A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption.In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake.Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, he joined the hunt for the creature twenty years ago and watched it slaughter its way through a long and bloody ...

**Lusty, dark, queer fantasy – The Red Winter is perfect for fans of The Witcher and Susanna Clarke. Inspired by the eighteenth-century legend of the Beast of Gévaudan.‘Charming, haunting, ambitious’– T. KINGFISHER, author of Nettle & Bone**A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power and redemption.In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears mos...

A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption."...narrator Rory Bennet voices Sarmodel like a French Peter Lorre, and it’s *chef’s kiss*" — Book Riot“...[Narrators Rory Barnett and Imogen Church] elevate the supernatural intrigue and psychological tension, keeping listeners fully engaged. A dark, witty listen blending horror and history into a vivid, gripping, and ...

**Inspired by the eighteenth-century legend of the Beast of Gévaudan, The Red Winter is a lusty, dark, queer fantasy – perfect for fans of The Witcher and Susanna Clarke.‘Charming, haunting, ambitious’– T. KINGFISHER, author of Nettle & Bone**A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power and redemption.In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears m...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!Debut author Shen Tao introduces listeners to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress, a sweeping, epic and intimate fantasy perfect for fans of The Serpent & the Wings of Night, The Song of Achilles and She Who Became the Sun."Narrators Katharine Chin and Eric Yang create an immersive fantasy setting for this powerful story about legacy, hierarchy, power...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!A LIBRARY READS PICK!Debut author Shen Tao introduces readers to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress, a sweeping, epic and intimate fantasy perfect for fans of The Serpent & the Wings of Night, The Song of Achilles and She Who Became the Sun.In the waning years of the Azalea Dynasty, the emperor is dying, the land consumed by famine, and poetry magic l...

A visionary and atmospheric gothic fantasy about necromancy, vengeance, and soul-consuming love, the first in a duology from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady MacbethOnce there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy.A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing thei...

Bloomsbury presents The Last Starborn Seer by Venetia Constantine, read by Gaia Wise and Maxim Ays.'A Tolkienesque journey through a gorgeous, shimmering world... Venetia Constantine is a bright new star' - Samantha Shannon, bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree***Leilani Stellarion is cursed.The last of a ruined bloodline, she’s shun...

Bloomsbury presents The Shattered Spires by Cassidy Ellis Salter, read by Kit GriffithsIn a rotten and bloody world, four magical rivals are forced to work together to avoid certain death in a deadly competition. Gothic, visceral and utterly compelling, These Shattered Spires is the first book in the Wyrdos trilogy.**Beneath a tooth-filled sky, the world rots.At the heart of the decaying world is ...

A proud culture oppressed for centuries. An island over-run by bestial gods. And a girl with the power to raise the fallen . . .For three hundred years the wild island of Croí has been subject to the Empire of the Answering. Clans have been subjugated, their language outlawed, their religion reduced to the whisper of fugitive priests.Until Croí's prayers are answered. The Gods return. Feral and majestic, they stride the land as colossi, throwing the Empir...

A visionary and atmospheric gothic fantasy about necromancy, vengeance, and soul-consuming love, the first in a duology from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth.'Gorgeously gruesome... reads like the gory bones of a forgotten folktale.' Jacqueline Carey'Symphonically lyrical, unflinchingly dark, and terrifyingly romantic, Innamorata is old-school gothic tape...

‘As devastating as it is spellbinding. I loved it’ – Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas SixA dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a glittering alternate Los Angeles; perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab.Sharp-as-a-blade Sam lives in poverty, and she’ll do anything to claim a better life. This includes forcing h...