Books like 'What Lies Beneath'

All the Stars in the Sky: 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...

WARNING: Book 4 is full of love, pain, and redemption. This book contains Domestic Violence and non-consensual sex between spouses. It also has a HEA. This book is part of a series, therefore best if read in order. Geoffrey “Frey” Hartley- soldier, helicopter pilot, boxer, martial arts expert - is the biggest, baddest Gargoyle shapeshifter in the Stone Society...

In New Vienna, capital of the oppressive global government formed after the Flash, three things are certain: the sun is poisonous, speaking out is dangerous, and being different will get you killed. And Lumina Bohn is extraordinarily different. Living in terror of discovery, Lu knows nothing of her past?but she knows she must pretend to be human to survive...

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...

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...

Joss has escaped the Colonies but her troubles have only just begun. She's wounded, exposed and vulnerable but worst of all, she needs help. And there's only one place she can go to get it. Only one place she can stand to be. With Ryan. Together they'll have to delve into the seedy underworld of post-apocalyptic Seattle. A world of gambling, fighting, secrets and lies...

CRAVE WAS OFFERED HEAVENBUT LOST HIS WAY.TO GET BACK HE MUST VOLUNTARILY WALK THROUGH HELL. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Victoria Danann, continues the paranormal romance series about a genetically altered new species. Besides being heart-stopping beautiful to look at, the hybrids are bigger, faster, stronger and smarter. Crave is the second son of Exiled's first family...

"Author Victoria Danann has a surefire hit!" - Night Owl Reviews TOP PICK "...it’s so good that I could read over and over again. - Bitten by Love"I wish I could give this more than 5 stars, it's that good...

After her djinn lover is imprisoned by a survivalist group intent on eradicating all his kind, Jessica Monroe faces a dire choice...

*****This is a previously published book, revised to be appropriate for all readers***** On a mission to save his people from being destroyed, Vaulcron must team up with a human reporter known as the Great White Shark. She's beautiful, cunning, and definitely hiding something. Vaulcron will do anything for his family, even if it means breeding with the one woman who can destroy them all...

Once upon a time . . . that’s how the old stories always begin. Once upon a time there was a king of a fallen kingdom. He was just and he was beloved. Or so the numbers said. One day, he gathered together the greatest, wisest minds in all the land—not sorcerers, but scientists—and he bade them fashion him a son. A prince. A perfect prince to embody his father’s legacy...

Three things should have never happened: Habaline Shapeshifters walked the face of the earth, legends of Mythoi blended in flawlessly with human society, and Blythe Giarrusso returned home to Florida. A powerful vampyr will stop and nothing to get her back. Unfortunately, he’s standing in a very long line...

It is the end of the world. They call him Eagle, like the grand and beautiful bird that symbolizes freedom. During these dark times, when humanity is experiencing nothing but suffering, a man with such a powerful name should be a beacon of hope, yet he is anything but. Her name is Autumn, but she hasn’t said this name or much of anything else in the four years since the fall of civilization...

2020 RONE Awards WINNER for Time Travel/Science FictionBronze Medal WINNER in the 2019 Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Science FictionHonorable Mention in the 2018 SPR Book AwardsSemi-Finalist in the 2019 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy FictionIn this village, women are not the weaker sex...

Last night, I tried to drink away my feelings for my brother's best friend.Today I’m riding across a dangerous, desert wasteland with him.Like my parents years ago, gods have chosen me for a sacred mission. You’d think the daughter of an infamous motorcycle club would be able to handle it. But when Torrance Knight steps up to make the ride with me, I’m both relieved and dreading the journey...

I’m supposed to care for a kid, not create one! Space needs nurses. That’s what they told me, and that’s why I agreed to go.They say Raider is the last place I want to end up, but I’m up to the challenge. I’ll care for the warlord’s child.One problem.He wants me to make said child. With him.No. Not happening. Never.I’m not selling my body to some brute! But Kain isn’t the brute I imagined...

For seven years, Halina Beloi has been in hiding. But she's never forgotten Mitch Foster, the long, lean man she had to leave behind. Until, that is, Mitch shows up with a list of questions and a 9mm in his hand. All Mitch knows is that Halina broke his heart and disappeared. But new information has surfaced implicating her as a player in the deadliest game of Mitch's life...

It's been over thirty years since the bombs dropped that almost decimated the planet. The fallout changed not only the animals and the landscape, but the people too. Freaks they called them; outcasts of society and hunted for their powers. The Circus has the only people to openly flaunt them, offering a haven for the lost and the damned...

