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  • Crimson Rivers by bizarrestars, Zeppazariel

    Crimson Rivers by bizarrestars, Zeppazariel

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Regulus Black was fifteen the first time his name was called at a reaping. He's twenty-five when it happens to him again. A lot has changed in that time, and one of them is that he's ready to do whatever it takes to make it home. Nothing or no one will stop him, not even James Potter.James Potter has no plans to stop Regulus Black from making it home...
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    dystopia  sad  romance  lgbtq  fantasy  fiction  retellings  wlw
  • Compete by Vera Nazarian

    Compete by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    It's one thing to Qualify…But do you have what it takes to Compete?With Earth about to be destroyed by an extinction level asteroid, teenage nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl Gwen Lark, and a few of her friends and loved ones, barely Qualified for rescue onboard one of the thousands of ark-ships headed to the ancient colony planet Atlantis...
  • The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

    The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Two boys, alone in space.After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither remaining country on Earth can afford to scramble a rescue of its own, and so two sworn enemies are installed in the same spaceship.Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor, with no memory of a launch...
  • Perilous Waif by E. William Brown

    Perilous Waif by E. William Brown

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    My name is Alice Long, and I’ve always known I was different. When I was little I used to climb up to the highest branches of the housetree at night, and watch the starships docking at the orbital stations high above. Forty meters off the ground, watching ships thirty thousand kilometers overhead, with senses that could pick out radar pings and comm chatter as easily as the ships themselves...
  • Inside Divergent: The Initiate's World by Veronica Roth, Cecilia Bernard

    Inside Divergent: The Initiate's World by Veronica Roth, Cecilia Bernard

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling novel Divergent is now a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet!This eye-catching volume takes you inside the film version of Divergent...
  • Scout's Progress by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Scout's Progress by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    In the second novel of the Liaden Universe, Aelliana Caylon is a brilliant mathematician, but is convinced by her brother she has no worth beyond what value she might have in an arranged marriage. Then on a dare, she plays a game of chance and wins a starship. Now she must learn to fly if she is to escape her dastardly brother. Appeared in the omnibus "Pilot's Choice...
  • Memento by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Memento by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes an Illuminae prequel digital novella that gives readers a hair-raising glimpse into the calamity that befell the invincible AI system known as AIDAN–and the daring young programmer who would risk her life to keep it from crashing.AIDAN is the AI you’ll love to hate...
  • Rebels by Sarah Noffke

    Rebels by Sarah Noffke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Em returns to Austin Valley, but there are many things that don’t add up about her homecoming. She’s left Rogue behind and is adamant that Dr. Parker must leave the Valley with her. Zack agrees to help her, but soon learns she’s not telling the whole truth when Rogue comes storming back. With the threesome reunited, they work on a plan to stop the Defect crisis...
  • Vânătoarea by Lavinia Călina

    Vânătoarea by Lavinia Călina

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Continuarea romanului „Ultimul avanpost”Pentru fosta prinţesă Diane, viaţa a luat o întorsătură neaşteptată. Ajunsă la Avanpost şi implicată activ în misiuni aproape imposibile pentru oricine altcineva, dar nu şi pentru Subiecţi, ea află că diferenţele dintre persoanele care conduc grupul de rebeli şi cei din structura despotică a Regatului României par să nu fie atât de mari...
  • Undaunted by Kat Falls

    Undaunted by Kat Falls

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lane barely survived her first journey to the Feral Zone. The forbidden, overgrown landscape east of the Mississippi River was abandoned years ago when a virus spread through the population, bringing civilization to its knees.But Lane has crossed the quarantine line, and she knows the truth...
  • Reservation 1 by Krista Street

    Reservation 1 by Krista Street

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    To save the only man she's ever loved, she must pay a price.When Dr. Meghan Forester, a young researcher, helps create a vaccine for the deadly Makanza virus, her goal to annihilate the virus is coming true.But the question remains - what becomes of the Kazzies? They'll always be infected carriers of the terrifying virus...
  • Stray by Rachael Craw

    Stray by Rachael Craw

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evie is a Shield: designed to kill in order to protect, and the Affinity Project have finally come for her. But Evie isn’t ready for the sinister organisation to take control of her life, her body, her mind. She isn’t ready to follow their rules about who may live and who must die – not when it condemns the innocent...
  • Shield by Rachael Craw

