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This orc is trouble. A lifetime of disappointment has hardened Emma. Not even the warmth of the holiday season can melt the ice surrounding her heart. When she discovers an orc hiding in her barn, she’s prepared for the worst. Hal is on the run from something and has many secrets. He’s huge, fierce, and covered in scars, but there’s a vulnerability in his eyes that softens her. He claims he has gaps in his memory, but how much of that is true and how much has he chosen to forget? Emma doesn’t know how far she can trust the massive green orc.

As the heir to the Halliday name and fortune, Win's entire life has been carefully orchestrated from the moment he came into the world. He's never been allowed to aspire for anything outside that plan, including love. After the tragedy that followed his younger brother chasing his foolish heart, the Halliday Matriarch insists on picking a bride that's up to her outrageously high standards. Unfortunately, the only woman Win would ever consider marrying isn't found anywhere on his mother's list.

Der einzige Grund, warum ich es so weit geschafft habe, ist, um herrschen zu können. Jetzt ist mein einziges Ziel, die Frau zurückzubekommen, die mir gehört. Sasha glaubt, dass alles vorbei ist, aber wir fangen gerade erst an. Sie ist mein Mädchen. Meine Partnerin. Meine Ehefrau. Sie ist mein.

Between the blood of gods and monsters, I am both killer and healer. The Darkhavens were once my obstacle. Now, they may be the only safe haven I have left. The Gods are lying to us all. They are not Gods at all, but creatures that came from another world to rule over ours.

In the dying days of 1850, the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein. Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary legacy. When a chance discovery raises doubts about the death of Shelley's first wife, Harriet, he starts to question whether she did kill herself—or whether what really happened was far more sinister…

Forbidden fruit never tasted so sweet. Professor Sutton Dupont's tenure at Avernia College is as complicated as his family's bloody history. Still, when the most irresistible temptation he's ever faced slinks into his classroom, Sutton finds himself desperate enough to risk it all. After years...

Asher Anderson is angry―at the world, at himself, at the way his best friend Lucy Wolfe seems determined to tune out this buzzing connection between them. He doesn't mean to solve all his problems with violence, but maybe he has too much of his father in him. That's why the faculty at Avernia College hates him, right? Because of the "evil" blood in his veins?

Jay Crownover presents Book 2 in the Monsters Duet.

Faith. Ist es so verwerflich und schrecklich, dass ich mich in alle Monster und nicht nur in das eine Biest verliebt habe? Das dunkle Neverland liegt in Scherben. London brennt und der innere Kreis der verlorenen Jungen ist zerbrochen. Ich habe ihr Königreich erschüttert, ohne es zu wollen. Jetzt müssen sie sich entscheiden: Bleiben sie ihrem Mentor und allem, was sie ausmacht, treu oder retten sie mich? Doch selbst wenn, kann ich ihnen jemals wieder vertrauen, nach allem, was geschehen ist?

The MacTavish men are wild and passionate. They marry for love. I don't. I may be a MacTavish, but it's not an emotion I'm capable of, one I don't understand. So, if someone in my clan must agree to an arranged marriage, it might as well be me. The bride being pulled down the aisle to me is beautiful, and terrified. But she's got a stubborn tilt to her jaw that's making me think she's not giving up so easily.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the book that changed the world. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a movie starring Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley, Monster is a brilliant fictionalized biography akin to The Other Boleyn Girl. Two centuries ago this year, the young woman who invented science fiction was only 20 when she wrote the book that became Frankenstein. Mary Shelley said, “People ask how I, then a young girl, could think of, and dilate upon, so hideous subject?”

'With prose as vivid as oil paints, Gibson creates a study in obsession, competition, and the cost of ambition. Darkly romantic and deliciously moody, Man, Muse, Monster will haunt you' - Allison Saft, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Dark and Drowning Tide Make me your world, Harry...

When my father died and I stepped into his shoes as leader of Enigma, I vowed to protect the gang he’d built. And I won’t break that promise—no matter what I have to do to keep it. So when a mysterious attacker targets our territory, I swallow my pride and propose an alliance between Enigma and the Princes of Carnage, a biker gang led by Nico Morelli. We’ve been rivals for years, but his territory is under attack too, and we’ll have a better chance of defending ourselves if we work together. Except Nico doesn’t just want an alliance.

A Vow is a Vow. The family makes every decision. It is my destiny. It is who I am. The family consumes me. She was nothing except a good time. Until she was more. She walked away. But she didn’t get far. I feel her watching me. I will own her. Soon.

“ The best kind of vampire story—one in which the real evil is us.” —Peng Shepherd “Deliciously monstrous and demanding of our attention, Anna Kovatcheva crafts a feminist vampire story like no other.” —Ms, Magazine A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in...

A Goodreads Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Book of Fall 2024 “A sinister romance and hypnotic Gothic fairytale—surreal and luscious with a fascinating twist on the story of Hades and Persephone.” —Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne A woman with no past. A man who seems to...

In a city drowning in fog, even a monster can be a sanctuary. In the climate-controlled silence of the British Library, manuscript conservator Cordelia Elliston lives a life of careful repairs and quiet order. But the charred diary she finds in a private estate clearance refuses to be fixed. The leather is fever-hot. The ink moves like living shadow. And when the page pulses beneath her fingers, Cordelia is pulled through a crack in the world. She wakes in the sulfurous, batswing-lit London of 1888. It is a city paralyzed by murder, but the killings are merely a symptom.

Alone for too long, the last of vampire Draven’s humanity is slipping away. Needing a mate to anchor him and keep the monster at bay, he strikes a bargain with a young hunter to find him a bride. Newly widowed, historian Charlotte is desperate for a fresh start. When she's presented with the unusual proposition of becoming a vampire's bride for a year, she cannot pass up the chance to speak with one of the oldest creatures on the planet.

John Coal war der typische Sonderling im Ort - ein alter, schrulliger Eigenbrötler, aber ansonsten harmlos. Zumindest war es das, was die Nachbarn von ihm dachten. Bis eines Nachts ein Junge sein dreißig Jahre lang sorgfältig gehütetes Geheimnis enthüllte... Nun ist er auf der Flucht. Die Polizei, die Armee und sogar die Zoos machen Jagd auf ihn. Aber John ist ein alter Hase, wenn es darum geht, den Menschen zu entkommen, und so begibt er sich zusammen mit seiner Vampir-Ziehtochter Rachel in die Wildnis der schottischen Highlands.

Nicky just wants to save her brother. She showed up with an envelope full of cash and a smart mouth and found herself in a den of monsters. I wish I could say I was the best of them, I wish I could protect her - but I’m far from perfect.