This book selection was updated on May 10th, 2026.
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A forgotten legend. A missing scientist. A discovery that could change humanity forever.
When gunmen shatter a quiet weekday morning and abduct archeologist Francisco Andrade from his university, authorities turn to his former protégé, Dr. Nick Randall, who’s thrust into a race that spans continents and centuries.
What begins as a desperate rescue mission quickly spirals into something far more dangerous.
From the treacherous jungles of South America to hidden caves in the Caribbean and the...
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Finalist for the 2026 ITW Thriller Award! When a beautiful TV reporter hires PI Dick Moonlight to protect her from Russian gangsters, he’s pulled into a deadly web of corruption, lies, and murder. With killers closing in and no one to trust, survival becomes his only shot at revenge. Fast, gritty, and packed with twists. $0.99 on Kindle.
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When a brutal killing shatters the peace of Boonsboro, the only clue left behind is a single, chilling symbol: the letter Y. Deputy Travis Steele, a battle-tested lawman with a sharp mind and a mission, is tasked with unraveling the mystery before the killer strikes again. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Fame was his cover. Now it’s a death sentence. When CIA agent Brad James undercover as a popstar discovers a plot to overthrow the power structure in the United States, he is abandoned by his superiors and targeted for assassination. Can he stay alive long enough to foil the conspiracy, clear his name, and bring the real traitors to justice? $0.99 on Kindle.
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Book 1, Charley’s Ghost seriesUSA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
When Amanda’s lying, cheating, scam-artist husband, Charley, saves her life in a near-fatal motorcycle accident, she can almost forgive him for dragging his feet on their divorce.
Then she discovers he’d been dead for several hours at the time she thought he rescued her. And not just dead… murdered.
On the good side, at least they are no longer married. But she’s the primary suspect in Charley’s murder�...
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The Westcombe Hall Mysteries is a cozy magical boarding school series set at Westcombe Hall — a traditional girls’ school where polished routines and house rivalries conceal an older, stranger magic. Every bell, portrait, locked corridor, and school tradition hides something the governors would rather not know about.
Each book is told entirely through the eyes of Miss Beatrice Harrow, headmistress: composed, dry-witted, quietly protective, and carrying a secret about the school that str...
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Dr. Amelia Clarke, a renowned philosopher, is thrown into a whirlwind of personal and professional upheaval as she grapples with the age-old question of identity: If something is gradually replaced, part by part, is it still the same? Tasked with restoring a famous historical ship in a groundbreaking preservation project, Amelia confronts both the physical rebuilding of the ship and her own sense of self. Her world begins to unravel as she notices small but eerie changes not only in the ship bu...
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She wanted safety. She found a controlled community instead.
Your new neighbors are watching. For your own good.
I thought moving to Serenity Heights would fix everything. After my divorce, the manicured lawns, smiling neighbors, and promise of safety felt like a fresh start—exactly what I needed to rebuild a broken life.
But insomnia has a way of revealing what daylight hides.
While the rest of the neighborhood sleeps, I’m awake—watching residents move through the streets in eerie synchr...
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When an EMP wipes out power, Renee must protect her daughter and their wildlife preserve from strangers, unrest, and the growing fear that the collapse has begun. Survival means guarding family, land, and trust before the quiet countryside becomes their prison. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Abigail Shelby was trained, not raised—shaped by a mother who treated beauty like currency and obedience like a blood oath. At sixteen, Abigail learns the rules of survival in Shelbyville: smile when it hurts, lure what you need, and never let anyone see you bleed. The past doesn’t just haunt her; it brands her, and every lesson comes with a price. Now thirty-seven, Abigail has traded fear for finesse and is sharpening her claws for husband number three—Roger Blackwood, a rising political...
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When a cursed heiress, a rejected suitor, a hostile relative, a ladder-climbing doctor, a mystery cat, and two naughty aunties mingle in a small Wisconsin town, mayhem and murder spring forth. Join Frankie Champagne as she unravels the granite quarry curse, armed with bakery, wine, and old-fashioned intuition, with a little help from her crew at Bubble and Bake. Free on Kindle.
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When Teagan Ward claims seven babies, conceived artificially after she donated her eggs to a medical experiment aboard a rotating space habitat, are her children, she triggers a fight that consumes her life in a race against time to free her from the clutches of an unscrupulous doctor and a power-mad general.
Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny chronicles a gripping tale of sacrifice and redemption in which desire and ambition collide. As a ruthless mining consortium tightens its grip on the lucra...
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A fundraiser. A sudden blackout. And a murder no one saw coming.
Willie Wilder came to Grandview for a quieter life, not to investigate a body found backstage at the Community Center. But when a simple review of old bookkeeping ends in murder, Willie and her coffee-fueled Queenager friends are pulled back into the kind of trouble they never seem to avoid… despite repeated warnings by Sheriff CJ Corbin to stay out of it.
