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Sigma by Tiya Rayne
Shiloh Green has had the worse luck when it comes to men. For the last seven years she’s been trapped in a relationship with her Kingpin boyfriend. But opportunity to escape comes knocking when a mysterious businessman visits. Now Shiloh is headed to a top-secret military base to be a volunteer breeder for a government experiment...Categorized as:
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Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier
If you had told me that the world would turn to crap a year ago, I would have never believed you. If you had told me I'd be living with my cheating ex and my manipulative twin sister, I would have laughed. Had you informed me I'd be in a relationship with five men, I would have asked what meds you had forgotten to take.Yet here I am at Sanctuary... -
Where the Dead Lie by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsLondon, 1813. One of the city's many homeless children, Benji Thatcher was abducted and murdered--and his younger sister is still missing. Few in authority care about a street urchin's fate, but Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, refuses to let this killer go unpunished.Uncovering a disturbing pattern of missing children, Sebastian is drawn into a shadowy, sadistic world... -
Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss
INDIE I have them all now. Just the way I want them.McKay, the one who loves me deepest.Adam, the one who protects me fiercely.Donovan, the one who tells the truth.They are my friends, they are my lovers, they are my world.And Maggie belongs to all of us—no matter who her father is.This is the family I’ve always wanted.This is the family I deserve.And I will do whatever it takes to keep them...Categorized as:
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Evenfall Volume One by Santino Hassell, Ais
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn a post-apocalyptic future, the Agency works behind the scenes to take down opposition groups that threaten the current government. Their goals justify all means, even when it comes to their own agents.Sin is the Agency's most efficient killer. His fighting skills and talent at assassination have led to him being described as a living weapon... -
Alpha by Tiya Rayne
Morgan Downs’ life is unexceptional. She’s stuck in an abusive loveless marriage and often made to feel inferior by her parents because of her speech impediment. Although as bad as her life is, she never expected to be kidnapped from her home and taken to a private military base to become a test rat for a science experiment. But things change when Morgan meets Alpha...Categorized as:
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Mike Schmidt and the Long Night by R. Lee Smith
Five Nights at Freddy's Fanfiction Located on Archiveofourown. org Second in a five part series After moving back to her hometown, Ana Stark finally has a job (for now), a home (with dark secrets of its own), friends (albeit animatronic ones) and one last chance at happiness. Until a phone call threatens to destroy what little peace she’s found...Categorized as:
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Why Kill the Innocent by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA brutal murder draws nobleman Sebastian St. Cyr into the tangled web of the British royal court in this gripping historical mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie.London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a snowdrift...Categorized as:
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Mine to Share by Kennedy L. Mitchell
Five murders, one killer, and a chance at an unconventional happily ever after. Two years ago, flirty FBI agent Jameson Bend was the crush I left behind.Today, the grumpy Detective Slade is the man who stars in my dirty fantasies.When my autopsy findings connect five recent murders committed by a single suspect, Jameson and Slade join forces to help solve the series of homicides... -
Progeny by Rebecca Rathe
I don’t know who I am or what happened to me.I know that I’ve been running, but from what I don’t know. And I know that the five men surrounding my hospital bed are important, possibly even precious to me, but they all swear they haven’t met me before.They say they feel it too, this familiarity, this connection...Categorized as:
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Creeping Beautiful by J.A. Huss
McKAY I wasn’t the one who broke her but I played my part. She came to us when she was ten. I raised her. I loved her. I taught her how to survive in a world of evil men. But it wasn’t enough. ADAM I wasn’t the one who saved her but I did my best. She needed me as much as I needed her. Bought and paid for on the auction block. But not for the reasons you think. She was my weapon... -
Girl on the Edge of Nowhere by R. Lee Smith
Five Nights at Freddy's Fanfiction Located on Archiveofourown. org First in a five part series“Welcome to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life! Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person... -
Her Day To Die by Sage RelleAnne
My brother? He’s dead. My first love? Dead.I am alone. Until I’m not.My first love, well he had three brothers, and for some reason they are hellbent on not leaving me alone. No matter where I go or what I do, there they are. Always watching in the shadows, waiting for something to happen, but what?I try my best to steer clear of them, but in doing so I stumble across a mystery...Categorized as:
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Everything Under the Sun by J.A. Redmerski, Justine Carver
Thais Fenwick was eleven-years-old when civilization fell, devastated by a virus that killed off the majority of the world’s population. For seven years, Thais and her family lived in a community of survivors deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains... -
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The Cute Psycho by Veronica Lancet
From the bestselling author of Fairydale comes a dark tale about a killing machine who can’t feel anything and an innocent nun who feels too much. Vlad Kuznetsov is a psychopath—a killing machine. Experimented on from a young age by a mad scientist, he cannot feel anything.No pain. No remorse. No regret.His violent episodes make him a danger to society, so he’s learned to live in the shadows...Categorized as:
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Staged by Kim Fielding
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsOnce the second-prize winner on My Slave’s Got Talent, Sky Blue has spent the past few years singing at a failing New York nightclub. While Sky has never had control over his fate, his life seems to take a turn for the worse when he’s torn from the familiar comfort of performing and sold to a rich and enigmatic man... -
Alien Hit and Run: A Sci-Fi Romance Novella by Lizzy Bequin
She wanted revenge.He needed a place to hide.One moment is all it takes to change your life forever. For Kris Morgan, that moment comes when her car collides with a mysterious stranger in the middle of the Nevada desert. He ought to be dead, but he doesn’t have a scratch on his perfect, muscle-bound body.As Kris soon discovers, there’s more to this stranger than meets the eye... -
WINTER STORM by Quinn Blackbird
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS WINTER STORM BY QUINN BLACKBIRD. THIS IS A NEW 'If you tried to run, you know what would happen, Winter. I would hunt you down and burn the world to find you...'The world has gone to shit.All that's left are a few bands of rogue survivors, more dangers than ever, those violence-loving rotters, and me and my dog, Cleo.Well, it should just be Cleo and me... -
Warden by Cari Silverwood
I am Isolde, female, and I’m a grocery store assistant who can shelve like a badass.Until the day I’m scooped up by a lionlike alien called a mauleon, and he has CLAWS and FANGS.I should have fainted at those.Now I’m trapped on a humongous, fossilized starship.I find myself craving the touch of that mauleon, Gideon. I never asked to be an experiment, but we are mutating...Categorized as:
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Commodity by Shay Savage
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA woman hunted by human traffickers. A hot and dangerous bodyguard. Utter destruction. The end of civilization. The beginning of a new form of currency. Women are now the highest COMMODITY...Categorized as:
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Without a Net by Lyn Gala
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOliver Robertson has been assigned to go undercover in one of the shade clubs that litter the seedier parts of town. He has never engaged in the sort of edge play found in those places, preferring the BDSM in the more mainstream control clubs. However, to find the criminals behind a series of kidnappings, he must go in undercover as a shade sub... -
After the Fall by Robin Summers
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the world ends, what’s left to care about?Taylor Stone is no hero. She has three simple rules for life after the plague: Keep moving. Keep to yourself. Don’t get involved. The plague took a particular joy in killing the women of the world, making it that much harder for the few who survived... -
Brutal Mate by Lee Savino, Tabitha Black
One minute I’m walking back home from a nightclub. The next, I’m waking up in a cage.Abducted by aliens. Given to an alien race. Put up for auction. But instead of being sold to the highest bidder, I'm rescued by one of the Brutal Ones: the biggest, baddest bullies in the universe.But it's not a rescue. Not really. My rescuer makes it clear he wants something in return for saving my life.. -
Hold by Claire Kent
Find the strongest man there. Give yourself to him in return for protection. It’s the only way you’ll ever survive. Convicted of a minor crime, Riana is sentenced to a prison planet—a dark primitive hold filled with convicts vying for power. Her only chance of survival is with Cain, a mysterious loner who has won his territory in the prison through intelligence and brute strength...Categorized as:
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The Swede: A Novel by Robert Karjel
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Swedish security agent is summoned to interrogate a terror suspect held by the FBI —but the prisoner isn't the only one with something to hide.At a remote military base in the Indian Ocean, the FBI is trying to get a prisoner to confess. But the detainee, a suspect in an Islamist-inspired terror attack in the United States, refuses to talk... -
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love... -
Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie
I promised to avenge my parents.But their killer is still on the loose, and he's stolen more than my parents' lives. Now, as he draws closer to his mysterious goals, he's poised to destroy what little I have left.I promised to translate an ancient grimoire.But it holds the secrets of my family—and the secret history of demon summoning. I fear its answers as much as I need them...Categorized as:
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Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it...Categorized as:
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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... -
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...Categorized as:
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