Books like The taker by Alma Katsu

A weary father and his young son journey across a bleak, post‑apocalyptic America, battling cannibals, starvation, and a harsh winter in a desperate quest for safety and a glimpse of remaining civilization.

A Soviet nuclear submarine marked for defection slips into the Atlantic, sparking a high‑stakes pursuit by the United States and the Soviet Union in this tense Cold War thriller.

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A gritty, horror‑laden retelling of the Donner Party’s doomed trek down the California Trail, where starvation, curses, and sinister forces threaten the wagon train.

Dr. John Blackmore’s world spins around Bathsheba, the Countess of Randolph—demanding, fierce, and irrepressibly beautiful—when duty clashes with desire in a passionate London romance.

Lin Kong, a devoted doctor, wrestles with love for the modern Manna Wu while bound to a rural wife chosen by his family, navigating tradition, divorce, and Party scrutiny over seventeen years.

A vampire warrior consumed by madness, seeking to claim a phantom vampire's love, with the night's edge of darkness looming.

A woman with a medical background finds herself drawn to a charming but complicated man, and a new romance is born when she realizes he's just what the doctor ordered.

Ex‑PI Griffin Shaw is now a celestial Centurion tasked with escorting deceased souls, but a slip of fate drags him back to the mortal world to protect journalist Kit Craig from an assassination plot tied to his mysterious death.

In a small Maine town, high‑schooler Zara battles mischievous pixies, but when a Valkyrie kidnaps her boyfriend, she must ally with the rogue pixie king Astley to rescue him from Valhalla.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Set in the 19‑century town of St. Andrew, *The Reckoning* follows Lanny as she mourns the loss of Jonathan—a love forged in a world beyond time—while an ancient evil wakes to claim its place in the present.

After a sister’s murder and her niece’s kidnapping, Kate Elliot defies the FBI and pursues the child to Paris, forcing FBI agent Marcus O'Brian into a perilous race to protect her and save the girl within 48 hours.

After awakening with no memory of five years and no aging, softball star Kyra Agnew partners with the teenage brother of her former boyfriend to uncover the truth behind her disappearance.

Neonatal specialist Nathan Steele thought he'd found happiness--until tragedy struck. A widower, he wasn't looking for a fairy-tale romance. Then he met a mysteriously familiar woman at a fundraiser who raced away, leaving behind a broken high-heeled shoe--and leaving him determined to know everything about her. Hospital housekeeper Cindy Elliott refused to fall in love--especially with a wealthy doctor who seemed too charming to be true. But one kiss awakened a passion neither of them expected...and now Cindy was expecting the doctor's baby! Earning her trust sure wouldn't be easy, but Nathan was ready to do whatever it took to sweep Cindy off her feet--and carry her into happily ever after.

On Halloween, sisters Monica and Peter chase a creepy house and a strange woman who leads them into a battle against the evil Dr. Screem, who seeks five ancient masks with world‑manipulating powers.

When Sarah Purcell ends up in hospital, she's shocked to find the dreamy doc by her bedside is her soon-to-be ex-husband, Cullen Grey! Sarah's reluctantly released into Cullen's care, but he's as emotionally distant as ever, and her old insecurities bubble over. Surely the new life he's forged for himself in Hood Hamlet proves he can live without her? Caring for his wife 24/7, this time Cullen won't bury his feelings. As the tremors of their old attraction erupt, he has one thing on his mind: it's time to bring his wife back by his sidewhere she belongs.

A physician turned vampire races to develop a vaccine, but love and power threaten her fragile world.