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The Thrill of the Hunt
by: Alex Shelby

Tansy considers herself undateable, but not for the reasons Tariq assumes. What starts out as a quirky rom-com morphs into a genre-bending thriller… a wild one!
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Clairvoyant
by: Michael Gordon

In Victorian London, paranormal detective Viola Hardinge investigates a local haunting, while simultaneously dealing with a terrifying vision of the Jack The Ripper murders.
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Apex Predators
by: Lena Nguyen

When the zombie apocalypse decimates the population, vampires suddenly find themselves out of their only food source: humans. In direct competition with the “other undead,” you must find more living people before the zombies do, protecting them so you can feed yourself. But will you become your humans’ superhuman savior–or have they just made a deal with the devil?
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Electric Veins
by: Ryan Folmsbee

Twenty years after the nuclear war of 1985, you and your father lead a community that supplies electricity to the world. But when an army of coked-out businessmen attack from the west, you must unite your disparate neighbors to hold them off. Will you become the visionary your people need? Or will you be the reason your city is destroyed?
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C.U.R.E.
by: Miguel Vidaure

When an underwater science facility is taken over by a hostile organism, it’s up to you to lead a team of C.U.R.E. mercenaries to capture the infected scientists who escaped. Can you find the infected personnel? How will you deal with them when you do? And will your choices save the world, or leave it to be taken over by the disease?
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Pseudonym
by: Elise C

Bestselling thriller author Carmen King has a secret: she’s actually a mild-mannered woman named Ava. But when the murders in Carmen’s books start happening in real life, Ava is dragged into the investigation. Can she figure out who the killer is, or will she end up a victim to her own pseudonym’s creation?!
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The Fox's Wedding
by: Elizabeth White

You’re a detective, looking for eight people who’ve been abducted. When YOU are kidnapped, however, you and your partner wake up in a village alongside the victims you’ve been searching for. It turns out you’re all being forced to take part in a deadly game… and there can be only one survivor. Will you find a way to survive? Will you be able to save the abductees? And can you figure out why this is happening… or will you fall prey to the game first?
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TruChange
by: Tales Originals

Who’s making the decisions around here… you or this new app? Help Zoey decide when it’s truly time to CHANGE!
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Doll
by: yitsuin

Love is stitching up the cracks of a broken doll, transforming ugly seams into invisible scars. Love is restoring what is missing to make them whole again, of softened, pliable limbs and working joints.
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Years
by: Ai Jiang

When a persistent issue, overpopulation, begins dominating the world, the world fights back with laws geared towards population control. Now, the day that citizens fear most is their birthday.
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Story Game: Babysitter to the DILF Mafia Book Cover Image

Babysitter to the DILF Mafia
by: Tales Originals

When you accept a job as a nanny for mafia boss Rome Morello, you’re suddenly thrown into a contract marriage and forced to flee violent rivals at every turn.
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Ruler of the Night
by: Tom McGee

You’re an up-and-coming superstar suddenly caught in paranormal chaos when you’re rescued by vampire royalty. Now you need to find out who’s hunting you and how to stop them before it’s too late! Will you fall for one of your two sultry protectors along the way?
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Small Town Secrets
by: Anne Katheryn

Becca was thankful for a fresh start and for an out-of-state college that accepted her into its freshman class. She left behind a tiny, podunk town in the middle of nowhere, and a group of teenagers she had grown much too used to. While she tries to push all memories of her past and old hometown aside, she can’t help but notice when headlines begin reporting murders across the small town she so readily left. As bodies rack up, this begins to feel personal…almost as if targeting her exclusively. Becca can’t help but feel roped in. Soon, she’s torn between staying away and venturing back to see what part she plays in this end game. What will keep her safe?
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Ashen Skies
by: Krista Johnson

After negotiating with the Taliban and wiping out Isis, the Middle East was due for stability–until terrorists unleashed nuclear weapons in the United States. The U.S. responded in kind and sparked an even larger war, turning hippy mom Rachel’s world gray and revealing one harsh truth: To survive in this world, you must be willing to bathe in blood.
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Survive the Storm
by: Anomie Piers

