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  Dark Crown - A Dark Arranged...

  Bianca Cole

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  I’m shackled to a monster, and the only way out is death. 
  My arranged marriage to Adrik Volkov soon turns into a nightmare. 
  Two months before our wedding date, he forces me down the aisle. 
  Then, drags me to a club where he shoots my father dead in front of my eyes. 
  The man I’m married to is a beast who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. 
  And he wants the crown that rightfully belongs to my brother. 
  I’m his claim, since we’re married, it gives him the right to lead the Estrada Cartel. 
  If all of that isn’t bad enough, he wants to torture me, too. 
  Our wedding night is when he tears away my innocence without a care. 
  If only his cruelty ended there. 
  When I look into those hazel eyes, I know this man is dead inside. 
  A man who has no compassion for others. 
  He intends to break me, ruin me, and then revel in my destruction. 
  And he expects me to enjoy it. 
  The sickest part of it all is he wants me to call him daddy. 
  A man so cruel, so dark, and depraved. 
  The nickname doesn’t fit the man, and yet when he demands it, I melt. 
  He’s found my biggest weakness, and he’s going to use it against me. 
  Adrik takes everything my family has built, but it’s not enough. 
  He won’t rest until he’s claimed every part of me, including my heart. 
  I fear he’ll have to carve it from my chest if he wants it that badly. 
  There’s no way I could love a monster like him... is there?

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  The Huntsman - A dark past The...

  DH Austin

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  In the distant future, Commander Belle, a decorated military officer, becomes the subject of a ground breaking discovery after exposure to alien crystalline spores. These spores have tethered her consciousness to an otherworldly network, granting her unique abilities while leaving her physical body reliant on advanced AI. 
  In the distant future, a dire galactic threat emerges: the Ascendancy, an incomprehensible force consuming star systems and rewriting reality itself. To confront this looming danger, Belle and her husband, Captain Minardi, embark on a mission aboard the legendary starship The Huntsman. Their journey takes them to the Milkdromeda Galaxy, where they encounter the Descendancy—a post-human civilization seamlessly integrating life and artificial intelligence. Together, they face the relentless and enigmatic Ascendancy, which threatens the very fabric of existence. 
  As Belle grapples with her crystalline transformation, she must evolve from a reluctant survivor to a beacon of hope. Minardi, balancing love and duty, becomes her steadfast partner in navigating this existential crisis. Together, they uncover the mysteries of the Ascendancy, forcing humanity and its allies to rethink survival, ethics, and identity in the cosmos.

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  The Gravity of Strangers - A...

  Ryan Easteday

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  The sea changes. Faster than anything you can map. 
  Cartographer Elias Varn has been sent to the Veil Reaches with a simple directive: chart the erratic coastlines of Blackrift Island. But from the moment his boots hit the rotting docks, he realizes that the maps aren't just outdated—they are deliberately lying. The compasses spin blindly, the digital systems lag, and the island's colossal lighthouse operates on a mechanical rhythm that hides a terrifying secret. 
  Its beam is guiding ships off course. 
  At the center of the deception stands Mateo Rourke, the stoic lighthouse keeper who maintains the deadly illusion. As Elias digs deeper into the island's curated records and unspoken rules, the friction between the two men sparks into a slow-burn tension that is as dangerous as the jagged reefs hidden below the surface. Mateo insists he is keeping his people alive, but Elias knows that a system built on lies will eventually break—and take everything down with it. 
  The Gravity of Strangers is an atmospheric, tension-filled mystery laced with psychological suspense and a simmering, complicated connection between two men standing on the edge of the world. Will they correct the course, or be swallowed by the dark tides?

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  Carly See FBI Suspense Thriller...

  Rylie Dark

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  A bundle of books #1 (NO WAY OUT), #2 (NO WAY BACK), and #3 (NO WAY HOME) in Rylie Dark’s Carly See FBI Suspense Thriller series! This bundle offers books one, two, and three in one convenient file, with over 100,000 words of reading.FBI Special Agent Carly See, a star in the elite BAU unit, hides a terrible secret: she can speak with the dead. The murder of her sister, still unsolved, plunged her life into grief and awakened a new power within her. Sometimes messages come from direct contact, other times in dreams. All of it feels like a curse—until Carly realizes she can harness her new skills to solve cases. But her abilities are unreliable, and Carly must use her brilliant mind to complete the puzzle—all while struggling to keep her secret from her colleagues.In NO WAY OUT (Book #1), when victims turn up with Shakespearean sonnets left on their bodies, the handiwork of a diabolical serial killer, FBI Special Agent (and psychic medium) Carly See is called in. Can she use her intuition to supplement her brilliant investigative skills and save the next victim before it’s too late? As Carly races to decode the conflicting messages she receives from the other side, she wonders: Why these poems? Why these victims? What connects them? What is the killer’s secret message? And who will he strike next? In a twisted game of cat and mouse, this killer seems to know way too much about Carly. Is he toying with her? Or is Carly herself the prey?In NO WAY BACK (Book #2), women are disappearing on their walk home at night, their bodies are turning up the next day staged as famous sculptures. FBI Special Agent (and psychic medium) Carly See must decode the mystery, and finds herself in the race of her life to find the killer—and save the next victim—before it’s too late. With her vision leading Carly to dark and irrational places, she finds herself in a cat and mouse game with a diabolical killer—who always seems to be one step ahead of her. Why is he staging these bodies? What is he trying to create?In NO WAY HOME (Book #3), in a macabre and bizarre pattern, women grieving for their loved ones are turning up murdered themselves, targeted by a serial killer. FBI Special Agent Carly See will have to descend into a world of death to enter the killer’s mind—and save the next victim before it’s too late. This killer, though, is always one step ahead, and Carly herself, leading the investigation, may not be as safe as she seems. It will be a race to figure out what these victims have in common—and who is next on the killer’s list. But will Carly’s vision lead her astray?A page-turning thriller packed with twists and turns, secrets, and harrowing surprises you won’t see coming, the CARLY SEE series is a mystery series that will endear you to a unique new character and having you turning pages, bleary-eyed, late into the night.Books #4-#6—NO WAY LEFT, NO WAY UP, and NO WAY TO DIE—are also available now.

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  The Man that Corrupted...

  Mark Twain

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  The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper Collins in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches (1900). This recording contains all the stories and sketches from the 1900 Harper Collins publication. (Summary from wikipedia and John)

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  The Only Death that Matters

  Colin Conway

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  The police say Margaret Kelly drowned, but Ray Christy refuses to believe it. So, he’s going to prove it was murder. 
  Ray Christy retired several years ago from the Army and now fills his time volunteering with the Spokane Police Department. Once, he led men into battle, but today he performs the tasks many take for granted. 
  One Saturday morning, police dispatch sends Ray to collect a found wallet. What he discovers surprises him. The wallet’s owner drowned the day before, leaving Ray with only one question—how did her wallet travel four miles after she died? 
  Ray faces a tough decision when a detective refuses to reopen the investigation. He must decide between finding the truth or not getting involved. In the end, he does what any career military man would do. 
  He acts. 
  The Only Death That Matters is the ninth book in the 509 Crime Stories, a series of novels set in Eastern Washington with revolving lead characters. If you like hard-hitting police procedurals with compelling personalities, then grab this book today.

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