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  • A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

    A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 51 ratings
    An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy...
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    aliens  suspense  queer  science fiction  war  f-f  military  mystery
  • Without a Front: The Warrior’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Without a Front: The Warrior’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    An assassin’s shot has shattered the Opah family and endangered Lancer Andira Tal. Now criminal forces are racing law enforcement to find the man who could topple Tal’s government.With the net closing around them, Tal and Salomen Opah discover the power of their tyree bond, a power Alsea has not seen in a millennium...
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  • Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After disobeying orders and saving the planet of Alsea from invasion, Captain Ekatya Serrado returns home a hero and renegade, alongside Dr. Lhyn Rivers, now the foremost authority on a culture that fascinates and terrifies. They share a secret: they are tyrees, linked by an Alsean empathic bond that should be biologically impossible for two Gaians...
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    aliens  queer  science fiction  f-f  military  length-long
  • Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Without a Front: The Producer's Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alsea is fractured in the aftermath of war. So is its leader.Though devastated by a personal loss, Lancer Andira Tal must somehow stitch her world together and move it forward when all the rules have changed. Every decision is fraught with risk, and her enemies wait for her to stumble...
  • Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As the first Alsean to serve aboard a Protectorate warship, Rahel Sayana thought her empathic sense would be an advantage. She never imagined it could be a weakness.Captain Ekatya Serrado has her hands full with a new empathic officer, an attempted murder, and a missing cargo ship. Finding the lost ship only adds to her problems: its crew lies dead amid signs of alien predators...
  • Without A Front – The Producer’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Without A Front – The Producer’s Challenge by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When the Voloth invaded Alsea, Lancer Andira Tal thought the hard part would be fighting off a technologically advanced army. It wasn’t. In the aftermath of war, Alsean society is deeply divided and Tal is facing issues no Lancer has ever dealt with before...
  • Leap by Michael C. Grumley

    Leap by Michael C. Grumley

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    ONE OF MANKIND'S GREATEST LEGENDS HAS BEEN DISCOVERED... A FIND THAT ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WOULD KILL TO POSSESS... ...AND IT'S ABOUT TO CHANGE EVERYTHING. One year ago, a remarkable breakthrough changed what it means to be human. Now, from a new research center in Puerto Rico, Alison Shaw and her team are about to stun the world...again...
  • The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

    The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A split-second decision to save a civilization. Another decision to give it away. Captain Ekatya Serrado has spent her career fighting the Voloth, who view less advanced civilizations as fuel for their empire. The choice between saving her ship or a world under attack is easy. The choices that come after are harder...
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    aliens  queer  science fiction  f-f  military  war  length-long
  • Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron

    Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    James Patterson is a gay accountant living in Keyes, Oklahoma—deep in the Bible Belt—the religious heartland of America...
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    aliens  queer  science fiction  m-m  length-novella
  • 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...
  • Clyde and Hay by C.W. Gray

    Clyde and Hay by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Charybdis Station!Clyde Dailyn is a Grell that knows his own mind, thank you very much! He wants absolutely nothing to do with a life mate, despite the restless loneliness that's keeping him awake. A mate means trusting another person and that is one thing he refuses to do...
  • King of Midnight by Lara Adrian

    King of Midnight by Lara Adrian

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The line between darkness and light is drawn in blood, and the stakes have never been higher. Nothing less than the fate of the world rests in the hands of the Order, and in one Breed warrior's quest to thaw the heart of an immortal queen in the final novel of Lara Adrian's New York Times and #1 international bestselling Midnight Breed vampire romance series...
  • Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Returning from their honeymoon on Earth, Miles and Ekaterin stop at one of the asteroid-based habitats informally known as Quaddiespace (see FALLING FREE), where Miles is sent to defuse an incident between a Barryaran military command and the local police...
  • Alien Warrior Untamed by Ava Ross

    Alien Warrior Untamed by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She's fated to be mine, but the world is determined to steal her away.When I was twelve, I was forced to watch as an invader killed everyone I loved. He captured me and took me to the chamber, where he tortured me and the other males, desperate to twist us into a beastly army. He may have turned me into a monster, but I refused to give into his demands...
  • Alien Dance: A Bodyguard Alien Romance by Deiri Di

    Alien Dance: A Bodyguard Alien Romance by Deiri Di

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    SerenityAlien invasion? Check.Hot aliens want Earth women? Check.Traitor to my planet? Whoops.Things have gotten completely out of control. One minute I’m a normal college student working towards completing a major in dance, the next I’m a traitor to my planet, working for an bonafide Empress who is planning a full scale takeover of Earth. The guy she assigned to guard me?He is smoking hot...
  • Regi's Goddess by Lyn Gala

