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Two random people from New York are brought together by circumstance one fateful night.Antonio "Tony" Willhiem is your average young man from Queens, New York, with dreams just like anyone else from the suburbs. He just seems to have hit a patch of bad...

Six years ago, I awoke in a cage with no knowledge of who I was or where I'd come from.Six years ago, I was spared the flesh markets and instead thrown in with a group of savages, where I learned it was fight or...

I never saw a future for myself. Every time I closed my eyes and tried to dream up a life different from this one, I couldn't see it. I always believed it was because I would never live long enough to get there, but...

"This is what horror ought to be: primal, personal, and powerful." -- Seanan McGuire Paul Cornell plumbs the depths of magic and despair in Chalk, a brutal exploration of bullying in Margaret Thatcher's England. Andrew Waggoner has always hung around with his fellow losers...

A Treacherous OathLord Rhyan Hart, Heir Apparent to the Arkasva, High Lord of Glemaria, Imperator to the North, has carried the weight of his title his entire life. But never has he felt it more than now.After sacrificing everything to protect the girl he...

This new hardcover edition of the bestselling The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King features new case art, a detailed map, and a never-before-seen bonus chapter!From the New York Times bestselling author Carissa Broadbent, comes The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King, the gutting second installment...

The fall of magic led to the rise of corruption.Twelve years ago, Cassandra left Verastarr, the land she had grown to love. Shortly after, she watched the Vanaiyer realm fall to the Nordak. The Vanquishing tore apart the five regions, brought about by Seefers-creatures...

The fall of magic led to the rise of corruption.Twelve years ago, Cassandra left Verastarr, the land she had grown to love. Shortly after, she watched the Vanaiyer realm fall to the Nordak. The Vanquishing tore apart the five regions, brought about by Seefers-creatures...

You must choose: forsake your darkness or fight for it?Norah Kestrel, a burned out mental health therapist in her late twenties, finds solace in helping others at Corvid's Hospital while locking away her own haunting wounds within the spare room of her Gothic home.Magical...

DOUBLE FEATURE magazine returns with issue #3: "Que Sera Sera" featuring author S.N. Humphreys! The talented and unique mind of Humphreys, architect of previous entries Have the Day you Deserve and Le Jardin de Gomorrhe (The Garden of Gomorrah) is front and center this...

When he is given a desperate battlefield promotion, he may face a grisly end ... or a dark new beginning.Kaith knows he's been luckier than most. Born to a blacksmith, he's grateful that hard work and good fortune have granted him a position as...

Raven loves her life as a bounty hunter. She lives by her own set of rules and is not beholden to anyone. The bounty hunter is ruthless at her job, never failing to secure her targets-that is, until a simple bounty goes horribly wrong...

A dark medieval fantasy story delving into themes of redemption and alcoholism. When an innocent farm boy is violently thrust into a life of crime, he makes a desperate flight from justice to the city. Along the way, he gains a pair of magical...

Elaenor is merely a pawn on a chessboard with too many kings. Being ripped from one loveless home to be placed in another, Nora is forced to marry a future king. A princess in her own right, she has to learn how to navigate...

New Collection from WINNER of the 2022 Bram Stoker Award(R) in Superior Achievement in a First Novel Promise collects Christi Nogle's best futuristic stories ranging from plausible tech-based science fiction to science fantasy stories about aliens in our midst: chameleonic foils hover in the...

The Pithos Dominion isn't exactly like our own. The One True God locked the Old Ones there, just a few doors down from yours. The horrors they've created have seeped into our world as stories. But they're not just stories. It's 1980 and the...

The Ungodly Duology features two horror novellas from author S.H. Cooper - The Festering Ones: Faith York was a young girl when she saw her father dragged into the ground by a spider-armed woman, never to be seen again. Twenty years later, the events...

***OVER HALF A MILLION READERS HAVE BEEN PLEASURED BY THE TEMPLE VERSE NOVELS. NOW IT'S YOUR TURN...***Quinn MacKenna is on the warpath to save her bartender. Bear-tender...whatever.And it might just break Russia.In every person's life there comes a point where well-meaning people mutter empty...

Born of two kingdoms, in a place of peace and wonder, she will grow to possess great magic and power. But there will be one who will try to wrest that which is hers.With friends and loved ones at her side, they will stand...

Cover copy: Life, death, love, and truth: major themes that frequently appear in Grandmaster Tanith Lee's fiction, are all represented in Dancing Through the Fire, one of the last collections she put together before her untimely death. The stories in this book have never...

Sons and Brothers continues the tradition of its award winning predecessors in the "Legends of the Family Dyer" trilogy. This third installment, although stand-alone, follows the descendants of the accused 17th century witch, Moll Dyer. Another century has passed and divergent family lines are...

The dark history of Spring House, a beautifully restored plantation mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, has long been forgotten. But something sinister lurks beneath the soil of the old estate.After heiress and current owner Caitlin Chaisson is witness to her husband's stunning...

Thou art the Blackflame - wanderer, warrior, and seeker of gold and glory! The ruins of Castle Pendragon loom in the distance. These crumbling walls and crooked towers of stone are said to be haunted by wicked spirits and prowling monsters. They are also...

A debt to the heavens. A mouthy teenaged trainee. A sorcerer-slaying cult that might be his fault.Bib's semi-retirement from killing for the gods isn't going so well. So when he's asked to help an angry twelve-year-old girl with out-of-control powers, he embarks on a...

