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  • 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...
  • Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s been two months since Perry Palomino and Dex Foray’s relationship reached a new turning point, two months since Perry started a new life in Seattle, and two months since their Experiment in Terror show took on a new partner, ex-Wine Babe Rebecca Sims, and found a new level of success. But whenever there is light in their lives, the madness still has a way of coming back in...
  • Alpha by Rachel Vincent

    Alpha by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The unscrupulous new Council chair has charged Jace, Marc and me with trespassing, kidnapping, murder and treason. Yeah, we've been busy. But now it's time to take justice into our own hands. We must avenge my brother's death and carve out the rot at the heart of the Council. It's not going to be easy, and loss seems unavoidable, but I have promised to protect my Pride, no matter what...
  • Closer Than You Think by Karen Rose, Hillary Huber

    Closer Than You Think by Karen Rose, Hillary Huber

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    28 hours, 37 minutesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Your Back and Did You Miss Me comes the newest novel by “the queen of romantic suspense” (Crime and Punishment).Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who’s made her life a nightmare for the past year—desperate enough to run to the one place that has been her nightmare far longer...
  • Return to Tradd Street by Karen White

    Return to Tradd Street by Karen White

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Facing her future as a single mother, psychic Realtor Melanie Middleton is determined to be strong and leave her past with writer Jack Trenholm behind her. But history has a tendency of catching up with Melanie, whether she likes it or not.… Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack’s marriage proposal...
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    drama  family  gothic  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trent's heart may belong to Tina, but a shadow demon is after his soul…Trent Austin is a successful, big-city lawyer. The last thing he needs is the burden of a run-down house in the suburbs. But when his crazy uncle dies and leaves his estate to Trent, he soon learns he's inherited a lot more than a Victorian mansion...
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    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  demons
  • Nicu II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

    Nicu II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With love for one another resting within their inseparable hearts, and a secret occupying their active, yet silent souls, seventeen-year-old Prince Nicu II and his sixteen-year-old sister Victoria, First Princess of Exubertis, must make a choice between their incestuous love affair, and the maintaining of stability within their royal family...
  • Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine, Cynthia Holloway

    Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine, Cynthia Holloway

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    A new chapter in the New York Times bestselling Morganville Vampires saga. Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big- time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some gigs-which means Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he's been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael's all-too-human friends...
  • Cold Calculation by Cole McCade

    Cold Calculation by Cole McCade

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ABOUT THIS EPISODE How do you profile a serial killer who keeps changing his pattern? A body encased in ice and a cryptic message make Malcolm, Seong-Jae, and Aanga Joshi question everything they thought they'd learned about the Golden Ratio Killer. If their suspect can change his methods and alter his patterns, he could easily disappear... ..
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  adult  age-gap  angst  bisexuality  book
  • The Church by Celia Aaron

    The Church by Celia Aaron

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trapped. Beaten. Broken. Adam destroyed himself to save me. At first, I doubt if I have the strength to go on. But with every second that passes, I see the and curse the Prophet. My time as a Maiden is over. I refuse to be a toy in his game any longer. But there’s always more ways for the Prophet to get to me, to use me, and to keep me under his influence...
  • The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons cabin ruins and a rotting porcelain doll...
  • See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A cunning killer hides in plain sight.A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote outlines a murder plot identical to the method of the brutal slaying...
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    drama  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Prey by Rachel Vincent

    Prey by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Sometimes playing cat and mouse is no game...Play? "Right." My Pride is under fire from all sides, my father's authority is in question and my lover is in exile. Which means I haven't laid eyes on Marc's gorgeous face in months. And with a new mother "and" an I-know-everything teenager under my protection, I don't exactly have time to fantasize about ever seeing him again...
  • Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard

    Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    MY SISTER WANTS THE TRUTH.BUT SOMETIMES THE TRUTH HURTS.For months, my long-lost twin, Emma, has been living my life and trying to solve my murder. She's unearthed dark secrets about my friends, my family, and my tangled past. But when it comes to finding my killer, she keeps running into dead ends.Until my body shows up in Sabino Canyon...
  • Replay by Ken Grimwood

