Melissa Marr
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Cold Iron Heart
- By: Melissa Marr
- Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: June 16, 2020
- Language: English
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4.02(642 ratings)
How far would you go to escape fate?
In this prequel to the internationally bestselling Wicked Lovely series, the Faery Courts collide a century before the mortals in Wicked Lovely are born.
Thelma Foy, a jeweler with the Second Sight in iron-bedecked 1890s New Orleans, wasn’t expecting to be caught in a faery conflict. Tam can see through the glamours faeries wear to hide themselves from mortals, but if her secret were revealed, the fey would steal her eyes, her life, or her freedom. So, Tam doesn’t respond when they trail thorn-crusted fingertips through her hair at the French Market or when the Dark King sings along with her in the bayou.
But when the Dark King, Irial, rescues her, Tam must confront everything she thought she knew about faeries, men, and love.
Too soon, New Orleans is filling with faeries who are looking for her, and Irial is the only one who can keep her safe.
Unbeknownst to Tam, she is the prize in a centuries-old fight between Summer Court and Winter Court. To protect her, Irial must risk a war he can’t win-or surrender the first mortal woman he’s loved.
Cursed by Death
- By: Melissa Marr
- Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 02, 2021
- Language: English
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3.61(146 ratings)
The dead don’t always stay dead in Claysville . . . and in the afterlife, Death himself can’t be trusted.
Amity Blue has begun to remember strange impossible events, her ex trying to bite her and people vanishing like mist. Everyone in town swears a mountain lion is responsible for the recent deaths, but Amity is sure that there’s more to the story.
After a stalker-a dead stalker-appears at the bar where she works, Amity discovers that the dead don’t always stay dead in Claysville. Along with the current Graveminder, Rebekkah Barrow, Amity seeks out the enigmatic Mr. D, who seems to be Death himself, only to discover that the centuries-old contract to protect Claysville has been broken.
Caught between life in a cursed town and Death himself, Amity and Rebekkah must find a way to put the dead where they belong-because if the hungry dead keep rising, everyone in town will be lost.
Darkest Mercy
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Nick Landrum
- Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: February 22, 2011
- Language: English
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4.11(33482 ratings)
The thrilling conclusion to Melissa Marr’s #1 New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series will leave readers breathless.
The Summer King is missing; the Dark Court is bleeding; and a stranger walks the streets of Huntsdale, his presence signifying the deaths of powerful fey.
Aislinn tends to the Summer Court, searching for her absent king and yearning for Seth. Torn between his new queen and his old love, Keenan works from afar to strengthen his court against the coming war. Donia longs for fiery passion even as she coolly readies the Winter Court for battle. And Seth, sworn brother of the Dark King and heir to the High Queen, is about to make a mistake that could cost his life.
Love, despair, and betrayal ignite the Faery Courts, and in the final conflict, some will win…and some will lose everything.
... Read moreFragile Eternity
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Nick Landrum
- Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: May 05, 2009
- Language: English
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3.84(40627 ratings)
In the third mesmerizing tale in Melissa Marr’s #1 New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series, old friends become new enemies–and one wrong move could plunge the Earth into chaos.
Seth never expected he would want to settle down with anyone, but that was before Aislinn. She is everything he’d ever dreamed of, and he wants to be with her forever. Forever takes on new meaning, though, when your girlfriend is an immortal faery queen.
Aislinn never expected to rule the very creatures who’d always terrified her, but that was before Keenan. He stole her mortality to make her a monarch, and now she faces challenges and enticements beyond any she’d ever imagined.
Seth and Aislinn struggle to stay true to themselves and each other–all while navigating the shadowy rules and shifting allegiances of the Faery Courts.
