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  • MX Hub by Daniel Schinhofen

    MX Hub by Daniel Schinhofen

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Everything had changed for Zander Greaves over the last few weeks. He’d gone from being a private military contractor with his squad in the Middle East to being isekai-ed into a different multiverse. He lost his friends and his lover, Selda, in the same hour of his arrival, sparking in him the mission to kill every single Entoma he could to repay them for his loss...
  • Promises Kept by Michael Anderle

    Promises Kept by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Bethany Anne makes a promise, heavens and planets will be moved to keep it. She swore to protect the Federation before taking the fight to the Kurtherians. Nine months into the tour, and the Federation is still vulnerable when Gödel strikes. Renewed alliances bring the Federation together to fight the anti-Empire movement threatening its stability...
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  • Hunter's Wish by Lynnea Lee

    Hunter's Wish by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    SARAH. It’s not you. It’s me. Fen’k is a total cinnamon roll of a Xarc’n hunter who makes me want what I’ll never have: to live happily ever after. He deserves someone who isn’t afraid to love him back. After the last person I trusted stomped on my heart and stole all that I cared about , I stopped believing in love. I’m sure it still exists; just not for me...
  • Dragon in Exile by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Dragon in Exile by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    #18 in the popular and exciting science fiction Liaden Universe®. Clan Korval rebuilds its fortunes on the gritty, semi-anarchic planet of Surebleak...
  • Dad Bod Ogre by Lynnea Lee

    Dad Bod Ogre by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    I just won the bride lottery! Except I don’t want to go to Earth, marry some spoiled rich kid, and live in the lap of luxury. That’s someone else’s dream, not mine. My life is here on Stars’ End, farming cheeka silk and breathing fresh mountain air. There’s only one thing to I pack my gear, say a temporary goodbye to my beloved cheekas, and set out into the great unknown...
  • Neogenesis by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Neogenesis by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    NEW ENTRY IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE SERIES. Sequel to national bestseller The Gathering Edge. Menace from Back Space Looming out of the Dust of Time. The Complex Logic Laws were the result of a war waged hundreds of years in the past, when two human powers threw massive AI navies at each other and nearly annihilated themselves...
  • Loyalty by Tana Stone

    Loyalty by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An Assassin and a Blade. A human and a Drexian. High-born and working class. Will choosing each other be our ruin? The cocky, high-born cadet is everything I despise and nothing I need. So why did I agree to his deal? Because it wasn’t a deal, it was blackmail. The arrogant Drexian gave me the choice—throw my friends under the bus or tutor him...
  • Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

    Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe...
  • Rebel by Jenny Schwartz

    Rebel by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Life is complicated along the Hadrian Line. Decisions made on the border will decide the fate of the entire Human Sector. Nora is adjusting to her new role as a player in the games of the powerful. She's gained some interesting enemies and some even more dubious allies. She has also been presented with a unique opportunity, courtesy of Jonah...
  • Cherry Mission by August Aird

    Cherry Mission by August Aird

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Carter Ash should be a celebrated hero, instead he’s leading a doomed mission on a backwater moon, wondering what went wrong. His assignment is impossible - take over the whole moon with a handful of soldiers fresh out of Basic Training. It’s the kind of thing that takes an army, and his commanders won’t give him one...
  • Lady Luck by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Lady Luck by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Luck knew two things when he left Harem Station months ago. One. The silver-haired Cygnian Princess Nyleena was still safely frozen away in her cryopod. And two. There was a good chance she was his soul mate. He left anyway. Nyleena is what you might call feisty. Or sassy. Or maybe just… feral. She is wild. Much too wild for Luck’s taste. But now that he’s home there’s no way to deny it...
  • Peace Maker by Michelle Diener

    Peace Maker by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Fliss knows all about her ancestors, the Travelers, who were forced to land on Fjern thousands of years ago, but when it comes to the Gyr—the enhanced warriors who protect the people of Fjern from the monsters that inhabit the planet—she’s in the dark, even though she is one herself...
  • Salvage by Jenny Schwartz

    Salvage by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Secrets can get a girl killed. Cherry Pendit knows to keep hers close. But what if it’s whispering to her? What if it’s warning her of danger on the galactic horizon, and only she can save her clan? To save the people she loves, Cherry will have to risk her life to rescue a man she’s never met. A hunted man, a man abandoned on a derelict space station, on the far side of a black hole...
  • Claimed by the Alien Shifter by Mina Carter

    Claimed by the Alien Shifter by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    She doesn’t need love. She’s getting cats. Lots of them. She absolutely doesn’t need a sexy alien making her think of happily ever afters. .. Elise doesn’t need a man, she has enough with her job and ensuring her brother, the President, stays out of trouble. Or, at the very least, doesn’t get humanity into an intergalactic war it can’t win...
  • Blaze by Tana Stone

