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Quit Your Waning: An Intersolar Alien Romance by Etta Pierce
Jihae is hungry for home. As the colony's first Halloween Festival approaches, Jihae becomes nostalgic for ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. Unlike in the West, South Korea's spookiest season is the dead of summer, once the humid air goes still and the shadows hang heavy in the trees and alleyways..Categorized as:
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Dragon's Destiny: A SciFi Alien Romance by Miranda Martin
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI’ve been searching for my mate. For my destiny. For the female who is somewhere on Tajss…KhabriThe Zmaj race was dying when humans crashed landed on our planet. Since the moment their coming was revealed to the Order, I've known that one of the females is my mate. My treasure. All I want is her and the beautiful, perfect babies we will have together... -
Press Pound for Refund by V.K. Ludwig
I crash-landed with a strange alien on an even stranger planet.Our escape pod is busted, the food sucks, and the weather in this place is even worse. The kicker? The alien I crashed with says he knows two million ways to please a woman—but not how to make fire, hunt us food, or get us off this planet. Looks like I'm going to die out here. Preferably post-coital.. -
Whisked Away by the Alien (Holiday Heartmates) by Julie K. Cohen
There’s an alien in my kitchen wearing an apron… and nothing else.There’s something delicious cooking in my kitchen and it isn’t the donuts or latkes. The tall blue alien with horns that hit the ceiling arrived in time to save Hannukah for my family, but he knows nothing about cooking... -
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Prisoner by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat’s more dangerous than joining the Vandar to crush the Zagrath? Being taken captive by the deadly creatures who rule the sector—and consider prisoners to be expendable.Cassie is eager to join her fellow resistance fighters when they team up with the Vandar hordes, but she isn't expecting to be taken prisoner during the battle... -
I Married Wonjin by Regine Abel
She once feared him but now cannot resist him…After decades of violence, the war pitting the human colony on Cibbos against the Yurus tribe has finally ended. Lara never expected that peace between their species would lead to a romantic entanglement with one of their former enemies. Resembling a cross between an orc and a minotaur, Wonjin looks nothing like how Lara had imagined a potential mate... -
Falling for an Alien Elf by Ava Ross
With Christmas around the corner, can Emily and a Cu’zod alien warrior turn fake dating into a happily ever after?Blue-skinned, scaled aliens are settling on Earth, and Emily signed on to be a sponsor. Likir will work at her animal rescue, and she’ll help him transition into Earth society... -
Savage Mine by Hattie Jacks
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFeral, 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... -
Leah's Hero: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance by Miranda Martin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy nightmares haven't stopped since the crash. I'm paralyzed with fear, barely able to function, and the other survivors are looking at me like I'm *that* girl.The broken one. The one who doesn't help. The one who's in the way.Then Urukol shows up. A seven-foot tall, muscular alien dragon-man who's damaged just like me. He wears his scars for all the world to see... -
The Warlord's Stormy Skye by Gail Koger
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy 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...Categorized as:
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Forever by Hattie Jacks
He's watched her forever. She's wanted him since the beginning. But the universe isn't going to make this easy...Ryak is a strong, silent, drop dead gorgeous alien warrior, and he doesn't even acknowledge my existence.But when he needs a fake mate, it means he's going to have to choose me.I'm the only human female not yet attached to a winged alien warrior on this dystopian planet...Categorized as:
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Storm by Hattie Jacks
He’s the monster on the space station. I’m the girl who always runs.I thought I would die alone in the heap of floating space junk orbiting a planet that's not Earth.But then he burst through an airlock. And now I know two things:We are not alone and aliens are not little green men.They’re hulking great winged predators with abs that go on forever and a penchant for hunting humans...Categorized as:
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Fallen by Hattie Jacks
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...Categorized as:
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Time to Heal by Evangeline Anderson, Reese Dante
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Single Mother, Desperately trying to get back her baby A Warrior who swears to help her or die trying Can Skahr and Emmeline steal back her baby before it's too late? And will they have...Time to Heal? Emmeline is a young, single mother all alone in the world...Categorized as:
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Fire by Hattie Jacks
He wants to set her soul alight. She wants to watch him burn…I made a mistake, now he’s going to make me pay.Meet Kyt, the rogue alien warrior version of a playboy. He’s all devilish good looks and angelic alien badness. He lives for the party, until my nearly catastrophic error means he’s put in charge of me...Categorized as:
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Ravaged by L.V. Lane
Fierce, untamed, and brutal, Quin, the alien ravager, is all these things and more.The kind of alien that wants to claim me and make me into his pet.One small problem, he's not real. He's a character in a book.None of this matters anymore, for the lines have gotten blurred. I need to be protected, and my fierce alien ravager is going to protect me... -
The Pirate Captain's Daughter by Ruby Lionsdrake