... Read moreGraveminder
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Emma Galvin
- Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 17, 2011
- Language: English
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3.49(10725 ratings)
Three sips to mind the dead…Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the attention her grandmother Maylene bestowed upon the dead of Claysville, the small town where Bek spent her adolescence. There wasn’t a funeral that Maylene didn’t attend, and at each one Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual: She took three sips from a silver flask and spoke the words ‘Sleep well, and stay where I put you.’ Now Maylene is dead, and Bek must go back to the place she left a decade earlier. She soon discovers that Claysville is not just the sleepy town she remembers, and that Maylene had good reason for her odd traditions. It turns out that in Claysville the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected; beneath the town lies a shadowy, lawless land ruled by the enigmatic Charles, aka Mr. D. If the dead are not properly cared for, they will come back to satiate themselves with food, drink, and stories from the land of the living. Only the Graveminder, by tradition a Barrow woman, and her Undertak
... Read moreGraveminder
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Emma Galvin
- Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 17, 2011
- Language: English
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3.49(10725 ratings)
Three sips to mind the dead . . .
Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the attention her grandmother Maylene bestowed upon the dead of Claysville, the small town where Bek spent her adolescence. There wasn’t a funeral that Maylene didn’t attend, and at each one Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual: She took three sips from a silver flask and spoke the words “Sleep well, and stay where I put you.”
Now Maylene is dead, and Bek must go back to the place she left a decade earlier. She soon discovers that Claysville is not just the sleepy town she remembers, and that Maylene had good reason for her odd traditions. It turns out that in Claysville the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected; beneath the town lies a shadowy, lawless land ruled by the enigmatic Charles, aka Mr. D. If the dead are not properly cared for, they will come back to satiate themselves with food, drink, and stories from the land of the living. Only the Graveminder, by tradition a Barrow woman, and her Undertaker–in this case Byron Montgomery, with whom Bek shares a complicated past–can set things right once the dead begin to walk.
Although she is still grieving for Maylene, Rebekkah will soon find that she has more than a funeral to attend to in Claysville, and that what awaits her may be far worse: dark secrets, a centuries-old bargain, a romance that still haunts her, and a frightening new responsibility–to stop a monster and put the dead to rest where they belong.
... Read moreInk Exchange
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Nick Landrum
- Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: July 29, 2008
- Language: English
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3.69(57617 ratings)
The second installment in Melissa Marr’s #1 New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series brings readers back to the land of faerie and delivers another stunning, high-stakes romance.
Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. If he fails, bloodshed and brutality will follow.
Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows is that she has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life.
The tattoo does bring changes–not the kind Leslie has dreamed of, but sinister, compelling changes that are more than symbolic. Those changes will bind Leslie and Irial together, drawing Leslie deeper and deeper into the faery world, unable to resist its allures, and helpless to withstand its perils. . .
... Read moreMade for You
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Shannon McManus
- Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: September 16, 2014
- Language: English
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3.66(4373 ratings)
Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital to discover she possesses a strange new skill–the ability to foresee people’s deaths when they touch her. While she is recovering from her hit-and-run accident, Nate, an old flame, reappears, and the two must traverse their rocky past as they figure out how to use Eva’s power to keep their friends–and each other–from falling into the hands of a killer.
This contemporary romantic suspense novel from five-time New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr earned widespread critical acclaim, with Kirkus Reviews calling it a “riveting whodunit that delivers a bouquet of teen romance, paranormal, and thriller.” And BCCB declared, “Between the suspense, the horror, the romance, and the wit, this will have equal appeal for fans of Sarah Dessen and Rosemary Clement-Moore.”
A stark departure from her fantasy settings, this Southern Gothic, racy thriller gives fans old and new chilling twists, unrequited obsession, and high-stakes romance.
... Read moreOf Maidens & Swords
- By: Melissa Marr
- Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: June 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.04(24 ratings)
This novel-length story collection includes Melissa Marr’s 2019 and 2020 short fiction (all previously published in magazines, anthology, or ebook), including the new Wicked Lovely Stories “Love Hurts,” “Summer Bound,” and “Winter Dreams,” as well as “Nameless,” “Changing Guards,” “The Devil’s Due,” and “Knee Deep in the Sea” and “Of Roses and Kings.”
