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I thought I was inheriting a life of glitz and glamour, but all I got was a castle that even a reality television show wouldn't touch. After inheriting Darkmoor Manor, I was ready to start my new life living in a castle. Instead, what I found inside my new home was a world full of chaos and things that make even grown men cry.

From USA Today bestselling author Jeneane O'Riley comes the first in a series of deliciously dark and whimsical standalone romances. Some secrets were never meant to be unearthed. Perched on a windswept cliff, Blackwood Manor looms like a dark monument to a mysterious family. Behind its grand...

Marla survived another mad caper, one she solved by the skin of her teeth. Her ankle might never be the same after all that creature humping, and there are some Haveners she’ll never be able to look at the same, but at least no one’s in love with her who doesn’t want to be. She only has the one boyfriend now, and Quade Contonn is more than enough wizard for her. In fact, he’s the perfect fit. After decades apart, reuniting with her first love couldn’t be going better.

Being a single mother is hard, especially when all your family is dead. After a reckless night of drinking and a pity party for one, I may have taken a few sexy men to bed. Seven years later, after losing my job and our house, I found a job advertised in a local paper for a live-in cleaner. Everything was going perfectly, until strange incidents started happening around the manor. My daughter is experiencing distressing symptoms, unlike anything I have seen before.

Losing my job was bad, but ending up on my witch of an aunt's doorstep as a last resort was even worse. Her offer? Embrace the magic I've always denied and come work for her at our family's haunted manor. The one staffed by monsters who aren't just people in costumes, including two in particular who draw me in immediately.

Lady Charlotte is engaged to a Duke she's never met, a union that promises financial security for her struggling family but when her fiancé mysteriously disappears, Charlotte refuses to remain in the dark. Determined to find him, she travels to the isolated Gravewood Manor, only to discover it abandoned, and unnervingly eerie. Trapped by a fierce snowstorm, Charlotte takes refuge at the manor, concealing her true identity under the guise of a simple maid.

Normally when you meet 'the one' you're sitting across from each other at a table in a fancy restaurant, eating a delicious and usually expensive meal. You don't expect to meet the love of your life while escaping from an experimental institution. Unless you're Leven and Eyrx, that is. Finding someone who works as well as you do really just makes your heart thump. What makes this even better? Leven being a vampire and Eyrx being a werewolf. Forbidden love? Check. Total insanity? Check. Revenge to be had? Check.

Endlich geht es weiter! Band 2 der Buchwelten-Fantasy – perfekt für Hörbuchliebhaber:innen und Fans von bibliophilen Geschichten. Die Liga Lexis ist in Aufruhr: Lady Hamilton, die Protagonistin eines weltberühmten Bestsellers wurde ermordet! Sofort werden mehrere Agenten und Agentinnen und Lehrende von Bookford Manor abgesandt, um den Fall aufzuklären. Doch nicht alle kehren lebend zurück. Während Annies Gefühle aufgrund von Caspians merkwürdigem Verhalten noch vollkommen durcheinander sind, bleibt ihr keine Zeit.

Salma is haunted by the truth of who she is and why she was brought to the manor. She must break the tainted bond she shares with its master without him learning the truth...or die. Their kiss can mean nothing to her if she is to survive. Especially when the Shade bite she received is even now tainting her blood, twisting her soul, and turning her into a creature of the night.

As the second son, Sef knows his place in the world is in his brother’s shadow, and his destiny is a betrothal to a woman marked for Death. Everything changes in a moment, though, when his twin’s wedding becomes his. Lady Akila finds only one thing more distasteful than allying herself to the Court of Dusk: closing her eyes to the fact that the Night Court is making bargains with the Underworld. If she has to take a bridegroom from a lesser Court to secure her people’s safety, then so be it. At least she’ll be wedding the elder brother.

Zahra always knew what her destiny was, and even without the gift of sight, she knows the path she must tread to achieve it. What she didn't anticipate, though, was just how deeply she would feel the sacrifices she must make.

"Ich weiß, was du bist. Du bist nicht willkommen auf Cheetah Manor, doch meiner Tochter zuliebe werde ich dich dort dulden." Nach dem Tod ihrer besten Freundin will die Indianerin Izusa für deren Tochter sorgen. Doch das gestaltet sich schwierig, denn Eric Morgan, der leibliche Vater des Kindes, beansprucht das Sorgerecht. Kathlyn aufzugeben, ist für Izusa unmöglich, und so lässt sie sich auf einen ungewöhnlichen Deal ein. Sie zieht nach Cheetah Manor, was ein paar Unwegsamkeiten mit sich bringt, weil Chowilawu-Indianer die magisch geschützte Plantage eigentlich nicht betreten können.