Alexandria “Alix” Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in
the foster-care system: unlike people, books will never let you down. Working
three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix
takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public
Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off
lands. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the
Librarian: the ageless, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the
desperate and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books.
The Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing, but before she can escape
into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone
the Astral Library has ever helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-shop
owner, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane
Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the
champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws
inexorably closer. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy—Alix, the
Librarian, or the Library itself?
'Beware of waking the gods, their dreams are often our nightmares . . .'
A book of dangerous magic draws two readers into a perilous quest to find it - and their own happy ending - in this action-packed standalone fantasy romance from Sunday Times bestselling sensation Kerri Maniscalco.
A prince who prefers games of the head to those of the heart.
Prince Sloth hates leaving his enchanted library, but when a forgotten deity
threatens the very fabric of the Underworld, he's thrust into a race against
time. He must find the Book of Nightmares - an ancient artifact that has the
power to break worlds - before it unleashes a deadly game to free its master,
the Goddess of Night. When a betrayal leaves him marked, and desperate, his
path collides with a young woman who possesses the legendary Phoenix Tear - a
portal stone unlike any other.
A librarian who is all sweet sunshine . . . until she burns.
Lore Brimstone has always loved getting lost in a book - but she never
meant literally. Yet, after visiting a traveling caravan, she
quickly finds herself transported to a terrifying but oddly familiar world -
with a calculating prince at her side. Realizing they are living out her
favourite novels one by one, they face off against an increasingly dark magic
as they try to survive the story.
A twisted tale that means they can't trust themselves - or their hearts.
As Lore and Sloth navigate the pages of her beloved novels gone wrong, she must
channel her inner main character to defeat the Book of Nightmares before the
wall between the gods and mortals comes crashing down, dooming them all.
In a ruthless magical academy where she's cursed and powerless, the last Onyx must unravel dark family secrets and navigate dangerous alliances to reclaim her legacy and make those who betrayed her pay.
You don't graduate Nightbridge Academy—you survive it.
Born into a sorcerer bloodline, cursed, and cut off from my power, I was
accustomed to being an outcast. For generations, my bloodline carried the
weight of a crime committed by our ancestor. But my mother’s death changed
everything. She left a clue that could prove our an ancient text hidden deep
beneath Nightsbridge Academy.
The Academy is a fortress of power, housing the most dangerous incantors and
sorcerers, conscripted to keep Horrors and Echoes at bay. And as the last
surviving Onyx, I’m owed admission.
My plan is simple—find the book and expose the Imperium as the liars they are.
But I didn’t plan for the whispers that haunt my dreams. Or the complication of
feelings I shouldn’t be capable of—stirred by two men bound to the very
institution I’ve come to destroy. One sees too much yet says too little. The
other is steady, protective, and always in my corner.
I can’t have either.
Yet when I’m in their presence…my curse begins to crack.
If they discover my true purpose, I’m dead.
But some truths are worth dying for.
The Imperium cursed my bloodline. Stripped us of our magic. Branded us as
traitors. And now they will pay.
Queen, Legend, Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic Cleopatra, from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife .
YOU KNOW MY NAME.
BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.
Your historians call me seductress, but I was always in love's thrall.
Your playwrights speak of my witchcraft, but I was gifted my talents by the
gods.
Your poets sing of my blood-lust, but I was protecting my children.
They cannot credit that a mere woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely
blessed to rule.
Death will silence me no longer.
From USA Today bestselling author Jeneane O'Riley comes the first in a series of deliciously dark and whimsical standalone romances.
Some secrets were never meant to be unearthed.
Perched on a windswept cliff, Blackwood Manor looms like a dark monument to a
mysterious family. Behind its grand iron gates, one part of the estate has been
left to rot since the tragic death of Hester Blackwood: the once-glorious
conservatory, now choked by vines and shattered glass. The rest of the family
is gone—only her brooding son, Jasper, remains, the heir to a weapons empire.
Desperate to save her job and out of options, botanist Eliza Arnold makes a
bold gamble—drive to the manor and beg the elusive millionaire for a donation.
Jasper agrees...on one chilling condition: restore the conservatory. Alone. No
help. No leaving.
But the manor is not empty.
As Eliza battles thorns and secrets, a magnetic tension builds between her and
Jasper—dark, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. And something else stirs
among the roots and ruins...whispers in the walls, confusing disturbances, and
a presence watching her every move.
The deeper Eliza digs, the more she uncovers a garden of grief, longing…and
desire. Because in Blackwood Manor, even buried things can bloom again.
