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  • All the Stars in the Sky by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    All the Stars in the Sky by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The final book in the Until the End of the World series is here! Cassie Forrest has sworn she’ll never let the world get the best of her again. She’s chosen to believe everything will be all right. But on a journey filled with heartbreak and madness and zombies, Cassie and her friends must struggle to stay alive—and it’s hard to believe in a future when survival seems unlikely...
  • 薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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  • Terminal by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Terminal by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The thrilling finale to Kathy and Brendan Reichs’ New York Times bestselling VIRALS seriesThe Virals are back—but they’re not the only pack in town anymore. Terminal finds Tory Brennan—grandniece of the famous forensic anthropologist (star of the hit show Bones)—and the rest of the Morris Island gang tracking a pack of rogue Virals who call themselves the Trinity...
  • Mist by 微风几许

    Mist by 微风几许

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    yperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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    time-travel  dystopia  paranormal  romance  sci-fi  mystery  lgbtq  mlm
  • Forbidden by Tana Stone

    Forbidden by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Be a tribute bride for some brawny alien warrior? Not on your life. Ella is one of the few human females who rejected her Drexian warrior match. Sent to live with the other “rejects” in a special part of the high-tech space station, she has no desire to have her life dictated by a bunch of alphas on steroids. And no way would she ever be charmed by an alien playboy...
  • Alien in Chief by Gini Koch

    Alien in Chief by Gini Koch

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Mastermind has upped his game . . .As Kitty can tell you, it's not easy being the wife of the vice president - especially not when he's an alien from the Alpha Centauri system. And being a parent of preternaturally talented children, don't even go there. But she and her A-C husband, Jeff, have learned how to roll with whatever life and the bad guys throw at them - they think...
  • Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin

    Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Contagious Chaos, the highly anticipated third book in the Contagium Series, winner of the Contagious Reads Horror Con’s 2014 best horror series, follows Orissa and her friends as they struggle through a zombie filled world...
  • The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Truth is Contagious, the epic conclusion to the award winning Contagium Series!A mysterious virus has infected most of the world’s population. This sickness transforms the living into violent “crazies” and eventually into the flesh-eating undead.Orissa and Hayden have survived in this new harrowing world...
  • Deathly Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    Deathly Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Deathly Contagious: Book Two in the Contagium Trilogy After the discovery of a zombie-proof safe house, things are finally looking up for Orissa Penwell. But her chance at happiness is shattered when someone she cares about is shot. Hell bent on revenge, Orissa will do whatever it takes to seek vengeance and get even...
  • Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier

    Refuge Found by S.M. Olivier

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If you had told me that the world would turn to crap a year ago, I would have never believed you. If you had told me I'd be living with my cheating ex and my manipulative twin sister, I would have laughed. Had you informed me I'd be in a relationship with five men, I would have asked what meds you had forgotten to take.Yet here I am at Sanctuary...
  • Destruction by J.M. Madden

    Destruction by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Going back into the torture camp where he’d been so brutally abused is the last thing Navy SEAL Drake Fontana wants to do, but if there are other men being experimented upon he has to be the one to get them out. And he has to give them an option other than to be a test subject to the Silverstone Collaborative, the pharmaceutical company funding the diabolical experiments...
  • Speakeasy Book 1 by Elyse Douglas

    Speakeasy Book 1 by Elyse Douglas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ONE MINUTE, SINGER ROXIE RAINES is in a 2019 West Village nightclub and the next, she’s traveled back in time to New York’s raucous Roaring Twenties! Her modern sound captivates an eager audience and she’s falling in love with a handsome detective, but can her out-of-time dream life truly last?Struggling West Village singer Roxie Raines stumbles through a secret basement doorway in 2019, and...
  • Stolen by Tana Stone

    Stolen by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When they told her she’d been abducted from Earth as a tribute bride for a badass alien warrior, Hope thought it was the craziest thing she’d ever heard. That was before she was kidnapped by space pirates.Hope didn’t buy the idea of being a tribute bride. After all, she’d never been into commitment...
  • Reaper by Regine Abel

    Reaper by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She survived against the odds…Janelle’s life is defined by a crumbling, underground research base. Imprisoned for twenty years after the base was bombed, she and the few Creckel survivors are running out of time as the last of their resources are depleted. With no hope for rescue, Janelle and her companions wait for the dreaded Reaper to finish what the bombs missed...
  • Reach For The Spy by Diane Henders

