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When the darkness knew her name
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Sheen thought her greatest battle was escaping the life she was born into. During lockdown, she found faith, began wearing hijab, and discovered a connection with Allah that changed her forever. But years later, strange things begin happening. Someone—or something—knows her deepest secrets, remembers the duas she whispered in solitude, and has been watching her for years. She thought she had finally found peace. She was terribly wrong.
Bound in darkness
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Diana has spent years trying to escape her past. When Damon returns, old wounds reopen, and the fire within her begins to spiral out of control. As dark secrets surrounding her powers unfold, she is drawn into a hidden world of ancient forces, dangerous enemies, and a mysterious being named Kaerith. To survive, Diana must embrace the power she fears before darkness consumes everything she loves.
The girl who could steal dreams
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A fantasy, dark romance and suspensed story of a beautiful lady
Safe In The Dark
Ellicor
"Don't come up. The dark is the only safe place left." Buried alive, Declan’s only link to the surface is a CaveLink communication device. When messages shift from rescue plans to descriptions of a strange sky and a strange light, his collapsing stone tomb becomes humanity's final, terrifying sanctuary.
The Bone Garden of Oakhaven
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To save her starving village, a low-born apothecary surrenders herself as a blood sacrifice to the lingering shadow-god in the forest, only to discover the monster doesn't want her life, he wants her absolute obedience, and the dark power slumbering in her blood.
The girl who loved the beyond
Alannah saju
A Girl Who Loved the Beyond is a haunting tale of love, loss, grief, and a connection that refuses to end even beyond death.A story about finding someone even beyond death.
Vaporize The Memory
Heather Jackson
We had always loved the occult, we basked in our morbid humor, and even daydreamed of one day haunting some poor unfortunate soul in our after-lives. Then you died and left me to pick up the pieces, but our coward of a friend won't even let me give him his first tattoo or watch scary movies with me. So that left me with no other option, I had to contact you...
The Thorned Crown of Shadows
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When a broken princess is imprisoned by the ruthless shadow monarch who slaughtered her family, she must choose between using her celestial light to destroy him—or surrendering her soul to the darkness to reign beside the monster she has come to love.
Beneath the black crown
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The End Was Never the End?
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When surviving became my childhood.
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The Other Petra
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Petra Brooke died at thirty-four with a bullet in her chest and a secret she never got to uncover. Then she wakes up eighteen again, three days into her senior year. This time, she'll protect her mother, uncover the conspiracy surrounding her family, and find the person who killed her. There's just one problem: she is falling for the man she married in her first life, and she still doesn't know if he was involved in her murder.
The Dark Side
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Black Orchid
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The city feared his name. She refused to learn it.
Mine in the Dark
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A fake boyfriend. A hidden protector. A deadly conspiracy. In a city full of secrets, falling in love could be the most dangerous choice of all.
When I Catch her
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Adrian Vale sees Elara Quinn once and becomes obsessed. He tracks her down, kidnaps her, and keeps her hidden away, convinced he loves her. Elara hates him, but as she discovers the broken man behind his obsession, her feelings begin to change. When Adrian finally gives her the freedom to leave, she faces the ultimate choice: escape the man who stole her freedom—or stay with the man she never expected to love.
THE EMPTY GLASS The Black Lantern Mysteries
Bailey Strange
Mara Voss thought the secrets beneath the Black Lantern were finally buried. She was wrong. When a mysterious stranger leaves an empty glass containing a single drop of blood, Mara discovers the name Elias Black engraved beneath it. As people begin disappearing, Mara and her allies uncover an ancient ledger tied to Evelyn Black, Mara’s family, and a ritual centuries old. Now Mara must uncover the truth before Elias finishes what his mother started.
Love in the dark
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Trauma nurse Quinn White is numb until three masked men answer her darkest online fantasy and break into her life. What starts as stalking turns into obsession, shared blood, and a dangerous claim. Callum, Elias, and Ronan pull her into their world of violence and possession just as an old enemy comes hunting. In the dark, Quinn stops surviving and starts belonging—to all three of them.
GREY EYES, SHARP KNIVES
Keren Noir
She believed she had buried her monster. Nia Bennett came to Moscow to study art and start over. Then Andrew Volkov decided her indifference was the one thing he couldn't survive. She escaped him with a blade and left him for dead. Four months later, he returns smiling. Some monsters never die, they simply come back for what they believe is theirs.
Black lace & Pink venom
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In the rain-soaked city of Rosen Hollow, Lovely Hart never believed the rumors about the mysterious disappearances—until she met Vesper Vale. Cold, beautiful, and dangerously secretive, Vesper awakens an irresistible connection that blurs the line between hatred and desire. But Vesper is hiding a centuries-old truth: she is a monster. And some love stories don’t just break hearts… they devour souls.
The Last Call: A Black Lantern Mystery
Bailey Strange
Mara Voss has run the Black Lantern for decades, serving drinks while keeping her vampire nature—and her past—hidden. But when a dead man is carried into her bar bearing a symbol from 1941, Mara’s buried secrets return. A woman she watched die appears at her door, murders begin, and an old mystery resurfaces. To stop the killer, Mara must uncover the truth about the night she died—before she becomes the final victim.
Mine After Midnight
Lauren Scibelli
Violet Hayes thought she had escaped her past—until Damian Blackwood enters her life, dark, powerful, and dangerously obsessed with protecting her. As buried secrets about her family begin to surface, Violet discovers she was never meant to be free. Someone has been watching her for years, and Damian may be the only person standing between her and the truth. But loving him may be more dangerous than running from him.
THE DOOR THAT WASNT THERE BEFORE
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The door wasn't there yesterday. No one else can see it. No one remembers it. But every night, someone behind it calls Elena's name. Then she discovers the truth: a girl disappeared through that door twenty-seven years ago. And Elena was the last person to see her alive.
The Silhouette of Blood
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A family. A forgotten mistake. Something that should never have been awakened. As generations, timelines, and realities collide, the Rashid family is dragged into a mystery where death may be the least frightening thing waiting for them.

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