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Seasons of War by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before…War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror... -
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Masks by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWhat makes a hero?For years, Sienna Nealon has worked with the U.S. government to protect the world against other people with powers beyond those of a normal human. But after several clashes with the current administration, she finds herself with a new employer, an independent agency dedicated to helping stop threats to humanity... -
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The Liar's Knot by M.A. Carrick
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTrust is the thread that binds. And the rope that hangs.In Nadežra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city’s filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look.Derossi Vargo has always known... -
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Unyielding by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn a world of people with powers, Sienna Nealon has long been the one who maintained the order. But now she finds herself on the other end of the law, cast out and abandoned by her friends. On the run, hunted by relentless and implacable foes, she will face her greatest challenge – an enemy who holds a seat of power so great that even Sienna may not be able to stand up to him... -
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![Hero by Robert J. Crane]()
Hero by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRevelen – A mysterious Eastern European country, shrouded in mountain peaks and ruled by a tyrant so forbidding that his legend formed the basis for Dracula. For years, Revelen has interfered in the outside world, causing chaos and sending all manner of trouble Sienna Nealon's direction. Now, at last...she finds herself in the heart of Revelen, and face to face with this greatest of threats... -
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Hollow by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSienna Nealon is the most powerful person in the world. She's beaten every enemy that has ever come at her, faced threats of every conceivable kind and bested all of them... -
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Small Things by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 21 ratings“Guy Friday is a hemorrhoidal pain in my a-” Sienna Nealon doesn't need any complications. On the run from the law, trying to carve out as much of a life for herself as she can, the last thing she needs is the idiotic Guy Friday pounding on her door one night, wounded and begging for help... -
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Grave Measures by R.R. Virdi
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhat do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, has forty-four hours to find out. To make matters worse, his years of body-hopping and monster-hunting are catching up with him. He’s losing his mind. An old contact has shut him out... -
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Prisoners by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSienna Nealon has dedicated her life to keeping those with powers from breaking the law at will. After years of filling a prison for the powered called the Cube, a Supreme Court decision opens the floodgates and lets all of them out again. Now Sienna finds herself going from hunter to hunted as the US government turns a blind eye while the former inmates target her and her friends for death... -
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Dead Sea by Pandora Pine
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a new client asks the West Side Detectives to look into the Redcoat Murders on Dead Man’s Rock in the years before the start of the Revolutionary War, Ronan O’Mara thinks he might have the perfect case to put his new detective agency on the map. The only problem is that while Ronan’s specialty is cold case murders, he’s never investigated a case nearly three centuries cold... -
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Dragon by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter a forced job transfer, a kidnapping incident in Northern Virginia sends FBI Agent Sienna Nealon along a dark path, trying to unravel the mystery. But kidnapping gives way to murder, and soon Sienna is racing against time, fighting against diplomats and Washington DC bureaucrats, trying to stop a power that may finally outmatch her own... -
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Apex by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsShe was going to be called “Big E” like her predecessors, though Eric Simmons didn’t know that. All he knew was what he could see, what he could hear, and what he could taste … and that was mostly fear.He could almost feel it oozing out of every pore, hard-spiked adrenaline on his tongue as he walked toward the big graving dock where they were building the ship... -
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Enemies by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFar from home, having failed in her quest to kill Old Man Winter, Sienna Nealon finds herself in the city of London, working with Omega, her oldest enemies...Categorized as:
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Second Guess by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFinally free of the Network's control, Sienna Nealon returns to her hometown of Minneapolis. But a long-awaited reunion with her friends doesn't last long, because a new threat is rising, one that may conclude with the world itself coming to an end... -
