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Revolution by Shelly Crane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn the fourth and final installment, everything is on the line. Merrick's life is in the balance and Lily is their only hope. Ellie and her new powers are miraculous, but also problematic; if she's with the bunker family, they won't be able to sense when the Lighters are there... -
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Fight of the Walker by Coralee June
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsI’m desperate to rescue the men I love, so when the smooth-talking Ethros leader, Commodore Cavil, comes along, its almost too easy to agree to his deal. Not that we had much of a choice. I find myself on the beautiful island of Ethros where once a Walker, always a Walker, and all the freedoms of Dormas are ripped from my fingers. It’s hard not to see the irony in it all... -
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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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Unrest by Wendy Higgins
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins brings you the second book in this thrilling apocalyptic world. .. Being on the run in the desert means food and sanctuary are hard to come by, but Amber Tate and her crew are not about to give up. Not after having the things they love brutally ripped from them by an unknown enemy who sent their world into the apocalypse... -
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The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe Truth is Contagious, the epic conclusion to the award winning Contagium Series! A mysterious virus has infected most of the world’s population. This sickness transforms the living into violent “crazies” and eventually into the flesh-eating undead. Orissa and Hayden have survived in this new harrowing world...Categorized as:
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![Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson]()
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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Love and Decay 2, Episode Six 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. Reagan and Page are still trapped with Kane in the cabin in the woods and they have no idea if help is coming or if anyone will be able to find them. Besides the utter boredom and eerie solitude, they have to deal with Kane’s crazy mom and the danger Kane poses to Reagan, in more than just the physical sense... -
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Hunted by Lisa Harris
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHe promised to protect her. But what happens when the hunter becomes the prey? Welcome to Shadow Ridge, where LONGMIRE meets JERICHO. From USA Today Best-selling author Lisa Harris comes an epic series where the survival of Shadow Ridge depends on learning how to fight crime all over again...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. -
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The Eve by Keary Taylor
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA plan was laid out as the Evolution crushed mankind, a plan that was right under Eden’s nose all along. And Eve is the key to everything. New Eden—mankind—they have a small chance at fixing their dismembered planet. But it will be a reckless sprint against time and the coming Bane to retrieve the final piece to the plot. New Eden’s worst fears have become reality... -
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Bathsheba by Jill Eileen Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBathsheba is a woman who longs for love. With her devout husband away fighting the king's wars for many months at a time, discontent and loneliness dog her steps--and make it frighteningly easy to succumb to King David's charm and attention. Though she immediately regrets her involvement with the powerful king, the pieces are set in motion that will destroy everything she holds dear... -
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Reclamation by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe highly anticipated conclusion to the bestselling Ravening Series. The first book in this series, Ravenous, is free. Hunted by alien enemies and desperate to survive the invasion, Bethany and Cade are forced into situations they never imagined were possible... -
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The McClane Apocalypse Book Ten by Kate Morris
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the McClane saga continues, the family realizes that someone in their trusted, inner circle may just be the person who has leaked precious information about them, Fort Knox, and their community allies to the men who were running the highwaymen and ultimately to whoever they were reporting... -
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Frequency by Lisa Harris
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSHE TRUSTED THE WRONG PERSON. Four deaths, most likely tied to arsenic-tainted water, leave the town of Shadow Ridge frantic for answers before someone else dies. But that isn’t the only nightmare Tess McQuaid is facing. She has proof someone attempted to cover up a murder as another arsenic death. HER LIFE DEPENDS ON FINDING OUT THE TRUTH... -
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Shattered by Lisa Harris
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Shadow Ridge, where LONGMIRE meets JERICHO. From USA Today Best-selling author Lisa Harris comes an epic new series where the survival of Shadow Ridge depends on learning how to fight crime all over again. In the prequel to the series, The Last Day, Chase said good-bye to Hope and left Shadow Ridge for an overnight prisoner transport to San Angelo. . . the day before the grid went down...Categorized as:
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Taken Over by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDevastated by the loss of Cade, struggling to survive in a world she no longer knows, Bethany is determined to exact revenge upon the aliens that have shredded her life, and the lives of her family and friends. Presented with an opportunity to uncover the secret that Dr. Bishop feels her blood holds, and why she is different than the rest of the survivors, Bethany strikes out on a mission... -
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Survival by Lisa Harris
