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  • Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 2 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 墨香铜臭

    Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 2 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, 墨香铜臭

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 72 ratings
    THE TOUCH OF A HAND, A ROLL OF THE DICEXie Lian has confirmed that the bewitching youth San Lang is actually Hua Cheng, one of the Four Calamities and a supreme ghost despised by all heavenly officials. Still, he has trouble matching the terror of his companion’s reputation with the charming, clever, and protective young man he’s come to know...
  • Putting Out for a Hero by C. Rochelle

    Putting Out for a Hero by C. Rochelle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 75 ratings
    BaltasarIt’s time for me to start pulling my weight in the Suarez clan—to prove I’m worth more than the plays I make on the field or the dirt I dig up on rival families. I want to make Wolfy proud.And not get unalived by Simon.So I volunteered what I had to offer, knowing my infamous genes could be used for uniting two powerful clans in marriage...
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  • Little Mushroom [小蘑菇 上] by 一十四洲

    Little Mushroom [小蘑菇 上] by 一十四洲

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    An Zhe was a mushroom whose lifelong mission was to raise his own spore.One day, he lost his spore.He searched all over the world for a long time before finally seeing a familiar spore on the news.An Zhe desperately knocked on the door of a colonel in the human military.“Hello, Sir. Did your research turn out well? Can I have my son back after the research?”The colonel looked cold...
  • Ringmaster by Lexie Winston

    Ringmaster by Lexie Winston

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    I keep waiting for things to settle down, but my to-do list just keeps getting longer and longer.I’ve got a grandma to rescue from a planet infested with carnivorous flora and fauna, a Warlock whom I desperately want to bond with, and a tribunal with the Vilaxian clan to deal with. And that’s just to start with...
  • Prelude to Claimings, Tails, and Other Alien Artifacts by Lyn Gala

    Prelude to Claimings, Tails, and Other Alien Artifacts by Lyn Gala

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 21 ratings
    Before Liam had a new commander who openly distrusted him, before Ondry earned his ka status, there were two traders. Ye Ondry wants to earn status, and he is curious about this new human. Liam has just arrived on the planet and he’s trying to figure out these aliens who supposedly have good metals to trade...
  • I'm Not Your Pet by Fae Quin

    I'm Not Your Pet by Fae Quin

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 32 ratings
    I'M NOT YOUR PET! is an MM #alienromance with language barriers, hurt/comfort, and size difference. It features a hot shark captain named ROARK from the planet Osheania, who has rescued a traumatized little human from a life of servitude on planet F'ukyuu...
  • The Soldier's Mate by C.W. Gray

    The Soldier's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome back to the Blue Solace: (Third Book in the series) Morgan Murray is an easy, fun-loving guy. He excels at being a soldier, but never wanted more out of life. Somehow, he ends up in a position of authority on Dru's new ship, the Blue Sparrow. Now he has to deal with what he dreads most. Responsibilities...
  • Susurex by Amelia Rademaker

    Susurex by Amelia Rademaker

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Cece Levine is stranded with a crew of snake aliens. Luckily, these ones like her. The last ones she met tried to kill her.The crew and I have a few things to work through now that we can communicate. Like why was I pretending to be a pet? What are we going to do now? And why are all of these aliens trying to kill us? Before we do anything, we need to get our ship fixed...
  • Demons Don't Dare by Hannah Walker

    Demons Don't Dare by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the ruler of an empire, King Vict’arin is accustomed to living a life that is anything but normal. Unable to enjoy the simple things in life the way his demons do, he chooses to live and work for the good of his citizens. Lonely and tired, he finds solace with his family, enjoying watching his new grand-demonesses grow...
  • Crash-Landed in Love by Piper Scott, Renee Fox

    Crash-Landed in Love by Piper Scott, Renee Fox

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    He comes in peace… amongst other thingsWhen college kid Jude Adler wishes for a new life on a shooting star, he never imagined it would come in the form of a shapeshifting alien who nearly crash-lands his spaceship on top of him, let alone one who chooses to disguise himself as a man inspired by Jude’s wildest fantasies...
  • Murmuration by T.J. Klune

    Murmuration by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In the small mountain town of Amorea, it’s stretching toward autumn of 1954. The memories of a world at war are fading in the face of a prosperous future. Doors are left unlocked at night, and neighbors are always there to give each other a helping hand. The people here know certain things as fact: Amorea is the best little town there is. The only good Commie is a dead Commie...
  • The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

    The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 35 ratings
    Come home, if you rememberThe postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninety-one years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front is a lighthouse - Eilean Mor, in the Outer Hebrides.Joe has never left England, never even left London. He is a British slave, one of thousands throughout the French Empire. He has a job, a wife, a baby daughter...
  • The General's Mate by C.W. Gray

