Contemporary Gothic

Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties. And she certainly doesn't suspect that underneath its picturesque Gothic facade, the university is a haven for the Benandanti, a cult devoted to suppressing the powerful and destructive Moon Goddess. But everything is about to change as Sweeney learns that her two new best friends are the goddess' Chosen Ones.

My husband. My tormentor. The most notorious man in the city offers me a job. Act as his dead wife. Adrian Volkov isn’t the type of person who takes no for an answer. He commands with an iron fist and all his orders are met. When he approaches me with the offer, I have two options. Go to prison or put myself under his wrath. I choose to have a roof over my head. What’s so hard about acting, right? Wrong. The moment I step into his wife’s shoes, everything spirals out of control. My only way of survival is through Adrian. Or is it?

Scarlet Fever: A Dark, Suspenseful Old Money Equestrian Gothic Romance Pemberwick Hunt Club has it all: Exclusivity. Bloodlines. Legacy. But some secrets are too dark to stay hidden. Unravel a chilling cold case in the heart of Virginia's elite fox hunting country. June Faulconer, the reclusive host of the hit true-crime podcast Defrosted, specializes in mysteries whispered to be supernatural. But when a cryptic email forces her back to Pemberwick Hall, the ancestral estate steeped in her own family's dark legacy, she confronts a chilling truth: the line between human evil and ancient myth ...

On the outside, they're the perfect nuclear family. But appearances can be deceiving... Ronnie and Minnie were besotted high school sweethearts with big dreams for the future, and their entire lives ahead of them. However, when one romantic evening in the woods ends with the teenagers being the victims of a brutal, gruesome attack, their lives are changed forever. The pair are quickly sucked into a devestating vortex of pain and suffering when they go on the run and fall prey to a high-profile sex trafficker. Twenty years later, Ronnie and Minnie are thriving as hardened criminals, with ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “With more twists than a bag of pretzels, this compelling family saga may make you question what you think you know about your own relatives.”—Cosmopolitan “Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.” After her mother's...

Laying in the darkness, pain wrenches me, sending electrical currents throughout my body. My breaths are shallow, but I cannot let on that anything is amiss, for danger is all around. I need blood, even though I am human, but I won’t give my captors the satisfaction of knowing. My thoughts go immediately to Lance: his touch, his dark, chiseled good looks, his bright green eyes. When love finds you, you recognize it, commit it to memory, and lock it in your heart forever. You know it in your soul. You sacrifice everything for it. As I lay in the darkness, I remind myself that there are ...

From a New York Times bestselling author comes a sexy, paranormal "rough-and-tumble adventure" (Library Journal) about a high-stakes romance between two shifters fighting for their lives. Cougar shifter Abby Carter always plays it safe. That's why she's an accountant--no excitement, no danger...

Lords of Wrath, the second book in the Royals of Forsyth University series, is coming soon!

I should have known better. A random guy at the mall promises an eighteen-year-old girl a glamorous modeling job? Classic scam. I should have laughed in his face. Walked away. But I didn’t. Now, I’m his. A captive. A plaything. A slave to my master’s every depraved whim. And the worst part? He doesn’t just want my obedience—he wants my surrender. He wants to break me until I crave his touch. Until I beg for it. I hate him. I hate the way he owns me. The way he makes me feel things I shouldn’t. He might control my body, but he’ll never have my heart. I have to escape. But when ...

Welcome to Fiorenza City, where the criminal underworld is ruthless, the bloodlines are stained, and the men are completely unhinged when it comes to the women they claim. I thought my identity was unshakeable. I was wrong. The moment I stepped onto that foggy pier, my old life ended, and my captivity began. Maya My uncle used me as currency to pay off an ancestral blood debt. He dragged me into the freezing dark of Pier 44, intending to sell my freedom to the city's most dangerous syndicate. I was prepared to fight, to scream, to run. But I wasn't prepared for Roman Tartarov—the ...

"[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." —The New York Times Book Review Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches—a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over...

From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers--readers by the hundreds of thousands--have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice. And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise...

A bet turned into a disaster. Sebastian Weaver is the star quarterback and the college’s heartthrob. Rich. Handsome. Bastard. Everyone’s attention flocked toward him, and all the girls dreamed of being with him. Not me. At least, not until he made a move on me. See, I thought I was stronger than Sebastian’s charms. I thought I could survive being his target. I thought wrong. Little did I know that he will make my most twisted fantasies come true. Fantasies I didn’t know existed...

My husband. My villain. We started with death and blood. We started with games and carnal pleasure. Adrian and I shouldn’t have been together. He’s wrong. I’m wrong. What we have is the epitome of disaster. Yet, it’s impossible to stop. My husband will either destroy me or I’ll destroy him.

A 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Best Fantasy! “Julia Whelan skillfully narrates Sabine's story of bloodlust and decay…Katie Leung's soft Scottish accent suits the grieving Alice…Lottie is portrayed by Marisa Calin, whose crisp English accent reminds listeners of Lottie's high-society past...

89,270 words, 304 pages, fiction, family life, romance A bane to her mother. Jerri is encouraged to marry young. She attempts to be the perfect wife to a man who married for hi convenience only. An excerpt from within Chapter 1: That night, as she lay in bed all alone, what had already happened came in her dream. It seemed as real as when she’d allowed it. Part of her wanted to forget – pretend it was only a dream and not real. The other part of her held onto the memory for dear life. Recalling it was like a drink of water when she was dying of thirst, or eating food when she was ...

The complete collection of the bestselling “The Chronicles of the Immortal Council,” starring vampire private eye, Samantha Moon, including: VAMPIRE ABDUCTION (Book 1) When a young vampire, Alexei Romanov, is abducted by a deranged lunatic, the members of Immortal Council are forced to reveal their existence to Samantha Moon. The grief of losing one of their own members, coupled with their frustration at the careless behavior of new immortals, forces Julia Agrippina to employ Samantha Moon to find out who took Alexei, find him, and bring him home safely. Sam quickly discovers it’s an ...

323 pages (print edition), 104,888 words, Historical fiction novel, Mountain family life, Appalachian cultural heritage In addition to coping with her husband, raising her children, and running her farm, Laine must deal with her sister’s insanity. From Chapter 11: Susie felt a surge of anger shoot through her. How dare what she wanted be sold? It was meant to be her mountain. She deserved a mountain. “Was the mountain sold too?” “The man thought not. It still belongs to his heirs. He said there was over seven thousand acres that Wilder owned.” Seven thousand acres. She couldn’t ...

Excerpt from a portion of Chapter One that got edited out: Jonas has changed from the man I married and I don't know what I'm going to do about it. I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what to do. What makes a good man change into a troubled one? How in this world am I going to help him change back? I'm more alone with him here than I was when he was gone off to the war. Excerpt for the end of Chapter 12: “That’s the truth. Son, how are you and Laine getting along?” “Fine.” “Are you sure? I’ve heard talk.” “Talk?” Jonas scorned. “How could there be talk? Besides, ...

“Told in alternating perspectives divided into 'Me,' 'You,' 'Us,' and 'Them' sections, the narrations by Baxendale and Glover perfectly match the slow build of the story. Both capture the determination, guilt, and duplicity of the characters as the plot twists.” —AudioFile Award-winning...