    Reach For The Spy by Diane Henders

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 3 of the Never Say Spy seriesMiddle-aged bookkeeper Aydan Kelly never wanted to moonlight as a spy, but she doesn’t have a choice. Working with computer networks in a secured building sounds safe, but it turns out the job’s a killer – literally.When Aydan’s trusted co-worker is shot while committing an apparently treasonous act, Aydan embarks on a secret mission to clear his name...
  • Taken by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee

    Taken by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    CONNIE I have a purple stalker. I don’t know what possessed me to hit the Xarc’n warrior with my bat, but now I have a stalker—a big purple stalker with fangs and horns. And to make things worse, I can’t go back to New Franklin.After my first night out on my own, I wake up all wrapped up and cuddly with a certain possessive hunter. He purrs like a giant cat and vows to protect me...
  • Raven by Regine Abel

    Raven by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her beautiful mind was her own prison. After betrayal and abuse destroyed Liena’s dreams of becoming a Psychic Operator, she warily accepts a temporary position on Khepri, the homeworld of the bioengineered Xian Warriors. With entire Warrior units getting mysteriously wiped out, she must help devise a critical antidote...
  • Stray by Rachael Craw

    Stray by Rachael Craw

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evie is a Shield: designed to kill in order to protect, and the Affinity Project have finally come for her. But Evie isn’t ready for the sinister organisation to take control of her life, her body, her mind. She isn’t ready to follow their rules about who may live and who must die – not when it condemns the innocent...
  • Shield by Rachael Craw

    Shield by Rachael Craw

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evie is out of options. She must comply with the Affinity Project – obey their rules, play their deadly games, give up Jamie. And her losses keep growing. When she decides to help a small group of Shields trying to affect change, Evie finds herself in the firing line. Counsellor Knox is intent on revealing her secrets and shackling her to the Affinity Project for life...
  • Beyond Pain by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Pain by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A woman with no future…Live fast, die young–anything else is a fantasy for Six. She’s endured the worst the sectors had to throw at her, but falling in with Dallas O’Kane’s Sector Four gang lands her in a whole new world of danger. They’re completely open about everything, including their sexuality–but she hasn’t survived this long by making herself vulnerable...
  • The Light We Seek by Katie May

    The Light We Seek by Katie May

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Now that I survived the initial storm, I find myself back where I once was: under the control of my dickish parents (if dickish even is a word). Day by day, the world gets worse. Storms brew on the east coast, volcanos erupt on the west, and zombie-like creatures continue to attack the cities. Where does that leave me? Hopefully not dead...at least, not yet...
  • Beyond Ruin by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Ruin by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Adrian Maddox fled his royal life—and tragic past—in Sector One, choosing instead to join up with the O’Kanes. For years, he’s lived by one rule: love fast, love hard, and always be willing to walk away. He’s managed to guard his heart, keep it whole and untouched—until now...
  • Mated by V.K. Ludwig

    Mated by V.K. Ludwig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You know your Gaia link is broken when your match is 93.While every Vetusian around me is expecting the arrival of the first hybrids, my mate is living out her final days in a nursing home.With true love unattainable, I concentrate on busting the crime ring responsible for the supply of human females forced into prostitution at the Odheim brothels...
  • Kilty Conscience by Amy Vansant

    Kilty Conscience by Amy Vansant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    While investigating the kidnapping of an actor’s child, Broch suspects a woman at the scene is the beauty who’s been haunting his dreams. Worried his reoccurring fantasies are memories of a former life in nineteenth-century Scotland, he vows to discover if the mysterious Fiona is his true love...
  • Eric 754 by Donna McDonald

    Eric 754 by Donna McDonald

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He often forgets he's a cyborg. All she sees in the mirror is a killing machine.Marine Lance Corporal Eric Anderson tended to forget he was cyborg. Hell--most of the time he didn't give being mostly a military machine any thought. He'd always lived by his human gut, not his logic chip, so thinking out of the cybernetic box was just how he worked...
  • Beginnings by Sandra R. Neeley

    Beginnings by Sandra R. Neeley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    About This BookWarning: This book is not suitable for sensitive readers. Please do not buy this book if you have triggers to sensitive situations.Black Ops Lieutenant Maddox Larsen is missing. Not only is he missing, his entire team is missing...
  • Veiled by Maya Riley

