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Brady Garrett needs to go home. He's a conscripted recruit on Defender Three, one of a network of stations designed to protect the Earth from alien attack. He's also angry, homesick, and afraid. If he doesn't get home he'll lose his family, but there's no way back except in a body bag. Cameron Rushton needs a heartbeat. Four years ago Cam was taken by the Faceless - the alien race that almost destroyed Earth.

The perfect afterlife or a never-ending nightmare? Isobel has it all: a steady relationship, the immaculate home and her dream job. Life, and even death, is completely under her control. For Isobel's generation death no longer means oblivion, thanks to firms like her employer, Oakley Associates. Isobel is their top Heaven Architect, crafting perfect afterlives for her clients: artificial paradises of the mind built from the memories they treasure most. Then Isobel meets handsome client Jarek....

Dr. Allison Baker is obsessed with saving the comatose New Species male. She has tried everything and there’s only one option left. Alli will break every rule and put her life in danger by tempting 880 to wake, using only her feminine scent and touch. She just has to kidnap him and crawl into bed with him to make it work. 880 wakes in a different world with a small female who’s been sleeping beside him, caressing him, and wrapping her sweet body around his, teasing his senses. He lies silent and still, listening and evaluating each arousing touch, fighting his body’s reaction.

I left the Earth to get away from my controlling ex, and I refuse to fall into another man's arms...not even an amazingly masculine alien that awakens an uncontrollable attraction within me. Bask is the definition of alpha male and my opposite in every way. He comes from an alien species full of domineering males, and I'm not interested. I can't deny that I'm hot for him, but I'm not willing to be his submissive little female. When our ship crashes, he goes into protector mode. He thinks I'm a helpless human. I might not have the power to summon fire at my fingertips, but I'm not weak.

Brady Garrett is back in space, this time as an unwilling member of a team of humans seeking to study the alien Faceless and their technology. It's not the first time Brady's life has been in the hands of the Faceless leader Kai-Ren, and if there's one thing Brady hates it's being reminded exactly how powerless he is. Although dealing with the enigmatic Faceless might actually be easier than trying to figure out where he stands with the other humans on board, particularly when one of them is his boyfriend's ex.

Gladria isn't a safe planet to make a life. A spaceship catastrophe left me stranded on the scorching planet of Gladria, and I just want to get home. At least that's my goal until I lock eyes with Vale, and everything changes. Soulmates aren't supposed to exist. And my soulmate certainly can't be an intimidating alien price with a tail - a tail! - and power over ice and snow.

It wasn't easy escaping from the prison I'd been locked in. And an escape plan that includes a one-way ticket to an alien planet might not have been my smartest idea. But coming to Tavikh has been the best thing to ever happen to me. If I don't count the vicious aliens who keep trying to kill me.

I've paid the cost for returning to Earth: my memories. But before I can be put on a ship and sent home, a hulking alien intercepts me. There's something about Lehrit that makes me want to trust him. But I must have allowed my mind to be wiped for a reason. He's hiding something from me, but as I fall hard for the pirate king my heart isn't sure it wants the truth.

My human target doesn’t know what’s coming for her, but I do. As an elite Cosmic S.W.A.T member, I took an unbreakable oath to protect human life. Human females are precious. The one I’m undercover to protect is worth more than the riches of all the wealthy slime who come to watch the game she needs to survive. I won’t let her die. She could be the missing piece that allows me back into the prison planet I need to destroy. And if her touch means what I think it does… she could just be my fated mate. I’m ready to fight anything that gets in between us. Even one of my own.

Despite her amazing abilities, all Sun Song Shia ever wanted was to be loved. But it's hard to find love when you don't even know who you really are. Little Bird is an expansion of In Her Eyes, originally published in F&SF, a nominee for the Sturgeon award, an honoree for the James Tiptree award, and included in the 2015 Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas (edited by Paula Guran).

When an explosive event brings Hudson and Beverly together, the instant attraction between them cannot be ignored. As the two grow closer and share secrets, they help each other heal from the shackles of their pasts. But true happiness eludes them when they are forced to go their separate ways, until Beverly returns with an admission that will rock the very fabric of Hudson's world.

There exists a gateway between worlds. Known only to a select few, we find our protagonist as a researcher who has dedicated her whole life to recording and observing the world just on the other side. However, completely oblivious to our ever-watching eyes, their world moves on as it always has.

To quell the pain that never fully left him when the woman he loves chose another man over him, Blake begins to look for ways to ease his suffering. As Blake's life quickly spins out of control with substance abuse, a series of explosive events leaves him banned from the Six Saviors with nowhere to go except to Brandy, the waitress from the bar, the Black Cuff.

"SR44 is no more." With those words, Cohen of the Six Saviors feels like his whole world is unraveling at the seams. Consumed by sadness, anger, and guilt for breaking his mating vows to his beloved SR44ian mate, Cohen makes a sacrificial oath to honor her in death. Annis, a female SR44 Warrior, was sent to Earth right before SR44 was destroyed. But her new human body has restrictions - during the day she is blind, but once the sun goes down, her vision returns.

From their first thrilling encounters to their wildest power fantasies, this fun and hilarious collection of four steamy titles features guys transforming into gorgeous young women and having the adventure of a lifetime in exciting and surreal situations inspired by some of your favorite games and media! With humorous and familiar gender-bending romance, you’re sure to be up listening to this into the late, late hours of the night.

When four young friends head out for a sexy trip to a cabin deep in the Minnesota woods, the boys have a secret plan to help their girlfriends really let loose and let go of all their inhibitions. Connor and Frank just want Maya and Kelsey to learn to be wild and freaky, and they’ve pulled out all the stops to help them: booze, costumes, sexy videos. They want the weekend to be an unrestrained sex-fest, where the girls can let out their inner love goddesses and get comfortable getting down and dirty.

Quinn Morgan is just barely scraping by from day to day. She's never had much money, and although a little more would certainly ease her stress levels, she's never cared about being wealthy. So when her grandfather passes away and leaves her his multi-million dollar estate, Quinn isn't quite sure how to navigate this new life. Making her transition easier is Ivan, the half-human, half-machine butler who came with the estate.