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Control by Manna Francis
Power Writes Its Own RulesGaining it, keeping it, or losing it, control is more than just a game--it's a critical tool for survival. No more so than in the Administration, where the Investigation and Interrogation Division's Val Toreth faces professional and personal hazards every day... -
![For Certain Values of Family by Manna Francis]()
For Certain Values of Family by Manna Francis
Every silver lining has a cloud. After the revolution, stability returns for most of the citizens of the European Administration. Revolution has delivered a little more freedom, if not as much as its architects hoped. Some, however, are finding that change also brings more complications and fresh dangers... -
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![The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal]()
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsMary Robinette Kowal continues her award-winning Lady Astronaut series, which began with The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon.The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program... -
![The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison]()
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsWhen she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead.In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization... -
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![Unity by Adrienne Lecter]()
Unity by Adrienne Lecter
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsUnited we stand, divided we fall Once again reunited, the Lucky Thirteen set out to hunt down their adversaries—only to be met with an entirely new set of unexpected obstacles. As much as Bree is burning to finally get her revenge, it soon becomes obvious that on their own they are no match for the forces opposing them... -
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Rapture in Death & Ceremony in Death by J.D. Robb
Rapture in Death: They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common - and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims... -
![Evenfall Volume Two by Santino Hassell, Ais]()
Evenfall Volume Two by Santino Hassell, Ais
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 32 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.In the newly revised Director's Cut of Evenfall, the second volume follows Sin and Boyd through a long-term undercover mission in Mexico... -
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Evenfall: Volume 2: Director's Cut by Ais, Santino Hassell
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 24 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.In the newly revised Director's Cut of Evenfall, the second volume follows Sin and Boyd through a long-term undercover mission in Mexico... -
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Mad World by Kate L. Mary
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMad World is the third book in the Broken World series, which follows a group of survivors after a super-virus has destroyed the world and the dead have come back to claim it as their own… Vivian didn’t think things could get any worse than losing Emily, and getting to the shelter should have been their salvation...Categorized as:
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Never Bound by Everly Claire
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings773496S6In an alternate 2025 where anyone poor or unlucky can be enslaved, Louisa, the daughter of the enemy who owns me, was forbidden from touching or even looking at me. She had no name to call me, since I only had a number. But when we were forced to share space, I opened her eyes to the horror of her world, and there’s no going back... -
![Call the Bluff by O.E. Tearmann]()
Call the Bluff by O.E. Tearmann
It costs a lot to win. And even more to lose. Seven Corporations rule the former United States with seven codes of conduct based on their ideas of morality. Comply with the code of the Corporation that holds your Citizen Contract, or suffer the economic consequences. Or fight back. For sixty years the Democratic State Force has been fighting to return representative democracy to the country... -
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Hellions by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMaliki Vicious. Nyx Chaotic. Maliki + Nyx Vicious. Chaotic. Gods. What once was sweet has turned vile. I covet death. He thrives in darkness. Our sacrilegious desires run rampant. Our maleficent demons demand to be sated. Mercy finds no refuge in our hearts. Insanity takes courtship within our minds. Together, we embark on a path saturated in blood and rotting corpses... -
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JoAyyn by Amanda Milo
My alien keeper rescued me from a man I should have been able to trust: my father.Raised by an alien, I never really learned how to interact with human people.And that’s fine. I’m happy just as I am. I never feel like I’m missing out on anything....So I don’t understand why this new human, Lee, affects me so strangely.Then again, he did just admit that he’s been hunting me...Categorized as:
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![Independents by Michele Notaro]()
