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  • Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault...
  • 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...
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    aliens  dark  suspense  action-adventure  ai  angst  audiobook  book
  • Light by Michael Grant

    Light by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil...
  • Crisped + Sere by T.J. Klune

    Crisped + Sere by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Twenty-one days. In a world ravaged by fire and descending into madness, Cavalo has been given an ultimatum by the dark man known as Patrick: return Lucas to him and the cannibalistic Dead Rabbits, or the town of Cottonwood and its inhabitants will be destroyed...
  • Escalation by Adrienne Lecter

    Escalation by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Is anybody out there? After a long winter spent hunkering down in Wyoming, Bree, Nate, and the gang are back on the road. The harsh temperatures up in the northern regions might have decimated the undead scourge somewhat, but soon they have to face reality: it’s not just zombies that are out there to hunt people down and kill them...
  • Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches...
  • Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren

    Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Before world war two could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm.Legend has it that an experiment failed. Catastrophically so. And when it failed, the center of the United States, from the Sierra Nevada to the Mississippi river became "The Waste", where everything changed.Except it didn't only happen in North America...
  • Welcome to Heathen Row by Logan Jacobs

    Welcome to Heathen Row by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No one knows why it started, but the monster invasion all began right here, in Heathen Row.Ever since, men all over the world have been on the menu. And women have been at the frontlines, hunting the predators.But in a world where women are over-armed, over-paid, and under-satiated, Chris Hart isn’t staying safe inside while the monsters come out to feast...
    Categorized as:
    steamy  dark  paranormal  romance  harem  fantasy  urban-fantasy  magic
  • Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin

    Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Contagious Chaos, the highly anticipated third book in the Contagium Series, winner of the Contagious Reads Horror Con’s 2014 best horror series, follows Orissa and her friends as they struggle through a zombie filled world...
  • Survive by Courtney Konstantin

    Survive by Courtney Konstantin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Max Duncan, the word Sundown means one thing… RUN.Corpses infected with a mysterious, incurable virus are roaming free throughout the United States, feasting upon the living. The Duncan family compound in Montana is Max’s only hope for survival— but to get there, she has to flee from South Carolina and survive crossing several states with her daughter Jack in tow. Max has a choice to make...
  • The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I would say that my life changed as soon as those gunshots went off, but in reality everything changed the moment Leo and Greyson loaded that decapitated body into the truck back in Donnely.Now I am in a place I do not recognize, with people I had once seen as enemies. They are telling me that all of this is up to me, and here I am just wishing I was in my basement with a quil between my fingers...
  • The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

    The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss...
  • Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier

    Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If you had told me that the world would turn to crap a year ago, I would have never believed you. If you had told me I'd be living with my cheating ex and my manipulative twin sister, I would have laughed. Had you informed me I'd be in a relationship with five men, I would have asked what meds you had forgotten to take.Yet here I am at Sanctuary...
  • Defy the Future by Keira Andrews

    Defy the Future by Keira Andrews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    To protect their pack, they must risk everything.Adam and Parker are finally safe. As safe as they can be in a world where the zombie-like infected still roam the night. With other survivors, they’ve built a community—a pack. Until that peace is shattered...
  • Horde by Ann Aguirre

    Horde by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The epic conclusion to the USA Today bestselling trilogy.The horde is coming.Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them. But the odds have been stacked against Deuce from the moment she was born. She might not be a Huntress anymore, but she doesn't run...
  • The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Ghost and the Darkness Vol. 2 continues with Reaver and Elish desperately trying to find Killian and Jade. Forced to work together, they scour the northern greywastes for clues of their whereabouts. Though finding the two boys isn't as simple as following a trail. Something happened to them that no one expected...
  • Odium V by Claire C. Riley

