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  • The Interludes by Santino Hassell, Ais

    The Interludes by Santino Hassell, Ais

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Interludes is an anthology of stand alone stories that exist between Book #2 (Afterimage) and Book #4 (Fade) of the In The Company of Shadows series. This anthology contains key plot points and major development of characters and relationships that cannot be missed...
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    crime  drama  dystopia  abuse  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  angst
  • Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb

    Bonded in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war…His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car...
  • Conspiracy in Death by J.D. Robb

    Conspiracy in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    It was always a shock, not the hard one Bowers had hoped for. Eve had seen too much for that. But what one human could do to another was never routine for her. With the precision of a surgeon, a serial killer preys on the most vulnerable of souls of the world's city streets. The first victim: a homeless person, found dead in New York City. No bruises, no signs of a struggle...
  • Divided in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Divided in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Reva Ewing, a former member of the Secret Service and a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises, is a prime suspect in a double homicide. She had every reason to want to kill her husband, the renowned artist Blair Bissel. Not only was he having an affair, he was having it with her best friend.But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who's on the case, believes Reva is innocent...
  • Immortal in Death by J.D. Robb

    Immortal in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    She was one of the most sought after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted—even another woman's man. And now she was dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas put her life on the line to take the case when suspicion fell on her best friend, the other woman in the fatal love triangle...
  • 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...
  • Terminal by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Terminal by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The thrilling finale to Kathy and Brendan Reichs’ New York Times bestselling VIRALS seriesThe Virals are back—but they’re not the only pack in town anymore. Terminal finds Tory Brennan—grandniece of the famous forensic anthropologist (star of the hit show Bones)—and the rest of the Morris Island gang tracking a pack of rogue Virals who call themselves the Trinity...
  • Glory in Death by J.D. Robb

    Glory in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    It is 2058, New York City. In a world where technology can reveal the darkest of secrets, there's only one place to hide a crime of passion-in the heart. Even in the mid-twenty-first century, during a time when genetic testing usually weeds out any violent hereditary traits before they can take over, murder still happens. The first victim is found lying on a sidewalk in the rain...
  • In the Requiem by Hailey Turner

    In the Requiem by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Never let go. Weighed down by scandal, Captain Jamie Callahan must choose between saving his family’s reputation and his father’s political aspirations, or taking down the enemy once and for all. Choosing one over the other will have lasting repercussions he can’t escape. Whatever path Jamie ultimately picks, Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan will be right by his side to face the consequences...
  • Eternity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Eternity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When club-hopping bad girl Tiara Kent is found dead in her plush Manhattan apartment, the killing has all the earmarks of a vampire attack. The ever-practical Lieutenant Eve Dallas has to deal with superstitious cops carrying garlic and stakes, as well as the ever-hysterical press. None of the wealthy young victim’s friends seem to know much about the Dark Prince she has been secretly seeing...
  • Interlude in Death by J.D. Robb

    Interlude in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to face a grueling ordeal - giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roarke, of course. Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation...
  • Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out, but we're not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown — the roads sealed, the police scouring every building. And there are worse things here — creatures of unimaginable fury hunting us down. An unholy army, sent by Alfred Furnace himself...
  • Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

    Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Stark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings – a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn’t make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw...
  • The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans

    The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    My name is Michael Vey, and the story I’m about to tell you is strange. Very strange. It’s my story.To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year-old. In fact, the only thing that seems to set him apart is the fact that he has Tourette’s syndrome. But Michael is anything but ordinary. Michael has special powers. Electric powers...
  • The Wraith: Welcome Home by Jeffery H. Haskell

    The Wraith: Welcome Home by Jeffery H. Haskell

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Killing is her art, and she's about to paint her masterpiece! Madisun has returned home to New Orleans, almost a year to the day her family was murdered. The people who did it are still free. The man who betrayed her is still alive. Justice is coming to the criminals of the city, justice without mercy.  Welcome home, Madi. Try not to burn the whole city down...
  • Warcross by Marie Lu

    Warcross by Marie Lu

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally...
  • Out of the Ashes by Hailey Turner

