5 Must-Read Authors Like Ruby Dixon
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Ruby Dixon is synonymous with sci-fi and paranormal romance. Her popular series Ice Plant Barbarians is a staple for readers who adore alien romance. Let’s check out five authors that pack heat into their sci-fi and paranormal romances just like Ruby Dixon.
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Tell Me About Ruby Dixon
Where Can I Find Ruby Dixon?
Book Lists that Feature Ruby Dixon
Try This Book by Ruby Dixon
5 Authors Like Ruby Dixon
Book Lists
Tell Me About Ruby Dixon
Ruby Dixon is an author of all things science fiction romance. She is a Sagittarius and a Reylo shipper, and loves farming sims (but not actual housework). She lives in the South with her husband and a couple of goofy cats, and can’t think of anything else to put in her biography. Truly, she is boring.
Source: Penguin Random House
Where Can I Find Ruby Dixon?
Book Lists that Feature Ruby Dixon
The Not-Hoth Survival Guide: Navigating the Ice Planet Barbarians series
Try This Book by Ruby Dixon
Bound to the Battle God
Aspect and Anchor, Book One
Bound to the Battle God by Ruby Dixon is for readers who enjoy:
- Alpha Males
- Enemies-to-Lovers
- Forced Proximity
- Mythology
- PNR
Book Description
When I went to my neighbor’s apartment to investigate strange sounds, I never expected to fall through a portal into another world. Yet here I am, a stranger in an even stranger land…and I’m stranded. In this world, might makes right, men carry swords, and gods walk the earth. Within minutes of arriving, I’m enslaved.
Fun place.
How do I get home? GREAT question. Wish I had an answer.
The one person that might be able to help me is also the one person I want to throttle most. Aron, Lord of Storms, Butcher God of Battle, is my new companion. Or rather, I’m his. As Aron’s anchor to the mortal realm, I’m the one that’s supposed to be guiding him through his exile in the mortal world.
Ha. Joke’s on him. I know nothing about this place.
But Aron and I have a common goal – get home. And we’re bonded – anchor and god – with a bond unlike any other. So we travel together. We bicker. We bathe together. We fight our many, many enemies together. And sure, he’s a god, but he’s also an arrogant jerk. Brawny, smoking hot, irresistible jerk. I should want nothing to do with him. I certainly shouldn’t want to do things to him.
Mortals and gods don’t mix. We stick to the plan and ignore our attraction. Focused, with one goal in mind.
One task. One goal.
Focused.
I—oh heck, I’m going to end up kissing him again, aren’t I?
He sniffs my hair again, and I wonder if he’s hard right now. Is he overcome with lust for me? “You smell bad,” Aron says. “When was the last time you bathed?” Man, fuck this guy.
Bound to the Battle God
5 Authors Like Ruby Dixon
Victoria Aveline
Choosing Theo
Clecanian, Book One
Choosing Theo by Victoria Aveline is for readers who enjoy:
- Aliens
- Arranged Marriages
- Fated Mates
- Forced Proximity
- PNR
Book Description
Being kidnapped by aliens is only the start of Jade’s problems. Thankfully, her rescuers, an alien race known as the Clecanians, are willing to protect her, but she has to stay on their planet for one year and respect the rules of their culture–including choosing a husband. Jade refuses at first but decides to play along until she can find a way back to Earth.
Theo, a scarred mercenary who prefers a life of solitude, is stunned when Jade selects him as her husband. After years of being passed over, he never imagined he would be chosen and neither did anyone else. Only one explanation makes sense…the curvy enticing female must be a spy, and Theo’s determined to break her cover using any means necessary.
As Jade and Theo are forced to spend time together, their chemistry becomes undeniable. But neither can afford to bring love into the equation, especially since Jade seems determined to go home. After all, she can’t possibly stay here, right?
C.M. Nascosta
The Mabon Feast
Wheel of the Year, Book One
The Mabon Feast by C.M. Nascosta is for readers who enjoy:
- BDSM
- Forced Proximity
- Monsters
- PNR
- Witches
Booklists that feature C.M. Nascosta
9 Books Like the Duskwalker Brides Series
Book Description
In an aging Victorian on a tree-lined street in Oldetowne, the Brackenbridge witches have practiced the craft for generations in a circle unbroken — until the chain was passed to her.
Ousted from her coven, hurting for clients, and struggling to keep her aging family home from falling into disrepair, painfully awkward witch Ladybug is at the end of her rope. When she rents the attic bedroom to an unsmiling, spider-like araneaen, she hopes her fortunes are making a change for the better. But Ladybug knows nothing about the secretive spider-folk; not what they eat, what goddess they worship — or anything about their mating needs. The blustery winds of Autumn usher in the rain and the second harvest . . . and a strangely enticing smell that seems to permeate the seams of Ladybug’s very existence. The darkness beyond her bedroom door hungers, and she is helpless to offer herself up as its feast.
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Zoey Draven
Captive of the Horde King
Horde Kings of Dakkar, Book One
Captive of the Horde King by Zoey Draven is for readers who enjoy:
- Aliens
- Alpha Males
- Enemies-to-Lovers
- Fated Mates
- Forced Proximity
Booklists that feature Zoey Draven
Book Description
On the unforgiving planet of Dakkar, I did what all the humans in our village did: kept my head down, worked to provide for my family, and I certainly didn’t break any Dakkari laws to risk inciting the alien race’s merciless wrath.
Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said for my brother and one careless mistake brings a horde of the nomadic, barbarian Dakkari straight to our doorstep, led by their powerful horde king—a cold, ruthless, battle-scarred warrior demanding retribution.
In order to save my brother’s life, I do the unthinkable.
I sell myself to the horde king as his war prize. I agree to warm his furs, to travel with his horde across the wild lands of Dakkar, and to never see my family again.
But as I struggle with my new reality, I discover that the surly, mysterious, dominant horde king never intended for me to be his concubine…
He wants me as his queen.
Tiffany Roberts
Ensnared
The Spider’s Mate, Book One
Ensnared by Tiffany Roberts is for readers who enjoy:
- Aliens
- Fated Mates
- Forced Proximity
- PNR
Booklists that feature Tiffany Roberts
9 Books Like the Duskwalker Brides Series
Book Description
He’s spent years as a hunter, but now he’s the one ensnared in a creature’s trap.
Ketahn did not want a mate. Fate has a different plan for him. When the queen he despises declares her intention to claim him, he retreats into the jungle.
What he finds there changes his world.
Small, delicate, and pale skinned, Ivy Foster is nothing like the females Ketahn has known. She’s not of his kind at all. Yet the moment he sees her, he knows the truth in his soul—she is his heartsthread.
And now that he has her, he won’t let anything take her away. Not the jungle, not the gods, not the queen.
Whether Ivy agrees or not, their webs are entangled. No one will ever sever those threads.
Opal Reyne
A Soul to Keep
Duskwalker Brides, Book One
A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne is for readers who enjoy:
- Enemies-to-Lovers
- Fated Mated
- Forced Proximity
- Monsters
- PNR
Booklists that feature Opal Reyne
9 Books Like the Duskwalker Brides Series
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Book Description
All Reia ever wanted was freedom.
Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice – be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster.
However, he is not what he seems. His skull face and glow eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him.
All Orpheus ever wanted was a companion.
Each decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorise the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil – the place he lives and the home of Demons. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short.
He’d thought it was a hopeless endeavour, until he met her. She’s not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepens within every moment of her presence.
But will Orpheus be able to convince Reia to stay before she’s lost to him forever?
Book Lists
9 Books Like the Duskwalker Brides Series
