"Be careful what you are willing to trade away for dreams. Nothing is worth losing yourself for, no matter what." When Robin loses the role she wanted in the school play to her biggest rival, her dreams are crushed. Until an old family heirloom arrives unexpectedly in the mail. Suddenly, she hears music in her dreams and her biggest rival may find they are the one in danger.
Living on an island plagued by magic and mythicalmonsters isn't a fairy tale... it's a nightmare. Aveen is the perfect lady, placid and well-mannered, concealing her discontentment beneath false smiles and gentle nods. As the eldest, her duty has always been to her family legacy and her sister's happiness. But when she finds herself forced into betrothal to a man she loathes, she swears she'll do anything to escape. Even if it means bargaining with a wicked fae prince. Rían is a devious half-fae with a dark secret, concealing his true nature beneath glamours and lies. When a fascinating human accidentally catches his eye, it's clear he'll do anything to take her for himself. Including making promises he can't-or won't-keep. Confronting hidden dangers and haunting pasts, the two reluctantly come to rely on each other to survive a world where nothing is what it seems and darkness encroaches from all sides. Will their tangled web of lies bring freedom they crave.. or will it unravel them both?
The complete Cursed Hearts duology in one collection full of nostalgia, romance, and paranormal fantasy. This box set includes Lyrics & Curses and Music & Mirrors. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Pretty in Pink. Their love for music sparked a curse... Lark Espinoza could get lost in her music--and she's not so sure anyone in her family would even care to find her. Her trendy, party-loving twin sister and her mother-come-lately Beth, who's suddenly sworn off men and onto homemaking, don't understand her love of cassette tapes, her loathing of the pop scene, or her standoffish personality. For outcast Lark, nothing feels as much like a real home as working at Bubble's Oddities store and trying to attract the attention of the cute guy who works at the Vinyl shop next door--the same one she traded lyrical notes with in class. Auden Ellis silences the incessant questions in his own head with a steady stream of beats. Despite the unconditional love of his aunt-turned-mother, he can't quit thinking about the loss of his parents--or the possibility he might end up afflicted with his father's issues. Despite his connection with lyric-loving Lark, Auden keeps her at arm's length because letting her in might mean giving her a peek into something dangerous. When two strangers arrive in town, one carrying a mysterious, dark object and the other playing an eerie flute tune, Lark and Auden find that their painful pasts have enmeshed them in a cursed future. Now, they must come to terms with their budding attraction while helping each other challenge the reflection they see in the mirror. If they fail, they'll be trapped for eternity in a place beyond reality. KEYWORDS: paranormal romance, music romance, mystery, fantasy, portal fantasy, mirror fantasy, books like stranger things, stranger things, eighties setting, nostalgic books, speculative fiction, nostalgia, coming of age, friendships, urban fantasy, friends to lovers
A witch curses the male descendants of a man with whom she fell in love, but he turned her down after he discovered her secret .She was eventually burned at the stake because of him. The man's male descendants mysteriously die on their 65th birthday of a heart attack. A possible end to the curse plays out in a city known for its burning river and how a woman's fate, a descendant of the cursed lover, may put an end to centuries of suffering! Her rare form of heart disease may be the key to lifting the curse.
Every time Kelsie Martin kisses a boy, chaos happens. The sixteen-year-old succubus has just come into her powers and doesn’t know how to control them. Anytime Kelsie locks lips with someone she likes, she drains their essence. After nearly killing her last candidate, her family suggests an arranged marriage, but Kelsie wants to fall in love with someone she chooses. Victor Duquette thinks love isn’t for him. He can’t date females his age. None of them want to make out with a teenager. The Fates intervene when Kelsie and Victor cross paths. Kelsie and Victor are perfect for each other, but will a century old curse and the town’s supernatural community let them be happy?
Great art demands sacrifice. Lucien Beaumont is a teenage misfit and musical prodigy ostracized by his peers and haunted by familial tragedy. When he discovers an unfinished song written by his dead father—a song that holds terrible power—Lucien becomes obsessed. As he chases after the secret nature of his father's music, the line between gruesome fantasy and real life violence begins to blur. To complete his father's work Lucien believes that he and his group of outcast friends must appease a demonic force trapped within the music with increasingly sadistic offerings. As things spiral out of control he finds that the cost of his art will be the lives of everyone around him, and perhaps his very soul.
Perfect for Halloween! From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library and coauthor of I Funny and Treasure Hunters, comes a series of spine-tingling mysteries to keep you up long after the lights go out. Halloween is near, the one day of the year when the ghostly plane is close enough to the human plane to allow mischief and mayhem. But the ghosts who have their eye on Zack aren't thinking mischief, they are thinking murder. In the fourth volume of Chris Grabenstein's popular Haunted Mysteries series, Zack must yet again do battle with malevolent spirits. And with perseverance and pluck, and the assistance of three dotty aunts, he must save his town from a 200-year-old threat. Once again Chris Grabenstein proves his mastery of the frightening and funny tale. Young readers, especially reluctant ones, have been inspired to read by Grabenstein's quirky characters and deadly situations.
The Railway Mania has gripped England. The Iron Horse rules supreme, and endlessly proliferating railway lines have created the shadowy zone known as The Underarches, that lurks beneath the very boot-heels of progress. Welcome to a steam-driven Victoriana where gryphons are real and children's snow-globes are powered by nasty-minded little imps. A world where a powerful new drug called spike beguiles high and low society alike. Alexia Burgundy, owner of a struggling railway company bedevilled by bad luck, is reluctantly drawn into the sphere of Jack Hammond, proprietor of the fabulously successful Hammond & Hill Railway Co., sole producers at their Arleyvale coalmine of the revolutionary new fuel called Black Adamantine. The journalist Daniel Benjamin, meanwhile, persists in digging ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding a mysterious accident at Hammond's mine. All the while, an entity both ancient and implacable stirs in the bowels of the earth beneath Arleyvale Colliery...
