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  • Dark Lover & Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward

    Dark Lover & Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two novels in one hardcover edition.Dark Lover, Book 1:The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuries ago...
  • Anubis by Kris Michaels

    Anubis by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the Shadow World, he was the God of Death, and he was called many names. The monsters he hunted called him Anubis. Those who saw his face died. To Guardian Security, he was a number, a surgical weapon they wielded against monstrous evil. One woman called him Kaeden Lang...
  • Mission: Her Justice by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Justice by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a dangerous redhead invades his office and his base, and warns that his team is in danger, Director Jonah Grayson doesn’t know if she’s friend or foe.Former elite Army aviator Jonah Grayson was forced to give up flying, but now serves as director of the covert black ops team, Team 52. He takes care of the brass in Washington D.C...
  • Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

    Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. But the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger, and the sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dying-- and some deaths are more mysterious than others. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty . .
  • Son of Kong by T.S. Joyce

    Son of Kong by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Torren Taylor has a gorilla problem. The birthmark on his back says he is supposed to be the new Kong, but he wants nothing to do with his people. Shunning their traditions means his silverback is out of control and on a one-way track to crazy-town. He accepted his shortened life a long time ago, but right now all he wants to do is live long enough to for a couple last bucket list items...
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    war  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  contemporary  dragons  fiction
  • Pax, Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker

    Pax, Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes the long-awaited sequel to  Pax ; this is a gorgeously crafted, utterly compelling novel about chosen families and the healing power of love. A New York Times bestseller! It’s been a year since Peter and his pet fox, Pax, have seen each other. Once inseparable, they now lead very different lives...
  • Mission: Her Safety by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Safety by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A sexy, grumpy black ops scientist will do anything to track down the mysterious woman who broke into his lab. After Dr. Ty Sampson catches a mysterious female intruder in his home and lab, he’s obsessed with finding out who she is and what she wants. He’s a man who trusts very few people and hates anyone in his space...
  • Protecting Alabama's Kids by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Alabama's Kids by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    At just ten years old, Tommy has already been through more horror than most people suffer their entire lives. So when he’s placed in his latest foster home, under the gentle care of Abe and Alabama Powers, he lashes out. He’s scared, confused, angry…and convinced it won’t be long before these new foster parents send him away, too. No one wants a boy his age, especially one who’s broken, dirty...
  • Collected Stories by Roald Dahl

    Collected Stories by Roald Dahl

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl’s stories for adults, the Collected Stories amply showcases his singular gifts as a fabulist and a born storyteller.Later known for his immortal children’s books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG, Dahl also had a genius for adult short fiction, which he wrote throughout his life...
  • High Value Target by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    High Value Target by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You can run, but you can’t hide from U.S. Army Rangers. With the armies of the enemy smashed at the final battle for the desert port city, the Rangers return to their primary mission to do what they do: eliminate a high-value target with extreme violence of action deep inside hostile territory...
  • Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin

    Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age...
  • The Powder Mage Novella Collection #1: Stories from the Powder Mage Universe by Brian McClellan

    The Powder Mage Novella Collection #1: Stories from the Powder Mage Universe by Brian McClellan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Enter a new world or return to see old friends in four Powder Mage Universe novellas featuring Erika, Tamas, Adamat, Taniel, Ka-poel, and Ben Styke.ForswornServant of the CrownMurder at the Kinnen HotelGhosts of the Tristan Basin...
  • Stolen Dreams by Maddie Wade

    Stolen Dreams by Maddie Wade

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A page-turner that is thrilling, steamy, teary and wonderful! Nate Jones is unlucky in love. He’s watched his parents love story play out his entire life and wants that for himself. His whole world was rocked when he walks into a hospital room and falls head over heels in love with Skye and Noah. Skye Mitchell is a single mother to an exceptional young boy...
  • Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk

    Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Set in the mythical Polish village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated with eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, this novel from Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk chronicles the lives of the inhabitants over the course of the feral 20th century in prose that is forceful, direct, and the stylistic cousin of the magic realism in Gabriel García Márquez's One...
  • Namesake by Kate Stradling

