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She's battling artist's block ahead of a major gallery exhibition. Staying at Harob Lake is her final, desperate attempt to paint the collection that could save her floundering career. It seems perfect: no neighbours, no phone, no distractions.

But the dream retreat disintegrates into a nightmare when Sam discovers she's being stalked.

A tall, strange man stands on the edge of her dock, staring intently into the swirling waters below. He starts to follow her. He disables her car. He destroys her only way to communicate with the outside world.

And Sam is beginning to suspect he's responsible for the series of disappearances from a nearby hiking trail. Stranded at Harob Lake, Sam realises she's become the prey in the hunter's deadliest game...

Included in the 2020 edition, along with the title story:
-- Whose Woods These Are
-- Mannequin
-- Hitchhiker
-- Bellamy]]> 272 Darcy Coates 1728221773 Brandy 0 book-list 3.64 2015
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]]> 200477455 When Suzanne-a clairsentient enchantress-meets Max-an irresistible rogue-at a Garden District soirée, destiny is at play. As their relationship sizzles, Suzanne experiences an uptick in supernatural encounters, each demanding that an evil deed from yesteryear be avenged.
As Suzanne navigates these hauntings, she must confront her past and acknowledge her heritage. Raised by a hoodoo conjurer, Suzanne had rejected her mother's expectations to practice folk magic but eluding her role as a spellcaster no longer remains an option. Instead, Suzanne must embrace her legacy to survive. Set in New Orleans and along Mississippi's sparkling Gulf Coast, Suzanne rediscovers the power of the tarot and learns that bonding with a beloved specter, trapped since the 1940s, will change everything.
Told in dual timelines and stretching the bounds of realism, A Southern Enchantress celebrates the generational love of women bound even beyond death.]]> 364 Deborah Trahan Brandy 0 to-read 4.51
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]]> 250811180 In this stunning debut gothic fantasy, a young woman haunted by the mystery of her sister’s death must infiltrate a deadly banquet, hosted by her former lover, to finally gain the closure she deserves. A reimagining of Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart" with a romantic twist that begs the question: What makes a villain?

Ianira Henbane knows that Lucien Blackwood is a murderer. All she needs is proof.

Condemned as a madwoman, Ianira spent ten years immured in an asylum for the Tainted—those who gain magic through death, at the cost of their sanity. Now released on probation, she’s desperate to expose her sister’s murderer and reclaim her freedom. But only one man holds the truth: her first love, Lucien Blackwood. Unfortunately, since he’s the prime suspect, things are a bit...complicated between them.

After a decade of silence, Lucien is finally re-opening the doors to Blackwood Manor for a once-in-a-lifetime competition. He’s seeking a successor to inherit his family’s magic; a proposal that’s too tempting for the greedy residents of Callidor to resist. It’s also Ianira’s last chance to confront him before he leaves the city for good.

The succession takes a deadly turn when Lucien enchants his guests with a slow-acting poison and seals them inside the manor. With only seven days to earn an antidote, Ianira has no choice but to compete if she’s going to expose Lucien’s crimes. As stakes rise and old feelings stir new passion between them, Ianira and Lucien are faced with an impossible choice: die holding on to their demons or live to become something far worse.

What Lies Between is a daring debut that’s perfect for fans of lyrical prose and forbidden romance.


Death games
Second-chance romance
Creepy manor
Forbidden romance
Retelling of a literary classic]]> 368 C.C. Foster 0063480913 Brandy 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 69666111 238 William J. Harrigan 1942739206 Brandy 0 to-read 4.40
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]]> 252366169 A love between a goddess and a mortal ignites a dangerous clash that could destroy both heaven and earth in this star-crossed enemies-to-lovers duology opener from Tiffany Wang. Perfect for fans of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea and Six Crimson Cranes!

Ailan has many older sisters, but Xifei is the one she loves most—and the one she’s secretly betrayed. So when her sister vanishes from the Heavens, Ailan is willing to cross the entire mortal realm if only to bring her back, no matter the cost.

Kai despises immortals. Marked forever by the god who stole his brother’s life, he’s spent every day since chasing vengeance. They say immortals cannot be killed, he’s determined to prove them wrong.

When Ailan descends from the Heavens searching for her sister, Kai seizes his chance, offering to guide her to an oracle who might help, all while hiding a darker plan. But their journey through the Middle Kingdom pulls them into the deadly schemes of tyrants and demons. And as betrayal gives way to something far more dangerous, Ailan and Kai will have to decide what matters most—revenge, loyalty… or each other.


A Sister She’d Burn the Realms Ailan betrayed the one person she loves most—now she’ll cross realms to get her back.
Sworn to Vengeance, Ruined by Kai's swore to destroy immortals, so why is he falling for one?
Allies of Convenience Meets Uninvited Ailan needs his help, Kai wants her revenge on her kind … what could go wrong?]]> 368 Tiffany Wang 0063491559 Brandy 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 246933641 416 Jihyun Yun 0593904907 Brandy 0 to-read 3.00 2025
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]]> 247570460 In this raucous, tongue-in-cheek fairy-tale retelling from the author of This Princess Kills Monsters, a knight embarks on an adventure to thwart an invasion, save the most beautiful woman in the world, and finally get away from their sisters.

Jules is tired of running low-stakes errands with their five magically mismatched sisters, whose skills include killing plants, inducing sneezing, and making smaller windows … slightly larger. Blessed with a poorly controlled ability to make flowers bloom, Jules longs for a mission where they can actually prove themself. And when the siblings stumble upon a rival kingdom’s plot to overthrow their royal family, Jules sees an opportunity.

What follows is a whirlwind of botched disguises, accidental heroics, talking animals with surprisingly strong opinions, and one very inconvenient crush on the most sought-after princess in the land. And through all this, Jules learns that happy endings are indeed possible, even if you’re not quite Prince Charming. A cozy yet epic retelling of a Romanian fairy-tale, This Knight Topples Empires proves that the greatest victories of all are love and self-acceptance.]]> 352 Ry Herman 0593979885 Brandy 0 to-read 4.25 2026
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]]> 252452849
Because whatever was happening to her didn’t stop. It learned.

Then the Stone brothers arrived. They watched her too closely. Spoke like they were listening for something beneath her words. Like they already knew what she was becoming, and were simply waiting.

This isn’t just an illness. It’s something alive.

Something inside her, rewriting her from within. Twisting her into something dangerous. Something she won’t be able to control for long. And when she loses control, it won’t just tear her life apart. It will destroy everyone she loves. Especially him.

The one she can’t have.
The one she can’t stay away from.
The one who looked at her and knew exactly how it would end]]> 336 Jovi Cole Brandy 0 to-read 4.55
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]]> 255712824 This Midsummer, the hunter becomes the hunted.

Every Midsummer, the spectacularly wealthy and charismatic investor Alexander Dormer brings a naive young girl to his private island. She never makes it home. This year, Alissa is his chosen companion—but Alissa is no ordinary guest.

Twelve years ago, Alissa's sister vanished, and Alissa's finally traced her disappearance to Dormer. The plan? Secure evidence that her sister’s former paramour is a cold-blooded serial killer.

But Dormer’s sinister island hides secrets more twisted than Alissa could ever imagine, and as the sun sets on Midsummer’s eve, dark forces will stop at nothing to keep them buried—and Alissa along with them.]]> 320 Nicola Blackwell Brandy 0 to-read 4.60
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]]> 247571228 A mother and son travel to a dilapidated cabin in the woods that haunts more than just her memories in this new unnerving horror from the author of The Whistler and Sisters of the Lost Nation.

Nell Marin swore she would never return to the place where part of her died.

The passing of her estranged father, however, leaves her with no choice but to take her teenage son, Oscar, back to the run-down family cabin on Torchlight Lake, where horrific memories linger. The two will fix the place up, sell it, and ensure Nell never has to return to that dreaded lake again.

But when the roads—which pass through Native land—are barricaded by the local Tribe, the quick trip turns into weeks. Oscar, a horror movie buff, knows this is exactly how it starts. As the long summer days drag on, unsettling things begin to occur: screams ring out over the water and a mysterious figure watches the cabin from the trees at night. Most disturbing of all, his mother is becoming less and less herself.

As the strange events lead Oscar to uncover the secrets Nell has shielded him from, he is forced to confront a reality that is far more frightening than movie monsters. He must uncover answers to the questions that stole so much from his mother…before the horror that traumatized Nell drags him under as well.]]> 336 Nick Medina 0593952170 Brandy 0 to-read 3.98 2026
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]]> 247137188
When Cass inherits a crumbling house on Rothagisht-a remote island near the Arctic Circle-she's desperate for a new start. The land is stunning, the people strangely healthy, and for the first time, Cass feels like she might finally belong.

But Rothagisht comes with rules: Never go out after dark, and never open the door to a knock. As Cass is drawn into the island's mysteries-and into the secrets of her own bloodline-she discovers Rothagisht is stalked by ancient creatures that rise from the heated depths when the old covenant stirs.

With the Festival of Giving and Receiving looming, and the island's ancient covenant unraveling in blood, Cass must choose: embrace the community she's longed for, or confront the nightmare that could consume them all.

Perfect for fans of Heather Fawcett, T. Kingfisher, and Ari Aster's Midsommar, Little Kin is a chilling, folkloric tale of survival and belonging.]]> 320 Katya de Becerra Brandy 0 to-read 3.62 2026
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]]> 235047808 Joan will do whatever it takes not to be a failure—even when Hollywood meets the apocalypse, and everything gets bloody, ridiculous, dangerously romantic, and completely out of control. A darkly hilarious, action-packed tale of horror, bad decisions, and a twisted romance for the ages.

Now on Audible, Kindle Unlimited, and Print!]]> 366 Chloe Lukas 1733317252 Brandy 0 to-read 2.54
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]]> 248899390 Not all nightmares come from sleep. Some come from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeneva Rose.

Three horror stories.

A dinner party. A quiet house. A roadside stop.

You’ll recognize the setup.

You won’t recognize what comes next.

Never Kill the Medium

A thirtieth birthday dinner turns deadly after someone hires a medium for a playful séance. When the ritual spirals out of control and the medium dies, the guests cover it up—unaware that leaving the séance unfinished has allowed something dark to cross over.

The Nightmare House

The Dalton family moves into what they believe is their forever home, in the quiet town of Tillington—until the house whispers, the neighbors watch, and no one believes the one person who knows something is wrong. Newly postpartum, Kristin Dalton soon uncovers a horrifying every family who has lived in this house has died or disappeared.

All Curses Are Final

On the way to a remote winter cabin, a group of friends stops at a roadside store with a hand-painted “All items cursed. Curse lifted at time of sale.” They laugh it off—until one of them discovers an item in her bag she never paid for. As the storm traps them inside the cabin and bodies start to pile up, paranoia takes hold and suspicion turns inward.]]> 288 Jeneva Rose Brandy 0 to-read 4.10 2026
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]]> 246928000 In this Appalachian horror novel, two estranged siblings become trapped in a convenience store under attack by a monster from the mountains who feasts on guilty hearts.

Rattle, rattle in the dark…
The mountain’s bones seek out a heart.

Jane has not spoken to her brother Thomas since the accident that nearly killed them both. Their drive from college through the North Georgia mountains is uncomfortably silent, until they stop at a roadside convenience store, where a man stumbles in with a mutilated body, claiming to have been attacked by a monster.

At first, no one believes the man’s ravings, but when the next person to leave the store is brutally killed, they fear that local legend might be true:

There’s a beast in these mountains who feasts on guilty hearts… and someone among them has lured it out of hiding.

Jane and Thomas each harbor secrets, but so do the other patrons, and as the monster claims more hearts, the survivors turn on each other, desperate to save themselves by uncovering the guiltiest among them.

If the siblings can’t overcome the rift between them, they’ll surely become the monster’s next victims…or worse, become monsters themselves.]]> 304 Katherine Daniel Brandy 0 to-read 4.30 2026
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]]> 240336770 “I don’t need another kink.”

