The Ripped Bodice Bookstore in SoCal and NYC is conducting their eighth annual Summer Romance Bingo. As in other years, I thought it would be fun to take their bingo card of categories, which you can view on their website and identify scifi romance titles that would satisfy the requirements for readers. I asked the members of The SciFi Romance Brigade on Facebook to recommend books and definitely allowed authors to recommend their own titles, although SFR Brigadiers are avid readers and also provided books from other authors. As always some categories were hard to fulfill and others were wayyy popular!

A few monster romance, orc romance and paranormal romance are included as some of this year’s categories were really hard to fit to SFR.

Anything in parenthesis indicates how we expanded the category to fit SFR.

I put my own selection of Happy Ever After titles for the category in the center “square” .

As the Ripped Bodice notes on their rules, “You can interpret the categories however you want” so we did take a bit of license on a few to fit scifi romance.

To be clear, we’re NOT playing bingo here, merely providing a list of suggestions! (We’re not affiliated with the Ripped Bodice stores either.) Hop over to the Ripped Bodice Bingo site if you want to enter their contest, which runs all summer 2024.

And I certainly included a few of my own titles!

Many of the books were suggested for more than one category; however I only listed each title in one category to keep the list as unique as possible. This post takes two full days to collate and create so I only looked up the Amazon buy links (and their audiobook link if there was one). I have to have enough time to write my own books too!.

Quotes listed are from the authors or from me unless otherwise noted.

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LOVE IN A BOOKSTORE (OR LIBRARY):

WRITTEN IN THE STARS by Leslie Chase  “Set in and around a book shop of the same name.”     AmazonKU

HER ALIEN LIBRARIAN: STRANDED ON EARTH BOOK TWO by Ivy Knox

UNDERCOVER ORC: SWEET MONSTER TREATS by Ava Ross   AmazonKU

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL: A MERCENARY LIBRARIANS NOVEL by Kit Rocha     Amazon     AB

BERYL BLUE TIME COP (TIME COP ADVENTURES IN TIME BOOK ONE) by Janet Raye Stevens   “Librarian heroine…the library she works at features prominently throughout the series.” sez a reader.   Amazon

EXTRA VIRGIN GARGOYLE by Honey Phillips   “She inherits a bookstore and she does some work in the hero’s personal library.”   AmazonKU

NUAR (CYGNIAN 7 BOOK ONE) by Cassandra Chandler   “a lot…takes place in a library.”     Amazon

BET/PACT TO FIND LOVE (OR ANY KIND OF WAGER OR BET ASSOCIATED WITH A LOVE STORY):

ALIEN’S LUCK (OUTLAW PLANET MATES) COMING JULY 8 by Nancey Cummings “Hero makes a pact to rescue a specific person and there’s gambling in the story”     AmazonKU

WARRIORS PROVIDENCE (CADI WARRIORS BOOK TWO) by Stephanie West “Not based on a bet but she has to win a triathalon wager and come in first place or risk losing both of her stubborn would-be mates.”     AmazonKU

PRINCESS’S CYBORG (GALACTIC STORM BOOK FIVE) by Candice Gilmer “Enemies who have to work together to bring peace between their warring worlds and stop the fighting.”     Amazon

AFTER BURN: BIG SKY ALIEN MAIL ORDER BRIDES #4 (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Elsa Jade “The h/h make a deal to find her sister and steal some data.”       Amazon

DESTINED TO THE WRAITH (THE SHADOW REALMS) by Regine Abel    “The heroine goes to see a witch begging for help in retrieving a long lost artifact. The Witch enters into a pact enters into a pact [with the FMC] requiring her to seduce a Wraith to get him to help her.  But the Witch secretly plans for them to fall in love.”    AmazonKU

BOUGHT BY THE ORC (MONSTER ORC BRIDES) by Rena Marks   “Orc bargains with human heroine to his home to be safe while he takes on four other orcs”     AmazonKU

MAGICAL ACADEMY (OR SCIFI ROMANCE ACADEMY)

ROGUE (ALIEN WARRIOR ACADEMY BOOK ONE) by Tana Stone   AmazonKU   AB

REBEL (ALIEN WARRIOR ACADEMY BOOK TWO) by Hope Hart   AmazonKU   AB

RECKLESS (ALIEN WARRIOR ACADEMY BOOK THREE) by Miranda Bridges   AmazonKU   AB

RUTHLESS (ALIEN WARRIOR ACADEMY BOOK FOUR) by Kyra Snow   Amazon   AB

WARLORD REUNITED (CHAMELE BARBARIAN WARLORDS BOOK FOUR) by Cynthia Sax    “…heroine runs an academy for intergalactic bounty hunters”     Amazon