Independents by Michele Notaro
All I’ve wanted to do is keep my family safe. All I’ve wanted was to protect them from the evils of the world… but I’ve failed. I’ve failed so badly, and now all of them are suffering… I’m suffering… We’ve lost so many, and now that we’ve lost one of our own, I don’t know how to keep going. I don’t know how to protect them anymore...Categorized as:
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![Mine to Share by Kennedy L. Mitchell]()
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... -
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Shattered World by Kate L. Mary
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratings>Shattered World, the exciting sequel to Broken World, follows a group of survivors as they struggle to find safety in a world shattered by a devastating virus, and taken over by the walking dead... Stranded in the middle of the Mojave Desert, surrounded by zombies, Vivian and Axl are sure they’re facing the end. The dead are closing in and the shelter they were promised is sealed tight...Categorized as:
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![Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood]()
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 114 ratingsOryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved...Categorized as:
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By Reiko Yoshihara Ai no Kusabi Vol. 3 by Rieko Yoshihara
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA Blondie takes a street mongrel as a pet, and the entire city buzzes with the scandal. However, Riki, ever the defiant pet, appears to be losing his master's interest... -
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Never Broken by Everly Claire
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew North America, 2025LouisaI was destined for a fortune built on the backs of slaves, but now I’m one failed university course away from losing it all.Only my father’s newest purchase can the slave with eyes too sharp and hands too deft for hard labor. The one who just whispered something shocking in my ear when he passed with the wheelbarrow.But his words don’t matter. We’re forbidden...Categorized as:
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Garden of the Gods Vol. 1: Books 1-5 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is Vol. 1 of the Garden of the Gods series, books 1-5. These books are DARK and despite having romantic elements are considered HORROR.With the death of Whitlock, a new home for horror is born…Garden of the GodsBook 1:Main Master Beauty. Drive. Desperation.Charlotte Wyce spent years captivating the world on the big screen... -
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Sigil by Addison Cain
He will possess her in every way. After a century, The Irdesi Emperor has finally cornered their species’ only female. Sovereign and his fanatic brothers are closing in, driving Sigil to desperation. They outnumber her, they are stronger, and they are relentless. Sovereign knows her secrets better than Sigil knows herself. He knows she was conditioned to hate him. It changes nothing... -
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Mistress Mayhem by Miranda May
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMayhem.Violent or damaging disorder; chaos.It is what our world fell into hundreds of years ago. Murder on the street. Parents abusing their children. Rape. Drugs. Guns. The streets ran red.It all culminated into the Last War—the war that almost ended the human species. Bombs. Killings. Cyber attacks. You name it, they tried it... -
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The Found by Stella Craig
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe walked away to her heart’s detriment. He found out what he was missing…too late.Lola and Cole, with the help of a few friends, survived the angry ministrations of a crazed despot. But now, instead of celebrating their victory in this torn-up world, they’re as lost as two people can be. Lola wants Cole to find the happiness robbed of him. Cole wants what Lola provides - a home... -
![Never Broken by Everly Claire]()
Never Broken by Everly Claire
New North America, 2025LouisaI was destined for a fortune built on the backs of slaves, but now I’m one failed university course away from losing it all.Only my father’s newest purchase can help: the slave with eyes too sharp and hands too deft for hard labor. The one who just whispered something shocking in my ear when he passed with the wheelbarrow.But his words don’t matter. We’re forbidden...Categorized as:
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![Everything Under the Sun by J.A. Redmerski, Justine Carver]()
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...Categorized as:
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![If She Only Knew by Lisa Jackson]()
If She Only Knew by Lisa Jackson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsShe can't remember anything... but she knows that she's in danger. A thrilling story of deadly secrets and missing memories, Lisa Jackson's first New York Times bestseller is now beautifully repackaged and republished for a brand-new audience of readers.It begins on a dark stretch of highway in northern California... -
