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  • Facets of Revolution by T.A. White

    Facets of Revolution by T.A. White

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 50 ratings
    The line between loyalty and betrayal has never been so fine.Chasing the trail of the woman who was once considered her best friend, Kira Forrest returns to the planet of her birth. When a near deadly incident jeopardizes her arrival, Kira will find the secrets she’s worked so hard to hide bubbling to the surface one by one...
  • Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter

    Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Growing up poor on New Chicago’s meanest streets, Ava Sans had two options: be the predator or be the prey. No contest. Now, working for Alien Investigation and Removal, she’s been ordered to capture the biggest, baddest warrior of all—a vampire too beautiful to be real, with the ability to manipulate time...
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  • Dark Taste of Rapture by Gena Showalter

    Dark Taste of Rapture by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter captivates with a dark, tantalizing world of humans, otherworlders, and a powerful AIR agent consumed by his desire for a woman he can never have. . . . With one caress, he can give unforgettable pleasure . . . or unending pain. . . . Hector Dean is shaved, tattooed, and totally ripped—and he has a deadly secret...
  • Tau Ceti by Laurence E. Dahners

    Tau Ceti by Laurence E. Dahners

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “Tau Ceti" is the sixth in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii has a nerve mutation which has made her a genius and an athletic phenomenon.In “Tau Ceti!”, she is continuing to find uses for the quantum entangled wormholes that she has discovered. These wormholes aren’t big enough to send people through, yet they are making huge changes in our world...
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  • Bioluminescent by Auryn Hadley

    Bioluminescent by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    They look like us, know all about us, and can even blend in perfectly. That doesn't make them human.When an alien science vessel crashes into the shore of Haven, Hailey has a front row seat. Little does she know that her normal life is about to be turned upside down by the man she bumps into on her way home. He looks completely human.He isn't. He also can't stop thinking about her...
  • Confederation by Michael R. Hicks

    Confederation by Michael R. Hicks

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In the second book of the In Her Name science fiction & fantasy series, Reza Gard has been banished from the Kreelan Empire and is once again a stranger in a strange land as he returns to the human Confederation. Befriended by a marooned Confederation naval officer leading a desperate fight against the Kreelans on a distant colony world, she reunites Reza with Nicole Carré...
  • Encrypted by Lindsay Buroker

    Encrypted by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Professor Tikaya Komitopis isn’t a great beauty, a fearless warrior, or even someone who can walk and chew chicle at the same time, but her cryptography skills earn her wartime notoriety. When enemy marines show up at her family’s plantation, she expects the worst. But they’re not there to kill her...
  • Dying Wish by Shannon K. Butcher

    Dying Wish by Shannon K. Butcher

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Jackie Patton has been rescued by the Theronai from her captivity and torture at the hands of the Synestryn, only to learn that she's a potential match for the Theronai warriors who need a woman to literally save their lives. Forced to choose, she unexpectedly selects Iain, a cold-hearted warrior who doesn't want to be saved...
  • Elfhome by Wen Spencer

    Elfhome by Wen Spencer

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Book Three of the Elfhome series, the follow-up to exciting Wolf Who Rules and the award-winning fantasy-SF novel that started it all, Tinker . Elfhome. A world of powerful magic, beautiful elves, man-eating trees, frost-breathing wargs, and god-like dragons. Pittsburgh. A city that has been stranded deep in virgin elfin forest to stave off an invasion by the merciless oni...
  • Xander's Chance by Lizzy Ford

    Xander's Chance by Lizzy Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A continuation of the "War of Gods" saga ... As the single-most powerful vampire on the planet, Xander is the ultimate bored predator with too much time on his hands. He manipulates the minds of immortals for fun and bullies around the Gods, while guarding the secret source of his power, a crystal that can wipe out the planet...
  • Alien Tango by Gini Koch

    Alien Tango by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    For Alien Super-Being Exterminator Katherine "Kitty" Katt, anti-alien conspiracies, threats from outer space, and a couple of killer alligators are all in a day's work. It's been five months since Kitty joined Centaurion Division, working with the aliens from Alpha Centauri. She and Jeff Martini have grown closer and life looks rosy...
  • After Glow by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    After Glow by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 42 ratings
    Life is complicated for Lydia Smith. She's working at that tacky, third-rate museum, Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, trying to salvage her career in para-archaeology - and dating the most dangerous man in town. Just when she thinks she might be getting things under control, she stumbles over a dead body and discovers that her lover has a secret past that could get him killed...
  • A Shifter's Curse by Debbie Cassidy

