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  • The Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure by Meljean Brook

    The Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Experience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook. The Kraken King, Part VIIIThe Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure Arriving in Krakentown with their enemies in hot pursuit, Zenobia doesn’t know how they can even hope to win...
  • Volcrian's Hunt by T.L. Shreffler

    Volcrian's Hunt by T.L. Shreffler

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A plague is spreading across the land. Crops are rotting. People are dying in the streets. Sora, with the help of her magical Cat's Eye necklace, is the only one who can stop it. She must travel overseas to the Lost Isles, a place of legend and mystery. Only there can she destroy the bloodmage, Volcrian, putting an end to the curse...
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  • Catalyst by Shelly Crane

    Catalyst by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the third installment of the Collide series, we start off with Sherry, taken prisoner in the enforcement facility. The little bunker family must now decide whether it's worth the risk to try to save her or if it would bring doom to them all. Lily has started showing signs of her gift progressing, which may not be a desirable thing...
  • Redemption by Erica Stevens

    Redemption by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A year has passed since the war against Jack’s father that freed the humans from their roles as blood slaves and servants to the vampire race. Having left the palace behind in order to ensure that the outer towns are obeying the new laws, Jack struggles to come to terms with the grief and haunting memories that drove him from the palace in the first place...
  • Uprising by Shelly Crane

    Uprising by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sherry and Merrick's story continues in this sequel to Collide. In this installment, we come face to face with old acquaintances and new friends and new enemies. Things will change for all of them especially when a little girl is found and everyone's loyalties are tested. A revelation may upset the delicate balance they've all tried so hard to set...
  • In Time by Alexandra Bracken

    In Time by Alexandra Bracken

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Don't miss this exciting short story that connects The Darkest Minds to its much-anticipated sequel, Never Fade. Gabe's life has been devastated in the wake of the economic crash. The only option left for someone like him to escape his tragic past is to leave his small town behind and to attempt to become a skiptracer...
  • Reckoning by Laury Falter

    Reckoning by Laury Falter

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Reckoning - the third book in the bestselling Guardian Trilogy... With Maggie alone and on the run and with unknown forces conspiring against her, she is in more danger than ever before. As Eran struggles to protect her, Maggie unwittingly ignites the final battle between the Fallen Ones and Alterums, one that could separate her and Eran forever...
  • Writing on the Wall by Tracey Ward

    Writing on the Wall by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m a girl stuck in Neverland with The Lost Boys. I’m no Wendy, I can hold my own. I don’t need to wait around for Peter to save me, but I’m also not an idiot. I know my enemies. It's been nearly a decade since the world ended. Since Joss watched her parents die at the hands of a nightmare, a nightmare that stalks her even now, all these years later...
  • The Kraken King and the Abominable Worm by Meljean Brook

    The Kraken King and the Abominable Worm by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    As they continue their expedition across Australia, Ariq is determined to stay close to Zenobia and figure out what kind of game she’s playing—even as his admiration for the enigmatic woman starts to override his suspicion...
  • The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

    The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 45 ratings
    THE FALSE PRINCE is the thrilling first book in a brand-new trilogy filled with danger and deceit and hidden identities that will have readers rushing breathlessly to the end. In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince...
  • Black Heart by Justin Somper

    Black Heart by Justin Somper

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There's a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas, leaving a trail of fear and devastation in its wake. When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters. The team will be led by newly appointed Captain, Cheng Li and will include pirate prodigy Connor Tempest...
  • Eternity by Laury Falter

    Eternity by Laury Falter

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Eternity - the second book in the bestselling Guardian Trilogy... Maggie thought she was safe until an old enemy arrives in New Orleans with a dire threat: A battle is on the way. With only a few days to spare, she and Eran embark on a path that is expected to prepare them for the world’s most evil creatures...
  • The Kraken King and the Scribbling Spinster by Meljean Brook

    The Kraken King and the Scribbling Spinster by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A former smuggler and thief, Ariq—better known as the Kraken King—doesn’t know what to make of the clever, mysterious woman he rescues from an airship besieged by marauders...
  • As the World Dies: Untold Tales Volume 1 by Rhiannon Frater

    As the World Dies: Untold Tales Volume 1 by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THE FIRST DAYS: AS THE WORLD DIES introduced Jenni and Katie and their harrowing journey to the makeshift fort in the Texas Hill Country. But theirs is not the only tale to be told. In the first volume of the AS THE WORLD DIES UNTOLD TALES experience three terrifying tales of those who are forced to face the unrelenting and hungry walking dead...
  • Half Upon a Time by James Riley