THE SIREN AND THE WATER WITCH (TAILS FROM THE CLAYRIDGE FOUNTAIN BOOK ONE) by Cameron Allie   “Features a student from the Barrett Academy.”     Amazon

LEGACY (WARRIORS OF THE DREXIAN ACADEMY BOOK ONE) by Tana Stone     AmazonKU

TITLE INCLUDES A NAME:

AYDARR: A BADARI WARRIORS SCIFI ROMANCE NOVEL (SECTORS NEW ALLIES SERIES BOOK ONE) by Veronica Scott     Amazon

DRACO (FATED MATES OF THE SARKARNII BOOK ONE) by Hattie Jacks     AmazonKU

CLAIMING THALIA (BLOOD MAIDENS OF KARTHIA BOOK ONE) by Regine Abel     AmazonKU

JACK THIS HEART (FULL THROTTLE CYBORGS) by Landra Graf   Amazon

GRIM (TORNIANS BOOK ONE) by M K Ediem   VS: Still one of my alltime favorites     Amazon     AB

MACH ONE: INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY: CYBORG COWBOYS OF CARBON COUNTY BOOK ONE (BIG SKY ALIEN MAIL ORDER BRIDES BOOK NINE) by Elsa Jade   VS: I loved this book and that is the MMC’s name.     Amazon

ANNA AND THE ALIEN (ALIEN ABDUCTION BOOK ONE by Honey Phillips     AmazonKU

MICROP: THE CYBORG CHRONICLES BOOK FIVE: PROJECT ENTERPRISE by Pauline Baird Jones     Amazon

RELEASING RAGE (CYBORG SIZZLE BOOK ONE) by Cynthia Sax    VS: Rage is the cyborg’s name. This book made such an impression on me when I first read it.     Amazon

BETTY (KLAXIAN CYBORG’S MATE) by L Starfyre    Amazon 

ALARIK (TAXYON SPACE BOOK FOUR) by Aurora Springer     Amazon

DEKAR (ALIEN MATES AND MARSHALS BOOK ONE) by Julie K Cohen     AmazonKU

OLYMPICS #PARIS2024 (ANY SPORT OR PHYSICAL CONTEST):

ALIEN WARRIOR UNLEASHED (GALAXY GAMES BOOK ONE) by Ava Ross   From the blurb: “Now we’ve been entered into the Galaxy Games. Each landscape contains a series of deadly pitfalls, shifting goalposts, and an elusive final destination. It’s my chance to break free.”   AmazonKU

KERAN’S DAWN (BRAXIANS BOOK FOUR) by Regine Abel   “Two clains compete in their national sport beikor at the beginning of the book”     AmazonKU

KYDEN (BADARI GLADIATORS SERIES BOOK ONE) by Veronica Scott   Genetically engineered soldier is forced to fight in an alien arena.   Amazon

GLADIATOR (GALACTIC GLADIATORS BOOK ONE) by Anna Hackett   Gladiator games in an interstellar arena     AmazonKU

ZAR (GALAXY GLADIATORS BOOK ONE) by Alana Khan   AmazonKU

RENEGADE (THE SURVIVAL RACE BOOK THREE) by K M Fawcett   “…they compete in the Survival Games.”     Amazon

FIGHT CLUB ON THE PLEASURE PLANET: MM MPREG ALIEN ROMANCE by Chris Storm and Kinkaid Knight     AmazonKU

GLADIATOR’S DOWNFALL (AGE OF THE ANDINNA BOOK ONE) by K N Banet   Reader sez “The heroine has to fight for her life and to gain points to make her life a little better in the pits.”    AmazonKU

ALIEN MOST WANTED CAGED BEAST (FOLSOM PLANET BLUES BOOK ONE) by Honey Phillips   “gladiator match”   AmazonKU

PEN PALS:

FROM VANGAR WITH LOVE: SCIFI ALIEN ROMANCE LOVE LETTERS by Julie K Cohen     AmazonKU

FROM ZARPATHIA WITH LOVE: SCIFI ALIEN ROMANCE LOVE LETTERS by Tracy Lauren     AmazonKU

FROM ZESTRIA WITH LOVE: SCIFI ALIEN ROMANCE LOVE LETTERS by Rena Marks     AmazonKU

FROM THOK WITH LOVE: SCIFI ALIEN ROMANCE LOVE LETTERS by Susan Trombley     AmazonKU

FROM EARTH WITH LOVE: SCIFI ALIEN ROMANCE LOVE LETTERS by Sandra R Neeley     AmazonKU

SEEKING VECTOR (CYBORG SIZZLE BOOK EIGHT) by Cynthia Sax    “Vector and Kasia communicate via the transmission lines for a long time before they meet.”  VS: Loved this one!     Amazon

