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  • Charon Docks at Daylight by Zoe Reed

    Charon Docks at Daylight by Zoe Reed

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's six years after an infection turned a majority of the population into ferocious, zombie-like creatures that hunt during the day, forcing the living into a nocturnal state of existence. Survival is a continuous struggle when it's hide or fight, and the creatures aren't the only threat in a wasted America. Sometimes fighting is the only answer.Ebook linkhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/cdad-ep..
  • Fourth Quadrant by W. Michael Gear

    Fourth Quadrant by W. Michael Gear

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES THE SEQUEL TO THE BESTSELLING CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN, DISSOLUTION.Lauren Davis is closing on her twenty-first birthday when a cyberattack leads to the collapse of the American banking system...
  • The Apocalypse War by Peter Meredith

    The Apocalypse War by Peter Meredith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The 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...
  • Revelation by Karen McQuestion

    Revelation by Karen McQuestion

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Russ, Nadia, Jameson, and Mallory are about to embark on their riskiest mission yet as they attempt to infiltrate the ruthless Associates in Revelation, the thrilling final installment of the Edgewood series! The Edgewood teens decide to go undercover, joining the Associates in order to find their weaknesses and overthrow them from within...
  • The Mutation by A.L. Masters

    The Mutation by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The survivors lived through the horrifying first days of the plague and its aftermath. They've found their friends, their family...but others are still missing. Finding them means leaving the only safety they have, which may not be so safe after all.It's the dawn of a new era. One of violence, war, destruction, and horror...
  • The Replication by A.L. Masters

    The Replication by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can they stay sane in an insane world? Do they even want to?JaredThey made it out of the rubble alive. Mostly. The survivors had lost everything in the disaster. All of it destroyed in one horrific blink of an eye. They were going to have to regroup somewhere and heal, gather more supplies. Cheyenne Mountain, and the answers it would hopefully bring, could wait a little longer...
  • Born Into Flames: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Justin Sloan, Michael Anderle

    Born Into Flames: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Justin Sloan, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Out of the shadows and into the fire. When Valerie and Robin head north to take on an army of post-apocalyptic pirates, the deadly duo find themselves on a thrill-ride of air-ship battles and full-on assaults against pirate strongholds...
  • Division 5 by Krista Street

    Division 5 by Krista Street

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With freedom, comes choice. Dr. Meghan Forester’s dream has finally come true. A vaccine for the deadly Makanza virus is spreading throughout the world. Borders are open. The Kazzies are free.But just when happiness and hope are infiltrating society, Meghan’s world comes tumbling down. Davin’s first love reappears. The Kazzies are incessantly harassed. A young girl falls gravely ill...
  • Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

    Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.World Peace turns into global civil war.In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability...
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    dystopia  lgbtq  adult  audiobook  book  epic  female-author  fiction
  • Contamination: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Series by T.W. Piperbrook

    Contamination: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Series by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Best-Selling Post-Apocalyptic Series, Contamination - The complete series Books 0-7, available for the first time in one special box set! Over 1,200 pages of reading! The infection has begun, ravaging the American Southwest and leaving chaos in its wake. In this new world, there will be no last meal, no dying wish. The only reward left is to survive another day..
  • Lost and Found by Trish Marie Dawson

    Lost and Found by Trish Marie Dawson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 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...
  • Bitter Wind by Niall Teasdale

    Bitter Wind by Niall Teasdale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nava Ward, the mysterious first year student at the Shinden Alliance School of Sorcery, is about to receive an offer she would be stupid to refuse. Then she gets an offer she would really prefer to refuse but can’t. And soon she must deal with the ghost of a dead actress and the bitter schemes of a mad metaphysicist...
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    lgbtq  wlw  adult  book  fiction  low-fantasy  magic  paranormal
  • Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes

    Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One woman. One Great Dane. A whole lot of zombies.Jane Finch wishes her problems ended with a bad commute and no coffee. Instead, she and Schrodinger, the Great Dane she’s supposed to be training, emerge from a locked room to discover a city changed for the dead...
  • Dead Spring by A.L. Masters

