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  • The Dark We Seek by Kyla Stone

    The Dark We Seek by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Darkness spreads across the globe...After explosive solar flares strike Earth, half the planet goes dark. Store shelves gather dust, pharmacies run out of life-saving medications, and banks and gas stations shut their doors.As tens of millions of people grapple with a new reality without power, a serial killer hunts in the chaos...
  • The Light We Lost by Kyla Stone

    The Light We Lost by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The sun gives life. It is also capable of profound destruction.With little warning, a solar super flare erupts from the sun. A billion tons of superheated plasma hurtles through space toward Earth…When all lights fail, who will save you?Thirteen-year-old Shiloh wakes with a dead body beside her, her brother missing, and no memory of what happened...
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  • Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Something is rotten in the state of California… The dawning civil war has ended in a truce. Scavengers and traders all over the country are settling down for the long, hard winter to come. With their new camp outside the maze of New Angeles at the coast growing every day, Bree, Nate, and the gang have their hands full—yet something is not quite right...
  • The Hope We Keep by Kyla Stone

    The Hope We Keep by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Only in darkness can you see the stars...Don't miss the stunning conclusion to the Lost Light trilogy!When massive solar flares strike the planet, a million tons of superheated plasma rips through the Earth’s atmosphere. As power grids fail across the Northern Hemisphere, the entire world balances on the brink of chaos...
  • Resurgence by Adrienne Lecter

    Resurgence by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Not so lucky anymore… Civilization is on the brink of crumbling—and this time not just due to the zombie apocalypse. The roads have become dangerous, and what havens have been established are no longer safe. Murmurs of unrest—or maybe even a brewing civil war—are getting loud. No longer are zombies the only thing preying on those that think to brave the world outside the settlements...
  • Chaos Rising by Kyla Stone

    Chaos Rising by Kyla Stone

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In a heartbeat, everything grinds to a halt... On Christmas Eve, the lights go out. Vehicles stop working. Communications break down. Reclusive former soldier Liam Coleman doesn't want to be anywhere near bustling downtown Chicago the day before Christmas. But his twin brother and his pregnant sister-in-law need him, so he makes the trip...
  • World Without by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    World Without by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 12 ratings
    In a world without, hunger may be as deadly as zombiesWith their Safe Zone overrun by the undead, taking refuge in the mountains seems like the safest bet for Rose, Tom, and the other survivors. There’s one catch, however—between last spring’s human exodus and a neighboring group’s stockpiles, there’s no food left to scavenge...
  • Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 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...
  • 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...
  • Vindicta by A.L. Masters

    Vindicta by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nashville is falling.Herds are forming.Humanity is facing extinction.They might be the last chance at salvation the city has left.Kate, Storm, and the rest of the Special Forces detachment head to Nashville to bolster the city’s final defense, but when they arrive they find that things haven’t gone according to plan...
  • Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 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...
  • 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 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...
  • The Replication by A.L. Masters

    The Replication by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can they stay sane in an insane world? Do they even want to?JaredThey made it out of the rubble alive. Mostly. The survivors had lost everything in the disaster. All of it destroyed in one horrific blink of an eye. They were going to have to regroup somewhere and heal, gather more supplies. Cheyenne Mountain, and the answers it would hopefully bring, could wait a little longer...
  • The Elimination by A.L. Masters

    The Elimination by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The survivors, with an unexpected last-minute change to their travel plans, move toward Fort Carson, Colorado in search of answers. It is a thousand-mile journey that provides unforeseen opportunities, unexpected losses, and tangled alliances. They must find the strength to endure the worst that the startling new world has to offer and to survive with their humanity—and lives—intact...
  • 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...
  • 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..
  • Hidden Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Hidden Flames by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    There were a few things that got Owen Quade through his multiple combat tours. One was the dream of riding a custom motorcycle on a winding mountain road. The former Marine had finally managed to complete that goal, and along the way he’d gained his own bike shop and the mechanic to go with it. She was a rare beauty, and he wasn’t talking about his bike either...
  • Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Elena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations...
  • 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...
  • Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Scorch Road by Toby Neal, Emily Kimelman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A new romantic action adventure for fans of romance thriller suspense and family romance series! One of six Italian brothers and a sister, JT Luciano is a widowed environmental biologist with a touch of the Sight who is preparing for an apocalyptic event he knows is coming...
  • A Wilderness Within by Emma Castle

    A Wilderness Within by Emma Castle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    The world he knows and loves is gone… Lincoln Atwood survived the contagion that wiped out the nine tenths of humanity. As the last survivor in a secret government bunker and a Delta Force soldier, he knows that the other survivors are scared, angry and dangerous, just like him. After weeks alone with the mummified bodies of his colleagues, he escapes the bunker...
  • The Turning by A.L. Masters

    The Turning by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When humanity is threatened by an explosion at a Russian research laboratory, co-workers and friends in a small southern town must band together for survival. They realize too late that this is no ordinary plague...and that the enemy they have to fight may not be the only thing they need to worry about.Book One of The Salvation Plague series...
  • The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Worlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds space opera trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O’Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have found a new home on Seventh Cradle. But the peace they’ve built is short-lived as mysterious assailants ambush the settlement and Naira is haunted by visions of a monstrous future...
  • The Passengers by John Marrs

    The Passengers by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 19 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Undone by Wendy Higgins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    USA Today and New York Times bestselling author, Wendy Higgins, brings you the gripping, sensual conclusion to her apocalyptic trilogy. Amber Tate never dreamed their heart-wrenching escape from the enemy’s attack would lead them to the most beautiful place she’s ever seen, marred by one ugly fact; it’s under enemy control...
  • 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...
  • Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    Autumn by V.L. Dreyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ten years ago, a deadly virus wiped out the majority of the human race, with the exception of an unlucky few with a natural immunity to the plague. Sandy McDermott is one of them, a solitary survivor who has braved the last decade alone. Now, finally, she’s found something she truly cares about. After years of loneliness, she has a new family...
  • Essential Beginnings by Kennedy Layne