![War for Earth by Erin Raegan]()
War for Earth by Erin Raegan
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThree weeks ago, an alien species called the Vitat, invaded the earth. They broke through the earth’s atmosphere and decimated the human population in moments. Their goal? Nothing but destruction and to feed their endless appetites. Their hive queen orbits earth in their warship, waiting until her hive have taken over the planet and she can consume earth’s sun to grow her massive hive...Categorized as:
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![The Lost by Stella Craig]()
The Lost by Stella Craig
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLola survived the last act of her painful past. Cole lost the one thing he never hoped to have. The undead still surrounds them, and there’s a new threat on the horizon. Can they survive the next treacherous chapter long enough to consummate their feelings?With the help of her long-lost crush Cole, Lola Jenkins made it through the emergence of the zombie apocalypse...Categorized as:
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![Jester by Renee Rocco]()
Jester by Renee Rocco
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI make being a criminal so much fun. But I have a problem.I broke Faith Decker's heart.It took her seven years to return to Mayhem.Now that she's home, I'm on a mission to win her back.When Faith gets caught in the crossfire of the Unholy's war with a drug lord, trust and believe I'll unleash hell on anyone who hurts her.Welcome back to Mayhem-where the villains are the heroes... -
![Destiny Falling by Lucy Regatta]()
Destiny Falling by Lucy Regatta
The year is 2121 and Earth is unrecognizable after a virus wiped out most of the human race. Women are the ruling power, while fertile men are on the brink of extinction. A powerful Coalition has taken control of much of the known world, maintaining a strict classification system. All surviving males are owned by the state and used for breeding purposes. No man is free.It’s a new world order...Categorized as:
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Waves of Fury by K. Webster
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster comes a post-apocalyptic, ruined-Earth survival thriller featuring LGBTQ+ heroes who must ban together, despite their differences, to not only adapt to the new, destroyed world, but find safety in it... -
![Ai No Kusabi The Space Between Volume 2: Destiny by Rieko Yoshihara]()
Ai No Kusabi The Space Between Volume 2: Destiny by Rieko Yoshihara
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Rebirth by A.G. Wilde
HE'ROXI stand on the edge of a world reborn. My purpose fulfilled in eradicating our enemies. But a deep emptiness remains, an abyss within me. There is nothing left to offer this new world rebuilding from the ruins.I must return home.Her arrival is ordinary. A hyu’man like the others. But one I did not expect to change the core of my very existence...Categorized as:
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Find Her by Jessie Ellis
An unlikely savior searching for an angel in the midst of Hell...As a convict serving a life sentence, I shouldn't be playing the hero to the prison warden's damsel-in-distress daughter. But with ninety-nine percent of the population projected to die from a rapidly-spreading virus and society falling into chaos, the desperate, dying father’s options are limited... -
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![Sinful Shadows by Jade Wilkes]()
Sinful Shadows by Jade Wilkes
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere’s who I’m supposed to be, and there’s who I am….Everything changed at the Halloween party sponsored by the millionaire my mother is seeing.I was not supposed to be attracted to his unhinged son, Damon Northwood.I was not supposed to react the way I did when he taunted and teased me.Maybe his dark past can match the wretchedness of my own... -
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Savages by Natalie Bennett
Calista "I am the monster they created. I’m the whore they’re ashamed of." When life tried to break me I grabbed that b*tch by the throat and squeezed. I thought I could overcome anything. I swore I could handle him, but after being forced to play at the Devil's playground I ended up craving his touch. One taste of his poison made my loyalties begin to waiver... -
![Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger by Reiko Yoshihara]()
Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger by Reiko Yoshihara
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn the future, on a distant star lives a new society. Ruled by a computer system named Jupiter, men are divided into classes based on their hair color. The Blondies, genetically altered by Jupiter, are the highest class and occupy the capital city of Tanagura. Those with black hair, Mongrels, are forced to live in the slums, Ceres... -
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Swallowed by Meg Smitherman
