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A forgotten throne, a shadow-marked thief, and the loyal soldier sworn to kill her. Isolde has spent her life in the undercity, stealing relics of a magic she was never meant to touch. But when a cursed blade bonds to her blood, she awakens a power the Crown thought long dead—and a prophecy they buried with it. Darian is the king’s most trusted enforcer, forged to uphold the realm’s fragile order. When whispers of shadowborn magic reach the capital, he’s sent to eliminate the threat. But the moment he touches Isolde, a soulbond ignites between them—one that ties their powers, and ...

The Vampires are Running the Asylum! Wormwood Asylum, a private mental hospital located in Southwest Virginia, specializes in treating adolescent psychoses, including Renfield’s Syndrome, an obsession with drinking blood. But when a young man is committed to Wormwood because he believes he’s a vampire, it turns out he wasn’t lying, and soon rapacious revenants are running rampant through the rural mountain community. To fight the blatant bloodsuckers, the local sheriff teams up with a candy striper and her moonshiner grandpa, who just happens to have an arsenal of war-grade weapons ...

Christopher Dollanganger was 14 when he and his younger siblings - Cathy and the twins, Cory and Carrie - were locked away in the attic of Foxworth Hall, prisoners of their mother's greedy inheritance scheme. For three long years he kept hope alive for the sake of the others. But the shocking truth about how their ordeal affected him was always kept hidden - until now.

Ever since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down and her eyes up, ferrying contraband for a mad preacher and his declining band of followers to make ends meet and to protect an old witch and a secret child from harm. But dark forces are at work in the bayou, both human and supernatural, conspiring to disrupt the rhythms of Miranda’s peculiar and precarious life.

The story begins with an investigation into some strange reports of an "opera ghost", legendary for making the great Paris opera performers ill-at-ease when they sit alone in their dressing rooms. Some allege to have seen the ghost in evening clothes moving about in the shadows. Nothing is done, however, until the disappearance of Christine during her triumphant performance.

Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of their very public life hides a darker reality of lies, manipulation, and the heartbreak of her own solitary childhood. Desperate to break free of her mother, Meg accepts a proposal to write a scandalous, tell-all memoir.

To the world Mrs Copplefield is the epitome of Victorian propriety: an exemplary society lady who writes a weekly column advising young ladies on how to be better wives. Only Adeline has never been a good wife or mother; she has no claim to the Copplefield name, nor is she an English lady. Now a black woman, born in Africa, who dared to pretend to be something she was not, is on trial in the English courts with all of London society baying for her blood. And she is ready to tell her story.

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Love is a prophecy. Lust is a weapon. And fate always collects. In the cursed Carpathian village of Umbravalle, where fog slithers through the bones of ancient spires and the woods whisper the names of the dead, an age-old blood feud rages between two monstrous clans: the vampiric Nocturne and the savage Lupar werewolves. Vespera is a Nocturne daughter, carved in ice and flame, bound by duty to a tyrannical sire and promised in a political marriage she never chose. Kael is a Lupar exile, marked by silver scars and rebellion, his soul already half-ruined by grief and rage. When their eyes ...

After a wild night in Vegas, Hollie wakes up to find out she’s married to a man she just met. But there’s just one problem…he’s gone and she doesn’t know how to find him! Hollie’s wild Las Vegas adventure doesn’t go as planned. After having too much to drink, Hollie becomes infatuated with a man she met at the blackjack tables. One bad decision leads to another, and Hollie wakes up the next day to find out she married the handsome stranger. The only problem is that she doesn’t know his last name, or even where to find him. The terrible situation becomes worse when she learns...

Life as a discount con-man-for-hire isn't the romantic adventure Mason Fox imagined when he left the foster system. He's spent the past decade running between low-rate hotels and high-risk jobs, always fighting to stay one step ahead of the FBI and one dollar above the gutter. His business partner and sometimes-lover, Calvin Creed, has graduated from controlling to mean, and the life that Mason had thought would bring him freedom has started to feel like a trap. When Mason is left alone in the small tourist town of Monet, Alabama to find his own lodgings, he books a stay at the darkly ...

In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and soon after she arrives, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the family's personal god, an entity known as the Ghostdaddy. Years later, after a tragic incident that caused her to flee, Stella - now a professional bootlegger - returns for Motty's funeral, and to check on the mysterious 10-year-old girl named Sunny that Motty adopted.

