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Halo by Frankie Rose
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAlternative cover and new title for asin B00CKBJR2E. She has no name. She has her knives. Her training. Her halo. The first and second give her the ability to defeat the opponents she is pitted against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be. Everything is as it should be, until…... -
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Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsZombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. It’s been six months since Reagan Willow fled the Colony and Matthias Allen’s tyrannical clutches. Six months since she broke Hendrix Parker’s heart. Six months since she watched Kane Allen sacrifice his life to save hers...Categorized as:
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![Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee]()
Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsPublished for the first time in a single volume, this duet of novels is set in a hedonistic Utopia where no pleasure is off-limits. Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system and strikes at the very heart of a soulless society. -
![Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman]()
Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA new romantic action adventure for fans of romance thriller suspense and family romance series! One of six Italian brothers and a sister, JT Luciano is a widowed environmental biologist with a touch of the Sight who is preparing for an apocalyptic event he knows is coming...Categorized as:
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Arena by Karen Hancock
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA Repackaged Award Winner From Karen Hancock. Callie Hayes is living a life of fear and disillusionment when she volunteers for a psychology experiment that promises to turn her life around. As her orientation proceeds, Callie becomes frightened by the secrecy and evasion she encounters...Categorized as:
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Exodus by Courtney McPhail
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll Malcolm Evans wants is to find his sister and her kids and get them some place safe. As an ex-CIA agent, he finds himself in the role of leader of a ragtag group of survivors heading to a promised sanctuary in the Great Lakes. Veronica Alpert spent her childhood preparing for the end of the world, thanks to her paranoid survivalist father... -
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Exalted by Tara Elizabeth
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAfter the fall of mankind, the Exalted became the protectors of the people. As an Exalted trainee, all Mena ever wanted was to be strong, to serve and to fearlessly protect the people of the United Republic of the Saved. All Exalted feel the same. In fact, that’s all they feel. Only when Ryker, an outsider, crashes into Mena’s life, does she learn that people are meant to feel much more... -
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ARV-3 by Cameo Renae
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe beginning of the end. The Apocalypse. A nuclear fallout wiped out every living thing on the planet, except for a few thousand of us who took shelter in underground bunkers across the globe. Now, after thirteen long years, we were finally able to return to the topside to begin to rebuild. We thought we were alone. We were never more wrong... -
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At Star's End by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCOMING SOON IN 2026 - slightly revised re-release. This edition will be no longer in print. Dr. Eos Rai has spent a lifetime dedicated to her mother's dream of finding the long-lost Mona Lisa... -
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At Star's End by Anna Hackett
A dedicated astro-archeologist and a notorious treasure hunter team up to find the galaxy’s most famous treasure. Previously published - At Star's End has been lightly edited and had a new chapter added. Dr. Eos Rai has spent a lifetime dedicated to her mother's dream of finding the long-lost Mona Lisa... -
![Burning Bridges by Nadège Richards]()
Burning Bridges by Nadège Richards
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"It's do or die. .. ". The year is 2065. In a world that has been divided amongst the Hunter race and the Warrior, prisoners who have fallen prey to King Cyrus' decrees are forced into the arena to fight until death. Winner is granted mercy and privilege to see another sunrise. Death unto the weak... -
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End Game by Ginger Booth
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHave a date yet for the end of the world as we know it? Dee Baker, star programmer for a Fortune 100 media powerhouse, has options. She also has access to the secret plans of the U. S. government to make the end of the world survivable, for some...Categorized as:
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![Imperfect Match by Jordan Castillo Price]()
Imperfect Match by Jordan Castillo Price
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsA man whose future is assigned - A heart that yearns to be free. Lee Kennedy’s destiny is controlled by the Algorithm. It’s the reason he’s still in college, regardless of his good academic performance. He’s switched his major repeatedly and stalled on his Master’s thesis, but there’s only so much longer he can hold out. Because once he graduates, the Algorithm must be triggered... -
![After the Fear by Rosanne Rivers]()
After the Fear by Rosanne Rivers
