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Legacy for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
He offered them escape. He never expected to find a family.Former trauma nurse Kara Macintosh is a survivor. When she and her non-verbal son Rory are abducted by aliens, she fights with everything she has to keep them together, only to have the pair of them sold to the owner of a brutal asteroid mine...Categorized as:
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Taunting Krell by Laurann Dohner
Book 7 in the Cyborg Seduction series. Krell hates humans. They left him scarred and undesirable to females. He’s lived a lonely existence in his home world because of their brutality. So he’s angry when he’s ordered to interrogate the captured human. She’s the enemy, a soldier from Earth. He’ll show her the same mercy they showed him. None...Categorized as:
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A Home for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn
Can a lonely alien warrior find the family he’s always wanted?When tragedy shatters Claire’s world, she abandons her corporate job and retreats to a remote mountain town. Just when she finally begins to rebuild her life, she is abducted by alien slavers.Unable to escape the scientist who purchases her, she devotes herself to the young alien twins who are also trapped by his twisted experiments... -
Three Babies and the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
Can a jaded alien warrior redeem himself in order to protect the woman and children who need him? After a painful divorce, Linda takes a job as the chief administrator of a rural hospital. Her hard won peace is shattered when strange black-suited men raid the maternity ward and she finds herself on board an alien spaceship...Categorized as:
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Daughter of the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn
Can a grieving alien warrior and a desperate mother overcome their painful pasts through the shared love of a child?One year ago, Jade’s husband was killed and the baby she had wanted for so long disappeared. She has been searching for her daughter ever since. Nothing - not even being abducted by aliens - is going to stop her...Categorized as:
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Hope for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
A cynical alien, an optimistic human, an impossible attraction…Felicity’s life is safe, predictable - and boring. Until a simple celebration turns into an alien kidnapping, a desperate escape attempt, and an encounter with the most dangerous, unpredictable - and exciting male she’s ever met.Luxor gave up on his dying race the day they gave up on him. Since then he’s lived by his own rules...Categorized as:
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A Family for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
A grumpy alien warrior. A pregnant librarian. A ready-made family?Wanda has never hankered after excitement - or romance. A quiet life as a small town librarian suits her just fine. But while she doesn’t need a man, she does want a child. Just as her hard-earned dreams come true, she is abducted by aliens...Categorized as:
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Olivia and the Orc by Honey Phillips
An orc guard. A kidnapped human. A treacherous journey…The last thing Olivia remembers is celebrating a friend’s birthday. The next thing she knows, she and her friends are being marched across an alien desert by a gang of small lizardmen - and one very large and forbidding green alien...Categorized as:
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Conqueror by Anna Hackett
After two years of alien captivity, Evie is free, but her captors have changed her. Now struggling to control a terrifying new power, her only hope is one formidable, dangerous alien king.Logistics manager Evie Mason is no longer a prisoner on an alien space station, but she’s far from Earth, suffering nightmares, and fighting to ignore the growing power inside her...Categorized as:
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Victoria's Challenge by M.K. Eidem
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsVictoria Lynn Chamberlain… at two, she was abducted by an alien race, the Regulians… at nine, her world literally explodes when the Regulians returned, destroying Earth. She and her Aunt are the only survivors thanks to another alien race, the Carinians. Now she’s eighteen, a new graduate from their top medical school, and is ready to claim her life mate...Categorized as:
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The Arcav Prince's Captive by Hope Hart
Can you ever truly escape the past? Everly, tough, fierce ex-federal agent has broken with her past, moving to Arcavia and training as the Queen's guard. Along with the challenges of adjusting to a new planet, she's dealing with a disasterous complication: The fallout from an incredible, stolen night with Korva, a broken male known as a traitor amonst both Arcav and humans...Categorized as:
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Captured for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI refused to be in the Bride Lottery—so now I’m a runaway bride.Somehow, I knew my name was going to be drawn in the Bride Lottery—the hellish agreement that Earth’s leaders had made to sell us to the aliens who protected our planet.I’d grown up with the propaganda. It was our civic duty. Men registered for the draft, women registered for the Bride Lottery...Categorized as:
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Endark by Honey Phillips
Can a determined human bride save an alien shifter from his beast?Half human and half Vultor - and rejected by both - Endark has lived his life alone. The only family he knows is the one he has formed with his warrior brothers. But even that bond is not enough to save him from his father’s cruel legacy. His only hope is a mate who will calm his inner beast...Categorized as:
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Callum by Honey Phillips
Can a weary alien warrior and a wary human widow learn to love again?The life of a warrior is all Callum has ever known, but after a long, meaningless war he is tired of fighting. Instead, he chooses to accompany his brothers in arms to a new life on a backwater planet and finds an unexpected peace in the hard work of restoring their isolated ranch...Categorized as:
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Possessed by the Alien Hero by Krista Luna
I live without emotion. Yet one touch from my fated mate shatters all my restraint.SOFIAI did it! I helped cure the virus our enemy used to kill so many humans and Varool. Then I created a new one that will turn the tables on the bugs and win us the war. If we can release it into the heart of the attacking Swarm.Enter Yash. Tall. Aloof. Alien. Gorgeous. He’s even royalty of some sort... -
Krac's Firebrand by S.E. Smith
Section K Replication Alluthan Clone, or Krac as he was now called, had one focus in his life; protecting the descendants of the Freedom Five who ruled Earth’s council. Rescued by members of the family from a secret facility, he pledged to do what he could to always keep them safe. Things become personal when insurgents target a special member of the Freedom Five, Gracie Jones-Jefe and her family... -
Brilliant Starlight by Anna Carven
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAbbey We're back on Silence , orbiting the Dark Planet while my husband handles unfinished business on Kythia. For some reason, he seems a little bit tense. According to Tarak, Kythian politics can be complicated, especially when the entire Kordolian Empire has just been destroyed. I hope things don't get too complicated, because I don't want to be stuck here for too long... -
His Virgin Bride by Grace Goodwin
After a life on the streets, Katie chooses the Interstellar Brides Program for a chance at a new life, a new identity. But when she arrives on Everis, her Marked Mate refuses to claim her. As an Elite Hunter, Bryn has to travel to Hyperion, a known world of gangs and vicious evil to bring an assassin to justice, and leave her behind...Categorized as:
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The Alien's Sacrifice by Ella Maven
I don’t deserve her, but I’ll risk everything to save her.Tasha: We’ve carved out a little life for ourselves on Corin—me and the other human survivors. It’s not perfect, and I miss Earth, but we could never return. Not after what was done to us. Not after what we’ve become. So we keep to ourselves, hiding from anyone and anything that would do us harm, until our peaceful settlement is raided... -
Hunted by the Alien Berserker by Mina Carter
She’s a pilot, not a people person. What does she know about keeping a bunch of women alive on an alien planet?Even worse, said planet has alien cavemen intent on carrying them off to their lairs to… do whatever it is alien cavemen DO to their captives. Yeah, that doesn’t take a genius to figure out...Categorized as:
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Sara and the Spymaster by Honey Phillips
Can a passionate woman awaken a frozen warrior? Sara’s life is turned upside down when she is kidnapped by brutal aliens. Even after she’s rescued by an Imperial ship, she can’t return to Earth. The only person who seems concerned about her future is the icy alien warrior who interrogates her... -
Paul's Pursuit by S.E. Smith
Paul Grove loves two things in the world more than anything else: his daughter, Trisha, and roaming the mountains and forests of Wyoming. One he would kill for, the other is who he is. He has spent his life devoted to his ‘little’ girl, even though she isn’t so little anymore. When she disappears, he focuses all of his hunting and tracking skills on finding her...Categorized as:
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Fighting Captivity by R.K. Munin
Born deaf, Zia Higgs never let that stop her from going after what she wants. After growing up poverty-stricken on the human colony of Wimol, she found a high-paying job with a scrap trawler that allows her to send money home and also save for new implants...Categorized as:
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Legacy by Tana Stone
The Drexian Academy has four schools and four rules. Beware of the Assassins.Don't cross the Blades.Trust the Irons.The Wings go as one.Break them at your peril.Ariana is the first human instructor at the Drexian Academy and the first female to teach flight to cocky cadets. She’s the best Earth has to offer with a lot to prove...Categorized as:
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Sanctuary for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
