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Dire Bound turns survival into a test of blood, loyalty, and forbidden desire in a world where power belongs to those bonded with lethal direwolves.
Dire Bound
Dark Fantasy · Romantasy
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Dire Bound turns survival into a test of blood, loyalty, and forbidden desire in a world where power belongs to those bonded with lethal direwolves. Meryn Cooper enters the deadly Bonding Trials to save her kidnapped sister, only to face a hostile castle, a feral wolf, dangerous rivals, and an instructor watching for weakness. It’s romantasy built on class conflict, brutal training, monster war, and high-stakes attraction.
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Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this spicy, page-turning romantasy where humans and direwolves forge unbreakable bonds and fight for survival at all costs.
Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She’ll risk her life—and her heart—to be one of them.
Meryn Cooper has always hated the Bonded, elite warriors who form mental links with the massive, vicious direwolves they ride. While they live in luxury, Meryn struggles to keep her family out of poverty. When her little sister, Saela, is kidnapped—stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting—Meryn’s world falls apart.
Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the army and is thrown into the deadly Bonding Trials, where any mistake will cost her life.
Now Meryn must survive four months of training at the castle. She is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate. The other trainees would love to spill her common blood. And her cold and beautiful instructor, Stark Therion, is eager to punish any weakness.
Everything is a competition, and everyone is out to get her—everyone except the dangerously handsome crown prince, whose attention adds another target to her back. In the castle, every smile hides a knife…and the halls hide dark secrets.
It’s bond or bleed. Duel or die. Failure is ruin.
Dire Bound contains mature content including depictions of graphic violence, and is therefore recommended for readers 17+. For a full list of tropes and TWs, please visit the author's website.
Readers are already falling in love with Direbound:
“ONE OF THE BEST READS OF THE YEAR! This book was insanely good.” Goodreads reviewer
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The zombie outbreak begins with a woman who wakes dead, thinking clearly, and surrounded by creatures that recognize her as one of their own.
Monster Nation
Dystopian · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Post-Apocalyptic
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The zombie outbreak begins with a woman who wakes dead, thinking clearly, and surrounded by creatures that recognize her as one of their own. Monster Nation fits zombie horror through its dual focus on Nilla’s uncanny transformation and Captain Clark’s fight to lead survivors as the American West collapses under an epidemic with darker forces moving beneath it.
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The second entry in this "inventive and exciting" zombie series that began with Monster Island (Publishers Weekly).
This is where it begins. This is where the end of the world begins? She wakes up alone and feeling like she's half-dead. She can't remember her name. She staggers outside, looking for help—and that's when she sees that the dead have returned to life, that zombies are running in the streets and devouring the living. And she's one of them. She isn't breathing. The zombies leave her alone. Because they know she's one of their kind. And yet she differs from the brainless ghouls around her in some crucial ways. Somehow she's kept her intelligence intact, if not her memory. And being dead has certain compensations. She has developed strange powers. She calls herself Nilla, and all she knows is that staying alive only gets harder after you die? Meanwhile the National Guard has its hands full with the worst epidemic ever to strike the American west. From California to Colorado every town, every city is being overrun. Captain Bannerman Clark isn't prepared for this. He's semi-retired and he hasn't fired a gun in years, not since the Vietnam war. Yet it seems there's no one else around to take charge. As the world we know collapses he must find in himself the brains, the guts, and the moral courage to lead the survivors to safety, if there's any to be had. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, shadowy players are just beginning to show their hands. There's more going on here than meets the eye, and Clark and Nilla both have parts to play in a game they can't comprehend?
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The Devils of D-Day turns a sealed WWII tank into the doorway for an older, bloodier horror.
The Devils of D-Day
Dark Fantasy · Horror
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The Devils of D-Day turns a sealed WWII tank into the doorway for an older, bloodier horror. When surveyor Dan McCook discovers the abandoned machine outside a French village, curiosity draws him toward the thing trapped inside. This classic horror novel blends wartime history, demonic possession, and apocalyptic dread into a story where one opened hatch could restart the world’s nightmares.
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Unsealing the hatch of a rusty old WWII tank will unleash a demonic nightmare in this novel by "the master of modern horror" (Library Journal).
Thirty-five years have passed since the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day turned the tide of World War II against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Reich, and it's been more than three decades since the residents of the tiny French village of Le Vey witnessed the horrific slaughter of hundreds of German soldiers by thirteen black tanks. One of the tanks remains on the outskirts of town—its hatch mysteriously sealed, trapping its controller inside—only to be discovered by American surveyor and cartographer Dan McCook.