    Odium V by Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *Book five in the hugely successful zompoc series* ODIUM V The Dead Saga On route to find their friends, Nina and Michael find so much more. After almost being killed by the Hell’s Highwaymen—a fifty strong motorcycle gang, Nina and Michael are forced to take refuge at their headquarters until Michael recovers...
  • The Blood That Binds by Madeline Sheehan, Claire C. Riley

    The Blood That Binds by Madeline Sheehan, Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    - Please note. The original book 3 is now being moved to later in the series. The Blood that Binds is now the NEW book 3 in the series - * Book 3 in the Thicker than Blood series *Tᴡᴏ ʙʀᴏᴛʜᴇʀs. A ᴄʜɪʟᴅʜᴏᴏᴅ sᴡᴇᴇᴛʜᴇᴀʀᴛ.Life has never been easy for this trio, and especially not after the end of civilization as they knew it...
  • The Suicide King  Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    The Suicide King Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After months of being separated, Reaver and Killian are finally together; but their happiness is short lived. Unbeknownst to Killian, Reaver is struggling with his own inner demons, demons that threaten to not only rip Reaver apart, but their entire relationship as well.Unfortunately though, it’s not only demons they have to worry about...
  • God of Monsters by Keri Lake

    God of Monsters by Keri Lake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I've heard stories about the Alphas. Violent soldiers, bred to kill both humans and mutations, whose sole purpose was to balance our survival against the infected. Until they turned on their masters. Held as subjects of the Calico research facility, they were forced to endure the gruesome experiments that transformed them into callous savages with hearts as impenetrable as their defenses...
  • Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett

    Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His career plan never included becoming one of the galaxy's most infamous treasure hunters. And it certainly never included his one weakness: Nera Darc.Astro-archeologist Niklas Phoenix loved his job studying and safeguarding artifacts at the Institute of Historical Preservation...until he learned that it was all a lie...
  • Fear by Michael Grant

    Fear by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear...
  • Breaking Jade by Quil Carter

    Breaking Jade by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Skyfall, the only city that King Silas spared when he started the Fallocaust. It is a safe haven from the radiation, and a place where there is plant life, electricity, protection; things never seen or felt in the lawless, savage greywastes.In Skyfall lives a teenager named Jade, born and raised in the 'slum district' Moros by an insane mother...
  • Severing Sanguine by Quil Carter

    Severing Sanguine by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After being exiled from his only home Sami found himself alone in the greywastes at the age of six. From then on it was just him and Barry, his old teddy bear who kept him company and didn't mind that Sami had red eyes and pointed teeth. Though Sami always longed for a real friend, someone who wasn't always telling him to hurt himself and others like Barry sometimes did...
    Categorized as:
    captivity  dark  paranormal  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  angst
  • Ashes and Metal by Naomi Lucas

    Ashes and Metal by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    No one messed with Gunner. No one. He was the Jackal, living chaos, the infamous Cyborg banned from civilized society. He was also the only Monster Hunter for the EPED who took the hard jobs, the under-the-table work. Jobs that often left a trail of blood and bones in their wake...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  captivity  dark  paranormal  steamy  suspense  adult  alpha-mc
  • Into The Fire by Lindsey Sparks, Lindsey Pogue

    Into The Fire by Lindsey Sparks, Lindsey Pogue

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Virus changed them, but that was only the beginning……death…mutation…insanity…corruption…terror……all that remains is hope.In the wake of destruction left behind by the Virus, it took Dani and Zoe months to find each other. But their reunion was short-lived. Dani has been taken, and though little distance separates them, they might as well be worlds apart...
  • Plague by Michael Grant

    Plague by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach...
  • Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith

    Cottonwood by R. Lee Smith

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    They never meant to come to Earth. They were never allowed to leave...Welcome to Cottonwood...
  • The Light We Seek by Katie May

    The Light We Seek by Katie May

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Now that I survived the initial storm, I find myself back where I once was: under the control of my dickish parents (if dickish even is a word). Day by day, the world gets worse. Storms brew on the east coast, volcanos erupt on the west, and zombie-like creatures continue to attack the cities. Where does that leave me? Hopefully not dead...at least, not yet...
  • Outpost by Ann Aguirre

