Monster Relationships

She came to watch the moon. He came to claim his mate. Amateur astronomer Marina Cross is determined to capture the perfect photo of the rare blood moon. She ignores the warning signs and sneaks onto restricted land, finding a clearing that feels ancient and sacred. She thinks she's alone, ready for a celestial spectacle. But the clearing belongs to Kaedor, the exiled alpha of a werewolf pack. The crimson light of the eclipse awakens a primal madness within him, a need to hunt, to claim, to possess. When he finds a human female on his sacred altar stone, he sees not an intruder, but a gift ...

He was her target, her monster, her damnation... and her only salvation. Tara Fang is the only hunter skilled enough to stop the beast slaughtering its way through the forests of her village. Tracking the monster to its lair is a duty she accepts without question, but the creature she corners is no mindless animal. He is Darius, the last sane werewolf of a cursed bloodline, a lonely sentinel fighting a secret war against his own feral kin. He is intelligent, articulate, and brutally powerful. And he decides Tara is not his enemy, but his prize. Trapped in his mountain den, Tara finds her ...

He came to conquer. She swore to resist. But in the war of dominance and desire, only one will kneel. Elara I will never bow. Not to the monsters who burned my village. Not to the warlord who ripped me from my home. I am not his to command, to use, to break. No matter how my body betrays me. No matter how his golden eyes watch me like a beast ready to devour. He can drag me to his camp. He can chain me. But he will never own me. Varkash She fights me. Claws at me. Spits in my face. But I see it—the way her breath hitches when I get too close, the shudder she tries to hide when I touch her...

A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist's work from their biography. What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and...

Jack Mercer is not looking for love. A widowed paramedic, veteran, and father of two, Jack has built his entire life around one thing: keeping the house standing. He works brutal shifts, sleeps in fragments, packs the lunches, checks the locks, rescues stuffed rabbits from behind beds, and makes sure his daughters never feel the full weight of how tired and lost he really is. Then Marina Reyes knocks on his door, holding a chicken casserole. She is soft-spoken, beautiful, practical, and impossibly good with children. She helps with pickups. She understands that Sophie’s rules are not ...

She came to broker peace. He means to make her the contract that binds two worlds together. Sabine Rook is a disgraced human negotiator sent to an orc city for one last impossible assignment. She is supposed to prevent a trade war, keep her head down, and leave with a signed treaty. Instead, someone sabotages the talks and leaves her standing in the middle of the fallout. Varnek Stonefist is the magistrate who keeps the city in line with cold judgment and iron control. He is exacting, unreadable, and far too interested in the trembling human diplomat everyone else wants punished. When the ...

Al has taken care of the problem of Baron Jamison. He won’t even have to worry about convincing the crown he was in the right, as Emperor Eldridge personally witnessed most of the final confrontation which has all but guaranteed the now former baron will be executed. The Emperor is here to watch Al test his new and modified mills. Of course, Al’s monarch always seems to have more than one motive, and there is now a vacant barony to dispose of. Even the part of the barony Al actually wants comes with its own issues. Not the least of which are more chromatic dragons. The young earl is ...

A complete rewrite and expansion of the original Adventures in Town Building Part II Kingsford follows a seventeen-year-old Chet as he is summoned to the Kingdom's capital. His girlfriend, Princess Ilana, is delighted to introduce him to the rest of her family. He has made such a splash all the way out in the wilderness that the King and Queen want to meet him. Or maybe they want to see the young man whose bed their daughter delights in diving into. During his initial visit, Chet starts finding issues that should be taken care of as soon as they can be accomplished, so he starts doing his ...

Stranded beyond the mountain pass, she needs his monsters to survive. It’s their master who ruins her defenses first. Nessa Flint is a caravan scout with a sharp mouth, survival instincts, and no interest in owing anyone her life. But after a massacre leaves her alone in the frozen mountains, she has nowhere to turn except the isolated fortress of the orc who drags her out of the snow. Rhaegor Durn is an exiled beastmaster who commands dire wolves with a glance and guards his lonely keep like a male born to bite first. He is controlled, territorial, and far too aware of the human woman ...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Alienist tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker—and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human possibly can. “The most brilliant feline portrait in literary...

