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When a deadly curse seeps from the forest into her kingdom, Cerys must flee with only a fox and the magic in her veins.
Among the Beasts & Briars
Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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When a deadly curse seeps from the forest into her kingdom, Cerys must flee with only a fox and the magic in her veins. To save her home, she must brave the wilds and the truth that waits among the roots. Ashley Poston’s Among the Beasts & Briars is a dark, romantic, and spellbinding fantasy adventure.
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Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale–inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard.
Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden.
Cerys knows this all too well: When she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse—the magic—in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything.
As a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. Cerys is forced on the run, her only companions a small and irritating fox from the royal garden and the magic in her veins. It's up to her to find the legendary Lady of the Wilds and beg for a way to save her home.
But the road is darker and more dangerous than she knows, and as secrets from the past are uncovered amid the teeth and roots of the forest, it's going to take everything she has just to survive.
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In 1930s Africa, an American engineer, a British hustler, and a daring journalist are drawn into the chaos of war.
Cry Wolf
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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In 1930s Africa, an American engineer, a British hustler, and a daring journalist are drawn into the chaos of war. What begins as a risky smuggling job becomes a fight for survival. Wilbur Smith’s Cry Wolf is a sweeping tale of danger, love, and loyalty set against the backdrop of Ethiopia’s desperate struggle for freedom.
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In the heart of 1930s Africa, two men and a woman are swept into a war they never meant to fight.
American engineer Jake Barton and British opportunist Gareth Swales arrive in East Africa chasing profit, not glory. Their latest scheme—to smuggle battered Bentleys across the desert into Ethiopia—quickly turns into something far more dangerous when the Italian army invades.
Joined by fearless journalist Vicky Camberwell, they must navigate enemy lines, impossible terrain, and the pull of divided loyalties as they risk everything for a cause they barely understand.
Wilbur Smith’s Cry Wolf is a gripping historical adventure of courage, passion, and survival set against the brutality and beauty of a continent on the edge of war.
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Haunted by a mission gone wrong, DIA operative Matt Drake is pulled back into the field to rescue a scientist with a deadly secret.
Without Sanction
Mystery · Thriller · Political Thriller · Suspense
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Haunted by a mission gone wrong, DIA operative Matt Drake is pulled back into the field to rescue a scientist with a deadly secret. To stop a weapon of mass destruction, he must return to the place that nearly killed him. 4.4 stars on Amazon and 4.2 on Goodreads for Don Bentley’s Without Sanction, a gripping espionage thriller.
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Matt Drake left Syria alive but broken. His last mission ended in disaster, costing innocent lives and crippling his closest friend. Now, haunted by guilt and determined to stay in the shadows, he is pulled back into a world he swore to abandon.
A Pakistani scientist working for an extremist group has built a weapon capable of mass destruction. He will defect only if Matt is the one to bring him out. To save thousands, Matt must return to the place that nearly destroyed him and face the ghosts waiting there.
Don Bentley’s Without Sanction, the first Matt Drake novel, is a taut and explosive thriller about redemption, loyalty, and the brutal choices demanded by duty in a world without mercy.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to queer literary fiction, dark humor, social anxiety, and awkward predicaments.
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Coming of Age · Lesbian Romance
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A finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead follows Gilda, an anxious lesbian atheist who unexpectedly takes a receptionist job at a Catholic church. A mistaken identity and continued emails to a deceased employee’s friend pull her into an increasingly difficult deception, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 3,800 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to queer literary fiction, dark humor, social anxiety, and awkward predicaments.
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In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, an anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.
In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.
With a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and “delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it’s also what makes life beautiful” (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).
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A pair of killers leaves a trail of mutilated victims across the West.
The Killing Lessons
Thriller · Police Procedural · Psychological Thriller
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A pair of killers leaves a trail of mutilated victims across the West. A survivor escapes their latest attack, and detective Valerie Hart races to find her before the killers strike again. 4.0 stars on Amazon and 3.7 on Goodreads for Saul Black’s The Killing Lessons, a dark and brilliantly written psychological thriller.
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"Shockingly good writing . . . It's impossible not to be swept away by its propulsive momentum. . . . peer into the depths of . . . many richly developed characters" —The New York Times Book Review
When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done.
For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of victims—women abducted, tortured and left with a seemingly random series of objects inside them—has brought her from obsession to the edge of physical and psychological destruction. And she's losing hope of making a breakthrough before that happens.
But the murders at the Cooper farmhouse didn't quite go according to plan. There was a survivor, Rowena's ten-year-old daughter Nell, who now holds the key to the killings. Injured, half-frozen, terrified, Nell has only one place to go. And that place could be even more dangerous than what she's running from.
