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  • Miles in Love by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles in Love by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Komarr—Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr, a planet that could be a garden with a thousand more years of terraforming; or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming project fails. The solar mirror vital to the project has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course, and Miles has been sent to find out if it was an accident, or sabotage...
  • Miles Errant (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #5, 5.3 & 8) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles Errant (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #5, 5.3 & 8) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Contains:. The Borders of Infinity. Brothers in Arms. Mirror Dance. Miles Naismith--in the person of his two alter-egos Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan--embarks on a perilous series of adventures, from the liberation of Barrayaran allies from a Cetagandan POW camp to the rescue of clone children scheduled to be murdered for their bodies.
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  • Miles, Mutants, and Microbes (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #4, 5.2 & 13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles, Mutants, and Microbes (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #4, 5.2 & 13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Content:. Falling free. Labyrinth. Diplomatic immunity. Miles Vorkosigan/Naismith : his life and times. Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume:. Falling Free—The Nebula Award-winning novel. Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer: mind your own business and do the job...
  • 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 HOME. AN EMP & POST-APOCALYPTIC SURVIVAL STORY. Days 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...
  • Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After disobeying orders and saving the planet of Alsea from invasion, Captain Ekatya Serrado returns home a hero and renegade, alongside Dr. Lhyn Rivers, now the foremost authority on a culture that fascinates and terrifies. They share a secret: they are tyrees, linked by an Alsean empathic bond that should be biologically impossible for two Gaians...
    Categorized as:
    military  science fiction  f-f  aliens  queer  length-long
  • Miles, Mystery & Mayhem (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #3, 5.2 &  9) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles, Mystery & Mayhem (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #3, 5.2 & 9) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Diplomat, soldier, spy - Lieutenant Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan of the Barrayarayan Empire, a. k. a. Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries, is a young man of many parts...
  • Dark Water Book Four by Xanthe Walter

    Dark Water Book Four by Xanthe Walter

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can their love survive the truth? Josiah is facing the ultimate showdown against his powerful enemy, but the stakes have never been higher. If he fails, he'll lose both Alex and his freedom. As he finally solves Elliot Dacre's murder, he also uncovers the devastating secret Alex has hidden from everyone...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  suspense  queer  science fiction  m-m
  • Until I Die by Deidra Duncan

    Until I Die by Deidra Duncan

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    LEAVE ME BEHIND meets THE HANDMAID’S TALE in this star-crossed dystopian romance by the author of LOVE SICK, Deidra Duncan. In the ruins of a nation, two enemies risk everything for a chance at justice… and each other. After the Fracture, nothing is safe—not love, not truth, and certainly not women...
  • 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 Fishing. Trapped. 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...
  • Annihilation by Adrienne Lecter

    Annihilation by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The end is nigh. They have survived the outbreak of the deadliest virus known to mankind. They have made it through the zombie apocalypse. They have triumphed over cannibals, assassins, kidnappers, and have faced their own mortality a million times over. Now all that’s left to do is take out the man responsible for it all...
  • Exodus by Adrienne Lecter

    Exodus by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They are here to find the cure—in a secret laboratory hidden underneath a metropolis overrun by zombies. What could possibly go wrong? Finding the French Resistance was only the first step in achieving their mission...
  • Alsea Rising: Gathering Storm by Fletcher DeLancey

    Alsea Rising: Gathering Storm by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    AN OLD ENEMY. A NEW THREAT. As Alsea’s space elevator nears completion, an unsettling rumor arrives: the Voloth are stirring once more. Lancer Andira Tal has been preparing for this since the Battle of Alsea, determined that her people will never again pay such a price. She will use every weapon at her disposal—including her own bondmate...
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    military  science fiction  f-f  queer  length-long
  • Alsea Rising: The Seventh Star by Fletcher DeLancey

    Alsea Rising: The Seventh Star by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Voloth have arrived. Their opening gambit upends months of planning. Their second assault leaves Alsea’s defenses scrambling. The third may end it all. While Captain Serrado and her forces desperately fight to prevent a catastrophe, Lancer Tal activates her secret weapon: the divine tyrees, led by Salomen Opah...
    Categorized as:
    military  science fiction  f-f  queer  length-long
  • Uprising by Adrienne Lecter

    Uprising by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the last vestiges of civilization crumble, who will prevail? Over two years have passed since Bree and Nate disappeared—and much has happened in the meantime. After leading a nomadic lifestyle for several months, they have started to rebuild a semblance of normalcy, moving between several established camps as the seasons change...
  • Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

    Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 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...
  • Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As the first Alsean to serve aboard a Protectorate warship, Rahel Sayana thought her empathic sense would be an advantage. She never imagined it could be a weakness. Captain Ekatya Serrado has her hands full with a new empathic officer, an attempted murder, and a missing cargo ship. Finding the lost ship only adds to her problems: its crew lies dead amid signs of alien predators...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

    The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    [A Miles Vorkosigan Story] Twenty year old Ensign Miles Vorkosigan plays detective in a murder case, and tests the balance of power as a member of the Barrayaran nobility. [Publisher's Note: The Mountains of Mourning was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the May 1989 issue of Analog...
  • Bedlam: Book One of the Prison Ship Sheol Saga by Nicholas Gaumer

    Bedlam: Book One of the Prison Ship Sheol Saga by Nicholas Gaumer

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Bedlam Galaxy lies at the heart of the Laniakea Supercluster and is a focal point for all of the wormhole transits spanning that great expanse. Among the many races drawn to and inhabiting its 10,000+ stars, humanity is one of the most recent and longest anticipated additions...
  • Revenge by Tana Stone

    Revenge by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some betrayals demand vengeance—no matter the cost. I was left for dead, and now I want revenge. The only thing standing in my way is Deklyn—the cocky Inferno Force warrior who helped rescue me and who now thinks he can protect me from myself. The gorgeous alien gets under my skin, but I refuse to admit how much I crave his touch...
  • Catharsis by Adrienne Lecter

    Catharsis by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Bree’s list of. Survive the next hour. Survive the next day. Survive the next week. Hold down solid food. Relearn how to walk. How to run. How to hold a gun. How to fight. Make Bucky Hamilton rue the day we met, and met again. And find out what the f*ck we are looking for in Europe. Books in the series (complete):...
  • Field of Dishonor by David Weber

    Field of Dishonor by David Weber

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious. But Manticore has domestic problems of its own, and success can be more treacherous than defeat for Honor Harrington...
  • Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen

    Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What does it mean to be human? What if the price of saving humanity is giving up your own? The year is 2322, and we stand upon the precipice of extinction. The invading Metigen armada has decimated the eastern third of settled space in a matter of days, leaving tens of millions dead...
  • Conqueror by Richard F. Weyand

    Conqueror by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ANOTHER INTERSTELLAR WAR! The Empire has won the war against the Alliance. But at the close of that war, an invasion fleet from the Democracy of Planets sought to annex Jasmine. So Jasmine annexed to Sintar, and Sintar destroyed that fleet, causing resentment that is driving the Democracy of Planets to go to war with Sintar. The Democracy of Planets is a much more deadly enemy than the Alliance...
  • Retribution by Adrienne Lecter

    Retribution by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The hunt is on—and there are only a million zombies standing in our way. Once more reunited after the successful attack on the slaver camp, Bree and Nate have a new goal in life: to hunt down the man responsible for turning hundreds of soldiers into mindless worker drones, and repeatedly drugging the arena fighters—Nate and Hamilton chiefly among them...
  • Survivors by Anna Hackett

    Survivors by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on…. Survivors contains three action-packed novellas in the Hell Squad series. Includes:. Nate – Long before the aliens invaded, former Marine Nate Caldwell came home a broken man. Going off-grid in a cabin he inherited in Australia’s Blue Mountains, he survived the invasion with only his dog Blue for company...
  • 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...
  • Holmes by Anna Hackett

    Holmes by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The battle of survival against the invading aliens heats up…but Hell Squad never quits. General Adam Holmes’ life is dedicated to keeping his small band of survivors alive. On the run, with only Hell Squad and the other soldiers for protection, they are making their last dangerous drive to the secret stronghold of the Enclave...
  • Dom by Anna Hackett

    Dom by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens intensifies, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival…. Squad Three berserker Dom Santora has an ugly past he can’t forget. Born and raised in the darkness, he spent his life before the alien invasion as a Mafia enforcer...
  • The McClane Apocalypse Book Ten by Kate Morris

    The McClane Apocalypse Book Ten by Kate Morris

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As the McClane saga continues, the family realizes that someone in their trusted, inner circle may just be the person who has leaked precious information about them, Fort Knox, and their community allies to the men who were running the highwaymen and ultimately to whoever they were reporting...
  • The Elimination by A.L. Masters

    The Elimination by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The survivors, with an unexpected last-minute change to their travel plans, move toward Fort Carson, Colorado in search of answers. It is a thousand-mile journey that provides unforeseen opportunities, unexpected losses, and tangled alliances. They must find the strength to endure the worst that the startling new world has to offer and to survive with their humanity—and lives—intact...
  • The Turning by A.L. Masters

    The Turning by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When humanity is threatened by an explosion at a Russian research laboratory, co-workers and friends in a small southern town must band together for survival. They realize too late that this is no ordinary plague. .. and that the enemy they have to fight may not be the only thing they need to worry about. Book One of The Salvation Plague series...
  • Niko by Anna Hackett

    Niko by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on…. Mackenna Carides is tough, strong, and excellent at her job as second-in-command of Squad Nine. She often works side by side with Hell Squad on some of the toughest missions to fight back against the alien raptors. Now she’s helping the survivors of Blue Mountain Base settle into their new home at the Enclave...
  • Levi by Anna Hackett

