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Yasmin and the Yeti by Honey Phillips
Abducted. Sold. Left to freeze. Yasmin’s life shatters when she’s abducted by alien slavers and dragged across the stars. Escape seems impossible – until a raid throws the ship into chaos and she flees into the blinding snow of an ice world. But the frozen wilderness is just as deadly as her captors, and when her strength finally fails, she’s certain death has come for her...Categorized as:
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Zinnia and the Zombie by Honey Phillips
Her alien abductors made one fatal mistake: they put her in a cell with him. When Zinnia is uprooted from her life on Earth by alien slavers, she is thrown into a cell with a huge, golden statue. Desperate to escape her harsh new reality, she finds herself talking to him, baring her soul to the silent male... -
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A Home for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn
Can a lonely alien warrior find the family he’s always wanted? When tragedy shatters Claire’s world, she abandons her corporate job and retreats to a remote mountain town. Just when she finally begins to rebuild her life, she is abducted by alien slavers. Unable to escape the scientist who purchases her, she devotes herself to the young alien twins who are also trapped by his twisted experiments...Categorized as:
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Three Babies and the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
Can a jaded alien warrior redeem himself in order to protect the woman and children who need him? After a painful divorce, Linda takes a job as the chief administrator of a rural hospital. Her hard won peace is shattered when strange black-suited men raid the maternity ward and she finds herself on board an alien spaceship... -
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Captured by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
TILLY. No one ever told me the bugpocalypse would be so lonely. I was ready when the man-eating space bugs descended from the skies. I have everything I need in my fortress: food, water, and my dog, Waffles, but I'm bored out of my gourd and lonely AF. So when a Xarc’n warrior breaks into my home, I decide to “detain” my purple intruder...Categorized as:
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Daughter of the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn
Can a grieving alien warrior and a desperate mother overcome their painful pasts through the shared love of a child? One year ago, Jade’s husband was killed and the baby she had wanted for so long disappeared. She has been searching for her daughter ever since. Nothing - not even being abducted by aliens - is going to stop her... -
Coveted by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
HEATHER. When I offered to help the scary alien hunter rescue his friend, I had no idea the seven feet tall brute planned on abducting me. Now I’m stuck in a shuttle with my growly, purple captor, speeding away from everything I ever knew. Nov’k is sinfully handsome, covered in muscles, and claims he wants to wake up every day with me in his arms. He makes me feel beautiful for once in my life...Categorized as:
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Craved by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
SAM. When a legendary PIP model shows up in my shop, I jump on the chance to work on the sentient shuttle, until I meet Pip’s owner. The surly hunter hates humans and has earned himself the nickname Loose Cannon...Categorized as:
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Hope for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
A cynical alien, an optimistic human, an impossible attraction…. Felicity’s life is safe, predictable - and boring. Until a simple celebration turns into an alien kidnapping, a desperate escape attempt, and an encounter with the most dangerous, unpredictable - and exciting male she’s ever met. Luxor gave up on his dying race the day they gave up on him. Since then he’s lived by his own rules...Categorized as:
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Stolen by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
MEGHAN. I’m a big fat scaredy-cat. The scary alien hunter has his eyes on me. He’s got sharp fangs, massive claws, huge horns, and walks around in nothing more than a loincloth! Totally terrifying! So why is my body betraying me and reacting in ways it shouldn’t? With troublemakers inside the gates and deadly space bugs roaming outside, I soon realize Mal’k is the last person I should fear... -
Baby for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
A warrior with nothing left to give. A woman who’s lost too much. A miracle that changes everything. Dr. Corinne Vale thought her life of quiet study ended the day she was abducted and sold across the stars. Now, she’s on the run with a traumatized teenage girl and a baby she risked everything to save...Categorized as:
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A Family for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
A grumpy alien warrior. A pregnant librarian. A ready-made family? Wanda has never hankered after excitement - or romance. A quiet life as a small town librarian suits her just fine. But while she doesn’t need a man, she does want a child. Just as her hard-earned dreams come true, she is abducted by aliens...Categorized as:
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Captured for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI refused to be in the Bride Lottery—so now I’m a runaway bride. Somehow, I knew my name was going to be drawn in the Bride Lottery—the hellish agreement that Earth’s leaders had made to sell us to the aliens who protected our planet. I’d grown up with the propaganda. It was our civic duty. Men registered for the draft, women registered for the Bride Lottery...Categorized as:
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Betting on the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI’ve spent my whole adult life betting on all the wrong men. And I always lose. My best friend Mia ended up with a Khanavai warrior—Commander Gendovi. She’s so lucky. Of course, she went through hell before finding that luck. But now she’s blissfully happy, married—and mated, as the Khanavai said—to the man of her dreams. And pregnant with her third child. I’m happy for her, really I am... -
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Seduced by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart
Okay, so he’s not really the devil, but he may as well be. The Tribe King is gorgeous, arrogant, and devious. He refused to hand over crucial information to help us find our friends until I agreed to stay with him. For a year. As far as I’m concerned, deals made under duress don’t count. Anyone who would demand such a thing in exchange for our friends’ freedom simply can’t be trusted...Categorized as:
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Conqueror by Anna Hackett
After two years of alien captivity, Evie is free, but her captors have changed her. Now struggling to control a terrifying new power, her only hope is one formidable, dangerous alien king. Logistics manager Evie Mason is no longer a prisoner on an alien space station, but she’s far from Earth, suffering nightmares, and fighting to ignore the growing power inside her...Categorized as:
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Desired by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
Aanya. I should never have slept with Haax’l. The grumpy alien warrior claims he doesn’t want a mate, but now he’s glaring at me and acting super possessive. All while telling me he’s not interested. Argh! Talk about mixed messages! Well, he and his magnificently muscled butt, regal horns, and chiseled jaw can go take a hike, because I’m looking for a warrior who knows what he me...Categorized as:
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Savage by Hope Hart
He’s wild. Vicious. Savage. But deep down, I know he’s in there somewhere. A lost, tortured, confined, boy who grew into an enraged, vengeful man. I have to believe he’s not beyond saving. Because sometimes, when he looks at me, I know he sees more than just the woman who opened his cage and let him free…. Only to allow him to be locked up again. Everyone says my plan is too dangerous...Categorized as:
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Endark by Honey Phillips
Can a determined human bride save an alien shifter from his beast? Half human and half Vultor - and rejected by both - Endark has lived his life alone. The only family he knows is the one he has formed with his warrior brothers. But even that bond is not enough to save him from his father’s cruel legacy. His only hope is a mate who will calm his inner beast...Categorized as:
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Enticed by the Alien Chef by Robin O'Connor
Twice abducted. That’s me—always unlucky until I met him. Kara. I never thought I'd end up homeless inside a terrifying alien spaceport. Everyone seems out to get me, with danger lurking around every corner—until I meet him. Rex is huge, four-armed, and always silent, thanks to a knot of scars on his throat. He doesn’t need words to draw me out from my hiding spot; his gestures say it all...Categorized as:
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Enemy of the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI’ll do whatever it takes to destroy the Bride Games. A year ago, I did the unthinkable. I helped a woman running from the Alien Bride Lottery. I spent three months in a federal prison for it, too. As soon as I got out, a secret organization recruited me. Our goal is to end the Bride Lottery program forever. So when my name is drawn in the Lottery this year, I know it’s a setup... -
Possessed by the Alien Hero by Krista Luna
I live without emotion. Yet one touch from my fated mate shatters all my restraint. SOFIA. I did it! I helped cure the virus our enemy used to kill so many humans and Varool. Then I created a new one that will turn the tables on the bugs and win us the war. If we can release it into the heart of the attacking Swarm. Enter Yash. Tall. Aloof. Alien. Gorgeous. He’s even royalty of some sort...Categorized as:
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Legacy for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
He offered them escape. He never expected to find a family. Former trauma nurse Kara Macintosh is a survivor. When she and her non-verbal son Rory are abducted by aliens, she fights with everything she has to keep them together, only to have the pair of them sold to the owner of a brutal asteroid mine...Categorized as:
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The Arcav Captain's Queen by Hope Hart
She wants her planet back. .. . .. But all he wants is her. Forced to become a monster to survive her father’s cruelties, Saria wants only one thing: To convince the Arcav King to help her lead her people out of the darkness and into the light. She has no intention of mating anyone. Least of all Roax- the bossy bodyguard who the Arcav King ordered to be her shadow...Categorized as:
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The Sands of Argurumal by SJ Sanders
With the expectation of a three-year pregnancy, Terri assumed that she had all the time in the world before she had to face the realities of upcoming motherhood. Time for adventures, travel, and working side by side with her mate...Categorized as:
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Claimed for the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI thought I’d escaped being given to an alien warrior. I was wrong. I was one hour away from washing out of the Alien Bride Games. None of the Khanavai warriors had chosen me, and I was scheduled on the next shuttle off the filming station. But then a bright red alien passed me in a hallway—and the next thing I knew, we were all over each other... -
Taming the Alien Outlaw by Erin Hale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJanik. A war is brewing between the rebel forces I lead and the prince whose crown should belong to me. Except, instead of preparing to fight, I’m distracted by the arrival of the human brides. Or rather, by one of them. After a chance encounter, I can’t stop thinking about her. When I spot Olivia walking with another male, the mating fever scorches my veins and the beast in my head roars “MINE...Categorized as:
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Rescued by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart
I may have almost died on this planet, but it hasn't broken me yet. At least, I'm working real hard to toughen up and become the kind of woman who'll be ready to board that spaceship and kick some Grivath a**. But, thanks to the way the overprotective warrior at my side insists on hovering, you'd be forgiven for thinking I'm fragile... -
Treasured by the Hunter: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee
ABBY. Years after the end of the world, my life is falling apart again. This time, I know exactly how to survive in the bugpocalypse. What I don’t know is what to do with the brawny purple alien following me around. Harb’k isn’t just big and strong, with a protective streak a mile wide, but he’s funny as hell too...Categorized as:
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Saved by the Alien Hybrid by Lynell Miles
Commander Cordelia Normandy is desperate for redemption. After her catastrophic final flight mission, she sees her new assignment delivering colonists as a fresh start. At least, until she wakes from cryosleep to find herself caught in an interstellar war between an alien empire and their hybrid creations. As a hybrid rebel fighting against the empire that made him, Rentir has only known conflict...Categorized as:
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Zeke by Mina Carter
Rescued by an alien berserker. One bed. Zero control. Michelle came to Parac'Norr for construction work, not to lose her mind over a handsome alien with yellow eyes that make her forget how to breathe. Zeke is unfairly gorgeous, all carved muscle and controlled power, and he watches her like she's the only thing worth looking at in the galaxy...Categorized as:
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Feral Tamed by Robin O'Connor
I’m stranded on a strange planet and the alien who just rescued me? He thinks I’m his mate. Hina. I’m supposed to be dead, but I just woke up on a crash site, on an alien planet. I do the only thing I can think of, survive. When a strange feral-looking alien chases after me with his monstrous animal companion, those odds seem stacked against me...Categorized as:
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Sanctuary for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips
Can an alien warrior and an orphaned infant provide a new beginning for a lonely woman? Tired of relentless hours, arrogant clients, and endless demands, Barbara is ready to abandon her career as a corporate attorney for a simpler life. She doesn’t expect that life to involve an alien abduction, an abandoned baby, and an all-too-intriguing alien warrior with a very friendly tail...Categorized as:
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Callum by Honey Phillips
Can a weary alien warrior and a wary human widow learn to love again? The life of a warrior is all Callum has ever known, but after a long, meaningless war he is tired of fighting. Instead, he chooses to accompany his brothers in arms to a new life on a backwater planet and finds an unexpected peace in the hard work of restoring their isolated ranch...Categorized as:
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Hyperspeed Dreams by Anna Carven
Lodan Vorkan has been called many things in his lifetime—perfectionist, control-freak, monster. As one of the Kordolian Military’s infamous First Division, he’s one of the most feared warriors in the Nine Galaxies. As a pilot, his skill is unmatched. He doesn’t like the unpredictable, and humans are exactly that. One by one, he’s seen his brothers fall to these confounding creatures... -
Protected by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart
What’s scarier than being abducted from Earth and almost eaten by cannibals? The idea of falling in love with a huge alien warrior. Just a few days ago, I was living my best life. Now? I’m on the run on a strange alien planet. Thanks to my short temper and a severe lack of self-control, I’m being hunted, and it’s only a matter of time before I end up captured or dead...Categorized as:
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Alien Claw by Ursa Dax
“I will go wherever you are. Even if I have to follow you forever. Even if I have to hunt you down. .. ”. TAYLOR. As the resident historian, I’ve been recording everything that happens on this alien planet. Alliances, battles, and, of course, the whole alien/human mates phenomenon. But soon, there’s a new name to add to the list of human lasses with mates: mine... -
