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  • Fight of the Walker by Coralee June

    Fight of the Walker by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 15 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...
  • 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...
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  • Tordan by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Tordan by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Luna. They stole my dreams, my hopes, my very identity, and I had no idea. Years went by and I did everything I was told, I was always the perfect specimen, and the perfect lab rat. I was dissected, even maimed all in the name of science. Then one day a strange smoky voice entered my head, and I knew things were not as they seemed...
  • 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...
  • Hunted by Lisa Harris

    Hunted by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He 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...
  • Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee

    Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 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.
  • 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 McClane Apocalypse Book Ten by Kate Morris

    The McClane Apocalypse Book Ten by Kate Morris

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As 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...
  • Frequency by Lisa Harris

    Frequency by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SHE 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...
  • 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...
  • Cosmos' Promise by S.E. Smith

    Cosmos' Promise by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 25 ratings
    Cosmos Raines is considered to be one of the most brilliant inventors in the world. A prodigy, he is a self-made billionaire who would rather be in his lab than jet-setting around the world. Things change when his latest experiment literally opens a Gateway into a whole new world...
  • Solace by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Solace by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "The softest woman requires the hardest men to survive. Dark, gritty, and perfectly filthy--modern MC meets Mad Max in this amazing RH tale. ” ~Addison Cain, USA Today bestselling author. More than one evil is waiting for me and my men. Unfortunately, the one who poses the greatest danger to those I love…might be me...
  • Jason and Lily by Kate Wrath

    Jason and Lily by Kate Wrath

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Long 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.
  • Loving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Loving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Saved 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...
  • Saving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Saving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Paloma McQueen is a woman on a mission. Loving the Sandler brothers in the midst of a war tearing their galaxy apart never promised to be easy but Paloma swore an oath to her husbands. Their challenges are hers, their war hers, their happiness… Everything she is and will be, she plans to be with them no matter what changes the conflicts wrought on the map...
  • Shadows Have Gone by Lissa Bryan

    Shadows Have Gone by Lissa Bryan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Carly 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...
  • Wanting The Monster by Rena Marks

    Wanting The Monster by Rena Marks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Never judge a man by his looks, even when he has tentacles. Relion has so much more going for him. Protective. Playful. Caring. He’s become my best friend and it doesn’t even matter that we’re male and female. Or that we’re two entirely different species...
  • Riders of the Storm by Julie E. Czerneda

    Riders of the Storm by Julie E. Czerneda

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The 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...
  • Wildling of Ravia by L.A. Holloway

    Wildling of Ravia by L.A. Holloway

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Commander Ekhor has never known a universe without war. As a proud member of a warrior race, he has defended his people from the threat of the Rha'ku'tan Empire for his entire life, rising in the ranks of the Alliance military to become one of its most respected leaders...
  • 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 ratings
    Winner 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...
  • 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...
  • Exodus by Courtney McPhail

    Exodus by Courtney McPhail

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All 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...
  • The Pacifist by Elin Peer

    The Pacifist by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    A promise is a promise but this promise is one I should have never made. Mila, a sweet pacifist born in the Motherlands, has avoided conflicts all her life. Now, living in the Northlands with the ruling family who adopted her, she’s under pressure to follow the traditions of the North and let fierce warriors fight for her hand in marriage...
  • Surrender by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Surrender by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "The softest woman requires the hardest men to survive. Dark, gritty, and perfectly filthy--modern MC meets Mad Max in this amazing RH tale. ” ~Addison Cain, USA Today bestselling author. While the evil that’s been hunting me draws closer, my past resurfaces, forcing me and my men into a life or death battle. One thing’s for sure. We won’t give up without a fight...
  • Venomous Heart by Mary Auclair

    Venomous Heart by Mary Auclair

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    After drowning his soul in blood, can this alien warrior be saved? As the only doctor on Aveyn, Ava works day and night for the people she considers hers. Only… she’s not really one of them, is she? She’s a hybrid, a highly illegal creature created by Trade Minister Knut for his personal enjoyment...
  • State of Pursuit by Summer Lane

