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The Hunted by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong...Categorized as:
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![Extinction War by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Extinction War by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe seventh and never-before-published book in USA Today bestselling Nicholas Sansbury Smith's propulsive post-apocalyptic series about a soldier's mission to save the world.An army advances.. -
![Cursed Witch by Brogan Thomas]()
Cursed Witch by Brogan Thomas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHer conjury was out of reach. But when she’s flooded with strength, can she survive becoming a target? Tuesday Larson thought she’d settled for normal. A disappointment to her mother for never taking well to magic, she deliberately put distance between her family and any witchery. But the supernatural destroys her barriers when a group of mercenaries tears through her home looking for blood...Categorized as:
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![死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪]()
死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings起初的异样，是家里的猫不让抱了。林秋石发现周围的一切都开始变得充满了不协调感。然后某一天，当他推开家中的门，却发现熟悉的楼道变成了长长的走廊。走廊的两头，是十二扇一模一样的铁门。故事由此开始。阮南烛对林秋石说，当你凝视深渊时，深渊也在凝视着你。林秋石听后陷入沉思，然后对着深渊拉下了裤子拉链……阮南烛：“……你把裤子给我好好穿上！”不皮会死病娇攻X一起皮的沉稳受，双皮奶组合，灵异风格升级流。"Kaleidoscope of Death"It started off peculiarly; first, his domestic cat refused to let him cuddle it... -
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![The Redemption of Michael Hollister by Shawn Inmon]()
The Redemption of Michael Hollister by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll Michael Hollister wanted was death. What he got was time travel. Convicted of murder, and with nothing left to live for, Michael commits suicide in his jail cell in 1977, then opens his eyes in 1966, in his eight year old body, all memories of his previous life intact. His first thoughts are of the dark intentions of his father...Categorized as:
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![Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin]()
Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Earth has been overrun with monsters... Post-Apocalypse America is unrecognizable from the past. Jake survives by working as the leader of a scavenging adventuring team. A former mage, now he follows the strange path of cultivation, taught to him by a mysterious traveler. As far as he knows, he is one of the only people on Earth with this power... -
![Alive In A Dead World by Mark Tufo]()
Alive In A Dead World by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsEliza turned to Tomas"This is the end...he is no longer alive in a dead world... -
![The Many Short Lives of Charles Waters by Shawn Inmon]()
The Many Short Lives of Charles Waters by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCharles Waters has thirty days to live. Those days pass in a blur and he dies a quiet, unnoticed death. He opens his eyes back in the doctor's office as he is told, "I'm sorry to say, but you have thirty days to live." Thus begins The Many Short Lives of Charles Waters, who has to live the same thirty days over and over while he finds out what it is to be alive... -
![The Apocalypse War by Peter Meredith]()
The Apocalypse War by Peter Meredith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Action-Packed Conclusion to the Undead World Series!The people of the Estes Valley have found their peace destroyed as they are attacked by the single greatest army left in the world. Not only do they have to contend with an army of men equipped with the latest hi-tech military gear, they also have to battle a horde of undead half a million strong... -
![The Emancipation of Veronica McAllister by Shawn Inmon]()
The Emancipation of Veronica McAllister by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTime Travel with a twist! Veronica McAllister died in 2018. She immediately opened her eyes again in 1958, all memories of her previous life intact. She goes from old age, pants suits, and a cane, to poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and Buddy Holly. At the end of her first life, Veronica said she “wasn’t any good at life... -
![Surviving in the Shadow of Death by Donna Augustine]()
Surviving in the Shadow of Death by Donna Augustine
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI thought I was a fake, a spiritual guide doling out nothing more than a placebo effect to the pack. Turns out I’m more legitimate than anyone realizes—and more deadly.It doesn’t matter whether I’m the real thing or not, whether the pack has accepted me or not, because Duncan’s mate never will and she’s in charge. As long as he still wants me in his bed, she’ll want me in a grave...Categorized as:
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![The House on the Hill by Irina Shapiro]()
The House on the Hill by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStill grieving the death of her husband, Lauren leaves the hubbub of Boston for the peaceful shores of Cape Cod, where she hopes to come to terms with her loss and devote herself to her writing... -
