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A discovery buried beneath ancient ruins challenges everything history claims to know.
The Cosmos Keys
Thriller · Action Thriller · Historical Thriller
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A discovery buried beneath ancient ruins challenges everything history claims to know. The Cosmos Keys follows archaeologist David Birch and historian Eleni Lillakis as an impossible artifact pulls them into a global race to uncover a machine tied to prophecy, power, and erased knowledge. This is a high-concept archaeological thriller driven by ancient technology, modern conspiracies, and the danger of rewriting the future.
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Buried secrets. Ancient technology. A race against time.
Deep beneath the ruins of Turkey’s underground city of Derinkuyu, archaeologist David Birch makes a discovery that defies history—a bronze device covered in Greek inscriptions, its mechanisms impossibly advanced for its time. The artifact shouldn’t exist. And yet, its intricate design suggests a terrifying truth: someone in the distant past understood the future.
Desperate for answers, David seeks out Eleni Lillakis, a brilliant historian of ancient technology. As they decipher the artifact’s origins, they stumble upon an astonishing legend—the Michaní Peproménou, the Destiny Machine. A device so powerful it was hidden from the world, tied to the secrets of the gods, and capable of glimpsing what’s to come.
But they are not the only ones searching. A secretive cabal, willing to kill to keep the machine’s secrets buried, is closing in. From the shadowed ruins of Athens to the tunnels beneath Nottingham, from hidden crypts to modern-day power struggles, David and Eleni must unlock the truth before the machine falls into the wrong hands. Because if the legends are true, the artifact does more than reveal the future. It can change it.
A Must-Read for Fans of Archaeological Mysteries and Ancient Secrets
The Cosmos Keys is an electrifying archaeological thriller that blends real historical mysteries with pulse-pounding suspense. Fans of The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones, and Steve Berry will be swept away by this globe-spanning adventure, where mythology, science, and danger collide in a battle for humanity’s fate.
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In Sanguine Summer, the mysterious woman in Room 10 brings hunger, darkness, and purpose to the Silver Lining Motel.
Sanguine Summer
Horror · LGBTQIA+
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In Sanguine Summer, the mysterious woman in Room 10 brings hunger, darkness, and purpose to the Silver Lining Motel. Three strangers—a desperate escort, an obsessive cashier, and a man living a lie—fall into her orbit as night closes in. With 4.3 stars on Amazon and hundreds of Goodreads ratings, this Southern Gothic tale delivers dread, desire, and creeping terror.
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The guest in Room 10 is starving.
The Silver Lining Motel has long been a refuge for the lost and the damned, but never a guest like her: a woman with mesmerizing eyes, beastly fangs, and an appetite for blood. Her arrival is no coincidence, and her monstrous plans will soon ripple through the lives of three unsuspecting strangers.
A male escort in pursuit of independence no matter the cost.
A dollar store cashier with an unhealthy fixation.
And a married man whose double life promises to be his undoing.
As their fates converge at the lonesome motel, the guest in Room 10 watches. Waits. Hungers. The darkness is her playground. The night is still young. And their nightmare is only just beginning...
Experience true Southern Gothic terror in Sanguine Summer - a spine-chilling tale of hope and loss, obsession and retribution, and bloody vampiric horror!
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In Dirty Like Me, a heartbroken barista becomes the lead in a rock star’s music video and discovers unexpected heat with Jesse Mayes.
Dirty Like Me
Romance · College Romance · Contemporary Romance · New Adult
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In Dirty Like Me, a heartbroken barista becomes the lead in a rock star’s music video and discovers unexpected heat with Jesse Mayes. When he asks her to play his girlfriend on tour, staged desire becomes something far riskier. With 4.5 stars on Amazon and over 26,000 Goodreads ratings, this romance blends fame, longing, and irresistible chemistry.
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Dirty Like Me begins with an irresistible collision of fame and vulnerability. When struggling barista Katie Bloom lands the lead role in rock star Jesse Mayes’s new music video, she expects a paycheck, not the kind of chemistry that threatens her carefully guarded heart.
