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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... -
![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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![Why Kill the Innocent by C.S. Harris]()
Why Kill the Innocent by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA brutal murder draws nobleman Sebastian St. Cyr into the tangled web of the British royal court in this gripping historical mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie.London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a snowdrift... -
![Mine to Share by Kennedy L. Mitchell]()
Mine to Share by Kennedy L. Mitchell
Five murders, one killer, and a chance at an unconventional happily ever after. Two years ago, flirty FBI agent Jameson Bend was the crush I left behind.Today, the grumpy Detective Slade is the man who stars in my dirty fantasies.When my autopsy findings connect five recent murders committed by a single suspect, Jameson and Slade join forces to help solve the series of homicides... -
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![Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss]()
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.And I will do whatever it takes to keep them... -
![Her Day To Die by Sage RelleAnne]()
Her Day To Die by Sage RelleAnne
My brother? He’s dead. My first love? Dead.I am alone. Until I’m not.My first love, well he had three brothers, and for some reason they are hellbent on not leaving me alone. No matter where I go or what I do, there they are. Always watching in the shadows, waiting for something to happen, but what?I try my best to steer clear of them, but in doing so I stumble across a mystery...Categorized as:
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![Gorgeous Misery by J.A. Huss]()
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... -
![Creeping Beautiful by J.A. Huss]()
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... -
![Everything Under the Sun by J.A. Redmerski, Justine Carver]()
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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![If She Only Knew by Lisa Jackson]()
If She Only Knew by Lisa Jackson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsShe can't remember anything... but she knows that she's in danger. A thrilling story of deadly secrets and missing memories, Lisa Jackson's first New York Times bestseller is now beautifully repackaged and republished for a brand-new audience of readers.It begins on a dark stretch of highway in northern California... -
![Jester by Renee Rocco]()
Jester by Renee Rocco
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI make being a criminal so much fun. But I have a problem.I broke Faith Decker's heart.It took her seven years to return to Mayhem.Now that she's home, I'm on a mission to win her back.When Faith gets caught in the crossfire of the Unholy's war with a drug lord, trust and believe I'll unleash hell on anyone who hurts her.Welcome back to Mayhem-where the villains are the heroes... -
![Find Her by Jessie Ellis]()
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... -
![Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant]()
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life. Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands... -
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Staged by Kim Fielding
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 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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![Colosseum of Lust by Meraki P. Dark]()
Colosseum of Lust by Meraki P. Dark
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power. ~Alfred Lord TennysonA 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... -
![Colossal: Dark Romance in Deep Space by Alexandra Norton]()
Colossal: Dark Romance in Deep Space by Alexandra Norton
"My colony ship needs a sacrificial lamb. Someone I can use to produce my heir. That’s you now, Kaia. But don’t worry. You’ll like it. When the cravings take hold, you’ll even need it. It may not be love, but you won’t know the difference and I won’t care."That’s what Orion Halen told Kaia after he brought her back to his ship. To him, she is just a means to an end...Categorized as:
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![We by Yevgeny Zamyatin]()
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 70 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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![Without a Net by Lyn Gala]()
Without a Net by Lyn Gala
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 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... -
![The Swede: A Novel by Robert Karjel]()
The Swede: A Novel by Robert Karjel
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Swedish security agent is summoned to interrogate a terror suspect held by the FBI —but the prisoner isn't the only one with something to hide.At a remote military base in the Indian Ocean, the FBI is trying to get a prisoner to confess. But the detainee, a suspect in an Islamist-inspired terror attack in the United States, refuses to talk... -
![Sold by Loki Renard]()
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... -
![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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![Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie]()
Delivering Evil for Experts by Annette Marie
I promised to avenge my parents.But their killer is still on the loose, and he's stolen more than my parents' lives. Now, as he draws closer to his mysterious goals, he's poised to destroy what little I have left.I promised to translate an ancient grimoire.But it holds the secrets of my family—and the secret history of demon summoning. I fear its answers as much as I need them...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... -
![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 Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 5 by Kore Yamazaki, Adrienne Beck]()
The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 5 by Kore Yamazaki, Adrienne Beck
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsA Fairy In NeedChise has taken great strides in overcoming her dark past, and is ready for a brighter future by Elias' side. As for the magus himself, he is finally able to put a name to the strange emotion he's been feeling for Chise. Meanwhile, a deadly threat looms. When a panicked fairy appears at Chise's bedside, begging for help, is there anything the young, novice mage can do.. -
![Kye by Nyssa Kathryn]()
Kye by Nyssa Kathryn
Sometimes it’s in the depths of hell, that one finds their angel.Samantha Jacobs thought she was aiding her government. She believed the chip she created, the one that could change the world, would be used for the good of mankind. But it was all a lie…and she discovered the truth too late. Now, Samantha will suffer dearly for her mistake... -
![Phantom Game by Christine Feehan]()
Phantom Game by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsUnbridled passion collides with an unearthly danger in this GhostWalker novel... -
![Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter]()
Shattered Bonds by Faith Hunter
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsJane Yellowrock must dig deep and find strength within herself if she is to survive in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series.Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker, and vampire killer-for-hire, but her last battle with an ancient arcane enemy has brought her low... -
![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... -
![Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark-Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul to Artemis for one moment of vengeance on his enemies. In return, they swear to spend eternity protecting mankind from the daimons and vampires that prey on them. Valerius isn't a popular Dark-Hunter - he's a Roman, which means that the largely Greek Hunters have a major grudge against him and his civilization for superceding them...
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