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![Casting Light by Alice Winters]()
Casting Light by Alice Winters
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBastianWhen life dragged me down, I assumed I’d never get back up. I never guessed that Andras—the dark magic user I was always told to fear—would not only give me a helping hand but draw me into his arms and protect me from those who wished to harm me.I never imagined that Andras and his “danger noodle” would be there to make me laugh, to care about me, and show me what it means to be loved... -
![Shadows in the Water by Kory M. Shrum]()
Shadows in the Water by Kory M. Shrum
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeet Louie Thorne. They didn't kill her — and they'll soon regret it.When DEA agent Jack Thorne's house is stormed by vengeful drug lords, both he and his wife are shot dead. Only his daughter Louie survives — by using a terrifying power that defies reason.Piecing together a life in his absence, Louie embraces her gift and her rage under the force of a single need: revenge... -
![Jane Doe and the Key of All Souls by Jeremy Lachlan]()
Jane Doe and the Key of All Souls by Jeremy Lachlan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJane Doe is in more danger than ever before. Her father is still imprisoned. The Manor, the hallowed world between worlds, is still dying. The villainous Roth is still searching for the mythical, all-powerful Cradle Sea. Worst of all, Jane has learned that she is, literally, one of the keys needed to stop him... -
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The Toymaker's Son by Ariana Nash
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPatience, little puppet. The night is long, and we have just begun. After the suspicious death of Jacapo, the well-loved toymaker, criminal investigator Valentine Anzio returns to his hometown of Minerva to help solve the suspected murder. He’d hoped never to go back. Perhaps things have changed and the nightmares won't plague him... -
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Whatever happened to the young, young lovers? by georgia_sk
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRegulus Black, presumed dead for over 2 years, shows up at an Order of the Phoenix meeting with 6 mangled horcruxes and Voldemort's corpse... -
![The Mossheart's Promise by Rebecca Mix]()
The Mossheart's Promise by Rebecca Mix
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen 12-year-old fairy Ary Mossheart sets out in search of a cure for the mold eating her mother alive, she makes a horrifying discovery: her entire world is actually trapped inside of a giant, rotting terrarium they were meant to leave 100 years ago. Worse, her former childhood-chosen-one Gran knew about the terrarium, and lied... -
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Silhouette by Robin Hale
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDr. Molly Fawn’s life is surprisingly normal, considering that she spends her days running support for a man who can fly and lift city buses with one hand. But when Molly interrupts the Silhouette — the city’s most notorious thief — in a middle of a job, everything gets a bit more exciting... -
![There by Denise Grover Swank]()
There by Denise Grover Swank
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJulia Phillips’ world is an alternate universe away. Trapped in a land where government leaders want her dead, Julia is forced to run for her life with Evan and Reece, the two boys who brought her here. They’re on their own in a hostile landscape ruled by scavengers and thieves... -
![Shock: A Virals Short Story by Kathy Reichs]()
Shock: A Virals Short Story by Kathy Reichs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA riveting short story that takes us back to the beginning of the Virals series.A dazed Tory Brennan steps off the plane in Charleston. Reeling from the recent death of her mother, and nervous about meeting her dad for the first time, she could hardly be less excited at the prospect of starting this new chapter of her life...Categorized as:
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Queen of Volts by Amanda Foody
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsReturn to the City of Sin, where the final game is about to begin…and winning will demand the ultimate sacrifice.Only days after a corrupt election and brutal street war, one last bloodthirsty game has begun. The players? The twenty-two most powerful, notorious people in New Reynes... -
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![The Cross by Scott G. Mariani, Sean McCabe]()
The Cross by Scott G. Mariani, Sean McCabe
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe vampires call it the Cross of Ardaich: a relic thought to have been destroyed in the war between the Federation and the rebels. But it has been found, and its incredible powers could signal the end of civilization...A cannibalistic serial killer becomes the perfect tool for the race of the Ubervampyr. His mission: find the cross. His reward: join the ranks of the undead... -
![The Forest at the Heart of Her Mage by Hiyodori]()
The Forest at the Heart of Her Mage by Hiyodori
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter years of city life, Tiller is finally ready to revisit the magical forest where she grew up. But the forest has turned deadly, and Tiller has no magic of her own. To survive, she’ll need a bodyguard.Tiller finds only one mage willing to escort her. A woman named Carnelian: a soldier with a pretty face and a dodgy reputation... -
