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  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The truth is out there...The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
  • The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah...
  • Jack Be Quick by Fiona Quinn

    Jack Be Quick by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Strike Force: An Iniquus Romantic Suspense Mystery Thriller The prayer on her lips is JACK Be Quick. It’s been months since ex-Navy SEAL Jack McCullen last saw his fiancée, Suz Molloy. He was on the other side of the world involved in a grueling black ops mission for Iniquus Corporation at the behest of the US government...
  • Hyper Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Hyper Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If she fails, her whole team could be destroyed.Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is more than ready for her marriage with ex-SEAL Striker Rheas. But getting her happily ever after is fraught with hurdles when her psychic abilities start going haywire, giving her vague warnings of impending danger.As it turns out, identifying threats can be overwhelming when everything and everyone is the potential source...
  • Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who's built a reputation for keeping her readers' pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses -- all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable...Sense of Evil...
  • War, Unfinished by Veronica Lancet

    War, Unfinished by Veronica Lancet

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is a pitch black villain romance with irredeemable characters. Please check triggers before reading New York City. Vicious Battlefield. Home. With a million dollar bounty on my head, it took me years to step foot in the city again. Now I'm back. And the order of business is rather simple. 1. Destroy my reprobate brother. 2. Take back my stolen legacy. 3. Have a goddamn drink in peace...
    Categorized as:
    epic  literary-fiction  abuse  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  amnesia  angst
  • Born of Fire by A.L. Knorr

    Born of Fire by A.L. Knorr

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Right? Saxony Cagney counts herself lucky when she wins a position as an au pair in Venice for the summer. It's her responsibility to take care of two young boys - speak to them in English, make sure they get to their swimming lessons on time. Piece of cake, right? She unexpectedly forms a strong bond with the youngest, Isaia, although its a mystery why...
  • Witches on Parole by Debora Geary

    Witches on Parole by Debora Geary

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Two pendants. Two students. And it’s entirely possible they didn’t volunteer.World-famous (and now retired) photographer Jenvieve Adams has a debt to repay—and a soft spot for witches who have lost their way. Or so she thinks, until they actually show up...
  • Lesson In Trust: Part One by Kay Elle Parker

    Lesson In Trust: Part One by Kay Elle Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It takes a strong man to share the love of his life...One night of kinky bliss at Black Light leads Evander Ledston to the woman of his dreams. He has everything he's ever a job that satisfies, a bank account that doesn't complain, and now, a sweet and wonderfully submissive woman who doesn't know the power she holds over him...
  • The Loft by Bette Lee Crosby

    The Loft by Bette Lee Crosby

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    50 YEARS OF MEMORIES ARE HIDDEN IN THE WALLS OF THE LOFT... Annie only needs to find one... the one that will save Oliver's life. On the day of their wedding, Annie saw nothing but happiness ahead, but when an accident calls her back to Memory House, her world is changed forever...
  • The Betrayed by Jana Deleon

    The Betrayed by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One day on the job and contractor Zach Sargent is ready to believe the dilapidated old LeBeau mansion is haunted. Some intruder – earthly or not – is threatening the youngest LeBeau sister, back to claim her inheritance. And though Danae keeps her distance from the sexy hired hand, he falls for her in a heartbeat...
    Categorized as:
    family  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  death  fiction
  • Black by Elin Peer

    Black by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Some people grow up with caring families, summer camps, and birthday parties. Not me! If you saw me, your first thought would be: Goth girl – and then you would look the other way, like everyone else. But that’s okay, I get it, and I don’t care. Caring is a luxury I can’t afford. My life isn’t about caring...
  • Hunter by Stasia Black

    Hunter by Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Snow White’s on the run and sexier than ever… ISOBEL:I’m on the run from my evil stepmother but no one can know.Least of all my new boss and major pain in the ass, Hunter Dawkins.We might have had one amazing night together but the next morning he went colder than a Wallstreet banker’s heart during a charity ball.I have zero tolerance for assholes in my life. No thank you...
  • Deadly Little Lessons by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Lessons by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Camelia Hammond's trying junior year of high school is finally over...but her troubles aren't. After she discovers a painful truth about her family, she escapes to a summer arts program in Rhode Island. Determined to put family - and boyfriend - drama behind her, she throws herself into her artwork.At the arts school, she gets caught up in the case of Sasha Beckerman, a local girl who is missing...
  • Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    High school junior Camelia thought her powers of psychometry only gave her the ability to sense the future through touch. But now she’s started to hear voices. Mean voices. Berating her, telling her how ugly she is, and that she’d be better off dead...
  • Demon Hunts by C.E. Murphy