... Read moreOne Blood Ruby
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Therese Plummer
- Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: February 28, 2017
- Language: English
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3.68(1171 ratings)
In this gripping follow-up to Melissa Marr’s lush Seven Black Diamonds, Lily and her friends are forced to reckon with the truth of their own lineage and to protect one of their own, no matter what–or who–comes between them.
Now that Lilywhite Abernathy is the heir to the Hidden Lands, everything is about to change.
The Queen of Blood and Rage wants Lily to help broker peace with the human world, but Lily knows that harmony won’t come easily. After decades of waging war on the humans, who cost the queen her firstborn daughter, the fae are struggling to accept Lily, a half-human monarch. And the humans, while no match against faery affinities, will hardly agree to the queen’s detente without resistance.
Lily wants to be a fair ruler but fears having to abandon the life she’s known. Now that she and Creed are more than just fellow Black Diamonds–operatives for the queen–her priorities have shifted. But her worries about assuming the throne are derailed when it becomes clear that someone–or some fae–is masterminding violent attacks to discourage peace. Who can end the war between humans and fae?
... Read moreRadiant Shadows
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Nick Landrum
- Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: May 18, 2010
- Language: English
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3.97(38039 ratings)
Alluring romance, heart-stopping danger, and sinister intrigue combine in the penultimate volume of Melissa Marr’s #1 New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series.
Half-human and half-faery, Ani is driven by her hungers.
Those same appetites also attract powerful enemies and uncertain allies, including Devlin. He was created as an assassin and is brother to the faeries’ coolly logical High Queen and to her chaotic twin, the embodiment of War. Devlin wants to keep Ani safe from his sisters, knowing that if he fails, he will be the instrument of Ani’s death.
Ani isn’t one to be guarded while others fight battles for her, though. She has the courage to protect herself and the ability to alter Devlin’s plans—and his life. The two are drawn together, each with reason to fear the other and to fear for one another. But as they grow closer, a larger threat imperils the whole of Faerie. Will saving the faery realm mean losing each other?
... Read moreSeven Black Diamonds
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Therese Plummer
- Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: March 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.7(3305 ratings)
Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series, returns to the ethereal and bloodthirsty world of faery in this dramatic story of the precarious space between two worlds–and the people who must thrive there.
Lilywhite Abernathy is a criminal–she’s half human, half fae, and since the time before she was born her very blood has been illegal. A war has been raging between humans and faeries, and the Queen of Blood and Rage, ruler of the fae courts, wants to avenge the tragic death of her heir due to the actions of reckless humans.
Lily’s father has always shielded her from the truth, but when she’s sent to the prestigious St. Columba’s school, she’s delivered straight into the arms of a fae Sleeper cell–the Black Diamonds.
The Diamonds are planted in the human world as the sons and daughters of the most influential families, and tasked with destroying it from within. Against her will, Lilywhite’s been chosen to join them . . . and even the romantic attention of the fae rock singer Creed Morrison isn’t enough to keep Lily from wanting to run back to the familiar world she knows.
Don’t miss the lush, gripping follow-up, One Blood Ruby!
... Read moreTales of Folk & Fey
- By: Melissa Marr
- Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 27, 2019
- Language: English
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4.04(112 ratings)
Return to the world of Wicked Lovely!
Listen to an all-new Dark Court short story. “Love Hurts” catches up with Irial, Niall, and Leslie-and offers clues about the Wicked Lovely prequel novel Cold Iron Heart.
Tales of Folk Fey also includes “Old Habits” and “Stopping Time” (previously published Wicked Lovely Dark Court stories) and two previously published selchie short stories (“Awakened” and “Love Struck”).
As a bonus, the collection also includes “Carnival of Lies,” a prequel story to the 2012 novel Carnival of Secrets.
