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  • Ringmaster by Lexie Winston

    Ringmaster by Lexie Winston

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 23 ratings
    I keep waiting for things to settle down, but my to-do list just keeps getting longer and longer.I’ve got a grandma to rescue from a planet infested with carnivorous flora and fauna, a Warlock whom I desperately want to bond with, and a tribunal with the Vilaxian clan to deal with. And that’s just to start with...
  • Prelude to Claimings, Tails, and Other Alien Artifacts by Lyn Gala

    Prelude to Claimings, Tails, and Other Alien Artifacts by Lyn Gala

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 23 ratings
    Before Liam had a new commander who openly distrusted him, before Ondry earned his ka status, there were two traders. Ye Ondry wants to earn status, and he is curious about this new human. Liam has just arrived on the planet and he’s trying to figure out these aliens who supposedly have good metals to trade...
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  • Changed: Mated to the Alien Alpha by Robin Moray

    Changed: Mated to the Alien Alpha by Robin Moray

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 75 ratings
    The Company said Omega IV was uninhabited. They said Omega IV was safe. They were wrong. The giant humanoid inhabitants of Omega IV are conditioned to the Change—a biological event in their development that designates them altha or amekha—but for the new colony of humans, the Change comes as an unpleasant surprise...
  • Bray's Balance by Hannah Walker

    Bray's Balance by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bray is happy with life on Landran, surrounded by friends and those he considers family. But, just when he thinks they can settle down and enjoy the lives they’ve created there, another kidnapping forces them all back into action. With enemies coming from unexpected places, the hunt is on to find out who is targeting their clans and tearing apart families...
  • Sand and Ruin and Gold by Alexis Hall

    Sand and Ruin and Gold by Alexis Hall

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 14 ratings
    Once upon a time . . . that’s how the old stories always begin. Once upon a time there was a king of a fallen kingdom. He was just and he was beloved. Or so the numbers said. One day, he gathered together the greatest, wisest minds in all the land—not sorcerers, but scientists—and he bade them fashion him a son. A prince. A perfect prince to embody his father’s legacy...
  • The Soldier's Mate by C.W. Gray

    The Soldier's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome back to the Blue Solace: (Third Book in the series) Morgan Murray is an easy, fun-loving guy. He excels at being a soldier, but never wanted more out of life. Somehow, he ends up in a position of authority on Dru's new ship, the Blue Sparrow. Now he has to deal with what he dreads most. Responsibilities...
  • How to Tame a Hellhound by Shannon Mae

    How to Tame a Hellhound by Shannon Mae

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    AidenApparently, the trauma from being kidnapped doesn’t end when you’re rescued, although I’m doing better. I have a roommate who has become family, and we’ve been adopted by a pack of otherworldly creatures who protect us. I’m still a little jumpy, and most people make me uncomfortable, but baking, therapy, and my daily walks are all helping...
  • Chance by Nicholas Bella

    Chance by Nicholas Bella

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Just when I thought I had enough on my plate... fate, or the cosmos or whatever, decides I'm not stressed enough and pours on another helping of what the hell!” My failure to prevent a particularly nasty demon from completing a ritual to open a portal may have doomed us all unless I can stop what came through. That, of course, is easier said than done...
  • Demons Don't Dare by Hannah Walker

    Demons Don't Dare by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the ruler of an empire, King Vict’arin is accustomed to living a life that is anything but normal. Unable to enjoy the simple things in life the way his demons do, he chooses to live and work for the good of his citizens. Lonely and tired, he finds solace with his family, enjoying watching his new grand-demonesses grow...
  • Marvin by J.P. Sayle, Lisa Oliver

    Marvin by J.P. Sayle, Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Ajani is a shifter without a conscience. Stolen as a child, hidden from the world, trained to kill without remorse. It’s all he knows. He works without question until someone targets the only bright light from Ajani’s dark past—Marvin.Ajani had always known there was something tugging at his soul, or that special someone, but he doesn’t want to bring Marvin into his dark world...
  • Murmuration by T.J. Klune

