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There are a million ways to end up in the Alien Bride Lottery, but it takes only one. Every unmarried female human over the age of 21 gets entered once a year. You can also accept extra entries for legal infractions—instead of paying a parking fine, for example, you can request an extra entry. Lots of women do that. I mean, why not? The chances are astronomical that your name will get chosen to be one of the hundred or so women who get shipped off to space every year.

Cassie Forrest isn't surprised to learn that the day she’s decided to get her life together is also the day the world ends. After all, she’s been on a self-imposed losing streak since her survivalist parents died: she’s stopped painting, broken off her engagement to Adrian and dated a real jerk. Rectifying her mistakes has to wait, however, because Cassie and her friends have just enough time to escape Brooklyn for her parents’ cabin before Bornavirus LX turns them into zombies, too.

Brynn non è nata tra gli Alaha, ma è lì che è cresciuta. Ha trascorso tutta la vita tra le onde, addestrandosi come guardia e sognando il giorno in cui avrebbe finalmente messo piede sulla terraferma per il famoso Mercato annuale con i Kenta, lo stesso popolo che ha condannato la sua comunità a vivere in mare aperto. Ma quello che doveva essere un giorno di festa si trasforma in caos quando, inaspettatamente, Brynn si scontra con un enigmatico soldato nemico dagli occhi scuri e dallo sguardo troppo intenso per essere ignorato.

Ketahn did not want a mate. Fate has a different plan for him. When the queen he despises declares her intention to claim him, he retreats into the jungle.

I'm not saying I've thoroughly enjoyed the three years I've spent in captivity on a pleasure planet, shaking my money-maker for intergalactic patrons… but, I mean, it hasn't been all bad. The jelly donuts were a perk. Granted, I didn't really know what I was signing up for when I agreed to be purchased by the sexy pink shark-man, but things seem to be looking up.

With the man who kidnapped her daughter imprisoned aboard her ship, Captain Alisa Marchenko is closer than ever to reuniting her family. But her new guest has been in a coma for weeks, with the secret to her daughter's location locked away in his mind. She must find a way to sneak him into a state-of-the-art hospital on Arkadius, a planet in the heart of Alliance territory. Not an easy task when she and the cyborg Leonidas, her most trusted ally, are wanted by the Alliance army.

Abbey goes shopping. Tarak learns an important fact about human female biology. Ami develops new (and somewhat scary) abilities. Oh, and it's Christmas soon. It's just another day in the life of our fearsome Kordolians and their human mates. A light-hearted peek into Tarak and Abbey's new life on Earth.

Performed by Regina Hall and featuring Mindy Kaling, a captivating romantic comedy with a thrilling sci-fi twist! Trinity Jordan leads a quiet, normal life: working from home for the Hive, a multifunctional government research center, and recovering from the incident that sent her into a tailspin. But the life she’s trying to rebuild is plagued by mishaps when Li Wei, her neighbor’s super sexy and super strange nephew, moves in and turns things upside down.

A country town, a brutal murder, a shameful past, a reckoning to come... The injustices of the past and dangers of the present envelop Aboriginal policewoman Renee Taylor, when her unwilling return to the small outback town of her childhood plunges her into the investigation of a brutal murder...

Vor siebenhundert Jahren sah eine Schwarze Hexe die Ankunft einer Königin vorher, deren Macht alles übertreffen wird. Nun ist die Zeit gekommen, und die Fürsten und Könige aller diesseitigen und jenseitigen Reiche suchen nach ihr. Wer die Königin kontrolliert, kontrolliert auch die Magie. Als der Kriegerprinz Daemon Sadi zum ersten Mal der jungen Jaenelle begegnet, weiß er, dass er nicht nur seine große Liebe, sondern auch seine Königin vor sich hat.

