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In The Dark is a monstrous collection of all-new original terror tales from the darkest and most brilliant minds in comics and prose. Featuring an introduction by American Vampire, The Wake, and Severed writer Scott Snyder, and a frightful feature on the history of horror comics, through their rotten rise and dreadful decline by comic book historian Mike Howlett!

One year ago, Jacinta was a bodyguard for Prince Mathiaz of Carramer. Although they were attracted to each other, Jacinta left the castle, feeling that it was taboo for her to be romantically involved with her client. After she has put her feelings behind her, Jacinta is called back again to be a bodyguard...

This contemporary African classic tells the story of seven unforgettable Kenyan women as it traces more than sixty years of turbulent national history. Like their country, this group of old women is divided by ethnicity, language, class, and religion. But around the charcoal fire at the Refuge, the old-age...

Let Mischief Books seduce you with ‘Sex and the Stranger’ – a short story collection of casual fun with irresistible strangers. New erotica from Charlotte Stein, Justine Elyot, Aishling Morgan, Elizabeth Coldwell and many more. There are some people you want to seduce, or be seduced by, so badly...

Ten rough and ready stories about men who take the lead and adventurous women. ‘Take Me’ features original erotica from Lucy Salisbury, Sommer Marsden, Rose de Fer, Tenille Brown, Giselle Renarde and many more. Another sexy short story collection from Mischief Books. When Alice meets a charismatic...

“If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Tom’s Cabin did for the Negro,” wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, “I would be thankful the rest of my life.” Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of Ramona, her popular 1884 romantic bestseller. A...

With the inventiveness and emotional power of Promise Not to Tell, The Death of Bees, and After Her, a powerful literary debut about family and friendship, good and evil, grief and forgiveness. He is not evil. I am not good. We are the same: broken and put back together again. Still...

From the critically acclaimed author of Crooked River comes this fascinating novel about a young woman searching for answers about events that transpired ten years before when her brother disappeared without a trace—an utterly mesmerizing psychological thriller. Lucy Durant was only fourteen-years-old...

It's uncanny! Within six months of breaking up with her, Peg Silver's ex-lovers always meet and marry the women of their dreams. Even worse than being the eternal bridesmaid, she's the last girlfriend, the one who awakens in a guy theknowledge of what he's always wanted in a relationship ... and it's...

A fictionalized account of the exile of the Chagossian Islanders from the Chagos Archipelago in the 1970’s, this story follows youth, Ti Jean, through exile from his island Diego Garcia and on into adulthood. With “old ways” understanding and a true heart filled with the song of Chagos he brings...

Book II Song of Chagos: Hunger and Heroes, Songs Across the Sea A long sea voyage to a distant land after losing hearth and home… broken hearts adrift at sea… a storm of memories in the midst of treacherous weather… an imagination running wild releasing the bonds of a world entrapped by greed a...

A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engrossing as Martin's landmark Mary Reilly. In 1872 the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact and there was no sign of struggle, but...

When their businessman father dies suddenly, leaving his affairs in disarray and his family in dire financial straits, it seems that sisters Charlotte and Victoria have little choice but to accept the support offered by their stuffy, authoritarian Uncle Edward. But their mother has other ideas and,...