Anne is barely keeping it together. A frazzled ghostwriter and aspiring novelist, she juggles nine-year-old twins and a listless marriage from an overcrowded Manhattan apartment, spreading herself thinner each day. Just as Anne is about to give up on her dreams, she lands her biggest client yet: Melody Wells. Melody paints a picture of serenity and empowerment in the lavender haze of her visualization workshops—however, the one thing she can’t manifest are the pages her publisher is demanding for her new motivational book. Enter Anne.

“A fast-paced and spooky gothic read!” “A great start to a series!” When a malicious spirit made flesh attacks seventeen-year-old Hannah Gares, she discovers that the Ghosts of Dark Hollow are more than just legends. The mystery deepens when a stranger arrives from Europe to reclaim his family's estate, and Hannah finds herself inexplicably drawn to the haunted Blackshire Manor and its eccentric inhabitants, including Sebastian Cravens, the dashing and dangerous heir to the estate. As she digs into the workings of a centuries-old mystery, Hannah will learn about the origins of these...

I’m a hunter. But I don’t hunt the usual game you might find in forests—I hunt monsters. For most of my adult life, I’ve imagined the moment I finally come across a certain vampire—the one who took my family from me and left me with a scar on my wrist in the shape of a bite. All my kills are leading up to this one moment—the moment I end the bastard for good. So when I find myself face to face with what I think is a vampire in the woods—one with the same eyes, the same long, black hair, and the same snarling fangs as the one all those years ago, I make my move. But this ...

Dragons, wolves, bears, and foxes! You can’t escape your fate or your mate, no matter how far you run. Shaken I have to have faith that even with the mob on our backs, a fake marriage, and a year apart, Jordan and I will prevail in the end. Desire How could I possibly have guessed that my mate was being held captive at the hands of these mortal recluses? I couldn’t know that—because we haven’t even met yet. Taken There are two things I learned for sure: You can’t escape your fate or your mate, no matter how far you run. Renewal Did I drag him too deeply into my cause, or am I the ...

💋Hating him should be easy—he killed my brother. He’s my sworn enemy… Instead, I'm fighting the urge to rip his clothes off. Every inch of me remembers that night—how his hard body felt claiming mine. Now, I’m living under Leonid’s control, Trapped in his house as his captive. Playing by his rules. It wasn’t supposed to go like this – Every day, every night, under the same roof. The line between hate and something else blurs. Yet I can't forget why I hate him. No. Not even for a second. Still, revenge doesn’t taste so sweet when it’s mixed with lust. Every touch, ...

Kat is searching for a release. A release from fears about her future and the shadows of her past that she just can't shake. A release from the husband she watched die. Finally, she thought she found it in BDSM. Until her long-term Dom tells her he is leaving the state, and the darkness begins to close in on her again. She doesn't know if her world is about to break all over again. When Kat posts a message for a new Dom on her local BDSM group website, Marcus is the first to respond. Afraid to get too attached and be destroyed a third time, Kat and Marcus agree to keep things platonic. ...

Mrs. Bennet’s marital schemes aren’t the only horrors Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy face this season in Hertfordshire… After learning Netherfield is set to lease at last, Elizabeth Bennet ventures onto the shadowed estate for a glimpse of Longbourn’s newest neighbors. There she finds herself confused by the eccentric Bingley sisters and drawn to the enigmatic Mr. Darcy. But the forbidding grounds whisper of mysteries as sinister as they are ancient. A web of growing madness draws Elizabeth closer to Netherfield and Mr. Darcy, a gentleman whose troubled past is tied to the awakening...

A Lady forced into marriage, a Duke with a dark reputation, an unseen enemy, lies, secrets and ‘helpful’ friends – can they find their way to love, despite it all? ***** FREE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED ***** Lady Ariana Torryngton was forbidden the only man she had ever loved – and has resolved to stay a spinster. But her dictatorial father, driven by his own approaching death, has arranged a marriage for her – to a man with a terrifying reputation. A marriage which she cannot avoid. Benedict Blackshaw, the Duke of Darkmire, is plagued by the rumours of dark horrors of his ancestors – ...