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  • The Light We Lost by Kyla Stone

    The Light We Lost by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The sun gives life. It is also capable of profound destruction.With little warning, a solar super flare erupts from the sun. A billion tons of superheated plasma hurtles through space toward Earth…When all lights fail, who will save you?Thirteen-year-old Shiloh wakes with a dead body beside her, her brother missing, and no memory of what happened...
  • Extinction by Adrienne Lecter

    Extinction by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    If you need some zombies killed, who do you call? The Lucky Thirteen. A few weeks have passed since the events in Aurora, and Bree, Nate, and the gang are back on the road. The odd mall to raid, cattle to herd, provisions to deliver—all no match for our trusty group of scavengers. The world is yours for the taking when killing zombies becomes routine...
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  • The Dark We Seek by Kyla Stone

    The Dark We Seek by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Darkness spreads across the globe...After explosive solar flares strike Earth, half the planet goes dark. Store shelves gather dust, pharmacies run out of life-saving medications, and banks and gas stations shut their doors.As tens of millions of people grapple with a new reality without power, a serial killer hunts in the chaos...
  • The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

    The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Hugo Award Winner! Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Academy, joins a mutiny, is placed under house arrest, goes on a secret mission, reconnects with his loyal Dendarii Mercenaries, rescues his Emperor, and thwarts an interstellar war. Situation normal, if you're Miles...
  • Exodus by Adrienne Lecter

    Exodus by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They are here to find the cure—in a secret laboratory hidden underneath a metropolis overrun by zombies. What could possibly go wrong? Finding the French Resistance was only the first step in achieving their mission...
  • Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Something is rotten in the state of California… The dawning civil war has ended in a truce. Scavengers and traders all over the country are settling down for the long, hard winter to come. With their new camp outside the maze of New Angeles at the coast growing every day, Bree, Nate, and the gang have their hands full—yet something is not quite right...
  • Chaos Rising by Kyla Stone

    Chaos Rising by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    In a heartbeat, everything grinds to a halt... On Christmas Eve, the lights go out. Vehicles stop working. Communications break down. Reclusive former soldier Liam Coleman doesn't want to be anywhere near bustling downtown Chicago the day before Christmas. But his twin brother and his pregnant sister-in-law need him, so he makes the trip...
  • Revenge of the Walker by Coralee June

    Revenge of the Walker by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I'll build an army to take back what is mine. Revenge may harden the heart, but I'll gladly suffer the consequences. I've lost my family, my best friend, and the men I love. The little Walker girl from Galla is dead. Now, all that's left of her is a girl willing to risk it all.They call me Queen of the Walkers...
  • Catharsis by Adrienne Lecter

    Catharsis by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Bree’s list of Survive the next hour.Survive the next day.Survive the next week.Hold down solid food.Relearn how to walk. How to run. How to hold a gun. How to fight.Make Bucky Hamilton rue the day we met, and met again.And find out what the f*ck we are looking for in Europe...
  • Lost World by Kate L. Mary

    Lost World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Lost World, the fourth book in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has destroyed the world and the dead have come back to claim it as their own... With their shelter destroyed and their sense of security shattered, Vivian, Axl and the group set off in search of a safe place...
  • The Hope We Keep by Kyla Stone

    The Hope We Keep by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Only in darkness can you see the stars...Don't miss the stunning conclusion to the Lost Light trilogy!When massive solar flares strike the planet, a million tons of superheated plasma rips through the Earth’s atmosphere. As power grids fail across the Northern Hemisphere, the entire world balances on the brink of chaos...
  • Backwater Justice by Fern Michaels

    Backwater Justice by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    An action-packed, ripped-from-the-headlines story of smalltown secrets from the #1 bestselling author, the latest in the long-running fan-favorite Sisterhood series.The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure...
  • Retribution by Adrienne Lecter

    Retribution by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The hunt is on—and there are only a million zombies standing in our way. Once more reunited after the successful attack on the slaver camp, Bree and Nate have a new goal in life: to hunt down the man responsible for turning hundreds of soldiers into mindless worker drones, and repeatedly drugging the arena fighters—Nate and Hamilton chiefly among them...
  • New World by Kate L. Mary

    New World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New World, book five in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has decimated the human race and the dead have come back to claim it as their own...After weeks on the road and devastating losses, the survivors have finally found safety. But as winter falls on Colorado, it brings with it both new challenges, and new hope...
  • Halo by Frankie Rose

    Halo by Frankie Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Alternative cover and new title for asin B00CKBJR2E She has no name. She has her knives. Her training. Her halo. The first and second give her the ability to defeat the opponents she is pitted against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be...
  • 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...
  • Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer

    Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    *2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL CATEGORY*In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war…a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end...
  • Raise the Stakes by O.E. Tearmann

    Raise the Stakes by O.E. Tearmann

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    It starts when you're always afraid. Seven Corporations run the former United States on the codes of conduct their founders set down. You're signed into a Corporate contract the day you're born. And the fear of dropping in the Citizen Standing Scores keeps people in line...
  • ICE REVELATION: The ICE Trilogy Book 3 by Kevin Tinto

