The Challenge


Susan Kearney - 2004
    Kahn offers her proof she can't refute: Tessa has been brought forward through time to save Earth by winning an intergalactic challenge. Kahn only has a few weeks to train Tessa to use the psi-abilities he insists she has. He is confident in the success of a time-honored method that uses sexual frustration to bring out her powers, but Tessa is dubious. She's a martial arts expert and can fight her way through anything, but she's never had much luck with emotions.Luckily for Earth, Kahn can be very convincing...

Heart's Prisoner


Olivia Riley - 2020
    A devilish warrior. And a killer. Captured on a hellish world after attacking a military campsite and now imprisoned in a state-of-the-art cell inside one of the military’s top bases--Lazris.And Lana has been assigned to "study" him. To learn his secrets and gain his trust, if he is ever allowed to set foot out of his cell. As a top behaviorist, it is the biggest hurdle of her career.Asset X--or Xerus as he is called--won't give up his secrets easily. He is difficult, elusive, and--dare she say--unfathomably alluring...despite his seething demeanor and hard, frightening physique.Something subconsciously draws her to him. Something wildly irresistible. Even if his wicked smile and needful gaze could just be a ploy to win her trust and escape his cell.She shouldn't think of him like that. He is an alien after all. And possibly their enemy.For Xerus claims he is on a mission. A mission to destroy. And he cannot afford to fail. If he dares let Lana get close, dares open his cold heart to her, she could compromise everything.Heart's Prisoner is a complete standalone novel in the Dark World Mates series, a universe teeming with ferocious aliens and brave heroines. This book contains dark tones, heated intimate scenes, and intense moments with possible triggers including violence, and is intended for mature readers.

Steal Me Away: A Mountain Man Romance


Ilsa Ames - 2018
    The plan was to steal her. Not fall for her. She’s my captive, my tempting little prisoner. But it’s her who’s stolen my heart. The plan is simple: kidnap the girl, and then use her as leverage to blackmail her a-hole father and save my home. Easy enough, right? Yeah, wrong. I planned for everything, but I didn’t plan for those tempting curves. I didn’t bet on that sassy mouth driving me wild. I didn’t plan on the girl I’m kidnapping to make me crazy and make the devil inside of me roar for more. I’ll have Lia’s submission. Because I have to, in order to save the only home I’ve ever known. But what happens when my prisoner becomes my obsession? What happens when I fall for her? …What happens when I find out she’s carrying my baby? Her father, the world – they’ll all say this is wrong. They’ll all try and take her from me. But I found her, I took her, and now, I’m keeping her. …And I dare anybody to try and take her from me. Steal Me Away is a full, novel-length contemporary mountain man. Steamy hot and sweet as pie, with a dominant alpha hero who’ll stop at nothing to take and protect what’s his. Safe, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed happy ever after!

Song of Scarabaeus


Sara Creasy - 2010
    When renegade mercenaries kidnap Edie, she's not entirely sure it's a bad thing . . . until they leash her to a bodyguard, Finn—a former freedom fighter-turned-slave, beaten down but never broken. If Edie strays from Finn's side, he dies. If she doesn't cooperate, the pirates will kill them both.But Edie's abilities far surpass anything her enemies imagine. And now, with Finn as her only ally as the merciless Crib closes in, she'll have to prove it or die on the site of her only failure . . . a world called Scarabaeus.Cover art by Christian McGrath.

Auger


Corin Cain - 2020
    Ultra-Possessive. Totally in control.Thea:I designed him to make grown men feel small and pathetic. To me... he's a giant. 6'8. 700 pounds of flesh and steel. A killing machine with the strength of twenty men. He's the only man who could stand up to a triad of Rogue Aurelians.I designed him with one purpose. To protect the weak and helpless from the coming storm.His eyes will never open. I spill my secrets to his unknowing ears. He will never come alive.He will never link to his ward.Auger:My eyes have never opened. The only sound is her voice.Thea is brilliant. A genius, but her body is small and helpless. She doesn't know the danger she's in.Every time she touches me I latch onto her being. I feel her inside my spine.She belongs to me.She needs me to take care of her.I will make her mine.Take a look inside to preview this alien cyborg instalove ott romance, because there's been over 30 million pages read in the Aurelian Empire!

Anna's Bounty


Deysi O'Donal - 2021
    That is, until I’m randomly picked up by a passing slave ship. As if being abducted by aliens isn’t terrifying enough, now I’m about to be sold to a space brothel. I figure things can’t get much worse, until the ship I’m on is attacked by alien bounty hunters. Sparks start to fly when I meet Rovos, the gorgeous leader who promises to take me back to Earth. Only, I don’t know where Earth is and the aliens who kidnapped me aren’t talking. Despite our growing attraction, Rovos is determined to keep me at arms length. He knows the danger of his trade. The heartache it brings. So he vows to find me somewhere safe. Even if it guts him to let me go. Even if I beg him to let me stay.