With her sharp-minded circle and her telepathic poodle Axel (who is very ...
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Elise Scott did not inherit a grieving family. She inherited a machine. Behind the polished walls of Scott wealth lies something colder than scandal and far more dangerous than money: a private architecture of leverage, buried truths, coerced silence, and bloodline rot passed down through generations. What begins as inheritance quickly becomes initiation when Elise uncovers the hidden system her father spent a lifetime curating, one designed not simply to protect the powerful, but to control th...
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When Phoebe Larkin inherits a boarding house for magical familiars, a grumpy raven, and a handwritten note that says “You see things,” she figures the hardest part will be learning the business. Then her first familiar client’s owner disappears, and the cat won’t stop growling at the friendliest person in the room. Two of the missing woman’s friends are hiding something. The cat knows which one. Phoebe just has to learn to listen. $0.99 on Kindle.
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When a pet carrier appears on Phoebe Larkin’s porch at four in the morning with a young red fox curled trembling inside, she assumes she’s facing another puzzle from Harrowby Harbor’s quiet community of practitioners.
But the fox’s vigilance at the window isn’t grief for a missing owner — it’s fear of the man who’s been driving the back roads of the North Shore asking questions about a woman with a fox. As Phoebe traces the trail with help from animal...
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After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication. As chaos spreads, their only chance of survival lies in a mysterious desert observatory tied to her family’s past. $0.99 on Kindle.
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One month into the collapse, Rob and his dog, Captain, have lost almost everything, but not their hope. Together, they are fighting their way toward a hidden prepper homestead, a place where life can start again. In the world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic struggle, hope is the fuel that keeps them alive. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Ellen Marx used to talk to the dead—now they’re ghosting her. With her psychic gifts on the fritz, she’s been demoted to hawking discount crystals at third-rate paranormal conventions. But when she inadvertently solves a supernatural challenge at New Jersey’s Hooky Spooky Convention, she catches the eye of the event’s reclusive sponsor: a washed-up horror author with a haunted mansion in need of a serious cleansing.
Reluctantly, Ellen joins his ragtag crew of psychic misfits (a near-d...
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A child lost. A secret buried. A trial that will change everything.
When a pregnant woman is brutally attacked and left in a coma, a shaken town demands justice—and fast. Police arrest the last person seen with her: a nonverbal special-needs man caught at the scene. To the public, it’s an open-and-shut case. The media explodes. And the calls for the death penalty grow louder by the hour.
Prosecutor Lori Franks is determined to win—no matter the cost.
Years ago, Lori made a decision she’...
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Sleuth out the reincarnators. Retrieve their jeweled eyes. Stop this world’s destruction. That’s Ailn’s reluctant mission—except he’s not really Ailn. He’s an impostor: a detective from another world who can’t even remember his own name.”You took my memories, and expect me to do you a favor?””Taking them away was my favor, Mr. Detective. Some endings are just too bitter. “Summoned by a young god with a terrible habit of hiding crucial details, the detective...
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The EMP hit at 6:47 AM on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, the first fight broke out at the gas station. By Thursday, the grocery store was picked clean. By Friday, Jenna realized no one was coming to save them. $0.99 on Kindle.
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LIGHTNING is a multi-character, action-packed sci-fi thriller with an amoral villain, a raft of bad-guy accomplices, and footprints that spell danger for the Phoenix metro area. A genetic experiment at a military research lab has gone horribly wrong. Can the three protagonists–and one very smart dog–put the pieces together before danger picks them off one by one? $0.99 on Kindle.
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When a genetic experiment at a secret Arizona military lab goes sideways, the research subjects escape. Adam Barnett, an Army major, and woman rancher have gotten wind of the danger. Each holds a piece of the puzzle. Can they put their heads together before it’s too late? Only a remarkably smart dog has the full picture, and he’s not talking. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A serial killer confesses to an artificial intelligence across sixteen sessions. Chester LaRue is a modern-day serial killer. One night, he gets a call on his mobile from a dead woman telling him to kill his girlfriend. In an attempt to understand why he got this call, he feels compelled to confess his crimes. He does this by having 16 sessions with an AI called Simulacrum, version 4.6. Over each session, he either confesses to a crime or shares part of his history so the AI can understand more...
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When poisoned food kills a restaurant customer, PI Iris Raines is hired to find the saboteur. Instead, the trail leads to cartel money, corporate warfare, and a conspiracy someone will kill to protect. Iris has made a career exposing lies—but this time, the truth might just get her dead. $0.99 on Kindle.
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A contract killer who never leaves a trace.
A corrupt cop who wants to use him as a weapon.
Callan McWard is a hitman with a conscience. He only accepts contracts to eliminate the worst of the worst and sticks to that code with unwavering conviction. He has a reputation for keeping a crime scene as clean as his conscience. The only comforts he allows himself are a cat named Beckett and the quiet certainty that he’s nothing like the men he eliminates.
