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Freedom becomes more dangerous the closer it feels.
The Boy Who Said No
Historical Fiction · Suspense · War Fiction
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Freedom becomes more dangerous the closer it feels. In The Boy Who Said No, Frank Mederos comes of age under Castro’s regime and risks everything to escape the army, evade a relentless manhunt, and reach the life he wants beyond Cuba. This historical novel draws its momentum from true events, blending political danger, personal loss, and the stubborn courage it takes to refuse submission.
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As a boy Frank Mederos' grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted to the Special Forces, where he is privy to top military secrets. But young Frank has no sympathy for Fidel. He thirsts for freedom and longs to join his girlfriend who has left Cuba for America.
Frank yearns to defect, but his timing couldn't be worse. After two unsuccessful escape attempts, Frank learns that the departure of the next available boat conflicts with upcoming military exercises. If he stays, he will miss the boat. If he doesn't, he will be the object of a massive manhunt.
Problems abound: How will Frank escape the army base without being seen? Where will he hide until the boat comes? How can he outwit his commanding officer? And how can he elude hundreds of soldiers ordered to bring him back "dead or alive"?
Frank's true story, a tale of love, loss and courage that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page is turned.
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Some lives are marked as strange before they are ever allowed to be fully seen.
The Last Blue
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Some lives are marked as strange before they are ever allowed to be fully seen. In The Last Blue, a woman in 1930s Appalachia whose skin is blue becomes the focus of a photographer’s final assignment, and the connection that follows reshapes both their lives. This historical novel blends love, isolation, prejudice, and longing into a story about identity, spectacle, and what it means to be truly singular.
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In this luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of “the Blue People of Kentucky,” Isla Morley probes questions of identity, love, and family in her breathtaking new novel.
In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio—a writer and photographer—are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. For photographer Clay Havens, the assignment is his last chance to reboot his flagging career. So when he and his journalist partner are warned away from the remote Spooklight Holler outside of town, they set off eagerly in search of a headline story. What they see will haunt Clay into his old age: Jubilee Buford, a woman whose skin is a shocking and unmistakable shade of blue. From this happenstance meeting between a woman isolated from society and persecuted her whole life, and a man accustomed to keeping himself at lens distance from others, comes a mesmerizing story in which the dark shades of betrayal, prejudice, fear, and guilt, are refracted along with the incandescent hues of passion and courage. Panning across the rich rural aesthetic of eastern Kentucky, The Last Blue is a captivating love story and an intimate portrait of what it is like to be truly one of a kind.
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The future looks ridiculous right up until it turns deadly.
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
Sci-Fi
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The future looks ridiculous right up until it turns deadly. In Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, Zoey Ashe gets pulled from an ordinary life into a hyperconnected city full of enhanced killers, hidden power plays, and chaos she never asked to inherit. This sci-fi thriller blends sharp satire, violent absurdity, and survival-level momentum with a dark comic edge.
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New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin takes readers to a whole new level with his darkly comic sci-fi thriller, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits.
An Alex Award Winner
Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements.
An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move.
Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes.
A young woman from the trailer park.
And her very smelly cat.
Together, they will decide the future of mankind.
Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a pop star, in which human achievement soars to new heights while its depravity plunges to the blackest depths. A world in which at least one cat smells like a seafood shop's dumpster on a hot summer day.
This is the world in which Zoey Ashe finds herself, navigating a futuristic city in which one can find elements of the fantastic, nightmarish and ridiculous on any street corner. Her only trusted advisor is the aforementioned cat, but even in the future, cats cannot give advice. At least not any that you'd want to follow.
Will Zoey figure it all out in time? Or maybe the better question is, will you? After all, the future is coming sooner than you think.
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It fits readers who want dark romance steeped in psychological tension, toxic devotion, and a love story shaped by fear as much as desire.
Psychotic Obsession
Literary Fiction · Romance · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Obsession can look tender right up until it turns into control. In Psychotic Obsession, scientist Aria Miller’s connection with her new assistant deepens into something far more dangerous when his fixation hardens into possession and her attempt to leave threatens to expose who he really is. It fits readers who want dark romance steeped in psychological tension, toxic devotion, and a love story shaped by fear as much as desire.