    Regi's Goddess by Lyn Gala

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    Regi and Dante landed on one of the Empire's border planets while the exalteds try to understand the involvement of the gods. Regi's people are xenophobic, so he's determined that his crew will make a good impression. The alternative is unthinkable, especially with so many Kowri suggesting that the gods would rather see the outsiders dead rather than show them respect...
  • Fire's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Fire's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome back to Charybdis Station!Fire may be a deadly Crellic Element, but he much prefers napping and snacking to murdering armies. After centuries of being used as a weapon, he's finally able to live peacefully on Charybdis Station. While he's content to spend his days visiting his friends and raiding their homes for food, he longs for one more thing. A mate to call his own...
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    aliens  queer  science fiction  m-m  length-novella
  • Alien Warrior Unbeaten by Ava Ross

    Alien Warrior Unbeaten by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can a stoic alien warrior melt the heart of his Earthling fated mate?After my mother gave me to the Shiedar invaders as a child, they took me to a place where screams of pain echoed around me. The leader tortured me and other young males I soon called my brothers. In his determination to twist me into a feral warrior, the leader turned me into a beast...
  • Arik by Tasha Black

    Arik by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s about to discover a whole new world...Lucy longs for a child of her own, and the excitement of settling a frontier moon.But she isn’t ready for the baby to come with an Invicta dragon warrior, who has sworn to protect the child with his life.And she certainly doesn’t expect the burly warrior to awaken feelings in her that she thought she left behind forever...
  • Constant by Lexi Ander

    Constant by Lexi Ander

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Can a Warlord and a Prince find love when the galaxy is on the brink of war?Chief Warlord Sohm'lan has a job he loves protecting the family who claims him as one of their own. He has known the loss of a mate and believed he would walk alone for the rest of his life… that is until Prince Mestor demanded more from him than duty...
  • Death's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Death's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Welcome to Charybdis Station!Dr. Verion Morrick is complicated. No, really. Not too long ago, Verion was simply a divorced research scientist on Frost Veil who wanted to reconnect with his estranged son. Now, a few years, one death and resurrection later, Verion is a new person -- both Death, the Crellic Element, and Verion Morrick. One being that helped protect the galaxy from an insidious evil...
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    aliens  queer  science fiction  m-m  length-novella
  • Alien Commander's Mate by Mina Carter

    Alien Commander's Mate by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Alone. Ill. She’ll do anything to find her kids. Both her children taken by the Lathar and her home destroyed in the process, Amanda Kallson is at her wits end and desperate. With nothing left to tie her to Earth, she’ll do anything to track down her daughters… even take an alien warriors crazy deal. It doesn’t hurt that said alien warrior is tall, ripped and as handsome as hell...
  • ICE by Kevin Tinto

    ICE by Kevin Tinto

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Archaeologist Leah Andrews stumbles upon something inexplicable in southwestern New Mexico: inside a dark cavern lies an undiscovered, Native American cliff dwelling abandoned for 800 years. While twisting through one of the narrow underground passageways, Leah’s flashlight illuminates the remains of a violent massacre...
  • Cross by S.E. Harmon

    Cross by S.E. Harmon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    I thought getting shot, losing my memory, and being hunted by people I didn’t know for reasons I couldn’t remember was rock bottom. Turns out I was wrong. I found a shovel, dug a little deeper, and found a whole new sublevel of suck. Apparently, I took something from the Formicary that doesn't belong to me. The boss, Petar Dobroslav, is willing to do just about anything to get it back...
  • Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Book two of Chaos StationAll they can do is live day to day... Felix Ingesson has returned to his duties as the Chaos's engineer with Zander Anatolius, his ex-boyfriend-turned-broken-super-soldier, at his side. Hope means something again. But there's nothing Felix can do to battle the alien poison flowing through Zander's veins, or his imminent mental decline...
  • Inversion Point by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Inversion Point by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zander and Felix's relationship has been to the brink and back: the Human-Stin War, imprisonment and an actual death/resurrection. Zander's death, to be specific, and the experience has left him…changed. The mysterious race known as the Guardians chose to revive him and appointed him as their emissary...
  • The Rebel's Mate by C.W. Gray