Earth is broken beyond repair. The Planet is our last hope. Humanity's first mission to the Planet ended in tragedy, but botanist Jill Jones won’t let that stop her from joining the second. Perfect climate, perfect terrain, perfect flora and fauna; the Planet has called to Jill all of her life. She knows, with bone-deep certainty, it's home. A new beginning for humanity...Categorized as:
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Maze-Born Trouble by Ginn Hale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA dead girl, a cop he can’t forget, and a price on his head. All on a space station at the edge of a black hole. Just another day’s work for P.I. Lake Harmaa. P.I. Lake Harmaa escaped the darkness and intense gravity of Sisu Space Station’s Maze Sector by turning traitor and spying for the Feds during the war... -
![Glass Cage by Emmy Chandler]()
Glass Cage by Emmy Chandler
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“They’re organ donors. Your job is to keep them clean and in good shape, until they’re no longer needed.” Convicted of petty theft, Katerina Mathern is sentenced to the prison planet Rhodon, zone twelve, where unresponsive convicts await the removal of organs they never agreed to donate... -
![The Turned by Stella Craig]()
The Turned by Stella Craig
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsShe’s rebuilding her life. Duty flows through his veins. When the undead rise, can they survive long enough to take a risk on each other?Phoenix, Arizona. Lola Jenkins chooses loneliness over being burned again. And after she alienated her secret crush years ago by betraying his sister, her self-loathing follows her everywhere… even into a chance encounter with the handsome man...Categorized as:
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![BTOOOM!, Vol. 1 by Junya Inoue]()
BTOOOM!, Vol. 1 by Junya Inoue
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBy all counts, Ryouta Sakamoto is a loser when he's not holed up in his room, bombing things into oblivion in his favorite online action RPG... -
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Taken and Mated by Samantha Madisen
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKatalana Scott has spent years living in hiding from the Imperial Guard, but it is only once she finally boards one of their ships that she learns the truth about herself and why she is so special.She is an Atrix, one of a select few whose unique genetics offer new hope for the future of many worlds... -
![Colossal: Dark Romance in Deep Space by Alexandra Norton]()
Colossal: Dark Romance in Deep Space by Alexandra Norton
"My colony ship needs a sacrificial lamb. Someone I can use to produce my heir. That’s you now, Kaia. But don’t worry. You’ll like it. When the cravings take hold, you’ll even need it. It may not be love, but you won’t know the difference and I won’t care."That’s what Orion Halen told Kaia after he brought her back to his ship. To him, she is just a means to an end...Categorized as:
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![We by Yevgeny Zamyatin]()
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsYevgeny Zamyatin's page-turning science fiction adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel that became the basis for the tales of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, among so many others...Categorized as:
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![Commodity by Shay Savage]()
Commodity by Shay Savage
A 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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![The Carnival's Daughter by Esme Devlin]()
The Carnival's Daughter by Esme Devlin
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe world is different. New. Or at least that is what people who can remember tell me. Women are coveted, a rare jewel to be treasured. But also owned. Collected. Displayed. I’m a girl with one green eye and one blue. A feature that both condemns me and keeps me alive at the same time. I’m wanted by the most dangerous man in this new Kingdom... -
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Auctioned by Piper Stone
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA Dark Sci-Fi Menage RomanceThey bought me at auction. They'll keep me as a pet.Twenty years ago the Malzeons saved us when we were at the brink of self-annihilation, but there was a price for their intervention. They demanded humans as servants... and as pets... -
![After Midnight by Santino Hassell]()
After Midnight by Santino Hassell
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTwo decades after war ravaged the nation, one of the last remaining metropolises thrives on a currency of sex, drugs, and lies. Gordon Frost is a survivor. He outlived all of his friends after bombs decimated the hardscrabble neighborhood he grew up in, and he made it through the orphanages and crime-ridden slums that followed...Categorized as:
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Fertile by Piper Stone
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA Dark Sci-Fi Reverse Harem RomanceI am fertile, and because I am fertile I am hunted.The men who hunt me were always brutes, but now lust makes them barely more than beasts.When they catch me, I know what comes next.I will fight, but my need to be bred is just as strong as theirs is to breed...
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