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Ribbon Dance by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsNEW ENTRY IN THE BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIESOn a world where cake is a necessity, it takes the Grid to protect the civilized and the deaf from the dire influences of the ambient and to keep the chaotic Haosa at bay... -
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The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn this omnibus edition of N.K. Jemisin's brilliantly original award-winning fantasy series, a young woman becomes entangled in a power struggle of mythic proportions.A REALM OF GODS AND MORTALS.Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky... -
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![High Roller: A Dark Fated Mates Mafia Romance by Delta James]()
High Roller: A Dark Fated Mates Mafia Romance by Delta James
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAxel gave Victoria the impossible choice, and she chose him.VictoriaMy brother is dead. He’s been dead for five years and no one seems inclined to bring those who killed him to justice. Well, no one except me.AxelI’m in negotiation with the Albanian mob. They think I’m going to stand with them against the others. They’re wrong. Atlantic City is my town… or at least it’s going to be... -
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High Bet by Delta James
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt night he invades my dreams… during the day I can’t forget the way he made me feel during those dreams.LaurenI am the leader of a rogue band of vixens, who left our origin skulk to live our dream—owning a catering company. The problem is our dream costs money, and we don’t have any. The solution is doing what foxes do best… steal. Now I’m way in way over my head... -
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Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsControl the past.Save the future. One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered. For Sam, the horror is only beginning. He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They will be convicted. And so, to ensure his daughter goes free, Sam does what he must: he confesses. But in the future, murderers aren't sent to prison...Categorized as:
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![Kiss of Luck (Syndicate Masters: Midwest) by Delta James]()
Kiss of Luck (Syndicate Masters: Midwest) by Delta James
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDifferent Vices.Different Beasts.Different Mafias.The need to claim their mate's heart is the same... -
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Complication: Syndicate Masters Northern Lights by Delta James
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlliances are made. Complications are kept. Judgments are demanded.From USA Today Bestselling Author Delta James, another sensational book in the Syndicate Masters, Northern Lights romance series.Little did I know my search for stolen art would become a complication for the boss of the Valhalla Syndicate. A complication he has decided to keep...Categorized as:
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Stroke of Fortune (Syndicate Masters: Midwest) by Delta James
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dark mafia fated mates paranormal romanceDifferent Vices.Different Beasts.Different Mafias.The need to claim their mates hearts is the same... -
![Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel by Steven Decker]()
Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel by Steven Decker
"A WHOLE NEW SPIN ON TIME TRAVEL." --Cassandra Yorke, Author of the Flapper Covenant seriesThey know their futures, but not his, and that’s a problem. Such is the fate of Dani, Aideen, and Orla—three daring women from different time eras—linked by a rare, mutual occupation. They meet on a tiny island in western Ireland, in the year 2022, and develop a fierce affection for one another...Categorized as:
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![After the Storms by Liz Hambleton]()
After the Storms by Liz Hambleton
The conclusion for The Another sanctuary and another lie.After fleeing for their lives, Rowan’s band of survivors makes it to the Underground. The last to find her way, the welcome that greets her is not a warm one.She’s about to find out just how far the web of betrayal spreads, touching everything she holds dear. All the while, her family is kept from her, too far away to reach...Categorized as:
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![I Think We've Been Here Before by Suzy Krause]()
I Think We've Been Here Before by Suzy Krause
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWith the end of the world predicted, reality bends in an unexpectedly quirky and heartwarming novel about human connection and the meaning of life and death by the bestselling author of Sorry I Missed You.Marlen and Hilda Jorgensen’s family has received two significant pieces of news: one, Marlen has been diagnosed with a terminal illness...Categorized as:
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Faithless by Crystal Ash
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLast night, I tried to drink away my feelings for my brother's best friend.Today I’m riding across a dangerous, desert wasteland with him.Like my parents years ago, gods have chosen me for a sacred mission. You’d think the daughter of an infamous motorcycle club would be able to handle it. But when Torrance Knight steps up to make the ride with me, I’m both relieved and dreading the journey...Categorized as:
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Shatter by Joan Swan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor seven years, Halina Beloi has been in hiding. But she's never forgotten Mitch Foster, the long, lean man she had to leave behind. Until, that is, Mitch shows up with a list of questions and a 9mm in his hand. All Mitch knows is that Halina broke his heart and disappeared. But new information has surfaced implicating her as a player in the deadliest game of Mitch's life... -
![Strategic Vulnerability by Mandy M. Roth]()
Strategic Vulnerability by Mandy M. Roth
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHeld prisoner in remote testing facility in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest, subjected to torture and abuse, Wilson Rousseau has long since given up hope of being rescued. Days blend together until he can’t help but long for death. Saved from his isolated hell by a female’s distress call, he feels an instant connection to her... -
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![Deceit and Lies by A.K. Michaels]()
Deceit and Lies by A.K. Michaels
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLies come easy for me, as easily as I can change my face and my appearance with my forbidden magic. It’s necessary…I’m an Assassin. Dangerous and deadly and I’ve just agreed to take on the most treacherous mission of all. But when I meet my mark…the new leader of the Vampires, Cassius Allarde…my instincts are screaming that something’s wrong... -
![Three Months In Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes]()
Three Months In Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsForced apart.Hunted by unseen danger.The only way to survive is together.After a harrowing journey through infected territory, Jane Finch, her loyal Great Dane, and her equally protective almost-zombie Grey have reached the military base in the mountains. It’s supposed to be safe. But the last thing they can do is drop their guard... -
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Revolution by Kali Argent
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBy all rights, Helios shifter Sion Jabari shouldn’t be on Xenthian. According to his own mother, he shouldn’t even be alive. His life hasn’t been an easy one, and after witnessing how greed and the desire for power can corrupt something as pure as love, he wants no part of it. When he takes a companion, he swears it will be for all the right reasons, and more importantly, it will be his choice... -
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Dragon Storm by Delta James
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou cannot escape your fate. Especially when it involves a dragon who claims to be your fated mate.Aria’s visions of something old, powerful, and angry coming combined with her seriously sexy dream sharing with a dragon shifter have confused her. Her visions have proven true too often to ignore. But dragon shifters can’t be true...Categorized as:
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![The Battle Lord's Lady by Linda Mooney]()
The Battle Lord's Lady by Linda Mooney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThree hundred years in the future, mankind still is trying to survive the Great Collision that changed the earth forever. People live in pockets of civilization called compounds, battling the elements and the mutations which have developed over the centuries, trying to live and survive day by day. Yulen D’Jacques is the Battle Lord of Alta Novis...Categorized as:
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![The Butterfly Code by Sue Wyshynski]()
The Butterfly Code by Sue Wyshynski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShivering, I wind my arms around my ribs.That's when I see him. Dr. Hunter Cayman.The man the town has been whispering about. The man no one really seems to know. The man my father despises.He's across the street, leaning against a steel monster--a low-slung black car, its curves somehow wicked in the night. Rain sparkles like fire on the front hood under the glow of the orange streetlamps...Categorized as:
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![Reign of the Vampires by Rebekah R. Ganiere]()
Reign of the Vampires by Rebekah R. Ganiere
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe wants security. He wants freedom. Together their love could destroy the world. Ten years after the Outbreak of the V2000 virus turns the majority of humans into a mutated Vampire sub-species, the last remaining pure humans are the world's hottest commodity. In this new world, it's The Vampires that rule. Independent Danika Chekov refuses to let her father's legacy die... -
![Flamethroat by Kate Bloomfield]()
Flamethroat by Kate Bloomfield
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAvalon Redding has returned to Mortlock to find her home destroyed, and her family missing. They have been taken by 'The Realm' for harboring an illegal human, Avalon's sister. Desperate to find her family, Avalon travels across the country to the Headquarters of the Realm, with Healer Jack Greenwood, and animal companion Hawthorne... -
![Falling Ashes by Kate Bloomfield]()
Falling Ashes by Kate Bloomfield
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Final Installment to: The Fire Mage Trilogy. Avalon has made a lot of dangerous enemies. The Realm has issued a bounty on the infamous Fire-Mage's head, labelling her leader of the human-alliance, and traitor to Mage-kind. Soon, strangers begin to recognize Avalon after seeing her wanted poster in the streets, and seek to earn the cash reward for her capture... -