    Veiled by Maya Riley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What do you do when your past takes you back? The years I’d spent growing up were the darkest of my life, even with counting the rotter outbreak. Then I gained my freedom, met some guys who refused to leave, and even got some of my siblings back. Then my past came for me. Now I spend my days watching, biding my time, waiting for my chance to escape while also trying to keep my sanity...
  • Shatter Me. Le novelle vol. 2 by Tahereh Mafi

    Shatter Me. Le novelle vol. 2 by Tahereh Mafi

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Le esplosive rivelazioni di Defy Me hanno lasciato i lettori sconvolti e alla disperata ricerca di risposte. Grazie alla novella Reveal Me, avranno l’opportunità di tornare nell’universo di Shatter Me e di scoprire attraverso la voce di Kenji cos’è accaduto tra lui e Nazeera prima dell’incredibile finale di Imagine Me...
  • Ultimul avanpost by Lavinia Călina

    Ultimul avanpost by Lavinia Călina

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Al treilea Război Mondial a luat sfârşit, iar România anului 2046 este Regat. Logodită cu prinţul Alex şi fiică a Ministrului de Interne, tânăra Diane trăieşte o viaţă luxoasă şi lipsită de griji, ocupată cu discursuri, dileme cu cea mai potrivită garderobă a zilei şi păstrarea aparenţelor cuplului regal...
  • Winter Igniting by Rebecca Zanetti

    Winter Igniting by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    His only goal was survival until he met her...With nothing to lose, former cop Damon Winter agrees to an undercover op, infiltrating a cult in the dangerous post-Scorpius world. After one look at his new partner, he knows she belongs far away from not only the cult, but from him. She's sweet and kind and has no business being in peril, but she's determined to help...
  • Chasing Mayhem by Cynthia Sax

    Chasing Mayhem by Cynthia Sax

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wild. Free. Hers. Mayhem has spent his lengthy lifespan obeying the Humanoid Alliance’s rules. Finally free from their cruel control, the cyborg warrior plans to cause chaos. He infiltrates a remote settlement, provokes the savage locals until they want him dead, and allows himself to be captured by the sexiest little Retriever he has ever laid his mechanically-enhanced eyes on...
  • Exposed by Tana Stone

    Exposed by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Suspected of kidnapping. Broke. Dumped. Katie thought things couldn’t get any worse. Then, she was abducted by aliens. Sure, they were hot warrior aliens, and the space station she was taken to was the coolest place she’d ever seen...
  • Population by Elizabeth Stephens

    Population by Elizabeth Stephens

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abel Eleven years after the sky opened up and aliens descended to ravage the world, Abel thought she had seen and experienced everything that this savage new land - Population - had to offer. Almost...Shock is what she feels when the alien she robbed hunts her down. His corpse, though huge and glowing, had been mangled and left for the scavengers...
  • The Monsters We Hunt by Katie May

    The Monsters We Hunt by Katie May

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life hasn’t been kind to me. Combined with the world ending, storms ravaging the coast, and zombie-like creatures attacking, I’m not able to catch a break. But this time? The world took it too far. Separated from two of my men and grieving a third, I will stop at nothing to make our fractured team whole again...
  • Down and Dirty by Sandra Hill

    Down and Dirty by Sandra Hill

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Punished for an indiscretion, Navy SEAL and all-around tough guy Zachary Floyd is forced to head a new SEAL-like program for women. There he meets an alluring Norsewoman, who's escaped a nunnery, her father, and the eleventh century altogether.A NAVY WARRIORHe's a world-class player -- nicknamed Pretty Boy -- and a tough guy who's not afraid to get down and dirty...
  • Bane by Regine Abel

    Bane by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Dragon has awakened, and he will claim his bride.As the Vanguard’s top analyst, Tabitha discovers a secret message which could allow them to deal a severe blow to the Kryptids. The last thing she expects during that mission is to run into the ‘enemy’ who haunts her dreams. After getting her heart crushed years ago, Tabitha has sworn off genetically engineered warriors...
  • Taken Over by Erica Stevens

    Taken Over by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0086Q7UNK.Devastated by the loss of Cade, struggling to survive in a world she no longer knows, Bethany is determined to exact revenge upon the aliens that have shredded her life, and the lives of her family and friends. Presented with an opportunity to uncover the secret that Dr...
  • Born to Fight by Tara Brown

