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They want an heir and I’m the only way they can get it. With or without my cooperation. I thought Cadieux Island would be a new beginning, but the privileged estates and elite college turned into a nightmare. My once tormentor and his twin brother somehow became my unlikely saviors while the grandparents, I didn’t know existed, lured me here with the promise of family have shown themselves to be the true tyrants.

Meet Jim Greene. An ordinary detective constable trying 'not' to solve a murder. The remote and isolated Cornish island of Gallymay was meant to be the perfect place for a break. But things don’t quite go to plan when Jim stumbles across a body on his first day. Which is the last thing he...

From the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of Mrs England and The Household, comes Stacey Halls' most gripping, unsettling and thought-provoking novel yet. London, 1960. When Celia and Gregory Ringrose buy their first home on the edge of Hampstead Heath they feel like they've won...

What if the most scandalous romance ever told was rewritten as a dark, gothic romantasy? Sir Clifford Chatterley turned me into a vampire to prove a theory—that feral creatures like me could be domesticated, civilized, and made acceptable for his aristocratic world. He keeps me chained and...

April 29, 1585. Coroner John Derrick is summoned to the cozy village of Bramley to investigate a naked dead man found beneath a waterwheel. An unfortunate drowning, by all indications. But upon closer inspection, the case takes a macabre turn: The deceased is missing a certain piece of his anatomy.

Melody’s life was ordinary… until she was dragged into hell. Melody wakes in darkness with a pounding skull and two metal bands locked around her wrists, stamped with unfamiliar symbols. Along the cavern wall, carved images emerge through grime and blood, nine interconnected circles arranged with unsettling precision. A pattern. A test. But beyond it lies hell itself…Nyx, her captor – handsome, scarred and dangerously alluring. He swears he’s here to protect her, to guide her through the Underworld itself but every look, every glance feels like a threat wrapped in a promise.

Carmilla, el clásico vampírico de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, se anticipó en un cuarto de siglo al Drácula de Bram Stoker, pero su valor va mucho más allá que el de ser el antecedente femenino del famoso conde de Transilvania. La escabrosa y atrevida relación entre sus protagonistas, Laura y Carmilla, aún hoy resulta sorprendente. La temática de la femme fatale alcanza aquí su máximo exponente, y los ecos de esta magnífica novela gótica la convierten en uno de los principales referentes del terror que se escribe en la actualidad.

When a fan's interest turns threatening, Lucetta Plum, an actress on the rise in New York City, is forced to abandon her starring role. Her widowed friend, Abigail Hart, delighted by this opportunity to meddle in Lucetta's life, promptly whisks her away to her grandson's estate to hide out. But...

Mercedes Midnight should be dead. Her year is up, her debt is owed, yet here she stands—alive, cursed, and crackling with demon magic she has no idea how to wield. Lucy Corvine, the devil’s broken daughter, clawed her way out of a contract that was never supposed to break. Now she’s something the underworld doesn’t have a name for. Something her father will tear the realm apart to find. When two angels crash into Ora City, the rules change overnight. One wants to watch the realms burn. One wants to save them. No one is safe.

Una arrebatadora novela gótica-vampírica-tropical, que entremezcla el horror con el folklor afrocaribeño en medio del vibrante caos del carnaval de Barranquilla. Ganadora del Premio de Narrativa Elisa Mújica. «Dicen que de cachorra le gustaba morder. Le arrancó pedazos de piel a tres...

Band 1 der Romeos Payne Trilogie. Einer Liebe zwischen Licht und Dunkelheit. Was passiert mit einem Todesengel, der an der Liebe scheitert? 323 Monate, 9.838 Tage, 14.160 Minuten und 850.029 Sekunden sind vergangen, seit Arianna geboren wurde und Elijah geflohen ist. Vor der Vergangenheit, seiner Aufgabe und den intensiven Gefühlen, die er tief unter einer Schicht aus Schmerz und tätowierten Heiligtümern versteckt. Ariannas Seele ist zum letzten Mal sein Auftrag.