Avalon Redding has returned to Mortlock to find her home destroyed, and her family missing. They have been taken by 'The Realm' for harboring an illegal human, Avalon's sister. Desperate to find her family, Avalon travels across the country to the Headquarters of the Realm, with Healer Jack Greenwood, and animal companion Hawthorne...

Three millennium brought the Supreme Commander to this place at this time to meet the one woman who can save not only his soul but his very existence. Too many days pondering her life. Too many nights dreaming of the nameless, faceless man who makes her feel things she never thought possible. One has a chance for revenge, the other a chance for redemption. Together they must make a choice...

-- Book 2 in the Stitch Trilogy -- It's only been three days, and already everything is different. Paragon is behind her, but somehow Alessa's life may actually have gotten worse. In a wrenching twist of fate, she traded the safety and companionship of her sister for that of her true love, losing a vital partner she'd counted on for the ordeal ahead...

The Final Installment to: The Fire Mage Trilogy. Avalon has made a lot of dangerous enemies. The Realm has issued a bounty on the infamous Fire-Mage's head, labelling her leader of the human-alliance, and traitor to Mage-kind. Soon, strangers begin to recognize Avalon after seeing her wanted poster in the streets, and seek to earn the cash reward for her capture...

TORN With the sudden, mysterious death of her father, Samantha discovers her life isn’t what it seems. Not only isn’t she the normal teenage girl she thought she was, Sam must now take her father’s place in the fight between two groups of fallen angels, the Faithful and the Exiled, in a race to save humanity...

True love refuses to die... Whitney Lake has had a lot of time to contemplate the end of the world. In the blink of an eye, an infection wiped out most of the human population, and her life changed forever. In one of the few safe cities left, Whitney tries to keep her head down, and stay alive. But the world needs saving, and she may be the only one who can do it...

Artifice is about Deacon, a prototype android soldier so advanced he is referred to as an "artificial person." On one of his first missions, Deacon was ordered by his corporate masters to eliminate a team of scientists who knew too much—and he has failed spectacularly. Not only did he let one of the targets live, he attacked the team sent to retrieve him...

My name is Inez Garner, and my story has sort of been told… But not. I’m turning twenty-three and find out I’m not human; I’m apparently a vampire. Sure, who hasn’t read that story? Oh, but I’m a princess. And there’s a zombie apocalypse—although I’m debating where the line is of apocalypse vs. post-apocalypse...

My name is Inez Garner, and I’m a vampire princess. It still sounds crazy to me too, but again, the fangs sold me, especially now that I have my own and drink blood. Things have become more complicated as people give me answers, but I’m no longer alone to handle it all. I have Darius and Jaxon, plus my knights, and maybe one of the oldest vampires alive joining us to help keep me alive...

What happens when your past catches up to you? We found the Salvaged Lands and were welcomed into this secret sanctuary. Inside we find survivors, some comforts, and people who bring us more questions than answers. The list of strange things going on is growing longer...

I thought I was being rescued. I was wrong. I thought this dangerously handsome, rugged, and sexy Alpha was my savior. But when he tosses me over his muscular shoulder and carries me off into the night, I realize just how wrong a girl can be. He has a dark past. He’s hunted by a mysterious organization. And now they are hunting me too...

The world changed overnight. A deadly virus struck, killing billions outright and reducing many more to harmless, hapless zombies. Only a handful of unlucky souls were spared, thanks to a rare genetic immunity. Now, a decade after the virus devastated humanity, cities that once teemed with life are empty, the streets silent and crumbling. Those few who survived are alone in the world...

A thrilling futuristic adventure set deep undersea, Dark Life follows the settlers of the world's first subsea settlement as they defend their homesteads against a brazen band of outlaws...

The world fell apart after a virus killed billions. Those men who didn't die... changed. The media called it Werewolf Syndrome. Life as we knew it pretty much ended. Those of us scrounging for survival in the post-apocalyptic devastation have one chance left -- learn to work together, or face extinction. It wasn’t much of a choice...

Ten years after the great war of 2185 the queen’s reign is threatened by uprisings and fear. In celebration of my sixteenth birthday it is my duty as princess to sacrifice a slave to be initiated into the ruling council, solidifying my mother’s empire. When my own erratic powers surface I’m captured and tried for treason...

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE TRANSHUMAN SPECIES... TO AVERT EXTINCTION AND RETURN TO THE SURFACE ... WILL BE DECIDED UNDERGROUND. In the Great Commonwealth of Beimeni, a subterranean civilization in North America, expansion long ago gave way to peace and prosperity in the face of the history's most devastating plague...