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"Psychotic Obsession is the kind of psychological thriller that completely gets under your skin and never lets up. Leigh Rivers delivers a tense, emotionally charged story with believable conflict, unsettling realism, and an ending that hit even harder than I expected." -Apropos Books
LOVE IS DANGEROUS
TRUST IS A WEAKNESS
POSSESSION IS A TOXIC GAME
Sweet and gentle.
Calm and collected.
Nervous and inexperienced.
He was death cloaked in the form of a handsome man, and instead of running the other way the first chance she got, she fell for him.
Aria Miller is a scientist searching for the cure for a rare genetic disease when her world turns on its head – she collides with Tobias Mitchell. When she takes him on as her assistant, he becomes infatuated with her in ways he knows he shouldn’t be.
Then, reality hits, and Aria is forced to leave the country. Faced with the thought of losing the object of his obsession, Tobias’ mask slips, showing her his true self for the first time.
Aria is his, and he’ll do anything to make sure she stays that way.
This is an interconnected standalone set before The Edge of Darkness Trilogy
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Belonging turns dangerous when every bloodline demands a choice.
The Tiger and the Wolf
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Belonging turns dangerous when every bloodline demands a choice. In The Tiger and the Wolf, Maniye flees a brutal clan war while carrying the one secret that could make her powerful or unforgivable: she can shift into both tiger and wolf. This epic fantasy leans into identity, tribal conflict, and looming war, with a feral atmosphere and high-stakes momentum.
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The first in the Echoes of the Fall series, The Tiger and the Wolf is an epic fantasy novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
‘One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction’ – Christopher Paolini
In the bleak northern crown of the world, war is coming . . .
Maniye’s father is the Wolf clan’s chieftain, but she’s an outcast. Her mother was queen of the Tiger and these tribes have been enemies for generations. Maniye also hides a deadly secret. All can shift into their clan’s animal form, but Maniye can take on tiger and wolf shapes. She refuses to disown half her soul so escapes, rescuing a prisoner of the Wolf clan in the process. The killer Broken Axe is set on their trail to drag them back for retribution.
The Wolf chieftain plots to rule the north, and controlling his daughter is crucial to his schemes. However, other tribes also prepare for strife. Strangers from the far south appear too, seeking allies in their own conflict. It’s a season for omens as priests foresee danger and a darkness falling across the land. Some say a great war is coming, overshadowing even Wolf ambitions. A time of testing and broken laws is near – but what spark will set the world ablaze?
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Justice gets messier when every road leads back to the place that made you.
Bluebird, Bluebird
Mystery · Thriller
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Justice gets messier when every road leads back to the place that made you. In Bluebird, Bluebird, Texas Ranger Darren Mathews heads into a small East Texas town where the murders of a Black lawyer and a white local woman threaten to ignite long-buried tensions. This crime novel blends racial unrest, personal reckoning, and Southern noir atmosphere into a tense investigation with real emotional weight.
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A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today).
"In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders -- a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman -- have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes -- and save himself in the process -- before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire, Bluebird, Bluebird is a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.
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It fits readers who want zombie horror grounded in political unease, bleak tension, and a fully realized collapsed America.
Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
Our take
The world ended through a cure, and what remains is ruled by fear, infection, and the brutal logic of survival. In Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection, Mira Grant expands her post-apocalyptic universe through stories that trace the human cost of a man-made virus and the lives shaped in its aftermath. It fits readers who want zombie horror grounded in political unease, bleak tension, and a fully realized collapsed America.
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Collected here for the first time is every piece of short fiction from New York Times Bestseller Mira Grant's acclaimed Newsflesh series, with two new never-before published novellas and all eight short works available for the first time in print.
We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, a man-made virus taking over bodies and minds, filling them with one, unstoppable command. . . FEED.
Mira Grant creates a chilling portrait of an America paralyzed with fear. No one leaves their houses and entire swaths of the country have been abandoned. And only the brave, the determined, or the very stupid, venture out into the wild.
Contents:
Countdown
Everglades
Sand Diego 2014
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
All the Pretty Little Horses
Coming to You Live
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It fits readers who want psychological thrillers rooted in family secrets, emotional tension, and revelations that grow more devastating with each turn.
She Left Us
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Some families survive by burying the truth until it starts speaking for itself. In She Left Us, Grace Franklin receives recordings in her dead sister’s voice that unravel the story her family protected for years and force her to confront what really happened the night Zoe vanished. It fits readers who want psychological thrillers rooted in family secrets, emotional tension, and revelations that grow more devastating with each turn.
