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She’s always loved fairy tales. Starring in one isn’t on her bucket list…

Not that Hope has much of a bucket list, except in her head. Forced to work for a pittance by her cruel stepfather, she has no way out of the drudgery of her life. Being mugged in the park at night is just par for the course… until a big, green monster rescues her.

Rather than waking up in a hospital bed with a severe concussion as she expects, she’s whisked off to a fantastical land filled with all the creatures from her childhood stories. Only she quickly realizes that not everything beautiful is nice, and her big, green monster is not what she expected. A battle-scarred warrior, he might be her only chance of getting home alive.

And, well… it doesn’t hurt that he’s put together like a Greek god, but boasting about his… equipment doesn’t get him on her good list. Saving her from certain death though… yeah, that might do it.

Between a witch’s curse and a treacherous court, Hope must make a choice about her future and whether her monster lives or dies…

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No woman wants the attention of an alpha. Huge, brutal, dominant… They take what they want, no matter who, or what, it is. And now I have two focused on making me theirs. 

“…just one dose of Representine could change your life forever! Become the alpha you’ve always wanted to be. Enjoy life to the full at the top of the food chain and have men and women falling at your feet!”

Representine. That drug changed my life. The instant my a-hole ex became an alpha, I was gone, thrown out on the street with nothing but the clothes on my back… and a small amount of savings I’d hidden away. But living costs money and with those funds dwindling quickly, I need a job and fast… 

I’ll take anything. I really am that desperate. 

I just didn’t expect it to be for Mason and Dante Conrahan. The two young and handsome alphas have haunted my dreams for years. 

Now I’m at their beck and call…

Trigger warning:  This is a much darker and grittier world than my other series, so readers are advised to proceed with caution. 

A Continuing Story:  Please be aware this is a serialised romance in three parts. If you’re not a fan of the serial format, please join my mailing list at MinaCarter.com to be informed when a complete bundle is available!

 

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First they stole her planet. Then they stole her sister…

Her twin might have surrendered to the enemy, but Max will never stop fighting the alien warriors that conquered Earth.

She’s the leader of a rebel army determined to fight for freedom and the future of the human race. The Tolath are her enemies, and she will never surrender to any of them… especially not to him.

Warr is coming… He let her escape him once. She won’t get away again.

Warr caught her scent once, and he’ll never forget it. Whoever she is, wherever she is, he’ll find her. And when he does he will learn all her secrets and teach her the consequences of running from a Tolathian general.

His mission – retrieve his target and bring her back untouched and unclaimed. But no plan survives contact with the enemy, and Max is like no adversary he’s ever faced before. She’s beautiful, dangerous… and his.

This series contains hot, growly aliens on a mission to find their mates – and a group of women determined to free their planet… and themselves.

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First they stole her planet. Then they stole her sister…

Her twin might have surrendered to the enemy, but Max will never stop fighting the alien warriors that conquered Earth.

She’s the leader of a rebel army determined to fight for freedom and the future of the human race. The Tolath are her enemies, and she will never surrender to any of them… especially not to him.

Warr is coming… He let her escape him once. She won’t get away again.

Warr caught her scent once, and he’ll never forget it. Whoever she is, wherever she is, he’ll find her. And when he does he will learn all her secrets and teach her the consequences of running from a Tolathian general.

His mission – retrieve his target and bring her back untouched and unclaimed. But no plan survives contact with the enemy, and Max is like no adversary he’s ever faced before. She’s beautiful, dangerous… and his.

This series contains hot, growly aliens on a mission to find their mates – and a group of women determined to free their planet… and themselves.

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Guess what? It's #snippetsaturday again! Here's a little something from Her Cyborg Mates!

“Delicate? Yes. Compared to me, you are,” he murmured, and she found herself pinned by his darkened gaze. “And I like that… I really like that, Cael. I like you, just the way you are.”

“But why?” She tilted her head to look at him, her insecurities coming to the fore. “I’m not as pretty as any Gemini and apparently child’s play to seduce.”

He didn’t laugh, his expression serious and focused.

“Who told you that?” His voice was a low rumble. “You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen… and easy to seduce?”

