Every Wednesday we announce new releases, the week’s bestsellers and a selection of on sale and free SciFi Romance books. Pricing and best-selling information is compiled Sunday before posting and subject to change.
Amazon Top Five SFR
Amazon rankings are updated hourly. This list was compiled 8/30/15.
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Pre-Order Specials
Black Ice Heart (Space Grit Book 1) by Ella Drake
Pre-order Price: $1.99
Print Length: 185 pages
Publication Date: September 21, 2015
Available on Amazon
Condemned and in transit to an asteroid prison, he found what he’d never had before–a chance to love.
A prisoner and his jailer are the only survivors of an attack by a band of half-aliens. But why did they survive?
Black Ice Heart is a full-length science fiction romance novel that begins the Space Grit series and can be read stand-alone.
Faring Soul (Interspace Origins Book 1) by Tracy Cooper-Posey
Pre-order Price: $2.99
List Price: $3.99
Print Length: 222 pages
Publication Date: September 25, 2015
The truth about Bedivere threatens the entire Federation. His feelings for Cat might just save everyone.
Excerpt:
“Despite the rhetoric that surrounds my much-maligned past, I happen to like the quiet life.”
Bedivere sat back as she was. “Liar.”
This book is the first book of the Interspace Origins space opera romance series.
Sacrifice (Tribute, #1) by Kate Pearce
Ebook Pre Order $2.99
eBook release: Sep 7, 2015
Page count: 125
Available from Riptide Publishing
Awaiting execution on a foreign planet, Anna Lee has nothing left to lose. It’s Rehz’s job to teach Anna to survive as a Tribute. And if she does, it’s his task to help her overcome the trauma of the experience. But this time he isn’t doing it to save his planet. This time he’s doing it for love.
WARNING: Explicit Sex and Violence, dubious consent and tentacle monsters!
Numbers (New Species) by Laurann Dohner
Digital List Price: $8.99
Pre-order Price: $7.19
Print Length: 346 pages
Publication Date: September 8, 2015
Available on Amazon
Stories 14 and 15 in the New Species series.
140 – Dana is visiting Homeland when she meets a New Species who tugs at her heartstrings. As a widow, she knows firsthand the pain he’s suffering after losing his mate. Mourn isn’t so certain that talking to a human female will help him heal but he desires her. It’s possible she could become his new reason for living.
927 – Candi lost the male she loved, but never forgot him. New Species are her only hope to seek revenge for 927’s death. A human female claiming to have been reared at Mercile has demanded entry to Homeland. Hero rushes to Medical and comes face-to-face with his past. One look at Candi and the life he’s built since gaining freedom comes crashing down around him.
Featured New SFR Releases
Barbarian Lover (Ice Planet Barbarians Book 3) by Ruby Dixon
Kindle Price: $3.99
Print Length: 163 pages
Publication Date: August 28, 2015
Available on Amazon
As one of the few humans stranded on the ice planet, I should be happy that I have a new home. Human women are treasured here, and one alien in particular has made it clear that he wants me. It’s hard to push away the sexy, flirtatious Aehako, when all I want to do is grab him by his horns and insist he take me to his furs.
But I’ve got a terrible secret – the aliens who abducted me are back, and thanks to the translator in my ear, they can find me. My presence here endangers everyone…but can I give up my new life and the man I want more than anything?
Honour Bound (Lawmen of the Republic Book 2) by M.A. Grant
Kindle Sale Price: $3.53
Digital List Price: $5.25
Print Length: 350 pages
Publication Date: August 22, 2015
Available on Amazon
The Lawmen of the Republic: fierce, honourable, soldiers, men. But what happens when all that they’ve been told turns out to be lies?
Fall and Rising, by Sunny Moraine
Release date: Aug 31, 2015
Print Length: 432
Available on Amazon
This title is a Standalone set in the Songs of Slipstream universe.
Adam and his lover Lochlan are on the run and searching for a way to save his people from a deadly genetic illness. Fate draws them to a young pilot named Nkiruka, facing her fears of becoming the spiritual leader for her people. With the fates of civilizations in their hands, they prepare for a final conflict that might be their only chance for survival—or that might destroy them all.
