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Ideal for readers looking for prehistoric historical fiction centered on ancient communities, Stonehenge, leadership, and conflict.
Circle of Days
Historical Literary Fiction · Literary Fiction
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An instant New York Times bestseller called “Superb.” by Lee Child, Circle of Days follows Seft, a gifted flint miner, and Joia, a visionary priestess, as a great stone circle becomes their life’s work while drought, mistrust, and violence push the communities of the Great Plain toward war, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 21,800 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for prehistoric historical fiction centered on ancient communities, Stonehenge, leadership, and conflict.
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.
"Superb." —Lee Childs, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT
Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community.
A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE
Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain.
A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION
Joia’s vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life’s work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders—and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare ...
Truly ambitious in scope, Circle of Days invites you to join master storyteller Ken Follett in exploring one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
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Shelley Leigh Crane’s Wicked Beasts is a gothic paranormal romance inspired by Beauty & the Beast and Dr.
Wicked Beasts
Romance · Gothic Romance
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Shelley Leigh Crane’s Wicked Beasts is a gothic paranormal romance inspired by Beauty & the Beast and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. When Amara Rose takes a job at Black Manor, she’s drawn into the dangerous allure of two brothers with secrets as dark as the skeletal woods around them. Haunting, sensual, and atmospheric, this novel is pure gothic temptation.
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Amara Rose arrives at Black Manor expecting nothing more than a demanding job as a personal assistant. The remote estate in northern O’ahu is isolated, mysterious, and unnervingly beautiful. But it is the men who inhabit it that unsettle her most.
Mr. Black is brilliant, magnetic, and secretive. His older brother, Dr. Shadow, is seductive, dangerous, and impossible to resist. Both draw Amara deeper into their orbit, even as the skeletal woods whisper of terrors lurking just beyond sight.
As strange events mount and the brothers’ polished charm begins to crack, Amara must confront a truth darker than any tale she’s ever heard.
Shelley Leigh Crane’s Wicked Beasts is a gothic romance of Beauty and the Beast shadows and Jekyll and Hyde temptation.
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Joe Abercrombie’s The Wisdom of Crowds concludes the Age of Madness trilogy with fire, blood, and betrayal.
The Wisdom of Crowds
Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Grim Dark
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Joe Abercrombie’s The Wisdom of Crowds concludes the Age of Madness trilogy with fire, blood, and betrayal. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this New York Times bestseller cements Abercrombie’s place as the master of grimdark. Revolution burns through the Union, power shifts like quicksand, and survival demands everything. Brutal, brilliant, unforgettable.
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Revolutions promise freedom. They usually deliver blood.
The Age of Madness comes to its brutal end as the Breakers and Burners topple governments and claim power in the name of the people. Factories are silent, the banks have collapsed, and the smoke of riots hangs over the Union.
Citizen Brock wants to be a hero in this new world, though glory is scarcer than bread. Savine dan Glokta turns her ruthless genius from profit to survival. King Orso, stripped of his throne, discovers there’s nothing lower than a monarch out of favor. And in the North, Rikke’s Protectorate teeters as Black Calder sharpens his vengeance.
All must submit to the wisdom of crowds—or be crushed by it.
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Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement, is a genre-bending literary mystery spanning 2014 to 2119.
What We Can Know
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement, is a genre-bending literary mystery spanning 2014 to 2119. When a vanished poem becomes the center of obsession in a drowned future, secrets of love, betrayal, and crime come to light. Bold, haunting, and masterfully written, this novel is McEwan at his most inventive.
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2014: At a candlelit dinner, celebrated poet Francis Blundy honors his wife with a new poem, A Corona for Vivien. Guests sip wine, plates are cleared, and life carries on. But the poem itself vanishes, leaving only whispers and speculation for generations.
2119: A century later, much of the West lies underwater after catastrophe. In the drowned south of England, lonely scholar Thomas Metcalfe obsesses over the lost poem, longing for the reckless freedom of a world already gone. When a clue surfaces, it reveals a story of entangled loves and a brutal crime.
From Booker Prize–winning author Ian McEwan, What We Can Know bends time and genre in a masterful exploration of memory, mystery, and how truth is never quite within reach.
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TJ Klune’s Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the long-awaited sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
Romantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance
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TJ Klune’s Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the long-awaited sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea. With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this moving tale of resistance, family, and love continues Arthur Parnassus’s story. Tender, funny, and unforgettable, Klune delivers another modern classic that proves even monsters deserve a place to belong.
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Marsyas Island has always been a sanctuary for Arthur Parnassus, once an orphan himself and now headmaster of a home for six magical children society deems too dangerous to love. With Linus Baker by his side, and friends who’ve become family, Arthur works tirelessly to ensure no child suffers the neglect he once endured.