    Demon Hunts by C.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she's ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. Literally.She's proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That's more than even she bargained for. What's worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way...
  • Parasight by E.S. Carter

    Parasight by E.S. Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I am drowning in darkness.  My limbs submerged in inky tar, my lungs asphyxiated by the stench of death's hold.  My eyes see nothing but black.  Yet I see him.  And I am not scared.  I should be. Don't look into my eyes, for my demons will eat you alive.  My devil inside will feast on your soft flesh. His jagged teeth will tear the meat from your bones and drink the light from your soul...
    Categorized as:
    family  paranormal  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  crime
  • A Spell of Rowans by Byrd Nash

    A Spell of Rowans by Byrd Nash

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Raised by a narcissistic mother, the Rowan children’s magical talents were twisted to fit her needs. When Rachel dies, her children must confront the past to have a future.Rachel Rowan could sniff out secrets and her antique shop, Rosemary Thyme, was a front to torment the residents of Grimsby. When she dies, her children are faced with the deadly fallout of blackmail, murder, and magic...
  • My Next Mistake by Sarah J. Brooks

    My Next Mistake by Sarah J. Brooks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My next big mistake has a name: Cole Cumberland. Whoever created him used the following recipe: Dreamy eyes, playful smile, and rock-hard muscles that give you chills. Add a pinch of humor, coupled with quick-witted intelligence and a mysterious aura that will make you feel slightly insecure. When I met him on a winter climbing excursion, I didn’t expect to wake up in his tent the next morning...
  • definition of insanity by bizarrestars, Zeppazariel

    definition of insanity by bizarrestars, Zeppazariel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Pretty, straight boys will tease, and they will tangle you all up with feelings you can't even describe; they will give you hope the way you give them an in inch and they take a mile; they will twist you around their fingers just to see you dance, just for the entertainment, just because they're bored; they will like you, and like you, and like you so much as a person, like being around you and...
  • The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she’s been told.There is.She doesn’t stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead.She should.She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance.She will now.Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story.Retribution has arrived...
  • In Plain Sight by K.C. Wells

    In Plain Sight by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Detective Gary Mitchell and psychic Dan Porter are now investigating cold cases that are literally falling from the sky—a headless body in 2006 and a carpenter who fell from a roof two years ago.The first case leads them into dangerous territory. The second feels like a dead end...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  family  romance  mystery  mlm  crime  contemporary  fantasy
  • What Lies Beyond The Stars by Michael Goorjian

    What Lies Beyond The Stars by Michael Goorjian

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Something in me knows of a life I was meant to live but for whatever reason, I have not . . . ”Words that ring painfully true for Adam Sheppard, a San Francisco programmer who has spent the vast majority of his 30-something years lost in the dim glow of a computer screen...
  • The Doors of Time by Felisblanco

    The Doors of Time by Felisblanco

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fanfiction: Supernatural RPF/CW RPFJensen Ackles/Jared PadeleckiIt’s not like Jensen doesn’t try to fit in and make friends, he really does. It just seems like nothing he does is good enough for them. If he smiles they blink. If he speaks they stare. And whenever they see him coming they get this panicked look in their eyes like they want to run away and they don’t even know why...
    Categorized as:
    drama  epic  paranormal  abuse  age-gap  angst  book  coming-of-age
  • If Looks Could Kill by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham

    If Looks Could Kill by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Madison Adair didn’t witness her famous mother’s brutal murder. But she saw it. Saw the gloved hand...felt the knife strike...knew her mother’s terror. That was a lifetime ago. But the nightmares have returned; only, this time they’re of a faceless serial killer stalking women in south Florida. A killer she can’t see but who knows she is watching...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  killer  mystery
  • Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What if you could enter a madman's cruel mind as he planned his vicious crimes? What if you could see the terrified faces of his victims ... Psychic Cassie Neill helps the LA police catch killers — until she makes a terrible mistake and an innocent child dies...
  • Carolina Moon by Nora Roberts

