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Small Town Hero: A LitRPG Adventure (Butcher of Gadobhra Book 1)

Walrus King
Conquer Dungeons. Slay Monsters. Become a Hero.When Ozzy signs a five-year contract to work as an "NPC" Serf in Gadobhra, a new fantasy world intended to be a playground for the incredibly wealthy, he...

One of Three (Cercians Book 3)

S.H. Jucha
Conclave warships fended off four enemy fleets intent on attacking the Malia system. No one believes the fighting is finished. As anticipated, a fifth fleet of more sophisticated warships arrives. The...

Lance: (Gun For Hire Sweet Western Romance Series Book 4)

Heather Blanton
He lost everything. Now he has nothing left to lose.Lance Wister had a home, a family, and a future—until greedy railroad barons and ruthless bankers took it all. Hardened by war and burning for rev...

Burning Escape (Chasing Fire: Alaska Book 3)

Michelle Sass Aleckson
RESCUE. DANGER. DEVOTION.THIS TIME, THEIR HEARTS ARE ON THE LINE.She was born to fight fires...When Tori Mitchell said goodbye to the handsome stranger after their heart-stopping dance on her last nig...

The Last Dungeon Crawler: An Epic Modern Fantasy Novel (The Fahlgrim Firebeard Saga Book 1)

Mike Simpson
HE’S THE LAST DWARF ALIVE—AND HUMANITY’S FINAL SHIELD AGAINST ANCIENT EVIL.By day, he’s Dr. Franklin Barbarossa, quirky NYU history professor.But beneath the tweed and tenure lies Fahlgrim Fir...

Macht und Wahn: Der politische Krieg zwischen den USA und Russland seit 1945 (German Edition)

Tim Weiner
Wieder liefert Tim Weiner, der Geheimdienstexperte und Pulitzer-Preisträger, eine packende und eindringliche Darstellung politischer Machtspiele. In »Macht und Wahn« beleuchtet er die bilaterale Be...

Inferno's Shadow (Artillerymen Book 4)

Taylor Anderson
Lost in a mysterious world, far from all they knew in 1847 America, Colonel Lewis Cayce and his soldiers must face the unimaginable might of the Dominion once and for all in this gripping alternate hi...

The Altered Moon 2: The Tyrant of Unity: Military Sci-fi Series (The Dust Cosmos)

James Alan McGettigan
Faced with encroaching alien forces, a daring officer's journey unveils a hidden history between humanity and their cosmic adversaries...Galiza, a planet besieged by an enigmatic alien force, finds it...

Apocalypse: Regression (Book 7): (A LitRPG series)

R.A. Mejia
The siege is over, but the war is far from won. After narrowly defending the Black Witch’s castle from a monstrous assault, Nick Gallows returns home to a city in mourning. But War waits for no one....

The Juliet Code (A Freddie and Grace Mystery Book 3)

Pepper Basham
Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley Finally Reach Their Honeymoon Destination Only to Encounter a New Mystery in Need of Solving Frederick and Grace Percy finally make it to Italy to enjoy a delayed h...
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Explore Top Mystery & Thriller Indie Books

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Moonlight Justice

By: Nala Nicole
When The Moon Rises, Justice AwakensBella, a woman born on the moon, possesses extraordinary strength tied to the lunar cycle. By day, she is Detective Bella Hayes, a quiet observer of the law’s failures. By night, under the moon’s glow, she becomes something more—something not of this world. As her power surges, so does her thirst for justice.When Radcliff escapes yet another trial unscathed, Bella and her partner, Detective Mark Calloway, team up with Lucas, her only friend at the Roguehaven Police unit, and tech genius, to pursue him into The Deep, the city’s haunting underground ruins. As she battles Radcliff’s henchmen, navigates a web of betrayal, and confronts her own inner ...
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Dragonfly Illusion

