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Smolder Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne thing is clear to Lucy Luciano: she and enigmatic survivalist Roan Winters are meant to be together. He disagrees. Life at the Haven survival compound is frustrating for the youngest and only girl of the Luciano clan. In a world torn apart by pandemic and fraught with danger, Lucy struggles to find her role...Categorized as:
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Psyren #06: Flame by Toshiaki Iwashiro
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsReads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated teen. Ageha Yoshina just got transported to a warped alternate dimension where you've got to fight your way back to our world--or die trying. Flame... -
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![Dark Demise by Rebecca Royce]()
Dark Demise by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTime isn’t kind…. Waverly Sandler is nothing like her mad father. She’s a nurse. She takes care of people. She is fighting to live down her name. She’s also a sister, a friend, and someday, if the universe is kind, she hopes to be a lover and a wife. Life at The Farm is one of constant activity, because freedom exacts a high price... -
![Dragoon by A.R. Ivanovich]()
Dragoon by A.R. Ivanovich
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSurviving a narrow brush with death convinced Katelyn Kestrel that she must never return to the war-torn Outside World. Safe again within the sanctuary of Haven Valley, she has forced herself to forget Rune Thayer, the young Dragoon soldier who had sacrificed everything to save her... -
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![Claimed by Lindsay Buroker]()
Claimed by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter years on the hunt, Cedar Kartes is finally within striking distance of Cudgel Conrad, the criminal who slew his brother and framed him for murder. With the help of Kali McAlister, his business partner and the woman he’s mustering the courage to court, he believes he can finally rid the world of a bloodthirsty felon. But nothing is ever easy in the Yukon... -
![Breeder by Casey Hays, Spring Lea Henry]()
Breeder by Casey Hays, Spring Lea Henry
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeyond the Village, nothing exists . .. except devastation. A war waged by men and their hateful weapons long ago made it so, and my people--the women of the Village--are the only survivors. This is what our history lessons teach us, and this is what we are to believe. But I am sixteen now . .. and I question everything. The Archer has spoken, but I have no desire to heed his command...Categorized as:
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![The Timeseer's Gambit by Kate McIntyre]()
The Timeseer's Gambit by Kate McIntyre
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s been three months since mild-mannered Christopher Buckley began working with Olivia Faraday, the eccentric Deathsniffer. They’ve hunted killers, solved murders, and learned to work together. But their greatest challenges are yet to come…. As a brutal heat wave wracks an increasingly unstable Darrington City, someone is killing young priests. Worse, they are using bound elementals to do it... -
![A Lady of Spirit by Shelley Adina]()
A Lady of Spirit by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsYou can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family … or can you? Under normal circumstances, Maggie and Lizzie would be delighted to meet their long-lost relatives and be reunited with those who had believed them dead, but when are the Mopsies’ circumstances ever to be considered normal? With her half-brother Claude Seacombe, Lizzie travels to Cornwall to meet her mother’s parents... -
![Kieli, Volume 2: White Wake on the Sand (Kieli Novels (キーリ ライトノベル) #2) by Yukako Kabei]()
Kieli, Volume 2: White Wake on the Sand (Kieli Novels (キーリ ライトノベル) #2) by Yukako Kabei
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsKieli, the girl who sees ghosts, and her Undying companion, Harvey, return in their second adventure - this time on the high seas of the Sand Ocean! Things are far from ship-shape, though, aboard the vessel carrying these two unusual travelers... -
![Chasing the Green Fairy by Melanie Karsak]()
Chasing the Green Fairy by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sabotaged airship. A recovering opium addict. A messenger with life-shattering news. With the 1824 British airship qualifying race only weeks away, Lily Stargazer is at the top of her game. She’s racing like a pro, truly in love, and living clean. But on one ill-omened day, everything changes... -
![Blood and Steam by Jamie Sedgwick]()
Blood and Steam by Jamie Sedgwick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMany years have passed since Breeze Tinkerman vanished with her spring-powered plane while searching for the fabled lost city in the ice, but her daughter River is more than happy to carry on her legacy... -
![Fading Shadows by Lindsey Pogue]()
Fading Shadows by Lindsey Pogue
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsRoss and Kat have butted heads since the day they first met—he’s gruff, grumpy, and always glaring at her; and she’s sarcastic, sassy, and exasperates the hell out of him. But a lot can change in three years, and with a thriving settlement in Whitehorse, Ross and Kat have had to put their differences aside in order to protect their close-knit community... -
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Safe Haven by Angela White
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 14 ratings*This is the Large Print (18 Pt. font) Edition. Safe Haven: A place of safety and of light, of duty and honor: A Refuge for survivors. Also: A place of death and darkness, where magic and murder go hand in hand. After months of carrying the burdens alone, Adrian finally has the help he needs. Five of the six have come and he can't wait to get things started... -
![Tinker's War by Jamie Sedgwick]()
Tinker's War by Jamie Sedgwick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSteam technology and spring-powered engines have evolved since Tinker's discovery of Blackrock Steel, which can store vast amounts of energy, but word of this incredible resource has spread far and wide... -
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![Against Time by Dean Wesley Smith]()
Against Time by Dean Wesley Smith
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPaleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When they emerged, they found almost everyone in the world dead. Survival became her only thought. Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason... -
![Tin Swift by Devon Monk]()
Tin Swift by Devon Monk