"Brilliant." —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times–bestselling author of The Skin Collector and Solitude Creek
"Compelling . . . graphic and disturbing." —Associated Press
"The Killing Lessons is state of the art in the ever-darkening serial-killer genre." —The Washington Post
"[An] exceptional police thriller." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Unbelievably good . . . this one has it all." —Lee Child, New York Times–bestselling author of Personal
"A powerhouse of a thriller." —Lisa Gardner, New York Times–bestselling author of Fear Nothing
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When alien ships appear over Earth, the Overlords bring an end to war and suffering.
Childhood’s End
Sci-Fi · Travis' Picks · First Contact · Galactic Empire · Speculative Fiction
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When alien ships appear over Earth, the Overlords bring an end to war and suffering. Humanity enters an age of peace, but perfection hides a purpose no one can imagine. Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End is a haunting, prophetic masterpiece about evolution, utopia, and the cost of surrendering control to those who promise salvation.
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They came in silence, their ships shining above every city on Earth. They promised peace. They delivered something else.
When the Overlords arrive, humanity’s wars end overnight. Poverty, cruelty, and hunger vanish, replaced by a new golden age. Yet beneath this perfect order lies a mystery no one can unravel. The Overlords rule with unseen power, their true purpose hidden behind their calm benevolence.
As decades pass, a chilling truth emerges: their plan for humanity’s future will change the species forever.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End is a visionary masterpiece of science fiction, exploring the price of utopia, the limits of progress, and the destiny of a civilization that dares to dream beyond itself.
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A sharp fit for horror readers who like malicious hauntings, grief, family danger, and graphic supernatural scares.
You Invited It In
Horror · Occult Horror
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Felix Eastwood can see the dead, but he hires fraudulent psychic Lilith Lavelle to expose her as a scam artist. After her visit, something claiming to be Felix’s dead wife begins haunting his family and refuses to leave, with a 3.8-star average from more than 2,800 Goodreads ratings. A sharp fit for horror readers who like malicious hauntings, grief, family danger, and graphic supernatural scares.
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Sometimes, it’s best to mind your own business.
Felix Eastwood is your average guy, except for the fact that he can see the spirits of the dead.
Lilith Lavelle is a fraudulent psychic, plying her trade on social media.
When Felix stumbles across an advertisement for Lilith Lavelle’s Psychic Cleansing Services, he hires her under the pretense that his family is being haunted, hoping to expose her as a scam artist. By trying to play the hero, Felix puts his family in grave danger. In the aftermath of Lilith’s visit, Felix finds himself haunted for real by something claiming to be his dead wife; something that is out for blood.
The problem is, Felix invited it in. And it doesn’t want to leave.
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She needs a roommate.
Playing a Player
Romance · RomCom
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She needs a roommate. He’s a charming stranger who should be off-limits. What begins as convenience turns into chemistry neither can ignore. 4.3 stars on Amazon and 4.0 on Goodreads for Ivy Smoak’s Playing a Player, a fun and emotional romance about taking chances on love.
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When her last single friend gets married, she’s left without a roommate and without a plan. Enter Rory, the unexpected applicant at her door. He’s handsome, confident, and far too charming for his own good. Living with him is the last thing she wants to do. Especially since she knows exactly what kind of man he is.
A player. A heartbreaker. A walking complication.
But with no better options and rent due, she lets him move in. What starts as an easy arrangement soon turns into stolen glances, late-night laughter, and temptation that refuses to stay at arm’s length.
Ivy Smoak’s Playing a Player, the first Sweet Cravings novel, is a flirty, slow-burn romance about risk, trust, and finding love where you least expect it.
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After the sky shield falls and her family is slain, Princess Syla becomes the last target standing.
Sky Shielder
Romantasy
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After the sky shield falls and her family is slain, Princess Syla becomes the last target standing. Her survival depends on Captain Vorik, a dragon rider tied to her kingdom’s destruction and her growing attraction. As danger closes in, trust becomes the deadliest risk. This fantasy romance adventure holds 4.4 stars on Amazon and strong Goodreads ratings.
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He helped destroy her family. Now he wants to protect her. Dare she trust him?
For generations, magical sky shields have defended the Garden Kingdom from dragons and their savage riders. Now, the shield protecting the capital has been sabotaged, the castle destroyed, and all except the youngest member of the royal family slain.
A healer with a love for books, antiques, and avoiding family gatherings, Princess Syla never thought the future of the kingdom would rely upon her—or that assassins would be hunting her down. With only an aged bodyguard with bad knees to protect her, she’s in way over her head.
Then he shows up.
The powerful and deadly dragon rider Captain Vorik claims to be from a faction that wants peace, not war, and who opposed the attack. Supposedly, he and his dragon ally were sent to protect Syla.