Space Wrangler (Space Rustlers) by Kate Donovan
Digital List Price: $6.50
Print Length: 369 pages
Publication Date: September 1, 2015
Available on Amazon
On this frontier, love could get you killed. And that’s part of the rush.
Space Rustlers, Book 1
Like all miracles, a rip in space has its dark side. Through it, adventurers explore new worlds, smugglers make their fortunes, and wranglers like Rick Gage pit their skills against hordes of magnificent robots. The downside? Five percent of those who enter “the sinkhole” are never seen again.
Warning: This book glorifies outlaws, encourages lawlessness, condones unprotected space contact, and could lead to the rise of the kind of machines that don’t require batteries.
Erase Me Not (The Paradisi Chronicles) by Sarah Woodbury
Kindle Pre-order Price: $3.99
Print Length: 219 pages
Publication Date: September 1, 2015
Available on Amazon
As a descendant of one of the Founding Families of the colony of New Eden, Abby has lived a privileged existence—up until the moment she wakes up in a rent-by-the-hour hotel room in the worst sector of New Seattle with no memory of how she got there. Friends and family are suddenly strangers, and the only memories in her head can’t be hers.
When the authorities accuse her of working for the Resistance movement and have evidence to prove it, Abby enlists her only friend, Raman, for help. Their quest takes them into the dark underbelly of the brave new world her family founded and reveals a far-reaching conspiracy which threatens not only Abby’s life, but the very foundations of New Eden.
Taking Stock by Barbara Elsborg
Kindle Price: $5.00
Digital List Price: $6.50
Print Length: 349 pages
Publication Date: September 2, 2014
Available on Amazon
Her last days on Earth could be out of this world.
One woman (with a brain tumor), two sexy aliens, and an off-world reality show.
Warning: This book contains two hot aliens with “interesting anatomy”, one lucky human heroine, zero-gravity ménage sex, male-male tongue worship, and all the toys one super store can provide.
Frost Station Alpha: The Complete Series by Ruby Lionsdrake
Pre-order Price: $4.95
Print Length: 320 pages
Publication Date: September 6, 2015
Available on Amazon
An ambitious Lieutenant protecting the infamously dangerous Frost Station Alpha meets the genetically engineered super humans set on capturing the station. And one of these powerful, sexy warrior decides he wants Tamryn too.
This ebook contains the complete Frost Station Alpha serial, previously published in six installments.
Silent Autumn by Veronica Helen Hart
Pre-order Price: $6.99
Print Length: 392 pages
Publication Date: September 7, 2015
Available on Amazon
A Dystopian future where drugs are used to suppress emotion. Content Taylor overhears something she shouldn’t and ends up traveling across the abandon and derelict stretches of the country with a man on a quest to warn the leader of another part of the country of an underhanded plot against them. Without her meds, Taylor experiences emotions for the first time.
Featured Shorts
5,001: An SFR Short Story by Tracy Cooper-Posey
Kindle Price: $0.99
Publication Date: September 2, 2015
Print Length: 31 pages
Available on Amazon
Aboard the generation ship Endurance, Engineer Caelen Williams tries to solve the riddle of draining water and learns that the convicted criminal and her former lover, Devar, is not the only one who may have been manipulated…. “You do want my apology,” he said gently. “You have for seventeen years.”
Solia’s Moon: OSA, Prequel to the Outer Settlement Agency Series by Lyn Brittan
Kindle Sale Price: FREE
Digital List Price: $2.99
Print Length: 84 pages
Publication Date: November 18, 2013
Available on Amazon
Taken by the Billionaire Alien Next Door by Jessica E. Subject
Kindle Price: $0.99
Print Length: 26 pages
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Available on Amazon
While searching for her new stepbrother to help with unpacking, she stumbles upon his smokin’ hot neighbor, all alone in his mansion and busy at work on a… flying saucer? Can Erika escape before he notices her, or will she be abducted by the sexy alien?
Excerpt:
““What exactly do you think I am, Miss Erika?”
“An alien.” There, I’d said it, and I expected him to laugh in my face and deny it.
Instead, he placed his hands behind his back and stepped nearer. “And what if I am?”
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