A cursed princess, a soulless pirate, and a deal that could change both of their fates. In a realm full of monsters, shadows are stolen, and promises are bound with blood… and sometimes marriage vows.Princess by birth and sacrificial lamb by royal decree, Scarlet Midicious is ready to face her fate. She's known her entire life that this day would come. Her wedding… The gauntlet… and likely her funeral.However, on the night of the gauntlet, she meets a myste...

I'm the Princess of Solaria, a realm full of beasts that could make the Devil cower.That title means nothing because I'll be dead by the week's end.Like my sisters before me, the moment I turned twenty-three, my father announced a gauntlet. A fight to the death, where the most ruthless of the land could try to claim me as their bride.Desperate, I entered the gauntlet and fought for my own hand. But the mad king is a twisted monster who loves to play tricks,...

Calamity plans to kill the ruthless King of Monsters.Held prisoner since birth and used for her ability to give and take life with a single touch, Calamity yearns to see outside the dungeon walls. When the plan to kill her father goes south, a friend helps her flee into a monster-ridden world, and she's thrust into the arms of a rebel thief.Loric owes a life debt—one he's being blackmailed to repay by getting Calamity out of the kingdom alive . She...

As the only living heir, I was supposed to wed Vanderlyth's most notorious sack of potatoes. Except, our ship went down and said potato sailed away in the only lifeboat, leaving me to drown. My last image? His middle finger.Luck must be on my side because I wash up on the mainland. A place filled with my father's enemies, home to droves of demons that would kill me for my pointy ears alone.I take shelter inside an abandoned castle, but while trying to discern a way out of t...

I'm Alice, and for years, I've had dreams about talking to the Devil.They're not nightmares. In fact, they're far from it. Our conversations are innocent, but certainly not normal. Though, if I'm honest, I'm not even sure what about my life is . . .I always thought that someday my namesake would prove true, and I'd get a fairy tale of my own. After all, I live in a world where magic exists, so why not hope?However, instead of a rabbit, what came to ...

"If I'm the Queen of Hearts, then be my King of Spades."The High King—now freed from his prison—continues to wreak havoc on the seven realms, but he made one wrong move. He kidnapped my best friend, and I'll stop at nothing to get him back. Even if it means holding the self-appointed king's cold dead heart in my bare hands.I've set out into the realm of monsters, and all is going according to plan until it's not, and I find myself allied with the last perso...

A year ago, we managed to escape the realm of monsters, unscathed.The mistake of trying to strike a bargain with the High King has been buried in the past . . .Or so we thought.Tensions rise when the people in our kingdom seek blood, claiming a beast massacred one of the villages around Hell Hold.Pitchforks burn and the fine line between good and evil blurs until it’s nearly obliterated all together.However, one thin...