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  • Redemption by Erica Stevens

    Redemption by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A year has passed since the war against Jack’s father that freed the humans from their roles as blood slaves and servants to the vampire race. Having left the palace behind in order to ensure that the outer towns are obeying the new laws, Jack struggles to come to terms with the grief and haunting memories that drove him from the palace in the first place...
  • Catalyst by Shelly Crane

    Catalyst by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In the third installment of the Collide series, we start off with Sherry, taken prisoner in the enforcement facility. The little bunker family must now decide whether it's worth the risk to try to save her or if it would bring doom to them all. Lily has started showing signs of her gift progressing, which may not be a desirable thing...
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  • Broken by C.K. Bryant

    Broken by C.K. Bryant

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With Kira injured and dying, Octavion's last hope is to plead with the king of Panthera for a cure. But King Ramla's magic isn't free. The price he asks Octavion to pay goes against everything he's fought so hard to protect and could destroy his bond with Kira...
  • Spurn by Jaymin Eve

    Spurn by Jaymin Eve

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A paranormal romance series. An epic journey. If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive? Book two in the Walker Saga follows Abigail and her friends as they tame the world of Spurn. ‘Go to Spurn,’ she was told. Oh, and by the way the planet is ninety-five percent water and the inhabitants are hybrid fish. Of course, no one seems to care that Abigail can’t swim...
  • In Time by Alexandra Bracken

    In Time by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Don't miss this exciting short story that connects The Darkest Minds to its much-anticipated sequel, Never Fade. Gabe's life has been devastated in the wake of the economic crash. The only option left for someone like him to escape his tragic past is to leave his small town behind and to attempt to become a skiptracer...
  • Uprising by Shelly Crane

    Uprising by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Sherry and Merrick's story continues in this sequel to Collide. In this installment, we come face to face with old acquaintances and new friends and new enemies. Things will change for all of them especially when a little girl is found and everyone's loyalties are tested. A revelation may upset the delicate balance they've all tried so hard to set...
  • Bedside Manners For Aliens by Dane Griggs

    Bedside Manners For Aliens by Dane Griggs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereMe: I just can’t stop thinking about you. I know we can’t go further, but I have an idea. Maybe we could sext?L’Vect: What is that?Me: Sexting is when you tell the other person how you want them to touch themselves, and that person describes what it feels like. It’s a sex game.L’Vect: Yes. I want to sext. What do we do next?Me: I will go first...
  • Writing on the Wall by Tracey Ward

    Writing on the Wall by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    I’m a girl stuck in Neverland with The Lost Boys. I’m no Wendy, I can hold my own. I don’t need to wait around for Peter to save me, but I’m also not an idiot. I know my enemies. It's been nearly a decade since the world ended. Since Joss watched her parents die at the hands of a nightmare, a nightmare that stalks her even now, all these years later...
  • Reckoning by Laury Falter

    Reckoning by Laury Falter

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Reckoning - the third book in the bestselling Guardian Trilogy... With Maggie alone and on the run and with unknown forces conspiring against her, she is in more danger than ever before. As Eran struggles to protect her, Maggie unwittingly ignites the final battle between the Fallen Ones and Alterums, one that could separate her and Eran forever...
  • Replay by Ken Grimwood

    Replay by Ken Grimwood

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Jeff Winston was 43 and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when he could be truly happy, when he died. And when he woke and he was 18 again, with all his memories of the next 25 years intact. He could live his life again, avoiding the mistakes, making money from his knowledge of the future, seeking happiness...
  • Harmony by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    Harmony by Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Harmony is a planet in the far future, aglow with an amber light and the psychic energy of its inhabitants. It is here that Jayne Castle casts her spell-over the men and women brave enough to love in a world unlike any we have ever seen before. In this unforgettable volume are two very enchanting tales set on Harmony... After Dark ..
  • Dragon's Fated Mate by Miranda Martin

    Dragon's Fated Mate by Miranda Martin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone deserves a second chance...AnnabelIt doesn't matter that my husband was killed. I still love him. Now I go through my days doing the only thing that matters - making sure my girls survive. What else is there?I can't fall for the hot, sexy dragon-man Calaun. One of the Zmaj native to the hellish desert planet we crashed on. I've had my one shot at love...
  • He is... Creed by Lisa Renee Jones

    He is... Creed by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They created a weapon. And he is that weapon...He was stationed at Area 51, a loyal soldier serving his country, and later injected with what he believed to be a standard vaccination, only it was an experiment. Now he's a weapon, a man with skills like no other, who can travel with the wind, a man with darkness within that he battles every day of his life...
  • Shift by Raine Thomas