    Outpost by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Deuce’s whole world has changed.Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she’s a brat in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk. She doesn't fit in with the other girls: Deuce only knows how to fight.To make matters worse, her Hunter partner, Fade, keeps Deuce at a distance...
  • Defy The Ravaged by E.M. Raegan

    Defy The Ravaged by E.M. Raegan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My name is Willow.His name is Jason.He hated me. I hated him— while silently hiding how much all that hate hurt deep down inside me. But all that was before. Before everything changed. Before I woke up to gunshots and screaming and death.Now he still hates me, along with his Uncle Paulie and their club brothers. But I don’t hate him. I can’t, not after he came for me. Not after he saved me...
  • Praying for Grace by M. Lauryl Lewis

    Praying for Grace by M. Lauryl Lewis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trying to survive in a land ruled by the dead, Zoe finds herself more alone than ever after the death of her lover. Time goes by and life becomes even more intolerable. Never sure of who she can trust, and her ability to sense the dead drastically altered, she is forced to face some major realities as what remains of the group of survivors moves to higher ground...
  • Like Father Like Slaughter by Tylor Paige

    Like Father Like Slaughter by Tylor Paige

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    D. Is for Dedicated. A. Is for Attentive. D. Is for Devoted. D. Is for Defender of. Y. Is for Young Ladies. Every young girl gets a D.A.D.D.Y assigned to her on her 8th birthday. Your D.A.D.D.Y is your protector of all things bad. He will work with you, helping you learn how to explore the above world safely. We love our D.A.D.D...
  • Dawn of Eve by Pam Godwin

    Dawn of Eve by Pam Godwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Daughter of Eve. Leader of the Resistance. Mankind’s savior. Dawn is supposed to be the ultimate weapon against the bloodthirsty hybrids that control the desolate planet.But she didn’t inherit superhuman speed or virus-curing blood.She’s just a human...
    Categorized as:
    dark  paranormal  steamy  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  angst  apocalyptic
  • Thrive by E.M. Raegan

    Thrive by E.M. Raegan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The days are blurring together. I can’t seem to keep my eyes open at night. Terror follows us everywhere we go. Nowhere is safe. It’s spreading. Thriving. We can’t outrun it. All we can do is bunker down and pray it passes us by. But that’s wishful thinking. The ravaged will find us and there’s not a thing we can do to stop them. They are everywhere. I haven’t seen him. I haven’t spoken to him...
  • Heathens by Natalie Bennett

    Heathens by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cobra Wildcard. Sinner. Frequently misunderstood. I can be your best friend or your worst fucking nightmare. The Savages are my family and the Badlands is our paradise. When that’s threatened, no one is safe. Carnage and chaos unfold around me. Loyalties are tested. Truths start to unravel...
  • Dark Grace by M. Lauryl Lewis

    Dark Grace by M. Lauryl Lewis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Now months into the zombie plague, a group of survivors are dealing with broken trusts, evolution of the living dead, and the horrors of the evil side of humanity. The group becomes separated and struggles to reunite. The infection is spreading. The death toll is tragically high...
  • Axxios and Braxxus: Book Six in the Galaxy Gladiators Alien Abduction Romance Series by Alana Khan

    Axxios and Braxxus: Book Six in the Galaxy Gladiators Alien Abduction Romance Series by Alana Khan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Their chemistry is off the charts. But Axx can't feel love.Minutes after being kidnapped from Earth, Brianna must breed with sexy gladiator Axxios. Their chemistry is amazing, but he can't feel love for any female.Brianna despairs for a loveless future, but when they rescue Axxios's twin, Braxxus is everything Brianna hoped for in a male. Strong, intelligent, and loving...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  dark  paranormal  steamy  adult  book  fiction  first-contact
  • Thrive by E.M. Raegan