    Murmuration by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the small mountain town of Amorea, it’s stretching toward autumn of 1954. The memories of a world at war are fading in the face of a prosperous future. Doors are left unlocked at night, and neighbors are always there to give each other a helping hand. The people here know certain things as fact: Amorea is the best little town there is. The only good Commie is a dead Commie...
  • Alpha Hunted by Crea Reitan

    Alpha Hunted by Crea Reitan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    I lost everything in a freak accident. My entire family; everything I’d ever cared about - gone in an instant. Unable to bear the constant reminders and emptiness of my life, I moved across the country to dull the loss, hopefully falling into the anonymity of a large city where even an alpha could disappear.Starting over was never in my plans. All I wanted was to blend in and let life pass me by...
  • A Night Most Wicked by Lexie Winston

    A Night Most Wicked by Lexie Winston

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    What happens to Susie and Mark when their car breaks down an hour out of Vegas after leaving Lila?Strangely enough, there is no one else on the road that evening and they must be in a dead zone as neither Susie nor Mark has cell reception...
  • Space Daddy's Guide to the Galaxy by C. Rochelle

    Space Daddy's Guide to the Galaxy by C. Rochelle

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    ZiggyI should have known my scientifically-minded, superpowered Earthling would find a way to permanently attach himself to my borrowed heart.Since Micah Salah is the most impressive creature in all the galaxies.He’s my stellar collision, my babygirl, my equal in all things, and the only one who truly knows me and all my secrets.Well… most of them...
  • The General's Mate by C.W. Gray

    The General's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Welcome back to the Blue Solace: (Sequel to "The Mercenary's Mate") Leti Ando and Will Hackett are certain about one thing in all the galaxy. They love one another. Now that they are mated, it's time to meet Hack's parents and settle into their new home. In a normal courtship, the two would spend time getting to know one another and reveling in their love. Normal isn't what they get...
  • The Finder by J.E. Lorin

    The Finder by J.E. Lorin

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    At the age of sixteen, August Goodson developed a strange and mysterious power overnight: he can find people. Victims of murder, suicide, kidnapping, accidents, and rape; August can find them all, usually dead, but sometimes still alive. Nine years later finds August volunteering his services to the police...
  • The Shifter's Shotgun Mating by Ardy Kelly

    The Shifter's Shotgun Mating by Ardy Kelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A bad bargain. A botched bounty A binding bite. Adam knew bounty hunting in another pack’s territory had risks, but being at the end of a shotgun for a forced mating was not one he expected. At least it wasn’t permanent. Once he paid the promised cut of the bounty the leader of Pine Hollow would dissolve the mating. Adam just needed to keep his hands (and his teeth) away from the enticing omega...
  • Ai no Kusabi Vol. 6 by Rieko Yoshihara

    Ai no Kusabi Vol. 6 by Rieko Yoshihara

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Seeing Guardian's dark side in full, the pursued Kirie escaped to Riki's place. But Guy handed him over to the visiting Katz Leading to discord between Riki and Guy, Riki left the slums behind to seek out Iason's approval...
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  • Deadly Connections by Shannon West

    Deadly Connections by Shannon West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nicarr’s getting married—and about time too, as his wild ways have already come close to causing an intergalactic incident or two, but this isn’t the kind of marriage he’d hoped for and not at all like the one his fathers, Blake and Davos, have. Instead, it’s a political marriage to a young Xalian princess to forge an alliance that will end a small but vicious war in the quadrant...
  • Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

    Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Deaf since childhood, Sebastian Armitage had a promising musical future until his dreams were shattered when he transformed at twelve years old. In a world where enhanced humans are terrorized and imprisoned, his life shrinks around him even more as he suffers the torment of his father’s experimental research to enable him to hear...
  • Seen by A.M. Arthur