    Half Upon a Time by James Riley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Life’s no fairy tale for Jack. After all, his father's been missing ever since that incident with the beanstalk and the giant, and his grandfather keeps pushing him to get out and find a princess to rescue. Who'd want to rescue a snobby, entitled princess anyway? Especially one that falls out of the sky wearing a shirt that says "Punk Princess," and still denies she's royalty...
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    pirates  contemporary  magic  paranormal  fantasy
  • Dead Tide by Leighann Dobbs

    Dead Tide by Leighann Dobbs

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For three hundred years, the Blackmoore house has harbored a valuable secret ... The Blackmoore sisters learn about this secret from the dying lips of the historian they hired to decipher their centuries old family journal. Too bad he never gets the chance to tell them exactly what he has uncovered...or where to find it...
  • Crazy for You by Jane Fenton

    Crazy for You by Jane Fenton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kate would feel silly for having a crush on a fictional pirate—if he wasn’t standing right in front of her. After discovering that her long-term boyfriend has been cheating on her, psychologist Dr. Kate Barnes decides she’s still going on their romantic Bahamas getaway—alone...
  • Winter Omens by Trisha Leigh

    Winter Omens by Trisha Leigh

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Althea and Lucas barely escaped the Others’ clutches in the autumn, and were separated in the process. Alone and on the run from the cruel alien race determined to exterminate her, Althea struggles to adapt and survive in a world she never imagined. When a boy named Pax appears out of nowhere, he quickly recognizes Althea for what she is – a human/Other hybrid just like him...
  • Replay by Ken Grimwood

    Replay by Ken Grimwood

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Jeff Winston was 43 and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when he could be truly happy, when he died. And when he woke and he was 18 again, with all his memories of the next 25 years intact. He could live his life again, avoiding the mistakes, making money from his knowledge of the future, seeking happiness...
  • The Scourge by A.G. Henley

    The Scourge by A.G. Henley

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Groundling, Fennel, is Sightless. She's never been able to see her lush forest home, but she knows its secrets. She knows how the shadows shift when she passes under a canopy of trees. She knows how to hide in the cool, damp caves when the Scourge comes. She knows how devious and arrogant the Groundlings' tree-dwelling neighbors, the Lofties, can be...
  • Free Souls by Susan Kaye Quinn

    Free Souls by Susan Kaye Quinn

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When your mind is a weapon, freedom comes at a price. The final installment of the Mindjack Trilogy is here! Four months have passed since Kira left home to join Julian’s Jacker Freedom Alliance, but the hole in her heart still whistles empty where her boyfriend Raf used to be...
  • Reborn by Tara Brown

    Reborn by Tara Brown

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 19 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...in an attempt to survive. Eight weeks ago she discovered the truth about her family, including the sister she never knew existed. Last week she had her heart broken by the one man she never imagined giving it to...
  • Ghost Night by Heather Graham

    Ghost Night by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A slasher movie turns real when two young actors are brutally murdered on a remote island film set. Their severed heads and arms are posed in macabre homage to a nineteenth-century pirate massacre. Two years later, survivor Vanessa Loren is drawn back to South Bimini by a documentary being made about the storied region...
  • Oubliette by Megg Jensen

    Oubliette by Megg Jensen

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Reychel thought she was finally free. She was wrong. Everyone saw her gift of prophecy as a blessing, but her gift is uncontrollable. No one alive can teach her to manipulate her unique gift and the answers she needs lie buried within a madman’s journals. She’s thrust in the midst of a brewing war and the only uniting factor for her people is their belief in the Prophet...
  • Season of Wonder by Lisa Tawn Bergren, Lisa T. Bergren

    Season of Wonder by Lisa Tawn Bergren, Lisa T. Bergren

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the first book of the new futuristic dystopian series from author Lisa T. Bergren, the chosen remnants must work to redirect humanity’s course. THEIR ARRIVAL WAS FORETOLD FOR YEARS . . . Andriana is a Remnant, gifted as an empath and one of the Ailith, destined to act as humanity’s last shield against the horrors that now plague those who remain...
  • Devour by Megan Duncan

    Devour by Megan Duncan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You never know how strong you are until something makes you choose between humanity, and the beast. As Claire descended deep into the ancient tomb; laying to rest the bodies of the fallen, she wondered if time healed all wounds, would an eternity be long enough? Still recovering from a brutal attack that nearly killed her, she refused to let evil win...
  • Severed by Megg Jensen

