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Luke just wanted to get away. What better place than a personal, secluded cabin in the woods to clear his mind? Besides, the quarantines were still in place, and the world wasn’t getting any better. Social media was abuzz with tales of an impending disaster, wars brewing overseas, and more. Then it happened. One of those apocalypse predictions turns out to be true: a massive solar flare shatters the power grid worldwide. Pressing on, Luke makes it to his cabin and discovers a woman already there....

Ondry and Liam have settled into a good life, but their trading is still tied up with humans, and humans are always messy. When political changes at the human base lead Ondry to attempt a difficult trade, the pair find themselves entangled in human affairs. Liam wants to help the people he left and the worlds being torn apart. He also wants to serve Ondry with not only the pleasures of the nest but also by bringing human profits. Ondry has no hope of understanding human psychology in general, he only knows that he will hold onto his palteia with the last breath in his body.

Half-Argoran shifter Arak O'tir knew good people existed. He worked with some of them. But as a deadly Jutak warrior, his work often took him into the less savory elements of society. So much so, he shielded his heart from those he'd rescued. That was, until one particular mission leaves him longing for a specific female. Someone who made him tremble even if she wasn't from his world. Sylvia Forrester never expected her quest for a husband would lead her into danger.

I guess I'm one of the last survivors of the human race, and I'm stranded on this hell of a desert alien planet. Sucks to be me. Our ship crashed months ago, and those of us left are struggling to survive the boiling heat in barbaric living conditions. The only reason we're not all dead is one of my friends got knocked up by a native alien, and he lets us live in his ruined city.

Beat the game. Get the girls. Stop the bad guy. My name's Ethan Riley. Just your typical dude with a bartending gig and an outdated Subaru, and if that wasn't boring enough...I'm from Ohio. Or at least I was boring...until I died. No, seriously. I died. But thanks to the magic of unethical medical practices, I was kitted out with a microchip in my head and some hush money in my pocket. Now, I’m suddenly seeing everything like a dating simulator, including some of the hottest gamer girls in the industry.

Skye Chantrell has just escaped a war zone. She’s carrying the stolen antidote to a deadly bioweapon. When her damaged shuttle crashes on a remote lunar outpost, she’s captured by the leader of a rogue group of alien vigilantes. Now her people’s survival - not to mention her own - rests in the hands of the Seven Systems’ most feared and hated fugitives. Hunter Tarthasian and his ragtag band of revolutionaries have every reason to hate the corrupt Ilarian Regime. Branded as criminals, hunted like animals, they’ve holed up in an abandoned outpost to plan their next move.

Hello again, I'm Eve Wakefield, and I refuse to accept that I'm in love with an intergalactic moth prince. No. I don't care how handsome he is, I don't want to marry him. I don't care if his parents have a sentient spaceship capable of eating entire planets. Love is earned, not swindled by pheromones. I'm now trapped on a ship with an adorable cyborg bodyguard, a golden toilet, and relationship issues. There's the prince I'm supposed to marry, the forest beast I fell in love with, and the never-wears-clothes police officer with tentacles.

In Ashgrove AKA Raven Creek was a quiet village on the edge of nowhere, its people bound by soil, seasons, and survival. But when Warren Harland—a ruthless warlord with ambitions of conquest—set his sights on their land, the fragile peace shattered. At the heart of the story is Amara, a fiercely determined young woman with a blade in her hand and a fire in her heart. Orphaned by raiders years before, she has grown into Raven Creek’s protector, its voice of defiance against those who would take everything.

True love is written in the stars...at least, that's how it appears. For Raven, only child of ruling President Phillipe Andre and his wife, Adriana Andre, first lady of the Republic of the United Kingdom, losing her beloved husband, Dalton, in a tragic accident robbed her of her happy ever after. Whispers speak of a way; a chance for her to gaze into his eyes one final time, but this route remains forbidden to all. Those who rule guard the secret, but there are always those who will talk and others only too willing to listen.

I’ve been engaged to the same annoying guy for four long years, and still, no wedding date in sight. Grr. I’m completely fed up with this sham, so I tell my “fiancé” I’m taking a job off planet, hoping this outrageous behavior will allow him to finally break off our ridiculous engagement. It doesn’t. So, I leave and become an organizing consultant to some scary alien.

