Sometimes, life in the Big Easy is tough. No one knows that better than Tiana, though she also believes that hard work can go a long way. But when the notorious Dr. Facilier backs her into a corner, she has no other choice but to accept an offer that will alter the course of her life in an instant. Soon Tiana finds herself in a new reality where all her deepest desires are realized―she finally gets her restaurant, her friends are safe and sound, and, perhaps most miraculous of all, her beloved father is still alive. She's got everything she's ever wanted... But after a while, her hometown grows increasingly eerie, with new threats cropping up from unlikely places. Navigating through this strange new New Orleans, Tiana must work alongside Naveen and Charlotte to set things right―or risk losing everything she holds dear.

God of Malice meets Yellowstone in this stalker romance full of searing spice and featuring a college student being hunted by a cowboy utterly obsessed with her. Nineteen-year-old Peyton Turner has a stalker. No, she doesn’t have a proof but she can feel him watching her every move. She can feel his intense stares through her bedroom window, and she can smell his intoxicating scent when he’s close. But every time she tries to catch him, he seems to disappear into the shadows. The only thing she knows for sure is that he wears a mask. A mask that hides a wicked scar running down his face but accentuates his startling green eyes. She shouldn’t revel in his dangerous attention, but she can’t help herself. There’s something about him that calls to her. Until her best friend and the only person she’s ever been able to count on in her life, goes missing. Peyton has a feeling her masked stalker has something to do with it. After all, his sudden presence in her life can’t be a coincidence. But instead of staying away from him, she has a set a trap, draw him out of hiding and somehow bring her best friend home.

From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives. Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake--a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she's led--her sisters are surprised. Has Flor forseen her own death, or someone else's? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila. But Flor isn't the only person with secrets. Matilde has tried for decades to cover the extent of her husband's infidelity, but she must now confront the true state of her marriage. Pastora is typically the most reserved sister, but Flor's wake motivates this driven woman to solve her sibling's problems. Camila is the youngest sibling, and often the forgotten one, but she's decided she no longer wants to be taken for granted. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own: Yadi is reuniting with her first love, who was imprisoned when they were both still kids; Ona is married for years and attempting to conceive. Ona must decide whether it's worth it to keep trying--to have a child, and the anthropology research that's begun to feel lackluster. Spanning the three days prior to the wake, Family Lore traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, Santo Domingo and New York City. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces--one family's journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come.

Peace is just a dance of seduction. I lured my prey in and gladly tossed the peace treaties onto my enemy’s pyres.In Panthas, we worship the glory of war. From my cage, I plotted to dethrone the vampire king—my enemy and my husband. I vowed to melt the crown he never earned.A crown my brother died for!When the vampire who assassinated my brother entered the ballroom, I aimed to slay him first.Our eyes locked, and he revealed a terrible why did my brother—the fae prince—give his magic to his killer?Forced to aid my brother’s killer, we raced to find the book the gods left behind. It held a magic that could end the wars, or, in the wrong hands, bring extinction.These are the dues I paid so that the vampire fate bound to me could save Panthas—and hopefully, one day, love would be worshiped over war.Some love stories are meant to be retold. Others should never be written. I’ll let you decide which is ours._____________________________________________________________To save the kingdom, they must sacrifice their hearts. A page-turning romantasy filled with forbidden desires, fated mates, hidden truths, and widespread lies. Enter the world of Panthas, where the Fae and Vampires rule over all others. For fans of Booktok's most popular romantasy books!Perfect for fans Vampires vs. Fae!Fated matesSlow burn romanceEnemies to loversForced proximityHeroes struggling to remain worthyMorally grey charactersTired of damsel heroines? Selene doesn’t collect flowers—she crushes them in a perfume of lethal seduction. “I was never meant to be a maiden who sang songs. I’m a tempest who destroys hearts.”Love a morally grey villain? Meet one who will make you question just how dark his shades can get.“You are right, Selene, you are poisonous.” He sits on the edge of the bed. I try to edge away, but his vines dig into me. “Poisons can be mastered. I just need a small daily dose." He reaches out and slides a finger down my cheek. “A little taste.” His touch glides down my neck, then lower, between my breasts. “Every day. Eventually, I will become accustomed to it.”Forget the usual enemies-to-lovers plot. This is a love that reshapes everything."Love is a beautiful thing. We sing praises about it; we go on adventures to hunt it down. We never talk about life after love. We never mention how our palettes go from colorful to nothing; not gray or black, or muddy tones. Just nothing. We never show the massive wound love leaves behind. We never admit the struggles we endure when we try to fill that gap. We never talk about the after, because if we did, no one would seek out love to begin with."A queen determined to dethrone her king!“Careful; your lack of control is showing. People don’t like angry kings. That’s when they start whispering about replacing them.”His fang sinks into his bottom lip. “I know what you crave.”“A bar of soap to scrub your taste off my tongue.” I begin to applaud him. “Bravo, you figured it out.” I can’t help it. I dig further. “Add in a bottle of wine so my vision blurs. This way, I need not clearly see how insecure you are.

