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August 1955: When Miss Darcy O’Sullivan, an orphaned English teacher from Boston, receives a letter finding out that her biological father passed away, she is surprised to find herself included in his will. There is only one condition. She must travel to Fairydale to attend his funeral. With the promise of a sizeable inheritance, Darcy decides to journey to the small coastal town that holds the secrets of her birth. But the moment she steps foot into Fairydale, things start to go amiss.

They call me Kayla "The Ruthless" King. The Queen of the North Shore and leader of the Kings' Crew. Because of the sacrifices I've made and the merciless way I run my crew, the North Shore belongs to me. In our town, you can only thrive if you're the worst of the worst. But that all ended when the psychopath I put away returned with a target on my back. If I'm The Ruthless King, Nathan White is The Lawless God. The biggest and baddest of them all. He's heartless and cruel, and everyone is safer out of his way. Including me.

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture.

At the heart of Dark Romanticism is its brooding, pessimistic tone, its emphasis on the supernatural and the sins of humanity, and its use of iconic symbols and horrifying imagery. The classic Dark Romantic authors (Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville) are represented in the stories and poems in this volume, as well as some authors who are not commonly included in this genre.

In the summer of 1925, the winds of change are particularly chilling for a young woman whose life has suddenly become unbalanced. Devastated by her mother’s death and a cruel, broken engagement, Sadie Halloran learns that her great-aunt Marguerite, a renowned artist now in the throes of dementia, needs a live-in companion. Grasping at newfound purpose, Sadie leaves her desolate Kansas City boardinghouse for Blackberry Grange, Marguerite’s once-grand mansion sitting precariously atop an Arkansas bluff.

Die Manipulatorin. Ich kann die Emotionen von jedem manipulieren, der es zulässt. Ich werde dich verletzen, dich weinen lassen, dich zum Lachen und Seufzen bringen. Aber meine Worte berühren ihn nicht. Besonders dann nicht, wenn ich darum flehe, dass er geht. Er ist immer da, beobachtet und wartet. Und ich kann niemals wegschauen. Nicht, wenn ich möchte, dass er näher kommt. Der Schatten. Ich wollte mich nicht verlieben. Aber jetzt kann ich ihr nicht mehr fernbleiben. Ich bin fasziniert von ihrem Lächeln, von ihren Augen und der Art, wie sie sich bewegt. Der Art, wie sie sich auszieht.

I'm trapped in a forgotten nightmare with the monster I most fear. The key to my freedom lies behind a wall of memories. Xero's specter invades my mind, whispering both vengeance and salvation. He insists he's real, yet I can't trust my shattered psyche. But as my tormentors draw close, I must rely on the phantom I betrayed for protection—and for revenge.

According to the FBI, I was considered a serial murderer after three kills. What do they call me after fifty-two? They call me the Silencer. One final bullet would have been all it took to stop me from taking another soul, and I would have been doing Meridian City a service by pulling that trigger. An angel crying for help stopped me, and that night, I took three lives for her. Then three turned into eight. Then eight turned into twenty. Twenty turned into twenty-one. Twenty-one turned into twenty-three.

The Lost Apothecary meets Gothikana in this Victorian gothic romance of posion, passion, and dark secrets following a botanist who likes to poison unsavory men, but when her next target visits her apothecary, they discover their dark bond runs deeper than they imagined.

Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it.

There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell—the forest where sinners go to die. The villagers call it The Eating Woods because what's taken is never given back. Only those who've lost their senses would dare to go near it. Or the banished. Maevyth Bronwick knows better than to breach the misty labyrinth of trees, but a tragic turn of events compels her beyond the archway of bones to a boundary no mortal has crossed before. One that cloaks a dark and fantastical world that's as dangerous as it is alluring. It's there that he dwells, the cursed lord of Eidolon.

I married the head of the Bratva for my family’s sake. Now he wants to possess all of me. He’s much older than me, and I hate everything about him. But our marriage secures our alliance and protects my family. It’s just a business deal. Until we’re wed, and he drops all pretenses: He says I’m his now and treats me as his possession. I was naïve enough to think it would all be pretend play. But he’s obsessed with me and makes it clear that he wants all of me. He wants me to live in his house, lie in his bed, and give him babies. And if I don’t agree to his demands, he’ll ...

He’s much older than me and forbidden territory. But now I’m carrying his baby. I hated him from the get-go. His Bratva-style possessiveness enraged me. It didn’t matter. We were both promised to someone else anyway. Until he took my innocence and put his seed in my belly. He thinks he owns everything in sight, including me. But my Italian curves can’t be bought, especially by a powerful Bratva. I will ignore the overwhelming heat his steady gaze is causing. And I refuse to be distracted by those long, teasing fingers. But the harder I try to resist him, the louder my body speaks. ...

When a troubled young heir to a shipping fortune is suddenly transformed by evil magic into the form of a haunting stranger, he must travel to an ominous city at the edge of the world to unlock the magic's fateful mystery. “With its subtly sinister atmosphere and measured element of fantasy, the book succeeds in creating a story that reads like a lost tale by Robert Louis Stevenson or Stephen Crane…surprising and satisfying…A charming gothic pastiche.” — Kirkus Reviews

He bought me off an auction stage, and now he thinks I belong to him… He’s the notorious, ruthless enemy and much older than me. I thought I had finally found a way to beat him, but he double-crossed me. And before I know it, he’s bought me like property and gets me pregnant… I was forced into the Bratva world, and now I have to prove myself. So I stand there on the auction stage, offering myself to the highest bidder. He wins the bid and pays extra to own me permanently. It’s humiliating…but this is my only opportunity to infiltrate his family. But inside the walls of his ...

As the ruthless Vampire Don of the Louisiana underworld, Lucio Di Salvo has everything he needs—power, immortality, and an empire fueled by blood and seduction of the melanated he lusts for. But his world is haunted by an ancient prophecy that drives him to hunt the descendants of a famed hoodoo priestess, in hopes he finds the Chosen One, the only being capable of tipping the balance of power among supernatural forces. One night, he crosses paths with Dolly, a sharp-witted and strikingly beautiful EMT, while she’s on an emergency call. Their encounter is brief, almost incidental, but ...

I accidentally got a job as a Bratva lord’s PA. Now he’s forcing me to marry him… I desperately needed a good internship for my scholarship. I was so happy when I got it. I didn’t yet know that my Bratva boss would punish my mistakes by forcing me to marry him. Neither did I know that he’s my brother-in-law and would get me pregnant with his heir… I thought it was an evil coincidence that I ended up working for the Bratva. But it turns out he’s obsessed with me and had it all set up. When I make the cardinal sin of mixing up some dates in his calendar, he punishes me. He says ...

Screw the mafia. Growing up, my father was a gambling addict who made bets he couldn’t repay… So the mafia has been a threat to my family ever since I can remember. Yesterday I met the worst gangster ever. He’s a hothead with a temper… A gorgeous asshole looking to take over Florence for his crime family. I hated him from the second I laid eyes on him.

He kidnaps me, locks me up, and uses me. I’m just an innocent intern who has never heard of the Bratva. Until a much older Bratva guy kidnaps me to one of his hideouts and forces me into a deal. Either I give him what he wants, or he’ll make me regret that I didn’t. He monitors everything I do and blackmails me. When another man looks at me, he sees red and tells me I’m his alone. When I fight back, he uses his special Bratva techniques to soften me up. And just when I’m about to give in, I realize he’s been using me the whole time. He catches me in vulnerable moments and uses ...