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The Hourglass Throne by K.D. Edwards
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAs Rune Saint John grapples with the challenges of assuming the Sun Throne, a powerful barrier appears around New Atlantis’s famed rejuvenation center. But who could have created such formidable magic . . . what do they want from the immortality clinic . . -
Saving Supervillains 2 by Bruce Sentar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMiles has enough power to take down even a titan, but is that enough to prepare him for what’s coming?His new job as the deputy director is at odds with his desire to start using his powers to make a greater difference. He has to balance his secret while going above and beyond his role at the Bureau of Superheroes... -
Control by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFollowing the deadly conclusion of Dragon: The Girl in the Box 37, Sienna Nealon is left with a murder mystery to solve, one that could have dire consequences for the entire world...Categorized as:
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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... -
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Drow Protector by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere is a nest of Drows living in hidden caves just outside of Los Angeles. The dark side of LaLa Land knows them well.Young Drows come out of the shadows at nightfall, looking for trouble and it always finds them.But then there’s Ellis Burton. Half Drow, half human and searching for an identity in either world... -
Enemies by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFar 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... -
Missy Goes to Hong Kong by P.G. Allison
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMissy the Werecat: Book VIIIWhile busy at West Point, Missy continues helping her government friends deal with terrorists, mob wars and evil witches from overseas. But, with all that going on, maybe she's picked the wrong time to take over the New England werewolf pack.Of course, whenever anyone takes advantage of women, Missy will always step up. One thing will lead to another... -
Eternal Endings (The Prophesized Book 5) by Kaitlyn Hoyt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe battle may be over and the prophecy may have been fulfilled, but now the mages have to face their biggest challenges yet: the rest of their lives. Follow the Prophesized characters as they attempt to pick up the pieces after the death and destruction of war. Coming out of the war alive creates more struggles and complications for the characters that they did not train for... -
Unleashed Magic: A Wizard in Bremen Part 2 by Steve Higgs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one knows about them. No one is ready. The false gods are coming. In seven days, I have to surrender myself to a demon. That was what I agreed to. That was the price to rescue a teenage girl. What would you do with your last week? My plan to drink good whisky and relax got shot to hell within hours when the police, who hate me by the way, begged for my help... -
Legends of Fire by A.L. Knorr
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBound by an oath she cannot retract, Saxony must save an old enemy from a new one.Preorder Legends of Fire and watch the sparks fly!Arcturus Academy is an action-adventure series of five books by a USA Today and Amazon best-selling author... -
The Fairhaven Chronicles Boxed Set: The Complete Series: Glow, Shimmer, Ember, Nightfall by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEverything you know is about to change. Victoria Brie is getting her life together. She may be just a cashier, but she has big dreams and high hopes for what comes next. In the meantime, she has everything that matters: her family and her best friend. If only life were that simple...Categorized as:
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The Blades of the Borderlands by Andrey Vasilyev
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe most anticipated sequel of the best Russian LitRPG series: Book 11 is the triumphant return of the Fayroll series... -
Wordsmith by Nick Spalding
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fast-paced fantasy sequel to Max Bloom In... The Cornerstone, by the best-selling author of the smash hit romantic comedy Love... From Both Sides and its sequels Love... And Sleepless Nights & Love... Under Different Skies.From the pages of the past, a new threat to Max Bloom rises in The Chapter Lands.. -
The Wraith by Jeffery H. Haskell
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIf 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...Categorized as:
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Okay, But Try Not to Murder Anyone by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy days used to be filled with working my minimum wage job at a local shipping store, but one night, I was in the wrong place at the right time and came into possession of a weird metal bracelet.The good news: Now I suddenly have a superpower... -
Magic Inc.: An Oriceran Urban Cozy by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSay the right words in just the right way, and step through a mirror into Mana Valley. A pocket dimension hidden on Oriceran. Are you in need of high tech wands, shifter apps, services for the dark internet or other magical technology? Well, take a chance and enter. All that and more can be found here... -
Superpowers Unlocked by Justin Trublood
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter 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... -