    The General's Mate by C.W. Gray

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Welcome back to the Blue Solace: (Sequel to "The Mercenary's Mate") Leti Ando and Will Hackett are certain about one thing in all the galaxy. They love one another. Now that they are mated, it's time to meet Hack's parents and settle into their new home. In a normal courtship, the two would spend time getting to know one another and reveling in their love. Normal isn't what they get...
  • The Finder by J.E. Lorin

    The Finder by J.E. Lorin

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    At the age of sixteen, August Goodson developed a strange and mysterious power overnight: he can find people. Victims of murder, suicide, kidnapping, accidents, and rape; August can find them all, usually dead, but sometimes still alive. Nine years later finds August volunteering his services to the police...
  • The Shifter's Shotgun Mating by Ardy Kelly

    The Shifter's Shotgun Mating by Ardy Kelly

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A bad bargain. A botched bounty A binding bite. Adam knew bounty hunting in another pack’s territory had risks, but being at the end of a shotgun for a forced mating was not one he expected. At least it wasn’t permanent. Once he paid the promised cut of the bounty the leader of Pine Hollow would dissolve the mating. Adam just needed to keep his hands (and his teeth) away from the enticing omega...
  • Ensnared by the Rabbit Genius by Delaney Rain

    Ensnared by the Rabbit Genius by Delaney Rain

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Ellis Cole is an FBI research analyst assigned to observe a giant white rabbit while he’s on Earth. Wherever he goes, Ellis must follow. Never told to be covert about it, Ellis finds the only way for him to keep up is by slowing his bouncy bunny down. Getting naked wasn’t part of the plan, but it seems to be working...
  • A Night Most Wicked by Lexie Winston

    A Night Most Wicked by Lexie Winston

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens to Susie and Mark when their car breaks down an hour out of Vegas after leaving Lila?Strangely enough, there is no one else on the road that evening and they must be in a dead zone as neither Susie nor Mark has cell reception...
  • Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

    Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Deaf since childhood, Sebastian Armitage had a promising musical future until his dreams were shattered when he transformed at twelve years old. In a world where enhanced humans are terrorized and imprisoned, his life shrinks around him even more as he suffers the torment of his father’s experimental research to enable him to hear...
  • By Chance Met by Eressë

    By Chance Met by Eressë

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A chance meeting heralds the convergence of two heretofore wildly divergent fates. From the moment he laid eyes on the handsome Lord of Ilmaren, Naeth Orosse fell head over heels in infatuation with him. And after that first meeting in the middle of a tavern brawl in the dual-gendered realm of Ylandre, Reijir Arthanna did not forget the orphaned youth who came to his aid unasked...
  • Slow Heat by Leta Blake

    Slow Heat by Leta Blake

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 49 ratings
    A lustful young alpha meets his match in an older omega with a past. Professor Vale Aman has crafted a good life for himself. An unbonded omega in his mid-thirties, he's long since given up hope that he'll meet a compatible alpha, let alone his destined mate. He's fulfilled by his career, his poetry, his cat, and his friends...
  • Seen by A.M. Arthur

    Seen by A.M. Arthur

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Hell is a six-by-six jail cell and no hope for the future. Kell Iverson has never raised his hand against another person in his entire life—and yet somehow he’s been arrested and charged with the murder of his alpha mate Krause. Sure, Krause brutalized him on a daily basis, and Kell hated his mate, but he never wanted the man dead...
  • A Sea of Endless Light by Chani Lynn Feener

    A Sea of Endless Light by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    Fox Axford has been tasked with capturing a feared thief who has been terrorizing the Hild Empire, not flirt with the impassive captain he’s been unlikely paired with.When Fox is assigned to the Hild case by the Intergalactic Police Force, he doesn’t anticipate it taking very long...
  • Gravemound by Kim Fielding

    Gravemound by Kim Fielding

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Grimm in spaaaaace!In this retelling of a classic fairy tale, Phineas Coleman is stranded on a planet far from home and must find a way to support himself in this new land. A selfish local man offers to help him with a livelihood if Phin will promise to protect him from a soul-reaper...
  • The Ultimate Team by Tricia Owens

    The Ultimate Team by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With his team battered and broken, Lieutenant Black of the JCPD is forced to incorporate yet another psypath into the ranks, this time the beautiful prescient named Parker. But Parker is more than a new teammate, he's an important link to the past Black has been working so diligently to erase, and he's the first man who has ever claimed to love him...
  • Centauri Doll by Wendy Rathbone

    Centauri Doll by Wendy Rathbone

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hades is a Slave King, one of the most powerful and wealthy beings in the galaxy. But all he wants is to be left alone with machine servants and his collection of broken robots. So what makes him purchase a flawed vat-grown human slave boy?Doll, one of the most beautiful of the manufactured Botticelli pleasure slaves, is imperfect. He was pulled from his tank missing his right foot...
  • Shattered Alliance by Tricia Owens

