Hallows Fright by Dakota Wilde

Blurb:

Nightmare Acres is for the dark, the depraved, and the lost.

Vampires, demons, ghosts, and witches...

All the frights of the night stalk the grounds at Nightmare acres, hiding their true idnentities from the humans who’ve come to their cursed playground.

Single mom, Olivia, finds herself reluctantly amongst the crowd when she’s sepreated from her friends and lands in the arms of a handsome stranger, only there’s more to him and the others working there than meets the eye.

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Satan's Affair by H.D. Carlton

I downloaded it via KU

Blurb:

Every Halloween, Satan's Affair will come to you.

We travel the country, offering terrifying haunted houses, thrilling rides and the tastiest food. And with every passing town, I cleanse this world, one execution at a time.

I hide within the walls, casting my judgement for those that reek of evil, singing lullabies to their rotting souls.

Once you've been chosen, there's no escaping my henchmen—they cater to my every desire.

You can run and you can hide, but it only excites me.

Come.

Take a walk through my dollhouse, where your screams will blend and your cute little pleas will go unanswered.

But I can't promise it'll be over quickly...


Recommended Reading Order for the C&M Universe:
Satan's Affair
Haunting Adeline
Hunting Adeline
Where's Molly

Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

It's on my physical TBR.

Blurb:

The Manipulator

I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me.
I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh.
But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave.
He's always there, watching and waiting.
And I can never look away.
Not when I want him to come closer.


The Shadow

I didn't mean to fall in love.
But now that I have, I can't stay away.
I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves.
The way she undresses...
I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine.
And once she is, I'll never let her go.
Not even when she begs me to.

While not required, it is highly suggested to read the novella, Satan's Affair, first.

Author's Note: This book ends on a cliffhanger. For CWs, please check the author's website.

Recommended Reading Order for the C&M Universe:
Satan's Affair
Haunting Adeline
Hunting Adeline
Where's Molly

The Sinner by Shantel Tessier

Blurb:

An all-new dark standalone romance from the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Shantel Tessier

LITTLE DEMON

I was raised in a world where money and power are at your fingertips. My father is a LORD, a very respected member of a secret society that knows no bounds. When tragedy struck my family, we discovered we weren’t untouchable. Just when I thought life couldn’t get any worse, I was shown what hell is really like. Then he came and saved me. The devil disguised as my personal hero. But of course, nothing is for free. Not when a soul is up for grabs.

The Sacrifice by Shantel Tessier

Blurb:

An all-new dark standalone romance from the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Shantel Tessier

HIS LADY

A Lord is to marry after he graduates from Barrington University, an elite college for the rich. A Lady’s job is to help him fit into a world unaware of his secret society. The Lord does not get to choose who he spends the rest of his life with. But there is always an exception to the rule. And I just so happen to be his.

I VOW. YOU VOW. WE VOW.

I was to wed a Lord of my parents’ choosing. Wealth can’t buy you everything, or I would have had freedom years ago. Instead, my strict parents made sure I lived a dull life in a mansion resembling a prison.

But on my wedding day, I was handed over to another man—an even more ruthless Lord that my family hated.

Tyson Riley Crawford only wanted me for his revenge. I’m nothing more than a debt to be paid. I didn’t have a say in the matter. So when I said my vows before the congregation, I knew I’d break them. Consequences be damned.

Too bad I underestimated my husband and didn’t realize he was more determined to punish me than I was to succeed at escaping. He’ll make me choke on those words I used to bind myself to him.

Yet even he couldn’t have seen what our future held. Ultimately, we’re all just pawns in a game that none of us can win unless you’re willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice … and even that may not be enough.

Things to know about The Sacrifice
Secret society
MF (no sharing the h)
J/P (jealous/possessive) Hero
OTT (over the top) Hero
Complete standalone
Told in dual POV
TWs listed inside the book
This is a 156K word romance that contains dark themes that may be triggering to some.

This book can be read as a standalone but the timeline of the Lords books is as follows:
The Ritual
The Sinner
The Sacrifice
Sabotage (the H isn't a Lord but he works for a Lord)

A Curse of Breath and Blood by K.W. Foster

I received this as an ARC from a giveaway and now I'm on her Street Team as well.

Blurb:

'A Court of Thorns and Roses' meets 'Six of Crows' in this thrilling new fantasy romance.

A queen turned mercenary. A long-lost love. An ancient evil reborn.