Missy Goes to Annapolis by P.G. Allison
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter her second year at West Point, Missy returns to her Special Forces A-Team in Afghanistan for summer training. That soon leads to her being deployed into Iran and Syria. Her boyfriend Mike tells her that’s getting a little too real since she’s not just training over there... -
Darksider by Erin Kellison
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe has always been his dream… Chef Serafina Rochan believes her recurring nightmares of pursuit are a symptom of her anxiety about opening her second restaurant. But when the stalker appears in the waking world, she swallows her pride and calls the one man she trusts to go into her dreams, even if it means risking her heart. When Marshal Harlen Fawkes receives Sera’s call, nothing else matters... -
Death Has A Daughter by Candice Burnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCendall, history’s first female Grim Reaper, has until her eighteenth birthday to prove she’s worthy of the role. The only obstacle in her way are those pesky Guardian Angels who protect human souls, but Cendall is certain she can handle any Guardian who gets in her way...Categorized as:
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Night's Deep Hush by Erin Kellison
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDreaming turns dangerous...Malcolm Rook and Jordan Lane are on the run from powerful forces that seek their deaths. But they are discovered by someone from Rook's dark past. Under no circumstances will Rook allow this criminal to learn how talented Jordan is in the world Darkside. Instead, Rook succumbs so that she has a chance to survive.Rook has been abducted and Jordan assumes the worst... -
The Evermores Chronicles Complete Series Boxed Set: An Oriceran Urban Cozy by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSay the right words in just the right way, and step through a mirror into Mana Valley. A pocket dimension hidden on Oriceran.Something dark is stirring under Mana Valley and what it wants could transform the world in terrible ways... -
Alone, Untouched, Soulless by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is a collection of the first three titles in The Girl in the Box Series, which are about a teenage girl who develops powers far beyond those of a normal human, and her battles against those who would use her against her will. (Approx. 185,000 words total.)Books included:1. Alone2. Untouched3... -
Kick by John L. Monk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey say suicides are damned for eternity. But if coming back to life in the bodies of violent criminals is Hell, then Dan Jenkins will take it. And he does, every time a portal arrives to whisk him from his ghostly exile in limbo.Dan rides the living like a supernatural jockey, pushing out their consciousness and taking over... -
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Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwelve strange, eerie, sensual stories by a bold new voice in weird fiction. Capricious gods rule a world of women. Zombies breed human cattle. The son of a superhero must decide between his heritage and his religion. Young lovers worship a primordial spider god. The apocalyptic rebirth of the god of the elephants . . -
Shadowrun Fifth Edition by Catalyst Game Labs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe newest version of one of the most popular and successful role-playing worlds of all time- a fusion of man, magic and machine in a dystopian near-future. With rules for characters creation , magic combat, Matrix hacking, rigging and more... -
Intrusion by Dean Murray
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJess awoke to a world she doesn’t really understand, hounded by impulses that are quite literally more than any human could be expected to control.It’s painfully evident that her friends and family are doing everything they can to help her regain her footing, but she can’t help resenting the fact that none of them lost as deeply as she lost in their last confrontation with the Coun’hij...Categorized as:
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Titans by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Wave struck Earth on the 30th of January 2103, an anomaly in space which left the world in utter chaos.It left something behind, however: Titans. Men and women with abilities science cannot explain. Heroes and monsters. Both beloved and feared, the Titans are the new superpowers in the post-Wave world... -
The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve doesn’t mind juvie. He’s good at dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day is more than his drunk mother provided. In juvie, the rules never change and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has life figured out.So when he’s assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, Shreve takes the younger boy under his wing... -
Consultation With a Vampire by Patrick E. McLean
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEdwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant, returns with his manic lawyer Topper and his faithful secretary in this prequel to How to Succeed in Evil. Edwin is approached by a vampire, who offers him the prospect of eternal life if Edwin will help him with the troubles the modern world has presented his kind... -
Snitch by Olivia Samms