    Seen by A.M. Arthur

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hell is a six-by-six jail cell and no hope for the future. Kell Iverson has never raised his hand against another person in his entire life—and yet somehow he’s been arrested and charged with the murder of his alpha mate Krause. Sure, Krause brutalized him on a daily basis, and Kell hated his mate, but he never wanted the man dead...
  • Gravemound by Kim Fielding

    Gravemound by Kim Fielding

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Grimm in spaaaaace!In this retelling of a classic fairy tale, Phineas Coleman is stranded on a planet far from home and must find a way to support himself in this new land. A selfish local man offers to help him with a livelihood if Phin will promise to protect him from a soul-reaper...
  • The Ultimate Team by Tricia Owens

    The Ultimate Team by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With his team battered and broken, Lieutenant Black of the JCPD is forced to incorporate yet another psypath into the ranks, this time the beautiful prescient named Parker. But Parker is more than a new teammate, he's an important link to the past Black has been working so diligently to erase, and he's the first man who has ever claimed to love him...
  • Centauri Doll by Wendy Rathbone

    Centauri Doll by Wendy Rathbone

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hades is a Slave King, one of the most powerful and wealthy beings in the galaxy. But all he wants is to be left alone with machine servants and his collection of broken robots. So what makes him purchase a flawed vat-grown human slave boy?Doll, one of the most beautiful of the manufactured Botticelli pleasure slaves, is imperfect. He was pulled from his tank missing his right foot...
  • Shattered Alliance by Tricia Owens

    Shattered Alliance by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now that the terrible truth is out, life has only grown more complicated. Genesis has full control over the men of JC2, forcing them to commit atrocities across the city and destroying Black's reputation in the process. Even if Black succeeds in rescuing his teammates, the JCPD and Captain Dickerson may not be forgiving...
  • Exchange of Power by Tricia Owens

    Exchange of Power by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the clutches of Captain Dickerson once again, Black suddenly finds a reason to remain in the employ of the JCPD: his team has been handed over to another lieutenant, and it's not Lieutenant Sundhill. Alarmed by the identity of this man, Black knows he can't leave his teammates to fend for themselves, especially now that the lines of war are finally being drawn in the sand...
  • In Enemy Territory by Shannon West

    In Enemy Territory by Shannon West

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    What should a Tygerian colonel do when he develops a devastating and disastrous attraction that’s totally unsuitable?Kylon Bonnett, close friend of Prince Mikos, goes to the aid of Prince Larz on Laltana when both they and the disgraced human prisoner, Rasc Centarlo become embroiled in a mission to the unfriendly prison planet of Gatifrey...
  • Any Given Lifetime by Leta Blake

    Any Given Lifetime by Leta Blake

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    He'll love him in any lifetime. Neil isn’t a ghost, but he feels like one. Reincarnated with all his memories from his prior life, he spent twenty years trapped in a child’s body, wanting nothing more than to grow up and reclaim the love of his life. As an adult, Neil finds there's more than lost time separating them...
  • A Sea of Endless Light by Chani Lynn Feener

    A Sea of Endless Light by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    Fox Axford has been tasked with capturing a feared thief who has been terrorizing the Hild Empire, not flirt with the impassive captain he’s been unlikely paired with.When Fox is assigned to the Hild case by the Intergalactic Police Force, he doesn’t anticipate it taking very long...
  • Salvadore's Luck by Odessa Lynne

    Salvadore's Luck by Odessa Lynne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once every three years, humans become sexual prey to a species that has no control over the urge to mate because of a devastating attraction to human scent. Bad luck has dogged Salvadore for far too long, and this time it's put him in the midst of his worst nightmare. He's trapped inside the protectorate where the aliens called wolves roam free—and heat season has started...
  • Potato Surprise by Angel Martinez

    Potato Surprise by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When a steel trap of celestial and infernal politics threatens to close around them, Shax and Verin flee Earth’s system in a stolen ship, leaving everything behind. It’s an elegantly simple plan, with a new ship and a new life as carefree brigands among the stars. But the ship seems to hate them, and in order to have any sort of life they need funds...
  • A Christmas to Die For by Jessica Frances

