Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Sheila Masterson

To err is human. To avenge is Divine. 
 
Every person Harlow Carrenwell kisses dies, and that’s the way she likes it. The poison-lipped youngest daughter of Lunameade’s magical founding family has used her power to annihilate their enemies. 
 
Her first husband is in the ground. Her new betrothed is next. 
 
But Harlow has a secret. When she’s not acting as her parents’ assassin, she moonlights as a vigilante hunting abusive men in their walled city. 
 
Meet a man. Lure him in. Kill him with a kiss. Until one night Harlow kisses a mark and he doesn’t die. 
 
Worse, he is her new betrothed, Henry Havenwood, and now he knows about her double life. Instead of exposing her and sparking a war between their rival families, he does something far more dangerous – he whisks her away to marry him in his wild mountain fort. 
 
Harlow doesn’t trust Henry, but the only way to protect her family and city is to uncover what his family is planning. 
 
Cursed with a husband she can’t kill and trapped in a fort surrounded by vampire-infested woods, Harlow must do the impossible: make the man who knows she’s a killer fall in love with her anyway.

The Poison Daughter

Lauren Palphreyman

When war erupts between humans and werewolves, a princess finds herself torn between duty and desire. 
 
On the eve of her wedding, Princess Aurora spares the life of a young werewolf at a brutal dog fight, catching the eye of a powerful alpha, Callum. 
 
That night, the alpha escapes and kidnaps Aurora, whisking her away to the rugged lands north of the border, where the once-warring Wolf clans are beginning to unite. Callum believes she is the key to their victory against the humans. 
 
As they send time together, a forbidden attraction starts to grow. Just when Aurora learns not all Wolves are bad, Callum discovers that she is in danger from both his enemies and those he once considered friends. 
 
With monsters on both sides and a bloodthirsty war between humans and Wolves raging, will their story end in love or tragedy? And will Aurora ever get home? 
 
Does she even want to?

The Wolf King

Sable Sorensen

CROWNED BY DESTINY. CONSUMED BY VENGEANCE. 
 
Against all odds, Meryn Cooper has inherited the crown – and a deadly war. As the Kingdom of Nocturna splinters under the weight of generations of lies, it is up to Meryn, her bonded direwolf Anassa and their allies to bring the country back from the brink. 
 
But the commoners, the Bonded and the nobles are distrustful of their new queen and Meryn is caught in a deadly game of politics. Meanwhile, Meryn's beloved sister, Saela, is more at risk than ever. 
 
Confusingly, the one person Meryn can trust is Stark Therion – the dark, dangerous Alpha she thought hated her as much as she loathed him. Yet, his loyalty is unshakeable. His presence intoxicating. And with his guidance, Meryn can seize an unthinkable level of power. 
 
With enemies closing in and shadows stirring her dreams, Meryn stands to lose her kingdom – and her heart. 
 
Blood will spill. Bonds will break. Fate will be tested.

Fury Bound

Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this spicy, page-turning romantasy where humans and direwolves forge unbreakable bonds and fight for survival at all costs. 
 
Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She’ll risk her life - and her heart - to be one of them. 
 
Meryn Cooper has always hated the Bonded, elite warriors who form mental links with the massive, vicious direwolves they ride. While they live in luxury, Meryn struggles to keep her family out of poverty. When her little sister, Saela, is kidnapped - stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting - Meryn’s world falls apart. 
 
Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the army and is thrown into the deadly Bonding Trials, where any mistake will cost her life. 
 
Now Meryn must survive four months of training at the castle. She is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate. The other trainees would love to spill her common blood. And her cold and beautiful instructor, Stark Therion, is eager to punish any weakness. 
 
Everything is a competition, and everyone is out to get her - everyone except the dangerously handsome crown prince, whose attention adds another target to her back. In the castle, every smile hides a knife … and the halls hide dark secrets. 
 
It’s bond or bleed. Duel or die. Failure is ruin.

Dire Bound

Kelly Andrew

IS IT LOVE. . . OR IS IT BLOODLUST?From New York Times bestselling author Kelly Andrew comes a darkly romantic vampire romance that explores disability, obsession and the twisted limits of loyalty. 
 
Shea Parker has lived her entire life in the shadow of the Gravewood, an impassable forest that’s cut off her town from the rest of the world. With resources limited and supplies scarce, Shea is forced to carefully ration her hearing aid batteries. When her stash runs out, she'll be left in the silence. 
Desperate, Shea turns to the only person who can help — Oliver Lysander, the volatile leader of a vampiric gang that rules the Gravewood. 
 
The arrangement between Shea and Lysander starts off simply enough. She gives him her blood. He tracks down batteries. They don't cross any lines. They don’t make it personal. But when Shea’s best friend is lured into the Gravewood, her disappearance brings her older brother home from the frontlines. Asher Thorley is willing to do whatever it takes to find his sister, even if it means holding Shea’s ugliest secrets over her head. 
 
Ever an opportunist, Lysander renegotiates the terms of their deal. If Asher takes out Lysander’s vampire rival, Lysander will help him find his sister. And if Shea agrees to Turn, Lysander will give her a cure for her ailing mother. For the first time ever, Shea finds herself leaving home. Swallowed up in the dreamlike dark of the Gravewood and traveling in the company of killers, it isn't long before she risks becoming one herself.

The Gravewood

Brooke Fast

A deadly prison. A forbidden romance. A fight for survival. 
 
THERE’S ONLY ONE RULE IN ENDLOCK: OBEY OR DIE. 
 
