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  Academy of the Fateful

  Eva Chase

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  I thought I'd found a way to destroy the malicious power Roseborne College held over all its students—but I seem to have unleashed a host of fresh horrors instead. The school's ruling spirits are flying free, even more intent on tormenting us. Visions from the worst moments of our pasts are stalking us like ghosts, and my foster brother may have fallen too far into his monstrous nature to be saved. 
  It's all I can do to try to protect myself and the three guys I've fallen for here, let alone the rest of the school's inhabitants. On top of that, the supernatural energies I've just discovered in myself have desires all of their own.  
  As our most awful mistakes consume us, can we hold onto enough faith to keep up the struggle? And how much of myself will I have to sacrifice for a single chance at freedom? 
  *Academy of the Forsaken is the third and final book in the Cursed Studies trilogy.*

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  Shutter

  Ramona Emerson

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  Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the  
  ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. 
   
  As a lone portal to the living world for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won’t let her sleep and who sabotage her personal life. Her taboo and psychologically harrowing ability was what drove her away from the  
  Navajo reservation, where she was raised by her grandmother. It has isolated her from friends and gotten her in trouble with the law. 
   
  And now it might be what gets her killed. 
   
  When Rita is sent to photograph the scene of a supposed suicide on a highway overpass, the furious, discombobulated ghost of the victim—who insists she was murdered—latches onto Rita, forcing her on a quest for revenge against her  
  killers, and Rita finds herself in the crosshairs of one of Albuquerque’s most dangerous cartels. Written in sparkling, gruesome prose, Shutter is an explosive debut from one of crime fiction’s most powerful new voices.

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  History of the Necronomicon The...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "History of the Necronomicon" is a short text written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1927, and published in 1938. It describes the origins of the fictional book of the same name: the occult grimoire Necronomicon, a now-famous element of some of his stories. The short text purports to be non-fiction, adding to the appearance of 'pseudo-authenticity' which Lovecraft valued in building his Cthulhu Mythos oeuvre. Accordingly, it supposes the history of the Necronomicon as the inspiration for Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow, which concerns a book that overthrows the minds of those who read it.

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  Mr Pigsny (Unabridged)

  Reggie Oliver

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  Reggie Oliver is a stage actor and playwright. His biography of Stella Gibbons was praised as "a triumph" by Hilary Spurling in the Daily Telegraph, his play Winner Takes All, was described as "the funniest evening in London", by Michael Billington in The Guardian, and his adaptation of Hennequin and Delacour's Once Bitten opened at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in December 2010.
  MR. PIGSNY: It was, I suppose, a typical gangster's funeral. There were the extravagantly insincere floral tributes: TO REG, A DIAMOND GEEZER in white carnations; there was 'My Way' played by the reluctant organist; there was the coffin borne by six burly, blackcoated
  thugs into a church which Reg would never have entered in his lifetime except to marry or to bury.

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  The Surgeon's House - The...

  Jody Cooksley

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  'Deliciously dark. Perfect for a winter's night' Barbara Havelocke
  London, 1883.
  The brutal murder of Rose Parmiter seems, at first glance, to be a random and senseless act. Rose was the beloved cook at Evergreen House, a place of refuge for women and children, a place from which they can start their lives afresh. Proprietor Rebecca Harris is profoundly shocked by the death of her dear friend and alarmed at the mysterious events which begin to unfold shortly afterwards. Could the past be casting a shadow on the present? The malign legacy of the Everley family who called Evergreen home, cannot be ignored.
  After two further deaths it becomes clear there is an evil presence infecting their sanctuary, and Rebecca must draw out the poison of the past so the Evergreen residents can finally make peace with the darkness in their lives.
  'This atmospheric gothic masterpiece is utterly brilliant - I was completely hooked!' Clare Marchant
  'I could not put it down' Helen Phifer
  'An atmospheric gothic mystery, with hope at its heart. The Surgeon's House gripped me from the first page' Jodie Matthews
  'A gripping, intelligent gothic novel that lingers well beyond its final page' Historical Novels Review
  'A highly entertaining historical murder mystery, beautifully written' Elisabeth Wolf

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  7 Days - a Hate-to-Love Dark...

  Stasia Black

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  Seven days to make her remember. Seven nights to make her beg. 
  She was my salvation—until she became my destruction. 
  Once, I would have bled for her. 
  Now, I burn for revenge. 
  She and her father didn’t just betray me. They destroyed me. Left me broken, bleeding, crawling my way out of hell. And now, years later, she’s back—wrapped up in a satin bow with a convenient case of amnesia? 
  Nice try, princess. But I don’t believe in fairy tales. 
  I bought her at an auction. Now I own her for a week. 
  Seven days to make her remember exactly who she was to me. 
  Seven nights to make her pay for every lie. 
  And when I’ve broken her, when I’ve ruined her the way she ruined me… 
  She’ll beg me to keep her. 
  And I will. 
  Because after seven days, I won’t be able to let her go. 
  Not now. Not ever. 
  Just seven days to make her mine. Forever. 
  Note: formerly called Cherry Auction 
  TWs: Please note this is a dark romance with kidnapping, dub-con, and intense themes of mental illness, abuse and trauma (including references to past childhood abuse). A full list of trigger warnings can be found on the author’s website.

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