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Plague by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsIt'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... -
![The Kraken King and the Iron Heart by Meljean Brook]()
The Kraken King and the Iron Heart by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsExperience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook. The Kraken King, Part V The Kraken King and the Iron Heart With their lives and the fate of an empire at stake, Ariq is forced to leave Zenobia behind... -
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![Lost and Found by Trish Marie Dawson]()
Lost and Found by Trish Marie Dawson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Review from Michele Wesselman - "Sucked me right back in to the story and wouldn't let me go! I love post-apocalyptic stories and this has been one of my favorites. Not too many have a woman as the main character and Riley is everywoman,so very easy to identify with. I will be wondering about her fate till the next book... -
![The Lure of Infinity by Stan C. Smith]()
The Lure of Infinity by Stan C. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome worlds are better left alone.Infinity Fowler has been fighting all her life. As a child, she had to fight for survival. Then she fought professionally. But when humans obtained the technology to bridge to alternate versions of Earth, she saw a chance for a new life. She signed up to become a bridger—an elite fighter and survival expert who protects tourists bridging to alternate worlds...Categorized as:
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![Barbarian Assassin by Aaron Crash]()
Barbarian Assassin by Aaron Crash
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere’s something new, dark, and sweet at Old IronboundYmir made a vow to master magic and to take care of his women. To do that, he'll stay at the Majestrial Collegium Universitas, but he'll stay on his own terms. He has a new business idea that will make life at the college sweeter and keep all the scholars randy... -
![The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright by Shawn Inmon]()
The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the outside, Rebecca Wright had an enviable life, and she enjoyed that envy. She had a beautiful house, handsome husband, and a no-limit credit card. What she didn't have was empathy. But, it's never too late in Middle Falls. A lesson that isn't learned in one lifetime can be learned in the next, or the next. Rebecca may need every chance she can get... -
![The Tribulations of Ned Summers by Shawn Inmon]()
The Tribulations of Ned Summers by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA young woman is murdered in Middle Falls, Oregon in 1952. The police never make an arrest, but the town convicts Ned Summers of the crime anyway. He banishes himself to a small house in the woods where he lives alone for the rest of his life. When he dies, he opens his eyes back in 1952, just a few days before the murder occurred... -
![Requiem Infernal by Peter Fehervari]()
Requiem Infernal by Peter Fehervari
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn Adepta Sororitas novelOn a distant world, an obscure order of the Adepta Sororitas study their founder's visions. They live in solitude… which is about to be broken as danger approaches... -
![Deadworld by Debbie Cassidy]()
Deadworld by Debbie Cassidy
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHumans 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... -
![A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson]()
A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA promise broken. Her future torn up. But she still has a job to do.Betrayed by her blood family, all Hallie's plans for her future are in ruins. She has no time to lick her wounds as Special Investigator Girard wants her help looking for some members of the elite who have gone missing in Hallie's territory... -
![And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones]()
And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe only looked away for a second.Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister Amy over twenty years ago, Joseph Bridgeman's life has fallen apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel... -
![The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver by Shawn Inmon]()
The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAll Thomas Weaver wanted was death. What he got was time travel. Thomas Weaver, haunted by a teenage tragedy, lived a wasted life. He closed his eyes for what he believed was the last time in 2016, but opened them again in his teenage bedroom and body in 1976. Now a middle-aged man in his teenage body, he sets out to fix everything he did wrong in his first life...Categorized as:
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![Much Ado in the Moonlight by Lynn Kurland]()
Much Ado in the Moonlight by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLynn Kurland pens a wonderfully romantic tale about an eight-hundred-year-old ghost and the modern woman who turns his plans for a peaceful afterlife upside down…When Victoria McKinnon’s brother offers to finance her production of Hamlet, she leaps at the chance. She can’t imagine anything better than staging Shakespeare’s masterpiece in an honest-to-goodness English castle... -