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Alone, Untouched, Soulless by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is a collection of the first three titles in The Girl in the Box Series, which are about a teenage girl who develops powers far beyond those of a normal human, and her battles against those who would use her against her will. (Approx. 185,000 words total.)Books included:1. Alone2. Untouched3...Categorized as:
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Rise by Ellen Goodlett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSisters Akeylah, Ren, and Zofi are all a step closer to their dying father's throne, a step closer to the crown that will allow one of them to rule over Kolonya. But the sisters' pasts continue to haunt them. Each hides a secret marked with blood and betrayal, and now their blackmailer is holding nothing back... -
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They Stay by Claire Fraise
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNothing is as important to sixteen-year-old Shiloh Oleson as her little brother Max. So when the six-year-old goes missing without a trace, a heartbroken Shiloh refuses to believe nothing can be done and sets out to find him.When one of Shiloh’s classmates says she knows where Max is, Shiloh hesitates to believe her. Francesca is creepy... -
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The Consciousness: When love never dies by Claire Highton-Stevenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey’ve walked among us for centuries, but you’d never know.Plasmadians hide in plain sight, long since outliving the myths and rumours about vampires and Dracula.On a dark and lonely street, Journalist Ruth Evan’s finds herself in trouble, until she is rescued by a man with a story to tell, a story she will help him keep secret... -
![Fate of the Argosi by Sebastien de Castell]()
Fate of the Argosi by Sebastien de Castell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe third utterly compelling fantasy adventure in the ARGOSI trilogy, exploring the origins of the SPELLSLINGER series to enrapture devotees as well as newcomers alike.While liberating a notorious thief from prison, Ferius Parfax encounters an inmate named Chedran, one of the last living members of her people, the Mahdek... -
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The Broken Heavens by Kameron Hurley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe bloodsoaked concluding volume of Kameron Hurley’s epic fantasy, the Worldbreaker Saga, is unleashed.The Dhai nation has broken apart under the onslaught of the Tai Kao, invaders from a parallel world... -
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Chaos Moon by Richard Amos
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 10 ratings**Contains potential spoilers Don't read if you haven't read First Moon****Some problems are sky high. Literally.The moon is stuck all over the globe, not going down at any time of the day. There's zero sunrise anywhere, and no one has a clue what to do. There’s panic in the streets, and the world is holding its breath as if everything is about to go mental... -
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Alex Wise vs. the End of the World by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the summer of the apocalypse. One 12-year-old boy leads the charge against the forces of evil as he tries to stop the Four Horsemen from taking over the world in the start to a wildly funny and addictive fantasy series about accepting yourself and finding your inner hero.Alex Wise feels like his world is ending... -
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![Going Viral by Amy Alward]()
Going Viral by Amy Alward
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThere’s trouble in Nova and the citizens of the kingdom must once again put their faith in Samantha Kemi to save the day in the final novel of the “charming and humorous” (Kirkus Reviews) Potion Diaries series.After the royal tour, Samantha Kemi thought she could take a break from saving the day... -
![The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs]()
The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve doesn’t mind juvie. He’s good at dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day is more than his drunk mother provided. In juvie, the rules never change and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has life figured out.So when he’s assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, Shreve takes the younger boy under his wing... -
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City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturning as a zombie after being bumped off by a rival crime boss, Joe Sunday tries to locate a talisman that can grant immortality before every other thug in Los Angeles can find it...Categorized as:
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Laser Visions by Kaje Harper
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBiology professor Roman Janz was walking across campus and planning his next plant-collecting trip to Brazil, when something stung him on the neck. And now… now he’s wandering in the dark, in the blue, floating, disembodied, and confused. There has to be a good explanation, if he can just find someone, anyone, he can actually talk to about it... -
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Devil Take Me by Rhys Ford
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTemptation lurks around every corner in worlds sometimes dark, sometimes lurid. Giving in is both dangerous and satisfying, though never in the ways one expects. While these enticements offer a vast range of benefits and boons, the cost is a soul and the devil expects his due. Sometimes suave and charming or calculating and cruel, these devils have schemes and desires of their own... -