You’re a ski instructor who’s just met your newest client: Miles Dawson. He’s a smoking-hot professional snowboarder, Olympic athlete, world-renowned heartthrob, and also… the ex who shattered your heart. When you’re forced to take his group up the mountain, an avalanche hits, trapping you and Miles at the peak. Can the get over your differences and survive? Or will the merciless frost, roaming wolves, and treacherous cliffs claim another pair of victims?
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Murder in Sleepy Oakes
by: Nic V-B

After a prank gone wrong, a band of misfit college students are mandated to complete community service in the spooky neighboring town of Sleepy Oakes. Between the rich reclusive heiress whose mansion borders the rocky cliffs and the sheriff with too many secrets, something is going on here and these students aren’t sure what. When they stumble upon a murder and more townspeople start to disappear, they know they have to get to the bottom of this… before they’re next.
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A Royal Match
by: ASKilian

When you accidentally download a dating app for royalty, you immediately draw the attention of multiple princes. Soon, you’re jet-setting around the world, fending off paparazzi and trying your best to avoid international scandals. But what happens when your handsome suitors discover you aren’t really a princess? And as danger descends on the monarchy, are you suddenly in danger too?!
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Ouija
by: Alex Shelby

Four 1970’s highschoolers discover their Ouija board actually works, and they use it to identify and take down the Zodiac Killer.
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Royal Paradise
by: Michael Gordon

You’re a waitress at a tropical resort and the guest you’re crushing on turns out to be a Crown Prince. But when a team of killers show up to assassinate him – you’re a target too! The two of you have to work together to outsmart these villains and survive the hurricane sweeping across the island. Can you escape with your life and your new love?!
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Fragile Bonds
by: Dean Rivers

Sasha and Layla thought they were finally safe in the real world. Until Zayn finds Sasha. A man of wealth who has a history of making people his – whether they want it or not. Forget safe – will you keep everyone alive?
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Save the Queen
by: Eric Avery

In this “What if?” historical drama, immerse yourself as a lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn. Can you change history and save her from certain death?
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Bloody Heiress
by: Franklin Ard

When you and your sister are invited to your long-lost grandmother’s mansion, you don’t expect to be forced to play deadly games for a chance at her fortune. Can you survive long enough to keep your family safe?
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Cat's Claw
by: Chris Large

Kate has a bomb in her head and it’s slowly ticking down. With only 200 hours to stop her brains being blown all over the sidewalk, it would really help if she could remember who was trying to kill her.
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Star Encounter
by: exquisites

When you’re assigned to interview Chris Collins – the hottest bad boy in Hollywood – you think it’ll be easy. Then one of his crazed fans starts making threats against his life and yours. Soon you’re living with Chris to stay safe and you’re growing closer to the brooding hunk each day. Can you get the story you need? Can you keep this relationship professional? And can you figure out who is trying to murder you both before the killer makes their move?
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Rev Your Engine
by: Amy N. Johnson

On the run from your dangerous ex, you take a job as a school teacher in a small town. Your refusal to give any details about your past, however, draws the attention of Miles Archer – the effortlessly sexy President of the Skullfire Motorcycle Club. His questions draw the two of you closer together and soon you can see the noble, trustworthy man behind his criminal facade. But will you decide to run toward him? Or away from him?
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The Legend of the Lake
by: Karin Cederskoog

A young writer retreats to her family’s New England cabin to work on her first novel. It isn’t long before something starts hunting her and she must run for her life. Will YOU survive the strange happenings in Misty Lake?
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Story Game: The Fox's Wedding Book Cover Image

The Fox's Wedding
by: Elizabeth White

You’re a detective, looking for eight people who’ve been abducted. When YOU are kidnapped, however, you and your partner wake up in a village alongside the victims you’ve been searching for. It turns out you’re all being forced to take part in a deadly game… and there can be only one survivor. Will you find a way to survive? Will you be able to save the abductees? And can you figure out why this is happening… or will you fall prey to the game first?
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Story Game: Apex Predators Book Cover Image

Apex Predators
by: Lena Nguyen

When the zombie apocalypse decimates the population, vampires suddenly find themselves out of their only food source: humans. In direct competition with the “other undead,” you must find more living people before the zombies do, protecting them so you can feed yourself. But will you become your humans’ superhuman savior–or have they just made a deal with the devil?
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Story Game: EXTRAS Book Cover Image

