For fans of For the Wolf and Nettle & Bone comes a dark, romantic fantasy about a witch, a monster, and the two parasitic demons who’ll stop at nothing to keep them apart. Raye is cursed. Living things crumble at her touch, drained by the demon who clings to her like a shadow. No wonder the townsfolk want her dead. Tormented and pursued, she seeks shelter in a mysterious castle. The castle is an eerie place. Its residents lie trapped in time like flies in amber, all save one. Mir has a demon of her own, one that forces her to seek blood. When the two women begin to unravel their curses with the castle’s trove of magic, their demons unite, refusing to let their hosts escape. Perhaps even more dangerously, Mir can bear Raye’s poisonous touch: the first caress either of them has felt in years. As monster hunters close in on the castle, Raye and Mir will have to break the binds of their twisted quadrangle before the past catches up with them. Seductive and cinematic, this dark fantasy has teeth. Step into the castle. If you dare. Featuring our favorite romantasy tropes: “will kill anyone but you,” love quadrangle, morally grey, forbidden love, villain romance, forced proximity, poisonous touch, dark allure, redemption through love.

I’ve always kept my head on straight. I’m smart, popular, obviously super hot, and the bro my friends can rely on. But under all that, I have a craving I never knew existed: I want to be used. I want to shut my brain off completely and let someone else dictate exactly what I am. I never expected that a stupid challenge during a drunken game with my roommates would be the thing that made me discover a side of myself that doesn't want to think, or speak, or even be human. Now, there’s no turning back. My roommates know exactly what I need, and they won't holding back until I’m nothing but their perfect, mindless doll. Bro Doll is the fourth book of the Kinky ABC Anthology, a collection of stand-alone stories where each letter explores a different kink. In this book, ‘D’ is for Dollification. Each book can be read on its own.

From the “dazzling” author of Woodworking (VOGUE) comes another millennial cult a Little Women–inspired novel that turns expectations on their head and celebrates the power of love to defy definitionBeth March is the third of four sisters. Well, she was supposed to be the only son in a family of girls, but to everyone’s surprise, she came out as trans in college. Dead to her family, she took the name because, well, Beth March dies, right?But now, a little to everyone’s surprise, she’s home for Christmas for the first time in a decade, hoping the holiday season offers a chance for her and her family to heal the wounds they’ve plastered over. Beth has changed. Her family has changed, not always in welcome ways. But her hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, hasn’t. Including, it seems, Tom Vega, the boy next door who broke her heart back when he couldn’t face his own queerness.Tom is barely scraping by. Working a job he hates as a handyman in a business he inherited from his father, he’s also stuck in his childhood home and struggling to connect with his young daughter ever since his wife passed away. So, Beth’s arrival in Duluth is an unwelcome complication. Or so he tells himself.Because when Beth and Tom bump into each other again, sparks fly. Immediately.And as they circle each other, getting ever closer and ever more scared, both must ask themselves what they’d be giving up by disappearing into heterosexuality—and whether they’d be betraying their communities in doing so.With charm and wit and the spirit of Louisa May Alcott threaded through its pages, Beth March Returns from the Dead is a brilliantly fresh romance from a writer ever more “deserving of [her] place in the transfeminine literary canon” (PEN America).

The coral reef rose from the seas, spreading across the land with incredible speed. A rapidly evolving invasive species. It transformed the landscape. Mutated every living creature of the surface world. We never suspected it had a plan.

From the author of The Saint of Heartbreak comes a moody and haunting demon romance set in the South. Stoic and lonely, Sebastian Sica operates outside the purview of the Catholic Church and assists demon hunters and people in need. One night, at a fraternity house, he strikes an unconventional deal: If the demon, Berith, leaves his host, Sebastian will spend one night with him. At the most inconvenient times, Berith haunts him, and both Sebastian and the demon, unused to company and gentle touches, grow more familiar with one another while they navigate new possessions and spend rainy nights at a greasy spoon with a sign that glows an infernal red. What they have jeopardizes what they know about themselves and endangers Sebastian when Berith’s master in Hell learns of their burgeoning relationship. Hallowed Be Thy Name is a 52,000 word romance between an emotionally repressed trans man priest protagonist and an even more emotionally repressed demon. It has an HEA.

