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  • Vengeance in Death / Holiday in Death / Conspiracy in Death / Loyalty in Death / Witness in Death by J.D. Robb, Susan Ericksen

    Vengeance in Death / Holiday in Death / Conspiracy in Death / Loyalty in Death / Witness in Death by J.D. Robb, Susan Ericksen

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Vengeance in Death He is an expert with the latest technology…a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then he haunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit—always solved moments too late to save the victims’ lives. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the first victim butchered in his own home...
  • The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

    The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Hugo Award Winner! Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Academy, joins a mutiny, is placed under house arrest, goes on a secret mission, reconnects with his loyal Dendarii Mercenaries, rescues his Emperor, and thwarts an interstellar war. Situation normal, if you're Miles...
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  • Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Miles Vorkosigan and his fiancée Ekaterin are enjoying the Winterfair festivities and wedding gifts on their home planet Barrayar, but Miles’ enemies are at work. Sergeant Taura, a genetically engineered young woman Miles befriended, helps uncover the sinister plot. A double dose of romance enlivens this delightful novella in the New York Times bestselling Vorkosigan saga...
  • Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    The fifth installment of the Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan.In this novel Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan travel to Cetaganda, the long-standing enemy of Barrayar, to represent their Barrayar at the funeral of the mother of the Cetagandan emperor...
  • Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When her plane tries to come apart at apogee during a hijack, ballistic airline pilot Michelle Lauden handles the worst day she could imagine. After getting down without losing any passengers or crew, though, she finds her troubles have just begun!The country she's landed in has just declared independence from the Federation...
  • CryoBurn by Lois McMaster Bujold

    CryoBurn by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove—he’s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play...
  • Hunted by Lisa Harris

    Hunted by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He promised to protect her.But what happens when the hunter becomes the prey?Welcome to Shadow Ridge, where LONGMIRE meets JERICHO.From USA Today Best-selling author Lisa Harris comes an epic series where the survival of Shadow Ridge depends on learning how to fight crime all over again...
  • Ritual in Death / Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Ritual in Death / Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Dark, mystifying and powerful forces are at work in these two superb J.D. Robb short stories.Ritual in DeathWhen a naked, knife-wielding man who thinks he has killed someone crashes a glamorous ball she's attending, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is almost relieved. The clues point towards ritual murder, but Eve knows there is nothing supernatural about a deadly lust for power..
  • Dark Flight by Cynthia Sax

    Dark Flight by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His mission. His challenge. His forever. Orol, the Refuge's second-in-command, has been given what he believes is a simple mission--escort two human females to the settlement. The winged warrior arrives at the meeting site to find one of the females missing and the other aiming a gun at his head. To rescue the first, he must capture the second...
  • Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen

    Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life.Diplomat. Rebel. Fugitive.Nika Tescarav has lived many lives, though she no longer remembers most of them...
  • Surrendered by Evangeline Andereson, Reese Dante

    Surrendered by Evangeline Andereson, Reese Dante

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Commander Thornex is a Hybrid--half Kindred and half Pyro--a much feared people who have the ability to unleash horrific maelstroms of flame whenever they are angered. All his life Thorn has struggled to control the destructive power within him. A horrible accident in his past made him swear to never unleash the fire again and for many years, he has kept himself under tight control...
  • The Passengers by John Marrs

    The Passengers by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Eight self-drive cars set on a collision course. Who lives, who dies? You decide. When someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course...
  • Hitched to the Alien General by Mina Carter

    Hitched to the Alien General by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Her perfect man is a big, scarred alien war hero. Pity he only see’s her as a warrior, not a woman... Kenna Reynolds loves life in the Imperial Court. The latharian culture fascinates her, and she values the friendships she’s made amongst the sentinel women, most bonded to Latharian males, and a few with babies on the way...
  • Rescued by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rescued by the Zandian by Renee Rose, Rebel West

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Humans lie.I learned that lesson once before.I thought I found a mate, but she betrayed us all.I won't let that happen again.Not even when I find Sia and four other females nearly dead on a defunct planet.Not when the lovely female is remanded to my custody.She's not being honest about what she knows.But with a little pressure, a little punishment, I might get her to talk.Teach her to obey...
  • His Choice by Sheila Kell

    His Choice by Sheila Kell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AJ Hamilton never expected his life to spiral so low. Tangled up with Baltimore's largest crime boss, The Magician, he is ordered to threaten a bothersome reporter. His attraction to Megan Rogers was as unexpected as was their heated encounter. AJ tries to warn her off. When she doesn't heed his advice, he's forced to protect her from herself...
  • Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Mason Sykes had served many years in the Marine Corps for his country. His loyalty and sacrifice had left him disfigured—inside and out. He didn’t harbor regrets, especially since he’d finally found the peace and quiet he’d always desired on a Nebraska farm. Brenna Helm was a country girl through and through, right down to her cowgirl boots...
  • Blood Echo by Christopher Rice

    Blood Echo by Christopher Rice

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A conspiracy that promises bloodshed and the only woman who can stop it collide in the page-turning thriller by Christopher Rice, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Bone Music. Kidnapped and raised by serial killers, Charlotte Rowe suffered an ordeal that made her infamous. Everyone in the world knew who she was...
  • Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A new romantic action adventure for fans of romance thriller suspense and family romance series! One of six Italian brothers and a sister, JT Luciano is a widowed environmental biologist with a touch of the Sight who is preparing for an apocalyptic event he knows is coming...
  • Gladiator's Captive by Mary Auclair

    Gladiator's Captive by Mary Auclair

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    First he took me captive. Then he took me as his mate.Since I saw him fight in the arena, I have dreamed of him at night. Dreams I blush just to think about. But never did I imagine him carrying me off as his prisoner, spanking me into shameful submission, and then claiming my virgin body so roughly I screamed with every savage climax.Rager is no ordinary gladiator...
  • Warrior's Rise by Synna Star, Nikki Landis

    Warrior's Rise by Synna Star, Nikki Landis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Synika has hidden from the dominant alien race that conquered Earth 100 years ago in search of fertile females. She's a strong-willed and headstrong woman who knows what she wants and it isn't belonging to some Dungari male and auctioned off at the annual Choosing...
  • Palpitations by S.K. Munt

    Palpitations by S.K. Munt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Good girls don't smoke Good girls get their injections Good girls are excited on the eve of their wedding. Good girls die in the first five minutes of the zombie apocalypse Charlotte's naughty streak is either going to pay off, or get her devoured. And there are worse things going bump in the night than the red-eyes. A hostage. A viral outbreak...
  • Chosen by Swift by Lolita Lopez

    Chosen by Swift by Lolita Lopez

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Faced with the prospect of being sold in marriage to a vicious old man, Alys runs away to volunteer to be Grabbed. She’s spent her life preparing to be a wife and mother. Why not take her chances with a stranger who wants a family of his own?Swift hasn’t always been a good man. He’s made mistakes, but he dedicated himself to his duty and to regaining his honor...
  • Mastered by Sara Fields

    Mastered by Sara Fields

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Over the years since the Vakarrans conquered Earth, the few humans who remain free have been living in hiding, biding our time, trying to survive, and waiting for our chance to strike back. My sister was our leader, until the enemy took her. Now the task falls to me...
  • Hope's Folly by Linnea Sinclair

    Hope's Folly by Linnea Sinclair

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Admiral Philip Guthrie is in an unprecedented position: on the wrong end of the law, leading a ragtag band of rebels against the oppressive Imperial forces. Or would be if he can get his command ship-the derelict cruiser called Hope's Folly-functioning. Not much can rattle Philip's legendary cool-but the woman who helps him foil an assassination attempt on Kirro Station will...
  • See How She Dies by Lisa Jackson

    See How She Dies by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    London Danvers was kidnapped as a child from her wealthy family. Over the years, many women have claimed to be the long-lost heiress. Now Adria Nash has arrived in Oregon, claiming to be London - but she's different. She knows personal details only London could have known. And there is someone who does believe her . .
  • Alien Warrior's Secret by Mina Carter

    Alien Warrior's Secret by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Being captured by aliens is better than being sent home… Pilot Randy Rivers always has had a sassy mouth. This time though, it’s not her mouth but her temper that lands her in trouble and given her marching orders home. That and apparently slamming a superior officer’s face into a table is a no no. Even if the guy is a misogynistic asshole. And groped her...
  • Sub Zero (The ESTO Universe) by Angel Martinez

