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Lilith Clarke is supposed to be dead: murdered by the vicious King Oren, her blood staining a field of daisies. But death would have been merciful. After years of having no name, she is finally given a title: Queen of Umbra. But it will cost her everything. Lily is now bound to King Asher, the most powerful and brutal shadow divinus in all of Omnia. Forced to rule in secret, she slowly loses herself to the darkness. She fears it will swallow her whole.

You have unlocked the world of Auntie’s Attic and a peculiar set of keys. “Well Kept Storage For Needs Big And Small.” The slogan seems benign. The circumstances, not so much. You’ve received one of the keys. White as bleached bone and slick as lies, your key unlocks a storage room. Inside you’ll find an object that could lead you anywhere, but wherever you go, you cannot return.

Elaenor is merely a pawn on a chessboard with too many kings. Being ripped from one loveless home to be placed in another, Nora is forced to marry a future king. A princess in her own right, she has to learn how to navigate her new role as a Queen all while falling for a man she can't have and figuring out the truth behind her mother's death. War, betrayal, abuse, and devastation fill her world as she fights to survive. A strange dream fills her mind nightly, taunting her with an unknown man with green eyes and images of shattered glass, broken bones, and destruction. What could it mean?

Rare & unpublished short stories by Matthew Barron along with stories previously appearing in Generation X-ed, Sci Phi Journal, Ill-Considered Expeditions, The Dread Machine, And the Dead Shall Sleep No More, Outpost of Beyond, House of Horror and more!

In a quiet city in British Columbia, vampires stalk a hospital, looking for victims to milk, kill, or recruit as partial vampires that instinctively desire humans for their life-giving blood. Although Jude loves the power of being a partial vampire, which includes shapeshifting into whatever he wants, he struggles with guilt over the harm his vampiric nature may cause. His human side clings to his past, but as a vampire he has access to a world of power, immortality, and liberation from human limitations.

Kazumi is a teenaged ninja warrior eager to prove she is ready to ascend to the vaulted rank of Night Blade; an elite group of female demon slayers. Denied by her mother, the High Priestess of the Yoru Ya-iba clan to complete her training, Kazumi sets off on her own to prove her mother wrong. But chance and fate have other plans for young Kazumi when she is attacked by a monstrous chaos beast in the forest and left for dead, or so she thinks. Soon after, Kazumi realizes the horrible truth: she has become the one thing she has spent her life training to kill.

C'è stato un tempo in cui le streghe come Rune erano ai vertici della società, rispettate e temute da tutti. Ora, dopo una rivoluzione sanguinosa che ha condotto al bando della magia e all'emarginazione delle streghe, queste ultime vengono braccate dalle guardie della Nuova Repubblica per essere arrestate e infine giustiziate. A Rune perciò non resta che nascondere la sua vera natura.

Caina Amalas is a nightfighter of the Ghosts, the spies and assassins of the Emperor of Nighmar, and through cunning and valor she has cast down both proud lords and mighty sorcerers. But a power darker than any she has ever faced is awakening. When a mad assassin armed with a sorcerous blade rampages through the Emperor's capital, Caina must track the weapon to its origin, a ruined city blighted by the folly of sorcerers, a city that holds weapons far more potent than mere blades. Weapons that can resurrect an ancient empire of dark sorcery to enslave the world anew...

In the centuries since rising up against a cruel, twisted dynasty, the Seven Cities have done much to move past their horrid histories, the memories of ancient monarchs who once fed on the life and blood of their own people. Those with a talent for magic are no longer hounded and slain. The lands beyond the Cities are safe, spared the atrocities the Alescuans once wrought upon them. For 300 years, there has been peace. Then Eska de Caraval, head of the prestigious Firenzia Company, finds herself framed for murder.

Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they’re at a desperate crossroad, even if they won’t admit it.