That thought pops into my head whenever I pull up my favorite social media app, but alas, every time I scroll, I learn something new about myself, and another one is born. And yes, I know I’m responsible for what the algorithm shows me, but I’m trying to ignore that fact.

Lately, my feed has been dominated by masked men. I’ve favorited videos with them dressed in full cosplay, decked out in futuristic military apparel, and wrapped up like ghouls.

But more than anything else, my FYP is filled with shirtless men wearing ghost masks. Bonus points if they’re heavily tattooed, wielding a knife, or covered in fake blood. At night, I dream about being chased by them, of them catching me and doing deliciously dark things to my more than willing body.

I never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become my new reality.

Lights Out is a fast-paced dark romance with a morally grey male lead. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to readers. Please check the TWs at the beginning of the book. ]]> 416 Navessa Allen 1638933707 Brandy 0 to-read 4.38 2024
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]]> 27827981
"What is this place?" Hadley asked, looking around the dark paneled entryway.

"This is our home," Aunt Charmaine said. "Welcome to Grimm House."

When Hadley's parents leave on a cruise and then are reported lost at sea, her perfect world is turned upside down. In a flash she is whisked away to a new life of drudgery at Grimm House where she waits on not one but two persnickety old aunts. As she grudgingly fulfills their commands of cooking, cleaning, and even after-dinner-dancing, she comes to suspect the aunts are really witches who are scheming to take the thing she loves best.

With only her wits and the help of some unlikely new friends, Hadley makes a plan to escape Grimm House and find her way home before it's too late.]]> 200 Karen McQuestion 0986416479 Brandy 0 to-read 3.76 2015
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]]> 221996680 The Crimson Crown, which follows Ayleth, a powerful witch and the very wickedest of all as she wrestles with love and betrayal.]]> 560 Heather Walter 0593598393 Brandy 0 to-read 4.12 2026
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]]> 248337191 352 Sharon Choe Brandy 0 to-read 3.50 2026
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]]> 244445739 Dying is all in a day’s work for a Hell-diver like Marian—until a routine round-trip to the afterlife goes wrong—for fans of The Wren in the Holly Library and TV’s Lucifer.

Hell is empty, and all the devils are here, but nobody knows why—not even the devils themselves. Now, sadistic demons roam the earth, offering small fortunes to any mortal sucker dumb or desperate enough to die on their behalf as they retrieve artifacts from a Hell they can’t recall. Washed-up journalist Marian Meyer is one of those mortal suckers dying for a living as she fetches clues for a demonic puzzle that she doesn’t care to solve.

Riddled with debt she'll never be able to pay off and guilt over her mother's death, Marian made her first lucrative deal with a demon and never looked back. Never mind that being a Hell-diver means that she must voluntarily drown herself—or that the human body wasn’t meant to die more than once—and she’s definitely feeling it.

Unfortunately, the last time Marian went to Hell, she came back wrong. Memories of that night are missing, and she'll do anything she can to find them, including teaming up with one of her mysterious (and oddly alluring) demonic patrons, Mr. Vale. But when their tenuous alliance thrusts Marian even deeper into a world of betrayal, humans with strange powers, and demonic politics, she’ll have to decide if allying with Mr. Vale is her ticket to freedom or damnation in disguise.

One part slow-burn romance and one part acerbic wit, Hellbound is a dark, romantic contemporary fantasy perfect for readers who prefer their casts morally grey and the stakes sky-high.]]> 352 Stephanie Binx Brandy 0 to-read 4.36
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]]> 246523051 “Lynette Noni is a masterful storyteller. A must-read for any fantasy lover!” — SARAH J. MAAS, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

One prison. Four deadly trials. A rebellion waiting to ignite. Discover the bestselling Prison Healer series and runaway fantasy sensation in this gripping paperback box set that includes all three titles: The Prison Healer, The Gilded Cage, and The Blood Traitor.

Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years surviving Zalindov—the kingdom’s most notorious death prison—as its healer. Then the Rebel Queen is captured, and Kiva receives a secret message from her family: Don’t let her die.

To keep the queen alive, Kiva volunteers to take the queen’s place in the legendary Trial by Ordeal, a series of brutal elemental challenges no one has ever survived.

But surviving the trials is only the beginning.

From bestselling author Lynette Noni comes a dark, thrilling YA fantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Tricia Levenseller, and Sabaa Tahir.]]> 1360 Lynette Noni 0063516551 Brandy 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 36284396 Three books in one!

The Golden Guard is known in AIR AWAKENS as the most elite fighting group. However, they weren't always this way. Step back in time to where the Golden Guard got its start in this complete prequel trilogy.

Book one: THE CROWN'S DOG.
A coastal summer is turned upside down by a violent murder, and a quest for lost pirate treasure turns into a hunt for the killer.

Jax Wendyll is the crown's dog. As punishment for the unspeakable crimes that tourment him to this day, his life has been conscripted to the Empire Solaris. However, in an Empire afflicted by peace, his duties are relegated to unquestioningly aiding the antics of the youngest prince, Baldair.

Erion Le'Dan, a nobleman's son, expects a quiet summer visit to the Imperial Palace, his only agenda to visit with his unlikely friends. But Jax's discovery the legendary pirate Adela Lagmir's old workroom inspires a hunt for her long lost treasure.

The pursuit of Adela's truth takes the three men to the Imperial summer manor, built along the old pirate mainstays. When Adela's trident is branded into a murdered servant, Prince Baldair's summer amusement of treasure-hunting becomes a hunt to find the killer. But, as mysteries compound, the ghosts of Jax's past may not be the only things haunting them.

Book two: THE PRINCE'S ROGUE
The Empire has declared war against its neighbor to the north, the country of Shaldan. Prince Baldair is summoned to lead, but the untested royal harbors secret reservations about his ability to inspire confidence in troops his senior in both age and experience. The memory of his first kills the summer prior still weigh heavy on his shoulders, and he flees to his friend Erion's home near the Crossroads to wait for the army before marching north.

Raylynn Westind had never held a responsibility in her life. After losing her mother years ago, she wanders from town to town in search of a challenge, honoring the sacred song of the sword her mother taught her. She never backs down from a fight, not when her opponents are the deadly Knights of Jadar, mysteriously insistent upon her death. And certainly not when the opponent is the Empire's young playboy prince.

Baldair has never met another person as gifted with the sword as he, and is insistent on seeing a golden bracer grace Raylynn's forearm. But the woman lives a mercenary's life, and Baldair quickly learns that her loyalty comes at a high price. When he discovers the bounty on her head, the prince must choose between his responsibilities to his father's Empire, and the woman who has captured his heart as a soldier, and as a man.

Book three: THE FARMER'S WAR
Lieutenant Craig Youngly has only ever wanted one thing in his life -- to join the illustrious Golden Guard. In pursuit of his goals, he has found himself protege to Raylynn Westwind, notable Guard member and favorite of Prince Baldair. He has fought for two years in the sweltering North and now prepares to embark on a mission on behalf of the Guard that could secure his long-sought membership. It's the opportunity Craig has been waiting for, until Raylynn's attention turns toward another swordsman, Daniel Taffl.

Daniel has always been a man of modest aspirations. As a farmer's son from the East, he seeks a soldier's wage to support a future for the woman of his dreams when he returns from the front lines. It isn't until he's conscripted into Craig's mission that he learns his sword-craft has caught the eyes of the powers above him.

Craig sees his mission as an opportunity to impress the guard and exert his authority over Daniel. Daniel sees it merely as the chance to secure a more financially stable future.]]> 548 Elise Kova 1619847426 Brandy 0 to-read 4.18 2017
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]]> 250716178 A dark romantic fantasy by Sunday Times bestselling author Nicki Pau Preto.

Lua is a seventh-born daughter, cursed and claimed by the dark forest. The Wood takes what it is owed, and her human parents encroached on forbidden land to build their fine house. Raised among its ancient trees and dangerous denizens, Lua runs with wolves, barefoot and wild, and spends her nights watching the family that abandoned her at birth.

When Lua's childhood crush, Cristiano, offers her his hand in marriage-and a place within her own family-Lua cannot refuse. Their love and acceptance are everything she's ever wanted, but it comes at a abandoning her duty to the Wood. Thrust into civilized life, Lua spends her days trying to fit in among the humans while her fiancé parades her around. At night, she sneaks from her bedroom to make reports to the mysterious Thorne, a loyal servant of the Wood who mocks Lua's obsession with the humans and pushes her to embrace what she truly is-a shapeshifter unwilling to take on her wolf form.

But everything is not as it seems. Soon, alliances shift, lovers become enemies, and Lua must choose between the human realm, and the gruff woodsman, who might be more than just a servant of the Wood . . .]]> 320 Nicki Pau Preto 1250447100 Brandy 0 to-read 3.95
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]]> 245322820 From USA Today bestselling author Sarah Hawley comes the stunning conclusion to her darkly enchanting Shards of Magic series following Servant of Earth and Princess of Blood.

Princess Kenna of Blood House has decided who to support as the next ruler of Mistei, but one wrong move shatters the fragile truce of the Accord and plunges the kingdom into civil war. In the chaos, hundreds of faeries lie dead, and Kenna and the two rebel princes are captured.

With all other potential rulers imprisoned, two faeries crueler and more ambitious than even the late tyrant king claim the throne. Kenna is sure if they don’t kill her first, her guilt will. Her misstep could have lost the war.

But Kenna will never give up, no matter what horrors the enemy inflicts on her. Not when her house is looking to her for a brighter future. Not when she has finally found someone who loves her just as fiercely as she loves him. Yet with every blow she is dealt, the limits of how far she is willing to go to win the war get pushed further and further. In striving to transform Mistei for the better, Kenna risks losing her greatest strength—her humanity.]]> 512 Sarah Hawley Brandy 0 to-read 4.65
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]]> 245081733 A fierce, glamorous sapphic fantasy reimagining the secret societies of postcolonial Singapore, for fans of Jade City, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and the feverish intensity of RF Kuang’s Poppy War trilogy.

Singapore, 1972: Newly independent, a city of immigrants grappling for power in a fast-modernizing world. Here, gangsters are the last conduits of the gods their ancestors brought with them, and the back alleys where they fight are the last place where magic has not been assimilated and legislated away.

Loner schoolgirl Adeline Siow has never needed more company than the flame she can summon at her fingertips. But when her mother dies in a house fire with a butterfly seared onto her skin and Adeline hunts down a girl she saw in a back-alley barfight—a girl with a butterfly tattoo–she discovers she’s far from alone.

Ang Tian is a Red Butterfly: one of a gang of girls who came from nothing, sworn to a fire goddess and empowered to wreak vengeance on the men that abuse and underestimate them. Adeline’s mother led a double life as their elusive patron, Madam Butterfly. Now that she’s dead, Adeline’s bloodline is the sole thing sustaining the goddess. Between her search for her mother’s killer and the gang’s succession crisis, Adeline becomes quickly entangled with the girls’ dangerous world, and even more so with the charismatic Tian.

But no home lasts long around here. Ambitious and paranoid neighbor gangs hunt at the edges of Butterfly territory, and bodies are turning up in the red light district suffused with a strange new magic. Adeline may have found her place for once, but with the streets changing by the day, it may take everything she is to keep it.]]> 496 Wen-yi Lee 1250369479 Brandy 0 to-read 3.33 2025
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]]> 251792152
This is the story of a girl who lived in another world on the other side of an infinite sea...

Adrian Nix has lived her entire life at sea. A refugee of a war that claimed her homeland and infected her people with dark magic, Adrian now works as an oil-splattered mechanic aboard The Lyre. She dreams of the day she can finally set foot on dry land—a day that inches closer as the ship’s years-long anti-magic quarantine finally comes to an end.

