A hostage situation gone bad leaves a human woman and her new
furry friend to rescue her alien teammates.
It's been months since Rose McKenzie was taken far from Earth.
She's trying to make a place for herself amongst the Grih, with help from her
Grihan lover, Captain Dav Jallan, and the dangerous and loyal Sazo, a powerful
artificial intelligence who's integrated with an infamous Class 5 battleship.
When Rose gets the chance to join an exploration team going down
to collect information from a planet in Grihan airspace, she jumps at the
opportunity to stretch her legs and breathe some real air.
But someone is already on the planet—the Krik—and they don't want
anyone to know what they're up to. The Krik are the chaos agents of the United
Council, often riding the edge of the law or over it. They ambush the
exploration team and take them prisoner, but they don't realize they didn't get
everyone. They didn't get Rose.
With Dav, and his spaceship the Barrist, lured away by a distress
signal, Rose and Sazo, along with a furry friend Rose has made, are the
exploration team's only hope at rescue. And Rose never leaves a friend behind.
STAR CRUISE: RETURN VOYAGE
The Sectors SF Romance Series
By Veronica Scott
His darkest secret is her worst nightmare but might save her life
when an old enemy from her past shows up on the RETURN VOYAGE…
Gianna Nadenoft is a reclusive survivor of one of the worst
interstellar cruise ship disasters in the history of the Sectors. Now a
renowned artist, she hasn’t left her home planet in decades, not since
returning there after the wreck as a traumatized three-year-old. With her
service animal at her side, she’s going to attempt to travel across the star
systems to attend her brother’s wedding and reunite with her fellow survivors.
Trevor Hanson is a security officer aboard the cruise liner Nebula
Zephyr with his own traumatic past as a former Special Forces soldier and
prisoner of war. He’s assigned to provide personal protection to Gianna during
her time aboard the ship but soon finds his interest turning from professional
to romantic.
Onboard the Nebula Zephyr, powerful enemies are watching Gianna
and making plans to seize this rare opportunity to gain access to her and the
secrets they believe she’s still keeping about the wreck. Can Trevor overcome
his personal demons and rise to the occasion to save Gianna from the danger
waiting on his ship, or will she slip through his fingers and suffer a terrible
fate deferred from her last disastrous voyage?
GENERAL’S HOLIDAY
Project Enterprise Series Story
By Pauline Baird Jones
A General wanting an adventure gets more than he bargains for when
a lady with a pet frog asks for help.
A lady, a frog, and the General that wanted to be Picard…
General John Halliwell, Commander of the Project Enterprise Earth
Expedition, has spent most of his time in the Garradian Galaxy being shot at
and shooting back. When a mysterious and intriguing lady arrives on Kikk asking
for some non-shooting help, he is intrigued enough to listen.
All Naxe has ever known is a life of hiding and providing. With
the end of the war, freedom still feels further than ever. Determined to end
the stalemate that threatens her people, she will break all the rules—even the
one where she asks General Halliwell for help.
Of course, she should have known better. Trouble—and the
shooting—starts the moment she brings the general and his team to the Scoyfol
ships. It won’t matter that the enterprising General Halliwell is the first man
to remind her she is a woman if they are dead! Is it possible to end the
stalemate, survive the shooting, and still find a happily ever after?
JUGGERNAUT
The Inherited Stars Series
By Laurie A. Green
When
a top-secret site is threatened, a security commander must decide if she can
trust a mysterious stranger and his bioengineered StarDog to help her root out
a dangerous spy.
Lieutenant Commander Dekessa “Dek” Garr is second-in-command of a
security force that protects a discovery buried deep inside an ancient lava
tube. The implications of the find are staggering, and the stakes are high if
their enemy—the Alliance—ever learns the truth about Site D. When her commander
suddenly departs with zero warning and a mysterious visitor arrives, her job
becomes a whole new level of complicated.
Sno Telon has an exercise to perform, and he isn’t about to let
anyone stop him--including the dedicated acting commander known as Dek. But
when his partner, CaSandra, a bioengineered dog-cat-weasel-mongoose, takes an
immediate liking to the team leader, Sno realizes there’s much more to the
woman than harsh words and hard scowls.
When Dek is attacked by an invisible foe who infiltrates the
off-limits excavation, she immediately suspects Telon as the obvious culprit.
