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  • First Against the Wall by Manna Francis

    First Against the Wall by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Who is leading the rabble to victory? Toreth shifted against the wall, trying to get comfortable. Between bruises and handcuffs, he didn't have much success. On the first day, in the first cell, the lights had been on, the water dispenser working, and the prisoner feeding schedule still running. Then the lights went out, and things had gone steadily downhill from there...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc
  • Quid Pro Quo by Manna Francis

    Quid Pro Quo by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When he agrees to do a favor for his old friend Liz Carey in Corporate Fraud, Para-investigator Val Toreth is hoping for a simple case. After all, kidnapping and dismemberment are all in a day's work for the Investigation and Interrogation Division...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  adult  bisexuality  book  contemporary
  • Control by Manna Francis

    Control by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Power Writes Its Own RulesGaining it, keeping it, or losing it, control is more than just a game--it's a critical tool for survival. No more so than in the Administration, where the Investigation and Interrogation Division's Val Toreth faces professional and personal hazards every day...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc
  • 180 Proof Vega by Santino Hassell

    180 Proof Vega by Santino Hassell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emilio Vega is a shit-talking, eighteen-year-old gunrunner who is dragged out of the world of crime he grew up in, and forced to work for a covert organization that deals in assassination and political intrigue.The full version of Volume 1 is expected to be published in 2015.Note: The first three parts of Volume 1 are available for free on the author's GR profile...
  • Can't Help Falling in Love with an Alien by Chloe Archer

    Can't Help Falling in Love with an Alien by Chloe Archer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    RiverWorking for the Alliance is a sci-fi nerd’s dream–aka mine–come true. I’ve even won the heart of my grumpy-sexy alien boyfriend. Nothing can bring me down, baby. I’m walking on freaking sunshine! Except now one of Kai’s douchey AF exes decides to turn up like a bad case of crabs. I don’t trust him one bit. But I’ve got even bigger problems to worry about...
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    crime  lgbtq  mlm  adult  aliens  book  classics  fiction
  • The Strangest Forms by Gregory Ashe

    The Strangest Forms by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Watson is dead. Holmes is alone. And Jack is desperate.Sixteen-year-old Jack Moreno is managing to hold his life together. Barely. After a terrible car accident leaves his father unable to work, Jack makes ends meet by dropping out of school and covering his dad’s custodial shifts at a school for troubled teens, high in the Wasatch Mountains...
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    mlm  lgbtq  crime  romance  mystery  young-adult  contemporary  dark
  • 默读 by Priest

    默读 by Priest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    lgbtq  mlm  crime  romance  mystery  fiction  contemporary  suspense
  • Games & Players by Manna Francis

    Games & Players by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It's all fun and games until somebody loses...Socioanalysts can read minds and motives at a glance, predict the future, manipulate the smallest actions of their unwitting puppets, and crush careers with a single word...or so the popular rumors say. Their arrival is dreaded everywhere in the European Administration, even the Investigation and Interrogation Division...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  adult  angst  bisexuality  book
  • Doomsday by Chris Morphew

    Doomsday by Chris Morphew

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Doomsday is the epic conclusion in the bestselling Phoenix Files series. After ninety-nine days of lock down, the end of the world is right on schedule.With less than a day to go until the end of the world, there’s nowhere left to hide. In a few short hours, the world’s population will be wiped out, and Phoenix alone will rise from the ashes...
  • Martyr by Chani Lynn Feener

    Martyr by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nix Monroe is in over his head.He thought he was smart enough to handle the Demons of Foxglove Grove and find his cousin's abuser. The plan was always to get in and get out. Lake, West, and Yejun have a different idea in mind, however, and the more time he spends in their clutches, the more of himself Nix seems to lose...
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    mlm  lgbtq  crime  romance  dark  sci-fi  enemies-to-lovers  fantasy
  • For Certain Values of Family by Manna Francis

    For Certain Values of Family by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Every silver lining has a cloud. After the revolution, stability returns for most of the citizens of the European Administration. Revolution has delivered a little more freedom, if not as much as its architects hoped. Some, however, are finding that change also brings more complications and fresh dangers...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  adult  book  dark  female-author
  • The Earth is Online ฝ่าวิกฤตพิชิตหอคอยดำ เล่ม 1 by Mo Chen Huan, 莫晨歡