    Severed by Megg Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book Three: Cloud Prophet Trilogy Reychel knows her gift of prophecy will lead to madness and now she is at her most vulnerable. The enemy army will attempt to sever her from everything she's ever known: her homeland, her friends, Mark, and her gift. Even at her weakest, she refuses to give up on her desire to end the war between the Malborn and the Serenians...
  • Ethereal Fury by Jessica O'Gorek

    Ethereal Fury by Jessica O'Gorek

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BEWARE! THE PLANET IS WOUNDED... THE GEMINI ARE RISING AND OUR TIME ON EARTH IS LIMITED Angry at the human race and its methodical destruction of her resources, Mother Earth recruits souls who have just left their bodies to serve Her, and turns them against humanity. Gemini, a clan of paranormal beings, picked from these possessed humans, emerges...
  • Transcender: First-Timer by Vicky Savage

    Transcender: First-Timer by Vicky Savage

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ripped away from her quiet Connecticut life with the force of a lightning bolt and glitched into a weird alternate universe, Jaden Beckett lands smack in the middle of a kidnapping--her own! The powerful Inter-Universal Guidance Agency (IUGA) engineers her escape and is working overtime to return her home. But now Jaden's not sure where she belongs...
  • Mine to Spell by Janeal Falor

    Mine to Spell by Janeal Falor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cynthia has always hidden from her father’s hexes behind her older sister. When her family gains independence unheard of for women, she’s relieved that her days of harsh punishments are over. But as her seventeenth birthday approaches—the typical age to be sold to a new master—death threats endanger her sisters. She now faces two options: run or meet society’s expectations...
  • The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine

    The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit by Storm Constantine

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In this powerful and elegant story set in a future Earth very different from our own, a new kind of human has evolved to challenge the dominion of Homo sapiens. This new breed is stronger, smarter, and far more beautiful than their parent race, and are endowed with psychic as well as physical gifts. They are destined to supplant humanity as we know it, but humanity won't die without a struggle...
  • The Audient and The Phantom Night by Sadie Hewitt

    The Audient and The Phantom Night by Sadie Hewitt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Inspired by the worlds of The Legend of the Flying Dutchman and Beauty and the Beast, this action-packed fantasy filled with searing romance, outlawed magic, and seafaring danger.Fenna Terrigan never expected to leave her seaside village. She was too quiet, too gentle, and far too kind to take on life outside of the bookshop she works at...
  • Blue Fire by Janice Hardy

    Blue Fire by Janice Hardy

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Part fugitive, part hero, fifteen-year-old Nya is barely staying ahead of the Duke of Baseer’s trackers. Wanted for a crime she didn’t mean to commit, she risks capture to protect every Taker she can find, determined to prevent the Duke from using them in his fiendish experiments...
  • Rip Tide by Kat Falls

    Rip Tide by Kat Falls

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 18 ratings
    Return to the subsea frontier with Ty and Gemma! The mysteries of the deep are deadlier than ever when Ty'With time running out for his parents, Ty's desperation leads the two teenagers to the underwater underworld...and into an alliance with the outlaws of the Seablite Gang. But one mystery soon leads to another...
  • Broken Skies by Theresa Kay

    Broken Skies by Theresa Kay

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Thirty years ago, civilization collapsed. Few survived.Ten years ago, the aliens arrived…and stayed.One year ago, I killed two men and went a little crazy.Today, the aliens took my brother and I will do anything to get him back. In seventeen-year-old Jax Mitchell's world, humans are nearly extinct and alien settlers have arrived...
  • Bluewing by Kate Avery Ellison

    Bluewing by Kate Avery Ellison

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lia Weaver is a fugitive. Her family's farm has been confiscated by Farther soldiers, her sister has been reassigned to a new family in the village, and her official status is "missing." Now, she and a band of fugitive followers must make their home in the harsh wilderness of the Frost...
  • Closed Hearts by Susan Kaye Quinn

    Closed Hearts by Susan Kaye Quinn

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When you control minds, only your heart can be used against you. Eight months ago, Kira Moore revealed to the mindreading world that mindjackers like herself were hidden in their midst. Now she wonders if telling the truth was the right choice after all. As wild rumors spread, a powerful anti-jacker politician capitalizes on mindreaders’ fears and strips jackers of their rights...
  • Haven by Laury Falter

    Haven by Laury Falter

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Guardian Trilogy comes a new romantic suspense... HAVEN, Apocalypse Chronicles, Part I On an ordinary day in early September, Kennedy Shaw leaves for school unaware that within a few minutes the world she knows will be gone - succumbed to an outbreak of epidemic proportions...
  • Enthralled by Alyssa Day, Meljean Brook

