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  • Oliver by Nyssa Kathryn

    Oliver by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She may have forgotten her past, but her past hasn’t forgotten her…. Tori Blake arrives in Marble Falls with nothing. Nothing but a note in her hand and cash in her pocket. She doesn’t know if those two things will be enough to get her the help she needs. She doesn’t know if they’ll lead her to the past she can’t remember. What she does know is that someone is trying to kill her...
  • Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Sometimes, the biggest secrets can bring both salvation and destruction. Emerson Charles grew up luckier than most, going from a difficult life to finding safety and a true home with her stepmother and stepbrother. Years later, when Levi’s in trouble, Emerson will do anything for the brother of her heart, her greatest protector...
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  • Like a Calling by Lexa Luthor

    Like a Calling by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Sworne have returned to the Milky Way! The Sworne arrive in Kander's airspace and demand only one thing; the surrender of all Earthlings for termination. Upon Kal's refusal, fighting ensues and hostages are taken on both sides until Kal and Charlie win the skirmish, forcing a ceasefire...
  • Collecting Stars by Lexa Luthor

    Collecting Stars by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An F/F Omegaverse Sci-Fi Romance. Any landing you can limp away from is a good one! Faced with news about the future, Kal determines she must prepare her planet for a possible war. But will Charlie be there to support her? Or will Charlie run back to the stars? Join Charlie and Kal as their story continues in Book 4 of The Alpha God series.
  • Mage-Queen's Thief by Glynn Stewart

    Mage-Queen's Thief by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s supposed to find a husband. He’s supposed to steal a shuttle. They’re each other’s only hope. Kiera Alexander is the Mage-Queen of Mars, ruler of a hundred worlds and the protector of humanity. She is also unmarried and in desperate need of an heir—a duty that has left her traveling the Core Worlds of the Martian Protectorate aboard the luxury liner Extravagant Voyage...
  • Catalyst by J.M. Madden

    Catalyst by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Raine Walters loves her nursing position at the Elton building. Though she hasn’t been on the job long, she’s seen and done some amazing things. Because the men at the Elton building are not your average military men. They’re elite soldiers that have been tortured and experimented upon with an incredibly dangerous drug...
  • Guarding Secrets: An Enemies to Lovers Suspenseful Romance by Jenna Gunn

    Guarding Secrets: An Enemies to Lovers Suspenseful Romance by Jenna Gunn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once burned… twice, hell no. The former Marine turned bodyguard’s been burned. He can’t just trust a spy that’s shows up on his doorstep. Too bad the protector in him has something else in mind…. Danee Swann can't do it alone. She needs help tracking down a missing person. Joining up with Agile Security's team is just the answer she's been so desperate for...
  • Bolt: Bolt Saga: Volume One: Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Angel Payne

    Bolt: Bolt Saga: Volume One: Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Angel Payne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Working the night shift at one of Downtown LA’s hottest hotels, Emmalina Crist has had her fair share of strange encounters—but none of them have prepared her for meeting Reece Richards, the charismatic bad boy of the Richards Resorts dynasty...
  • Smolder Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Smolder Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One thing is clear to Lucy Luciano: she and enigmatic survivalist Roan Winters are meant to be together. He disagrees. Life at the Haven survival compound is frustrating for the youngest and only girl of the Luciano clan. In a world torn apart by pandemic and fraught with danger, Lucy struggles to find her role...
  • Cinder Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Cinder Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Scorch Series: romantic action adventure for fans of romance thriller suspense and family romance stories! Cold, calculating Dolf Luciano is a rock-climbing powerbroker in a tailored suit. An identical twin, he is the “brain,” and his brother Nando, the “heart...
  • Zai by Starla Night

    Zai by Starla Night

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I will destroy all threats to the empire with unrelenting force. Even if that threat comes in the form of a weak, fragile lesser with night-black hair and beguiling eyes. The blades. Elite forces of the empire, nightmare to all servant-world residents just trying to scrape by. Of course I have to flee when my medical ship comes under attack. But my escape pod is captured by their ruthless leader...
  • The Tangled Thread by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    The Tangled Thread by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    1788 - The French Revolution; beginning of Industrial Revolution. In France, as the revolution begins, Henri, the bastard offshoot of the Morland family, strives to protect his family. He binds his daughter Heloise in loveless marriage to a Revolutionary, and allies himself with the vigorous Danton...
  • Fallen by Hattie Jacks

