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  • Alien Hope: A SciFi Alien Romance by Ursa Dax

    Alien Hope: A SciFi Alien Romance by Ursa Dax

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    ABBYI have a secret.I’m pregnant. With a human baby. And not a much-needed girl the Sea Sand Gahns would welcome.Nope. I’m carrying a 100% human male .So when the kind, quiet Bitter Sea warrior Kohka tells me he’s leaving for the Deep Sky settlement, I convince (aka, beg) him to take me along. I just need to get away from here...
  • Seminal: A Why Choose Alien Romance by C.M. Stunich

    Seminal: A Why Choose Alien Romance by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    I don’t play the role of the kidnapped princess very well.And I really hate the fated mates trope.Hello again, I’m Eve Wakefield, and I refuse to accept that I’m in love with an intergalactic moth prince.No.I don’t care how handsome he is, I don’t want to marry him.I don’t care if his parents have a sentient spaceship capable of eating entire planets.Love is earned, not swindled by pheromones...
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  • The Alien Huntress Series: Enslave Me Sweetly, Savor Me Slowly, Seduce the Darkness by Gena Showalter

    The Alien Huntress Series: Enslave Me Sweetly, Savor Me Slowly, Seduce the Darkness by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This ebook anthology contains three books in Gena Showalter's bestselling Alien Huntress series.Enslave Me SweetlyEden Black walks among humans, protecting them from the murderous evil of other-worlders who abduct and enslave...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  contemporary  science fiction
  • Core's Attack by S.E. Smith

    Core's Attack by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Thrust into a deadly game….Avery Lennox has been called many names, but bond mate was never one of them...
  • Lab Rat One by Andrea K. Höst

    Lab Rat One by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 17 ratings
    In the months since Cassandra Devlin walked onto another planet, she has grappled with everything from making blankets to helping psychics battle the memories of monsters. Not able to find a way home, she has instead gained friends and a purpose...
  • Leap by Michael C. Grumley

    Leap by Michael C. Grumley

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 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...
  • Arik by Tasha Black

    Arik by Tasha Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Alien Mercenary's Scientist by Mina Carter

    Alien Mercenary's Scientist by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Accused of murder and trapped in a web of corporate deceit, her only hope lies in the stars... and in a handsome alien mercenary.Lina's day goes from bad to worse when she uncovers her employer's darkest illegal experiments on non-humans that shatter ethical boundaries and risk igniting a war. She knows she needs to tell someone, but her employers have a habit of silencing whistleblowers...
  • A house of DaR celebration by Jennifer Julie Miller

    A house of DaR celebration by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    After the return of ANDI, the information now available about the human race is astounding. What happens when three AI’s, decide to bring a little piece of home to the humans they have all come to love? A Celebration of epic proportions.Be prepared to shed some tears, as new, and old memories tug at the heartstrings...
  • Tempt Me Eternally by Gena Showalter

    Tempt Me Eternally by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter's Tempt Me Eternally is now available from S&S Audio for the first time! Gena Showalter puts a daring spin on a tale of huntress and hunted…and concocts a sensual chemistry that is positively explosive. Aleaha Love can be anyone—literally. With only skin-to-skin contact, she can change her appearance and assume any identity...
  • The Bound Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    The Bound Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Futuristic Romance A simple mistake… Captain Samantha Dorsey and her crew are on a mission, a mission to complete a Galactic Scavenger Hunt and claim the prize money. Flying about space for a year collecting their items, they only have one thing left to get--a primitive wild beast...
  • While You Were Creeping (Women of Dor Nye) by Poppy Rhys

    While You Were Creeping (Women of Dor Nye) by Poppy Rhys

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I had zero plans to spend Christmas with an alien convict, yet here I am. In possession of a misplaced interdimensional prison with no idea how to return to sender.Worse yet, this convict has no respect for personal space. It only goes downhill from there when, in a moment of desperation, I strike a bargain with him—be my Krampus for the annual Kringle Parade...
  • Heart Fate by Robin D. Owens

    Heart Fate by Robin D. Owens

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Wed to a wealthy older man when she was just a girl, Lahsin Yew runs away from her abusive home to find a new life. At seventeen, she?s about to enter her Second Passage, when her Flair?and perhaps her HeartMate?will be revealed. Lahsin finds sanctuary in a secret garden, where she meets Tinne Holly...
  • Sarazen's Hunt by Isabel Wroth