But everything changes when Adrian meets Ophelia Jones. The captain’s sister and a notorious party girl betrothed to a wealthy governor, Ophelia is everything Adrian isn’t. As the unlikely duo grows closer, Adrian and Ophelia discover a deep, forbidden connection that feels bigger than the confines of The Lyre. Adrian feels like she can tell Ophelia anything, including the terrifying dreams she’s been having, and the sinister voices that seem to haunt every corner of the ship.

When Ophelia falls victim to a dark curse, lured across the waves by a ghostly ship in the night, Adrian will do anything to get her back—even if it means crossing a dark, enchanted sea. But Adrian may not be enough to save Ophelia from the secrets awaiting them across the burning deep...]]> 400 J.M. Voris 0316597805 Brandy 0 to-read 4.16
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]]> 254898409 Once a servant, now a princess, a young woman thrust into power challenges everything about the underground Fae realm in the next installment of Sarah Hawley's new romantasy series.

Kenna Heron is still reeling from her lover's betrayal and the threat of an impending war. With only her two closest--and most powerless--friends by her side, she must navigate the treacherous politics of Mistei while coming to terms with her new identity as not just Fae, but princess of her own house.

With the king dead, three candidates are vying for the right to wear the crown next. A princess who claims the throne as her birthright and two rebel princes, both of whom are depending on the support of Blood House to break the stalemate between them. Old loyalties fray as new, dangerous alliances form, and Kenna finds herself caught in a web of violence, deceit, and unexpected passion.

Kenna has the power to shape Mistei's future... but someone's willing to kill to make sure she never gets the chance.]]> 528 Sarah Hawley 0593819977 Brandy 0 to-read 4.33 2025
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]]> 244967418 A dark, sexy, and twisted reimagining of The Wizard of Oz from USA Today bestselling author Nikki St Crowe.

Dorothy Gale doesn’t know where she came from. She has only the vaguest memory of her life before landing in the dull, gray world of the vast Kansas prairie.

Then a cyclone rips through the night and carries her, her dog, and the farmhouse somewhere a lot farther than Dorothy imagined. She’s in a strange land that’s apparently cursed, shrouded in shadow. And to get home, Dorothy needs to seek out a wizard, following a treacherous path and watch out for a never-ending list of forest beasts, witches, a cursed mercenary, and perhaps most dangerous of all, the wizard himself.]]> 320 Nikki St. Crowe 1250382211 Brandy 0 to-read 3.44 2026
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]]> 250707800
Madelena Caravita is a notorious sword-wielding thief, whose elaborate grand larcenies (and ill-tempered pet crow) are a constant menace to the wealthy and powerful.

Hendrie Strachan is a talented musician and lonely dreamer, searching for the long-lost Alchemist—a legendary figure who made the immortal clans several centuries ago—so that he never has to be alone again.

Both believe themselves to be the only immortals left in the world—until their paths collide on one of Madelena’s infamous jewel robberies. When Madelena learns that Hendrie’s clan possesses the Philosopher's Stone, capable of transmuting base metal into gold, she realizes this could be her final and most fruitful heist.

But Hendrie’s mother soon learns of Madelena’s impossible immortality, and the cruel matriarch will stop at nothing to wipe the time-bending Caravitas from existence.

As their clans descend into all-out war, Madelena must journey back into the distant past—to where the Alchemist lived, invented, and then violently vanished—to save the immortal man with whom she’s fallen in fiery, tender, and ultimately doomed love. But what she finds in the Dark Ages could destroy everything she thought she knew about Hendrie, about alchemy... and about time itself.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Laura Steven delivers an epic standalone fantasy romance destined to captivate readers everywhere!]]> 400 Laura Steven 1250333911 Brandy 0 to-read 5.00 2027
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]]> 248163795 The thrilling first book of a steamy duology from Sunday Times bestselling author, Kate Dylan.

Two ruthless assassins.
One deadly romance.

Talia Atwater is a reaper, an elite assassin who uses her looks, her charms, and her rare ability to sense lies to rid clients of their sworn enemy: the person destined to kill their soulmate. For Talia, love is just another way to die.
 
Cain Hawthorne was raised to be a weapon. Bound to a powerful religious order, he hunts rogue reapers in the name of the Gods. Duty is everything. Love is forbidden. All that matters is protecting their fated ties.
 
So when Talia takes a job that threatens fate, Cain is sent to stop her.
 
But in a world where every soul is marked—for love and death—the line between mission and desire begins to blur.
 
As secrets unravel and attraction ignites, Talia and Cain are pulled into a dangerous game of seduction, secrets, and lies. And the closer they get to the truth, the clearer it becomes:
 
They were never meant to fall in love.
They were meant to destroy each other.
 
SOUL SWORN is a dark, addictive romantasy filled with assassins, blood magic, and a sizzling enemies-to-lovers romance that will leave readers breathless.]]> 336 Kate Dylan Brandy 0 to-read 3.76 2026
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]]> 245977041 A debut gothic YA from the USA Today bestselling author of The Hacienda and The Possession of Alba Díaz.

Sixteen-year-old Minerva has spent her whole life in the slums of the capital city of an unnamed country that resembles colonial Mexico. Though she lives in the shadow of constant government turmoil, her empty belly and her father’s brutality don’t leave time for politics—especially since her older brothers ran away. Minerva can’t take another beating or miss another meal, so she steals flees to a wealthy loyalist neighborhood to win a job as a lady’s maid to an elderly widow.

Minerva and Encarnación del Valle—the proud and acerbic widow—form an unlikely duo. They are both survivors in their own ways, stubborn and used to being underestimated. For a time, Minerva is happy. She has food and safety in a house lit and warmed by magical chispa. Why should she care who runs the country or how her employer afford the magic?

But when the viceroy sweeps back into power on a wave of horrific bloodshed that sweeps away any hope Minerva had of seeing her brothers again, Encarnación retreats to the del Valle’s mountainside estate, the Casa de la Gardenias. Minerva finds herself surrounded by dozens of more experienced servants and the cruel, scheming younger del Valles, but the living are the least of anyone’s worries at the Casa de las Gardenias, and soon Minerva discovers that this ancient estate is home to forces far older and more bloodthirsty than the fascist del Valles or the liberal guerrillas amassing in the surrounding wilderness.]]> 288 Isabel Cañas 0593620410 Brandy 0 to-read 4.10 2026
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]]> 246254448 A lonely librarian finds love, friends, and a few ghosts between the shelves in this cozy, paranormal tale from beloved bestselling author Auralee Wallace.

It’s a dark and stormy night…and Amelia Bates is caught in the rain. Life hasn’t always been kind to her, and being a ghostseer certainly doesn’t make things any easier.

Glowing warmly through the autumnal downpour is her safest the library. Amelia, the newly hired librarian, has always relished the comfort of curling up with a novel, vastly preferring it to the company of humans (alive or ghostly).

But Amelia is shocked to discover the building is full of more than quiet stories and warm cups of tea. There are curious, talkative patrons, a shy, bespectacled head librarian who makes her heart skip a beat, and three quirky spirits causing paranormal havoc that endangers the future of the library.

To help the ghosts and save the building, Amelia will have to gather all her bravery and wits, because learning to trust others might just be the first step to a happily ever after she only thought was possible in books.]]> 368 Auralee Wallace 0593818571 Brandy 0 to-read 3.86 2026
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]]> 230863393
Trú La Dommé, a disgraced clockmaker’s apprentice, struggles with an opium addiction. Living in the sanctuary of the temple where Xamual works, she’s been haunted by whispers in her mind ever since a stranger tattooed her back with runes.

The whispers drive Trú to kill a man she’s never met with magic she’s never wielded. On the same day, a young woman is killed, her animated corpse is found walking through Xamual’s childhood stomping grounds.

As Xamual searches for answers to both crimes and as Trú seeks to rid herself of her murderous magic, they find themselves drawn into the criminal underworld, where gangs are vying for each other’s territories and those who crave power will do whatever it takes—even turn the living undead—to gain more of it. When they discover a sinister force bent on taking control of the Island Realms, Xamual and Trú must decide how far they’re willing to go to save the city—and the people—they love.]]> 505 Jeffery A. Smith Brandy 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 219603131
Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen.

Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies, Ruying shouldn’t have to fear these foreign invaders, but she does. Especially because she wants to keep herself and her family safe.

When Ruying’s Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, he offers her an impossible deal: If she becomes his private assassin and eliminates his political rivals—whose deaths he swears would be for the good of both their worlds and would protect her people from further brutalization—her family will never starve or suffer harm again. But to accept this bargain, she must use the powers she has always feared, powers that will shave years off her own existence.

Can Ruying trust this prince, whose promises of a better world make her heart ache and whose smiles make her pulse beat faster? Are the evils of this agreement really in the service of a much greater good? Or will she betray her entire nation by protecting those she loves the most?]]> 400 Molly X. Chang 0593722264 Brandy 0 to-read 2.50 2024
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]]> 222376533 The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab, Red City is a dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition, and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a glittering alternate Los Angeles.

Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world’s elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful, more charismatic, simply more.

Among the gleaming skyscrapers and rolling foothills of Angel City, alchemy is controlled by two rival syndicates. For years, Grand Central and Lumines have been balanced on a razor’s edge between polite negotiation and outright violence. But when two childhood friends step into that delicate equation, the city―and the paths of their lives―will be irrevocably transformed.

The daughter of a poor single mother, Sam would do anything to claw her way into the ranks of Grand Central in search of a better life. Plucked away from his family as a boy to become a Lumines apprentice, Ari is one of the syndicates' brightest rising stars. Once, they might have loved each other. But as the two alchemists face off across opposite sides of an ever-escalating conflict, ambition becomes power, loyalty becomes lies, and no transformation may be perfect enough for them both to survive the coming war.]]> 420 Marie Lu 1250885671 Brandy 0 to-read 4.03 2025
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]]> 199692210
Being a defective marks me in the eyes of the Solis Fae.

Wingless. Magicless. Weak.

To my kind, I’m nothing—not when strength is needed to survive the perpetual snow and ice that shrouds our northern continent in endless winter.

But I’ve persevered, living a meaningful yet simple life with my sister . . . until the hated Crown Prince of the Winter Court thunders into our village.

Prince Norivun’s massive black wings and potent magic cloud my senses and steal my breath. He’s beautiful yet brutal, so when he whisks me away and locks me in his castle I’m certain my death is tomorrow’s promise.

Yet my end doesn’t come, not when the prince looks at me with hunger in his gaze while revealing the true reason for my abduction.

Now I’m faced with an impossible choice—either join forces with the hated prince who’s robbed me of everything I love or watch our kingdom start a devastating war.


Court of Winter is book one in a four-book enemies-to-lovers fae fantasy romance that takes place in Krista Street’s Supernatural World . This series contains steamy romance, a strong female fae who refuses to bow, a morally gray prince whose brutality knows no bounds, and a deadly tangle of royal strife and intrigue.]]> 346 Krista Street 1946884227 Brandy 0 to-read 4.06 2023
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]]> 249356713 From New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis comes the first book in a breathtaking new romantic fantasy duology about a woman exiled by superstition who joins a dragon-hunting voyage only to be caught between a formidable longship captain, a prince destined for the throne, and an ancient power that could change her fate…or destroy a kingdom.

Branded as bad luck and bound to her barren island home by the superstition of skalds and sailors alike, Emelya has no future…until she risks her life to save a storm-tossed longship and boldly challenges formidable—and dangerously compelling—Captain Ragnar to let her prove her worth.

But what begins as a desperate gamble soon becomes the adventure of a lifetime, for the crew is hunting a legendary colossal dragon—a mythic beast said to bear the old gods' blessing. Only Prince Erik, the devastatingly handsome (and charming) son of an ailing king, believes the myths are true…just as he believes Emelya may be the key to helping him unlock their ancient power.

As the longship sails farther north, storms rage, monsters rise from icy depths, and the line between legend and death grows perilously thin…and Emelya finds herself caught between an ancient power meant for kings and the love of two men that could bring ruin to them all.

