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  • Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces a devious plan in bestselling author Willow Rose’s blood-rushing thriller of murder and revenge.A girl falls from the penthouse floor of an apartment in Washington, D.C.Media Mogul Richard Wanton owns the apartment and is seen standing on the balcony when the girl falls...
  • Pretty Lost Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Pretty Lost Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From bestselling authors Ker Dukey & K Webster comes the heart-stopping, internationally bestselling crime thriller Pretty Lost Dolls which is book two in the continuation of the epic Pretty Little Dolls series.Have you ever touched another’s soul with the essence of your own and breathed them in, so they become a part of you? I have...
  • Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Scarlett Lattimore arrives at Lilith House, an abandoned mansion built in 1876, that later housed a reform school for troubled girls, to start a new life with her seven-year-old daughter...
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    dark  female-mc  revenge  abuse  adult  angst  animals  audiobook
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 92 ratings
    The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogyLisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital...
  • Pretty Stolen Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Pretty Stolen Dolls by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From bestselling authors Ker Dukey & K Webster comes the heart-stopping, internationally bestselling crime thriller Pretty Stolen Dolls.Have you ever had to make a decision that haunts you every single day for the rest of your life—the life you stole back? I have...
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    dark  female-mc  revenge  abuse  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  angst
  • The Good Lie by A.R. Torre

    The Good Lie by A.R. Torre

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide.Six teenagers dead. Finally, the killer behind bars. But are the games just beginning?Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers...
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    dark  female-mc  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Uncle Otto's Truck by Stephen King

    Uncle Otto's Truck by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • Under the Bones: A Lou Thorne Thriller by Kory M. Shrum

    Under the Bones: A Lou Thorne Thriller by Kory M. Shrum

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enemies make the best allies. Louie Thorne is good at only one thing. Killing. She knows peace only when she kills and this relentless thirst drives her to hunt the world's worst crime lords. But when her cancer-stricken aunt makes a dying wish, Louie is torn between her own dark nature and a promise made to the only family she has left...
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    dark  female-mc  action-adventure  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Two Footsteps by Belle Brooks, Karen Harper

    Two Footsteps by Belle Brooks, Karen Harper

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "My life is in the Wolf's hands." He is the Wolf. I am his Red. The game has begun and he wants me dead. But who is the Wolf? And why has he chosen me? He whistles a tune that's haunting. He glares at me through eyes that are vacant. I feel his heart beating, yet I know he has no soul. He moves like the wind...I can't hear his footsteps. I want this to end. He's playing with my mind...
  • The Face of Death by Cody McFadyen

    The Face of Death by Cody McFadyen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In Shadow Man, Cody McFadyen took the suspense thriller where other writers have feared to tread. He introduced readers to a heroine every bit as dark and edgy as the serial killers she hunts: Special Agent Smoky Barrett. Now, in his latest novel, McFadyen brings Agent Barrett back to track down a killer who breaks all the rules...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Blood Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Blood Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Book II in the Thriller Award-nominated Huntress/FBI seriesTwenty-five years have passed since a savage killer terrorized California, massacring three ordinary families before disappearing without a trace...
  • Catch Me by Lisa Gardner

    Catch Me by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Detective D. D. Warren has four days to stop a killer in this “shocking…‘must read’”* from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner—one of Library Journal's Best Thrillers of the Year.Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few years, her childhood friends have been murdered one by one. Same day. Same time...
  • Alone in the Woods by Charly Cox

    Alone in the Woods by Charly Cox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The sudden appearance of a man's booted feet had Addis snapping her mouth shut. Screaming, she kicked out at the tall, muscular guy as he dragged her from beneath the desk...It was a scene from a horror movie; Gabriel Kensington and his wife Lydia found, brutally slain in their luxurious home in New Mexico...
  • Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson

    Chosen To Die by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    HE'LL CHOOSE THEM... Detective Regan Pescoli has worked the "Star Crossed Killer" case for months, never imagining she'd be captured by the madman she's been hunting. Regan knows exactly what he's capable of - and avoiding the same fate will take every drop of her courage and cunning. ABDUCT THEM... Regan Pescoli is unlike any woman Nate Santana has met before...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • A Dark Mind by T.R. Ragan, Kate Rudd

    A Dark Mind by T.R. Ragan, Kate Rudd

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A serial killer is terrorizing Sacramento, preying on happily married couples and unleashing unspeakable cruelties upon his victims. The ordeal rekindles disturbing memories for private investigator Lizzy Gardner, who barely escaped a serial killer clutches only years ago...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen

    Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    FBI agent Smoky Barrett is no stranger to the darker recesses of the human mind. But nothing could have prepared her for the day she had to watch her husband and daughter die at the hands of a serial killer. She bears the scars, mental and physical. Most people would run - from work, from life, from everything associated with the pain of a shattered existence...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • The Pretty Dead Girls by Skylar Finn

    The Pretty Dead Girls by Skylar Finn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When two young girls go missing from a small Georgia town, the crime remains unsolved for nearly thirty years.When Savannah moves home to the small town of Humble, Georgia, she has no intention of getting involved in a kidnapping investigation. But when her older brother Mac becomes the main suspect, Savannah launches a secret investigation in order to clear her brother’s name...
  • Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein

    Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    We don’t pick and choose what to be afraid of. Our fears pick us.Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory Fisher away from a carnival. At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to accept that Sparrow wasn’t real. Now fifteen and mute, Mallory’s never spoken about the week she went missing...
  • The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter

    The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him...
  • Pop Goes the Weasel by M.J. Arlidge

    Pop Goes the Weasel by M.J. Arlidge

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the international bestselling author of Eeny Meeny comes the second thriller in the “truly excellent series”* featuring DI Helen Grace. A man’s body is found in an empty house. His heart has been cut out and delivered to his wife and children. He is the first victim, and Detective Inspector Helen Grace knows he will not be the last...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

    The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life.Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man--the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down her family's killer...
  • Diablo Snuff: A Foreign Evil by C.C. Genovese, Carver Pike

    Diablo Snuff: A Foreign Evil by C.C. Genovese, Carver Pike

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Let me tell you about the night I experienced true evil. It started with a gaze. She was eye fucking the shit out of me." Michael is at the tail end of his bachelor party vacation with his buddies and has had enough of all the gambling and flirtatious prostitutes. Then he meets Isabelle, a foreigner herself, and Michael is smitten. But even evil can come in a beautiful package...
  • Stranger Still by Michaelbrent Collings

    Stranger Still by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Your sins are Legion… and now you belong to him.Legion is a teacher. An avenging angel. A murderer. A madman. Born in the blood of a dying mother, raised in the underground lair of an insane father, he travels the world looking for those who keep secrets and sins. He finds those who have fallen short, and teaches them the lessons they need to leave their mistakes behind...
  • The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker

    The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Sarai Walker has done it again. With The Cherry Robbers she upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal. --Maria SempleThe highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland--a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  family  feminism  fiction
  • Watching by Blake Pierce

    Watching by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "A masterpiece of thriller and mystery! The author did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side that is so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. The plot is very intelligent and will keep you entertained throughout the book. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

    What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison . . .They were heroes . . . but they were liars.Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked...
  • The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Riveting Haunted House MysteryWhen the Maples family arrives in the small mountain town of Roster, Colorado, they’re convinced it will be the perfect place to raise their newborn daughter. But their dream home turns into a living nightmare when an otherworldly power abducts their child...
  • Gwendolyn vs. the Band of Barren Hearts by Mary E. Palmerin

    Gwendolyn vs. the Band of Barren Hearts by Mary E. Palmerin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Monsters. They don't hide in your nightmares. They steal you away from the good life and prevent you from living your dreams. That's where 17-year-old Gwendolyn Fitzpatrick found herself; surrounded by wicked fiends after everything she thought she had was gone in the blink of an eye...
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    dark  revenge  abuse  adult  book  child-abuse  contemporary  fiction
  • Joe Hill Collection by Joe Hill

    Joe Hill Collection by Joe Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Get four bone-chilling novels of psychological and supernatural suspense from New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill in one e-book, including: Heart-Shaped Box, 20th Century Ghosts, Horns, and NOSA2. Each publication of Hill is beautiful textured, deliciously scary, and greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for works of skin-crawling supernatural terror...
  • Digital Velocity by Reily Garrett, Rylan Killian

    Digital Velocity by Reily Garrett, Rylan Killian

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The deadliest weapons are the ones we never see. Keyboard prodigy, Lexi Donovan has risen from teenage orphan of the streets to complete independence with little help along the way. When a friend is threatened, Lexi’s anonymous message sends police into a firefight, leading to a wounded cop...
  • The Hand that Fractures by K.M. Mixon

    The Hand that Fractures by K.M. Mixon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Someone’s killing in Crows Hollow again. And it’s not Neo Wade nor his deranged, stupid girl, Lyla Morris.Both have been called back, lured by the scent of blood to the town where it all began for them nearly two years prior. And while they don’t know who is killing blonde women fresh from prison sentences, they’re determined to find out...
  • My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family.Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call...
  • The Pale White by Chad Lutzke

    The Pale White by Chad Lutzke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After being held against their will in a house used for trafficking, three girls plan their escape.Alex: A hardened goth-punk who’s convinced she’s a vampire with a penchant for blood.Stacia: A seventeen-year-old raised by an alcoholic mother, her fellow captives the only family she’s ever truly had.Kammie: The youngest of the three—a mute who finds solace in a houseplant...
  • Animal: A Prisoned Spinoff Standalone by Marni Mann

    Animal: A Prisoned Spinoff Standalone by Marni Mann

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this prison, we weren't just guards. We were animals. I captured the guilty. Locked them inside our prison. Tortured their bodies and abused their minds. I had murdered hundreds. Never recognized one. Until her face. Until that scream. I was hired to take her life. But first, I had to figure out how she ruined mine. *WARNING* Animal is an extremely dark novel...
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    dark  female-mc  revenge  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  anti-hero
  • Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Don't Tell A Soul. . . In a remote, heavily wooded area near the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Rachel Lorant died on her birthday. But she didn't die alone. That night, her four sorority sisters make a solemn, trembling pledge. They will never reveal what has just happened in those woods--ever. Instead, they will take their terrible secret to their graves. . . Don't Think About The Past. .
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    female-mc  revenge  adult  book  contemporary  crime  family  fiction
  • All the Pretty Faces by Rita Herron