    Essential Beginnings by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Change is coming… Maverick Beckett took his much needed annual vacation up to Washington State to relax with his old friends from his years in the Corps. He also had every intention of extinguishing the fires that arose between him and a certain local woman he couldn’t get out of his mind until the unthinkable happened...
  • Jorg by Ava Ross

    Jorg by Ava Ross

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Can a scarred alien warrior & a human woman find love together on a planet far from Earth?When animal shelter assistant Lily is selected as a mail-order bride in the Extraterrestrial Matchmaking Program, she dreams of starting a new life with her computer-matched alien groom. But on the way to Crakair, she’s kidnapped and caged on one of the planet’s moons. Her future appears hopeless...
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Description: George Orwell, published the "1984" in the near future as a novel in 1949. , "1Q84" is a 2009 novel depicting the recent past in 1984 and from the opposite direction. What was drawn there was "no way might have been" It's a world. "Maybe it was not so" now that we are alive, and the world is, in just the same way...
  • Gingerbread Man by Lee Strauss

    Gingerbread Man by Lee Strauss

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    FRINGE meets CASTLE in this New Adult Sci-fi Mystery Suspense by Amazon best-selling author Lee Strauss. College girl meets boy online. A killer targets girls like her. She's next on the list. The boy wants to save her. She thinks it's him. It's worse than they both think...
  • 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...
  • His by Law by Sue Lyndon

    His by Law by Sue Lyndon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When Lucia is caught trespassing in Jackson McNabe’s home, she fears he’ll turn her over to the constable. With the holidays approaching and the nights growing colder, she had only wished to warm herself by his fire and pretend for a few minutes that she was the lady of the grand house, rather than a homeless girl stranded in a peculiar village...
  • Machinations by Hayley Stone

    Machinations by Hayley Stone

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Waking up as a clone with a broken memory? Not great when you're leading the resistance.Rhona has battled the malevolent A.I. intent on wiping out humanity since the first Machinations began—until she’s killed during a rescue mission gone wrong. Now, Rhona awakens to find herself transported to a new body, complete with her DNA and her personality. She's a clone... of herself...
  • Compromised by H.R. Savage

    Compromised by H.R. Savage

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    We left our home in a blaze of fire…Gunner and I clung to the hope that we were leading our group to safety. However, in the unfamiliar mountains we find something we weren't expecting--a hidden group of people…and someone I thought was dead.Creekside Camp offers the promise of new beginnings for our injured and hungry people, and Gunner and I are thrust into a new normal...
  • 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...
  • Sidone by Milana Jacks

    Sidone by Milana Jacks

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 11 ratings
    He’s half my age. He cooks. He fusses over my bad sleeping habits, and knows how to handle a gun. Our little reprieve during a mission can only mean one thing: my guard is down. And the enemy I hunt is watching me, waiting for the perfect time to strike. The time is now...
  • The Alliance by Jolina Petersheim

    The Alliance by Jolina Petersheim

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Leora Ebersole sees the small plane crash in her Old Order Mennonite community, she has no idea it’s a foreshadowing of things to come. Once the young pilot, Moses Hughes, regains consciousness, they realize his instruments were destroyed by the same power outage that killed the electricity at the community store, where Englischers are stranded with dead cell phones and cars that won’t start...
  • Fertile by Piper Stone

    Fertile by Piper Stone

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Dark Sci-Fi Reverse Harem RomanceI am fertile, and because I am fertile I am hunted.The men who hunt me were always brutes, but now lust makes them barely more than beasts.When they catch me, I know what comes next.I will fight, but my need to be bred is just as strong as theirs is to breed...
  • Strictly Business by Lisa Eugene

    Strictly Business by Lisa Eugene

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Conservative Emergency Room Physician, Nina Henley has always followed the rules. Her life has been dictated by her unwavering commitment to medicine. Wade Connolly, renowned medical malpractice attorney and 'New York’s sexiest bachelor' enters her life and challenges her with his bold sexuality and intense passion...
  • 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...
  • Pandemonium by Susanna Strom

    Pandemonium by Susanna Strom

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Romance at the end of the world never looked this good. A biker and a college girl make for an unlikely, but sizzling page turner. If the apocalypse comes, I want my very own Ripper by my side! A must read." - Raven Dark, author of the Devil's Outlaws series...
  • Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    When engineer Leo Graf arrives at a free fall station circling a mining planet to teach welding, he’s in for his first shock: the genetically engineered inhabitants have an extra set of arms in place of legs. A second shock comes when the company that owns these four-armed “quaddies” decides to abandon them, and Leo must use all his ingenuity to respond to this new crisis...
  • Apocalypse Cowboy by Eve Langlais

    Apocalypse Cowboy by Eve Langlais

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It figured the last man on earth would be the one who broke her heart. Brody never forgot his first love, the one his pride made him lose. When the world dies almost overnight, he find himself drawn back to his hometown and the love he left behind...
  • After The Virus by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    After The Virus by Meghan Ciana Doidge

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After the virus decimates 99.9% of the world's population, and all traces of humanity along with it, Rhiannon and Will are forced to move beyond their past fame, fortune, and personal demons to rescue a mute girl from the clutches of two warring cults.--------------------------"Waking up was never a good idea, and this morning she had momentarily thought she was..
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