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Imprisoned in Hikari, Cahya’s last-ditch effort to reason with Leor, the king of light, fails, but her efforts aren’t in vain. Hidden in plain sight in the rotunda of Halcyon Palace is a secret—a magical secret—and Cahya must unlock the mystery so that she can return to Kage and the dark realm of Kurai, and together with Tariq and their allies, mend what has broken the celestial realm of Subaru.

From the creators of the number one best seller The Box Under the Bed horror anthology and its number one best seller sequel Dark Visions comes Nightmareland: a horror anthology with 23 stories from 14 authors. A high school girl with something to prove to herself, and possibly to her parents, goes to a rundown shack deep in the woods to try a new drug that will give her the worst nightmares of her young life. A "Nightmareland" injection opens a person's biggest fears to them - and then you are on your own for however long it lasts.

For 200 years, I have promenaded down the streets and avenues of New Orleans. Born and long since dead, I received the Cadeau de Sang Illecebrous at the tender age of 16 in the year 1820, and ever since that lurid moment, I, Zylphia Lynum, have shadowed the Crescent City, hunting prey as a vampire. That life is no more, whether I like it or not.

Cahya is a commander in the army of Refulgent. Her mission is to defend Hikari, the Light Realm, and defeat the Soul Smite army of Kurai, the Dark Realm. Yet Cahya has a secret, and her world unravels on a chance meeting with the King of Kurai, where she discovers she may have helped fracture the realms.

Prophetic dreams of death and destruction, caused by her unborn daughter, Solomon Cille, plague JoJo’s sleep, warning her of trouble to come. The trouble must be stopped before JoJo’s nightmares are made real. Solomon Cille is young, but a heavy burden hangs on her head. The Seelie Queen chose her to host a parasitic faery within her body, a blood elemental that feeds off of Solomon’s essence and urges her to go to war against her city. The danger in New Orleans grows as Orlagh, Queen of the Seelie Fae, strikes out again.

For the celestial realms of Subaru, the end has come. New enemies emerge and all looks bleak. In Kurai, Cahya struggles to regain her place among Kage and the beings of the Realm of Darkness. In the Light Realm, Tariq attempts to save the desperate people of Hikari. All three realms are in shambles as a new threat descends. If they are to have any hope of overcoming a ruthless evil, the Seven Sisters and the Kings of both the Light and Dark must come together. The two realms must join to save themselves and to save the Mirror Realm, or all is lost.

As each evening passes, life in the Big Easy becomes increasingly complicated, at least it does for Sybella Rose, vampire queen of New Orleans. Immediately after discovering she had unknowingly been half-fae before receiving the Cadeau de Illecebrous from her mate, King Demien, Sybella Rose, along with her friends, disinterred that the Binding was nothing more than a curse to control and annihilate vampires all over the world.

Though she is dead, life is good. Being the Vampire Queen of New Orleans is not without its perks. For Sybella Rose, her new life with her mate, King Demien, with whom she shares the connection of The Binding, is a vampire's version of happily-ever-after. She has adapted to the differences that come with being a preternatural creature and is making her own way as vampire royalty. Yet, life and everything Sybella knows about herself is about to be uprooted.

Seeking a paranormal world amongst the living? Prefer life as you listen to it in dark novels where unexplained deaths and disappearances invariably transpire in the old city of New Orleans? Longing to meet a vampire? Wanna walk in the Quarter with another misfit, yet charming gothic girl? Hoping for intelligent bantering, endless romance, and a bit of spooky voodoo stirred into this tale?

A lover of sand and surf, Meri has spent too long lingering in the law firm where she works, bogged down by a nightmare she can’t seem to escape, but that all changes when her best friend, who also happens to be her boss, insists Meri must take a break and get away from the humdrum of life. While rediscovering her passion for ocean conservation, Meri happens upon a despicable act that forces her to step in and stand up for an innocent sand shark, but she is deterred by a rake of a man who tosses her over his shoulder and takes her away from the scene.

Victoria Clapton's Luminous Shadows, second in her two-volume Dark Light Saga, is about love, music, and psychopathic paparazzo. This book picks up with the fearful and the fearless, only this time, the wheel of fate is turned, and the hunter is now the hunted. A conclusion that you don't expect, but can't put down.

Finding herself at the end of another year of college, Pinky continues to struggle to find balance. Her current life co-mingles with her many past lives as she daily fulfills her schedule as a college student. She is also simultaneously the leader to a displaced group of people she calls her dearest friends.

From author Victoria Clapton comes The Priestess and the Warrior trilogy which regales the story of Pinky and her journey through the ages as she rights kingdom wrongs and seeks to finally join with her love, Tyr, a Viking warrior, who, while fighting his own wars, remains in contact with Pinky through centuries.

From the creators of the number one best-selling horror anthology Nightmareland, the follow up to the number one best seller Dark Visions, and the number one best seller The Box Under The Bed comes a new collection for your darker tastes: Spellbound - a horror anthology with 27 stories from 16 authors.

He’s beautiful. He’s an artist, a writer, and a musician. A dichotomy of sadness and longing, Sterling Lawson has created a musical fan base around the globe. Obsessed with his glory, those who claim to admire his gifts fantasize and dehumanize the very man they adore. Like piranha. It is a fast and unfulfilling life. Despite his own attempts to annihilate his own success, at the end of the day, when the spotlight hits the middle of the stage, Sterling Lawson is completely beloved by millions of people, including Hunter Tate.

Pinky, a young college student with a tortured past, is learning to live her life in a "normal" way because she prefers to not stand out in a crowd. While earning extra credit for her history class at the local Renaissance Faire, Pinky finds her present existence and her past memories melding together as her mind interweaves tales of Pinky's long-ago life.

After the death of Queen Orlagh, the once Seelie Queen of faeries, and her evil henchman King Eldon, king of Zoanthia, trouble brews in the faery realm. While the Seelie and Unseelie courts struggle for peace under the new rule, a monstrous faery takes control of Zoanthia.

Beware of the Knockers. They come in the night, searching for the one that wronged them. Lenore waits all year for Halloween to descend on the small Appalachian town of Hiraeth Hollow. A mortician and the town’s only professional pumpkin carver, Lenore spends her autumn weekends carving gruesome scenes in gourds while sipping hot beverages at the local Halloween attraction.