadows.That’s where I come in... -
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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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![Sublime Target by Anna Carven]()
Sublime Target by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJerik Garul wants a mate.As a former High Commander in the Kordolian Imperial Military, he's used to getting his way. Blunt-spoken and gruff, he has a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.He doesn't know anything about humans and their mating customs. And he's mystified at how several of his battle-brothers—hard, ruthless, and lethal—have succeeded in securing their own females... -
![An Alien Berserker for Christmas by Mina Carter]()
An Alien Berserker for Christmas by Mina Carter
Escape. Locate. Claim.Condemned Izaean Berserker K’laus didn’t expect to find his fated mate in a medical bay. Or for her to be human. He certainly didn’t expect to have to watch her walk away from him.Escaping the station is easy. Tracking his mate down on a planet alien to him is a little harder. Claiming her heart might just take all the magic that Christmas has to offer... -
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![The Strip Down by Honey Phillips]()
The Strip Down by Honey Phillips
Can Amanda discover the secrets behind an alien ruin? And the mysterious alien with the haunted eyes?Amanda is happy with her life as an elementary school teacher - and making plans to expand her family. Waking up naked and alone on an alien planet is not on her schedule.Desperate to return to Earth, she reluctantly accepts the help of the massive alien who appears out of the sands... -
![Caveman Alien’s Cage by Calista Skye]()
Caveman Alien’s Cage by Calista Skye
He tied me up and put me in a cage. I should hate him.So why can’t I look away from his twitching pants?Morfan’ox is the most striking warrior in his caveman tribe.Supremely confident, eight feet tall, with bright green stripes and muscles from here to Earth, he moves like he owns this deadly alien jungle.I’ve barely talked to him, but he’s always on my mind.But his tribe and mine are enemies...Categorized as:
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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... -
![Alien Most Wanted: Unchained by Honey Phillips]()
Alien Most Wanted: Unchained by Honey Phillips
Can an alien warrior reap his revenge without losing the woman he loves?A debilitating medical condition has taught Marcy to live her life within carefully maintained boundaries. The one time she allows herself to test those boundaries, she is abducted and taken away from her restricted life.But being thrown into a dark alien prison cell isn’t the worst thing that could happen to her... -
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Rescue by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwo new crew members. One outlaw city. One bed. Too much trouble.Tegan is the newest member of the bounty hunter crew and a midwife for all the expecting females on board. As much as she loves her job and loves babies, she has no intention of ever being anyone’s mate. Even if the gold-skinned Dothveks are gorgeous. Even if one of them does make her heart flutter... -
![Alien Defender's Chosen Bride by Juno Wells]()
Alien Defender's Chosen Bride by Juno Wells
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWillow I risked everything to escape Earth. As chance would have it I made it to a Draconian vessel. The Dragon warriors take on all comers, even women like me who are young, uneducated and unbeknownst to me, carrying a plague to their world. They say ignorance is bliss and in my case it’s the literal truth... -
![The Iriduan's Mate by Susan Trombley]()
The Iriduan's Mate by Susan Trombley
A former elite Iriduan soldier, Shulgi lives with many regrets...He’s determined to redeem himself by curing the mate imprinting affliction that affects Iriduan males. Unfortunately, the necessity for secrecy makes it difficult to spread the cure to those males in need of it most... -
![Fated to the Alien Rebel by Erin Hale]()
Fated to the Alien Rebel by Erin Hale
SageI’ve built a new life on the planet Tavikh, spending every day seeking penance. And despite witnessing three of my new-found friends find their fated mate, I don’t dare hope to find mine. Not when there’s a chance someone from Earth will arrive to take me back to face the consequences for what I did...Categorized as:
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![Rescued by the Alien Gladiator by Carlotta Page]()
Rescued by the Alien Gladiator by Carlotta Page
Emery’s whole world has fallen apart …I was just beginning to get my life together when I was abducted by aliens and dumped on a deserted planet with four other women. Believe it or not, finding a way back to Earth isn’t currently my biggest problem. Nope, I’ve gotten myself separated from the others and trapped in a cave with a huge male alien who doesn’t understand a word I say... -
![Unity and the Usurper by Honey Phillips]()
Unity and the Usurper by Honey Phillips
A barbaric alien king. A fierce human female. A galactic conspiracy...After leading a rebellion to overthrow a tyrannical king, Cronan discovers a beautiful, defiant human female. She’s a responsibility he doesn’t need in the chaotic aftermath of the rebellion, but one he can't abandon... -
