Evil Forest

Once Upon a Time meets Game of Thrones in New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter’s magical, romantic dark fantasy series, in which the fairy tales we know and love are prophecies of the future. Welcome to the Forest of Good and Evil, where villains may be heroes and heroes may be...

He may have claimed her… But will she ever truly be his? Misty finally has the life she’s always dreamed of. As a Crescent Falls royal, she spent her childhood in fear—hiding during Gabriel’s brutal reign. But now, she’s free. Free to study at the elite Tarsian University. Free to live on her own terms. Free to pretend she’s just a normal college student with a boyfriend, a future… and no magical destiny pulling her strings. Until the voice in her head speaks again. Until it’s too late to run. In the blink of an eye, Misty is pulled into a web of ancient magic and deadly ...

“Smoothly plotted, deftly written, and thought provoking.”—San Diego Union-Tribune When P.I. Stuart Winter investigates the death of an environmental activist in a redwood forest, he encounters a radical ecocommune, a fundamentalist preacher, and a trio of marijuana moguls. "Highly competent mystery-mongering, generously stuffed with red-herrings, subplots, and woodsy background."—Kirkus Reviews “A well-written, excellently paced mystery.”—Rendezvous Reviews “The Forest Prime Evil is an excellent book...You’ll love the mystery.”—Macon Beacon “A fine second outing for...

An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, as well as his father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots. The scion of a family...

A darkly romantic Corpse Bride retelling in which a cursed, half-dead princess must surrender her still-beating heart to break the curse—before the masked knight sworn to deliver it steals it for himself. In the realm of Riches and Ruin, a curse cast by the fallen Fairy Godmother threatens to...

You can escape the woods. But you can never outrun the bloodline. Elara Vance survived the Briarwood Holler massacre. She escaped the fire, the fangs, and the horrific truth of what slumbers beneath the Appalachian ridge. The official report called it a tragic forest fire that claimed her research team. But Elara knows the truth. The deep, cellular chill inside her has nothing to do with the trauma. Her silver scar thrums with a dark, terrifying rhythm. She brought a piece of the holler back with her—a gnawing, ravenous emptiness that grows stronger as the moon waxes. She is a ticking ...

THREE SURVIVORS. THREE TERRIFYING STORIES. ONE FINAL HUNT. They survived the impossible. Now they're being sent back into hell. Claire Bennett lost the man she loved to a savage predator in the Montana wilderness. Daniel Cross survived a rescue mission that became a blood-soaked nightmare. Wildlife biologist Thomas Reed escaped a research expedition that uncovered a horrifying secret. Each carries the scars of an encounter with something that shouldn't exist. Now the military has brought these three strangers together for a classified operation deep in the mountains, where an entire ...

IN THE FOREST OF GOOD AND EVIL, STRENGTH IS WEAKNESS AND WEAKNESS IS STRENGH. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHO THE SLIPPER FITS. Princess Ashleigh Charmaine-Anskelisa is the Glass Princess, ready to shatter with a whisper of wind. Born with a weak heart, the vulnerable beauty has no magical ability…or...

Some things in the deep woods were never meant to be captured on film. Wildlife biologist Lena Hart has spent her career debunking anomalous footage. Lens flares, motion blur, misidentified bears—she’s seen it all. But when a cheap memory card pulled from a remote Pacific Northwest survey site yields an image that defies all biological logic, her rigid skepticism is completely shattered. Tasked with retrieving the remaining equipment from the deep-woods perimeter, Lena and a small team of researchers hike into the dense, unnaturally silent canopy. What begins as a routine retrieval ...

One touch and your heart is lost, as the hunter becomes the hunted in a dark romantasy from Sunday Times bestselling author, M. A. Kuzniar, for fans of Holly Black and Adalyn Grace. Elka has been banished to the forest by her wicked mother, who rules the city with an iron first. She is cursed to...