    The Rebel's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome back to Charybdis Station and the crew of the Blue Solace: (Seventh Book in the series) Finn Sterling is still adjusting to becoming the lieutenant of the blue fleet of Charybdis Station. As an orphan on Cardinal Hold, he never imagined he would have a position of authority as an adult and the trust his friends put in him makes failure impossible...
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    aliens  queer  m-m  science fiction  length-short
  • Stone Awakened by Robin O'Connor

    Stone Awakened by Robin O'Connor

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    An alien warrior in uniform should be sexy, but it’s nerve-wracking when I'm on an undercover rescue mission.AgathaI don’t think twice about diving headfirst into a dangerous rescue mission, especially when it's for the people who saved me. I'll kick in teeth, swap uniforms, go undercover as a gladiator trainer. Nothing can throw me. Except himThat man in the uniform has his eyes trained on me...
  • Playing Their Parts by Evangeline Anderson, Reese Dante

    Playing Their Parts by Evangeline Anderson, Reese Dante

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two detectives, hot on the heels of a killer...Undercover as adult actors on the wild planet of BachanaliusWill Steel and Cassie find passion while...PLAYING THEIR PARTS?Cassandra Steel and Commander Stone are a unique pair. Together, they comprise the first human/Kindred detective team on the Tampa PD...
  • The Harvest Young: Bound by Love by M.A. Church

    The Harvest Young: Bound by Love by M.A. Church

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will history repeat itself?Years of peace are shattered with a devastating strike against the very heart of Tah’Nar, and war threatens once more.Prince Hamza Shou: Young to King Duran and King Consort Jolak. Grief stricken. Angry. Vengeful. Screams of the dying stalk his waking moments. Death surrounds him even as he plots...
  • Tis the Season for Tentacles by Chloe Archer

    Tis the Season for Tentacles by Chloe Archer

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    BLURB FORTHCOMINGTis the Season for Tentacles is part of the multi-author winter holiday M/M tentacle romance collaboration, Tinsel and Tentacles 2.0. All books are standalones but may be connected to some authors’ pre-existing worlds...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  queer  science fiction  m-m
  • Domesticating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Domesticating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’ve been hired to teach an alien warrior social skills to woo a mate. But now he’s trying to woo me.When the elderly duchess I cared for dies, her slimy son—my ex—tells me he wants me back. Um, no. I flee and at the Intergalactic Employment Agency, I’m offered a job teaching an alien warlord sophistication so he can woo a mate at the upcoming Match-Mating Soiree...
  • Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    USA Today and New York Times bestselling author, Wendy Higgins, brings you the gripping, sensual conclusion to her apocalyptic trilogy. Amber Tate never dreamed their heart-wrenching escape from the enemy’s attack would lead them to the most beautiful place she’s ever seen, marred by one ugly fact; it’s under enemy control...
  • Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Elena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations...
  • Failure to Communicate by Kaia Sønderby

    Failure to Communicate by Kaia Sønderby

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    As one of the only remaining autistics in the universe, Xandri Corelel has faced a lot of hardship, and she's earned her place as the head of Xeno-Liaisons aboard the first contact ship Carpathia. But her skill at negotiating with alien species is about to be put to the ultimate test...
  • Phase Shift by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Phase Shift by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zander and Felix’s relationship has always pushed boundaries—personal and professional alike—but their love and commitment is stronger than ever. So strong that Zander’s ready to ask commitment-shy Felix the question of a lifetime when he’s interrupted...
  • Orion by Tasha Black

    Orion by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Arkadian Brides Agency is about to send Hailey to paradise.Hailey always thought she was a member of the noble poor in Arkadia’s underworld. Her family’s farm might be struggling, but as the designated produce runner, she is reminded how lucky she is every time she brings donations to the village children’s home...
  • Regi's Huuman by Lyn Gala

    Regi's Huuman by Lyn Gala

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    Regi has settled into a comfortable life away from his home and family and gods. By choosing to leave the Empire, he chose to leave all those behind and live alone and godless. He still claimed to follow Poque, goddess of wanderers, but he doesn't expect her to notice him as he serves on Coalition ships...
  • Cam's Fortune by Odessa Lynne

    Cam's Fortune by Odessa Lynne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once every three years, humans become sexual prey to a species that has no control over the urge to mate because of a devastating attraction to human scent...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  queer  science fiction  m-m  length-medium
  • The Chains of Their Sins by Anna Butler

