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  • Reaching Home: A Post-Apocalyptic Journey by Lars Larsen

    Reaching Home: A Post-Apocalyptic Journey by Lars Larsen

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    DARK HIGHWAY HOME—BOOK TWO. REACHING HOMEAN EMP & POST-APOCALYPTIC SURVIVAL STORYDays after the North American power grid was taken down by an electromagnetic pulse, a band of stranded people are making their perilous way from Las Vegas to the safety of their homes over two thousand miles away.With the power grid down, North America has gone dark. Society has collapsed...
  • The Light We Seek by Katie May

    The Light We Seek by Katie May

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Now that I survived the initial storm, I find myself back where I once was: under the control of my dickish parents (if dickish even is a word). Day by day, the world gets worse. Storms brew on the east coast, volcanos erupt on the west, and zombie-like creatures continue to attack the cities. Where does that leave me? Hopefully not dead...at least, not yet...
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  • 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...
  • Blackout Trail by Linda Naughton

    Blackout Trail by Linda Naughton

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Doctor Anna Hastings is no stranger to disasters, having spent much of her career as an aid worker in conflict zones around the world. Yet when an electrical phenomenon known as an EMP brings down the power grid, Anna faces catastrophe on a scale she never imagined. She must learn what it means to be a doctor in a world deprived of almost all technology...
  • 残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past...
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    dystopian  science fiction  queer  m-m  length-epic
  • The World We Burn by Kyla Stone

    The World We Burn by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the world burns, the only thing that matters is family. In the gripping finale to the Lost Light survival series, the remnants of humanity cling to survival after a cataclysmic solar flare. With half the planet shrouded in darkness, the enclave of survivors of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have endured violence, starvation, and lawlessness...
  • 残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  science fiction  queer  m-m  length-epic
  • Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

    Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.World Peace turns into global civil war.In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability...
  • Little Lies by Bella Forrest

    Little Lies by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "I’ve got orders to take you in, immediately!” Reunite with Robin, Jace, and their team, as they dive deeper into Nathan's well-meaning, yet complex plan..
  • 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...
  • Luna of Kyun by Laura Jo Phillips

    Luna of Kyun by Laura Jo Phillips

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Luna Meadows spent her entire childhood hiking around the world with her father, and learning how to hide a number of unusual abilities she was born with. And wishing she had answers to an ever growing list of questions that her father refused to answer...
  • A Monster's Light: A Sci Fi Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee

    A Monster's Light: A Sci Fi Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two years ago, my best friend vanished without a trace, and I’ve been looking for her ever since. The terrifying alien warrior before me holds the key to finding her, but I’ll have to give up everything I’ve ever known to help him break out of a high-security prison.And there’s a catch...
  • Resisting the Alien Commander by Erin Hale

    Resisting the Alien Commander by Erin Hale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HorekAs Commander of the Bohnari guards, my career is the one thing I care about more than anything. Even more than the mating fever afflicting our males that causes us to slowly descend into madness unless we find mates.When the crown prince of Bohna negotiates with one of the Earth leaders for willing human brides, I have no interest in one. No matter the risk...
  • 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...
  • Tordan by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Tordan by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LunaThey stole my dreams, my hopes, my very identity, and I had no idea. Years went by and I did everything I was told, I was always the perfect specimen, and the perfect lab rat. I was dissected, even maimed all in the name of science. Then one day a strange smoky voice entered my head, and I knew things were not as they seemed...
  • Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. It’s been six months since Reagan Willow fled the Colony and Matthias Allen’s tyrannical clutches. Six months since she broke Hendrix Parker’s heart. Six months since she watched Kane Allen sacrifice his life to save hers...
  • Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Reagan and Page are still trapped with Kane in the cabin in the woods and they have no idea if help is coming or if anyone will be able to find them. Besides the utter boredom and eerie solitude, they have to deal with Kane’s crazy mom and the danger Kane poses to Reagan, in more than just the physical sense...
  • 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...
  • Bad Boys Don't Die: The Complete Collection by B.B. Easton

    Bad Boys Don't Die: The Complete Collection by B.B. Easton

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 44 Chapters About 4 Men (inspiration for the Netflix original series Sex/Life) comes a New Adult romance with a dark, dystopian twist.With only three days left until the predicted apocalypse, the small town of Franklin Springs, Georgia, has become a wasteland of abandoned cars, abandoned homes, abandoned businesses, and abandoned people...
  • The Artist by Elin Peer

    The Artist by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    For more than four hundred years, women have ruled the world, but things are finally shifting.My father Magni always despised the Motherlands, and I’m no fan either, but I still go to the yearly summer gatherings that started when I was sixteen. The Northlands, Motherlands, and Old Europe each sends five future leaders...
  • Fight of the Walker by Coralee June