    Fallen by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    If he claims her, all will be lost. If he doesn’t, he loses himself. Myk is the rogue alien warrior’s brooding weapons master. Fresh from his hell-like forge, he’s the definition of an alien angel of death. He thinks he knows what will heal him. He wants a child. And he’s chosen me to fulfil this desire. I can't deny that there’s something about Myk that calls to my bruised heart...
  • Unwilling to Back Down by Shawn Keys

    Unwilling to Back Down by Shawn Keys

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    A Dystopic Action-Adventure Novel! Kyle has evolved from the person he once was, but his purpose remains the same: to find himself in a world that seems ready to chew him up and spit him out. There are people who are intent on killing him: not only for what he knows, but for what he is...
  • Throne of Novoxos by Tyler Chase

    Throne of Novoxos by Tyler Chase

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The brave warrior, Prince Comron Van Laven, lays at death’s door after a near fatal transport crash. His life is in the hands of his mortal enemy who does the unthinkable…she saves him…in so many ways. Together the two must battle for survival against the harsh elements, deadly assassins and vicious animal attacks. But that’s only the beginning of their struggles...
  • Savage Mine by Hattie Jacks

    Savage Mine by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Feral, beasty and dangerous to know. Meet the alien warrior who wants to claim me… All I want is to get used to my new life on the alien citadel which is my new home. What I don't want is to be grabbed by a feral warrior and taken away from the only safe place I know. Ilyos is havoc personified...
  • The Warlord's Stormy Skye by Gail Koger

    The Warlord's Stormy Skye by Gail Koger

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My name is Skye McAllister, I’m a psychic witch and a healer. My life is a rollercoaster ride of craziness. My unique electrical powers have a bunch of alien males eyeing me like I’m prime rib at an all-you-can-eat banquet. If that wasn’t bad enough, a crazy old witch transformed herself into a half-human Kotsor spider and is trying to kill me with hexes, magical bombs, and her zillion hatchlings...
  • Overlord by Cyndi Friberg

    Overlord by Cyndi Friberg

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Determined to bring meaningful change to her people, Lady Eza of the Sarronti seeks out the leader of the Outcasts and proposes a daring alliance. She expects to negotiate with a barbarian. Instead, Overlord Kage Razel awakens longings that have nothing to do with the rebellion. He intrigues and attracts her, making her ache for the consuming passion she has only experienced in his arms...
  • Galidin by L.P. Peace

    Galidin by L.P. Peace

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When Shay and her family carried three hundred colonists to a new world, they thought they were leaving all the problems of Earth and the Klevian Cold War behind, until they arrive and are rammed by a Klevian warship...
  • The Black Pearl by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    The Black Pearl by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    1659: Cromwell's protectorate is drawing to a close, and the restoration of the monarchy can only improve the fortunes of the Morland family. The years of civil war and their aftermath have left Morland Place in dire straits, but with the return of the King, Ralph Morland believes he can rebuild the family estates...
  • The Oak Apple by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    The Oak Apple by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    1630 - Charles I; the Civil War. When civil war destroys the long years of peace in England, the clash between King and Parliament is echoed at Morland Place. Richard, the heir, brings home a Puritan bride, while his dashing brother Kit joins the Royalist cavalry under Prince Rupert, leaving their father, Edmund, desperately trying to steer a middle course...
  • The Maiden by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    The Maiden by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    1720 - George I; George II; the Young Pretender (Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1745 Rebellion). Political intrigue is rife as the Stuart-Hanoverian struggle continues. Jemmy, heir to Morland Place, contracts a dutiful marriage to the chilly Lady Mary in order to secure Hanoverian protection and safeguard his inheritance...
  • My Big Alien Bodyguard by Loki Renard

    My Big Alien Bodyguard by Loki Renard

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I’ll protect her at any cost. My human client is sassy, bratty, and famous. I’m big, blue, alien - and responsible for keeping her safe. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for her. Even if she pushes every button. Even if she tests every limit. I’ll take her in hand, and I’ll take her into my bed. Because she's a bad girl, and she's a superstar. Some love her, and some love to hate her...
  • Agent E2: Aidan by Joni Hahn