Audiobook contains: Accession of the Stone Born Death doesn't always ride a pale horse: Gavin Randall hasn’t been home in nearly thirty years. Upon his return, he discovers that he’s one of the rarest beings in the supernatural community - a Stone Born. Dust Walkers: When newly minted vigil Gavin Randall is summoned to a small town in New Mexico, the last thing he’s expecting is to have to fight a cartel of necromancers, and Shades of Fire & Ash: fanatics hellbent on destroying Gavin Randall, his friends, and the Archive itself have surfaced.

When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a secondhand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, to know that copies are exceedingly rare. And, some say, cursed. With Mr. Y under her arm, Ariel finds herself thrust into a thrilling adventure of love, sex, death and time travel.

What do you do when the game resets around you? Just when Montana thought he had life in Vuldranni figured out, the rug is pulled out from under him. He's alone once again, but now he's in the crosshairs of the man who would be emperor, and a whole host of people are counting on Montana to provide a safe haven for them. Montana has one hope of actually completing his quest of forming a dukedom: he needs to bust Nikolai out of prison. A prison that no one has ever escaped from alive.

Up until now, Montana's gotten by pretending he's a regular guy. Well, a regular, overpowered, god-defeating guy who maybe just learned his hair is in all the wrong places. But the big city is calling, and in order to succeed there, Montana must actually prove himself a deserving duke. If Glaton finds him lacking, Coggeshall could be forced into even further isolation. But if Glaton falls in love with him, the regular guy from Motor City could end up with limitless power, in charge of it all. And just like that, the fate of the entire Empire is in Montana's hands.

As secrets of Castle Ravenspire come to light, Elise and Valen discover their enemies hold more power than they ever imagined. It will take more than blades to defeat them: fulfilling a dangerous request from Valen’s imprisoned brother, destroying a prophecy of fate kept in the hands of Elise's brutal sister, and an unwilling alliance with a shadowed thief from a neighboring kingdom that might end in victory or more death. Blood is calling. War will answer.

Nightsveil has fallen. Humankind is reeling. It is the start of a war between planes. The Primeval Demon, Belzu, continues to wreak havoc throughout the Human Lands. Saffron Merryster shall try to gather the Greater Vampire Families against this threat, Edithe Dawnrise will work to unite her broken company after the company war, and Daniel Song will finally brave his way into Elutra. All of them working separately to tackle Belzu. But Salvos only has one goal: grow stronger.

For weeks, he stood by my side, twisting his words into pretty half-truths. He enraptured me with his smooth temptation, leaving no corner of my being untouched. He consumed my mind and my body, then finally claimed my heart for himself. But Caelum’s true identity is terrifying enough to bring me to my knees. Then, I discovered the truth of who he is. Caldris is whispered in the Nothrek wind. The legend we only speak of with hushed words, in shuttered rooms, for fear of drawing his wrath once again.

Depuis des années, Erik, le roi balafré du Royaume de l'Éternité, n'a qu'une seule obsession : se venger de l'homme qui a assassiné son père et le retient prisonnier. Jusqu'au jour où Livia, la fille de son ennemi, le libère involontairement. Ignorant tout de la rancune qui consume Erik et de la cruauté dont il est capable, la princesse devient malgré elle un pion de son plan machiavélique visant à reconquérir son royaume. Prêt à tout sacrifier et à écumer toutes les mers, rien ne semble pouvoir l'arrêter. Mais Livia n'est pas aussi facile à contrôler qu'il le pense.

In a dingy Manhattan bar, where misery is served on tap, a stranger arrives with a pair of mysterious antique headphones. For most who try them on, they unlock a world of wonder; for our protagonist, they unleash a world of horror. Upon wearing these headphones, they become fused with his flesh, unable to be removed. The voices of malevolent beings known only as, the Others, begin speaking to him through these headphones - their taunts and intentions getting more sinister with each passing moment.

Hansel y Gretel viven en la pobreza al borde del bosque. Su familia es muy pobre. Un día, sus padres se dan cuenta de que no podrán alimentarse a sí mismos ni a sus hijos, por lo que toman una decisión imperdonable: abandonar a sus hijos en el bosque, para que nunca encuentren el camino a casa. Pero en lugar de morirse de hambre, Hansel y Gretel encuentran una cabaña muy extraña.