SWAMP THING (YOU MAKE MY HEART SING) by Ava Ross “romance starts with them exchanging texts as pen pals”     AmazonKU

TIME TRAVEL:

STAR CRUISE TIME LOOP by Veronica Scott   Her day is repeating and the interstellar cruise ship blows up every night, not to mention that the sexy movie star who falls in love with her during the day forgets her. She’s got to find a way to break the loop.     Amazon

TANGLED IN TIME: PROJECT ENTERPRISE BOOK THREE by Pauline Baird Jones     Amazon

SHELTERED BY THE ORC (MONSTER BRIDES) by Sandra R Neeley   VS: From the blurb: “…an ancient gateway — a portal — once used by the Fae to move between worlds, times, and realms.”     AmazonKU

ALIEN WARLORD’S MIRACLE (WARLORD BRIDE INDEX) by Nancey Cummings and Starr Huntress     Amazon

ICARUS (BOOK ONE: THE GENOME CHRONICLES) by Natasha Wells   Reader sez: “stuck in a cryogenic chamber for a long period of time.”   Amazon

TAKING HER VIKINGS (ACADEMY OF TIME BOOK ONE) by Skye MacKinnon     Amazon

UNEXPECTED REVIVAL (REVIVED BOOK ONE) COMING AUGUST 14  by E L Roux   VS: From the blurb: “Dying a thousand years ago was the easy part.”     Amazon 

SUPERNOVA (THE COMMONS BOOK ONE) by Jessica Marting   Amazon

DINERS, DRIVE-INS & DIVES (OR A BAR):

MINDER RISING (GALACTIC CONCORDANCE BOOK THREE) by Carol Va Natta   “A lot of action in a popular pub where the hero (an injured agent) meets the heroine (the bartender with a perfect memory) and he rprodigy son.”     Amazon

DARK THOUGHTS (REFUGE BOOK ONE) by Cynthia Sax   “Kralj, the hero, lives in a beverage outlet.”     Amazon

DUEL CITIZENSHIP (THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMEWORLD SECURITY BOOK SEVEN) by Cassandra Chandler   “takes place in a treehouse vegan restaurant”   Amazon

IZHIMA (KIRENAI FATED MATES (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) BOOK SEVEN by Tamsin Ley   “Alien chef for a hero and lots of cooking.”     Amazon

PROJECT ADAPT – ACHIEVE by Jade Waltz   “Selena got to try out a fe different restaurants and an alien burlesque show”     AmazonKU

STALKED BY THE ALIEN ASSASSIN (ALIENS AMONG US BOOK TWO) by Tiffany Roberts   “Avery works at a diner”    AmazonKU   AB

DUEL (DOESN’T HAVE TO BE WITH SWORDS):

CLAIMED BY HER ALIEN PRINCE (ALIEN PRINCES OF TARTARUS BOOK ONE) by Bella Blair “Brothers are supposed to fight each other to death but in the end there is a duel between one son and the father.”   AmazonKU

BLIND FATE (VEREDIAN CHRONICLES BOOK TWO) by Regine Abel   “One of the main characters (hero of book one) has a sword duel with the assassin who previously murdered his parents and younger brother.”   AmazonKU

PROJECT ADAPT #6 – COMPILE COMING AUGUST 14 by Jade Waltz   “…a few duels among Selena’s mates to win a daylong date with her.”   AmazonKU

ONLY BAD OPTIONS: A GALACTIC BONDS BOOK by Jennifer Estep   Amazon     AB

THE FIFTH MOON’S WOLF (THE FIFTH MOON’S TALES BOOK ONE) by Monica La Porta   “…a dramatic electric saber duel.”   Amazon

THE ISLAND (MADION WAR TRILOGY BOOK ONE) by S Usher Evans   “A duel in the sky with planes…”     Amazon

SHIELD BEARER: THORNRAVEN VOLUME TWO (TWELVE SYSTEMS CHRONICLES BOOK NINE) by EG Manetti    “There are 3 duels in the book.  In the Twelve Systems duels are formal challenges performed in shrines for the gods to judge.  Duel 1:  Lilian duels a master of Adelaide’s discipline for 2 hours to receive her mastery credential (think black belt).   Lilian duels Lucius’ out-of-control teenage daughter to help the girl work through angst and grief.  Lucius younger (18) son duels another warrior who maligns his families honor.  All duels end in favor of our heroes.”     Amazon

COVER HAS AN ANIMAL ON IT:

TIME TRAITORS (THE TIME TRAITORS SERIES BOOK ONE) by Eli Donovan     Amazon

DRAGONLINGS VERY SPECIAL VALENTINE (DRAGONLINGS OF VALDIER BOOK FOUR) by S E Smith     Amazon     AB

TIME TRAP: A PROJECT ENTERPRISE STORY by Pauline Baird Jones   Amazon

ESCAPE FROM NOVA NINE (CENTRAL GALACTIC CONCORDANCE by Carol Van Natta     Amazon