By the dragon's choosing, Queens will rise and Kingdoms will shatter.]]> 384 Beth Revis 146424135X Brandy 0 to-read 4.15 2027
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]]> 252007132 Curmudgeonly scholar Emily Wilde must brave the beautiful but haunted Black Forest and open a portal to a long-lost, eldritch realm dreaded by the Folk, in this fourth installment of the New York Times bestselling series.

Driven by an insatiable scientific curiosity, Emily Wilde has made a name for herself as the world’s foremost scholar of faeries. Along the way, she’s rescued a faerie kingdom and helped her now-husband—fellow professor Wendell Bambleby, dashing and infuriating in equal measure—regain his throne. And while understanding her fellow mortals has never been her strong suit, she’s also made a small number of friends.

But two years later, one of those friends goes missing in the beautiful but faerie-haunted Black Forest in Germany, a region of picturesque villages and sinister Folk. And if she’s to save him, Emily will have to reckon with the darker side of her own nature, and how ruthless she’s prepared to be to solve the most tantalizing of scholarly mysteries: the history of the ancient and long-lost realm she’s named Dark Faerie, the only place the Folk fear.

But Emily is not alone—she has her beloved Wendell, and her niece Ariadne, who hopes to follow in her footsteps. Told from the perspective of all three characters, this installment of the Emily Wilde series opens a magical portal to the most wondrous and dread faerie realm of all.]]> 384 Heather Fawcett 0593973860 Brandy 0 to-read 3.91 2027
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]]> 243879658 WEDNESDAY ADDAMS meets ONE OF US IS LYING in this magic-filled thriller set at a modern school for wizards.

Alice Howe is an outcast at the elite Deepgrove Academy for Magic, which suits her just fine. But an unwelcome premonition means she’ll have to step out of the shadows. Because now she’s the only one at Deepgrove who knows two terrible things. In seven days her schoolmate Xena Wycomb, daughter of the American President of Magic, will be dead. And, if left unsolved, Xena’s murder will ignite a war.

Despite Alice’s warning, Xena meets her foreseen demise. But before she does, she points a finger at the prime suspects in her own murder, each of whom has a deadly secret to keep.

Christopher: The ex-boyfriend she cheated on and the heir to the biggest magical corporation in the world.
Delvy: The traitorous best friend who is embroiled in a scandal of her own.
Ben: Xena’s new boyfriend, a mage born without magic and the perfect scapegoat.
And of course, Alice herself.

Soon, the four of them are at the center of a huge media scandal, amid a very public murder investigation, which brings their world to the brink of war between those born with magic and those born without. And it all leads back to Xena.

Alice knows she can’t trust devilishly charming Christopher, picture-perfect Delvy, or morose Ben, but they all hold a piece of the puzzle. As suspicion falls on each of them in turn, Alice must find a way to uncover who killed Xena before the whole of magekind meets the same fate.]]> James Trevino 1464272085 Brandy 0 to-read 4.78
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]]> 248285113 A fallen empire. A warrior determined to protect her people. And the masked soldier who captures her behind enemy lines. The first novel in a dark, seductive, and all-consuming trilogy where hope is fickle but the fight is never over.

Vordell was beautiful once. Its people lived in harmony, and their civilization flourished as they learned to harness and control the power of Light.

Then the darkness came.

The Iron Sky unfolded dark clouds across the land, thick enough to choke out the light of the suns. The ground cracked, releasing vicious creatures that looked like humanity’s oldest fears. The Dar’rak—an enemy long believed to be buried and forgotten—returned to claim the world above.

Soraya Tollmere has spent most of her life on the front lines of the brutal war that followed. Now a high-ranking commander, she knows loss better than anyone.

By day, she leads troops across ruined landscapes and guides covert teams through enemy territory. By night, she meets with a Dar’rak defector who has kept humanity alive with his steady stream of secrets.

On a mission to investigate his latest lead—one that could turn the tide of the war—Soraya is captured by The Demon, the Dar’rak’s most feared soldier, his true identity unknown. 

His orders are break the human commander, uncover where the humans are keeping a weapon that could win them the war, and bring it to the Dar’rak. But as he gets to know the fierce warrior, the lines between interrogator and enemy, prisoner and ally, begin to blur.

As devastating truths surface and loyalties shatter, Soraya must decide who to trust in a world where light is dying—and where her greatest enemy may be her only salvation.]]> 512 A.T. Emerald Brandy 0 to-read 4.52 2026
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]]> 245915129
Simon, a kitchen boy from the royal castle unknowingly apprenticed to a member of this League, will be sent on a quest that offers the only hope of salvation, a deadly riddle concerning long-lost swords of power. Compelled by fate and perilous magics, he must leave the only home he’s ever known and face enemies more terrifying than Osten Ard has ever seen, even as the land itself begins to die.

After the landmark Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, the epic saga of Osten Ard continues with the brand-new novel, The Heart of What Was Lost. Then don’t miss the upcoming trilogy, The Last King of Osten Ard, beginning with The Witchwood Crown!]]> 672 Tad Williams 0756421403 Brandy 0 to-read 5.00 1988
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]]> 250708367 An enchanting tale of destiny, desire, and a bond unlike any the world has ever seen.

At her great-aunt’s stables on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, Maeve can’t wait to spend one last summer soaking in the magick of Loch Chon—the only place she’s ever felt like herself. She plans on painting wind-swept landscapes and leading trail rides on the horses she loves for the new luxury resort across the loch—only to find herself drawn to the resort’s young heir, the enigmatic Keir, whose charm is tempered only by the secrets he keeps.

But soon she discovers the loch holds older, deeper magick than Maeve has ever imagined.

The stories she was raised on—of the fae courts, Seelie and Unseelie, and the deadly, beautiful kelpies—are not legends, but truth. On land, kelpies appear as magnificent horses with silver-belled manes. In the lochs, they become something far more powerful: ancient water dragons who bond for life with a chosen Rider.

When Maeve rescues a wounded stallion, she believes she’s saving a horse’s life. Instead, she may have been chosen by a royal kelpie. But no kelpie has ever bonded with a human before and if the bond fails, it won’t just break, it will destroy them both.

As war stirs between the fae courts, Maeve is pulled deeper into a world of magick, betrayal, and desire. With a witch as her guide, the King of the Kelpies at her side, and two rival princes vying for her heart, Maeve begins to uncover a truth more dangerous than any legend:

There is powerful magick running through her veins. And it may be strong enough to save everything she holds dear…or doom it forever.]]> 400 P.C. Cast 1250388147 Brandy 0 to-read 0.0 2027
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]]> 247584932 Magic is murder.

In the brutal kingdom of Averyth, where outlawed magic is passed through murder, the Chosen are trained from childhood to make sure it ends that way.

Auri is the best of them. An elite torturer with a flawless record, raised to hunt outlawed magic with blades and blood. Loyal. Lethal. Unquestioning.

Until Auri is thrust into a competition to crown the first Royal Chosen, and she realizes that winning could expose the secret she’s risked everything to keep hidden: Auri has magic of her own.

As the trials unfold, it becomes clear that Auri’s loyalty is what’s really being tested.

Then everything breaks. The competition is violently interrupted by a coordinated attack—one that fractures the illusion of control Averyth has relied on for generations.

In the chaos, Auri is forced to flee with the last person she should trust: a former Assignment she was trained to break. A man bound to her past, armed with dangerous truths and a dangerously disarming charm that’s becoming harder to resist.

Hunted by the very system she upheld, Auri must unravel betrayals, buried histories, and a prophecy whispered in the shadows.

Because some destinies don’t come quietly.

Some destinies scream.]]> 480 Nicole Holleman 1615956220 Brandy 0 to-read 4.60
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]]> 245424123 A sweeping, magical ode to community and the stories we leave behind, The Memory of Borrowed Books follows one librarian who discovers a hidden room of unfinished memories—and must find the one that can save her beloved library from closing forever. Perfect for fans of Evie Woods and How to Read a Book. 

Deep in the library lives a hidden room

where magic lines the shelves and memories lie in wait

Ready for readers daring enough to finally discover the truth.

In the coastal town of Foxhollow Bay, librarian Claire Ashford keeps her life as meticulously ordered as the centuries-old library she calls home. But when the town announces plans to shut it down, her sanctuary, and the life she's built within its walls, begins to crumble.

One night, while wandering the stacks after hours, Claire discovers a door that shouldn't exist. And behind it lies a secret room filled with books no one else can see.

Each book pulls her into the memories of those who have passed through the library's doors—moments half-lived and stories left unfinished. Buried within these pages is a message the library has been trying to share, urging Claire to uncover the path to saving it.

With the demolition looming and time running out, Claire must piece together what the library is trying to show her. But one book keeps calling her back, and in its pages is a memory that could change everything. One that reveals the key to saving the library may be tangled in her own memories more than she ever could have imagined.

An ode to the power of community and hope, The Memory of Borrowed Books is a sweeping story about what's at stake when the places we love—and the memories they hold—are threatened. A reminder that what we fight to preserve just might be the very thing that saves us in return.


]]> 352 Meg Anderson 1464278377 Brandy 0 to-read 3.96 2026
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]]> 228142770
She traded curses for carnations. But old magic dies hard...

Guy Shadowfade is dead, and Violet Thistlethwaite is out of a job. After a lifetime as the dark sorcerer's right-hand witch, she's ready to turn over a new leaf. And this time, she wants to sprout peonies instead of poison.

The quiet town of Dragon's Rest seems like the perfect place to start over. Violet opens a flower shop, swears off dark magic, and does her best to be...good. Even if her reputation - and her mildly homicidal, sentient houseplant - make that tricky.

Her vibrant bouquets soon charm the locals, but nothing she does seems to impress the grumpy (and infuriatingly gorgeous) Nathaniel Marsh, the alchemist she's forced to share a greenhouse with.

But when a strange blight begins to rot the roots of Dragon's Rest, Violet and Nathaniel must work together - through their fears, pasts, and growing feelings - to save the town.

And as old secrets start to surface, Violet can't help but does a former villain like her truly deserve a happily-ever-after?]]> 360 Emily Krempholtz 0593954300 Brandy 0 to-read 3.77 2025
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]]> 244947249 From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart.

Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters―but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten.

Centuries later, Owen Mallory―failed soldier, struggling scholar―falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives―and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs.

But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend―if they want to tell a different story--they’ll have to rewrite history itself.]]> 320 Alix E. Harrow 1250799090 Brandy 0 to-read 4.53 2025
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]]> 258148093 Fated to the Wicked King is a sizzling enemies-to-lovers steamy portal fantasy romance steampunk fairytale reimagining of 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' and 'Cinderella.' Perfect for fans of The Iron Wyrm Affair, Shield of Sparrows, and Quicksilver.

Can she redeem the man she used to love? Or is she fated to ruin with the world he burns?

Once upon a time, Allie saved the life of a most notorious assassin. How was she supposed to know he was the rightful heir to the most powerful throne in the land too?

If only she hadn't fallen for him. If only he hadn't abandoned her nearly a year ago without a single word.

Because the man she once knew is now the most feared and ruthless ruler of all kingdoms. Corrupted by the power of his crown, he has turned his back on his past.

With her heart still bound to his, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with the one man she should never trust again. Compelled to abet his tyranny. Even if it means crushing all who defy him.

Displaced from her own world, Allie has enough problems. For her forgotten past now threatens her existence. And only the Wicked King holds the key to finding her way home.

Can Allie resist the sizzling attraction that still exists between them? Is the Wicked King's soul too far gone or can Allie restore his heart before he destroys them all?

FATED TO THE WICKED KING is one of nine books in the Fated to the Enemy series, a set of steamy romantasy standalones, brimming with epic adventure, sizzling banter, and angsty yearning between enemies who have no desire to fall in love.]]> 276 S.L. Breaker Brandy 0 to-read 3.92
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]]> 258248123 This edition of The Seventh Painted Bride includes full-color interior illustrations, a full-color map, pink chapter-opening pages, and hand-illustrated rose details throughout. Available for a limited time.