Driven by curiosity and an inexplicable compulsion, McCook is about to do the unthinkable and release what lives within the tank upon an unsuspecting world. And once the monstrous occupant reunites with others of its demonic kind, a new world war will begin, one that threatens to wash the earth in blood and drag every man, woman, and child through the fiery gates of hell.
A chilling and ingeniously original tale of demonic possession and apocalyptic possibilities, The Devils of D-Day is classic horror at its best, from the award-winning author of The Manitou.
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Peace in Kavet depends on fear, and one accusation is enough to pull a loyal captain into the very darkness he was trained to destroy.
Of the Abyss
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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Peace in Kavet depends on fear, and one accusation is enough to pull a loyal captain into the very darkness he was trained to destroy. In Of the Abyss, Hansa Viridian is forced into an uneasy alliance with a half-Abyssi man he does not trust and cannot stop wanting. This is a dark fantasy with forbidden magic, political danger, and a descent into a realm where survival demands impossible choices.
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After decades of strife, peace has finally been achieved in Kavet—but at a dark cost. Sorcery is outlawed, and anyone convicted of consorting with the beings of the other realms—the Abyssi and the Numini—is put to death. The only people who can even discuss such topics legally are the scholars of the Order of the Napthol, who give counsel when questions regarding the supernatural planes arise.
Hansa Viridian, a captain in the elite guard unit tasked with protecting Kavet from sorcery, has always led a respectable life. But when he is implicated in a sorcerer's crimes, the only way to avoid execution is to turn to the Abyss for help—specifically, to a half-Abyssi man he's sworn he hates, but whose physical attraction he cannot deny.
Hansa is only the first victim in a plot that eventually drags him, a sorcerer named Xaz, and a Sister of the Napthol named Cadmia into the depths of the Abyss, where their only hope of escape is to complete an infernal task that might cost them their lives.
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A young woman’s hunger for freedom turns dangerous when her growing power draws the attention of both a brutal warlord and something far worse.
Child of a Mad God
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
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A young woman’s hunger for freedom turns dangerous when her growing power draws the attention of both a brutal warlord and something far worse. In Child of a Mad God, Aoleyn struggles to survive a harsh mountain tribe while learning the magic of her coven, only to become a target for human cruelty and a demon drawn to witchcraft. It fits readers looking for dark fantasy with survival, sorcery, and relentless pressure.
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A young witch must harness her power to confront a deadly demon in the New York Times bestselling author's fantasy series debut.
After losing her parents, Aoleyn is left to fend for herself among a tribe of vicious barbarians. But even as she is bound by rigid traditions, she dreams of escaping into the world beyond her mountain home.
To achieve the freedom she desires, she must learn to wield the Song of Usgar, the mysterious power used by her coven. Thankfully, Aoleyn may be the strongest witch to have ever lived, but magic comes at price. Her abilities have caught the eye of the tribe's brutish warlord. And even more terrifying is the witch-hunting demon of the mountain who is drawn to Aoleyn's talent like a beacon in the night.
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Death follows every kiss, and Harlow has built her life around making sure the right men die.
The Poison Daughter
Romantasy · Dark Fantasy
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Death follows every kiss, and Harlow has built her life around making sure the right men die. In The Poison Daughter, Harlow Carrenwell serves as both assassin and vigilante until the one man she cannot kill becomes her husband. This dark fantasy romance pairs a lethal heroine, arranged marriage tension, and looming family conspiracy with a blood-dark edge.
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To err is human. To avenge is Divine.
Every person Harlow Carrenwell kisses dies immediately, and that’s the way she likes it. The poison-lipped youngest daughter of Lunameade’s magical founding family has used her power to annihilate their opposition.
Her first husband is in the ground. Her new betrothed is next.
But the merry widow has a secret. When she’s not acting as an assassin at her parents' whims, she moonlights as a vigilante for abused women in their walled-off city.
Meet a man. Lure him in. Kill him with a kiss. Until one night Harlow kisses a mark and he doesn’t die.
Worse, her invincible partner in passion is her new betrothed, Henry Havenwood, and now he knows about her double life. Instead of selling her out and bringing the rival families to blows, he does something much more sinister—whisks her away to wed in his wild mountain fort.
Harlow doesn’t trust Henry, but the only way to protect her family and the city of Lunameade is to figure out what his family is planning.
