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A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula’s brides, A DOWRY OF BLOOD is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king... -
![A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth]()
A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth
Half-fae Arlo becomes entangled in the courtly intrigue at the Seelie Summer palace as danger for ironborns mounts in this “beautifully written and deliciously complex” (Nicki Pau Preto, author of the Crown of Feathers trilogy) sequel to A Dark and Hollow Star that’s The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones... -
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![The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland]()
The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
From the author of New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night.AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThree girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . -
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Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving... -
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![The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould]()
The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsCourtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corners, the parts of you that can’t remain hidden, and about finding home in places―and people―you didn’t expect.The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer. Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon... -
![ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (Light Novel) Vol. 1 (ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (Light Novel) #1) by Kiki.]()
ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (Light Novel) Vol. 1 (ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (Light Novel) #1) by Kiki.
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBloodied, but Unbroken...Flum Apricot was never meant to be a hero. Despite zero stats across the board and a power she can't even use, she somehow finds herself included in a party of heroes. But Flum's life hits rock bottom when the party's renowned sage, Jean Inteige, decides that the useless girl is dead weight, and arranges to have her sold into slavery... -
![Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett]()
Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsAs a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy Having narrowly saved the metropolis of Tevanne from destruction, Sancia Grado and her allies have turned to their next task: sowing the seeds of a full-on magical-industrial revolution... -
![Honeybloods by I.S. Belle]()
Honeybloods by I.S. Belle
"Remember when you pinkie promised you'd help me bury a body? Is that offer still good?"TWILIGHT meets JENNIFER'S BODY in this bite-sized sapphic vampire romance full of sweetness, snark, gore, and only one motel bed.Queen bee Honey Williams and burnout Sadie Greer haven't spoken since middle school, when a huge fight ended their lifelong friendship and sent the girls down wildly different paths... -
![Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell]()
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor... -
![City of Spells by Alexandra Christo]()
City of Spells by Alexandra Christo
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsCity of Spells finds the world on the brink of war and four unlikely allies facing sacrifices they had never imagined.After the loss of Wesley and the horrifying reveal that Zekia is helping the Kingpin of her own free will, Tavia, Saxony, and Karam flee to Saxony's home to rebuild their rebellion... -
![Here Lies Olive by Kate Anderson]()
Here Lies Olive by Kate Anderson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGrowing up in the dark tourism capital of the United States, sixteen-year-old Olive should be comfortable with death. But ever since an allergic reaction almost sent her to the wrong side of the grass, she’s been terrified that there is no afterlife... -
![Damned If You Do by Alex Brown]()
Damned If You Do by Alex Brown
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsQueer Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Filipino folklore in this horror comedy about a high school stage manager who accidentally sells her soul to a demon.Seven years ago, Cordelia Scott’s abusive father left without a word, and life has been normal ever since... -
![Bright World by Stan Stanley]()
Bright World by Stan Stanley
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Hazards of Love follows the story of a queer teen from Queens who makes some mistakes, gets dragged into a fantastical place, and tries to hustle their way back home.Amparo's deal with the talking cat was simple: a drop of blood and Amparo's name to become a better person... -
![Graveyard Sparrow by Kayla Bashe]()
Graveyard Sparrow by Kayla Bashe
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKatriona Sparrow, dubbed the Mad Heiress by most of London's upper class, is the deceptively fragile ward of a foreign nobleman. She can't stand making small talk with strangers, but she's unparalleled when it comes to deciphering the dead... -
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![All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley]()
All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s contemporary YA gothic romance about a dark family lineage, the ghosts of grief, and the lines we’ll cross for love.The Sleeping House was very much awake . . -
![Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng]()
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsYellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this debut speculative thriller that follows a disgraced teen idol who comes face-to-face with the demons of her past in a glittering, cutthroat K-pop competition.After a shocking scandal that abruptly ended her teen popstar career, eighteen-year-old Sunny Lee spends her days longing for her former life and cyberstalking her ex-BFF and groupmate, Candie... -
![To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames]()
To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDebut voice Alison Ames delivers with a chilling, feminist thriller, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls and Sawkill Girls .Moon Basin has been haunted for as long as anyone can remember. It started when an explosion in the mine killed sixteen people. The disaster made it impossible to live in town, with underground fires spewing ash into the sky. But life in New Basin is just as fraught... -
![St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk]()
St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAll magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s bees to confide in will pay whatever’s necessary to keep the girl she loves safe.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied... -
![This Eternity of Masks and Shadows by Karsten Knight]()
This Eternity of Masks and Shadows by Karsten Knight
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a city of gods and mortals, secrets never die.The gods walk among us. Some lurk in the shadows, masquerading as mortals; others embrace their celebrity status, launching careers from Hollywood to Capitol Hill.One of them just murdered Cairn Delacroix's mother... -
![A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth]()
A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth
Choose your player.The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne.The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret... -
![Babylove by I.S. Belle]()
Babylove by I.S. Belle
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Even with the blood, rituals, and resurrections, the most surprising thing about the summer of 2003 was Ivy Wexler."When offered a chance to avoid summer school, goth girl Frankie Tanner reluctantly agrees to help Ivy Wexler, a cheerleader who has just resurrected her cat in preparation for bigger and better (dead) things.Perfect for people who wanted The Craft to be sapphic... -
![The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters]()
The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsNatasha’s sister is missing.Her car was found abandoned on the edge of a local nature preserve known as the Bend, but as the case goes cold, Natasha’s loss turns to burning anger.She’ll do anything to find answers.Della’s family has channeled magic from the Bend for generations, providing spells for the desperate... -
![Lucy Undying by Kiersten White]()
Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love. Her name was written in the pages of someone else's story: Lucy Westenra was one of Dracula's first victims. But her death was only the beginning... -
![The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs]()
The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsOctavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clipping.Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep... -
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![This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham]()
This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling My Dearest Darkest comes another incredible sapphic horror. When four best friends with a hunger for human flesh attend a music festival in the desert they discover a murderous plot to expose and vilify the girls and everyone like them. This summer is going to get gory... -
![Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino]()
Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThey’ll lure you in with fruit and gems and liquor and dancing, merriment to remember for the rest of your life. But that’s an illusion. The market is death itself.Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women—the family of witches that tends to its victims. For generations, they have defended the old cobblestone streets with their magic... -
![The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven]()
The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA sapphic enemies-to-lovers retelling of Jekyll & Hyde , this dark academia thriller follows two roommates who must solve an infamous cold case of serial murders on their campus after an arcane ritual gone wrong prompts another death... -
![Chlorine by Jade Song]()
Chlorine by Jade Song
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian , Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies… a powerful, relevant novel of immigration, sapphic longing, and fierce, defiant... -
![The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson]()
The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIf you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?The First Bright Thing by J. R. Dawson is a spellbinding debut for fans of The Night Circus and The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue.Welcome to the Circus of the Fantasticals.Ringmaster – Rin, to those who know her best – can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze... -
![Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand]()
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBeware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep.Who are the Sawkill Girls?Marion: the new girl. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she’s sure she’ll never find.Zoey: the pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls... -
![The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl]()
The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl
Four friends, one murder, and a dark fate that may leave them all doomed ...After the mysterious death of their best friend, Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Académie. The police ruled Ariane's death as a suicide, but the trio is determined to find out what really happened... -
![Eight Will Fall by Sarah Harian]()
Eight Will Fall by Sarah Harian
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn a land where magic is outlawed, eight criminals led by seventeen-year-old Larkin are sent on a mission to kill an ancient evil that plagues their kingdom. Descending into an underground realm full of unspeakable horrors, Larkin and her party must use their forbidden magic to survive what lies in wait, teeth sharp and jaws deadly... -
![House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson]()
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she know... -
![Nightmare in Savannah by Lela Gwenn, Lela Gwenn]()
Nightmare in Savannah by Lela Gwenn, Lela Gwenn
Rated: 2.94 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHigh school student Alexa Bowman moved to Savannah, Georgia to get away from her old life. Too bad her past is a Google search away and her family’s criminal past quickly made her an outcast. From tormenting cheerleaders to dreamy football players, Alexa can’t keep up, especially when Fae, Skye, and Chloe take her into their group of outsiders... -
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![Where Shadows Meet by Patrice Caldwell]()
Where Shadows Meet by Patrice Caldwell
The dark and thrilling Black sapphic vampire romantasy that questions what it truly means to sacrifice for love."This is a lush, intoxicating read, packing tender romance alongside vicious twists. My new obsession!" - Mark Oshiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anger is a Gift and Into the LightYou have no idea what I’ve done for love. Just as you have no idea what you may one day do... -
![A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee]()
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
For fans of Wilder Girls and Ninth House, comes a dark, twisty, atmospheric thriller about a boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past.Witchcraft is woven into the Dalloway School's history. The school doesn't talk about it, but the students do... -
![Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo]()
Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo
Rated: 3.36 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsInto the Crooked Place begins a gritty two-book YA fantasy series from Alexandra Christo, the author of To Kill a Kingdom.The streets of Creije are for the deadly and the dreamers, and four crooks in particular know just how much magic they need up their sleeve to survive.Tavia, a busker ready to pack up her dark-magic wares and turn her back on Creije for good... -
![The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave]()
The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThey say the thirst of blood is like a madness - they must sate it. Even with their own kin.On the eve of her divining, the day she'll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community... -
![Wilder Girls by Rory Power]()
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars · 75 ratingsA feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh, new debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything you've read before.It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine...
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