To save his mountain, he had to claim her soul. Ariana Cole is a blacksmith, her spirit as fiery as the volcanic forge she calls home. Her life is one of steel and sweat until a voice from the heart of the mountain makes her an offer: become the personal smith for a creature of myth. Glorath, the last great dragon, needs her skill to forge weapons against the invaders bleeding his domain dry. In return, he offers her a forge of wonders and a power beyond mortal dreams. But the pact quickly ignites into a consuming passion. Glorath is a possessive, ancient being, and his desire is as vast ...

At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting - he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth.

Hannah’s story is astonishing, the sort of information your mind and heart simply want to reject. The depths of human cruelty and callousness that she has endured are so extreme that you will find yourself struggling to accept it, even as the undeniable evidence is displayed before you. Fire has left its indelible marks upon her skin, covering her entire upper body in a pattern of soft whirls and divots, a testimony to the suffering she has endured at the hands of her ex-husband and so many others—all of whom were meant to be heroes, but revealed themselves to be monsters.

Conflict is a natural part of any intimate relationship. Yet most couples either avoid it or try to smooth over their differences. This often results in at least one partner compromising their integrity—and stunting their own growth. Monsters in Love challenges the idea that conflict between partners is unhealthy or something to avoid. Instead, it encourages both people to stand by what they need and who they are—but to do so with compassion rather than competitiveness or vengefulness.

Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay. "This erotic female-centered story of body horror grabs...

His coils were her prison... and her only salvation. Reclusive botanist Elise Marrow’s Amazonian greenhouse is her sanctuary. But she is not its keeper. When an impossible serpent-god, Sylth’axaar, unfurls from its heart, he claims the jungle and Elise as his own property. He is a monster of myth, a possessive deity with two cocks and a possessive tail, determined to make her his vessel. His violation is absolute, his commands echoing in her mind: ‘Beg me.’ Yet his touch awakens a dark, traitorous desire. As terror bleeds into dependency, Elise learns her prison is a shield, and the...

Albrech Miller is the younger child of the town of Larroggio’s miller. He has grown up learning the mill’s operation. Al’s mom has also been teaching him to be an adventurer, helping him gain experience for when he can first see his status sheet and start limited adventuring on his own. During the first two times Al and his two friends, Lyr and Charlie, are allowed to go adventuring alone in their zone of the forest, the monsters are highly abnormal for that area. It all points toward a monster surge coming against their town. **** Tales of Morla is based on a system world. A world ...

She came for a cheap thrill. He was waiting to devour her soul. Helena Moss chases adrenaline, and the abandoned manor at the edge of town promises the perfect high. She expects fake scares and actors in masks, not a sentient nightmare that locks the doors behind her and refuses to let her go. He is Malrix, an incubus bound to the decaying mansion, and he’s been starving for centuries. Helena’s potent blend of terror and burgeoning arousal is a feast he can’t possibly resist. He stalks her through reality-bending halls, a beautiful predator toying with his prey. With every phantom ...

Behind every powerful figure stand people whose stories are often overlooked. Behind the Monster examines the women who occupied Adolf Hitler's private world—from family members and close companions to devoted admirers and controversial figures within the Nazi hierarchy. At the center of the story is Eva Braun, the woman who spent years in Hitler's shadow before becoming his wife in the final hours of the Third Reich. Yet her story is only one part of a wider network of relationships involving Geli Raubal, Winifred Wagner, Magda Goebbels, and other women whose lives intersected with ...

In this breathtaking sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller For the Wolf, Red's sister Neve struggles to escape a mysterious land of twisted roots, lost gods, and mountains made of bone—and the only clues to her rescue are a magic mirror and a dark prince who wants to bring the whole...