![A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong]()
A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt’s house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination... -
![Classic Stories 1: The Golden Apples of the Sun/R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury]()
Classic Stories 1: The Golden Apples of the Sun/R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun ... a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love ... an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time... -
![The Dark Knight by Nick Cole]()
The Dark Knight by Nick Cole
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Dark Knight by Nick Cole continues the story begun in The Red King as the survivors band together to build a modern-day castle against a tide of dark forces overrunning Southern California... -
![Shadow Unit 11 by Emma Bull, Leah Bobet]()
Shadow Unit 11 by Emma Bull, Leah Bobet
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe 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. There, Stephen Reyes and his team pursue criminals transformed by a mysterious force: the anomaly. Welcome to Shadow Unit, a series created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear... -
![The Boy from Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis]()
The Boy from Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover the middle-grade debut Kirkus Reviews calls “spellbinding” by an award-winning author Booklist says “has crafted a definite winner.” Josie and Alec both live at 444 Sparrow Street. They sleep in the same room, but they’ve never laid eyes on each other. They are twelve years old and a hundred years apart...Categorized as:
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![Relinquish by Amy Miles]()
Relinquish by Amy Miles
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe rising is over, but the war continues to rage. King Aloysius knows Illyria exists and will stop at nothing to possess her. Jealousy drives a wedge between Illyria and Eamon. When Bastien reveals himself as her guide into enemy territory, an ambush lands them in captivity. Illyria is faced with the truth that she is not ready to face her destiny…or let Bastien go again... -
![Weird. Dark. by Luke Smitherd]()
Weird. Dark. by Luke Smitherd
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCOLLECTING THREE OF LUKE SMITHERD'S BOOKS; HOLD ON UNTIL YOUR FINGERS BREAK, THE MAN ON TABLE TEN, AND MY NAME IS MISTER GRIEF, PLUS EXCLUSIVE BONUS STORY THE CRASH, UNAVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE!Luke Smitherd is bringing his unique brand of strange storytelling once again, delivered here in an omnibus edition that collects four of his weirdest and darkest tales:MY NAME IS MISTER GRIEF: what if you... -
![Grunge by Roxy Collins]()
Grunge by Roxy Collins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s big and green and he's in my backyard…When my mom skips town, forcing me to dance in a strip club to cover her debts, you’d think I’d hit rock bottom.But there’s something much bigger brewing under my feet.Right outside, in my backyard, in fact.He’s big and green and he’s looking for a mate.Grunge is everything I never knew I wanted in a monster... -
![Blood is Red by Scott Sigler]()
Blood is Red by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA collection of eight horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of Infected, Contagious and Ancestor. This eBook-only title features seven tales from Scott's six years of free audiobook podcasts, including the Parsec Award-winning "Red Man," plus the brand-new novella "Hunter Hunterson & Sons... -
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![Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter]()
Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHere is another highly entertaining short story featuring Jonathan Maberry's compelling hero, Joe Ledger.This short thriller takes Joe Ledger into the mysterious, troubled town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania, the setting for Maberry's chilling Pine Deep Trilogy. In Pine Deep, nothing is what it seems... -
![Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine]()
Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis masterfully crafted first novel tells the spellbinding story of a contemporary woman who discovers her past life as a 12th-century Welsh noblewoman. Erskine's extraordinary romance has been translated into 17 languages and has sold well over a million copies worldwide... -
![The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSet in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area known as the “blasted hearth.” After failing to extract any information from the Arkham locals, the narrator encounters an old man, Ammi Pierce, who relates the story of a farmer who once lived there. The hearth, he claims, was caused by a meteorite that fell onto the farmer’s field in 1882... -
![The Long Walk by Richard Bachman, Stephen King]()
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman, Stephen King
