Dark Ages Fiction

Kithamar is a centre of trade and wealth, an ancient city with a long bloody history where countless thousands live and their stories unfold. This is Alys'. When her brother is murdered, a petty thief from the slums of Longhill sets out to discover who killed him and why. But the more she discovers about him, the more she learns about herself, and the truths she finds are more dangerous than knives.

Foster girl. Trash. That’s all I am to the world. And that’s fine. After surviving New Jersey’s foster system, I can survive anything. Even taking a dangerous job from a tall, gorgeous stranger so I can keep my little sister safe - a job that goes very, very wrong.

A lot has changed for Annika since being kidnapped by vampires to become a blood slave in their hidden kingdom of the Vale. Not only has she learned she's a Nephilim, a race that's supposedly extinct, but she's found herself on a dangerous quest for the Holy Grail. Luckily, she has the vampire Prince Jacen by her side, and the two of them feel ready for anything.

Alicia Erian's characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. The Brutal Language of Love challenges traditional notions of right and wrong with what has become Erian's signature—an achingly stylish humor and a deep understanding of the brutal truth about human nature. These surprising, provocative, and deeply resonant stories marked the emergence of a major talent.

Close to turning eighty, in the midst of a demographic winter, the millennial Ebenezer Espósito urgently needs to hire a prepaid nursing home. He doesn’t want just any nursing home... he wants the one with the best care, since he has no children to oversee his care. Fortunately, he has found the right place, where every detail will be taken into account. A short story of social satire about the problem faced by many communities that have entered the process of demographic winter.

I had one job. One responsibility. Lust wasn't a distraction that I had time for, and love was even further off the table. My career was demanding and required my undivided attention which left little time for romance. But when my sister went missing after meeting a guy from the same dating app as the beautiful way too young for me college student that I had been assigned to protect, everything changed.

Jane Doe is a weredeer, the least-threatening shapechanger species in the world. Blessed with the ability to turn furry at will and psychically read objects, Jane has done her best to live a normal life working as a waitress at the Deerlightful Diner. She has big dreams of escaping life in the supernatural-filled town of Bright Falls, Michigan. Unfortunately, her 18th birthday is ruined by the sudden murder of her best friend's sister in an apparent occult killing. Oh, and her brother is the primary suspect.

In this thrilling next instalment, the secret society of Alexandrians is unmasked. Its newest recruits realize the institute is capable of raw world-changing power. It’s also headed by a man with plans to change life as we know it—and these are already under way. But the cost of this knowledge is as high as the price of power, and each initiate must choose which faction to follow. Yet as events gather momentum and dangers multiply, which of their alliances will hold? Can friendships hold true and are enemies quite what they seem?

Enchantments run deep on the magical Isle of Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armour and the smallest cut of a knife can instil fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that live there find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home, but that mischief turns to malevolence as girls begin to go missing. Adaira, heiress of the East, knows the spirits only answer to a bard’s music, enticing them to return the missing girls. But there’s only one bard capable of drawing the spirits forth by song: her childhood enemy, Jack Tamerlaine.

A Neural Implant That Promised to Save Lives—Now It’s Killing Them. Five years after the launch of a groundbreaking neural implant designed to revolutionize healthcare, government agent Eric Snoughden stumbles upon a disturbing trend: a spike in unexplained deaths among low-income recipients. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes—this is no accident. Someone is targeting the victims and covering up the truth. With the help of a relentless journalist and unexpected allies from an escort agency, Eric unravels a high-stakes conspiracy woven through corporate greed, political ...

Award winning book in Women’s Fantasy at BookFest Forbidden magics. Secret loves. Dangerous desires. "…never trust a Pebble Pincher." It's been twenty years since the Slates crossed the sea to battle the tyrannical Ràej in the Great War, eliminating the higher magics and liberating the people of Omneth. With them they brought Pebbles filled with gifted magic so that everyone would have the same access to magic. The sovereignty was replaced with Officials; new buildings to house them and their politics, molded from whence they came. And the royal summer castle turned into an Academy to ...

Matt Kim is always tired. He keeps passing out. His cat is dead. His wife and daughter have left him. He’s estranged from his adoptive family. People bump into him on the street as if he isn’t there. He is pretty sure he’s disappearing. His girlfriend, Yumi, is less convinced. But then she runs into someone who looks exactly like her, and her doppelgänger turns out to have dated someone who looks exactly like Matt.

War explodes across the skies! Discharged from the navy, Ary is free to end the Storm. As long as it exists, his curse marks him for death. To survive, he must part from his wife. Chaylene, still an officer in the navy, hides her pain as Ary leaves. She wants to be by his side. Duty compels her to stay. Haunted by the nightmares of battle, she must discover her inner strength. Her husband and friends need her more than ever. Will she rise to the occasion? Or will her personal demons destroy her?

Seventeen-year-old Shae has lived her entire life in awe of the Bards - and afraid of the Blot, a deadly disease spread by ink, which took the life of her younger brother five years ago. Ever since, Shae fears she's cursed. But when tragedy strikes again, and her mother is found murdered with a golden dagger - a weapon used only by the Bards - Shae is forced to act.

It’s the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) arrive at America’s most prestigious creative-writing program, to which Loudermilk has recently been accepted for his excellence in poetry. Loudermilk, however, has never written a poem in his life.

Anuri's stepmother, Ophelia, is the ultimate 'mumfluencer'. Throughout Anuri's childhood, she catalogued every minute, milestone and carefully curated family outing on social media, cultivating a devoted—and sizable—following. Now twenty-five years old, life looks pretty perfect on the outside. Ophelia's fans could be forgiven for wondering why Anuri spends much of her time insulting men online for money, battling the call of alcohol, running from a PhD application, and reminding herself that she is now allowed to choose her own outfits.

Her mother taught her how to survive this new nightmare of a world, but it was her cousin, Helena, who taught her how to live in it. She will need the lessons they both taught her to outlast it.Genny never thought she would find herself alone. She always counted on someone to be by her side. When a chain of wrong choices resulted in just that, Genny is now living her worst fears, bold, blood-covered, and never ending. Does she have what it takes to outlast The Risen? Or can one truly never outrun the dead?

Una plaga en la edad moderna. ¿Qué harías si tu mundo cambiara ante tus propios ojos?. ¿Qué harías si vieras a tus seres queridos convirtiéndose en horrendas monstruosidades?. ¿Qué harías si fueras la única persona sana y normal que queda en el planeta?. Estas preguntas, que brillan intensamente como los bordes exteriores de una supernova, son las que se hace Alicia Gaden mientras toda la vida a su alrededor se convierte en locura y decadencia. El agua, la sustancia vital de la que depende la supervivencia misma de la Tierra, se ha transformado en un fango espantoso y ...

What happens when players get played? Hearts get broken, secrets get revealed, and no one is who they say they are. Ophelia Lopez is the most recent scholarship recipient to be admitted to Weis-Jameson Preparatory Academy. When she steps through the doors of WJ Prep, she lands on the wrong side of the Elites who rule the school. They’ve brought her here to play, ruin, and hurt. They’ve messed with the wrong girl. If she can get the Elites to trust her, to believe they’ve beaten her into submission, she will bring them down from the inside.

Stuck spending the summer with his screwed-up family, Gabriel Walker is bored out of his mind and looking for an adventure. And he seems to find it with the hot girl who lives next door. The attraction between them is instant and electric. Soon they're spending every stolen minute together. Talk about the perfect summer fling.