This book selection was updated on January 27th, 2026.
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The explosion wasn’t meant to kill just two people—it was meant to send a message, and DEA agent Dillon Rains was the one forced to read it.
When a pipe bomb explodes in a Miami park, killing a mother and her young child, DEA explosives expert Dillon Rains is thrust into a case that threatens to unravel him. Newly transferred from Detroit and haunted by past failures, Dillon leads a task force racing to stop a series of escalating attacks.
As the investigation unfolds, Dillon uncovers a chi...
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Everyone thinks Mary is just a mom. They’re wrong. When an EMP kills the grid and chaos erupts, she’ll cross a burning city to reach her daughter… even if it means unleashing the woman she spent fifteen years hiding. Some skills you never forget. $0.99 on Kindle.
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When this club selects a book, magic happens. They are whooshed inside the book and become the main characters as the mystery comes to life. It is exhilarating fun – until they realize they can’t get out until they solve the crime and reach The End.
In every book journey they are excited to meet a different kind of paranormal being – ghosts, shifters, fairies, genies … and more! And in these books, calories don’t count, and cats talk! Free on Kindle.
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Lily Aldrich is kidnapped as leverage in a revenge scheme against her powerful father, Warren—only to discover he won’t pay, negotiate, or even report her missing. Roman Vance, driven by years of loss and fury, took Lily to force Warren’s hand, but Warren’s indifference turns the plan to ash. Trapped together, Lily and Roman find an unexpected connection: she feels truly seen for the first time, and he starts to question the monster he’s become. What began as vengeance shifts into som...
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Welcome to the idyllic yet eccentric retirement community of The Ocean’s Edge—where retirement has never felt so deadly. Disco is dead, there’s a serial killer on the loose, the coffin dodgers are solving cold cases, and only the neighborhood cat knows where all the proverbial bodies are buried. When sharp-tongued sugar heiress Diana is ousted from the empire she helped build, she retreats to a posh 55+ paradise expecting peace, maybe even a pool boy. Instead, she finds a ragtag group of ...
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A mother experiences violent sleepwalking episodes after moving into a high-rise apartment, but has no memory of her actions once she wakes up. Her boyfriend is caught in the middle as he tries to unravel the truth behind this sudden, strange behavior and whether she poses a real threat. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Paris 1974
A notorious California cult, shattered in a spectacular drug-fueled bloodbath, has resurfaced in the heart of Paris—and they’re planning a new massacre that could bring the City of Light to its knees.
Undercover CIA operative Jean Jones is the only one who knows the truth, but when she’s framed for the brutal murders of three cult members, her mission—and her life—are put on the line. Jean’s only hope rests in Brad James, the CIA’s secret weapon, a pop singer with a prov...
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Snow isn’t the only thing falling in Denver, Colorado, on Christmas Eve.
When a brilliant young district attorney plunges to her death from a high-rise balcony, the police call it suicide. Her sister, reporter Samantha Church, calls it something else—murder.
Determined to uncover the truth, Samantha follows a trail of evidence linking the DA to a dangerous and deadly drug smuggling ring. What begins as a personal investigation quickly spirals into the biggest story of her career—and the m...
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Modern dating can be such a killer… True-crime enthusiast, Dr. Kylie Saunders, is two years into an arduous medical training program in New York City, which leaves her with little time for romance. Until she meets Dr. Blake Weathers. A fellow resident with an intense passion for neurosurgery, devilishly good looks, and irresistible charm, Blake is completely intoxicating. Yet Kylie can’t shake the unsettling feeling that the enigmatic surgeon is hiding something. After sending Kylie mix...
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Dead exes don’t text… but they can haunt.
Everly Dupree’s fresh start takes a sharp turn when her high school ex-boyfriend turns up dead—and his ghost refuses to leave her alone.
He won’t rest until she solves his murder. She won’t rest until she’s rid of him.
But in a small town like Mooselick River, secrets don’t stay quiet for long—and this one might kill her. $0.99 on Kindle.
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“Klingler presents his craftiest yarn to date, summoning the pulpy spirits of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. The setting of Chicago rattles from the page in lines such as, ‘The buildings held noise and exhaust fumes around me like a torture chamber.'” –Kirkus Reviews (Featured Review)
As Tommy looks squarely at his next decade his smartphone convinces him the time is ripe for a change. So he hits the road.
He immediately meets a damsel in hitchhiking distress nam...
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When a brilliant young pilot uncovers a deadly conspiracy, she becomes the next target in a game she never agreed to play.
In a busy outdoor market, an ordinary woman is assassinated in broad daylight. Twelve years later, the killer is back with a new target—and a mysteriously sinister employer…
Sophie Allard has spent her life earning her wings at one of the military’s most elite academies. But when her estranged father dies in a mysterious explosion at their family estate, Sophie’s wo...
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After her husband is murdered, Celeste has only one goal: revenge. With her twin sister by her side, she follows a trail that leads straight into obsession, violence, and fractured truth. Nothing is as it seems—and some reflections should never be trusted. $4.99 on Kindle.