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn steam age America, men, monsters, machines and magic battle to claim the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, one man fights to hold on to his humanity--and his honor. . . Life on the frontier is full of deceit and danger, but bounty hunter Cedar Hunt is a man whose word is his bond. Cursed with becoming a beast every full moon, Cedar once believed his destiny was to be alone... -
![The Immorality Engine by George Mann]()
The Immorality Engine by George Mann
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOn the surface, life is going well for Victorian special agent Sir Maurice Newbury, who has brilliantly solved several nigh-impossible cases for Queen Victoria with his indomitable assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, by his side. But these facts haven’t stopped Newbury from succumbing increasingly frequently to his dire flirtation with the lure of opium... -
![Obsidian Eyes by A.W. Exley]()
Obsidian Eyes by A.W. Exley
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratings1836, a world of light and dark, noble and guild. The two spheres intersect when seventeen-year-old Allie Donovan is placed at the aristocratic St Matthews Academy. More at ease with a blade than a needle, she finds herself ostracised by the girls and stalked by a Scottish lord intent on learning why she is among them... -
![Rebel's Honor by Gwynn White]()
Rebel's Honor by Gwynn White
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAN OPPRESSIVE FAMILY OF TYRANTS…. AND A WARRIOR PRINCESS TO DESTROY THEM ALL. Hidden deep in their Dragon’s lair, the Avanovs sole fear is the curse on their bloodline, one promising a warrior will destroy them and the Dragon deity that defends them...Categorized as:
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![The Last Mage Guardian by Sabrina Chase]()
The Last Mage Guardian by Sabrina Chase
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer great-uncle, the mage Oron, bequeathed to her his oak-shaded chateau and a debt of magical honor. But Miss Ardhuin Andrews must hide her magical talents. How can she repay the debt? Political intrigue, duty, and echoes of an old war not truly ended combine to create a smoldering crisis in a world where magic and science coexist. -
![His Broken Human by Loki Renard]()
His Broken Human by Loki Renard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA royal alien tyrant has captured me. He plans to make me pay for the sins of my species. Humans must obey their korabi overlords, but my family crossed this cruel alien king. Krush believes I am a stupid, broken human good only for receiving his wrath. He thinks my pain will absolve his. He is wrong. I am smarter than he imagines. I am stronger than he expects... -
![Dark Feather: A Dark Post Apocalyptic Romance by Alta Hensley]()
Dark Feather: A Dark Post Apocalyptic Romance by Alta Hensley
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsI had two choices in life—to be a breeder, or to be a soldier. To create life, or to destroy it. I had chosen poorly. The Earth’s thermostat is all but frozen, leaving two opposing factions, the Pennas and the Cyans, to spread throughout the forbidding tundra of a planet forever cast in a dark and deadly ice age, seeking only power and control now that the world has become a frozen ball of ice... -
![Fate War: Alliance by E.M. Havens]()
Fate War: Alliance by E.M. Havens
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“No! ” Sam screamed. A Fate boot slammed into her stomach. It pinned her, leaving her breathless. She tried desperately to push his foot off as the soldier unsheathed his sword. He raised it two handed, the razor sharp point above her throat. He would kill her. She could see it in his black, soulless eyes. “Sam! ” Cole’s voice was distant... -
![The Border by Kim Fielding]()
The Border by Kim Fielding
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsInjured in a war that has stretched on for years, Sergeant John Peterson guards a lonely border. Aside from passing contact with railship captains, the only person he sees is the enemy: the man who guards the other side of the border. A bad fall places John’s life in the other soldier’s hands...Categorized as:
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![H10N1 by Marsha Cornelius]()
H10N1 by Marsha Cornelius
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA deadly influenza virus rages out of control. There is no easy-fix vaccine. No eleventh-hour containment. Only death. With no workforce, power plants have been shut down, police and fire departments have collapsed, crops lie unpicked in the fields. When Dr... -
![Clockworks and Corsets by Tonia Brown]()
Clockworks and Corsets by Tonia Brown
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsClockwork, steam and secrets power a passionate adventure in the skies. Everybody's looking for something. Captain Rose Madigan of the airship The Merry Widow is looking for a paying job for her all-female crew. Gabriella Upstairs, her newest recruit, is looking for a reason to be glad she's on board... -
![Hot and Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance by Jean Rabe, Martin H. Greenberg]()
Hot and Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance by Jean Rabe, Martin H. Greenberg
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the co-editor of Steampunk'd comes an all-new collection of adventure and romance amid Victorian steampunk settings. Sparks fly in these original stories of a steam-driven airship searching for a lost city, a crazy inventor in a powered wheelchair with a plot to take over the world, and a love story set in an alternate history version of America... -
![The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer]()
The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA debut so magical… so extraordinary… it has to be read to be believed…. Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs... -
![Photographs & Phantoms by Cindy Spencer Pape]()
Photographs & Phantoms by Cindy Spencer Pape
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsBrighton, 1855 As a member of the Order of the Round Table, Kendall Lake is overqualified to be investigating strange phenomena at a seaside photography studio. But since the photographer is related to the Order's most powerful sorcerer, Kendall reluctantly boards a dirigible to Brighton. Amy Deland is haunted by a shadow that appears in some of her recent portraits... -
![Life Ever After by Carla Grauls]()
Life Ever After by Carla Grauls
Rated: 3.12 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTech City: Society is obsessed with relentless progress and the possibility of eternal life. A woman and a man meet in waiting room, anticipating a procedure that will incorporate the latest science and technology into their minds and bodies, heightening their awareness and increasing their productivity... -
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J by Howard Jacobson
Rated: 2.92 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSet in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a world starting with a J...
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