    ICE REVELATION: The ICE Trilogy Book 3 by Kevin Tinto

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Leah Andrews is on the Antarctic Continent, her single-minded goal, return the Ancients to their destiny while at the same time, hoping that will stop the increasingly powerful and destructive Anomaly, that threatens a planet-wide extinction event should it continue to widen its grasp.She is far from the only interested party in finding the source of the extraterrestrial Anomaly...
  • Dinosaur World 8 by Logan Jacobs

    Dinosaur World 8 by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Humanity has run out of time. The alien fleet is set to arrive any day, and there’s only one way Jason and his women can save the world now.They have to figure out how to get into space and onto the mothership before life as we know it is wiped out...
  • Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Going Ballistic by Dorothy Grant

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When her plane tries to come apart at apogee during a hijack, ballistic airline pilot Michelle Lauden handles the worst day she could imagine. After getting down without losing any passengers or crew, though, she finds her troubles have just begun!The country she's landed in has just declared independence from the Federation...
  • Auroras & Ashes: A Ravaged Skies Novel by Boyd Craven III

    Auroras & Ashes: A Ravaged Skies Novel by Boyd Craven III

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Faith, Family, and FishingTrapped. Attacked from all directions. Jordan Daniels felt the pressure long before the world ended. He was just trying to keep a promise to his late live a good life, maintain the family cabin Up North. But peace was a luxury he couldn't afford.The cabin was meant to be his sanctuary, the place he pursued his love of fishing after his parents passed...
  • Silent World by Kate L. Mary

    Silent World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book Seven in the Broken World Series... When Jim ran out of that farmhouse in Forgotten World, not only did he leave the promise of safety behind, but he was sure he was about to meet a horrible end. Amira has lived most of her life surrounded by silence, and this new world has dangers lurking around every corner that could mean the end for her...
  • Alien Warrior Untamed by Ava Ross

    Alien Warrior Untamed by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She's fated to be mine, but the world is determined to steal her away.When I was twelve, I was forced to watch as an invader killed everyone I loved. He captured me and took me to the chamber, where he tortured me and the other males, desperate to twist us into a beastly army. He may have turned me into a monster, but I refused to give into his demands...
  • 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: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 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...
  • Broken World by Grace Hamilton

    Broken World by Grace Hamilton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    No power. No law & order. No safety net. The world as everyone knows it is over.Laurel is stabilizing a patient in the ER when the power goes out. As she struggles to keep her patients alive, she faces an ugly truth—the world as everyone knew it is over. The smart thing to do is run and try to survive, but Laurel refuses to leave her patients behind—least of all her sick mother...
  • Dom by Anna Hackett

    Dom by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens intensifies, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival… Squad Three berserker Dom Santora has an ugly past he can’t forget. Born and raised in the darkness, he spent his life before the alien invasion as a Mafia enforcer...
  • Ritual in Death / Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Ritual in Death / Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Dark, mystifying and powerful forces are at work in these two superb J.D. Robb short stories.Ritual in DeathWhen a naked, knife-wielding man who thinks he has killed someone crashes a glamorous ball she's attending, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is almost relieved. The clues point towards ritual murder, but Eve knows there is nothing supernatural about a deadly lust for power..
  • Murder at Keyhaven Castle by Clara McKenna

    Murder at Keyhaven Castle by Clara McKenna

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    With her wedding to Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst just days away, strong-willed American ex-pat Stella Kendrick is the talk of Edwardian society—and the focus of a deadly mystery—in Clara McKenna’s third historical mystery set in England’s New Forest region at the turn of the 20th century...
  • The Eve by Keary Taylor

    The Eve by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A plan was laid out as the Evolution crushed mankind, a plan that was right under Eden’s nose all along. And Eve is the key to everything. New Eden—mankind—they have a small chance at fixing their dismembered planet. But it will be a reckless sprint against time and the coming Bane to retrieve the final piece to the plot. New Eden’s worst fears have become reality...
  • Premonitions: Book 2: War by Diana E. Anderson

    Premonitions: Book 2: War by Diana E. Anderson

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    PUBLISHER'S Book 1 is now Amazon item number B07G28TKXC. Please search Amazon B07G28TKXC for Book 1 of this series. Thank you. Denise Armstrong and her family and friends were prepared to survive the economic collapse of the United States. Their preparations got them through a brutal winter and an attack by renegade thugs...
  • 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...
  • Far from Dead by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Dead by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After making it through winter, Rowan, Devon, and Kiaya have settled into a routine and are looking forward to creating a future full of hope, new relationships, and even a brand new life. Too bad it’s impossible to escape trouble completely during a zombie apocalypse...
  • Far from Lost by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Lost by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How far would you go to save what you thought you’d lost during the apocalypse?After learning her father is alive, going with Heath had seemed like a no-brainer to Rowan. Her dad was all she had left, after all. The only remaining piece of the life she’d loved so much...
  • Far from Home by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Home by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Now a COMPLETE series!How far would you go to survive the apocalypse?As the only child in an upper-middle class family, Rowan has had it easy. Doted on by a mother who never wanted anything but a child to love, she's never wanted for anything. Kiaya’s life, however, has been anything but easy...
  • The Wife Code: Banks by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    The Wife Code: Banks by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lawson wants what is lawfully his, but Banks is prepared to fight for his bride.Banks and Tia haven't consummated their marriage. He's done waiting. But he isn't like her other husbands. And while they both have a love for learning, Tia is about to get an entirely new sort of education.Banks is ready to teach his wife a few things about his dark desires...
  • 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...
  • The Turning by A.L. Masters