    A Shifter's Curse by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I don’t regret what I did. I’d do it again. But what happens now?The relic keeping the taint at bay has fractured and it’s all my fault. As the fractures grow, it’s only a matter of time before the taint breaks free.There’s only one solution. Find the Dagda and beg him to fix what I broke.I’m about to enter a race against time...
  • Universal Alien by Gini Koch

    Universal Alien by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Being the wife of the Vice President isn’t easy. Especially when your talents lie in kicking butt and rocking out . . . Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini find out just how easy it is for the wife of the Vice President of the United States to unintentionally insult an ally...
  • The Dragonlings and the Magic Four-Leaf Clover: A Dragonlings of Valdier Short by S.E. Smith

    The Dragonlings and the Magic Four-Leaf Clover: A Dragonlings of Valdier Short by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    A little magic can go a long way....A campfire tale while on a camp-out with their dads has the dragonlings and their besties enchanted with a mythical kingdom called Glitter, home of the magical and mischievous Great King Leprechaun and the Little People. When the younglings discover their dads have disappeared, they are certain King Leprechaun is responsible...
  • Blood War by Connie Suttle

    Blood War by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Tsk, tsk," Erland muttered, shaking his head in mock sympathy. "Perhaps Lissa should raise the topic of Diplomatic Immunity at the Conclave." "That, my friend, would be inadvisable. She is new and many will be waiting, as vultures do when an ox is dying." "I know. At times, I feel the need to cover myself in oil, just to slip through the tripe and garbage of Wylend's court...
  • Killbox by Ann Aguirre

    Killbox by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 32 ratings
    Talk is cheap when lives are in jeopardy Sirantha Jax is a “Jumper,” a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. With no tolerance for political diplomacy, she quits her ambassador post so she can get back to saving the universe the way she does best—by mouthing off and kicking butt. And her tactics are needed more than ever...
  • Falling Blind by Shannon K. Butcher

    Falling Blind by Shannon K. Butcher

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    They are the Sentinels. Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn. Now a warrior must protect a strong-minded woman from an incredible evil..
  • Alien Nation by Gini Koch

    Alien Nation by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s a typical day of bureaucracy and stress for President and First Lady Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini, made more stressful when alien spacecraft are spotted making a beeline for Earth, none of them from the Alpha Centauri system. Then a cryptic request from an old adversary pulls Kitty out of the White House and into an explosion—and an even more explosive situation...
  • The Chosen One by Siobhan Davis

    The Chosen One by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Is she strong enough to fulfill her legacy or will the dark side prevail? After the gruesome battle on Xzanthar, General Arantu is on a mission to seek retribution, and he has Earth in his sights. Alinthia and her protectors ally with the government to shield innocent humans from attack, but that’s not their only concern...
  • Shadow Seer by J.C. Andrijeski

    Shadow Seer by J.C. Andrijeski

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “All what he has done, he has done for the greater good…”Blamed for the abduction of the infamous “Sword,” leader of the anti-human rebellion, Allie is despised by all free seers.As for Revik himself, he turns into a feral animal once free of his dark masters.She only has one shot at saving him. Unfortunately, it means learning more about his past than she ever wanted to know...
  • Blood Hunt by Shannon K. Butcher

    Blood Hunt by Shannon K. Butcher

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Hope appeared out of nowhere, naked and alone, a woman without a past. The only thing she knows is that she is imbued with a strange power. It's in her blood. And two men want to posses it. One is Logan, a Sanguiner demon-fighter who needs Hope's essence to survive. The other is Krag, a Synestryn lord whose desire is to enslave Hope, and drain her of the lifeforce...
  • Alien Collective by Gini Koch

    Alien Collective by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Despite not having run for office, nor wanting to remain in office, Representative Jeff Martini is being wooed as the vice presidential running mate for a charismatic senator who seems likely to win the campaign...
  • Alien Research by Gini Koch

    Alien Research by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When rumors of a new super-drug surface, the FBI comes to Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini for help. It becomes quickly apparent that the drug is merely the tip of a deadly iceberg and a much more insidious plan is underway involving Titan Security, Gaultier Enterprises, and YatesCorp...
  • Alien in the House by Gini Koch

    Alien in the House by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini have learned the ins and outs of Washington politics, not to mention how to prevail in intergalactic war and foil dangerous plots. But, in the aftermath of Operation Destruction, the Gower girls’ powers are burned out, the entire A-C population has been “outed” as the aliens living on Earth that they are, and, worst of all, ACE is nowhere to be found...
  • Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 26 ratings
    The Conglomerate’s most dangerous convicts have made the prison ship Perdition their home. And they will defend it… Perdition is under siege. Mercenaries have boarded the station with orders to take control of the facility—and execute the prisoners. Their commander is offering full pardons to the first five inmates willing to help the mercs complete their mission...
  • Heart Quest by Robin D. Owens

