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Cassandra Walker is a high-powered defense attorney with a ten-year plan and a 401k.
She also has a sentient voice in her head that tells her to kill people.
So far, she’s been able to keep this voice in its cage, but lately, it’s been a little more challenging to keep it under control than usual.
Why, you might ask? Well, because of Theodora Fairview, of course.
Theo is the opposite of Cassandra in every way.
She’s laid back, even-tempered… and for reasons Cassandra can’t even begin to fathom, Theo also spends her nights beating the crap out of people in an underground street fighting ring.
It quickly becomes clear that Theo has a death wish — and no one in Cassandra’s life has ever turned her on or infuriated her more.
Now, in an effort to keep Theo from completely self-destructing, Cassandra has a decision to make.
I’ve been alone my whole life. That part I can handle.
It’s the grief that’s breaking me.
After losing the only person who ever chose me, I’m running on empty, tending my rescue farm, fighting my anxiety, and lying awake at 3am pretending I’m fine. I don’t need saving. I just need to survive.
Then four men step into my life.
Nate, who scowls at everyone except me.
Noah, who sits with me in the quiet and never asks for more than I can give.
Brynn, who learns my favourite foods and makes sure I never go without.
And Max, who treats making me laugh like it’s the most important job he’s ever had.
I didn’t ask for any of this, but warmth has a way of getting in.
The problem is, not everyone circling my life has good intentions. Some people want what I have.
And some will take it, regardless of the consequences or the hurt it causes.
Will it be possible for us all to forgive and forget, or will we forever drown in fear and heartache? Or maybe we’ll never get the chance to know.
Juliette has mastered the art of pretending she's fine. Fine with the family that suffocates her. Fine with the ex who left her broken. Fine with a life that feels smaller every day.
Then a chance encounter with quiet, handsome Conner sparks something new and frightening—because when he looks at her, it feels like he sees every crack she's trying to hide.
But Conner isn't just fighting for her heart. He's battling the nightmares of a childhood he never really escaped.
Loving him means confronting the past Juliette swore she'd never face again.
Maybe the real risk isn't the trauma.
Maybe it's discovering that love might be the only place they're truly safe.
A notorious playboy’s hundred-day sex ban is put to the test when his best friend’s little sister asks him for flirting lessons in this hilarious and spicy small-town rom-com.
It was supposed to be a brand-new start for world-renowned archaeologist, Dr. Eden Ryan.
During the dig of her career, tragedy shatters Eden’s life and future. Refusing to return to the field, she’s determined to pick up the pieces—by finally fulfilling her late grandmother’s wish to move back to her childhood home and accept a teaching job at the local college.
She soon meets the enigmatic Professor Shiloh Moore. It’s the first time since her loss she’s felt anything other than searing grief and loneliness. His presence unnerves and awakens something in her she long thought extinguished.
Shiloh is a man haunted by the veiled supernatural world he inhabits. He has all but given up on his decades-long search for a way to rescue his lost love, Cameron Ashley. When he meets Eden, they get off on the wrong foot. Their unexpected encounter disrupts Shiloh’s quiet existence when he discovers Eden unknowingly holds the answers to his secret pursuit and buried desires.
If Shiloh wants Cameron back, he’ll need to seduce Eden into overcoming the shadow of her past and to embrace her hidden family history.
Shiloh is left with a stark choice.
Break the bonds of silence surrounding the mysterious and obscured world of vampires to save the man he loves or be forced to let go of the woman he’s falling for. Because if he lets her into their dark world, there’s no way he can ever let her go.
The Harker Family Institute—the leading paramilitary organization protecting humanity from the supernatural—is hanging on by a thread. Financial ruin seems inevitable, a mysterious power-enhancing drug is tearing through the vampire underground, and the shadows beneath Harker Castle whisper warnings of danger looming on the dark horizon. It’ll take one desperate mission and the risk of absolute ruin to save not only their Institute but the very Etherworld itself. Yet the unit assigned the task might be more trouble than they’re worth.
SYNNOVE LE JACQUES IS A VAMPIRE. And she’s… struggling. Hidden from her peers as the top-secret asset of the Harker Family Institute, and plagued by a vicious bloodlust, Synnove is desperate to prove she isn’t a monster. Assigned to the Institute’s new Ghost unit, Synnove is tasked with hunting down the origins of a vampiric power-enhancing drug alongside a brooding vampire hunter who may be just as desperate to prove that she is the monster she believes herself to be.