But peace is fragile. When he’s summoned to publicly confront the darkest parts of his past, Arthur becomes the reluctant face of a larger fight—one that could determine the future of all magical people. And when a new child arrives, calling himself monster, Arthur fears the identity he fought so hard to protect may shatter everything.
This is a story of chosen family, resistance, and love that refuses to back down.
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Vaseem Khan’s City of Destruction, the latest Malabar House mystery, holds 4.5 out of 5 stars with over 1,100 ratings.
City of Destruction
Mystery
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Vaseem Khan’s City of Destruction, the latest Malabar House mystery, holds 4.5 out of 5 stars with over 1,100 ratings. When Detective Persis Wadia kills an assassin at a rally and investigates a burned body on Bombay’s shores, she uncovers secrets that lead to New Delhi and the edge of war. Brilliant, atmospheric, and suspenseful, this series continues to dazzle.
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Bombay, 1951. At a political rally, India’s first female detective Persis Wadia stops an assassin with a single shot, saving the defense minister who is calling for war with India’s new neighbors. But Persis’s triumph quickly turns into exile as her team is pushed aside by MI6 and political forces with their own agendas.
Relegated to the margins, Persis is handed a second mystery: the charred body of an unidentified white man found on a Bombay beach. Pursuing both cases, she travels to New Delhi, a city where modern ambition collides with ancient tensions, and where answers could ignite chaos.
Award-winning author Vaseem Khan’s City of Destruction is a gripping Malabar House mystery rich in atmosphere, history, and unforgettable intrigue.
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Suspenseful, gritty, and addictive, this zombie survival series is perfect for binge reading.
The Complete Dead State Series
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Derek Shupert’s The Complete Dead State Series, a 4.4-star bestseller, collects all six post-apocalyptic thrillers in one volume at 60% off. When a prehistoric virus unleashes a ravenous horde, James and a group of survivors must fight to endure against impossible odds. Suspenseful, gritty, and addictive, this zombie survival series is perfect for binge reading.
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A prehistoric virus is unearthed. It spreads with terrifying speed, infecting its victims with a primal hunger that turns them into something unstoppable.
James never wanted to be a survivalist like his father. But when a hunting trip spirals into a nightmare, he is thrust into a fight for his life. Separated from his family, he joins a handful of survivors battling through chaos, panic, and a horde that cannot be contained. To live, they must venture deeper into the unknown—straight to the source of the infection.
Derek Shupert’s The Complete Dead State Series brings together five full-length thrillers and a novella, an unrelenting saga of survival, resilience, and community in the face of extinction. The end is here. The fight has only begun.
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Dead of Summer opens with the uneasy intimacy of shared danger, where attraction and terror begin to blur in the dark.
Dead of Summer
Romance · Romantic Suspense
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Dead of Summer opens with the uneasy intimacy of shared danger, where attraction and terror begin to blur in the dark. A seasoned camp counselor uncovers a lethal secret and strikes a bargain with the man meant to protect the campers. What follows is a slow descent into control, survival, and moral erosion, framed as a dark romance that leans heavily on psychological tension and obsession.
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Camp Friends Are Forever Friends
Or so the motto of Camp Crestview says.
Having been a camp counselor for the last three summers, I can handle most situations that come my way courtesy of rowdy children. This year shouldn’t be any different, even with a new counselor who’s everyone’s type and too good to be true. But even so, Kayde Lane is nothing I can’t deal with.
Until I stumble upon him at night with an ax and sinister intentions towards the campers we're meant to protect
Unable to let him kill anyone, I strike a dangerous bargain with Kayde, only to realize the true extent of his darkness. With every demand he makes, pushing me to the brink of my moral boundaries, I'm torn between survival and the haunting allure of his control.
As the nights pass and Kayde's demands escalate, I find myself teetering on the edge of sanity, questioning my own desires and the twisted games he plays with my mind.
Seven nights are all I need to survive with Kayde, and if I can do that, everyone lives.
If I can believe the words of a serial killer obsessed with breaking me, that is.
Dead of Summer is a 160k+ word dark romance M/F standalone. It features a possessive, over the top hero and themes that not all readers may appreciate, and may be triggering to some. For a full list of TWs, please see the author's note.
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Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets is a pulse-pounding new Robert Langdon thriller.
The Secret of Secrets
Mystery · Thriller · Action Thriller · Suspense
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Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets is a pulse-pounding new Robert Langdon thriller. With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this high-stakes novel blends futuristic science, ancient mythology, and nonstop suspense. From Prague to London to New York, Langdon races to rescue Katherine Solomon and uncover a revelation that could rewrite humanity’s understanding of the mind.