WHO LET THE DEMON OUT? (MONSTERVILLE, USA BOOK 10) by Ava Ross     AmazonKU     AB

SPLINTERED SHADOW by Nancey Cummings     Amazon

THE ALIEN’S FARMER (ALIENS AND ANIMALS BOOK THREE by Skye MacKinnon and Arizona Tape   VS Note: OK, I’ll count it but you have to look reallly hard to find the animal! It was a cool series anyway.  Amazon

IMPORT QUARANTINE (DEPARTMENT OF HOMEWORLD SECURITY BOOK 11)  by Cassandra Chandler     Amazon

CATNAPPED BY THE CATMAN (INTERSTELLAR PROTECTION AGENCY BOOK ONE) by Jade Waltz   VS: The black cat blends into the background but he’s there all right.     AmazonKU

SKYLAR’S GIFT (THE PROPHECY SERIES) by Lea Kirk     Amazon

RUNAWAY BRIDE/GROOM:

OWNED BY THE ORC (MONSTER BRIDES) by Rena Marks   Amazon

SIROC’S RUNAWAY (MITRAN WARLORD PROTECTORS BOOK FOUR) COMING JULY 25 by Ella Blake   Amazon

ANCHORED TO THE SHARKMAN (INTERSTELLAR PROTECTIONS AGENCY BOOK THREE) by Jade Waltz   “Arranged marriage between two powerful families. She runs away to save the sharkman (and to be with him).”   AmazonKU

THE PROTECTORIT by Kelly Tharp   Reader sez: “She is tricked into an engagement and escapes the announcement ceremony thinking the groom only wants to marry her to trap her.”   Amazon

TOO HEMI FOR YOU (FULL THROTTLE CYBORGS by Landra Graf   Amazon

MATCHED TO THE MONSTER (SWEET AND STEAMY MAIL ORDER BRIDES) (THE MATCH PROGRAM BOOK ONE) by Rena Marks   AmazonKU

KALPAR (HOW THE ALIENS WERE WON BOOK SIX) by Honey Phillips   “The heroine is being forced into marrying someone to further her father’s plans.”     AmazonKU

UNTAMED HUNGER (THE INFINITE CITY BOOK FOUR) by Tiffany Roberts   “Shay is Drakkal’s mate and she’s running.hiding from him.” AmazonKU

ALIEN FOUND (ZYANTHAN WARRIORS BOOK THREE) by Julie K Cohen   “Human woman runs away from the alien she’d been matched to and ends up with the captain of the ship she stows away on.”    AmazonKU

LIGHTHOUSE (OR SPACE STATION):

TREASURE OF THE ABYSS (THE KRAKEN BOOK ONE) by Tiffany Roberts   “The Watch has a lighthouse.”    AmazonKU

THE INTERGALACTIC DUKE’S INCONVENIENT ENGAGEMENT: BLACK HOLE BRIDES BOOK ONE (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) (BIG SKY ALIEN MAIL ORDER BRIDES BOOK SIX) by Elsa Jade   “The Earther heroines are bequeathed a dereluct space station due to…shenanigans.”     Amazon

SPLENDOR’S ORBIT (THE MACLEE CHRONICLES BOOK ONE) by Jina S Bazzar   Reader sez: “starts out on a space station.” VS Note: Not really a romance with revies note a ‘slight’ touch of romance.   Amazon   AB

WANDERING STAR: FALLEN: A DARVEL OUTCASTS AND SURVIVORS ROMANCE by S J Sanders     AmazonKU

CAT by Sandra R Neeley   “…shiort story…shapeshifting alien life form left to die on a space station and a human female makes an emergency landing…”     Amazon

DEATH’S MATE (CHARYBDIS STATION BOOK ONE) MM SFR by C W Gray     AmazonKU     AB

DORN (CYGNIAN 7 BOOK FOUR) by Cassandra Chandler   “takes place on a space station”   Amazon

SLEEPING SATELLITE by Stephanie Cage   “set on a space station”     AmazonKU

SPACE FOR LOVE (SPIRE STATION BOOK ONE) by Emily Antoinette     AmazonKU

HAPPILY EVER AFTER: 

VS Note: I tried to pick SFR authors who haven’t been mentioned or not mentioned as often, or the book is just oustanding IMHO!