    Dead Spring by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A sudden outbreak of violence at a local superstore leaves an eclectic group of people stranded. The isolation from the outside world and news of the devastation forces them to band together to survive. The survivors must adapt to the new rules of the world and seek comfort where they can...while they can...
  • Section 12 by Krista Street

    Section 12 by Krista Street

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    To save them, she'll risk everything.The last time Dr. Meghan Forester saw Davin and the other infected Kazzies, she made a heart-wrenching choice. Now, her new life is filled with loneliness.Trying to carry on while Davin and her friends are held captive on Reservation 1, Meghan begins a daunting position at Compounds 10 and 11 in Washington state...
  • Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry

    Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry returns to the world of Rot & Ruin with this first novel in a brand-new series that’s more thrilling and filled with exceptionally terrifying adventures.Ever since her mother’s death, Gabriella “Gutsy” Gomez has spent her days flying under the radar...
  • Orlando People by Alexander C. Kane

    Orlando People by Alexander C. Kane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gretch Wolgast is a bit of a dud. Just ask her. She's a 21-year-old college dropout who has a loser job at the mall. Sure, she can lift a tennis ball with her telekinetic powers. But only three feet in the air. And she has to be sitting. Gretch is an OP, one of thousands born in Orlando, Florida, in the early 1980s who mysteriously developed the ability to move things with their minds...
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    crime  dystopia  fiction  audiobook  mystery  humor  sci-fi  paranormal
  • Rebel Robin by A.R. Capetta

    Rebel Robin by A.R. Capetta

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Discover the backstory of the new Stranger Things fan favorite, Robin, played by Maya Hawke! The perfect read while you're waiting for Season 4 to drop on Netflix! High school is a monster, and it's eating everyone Robin knows. As sophomore year starts, Robin's Odd Squad friends have decided to try to be just like everyone else...
  • Demon by John Varley

    Demon by John Varley

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ISBN moved from less recent editionThe satellite-sized alien Gaea has gone completely insane. She has transformed her love of old movies into monstrous realities. She is Marilyn Monroe. She is King Kong. And now she must be destroyed...
  • Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

    Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A gripping thriller from the Richard and Judy award-winning author of Girl, Missing, Sophie McKenzie. When Theo discovers the father he thought died when he was a baby is still alive, he's determined to find him. The clues lead him to the lonely Rachel, who has problems of her own, including parents who compare her unfavourably to her long-dead sister...
  • Contagious by Scott Sigler

    Contagious by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the acclaimed author of "Infected" comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity's secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda...
  • What Survives of Us by Kathy Miner

    What Survives of Us by Kathy Miner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree and Winner of National Indie Excellence AwardNaomi sees her first corpse in a Colorado Springs grocery store, but it won’t be her last. With devastating speed, a plague sweeps first the city, then the state, then the world, leaving less than 1% of the population to go on...
  • 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 ratings
    A 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...
  • Feral by P.J. Post

    Feral by P.J. Post

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s just a teenager, hollow and lost, looking to keep the past buried, to forget. He surfs the backwash of the westward migration across a dead America; a war-torn desolation devoid of electricity, infrastructure and civilization. It has become a strange and unrecognizable land, rife with the worst of humanity. And his is a life without hope, equally dark and solitary. Until he meets Feral...
  • Weird. Dark. by Luke Smitherd

    Weird. Dark. by Luke Smitherd

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    COLLECTING 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...
  • Reaction by K.R. Griffiths

    Reaction by K.R. Griffiths

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B00KUI1O1QTime is running out. The Wildfire virus has caused irreversible damage to the UK, and fleeing looks like the only option left. For Michael Evans, that represents a serious problem...
  • Meteor Storm by D.F. Capps