    The Turning by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When humanity is threatened by an explosion at a Russian research laboratory, co-workers and friends in a small southern town must band together for survival. They realize too late that this is no ordinary plague...and that the enemy they have to fight may not be the only thing they need to worry about.Book One of The Salvation Plague series...
  • Survival by Lisa Harris

    Survival by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Shadow Ridge, where Longmire meets Jericho.A dead body. A missing suspect. A town fighting for survival. In today’s world, law enforcement agencies across the country rely on forensic tools, DNA testing, and crime labs...
  • Gray: Part III by Lou Cadle

    Gray: Part III by Lou Cadle

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to Idaho CityThe sign was metal, the words still visible through scorching that had happened during The Event's long fire.The words spoke of the old days, seven months ago, when civilization was intact and the world robustly populated. The sign looked normal--or would have, had it not been for the pair of human feet attached over the first two words...
  • Alien Conqueror by Sara Fields

    Alien Conqueror by Sara Fields

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was sent to kill him, but as this alien brute rips my clothes off and mounts me with my bottom still burning from his punishing hand it is clear what is in store for me isn't mere vengeance.It is conquest.He will claim my virgin body the way our planet was claimed, without gentleness or remorse, and when he is done I won't just be utterly broken and begging to be used even more shamefully...
  • His Choice by Sheila Kell

    His Choice by Sheila Kell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AJ Hamilton never expected his life to spiral so low. Tangled up with Baltimore's largest crime boss, The Magician, he is ordered to threaten a bothersome reporter. His attraction to Megan Rogers was as unexpected as was their heated encounter. AJ tries to warn her off. When she doesn't heed his advice, he's forced to protect her from herself...
  • Smoke Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Smoke Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s a warrior with a poet’s heart. She’s a doctor with a wounded past. Together, they are humanity’s best chance for survival. A brilliant scientist, Dr. Nani Kagawa is uniquely qualified to track down the terrorists who released Scorch Flu. The last thing she needs is a distraction—especially not an alpha male like Luca Luciano—no matter how pretty his eyes or lovable his dog...
  • Live Another Day by Baileigh Higgins

    Live Another Day by Baileigh Higgins

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Previous cover edition of ASIN B07611469HHumanity teeters on the edge...Max prepares to battle Ke Tau, a brutal killer who hungers for ultimate power. His efforts are hampered by dwindling supplies and the ever-present threat of the undead. With morale at an all-time low, the camp's inhabitants will have to stand together and face their fears if they wish to survive...
  • Enduring Anarchy by Grace Hamilton

    Enduring Anarchy by Grace Hamilton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They’re trapped inside a prison when the power goes out…Molly is determined to get the troubled teens she teaches back on the right path and is convinced a trip to a local prison will show them the consequences of bad behavior...
  • Far from Safe by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Safe by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After traveling the country in hopes of reaching the safety of home, Rowan finds herself in a world turned upside down. Her parents are gone, and she’s surrounded by people she barely knows, and the only refuge she’s ever known is anything but safe...
  • Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Mason Sykes had served many years in the Marine Corps for his country. His loyalty and sacrifice had left him disfigured—inside and out. He didn’t harbor regrets, especially since he’d finally found the peace and quiet he’d always desired on a Nebraska farm. Brenna Helm was a country girl through and through, right down to her cowgirl boots...
  • Stone Awakened by Robin O'Connor

    Stone Awakened by Robin O'Connor

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    An alien warrior in uniform should be sexy, but it’s nerve-wracking when I'm on an undercover rescue mission.AgathaI don’t think twice about diving headfirst into a dangerous rescue mission, especially when it's for the people who saved me. I'll kick in teeth, swap uniforms, go undercover as a gladiator trainer. Nothing can throw me. Except himThat man in the uniform has his eyes trained on me...
  • Fallen Angels by Anna Mocikat

    Fallen Angels by Anna Mocikat

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Olympias City is shaken by a series of unspeakably brutal murders. No one is allowed to know the shocking truth about who the victims are: Guardian Angels.Someone is hunting the almost invincible cyborgs with the neon-blue eyes. Someone who knows their secrets and who uses a formerly unknown technology.Promoted to Archangel, Nephilim is in charge of the investigation...
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