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The Cyborg's Lady


Alix Nichols - 2018
    Her proud bearing, the way she gazes at the stars, the way she’s not awestruck by his position or stature… Not to mention the nerve she displays when the pair run into some very dangerous people on the deceptively idyllic Tastassi, the second stop on the tour.Once Keiron returns to work, he’ll look into that planet.He’ll also look into Linni, because there’s more to this young woman than she lets on. Much more. Somehow, she’s breached his defenses… and made his desire flare after their torrid night of passion.Keiron knows he isn’t letting Linni go so easily.What Xereill’s top cyborg doesn’t know is that he’s fallen for the one woman in the galaxy he cannot have… THE CYBORG’S LADY is a prequel to the Keepers of Xereill space fantasy romance series. Recommended reading order:0.5. The Cyborg’s Lady (prequel novella)1. The Traitor’s Bride2. The Commander’s Captive3. The Dragon’s Woman3.5. A Night of Amity (newsletter-exclusive companion novelette)4. The Samurai’s Lover5. The Vestal’s Steward (coming soon)

Cutlass


Ellis Leigh - 2016
    Earth wasn’t his home, but he’d find a way to survive there if it meant finding a mate. He could put up with their ancient mechanical devices and a name that wasn’t his own for the right woman.
 Chloe never imagined she’d sign up to be some sort of modern-day mail order bride. But too much wine and an internet connection were a bad combination, especially when the life she imagined seemed so much greater than the life she was living. Everyone stretches the truth on those dating websites, right?
 One ad in a space station, one night of too much drinking, and one hotel room that will never be the same. What would you do if you found out the man from your fantasies was actually the man from your science fiction?

The Mercenary's Dawn


L.P. Peace - 2020
    An escaped slave fleeing from the past. Their love will reshape worlds.When Alethia is kidnapped while trying to free slaves, it seems her deepest nightmares are coming true. Her 'rescue' by Thanesh, leader of the Protectorate, a group of hardened mercenaries, is short-lived when the past catches up to the mysterious alien leader, revealing things about both of them which will change their future forever.Thanesh and Alethia must now fight side-by-side or face the horrifying consequences.The Mercenary's Dawn is a full-length steamy SFR featuring a tenacious heroine and a possessive, but loving alpha. It also features a strong sci-fi universe, a thrilling adventure and a slow burn, enemies to lovers, story ending in a guaranteed HEA. This book is part of a larger arc and is best enjoyed as part of the series, however, it is also a complete story that can be read as a standalone.TRIGGER WARNING: There is a brief assault attempt at one point of the book which is not gratuitous in any way, and the heroine lives in a world where human females are considered a sexual commodity. Please do not read this book if this is a trigger for you.

Senator's Pet


Avery Rae - 2018
    But he'll never make me his. I'll admit those are strong words for a woman who trembles at his touch. But I can't help it. His kind are as beautiful as they are cruel.We crashed onto his planet ten years after we fled Earth. Instead of helping us, they imprisoned us, then sold us off to the highest bidder.I was the last human sold. Too much bad behavior. Yet Rylos dared to buy me and call me his pet.He might be genetically engineered perfection on the outside, but I won't let him have me, no matter how hard it is to resist him. Because my goal is to escape.I keep telling myself it'll be easy. Why does it feel like I'm lying?

Chilled


Ashley West - 2016
    Rumor has it that they are as cold as their planet, as coated with ice and unfeeling as the land they live on. That is rumor, but the nature of them as ruthless, strong warriors is fact. Anyone who thinks to invade their cloistered planet is met with fast and furious battle, and ultimately destroyed. For hundreds of years the Ithilir have kept to themselves, but now their gates are opened. Why? One word. K’varot. A cruel and evil dictator who has declared war on the ice warriors and anyone he sees as weak enough to conquer. Before he moves to take the ice warriors out, he heads for Earth, planning on wiping out the humans there and using their planet as a place to train his armies. Cullen, one of the younger ice warriors is sent with the rest to Earth to warn them of what’s to come and to protect them. Never before have the Ithilir concerned themselves with other races, but in order to keep K’varot from taking over their planet and many others, they’ll have to change their ways. It was just supposed to be a simple mission, but Cullen doesn’t expect what he finds on Earth, and he certainly doesn’t expect to be saddled with Sadie, a woman he saves from K’varot’s clutches and ends up taking a liking to, despite the urging of his people and the danger looming over them all. Bonus Book: CRAVING: A Terramates Novel by Lisa Lace Earth is losing the war with the Anquesh. The world government needs TerraMates to find a bride for an alien warrior and finalize a peace treaty with the dangerous race. Jennifer Carden never thought Kai would select her as his mate. He's tall, dark, devilishly handsome, and different from all the males she's ever known. Once Kai decides Jenn is his sindare, she's taken to an alien planet. On Anquera, she discovers there will be competition to win her marriage rights. And things are different in space. What does it mean when the word for wedding ceremony translates to 'trial by combat'? Jenn's going to find out.