In Kartham, monsters are hunted, hidden kingdoms are destroyed, and every generation one woman is sacrificed so the rest can survive. Six already have. Esvial Aravell was never supposed to be the seventh.

A bastard with no title, no standing, and no interest in becoming a martyr, she should never have been chosen. But when her bloodline is declared the last capable of completing the sacrifice, she is painted in pink and imprisoned in a palace where monsters wear crowns and no one is ever quite what they seem.

The prince destined to perform her death rite was never supposed to want her to live. The man she loves was never supposed to become engaged to her greatest enemy while she rots beneath the palace. And the tyrannical king who sleeps was never supposed to outlive her.

But Esvial has survived worse than monsters. She can survive this too.

Probably.

The Seventh Painted Bride is a dark romantasy featuring a forced marriage, enemies to lovers, a morally gray prince, a devastating love triangle, blood magic, ancient monsters, hidden kingdoms, forced proximity, and the reminder that some kingdoms aren't worth saving.]]> Oath Sterling Brandy 0 to-read 0.0 2026
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]]> 250774726
I can get along with anyone—except him. One of the most prominent pediatric plastic surgeons in the country, he terrifies the other residents, the nurses despise him, and his bedside manner sucks.

I want nothing to do with him.

When he puts me on retainer to sleep with him and only him, though, the money is too good to pass up. The deal is simple: I sleep with him, he pays me, and neither of us get feelings.

Sleeping with Grant is surprisingly fun and intimate, and with his pediatric fellowship at risk due to his lack of interpersonal skills, I vow to teach Grant how to be more likable, and see a whole new side of him.]]> 400 Stephanie Archer Brandy 0 to-read 4.43 2026
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]]> 247872145
I have never been favored by the gods. Far from it, thanks to Zeus.

Living as a cursed office clerk for the Order of Thieves, I just keep my head down and hope the capricious beings who rule from Olympus won't notice me. Not an easy feat, given San Francisco is Zeus' patron city, but I make do. I survive. Until the night I tangle with a different god.

The worst god. Hades.

For the first time ever, the ruthless, mercurial King of the Underworld has entered the Crucible―the deadly contest the gods hold to determine a new ruler to sit on the throne of Olympus. But instead of fighting their own battles, the gods name mortals to compete in their stead.

So why in the Underworld did Hades choose me―a sarcastic nobody with a curse on her shoulders―as his champion? And why does my heart trip every time he says I’m his?

I don’t know if I’m a pawn, bait, or something else entirely to this dangerously tempting god. How can I, when he has more secrets than stars in the sky?

Because Hades is playing by his own rules…and Death will win at any cost.]]> 528 Abigail Owen 1682817571 Brandy 0 to-read 4.11 2024
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]]> 241927954
Instead, she's handed a dagger and with it, an impossible choice.

Now Arden is branded an omen of war, half the nobility wants her dead, and assassins are tracking her every move.

Her only chance of survival lies with the most feared man in Antares.

They call him Bishop. No one remembers the name he had before he dedicated his life to his order. Empowered to execute first and question later, Bishop is ruthless, terrifying, and utterly loyal to the kingdom that wants Arden dead.

He should kill her.

Instead, he offers her sanctuary.

But the longer Arden stays under Bishop's protection, the more dangerous he becomes. Because Bishop has secrets powerful enough to topple kingdoms...and a need for Arden that could ruin them both.]]> 496 Geneva Lee 1682816737 Brandy 0 to-read 4.47 2026
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]]> 228160966 In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a blueberry farmer teams up with a teenager in need to start a revenge business. What could possibly go wrong?

In rural Ohio, the last connections lonesome Felicity Lavigne has to her late mom are the blueberry farm she inherited and her mom’s old phone number—which Felicity still calls every day. Until she gets a call back. It’s the number’s new owner, Alex Norse, a surly, homeless teenager who has aged out of the foster care system with no one to turn to except the stranger who’s been leaving rambling voicemails for a dead woman.

Felicity takes Alex in on one condition: She has to help scare off some kids vandalizing the fields. Not only does it work, but news spreads, and soon locals are lining up to solicit justice for their own grievances. Best of all, an unexpected friendship blooms for the two young women, who have found in each other the family they’ve been yearning for.

But revenge has a funny way of getting out of hand, and when things go a bit too far, Felicity and trouble-prone Alex must stick together to confront the heartbreak of their pasts and whatever new calamities may lie ahead.]]> 347 Grace Demyan 1662529066 Brandy 0 to-read 4.14 2025
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]]> 253502516 From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Asher comes a heartfelt, second-chance romance about two exes on a nonrefundable honeymoon that forces them to confront everything that went wrong between them…and if there’s anything left to save.

Natalia Aguilar isn’t sure which mistake she regrets more: spending thousands of dollars on a honeymoon to celebrate a wedding that never happened or picking the nonrefundable option because it was a better deal. Now that she’s no longer engaged to Gabriel, she needs to choose between taking a financial hit or going on the trip despite the risk of running into her ex-fiancé for the first time since their breakup.

It’s been over a year since their engagement was called off, and Gabriel Saint James is just starting to settle into his new life when he hears that Natalia is going on their honeymoon with another man. Rather than stay home, Gabriel decides his misery could use some company and crashes Natalia’s romantic getaway meant for two.

Candlelit dinners, snorkeling excursions, and sunset hikes—whatever Natalia does, Gabriel is around to remind her that the man she fell in love with is still here…even if she wishes he wasn’t.

During their trip, the two exes are forced to confront their feelings for one another and whether the past they’re still holding on to is worth sacrificing the future they always dreamed of sharing together.

Tropes:
• Second-chance romance
• Forced proximity
• Brother’s best friend
• Slow burn
• A man who yearns]]> 352 Lauren Asher 0063486989 Brandy 0 to-read 2.50 2027
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]]> 246236744 An FBI agent and a small town full of holiday hijinks help a woman in peril in this charming romance from the author of 10 Things I Hate About Mistletoe.

For two years, Kaylee Kringle didn’t stop moving—but then she happened upon Holiday, Idaho. The residents of her new hideout welcomed her with open arms, but as a fugitive she can never fully let her guard down. Falling in love is out of the question when she might have to drop everything and run for her life.

Special Agent Rick Diaz has been searching for Kaylee ever since she played him like a fool. She’s the only one who can testify against a dangerous motorcycle club, and now that he’s found her, Rick isn’t about to let the clever woman with a knack for tugging on his heartstrings slip through his fingers again.

But when a televised Christmas special highlighting Holiday’s Potato Lights Spectacular leads the bikers straight to Kaylee, Rick must rely on the quirky townspeople to help protect his star witness. Kaylee can hardly believe how hard Rick and her newfound family are willing to fight for her. If she can stay alive, this might just be a happily-ever-after worth sticking around for . . .

Tropes small-town romance, holiday romance, enemies to lovers, and found family.]]> 276 Codi Hall Brandy 0 to-read 4.08
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]]> 247151580 Full of sparkling wit, swoon-worthy romance, and toe-curling heat, Who Needs Mistletoe? is a small-town, girl-next-door romance that will wrap your holiday season in big fun and bigger heart.

Ivy Weaver learned the hard way that some confessions are better left unsaid―like the one meant for her longtime crush, Austin, that was accidentally delivered to his older brother, Grant, instead. His brutal reaction made leaving town easy. Staying away for ten years? Even easier.

Until now.

When Ivy’s parents announce they’re leaving Coeur-de-Lac for good, Ivy can’t avoid the inevitable. She’ll return just long enough to celebrate the Christmas season while packing up her parents’ house, and her past, for good.

Grant Underwood has spent his life doing exactly what was expected of him―taking over the family business, keeping everything running smoothly, never making the same mistake twice. But when Ivy comes back to town, he sees a second chance he didn’t think he’d get.

The problem? Ivy has spent the past decade thinking she was in love with the wrong brother.

Between a chaotic family holiday, Austin’s sudden interest in Ivy, and one extremely mischievous orange cat, Grant is running out of time before the Christmas season ends and he loses his chance to prove the boy Ivy once loved isn’t the man she was meant to end up with.

It’s going to take more than mistletoe to seal this love story with a kiss.

Don’t miss out on the stunning DELUXE ADVENT EDITION while supplies last. Unwrap one of twelve beautifully embellished, sealed sections each day, and let the holiday countdown commence! This fun, festive, limited printing will be available in the U.S. and Canada only.]]> 400 Sarah Estep 1682817040 Brandy 0 to-read 4.86 2026
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]]> 248670856 From USA TODAY bestselling author Peyton Corinne comes a second-chance hockey romance between the team’s antihero and the new assistant coach’s daughter filled with Peyton’s trademark “deliciously angsty” (Publishers Weekly) storytelling.

Toren Kane has always been a magnet for trouble. Branded as dangerous and brutal, his reputation has followed him from the playground to the ice rink. After a scandal cost him his first-round NHL draft pick, Toren’s last shot at redemption lies with Waterfell University’s hockey team—who all despise him for what he did to their captain at the last Frozen Four competition. To make matters worse, Waterfell’s new assistant coach is Christophe LaBlanc, Toren’s former coach and the man who knows all his darkest secrets.

Lillian LaBlanc is out of chances, according to her father. After flunking out of an Ivy League, she’s struggling and her father’s strict rules are the only things keeping her afloat. Suffering beneath the weight of his suffocating control, Lily is desperate to keep her need to paint as hidden as her depression. But her fragile stability is threatened when she discovers that Toren Kane, her childhood best friend and first love, is also attending Waterfell—and is on her father’s team.

As Toren and Lily’s lives collide once more, old wounds and unresolved feelings resurface. Toren must confront his self-destructive tendencies and learn to let others in, while Lily faces the daunting task of breaking free from her father’s grip. Their connection could be the key to healing—or the spark that reignites the chaos they’ve both been trying to escape.]]> 496 Peyton Corinne 1668223368 Brandy 0 to-read 4.42 2026
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]]> 59208213 A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family--and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared.

Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--she doesn't behave like most children do.

Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well.

Then their son Sam is born--and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she'd always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth.

The Push is a tour de force, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.]]> 303 Ashley Audrain 198488168X Brandy 0 to-read 4.01 2021
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]]> 246554038 Nash Eliza West has been horseless her whole life, and she has one shot to turn things around.

Twelve-year-old Nash is a self-proclaimed cowboy. She sleeps with her riding boots on, takes lessons at the local barn, and reads True Grit for life advice. There's just one thing missing— a horse of her own.

Enter the Extreme Mustang Makeover contest, a chance to receive and tame a newly-captured mustang for the summer. Signing up will guarantee Nash one hundred days with a horse; and if she wins, she can use the prize money to bring him home for good. It’s the miracle Nash has been waiting for.

But Nash’s attention is divided when her cousin Benny arrives to stay for the summer. While Nash and Benny were once like sisters, the six years since Nash moved away have driven a wedge between them. Benny is everything Nash isn’t: gentle and well-behaved, and Deaf like Nash’s parents are. Sometimes she wonders if they’d rather have a daughter like that than a headstrong cowboy CODA like Nash.

A brave girl and a horse no one believes can be tamed: it’s a tale as old as time, brought to sizzling new life through Nash’s one-of-a-kind voice. Amy Alznauer weaves cowboy bravado, growing pains, and Deaf culture gleaned from her husband’s family into a debut middle grade novel that will lasso you tight by the heart.]]> 352 Amy Alznauer 0823462366 Brandy 0 to-read 4.62
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]]> 247477658 Two homes, two holidays, and one spontaneous switch changes everything for women in this warm and festive holiday rom-com perfect for readers of The Holiday Honeymoon Switch and A Winter Wish.]]> 320 Lauren Appelbaum 1538784513 Brandy 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 245974897 A love story that feels both new and achingly true from one of Japan’s most acclaimed writers, capturing the intensity, uncertainties, and intimacy of falling for someone for the first time.