By: Peter Bond
A hidden technology. A global conspiracy. A truth buried for centuries.Jack Sugarman never questioned the accident that took his parents until a long-forgotten letter forces him to confront the past. It clarifies a personal tragedy and exposes a ruthless criminal cartel, determined to unleash Dragonfly, a technology unlike anything the world has seen.With a network of unlikely allies, and a relentless obsession with what he calls Dark History, Jack is racing against time. The secretive organisation he’s chasing operates in the shadows, manipulating forces beyond imagination. And the deeper he digs, the more terrifying the truth becomes. His task is dangerous and may be impos...
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Financial Syndicate: Some Job Opportunities Go Too Far

By: David Wolfson

Alex Colton, a young, idealistic recent college graduate, received an incredible career opportunity at boutique asset management firm Carrington Capital Partners. After the death of the chief executive officer, the leading CEO candidate creates a toxic security threatening to upend and possibly bankrupt the whole financial system. Through the help of the deceased CEO’s family and the company receptionist Lynda, Alex battles through corporate and political intrigue, along with learning secrets about himself and how he is personally and professionally linked to the ongoing saga regarding him, his family, and his place with his employer.

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Little Girl Lost

By: E.E. Williams
A man’s dark secrets rise from the ashes of his past to put him in the crosshairs of a corrupt police detective and a small town whipped into a frenzy by a reckless media storm.Five-year-old Cyndi Luchak has vanished from her mother’s Bergsburg, Ohio condo and the prime suspect is Paul Schneider, once a beloved schoolteacher now relegated to working an overnight IT helpdesk job. An “incident” with a student at his former school has made Schneider a virtual hermit who rarely interacts with his neighbors other than Cyndi’s mother, Gretchen, and the little girl, for whom he occasionally babysits.Though lacking any evidence linking Schneider to Cyndi’s disappearance, Detective Rick R...
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Wine Vines & Murder Signs: A Lila Bennett Cozy Mystery (Mysteries of Mount Pleasant Book 3)

By: Audrey Alden
A cryptic murder. A vineyard’s buried secrets. And a silence someone will protect at all costs.Mount Pleasant’s vineyards should be a place of peace, good wine, and summer sunshine. For Lila Bennett, it’s about to become anything but.She’s ready to enjoy the season opener at Deepwater Vineyard—especially with her loyal Golden Retriever Finn and her good friend, Representative Alan Green, by her side. But when an employee is found dead under mysterious circumstances, strange symbols scattered around the scene, everything changes.The vineyard owner begs Lila to help clear their name before bad publicity destroys the business. What starts as a simple favor pulls Lila into a maze of hi...
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The Poker Face of Murder: A gripping cozy mystery with twists (Rose Cruz Cruise Ship Mysteries Book 4)

By: Audrey Alden
The Midnight Tide’s poker tournament should be all glitz, glamour, and high stakes—until a deadly hand is dealt.When a notorious high-roller is found lifeless in his suite, his winnings vanished and two golden poker chips eerily placed over his eyes, Cruise Director Rose Dela Cruz knows this isn’t just a simple robbery gone wrong.As whispers swirl through the ship’s elegant halls, Rose and her loyal beagle Rex follow a trail of counterfeit chips, tampered casino footage, and buried grudges that run deeper than anyone suspects.With the clock ticking toward the ship’s next port, every friendly smile hides a secret, and every ally could be the one holding the winning card — or the d...
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Darkest Light: A Ravaged Skies Novel: An EMP Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (Fire in the Sky Book 1)

By: A. M. Geever
In the end, the only law is survival.A solar superstorm shatters civilization overnight. Now, the price of survival is written in blood.U.S. Marshal Cody Greer is stranded deep in the Montana wilderness with a fugitive in tow, where the line between lawman and outlaw begins to blur.Emma Greer, alone at home with her infant daughter, barely knows her new neighbors but she sees what others can't: they must organize or perish.After a betrayal ended his military career, former Army Ranger Caleb Frost chose a different path: robbing banks. Now, his luck is about to run out.When yesterday's enemies might be tomorrow's salvation, can they find their way through the darkness beneath the Ravaged Skie...
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Adventures on Terra: Books 1-3: (A LitRPG Adventure)

