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Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all.
Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a
home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she
receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them,
she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common
folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to
learn their futures by her dreams.
Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a
mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and
devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's
visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one,
she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world
outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods
have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid
Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.
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Brimstone
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Duty. Blood. Honor. Power.
Saeris Fane doesn't want power. The very last thing she needs is her
name whispered on an entire court's lips, but now that she's been
crowned queen of the Blood Court, she's discovering that a queen's life
is not her own. A heavy weight rests upon her shoulders. Her ward—and
her brother—need her back in her homeland…but the changes that have
strengthened Saeris have also made her weak. Born under blazing suns,
Saeris will surely die if she makes her way home through the
Quicksilver. Which means that, once again, she must send someone else
in her stead....
"Keep your mouth shut. Stick to the shadows. And for the love of all
seven Gods, do not crack any jokes."
Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate has defeated armies and survived all manner
of horrors, but traveling back to Zilvaren with Carrion Swift might
just be the death of him. The male just will not shut up. Hidden
dangers await them down the narrow alleyways of the Silver City.
Unfolding secrets pose impossible threats. Fisher must wrangle the
smuggler and accomplish his goals quickly if he wants to see his mate
again.
A darkness falls across Yvelia. The realm and their friends are in
danger. Together, Saeris and Fisher will pass through fire and
brimstone to save them.
Narrated in duet style.
In the shadows and flames, Primals will fall… And from the blood and ash, new gods will rise.
In the thrilling penultimate chapter of #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Blood and Ash series, Poppy and Casteel face their most perilous challenges yet as old enemies rise and ancient powers stir from their slumber.
Bound by love but driven by destiny, they must navigate a world on the brink of devastation—where every choice has deadly consequences. With their bond tested and their future hanging in the balance, the fate of the realm rests on the strength of their hearts and the power of the Deminyen. Don’t miss the final book starring your favorite Maiden and her heartmate.
Captivating and action-packed, the Blood and Ash series is a sexy, addictive, unexpected adult fantasy series perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros.
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Corrupt
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Penelope Douglas
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Dreams might be a heart's desire, but
nightmares are its obsession in the first novel of a dark romance
series from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas.
Erika Fane's boyfriend's older brother is handsome, strong, and
completely terrifying. The star of his college's basketball team gone
pro, he's more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than he is with her.
But she saw him. She heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds
that he hid . . .
For years, Erika bit her nails, unable to look away. Now, she's in
college, but she hasn't stopped watching him. He's bad and the things
she's seen aren't content to stay in her head anymore.
Because he's finally noticed her.
But Michael Crist knows the hold he has on Rika, how much she fears
him. She looks down when he enters the room and stills when he's close.
He knows she thinks only of him. When Michael's brother leaves for the
military, leaving Rika alone and unprotected, he knows the opportunity
is too good to be true.
Three years ago she put Michael's friends in prison, and now they're
free.
Every last one of her nightmares is
about to come true.
**Corrupt is a STANDALONE dark romance
with no cliffhanger. It is suitable for ages 18+**
A deadly prison. A forbidden romance. A fight for survival.
THERE’S ONLY ONE RULE IN ENDLOCK: OBEY OR DIE.
In Dividium, all crimes are punishable by life in prison. A prison
that’s a life sentence in more ways than one. Where the wealthy can
hunt the inmates for sport.
Raven’s mission is simple: infiltrate the infamous and deadly Endlock
Prison to save her brother.
There’s just one problem: Raven has a target on her back. Her
reputation as the most ruthless bounty hunter in Dividium precedes her,
and the inmates she’s sent to Endlock want their revenge.
So when the prison guard she’s sworn to hate becomes her only chance to
survive, Raven has no choice but to trust the one person she shouldn’t…
Life in the perilous Thorn district is a constant battle for Arvelle
and her younger brothers. And the vampire standing on her doorstep is
about to turn their world upside down.
Faced with an unthinkable choice, Arvelle makes a magically binding vow
to do the impossible: kill the emperor, an ancient vampire created by
the god Umbros. But first, she must enter the Sundering—an arena where
only the fastest, strongest, and deadliest survive long enough to be
selected for the emperor’s elite guard.
She quickly draws the ire of the Primus, the powerful figure charged
with protecting the emperor. But the vampire under the armor is the
last person Arvelle expects to encounter in the emperor’s court.
With her brothers’ lives in the balance, Arvelle has no choice but to
ally with the man who once shattered her heart… and with the emperor’s
sadistic son, Rorrik—two vampires whose motives are impossible to pin
down. Rorrik holds the key to understanding the powers Arvelle is
developing—abilities that would put a price on her head if discovered
by the emperor.
To survive the arena and complete her mission, Arvelle must get to the
bottom of a conspiracy that will change everything she thought she knew
about herself—and the two vampires who are deeply entwined with her
destiny…
What if your mother knows you better than you know yourself?
On remote Tuga de Oro, vet Charlotte Walker has been taken to the
islanders’ hearts and, between days on the farms and nights with a new
love interest, she’s content to remain in blissful retreat from her
real life, in London.
Just for now, obviously.
Until real life hits the island with the force of a tropical storm:
Charlotte’s mother arrives.
Lucinda Compton-Neville knows an identity crisis when she sees one, and
has come to haul her daughter back on course: back to England, back to
her career, back home where she belongs.
Grumpy cowboys and steamy romance . . . Welcome to Chestnut Springs:
the big-hitting, small-town series from TikTok sensation Elsie Silver.
Perfect for fans of Devney Perry, Lucy Score and B.K. Borison.
Working as a nanny for the world's grumpiest single dad should have
been simple.
Except I can't keep my eyes off him. And he can't keep his hands off of
me.
Cade Eaton is thirteen years older than me and barely looks my way.
Until I get him in the hot tub one night for a game of truth or dare.
Then all bets are off - and so are our clothes.
He's gruff, a little rough around the edges, and it turns out
broad-shouldered ranchers with filthy mouths are this city girl's
kryptonite. So who am I to resist?
But in our quiet moments together, he softens, and I start to realise
his hardened exterior is just a façade. Someone once convinced him that
his best wasn't good enough. Yet I've never felt more cherished than I
do in his arms.
My contract may say this arrangement is only for two months .
But my heart says this is forever.
If you could see your future, how would you live now?
Margot Wayward is in manically gleeful self-destruct mode. Following
the implosion of a ten-year relationship, she’s wilfully derailing her
successful career, joyfully taking down men on dating apps, and living
in total chaos.
Until one day, when Margot has a vision of herself with a man she’s
never met before. She doesn’t believe in fate. But when Margot meets
single-dad Henry, the vision comes true: exactly as she’d foreseen it.
As her future continues to reveal itself, a glimpse at a time, Margot
realises she knows exactly what’s going to happen, and when. And
there’s nothing she can do to change any of it.
So Margot has to decide how to live, how to love again, and how to be
herself… Because if you can’t change your destiny, how on earth do you
live your present?
An epic and unforgettable love story continues in Redeeming 6, the fourth book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh.
Joey Lynch's life is falling apart. Obsessed with proving himself to the only person he's ever truly trusted, Joey fights to stay away from a world that could destroy his life. The odds are against him, but can he keep his head above water?
Aoife is absolutely unwilling to give up the boy she loves, so she is determined to save him from self-destruction. She becomes trapped in a world she doesn't understand, but her heart is stronger than what's trying to drag her down. Aoife will never give up on Joey, no matter how much is stacked against them.
Through heartbreak and horror, Aoife and Joey have had each other's backs, and this time is no different.
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Kill Switch
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One woman's worst fears come to life
in the third novel of the Devil's Night dark romance series by New York
Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas.
Sending Damon to prison was the worst thing Winter could've
done. It didn't matter that he committed the crime or that she wished
he was dead. Winter thought he'd cool off in jail and become anything
but the horror he was or that, at the very least, she'd have time to
disappear before he got out.
But she was wrong. Three years came and went too fast, and prison only
gave him time to plan. And while Winter anticipated his vengeance, she
didn't expect this. He doesn't want to make her hurt. He wants to make
everything hurt.
Damon knows he needs to get rid of Winter's father, giving Winter, her
sister and her mother nowhere to run. The Ashby women are desperate for
a knight in shining armour. But that's not who's coming.
It's time Damon took control of his future. It's time he showed them
all that he will never stop being the nightmare they think he is.
Damon won't have to break into Winter's home to do it. As the new man
of the house, he has all the keys.
**Kill Switch is a STANDALONE dark romance with no cliffhanger. It is
suitable for ages 18+**
"What a pretty flower to keep locked in a big, rocky tower."
Nineteen years ago, I was plucked from the heart of a bloody massacre
that spared nobody else. Small. Fragile. An enigma.
Now ward to a powerful High Master who knows too much and says too
little, I lead a simple life, never straying from the confines of an
imaginary line I've drawn around the castle grounds. Stay within. Never
leave.
Out there, the monsters lurk. Inside, I'm safe … though at a cost far
greater than the blood I drip into a goblet daily.
Toxic, unreciprocated love for a man who's utterly unavailable. My
savior. My protector. My almost executioner. I can't help but be
enamored with the arcane man who holds the power to pull my roots from
the ground.
When voracious beasts spill across the land and threaten to fray the
fabric of my tailored existence, the petals of reality will peel back
to reveal an ugly truth. But in a castle puddled with secrets, none are
greater than the one I've kept from myself.
No tower is tall enough to protect me from the horror that tore my life
to shreds.
Book one in the Crystal Bloom series.
Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros and Jennifer L.
Armentrout.
Can life be like a made-for-TV Christmas movie? Mally Allister prides herself on being nice and predictable, just like the trope-filled festive films she turns to for comfort every winter. But when she faces the prospect of spending Christmas alone in her London flat, Mally is sent on a writing assignment to try to recreate the cheesy Christmas movie experience in her humdrum British hometown. With the help of familiar faces from her formative years, including her teenage crush Tom, Mally starts ticking off the classic holiday romance movie tropes in unexpected ways. But can real life ever live up to the magical movie experience?
London, 2005
Behind the unmarked door of Love and Death, a tiny speakeasy in East
London, Robbie Saunders and El Tippett are cocktail-making stars on the
rise.
Locked in a volatile dance of rivalry and chemistry, they can't deicde
how they feel about each other. And, as the as the city transforms
itself, and the bar's legend grows, it all begins to unravel.
Yet something indefinable keeps drawing Robbie and El back together.
Over the years that follow, one unexpected, ill-advised, and utterly
glorious late night after another, can they put aside professional
betrayals to build something brand new?
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Wolf.e
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Edgy. Dangerous. Addictive. From the author of Holding the Reins comes
a binge-worthy dark biker romance, perfect for fans of Rina Kent and
Navessa Allen.
Ride faster than your angel can fly.
Gabriel Wolfe, fallen dark angel and president of the Hounds of Hell
motorcycle club, has lived a life shrouded in darkness. Haunted by a
traumatic past, chaos is the only way he makes sense of the world.
He craves it to feel stable. Whole.
But everything changes when he meets Brinley Rose Beaumont. With her
raven hair and molten eyes, she ignites a fire within him that he never
knew existed. Wolfe's meticulously controlled world soon begins to
unravel, and he finds himself drawn to Brinley with an intensity that
borders on obsession.
Now, Brinley is all he sees. And Wolfe will stop at nothing to make her
his.
In the game of second chances, can they follow the rules?
When Ellis Ainsley runs into her ex, Liam Ruinsky, ten years after they split, she remembers why she fell for him all those years ago. A tall, strong, charming ice hockey player - he really was a dream man. But their lifestyles are now worlds apart, and surely wouldn't work in reality. But the temptation is too much, and they agree to one last night together.
They thought nothing could go wrong. That was, until Ellis saw the positive result on the pregnancy test.
Already a chronically ill woman struggling to juggle her health and career, Ellis needs to figure out how to tell her NHL-playing ex-boyfriend he is going to be a dad. And despite their decision to coparent, their chemistry is still undeniable.