    Shield by Rachael Craw

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evie is out of options. She must comply with the Affinity Project – obey their rules, play their deadly games, give up Jamie. And her losses keep growing. When she decides to help a small group of Shields trying to affect change, Evie finds herself in the firing line. Counsellor Knox is intent on revealing her secrets and shackling her to the Affinity Project for life...
  • Between Burning Worlds by Jessica Brody, Joanne Rendell

    Between Burning Worlds by Jessica Brody, Joanne Rendell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A traitor. A prisoner. A fugitive.Wanted by the Regime. Destined to save the planet.Laterre is on the brink of war. The Third Estate are rioting against the injustices of a corrupt system. The Patriarche, reeling from the murder of his only heir, makes brutal attempts to quash the unrest, while a new militant faction launches a series of deadly attacks...
  • Beyond the Night by Alexandra Bracken

    Beyond the Night by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    'A RIVETING EMOTIONAL READ THAT KEPT ME ON THE EDGE!'- Melissa Marr, author of the bestselling Wicked Lovely series, on The Darkest Minds The government-run 'rehabilitation camps' have been shut down, but kids with Psi powers are anything but free...
  • The Nemesis by S.J. Kincaid

    The Nemesis by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the heart-pounding conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Diabolic series, the Empire teeters on the edge of destruction as rumors spread that Nemesis is still alive.Three years ago, Tyrus Domitrian shocked the galaxy by killing the woman he swore to love forever. The woman for whom he upended the Empire. The woman with whom he wanted to build a new and brighter future...
  • Forgotten World by Kate L. Mary

    Forgotten World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Forgotten World, book six in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has decimated the human race and the dead have come back to claim it as their own...After the longest winter of her life, Vivian is thrilled to have Ginny back at her side...
  • Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks

    Final Battle by Michael R. Hicks

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Following Confederation, Final Battle is the last book in the saga of Reza Gard. Reza is caught up in a daring plot to assassinate the Confederation President, even as something goes terribly wrong in the Empire and its warriors lose their will to fight. Reunited with Tesh-Dar, Reza and his friends fight to save the woman he loves, with the fate of the Empire and Humanity hanging in the balance...
  • The Eve Illusion by Giovanna Fletcher

    The Eve Illusion by Giovanna Fletcher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The second book in the bestselling Eve of Man trilogy.Eve is the last girl on earth.For the last sixteen years, Eve has been a prisoner. Guarded by the Mothers. Trapped by her fate. Watched by the world.Until she took her chance, and escaped.Eve finally has the freedom she has wanted for so long, and with Bram she has the love. But both come at a price...
  • Courier Run by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Courier Run by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two new Liaden Universe® adventures! Novelette "Kin Ties" explores the ties that bind beloved kin -- and desperate enemies. Short story "Guaranteed Delivery" is a tale of love, leadership, and insurance fraud. Both stories appeared in slightly altered form on the authors' Splinter Universe website...
  • Striking Mars by Cidney Swanson

    Striking Mars by Cidney Swanson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fleeing for their lives, Jess and Pavel make it to the Moon, narrowly avoiding the attack on Space Station 92-AE. They should be safe and happy, but they discover they are not alone on Tranquility Base. The stranger they encounter seems uniquely qualified to leak their presence to Chancellor Lucca Brezhnaya, especially when the Marsians contemplate airing Lucca's political dirty laundry...
  • Catori's Worlds by Murielle Cyr

    Catori's Worlds by Murielle Cyr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Catori has all the odds stacked against her: a loner with mismatched eyes who hates school and just about everybody who goes there. Her ability to see things nobody else does makes her an oddball at school. She accidently boards the wrong bus to school one morning and is transported to a strange parallel world...
  • A Name Among The Stars by Mark Henwick

    A Name Among The Stars by Mark Henwick

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Heiress? They've already stolen the estates. I'm heir to nothing." When disgraced aristocrat Zara Aguirre barely escapes with her life from her home world, she hopes that she's found safety on the planet Kernow. She wants nothing more than to be left in peace, hidden away in a remote town on the wild and untamed western coast...
  • Dissolution by Michele Notaro

    Dissolution by Michele Notaro

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Oh god, no! Oh god help me… how am I going to save them? There’s just so much… blood… everywhere… I was supposed to protect them. I was supposed to keep them safe, but wherever I go more and more people are losing their lives, and nothing I do can save them. After so much loss, my family is breaking apart at the seams. The Taoree Legion is winning this war...
  • Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

    Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ocean’s Echo is a stand-alone, romantic space adventure, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit.When Tennal—a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster—is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone whose coercive powers are strong enough to control him...
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    space-opera  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  lgbtq  mlm  space
  • Suns Will Rise by Jessica Brody

