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  • Revenge of the Walker by Coralee June

    Revenge of the Walker by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I'll build an army to take back what is mine. Revenge may harden the heart, but I'll gladly suffer the consequences. I've lost my family, my best friend, and the men I love. The little Walker girl from Galla is dead. Now, all that's left of her is a girl willing to risk it all.They call me Queen of the Walkers...
  • Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the universe of the Until the End of the World series Sylvie Rossi has the loner thing down pat, with the exception of her best friend, Grace. But when the two are trapped in a hospital during the last gasp of a dying city, alone time is no longer an option...
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  • Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book two of The City Series is here! Months into the apocalypse, the zombies show no signs of dying, but it’s clear everyone in Sunset Park will die without enough food to outlast the undead. Add in the less-than-sociable new neighbors only blocks away, and the hunt for sustenance has come to feel more like a race than a ramble...
  • Fight of the Walker by Coralee June

    Fight of the Walker by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’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...
  • 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 ratings
    Zombies- 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...
  • Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zombies- 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...
  • Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When her plane tries to come apart at apogee during a hijack, ballistic airline pilot Michelle Lauden handles the worst day she could imagine. After getting down without losing any passengers or crew, though, she finds her troubles have just begun!The country she's landed in has just declared independence from the Federation...
  • The Wife Legacy: Huxley by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    The Wife Legacy: Huxley by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The world, at large, is in crisis but so is the marriage between Tia and her husbands. She thought she could trust them all but when one man betrays her, the cracks in the relationship are revealed.In a desperate, emotional finale to the Six Men of Alaska saga, Tia is faced with her worst enemy one last time.A gun is placed in someone’s hands and the trigger is pulled...
  • Halo by Frankie Rose

    Halo by Frankie Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternative 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...
  • Unrest by Wendy Higgins

    Unrest by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    New 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...
  • The Eve by Keary Taylor

    The Eve by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A 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...
  • Ritual in Death / Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Ritual in Death / Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Dark, mystifying and powerful forces are at work in these two superb J.D. Robb short stories.Ritual in DeathWhen a naked, knife-wielding man who thinks he has killed someone crashes a glamorous ball she's attending, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is almost relieved. The clues point towards ritual murder, but Eve knows there is nothing supernatural about a deadly lust for power..
  • Reclamation by Erica Stevens

    Reclamation by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The 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...
  • The Wife Code: Banks by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    The Wife Code: Banks by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lawson wants what is lawfully his, but Banks is prepared to fight for his bride.Banks and Tia haven't consummated their marriage. He's done waiting. But he isn't like her other husbands. And while they both have a love for learning, Tia is about to get an entirely new sort of education.Banks is ready to teach his wife a few things about his dark desires...
  • The Wife Pact: Emerson by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    The Wife Pact: Emerson by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When an ultrasound reveals the truth about Tia’s pregnancy, the compound is riddled with fear. They know that it means one thing -- death. Unless Banks can find a cure. Stress weaves its way into Tia’s heart and a break from the harsh reality is just what the doctor ordered. But a trip to Emerson’s family home reveals yet another hidden secret and Tia is confronted with a shocking reality...
  • Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee

    Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Published 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...
  • Taken Over by Erica Stevens

    Taken Over by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Devastated 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...
  • Blood Echo by Christopher Rice

    Blood Echo by Christopher Rice

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A conspiracy that promises bloodshed and the only woman who can stop it collide in the page-turning thriller by Christopher Rice, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Bone Music. Kidnapped and raised by serial killers, Charlotte Rowe suffered an ordeal that made her infamous. Everyone in the world knew who she was...
  • Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Mason 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...
  • Hidden Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Hidden Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There were a few things that got Owen Quade through his multiple combat tours. One was the dream of riding a custom motorcycle on a winding mountain road. The former Marine had finally managed to complete that goal, and along the way he’d gained his own bike shop and the mechanic to go with it. She was a rare beauty, and he wasn’t talking about his bike either...
  • Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Elena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations...
  • Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A 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...
  • The Passengers by John Marrs