He offered her a small, rare smile, his thumb sliding over her lower lip as he leaned in.

His breath whispered over the side of her neck as he cupped the other side in a big hand. “If that were the case, sweetheart, I’d have had you in my bed months ago.”

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So, in the one of the last of our interviews for the LOVED IN SPACE anthology, I got a chat with Eve Langlais about her book in the anthology, MATE ABDUCTION.

Tell me about your hero? What’s he like? What’s he want most out of life?

He is looking for his mate because bonding with her is the only thing that can save his people.

When you’re writing, what’s your favourite muse fuel? Coffee? Cookies?

COFFEE! It’s my morning fuel. After lunch, it’s water with zero calorie iced tea added to it. I know, the excitement is just killing you.

Is this book part of a series? Tell us about your series…

This story is actually part of my ever popular Alien Abduction series. It came to my attention that I had some orphans rescued in book 3 that were never dealt with. I thought it was time we heard their story.

How would your hero/heroine finish this statement? – When all else fails…

Kill it.

How would your heroine describe herself?

A kick ass human who won’t let anyone, even aliens, push her around.

Check out the rest of Eve's book on her website at: http://evelanglais.com/wordpress/books

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Sometimes love comes with a tail.

Clarabelle might have been kidnapped from Earth years ago but she never forgot her roots. Her restlessness leads to her embarking on a quest to find a human colony. Instead, she encounters an alien dude who insists she’s his mate.

Ha. As if she’s going to settle down.

Clarabelle isn’t about to take orders from anyone. Not even the alien hottie who has a disturbing tendency of shifting into a giant lizardman. Her idea of a happily ever after doesn’t include a tail or glowing yellow eyes.

What will it take for her to accept his love and become his fated mate?
PS: This book finally shows us what happened to orphan Clarabelle, whom you originally met in Dual Abduction.
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Today's guest on the blog is LOVED IN SPACE author, Cara Bristol. I managed to sit down and get a chat with her about her book in the anthology, KRASH…

Tell me about your hero? What’s he like? What’s he want most out of life?

He is noble; he’s the kind of the man who will do the right thing. What he wanted most out of life was to be mated to Vetha, a woman on his home world, Dakon. He thought they were Fated, but she jilted him for another man. So he accepted an assigned to go to

Earth to convince other Dakonians to return home. Now he wants to complete his assignment and return to Dakon. He has no interest in dating a human. But the Fates have other ideas…

What’s one of your favourite things about writing SFR?

I love the creativity of it, and I find it illuminating. To create new worlds, I have to examine our own world and habits. When you look closely at what we humans do, you realize how ridiculous our habits are. The humor in KRASH and my other alien romances comes from the aliens’ struggle to understand human behavior.

Is this book part of a series? Tell us about your series…

KRASH is part of the Dakonian Alien Mail Order Brides series, in which aliens from a primitive, icy planet come to Earth through a dating agency to find mates. There are seven books in the series, each named after the hero: Darak, Aton, Caid, Sixx, Kord, Braxx, and Krash. The Dakonian series is spin-off of my Alien Mate series, in which women from Earth go to planet Dakon to become mail order brides. Both the Dakonian and the Alien Mate series are light, funny and fun. Kind of like SFR romantic comedy.

How would your heroine finish this statement? When all else fails…

“Never let them see you sweat.”

Determined!. Cyan Blue is a fraud investigator who works for an organization that debunks urban legends. When she hears that a dating agency claims to match Earth women with extraterrestrials, she thinks it’s a hoax, and she sets out to expose the scam.

What’s your hero’s drink of choice? Dakonian ale. It’s made from macha, a grain on their planet. The ale is very bitter. Dakonians love it; most humans can’t stand it.

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When a dating agency claims to match Earth women with extraterrestrials, fraud investigator Cyan Blue goes undercover as a client to expose the scam. She’s not interested in finding love, and certainly not with a pretend alien!

With their planet suffering a critical lack of females, Dakonian men begin emigrating to Earth in search of mates. Concerned about the impact of the mass exodus, Krash joins a dating agency to gain passage to Earth so he can convince his fellow Dakonians to return home. As soon as he completes his assignment, he’s going back to Dakon. The last thing he desires is to mate with a human.