    Suns Will Rise by Jessica Brody

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AN HEIR. A RENEGADEA CONVICT. A CYBORGA DÉFECTEUR FIVE REBELS. ONE REVOLUTION. It’s been three months since the Patriarche was beheaded, leaving behind no heir. From the outside, Laterre seems to be flourishing. General Bonnefaçon has cleaned up the streets, fed the hungry, and restored peace while the next leader is decided upon. But dangerous rifts threaten to shatter the planet from within...
  • Section 12 by Krista Street

    Section 12 by Krista Street

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    To save them, she'll risk everything.The last time Dr. Meghan Forester saw Davin and the other infected Kazzies, she made a heart-wrenching choice. Now, her new life is filled with loneliness.Trying to carry on while Davin and her friends are held captive on Reservation 1, Meghan begins a daunting position at Compounds 10 and 11 in Washington state...
  • On a Rogue Planet by Anna Hackett

    On a Rogue Planet by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Unlucky-in-love salvage mechanic, Malin Phoenix, didn’t intend to get caught up in a coup and kidnapped by a sexy cyborg. But she finds herself swept into an adventure to help the deadly, emotionless CenSec, Xander Saros, retrieve an ancient Terran artifact and save his planet...
  • Lost in Barbarian Space: A Phoenix Adventures Sci-fi Romance by Anna Hackett

    Lost in Barbarian Space: A Phoenix Adventures Sci-fi Romance by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A clash of cultures. Security agent versus barbarian warrior. On an expedition to a newly discovered barbarian world, an experienced security agent doesn’t expect to be working with a big, bossy barbarian warrior. Agent Honor Brandall enjoys her job as security agent for the Institute of Historical Preservation’s expedition ships. Adventures to distant planets – awesome...
  • Ultimul avanpost by Lavinia Călina

    Ultimul avanpost by Lavinia Călina

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Al treilea Război Mondial a luat sfârşit, iar România anului 2046 este Regat. Logodită cu prinţul Alex şi fiică a Ministrului de Interne, tânăra Diane trăieşte o viaţă luxoasă şi lipsită de griji, ocupată cu discursuri, dileme cu cea mai potrivită garderobă a zilei şi păstrarea aparenţelor cuplului regal...
  • Zero Hour by Bella Forrest

    Zero Hour by Bella Forrest

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The final book. The final mission. The final hour. Time's up. Everything Robin has fought for hangs in the balance, and she no longer knows who to trust. But when hiding is no longer an option for Little John, Nathan must put his decades-old plan into motion... whether they are prepared or not.Pre-order the heart-racing conclusion of The Child Thief series now...
  • Alone by Scott Sigler

    Alone by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler’s unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence.“We thought this place was our destiny—not our doom...
  • Rebel by S.M. Wilson

    Rebel by S.M. Wilson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Betrayal. Sacrifice. Survival. Welcome to The Extinction TrialsStorm and Lincoln's city is burning. The people are starving. The only place left to run is Piloria, the continent of monsters. It's up to Storm and Lincoln to keep their people alive as they colonize this lethal paradise. But will the biggest threat to their survival be the monsters in the jungle..
  • Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Bridge was opened.The promised land is real.A seventh Token is needed.The Bridge has been triggered, but the surprises don’t end there. What Rex found on the other side was unsettling, and with fresh information, he must race against time with his new allies as they search for their salvation...
  • Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Bridge was opened.The promised land is real.A seventh Token is needed.The Bridge has been triggered, but the surprises don’t end there. What Rex found on the other side was unsettling, and with fresh information, he must race against time with his new allies as they search for their salvation...
  • Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Lost Time by Nathan Hystad

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Bridge was opened.The promised land is real.A seventh Token is needed.The Bridge has been triggered, but the surprises don’t end there. What Rex found on the other side was unsettling, and with fresh information, he must race against time with his new allies as they search for their salvation...
  • The Wayward Prince by Hanna Dare

    The Wayward Prince by Hanna Dare

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Spaceships, daring heists, and interstellar intrigue!  Since murderous AIs drove humanity from Earth more than a century before, people have been rebuilding civilization. That doesn't mean the galaxy is anywhere close to being civilized. A liar and a scoundrel - and he's the good guy...
  • Shalia's Diary: Book 4 by Tracy St. John

