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  • Holly and the Hunter by Lynnea Lee

    Holly and the Hunter by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Deck the halls… or die trying. I’ve spent months preparing for the holidays. Gifts for the children, hand-knit stockings, and enough decorations to cover New Franklin in Christmas cheer. It was going to be perfect. Then the raiders came. They didn’t take food. Or medicine. Or anything remotely useful for surviving winter. No, they stole the crate full of holiday magic. Everything is gone...
  • Conspiracy in Death by J.D. Robb

    Conspiracy in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 85 ratings
    Streetwise cop Eve Dallas and her trusty sidekick Peabody face a methodical killer in this latest addition to the In Death series by J. D. Robb, better known as the bestselling author Nora Roberts. In the late 21st century, on the streets of New York City, a street sleeper is found murdered, his diseased heart removed with surgical precision...
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  • Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb

    Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    New York Lieutenant Eve Dallas doesn't like to see innocent people murdered. And the death of Craig Foster is clearly a murder. He was seemingly ordinary history teacher, but uncovers some extraordinary surprises. Foster's death devastated his young wife, who'd sent him to work that day with a lovingly packed lunch...
  • Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb

    Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead...
  • Hunter's Price by Lynnea Lee

    Hunter's Price by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    XIK’N. My mission is simple. One: retrieve the shuttle. Two: don’t get caught. The tiny human female who answers my transmission is just a bonus. Every ounce of my being tells me to take her, touch her, and taste her. I earn her trust instead, and we talk for hours through our shuttles. When hostile humans turn on May and her friends, she steals the shuttle for herself...
  • Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb

    Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 76 ratings
    Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind...
  • Beyond Earth: A Limited Edition Collection of Sci-Fiction Romance by Stephanie Morris, Candice Gilmer

    Beyond Earth: A Limited Edition Collection of Sci-Fiction Romance by Stephanie Morris, Candice Gilmer

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Discover passion among the stars…. Blast off to the future with this limited edition collection of sizzling, science fiction romance stories! Otherworldly seduction and intergalactic adventures await you in these high-heat, open-door tales from a diverse group of authors. Meet alien gladiators, cyborgs, AI lifeforms, psychic aliens, interstellar royalty, psy-changelings, fearless humans, and more...
  • Taken by the Gargoyle King by Robin O'Connor

    Taken by the Gargoyle King by Robin O'Connor

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    My lab and research are my life until a ruthless royal swoops in to steal me for his own purposes. Caitlyn. I was one of the lucky ones. That’s what I always thought. Abducted but embraced by the Aderians that fanned the flames of my passion as a scientist and a healer. I had a lab Earth-me couldn’t even dream of, and if it was a little lonely? What did it matter when I had my research...
  • Hunter's Quest by Lynnea Lee

    Hunter's Quest by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    MORGAN. When the flesh-eating space bugs invading Earth didn’t make it up my mountain, I thought it was luck. I spent a quiet winter safe in my cabin as society collapsed around me. Turns out, a huge Xarc’n warrior has been stalking my land. Rhaz’k claims I’m “his,” but I belong to no one. His massive horns, fangs, and purple muscles turn my knees to jelly, but his cocky attitude is a hard pass...
  • Kian by Tasha Black

    Kian by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Silent and serious warrior Kian is being forced to leave his brothers-in-arms to watch over an Imberian baby and her adoptive mother. It’s bad enough to feel his ancient heart softening for the little whelp. But after one whiff of the beautiful Terran girl meant to be the baby’s mother, he is wrecked by the knowledge that this is his fated mate...
  • Rafe by Tasha Black

    Rafe by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After being tricked into indentured servitude on the pleasure ships, Jade Gatlin is determined to avoid male attention for the rest of her days. The opportunity to adopt a little one and start a new life on a frontier moon, where she can heal the wounds of her tortured soul, sounds almost too good to be true...
  • Jhon by Tasha Black

    Jhon by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Will this steely dragon warrior choose duty over love? Ella is overwhelmed with a joy that melts her heart from the moment she meets her tiny new alien son. But she doesn’t expect her pulse to race every time the baby’s muscle-bound dragon warrior guard comes close. Jhon was taken from his family at a young age to become a member of the elite Invicta dragon force...
  • BENEATH A BLOOD LUST MOON by Jodi Vaughn

    BENEATH A BLOOD LUST MOON by Jodi Vaughn

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Werewolf Braxton Devereaux would do anything to protect his mother from his abusive father, even commit murder. Or so everyone assumes. Pack Law justice is swift and unforgiving when it comes to murder, and soon werewolf Assassins are out to balance the scales - Braxton’s life for his father’s...
  • Secret Baby for the Alien Dad by Athena Storm

    Secret Baby for the Alien Dad by Athena Storm

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    To save my son, I’ll do anything…. …Even fall back in love with his father. I ran from Jax because I wanted to raise Nova without worry…. Well, I’m worried now. Because Nova is missing. Someone has taken him and there’s only one alien warrior in the galaxy brutal and dangerous enough to help me...
  • The Alien and I by Honey Phillips

    The Alien and I by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Can an alien king lose his heart to a human woman? Adjusting to life on noisy, crowded Samar Prime is difficult for former professor Anna Lennox, particularly when she’s forced to spend too much time away from her young daughter. A teaching job on a peaceful tropical planet seems like an ideal alternative...
  • Zero Dark Bloodthirsty by Alisha Sunderland

    Zero Dark Bloodthirsty by Alisha Sunderland

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 16 ratings
    The only thing worse than losing your life to an out-of-control space virus? Being the only one immune. It’s been weeks now of standing over my loved ones, watching them cling to life, willing their vitals to improve. Weeks of helplessly watching my mate struggle to survive. There’s hope — a vaccine is on the way. But until then, it’s just me and my comatose friends...
  • Caveman Alien's Prey by Calista Skye

