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The Ballad of Never After

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas · 432 pages

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. At least, he's not a beast all the time. As she adapts to her new home, her feeling

Bargains and DealsCursesMorally Gray Love InterestFairy Tale Retelling
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Kingdom of the Wicked

Kerri Maniscalco · 448 pages

Morally Gray Love InterestBargains and DealsRomantasyCurses
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For the Wolf

Hannah Whitten · 437 pages

RomantasyCursesBargains and DealsMorally Gray Love Interest
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Where the Dark Stands Still

A.B. Poranek · 336 pages

RomantasyMorally Gray Love InterestBargains and DealsCurses
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Cruel Beauty

Rosamund Hodge · 357 pages

Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.

Bargains and DealsCursesFairy Tale RetellingRomantasy
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One Dark Window

Rachel Gillig · 377 pages

New York Times bestseller • USA Today bestseller • Booktok sensation • Amazon Charts bestseller • Over 3 million copies sold of The Shepherd King Duology From the queen of gothic romantasy, Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window is the dark, mist-cloaked tale of a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking. Elspeth needs a monst

Bargains and DealsRomantasyCursesMorally Gray Love Interest
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh · 325 pages

CursesBargains and DealsRomantasyFairy Tale Retelling
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Quicksilver

Callie Hart · 624 pages

Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens

Morally Gray Love InterestRomantasyBargains and DealsCurses
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Foxglove

Adalyn Grace · 465 pages

RomantasyBargains and DealsMorally Gray Love InterestAtmospheric
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The Thirteenth Child

Erin A. Craig · 498 pages

Bargains and DealsRomantasyFairy Tale RetellingCurses
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Arcana Academy

Elise Kova · 553 pages

Bargains and DealsMorally Gray Love InterestRomantasySlow Burn Romance
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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renee Ahdieh · 404 pages

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan

Morally Gray Love InterestCursesFairy Tale RetellingAtmospheric
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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

RomantasyCursesMorally Gray CharacterFairy Tale Retelling
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El rey malvado

Holly Black, Jaime Valero · 464 pages

RomantasyMorally Gray Love InterestMorally Gray CharacterYoung Adult
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The Emperor of Evening Stars

Laura Thalassa · 254 pages

Bargains and DealsRomantasyMorally Gray Love InterestMorally Gray Character
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Bring Me Their Hearts

Sara Wolf · 370 pages

RomantasyFairy Tale RetellingMorally Gray CharacterYoung Adult
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The Never King

Nikki St. Crowe · 193 pages

RomantasyMorally Gray Love InterestFairy Tale RetellingCurses
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Silver in the Bone

Alexandra Bracken · 497 pages

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the critically acclaimed author of Lore comes a stunning contemporary fantasy inspired by Celtic lore—the tale of a teenage girl who seeks her destiny in the cursed ruins of Avalon, driven by love, revenge, and pure adrenaline! "Simmering with magic, peril, romance, and heartbreak." —Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shadow and Bone

RomantasyCursesAtmosphericYoung Adult
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Among the Beasts & Briars

Ashley Poston · 342 pages

RomantasyCursesFairy Tale RetellingAtmospheric
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The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

Carissa Broadbent

The Bookish Box Exclusive Luxe Edition of The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King Love is a sacrifice at the altar of power.In the wake of the Kejari, everything Oraya once thought to be true has been destroyed. A prisoner in her own kingdom, grieving the only family she ever had, and reeling from a gutting betrayal, she no longer even knows the truth of her own blood. She's left only with one certainty:

Morally Gray Love InterestRomantasyMorally Gray CharacterAtmospheric
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The Goddess Test

Aimee Carter · 298 pages

Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.

Bargains and DealsFairy Tale RetellingCursesYoung Adult
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Accomplice to the Villain

Hannah Nicole Maehrer · 384 pages

Morally Gray Love InterestRomantasyCursesFairy Tale Retelling
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Long Live Evil

Sarah Rees Brennan · 431 pages

RomantasyBargains and DealsMorally Gray Love InterestMorally Gray Character

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