But her interrogations of the man don’t go as planned and an unlikely bond
forms between them as they reach a startling conclusion. Could the invisible
perpetrator actually be an Alliance spy who’s about to blow open the secrets of
Site D?
Can Dek trust Telon and his StarDog partner to help root out a
possible Alliance operative, even if it means breaking every security protocol
in the process? If her instincts about Telon are wrong, Site D could be lost
forever…as well as her life.
GALACTIC SEARCH AND RESCUE
Central Galactic Concordance Series
By Carol Van Natta
When disaster response turns deadly, can two star-crossed Galactic
Search and Rescue responders fight their own agency—and their feelings for each
other—to save the day?
Rescuers Taz and Rylando can’t let their forbidden attraction get
in the way of saving lives. When a planetary disaster turns deadly, can they
save an entire town... and each other?
Subcaptain Taz Correa, telekinetic talent and first-responder in
the military’s underfunded and overworked Galactic Search and Rescue division,
hides her unprofessional attraction for teammate Rylando and his unorthodox
team of animal assistants. When catastrophe strikes a politically important
town, Taz, Rylando, and his animals are the only rescuers left to respond.
Subcaptain Rylando Dalroinn loves his telepathic connection to his
animals, but wants a heart connection with teammate Taz. Unfortunately, not
only is it against the rules, but he doesn’t know how to tell her. And in GSAR,
rescue missions always come first.
Kaz lives her worst nightmare when trapped underground with the
animals in a hidden room set to blow sky high. Everything Rylando loves is in
peril, and now he’s at the mercy of people who aren’t just victims.
If Taz, Rylando, and the animals can’t find their way to save each
other fast and neutralize the threat, the whole town will become a disaster
statistic.
REAPER
Xian Warriors Series
By Regine Abel
Can love exist between a genetically engineered warrior and the
beautiful, but scarred woman he rescues?
She survived against the odds...
Janelle’s life is defined by the small, underground research base
she has always called home. Imprisoned for twenty years after the base was
bombed, she and the few Creckel survivors are running out of time as the last
of their resources are depleted. With no hope for rescue, she and her
companions wait for the dreaded Reaper to finish what the bombs missed.
Reaper, a half-human, half-Kryptid, is part of the Vanguard—an
elite peacekeeping force determined to help the survivors left behind by war.
New intel leads him to a remote research base where he discovers Creckel
survivors—and a lone human woman named Janelle.
Janelle’s life hasn’t
prepared her for the breathtakingly stunning, genetically engineered warrior.
His words, filled with impossible promises, make her believe there is a place
for her somewhere in the vast universe—with him by her side. Is it possible
that dreams can come true, or will guilt for another man’s deeds shatter her
new hope?
PASTFINDERS
Starways Series
By Alexis Glynn
Latner
A stupendous discovery in an alien archaeological dig leads to
love between a psychic xenoarchaeologist and the bureaucrat overseeing the dig,
and now the past will abruptly change the future.
With a little bit of luck….
Mercury Chancer came to the planet Tellus as a member of an
archaeological team investigating ancient alien ruins. The archaeologists have
to work fast because a terraforming flood will soon put the ruins under water,
but Mercury isn’t worried. She has a psychic gift that changes the laws of
probability, bringing her accidental luck which should help the team.
Boerdelim “Haze” Tel-Hazon works for the Office of Planetary
Protection. An official visit to the dig site leads him to Mercury—and a
strange, shapeshifting alien animal. Haze is shaken when a long-forgotten
trauma from his past comes alive. With Mercury’s luck and the help from a
sympathetic alien animal, he just might survive!
Just when Haze didn’t think things could get any worse, the
archaeologists make a stupendous discovery—and greedy enemies take notice. When
the archaeologists prove they are not the defenseless scientists they pretend
to be, Haze has to wonder—will flood, foes, and the resurgent past defeat them,
or will luck and love win the day?
MITTENS NOT INCLUDED
TriSystems: Smugglers Series
By JC Hay
She’s everything he’s tried to forget and makes him everything he
wishes he could be.
Three little kittens have lost their way…
Layth Ali thought he was happy. On board the Sentinel of Gems, he
is allowed to run the medical bay as he sees fit, and the crew appreciates his
talents. Most importantly, the smugglers don’t ask him questions about his
past, or pressure him to leave his self-imposed exile. But when a new passenger
and her precious cargo get dumped into his lap, it’s all he can do to deflect
her incessant questions and keep her at arm’s length.
