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  • He Who Fights with Monsters 6: A LitRPG Adventure by Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell

    He Who Fights with Monsters 6: A LitRPG Adventure by Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Experience an isekai culture clash as a laid-back Australian finds himself in a very serious world. See him gain suspiciously evil powers through a unique progression system combining cultivation and traditional LitRPG elements. Enjoy a weak-to-strong story with a main character who earns his power without overshadowing everyone around him, with plenty of loot, adventurers, gods and magic...
  • College Arcane by John Conroe

    College Arcane by John Conroe

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Book 8 of the Demon Accords. College. A time of transition from youth to young adulthood. New lessons, new responsibilities, new distractions. A period of life treasured by most. Unless you happen to attend an institute of higher learning where the bullies are werewolves, the teachers are sadists, and the pretty girls are all deadly...
  • System Escape by Tom Larcombe

    System Escape by Tom Larcombe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Marc and his party have finished their zeppelin and taken it out to try to discover other Safe Zones. Their intent is to set up trade routes between all the different Safe Zones in order to give them a better chance to survive.The second Safe Zone they discover with the zeppelin is nearly as large as Any Port. It even has its own ring of outlier Safe Zones, or a partial ring at least...
  • Seraph by Lily Mayne

    Seraph by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    I’ve already mentally prepared myself to kill the screaming, murderous monster in the cage outside our camp.I’m used to it. It’s what I do here. Kill monsters and other people. And this monster, Seraph, is particularly unstable—has been since the moment he arrived from Collector Mary’s monster menagerie to the west, where the military stashed him away.He’s in pain. I can see it...
  • The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews

    The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    We are at war. The interdimensional invasion brought us unimaginable suffering, but it also awoke talents slumbering deep within us, a means to repel and destroy our enemy. Every day new gates open, leading to breaches filled with monsters and valuable resources. If you are a Talent, your country needs you. The world needs you. Be the hero you were born to be. Adaline is a Talent...
  • Zero Hour by Will Hill

    Zero Hour by Will Hill

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jamie Carpenter and the rest of Department 19 know when the world will end. It ends when Zero Hour comes. And Zero Hour…is here.As Dracula continues his rise, Department 19 is desperately trying to keep the forces of evil at bay. Then, an unexpected source brings a ray of hope, sending Jamie and Larissa on a dangerous mission to find the one thing that could turn back the darkness for good...
  • Toxicity by Robert J. Crane

    Toxicity by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Romeo and Juliet, meet Bonnie and Clyde. June Randall and Elliot “Ell” Lefavre are young bandits on the run, using their powers to commit a string of robberies along the Florida coast when they run up against the long arm of the law in the form of FBI Special Agent Scott Byerly...
  • The Burning Shadow by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Burning Shadow by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    When Evelyn Dasher crossed paths with Luc, she was thrown headfirst into the world of the Lux—only to discover that she was already far more involved in their world than she ever suspected.Because the Luxen aren’t the only ones with a hidden past...
  • Rebellion by Dave Willmarth

    Rebellion by Dave Willmarth

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The one year Stabilization period has ended, and the aliens are colonizing earth! Allistor and his people have prepared as well as possible, and now they'll find out if it was enough. In this third book of the Shadow Sun series, Earth's survivors continue to fight for their lives, and to reclaim as much of the earth as they can for the human race...
  • Tormented by Robert J. Crane

    Tormented by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Sienna Nealon is a woman with powers far beyond those of a normal human. As head of the unit in charge of policing others with abilities like hers, she has fought more battles than even she can count. But after a case gone bad, Sienna ends up suspended from her job, cooling her heels on Bayscape Island, a picturesque town in southern Lake Superior, seeking a peace that she finds illusive...
  • Power by Robert J. Crane

    Power by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sienna Nealon seems like a woman beaten. Imprisoned by her enemies, facing the extinction of her entire race, she is up against overwhelming odds. But overwhelming odds have never stopped her before...
  • Hunters by Robert J. Crane

    Hunters by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Exiled from her home, Sienna Nealon finds herself among the windswept fields of Scotland, stalking a dangerous murderer who has more in common with her than any other foe she's ever faced. But when the killer changes the game, Sienna will be forced to into a contest with a quarry more canny than she's been tested against before - and led into a confrontation that will change her life forever...
  • Winterfall by John Conroe

