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Ideal for readers looking for deep-sea science fiction with survival horror, dangerous experiments, and an isolated crew.
Deep Black Sea
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration
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Called “science fiction at its best” by Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova, Deep Black Sea follows seven researchers on a yearlong mission three miles beneath the ocean. When NASA scientist Ted Bell infects a crewmember during an experiment, he unleashes a creature aboard their failing vessel, with a 3.6-star average from 400 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for deep-sea science fiction with survival horror, dangerous experiments, and an isolated crew.
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"Science fiction at its best, a realistic tale of exploration and danger, written by a man who knows the details of deep-sea exploration firsthand." —Ben Bova, Hugo Award-wining author
With a crew of seven, the Challenger sea lab submerges three miles below the waves for a one-year mission to study the hidden world of the deep black sea. How is it that sea animals can live and reproduce in water that should boil them on the thermal vents known as "black smokers?" Superheated water that is full of toxins and heavy metals and contains almost no oxygen should be void of life on planet Earth—and yet it is teeming with it. The answer to the puzzle lies in the bacteria.
Researcher Ted Bell is a NASA scientist with his own agenda: getting humans to Mars. When he purposefully infects a member of the crew in an attempt to harness the power of the Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria, he quickly loses control and unleashes a terrifying new creature. His botched experiment quickly becomes a battle for survival—three miles below the surface.
With the research vessel nearing catastrophic failure, and terrifying alien life forms running wild through the ship, the crew must figure out a way to battle something that is no longer human while trying desperately to reach the surface alive.
"Crichton at his best is the main author who comes to mind as a comparable influence when reading Deep Black Sea . . . The informative and fascinating science that fills each page really elevates this book to a higher grade." —Horror Novel Reviews
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Best for readers who like progression-focused LitRPG, unusual power systems, weak-to-strong heroes, and apocalyptic adventure.
1% Lifesteal
Fantasy · LitRPG · Sword and Sorcery
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1% Lifesteal follows Freddy Stern, a twenty-one-year-old cashier whose near-death encounter leaves him with a bizarre Lifesteal ability that makes him stronger with every enemy he defeats. As Freddy learns how to use his new power, he becomes increasingly capable of surviving the dangerous world around him. Best for readers who like progression-focused LitRPG, unusual power systems, weak-to-strong heroes, and apocalyptic adventure.
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An action-packed LitRPG Apocalypse perfect for fans of The Primal Hunter, Road to Mastery, and The Ten Realms.
In a world of countless enemies, Freddy's unique power will help him thrive.
Freddy Stern, a twenty-one-year-old cashier, has lived a plain, albeit harsh life. Having been orphaned—twice—he's spent the last ten years working and staying out of trouble. His only aspiration is to save enough money to become an archhuman.
His dream gets the jump on him when he barely survives a near-death encounter and finds himself in possession of 1% Lifesteal, a bizarre talent with numerous contradictions and just as many uses
With every dead enemy, he becomes a bit stronger, a little wiser, and a lot more ruthless. And no matter how much damage he takes, he can always put himself back together. Physically, at least.
But on his path to power, after having to look at the rotting guts of archhuman society again and again, can his talent keep his mind and soul as pristine as his body?
Or will that part of him simply remain broken...
Experience the start of this action-packed LitRPG Adventure from Robert Blaise set two hundred years after a reality-altering apocalypse. Featuring a weak-to-strong Brawler MC who never backs down, a unique power system, apocalyptic elements and more!
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Four teens enter an elite boarding school where inheritance is decided through power, deception, and desire.
Royal Heirs Academy
Teen + Young Adult
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Four teens enter an elite boarding school where inheritance is decided through power, deception, and desire. As rival heirs clash and secrets surface, ambition turns ruthless and romance raises the stakes. This modern royal drama blends competition and intrigue, earning 4.2 stars on Amazon and strong reader response on Goodreads.
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"Gossip Girl meets Katharine McGee’s American Royals" (SLJ) in this story filled with “romantic tension, royal drama, and family secrets” (Kristy Boyce), where four teens living in a glamorous boarding school must compete to inherit a European kingdom.