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsYou have not attended a Demonstration this month. In Sola’s city, everyone obeys the rules. Stay away from the trigger cameras and regularly update your Debtbook, and you just might survive. But having to watch the way criminals are dealt with—murdered by Demonstrators in the Stadium—is a law Sola tries to avoid... -
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![Reap the Wild Wind by Julie E. Czerneda]()
Reap the Wild Wind by Julie E. Czerneda
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe fascinating debut of the prequel series to The Trade Pact UniverseThis prequel to The Trade Pact Universe series begins in a time before the Clan had learned how to manipulate the M? hir to travel between worlds. Aliens have begun to explore the world of Cersi, upsetting the delicate balance between the Clan and the two other powerful races who coexist by set rules...Categorized as:
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![Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer]()
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsMycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer—a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away...Categorized as:
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Dark Waltz by A.M. Hargrove
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAttention: This is an ADULT Book! Dark Waltz--A sizzling legend of loss, lust and love. It’s the year 2030 and the human population has been annihilated by a virulent form of small pox. Liasare Davidson is desperately searching for her brother, who has been missing for three months...Categorized as:
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Amongst the Ruins by Saewod Tice
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the year 2220, only about 15% of Earth's population have survived and thrived after the Nuclear Disaster of 2020. With the collapse of modern society, the population has regressed into eight clans. Amongst these clans, an unusual girl grows from child to adult. Raised on the run and in hiding, Shilo wants to be free of the expectations of women... -
![SURVIVE AND ESCAPE: A Post Apocalyptic EMP Thriller by Lee West]()
SURVIVE AND ESCAPE: A Post Apocalyptic EMP Thriller by Lee West
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSURVIVE AND ESCAPE: Book One in the Blue Lives Apocalypse series. Sam and Jane Archer walk out of a backcountry-hiking trip into a living nightmare. Their car is vandalized and dead, along with every other vehicle in the trailhead parking lot...Categorized as:
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Elite by Nicola Claire
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHave you been a model Citizen today? Selena Carstairs has been raised an Elite. She lives the life of privileged luxury, never wanting for anything. Respected. Admired. Honoured. But life is not what it seems. .. The island of Wánměi has a strict set of rules. Be a model Citizen and all will be rewarded. Disobey the law and the consequences are dire... -
![Final Dawn: Escape From Armageddon by Darrell Maloney]()
Final Dawn: Escape From Armageddon by Darrell Maloney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe author of the best selling novel "The Secession of Texas" brings you "Final Dawn," an apocalyptic love story. What would you do if you finally found the love of your life, and were making plans to spend eternity with them - and then found out that eternity was only two years? Mark is a romantic and carefree young engineer, and a bit of a cornball. His beloved Hannah is a beautiful scientist... -
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The Turn by J. Walker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat would you do if you knew the zombie apocalypse was imminent? Would you tell your family? Your friends? Or would you wait until the end was near? The Turn is the first book of an exciting new zombie apocalypse series called Extinction Level Event... -
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The Tears of Ephraim by William Dunaway
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart of the west coast is recovering from a series of devastating earthquakes. This caused a record drop in the stock market, and due to a national debt of twenty trillion dollars, the value of the dollar is on the edge of collapsing. Now, due to civil unrest, riots are starting to break out across the country... -
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Terra by Gretchen Powell
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA broken and desolate Earth. A young girl struggling to survive. A lost boy with a powerful secret. A discovery that will change everything. In the distant wake of a plague that has decimated the Earth's population, humanity is split in two: The rich and powerful live in skycities that float overhead, while those who remain on the ground have gathered in settlements strewn across a dying planet...Categorized as:
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![Enigma: What Lies Beneath by Ditter Kellen]()
Enigma: What Lies Beneath by Ditter Kellen
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnigma revolves around aquatic beings that evolved beneath the Ocean thousands of years ago. Armed with hidden fangs and poisonous barbs, they pose a threat to the humans known as the land walkers. This series takes you through their struggles, their deep love for those they choose as mates and the deadly virus now sweeping through the land...Categorized as:
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Forager by Peter R. Stone
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEighteen-year-old Ethan Jones lives in Newhome, a town built upon the decaying ruins of post-apocalyptic Melbourne, ruins haunted by the ferocious Skel, a nomadic tribe of degenerate savages. The Skel are ramping up their attacks on Newhome's foraging teams and infesting Melbourne's ruins in ever greater numbers... -
