Books like 'Castaways on Long Ago'
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Deep State by L.T. Ryan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter meeting with Jack Noble, things have been silent. Until Bear Logan receives a cryptic message that sends him to Chicago for a meeting. But Noble isn't there, and neither is anyone else. Bear soon finds himself teamed up with a green reporter who claims to have inside information about a brewing conspiracy that could have long-reaching ramifications... -
Summer Shadows by Joss Stirling
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSummer lives under a terrible shadow. It drains her, manipulates her and threatens to steal her future.A high-stakes mission offers a temporary escape. She must use her mind-shadowing abilities to hunt down her target and find the truth.Hal Robinson is a soldier. He does not get distracted. He wins. But what Hal wants begins to shift once he meets Summer... -
The Bullet by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a woman finally gets her happily-ever-after ending with the man she loves—until a woman on the run shows up on her doorstep with enough secrets to get them all killed... -
Grave Measures by R.R. Virdi
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhat do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, has forty-four hours to find out. To make matters worse, his years of body-hopping and monster-hunting are catching up with him. He’s losing his mind. An old contact has shut him out... -
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Dead Sea by Pandora Pine
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a new client asks the West Side Detectives to look into the Redcoat Murders on Dead Man’s Rock in the years before the start of the Revolutionary War, Ronan O’Mara thinks he might have the perfect case to put his new detective agency on the map. The only problem is that while Ronan’s specialty is cold case murders, he’s never investigated a case nearly three centuries cold... -
Sorin by Brooke Sivendra
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA code. A cult. A kidnapping. James Thomas is playing a deadly game of chess, but not everyone will survive…. Maya Ashwood has been taken hostage, and her kidnapper wants two things in exchange: James Thomas and Mak Ashwood.James must create a plan that will enable him to both rescue Maya and keep Mak safe from the clutches of the man hunting him.The stakes have never been higher... -
Patriot by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA biker in trouble. A woman who doesn’t run from it.Logan, aka Patriot, earned his nickname by fighting for the underdog. Only this time he’s the one being crushed under the weight of injustice when his club comes under fire with the law... -
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MC: Callahan by L. Ann Marie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTiny has lived a rough life. Born to a drug addicted mother and an absentee father, his mother had plenty of company--not all of it good for a young boy. He's spent his entire adult life in the MC--He knows no other way. Nancy lived with an elderly aunt when her parents died. When her aunt saw Tiny for the first time, she threw her out... -
Brighton by L. Ann Marie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrighton Book 8 continues the MC Series with our favorite Badass geek. Digs life is threatened almost daily by the Brothers that recruited him at seventeen. It's only a matter of time before the computer wiz gets caught up in the crazy of the MC. Never having made it to a second date worries Digs, but Penny caught his eye and Patches sent him a list... -
Who's the Daddy? Complete Series by Harmony Raines
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne Bear and a Baby After years away, bear shifter, Cade, has gone home to Tawny Valley. With a baby. Which attracts the attention of the local sheriff, Isabelle. And what self-respecting sheriff wouldn’t be suspicious? So maybe he has every right to be a single father. And yes he is entitled to his privacy. Except when that one bear with a baby, just happens to be her mate... -
The Criminal Mastermind Collection, Bks 1-3 (Artemis Fowl, #1-3) by Eoin Colfer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNow available in a gorgeous paperback box set--the first five books in the blockbuster best-selling Artemis Fowl series, starring everyone’s favorite criminal mastermind. An ingenious gift indeedArtemis FowlTwelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius—and, above all, a criminal mastermind...Categorized as:
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Last Light by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith just a touch, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the deepest secrets that others conceal—and it frightens her. There’s danger in the terrible knowledge that floods her mind and haunts her conscience.With just a touch, Rainer Sparks can learn the biggest problems that others bear—and it thrills him. There’s profit to be made making problems go away, by any means . . . including murder... -
The Moose Jaw - Book III: Grizzly Harvest by Mike Delany
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime, reality, life and death are nebulous things on the Moose Jaw. Out in the Alaska bush the wall between the natural and the supernatural is one of gossamer rather than stone. When dead bears, as well as dead men, are discovered in the Moose Jaw's valley, Hard Case Calis returns to the wilderness to investigate... -
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Holding Out For Forever by Vera Quinn, Monica Langley Holloway
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can never go back... I thought I would never love again. I put the BlackPath MC and our families first. I have old enemies, mixed with new rivalries, that put everything at risk. Then I met her. One stolen kiss is all it took. I told her she would never be mine. Nine months later, and we have a permanent bond. Everything else doesn't matter... -
Master's Rise by L. Ann Marie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBadass is back with a vengeance and it always shines through. Brotherhood above all is shown in this first installment of the Phoenix Series set in New Mexico. Being lied to had him losing faith in his Brothers but never his lessons. Cort shows them all what Brotherhood and Badass means. One of the first lessons he teaches is to Seren... -
Logan: Brotherhood Protectors World (The Guardian Agency) by Regan Black, Brotherhood Protectors World
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe invisible wounds are the hardest to heal...Months ago, Allison Weaver's boyfriend turned violent after one of his investments tanked. She left him immediately, but the incident shattered her confidence. Now he's harassing her with threats and accusations that her research into an historical site in Charleston, South Carolina has derailed his newest business deal...Categorized as:
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A Little Father's Day Favor: A Holidays at Rawhide Ranch Story by Maren Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe can't remember her past.He can't wait to forget his own.When these two shattered hearts come together, they might finally discover their missing pieces in each other...When Derek asks her for a favor, sweet, broken Nikki Palmer is all too eager to help out—until she learns exactly what is expected of her..Categorized as:
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Ruthless Monster by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI went to Miami on the tail of an assassin, but when he turned the tables on me it was mafia kingpin Sebastian Dupree who saved my life...Categorized as:
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Pocus by K.L. Savage
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDarkness is all I’ve known. She might bring me to the light. Or tumble me into the pit...My past is a black hole. I can’t outrun it, no matter how hard I try. It always pulls me back. And now an old rival returns, reminding me of the things I’ve done. My mistakes.He wants to take away our home and destroy our lives. He wants to wreak havoc on the club that is our life’s blood... -
Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWho do the world’s most exciting authors turn to when they need a shot of adrenaline? F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack! "One of the all-time great characters in one of the all-time great series." — Lee Child“Repairman Jack is one of my favorite characters—I’m full of happy anticipation every time I hold a new RJ novel in my hands... -
Deadly Obsession by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA cold-blooded killer with a burning obsession… Rachel de Luca has a bad feeling about the new woman in Detective Mason Brown's life, the nurse taking care of him after he's injured in the line of duty. She'd like to think it's just jealousy, but intuition tells her it's something more, maybe something dangerous... -
King Security by Kenna Coulby
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new military romance series! 5 Books, No Cliffhangers, and Free with Kindle Unlimited. CHRIS Dancing is my life, always has been. Even when a stalker started sending threatening letters, I didn’t think twice—until the threats intensified. I don’t have a choice but to partner with the hunky Chris, ex-Marine and private security agent... -
Curse of the Painted Lady by K. Patrick Donoghue
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe gruesome death of Anabel Simpson, a retired archaeologist living in a small college town, had rocked her friends and neighbors and stymied the medical examiner. After all, she had been a quiet woman known for her ornate garden, Holstein knickknacks and stories of her days exploring ancient ruins... -
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Stop Me by Brenda Novak
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWho was the real killer? Romain Fornier lost his reason for living when his daughter was kidnapped and murdered. He used a cop's gun to mete out his own justice and spent the next few years in prison. Once he was freed, he returned to his Cajun roots in small-town Louisiana. But now he learns that he might have killed the wrong man... -
Call to Quarters by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSince the days of Merlin, there have been magicians that aid king and country. In modern times, they are known as the Gældorcræft Forces. They do everything that needs to be done, from disaster relief to keeping giant cities afloat – like Los Angeles. Investigating explosions at Air Force Research Labs are outside of the norm, but this explosion doesn’t follow the rules either... -
The Book of Destiny by Melissa McShane
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHelena has come far from the day she became custodian of Abernathy’s, the world’s only living oracle. Now, she faces her greatest challenge yet: the oracle’s prediction that it, and she, will end.As monstrous invaders strike city after city, leaving death and destruction behind, the Wardens scramble to defend humanity. Weakened by infighting, they turn to Abernathy’s for guidance and strength... -
Desert Wolf by Heather Long
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCassius, Alpha of Sutter Butte, leads the most ruthless and dangerous pack in the United States. Misfits, castoffs, and forgotten wolves, they rose to create a pack more than a century ago in utter defiance of the order of the day. Seen as pitiless and cruel, Cassius wants more for his people than a yearly bloodbath as they fight for a better spot in the pecking order... -
Armed And Armoured by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKahlia has fought a few battles for the survival of innocents on Allishan 9, but her primary concern is her life as a designer. On one of the school trips that her sister badgered her into chaperoning, she meets her destiny, and her doom. Rupture is a member of the Sector Guard and he has his eyes on the woman stepping out of the battle suit... -
Cast the First Stone by K.J. Emrick, S.J. Wells
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsImagine seeing your future... in 3-second intervals... Introducing Sidney Stone — Private Investigator - She's smart, she's tough and she never gives up! Sidney Stone isn't rich, if she doesn't work she doesn't get paid. A private investigator's life can be tough in the motor city of Detroit. But she has a few tricks up her sleeve... Like being able to see into her immediate future... -
Desperate Choices by Tracy Brody
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt nineteen, Stephanie Anderson harbored a secret crush on high school senior Ray Lundgren—her brother’s best friend. After Ray left to join the Army, she put her unrequited crush behind her. Over the next five years, she fell in love, married, and started a family. Only her happy life was shattered when her husband was killed eight months ago... -
The Ghost Who Said Goodbye by Scott William Carter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEven the dead can die . . . the second in the riveting series about the private investigator who bridges both sides of the great divide. Charles Manson. Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahmer. Known for their cunning and savagery. In the late eighties, another infamous serial killer sent seventeen innocent people to early graves... -
Heard It Through the Grapevine by Lizbeth Lipperman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA debut mystery chock-full of big Texas attitudeSavannah television personality Elaina Garcia has the opportunity of a lifetime as a news anchor in Florida, but her plans are disrupted when she learns about the death of her estranged sister, Tessa, who ran a Texas winery with her ex-husband.Back in her hometown of Vineyard, Texas, Lainey comes face to face with her dead sister... -
Cold River Resurrection by Enes Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Cold River series continues in this exciting saga set on the Cold River Indian Reservation in Oregon. City girl Jennifer Kruger got more than she bargained for when she trespassed on the Cold River Indian Reservation, searching for a legendary creature. She became lost, and stumbled upon grisly evidence of murder and mutilation... -
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Rise of the King, Volume 1 by R.J. Kane
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBased on the myth of Hades and Persephone, "The Underworld Series" is a fresh take on the myth that challenges common perceptions of good, evil, light, and dark. Everyone has choices to make every single day and your life is a result of those choices. Sephie and the men she finds herself surrounded by find themselves on a path that has been paved over lifetimes... -
Shock: A Virals Short Story by Kathy Reichs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA riveting short story that takes us back to the beginning of the Virals series.A dazed Tory Brennan steps off the plane in Charleston. Reeling from the recent death of her mother, and nervous about meeting her dad for the first time, she could hardly be less excited at the prospect of starting this new chapter of her life...Categorized as:
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Hunted by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe fourth title in a thrilling series about four teenagers with psychic abilities, from Red House award-winning author, Sophie McKenzie... -
A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamspawn by Christa Faust, Tim Waggoner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe evil Freddy Krueger once again stalks the inhabitants of Elm Street, finding his prey in the world of their nightmares... -
Control by Kim Curran
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScott Tyler is not like other teenagers. With a single thought he can alter reality around him. And he can stop anyone else from doing the same.That’s why he’s so important to ARES, the secret government agency that regulates other kids like him: Shifters. They’ve sent him on a mission. To track down the enigmatic Frank Anderson...Categorized as:
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Bad Things by Tamara Thorne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe house has been in his family for generations. But it really belongs to them…The Piper clan emigrated from Scotland and founded the town of Santo Verde, California. The Gothic Victorian estate built there has housed the family for generations, and has also become home to an ancient evil forever linked to the Piper name…As a boy, Rick Piper discovered he had “the sight... -
Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the Silver Medal for Horror in the 2016 Independent Publishing Awards HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS? Elliot Jefferson moved to the isolated Estates of North Hills to work on his sobriety and avoid other people at all costs. But when the electric transformers around the complex begin emitting a horrible buzz that he calls ‘the Squall,’ neither is easy to achieve... -
Desperate Choices by Kathy Ivan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen New Orleans police declare private investigator Max Lamoreaux’s missing godson a runaway, he reaches out to former flame Theresa Crawford for help. Her specialized skills have proven key to unlocking past investigations. Time hasn’t diminished their powerful chemistry, but Theresa’s secrets drove them apart once before... -
Breed for the Beast by Siggy Shade
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBreeding for a beast was not the fairy tale, happily ever after ending I had in mind…I always knew my husband was shady. But drugging me and selling me in an auction to the highest bidder was dirty, even for him.I practically begged the one-eyed giant in the crowd to bid on me, to save me. And he did.He didn’t do it out of the kindness of his heart, though. If he even has one... -
Dying is a Wild Night by Edward Fallon
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEESEvery crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA.It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted.And only the man and the boy know this... -
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Indigo Fire by Vickie McKeehan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIndigo Fire The Indigo Brothers Trilogy Book One What would you do if your family went missing? Three brothers, Jackson, Mitch, and Garret Indigo are summoned back home to tiny Indigo Key by their mother. Their sister has gone missing along with her husband and two kids. But the mystery only deepens when they learn a visitor to the town has also disappeared... -
The Rescue by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe third title in a thrilling new series about four teenagers with psychic abilities, from Red House Book Award-winning author, Sophie McKenzie... -
Swipe by Kathy Reichs
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTory 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... -
Mind Game by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith Iris Johansen’s trademark adventure, intrigue, and explosive energy, Mind Game is a propulsive thriller that’s impossible to put down.Scotland holds a treasure that Jane MacGuire has been hunting for years. But as she scours the Highlands in search of it, she’s plagued by dreams of a girl in danger—dreams she can’t ignore no matter how hard she tries... -
Always a Thief by Kay Hooper
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild card... The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibited-- and the show' s director, Morgan West, can' t ignore her growing uneasiness. She' s certain she hasn' t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn... -
Le donjon rouge by George R.R. Martin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLe royaume des sept couronnes est en pleine tourmente. jouet de perfides intrigues. Nouées dans l'ombre autant que de grands seigneurs qui n'attendent qu'une occasion pour se rebeller, Eddard Stark, main du roi, tente d'y faire régner l'ordre et la justice au nom de son souverain... Mais ses efforts semblent vains...
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