From the author of The Saint of Heartbreak comes a moody and haunting demon romance set in the South. Stoic and lonely, Sebastian Sica operates outside the purview of the Catholic Church and assists demon hunters and people in need. One night, at a fraternity house, he strikes an unconventional deal: If the demon, Berith, leaves his host, Sebastian will spend one night with him. At the most inconvenient times, Berith haunts him, and both Sebastian and the demon, unused to company and gentle touches, grow more familiar with one another while they navigate new possessions and spend rainy nights at a greasy spoon with a sign that glows an infernal red. What they have jeopardizes what they know about themselves and endangers Sebastian when Berith’s master in Hell learns of their burgeoning relationship. Hallowed Be Thy Name is a 52,000 word romance between an emotionally repressed trans man priest protagonist and an even more emotionally repressed demon. It has an HEA.

This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed . . . What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other? Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women.

Blackwing Volume 1 contains the first five novellas of the Blackwing 1: To Kill a Necromancer2: Hetgarib's Curse3: The Horned Guardian4: Ghost Peak5: The Slain PrincessJinua's first mission as a paladin is to kill an evil necromancer that's taken over a small town. But not all is as it appears, and soon the young paladin finds herself allying with a necromancer, someone she's been taught to believe is evil and irredeemable.As the unlikely duo follow a twisted, dangerous trail to find who's sowing the seeds of blood and hatred throughout the continent, Jinua must confront every truth she's ever believed and question the very foundation of her faith and place in the world.

Citadel, the only city on the planet Edalide, has a holy mission: exterminate the demons from the Flooded Forest. The unholy, vicious animals were a mistake made by their god that must be corrected. Or at least, that's what everyone's been told. When Olivia, a nonverbal autistic nineteen-year-old, has a chance run-in with a demon, she realizes that these beings are not vicious, animals, or unholy, but sentient people. Forever scarred by her mother's legally sanctioned murder, and determined to prevent either side from losing more loved ones, Olivia embarks on a hazardous journey into the Flooded Forest where she faces flesh-eating predators, telekinetic zealot-warriors, and the demons of her own past. Olivia's quest for answers forces her to decide to either seek justice for both sides, or continue the cycle of war, revenge, and death.

Qube was designed to die... As the cheerful childhood NPC companion who helps the [Player] learn the world during the start of the game, it was only natural that the big bad would kill her at the end of the tutorial, kick-starting the [Player] on a quest for vengeance. The only thing is, no one told her that... And this particular [Player] doesn’t like to play by the rules. Being a chaos-loving gremlin, he glitches her out of her programming loop and drags her on various adventures. They'll grapple with friendly sharktopuses, Evil Emperors, and what it means to be a person. On the way, they pick up equally unlikely party members, with Qube breaking the world in increasingly strange ways as she seeks to be the very best companion ever. All the while, Qube herself slowly realizes that her reality is not quite what it seems... Experience the start of a GameLit / LitRPG series about an NPC freed of it's programming loop and brought along on a player's journey of adventure and power progression. A loving parody of old school games, dungeon's and dragons, and every player who has ever thought “what happens if I do this...”.

Hannah;s life is turned upside down when she stumbles into Y Ddraig - a little known tea shop in the heart of Cardiff that just happens to be run by an immortal fire spirit and a stressed-out elf. Soon, the lack of customers and bizarre tasting teas become the least of their worries. When an ancient power returns to threaten the entire city, Bryn, Oz, and Hanny must unite if they are to save their business - and ultimately, the city itself.

Since the fall of the kingdom of Esteldia, all have suffered under the new rule of Simuragh. Decades pass and people forget, except for one. Emilia is a potato farmer, living her days struggling to meet the tax that Simuragh has placed upon the land. After an unruly visit from the Black Guard, the personal mercenaries of the Simuragh royalty, Emilia's father is killed for fighting back. Death himself offers her a deal she can't refuse, a deal that makes her his personal mercenary. But when she meets the man Death wants her to kill, her emotions get in the way. Can she balance her morals and complete the task Death has set before her?

THE HOUSE DREAMS OF BIRTH & DEATH. When the Velasquez family moves into a quaint adobe home surrounded by forest, it's the beginning of Isela's dream life. Isela Velasquez is a pathological liar with strange impulses that terrorize her at night. She wants the perfect family, but she regrets becoming a mother. Olivia Velasquez is four-years-old when she first meets the house. Spending most of her days alone, Olivia befriends the house and looks after it. At night, the house whispers into Olivia's dreams, creating a bond between them. The house takes on a maternal role after it gives birth to a brand new room. An immaculate conception, turning the two-bedroom house into a three-bedroom home. The new room lures Isela inside and shows her pieces of herself that she's refused to look at in her adult life. It teases her. It haunts her. When Olivia gathers the courage to enter the newly born room, she finds warmth and safety. The room creates lush and vibrant ecosystems right before her eyes. DAUGHTER OF ROT blends magical realism with dreamlike botanical horror and explores the intertwining of toxic parenting with childhood innocence.