Indie Ink Awards 2025 / Best morally gray character

A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin
A Dream of Waking Life by E. S. Fein
A Fate Unwoven by Rachael A. Edwards
A Forgotten Legend by T.M. Baylor
A Mirage in the Memory by Simon Tull
A Soul Divided by Daniel M. Quilter
A Third Kind of Madness by Christiane Knight
A Thousand Burning Ravens by Kier Smelcer
A Violent Man by Ed Robins
A Witch in Isenshire by Azalea Forrest
Afterburn by D. Andrews
Ascension by Brittany Engstrand
Ask Grace by S.E. Reed
Aurethia Rising by Atlas Laika
Austringer's Wrath by E.L. Lyons
Bard City Blues by Nathaniel Webb
Bathed in Ink and Blood (Ink, Brand, and Knife Book 1) by Robert C. Laymon
Behind Closed Eyes: A Tragic Tale by Jalen Tellis
Between Stars and Salvation by Jeannin Counts
Beyond The Dead by Veronica Talliss
Black Rose by Arlo Z. Graves
Black Smoke Rising by Caroline Cuell
Blackblood by Kree Sullivan
Blade Broken by Niranjan
Blade of Broken Scales by Makayla Marie
Blade of the Wanderer by Steven Raaymakers
Blitz'd by Lee McCormick and RS McKenzie
Bonds of Blood & Silver by Sandy Butchers
Bounty Inc. by Adam Holcombe
Bulwark: Book 2 of the Desert Rose Saga by Noah Bodie
Cello’s Gate by Maurice Africh
Chapel at Ender’s Ridge by Beckett Krane
Child of Shivay by JR Cathers
Chivalry Will Get You Dead by Ed Robins
Circus of Dreams by B. Green
Clipped by KQ Watson
Coded in Control by KL Hill
Coil of Boughs by Penny Moss
Control My Night by Sarah L Richhelm
Corrupted Tides by S.M. Campbell
Court of Ravens and Ruin: A Brides of Mist and Fae Novel by Eliza Raine
Crown of Olympus by Kate Asher
Crowning Soul (Heart of Noorenia #1) by Sahira Javaid
Darker Than the Starless Night by Rebecca Brodkey
Daughters of the Blue Moon by Millie Abecassis
Dawn of Silence by Heiner de Wendt
Demon Eyes by Julie Krohn
Devil to Pay by R. M. Olson
Diminished by Erica Rose Eberhart
Dissatisfied Me: West Coast Larry by Bruce D. Gordon
Dissolution Protocol by H.J. Barner
Dove's Eyes by Kienn Nguyen
Dragons of Dunmoray by Kate Kelly
Dueling Shoulder Angels by Ben Schenkman
Echoes of Bellek by Morrigan Gaines
Echoes of the EtherStone by Lucy A. McLaren
Enamoured: A Triptych by Shelley Lavigne
EYETOOTH by mars adler
Fallen's First by Kassidy Coursey
Family Demons by A.L. Sestier
Fighting For You by Alise Monroe
Fimbulvinter’s Fires: a queer apocalyptic sci-fi horrormance by A.M. Weald
Fly Stone, Fly by Dust Kunkel
Fools Rush In by Sarah Clowder
Foresyth Conservatory by A. L. Sterling
Forged of Immortal Blood by V. M. Nelson
Fortune's Fool (Eterean Empire #1) by Angela Boord
Fractured Magic by Emeric Rowene
From the Ashes by B. S. H. Garcia
From the Grave of the Gods by Alan K. Dell
FrostByte: A Desi Cyberpunk Novel by N.S Chaudhury
Ghost: A Small Town Age Gap OTT Instalove Biker MC Steamy Short Romance (Steelwood MC Book 1) by Julia Stone
Gospel of the Cuckoo by Sirius
Halfborn by Soleil Daniels
Hall of Shadows by Mariah Stillbrook
HALLOWED BE HER FLESH by Emryn Bird
Happy Face by Sirius
Heir of Sun and Moon by Jenessa Ren
HOLIEST by Sancta Seraphina
Hounded fire & brimstone by Quinn Cameron
How to Slay a Demon Lord and Get away with it by Devi Letalis
How to Survive This Fairytale by S. M. Hallow
In the House of Root and Rot by Sam Weiss
Incursion: A Novel by Jalen Tellis
Inferno's Silence by Rainer Meri
It Begins by Eule Grey
It's You, Isn't It? by Antony Paschos
KARA by Peter Beard
Keepers of the Crossing: The Handsel Witches by Ryan J Hamshaw
Knave of Sands by Julia Greenshaw
Lamb, Stag & Wolf by Airic Fenn
Land by Bjørn Larssen
Lavender & Gin: A Sapphic Historical Romance by Abigal Aaronson
Legacy of Brick & Bone by Krystle Matar
Let Sleeping Gods Lie by Ben Schenkman
Let the Mask Fall by G.E. Masters
Letters to Satan by G Eilsel
Lost in the Light by JJ Kang
Lover, Thy Name Is Pestilence by A.L. Davidson
Loyalty to the Max by Maya Darjani
Majordomo by Tim Carter
Manzakar by R. Laham
Mendel's Ladder (The Collected Histories of Neoevolution Earth, #1) by E. S. Fein
Mercy: Tears of the Fallen by Chance Dillon
Middle-Aged Man in a Trashcan by William Brian Johnson
Millennium Bug by Yvonne Knop
Miners of the Mystics by Penny Moss
Miners of the Tempest by Penny Moss
Mirror of Wolves by N.P. Thompson
Murders in the Gray by Ed Robins
My Boss is the Devil by Ben Schenkman
My Lips, Her Voice by L.L. Madrid
My Lord by L.B. Shimaira
Neon Lullabies by H.J. Barner
Neuen by Sheri Singerling
Nights of Noctis by Lauren M Clark
No Escape: Part One by Jillian West
Noxious by Ayrton Silva
Of Feathers and Thorns by Kit Vincent