    Blaze by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I swore to myself that I’d never fall for an alien warrior. Now my life depends on trusting a Drexian I’d hoped to never see again. I was coming on board the Drexian space station to attend my cousin’s wedding. That was it. Despite every other woman on Earth falling all over themselves for one of the tough aliens, I wasn’t interested. Not even a little bit...
  • I, Alpha by Lexa Luthor

    I, Alpha by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Kal watches Charlie fly off on a mission, again. As Kander's ruler, Kal must continue her duties while she waits for Charlie's return. Her first priority is handling the rebel faction known as Alpha Prime. But, her focus begins to flounder for the first time since she became Kal. Frustrated in every way, Kal seeks guidance and comes to terms with the Alpha in her that Charlie triggered...
  • The Naga Scavenger's Precious Mate by Robin O'Connor

    The Naga Scavenger's Precious Mate by Robin O'Connor

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    He is the king of beasts, the lord of water, and I’m his captive mate. Farah. Underwater, what it is up can seem like down. I’m supposed to be dead, I’m supposed to be just a normal, boring daycare worker. Somehow, I’m stuck in the middle of a bizarre, nightmarish adventure. And then there is him. I'm not attracted to him with a burning intensity. No, it's just a fever from nearly drowning...
  • Pirating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Pirating the Alien by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m falling for my space pirate boss, but rogue aliens are after him—and now me. It was a simple job. Sneak aboard a pirate spaceship and steal a precious artifact from the brooding, too-hot captain, Matis. Before I know it, I’ll be on my way back to Earth with enough credits to cure my mom’s sickness...
  • Ignite by Tana Stone

    Ignite by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Aliens are real, they happen to be gorgeous, and there’s no way I’d ever agree to be a tribute bride for them. Now that everyone on Earth knows about the Drexians—and their need for human mates—women have been falling all over themselves to volunteer. But not me. Oh, I’m eager to go to the holographic space station where human brides are taken for their fantasy weddings and honeymoons...
  • Alien Haunts by Jenny Schwartz

    Alien Haunts by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Alien ruins — avoid or explore? Madison Cardinal knows some mysteries are best left buried—like her past. But there’s a new multi-species exploration team in town and their proposed expedition is stirring up trouble. If Madison’s new business as a human pilot in hantu space is to survive, she needs the exploration team to get in, get out, and leave her cargo route intact...
  • Rudi by Honey Phillips

    Rudi by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Clarice is grateful for the chance to have left a dying Earth - she just wishes she hadn’t ended up somewhere quite so cold. But then she gets thrown into a rescue mission with a huge, muscular alien with glowing skin - and antlers! - and suddenly things on NorPol are heating up! Rudi has long since accepted that he is… different from the rest of his tribe...
  • I, True Mate by Lexa Luthor

    I, True Mate by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    For a peaceful moment, Kal can simply be Charlie’s true mate. After the fall of Alpha Prime, Kal handles a few loose ends and prepares for the further. But most importantly, she spends time reconnecting with Charlie, who was almost lost to Kal at the Battle of Iceholde.
  • The Naga Shaman's Pregnant Mate by Robin O'Connor

    The Naga Shaman's Pregnant Mate by Robin O'Connor

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    Stranded. Pregnant. Hunted. Falling for a deadly alien shaman was not in my birth plan. Nala. I woke in a glowing coffin, belly heavy, panic clawing at my throat. Then he appeared—white scales, golden eyes, and a voice like velvet over steel. He saved me… but I don’t know if I can trust anyone, not after what the Krektar did. I just want to protect my baby. That’s it...
  • I, Finna by Lexa Luthor

    I, Finna by Lexa Luthor

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Kal’s past life as Sumner is being triggered by Charlie! Since meeting Charlie, Kal’s old flashbacks as Sumner continue to bubble up to the surface but this time it’s a memory triggered after meeting Raine Ramos. Others begin to notice Kal’s changes including Lennox, who confronts her. Now Kal must make a choice that will affect her and Charlie’s future.
  • Paladin by Anna Hackett

    Paladin by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A cyborg drowning in emotions and an abducted Earth woman trying not to feel. Abducted, enslaved, and constantly worried for her daughter, scientist Dr. Simone Li has had a rough few months. Now that she and her daughter, Grace, have been rescued by the fierce cyborgs of the House of Rone, she’s trying to make a life for them on the desert world of Carthago...
  • Shield by Jenny Schwartz

    Shield by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If Cherry was a selfish witch, she'd keep running. She's an oracle. She KNOWS that trouble is closing in. However, there's an instant in which she could escape, and so could those she loves. Too bad she's surrounded herself with ridiculously noble allies. The kind of self-sacrificing, kind, clever, and resolute people who force you to love them . .
  • I Spy an Alien by Jenny Schwartz