For fifty years, King Leander Eldana has ruled Ashland without naming an heir to the crown. After sending away his grandchildren to be raised out of the public eye, it’s finally time to secure his nation’s future by appointing one definitive heir. The best way to appraise his successor? In the halls of Almus Terra Academy, a boarding school infamous for breeding the world’s next generation of leaders—and liars.
Titus Eldana has always known he’d inherit Ashland’s future. Now he must prove he has what it takes.
Alaric Eldana was not raised with a silver spoon. His secondhand clothes might not be fit for a king, but he knows how to rule: with his fist.
Emmeline Eldana only wants to please her neglectful parents. If that means securing the crown, she won’t hesitate to destroy anyone in her way.
Sadie Aurelia has no idea why she’s been given a chance to bring new blood to the throne. With nothing left to lose back home, she’s ready to take it.
Filled with competition, secret alliances, enemies-to-lovers romance, and cunning revenge, Royal Heirs Academy is a breathless, entertaining read set in modern-day. This gossip-filled school for the global elite is inspired by UWC of the Atlantic, which Vanity Fair has described as "Hippie Hogwarts."
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A snowed-in haunted house weekend turns deadly when a guest is murdered behind a locked door.
Murder Most Haunted
Mystery · Cozy Mystery
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A snowed-in haunted house weekend turns deadly when a guest is murdered behind a locked door. Retiring detective Midge McGowan must separate ghost stories from hard truths before the killer strikes again. This clever mystery blends eerie atmosphere, sharp humor, and classic locked-room suspense. Rated 4.0 stars on Amazon with over 1,200 Goodreads ratings.
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An unforgettable heroine is faced with an unbelievable crime in this snarky, charming locked-room mystery that asks: would you rather be snowed-in with a ghost, or a murderer?
A grand country estate.
On her last day as a detective, Midge McGowan is given the retirement present from hell: a ticket to a haunted house tour. She’ll have to spend a weekend ghost-hunting in an isolated mansion with a group of misfits, including a know-it-all paranormal investigator and a has-been pop star.
A puzzle that can't be solved.
The guests soon realize that the house has a mind of its own… and that they might not be the only ones there. An eerie figure appears on the property, and then the unthinkable happens: someone is murdered in a room that’s been locked from the inside.
A ghostly weekend they might not survive.
When a blizzard cuts the group off from help, the house’s own dark secrets begin to surface, and Midge can’t shake the creeping sense that they are walking into a nightmare. Could a ghost really be responsible? Or is the culprit one the guests, who have somehow, impossibly, endeared themselves to Midge?
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Good for readers who like literary comedy, bittersweet romance, and messy midlife reinvention.
Less
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller, Less follows failing novelist Arthur Less as he travels the world to avoid his ex-boyfriend’s wedding, stumbling through literary events, mishaps, romance, and the loves he cannot quite escape, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 40,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like literary comedy, bittersweet romance, and messy midlife reinvention.
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A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book Award
Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, lyrical," "elegiac," "ingenious," as well as "too sappy by half," Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.
"I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."--Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review
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In a future where Earth lies in ruins, a boy from the wasteland becomes the architect of its possible rebirth.
The Forever Hero
Post-Apocalyptic · Dystopian · Sci-Fi
Our take
In a future where Earth lies in ruins, a boy from the wasteland becomes the architect of its possible rebirth. Spanning centuries and star systems, this classic science fiction trilogy explores power, endurance, and the cost of saving a world. A sweeping, thoughtful epic with 4.6 stars on Amazon and over 1,600 Goodreads ratings.
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr's first major work was a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero.
Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who is captured, taken in, and educated, and disappears--to grow up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again. He is, if not immortal, at least very long-lived, and he plans to build an independent power base out in the galaxy and force the galactic empire to devote centuries and immense resources to the restoration of the ecology of Earth.
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When Luke’s wife and stepdaughter vanish overnight, his search uncovers a terrifying truth.