    Replay by Ken Grimwood

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    At forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow ...But a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to that...
  • Spirited Away by Fern Michaels

    Spirited Away by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Part Two of the New Three-Part Godmothers Serial!The best of friends, Toots, Ida, Mavis, and Sophie have been there for each other through thick and thin. Now Sophie needs the rest of the Godmothers to help her through something they’ve never faced before . . .There are no secrets between best friends. At least, Teresa “Toots” Loudenberry has always believed that to be the case...
    Categorized as:
    drama  epic  family  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Shift by Rachel Vincent

    Shift by Rachel Vincent

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Being the first female werecat enforcer isn't easy. Scars accumulate, but I'm stronger in so many ways.As for my personal life? It's complicated. Choices worth making always are. Ever since my brother's death and my father's impeachment, it's all I can do to prevent more blood from spilling. Now our Pride is under attack by a flight of vicious thunderbirds...
  • A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton, Laural Merlington

    A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton, Laural Merlington

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Commanded by her aunt, the dark Queen Andais, to conceive a child as heir to the throne, Meredith Gentry, a half-mortal, half-faerie princess, returns to Los Angeles, only to find herself and her lovers trapped between the dark and light faerie courts and human law...
    Categorized as:
    epic  gothic  north-america  suspense  usa  adult  audiobook  book
  • Don't Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Don't Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all - popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend. Sam has resurfaced, but she has no recollection of who she was or what happened to her that night. As she tries to piece together her life from before, she realizes it's one she no longer wants any part of...
  • 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...
  • 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  north-america  suspense  usa  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • Fear No Evil by Robin Caroll

    Fear No Evil by Robin Caroll

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With his father in a nursing home and his mother needing support, former Great Smoky Mountains park ranger Lincoln Vailes moves to the bayou town of Eternal Springs, Louisiana, to become a police officer. Recent college graduate and eager social worker Jade Laurent has also moved there to try and right the wrongs of an abusive past...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  adult  book  christian  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • The Perfect Cover by Charlotte Byrd

    The Perfect Cover by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Tyler McDermott escapes from prison, he takes me hostage.No, I do not fall in love with my captor.Tyler is an innocent man who was framed for a heinous double murder.Of course, I do not know that yet.All that I know is that he has a knife to my throat. All that I know is that if I want to live, I have to let him in...
  • Hideaway by Fern Michaels

    Hideaway by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Part One of the New Three-Part Godmothers Serial!The best of friends, Toots, Ida, Mavis, and Sophie have been there for each other through thick and thin. Now Sophie needs the rest of the Godmothers to help her through something they’ve never faced before . . .As Sophie De Luca has learned, many things really are better the second time around...
    Categorized as:
    epic  family  suspense  adult  book  breakup  contemporary  cozy
  • Dead Suite by Wendy Roberts

    Dead Suite by Wendy Roberts

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Crime scene cleaner Sadie Novak has been blessed with the gift of second sight. But with ghosts of murder victims always popping up when she’s trying to work, her blessing sometimes seems more like a curse… With business slow, her mortgage payment looming, and her relationship with on-again off-again boyfriend Zack somewhere in limbo, Sadie could use a drink and a little rejuvenating R&R...
  • Every Soul by L.K. Collins

    Every Soul by L.K. Collins

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This novel is NOT part of the Life . Destiny . Fate series. More to come.... When you lose the one person who grounds your existence, your whole world changes. In life, it is said that everything happens for a reason...
  • Finders Keepers by Fern Michaels

    Finders Keepers by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels thrills us, once again, with the story of an unforgettable young woman who was stolen as a toddler from a poor but loving family, and who must journey through a maze of heartbreak before she can reclaim her true identity. Raised in a magnificent Charleston house, Jessie Roland wants for nothing...
  • What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler

    What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Kate Weston can piece together most of the bash at John Doone’s house: shots with Stacey Stallard, Ben Cody taking her keys and getting her home early—the feeling that maybe he’s becoming more than just the guy she’s known since they were kids.But when a picture of Stacey passed out over Deacon Mills’s shoulder appears online the next morning, Kate suspects she doesn’t have all the details...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  north-america  realistic  suspense  usa  abuse  book
  • Heaven by V.C. Andrews

    Heaven by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Of all the folks in the mountain shacks, the Casteels were the lowest — the scum of the hills.Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face...despite a father meaner than ten vipers...despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clung to her pride and her hopes...
  • Over My Dead Body by Michele Bardsley

    Over My Dead Body by Michele Bardsley

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Moving into Broken Heart seemed like the perfect transition for Simone Sweet and her young daughter, Glory. With her ex-husband gone after attempting to murder Simone, and Glory being mute since the incident, it is one place where she can feel safe, and almost forget she's a ravenous vampire... No one is without secrets, but Simone's are big...
    Categorized as:
    drama  epic  north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  comedy
  • The Captive Part II / The Power by L.J. Smith

    The Captive Part II / The Power by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Caught in the struggle between good and evil . . .Cassie has joined the most alluring—and deadly—in-crowd imaginable. But power comes with a price, and it's more dangerous than she knows...
  • Dark Angel by V.C. Andrews

    Dark Angel by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Second in the Casteel family saga series set in Virginia and Boston. As Heaven moves away from home she is determined to leave her traumatic past behind...
  • 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...
  • Dark Paradise by Tami Hoag

    Dark Paradise by Tami Hoag

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    New Eden, Montana, is a piece of heaven on earth where one woman died in her own private hell. Now it’s up to ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings to decipher the puzzle of her best friend’s death. But someone has a stake in silencing her suspicion. Someone with secrets worth killing for—and the power to turn this beautiful haven into a . .
  • Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne

    Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The stunningly fierce conclusion to Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14 trilogy.The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp. Dean and Alex are cautiously starting to hope that a happy ending might be possible.But for Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, things have gone from bad to worse...
  • Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start. But the ghosts of his past soon demand justice, and he must reveal his painful secret...
  • Dying to Tell by Rita Herron

    Dying to Tell by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What happened to Sadie Nettleton’s twin sister at the psychiatric hospital all those years ago? Sadie Nettleton fled Slaughter Creek ten years ago, leaving behind the only home she’d ever known—and the only man she ever loved. Unable to cope with her sister's madness, or the terrible secret she and her sister share, Sadie swore never to return...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Keepers of Metsan Valo by Wendy Webb

    The Keepers of Metsan Valo by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The spirits of Nordic folklore come calling in this entrancing tale of family secrets and ancient mysteries by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Haunting of Brynn Wilder.In Metsan Valo, her family home on Lake Superior, Anni Halla’s beloved grandmother has died. Among her fond memories, what Anni remembers most vividly is her grandmother’s eerie yet enchanting storytelling...
    Categorized as:
    gothic  suspense  family  drama  mystery  fantasy  fiction  paranormal
  • In Silence by Erica Spindler

    In Silence by Erica Spindler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Avery Chauvin returns to her Louisiana hometown after her father's suicide, she discovers clippings of a fifteen-year-old murder and learns about recent disappearances and murders that lead her to start an investigation...
    Categorized as:
    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Phantom by Laura DeLuca

    Phantom by Laura DeLuca

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The “Phantom” was a musical phenomenon that Rebecca had always found enchanting. She had no idea that her life was about to mirror the play that was her obsession. When her high school drama club chooses “Phantom” as their annual production, Rebecca finds herself in the middle of an unlikely love triangle and the target of a sadistic stalker who uses the lines from the play as their calling card...
  • Don't Close Your Eyes by Betsy Brannon Green