    Namesake by Kate Stradling

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Who needs magic in an age of electricity? I can flip the switch on the wall with the best of them.” Anjeni Sigourna bears the name of a legendary goddess, but her resemblance to that honored figure ends there. Eighteen and jaded, she has cultivated sarcasm instead of the elusive magic everyone expects her to possess. Such power lacks purpose in her modern world...
  • Instigator by Fiona Quinn

    Instigator by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In This USA Today Bestselling Novel, A Deadly Game Gambles American LivesA hardened war hero, Gator Aid Rochambeau is on a collision course with fate. Retired Marine Raider, Gator Aid Rochambeau is now an Iniquus elite security operative. He's been assigned to the Davidson mission. As the job gets underway, he is unprepared for the psychic confusion that swirls through his system...
  • War, Unfinished by Veronica Lancet

    War, Unfinished by Veronica Lancet

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is a pitch black villain romance with irredeemable characters. Please check triggers before reading New York City. Vicious Battlefield. Home. With a million dollar bounty on my head, it took me years to step foot in the city again. Now I'm back. And the order of business is rather simple. 1. Destroy my reprobate brother. 2. Take back my stolen legacy. 3. Have a goddamn drink in peace...
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    literary-fiction  war  abuse  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  amnesia  angst
  • Luca by Nyssa Kathryn

    Luca by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Run. Hide. Don’t look back.Evie Scott went through hell and barely escaped. Now, she does everything she can to remain invisible. To survive. Because if she’s found, she’s dead.Then she meets Luca…and there’s a spark. But is he worth the risk?Former Navy SEAL Luca Kirwin is both well-trained and deadly. Recruited into a non-government-sanctioned project, he was unknowingly turned into a weapon...
    Categorized as:
    war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Samurai Game by Christine Feehan

    Samurai Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In a world so dark and seductive, expect nothing less than a triple-cross in the explosive all-new Ghostwalker novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan… In an underground club, a high-ranking public official spends his secret nights indulging in fantasies as exciting as they are depraved. For a seductive employee of the Dungeon, it’s her job to fulfill them...
  • Chaos by J.M. Madden

    Chaos by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Finally, the long-awaited spin-off from the Lost and Found Series! Aiden Willingham has lived a hard life. As a Navy SEAL, he agreed to take part in an ultra-secret government testing program. The company running the program, the Silverstone Collaborative, has produced a serum from an Amazonian plant that’s been proven to enhance physical abilities and mental fortitude...
  • War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue

    War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and inventionPicture the east Aegean sea by night,And on a beach aslant its shimmering Upwards of 50,000 menAsleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet. “Your life at every instant up for— / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong...
  • Tower of Tempest by Tee Harlowe

    Tower of Tempest by Tee Harlowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I might be sheltered, but I’m smart enough to know that I can’t fall for the playboy prince—or his charms.I’ve spent my life locked in a tower with nothing but books and my gran to keep me company. Until the day she disappears. Despite Gran’s warnings about never leaving, I’ve finally discovered a way out, and I’m going to find her.At least that’s the plan. Until some idiot decides to rescue me...
  • Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

    Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom...
  • Darkness Unleashed by Belinda Boring

    Darkness Unleashed by Belinda Boring

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Overview: Nothing is as it seems. Alliances will be forged and broken. Friendships will be tested. The bitter sting of betrayal cuts the deepest. Blurb: As the startling truth behind Darcy's strange behavior is revealed, the race begins as time runs out for Mason to save his beloved mate...
  • The Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson

    The Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Kiss of DeceptionThe Heart of BetrayalThe Beauty of...
  • Mayhem's Warrior by Lindsay Cross

    Mayhem's Warrior by Lindsay Cross

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Captain T.K. Reaper only cares about his men; until he ends up falling for the one woman who can rescue his team. Reaper has lived his entire life without love. Living on the edge with no fear, Reaper and his team volunteered for Project Mayhem— a top-secret experiment that uses a serum to enhance physical abilities in order to fight terrorism...
  • Zander by Maryann Jordan

