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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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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... -
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![The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal]()
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 32 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... -
![Evenfall Volume Two by Santino Hassell, Ais]()
Evenfall Volume Two by Santino Hassell, Ais
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 29 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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![Rapture in Death & Ceremony in Death by J.D. Robb]()
Rapture in Death & Ceremony in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsRapture 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... -
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Resistance by Etta Pierce
Imani James was a hunter, the kind that tracked and killed poachers in wildlife reserves in Tanzania after serving in the army for most of her twenties. She was good at her job, the best, but getting information and support from the Intersolar Union to protect Renata, the human colony on Yaspur, was like pulling teeth... -
![Unity by Adrienne Lecter]()
Unity by Adrienne Lecter
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 14 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... -
![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... -
![Swallowed by Meg Smitherman]()
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... -
![Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah]()
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 57 ratingsTwo top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own... -
![The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison]()
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 49 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... -
![Evenfall: Volume 2: Director's Cut by Ais, Santino Hassell]()
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... -
![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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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... -
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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... -
![JoAyyn by Amanda Milo]()
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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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... -
![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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![Never Broken by Everly Claire]()
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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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... -
![Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood]()
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 104 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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![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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![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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![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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![Ai No Kusabi The Space Between Volume 2: Destiny by Rieko Yoshihara]()
Ai No Kusabi The Space Between Volume 2: Destiny by Rieko Yoshihara
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsBook annotation not available for this title... -
![Shadow of Deception by Lucy Smoke]()
Shadow of Deception by Lucy Smoke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNothing is what it seems… Basra is the eternal city—A paradise filled with relics of the old world. But whispers on the wind speak of destitution and hopelessness. There’s decay beneath the city’s surface. And paradise is filled with lies and deceit… As an ambassador for Tartarus, it’s my duty to bridge the gap between us and the other cities. We need these alliances now more than ever... -
![Maze-Born Trouble by Ginn Hale]()
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... -
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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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![Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger by Reiko Yoshihara]()
Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger by Reiko Yoshihara
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 16 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... -
![Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper]()
Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper
Winner of the Bram Stoker AwardWithin forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discovering teeth between her thighs to being hunted by one of the most powerful corporations in America.She assumes the vagina dentata is a side effect of a rare genetic condition caused by AlphaBeta Pharmaceutical, decades ago, when she and several thousand others were still in the womb... -
![Prisoner 374215 (The ESTO Universe) by Angel Martinez]()
Prisoner 374215 (The ESTO Universe) by Angel Martinez
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDear Author,He enters my cell daily at ten pm. He leaves in the morning at six am. He never says a word. Never moves from where he sits right beside the thick steel door. He does not beat me. He doesn't take me to the tiled room at the end of the corridor. He doesn't goad me, smirk when I wince afterwards, cry, or scream... -
![Bargain with a Beast by Grace Goodwin]()
Bargain with a Beast by Grace Goodwin
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAdrian Davis thought getting on a real-life, ‘beam me up, Scotty’, transport pad was adventure enough. Visiting her mother—and the Atlan beast her mom had chosen as a mate—on another planet? Setting foot in an Atlan prison? Completely crazy. Like totally, bat-shit, what-the-hell-was-she-doing-with-her-life crazy... -
![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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![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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![BTOOOM!, Vol. 1 by Junya Inoue]()
BTOOOM!, Vol. 1 by Junya Inoue
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 16 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... -
![Kings of Desire by M.O. Absinthe]()
Kings of Desire by M.O. Absinthe
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsI ran as fast as I could, escaping the monster, escaping my personal hell.I wanted freedom, a ray of precious sunlight, yet all I found was darkness. Pitch black consuming darkness. That’s until when an opportunity arrived, maybe the most dangerous of them all, but the only one that could save me- The Pleasure Room. Heaven and hell dancing in mesmerizing circles.That’s how I found them...Categorized as:
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![Taken and Mated by Samantha Madisen]()
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... -
![We by Yevgeny Zamyatin]()
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsWe is a dystopian novel written by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, first published in 1924. The book is considered one of the earliest examples of the dystopian genre, influencing later works such as George Orwell's 1984... -
![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... -
![Volunteer 4711 by Olympia Black]()
Volunteer 4711 by Olympia Black
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI was forced to volunteer.Transported to an alien world.Stolen by an alien pirate.I must integrate to gain my freedom... -
![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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The Beast by Jenny Foster
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA human female. A ruthless alien. A dangerous beast she awakens inside of him. His name is Ar’Van. He is the best hunter money can buy. Tall, dangerous, non-human – and the last of his kind. When a new assignment brings him to Earth, he doesn’t expect much resistance. The women he is supposed to deliver to the warlord of the Qua’Hathri are easy targets...Categorized as:
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![World of Shell and Bone by S.K. Falls]()
World of Shell and Bone by S.K. Falls
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn a world ravaged by a nuclear holocaust, Vika Cannon knows there are no guarantees: no guarantees of safety, no guarantees that your neighbor is not actually a spy for the government, and no guarantees you’ll be allowed to emigrate to a new life in Asia. New Amana (as the North and South American continents are now called) is dying... -
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![Outcast Mine by Jamie Craig]()
Outcast Mine by Jamie Craig
There is nothing Aleron Pitre can't steal, nobody he can't con and no situation he can't slip out of—until he's sent to the prison planet Tantoret, where every sentence is death. If the prisoners don't kill each other, they'll die slowly from mining the poisonous drug chojal. Yet Aleron still hopes that he can escape...Categorized as:
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![Harvest by Piper Stone]()
Harvest by Piper Stone
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Dark Sci-fi Reverse Harem RomanceThey chose me. Now they are going to breed me.The Centurions conquered Earth long before I was born, but they did not come for our land or our resources. They came for mates, women deemed suitable for breeding. Women like me... -
![Filthy Beasts by Loki Renard]()
Filthy Beasts by Loki Renard
They told me the men who live on the surface were filthy beasts... They were right! For a highborn daughter of the great tower, never touched by the hands of a man, there is no greater shame than exile to the surface... -
![Insatiable by Loki Renard]()
Insatiable by Loki Renard
Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHis need for me is insatiable. He's going to take everything he wants.He once planned to romance me, but that man is gone, and the beast he became has only one purpose, one desire, one impulse: to tear my clothes off and ravish me over and over...Categorized as:
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![Sold by Loki Renard]()
Sold by Loki Renard
A Dark Reverse Harem RomanceMy body had never been touched by a man. Then I was sold to seven of them.The city was my only chance to survive, but I didn't make it an hour before I was caught. They stripped me, punished me, and then auctioned me off. Not to just one man, but to seven battle-hardened brutes hungry for a woman to claim and ravish in the most shameful ways imaginable...
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