This book selection was updated on December 24th, 2024.
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When an EMP cripples the nation’s power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country. Fighting against the chaos, Bailey Smith must rescue her family from the city and bring them to a remote cabin in the West Virginia mountains. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Unholy conspiracy or scientific sensation?
For centuries, the occult society AETERNA has guarded an incredible secret: The Shrine of the Black Flame, an artifact as old as the Earth and as sinister as the apocalypse in the darkest prophecies. Now, the supernatural power of the shrine seems unleashed — with fatal consequences for all life on earth.
Interpol investigator Isabella Cassini is on the trail of the secret circle and tries to prevent the worst, while quantum physicist Dr. Daniel Slov...
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What begins as a serial killer investigation in a small town turns into a story about a detective who loses his way with a coworker when he has an affair and ends up in a messy divorce. The hunt for the killer is alive and well, but not always front and center. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Be careful! It’s going to be really hot!
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Warning!
Explicit scenes! (quite a lot)
Violent scenes! (a few at most)
Foul language! (not a lot)
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Earth. The year 2622.
A world where magical abilities are in balance with modern technology. A world where clans and aristocrats rule, and almost every one of them has a special Gift. They can control the elements, soar in the sky, transform into beasts, or inspire fear in the enemy. They can get into your head and make you do things y...
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Terror works both ways.
Aging billionaire Rex Atwater is on a mission to reshape history with a chilling act of anti-terrorist terrorism: the nuclear annihilation of Mecca. To carry out his plan, he recruits an unlikely team— embittered ex-Special Forces ace, Carla Smukowski, and a zealous para-military brigade, led covertly by weary FBI agent Boyce Hammond.
The scheme is complex. They must hijack a closely monitored nuclear waste shipment from Indonesia, build it into a bomb, deliver the dev...
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The average length of a human genome is approximately six feet. Which, co-incidentally, is the average depth of a human grave.
When Portia Black wakes up, drugged and in a strange apartment, her first instinct is to run. After all she’s not the kind of girl authorities are sympathetic to. It doesn’t help that she’s a professional vigilante, settling scores for other girls like her who have been failed by the system, and it definitely doesn’t help that Nathan Hunter, her kidnapper, is on...
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“The Ambition is a riveting story of high-finance business deals, Italian family ties, an illicit romance, and murder. You won’t soon forget Connie, Lorenzo, and the other vivid characters who populate this unique tale.” –Marcia Trahan, author of Mercy.
$2.99 on Kindle.
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Prepare and survive. When an EMP cripples the nation’s power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Cleo Krol, 40, is a laid-off reporter who recently moved to Washington DC. When her friend and next-door neighbor, Rae Gagnon, has a psychotic break, Cleo is bewildered – Rae showed no warning signs. When Rae is released from the hospital, she returns to work and seems okay for the first couple of weeks and Cleo is relieved. Then, unexpectedly, she commits suicide. Searching for reasons why, Cleo learns about Rae’s chaotic love life and a Chinese spy program for U.S. government labs. So...
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An LGBTQ+ action romance series that packs a punch…“Razes, Razes, everywhere … snatchers, snatchers all beware …”Hato’s gang must go up against an underground system trading in the lives of youths, or risk losing the kid brother of their group forever.
Kiddo prefers to be a wallflower. But being a ten out of ten on a looks scale makes that impossible… Especially when snatchers are out to find and sell the most aesthetically pleasing, most vulnerable youths they can sna...
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Everything in Detective Morgan Foster’s life is a secret…Living in West End, West Virginia wasn’t part of the plan, but the murders of her husband, Peter, and her partner, AJ Roth, have sent her into hiding.For a while, everything seemed to be fine, but two dead bodies at her waitressing job tell another story…Unable to ignore the threat that’s crashed down on her carefully constructed secret life, Morgan gets caught in a web of motorcycle gangs, murder and a bounty that has six f...
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When the water is all gone, how will you survive? Twenty-three year old Nyx wakes up one day to find her older brother and protector vanished, leaving her utterly alone in the Wastes. She has only her skills as a scavenger and their busted-up Bronco to lean on as she works to stay alive, and find out who took him. $0.99 on Kindle.
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In the first story of this double novella: Do you wish that you could spend time with your favorite celebrity or possibly transform someone into your fantasy come true? The Catalog will accomplish what is impossible as long as the price is right. Just hop on the website and let John know what you desire, and he will get back to you with the price.
In the second story: Klaus Mendax treats his dinner guests to twenty stories about his life. If they guess which tale is true, their financial woes w...
