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The Beautiful Ashes opens with a woman who has spent her life questioning her own mind, only to learn that the things haunting her are terrifyingly real.
The Beautiful Ashes
Romantasy · Urban Fantasy
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The Beautiful Ashes opens with a woman who has spent her life questioning her own mind, only to learn that the things haunting her are terrifyingly real. When Ivy’s sister vanishes into a demonic realm, she must trust a dangerous rebel whose fate is tied to betrayal. This paranormal romance blends supernatural danger, forbidden desire, and apocalyptic stakes.
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In this New Adult paranormal romance by New York Times–bestselling author, a young woman begins an epic quest to rescue her sister from demons.
Ivy has always seen things that she cannot explain. Strange things. Otherworldly things. But when her sister goes missing, Ivy discovers the truth is far worse—her hallucinations are real, and her sister is imprisoned in a realm beyond Ivy's reach. The one person who can help her is the dangerously attractive rebel who's bound by an ancient legacy to betray her.
The fate Adrian has fought to escape is here—but he never expected the burning need he feels for Ivy. With destiny on one side and desire on the other, Adrian must help Ivy search for the powerful relic that can save her sister. Yet he knows what Ivy doesn't: the truth about her own destiny, and a war that could destroy the world. Sooner or later, it will be Ivy on one side, Adrian on the other, and nothing but ashes in between . . .
Originally published in 2014
Praise for The Beautiful Ashes
"Frost's fast-paced paranormal romantic thriller is a pure stunner. . . . Frost skillfully balances passion and peril in an attention-grabbing story that's exciting from the first page. The mythos is intriguing and inventive. Readers will hungrily anticipate the next installment." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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A vampire attack at a Detroit festival is bad enough, but things get messier fast when Luna Thorn learns the bloodsuckers are carrying an ancient disease that should…
Vexing Vampires
Thriller · Suspense · Urban Fantasy
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A vampire attack at a Detroit festival is bad enough, but things get messier fast when Luna Thorn learns the bloodsuckers are carrying an ancient disease that should not even exist anymore. Vexing Vampires throws her into a chaos of infected victims, suspicious cures, resurfacing memories, and one deeply unwelcome vampire claiming they were once passionately in love. Which sounds romantic until you remember he also seems like a walking red flag with fangs.
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Luna Thorn’s past keeps coming back to bite her … and in a very uncomfortable place. Now that she can access her magic easily, her memories are on the menu.
There’s just one little problem.
A night out at a Detroit festival turns into a feeding frenzy as a nest of vampires descends and attacks. Luna manages to call for help and fight them off, but it becomes apparent soon after that the vampires were sick. And not just with any illness, but with one that was eradicated centuries before.
What’s worse, all of the people injured during the attack are now infected.
A mysterious vampire with a cure shows up claiming ties to a family friend. His name is Rafael, and he may or may not know something important. Luna barely has time to deal with that when another vampire appears. This one is full of pomp and circumstance, and he claims a past with Luna.
According to Roman Blackstone, Luna spent her missing years with him, and they were desperately, passionately, and forever in love. Luna doesn’t believe that was possible because not only is he a pompous, overblown windbag, but he’s also a creeper with a dark and bloody past.
Multiple timelines are about to collide in Detroit, and Luna won’t be the only one in danger. The people she loves are about to be threatened.
Just who will come out victorious?
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It’s a strong pick for readers who want urban fantasy with emotional weight, high-stakes chaos, and a hero trying to save a city while figuring out what’s left…
Twelve Months
Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Urban Fantasy
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Chicago is still reeling, Harry Dresden is barely holding himself together, and the next disaster has already started knocking. Twelve Months puts Harry in the middle of grief, rebuilding, political fallout, prowling monsters, and a deadly engagement that is somehow not even the only problem on his plate. It’s a strong pick for readers who want urban fantasy with emotional weight, high-stakes chaos, and a hero trying to save a city while figuring out what’s left of himself.
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN INSTANT USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, has always managed to save the day—but, in this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, can he save himself?
One year. 365 days. Twelve months.
Harry Dresden has been through a lot, and so has his city. After Harry and his allies narrowly managed to save Chicago from being razed to the ground, everything is different—and it’s not just the current lack of electricity.
In the battle, Harry lost people he cared about. And that's the kind of loss that takes a toll. Harry being Harry, he’s doing his level best to help the city and his friends recover and rebuild. But it’s a heavy load, and he needs time.
But time is one thing Harry doesn’t have. Ghouls are prowling Chicago and taking out innocent civilians. Harry’s brother is dying, and Harry doesn’t know how to help him. And last but certainly not least, the Winter Queen of the Fae has allied with the White Court of vampires—and Harry’s been betrothed to the seductive, deadly vampire Lara Raith to seal the deal.
