Contemporary Gothic

It is 1993 and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, sleeping each night in the room with the barred window. He's only 48 but has been an old man since one evening in 1967 when he lost everything he valued. However, now his controlling mother has died and he is master of the house. When Esmond, his cousin and childhood confidant, comes to live with him, Thomas is overjoyed - Esmond always looks after him. But is Esmond all that he seems?

Charles Hayden has been fascinated by a strange Victorian fairy tale, In the Night Wood, since he was a child. When his wife, Erin - a descendant of the author - inherits her ancestor’s house, the couple decide to make it their home. Still mourning the recent death of their daughter, they leave America behind, seeking a new beginning in the English countryside. But Hollow House, filled with secrets and surrounded by an ancient oak forest, is a place where the past seems very much alive....

J’ai bien vu sa façon de me regarder. Le Capitaine. Le chef incontesté de ce paquebot. Un paquebot dont je veux être libérée. Un homme dont je veux m’éloigner autant que mes jambes peuvent me porter. La société qu’il a conçue, ses règles, l’éternel bras de fer…

Rosemary’s Baby meets Revolutionary Road… On the border between the necropolis of Colma, home to over two million dead souls and 1,794 somewhat live ones -- and the gritty industrial working-class town of South City -- At 1015 Crestview, little seven-year-old Reynaldo cowers under the escalating abuse hurled by an adoptive mother who now sees him as a burden. Allen, a workaholic Silicon Valley techie, seeks relief from domestic conflict by slipping away to sample the sweet brews at McCoy’s, a mysterious pub and Hell’s Angels hangout. Up the street, young adults Rad and Tawny drift ...

***Can be read as a stand alone*** ‘Beyond the Veil.’ It’s the expression people use for life after living – the mysterious place all souls linger after inevitably vacating earth and floating to finality. To arrive, one must first experience death. It can be quick or slow and torturous. Death can happen again and again. Forever – none of us can Escape Reality. Each time, Mistress Death brings with her a lesson. That’s what it feels like for Mary and Hudson. Since the moment they said their vows, they’ve died a hundred deaths. What started as ‘true love’ quickly became ...

This is the first book in the Fantasy of Love series. In this book you will listen to three individual stories from the perspective of those in love with a young lady born under a curse called The Broken Mirror. The reason for the curse and how it will be broken will unfold through the details of each story. For those who have been in love, are in love, seek to be in love, or those who wish to never be in love again, this book has been created for you. Please keep in mind that no one owns love and sharing love with someone you choose is a luxury, not a right.

Thirty-three-year-old Todd is playing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of an approaching figure. Instantly, he recognises Jack, his high school tormentor. Radiant, repentant, and overjoyed to have 'run into' Todd, Jack suggests a meal to catch up. And can he spend the night? What follows is a fast-paced story of obsession and suspense, as Jack gaslights his way back into Todd's life, pushing his old 'friend' to the brink.

Mariem e Raul sono i protagonisti di questa favola gotica, un intenso gioco tra il noir e l’erotico, tra l’amore e la morte, in una originale eco della tradizione letteraria andalusa. Mariem è un’adolescente e vive a Malaga, Raúl ha qualche anno più di lei. Ad accomunarli c'è il rapporto morboso che entrambi intrattengono con la morte.

After the suicide of his uncle, Lucas Heathfield inherits Stoneborough Manor in Oxfordshire. He imagines it as a place where he and his tight-knit group of friends can spend time away from London. But from the beginning, the house changes everything. It begins to have a strange effect on Lucas and he becomes haunted by the death of his uncle, obsessed by ciné films of his uncle's friends at Stoneborough 30 years earlier. Within the claustrophobic confines of the house over a hot, decadent summer, secrets slide out of the past and sexual tensions escalate, shattering the group's friendship and changing their lives irrevocably.

In this gothic stepbrother romance, Celia will uncover secrets about her mysterious employer, Thomas Bly, as well as her own family and everything she held to be true about her life. Will she be able to handle the truth, and, more importantly, will she be able to control the terrible passion it incites?

Hard Luck is an evocative collection of seventeen stories that glimpse into the lives of the often broken and downtrodden people in small-town southern Indiana. Some residents escape while others are consumed by their drug-fueled, crime-ridden environments. A man’s love triangle goes awry in CRANKED. Sex, drugs, and gambling seduce the characters in LOOKING FOR ACTION. In the title story, HARD LUCK, a hard-drinking sheriff enforces his own kind of law. A once imprisoned biker returns to his hometown to witness a backwoods, bare-knuckle brawl in THE FIGHT. In the dark, hillbilly gothic ...

She's determined to get the story... Tabloid reporter Frannie Fielding arrives at Haliday Hall with three ghost hunters to investigate possible ghost infestations. But there's more to Frannie and the ghost hunters than meets the eye. He'll do whatever it takes to stop her... Sinclair Haliday, a dead ringer for Heathcliff or Mr. de Winter, finds the peskiest of the intruders to be Frannie with her endless questions - although he has to admit she's the cutest living creature he's ever seen.

The USA Today bestselling Give & Take series continues with Taken by Storm, the highly anticipated page turning, seductive and heartstoppingly powerful love story of MJ and Maddie. Deception. Maddie Simcoe knows the devastation that comes from keeping secrets. Now, she's desperate to move on from the heartbreak that almost destroyed her - trading wild passion that once made her knees weak for a life of comfortable stability. But before Maddie can start over, she must return home to put the past behind her once and for all....

Marcus Wellington has it all—wealth, power, and success. But when he lays his eyes on Charlotte, a young and innocent waitress, he becomes obsessed with her. She consumes his every waking thought, and he has just the resources to get exactly what he wants. And what he wants is Charlotte.

I’ve been obsessed with her for as long as I can remember, but she’s way out of my league. She’s a rich girl, and I’m a man from the wrong side of the tracks. Add our age gap on top of that, and it’s a recipe for a love story gone wrong. But fate throws me a bone when I catch her stranded on the side of the road. She’s in trouble, but I’m just the kind of daddy who can rescue her.