The galaxy’s a dangerous place. Best not to travel it alone. It’s been over a century since the AIs rose up and attacked, driving humans from Earth and leaving them scattered across the galaxy. Humanity survives, but always fearful of the technology that allows them travel among the stars, never knowing when it may turn against them once more. An interstellar fugitive...

The end of the world is only the beginning. Zombies are on the loose and the world is falling apart. In the tradition of apocalyptic novels such as Stephen King’s THE STAND, a group of strangers on a Manhattan subway are brought together in the name of survival...

An unwilling victim of an experiment gone wrong, mother to a child who shouldn’t exist, Eden Lavery knows only one person strong enough to stand between the Coalition’s fanatical quest for immortality and their threat to her daughter—Dusan Knight...

After nuclear strikes cripple the East Coast in the year 2135, security expert Lana is alone with a secret she must protect at all costs, even if it means placing her life – and her heart – in the hands of Brady, the compelling, dangerous leader of the rebellion. As a member of the lower class, Brady serves two masters: the rebellion and the regular army...

Elias and Merrin’s story continues in TWO, coming October, 2013... Elias and Merrin are on the run. After escaping the Biotech Hub, they thought they could breathe easy, or at least a little easier. But when bombs slam into the Social Welfare Hub only hours after their arrival, it becomes clear there's nowhere to hide - and no end to what Biotech will do to get them back...

A chronicle of my time living in a zoo . . . I'm not really sure where to start, and you may have trouble believing me even as I tell you my story. My family did. They laughed the first time I told them, so now I just say it was all a crazy dream. You see, I died in a totally preventable car accident . . . or so I thought...

Imagine waking up in a post-apocalyptic, nightmare world--and being told your whole life is but a dream. Skye Brown thought she was your typical teen--good grades, hot boyfriend, and an afterschool job that pays her to play videogames. But then she started having the dreams. In her dreams, there is no Earth. Only Terra, a bleak, underground wasteland where people live in squalor and oppression...

Since the seventh grade, Alex, a retail slave, has secretly been in love with his best friend, Morgan, a web cartoonist. Unable to overcome social awkwardness, they both find themselves in very separate lifestyles as they reach adulthood. Amidst these distanced and inhibited lives, Alex and Morgan are suddenly faced with the literal end of the world...

The Dark Reality Boxed set is a compilation of work by authors Jennifer and Christopher Martucci. It includes Planet Urth (Book 1), Arianna Rose (Part 1), Arianna Rose (Part 2), Arianna Rose: The Gathering (Part 3), Dark Creations: Gabriel Rising (Part 1), Dark Creations: Gabriel Rising (Part 2), and Dark Creations: Resurrection (Part 3)...

An enthralling combination of The Matrix and Snow Crash with a bit of Blade Runner thrown into the mix, Moongazer immediately draws the reader into one woman's terrifying struggle to understand her identity--is she Skye Brown, a successful game designer living in Manhattan or is she really Mariah Quinn, a woman haunted by the post-apocalyptic dreamland she escapes to every night? But what is...

You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed . . . because it wasn't necessary...

Born: Natural born humans are precious few and dwell in darkness. Bred: Genetically engineered slaves who are the protectors of the Born. Borg: The cybernetically enhanced enclave that split from the Born humans. These three factions are all that remains of the human race after the world stopped turning...

Official Description: Revenge can get sticky.This prequel to Grown Men* is a crazy sci-fi short about sperm piracy and sibling rivalry gone seriously wrong.When corporate mercenary Beirn agrees to a sleazy organ harvest job, he walks straight into his worst nightmare, a trap set by the twin brother he betrayed...

The sequel to Space Junque. Her fate was to hold the world together. His destiny was to tear it apart. As a child, Durga was chosen by the goddess to save humanity from sterility and extinction. Soon she'll be eighteen and have to serve as a chalice - to provide natural-born heirs to kings and more souls for the universe. Khai, the scion of Luxor, has different ideas about the new world order...

A Maine city has turned into a killing ground.Is it a serial killer, someone with a penchant for the macabre and a need to destroy?Or is it a darker force, an ancient legend from a mysterious Island come ashore to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting?Amid the backdrop of Portland's burgeoning night scene, Police Lieutenant Rick Jennings discovers that no one is safe, and that evil has many faces...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simple, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC, this follows the love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. In this novel America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic...