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  • Commune: Book Two by Joshua Gayou

    Commune: Book Two by Joshua Gayou

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Survival can be a lonely existence…or not. The reality of the situation always comes down to a simple decision: what kind of world do you want to build? The survivors have come to settle in the mountains of Wyoming, fighting day in and day out to establish a home for themselves in a near-empty world...
  • Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A merciless wilderness. A harrowing attack. A desperate escape.When a tragic accident sidelines Miley's dreams of Olympic gold, she takes a summer job at a mountain guest lodge.The Frank Church Wilderness is remote, but it’s the perfect place to train and recover. Local lore about a staffer who died years ago doesn’t scare her. But it should...
  • Per Addestrarti by Chiara Cilli

    Per Addestrarti by Chiara Cilli

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Credevo di sapere chi fossi. Cosa fossi.Credevo di non avere più scampo, che la mia resistenza fosse ormai giunta al termine.Poi ho sentito la sua voce pronunciare il mio nome.Poi i suoi occhi hanno risposto al richiamo dei miei.Non ha paura di me. Si avvicina. Mi parla. Mi tocca come se le appartenessi. È folle.Lui è l’unica chance che ho per restare viva. Devo far sì che gli importi di me...
  • Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz

    Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dean Koontz is one of the world's top-selling authors with total worldwide sales of his novels at 225 million copies! He achieves what few writers can: he creates books that consistently jump to the top of the bestseller lists in both hardcover and paper...
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  • One By One by Freida McFadden

    One By One by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    One by one, they will get what they deserve...A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven...
  • In The Tall Trees by Angel N. Van Atta

    In The Tall Trees by Angel N. Van Atta

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mella lives in a tiny house in the middle of a dense forest with her mommy and her baby brother, Pete. Sometimes her daddy comes and with him often the bad man comes, as well. Mella knows that she, her mommy and little brother are a secret family living where nobody knows they are, but she can't remember why that is or why her mommy is chained to the floor...
  • In the Tall World by Angel N. Van Atta

    In the Tall World by Angel N. Van Atta

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mella finds herself in a whole new world, surrounded by all new things and people. Life was often scary back in the tall trees in that tiny little house, but it was all she knew, and that brought her comfort. Now, separated from her Momma, and her baby brother Pete, Mella has to find out how to make her way in this strange new home with all new rules and people...
  • Upheaval by T.L. Payne

    Upheaval by T.L. Payne

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After surviving the prison riots and deadly skirmishes with the wanna-be dictator of Texas County, Maddie and her group are left with dwindling resources, unprepared for the harsh winter ahead. Old friends pitch in to help until a more deadly foe arrives to put all of their lives at risk. A daring mission to St. Louis for precious lifesaving supplies has deadly consequences...
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood...
  • The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this claustrophobic thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room. On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago...
  • Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney

    Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This sequel to the New York Times bestselling None Shall Sleep is an equally electrifying, chilling thriller that brings us back into the lives of junior FBI consultants Travis Bell and Emma Lewis with a new case that may unravel everything they’ve been working for...
  • Uprising by T.L. Payne

    Uprising by T.L. Payne

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Texas County, Missouri is a powder keg ready to blow.As winter approaches, small-town issues become big trouble.Maddie Langston and her group of post-apocalyptic survivors are stretched thin.Vengeful old foes take advantage of weakened defenses. Without support, as supplies dwindle, citizens are forced to take matters into their own hands...
  • A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey—master of suspense, J.D. Barker. "I'm going to offer you a choice." Controversial satellite radio talk show host, Jordan Briggs, has clawed her way to the top of the broadcast world...
  • Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom

    Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION by Sean LiscomIn the wake of the cataclysmic events that reshaped our world in 2020, a sense of relief washed over us all. By late 2023, I think we were ready to just live life again. I know I was. It was a time to make new friends and put the past to rest. Rayne and I hadn’t known each other long, but we were building a solid friendship, nothing more...
  • The Ophidian Horde by Ryan Schow

    The Ophidian Horde by Ryan Schow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The EMP is real. The unraveling of society is beyond perilous. With the city in ruin, injuries to her party and a sharp loss of resources, Cincinnati McNamara looks to Indigo for help in forming a new homestead, a place where she can tend to the wounded and safeguard her family...
  • The Burning Fields by Mike Kraus

    The Burning Fields by Mike Kraus

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New enemies are on the horizon in Virginia as an unexpected visitor appears to Dianne and the children. Rick, meanwhile, faces a beautiful but dangerous journey through the Rocky Mountains. As Damocles continues to wreak havoc across the globe the stage is being set for the end of civilization as we know it...
  • The Shattered Earth by Mike Kraus

    The Shattered Earth by Mike Kraus

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rick Waters is trapped. He and another survivor are stuck in the middle of a devastated Las Vegas, forced to hide while a band of criminals wielding stolen military-grade hardware loot the city. Any hope of escape rests on Rick's quick thinking, though that may not be enough. Back home in Virginia, his wife and children are preparing their homestead for an early winter that has arrived...
  • Abyss by Greig Beck

    Abyss by Greig Beck

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The explosive sequel to the Greig Beck blockbuster FATHOMLESS.Cate Granger is chasing ghosts.The monster shark she once encountered was a remnant of the ancient world - one that had escaped an underwater lair previously sealed off for millions of years. At great cost, Cate and her allies had killed the beast.So, no more ghosts, no more shadows. All gone.Or so Cate thought...
  • Saint/Sinner by Sam Sisavath

    Saint/Sinner by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THERE IS NO REST FOR THE WICKED.After spending ten years of her life hunting her sister’s killer and barely surviving, Allie Krycek is ready to move on. She’s got a new job, in a new city, with a new man in her life. Things are finally looking up.Too bad there are people determined to ruin Allie’s second chance...
  • Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the future there is no such thing as a serial killer.A breakthrough research project has detected an active gene present in all known psychopaths and developed a vaccine to make it completely dormant. People are inoculated at birth. Society has rejoiced the extinction of the sociopathic mind. There hasn’t been a serial killing in America in over forty years...
  • Water Walker by Ted Dekker

    Water Walker by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    My name is Alice Ringwald, but the man who kidnapped me says that's a lie.Thirteen-year old orphan Alice Ringwald has no memory beyond six months ago. The only life she knows is the new one she's creating one day at a time with the loving couple that recently adopted her and gave her new hope.That hope, however, is shattered one night when she is abducted by a strange man...
  • Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards

    Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The chilling conclusion to the #1 bestseller The Magpies. Twelve months ago, Jamie Knight walked straight into Lucy Newton’s trap. Both Jamie and his ex-wife Kirsty barely survived. Now, with the police investigation into Lucy’s disappearance going nowhere, Jamie teams up with a true crime podcaster to track down his nemesis...
  • Ice by Kevin Tinto

    Ice by Kevin Tinto

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Librarian Note: Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B01557MW80.Hello ICE readers! ICE has undergone Edits and Additions! If you have one of the older versions, you can request an update from Amazon! KT Archaeologist Leah Andrews stumbles upon something inexplicable in southwestern New Mexico: inside a dark cavern lies an undiscovered, Native American cliff dwelling abandoned for 800 years...
  • Devil Dog by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce

    Devil Dog by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dick, AKA Devil Dog's world changes drastically when the EMP takes out the power grid. The loss of electricity brings out the darker side of human nature across the city. A homeless Marine veteran living in the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago, he's far better prepared than most people. Good folk have survived, but they are often outnumbered and outgunned...
  • Dinosaur Lake II :Dinosaurs Arising by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Dinosaur Lake II :Dinosaurs Arising by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Prehistoric creatures have again invaded Crater Lake National Park …and this time there’s more than one. DINOSAUR LAKE II: Dinosaurs Arising by Kathryn Meyer Griffith Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for thirteen years now and thought the days when he’d had to fight a rogue dinosaur that lived in the caves below the lake were long over...
  • Hide by Patti Larsen

    Hide by Patti Larsen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reid isn’t sure if he’s grateful to be alive. He’s managed to save a small group of kids from the hunters, but only by trapping them all underground without food or water or a way out. If starvation doesn’t kill them, thirst will. Still, they are out of the hunter’s reach and that’s something. Reid refuses to stop trying, even when the kids find out they aren’t alone in the mine after all...
  • Dead Meat: Day 2 by Nick Clausen

    Dead Meat: Day 2 by Nick Clausen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The dead have awakened.Driven by insatiable hunger.In eternal search of fresh meat.The infection spreads like the plague.Nothing stands between the undead and humanity...
  • Casket for Sale by Jeff Strand

    Casket for Sale by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meet the new, improved Andrew Mayhem. He has a real job. He's a better father and husband. And he's vowed to quit accepting money from strange women in coffee shops to perform tasks that go terribly, terribly wrong. This time he's just taking a relaxing camping trip with his family and best friend. No shortcuts. The gas tank is full. The sinister warning of the crazy old man is taken seriously...
  • The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz

    The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the spring of 1912, American writer Arthur Pearce is reeling from the wounds inflicted by a disastrous marriage and the public humiliation that ensued. But his plans to travel abroad, write a new novel, and forget his ex-wife are interrupted by a lovely young woman he encounters on a London-bound train. Her name is Sarah Coyle, and the tale she tells him chills his blood...
  • #NoEscape  (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    #NoEscape (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The #murder and mayhem continue in this prequel companion novel to the grisly, campy social media insanity that is #MurderTrending and #MurderFunding. Gretchen McNeil brings her signature wit and merciless kills to this gruesome yet hilarious, wildly topical young adult novel.Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took down The Postman and Alcatraz 2...
  • Arcadian Genesis by Greig Beck

    Arcadian Genesis by Greig Beck

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An aeon ago it crashed into the frozen earth. Millennia later it was removed from the icy soil, still functioning. They opened it … they shouldn't have...
  • Sea of Crises by Marty Steere

    Sea of Crises by Marty Steere

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “A stellar thriller that handily juggles its formulaic elements to achieve near-perfect liftoff.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“That shouldn’t be here.”Those are the last words uttered by Commander Bob Cartwright in September 1976, just before all communication with the crew of Apollo 18 is inexplicably lost during the astronauts’ first moonwalk...
  • Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Ed McBain

    Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Ed McBain

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The criminals who invade the 87th Precinct aren't particularly known for their intelligence. Their crimes are usually brutal, stupid, and rash. But every once in a while, the 87th gets a good bad guy to hunt down."WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE, I'M GOING TO STEAL $500,000 ON THE LAST DAY OF APRIL." So wrote the Deaf Man, the 87th Precinct's own private nemesis...
  • Blood Brother by Jack Kerley

    Blood Brother by Jack Kerley

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Detective Carson Ryder's sworn duty is to track killers down. He's never revealed the fact that his brother, Jeremy, is one of America's most notorious killers - albeit imprisoned. Now though, his brother's escaped and is at large in New York. With Jeremy the chief suspect in a series of horrifying mutilation-murders, a mysterious video demands Ryder be brought into help...
  • Dirty Liar by Marissa Finch

    Dirty Liar by Marissa Finch

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A WALK IN THE WOODS TURNS INTO A DEADLY NIGHTMARE…The forest is my happy place. A chance to get away from my stifling apartment, the sweat of the city, a job I hate. A Sunday morning hiking in the woods with my dog is a dream come true … until it becomes a waking nightmare.I don’t see the hole until it’s too late. Then I’m at the bottom of it, staring up at the ground twelve feet above me...
  • Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

    Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to discover the stakes aren’t just high, they’re deadly, in this searing thriller that’s Ace of Spades meets Squid Game with a sprinkling of The Bachelor.You must work twice as hard to get half as much...
  • The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright

    The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    TEN DAYS, TWELVE COMPETITORS, TWO MILLION POUNDS IN CASH.What at first appears to be a wonderful opportunity for Damien Banks turns out to be the worst nightmare he can imagine. Trapped inside a house with eleven strangers, and a booming voice known only as ‘The Landlord’ controlling his every move, Damien will be forced to compete not only for the money, but for his life...
  • Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every year the storks set off on their miraculous 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to Central Africa. Then one year, inexplicably, they do not return. At the invitation of the wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm, a young French academic, Louis Antioch, agrees to undertake a journey tracing the flight of the storks in an attempt to solve the mystery of the birds' disappearance...
  • Survive the Fall by Grace Hamilton