Kithra


Dani Worth - 2011
    When her second-in-command, Kol Frega, informs her they’ve been ordered to Kithra, she’s furious. A year on an uninhabitable planet? She’ll only be flying supply missions! But her ship—Kol’s design—is the only one that can withstand the planet’s gases…and Lux is one of the few pilots with the skill to navigate the debris fields resulting from the explosions that killed most of the planet’s Gwinarian race.Kol is the engineer who learned to manipulate the indestructible metal on Kithra, and he and a surviving Gwinarian will be her only company on planet. When they pick up Egan Lothbrun, Lux knows there will be trouble. She’s already attracted to Kol and she doesn’t need another man to arouse her either mentally or physically. Lux doesn’t want or need the complications that emotions bring. Yet, when she learns Kol and Egan share a painful past, she realizes getting Kithra livable won’t be her only challenge.Keeping her heart intact might be harder.

Project ELE


Rebecca Gober - 2012
    As a last ditch effort to preserve the human race, the government implements Project ELE. With the earth heating at rapid speeds, all remaining survivors are forced to turn to F.E.M.A. shelters to wait out ELE's wrath. Fifteen-year-old Willow Mosby's life, as she knows it, ends the moment she walks through the shelter's door. Willow has to quickly adapt to the new challenges that shelter life demands, the least of which includes making new friends and working a full time job.Soon after making an interesting discovery, Willow and her friends start exhibiting strange abilities. Seeking answers, they embark on a mission to find out what these new abilities mean and whether they are a gift or a curse. This new adventure can send her world crashing down around her. The question is: Can Willow survive the fall?***We've heard your reviews and have since corrected all of the errors we could find that were mentioned in the reviews. We appreciate your support and comments! Thank you for taking the time to read our books!

When Worlds Collide


Rebecca Lorino Pond - 2014
    Stripping the Earth of all her natural resources and capturing her residents. Skylar was on her own after the invasion, living in the woods to avoid capture. But her luck ran out when a new group of aliens arrived to save what is left of the human race. With no idea what will happen to her, Skylar and all single Earth females are paired with the Relomilan warriors on board the Hecis IV. She is paired with the Commander of the ship Chacer Sofeer, a man bent on revenge. All she wants is new home and place where she will feel safe again, but will it be with Chacer, the one who is pushing her away? Commander Chacer Sofeer, has been chasing after the Okrans and their leader Kruvra for more than two years. His good deed backfires on him when he is paired with one of the humans he rescued from the dying planet called Earth. He doesn't want another mate after the loss of his first love. As hard as he tries to keep his distance from the tiny human female, there is something that draws him to her. Something that stirs his blood, demanding he make her his mate forever. After a attack on the spaceport the ship stops at to resupply, the pair is left to escape in a life pod only to end up stranded on a unexplored world. Will they ever be able to get off the strange planet? Will the bond that pulls them together succeed in getting them to fall in love with each? The book contains sexually explicit scenes and not intended for those under 18.

Saving His Mate


Ivy Knox - 2020
    But she found love instead.Dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Chloe decides to embrace spinsterhood by adopting one (or five) dogs. Those plans are squashed when she's kidnapped from Earth and shoved into a glass cage with two other terrified human women on an alien planet. How could it possibly get any worse?The three women are sold at auction to the highest bidder, who happens to be a seven-foot-tall alien named Varrek, with shimmering gold skin and muscles for days. He recognizes Chloe as his fated mate, but he knows he can never have her because of a tragic past he continues to run from.Varrek takes her back to his home planet of Oluura and vows to help get her settled in the enchanting village of treehouses he shares with his clan. He'll keep her safe, and ensure she’s sheltered and fed. That's it.But the closer they get, the stronger their bond becomes. And the harder it is for Chloe to imagine ever going back to Earth.Chloe has found the kind of love she’s always wanted, but will Varrek’s dark past tear them apart?Saving His Mate is a full-length standalone sci-fi romance featuring a gold-skinned alien with breathtaking eyes and a secret past that threatens to destroy his future, a curvy 35-year-old heroine who is sick of feeling broken and is determined to reclaim her independence, and an attraction that neither of them can deny.