    Winterfall by John Conroe

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    With Declan O'Carroll on Fairie and Chris Gordon on Earth what could go wrong? Try everything. Scheming elves, deadly zombies, killer goblins, flaming dragons and dirty diapers. With a growing, insidious threat to Earth, Chris and Tanya race to save lives while Declan, Stacia and friends work just as hard to save their own lives on an alien world, far removed from the comforts and safety of home...
  • Destiny by Robert J. Crane

    Destiny by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    NOTE: This is a tightly intertwined series wherein each book builds on previous volumes.In the aftermath of her confrontation with Sovereign, Sienna Nealon finds herself low on allies. The organization Century continues their genocide of the entire race of metahumans unchecked, working toward an ultimate goal that they have yet to reveal...
  • Firstborn: The Complete Series by Isla Frost

    Firstborn: The Complete Series by Isla Frost

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Humans are prey. Holding off the hunters will require falling in with the enemy.For the first time, grab the complete box set of the bestselling trilogy readers have dubbed "SPECTACULAR," "BRILLIANTLY IMAGINATIVE," and "UNPUTDOWNABLE."The invaders didn't come in spaceships. They stepped through a glowing portal and brought death and magic to humankind..
  • The Fate of Ten by Pittacus Lore

    The Fate of Ten by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The sixth book in the thrilling, action-packed, New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! For years the Garde have fought the Mogadorians in secret. Now all of that has changed. The invasion has begun. If the Garde can't find a way to stop the Mogs, humanity will suffer the same fate as the Lorien: annihilation.There is still hope...
  • Swan Song by Robert McCammon

    Swan Song by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    The trade paper reissue of Robert McCammon's New York Times bestselling Swan Song.An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war.He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan -- and destroy her...
  • Telekinetic by Laurence E. Dahners

    Telekinetic by Laurence E. Dahners

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Telekinetic” is the first of a series of stories featuring the Hyllis family, who tend to inherit telekinetic “talents.” The story is set after a plague induced apocalypse. The resulting collapse of civilization has reduced mankind back to iron and horsepower.Tarc Hyllis’s mother (and his grandfather before her) could “feel” things with their talent...
  • United as One by Pittacus Lore

    United as One by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The seventh and final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! With United as One, this action-packed series comes to a surprising, breathtaking, and utterly satisfying conclusion. The Garde didn’t start this war, but they’ll do whatever it takes to end it once and for all. . . . The Mogadorians have invaded Earth...
  • Legacy by Robert J. Crane

    Legacy by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Time is running out for Sienna Nealon. The mysterious organization Century is only weeks from wiping out the entire metahuman race. But just as Sienna has made the decision to fight them, her past catches up to her and she finds herself in the hands of the U.S. Government. Secrets long buried begin to rise, putting Sienna and everyone she cares about directly in the path of Century..
  • The Revenge of Seven by Pittacus Lore

    The Revenge of Seven by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    The Garde have suffered an unbearable loss. Number Five has betrayed them. Eight is gone forever. Ella has been kidnapped. The others are now scattered.In Chicago, John makes the unlikeliest of allies: Adam, a Mogadorian who turned his back on his people. He has invaluable information about Mog technology, battle strategies, and weaknesses...
  • Omega by Robert J. Crane

    Omega by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Omega - a shadowy organization that is synonymous with power in the metahuman world. They have hunted Sienna Nealon since the day she first left her house, have killed countless Directorate agents and operatives, and now they unveil their greatest plot - Operation Stanchion, a mysterious phrase let slip by an Omega operative in the midst of a battle...
  • The Brightest Night by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Brightest Night by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Less than a year ago, Evelyn Dasher was a normal girl, living an unremarkable life.Now, she's on the run, under the protection of the beautiful, deadly inhuman Luc. She's been betrayed by those who were closest to her. And she's learned truths about herself that she never saw coming--things she once knew, and was made to forget. Truths with devastating consequences...
  • Enemies by Robert J. Crane

    Enemies by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Far 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...
  • Chaos by Sarah Fine