    The Passengers by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Eight self-drive cars set on a collision course. Who lives, who dies? You decide. When someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course...
  • Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    USA Today and New York Times bestselling author, Wendy Higgins, brings you the gripping, sensual conclusion to her apocalyptic trilogy. Amber Tate never dreamed their heart-wrenching escape from the enemy’s attack would lead them to the most beautiful place she’s ever seen, marred by one ugly fact; it’s under enemy control...
  • Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ten 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...
  • Sidone by Milana Jacks

    Sidone by Milana Jacks

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    He’s half my age. He cooks. He fusses over my bad sleeping habits, and knows how to handle a gun. Our little reprieve during a mission can only mean one thing: my guard is down. And the enemy I hunt is watching me, waiting for the perfect time to strike. The time is now...
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Description: 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...
  • Essential Beginnings by Kennedy Layne

    Essential Beginnings by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Change is coming… Maverick Beckett took his much needed annual vacation up to Washington State to relax with his old friends from his years in the Corps. He also had every intention of extinguishing the fires that arose between him and a certain local woman he couldn’t get out of his mind until the unthinkable happened...
  • His by Law by Sue Lyndon

    His by Law by Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When Lucia is caught trespassing in Jackson McNabe’s home, she fears he’ll turn her over to the constable. With the holidays approaching and the nights growing colder, she had only wished to warm herself by his fire and pretend for a few minutes that she was the lady of the grand house, rather than a homeless girl stranded in a peculiar village...
  • 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 ratings
    Life 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...
  • The Alliance by Jolina Petersheim

    The Alliance by Jolina Petersheim

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Leora Ebersole sees the small plane crash in her Old Order Mennonite community, she has no idea it’s a foreshadowing of things to come. Once the young pilot, Moses Hughes, regains consciousness, they realize his instruments were destroyed by the same power outage that killed the electricity at the community store, where Englischers are stranded with dead cell phones and cars that won’t start...
  • The Apollo Academy by Kimberly P. Chase

    The Apollo Academy by Kimberly P. Chase

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Apollo Academy has been picked up by Escape, Harlequin Australia and will be re-released February 2015. Take off with this dynamic, thrill-seeking, sexy New Adult Science Fiction series debut. Welcome to the exclusive Apollo Academy, where Aurora is about to discover that achieving her dream is only the first step towards her future...
  • Strictly Business by Lisa Eugene

    Strictly Business by Lisa Eugene

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Conservative 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...
  • Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    When engineer Leo Graf arrives at a free fall station circling a mining planet to teach welding, he’s in for his first shock: the genetically engineered inhabitants have an extra set of arms in place of legs. A second shock comes when the company that owns these four-armed “quaddies” decides to abandon them, and Leo must use all his ingenuity to respond to this new crisis...
  • The Plague Tales by Ann Benson

    The Plague Tales by Ann Benson

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium—the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague...
  • The Wife Lottery: Fallon by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    The Wife Lottery: Fallon by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    I wanted to taste freedom. In a world where women are seen as a commodity to barter, Alaska promised a sanctuary. But to stay, I have to enter the wife lottery. Six men, one wife. And I have no say in who those men will be. It's more than a game of chance—it's my life falling into the hands of strangers...
  • Stop by Scarlett Dawn

    Stop by Scarlett Dawn

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author, Scarlett Dawn, comes the third installment in The Cold Mark Saga, Stop, where tipping points are reached and surprises lurk… Braita Valorn is stuck. She has no real freedom, her existence dependent on what the men of Triaz decide. Her fate is not her own. But she desperately wants it to be and will do anything to make it so...
  • The Star Thief by Jamie Grey

    The Star Thief by Jamie Grey

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Stealing another galactic secret will get her arrested, but playing by the rules might just get her killed. At twenty-three, Renna Carrizal is the most notorious thief in the galaxy. There's just one problem - all she wants is to get out of the business. But after Renna rescues an injured boy on her final job, she finds herself on the run from the mob instead of enjoying retirement...
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