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The illegitimate daughter of a tyrant becomes a fugitive after one act of mercy shatters her future.
Dissent
Dystopian · Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Paranormal Romance
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The illegitimate daughter of a tyrant becomes a fugitive after one act of mercy shatters her future. Forced into a rebel movement she was raised to hate, Mara faces forbidden love and impossible choices. Dissent delivers slow-burn dystopian romance with 4.6 stars on Amazon and strong Goodreads praise.
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In a city built on lies, seventeen-year-old Mara de la Puente must choose between loyalty to the regime that raised her—or the rebel boy who might break her heart.
After the Great Drought shattered the United States, Telvia rose from the ashes—an isolated, authoritarian city divided by a ruthless caste system. As the illegitimate daughter of Telvia’s tyrant president, Mara walks a razor-thin line between privilege and shame. Her only chance at freedom? Being matched to the boy she’s secretly loved for years.
But one act of compassion brands her a traitor—and leads to the execution of the boy she betrayed.
Now on the run, Mara is forced into the arms of the very rebels she was raised to fear.
To survive, she must join the Dissenters: a rebel faction fighting for freedom, equality, and the truth about Telvia’s past. But becoming one of them means facing the sins of her father—and choosing between two boys on opposite sides of the revolution: Matias, her loyal bodyguard whose quiet love feels safe, and Wes, the brooding rebel leader who looks exactly like the boy she lost… because he’s his twin.
Caught in the crossfire of rebellion, secrets, and forbidden desire, Mara must decide: Is she the girl her father raised—or the spark that will ignite a revolution?
Perfect for fans of Shatter Me, An Ember in the Ashes, and The Hunger Games, if you love slow-burn romance, brooding heroes, forbidden love, and impossible choices, then you'll love DISSENT.
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A teen survivor of viral magic is pulled into a powerful regime he plans to dismantle from within.
The Fever King
LGBTQIA+ · Dystopian · Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Gay Romance
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A teen survivor of viral magic is pulled into a powerful regime he plans to dismantle from within. As attraction, politics, and magic collide, his fight for justice grows dangerously complicated. The Fever King is a critically praised YA dystopian fantasy with 4.1 stars on Amazon and over 8,500 Goodreads ratings.
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Featured in Seventeen, The Verge, Hypable, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, The Nerd Daily, Booklist, and SyFy Wire.
In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia.
The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks—refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister’s offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meets the minister’s son—cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful—and the way forward becomes less clear.
Caught between his purpose and his heart, Noam must decide who he can trust and how far he’s willing to go in pursuit of the greater good.
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A sheltered boy on the run and a rebel fighter cross paths in a desert ruled by an oppressive regime.
Sands of Ruin
Dystopian · Romance · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult
Our take
A sheltered boy on the run and a rebel fighter cross paths in a desert ruled by an oppressive regime. As they uncover a truth powerful enough to spark rebellion, survival and love become inseparable. Sands of Ruin delivers emotional YA dystopian romance with 4.3 stars on Amazon and 4.5 on Goodreads.
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"Welcome to your next dystopian romance binge read series!" Angel.S ~ Goodreads.
Harm
Everything I have believed about my life is a lie...
For seventeen years my parents have sheltered me from the world beyond their village, and for good reason.
But all I dream of is freedom... That and a girl with brilliant blue eyes and dark hair.
Every six months the Guardians of the regime that enforce the Chancellor's rule, select boys for its ranks.
Nobody wants to be taken.
When the Guardian regime takes more boys for its ranks, I have to rebel. And it costs me everything.
Devastated, my only choice is to run…
Imani
Free spirit … That’s what my uncle calls me. I prefer rebel fighter, travelling the sands helping people affected by the regime. And when a boy finds his way to my halfway house, an abandoned Guardian outpost, I swear I am not getting involved. But then he walks right into the heart of trouble. He won’t last three days out here. He needs me to survive.
My plans to help the rebellion stop the Chancellor who has altered the weather to keep the people in poverty are on hold. And with Harm, I make an epic discovery that could change it all.
But when my intimate ties to the regime deliver the person I love most, and the rebels only hope, straight to the hands of the Guardians ... My world falls apart.
Will Harm and Imani survive the Guardians that hunt him or will the spark he and Imani share end in tragedy...
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Thirty girls compete for a prince in a deadly televised pageant where survival matters more than romance.