    State of Pursuit by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ABSOLUTELY 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...
  • Exalted by Tara Elizabeth

    Exalted by Tara Elizabeth

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    After 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...
  • Denounced by Tara Elizabeth

    Denounced by Tara Elizabeth

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 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...
  • In the End by Tracey Ward

    In the End by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Jordan 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...
  • The Land of the Shadow by Lissa Bryan

    The Land of the Shadow by Lissa Bryan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 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...
  • His Beast Mate by Milana Jacks

    His Beast Mate by Milana Jacks

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I 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...
  • Justice by Gillian Zane

    Justice by Gillian Zane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There 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...
  • Descent Into Darkness by A.J. Newman

    Descent Into Darkness by A.J. Newman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    American 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...
  • Ship Called Malice (Wings of Artemis) by Rebecca Royce

    Ship Called Malice (Wings of Artemis) by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Saved from a wife auction that would have left her at the mercy of a madman, Priscilla wakes up married to three space pirates on a ship called Malice. They are rough but honorable men who carry secrets and years of pain. Priscilla isn’t sure how she will fit in their life. River, Jordan, and Bo have made their way alone in the universe for twenty years...
  • The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper

    The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    “Lively, thought-provoking . . . the plot is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise . . . Tepper knows how to write a well-made, on-moving story with strong characters. . . . She takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative narrative. ”—Ursula K...
  • 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 ratings
    In 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...
  • Concisus by Tracy Rozzlynn

    Concisus by Tracy Rozzlynn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Concisus 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.
  • If it Kills Me by Jason D. Morrow

    If it Kills Me by Jason D. Morrow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Overconfidence 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...
  • The Raid by Keary Taylor

    The Raid by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cities 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...
  • 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...
  • Meeting Them (Wings of Artemis) by Rebecca Royce

    Meeting Them (Wings of Artemis) by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Paloma Delacroix has suffered greatly for a mistake in her youth. She dreams of a future she wonders if she can ever have. But for all her imagination, Paloma can’t predict what is about to happen. Thomas, Clay, Keith and Quinn McQueen are men with secrets and a past that keeps them on the run. But when life explodes around Paloma, the McQueens will be all that stands between Paloma and death...
  • A Vault of Sins by Sarah Harian

    A Vault of Sins by Sarah Harian

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In 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...
  • Final Dawn: Escape From Armageddon by Darrell Maloney

    Final Dawn: Escape From Armageddon by Darrell Maloney

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The 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...
  • Antitype by M.D. Waters

    Antitype by M.D. Waters

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Antitype 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...
  • The Turn by J. Walker

    The Turn by J. Walker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What 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...
  • True North (Heart's Compass) by C.E. Kilgore

    True North (Heart's Compass) by C.E. Kilgore

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    An 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...
  • Frozen by Eve Silver

    Frozen by Eve Silver

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Raina and Wizard are back in a new Northern Waste novella that takes place between DRIVEN and HIDDEN!
  • Alien Awakening (Sikarian Novella) by Regine Abel

    Alien Awakening (Sikarian Novella) by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Fear not the second dawn of humanity. After contracting a strange virus that strikes only a fraction of the population, Malaika is ushered to a quarantine facility. The luckier patients are released to resume their normal lives, but with growing signs of mutation in her body, Malaika already knows she won’t be going home...
  • Was by Geoff Ryman

    Was by Geoff Ryman

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards. "An exuberant celebration of excess set in a resource-poor but defiantly energetic twenty-first century. "—The New York Times. "A richly absorbing tale—with a marvelous premise expertly carried out. "—Kirkus Reviews. "Excellent. . . . Dark and witty and full of love, closely observed, and sprinkled with astonishing ideas...
  • The Survivors Book II: Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    The Survivors Book II: Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The virus came from deep in Africa. By the time they had a name for the disease, it had wiped out half the continent. Within a year, it had decimated our world. Now, ten years later, our species is on the verge of extinction. Only a few of us have survived, those lucky enough to be born with a natural immunity to the plague...
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