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Molly’s first day back at school.
Madison’s first time letting go.
Then the lights went out… and America died.
Now highways are graveyards. Cities burn. And a mother must cross hell itself to reach her daughter before it’s too late. In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic struggle, hope is the fuel that keeps her alive. $0.99 on Kindle.
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An EMP strike shatters the nation. Keith flees biker gangs, his daughter is trapped in mall rubble, and his wife fights through burning streets. Their only hope is Eddie’s off-grid mountain homestead. Survival, family, and chaos collide in this explosive thriller. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A missing child, a murky past, and a race against time – buckle up for a thrilling ride in this novel by the bestselling author of Twelve Years Gone and The Moscow Brief.
The story takes place in the small town of Highmill, New York, where the tight-knit community is thrown into chaos after the disappearance of five-year-old Bella, daughter of K9 officer Logan Fletcher.
Dr. Skye Johnston, a psychologist trying to escape her own past, is called to the scene to help with the investigation. ...
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When a shocking discovery unearths an old secret, can Stella expose a killer? Abandoned by her mother ten years earlier, Stella Ingman returns to her childhood home to help her father clean up after a flood. But she’s horrified when repairs to the backyard swimming pool reveal her missing parents’ hidden corpse. Plunged into the depths of guilt and refusing to see her father as the number one suspect, Stella focuses on solving the gruesome crime. But hunting a murderer in the tight-knit sma...
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After a mysterious blackout shatters society, Samantha and her dog Dean journey through looted cities and treacherous wilds. Haunted by her parents’ deaths and unable to save a wounded survivor, she finds an unlikely ally in Gabriel. As danger closes in, a hidden bunker may be their last chance at hope. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Riley Masterson has spent eighteen months under suspicion of murder in Alabama before moving to her cousin’s home in South Carolina. But her new neighborhood is undergoing gentrification, with glitzy new homes rising beside crumbling mill houses and homeless people living in the shadows of mansions.
When a ghastly crime occurs, detectives are left to ponder: Are the deaths personal or the result of rich and poor living in such close proximity? And will Riley take the blame, as someone has...
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The Book of Power is an epic 40, 839-word supernatural thriller that leaves the reader questioning whether achieving one’s desires is worth the price. It’s the Monkey Paw meets Stephen King’s Needful Things.
Financial investment manager, Hope Bankston, has achieved her dreams of working for one of the most successful investment firms in the country. However, there’s one caveat that keeps her from sustaining her success: her lack of abilities to do the job. Her only beacon of light comes...
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Cassie cries for justice after the death of her brother and the majority of her clan at the hands of the human king. Coping with her grief, Cassie takes on the responsibilities of leading the remainder of the tree trolls. King Roark seeks the tree troll’s fortress for his own, but Cassie vows he will never have it. Accused of treason and murder, Cassie fights for survival. $7.99 on Kindle.
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No power. No rules.
The sirens die. The trains fall silent. Cell phones go dark.
In the stunned quiet of a powerless Manhattan, a group of prepper families know exactly what this means: go now, or don’t go at all. Years of planning have led to one shot at escape. But in this new world, there are no easy choices, and every delay raises the risk of failure. As the city collapses, alliances are tested and loyalties fracture. When survival is the only currency left, they must decide whether to pr...
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A Navy SEAL Bodyguard May Be The Only Man Who Can Save Her.
Doctor Lori Waters grieves over the death of her father. She lost her mother not long before. While struggling with the loss, she must face a broken engagement. Alone and emotionally shattered, Lori inherits a prominent pain clinic that appears to be the target of a criminal ring.
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUND HER FATHER’S DEATH.
Lori investigates to determine if he was murdered. Surrounded by danger, and with few allies, she cha...
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When reporter Branigan Powers is assigned to write about her town’s only unsolved murder, she finds an interesting angle: the area’s homeless population. Police always suspected that their failure to apprehend the wealthy widow’s killer was because the murderer was a transient who quickly fled the area.
She approaches Malachi Ezekiel Martin, a street-dwelling war veteran who is accustomed to being unseen and unheard. When it comes to solving a murder, the pair discover, such invisibility ...
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Featuring a brilliant hacker, a stolen fortune, angry thugs, crooked cops, a mysterious beauty, and a dead man communicating from beyond the grave, this riveting, darkly humorous thriller has won multiple best of the year awards. $0.99 on Kindle.
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“A dazzling festive mystery with a spellbinding atmosphere – impossible to put down.”
Snowed-in at an Alpine castle, a long cozy Christmas locked-room mystery unfolds. A sharp female sleuth follows foodie clues and art through candlelit halls. Perfect for fans of cozy Christmas mysteries. $2.99 on Kindle.
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A teen goes missing. Her sister comes back to a town that blames her. The deeper she digs, the darker the truth becomes. She must find her sister before it’s too late. $3.99 on Kindle.
