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- The Immortal Brothers
series4 books2015
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Jacquelyn Frank's The Immortal Brothers is a paranormal romance quartet -- Cursed by Fire, Cursed by Ice, Bound by Sin, and Bound in Darkness -- all published by Ballantine Books in 2015, following different brothers across linked romantic storylines.
- The Captive
Amanda Ashleystandalone novel2000
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They'd given him a number and taken away his name. Taken his freedom, his home, his family. Everything that made life worth living. But they couldn't take hope... and she came to him looking like an angel with her hair the color of silver moonlight and eyes the color of a turbulent sea. She tenderly treated his wounds while he lay in darkness, giving him the will to go on. But when her father took him from the mine to work on his lavish estate, a new torture faced the prisoner. Daily he was forced into contact with the innocent young beauty, yearning for just one taste of her pouting pink lips. Now, instead of his savior, she became his tormenter as she frolicked in the pool, flirted with other men, teased him beyond his endurance. Until one wild night when the world turned upside down and a daring escape made slave at long last master, and mistress The Captive.
- Alchemised
SenLinYustandalone novel2025
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Alchemised is the debut fantasy novel of American author SenLinYu. The book was published in September 2025 by Del Rey Books in the United States and Penguin imprint Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. Described as both dark fantasy, horror and gothic romance, and sometimes erroneously classified as dark romance, the standalone novel follows the life of a former alchemist, Helena Marino, as she recovers her memories of a civil war. It reached number one on the New York Times best-seller list in the week after its release.
- The Scarletti Curse
Christine Feehanstandalone novel2001
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The Beast Strange, twisted carvings and hideous gargoyles adorned the palazzo of the great Scarletti family. But a still more fearful secret lurked within its storm-tossed turrets. For every bride who entered its forbidding walls was doomed to leave in a casket. The Bride Mystical and unfettered, Nicoletta had no terror of ancient curses and no fear of marriage...until she looked into the dark, mesmerizing eyes of Don Scarletti. She had sworn no man would command her, had thought her gift of healing set her apart, but his was the right to choose a bride from among his people. And he had chosen her. The Bargain Compelled by duty, drawn by desire, she gave her body into his keeping, and prayed the powerful, tormented don would be her heart's destiny, and not her soul's demise.
- Embrace the Night
Amanda Ashleystandalone novel1998
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Cursed by the darkness, he searches through the ages for the redeeming light, the one who can save him. She fears the handsome stranger whose eyes promise ecstasy while his mouth whispers dark secrets. Apart, they will face a destiny of despair. Together, they will share undying passion. Reissue.
- Phantom
Susan Kaystandalone novel1990
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A child is born... His mother's only gift is a mask. Precocious and gifted, he will live friendless and alone, taunted and abused, he will flee, only to find himself caged again-as a freak in a Gypsy carnival. A brilliant outcast... the world is his home. Filled with bitter rage, he will kill to escape, becoming a stonemason's apprentice in Rome... a dark magician at the treacherous Persian court... and finally, the genius behind the construction of the Paris Opera House and the labyrinthine world below. Lacking one thing only: A woman's love. Cloaked in secrets, his power complete, he will see the exquisite Christine and for the first time know what it means to love. Obsessed, he will bring her into his eerie subterranean world, driven to posses her heart and soul. Phantom--A haunting story of power and darkness, of magic and murder, of sensuality and betrayal, and ultimately, the unforgettable story of a man and a woman and the eternal quality of love.
- Beauty's Beast
Amanda Ashleystandalone novel2014
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Fair of face and figure, Kristine is young, innocent, pure. Yet she has been condemned to the gallows for killing a man. The only one who can save her is a lord so infamous that some say he is the son of the Devil himself ... Erik Trevayne is called the Demon Lord of Hawksbridge Castle, but few know of the curse he lives under. Or the terrifying changes slowly gnawing away at his humanity. When he weds her, all he wants of Kristine is a son. But when he beds her, a wild hope is born---that love can tame even the most monstrous of beasts ...