    Fight of the Walker by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m desperate to rescue the men I love, so when the smooth-talking Ethros leader, Commodore Cavil, comes along, its almost too easy to agree to his deal. Not that we had much of a choice.  I find myself on the beautiful island of Ethros where once a Walker, always a Walker, and all the freedoms of Dormas are ripped from my fingers. It’s hard not to see the irony in it all...
  • 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...
  • The Wife Legacy: Huxley by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    The Wife Legacy: Huxley by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The world, at large, is in crisis but so is the marriage between Tia and her husbands. She thought she could trust them all but when one man betrays her, the cracks in the relationship are revealed.In a desperate, emotional finale to the Six Men of Alaska saga, Tia is faced with her worst enemy one last time.A gun is placed in someone’s hands and the trigger is pulled...
  • 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...
  • The Explorer by Elin Peer

    The Explorer by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Flirting with danger is Aubri’s idea of fun. Ever since we were children, I’ve known Aubri wasn’t like other females. She’s the daughter of Magni and Laura Aurelius, who raised her to be a fearless warrior. Men are blinded by Aubri’s beauty, charm, and social status. Yet, at twenty-seven, no one has succeeded in making her his wife...
  • Frequency by Lisa Harris

    Frequency by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SHE TRUSTED THE WRONG PERSON.Four deaths, most likely tied to arsenic-tainted water, leave the town of Shadow Ridge frantic for answers before someone else dies. But that isn’t the only nightmare Tess McQuaid is facing. She has proof someone attempted to cover up a murder as another arsenic death.HER LIFE DEPENDS ON FINDING OUT THE TRUTH...
  • Kral by Ava Ross

    Kral by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A stoic Vikir warrior meets his match in a spunky Earth woman determined to show him what he's been missing.After she's kidnapped on her way to Crakair, Mila's not sure she'll ever meet her arranged mail-order alien match. Until Kral falls--literally--on top of her during his heroic rescue mission...
  • Surrender by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Surrender by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The softest woman requires the hardest men to survive. Dark, gritty, and perfectly filthy--modern MC meets Mad Max in this amazing RH tale.” ~Addison Cain, USA Today bestselling author While the evil that’s been hunting me draws closer, my past resurfaces, forcing me and my men into a life or death battle. One thing’s for sure. We won’t give up without a fight...
  • Solace by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Solace by Raven Dark, Petra J. Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The softest woman requires the hardest men to survive. Dark, gritty, and perfectly filthy--modern MC meets Mad Max in this amazing RH tale.” ~Addison Cain, USA Today bestselling author More than one evil is waiting for me and my men. Unfortunately, the one who poses the greatest danger to those I love…might be me...
  • Saving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Saving Them by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Paloma McQueen is a woman on a mission. Loving the Sandler brothers in the midst of a war tearing their galaxy apart never promised to be easy but Paloma swore an oath to her husbands. Their challenges are hers, their war hers, their happiness… Everything she is and will be, she plans to be with them no matter what changes the conflicts wrought on the map...
  • Wildling of Ravia by L.A. Holloway

    Wildling of Ravia by L.A. Holloway

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Commander Ekhor has never known a universe without war. As a proud member of a warrior race, he has defended his people from the threat of the Rha'ku'tan Empire for his entire life, rising in the ranks of the Alliance military to become one of its most respected leaders...
  • Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    USA Today and New York Times bestselling author, Wendy Higgins, brings you the gripping, sensual conclusion to her apocalyptic trilogy. Amber Tate never dreamed their heart-wrenching escape from the enemy’s attack would lead them to the most beautiful place she’s ever seen, marred by one ugly fact; it’s under enemy control...
  • Venomous Heart by Mary Auclair

    Venomous Heart by Mary Auclair

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    After drowning his soul in blood, can this alien warrior be saved? As the only doctor on Aveyn, Ava works day and night for the people she considers hers. Only… she’s not really one of them, is she? She’s a hybrid, a highly illegal creature created by Trade Minister Knut for his personal enjoyment...
  • State of Pursuit by Summer Lane

    State of Pursuit by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ABSOLUTELY HEART-STOPPING!" - Leti Del Mar, author of Land of the Unaltered "[Summer Lane] IS QUITE A TALENTED WRITER WITH AN AMAZING GIFT FOR NARRATION." - Janice White, Editor & Author of Clarity: A Text on Writing Cassidy Hart is alone. Her Commander and the love of her life, Chris Young, has gone missing in action...
  • Purgatory City by Skye MacKinnon, Rebecca Royce

