For what do you hunger, Lenore? Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage, the relationship has soured and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them out of London and to the imposing Nethershaw manor in the countryside, where Henry aims to host a hunt with society’s finest. Lenore keeps a terrible secret from the last time her husband hunted, and though they never speak of it, it haunts their marriage to this day. The preparations for the event take a turn when a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life. Carmilla who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night; Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Soon girls from local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a bloody hunger. Torn between regaining her husband's affection and Carmilla's ever-growing presence, Lenore begins to unravel her past and in doing so, uncovers a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk . . . Set against the violent wilderness of the moors and the uncontrolled appetite of the industrial revolution, Hungerstone is a compulsive feminist reworking of Carmilla, the book that inspired Dracula: a captivating story of appetite and desire.

WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper, seeking a bloodmaid. Though she knows little about the far north--where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service--Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery--and at the center of it all is her. Countess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She'll need to learn the rules of her new home--and fast--or its halls will soon become her grave.

Nicholas von Burghofen hat das letzte Schuljahr auf Schloss Königstein vor sich. Eigentlich will der Einzelgänger nur in Ruhe sein Abitur abschließen. Doch dabei hat er die Rechnung ohne seinen Mitbewohner Tobias gemacht. Der möchte ihn nämlich unbedingt zurück in den Kader des Basketballteams holen. Und das, obwohl Nick sich geschworen hat, nie wieder in der Mannschaft zu spielen. Probleme anderer Art hat der zwei Jahre jüngere Losian, der mit dem Außenseiter der Klasse in ein Zimmer gesteckt wird. Noch dazu muss er sich in der Theater-AG mit dem Stück „Romeo und Julia“ in abgewandelter Form herumschlagen. Dabei geht ihm die Thematik der Homosexualität selbst viel zu nahe.

Warum verursacht ihr plötzlich ihre Mitbewohnerin Herzklopfen? Der modern erzählte historische New-Adult-Liebesroman »My Dearest Lovers - The Heygate Girls« von Anna Husen verbindet Historical Romance mit New Adult. Der Süden Englands in der Nähe von London, 1860. Für die unkonventionelle Deutsche Lucie Farber aus Lübeck, die von einem unabhängigen Leben träumt, bricht eine Welt Ihre Eltern schicken sie auf das renommierte Heygate Internat für Mädchen. Dort soll sie sich nicht nur auf ihre Aufgaben als Lady vorbereiten – sie soll auch den Mann kennenlernen, der bereits für sie ausgesucht wurde. Schnell gerät Lucie mit ihrer Mitbewohnerin Amabel aneinander, die unbedingt den Wünschen ihrer Familie und ihres Verlobten gerecht werden möchte. Erst nach einem Sommerball in London gestehen die beiden Mädchen einander ihre Sorgen vor der Zukunft. Eine zarte Freundschaft entsteht, und Lucie fühlt sich zu ihr hingezogen, was sie verwirrt. Vor allem, als der attraktive Arthur um sie zu werben beginnt … Atmosphärisch und mit viel Gefü Zwei starke Heldinnen, die herausfinden müssen, was sie wirklich wollen »My Dearest Lovers« ist der Auftakt der süchtig machenden Internats-Dilogie »The Heygate Girls«. Die wunderschöne Liebesgeschichte mit Herz und Witz lässt die romantische Regency-Zeit lebendig werden. Diese beliebten Tropes kommen forced proximityhe falls first und harderfound family

A timely and timeless reimagining of the story of Dionysus, Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin, for readers of The Song of Achilles and Elektra. Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to fight for the homeland he’s never seen and to follow his commander’s orders at all costs. But when he rescues a baby from a fire at Thebes’s palace, his commander’s orders cease to make sense: Phaidros is forced to abandon the blue-eyed boy at a temple, and to keep the baby’s existence a secret. Years later, after a strange encounter that led to the death of his battalion, Phaidros has become a training master for young soldiers. He struggles with panic attacks and flashbacks, and he is not the only one: all around him, his fellow veterans are losing their minds. Phaidros’s risk of madness is not his only problem: his life has become entangled with Thebes’s young crown prince, who wishes to escape the marriage his mother, the Queen, has chosen for him. When the prince vanishes, Phaidros is drawn into the search for him—a search that leads him to a blue-eyed witch named Dionysus, whose guidance is as wise as the events that surround him are strange. In Dionysus’s company, Phaidros witnesses sudden outbursts of riots and unrest, and everywhere Dionysus goes, rumors follow about a new god, one sired by Zeus but lost in a fire. In The Hymn to Dionysus, bestselling author Natasha Pulley transports us to an ancient empire on the edge of ruin to tell an utterly captivating story about a man needing a god to remind him how to be a human.