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God of Monsters by Keri Lake
I’ve heard stories about the Alphas. Violent soldiers, bred to kill both humans and mutations, whose sole purpose was to balance our survival against the infected.Until they turned on their masters.Held as subjects of the Calico research facility, they were forced to endure the gruesome experiments that transformed them into callous savages with hearts as impenetrable as their defenses... -
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Kings of Carrion by Keri Lake
The World Doesn't Give Without Taking ... Decades have passed since our world was decimated by the Dredge. Some say it was an act of God. Others believe the devil himself breached the gates of hell and turned the masses into the mindless infected with an appetite for carnage...Categorized as:
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![Born For Marble by Nicci Harris]()
Born For Marble by Nicci Harris
“Take no man.Bear no children.I am The Queen of The Cradle.”In the dystopian land of The Cradle, ten-year-old Tuscany begins her reign. Crowned as Queen and Mother, she endures harsh medical treatments designed to carve a living deity worthy of the people's reverence.Nurture. Inspire. Endure.That is her Meaningful Purpose...Categorized as:
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Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsSet in a far future in which robots run a world with a small and declining human population (San Francisco Chronicle), a haunting, dystopian vision of humanity and its last hope for survival from the bestselling author of The Queen's GambitIn the future, the human race has ceased to progress...Categorized as:
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![Born for Silk by Nicci Harris]()
Born for Silk by Nicci Harris
Adore.Pleasure.Provide.A thousand years of climate change, genetic testing, and war destroyed civilisation as it was.From the remains came the age of The Trade and The Crown. In return for resources, security, and a meaningful purpose, citizens accepted a life of service to the new world.The land became The Cradle, and humankind was henceforth known as the Cradled Common...Categorized as:
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A God Among Insects Volume 3 by Quil Carter
Things have gone from bad to worse. Dr. Bastian Gibel is determined to right the wrong he’d made centuries before, and while the old man works on a way to eradicate immortals once and for all, the threat of the proxy worms grows stronger. Skyfall is in a dire place, but even with their world falling apart around them, the royal family is still fighting amongst themselves... -
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Godslayer by J.A. Huss
Spark is light. Spark is power.Spark is deadly. Tyse never asked to play the Game of Gods, but Delta demands loyalty.With Clara at his side, Tyse is thrust into a brutal world of augments—humans forged to serve and destroy. Each step forward pushes them closer to becoming something more—a force Clara can feel but doesn’t fully understand. A future that terrifies her as much as it draws her in... -
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Dark Thoughts by Cynthia Sax
Can love redeem a monster? The Refuge is home to some of the most violent beings in the universe. Kralj, its leader, reigns over the remote outpost with terrifying ease, ruthlessly squashing any rumors of rebellion, killing anyone who breaks his rules. Primitive, deadly, powerful, he’s a monster, scarred both on his face and his soul. He has never met a being he couldn’t control...Categorized as:
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Rett by Mina Carter, Susan Hayes
She thought they were on the same side. That mistake cost her everything... including her freedom. Anya dedicated her life to the fight against the alien invaders who had conquered Earth. Now that fight is over. The rebellion failed, the enemy won, and she knows exactly who to blame. He was her lover, her friend, and a spy for the aliens. Worse. He’s one of them… and she’s his prisoner... -
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Fighting for Rain by B.B. Easton
The world was supposed to end on April 23, but Rainbow Williams’s world ended days before that. The mass hysteria caused by the impending apocalypse claimed everything she’d ever loved. Her family. Her city. Her will to live. Until she met him. Wes Parker didn’t have anything left for the apocalypse to take … he’d already lost it all by the time he was nine years old. His family... -
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Haven by Imogen Keeper
The gripping fifth installment of award-winning author Imogen Keeper's wild ride After the Plague Series.Summer and fall in the mountains gave us the peace we needed to heal and turn Thornewood into a safe haven. Everything we've always wanted is within our grasp—peace, love, family.Until a confrontation with our neighbors throws our two clans into turmoil, and all our hopes collapse around us... -
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The Viridian Priestess by Katrina Calandra
She is a telepathic priestess, determined to rise the ranks of her temple. So why do her thoughts keep straying back to the masked commander? Priestess Ferren has devoted her life to her celestial deity, yet she has not been able to ascend the priestess order. But on the eve of a great planetary event, the chance to prove herself arises... -
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Caged Alien Mate by Ivy Sparks
I’ve been tossed inside a cage with an exiled, tortured alien prince. And our captors expect us to produce an heir.So here I thought my situation was bad. I’m a navigator in training who crash landed on the galaxy’s most brutal planet, only to be enslaved by reptilians. But after I meet Xavi, I realize I’ve had it easy... -
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Kraving Khiva by Zoey Draven
Welcome to Madame Allegria’s, where your Krave will satisfy your every desire… At 25-years-old, unmarried, and untouched, Eve Tesler is an outcast in the Everton colony’s society...Categorized as:
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Ravaged by Sara Fields