ENSNARED (THE SPIDER’S MATE TRILOGY BOOK ONE) by Tiffany Roberts     AmazonKU     AB

ICE PLANET BARBARIANS by Ruby Dixon VS: Because really, the entire series and its related titles are wonderful.     AmazonKU   AB

NAOMI: ALIEN SURROGATE AGENCY BOOK FOUR by Tasha Black   AmazonKU 

CLAIMED (BRIDES OF THE KINDRED BOOK ONE) by Evangeline Anderson     Amazon     AB

ALIEN WITH BENEFITS (FORBIDDEN BONDS BOOK ONE) by Cara Bristol     Amazon

VI’ZEN by Katie Neptune    VS: I read this recently and really enjoyed it.   AmazonKU

F CLONES by Laurann Dohner     Amazon

SAFE PASSAGE (BLACK FLAG BOOK ONE) by Rachel Ford     AmazonKU   AB

AURIC (CRASHLAND COLONY BOOK ONE) by Leslie Chase   AmazonKU

DARK PLANET WARRIORS by Anna Carven   VS: If you haven’t tried this series, WHAT are you waiting for?     AmazonKU     AB

EARTH BOYS ARE EASY: A SUPERHERO X ALIEN MM ROMANCE (VILLAINS IN SPACE BOOK ONE) by C Rochelle     AmazonKU

CHOSEN OF CHAOS (EVE OF DESTRUCTION BOOK ONE) by Benjamin Medrano     AmazonKU     AB

DRAG (OR CROSS DRESSING):

ALIEN MISCHIEF (ALIEN MATE BOOK FOUR) by Cara Bristol   “Heroine dressing as male” sez a reader.     Amazon

MY TINY GIANT (MY HOLIDAY TAILS) by Marina Simcoe Amazon   AB

HAVEN THREE: TRANSCEND by Sandra R Neeley   “…a female character that has assumed her late brother’s identity in order to be considered for acceptance into the Uniteds Consortium Defense as a translator. Her mate just about flips out when he meets her and his bonding need kicks in, and he thinks she’s a guy. Takes him quite a while to figure it out.”     AmazonKU

COSMIC VALOR (COSMIC HONOR BOOK ONE) by Jade Waltz   VS: From the blurb: “Disguised as a young male diplomat…”     AmazonKU

FISH OUT OF WATER:

MAELSTROM: INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY: MERMAIDS OF MONTANA #1 (BIG SKY ALIEN MAIL ORDER BRIDES BOOK 13) by Elsa Jade   “Heroine doesn’t know she’s an alien mermaid so she’s out of water and on the wrong planet.”         Amazon

SLAVE TO SENSATION (PSY-CHANGELINGS BOOK ONE) by Nalini Singh   VS: From the blurb: “In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. ” So of course she gets involved with a shifter full of emotions and is a fish out of water with him and his pack. I LOVE this series.     Amazon     AB

SIREIN (ALIEN FAIRY TALES) by S J Sanders    “Scifi littler mermaid retelling”    AmazonKU

DARK HORSE (CLASS FIVE SERIES BOOK ONE) by Michelle Diener   VS: Another of my favorite books of all time. FMC is an abducted human woman, rescued by a scary AI and a captain from a different alien race. There’s so much going on and she doesn’t have much time to figure it all out!     Amazon     AB

CAPTIVE (THE SURVIVAL RACE BOOK ONE) by K M Fawcett   Amazon

WHISKED AWAY BY THE ALIEN (HOLIDAY HEARTMATES BOOK ONE) by Julie K Cohen     AmazonKU

EXPORT DUTY (DEPARTMENT OF HOMEWORLD SECURITY BOOK 9) by Cassandra Chandler   “It’s hilarious when an alien who has never seen cats is chased by an entire clowder because he’s holding a bag of treats.”     Amazon

ZHIRUTO (KIRENAI FATED MATES (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY)  BOOK TWO by Tamsin Ley   “alien on Earth, an adorable dog and lots of laughs”     Amazon     AB

NAKED ALIEN (EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS BOOK ONE) by Honey Phillips     AmazonKU

TRIAL BY FIRE: INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY (SILVERSTAR MATES SERIES BOOK FOUR) by Lea Kirk     Amazon

CLAIMED BY AN ALIEN WARRIOR by Tiffany Roberts   “Rendash is an alien stuck on Earth who was kept prisoner before escaping and going on a road trip with Zoey.”     AmazonKU     AB

MOTORCYCLES (OR ANY PERSONAL SCIFI VEHICLE OF THIS TYPE):

CLAIMED BY THE ALIEN ROGUE (FATED MATES OF THE ZAARN BOOK ONE) by Krista Luna    “scifi hoverspeeders”    AmazonKU

PACK (THE BLADES OF JANUS BOOK ONE) by Cassandra Chandler   “really cool hoverbikes that can transform into what appear to be regular road motorcycles”     Amazon