    All the Pretty Faces by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Josie DuKane is on shaky ground. Having narrowly escaped the notorious Bride Killer, she penned a tell-all memoir that dug up a town’s dark past. Now the book is being made into a movie, and Josie must visit the very place that will trigger an avalanche of unwanted memories—Graveyard Falls...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare

    Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    WHAT IF THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE TURNED INTO YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE? When nineteen-year-old Naomi Stone is snatched from her husband at knifepoint on the night of their wedding and taken to a deserted cemetery, she knows her life is finished. Drugged and disorientated, she loses consciousness as she lies in an open grave with a gun to her head...
  • Caged by Ellison Cooper

    Caged by Ellison Cooper

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair hunts for evil in the deepest recesses of the human mind. Still reeling from the death of her fiance, she wants nothing more than to focus on her research into the brains of serial killers. But when the Washington D.C...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  drama
  • 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...
  • Hush by Anne Frasier

    Hush by Anne Frasier

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An alternative cover for this ASIN can be found hereIt's criminal profiler Ivy Dunlap's job to unravel the psyches of the most dangerous men alive. None haunts her dreams more than the killer who took her son's life sixteen years ago, then silently disappeared into the dark. Now an urgent request for help from the Chicago police has reawakened Ivy's greatest nightmare...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • The Shadow Man by Helen Sarah Fields

    The Shadow Man by Helen Sarah Fields

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The brand new crime thriller from the bestselling author of the Perfect series – Helen Fields is back with her first stand-alone novel!He collects his victims. But he doesn’t keep them safe.Elspeth, Meggy and Xavier are locked in a flat. They don’t know where they are, and they don’t know why they’re there. They only know that the shadow man has taken them, and he won’t let them go...
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    dark  female-mc  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • My Perfect Daughter by Sarah A. Denzil

    My Perfect Daughter by Sarah A. Denzil

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Most mothers hope their little girl turns out like their dad, but not Zoe. She hopes the apple falls far from the tree.Zoe didn't meet her daughter the way most mothers do. She finds five-year-old Maddie alone and dirty on a countryside road. Frightened for Maddie's safety, she picks her up and takes her back to her father, not knowing what she's about to step into...
  • Don't Lie to Me by Willow Rose

    Don't Lie to Me by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When twelve-year-old Sophie Williams went on a Girl Scout summer camp, she never returned home.Three months later, her body is found inside her sleeping bag in the most frequented area of Cocoa Beach, and the town is outraged.The girl isn't just any child. She's the town's most beloved surf idol, and it was believed that she could be the next Kelly Slater...
  • People Like Them by Minka Kent

    People Like Them by Minka Kent

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Nobody’s perfect—although one beautiful couple certainly comes close. Discover the cracks beneath the polished surface in this unsettling short story from bestselling author Minka Kent.Veronica and Ryan Hartley are the envy of Auburn Drive. When the exclusive neighborhood hosts its annual progressive dinner party, the couple’s perfection is on display...
  • Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone

    Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A double life with a single purpose: revenge.Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes—meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven...
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    dark  female-mc  revenge  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  anti-hero  audiobook
  • Left To Die by Lisa Jackson

    Left To Die by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Nothing's More Terrifying. . .One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can't yet see the beauty in his work--but soon, very soon, they will. . . Than Being Left Alone. . . In the lonely woods around Grizzly Point, Montana, four bodies have been discovered...
  • Folly by Laurie R. King

    Folly by Laurie R. King

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An acclaimed master of suspense creates a heroine you will never forget in this superbly chilling novel of a woman who begins a desperate undertaking that may transform her life--or end it.WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR WORST FEARS AREN’T ALL IN YOUR MIND?Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge: on the edge of sanity, on the edge of tragedy, and now on the edge of the world...
  • Into the Wolves' Den by Jon Athan

    Into the Wolves' Den by Jon Athan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What would you do to protect your family? Keith Klein, a beat cop in the small New Mexico town of Montaño, sets out to find his missing daughters after they vanish on their way home from school. He enlists the help of Gerald Greenwood, an old friend and a private investigator...
  • Wildlife by Jeff Menapace

    Wildlife by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the Everglades, there are sights that should never be seen… Deep in the Florida Everglades, a tragic accident has ignited a deadly feud between two families. Meanwhile, a young writer, his girlfriend and her family take a boat ride into the isolated wilds of the Everglades for research on a new book, only to become unwitting witnesses to a brutal crime...
  • Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana

    Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. She has everything a girl of sixteen is supposed to want. And she’s sick to death of it. In search of something to pull her out of suicidal thoughts, she decides to lose her virginity, having heard it’s a life-changing event. But Kim doesn’t want to do it the same way the other girls do...
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