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Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier
If you had told me that the world would turn to crap a year ago, I would have never believed you. If you had told me I'd be living with my cheating ex and my manipulative twin sister, I would have laughed. Had you informed me I'd be in a relationship with five men, I would have asked what meds you had forgotten to take. Yet here I am at Sanctuary...Categorized as:
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Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own... -
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![Evenfall Volume One by Santino Hassell, Ais]()
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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Hellions by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMaliki. Vicious. Nyx. Chaotic. Maliki + Nyx. Vicious. Chaotic. Gods. What once was sweet has turned vile. I covet death. He thrives in darkness. Our sacrilegious desires run rampant. Our maleficent demons demand to be sated. Mercy finds no refuge in our hearts. Insanity takes courtship within our minds. Together, we embark on a path saturated in blood and rotting corpses... -
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Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss
INDIE. I have them all now. Just the way I want them. McKay, the one who loves me deepest. Adam, the one who protects me fiercely. Donovan, the one who tells the truth. They are my friends, they are my lovers, they are my world. And Maggie belongs to all of us—no matter who her father is. This is the family I’ve always wanted. This is the family I deserve... -
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Gorgeous Misery by J.A. Huss
Wendy Gale isn’t the kind of girl you marry. She’s not even the kind of girl you date. She’s not a friend with benefits, she’s not one-night-stand, and regardless of what she thinks, she has never been a rebound. Wendy Gale is kind of girl you kidnap and lock in your basement so she can’t ever escape. She’s the kind of girl you tie up. You put a collar on her. A leash. Handcuffs...Categorized as:
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Alpha by Tiya Rayne
Morgan Downs’ life is unexceptional. She’s stuck in an abusive loveless marriage and often made to feel inferior by her parents because of her speech impediment. Although as bad as her life is, she never expected to be kidnapped from her home and taken to a private military base to become a test rat for a science experiment. But things change when Morgan meets Alpha... -
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Garden of the Gods Vol. 1: Books 1-5 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is Vol. 1 of the Garden of the Gods series, books 1-5. These books are DARK and despite having romantic elements are considered HORROR. With the death of Whitlock, a new home for horror is born…. Garden of the Gods. Book 1:. Main Master. Beauty. Drive. Desperation. Charlotte Wyce spent years captivating the world on the big screen... -
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Mistress Mayhem by Miranda May
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMayhem. Violent or damaging disorder; chaos. It is what our world fell into hundreds of years ago. Murder on the street. Parents abusing their children. Rape. Drugs. Guns. The streets ran red. It all culminated into the Last War—the war that almost ended the human species. Bombs. Killings. Cyber attacks. You name it, they tried it...Categorized as:
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Creeping Beautiful by J.A. Huss
McKAY. I wasn’t the one who broke her but I played my part. She came to us when she was ten. I raised her. I loved her. I taught her how to survive in a world of evil men. But it wasn’t enough. ADAM. I wasn’t the one who saved her but I did my best. She needed me as much as I needed her. Bought and paid for on the auction block. But not for the reasons you think. She was my weapon. DONOVAN... -
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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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BODY OF GLASS by Marge Piercy
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 29 ratings"A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down. ". Alice Hoffman. In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up...Categorized as:
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WINTER PLAGUE by Quinn Blackbird
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS WINTER PLAGUE BY QUINN BLACKBIRD. THIS IS A NEW. 'If I find out you had anything to do with that ambush, Winter. .. I'll not only kill you, I'll let you turn. '. I started this plague with packing up my car to drive across the country. All I wanted those bloody, violent months ago was to visit my sister... -
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Find Her by Jessie Ellis
An unlikely savior searching for an angel in the midst of Hell. .. As a convict serving a life sentence, I shouldn't be playing the hero to the prison warden's damsel-in-distress daughter. But with ninety-nine percent of the population projected to die from a rapidly-spreading virus and society falling into chaos, the desperate, dying father’s options are limited... -
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![Broken by C.R. Jane, Mila Young]()
Broken by C.R. Jane, Mila Young
Their obsession will destroy her. .. Ella Monroe is broken and betrayed. After the discovery of the Vepar's secret, Ella would like nothing better than to get away from her three Vepar lovers and hide from them forever. Unfortunately, the Vepar have other ideas for Ella...Categorized as:
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WINTER STORM by Quinn Blackbird
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS WINTER STORM BY QUINN BLACKBIRD. THIS IS A NEW. 'If you tried to run, you know what would happen, Winter. I would hunt you down and burn the world to find you. .. '. The world has gone to shit. All that's left are a few bands of rogue survivors, more dangers than ever, those violence-loving rotters, and me and my dog, Cleo. Well, it should just be Cleo and me... -
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Colosseum of Lust by Meraki P. Dark
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson. A sinister dark web niche for bored rich people with a depraved need to watch sexual decadences have put their money into a project to give them just that. High-end entertainment with lots of violence and lots of sex... -
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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... -
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsYevgeny Zamyatin's page-turning science fiction adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel that became the basis for the tales of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, among so many others...Categorized as:
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Commodity by Shay Savage
A woman hunted by human traffickers. A hot and dangerous bodyguard. Utter destruction. The end of civilization. The beginning of a new form of currency. Women are now the highest COMMODITY. -
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Hold by Claire Kent
Find the strongest man there. Give yourself to him in return for protection. It’s the only way you’ll ever survive. Convicted of a minor crime, Riana is sentenced to a prison planet—a dark primitive hold filled with convicts vying for power. Her only chance of survival is with Cain, a mysterious loner who has won his territory in the prison through intelligence and brute strength...Categorized as:
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Sold by Loki Renard
A Dark Reverse Harem Romance. My 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... -
![Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare]()
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
Would you trade your soul mate for your soul? A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love...Categorized as:
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![Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff]()
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it...Categorized as:
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![In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken]()
In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken
Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds... -
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The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp... -
![Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop]()
Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop
For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate—both within themselves and within their community. .Categorized as:
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![Beyond Jealousy by Kit Rocha]()
Beyond Jealousy by Kit Rocha
She’s been looking for the perfect man. She found two. When Rachel Riley sacrificed a life in Eden to protect the O’Kanes, she earned her place in the powerful Sector Four gang. But the former crime princess is tired of being everyone’s sweet little sister... -
![A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison]()
A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison
The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that order. Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past... -
![The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin]()
The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past. She can’t. She used to think her problems were all in her head. They aren’t. She couldn’t imagine that after everything she’s been through, the boy she loves would still be keeping secrets. She’s wrong. In this gripping sequel to The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, the truth evolves and choices prove deadly. What will become of Mara Dyer next?
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