With her home kingdom destroyed and her family considered dead, Aelia Springborn makes a living, using her abilities to break minds for anyone with enough coin. Content to live a life in the shadows, her world is turned upside down when her former lover, Caiden Stormweaver, tracks her down at the edge of the world with a proposition she can’t refuse…. help him thwart her former husband, King Gideon, from obtaining the deadly army of the Alder King.

With a chasm of hurt between them, the pair strikes a deal; once their mission is complete, Aelia will wipe his memories of their relationship, releasing them both from their tumultuous past.

Bound by magic and aided by friends, Caiden and Aelia set off on a journey to save the continent 

Unravelling The Beast by Jodie King

Reading this on KU before I receive book 2 as an ARC

Blurb:

This is a Dark Romance. Please check the trigger warnings at the BACK of the book before you start. This story is has very explicit content, and unsettling situations. The MMC is unhinged, OTT rough, and twisted. Readers are warned to read at their own risk. - This is book One of The Beast Duet.

Wren Edwardz - When I first moved in with him, I believed he was simply the boss, but he appears to be so much more now. He seems to have a strangling hold on me. I'm the person he turns to when he wants to unleash his most malicious and twisted side; I'm his little plaything and he is my obsession. He is so full of darkness that everything he touches is drenched in it, but my light, which is ultimately what sustains him, will never waver.

Arlo Hayes - I convinced myself she would just be the nanny when I first set eyes on her, but it didn't take long for me to start craving her. I now have all power over her. I go to her when I want to unleash the wicked beast that lives within me, and she endures it every time like my good little slut. She is so full of light that I want to darken her vibrant world, just as mine is, consume her with all my evil, and suffocate her with my depressed, crushed soul, but she will never falter.

Awakening The Beast by Jodie King

I am receiving this as an ARC because I am on Jodie King's Street Team

Blurb:

This is a Dark Romance. Please check the trigger warnings at the BACK of the book before you start. This story has very explicit content and unsettling situations. Readers are warned to read at their own risk. - This is book two of The Beast Duet.

Wren Hayes - The night I lost him, everything I cherished turned into ashes along with that fire, swallowed by the inferno that scarred my heart and mind. I became who they call ‘The Queen of Darkness’, mimicking the love of my life, Arlo Hayes, lost in the abyss of trauma and hatred. Now, as he stands before me, the happiness I should feel wars with the despair that has settled deep within me. Haunting memories, vengeance and deceit grip me tightly, their tendrils choking my every thought, while depression weighs heavily on my soul. I fear the lightness I once held in my heart may never return, and I dread our darkness will consume us both without it, even if he vows to mend me.

Arlo Hayes - I'm back, ready to wreak havoc, vengeance coursing through my icy veins for those who tore me from my family. But before I unleash my fury, I need to make up for the lost time and the hearts left shattered. My beacon of light has been consumed by the shadows, but I will heal her just as she once healed me. Despite her transformation, we will now be an unstoppable force and together, we’ll become a hurricane of violence and passion. She may have kept my throne warm, but my queen will stand strong alongside me with her heart restored and her head held high. The darkness will tremble in our fucking presence once I'm finished. Her inner light will blaze again, yet more brighter than ever before and everyone who deceived us will feel the full force of our wrath.

Sky Stitcher by A.C. Guess

I received an ARC Copy of this book because I am on A.C. Guess' Street Team

Blurb:

She's the realm's last hope. He's everything she's been taught to fear.

Becoming the Sky Stitcher was Zara’s worst nightmare—until she met him.

With the vengeful goddess, Prisha, shredding the sky and releasing monstrous crawlers into the realm, Zara and her people wait for the Stitcher to save them. But the ancient Eldress is failing, too old to keep up with her duties. The Daughters pray their goddess, Halah, will soon choose a worthy replacement for the aging Stitcher, but Zara only prays it will not be her.

Free-spirited and lacking the devotion of her Sisters, Zara is the least likely candidate for the role. When she wins the goddess’s blessing, Zara is certain there’s been a mistake. Mending is not her strong suit—wreaking havoc is her specialty.

And when Zara’s reckless magic fails to mend the skies, she inadvertently summons Rue, a Guardian of the In Between with starscape eyes, and binds herself to him. Now tethered to one of the monsters she’s meant to destroy, Zara has doomed her people…and her heart.

As Zara grapples with her unwanted bond to Rue and the fate of her realm, their entwined destinies weave a story through the stars that even she cannot resist.

Sky Stitcher is a story of duty, sacrifice, and unexpected love that defies both reason and celestial boundaries.

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