DRIFT WORLD (DAUNTLESS CYBORGS BOOK TWO)  COMING JULY 23 by Cynthia Sax  “Roshini, the speed loving human heroine, flies a mounted transport, a futuristic motorcycle.”     Amazon

SUPER STARRELLA  (SECRET SUPERS BOOK ONE) by Aurora Springer   “MMC has an unusual shifting bike.”     Amazon

VAWN (KADDIM BROTHERS BOOK ONE)  by Jessica E Subject   MM SFR, space racers       AmazonKU

SILENT LUCIDITY (THE INFINITE CITY BOOK ONE) by Tiffany Roerts   “Tenthil has a hoverbike.”     AmazonKU     AB

THE ALIEN’S RANSOM (DRIXONIAN WARRIORS BOOK ONE) by Ella Maven   “hover bikes”  and from the blurb: “Nothing in my life had prepared me for extraterrestrial motorcycle clubs.”   AmazonKU     AB

DRAG ME DOWN (FULL THROTTLE CYBORGS ) by Landra Graf   Amazon

ASTROLOGY:

VS: There’s an entire series of these, so I’m listing a few and the link to the entire series page is this.

REDEEMING ARIES (ASTROLOGICAL MATES BOOK ONE) by L P Peace     AmazonKU

LEO’S CAPTIVE (ASTROLOGICAL MATES BOOK FIVE) by Sandra R Neeley     AmazonKU

VIRGO’S PRIZE by Ella Blake     AmazonKU

LOVING LIBRA (ASTROLOGICAL MATES BOOK SEVEN) by Stephanie West     AmazonKU

DOUBLE HER PLEASURE (ASTROLOGICAL MATES) by S J Sanders     AmazonKU

STRIKE ZONE (DAUNTLESS CYBORGS BOOK ONE) by Cynthia Sax   “The heroine’s kind believe in the Fates, three mystical beings who help to decide beings’ futures.”     Amazon

PROTAGONIST SMELLS LIKE HOME (OR ANY HOME-Y TYPE SMELL):

FIERCE (ROGUE ALIEN WARRIORS BOOK ONE) by Hattie Jacks   “MMC smells like cinnamon”     AmazonKU     AB

THE FINDING: PART 1 (THE MENDOVAN ALLIANCE CHRONICLES) by Angelica Grymm   “Hero smells like warm, buttered raisin toast: a mix of cinnamon and sweet things.”     AmazonKU

STOLEN (FATED MATES OF THE KALIXIAN WARRIORS BOOK TWO) by Presley Hall    AmazonKU

LOST IN THE DEEP END: VAMPIRE ALIEN ROMANCE (V’LORYN  BOOK ONE) by Jessica Grayson   “The hero and heroine smell like home to each other” sez a reader.   AmazonKU     AB

MAMA AND THE ALIEN WARRIOR (TREASURED BY THE ALIEN BOOK ONE) by Honey Phillips   “all the books…feature scent bonding where the heroine smells ‘right’ to the hero and vice versa.”   AmazonKU

MY BIG SWEET WAFFLE MONSTER (STARLIGHT MONSTERS by Skye MacKinnon   “Protagonist smells like…her favourite food…”   Amazon

REAPER (XIAN WARRIORS BOOK SEVEN) by Regine Abel   “…heroine says he sometimes smells like a cinnamon roll…”     AmazonKU     AB

BUT DADDY I LOVE HIM! (FMC DOES NOT HAVE TO ACTUALLY SAY THIS; ANY PLOT INVOLVING BAD BOYS/WRONG GUY ETC):

PROTECTED BY THE WOLF PRINCE: A RED RIDING HOOD RETELLING (ONCE UPON A FAIRY TALE ROMANCE BOOK SIX) by Jessica Grayson and Aria Winter   “…best friends from childhood, war breaks out and they are now enemies…and fated mates..she runs away from an arranged marriage to be with him.”   AmazonKU

A GAMBLE AMONG SHEEP (BAD BOYS OF SPACE BOOK TWO) by Landra Graf   VA: From the blurb:   “Caterina, Genovese’s black-sheep daughter, is forced into taking over Sweet’s club by her father and brother threatening the life she’s carved for herself outside the family business.”    Amazon

MY ORC (FAKE) BOYFRIEND (EASTSHORE ISLE BOOK TWO) COMING JULY 5 from Veronika Kane and Caroline Lee     AmazonKU

KRYGOR’S HOPE (BRAXIANS BOOK THREE) by Regine Abel   “His ‘enemy’s’ son falls in love with his adoptive daughter. He doesn’t approve at first…”     AmazonKU

LADY OF THE STAR WIND by Veronica Scott   “A princess forbidden by her grandmother the empress to marry the man she loves, a soldier, runs away with him from a noble who has kidnapped her for a forced marriage. They enter a portal to another space and time.”     Amazon

