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Two thousand years. Two souls. One debt the earth refuses to forgive. Beneath the Cathedral of Saint Jude, something ancient is keeping score. In a medieval village ruled by faith and fear, Ambrose—a priest who built his life on walls of Law and certainty—is unraveling. The woman tearing him apart is Aveline, a laundress with dirt under her nails and a heartbeat that moves in time with something buried deep below the cathedral floor. She hears the hum in the stone. He feels it in his bones. And neither of them can explain the dreams—of standing stones, of blood on frost, of a vow made...

Two thousand years of failure. This time they get it right. He watched her family burn. She saved his life anyway. Isolde has spent seven years hiding in a medieval cathedral, pretending to be a nun, burying the memory of the village the Yorkists destroyed. When a wounded soldier crawls through the doors begging for sanctuary, she should let him bleed out on the flagstones. But something ancient stirs in the cathedral's foundations. Something that remembers. Aurelian is a deserter, a coward, and a man who can't stop dreaming of a priest in white robes and a woman he loved but couldn't touch...

Enter a world where fairytales collide with gothic romantasy in Monsters and Maidens, an illustrated special edition duology that puts seductive new spins on the classic stories of Beauty & the Beast and Sleeping Beauty. Blending elements of horror, fantasy, mystery, and romance, this duology serves up swoon-worthy antiheroes, strong heroines, slow-burn passion, gothic atmosphere, and plot twists galore. Beauty & the Necromancer In Beauty & the Necromancer, courageous young Beauty is taken captive by a doomed sorcerer with the power to raise the dead. Trapped in haunted Eldritch Manor, ...

In a world where survival is broadcast for entertainment, Phoenix Winter must face her darkest chapter yet. As a bestselling thriller author, she thought she knew everything about writing death. Now she's living it. Trapped in a twisted tournament at an abandoned university, Phoenix and nineteen other contestants face a nightmare where the rules keep changing and the cameras never stop rolling. But something darker lurks beneath the surface—the infected are evolving, alliances shatter, and the mysterious Restoration Initiative's true agenda begins to unravel. With a military strongman ...

The poets called them monsters. The priests called them lessons. This is not their version. Hunger in the Myths begins with a boy who flew too close to the sun and follows the women written as warnings... those who burned, prayed, wove, and bled their way into myth. Their hunger is not for power. It's for meaning. For understanding. For a world that will call them something other than cautionary tales. Told like confessions in lyrical prose, Hunger in the Myths transforms punishment into prayer and silence into survival.

When Beauty steals into the cursed lands of Eldritch Manor to save her starving family, she finds herself ensnared by its master - Darius, the dreaded Necromancer. Amidst a crumbling gothic manor where the dead dance and lost souls wail, an unlikely and dangerous passion ignites between captive and captor. Beauty sees humanity buried beneath Darius's monstrous exterior, while Darius, enthralled by her defiant spirit, remembers the man he once was. Together, they seek to break Darius's curse. But vengeful forces in Beauty's village soon threaten to tear the lovers apart. Step into a darkly ...

The throne is no longer empty. Zari rules with an iron will. Relle sets the empire ablaze on dragonback. One rebuilds a kingdom. The other rises to destroy it. But something stirs beneath Vyrantha—an ancient power bound in silence and shadow. And not all betrayals come from across the battlefield. They were never meant to rule together. But when an ancient threat rises, the sisters must unite—or see their world reduced to ash. Because even dragons can’t protect them from what lies beneath.

55 AD. Britannia. The road is coming. The grove will not survive it. Marius Severus is a centurion of the Ninth Legion, tasked with driving a road through the last sacred grove in the western hills. He is iron and order and duty. He has not removed his armor in eleven hours. He has not questioned an order in eleven years. Elowen is the Keeper of the Spring—healer, priestess, the last guardian of a power that runs deeper than Rome's roads will ever reach. She knows the grove will burn. She has known since the dream. What she did not expect was the man in the iron, or the way the earth ...

For seventeen generations, the Thanes bred their heirs for power. Queen Zari believed she ruled beside the man she loved. Prince Lysander thought his corruption was a curse. Both were wrong. The void magic consuming Lysander was never meant to be cured. It was meant to be perfected. Now he's disappearing into the Western Wastes, and Zari's desperate rescue has walked them into betrayal. Their captor offers salvation: trust her completely, follow her into the marshlands where reality bends, and perhaps save them both. But the beings waiting there don't grant wishes. They barter for souls. ...

When the train wreck took her husband, Adelaide Hartford thought grief was the cruelest thing the world could offer. She was wrong. Something ancient survived that night—something patient, furious that she refused its call. Now the dead won't stop whispering her name. And the living have begun to notice. Desperate, Adelaide turns to the church for deliverance. The ritual fails. But when the priest proclaims her healed, she realizes the lie might save her. If she can become the most pious woman in Mill Brook, the town will never suspect what still follows her home. All she has to do is ...

In the darkest depths of the ocean, where secrets have slept for millennia, a daring expedition unveils a prehistoric predator long thought extinct—the megalodon. When the Triton's Folly crew stumbles upon this living legend, they unknowingly unravel a web of corporate greed, military conspiracies, and cover-ups that threaten not only their lives but the very balance of power on Earth. Daria Turner, a fearless journalist, and her steadfast cameraman, Calvin, refuse to back down in their quest for truth. As they expose DeepTech, a global military contractor with sinister designs, the world...

Kora’s first taste of divine power feels like drowning in starlight. Her second makes her want to tear down the heavens themselves. Raised behind walls where roses bloom eternal and shadows dare not linger, she was meant to be the God of Light’s perfect sacrifice. But when Aurelian comes to claim his creation, he discovers his holy vessel is already cracked—and something inside is waiting to break free. In the Lord of Nightmare’s realm of endless night, Kora learns from Dartagnan that true power isn’t holy—it’s hungry, it’s all-devouring, it sings in her bones. Each taste ...

Love conquers all...even death itself. Darius Blackthorne, once a feared necromancer, thought he had lost everything when his beloved Eliza died. Cursed and isolated in his crumbling manor, he had resigned himself to an eternity of darkness. Until Beauty arrived and changed everything. Her pure heart awakened something long dormant in Darius. But their newfound love is threatened when Beauty falls victim to a deadly poison. Desperate to save her, Darius embarks on a perilous journey into the Underworld itself. Facing trials that will test the very limits of his soul, Darius must confront ...

Florence Harrow tends the dead. But when her husband's ghost refuses to rest, she discovers love is the most dangerous haunting of all. In the wake of the 1918 influenza pandemic, widowed Florence survives by arranging flowers for the grieving by day—and working illegally as a mortician by night. In Mill Brook, Massachusetts, sorrow lingers like fog, and whispers of the lost follow her home. When Death himself offers her a bargain, Florence must decide how far she'll go to save the souls she loves—even if it means surrendering her own. Set against a world haunted by war and memory, ...

In the gripping eco-thriller, marine biologist Lexie McKnight finds herself at the heart of a groundbreaking discovery aboard the research vessel Nerion. The team's routine exploration takes an extraordinary turn when they encounter the Haboroteuthis poseidon, an ancient and intelligent deep-sea creature thought to be the stuff of legends. As Lexie and her diverse crew begin to unravel the secrets of this remarkable being, they are thrust into a perilous confrontation with DeepTech, a powerful corporation with its own sinister agenda. When a betrayal from within exposes the crew to grave ...

The Restoration Initiative promised salvation, but beneath their pristine Safe Zones, they’re waging a war against humanity itself. For Dr. Geoffrey Belmont, a gifted surgeon forced into their deadly experiments, survival hinges on uncovering their darkest secrets—and keeping his own humanity intact. When Geoffrey is thrown into Site 5, a hospital twisted into a battlefield, he faces horrors beyond comprehension: the infected roam the halls, patients turned into mindless predators, and the Initiative's sinister T2 soldiers hiding in plain sight. To survive, he must form fragile ...

For twenty-one years, Zarielle trained to rule. Across Draethera’s crumbling streets, her twin, Sorelle, learned to survive. Neither knew the other existed—until the dragons returned. Their arrival awakens powers neither sister can control. Zari commands storms. Relle burns with wildfire. But Draethera is unraveling. Dragon-touched children vanish. The temple’s grip weakens. An ancient darkness stirs. One sister fights to save the realm. The other to burn it down. But some winds won’t be tamed. Some fires won’t die. And some destinies refuse to be divided.

Echo, violated by Zeus and banished by a jealous Hera, rediscovers love, only to have it cruelly snatched away. Scylla, whose great mistake was falling for the lover of her rival, Circe, faces an eternity trapped in the body of a monster. Psyche, raised up on a pedestal as the embodiment of Aphrodite, is married off to a monster whose face she shall never see. Three goddesses emerge from the sands of time to set the record straight.

What begins as a blissful vacation aboard a cruise ship swiftly descends into a harrowing ordeal when the author's husband is unexpectedly ensnared in the world of enforced sobriety. This poignant memoir opens the door to a seldom-seen system, revealing the realities of a mandatory rehabilitation system that operates under the guise of care. As the narrative unfolds, the listener is taken on a deeply personal journey that exposes the underbelly of a rehab industry fraught with systemic flaws and bureaucratic apathy.

Stone does not bleed. Not unless you cut it deep enough. Father Ambrose built a fortress of order in the valley of St. Jude. He is a man of iron rules and cold stone, a living gargoyle dedicated to keeping the ancient, green hunger of the pagan forest at bay. But the wall has a crack. Her name is Aveline. She is the cathedral’s laundress, the keeper of stains. She knows that Ambrose’s order is a lie. She knows the town’s peace is bought with blood. And she knows that the only thing holding back the Root caused the bleeding in the first place. When Bishop Valerius arrives to purge the ...