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Frey by Faith Gibson
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWARNING: Book 4 is full of love, pain, and redemption. This book contains Domestic Violence and non-consensual sex between spouses. It also has a HEA. This book is part of a series, therefore best if read in order. Geoffrey “Frey” Hartley- soldier, helicopter pilot, boxer, martial arts expert - is the biggest, baddest Gargoyle shapeshifter in the Stone Society...Categorized as:
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Deathly Contagious by Emily Goodwin
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDeathly Contagious: Book Two in the Contagium Trilogy. After the discovery of a zombie-proof safe house, things are finally looking up for Orissa Penwell. But her chance at happiness is shattered when someone she cares about is shot. Hell bent on revenge, Orissa will do whatever it takes to seek vengeance and get even... -
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Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsContagious Chaos, the highly anticipated third book in the Contagium Series, winner of the Contagious Reads Horror Con’s 2014 best horror series, follows Orissa and her friends as they struggle through a zombie filled world...Categorized as:
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Into Darkness by J.T. Geissinger
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn New Vienna, capital of the oppressive global government formed after the Flash, three things are certain: the sun is poisonous, speaking out is dangerous, and being different will get you killed. And Lumina Bohn is extraordinarily different. Living in terror of discovery, Lu knows nothing of her past? but she knows she must pretend to be human to survive...Categorized as:
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Love and Decay: Revolution, Episode Two by Rachel Higginson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s not easy being a badass Zombie killer. But somebody’s got to do it. Page Parker is unsatisfied with her post-apocalyptic life in the relative safety of the research station. She knows there’s something bigger out there for her. There’s something… more. When “more” just happens to show up on her doorstep one night, she finally has the opportunity to find the purpose she’s been looking for... -
Backs Against the Wall by Tracey Ward
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJoss has escaped the Colonies but her troubles have only just begun. She's wounded, exposed and vulnerable but worst of all, she needs help. And there's only one place she can go to get it. Only one place she can stand to be. With Ryan. Together they'll have to delve into the seedy underworld of post-apocalyptic Seattle. A world of gambling, fighting, secrets and lies...Categorized as:
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Blood Charged by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSardelle Terushan, sorceress and healer, should be lying low. Magic is forbidden in Iskandia, and magic users are drowned, shot, or otherwise slain. The problem? She's fallen in love with ace fighter pilot and national hero, Colonel Ridge Zirkander, a man whom everybody notices, including the king. It's not long before Sardelle has spies dogging her steps and people trying to blow her up...Categorized as:
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Vaulcron by Ditter Kellen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings*****This is a previously published book, revised to be appropriate for all readers*****. On a mission to save his people from being destroyed, Vaulcron must team up with a human reporter known as the Great White Shark. She's beautiful, cunning, and definitely hiding something. Vaulcron will do anything for his family, even if it means breeding with the one woman who can destroy them all... -
Tribe of Daughters by Kate L. Mary
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings2020 RONE Awards WINNER for Time Travel/Science Fiction. Bronze Medal WINNER in the 2019 Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Science Fiction. Honorable Mention in the 2018 SPR Book Awards. Semi-Finalist in the 2019 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction. In this village, women are not the weaker sex...Categorized as:
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Prosperity by Alexis Hall
A breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies! Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where varlets, chancers, and ne’er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadilly is about to cheat the wrong man. This mistake will endanger his life . . . and his heart. Thrill! As our hero battles dreadful kraken above Prosperity... -
Taken by Christine Pope
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter her djinn lover is imprisoned by a survivalist group intent on eradicating all his kind, Jessica Monroe faces a dire choice... -
Broken by Christine Pope
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo leaders. Two worlds. Passion ignites…. …just as the storm erupts. Julia Innes, leader of the Immune survivors in Los Alamos, has done her best to ensure that the rest of her fellow Immune have settled into their new lives after the Dying. Even the friendly Santa Fe djinn have followed suit, creating a calm between the two cities — a world of peaceful co-existence... -
Cold Stone and Ivy by H. Leighton Dickson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJack the Ripper gave her his heart. Now he wants it back. The year is 1888, the clockwork British Empire is crumbling and young writer Ivy Savage has literally received a heart in the post. Terrified, her father sends her north to a strange sanitarium in Lancashire where the brilliant but unpredictable “Mad Lord of Lasingstoke” makes his home...Categorized as:
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Nurse for an Alien Warrior by Roxie Ray
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsI’m supposed to care for a kid, not create one! Space needs nurses. That’s what they told me, and that’s why I agreed to go. They say Raider is the last place I want to end up, but I’m up to the challenge. I’ll care for the warlord’s child. One problem. He wants me to make said child. With him. No. Not happening. Never. I’m not selling my body to some brute! But Kain isn’t the brute I imagined... -
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Circus Save Me by K.A. Knight, Erin O'Kane
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's been over thirty years since the bombs dropped that almost decimated the planet. The fallout changed not only the animals and the landscape, but the people too. Freaks they called them; outcasts of society and hunted for their powers. The Circus has the only people to openly flaunt them, offering a haven for the lost and the damned... -
The Beautiful Dead by Daryl Banner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*BOOK ONE IN THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD TRILOGY*. She’s dead. In fact, the whole world’s dead. Every single person, apparently. Unburied and reimagined into a beautiful living-dead woman called Winter, she is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in a quaint, peaceful city with no hunger, no sickness and no bills to pay. Her Second Life is perfect in every way possible... -
Guild of Dragon Warriors, Jaxon's Sanctuary: Book 1 by Sassy Queens of Design, Missy Borucki
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaster of the Guild of Dragon Warriors, Jaxon is heading back to their sanctuary, exhausted and injured, after a battle that the human realm has never before encountered. Supernatural beings fighting against the Demon King for survival of not only them, but all of humanity. It was horrendous, tortuous, and downright brutal...Categorized as:
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Rising Tides by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn embrace can offer comfort…. Amber Delacroix Chen reunited with her husbands only to have to send them off to war. Now a doctor, she works tirelessly to patch up the wounded to send them back to the front lines while protecting the people at the heart of the Chen Empire. She delivers babies, tends to the injured, the lost, and even her fellow physicians, everyone—except herself...Categorized as:
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Thunder Rolling by Ripley Proserpina, Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsTrue loyalty knows no boundaries…. The world around Whitney Lake keeps changing, but with John, Isaiah, Nick, Brandon, Dante, and Carson by her side, her foundation has never been stronger. Together, they are building a sanctuary for the survivors of Roanoke—the living and the newly Uncontrolled... -
Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThis is a standalone sequel to Archangel , set 150 years later in proverbially interesting times. Samaria is industrialized; the Manadavvi and Jansai are wealthier; the Edori are marginalized, their roaming lifestyle disrupted; and Jovah seems to be turning a deaf ear to his angels' prayers for abatement of increasingly destructive storms...Categorized as:
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Shudder by Samantha Durante
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings-- Book 2 in the Stitch Trilogy --. It's only been three days, and already everything is different. Paragon is behind her, but somehow Alessa's life may actually have gotten worse. In a wrenching twist of fate, she traded the safety and companionship of her sister for that of her true love, losing a vital partner she'd counted on for the ordeal ahead... -
Torn by Christine Hughes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTORN With the sudden, mysterious death of her father, Samantha discovers her life isn’t what it seems. Not only isn’t she the normal teenage girl she thought she was, Sam must now take her father’s place in the fight between two groups of fallen angels, the Faithful and the Exiled, in a race to save humanity... -
The Silver Spider by Emma Alisyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 2 of the Dragon, Stone & Steam series coming soon! Excerpt. .. She turned, spiders skittering up the loose sleeves of her formal black jacket. She'd refused to wear another gown. Look what had happened last time she'd been trapped in a dress—Cinvarra almost kidnapped and Sere hunting her prey with fancy skirts tripping her up. Her hand rose in automatic response, fingers curled into claws... -
Marked by Light by Heidi Ruby Miller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the first book in the Ambasadora science fiction adventure series. This space thriller contains elements of space opera, science fiction romance, cyberpunk, military science fiction, a galactic empire, anthropological science fiction, and dystopian society. If everyone told you love wasn't real, would you still be willing to die for it? Sara Mendoza and Sean Cryer are...Categorized as:
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Flamethroat by Kate Bloomfield
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAvalon Redding has returned to Mortlock to find her home destroyed, and her family missing. They have been taken by 'The Realm' for harboring an illegal human, Avalon's sister. Desperate to find her family, Avalon travels across the country to the Headquarters of the Realm, with Healer Jack Greenwood, and animal companion Hawthorne... -
Artifice by Alex Woolfson, Winona Nelson
