THEY TOOK HER SISTER. THEY KILLED HER FIANCÉ.
NOW SHE'S RAISING THE DEAD.
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When sea dragon-riding marauders torch her village and steal her sister, Astraya loses everything—except the soul of her fiancé, still bound to her in death. As she learns to wield forbidden soul magic, Astraya builds an undead army to fight back, fueled by vengeance and guided by the voice of the man she once loved.
But the raiders' power runs deeper than she knows. Their leader, Svengaard, has twisted soul bonding into a weapon—using enslaved dragons to burn entire cities from the sea. And he wants Astraya's magic for himself.
Phoebus, a roguish merchant who hides his own inability to soul bond, is hunted by dragons and haunted by secrets. When fate throws him into Astraya's path, they'll have to join forces to stop Svengaard before he tightens his grip on the world.
But with the dead whispering in her ear and a questionably trustworthy pirate she might be starting to care for as more than an ally, Astraya must decide how far she's willing to go—and what she's willing to become.
A Swell of Serpents is a sweeping fantasy debut about grief, love, and the ghosts we carry.
They were stolen. They were broken. Now, they are Shadowbound.
Once a child of the Light, Gairynzvl now serves as a legionnaire of the Shadowbound, a forsaken warrior forged by torment and molded to destroy the very realm that abandoned him. Yet a flicker of Light endures, buried deep within the darkness consuming him. His only chance at freedom is betrayal. His only hope is Ayla, a gifted empath whose touch reveals the soul beneath his shadowed form.
In Jyndari, a realm where peace is sacred and magic breathes through every leaf and stone, Ayla has always trusted the Light. But when Gairynzvl begins invading her dreams, bleeding sorrow into her sleep, her gifts tether her to a fate that defies everything she’s been taught.
As ancient powers stir and the realm’s childfey vanish, Ayla and Gairynzvl must walk the fragile line between redemption and ruin. Hunted by a monstrous commander and a Shadowbound she-demon losing her grip on her identity, Gairynzvl’s return to the realm of Light may be the beginning of salvation, or the final unraveling of hope.
The Shadowbound is a lyrical, emotionally charged mythic fantasy of darkness, defiance, and forbidden Light. Perfect for fans of The Foxglove King, One Dark Window, and An Enchantment of Ravens. This first volume in The Riftborn Trilogy is a haunting tale of broken souls bound by fate, fighting to reclaim hope in a world unraveling at the seams.
Miss J Diaries is a collection of flash fiction and fictional memoirs. It features several crime stories, including WHEN THE LIE IS GOOD, where a young man takes out his father’s abusive acts on his mistresses by getting rid of them. GOOD GIRL GONE BAD features Beth, a hitwoman who exploits her talent for doing impressions to lure her targets to their deaths. The book also features mystery stories such as THE CELLAR and RUINS, in which both protagonists share an aura that sets unintended consequences in motion. ACES features people who are reborn with an obsession with, and immunity to, whatever killed them in their past lives.
*For mature YA readers.
*Trigger warning. Hidden Words deals with mature themes including trauma, family abuse, and sensitive interpersonal relationships. Recommended for mature young adult and adult audiences.
In 1994, on the rocky shores of beautiful, mysterious Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Ben Barrows begins his senior year at Masters’ Preparatory like a dead man walking. Half of his friendships are over; they just haven’t been buried yet. When Ben is drawn to Dana Kirkland, a new student and rival dancer to his powerful ex-girlfriend, life forever changes for them both. Troubled souls, each bearing the weight of their own vulnerabilities, Dana and Ben must try to hold on to love against a tidal wave of pain and treachery.
In the present, Joey Barrows, sensitive and secretive in regard to danger in his pain, drowns in grief, unaware of the dark undercurrent threatening what remains of his life. As Joey walks across the stage at graduation, he is further overwhelmed by the onset of a telepathic gift that projects the unspoken words of others into his mind. When Joey learns his distant, unstable father Ben shares this gift/curse, the door to a tragic past re-open, spilling secrets and a burning trail of obsession that not even the ghosts among them can stop.
Seventeen-year-old Farris Aldan didn’t join the Sentinels to save the world.
He joined to escape insanity.
In Obscura City, contracting the whisperis means shedding your skin and becoming a monster. As a newly trained Sentinel, Farris hunts the infected, hoping vengeance will silence the guilt over his best friend Calla’s death.
Then he’s assigned his first solo mission. Track down Rena, a whisperis-infected punk rocker evading quarantine. From her black hair and beet-red eyes, she’s the spitting image of Calla. Farris can’t bring himself to arrest her. Not with that face, not with that voice.
Choosing Rena brands him a traitor. Now hunted by the Sentinels he idolized, including his adoptive father, Farris learns Rena’s connection to the whisperis runs deeper than anyone imagined. Visions of a cure guide her toward the Hollow, a hidden valley of darkness beyond the city. Only an ancient vantashade named Krieger knows the truth, but it offers a global cure for a terrible price: her life. To save Rena, Farris must risk everything--his future, his family, even the cure itself. And it still might not be enough.