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  • A Collection of Monstrous Short Stories by Lily Mayne

    A Collection of Monstrous Short Stories by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Revisit the Monstrous couples from the first seven novels of the series in this collection of sixteen short stories. Plus, meet a new Monstrous couple in a brand new 20k-word novella, Ruke...
  • Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken

    Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Don’t miss the thrilling novella that connects the last two novels in the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds trilogy. Sam didn’t think things could get worse at Thurmond rehabilitation camp. Then the Reds arrive. Everyone assumed the kids with firepower had been killed years ago. Instead they were taken away, brainwashed, and returned as terrifyingly effective guards...
  • Life-Debt by R.J. Blain

    Life-Debt by R.J. Blain

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When scavenger and hybrid fox Viva comes across a derelict in empty space, what she and her furry partner, Pandora, discover puts them on a collision course for adventure, fame and wealth—assuming she survives the experience. Teaming up with the derelict's living cargo isn't wise, but the handsome stranger might hold the key to the ship and its many secrets...
  • Privileged by Sophie Davis

    Privileged by Sophie Davis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Note: This book was previously released as Inescapable.With a Talent like Mind Manipulation, Talia Lyons has always been able to talk her way out of any sticky situation. Not this time.Talia’s impulsive nature has landed her on Vault, UNITED’s prison island in the Isle of Exile. But when a terrifying new group called the Privileged threatens everyone she loves, Talia cannot sit idly by...
  • Domination by Leia Stone

    Domination by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The ghouls have upped their game and retaliated in the worst way. Humans are waking up from the dream wars in random parts of the world, next to people they don't know, in countries they've never been to. When Kit and her team find out that the government is bed with the ghouls, she makes a promise to exploit them...
  • Beyond Surrender by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Surrender by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The final book in the bestselling, award-winning series... She's the heart of O'Kane liquor. He's the brains of the revolution. They're facing a war that could end their world. Again. On December 13th, the Beyond series comes to its climactic conclusion with Nessa and Ryder's story--and the final battle between the sectors and Eden...
  • Green Shadow by J.S. Kennedy

    Green Shadow by J.S. Kennedy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two paths, one fate.Lucan now knows who—and what— Mackenzie truly is. She is Terra, the supernatural boogieman whose tales of carnage are used by parents to bring wayward children in line. But she’s captive, and all his plans for the future are decimated… unless he can find her and bring her home. Mackenzie—thrust back into the nightmare of her childhood—learns the awful truth...
  • A God Among Insects Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    A God Among Insects Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There is no denying it now, something is happening to Elish. Jade doesn’t know what is going on with his husband, he only knows Elish is hiding something from him – and that the new king’s mind is slipping.Too bad there’s nothing Jade can do about it, considering they’re both prisoners of an insane clone named Malachy...
  • Saven Denial by Siobhan Davis

    Saven Denial by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sadie has been kidnapped by the Tor, the vindictive alien race who destroyed Thalassic City. As her past, present, and future collides, her worst nightmare looks set to become her shocking new reality.A deliberate pawn in leader Griselda’s vengeful game, Sadie is horrified to learn the truth about her heritage and the destiny that’s already been mapped out for her...
  • Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene by Veronica Roth

    Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene by Veronica Roth

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth retells a pivotal Divergent scene (chapter 13) from Tobias's point of view. This thirteen-page scene reveals unknown facts and fascinating details about Four's character, his past, his own initiation, and his thoughts about new Dauntless initiate Tris Prior...
  • Nomad Supreme by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Nomad Supreme by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They say that behind every great man is a great woman, but what if that woman is a Werewolf? Terry and Char cross the Wastelands returning to New Boulder carrying a message of hope. They’d found a better place. Could they move the whole town there, and would it be safer?They have a lead on Terry’s white whale, a secure military facility...
  • Reservation 1 by Krista Street

    Reservation 1 by Krista Street

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

    Marked by Sophie Davis

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    *Note: this book was previously titled as Unforgettable*When Talia and Erik leave Washington after UNITED's attack on TOXIC, they have no idea that the war has just begun. The Talented are about to lose their citizenry, their status, their entire lives.With the Creation drug wreaking havoc on Erik, the couple relocates to Eden - an island community of Talented refugees from around the globe...
  • Knight Awakening by Rebecca Zanetti

