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  • Inseparable by Auryn Hadley

    Inseparable by Auryn Hadley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    DISASTER! THE BLACK BLADES DISBANDED, AN ALLIANCE IN TURMOIL... The intersecting worlds of the iliri, grauori, and men collide when an alliance is declared, and the humans renege. In the midst of offering an olive branch to other races, they seem secretly hellbent on destroying them all—and they begin by putting Sal on trial and disbanding the Black Blades...
  • One Nation, Under... by Daniel Schinhofen

    One Nation, Under... by Daniel Schinhofen

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alvin and his wives had been busy over the last few weeks. They’d gone out of their way to visit settlements they’d helped in the past, all while killing a string of mini-bosses across what had been the American west. Life looked good for Team Asshole… until the devs made a mistake.Without any warning, Sammi stopped showing up...
  • Endless Knight by Kresley Cole

    Endless Knight by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In this second book thrilling book of The Arcana Chronicles from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole, Evie struggles to accept her place in the prophecy that will either save the world—or destroy it.Evie has fully come into her powers as the tarot Empress, and Jack was there to see it all...
  • Edge of the Darkness by Brenda K. Davies

    Edge of the Darkness by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BaleDreams of the darkness have haunted me since childhood. I always assumed one day I would uncover the answer to what the darkness hid... and that those answers would destroy me.However, after learning who my mate is, I know it won’t be the darkness that kills me… it will be him.No matter what happens, I plan to take Wrath with me when I die...
  • Wyvern's Gold by A.H. Hadley

    Wyvern's Gold by A.H. Hadley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dragons are a myth. Heroes are a reality.Six hundred years ago, humans retreated underground. Our Elders said our sins were why. Ever since, the battle between Heaven and Hell has raged on Earth's surface. Only becoming truly righteous can save us.It was a lie.Stories of dragons willing to devour us and wild men who will torture us keep the population in line...
  • Mercury's War by Lora Leigh

    Mercury's War by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Nothing matches Lora Leigh's latest entry in the series about genetically altered Breeds with feline DNA, and the humans who awaken their desire.Someone has been slipping the Sanctuary's secure information to a pharmaceutical company. Now it's up to Ria Rodriguez to pose as a clerk and uncover the leak...
  • Jacked Cat Jive by Rhys Ford

    Jacked Cat Jive by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stalker Kai Gracen knew his human upbringing would eventually clash with his elfin heritage, but not so soon. Between Ryder, a pain-in-his-neck Sidhe Lord coaxing him to join San Diego’s Southern Rise Court, and picking up bounties for SoCalGov, he has more than enough to deal with...
  • Hoards and Harbors Part 2 by S.M. Olivier

    Hoards and Harbors Part 2 by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One of my worst nightmares came to fruition, and I was separated from some of my guys. Not knowing their fate left me in a state of constant anxiety. We were determining our next move and waiting for the hordes to pass only added to the stress of the unknown. Of course, leaving the prison and embarking on our next journey was also fraught with additional dangers...
  • Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole

    Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Can Evie convince her rival loves to work together? Their survival depends on it in this third book of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole’s Arcana Chronicles, a nonstop action tale of rescue, redemption, and a revenge most wicked...
  • Seeking Asylum by S.M. Olivier

    Seeking Asylum by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I was once an average college student with dreams of the Olympics. A better future had been within my grasp. I was weeks away from graduating from college, and I had just received my invitation to the National Team. Sure, I was still nursing a broken heart and coming to terms with the betrayal delivered to me at the hands of people I once trusted and loved dearly...
  • Defending Nightmares by M. Sinclair

    Defending Nightmares by M. Sinclair

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I crave my nightmares.I crave the shadows.I don’t want the light if it doesn’t include them…The human terror organization MAM has come to our doorstep—we just don’t know what they want...
  • Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts

    Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed...
  • Into the Abyss: Volume 3 by Brenda K. Davies