Unlike most of her classmates, Laila Bansal doesn’t roll out of bed and head to school. Instead, she wakes up early and trains in hand-to-hand combat with her adopted aunts who, when not tending to their thriving vineyard, are immortal Rakshasi demons sworn to protect Laila. Laila was born into a mythological bloodline—one infused with magic and entrusted with Lord Krishna’s secrets of the universe. By all appearances, though, Laila leads a peaceful, protected life.  Then Ahvi, the new boy in town, arrives and immediately seeks out Laila. He happens to be a descendant of a demi-god. Both his and Laila’s origin stories (found in the Mahabharata, an ancient Hindu epic poem about the great war between demi-gods, witches, and demons) come crashing to the forefront. Magical powers are activated, dark forces converge, and it looks like Laila’s quiet town in upstate New York might be the setting of the next epic battle.  Author Nisha Sharma deftly weaves together romance, magic, and mythology in this contemporary young adult urban fantasy novel.

It has been four months since a mysterious obsidian stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Prince Rhy was wounded, and since the nefarious Dane twins of White London fell, and four months since the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift--back into Black London. Now, restless after having given up his smuggling habit, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks as she always meant to do. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element Games--an extravagant international competition of magic meant to entertain and keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries--a certain pirate ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port. And while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Games, another London is coming back to life. After all, a shadow that was gone in the night will reappear in the morning. But the balance of magic is ever perilous, and for one city to flourish, another London must fall.

Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. Kell was raised in Arnes—Red London—and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand. After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive.

Witness the fate of beloved heroes - and enemies. THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS FINALLY TIPPED... The precarious equilibrium among four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the red vivacity of magic, darkness casts a shadow over the Maresh Empire, leaving a space for another London to rise. WHO WILL CRUMBLE? Kell - once assumed to be the last surviving Antari - begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. And in the wake of tragedy, can Arnes survive? WHO WILL RISE? Lila Bard, once a commonplace - but never common - thief, has survived and flourished through a series of magical trials. But now she must learn to control the magic, before it bleeds her dry. Meanwhile, the disgraced Captain Alucard Emery of the Night Spire collects his crew, attempting a race against time to acquire the impossible. WHO WILL TAKE CONTROL? And an ancient enemy returns to claim a crown while a fallen hero tries to save a world in decay.

Unlike most of her classmates, Laila Bansal doesn’t roll out of bed and head to school. Instead, she wakes up early and trains in hand-to-hand combat with her adopted aunts who, when not tending to their thriving vineyard, are immortal Rakshasi demons sworn to protect Laila. Laila was born into a mythological bloodline—one infused with magic and entrusted with Lord Krishna’s secrets of the universe. By all appearances, though, Laila leads a peaceful, protected life.  Then Ahvi, the new boy in town, arrives and immediately seeks out Laila. He happens to be a descendant of a demi-god. Both his and Laila’s origin stories (found in the Mahabharata, an ancient Hindu epic poem about the great war between demi-gods, witches, and demons) come crashing to the forefront. Magical powers are activated, dark forces converge, and it looks like Laila’s quiet town in upstate New York might be the setting of the next epic battle.  Author Nisha Sharma deftly weaves together romance, magic, and mythology in this contemporary young adult urban fantasy novel.

I shouldn’t have felt this way about her. She’s my brother-in-law’s first love.She was forbidden fruit. Ain’t shit ever been forbidden for me. I take what I want, and I want her. I shouldn’t have these strong of feelings for a woman I just met.I wanted to lay every man that even thought about looking her way… including my brother-in-law.Erin was mine before she even knew it. Our paths were meant to cross, our future intertwine.I don’t like liars or thieves, but for Erin, I’d pull that ski mask on and steal her heart, if that’s what it takes.He’s my first love’s brother-in-law. Everything about Capone has told me to stay away from him. He’s not good for me, he has the power to make me feel again, and the last time I felt anything for someone, it nearly destroyed me.I should stay away from him, but every part of my body is betraying me. Screaming, yearning, craving his touch and for him to be close to me.I don’t think he would ever need to steal my heart because I would gladly hand it over to him.