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Kane and Jensen are hauled before an intelligence committee bent on finding out the truth no matter the consequences… $0.99 on Kindle.
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Adventurer and treasure hunter Chase Baker goes on the hunt for the greatest Biblical relic in history. The mortal remains of Jesus of Nazareth. The problem is, does such a relic exist? When rival factions are willing to kill for the sacred remains, Chase becomes a moving international target. The number one bestselling thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Shamus award winning author, Vincent Zandri. $0.99 on Kindle.
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An intense fire destroys the palatial home of a prominent attorney and his wife. After their bodies are removed from the burning house, Sam Nagy is pronounced dead immediately; his wife, Alyssa, succumbs on the way to the hospital. The causes of death are due to bullet wounds—not the fire.
But what happened to their boy?
Thin Lizzy, a dowdy homeless person, who secretly resides nightly at the public library, knows about the boy, but she’s not telling.
$4.99 on Kindle.
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Love or art? Love of money? Veteran New York PI Humph Barstal discovers that the motive for a cunning theft of irreplaceable paintings from the nation’s biggest gallery can be driven by both. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Death strikes England’s foremost novelist, his latest tale only half told. Was he murdered because someone feared a ruinous revelation? Or was it revenge for some past misdeed? Set in the Kent countryside and London slums of 1870, Immortalised to Death embeds an ingenious solution to Charles Dickens’s unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood within the evolving and ultimately tragic consequences of a broader mystery surrounding the author himself.
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You can’t run from them or hide from them. But maybe, just maybe, you can outsmart them. Or can you? $3.99 on Kindle.
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A young Samiare lies dying in the snow, in her hand, a sword of legend, and now the whole world is changed. For Ruegette, hero of Tierinor, the girl marks the earliest stages of a new war against the Shadow, and a new struggle to keep safe what has been hidden for more than an age–The Eye of Ebon.
Pulled into a conflict greater than nations and Gods, both Ruegette, and the girl she rescues, try to survive in a land full of threats against brutal foes that will show them no mercy. Can Sami...
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If you like fast-paced, action-packed thrillers with tough-as-nails heroes, smart and sexy heroines, exotic locations, fast boats and fast cars, the good guys shooting it out with the bad guys, and some political intrigue and romance thrown in for good measure, then join Reb Rogers—a former special operator living on the Gulf Coast running a sportfishing charter boat business—and his gorgeous fashion mode...
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Once a devoted father figure to two boys and partner to a woman who, for some reason, had wanted to love him, Holt’s now haunted by regret and the ghosts of choices that drove them away. When an unforeseen second chance thrusts him back into the life he can’t quite let go of, he uncovers the chilling reality of forgotten people hidden in forgotten places. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Amateur sleuths Erika Shawn and Harrison Wheatley are once again drawn into an investigation involving an art-related homicide, this time sharing an unnerving coincidence with violent cries occurring abroad. $0.99 on Kindle.
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At the age of eight, Arista Kelly was frantically swept up by her parents and whisked off to an isolated town in the California redwoods. Two days later, her parents were gone.
Now at the age of twenty-three, she has settled quite nicely into an eclectic lifestyle, much like her great aunt, and guardian since childhood, Bethie. She enjoys the use of herbs and crystals to help her commune with the energy and nature around her and finds pleasure in the company of her beloved pet, Royal. Usually q...
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There are at least two reasons why Robin Whitaker wants to eliminate his wife, Dulcie. He is not allowed to drink any alcohol, nor to gamble.
Dulcie controls his life to an extent that he finds intolerable. But she is also wealthy, so merely leaving her is not an acceptable option.
In most circumstances Dr Whitaker thinks and acts like the very intelligent and highly-educated man he is. However, he has somehow convinced himself that the action of killing his wife is justified. He is also certai...
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After a neighbor’s horrifying confession pulls 12-year-old Eli into a deadly secret, his path collides with Julie Baker, a librarian haunted by her own dark past. Together in the shadows of small-town Darling, they face an ancient evil that hungers for them both. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Aria, the crown princess of Torrannon, has the world at her feet and a bright future. Then she develops anxiety and depression and finds herself trapped in a losing battle that seems to only have one tragic path of escape. Landa, a phoenix, has an embarrassing accident, and her confidence diminishes. She then loses the one ability she wields as a phoenix—her fire. With an invasion against Torrannon looming, Aria and Landa must save the kingdom from utter ruin. But first, they will have to ris...