    Sub Zero (The ESTO Universe) by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Returning to the frozen planet Aren died on was bound to have complications... A Science Fiction Mystery from Angel MartinezMajor Aren Dalsgaard's newest assignment is to investigate a series of murders on the frigid planet, Drass, where relations between the Treaty settlers and the indigenous inhabitants have taken a nasty turn...
  • Zekke by Hannah Davenport

    Zekke by Hannah Davenport

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A military male by heart, Zekke wants no part of having a mate. They make you weak…vulnerable. He would rather be on his war ship fighting the enemy. When King Mallik ordered that Earth be protected, Zekke didn’t hesitate. Commanding a fleet is what he was born to do, what he lived for. But what he finds on Earth is the very thing he’s trying to avoid...
  • Abducted by Sara Fields

    Abducted by Sara Fields

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Mya Wilder’s family fled Earth before the Vakarrans arrived, and she thought she had escaped their grasp forever, but even the Celestial Mates Dating Agency proves unable to protect her. When four Vakarran warriors claim her as their mate, Mya is skeptical of their intentions, but she quickly discovers that these aliens are not the heartless brutes she expected...
  • A Marriage for Meghan by Mary Ellis

    A Marriage for Meghan by Mary Ellis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fans of superb Amish fiction will welcome the rich and moving stories of The Wayne County series by Mary Ellis, the bestselling author of Abigail's New Hope, Never Far from Home, and The Way to a Man's Heart. Meghan Yost is 19, bright, and eager to prove to her father, the bishop, that she's mature enough to teach in the Old Order district...
  • Savage Alien by Lisa Lace

    Savage Alien by Lisa Lace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Michelle's dating a movie star and from the outside, her life looks glamorous. But she wants something more. At night, Michelle has dreams about an alien. She can't believe how handsome he is and lets him do unspeakable things to her. After all, it's just a dream, right? She's surprised when the alien appears out of nowhere...
  • Imperfect Match by Jordan Castillo Price

    Imperfect Match by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A man whose future is assigned - A heart that yearns to be free. Lee Kennedy’s destiny is controlled by the Algorithm. It’s the reason he’s still in college, regardless of his good academic performance. He’s switched his major repeatedly and stalled on his Master’s thesis, but there’s only so much longer he can hold out. Because once he graduates, the Algorithm must be triggered...
  • At Star's End by Anna Hackett

    At Star's End by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dr. Eos Rai has spent a lifetime dedicated to her mother's dream of finding the long-lost Mona Lisa. When Eos uncovers tantalizing evidence of Star's End--the last known location of the masterpiece--she's shocked when her employer, the Galactic Institute of Historic Preservation, refuses to back her expedition...
  • Outsystem by M.D. Cooper

    Outsystem by M.D. Cooper

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In 4123, the greatest colony ship ever built is leaving the Sol System, and Major Tanis Richards has secured a berth.Demoted by the military and hung out to dry, the media calls Tanis the Butcher of Toro. But despite her soiled record, she still one of the best military counterinsurgency officers in the Terran Space Force...
  • Wrong Alien by Lisa Lace

    Wrong Alien by Lisa Lace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Life isn't worth living without an Internet connection. I'm always on the computer, video chatting, and even reading books on my phone. It was natural for me to use the TerraMates app to find a husband...
  • Craving by Lisa Lace

    Craving by Lisa Lace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Earth is losing the war with the Anquesh. The world government needs TerraMates to find a bride for an alien warrior and finalize a peace treaty with the dangerous race. Jennifer Carden never thought Kai would select her as his mate. He's tall, dark, devilishly handsome, and different from all the males she's ever known. Once Kai decides Jenn is his sindare, she's taken to an alien planet...
  • Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ten years ago, a deadly virus wiped out the majority of the human race, with the exception of an unlucky few with a natural immunity to the plague. Sandy McDermott is one of them, a solitary survivor who has braved the last decade alone. Now, finally, she’s found something she truly cares about. After years of loneliness, she has a new family...
  • Naima by Lisa Lace

    Naima by Lisa Lace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I never thought I'd find my soulmate through a mail-order bride agency. I never thought he'd be an alien warrior. He calls me naima. His beloved. When I'm on my way to meet him face-to-face, my shuttle is attacked, and we crash onto a planet in the middle of a war. I didn't sign up to be an alien comfort woman. I need my naima to rescue me...
  • Elite by Nicola Claire