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWelcome to Shadow Ridge, where Longmire meets Jericho. A dead body. A missing suspect. A town fighting for survival. In today’s world, law enforcement agencies across the country rely on forensic tools, DNA testing, and crime labs...Categorized as:
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Regeneration by Julie E. Czerneda
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWith the alien Dhryn cutting a pathway through the inhabited spaceways-bringing about the annihilation of many of the races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following-time is running out for all sentient life-forms... -
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Deception by Lisa Harris
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s been over a year since Sam McQuaid has been back home to Shadow Ridge, and this time, he’s returning with a bounty on his head. Welcome to Shadow Ridge, where LONGMIRE meets JERICHO. From USA Today Best-selling author Lisa Harris comes an epic new series where the survival of Shadow Ridge depends on learning how to fight crime all over again...Categorized as:
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Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMason Sykes had served many years in the Marine Corps for his country. His loyalty and sacrifice had left him disfigured—inside and out. He didn’t harbor regrets, especially since he’d finally found the peace and quiet he’d always desired on a Nebraska farm. Brenna Helm was a country girl through and through, right down to her cowgirl boots... -
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Jason and Lily by Kate Wrath
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLong before Outpost Three…. Before battles,. Before journeys…. Before the shattering of old worlds…. …And the building of new ones…. Long before Eden and Jonas…. there was…. Jason and Lily. -
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Loving Them by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSaved from a life of suffering, Paloma Delacroix is determined to make the best life possible for herself, and for the four men she loves. Loving them is a challenge she never dreamed she’d be up for and one she refuses to fail. Before they can kickstart the life they all dream of, Thomas, Clay, Keith and Quinn McQueen will take Paloma back to Mars Station... -
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Shadows Have Gone by Lissa Bryan
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsCarly Daniels knows what it is to suffer loss. She knows what it is to sacrifice. In the two years since a pandemic virus—known only as the Infection—decimated humanity, she’s made choices she never could have imagined. She’s condoned violence in the name of peace and done the unthinkable in the name of mercy... -
![Riders of the Storm by Julie E. Czerneda]()
Riders of the Storm by Julie E. Czerneda
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe next chapter in the Stratification saga that ? delivers all the right elements. ?(Sci Fi Weekly) On the distant world of Cersi, Om? ray Aryl Sarc and her supporters have been exiled from the rest of their people. Finding refuge in the mountains, they work to rebuild the ruined village of Sona, even as they try to discover what happened to the original Sona Clan... -
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![Lord of All Things by Andreas Eschbach, Samuel Willcocks]()
Lord of All Things by Andreas Eschbach, Samuel Willcocks
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWinner of the 2012 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best German science fiction novel, Lord of All Things is also a story about love against all odds. They are just children when they meet for the first time: Charlotte, daughter of the French ambassador, and Hiroshi, a laundress’s son. One day, Hiroshi declares that he has an idea that will change the world... -
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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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State of Pursuit by Summer Lane
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsABSOLUTELY HEART-STOPPING! " - Leti Del Mar, author of Land of the Unaltered. "[Summer Lane] IS QUITE A TALENTED WRITER WITH AN AMAZING GIFT FOR NARRATION. " - Janice White, Editor & Author of Clarity: A Text on Writing. Cassidy Hart is alone. Her Commander and the love of her life, Chris Young, has gone missing in action... -
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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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Denounced by Tara Elizabeth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 2 of the EXALTED series. Mena, an Exalted trainee, is the on the other side of a difficult choice: to leave the United Republic of the Saved with Ryker or return with Ethan and be United. Her decision changes everything . . . things she never considered. She has to overcome shocking realizations and tough challenges in the new life she has chosen... -
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In the End by Tracey Ward
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsJordan and Alissa made it out of Portland, away from ground zero where The Fever still rages on. But they couldn't beat the quarantine. Now barriers are being built and the remaining survivors of the outbreak are trapped. And the undead just keep coming. The wave of infected is building as city after city is devoured... -
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The Dawn of a Dream by Ann Shorey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLuellen O'Connell is stunned and confused when her husband of just one month tells her he is leaving--and that he has another wife. Deeply wounded by this betrayal, Luellen decides to follow the dream she had set aside of obtaining a teaching degree. But her wayward husband left something behind when he abandoned her... -
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The Land of the Shadow by Lissa Bryan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the highly anticipated stand-alone sequel to The End of All Things, Lissa Bryan returns readers to a world devastated by disease, and the breakdown of modern society. Two years after a horrific virus swept the globe, decimating the world’s population, Carly Daniels and her husband, Justin, have made a safe home in the isolated southern town of Colby... -
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His Beast Mate by Milana Jacks