    Into the Abyss: Volume 3 by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    AmaliaBorn behind a seal, I never experienced anything beyond those four walls until I was freed from my prison.On Earth, the other demons see the jinn as nothing but monsters; however, they don’t know the jinn as well as they think. I’m beginning to realize I don’t either...
  • Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren

    Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Before world war two could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm.Legend has it that an experiment failed. Catastrophically so. And when it failed, the center of the United States, from the Sierra Nevada to the Mississippi river became "The Waste", where everything changed.Except it didn't only happen in North America...
  • Love and Decay: Boy Meets Girl by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay: Boy Meets Girl by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Zombie Apocalypse couldn’t be more boring.For the last two years Hendrix Parker’s life rotated in a constant routine of fighting Zombies, finding a place to spend the night and keeping his family safe. While all those things were admirable pursuits, they had begun to blur together in monotonous gray lines and a haze inducing fog...
  • The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa

    The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In Allison Sekemoto's world, there is one rule left: Blood calls to blood She has done the unthinkable: died so that she might continue to live. Cast out of Eden and separated from the boy she dared to love, Allie will follow the call of blood to save her creator, Kanin, from the psychotic vampire Sarren...
  • Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Kate Harker isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.August Flynn once yearned to be human. But no longer. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.The war has begun.The monsters are winning.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in...
  • We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season by K.C. Wayland

    We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season by K.C. Wayland

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This exciting audio drama is based on an immensely popular podcast that has received hundreds of positive reviews and has had over four million downloads--and counting. For Army Reserve soldier Michael Cross, the world as he knows it ends in an instant. One minute he's in college, and the next rioters are roaming the highway around him, breaking into cars and literally tearing people apart...
  • Full Blood by Donna Augustine

    Full Blood by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One monster wants my soul. One man wants my magic. Me? I want to be left alone to live my life out like a dull, one of the lucky people who were born devoid of magic. But that won’t happen because being born a Wyrd Blood gives me two choices in life: ruler or slave. I’d rather die than be a slave and I’m not cut out to rule. Instead I’ve been hiding out in the Valley...
  • Defy the Future by Keira Andrews

    Defy the Future by Keira Andrews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    To protect their pack, they must risk everything.Adam and Parker are finally safe. As safe as they can be in a world where the zombie-like infected still roam the night. With other survivors, they’ve built a community—a pack. Until that peace is shattered...
  • The Hunt by Donna Augustine

    The Hunt by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Living in the Wilds isn't any picnic, but I thought I had a handle on things: avoid the beasts and I won't get eaten, avoid the waterways and the pirates won't kill me, and stab every Dark Walker I see. That was before I found out Tiffy's friends were real and back when I’d never heard of the Skinners. Now my magic is on the fritz, and people are disappearing...
  • Deadly Desire by Keri Arthur

    Deadly Desire by Keri Arthur

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Seduction that kills. Pleasure to die for. She just can’t resist…Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. And this time’s no different. For it’s no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. But that’s exactly what Riley expects to find at the end of a trail of female corpses used—and discarded—in a bizarre ritual of evil...
  • Demon Night by M.J. Haag

    Demon Night by M.J. Haag

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every secret has a price. It’s a truth that Angel knows too well. Since the hellhounds and infected started to roam, Angel has guarded her secret carefully. But, she’s growing weaker by the day and needs help. In this new plague-ravaged world, the weak don’t survive long, and the useless are quickly abandoned. That’s why Angel’s secret needs to stay secret...
  • Sin by Faith Gibson

    Sin by Faith Gibson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sinclair Stone is the leader of the Stone Society's West Coast Clan. He is the King’s brother and also his right hand. Over the centuries, Sin has shared his bed with males and females alike. He has loved human women, even taking a few as wives, thinking he would never find a mate. Watching his brothers find their mates is bittersweet until Sin is knocked to his knees. Literally...
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  • Demon Deception by M.J. Haag

    Demon Deception by M.J. Haag

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cassie Feld’s world is falling apart. Grieving from the loss of her husband and youngest child, she lives in fear of losing her remaining daughter. She knows she can't protect her alone. There’s a solution, as terrifying and as heartbreaking as she finds it, that will ensure she never has to suffer such a devastating loss again...
  • The Forever Song by Julie Kagawa