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“I know this is a lot to hear, Grace. And I’m truly sorry for putting you through it. But there are only a couple more episodes to go.”
Grace Franklin was just a child when her older sister Zoe vanished.
The family never called the police. Never searched for her.
They said Zoe was troubled—that she didn’t want to be found.
But now Zoe’s body has been discovered at the bottom of a ravine, just ten miles from home.
Days later, a package arrives on Grace’s doorstep:
A tape recorder.
Zoe’s voice.
Beginning with Eleven Years Before, Zoe recounts the events leading up to her death.
And the story she tells is nothing like the version the Franklins preserved.
It doesn’t just contradict what Grace was told.
It exposes the people she loves the most.
Someone lied.
Someone knows more than they’re saying.
And the truth about what happened that night is darker than Grace ever imagined
Taut, heartbreaking, and deeply unsettling, She Left Us is a haunting psychological thriller about the lies that hold families together—and the truths that tear them apart.
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It fits readers who want metafictional horror with dark wit, historical texture, and an intimate closeness to evil.
Mister B. Gone
Horror
Our take
The voice telling you to stop reading is the very thing that makes the book impossible to put down. In Mister B. Gone, a demon trapped inside a centuries-old manuscript recounts his grotesque rise through hell and his plan to slip into human minds through the printed page. It fits readers who want metafictional horror with dark wit, historical texture, and an intimate closeness to evil.
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“Think of a darker, more aggressive version of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. . . . Filled with wicked mischief and dark dares.” — Kansas City Star
From Clive Barker, the great master of horror and the macabre, comes a brilliant and truly unsettling supernatural thriller—a terrifying work that escorts the reader on an intimate and revelatory journey to uncover the shocking truth of the battle between Good and Evil.
“Burn this book!”
So warns Jakerbok, the spellbinding demon narrator of this fabulously original “memoir,” a tale of good and evil deliberately “lost” for nearly six hundred years. Jakerbok is no ordinary soul; he is a minion of hell with a terrifying plan to cast the world into darkness and despair—a plan thwarted by a young apprentice of Johannes Gutenberg who buried the one and only copy of this damnable manuscript that his master printed in 1438.
Compelling and direct, Jakerbok shares the secrets of his life, going back centuries to recall the events that shaped his childhood, including the traumas he suffered at the hands of his parents, super demons themselves. He explains how he rose from “minor” to “major” demon status, and gleefully reveals his nefarious plot—a cornerstone of this unique historical fantasy—to “invade” the minds and hearts of unwitting humans everywhere thanks to the ingenious Gutenberg and his invention. “Burn this book!” he advises throughout—a taunt, a warning, and a command that will actually unleash the evil with which he has hidden in every word and every page, infusing the very ink and paper upon which they are printed.
Inventive and irresistible, Mister B. Good reaffirms Clive Barker is one of our most brilliant and original voices, an artist with a keen insight into mysteries deep within the human heart.
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This fits readers who want dark stalker romance with obsessive attraction, violent undercurrents, and a heroine pulled toward the very monster she should fear.
Watch Me Break
Romance · Gothic Romance
Our take
Being watched feels like terror until it starts to feel like temptation. In Watch Me Break, wildlife sanctuary owner Luna Foster finds herself drawn to the masked predator circling her life, even as bodies pile up and danger closes in. This fits readers who want dark stalker romance with obsessive attraction, violent undercurrents, and a heroine pulled toward the very monster she should fear.
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He’s always watching. She’s starting to want him to.
What do you do if you have a raccoon with a boob fetish, dead bodies being dropped in your driveway, and a masked stalker who watches you, breaks into your bedroom at night, and takes your body to heights you didn’t know were possible?
If you’re Dr. Luna Foster, owner of Sage & Summit Wildlife Sanctuary, you seek out your new neighbor, Damien Wolfe, billionaire security mogul, and ask him to wire your property with security cameras.
But little do you know... He might just be the most dangerous predator of them all.
Damien
I have three rules: stay hidden, leave no traces, never let the target know. But Dr. Luna Foster's smile shatters every rule I've lived by. Now I want her to see me, to know what kind of monster is watching her. I’ve spent years in the dark, perfecting the art of hunting those who deserve death. Now I’ve found someone who makes me want to step into the light—even if it means she’ll see the blood on my hands.
