Results for "Bound" in Horror

Six strapping warriors are determined to lay down the law. The women who claim them as mates might think they have the upper hand, but they’re about to discover what it means to be loved by a Viking.

Leila's years on the carnie circuit were certainly an education. What she didn't learn: how to be a vampire, or how to be married to the most famous vampire of them all. Adjusting to both has Leila teetering on a knife edge between passion and peril, and now the real danger is about to begin...

July 2013, Manchester, UK. A murder investigation team, led by DCI Mark Gunn is assigned to probe into the brutal mutilations of four women found dead from various locations around the city centre. The evidence gathered from the scene of the crimes, and the extreme nature of the women's deaths indicate that the team are looking for a dangerous, deranged maniac. As the case unfolds, and the team finds itself buried deep within the seedy, sleazy underworld of the city, characteristics between the murders increase proportionally with the body count.

When Alice Nightingale's blood magic awakens with a vision of death, she knows one truth: If she masters it, she survives. If she surrenders to it, she becomes a monster. The Umbral Academy stands fractured after fire and betrayal. Its survivors bear scars, its halls echo with ghosts, and beneath its ancient stones, something hungry stirs in the dark Alice thought she understood sacrifice. She watched her best friend walk through the flames. She learned that power demands a price written in blood. But the Second Trial changes everything. At the Academy, knowledge is seduction.

Bound by the shackles of a sheltered existence, Aoife Quigley yearns for more than the quiet exile she was forced to endure. An escape to the Maldives leads her to Eamon O’Sullivan, a man shrouded in darkness and desire. Their passion ignites an inferno that defies fate and awakens an obsession. Tragedy rips Aoife from her haven, dreams shattering in its wake. Bound by blood to the Irish Syndicate’s throne, she believes that she and her twin brother will reign united. But when her brother shuts her out, all trust is shattered.

When twenty-one-year-old Virginia “Ginny” Blackthorne’s fire magic ignites during a sermon on sin, she knows one truth: If she stays, she burns. Fleeing her zealot stepfather and a forced marriage, Ginny follows a blood-bound pendant to an academy hidden between worlds, where the chosen study forbidden magic beneath three moons and ancient gods still whisper through the walls. At the Umbral Academy, power comes at a price. The professors are merciless, the Trials are lethal, and her fellow students would rather see her dead than crowned Firebringer.

A chilling anthology of nineteen stories of cursed and haunted books; featuring malevolent second-hand books, cursed novelizations, unsettling journals, and the end of the world.

Selena Thomas has spent eighteen years believing she’s insane all because she told the truth about what happened in Alexandria’s basement. When she was ten, a demon masquerading as a little boy brutally murdered her. The problem is she didn’t stay dead. Demons aren’t real, of course. They’re all in her head, a product of a child’s overabundant imagination. At least, that’s what everyone wants her to think. After eight years of in-patient treatment and another decade of social isolation, she’s finally ready to believe them.

On the night of the Hungry Ghost Moon, when spirits can briefly return to the living world, Jodi Wu and her best friend sneak into Portland’s Chinese Garden and Ghost Museum. Kneeling before the pond where Jodi’s toddler drowned one year before, they leave food offerings and burn joss paper—and Jodi prays that Ella’s ghost will return for the night. To distract Jodi from her grief, the two friends tell each other ghost stories as they explore the museum.

Shy and reserved, Astrid can’t believe that anyone would want her as their bride, let alone a strong and handsome man like Jørgen. She longs to submit to his seductions, but knows his interest will wane once he’s bedded her. Daring warrior Jørgen has never lacked for female attention, yet the only woman to wholly capture his heart is Astrid. Though she refuses to accept his intentions are true, Jørgen is determined to demonstrate his devotion.

Adrian and Delanie Michaels need a new beginning in their marriage. Old grievances have almost buried them. To begin again, they need new scenery. They need a new environment for themselves and their young son, Trey. They never imagined they would be able to afford a home the size of the two-story Victorian they find in an older, upscale Colorado neighborhood. They know the home is newer than those around it, and they know this is because the original home on the site burned to the ground.

No strings. No promises. No emotions. Just the sweet release of giving my body over to someone else, someone who doesn’t know who I am or the things I’ve done. Highdive can give me that. The Sergeant at Arms for the Dark Sons isn’t looking for anything serious, making him the perfect match for my time at their club. And for a few sinfully delicious weeks, he is everything I need.

They call me a playboy. Society’s pretty pet. What they don’t know is I’m so much more. My only directive was to keep her hidden, and safe. After everything she’s been through I’m the last person to offer comfort and care. I have little experience with either. Both of us have been broken by our pasts. But mine is catching up to me, and I would deal with it as I usually do: with total decimation. But that puts her in the crosshairs, and that’s unacceptable.

Apollo and Amaya Shelly are twins, living deep in the forest of Stockwood, Washington, and away from civilization. Raised by their father and under the protection of their leader, Maximiliano, Apollo and Amaya live what they consider a normal life with the Sanguis clan.

Welcome to the Wardens of Terra, an elite group of shifters destined to save humankind! The Hounds of God have been disbanded by the Catholic Church, leaving a terrible void in the fight to save humankind. As a result, a much older organization returns to power and takes up the reins to fight to save the Earth from the evil that stalks it. They are the Wardens of Terra, an elite force of shifters each with a defining power to aid them in the never-ending battle against the forces of darkness.

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Nothing ever changes in Sanders. The town's still got a video store, for God's sake. So why doesn't Eli Teague want to leave? Not that he'd ever admit it, but maybe he's been waiting - waiting for the traveler to come back. The one who's roared into his life twice before, pausing just long enough to drop tantalizing clues before disappearing in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires. The one who's a walking anachronism, with her tricorne hat, flintlock rifle, and steampunked Model A Ford.

Conceited, arrogant, and built like a prize stud, Rutger is a red-blooded Viking. But his brash, bad boy demeanour hides a chasm of pain. He has known love, only to have his heart cleaved in two by a faithless woman. Grethe’s hopes of marriage and children were cruelly dashed when her fickle betrothed abandoned her. With Rutger as her captive mate, she’ll punish him as she’d like to punish all men.

After laboring for decades in the mines of Skálavík, Viggo is lured by the promise of great riches, and joins his jarl's sea quest. But the daring adventure is doomed, the longship destroyed in a terrible storm. He awakes to find himself robbed of his sight, and his liberty. Signy knows what it is to suffer alone. The last thing she seeks is a man—even if the future of the island depends upon compliance. Thrown together, the two form an alliance. Viggo will impregnate her, in return for a promise that she'll help him end his misery.

In The Demon's Whisper: Bound by Shadows, nightmares become reality in this chilling supernatural thriller. Jilaiya Guidry, a woman haunted by her dark past and bound to a mysterious lakehouse deep in the bayou, is about to confront a terror unlike any she’s ever known. As eerie whispers seep through the walls and shadows twist in the corners of her mind, Jilaiya must face the demonic entity that threatens not just her life—but her very soul.