CRACK OPEN THE COFFIN AND UNLEASH THE VAMPIRE.An ancient beast stirs in the shale beneath an oil rig. A dancer languishes in a lakeside cottage. A man swipes right, hunting flesh with a predator's patience. A woman reels from government-sanctioned body horrors.All queer. All ravenous. All vampires.Vampires have always been vessels of longing, craving not only blood, but sex, power, and the sanctity of the taboo. And what hunger is more righteously d...

Fear the hunter, never the witch.A spirit wanders the Scottish moors, desperate for answers. An Empress and her mistress seek revenge in the Chinese Imperial Court. A Black freewoman scavenges for truth in the bodies of Confederate soldiers. A damsel flees to a convent to escape a knight-in-obsessive-armor.Across every manner of time and place, women have been labelled crazy. Hysterical. Witches.To be labelled a witch was once a death sentence. Pers...

A barista's life unravels when she discovers her bloodline holds the power to preserve the Earth, and she must choose between her simple existence and the destiny she never asked for.The year is 2248, and Earth is on the brink of climate catastrophe. Wildly fluctuating temperatures, frequent earthquakes, and natural disasters have become business as usual for Dawn Farringdon, a barista who'd like nothing more than to serve up a delicious cup of coffee, catch the at...

I've been captured by a monster...and I just might let him keep me.One night out, one innocent conversation, and now I'm lying on the ground fighting for my life. No one realizes I'm missing. No one's coming to save me.Until a brutal winged beast eviscerates my attackers, saving me in a spray of blood.In one night I go from my mundane, unfulfilling life, to living in a castle with a monster who vows to claim me as his own.I know I should res...

In the latest action-packed installment of this New York Times bestselling series, Drake and Worm encounter a mysterious Ghost Dragon!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers gro...

I shouldn’t be driving in a blizzard. I definitely shouldn’t be driving up Snow Mountain.Now my car’s stuck in a ditch, and the only one who can help me is Joel Alder, the reclusive lumberjack who lives in an old hunting cabin deep in the woods.Joel is three years older than me, and an ex-con. Folk around these parts avoid him, but he’s always been kind to me. His strong hands, wild beard, and sun-streaked hair inspire all my dirty fantasies.Now we’re snowed in toge...

Caleb Devine is the youngest son to the previous Alpha of Asphalt Bay. He's the pack lawyer and anyone who needs help usually comes to him. However, he has a second responsibility as the best tracker the pack has ever seen. When his brother's club in Venetian Hills is attacked by a rogue shifter it's up to him to track the culprit. What he finds throws him for a loop.Lawliet Tremaine is a bounty hunter for the Paranormal Council. He captures fugitives for money. When an assignment ...

**Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls in this humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a group of former Chosen Ones coming out of retirement to save the world one last time"Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Thursday Murder Club and thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish." —The Wall Street Journal**Three former Chosen Ones have joined together to spend their retirement in peace and quiet, running Second Life Books and Gifts ...

In this New Adult paranormal romance by New York Times–bestselling author, a young woman begins an epic quest to rescue her sister from demons.Ivy has always seen things that she cannot explain. Strange things. Otherworldly things. But when her sister goes missing, Ivy discovers the truth is far worse—her hallucinations are real, and her sister is imprisoned in a realm beyond Ivy's reach. The one person who can help her is the dangerously attractive rebel w...

You’ve never read bedtime stories like these. RITA Award finalist Sharon Lynn Fisher blends dark sensual romance, fantasy, and science fiction in these bold tales of seduction and sensual awakening. . . .THE GARDEN RULESAfter swallowing an acorn sweetmeat, Sylva is transported to a fantastical forest and begins training as a nymph at the behest of her faun master. But before she earns the right to please him, she must complete three tantalizing trials.

In a clash of fire and ice, only the mist can stand between.When her ex-boyfriend goes missing, Luna will stop at nothing to find him—even if it means teaming with a Shadow Warrior, something she vowed never to do again.Desperate to know the truth, she must conspire with friend and foe alike to uncover a scheme that threatens not just the life of her ex-boyfriend, but promises to unleash Horror, a being so cataclysmic that all life as we know it hangs in th...

Larissa Channer, a tough no-nonsense mercenary in the Sectors, is celebrating success on her last job and a big bonus, with no slightest thought of taking on another assignment anytime soon. Out for a night of carousing with her friends at a third rate carnival on a backwater planet, she walks into the tent of a fake fortune teller and finds herself confronting the most intriguing man she’s ever seen. But something’s wrong, ominous currents lie beneath the surface of their encounter and La...