    The Chains of Their Sins by Anna Butler

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **First Place Winner 2017 Rainbow Awards: Best Gay Sci-fi//Futuristic. ****Third Place Winner 2017 Rainbow Awards: Best Gay Book.**Shield Captain Bennet arrives on the Gyrfalcon to take up his final year's posting before returning to the Shield Regiment after his rotation out.On the Gyrfalcon he faces up to the fallout from Makepeace—ethical, political and above all, personal...
  • V'hor's Nestmate by Michelle Howard

    V'hor's Nestmate by Michelle Howard

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    An elite soldier with the Jutak warriors, V’hor Dahreel had a reputation for being cold and on the verge of being out of control. He never imagined the cure to his troubles was a human woman from Earth. Finding his nestmate during a mission was the last thing he expected but Eva was everything he’d ever needed...
  • Titans by Erik Schubach

    Titans by Erik Schubach

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The Valkyrie and the Asgard must contend with an adversary unlike any they have faced before.Kara comes up against an enemy she does not know how to confront. Her brute force fighting skills are useless against this new enemy, and she must match wits with the Titan leader in a battle of wills.Surprises abound and awkward alliances are formed...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  queer  f-f  science fiction  length-short
  • Leopold by M.D. Grimm

    Leopold by M.D. Grimm

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    How does a human survive in an alien dominated InterGalactic Community? By becoming an assassin, of course. At least, that’s what Leopold thought when he became an assassin for the elite. Pretending to be an alien known as Voidstriker, Leopold feeds his appetite for vengeance, killing aliens as well as taking their money. It's a win-win to his mind...
  • Cargo by Kiki Burrelli

    Cargo by Kiki Burrelli

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Lust at first sight Phoenix spots the tall, dark and dangerously sexy man in line behind him at the club immediately. He thinks he's found a dance partner for the night, but the stranger has other plans. Jax has worked his entire life to become the best sourcer on Akar, maybe even in all of Zila Galaxy...
  • Eating Stars by Angel Martinez

    Eating Stars by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Flee. Scatter. Take your mates and your offspring and run.The escape pods fall to Earth one by one over the course of weeks, a mysterious and diverse alien diaspora, each pod containing a different alien race and leaving the world's governments scrambling to deal with this unexpected immigration...
  • Warrior's Reign: A Sci Fi Alien Romance by Emma Alisyn, Sora Stargazer

    Warrior's Reign: A Sci Fi Alien Romance by Emma Alisyn, Sora Stargazer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Redemption. Assassination. A bond forged under fire. Reign is given a second chance to save her career when a royal friend offers her a job on an elite team of personal guards. Determined to prove her worth, she fends off sneaky sabotage by the implacable head of security, Vykhan, who thinks she is dangerous and hot-headed...
  • Provoking Odium by Cynthia Sax, Amanda Kelsey

    Provoking Odium by Cynthia Sax, Amanda Kelsey

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A Beautiful CyborgWhile accompanying his leader on a mission, Odium, an E Model cyborg, hears a distress call over the communication lines. The voice on that message makes his circuits surge with energy and all his systems light up. He has to respond to the mysterious female, would risk his lifespan and the lifespans of everyone on board their ship to protect her...
  • Lee Shores by Rachel Ford

    Lee Shores by Rachel Ford

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Sometimes still waters are the most dangerous. Murder turns a quiet month of shore leave into a nightmare for Chief Engineer Kay Ellis and Captain Magdalene Landon of the Black Flag. When a member of their crew is implicated in the killing of a young woman, the privateers find themselves pawns in an interplanetary diplomatic struggle that predates any of them...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  queer  f-f  science fiction  mystery  length-long
  • Alien Primal's Bond by Athena Storm, Anne Hale

    Alien Primal's Bond by Athena Storm, Anne Hale

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    My head says no. But my heart says yes.I shouldn’t be having these thoughts about an alien.My imagination should not be running wild about Ehro.But ever since he rescued me and saved my life, I can’t get him out of my head.I want his shadow to blot out the sun when he’s next to me.Hold onto his horns as he lifts me up.Ride on his back as he carries me on his massive shoulders...
  • Alien Warrior Unleashed by Ava Ross

    Alien Warrior Unleashed by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A tortured alien hero determined to protect his fated mate.As a child, I was stolen by the lord of my planet’s invaders. He brought me to the chamber, where he held others he’d also taken. Through the years, me and my new brothers were twisted into hardened beasts, each with a unique ability that shouldn’t exist outside of myth. We’re monsters. Any female who gazes upon us will run...
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