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My uncle's farm was supposed to be a sanctuary. But the dead aren't the only monsters circling. Jackson Thorne promised to protect me. He kept his word. What he never promised was to stay. Without him, the farm won't hold. And neither will I. "I'll burn the world for you," he swore. I just...

Existen lugares donde uno se queda y lugares que quedan en uno. Estos últimos son los que logran salvarte. Tras una serie de trágicas circunstancias, malas decisiones y una amenaza de muerte, Chloe Ackerman huye hasta Greening Island, un lugar recóndito en medio de la nada, marcado por un suceso del pasado. Durante el sosiego que garantiza la temporada baja en la que no se aloja ningún huésped, se esconderá en el Hotel Raventhorp que dirige su tía Lydia, tratando de evitar a quienes trabajan en él.

Tristan I'm just a regular guy. Bogged down by debt, unable to ever afford to own a home, fed up with our world. I did the omega testing a few years back but nothing has come of it. Just me, paycheck to paycheck, and navigating the–shitty–dating scene on earth. Zilas As a trained baker, and...

Cassie Forrest casi podría creer que la vida en la granja Kingdom Come es perfecta, con Adrian y sus amigos a su lado y la primavera en camino. Sin embargo, el deshielo primaveral también significa el deshielo de millones de zombis, y si el año pasado le ha enseñado algo, es que la vida en este nuevo mundo es altamente imperfecta.

Two years ago, a human pilot was taken captive by the Alder—a ruthless and savage alien race. Now, it's my team's mission to rescue him. But when I'm saved by one of those "savages" and stranded with him in the jungle, everything I thought I knew starts to unravel. My team is my family, the only home I've ever known. Failing them isn't an option. But how can I resist Kitari, this mysterious and alluring alien who claims that I'm an "omega" and offers me something I've never had—a place to truly belong?

Tras viajar en el tiempo al siglo ix y haber sido secuestrada y encerrada en una choza hedionda, Ella no ha tenido una buena semana. Luego de escapar de la custodia policial, Channing busca a Ella a través de los siglos y va a salvarla. Con las tensiones en aumento y un invierno apocalíptico que amenaza con ponerle fin a la civilización vikinga, Ella y Channing están en una carrera a contrarreloj por detener el Ragnarök.

This is the After the End collection, Volumes 1 through 4. FIRST by Ali Hazelwood A general plans to use a nobleman's bride to teach him a lesson. After meeting her, he decides to keep her for himself. Content notes/warnings: ableism, blood, death of secondary characters, dubious consent...

Luka has spent his life researching fertility in the hopes of discovering a cure for the Clecanians' low birth rates. After years of working tirelessly with little progress, he becomes enraged when he uncovers a sinister plot to abduct compatible species from their home planets. But before he can tell anyone what he's discovered, he's captured, drugged, and thrown in a cell. It's just Alice's luck that when she finally begins to get her life on track, she's kidnapped by reptilian creatures and forced into a cell with a fierce incoherent alien for some kind of breeding experiment. 

Twelve humans are left stranded on a wintry alien planet. I'm one of them. Yay, me. In order to survive, we have to take on a symbiont that wants to rewire our bodies to live in this brutal place. I like to call it a cootie. And my cootie's a jerk, because it also thinks I'm the mate to the biggest, surliest alien of the group.

For three years now, I've been hiding and working under an assumed name, leading a quiet life, my closet full of a very beige wardrobe. One day a package arrives on my doorstep, stuffed with surveillance photos… and a threat. I have to give "them" the evidence they want or in twenty-four hours...

Melantha has ruined her life and the lives of all those around her. Now that she finds herself far from home and married to a troll who was once her enemy and captor, can she figure out what love and honor truly mean before it is too late for all of them? Not everyone in Kostaria is happy with peace or with their new elven queen. If Rharreth and Melantha cannot find a way to bring peace to their troubled kingdom, war threatens not only their happily ever after, but Essie and Farrendel's as well.

Ever since my father died and my sister left, I've been trapped in a life of drudgery with a stepfamily as wicked as the storybooks say. Life after the apocalypse offers few choices, and I only have three. I can stay and be miserable. I can die in the wilderness. Or I can marry him. Mason is the closest thing this village has to a prince. He's odd and antisocial and doesn't say a lot, but he's got a good home and a dependable income. Plus, he treats me better than my stepfamily.

When the asteroid hits and the world falls apart, I'm seventeen, and my dad buys us a place in an underground bunker. We're supposed to be safe down there, but we're not. Gradually, I lose everything until all I have left is a bewildering relationship with a stoic, unknowable man. As one of the guards in the bunker, Grant has lurked in the background of my life for years, teaching me to defend myself, making sure I'm safe, and infuriating me by treating me like a sheltered princess in a tower. I don't even know if he likes me, even after we end up in bed together.

Now living in a new world, Ava has the answers about her family she so desperately sought. But answers come at a cost. As she tries to face the trauma she endured upon her arrival in the realm of Eorhan, she must find her inner strength and courage to take her rightful place, or risk falling apart. With the threat of war looming after their enemies have returned, Ava is the only one with the ability to send the daemon queen back to her realm. And to do so, she must train with Casimir, the broody general of the Earth Kingdom, to complete a harrowing journey to the revered tree of her people.

Kai Mercer lives in a world where desire is managed everywhere—in transit, at work, through ambient systems that predict and satisfy every bodily impulse, every craving and primal urge before it's felt. Intimacy is scheduled. Passion is calibrated. Everything works perfectly. When he meets Selene at a club—a woman who's rejected the system entirely, who feels everything without mediation, whose touch isn't algorithmic, whose want is patient and real—his life is turned upside down. Their encounters are raw, unpredictable, intoxicating.

À l’occasion du cinquième anniversaire de la disparition de sa femme Hannah, Noah Sheridan, policier de petite ville, emmène son fils Milo dans une station de ski locale pour passer un peu de temps père-fils. En un clin d’œil, le réseau électrique tombe en panne. Les téléphones et les voitures cessent de fonctionner. Ce qui commence comme une journée de vacances se transforme rapidement en un combat mortel pour survivre.

Adventure. It's what my boring life is missing, so when I fall through a portal into another world, I'm excited. Here, I'm important. Here, I'm special. I find out just how special when I meet Death. He's been exiled to the mortal realm to work through his flaws, and he's just as spoiled and awful as you'd think. Rhagos, the Shadow Lord, is arrogant and rude and controlling and demands to get his way. He's selfish. He's impossible. He's also utterly gorgeous.

My research ship crashed, stranding me on an alien planet with no hope of rescue. When I’m captured by frightening, green aliens and given to Grael, a brooding, scythe-wielding Destran male with chameleon-like skin and the darkest eyes I’ve ever seen, I don’t know whether to cower before him or kiss him. I’ve spent my life puzzling out the human psyche, but can I get through Grael’s formidable walls?

Ziggy I should have known my scientifically-minded, superpowered Earthling would find a way to permanently attach himself to my borrowed heart. Since Micah Salah is the most impressive creature in all the galaxies. He's my stellar collision, my babygirl, my equal in all things, and the only one...

Daisy. Daisy. Daisy. From the moment her name is spoken, it is all I can hear. Her frightened tears bring me anger; I vow to wipe them off her face and banish her fear...to make her my queen. But I have to catch her first. I have to convince her to trust me. I have to show her she is safe. But only with me. Because if any other naga male tries to take Daisy away from me, I will kill them.