    The Earth is Online ฝ่าวิกฤตพิชิตหอคอยดำ เล่ม 1 by Mo Chen Huan, 莫晨歡

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "ติ๊งต่อง! วันที่ 15 พฤศจิกายน 2017 โลกออนไลน์แล้ว" จู่ ๆ หอคอยดำขนาดมหึมาที่ปรากฏขึ้นเหนือน่านฟ้าทั่วโลกเมื่อหกเดือนก่อน ก็ส่งเสียงประกาศให้ทุกคนเข้าร่วมเกมที่หอคอยเป็นผู้สร้างและกำหนดกติกา..
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    lgbtq  mlm  dystopia  romance  fantasy  sci-fi  slow-burn  horror
  • Quis Custodiet by Manna Francis

    Quis Custodiet by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Where are all the good guys?No protests, no bombings, no subversion. Is it possible that in one part of the European Administration at least, almost all the citizens are happy with their lot in life? It seems unlikely...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc
  • Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Los Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery...
  • Boy's Toys by Manna Francis

    Boy's Toys by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Another short story in The Administration series.Warrick finds a new kink: guns...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • The Sinner and the Liar by Alice Winters

    The Sinner and the Liar by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sin is a hard man caught in a crumbling city filled with crime. After losing the love of his life, Sin feels like he has nothing left to live for. Drifting through life, he takes on mercenary jobs by day and drinks away the memories of a happier time at night. Life has no color and little direction until he saves a gorgeous young man from a vicious attack...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  action-adventure  adult  age-gap
  • The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow

    The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares.The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it...
  • Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver

    Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s 2050, a decade after a heatwave that killed four hundred million across the Persian Gulf, including journalist Marcus Tully’s wife. Now he must uncover the truth: was the disaster natural? Or is the weather now a weapon of genocide?A whistleblower pulls Tully into a murder investigation at the centre of an election battle for a global dictator, with a mandate to prevent a climate apocalypse...
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    dystopia  crime  sci-fi  mystery  fiction  ai  audiobook  murder
  • Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman

    Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Arc of a Scythe series continues with stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge...There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down...
  • Double Check by Malcolm Rose

    Double Check by Malcolm Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everton Kohter is a young man on death row -- in nineteen days the Authorities will have him executed by lethal injection. But Luke Harding and his airborne robotic sidekick, Malc, have been tipped off that Everton didn't commit the murder, despite the overwhelming evidence...
  • Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel

    Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sie bestimmen, wer du bistWenn dein Leben eine Lüge ist ... Als die junge und schöne Elektra Hamilton bei einem Reitunfall ums Leben kommt, erhält Isabel ein unerwartetes Angebot. Sie, die Elektra wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, soll deren Platz einnehmen. Sie muss lediglich für immer verschweigen, wer sie wirklich ist...
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    dystopia  lgbtq  book  fiction  mystery  young-adult  sci-fi
  • Nightmare by Steven Harper

    Nightmare by Steven Harper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Before Kendi learned to use his talent of navigating the plane of mental existence known as the Dream, he had to escape his physical existence as a slave...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  adult  aliens  audiobook
  • Salvaged Omega by Kian Rhodes

    Salvaged Omega by Kian Rhodes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three hundred and twenty plus years after the infamous witch trials, Salem still lagged significantly behind the rest of the nation in the rights of both Omegas and everyone who wasn't a human. Unfortunately for Sky - one of the unfortunate humans to have been born with the holdover Omega gene - that was where he was born...
  • Devil in the Details by Chani Lynn Feener

    Devil in the Details by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when you don't recognize the monsters in your bed?Gael Thiago hates his job.More than that, he hates how confused he's gotten. The past year has been one of the most complicated of his life, and he's been left feeling adrift in more ways than one...
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    mlm  lgbtq  crime  dystopia  romance  dark  sci-fi  mystery
  • The Nether: A Play by Jennifer Haley

    The Nether: A Play by Jennifer Haley

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on slippery ethical ground...
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    crime  dystopia  adult  book  dark  drama  fiction  mental-illness
  • HappyHead by Josh Silver