Luna
The first time I feel someone watching, I'm terrified. The second time, I'm curious. By the third, I'm leaving my curtains open on purpose. But when I realize my stalker isn't the nightmare—he's the one who hunts them—I find myself craving his deadly attention. Slowly, the weight of his gaze starts to feel less like terror and more like a deadly promise I want him to keep. I'm drawn to a monster, but it feels like freedom.
Fans of H.D. Carlton's Haunting Adeline, Navessa Allen's Lights Out, and Sheridan Anne's Pretty Monster will devour this unforgettable series where love and violence go hand in hand.
This is a dark romance containing mature themes, graphic violence, explicit sexual situations, and morally ambiguous characters. Intended for adult readers who enjoy psychologically complex relationships and anti-hero love interests. Please see the author's website for a full list of trigger/content warnings.
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It fits readers who want gothic romantasy steeped in witchcraft, forbidden attraction, and a sinister, haunted atmosphere.
Hollow
Romantasy · Jaime's Picks · Fairy Tale
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In Sleepy Hollow, desire and dread twist together as old loyalties rot beneath the surface. In Hollow, Kat Van Tassel is pulled between her vanished childhood betrothed and her enigmatic professor while a string of brutal murders points to something far darker than legend. It fits readers who want gothic romantasy steeped in witchcraft, forbidden attraction, and a sinister, haunted atmosphere.
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"A fresh, magic-infused take on Sleepy Hollow that adds mystery, tension, and just enough romance to keep everything deliciously complicated. Hollow feels like a retelling with real purpose, not just a rehash." - Apropos Books
An Instant USA Today Bestseller!
A sexy, dark fantasy reimagining of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, where Katrina Van Tassel doesn't have to choose between Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane, and there are worse things haunting them than the Headless Horseman.
Kat Van Tassel's life was predestined from childhood; she was to marry her best friend, Brom Bones. But Brom vanished from Sleepy Hollow years ago, leaving Kat alone to enroll in Sleepy Hollow Institute, a shadowy university for advanced witchcraft run by her powerful family. And now she finds herself drawn to the school's enigmatic new teacher, Ichabod Crane, as he delves into dark magic.
When Brom returns, suffering from amnesia and a dark transformation, the trio must confront gruesome murders attributed to a vengeful spirit, The Headless Horseman, while navigating their tangled relationships.
As Kat, Ichabod, and Brom seek answers, their bonds deepen, and forbidden desires take hold. But Sleepy Hollow holds secrets more sinister than they imagined. The Headless Horseman lurks, threatening to claim them, while something even more terrifying looms in the shadows. Embark on a journey of dark mysteries, desire, and danger in the eerie heart of Sleepy Hollow.
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Best for readers who like slow-burn romantasy with dark academia, murder mysteries, secret societies, deadly magic, and yearning.
Ocean of Ink
Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Wren enters the Obsidian Academy to investigate her brother’s death and suspects that Prince Castien Valengard, the only person whose emotions she cannot sense, may be connected to it. Trapped on an island after another student is killed, she must identify the murderer before she becomes the next victim, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 700 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like slow-burn romantasy with dark academia, murder mysteries, secret societies, deadly magic, and yearning.
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She can sense emotions.
He’s trained to be emotionless.
Wren’s quiet life is upended when her brother’s body is delivered to her family's estate by the elite academy he was attending. Consumed by grief and bound by a past debt, she goes to the Obsidian Academy to uncover the mystery behind his death and avenge the only person she’s ever trusted.
A deadly forest surrounds the dark halls of the exclusive university, but the competitive, bloodthirsty students might be more vicious than the nightmarish creatures that haunt the woods. The most conniving of them all being Prince Castien Valengard, the only one whose emotions Wren can’t sense. And a man she believes is connected to the secret society her brother was a part of.
Wren devises a plan to uncover Castien’s role in her brother’s death, and in the meantime, works to balance her studies and her secrets. Then: another student is killed.
Stuck on the island with no way out, Wren must find her brother’s killer before she turns into the next victim.
Ocean of Ink is book one of a slow burn romantasy duology set in a dark academy surrounded by magical, deadly waters. If you love mystery, letters, and men who yearn, this series is for you!
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