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSecrets. Lies. They smother. But the truth—sometimes the truth is worse. It kills. Leaves blood on your hands.As the days count down to her eighteenth birthday, Bea feels trapped. Trapped by her dark past, by her parents’ expectations, even by her own dreams for the future. The road ahead is unclear, blurred with secrets and lies.The only constant, sure thing in her life is Sergeant Dan Daniels... -
Elites by Angel Lawson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNature gave her a gift. Evil turned it into a curse. Astrid doesn't remember much about her childhood, at least not before her parents death. After that her memories of the group home and the other eleven boys and girls that lived there are vague and scary. But not as scary as the doctors she had to visit each week or the shots that they gave her. But she isn't a child anymore... -
Riot Boy by Katey Hawthorne
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEtienne never thought getting his pocket picked could lead to a first date. He knows the second he catches punk boy Brady's eye that the guy is pure trouble, but Et can't resist his wicked sense of humor, pretty face, cold hands -- and the "piss off" swagger when Brady's on stage with his band doesn't hurt, either... -
Power Revealed by Leah M. Berry
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the death of his best friend and moving to a new school, fifteen-year-old Justin Wilder is sure his life couldn’t get worse. That is, until he falls for someone else’s girlfriend and discovers he can control the powers of nature—most of the time.Suddenly, people he never knew existed want to control him, fearing what he can do, or manipulate him for their own purposes... -
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Nolan by James Crawford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEvery High school has its rock star. Maybe it's the quarterback, head cheerleader, or the valedictorian--the one student who outshines the rest. The one everyone knows will be successful in the years to come. For Nolan that was a lifetime ago, before he lost his sight, before he even knew what a Leech was. Now all Nolan wants is seeing Caleo survives to fulfill his destiny... -
Premonitions by Jude Watson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrace has premonitions. They've haunted her since her parents' death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future. It just comes to her. Then Grace's best friend disappears... -
Detroit Christmas by Larry Correia
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDetroit. One of the greatest cities in the world. The crossroads of industry and commerce. The American Paris, the City of Champions, Blimp-Town, Motor City, call it what you want, it’s one crowded place. Nearly two million people live in Detroit, but as far as Jake Sullivan was aware, only a few of them were trying to kill him at that particular moment in time...Categorized as:
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The Entropy of Bones by Ayize Jama-Everett
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChabi doesn’t realize her martial arts master may not be on the side of the gods. She does know he’s changed her from being an almost invisible kid to one that anyone — or at least anyone smart — should pay attention to. But attention from the wrong people can mean more trouble than even she can handle. Chabi might be emotionally stunted. She might have no physical voice... -
Mage: The Awakening by Bill Bridges, Ken Blackwelder
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Power to Remake the World In an age long gone, mortals dethroned the gods and seized the heavens for their own. And for it, they were flung down into the world of clay, their minds clouded by ignorance. Only a bare few remember their birthrightthe power of magic. If they cannot claim the heavens, they will make their own kingdoms on Earth... -
Lies & Omens by Lyn Benedict
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSylvie Lightner is a P.I. specializing in the unusual—in a world where magic is real, and Hell is just around the corner. After escaping secret government cells and destroying a Miami landmark, Sylvie’s trying to lay low—something that gets easier when a magical force starts taking out her enemies. But these magical attacks are a risk to bystanders, and Sylvie can’t let that slide... -
Broken Elements by Mia Marshall
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“It’s happening again, Aidan. We didn’t stop it, after all.” As an elemental, Aidan Brook holds the power of water at her fingertips. A descendant of the earth’s oldest magic, she can cause tides to ebb and flow, put out house fires without calling 911, and give anyone who’s annoying her an impromptu shower. But even her magic has its limits... -
Azrael by Wolfgang Hohlbein
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDer Tod wandert durch Berlin. Das Mystery-Kultbuch „Azrael“ von Bestsellerautor Wolfgang Hohlbein jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks.Acht Stockwerke Vor den Augen von Polizist Bremer schlägt ein Mann auf dem Asphalt auf. War es Suizid? Als das Apartment des Toten aufgebrochen wird, machen die Beamten eine grausige AZRAEL steht in fetten Lettern an die Wand – geschrieben mit dem Blut des Toten... -
Spandex and the City by Jenny T. Colgan
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMild-mannered publicist Holly Phillips is unlucky in love. She's embarrassed beyond belief when the handsome stranger she meets in a bar turns out to be 'Ultimate Man' - a superpowered hero whose rescue attempt finds her hoisted over his shoulder and flashing her knickers in the newspaper the next day...
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