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The Lost Country centers on Edgewater, who's recently been discharged from the navy, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish who takes him under his wing as they both search desperately for a forgotten past and a future that may never come. The Lost Country cements Gay as one of the strongest voices in Southern literature, alongside Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner.

When scholarship student Iris Hale arrives at the elite Winter Hall, she expects cold stares, ancient traditions, and a brutal academic workload. She doesn’t expect whispers in the walls, students who vanish without a trace, or cryptic warnings etched into stone. As Iris digs deeper, she uncovers a chilling legacy: a secret society known as The Inheritors, an ancient Rite fueled by memory and blood, and a lineage that ties her to a girl who disappeared decades ago.

Anneke has a complicated relationship with her father, Abraham Van Helsing—doctor, scientist, and madman devoted to studying vampires—up until the night she comes home to find him murdered, with a surreally beautiful woman looming over his body. A woman who leaves no trace behind, other than the dreams and nightmares that plague Anneke every night.

The next exciting novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid.

In 1928, Emily Locke's final year at the isolated Briarley School for Girls is derailed when Violet, the school's brightest star (and a cunning beauty for whom Emily would do anything), falls to her death on her eighteenth birthday. Emily and her buttoned-up rival Evelyn are, for once, in agreement: Violet’s death was no accident. There's an obvious culprit, the French schoolmistress with whom Violet was getting a little too close—they only need to prove it.

When Marla inherits her grandmother’s crumbling house, she also inherits its attic—a space filled with locked boxes, forgotten voices, and the remnants of a woman’s unfinished thoughts. As Marla begins to experience waking dreams, mirrored emotions, and disjointed timelines, she must confront a truth that exists not in what she remembers, but in what she was taught to forget. Echoes in the Attic Mind is a gothic meditation on memory, grief, and the architecture of the mind.

I’m sold off as the Pakhan’s forced bride. Daddy betrayed the Bratva and sacrificed me to settle the debt. The Pakhan takes one look at me, picks me up, and carries me away. I’m locked in his mansion and expected to give him an heir. He rules San Francisco with an iron fist and a past drenched in blood. He’s more than a decade my senior, and now I’m his little, innocent bride. I’m forced to sign the wedding papers as he tells me I’m his. I’m dragged to his home as he tells me I can’t escape. Nightmares come to claim me, but he soothes me, and I forget. I forget that I must...

Spirited twenty-something Zina and her secretive grandmother, Baba Valya, own a tearoom on rue Daru in Paris, where they have lived quietly since Zina’s mother’s untimely death. By day, the women serve tea, mostly to members of the bustling Russian émigré community, but when dusk falls, they divine fortunes and perform séances for their loyal clientele.

Alabama, 1946. Os Caskeys já enfrentaram diversas provações, alianças inesperadas se formaram, conflitos amargos se instalaram. Miriam agora está à frente dos negócios da família, sempre buscando aumentar a riqueza deles, até que faz uma descoberta surpreendente, que vai lhes dar ainda mais dinheiro. Mas essa fortuna repentina será suficiente para conter os fantasmas do passado? E quanto tempo eles terão até a natureza cobrar seu preço?

Getting ripped away from my bleak life wasn’t part of the plan. Caring for my alcoholic father, working dead-end shifts, and just scraping by—this was my reality. Until I was thrust into a nightmare: auctioned off to the highest bidder. That’s how I ended up with them. Maxim and Damyan Antonov. Stepbrothers. Twice my age. Feared Bratva bosses with an empire built on power and blood. I expected cruelty, control, and danger. What I didn’t expect was their protectiveness. Their desire to shield me, to draw me into their dark world—and their even darker hearts. Beneath their ruthless ...

I’m being sold off to the Bratva as part of a business deal… I’m a regular American girl, an artist trying to make a name for herself. But then Daddy tells me I’m a part of his business arrangement… I have to marry a cold, intense Bratva guy twice my age, whether I want to or not. Our marriage binds our families, giving both parties skin in the game. Nobody cares that my skin doesn’t want to be sold off to him. He says my innocence sparks an obsessive need in him. He wants me purely for himself, like an object he possesses. They say that time heals all wounds, even the most ...

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires meets Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this twisty, fresh take on a Southern gothic that follows a mysterious, charming bachelor as he makes his way into a small town, bringing a plague and the devil with him, from GMA Buzz Pick author Dana Elmendorf.

You know what's the worst day of my life? It wasn’t the day when I lost my mom, or when I was abandoned by my own father, but it was the day when I was sold to a man. People often are unhappy due to a shortage of wealth and love but for me? I don’t even have freedom, my will, my independence. Yes, I am being owned and I lost it all the day I was sold to my master. Now the only thing left in my life is to obey, to follow commands and I am bond to do it, and the times I care about anything other than my master, I get punished. Here is my story of how I turned my beautiful life into a ...

Nestled in the shadows of the Mori Forest lies The Ivy Institute. It may look like something out of a fairytale, but if the rumors are true, it’s where nightmares reign.

Seventeen-year-old Lorelei Patio is the adopted daughter of 200-year-old vampire Sergio Patio. She never realized why her family has had to move so often or why she is not permitted to get too friendly with other young people. In fact, except for one shocking moment that seemed more like a dream, Lorelei never fully realized who and what her father was nor what her sisters were brought up to do for him. But one day, that all changed.

Orphaned as a young child, Mirin O'Malley has been brought up by her grandparents on their isolated, rambling estate Hob's Hallow. Long ago her family prospered due to a deal struck with the mer, the terrifying creatures who live in the depths of the sea: safety for their merchant ships in return for a child of each generation. But for many years the family have been unable to keep their side of the bargain and their fortunes have suffered as a result. When Mirin's grandfather dies, her grandmother puts in train a plan to restore their glory - but at the price of Mirin's freedom.

Being auctioned off to the most ruthless men in the world was never part of my plan. I’m Sienna DeLuca—mafia princess, privileged, untouchable. At least, I was. Until my father’s sins became my debt. Until a blindfold was tied around my eyes, and I was placed on an auction block like property. Now, the highest bidder owns me. Matteo Valentini. Cold. Calculated. Deadly. A man with every reason to hate me. A man who didn’t come to buy a woman—until he saw me. He thinks I’m just a pawn in his twisted game of revenge. A means to an end. But I’m more than that. I fight him at every...

Is it her destiny to love him? Or is it her destiny to die? Valtu Aminoff is no stranger to tragedy. Though many know him as the enigmatic vampire that inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, Valtu's complex life is far more horrific than any fiction could imagine. When you lose the love of your life over and over again, it can do more than break your heart—it can corrupt your soul. It's up to his new lover to decide if Valtu's damaged soul is even worth saving. But destiny isn't done with Valtu yet. And tragedy is always around the corner.

Nadie que conozca la película basada en esta novela podrá olvidar la voz en off que recita la frase inicial de la obra más lograda de Daphne du Maurier: Rebeca. Así comienzan los recuerdos de la segunda señora De Winter, que la transportan de nuevo a la aislada y gris mansión situada en la húmeda y ventosa costa de Cornualles. Con un marido al que apenas conoce, la joven esposa llega a este inmenso predio para ser inexorablemente ahogada por la fantasmal presencia de la primera señora De Winter, la hermosa Rebeca, muerta pero nunca olvidada.

It's been five years since I died and I'm still here. Still haunting this world. I've all but given up hope of passing on the other side when I'm dragged to a spring performance with Yelina and Jericho. It's there that I see the most beautiful phantom I've ever witnessed dancing on the stage. Only after meeting her do I realize how similar we are. But darkness chases her, keeping her distant from me. But how far am I willing to go to find peace?