It's been a tough year. More than ever, the city needs Harry Dresden the wizard—but after loss and grief, is there enough left of Harry Dresden the man to rise to the challenge?
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The city itself becomes unstable when reality starts reshaping itself overnight.
Dream London
Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Urban Fantasy
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The city itself becomes unstable when reality starts reshaping itself overnight. In Dream London, Captain Jim Wedderburn sets out to uncover what has transformed London into a shifting, surreal landscape where streets rearrange, people change, and nothing stays fixed for long. This speculative fantasy blends dream logic, satire, and mystery into a strange urban story where identity and place both feel dangerously uncertain.
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Captain Jim Wedderburn has looks, style and courage by the bucketful. He’s adored by women, respected by men and feared by his enemies. He’s the man to find out who has twisted London into this strange new world, and he knows it.
But in Dream London the city changes a little every night and the people change a little every day. The towers are growing taller, the parks have hidden themselves away and the streets form themselves into strange new patterns. There are people sailing in from new lands down the river, new criminals emerging in the East End and a path spiralling down to another world.
Everyone is changing, no one is who they seem to be.
“An unclassifiable gem... shares the surreal, absurdist whimsy of Alice in Wonderland and Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday.”
The Guardian
“A sweetly dark satire shot through with Occupy-era indignation and a bizarre dream logic in which everything makes sense as long as you accept that nothing makes sense. This is as strange and unclassifiable a novel as it’s possible to imagine, and a marvellous achievement.” The Financial Times
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Twisted Pretty Things throws Dom Domenici into London’s illegal magical underworld, where artifact auctions, fast cars, and buried secrets rule.
Twisted Pretty Things
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Urban Fantasy
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Twisted Pretty Things throws Dom Domenici into London’s illegal magical underworld, where artifact auctions, fast cars, and buried secrets rule. Desperate to escape organized crime, Dom takes a dangerous case for billionaire Alexander Kempthorne, ignoring forbidden attraction and foreign agents closing in. As something wicked stalks the city, failure could unleash shadows far worse. First in an MM fantasy series.
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Something wicked is moving in the shadows of London…
In the underground world of glitzy illegal auctions, fast cars, and stolen magical artifacts, John “Dom” Domenici knows he’s out of his depth. But he needs the job at Kempthorne & Co like he needs to breathe. The alternative—going back to the organized crime gangs of London’s East End—is unthinkable.
So when Alexander Kempthorne, boss of Kempthorne & Co Artifact Retrieval Agency, wants him on a special case to track down an illegal artifact dealer, Dom can’t say no.
It shouldn’t matter that Kempthorne’s world is full of deadly secrets. It shouldn’t matter that the billionaire is sexy as sin, and it really shouldn’t matter how there’s an American agent stalking Dom, an American who knows more than he should about Dom’s case, including the real reason Alexander Kempthorne hired Dom.
The only thing that really matters to Dom is solving the case and finding the artifact dealer. Because there are worse things in London than a conflicted billionaire and a trigger-happy American. Something wicked is stalking London’s streets, and if Dom doesn’t stop it, its shadows will rise and consume them all.
Twisted Pretty Things is the first book in the all-new Shadows of London MM urban fantasy series. Action, mystery, and gay romance combine in this fast-paced adventure from the author who brought you the award-winning Silk & Steel series and the best-selling Prince's Assassin series.
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Going home gets complicated when family politics and buried power refuse to stay buried.
The Night Raven
Fantasy · Urban Fantasy
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Going home gets complicated when family politics and buried power refuse to stay buried. In The Night Raven, private investigator Lydia Crow returns to London to search for a missing cousin and finds herself pulled into a dangerous web of magical dynasties, old truces, and personal secrets. This paranormal mystery blends supernatural crime, family tension, and London underworld intrigue with a sharp, eerie atmosphere.
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Welcome to The Family. Try not to get killed.
Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London.
When a professional blunder forces her home, the head of the family calls in a favour, and Lydia finds herself investigating the disappearance of her cousin, Maddie.
Soon, Lydia is neck-deep in problems: her new flatmate is a homicidal ghost, the intriguing, but forbidden, DCI Fleet is acting in a distinctly unprofessional manner, and tensions between the old magical families are rising.
The Crows used to rule the roost and rumours claim they are still the strongest.
The Silvers have a facility for lying and they run the finest law firm in London.
The Pearl family were costermongers and everybody knows that a Pearlie can sell feathers to a bird.
The Fox family... Well. The less said about the Fox family the better.