SPELL WYNN IS A GOOD SOLDIER. When you’re born into a family of prestigious witches and legendary vampire hunters, being assigned to a unit that includes the very threat your own blood lusts to eradicate isn’t ideal. But Synnove’s vampiric abilities may be their best weapon against the vampires enhanced by this mysterious drug, and as much as Spell wants to believe she’s a monster, there’s a sorrow in her eyes that speaks to his own—a whisper of the traumatic memory that led to his deadly curse.
KEIALYN HARKER IS… STRESSED. As the Head of the Harker Family Institute, this is her last chance to save her family legacy, and she’s gambling on an entirely mad plan to do it. She can’t say which is worse: the looming existential threat the shadow beneath Harker Castle is whispering about, or the ticking timebomb within the only team able to fight it.
On an isolated island veiled in mist, witches and humans are divided. Every nine years, when the Courting calls, the nation comes together in hope. For humans, a hope of true love. For the witch queens, a salve to a centuries-old curse. Maggie remembered it as if it were yesterday. The moment her first love disappeared before her eyes. Now, nine years later, she will defy her family to find him again. To do so, she must traverse the island, pledge herself to the witches who took him, and compete in a game that will take more from her than she bargained for. Boudi has never met a man her age because there are none in the witches’ quarter. To her, the Courting is nothing but an unwelcome pause in her studies. But when the queens force her into the competition, she must pretend to be human and play a role she never wanted. When a man unexpectedly catches her eye, the rules of the game blur, compelling her to question where her loyalties lie.
For ten moons, the competition grows increasingly challenging and deadly. As love blooms and matches are made, deception weaves with hope and desire. For centuries, the Courting has appeased the threads of fate, but this time, it just may begin their unravelling.
After ten years in exile, the Prince of the Club Confederacy walks the streets of the Diamond Empire once more, hidden amongst people. Arthur slays monsters and people alike under the moniker of the Deathwalker, seeking a truth that was stolen from his very mind.
Accompanying him on his hunt for revenge is Maisha, a bone shaman whose visions of a monstrous serpent come to fruition when Arthur stumbles upon her village and becomes a prisoner.
Meanwhile, the Diamond Empire continues its conquest for land and resources. Civil unrest grips the empire's furthest reaches as radicals from the occupied Syndicate of Spades spread death and fear around the world, and the passing years have done nothing to quell their bloodshed.
The Spades can burn everything to the ground for all Arthur cares. He just wants their king, and Maisha just wants her freedom.
John Simons has built his career on facts. As a crime reporter in a city rattled by violence, he knows how to separate rumor from evidence and truth from noise. Then the noise begins to acknowledge him. A man in a dark hat starts appearing at the edges of John’s life. Taps in the wall sound like messages meant only for him. His boss Anna So’s smallest habits take on a terrible new meaning. As bodies surface across the East Side, John begins to fear he isn’t just chasing the story anymore. He’s slipping inside it. As dread hardens into obsession, John follows connections no one else can see, descending deeper into a reality that grows more intimate and menacing with every step. The closer he gets to the truth, the less he can trust his own mind or the people trying to pull him back.
For decades, Indigenous women disappeared across Alaska — quietly, routinely, and with little consequence.
Temperance Hale’s life as she knows it, ends the day the FBI come for her father.
A respected bush pilot, admired and trusted, he is suddenly linked to a series of cold cases stretching back decades. By nightfall, everything Temperance thought she knew about her family, her name, and her past has collapsed. Her father’s legacy isn’t one of flight — it is one of shadows.
As Special Agent Scott Hansen works through the brutal aftermath — identifying remains, returning names, standing before families who were never believed — Temperance is forced to reckon with what it means to survive a man who destroyed lives she will never fully know. This is not a hunt for a killer. It is a confrontation with the systems that allowed violence to persist, unnoticed and unanswered.
Unflinching and deeply human, Beyond Mercy Falls: The Cost of Silence is a story about aftermath — about memory, inheritance, and what remains when the world decides it has moved on.
Inspired by the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people, and by the families still waiting for answers.
She thought her second year of university would be better than her first. He made it hell. Again. Cordelia is ready to embrace her second year of university alongside her closest friends: Annie, Lawson, Bethany and Andrew. But standard student drama turns dark when Felix enters the picture. Obsessed and manipulative, Felix wants Cordelia all to himself. As his behavior escalates from unsettling to downright dangerous, he wants to lock her away with him forever. Trapped in his strange obsession, can her friends find her before it is too late?
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