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Hunted by Sophie Davis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn need of a distraction from her best friend's betrayal, Talia jumps at the chance to pack up and head to Washington, D.C., to have a purpose once again. She is tasked with administering the annual Talent Aptitude Tests, analyzing the children of the nation’s capital to identify those with powers...Categorized as:
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Magic Bites - Fernando's by Ilona Andrews, Gordon Andrews
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPublished in Small Magics and included in Curran's POV.During Magic Bites, Curran sees Kate and Crest in Fernando's... -
Cold Flame by Susan Copperfield
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLeaving behind her royal life should have solved most problems for Rachel of New York. While wandering the Royal States buys her peace for a while, her sister’s suicide drags her back into the cutthroat world she’d left behind. The RPS hunting her down to deal with her sister’s body is bad enough, but one nameless bachelor at a wedding in Illinois changes everything. Again... -
Forbidden by Jana Oliver
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsRiley Blackthorne is beginning to learn that there are worse things than death by demon. And love is just one of them… Seventeen-year-old Riley has about had it up to here. After the devastating battle at the Tabernacle, trappers are dead and injured, her boyfriend Simon is gravely injured, and now her beloved late father’s been illegally poached from his grave by a very powerful necromancer...Categorized as:
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A Guiding Light by Susan Copperfield
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here and here.In the Royal States of America, magic rules all, but life—and love—always finds a way. Once upon a time, Adam had been betrothed to North Dakota’s heir, and she’d been his everything, his reason for living... -
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed--and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a darn shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, impress the head-chopping statue, charm the army of ghosts, fend off the barbarians, and defeat the man-eating dragon, she'll never win... -
Haven by Lindsay J. Pryor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"I truly do feel that if you love the Paranormal genre and have not yet discovered Lindsay J. Pryor or these novels then you need to read them, experience them first hand." Keeper Bookshelf A spin-off from the bestselling Blackthorn series by Lindsay J. Pryor, set in Lowtown, the neighbouring district to Blackthorn... -
Haven by Lindsay J. Pryor
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I truly do feel that if you love the Paranormal genre and have not yet discovered Lindsay J. Pryor or these novels then you need to read them, experience them first hand." Keeper Bookshelf A spin-off from the bestselling Blackthorn series by Lindsay J. Pryor, set in Lowtown, the neighbouring district to Blackthorn... -
Feudlings in Flames by Wendy Knight
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAri thought being in love with her prophesied nemesis sucked. But being responsible for her best friend's kidnapping? It sucks worse. Ari and Shane thought they’d beaten Fate and ended the three-hundred year war plagu-ing their people. They thought love had won. But they were so, so wrong...Categorized as:
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Eat Slay Love by Jesse Petersen
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSarah and David have survived the zombie apocalypse. They stood side by side and fought the undead, mad scientists, and even bionic monsters until the unthinkable happened. A zombie bite. But not even that could stop them. Now, with a possible cure in hand, they're headed east, looking for a safe zone behind the rumored "Wall." They're feeling pretty optimistic... -
Finding Magic by Stacia Kane
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKaren Marie Moning has called Stacia Kane’s Downside Ghosts series “dark, sexy urban fantasy at its finest.” Now, in this breathtakingly suspenseful eBook novella, Kane has written a prequel to her thrilling series...Categorized as:
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Fever Moon: The Fear Dorcha by Karen Marie Moning, Al Rio
An all-new Mac & Barrons story by #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Karen Marie Moning, marvelously adapted into a full-color graphic novel by writer David Lawrence and illustrator Al Rio In "Fever Moon", we meet the most ancient and deadly Unseelie ever created, the Fear Dorcha. For eons, he's traveled worlds with the Unseelie king, leaving behind him a path of mutilation and destruction... -
There by Denise Grover Swank
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJulia Phillips’ world is an alternate universe away. Trapped in a land where government leaders want her dead, Julia is forced to run for her life with Evan and Reece, the two boys who brought her here. They’re on their own in a hostile landscape ruled by scavengers and thieves...Categorized as:
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Dark Goddess by Sarwat Chadda
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsStill reeling from the death of her best friend, Kay, Billi's thrust back into action when the Templars are called to investigate werewolf activity. But these werewolves are like nothing Bilil's ever seen. They call themselves the Polenitsy: man killers. The ancient warrior women of Eastern Europe, supposedly wiped out centuries ago... -
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Harken by Kaleb Nation
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMichael Asher is a prodigy for hire, born with the unexplainable ability to read someone’s thoughts through their eyes. Truth-seekers venture from all over the world to his small California hometown, desperate to know the truth about spouses and business partners, willing to pay the highest price for his gift... -
Night Resurrected by Joss Ware
