Showing results for "Ever" in Dark Fantasy

They stole his crown. So, he stole their daughter… For years, Erik, the scarred king of the Ever Kingdom, has thought of nothing but vengeance against the man who killed his father and trapped him beneath the waves, making him a prisoner in his own realm. Until his enemy's daughter...

His enemies stole the woman who claimed his soul. They betrayed him out of greed and desire for the crown, but they won't die for that betrayal. No. They'll die for touching her. His heart belongs to a stunning little bird. He will never stop searching for her light across the skies. Not until the blood of his enemies spills at her feet, and his queen wears their bones around her neck.

A Corpse Bride retelling, in which a cursed princess must surrender her heart to break the curse that half-killed her. In the realm of Riches and Ruin, a curse cast by the fallen Fairy Godmother threatens to rot away everything both kingdoms hold dear--including the one heart capable of ending...

Skadi first met her husband-to-be with blades in hand on the opposite side of a battle. She lost, and he claimed his prize. To her horror, the king of the shadow elven agrees to marry her off to Jonas, a prince in the fae realms, as a way to unite their kingdoms against a shared enemy—the light elves. Skadi knows the marriage is nothing but a political game. Feelings won't come into play. Except her new husband makes not falling in love... challenging. When new threats arise, Skadi must decide either to love her enemy or keep him alive by betraying him to another.

I've spent my whole life preparing for one moment, but on the night I'm supposed to commit myself to the Moon Coven, a murder attempt has me fleeing the safety of the only home I've ever known. I run straight past the safe cottage in the woods and right into the arms of a most unlikely hero—a ruthless pirate captain. As I board The Ruined Soul, I can't be sure if I'm a passenger or a captive, but as the tides grow more dangerous, I begin to suspect there's more to the cold-hearted captain than meets the eye. And my magic just might be the thing to help her thaw out.

In a fortress erased from maps, the lich Shiverrig refines Chaos, Cosmos, and Death magic to reclaim the empire stolen from him. His path leads to Crown-Pit—a drowned city chained beneath black water—where the first Book of Glysryss, the Lex Axiomata, lies sealed behind wards meant to keep the dead from rising. But rumor draws the living. A shattered Yoru clan sends its last blades—Aika, Mika, and Azita—into the marsh with a zealot called Preacher, hunting vengeance disguised as duty.

You know the stories. At least, you think you do. Beyond the castles, enchanted forests, magic mirrors, impossible bargains, and promises of happily ever after lies something much darker. Not A Fairy Tale: Where Happily Ever After Ends brings together ten haunting retellings inspired by centuries of folklore, fairy tales, and historic storytelling traditions. Inside, Snow White waits beside her mirror. Jack climbs toward something in the clouds. Stingy Jack bargains with the Devil.

SLEEPING BEAUTY meets Selene . . . She is the goddess of the moon, forever distant. He is a mortal dreamer, bound to the earth. High above the world, Selene guides her silver chariot across the night sky, watching over the sleeping earth. But immortality is a lonely burden, and among the mortals...

A mystic warrior monk of Ordu flees a doomed mountaintop monastery with his wounded master in a desperate attempt to escape wicked creatures of nightmare. A chance encounter with a wood witch possessing untapped Elemenati magic, and the forbidden attraction that follows, propel two unlikely loners into events that will change the face of the Three Kingdoms of Hanna forever. Meanwhile, a sorcerer's war is brewing in the North, and a mad duke plans his vengeance against the king's throne of Baroqia.

Captured by the archdevil Sekka, Kasai must defeat her archnemesis, the devil Zizphander, and his legion of fire fiends at her gate in the hopes she will honor her promise and let his companions live. Meanwhile back in the Mortal Realm, the fate of the Three Kingdoms is at stake, and without the power of the Ever Hero, all seems lost. Kasai must finally accept his role as Aetenos’s next Ever Hero and save the land he loves from the diabolical Frost Legion, rampaging across the continent. But to do this, he must rely on the help from his closest companions.

Set in a fantasy world of unmanageable magics and questionable cosmology, There and NEVER, EVER Back Again: A Dark Lord's Journal is the peculiar, blackly satirical tale of the Dark Lord, who is amassing an army of Things of the Night, and awaiting likely death at the hands of the Elves, the Dwarves, the Armies of Man, and the White Wizard: Embodiment of all that is good and right; just ask him. And: The Chosen One: Victim - sorry, meant to say "Hero" - of a glorious prophecy....