    Knight Awakening by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Sexy, tough, and deftly sprinkled with dark humor.” -- New York Times bestselling author Larissa Ione The Line Between Obsession and Love has Disappeared The world has changed. Any rules that might’ve been in place before the Scorpius bacterium ripped through civilization and decreased its population are no longer in place. Obsession and survival are the new reality...
  • Baubles and Ben by Nalini Singh

    Baubles and Ben by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A short story featuring Marlee & Ben from the SnowDancer pack. Timeline: Takes place around the same time as Allegiance of Honor.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...
  • Trent: Rogues United 1 by Laurann Dohner

    Trent: Rogues United 1 by Laurann Dohner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Trent had to flee his birth pack as a teenager to avoid being executed for killing someone in self-defense. It wasn’t fair and left him all alone, fighting to survive. Over the years, he found other shifters who were unjustly left on their own. Together, they built a pack, making Trent their alpha.They are Rogues United. Trent’s doing his best to make all the right decisions...
  • The Initiate by Veronica Roth

    The Initiate by Veronica Roth

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Initiate provides readers with a glimpse into Tobias's Dauntless initiation experience, including an epic game of late-night Dare; his first tattoo; the beginning of his passion for training new initiates; and his nascent understanding of the danger of being Divergent...
  • Storm Gathering by Rebecca Zanetti

    Storm Gathering by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Even before surviving the Scorpius bacterium, Greyson Storm was a lone wolf navigating minefields. As a kid, he learned to take a hit and find safety. As an adult, he joined the military and quickly learned how to protect and defend. When the world ended, he created a mercenary camp with military precision, no entanglements, and a promise to avenge a fallen friend...
  • Obliteration by Leia Stone

    Obliteration by Leia Stone

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They've come back, a situation the humans never conceived of. More ghouls have landed on Earth, and it throws society in chaos. Bridges are burned, alliances are made, and Kit's power grows stronger than ever before. When Dawn reveals a secret she's been hiding, it gives Kit hope. Maybe they can end the dream war... if she can stay alive...
  • Beyond Ecstasy by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Ecstasy by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The next-to-last book in the bestselling BEYOND series... The O’Kanes have a reputation for working hard and playing harder—except for Hawk. He joined the gang with one goal: to ensure his family’s survival through the impending war with Eden. It’s been years since he had the luxury of wanting anything for himself. Now, he wants Jeni...
  • Tearing Down the Wall by Tracey Ward

    Tearing Down the Wall by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    #1 Bestseller on Amazon!The Colonists have attacked. Their ships blaze in the dark on the inky black waters of the Sound. They'll burn through the night, remnants of a battle lost. A battle won by the Vashons. This time.What will come with the morning light is still a mystery, especially to Joss and her Lost Boys...
  • Unrest by Wendy Higgins

    Unrest by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins brings you the second book in this thrilling war-torn world... Being on the run in the desert means food and sanctuary are hard to come by, but Amber Tate and her crew are not about to give up. Not after having the things they love brutally ripped from them by an unknown enemy who sent their world into the apocalypse...
  • Beyond Forever by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Forever by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Before they were the King and Queen… Six years before the Beyond series started, an ambitious bootlegger named Dallas O’Kane caught a very pretty thief named Lex with her hand in his safe. The rest is very sexy history...
  • Beyond Solitude by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Solitude by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a motorcycle accident leaves Derek Ford riding a desk at the O’Kane compound, the last thing he needs is a sexy new assistant upending his office and his life. But Mia isn’t scared of her domineering boss. The friction between them generates an undeniable heat—but Mia will not be kept, and Ford will do anything to protect what’s his...
  • Veiled by Maya Riley

    Veiled by Maya Riley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What do you do when your past takes you back? The years I’d spent growing up were the darkest of my life, even with counting the rotter outbreak. Then I gained my freedom, met some guys who refused to leave, and even got some of my siblings back. Then my past came for me. Now I spend my days watching, biding my time, waiting for my chance to escape while also trying to keep my sanity...
  • Age of Wolves by Mariah Stone

