Growing up in poverty with family who constantly put him down, Tadek didn't have the best childhood. Until one day a princess noticed him, and her kindness changed everything. She's gone though, and Tadek has carried his grief alone all this time, but it might be time for someone else to...
![Book Review: Reclaimed (The World of Reforged Book 3) by Seth Haddon [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Reclaimed-The-World-of-Reforged-Book-3-by-Seth-Haddon-255x255.jpg)
Saba, a scholar researching the astral sea, has been arrested and accused of murder after his device caused the death of many people, including a foreign politician. When someone from the foreign country comes to take Saba and investigate, he starts to believe Saba might be innocent, and they work together to uncover the...
![Book Review: A Power Unbound (The Last Binding Book 3) by Freya Marske [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-A-Power-Unbound-The-Last-Binding-Book-3-by-Freya-Marske-255x255.jpg)
Lord Hawthorn, who tried to run away from magic years ago, is stuck unhappily in the middle of a magical conspiracy, living in a magical house with the people who dragged him into it. And he finds himself very badly wanting Alan, the writer/thief who might hate him but holds his own against Jack's verbal sparring in a way no one else ever...
![Book Review: The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence Book 1) by Emma Mieko Candon [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Archive-Undying-The-Downworld-Sequence-Book-1-by-Emma-Mieko-Candon-255x255.jpg)
When his AI god corrupted and died while Sunai was interfacing with them, it changed him, making him immortal and putting a target on his back. So far, he's escaped the notice of the governing body that forces people like him into AI mech bodies to use them for violence. But then he gets entangled with a man who could very well figure out and turn him in for his secret, and his life only gets...
Varazda is excited to have Damiskos come to visit and meet his family after a month apart, but then everything starts going wrong, including his family's distrust and hostile attitudes toward Dami. Then there's talk of a possible murder, and though it's not how the two wanted to spend their time together, they can't help but end up in the middle of...
Damiskos, disabled from his time in the military, is at a seaside villa when he meets and is drawn to the slave Varazda. But there's more going on among the guests than it first seems---espionage and intrigue---and definitely more to Varazda, which Damiskos uncovers as he helps him and grows closer to...
James, once a dashing, feared pirate captain, is now an old man with an aging body and a well of grief. When something dark slips from Neverland into London looking for him, he ends up entangled with Wendy and Jane, drawn back to Neverland, hoping to finally fix his...
In The Vampire Grinch, a Christmas-loving human and his Christmas-hating vampire boyfriend fight and make up just in time to celebrate the holiday. In Vampire Claus, a vampire and a human meet on Christmas Eve and deliver gifts to children. In The Vampire's Dinner, a vampire hires a companion each Christmas to tell his truth to before draining them, but this year's victim changes things up by...
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This anthology has five stories, each inspired in their way by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In one, a man uses Victor's notes to figure out how to make his own creation. In the next, a couple combines taxidermy and science to resurrect a beautiful woman. In another, a man recalls his young life and his run-in with a monster. In yet another, a detective takes on a case involving stolen body parts....
When a new man shows up in the Afterlife town of Damnation, gets himself elected mayor, and gains control over the town's two vampires, it only worsens the problems with the Native Americans, who easily outnumber the outlaws. Meanwhile, food and booze become scarce, the weather starts changing, and the outlaws start getting restless as tensions...