    Sarazen's Hunt by Isabel Wroth

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    -GOOD LUCK ON THE HUNT. Newly-appointed Commander Kalix has been tasked with a crucial mission for the Sarazen race: discover the fates of the remaining human starships, and bring home the survivors—if there are any left, that is… His crew come upon the wrecked remains of the Sestrenka, and the chattering captain’s logs set them on the trail of a human colony established over twenty years ago...
  • Caszandra by Andrea K. Höst

    Caszandra by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Cassandra Devlin doesn’t know what she's for. But she knows she's running out of time. Since Cass was rescued from the abandoned world of Muina, the Aussie teen has proven more than useful to the people of Tare. Expeditions to their home world no longer end in slaughter. The teaching city of Kalasa has been unlocked. After years of searching for answers, they are starting to make progress...
  • Fugitive by Cheryl Brooks

    Fugitive by Cheryl Brooks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A mysterious stranger in danger... The last thing Drusilla expected to find on vacation was a gorgeous man hiding in the jungle. But what is he running from? And why does she feel so mesmerized that she'll stop at nothing to be near him? Hypnotically attracted, he will risk his life to have her..
  • Grai's Game by Mikayla Lane

    Grai's Game by Mikayla Lane

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Grai T’Alq has spent hundreds of years on Earth, learning how to manipulate the humans and thriving on their jealousy and greed. Unknown to the Valendrans and their hybrid females, he’d been able to build an empire on Earth and more importantly; he even had their own working for him...
  • The Rogue Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    The Rogue Prince by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Charmer... Prince Reid, Commander of the Outpost, is happy to live by his father's ways. No woman is safe when he sets his sights to charm her. Reid doesn't want love, he wants a good time. When the opportunity arises to get away on an ambassador's mission, he jumps at the chance--especially when that trip includes exotic destinations with even more exotic women...
  • DaR by Jennifer Julie Miller

    DaR by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    KiraIn the blink of an eye, my whole world has collapsed around me. Headed towards my dream vacation I was snatched right out of the air. My husband, the love of my life, was destroyed right in front of my eyes. He fought bravely trying to protect me from a horror neither one of us could have ever imagined. I find myself standing in the spotlight on a stage...
  • The Storm by Jean Johnson

    The Storm by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sixth book in the must-read series from a national bestselling ?fresh new voice in fantasy romance.?( Robin D. Owens) Eight brothers, born in four sets of twins, two years apart to the day?they fulfill the Curse of Eight Prophecy. Though no longer trapped in exile, their growing family faces new problems...
  • Heart Fire by Robin D. Owens

    Heart Fire by Robin D. Owens

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    On the planet Celta, accepting a HeartMate can be the greatest challenge in the universe… Antenn, an architect hired to build a cathedral in Druida City, dares not think of his HeartMate. Even though he yearns for her, he’s taken steps to ensure she will be forever unknown to him...
  • The Katres' Summer by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Katres' Summer by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The galactic adventure begun in The Dracons’ Woman and The Lobos’ HeartSong, takes everything to a new level in the most exciting installment yet in Laura Jo Phillips’ thrill-packed “Soul-Linked Saga,” The Katres’ Summer...
  • Teran by Ava Ross

    Teran by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The alien she's hot for seems to hate her. But when they touch, sparks fly. Will their growing love survive a dangerous quest?Emma: I’m pretty sure Teran hates me...
  • Hope's Folly by Linnea Sinclair

    Hope's Folly by Linnea Sinclair

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Admiral Philip Guthrie is in an unprecedented position: on the wrong end of the law, leading a ragtag band of rebels against the oppressive Imperial forces. Or would be if he can get his command ship-the derelict cruiser called Hope's Folly-functioning. Not much can rattle Philip's legendary cool-but the woman who helps him foil an assassination attempt on Kirro Station will...
  • Beholder's Eye by Julie E. Czerneda

    Beholder's Eye by Julie E. Czerneda

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They are the last survivors of their race beings who live on and communicate through energy, who are capable of assuming the shape of any other species. When their youngest member is assigned to a world considered safe to explore, she is captured by the natives...
  • Cyborg and the Single Mom: a sci-fi alien romance by Susan Grant

    Cyborg and the Single Mom: a sci-fi alien romance by Susan Grant

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can a single mom who's afraid to lose her heart find love with a fugitive cyborg who's forgotten he has one?Evie hasn't forgiven Reef for invading her home and terrorizing her chihuahua, but agrees to a temporary stay to help Earth avoid an alien invasion...
  • Catalyst by Anna Carven

    Catalyst by Anna Carven

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Stranded on a remote planet with no hope of escape. Stuck in the unforgiving wilderness, where monsters hunt in the skies above. No signal, no spacecraft, no translator. Esania thought she and her people were escaping to the sanctuary planet of Torandor...
  • Dark Waltz by A.M. Hargrove

    Dark Waltz by A.M. Hargrove

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Attention: This is an ADULT Book! Dark Waltz--A sizzling legend of loss, lust and love. It’s the year 2030 and the human population has been annihilated by a virulent form of small pox. Liasare Davidson is desperately searching for her brother, who has been missing for three months...
  • Captured by Kenya Wright

    Captured by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can she escape him or was she captured the whole time? Brie and Samuel travel to the human town of Freemont and learn that Brie is being hunted. Brie is more than a domina...
  • Taking Karre by Michelle M. Pillow

    Taking Karre by Michelle M. Pillow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The fourth Divinity Warriors book, set in the Divinity Universe. Sir Vidar of Spearhead is too busy guarding the borderlands to bother with the headache of selecting a bride. Ordered to marry by the king, he plans to grab a woman and get back to the warfront as soon as possible. That is, until he meets the alluring Lady Karre with her teasing eyes, lush lips and irresistible ways...
  • Astounding! by Kim Fielding

    Astounding! by Kim Fielding

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Carter Evans is founder and editor-in-chief of Astounding!—a formerly popular spec fiction magazine currently in its death throes. Not only can he do nothing to save it, but stuck in a rathole apartment with few interpersonal connections, he can’t seem to do much to rescue his future either. And certainly all the booze isn’t helping...
  • Finding Jess by Mikayla Lane

    Finding Jess by Mikayla Lane

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    It had been almost a year since Cari had escaped and promised to come back and save Jess from the Relians who held her captive and brutalized her since she was a child. Now as her usefulness to the Relians was at an end and rescue nowhere in sight, she only hoped to face her impending death with courage...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  contemporary  science fiction
  • Cat Star Chronicles: Slave, Warrior and Rogue by Cheryl Brooks

    Cat Star Chronicles: Slave, Warrior and Rogue by Cheryl Brooks

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The Cat Star Chronicles have taken the universe by storm, delighting readers with their sensual Zeitithian warriors and their unique special powers. As one reviewer put it, "Wow. Just...wow. The romantic chemistry is as close to perfect as you'll find" (BookFetish). Now discover where it all started with the first three Cat Star Chronicles books for one low price...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  contemporary  science fiction
  • Heart Dance by Robin D. Owens

    Heart Dance by Robin D. Owens

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    DuFleur Thyme is a scientist who's secretly experimenting with time. She'll allow no distractions from her work-not even from a HeartMate. Meanwhile, Saille T'Willow has sent his HeartGift out into the world in hopes of finding his HeartMate, who, it turns out, is DuFleur...
  • Hero by Cheryl Brooks

    Hero by Cheryl Brooks

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    He is the sexiest, most irksome man she's ever encountered... Micayla is the last Zetithian female left in the universe. She doesn't know what's normal for her species, but she knows when she sees Trag that all she wants to do is bite him... He has searched all over the galaxy for a woman like her... Trag has sworn he'll never marry unless he can find a Zetithian female...
  • Stud by Cheryl Brooks

    Stud by Cheryl Brooks

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    PRAISE FOR THE CAT STAR CHRONICLES: "Hot and yummy...this is a series that just gets better and better." -Night Owl Romance THEY'RE GALAXIES APART... Even for a Zetithian, Tarq Zulveidinoe's sexual prowess is legendary. Believing it's all he's good for, Tarq sets out to perpetuate his threatened species by offering his services to women across the galaxy..
  • To Trade the Stars by Julie E. Czerneda

    To Trade the Stars by Julie E. Czerneda

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Julie E. Czerneda's 1997 debut, A Thousand Words for Stranger , was the first novel of the Trade Pact Universe-an instant best-seller, Science Fiction Book Club Editor's Choice and Locus Recommended First Novel. Book two, Ties of Power , further established the author's reputation as a master of vivid alien worlds-and had fans clamoring for the third book in the trilogy...
  • In the Company of Others by Julie E. Czerneda

    In the Company of Others by Julie E. Czerneda

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When the terraforming crews introduced the alien Quill to worlds where they did not belong, they saw them only as a mindless form of fungal life. But the Quill multiplied and mutated until they were no longer harmless. In the ensuing chaos, many stations failed...
  • Shades of Dark by Linnea Sinclair

    Shades of Dark by Linnea Sinclair

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Can love alone save the day? Award-winning author Linnea Sinclair returns with a vibrant interstellar thriller of romance and adventure in which two lovers are tested in the crucible of deep space, where there are only ¦ Before her court-martial, Captain Chasidah -Chaz- Bergren was the pride of the Sixth Fleet. Now she's a fugitive from the -justice- of a corrupt Empire...
  • The Master by Jean Johnson

    The Master by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    12 volume set. No jackets, as issued. Each volume in buff cloth in green slipcase with illustrated label. Each has individual author, bibliography, brief bios of artists, 90 to 96 plates, many in color. Topics of each are: 1) Cave to Renaissance. 2) Spanish 10th-19th cent. 3) Persian 14th-19th cent. 4) Flemish & Dutch 15th-18th cent. 5) French 15th cent to Gericault. 6) French impressionists...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  contemporary  witches  magic  science fiction  m-f
  • Close Contact by Katherine Allred

    Close Contact by Katherine Allred

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    GEPs just want to have fun. . .A Genetically Engineered Person and self-proclaimed "party girl," Echo Adams loves her diplomatic job entertaining alien bigwigs for the Galactic Federation. But the Bureau of Alien Affairs has discovered she's much more than she thinks-that a rogue scientist endowed her with skills and psi abilities dwarfing those of common GEPs...
  • Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier

    Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The odds of the planet next door hosting intelligent life are—that’s not luck. That’s a miracle. It means something.In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students take a cross-country road trip from Boston to Arizona to paint a message in the desert...
  • How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 Days by Susan Grant

    How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 Days by Susan Grant

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    His internal computers are offline, his former employers want him dead and the Men in Black are after him. Without his cyberpowers, Reef is as weak as a lowly Earthling...
  • The Quest by Susan Kearney

    The Quest by Susan Kearney

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A warrior on a mission Kirek of Rystan's objective is to destroy the Federation's deadliest enemy, but he needs help. When assistance comes in the form of a sexy and irresistible space pilot, he takes on a second goal--to win her heart. A woman with a plan Captain Angel Taylor's going after the biggest salvage haul in her career...
  • Kord by Cara Bristol

    Kord by Cara Bristol

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She’s a successful Texas restauranteur, but he’s hungry for more than what she’s cooking.Barb Quintain seems to have it together. She owns the hottest restaurant in town, lives in a fabulous luxury apartment, and has a personality as big as the state of Texas. But outward confidence conceals old wounds as big as Texas, too...
  • Breakthrough by Michael C. Grumley

    Breakthrough by Michael C. Grumley

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    ONE OF THE GREATEST BREAKTHROUGHS IN HUMAN HISTORY. A SECRET THAT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND. AND A CRISIS THAT CANNOT BE STOPPED.Deep in the Caribbean Sea, a nuclear submarine is forced to suddenly abort its mission under mysterious circumstances...
  • How to Marry an Alien by Magan Vernon

    How to Marry an Alien by Magan Vernon

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Alex’s interstellar relationship has finally been sealed in the eyes of the human world, so now she can move on to her next step: college. With Ace by her side and a new piece of jewelry on her finger, she thinks she is ready for anything. Well, almost anything. Her new roommate holds a dangerous link to her past that Alex isn't sure if she can handle...
  • The Bond That Heals Us by Christine d'Abo

    The Bond That Heals Us by Christine d'Abo

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Second in the Eternal Bond seriesSara has been so busy saving the lives of others, her own life has passed her by. But when a mysterious alien captain crash lands his ship on the Eurus colony, Sara feels an unexplained attraction to him and decides to throw herself into an unexpected love affair.The last thing Davin wants is to walk into a relationship with anyone, let alone a feisty human doctor...
  • Alien Taste by Wen Spencer

    Alien Taste by Wen Spencer

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 15 ratings
    Living with wolves as a child gave tracker Ukiah Oregon a heightened sense of smell and taste. Or so he thought-until he crossed paths with a criminal gang known as the Pack. Now, Ukiah is about to discover just how much he has in common with the Pack: a bond of blood, brotherhood...and destiny...
  • Arctos by Jordan Summers

    Arctos by Jordan Summers

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Photographer Caitlin Kelly thinks she’s on a mission to save her friend, but when she gets to the wilds of Alaska, it turns out she’ll be the one that needs rescuing. Caitlin doesn’t hear the polar bear approach until it’s too late. Her only regret is that she never fell in love. Arctos has come to Earth in search of a bride...
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