No matter how much you've aged or how confident you may be in the dark, your fear will continue to grow roots in your mind. Strangest Fiction is back with the third installment of our namesake speculative fiction series. We've prepared a collection of bad dreams to haunt you, dear reader. You can't escape what's coming, no matter if it's a possessed doll, a ravenous swamp, or a flesh-eating creature from the deep. We hope you enjoy these intense tales from our talented storytellers. Stay s...

An exhilarating, primal summer fling in the woods leads to an intensely sexy, edgy romance, where anything goes—just remember your safe word.Divorced and buried in student loan debt, Claire Collins eagerly enters a spicy business agreement with an acquaintance who wants to explore his primal desires. The deal is simple: thirty days as his sexual prey, $30,000 in her bank account. All she has to do is give Shane Underwood the hunt of his life.Claire’s a phys...

**An Instant USA Today Bestseller!A thrilling and sexy wager between friends turns deadly when they discover they aren’t the only ones who are preying.…**No deity has ever compelled Caine Underwood to drop to his knees in worship like Margot Walker does. Ever since the Halloween when she played Red Riding Hood to his Big Bad Wolf, he’s been chasing her attention—and betting that he can build a haunt so terrifying she won’t make it through. Now, Margot’s single and ...

Brie MacDavies should have drowned that night. Two of her best friends—one like a sister, the other the boy she almost loved—never made it out of the water. But she survived… and someone doesn't think she should have.For months, anonymous notes have appeared, each carrying the same chilling message: It should have been you. Haunted by guilt and convinced her survival was a cruel mistake, Brie has stopped believing she deserves happiness—until a stranger named Brendan walks...

She was never meant to live in the human world.He was never meant to find her there.Destiny didn't care.Sarah Dorset has spent her life trying to outrun the fire inside her—an inheritance she can't name, a danger she first unleashed as a teenager when she acted to protect her foster siblings from the man who preyed on them. Survival answered through instinct, fear, and flame… long before she understood what she was.

Mere days ago, Celeste had vowed never to let her body touch the Seelie King Gabriel's again, never to let him kiss her lips, and only to see him as her enemy. But, unfortunately, she wasn't great at keeping her vows these days when every cell of her body betrayed the things she set her mind to accomplish. Staying away from Gabriel was just another one of those things.Why can't I resist him?But when being close to him fills up all of her emptiness, overflows her heart with lo...

Finally, she chose to believe in love, but it might be all too late.Unexpected fate has dumped Celeste Abgamon's life upside down. But, for a single mom, taking the Seelie King Gabriel's offer of help was her only option when her ex and the father of her son showed up Saturday morning in the farmer's market.Little did she know she was about to learn the reasons for the emptiness within her that only her son could fill, and King Gabriel was responsible. He promised it was to ...

Perfect for fans of The Unspoken Name and Gideon the Ninth, this queer, dark science fantasy follows a ruthless fortune weaver and an ambitious cave priestess, who enter into cursed bargains with unintended consequences.“Evoking the spirit of late-'90s epic fantasy and the weight of consequence found in Dune, Devouring Fortune is a compelling reminder of just how expansive the genre can be." - Seth Haddon, Author of V...

Allison Michaels never thought she could do it--be as callous and devious as her sister. Three weeks ago, she set out on an adventure that promised to leave her debt-free with a stacked portfolio and references that would allow her to break into the graphic design world. All she had to do was help destroy a horrible man.With her tail between her legs, debt-free, and opportunities to work at numerous design firms, Allison is running home heartbroken and with guilt comparable to her ...

How far would you go to save your hero?Gunner Wilkes never believed Horatio Slice spontaneously combusted during a sold-out concert. He's certain the hot and hunky rock star fell through a portal into another dimension.Brilliant and obsessed, Gunner creates a machine that cracks open the universe, and once the smoke clears, Horatio is standing in his college dorm. Naked.Just as things get steamy, Snake Vinter—space pirate, vampire, and Horatio's fie...

Set in Oleander Blackthorn's fantasy setting of Shattered Sun, Shattered Sun - Scion of Blood is a romance and dark fantasy short novel centered around the Queendom of Sanguinus and its people, along with the old God that they worship. Unbeknownst to them, their God Lunaris threads their dark fates together in a single tapestry, his invisible lineage of blood interwoven throughout their veins, drawing their hearts together for the purpose of his grand design.Asphodel is on...

A Willing Captive, but never a willing participant. Marin is evolving and with Cedric's connection weakening every day she fears time is running out before all is lost.Marin Grienger has resolved to take Kieron's deal--his promise to leave her only living family, Aislinn, alone in exchange for her going with him. It is a deal she fears will ultimately end with her mind, body, and soul violated and being nothing but a bloodless husk of what she used to be, and that is if she is luck...