    HappyHead by Josh Silver

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2024An Amazon Best YA Book of the Year, 2023 An Irish Sunday Independent Book of the Year, 2023We are in an epidemic. An epidemic of unhappiness. Friends, here is the good news: HappyHead has the answer...
  • Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld

    Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cities at war. Identities stolen or hidden away. A love built on lies. In the second book of the New York Times bestselling Impostors, nothing is certain and anything can be taken away.When the world sees Frey, they think they see her twin sister, Rafi. Frey was raised to be Rafi's double, and now she's taken on the role . . . without anyone else knowing...
  • Kaleidoscope of Death Vol. 1 by Xi Zi Xu

    Kaleidoscope of Death Vol. 1 by Xi Zi Xu

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Open the wrong door… and you may never return.One ordinary day, Lin Qiushi discovers a black door in the corridor outside his flat—a door that shouldn’t exist. When he steps through, he finds himself in a world governed by a deadly set of rules, where cryptic villagers speak in riddles, and the only way out is to take their obscure “tests”. The reward for passing: a key...
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    lgbtq  mlm  dystopia  romance  horror  fantasy  mystery  contemporary
  • Fire in the Heart by Hailey Turner

    Fire in the Heart by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Surrender to vows. Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin has come a long way since being turned into a metahuman, and all he wants to do is marry the man he loves. A wedding is easy, but it’s the honeymoon where his past unexpectedly catches up with him. A future together. All Agent Sean Delaney wanted was a romantic honeymoon with his new husband...
  • Corpora Delicti by Manna Francis

    Corpora Delicti by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wealth Is the Only RealityOn the surface, stability has returned to Europe. According to all the official metrics released to news feeds, the Administration and the corporations are stronger and more united than ever. Only in the most secret of government surveillance departments and corporate security divisions would anyone suggest otherwise...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  adult  book  dark
  • Lost Bullet by Malcolm Rose

    Lost Bullet by Malcolm Rose

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the rotting slums of London, Luke and Malc are called to investigate the shocking murder of an attractive young doctor. The investigation eventually leads Luke to a bizarre cult called the World Church of Eternal Vision whose members believe that the entire medical profession is interfering with creation...
  • A Kidnapping by Adara Wolf

    A Kidnapping by Adara Wolf

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    During what should have been a boring family affair, Alex is kidnapped while trying to protect Tracht’s nephew. With Tracht’s sister concentrating on getting her son back, nobody is thinking about Alex—except Tracht, who will stop at nothing to get him back. This 20k short story continues the story of Alex and Tracht from "Under His Heel...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  adult  age-gap  book
  • In the Blink of an Eye by Tricia Owens

    In the Blink of an Eye by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  action-adventure  adult  angst
  • Baby X by Kira Peikoff

    Baby X by Kira Peikoff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder–or the craziest stalker–in this propulsive thriller.With a vivid imagining of the future, Gattaca meets Black Mirror in Kira Peikoff’s Baby X...
  • Blood & Circuses by Manna Francis

    Blood & Circuses by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's set to be a busy autumn in New London and beyond. With the ripples of the revolt still running through the European Administration, Val Toreth is slowly settling into the new flat he shares with Keir Warrick. But on orders from the very highest levels of the Administration, Toreth finds himself leaving his regular beat far behind and heading over the Atlantic to Washington D.C...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  adult  book  dark
  • Cold Fusion by Harper Fox

    Cold Fusion by Harper Fox

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a FoxTales edition of the book Cold Fusion previously published by Samhain Publishing. Other than the cover, this edition is the same as the previous version. Mallory is on the run from his whole life. He's been working for an environmental activism group, but he's out of control, trying to wipe out the memories of a tough childhood in his efforts to save the planet...
  • Edge of Nowhere by Felicia Davin

    Edge of Nowhere by Felicia Davin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kit Jackson has two talents in life. He can navigate the void known as the Nowhere to teleport himself across long distances and he can keep his mouth shut. These talents have earned him a reputation as a discreet, reliable Nowhere runner—he’ll smuggle anything for the right price—and that’s how Kit likes it. Morals don’t earn money, and neither do friends...
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    crime  lgbtq  mlm  action-adventure  age-gap  aliens  bisexuality  book
  • The Battle for Black by Tricia Owens

