Books like 'Elegy for the Undead'

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  • Salvage Right by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Salvage Right by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIES. A door never closes, but a window opens . . . With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself, and send those agents out into the wide new universe to infect even more...
  • Ice by Kevin Tinto

    Ice by Kevin Tinto

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Archaeologist Leah Andrews stumbles upon something inexplicable in southwestern New Mexico: inside a dark cavern lies an undiscovered, Native American cliff dwelling abandoned for 800 years. While twisting through one of the narrow underground passageways, Leah's flashlight illuminates the remains of a violent massacre...
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  • Deathly Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    Deathly Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Deathly Contagious: Book Two in the Contagium Trilogy. After the discovery of a zombie-proof safe house, things are finally looking up for Orissa Penwell. But her chance at happiness is shattered when someone she cares about is shot. Hell bent on revenge, Orissa will do whatever it takes to seek vengeance and get even...
  • Despair by Lana Pecherczyk

    Despair by Lana Pecherczyk

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Do villains deserve their happy ever after? Daisy Lazarus is the genetically modified warrior of the forgotten deadly sin despair. After spending most of her life as the villain, she has finally been brought back into the fold and wants nothing more than to fit in, to find herself, and to prove she was worth saving...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 4 by Iori Miyazawa, 宮澤 伊織

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 4 by Iori Miyazawa, 宮澤 伊織

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Winter is coming. Having been attacked by a group that worshiped Satsuki Uruma, Sorawo and Toriko head to the cult's former base—the Farm in the Mountains. The other world is still chock full of all kinds of dangerous mysteries, but the allure of exploring the unknown is ever present...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Autumn has arrived. Having narrowly avoided the curse of the Kotoribako, Sorawo and Toriko are back to exploring the other world. With boxed lunches in tow, the two take their agricultural vehicle for a leisurely drive across grassy terrain, deal with the problems caused by Sorawo's kouhai at university, and hang out at cognitive scientist Kozakura's house...
  • Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin

    Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Contagious Chaos, the highly anticipated third book in the Contagium Series, winner of the Contagious Reads Horror Con’s 2014 best horror series, follows Orissa and her friends as they struggle through a zombie filled world...
  • Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

    Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Control the past. Save the future. One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered. For Sam, the horror is only beginning. He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They will be convicted. And so, to ensure his daughter goes free, Sam does what he must: he confesses. But in the future, murderers aren't sent to prison...
  • Team Changes by Erin R. Flynn

    Team Changes by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    My name is Inez Garner, and I’m a vampire princess, wife to four vampire nobles… And I think one I’m still a girlfriend to? I’m not really sure who is interested with vast crazy surrounding me. And that was before the wedding and I outed us as supes to the settlement. Too many are plotting after that—and not the good kind—but Aether is making it clear where my focus should be...
  • Beneath Blood and Bone by Madeline Sheehan, Claire C. Riley

    Beneath Blood and Bone by Madeline Sheehan, Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It is the end of the world. They call him Eagle, like the grand and beautiful bird that symbolizes freedom. During these dark times, when humanity is experiencing nothing but suffering, a man with such a powerful name should be a beacon of hope, yet he is anything but. Her name is Autumn, but she hasn’t said this name or much of anything else in the four years since the fall of civilization...
  • The Black Rider by J.B. Trepagnier

    The Black Rider by J.B. Trepagnier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    It’s the apocalypse, and apparently, I can’t trust anyone. Aeron had every opportunity to explain the horses that were haunting my drawings. I asked him several times about his crazy zombie killing horse. He omitted to tell me he was the Horseman of Death until Leif let it slip he was the Horseman of Pestilence when he introduced himself to me...
  • After the Storms by Liz Hambleton

    After the Storms by Liz Hambleton

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    The conclusion for The Another sanctuary and another lie. After fleeing for their lives, Rowan’s band of survivors makes it to the Underground. The last to find her way, the welcome that greets her is not a warm one. She’s about to find out just how far the web of betrayal spreads, touching everything she holds dear. All the while, her family is kept from her, too far away to reach...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 2 by Iori Miyazawa

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 2 by Iori Miyazawa

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Summer has arrived, and university students Sorawo Kamikoshi and Toriko Nishina’s connection deepens as they explore the alternate world known as the Otherside. There's a rescue operation for the U. S. forces trapped at Kisaragi Station, a night at the Beach of the End on the other side of a resort in Okinawa, a karate-using kouhai who is under attack by ninja cats…...
  • Backs Against the Wall by Tracey Ward

