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Renegade Leo


Delores Diamond - 2016
    Explore the ruins of a dead civilization. Take everything worth selling. Buy myself status and an easy life. How hard could it be? Turns out, Kartak is very much alive… and the inhabitants are the stuff of nightmares. When I crash land on Kartak, I lose all my supplies and my only friend. With an inhospitable environment, violent natives, and an apocalyptic cult hunting me… death stalks me at every turn. My only chance to survive is by taking shelter with a brutal alpha lion shifter. Deadly but irresistible, he declares me his fated mate… and leaves me walking on the knife’s edge between pleasure and fear. In the struggle to save my own life, I will have to choose: the danger of a fierce, frightening mate… or certain death without his protection. Renegade Leo is a standalone romance novel set in the Shifter Kings of Kartak universe. No cliffhangers and a sexy happy ending guaranteed!

Abducting Alice


Angela Castle - 2011
    But this is no mere meteor. It’s an alien probe designed to capture life; specifically female life.Abducted and placed on sale in an alien slave market. Alice soon discovers the pleasures of being a captive in the arms of the sexiest alien man she’s ever laid eyes on.Kerr, high commander of Kelon warriors raids a slaver station only to find a small human treasure he want to keep as his own.

Shifter Planet


D.B. Reynolds - 2015
    Determined to remain and learn more of the planet’s secrets, Amanda sets out to become part of the elite Guild there...But there is a secret involving some Guild members — one that could get her killed.Shifter Rhodry de Mendoza wants the Earthlings off his planet before they destroy it — even if that means denying what he feels for the fierce and lovely Amanda. The pair is thrown together in what becomes a fight for their lives. And they might just lose everything — including each other — in their battle for the right to live in peace.

A Viking's Peace


Zoe York - 2014
    But this Viking has finally found his mate in the beautiful Earth officer, and nothing else matters.

Nightmare Hunter; The Cursed


Averi Hope - 2017
    She doesn't want to be the daughter of one of the most influential men in the known universe. Nor does she want the nightmarish power that eats at her night and day! So what does she want? It's simple really... she wants a kick-ass job and to feel just a little normal. Easy right? Graduating at the top of The Academy can give her everything she wants, but she has to stay focused. She doesn't have time for the half-human man who makes her heart sputter. Even if he intrigues her. And even if for the first time when things get rough, she's surprised to find she's not facing the threat alone. But can Erin really handle her dangerous responsibilities, an overprotective alpha male, her assignments at the academy, and a deadly plot she never imagined? Or will she fail in more ways than one? Nightmare Hunter is a full-length steamy paranormal, sci-fi romance. This means there are plenty of smoking hot sex scenes, a sassy heroine, and a plot that will keep you guessing. It takes place in a world where handsome non-humans are just part of the world.

The Rivals


Mechele Armstrong - 2007
    It's a race to see who will find her first.Layla, who's not what she appears, is hiding in plain sight, but it takes a while for them to recognize her. When they do, they are stunned to find their heartstones glowing, marking them all as mates. All three of them.Now Orion and Balt must learn to work together if there is any hope of saving Layla from both a rich, ruthless man and their government. They must also learn to accept each other as the threesome they were always meant to be. Welcome to Settler's Mine, where rivals become mates... Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Male/male sexual practices, m/m/f menage.

Ruth's Bonded


V.C. Lancaster - 2015
    At first. But when she's forced to get along with her furry, tailed cellmate (and her clothes get stolen) things slowly start to change between them. After they escape onto an unknown alien planet, they're finally free to explore their feelings and each other, but can they survive with only each other to rely on and no way of communicating? Gron is from a matriarchal society where the males obey their Queens, so when a beautiful but strange female is dropped into his cell, he doesn't know what to think. Is she a victim like him, or is she being used by his captors to control him? Either way, he knows he must control his instincts or he will end up inescapably Bonded to her. The delicate Queen needs his help to survive, and it is his duty to serve her, but can he do it without losing his heart?

Mean Right Hook


Michele Mills - 2020
    She’s spilt coffee all over her work uniform, and then the elevator breaks down. Now she’s stuck in a tenuous mining cage with a silent, rugged miner with mighty fists, shocking fangs and a mean right hook—who keeps pulling her into his massive arms and inhaling her scent. When the cage starts hurtling towards certain disaster she finds her bare hand accidentally clasped within his rough claw…and Leah’s about to discover the true meaning of the term, “mating compatible.” But is she ready for this commitment, or is a human about to break an alien miner’s heart?