    A Christmas to Die For by Jessica Frances

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A Christmas to Die ForDrink way too much tequila at the office Christmas party? Check.Get fired after doing something stupid at said Christmas party? Check.Hallucinate flying reindeer in the sky? Check...
  • Skythane: Liminal Sky by J. Scott Coatsworth

    Skythane: Liminal Sky by J. Scott Coatsworth

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jameson Havercamp, a psych from a conservative religious colony, has come to Oberon—unique among the Common Worlds—in search of a rare substance called pith. He’s guided through the wilds on his quest by Xander Kinnison, a handsome, cocky wing man with a troubled past.Neither knows that Oberon is facing imminent destruction...
  • Beside A Black Tarn by Angel Martinez

    Beside A Black Tarn by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When Shax stumbles across rumors of an experimental house that responds to the occupant’s brain functions, creating scenarios to please and delight, naturally he wants to steal it. While stealing an entire house sounds impossible, the demon prince has a cunning plan.But a night at the ballet heralds the return of a troubled and hunted Julian Parallax...
  • Slow Heat by Leta Blake

    Slow Heat by Leta Blake

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 55 ratings
    A lustful young alpha meets his match in an older omega with a past. Professor Vale Aman has crafted a good life for himself. An unbonded omega in his mid-thirties, he's long since given up hope that he'll meet a compatible alpha, let alone his destined mate. He's fulfilled by his career, his poetry, his cat, and his friends...
  • Hallowed Bond by Eressë

    Hallowed Bond by Eressë

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Time and circumstances may force true lovers apart but the tie that binds them can never be fully severed. When Dylen Teris and Riodan Leyhar meet one harsh winter in the dual-gendered realm of Ylandre, neither expects the encounter to lead to a fast friendship and abiding love...
  • In The Blink Of An Eye by Tricia Owens

    In The Blink Of An Eye by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sequel to Fearless Leader. Lieutenant Black, the young, driven leader of the Special Forces team JC2, has reluctantly brought the sexy and distracting empath, Calyx Starr, onto his team. To Black's dismay, he finds himself fending off not only Starr's relentless flirtations but also his growing curiosity about Black's past...
  • A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R.W. Day

    A Strong and Sudden Thaw by R.W. Day

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Ice fell upon the world nearly a hundred years ago, and if civilization didn't rightly collapse, it surely staggered and fell ill a while. In the small town of Moline, Virginia, folks struggle to survive, relying on hybrid seed sent by the faraway Departmet of Reintroduction and Agriculture and their own faith in God and hard work...
  • By Chance Met by Eressë

    By Chance Met by Eressë

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A chance meeting heralds the convergence of two heretofore wildly divergent fates. From the moment he laid eyes on the handsome Lord of Ilmaren, Naeth Orosse fell head over heels in infatuation with him. And after that first meeting in the middle of a tavern brawl in the dual-gendered realm of Ylandre, Reijir Arthanna did not forget the orphaned youth who came to his aid unasked...
  • Cosmic Soul by Mars Quinn

    Cosmic Soul by Mars Quinn

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 6 ratings
    So I may be dead, but my afterlife isn’t.CalebAfter years of wandering the stars, I’ve finally met someone who can see me—the handsome and serious Prince Zoltilvoxfyn. I know I should pass on, but I feel something, like physically feel something, when I’m with him...
  • Team Orders by R.J. Scott

    Team Orders by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When tragedy strikes and team orders are called for, will Archie and Noah’s love survive the fallout?Noah is devastated when his best friend is badly hurt in a fiery crash, and shocked when the team’s rookie steps up to take Augusto’s place. Not only is Archie inexperienced on the track, but he’s a threat to Noah’s heart when giving in to lust and passion could only end badly...
  • Gerald's Lot by Odessa Lynne