Cursed with a husband she can’t kill and trapped in a fort miles of vampire-infested woods from home, Harlow’s survival requires her to do the impossible: Make the man who knows she’s a killer fall in love with her anyway.
The Poison Daughter is a standalone dark fantasy romance that combines the vigilante justice for abusive men of Promising Young Woman with a romantasy arranged marriage and a dash of vampires.
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Master Assassins fits readers who want epic fantasy with sibling tension, harsh survival, and a world that feels as dangerous as the people in it.
Master Assassins
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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A mistake turns two feuding brothers into hunted legends in a desert war they never chose. When Kandri and Mektu are mistaken for assassins, they flee across a brutal landscape filled with death squads, monsters, and shifting loyalties, carrying a secret that could save a continent or destroy it. Master Assassins fits readers who want epic fantasy with sibling tension, harsh survival, and a world that feels as dangerous as the people in it.
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“This book has everything I love: Clean, crisp worldbuilding. Characters that live and breathe. A story that teases and surprises me. I like Master Assassins so much I wish I'd written it, but deep down, I know I couldn't have written it this well.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss
Two village boys mistaken for assassins become the decisive figures in the battle for a continent in the thrilling new desert-based epic fantasy by the author of The Red Wolf Conspiracy.
Kandri Hinjuman was never meant to be a soldier. His brother Mektu was never meant for this world. Rivals since childhood, they are drafted into a horrific war led by a madwoman-Prophet, and survive each day only by hiding their disbelief. Kandri is good at blending in, but Mektu is hopeless: impulsive, erratic—and certain that a demon is stalking him. Is this madness or a second sense? Either way, Kandri knows that Mektu’s antics will land them both in early graves.
But all bets are off when the brothers’ simmering feud explodes into violence, and holy blood is spilled. Kandri and Mektu are taken for contract killers and must flee for their lives—to the one place where they can hope to disappear: the sprawling desert known as the Land that Eats Men. In this eerie wilderness, the terrain is as deadly as the monsters, ghouls, and traffickers in human flesh. Here the brothers find strange allies: an aging warlord, a desert nomad searching for her family, a lethal child-soldier still in her teens. They also find themselves in possession of a secret that could bring peace to the continent of Urrath. Or unthinkable carnage.
On their heels are the Prophet’s death squads. Ahead lie warring armies, sandstorms, evil spirits and the deeper evil of human greed. But hope beckons as well—if the “Master Assassins” can expose the lie that has made them the world’s most wanted men.
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Old enemies meet at the edge of catastrophe when a feared raiding people arrive not to conquer, but to survive.
The Black Coast
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
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Old enemies meet at the edge of catastrophe when a feared raiding people arrive not to conquer, but to survive. As Black Keep faces uneasy alliance, cultural collision, and the threat of a rising daemonic warlord, The Black Coast delivers epic fantasy rooted in war dragons, political tension, and the fragile work of building trust before a larger world collapses.
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War Dragons. Fearsome Raiders. A Daemonic Warlord on the Rise.
When the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them because they know who is coming: for generations, the keep has been raided by the fearsome clanspeople of Tjakorsha. Saddling their war dragons, Black Keep's warriors rush to defend their home only to discover that the clanspeople have not come to pillage at all. Driven from their own land by a daemonic despot who prophesises the end of the world, the raiders come in search of a new home . . .
Meanwhile the wider continent of Narida is lurching toward war. Black Keep is about to be caught in the crossfire – if only its new mismatched society can survive.
The start of an unmissable fantasy series.
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Freedom matters most when conquest starts closing in and every alliance feels like a gamble.
Pinquickle’s Folly
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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Freedom matters most when conquest starts closing in and every alliance feels like a gamble. In Pinquickle’s Folly, sailors, pirates, and former enemies are pushed together as the Xoconai empire tightens its grip on the southern coast of Corona. It reads as an action-driven epic fantasy with seafaring rebellion, found-family momentum, and a misfit crew choosing resistance over submission.
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The first in the New York Times bestselling DemonWars: The Buccaneers trilogy follows the invasion of the realm of Corona as resistors begin to fight back for their land from the legendary million-selling author and creator of Drizzt Do’Urden.
In Pinquickle’s Folly, New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore returns to his signature world of Corona, introducing a new part of the southern coast never written of before as a great starting place for new readers being introduced to the world for the first time.
