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A Treasure for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
Can an alien commander allow himself to choose love over duty? Jessica’s orderly life changed forever when she became the guardian of her orphaned niece and nephew. She is still trying to learn how to be a parent when they are taken by aliens.After a desperate attempt to escape their captors ends on a deserted planet, she faces an entirely new set of challenges...Categorized as:
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Hardship by Jean Johnson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt began with a terrible vision of the future. Compelled by her precognitive abilities, Ia must somehow save her home galaxy long after she’s gone. Now Jean Johnson presents the long-awaited epic conclusion to her national bestselling military science fiction series… Demoralized, their ship destroyed, Ia’s Damned must fight their way out of a planet-bound blockade and back into space... -
Quantum by Erin Kellison
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSpace Invader steals time for love... Ex-soldier turned space pirate Tey Raider is visiting Earth to steal a fortune and use one of the Red Rock vortexes to escape into the deep black. When he bumps into Sophia West, he has no idea the human woman will throw a wrench into the hyperdrive of his master plan, and spin him, his storm cruiser, and his heart out of control... -
The Terrans by Jean Johnson
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsJean Johnson's first novel in an explosive new science fiction trilogy set in the world of the national bestselling Theirs Not to Reason Why series—set two-hundred years earlier, at the dawn of the First Salik War…Born into a political family and gifted with psychic abilities, Jacaranda MacKenzie has served as a border-watcher and even spent time as a representative on the United Planets Council... -
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Axion by Erin Kellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsA close encounter in time... Leif is an emissary to Earth on a mission to find a human bride for his Leader. He’s depending on the Red Rock Intergalactic Dating Agency to identify a suitable prospect and is shocked when that woman is Nina Simms, an intelligent and beautiful female who gets under his metallic gold skin like no other... -
Mated To The Cyborg General (Celestial Mates) by Kit Tunstall, Aurelia Skye
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCelestial Mates—Romancing the Galaxy… One moment, completely human and modern-day Carrie Morgan is crocheting in her living room. The next second, a peach alien claiming to be a Celestial Mates agent transports her and her dog four hundred years into the future. He leaves her there to be discovered by her supposed fated mate—a blue-skinned cyborg general...Categorized as:
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Saving Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsLife is good for Team Weird, now heroes and fully fledged Time Police officers. Luke can't wait to bear arms. Jane has a date. And Matthew still hasn't had his hair cut.But Time waits for no one and neither do criminal masterminds. A major threat to the Timeline is looming, one far deadlier than mere idiots who want to change history...Categorized as:
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Lies, Damned Lies, and History by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 30 ratings'I've done some stupid things in my time. I've been reckless. I've broken a few rules. But never before have I ruined so many lives or left such a trail of destruction behind me.' As Max would be the first to admit, she's never been one for rules. They tend to happen to other people. But this time she's gone too far and everyone is paying the price...Categorized as:
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Shards of Time by Lynn Flewelling
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAcclaimed author Lynn Flewelling brings her beloved Nightrunners series to a close—at least for now—with a thrilling novel of murder, mystery, and magic. The governor of the sacred island of Korous and his mistress have been killed inside a locked and guarded room... -
End of Days by Susan Ee
End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They’re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn’s sister...Categorized as:
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In 27 Days by Alison Gervais
Hadley Jamison is shocked when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, has committed suicide. She didn’t know the quiet, reserved guy very well, but that doesn’t stop her from feeling there was something she could have done to help him. Hoping to find some sense of closure, Hadley attends Archer’s funeral. There, Hadley is approached by a man who calls himself Death and offers her a deal...Categorized as:
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Remember When by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsPart 1: Hot RocksPart 2: Big JackShe's one author - with two number-one New York Times-bestselling careers. As Nora Roberts, her novels include Three Fates and Birthright. As J. D. Robb, she offers such novels as Portrait in Death. Now she unites her separate identities in a riveting two-part novel that combines edgy suspense and romantic passion - and journeys through past, present, and future...Categorized as:
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Aurora's End by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
The squad you love is out of time. Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic, best-selling Aurora Cycle series about a band of unlikely heroes who just might be the galaxy's last hope for survival.Is this the end? What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases, and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course. Wait. . . . Not. So. Fast... -
Darkest Hour by Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot
What - or who - is buried in Susannah's backyard?When the nineteenth-century ghost of Maria de Silva wakes her up in the middle of the night, Suze knows this is no ordinary visitation - and not just from the knife at her throat, either. In life, Maria was the fiancée of Jesse - the same Jesse who was murdered a hundred and fifty years before. The same Jesse Suze is in love with...Categorized as:
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Mist by 微风几许
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius... -
Bengal's Heart by Lora Leigh
New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh returns to the world of the Breeds where animal instincts rule and anyone can fall prey to the mating heat...Reporter Cassa Hawkins has always supported Breed rights believing they should be allowed to live free of fear and prejudice among the humans... -
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Alternative cover editions for this ASIN can be found here and hereJason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters... -
Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsYear 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as my ex-friend Jarren, the murdering looter, knows.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills... -
Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts
The new Guardians Trilogy novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stars of Fortune. To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger... -
Defending the Galaxy by Maria V. Snyder
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsYear 2522. Oh. My. Stars.Junior Officer Ara Lawrence here, reporting for duty. Again. It's situation critical for the security team and everyone in the base - including my parents - with a new attack from the looters imminent, a possible galaxy-wide crime conspiracy and an unstoppable alien threat. But this all pales in the face of my mind-blowing discovery about the Q-net...Categorized as:
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Submit by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI was bought to be a pretty pawn in my alien captors’ twisted entertainment. But the gorgeous, horned alien who saves me from death is no pawn—and he’s determined to beat the hunt...Categorized as:
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Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
IT BEGAN WITH A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, and long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library,she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew... -
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel. While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth... -
Recursion by Blake Crouch
A thriller about time, identity, and memory...Reality is broken. At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen...Categorized as:
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Guardians of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsChristmas 1292. Time travel has meant many things to Meg, David, and Anna over the years. But regardless of the circumstances, it has always been about saving lives: their own, their family members’, their friends’. This time, it’s a combination of all three. Guardians of Time is the ninth book in the After Cilmeri series... -
Exiles in Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo years in Afghanistan; four years working for MI-5, the British security service; and the death of both of his parents from cancer. At the age of thirty-four, Callum thought he’d experienced the worst that life could throw at him. That is, until his boss ordered him to open a buried file on his desk and to take it seriously...Categorized as:
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The Truth of Valor by Tanya Huff
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHaving left the Marine Corps, former Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is attempting to build a new life with salvage operator Craig Ryder. Turns out, civilian life is a lot rougher than she'd imagined. Torin is left for dead when pirates attack their spaceship and take Craig prisoner. But "left for dead" has never stopped Torin. Determined to rescue Craig, she calls in her Marines... -
The Heart of Valor by Tanya Huff
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe third installment in Tanya Huff's action-packed military sci-fi adventure Confederation seriesGunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr was a Confederation Marine’s marine. She’d survived more deadly encounters—and kept more of her officers and enlisteds alive—than anyone in the Corps, and she was determined to keep the record intact... -
The Breach by Patrick Lee
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThirty years ago, in a facility buried beneath a vast Wyoming emptiness, an experiment gone awry accidentally opened a door. It is the world's best-kept secret-and its most terrifying...Categorized as:
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1632 by Eric Flint
FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy...
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