    Heart Quest by Robin D. Owens

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Tucked away in the Druida City of Celta, Trif Clover knows she has a HeartMate. She wants him so badly she’s actually going door-to-door with her charmkey to find him. What she doesn’t know is that he has already found her. Guardsman Ilex Winterberry knows that Trif is his HeartMate, but fears that being twice her age, with a short life ahead of him, he will only scare her away...
  • Aliens on Earth by Jodie A'Lores, Ashley Amy

    Aliens on Earth by Jodie A'Lores, Ashley Amy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    What's worse than being mated to an alien warrior? Finding out your new mate is exiled to Earth, which means your hopes of getting off this forsaken rock just went out the window of his broken down spaceship...
  • Broken Wings by Melanie Nilles

    Broken Wings by Melanie Nilles

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One Shirukan, an elite soldier of the Shirat Empire, came to Earth for Raea's Starfire shard and failed. Aware of the possibility of another attack, Raea trains to use the shard's power to protect it while preparing to graduate from high school. But she discovers that the Keeper training her has betrayed her trust and must decide where her heart belongs...
  • Honor's Knight by Rachel Bach

    Honor's Knight by Rachel Bach

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 44 ratings
    The rollicking sequel to Fortune's Pawn -- an action packed science fiction novel. Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either. After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life...
  • Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss

    Crossing the Line by Karen Traviss

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A female cop seeks refuge on another planet after being infected by an alien virus in this science fiction fantasy novel from a New York Times bestseller.Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a lost colony on a distant and dangerous planet—a hostile world coveted by two alien races and fiercely protected by a third...
  • Warrior Avenged by Addison Fox

    Warrior Avenged by Addison Fox

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Second in the sexy paranormal romance series Starring the immortal warriors of the zodiac. Millennia ago, the goddess of justice created a race of fierce warriors-each imbued with a special power of the zodiac-charged with protecting humanity from the darkest evils... Immortal warrior Kane Montague is as lethal as the Scorpion that makes his powerful form...
  • 5 Alien Minds by C.Y. Croc

    5 Alien Minds by C.Y. Croc

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Ava: I'm about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.Out of billions on Earth, four other women and I have been chosen to be the first ever women to be matched to an alien.We are about to cross the universe to meet alien mates chosen for them in an intergalactic match making scheme agreed by Earth with Vysarians, in exchange for their intellectual knowledge.Only things don't go quite to plan...
  • Heart Duel by Robin D. Owens

    Heart Duel by Robin D. Owens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In HeartMate and Heart Thief, award-winning author Robin D. Owens built a world where psychic talents and desires of the heart flourish. Now, she returns to Celta with a story of star-crossed lovers... Healer Lark Collinson hates the street dueling that is a way of life among the noble families on Celta--it was just such a skirmish that killed her Healer husband and left her a grieving widow...
  • Eye of the Tiger by Michael-Scott Earle

    Eye of the Tiger by Michael-Scott Earle

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Imprisoned and subjected to brutal genetic experiments, space marine Adam has been changed into a perfect predator. A super soldier that is part man, part tiger, and all killing machine. When his latest mission has an unexpected outcome, Adam finds himself free of his explosive control collar and honor bound to protect a mysterious woman...
  • Bound by Vengeance by Shannon K. Butcher

    Bound by Vengeance by Shannon K. Butcher

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An original novella in the Sentinel Wars series by Shannon K. Butcher. The guilt that Defender Dakota Kacey feels about her brother’s death is all-consuming, making her determined to find and kill the demon who murdered him. But the leader of the Defenders is worried about what Dakota is capable of, and calls in Liam Lann to keep an eye on her...
  • Damia by Anne McCaffrey

    Damia by Anne McCaffrey

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 37 ratings
    New York Times bestselling fantasy author Anne McCaffrey “interweaves an engrossing romance with a coming-of-age story”(Publishers Weekly) in this novel in the Tower and Hive series. Damia is the daughter of Prime Talents The Rowan and Jeff Raven...
  • The World Before by Karen Traviss

    The World Before by Karen Traviss

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three strikingly different alien races greeted the military mission from Earth when it reached the planet called Bezer'ej.Now one of the sentient species has been exterminated—and two others are poised on the brink of war.The fragile bezeri are no more, due to the ignorant, desperate actions of human interlopers...
  • The Eternal Flame by Greg Egan