    Born to Fight by Tara Brown

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Emma wakes strapped to a cold metal table she has only one name on her lips, "Marshall!" What she doesn't expect is discovering that he is only one of the disturbing people in her small world who deserves to die in a fiery death. Twenty years ago scientists made some remarkable discoveries with genetics and the ability to perfect the babies we gave birth to...
  • Reborn by Tara Brown

    Reborn by Tara Brown

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Twenty years ago a man made a child he never intended to love.Ten years ago the world ended and Emma turned her back on the man she believed was her father.Eight weeks ago she discovered the truth about her family, including the sister she never knew she had.Last week she had her heart broken by the one man she never imagined giving it to...
  • A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A million universes. A million dangers. One destiny.The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite Caine’s hands. Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud since she first traveled to another universe using her parents’ invention, the Firebird...
  • The Storm We Face by Katie May

    The Storm We Face by Katie May

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Well... So far, my apocalpytic upbringing has not been peaches and daisies (if that is how the saying goes). Or is it peaches and pansies? Fighting off feral beasts, surviving natural disasters, and coming face to face with the worst that humankind has to offer is quite tiresome. Psycho ex-girlfriends? Check. Creepy monsters/zombies? Check. Orgasms? Not check. Yet...
  • Found by Imogen Keeper

    Found by Imogen Keeper

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    KILLING A PERSON changes you. Killing your little brother destroys you. I should know. His name was Carl. When he was a kid, he always ate the blue M&Ms first and then the green. He dreamed of going to go to the moon. I didn't hesitate. I didn’t even blink...
  • Qualify by Vera Nazarian

    Qualify by Vera Nazarian

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    You have two options. You die, or you Qualify. The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.But there's a catch.They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth's population back to the colony planet Atlantis...
  • The Krinar's Informant by Charmaine Pauls

    The Krinar's Informant by Charmaine Pauls

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zavir is a guardian. He’s the best the Krinar has. His assigned vocation is to uncover the Resistance movements popping up around the earth, and eliminate them. New information about a fast-growing Resistance camp sends him to Costa Rica, home of the largest Krinar Center. His informant is a human girl...
  • Battle Won by Erin Raegan

    Battle Won by Erin Raegan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enslaved by aliens.(Cue the dramatic jazz hands.)Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. I saw it coming a mile away too. Doesn’t change the fact that here I am, sharing a cage with my fellow human peers—my smelly, crybaby, annoying female peers.You can sit at home and roll your eyes at just how predictable this story has already become or you can hear me out...
  • Caged by Elin Wyn

    Caged by Elin Wyn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No Past. No Trust. No Way Out.Zayda Caiden relies on no one. An Imperial spy, her mission was betrayed - but she doesn't know the identity of the traitor.And there's certainly no reason to trust the giant of a man dumped at the prison clinic, even if he makes her burn with feelings she thought long buried.Mack has no memory, no real name...
  • Game on Askole by Gail Koger

    Game on Askole by Gail Koger

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tihar travels to Earth to find and claim a Jones’ female. He knows they are fearless, psychic warriors and talented in bed sport. Ten minutes after meeting Sarah, Tihar knows the feisty, little human is the one he has been searching for. Now he must convince Sarah, she’s meant to be his. The first-time Sarah sees Tihar, she’s a bit freaked out...
  • The Scottish Siren: A McClain Story by Kirsten Osbourne

    The Scottish Siren: A McClain Story by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Beth has spent her entire life alone. Orphaned at a young age, she bounced around the foster care system until she was old enough to be on her own. When a strange woman approaches her in her book club, she goes to lunch with her, never expecting anything more from it than a fun lunch...
  • All These Warriors by Amy Tintera

    All These Warriors by Amy Tintera

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this highly anticipated conclusion to New York Times best-selling author Amy Tintera's All These Monstersduology, Clara and Team Seven's quest to expose the truth behind the scrab menace has them facing their biggest threat yet: their own demons. Perfect for fans of Warcross and Renegades. When the world was crumbling, seventeen-year-old Clara fought back...
  • Bear the Burn by Anya Nowlan

    Bear the Burn by Anya Nowlan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The burn might be hotter than either of them could handle... Tiana Rossum's mad. Really mad. The owner of a successful bakery in Dallas, she's learned to not trust those around her the hard way...
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