    Meteor Storm by D.F. Capps

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    63,000 years ago, an ancient civilization existed far advanced over our own, but it was destroyed by a natural cataclysm. Now that same cataclysm is about to strike our modern world… When Carl stumbles upon an unknown robot’s head, he manages with some effort to get it working. From the robot, Carl learns that it was created by an ancient civilization 63,000 years ago in northern India...
  • The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

    The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Solve the murder to save what's left of the world.Outside the island there is the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists...
  • Bandit by Brooke Matthews

    Bandit by Brooke Matthews

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bennett Fields has a secret. But then again, who doesn't? When tasked with retrieving the talisman belonging to one of Mercy Height's most dangerous supervillains, Bennett finds himself dealing with more than he bargained for...
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    lgbtq  crime  dystopia  romance  mlm  paranormal  fantasy  polyamory
  • Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern

    Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the Dallas Mavericks’ basketball arena. Though he finds community among other queer refugees, Noah fears his trans and Jewish identities put him at risk with certain "capital-T" Texans. His fears take form when he starts seeing visions of his great- grandfather Abe, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy...
  • The Day After Oblivion by Tim Washburn

    The Day After Oblivion by Tim Washburn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AND SO IT BEGINS... In the United States, the Department of Defense and the NSA computer networks have been hacked. A nuclear-armed CIA drone has lost all flight control. North Korea . . . Iran . . . Russia . . . and soon the gates of Hell will open. DEFCON 1--FULL SCALE NUCLEAR WAR Humanity's most terrifying nightmare has become reality...
  • Deadlocked by A.R. Wise

    Deadlocked by A.R. Wise

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Part two of this series picks up immediately after the end of the first. David's wife, Laura, is forced to take over the protection of their family as the boat travels out into Hailey Bay, away from the zombies. However, the boat's pilot plans to dock back in the overrun city to rescue his own family, which will put Laura's in jeopardy...
  • Guardian by Lexie Winston

    Guardian by Lexie Winston

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Joining the Collectors Division was my only goal once the orphanage washed their hands of me at the age of twelve. Unruly and quick to anger, I was taken in by an academy instructor until I was old enough to attend myself. With love and understanding I thrived, and it became my mission to be the best Guardian the Collectors Division had ever seen...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  lgbtq  crime  romance  reverse-harem  fantasy  paranormal  magic
  • Inhuman by David Simpson

    Inhuman by David Simpson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Inhuman not only ties the first four books together, it also broadens the mystery, introduces a new villain, one that has been lurking in the background throughout, and that will trump any villain in the history of suspense literature, film, or science fiction. V-SINN is its name, and, and in this epic thriller, it may just be too much for the post-humans to handle...
  • Shift by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Shift by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tory's great aunt, Temperance Brennan, visits just in time to investigate a robbery at the Loggerhead Island Research Institute. As a renowned forensic anthropologist, Tempe is obviously qualified to figure out whodunit, but Tory and her Virals pack want to crack the case on their own. Yet the crime is puzzling...
  • Fighting to Survive by Rhiannon Frater

    Fighting to Survive by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Katie and Jenni have found new lives with the survivors of their makeshift fort, but danger still lurks. Nothing is easy in the new world where the dead walk and every day is a struggle to keep safe. As the elements, bandits, and the zombie horde threaten their safe haven, Jenni and Katie join the other survivors in fighting to survive as the world dies...
  • The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin

    The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth named Sutty has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness. They still believe in the ancient ways and still practice its lost religion - the Telling...
  • The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi

    The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to.”A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of “fast ones,” shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution...
  • The Hunt by Stacey Kade

    The Hunt by Stacey Kade

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ariane Tucker has finally escaped GTX, the research facility that created her. While on the run, Zane Bradshaw is the only person she can trust. He knows who-and what-she is and still wants to be part of her life. But accepting Zane's help means putting him in danger. Dr. Jacobs, head of GTX, is not the only one hunting for Ariane...
  • The Extinction Trials by A.G. Riddle