DRAGONS

I MARRIED A DRAGON (PRIME MATING AGENCY) by Regine Abel   “The hero is dragonkin who can shapeshift into an even bigger dragon version of his default appearance.”     AmazonKU

PEARL’S DRAGON: A DRAGON LORDS OF VALDIER AND SARAFIN WARRIOR CROSSOVER by S E Smith    Amazon     AB

DARK FIRE (REFUGE BOOK FOUR)  by Cynthia Sax  “Dare, the hero, is a dragon-like alien. He has scales, claws, breathes fire.”   Amazon

MATCHED: JENNIFER’S DIARY (XAERD MATES BOOK ONE) by L Starfyre     Amazon

DRAGON’S MATE (RED PLANET DRAGONS OF TAJSS BOOK TWO) by Miranda Martin     AmazonKU     AB

BOUND TO THE VISSIGROTH  (VISSIGROTHS OF LEANDER BOOK FOUR) by Bella Blair   “A dragon changes the H into a Vissigroth and hels him win a kingdom and his fated mate.”   AmazonKU

GRAND MASTER’S PAWN (GRAND MASTER’S GALAXY BOOK ONE) by Aurora Springer     “Ythris the black dragon and his mate Istrelle are key supporting characters.”     Amazon

TO TOUCH A DRAGON: A VENYS NEEDS MEN BOOK  (TROPICAL DRAGONS BOOK ONE) by Naomi Lucas     AmazonKU

TO SEDUCE A DRAGON: VENYS NEEDS MEN (FROST DRAGONS) by Poppy Rhys     AmazonKU

TO TAME A DRAGON: VENYS NEEDS MEN (WILD DRAGONS BOOK ONE) by Tiffany Roberts     AmazonKU     AB

TO DESIRE A DRAGON: VENYS NEEDS MEN by Amanda Milo   AmazonKU

AMUSEMENT PARK/CARNIVAL (OR A FESTIVAL):

CALL OF WATER (MADAM TAN’S FREAKSHOW BOOK ONE) by Marina Simcoe  “I have an entire world of PNR/low Fantasy set in an amusement park/carnival.” A reader also sez: “I second this…has an almost alien feel [to the series]…perfect for this category.”   AmazonKU

RUNNER’S MOON: CHALLA by Linda Mooney   VS: From the blurb: “…traveling sideshow carnival”     Amazon   AB

THE FATED STARS: THE SECTORS SF ROMANCE SERIES (ALIEN EMPATH SCIENCE FICTION ROMANCE SERIES BOOK THREE) by Veronica Scott   At the beginning of the book the MMC is held captive in a traveling carnival show and forced to work as a fortune teller.   Amazon

TAKEN BY THE ALIEN NEXT DOOR: BBW ALIEN ROMANCE (ALIENS AMONG US BOOK ONE) by Tiffany Roberts   “Zevris is helpingTabitha run her soap and candle booth while selling his own woodwork creations at a Halloween carnival.”   AmazonKU    AB

CUPCAKES FOR MY ORC ENEMY (FAIRHAVEN FALLS) by Honey Phillips   “features a winter festival. Most of this series includes some kind of festival.”     AmazonKU     AB

WHAT A DRAGON DESIRES (STAR OF THE NORTH DRAGONS) by Ava Cuvay   “begins at a county fair (complete with cotton candy and carnies.”     Amazon

A VERY KLAGAN VALENTINE: A KLAGAN WARRIORS NOVELLA by Holly Hanzo   “centers around a smut festival”     AmazonKU

MY ORC NEXT DOOR (EASTSHORE ISLE BOOK ONE) by Veronika Kane and Caroline Lee     AmazonKU

RINGMASTER (GALAXY CIRCUS BOOK SIX) by Lexie Winston   VS: I think a circus counts here.     AmazonKU

CURSED LOVE:

BLESSED CURSE by Sandra R Neeley   “…hybird witch/vampire…raised from birth to be a vampire hunter, particularly to track and kill the ancient vampire that is her father. That ancient vampire has a subordinate…that becomes her love interest…”   Amazon

ELIZA’S CURSED DRAGON by Bella Blair   “…cursed dragon shifter and cursed princess.”     AmazonKU

TAKEN BY THE DRAGON: A BEAUTY AND THE BEAST RETELLING (ONCE UPON A FAIRYTALE ROMANCE BOOK ONE) by Jessica Grayson and Aria Winter  Reader sez:  “She’s blind, he must make her fall in love with him before the rose plant blooms or she will die but it has to be true love.”   AmazonKU

LOVE SPELLS, FULL MOONS AND SILVER BULLETS (CLAYRIDGE CHRONICLES BOOK ONE) by Cameron Allie   “Her cat drugs her with a love potion that brings a mortal into her realm.”     Amazon