Their missions are about to collide in a perfect match.

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This week's #snippet is from my new WIP: ZERO'S HEART (Please note, snippet is completely unedited and will probably make my editor cry and remove my internet privileges!)

With a groan, he hauled his ass out of his bunk and padded over to the door. He’d only been asleep for three hours, twenty-five minutes and seventeen seconds but nights like these he knew there was no point lying there. He wouldn’t sleep again.

The door cycled slowly, irritating him even more and he stomped down the corridor toward the galley. It was empty, which was good. The mood he was in, he’d rip the head off his crewmates if they so much as breathed the wrong way. And for a being that could literally hear the biological processes of his crewmates body’s—especially the day after curry night—the danger was very real.

He didn’t need to search the freezer unit for what he wanted. No one would dare touch his triple-chocolate caramel fudge ice-cream. Not if they valued their lives.

“Oh baby… come to daddy,” he crooned, bending down to reach for it.

“Whoa! That was so not an image I needed! Pants, Zero. They’re a thing. My mate could wander in here,”

So today I have the wonderful JENN THOMPSON on the blog. In the midst of release madness I managed to grab her for a chat about BETRAYING KO'RAN, Jenn's story in the LOVED IN SPACE anthology out NOW!!

When you are writing what is your favourite muse fuel?

Being a brit I am a lover of tea, PG tips is the brand I adore and I drink cups and cups of it when I'm wording. I'm also partial to bags of munchies. these are little bites of chocolate joy.

Is this book part of a series, tell us about the series.

OK Betraying Ko'ran is Book one of my very first Sci -Fi romance series. This genre is such a new and exciting adventure for me. started off by the amazing Mina Carter herself. This series will focus on the fall and rise of the Altorian Cyborgs and how they deal with finding their mates and finding a home for themselves. i cant say much more without giving anything away.

What would your hero say his greatest strength is?

Ko'ran is a leader through and through, with loyalty and integrity ingrained into him. but i think over all its his loyalty that stands out, he will risk everything for his men.

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Betraying Ko’ran by J Thompson

Betrayal comes in many forms.

Ko’ran Edwards, Commander of Terra One, is carrying the fate of his entire race on his weary shoulders. Wounded and betrayed, his home destroyed, he needs to find a way off the planet and back to what’s left of his people, and to do it, he’s going to need the help of an unexpected—and utterly captivating—human woman.

Bethany Walker lost everything the day she watched her husband die: the love of her life, a career she adored, and any hope for her future. Trapped in a bitter cycle of loneliness and grief, the arrival of a gorgeous cyborg with a familiar face changes everything.

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It's release day for LOVED IN SPACE!! I am so excited for this one because some of my favourite people in the world have gotten together to write sexy scifi stories in their worlds and it's AWESOME!! But… it's TIME LIMITED!! Make sure to get your copy today before this wonderful anthology disappears forever!!

And, while I have you… here's a little sneak peak of my story in the Anthology, KISSED BY THE ALIEN MERCENARY!

He’d never seen anything as beautiful as the human females.

Saal J’Qess paused in his duties logging stats on a patient as the Lord Healer’s mate passed by with her mother, who held the baby princess in her arms. Lady Jessica offered him a small smile as she noticed him watching. He smiled back but her companion had already reclaimed her attention. They swept through the healer’s hall in a rustle of skirts, the melody of their voices and laughter a welcome balm for the warriors recovering there.

And for Saal as he followed at a discreet distance, checking on patients as he went. While not technically part of his duties, after volunteering at the hall for months the healers trusted him, and it freed them up for healing. So it was a win-win situation. He wasn’t complaining. He had time. Without family or a unit to belong to, his recreation hours were empty, and a male could only spend so many hours training.

Besides… his gaze followed the females as they turned into a private room… there were other advantages to being around the healer’s hall. He finished with the patient in the end bay, a warrior who’d sustained spinal injuries being kept sedated while he healed, and moved to the counter at the end to log all his results. Well, he meant to log them… instead his attention wandered to the open door.

It was the Lady Lizzie’s room—Lady Jessica’s litaan who was ill.