Art student Isogai first models for one of his tutors, the much older Yuri, then begins a passionate affair with her. As he gets to know her better, he struggles to understand his own emotions and place in the world, just as he yearns to be closer to her and for her to share more of herself with him.

A touching portrait of late adolescence, with Isogai captured with exasperation, humor, and tenderness, Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives is also, and above all else, an exploration of the exhilarating and destabilizing experience of a first love that defies prediction or explanation.]]> 80 Nao-Cola Yamazaki 1638932700 Brandy 0 to-read 3.17 2004
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]]> 246556846 864 Herman Melville Brandy 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 249014670
Since then, I’ve built my life around certainty and routine.

Boundaries and distance.

The quiet knowledge that guilt and grief will always be my companions.

But then she walks into my lecture hall, twenty years old, my student, looking at me like she already knows me.

Like she’s been waiting her whole life to find me.

Every instinct tells me to keep my distance.

She’s too young. Too outspoken. Too distracting.

Instead, my eyes linger a little longer. My hands itch to touch what they never should. My excuses to stay away continue to lead me back to her.

It’s not just her impossible eyes that undo me. It’s the impossible coincidences I can’t explain away.

It’s the unsettling feeling that I should know her, too.

Wanting her could cost us everything—my career, her future, and the little semblance of control I’ve managed to piece back together.

But walking away from the woman who feels like she’s always been mine . . .?

That’s the kind of loss I wouldn’t survive again.]]> 579 Swati M.H. Brandy 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 246663127 Welcome back to Harker Academy for Deviant Defense, where the line between hunter and hunted has never been thinner.

To rescue someone close to her, Viv Abbot must team up with Reid’s violent, unpredictable older brother, Deacon. Her uneasy truce with him offers Viv something Reid never the chance to embrace her darkness.

Viv’s mission takes her to the center of Astera's seedy underbelly with none other than the White Stag as her guide. But when a bounty on Viv's head puts those she cares about in danger, Viv will be forced to go to lengths she never dreamed in order to protect them.

With enemies closing in from all sides and a ticking clock on her life, Viv must save the Half City from destruction while surviving a betrayal that strikes at the heart of everything she’s fighting for. Because in a world where monsters wear familiar faces and temptation cuts deeper than any blade, making it through her second semester at Harker will take more than skill—it will take everything Viv has left to give. Who can she really trust in a city that thrives on lies?]]> 521 Kate Golden 0593953460 Brandy 0 to-read 4.50 2026
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]]> 218653840 200 Jennifer Lamont Leo Brandy 0 to-read 3.65 2025
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]]> 257161663
Eleanor was seven the first time she watched a woman hang for witchcraft. She was eleven the night her own magic rose to answer her father's hands, and a priest in crimson robes stepped out of the mob to claim her before anyone could light the kindling.

He called it salvation. Then he burned her village to the ground so no one could call it anything else.

Now she is Wren: silent, watched, quietly extraordinary. The secret instrument of a Royal Confessor whose ambitions reach far past the crown he serves. Only one person in the palace sees her clearly: Prince Kaelen, the second-born son with nothing of his own but a gift for noticing what everyone else overlooks.

What begins as stolen friendship deepens into something that could destroy them both. Because Father Thaddeus has spent seven years sharpening Wren toward a single moment, and when it comes, in a cathedral draped in wedding silk, the only weapon that can stop him is the one he forged himself.

A slow-burn romantasy of faith, power, and the long, patient work of becoming unbreakable.]]> 462 S.B. Logue 0986921718 Brandy 0 to-read 3.88
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]]> 259025330 469 Bill Kurklen Brandy 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 209732582 She chased her dream. It tried to kill her.

For Akiko Ono, being accepted into the apprentice program at Kyoto’s most prestigious sushi restaurant was supposed to be life-changing—a chance to honor her father’s legacy.

But from the moment she enters the six-week program, something feels off.

• Her fellow apprentices are disturbingly secretive.
• No one will answer her questions.
• Contact with the outside world is forbidden.
• Personal belongings are confiscated.

Then the accidents begin, each more dangerous than the last.

With each passing day, Akiko begins to wonder if they’re intentional. If so, could she be next?

The opportunity of a lifetime is quickly turning into a waking nightmare. If Akiko doesn’t uncover the truth about the program, she’ll lose more than her dream—she’ll lose her life.

From USA Today bestselling author Ty Hutchinson comes a thriller where the hard part isn’t mastering sushi. It’s getting out alive.

The Little Sushi Chef is book one in the Knives & Flames thriller series. Are you ready to step into the world’s most brutal kitchen?]]> 322 Ty Hutchinson Brandy 0 to-read 3.96
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]]> 248340916 A plucky writer of spells must team up with a frustratingly charming magician to uncover the secrets of a dangerous grimoire—and maybe open her heart in the process—in this light academia young adult romantasy perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson.

No one is allowed past the gargoyles guarding the doors of Thistledown Library. Spellwright Fia Ives should know—for months she’s hoped to be admitted inside to find a magic powerful enough to locate her late mother’s spellbook. One midnight, she finally breaks in, only to discover three mysterious figures already searching the forbidden stacks.

When the library announces the theft of a dangerous grimoire, suspicion falls on Fia. The only way to clear her name is to root out the thieves she spied that night. However, solving a magical theft isn’t easy while running her inherited spellshop alone. So Fia hires the first person who applies to help—the insufferably charming Penbrook Madbury, who is as sleepy as a cat and just as stubborn. Fia isn’t sure she can trust him with her reckless plan (let alone her beloved shop), but there’s something about the secretive magician that tempts her to try.

As a strange magic curls through town, Fia must risk her own heart to unravel a string of curses before they claim both her and Penbrook. And if some of those curses require kisses to break them, well, that’s just the whimsy of magic.]]> 384 Heather Kassner 1665989971 Brandy 0 to-read 3.33 2026
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]]> 245870204 More than a century apart the lives of two artists intersect through a series of mysterious, eerily beautiful photographs of the dead.

London, 1865. Desperate for work, Minnie takes employment as a maid for the wealthy young Culpepper twins. The siblings lead a strange and unconventional Edmund operates a laboratory from the house while Edith experiments with morbid photography. Drawn in by a dangerous attraction to one of the twins, and with a sick sister of her own to provide for, by the time Minnie makes a disturbing discovery it's too late - she must stay and unravel the mysteries of Culpepper House before she becomes a victim of one of Edith's photographs herself.

London, present day. Grieving artist Hadley is consumed by an album of Victorian death photography, including the exquisite image of a deceased young girl with a swan. When this photograph is involved in an art world scandal, Hadley is given the opportunity to create an installation surrounding the image. But the enigmatic Kit Culpepper, of the Culpepper Trust, has other plans. He offers Hadley an eye-watering sum of money to sell him the album and never speak of its contents again. As Hadley digs deeper into the album's truths, she begins to suspect Kit Culpepper is guarding a deathly secret ... and she's not entirely sure how far he'll go to keep it.]]> 456 A. Rushby 0593954688 Brandy 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 248670949 352 Tanya Pell 1668087391 Brandy 0 to-read 4.12
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]]> 248336904 The terrifying conclusion to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling trilogy that includes Chasing the Boogeyman and Becoming the Boogeyman!

Notorious serial killer Joshua Gallagher—dubbed “the Boogeyman” by the media—has vanished from prison. One moment, he was locked inside a maximum-security cell; the next, he was gone, leaving behind on the wall a crude hangman puzzle and two chilling IT’S TIME.

Now, days later, the world is coming apart again. Bodies are turning up near writer and Gallagher confidante Richard Chizmar’s home, echoing the Boogeyman’s signature horrors. The news frenzy reignites while the police chase shadows…even as Gallagher’s twisted true crime fanbase celebrates online, acknowledging that he’s something more than human now.

To everyone else, it’s a desperate hunt for answers. To Chizmar, it’s more like destiny closing in. The evidence, the sightings, the voices in the dark all point to one unthinkable the Boogeyman never left. And very soon, Chizmar must come face-to-face with the thing wearing Gallagher’s skin, and learns all too quickly that some nightmares don’t return—they evolve.]]> 336 Richard Chizmar 1668083833 Brandy 0 to-read 4.27
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]]> 245670704 In this spellbinding Southern Gothic novel, three women weave together old Southern folklore and magic to fight sexism and educational discrimination in post-Civil War Alabama, perfect for fans of Hester Fox and Louisa Morgan.

When Lucille, Catherine, and Victoria are invited to participate in a trial semester for women at Alabama's most prestigious university, they each have their own reasons for accepting. Lucille wants freedom from both her father's control and reminders of her traitorous first love. Catherine wants to escape an arranged marriage meant to halt her attraction to women. And Victoria wants to run from the guilt that haunts her after the death of one of her fellow mill girls.

The trial semester will determine whether or not women across the state will be allowed to attend other universities. But the enrolled women quickly learn that success is not guaranteed, and some of their male cohorts are determined to see them fail. When the men's pranks go too far, Lucille, Catherine, and Victoria form a coven under the guise of a sorority and call upon witchcraft steeped in the traditions of southern folklore to fight back.

As they gather their fellow witches, they discover there is something darker at work at the university, a force that is determined to expel all the women at the university, and they'll need all the allies they can get if they want to succeed.

For fans of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls and Weyward, this historical speculative novel explores the darker side of human nature and the ways in which women navigate—and survive—oppressive, male-dominated societies.]]> 352 Katie Ortiz Brandy 0 to-read 3.86 2026
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]]> 247912693 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 seductive, malevolent shadow. No wonder the townsfolk want her dead. Tormented and pursued, she seeks shelter in a mysterious castle at the heart of a forest.

The castle is an eerie place. Its residents lie trapped in time like flies in amber, all save one. Mir. Mir has a demon of her own, a creature that forces her to seek and crave blood. When the two women begin to use the castle’s trove of magic to unravel their curses, their demons unite. The parasites refuse to let their hosts escape, and 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 forest, both Raye and Mir will have to break both the castle's curse and 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.]]> 320 Amy Avery 0756420814 Brandy 0 to-read 3.45 2026
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]]> 252580394 They don’t know she is being followed. A beast out of mythology will stop at nothing to possess her forever. Or destroy her and everything she loves.]]> 300 Max Davine 1764617509 Brandy 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 257189008 I read the grumpy skeptic's fortune in the bottom of a coffee cup. The grounds say he'll find true love, but I tell him to expect a flirty fall fling…

In my defense, he thinks I'm a fraud and made it clear he doesn't believe in l-o-v-e. I try to forget him, but he keeps appearing wherever I go. Then he offers me five grand per hour to break a family curse he swears is real. Considering I need the money to repair the roof of my haunted manor, I help him.

Our sessions end before the autumn equinox, and instead of walking away he proposes a new deal: be each other's until Halloween. Against my better judgment, I agree, but with strict rules.

Between sneaking around at the apple orchard and finding each other in the hay maze, I catch myself not wanting to keep him my dirty little secret. The town's meddling matchmakers don't know their beloved Jamie is Jameson Cross, a billionaire in hiding. Or that he's in my bed every night. When the paparazzi track him down and the tabloids leak that he's dating a witch, his bags are already packed for New York.

The cup said he'd find his forever, and I don't believe it's me. Magically, the stubborn man who's never been able to commit to anyone longer than thirty days is determined to prove me wrong.

And I think the universe might be on his side. Pfft.



If you loved Blaire from Fall I Want & The Hookup Situation.... this is HER book! YAY!
Flirty Fall Fling is the first book in a brand new series releasing in September of 2026 by the self-proclaimed fall queen and romcom author, Lyra Parish. This book is a laugh-out-loud spicy romance that's set in the small town of Pine Haven, Colorado where our heroes and heroines fall in love with someone they shouldn't.