    Purgatory City by Skye MacKinnon, Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Play the Game or die. Alone in a desolate world ravaged by war and alien invasion, Eileen Paine offers herself to indentured servitude in Purgatory City—a chance at a different life. No one knows what happens beyond the gates, but it has to be better than the peril in the Blastlands. Nothing could have prepared her for the darkness, the tests, the changes, or the people she meets...
  • Ship Called Malice  (Wings of Artemis) by Rebecca Royce

    Ship Called Malice (Wings of Artemis) by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Saved from a wife auction that would have left her at the mercy of a madman, Priscilla wakes up married to three space pirates on a ship called Malice. They are rough but honorable men who carry secrets and years of pain. Priscilla isn’t sure how she will fit in their life. River, Jordan, and Bo have made their way alone in the universe for twenty years...
  • The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper

    The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    “Lively, thought-provoking . . . the plot is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise . . . Tepper knows how to write a well-made, on-moving story with strong characters. . . . She takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative narrative.”—Ursula K...
  • Ravaged World by Ava Ross

    Ravaged World by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 13 ratings
    She came to me when I needed her most, and it will kill me to let her go.When my ship crashed on a long-abandoned planet, I barely survived. Before the ship’s computer failed, it rebuilt me, crafting my shattered body into a half-cyborg being. I’m a monster who’s barely living...
  • A Star Pilot's Fearless Rebel by Eva Delaney, Vivi Clarke

    A Star Pilot's Fearless Rebel by Eva Delaney, Vivi Clarke

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When the love of my life ghosted me, I reinvented myself as the best smuggler in the rebellion.When that ex returns and claims he wants me back, I show him the exit hatch. But just when I think I’m free of him again, he’s assigned to my crew, along with a shy techie, a flirty bounty hunter, a demanding soldier, and a caring doctor.Well, crap...
  • A Vault of Sins by Sarah Harian

    A Vault of Sins by Sarah Harian

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In her stunning New Adult debut, The Wicked We Have Done, Sarah Harian introduced readers to the Compass Room: a twisted experimental jail where the guilty and the innocent suffer alike. But breaking out was only the beginning… Even though she’s escaped, twenty-two-year-old Evalyn Ibarra is anything but free...
  • Gingerbread Man by Lee Strauss

    Gingerbread Man by Lee Strauss

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    FRINGE meets CASTLE in this New Adult Sci-fi Mystery Suspense by Amazon best-selling author Lee Strauss. College girl meets boy online. A killer targets girls like her. She's next on the list. The boy wants to save her. She thinks it's him. It's worse than they both think...
  • Moon Mark by Scarlett Dawn

    Moon Mark by Scarlett Dawn

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Coming June 2016! When natural disaster strikes Joyal, Madeline is tossed from her planet into the hands of the Kireg. Madeline has always feared the Kireg, an alien who can bend—or snap—a mind with only a thought. What she found on their home planet is even more frightening as civil unrest explodes in pandemonium...
  • Forsaken by V.K. Ludwig

    Forsaken by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In 2091, the Clans and the Districts struggle to rebuild society, after a chemical accident has wiped out most of the female population. At the Clans, women are as much treasured by some men as they are threatened by others — who are willing to put their morals aside to get their hands on something so rare and precious...
  • The Princess Games by Cordelia K. Castel

    The Princess Games by Cordelia K. Castel

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 35 ratings
    The stakes are higher and the competition more brutal in round two of the Princess Trials. Zea’s relationship with Prince Kevon intensifies, and she must choose between the prince and the rebel who holds her heart. When her enemies uncover a secret that drives a rift between Zea and Prince Kevon, she’s not only battling for survival but facing execution...
  • The Apollo Academy by Kimberly P. Chase

    The Apollo Academy by Kimberly P. Chase

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Apollo Academy has been picked up by Escape, Harlequin Australia and will be re-released February 2015. Take off with this dynamic, thrill-seeking, sexy New Adult Science Fiction series debut. Welcome to the exclusive Apollo Academy, where Aurora is about to discover that achieving her dream is only the first step towards her future...
  • Stop by Scarlett Dawn

    Stop by Scarlett Dawn

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author, Scarlett Dawn, comes the third installment in The Cold Mark Saga, Stop, where tipping points are reached and surprises lurk… Braita Valorn is stuck. She has no real freedom, her existence dependent on what the men of Triaz decide. Her fate is not her own. But she desperately wants it to be and will do anything to make it so...
  • Souls of Steel by Eva Brandt

    Souls of Steel by Eva Brandt

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No woman has ever piloted a chimera, the legendary mechas that once served to defend Earth from the alien invasion that nearly destroyed us all. No one... until me. Once, I was a normal girl. Much to my mother's dismay, I didn't have any magic, but that was all right. Not every girl carried Gaia's Gift. There were other things I could do to prove myself, even if I couldn't heal the earth...
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