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The Icarus GirlThe audacious first novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours • “Oyeyemi bri...Undead on ArrivalJust one month ago, secret government operative Sasha Trudeau thought she'd tasted victory. Orchestrating detente between the warring factio...The BittenShe is a woman who lives between pleasure and pain―the pure, scintillating pleasure of the flesh and the kind of pain that has rocked the wo...I Am the Dark That Answers When You CallMonsters and mortals, rejoice! Acheron is back . . .
Though Laure has tried to close the lid on her ballet shoes and the feelings she once ...The BetweenWhen Hilton was a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was n...The DamnedFrom Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to h...The Revenant RoadBestselling crime writer Obadiah Grudge has got it all: money, fame and a heavy drinking problem. But when he learns of a violent death in t...Blood ColonyDue's novels about a colony of immortals continues in "Blood colony," as 17-year-old immortal Fana goes on the run from her own parents--onl...JunieSixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongs...Devils Kill DevilsWhat if you had a guardian angel?
One you’ve trusted since you were a child. One you’ve had complete faith in, until they did something horr...I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is MeThere will be blood.
Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story.
Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind...MinionThere is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night. Here is an account of her legend…
All Damali Richards ever want...My Soul to TakeFana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiancé is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal wh...Ghost SummerWhether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestse...The DeepYetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live ...The Good HouseAward-winning author Tananarive Due's critically acclaimed story of supernatural suspense, as a woman searches for the inherited power that ...The WickedNew, deadly enemies of the Vampire Huntress join forces with the old in the battle that will lead to the Armageddon in The Wicked, the eight...My Soul to KeepWhen Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something a...The Spite HouseEric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. When he comes across an ad for a caretaker for the Masson Hous...Who Wants to Be the Prince of Darkness?Lucifer is enjoying his retirement in an obscure corner of Limbo when he learns of a plot by Gabriel, the current ruler of Hell, to use huma...Model HomeWelcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distan...JackalIt’s watching.
Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylv...An Unkindness of Ghosts"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there wa...Joplin's GhostIn this chilling historical novel that's part love story, part ghost story, a female singer's life spins horrifically out of control as a lo...Zone OneAfter the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Can...The ReformatoryGracetown, Florida - June 1950
Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a refor...The Living BloodJessica Jacobs-Wolde worked hard to rebuild her life in Miami after the disappearance of her husband, David, and the death of her daughter K...Starling HouseI dream sometimes about a house I’ve never seen….
Opal is a lot of things―orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashie...Ring ShoutIn America, demons wear white hoods.
In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking d...FledglingFledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lea...The CursedFrom the national bestselling author L. A. Banks comes a walk on the wild side with The Cursed, the ninth novel in the popular Vampire Huntr...Like ThunderNiger, West Africa, 2077
Welcome back. This second volume is a breathtaking story that sweeps across the sands of the Sahara, flies up to ...