Katie wants a fresh start after heartbreak. Jesse wants a partner who can sell a fantasy to millions. Their onscreen passion turns electric, and the video’s success brings a tempting new offer. If Katie agrees to play his girlfriend on tour, she must navigate shared hotel rooms, staged desire, and emotions that feel dangerously real.
As the line between acting and longing blurs, Katie faces a choice between protecting herself and embracing a connection she never expected.
Readers praise this full steam fake dating romance with 4.5 stars on Amazon and more than 26,000 Goodreads ratings.
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When the pandemic leaves Jamie Gray stuck in gig work, a chance encounter leads to a job with a mysterious team caring for creatures in an alternate dimension—giant…
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact
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When the pandemic leaves Jamie Gray stuck in gig work, a chance encounter leads to a job with a mysterious team caring for creatures in an alternate dimension—giant kaiju roaming a world free of humans. But others have crossed over with reckless intentions, threatening both realities. John Scalzi delivers a sharp, high-energy standalone adventure filled with peril and wonder.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy.
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization.” Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on.
What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm, human-free world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda and they're in trouble.
It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society who have found their way to the alternate world. Others have, too. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.
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After Eddie’s sudden death, Andrew arrives in Nashville to inherit a life he never wanted—strangers for roommates, dangerous new friends, and a ravenous ghost that won’t leave him…
Summer Sons
Horror · LGBTQIA+
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After Eddie’s sudden death, Andrew arrives in Nashville to inherit a life he never wanted—strangers for roommates, dangerous new friends, and a ravenous ghost that won’t leave him alone. His search for answers pulls him into a world of academic rivalries and backroad racing, where secrets pulse beneath every surface. Lee Mandelo’s debut is a haunting queer Southern Gothic.
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Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost.
Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew a horrible inheritance: a roommate he doesn’t know, friends he never asked for, and a gruesome phantom that hungers for him.
As Andrew searches for the truth of Eddie’s death, he uncovers the lies and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most, discovering a family history soaked in blood and death. Whirling between the backstabbing academic world where Eddie spent his days and the circle of hot boys, fast cars, and hard drugs that ruled Eddie’s nights, the walls Andrew has built against the world begin to crumble.
And there is something awful lurking, waiting for those walls to fall.
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After losing her job and facing yet another rejection, Zelu writes a strange, far-future novel that unexpectedly propels her to literary fame—and threatens to consume both her life…
Death of the Author
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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After losing her job and facing yet another rejection, Zelu writes a strange, far-future novel that unexpectedly propels her to literary fame—and threatens to consume both her life and the story she meant to tell. From Chicago to Lagos and beyond, she confronts identity, autonomy, and the cost of creation. An instant national bestseller praised for its ambition and emotional depth.
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THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Recommended by New York Times Book Review• People • NPR • Rolling Stone• Los Angeles Times• Reader's Digest• and more!
“This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — People • “Mind-bending.” — New York Times Book Review
In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you’ve read before.
The future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister’s lavish Caribbean wedding, she’s unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It’s a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots.
When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey—one that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelu’s novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next.
A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.
“An ambitious, inventive tribute to the power of storytelling itself.” — Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure
“A deeply felt dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels
"There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
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With a 4.5-star rating from more than 5,300 Amazon reviewers, this memoir is for readers who want true stories about coercive control, survival, and the fight for freedom.
Escape
Biographies & Memoirs
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A New York Times bestseller called “A courageous, heart-wrenching account” by Jon Krakauer, Escape recounts Carolyn Jessop’s life inside the FLDS church and her 2003 flight with her eight children. With a 4.5-star rating from more than 5,300 Amazon reviewers, this memoir is for readers who want true stories about coercive control, survival, and the fight for freedom.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• The dramatic true story of one woman’s life inside the ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect featured in Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey—and her courageous flight to freedom with her eight children
With a new epilogue by the author • “Escape provides an astonishing look behind the tightly drawn curtains of the FLDS church, one of the most secretive religious groups in the United States. A courageous, heart-wrenching account.”—Jon Krakauer
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives, who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. In 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.
Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive the followers the right to make choices, brainwash children in church-run schools, and force women to be totally subservient to men. Against this background, Carolyn’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power.
Not only did Carolyn manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest, and later the conviction and sentence, of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.
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A single drop of blood binds two lives together, and only one can survive the curse that follows.
Savage Hope
Romantasy · Paranormal Romance
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A single drop of blood binds two lives together, and only one can survive the curse that follows. In Savage Hope, a young woman released from years of captivity enters Trinity Falls Academy, where vampires, wolves, and witches hide in plain sight and rival quadrants guard deadly secrets. With her twenty-first birthday approaching, this dark fantasy academy romance entwines fate, danger, and forbidden desire.
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In this life, blood doesn’t just sustain you, it defines you.
At ten years old, one drop changed my whole world, and not just because I lost my freedom, my parents, and my memories all in one night. My life is now bound to another. My blood kin, whose cursed fate is dependent upon my own.
After being held captive for over a decade to protect someone I’ve never met, I’m now thrown into a new world.
Trinity Falls Academy is an opportunity to secure my future. Like life’s cruel guillotine, the curse shatters at twenty-one years old, and only one kin can make it to twenty-two.
I have one year to navigate the murky path set before me. One filled with supernaturals I didn’t know existed. Hidden among the humans are vampires, wolves, and witches.
The chalice will determine my quadrant, just like everyone else from Florentines. The only issue is, quadrants don’t mix, unless it’s a full moon party… So why am I caught under their intense gaze in the dining hall, the secret garden, and the fighting cage too?
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In 2098, humanity is gone and Earth lies in radioactive ruin.
Homo Machina
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · Hard Sci-Fi
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In 2098, humanity is gone and Earth lies in radioactive ruin. On Mars, synthetic humanoids search for meaning in the memories they no longer possess—until Sol-5 receives a desperate message from a surviving human. His journey to Earth reveals the truth behind humanity’s extinction and the danger that still lingers. A Global Book Awards gold medalist for dystopian sci-fi.
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GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR DYSTOPIAN SCI-FI in the 2025 GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS
The year is 2098. Humanity is no more.
Earth is a ravaged, radioactive wasteland. On Mars, a small group of synthetic humanoids survive—their memories of the apocalypse wiped, seeking to understand their role in the fall of humanity.
Until Sol-5 receives a message. A message from a possible human survivor, and a plea to go to Earth to find her.
But what he finds there will change everything.
The humans were wiped out for a reason.
Homo Machina is the new post-apocalyptic thriller from the pen of award-winning author PA Vasey [Harbinger, Trinity Trilogy].
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As tensions peak in Sachaka, Lorkin returns from exile charged with forging an alliance between the Guild and the Traitor rebels.
The Traitor Queen
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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As tensions peak in Sachaka, Lorkin returns from exile charged with forging an alliance between the Guild and the Traitor rebels. To survive, he must master forbidden gemstone magic that could reshape the realm—or exile him forever. The final chapter of the Traitor Spy trilogy showcases Trudi Canavan’s acclaimed worldbuilding and storytelling praised throughout the Black Magician universe.
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From the international bestselling author of The Black Magician's Trilogy, an epic fantasy of a new generation's uprising against the ruling class.
Events are building to a climax in Sachaka as Lorkin returns from his exile with the Traitor rebels. The Traitor Queen has given Lorkin the huge task of brokering an alliance between his people and the Traitors. Lorkin has also had to become a feared black magician in order to harness the power of an entirely new kind of gemstone magic. This knowledge could transform the Guild of Magicians — or make Lorkin an outcast forever. The Traitor Spy trilogy, which began with The Ambassador's Mission and The Rogue, is the new series set in the world of the international bestselling Black Magician trilogy.
