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Jo's Journey by S.E. Smith
Jo Strauss was committed to two things in her life – her family and her life as an acrobat/high-wire performer. She takes both very serious. Her life was orderly, in control, and she was finally settling down in one place so she could spend more time with her parents instead of moving all over the world every few weeks... -
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
A rollicking space adventure with a lot of heart. When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possibly want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and some distance from her past... -
Susix by Amelia Rademaker
Being abducted by aliens is terrifying. Everything after that? Pretty boring.Cece Levine didn’t believe in aliens. That is, right up until she was abducted. Life in space is not what she expected. She lives in a cage. She's left alone all the time. And the boredom is driving her insane.When a thief who is more snake than man, mistakes her for an exotic pet, Cece decides to just roll with it... -
Callahan's Lady by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA HOUSE OF "HEALTHY" REPUTE...Welcome to Lady Sally's, the House that "is" a home -- the internationally (hell, interplanetarily) notorious bordello. At Lady Sally's House, the customer doesn't necessarily come first: even the staff are genuinely enjoying themselves... -
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Corsairs: Straik by Ruby Dixon
What’s worse than finding a lost ship full of stolen humans? It’s finding out that your family is responsible. This is a wrong I have to somehow right, so I take off to find answers…and discover one of those kidnapped humans has stowed away on my ship. She’s furious that I’ve deserted her friends. She’s determined to make me pay... -
Salvage Rights by Kelly Lucille
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA Distant Worlds Story Found on an abandoned salvage with no memory of who she is or how she ended up there, she becomes the salvage claim that powerful men will kill for. A truthsayer and a genetically tampered with Bruha, she has one chance to escape sexual slavery to a tyrant. ...His Brother. Lucan Warrung rules his pirate moon with an iron fist... -
The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCaptain Pausert thought his luck had finally turned-but he did not yet realize it was a turn for the worse. On second thought, make that a turn for the disastrous! Pausert thought he had made good with his battered starship, successfully selling off odd-ball cargoes no one else could sell... -
His Frost Maiden by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA continuation of the popular Dragon Lords and Lords of the Var series... Empath and space pirate, Evan Cormier is obsessed with decoding an ominous premonition about his future. When a fellow crewman angered a spirit, the vengeful Zhang An took her wrath out on everyone in the vicinity. Evan just happened to be one of them. Hes now facing a future in which hell be forever alone...Categorized as:
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Rescuing Mattie by S.E. Smith
Mattie Abrams has always had a knack for training animals. Touring with the Cirque de Magik, she knows that she has finally found the ‘home’ she so desperately craves. She would do anything to keep her small family of circus friends and her pets, including going where they went...Categorized as:
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The Dragon's Queen by Michelle M. Pillow
A PREQUEL STORY Mede of the Draig knows three things for a fact: As the only female dragon shifter of her people, she is special. She can kick the backside of any man. And she absolutely doesn't want to marry. Mede has spent a lifetime trying to prove herself as strong as any male warrior...Categorized as:
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Corsairs: Kaspar by Ruby Dixon
I live for danger. For excitement. For adventure.When I end up in an escape pod with Alice, though, my world changes. She’s human. Vulnerable. She does NOT love danger, or excitement. But her mind is clever, her retorts sharp, and her smile brings me to my knees. I want nothing more than to keep her safe…and keep her at my side...Categorized as:
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The Dark Prince by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsOut of the fire… Intergalactic thief, Olena Leyton is one of the best space pirates in history. Sailing the high skies in search of adventure is in her blood. When her crew is scattered in a run from the law and her ship crashes, exploding into a ball of flames, the injured Olena is forced to find sanctuary on a Galaxy Brides ship... -
Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWith the Vattaâ��s War series, award-winning author Elizabeth Moon has claimed a place alongside such preeminent writers of military science fiction as David Weber and Lois McMaster Bujold. Now Moon is backâ��and so is her butt-kicking, take-no-prisoners heroine, Kylara Vatta... -