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When the past collides with the present, murder becomes as easy as breathing. In the remote woods of Northern California, a shocking discovery at a hunting cabin unearths dark secrets tied to FBI Special Agent Sadie Gray’s own history. Twelve years after her abduction in Grass Valley, she is thrust into a chilling murder investigation known as “The 34 in the Floor.” As Sadie confronts a serial killer unlike any the FBI has seen in decades, she must face her deepest fears and a haunting pa...
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It’s a race against time. Pamela finds herself suddenly abducted by an insane, lonely redneck, Tom, who forces her to be his wife. She’s confined to the third floor of his home most days, and in heart-shattering desperation to be free again, she must get creative and play into his delusions to escape not only the property itself that seems to be in the middle of nowhere, but also this make-believe marriage as well in the ultimate fight for her life. $0.99 on Kindle.
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The secret behind Leonardo da Vinci’s divine gifts lies inside a secret cave in the Tuscan forest. It’s Chase Baker’s job to find it before an unspeakable enemy bent on world domination gets to it first. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Marissa Dow is recovering from the death of her mother and a recent divorce. When she travels to the farm where she grew up, something extraordinary happens. It’s an event so bizarre that she questions her sanity and confides in her best friend, Becka, who is skeptical about Marissa’s wild tale. When proof presents itself, the two women vow to carry Marissa’s secret to their graves.
Even when Marissa remarries, she doesn’t reveal the secret to her new husband. Marissa an...
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“Crescent City Carnage”, takes special agent Alex Boyd and his wife Rachel Smith on another thrilling hunt after only a day into their long-awaited vacation to New Orleans. When the couple goes to join their good friend and colleague, Simone Ardoin, they discover she was brutally murdered. Simone’s well-connected parents, longtime residents of New Orleans, are devastated by the tragedy and implore both Alex and Rachel to work with the New Orleans police to find her killer. $0.99 on Kind...
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Nancy Drew meets How the Grinch Stole Christmas in this delightful cozy mystery set in Charleston, SC.
“If you’re a fan of holiday mysteries or long to visit Charleston when it’s decorated for Christmas, you’ll fall in love with Stacy Wilder’s latest!” – JULIE MULHERN, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Country Club Murders
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In a world controlled by AI, MIT professor Joe Hartman becomes America’s most wanted fugitive after deadly autonomous attacks rock the nation. Racing against time, he must choose: surrender as society crumbles or risk everything to stop technology’s deadliest takeover—a pulse-pounding techno-thriller for Mark Greaney and Daniel Suarez fans. $2.99 on Kindle.
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When New York goes dark, only one man stands between his family and the chaos.
When New York goes dark, only one man stands between his family and the chaos.
When an EMP attack cripples New York City, the lights go out and chaos erupts. Food runs out, riots consume the streets, and the city descends into a brutal struggle for survival. $0.99 on Kindle.
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The Echo of Water is a thriller-mystery novel that blends elements of pulp detective stories with Queer characters and modern European crime thrillers.
Alex, a tough, Queer, private investigator in Vienna, is thrust into a web of mystery and danger when she agrees to find her missing friend, Olivia. Haunted by her abusive past and supported only by her complicated best friend, Matti, Alex follows the trail to a cult-like group in Berlin. Facing violent confrontations and a myriad of dark secret...
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When a rogue biotech lab offers an elderly homeless man named Mickey Cooper a fountain-of-youth drug, he can’t believe his luck. He was right to doubt it… $0.99 on Kindle.
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Beware the Big Bad Wolf. He’s Coming for You When You Least Expect it.
When an art professor mom and her pre-teen daughter rent a quiet house on an idyllic Adirondack lake for a full semester sabbatical, they become the target of two serial killers who believe the women are the reincarnation of a mother and daughter whom they terrorized to death back in the mid-1980s. $0.99 on Kindle.
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The Veridian People have been hidden in the Amazon Rainforest for a thousand years. Logging companies illegally logging in the area have damaged an Anchor stone, and the veil that hid and protected the Veridian people has fallen. Now the world knows they’re here.
Princess Victoria Luciana Of Mesa Verde is a Veridian Princess. Soon to be 4th in line to the Throne, She’s been elected by her Uncle the King as a delegate to introduce the Veridian people to the world. But the world has c...
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Only one week after finishing sixth grade, Billy’s summer was already doomed. He’d been kicked out of his bicycle gang, leaving him no friends to hang out with. In a small North Idaho town, what else could he do? On top of that, his mother was more secretive than ever. Billy feared she had a boyfriend. How else to explain her hushed late-night phone calls? And who was the man watching their house from across the street? Free on Kindle.
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