Many centuries after the passing of mankind, the blight known as the Craven still lingered, lurking within the shadows, a dark hunger awaiting its chance to consume what little was left of their ravaged world. Only one among the Elves knew the true face of their enemy, with the knowledge to awaken the Undying and save the Faerylands before the living veil of the Evermore was forever lost. Ivy Elvenborn was presented with an impossible quest, one that would take her on a perilous journey to the steps of an ancient tower guarded by the secretive Sisterhood of the Drow, in her search for a ...

Some legends aren't meant to be found. Some are meant to stay buried in the dark. Nora Vance was looking for the perfect upload. As an investigative content creator with a dying channel, she needed a viral hit. The remote, isolated town of Black Hollow promised local folklore and cheap clicks. But the town is hiding a secret older than the mountains. When dusk falls, the valley becomes a warzone between two ancient, warring species. On the high timber ridge, an aggressive pack of apex predators guards the perimeter. Deep beneath the earth, something colder, paler, and infinitely hungrier is...

A Supernatural Horror Novel About a Haunted House, a Cursed Forest and an Ancient Evil They lost everything. They found a new home. But something beneath it has been waiting for centuries. After financial ruin destroys the life they once knew, Javier and Isabel leave Madrid with their two children, Adrián and Lucía, hoping to start over. Their new home is an isolated stone house surrounded by an ancient forest. It is beautiful, spacious, and strangely affordable. For a family desperate for a second chance, it seems like a miracle. But miracles sometimes come at a terrible price. The trees...

Jen Williams stuns in a heartrending sequel to The Sleepless that is as romantic as it is deadly. Will Lucian pursue chaos and power? Will Artair choose isolation, or will he choose to walk out into the wider world? And Elver, perhaps, has the hardest choice of all. After being sacrificed yet...

"Narrators Fiona Hardingham and Steve West lend their exceptional vocal skills to this fantasy novel...Both narrators deliver commanding performances steeped in drama and suspense, drawing out every ounce of emotion and intrigue: — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner Set in a richly...

Andy Davidson's epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil. Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws...

They wanted a weekend escape. The forest wanted something else. Jenna sought a quiet retreat in the dense woods of a remote state park, a break from the noise of the city. Her partner, Mark, saw it as another objective to conquer—a master of logistics in a world he believed he understood. But the ancient forest has its own rules. And it has a keeper. It begins with a strange orb of light on a photo, an anomaly Mark dismisses as a technical glitch. Then comes the sharp crack of a branch in the dead of night, followed by the soft thud of a pebble against their tent. Mark’s relentless ...

The silence was supposed to be a cure. For Ava Delaney, a solo hike into the dense wilderness of the Pacific Northwest is a desperate attempt to prove she isn’t the fragile person her ex claims she is. She craves a silence so complete it will scour her clean. But the silence in this forest is different. It is a heavy, listening quiet. A quiet where sound is absorbed, where birds don't sing, and where the only tracks to be found are not made by anything that appears in a biology book. A brutal storm cuts her off from the world, shattering her gear and her plans. Lost and injured, Ava ...

Some boundaries weren’t meant to be crossed. Some kingdoms were never meant to be found. Lux Branson heads deep into the Himalayas in search of a missing billionaire’s daughter—last seen pursuing rumors of the elusive Yeti. But what begins as a simple rescue mission turns into a harrowing journey through avalanches, ancient ruins, and a secret world untouched by time. When Lux and her team stumble upon a hidden civilization high in the mountains, they realize the legends are true. The Yetis exist—and they have no reason to trust outsiders. Caught between hostile terrain, a powerful ...

Location: Outpost Station 9: Mission: Water Salvage: Log: 141C Tranquility was one of those out the way planets in a system far out of reach from the normal space lanes. Loners, dreamers ...whoever they were, chose to colonize this world. Thirty cycles ago something went terribly wrong. It was rumored their terraformer reactor went critical, and few escaped the chain reaction that clouded the atmosphere with a planet-wide sand storm. A decade of hard labor evaporated overnight. What wasn't buried under the ocean of sand was left to fry under the twin suns. Human explorers began to wander ...