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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: chaos

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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Symbiote
by: T A Ciccarone

What if everyone including Abraham Stoker got it wrong? Try to keep an open mind and entertain a different reality. If life has taught us nothing it shows that just when we think we know the story we’re completely off track. Symbiote is such a tale.
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Bloody or Mary
by: Lucia Monay

Bella, turned vampire, has been bitten by a werewolf. While her cousin Cody is nowhere to be found and there’s no one else to turn to, she seeks help from The Sorcerer. The only problem is The Sorcerer is unable to tell if it’s actually a werewolf that bit her. With news that Bloody Mary is back in town, the search for the cure becomes much more difficult.
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Murder Ballad
by: Ghost Clown

The never-released 1979 album “Today’s Lullabies” is said to have predicted the murders of a dozen people. You’ve been invited to listen to it. Will you debunk the rumors… or will you become one?
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From Nowhere
by: Scotti

An official transport for the Intergalactic Federation voyages peacefully through the cosmos in search of a mysterious signal emanating from a distant planet… until a critical alarm sounds in the middle of the night, waking the crew from cryo-sleep. The bigger problem is: no one can figure out if the alarm is a drill… or impending disaster.
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Prince Darrius
by: C. Swallow

Jennifer, a young high school girl, is kidnapped by the handsome vampire prince Darrius, unaware her blood is lethal to supernatural creatures. She may not know it now, but her destiny is intertwined with the fate of all supernatural creatures. Either she will help them survive, or destroy them…
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Avatour
by: Ghost Clown

Have you heard about remote travel? It’s the hottest new thing. All you have to do is hop into a stasis pod and we’ll print out a fresh new body for you to control on the surface of Mars. It’s as though you’re really there — we guarantee it.
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The Heiress's Disappearance
by: Mel El

As the heiress to the noble Astley family, you are invited to a festival hosted by the grandest kingdom in the land. However, you come across strange hints about a woman who you believe is your sister who disappeared many years ago. Will you find the truth of what happened with the help of new-found friends at the festival? Or will you also disappear like your sister?
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Fathomless
by: Paul Gardner

Aboard a deep-sea research vessel, an unknown organism threatens the crew and much more after a containment breach.
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The End is Magical
by: Jostena

Dying alone in a warehouse after being bitten by a zombie was not how you expected your life to go, but betrayal does that. You wake up and suddenly realize that you’ve been brought back to a month before the apocalypse. Everything seems to be the same as before, but your body isn’t. How did this happen to you? Why does your body contain powerful magic you never had before? And what will you do with this to change your future?
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Get Even
by: Ric Brady

You’re struggling to come to terms with what happened twelve years ago. But you still can’t remember a thing. Then your best friend is murdered, and you’re sure you know who the killer is. But the only way to prove it is to remember a past you’ve long forgotten. Can you learn the truth to save your friends and yourself? Can you Get Even?
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Wisp
by: Clifton Dee Hawk

In the modern day, a young woman inherits Will o’ the Wisp’s wisp, a hellfire-based light source that grants its wielder power to see the state of another’s soul, whether smothered in shadow or aflame with light.
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The Tomb of Secrets
by: Alex Shelby

You and a nefarious Cult Leader compete to be the first to locate a legendary artifact that turns ordinary people into prophets.
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Midnight Witch
by: Keefe R.D

When a game of magic spells turns into a deathly curse, the friendship between witches; Alexa, Lana, Vivienne, and Okoye turns upside down. It begins when a ghostly voice whispers to Lana; she will die on her next birthday. Her fear turns into an obsession with finding a way to reverse the curse. But alas, her spell wakes something ancient and deathly in the woods that thirsts for bloodshed. The local cops overwhelm by the mysterious deaths that keep happening in town. While Vivienne and Okoye are devastated by Lana’s craziness, Alexa tries to find a way to save her.
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True Colours
by: Tori Ginter

You’re TikTok superstar Tori Ginter! When you’re assigned a suspicious room in the same hotel in which a man disappeared years ago…you can either solve the mystery behind his demise or die trying.
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Emela
by: P.A.M.

What does it mean for one to tempt fate? For that matter, what were to happen if you were to tempt Fate, and as a result achieve an ending to your story that was the epitome of bad? Each of us have an ending, and whether it be good or bad is up to Fate to decide. If you were given the opportunity to achieve total ecstasy, would you? Would you take your one shot at tempting Fate?
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Symbiote

by: T A Ciccarone
Horror Mystery / Thriller
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Prose
What if everyone including Abraham Stoker got it wrong? Try to keep an open mind and entertain a different reality. If life has taught us nothing it shows that just when we think we know the story we’re completely off track. Symbiote is such a tale.
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Bloody or Mary

by: Lucia Monay
Mystery / Thriller Paranormal
Linear
Prose
Bella, turned vampire, has been bitten by a werewolf. While her cousin Cody is nowhere to be found and there’s no one else to turn to, she seeks help from The Sorcerer. The only problem is The Sorcerer is unable to tell if it’s actually a werewolf that bit her. With news that Bloody Mary is back
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Get Even

by: Ric Brady
Adventure Mystery / Thriller
Branching
Prose
You’re struggling to come to terms with what happened twelve years ago. But you still can’t remember a thing. Then your best friend is murdered, and you’re sure you know who the killer is. But the only way to prove it is to remember a past you’ve long forgotten. Can you learn the truth to save y

Genre: Mystery / Thriller

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