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Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh
Since the moment of her defection from the PsyNet and into the SnowDancer wolf pack, Sienna Lauren has had one weakness. Hawke. Alpha and dangerous, he compels her to madness. Hawke is used to walking alone, having lost the woman who would’ve been his mate long ago. But Sienna fascinates the primal heart of him, even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf...Categorized as:
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Love and Decay, Volume Two by Rachel Higginson
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsZombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. A lot has changed for Reagan in the few months since she stumbled upon the Parker family. She has given up her isolated vagabond lifestyle and along with her best friend Haley, made a permanent home with the brothers and their sweet, little sister...Categorized as:
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
The Carls just appeared.Roaming through New York City at three AM, twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor—April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life... -
Dante by Faith Gibson
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBook 3 is an adventure full of passion, secrets, action, and hot sex. When one enemy is taken out, another rises up. One who is hell bent on destroying The Stone Society. Dante Di Pietro is the New Atlanta Medical Examiner. Over 500 years old, Dante has resigned to living his life alone until he finds his mate, the pretty doctor he is working closely with at the prison...Categorized as:
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Aimless Witch by Shannon Mayer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the world of Rylee Adamson and the Elemental Series comes a heroine with nothing to lose and everything to prove…. My name is Pamela, and I am a witch who has no equal. Or so I thought. It has been three years since the Destroyer sundered our world. The land is longer whole, but broken into pieces, most technology gone, and the continents shattered into an unrecognizable place...Categorized as:
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Sixx by Faith Gibson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Michael “Sixx” Gentry lost control of the beast inside, he walked away from the best thing to happen to him in 500 years. Twenty-four years later, someone points out that Sixx has a doppelgänger. When he hears the man’s name, Sixx realizes twenty-four years too late that the best thing to ever happen to him had been pregnant with his son when he walked away...Categorized as:
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Fighting to Survive by Rhiannon Frater
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsPicking up where The First Days ends, Fighting to Survive features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them. A hundred or so survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled off center of a small Texas town...Categorized as:
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Siege by Rhiannon Frater
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAs the survivors continue to seek stability in their lives, forces both inside and outside the fort walls move them toward a final, climactic conflict between the living and the dead. Jenni, Katie and the others discover that they are not alone, that there is another enclave of survivors whose leaders plan to take over the fort...Categorized as:
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The Hero Within by Bec McMaster
Can this villain become her hero? As the only healer in a war-stained town, Eden McClain is devastated when the Salt Plague sweeps through the wastelands she calls home. Suddenly she's racing against time to save her people–and her niece–before it's too late. When she hears whispers of a cure, she knows she can't cross the dangerous Wastelands by herself to get it. She needs a guide... -
From the Ashes by Angela White
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIt has been six months since the world ended Adrian will now discover if the choices he’s made have cost him a son. Even Angie can’t be sure. Neither can the others like her who he's been gathering. The abilities of the descendants are growing, and so is Safe Haven's awareness of having magic in their midst. Angela is no longer the only witch in camp... If she ever was...Categorized as:
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Who We Truly Are by Victoria Sue
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTalon’s deadly abilities are spiraling out of control. Desperate to keep Finn safe, Talon struggles to protect the man he loves with all his heart and not become the greatest risk to Finn’s life. Finn has no choice but to offer himself as bait for the evil forces kidnapping enhanced children, facing danger he is untrained and unprepared for, and he will have to do it alone...Categorized as:
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Adrian's Eagles by Angela White
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"The Slavers are coming...I can almost feel their hate." Adrian’s hand rested lightly on his gun. "The Eagles want them to. After all the hell they've caused, my Army can't wait to make them pay." Eagles are men and women who care about the future of their country, so much, that they are willing to make any sacrifice...Categorized as:
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Degrees of Wrong by Anna Scarlett
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThis time, the straight-and-narrow path could be the road to ruin. Dr. Elyse Morgan’s mission: find the cure to the HTN4 virus. The compensation, courtesy of the United Nations: a lab stocked with hi-tech goodies, limitless resources and enough chocolate to make her rear look like a cellulite farm. Bonus: she gets to live...Categorized as:
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Wormwood Echoes by Laken Cane
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAfter all she's been through, Rune Alexander thinks she can handle anything life may throw at her. But when a mysterious disease begins to destroy the River County Others, she must gear up for trouble unlike any she's ever seen. Trouble that may force her to leave her world for an unfamiliar, hostile place inhabited by a terrifying enemy. A world in which Damascus holds the power...Categorized as:
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Nikolas by Faith Gibson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNikolas Stone might not have the most exciting job in the Stone Society, but it is one of the most important. As archivist, he is the keeper of all things Gargoyle. When Nik uncovers the truth about Gargoyles being able to mate with humans, he not only saves his species, he also stumbles upon his own mate...Categorized as:
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Carved in Stone by Angela White
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt’s their first attempt Safe Haven is going to try making a permanent settlement in the mountains of Georgia and every soul there is ready for the break. They’ve traveled for more than nine months, with few stops. Now, they can finally quit living from trucks and try to rebuild what they’ve lost. Except… Bad things are coming...Categorized as:
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Mated Seers by J.C. Andrijeski
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“And Death will live among them in the guise of a child…”They call her The Bridge. She leads them now. The reality of that, of leading a people and culture she barely understands, would be daunting even without what the myths say about her.As it is, they look at her, and see the end of the world.More unnerving still, they want to follow her there.She’s married now...Categorized as:
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Carmine: Rise of the Warrior Queen by Alan Janney
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe girl once known as Katie Lopez wakes up in an abandoned Wal-Mart with no memory, possessing only the vague sense that something has happened. Where is her family? Where is her boyfriend? She has a faint recollection of him, a ghost of a memory. The world, she discovers, is staggering from the weight of rampaging mutants, victims of a bizarre surgery gone wrong...Categorized as:
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Five Minutes Longer by Victoria Sue
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsEnhanced World: Book One Talon Valdez knew when he transformed into an enhanced human, his life and his dreams were finished. Reviled, mistrusted, and often locked away, the enhanced were viewed as monsters, despised by the public, and never trusted to serve in the military or any law enforcement agency... -
Where We Stand by Angela White
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe soldiers are coming for Adrian... and everyone else like him. Safe Haven has grown too powerful to be ignored any longer and the surviving government wants these dangerous Descendants secured for their own use or eliminated. And they couldn't have chosen a better time to reemerge. Safe Haven has a new leader and XO, and a thick wall of fresh challenges to overcome...Categorized as:
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The Price We Pay by Angela White
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWill Controlled Chaos Be Enough To Free Them? Angela has moved Safe Haven to the Mountains of Georgia to make their stand. She has put a plan in motion that will free them all or get them all killed. For her, everything since the apocalypse has come down to this moment. It’s what she’s been training for, what her men have tried to prepare her for, but only fate knows if it will be enough...Categorized as:
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Rarely Pure and Never Simple by Angel Martinez
A search for missing children throws a misanthropic human GPS and an obnoxious human torch together in a struggle to survive dangerous conpiracies and each other. Damien just wants to be left alone. Too bad his variant talent as a locator makes him the go-to contractor for the government's missing person cases. He can refuse, but it's not so easy when the missing are variant kids... -
Fury Rising by Yasmine Galenorn
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFirst in a New Series! "My name is Kaeleen Donovan. I'm a Theosian-a minor goddess. They call me Fury." By day, I run the Crossroads Cleaning Company, and I also read fortunes and cast hexes at Dream Wardens, a magical consulting shop. But by night, I'm oath-bound to Hecate, goddess of the Crossroads... -
Dawn of Eden by Julie Kagawa, Thérèse Plummer
Before The Immortal Rules, there was Red Lung a relentless virus determined to take out all in its path. For Kylie, the miracle of her survival is also her burden-as a doctor at one of the clinics for the infected she is forced to witness endless suffering...Categorized as:
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Night Beckons by Colleen Gleason
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe award-winning fourth installment in the "brilliantly conceived and executed" (Library Journal) series set in an overgrown, dystopian Las Vegas. ***PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE Night Betrayed*** "Like a sexy WALKING DEAD!" --Mara Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of Worth the Effort. “Colleen Gleason's vision of the future is dark, complex, and sharply original...Categorized as:
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The BLOOD Bundle, Books 1-2 by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew adult fiction: recommended ages 17+ for sexual situations, profanity and violence. The BLOOD Series is a paranormal werewolf/vampire romance with supernatural humans who possess paranormal powers. Two full-length novels: BLOOD SINGERS: A sub-species of human beings..Categorized as:
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Plague Nation by Dana Fredsti
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSequel to the thrilling zombie novel PLAGUE TOWN . Ashley Parker was a ordinary woman who was also a “wild card,” immune to the emerging zombie plague, drawn unwillingly into a shadowy paramilitary organization. Having been ambushed in San Francisco, which is now fully engulfed in the zombie plague, Ashley and the wild cards must pursue the enemy to San Diego...Categorized as:
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The Vanishing Girl by Laura Thalassa
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsEvery night after Ember Pierce falls asleep, she disappears. She can teleport anywhere in the world—London, Paris, her crush’s bedroom—wherever her dreams lead her. Ten minutes is all she gets, and once time’s up, she returns to her bed. It's a secret she’s successfully kept for the last five years. But now someone knows...Categorized as:
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Sharp by Alex Hughes
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHISTORY HAS A WAY OF REPEATING ITSELF, EVEN FOR TELEPATHS.… As a Level Eight telepath, I am the best police interrogator in the department. But I’m not a cop—I never will be—and my only friend on the force, Homicide Detective Isabella Cherabino, is avoiding me because of a telepathic link I created by accident. And I might not even be an interrogator for much longer...Categorized as:
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Haven by A.R. Ivanovich, Michelle Ivanovich
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFrom missing socks to missing people, nothing could remain hidden from seventeen year-old Katelyn Kestrel for long, but after locating a forbidden passage out of her isolated country, Haven, she discovers for the first time that there are some things that should never be found. Outside the safety of her homeland's borders, Katelyn meets Rune, a young soldier who will die without her immediate aid...Categorized as:
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Life After War by Angela White
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis edition contains the EXACT text from books one, two, and three. It does not contain new material. It does include the free first chapter of book four, Adrian's Eagles. "This is Safe Haven Refugee Camp...Categorized as:
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Plague Town by Dana Fredsti
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAshley was just trying to get through a tough day when the world turned upside down. A terrifying virus appears, quickly becoming a pandemic that leaves its victims, not dead, but far worse. Attacked by zombies, Ashley discovers that she is a 'Wild-Card' -- immune to the virus -- and she is recruited to fight back and try to control the outbreak...Categorized as:
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On the Road by Angela White
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 21 ratings2012 was the end of the world. All society and civilizations fell, leaving the survivors to fend for themselves. Few made it. In Book One Samantha: After being taken from her Seattle office at gunpoint during the apocalypse, Samantha's chopper crashes and she is taken hostage by the Cruz brothers...Categorized as:
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Fallen by Traci L. Slatton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the world ends, all that is left is love.... As chaos descends on a crippled Earth, survivors are tormented by strange psychic gifts. In this time of apocalyptic despair, love is put to the test. One woman with mysterious healing power guides seven children to safety. Charismatic Arthur offers her a haven. Slowly Emma falls for him... -
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Dark Horizons by Krystle Jones
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***Librarians note: This edition only features a new cover. ASIN is B00AGC6DQ2.*** She will risk everything to save his life. When seventeen-year-old vampire hunter Sloane McAllister went into the Red Sector to look for her brother, she never expected to meet vampire commander Aden Knight. She definitely never meant to fall in love with him...Categorized as:
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Diadem of Blood and Bones by Ripley Proserpina
Sacrifice.... Transformation… It all comes down to the final battle... Forced to choose between her life and the lives of the vampires she loves, Briar made the ultimate sacrifice. For her, a world without Marcus, Hudson, Sylvain, and Valen was inconceivable. But her vampires didn't accept her decision, and at the last moment, transformed her from woman to immortal...Categorized as:
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Rebirth by Sophie Littlefield
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe end of the world was just the beginning Civilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. But Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back—she and Ruthie will be happy. Yet with the first winter, Cass is reminded that happiness is fleeting in Aftertime. Ruthie retreats into silence. Flesh—eating Beaters still dominate the landscape...Categorized as:
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The Bane by Keary Taylor