    Caveman Alien's Prey by Calista Skye

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Piper. Living alone among deadly dinosaurs and huge alien cavemen is not the life I wanted. But I had no choice about being abducted to this wild planet. Everyone here sees me as property or currency. Or as dinner. I thought I had hid pretty well. But still I'm being stalked. Someone keeps leaving food for me, and I feel the weight of his gaze on me whenever he's here. I don't know who he is...
  • Xurek by Ava Ross, Alana Khan

    Xurek by Ava Ross, Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    It’s the intergalactic cruise of a lifetime, a chance to meet aliens and travel to exotic locales. On a lazy river excursion, I’m stuck sharing a float with Xurek, a cocky orc commander in the interstellar military. Leave it to him to insist on taking an axe on an inflatable float. The more anxious I become, the calmer he gets, which only irritates me more. I should ignore him, but I can’t...
  • Baby For The Alien Invader by Juno Wells

    Baby For The Alien Invader by Juno Wells

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The alien invasion of Earth is over in only minutes! Humanity is now enslaved and Isobel becomes the spoils of war! Isobel. .. Isobel's just a self-proclaimed geek. A computer nerd trying to get her dream job with the CIA when the alien invaders appear. It happens too fast...
  • Alien Spare by Cara Bristol

    Alien Spare by Cara Bristol

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    He’s the royal spare with a reputation. She’s the cosmic wild card he never saw coming. Prince Falkor Rullok-Myka has spent his entire life in second place—second to his brother, second to his planet, and probably second in his parents’ hearts. So, why not lean into it? He’s got charm, status, and a reputation as Kaldor’s “Prince of Scandal...
  • Dark Class: Bonus Epilogue by Michelle Diener

    Dark Class: Bonus Epilogue by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    Join Ellie and the rest of the Earth women, their partners, and the Class 5s on Larga Ways for a reunion that will make more than a few members of the UC uncomfortable. It requires you to sign up to Michelle Diener’s New Release Notification list, where you will get emails about new releases, and occasionally about free books and giveaways. You can unsubscribe at any time...
  • Cat by Sandra R. Neeley

    Cat by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    About This Book. CAT. A science-fiction romance short-story. 8427 words. Orlgo was one of the last of a unique breed. He’d been exiled, for nothing more than existing. His species was feared and ostracized. He needed a host – required one in order to live, thrive. Because of that, most other species considered his people parasitic...
  • Fox and Dragon by Jet Mykles

    Fox and Dragon by Jet Mykles

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Drake Ange is a Krystanni, which, in the eyes of most people in the known galaxies, makes him a pirate. Krystanni are known for flouting regulations and stealing from the government. Of course this isn't true of all Krystanni, but it's hard to dispel the rumor. Beth Holliday, callsign Fox, is therefore surprised when Drake applies to join the Emirate Elite...
  • Written in the Stars by Leslie Chase

    Written in the Stars by Leslie Chase

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    He might be the hottest guy in the galaxy, but I don’t need his help. Me and my alien cat are managing just fine. Running a bookshop on a pirate space station isn’t easy, but Megan’s determined to keep smiling. A lot of hard work and a bit of luck will let her save up enough for a trip back to Earth—but then Drask walks into her shop...
  • Virgin Beast Mate by Milana Jacks

    Virgin Beast Mate by Milana Jacks

    Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Save your cookie for the monster. Reem lives a secluded, sheltered life inside Community One. Sold to one of the alien beasts who now rule the Earth, inexperienced young Reem is terrified she won't know how to please her husband, and he'll end up eating her instead of bedding her. After years of waiting, Troy finally gets his mate...
  • Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews

    Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 179 ratings
    Maud Demille is a daughter of Innkeepers—a special group who provide ‘lodging’ to other-planetary visitors—so she knows that a simple life isn't in the cards. But even Maud could never have anticipated what Fate would throw at her. Once a wife to a powerful vampire knight, Maud and her young daughter, Helen, were exiled with him for his treachery to the desolate, savage planet of Karhari...
  • Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas walks the thin line between love and hate in this fabulous 40th thriller from #1 New York Times–bestseller J. D. Robb…. Eve Dallas has solved a lot of high-profile murders for the NYPSD and gotten a lot of media. She—and her billionaire husband—are getting accustomed to being objects of attention, of gossip, of speculation...
  • Drakkar by Honey Phillips

    Drakkar by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 40 ratings
    Can a vulnerable human become a dragon warrior’s greatest treasure? For generations, Drakkar’s people have chosen to live alone, only coming together for brief periods, but when he joins the battle raging across his home planet, he finds an unexpected family in a set of misfit warriors. After the war ends, he chooses to cut all ties to his past and accompany his new brothers to a backwater planet...
  • In the Roar by Milly Taiden

    In the Roar by Milly Taiden

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 36 ratings
    BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance. Alivia Vela is a big girl tired of dating. She’s at the point she’s going to find a frozen pop and get artificially inseminated. Or she would, until big, growly and oh, so sexy Karel shows up, saves the day and gives her a night she won't soon forget. That, mouth…that tongue. Oh my. Karel Yaghar needs a mate faster than he can growl the word MINE...
  • Hunter's Promise by Lynnea Lee

    Hunter's Promise by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    GABBY. A good girl gone awol. I knew when I Ex-Laxed our leader’s food that they’d send me to the arena if they caught me. It was worth it to get some of my friends out of this dump. What I didn't expect was the seven-foot-tall Xarc’n hunter who has come to my rescue. My horned and fanged savior isn’t like any other alien warrior I’ve heard about...
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