When everything is on the line, how far will you go to protect those you love? What if the cost of saving them is your soul? Would you pay it? I thought I was prepared for what was coming; that if I made sacrifices, I could win this game. I¿m no longer afraid of the darkness or the monsters that hide in the shadows. I¿ve become what I feared most, allowing it in to protect those I loved. Sometimes it takes a monster to win. Sometimes to fight monsters, you have to become one. My only fear is¿can I come back from it?

Playing with Monsters...coming very soon!!!My coven has remained hidden in the shadows for centuries.We've avoided the ?real world? altogether; hiding from monstersand other creatures we share this planet with.We found protection in the Colville National Forest, nestled in a town protectedby magical barriers.Our powers are locked by an ancient curse, one meant to protect us from being found.Until now.The past has a way of repeating itself. A new game is beginning. No one is safe.He's coming for me.He's hunting.The monster we've run from for centuries has found us.How far will this deadly game go?How far will I be able to take it, or will he destroy me and everything I care about?Will the one thing I can't live without, be the key to destroying and undoing the past?Or will the past destroy me before I can save the people I love from what I've done.

It's the ending that matters. If everything you'd done led you to the place you were meant to be, would it be worth it?

Sacrifice your soul? Check. Die to protect those you love? Check. Come back as something the world hasn't seen since the dawn of mankind? Check. Make those who hurt me wish the Gods had never created them? I'm still working on this one...Are you ready to play? I'm coming back. I'm more, darker, deadlier, and I'm pissed. Heaven has fallen, Hell has risen and the walls that once protected man from monsters are down. Foe's become friends, enemies become lovers, and this world is thrown into chaos unlike anything it's ever seen before. I'm ready to play now, I'm ready to win. This is the third book in the award winning Playing with Monsters series.Reading order for those who are following the story-line and want the full experience. Fighting Destiny Taunting Destiny Escaping Destiny Seducing Destiny A Demon's Dark Embrace Playing with Monsters Unraveling Destiny Sleeping with Monsters Claiming the Dragon King Oh, Holy Knight - in Such Violent Delight Anthology Becoming his Monster Series that standalone A Guardian's Diary series Darkest before Dawn Death Before Dawn Midnight Rising (Coming soon)

Twelve horrors are disguised as love in Anya Martin's collection of the weird, the strange, and the haunting. Fans of Frankenstein and historical tales of the dark fantastical will enjoy her craft, which shows that some men are beasts, and some women uncover the means to defeat monsters.

Gather round close, for I have a secret to tell.Late at night, while everyone is sleeping, dreaming of white knights and fairytales. I'm making friends with the monsters. They call to me, like finds like, right? My biggest secret, I'm the scariest monster I know. I think I'm the bad guy. MFMM Reverse Harem novel with adult themes not recommended for those under 18.

When strange levels of toxins are found in the local water, Fred, a mermaid, is asked to help investigate by a gorgeous marine biologist and her mer-person ruler.

In Julia Ember's dark and lush LGBTQ+ romantic fantasy Ruinsong, two young women from rival factions must work together to reunite their country, as they wrestle with their feelings for each other. Her voice was her prison... Now it’s her weapon. In a world where magic is sung, a powerful mage named Cadence has been forced to torture her country's disgraced nobility at her ruthless queen's bidding. But when she is reunited with her childhood friend, a noblewoman with ties to the underground rebellion, she must finally make a choice: Take a stand to free their country from oppression, or follow in the queen’s footsteps and become a monster herself.

"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willie's entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father's identity lies somewhere in her family's history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town's past -- some sinister, all fascinating -- rise up around her to tell their side of the story. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. The Monsters of Templeton is a fresh, virtuoso performance that has placed Lauren Groff among the best writers of today.