For seventy-five years, a truce between the four families has held strong, but could the disappearance of Maddie Crow be the thing to break it?
The Night Raven is the first book in Crow Investigations, an exciting paranormal mystery series from bestselling author of magical fiction, Sarah Painter.
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A strong fit for young adult fantasy readers who enjoy Norse mythology, supernatural mysteries, and reluctant heroes.
River of Night
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Urban Fantasy
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After rescuing a friend from a Viking death cult, Ivan finds himself targeted by its members and begins seeing shadow wolves, ancient gods, and supernatural forces no one else can perceive. With the cult leader missing and dark magic gathering around his hometown, Ivan must uncover what's happening before it consumes him, with a 4.01-star average from more than 490 Goodreads ratings. A strong fit for young adult fantasy readers who enjoy Norse mythology, supernatural mysteries, and reluctant heroes.
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"Ivan didn't know why the shadow wolf showed up. But it did save his life."
Ivan can’t believe how his summer’s going. It’s not that he’s ungrateful. It’s wonderful to discover that magic is real. He just wishes this enchanting new world wasn’t out to get him.
It's the summer before university, and Ivan’s stumbled into a world of shadow magic, monsters, and mayhem. Now all he has going for him is his best friend, a bossy raven, and an enigmatic shadow wolf.
And that’s not nearly enough.
Because Ivan must now defend his hometown from a deadly influx of killer monks, an ancient evil, and a curse will either get him killed - or win him the girl of his dreams.
River of Night is a fun, fast-paced urban fantasy perfect for fans of Holly Black, M.D. Massey, and Rainbow Rowell.
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When six children vanish near a dark river, DS Adams follows a case that defies logic and police training alike.
What Happened In London
Fantasy · Paranormal Fantasy · Urban Fantasy
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When six children vanish near a dark river, DS Adams follows a case that defies logic and police training alike. Armed with stubborn resolve and strange clues, she confronts a threat that challenges everything she believes. An urban fantasy crime novel by Kim M. Watt, blending investigation, unease, and unsettling mystery.
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Baton. Light. Chocolate. Duck.
This is not DS Adams’ usual kit. This is not DS Adams’ usual case. She doesn’t think it’s anyone’s usual case, not with the vanishing children and the looming bridge and the hungry river. Not with the snap-snap-snap.
But six kids are missing, and she’s not going to let there be a seventh. Not on her watch. And she knows how to handle human monsters, after all. How different can this really be?
So: Baton. Light. Chocolate. And the bloody duck.
Let’s be having you, then.
What Happened in London is the story of how not-yet-DI Adams came to Toot Hansell, the village at the centre of the Beaufort Scales cozy mysteries. It is not, however, a cozy mystery. Urban fantasy with a good dose of humour, snark, and ducks, this is the story of one detective who's determined to follow the evidence wherever it takes her, even when it contradicts everything she knows to be real.
For Beaufort readers, this is a much darker story. There is some violence, but none of it graphic, and there is no strong language, although there is some blasphemy.
And the snap-snap-snap ...
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Arriving in postwar London, David is drawn into the hidden world of the Arcane Houses after his talent for shadow magic is revealed.
The Arcane Houses of London
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Urban Fantasy
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Arriving in postwar London, David is drawn into the hidden world of the Arcane Houses after his talent for shadow magic is revealed. Taken in by a guild of thieves, he finds refuge that comes with dangerous secrets. As darkness stirs in the city’s magical borderlands, David must choose who to trust to survive what’s coming.
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“The house called me to you the other night for two reasons. Firstly, because you were deep in nightmares and secondly, because you have a talent for shadow magic, David.”
The year is 1945, and David, a young man with a mysterious past, has escaped war-torn Europe. When he arrives in London, David is quickly pulled into the world of the Arcane Houses.
He could have joined House Artifice, who craft magical objects, or House Vigile, who oversee law and order. Instead, he's taken in by Thorne House, home of thieves and knaves.
Under the protection of the enigmatic Master Thorne, David has at last found sanctuary. But not all is as it seems.
Something dark is stirring in the magical Borderlands of London, and David will need all his wits and courage to survive the coming storm.
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A city drunk on pleasure begins to rot from the inside as ambition pulls one man toward its darkest corners.
The Grand Dark
Dystopian · Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Steampunk · Urban Fantasy
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A city drunk on pleasure begins to rot from the inside as ambition pulls one man toward its darkest corners. In The Grand Dark, Largo chases status, transformation, and escape in a postwar world of automata, engineered beasts, excess, and rising disease, only to find that beauty and decay are inseparable. This dark fantasy with steampunk elements leans decadent, unsettling, and politically charged.