    Thrive by E.M. Raegan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The days are blurring together. I can’t seem to keep my eyes open at night. Terror follows us everywhere we go. Nowhere is safe. It’s spreading. Thriving. We can’t outrun it. All we can do is bunker down and pray it passes us by. But that’s wishful thinking. The ravaged will find us and there’s not a thing we can do to stop them. They are everywhere. I haven’t seen him. I haven’t spoken to him...
  • Dead City by Debbie Cassidy

    Dead City by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How many times can you cheat death? I’m not sure but I have a feeling I’m about to be tested.First there were thirteen and now there’s only one. But the responsibilities don’t lessen. Bring the Harvest in, they say, take the soul orb to Haven, they order.One of me, and too many places to be. Like hell am I putting my ass on the line without back up...
  • Population by Elizabeth Stephens

    Population by Elizabeth Stephens

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abel Eleven years after the sky opened up and aliens descended to ravage the world, Abel thought she had seen and experienced everything that this savage new land - Population - had to offer. Almost...Shock is what she feels when the alien she robbed hunts her down. His corpse, though huge and glowing, had been mangled and left for the scavengers...
  • The Monsters We Hunt by Katie May

    The Monsters We Hunt by Katie May

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life hasn’t been kind to me. Combined with the world ending, storms ravaging the coast, and zombie-like creatures attacking, I’m not able to catch a break. But this time? The world took it too far. Separated from two of my men and grieving a third, I will stop at nothing to make our fractured team whole again...
  • Deadworld by Debbie Cassidy

    Deadworld by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Humans weren’t meant to live underground, but then artificial intelligences weren’t meant to feed off souls. Shit happens. Being a Potential is an honor. It qualifies me for the mandatory Run, the chance to become a Guardian and wield one of the only weapons that can disable a Genesis scout...
  • Mad World by Kate L. Mary

    Mad World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Mad World is the third book in the Broken World series, which follows a group of survivors after a super-virus has destroyed the world and the dead have come back to claim it as their own… Vivian didn’t think things could get any worse than losing Emily, and getting to the shelter should have been their salvation...
  • Dying to Love by Reese Rivers

    Dying to Love by Reese Rivers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    662 - Days since the dead rose up413 - Days since I've spoken to another living human4 - Men who have climbed my fence looking for safety1 - Last chance for LoveKelsey survived the start of the apocalypse and thrived in the new world with help from her friends but now they're gone...
  • 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...
  • Juniper Unraveling by Keri Lake

    Juniper Unraveling by Keri Lake

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Get ready for a heart-wrenching story of survival, set in the post-apocalyptic southwest, with an all-new dystopian romance from the author of Ricochet and Backfire. Papa says everyone has a story that deserves to be told. Most begin years ago, after the second bomb hit, unearthing a deadly contagion that divided the population into the pure, the infected, and the Ragers...
  • Pursued by Evangeline Anderson

    Pursued by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Elise is fractured inside, stained by a past she refuses to remember.Merrick is scarred both inside and out, a half-breed with a brutal background, at home nowhere in the universe.Now they are tied together by an unstable bond which could kill them both.Their journey will take them to the lawless planet of Rageron—the wildest of all the Kindred worlds...
  • Alight by Scott Sigler

    Alight by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “If it’s war they want, they messed with the wrong girl.”M. Savage—or Em, as she is called—has made a bewildering and ominous discovery. She and the other young people she was chosen to lead awoke in strange coffins with no memory of their names or their pasts. They faced an empty, unknown place of twisting tunnels and human bones...
  • Kings of Carrion by Keri Lake

    Kings of Carrion by Keri Lake

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Decades have passed since our world was decimated by the Dredge. Some say it was an act of God. Others believe the devil himself breached the gates of hell and turned the masses into the mindless infected with an appetite for carnage...
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