![2288 A.D. - Alternate Dimensions by Renee Van Dyke, Glenn Van Dyke]()
2288 A.D. - Alternate Dimensions by Renee Van Dyke, Glenn Van Dyke
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPRE-SALE PRICE - Plus 2 FREE Gifts! --- "THE AMAZING SEQUEL to the blockbuster story of post-apocalyptic survival, time travel, love, sacrifice and redemption ... is here!" Kirkus - 2288 A.D. is the 2nd book of the #1 BEST SELLING, 'The Ashlyn Chronicles' series. The first novel 2287 A.D., is a Kindle ALL-STAR (TOP 100 AMAZON BOOK) that has SOLD over 100,000 copies in its first year...Categorized as:
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![Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely]()
Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsJude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a disease that transforms him into a violent and often incomprehensible person. With no cure for the "zombie" virus in sight, the young husbands begin to face the last months they have together before Lyle loses himself completely... -
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Paramount by Nadia Scrieva
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe broke her heart. Now, it's time for him to pay... Pax Burnson has been in love with Thorn Kalgren since she was fourteen. Long before he became the CEO of one of the world's largest tech companies, and an arrogant jerk. Their families have always been close due to their shared secret; both Pax and Thorn are descended from devas, powerful demigods with vast supernatural abilities... -
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Two by LeighAnn Kopans
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsElias and Merrin’s story continues in TWO, coming October, 2013... Elias and Merrin are on the run. After escaping the Biotech Hub, they thought they could breathe easy, or at least a little easier. But when bombs slam into the Social Welfare Hub only hours after their arrival, it becomes clear there's nowhere to hide - and no end to what Biotech will do to get them back... -
![Waiting on a Bright Moon by J.Y. Yang]()
Waiting on a Bright Moon by J.Y. Yang
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsXin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and its far-flung colonies— a role that is forced upon magically-gifted women “of a certain closeness”... -
![The Broken Destiny by Carlyle Labuschagne]()
The Broken Destiny by Carlyle Labuschagne
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"You cannot know what light is if you have not experienced darkness" Ava and her people have been exiled to the planet Poseidon for reasons she can't fathom. Upon meeting a boy from a different sector, her life turns into a beautiful chaos... -
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Rebel Heart by Lizzy Ford
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter nuclear strikes cripple the East Coast in the year 2135, security expert Lana is alone with a secret she must protect at all costs, even if it means placing her life – and her heart – in the hands of Brady, the compelling, dangerous leader of the rebellion. As a member of the lower class, Brady serves two masters: the rebellion and the regular army...Categorized as:
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![All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai]()
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsYou know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed . . . because it wasn't necessary...Categorized as:
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Apocalypse Island by Mark Edward Hall
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA Maine city has turned into a killing ground.Is it a serial killer, someone with a penchant for the macabre and a need to destroy?Or is it a darker force, an ancient legend from a mysterious Island come ashore to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting?Amid the backdrop of Portland's burgeoning night scene, Police Lieutenant Rick Jennings discovers that no one is safe, and that evil has many faces...Categorized as:
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![The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy]()
The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy
Rated: 3.28 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIn this electrifying literary debut, a young woman who channels the dead for a living crosses a dangerous line when she falls in love with one of her clients, whose wife died under mysterious circumstances In an unnamed city, Eurydice works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones...Categorized as:
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![Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley]()
Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
Rated: 3.36 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsCult Classic is a comic mystery about love, memory, and mind control from New York Times-bestselling author and two-time Thurber Prize finalist Sloane Crosley.One idle weeknight in New York’s Chinatown, our heroine is at a reunion dinner with her former colleagues when she ducks out to buy cigarettes. On the way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And...another... -
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![Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell]()
Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSay you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself...Categorized as:
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