    Chaos by Sarah Fine

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    With Juri in control and everything in absolute chaos, Lela plunges into the depths of hell to free Malachi from creatures that have waited decades to exact their revenge. But the Judge has her own way of doing things, and Lela must work with Ana, the new Captain, who has a very personal mission of her own...
  • White: The Great Pursuit by Ted Dekker

    White: The Great Pursuit by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    "Never break The Circle."In this final installment of Ted Dekker's groundbreaking Circle trilogy, Thomas Hunter has only days to survive two separate realms of danger, deceit, and destruction. The fate of both worlds hinges on his unique ability to shift realities through his dreams...
  • Darkest Night by Will Hill

    Darkest Night by Will Hill

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The brave men and women of Department 19 have fought Dracula at every turn, but now Zero Hour has passed and the ancient vampire is at full strength. Inside Department 19, the Operators are exhausted and fractured. Jamie, Larissa, Matt and Kate are each struggling with their own demons. When the friends need each other most, they are further apart than ever...
  • Falcon by Victoria Danann

    Falcon by Victoria Danann

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    IT'S THEIR TURN! The next generation of the Knights of Black Swan have been inducted and vested with all the privileges and responsibilities of the legends in whose shadows they took their training. They are coming into their prime as servants of The Order, but still have most of their lives ahead. Or so each one hopes...
  • Full Blood by Donna Augustine

    Full Blood by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One monster wants my soul. One man wants my magic. Me? I want to be left alone to live my life out like a dull, one of the lucky people who were born devoid of magic. But that won’t happen because being born a Wyrd Blood gives me two choices in life: ruler or slave. I’d rather die than be a slave and I’m not cut out to rule. Instead I’ve been hiding out in the Valley...
  • Badder by Robert J. Crane

    Badder by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Here begins the second volume of Sienna Nealon's fateful trip to Scotland...
  • The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When seventeen-year-old Evie Dasher is caught up in a raid at a notorious club known as one of the few places where humans and the surviving Luxen can mingle freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally beautiful guy she initially assumes is a Luxen...but he is in fact something much more powerful...
  • The Rising by Will Hill

    The Rising by Will Hill

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    James Bond meets Dracula in this epic saga of one boy and a ton of weapons versus the world's oldest evil--vampires as you've never seen them before! Sixteen-year-old Jamie Carpenter's life was violently upended when he was brought into Department 19, a classified government agency of vampire hunters that was formed to deal with a little problem . . . known as Dracula...
  • The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore

    The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereThe Garde are finally reunited, but do they have what it takes to win the war against the Mogadorians?John Smith—Number Four—thought that things would change once the Garde found each other. They would stop running. They would fight the Mogadorians. And they would win.But he was wrong...
  • Weapon by Lynette Noni

    Weapon by Lynette Noni

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The #1 bestselling WHISPER series concludes with WEAPON:I already knew he was a psychopath. But now?He's more dangerous than ever.And I have less than twenty-four hours to stop him.After escaping Lengard and finding sanctuary with the Remnants, Alyssa Scott is desperate to save those she left behind ─ and the rest of the world ─ from the power-hungry scientist, Kendall Vanik...
  • Family by Robert J. Crane

    Family by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Just hours after finding Andromeda and crossing paths with her mother, Sienna Nealon finds herself up against a bigger threat than ever before. Omega, the organization that unleashed Wolfe and others upon her, has declared war on the Directorate and the first strikes have already landed...
  • Limitless by Robert J. Crane

    Limitless by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Two years after the explosive Girl in the Box Series ends, Sienna Nealon is called to London, England, where she is drawn into a murder investigation involving an old friend. Paired up with a young, handsome Detective Inspector, she finds herself in a race against time to unravel the mystery surrounding the murder as victim after victim falls to the careful, clever killer...
  • The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore

    The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    The Rise of Nine is the next thrilling instalment in the gripping Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore.'Number Four is a hero for this generation' Michael Bay, director of Transformers***Until I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together we are much more powerful...
  • Broken by Robert J. Crane

    Broken by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Sienna Nealon is a broken human being. Her lover is dead, her closest friends have deserted her, and her employers have betrayed her. From the ashes of her desperation, she must master the metahuman powers at her command and finally tame the souls that share her body for one ultimate purpose - revenge against the ones who destroyed her life...
  • The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

    The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew—and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve...
  • Demon Escape by M.J. Haag