Wie lebt man mit dem Wissen, der Mörder der eigenen Geliebten zu sein? Vom Spinnenkönig verstümmelt, steht Wolf vor den Trümmern seiner Existenz. Während sich Festus und Famine darauf vorbereiten, Terror und Tod zu verbreiten, liefert sich Wolf, zerfressen von Selbsthass, seinen Feinden aus. Dabei gerät er in die Intrige eines neuen Widersachers. Der spinnt im Hintergrund die Fäden und will den Ghulwald in Chaos und Verderben stürzen.

England, 1348. The Black Death has taken half the village. Then it takes Elsbeth. Else—healer's daughter, herbwoman, the last person in Ashenmere still boiling water instead of praying—dies of plague and is thrown into a mass grave. Three days later, she claws her way out. The buboes are gone. Her blood runs dark beneath her skin. And when she touches the dying, they heal. The Church sends Brother Callum to investigate—a monk with bruised knees and a faith held together by discipline alone. He expects a fraud.

On receipt of a desperate letter, demure young beauty Romara Shaldon rushes to the aid of her distressed sister Caryl, who has run away with the disreputable and cruel Sir Harvey Wychbold, who not only mistreats her, but also refuses to marry her when he finds she is with child. After a violent confrontation that leaves her bloodied and bruised, Romara is 'rescued' and taken to the next door home of Lord Ravenscar where, in her concussed, semi-conscious state, she finds herself married to his Lordship as part of his crazy drunken 'revenge' on a Society beauty who has spurned him.

A decade is a long time to wait to start your life. Can a marriage on the brink of extinction be saved? Kia Nelson has only loved one man. She has devoted herself to him and only him. The problem is that man has spread his attentions to every woman who crosses his path. She has always accepted his indiscretions as part of the club life. Until the other men started settling down, proving that monogamy is not dead. Handles is the Nasty Bastard MC attorney. He loves his life. There is not a single complaint to be had by him. He’s got a wife at home and any woman he wants at the club.

I was given to the Wolf King to repay a blood debt. Stellan Varen is ruthless, feared, and built of ice and instinct. I expected a captor, not the truth hidden in my blood. I’m an Omega. His perfect match. His greatest temptation. As my suppressants fail and my heat ignites, the bond between us becomes impossible to deny. But surrendering to an Alpha means losing my freedom or claiming a power I never knew I had. And the Wolf King will burn the world before he lets me go.

A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and Elizabeth Kostova Paris, 1869. The Théâtre Saint-Siméon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black slips of paper that...

Lore a échoué. Elle n'est pas parvenue à sauver le roi Bastian du dieu vénéneux qui a envahi son esprit. Elle n'a pu empêcher que ses alliés soient envoyés aux quatre coins du continent, chacun esclave en rêve des murmures d'autres divinités. Elle n'a pas réussi à sauver sa cité, aussi magnifique que corrompue, des forces obscures enfouies sous les catacombes. Et elle n'a pas pu se sauver elle-même.

Paru à la fin du XIXe siècle, ce recueil de fictions rassemble des contes où l’imaginaire se fait souverain. Le comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam y déploie une voix singulière, à la fois fiévreuse et précise, pour sonder les zones d’ombre et d’éclat de l’âme humaine. D’une scène à l’autre, l’étrangeté affleure, le quotidien se fissure, l’idéal se heurte au réel: autant d’histoires brèves qui ouvrent des portes sur l’inattendu.

Als ihre Schwester verschwindet, setzt Alice alles daran, sie zu finden – auch wenn das bedeutet, einem weißen Kaninchen hinterherzujagen und ins Wunderland zu stolpern. Vom grinsenden Märzhasen bis zur rätselhaften Raupe, die von ihr fordert, den richtigen Weg zu finden, obwohl Alice immer wieder im Kreis läuft, sind dort jedoch alle dem Wahnsinn verfallen. Der einzige Lichtblick ist der Hutmacher, der Alice nicht nur bei der Suche nach ihrer Schwester hilft, sondern auch Gefühle in ihr weckt, die sie nie zuvor gekannt hat.