Subdue by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAs the kalesh of the Taori ship, it's his sworn duty to reassemble his crew and exact revenge on the aliens who destroyed their ship. He has no time for a distraction like her. When Kalesh Naz wakes from crashing in his escape pod, he's enraged to find himself locked in a dungeon... -
Home World by Erin Raegan
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsPeyton. I fell in love with an alien. Our world was invaded by carnivorous freaks and the Dahk swooped in and saved me and my friends. They want to save the Earth but we are our own worst enemy, or so I thought. The truth is we have no idea what's out there. Now I'm on my way to Home World. The Dahk's world. An alien world. I had no choice, it was taken from me...Categorized as:
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Radiant Darkness by Anna Carven
Arkan Kythelian is the last man standing. He's well aware of that fact. The rest of his First Division brothers have succumbed to the Mating Fever, falling for those gentle, alluring creatures—humans. He should probably be more bothered by it, but he's a little preoccupied right now. See, he's just detected the presence of a group of terrified humans onboard a Kordolian slave-trader ship...Categorized as:
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Alien Most Wanted: Unchained by Honey Phillips
Can an alien warrior reap his revenge without losing the woman he loves? A debilitating medical condition has taught Marcy to live her life within carefully maintained boundaries. The one time she allows herself to test those boundaries, she is abducted and taken away from her restricted life. But being thrown into a dark alien prison cell isn’t the worst thing that could happen to her...Categorized as:
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Pursued by Tana Stone
As the empire’s most ruthless female assassin, I’m used to killing without a second thought. But I’ve never infiltrated a raider horde before. Or seduced after a vicious Vandar warlord. When I contrive to be captured by the raiders who terrorize the galaxy, my plan is to seduce Raas Bron before I assassinate him... -
The Savior of Her Heart: A SciFi Alien Romance by Miranda Martin
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsLove may not be simple, well, or maybe it is. .. Survivor’s guilt is what they call it. I don’t know about all of that, but I do know that every day is the same. I question the purpose of my existence until Captain Nyanna presents an offer too enticing to resist... -
Alien in Disguise by Cara Bristol
Hell hath no fury like a woman abducted by aliens…twice. The space cruise is supposed to be the vacation of a lifetime. Instead, Jessie Sayles gets abducted by aliens. After the rescue, she’s determined to sound the alarm that humans have been targeted by a galactic slave cartel...Categorized as:
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Saved by the Alien Warrior by Hope Hart
I was abducted, sold, then crash-landed on a strange planet. .. only to be abducted again. And you know the funny thing? I barely even care. I’m numb. You see, I’ve already lost everything. When you’re doing something you love, you never think that it could be the last time. That someone might take your life from you and leave you stranded on a planet where most of the locals are out to get you...Categorized as:
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Cheating in the Alien Bride Lottery by Margo Bond Collins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI have no desire to join the Alien Bride Lottery. But even more than that, I don't want my parents to choose a husband for me. And that's what will happen if I stay on Earth. So I make a deal with them: if I go to Station 21 and don't get chosen by a Khanavai male, I will come home and allow them to plan the rest of my life... -
Alien Avenged by Julie K. Cohen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNo way back to Earth. No ability to speak. Just one warrior who loves her for who she is…. Lucy (Chloe). After being sold to slavers and getting caught up in a planet’s invasion, Lucy just wants to be left alone. She’s come to Affinia to heal, to find that part of herself she lost since leaving Earth as a mail order bride. But she’s trapped within herself...Categorized as:
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Alien's Fire by Lynnea Lee
VIVIAN. What does it take for a chubby, socially awkward girl to get all the attention? Easy peasy. Just get kidnapped from Earth and thrown onto an alien planet. Since landing here, I’ve been fought over by every single alien I’ve met. Even the local wildlife want a taste. The one who has me now is terrifying... -
Stalk by Tana Stone
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Taori warrior is mad with mating fever—and he’s decided I’m his. I almost escaped from the alien’s twisted hunting moon. Until the Taori warrior snatched me away, convinced that he was saving me from a menacing swarm that only appears in his dark and tortured memories. Now I’m stuck with him on the deadly moon that’s crawling with mercenaries who have one goal--to kill us...Categorized as:
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Alien Betrayed by Julie K. Cohen
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTrust no one…. Not the Brotherhood… nor the enticing human female working for them. Remmikov. Trust no one. It’s a motto Remmikov has lived by since before the war. Now, he’s been framed for the bombings in Zyan’s capital and he is on the run from his own people. As the son of a traitor, no one will believe he’s innocent...Categorized as:
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