    Shift by Raine Thomas

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Having the ability to shapeshift, Sophia is familiar with change. But even she feels the rising tension in her homeland. A shadowy male and deadly beast reside in their midst. The births of the newest Kynzesti loom. Hostile Mercesti continue to hunt for the Elder Scroll, and a traumatized female is too afraid to use her abilities to stop them...
  • As the World Dies: Untold Tales Volume 1 by Rhiannon Frater

    As the World Dies: Untold Tales Volume 1 by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    THE FIRST DAYS: AS THE WORLD DIES introduced Jenni and Katie and their harrowing journey to the makeshift fort in the Texas Hill Country. But theirs is not the only tale to be told. In the first volume of the AS THE WORLD DIES UNTOLD TALES experience three terrifying tales of those who are forced to face the unrelenting and hungry walking dead...
  • Defy by Raine Thomas

    Defy by Raine Thomas

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Tate is about to make her parents’ dreams come true. Unfortunately for her, their dreams foretell her death. Eager to explore more of the Estilorian plane and prove her abilities, Tate goes against her parents’ wishes and leaves the area of protection surrounding her home...
  • The Scourge by A.G. Henley

    The Scourge by A.G. Henley

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Groundling, Fennel, is Sightless. She's never been able to see her lush forest home, but she knows its secrets. She knows how the shadows shift when she passes under a canopy of trees. She knows how to hide in the cool, damp caves when the Scourge comes. She knows how devious and arrogant the Groundlings' tree-dwelling neighbors, the Lofties, can be...
  • Resurrection by A.M. Hargrove

    Resurrection by A.M. Hargrove

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Maddie knew she was dying. Her life started to flash before her. She had visions of running down the soccer field, scoring a goal, eating her mother’s yummy, homemade, sticky cinnamon rolls, standing in her foyer listening to the police tell her father that her mother had been killed in a car accident. Each vision was disturbingly clear—as if it was happening again...
  • Stranded with an Alien Vampire by Michele Mills

    Stranded with an Alien Vampire by Michele Mills

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Staying in a charming cabin in the Montana wilderness, during off season, sounds like a lovely vacay because I’m cheap. But it turns out someone else has rented this small cabin at the same time as me (ugh) and I quickly learn three things about this ferocious guy I’m double-booked He’s handsome as hell in an edgy ‘dressed always in black leather’ kind of way.He’s not of this planet...
  • Winter Omens by Trisha Leigh

    Winter Omens by Trisha Leigh

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Althea and Lucas barely escaped the Others’ clutches in the autumn, and were separated in the process. Alone and on the run from the cruel alien race determined to exterminate her, Althea struggles to adapt and survive in a world she never imagined. When a boy named Pax appears out of nowhere, he quickly recognizes Althea for what she is – a human/Other hybrid just like him...
  • Free Souls by Susan Kaye Quinn

    Free Souls by Susan Kaye Quinn

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When your mind is a weapon, freedom comes at a price. The final installment of the Mindjack Trilogy is here! Four months have passed since Kira left home to join Julian’s Jacker Freedom Alliance, but the hole in her heart still whistles empty where her boyfriend Raf used to be...
  • The Falcorans' Faith by Laura Jo Phillips

    The Falcorans' Faith by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You could say that Faith Myers was one of the unluckiest women in The Thousand Worlds, but that would make her sound a lot luckier than she actually was. Her twin sister, Grace, died in an attack by the reptilian Brethren. Her parents were murdered...
  • Oubliette by Megg Jensen

    Oubliette by Megg Jensen

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Reychel thought she was finally free. She was wrong. Everyone saw her gift of prophecy as a blessing, but her gift is uncontrollable. No one alive can teach her to manipulate her unique gift and the answers she needs lie buried within a madman’s journals. She’s thrust in the midst of a brewing war and the only uniting factor for her people is their belief in the Prophet...
  • Season of Wonder by Lisa Tawn Bergren, Lisa T. Bergren

    Season of Wonder by Lisa Tawn Bergren, Lisa T. Bergren

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the first book of the new futuristic dystopian series from author Lisa T. Bergren, the chosen remnants must work to redirect humanity’s course. THEIR ARRIVAL WAS FORETOLD FOR YEARS . . . Andriana is a Remnant, gifted as an empath and one of the Ailith, destined to act as humanity’s last shield against the horrors that now plague those who remain...
  • Eternity by Laury Falter

    Eternity by Laury Falter

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Eternity - the second book in the bestselling Guardian Trilogy... Maggie thought she was safe until an old enemy arrives in New Orleans with a dire threat: A battle is on the way. With only a few days to spare, she and Eran embark on a path that is expected to prepare them for the world’s most evil creatures...
  • Devour by Megan Duncan