The Arrivals
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Matt Burns
- Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 02, 2013
- Language: English
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3.15(2217 ratings)
The Arrivals is the second novel for adults by internationally bestselling author Melissa Marr.
Chloe walks into a bar and blows five years of sobriety. When she wakes, she finds herself in an unfamiliar world, The Wasteland. She discovers people from all times and places have also arrived there: Kitty and Jack, a brother and sister from the Wild West; Edgar, a prohibition bootlegger; Francis, a one-time hippie; Melody, a mentally unbalanced 1950s housewife; and Hector, a former carnival artist.
None know why they arrived there–or if there is way out of a world populated by monsters and filled with corruption.
Just as she did in Graveminder, Marr has created a vivid fantasy world that will enthrall. Melissa Marr’s The Arrivals is a thoroughly original and wildly imagined tale about making choices in a life where death is unpredictable and often temporary.
The book includes a P.S. section with extra material from the author and a bonus story exclusive to this paperback edition.
... Read moreThe Faery Queen’s Daughter
- By: Melissa Marr
- Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 27, 2019
- Language: English
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3.51(76 ratings)
To save the magical creatures in the Land of Faery, Ivy-eldest daughter of the queen of Faery-must use her wits and her heart. As the queen’s madness grows, the land shifts in dangerous, hostile ways.
When Ivy rescued a baby from the Wild Hunt, she had no idea that he would change the world. Since time passes differently in her world, the baby she once saved is a grown boy who can help her save her home. Now, Ivy brings him to the Land of Faery to enlist his help.
Jack Merry has no idea that the creatures in his stories are real. He just wants a friend, a family, someone who listens. His stories are the only way he can convince the villagers to stop and spend time at his side. So, when Ivy arrives and whisks him off to a magical land, Jack isn’t sure whether to be terrified or grateful that someone thinks he’s special.
With the aid of the tiny faeries, a glaistig, and boy who can re-create the world almost as quickly as the queen breaks it, Ivy might save her home, her friends, and even her mother.
The Hidden Dragon
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Kelsey Griffin
- Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
A sea-faring girl and her friends take on pirates and grown-ups, and bond with dragons, as they work to make the world a better place, in this spellbinding fantasy by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr.
Otter (short for Ottilie) is a girl who is most comfortable on her family’s ship, the Tempest, where she and her fathers collect the dragon hides that protect the queen’s guards. But all is not well in the kingdom, and it’s not clear if the queen is to blame. The streets are full of homeless kids, and now one of them, a street-smart boy called London, has stowed away on the Tempest. He befriends Otter, and soon they realize that the fate of the kingdom needs to be in the hands of the kids. For in every tight spot—during pirate attacks and navigating the magical land of the Netherwhere, where they get ship-wrecked—it is the quick-witted kids who save the day. As they work to fight injustice and protect the defenseless, they earn the respect of the realm’s most magical creatures—dragons and gargoyles—who all bond together as a force for good. Melissa Marr spins another fabulous fantasy, centered on family and friends, and introduces readers to the most splendid magical creatures.
... Read moreThe Hidden Knife
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Kelsey Griffin
- Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
“Unique and gripping.”—Tamora Pierce
New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr invites readers into a magical world where stone gargoyles live among humans, ferocious water horses infiltrate the sea, and school hallways are riddled with magic wards–and where a group of young heroes seeking justice discovers those very creatures are the best of allies.
Twenty years ago, a door opened between the world of humans and the Netherwhere, allowing all kinds of otherworldly creatures entry. Some, like the kelpies and fairies, who like to bite, are best avoided. But the gargoyles are wise and wonderful, and show a special affection for humans.
