Dark Myths

Tessa Gratton's debut epic adult fantasy, The Queens of Innis Lear, brings to life a world that hums with ancient magic and characters as ruthless as the tides. The erratic decisions of a prophecy-obsessed king have drained Innis Lear of its wild magic, leaving behind a trail of barren crops and despondent subjects. Enemy nations circle the once-bountiful isle, sensing its growing vulnerability, hungry to control the ideal port for all trade routes.

The day Liz Evans went for a run in the forest, she didn't expect to die. She didn't expect to turn into a vampire, either. Her world is turned upside down in an instant, and her dreams of college and falling in love have gone right out of the window. Now all she can think about is blood. But with a little help from her vampire boyfriend Sam and his brother Zac—the guy she’s definitely not meant to have feelings for—her life is able to go back to normal. Well, as normal as being a vampire can be. When Liz can finally cope with her new reality, she wants answers, knowing she may never ...

How do you protect a secret no one ever told you? Agnethe, a young Norse girl living in 882 Danelaw, finds herself alone and needs to answer that question. Now, she'll have to find a way to learn the secret or risk endangering more realms than her own. One mysterious woman could be the key if Agnethe can find her. To make matters worse, she's forced to leave her home and live with abusive relatives just as she starts to experience strange premonitions she doesn't understand. When she meets a handsome visitor, he offers her the security she craves, but will his love keep her from her true ...

The lovely maiden meets her handsome prince in the woods. The story has been told many times and in many ways. Always the maiden finds out she is a princess - a princess who has been cursed by a dark fairy to prick her finger on a spindle and fall into an eternal sleep. And yet this is only half the story. So what of the dark fairy, Maleficent? Why does she curse the innocent princess? What led to her becoming so filled with malice, anger, and hatred? Many tales have tried to explain her motives. Here is one account, pulled down from the many passed down through the ages.

Getting lucky is a good thing, isn't it? Mona figured she was onto a good thing after winning five hundred dollars and an all expense paid trip to Ireland, just in time for St. Patrick's Day. She figured she was onto a good thing when she found the leprechaun, underneath a four leaf clover. Only finding a leprechaun might not be quite as lucky as folks will tell you. You know you've got a good story when you see the line, “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You stole my scratch ticket. Prepare to die.”

An ancient malice. An unknown legacy. Just when things were looking up, the world begins to crumble…again. Holly Burke is haunted by the legacy left behind by not only the Trine, but her own family. Handed everything that ever belonged to the witches of Dunloe, she doesn’t know what to do with it all. How do people go on living after the end is written? But when mysterious happenings begin to crop up all around town, Holly realises that for the supernatural, there’s no such thing as a ‘happily ever after’. Reports of strange lights, shadowy figures, mutilated cattle, and diseased ...

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how bad her luck can really get. Her mother is stolen by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world from her grandmother's stories.