    Devour by Megan Duncan

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    You never know how strong you are until something makes you choose between humanity, and the beast. As Claire descended deep into the ancient tomb; laying to rest the bodies of the fallen, she wondered if time healed all wounds, would an eternity be long enough? Still recovering from a brutal attack that nearly killed her, she refused to let evil win...
  • Severed by Megg Jensen

    Severed by Megg Jensen

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book Three: Cloud Prophet Trilogy Reychel knows her gift of prophecy will lead to madness and now she is at her most vulnerable. The enemy army will attempt to sever her from everything she's ever known: her homeland, her friends, Mark, and her gift. Even at her weakest, she refuses to give up on her desire to end the war between the Malborn and the Serenians...
  • Mine to Spell by Janeal Falor

    Mine to Spell by Janeal Falor

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Cynthia has always hidden from her father’s hexes behind her older sister. When her family gains independence unheard of for women, she’s relieved that her days of harsh punishments are over. But as her seventeenth birthday approaches—the typical age to be sold to a new master—death threats endanger her sisters. She now faces two options: run or meet society’s expectations...
  • Fire Dancer by Ann Maxwell

    Fire Dancer by Ann Maxwell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rheba is the sole survivor of a blaze that destroyed her planet, and Kirtn is the Bre'n warrior sworn to protect the exquisite, sensual fire dancer on a perilous journey to a far-off planet. Reprint...
  • Ethereal Fury by Jessica O'Gorek

    Ethereal Fury by Jessica O'Gorek

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BEWARE! THE PLANET IS WOUNDED... THE GEMINI ARE RISING AND OUR TIME ON EARTH IS LIMITED Angry at the human race and its methodical destruction of her resources, Mother Earth recruits souls who have just left their bodies to serve Her, and turns them against humanity. Gemini, a clan of paranormal beings, picked from these possessed humans, emerges...
  • Transcender: First-Timer by Vicky Savage

    Transcender: First-Timer by Vicky Savage

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ripped away from her quiet Connecticut life with the force of a lightning bolt and glitched into a weird alternate universe, Jaden Beckett lands smack in the middle of a kidnapping--her own! The powerful Inter-Universal Guidance Agency (IUGA) engineers her escape and is working overtime to return her home. But now Jaden's not sure where she belongs...
  • The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine

    The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In this powerful and elegant story set in a future Earth very different from our own, a new kind of human has evolved to challenge the dominion of Homo sapiens. This new breed is stronger, smarter, and far more beautiful than their parent race, and are endowed with psychic as well as physical gifts. They are destined to supplant humanity as we know it, but humanity won't die without a struggle...
  • Parallel Desire by Deidre Knight

    Parallel Desire by Deidre Knight

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    On a mission of vengeance, time traveler Scott Dillon finds himself marooned in the past-and risks disrupting the entire universe in his quest to destroy the warrior who killed his wife and unborn child. A never-ending passion for Scott lures Refarian medic Shelby Tyler to Texas, but the man she finds there is nothing like the man for whom she once cared...
  • Blue Fire by Janice Hardy

    Blue Fire by Janice Hardy

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Part fugitive, part hero, fifteen-year-old Nya is barely staying ahead of the Duke of Baseer’s trackers. Wanted for a crime she didn’t mean to commit, she risks capture to protect every Taker she can find, determined to prevent the Duke from using them in his fiendish experiments...
  • Broken Skies by Theresa Kay

    Broken Skies by Theresa Kay

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Thirty years ago, civilization collapsed. Few survived.Ten years ago, the aliens arrived…and stayed.One year ago, I killed two men and went a little crazy.Today, the aliens took my brother and I will do anything to get him back. In seventeen-year-old Jax Mitchell's world, humans are nearly extinct and alien settlers have arrived...
  • Bluewing by Kate Avery Ellison

    Bluewing by Kate Avery Ellison

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Lia Weaver is a fugitive. Her family's farm has been confiscated by Farther soldiers, her sister has been reassigned to a new family in the village, and her official status is "missing." Now, she and a band of fugitive followers must make their home in the harsh wilderness of the Frost...
  • Closed Hearts by Susan Kaye Quinn

    Closed Hearts by Susan Kaye Quinn

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When you control minds, only your heart can be used against you. Eight months ago, Kira Moore revealed to the mindreading world that mindjackers like herself were hidden in their midst. Now she wonders if telling the truth was the right choice after all. As wild rumors spread, a powerful anti-jacker politician capitalizes on mindreaders’ fears and strips jackers of their rights...
  • Haven by Laury Falter