    Enthralled by Alyssa Day, Meljean Brook

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They have the power to hold you spellbound, to captivate your senses, and to keep you forever in their control. Forever enthralled… #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh returns to her sensual world of the Breeds…as one stubborn Breed meets her match, and can no longer deny her mate—or the fierce desires of her own heart...
  • Thorns by Kate Avery Ellison

    Thorns by Kate Avery Ellison

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sequel to "Frost". Lia Weaver went against everything she’d ever known when she risked her life to help a Farther fugitive named Gabe escape from the Aeralian soldiers, and her life changed forever...
  • Weavers by Kate Avery Ellison

    Weavers by Kate Avery Ellison

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Every day, life in the Frost grows increasingly perilous for its inhabitants. The Farther occupation continues, and food is becoming scarce. And Lia Weaver’s family is facing increasing perils, too—Jonn pushes his health to the brink as he works to uncover the secrets of Echlos, and Ivy risks everything to get food for the family...
  • Violet Eyes by Nicole Luiken

    Violet Eyes by Nicole Luiken

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I'm the Idea Girl, the one who can always think of something to do. Angel Eastland knows she's different. It's not just her violet eyes that set her apart. She's smarter than her classmates and more athletically gifted. Her only real competition is Michael Vallant, who also has violet eyes -- eyes that tell her they're connected, in a way she can't figure out. Michael understands Angel...
  • Ghost Memories by Heather Graham

    Ghost Memories by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham presents the prequel the Bone Island Trilogy.... In the early nineteenth century, pirates and privateers still wreaked havoc in the Caribbean. Bartholomew Miller had been one of them. After years of plying the seas for England as a privateer, he finally found a home and love on Bone Island off the Florida coast...
  • Revelations by J.A. Souders

    Revelations by J.A. Souders

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six weeks after her arrival on the Surface, Evelyn Winters is no closer to unlocking the memories lost in her subconscious than she was when she first came. Isolated in a strange new society, Evie has only Gavin Hunter to remind her of who she once was. But even with a clean slate, it’s easy to see that Evie doesn’t fit in on the Surface...
  • Save Me by L.J. Baker

    Save Me by L.J. Baker

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Andi was doing just fine on her own. Sure the world had been hit with an outbreak that turned anyone infected into flesh eating zombies. Not to mention that everyone she ever loved was now dead. She was alive though, taking care of herself. She had little desire to indulge in building relationships with anyone. People just couldn't be trusted...
  • The Twelfth Keeper by Belle Malory

    The Twelfth Keeper by Belle Malory

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When sixteen-year-old Kennedy Mitchell is proclaimed the world’s last keeper, she thinks it’s a cruel joke. Come on- her? Impossible. She’s no warrior. She isn’t wise beyond her years, or more importantly, capable of keeping Earth safe. Except...no one will listen. And since all evidence says otherwise, the job is hers whether she likes it or not...
  • Finding Destiny by Jean Johnson

    Finding Destiny by Jean Johnson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four brand-new novellas, from the national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny series. The slave ...Chanson, a privileged Arbran dyara, discovers an unexpected connection with the excitingly different Eduor, a bracingly sexy war-slave who desires his freedom. The knight ...The Arbran diplomat Sir Zeilas must turn the Guildaran people from former enemies into allies...
    Categorized as:
    pirates  contemporary  fantasy  magic  paranormal
  • The Ballad of Rosamunde by Claire Delacroix

    The Ballad of Rosamunde by Claire Delacroix

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A pirate queen trapped in the realm of Faerie, Rosamunde can only be freed by true love. The man she loved is lost to her forever so she believes herself doomed. Padraig, long in love with Rosamunde, believes his life to be worthless since she disappeared...
  • Glitch by Brenda Pandos

    Glitch by Brenda Pandos

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Perfect world. Lies. Blue eyes. When a mysterious guy from the forbidden zone sneaks an illegal slip of paper to a beautiful young girl from Brighton, she must decide if she should turn him in or follow what the note says. Eighteen-year-old Abigail has no trouble following Brighton’s rules...
  • Eddie's Prize by Maddy Barone

    Eddie's Prize by Maddy Barone

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lisa Anton was a world-famous fashion model before her plane crashed in a post-apocalyptic future where women are precious and rare, and technology is only a memory. Offered as a prize in a Bride Fight for the best fighter to take home, Lisa becomes the wife of a man she barely knows. Gorgeous and passionate in bed, her new husband tells her he loves her...
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