    Carolina Moon by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts--an utterly spellbinding tale about a woman who, though battered in both body and spirit, can never lose Hope...Tory Bodeen grew up in South Carolina, in a small run-down house, where her father ruled with an iron fist and a leather belt--and where her dreams and talents had no room to flourish...
  • The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.It can.She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is.She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. She's wrong...
    Categorized as:
    drama  paranormal  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark  death  dystopia
  • One Boy's Shadow by Ross A. McCoubrey

    One Boy's Shadow by Ross A. McCoubrey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Fifteen-year-old Caleb Mackenzie doesn’t put up a fight when his father announces the family is moving to Stapeton, Nova Scotia. In fact, Caleb looks forward to a fresh start in the scenic little area. Their new home, Wakefield House, sports large rooms, a big barn where Caleb can work on cars, and acres of forested land for privacy. But it also has a troubling past...
  • Seeker by Amy Reece

    Seeker by Amy Reece

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ally Moran has always just known about things—things she shouldn’t really be able to know… Suddenly when she starts having vivid visions about a former friend who is in desperate trouble, the adults in her life think she might hold the key to an ancient mystery...
  • Saving Mercy by Abbie Roads

    Saving Mercy by Abbie Roads

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's found her at last...Cain Killion knows himself to be a damaged man, his only saving grace the extrasensory connection to blood that he uses to catch murderers. His latest case takes a macabre turn when he discovers a familiar and haunting symbol linking the crime to his own horrific past—and only one woman could know what it means.Only to lose her to a nightmare..
    Categorized as:
    family  paranormal  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Beautiful Mistake by Sarah J. Brooks

    Beautiful Mistake by Sarah J. Brooks

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This Christmas had a surprise gift in store for me I definitely didn’t expect.And it will take 9 months for it to arrive.As a young musician just starting out, I’ve always had a crush for Sage Harris.Posterboy rockstar. Gorgeous bad boy. And way out of my league.When he asked me for a duet for a X-Mas song, I couldn’t believe it...
  • The Moment by Sarah Alderson

    The Moment by Sarah Alderson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A short story from Alex's point of view(Included in the Simon Pulse copy ofLosing...
  • The Force of Such Beauty: A Novel by Barbara Bourland

    The Force of Such Beauty: A Novel by Barbara Bourland

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a failed escape attempt, the princess of a tiny kingdom begins to reevaluate her life. Caroline, a former marathon runner who dropped out of school at fourteen to pursue an Olympic medal, was the perfect candidate for a tiara: shapely, disciplined, accustomed to public attention, and utterly uneducated. When she meets Finn, the handsome prince of a small European kingdom, her fate is sealed...
  • Believe It or Knot: Part One by Harper Wylde

    Believe It or Knot: Part One by Harper Wylde

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Believe it or Knot, ‘happily ever after’ doesn’t exist. Not for me, anyway. Bleeding and broken, I’m on the run from Alphas who want to use me as a punching bag and a breeding machine. An Omega on her own? It’s unheard of. But I’d rather die than let them catch me. Taking a bus to the end of the line, I plan to become invisible in a small town in Vermont...
  • In His Sights by K.C. Wells

    In His Sights by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Random letters belong on Scrabble tiles, not dead bodies. But when a demented serial killer targets Boston’s gay population, leaving cryptic messages carved into his victims, lead detective Gary Mitchell has no choice but to play along.As the body count rises, Gary gets desperate enough to push aside his skepticism and accept the help of a psychic...
  • Raven Mask by Winter Pennington

    Raven Mask by Winter Pennington

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "I stared down at the lifeless body of a boy whose face was all too familiar..."Following the execution of Lukas Morris, Preternatural Private Investigator Kassandra Lyall told herself that she'd learn more about the local werewolf pack's Alpha female. Just as she begins her investigation, she's interrupted by a phone call from friend and ex-colleague, Detective Arthur Kingfisher...
  • Bone Deep by Debra Webb

    Bone Deep by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some secrets are best left close to the bone… From the author of the bestselling Faces of Evil series comes another chilling story of deception and betrayal. Jill Ellington’s twin sister hasn’t spoken a word since she allegedly murdered her husband and her three-year-old son is missing. No one in the small, idyllic town of Paradise saw or heard a single thing...
  • In This Iron Ground by Marina Vivancos