Tricia Langley, police officer and dau...
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When a drug cartel gives Dallas defense lawyer Cash McCahill an ultimatum, he must make the choice to betray his client or face death.
After a cartel places a bounty on the head of Dallas criminal lawyer Cash McCahill, he hides in plain sight by hiring a surgeon to give him a new face and stealing the identity of a dead Buffalo cop twenty years his senior.
Only two people know his secret: the surgeon who gave him a new face and Tina Campos, a trans woman who introduced Cash to the surgeon and a...
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What if the person haunting you… had your face?
Faye Mathis has spent her life writing bestselling novels about identical twins who solve crimes together. But after she’s diagnosed with early-onset dementia, her world begins to blur around the edges.
Then a shocking photograph goes viral.
It shows Faye wandering half-naked through the streets in the early hours. Her daughter insists it’s her. Faye is certain it isn’t. But how do you prove your innocence when you can’t trust your own m...
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Her mother prepared for the end of the world.
Everyone else prepared for tomorrow.
Then the power grid failed.
When an EMP plunges the nation into darkness, Megan is stranded eighty miles from her children. The only thing standing between them and a collapsing world is their grandmother, a former spy who spent decades preparing for exactly this moment.
In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic ruin, a grandmother’s love is the hope that keeps her alive. $0.99 on Kindle.
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From Award-Winning author Gary Ponzo comes another thriller ripped right out of today’s headlines! An anti-government party called the Civil Resistance Movement is growing in popularity as tension mounts between police and civilians. The head of the CRM, Leo Frazier, has his own racist agenda which is unknown to his followers.
FBI Agent Nick Bracco and team must track down Frazier and his group of zealots before the MLK Day rally becomes ground zero for a terrorist attack. As usual, Nick turn...
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When a beloved schoolteacher is found posed in the snow with her mouth filled with ice, the isolated Wyoming town of Frostwood insists it’s a tragic anomaly. Investigator Rowan Pierce knows better. The staging is deliberate. The fear in the victim’s final notes is real. And the deeper he digs, the more the town pushes back.
Emily Hart wasn’t the first.
A decade earlier, a teenage girl died under the same chilling circumstances—her case quietly buried, her death dismissed. Now a brutal w...
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Join Fairbanks native Qigiq and Kandy Dreeson of the SFPD as they’re thrust into the most complex crime of the decade. Mash Up is a riveting ride through cyber-crime, fast cars, sexy women, guns and explosions. “Klingler’s new thriller is a ride into the dark side of computers and comedy…definitely has a Quentin Tarantino-feel to it.”–San Francisco Book Review – 5 stars
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They were locked up for a reason. The EMP didn’t care. Now George Cannon, the man who put half of them there, is the only thing between his family and the most dangerous prison break in American history. $4.99 on Kindle.
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When crime author Emma Jenkins agrees to swap genres with bestselling romance writer Tom Pearce, it’s supposed to be a publicity stunt—nothing more than a battle of egos played out on air.
Emma will write romance.
Tom will write crime.
Simple!
And then a body turns up.
As fiction and reality begin to blur, both writers are forced to confront an unsettling truth:
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When the Slimbies outbreak began, the warnings sounded like just another emergency broadcast.
A few bad reactions.
A precaution.
Nothing to fear.
But in one small Delaware home, just before Christmas, everything falls apart. Evan brings home a frightened puppy to brighten the holiday, unaware that the world has already begun to die. By morning, Noah, Mara, and the puppy are on the run, leaving behind the only family they’ve ever known. What follows is two harsh years of cold floors, shuttered...
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They sent the kids to the woods to fix them. Then the EMP hit, and the woods became something else entirely. Harmony has eight troubled teenagers, three days of food, and zero contact with the outside world. The rules don’t apply anymore. The teens know it. She knows it. And whatever is stalking the edges of their camp knows it too. Survival out here won’t come down to supplies. It’ll come down to who breaks first. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Caige’s shocking thriller spotlights hypocrisy and the devastating effects of overturning Roe. “Raw, ruthless, unsettling.” (BookLife). When his wife dies in a back-alley abortion, a vengeful husband turns a politician’s “family values” brand into a livestreamed reckoning. “Impassioned.” (Kirkus) “Riveting. Reflects the violence in American politics. Recommended.” (Midwest Book Review) Free on Kindle.
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After fleeing her abusive partner, Steph makes a desperate choice to protect her newborn twins, leaving them on a stranger’s doorstep in rural Australia. But her violent ex isn’t finished with her. As his criminal associates close in, a quiet farmer is thrust into the mix, and a relentless detective begins searching for the missing mother.
With every move tightening the net around her, Steph must decide whether stepping forward will save her or destroy her and those around her.
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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. 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 world shatters. The official story doesn’t add up—and the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Her investigation exposes a hidden network known only as The Th...
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