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  • Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. It’s been six months since Reagan Willow fled the Colony and Matthias Allen’s tyrannical clutches. Six months since she broke Hendrix Parker’s heart. Six months since she watched Kane Allen sacrifice his life to save hers...
  • Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Reagan and Page are still trapped with Kane in the cabin in the woods and they have no idea if help is coming or if anyone will be able to find them. Besides the utter boredom and eerie solitude, they have to deal with Kane’s crazy mom and the danger Kane poses to Reagan, in more than just the physical sense...
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  • Revolution by Shelly Crane

    Revolution by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the fourth and final installment, everything is on the line. Merrick's life is in the balance and Lily is their only hope. Ellie and her new powers are miraculous, but also problematic; if she's with the bunker family, they won't be able to sense when the Lighters are there...
  • Revenge of the Walker by Coralee June

    Revenge of the Walker by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I'll build an army to take back what is mine. Revenge may harden the heart, but I'll gladly suffer the consequences. I've lost my family, my best friend, and the men I love. The little Walker girl from Galla is dead. Now, all that's left of her is a girl willing to risk it all.They call me Queen of the Walkers...
  • Love and Decay, Vol. Three by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay, Vol. Three by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. After a cataclysmic battle with Kane several months ago, Reagan is trying to move on. She might wake up screaming in terror from his starring role in her ever present nightmares and Miller is definitely still trapped at the Colony, but Reagan’s life is free of Kane Allen. Or so she thought...
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    horror  humor  science fiction  futuristic
  • The Eve by Keary Taylor

    The Eve by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A plan was laid out as the Evolution crushed mankind, a plan that was right under Eden’s nose all along. And Eve is the key to everything. New Eden—mankind—they have a small chance at fixing their dismembered planet. But it will be a reckless sprint against time and the coming Bane to retrieve the final piece to the plot. New Eden’s worst fears have become reality...
  • Love and Decay, Volume Eight: Season Three  (Episodes 9-12) (Love and Decay  (Complete Series) #33-36) by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay, Volume Eight: Season Three (Episodes 9-12) (Love and Decay (Complete Series) #33-36) by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Mexico is a war zone. Reagan and friends have fought tooth and nail to survive the danger that lurks around every corner. But in this final volume of Season Three, the worst of their enemies has caught up to them. Matthias has captured Reagan and cannot wait to pour out his revenge on her...
    Categorized as:
    horror  science fiction  futuristic
  • Halo by Frankie Rose

    Halo by Frankie Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alternative cover and new title for asin B00CKBJR2E She has no name. She has her knives. Her training. Her halo. The first and second give her the ability to defeat the opponents she is pitted against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be...
  • Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the universe of the Until the End of the World series Sylvie Rossi has the loner thing down pat, with the exception of her best friend, Grace. But when the two are trapped in a hospital during the last gasp of a dying city, alone time is no longer an option...
  • Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Book two of The City Series is here! Months into the apocalypse, the zombies show no signs of dying, but it’s clear everyone in Sunset Park will die without enough food to outlast the undead. Add in the less-than-sociable new neighbors only blocks away, and the hunt for sustenance has come to feel more like a race than a ramble...
  • Reclamation by Erica Stevens

    Reclamation by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The highly anticipated conclusion to the bestselling Ravening Series. The first book in this series, Ravenous, is free. Hunted by alien enemies and desperate to survive the invasion, Bethany and Cade are forced into situations they never imagined were possible...
  • The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Truth is Contagious, the epic conclusion to the award winning Contagium Series! A mysterious virus has infected most of the world’s population. This sickness transforms the living into violent “crazies” and eventually into the flesh-eating undead. Orissa and Hayden have survived in this new harrowing world...
  • The Wife Legacy: Huxley by Charlie Hart, Chantel Seabrook

    The Wife Legacy: Huxley by Charlie Hart, Chantel Seabrook

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The world, at large, is in crisis but so is the marriage between Tia and her husbands. She thought she could trust them all but when one man betrays her, the cracks in the relationship are revealed.In a desperate, emotional finale to the Six Men of Alaska saga, Tia is faced with her worst enemy one last time.A gun is placed in someone’s hands and the trigger is pulled...
  • Unrest by Wendy Higgins

    Unrest by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins brings you the second book in this thrilling apocalyptic world... Being on the run in the desert means food and sanctuary are hard to come by, but Amber Tate and her crew are not about to give up. Not after having the things they love brutally ripped from them by an unknown enemy who sent their world into the apocalypse...
  • Hunter's Price by Lynnea Lee