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The Slippery Map by N.E. Bode, Brandon Dorman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you've ever whiled away an afternoon dreaming of another world, then you know that place is real.Oyster R. Motel has dreamed of another world for almost his whole life. (But that's only understandable—he's been raised in a nunnery. Do you think nuns approve of swinging from the belfry? Of raising tadpoles in the holy water? Of playing the organ at all hours? They do not...Categorized as:
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Cold Fire by John Passarella
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA brand-new Supernatural novel that reveals a previously unseen adventure for the Winchester brothers, from the hit CW series! While replacing sections of his rotten wooden fence, Dave Holcomb, a new homeowner in Braden Heights, Indiana hears a baby’s cry from behind his utility shed, and investigates. Hours later, his wife returns home to find his eyeless corpse...Categorized as:
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![All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody, Christine Lynn Herman]()
All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody, Christine Lynn Herman
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Blood Moon rises. The Blood Veil falls. The Tournament begins.Every generation, at the coming of the Blood Moon, seven families in the remote city of Ilvernath each name a champion to compete in a tournament to the death.The prize? Exclusive control over a secret wellspring of high magick, the most powerful resource in the world--one thought long depleted... -
![The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting by Natalie C. Parker]()
The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting by Natalie C. Parker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis riveting, superpowered adventure unveils a shadow world of Talented bounty hunters—and plumbs the nature of identity, deadly secrets, and found family.Tru has been hiding all her life. Her parents taught her to conceal her bastion Talent: indestructible skin, muscles, and bones. In a world where Talents are common and varied, no one trusts a bastion—they’re too powerful... -
![The Helm of Midnight by Marina J. Lostetter]()
The Helm of Midnight by Marina J. Lostetter
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA legendary serial killer stalks the streets of a fantastical city in The Helm of Midnight, the stunning first novel in a new trilogy from acclaimed author Marina Lostetter.In a daring and deadly heist, thieves have made away with an artifact of terrible power--the death mask of Louis Charbon... -
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![League of Liars by Astrid Scholte]()
League of Liars by Astrid Scholte
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this fantasy thriller, four teens charged with murder and the illegal use of magic band together to devise the ultimate jailbreak.Ever since his mother was killed, seventeen-year-old Cayder Broduck has had one goal--to see illegal users of magic brought to justice... -
![Collide by Shelly Crane]()
Collide by Shelly Crane
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSherry has always known there was something out there. She's eighteen, works for a tabloid newspaper in Chicago and has a brother, Danny who is a lazy mooch. They live a pretty normal dull life with hippie parents and a normal existence. Then the moon dissapears and people start to go missing only to reappear later, but different... -
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Dark Dreamer by Jennifer Fulton
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBest selling horror author Rowe Devlin has had two flops in a row and keeps falling in love with straight women. Seeking inspiration and a fresh start, she abandons life in Manhattan for an old Victorian house in Maine. But Dark Harbor Cottage is a far cry from the tranquil writing environment she envisioned. For a start, the place is haunted, and the ghost is none too friendly... -
![Splintered Lies by Diane Adams, R.J. Scott]()
Splintered Lies by Diane Adams, R.J. Scott
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoe is consumed with grief about his wife and baby, and wants nothing more than to lash out. Nick is Joe's best friend, but he will do anything to help Joe fight the people who want to kill them both.Joe Christie is consumed with grief and when new information about his wife and baby comes to light his first instinct is to kill.Nick Alexander is first and foremost Joe's best friend... -
![Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan]()
Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan you save someone from something that’s already happened?Daniel’s expectations for his forced vacation with his father at the Leisure World Holiday Complex are low. He hates sports, and his father is mostly lost in drink and depression. But then he sees a strange girl swimming in the fake lake, and everything changes... -
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Bad Graces by Kyrie McCauley
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYellowjackets meets House of Hollow in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s gripping and magical YA thriller following a group of young women as they face the stress of harsh elements, a mysterious monster, and an unraveling of secrets after their yacht is wrecked off the coast of North America.Liv Whitlock knows she doesn’t belong there...
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