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE
“A master of the brainy, twisty thriller. . . . The Secret of Secrets is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking yet: a dense thriller that is also a meditation on the nature, and the possible future, of human consciousness.”—Los Angeles Times
“So riveting you’ll want to clear your calendar.”—USA Today
Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, has traveled to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a romantic relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing a breakthrough book that contains explosive scientific discoveries about the nature of human consciousness . . . revelations that threaten to disrupt centuries of established belief.
When a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, Katherine suddenly goes missing—and her manuscript disappears. Desperate to find the woman he loves, Langdon embarks on a thrilling race through the mystical landscape of Prague, ruthlessly hunted by a powerful organization and a chilling assailant sprung from the city’s ancient mythology.
As the action expands to London and New York, Langdon plunges into the dual worlds of futuristic science and historical lore—navigating a labyrinth of codes and symbols . . . and finally uncovering a shocking truth about a secret project that will forever change the way we think about the human mind.
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Packed with morally grey characters, slow-burn romance, and heart-stopping trials, it’s a dark, lush fantasy perfect for fans of Throne of Glass and From Blood and Ash.
Immortal Origins
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Taryn Knightly’s Immortal Origins launches the Immortal Trials series with 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon and rave BookTok buzz. Packed with morally grey characters, slow-burn romance, and heart-stopping trials, it’s a dark, lush fantasy perfect for fans of Throne of Glass and From Blood and Ash. Epic, emotional, and high-stakes—you’ll be hooked from page one.
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Champions are fated. Their names carved into destiny, beyond the reach of even the gods.
Ambrose has lived her life in the shadows, a servant in the palace of Eltoria, secretly training in a world where warriors are exalted and the weak are forgotten. The Immortal Trials—brutal competitions held every five years—promise the victors a place among the gods. But Ambrose was never meant to stand in that arena.
When betrayal tears her life apart, she’s forced into the Champion’s Tournament, a trial that could kill her before she even grasps the extent of her own powers. Each step forward reveals buried secrets, divine deceptions, and dangerous truths that could topple empires.
Survival isn’t guaranteed. And winning might demand everything Ambrose has left to give.
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Action-packed, emotional, and inventive, it’s a breathtaking retelling perfect for Disney and fantasy fans alike.
How Far I’ll Go: A Twisted Tale
Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Keala Kendall’s How Far I’ll Go: A Twisted Tale reimagines Moana’s journey with a dark new twist. With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this fantasy adventure follows Moana and Noe as they brave the monster realm to restore Te Fiti’s shattered heart. Action-packed, emotional, and inventive, it’s a breathtaking retelling perfect for Disney and fantasy fans alike.
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What if Moana broke the heart of Te Fiti instead of saving it?
After her battle with Te Kā ends in disaster, Moana faces a nightmare: the heart of Te Fiti is shattered, Maui is trapped in stone, and darkness spreads across the ocean. Desperate, she sails farther than ever before and lands on an island already dying under the blight. Only one survivor remains—Noe, a fierce, enigmatic wayfarer.
Noe reveals a dangerous path forward: to restore Te Fiti, they must recover the goddess’s tears, scattered throughout the monster realm. Each gem holds divine power, but every step draws Moana deeper into peril.
With time running out, Moana must brave monsters, secrets, and her own doubt—or risk losing the ocean, her people, and her future forever.
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Autumn Krause’s Grave Flowers is a dark royalcore fantasy perfect for fans of Holly Black and Sarah J. Maas.
Grave Flowers
Teen + Young Adult · Fantasy · Dark Fantasy
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Autumn Krause’s Grave Flowers is a dark royalcore fantasy perfect for fans of Holly Black and Sarah J. Maas. With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this Hamlet-inspired tale of court intrigue, deadly magic, and forbidden love has been praised by #1 New York Times bestseller Erin A. Craig as “sumptuously dark” and dazzling from start to finish.
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Marry the prince. Then kill him.
Princess Madalina has always been the weak one in a family that thrives on deceit and cruelty. Her only solace lies in the palace gardens, where she tends her magical “grave flowers,” blooms infamous for their use in torment and torture.
But when her twin sister Inessa becomes trapped in a terrifying purgatory, Madalina is forced into her place—betrothed to Prince Aeric of a powerful kingdom. Inessa’s mission was never just marriage; it was assassination. Now Madalina must carry it out.
Torn between duty and desire, she finds herself drawn to the clever prince she’s meant to kill. To save her sister, she must play the most dangerous game of all: betray her family or her own heart.
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