    Shattered Alliance by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now that the terrible truth is out, life has only grown more complicated. Genesis has full control over the men of JC2, forcing them to commit atrocities across the city and destroying Black's reputation in the process. Even if Black succeeds in rescuing his teammates, the JCPD and Captain Dickerson may not be forgiving...
  • Exchange of Power by Tricia Owens

    Exchange of Power by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the clutches of Captain Dickerson once again, Black suddenly finds a reason to remain in the employ of the JCPD: his team has been handed over to another lieutenant, and it's not Lieutenant Sundhill. Alarmed by the identity of this man, Black knows he can't leave his teammates to fend for themselves, especially now that the lines of war are finally being drawn in the sand...
  • In Enemy Territory by Shannon West

    In Enemy Territory by Shannon West

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    What should a Tygerian colonel do when he develops a devastating and disastrous attraction that’s totally unsuitable?Kylon Bonnett, close friend of Prince Mikos, goes to the aid of Prince Larz on Laltana when both they and the disgraced human prisoner, Rasc Centarlo become embroiled in a mission to the unfriendly prison planet of Gatifrey...
  • Any Given Lifetime by Leta Blake

    Any Given Lifetime by Leta Blake

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    He'll love him in any lifetime. Neil isn’t a ghost, but he feels like one. Reincarnated with all his memories from his prior life, he spent twenty years trapped in a child’s body, wanting nothing more than to grow up and reclaim the love of his life. As an adult, Neil finds there's more than lost time separating them...
  • Salvadore's Luck by Odessa Lynne

    Salvadore's Luck by Odessa Lynne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 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. Bad luck has dogged Salvadore for far too long, and this time it's put him in the midst of his worst nightmare. He's trapped inside the protectorate where the aliens called wolves roam free—and heat season has started...
  • Potato Surprise by Angel Martinez

    Potato Surprise by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When a steel trap of celestial and infernal politics threatens to close around them, Shax and Verin flee Earth’s system in a stolen ship, leaving everything behind. It’s an elegantly simple plan, with a new ship and a new life as carefree brigands among the stars. But the ship seems to hate them, and in order to have any sort of life they need funds...
  • A Christmas to Die For by Jessica Frances

    A Christmas to Die For by Jessica Frances

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A Christmas to Die ForDrink way too much tequila at the office Christmas party? Check.Get fired after doing something stupid at said Christmas party? Check.Hallucinate flying reindeer in the sky? Check...
  • The Strength of His Heart by Victoria Sue

    The Strength of His Heart by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To protect and serve…. All Vance Connelly ever wanted to do was continue his family’s tradition and join the Tampa Police Department, but his dreams were crushed the day he woke with the enhanced mark on his face. After years of struggling to adjust to life as an enhanced human, by a stroke of luck, he met Talon Valdez and became a proud member of the FBI’s Human Enhanced Rescue Organization...
  • Skythane: Liminal Sky by J. Scott Coatsworth

    Skythane: Liminal Sky by J. Scott Coatsworth

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jameson Havercamp, a psych from a conservative religious colony, has come to Oberon—unique among the Common Worlds—in search of a rare substance called pith. He’s guided through the wilds on his quest by Xander Kinnison, a handsome, cocky wing man with a troubled past.Neither knows that Oberon is facing imminent destruction...
  • Beside A Black Tarn by Angel Martinez

    Beside A Black Tarn by Angel Martinez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    When Shax stumbles across rumors of an experimental house that responds to the occupant’s brain functions, creating scenarios to please and delight, naturally he wants to steal it. While stealing an entire house sounds impossible, the demon prince has a cunning plan.But a night at the ballet heralds the return of a troubled and hunted Julian Parallax...
  • The Minotaur's Mate by Delaney Rain

    The Minotaur's Mate by Delaney Rain

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Can a bull-headed man and a marshmallow-hearted bull unite to prevent a war and save a people?All his life, Nat Konstantinidis has watched helplessly as his people sacrificed their own to the Minotaurs who dominate this planet. Are they killed? Are they eaten? No one knows what happens to the captives, but Nat is determined that this is the year it finally ends...
  • Sacred Fate by Eressë

    Sacred Fate by Eressë

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In the dual-gendered realm of Ylandre, the great divide between the high-born True Bloods and the lower-ranked Half Bloods is deemed impassable by most. Rohyr Essendri dared to cross it when he took young Lassen Idana from his provincial town and made him his paramour. Lassen perforce learned how to navigate the intricate byways of life at court...
  • You're Not My King! by Eryn Hawk