Can an alien warrior and an orphaned infant provide a new beginning for a lonely woman? Tired of relentless hours, arrogant clients, and endless demands, Barbara is ready to abandon her career as a corporate attorney for a simpler life. She doesn’t expect that life to involve an alien abduction, an abandoned baby, and an all-too-intriguing alien warrior with a very friendly tail...Categorized as:
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Risdaverse Tales by Ruby Dixon
Four Risdaverse TalesThe Alien's Mail Order BrideEx-soldier Emvor doesn’t mind the quiet of his chosen life as a farmer. He doesn’t even mind that most nights are lonely on remote Cassa, but he does need help around his farm. A mail- order bride from his homeworld seems like the perfect solution. Unfortunately, the person that arrives is Nicola...Categorized as:
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Alien Savage's Stolen Bride by Juno Wells
Rebecca While fleeing a dying Earth I've endured cold, hunger and thirst. The one bright spot in my nightmare is my friend and fellow red-head, Willow. I've never had a friend like her before, one who I'd do anything for and she'd do the same for me. We're traveling to the Draconian home-world to accept an offer of sanctuary. Of course nothing in the universe is free...Categorized as:
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Argan by Celia Kyle
Argan’s honor as a Preor warrior made him defend her. Liquid Knot’s heart demanded she save him. Liquid Knot—hacker extraordinaire—has made mistakes in her life, but none so big as getting an alien warrior sentenced to death. His head is on the chopping block and the Preor leader is determined to follow the letter of the law... -
Home World by Erin Raegan
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsPeyton I fell in love with an alien. Our world was invaded by carnivorous freaks and the Dahk swooped in and saved me and my friends. They want to save the Earth but we are our own worst enemy, or so I thought. The truth is we have no idea what's out there. Now I'm on my way to Home World. The Dahk's world. An alien world. I had no choice, it was taken from me...Categorized as:
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Protected by the Alien Mercenary by Robin O'Connor
Trapped in a terrible situation, I decide to hire a mercenary to help me escape. Pay him? I’m sure we’ll figure that out…RikkiI’ve been kidnapped and auctioned off. I’m not waiting around for my new ‘owner’ to do whatever he wants with me. When he leaves me with his guard in a sleazy bar, I see my chance...Categorized as:
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Faith and the Fighter by Honey Phillips
A rogue spaceship captain. A human scientist. Faith has spent the past eight years as a scientist locked in an alien research lab. When she finally manages to escape and finds out what the aliens are doing with her work, she is appalled and determined to stop their plans... -
Fractured Stars by Lindsay Buroker
McCall Richter finds criminals, con men, and deadbeats better than anyone else in the empire. She’s proud of her success and that she owns her own spaceship, especially since she struggles to understand human motivations, can’t tell when people are lying to her, and is horrible at recognizing faces... -
Help Wanted: Wife by Cara Bristol
They have nothing to lose except their hearts. The only thing keeping widower Larth from succumbing to grief is running the fledgling bakery founded by his late wife. He intends to make the business the biggest, best bakery in all of Caradonia. But he can’t do it alone. Unable to find affordable help, he turns to Cosmic Mates and advertises for a wife in-name-only... -
Treasured by the Hunter: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsABBY Years after the end of the world, my life is falling apart again. This time, I know exactly how to survive in the bugpocalypse. What I don’t know is what to do with the brawny purple alien following me around. Harb’k isn’t just big and strong, with a protective streak a mile wide, but he’s funny as hell too...Categorized as:
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Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
He's awkward. He's adorable. He's alien as hell. Zylar of Kith Balak is a four-time loser in the annual Choosing. If he fails to find a nest guardian this time, he'll lose his chance to have a mate for all time. Desperation drives him to try a matching service but due to a freak solar flare and a severely malfunctioning ship AI, things go way off course...Categorized as:
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Dark Minds by Michelle Diener
The mind is the most powerful weapon of all . . . Imogen Peters knows she's a pawn. She's been abducted from Earth, held prisoner, and abducted again. So when she gets a chance at freedom, she takes it with both hands, not realizing that doing so will turn her from pawn to kingmaker...Categorized as:
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A Very Arcav Christmas by Hope Hart
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBabies, weddings, and Christmas... oh my! For the human women on Arcavia, there's plenty to celebrate during the holidays. Sure, the Grivath are a constant threat, but with a surprise wedding to plan, a baby on the way, and even a visit from Santa, the first Arcav Christmas is sure to be incredible... -