With turbulent families, over-bearing coaches, and the media wanting a slice of Liam's life: will he be able to step up? Most of all: will they risk falling in love for a second time?
True love is at stake in this charming, debut romantic comedy.
Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it’s a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, she’s desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood. Cassie knows there has to be a catch—only someone with a secret to hide would rent out a room for that price.
Of course, her new roommate Frederick J. Fitzwilliam is far from normal. He sleeps all day, is out at night on business, and talks like he walked out of a regency romance novel. He also leaves Cassie heart-melting notes around the apartment, cares about her art, and asks about her day. And he doesn’t look half bad shirtless, on the rare occasions they’re both home and awake. But when Cassie finds bags of blood in the fridge that definitely weren’t there earlier, Frederick has to come clean...
Cassie’s sexy new roommate is a vampire. And he has a proposition for her.
Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two. Starside is
the realm of magic and immortals –the descendants of the gods, living
in a power-rich paradise. Stormside is where mortals fight for scraps
of that magic.
Every fifty years, the gates between them open, and fifty challengers
are allowed to journey across Starside on a deadly quest to access a
pool of magic that can heal, grant wealth, or extend life. Everyone has
their reasons for entering, but Aris has only one: vengeance. As a
child, a goddess set fire to her village, killing her family. Aris
isn't after the gods' magic – she's going to kill them.
First, she must survive the Culling, the king's deadly competition to
choose his fifty challengers. An orphaned blacksmith's apprentice, Aris
doesn't have the superior weapons of the heirs from the Great Houses.
But the greatest swords – ones that contain power – are not inherited
or bought, they are claimed, by both sides. And when Aris claims a
great sword, it makes her not just a real competitor – but a target.
Getting past the gates is only the beginning. Starside is deadlier than
it seems. If the ancient creatures, magic-wielding beasts, and
bloodthirsty immortals weren't dangerous enough, a new peril has even
immortals fearing what rises from the ground at night. With a blade
most would kill to claim, Aris can't trust anyone. Especially not
Harlan Raker, the merciless and mysterious king's guard who betrayed
her years ago – and who may now be the key to her survival.
But Aris is hiding a secret tied to her family's death. And when it's
revealed, not even the gods will be able to stop what's coming…
One summer before World War I, a young couple escapes on a romantic
weekend getaway to the small German town of Rheinsberg, north of
Berlin, in the midst of a rural landscape filled with country
houses and castles, cobble-stone streets, lush forests, and dreamy
lakes. The story of Wolfie and Claire, told with a fresh, new style
of ironic humor, became Kurt Tucholsky s first literary success and
the blueprint for love for an entire generation. Kurt Tucholsky was
a was a brilliant satirist, poet, storyteller, lyricist, pacifist,
and Democrat; a fighter, lady s man, one of the most famous
journalists in Weimar Germany, and an early warner against the
Nazis. Erich Kaestner called him a "small, fat Berliner," who
"wanted to stop a catastrophe with his typewriter." When Tucholsky
began to write, he had five voices in the end, he had none. His
books were burned and banned by the Nazis, who drove him out of his
country. But he is not forgotten. Rheinsberg is at once a
delightful and a deeply disquieting story. The lovers, Claire and
Wolfie a silly but harmless pair escape the confines of Berlin for
a romantic romp in the countryside. As their brief interlude nears
its end, already consigned to memory, there comes with it an end to
innocence, to frivolity. It was 1912; Kurt Tucholsky s prescience
was uncanny: the holiday is over and soon we will go to war.
--Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Hester Among the Ruins and The
Scenic Route Once known as Weimar Germany s greatest political
satirist and one of that fabled era s most celebrated literary
figures, Kurt Tucholsky is today virtually unknown in America. Now,
readers have the chance to discover one of his early pieces of
fiction that exhibits the intense wit, charm, and rhetorical verve
for which he earned his reputation. Noah Isenberg, author of
Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism
In Rheinsberg, Tucholsky delivers the newness and intensity of
young love, sweet, sometimes strident, with repartee juxtaposed
against the sylvan landscape of rural Germany. Poignant, biting,
tender: a reminder of what love promises and can be. Victoria
Zackheim, playwright, novelist, and anthologist A wonderful and
charming love story, finally rediscovered and brought to America
Claudia Dreifus, Professor of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University, New York Teachers and students of history and
literature will welcome this collection of texts by Kurt Tucholsky,
an early 20th century master of literary and political criticism,
whose incisive and elegant voice will now be more widely available
in English. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History at Cooper Union
and author of Jews, Germans and Allies: Close Encounters in
Occupied Germany Rheinsberg a short story of two unconventional
lovers in the last carefree days of Germany before 1914. The first
major work by the anti-Nazi journalist and poet Kurt Tucholsky
finally appears in a new translation for English speakers. Ian
King, Professor of German, Chair of the Kurt Tucholsky Society
IN A DEN OF VIPERS, REVENGE IS THE DEADLIEST WEAPON.
After my sister was attacked and hospitalised, my world was shattered.
Now, all I have left is vengeance.
The problem? I have no idea who did this to her.
My only lead is The Vipers, an elite college hockey team that rules the
ice―and the shadows beyond it.
To infiltrate their secret society, I set my sights on their weakest
link: Kane Davenport, the Viper’s charismatic captain.
But too late, I realise I’ve enticed the most venomous snake.
Behind Kane’s perfect mask lies something far more dangerous than I
ever imagined.
AND NOW I’M TRAPPED IN A LETHAL GAME WITH NO ESCAPE.
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Wretched
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From BookTok sensation Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious
fractured fairy tale reimagining of The Wizard of Oz. A woman can
be great, and terrible too. Evelina Westerly has always been the
bad guy. As the brains, brawn, and botanist behind her family's
drug empire, she's her father's ruthless secret weapon. With her
days divided between perfecting her greenhouse, seeking revenge for
her sister's murder, and putting a gun to the head of anyone in her
way, Evelina doesn't have time for anything else. Especially not
for love. After a one-night stand with a gorgeous man at a
nightclub, she's sated her urges and is back to her criminal ways.
That is, until that same man shows up as the new Westerly
lackey...under a totally different name. But Nicholas Woodsworth's
real secret is much more dangerous than an alias. He's an
undercover DEA agent, and he's hell-bent on destroying the drug
trade that devastated his family. When he realizes the youngest
daughter of the Westerly empire is the same woman he's been
fantasizing about since that night at the club, attraction wars
violently with disgust. Evelina embodies everything he's against,
and he's been sent here to be her downfall. Yet the more they learn
about the darkness in each other's hearts, the more alike they
seem, and when hatred turns to something more, Nicholas will have
to decide whether he can love a wretched woman, even if it means
bringing both of their lives to ruin.
He lost everything. Then he found himself . . .
In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright is at a loose end: his parents
are dead, his older brother has disowned him, and he’s been fired from
his job. Looking for a sense of direction, he returns to his family’s
summer cabin in Oregon.
The cabin should be empty – but it’s not. Inside is a man named Alex,
and an extraordinary little girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader.
There’s far more to Art than meets the eye. But as Alex and Nate bond
over just how special she truly is, they discover that powerful forces
are closing in – forces that want nothing more than to control her.
As danger draws near, Nate decide whether to drown in the memories of
his past, or fight for Art and a future he never thought possible.
Every book in the Dream Harbor series can be read as a standalone.
Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought
a Christmas tree farm in a town that’s too cute for its own good.
Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor taking a break from his
life in California. And most importantly, taking a break from his
latest run of disastrous dates.
After a run in with Kira in her fields, Ben has no intention of
offering to help the grumpy owner set up her tree farm, despite the
fact she’s clearly got no idea what she’s doing.
Kira knows she should stop being so stubborn, but her farm is not all
cute and cozy like people always show on social media, it’s borderline
dangerous with no heating, and she’d rather no one saw it.
But somehow fate finds Ben at Kira’s farm once more, and as Kira
watches him swing an ax at the first tree, she finds herself
appreciating his strength and questioning why she refused help in the
first place…
The Christmas Tree Farm is a spicy romantic mystery with a HEA
guaranteed!
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