    Survive the Fall by Grace Hamilton

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Survival of the fittest becomes harsh reality in the blink of an eye.Greg Healy isn’t fooled. The hunting trip is merely a ploy contrived by his wife and mother to force Greg and his father to end their estrangement. Not even Greg’s teenage daughter or his father’s hunting buddies along for the ride will be enough of a buffer to heal the rift of long-standing resentments...
  • The Zero Hour by Ryan Schow

    The Zero Hour by Ryan Schow

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You met her at the end of The Last War, but who is the archer? How did she come to save the McNamara’s from certain death/enslavement? Meet Indigo in her insane rise from obscure teen to the enigmatic archer in a new thriller, titled The Zero Hour: Indigo.The Zero Hour: Indigo is action packed post-apocalyptic survival fiction at its finest...
  • The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana

    The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She never wanted to come home.After the death of her estranged father, Tracey returns to the remote cabin she grew up in. As a traumatized veteran of the Vietnam War, Tracey’s father subjected her to rigorous survival training under brutal conditions, believing it was for her own good. She escaped and never looked back...
  • Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates

    Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness thriller that will teach you to trust no one. There are eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run.When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest...
  • Death of Innocence by Mike Kraus

    Death of Innocence by Mike Kraus

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rick Waters has barely escaped a week inside a cell at the Nellis Air Force Base with his life intact. Back on the road he faces a daunting journey filled with dangers that have yet to be realized. In Virginia, Dianne Waters and her children have prepared their home, gathered their supplies and are about to face an incoming storm the likes of which they have never seen...
  • Erupting Trouble by Grace Hamilton

    Erupting Trouble by Grace Hamilton

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A father with a heart problem and a son determined to get him home…Matthew Riley wants to believe that people will come together in times of great struggle, but as panic and chaos set in after a massive EMP event, he has to face the fact that the only people he can trust are his family...
  • Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan

    Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mark Sullivan has created a propulsive, compelling new thriller. Rogue, is one part Bourne Identity and one part Mission: Impossible, but readers will also love the nod to Hitchcock’s It Takes a Thief. Two years ago, Robin Monarch was a top level CIA operative—perhaps the best they had when it came to black bag operations...
  • The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison

    The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    During a trek to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides a spark for his evolutionary theory.Almost two hundred years later and across the Channel in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack...
  • D.O.G.S by M.A. Bennett

    D.O.G.S by M.A. Bennett

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After the dramatic events of the last few weeks, Greer Macdonald is trying to concentrate on her A levels. Stuck for a play to direct for her drama exam, she gets help from an unexpected quarter . . .A priceless lost play, buried by time, is pushed under her door. It is Ben Jonson's The Isle of Dogs, a play considered so dangerous in Elizabethan times that every copy was burned . . . except one...
  • Book of the Dead by Greig Beck

    Book of the Dead by Greig Beck

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    And the earth shall fall before they rise....Massive sinkholes are opening across the country—each larger and deeper than the previous one. First the family pets go missing, and anyone living near one of the pits is reporting strange phenomena—the vibrations, sulfurous odors and strange sounds rising up from the stygian depths. Then come the reports of horrifying "things" rising from the darkness...
  • The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings

    The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meadow Woodson has been trained to survive. This is a prequel to The Murder Complex, by Lindsay Cummings, and it is set in a blood-soaked world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate. For fans of Moira Young's Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.Meadow Woodson's father calls it The Fear Trials, and it is a rite of passage in their family...
  • Dark End by Grace Hamilton

    Dark End by Grace Hamilton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Only the strong will survive when civilization collapses. The nearest star in the solar system went supernova four years ago. When the resultant EMP strikes Earth, the world is sent back to the Stone Age. Yet it soon grows evident there are worse things hidden in the dark matter hurricane. Unbearable headaches strike without warning. Human aggression goes off the charts...
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