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsArtifice is about Deacon, a prototype android soldier so advanced he is referred to as an "artificial person. " On one of his first missions, Deacon was ordered by his corporate masters to eliminate a team of scientists who knew too much—and he has failed spectacularly. Not only did he let one of the targets live, he attacked the team sent to retrieve him...Categorized as:
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Wrecked by Meljean Brook
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsElizabeth has spent the past five years running from her father; her father's huntsman, Caius, has spent the past five years pursuing her. But when he finally catches up to her on an airship flying above Europe's zombie-infested cities, Elizabeth discovers that Caius isn't the only danger she has to fear—and now that he's found her, Caius doesn't intend to let her go. . -
Judgement by Brannan Black
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe world fell apart after a virus killed billions. Those men who didn't die. .. changed. The media called it Werewolf Syndrome. Life as we knew it pretty much ended. Those of us scrounging for survival in the post-apocalyptic devastation have one chance left -- learn to work together, or face extinction. It wasn’t much of a choice...Categorized as:
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Falling Ashes by Kate Bloomfield
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Final Installment to: The Fire Mage Trilogy. Avalon has made a lot of dangerous enemies. The Realm has issued a bounty on the infamous Fire-Mage's head, labelling her leader of the human-alliance, and traitor to Mage-kind. Soon, strangers begin to recognize Avalon after seeing her wanted poster in the streets, and seek to earn the cash reward for her capture... -
2288 A.D. - Alternate Dimensions by Renee Van Dyke, Glenn Van Dyke
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPRE-SALE PRICE - Plus 2 FREE Gifts! --- "THE AMAZING SEQUEL to the blockbuster story of post-apocalyptic survival, time travel, love, sacrifice and redemption . .. is here! " Kirkus. -. 2288 A. D. is the 2nd book of the #1 BEST SELLING, 'The Ashlyn Chronicles' series. The first novel 2287 A. D...Categorized as:
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Taken: The Vampire's Concubine: Part Two by Desiree Broussard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRelease Date: 5/30/14. Taken: The Vampire's Concubine - Part Two. Genres: Vampire Romance, Erotic Romance. Blurb:. Abducted by the vampires, Keely has been taken to their foreign world as their concubine. Expected to select a mate from the hoard, she attracts the attentions of a dangerous male. .. While her lover stands by, helpless to stop it...Categorized as:
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Io Deceneus - Journal of a Time Traveler by Florian Armas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Universe is conscious, discreet, has many avatars, and likes to experiment on … us. Powerful Factions, the supreme form of social evolution in a galaxy where all civilizations are human-like, interfere for their own mysterious ends. When confident enough they challenge The Universe seeding war and political mayhem by altering the fabric of time...Categorized as:
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Miss Bramble and the Leviathan: A Steampunk Romance by Kristen Painter
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe last thing she planned to steal was his heart. When Pandora Bramble steps aboard the Company’s premiere airship Daedalus it’s not for the exclusive VIP tour. It’s to secure proof that the Company stole the regulator valve her father designed—even if it means tearing the engine apart...Categorized as:
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Eddy by Milana Jacks
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNote to my loyal pumpkins. Eddy is scheduled for a FREE 48 hour promotion June 5 and 6. Finders, keepers. The Ice Age and turf issues with the Nentres stalled things, but I’m finally moving back into my ol' neighborhood. I’ll settle down here with a woman... -
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Dark Reality 7-Book Boxed Set by Jennifer Martucci, Christopher Martucci
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe Dark Reality Boxed set is a compilation of work by authors Jennifer and Christopher Martucci. It includes Planet Urth (Book 1), Arianna Rose (Part 1), Arianna Rose (Part 2), Arianna Rose: The Gathering (Part 3), Dark Creations: Gabriel Rising (Part 1), Dark Creations: Gabriel Rising (Part 2), and Dark Creations: Resurrection (Part 3). -
Breath of Iron by Kate Cross
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSworn to protect England from all enemies, the Wardens of the Realm are ever vigilant. But not all battles are fought on a battlefield; sometimes they are fought in the heart. As chief surgeon for the Wardens, Evelyn Stone fears her own life is on the line when she is kidnapped by a band of pirates—only to discover that the airship captain is Gavin “Mac” MacRae—her former lover... -
The Scarlet Empress by Susan Grant
The Kingdom of Asia. .. Shot down over Korea, USAF fighter pilot Cameron "Scarlet" Tucker is put in bio-stasis. She wakes 170 years later. Her wingmate and best friend also survived: Now the "legendary" Banzai Maguire, Bree is being held for treason in the country that was once her beloved United States. Cam has problems of her own—big problems...Categorized as:
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Two by LeighAnn Kopans