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThey rescued her. They tamed her. Now they will ravage her. Though the aliens were the ones I always feared, it was my own kind who hurt me. Men took me captive, and it was four Vakarran warriors who saved me. But they don't plan to set me free... I belong to them now, and they intend to make me theirs more thoroughly than I can imagine... -
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Haven by Jessica Marting
One stupid decision leaves Cressida stranded on Haven, an uninhabited planet on the edge of nowhere. But it isn’t totally empty. And Lukas, the cyborg living there in secret, is fascinated with her and has no intention of letting her leave... -
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The Bounty by Liliana Carlisle
Everything’s gone wrong…all because I’m an Omega.My once normal, relatively happy life has been stripped from me.There's a bounty for my capture.The government wants to keep me in a gilded cage, a prize to be enjoyed by other Alphas.But I refuse.Until three Alphas find me, each more intimidating and handsome than the last... -
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Wicked Charming Cruel by Emmy Chandler
Her secrets. Her sacrifice. Her surrender. The Camden brothers want it all. Three months into her captivity, princess Maari Delayne’s secret has been exposed. Now that the Camden princes know they must conquer her heart, as well as her body, Jude, Orlann, and Malac will stop at nothing to seduce their royal prisoner... -
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Gladiator by Piper Stone
a rough sci-fi...Categorized as:
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![Swallow it Down by Addison Cain]()
Swallow it Down by Addison Cain
I’ve seen the way he looks at me.The Captain. The unquestioned leader of this ship.A ship I wish to be free of. A man I want to be as far away from as my legs might carry me.The society he’s designed, the rules, the endless battle of wills...Yes, I’ve seen the way he looks at me.I’ve felt his fingertips brush my skin. Heard his laugh. Experienced his smile...Categorized as:
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Guardian by Emmy Chandler
“Choose wisely. Then keep your head down and do what you’re told. Time will pass, and we’ll be back for you.” Audra Copeland is among dozens of newly convicted felons dropped off on the prison planet Rhodon, where she discovers that the women of zone four have a long-standing arrangement with the men. If they hand over six of the new arrivals, the men won’t raid...Categorized as:
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His Darkest Deceit by Addison Cain
Unveil the secrets of a forbidden love in this scintillating tale of desire, danger, and dominance.General Cyderial, a mastermind of control, has meticulously shielded young Lorieyn from a truth she cannot fathom – that she is his coveted jewel, his treasure, his mate.And no other male may have her. Not so long as he can keep her existence secret...Categorized as:
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Loving Captivity by R.K. Munin
Sold into slavery at the age of sixteen, Sora serves an abusive master for ten years. Then, to deal with his own debts, she finds herself at auction again. Without her youth or any sought-after skills to make her valuable, her future looks bleak. Slaves like her rarely survive long, and she expects to suffer and die soon after she’s bought, either as a mine slave or in a meat bordello...Categorized as:
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![Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins]()
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Sparks are igniting.Flames are spreading.And the Capitol wants revenge. Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be...Categorized as:
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![Land of the Beautiful Dead by R. Lee Smith]()
Land of the Beautiful Dead by R. Lee Smith
SHE WOULD DARE ANYTHING TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM HIS RULE. EVEN HIS BED. He ascended from the darkness years ago—Azrael the Eternal, Azrael the Undying, Azrael Who Is Death—bringing with him the black rains, the fires, the souring of the sky, and the Eaters...Categorized as:
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![Afterimage by Santino Hassell, Ais]()
Afterimage by Santino Hassell, Ais
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIn the Company of Shadows is a series about two people who are thrown together as partners in a secret agency; their mission is to disband rebels who have propagated in a post-war future, but they have to deal with everything that comes with an unlikely partnership as well... -
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Darkness by Laurann Dohner
Kat’s boss wants dirt on the NSO. She is sent to Homeland undercover but everything goes wrong as soon as she enters the front gates. She is arrested by a big, powerful, sexy New Species but she is not frightened. He turns her on and things heat up fast between them. Now, she just hopes he does not break her heart. Darkness admires Kat’s courage but he cannot trust anything she says... -
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Endless Knight by Kresley Cole
In this seductive follow-up to Poison Princess , #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole takes us deeper into the dark world of the Arcana Chronicles. Shocking secrets Evie has fully come into her powers as the Tarot Empress, and Jack was there to see it all. She now knows that the teens who've been reincarnated as the Tarot are in the throes of an epic battle...Categorized as:
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In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken
Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds... -
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Kye by Nyssa Kathryn
Sometimes it’s in the depths of hell, that one finds their angel.Samantha Jacobs thought she was aiding her government. She believed the chip she created, the one that could change the world, would be used for the good of mankind. But it was all a lie…and she discovered the truth too late. Now, Samantha will suffer dearly for her mistake...
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