Books like 'Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West (InCryptid 0.04 - Stingers and Strangers)'
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Bursting Out by David Burke
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPenultimate book of the Descend series.The dungeon has become too small to contain their power.Jay and the others are aware of the fact that they are on a ship the size of the moon.More than that they know they are the last survivors of Earth.They have to round up the rest of the clusters. Build their power further and burst out of this prison... -
Deviation by Christine Manzari
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBeing a Sophisticate of the Program seems like it’d be a pretty sweet deal: a little genetic alteration and anyone can be smarter, faster, and stronger. It’s a dream come true. All you have to give up is your freedom. Cleo is a Sophisticate and she has a bright future in the Program. But she has a secret. When she gets upset, bad things happen. Explosive things. Things she can’t control... -
Captive by Alycia Linwood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA world-changing prophecy. A group of rogue elementals who are ready to do whatever it takes to fulfill it and steal all the elemental magic for themselves... -
The After Wife by Cass Hunter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 11 ratings"It was original, beautiful, moving and insanely addictive - I wept and I laughed and I will be recommending it to everyone I know." Katie Marsh A surprising and emotional story starring an unforgettable heroine, for fans of Together , The Lovely Bones and The Time Traveller's Wife When Rachel and Aidan fell in love, they thought it was forever... -
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Crystal Tomb by Melanie Nilles
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Shirukan aren't the only threat to the Starfire shard Raea bears... An alien enemy has awakened to reclaim the crystal that was theirs, and those last survivors of a war that nearly destroyed Inar'Ahben aren't afraid to kill anyone who stands in their way... -
Debt Collector Season One by Susan Kaye Quinn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUrban Fantasy with a Cyberpunk Twist **Season One of the Debt Collector serial with all nine episodes*** **Season Two now available** What’s your life worth on the open market? In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more “worthy”… all while paying the price with black marks on their souls... -
The Last Shifter: The Complete Series by Sadie Moss
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 11 ratings***Complete reverse harem series ready to be devoured***Four renegade wolf shifters. An innocent young woman trapped in a web of lies. When their fates collide, sparks will fly…Diagnosed with a rare terminal illness, I’ve spent over half my life in the Strand Corporation’s state-of-the-art treatment facility...Categorized as:
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The Reckoning by Teyla Branton
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOnly One Can Survive The Reckoning Erin Radkey has always known the day would come when she would have to personally confront the Triad leader of the power-hungry Emporium. But she never thought it would be with a snake in her head that feeds on her energy. Or that she’d be in the company of an uncertain ally who might turn on her at any moment... -
The Trials of Renegade X by Chelsea M. Campbell
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsCan a half villain ever be a full hero? Damien Locke didn't choose for his supervillain mom to disown him — just because he sort of defied her and ruined her evil plans to take over Golden City — and he didn't choose for his superpower to be flying, a superhero ability that involves his least favorite thing: heights... -
Sutter's Cross by W. Dale Cramer
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMen and women of all ages will warm to Cramer's elegant prose and Southern charm. William Faulkner once insisted that great stories must capture the "old universal truths...love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice." Sutter's Cross delivers the truth in grand style...Categorized as:
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Prepare to Die! by Paul Tobin
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNine years ago, Steve Clarke was just a teenage boy in love with the girl of his dreams. Then a freak chemical spill transformed him into Reaver, the man whose super-powerful fists can literally take a year off a bad guy's life... -
Delirium by Susan Kaye Quinn
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhat’s your life worth on the open market? In this gritty urban fantasy, debt collectors take your life energy and give it to someone more “worthy”… all while paying the price with black marks on their souls. “Absolutely riveting!”“Quinn has a way of writing heart-breaking characters.”“You’ll be holding your breath, looking over your shoulder, and begging for more... -
Jasmyn by Alex Bell
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn ancient fairy tale, a contemporary heroine – and cracking good read. One day, without warning, Jasmyn’s husband died of an aneurysm. Since then, everything has been different. Wrapped up in her grief, Jasmyn is trapped in a world without colour, without flavour – without Liam. But even through the haze of misery she begins to notice strange events...Categorized as:
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Accepting by Viola Grace
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTiera is glad to see her friend after her new elevation to the Potential of Gaia, but accepting a ship full of aliens is a little too much to ask. Life on Gaia is predictable, boring, and just what Tiera needs to keep herself calm... -
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Oliris by S. Neff
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSenana Saz Rays has been sentenced to four years of slave labor on prison planet Indiku after assaulting his state appointed psychiatrist. Leaving his lover Rhyan behind on earth, Sena spends his time on the planet Indiku working with the coveted medicinal leeri flowers... -
Heresy of Dragons by Erik Reid
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNot every man can handle a magitech gauntlet that speaks in floating silver text, or a handful of women with unique… needs . I’m not every man. When a bad blind date got worse – like, interdimensional lightning storm worse – I woke up to a realm of dragon women, magical kobolds, and a playful monkey girl with a painful secret... -
