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I was given to the Wolf King to repay a blood debt. Stellan Varen is ruthless, feared, and built of ice and instinct. I expected a captor, not the truth hidden in my blood. I’m an Omega. His perfect match. His greatest temptation. As my suppressants fail and my heat ignites, the bond between us becomes impossible to deny. But surrendering to an Alpha means losing my freedom or claiming a power I never knew I had. And the Wolf King will burn the world before he lets me go.

H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and M.R. James: The Ultimate Collection is a fully indexed collection containing over 75 stories and poems from the three most beloved horror and ghost writers in modern literature. Read by three Audie-winning narrators.

‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy’ – The New York Times David Larson can never go home. His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti-war, won't even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran in the house. So Larson...

The Ultimate Gothic Horror Collection is a fully indexed collection of classic gothic stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

From international best-selling author Craig Russell comes a modern Gothic masterpiece. Edward Hyde has a strange gift - or a curse - he keeps secret from all but his physician. He experiences two realities, one real, the other a dreamworld state brought on by a neurological condition. When murders in Victorian Edinburgh echo the ancient Celtic threefold death ritual, Captain Edward Hyde hunts for those responsible. In the process he becomes entangled in a web of Celticist occultism and dark scheming by powerful figures. 

Ten years ago, UN Interpreter Chelsea Mason was asked by her bosses to go in and document the illegal timber trade. She thought it would be an easy in and out job. The group of rebels had a different idea when they captured her for ransom. Her friend Jordan James comes to her rescue and they escape to the famed lifestyle club, Baker Street. Adam Wheldon, Chief of Security at the club, is there to provide security and care for Chelsea.

Ruari of Clan Dundalk knew Arielle was his mate as soon as he set eyes on her, but he had planned to court her properly. When she arrives in his lands as an uninvited stowaway, however, he decides it is time for this beautiful, headstrong female to be taught her place over his knee. As she is led to her new mate's castle naked, blushing, and sore, with only a sheet to hide her helpless arousal, Arielle's fury at being bared and spanked is exceeded only by her desperate need to be thrown to the ground and ravaged by the brute who just punished her so shamefully.

She will be claimed and bred, but first she must be tamed. Only one thing could have awakened Kellan from long centuries of sleep. The scent of his mate. Míorúilt has the blood of dragons in her veins and taming her will be no easy task, but Kellan wouldn't want it to be. While he slumbered, he dreamed of how sternly and shamefully he will punish her defiance and how thoroughly he will claim and ravage her beautiful virgin body. Now it is time.

Five years ago, I drove away from my birthday party, my father, and his mafia organization. I’ve been living off the grid in Moab, Utah. When my father is brutally killed, I am suddenly a wanted woman by various entities, including the Feds, the Cartel, my father’s odious second-in-command, and the head of the Gateway Syndicate, Nolan Hamilton, none of them good.

Charlotte Beaufort’s origin pack plans to use her as a pawn in their power play. Daniel Lawson, the dashing intelligence agent at the American Embassy in Paris, is her fated mate. Char makes a deal with two of the most powerful Alphas in wolven society - her uncle and the Alpha of Paris in exchange for Daniel’s life. When Char learns she is pregnant with Daniel’s child, her mate adopts the boy as his own. Many years later when Hunters kill her mate, Daniel knows it is time to reclaim his fated mate and his family.

I was not asked. I was chosen. Every year, the creature who keeps our community safe requires a virgin as tribute, and every year, she is thoroughly ravaged and then returned ruined for any other man. No one will tell me exactly what is in store for me; I only know he's not going to be gentle. But the elders underestimated me, and when they left me in the sacred clearing, I took the chance to escape. Now, the beast hunts me, and if he finds me, I can only wonder what he'll do to me....

A celebration of the Gothic gloom in a powerful and evocative theme throughout the 19th literary century. Gordon Pym, Alice in Wonderland, and Jules Verne as a universal view of travelling. This novel pays tribute to Edgar Allan Poe and his tormented life. After his spouse's death, suffering from a devastating condition of neglect, Edgar leaves New York to save his soul from demons and desolation. Italy his destination. But soon after his departure, he needs to face the abyss he has continuously tried to escape.

Freja Jensen, contemplating retiring from BeeBop Publishing Group in Austin, Texas, received a brown paper parcel in the mail. She opened the package, and saw that it was from Lucas Hansen, or his pen name, Lucas Pedersen. With the letter was a manuscript. Another note received was from a doctor who asked to remain anonymous. Included in a small teakwood box was an ancient sistrum, an Egyptian musical instrument with magical powers, and had the etching of an ankh on top.

Con and Katie are throwing a party for their people, and they have invited the other Syndicate Masters and their mates to see in the New Year with them. Come join us for the fun and shenanigans that are sure to occur.

In post Civil War New York City, Detective Pat O'Malley is living inside Poe's Cottage in the Bronx. O'Malley is haunted by Poe one night, and the detective finds a strange note. As a result, O'Malley decides to prove that Edgar Allan Poe did not die in Baltimore from an alcoholic binge but was, instead, murdered. O'Malley quickly becomes embroiled in a "cold case" that thrusts him into the lair of one of the most sinister and ruthless killers in 1865 New York City.