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Twenty miles, a blizzard, and the chaos of an EMP stand between Nick Franklin and reuniting with his family. Nick has spent his life preparing for this very moment. Now that the time has arrived to enact his emergency plan, Nick must decide how much of his humanity he will sacrifice to save his family. $0.99 on Kindle.
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September 11th, 2001. What if you could see disaster before it struck – but no one believed you?
Forecast is a pulse-pounding speculative thriller that catapults you into the mind of Roland Bishop, a weatherman living in Jersey City in 2001, whose life becomes shattered by a freak lightning strike. Suddenly cursed—or gifted—with visions of impending violence, Roland Bishop is thrust into a race against time as he glimpses a catastrophic plot unfolding in the shadows of New York City a...
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“This book sucked me in from the very first chapter and kept me reading because I needed to know what happened next.” — Jasmine, Goodreads Reviewer
“Wow. This book had me hooked from the very first page.”— Ann, Goodreads Reviewer
My mother told me my father was dead. She lied. Everything changed the day Emily found a hidden photograph in her mother’s diary—her young mother standing beside a tattooed yakuza enforcer beneath Tokyo’s neon lights. One name scrawled...
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When intelligence analyst Ethan Briar is drawn into a covert mission on the windswept Isle of Skye, he enters a world where nothing is as it seems. An abandoned supercomputer, a defector’s warning, and the specter of a long-buried betrayal set the stage for a high-stakes investigation with global implications.
At Castlemartin Manor—a decaying stronghold for a once-cutting-edge surveillance program—Ethan is forced to navigate shifting loyalties, encrypted legacies, and the labyrinthine...
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The moment the grid dies, she realizes the EMP wasn’t the threat… it was the evil waiting for it.
Her family is trapped in a city losing its soul, and Caroline must fight through lawless streets to save them, then defend their ranch from the chaos spreading outward. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A sinister and twisted murder mystery. Set in steamy Charleston, South Carolina, the mysterious disappearance of a twin daughter to wealthy socialites has the town ablaze with rumor and conspiracy.
What began as a missing person’s case now has Detective Beau Crenshaw heading in a different direction when a body turns up at a swamp. The pattern of death is eerily similar to Mary’s, an unsolved murder from years earlier.
The collision of similarities too great to be a coincidence makes him su...
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In The Second Law, Lynn Dayton Thriller #3, TriCoast Energy executive Lynn Dayton is visiting the company’s San Francisco refinery when it comes under attack. Saddened by the fiery deaths of several workers, she traces the explosion to software malfunctions and contacts cybersecurity chief Kanak Singh to track it back to the source. What terrible plan lies behind all these crimes? Lynn races against time to uncover a complex plot that stretches from murder in Vienna to a natural gas terminal ...
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When an attack breaches a decommissioned Soviet nuclear facility, ICSS agent Robert Dart is sent to investigate. But what begins as a search for stolen uranium quickly spirals into a deadly game of deception, where nothing—and no one—can be trusted. ...
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The Book of Power is an epic 40, 839-word supernatural thriller that leaves the reader questioning whether achieving one’s desires is worth the price. It’s the Monkey Paw meets Stephen King’s Needful Things.
Financial investment manager, Hope Bankston, has achieved her dreams of working for one of the most successful investment firms in the country. However, there’s one caveat that keeps her from sustaining her success: her lack of abilities to do the job. Her only beacon of light comes...
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Knitting. It can be murder. When librarian-turned-sleuth Tilly March agrees to help organize Mapleoak’s charity Knit-a-Thon, she expects tangled skeins, not a tangled web of lies. But when a beloved knitting influencer collapses mid-row, Tilly finds herself unravelling more than yarn. With her fellow book club sleuths and Hobnob the mischievous cat, Tilly dives headfirst into the case. Each stitch brings her closer to a killer hiding in plain sight. Was it the ambitious yarn shop owner desper...
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Everyone at Thornton State Prison has a secret.
In the stark confines of Thornton State Prison, hope for rehabilitation thrives under the watchful eye of Warden Black. With uncanny discernment, he meticulously curates a system of rehabilitation that decides who can be salvaged from the wreckage of their choices and who will remain inside his prison. Warden Black is both revered and feared, earning the attention of the Department of Defense, which sends their elite for his training. But beneath ...
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When Chance is hired to investigate a valuable painting which is suspected of being a forgery, he discovers that the painting and his clients may not be what they seem. Meanwhile in Costa Rica, former Navy SEALs Damian and JR are arrested for the murder of a surfer that washed up on the beach near their surf shack. As they fight to survive inside a violent prison, Chance uncovers a black market of human exploitation, greed and blood money, all protected by a corrupt police force. Bringing back ...
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Lance Bear Wolf, a Crow Indian by birth and an US Army Special Forces leader, stops with his parents for a casual lunch during a family vacation in Mexico. They are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wolf and his father witness the death of an innocent server by the Sinaloa Cartel. He stops the killer but Sinaloa cartel leader Eliana Cortes orders her men to kill the Americans. Wolf’s father is killed, and his mother critically wounded. The cartel princess gets away, but not until he silen...
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