    Zander by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zander. Serious to a fault, he had no time for anything other than focusing on running his bar, Grimm’s. Until he saw her… and pushed her away… right into danger.Racked with guilt over what happened, he could not stay away from her hospital room. Hoping Sleeping Beauty could hear him and know that he was near.What started as guilt, became so much more...
  • Tightly Wound by Mia Dymond

    Tightly Wound by Mia Dymond

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Claire Steele has spent her whole life dodging shadows. Psychic since birth, she uses her talent to chase the evil lurking in the recesses of her mind.For years, Lt. Malcolm "Shadow" Windsor has walked the fragile boundary of friendship, silently waiting for Claire to acknowledge her love for him. An ex-Navy SEAL and expert tracker, he knows patience is the key to her surrender...
  • A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher

    A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A young boy and his adopted aunt become separated when the youngster is kidnapped by his wealthy, eccentric great-uncle, but mysterious ties continue to link the two unknowingly over the fifteen-year separation...
  • Advent by Xander Boyce

    Advent by Xander Boyce

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Drew Michalik was working in a top-secret facility in Washington, D.C. when the Advent began. As all electronics in the world simply ceased to work, blue screens filled with information appeared before him. Drew was given access to a mana interface and a limited number of reality-altering crystals called Xatherite...
  • Rise of the Horde by Christie Golden

    Rise of the Horde by Christie Golden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Though the young Warchief Thrall ended the demon curse that had plagued his people for generations, the orcs still wrestle with the sins of their bloody past. As the rampaging Horde, they waged a number of devastating wars against their perennial enemy -- the Alliance. Yet the rage and bloodlust that drove the orcs to destroy everything in their path nearly consumed them as well...
  • The Final Spark by Richard Paul Evans

    The Final Spark by Richard Paul Evans

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The Electroclan is facing a devastating loss: Michael is missing. What’s next?The battle on the island of Hades ended with a devastating explosion that left the island a smoking ruin and much of Hatch’s army dead. Hatch survived, however, and while his plans have certainly suffered a setback, he’s more determined than ever to bring the world’s governments under his control...
  • The Scar by China Miéville

    The Scar by China Miéville

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of Nova Esperium. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city...
  • Proof of Life by Misty Evans

    Proof of Life by Misty Evans

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blood ties run deepest—and deadliest. Super Agent Series, Book 3 No matter how many times he patches the holes in the wall, CIA Deputy Director Michael Stone can’t forget the night a terrorist took him hostage in his own home. Or the mistakes that transformed him into an overwhelming force to keep his country safe...
  • Under the Strawberry Moon by Melanie Karsak

    Under the Strawberry Moon by Melanie Karsak

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Under the strawberry moon, the gods of Asgard whisper to me.Balder murmurs love.Bragi blesses my voice.Sif gifts me with beauty.But these blessings go wasted in the sleepy village of Dalr where I am simply Svafa, the jarl’s daughter. A völva tells me I am destined to marry a hero, that my child’s name will become legendary. How I’m supposed to achieve this enormous fate is beyond me...
  • The Tracker by Leslie Georgeson

    The Tracker by Leslie Georgeson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Tracker: I’m a trained killer. An expert tracker. I’ve done despicable things. My soul is damaged. My body impaired. That’s what happens when you are a soldier for The Company. I was discharged a year ago. Now I am a dreg. Worthless. With a bounty on my head. I’ve become a creature of the night, hiding in an underground maze during the day. Because I’m not ready to die yet...
  • Hold On Tight by Cynthia Eden

    Hold On Tight by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He isn’t just a man. Lazarus super soldier Jett is the perfect predator. He’s faster, stronger, and far deadlier than a normal man—because he isn’t normal. Brought back from the dead, Jett is supposed to be little more than a machine. His heart should be ice cold, but it’s not. His heart beats fast and hard for the one woman he should never be able to possess, Savannah Jacobs...
  • On The Use Of Shape-Shifters In Warfare by Marko Kloos

    On The Use Of Shape-Shifters In Warfare by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The 300th Special Operations Company is the Army's only segregated lycanthrope unit. Forbidden by international accords to engage in combat, the "dog soldiers" lend their skills to the regular Army units, sniffing out IEDs and guarding the troops against things that go bump in the night...
  • Delta Salvation by Elle Boon