    Hunter's Price by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    XIK’NMy mission is simple. One: retrieve the shuttle. Two: don’t get caught.The tiny human female who answers my transmission is just a bonus. Every ounce of my being tells me to take her, touch her, and taste her. I earn her trust instead, and we talk for hours through our shuttles.When hostile humans turn on May and her friends, she steals the shuttle for herself...
  • Taken Over by Erica Stevens

    Taken Over by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Devastated by the loss of Cade, struggling to survive in a world she no longer knows, Bethany is determined to exact revenge upon the aliens that have shredded her life, and the lives of her family and friends. Presented with an opportunity to uncover the secret that Dr. Bishop feels her blood holds, and why she is different than the rest of the survivors, Bethany strikes out on a mission...
  • Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Buried Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Mason Sykes had served many years in the Marine Corps for his country. His loyalty and sacrifice had left him disfigured—inside and out. He didn’t harbor regrets, especially since he’d finally found the peace and quiet he’d always desired on a Nebraska farm. Brenna Helm was a country girl through and through, right down to her cowgirl boots...
  • The Wife Code: Banks by Charlie Hart, Chantel Seabrook

    The Wife Code: Banks by Charlie Hart, Chantel Seabrook

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lawson wants what is lawfully his, but Banks is prepared to fight for his bride.Banks and Tia haven't consummated their marriage. He's done waiting. But he isn't like her other husbands. And while they both have a love for learning, Tia is about to get an entirely new sort of education.Banks is ready to teach his wife a few things about his dark desires...
  • The Wife Pact: Emerson by Charlie Hart, Chantel Seabrook

    The Wife Pact: Emerson by Charlie Hart, Chantel Seabrook

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When an ultrasound reveals the truth about Tia’s pregnancy, the compound is riddled with fear. They know that it means one thing -- death. Unless Banks can find a cure. Stress weaves its way into Tia’s heart and a break from the harsh reality is just what the doctor ordered. But a trip to Emerson’s family home reveals yet another hidden secret and Tia is confronted with a shocking reality...
  • Fight of the Walker by Coralee June

    Fight of the Walker by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m desperate to rescue the men I love, so when the smooth-talking Ethros leader, Commodore Cavil, comes along, its almost too easy to agree to his deal. Not that we had much of a choice.  I find myself on the beautiful island of Ethros where once a Walker, always a Walker, and all the freedoms of Dormas are ripped from my fingers. It’s hard not to see the irony in it all...
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    dystopian  science fiction  futuristic  poly
  • The Significant by Kyra Anderson

    The Significant by Kyra Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The beloved leader of a planet... A non-citizen fugitive... And a secret love that could kill them both. Kailynn Evada was born on the most powerful planet in the Altereye System, but was raised in the non-citizen district of Trid. She always dreamed of revolution and changing the injustices of the planet Tiao. But when her brother’s plot to destroy the A.I...
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    dystopian  science fiction  f-f  futuristic  queer
  • Odium III by Claire C. Riley

    Odium III by Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this life, nothing is simple...not even DEATH In the third instalment of the Odium series, having distanced herself from Mikey, Nina is on a mission. She's seeking a woman who could be the answer to all their problems...or just another nightmare made reality. Travelling alongside Nova, the two women are faced with countless threats and inexplicable circumstances..
  • Holmes by Anna Hackett

    Holmes by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The battle of survival against the invading aliens heats up…but Hell Squad never quits. General Adam Holmes’ life is dedicated to keeping his small band of survivors alive. On the run, with only Hell Squad and the other soldiers for protection, they are making their last dangerous drive to the secret stronghold of the Enclave...
  • The Light We Seek by Katie May

    The Light We Seek by Katie May

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now that I survived the initial storm, I find myself back where I once was: under the control of my dickish parents (if dickish even is a word). Day by day, the world gets worse. Storms brew on the east coast, volcanos erupt on the west, and zombie-like creatures continue to attack the cities. Where does that leave me? Hopefully not dead...at least, not yet...
  • Odium II by Claire C. Riley

    Odium II by Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fortune favors…the DEAD! Some secrets are too horrific to ever be forgiven, and some people should never be trusted. Tortured, starved, and on the run, Nina thinks she’s faced the worst that mankind has to offer, but she’s wrong. She may have survived this long, but she hasn’t come out of it unscathed, and there’s worse to come...
  • Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee

    Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Published for the first time in a single volume, this duet of novels is set in a hedonistic Utopia where no pleasure is off-limits. Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system and strikes at the very heart of a soulless society...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  science fiction  futuristic
  • Arena by Karen Hancock

    Arena by Karen Hancock

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Repackaged Award Winner From Karen HancockCallie Hayes is living a life of fear and disillusionment when she volunteers for a psychology experiment that promises to turn her life around. As her orientation proceeds, Callie becomes frightened by the secrecy and evasion she encounters...
  • The Wife Protectors: Giles by Charlie Hart, Chantel Seabrook

    The Wife Protectors: Giles by Charlie Hart, Chantel Seabrook

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six husbands. One Wife.  A secret that will tear them apart.  Tia thinks running from her husbands will keep them safe - but she never expected to have a gun in her hand, or to pull the trigger. A single bullet changes everything.  The life she escaped is catching up to her, but she's not the only one at risk. Giles sacrificed everything by coming to her rescue..
  • The Wife Gamble: Salinger by Charlie Hart, Chantel Seabrook

    The Wife Gamble: Salinger by Charlie Hart, Chantel Seabrook

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She trusts him with her secrets ... but can she trust him with her heart?In a world where everyone struggles for survival, Tia is no exception. Enemies are on to her, and she won't be able to keep her husbands safe forever.For two of her men, it might already be too late.When Tia's secret is revealed, she has no choice but to trust Salinger with her life.But he has secrets too...
  • Niko: Scifi Alien Invasion Romance by Anna Hackett

    Niko: Scifi Alien Invasion Romance by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on… Mackenna Carides is tough, strong, and excellent at her job as second-in-command of Squad Nine. She often works side by side with Hell Squad on some of the toughest missions to fight back against the alien raptors. Now she’s helping the survivors of Blue Mountain Base settle into their new home at the Enclave...
  • Roth by Anna Hackett

    Roth by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on… Roth Masters is a protector to the bone. Driven by the losses of his past, he fights side-by-side with Hell Squad to protect the human survivors of the alien invasion. As leader of Squad Nine, he and his team are known for their perfect timing in a firefight...
  • Lord of All Things by Andreas Eschbach, Samuel Willcocks

    Lord of All Things by Andreas Eschbach, Samuel Willcocks

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Winner of the 2012 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best German science fiction novel, Lord of All Things is also a story about love against all odds. They are just children when they meet for the first time: Charlotte, daughter of the French ambassador, and Hiroshi, a laundress’s son. One day, Hiroshi declares that he has an idea that will change the world...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  science fiction  futuristic
  • The Passengers by John Marrs

    The Passengers by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Eight self-drive cars set on a collision course. Who lives, who dies? You decide. When someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course...
  • Burning Bridges by Nadège Richards

    Burning Bridges by Nadège Richards

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "It's do or die..." The year is 2065. In a world that has been divided amongst the Hunter race and the Warrior, prisoners who have fallen prey to King Cyrus' decrees are forced into the arena to fight until death. Winner is granted mercy and privilege to see another sunrise. Death unto the weak...
  • Exodus by Courtney McPhail

    Exodus by Courtney McPhail

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All Malcolm Evans wants is to find his sister and her kids and get them some place safe. As an ex-CIA agent, he finds himself in the role of leader of a ragtag group of survivors heading to a promised sanctuary in the Great Lakes. Veronica Alpert spent her childhood preparing for the end of the world, thanks to her paranoid survivalist father...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  science fiction  futuristic
  • Denounced by Tara Elizabeth

    Denounced by Tara Elizabeth

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 2 of the EXALTED series. Mena, an Exalted trainee, is the on the other side of a difficult choice: to leave the United Republic of the Saved with Ryker or return with Ethan and be United. Her decision changes everything . . . things she never considered. She has to overcome shocking realizations and tough challenges in the new life she has chosen...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  science fiction  futuristic
  • ARV-3 by Cameo Renae

    ARV-3 by Cameo Renae

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The beginning of the end. The Apocalypse. A nuclear fallout wiped out every living thing on the planet, except for a few thousand of us who took shelter in underground bunkers across the globe. Now, after thirteen long years, we were finally able to return to the topside to begin to rebuild. We thought we were alone. We were never more wrong...
  • Evergreen by Brenda Pandos

    Evergreen by Brenda Pandos

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A kingdom on the brink of war. A king on the fringes of insanity. A family running for their lives. Ash and Fin's only desire is to be together and dive into their happily ever after, though their conflicting worlds work to pull them apart. Neither is ready to convert to the other's life: become a human or a mer...
  • Exalted by Tara Elizabeth

    Exalted by Tara Elizabeth

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After the fall of mankind, the Exalted became the protectors of the people. As an Exalted trainee, all Mena ever wanted was to be strong, to serve and to fearlessly protect the people of the United Republic of the Saved. All Exalted feel the same. In fact, that’s all they feel. Only when Ryker, an outsider, crashes into Mena’s life, does she learn that people are meant to feel much more...
    Categorized as:
    dystopian  science fiction  futuristic
  • Ash by Anna Hackett

    Ash by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    In the middle of an alien invasion, will the bad boy berserker catch the geeky tech genius? Computer genius Marin Mitchell is doing her part to help humanity survive the raptor invasion, working tirelessly to decrypt alien data. She spends her days working and drooling over a certain tattooed, biker berserker from Squad Three. But Marin knows the rules: geeks do not snag sexy bad boys...
  • Stitch by Eli Easton, Jamie Fessenden

    Stitch by Eli Easton, Jamie Fessenden

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Stitch is an anthology of 4 novellas by m/m romance authors, each with a Frankenstein/Creature theme. It is the first in a series of gothic m/m romance anthologies called gothika. The stories in this volume are: Made For Aaron by Sue Brown As a teenager, Aaron Fox was sent to an asylum by his parents because he was gay, leaving him emotionally fragile after the treatment...
    Categorized as:
    horror  science fiction  futuristic  m-m  queer
  • State of Pursuit by Summer Lane

    State of Pursuit by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    ABSOLUTELY HEART-STOPPING!" - Leti Del Mar, author of Land of the Unaltered "[Summer Lane] IS QUITE A TALENTED WRITER WITH AN AMAZING GIFT FOR NARRATION." - Janice White, Editor & Author of Clarity: A Text on Writing Cassidy Hart is alone. Her Commander and the love of her life, Chris Young, has gone missing in action...
  • In the End by Tracey Ward

    In the End by Tracey Ward

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jordan and Alissa made it out of Portland, away from ground zero where The Fever still rages on. But they couldn't beat the quarantine. Now barriers are being built and the remaining survivors of the outbreak are trapped. And the undead just keep coming. The wave of infected is building as city after city is devoured...
  • After the Fear by Rosanne Rivers

    After the Fear by Rosanne Rivers

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You have not attended a Demonstration this month. In Sola’s city, everyone obeys the rules. Stay away from the trigger cameras and regularly update your Debtbook, and you just might survive. But having to watch the way criminals are dealt with—murdered by Demonstrators in the Stadium—is a law Sola tries to avoid...
  • The Raid by Keary Taylor

    The Raid by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cities have become the most dangerous places on Earth, infested with thousands of Bane, and people must now survive in the mountains and wilderness. But ammunition and medicine are essential to survival and they don’t grow on trees. Eve, as an elite defender of Eden, must go on a raid with a small team into the city for supplies that will keep their people alive...
  • The Survivors Book II: Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    The Survivors Book II: Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The virus came from deep in Africa. By the time they had a name for the disease, it had wiped out half the continent. Within a year, it had decimated our world. Now, ten years later, our species is on the verge of extinction. Only a few of us have survived, those lucky enough to be born with a natural immunity to the plague...
  • Dissidence by Jamie Canosa

    Dissidence by Jamie Canosa

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In dystopian America, sixteen-year-old Kaleigh finds out quickly what having a big mouth and not enough brains to keep it shut can earn you. A one-way ticket to the work camps that no one even knows exists. Nuclear war has ravished the nation, and a century later, the survivors are living in an entirely new world...
  • I Hope You Find Me by Trish Marie Dawson

    I Hope You Find Me by Trish Marie Dawson

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life for Riley ends when her young children die in her arms…victims of a global viral outbreak that claims the lives of everyone she’s ever known. Left to fend for herself with only a dog as her companion, she sets out on a journey to find others, leaving notes everywhere she goes…hoping that one day someone will come looking for her...
  • Sudden Independents by Ted Hill

    Sudden Independents by Ted Hill

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jimmy never thought he’d be spending the apocalypse farming in Nebraska and worrying about Hunter. But when the plague killed their parents, along with everyone over the age of seventeen, Jimmy suddenly became head of the household. Then the oldest kid in town turned eighteen and the plague chased him down. Now Jimmy has one more thing to worry about--and he’s running out of time...
  • Sadie Walker is Stranded by Madeleine Roux

    Sadie Walker is Stranded by Madeleine Roux

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    MONTHS AGO THE WORLD ENDED... ...when an unknown virus spread throughout North America and then the world, killing millions of people. However, that is where the horror only started. The dead began to rise and when they rose they had an insatiable appetite for the living. A new hell had been unleashed on earth and the fight for survival had just begun...
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