By: R.A. Mejia
The omnibus collection of the Adventures on Terra series. Three books and over 400,000 words of entertaining LitRPG adventure.Book 1Armon Ellington is nineteen year old kid that always felt out of place. He’s an orphan, a gamer, and a role playing game geek. When he dies after a seventy-two hour gaming marathon, instead of going to an afterlife he’s transported to a new world governed by rules that are eerily similar to the RPG games he loves. On this new world, Terra, he can be anything he wants, a warrior, mage, or even a crafter. Only, Armon wants more than that, he also wants friends and family.Book 2When the Imperare Empire attacked the village of Restrian, they killed most of the k...
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Apocalypse: Regression (Book 7): (A LitRPG series)

By: R.A. Mejia

The siege is over, but the war is far from won. After narrowly defending the Black Witch’s castle from a monstrous assault, Nick Gallows returns home to a city in mourning. But War waits for no one.

A brutal power struggle, a dangerous rescue, and a marriage forged in the heart of conflict push Nick to his limits.

To hide Earth from its enemies, Nick launches a coordinated assault against the dragonkin—but victory will take everything . . . and everyone has something to lose.

When time weighs heavily, it's time to hit the weights in this regression LitRPG/Gamelit story of dungeon-diving, leveling, stats, and facing down the apocalypse!

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The Last Dungeon Crawler: An Epic Modern Fantasy Novel (The Fahlgrim Firebeard Saga Book 1)

By: Mike Simpson
HE’S THE LAST DWARF ALIVE—AND HUMANITY’S FINAL SHIELD AGAINST ANCIENT EVIL.By day, he’s Dr. Franklin Barbarossa, quirky NYU history professor.But beneath the tweed and tenure lies Fahlgrim Firebeard—six-thousand-year-old warrior-cleric and the last living guardian of a forgotten age.Long ago, dwarves, elves, and men stood united against an evil sorceress whose lust for power nearly ended the world. Magic faded. History became myth.But the danger never left—and Fahlgrim has watched from the shadows ever since.Now, a lost artifact resurfaces. Dark forces gather. And the evil he once helped defeat is returning.To stop it, Fahlgrim must uncover buried secrets, face the ghosts of his ...
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From the Ashes: After the Impact Book 6: (A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller)

By: Kenny Soward
Survival is no longer a choice. It’s a war.As the ash-filled skies grow darker, the fight for survival intensifies across fractured America.Chris now a hardened leader must outmaneuver King’s brutal marauders while safeguarding her farm and its people. But the enemy’s tactics are evolving—with drones overhead and ambushes at every turn.Gabby takes the fight to the front lines, risking her life on daring supply runs through Kentucky’s hostile terrain, driven by fierce loyalty and a sharpened resolve.Nick battles his way west with Riley at his side, surviving militia attacks and refugee chaos in the ravaged mountains of Appalachia.Cha races against time to engineer a fix for Earth’...
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Beneath The Ashes: After the Impact Book 3: (A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller)

By: Kenny Soward
Survival isn’t the end of the story—it’s where the real fight begins.In the wake of a catastrophic asteroid impact, survival becomes a race against time and hidden threats. As humanity struggles to regain stability, the lives of Chris, Nick, Gabby, and Cha become irrevocably intertwined in a web of danger, deception, and courage.Chris Alvarez fights to protect her family and community, but every choice she makes weighs heavy with the potential for loss. Nick Alvarez navigates the treacherous paths of chaos, determined to find his way home while dodging ruthless adversaries lurking in the shadows. Gabby, grappling with her own recovery, uncovers a dark underbelly of corruption within th...
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