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When building inspector Eric Vance dies in a workplace accident eighty stories above Chicago — killed by a pigeon, a frayed cable, and forty dollars' worth of budget cuts — he doesn't get the afterlife. He gets a job assignment.

In the big city of London, Abigail Warren works as a detective with her best friend and partner Josie. All seems well in their world until a strange case lands on their desks. Seven women have all gone missing in a very short time, sending the detectives on an un expected journey to Venice where their world is tipped upside down in a fight for survival. Abigail was never a believer of vampires until a diary appears in her possession that leads her and her friend Josie to meet the darkest and most dangerous of night walkers.

He was already sitting at her table when she walked in. Jamie Wilder writes romance novels for a living. She knows how a love story works: the meet-cute, the tension, the turn. So when the man in the black coat starts telling her about a Puritan farmer's daughter in 1680s Connecticut, she recognizes a good story when she hears one.

When a young woman is offered as tribute to a feared beast king, she expects death. Not a bond that could break the kingdom's curse. Isabella prefers books over people and keeps to herself, especially in a pride that sees her and her eccentric inventor father as little more than burdens. When the time comes for the annual sacrifice to the terrifying Beast King, whispers start that her father will be next. Desperate to protect him, Isabella agrees to marry the pride heir in exchange for her father’s safety, despite him not being her fated mate.

,THIS DARK, HORROR VAMPIRE ROMANCE LOVE STORY. Sky a 'blood donor', in a city where vampires rule. They must follow the strict consent laws and be assigned to a vampire when they reach 18. Sky is assigned to Sebastian, a vampire Lord. He is unable to feed from anyone else without harming or causing harm. Sebastian is haunted by an evil and dark past but Sky has her own dark secret. She discovers things as she settles into her new life. As they spend time together, she discovers and learns about the curse. She finds out where it came from and how she is the cure.

She mourned the boy who never came back. She married the man who did. She just doesn't know they're the same person yet. For twenty years, Kaida did what she was told. She was quiet, obedient, and waited, hoping the little boy she'd promised herself to at seven years old would come back for her. But when she's sold to the highest bidder in her father's kingdom auction, she loses all hope. She expects a fierce warlord. What she gets is a man whose eyes are achingly familiar and whose laugh she has heard before.

Two bonds. One heart. A love powerful enough to shatter centuries of rivalry. Katherine “Katie” Jackson grew up in the glittering world of the Devereaux vampire clan, powerful, untouchable, bound by blood and tradition. At twenty-one, her destiny was supposed to be simple: to stand beside her childhood best friend, Lucas Devereaux, heir to the clan and her true mate. Their bond ignites in fire and passion, sealing what their families always hoped for.

A literary mystery novel set in the small town of Hawthorne, where a mysterious confession reveals that an innocent man was imprisoned for a fire he did not commit. When Ruby receives an anonymous letter, she is drawn into a web of family loyalty, hidden evidence, and ten years of carefully guarded secrets. Themes include truth, justice, guilt, redemption, and the destructive power of silence. Suitable for general adult collections and book clubs focused on psychological mysteries and contemporary literary fiction.

Izzy Conner, twenty, steps out of a Chicago bunker carrying nothing but his mother’s final promise and a radio that still crackles with faint voices. Diana and Hannah Miller, sisters from Austin, Texas, emerge from their buried shelter with two bikes, a handful of supplies, and the stubborn refusal to let hope die with everything else. Three strangers. Three separate paths through a poisoned continent. One fragile thread: voices on a dying frequency, giving directions, warnings, and the only thing worth fighting for... someone to reach.

On a secluded island off the coast of Maine, a house stands where the fog never fully lifts. Drawn into its shadow, long-buried memories begin to surface—and not all of them belong to the present. The walls whisper. The past lingers. And something within the house refuses to be forgotten. Because some places don’t just hold secrets…they remember them.

Revenge is a pulse-pounding thriller that dives deep into the human spirit’s capacity to endure betrayal and transform pain into power. At its heart is a man whose world collapses without warning, leaving him with nothing but the strength of his will and the raw determination to survive. What follows is a gripping journey of resilience and rebirth. As he navigates a world clouded by deception and fueled by ambition, he is forced to reckon with trust, identity, and the razor’s edge between justice and vengeance.

Tagline: Fairytale Land, where nothing is as it seemsErabelle, a land that was once rich and lush, has fallen into ruin. Darkness stalks the land, seeking to destroy all that is good and light. But I won't allow it. As the last remaining member of the Onyx Sisterhood, a group of witches sworn to keep the Darkness locked away, it is my duty to find it, capture it, and return it to the void. When I come face to face with the entity the Darkness has become, can I strike fast enough, or will the Sisterhood end with me and Darkness reign supreme?

When Margaret Holt retreats to a quiet Cotswolds village after the death of her husband, the former Prime Minister, she expects peace, a neglected garden, and the chance to finally be herself. What she gets is a dead journalist, a detective who underestimates her, and a secret that reaches all the way back to Downing Street. Maggie spent thirty years watching powerful people from three steps behind. She noticed everything. Nobody noticed her. That was always her advantage. Dead Man's Bells is a British cozy murder mystery and the first book in the Mrs Holt's Mysteries series.

For fans of Chloe Gong comes a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy in which a young Shanghai woman must work with her ex, the London prince, to save their rival courts—if she doesn't kill him or fall back in love with him first. It’s been nine years since the accords were established and centuries of war between the Midnight and Dawn Courts settled into a cold peace. But when poison created to eliminate the Dawn Court royal bloodline is stolen, all signs point to the Midnight Court and that tentative peace threatens to break.

In a distant corner of the galaxy, on the planet of Xylon, where the skies raged with perpetual storms and the land trembled with ancient magic, the alien warrior, Lyra, stood atop the crystal spires, her eyes fixed upon the stars.

A chart-topping comeback. A marriage the industry wants erased. A love that refuses to be managed. Ted and Soo-ah made it. Against every idol contract, every fan expectation, and every carefully worded Nova Entertainment press release — they got married. Quietly. Completely. Theirs. But quiet doesn't last long when your wife is one of Korea's most-watched K-pop stars and the industry has just decided your marriage is a brand liability. Now Soo-ah is back in the dorm. Ted is locked out of the building. Eclipse's comeback is hanging on a hashtag.

Roused from mind-slavery, a woman finds her life bloody and bleak. Her quest is revenge on one hand and identity and belonging on the other. Inspired by the classics of sword & sorcery and cyberpunk, Liam Q. D. Hall brings us into the depths of humanity with all the accompanying darkness and light.

Emily Peterson is the Great Witch, the most powerful of them all. Even she has limits. Defeating the Great Dark Witch pushed magical essence, the remnants of good and evil magic through space. Since both cannot be killed, trapping him was the only option. Now that he's gone, a new evil threatens life on Earth. Emily must stop the SHADOW from reaching the planet.

After 2012. The world ended on December 21, 2012. Magnetic poles reversed. Continents drowned beneath mega-tsunamis. Tectonic violence fused Africa and eastern South America into a single, towering super-continent. Ash choked the sky for years. Civilization vanished under water and ruin.

A Survival Story in an Ecological Fantasy! In this cozy fantasy, an entire civilization's life depends on a single, dying world tree. Deep beneath the earth, a magical society has flourished in an underground city, but a creeping petrification threatens to entomb them all. Their only hope is a desperate quest to the feared and unknown surface. Follow a brave band of explorers in this hopepunk on a mission of survival and discovery as they confront a world they were taught to fear, seeking a mythical seed that holds the power of rebirth for their people.