    The Eternal Flame by Greg Egan

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Greg Egan’s The Clockwork Rocket introduced readers to an exotic universe where the laws of physics are very different from our own, where the speed of light varies in ways Einstein would never allow, and where intelligent life has evolved in unique and fascinating ways. Now Egan continues his epic tale of alien beings embarked on a desperate voyage to save their world . . .
  • Legacy of the Demon by Diana Rowland

    Legacy of the Demon by Diana Rowland

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Sidelined demon summoner Kara Gillian has her hands full when dimensional rifts allow demons to cause widespread panic and destruction on Earth. These aren't the human-tolerant summonables she's known before, but demons from the far reaches of the demon realm. Add three demonic lords with conflicting ambitions to the mix, and Kara has the perfect recipe for global disaster...
  • Silent Blade by Ilona Andrews

    Silent Blade by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 74 ratings
    Old hatreds die hard. Old love dies harder. On Meli Galdes' home planet, the struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport--in business and on the battlefield. For years her lethal skills have been a valuable asset in advancing her family's interests. She's more than earned her right to retire, but her kinsmen have one last favor to ask. Kill the man who ruined her life...
  • Sergey: Love Me Harder - Alien Paranormal Romance by Serena Simpson

    Sergey: Love Me Harder - Alien Paranormal Romance by Serena Simpson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the world Sergey came from everything happened in birth order, as the second born he had been skipped and there would be no mate for him. Lorali use to believed in sunshine and roses until her world came crashing down. With nothing left to do she enlisted, she might as well be all she could be. Then one day the military let her down also...
  • Rise of the Demon by Diana Rowland

    Rise of the Demon by Diana Rowland

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The long-awaited ninth book in the Demon series returns to the adventures of Kara Gillian and the supernatural threats that surround her Kara’s drastic ceasefire deal with the formidable demon Imperator Dekkak slowed the attacks on Earth to a trickle, but her troubles are far from over...
  • Distant Desires by Cambria Hebert

    Distant Desires by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is PART TWO of the Distant Desires serial series. An erotic tale from beyond the stars Sophie Perez has never believed the stuff she reads online about possible life in space. Aliens are for the movies, for the weirdoes, and they most definitely are not real. One night on the way home from a late shift at work, her car breaks down...
  • Illusion Town by Jayne Castle

    Illusion Town by Jayne Castle

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 35 ratings
    A new adventure begins on Harmony…    With its opulent casinos and hotels, the desert city of Illusion Town is totally unique—and will take you on a thrill ride you’ll never forget.   Hannah West isn’t the first woman to wake up in Illusion Town married to a man she barely knows, but she has no memory of the ceremony at all. For that matter, neither does Elias Coppersmith, her new husband...
  • Verita by Tracy Rozzlynn

    Verita by Tracy Rozzlynn

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    If your world suddenly crumbled, leaving you with nothing but heartache, would you risk your life for a chance at a new beginning on a new world? Brett Bradbury's parents are dead, her boyfriend's a cheater, and her best friend essentially dumped her. Truly alone in the world, Brett agrees to help colonize the newly discovered planet, Verita. Now Brett's on a strange new world...
  • Demon Lost by Connie Suttle

    Demon Lost by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The High Demon race is dying, and nothing short of a miracle will save it. Kifirin has promised to provide that miracle, in any way he can. Reah has worked in the kitchens of her family's restaurants since the age of eight. The only daughter among Addah Desh's 27 children from eight wives, Reah has been ignored, belittled and abused all her life...
  • The Empress Game by Rhonda Mason

    The Empress Game by Rhonda Mason

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rachel Bach, author of Fortune's Pawn, said -- "Fast, smart, complex, and fun as hell, THE EMPRESS GAME was an unexpected delight and one of the best books I've read this year. A near perfect blend of romance, action, and interstellar politics in a well thought out and original universe with a tough-as-nails heroine you can't help but root for...
  • Marked By The Alpha Wolf Part 1 by Scarlett Grove

    Marked By The Alpha Wolf Part 1 by Scarlett Grove

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cassandra Kline is taken in by Pyramid Corporation in the midst of global nuclear war. For the next five years, she lives safely inside a protective domed city. Working in The Program, a virtual reality simulation, she is confronted by her dead mother who tells Cassie she is in danger...
  • Liquid Lies by Hanna Martine

    Liquid Lies by Hanna Martine

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Magic is corporate America's best-kept secret, and Gwen Carroway is the best at selling it... With her ability to pick up any language in an instant, Gwen Carroway is taking her family business global. As dutiful future leader of water elementals, she'll do anything to protect her people's secrets and bloodlines--including enter an arranged marriage...
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