Kraken My Heart

Io never thought she could love--or be loved--so deeply. But there's no time to sort out her love life. A mysterious illness is spreading across the US, and it looks like Io is standing at it's epicenter. Author’s Notes *Kraken’s Cult books are longer novellas to shorter novels (40,000-50,000+) words. They may or may not include cliff-hangers. Typically, one plot thread will be resolved or “resolved for now,” while others may continue to build throughout the series. There’s none of that “book that ends abruptly in the middle and I’m gonna call it a novella” stuff. *Includes mentions of past trauma, including but not limited to: implied threat of sexual abuse as a minor, bullying, violence, emotional trauma. *So much swearing. Seriously. *Explicit sex with varying levels of heat and kink possible. *Series contains M/F, F/F, M/M, MMMMFF romance. *Characters with gender fluidity, non-binary/intersex characters, gender bending/gender swap, gray ace, and any other orientation you can think of may appear in this series. *Let’s face it, you’re thinking about reading a book with a kraken main character. There may be tentacles put to use in ways that make some people uncomfortable. It’s just to be expected.

When Ted unexpectedly finds himself on trial for murder in another dimension, his only ally is King Grell, a catlike immortal. To prove his innocence, Ted must unravel a cosmic conspiracy... all while resisting Grell’s increasingly appealing seduction attempts.

It's just Ted's luck that he meets the love of his life while covered in the blood of a murder victim. Funeral worker Ted Sturm has a foul mouth, a big heart, and a knack for communicating with the dead. Unfortunately the dead don't make very good friends, and Ted's only living pal, his roommate, just rescued a strange cat who's determined to make his life even more miserable. This cat is more than he seems, and soon Ted finds himself in an alternate dimension... and on top of a dead body. When Ted is accused of murder, his only ally in a strange world full of powerful magical beings calling for his head is King Grell, a sarcastic, randy, catlike immortal with impressive abilities... and anatomy. The two soon find themselves at the center of a cosmic conspiracy and surrounded by dangerous enemies. But with Ted's special skills and Grell's magic, they have a chance to get to the bottom of the mystery and save Ted. There's just one problem: Ted's got to resist Grell's aggressive advances... and he isn't sure he wants to.

Legend says if you consume the heart of a mermaid, you will know all of a man's secrets Ailin doesn't care if the legend is true or not - she's stuck in a crate on her way to feature as the main course at a lavish banquet. Her heart to be served while still beating for a cruel noble while the rest of her is sliced into sashimi. Unless she can escape. Across the ocean, Fenton longs for a different release. Sold as a child by men who labelled him a mistake, a failed experiment. Except he has one valuable skill, he can summon the dreaded kraken. Bought by a pirate, he has only known life at sea, wielded as a tool by the captain. Two lives collide when the pirates capture the vessel holding Ailin. The kraken holds the key to Ailin's freedom but in summoning the beast one last time, Fenton must choose between losing his life or his heart...

HIS HUNTRESS AND HIS HEARTLarkin has spent almost a year hunting the monstrous kraken in the hope that they knew the whereabouts of her missing brother. Her efforts finally come to fruition when she and the other rangers capture three of the beasts - but the reality is nothing like the stories they've been told, and the kraken are not the monsters she expected. Dracchus awes her, captivates her, and makes her long for things she'd never dared dream. With tensions between their people escalating, can she jeopardize everything by trusting him? Is a taste of him worth her life?HER WARRIOR AND HER REFUGEDracchus has risked himself countless times for the sake of his people, doing anything and everything to protect and provide for them. Between the vocal, anti-human kraken at home and the hunters prowling the seas, everything is falling apart around him. But when he meets Larkin, he allows himself hope - hope for a mate of his own, for a family of his own. She is his match, unlike any female he's ever known. To have her, he'll have to endanger her, along with all those he's come to care for. After years of selflessness, how much is he willing to gamble to fulfill his own desires?

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things. In the Darwin Centre at London’s Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre’s prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux—better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy’s tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air. As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens—human and otherwise—are adept in magic and murder. There is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanity—and beyond. There is the criminal mastermind known as the Tattoo, a merciless maniac inked onto the flesh of a hapless victim. There is the FSRC—the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit—a branch of London’s finest that fights sorcery with sorcery. There is Wati, a spirit from ancient Egypt who leads a ragtag union of magical familiars. There are the Londonmancers, who read the future in the city’s entrails. There is Grisamentum, London’s greatest wizard, whose shadow lingers long after his death. And then there is Goss and Subby, an ageless old man and a cretinous boy who, together, constitute a terrifying—yet darkly charismatic—demonic duo. All of them—and others—are in pursuit of Billy, who inadvertently holds the key to the missing squid, an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.

The tentacles are coming out. Iolani Lionheart is done playing around. Caught up in the schemes of her demon godfather, she and her (sometimes difficult) cult of lovers travel across the country to stop a powerful human group bent on genocide. Bashing baddies and saving the day is nothing new for Io. But nothing is ever as it seems with her ridiculous family. And convincing the last of her reluctant lovers to trust her with their hearts (and their darkness) might prove more challenging than she anticipated…. But hey, there’s t-shirts! Author’s Notes *This book in particular includes scenes that may be distasteful for some readers (but are contextual and acceptable if you’re a hungry goblin), including knife play and some mild pain/blood play. (Don’t worry, it’s consensual and krakens are made of hardy stuff, but you’ve been warned). *Includes mentions of past trauma, including but not limited to: implied threat of sexual abuse as a minor, bullying, violence, emotional trauma in the characters’ backstories. *So much swearing. Seriously. *Explicit sex with varying levels of heat and kink possible. *Series contains M/F, F/F, M/M, MMMMFF romance. *Characters with gender fluidity, non-binary/intersex characters, gender bending/gender swap, gray ace, and any other orientation you can think of may appear in this series. *Let’s face it, you’re thinking about reading a book with a kraken main character. There may be tentacles put to use in ways that make some people uncomfortable. It’s just to be expected. *Kraken’s Cult books are longer novellas to shorter novels (40,000-50,000+) words.