    In This Iron Ground by Marina Vivancos

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Damien is nine years old when his parents die. What should have been the worst moment of his life begins a journey shadowed by loneliness and pain. The night of a full moon, four years and seven foster homes later, Damien flees to the forest, desperate to escape everything. Instead, he finds the Salgado pack, and the earth beneath his feet shifts...
  • Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Last fall, sixteen-year-old Camelia fell for Ben, a new boy at school who had a very mysterious gift – psychometry, the ability to sense the future through touch. But just as Camelia and Ben's romance began to heat up, he abruptly left town. Brokenhearted, Camelia has spent the last few months studying everything she can about psychometry and experiencing strange brushes with premonition...
  • A Wild Light by Marjorie M. Liu

    A Wild Light by Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    View our feature on Marjorie Liu’s A Wild Light.For too long Maxine Kiss has felt an inexplicable darkness inside her-a force she channels into hunting the demons bent on destroying the human race. But when she finds herself covered in blood and crouched beside her grandfather's dead body with no memory of what happened, Maxine begins to fear that the darkness has finally consumed her...
  • Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    High school juniors Camelia and Ben have discovered a powerful bond: They both possess the power of psychometry, the ability to see the future through touch. For Ben, the gift is a frightening liability. When he senses a strong threat or betrayal, he risks losing control. Camelia's gift is more mysterious. When she works with clay, her hands sculpt messages her mind doesn't yet comprehend...
  • A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland

    A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ever since Esther Solar’s grandfather met Death, her entire family has been doomed to suffer one great fear in their lifetime—a fear that will eventually lead each and every one of them to their graves. Take Esther’s father, for instance: He’s an agoraphobe who hasn’t left the basement in six years...
  • The Life You Stole by Jewel E. Ann

    The Life You Stole by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sex. Lies. Revenge. On the heels of a devastating loss, Evelyn fights to put her life back together. Only … part of her husband belongs to another woman, and the devil owns her soul. “If you tell her the lie, I will tell her the truth.”When her best friend goes to great lengths to protect Evelyn from destruction and devastation, mistakes are made, lines are crossed, and all trust is shattered...
    Categorized as:
    drama  female-mc  paranormal  abuse  adult  angst  audiobook  betrayal
  • Dead Sexy by Amanda Ashley

    Dead Sexy by Amanda Ashley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The city is in a panic. In the still of the night, a vicious killer is leaving a trail of mutilated bodies drained of blood. A chilling M.O. that puts ex-vampire hunter Regan Delaney on the case, her gun clip packed with silver bullets, her instincts edgy. But the victims are both human and Undead, and the clues are as confusing as the vampire who may be her best ally—she hopes...
  • Sleep With The Lights On by Maggie Shayne

    Sleep With The Lights On by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rachel de Luca has found incredible success writing self-help books. But her own blindness and the fact that her troubled brother has gone missing have convinced her that positive thinking is nothing but bull.Her cynicism wavers when a cornea transplant restores her sight...
  • Beauty's Beast by Lee Savino, Stasia Black

    Beauty's Beast by Lee Savino, Stasia Black

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Dark RomanceShe'll pay her family's debt one way or another... Daphne’s beautiful, but she doesn’t know it.A wallflower blossoming into the belle of the ball.Years ago her father stole from me and it’s time for my revenge. I’m the monster in the darkness. The Minotaur in the labyrinth. The evil her father warned her about.I’ll steal her away to my castle. Lock her in my tower...
  • The Bones of Others by Vickie McKeehan

    The Bones of Others by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some monsters live in your head. Not this one.Brutalized as a young girl by a vile sexual predator, Skye Cree is a survivor. Guided by the visions of her mystical spirit guide to the whereabouts of abducted girls, she uses her unique abilities to turn her horrifying past into a positive force for justice...
  • Shadow of Danger by Kristine Mason

    Shadow of Danger by Kristine Mason

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Four women have been found dead in the outskirts of a small Wisconsin town. The only witness, clairvoyant Celeste Risinski, observes these brutal murders through violent nightmares and hellish visions...
  • Séances are for Suckers by Tamara Berry

    Séances are for Suckers by Tamara Berry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When something goes bump in the night . . . it’s most likely a plumbing problem, or something equally mundane. But fake medium Eleanor Wilde is happy to investigate and cleanse your home of spectral presences—for a fee. Hey, it’s a living . . . Ellie has an ailing sister to care for, and working as a ghost hunter who doesn’t believe in ghosts helps cover the bills for both of them...
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