    Agent E2: Aidan by Joni Hahn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Credentials:. • Second generation Former Navy SEAL. • DIRE’s latest SEAL acquisition. Enhancements:. • Electrical Conductor. Former Navy SEAL, Aidan Monroe, embraces risk. Show him a hint of danger – or a beautiful woman - and he’s all over it. The only commitments in his life: his new D. I. R. E. enhancements and finding his father’s killers. Cassandra Naylor, daughter of D. I. R. E...
  • Savage Pet by Hattie Jacks

    Savage Pet by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    I am not his pet. I don’t care how handsome this horned alien beast is, he can’t have me. It doesn’t matter I have zero other options available since I was abducted from my life on Earth. I do not belong to him. And now he's crashed his spaceship into a jungle, forced a translation chip in my neck and told me it's his job to save his world because he's a great warrior...
  • Marked For Risk by Susan Hayes

    Marked For Risk by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    She thought Cupid’s arrow would never find her… love sent a missile instead. Being the onboard matchmaker for an interstellar dating cruise isn’t the most exciting job in the world, but that’s fine. Joy likes things to be calm and orderly. Then the ship gets attacked, and her captain orders her into an escape pod with two VIPs and instructions to keep everyone alive...
  • Hostage by Loki Renard

    Hostage by Loki Renard

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Last time, I saved him. This time, he takes me. I was a good worker who wanted to be a bad girl,. So I went where good girls don’t go. That’s where I meet him. Shah. Boss of the galactic underworld. We’re not complete strangers. Our paths crossed once a long time ago, and he hasn't forgotten me. In Shah's world, no good deed, or good girl, goes unpunished...
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  • Alpha's Temptation by Lillian Sable

    Alpha's Temptation by Lillian Sable

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    She had never heard the word Omega. When Aura crash lands on an alien planet, she finds herself surrounded by feral Alphas males. She doesn’t understand what has made them this way, but her only option is to run. They look like men, but act like animals and are consumed by the desire to take her in the most depraved ways. Ways that would literally tear her apart. All except one...
  • Deviant Control: Part 1 by L.V. Lane

    Deviant Control: Part 1 by L.V. Lane

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    ★ 1st Part ★. With her father on the ruling council, Doctor Lillian Brach had lived a coveted life. Rising to Director of the viral research program, she had carved a place for herself within the Empire. But her life plans changed the day she revealed as an Omega. Her former research partner, Erison Tsing, has assumed control of the program...
  • Captured by Milana Jacks

    Captured by Milana Jacks

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Omi. When an alien shows up down the river, I pick her off and put her in my cave like any other item I store. Except this alien moves into my nest and forces my transition into a male. There's only one female who can do that, and after a thousand turns, she has arrived to me. The problem? I haven't taken my male shape in many turns. I'm practically an animal...
  • Jagher by Kiki Burrelli, Crista Crown

    Jagher by Kiki Burrelli, Crista Crown

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A barbarian and a scientist are destined to be together… if they can build a bridge between their vastly different cultures…. After Cillian’s ship crash lands in unfamiliar territory, he’s eager to continue his mission to explore space and discover new alien species...
  • The Captain by Elaine Waters

    The Captain by Elaine Waters

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    It’s hard enough being the only human on this alien planet with no memory of how I got here. I have no business being imprisoned by a military Captain. But here I am, handcuffed for weeks to a brooding, powerful warrior that’s convinced I’m a spy. I’ve been a servant at the Captain’s camp for months—cooking, cleaning, and living peacefully...
  • Loss of Reason by Miles A. Maxwell

    Loss of Reason by Miles A. Maxwell

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One Of The Most Disturbing Stories You'll Ever Read. Distant for many years, Franklin out of Pennsylvania and his step-brother Everon out of Nevada are connected by a single link: Their sister Cynthia. Enter The Nightmare. A nuclear bomb is detonated in New York. Banker, wife, mother, Cynthia lives in New York. The military has quarantined the city...
  • RV There Yet? by Diann Hunt

    RV There Yet? by Diann Hunt

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life's a journey. Midlife's an adventure. But two weeks in a RV with the hot-flash sisters could drive anyone over the hill. Dede signed on for this cross-country RV trip selflessly, for Millie and Lydia's sakes. Besides, she needed to get her mind off a love gone wrong and a demanding gourmet chocolates business...
  • Alien Passion by Hannah Haze