    Gerald's Lot by Odessa Lynne

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    All he wants is his freedom. But that’s not what’s on offer… For three years, Gerald has used his connections to gather intelligence on the powerful alien species humans call “wolves”—all in an effort to do his part to return order to the world after the destruction caused by the events of the first wolves’ heat...
  • 想做男配其实也不容易 [It’s Actually Not Easy Wanting to Be a Supporting Male Lead] by mijia

    想做男配其实也不容易 [It’s Actually Not Easy Wanting to Be a Supporting Male Lead] by mijia

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    在这个无数配角们都在试图翻身、逆袭、转正的时代,他存在的意义就是要尽忠职守地扮演好男配的角色,为这个世界增光添彩。只可惜,不怕神一样的敌人,就怕猪一样的队友,他苦逼的发现,自己莫名其妙地被一个完全不按剧本走的家伙缠上了……为了自己的男配之路,他与那人斗智斗勇,相爱相杀,最终还是逃不过命运的捉弄。——想当一个尽职尽责的男配角肿么就辣么难!QAQ"It’s Actually Not Easy Wanting to Be a Supporting Male Lead"In this period where countless supporting lead actors always attempt to counterattack, turn over a new leaf or simply refuse to take up the role, his purpose of...
  • Paradox Lost by Libby Drew

    Paradox Lost by Libby Drew

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Time-travel tour guide Reegan McNamara's job—taking eager tourists to whenever they want to go—is usually a breeze. A trip back to 2020 to watch a world-changing speech seems no different, until a woman runs away from his tour group before the jump home. Now her tycoon husband is demanding her safe return—or Reegan will lose more than just his job. P.I...
  • Forbidden by Alessandra Hazard

    Forbidden by Alessandra Hazard

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Forced to marry an alpha three times his age after his first heat, Lucien no longer believes in happily ever after. Bound by a marriage of convenience to a distant husband who loves his first spouse, Lucien doesn't expect to ever know true love or attraction. But Aksel changes everything. Aksel Cleghorn, his husband's alpha son...
  • Kidnapped by Megan Derr

    Kidnapped by Megan Derr

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Infinitum Government Code 3.18.21.512: Genetic Experimentation Shall Be Strictly Forbidden No job is more arduous than that of Rehab Guard—those appointed to guard the many and varied prisoners within the Infinitum Government, the ruling power of a vast interplanetary alliance. To be a Rehab Guard requires very specific qualifications and years of specialized training...
  • Not Written in the Stars (He’s out of this world) by Piper Scott, Renee Fox

    Not Written in the Stars (He’s out of this world) by Piper Scott, Renee Fox

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Houston... we have a problem.Ezra Miller’s life has been turned upside down ever since his best friend hooked up with an alien named Al, and not just because he walked in on them having close encounters of the third kind...
  • Bonded Broken by Amber Kell

    Bonded Broken by Amber Kell

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Friln had always counted on his lover to be there when things go wrong. But when one brief moment of death breaks his bond with his Thresl mate, he loses the only thing in the world he needs to make him happy. For the past ten years Friln, the king’s Captain of the Guard, has lived with and loved his Thresl mate Nelrin. When an assassination attempt catches Friln in the crossfire, he is killed...
  • Duke Betrayed by Amber Kell

    Duke Betrayed by Amber Kell

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book Five in the The Thresl Chronicles series.When Duke Hellbur is accused of treason against his people, he bonds with medic Balaze to keep his human form and prove his innocence. When Duke Hellbur is accused of smuggling Thresls and selling them off to interested buyers, he undertakes a trip to prove his innocence...
  • Space Raptor Butt Trilogy by Chuck Tingle

    Space Raptor Butt Trilogy by Chuck Tingle

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    With his genre-defining work, Space Raptor Butt Invasion, Chuck Tingle proved that even gay dinosaur erotica could be nominated for a Hugo Award, the most prestigious honor in science fiction. Nobody could have expected what would happen when the story continued. Collected here is the entire trilogy of Chuck Tingle’s history making Space Raptor Butt series...
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