Firefighter and mercenary Marat Azarov thinks he’s being noble when he rescues a beautiful slave woman from certain torture. Alas, she turns out to be more than she appears and does not appreciate his interference. In an attempt to redeem himself—and perhaps win her regard—he concocts a plot that even his grenade-flinging colleague Striker deems unwise... -
The Alien Prince's Secret Baby: In the Stars Romance by Miranda Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsI’m having an alien warrior's baby... Draix rescued me after I was abducted and forced into slavery. I shouldn't have fallen for him. He's an alien, for one, and two he's the Prince of the Drihlai. We shouldn't be together, not by any twist of fate, but why not have a fling? It won't hurt, right? When he was called to lead the fight against the Chaluts, there was no question that he would go... -
My Christmas Savior by Tania Sharp
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsOne lonely female human. One emotionally blackmailed alien. One humorous Christmas quest.BellaNo one wants to be alone at Christmas, especially Bella. A year has passed since Chuck split up with her to spend Christmas Day working in the Bronx Zoo feeding toucans... -
Winks for Wings by Eva Priest
Rhys Darkbinder is an expatriated Dracenean royal living the high life on Earth, a planet far, far away from his homeworld in the Drachen System. Unfortunately, his fun comes to an end when a Dracenean honor guard arrives at his doorstep to escort him to the one person in the known universe he fears: his mother... -
Case Study: Interspecies Mating by Talia Rhea
Data Lunar Base ExperimentsCase 1 For your consideration, we the research team of the Lunar Base present our findings for the mating of ratchi Rizor Arhass and human Shoshana Carter.Data -Subject "I didn't come here to find my female. I just needed to think. All my life, I've been obsessed with revenge. And I had it. It was right in my hands. I could destroy him, but I walked away...Categorized as:
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Mated and Alone: A True Match Romance by Talia Rhea
Tsok has always done what is best for his people. As the Char of Kree, he is meant to be a model citizen and male, setting the example for his people and represent them on the intergalactic stage. That is why he decided to sign up at True Match and find his mate...Categorized as:
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The Captain by Elaine Waters
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... -
Taken by the Alien Rogue by Krista Luna
The charming blue alien says I’m his. It’s got to be some kind of line. But how can I resist him… or his wicked tail?HAZELI get lucky when horned blue aliens rescue me straight from cryo. So when I get the chance to use my communications skills to help save other human women, I jump on it.It’s perfect. Except for him...Categorized as:
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Aliens Abducted My Heart by Hawke Oakley
Maybe crash landing on an alien planet isn't so bad... After a piloting blunder strands Captain Levi and his crew on a bizarre floral planet, their peace mission becomes more of a 'get home ASAP' mission. But they're not alone. They’re greeted by big, hunky aliens who are as strange and beautiful as the flowers. When the aliens welcome them with open arms—and tentacles—Levi is wary...Categorized as:
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Taken by the Alien Savage by Ivy Sparks
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s a scarred alien warrior no woman of his species wants. But to me, he’s irresistible.I would have probably reconsidered leaving Earth had I known I’d get kidnapped by space pirates and sold to a barbarian race on an uncharted desert planet.Probably.But one smoking hot Xeki warrior makes me think otherwise. Ryker’s stare is so intense, it makes me forget I’m millions of miles away from home... -
Security on the Pleasure Planet by Chris Storm, Kinkaid Knight
ViragorCerbSec is the largest personal security corporation on the Pleasure Planet. Their agents are known for their loyalty, their ferocity, and their honor - rare and precious in a world where anything and everything has a price. They say, 'the hounds of CerbSec cannot be swayed or bought, and if you kill one, you will never be able to hide from the rest...Categorized as:
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His Human Nanny by Michele Mills
My indentured servitude is almost over and freedom is a heartbeat away! Until some alien guy buys me because he needs a nanny, quick. What the actual f@ck? I’m not even good with kids. I’ve never changed a diaper in my life. But the beings at the employment agency won’t listen. “Hew-mans are hot right now. Everyone wants a hew-man nanny.” Great...Categorized as:
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Alien Tides by January Bell
When the marine aliens rescued us, telling us they were going to treat us like queens, I envisioned spa days and relaxation. I did not imagine being sent into a dangerous labyrinth so their eligible males could hunt us, claiming us as mates. As soon as I’m tossed into the labyrinth, it’s clear this isn’t going to be some relaxing swim at the beach... -
Freeing Luka by Victoria Aveline
Luka has spent his life researching fertility in the hopes of discovering a cure for the Clecanians’ low birth rates. After years of working tirelessly with little progress, he becomes enraged when he uncovers a sinister plot to abduct compatible species from their home planets. But before he can tell anyone what he’s discovered, he’s captured, drugged, and thrown in a cell...Categorized as:
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My Big Alien Boss by Loki Renard
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI lied on my resume. Now I work for my big alien boss.The hours are good and the pay is great.I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’d be a fool to quit.There’s just one problem.My boss thinks I’m hot, and sweet, and cute.(He really doesn’t know me that well.)The next thing I know?I’m sleeping with him.And he wants to marry me.They used to call that making an honest woman.(The irony is intense...
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