Athena wakes up in hell. Well...it’s an alien slave ship, but it might as well be hell because she only has three choices. Mate. Become a sex slave. Or be killed. Great options. Desperate for freedom, a chance for survival is presented in the handsome rogue alien called Xul. But Xul is caught up in problems of his own and a mission he cannot afford to let fail - one that could be easily compromised if he dared open his heart. That doesn't leave her with many options and it doesn't help that she finds him utterly frustrating.

There are two types of hell. The one priests preach about and then this. Stuck on an alien slave ship, Piper is auctioned and thrown into a cell with...something. He’s an alien with a reputation. A warrior. A beast. A killer. He is dangerous. A creature with a cold, cold heart...one not unlike her own. You’d think falling for an alien killing machine was something so far-fetched it would never happen. Well, so was being abducted out of 7.5 billion other humans on Earth - and that had occurred so... Hey, what’s the worst that could happen?

After finding her fiancé in a compromising position, Jane heads to a private island resort in Key West to clear her head. There she meets Austin - six years younger than she is and the exact opposite of her fiancé in every way - he seems like the perfect prescription to cure her heartbreak. But everything changes when the virus that had previously only been a minor nuisance morphs into a full-blown epidemic. Three miles from the mainland and surrounded by ocean, Austin and Jane believe they’re safe from what’s happening in the world, but a virus knows no borders.

Cooper came home unexpectedly early that day—the day her world collapsed. The day she heard things she shouldn’t have. Saw things she shouldn’t have. Now, Cooper is running away. Driving recklessly, blindly. A broken heart spiralling out of control after witnessing an earth-shattering scene.

In 2187, Marile Historian-1 just wants her Ph.D. She plans to earn her degree by traveling back in time to study Milton Carver, an Afro-American and the greatest physicist of all time. The History Department's professors worry she inadvertently changes the past. The department's head already knows she and Carver share a love that could instead change the future.

Taj Das, a struggling DJ in his 20’s, searches for love, but it’s far beyond his reach. Taj lives in the shadow of his accomplished older brother and his friend, a popular local DJ. Taj’s father disapproves of his life choices and wants him to pursue a more practical career. Taj and his father butt heads about his future, and their relationship becomes more contentious as Taj faces an ultimatum without much time to prove his father wrong. After a terrible debut performance, Taj retreats home.

For twenty-seven years, I've flitted through life clueless to the God-given abilities that lay dormant inside of me. In the blink of an eye, everything changed more than I ever could've anticipated. She changed it. Now I know that nothing is as it seems. I will never be the same again...but this isn't my story. It's hers. I'm just being forced to live it, resolve it, and ultimately try to move on after learning that our lives are going to be tangled far more than I would've ever imagined. My name is Parrish Locke. And I can see the dead.

Julianna Hammond believes their mysterious visitor really is Richard. As a loyal Ricardian, she feels obligated to educate him on past and present. In dismay Richard learns of his destiny in a certain battle, and his depiction in a certain play. Julianna and he wonder: Can history be rewritten? Back in the Middle Ages, Richard’s brothers King Edward and George Plantagenet are determined to find him - wherever he is - with the help of a little magic conjured up by a wizard.

In the vast expanse of space, Zemira is no stranger to danger, but a bounty on her head makes every decision critical. She expects trouble after taking a lucrative job investigating illegal activity on a colonized planet. Trouble finds her as her ship comes under attack, and she crashes onto an alien world filled with beauty and unknown threats. Now, survival means navigating language and cultural barriers to forge unexpected alliances.

While hiking the mountains and deserts of Arizona with her best friend, DOG, Ryley Graham hears a whirring noise. Thinking DOG has cornered a rattlesnake, she rushes to protect him and is blinded by a light seemingly coming from nowhere and everywhere simultaneously. Waking up 510 years later, she is confused by the unfamiliar machinery and "people" that surround her. Skeptical when she is informed she is aboard a spaceship that explores wormholes, it takes a great deal of effort to finally convince Ryley she isn’t in a government-owned facility.