The first adventure in the Bucaneers trilogy begins in the free sea outside of the control of the usurping Xoconai empire, where the dwarven Powrie pirates and merchants sail. But the golden-skinned Xoconai have begun to encroach upon these waters behind the rapacious attacks of the frigate Crocodile, helmed by Captain Aketz. But when forced to submit, these sailors choose to live, free to do as they please, without some fool or another pretending to hold power over them.
Fantasy master R. A. Salvatore brings together a misfit band of Xoconai, powerie, and human sailors—once enemies, now fierce friends with a common enemy, and the spark of rebellion in this action-packed piratical adventure.
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It suits readers who want bloody adventure, corrosive humor, and antiheroes whose worst qualities may be exactly what the mission requires.
The Devils
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Grim Dark · Sword and Sorcery
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A holy mission turns vicious when a devout man is sent to travel with killers, monsters, and wielders of dark magic. In The Devils, Joe Abercrombie builds an epic fantasy around a doomed quest, a savage ensemble, and the uneasy gap between righteousness and brutality. It suits readers who want bloody adventure, corrosive humor, and antiheroes whose worst qualities may be exactly what the mission requires.
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An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller
A brand-new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie, featuring a notorious band of anti-heroes on a delightfully bloody and raucous journey
This hardcover edition features illustrated endpapers, a foil case stamp, and full-page interior illustrations.
Holy work sometimes requires unholy deeds.
Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Holy City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters. The mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends.
Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side.
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A girl raised to survive among monsters begins to fear how much of them she has already become.
White Stag
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Dark Fantasy
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A girl raised to survive among monsters begins to fear how much of them she has already become. In White Stag, Janneke is pulled deeper into a brutal goblin court as an ancient hunt for a new king exposes dangerous truths about loyalty, identity, and the human world she has nearly lost. A dark YA fantasy with sharp violence, emotional tension, and a feral edge.
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White Stag, the first book in a brutally stunning series by Kara Barbieri, involves a young girl who finds herself becoming more monster than human and must uncover dangerous truths about who she is and the place that has become her home.
A Wattpad break out star with over a million reads! Now expanded, revised and available in print and eBook.
As the last child in a family of daughters, seventeen-year-old Janneke was raised to be the male heir. While her sisters were becoming wives and mothers, she was taught to hunt, track, and fight. On the day her village was burned to the ground, Janneke—as the only survivor—was taken captive by the malicious Lydian and eventually sent to work for his nephew Soren.
Janneke's survival in the court of merciless monsters has come at the cost of her connection to the human world. And when the Goblin King's death ignites an ancient hunt for the next king, Soren senses an opportunity for her to finally fully accept the ways of the brutal Permafrost. But every action he takes to bring her deeper into his world only shows him that a little humanity isn't bad—especially when it comes to those you care about.
Through every battle they survive, Janneke's loyalty to Soren deepens. After dangerous truths are revealed, Janneke must choose between holding on or letting go of her last connections to a world she no longer belongs to. She must make the right choice to save the only thing keeping both worlds from crumbling.
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A strong fit for readers who want large-scale fantasy shaped by history, grief, and gathering darkness.
The Witchwood Crown
Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy
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An aging peace begins to fracture as old enemies rise and loyalties start to rot from within. In The Witchwood Crown, Tad Williams returns to Osten Ard with a sweeping epic fantasy of dynastic strain, vanished allies, and the renewed threat of the Norns reclaiming lost lands. A strong fit for readers who want large-scale fantasy shaped by history, grief, and gathering darkness.
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New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams’ ground-breaking epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins an exciting new cycle! • Volume One of The Last King of Osten Ard
The Dragonbone Chair, the first volume of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, was published in hardcover in October, 1988, launching the series that was to become one of the seminal works of modern epic fantasy. Many of today’s top-selling fantasy authors, from Patrick Rothfuss to George R. R. Martin to Christopher Paolini credit Tad with being the inspiration for their own series.
Now, twenty-four years after the conclusion of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Tad returns to his beloved universe and characters with The Witchwood Crown, the first novel in the long-awaited sequel trilogy, The Last King of Osten Ard.
More than thirty years have passed since the events of the earlier novels, and the world has reached a critical turning point once again. The realm is threatened by divisive forces, even as old allies are lost, and others are lured down darker paths. Perhaps most terrifying of all, the Norns—the long-vanquished elvish foe—are stirring once again, preparing to reclaim the mortal-ruled lands that once were theirs....
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