    Age of Wolves by Mariah Stone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her suspect. Her lover. Her doom.Boston police detective Ella O’Connor’s job is on the line. And only busting port owner Channing Hakonson for drug smuggling will satisfy her boss. But there’s more to the tattooed billionaire than she imagined—something mystical and ancient.Wolves protect him. Time traveling Viking assassins stalk him. The mafia bails him out of prison...
  • Unawakened by R.J. Blain, Trillian Anderson

    Unawakened by R.J. Blain, Trillian Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Upon discovering the unawakened are a primary source of sustenance for dae without a bonded human, Alexa must come to terms with her status as Rob’s lover and provider. To complicate matters, Kenneth and his dae are convinced she belongs only to them. Unless she can rise up from her station and become a player in the games the dae play, she will remain a pawn and a victim...
  • Bones by K.L. Speer

    Bones by K.L. Speer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bones was born with the miraculous power to heal, but all her gift has brought is death.As a child, her older brother trained her to survive, and so survive she did. The blood on her hands will never wash off, she is broken and scarred in more ways than one, but she survived...
  • Winter Igniting by Rebecca Zanetti

    Winter Igniting by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    His only goal was survival until he met her...With nothing to lose, former cop Damon Winter agrees to an undercover op, infiltrating a cult in the dangerous post-Scorpius world. After one look at his new partner, he knows she belongs far away from not only the cult, but from him. She's sweet and kind and has no business being in peril, but she's determined to help...
  • Pirate's Gold by S.J. Sanders

    Pirate's Gold by S.J. Sanders

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With Earth far behind her, Terri is certain that space is the answer to every desire she’s ever had for an adventure...until she realized just what being mated to an overprotective, territorial male meant. One small incident and Veral has kept her hidden away in the safety of their ship...
  • Talented by Alexandra Moody

    Talented by Alexandra Moody

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Elle Winters gave up everything for one shot at saving her closest friend. But though she may have escaped the ARC and found her way to the surface, Elle is no closer to finding Sebastian and stranded in a world where she doesn’t belong...
  • Ivan by Kit Rocha

    Ivan by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As the sheltered princess of Sector One, Maricela’s life is defined by duty: to her people and to her family. Her wealth and influence have allowed her to build a better world, but they come with a price---the responsibility to secure political stability with a practical marriage...
  • Rowan by Nalini Singh

    Rowan by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A short story featuring Sahara, Kaleb, Zach, Annie & Rowan. Timeline: Takes place some time after Allegiance of Honor.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...
  • The Living by Isaac Marion

    The Living by Isaac Marion

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Before he was a flesh-eating corpse, R was something worse. He remembers it all now, a life of greed and apathy more destructive than any virus, and he sees only one path to redemption: he must fight the forces he helped create...
  • Dance with the Devil by Kit Rocha

    Dance with the Devil by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Tobias Richter, the fearsome VP of Security of TechCorp is dead. The puppetmaster is gone, and the organization is scrambling to maintain control by ruthlessly limiting access to resources to Atlanta, hoping to quell rebellion. Our band of mercenary librarians have decided that the time for revolution has come.Maya uses her wealth of secrets to weaken the TechCorps from within...
  • Griff by Anna Hackett

    Griff by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens intensifies, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival…Squad Three berserker Griff lived through hell long before the alien invasion. Once, he’d been a dedicated cop, but then in a gut-wrenching betrayal, he ended up behind bars in a supermax prison...
  • Wild Night by Nalini Singh

    Wild Night by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A short story about when Hawke visits the nightclub Wild after being notified about a brewing fight involving SnowDancer juveniles. Timeline: Takes place during Chapter 9 of Kiss of Snow.This story can be found on Nalini Singh's official website...
  • Love and Decay, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after.Reagan said goodbye to love when she was forced to run her high school boyfriend over with her mom’s car just to keep him from eating her for dinner. Now, two years later, and in need of a serious shower, she’s just over the entire concept of a soul mate- or really, any kind of mate.Well, mostly anyway...
  • Death Adder by Naomi Lucas

