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I get up on the wrong side of the bed . . . every single day. They call me grumpy. A downer. Maybe even negative. But when your fiancee shatters your life into a million pieces it can take a while to heal. Enter Gwenivere. She's ethereal, hypnotic, and completely stunning. Everything that I'm not. The night she slips into the empty chair next to me during a night out with the team feels like the shutters being thrown open in a blackened room. 

The greatest mistake Ember made was to step foot in my school. The instant the rumors started, I marked her as mine. It's only natural I became curious about the new girl. She took someone's position in this academy. Someone important to me. And now, she has to pay. The only way for her to survive is to find out the dirty little secrets I keep to myself. I watch the pleasure spark in her eyes as she searches. The desire to participate in my particular...tastes. If she's not careful, I might capitalize on that curiosity, and I'll squeeze her heart until it bleeds.

In 1663, Oshun was summoned by Queen Aimee as she lay dying in the rice fields. A high priestess in her homeland of Angola, Queen Aimee was captured and sold to a plantation on a sea island off the coast of Georgia. Beaten, starved, and worked to death Queen Aimee prayed that the Goddess would save her child. Oshun answered her call, sweeping a yellow fever across the island that ravaged the cruel masters and their overseers.

Nightmares slither from the shadows in Scare Street’s latest spine-tingling collection. Thirteen tales of the macabre await in this chilling new volume - a never-ending stream of ghosts, ghouls, and other horrors to haunt your dreams.

Emberly won’t go anywhere near water. Not since she drowned. She has no memory of her experience, and no idea how breath returned to her body, but the sea spirit who saved her hasn’t forgotten. And when Emberly unknowingly breaks their contract...he leaves the ocean for the first time. The dynamic introduction to an anthology of Fairy Tales for Sun-Kissed Women. Infused with myth and seasoned with whimsy, Emberly, is a fantastical reimagining of a classic story for a modern audience.

In a time lost to memory, Etana is born with the Sight and a rare gift whispered through her bloodline: she can speak with elephants. When her father promises her in marriage to an older man, Etana chooses the unthinkable—she flees. Escaping the ritual that broke her sister, she slips into the wilderness under the watchful eyes of the Beastgod.

Ava Walker is always looking for a new adventure, so when her best friend Abbey said she was moving to Dallas, her bags were the first to be packed. Ava was ready to put the small town of Middlesboro and the trauma she endured in her first year of college behind her. Ava caught the eye of Xavier Williams the night she walked into Fetish. He had never been one to want to settle down or collar a Sub, but the night Ava walked into his father's club, that was all he could think about.

The ink isn't dry on the contract for my arranged marriage when my first and only love comes back to town. The Pits demand five souls, turning men into monsters. I know this, as it took away my humanity when I was forced to kill my best friend. I lost not only him, but his sister and my lover—who can never discover the truth of her brother's death. I swore before I snapped his neck that I would find out who runs the Pits and bring them to their knees.

Ruth Stilling presents Book 2 in the Rules of the Rink series. Contains mature themes...

Als ihre Schwester verschwindet, setzt Alice alles daran, sie zu finden – auch wenn das bedeutet, einem weißen Kaninchen hinterherzujagen und ins Wunderland zu stolpern. Vom grinsenden Märzhasen bis zur rätselhaften Raupe, die von ihr fordert, den richtigen Weg zu finden, obwohl Alice immer wieder im Kreis läuft, sind dort jedoch alle dem Wahnsinn verfallen. Der einzige Lichtblick ist der Hutmacher, der Alice nicht nur bei der Suche nach ihrer Schwester hilft, sondern auch Gefühle in ihr weckt, die sie nie zuvor gekannt hat.

After years of waiting patiently in the shadows, I've finally come to claim what is mine. And that prize is Viviana Valachi, the youngest daughter of the Valachi Don. She is timid and obedient, everything her father raised her to be. But there is a fire in those Valachi eyes that is matched only by her brother, whom I hold captive. Azrael is on the move. No place or person is safe, even those I keep in golden cages.

I never knew older men with cocky smiles were my thing. Especially when he's my father's co-CEO. But Zach's smile made me go from good girl to bad girl in 2.3 seconds. Now I'm his intern and we're stuck together like lovebugs. A touch on the cheek as we pass in the hallway. An outright claiming of my soul on his desk after hours. This will be our little secret. Because if my dad finds out, we're both toast. Then I discover the biggest secret of all: I'm going to make Zach a daddy. I just hope we don't lose everything else first.

A road map for rewiring our brains to unlearn harmful beliefs, heal broken bonds, and transform our communities “An intimate text on how we really change, deep underneath it all. Give this book to everyone you love who is stuck in a heartbreaking worldview.”—adrienne maree brown, author of...

The coral reef rose from the seas, spreading across the land with incredible speed. A rapidly evolving invasive species. It transformed the landscape. Mutated every living creature of the surface world. We never suspected it had a plan. REEF MIND is a startling work of Body Horror and climate...

Balthamos is a bureaucrat in Immigration, a part of the governmental Hegemony. He's a werewolf utterly unremarkable other than his choice of life partner, Monarch. Monarch, a colorful vampire who takes center stage wherever he goes, lives with Balthamos in the suburbs of Santsz. And then... rumors begin to spread of an illness come to be known as Wolfsbane. Lunids are reported to be Changing into werewolf form without any relationship to their two moons' influences. It doesn't take long for society to begin to unravel and conspiracy theories to point the finger at--vampires.

When Lena agreed to go home with her roommate Declan to be his date to his brother's wedding, she mostly did it because she didn't want to spend the holidays alone. But when she arrives in the small town of Pinehurst, the Ford family is so nice and welcoming, she immediately feels like one of the family. Nevermind that she's an exotic dancer who's pretending to be a personal assistant, and that she and Declan are only fake dating to keep Declan's alphahole brother from making fun of Declan for being single.

After years of being mistreated, I finally packed a bag and returned back to my hometown as the town gathered for the Thanksgiving holiday. I didn’t know what to do, where to go, or who to turn to… until I ran into him. Joel White. He’s twice my age, off-limits, and no other than my father’s best friend. He offers me a place to stay and helps me get back on my feet, but the temptation to get closer to him is hard to avoid. One night changes everything. Do I tell him my new secret, or do I go back on the run?

In Dickensian Britain, a popular parlour game demanded that players sacrifice something of value each time they erred — no matter how small the mistake. September, 1843. Teenagers Ben and Jem, bound by desperation and circumstance, flee the oppressive confines of a London school for wayward boys. As they journey across the countryside, their bond deepens, each finding solace in the other while carefully guarding the secrets that haunt them.

Frisch aus einer toxischen Beziehung entkommen, will Freya nur das schöne Norwegen genießen. Der skrupellose Sektenanführer ‚Stian' hat jedoch andere Pläne mit ihr. Er möchte Freya benutzen, um seine Sekte am Leben zu erhalten und sein Imperium zu vergrößern. Verzweifelt versucht Freya ihm die Stirn zu bieten und gegen ihr Herz anzukämpfen. Doch wie viel Blutvergießen ist ihr die eigene Freiheit wert, wenn Stian lieber die Welt in Asche legt, als sie gehen zu lassen?

This is Chicago, and nothing can stay “normal” for too long. A woman who was declared dead a year ago just wandered back into the hospital and whispers a word that sends chills through every member of the Night Council: necromancer. If that’s true, if that’s how this really happened, why did he come to Chicago, and who is he really looking to bring back from the dead? There are a lot of dangerous people buried in this city.