The Wife You Know
Thriller
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When Luke’s wife and stepdaughter vanish overnight, his search uncovers a terrifying truth. The woman he married may never have existed. As fake identities and buried secrets surface, love turns into a deadly pursuit. This fast-paced suspense novel delivers emotional stakes and escalating danger. Rated 4.2 stars on Amazon with nearly 12,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Everything he knows about his wife is called into question when she mysteriously vanishes in a breathtaking novel of suspense by Amazon Charts bestselling author Chad Zunker.
Widower Luke Driskell didn’t expect to fall in love and marry again so quickly. But Ashley and her daughter, Joy, are special—a quality borne out when Ashley rushes into a burning day-care center to save the children. Immediately she’s a social media sensation and hero. Then, just as suddenly, Ashley and Joy disappear into the bitterly cold night.
With no trace of their whereabouts, Luke begins a panicked investigation. Alarmingly, he can find no proof that the woman he loves even exists. Left behind: just a hidden stash of fake IDs. Different names. Different cities. Same haunted face. Now the devastated husband has only questions: Who did he marry? What is she hiding?
Luke’s cross-country pursuit of the truth soon spins into something more dangerous than he imagined. Because Ashley’s secrets run so deep and dark that finding her could threaten all their lives.
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A vanished mining town, a century-old mystery, and a modern expedition trapped by a deadly blizzard.
Abandon
Horror · Mystery · Supernatural Horror
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A vanished mining town, a century-old mystery, and a modern expedition trapped by a deadly blizzard. As journalist Abigail Foster searches for answers, survival becomes the only goal. This atmospheric thriller blends historical intrigue with relentless suspense and brutal stakes. Rated 4.0 stars on Amazon with over 20,000 ratings and nearly 32,000 on Goodreads.
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A century-old mystery—and a desperate battle to survive—unfold in this standalone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion.
On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found.
Now, journalist Abigail Foster and her historian father have set out to explore the long-abandoned town and learn what happened. With them are two backcountry guides—along with a psychic and a paranormal photographer who are there to investigate rumors that the town is haunted.
But Abigail and her companions are about to learn that the town’s ghosts are the least of their worries. Twenty miles from civilization, with a blizzard bearing down, they realize they are not alone.
The ordeal that follows will test this small team past the breaking point as they battle the elements and human foes alike—and discover that the town’s secrets still have the power to kill.
Part journey into old-West history, part nail-biting survival thriller, Abandon is a bloody, darkly surprising tale as only Blake Crouch could deliver.
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A quiet wallflower agrees to tutor the campus’s most reckless hockey star and sparks fly where rules once ruled.
Tutoring the Player
Romance · Sports Romance
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A quiet wallflower agrees to tutor the campus’s most reckless hockey star and sparks fly where rules once ruled. As late-night study sessions turn into something deeper, opposites attract with undeniable heat and heart. This college sports romance blends flirty banter, personal growth, and slow-burning chemistry. Rated 4.2 stars on Amazon with nearly 30,000 Goodreads ratings.
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An opposites attract hockey romance from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Jenshak.
I have a type.
I love the good guy.
Responsible and stable. Safe.
So when a beer-drinking, quick-witted, tattooed hockey player asks me to tutor him, I'm suddenly thrust into the world of bad boys and bad decisions.
Jordan is a renowned player on campus.
He doesn’t take anything seriously, except hockey and partying.
But he gives me butterflies.
I’m a wallflower tutoring Valley University’s hottest player.
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A princess bound by prophecy, a guardian torn by forbidden love, and a marriage forged to stop a spreading plague.
The Heat of Seas
Romantasy
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A princess bound by prophecy, a guardian torn by forbidden love, and a marriage forged to stop a spreading plague. As ancient myths awaken beneath the sea, desire and duty collide with devastating consequences. This epic dark fantasy romance delivers slow-burn tension, morally gray choices, and myth-inspired worldbuilding. Rated 4.4 stars on Amazon with 160+ Goodreads ratings.
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SOME ARE LED BY DESIRE,
After the mysterious death of the kingdom’s queen ushers in a deadly plague, Carnaxa, Princess of Antalis, is promised to a rival kingdom. As ancient prophecies unfold, not only is Carnaxa in danger, but the fate of her kingdom as well.