Sky's End


Lesley Young - 2013
    A secret that two warring species are determined to control. A universe's future at stake. Twenty-year-old Cassiel Winters joins Earth's new space academy in hopes of finding her brother, one of Command's top pilots and her only family, who's been reported MIA. But she quickly realizes she may not be cut out for life in space, where female cadets are outnumbered, competition's fierce, and she's already failed her hand-to-hand combat test once. Even the station's most respected officer, Lt. Damian King, probably can't help Cassiel pass the second time around-so why is he so interested in her progress? If only one of her freaky deja vu visions would offer an answer instead of mysterious messages like hide. When Cassiel's manipulated into a perilous mission, she encounters a warrior species bred to protect the universe from an even greater threat. And she learns that her secret visions are at the heart of it all. Now Cassiel must fight to control her own destiny and race to save her brother-even if it means pretending to be the pawn of Prime Or'ic, the cold-as-steel Thell'eon leader. Even if it means risking her life, facing hard truths, and making the ultimate sacrifice.

Her Cyborg Awakes


Melisse Aires - 2009
    Her life has largely been controlled by others, but when Sirn demands his Harem pleasure his Commanding Officers at a victory celebration, Sabralia makes a daring plan to hide to avoid rape by Sirn's men. The Palace is ambushed and her cyborg gets her off world. The impossible has happened−Qy the gentle cyborg becomes the man he once was, the warrior Kaistril. Pursued for valuable information, Sabralia is thrust into dangerous, unfamiliar situations where she must stand up to the challenges, or lose the man she loves. Sensual Sci-fi Romance. Novella Formerly titled Cybot Awakens

Kiera's Moon


Lizzy Ford - 2011
    Her best friend has dragged her across the universe to help her find a man and a life, only the man she ends up unwittingly hooking up with is a battle-hardened warrior prince living in exile. Calculating, cautious A'Ran wants nothing more than to reclaim his planet. He needs Kiera as his lifemate to heal his planet and his war weary people. He's not prepared to be a lifemate himself, and discovers almost too late what he risks losing if he can't learn to be more than a warrior.

Diving into the Wreck


Kristine Kathryn Rusch - 2009
    Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she’s an active historian. She wants to know about the past—to experience it firsthand. Once she’s dived the ship, she’ll either leave it for others to find or file a claim so that she can bring tourists to dive it as well. It’s a good life for a tough loner, with more interest in artifacts than people.Then one day, Boss finds the claim of a lifetime: an enormous spacecraft, incredibly old, and apparently Earth-made. It’s impossible for something so old, built in the days before Faster Than Light travel, to have journeyed this far from Earth. It shouldn’t be here. It can’t be here. And yet, it is. Boss’s curiosity is up, and she’s determined to investigate. She hires a group of divers to explore the wreck with her, the best team she can assemble. But some secrets are best kept hidden, and the past won’t give up its treasures without exacting a price in blood.

Alien Morsels


Sadie Carter - 2016
    Will Dex ever want her again? Or is their sex life completely dried up? Mila and KoranTackling her new job of human ambassador to Zerconia, Mila knows she has a lot of hurdles in her path. Nerves threaten to get the better of her, but she knows her big, gruff Alpha mate will always have her back. No matter what sort of threats come their way. Willa and DaracLife on Zerconia is much easier, simpler, yet Willa misses the action of her old life. It doesn’t help that she feels like he’s pulling away and right before their mating ceremony. What is he hiding? Please note: To fully enjoy this book, it is best read as part of the series. This novella leads on to Alien Mine

Warrior's Bond


Emma Alisyn - 2016
    Loyalty. Strength.Elite alien warrior Benyon believes in all three. He rose in the ranks of his planet’s legion of highly skilled fighters, earning his position with S.E.T.I. upholding the treaty between Earth and Yedahn.He never expected his bonding marks to respond to a short, curvy tigress defending her three rebellious, talented children.Work. Live. Say under the radar.Single mother Zoriah trudges through her days as a Low Tier worker providing the best life possible for her children. But her teenage son, brilliant and headstrong, comes to the notice of Social Intervention.The government agency that jails parents and tears families apart.She must allow her son to join the alien training facility, and possibly be conscripted for war. And where he goes, the others follow . . .Furious her three children—even eight-year-old Ashe—have been battle training in secret, Zoriah crashes a session to rip their instructor a new one.She isn’t prepared for the instant heat between them, or his insistence that it is his duty to care for her and her children.Even though he offers a better life on his own planet, she isn’t certain she has the courage to leave everything she has ever known.And even though his own government tries to take his mate away, and his own people threaten the life of his new son, Benyon will fight fang and sword to keep his mate and family.Warrior’s Bond is book one in the Warriors of Yedahn series. For readers who enjoy action, life on alien planets, alpha male warriors who live by a code, and slow burn love between fated mates. This romance includes steamy scenes and a happily ever after.

Earthrise


M.C.A. Hogarth - 2013
    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. But she didn't think it would involve tangling with pirates over a space elf prince...Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed Firefly or Andromeda will like this series. Rating: PG-13 for violenceTags: found family, woman protagonist, minority/POC protagonist, adventure, space opera, romance, furries, space elves