They won't stop talking to me. Penny Pearson keeps playing the same character and can't level up: herself. She's 25, unemployed, broke, and one bad decision away from making rum and video games her entire personality. Then, strangers start confessing things to her. Not normal things, either: "Someone who looks exactly like me is ruining my life." "I think my therapist is a vampire." "There's something in the lake." "I see ghosts all over campus. And they're angry." Penny doesn't know why people keep supernatural trauma dumping on her. She didn't ask for the stories. But once people start telling them, she can't help but listen. Then Alex appears - British, bossy, and annoyingly attractive - and tells her that she's a Listener. It sounds simple but Listening has side effects. Energy drains, nightmares, and voices whispering to her in the darkness. And some of the storytellers are dangerous. So Penny does the only reasonable thing - she starts a podcast. Her name. Her voice. Their monsters. It's supposed to be a record of what happened. A way to understand and proof that she wasn't insane - proof that she was here. But stories have power. Listener voices have more. And Penny has no idea who - or what - her voice has awakened.

Six months ago, the wrong twin was murdered. Sloane Michaels was the town's golden girl. Romy was her shadow. On the night of the bonfire, they traded places - a childhood game with a deadly price. When Romy found her sister in a bathtub of crimson water, she realized the killer hadn't targeted the star cheerleader. They had come for the girl in the charcoal hoodie. They had come for Romy. Now, the killer has finally realized their mistake. To survive the graduation season, Romy must use everything she can think of to unmask the predator who is still walking the school hallways - before they come to collect what is owed. Two sisters. One secret. One chance to survive.

The deeper the color, the closer the darkness The deeper the love, the closer the madness Gioiella was starting to realize that some games, once started, would never end; some doors, once opened, would never close. He was never on the other side of the door. And he never stops playing. A psychological dark romance about guilt, memory, and the shadow that refuses to be forgotten

A grand gesture from Ares has Galene revisiting her past in the present when he brings Ian back from the underworld. The gift of more time with someone you love is edged with bitterness when an expiration date is set. Galene seeks to make every moment count while searching for a way to make it last forever. Join this enchanted tale that explores love, loss, and the innate senses that make us happy in life in the third installation of the "Taming of Ares" series.

One year ago, Sarah's best friend Cassie brutally murdered four classmates in the house next door. Then Cassie disappeared. No one knows why she did it. Or that Sarah could have stopped her. Now, strange things are happening - messages written in blood, familiar voices whispering to Sarah, faces in the mirror that aren't her own. Cassie's favorite slumber party game was always Bloody Mary and her final entries in a journal are filled with stories about a "presence" in the mirror, who listened when no one else did. Cassie poured her fear, anger, and heartbreak into Bloody Mary - confessing the bullying, loneliness, and slow, painful realization that Sarah was starting to make new friends and move on without her. As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Sarah and her friends - including Abby, who might be something more - must follow the clues and go to what's now called the Demon House. There, they will learn what really happened, what Cassie unleashed...and whether she's still alive. Cassie faced her demons and failed. Bloody Mary is done waiting. And Sarah is next. --------- Highest Rankings: 🥇#1 in Urban Legends 🥇 #1 in YA Horror 🥈#2 in Occult Top 5 in Psychological Horror Top 5 in Horror

Folk tales warn that the witch of Gnarl Mountain is a toothless hag with ice in her veins and a stone where her heart should be. But she's not. She's a young, inexperienced girl, victim of unspeakable crimes, yet determined to steal back a precious heirloom that will increase her magic. However, to do so she needs the aid of three people. One helps her for money, one out of obligation, and one for love.

In public, I'm the obedient daughter of House Velmire. In private, I'm learning to dismantle everything they've built. It started with an interrogation. Sirius Lioren-Union reformer, political rival, the right hand of the man I was sent to sabotage-broke every belief I'd ever held. Not with torture, but with questions I couldn't answer. Now I see the truth. And I can't unsee it. So I go back to the manor. But not as the meek daughter they think I am. I smile through arranged marriage negotiations while my heart belongs to the one man I can never have. I master forbidden magic that could stop a heart while passing secrets to the resistance. I play the perfect heiress while the people in the lower quarters become the family I choose. Every stolen glance with my family's enemy feels like treason. Every secret meeting pulls me deeper into a world I was raised to destroy. Every moment I spend on the wrong side of this war, I become someone my family wouldn't recognize. But revolution has a cost. And when the careful balance I've built begins to crumble, when my grandfather's suspicions sharpen, when I'm forced to choose between the people I love and the power I wield... I'll discover exactly how far I'm willing to go. Even if it means becoming the monster they always wanted. Even if it means breaking rules I didn't know could be broken. A fantasy of forbidden love, political revolution, dangerous magic, and the impossible choices that fracture everything. Updates every Tuesday and Friday.

In the shadow of the Tsar, a Jewish woman's body is a battlefield and her silence is a slow death; in the Pale of Settlement, her mind is the only crime scene they cannot reach. In the sodden, gray streets of 1890s Chernigov/Chernihiv, the air tastes of coal smoke, damp earth, and state-sanctioned terror. For Aviva Osherov, the Pale is more than a border on a map-it is a chokehold. Caught in a double-bind of historical shadows, she survives by navigating a world where her intellect is viewed as a corruption of her faith and her very identity is a crime against the Russian Crown. In a land where the law is written in bruises and the sky is a pale witness to the slaughter, Aviva hides the sharp edges of her thoughts behind downcast eyes and heavy wool. But beyond the shtetl walls, the Empire is waking up, and it is hungry. The mud of the Ukraine frontier is thick with the scent of wood smoke and the cold, metallic promise of Cossack steel. When the Tsar's bugle cries out from the distant ridge, the fragile peace of her village shatters, leaving Aviva to face a reality where blood is cheap and sanctuary is a myth. As she is drawn into a dangerous world of secret knowledge and a forbidden connection with Nikolai-a man who represents the very power that seeks to destroy her-Aviva must learn that some cages are made of stone, and others are woven from the threads of history itself. [MATURE: A gritty, realistic exploration of life in the Russian Empire. Contains visceral depictions of state-sanctioned violence, anti-Semitic persecution, and the raw struggle for survival. Reader discretion is strongly advised.]