Darkside Blues: SciFi Alien Romance by Anna Carven
Be careful in Darkside, because its darkness is seductive. Once you feel its allure, you won’t be able to resist. Zyara al Sirian has devoted most of her adult life to the art of healing. As the First Division’s medic, she’s seen more than her fair share of war wounds and trauma. And ever since the Kordolians arrived on Earth, she’s had her hands full tending to a motley group of survivors... -
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The Sorceress of Karres by Eric Flint, Dave Freer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA New Sequel to The Witches of Karres . Two Top Writers Continue the Bewitching Adventures Begun in One of Science Fiction's Most Beloved Novels... -
In Fire Forged by David Weber, Jane Lindskold
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWelcome to the Honorverse. The New York Times Best-Selling Series Continues. 3.8 Million Honor Harrington Books in Print Over 7 Million David Weber Books in Print 18 New York Times Best Sellers from Baen Plus Five More from Tor... -
The Cyborg's Stowaway by Eve Langlais
Can a cyborg let go of the wife he lost and make a stowaway his bride? There’s a problem on the Gypsy Moth. The chief of engineering has found a stowaway. A tiny one that tucks easily under his chin with the biggest damned eyes he’s ever seen—and a way of tugging at a mechanical heart he thought broken. Ghwenn has secrets, which is why she’s on the run and hiding...Categorized as:
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Pirate Nemesis by Carysa Locke
A smuggler running from her past, Mercy desperately wants answers to her mother’s disappearance. All roads lead her to the one place she can’t return: home. Killers. Thieves. Pirates. Family. Mercy has spent her life evading the Pirate Queen who attempted to murder her as a child... -
The City Who Fought by Anne McCaffrey, S.M. Stirling
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSimeon was a shell-person - the brain who ran Space Station SSS-900, on the fringes of human space. But things hadn't been going too well lately, and he was more than a little discontented. Though normally he enjoyed his work, these days it seemed boring... -
Earthrise by M.C.A. Hogarth
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsReese Eddings has enough to do keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did promise to repay the loan... -
Cagebird by Karin Lowachee
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPirate Protege At age four, Yuri Kirov watched his home colony destroyed by the alien enemy. By six, he was a wounded soul, fending for himself in a desolate refugee camp, and still a child when the pirates found him. Now twenty-two, Yuri is a killer, a spy, an arms dealer, and a pirate captain himself-doing life in prison... -
Prime Obsession by Monette Michaels
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMelina Dmitros is a seasoned battleship captain for the Galactic Alliance. Calls from ships in distress are not all that uncommon in the outermost spirals of the Milky Way. Calls from the warlike Prime were. Now that they were allies, Mel figures she’d better get used to working in conjunction with the chauvinistic race. She never expected to be attracted to one of them... -
Alien Under Cover by Marie Dry
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a bleak and apocalyptic future, Julia Benzoni flees the violence-saturated world of her mafia family to build a peaceful life in a No Name Town, Montana. Now, while civilization disintegrates into anarchy around her and evil men prey on the innocent, she’s pursued by an alien, whose warrior life thrusts her back into the world where might makes right and violence is the order of the day... -
Unmasked by C.J. Barry
To the merchants he plunders, he’s the Ghost Rider of the Dead Zone. To sector law enforcement, he’s a wanted pirate. To the slaves he rescues, he’s the savior, laghato. To one determined female, Qaade Deter is serious trouble. Torrie Masters had heard of the legendary raider, but she’d never expected to encounter him... -
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Moonstruck by Susan Grant
Peace was for little girlsAnd Coalition starship admiral Brit Bandar was one tough woman. A mere intergalactic treaty could never get her to trust the Drakken Horde... -
Come Love a Stranger by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
A woman with no name and no memory...The two men who claim her:one with love, the other with fear...A dazzling tale of secret passions--and a love tragically lost and miraculously reborn--by the incomparable storyteller. Mere days after Ashton Wingate's wedding to the enchanting Lierin, capricious Fate stole the Mississippi plantation owner's beloved from him...Categorized as:
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Paradise 21 by Aubrie Dionne
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAries has lived her entire life aboard mankind's?last hope, theNew Dawn, a spaceship traveling toward a planet where humanity can begin anew-a planet that won't be reached in Aries' lifetime. As one of the last genetically desirable women in the universe, she must marry her designated genetic match and produce the next generation for this centuries-long voyage. But Aries has other plans... -
The Catalyst by Chris Reher
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLieutenant Nova Whiteside, on an apparently routine assignment aboard an interstellar transport, finds herself the target of an assassination attempt. Her escape leaves her with no option but to rely on Seth, a former lover, for help... -
Alexander Outland: Space Pirate by G.J. Koch
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaptain Alexander Outland of the Sixty-Nine (short for Space Vessel 3369, of course) is the best pilot in the galaxy. He’s also a pirate, a smuggler, and loved and loathed by women in umpteen solar systems... -
Star Nomad by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. It should be a time for celebration, but not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she's stranded on a dustball of a planet, billions of miles from her young daughter... -
Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOLD ENOUGH TO BE USED, YOUNG ENOUGH TO BE BROKEN Sassinak was twelve when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy turned out to be a little different from your typical slave girl. Maybe it was her unusual physical strength. Maybe it was her friendship with the captured Fleet crewman... -
Corsairs: Adiron by Ruby Dixon
It’s not easy being a space pirate…Actually, wait.Yes it is. It’s keffing awesome.The three va Sithai brothers — that’s us — cruise the universe looking for abandoned ships, treasure, and other pirate ships to rob. Right now, we’re on the hunt for the Buoyant Star, an abandoned cruiser rumored to have a massive treasure inside...Categorized as:
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Rescued by the Alien Pirate by Celia Kyle, Athena Storm
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI woke from cryostasis a prisoner. My crime? I have no idea. I was stuck with a hundred other women, all headed to who knows where. Captive in a dank, dirty cargo hold. Then, out of the darkness, came Solair. A handsome alien. Golden skinned. Horned. The dashing captain of a pirate ship. They rescued us--he gave my people food, shelter, and promised us safety. In exchange?He took me for himself... -
Choosing Riley by S.E. Smith
Riley St. Claire has always followed her own rules. When she discovers her current employer is not as law abiding as she thought, she has to leave town in a hurry or end up buried with the dead guy she discovered. What she doesn't expect is to find herself being picked up by a passing trader from another world... -
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So I Accidentally became an Alien Outlaw's Mate by Sophia Sebell
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI worked in a grocery store overnight. It was an easy job. Keep the store stocked, survive the boredom of long nights, and help the impossibly large and mysterious man that came in frequently.A man that ended up actually being an alien smuggler.Long story short, I got caught up in his problems and had to flee Earth with him...Categorized as:
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Convention Confusion by Amber Kell
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDressing up as a girl can sometimes win you the man of your dreams. Billy Ferris has adored Jennvian Fellows comics since he read the first edition. When the chance to meet the illustrator comes up he accepts his friends help to dress as his favourite character, space pirate female Kixie... -
Heart of Stone by Cathryn Cade
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHe's an ex-space pirate who's changed his wicked ways ... or has he? On the wild planet of Frontiera, Rose Thorne is out to save her brother. But when she holds his disreputable boss at gunpoint, Stone Masterson shows her just how ruthless he can be ... and how tender... -
Water World Warrior by Lisa Lace
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhy would I want to be married to an alien? I should not have applied to TerraMates. The idea was crazy. I'm a young woman, in the prime of my life. But I was desperate. When I landed on another world, his appearance intrigued me. He dripped sexuality and moved like an animal. We have three days together before he sets sail without me...Categorized as:
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Home Fires by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 3.24 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down...
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