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Time of Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsJ. D. Robb’s In Death novels have been praised as “Law & Order: SVU—in the future” (Entertainment Weekly). Now, together in one volume, three stories that spotlight Lieutenant Eve Dallas doing what she does best: solving crime with skill, integrity, and passion…. “Eternity in Death”. A seductive killer is luring in victims with a promise of the impossible—immortality...Categorized as:
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Three in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 31 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb delivers a potent combination of futuristic suspense, thrills, and passion in these three favorite In Death stories—together in one volume for the first time. INTERLUDE IN DEATH. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is resigned to the fact that she’s been ordered to give a seminar at a police conference—and that she’ll have to leave Earth to do it...Categorized as:
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![Taken in Death by J.D. Robb]()
Taken in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTwo young children disappear from their East Side home in New York City, their nanny killed in cold blood. As Lieutenant Eve Dallas begins to unravel the crime scene and search for Henry and Gala MacDermit, she’s drawn into the twisted mind of a kidnapper who will stop at nothing to take revenge... -
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Moonlight Bride by Riley Storm
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe new neighbors have moved in, and they’re a real howl…. Chloe goes to warn them of the giant wolf roaming around, fully expecting to go home alone. When she accidentally lets slip that her tractor is broken, however, the handsome new neighbor insists on coming to help. Overwhelmed since leaving the city and her past behind, Chloe accepts his offer... -
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![The High Lord by Trudi Canavan]()
The High Lord by Trudi Canavan
In the city of Imardin, where those who wield magic wield power, a young street-girl, adopted by the Magician's Guild, finds herself at the centre of a terrible plot that may destroy the entire world . . . Sonea has learned much at the magicians' guild and the other novices now treat her with a grudging respect... -
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On a Rogue Planet by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"I've never had a thing for cyborgs before, but, WOW, now I do! " - Amazon reviewer. A sexy, deadly cyborg + a sassy salvage mechanic = a fast, action-packed space adventure. Unlucky-in-love salvage mechanic, Malin Phoenix, didn't intend to get caught up in a coup and kidnapped by a sexy cyborg... -
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Diplomacy by May Sage
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFor a thousand years, being born with magic was a death sentence. Hart and his twin have survived by hiding who they truly were until their time came. It started as a whisper, rumors, but when they find out there truly is a mage uprising, they join the fight, tilting the balance in the mages’ favor. The era of magicless mortals has passed in their multi-planetary kingdom... -
![Rogue Instinct by Elin Wyn, Ava York]()
Rogue Instinct by Elin Wyn, Ava York
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsPeople aren't my strong suit. Give me an engine, anyday -- even on a spaceship. And when a giant, sexy bronze-skinned alien decides I'm not good enough to work on his baby? Game on. Even if he does have talented, broad hands. I just hadn't figured Orrin and I would be working together quite so closely. . -
![Meant to Be by Megan Derr]()
Meant to Be by Megan Derr
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Draconis are a race of unexpected power and ability, complicated by their tendency to ‘match’ with other magics capable beings. The trial to decide whether or not they should be exterminated is about to begin, and both sides have gathered some of the brightest minds in the galaxy to argue before the Star Assembly of the Infinitum Government... -
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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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Imperial Governess by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsToo old, too bitter, and ready to retire? Why not have your genes altered and shoot yourself across space to a new world and new career. Amber has always been waiting for her time. Her moment. When she gets to the age of fifty-five and finds that her moment has not shown up, she decides to take on an offer from three decades earlier that has recently been renewed and get her ass into space... -
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Wonderment in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSomeone is hosting dangerous tea parties in 2061 New York. .. Thing aren't what they seem when Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates what appears to be a routine murder/suicide. When friends of Darlene and Marcus Fitzwilliams insist Darlene would never hurt her brother, Eve digs deeper... -
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The Fifty-Seven Lives of Alex Wayfare by M.G. Buehrlen
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Beautiful prose, an intelligent plot, and a heroine as fabulous as she is unique—I couldn't put it down! " —C. J. Redwine, The Defiance Trilogy. For as long as she can remember, 17-year-old Alex Wayfare has had visions of the past...Categorized as:
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On a Cyborg Planet by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCan he give a beautiful warrior cyborg the pleasure she's never experienced? A sexy, fast-paced sci fi romance. novella. in the Phoenix Adventures . After a vicious coup, cyborg Axton Saros, Prime of the planet of Centax, is trying to rebuild his world. Still recovering from his captivity and dark guilt, he won't let anything get in his way... -
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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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Willing to Die by Lisa Jackson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWHEN A KILLER HAS NOTHING TO LOSE. The crime scene is as puzzling as it is brutal. Doctor Paul Latham and his wife, Brindel, are found dead in separate beds in their beautiful San Francisco home, each the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. There are no signs of forced entry, and despite the emptied safe it’s clear this murder isn’t random. THERE’S EVERY REASON... -
![The Battle Lord's Lady by Linda Mooney]()
The Battle Lord's Lady by Linda Mooney
Three 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... -
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Dane by Ashley L. Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Elderhood is in my veins, but she’s the one that has my heart. I am new to the Elder throne, but I am no amateur. With my brother as my predecessor and our father as his, leading my people is all I know. And, right now, I must lead them in war. She is the new Ambassador to Alien Relations. It is her job to work with me and come to a peaceful agreement of coexistence... -
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The Strength of His Heart by Victoria Sue
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo protect and serve…. All Vance Connelly ever wanted to do was continue his family’s tradition and join the Tampa Police Department, but his dreams were crushed the day he woke with the enhanced mark on his face. After years of struggling to adjust to life as an enhanced human, by a stroke of luck, he met Talon Valdez and became a proud member of the FBI’s Human Enhanced Rescue Organization... -
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Spy's Honor by Amy Raby