    The Forever Song by Julie Kagawa

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Vengeance will be hers.Allison Sekemoto once struggled with the question: human or monster? With the death of her love, Zeke, she has her answer.Monster.Allie will embrace her cold vampire side to hunt down and end Sarren, the psychopathic vampire who murdered Zeke...
  • Demon Escape by M.J. Haag

    Demon Escape by M.J. Haag

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eden Terry survived the first ring of hell only to end up in the second one. With nothing but a trowel and her wits, she's determined to escape the work camp holding her prisoner. She dreams of finding a safe haven and living in the new, devastated world on her own. However, surviving alone after she escapes proves more difficult than she ever imagines...
  • Blood Binds by Donna Augustine

    Blood Binds by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryker calls it an accident. I call it another betrayal. He didn't want me to leave but didn't fight to keep me by his side. Wronged magically and devastated emotionally, I exile myself to another country, Dorley. Now I perform tricks under a tent, my mystical gifts a common sideshow. Just as I’m accepting my self-inflicted fate, Ryker makes a move that forces me back to the Valley...
  • Hell on Earth by Brenda K. Davies

    Hell on Earth by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WrenIt’s been fourteen years since the gateway to Hell opened and life as I knew it ended.I managed to survive the Wilds, but now I have a chance to build a better world for all Wilders. Unfortunately, it means working with the demons I’ve always considered my enemies.Joining with the demons wouldn’t be a horrible prospect, except it means dealing with Corson...
  • Good Intentions by Brenda K. Davies

    Good Intentions by Brenda K. Davies

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    RIVERThirteen years have passed since the war started, bombs fell, and the central states became a thing of the past.When the war ended, the government erected a wall to divide the surviving states from the destroyed ones. I never expected to leave my town, but unlike those who volunteered to go, I wasn’t given a choice. With a dim knowledge of my strange abilities, the soldiers came for me...
  • Eastern Expansion by Randi Darren

    Eastern Expansion by Randi Darren

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    [Spoiler for the faint hearted at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through.] Before world war two could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm. Now, Yosemite city stands as the gateway between two worlds. The empire of humanity to the west, and the wild wastes to the east...
  • World After by Susan Ee

    World After by Susan Ee

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken...
  • Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    THE WORLD IS BREAKING. AND SO ARE THEY.KATE HARKER isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.AUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.THE WAR HAS BEGUN.THE MONSTERS ARE WINNING.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in...
  • The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts

    The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Year One and Of Blood and Bone concludes her stunning new trilogy praised as "A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's The Stand" with The Rise of Magicks.After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways...
  • Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane

    Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A DEADLY HIGH   Magic-wielding Churchwitch and secret addict Chess Putnam knows better than anyone just how high a price people are willing to pay for a chemical rush...
  • The Black Rider by J.B. Trepagnier

    The Black Rider by J.B. Trepagnier

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s the apocalypse, and apparently, I can’t trust anyone. Aeron had every opportunity to explain the horses that were haunting my drawings. I asked him several times about his crazy zombie killing horse. He omitted to tell me he was the Horseman of Death until Leif let it slip he was the Horseman of Pestilence when he introduced himself to me...
  • The Shadow Aspect by Melanie Karsak

    The Shadow Aspect by Melanie Karsak

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Layla took the final step through the labyrinth, she thought she was saving the ones she loved. She couldn't have been more wrong.Layla and the other survivors find themselves caught in a war for our world, the unwitting victims of a grudge seething for eons. Surviving the zombie apocalypse has become the least of their worries as they come up against vampires, shapeshifters, and fae...
  • 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...
  • Dead Sea by Debbie Cassidy

    Dead Sea by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When war knocks on the door, burying your head in the sand won’t make it leave.Death called and I answered. Now Genesis is coming for us. But with the council making every excuse not to listen to my warnings, there’s no other option but to plot behind their backs.Time is limited.The sea kingdom awaits, and the sea king isn’t the kind of man to accept a rain check...
  • Demon Dawn by M.J. Haag

