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Beautiful Ruin is a dark romance about survival, obsession, and the moment vengeance starts to feel like fate.She thought the worst was already behind her. The violence. The loss. The scars that never stopped aching. But tragedy has a way of circling back, and when it does, it brings him with it...

Aisling bears scars that whisper of a past she cannot remember and a destiny she cannot escape. Each mark burns with a hidden power, binding her to a legacy older than the kingdoms themselves. As visions of war and wings of gold haunt her dreams, Aisling is drawn into a world of ancient magic and buried secrets. To survive, she must uncover her lineage as the last heir of the goddess Danu, master the divine scripts etched into her soul, and decide whether she is meant to save this world… or remake it. Enemies close in from every side, but the greatest danger may lie within her own heart.

Never did Anastasia imagine that in a world where shadows hold secrets and fate spins a harsh web, she would seek refuge in the company of a monster. Just when she thinks she is about to be free of it all, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the shadowy world of another, filled with a...

Eleven extreme-horror authors explore whether Satan invades the innocent, or simply gives the willing permission to become what they already are. Evil doesn't always arrive with horns and fire. Sometimes it whispers. Sometimes it tempts. Sometimes it wears your face. Across eleven unflinching stories, Who's Satan Inside? digs into possession, religious terror, bodily violation, psychological unraveling, and the moment temptation becomes consent.

A Gift in the Dark. When the Slimbies outbreak began, the warnings sounded like just another emergency broadcast. A few bad reactions. A precaution. Nothing to fear. But in one small Delaware home, just before Christmas, everything falls apart. Evan brings home a frightened puppy to brighten the holiday, unaware that the world has already begun to die. By morning, Noah, Mara, and the puppy are on the run, leaving behind the only family they’ve ever known. What follows is two harsh years of cold floors, shuttered towns, thin rations, and the too-quiet dead.

Thrust into the harsh reality of her first professional job, a young woman finds herself stranded in a decaying part of the city where her workday never seems to end. As evening falls, the city’s systemic abandonment transforms into a suffocating maze of escalating threats and predatory shadows. What began as a milestone of adulthood quickly descends into a fight for survival against a landscape that feels increasingly hostile.

Some ghost stories wait for the right summer to come alive. Blackshore, Nova Scotia, is known for its pirate history and urban legends. Children vanish. And every spring + summer, legend says a pirate rises from the caves to collect his due. Autumn Quinn never believed in the towns folklore—until the spring of 1997, when she was taken. She came back alive. But she came back marked. Something crawled out of the dark with her.

Bianca Vail has lived her life in control, calculated, composed, and untouchable. She built an empire from the ground up and learned early that needing anyone was a weakness. Love was a liability, and trust was a risk she refused to take. Then Luke Gray crashed into her world. A former special operative with a past full of ghosts, he’s everything Bianca swore off: disciplined, dangerous, and devastatingly patient. But when she’s taken by the very monster he’s been hunting, control becomes a memory and survival a prayer. Luke will do anything to find her. Break laws. Spill blood.