With threats coming from all directions, she has no choice but to accept his help, but she doesn’t trust him—or her attraction to him.
Why is he really there? To kill her? To spy on her? To seduce her?
All Syla knows for certain is that she must get the best of Vorik before he can get the best of her. Her kingdom and her life depend on it.
Warning: Sky Shielder contains sex, violence, and arrogant and opinionated dragons.
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War shaped Jacob Brown before he ever wore a uniform, but the mission that finally sends him off Earth exposes dangers far beyond combat.
Marine
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration
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War shaped Jacob Brown before he ever wore a uniform, but the mission that finally sends him off Earth exposes dangers far beyond combat. In Marine, a young recruit chases his dream of serving aboard a starship only to land on a brutal assignment that reveals hidden threats within humanity’s war with alien forces. It’s a military science fiction opener driven by survival, secrecy, and high-stakes action on hostile ground.
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Aliens exist… and, as it turns out, most of them aren’t that friendly.
Jacob Brown wasn’t even born yet the first time they attacked Earth.
He was only fourteen the second time it happened.
When Earth finally came together and fielded its first spaceborne military, Jacob didn’t hesitate to volunteer. Serving aboard a mighty starship, he’d be able to defend his planet—and his family—when, inevitably, they came again.
Just as he’s about to graduate training, however, Jacob is approached by an officer from Naval Special Operation Command and given a choice: volunteer for a risky mission to a dangerous, lawless world, or give up his dream of serving in the military and go home. He has no idea why he’s being singled out in such an unusual manner, but now it's either agree to their demands or give up his dream of being on a starship.
Soon, getting his career back on the right track will be the least of his concerns when it seems like everyone—and everything—he meets is trying to kill him. When he stumbles upon a secret most people on Earth are blissfully unaware of he realizes it's not just the aliens he needs to be worried about.
"Marine" is the first book in the Terran Scout Fleet Series by the bestselling author of the Omega Force Series and Black Fleet Trilogy.
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Best for readers who like MM college romance with enemies-to-lovers tension, anonymous messaging, queer awakening, and plenty of heat.
Top Secret
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance
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An instant USA Today bestseller, Top Secret follows two college neighbors who cannot stand each other in person but unknowingly connect through a hookup app, where attraction and questions about identity complicate their rivalry, with a 4.1-star average from more than 46,700 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like MM college romance with enemies-to-lovers tension, anonymous messaging, queer awakening, and plenty of heat.
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An instant USA Today bestseller.
LobsterShorts, 21. Jock. Secretly a science geek. Hot AF.
LobsterShorts: So. Here goes. For her birthday, my girlfriend wants…a threesome.
SinnerThree: Then you’ve come to the right hookup app.
LobsterShorts: Have you done this sort of thing before? With another guy?
SinnerThree: All the time. I’m an equal opportunity player. You?
LobsterShorts: [crickets!]
SinnerThree, 21. Finance major. Secretly a male dancer. Hot AF.
SinnerThree: Well, I’m down if you are. My life is kind of a mess right now. School, work, family stress. Oh, and I live next door to the most annoying dude in the world. I need the distraction. Are you sure you want this?
LobsterShorts: I might want it a little more than I’m willing to admit.
SinnerThree: Hey, nothing wrong with pushing your boundaries...
LobsterShorts: Tell that to my control-freak father. Anyway. What if this threesome is awkward?
SinnerThree: Then it’s awkward. It’s not like we’ll ever have to see each other again. Right? Just promise you won’t fall in love with me.
LobsterShorts: Now wouldn’t that be life-changing...
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Iraya wants revenge.
Witches Steeped in Gold
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Epic Fantasy
Our take
Iraya wants revenge. Jazmyne wants freedom. To bring down a ruthless queen, two rival witches must unite in a pact forged from blood and betrayal. But magic is dangerous, and vengeance even more so. Ciannon Smart’s Witches Steeped in Gold is a rich, Jamaican-inspired fantasy of ambition, power, and the price of rebellion.
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Divided by blood. Bound by vengeance.
Iraya has spent her life in a prison cell, waiting for the day she can destroy the queen who stole her future. Jazmyne, the queen’s daughter, refuses to die for her mother’s magic and will risk everything to end her rule.
Sworn enemies from rival witch orders, Iraya and Jazmyne form a fragile alliance to bring down the crown. But power demands sacrifice, and revenge has a cost neither of them can predict. As betrayals rise and magic runs red, both witches must decide what they are willing to lose to win.
Ciannon Smart’s Witches Steeped in Gold is a lush, Jamaican-inspired fantasy of deadly politics, dark magic, and the fire of two women who refuse to bow.
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