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Alien Huntress Books in Order

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Gena Showalter's Alien Huntress series blends futuristic investigations and paranormal romance as agents pursue dangerous aliens and find unexpected partners.

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Alien Huntress books in publication order

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6 books

1

Awaken Me Darkly

by Gena Showalter

2005

Alien huntress Mia Snow investigates murders until her partner is critically injured. Suspect Kyrin en Arr offers the power to heal him, forcing Mia to weigh her duty against a dangerous attraction and secrets about herself.

2

Enslave Me Sweetly

by Gena Showalter

2006

After missing a slaver she was assigned to kill, alien assassin Eden Black is forced to work with human agent Lucius Adaire. Their dangerous assignment becomes complicated by friction, wounded pride and an attraction neither can readily dismiss.

3

Savor Me Slowly

by Gena Showalter

2007

Mechanically enhanced operative Mishka Le'Ace rescues agent Jaxon Tremain from captivity, awakening a forbidden attraction. But the technology within her body leaves her vulnerable to another man's control, threatening the person she has come to care for.

4

Seduce the Darkness

by Gena Showalter

2009

Vampire Bride McKells seeks answers about her own kind from alien warrior Devyn. Her blood may save his friends, drawing them into slave auctions and conflict with an alien queen whose diseased blood threatens humans with transformation.

5

Ecstasy in Darkness

by Gena Showalter

2010

Alien-hunting trainee Ava Sans is ordered to capture McKell, a vampire outcast with the ability to manipulate time. Their confrontation becomes a struggle over power and attraction as a dangerous warrior meets a woman unwilling to be intimidated.

6

Dark Taste of Rapture

by Gena Showalter

2011

Agent Hector Dean can kill with a touch, making intimacy dangerous. Paired with Noelle Tremain to investigate a businessman's murder, he must confront a growing attraction while keeping his lethal secret from destroying the woman he wants.

Series background & context

Alien Huntress brings paranormal romance into a future where humans and aliens live close enough for their conflicts to become police work. The series begins with Mia Snow, an investigator for New Chicago's Alien Investigation and Removal team. Her job requires her to pursue dangerous suspects, but the distinction between an enemy and someone she needs becomes harder to maintain. Each romance places attraction beside a mission, making trust a practical risk as well as an emotional choice.

In Awaken Me Darkly, Mia and her partner Dallas investigate a series of killings. When Dallas is badly injured, an alien called Kyrin en Arr may be able to save him. Kyrin is also a suspect, leaving Mia to weigh her duty against the immediate need to keep her partner alive. Her history has given her strong reasons to distrust aliens, so the encounter challenges more than her professional judgment. Getting closer to Kyrin means reconsidering beliefs she has used to understand herself and her work.

The next partnership begins with a failure.

Enslave Me Sweetly follows Eden Black, an alien assassin who works to protect humans from abduction and slavery. Eden is used to relying on her own accuracy and control, until she misses a human slaver she was supposed to eliminate. Being assigned a partner is another unwelcome change. Lucius Adaire is a human agent who challenges her pride and unsettles her confidence in managing every part of a mission alone. Their attraction develops inside a working relationship neither can treat as a simple distraction.

The wider sequence continues through Savor Me Slowly, Seduce the Darkness, Ecstasy in Darkness and Dark Taste of Rapture, with shorter stories also belonging to this world. Different central characters allow the series to explore more than one relationship across the human and alien divide. The shared setting supplies continuity, while each book changes the immediate mission and the people at the heart of it. That structure makes the series a sequence of connected romances rather than a single investigator's uninterrupted case.

The tone combines adult romance with action, suspicion and dangerous assignments. Characters trained to take control must work out when control alone is not enough, especially when a partner or suspect becomes personally important. Beginning with Awaken Me Darkly introduces the world and Mia's role in it; Enslave Me Sweetly then widens the viewpoint through Eden. Reading the main novels in publication order lets the shared setting develop alongside the individual relationships, with the shorter stories adding further encounters along the way.

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