Kazumi, Vampire Hunter: The hunted becomes the hunter! Kazumi and Amos turn the tables on their pursuers and take the fight to the enemy.

In a world hovering on the brink of eternal darkness, Kazumi, the fearless teenaged demon slayer, and her companion, Sunny, the enigmatic fox-devil, emerge as humanity’s final shield against the malevolent House D’Vross; sinister vampire lords ruling over Gethem. Fueled by vengeance and burdened with the weight of her ancestors, Kazumi, the newly anointed High Priestess of her clan, seeks justice for her fallen family, wielding her razor-sharp katana and lightning-fast wakizashi. All the while, Lily, the demon spirit sharing her soul, offers dark bargains for freedom.

Kazumi is a teenaged ninja warrior eager to prove she is ready to ascend to the vaulted rank of Night Blade; an elite group of female demon slayers. Denied by her mother, the High Priestess of the Yoru Ya-iba clan to complete her training, Kazumi sets off on her own to prove her mother wrong. But chance and fate have other plans for young Kazumi when she is attacked by a monstrous chaos beast in the forest and left for dead, or so she thinks. Soon after, Kazumi realizes the horrible truth: she has become the one thing she has spent her life training to kill.

Kasai and Desdemonia escape the Abyss and travel to the Seven Heavens in hopes of salvation, only to be accused of consorting with the enemy and imprisoned for treason on their arrival. Meanwhile, a new threat from beyond time wakes, driven mad by the scent of fresh souls leaking from the Chaos Gate. The Ancients are coming, and they are hungry. All the while, the Three Kingdoms are left defenseless to Sekka’s rampaging hordes of demons. The Soul War has begun, and the Ever Hero is needed like never before.

The battle for freedom is just beginning. In the shadows of a fractured world, where celestial and infernal forces vie for dominance, Eden delves into the heart of betrayal, redemption, and the desperate fight for freedom. Eden, a cunning spy burdened by the weight of her dark elf lineage, stands at the crossroads of destiny. As whispers of the enigmatic Darkswan and the apocalyptic Damius Nexus echo across the Abyss, Eden must navigate a perilous web of lies and alliances.

As armies clash and realms burn, Eden faces a harsher battle within: wield forbidden summoning magic to save her people at the risk of losing herself to the darkness she unleashes. Bound by Blood, Born to Rule. As the Demon World fractures under the Cloud Fae’s brutal war machines, Eden, once a shadow among rebels, rises as their last hope. Her gift—summoning creatures from the Abyss—offers salvation, but at a devastating cost. Each battle demands blood, memory, and a piece of the soul she swore to protect.

The war for the Three Realms is no longer fought by kings or gods—but by a summoner crowned in blood. Eden, once a hunted outcast, now rules as Vas’Shardori, messiah to the fanatical Blood Bound. Her word is gospel, her rituals sacred, and her name whispered in awe and dread. But power never comes without sacrifice. With each demon or devil she calls from the Abyss, Eden loses more of herself—memory by memory, soul by soul.

Six years have passed since the defeat of Sekka at the hands of the Ever Hero. The Heavenly Host has departed, leaving the lands a charred, ash-laden dystopia. Kasai Chou has returned to the ruins of Ordu, seeking solace, but finding none. Enter Cyrus Wraith, a mysterious Master Monk of Lost Symmetu, who promises to guide the famed Ever Hero back to the elusive Boundless while helping him rebuild the Four Orders of Aetenos. But Cyrus has a hidden agenda, and his obsession with the ancient staff, Ninziz-zida, quickly becomes problematic.

There is no hope. Only blood and darkness await. Shade rules as Queen of the Seelie Summer Court with her love, a Teleen Faerie named Dylan, at her side. But, the dark court of Unseelie faeries will do everything in their power to rule the earth, including enslaving the human world. Arthas, the Unseelie Ancient King, has shattered the boundaries of Faerie and the human cities are filling with his evil, unearthly armies. Old enemies become allies. New friends bring old secrets and an ancient magic to light.