    Backs Against the Wall by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Joss has escaped the Colonies but her troubles have only just begun. She's wounded, exposed and vulnerable but worst of all, she needs help. And there's only one place she can go to get it. Only one place she can stand to be. With Ryan. Together they'll have to delve into the seedy underworld of post-apocalyptic Seattle. A world of gambling, fighting, secrets and lies...
  • Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel by Steven Decker

    Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel by Steven Decker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 9 ratings
    "A WHOLE NEW SPIN ON TIME TRAVEL. " --Cassandra Yorke, Author of the Flapper Covenant seriesThey know their futures, but not his, and that’s a problem. Such is the fate of Dani, Aideen, and Orla—three daring women from different time eras—linked by a rare, mutual occupation. They meet on a tiny island in western Ireland, in the year 2022, and develop a fierce affection for one another...
  • Demons Don't Dare by Hannah Walker

    Demons Don't Dare by Hannah Walker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the ruler of an empire, King Vict’arin is accustomed to living a life that is anything but normal. Unable to enjoy the simple things in life the way his demons do, he chooses to live and work for the good of his citizens. Lonely and tired, he finds solace with his family, enjoying watching his new grand-demonesses grow...
  • Otherside Picnic Volume 5: Hasshaku-sama Revival by Iori Miyazawa

    Otherside Picnic Volume 5: Hasshaku-sama Revival by Iori Miyazawa

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    Having succeeded in their goal of spending a night on the Otherside, Sorawo and Toriko can now take their expeditions deeper. The two spend their days surrounded by the supernatural, going back and forth between their normal and abnormal daily lives. A chaotic love hotel girls' party in Shinjuku vanishes from Sorawo's memory. Toriko's university life and inner thoughts become clear...
  • Demon Fall by M.J. Haag

    Demon Fall by M.J. Haag

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love isn’t blind; it’s devastating. June had her future all planned out, and it never involved hiding in a bunker with her long-term boyfriend during what felt like the end of the world. In fact, surviving the zombie apocalypse never even entered the picture. Yet, that’s exactly what fate gave her. A game of survival. One horror after another. But, at least, she’s not alone...
  • Gantz/19 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/19 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Gantz's reluctant alien-hunting hero, Kei, has had to deal with all sorts of selfish and seedy teammates, but somehow he's recently fought alongside his best partners yet. Unfortunately, this might be his last fight with them. Not that his story is over, however. Regular readers are in for some treats, and new readers will get hooked!
  • Ghost Ship by James Rollins

    Ghost Ship by James Rollins

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The discovery of a burned body sprawled on a remote Australian beach shatters the vacation plans of Commander Gray Pierce. To thwart an ingenious enemy, he and Seichan are pulled into a centuries-old mystery surrounding a lost convict ship, the Trident. The vessel—with a history of mutiny and stolen treasure—vanished into the mists of time, but nothing stays lost forever...
  • Above All, Human by Natalie Debrabandere

    Above All, Human by Natalie Debrabandere

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    THEY ARE HERE. WALKING AMONG US… BIDING THEIR TIME. US presidential hopeful Abigail Christensen is on a mission that goes far beyond her official political goals; it is planetary in its scope. As a secret global network threatens to silence her for good, she needs to watch her own back, or have someone do it for her. Army Ranger Crystal J...
  • Team Inez by Erin R. Flynn

    Team Inez by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    My name is Inez Garner, and I’m a vampire princess. It still sounds crazy to me too, but again, the fangs sold me, especially now that I have my own and drink blood. Things have become more complicated as people give me answers, but I’m no longer alone to handle it all. I have Darius and Jaxon, plus my knights, and maybe one of the oldest vampires alive joining us to help keep me alive...
  • Demon Disgrace by M.J. Haag

    Demon Disgrace by M.J. Haag

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone lives a lie. It replays in my head, the moment of my greatest shame. I'll never escape it. With an exhale, I let go of everything. I fall endlessly, waiting for the sudden stop. Hell would be a welcome respite. A hollow husk of the woman she used to be, Hannah hides from her pain with any alcohol she can find. She’s bleeding out from wounds no one sees...
  • Deceit and Lies by A.K. Michaels

    Deceit and Lies by A.K. Michaels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lies come easy for me, as easily as I can change my face and my appearance with my forbidden magic. It’s necessary…I’m an Assassin. Dangerous and deadly and I’ve just agreed to take on the most treacherous mission of all. But when I meet my mark…the new leader of the Vampires, Cassius Allarde…my instincts are screaming that something’s wrong...
  • Three Months In Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes

    Three Months In Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Forced apart. Hunted by unseen danger. The only way to survive is together. After a harrowing journey through infected territory, Jane Finch, her loyal Great Dane, and her equally protective almost-zombie Grey have reached the military base in the mountains. It’s supposed to be safe. But the last thing they can do is drop their guard...
  • Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

    Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Deaf since childhood, Sebastian Armitage had a promising musical future until his. dreams were shattered when he transformed at twelve years old. In a world where enhanced humans are terrorized and imprisoned, his life shrinks around him even more as. he suffers the torment of his father’s experimental research to enable him to hear...
  • Gantz/14 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/14 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A gang of vampire guys . . . who can grow samurai swords from their very flesh! Once again, Hiroya Oku is pushing the envelope with his crazy manga Gantz! And to add to it, these vampire yakuza guys might not even be aliens! This isn't a mission. These guys seem to know who is working for Gantz, and are coming after them. On the streets where they work and live. In the daylight...
  • Gantz/13 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/13 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Dinosaurs. Seriously, can the frantic world of Gantz get any more scary? How about a giant doughboy with crazy fangs and a strange outie bellybutton? Yeah, it's not just scary; it's a very strange world for Kei! . At least this time the Gantz crew have a new weapon! It's an awesome state-of-the-art uni-motorcycle thing! And one of the characters uses a massive space samurai sword...
  • The Atlantis Plague by A.G. Riddle

    The Atlantis Plague by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead—and those that the Atlantis Plague does not kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge...
  • Gantz/17 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/17 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    It seems like every new alien creature the Gantz gang fights is just practice for another, tougher, more demented future alien battle. Every new alien means another crew of newly dead citizens, reborn as alien hunters. Except for those who survive for the next battle. And Kei is the only one who’s survived since volume 1...
  • Revolution by Kali Argent

    Revolution by Kali Argent

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    By 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...
  • Reaching for Home by Erin R. Flynn

    Reaching for Home by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    My name is Inez Garner, and I’m a vampire princess. I no longer swallow a hysterical giggle when I say that but I’m still trying to accept all that comes with it. Now that I’m not recovering from years of starving and feeding as I should, my power is growing and honestly, it scares me and makes me a huge target. Luckily, the crazy of the apocalypse keeps me pretty distracted...
  • The Ultimate Team by Tricia Owens

    The Ultimate Team by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    With his team battered and broken, Lieutenant Black of the JCPD is forced to incorporate yet another psypath into the ranks, this time the beautiful prescient named Parker. But Parker is more than a new teammate, he's an important link to the past Black has been working so diligently to erase, and he's the first man who has ever claimed to love him...
  • Past Be Damned by Rebecca Royce

    Past Be Damned by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It is the end of days…. Ripped from her life and her loves, Teagan spent five hellish years in a demon infested mine. The darkness she experienced, living on within her long after her rescue. Lost without her loves, she worries as the darkness grows—she will not become the evil they have faced...
  • Centauri Doll by Wendy Rathbone

    Centauri Doll by Wendy Rathbone

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hades is a Slave King, one of the most powerful and wealthy beings in the galaxy. But all he wants is to be left alone with machine servants and his collection of broken robots. So what makes him purchase a flawed vat-grown human slave boy? Doll, one of the most beautiful of the manufactured Botticelli pleasure slaves, is imperfect. He was pulled from his tank missing his right foot...
  • Shattered Alliance by Tricia Owens

    Shattered Alliance by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now that the terrible truth is out, life has only grown more complicated. Genesis has full control over the men of JC2, forcing them to commit atrocities across the city and destroying Black's reputation in the process. Even if Black succeeds in rescuing his teammates, the JCPD and Captain Dickerson may not be forgiving...
  • Daughter of Eden by Chris Beckett

    Daughter of Eden by Chris Beckett

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Angie Redlantern is the first to spot the boats—five abreast with men in metal masks and spears standing proud, ready for the fight to come. As the people of New Earth declare war on the people of Mainground, a dangerous era has dawned for Eden...
  • Princess Ninja Warrior by Erin R. Flynn

    Princess Ninja Warrior by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    My name is Inez Garner, and I’m a vampire princess, a fiancée to two wonderful men, girlfriend to two others, survivor of the apocalypse, awesome with a rifle… And in way over my head. Aether’s quest is FINALLY done. After five long, grueling years, I’ve collected and hidden everything She wanted me to. We made it to where my coven is supposed to be and handled the heartache that went with it...
  • Reign of the Vampires by Rebekah R. Ganiere