Praise for the Traitor Spy trilogy:
"[Canavan's] magical world is brilliantly conceived." —RT Book Reviews on The Magician's Apprentice
"Some excellent reading to be had." —Robert N. Stephenson on The Novice
"This captivating tale has already been hailed by critics as a 'must for lovers of good fantasy'." —Marie Claire (Australia) on The Magicians' Guild
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In 1863, Stella secretly embroiders escape maps for enslaved men in New Orleans, risking her life and her forbidden love for a Black Union soldier.
The Thread Collectors
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Romance · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction
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In 1863, Stella secretly embroiders escape maps for enslaved men in New Orleans, risking her life and her forbidden love for a Black Union soldier. In New York, Lily sews quilts for the war effort before embarking south to find her missing husband. Their paths collide in a city shaped by danger, hope, and resistance. Praised for its emotional power and historical depth.
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“An unforgettable story of female strength, hope and friendship. This collaborative work is magnificent—a true revelation!” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman with the Blue Star
“A brilliant story brimming with unexpected friendships and family ties. Historically sound and beautifully stitched, The Thread Collectors will stay with you long after the last page is turned.” —Sadeqa Johnson, international bestselling author of Yellow Wife
1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if he knew of her clandestine activities, Stella has to hide not only her efforts but her love for William, a Black soldier and a brilliant musician.
Meanwhile, in New York City, a Jewish woman stitches a quilt for her husband, who is stationed in Louisiana with the Union Army. Between abolitionist meetings, Lily rolls bandages and crafts quilts with her sewing circle for other soldiers, too, hoping for their safe return home. But when months go by without word from her husband, Lily resolves to make the perilous journey South to search for him.
As these two women risk everything for love and freedom during thebrutal Civil War, their paths converge in New Orleans, where an unexpected encounter leads them to discover that even the most delicate threads have the capacity to save us. Loosely inspired by the authors' family histories, this stunning novel will stay with readers for a long time.
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A routine protection job goes completely off the rails when a bodyguard ends up hiding out with his sweet, chaos-prone target while pretending they’re married campground hosts.
The Pretenders of Copper County
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance · RomCom
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A routine protection job goes completely off the rails when a bodyguard ends up hiding out with his sweet, chaos-prone target while pretending they’re married campground hosts. The Pretenders of Copper County serves up mafia trouble, forced proximity, undercover antics, and a romance that turns very real very fast. Between the danger, the banter, and the growing attachment neither man planned for, this one leans hard into fun, flirty suspense.
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Return to O'Leary in the new Copper County series!
It was supposed to be a straightforward protection job. Remove the target from Vermont, get him to the safehouse, keep him there until his mafia uncle testifies, get back in my employer’s good graces.
Boom, done. Easy.
But it turns out things get complicated real fast when your target is an adorkable, accident-prone cutie with a shockingly low sense of self-preservation, zero clue that he’s related to the Fromadgio crime boss, and 100% too much inclination to chat happily with strangers.
When Chris compromises our safehouse (and accidentally starts a “lowkey, unavoidable” bar fight), our only option is to go undercover… pretending to be campground hosts in Copper County, New York.
Make that married campground hosts. (Long story.)
Now I’m hiding out with a guy who’s obsessed with action-adventure shows and hand-knit sweaters, and whose most fearsome talent is arranging charcuterie boards, all of which is far less helpful in a gunfight than you might think.
And worst of all… the sweet little virgin I rescued is growing on me.
Somehow I find myself listening to his happy chatter when I should be watching the woods, trying to figure out how his mind works when I should be getting us out of this predicament, and appreciating the way he looks in my shirts when I should be focused on getting my career back on track.
But when the Fromadgios’ enemies finally find us, protecting Chris is no longer just a job. I’ll do anything to protect what’s mine… and there’s nothing pretend about it.
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