A Soul for A SoulI am a womanI am a manI am the one who seeks revengeIn Victorian Era England, five people come face to face with life's most feared entity: Death.During their time of mourning, each is approached by a peddler woman who...

What's so scary about Virginia?From Edgar Allan Poe's Ragged Mountains to the shores of Tidewater's Seven Cities...From the blood-soaked battlegrounds of the Civil War to the shadowy political arena of the D.C. Beltway...We have four hundred years' worth of ghost stories, folk horrors, small-town...

Every night, a Moon shines down on the Impossible City... New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire takes us back to the world of the award-winning Alchemical Journeys series in this action-packed follow-up to Middlegame and Seasonal Fears. All across the world, people look...

Where do we go when we dream?Since the beginning of time, people have argued the meaning of dreams. Are they symbolic visions that hold great meaning and personal significance? Are they portals into other worlds? Or are they just a series of random events...

"Accession 'Night versus Dark'" takes readers on a thrilling journey through the Seven Realms, where the fate of the kingdoms hang in the balance. This epic tale chronicles the rise of Night Queen and the formidable Dark King as their paths intertwine in a...

Where do we go when we dream?Since the beginning of time, people have argued the meaning of dreams. Are they symbolic visions that hold great meaning and personal significance? Are they portals into other worlds? Or are they just a series of random events...

Yrfel is home to many birds and beasts, but as of late, the three great races of the world, the humans of the east, the elves of the west, and the Vikings of the north. For years, they have been fighting over this island,...

Rhia is a Courier, a transient messenger who freely travels the land without calling any town or port home. The job suits her, for in a land ruled by the Temple, it is difficult to find your own way, especially when you have a...

Step into a world where shadows stretch long and secrets linger beneath the surface. "Tall Grass" is a spine-chilling anthology that beckons you to explore the unknown, revealing the sinister mysteries that lie within the heart of a tranquil town and its enigmatic surroundings.In...

In this new collection from Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Christopher Barzak, discover stories where fairy tales, gothic narratives, and classic monster stories are transformed into new wonders. A princess who yearns only for freedom dances her nights away at clubs in defiance of tradition....

In the not-too-distant future, after retrieving a secret disc that warns of a cataclysmic event, Aaron aligns with the Freedom Fighters, racing against time to save Earth from destruction and the planet's control by invading UFO forces.In the final battle with the alien invaders,...

Gisela knows about sacrifice all too well. She abandoned her education, friends, and fairy tales to support her family and care for her sister.But when she jilts a wealthy suitor, Gisela is chosen for another type of sacrifice.As an Offering to the Goddess Bergot,...

One of the darkest and most mysterious times in the history of the world is brought to breathtaking light in this action-packed, epic fantasy. At no time in civilization was the intellect of man greater than before the great flood; the pre-diluvian progeny of...

The final 3 books in the epic Academy of Shifters storyRemi has always been different, but something major is about to happen that will change everything. Learn the fates of Remi, Meena, Laith, Rahm and more in the bundle of books 5 through 7....

DISPARATE HOUSEWIVES! The ladies of Mistral Lane have a secret-and someone's found out! Romance novelist Willa Forsyth, step-mom to twins Isis Slade, and former Filipine beauty queen Wandalou Trueheart appear to have it all in the upscale bedroom community of Hydrangea Heights. But since...

Perfect for romantasy fans of Fourth Wing and Shadow and Bone, this dark, Imperial Russia-inspired romantic fantasy novel launches the These Monstrous Gods duology of draconic gods, political revolutions, and deadly magical powers from a Sunday Times bestselling author "This series opener delivers on...

Shula Azzarh is Fae......in a world where it's illegal to be.Working at Piriguini's Circus keeps her hidden in plain sight, but when a vicious accident exposes the truth of what she is, her safe game of hiding comes to an end. Taken by the...

After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch...

Ten years ago, a group of six insurrectionists known as the Harbingers staged a dark war against an even darker society of sorcerers who have offensively used their magical birthrights and desires for power against a gullible and blind world. Three years ago, a...

Abducted from brutal streets to a brutal re-education camp, one orphan must survive by losing himself and in the process discovering who he really is.They took me in the dead of night. . . well not just me, there were others, but most are...

For years, Sia's hidden herself in the gnashing forest, dodging her father's bounty hunters and ignoring the nameless magic in her veins. When she receives a letter from an estranged lover, she returns to the coast she used to call home, within reach of...

"Sing with me, Little Rose."A storyteller with the power of twisting the tales of Fate never lives long. From the beginning, Calista has always told her royals this truth, but she's determined to break the chain of violence by avoiding the attention from the...

A NEW KINGDOM OF PEACE AND MONSTERSThebes, 1465 BC - A New Kingdom has dawned upon Ancient Egypt with Queen Hatshepsut's reign. Peace covers the land. However, in the secret parts of Egypt rests a peculiar cult, seeking to turn the ongoing silence into...

A historically malevolent haunted house threatens to end a line of paranormal guardians. Will the family's latest addition tip the scales in their favor or hurtle them toward their demise?Garrett Mueller proposes to his girlfriend, Marie Renault. She rejects him, distressing him until he...

When fate beckons, will you dare to listen?Fairy bargains should have been familiar for Sanja by now. But even with Eherea's best interests at heart, she can hardly come to terms with the deal she struck with the Crow King. Leaving her mate behind...

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