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsBefore the Evolution there was TorBane: technology that infused human DNA with cybernetic matter. It had the ability to grow new organs and limbs, to heal the world. Until it evolved out of control and spread like the common cold. The machine took over, the soul vanished, and the Bane were born. The Bane won't stop until every last person has been infected...Categorized as:
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Lexicon by Max Barry
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsAt an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics--at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science...Categorized as:
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One by LeighAnn Kopans
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen having two powers makes you a Super and having none makes you a Normal, having only one makes you a sad half-superpowered freak. It makes you a One. Sixteen-year-old Merrin Grey would love to be able to fly – too bad all she can do is hover. If she could just land an internship at the Biotech Hub, she might finally figure out how to fix herself...Categorized as:
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Hidden Gem by Lissa Kasey
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMisaki “Aki” Itou is a psi—a person with mutated DNA granting him psychic abilities. He’s also a contracted companion—a whore. It may not be the perfect profession, but having a roof over his head, food to eat, and not being subjected to torture is a dream come true. He is the top companion at the Hidden Gem, and it makes him enough money to buy the prettiest, most sparkly shoes he can find...Categorized as:
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Out of Darkness by Jason D. Morrow
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNineteen-year-old Mora is on a mission to save her village from the relentless greyskins, and there is only one man that can help her, Jeremiah of Screven. As she travels the wastelands, she discovers a power within herself, a power she believes no other human possesses. That is, until she meets others like her – the ones who call themselves the Starborn...Categorized as:
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'Til the World Ends (Blood of Eden 0.5 - Dawn of Eden) by Julie Kagawa, Ann Aguirre
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDawn of Eden by Julie Kagawa Before The Immortal Rules, there was the Red Lung, a relentless virus determined to take out all in its path. For Kylie, the miracle of her survival is also her burden-as a doctor at one of the clinics for the infected, she is forced to witness endless suffering...Categorized as:
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The Last True Hero by Bec McMaster
Sometimes the monsters aren't so easy to see... In the drought-stricken wastelands that arose out of an apocalypse, Adam McClain never thought himself the hero. Kicked out of the town he created, and shunned by his friends when they discovered what he was, he's managed to find work as a bounty hunter... -
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Rescued By The Orc Chieftain by Celeste King
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThis huge orc brings out the animal in me!Humans have been driven underground, like rats, as we try to stay safe from the marauding orcs.All my life, my only job has been to make sure my sick younger sister has enough to eat.But then on a foraging mission, one of those giant beasts get his paws on me.At first I worry that I’m going to become a plaything of the orcs...Categorized as:
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Wanted and Wired by Vivien Jackson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA rip-roarin' new snarky, sexy sci-fi paranormal romance series with the perfect balance of humor, heat, and heart. Now that Texas has seceded and the world is spiraling into chaos, good guys come in unlikely packages and love sprouts in the most inconvenient places... Rogue scientist • technologically enhanced • deliciously attractive Heron Farad should be dead... -
Desire by Kailin Gow
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Dystopian world where everyone's future is planned out for them at age 18...whether it is what a person desires or not. Kama is about to turn 18 and she thinks her Life s Plan will turn out like her boyfriend's and friend's as they desired. But when she glimpse a young man who can communicate with her with his thoughts and knows her name..Categorized as:
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Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet
Captain Tess Bailey and her crew of Robin Hood-like thieves are desperate and on the run. Pursued by a vicious military general who wants them dead or alive, Tess has to decide if she can trust Shade Ganavan, a tall, dark and arrogant stranger with ambiguous motivations. Shade Ganavan had oodles of arrogance, oodles of charm, and oodles of something that made me want to kick him in the nuts...Categorized as:
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Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsOne girl and a griffin against an empire. Griffins are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Shõgun, they fear that their lives are over – everyone knows what happens to those who fail the Lord of the Shima Isles. But the mission proves less impossible and more deadly than anyone expects... -
A Chip in His Shoulder by L.A. Witt
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 13 ratings“Contract killer” is a fitting job for a vampire, and it suits Liam just fine. Cast down from the wealth and status of the Sky for taking a human lover, Liam lurks in the poor and pollution-choked Gutter, killing to survive. Between his natural strengths and his Cybernetix mods, no mark has ever escaped him. Liam’s ex-lover Daniel is the heir to Cybernetix—and its greatest threat...Categorized as:
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