All Cherine Cadet has ever known is desperate circumstances—crushing poverty, cruel servitude, and no hope of escape. When a band of Vikings attacks the estate where she lives, her old life goes up in flames. On the verge of death, she’s rescued by an unexpected savior—Erik the Axe, second in command of the Viking fleet.

Erik claims her as a spoil of war, and takes her back to his leader, Rolf the Walker. Erik is dark and sensual to Rolf’s brutal and commanding. Subject to the whims of

both men, Cherine is once again left with no choices and no hope. She’ll have to discover her own warrior spirit before the desires of these two men leave her burned down to ash like the life she left behind.

The battle for the Underworld has begun…

When Hanna Heikkinen sacrificed herself to the God of Death to save her father, she never imagined she’d fall in love with the grumpy god—or thrive as Queen of Tuonela. Nor did she expect to uncover the truth of her divine lineage, a secret tied to powers far beyond her understanding.

But when the Old Gods rise and Louhi’s dark forces plunge the Land of the Dead into Kaaos, threatening to destroy the balance of life and death, Hanna must fight for more than just her realm. With Tuonela unraveling and the souls of the dead at risk of eternal Oblivion, Hanna and Tuoni face impossible odds as love and duty collide.

Can Hanna save Tuonela before its lost to the void, or will her greatest sacrifice come at the cost of the one she loves most?

Grad Student Sydney Denik is getting a second chance. When a dream opportunity presents itself with a prestigious foundation doing promising Alzheimer's research, Sydney leaves the shambles of her old life to join a dozen other students at an isolated lodge hidden away in a remote, fog-shrouded inlet on Vancouver Island.

But the Madrona Foundation harbors more than brilliant minds. Everyone around her is hiding a terrible secret—including the resident psychologist she's falling in love with. A student disappears, and no one but Sydney seems to care. Ghosts walk the halls. Snow falls in the middle of summer. Dead animals move like the living. The more Sydney uncovers about the foundation, the more she begins to question her own sanity. And if Sydney isn't going mad, then the horrors in the surrounding forest are real, and the Madrona Foundation may be the biggest monster of all.

The first murder sent shock waves through the city. The second one had everyone scared to leave their homes. The third caught the attention of the nation, the whisper of butterfly kisses flying across the headlines of every major newspaper. The small town of Rivercrest Landing had a serial killer. And in the midst of all of it I've gotten myself tangled with a cruel boy whose cornflower eyes taunt my inner demons with the taste of his. A boy who makes me question everything. If I'm not careful, I might just get a butterfly kiss of my own.

*This book was previously published under my other pen name author AJ Wolf and has been remastered into a newer updated version.

PRIEST. PIRATE. MONSTER.

From the bestselling author Karina Halle comes Ocean of Sin and Starlight, a dark-fantasy romance with morally gray pirates and monstrous sirens, a standalone spinoff of A Ship of Bones and Teeth.

I wasn't always a monster.

Once upon a time I had a family, a home, dreams.

Until it was taken away from me and I was turned into a creature only the Devil could love, cursed with bloodlust and immortality.

I spent a century in an isolated monastery for other heathens like me, learning to control my most monstrous impulses, becoming a man of faith so I could put my sins behind me.

I was doing so well.

I was almost…human.

Until I met her.

Larimar, the tempting siren who made me forget my vows, who promised herself to me before she escaped my clutches.

Now I'm obsessed with tracking Larimar down, joining an infamous pirate crew on their ship the Nightwind as we search the high seas for any sign of her.

I don't know what I'll do when I find her.

But I know she belongs to me.

And I'll become a monster once more.

NOTE TO READER: This book can be read as a standalone. HOWEVER, if you were planning on reading A Ship of Bones and Teeth, then I would read that first before you read OOSAS.

ALSO…please head the content warnings inside the front of he book as it has many triggers.

He's the royal bodyguard. She's the royal nanny. The annoyingly hot attraction that simmers between them—that's a royal pain.

James Hunter has made a tactical error. His new role as protection officer to Prince Magnus of Norway was supposed to be an exciting change. Instead he's marooned on a royal estate in the middle of nowhere charged with chasing after demon children and dodging the machinations of meddling staff. And the crowning jewel in this little drama—the children's nanny is none other than Laila Bruset. The woman whose heart he broke. The woman who still holds his.

When Laila took the job as a nanny for the Norwegian royal children in order to be closer to her ailing grandmother in Oslo, the last thing she expected was to have her life turned upside down—again. But as much as James gets on her nerves, hes also getting under her skin, and the tension between them sizzles just as devastatingly as before.

As undeniable sparks turn James and Laila's battle royal into a more serious game of hearts, nanny and bodyguard will have to decide just how much they're willing to risk for a second chance at love.

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of students in an art master's program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling “new queen of crime” (Electric Literature) Janice Hallett.

University professor Gela Nathaniel must make her new master's program in multimedia art succeed. If it doesn't, then Royal Hastings University will cut her funding and she'll be out of the job she loves. The six students in this inaugural course will be key to that success…but how well has she selected the team?

The students include a talented young sculptor who is determined to graduate with top grades, a former gallery owner with limited artistic skills, a single mother more interested in a paycheck than homework, a people pleaser who struggles with technology, a marketing executive suffering from burnout, and a successful artist who seems rather overqualified for the program.

At the end of the academic year, when the examiner arrives to grade the students' final project, he finds himself asking what happened. Because if someone in that course isn't in mortal danger, then they are already dead. But who, and why?

He wants us to read through the students' coursework, texts, message boards, and final essays to see if we can find the answers. Only one thing is certain: nothing about this course has been left to chance, and each of these students has their own very different agenda.

A rivals-to-lovers, new adult romantic comedy about sex, love, and the written word.

When I first met Blake Crawford, all I wanted to do was hit him in the face.

Maybe the groin.

Okay, maybe I wanted to kiss him too, but thats neither here nor there. I mean, he may have a gorgeous English accent, sexy full lips and an ass Id like to bite but

Where was I?

Right.

Being in the same creative writing class, hes the last person I wanted to speak to, let alone be paired up with for my final assignment. But here comes the kickernot only did our project end up getting us both As, but we found out we work well together.

Really well together.

I hate him and he hates me and yet we churn out gold. Weve started writing self-published erotica under a pen name and let me tell you one thing Writing dirty sex scenes with the sexiest, most infuriating man you know is a lot harder than you think.

And keeping our hands off each other?

Well, thats another storyone with an ending I didnt see coming.

Smut is a standalone, tongue-in-cheek romantic comedy from the bestselling author of The Pact.