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHis family lost forever in The Change, Wyatt is a man with nothing left to lose. But just when he thought he'd never feel anythig again, Remington Truth came into his life. Knowing the bold beauty would face unimaginable dangers on her quest to safeguard the mysterious crystal in her possession, he joins her on her journey, never expecting her to find a way past the wall he's built... -
Horizon by Sophie Littlefield
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOf living things there were few, but they carried on. Cass Dollar is a survivor. She's overcome the meltdown of civilization, humans turned mindless cannibals and the many evils of man. But from beneath the devastated California landscape emerges a tendril of hope... -
Queen of the Night by Leanne Hall
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter six months, Nia cannot forget Wolfboy and their one night in Shyness. He calls, pulls her back to the sunless suburb of Shyness, where dreams and reality are difficult to separate. There, Doctor Gregory has disappeared, the Darkness is changing, Wolfboy's friend is in trouble. Nia becomes Wildgirl again, but the Darkness no longer sets them free... -
Darkness Fades by Jessica Sorensen
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKayla knows she has to save the world from the vampire virus, but what she didn’t realize was just how complicated it could be. As the secrets to the cure start to unfold, Kayla realizes that not only will her strength be tested, but her willpower as well. Tough choices will have to be made. In the end, she must decide just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to get to a cure... -
My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsAngel Crawford is a loser. Living with her alcoholic deadbeat dad in the swamps of southern Louisiana, she's a high school dropout with a pill habit and a criminal record who's been fired from more crap jobs than she can count. Now on probation for a felony, it seems that Angel will never pull herself out of the downward spiral her life has taken... -
All Things Wicked by Karina Cooper
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJuliet Carpenter thought of the coven as family, but when she falls for a man who betrays them all, she’s left alone and desperately searching for a reason why. Caleb Leigh has spent the past year in hiding, unable to escape his demons. When Juliet finds him again, her need for vengeance clashes with the hunger still burning between them... -
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind... -
Host by Faith Hunter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn a post-apocalyptic ice age envisioned by Faith Hunter in Bloodring and Seraphs, humans continue their fight to survive amid the warlike forces of Light and Darkness - and struggle to understand the seraphic and demonic beings who have invaded their world.... After risking her life to save the residents of Mineral City from a fallen seraph of the underworld, Thorn St... -
RecruitZ by Karice Bolton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHave you tasted fear? I have. It's bitter and lingers in your mouth long after the moment has passed. That fear kept me alive during the apocalypse. I never stopped moving, and I never gave up hope. The outbreak is over and vaccinations have been administered, but I'm tasting that fear again... -
Hellforged by Nancy Holzner
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsRead Nancy Holzner's posts on the Penguin Blog. A demon is stalking Vicky's dreams-just as several of Deadtown's zombies are viciously attacked and become really dead. And when Vicky realizes she is the only connection between the victims, she suspects that the demon is somehow working through her dreams to become Deadtown's living nightmare... -
Keepers and Killers by Donna Augustine
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsThe Alchemy Series, Book #2: The story of Jo and Cormac continues on in this fast paced drama. It's very hard to work with someone who tried to murder me. But when the mysterious senator reappears on the scene, I'm desperate enough to take whatever help I can get, even if it is from Cormac. Dealing with him is nothing compared to losing a few hundred lives and that's the best case scenario... -
Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsBound by blood, condemned by fate. As a bloodtracker, Liv is extremely powerful. And in a world where power is a commodity that can get you killed, Liv's learnt to survive by her own rules. Rule number one? Trust no one. But when a friend's daughter goes missing, Liv is bound by a potent magical oath. She can't rest until the child is safe. And that means trusting her dangerous ex, Cam... -
Gameboard of the Gods by Richelle Mead
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIn a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims. But Justin is given a second chance when Mae Koskinen comes to bring him back to the Republic of United North America (RUNA)... -
Steel Lily by Megan Curd
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAVERY PIKE is a commodity. No, more than a commodity. Her existence is guarded at all costs. She’s a water Elementalist, the strongest of her dwindling kind. She creates steam to provide energy to fuel Dome Four: the only thing standing between humanity and an earth ravaged by World War III. No steam, no Dome. No Dome, no life. Or so she thinks... -
The Mark by Marilyn Bunderson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTori always thought the birthmark on her ankle was just a freckle. But when she discovers it's really a set of strange symbols and that others have the same mark, she soon realizes they'll all need to work together to save their real homelandan ancient culture that's been hidden for centuries... -
Wired by Liz Maverick
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf Maverick's fast-paced, genre-bounding novel is any indication, Dorchester's new imprint, Shomi—which aims to hook a younger generation of readers—should catch an audience quickly. Maverick grabs readers from page one, throwing together romance, science fiction and cyberpunk—a mash-up hinted at in the anime-style packaging— to tell the story of L... -