In Dividium, all crimes are punishable by life in prison. A prison that’s a life sentence in more ways than one. Where the wealthy can hunt the inmates for sport. 
 
Raven’s mission is simple: infiltrate the infamous and deadly Endlock Prison to save her brother. 
 
There’s just one problem: Raven has a target on her back. Her reputation as the most ruthless bounty hunter in Dividium precedes her, and the inmates she’s sent to Endlock want their revenge. 
 
So when the prison guard she’s sworn to hate becomes her only chance to survive, Raven has no choice but to trust the one person she shouldn’t…

To Cage a Wild Bird

Clare Sager

He’ll do anything to keep her. She’ll do anything to escape. 
 
Rhiannon is dying – of what she doesn’t know. Kept protected by her family in their clifftop home, she spends her days searching for a cure. 
 
Her world is torn apart when an unseelie King of the Dead arrives and gives her a simple choice: descend to the underworld as his bride or he’ll take her family instead. 
 
Trapped in a twisted bargain, Rhiannon is thrust into a world of withered gods, scheming courtiers, and ancient magic, but she refuses to be a pawn in a game she never agreed to play. Her new husband is powerful, cold, and infuriating and she is determined to hate him. 
 
But in a court where beauty masks cruelty and every promise has teeth, hatred burns slowly into something else. Something dangerous. Something that could undo them both…

King of Ravens

‘Let me have you. Just once. Please.’ 
 
As dark forces rise, Princess Aurora is caught between two powerful alphas fighting for the throne. 
 
Princess Aurora may have survived the Wolf King, but his bite marks her skin. In accordance with Wolf law, that makes her his property. Now, he wants her back. 
 
To beat him and take his throne, Aurora and Callum must form a dangerous alliance with one of the most feared Wolves in the Kingdom, Blake. He is their enemy, but he has entangled his life with Aurora’s – meaning she cannot harm him without forfeiting her own life. 
 
As she fights to break their connection, she suspects Blake is keeping secrets about a dark power in the north, and the bond between them. There is a bigger game at play than who sits on the Wolf Throne – one that threatens both the Kingdom of Wolves and the Kingdom of Men. 
 
With enemies closing in, Aurora may be the only one who can stop an ancient evil from rising – if she can figure out who to trust. 
 
To survive, she must decide where she – and her heart – belong.

The Night Prince

Helen Scheuerer

Some bargains are sealed with blood…Others with fire…The deadliest are sealed with a kiss…Saige Grayson has always believed stories could heal – even when her own body refuses to. As the most promising bookbinder in the capital, she’s learned to work through chronic pain and crushing debt, restoring other people’s treasures while trying not to fall apart herself. But when the man she owes decides her rare talent is worth more than her payments, Saige is traded to the Azkari – an immortal race forged by the gods for war – and imprisoned in their ancient stronghold. 
Her only chance of survival lies with Archer, a fallen Azkari general imprisoned beside her – cursed, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. He offers her a way out, and in return, Saige must help him retrieve and restore an ancient book. But the book is made of living magic, powerful enough to stop a great evil – or unleash it. And as Saige works with Archer, the tome begins to awaken something dark and dangerous – both in the realm and within her. 
As their enemies close in and buried memories resurface, Saige and Archer must decide what they’re willing to sacrifice: their freedom, their fragile trust…or the spark that could ignite the world.

Kiss of the Black Flame

JM Kearl

Never go out at night. Lock the doors. Ignore the screams. 
 
Those are the rules Aesira lives by to survive the monsters that stalk her village. But everything changes when it’s revealed she’s been born with the power to fight the vampires she’s spent her life fearing. 
 
Aesira is thrust into the elite and secretive League of Assassins, where mercy is weakness and fear is forbidden. Now her survival depends on her ruthless trainer, Vander – the most dangerous assassin of them all. And the only thing more lethal than his blade is the desire he awakens in her. 
 
Because the greatest threat in Nighthaven might not be the monsters lurking in the dark… 
 
It might be him.

The Assassin's Way

Taylor J. LaRue

Enter a world ruled by tyrants and thieves, where magic is outlawed, revolution brews, desire is dangerous, and an impossible cure may prove deadlier than the curse. 
 
Never run. Never bow. Never die. 
 
Reya Connery became the Crimson Dagger, the most notorious thief in Rhiterra, by following a strict set of rules. One: There is no honour among thieves. Two: A good blade is key to any negotiation. Three: Only the dead keep secrets. And Reya has a secret that must be kept at all costs. But when a heist goes wrong on the eve of paying off her debt to a ruthless crime lord, Reya may need a new set of rules. And a lot of coin. Fast. 
 
Enter Caelan Halcyon, an immortal warrior whose magic makes him a valuable target – if the curse inching closer to his heart doesn’t kill him first. There’s just one person who might be desperate enough to try and get their hands on the fabled cure in time to save his life, someone whose legend claims they can steal anything: the Crimson Dagger. A male of honour, Caelan loathes everything the beautiful, cocky thief represents, yet knows that Reya is his last hope for survival. 
 
Their search takes them to the edge of the known world, where Reya discovers that there is far more at stake than her and Caelan’s own lives. Now, Reya must confront deadly foes, her growing attraction to the immortal who is as lethal as his jawline is perfect, and the rage she’s spent a lifetime trying to bury. This time, her daggers aren’t going to cut it, and the fate of all magic-born hangs in the balance. 
 
Introducing an epic, slow burn enemies-to-lovers romantasy novel about a heroine forged in steel and rage, and the cursed immortal who might turn out to be as much her salvation as she is his, perfect for fans of Danielle L. Jensen and Callie Hart.

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