Meja Aquarone knew she was courting trouble when she stole a
litter of kittens from the lab where she worked, but she refused to allow their
perceived flaw to become a death sentence. Now she’s on the run, hoping that
the crew of the Sentinel can smuggle her someplace safe without her employers
finding her. She wasn’t expecting to find someone on board who understood the
tiny creatures, or who shielded his compassion behind a wall of spiky
indifference, but ten minutes with the ship’s doctor leaves her curious to know
more.
Forced to go to the one place Layth swore never to return, the
walls are closing around them. With a corporate bounty on their heads, and
three cats becoming increasingly difficult to hide, Layth and Meja have to
decide – what are they willing to sacrifice to gain the safety they desire? And
is that protection worth being alone?
FINDING MOGHA
Before The Fall Series
By Kyndra Hatch
Can a common goal bring an unlikely pair together?
Dani Myers is on the run and running out of time. Her discovery of
a young Korthan Hellhound in a lab sends her on a desperate mission. The pup
isn’t some obscure test animal; it is a sentient Mogha that can speak. The last
thing she needs as she tries to save the creature is to have her ship shot out
from under her.
K’vyn doesn’t hate all humans, just the ones that won’t cease
terraforming Korthan worlds. Their disregard for life has driven his people to
the brink of all-out war. When a human supply freighter shows up in Korthan
territory near the beloved Mogha home world, he is duty bound to rid the galaxy
of another human ship. A distress call as the ship crashes creates an
unexpected soul-deep pull inside him.
Dani’s decision to smuggle the Mogha called C’hase back to his
home world might not have been her smartest move, but she felt she had no
choice when she overheard plans to terraform the animal’s home planet. Now,
without help from the Korthan who shot her down, she’ll never be able to warn
the Mogha inhabitants of impending doom.
She isn’t sure which surprises her more after she crashes on an
unknown planet—the fact that she is still alive, or the mutual attraction
between her and K’vyn, the Korthan who did the shooting. Is it possible a
Korthan and a human can work together to save C’hase and the Mogha home world,
or will they be caught between those that want to terraform and the Korthans
determined to save the Mogha from extinction?
RATE OF RETURN
The Department of Homeworld Security
By Cassandra Chandler
An alien warrior must make a choice between his mission and the
human woman who is his bond mate.
Kimmy loves being co-owner of the only pet parlor in the county.
She has always been serious when it comes to taking care of animals. Any kind
of animal—except maybe the two dogs fighting in her yard in the middle of the
night. The canines she is familiar with don’t have tentacles, glow, or change
into one of the hottest guys she has ever seen.
Serac is intrigued by the courageous Earthling that ran to his
aid, wielding only a primitive weapon called a ‘broom’. He and his adorable,
six-legged pet aren’t mythical beings. They are aliens—and they aren't alone.
He needs to stay focused, but focusing is impossible when Kimmy accidentally
imprints with the Lyrian pet he is supposed to deliver. To complicate matters
further, his zyln, the elemental spirit that lives within him, is just as
enamored with her as he is, plus his ex-partner is determined to capture her
for his own nefarious ends!
With billions of sentients throughout the galaxy depending on him,
Serac’s mission has to come first. If he walks away from Kimmy, he knows he'll
leave his heart behind. But will he be leaving her in the hands of his
ex-partner?
GLITCH
Crashland Colony Romance Series
by Leslie Chase
She swore she'd never forgive the alien pirates who stranded her.
But that was before she met Karnac.
Famous last words....
I made a promise to myself never to forget what the alien Prytheen
stole from me. When one of them tells me that we're fated mates, it doesn’t
change anything. Nothing could make me change my mind! Not the fact he gets
along with Glitch, my holographic cat. Not the fact that he has a killer body
and a smoldering gaze that leaves me short of breath. I won’t let my guard
down.
Karnac is an alien pirate. Unfortunately, he is also the second
part of the technical staff at the Crashland Colony broadcast station. I patch
the human stuff, he takes care of the Prytheen tech. My promise to keep
everything professional between us goes south when Glitch spots disaster
heading straight for the colony.
It is amazing how a life or death situation can change your
perspective. Maybe having a crude, arrogant, domineering Prytheen pirate of my
own wouldn’t be such a bad idea?
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