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsOn the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as The Long Walk. If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying. Reissue... -
![I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories by Ray Bradbury]()
I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe mind of Ray Bradbury is a wonder-filled carnival of delight and terror that stretches from the verdant Irish countryside to the coldest reaches of outer space. Yet all his work is united by one common thread: a vivid and profound understanding of the vast set of emotions that bring strength and mythic resonance to our frail species... -
![The Shadows of London by Nick Jones]()
The Shadows of London by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA time traveler's work is never done.Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning and this time, the rules of the game have changed... -
![Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes]()
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTitanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.A GHOST SHIP.A SALVAGE CREW.UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal... -
![A Twist of Fate by Kelley Armstrong]()
A Twist of Fate by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFour years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, where she has been trapped ever since, leaving her husband and infant son behind. Now she’s found her way back.The problem, of course, is how to explain her absence to her husband... -
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Merfolk by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the latest book in the bestselling WORLD'S SCARIEST LEGENDS series.A cave-diving expedition on a mysterious island goes horribly wrong for a renowned marine biologist and his fellow divers when they become hunted by a deadly breed of predators that, until then, had only been known in myths and legends... -
![Do You Realize? by Kevin A. Kuhn]()
Do You Realize? by Kevin A. Kuhn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGeorge is a middle-management, middle-class, middle-aged guy who hates his job and struggles to stay connected to his wife and teenage children. Most guys might end up with a steamy affair and a flashy car for their midlife crisis, but George gets a quirky, philosophical physics professor named Shiloh... -
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![Lights Out by James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein]()
Lights Out by James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJames Patterson's high-octane sci-fi adventure series comes to a white-knuckle conclusion in the final battle that Daniel X has been waiting for his entire life. In this sixth and last installment of the Daniel X series, the alien-hunting hero is finally ready to take on the biggest threat in the galaxy: The Prayer--the same beast that brutally murdered his parents long ago... -
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![The Reset Life of Cassandra Collins by Shawn Inmon]()
The Reset Life of Cassandra Collins by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCassandra Collins is forced to make a choice. Do what she's told and have a safe, protected life. Or, strike out on her own and make her own way. Cassandra chooses the easy path and regrets it her whole life. Until she dies and wakes up in her eighteen year old body, on the cusp of that same decision... -
![X-Files: The Truth Is Out There by Jonathan Maberry, Sarah Stegall]()
X-Files: The Truth Is Out There by Jonathan Maberry, Sarah Stegall
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFox Mulder and Dana Scully are back in a chilling collection of all-new tales of dark secrets, alien agendas, terrifying monsters and murderous madmen. Featuring original stories by bestselling authors Rachel Caine, Hank Philippi Ryan, Kelley Armstrong, Kami Garcia, Greg Cox and many others. Edited by New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry (V-WARS)... -
![Doctor Who: Interference - Book Two by Lawrence Miles]()
Doctor Who: Interference - Book Two by Lawrence Miles
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey call it the Dead Frontier. It's as far from home as the human race ever went, the planet where mankind dumped the waste of its thousand year empire and left its culture out in the sun to rot.But while one Doctor faces both his past and his future on the Frontier, another finds himself on Earth in 1996, where the seeds of the empire are only just being sown... -
![At Least He's Not On Fire: A Tour of the Things That Escape My Head by Chris Philbrook, James Foster]()
At Least He's Not On Fire: A Tour of the Things That Escape My Head by Chris Philbrook, James Foster
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI'm an odd dude. But I write some decent stuff, and here's my way of sharing my odd dude thoughts.I'm the author of three 'major' series; Adrian's Undead Diary, Elmoryn's The Kinless Trilogy, and the Reemergence Novels, the first of which is Tesser: A Dragon Among Us.To help folks get a taste of my writing, I've put At Least He's Not On Fire together...
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