    I Spy an Alien by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A quirky sci-fi romantic comedy about a blue-skinned alien spy and the woman who accidentally seduces him. Betrayed, broken-hearted, and plain broke, Elif Moora enlists in the Pax Galactica Corps. Her first assignment is a triumph! As the producer of Doctor Galaxy, Elif successfully raises humanity’s abysmal profile among a galactic audience of trillions. But then her efforts are sabotaged...
  • The Spider's Mate by Tiffany Roberts

    The Spider's Mate by Tiffany Roberts

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    He’s spent years as a hunter, but now he’s the one ensnared in a creature’s trap. Ketahn did not want a mate. Fate has a different plan for him. When the queen he despises declares her intention to claim him, he retreats into the jungle. What he finds there changes his world. Small, delicate, and pale skinned, Ivy Foster is nothing like the females Ketahn has known. She’s not of his kind at all...
  • Troy by Tasha Black

    Troy by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Is his heart the mirror she needs to finally see her true beauty? A terrible accident left Eliza with a troubled heart and an unsightly scar. No Terran man wants a woman with a disfigured face, no matter how kind or hardworking. So when Eliza receives the opportunity to adopt a baby and move to a remote frontier moon, she jumps at the chance...
  • Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Ascension Saga: 9 - Destiny, Part 3 by Grace Goodwin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Destiny is doing everything she can to find her mother and stop the evil traitors from taking over her planet. But explosions, murder plots and chaos are just the beginning. And now she has more on the line than ever before. Now, she's in love. And Nix isn't the sit-by-and-watch kind of guy. He's right there next to her, risking everything. For her...
  • Healed by the Orc by Robin O'Connor

    Healed by the Orc by Robin O'Connor

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    My vacation turns on its head when ancient stones throw me straight into the arms of an Orc. Shannon. I’m dying, that’s what the doctors told me. Visiting my ancestral farm in Ireland is the one thing I still want to do. Well, I get to see green. Lots of it, but not in the way I imagined...
  • Dark Elf's Demand by Celeste King

    Dark Elf's Demand by Celeste King

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I outran my master. But I can’t outrun fate. I was desperate for my freedom. In my haze, I made a decision that would change my life forever. I collapsed on a dark elf soldier’s doorstep. But Lavin doesn’t throw me in a cell. He gives me a bed, food, and medicine. I think for once I am safe. But soon I realize, a pretty prison is still a prison...
  • Adored By Her Orc Avenger by Celeste King

    Adored By Her Orc Avenger by Celeste King

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    On this Earth, we fear the orcs. But we fear other humans more…. Life is not pretty where I am from. It is brutal and deadly. Such can also be said for the orc that saved me. I thought I was dead, but he fought off my attackers. Together, injured we took shelter in an abandoned house. It’s where I got to know him. Where I started to fall in love with him. But this world isn’t pretty...
  • Alien Billionaire's Nanny by Ami Wright

    Alien Billionaire's Nanny by Ami Wright

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Her bad boy billionaire boss has her tied up in KNOTS! Dinah’s not looking for a boyfriend, she’s just looking for a job. She still needs to pay back her sister after she helped Dinah leave the slums of Fortuna and make a new life at Nova Space Station. Only no one will hire her. So when the ice cold polar bear alien billionaire asks her to be his nanny, she jumps at the opportunity...
  • Betrayed by the Alien Bride Lottery: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance by Margo Bond Collins

    Betrayed by the Alien Bride Lottery: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance by Margo Bond Collins

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    This book takes place before Evading the Alien Bride Lottery and Fighting for the Alien Bride Lottery. When I started dating Francisco, I never dreamed his family was connected to the mob. But I learned better when I tried to break up with him. He was absolutely determined to make sure I couldn’t get away from him...
  • Catering to the Alien by Ava Ross

    Catering to the Alien by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s the cooking contest of a lifetime. I just need to avoid falling for a hot alien chef. To raise money for my local creature shelter, I enter an interstellar cooking show. If I win? I'm awarded the catering job of a lifetime and prize money I can donate to the shelter. It won’t be easy—contestants share a cramped shuttle while traveling from one planet to the next...
  • Sworn by Starlight by Sara Ivy Hill

    Sworn by Starlight by Sara Ivy Hill

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He wants to save me. Heal me. Make me his queen. RoseCaged for years by my lizardlike abductors, I’ve given up hope of escape… until a huge alien warrior buys me and carries me off into the grasslands of his planet! I have no idea what he wants with me and I’m too sick to fight, so I brace myself for the worst. But his hands are gentle, and our connection is electric...
  • Gantz/19 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/19 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Gantz's reluctant alien-hunting hero, Kei, has had to deal with all sorts of selfish and seedy teammates, but somehow he's recently fought alongside his best partners yet. Unfortunately, this might be his last fight with them. Not that his story is over, however. Regular readers are in for some treats, and new readers will get hooked!
  • Alien Triton's Prize by Lynnea Lee