    Out of the Ashes by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    War never leaves a soldier behind. Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin is still healing from his brief stint as a prisoner of war. While his physical wounds have mended, the emotional scars left behind are slow to disappear...
  • 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  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  angst  book
  • The Wraith by Jeffery H. Haskell

    The Wraith by Jeffery H. Haskell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    If Punisher and Batman had a baby raised by John Wick... How far would you go to see justice done? How far is too far? For Madisun the answer is simple. There are people in this world that need killing, and she's just the woman for the job!From the bestselling author of the Full Metal Superhero comes an exciting new ongoing series set in the same world as Arsenal...
  • Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler

    Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rachel Peng misses the Army. Her old life in Criminal Investigation Command hadn’t been easy, but she had enjoyed it. Now, as the first cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, Rachel is usually either bored senseless or is fighting off harassment from her coworkers...
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

    Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . .
  • A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A million universes. A million dangers. One destiny.The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite Caine’s hands. Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud since she first traveled to another universe using her parents’ invention, the Firebird...
  • The Darkness We Crave by Katie May

    The Darkness We Crave by Katie May

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Most people don't think about where they're going to be when the world ends. On the beach drinking margaritas? In the arms of a lover? How about in a shit-ass resort run by your shit-ass parents? I have always lived my life as the perfect daughter. At seventeen, I had no other option than to follow my parents' strict regiment...
  • Wayward by Blake Crouch

    Wayward by Blake Crouch

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry...
  • Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear

    Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit.     The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear...
  • Vanquished by S.E. Green

    Vanquished by S.E. Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One island. Seven deadly sins.*Abducted from their life in Miami, Valerie and her sister wake up in a secret society run by the world's most powerful people. Now "property" of a sadistic tyrant, Valerie joins other captives who are forced to compete in gladiator style fights and to participate in the elite's deviant fantasies...
  • Escalante by Andrew Vaillencourt

    Escalante by Andrew Vaillencourt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's a stranger in town, and he just wants to be left alone.But Dockside doesn't like strangers, and the dirty old town never leaves anyone alone.Join New Boston's most famous fixer for his first week in the most dangerous part of town...
  • Swipe by Kathy Reichs

    Swipe by Kathy Reichs

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tory Brennan and her great aunt Tempe join forces to investigate a crime at Comic-Con in this exclusive direct-to-digital short story from Kathy Reichs, author of Bones of the Lost and Virals. A valuable Terminator replica disappears from the nerd nirvana of Comic-Con. Tory Brennan and her great aunt Tempe are on the scene, and join forces to investigate...
  • Time's Edge by Rysa Walker

    Time's Edge by Rysa Walker

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    To stop her sadistic grandfather, Saul, and his band of time travelers from rewriting history, Kate must race to retrieve the CHRONOS keys before they fall into the Cyrists' hands. If she jumps back in time and pulls the wrong key--one that might tip off the Cyrists to her strategy--her whole plan could come crashing down, jeopardizing the future of millions of innocent people...
  • All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

    All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out...
  • New Horizons by Hailey Turner

    New Horizons by Hailey Turner

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    First do no harm. Trevor Sanchez left behind a life of war with Alpha Team for a future in medicine. Pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor, Trevor doesn’t have much time for anything other than studying for the next exam in his accelerated medical school...
  • 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...
  • Biochips by William Gibson

    Biochips by William Gibson

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected...
  • Wildcard by Marie Lu

    Wildcard by Marie Lu

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo's new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no longer trust the one person she's always looked up to, who she once thought was on her side.Determined to put a stop to Hideo's grim plans, Emika and the Phoenix Riders band together, only to find a new threat lurking on the neon-lit streets of Tokyo...
  • Head On by John Scalzi

    Head On by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports...
  • Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Havoc by Ann Aguirre

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Conglomerate’s most dangerous convicts have made the prison ship Perdition their home. And they will defend it…Perdition is under siege. Mercenaries have boarded the station with orders to take control of the facility—and execute the prisoners. Their commander is offering full pardons to the first five inmates willing to help the mercs complete their mission...
  • Erased by Jennifer Rush