Vicky has grown up under the watchful eye of a gargoyle named Rupert, and excels at sword-fighting and magic. But there’s so much she doesn’t know–like why her mother, once one of the queen’s elite Ravens, keeps Vicky hidden away and won’t let Vicky train at the elite Corvus school where girls with her gifts perfect their skills. But when a horrific tragedy occurs, Vicky knows it’s finally time to use her gifts, and that the only place she should be to avenge the crime against her family is at Corvus. There she bands together with a former street thief and an alchemy student to figure out whom they can trust in a place that’s rife with intrigue and secrets. And all the while, the gargoyles watch and nudge. Time’s not linear to them, so they know change comes in ripples. With their steadying influence, Vicky and her friends just might be the generation to expose the court’s secrets and ensure a better future for both worlds.
... Read moreUndaunted
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 15, 2015
- Language: English
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3.54(613 ratings)
Following in the tradition of Kristen Ashley, Joanna Wilde, and Jay Crownover, this first novel in a sexy, dark New Adult series tells the thrilling story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to a Southern motorcycle club’s inner circle–and a dangerously hot biker.
Aubrey Evans needs to get her life back on track after her father is indicted for embezzlement. She’ll save college tuition money, hightail it out of small-town Tennessee, and steer clear of hard-muscled boys on motorcycles. Yet there’s no ignoring someone like Zion. A knight in black leather, Zion looks like every bad idea she’s been told to avoid, but she can’t resist him. Whenever she’s in trouble, he’s there. Appealing as his rough exterior may be, it’s the protective, principled man beneath that tempts her like crazy.
Zion knows Aubrey doesn’t intend to stick around. She claims to want only friendship, but he senses there’s a naughty girl hiding on the inside–one whose intense desires match his own. For now, he’ll be patient and play by her rules. Though he knows it’s just a matter of time before he weakens her resolve.
As they join forces to figure out who’s behind a local crime spree, it’s clear that the danger goes deeper than Aubrey guessed. And when she needs someone tall, dark, and undaunted to keep her safe, Zion intends to be there–now and always.
... Read moreUntamed City: Carnival of Secrets
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: James Marsters
- Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: September 04, 2012
- Language: English
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3.66(1614 ratings)
Warriors Kaleb and Aya will stop at nothing to destroy their competition. But when Kaleb finds his fate entwined with that of Mallory, a seventeen-year-old human girl, he can’t seem to separate the vicious Carnival contest he’s entered from his sudden devotion to her. He and Aya may be prizefighters from the otherworldly Untamed City, but his strange, obsessive connection makes staying away from the witch-ruled human world, and Mallory, harder every day.
All Mallory knows of the Untamed City is what her elders have told her–that it’s full of debauchery and daimons looking to destroy her. But she knows she’s being pulled toward Kaleb with an emotion so fierce that it’s utterly foreign.
The two are forced apart by Mallory’s overprotective witch father, stranded by necessity between warring populations that can’t coexist. But when The City’s ruler raises the stakes of the Carnival’s prize, there’s nothing Mallory, Kaleb, or Aya can do to stop the two worlds colliding. Mallory’s about to discover her true identity–and stumble into a fate she’d die to avoid.
Fans of The Hunger Games will devour this tale of lush secrets, dark love, and the struggle to forge one’s own destiny from the bestselling author of Wicked Lovely, Melissa Marr.
(Formerly published as Carnival of Souls)
... Read moreWicked Lovely
- By: Melissa Marr
- Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: April 29, 2008
- Language: English
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3.69(153662 ratings)
Fans of Sarah J. Maas and Holly Black won’t be able to resist the world of Melissa Marr’s #1 New York Times bestselling series, full of faerie intrigue, mortal love, and courtly betrayal.
Rule #3: Don’t stare at invisible faeries.
Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty–especially if they learn of her Sight–and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.
Rule #2: Don’t speak to invisible faeries.
Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer.
Rule #1: Don’t ever attract their attention.
But it’s too late. Keenan is the Summer King who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost–regardless of her plans or desires.
Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom, her best friend Seth, her life–everything.
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