    Alien Passion by Hannah Haze

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 7 ratings
    Falling for my alien prince and moving into his palace — the start of my happily-ever-after, right? Wrong. Life on his planet, Astia, is anything but a fairytale. Restricted, confined and repressed, my role as a prince’s mate is a far cry from my adventures as a space cadet. It seems I’m not the only one disgruntled with life on Astia. Rebellion is brewing...
  • Hired to Protect by Leann Ryans

    Hired to Protect by Leann Ryans

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    When Penelope's ex doesn't get the hint that it's over between them, and decides she needs a little more force to understand, she take matters into her own hands and hires an Alpha to protect her...
  • Owned by L.V. Lane

    Owned by L.V. Lane

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Ava. When civilization first collapsed, survival replaced compassion. Many dark years followed before I found a delicate peace within Sanctuary's walls. But that was over now. Standing on the desolate rooftop, I watched enemy soldiers take our community. After three days on the streets with no provisions and nothing but a temperamental handgun to defend myself, I knew I was out of options...
  • The Janus Effect by Jan Coffey

    The Janus Effect by Jan Coffey

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Peace and War, Friend and Foe, Life and Death…. A Perilous Journey Home! From the National Best Selling Author. The Janus Effect (previously published as the Deadliest Strain). Winner of Connecticut Press Club Award for Best Fiction! Fahimah Banaz has been wrongly held in a CIA “black site” for over five years...
  • The Janus Effect by Jan Coffey

    The Janus Effect by Jan Coffey

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Peace and War, Friend and Foe, Life and Death…. A Perilous Journey Home! From the National Best Selling Author. The Janus Effect (previously published as the Deadliest Strain). Winner of Connecticut Press Club Award for Best Fiction! Fahimah Banaz has been wrongly held in a CIA “black site” for over five years...
  • My Brutal Alpha by Jupiter Belle

    My Brutal Alpha by Jupiter Belle

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My life wasn't great. I worked too much, and I had zero fun. All I wanted to do was escape and start over. One night the universe decided to grant me my wish. It should have been a good thing, right? Wrong. My brand new adventure, one that I spent my entire life wishing for, happened because I got abducted by an alien. I mean, the alien is really, really hot and sexy, but still...
  • Coveted by Leann Ryans

    Coveted by Leann Ryans

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Beautiful. Rich. Spoiled. Alana was a Princess in every sense of the word. Coming from the wealthy, ruling family on a new planet, it was a bit of a shock to be held to the standards of the rest of the universe, but she was a prize many Coveted. Rough. Harsh. Common. Vax may have been the new Chancellor of Farcon 1, but that didn’t mean he would change...
  • Given to the Major by Emily Tilton

    Given to the Major by Emily Tilton

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    For the Magisterian Federation, the military subjugation of Sara's planet was only part of the price her people will pay for their defiance. As the beautiful public relations specialist is about to learn in a very personal way, for a conquest to be fully complete it must be utterly humiliating...
  • The Alien's Coveted Omega by Sienna Sway

    The Alien's Coveted Omega by Sienna Sway

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Addy. For months now, I have watched the humans make a mockery of our culture and society. It is time for my group of alpha outliers, to make things right again, even if that means starting a society of our own. One where alphas rule the way they are meant to. The only thing I didn't see coming was Alil, and just how easily my brother's best friend can sway me into a different way of thinking...
  • H10N1 by Marsha Cornelius

    H10N1 by Marsha Cornelius

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A deadly influenza virus rages out of control. There is no easy-fix vaccine. No eleventh-hour containment. Only death. With no workforce, power plants have been shut down, police and fire departments have collapsed, crops lie unpicked in the fields. When Dr...
  • Bred by the Alien Prince by Morrigan Black

    Bred by the Alien Prince by Morrigan Black

    Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    A stowaway. An alien prince. Everything gone wrong. They never expected to steal each other's hearts. CaspianSo there I was, just a regular guy trying to sneak onto a spaceship headed for a new alien colony, when BAM! My life took one hell of a turn. Next thing I know, I'm getting all cozy with this tall, blond, and brutally handsome alien warrior...
  • Hunted by Liliana Carlisle

    Hunted by Liliana Carlisle

    Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    He's coming for me. All alone, it’s only a matter of time before he finds where I hide. You can only escape the Collectors for so long. He’ll want to break me. Destroy me. Leave me on my knees, gasping for air. But there’s a fight in me he won’t expect. I can only hope he doesn’t drag me into the darkness with him. Hunted is the first book in The Alpha Collectors, a M/F Omegaverse Romance series...
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