ADORED BY THE ORC (MONSTER ORC BRIDES) by Rena Marks   Amazon

HIS DARKEST DESIRE (THE CURSED ONES BOOK TWO) by Tiffany Roberts     “Ves is cursed until he finds his mate and has to sire a child.”    AmazonKU     AB

GRUMPY/SUNSHINE:

CHOOSING CHUCKLES (CYBORG SPACE EXPLORATION BOOK ONE) by Cynthia Sax   “Chuckles, a wounded warrior cyborg, is grumpy. Bettina is a happy ray of sunshine.”   Amazon

I MARRIED A BEAST (PRIME MATING AGENCY) by Regine Abel   “Bayron is grumpy and standoffish while Belle is super bubbly and enthusiastic monster lover.”     AmazonKU

WING AND A PRAYER: INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY (SILVERSTAR MATES SERIES BOOK THREE) by Lea Kirk   Amazon

ORC’S CRAVING  (MONSTER MATE HUNT BOOK ONE) by Ava Ross   AmazonKU

FORAY by Sandra R Neeley     AmazonKU

DURATION OF STAY (DEPARTMENT OF HOMEWORLD SECURITY BOOK SIX) by Cassandra Chandler     Amazon

STAR BRINGER by Tracy Wolff and Nina Croft     Amazon     AB

H’ZIM (HOW THE ALIENS WERE WON BOOK SEVEN) by Honey Phillips     AmazonKU

KING OF DEMONS (DRAGON COURT BOOK ONE) by Lisa Bram   Amazon

BOUND TO THE ORC WARLORD (BRIDES OF THE MOON BLADE CLAN BOOK ONE) by Krista Luna     AmazonKU

LOST TREASURE:

PIRATE’S GOLD (ARGURMER SALVAGER BOOK TWO) by S J Sanders     AmazonKU     AB

CURSE OF THE ALIEN RING by Veronica Scott     An interstellar archaeologist makes the mistake of putting an alien ring she finds at a dig on her finger…     Amazon

AT STAR’S END (PHOENIX ADVENTURES BOOK ONE) by Anna Hackett   From the blurb: “…An archaeologist and a treasure hunter make an unlikely–and steamy– pair”     Amazon

GRIN AND BARE HIM (CYBORG UNITY BOOK TWO) by Cynthia Sax   “Mohini, the heroine, has lost a treasure that is very important to her kind and she needs Grin’s help to retrieve it.”   Amazon

SEARCH FOR THE CRIMSON LADY (DRYDEN UNIVERSE) by Greta van der Rol     Amazon

ALIEN’S HEART by Nancey Cummings     Amazon     AB

BAVRILZ: KLAGAN WARRIORS BOOK TWO by Holly Hanzo   “Audrrey needs to get a crystal.”     AmazonKU

ART GALLERY (OR A MUSEUM):

CRAZY RICH ALIENS (ALIENN, ARKANSAS BOOK SIX) by Fiona Roarke   VS: From the blurb, heroine is “content with her position at one of the planet’s most exclusive galleries.” TYVM to the reader who suggested the book!

THE MISTWALKER by Regine Abel   “The hero is an artist who does an exhibition in an art gallery where all hell breaks loose.”

REEDE’S MISSION TO THE SECTORS: A BADARI WARRIOR SCIFI ROMANCE NOVEL (SECTORS NEW ALLIES SERIES BOOK 15) by Veronica Scott   “The MMC has to break into an alien museum to steal an item essential to his mission.”

DAUGHTERS OF SURALIA (TALES OF TOLARI SPACE BOOK TWO) by Christie Meierz   Reader sez: “…protagonists fall in love in an art gallery.”   Amazon

STRIVE FOR FOREVER (CYBORG UNITY BOOK FOUR) by Cynthia Sax   “Strive, the cyborg hero, is an artist. He fills a structure with art.”  Amazon

HARD AS A ROCK (KHARGALS OF DURAS BOOK TWO) by Stephanie West   “Features a museunm, art in it in a few different places”   AmazonKU

REVELATIONS: THE ORDER BOOK ONE by Sandra R Neeley and Chris Storm   “…main female character is…crazy talented in art and her paintings foretell Armageddon which the ‘angel aliens’ will have to battle and win to save Earth.”     AmazonKU

BLIND DATE WITH AN ALIEN (ALIENS OF MELRUN BOOK ONE) by Holly Hanzo   “Zaith is a sculptor.”     AmazonKU

PROJECT ADAPT – DEVELOP (BOOK THREE) by Jade Waltz   “Selena gives her mate Odelm a music hall as a gift”     AmazonKU

BINGO! Happy Reading all summer long!