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‘The zombie novel with a heart', Guardian Now a major motion picture starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich, Warm Bodies is the ultimate zombie read this Halloween. 'R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from...

As the world falls apart around them, piece by piece, Abigail Fuller spends humanity's final days looking after her husband David. But that's not true, not really. Abigail isn't David's wife. She's not even human. She's a replacement, built in the image of the real Abigail, who died sixteen...

The Body Electric tells the story of glorious young love, the cruelty of fate, of a psyche dealing with catastrophic loss in mystifying ways. It shows how lightning, in the form of random encounters, can strike twice, and perhaps reanimate a character who has become more lifelike than truly alive.

A retired alien bodyguard. A luscious human female he craves. He’ll do whatever it takes to make her his by Christmas. Gabriela Romero is a single mother struggling to make ends meet. With Christmas fast approaching, she’s lost work, she’s late on rent, and the zeroes in her bank account are on the wrong side of the decimal point. Fortunately, she has a couple bright spots in her life—her amazing daughter, Ana, and her brief interactions with her gorgeous neighbor from across the street, Mason Lee.

Mouse: I have no memory or what or who I am, all I know is that everyone and everything is out to hurt me. Hands slap, teeth bite, and boots kick. So when I meet a big, bronzed warrior with blue eyes whose hands are gentle and voice is kind, I don't trust him. And when he starts showing up in my dreams, a part of me I long thought was dead awakens with a passion.

My alien is engaged. Yeah, I’m still trying to wrap my head around that one. Apparently, Kade and his fiancée are desperate to have a baby, and that’s where I come in. Except the longer I’m around the couple, the more I’m not so sure this is arrangement is a good idea. Or that the happy couple is even happy... There’s a part of me that wants to get pregnant as soon as possible so I can be left in peace. However, each of Kade’s gentle touches and soft kisses compel me to change my mind.

King Varoz is evil. I'm his victim and his queen. I'd do anything to see him fall. When Zandro appears, I have hope for the first time in years. He's nothing like the cruel king, and my body reacts with a desire I barely understand. We're trapped together, pawns in the king's vicious game. But if Zandro and I work together, we can topple the king and free Tracarox from his tyranny.

Not happy with your body and its appearance? Imagine being given the gift of complete personality projection. That's right, you become the person you imagine to be by just imagining. Of course, like any gift from a genie or demon, there is a catch.

When technical failures force us to abandon The Oasis, I end up alone in an escape pod with a dashing Zivonian warrior named Raza. If our situation was bad to start with, it gets a whole lot worse when the pod malfunctions, separating us from the others and sending us hurtling toward the surface of the planet where we’d hoped to settle.

Born illegitimate. Haunted by her past — cast out disowned as an unworthy sacrifice. The lie that was her is ripped away. It will cost her everything, and be everything to him. But love reaches across time and space to save a man. An Artificial Intelligent knows only he can unite the Empire and Earth. To do it, he must love a red-haired woman, who is not entirely human. But the stakes are higher — much higher than they know.

A pregnancy that is more than what it seems, and a woman determined to find love on an alien world is more adventure than the taciturn warrior has bargained for. Barimere is all for Jacie finding a mate and getting herself out from under his nose. Except for some odd reason he'd like to tear apart any male who looks her way, and beat the living hell out of anyone who tries to hurt her.

I got kind of a late start in terms of my sexuality, and lately, I've been sleeping with just about any guy who comes along. I've kind of given up on finding "the one," as they say, and just started focusing on screwing my nights away. I'm sleeping off a particularly bad night one evening, when suddenly, I'm abducted by two absolute sexpots of aliens, and everything changes dramatically.

I'm about to experience my very first ever alien probing.... My love life kind of sucks at the moment. I'm in a relationship with a devilishly attractive college classmate, Kyle, who, by appearances, is everything a girl could want. With smoldering good looks and a brain the size of a planet, he should by all means be more than enough for me.

Just when I think I've sworn off men for good, I find myself abducted and probed so thoroughly that I might never come back from it.... I've always been a bit on the curvier side, and though that shouldn't really bother me that much, it does. I know curvy women are attractive, but I've always felt insecure about myself and anxious as a result.