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“A stand-alone heavy hitter that’s more in line with recent deviants like Chuck Wendig’s upcoming Wanderers (2019) and Daniel H. Wilson’s The Clockwork Dynasty (2017). Tonally, this lush novel is closer to Scott Lynch’s pirate fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), but technologically it resembles the near-future dystopias of Cory Doctorow or China Miéville […] Wildly ambitious and inventive fantasy from an author who’s punching above his weight in terms of worldbuilding—and winning.”
-- Kirkus (starred review)
From the bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series, a lush, dark, stand-alone fantasy built off the insurgent tradition of China Mieville and M. John Harrison—a subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony in a city on the edge of civility and chaos.
The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the war’s horrifying despair. But this newfound hedonism—drugs and sex and endless parties—distracts from strange realities of everyday life: Intelligent automata taking jobs. Genetically engineered creatures that serve as pets and beasts of war. A theater where gruesome murders happen twice a day. And a new plague that even the ceaseless euphoria can’t mask.
Unlike others who live strictly for fun, Largo is an addict with ambitions. A bike messenger who grew up in the slums, he knows the city’s streets and its secrets intimately. His life seems set. He has a beautiful girlfriend, drugs, a chance at a promotion—and maybe, an opportunity for complete transformation: a contact among the elite who will set him on the course to lift himself up out of the streets.
But dreams can be a dangerous thing in a city whose mood is turning dark and inward. Others have a vision of life very different from Largo’s, and they will use any methods to secure control. And in behind it all, beyond the frivolity and chaos, the threat of new war always looms.
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A frontier hero enters a city of invention and corruption where every marvel seems to conceal something darker underneath.
Wild Steam
Fantasy · Steampunk · Urban Fantasy
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A frontier hero enters a city of invention and corruption where every marvel seems to conceal something darker underneath. In Wild Steam, Jake Ranger leaves the western frontier for a far more dangerous New York, where monsters, shadowy power plays, and a widening conspiracy threaten everything in reach. This American steampunk adventure blends action, mystery, strange creatures, and a touch of cosmic horror with a relentless pace.
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Jake Ranger thought he'd seen it all on the Wild West frontier: outlaws, monsters, and danger around every corner. But when he travels east to New York, he steps into a city that's even more perilous than he could have imagined a city where industrial marvels meet shadowy secrets, and corrupt powers will stop at nothing to gain control.
In Wild Steam, the legendary frontier hero is off on a grim adventure, full of action, into a world of steampunk tech, magic, and strange creatures. Joined by a band of improbable allies, the Ranger must defend the innocent as an encroaching tide of darkness spills across the horizon. From gunslingers to monsters, from steampunk wonders to an overarching conspiracy tied into cosmic horror it's a stride into the darkness that drags Ranger ever closer.
In this American Steampunk adventure, forge through the heart of the Gilded Age, where great industry and mystery abound. Expect breathtaking action, a touch of romance, and deep, thrilling twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Can Ranger survive this new world's dangers, or will the shadowy forces bring down all he loves?
Perfect for fans of steampunk adventures, urban fantasy with a Wild West twist, and historical action thrillers, Wild Steam will take you on a rollercoaster of emotions and surprises.
If you like a good mix of action, monsters, romance, and mystery, this book will keep you breathless from the very first to the last page.
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Magic promises certainty, but its greatest weakness is the person who wields it.
The Flaw in All Magic
Fantasy · Steampunk · Urban Fantasy
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Magic promises certainty, but its greatest weakness is the person who wields it. In The Flaw in All Magic, a nonmagical investigator is pulled back into a warded university after an impossible murder exposes cracks in a city built on spells. Forced to rely on logic, old grudges, and uncomfortable alliances, he uncovers a mystery where intellect matters more than power.
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In a city of magic, it takes a man with none to solve an impossible murder.
Tane Carver can't use magic, and he doesn't trust it. But he understands it better than most, even in a city of elves and dwarves and sprites and mages. So when an impossible murder is committed on the campus of a warded magical university, he's called in to consult.
The only problem is, it's the same university he was kicked out of for lying about his ability to use magic. And the lead investigator is an old flame who isn't so fond of him anymore. And then there's the half-crazy half-orc who insists she's his partner, whether he likes it or not. Oh, and the masked mage who keeps trying to kill him.
So there are a lot of problems, really.
Now, Tane’s life depends on the one truth that has never failed him. The flaw in all magic that those who have it like to ignore: the mage.
Outsmart the mage, and you outsmart the spell.
And outsmarting mages is what Tane does best.
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