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![Heart of Eon by Anna Hackett]()
Heart of Eon by Anna Hackett
Okay, maybe hijacking an alien commander’s warship wasn’t her best idea… Genius computer geek Wren Traynor prefers her high-tech comp lab to socializing with people, and she definitely prefers it over crawling through the bowels of the huge Eon warship she’s hijacked... -
![Salvage Rights by Kelly Lucille]()
Salvage Rights by Kelly Lucille
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Distant Worlds Story Found on an abandoned salvage with no memory of who she is or how she ended up there, she becomes the salvage claim that powerful men will kill for. A truthsayer and a genetically tampered with Bruha, she has one chance to escape sexual slavery to a tyrant. ...His Brother. Lucan Warrung rules his pirate moon with an iron fist... -
![Caveman Alien’s Call by Calista Skye]()
Caveman Alien’s Call by Calista Skye
When the ground split open, he threw himself into the chasm with me.But that was not because he wanted to save me…HaisleyA tribe of crazy cavemen wants to eat me.They’ve even put me in a pot and hung it over a fire.It’s a little much after I’ve been buried alive for the second time in two weeks and barely survived a terrible earthquake that tore the ground open...Categorized as:
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![Alien's Fire by Lynnea Lee]()
Alien's Fire by Lynnea Lee
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsVIVIANWhat does it take for a chubby, socially awkward girl to get all the attention? Easy peasy. Just get kidnapped from Earth and thrown onto an alien planet. Since landing here, I’ve been fought over by every single alien I’ve met. Even the local wildlife want a taste.The one who has me now is terrifying... -
![Odin by Tasha Black]()
Odin by Tasha Black
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShe swore she would never love again, but this dragon warrior's heat might just melt her resolve...Liberty is a widow who's come to Lachesis for a chance to raise a child and get a fresh start on a far away frontier moon. But she isn’t ready for the baby to come with Odin, an Invicta dragon warrior who has sworn to protect the child with his life... -
![The Barbarian's Fate by Bella Blair]()
The Barbarian's Fate by Bella Blair
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsI swore I would follow my fated mate to hell and back. . . and now I will follow through on that oath.Calli: My entire world is turned upside down when I'm suddenly accosted by Intergalactic Space Force soldiers and placed into a space capsule destined for Yistercallen. The mysterious planet where all outlaws are sent to.My fate seems sealed. With death as the only outcome... -
![A Delicate Conquest: Exquisite Fever Duet Book 2 by Anna Carven]()
A Delicate Conquest: Exquisite Fever Duet Book 2 by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIt was supposed to be a straightforward assignment. Mavrel Yrixis had traveled to Earth to assist his boss, former High Commander Jerik Garul, in meeting his biologically determined mate.With the exception of a few minor human-related incidents, the mission had gone to plan. Jerik found his mate—with the assistance of Mavrel's extensive technological expertise... -
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Kate and the Kraken by Honey Phillips
A rebellious alien prince. An overworked human female. A planet in crisis.Kate spends most of her time in her lab, and as much as she believes in her job, she occasionally longs for a break. Being captured by aliens isn’t exactly what she had in mind.Neither is being forced to abandon ship and almost drowning in an alien ocean... -
![Cyborgs on Mars Boxed Set One by Honey Phillips]()
Cyborgs on Mars Boxed Set One by Honey Phillips
"Cyborgs on Mars Boxed Set One" contains the first three stories in USA Today bestselling author, Honey Phillips' popular sci fi series, Cyborgs on Mars in one bundle!Mars is getting hotter all the time . . .Earth Government turned soldiers into cyborgs to terraform Mars... -
![Tied to the Wulven by Evangeline Anderson, Reese Dante]()
Tied to the Wulven by Evangeline Anderson, Reese Dante
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHe's the first man she's ever seen and he claims to have a Beast inside him...Breenah and the Beast… All her life Breenah has been told that men can’t be trusted. She lives on Griesha Prime—a planet where all the males were expelled due to their mistreatment of the women... -
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![The Pryxz's Revenge by Bella Blair]()
The Pryxz's Revenge by Bella Blair
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThey thought they could separate us. . . they were wrong. Gianna is MINE!Gianna: My disfigurements have served me well aboard the Vile One's Flagship. I appall the most hardened pirate, but when I am tasked with healing the most handsome male I have ever seen, my disfigurements bother me for the first time in my life... -
![Down to Earth: A Fated Mate Alien Warrior Romance by Alana Khan]()
Down to Earth: A Fated Mate Alien Warrior Romance by Alana Khan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWithout A’Dar’s help, Maya won’t last an hour.Without access to her blood, neither will he.Pitted against hundreds of competitors whose only mission is to viciously kill their opponents, Maya must strike a deal with the scariest male she could ever imagine.What starts as an unholy bargain results in a deliciously erotic soul-connection deeper than either of them dared to dream...Categorized as:
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![Warrior's Taken by Emma Aliysn, Sora Stargazer]()
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... -
![Claimed by the Vissigroth by Bella Blair]()
Claimed by the Vissigroth by Bella Blair
Letting her go is not an option. She is MINE.KYRA : My dream mission has always been to visit the Fourteen Planets and find out what happened to the lost refugees from Earth a hundred years ago. Finally, the Cosmic Coalition agrees to finance this mission.But upon arriving on Leander, everything is different from what I envisioned... -
![Her Alien Savior by Sky Robert]()
Her Alien Savior by Sky Robert
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMy alien warrior thinks he's supposed to save me, but we may just save each other... -
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Knightmaster by Anna Hackett
She was sent to forge an alliance with the deadly Oronis knights…and instead finds herself framed for abducting their queen.Xenoanthropologist Kennedy Black loves exploring new cultures with Space Corps. Everyone in her life has left her, so she happily fills the void with exciting adventures... -
![Krampus and the Crone by Honey Phillips]()
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... -
![The Alien's Healer by Ella Maven]()
The Alien's Healer by Ella Maven
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsContains male/male content... of the alien kind.Two warriors need a little healing, and they find it in each other. The Alien's Healer is a free novella for fans of the Drixonian Warrior series, and is best read as a companion novel to the other books...Categorized as:
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![Sparked by Starlight by Sara Ivy Hill]()
Sparked by Starlight by Sara Ivy Hill
The alien barbarian found his queen.Fate demands he claim her.But he’ll defy destiny to keep her safe...even if it means she never knows she's his.Coming soon!★•★•★•★•★•★Sparked by Starlight is a full-length, fated-mates sci-fi romance with lots of steam and a guaranteed happily ever after... -
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Undying Stars by Anna Carven
When Kora Williams wakes up inside the dark alien warship called Silence, fate has spun completely out of her control.She doesn't understand why she was abducted by a vicious, depraved Kordolian, and she can't believe she was rescued by an even more dangerous one. A big, armor-clad brute of a warrior, who lifted her into his arms far too easily, as if she weighed next to nothing...Categorized as:
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![His Human Organizer by Michele Mills]()
His Human Organizer by Michele Mills
A grumpy alien boss hires a curvy, adorable human female to organize his mess—and vows to never let her go!I’ve been engaged to the same aimless guy for four long years, and still, no wedding date in sight. Grr. I’m completely fed up with this sham, so I tell my “fiancé” I’m taking a job off planet, hoping this outrageous behavior will allow him to finally break off our ridiculous engagement... -
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The Dragon's Queen by Michelle M. Pillow
A PREQUEL STORY Mede of the Draig knows three things for a fact: As the only female dragon shifter of her people, she is special. She can kick the backside of any man. And she absolutely doesn't want to marry. Mede has spent a lifetime trying to prove herself as strong as any male warrior...Categorized as:
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![The Rogue Captain by K. Webster, Nicole Blanchard]()
The Rogue Captain by K. Webster, Nicole Blanchard
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’m the master of my world. A ruler from the skies of a lost planet. The ship captain who watches from above. Until an alien invades my heart and everything changes. She’s from another world and doesn’t want saving, for she’s on a quest of her own. Feisty and fiery, she burns bright like the sun. I crave to capture her and keep her... -
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Sakev by Elin Wyn
Dr. Evangeline Parr lost it all when the Xathi attacked Fraga.When she's asked to establish a clinic in the devastated town of Einhiv, she jumps at the chance to help.The only problem? A smart ass, joking Skotan warrior. He's a terrible patient. Impossible. Refuses to take anything seriously.Until they're caught in an explosive situation, and a new side of him emerges.Protective. Efficient... -
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Brekk by Alana Khan
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBrekk waited a lifetime to find his fated mate. When Isabella discovers his monstrous secret, will Halloween fun turn into her worst nightmare?IsabellaI love living on Hallion, but I miss my favorite Earth holiday—Halloween... -
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Rhys by Vi Voxley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSome men ask for what they want. Some men take. Quinn Ford has nothing left to lose. After the Nayanors took her sister, little else seemed to matter. Now that they're after her , well, maybe she can do something about it, get back her sister and get home...
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