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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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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: 4.35 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... -
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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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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read... -
![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... -
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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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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... -
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Evenfall Volume One by Santino Hassell, Ais
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 26 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.Sin is the Agency's most efficient killer. His fighting skills and talent at assassination have led to him being described as a living weapon... -
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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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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... -
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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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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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Savages by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCalista "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... -
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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 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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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... -
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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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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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![Juggernaut by Amelia C. Gormley]()
Juggernaut by Amelia C. Gormley
They helped destroy the world. Now they have to survive the new one.Nico Fernández has a charmed life. Working as a high-end escort in his mother's agency beats the hell out of being trafficked for slave wages in some corporate brothel... -
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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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![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... -
![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... -
![Ai No Kusabi - The Space Between Vol.1: Stranger by Rieko Yoshihara]()
Ai No Kusabi - The Space Between Vol.1: Stranger by Rieko Yoshihara
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Man’s upturned blue eyes were so unimaginably beautiful that they could make anybody tremble with awe. In this moment, however, they also glimmered with an icy fire—perhaps revealing the fury of his wounded pride, or rather, a manifestation of his uncontrollable obsession.Ceres: a city without ethics or taboos, ruled by instincts and lusts... -
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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... -
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I Am Just Junco Omnibus: Clutch / Fledge / Flight by J.A. Huss
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsClutch~Fledge~Flight (1,152 pages) - the first three books in the epic science fiction fantasy saga that spans five full length novels and one novella. Nineteen year old Rural Republic sniper, Junco Coot, has been lied to. Not once or twice, but pretty much everyone she ever trusted is totally full of sh*t... -
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Staged by Kim Fielding
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOnce the second-prize winner on My Slave’s Got Talent, Sky Blue has spent the past few years singing at a failing New York nightclub. While Sky has never had control over his fate, his life seems to take a turn for the worse when he’s torn from the familiar comfort of performing and sold to a rich and enigmatic man... -
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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: 3.83 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... -
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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... -
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At the Mountains of Madness (illustrated) by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsAt the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections... -
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At the Mountains of Madness (illustrated) by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsAt the Mountains of Madness is a novella horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has.. -
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At the Mountains of Madness (illustrated) by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAt the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections... -
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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... -
![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... -
![Without a Net by Lyn Gala]()
Without a Net by Lyn Gala
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOliver Robertson has been assigned to go undercover in one of the shade clubs that litter the seedier parts of town. He has never engaged in the sort of edge play found in those places, preferring the BDSM in the more mainstream control clubs. However, to find the criminals behind a series of kidnappings, he must go in undercover as a shade sub... -
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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... -
![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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![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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Claimed by Chloe Kent
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey bought her. Now they will breed her.Even with Earth devastated by an asteroid impact and a tyrant ruling with an iron fist, Skyler Williams is still shocked when she suddenly awakens on another world, naked and on display for three alarmingly sexy aliens... -
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![After the Fall by Robin Summers]()
After the Fall by Robin Summers
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the world ends, what’s left to care about?Taylor Stone is no hero. She has three simple rules for life after the plague: Keep moving. Keep to yourself. Don’t get involved. The plague took a particular joy in killing the women of the world, making it that much harder for the few who survived... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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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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... -
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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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