This book is a spicy secret dating, romcom with all the fall vibes and more pumpkin pie than you can handle. Recommended for 18+ only!]]> 346 Lyra Parish 1961229803 Brandy 0 to-read 4.15 2026
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]]> 246911190 A goblin changeling caught between the human and fey worlds must find a way to save her home in this warm and heartfelt fantasy from the author of Toto and the Hell’s Library series.

Being a changeling is hard enough, but Toast was older than most changeling children when her goblin parents stole her back from her human family and returned her to the harsh, bustling world of the Goblin Market, where anything from your fondest dream to your strongest talent can be bought—or sold.

 Nearly a decade later, Toast has grudgingly cobbled together a life there as the Market’s guide for mortal visitors. But when the next arrival is her long-lost sister and the ancient beast whose magic the Market depends on disappears under strange circumstances, everything starts falling apart.

Now the Market itself is dying. With the Summer Court of noble fey plotting to claim the weakened Market for themselves, Toast, her friends, and an infuriatingly charming fey knight with an agenda of her own must negotiate their differences to make the trade of a lifetime and win back the Market's future. To do so, Toast will have to decide what home--and the flawed community within--is ultimately worth.]]> 368 A.J. Hackwith 0593546598 Brandy 0 to-read 3.43 2026
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]]> 246137975 Daughter of the Moon Goddess.

Yining stopped believing in dreams the day her beloved uncle died. Driven to survive, she's become a good thief and an even better liar. When she acquires an enchanted ring that could yield the key to a better life, it is stolen by her grasping stepaunt, and Yining must venture into the imperial heart of the Iron Mountains to seize it back.
Amid the grandeur of the palace, Yining catches the eye of the ruthless and ambitious Prince Zixin, who tempts her with a world she's never imagined. But nothing is as it seems as she's soon trapped in a tangle of power, treachery, and greed-her only ally a cunning advisor from a rival court who keeps dangerous secrets of his own. Desperate to secure her freedom, Yining embarks on a perilous quest where she must choose who to trust, unravel the mystery of her past, and fight for a future that both frightens and calls to her]]> 368 Sue Lynn Tan 031661145X Brandy 0 to-read 3.67 2025
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]]> 247476690 The breathtaking sequel to the New York Times bestselling Never Ever After, this epic fantasy finds Yining on the run and fighting to save her family and her kingdom.

After the explosive events of Never Ever After, Yining flees the Iron Mountains with her unlikely allies, seeking the truth about her newfound powers amid the secrets surrounding her ancestral home. But with a traitorous queen ruling the Three Kingdoms from a stolen throne, nowhere is truly safe, and Yining must decide whom to trust to keep her family—and her heart—from harm.]]> 368 Sue Lynn Tan 0316576239 Brandy 0 to-read 4.38 2026
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]]> 247983397
A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents’ home. It captures the first image of a strange new animal. Low to the ground, about the size of a badger, flat face, long, trunk-like nose. Suddenly these “mimmoths” are as common as foxes or dogs. And no one knows where they’ve come from.

As Alderman negotiates the territory of grief – a place with its own logic and rhythms – the mimmoths spread. From the UK east and west, to the United States, to Russia, to India. They seem harmless, but oddly intelligent. They cannot be captured, they will not take food from humans, they have their own purposes.

Alderman cannot shake the feeling that she has a particular connection to the creatures. Or is she just succumbing to ‘mimmoth psychosis’? As the impact of the mimmoths increases, she is pulled into the cross currents of conspiracy theories and global power struggles. Have her deeply personal forms of mourning lent recent events a surreal air, or is our reality changing drastically and irrevocably?

From the award-winning author of the international bestseller, The Power, The Strangers is a thrillingly original and devastatingly moving novel that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human. It’s like nothing you’ll have read before.]]> 288 Naomi Alderman Brandy 0 to-read 3.73 2026
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]]> 252545693

Agreeing to help Brandon Culver recover from his injury seemed harmless enough.

Sure, he’s a firefighter and Mountain Laurel Cove’s most eligible bachelor. But I’m too busy focusing on my nursing career to be distracted by a handsome face.

Unfortunately, Brandon is a lot more than a great face.

He’s steady. Dependable. He’s the kind of man who remembers the little things and shows up when it matters. His easy confidence is comforting. His quiet strength makes me feel safe. And the way he looks at me makes me question everything I thought I wanted.

But I’m in his home to care for him, not fall for him.

One tiny slip could ruin all the plans I’ve meticulously made for my life. Romance is a fool’s game and if I’m anything, I’m level-headed. Until his heated gaze and lingering touch threaten to turn the electricity between us into a five-alarm fire.

If I’m not careful, I might be the one getting burned.]]> S.L. Scott 1962626636 Brandy 0 to-read 4.21
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]]> 255691163
The island feels alive, and it feels like it’s watching.

As hallucinations blur with reality and time slips out of sync, the group’s trust fractures. The island feeds on their emotions, twisting their fears into something physical… something dangerous.

When their final escape attempt ends in disaster, they're forced to confront the truth: The island isn’t just dangerous; it’s sentient, and it wants them.

Rescue should mean safety, but some horrors stay with you.

Some follow you home.]]> 288 Chelsea Knight Brandy 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 248337182 For fans of Tusk Love and The Spellshop comes a romantic portal fantasy with a cosmic twist about a storybook chambermaid and an intergalactic bounty hunter whose worlds—and hearts—collide through a magical book, threatening to rewrite fate.

Della Farley has always known her place in the scrubbing floors, keeping her head down, and dreaming of something more. But when she stumbles upon a strange book that seems to be writing itself—a story about a man named Ansel Tulzok, a wanted fugitive traveling the stars—her quiet life turns extraordinary.

Light-years away, Ansel finds a mirror copy of the same book. Page by page, the story unfolds with details of a woman he’s never met—one whose words feel achingly familiar. As the two begin writing to each other through the mysterious pages, they open doors not just to each other’s worlds, but to their most vulnerable hopes and fears.

When Della takes an impossible leap of faith and writes herself into Ansel’s story, she soon finds herself aboard his ship, surrounded by stars, danger, and a crew of outlaws who might just become her family. Together, Della and Ansel strike a she’ll help him clear his name in exchange for passage to the planet that holds the cure for her mother’s deadly illness.

But every story has its price. And as their worlds entwine and their hearts collide, Della and Ansel must decide how far they’re willing to go to change the ending fate has written for them.]]> 384 Sloane Brooks 1668081318 Brandy 0 to-read 4.09 2026
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]]> 246933551 New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape.

One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...
]]> 320 Alice Hoffman Brandy 0 to-read 3.62 1995
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]]> 258513265 “An incredibly fresh and imaginative page-turner… Terence Sullivan is a brilliant storyteller.” — Ellen Baker, author of The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

Wonderland was only the beginning.

London, 1913.

Eighteen-year-old Alice Liddell is confined to Pastoria House, undergoing treatments meant to cure her of Wonderland — visions her doctors insist are delusions. But Pastoria House is no ordinary institution. It is a hidden haven for young witches, and none of them is more closely guarded than Alice. The enigmatic headmistress, Miss Molloy, has bound Alice’s powers to keep her from the truth: her dreams are not madness. They are prophecy.

When Alice meets Wendolyn Darling — another dreamer, bound to her by a connection neither girl can explain — the walls of her small, managed life begin to shift. Wendy speaks of a boy named Peter and an island that cannot be found, with a certainty Alice envies. Then Wendy vanishes. Left in the care of a madwoman whose face is never twice the same and cornered by a malevolent witch, Alice flees the only way left to her: through a mirror, into the world her dreams had always warned her about.

Oz.

Hunted for powers she doesn’t yet understand, Alice is pursued across the realm by Princess Languidere, who collects the heads of beautiful women and inherits their dreams; the exiled witch Mombi; the clawed gnome legions that rise from the wells at night; and the fallen demigod Lord Roquat, waiting beneath his crystal palace. Her only hope lies with an unlikely fellowship — a shape-shifting prince named Blinkem, whose loyalty deepens into something neither of them planned; an ingenious inventor and his mechanical soldier; a spunky Munchkin girl; and a wild dragon Alice names Dinah.

Together they journey to find Tattypoo, the Great Witch of the North — the one being in Oz who holds the key to Alice’s past. But some secrets were hidden for a reason. And what Alice learns will unmake everything she believes about who she is, where she comes from, and what she was born to do.

A gothic portal fantasy of time-bent identity, maternal magic, and a stolen legacy — where the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, and Neverland were always one story, and it was never finished.

Book One of the Oz Multiverse.

Content notes: on-page violence and gore, beheading and body horror, sexual menace and coercion including an on-page assault, confinement and psychiatric control. Closed-door, slow-burn romance. Adult dark fantasy.]]> 440 Terence Sullivan Brandy 0 to-read 5.00 2026
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]]> 245319689 One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time.

In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions around the village.

Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi household are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music. Death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house. Soon, amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi is on the scene to investigate what will become a legendary murder case, but can this scruffy sleuth solve a seemingly impossible crime?]]> 192 Seishi Yokomizo 1805336541 Brandy 0 to-read 4.00 1946
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]]> 243878932 In a taut locked-room mystery from New York Times bestselling author Kieran Scott, a group of longtime friends confronts their darkest secrets—and deadliest impulses—on the brink of a hurricane.

For years, three couples have gathered at The Villa—billionaire Lincoln Foster’s Hamptons estate—for lavish weekends among friends. But this year, mysterious blue cards appear in each bedroom, exposing their host’s betrayals and the guests’ own dark deeds.

Everyone has something to hide. Marley and Marshall Foster. Suzy and Sean McTeague. Juliet and Josh Jacoby. Lincoln and his new wife, Hazel. Even uninvited guests hoping to be accepted among the elite.

With a hurricane bearing down, no one is getting out. When the revelations turn deadly, the trapped friends must confront what their lies have cost them—possibly their lives.]]> 282 Kieran Scott 1662538537 Brandy 0 to-read 3.80 2026
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]]> 246021852 From one of Japan’s most acclaimed writers comes a lyrical and poignant meditation on marriage, and the ways in which the most romantic gestures are often the quietest ones.

Before the hospital, we had often raised our hands towards one another as we’d gone through life together.

A man sits in a cafe, sipping a green juice and watching the world go by. A white butterfly flutters through the air; a calico cat jumps onto a wall; cherry blossom petals fall, softly, to the ground. Life, momentarily, stands still, as our unnamed narrator prepares to visit his terminally ill wife in hospital, and reminisces on the life they have shared together.

A prize-winning bestseller in Japan, Beautiful Distance is a profoundly affecting and intimate story that looks with honesty and tenderness at the journey towards the end of a life. It explores what family means, how we think about death, and the lasting power of small acts of love.]]> 144 Nao-Cola Yamazaki 1638932689 Brandy 0 to-read 3.98 2016
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]]> 246552985
Based on the internationally bestselling comic series, with millions of copies in print,​ the first full-length novel from the terrifying world of Something Is Killing the Children—a stunning collaboration between Eisner-winning co-creator James Tynion IV and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White

As a Black Mask, Erica Slaughter has a very straightforward job: find the monster, kill the monster, then do it all again. But when she arrives in Badwater, Idaho, nothing is simple. She can’t determine whether the horrific killer of a twelve-year-old was a bear, a person, or something much worse. Complicating matters is the charismatic doomsday preacher who is quickly leading the small town to the verge of hysteria. If Erica wants to save the surviving children, she has to figure out which kid’s fears might have summoned a monster—and fast. Erica must get to the truth before the Order and the town come to the same conclusion: to stop the monster, you have to kill the girl.