    Demon Dawn by M.J. Haag

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Survival requires sacrifice. The world irrevocably changed after the hellhounds and fey appeared. Most people didn’t survive that first night. Dad had said we were lucky we did. I’m not so sure about that anymore. With her father murdered before her eyes and her faith in the remaining humans shaken, Brenna reluctantly accepts sanctuary in Tolerance, a safe zone managed by the fey...
  • The Lost Souls by Madeline Sheehan

    The Lost Souls by Madeline Sheehan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Holy Trinity Novella. Tahyra Petros tried desperately to save herself and her sister. Instead, she ended up forever changed. Shandor Asenov battled with death and lost who he had been. During a valiant attempt to rescue his friends, Hockey Sava vanished. Carrie Andrews's brother died during a violent struggle for survival, leaving her stranded and alone...
  • Thrive by E.M. Raegan

    Thrive by E.M. Raegan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The days are blurring together. I can’t seem to keep my eyes open at night. Terror follows us everywhere we go. Nowhere is safe. It’s spreading. Thriving. We can’t outrun it. All we can do is bunker down and pray it passes us by. But that’s wishful thinking. The ravaged will find us and there’s not a thing we can do to stop them. They are everywhere. I haven’t seen him. I haven’t spoken to him...
  • Dead City by Debbie Cassidy

    Dead City by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How many times can you cheat death? I’m not sure but I have a feeling I’m about to be tested.First there were thirteen and now there’s only one. But the responsibilities don’t lessen. Bring the Harvest in, they say, take the soul orb to Haven, they order.One of me, and too many places to be. Like hell am I putting my ass on the line without back up...
  • Dragon War by Debbie Cassidy

    Dragon War by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Threat hovers on the horizon, and it's time to meet it head on.An unexpected betrayal, revelations, and a reunion that I didn't know I needed. But there is no time to revel in what I've gained because there is too much to lose.Anya's Journey continues in Dragon War, the thrilling finale to the Dragon Guard series...
  • When Monsters Bleed by Debbie Cassidy

    When Monsters Bleed by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Everything I thought I knew about my world has been shattered.The only constant are the four Monsters keeping me and my people safe.Nothing else is certain.No path is clear. So what do we do?We forge our own.Action, sizzle and multiple love interests for our lucky heroine in this paranormal fantasy romance...
  • Dancing with Flames by Susan Illene

    Dancing with Flames by Susan Illene

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Four months ago, fire-breathing dragons invaded Earth from an alternate dimension, wreaking havoc on modern civilization. Bailey Monzac has been training to kill them ever since discovering she was impervious to their flames, but when some of the beasts begin targeting children, she can’t hold back any longer and must hunt them down...
  • Three Half Goats Gruff by Kim McDougall

    Three Half Goats Gruff by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Is he a vampire? A shifter? Something worse? Thrown together to save a middle school from an infestation of satyrs, Kyra and the mysterious Captain of the Guardians share one heart-stopping night. Critter wrangling rule #4: There isn’t much you can’t kill, confuse, or disgust with a can of bug fogger...
  • Deadworld by Debbie Cassidy

    Deadworld by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Humans 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...
  • Love and Decay, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after.Reagan said goodbye to love when she was forced to run her high school boyfriend over with her mom’s car just to keep him from eating her for dinner. Now, two years later, and in need of a serious shower, she’s just over the entire concept of a soul mate- or really, any kind of mate.Well, mostly anyway...
  • Fortune Falls by Lou Vane

    Fortune Falls by Lou Vane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A deadly virus. A group of students trapped in the mountains. Their survival depends on each other. Seventeen-year-old Jess Maddox leaves home excited and hopeful, certain the leadership camp she’s about to join will change her life forever. And she’s right. When a deadly virus outbreak makes the world too dangerous to return to, Jess and the other students are forced to flee to the mountains...
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