    Haven by Laury Falter

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Guardian Trilogy comes a new romantic suspense... HAVEN, Apocalypse Chronicles, Part I On an ordinary day in early September, Kennedy Shaw leaves for school unaware that within a few minutes the world she knows will be gone - succumbed to an outbreak of epidemic proportions...
  • Thorns by Kate Avery Ellison

    Thorns by Kate Avery Ellison

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Sequel to "Frost". Lia Weaver went against everything she’d ever known when she risked her life to help a Farther fugitive named Gabe escape from the Aeralian soldiers, and her life changed forever...
  • Weavers by Kate Avery Ellison

    Weavers by Kate Avery Ellison

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Every day, life in the Frost grows increasingly perilous for its inhabitants. The Farther occupation continues, and food is becoming scarce. And Lia Weaver’s family is facing increasing perils, too—Jonn pushes his health to the brink as he works to uncover the secrets of Echlos, and Ivy risks everything to get food for the family...
  • Violet Eyes by Nicole Luiken

    Violet Eyes by Nicole Luiken

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    I'm the Idea Girl, the one who can always think of something to do. Angel Eastland knows she's different. It's not just her violet eyes that set her apart. She's smarter than her classmates and more athletically gifted. Her only real competition is Michael Vallant, who also has violet eyes -- eyes that tell her they're connected, in a way she can't figure out. Michael understands Angel...
  • Dragon Prime by Lora Leigh

    Dragon Prime by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    This story is related to the Legacies series. He is a Prime Warrior of the Dragon Clan. An alien to Earth. Fighting a battle that could tip the balance between two seperate worlds. But now his greatest mission isn't the battle, or the blood of the enemy. It's the love of one woman's heart. One he's lost once already and vows he will not lose again...
  • The Star Princess by Susan Grant

    The Star Princess by Susan Grant

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Ilana Hamilton isn't an adventurer like her pilot mother, or a diplomat like her do-right brother; she's a brash, fun-loving filmmaker who'd rather work behind the camera than be a "star princess" in front of it. Heiress or not, she's a perfectly normal, single woman...until Prince Ché Vedla crashes into her life. With six months to choose a bride, the sexy royal wants to sow his wild oats...
  • Revelations by J.A. Souders

    Revelations by J.A. Souders

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Six weeks after her arrival on the Surface, Evelyn Winters is no closer to unlocking the memories lost in her subconscious than she was when she first came. Isolated in a strange new society, Evie has only Gavin Hunter to remind her of who she once was. But even with a clean slate, it’s easy to see that Evie doesn’t fit in on the Surface...
  • Save Me by L.J. Baker

    Save Me by L.J. Baker

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Andi was doing just fine on her own. Sure the world had been hit with an outbreak that turned anyone infected into flesh eating zombies. Not to mention that everyone she ever loved was now dead. She was alive though, taking care of herself. She had little desire to indulge in building relationships with anyone. People just couldn't be trusted...
  • The Twelfth Keeper by Belle Malory

    The Twelfth Keeper by Belle Malory

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When sixteen-year-old Kennedy Mitchell is proclaimed the world’s last keeper, she thinks it’s a cruel joke. Come on- her? Impossible. She’s no warrior. She isn’t wise beyond her years, or more importantly, capable of keeping Earth safe. Except...no one will listen. And since all evidence says otherwise, the job is hers whether she likes it or not...
  • Parallel Heat by Deidre Knight

    Parallel Heat by Deidre Knight

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In Parallel Attraction , Deidre Knight created an unforgettable alternate world of danger, seduction and the mysteries of time. Here she returns to that world as alien warrior Marco McKinley is enlisted to personally protect beautiful human solider Thea Haven...
  • Glitch by Brenda Pandos

    Glitch by Brenda Pandos

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Perfect world. Lies. Blue eyes. When a mysterious guy from the forbidden zone sneaks an illegal slip of paper to a beautiful young girl from Brighton, she must decide if she should turn him in or follow what the note says. Eighteen-year-old Abigail has no trouble following Brighton’s rules...
  • Eddie's Prize by Maddy Barone

    Eddie's Prize by Maddy Barone

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lisa Anton was a world-famous fashion model before her plane crashed in a post-apocalyptic future where women are precious and rare, and technology is only a memory. Offered as a prize in a Bride Fight for the best fighter to take home, Lisa becomes the wife of a man she barely knows. Gorgeous and passionate in bed, her new husband tells her he loves her...
  • Beyond The Shadows by Jess Granger

    Beyond The Shadows by Jess Granger

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Commander Yara has spent years living without the distraction of caring for anything - or anyone. It's a sacrifice she's willing to make. Yara has honed herself into the perfect heir to the Azralen throne, but a bloody coup could destory everything she's worked so hard for...
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