    Elite by Nicola Claire

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Have you been a model Citizen today? Selena Carstairs has been raised an Elite. She lives the life of privileged luxury, never wanting for anything. Respected. Admired. Honoured. But life is not what it seems... The island of Wánměi has a strict set of rules. Be a model Citizen and all will be rewarded. Disobey the law and the consequences are dire...
  • Tagan's Child by Amelia Ford

    Tagan's Child by Amelia Ford

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The day after the first anniversary of her sister’s death, twenty six year old Sophie McAllister is paid an unexpected visit from a handsome stranger who delivers some disturbing news about her eight year old nephew and ward...
  • The Tears of Ephraim by William Dunaway

    The Tears of Ephraim by William Dunaway

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Part of the west coast is recovering from a series of devastating earthquakes. This caused a record drop in the stock market, and due to a national debt of twenty trillion dollars, the value of the dollar is on the edge of collapsing.  Now, due to civil unrest, riots are starting to break out across the country...
  • Stolen by Lisa Lace

    Stolen by Lisa Lace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The aliens are savage animals.Zandra wants nothing to do with them. She has plans for her life.But when she gets kidnapped by TerraMates, she doesn't have a choice.Suddenly Earth is far away, and she's expected to be a wife and a mother.Her husband? He's bloodthirsty and ruthless. He's the feral leader of the tribe.And now Zandra belongs to him...
  • Veiled Vixen by J.A. Huss

    Veiled Vixen by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    All his other Harem brothers have found their one true love and they are spectacular princesses. Not Valor’s girl. Veila is the definition of evil. Not the kind of girl a guy falls for. Especially a stand-up guy like Valor. He’s not interested in her sexy glow, her pretty hair, or her glowing eyes. No. Valor only wants one thing for his fated princess. Death...
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Description: George Orwell, published the "1984" in the near future as a novel in 1949. , "1Q84" is a 2009 novel depicting the recent past in 1984 and from the opposite direction. What was drawn there was "no way might have been" It's a world. "Maybe it was not so" now that we are alive, and the world is, in just the same way...
  • A Warrior's Heart by S.E. Smith

    A Warrior's Heart by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    This is a short story and will also be released as part of an Anthology. Ben and Aaron Cooper think their luck has ended when the freighter they are on is captured by the Marastin Dow, a terrifying alien species known for their savagery. Instead they discover love with two warriors who capture their hearts...
  • Ice Diaries by Lexi Revellian

    Ice Diaries by Lexi Revellian

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's 2018 and Tori's managing. Okay, so London is under twenty metres of snow, almost everybody has died in a pandemic or been airlifted south, and the only animals around are rats. Plus her boyfriend never returned from going to find his parents a year ago when the snow began - but she's doing fine. Really...
  • The Fifth Man by John B. Olson, Randy Ingermanson

    The Fifth Man by John B. Olson, Randy Ingermanson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Valkerie Jansen is tough, beautiful, and being pursued by every man on the planet. Literally. The planet in question is Mars, with a total population of four.Days before a giant dust storm is projected to strike their camp, Valkerie is attacked by an unseen assailant.Fortunately, there are only three suspects.Unfortunately, all three of them . . . are innocent...
  • The Trust by Shira Anthony, Venona Keyes

    The Trust by Shira Anthony, Venona Keyes

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eight years ago, Jake Anders was a college kid from the wrong side of the tracks. Then Trace Michelson recruited him into The Trust, a CIA-backed agency whose "executives" eliminate rogue biotechnology operations. Trace was everything Jake ever wanted in a man: powerful, brilliant, and gorgeous. But Jake never admitted his attraction to his mentor, and Trace always kept Jake at arm's length...
  • After The Collapse: A dystopian novel of our future after a worldwide economic and social collapse, and the chaos that ensues. by H.F. Stinley

    After The Collapse: A dystopian novel of our future after a worldwide economic and social collapse, and the chaos that ensues. by H.F. Stinley

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ex-Army Ranger Stan Dalton and his wife know the world is changing, and not for the better. They’ve both had the undeniable feeling for some time now that something horrible is coming soon that could change their lives forever. They buy a remote cabin in the Colorado Rockies, and begin the process of preparing for hard times...
  • Kragen by Chloe Cox

    Kragen by Chloe Cox

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A brand new sugarkink series from USA TODAY bestseller Chloe Cox! Kidnapped. By an alien warrior. Who says she's his mate... Andromeda Knowles has always been a fighter...
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