    You're Not My King! by Eryn Hawk

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 38 ratings
    Reuben CarterThrowing myself in front of my estranged sister didn’t win me any brownie points...
  • Keys by Amber Kell

    Keys by Amber Kell

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    City of Keys: Book One My name is Octavius Septimus Stalk, but my friends call me Oss. I live in the City of Keys, a town of gears, keys, locks, and wonder. Our forefathers banished magic long ago, bolted the doors and locked everything up tight to keep people out and the town’s secrets in. Four Lock Lords control what information is left, and everyone else is left struggling to survive...
  • Team Orders by R.J. Scott

    Team Orders by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When tragedy strikes and team orders are called for, will Archie and Noah’s love survive the fallout?Noah is devastated when his best friend is badly hurt in a fiery crash, and shocked when the team’s rookie steps up to take Augusto’s place. Not only is Archie inexperienced on the track, but he’s a threat to Noah’s heart when giving in to lust and passion could only end badly...
  • Gerald's Lot by Odessa Lynne

    Gerald's Lot by Odessa Lynne

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    All he wants is his freedom. But that’s not what’s on offer… For three years, Gerald has used his connections to gather intelligence on the powerful alien species humans call “wolves”—all in an effort to do his part to return order to the world after the destruction caused by the events of the first wolves’ heat...
  • Cosmic Soul by Mars Quinn

    Cosmic Soul by Mars Quinn

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    So I may be dead, but my afterlife isn’t.CalebAfter years of wandering the stars, I’ve finally met someone who can see me—the handsome and serious Prince Zoltilvoxfyn. I know I should pass on, but I feel something, like physically feel something, when I’m with him...
  • Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon

    Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    A keepsake collection of Lord John Grey's shorter adventures and a spectacular addition to any Gabaldon fan's library, Lord John and the Hand of the Devils brings these three unique novellas together for the first time.Lord John and the Hellfire Club marks the first appearance of Lord John outside the Outlander novels (and chronologically precedes the novel Lord John and the Private Matter)...
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  • Paradox Lost by Libby Drew

    Paradox Lost by Libby Drew

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Time-travel tour guide Reegan McNamara's job—taking eager tourists to whenever they want to go—is usually a breeze. A trip back to 2020 to watch a world-changing speech seems no different, until a woman runs away from his tour group before the jump home. Now her tycoon husband is demanding her safe return—or Reegan will lose more than just his job. P.I...
  • Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon

    Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    From the exquisitely talented and award-winning author of the Outlander Saga come two additions to the oeuvre, both featuring Lord John Grey. This dashing character first appeared in Gabaldon’s blockbuster, Voyager, and readers cheered him on in the New York Times bestselling Lord John and the Private Matter...
  • The Headmaster by Wendy Rathbone

    The Headmaster by Wendy Rathbone

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An omega student who cannot control his heats. An alpha headmaster with a secret.At Moonrise Academy, a private college for wolf shifters, it is Headmaster Julian Tett's job to ensure the safety of his students. When one student manifests a condition called souperomega, he takes a special interest in the case.Toby's rare disorder causes him to have out of control heats...
  • Turning Tricks by Anne Tenino

    Turning Tricks by Anne Tenino

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Task Force Iota, Book Two Sequel to 18% Gray James Ayala thought life would be smooth sailing once he escaped from a Red Idaho reeducation camp and returned to Blue Oregon. He was supposed to get answers about the biocybernetic chip that made him empathic, face the man who implanted it, and then ride off into the sunset with his new boyfriend, Matt Tennimore...
  • Bonded Broken by Amber Kell

    Bonded Broken by Amber Kell

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Friln had always counted on his lover to be there when things go wrong. But when one brief moment of death breaks his bond with his Thresl mate, he loses the only thing in the world he needs to make him happy. For the past ten years Friln, the king’s Captain of the Guard, has lived with and loved his Thresl mate Nelrin. When an assassination attempt catches Friln in the crossfire, he is killed...
  • Duke Betrayed by Amber Kell

    Duke Betrayed by Amber Kell

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book Five in the The Thresl Chronicles series.When Duke Hellbur is accused of treason against his people, he bonds with medic Balaze to keep his human form and prove his innocence. When Duke Hellbur is accused of smuggling Thresls and selling them off to interested buyers, he undertakes a trip to prove his innocence...
  • Space Raptor Butt Trilogy by Chuck Tingle

    Space Raptor Butt Trilogy by Chuck Tingle

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    With his genre-defining work, Space Raptor Butt Invasion, Chuck Tingle proved that even gay dinosaur erotica could be nominated for a Hugo Award, the most prestigious honor in science fiction. Nobody could have expected what would happen when the story continued. Collected here is the entire trilogy of Chuck Tingle’s history making Space Raptor Butt series...
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