Michael Blackwood

I CLAUDIUS x MEXICAN GOTHIC 🏰A rotting castle 🔥 A sadistic bridegroom 📚An abandoned library 🍷An alcoholic brother 🪷 A plotting princess 👑A dying king Can friendless Francis survive them all before becoming the villain himself? #PitDark #A #GH #PH #DF

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LEIGH BARDUGO X RAINBOW ROWELL X RICK RIORDAN Tarot inspired world-building, A bisexual mage A school of black magic Magic inspired by the East And a quest involving family secrets #PitDark #DF #YA #FA #ND #LGBT #OWN

A year after a toddler disappears from Beth's preschool her ex Elliot's newborn son with girlfriend Sarah is in danger. The two are linked, but Beth will have to confront what she and Elliot did the day Riley disappeared to find the key. #PT #PitDark

FURYBORN x GRAVE MERCY 🗡12 cutthroat initiates ✨8 houses of magic 🩸3 deadly trials 🖤 1 quest for revenge In order to destroy the Soul Eaters, the infamous order of assassins that killed her family, Briar will have to become one of them. #pitdark #FA #YA

GOOD OMENSxTAKE ME 2 CHURCH Texas sucks. Now Morgan has to kill a man for her demon boss and fix a himbo's spirit problem or a Prince of Hell claims her soul. Fab. 🏳️‍🌈queer/ace rep 👻Cozy horror ⛪️Religious trauma 😈Tim Gunn demon 😾Cat named Beelzebutt #PitDark #A #CH #SPEC #LGBT

The Adoration Of Jenna Fox X My Sister’s Keeper 1 obsessed scientist 2 kidnapped teens 3 lives at stake in a race against time to rescue 18yo Alyson and Cassie, and the woman they were created to save. #PitDark #YA #SFT

GODKILLER x NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE The Woods on the edge of town are hungry, patient, and full of horrors. None who enter return the same. But for Ilanis and her companions, their very lives depend on finding a secret the Woods want are hiding in its heart. #PitDark #A #FA #DF

MIDNIGHT MASS X PHANTOMS Danielle is at a dead end. Trapped by her family and her dead-end town, she and her friends see no future. When an ancient witch returns to trap the town in her nightmare realm, she must rally to do what she's always wanted: escape. #PitDark #A #H

Deadbeat mother dies. Body donated to science and shipped across states. Daughter must find parts. Mom's ghost hitches a ride, demanding reconciliation. Worst road trip ever. Christopher Moore meets Fleabag #PitDark #DC #A

Familial outcast Frank discovers his parents lead a demonic secret society & vows to take them down...if only to prove he was right all along. But, will he go through with it if it means killing his beloved brother? Save the family, or save the world? #pitdark #A #CH #DF

We live with ghosts: those of the past, those in the uncertain future, on the backroads and in our phones and buried in our memories. This short story collection, including the award winning "Sodom Road", confronts them all #PitDark #A #H

On Aeon's mafia-controlled sentient skyships, Kaia plots revenge for her sister's murder. But she falls for a rival leader, into an underworld of secrets, dark magic & carnal pleasures. Love could destroy them both - and her chance at vengeance. #PitDark #DF #DR #A