Beyond: Three Paths by Maureen A. Miller
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAimee Patterson is coming home...but this time she is not alone. After spending years in space on an alien ship, Aimee Patterson is finally coming home. But this time she is not alone. Her lover Zak wants to meet her parents, and her friend Raja wants to experience life on Earth. Both get more than they ever bargained for... -
Vanished by Kat Richardson
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe toughest case yet for Greywalker and P.I. Harper Blaine, "a great heroine" ("New York Times" bestselling author Charlaine Harris), has arrived. Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until she died-for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker-walking the line between the living world and the paranormal realm... -
Boo Who by Rene Gutteridge
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” Nobody in Skary seems to know for sure… It appears that everyone in Skary, Indiana, is having an identity crisis of epic proportions–including the town itself. Once known as the haunt of the world’s most popular horror writer, Wolfe “Boo” Boone, Skary started losing tourist business after Boo abruptly abandoned his career... -
A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsThe LaZelle family of southern California has a secret: they can do magic. Real magic. As a teenager, a LaZelle undergoes "the Transition"--a severe illness that will either kill him or leave him with magical powers. If he's lucky, he gains a talent like shape-changing or wish-granting. If he's unlucky, he never experiences Transition... -
Peacemaker by Marianne de Pierres
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVirgin Jackson is the senior ranger in Birrimun Park - the world's last natural landscape, overshadowed though it is by a sprawling coastal megacity. She maintains public safety and order in the park, but her bosses have brought out a hotshot cowboy to help her catch some drug runners who are affecting tourism... -
Love in Retrograde by Charlie Cochet
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEnthusiastic, play-it-safe Kelly Sutton is an American intern at the Photonic Royal Society in New London. He’s been working on Project Mars for over a year, a mission kept so secret by the society even Kelly doesn’t know exactly what it is. What Kelly does know is his contribution to the task will benefit mankind, and that’s enough for him... -
Mute by Piers Anthony
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMute is science fantasy of mutation and psi: special mental powers. The protagonist, Knot, is a double mutant: He has a physical deformity, and the psi power to make others forget him. He’s satisfied with his life—until the lovely Finesse walks into his life to recruit him for a dangerous galactic mission. She is aided by two small animal mutants: a telepathic weasel and a clairvoyant crab... -
Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsIn his debut novel, literary alchemist Jeff VanderMeer takes us on an unforgettable journey, a triumph of the imagination that reveals the magical and mysterious city of Veniss through three intertwined voices. First, Nicholas, a would-be Living Artist, seeks to escape his demons in the shadowy underground-but in doing so makes a deal with the devil himself... -
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Villains (Love's Landscapes) by Andrea Speed
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDear Author,I know that everyone believes that I’m the monster, and that He keeps me on a leash. I don’t mind; it’s funny how everyone is deceived by our act and while they look at me with fear and loathing, His secret is safe. No one is going to know that behind his innocent look and smile there is a soulless and sadistic man... -
Turbulence by Samit Basu
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Aman Sen gets off a plane from London to Delhi he discovers that he, and everyone on his flight, now has extraordinary abilities corresponding to their innermost desires. Aman wants to heal the planet but with each step he takes, he finds helping some means harming others...Categorized as:
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Badlands by Seleste deLaney
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a brutal Civil War, America is a land divided. As commander of her nation's border guards, Ever is a warrior sworn to protect her country and her queen. When an airship attacks and kills the monarch, Ever must infiltrate enemy territory to bring home the heir to the throne, and the dirigible Dark Hawk is her fastest way to the Union... -
Heart of Light by Sarah A. Hoyt
Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSet in a magical Victorian British Empire that never was, this unique fantasy blends adventure, intrigue, and romance, as a newlywed couple embark on a dangerous quest--and, in the process, discover their own heart's desires. On a luxury magic carpetship in 1889, an English couple travel to Cairo for their honeymoon. Except for a brush with a dragon, the voyage is uneventful... -
Black As Snow by Nick Nolan
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSebastian Black is a god amongst men: he’s devastatingly handsome and charismatic—and telepathic. So when his scheming mother, prophetess Kitty Black, announces that her son is the “next species of man,” the world begins taking notice. Together, Kitty and Sebastian forge a spiritual movement that celebrates “divine evolution” while warning of a mass extinction... -
The Academy by Zachary Rawlins
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlex Warner’s life hasn’t been a great success – so maybe its better that he can’t remember any of it, even the fire that killed his family, the one he was blamed for setting. Still, a horrifying attack by werewolves in a city park is a new and violent low, until Mitsuru, a woman with odd red eyes and tremendous powers intervenes, turning Alex’s world upside down... -
The Chimes by Anna Smaill
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWINNER OF THE 2016 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE An Elle Book of the Year An Independent Book of the Year One to Watch Independent on Sunday A Bookseller Best Debut of 2015 One to Watch 2015 Huffington Post An Amazon Rising Star 'The Chimes is a remarkable debut...
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