    Reign of the Vampires by Rebekah R. Ganiere

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She wants security. He wants freedom. Together their love could destroy the world. Ten years after the Outbreak of the V2000 virus turns the majority of humans into a mutated Vampire sub-species, the last remaining pure humans are the world's hottest commodity. In this new world, it's The Vampires that rule. Independent Danika Chekov refuses to let her father's legacy die...
  • Salvadore's Luck by Odessa Lynne

    Salvadore's Luck by Odessa Lynne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once every three years, humans become sexual prey to a species that has no control over the urge to mate because of a devastating attraction to human scent. Bad luck has dogged Salvadore for far too long, and this time it's put him in the midst of his worst nightmare. He's trapped inside the protectorate where the aliens called wolves roam free—and heat season has started...
  • Reclaimed by Maya Riley

    Reclaimed by Maya Riley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    What happens when your past catches up to you? We found the Salvaged Lands and were welcomed into this secret sanctuary. Inside we find survivors, some comforts, and people who bring us more questions than answers. The list of strange things going on is growing longer...
  • Hanger, Vol. 1 by Hirotaka Kisaragi

    Hanger, Vol. 1 by Hirotaka Kisaragi

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In a futuristic Neo-Tokyo, crime is rising rapidly in the wake of a new generation of super-drugs capable of enhancing the user's physical and mental abilities. Hajime Tsukomo is a new recruit on a federal task force trained to go after these powered-up criminals...
  • Gantz/30 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/30 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    As masses of helpless humans are brought aboard the gigantic alien mothership, the horror on the ground below looks like a picnic compared to what the monstrous invaders have in store for their prisoners. But despite the odds, Kei Kurono has infiltrated the mothership and its alien city, and he may have only one chance to find his lost love before she suffers a bizarre fate worse than death!
  • In The Blink Of An Eye by Tricia Owens

    In The Blink Of An Eye by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Sequel to Fearless Leader. Lieutenant Black, the young, driven leader of the Special Forces team JC2, has reluctantly brought the sexy and distracting empath, Calyx Starr, onto his team. To Black's dismay, he finds himself fending off not only Starr's relentless flirtations but also his growing curiosity about Black's past...
  • Something New Under the Sun by L.A. Witt

    Something New Under the Sun by L.A. Witt

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liam Lansing is heir to a prominent family of bio-modified vampires. That is, until he chooses the wrong lover and is cast down to the Gutter to scrape for his life. Daniel Harding is heir to Cybernetix and a prince of the corporate Sky. That is, until his ideology drives his father to put a price on his head, forcing him into the Gutter. But Daniel and Liam won’t vanish meekly into the smog...
  • Icehole by Kiera Dellacroix

    Icehole by Kiera Dellacroix

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Buried deep under the ice of Antarctica is something that interests the U. S. government. Secretly, and in violation of international treaty, a team of scientists and military personnel have been working deep underground to reach it. Lieutenant Commander Malory Lovecraft, an irreverent career officer, has been reassigned to take command of the station...
  • Waiting on a Bright Moon by J.Y. Yang

    Waiting on a Bright Moon by J.Y. Yang

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and its far-flung colonies— a role that is forced upon magically-gifted women “of a certain closeness”...
  • 想做男配其实也不容易 [It’s Actually Not Easy Wanting to Be a Supporting Male Lead] by mijia

    想做男配其实也不容易 [It’s Actually Not Easy Wanting to Be a Supporting Male Lead] by mijia

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    在这个无数配角们都在试图翻身、逆袭、转正的时代,. 他存在的意义就是要尽忠职守地扮演好男配的角色,为这个世界增光添彩。. 只可惜,不怕神一样的敌人,就怕猪一样的队友,. 他苦逼的发现,自己莫名其妙地被一个完全不按剧本走的家伙缠上了……. 为了自己的男配之路,他与那人斗智斗勇,相爱相杀,最终还是逃不过命运的捉弄。. ——想当一个尽职尽责的男配角肿么就辣么难!QAQ. "It’s Actually Not Easy Wanting to Be a Supporting Male Lead"...
  • After the End by Bonnie Dee

    After the End by Bonnie Dee

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The end of the world is only the beginning. Zombies are on the loose and the world is falling apart. In the tradition of apocalyptic novels such as Stephen King’s THE STAND, a group of strangers on a Manhattan subway are brought together in the name of survival...
  • Life and Limb by Michaela Haze

    Life and Limb by Michaela Haze

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    None of us expected to live more than a few days when our friends and family became the walking undead, consumed by the Mortem Mori virus. The zombie apocalypse came and went, and humans formed a new world in the chaos. The Bend is a law unto itself. A town on the edge of Haven City, and ruled by greed and fear. I might be a mercenary, but I'll do anything to protect my people...
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