- Sung in Shadow
Tanith Leestandalone novel1983
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A retelling of the Romeo & Juliet story, with fantasy elements. (adapted from the back cover of the first edition): In a parallel world, in a Renaissance Italy just a little bit different from that we know, a dashing young man named Romulan met a lovely young lady named Iuletta. But between their romance stood the hatred of their feuding families - and a witchcraft that really worked.
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
series6 books2015
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A Court of Thorns and Roses is a fantasy romance series by American author Sarah J. Maas, which follows the journey of 19-year-old Feyre Archeron after she is brought into the faerie lands of Prythian. The first book of the series, A Court of Thorns and Roses, was published in May 2015. The series centers on Feyre's adventures across Prythian and the faerie courts, following the epic love story and fierce struggle that ensues after she enters the fae lands. The series has sold over 13 million copies. There are currently five novels in the series, with the sixth scheduled to release on October 27, 2026, and the seventh on January 12, 2027. An eighth installment is set to conclude the continuous story told across books six, seven and eight.
- Wars of Vis
series3 books1976
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Tanith Lee's Wars of Vis trilogy is set on a world of feuding city-states, following the warlord Raldnor Am Anackire's rise as long-buried tensions between the pale-skinned Vis and darker-skinned Lowlanders erupt into open war and the revelation of hidden power. The Storm Lord opens the trilogy, continued by Anackire and The White Serpent.
- Prison Camp
series3 books2020
part of Black Dagger
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Prison Camp is a three-book arc within J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood, the long-running paranormal romance series about vampire warriors defending their race against soulless enemies called lessers. The Jackal, The Wolf, and The Viper follow different members of that same vampire society rather than opening a new setting. It sits within a Brotherhood franchise that has run continuously since 2005.
- Eboenia
Nataviastandalone novel2025
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● "A fairy named Eboenia is captured by War, a warlock, on her wedding day. As they grow closer, she must choose between learning dark magic with him or returning to her fiancé." ― quoted from this book's Amazon product page as 2025-08-27.
- The Sardonyx Net
Elizabeth A. Lynnstandalone novel1981
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From the flaps of the Putnam first edition: "The Sardonyx Net, also known as the Yago Net: a vast starship owned and operated by the Family Yago, captained by Zed Yago. It visits all planets in the Sardonyx Sector of space, picking up special cargo - convicted felons who will serve our their terms as dorazine-drugged slaves to the wealthy land and factory owners on the planet Chabad. But often their ordeal begins even before the are sold, for Zed Yago is a man with a taste for sadism. The slave trade is the most lucrative business on Chabad. It is controlled totally by the Family Yago, headed by Zed's older sister Rhani, who is the only woman Zed has truly loved. Rhani is a shrewd businesswoman with only one weakness: a heart as compassionate as her brother's is perverse. While the authorities of the Sector's other planets look away, the Families of Chabad purchase dorazine from representatives of a secret, unlocatable source known as The Pharmacy, and use it to keep their slave-based economy healthy. Not one protests, for Chabad's illegal and inhumane activities keep prisons empty, criminals under control, and Chabad's valuable exports flowing. Despite constant underground revolutionary activity, the situation has maintained. But he long-lived stability of this sanctioned trade in illegal drugs and human beings is now threatened by two unexpected events: a worsening shortage of dorazine which is sparking more rebellion, and the arrival of Starcaptain Dana Ikoro. Dana, as drug smuggler, is captured by the Net and delivered from Zed's hands to Rhani. He is to be her bodyguard, but becomes much more. Against this incredible background, Lynn tells an irresistible story of adventure, intrigue, revolution and romance. It is a story of people snared in a net of warring passions, a net which will prove to be even stronger than the power of the Sardonyx Net."
- The Taker / Immortal
series5 books2011
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Alma Katsu's The Taker opens the Immortal trilogy (plus a linked prequel novella) when a young doctor named Luke meets a woman who reveals she is immortal, and hears how she was abandoned by a lover two centuries earlier and made eternal by a centuries-old Hungarian count who abducted her. The dark historical fantasy continues across The Reckoning and The Descent, with The Devil's Scribe serving as a prequel novella.