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsElias and Merrin’s story continues in TWO, coming October, 2013. .. Elias and Merrin are on the run. After escaping the Biotech Hub, they thought they could breathe easy, or at least a little easier. But when bombs slam into the Social Welfare Hub only hours after their arrival, it becomes clear there's nowhere to hide - and no end to what Biotech will do to get them back... -
The Phantom of the Earth by Raeden Zen
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE STRUGGLE FOR THE TRANSHUMAN SPECIES. .. TO AVERT EXTINCTION AND RETURN TO THE SURFACE . .. WILL BE DECIDED UNDERGROUND. In the Great Commonwealth of Beimeni, a subterranean civilization in North America, expansion long ago gave way to peace and prosperity in the face of the history's most devastating plague...Categorized as:
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The Blushing Bounder by Meljean Brook
In The Iron Duke, Constable Newberry helped save all of England. But before the events of that novel, Constable Newberry’s faced a danger of another kind: to his heart, by the woman forced to marry him. What will it take for this prudish bounder to convince his wife to stay? The Blushing Bounder was previously published in the anthology Wild & Steamy...Categorized as:
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The Broken Destiny by Carlyle Labuschagne
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"You cannot know what light is if you have not experienced darkness". Ava and her people have been exiled to the planet Poseidon for reasons she can't fathom. Upon meeting a boy from a different sector, her life turns into a beautiful chaos...Categorized as:
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Alternity by Mari Mancusi
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsImagine waking up in a post-apocalyptic, nightmare world--and being told your whole life is but a dream. Skye Brown thought she was your typical teen--good grades, hot boyfriend, and an afterschool job that pays her to play videogames. But then she started having the dreams. In her dreams, there is no Earth. Only Terra, a bleak, underground wasteland where people live in squalor and oppression... -
Moongazer (Apocalypse Later) by Mari Mancusi
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn enthralling combination of The Matrix and Snow Crash with a bit of Blade Runner thrown into the mix, Moongazer immediately draws the reader into one woman's terrifying struggle to understand her identity--is she Skye Brown, a successful game designer living in Manhattan or is she really Mariah Quinn, a woman haunted by the post-apocalyptic dreamland she escapes to every night? But what is... -
After Life by Jaron Lee Knuth
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSince the seventh grade, Alex, a retail slave, has secretly been in love with his best friend, Morgan, a web cartoonist. Unable to overcome social awkwardness, they both find themselves in very separate lifestyles as they reach adulthood. Amidst these distanced and inhibited lives, Alex and Morgan are suddenly faced with the literal end of the world... -
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Ether & Elephants by Cindy Spencer Pape
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA Gaslight Chronicles Novel. Sir Thomas Devere and Eleanor Hadrian have loved each other most of their lives—but sometimes love doesn't conquer all. Their chance at happiness was ruined by Tom's hasty marriage to someone else. Heartbroken, Nell left home, finding a new life as a teacher at a school for the blind... -
Gossamer Wing by Delphine Dryden
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Spy. An Airship. And a Broken Heart. After losing her husband to a rogue French agent, Charlotte Moncrieffe wants to make her mark in international espionage. And what could be better for recovering secret long-lost documents from the Palais Garnier than her stealth dirigible, Gossamer Wing ? Her spymaster father has one condition: He won’t send her to Paris without an ironclad cover... -
Night of the Fallen by Diana Bocco
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings** Book 2 is coming out soon **. Isabelle’s mission seemed so clear: kill the king of the vampires to give humanity a fighting chance. Except she didn’t count on falling in love with him. And she didn't realize he held secrets that could actually end up saving the human race. As the kingdom falls and Isabelle’s heart is torn between two worlds, everything changes...Categorized as:
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Timepiece by Heather Albano
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA steampunk time travel adventure about a girl, a pocket watch, Frankenstein’s monster, the Battle of Waterloo, and giant clockwork robots taking over London. *. Elizabeth Barton longs to escape the endless round of social ritual that defines life in the village of Hartwich during the Regency of Prince George...Categorized as:
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Heart of the Kraken by A.W. Exley
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLegend says if you consume the heart of a mermaid, you will know all the secrets of men. Ailin doesn't care if the legend is true or not - she's stuck in a crate on her way to feature as the main course at a lavish banquet. Her heart to be served while still beating for a cruel noble while the rest of her is sliced into sashimi. Unless she can escape... -
Zoo by Tara Elizabeth
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA chronicle of my time living in a zoo . . . I'm not really sure where to start, and you may have trouble believing me even as I tell you my story. My family did. They laughed the first time I told them, so now I just say it was all a crazy dream. You see, I died in a totally preventable car accident . . . or so I thought...
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