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  • Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye...
  • 死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

    死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    起初的异样,是家里的猫不让抱了。林秋石发现周围的一切都开始变得充满了不协调感。然后某一天,当他推开家中的门,却发现熟悉的楼道变成了长长的走廊。走廊的两头,是十二扇一模一样的铁门。故事由此开始。阮南烛对林秋石说,当你凝视深渊时,深渊也在凝视着你。林秋石听后陷入沉思,然后对着深渊拉下了裤子拉链……阮南烛:“……你把裤子给我好好穿上!”不皮会死病娇攻X一起皮的沉稳受,双皮奶组合,灵异风格升级流。"Kaleidoscope of Death"It started off peculiarly; first, his domestic cat refused to let him cuddle it...
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    suspense  romance  horror  fantasy  lgbtq  mystery  mlm  paranormal
  • 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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    suspense  romance  sci-fi  time-travel  mystery  lgbtq  mlm  fantasy
  • 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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    suspense  romance  sci-fi  mystery  time-travel  lgbtq  mlm  fantasy
  • Judgment by Delta James

    Judgment by Delta James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lars Jakobsson, the leader of the Berserker Syndicate controls everything. He is also my only hope.LarsRhys Donovan is mine. The moment I laid eyes on her she became my obsession. We had one fabulous night together before she disappeared from my bed. In the end, she’ll come to me because I marked her and started her transition. And when she does, I’ll demand judgment...
  • The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet...
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    male-mc  romance  sci-fi  space-opera  audiobook  fiction  space  lgbtq
  • The Night Crossing by Robert Masello

    The Night Crossing by Robert Masello

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Bram Stoker kept secret a tale even more terrifying than Dracula. It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London, unaware of its dangerous power…or that an evil beyond imagining has already taken root in the city...
  • The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda

    The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eight miles of mystery. One night of terror.Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda.The salt marsh at Devil’s Landing is home to a terrifying urban legend.Adam Gray knows the old stories about the Slough Devil, the missing children, and the mutilated animals...
  • The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Worlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds space opera trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O’Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have found a new home on Seventh Cradle. But the peace they’ve built is short-lived as mysterious assailants ambush the settlement and Naira is haunted by visions of a monstrous future...
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    crime  male-mc  romance  sci-fi  space-opera  fantasy  fiction  space
  • Blackout by Mira Grant

    Blackout by Mira Grant

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant — a saga of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all.The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.The year was 2039...
  • A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson

    A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She can see the truth, but when she's accused of murder, no one believes she's innocent.Hallie works as a skip tracer - hunting down people wanted by the law, for one reason or another. It's not glamourous, and it doesn't pay all that well. But it's legal work, and that's hard to come by in the cramped quarters of old town...
  • Zero Tolerance by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Zero Tolerance by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This sequel to Patient Zero brings Joe Ledger back into action.Zero Tolerance picks up a few weeks after the close of Maberry’s action-thriller Patient Zero. Dropping back into the world of former Baltimore cop Joe Ledger, the Department of Military Sciences, and flesh-eating zombies, fans of the series will finally see the tying up of a few loose ends...
  • Thrum by Meg Smitherman

    Thrum by Meg Smitherman

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ami awakes from years in stasis to find she’s at the edges of deep space, and the only surviving member of her crew. Utterly alone and unable to contact Earth, she sends out a distress beacon, not expecting a response. When she gets one from a being who calls himself Dorian, she’s welcomed onto his ship as he offers his assistance in any way he can. But nothing on Dorian’s ship is as it seems...
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    suspense  romance  horror  sci-fi  fantasy  gothic  aliens  space
  • Impact Winter by Travis Beacham

    Impact Winter by Travis Beacham

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all along. Just waiting."From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun...
  • The Bad Weather Friend by Dean Koontz

    The Bad Weather Friend by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them. Benny Catspaw’s perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He’s not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn’t know who or why...
  • The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman

    The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness?Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital...
  • The Night House by J.C. McKenzie

    The Night House by J.C. McKenzie

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What would you pay for your freedom?Caught by a powerful lord from the alternate realm of Arkavia, Taya’s offered the chance to avenge the dead, save her home world, and win her freedom...
  • Ice Lord's Bride by Ava Ross

    Ice Lord's Bride by Ava Ross

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I must marry one of the fae, but the forbidden ice lord wants me.To secure a human-fae truce, I'm one of five women traveling to their magical kingdom, where we'll be courted by fae aristocracy. We have one month to choose a husband from among them.Only Elion, the arrogant, beastly ice lord is forbidden. His torturous scars make the other women gasp. His icy words rip them to shreds...
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    suspense  fantasy  fae  paranormal  fiction  aliens  steamy  mystery
  • Feed by Mira Grant

    Feed by Mira Grant

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED...
  • The Getaway by Lamar Giles

    The Getaway by Lamar Giles

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to the funnest spot around . . .Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world’s most famous resorts. He’s got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property’s main theme park. Life isn’t so great for the rest of the world, but when people come here to vacation, it’s to get away from all that...
  • The Hollows by Daniel Church

    The Hollows by Daniel Church

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to death. But the facts don't add up: the dead man is clutching a knife in one hand, and there's evidence he was hiding from someone. Someone who watched him die...
  • It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames

    It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The remote terror of THE THING meets the body horror of WILDER GIRLS in this fast-paced Antarctic thriller.Shy high school junior Riley Kowalski is spending her winter break on a research trip to Antarctica, sponsored by one of the world’s biggest tech companies...
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    suspense  crime  horror  young-adult  fiction  sci-fi  lgbtq  mystery
  • Prophet by Sin Blaché, Helen Macdonald

    Prophet by Sin Blaché, Helen Macdonald

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon.THIS IS PROPHET.It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want?An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field...
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    suspense  romance  sci-fi  fiction  mystery  lgbtq  fantasy  audiobook
  • The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

    The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, one living—hired by an embittered old landowner to banish a bloody cosmic monster from his ancestral home, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw, Charles Stross and Lucy A. Snyder.Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries—one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living...
  • Dead Flip by Sara Farizan

    Dead Flip by Sara Farizan

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this “terrifyingly fun” ( New York Times ) horror comedy two friends must solve the mystery of their long-missing former friend’s supernatural reappearance—perfect for fans of Stranger Things . Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another...
  • Among the Living by Tim Lebbon

    Among the Living by Tim Lebbon

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the New York Times bestseller and author of Netflix’s The Silence comes a terrifying horror novel set in a melting Arctic landscape. Something deadly has lain dormant for thousands of years, but now the permafrost is giving up its secrets…Estranged friends Dean and Bethan meet after five years apart when they are drawn to a network of caves on a remote Arctic island...
  • Cell: A Novel by Stephen King

    Cell: A Novel by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by master storyteller Stephen King!On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make art instead of teaching it...
  • Falling Down by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

    Falling Down by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A group of mercenaries on an unsanctioned mission survives a plane crash in whiteout conditions in the Tian Shan mountains. The men are accustomed to danger. Now they’re growing accustomed to fear.Team leader Liev and his band of survivors are stranded in the bitter winds with little hope of rescue—or outlasting the wolves that have scented blood...
  • The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni

    The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Reality and imagination collide when an expert puzzle-maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity—in this fantastical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of AngelologyAll the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink—a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor—understands its patterns like no one else...
  • Monster: Perfect Edition, Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa

    Monster: Perfect Edition, Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Hans George Schuwald, the most influential person in the state of Bayern, has come to trust Johan fully and made him his right-hand man. Johan now seems to be setting himself up as the wonder boy of the German financial world.Meanwhile, a private detective working for Schuwald investigates the mysterious events happening around the man and senses something massive and evil lurking behind it all...
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