    Demon Escape by M.J. Haag

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eden Terry survived the first ring of hell only to end up in the second one. With nothing but a trowel and her wits, she's determined to escape the work camp holding her prisoner. She dreams of finding a safe haven and living in the new, devastated world on her own. However, surviving alone after she escapes proves more difficult than she ever imagines...
  • House In Hiding by Jenny Schwartz

    House In Hiding by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The drumbeat of war pursues Kira as she sends the House along forgotten Reality paths searching for the grimoire that Carlene believes can stop the conflict. Or rather, the Spell of Amber within the grimoire that she hopes can preserve the Reality paths against the Emperor's siphoning of their power. Not everyone in the House agrees with Kira's choice, or trusts Carlene...
  • Redux by Jena Leigh

    Redux by Jena Leigh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    * Book #3 in the Variant Series * Alex Parker sits at the crossroads, out of time and out of place. She went back to fix the past, not to imperil the future. Rescued from the icy waters of the Bering Sea by one familiar face, she's helpless to find another. Declan O'Connell jumped with her, but where did he go? In the middle of her search, a new threat confronts Alex...
  • Fates by C. Gockel

    Fates by C. Gockel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Leader Who Rules Chaos, Rules the Realms… Two years ago Loki, God of Mischief and Chaos, destroyed a large chunk of Chicago’s financial district and then vanished into thin air. He still has not been found. Odin, ruler of the Nine Realms, is desperate. To find Loki, he sends his son Thor on a dangerous quest to consult the all-seeing Norns. But Thor needs humanity’s help..
  • The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore

    The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened in Ohio. John Smith, out there, on the run. To the world, he's a mystery. But to me . . . he's one of us.Nine of us came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us—if we all still believe in our mission. How can I know? There are six of us left. We're hiding, blending in, avoiding contact with one another . .
  • Fire in His Veins by Ruby Dixon

    Fire in His Veins by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    I’ve wanted Andrea since the moment I saw her. But she’s human. I’m drakoni. The only way I’ll stay sane and not lose myself to the madness that’s swept over my people is if I keep my mental walls strong. I have to give up everything that makes me a dragon. That means no telepathy, no fire breathing, and no battle form. I certainly can’t take a mate. Andrea can’t be mine...
  • Whisper by Lynette Noni

    Whisper by Lynette Noni

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A compelling, addictive fantasy with romance and real-world resonance.Teenaged Jane Doe (aka Alyssa) has been locked in a secret underground government facility for over two years, as authorities have tried — unsuccessfully — to get her to speak. She knows her words have a dangerous power, and she’s vowed never to unleash it again...
  • Seals by Kim Richardson

    Seals by Kim Richardson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kara has survived the threat of the Reapers, but at an unspeakable cost—the Archfiends have escaped their eternal prison. Now, with the mortal world on the brink of the apocalypse, with the threat of evil beings as powerful as gods, she must break the rules and travel across the mortal world on an unauthorized mission. Along the way she must face her darkest truth . .
  • Reborn by Carly Fall

    Reborn by Carly Fall

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Warrior Hudson from the Six Saviors seems to have it all – good looks, fine clothing, expensive jewelry and women just waiting for their turn to sleep with him. But, what he safely keeps hidden from the world is the terrible pain he’s suffered for many years. As he fights his internal demons, he joins his fellow Warriors in waging war on the evil from their planet that has been let loose on Earth...
  • Untethered Magic: A wizard in Bremen Part 1 by Steve Higgs

    Untethered Magic: A wizard in Bremen Part 1 by Steve Higgs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My Name is Otto Schneider and I am a wizard. I think. When a missing person case brings me into contact with the only other supernatural creature I have ever seen, it’s not long before I am ass-deep in trouble. The police don’t like me, there’s a clandestine organisation who want me to join them, and what might be a demon trying to catch me...
  • Superpowers Unlocked by Justin Trublood

    Superpowers Unlocked by Justin Trublood

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a days-long meteor storm, superpowers emerge, creating more villains than heroes. One man will learn how to unlock the powers of a small group of women and restore justice for all.Toby Drake is faced with a crisis of conscience when a beautiful woman shows up on his doorstep, battered, bloodied and on run from a superpowered thug...
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