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It's been months since the day we stood above that empty grave that stunk of burnt flesh and secrets. All of us were dressed to the nines, one of us wearing a wedding dress, a day that was supposed to mark the beginning of a new adventure. It marked the bitter end of our vengeance. We have done things that have marked our souls for eternity. But before we get there, we have to go back. Back to where it all started. The place I could find in my sleep.

The Bratva King forces me into marriage to make me his little pawn. He's fifteen years older than me, and he wants revenge on my family. So he orchestrates a fire, “rescues” me, and then forces me to sign the papers. Now I'm his wife. How much longer until he takes my virginity? I'm the good girl—sheltered and careful all my life. When I meet him in the dark corners of a club, I want to forget the rules for once. I didn't know he's my family's biggest enemy, that he's here to kidnap me. And that once he has me, he'll use me as he likes. He's a ruthless Pakhan, and Pakhans take ...

Left penniless and alone after her father's sudden death, Isabella Barrett accepts a position at Harrowgate Manor, an isolated estate shrouded in secrets and sorrow. Whispers stalk the halls. Icy fingers graze her skin. And shadowed figures watch her from the dark. The spirits want something from her—and their intentions are growing darker. Her new employer, the enigmatic Rhys Caradoc, is a man forged of silence and secrets. He claims to need her help cataloguing his rare book collection, but Isabella soon realizes he knows far more about her gift—and her past—than he should.

Jessamine Glenmyr is on the run. She thought she'd fled far enough, living a life of obscurity in the Borderlands among rogues and outcasts. She was wrong. When her enemy finds her, she flees deeper into dark fae territory, risking death in the frozen woodlands. Lord Redvyr is annoyed when his wolf drags an unconscious and wounded light fae into his hunting camp. Their kind can never be trusted, and yet, as lord of his people, he is compelled to help her. The last thing Redvyr wants is a beautiful and beguiling fae wreaking havoc in his clan.

My world is on fire, and I’m obsessed with the girl who lit the match. Bloodied knuckles and a lifeless body at my feet confirm it: Penny is my demise. My gentlemanly façade is nothing but a memory. My sins are seeping through my shirt like ink. I tried to leave her. Couldn’t do it. I tried to snuff the life out of her. Couldn’t do that, either. So we’ll slow dance in the flames until I’m nothing but ash and embers. I’ll only rise like a phoenix when she’s gone. The problem is, I’d never let her go.

London, 1888. Committed to the Whitechapel Hall Reform School for “incurable delinquency” Adelaide “Dell” Morton is a precocious, defiant misfit. She’s also a voracious reader of true crime and detective fiction, including the sordid, sensationally popular Penny dreadful stories. In an unlikely stroke of luck, she’s found a kindred spirit in her poised, perfectionist roommate, Pippa. Their obsession is only further fueled by the Jack the Ripper murders blazing a trail of terror throughout London’s seediest streets . . . right outside Whitechapel Hall’s front door.

I've made a career of being invisible. Until I met him. Alexei Ivanov. The "Ghost" of the dark web. Digital prince of the Ivanov crime empire. Brilliant. Volatile. Irresistible. Breaking into his systems was supposed to be revenge. Instead, I found an addiction. Each taunt deliberate—digital breadcrumbs leading him straight to me. He thinks he's hunting me, but I've been hunting him all along. As our game spills from screens into reality, the electricity between us becomes impossible to ignore. The line between predator and prey blurs with every encounter.

His Promise. Her Fear. His world. Their vows. Nashville Stanley is the Dark Horse MC. James Bishop doesn’t know who she is. She’s signed on the dotted line with instant regret. She’s made a huge mistake. He’s got more regrets than he can count. She knows the only way out is death. Her life is a mess. He knows he’s too old for her. She knows she’s too young for him. They will never work.

Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Emma Thompson lends her immense talent and experienced voice to Henry James' Gothic ghost tale, The Turn of the Screw. When a governess is hired to care for two children at a British country estate, she begins to sense an otherworldly presence around the grounds. Are they really ghosts she's seeing? Or is something far more sinister at work?

An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an olden, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit, and death.

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and 18-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives—cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune.

We were lovers once, then enemies. Now I have to marry him for an alliance. He never told me he was with the Bratva. When I found out, it was already too late. Our love was forbidden, and he became my enemy. It broke me, and he grew cold. Now I'm forced to marry him and give him my plus-size curves for the sake of my family. He's the only man I ever gave myself to, raw and vulnerable. After he became my enemy, my heart was never quite the same. Now I'm forced to walk down the aisle as he inspects me with his cold eyes. He makes it clear that I'll obey him, that I'm his alone. He controls my...

Sometimes the truth is found in a folktale. An evening of revelry and storytelling goes horribly awry when temptations arise and passions flare. Those who survive are haunted by memories and regrets in this southern gothic tale told across dual timelines. 1932. Cumberland Island off the coast of...

Audible presents a special edition of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde narrated by Richard Armitage. With Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Richard Armitage tells the story of a conflicted man who seeks a remedy to free the monster inside him from the clutches of his conscience. Following his celebrated performance of David Copperfield, Armitage delivers another powerhouse performance as the narrator of this Gothic tale.

La oscuridad lo cobija. Nadie comprende cómo las autoridades no han sido capaces de atraparlo, pero el rastro de sangre que Jack el Destripador deja tras de sí conduce directamente a las cúpulas más altas de la nobleza. Anabelle no posee valor alguno hasta que logra sobrevivir al Destripador y termina cayendo en manos del conde, un bribón con motivos ocultos para protegerla. Mientras asegura utilizarla para encontrar a quien se esconde tras tan macabros escenarios, el hombre que habita en él empieza a descubrir que hay más nobleza en Anabelle que en toda la alta sociedad. Allí donde...

Et si un tueur masqué faisait de vous son obsession ? « Cours, petit chat… car si je t’attrape, tu seras à moi. » Ava Denali est loin d'être la fille parfaite qu'elle laisse paraître. Mais ça, il est le seul à le savoir. Sage. Obéissante. Irréprochable. C'est ce qu'Ava doit être pour survivre dans l’ombre des ambitions politiques de sa famille. Mais quand celle-ci la force à séduire Hunter Forthwood, le dangereux riche héritier au sourire carnassier qui règne sur le campus comme un prédateur sur son territoire, Ava voit rouge… et conclut un pacte avec le diable. ...

Una de las obras más perturbadoras del terror clásico. El relato que anticipó el horror cósmico moderno. En El gran dios Pan, Arthur Machen construye una historia inquietante que explora los límites de la mente humana y la naturaleza oculta de la realidad. Todo comienza con un experimento prohibido: un intento de alterar la percepción para contemplar el mundo tal como realmente es. Pero lo que se revela tras ese velo no pertenece al ámbito de lo humano. Años después, una cadena de sucesos extraños —muertes inexplicables, desapariciones y una presencia tan fascinante como ...

No good ever comes from a red-head in a stolen dress with her worldly possessions at her feet. I should have known she was trouble when smoke and sin followed her into my bar and she challenged me to a game. She may have won my watch, but she started a war. As she slipped my Breitling off my wrist and onto her own, she gleefully announced she was the luckiest girl in the world. Yeah, lucky to everyone but me.

“Told in alternating perspectives divided into 'Me,' 'You,' 'Us,' and 'Them' sections, the narrations by Baxendale and Glover perfectly match the slow build of the story. Both capture the determination, guilt, and duplicity of the characters as the plot twists.” —AudioFile Award-winning...

Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father—the one responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she's captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership. In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She's amazed she doesn't end up as his dinner…are there actually good vampires?