    The Battle for Black by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two men from vastly different backgrounds can’t fight their attraction to each other despite the forces that seek to tear them apart...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  action-adventure  adult  angst
  • Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant

    Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cutter Dunn is a ghost. Unchipped and unregistered he exists as a nonperson, living off-the-grid, unrecognized by the facial recognition software built into every smart glass device that provides everyone with everything they want and need. According to the official system, he doesn't even exist...
  • Friends In The Right Places by Manna Francis

    Friends In The Right Places by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Another short story in The Administration series.We get a look at I&I from an outsiders point of view...
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    crime  dystopia  lgbtq  mlm  abuse  adult  book  dark
  • Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

    Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the starsWelcome to the Grand Abeona home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way...
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    lgbtq  dystopia  crime  sci-fi  mystery  fiction  cozy  space
  • The Last Beekeeper by Jared Gulian

    The Last Beekeeper by Jared Gulian

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes your safe place... is not.When murder strikes a remote community, a reclusive beekeeper uncovers a horrifying secret that could destroy humanity.Jim Parker, a honeybee expert, has retreated to a quaint island in Lake Michigan with his teenage daughter after a terrible family tragedy. He longs to hide from an increasingly dangerous world...
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    lgbtq  dystopia  crime  sci-fi  horror  fiction  audiobook  mystery
  • WWW: Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer

    WWW: Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Webmind-the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web-has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated...
  • Guardian by Alex London, C. Alexander London

    Guardian by Alex London, C. Alexander London

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The pulse-pounding sequel to Proxy! Inspired by The Whipping Boy and Feed, this adrenaline-fueled thriller will appeal to fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent.In the new world led by the Rebooters, former Proxy Syd is the figurehead of the Revolution, beloved by some and hated by others. Liam, a seventeen-year-old Rebooter, is Syd’s bodyguard and must protect him with his life...
  • Fatherless by James C. Dobson, Kurt Bruner

    Fatherless by James C. Dobson, Kurt Bruner

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The year is 2042, and the long-predicted tipping point has arrived. For the first time in human history, the economic pyramid has flipped: The feeble old now outnumber the vigorous young, and this untenable situation is intensifying a battle between competing cultural agendas...
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    crime  dystopia  adult  book  christian  family  fiction  futuristic
  • Zero Hour by Jordan Castillo Price

    Zero Hour by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a world where life is disposable, two men fight to escape oppression and find the truth…together. Ernest just turned thirty. It’s time for retirement, freedom from the tedious drudgery of his job as a data clerk. Time to emerge from his pod and explore parts of the city he’s never seen before—to meet some actual people. And at the end of the month? Time to die...
  • Charlotte Illes Is Not a Teacher by Katie Siegel

    Charlotte Illes Is Not a Teacher by Katie Siegel

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The déjà vu is strong for 25-year-old former kid detective Charlotte Illes when she lands back in Frencham Middle School – this time as a substitute teacher with a sideline in sleuthing – in the second zany mystery based on the much-loved TikTok web series from @katiefliesaway...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  crime  coming-of-age  mystery  fiction  cozy  audiobook  humor
  • 2113 : Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush by Kevin J. Anderson, John McFetridge

    2113 : Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush by Kevin J. Anderson, John McFetridge

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    18 exhilarating journeys into Rush-inspired worlds The music of Rush, one of the most successful bands in history, is filled with fantastic stories, evocative images, and thought-provoking futures and pasts...
  • Android: Golem by Mel Odom

    Android: Golem by Mel Odom

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can't recall, this seemingly harmless mystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one of the few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake 3GI2RC isn't accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping...
  • The Third Claw of God by Adam-Troy Castro

    The Third Claw of God by Adam-Troy Castro

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Andrea Cort became a "war criminal" at the age of eight when an unexplained darkness invaded her soul.Now, decades later, the Devil is calling her.Employed by the Diplomatic Corps but secretly aiding the AI masters of the universe, Counselor Andrea Cort despises the powerful Bettelhines—unrepentant death merchants who have prospered from the annihilation of civilizations...
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