Hope Is a Knife is a chilling, original tale in SIKTC lore, where monsters are real and only the hunters of the Order of St. George are equipped to challenge them. Whether or not you’ve already devoured the Eisner Award–winning comics, this standalone vision of supernatural horror is a thrill ride of the highest order.]]> 304 James Tynion IV 0593799380 Brandy 0 to-read 3.93 2026
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]]> 247464010 —NICHOLAS EAMES, Author of KINGS OF THE WYLD

“The very definition of rip-roaring."
—RICHARD SWAN, Author of THE JUSTICE OF KINGS

"The most fun I've had reading this year."
—SMITTY, @smitty1423

"Fun and thrilling with a cast of memorable characters. It's hard to find a stronger debut novel."
—AARON N. HALL, Author of THE LEGEND OF UH

"Maurice has made fantasy fun again, and I cannot get enough of it. Cello's Gate is the best debut I have ever read and it's not even close. He took everything I love about fantasy and put it in one book."
—NOAH BRISK, Author of THE TETHERED GOD

"A spellbinding blend of found family, epic heisting, and murder-full suspense!"
—ANDY PELOQUIN, Author of DARKBLADE

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With a wit to rival Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl, action on par with Pierce Brown’s Red Rising, and the scope of Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, Cello’s Gate is a rollicking, edge-of-your-seat sci-fi fantasy epic about a ragtag crew of rogues on the hunt for mythic treasure. They did not, however, sign up to save the world.

Captain Grey and his crew of sky pirates have a reputation for doing the impossible. From breaking into high-security military research facilities to conning the iCity elite—there isn’t a lock they can’t pick, a safe they can’t break, or a hidden treasure they can’t find. Until now.

Returning from a harrowing heist involving a neon battery and a trash chute, Grey and his crew are approached by Dalia, the immortal daughter of the infamous ArchGovernor—and she has an offer.

The job? Locate and steal the Stones of Indigo—seven fabled rocks invested with godlike power. The search for the first stone is a bona fide treasure hunt, guided by an ancient map to a deadly, uncharted island that’s protected by a mysterious guardian. The score? One million credits per crew member, per stone. The catch? Well, that’s where things get a little complicated.

The stones don’t exist. They’re a myth. A bedtime story told to little pirates to make them believe that power and wealth are attainable if you just work hard enough.

And to make matters infinitely worse, Grey’s never trusted immortals, and Dalia’s definitely hiding something. Something bad. And if they don’t figure out what it is, it might cost them their lives.

ONE CREW OF SKY PIRATES
SEVEN MYTHOLOGICAL STONES
A RACE TO FIND THEM ALL]]> 592 Maurice Africh 1668242834 Brandy 0 to-read 4.28 2025
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]]> 247128816
IT’S TIME TO STEAL IT ALL BACK.

Rinley Renard isn’t just a master thief—she’s also the sole survivor of a political coup that nearly destroyed Feronia. When the opportunity to steal a priceless sword brings Rinley back to the scene of the massacre, it’s a chance to exact her revenge—even if it means masquerading as a guard in the enemy stronghold, where she’s still a hunted fugitive.

Prince Zoren Dreiko may be the empire’s most powerful Dread Knight, but he has his own reasons for quelling the latest Feronian rebellion. Capturing the masked outlaw stirring unrest might finally free Zoren of his father’s traitorous legacy, and keep the vicious empress he serves from taking his head.

Trapped in a brutal cat-and-mouse game, Rinley and Zoren’s forbidden attraction blurs the line between duty and desire. When victory for one will doom the other, both are faced with an impossible choice between love and loyalty.

Experience Sherwood Forest like never before in this sizzling Robin Hood– inspired romantasy from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Estep.]]> 448 Jennifer Estep 1682817407 Brandy 0 to-read 4.60 2026
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]]> 243966084 A RICH, DARKLY WHIMSICAL FANTASY WITH A TOUCH OF HORROR AND A SLOW-BURN ROMANCE.

Linh's mother was just buried this morning. At the funeral, Linh is visited by a strange boy who hints at secrets to her mother's past. Desperate to learn more, Linh is thrust into another world – Ebrirene, a realm governed by ancient magics – where the mysterious boy, Elior, happens to be Crown Prince.

Here, Linh learns that the kingdom is under attack by vicious demons who threaten to break free from a portal her mother sealed years ago, and the Crown believes Linh possesses the power to seal it once more. But not everyone in Ebrirene wishes Linh well. Someone enters Linh in a deadly Tournament against her will, and a mysterious Captain, leader of the mage hunters, is determined to seek her out. Now Linh must fight for her own survival or surrender to the monsters that might be closer to her than she thinks.]]> 448 Allie Nguyen 1398558265 Brandy 0 to-read 3.92 2026
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]]> 257413110 Rodolfo Malavoglia died many years ago.
What his brother brought back to life was something else.
For years, he has been kept sedated in his family’s crypt, trapped inside a monstrous existence with little hope of ever becoming the man he once was. Then the desperate grief of a woman he has never met reaches him—and wakes him.
Ginger Kahele has no idea what has begun watching her from the shadows. She only knows that something is following her into her dreams. Something with claws, intense eyes, and an insatiable hunger for her.
She should be terrified.
Instead, she finds herself craving him too.
As the line between dreams and reality begins to disappear, Rodolfo must fight to remain himself while Ginger is pulled deeper into his hunger, his past, and the dangerous secrets that have kept him hidden for years.
Some desires are dangerous enough to wake the dead.
What will happen when she finally gets what she’s been longing for?]]> Nagisa Rei Gwynne 1962020193 Brandy 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 254459763 446 E.J. Wenstrom Brandy 0 to-read 3.72
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]]> 247518077 He betrayed their bond. Now saving him may destroy what’s left of her heart.

After being cast back to Exile Island, Haide wants nothing to do with Rathe—or the King who chose another woman over her.

Legend Deveraux was once bound to her by magic powerful enough to shake kingdoms. Now he looks at her with hatred in his eyes, convinced she betrayed him, manipulated him, and nearly destroyed him.

Worse? His true mate has been hidden all along.

While Rathe’s court celebrates the King’s new bond, Legend is slowly dying. His magic is failing, his mind slipping further from the truth, and the woman at his side is tightening her grip on the throne.

His brothers are desperate enough to turn to the one person they once condemned.

Haide.

She should let him suffer. But despite the betrayal, the bond between them still calls.

As dark secrets unravel and a new danger rises from Exile Island, Haide and Legend are forced back into each other’s orbit, drawn together by a connection neither of them fully understands.

To save his life, they’ll have to break the false bond destroying him. But restoring the true one may cost them everything.

Because some betrayals cut deeper than magic. And some loves refuse to die.]]> 352 Meagan Brandy 168281713X Brandy 0 to-read 0.0 2026
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]]> 249409976 SOON TO BE A STREAMING ORIGINAL MOVIE!

Get ready for a laugh-out-loud holiday romance that's brimming with witty banter and heartwarming cheer by the bestselling author of Meet Me in the Margins, Melissa Ferguson.

Chronic people-pleaser Chloe Hollis is determined to finally learn how to get over her fear of rejection. Her unconventional solution? She must collect ten "nos" before Christmas Day by asking strangers for the most ridiculous favors she can dream up. But her plan goes hilariously off-track when she meets James Dutton.

James, a rule-following workaholic, has decided to do the exact opposite of he's saying "yes" to every opportunity that comes his way in hopes of finally embracing life--and maybe a little Christmas spirit.

As they continue to get tangled up in each other's wild experiment, Chloe and James find themselves in a whirlwind of festive, awkward, and delightful situations. But no one is more surprised than they are to realize they're falling in love.

With sparkling humor and swoon-worthy heart, this delightful Christmas rom-com is a feel-good story about facing fear head-on, choosing growth over comfort, and finding the courage to say "yes" to the things--and the people--that truly matter.]]> 352 Melissa Ferguson 1400356717 Brandy 0 to-read 3.70
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]]> 248336880 Bunny, Samatha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “Bunny.” An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with deadly and wondrous consequences.

When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers—and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny.

Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad.]]> 512 Mona Awad 1668059878 Brandy 0 to-read 3.50 2025
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]]> 248962898 The deadliest poisons are the sweetest...

Auriel has spent her life indentured to a cruel hag, working as a poison maiden to do her bidding. Her sole relief is a friendship with a dashing supplier, storyteller Faolan. But then Faolan betrays her, delivering her to haughty Prince Ambrose before she can earn her freedom.

Ambrose has a if Auriel pretends to be the prophesied all-powerful Khelani and helps him liberate their people from the Empire’s control, he'll finally let her go. But Auriel is a poisoner and a witch, not a legendary warrior – and the prophecy is a fairy tale… isn’t it?

If the war is to be won, bargains must be struck, motives hidden, friends broken and remade as lovers – meanwhile, unburied truths will shake the world to its core. Soon, Auriel is fighting not for her freedom, or her heart, but for her life.]]> 384 Annabelle Cormack 0374395543 Brandy 0 to-read 4.08
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]]> 245325521 The New York Times bestselling author of Seven Deadly Thorns, Amber Hamilton returns with a dark academia romantasy inspired by Cinderella.

Vesper Fontaine and Lonan Duval have always been rivals. Competition for top student at Gossemort Academy, school of magic, is cutthroat. They both keep dangerous secrets, and tonight those secrets could get them killed.

It's hours until The Ridding--a high-stakes, one-night-only test, in which students will be locked in the school and challenged to survive until dawn. Three trials will challenge them, and only the best (and most loyal) will survive.

Then an unexpected element enters The Ridding--a mysterious prince claiming to be Vesper's bloodmate. But what happens when your fated mate is a fate worse than death? As the clock ticks closer to dawn, the trials grow darker, and hope wanes. To survive the night, Vesper and Lonan may have to put their trust in their worst enemy.]]> 384 Amber Hamilton 1547616636 Brandy 0 to-read 4.07
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That's why they offer paranormal investigative services to anyone who needs them. But when the case of a missing young woman brings them to an old (and potentially haunted) Victorian mansion, soon it's the four teens who are in the greatest danger. The secrets they uncover about the paranormal forces inhabiting the house may shed light on the darkness that exists at the edge of their powers and finally help them gain control -- if they can make it out alive.]]> 336 Kalynn Bayron 1547615893 Brandy 0 to-read 3.98 2026
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]]> 251135792 From Sunday Times bestselling author Andrea Stewart comes a twisty thriller about an estranged daughter of Youtuber parents, returning to her influencer family and their insidious secrets after the disappearance of her sister, perfect for fans of Listen for the Lie and The Last to Vanish.If you can't trust your family...who can you trust? Ellie Campbell’s childhood was monetized by her influencer parents. All her private firsts – first period, first bra, first boyfriend – were plastered online for the world to pick over. Until she grew up, changed her name, and separated herself from her family.But she hasn’t stopped watching their videos. When she spots some disturbing details in her parents’ latest upload and gets the news that a close family friend has gone missing – she rushes home to make sure that her younger sister Olivia is safe. She arrives to a house full of secrets, including one that her parents have kept from the Olivia has run away. But Ellie knows Olivia would have come to her if she’d run. So where is she? Could this be connected to the disappearance of their family friend? When a body is discovered, Ellie is forced to confront the realities of her childhood – and the darkness that lies beneath the perfect façade.]]> 336 Andrea Stewart 1464271917 Brandy 0 to-read 3.73
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]]> 61199290 From master of suspense Lisa Unger comes a riveting thriller about a chance encounter that unravels a stunning web of lies.

Selena Murphy is commuting home on the train when she strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat. The woman introduces herself as Martha and soon confesses that she’s been stuck in an affair with her boss. Selena, in turn, confesses that she suspects her husband is sleeping with the nanny. When the train arrives at Selena’s station, the two women part ways, presumably never to meet again.

Then the nanny disappears.

As Selena is pulled into the mystery of what happened, and as the fractures in her marriage grow deeper, she begins to wonder, who was Martha really ? But she is hardly prepared for what she’ll discover…

Don't miss The New Couple in 5B , Lisa Unger's newest psychological thriller about a couple that inherits an apartment with a truly chilling past.]]> 448 Lisa Unger 0778333892 Brandy 0 to-read 3.79 2019
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