    Erased by Jennifer Rush

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    They thought they had escaped. They were wrong.After fleeing the Branch with Sam, Cas, and Nick, Anna is learning how to survive in hiding, following Sam's rules:Don't draw attention to yourself.Always carry a weapon.Know your surroundings.Watch your back.When memories from Anna's old life begin to resurface—and a figure from her childhood reappears—Anna's loyalties are tested...
  • Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott

    Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    What would you do to save someone you love?Time is slipping away. . . .Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying--and she's helpless to change anything...
  • Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi

    Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Welcome to the new world, in which murder is all but a thing of the past. Because when someone kills you, 999 times out of 1,000, you instantly come back to life. In this world, there are dispatchers—licensed killers who step in when you’re at risk of a natural or unintentional death. They kill you—so you can live...
  • Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto

    Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Audible and New York Times best-selling "Dispatcher" series returns with a brand-new mystery, performed by Zachary Quinto.The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life—and there are professionals, called "dispatchers," who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance...
  • In the Age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin

    In the Age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All These Things I’ve Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen year old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya...
  • Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson

    Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Snapshot is a Science Fiction detective story following Anthony Davis, a cop assigned to Snapshot Duty. In this vivid world that author Brandon Sanderson has built, society can create a snapshot of a specific day in time. The experiences people have, the paths they follow—all of them are real again for a one day in the snapshot. All for the purposes of investigation by the court...
  • Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Undone by Elizabeth Norris

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Before the accident. Before their universes collided. Before they fell in love.Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the first book in the gripping sci-fi duology by Elizabeth Norris...
  • Seven by Adrienne Wilder

    Seven by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A past that won’t let go…After losing his job, Chase Sarim finds himself living in a shit hole apartment. His new neighbor calls himself Seven, wears aluminum hats and carries around a ceramic rooster. He also seems to know what Chase is going to do or say before it happens, and talks about people named, Nine, Three, and Four.Chase knows better than to get involved with someone like that...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  dystopia  abuse  action-adventure  adult  angst  book
  • The Terminal State by Jeff Somers

    The Terminal State by Jeff Somers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Avery Cates is an army man. Between the army's new dental plan and a set of first class augments, he's been given a second chance - albeit a quick one.When a corrupt officer decides to make some money on the side by selling new recruits, Cates finds himself in uncharted territory...
  • The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers

    The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The world is dying. With avatars replacing humans and the birth rate non-existent, the human race is almost extinct. In the end, it comes down to Canny Orel; Avery's long sought after nemesis -- transformed now into something other than human.Orel might hold the secret to humanity's salvation, if he can be convinced -- or forced -- to relinquish it...
  • Effendi by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    Effendi by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Masterfully blending speculative fiction and hard-boiled mystery, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's acclaimed Arabesk series plunges readers into a world eerily familiar and shockingly unpredictable. Here a troubled detective follows a trail of clues through a city where innocence itself may be a thing of the past. . .
  • IA: Initiate by John Darryl Winston

    IA: Initiate by John Darryl Winston

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone has secrets... What if you didn't know your own? One young man with latent supernatural abilities plus one street gang hell-bent on recruiting him equals... IA: Initiate. The most important thing in the world to thirteen-year-old orphan, "Naz" Andersen is keeping his little sister safe from the streets of a Chicago/Detroit-like urban ghetto known as the Exclave...
  • Fractured Innocence by Julia Crane

    Fractured Innocence by Julia Crane

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    *Trigger Warning 17+ due to sexual gritty topic and language. Kaitlyn and Erik are sent on a mission to track down Vance Dasvoik, a ruthless monster. His latest thrill--abducting and selling young women. Vance's current victim: Aaliyah, a seventeen-year-old who never imagined walking her brother home from school one evening would change her life forever...
  • The Radioactive Redhead by John Zakour, Lawrence Ganem

    The Radioactive Redhead by John Zakour, Lawrence Ganem

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this final title in a hilarious trilogy--following "The Plutonium Blonde" and "The Doomsday Brunette"--the last freelance private detective has a new case to solve involving androids, future tech wizards, out-of-control artificial intelligence, and futuristic mayhem. Original...
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