Meanwhile, Anara, a gift of sorts and nothing more, was taken from her homeland. She didn’t realize giving her heart away would keep her emotionally shackled, mirroring the physical chains she wore.
OTHERS ARE LED BY DUTY.
Captain Thylas has guarded Carnaxa since the day he washed ashore. When he’s asked to accompany her to marry another, he finds himself torn between serving his kingdom and the desires of his heart.
Ereon, the Prince of Shaston, was raised in blood and battle. Faced with an uncompromising demand, he must choose between his birthright and his destiny.
WHEN DESIRE AND DUTY CLASH, LEGENDS ARE MADE.The Heat of Seas is an Epic Dark Fantasy Romance intended for ages 18+. The first in the Ashonera Series, that ends on a cliff hanger.Based loosely on Atlantis myths. Readers can expect morally grey, slow burn, arranged marriage and forbidden romance along with dark themes. Please review the content warnings.
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Exiled for defying an arranged marriage, Lady Fern enters a dragon rider academy with a rare queen dragon at her side.
Dragon Bound
Romantasy
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Exiled for defying an arranged marriage, Lady Fern enters a dragon rider academy with a rare queen dragon at her side. Surrounded by rivals, returning silver dragons, and riders who want to claim her bond, she must decide what freedom truly means. A character driven romantasy with dragons, power, and choice. Rated 4.5 stars on Amazon.
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Who needs a handsome prince when you have a dragon and the courage to choose your own destiny?
When Lady Fern defies her parents plans to marry her off to a cruel noble, she earns herself exile instead. But Fern has no intention of fading quietly into the background. With her queen dragon, Auren, she enrolls at the Royal Rider Academy, the one place where strength, skill, and bond matter more than bloodlines.
Life as a cadet is not as carefree as she imagined. There are few queen dragons left in Nevermere and that means every man and his dragon are focussed on Fern.
Including them
Silver dragons have been extinct for a thousand years, yet now they have appeared on the horizon. Their riders descend with one purpose: to claim Fern and Auren.
Caught between rival cadets, awakening powers, and three mysterious riders who insist she belongs to them, Fern must decide what kind of rider she wants to be… and whether freedom means flying solo, or daring to trust the ones who burn for her.
This is a full length, 150K word romantasy book.
It is a dragon rider romantasy series set in the same world as The Dragon Queen, but you do not have to have read those books for this to make sense.
In this world, dragons are best friends with their bonded, not romantic partners.
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Sold into a royal marriage she never chose, a young woman finds herself drawn to the scarred dragon prince hidden in the shadows.
Bride of the Black Dragon
Romantasy · Alpha Male Romance · Paranormal Romance
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Sold into a royal marriage she never chose, a young woman finds herself drawn to the scarred dragon prince hidden in the shadows. Forced proximity, forbidden desire, and dangerous magic collide in this dark, slow burn dragon shifter romantasy. Rated 4.6 stars on Amazon and praised for its emotional intensity.
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A dark prince. A forced marriage. A dragon bond that could change everything.
I never asked to be sold to the royal family—or to be married off in some bizarre, ancient ritual. My new husband, the Crown Prince, made it clear I wasn’t wanted. Fine. I didn’t want him either.
But his older brother? The one they keep locked in the shadows? He’s the one I can’t stop thinking about.
Xaren is all hard muscle, brutal scars, and growled warnings. He says his Drake is too dangerous—that I’m safer far away from him.
Too bad the Queen has other plans…
She orders me to his bed, demands I give the kingdom an heir—and soon.
Now I’m trapped with a man who thinks he’s too broken to touch me… and too dangerous to want me.
But every time we’re alone, I see the truth in his eyes.
He burns for me…just as much as I burn for him.
Bride of the Black Dragon is a spicy, slow-burn romantasy featuring a tortured, scarred alpha, a curvy heroine with forbidden magic, enemies-to-lovers heat, Dragon Shifters, dungeon shadows, royal politics, and a twist you won’t see coming.
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