Rhianne, mind mage and Imperial Princess of Kjall, cannot openly challenge the emperor. Instead, she acts in secret to aid the victims of his worst excesses. But now the emperor plans to wed her to the cruel Augustan, the man leading Kjall’s attack against the nation of Mosar. Soon she will be torn from her supporters and shipped overseas, where she can help no one... -
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Armored Hearts by Pauline Creeden, Melissa Turner Lee
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a crippled young lord rescues a girl falling from a tree, it reveals a secret about himself and his mother's side of the family that could put him at the center of a war with beings he thought only existed in fairy tales. Tristan Gareth Smyth lived his entire life stuck at home at Waverly Park, left behind while his Grandfather makes trips to London, all because of his blasted wheelchair... -
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Poisoned Web by Crista McHugh
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsBook 2 of the Deizian Empire. The fate of the empire hangs on one slave breaking her silence…. As the Deizian Empire prepares for the upcoming wedding of Emperor Titus Sergius Flavus and Azruha, one mystery remains unsolved—the sudden and unexplained death of the former emperor. And as her wedding gift to Titus, Azurha wants to give him answers... -
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Multiple Organisms by Viola Grace
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsDrahali has lived her life as a freak, a woman who was far more than one of the guys. Her strength was limitless, but it doomed her to a life alone until the day the Sector Guard recruiter arrived and offered her a chance to be his partner and possibly more. Remar suffered the same fate on his home world with his body able to split into multiple incarnations of the original... -
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![Ripped And Roar by Viola Grace]()
Ripped And Roar by Viola Grace
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsCila has spent her life controlling a power that can kill with a word, but will becoming a Guardsman solve her problems, or bring them to the fore with a roar? Cila Wen has lived her life unable to speak for fear destroying those around her. The Sector Guard has offered her a position and assistance in controlling her talent, but Cila is not sure if that is even possible... -
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Unexpected Master by Layla Stone
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHe's in her mind. .. Demanding her attention, terrifying every bone in her body. He's a Master telepath with abilities she's never heard about. He's dangerous but so is the male who bought her and is planning to turn her into a cyborg pet. She's the only one who can hear the telepath. He needs her help to get free and he won’t stop until she frees him... -
![Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements]()
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming. Bobby is just plain invisible. .. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia...Categorized as:
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Kidnapped by Megan Derr
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsInfinitum Government Code 3. 18. 21. 512: Genetic Experimentation Shall Be Strictly Forbidden. No job is more arduous than that of Rehab Guard—those appointed to guard the many and varied prisoners within the Infinitum Government, the ruling power of a vast interplanetary alliance. To be a Rehab Guard requires very specific qualifications and years of specialized training... -
![Altered Destiny by Shawna Thomas]()
Altered Destiny by Shawna Thomas
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSelia has run her family's tavern since she was fifteen and can hunt and fight the equal of any man. When she rescues a badly wounded man and nurses him back to health, she has no idea she's about to change not only her life, but also the destinies of two peoples…. The battered warrior is Svistra—a race of bloodthirsty savages determined to destroy her homeland. Or so the stories claim...Categorized as:
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![The Runestone Incident by Neve Maslakovic]()
The Runestone Incident by Neve Maslakovic
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWe found ten men, red from blood and dead…. At the center of an expanding mystery: a fabled Viking runestone left behind in the Minnesota woodland of ages past. In this much anticipated second installment of Neve Maslakovic’s time travel series, St...Categorized as:
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Down the Rabbit Hole by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSome of your favorite New York Times bestselling authors present five all-new stories told through the looking glass—including a new Eve Dallas novella! You’re late for a very important date. .. Enter a wonderland of mesmerizing tales. It’s a place that’s neither here nor there, where things are never quite as they seem...Categorized as:
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![The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack]()
The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTwo lovers who have traveled across time. A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research. A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery. Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there's a secret to his success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. When Bryan awakes, he possesses extraordinary new skills. .Categorized as:
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![The Memory Painter: A Novel by Gwendolyn Womack]()
The Memory Painter: A Novel by Gwendolyn Womack
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTwo lovers who have traveled across time. A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research. A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery. Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there's a secret to his success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. When Bryan awakes, he possesses extraordinary new skills. .Categorized as:
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![His Clockwork Canary by Beth Ciotta]()
His Clockwork Canary by Beth Ciotta
History is repeating itself. For ambitious engineer Simon Darcy, winning Queen Victoria’s competition to recover lost inventions of historical significance is a matter of prideand redemption. After all, it was Simon’s failed monorail project that left his family destitute, and winning the tournament would surely restore the Darcys’ reputation... -
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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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![Kilts & Kraken by Cindy Spencer Pape]()
Kilts & Kraken by Cindy Spencer Pape
Magnus, Baron Findlay, longs to bring the wonders of the steam age to his remote island home, but his hands are full fighting the vicious kraken ravaging the coast. When he's swept to sea during battle and washes up on the shore of an isle in the Hebrides, he is near death. Struggling to establish herself as one of the first female physicians in Edinburgh, Dr... -
![A Matter of Circumstance and Celludrones by Claire Robyns]()
A Matter of Circumstance and Celludrones by Claire Robyns
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Victorian Steampunk/Paranormal adventure with strong elements of romance. .. Lady Lily d'Bulier is prim, proper, and prefers to think of herself as pragmatic rather than timid. And avoiding life-threatening situations at all costs is just plain practical. But everything changes when Lord Adair tracks her down in London; searching for answers he seems to think she has... -
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The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 40 ratings"The Red Garden" introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives...Categorized as:
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