Wrath


Elle Thorne - 2017
     How does the first born of Zama’s royalty become conscripted into taking a mail order bride? That’s one story. What does he feel when his brother signs him up for that? Pure wrath. Smyrna wants one thing. Just one. She wants the man who killed her best friend dead. Being a bounty hunter isn’t her life goal. It’s the means to an end. Caayn’s younger brother played a cruel joke on him. He signed him up to be hand-fasted to a mail order bride. Hell has no fury like a woman scorned? Not so. Hell has no wrath like a man signed up to marry a woman he’s never met. Until he meets her.

Aran


Serena Simpson - 2015
    Rena has given up on love and men in general. She has a good life and plans to enjoy every moment of it. When she meets Aran everything changes. She desires the life she gave up on. When Rena starts to think she can have it all, she realizes someone wants to make sure she never gets a chance at a happy ending. Can Aran and Rena figure out what's happening in time for them to have a chance at forever? This book contains adult content it is not recommended for readers under the age of 18.

Assessing Survival


Viola Grace - 2016
    The Splice take the humans they capture and use them for parts. Sending bots in place of humans didn’t work, but taking the wounded and turning them into cyborgs has enabled Earth to push the Splice away from Earth. The combination of metal and man is turning the tide in a war that no one could have imagined.Adaptation Base is where the wounded are recycled into enhanced warriors, and when a terrorist action takes out the administration, the newest cyborgs will have to take things into their own hands.When Stitch comes to, her position as an assessment officer is still valid, but her new location on the front lines means a lot of adjustment. The men she had designed from the wounds out are now her team, and finding the one who had flirted his way into her heart—after all this time—leaves her vulnerable to his mechanical advantage.

Markus


K.D. Jones - 2018
    This new planet called Earth is strange and the people even stranger. He was there for one reason, to find more of his people and to protect them from enemies old and new. What he didn’t expect was to find a mate that both he and his dragon wanted to bond with. Things just got more complicated but he was a dragon shifting warrior, he could handle anything.

Rescued by Tordin


Mychal Daniels - 2015
    She’s locked her sights on becoming the top technical engineer for the most prestigious space program back on Earth. That is, until her life and plans are turned upside down in an instant on board a maintenance Space Station. Stranded on the now failing Space station, Kyra needs a miracle to survive. She has no idea that the ‘foreign’ astronauts who show up to rescue her are out of this world—literally. Warrior Lord Tordin, Crown Prince of Olodia, knows he’s outside of the Mandates of the Intergalactic Alliance when he intercedes to rescue the survivors of the Earth space station. But there’s something or someone pulling him in. He’s not prepared for what he finds in the unassuming Earth female. Try as he might to stay away, the pull grows stronger and stronger to be with her. His mission depends on his ability to stay focused and be prepared, but that’s almost impossible with Kyra in his thoughts and dreams. On the alien mother ship speeding away from Earth forever, Kyra’s biggest problem is not getting back to Earth; it’s how not to fall for this alien Warrior Lord who's the actual man of her dreams. Can she find a way to realize her dreams of power and recognition now that she’s been rescued by Tordin?

Rescued by the Alien Cop


Liz Paffel - 2020
    Seems human captives have become a hot commodity now that Earth is a breath away from extinction. Suddenly, every black market skin trader and inmate with empty pockets is after me.My owners won’t let me out of their sight. The new bodyguard I’m assigned to keep me safe is huge, with golden skin and the biggest wings I’ve ever seen. He's an alien beast and he’s up to something. He’s got a killer smile and dangerous eyes. And a secret.If I’m not careful, my alien bodyguard may become much more. If I survive.I’m undercover with the mission to rescue the small human from the prison planet and bring her to safety at the Dome of Enlaan. As a lead enforcer for Cosmic SWAT, it’s my mission to protect human life at all costs. Protect, not desire. Or touch. Or more... I don’t believe in fated mates, but I do believe in this human female's ability to distract me from my mission. If I don’t rescue her soon, everything I’ve sacrificed for will be lost. Including the one thing no one knows I’m up to.Rescued by the Alien Cop is the sexy, fast-paced extended prequel entry into the Cosmic SWAT series. Hot alien cops to the rescue? Um, how about yes?