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI sit in a house in Highborn Hills ready to play a poker game I ain’t never played before, in a suit so preppy, it makes my skin itch. My target crawls around my feet. Felicia, who they call Kitten. When her big green eyes lock with mine, and when she smells her Alpha on my clothes, her eyes light up, and I know I have her attention... -
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![The Amish Christmas Sleigh by Kelly Long, Amy Lillard]()
The Amish Christmas Sleigh by Kelly Long, Amy Lillard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThrough the snowy night, silver bells ring cheerfully, heralding a season of secret gifts, unexpected chances, and love's sweetest journeys . . . A SLEIGH RIDE ON ICE MOUNTAIN. Kelly Long. For solitary toy-maker Sebastian Christner, hiring Kate Zook as his new housekeeper is simply the right thing to do. Now she can support her special-needs brother... -
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Justice by Gillian Zane
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere is unfinished business for the S-Island survivors and it centers around Lakeview. The New Orleans' neighborhood has been taken over by a sadistic group of bikers called the Southern Clan. Hannah Klink, who everyone calls Baby no matter how many times she punches them, is training her fellow survivors to defend themselves and work as a unit... -
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Descent Into Darkness by A.J. Newman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmerican Apocalypse: Descent Into Darkness - Book 2. Book 2 of the series American Apocalypse continues the heroic struggles of an unlikely band of survivors in Southern Oregon. Joe Harp, the leader, was an overweight auto mechanic without any special survival skills. He had never been in the military but did know how to hunt, fish, and camp... -
![The End of the World as We Knew It by Nick Cole]()
The End of the World as We Knew It by Nick Cole
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the future, an artist specializing in historical records creates a piece of art based on three separate accounts of the Pandemic. What follows is a patchwork tale of survival and horror as two lovers struggle to survive the undying dead and the collapse of an America turned charnel house... -
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Alex O'Donnell and the 40 CyberThieves by Regina Doman
When his computer hacker dad discovers a secret website, Alex O'Donnell and his girlfriend Kateri become embroiled in a mystery that leads to sudden wealth, and murder. A modern retelling of the classic Arabian Nights tale "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. ". -
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Concisus by Tracy Rozzlynn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConcisus is the second book in the Verita series. Against all odds Brett and Ryan found their way back to the base. But it’s not quite the homecoming they envisioned. Their friends are all love struck and Dr. Brant’s seems intent on making their life miserable. -
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If it Kills Me by Jason D. Morrow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOverconfidence has no place in a world where the dead rule. Nineteen-year-old Mora has learned this the hard way. After a conflict in the colony of Salem that left hundreds of people dead, Mora and her Starborn allies have been branded as fugitives by Jeremiah, the leader of Screven... -
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The Raid by Keary Taylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCities have become the most dangerous places on Earth, infested with thousands of Bane, and people must now survive in the mountains and wilderness. But ammunition and medicine are essential to survival and they don’t grow on trees. Eve, as an elite defender of Eden, must go on a raid with a small team into the city for supplies that will keep their people alive... -
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Autumn by V.L. Dreyer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTen years ago, a deadly virus wiped out the majority of the human race, with the exception of an unlucky few with a natural immunity to the plague. Sandy McDermott is one of them, a solitary survivor who has braved the last decade alone. Now, finally, she’s found something she truly cares about. After years of loneliness, she has a new family... -
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A Vault of Sins by Sarah Harian
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn her stunning New Adult debut, The Wicked We Have Done, Sarah Harian introduced readers to the Compass Room: a twisted experimental jail where the guilty and the innocent suffer alike. But breaking out was only the beginning…. Even though she’s escaped, twenty-two-year-old Evalyn Ibarra is anything but free... -
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![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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Antitype by M.D. Waters
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAntitype is the prequel to acclaimed novels, Archetype and. Prototype. Before Emma appears in their lives, two men face four months that will change their lives forever. One has dreams outside Richmond and away from his family business. The other wants to make the business his only focus... -
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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... -
![The Tears of Ephraim by William Dunaway]()
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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True North (Heart's Compass) by C.E. Kilgore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAn apocalyptic M/M Romance. Electricity is gone. Society is on its knees. The heart’s compass becomes the light in the darkness. Joshua has had enough of people. Especially those desperate, starving bastards who he’s certain ate his dog. When people decide to leave the university town of Lincoln, Nebraska and head south before winter sets in, Joshua heads north instead... -
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Frozen by Eve Silver
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsRaina and Wizard are back in a new Northern Waste novella that takes place between DRIVEN and HIDDEN!
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