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsDescription:. George Orwell, published the "1984" in the near future as a novel in 1949. , "1Q84" is a 2009 novel depicting the recent past in 1984 and from the opposite direction. What was drawn there was "no way might have been" It's a world. "Maybe it was not so" now that we are alive, and the world is, in just the same way. Book 1...Categorized as:
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![Brilliance by Marcus Sakey]()
Brilliance by Marcus Sakey
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsIn Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called "brilliants," and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way... -
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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... -
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Alien Apocalypse: Surviving by A.J. Newman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlien Apocalypse: Surviving. Book II continues the story. Alien Apocalypse: Surviving - No Zombies! "Surviving" is the second novel in this series that tells the story of how the greatest find in human history almost wipes mankind from the face of the Earth...Categorized as:
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Ravenous by Erica Stevens
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe world didn’t end with a bang, didn’t go out in a ball of fire and fury. Nor did it end in ice, but in some strange way ice was the end; or maybe it was the beginning of something more. Bethany is stunned and horrified when she finds herself suddenly alone in a world that was alive only moments before...Categorized as:
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![I Hope You Find Me by Trish Marie Dawson]()
I Hope You Find Me by Trish Marie Dawson
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLife for Riley ends when her young children die in her arms…victims of a global viral outbreak that claims the lives of everyone she’s ever known. Left to fend for herself with only a dog as her companion, she sets out on a journey to find others, leaving notes everywhere she goes…hoping that one day someone will come looking for her...Categorized as:
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![Paradise 21 by Aubrie Dionne]()
Paradise 21 by Aubrie Dionne
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAries has lived her entire life aboard mankind's? last hope, theNew Dawn, a spaceship traveling toward a planet where humanity can begin anew-a planet that won't be reached in Aries' lifetime. As one of the last genetically desirable women in the universe, she must marry her designated genetic match and produce the next generation for this centuries-long voyage. But Aries has other plans...Categorized as:
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Sudden Independents by Ted Hill
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJimmy never thought he’d be spending the apocalypse farming in Nebraska and worrying about Hunter. But when the plague killed their parents, along with everyone over the age of seventeen, Jimmy suddenly became head of the household. Then the oldest kid in town turned eighteen and the plague chased him down. Now Jimmy has one more thing to worry about--and he’s running out of time...Categorized as:
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![Dissidence by Jamie Canosa]()
Dissidence by Jamie Canosa
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn dystopian America, sixteen-year-old Kaleigh finds out quickly what having a big mouth and not enough brains to keep it shut can earn you. A one-way ticket to the work camps that no one even knows exists. Nuclear war has ravished the nation, and a century later, the survivors are living in an entirely new world...Categorized as:
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Star Kissed by Lizzy Ford
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen Mandy loses her job, she thinks she’s hit rock bottom – until her plane is swallowed by a strange storm that sends her and everyone else on board 10,000 years into the future. At first, she thinks the scary world is nothing more than a bad dream. The war-torn Earth is unrecognizable. Black fog blocks the sun, and the oceans are dry... -
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In Distress by Caethes Faron, C. Faron
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAfter the Great Destruction decimated the world, science is the new god. Geneticists rule, instituting a DNA-based caste system in their effort to restore the human genome. As a Zed, Will’s a virtual slave who isn’t allowed medical care. A tragic accident has left him crippled, awaiting death... -
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The Artful by Wilbert Stanton
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsNew York City, 2025: Everything is changed. The city that never sleeps is now a land of death and decay. A rampant virus has taken over and the survivors have become carriers, quarantined from the rest of the world. Twist and Dodger grew up in the streets, the sewers and underground tunnels - their playground. They aren't heroes... -
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Colonization by Aubrie Dionne
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFinding a new home has never been so dangerous. Andromeda has spent all seventeen years of her life aboard a deep space transport vessel destined for a paradise planet. Her safe cocoon is about to break open as Paradise 21 looms only one month away, and she must take the aptitude tests to determine her role on the new world and her computer assigned lifemate...Categorized as:
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![Strictly Business by Lisa Eugene]()
Strictly Business by Lisa Eugene
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConservative Emergency Room Physician, Nina Henley has always followed the rules. Her life has been dictated by her unwavering commitment to medicine. Wade Connolly, renowned medical malpractice attorney and 'New York’s sexiest bachelor' enters her life and challenges her with his bold sexuality and intense passion... -
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The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe "magic" that once was America died horribly along with most of the Earth's inhabitants when an asteroid crashed into the planet sometime during the twenty-first century. Hundreds of years have passed, and all that remains of the time before are fragmented memories distorted by superstition -- as a tragically reduced populace suffers greatly under the tyranny of a repressive ruling order... -
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The City Center by Simone Pond
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDuring the man-made apocalypse in the 21st century, a group of elites killed off a majority of the population. Only two groups of survivors remained––those selected to reside inside the Los Angeles City Center and the rebels, relegated to live on the Outside. Centuries later, Ava Rhodes is one of five potential successors competing to become the next Queen of the City Center...Categorized as:
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Angel in the Badlands: space opera sci fi romance by Bianca D'Arc
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIs she an apparition or is she real? Crash landing on an uncharted planet, Ezekiel Amber sets out across a desert, looking for help. What he finds is salvation in the form of a woman. Angela finds the handsome, unconscious man and takes him below ground, where the heat of the desert does not reach. She nurses him back to health, trying hard to ignore the attraction between them...Categorized as:
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To Buy A Wife by K.C. Klein
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***For a limited time, you can get KC Klein's first book in the Texas Fever Series FREE - click here to find out more. kckleinbooks. com (just copy and paste into your browser)***. On a harsh future Earth where corruption rules and women are few, cold realist Hudson Land must purchase a wife to comply with the Elders' laws and save his farm... -
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An Omega's Awakening by Carolyn Faulkner
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHe didn't even know her name. She looked – and acted – more like a man than a woman. He wasn't looking for a new Omega. She didn't want what was happening to her, and it didn't help that the man who controlled her career – and thus, her life – was the very one who seemed to be bringing some kind of awakening to it. Neither of them wanted this, but he knew what he had to do...Categorized as:
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![The Apollo Academy by K.P. Lovely]()
The Apollo Academy by K.P. Lovely
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTake off with this dynamic, thrill-seeking, sexy science fiction academy romance series. Slow burn MMF. It’s the year 2163 and the world is screwed. Over population, low energy sources and little food have caused most people to become addicted to mind altering technology. That means anyone with half a brain wants to be accepted into the Apollo Academy... -
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Conquest by John Connolly, Jennifer Ridyard
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Earth has been invaded by the Illyri, a beautiful, civilized, yet ruthless alien race. Humanity has been conquered, but still it fights the invaders. The Resistance grows stronger, for it is the young people of Earth who are best equipped to battle the Illyri. Syl Hellais, conceived among the stars, is the oldest alien child on Earth, the first to reach sixteen years of age...Categorized as:
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Reckless Rescue by Rinelle Grey
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStranded on the dying planet of Zerris, Marlee longs for the one thing she can't have. .. a family. Due to the noxious gas covering the planet, she can't conceive a child, and the Council, determined to repopulate the planet, have ended her third-and most precious-relationship. They insist she pick a new mate and try again, but she's sworn off love and the possibility of ever having a real family...Categorized as:
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imperfect by Tina Chan
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife is harsh for Kristi. She's the only Accident living in a world of Perfects. More often than not, she feels like a blemish on an otherwise utopian society. And her life is about to get worse. The government has arrested her adoptive parents and her brother goes missing. To top things off, Kristi somehow gets dragged into the mess and now she's a wanted fugitive. . -
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Pentimento by Cameron Jace
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe day Iris Beaumont turns seventeen, she is threatened to be taken by the Beasts, the rulers of the new America. After the destruction of the world, the Beasts provide citizens with whatever they need in exchange for the one teenage girl they enslave every week. They call them the Brides, and they never comes back...
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