    Levi by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the middle of an alien invasion, a bad boy berserker collides with a spunky mechanic on a dangerous sabotage mission. Levi King has always lived rough. Raised by a biker dad, he fought for everything he had—including being president of the Iron Kings motorcycle club. But when the aliens invaded, he lost it all...
  • Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Mason Sykes had served many years in the Marine Corps for his country. His loyalty and sacrifice had left him disfigured—inside and out. He didn’t harbor regrets, especially since he’d finally found the peace and quiet he’d always desired on a Nebraska farm. Brenna Helm was a country girl through and through, right down to her cowgirl boots...
  • Finn by Anna Hackett

    Finn by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on…. For Hawk pilot Finn Erickson, flying is in the blood. Since the aliens decimated the planet, he spends most of his time flying Hell Squad into combat. With communication to other survivor bases cut off, he has no idea if his family is still alive and feels their loss keenly...
  • Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A new romantic action adventure for fans of romance thriller suspense and family romance series! One of six Italian brothers and a sister, JT Luciano is a widowed environmental biologist with a touch of the Sight who is preparing for an apocalyptic event he knows is coming...
  • Mercs by Jay Allan

    Mercs by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Earth has been a scarred ruin for three decades, its scattered people struggling to survive amid the poisoned and radioactive wreckage of the final war between its despotic Superpowers. While the people of Earth struggle to survive, out on the frontier, on a thousand worlds, mankind thrives and grows, building new civilizations and looking boldly to the future...
  • The Wife Pact: Emerson by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    The Wife Pact: Emerson by Frankie Love, Charlie Hart

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When an ultrasound reveals the truth about Tia’s pregnancy, the compound is riddled with fear. They know that it means one thing -- death. Unless Banks can find a cure. Stress weaves its way into Tia’s heart and a break from the harsh reality is just what the doctor ordered. But a trip to Emerson’s family home reveals yet another hidden secret and Tia is confronted with a shocking reality...
  • 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...
  • Roth by Anna Hackett

    Roth by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on…. Roth Masters is a protector to the bone. Driven by the losses of his past, he fights side-by-side with Hell Squad to protect the human survivors of the alien invasion. As leader of Squad Nine, he and his team are known for their perfect timing in a firefight...
  • Hidden Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Hidden Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There were a few things that got Owen Quade through his multiple combat tours. One was the dream of riding a custom motorcycle on a winding mountain road. The former Marine had finally managed to complete that goal, and along the way he’d gained his own bike shop and the mechanic to go with it. She was a rare beauty, and he wasn’t talking about his bike either...
  • Ash by Anna Hackett

    Ash by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the middle of an alien invasion, will the bad boy berserker catch the geeky tech genius? Computer genius Marin Mitchell is doing her part to help humanity survive the raptor invasion, working tirelessly to decrypt alien data. She spends her days working and drooling over a certain tattooed, biker berserker from Squad Three. But Marin knows the rules: geeks do not snag sexy bad boys...
  • Odium III by Claire C. Riley

    Odium III by Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this life, nothing is simple. .. not even DEATH In the third instalment of the Odium series, having distanced herself from Mikey, Nina is on a mission. She's seeking a woman who could be the answer to all their problems. .. or just another nightmare made reality. Travelling alongside Nova, the two women are faced with countless threats and inexplicable circumstances. .
  • Partners - Book One by Melissa Good

    Partners - Book One by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do with much less. People survive on what they can take from the sea and with foodstuffs supplemented from an orbiting set of space stations...
  • Targeted by Susan Hayes

    Targeted by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Alliance Commanders Brandt Carver and Hawke Summers have a new mission. Take command of Space Station: Alpha X2, get it running smoothly again, and find out how the last station commander wound up murdered in the middle of a Krytos sanctuary...
  • Odium IV: The Dead Saga by Claire C. Riley

    Odium IV: The Dead Saga by Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Dead Aren’t the only thing to fear…. A kid, an old lady, and a heartbroken man…what could possibly go wrong? Mikey is holding true to his promise to Nina, and is doing everything he can to keep the group alive. But when something attacks the threesome in the middle of the night, things begin to take a turn for the worst. Luckily a new group—the N. E. O...
  • A Wilderness Within by Emma Castle

    A Wilderness Within by Emma Castle

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    The world he knows and loves is gone…. Lincoln Atwood survived the contagion that wiped out the nine tenths of humanity. As the last survivor in a secret government bunker and a Delta Force soldier, he knows that the other survivors are scared, angry and dangerous, just like him. After weeks alone with the mummified bodies of his colleagues, he escapes the bunker...
  • Noah by Anna Hackett

    Noah by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The battle of survival against the invading aliens heats up…but Hell Squad never quits. Tech genius Noah Kim works day and night to keep the survivors at Blue Mountain Base with lights, power and hot water. He’s also working on a top secret project to help keep them safe. He’s tired, stressed and under pressure—and one woman adds to it all...
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