He’d seen her when she’d been brought in, pale and motionless in a stasis tube. At first he’d thought it was Jessica herself, that the purists who’d tried to kill her before had actually managed it. But the presence of the emperor’s shadow, the legendary assassin, had stopped him in his tracks. Eventually he’d gotten it out of a healer. It was Jessica’s sister and she was ill, very ill. Some type of human illness that meant she slept all the time.

And he found her far more beautiful than the Lady Jessica, even though the two women were identical litaan. There was just something about Lizzie—a softness Jessica didn’t have. At least in his eyes, and he’d spent many hours watching her during the long night shifts.

Making sure she was okay, he told himself firmly. Nothing more. He was a volunteer at the hall, so it was his duty to ensure all within its care were looked after. He ignored the fact that her room was the cleanest of all the ones he was assigned to and that he read to her at night when most of the healers had left for the evening—a book of children’s tales hidden in his daysack until everyone had gone. It might have just been his imagination but she seemed to rest easier when he read, none of the fractiousness she’d had in the weeks after she was first brought here.

Despite the fact that he was often in Lady Lizzie’s room, he kept his distance when the family were there, especially when he heard Lord Healer Laarn’s voice further back in the hall. Although the two had resolved their differences, during training and with Saal’s heartfelt apology for trying to claim Laarn’s mate, he was merely a J’Qess and nowhere near on the same standing in the empire.

Laarn nodded as he passed. The movement was curt but an acknowledgment nonetheless. Saal nodded back, trying to hide his curiosity at the tree Laarn carried. It was an Aathari, usually considered a weed and eradicated whenever it sprang up.

“Don’t ask,” the big healer ground out, trying and failing to get the thing through the door. “Apparently it’s ‘pretty’ and they want it in there for the Lady Lizzie.”

Saal raised an eyebrow.

“A little help here?” Laarn grunted.

Saal nodded, quickly taking the other side of the large tub the tree was in. Between them, the two warriors managed to struggle the recalcitrant weed into the room.

“Oh, it’s perfect,” Jessica smiled. “Just move it over a little so Lizzie can see it from the bed.”

Seeing the pleasure on their faces made struggling it through the door and almost getting his eye gouged out by a branch worth it. Saal grunted with effort as he and Laarn moved it into the required position. He didn’t point out that Lizzie was asleep and wouldn’t see it. In cases like this, it was whatever brought the family comfort.

“Thank you, love,” Jessica lifted on her tiptoes to kiss her mate. Saal looked away, not wanting to intrude on their moment. Then Jessica surprised him by turning to him as well.

“Thank you, Saal.” Then she reached up to kiss him on the cheek.

He froze.

Laarn froze.

Then growled.

Draanth. He was so dead.

“Behave!” Jess chided to Laarn, tapping his arm warningly. “Saal is a friend. Humans show affection to their friends. It doesn’t mean I want to jump into bed with him.”

Saal didn’t know where to look. This was obviously a long-running argument with them. He swallowed the pleasure he felt at being named her friend and bowed his head. “You’re more than welcome, my lady. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have duties to attend to…”

He didn’t, but Laarn looked like he was about to explode or commit murder. He’d just as soon not be around for either.

“Please, if you have time…” Jessica stopped him with a hand on his arm, garnering another warning look and grumble from Laarn. “If there are any of those lights to spare. You know the ones… I’ve seen you tape them on the floor for the temporary bays? If you can find any for the tree, I’d be really grateful. Lizzie had a tree like this at home in the garden and put fairy lights in it.”

He inclined his head. There were some in the stores he could… liberate. Especially if it gave him an excuse to be in here more. “Of course, my lady. I’ll see what I can do.”

As he left the room, he couldn’t help overhearing Jess’ soft murmur to her mate. “It’s perfect… if only Lizzie would finally wake up and see it.”

Saal’s heart ached for her, for the love she felt for her sister as Laarn’s voice followed Saal out of the room. “We’re doing the best we can, my love. I promise.”

“I know…” Jess sighed in frustration. “Perhaps it’s not medicine. Perhaps we just need a prince to kiss her and wake her up.”

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