Showing results for "Obsession" in Gothic

I made a vow to protect her when we were just kids. First, from the monsters hiding under the bed and then the ones roaming the world freely. My obsession with Dove wasn’t normal. It toed the line on psychotic, but my love for her overshadowed that. I’d killed, destroyed, and hurt those who had done her wrong. I’d watched her for years wanting to claim her but refusing to. I was both her guardian angel and a demon lurking in the shadows. She was mine, even though she didn’t know it yet.

A brutal mob boss is brought to heel by the fiery spirit of a jazz dancer who teaches him the meaning of love, in this enemies-to-lovers, marriage-of-convenience dark billionaire romance.

She was off-limits. He touched her anyway. I should have hated him. But I couldn't even breathe without him. Damian Miller was the beginning of the end. Cold. Controlled. Broken. He takes. He owns. And somehow… I wanted him to. What started as control turned into obsession. What felt like...

Cruelty is his middle name, and I'm at his mercy. My father has kept me locked away in an ivory tower. I thought he wanted to protect me, but he only wanted to protect his asset. An untouched, sheltered mob princess is worth a lot of money to the right buyer. My father's greed means Sicily is no longer big enough for him. I'm shipped across the Atlantic to Boston to marry a man I've never met, whose reputation for cruelty reaches as far as the shores of Sicily.

THE UNMISSABLE GOTHIC HORROR EVENT OF 2026 A LIFE IN LIMBO. A SIN SO SWEET. AN IMMACULATE DECEPTION. I feel the bond that has been created between me and him - this one made of shadows, the one who pulses in my depths and who promises to fulfil my yearning... Pernambuco, Brazil, 1877. Raised in...

Brought to you by Penguin. HE HAS CALLED TO HER ALL HER LIFE, BUT SHE COULD NEVER REPLY. . . Midonia, a freelance interplanetary transporter, is on thin ice after a fatal accident on the job. So she doesn’t argue when she’s given the tedious task of flying devout Sister Irena to a remote...

Seamus Murphy is everything I was raised to destroy. Irish. Brutal. Unshakable. He killed my cousin. Stole my future. And now? He's the man I'm being forced to marry. It started with a heist. One second I was stealing back my family's crest—the next, I was face-first in the dirt, pinned beneath a man who should've put a bullet in my skull. But Seamus didn't kill me. He watched. He followed. He touched. Now I'm his wife in name only—a pawn in a twisted truce I never agreed to. He wants answers.

I spend my nights slinging drinks at Black Magic Bar or taking my clothes off at the local strip club. After my father passed, my stepmother gave me no other choice. But when I break free of the chains binding me to my family estate, I find myself with nowhere to go. Until Nero Voss, the youngest of the billionaire Voss brothers, offers me a room at Midnight Manor. Now, I’m under his watchful gaze and enjoying it more than I should.

Bloomsbury presents The Unrecovered by Richard Strachan, read by Anna Burnett. Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut prize 'Beautifully written' Michelle Paver 'I devoured this' Rebecca Netley 'A rare gem of gothic literature' A. M. Shine At a Scottish manor house requisitioned as a...

I felt his eyes on me everywhere I went. I recognized his smell lingering within my home. I even sensed his presence in my sleep. It was too late by the time I found the monster hiding under my bed. He had wedged himself into my life, cornering me with nowhere to run. The worst part? The world adored him, but no one knew the devil lurking underneath the beautiful mask—no one except for me.

In meinem Reich nehme ich mir, was ich will. Sogar sie.Ich bin ihr Beschützer – ihr Hüter.Ich sollte ihre Unschuld nicht begehren, sollte mich nicht danach sehnen, sie als die Meine zu markieren. Aber ich werde es tun, denn sie ist die Versuchung, der ich nicht länger widerstehen kann.In meiner Welt werden Regeln gebeugt und Grenzen überschritten. Sie sollte unantastbar sein, aber ich war noch nie jemand, der sich an Regeln hält. Ich bin ihr Beschützer, ihr Wächter, aber heute Abend sehe ich nur die Frau, zu der sie geworden ist - reif für die Entführung.

She's finally under my complete control, yet it's not enough. I hold her body captive but not her heart. She has no money. Nowhere to go. No one to turn to for help. She knows I took everything from her to make her mine, so she fights me at every turn. This began as a game, but she needs to understand that I will do anything to win. Anything. She is my possession. Nothing, and no one, not even her, will keep us apart. One way or another, I'll get what I want. And I want her...all of her.

A beguiling novel of Victorian theft and obsession from the Sunday Times bestselling author of CATHERINE: A RETELLING OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS Uprooted from her home in India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Mr Tilsbury enters their lives, Alice is...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Beauty becomes corruption. Love becomes obsession. Desire becomes ruin. Enter the dark heart of Gothic literature in Dark Mirrors: Gothic Obsessions, Dangerous Beauty, and the Price of Desire—a haunting collection of immersive modern retellings from...

I used her body like an altar. Now she’s here for confession. I left my past behind. Then she walked into my church. Once, I was Bane Blackwolf—heir to a legacy of blood and sin. A monster in the making. Instead, I chose the cloth over the crown, buried my name, and became Father Blackwood. For years, I was in control of my darker nature. Until her. Moira. The woman with a sinner’s mouth and a body made for worship. The woman who doesn’t know it was me behind the mask that night—me who had her on her knees, begging.

He was never supposed to see her. She was never supposed to survive. Emily’s life has always existed in the shadow of the dead. Working at her family’s funeral home, she thought she knew secrets. But nothing prepares her for the night she discovers what really happens after midnight—or the man who’s been watching her from the dark. Ruarc is a killer with a code. Ruthless, disciplined, and loyal only to his criminal family. But the moment he sees Emily, something shifts. She’s meant to be leverage—an unwilling pawn in a dangerous game of betrayal and revenge. Instead, she becomes his obsession.

My village was burned to the ground by ruthless vampires, but they came for me. Dragged me to King Yakov's castle. He gave me a year to serve him and earn my keep. Foolishly I accepted, only for the first touch of his cold, cruel fingers to reveal that I'm his mate.

Black gentlewomen have guilty pleasures so let's let them call the shots... You have now begun She Got Me: the urban black love story boxset of four tales of temptation in hot Atlanta. Every antagonist is a sexy sista out for the sexiest black males in the A. Kayla has more on her mind than a hot shower for one when she summons Tyrone, the sous chef, one afternoon. Do you think these two can keep a secret in the house of four? While dance partner, Imani works her way down her ex, Marquis at a dance competition in Tokyo.

I’m an imposter, a fraud, unwanted...but that won’t stop me from claiming her. She is part of a tortured past I’d rather forget. I will never forgive myself for living when my brother died. As a penance, I’m forced to live his life. To claim what should have been his birthright. Soon, I will join the most powerful men in the world as a member of The Order of the Silver Ghost. Into this opulent nightmare of my own making, she reappears. She will be both my salvation...and my damnation.