The Princess Trials
Dystopian · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Paranormal Romance
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Thirty girls compete for a prince in a deadly televised pageant where survival matters more than romance. Entering to spark revolution, Zea risks her mission when forbidden feelings ignite. The Princess Trials delivers high-stakes dystopian romance with 4.2 stars on Amazon and over 15,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Thirty young women. A handsome prince. A battle to the death
Water is scarce. Deserts have taken over the land. Nuclear war has devastated humanity. Humans live in walled super cities to keep out the irradiated. The land that was formerly known as America is divided into kingdoms ruled by royal elites.
Born into the lowest Echelon of the Kingdom of Phangloria, sixteen-year-old Zea Calico faces a life of hunger, thirst, and toil. The only way out of this drudgery is revolution, and Zea is desperate to help the cause.
When the palace calls for candidates to compete to marry Prince Kevon, Zea joins the Princess Trials to search the palace for weaknesses.
The trials should be a fairytale of sumptuous meals, ballgowns, and romance, but one misplaced word causes Zea to attract the Prince’s attention. When Zea uncovers the man beneath Prince Kevon’s public facade, she is at risk of falling in love and losing sight of her mission.
But the televised beauty pageant turns deadly, and Zea must fight for survival.
Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Selection.
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After surviving a deadly plague, a teen with dangerous powers escapes a government camp and joins other hunted kids searching for safety.
The Darkest Minds
Dystopian · Romance · Teen + Young Adult
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After surviving a deadly plague, a teen with dangerous powers escapes a government camp and joins other hunted kids searching for safety. Trust, love, and sacrifice collide as capture looms closer. The Darkest Minds remains a YA dystopian favorite with 4.5 stars on Amazon and over 200,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Book one in the hit series that's soon to be a major motion picture starring Amandla Stenberg and Mandy Moore--now with a stunning new look and an exclusive bonus short story featuring Liam and his brother, Cole. When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that killed most of America's children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.But when the truth about Ruby's abilities--the truth she's hidden from everyone, even the camp authorities--comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. On the run, she joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp: Zu, a young girl haunted by her past; Chubs, a standoffish brainiac; and Liam, their fearless leader, who is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can't risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.While they journey to find the one safe haven left for kids like them--East River--they must evade their determined pursuers, including an organization that will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. But as they get closer to grasping the things they've dreamed of, Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.
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Boston after World War I is a city on the brink.
The Given Day
Historical Fiction · Detective Fiction · Historical Mystery · Historical Romance · World War 1
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Boston after World War I is a city on the brink. Two families, one Black and one white, are swept into labor unrest, political violence, and shifting power. The Given Day is a sweeping historical epic of survival and ambition, earning 4.4 stars on Amazon and more than 28,000 Goodreads ratings.
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"Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - The New York Times
Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I.
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A transport ship gains self-awareness when a vampire begins murdering her passengers.
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Sci-Fi · LGBTQIA+ · Space Opera
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A transport ship gains self-awareness when a vampire begins murdering her passengers. To survive, she allies with a crew of monsters to stop Dracula himself. Blending sci-fi and gothic horror, Of Monsters and Mainframes explores identity and found family. An LA Times bestseller with 4.5 stars on Amazon and major award recognition.
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LA Times Bestseller ** 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist ** Spotify Best Book of the Year
Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception.
Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans.
To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of monsters: A werewolf. An engineer built from the dead. A pharaoh with otherworldly powers. A vampire with a grudge. A fleet of cheerful spider drones. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil—Dracula.
The queer love child of pulp horror and classic sci-fi, Of Monsters and Mainframes is a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society’s monsters—and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.
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Two boys endure the same childhood trauma and carry its aftermath in radically different ways.
Mysterious Skin
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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Two boys endure the same childhood trauma and carry its aftermath in radically different ways. When their lives reconnect years later, memory and denial collide with devastating consequences. Mysterious Skin is an unflinching exploration of trauma and identity, praised by readers with 4.6 stars on Amazon and over 12,000 Goodreads ratings.
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A disturbing incident sends two young boys down vastly different paths that reunite ten year later in this "impressive" debut novel (Publishers Weekly).
At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time.
During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an alien encounter . . .
Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from that summer of 1981. Wise beyond his years, curious about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived to be love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now, ten years later, he is a teenage hustler, unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is governed by idealized memories of his coach, memories that unexpectedly change when Brian comes to Neil for help and, ultimately, the truth.
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A strong pick for readers who like thriller plots that feel fast, creepy, and just plausible enough to make them side-eye every device in the house.
The Murder Machine
Mystery · Police Procedural
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A woman is found dead in her own high-tech home, and the setup is as unsettling as it sounds. With every appliance online and an AI system tied into the house, the murder weapon is harder to pin down and a lot more terrifying. FBI agents Jude Mackenzie and Victoria Tennant are forced into a race against a killer using smart technology to turn everyday conveniences into deadly traps. A strong pick for readers who like thriller plots that feel fast, creepy, and just plausible enough to make them side-eye every device in the house.
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Artificial intelligence meets genuine murderous intent.
This state-of-the-art smart home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner's lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. How do you catch a murderer that doesn't leave any fingerprints?
Enter Special Agent Victoria Tennant, whose familiarity with cybercrime reveals the stark truth: a machine can only do what it's been directed to. As the number of grisly "accidents" begins to rise, the pair must race to uncover the perpetrator even as they find themselves caught in their digital crosshairs! There's nowhere to hide when danger may be as close as the very phones in their pockets.
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Imprisoned by the Party he served, a revolutionary is forced to confront the moral cost of absolute ideology.
Darkness at Noon
Dystopian
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Imprisoned by the Party he served, a revolutionary is forced to confront the moral cost of absolute ideology. Darkness at Noon is a chilling portrait of political corruption, guilt, and confession under totalitarian rule. This restored classic by Arthur Koestler holds 4.5 stars on Amazon and lasting international recognition.
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The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon—the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule—is now restored and in a completely new translation.
Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brilliant novel, a remarkable discovery, and a new translation of an international classic.
In print continually since 1940, Darkness at Noon has been translated into over thirty languages and is both a stirring novel and a classic anti-fascist text. What makes its popularity and tenacity even more remarkable is that all existing versions of Darkness at Noon are based on a hastily made English translation of the original German by a novice translator at the outbreak of World War II.
In 2015, Matthias Weßel stumbled across an entry in the archives of the Zurich Central Library that is a scholar's dream: “Koestler, Arthur. Rubaschow: Roman. Typoskript, März 1940, 326 pages.” What he had found was Arthur Koestler’s original, complete German manuscript for what would become Darkness at Noon, thought to have been irrevocably lost in the turmoil of the war. With this stunning literary discovery, and a new English translation direct from the primary German manuscript, we can now for the first time read Darkness at Noon as Koestler wrote it.
Set in the 1930s at the height of the purge and show trials of a Stalinist Moscow, Darkness at Noon is a haunting portrait of an aging revolutionary, Nicholas Rubashov, who is imprisoned, tortured, and forced through a series of hearings by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and betrayals of a merciless totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
Koestler’s portrayal of Stalin-era totalitarianism and fascism is as chilling and resonant today as it was in the 1940s and during the Cold War. Rubashov’s plight explores the meaning and value of moral choices, the attractions and dangers of idealism, and the corrosiveness of political corruption. Like The Trial, 1984, and Animal Farm, this is a book you should read as a citizen of the world, wherever you are and wherever you come from.
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Five contestants compete for millions inside a sealed estate, but the game turns deadly when secrets are exposed live to the world.
Everyone Is Watching
Thriller
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Five contestants compete for millions inside a sealed estate, but the game turns deadly when secrets are exposed live to the world. Everyone Is Watching blends reality television tension with a claustrophobic locked-room mystery. This twist-driven thriller holds a 4-star Amazon rating and over 33,000 Goodreads ratings.
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"Big Brother meets Clue in this utterly original and incredibly tense locked-room mystery." —May Cobb, author of A Likeable Woman
A mysterious high-stakes game proves life-threatening in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest
The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive.
Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start to feel a little too isolated.
When long-kept secrets begin to rise to the surface, the contestants realize this is no longer just a reality show—someone is out for blood. And the game can’t end until the world knows who the contestants really are…
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A skeptic inherits a house that refuses to stay quiet.
The Haunting of Blackwood House
Horror · Supernatural Horror
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A skeptic inherits a house that refuses to stay quiet. The Haunting of Blackwood House blends creeping dread, isolation, and mounting terror as one woman faces a haunting she refuses to believe in. From bestselling author Darcy Coates, this gothic ghost story holds 4.3 stars on Amazon and over 16,000 Goodreads ratings.
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As the daughter of spiritualists, Mara's childhood was filled with séances and scam mediums. Now she's ready to start over with her fiancé, Neil, far away from the superstitions she's learned to loathe...but her past isn't willing to let her go so easily.
And neither is Blackwood House.
When Mara and Neil purchased the derelict property, they were warned that ever since the murder of its original owner, things have changed. Strange shadows stalk the halls. Doors creak open by themselves. Voices whisper in the night. And watchful eyes follow her every move. But Mara's convinced she can't possibly be in danger. She doesn't believe in ghost stories, and she didn't buy a haunted house―it's just not possible.
Because ghosts aren't real... are they?
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