    Delta Salvation by Elle Boon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION…For Navy SEAL Kai, he takes that vow seriously. Keeping Alexa safe is his number one priority, even if it means his heart is laid bare. A NAVY SEAL ‘Failure is never an option’ and Kai lives by that SEAL code. He and his team have rescued Alexa not once, but twice, and now he is faced with the biggest challenge of his life...
  • Omega by Susannah Sandlin

    Omega by Susannah Sandlin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The bloody war between the Vampire Tribunal and the defiant scathe of Penton, Alabama, rages on, forcing its residents and their bonded humans to retreat into the underground fortress of last resort: Omega.There, Will Ludlam is charged with the care of Penton’s humans, though he longs to fight alongside his vampire brethren...
  • Freaky By Nature by Mia Dymond

    Freaky By Nature by Mia Dymond

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Brett Steele, PI didn't realize there was a politically correct term for stripping until he met Holly London. Initially drawn to her talent, he soon learns there is much more to the "sensual dance" instructor than he thought. Holly has a secret that may change her life forever. When the atmosphere warns her she is the target of a madman, she must expose the secret and trust Brett to stay alive...
  • Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson

    Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Now is the time to tell the story of an ancient realm, a tragic tale that sets the stage for all the tales yet to come and all those already told...It's a conflicted time in Kurald Galain, the realm of Darkness, where Mother Dark reigns. But this ancient land was once home to many a power. and even death is not quite eternal...
  • The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

    The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs—once thought of almost as gods—were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets...
  • Bound in Blood by P.C. Hodgell

    Bound in Blood by P.C. Hodgell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Jame returned to Knorth hall to help her brother Torisen name all the fallen fighters' death banners stored there, she made the disturbing discovery that those banners splattered with their owners' blood also have trapped their owners' souls. She also found a contract proving her cousin Kindrie to be legitimate, proving that there are three full-blooded Knorth...
  • The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley

    The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Brian Staveley's The Providence of Fire, the second novel in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, a gripping new epic fantasy series.The conspiracy to destroy the ruling family of the Annurian Empire is far from over.Having learned the identity of her father's assassin, Adare flees the Dawn Palace in search of allies to challenge the coup against her family...
  • Mountain Bear by Harmony Raines

    Mountain Bear by Harmony Raines

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Caroline has seen her brother Jamie find his mate, and his happily ever after. However, she can’t see the same happiness ever being hers since the man she loved died. Not that he would ever have been hers, fate had seen to that. But no matter how many times she reminds herself he belonged to another, her heart is still in pieces...
  • Agent T3: D'Artagnan by Joni Hahn

    Agent T3: D'Artagnan by Joni Hahn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Agent T3: d-Artagnan Naylor Credentials: Rebel son of Former Navy SEAL Trained under his father Enhancements: Time Travel d'Artagnan (Dar) Naylor: trained by the best, disciplined by the toughest, and raised by the vilest - his father. He bought into Robert Naylor's life of crime, until he learned the reasons behind it. Now, he possesses enhancements installed by The D.I.R.E...
  • Bitten Under Fire by Heather Long

    Bitten Under Fire by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bianca Devlin’s work is her life. Now, she’s finally taking a vacation...and guerillas hit her resort to kidnap a diplomat’s son. She does the only thing that makes sense—intervene to save the child’s life. Being dragged into the jungle with a scared kid she’s determined to protect was definitely not how she saw this trip ending...
  • Shielding Her by Kelly Lucille

    Shielding Her by Kelly Lucille

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ​Eli Ramsay is the last unmated adult male of the Lionsgate pack, but that doesn't mean he's looking for anything more complicated than some after hours fun in the sun when Lionsgate is called back to “A Bene Placito” on a job...
  • A SEAL's Touch by Tawny Weber

    A SEAL's Touch by Tawny Weber

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Subject: Navy SEAL Taylor Powell Mission: Find a sexy fake girlfriend…with even sexier benefits! Lieutenant Taylor "The Wizard" Powell has a reputation for getting out of tricky situations. Bad guys, bombs, weapons—no problem. Finding a girlfriend in order to evade matchmaking friends? Not so easy...
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