    Shalia's Diary: Book 4 by Tracy St. John

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a compilation from the free serial story blog ‘Shalia’s Diary – A Clans of Kalquor Story’ by Tracy St. John. It is highly recommended you read Shalia’s Diary, Books 1, 2, and 3 before reading this story. Shalia’s Diary Book 4 picks up immediately where Book 3 left off. Shalia feels ready for a little fun when the Kalquorian transport docks for shore leave at the Xniktix Space Station...
  • Star-Crossed by Pintip Dunn

    Star-Crossed by Pintip Dunn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Princess Vela's people are starving.Stranded on a planet that lacks food, Vela makes the ultimate sacrifice and becomes an Aegis for her people. Accepting a genetic modification that takes sixty years off her life, she can feed her colony via nutrition pills. But her best friend is still getting worse. And she's not the only one.Now the king is dying, too...
  • Driven by Rebecca Royce

    Driven by Rebecca Royce

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *This book has been previously published. The author got her rights back and is republishing the book* My name is Rachel Clancy. Forty-six years ago, life as humanity understood it ended. Armageddon. Well, that’s what we call it, anyway...
  • Partners - Book One by Melissa Good

    Partners - Book One by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 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...
  • Losing Mars by Cidney Swanson

    Losing Mars by Cidney Swanson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jessamyn has survived a terrifying crash but lost her ship, joining Pavel, Ethan, and others in the dissenter settlement of Yucca. Now, Chancellor Lucca Brezhnaya believes Jess is out to destroy the Terran government, and Lucca will stop at nothing to find Jess...
  • Mars Burning by Cidney Swanson

    Mars Burning by Cidney Swanson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chancellor Lucca believes Jess and Pavel are dead, and now she's deadly determined to make certain Mars never interferes with her or her world again. Meanwhile on Mars, Mei Lo pleads with the Raiders to finish their second mission: disabling the Terran satellites. But the satellites aren't all that threaten the red planet...
  • Infiltrator by Peter R. Stone

    Infiltrator by Peter R. Stone

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For eighteen-year-old Ethan Jones, Nanako, and the surviving members of his foraging team, the trip back to Newhome is a nightmarish journey fraught with danger.When they do get back to Newhome, Nanako's dreams of a normal life are shattered when Ethan's jilted ex-fiancé makes it her personal goal to turn Nanako's life into a living hell...
  • Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a star system run by an oppressive galactic conglomeration, the only way to stay free is to have your own ship. And even that’s not a guarantee. Join the mercenaries of Mandrake Company as they combat bounty hunters, elude government traps, and battle nefarious finance lords in their quest to make their own destinies...
  • His by Command by Maddie Taylor

    His by Command by Maddie Taylor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two worlds. Two leaders. One dominant race, the other must yield and submit.He wants her, she desires him, but duty to their people must come first.Fate has twists and turns in store for them both. Leading an all-female crew on a deep space expedition weighs heavily on Maggie Vohlmer's young shoulders. Their mission, find a habitable planet to replace the dying Earth...
  • In Command by Aileen Erin

    In Command by Aileen Erin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Aunare Chronicles Novella*Amihanna di Aetes is used to fighting, surviving, and relying on her strength to get through the hard times. She thought the worst was over when she accepted her engagement to Lorne ni Taure, the High King of the Aunare, and claimed her place as the future High Queen.It should be easy to slide into her new role...
  • Fury by Hattie Jacks

    Fury by Hattie Jacks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s the monster in the cage. I’m the girl who never runs.I’m the alien's cleaner. The abductee who has to do their dirty work to stay alive.My latest job? I get to play nurse to an injured seven-foot alien with a wingspan the size of a small aircraft and an attitude problem. Lucky me...
  • Beneath a Trojan Moon by Anna Hackett

    Beneath a Trojan Moon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A flirtatious fortune teller + a sexy, single-minded marshal = a sexy, fast-paced sci fi romance Fortune teller Relda Dela-Cruz is a woman with a secret. One she'll do anything to conceal. She hides in plain sight on the market world of Souk, content with running her profitable fortune-telling business and never letting anyone too close...
  • In the Devil's Nebula by Anna Hackett

    In the Devil's Nebula by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ASIN: B00LTWLWSW updated version found hereHe lost it all. His career, his woman, his sanity. Two years ago, on a deadly mission to the lawless Devil’s Nebula, Commander Zayn Phoenix’s life imploded. Now the former Strike Wing pilot fills his days with dangerous adventures alongside his treasure hunter brothers. But his nights are another story: haunted by nightmares of one unforgivable act...
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