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
One Last Game by T.A. Chan
Our Bright Window by James Chance
Painted Flock by Claudie Arseneault
Paladin and Necromancer by Adrienne Miller
Partial Function: A Wuxia-inspired Epic Fantasy by JCM Berne
Rapunzel's Gambit by Mary Mecham
Reality Check by Dave McCreery
Realm of Darkness by M. L. White
Redundancies and Potentials by Dominique Dickey
Return of Eve (Emilia of the Solstice Realm #1) by Daphne Paige
Revenge of the Bakeneko by VB Scott
River of Crows by N.P. Thompson
ROTGUT by H.S. Wolfe
Runelight by J.A. Andrews
Sacrificing Serenity by Holly Ash
Savannah Royals by Lindsay Barrett
Sea of Souls by N. C. Scrimgeour
Secrets and Stardust by Jeannin Counts
Serpentus by A.J. Calvin
ShadowBane by Cal Logan
Shadows Dark and Deadly by Andrea Marie Johnson
Shattered Queens Series: Serena by Inez Ocon
Silver Star, Red Dragon by C.A. Chaplin
Skalterra By Nightmare by M.T. Zimny
Song of the Caged Warrior by Maria Perez
Soul Guardian by Alex Karne
Specimen by C. Quince
Starlight Jewel by E.L. Lyons
Stone of Serpents by N.P. Thompson
Strange Liberty by Johannes T. Evans
Strangers in Our Heads by Bri Eberhart
Strangers in Our Hearts by Bri Eberhart
Swords & Stones by Kimberly Lynn Hanson
Tarnished by Erica Rose Eberhart
The Acros Raiders: Down in Flames by Sara Tunder
The Acros Raiders: From the Ashes by Sara Tunder
The Backwards Knight by Matthew Siadak
The Betrayal of the Guardians by Diana Calanguia
The Black Carnival by Harlequin Grim
The Blacksmith's Boy by Bruce Buchanan
The Bone King and the Starling by Elizabeth Stephens
The Book of Origins by Jean Swan
The Burden of Us by Alexandra Orchard
The Child of the Greenwood by Joshua Walker
The Crack at the Heart of Everything by Fiona Fenn
The Dark Flame of Chaos by TF Johnson
The Dark Side of Super by Matthew Siadak
The Death Made Prince by Lisette Marshall
The Demon of Elderstay by I. Ribbon
The Demon's Bargain by Katee Robert
The Descendants of Prontoth by Mark Raines
The Drowned Heir by Jennifer R. Donohue
The Druid's Bindings by M. Vixen
The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra
The Finery by Rachel Grosvenor
The First Sin by Cheyenne Brammah
The Floating Castle by L. N. Holmes
The Gemini Games by Willa Hollis
The Glass God by Forrest Bezotte
The Godsblood Tragedy by Bill Adams
The Growing Darkness by Sean Gregory
The Hiding by Alethea Lyons
The Ice by Ryan Cahill
The Light Within by Carliann Jean
The Magic Circle by Barry Ryerson
The Martian Incident by Ryan M. Patrick
The Mean Ones by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
The Memoir of Johnny Daywalker by Meghan Davis
The Monsters Among Us by Kent Priore
The Monsters We Feed by Thomas Howard Riley
The North Tower by Michelle N Hagood
The Orchid and the Lion by Gabriel Hargrave
The Paragon by Molly Collier
The Pawns of Havoc by Dave Lawson
The Phoenix and the Sword (The Crane Moon Cycle Book 1) by J.C Snow
The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
The Price of Power by Michael Michel
The Prince and His Stolen Groom by J.E. Ridge
The Re-Emergence by Alan K Dell
The Scion Conspiracy by Mike Cahoon
The Scorching: The World in My Hands by Nick Snape
The Secret Shape of Worship by A.K. Asher
The Secrets That They Keep by T.M. Lore
The Shadowbearer's Curse by Jasmyn Morning
The Shadowbearer's Promise by Jasmyn Morning
The Somnia by Alethea Lyons
The Source of Strife by Alex Arch
The Thirteenth Daughter by E. O'Meagher
The Traitor & The Wretch by Jasmine Walls, Rowan MacColl
The Traitors We Are by Michael Roberti
The Undoing by Aalis Blue
The Veil by Eamonn Bradley
The Warm Machine by Aimee Cozza
The Werewolf Who Loved Me by Mae Dexter
The Winds of War by Mosha Winter
The Witch Hunter's Debt by J.L. Coulbeck
The Witch of Wall Street by M.J. Etkind
The Witch who Chases the Sun by Dawn Chen
The Wolf's Wyrmling by M.V. Kerry
This Too Shall Burn by Cat Rector
Tied to Hell (Monsters of Brimrey Island #2) by Vee Debras
Too Many Gods in the Kitchen by Ben Schenkman
Twisted Souls by Skye Crawford
Undead Samurai by Baptiste Pinson Wu
Undefined Tides by Briar Belmont
Unfortunate by Ayrton Silva
Usurper (Children of Lorcan Book 1) by J. M. Rose
Vanilla Blood: A Novella by S.L. Baron
Vile Pucker by Kate Raven
We Will Devour the Night by Camilla Andrew
What Death Forgets by Thea Verdone
When Flowers Wilt by G.E. Masters
Whispers of the Storm by Z.B. Steele
Wistful Ascending by JCM Berne
Witch in the Lighthouse by Azalea Forrest
Witchborne by Rachel Grosvenor
Wriggly Little Hands by Alex Knight

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