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Twenty unforgettable reads hand-picked for the filthy little dreamers. Hover a cover to peek at the blurb and trigger warnings.
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Haunting Adeline
Haunting Adeline
Adeline has a stalker. Unfortunately for her, he's decided that watching her isn't nearly enough. Zade is dangerous, obsessive, and operating under the rather questionable assumption that his particular brand of devotion excuses just about anything. Between the secrets buried in her grandmother's old house and the man determined to make her his, Adeline is about to discover that some monsters are considerably more interested in possessing you than killing you.
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The Ritual
The Ritual
At Barrington University, the Lords have everything. Money, influence, power, and a rather disturbing understanding of what constitutes a good time. Ryat Archer has spent his life preparing to become one of them, and Blakely is about to find herself caught in a world where obedience is expected and consent is complicated. Apparently, when you're rich enough, even depravity comes with a dress code.
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Lights Out
Lights Out
Aly has a weakness for masked men. Josh happens to be one, although his extracurricular activities are a little more complicated than posting thirst traps on the internet. What begins as a particularly questionable fantasy quickly turns into something neither of them anticipated. There's stalking, obsession, an alarming amount of sexual tension, and enough humor to make you briefly forget that none of this would hold up particularly well in a courtroom.
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God of Malice
God of Malice
Killian Carson is brilliant, privileged, and spectacularly uninterested in behaving like a decent human being. Glyndon King has enough problems without attracting the attention of a man who views boundaries as little more than an inconvenience. Unfortunately, Killian has developed an interest in her, and he's not particularly accustomed to being denied. Some men fall in love. Killian approaches it more like a hostile takeover.
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Butcher & Blackbird
Butcher & Blackbird
Sloane and Rowan have an unusual hobby in common: murdering serial killers. Naturally, this makes for a rather unconventional meet-cute. What follows is an increasingly deranged game of murder, competition, and mutual attraction between two people who really have no business being as charming as they are. It's funny, bloody, romantic, and an excellent reminder that compatibility is apparently a matter of perspective.
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Hunting Adeline
Hunting Adeline
Adeline has been dragged into a world considerably darker than the one she knew, and survival will demand more from her than she ever imagined. Meanwhile, Zade is hunting the people responsible, and mercy isn't particularly high on his list of priorities. The second half of Adeline and Zade's story trades much of the first book's cat-and-mouse tension for something more brutal: survival, vengeance, and the question of what remains after someone has tried to take everything from you.
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