EXTRAS
by: Zachary Sergi

You don’t know who you are as a shapeshifting Extra hero—but you’re about to find out. Illicit affairs with superstars, deadly secret reveals, mudslinging in the fame game…EXTRAS EXTRAS, read all about it! It’s The Boys who brunch with Pop Divas & Real Housewives. Experience a rotating cast of shape-shifted personas who investigate a terrifying mystery—one that might implode the entire glamor-and-celebrity-soaked Extras industry. That is, if you survive the corporate espionage and sabotage from the rich and famous celebrities who don’t want their darkest secrets revealed. Will this dangerous adventure be the key to unlocking who you really are, underneath it all? Or will it be the key to building your best, most customizable persona ever?
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Story Game: Small Town Secrets Book Cover Image

Small Town Secrets

by: Anne Katheryn
Mystery / Thriller Young Adult
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Dialogue
Becca was thankful for a fresh start and for an out-of-state college that accepted her into its freshman class. She left behind a tiny, podunk town in the middle of nowhere, and a group of teenagers she had grown much too used to. While she tries to push all memories of her past and old hometown asi
Story Game: Ashen Skies Book Cover Image

Ashen Skies

by: Krista Johnson
Adventure Mystery / Thriller
Branching
Dialogue
After negotiating with the Taliban and wiping out Isis, the Middle East was due for stability–until terrorists unleashed nuclear weapons in the United States. The U.S. responded in kind and sparked an even larger war, turning hippy mom Rachel’s world gray and revealing one harsh truth: To survive i
Story Game: Survive the Storm Book Cover Image

Survive the Storm

by: Anomie Piers
Mystery / Thriller Romance Young Adult
Branching
Dialogue
You’re a ski instructor who’s just met your newest client: Miles Dawson. He’s a smoking-hot professional snowboarder, Olympic athlete, world-renowned heartthrob, and also… the ex who shattered your heart. When you’re forced to take his group up the mountain, an avalanche hits, trapping you and
Story Game: Murder in Sleepy Oakes Book Cover Image

Murder in Sleepy Oakes

by: Nic V-B
Mystery / Thriller Young Adult
Branching
Dialogue
After a prank gone wrong, a band of misfit college students are mandated to complete community service in the spooky neighboring town of Sleepy Oakes. Between the rich reclusive heiress whose mansion borders the rocky cliffs and the sheriff with too many secrets, something is going on here and these
Story Game: A Royal Match Book Cover Image

A Royal Match

by: ASKilian
contemporary Mystery / Thriller Romance
Branching
Dialogue
When you accidentally download a dating app for royalty, you immediately draw the attention of multiple princes. Soon, you’re jet-setting around the world, fending off paparazzi and trying your best to avoid international scandals. But what happens when your handsome suitors discover you aren’t real
Story Game: Royal Paradise Book Cover Image

Royal Paradise

by: Michael Gordon
Adventure Mystery / Thriller Romance
Branching
Dialogue
You’re a waitress at a tropical resort and the guest you’re crushing on turns out to be a Crown Prince. But when a team of killers show up to assassinate him – you’re a target too! The two of you have to work together to outsmart these villains and survive the hurricane sweeping across the island.
Story Game: Star Encounter Book Cover Image

Star Encounter

by: exquisites
contemporary Mystery / Thriller Romance
Branching
Dialogue
When you’re assigned to interview Chris Collins – the hottest bad boy in Hollywood – you think it’ll be easy. Then one of his crazed fans starts making threats against his life and yours. Soon you’re living with Chris to stay safe and you’re growing closer to the brooding hunk each day. Can
Story Game: The Fox's Wedding Book Cover Image

The Fox’s Wedding

by: Elizabeth White
Drama Horror Mystery / Thriller
Branching
Dialogue
You’re a detective, looking for eight people who’ve been abducted. When YOU are kidnapped, however, you and your partner wake up in a village alongside the victims you’ve been searching for. It turns out you’re all being forced to take part in a deadly game… and there can be only one survi
Story Game: EXTRAS Book Cover Image

EXTRAS

by: Zachary Sergi
Drama Mystery / Thriller Science Fiction
Branching
Prose
You don’t know who you are as a shapeshifting Extra hero—but you’re about to find out. Illicit affairs with superstars, deadly secret reveals, mudslinging in the fame game…EXTRAS EXTRAS, read all about it! It’s The Boys who brunch with Pop Divas & Real Housewives. Experience a rotating cast o

Genre: Mystery / Thriller

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