Finally, everything is going good for Carter. He's not a slave. He has a roof over his head. He's fixed his alien language translator and now can talk to Pykh and Siel, his protectors. Thankfully, they aren't promiscuous alien hillbillies. They're loyal men who love him, and Carter loves them back. Our space marine is ready to settle into a new life on the fleaf'akhie planet and be happy. But now there's another problem. On this planet...he's the girl? And not just any girl, but a pale, delicate, exotic princess who must be bowed to, courted, and entertained with poems.

Bei den Recherchen für einen Artikel in der Südsee gerät sie in die Fänge eines bislang unbekannten Volkes und die faszinierende Unterwasserwelt wird zu ihrem Gefängnis. Während Linnéa mehrere Fluchtversuche unternimmt, kommt sie ihrem attraktiven Entführer mit jedem Mal näher. Schon bald muss Linnéa eine folgenschwere Entscheidung treffen, die nicht nur ihr Leben und das des unentdeckten Volkes, sondern auch die ganze Menschheit verändern könnte.

Ryak is a strong, silent, drop-dead gorgeous alien warrior, and he doesn't even acknowledge my existence. But when he needs a fake mate, it means he's going to have to choose me. I'm the only human female not yet attached to a winged alien warrior on this dystopian planet. I'm the only one who can carry off the pretense of being his mate at the gathering of the species where the fate of this world will be decided. The Gryn are expected to send a mated warrior and that's where I come in.

At last, Ragna is in the possession of Rafe, Karma, and their team! The odds have never been higher as they face the ruthless forces of the Interplanetary Collection and the Queen's Council. Amid the chaos, Karma's estranged father, James Chambers, resurfaces, bringing his deep-seated hatred for alien life but offering an unexpected advantage in their fight. As their enemies unravel from within, pushing the boundaries of their depravity, a groundbreaking revelation threatens to reshape everything they know about Galatian history. Do they dare risk life and limb for an opportunity at normalcy?

For almost a year, Talia has lived as a sex worker for the High Director of the Coalition Council, providing recreational sex and sensual pleasure for some of the most important and influential people in the explored universe. After a difficult and joyless childhood, she now has comfort and security, living and working in the center of power in Coalition space. She has everything she needs, and she doesn't know she has anything else to hope for—until she meets Desh.

New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy’s scorching Billionaire Bachelors Club series continues in this 2-in-1: a fiery romance that refuses to be left at the office, and a wedding to remember! Savor Will this billionaire meet his match in the girl who’s been there all along? Smart...

N01-5-2, Vil, has lived four hundred years as a second-class citizen, a reptilian hybrid created from creatures from the stars who left as mysteriously as they came. Worshiped like gods, the ancient progenitors advanced humanity with gene therapy, which became their downfall, as the very DNA they relied on poisoned them. Relegated to traveling the galaxy with his ragtag reptilian crew, they set course to an abandoned military base on an old asteroid and find something the progenitors shouldn't have left behind frozen in wait.

Mason survived the Devourer's lair, got a prestige class, then he and the other players fought off a murderous wave of orc raiders. But now his brother Blake is trapped in a deadly game in the orc's fortress, and for the first time in his life, Mason can't save him. Instead, the reluctant survivalist is left to manage Nassau, a growing group of civilians and players, and the increasing threats of "phase 2".

It's been two months since Sadie O'Dell and her friends discovered the existence of the Wall and took over the Eden Facility, and two months since she and Kimberly Gellar followed Ethan Bennett south to track down and evacuate survivors, and Sadie has finally begun to find some measure of happiness and family after the loss of her brother. But her little family's routine is shattered after they rescue a lone survivor outside of the Demopolis community in Alabama. A fellow survivor and acquaintance from Sadie's past, Dez Ikeda, reveals a potentially devastating discovery he’s made.

After a devastating storm kills her family, Harper Close is suddenly whisked away to an alternate reality in which they're still alive—but don't remember her. With the rare chance to change fate, can Harper prevent a tragedy? With time slipping away, Harper faces a daunting task: to convince her family and the skeptical townsfolk of the need to prepare for the impending disaster, even while evading a menacing figure from the town's mysterious past, who is determined to kill her.