    The Extinction Trials by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    THE END... IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.After a mysterious global event known only as "The Change," six strangers wake up in an underground research facility where they learn that they're part of the Extinction Trials—a scientific experiment to restart the human race.But the Extinction Trials hides a very big secret.And so does the world outside.From A.G...
  • Contagious by Jacqueline Druga

    Contagious by Jacqueline Druga

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What starts as an emergence of a new virus quickly turns into Mother Nature’s ultimate population control. While attending a seminar at the Ambassador Hotel, Ava Mason is unknowingly exposed to a carrier of a highly contagious virus. The next morning, she wakes to a steady pounding on her door...
  • The Second Cure by Margaret Morgan

    The Second Cure by Margaret Morgan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    'This hypnotic debut novel brilliantly captures the unease of our times.' Jane Caro'Wildly entertaining and frighteningly plausible.' James Bradley'A whip smart thriller with big ideas and big heart.' Steven AmsterdamA pandemic is racing through our world, changing people subtly but irrevocably. The first sign for some is losing their faith...
    Categorized as:
    disaster  dystopia  epidemy  adult  anti-hero  book  earth  feminism
  • Surviving Chaos by Sam J Fires

    Surviving Chaos by Sam J Fires

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When ordinary life transforms into a fight for survival, can a young woman keep the chaos from pulling her under?Go-getting twenty-six-year-old investigative journalist Cassandra Drews just wants her miserable day to end. And desperate to put her breakup behind her, she agrees to one last face-to-face to return belongings to her ex...
  • Grip of Darkness by Sam J Fires

    Grip of Darkness by Sam J Fires

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The nation goes dark. Technology fails. Help isn't coming.An EMP has destroyed the nation's power grid.When an EMP shuts down power worldwide, eighteen-year-old Charlie Drews immediately meets death in the way of her neighbor Mrs. Butler who succumbs to a lethal heart attack. Charlie and her grandma Ruby must baton down the hatches to get through the power down and the bitter wintry storm...
  • Delete by Kim Curran

    Delete by Kim Curran

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The country is at war. Beset by enemies within and without. And all because of the decisions changed by one boy, Scott Tyler. In this ravaged alternative world, Scott hardly recognizes himself. He's a war hero, a leader of a unit of Shifters and maybe the only one who can prevent the country's frail defenses from crumbling...
  • Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather

    Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, the follow-up to Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award.“We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames...
  • It Takes Death to Reach a Star by Stu Jones, Gareth Worthington

    It Takes Death to Reach a Star by Stu Jones, Gareth Worthington

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE WORLD YOU KNOW IS DEAD. WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES.The epidemic struck at the end of the Third World War. Fighting over oil, power, and religion, governments ignored the rise of an anti-bacterial-resistant plague. In just five years, the Earth was annihilated. Only one city survived—Etyom—a frozen hell-hole in northern Siberia, engulfed in endless conflict.The year is 2251...
  • The Organ Scrubber by Jason Werbeloff

    The Organ Scrubber by Jason Werbeloff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the Bubble, where orphans are used for spare parts, and transplanting organs is like changing a pair of socks.They harvested Daniel’s body when he was a child, leaving him with cheap cybernetic replacements. Now that he's grown, his body is failing. The gears in his knee grind, his synthetic cornea weeps, and his 3D-printed lungs spasm in winter.Daniel needs the organs he was born with...
  • Paradox Valley by Gerri Hill

    Paradox Valley by Gerri Hill

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Was it an earthquake? A meteor? Or something else entirely?Running from a marriage proposal in Seattle, Dana Ingram returns to her parents’ farm in Western Colorado for a two-week vacation in Paradox Valley. Only a couple of days into it, however, a small earthquake leaves them without power. Cars won’t start, batteries don’t work and cell phones are useless...
  • Villain by Michael Grant

    Villain by Michael Grant

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s been four years since the events of GONE.The Perdido Beach dome is down, but the horrors within have spread, and now all of humanity is in danger. The alien virus-infested rock that created the FAYZ is creating monsters–monsters that walk the cities and countryside, terrorizing all...
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