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GOLD MEDAL WINNER OF THE 2024 READER'S FAVORITE BOOK AWARDS AND FINALIST IN THE IAN 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS.Something wicked comes for them all. Will any of them survive the ultimate double-cross?Quinn Carter pledges to protect his found family no matter the cost. So when they come under attack by a psychotic ghost, an unforeseen spy, and a traitorous witch, the half-demon teen and his supernatural friends fight to keep each other safe. But a determined enemy still...

She thought therapy would help. Instead, it opened the door to something haunting.Sixteen-year-old Skye Roberts already feels invisible. Her best friends have drifted away, the group chat has renamed itself without her, and even the cafeteria feels like enemy territory. When her mom insists on therapy, Skye braces herself for awkward small talk and breathing exercises.But Dr. Merrill’s office isn’t normal. The clock stutters, the air feels heavy, and sometimes the therapist calls her by the wrong name—like she’s speaking...

Blazing red eyes with flames for pupils regarded Nidar. Their savage intensity scoured away all thought and ignited terrible, fearful anxiety. There was an insatiable hunger in their depths and Nidar could feel that hunger reaching for her. Those eyes did not want to just kill her, they wanted to devour her.Welcome to Foji. Welcome to The Forge.Nidar is a saikushi, a unique type of kishpu that can use the open nexus on Foji to craft powerful artefacts imbued with...

I was born of spring, but I am destined for darkness.My mother, a goddess of balance against the Morai, is dead, and my world shattered with her. Now, the ancient, sadistic Morai have swooped in, sealing my fate: a political marriage to the Fae Thrundul Gods, and I’m prize to be controlled. Only the strange and calculating Dhallios, the God of Tricks, is permitted to court me. But with every silver-tongued whisper, I grow less certain if he is a...

1950: A storm took three lives. A stranger walked away. Now the dead want answers.When the fishing vessel Mercy Belle sank off the coast of Crowford, the town mourned the loss of three beloved men. But amid the wreckage, a fourth man was found – soaked, shaken, and completely unknown. He had no name, no past... and no idea what he was doing on the boat.Five years later, the stranger lives quietly under the name Edward Smith. Married. Settled. Normal....

A Gripping, Readers’ Favorite Award-Winning Gothic Tale!What could be more idyllic than to live on an island off the coast of Maine? That's what Bill Andersen thought when he moved his family to Mateguas. But Mateguas is more than just pristine beaches nestled between rocky shores. No, Mateguas is really something quite different….>>>Linda Watkins Does It Again"Surprising twists and turns and a powerful old box filled with magic: these are the elements of a fine horror story that slowly builds...

"Break me like your promises..."Katerina Ivanova was never meant to love her Shadow.As Iriska’s most powerful Dimi, her command of the four elements makes her a weapon of the Saints, sworn to guard the realm’s portals and keep the demons of the Underworld at bay. Bound by blood and ancient magic, she and Niko were forged to fight as one, not to feel the forbidden pull that blurs every line between duty and desire. Yet their hearts have chosen otherwise,...

Kings and queens, lords and ladies, saints, titans, tyrants: by their otherworldly blood the Wardens preserve their home of Nexus from an endless tide of demons.Lorne Auscheron is an heir to that legacy. For nineteen years he has prepared to play his part in the survival of his people; and now, finally, that time has come. Rassala awaits, a world where an army of all-too-human paladins crusades against a brotherhood of beasts over faith, blood-soaked land, water, and scars of...

A haunting in Kensington. A beast in the Dales. A conspiracy that threatens the Crown. All in a day’s work for two outcast Special Branch detectives.London, 1900. The unlikely duo of Detective Inspector Frank Tarrant and Detective Sergeant Sidney Wainwright are the laughing stock of Scotland Yard. Ridiculed by colleagues as the ‘flying chair brigade,’ they appear to spend their days interviewing crackpots and chasing shadows. But their mission is deadly serious: to investigate paranormal threats that defy rational explanation.While...

He was supposed to die. I was supposed to forget him. But fate has a wicked way of binding us with blood, thorns, and fire.After losing the elf I loved to the gallows, I vowed vengeance—not with blades, but with herbs.Hidden beneath the noses of the guards, I sabotage their executions and save the condemned. Everything is going smoothly… until I rescue him.The Bloodied Thorn.An infamous elven assassin, cold and brutal, with a hatred for humans as sharp as his...