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He dared to take her from me. And I have to get her back before it’s too late. I will unleash the monster within. I’ll paint the walls red and burn the world down to reach her, no matter what it costs—even if she can’t love what I’ve become. In the end, I’ll become her nightmare to reclaim what's mine.

Wilhelm von Tore is dying. As he looks back on his life he reflects on his upbringing in Dresden, his beloved grandmother and his medical career during the second world war. But mostly he remembers his darling Luci, the great love of his life, his dark-haired beauty promised to him in a dream years before they met. Though only together for a few months in her first life, their love is written in the stars. Using scientific research compiled over decades, Wilhelm ensures that, for him and his beloved, death is only the beginning.

I thought I knew who I was, where I came from, but my life is turned upside down when a stranger knocks on my door with promises that seem too good to be true. I should have run like hell and never looked back, but it’s too late now. I’m enrolled at Cadieux College, where secrets and deception line the walls, and the founding families rule without question. They all think I’ll be easy to use, to control, but I’m nobody’s puppet.

Parents should pass down stories, not spirits… Avery and Carlos Tam have built their lives on logic, not legends. Carlos, the host of a hit reality show that exposes paranormal hoaxes, has made a name disproving the supernatural. But when they travel to his ancestral home in the Philippines...

Ich war schon immer ein hartes Mädchen von der North Shore. Aber vor zwei Jahren hat Caden King mich gebrochen, und er hat den Beweis dafür. Jetzt erpresst er mich. Ich soll etwas für ihn tun. Etwas, das meine Chance, der North Shore zu entkommen, gefährdet. Alle sagen immer, es wäre sinnlos, gegen Caden anzutreten. Er trägt den Wahnsinn in sich, der die Grenze zwischen Recht und Unrecht verschwimmen lässt.

Herrick Hall doesn’t let anything go without a fight. Least of all its masters’ dead wives … After a dalliance with another woman leaves her reputation in shambles, Josephine Carter is banished to the isolated manor to serve as lady’s companion to Herrick’s mistress. Lady Nora Blake is...

They meet as children. They grow up together. It’s only after one fatefully misheard conversation that Heathcliff leaves, believing his love for Catherine isn’t reciprocated. When he returns, he is a wealthy and polished man but things have now changed–drastically–and Heathcliff starts to exact terrible revenge on those who wronged him…

The manor's rumored one-hundredth door may conceal secrets hidden as deep as the estate's bookshelves extend high … but the haunted past has a way of ensnaring curious souls. In 1888, Minnie Tipton finds herself beset by the dark superstitions that envelop the Pennsylvania mansion her father...

Satan’s final judgement on Victoria sums up a shocking novel, set in Venice at the end of the 15th century, that tracks the path of its heroine from abused victim to fully fledged criminal. Her conscious embodiment of vice seems to know no limits. Depicting unfettered desire and gratuitous cruelty, and challenging taboos of race and class, this tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder has Dacre moving beyond the limits of contemporaneous gothic heroes into a truly hellish zone of her own.

Ich bin eine Mafiaprinzessin. Als er mir mitteilt, dass ich Nikita Iwanow heiraten werde, komme ich in der harten Realität des Lebens an. Dieser Mann ist ein Psychopath. Ein Killer. Auch wenn er aussieht wie ein Gott, sieht man in seinen eisblauen Augen nichts als Kälte. Doch dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse und es scheint, als hätte dieser Mann mehr zu bieten als die Härte, die er ausstrahlt.

Nur eine Verrückte würde sich in einen maskierten Fremden verlieben. Er folgt mir zurück zum Campus, aber ich kann es mir nicht leisten, einen Stalker zu haben. Ich werde der gestörte Romeo zu ihrer verrückten Juliet sein. Juliet Hayes ist genauso verrückt wie ich – eine kleine Psychopathin, die Monster jagt. Gemeinsam werden wir unsere Dämonen zerfetzen.

In the summer of 1925, the winds of change are particularly chilling for a young woman whose life has suddenly become unbalanced. Devastated by her mother’s death and a cruel, broken engagement, Sadie Halloran learns that her great-aunt Marguerite, a renowned artist now in the throes of dementia, needs a live-in companion. Grasping at newfound purpose, Sadie leaves her desolate Kansas City boardinghouse for Blackberry Grange, Marguerite’s once-grand mansion sitting precariously atop an Arkansas bluff.

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband home to Buffalo, where he grew up. Dr. Edward Wilk is wasting away from an aggressive and debilitating malady. But it's becoming clearer that his condition isn't exactly a disease but a phase of existence that seeks to transform and ultimately possess him.

‘A gorgeous love story … with more than a touch of magical realism’ Independent ‘It’s fabulous, we should all have copies’ Simon Mayo, Scala Radio ‘A glorious love story, a spellbinding fable’ Adele Parks **********************************************************` Women...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Esh Alladi. On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's...

Rosemary Chivers is haunted by the choices she made as a teenager—and by those made for her by a controlling mother. Now, in the Cold War era of conformity and suspicion, Rosemary is a modern new teacher at a school for troubled girls, where she challenges the narrow curriculum meant to tame restless young minds. She also keeps a devastating secret. She knows one of the students is the child she gave up. But which one?

I’ve taken everything from my Songbird. Her freedom. Her innocence. Even her name. She’ll no longer be known as Deirdre O’Malley, but Deirdre Titone. My wife. Whether she wants to be or not. It’s the only real way to show this city who she belongs to. The only way to tell the world that she’s as protected as she is possessed. I’ll keep her safe, even if there’s no one left to keep her safe from me.

When sisters Lily and Della Pedley are persecuted for the shocking murder of their parents, they flee from their home in Cornwall to a remote and unnamed island in Scotland - an island known for its strange happenings, but far away from the whispers and prying eyes of strangers. Lily is terrified of what her sister might do next, and she soon realises that they have arrived at a place where nothing is as it seems.

Archer Daniels is the biggest flirt at the academy, and he’s determined to have me. Coach Daniels has a history of sleeping with students. Now that I’m in my senior year, he’s determined to add me to the list. I’d rather die than end up another notch in his bedpost. But the man is persistent to a fault. He’s not someone who gives up easily, pushing harder the more I reject him. I fear that Archer will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants. A fear that quickly turns to reality as he digs up dirt about me I don’t want people to know.

I was given to the Wolf King to repay a blood debt. Stellan Varen is ruthless, feared, and built of ice and instinct. I expected a captor, not the truth hidden in my blood. I’m an Omega. His perfect match. His greatest temptation. As my suppressants fail and my heat ignites, the bond between us becomes impossible to deny. But surrendering to an Alpha means losing my freedom or claiming a power I never knew I had. And the Wolf King will burn the world before he lets me go.