    Alien Triton's Prize by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Reeled into a fake marriage with a merman. .. How was I supposed to know my new boss was the owner’s nephew? Now, I’ve been fired for speaking up about his roaming hands. And if that isn’t bad enough, I get home early to find my boyfriend bumping the girl next door! With nowhere to go, I decide to join the Starlight Lottery...
  • Savage Seed by Ivy Sparks

    Savage Seed by Ivy Sparks

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The silent savage wants to make me his. I've been in some tough situations before, but crash landing onto a desert planet crawling with sand beasts? Yeah, I'm as good as dead. But then Kade appears above the dunes. With his rippling muscles, long raven hair, and intricate tattoos, he should terrify me. Instead, he enthralls me...
  • Miracle Of The Beast by Sonia Nova

    Miracle Of The Beast by Sonia Nova

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Leaving Earth was no longer safe as a human woman…. Offered a trainee position in the Alliance, Hazel is on her way to Inea, the First Planet of the Alliance. She’s sad to miss the holiday season on Earth, and more than a bit concerned about the recent Krezlian attacks on spaceships leaving the solar system, but there’s no turning back now...
  • Silver Stealth by Iona Strom

    Silver Stealth by Iona Strom

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Sakkar. Memories of betrayal flooded my mind with glimpses of a past I didn’t recall living. I had wronged so many, not just my clan but all of Valose. I was not worthy to walk among them. Not worthy of the female who had breathed life into my ancillary heart. It was just as well. My spirit mate cared not for me. Her downcast gaze, always on her feet or the male with whom she had returned...
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  • The Drift Bundle: Books 1-3 by Susan Hayes

    The Drift Bundle: Books 1-3 by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***Three steamy cyborg romances from the Sci-fi romance series, The Drift***. Out on the edge of civilized space is a rag-tag collection of space stations and platforms known as the Drift. It’s a haven for the hunted, the lost, and those seeking second chances...
  • Bound by the Alien Pirate by Alana Khan

    Bound by the Alien Pirate by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happens when a cynical pirate plucks Izzy out of the jaws of danger, flies her to his cave, and vows to keep her prisoner? IzzyOne moment I was touring the Supercollider, the top thing on my bucket list, the next I’m falling into a marsh on a prehistoric planet. The most handsome male I’ve ever seen, complete with lush, luminescent wings, flies in...
  • Devil in the Hold by Tammy Walsh

    Devil in the Hold by Tammy Walsh

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He’s pushed every Prize beyond her limit. And today he chose me. I’m not new to this game. I was abducted and made to work as a Prize for the past year. Dozens of alien fighters have claimed me. None scare me. None… other than the prisoner known as the “Devil. ”. When a riot kicks off and the prison is hurled into chaos, no one knows what they’re doing… or how high the stakes are...
  • Taken by the Cyborg by Tamsin Ley

    Taken by the Cyborg by Tamsin Ley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    A cyborg test subject. A female soldier. Passionate secrets that could kill them both. He lost his humanity to save his sister. More machine than man, Doug can hack any computer across the galaxy. Syndicorp may own him, but he secretly uses his power to protect his twin and the rebels she leads...
  • Alien's Redemption by Cara Wylde

    Alien's Redemption by Cara Wylde

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Caroline. I was going home when I was abducted by aliens. Then the ship crashed, and I found myself lost and alone on an alien planet. I’ve been running for two days. It seems that aliens of all shapes and sizes are after me simply because I’m. .. human. And a woman. They say human females are universal breeders, and that we’re extremely valuable. I won’t let them catch me...
  • Omega Run by Viola Grace, Taryn Jameson

    Omega Run by Viola Grace, Taryn Jameson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Waking in a strange body is the least unusual thing that Lyra’s new destiny contains. She is the only omega on a planet of alphas. No pressure. Lyra’s last conscious thought was being trapped under debris in a dam collapse. When her consciousness woke up, things were. .. different...
  • Kringl by Tana Stone

    Kringl by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What’s worse than crash landing on an ice planet? Discovering that it’s controlled by a twisted alien posing as Santa and his crew of terrifying elves. Kringl wants nothing more than to return to his home world, but first he’ll have to escape from the frozen world that’s kept in a state of perpetual joyless celebration. Even worse, it’s always Christmas Eve, but never Christmas Day...
  • Broke and Famous by Elizabeth Gannon

    Broke and Famous by Elizabeth Gannon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    A famous family on the decline…. A forbidden affair…. Love isn’t an exact science. Sasha Westgate was the heir apparent to a storied scientific dynasty. The Westgates, “The First Family of Interdimensional Travel,” are dedicated to have having over-the-top scientific adventures and saving the world...
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