Tracking Trisha by S.E. Smith
Trisha Grove enjoyed her job as a pilot for Boswell International but realizes something is still missing from her life – her family. She is ready to call it quits and head back home to Wyoming where her father lives. She never expected her last flight for Boswell would end with an unplanned trip out of this world... -
Banic by Mina Carter
She’s a doc on a mission. He’s a beast with a heart of gold.Dr. Beth Godwin arrives on Parac’Norr with one goal in curing the Blood Rage mutation that plagues the alien warriors. But she didn’t expect Banic, the most feared feral on the planet, or her reaction to him.A caged monster, she knows she should stay away from him... -
Alien Duke's Fated Mate by Mina Carter
She's the best pilot in the galaxy... He's an arrogant alien dukeMajor Zara Reid has one mission - prove human pilots can fly alongside the alien Latharians. She didn’t expect their arrogant Lord Starfighter to try and undermine her at every turn... -
Mated by V.K. Ludwig
You know your Gaia link is broken when your match is 93.While every Vetusian around me is expecting the arrival of the first hybrids, my mate is living out her final days in a nursing home.With true love unattainable, I concentrate on busting the crime ring responsible for the supply of human females forced into prostitution at the Odheim brothels... -
Ambushing Ariel by S.E. Smith
Ariel Hamm has always had a tender heart. Her love for her sister, Carmen, and her best friend, Trisha, has always been a priority in her life. But at twenty-eight, she is ready to start focusing on what she wants. After her fiancée unexpectedly ends their engagement, she is searching to redefine who she really is. A pilot for Boswell International, she knows flying is not her first love... -
The Security Guy by V.C. Lancaster
Anna has been sent to the San Diego branch of the Department of Extra-Terrestrial Immigration from her London PR company to negotiate a contract. Her job is to help improve the public image of the local Teissian refugee community after it has come under attack from a local politician. On her first day there, she is invited to the office Christmas party...Categorized as:
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I Married Amreth by Regine Abel
He’s the dark angel of her dreams.When Ciara attends the Intergalactic Medicine Symposium, the last thing she expects is to run into Kayog, an infallible empathic matchmaker, who declares he knows who her soulmate is. Her excitement at the prospect of meeting Amreth, a magnificent and powerful Obosian Hell Lord, is crushed when a pirate attack results in her near-death and abduction... -
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Rogue Enforcer by Grace Goodwin
Cormac of Styx Legion knows his value to his people. He is an enforcer, a weapon to be wielded, an executioner. Nothing more. He is accepted but not loved. Feared but not welcomed. He is part of his legion, brutal, efficient and utterly alone.When he receives a coded message claiming he has been matched with an Interstellar Bride, he knows the match must be a terrible miscalculation...Categorized as:
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Fated to the Alien Rebel by Erin Hale
SageI’ve built a new life on the planet Tavikh, spending every day seeking penance. And despite witnessing three of my new-found friends find their fated mate, I don’t dare hope to find mine. Not when there’s a chance someone from Earth will arrive to take me back to face the consequences for what I did...Categorized as:
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Protected by the Alien Space Guardian: My Monster, My Protector by Bella Blair
In the depths of space our worlds collide…ZOE: After aliens invaded Earth I am abducted and taken on a spaceship, bound for an unknown fate. Not even the company of other prisoners grants any hope, as we are all struggling to survive.Just as it seems the ship is about to crash, a mysterious savior appears—a powerful alien with eyes as dark as space...Categorized as:
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Barbarian's Valentine by Ruby Dixon
Maddie's mate is returning soon, and she wants to make his homecoming a special one. Pregnant Josie wants to seduce her mate all over again. The solution for both of them? A Valentine's Day celebration, ice planet style. There'll be kisses, scanty outfits, and a pair of reunions you won't forget...Categorized as:
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Twins For The Alien Warrior: A SciFi Romance by Athena Storm
No alien prince is going to throw me on his shoulder and carry me away!I don't care that he's technically rescuing me.Saving my life multiple times doesn't mean he can eye me up and down and lick his lips.He can say we're fated mates all he wants, I won't give up everything just to be his pretty little housewife...Categorized as:
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A Son for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn
Can she create a new family with an alien warrior? On the anniversary of the disappearance of Mariah’s sister and nephew, Mariah returns to their last known location, expecting to find only painful memories. Instead, she encounters an alien spaceship and recklessly sneaks aboard, taking one last chance to be reunited with her family...Categorized as:
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