The Survivors by Amanda Havard
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1692, when witch trials gripped the community of Salem, Massachusetts, twenty-six children were accused as witches, exiled, and left for dead. Fourteen of them survived. The Survivors is the first installment of the tantalizing tales of the fourteen ill-fated Survivors and their descendants, who have been content in hiding for over three centuries... -
Eden by Keary Taylor
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsBefore the Evolution there was TorBane: technology that infused human DNA with cybernetic matter. It had the ability to grow new organs and limbs, to heal the world. Until it evolved out of control and spread like the common cold. The machine took over, the soul vanished, and the Bane were born. The Bane won't stop until every last person has been infected...Categorized as:
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Here by Denise Grover Swank
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica lives...Categorized as:
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Hush Money by Susan Bischoff
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThey call their abilities Talents, and that’s what they call themselves as well. Talents are people born with supernatural powers, feared by the population at large. Possession of an “unregistered ability” has become illegal, and those who are discovered are forcibly removed to government-run research facilities. For Talents, keeping their secret is the most important thing in their lives... -
Dark Light of Day by Jill Archer
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsArmageddon is over. The demons won. And yet somehow…the world has continued. Survivors worship patron demons under a draconian system of tributes and rules. These laws keep the demons from warring among themselves, and the world from slipping back into chaos. Noon Onyx grew up on the banks of the river Lethe, the daughter of a prominent politician, and a descendant of Lucifer’s warlords... -
The Siren by Kiera Cass
"You must never do anything that might expose our secret. This means that, in general, you cannot form close bonds with humans. You can speak to us, and you can always commune with the Ocean, but you are deadly to humans. You are, essentially, a weapon. A very beautiful weapon. I won't lie to you, it can be a lonely existence, but once you are done, you get to live... -
Origins by Kristen Middleton
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSeventeen year old Cassandra Wild thought living in the chaos of her mother’s home daycare and dealing with her developing feelings for Bryce, her new Martial Arts’ instructor, was a struggle, until the night her world turned upside down... -
Mindspeak by Heather Sunseri
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsShe was created for a purpose so revolutionary, someone was willing to kill for it. Seventeen-year-old Lexi Matthews keeps two secrets from her elite boarding school classmates—she’s the daughter of a famous and controversial geneticist, and she can influence people’s thoughts...Categorized as:
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Savor by Megan Duncan
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen Claire Miller turned eighteen all she wanted to do was celebrate her birthday, but after a night on the town with her best friend she awakes to a visitor she never expected. The rulers of her region, a vampire royal family, have chosen her to be turned as their new heir and vampire princess... -
Deviants by Maureen McGowan
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Glory's world, different means deviant—and dead. In a post-apocalyptic world, where the earth is buried by asteroid dust that’s mutated the DNA of some humans, an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Glory, must hide and protect her younger brother. If their Deviant abilities are discovered, they’ll be expunged—kicked out of the dome to be tortured and killed by the Shredders... -
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 55 ratingsLast year as college freshman, narrator Cal was infected by exotic goth Morgan with a parasite that caused following girlfriends to become vampire-like ghouls he calls parasite-positives "Peeps". A carrier without symptoms, he hunts his progeny for the centuries old bureaucratic Night Watch...Categorized as:
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Red by Jordan Summers
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGina Santiago is a member of an elite tactical team in charge of protecting the world. She’s devoted her life to apprehending the most heinous criminals that prey on society—and now she’s after the worst one yet. On her own, with no backup, the trail takes her to a dusty, tight-knit town on the fringes of society, where everyone’s a suspect...Categorized as:
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Forbidden Mind by Karpov Kinrade
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsShe reads minds.He controls minds.Together, they might get out alive. 49% of Americans believe their government officials are honest. I don't know these officials, or their supporters, but I know their secrets, and 49% of Americans are wrong. My employers pay me well to be right, to know things others can't... -
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Survivors by Sophie Littlefield
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDOING RIGHT ISN'T EASY IN A WORLD GONE SO WRONG Cass Dollar outlasted the fall of civilization. But surviving Aftertime requires the kind of toughness that can conquer the violent landscape of California and still retain its humanity... -
The Game by Shane Scollins
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNo matter where you are, they’ll find you, and put you in “The GAME”. Candice Laguna’s life is being systematically dismantled, by an unknown force, for a reason she can’t imagine. But she is about to become the unwilling star of a reality game competition the likes of which has never been broadcast to the world...
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