    Death Adder by Naomi Lucas

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Females have returned to Earth, brought here by technology I do not trust. They’ve been claimed and nested and kept far from me.The broken one. The dark one.I will always be alone.When a ship lands in my territory and a black-suited human female appears, I am in awe. I am in NEED.Only, she is surrounded by men.So, I will sneak up on her...
  • The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie

    The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Three weeks have passed since Cassandra Leung pledged her allegiance to the ruthless pirate-queen Santa Elena and set free Bao, the sea monster Reckoner she’d been forced to train. The days as a pirate trainee are long and grueling, but it’s not the physical pain that Cas dreads most. It’s being forced to work with Swift, the pirate girl who broke her heart...
  • DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff

    DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lemon Fresh has seen better days.After the climactic battle in Babel, she finds herself separated from Ezekiel and Cricket in the wastelands. Lemon’s abilities to manipulate electricity mark her as a deviate, and deadly corporate operatives are hunting her to use as a weapon in the war between BioMaas Incorporated and Daedelus Technologies...
  • Kahayatle by Elle Casey

    Kahayatle by Elle Casey

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B008E95UOK.KAHAYATLE. My name is Bryn Mathis. I'm seventeen years old, and I live in a neighborhood outside of Orlando, Florida. I’m here alone because my dad died almost a year ago, along with all the other adults in the world. I'm almost out of food, and the gangs of kids that roam around my town are getting more vicious by the day...
  • Inhuman by Kat Falls

    Inhuman by Kat Falls

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    In a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father’s life is forfeit.America has been ravaged by a war that has left the eastern half of the country riddled with mutation. Many of the people there exhibit varying degrees of animal traits. Even the plantlife has gone feral...
  • The Son by Veronica Roth

    The Son by Veronica Roth

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories!Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by "Four: The Son," the third of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's perspective.In "The Son," Tobias struggles to find a place in the hierarchy of the Dauntless...
  • The Traitor by Veronica Roth

    The Traitor by Veronica Roth

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The Traitor takes place two years after The Son and runs parallel with the early events in Divergent. In this robust story, readers follow Tobias as he uncovers the details of an Erudite plan that could threaten the faction system, and makes plans of his own to keep Abnegation safe. At the same time, Tobias is getting to know a new transfer initiate: Tris Prior...
  • The Darkest Legacy by Alexandra Bracken

    The Darkest Legacy by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Five years after the destruction of the so-called rehabilitation camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids, seventeen-year-old Suzume "Zu" Kimura has assumed the role of spokesperson for the interim government, fighting for the rights of Psi kids against a growing tide of misinformation and prejudice...
  • Catch and Release by J.S. Kennedy

    Catch and Release by J.S. Kennedy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He can see the future, but can he save it?Curtis has a rare gift: he can see glimpses of the past, present, and future.But his visions come with a price: he can’t share them without changing the outcome.It didn’t matter, until he meets Christine—a fierce mercenary who sparks his interest and is fated to be the heart of the guild he’s trying to build...
  • Refuge by H.L. Day

    Refuge by H.L. Day

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    If you no longer recognize someone, how can you possibly be expected to trust them with your life? Some might describe Blake Brannigan’s life in the small Yorkshire village of Thwaite as bordering on mundane. His job in a café doesn’t exactly set the world alight. But, he’s got his own house, a boyfriend, and a close-knit group of good friends...
  • Kingston 691 by Donna McDonald

    Kingston 691 by Donna McDonald

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How can he love a wife he doesn’t remember? Kingston West put his military service behind him much easier than most of the men he served with during the final war. As far as he was concerned, the cyborg who was Kingston 691 no longer existed. And the Cyber Husband program? He viewed it like he viewed having been a prisoner of war...
  • Marcus 582 by Donna McDonald

    Marcus 582 by Donna McDonald

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She never wanted to be a cyborg and refuses to love one.Restored Cyber Soldier, Marcus 582, thinks the chances of dating partial cyborg, Rachel 235, are slim. His cyborg mind can’t calculate his chances with any accuracy, but his human side can feel Rachel's resistance to his every romantic overture. Marcus understands how Rachel feels. After all, her conversion wasn’t voluntary like his was...
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