    Don't Close Your Eyes by Betsy Brannon Green

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the quiet town of Eureka, Georgia, a woman is murdered. On that same night, Helen Tyler arrives in town. She’s a kind, soft-spoken woman who owns a handgun and refuses to give out her telephone number. Matt Clevenger, the county sheriff, finds a white Bible on the end of the murdered woman’s bed, and learns that another body was found in exactly the same way just two weeks earlier...
  • Don't Look Back by Christine Kersey

    Don't Look Back by Christine Kersey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It is strongly recommended that you read He Loves Me Not (which is FREE) before reading Don't Look Back. The following product description contains spoilers for He Loves Me Not. Hiding from her estranged husband Trevor, Lily Jamison has changed her name and settled in a small town in the California Central Valley...
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    epic  realistic  suspense  abuse  adult  book  christian  contemporary
  • The Off Season by Colleen Thompson

    The Off Season by Colleen Thompson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Winter winds off the Atlantic have turned the tourist mecca of Seaside Creek, New Jersey, into a ghost town. Dr. Christina Paxton, however, is growing accustomed to living with ghosts. Recently widowed, the emergency room physician has returned to the shore with her young daughter, house-sitting a sprawling beachside Victorian home...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Carnival Shadows: A Dark Stalker Romance by Selena Winters

    Carnival Shadows: A Dark Stalker Romance by Selena Winters

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The problem with stalking a predator? Sometimes, they decide to keep you.I study killers for a living. I analyze their methods, dissect their psychology, and share their darkest deeds with my podcast listeners, but I’ve never encountered anyone like Remy.When I spotted him at the carnival, I knew he was different...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  gothic  romance  contemporary  dark  steamy  stalking  crime
  • The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon

    The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A MANSION OF HORRORS DEEP IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS...For Olivia Markham, laMalediction is the ideal setting in which to complete her work. But something is sending a chill up the usually fearless author's spine. There are the unearthly noises, the sliding panels, the hidden passageways...and John Landry, the sexy caretaker who seems less than welcoming...
  • The Deviants by C.J. Skuse

    The Deviants by C.J. Skuse

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When you set out for revenge, dig two gravesGrowing up in the sleepy English seaside town of Brynston, the fearless five – Ella, Max, Corey, Fallon and Zane – were always inseparable. Living up to their nickname, they were the adventurous, rowdy kids who lived for ghost stories and exploring the nearby islands off the coast...
  • I Will Never Leave You by Kara A. Kennedy

    I Will Never Leave You by Kara A. Kennedy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This emotional debut thriller follows a teen girl being haunted by the ghost of her toxic ex-girlfriend, who gives her a chilling ultimatum—help her possess another girl or go down for her murder."A blistering exploration of the ugliest and tenderest parts of love, Kennedy turns the classic ghost story on its head."—Courtney Gould, author of The Dead and the DarkMaya has always belonged to Alana...
  • The Drake House by Kelly Moran

    The Drake House by Kelly Moran

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In her dreams, a ghost demands to be heard...Trisha Eaton has been plagued by mysterious nightmares ever since her parents adopted her as a young girl. She chalked them up to childish nuisances until they return-- with a vengeance. Something about the Drake house next door to her family’s apple orchard haunts her. Now, her night terrors and sleepwalking seem to be luring her to something dark...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  ghosts
  • Light Up the Dark by Suki Fleet

    Light Up the Dark by Suki Fleet

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For two years Nicky has wandered the dark empty corridors of the overgrown Thorn Hall, unseen and untouched, feeling like a ghost. His only company, the cold man who promised to keep him safe from harm, Lance. But when Lance dies, Nicky’s assurance of safety disintegrates and his world suddenly becomes a lot more real and a lot more dangerous. Scared to leave the house, Nicky longs for daylight...
    Categorized as:
    gothic  suspense  adult  angst  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs

    Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Tsara Adelman leaves her husband and two young children for a weekend to visit her estranged uncle, she little dreams he is holding several local children captive on his lavish estate. Mike Westbrook, father of one of the boys, kidnaps her to trade her life for the children's...
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