"Why do you look at me like that?" Olivia whispered, her hands shaking."Like I am something ugly you regret touching."Kingsley's eyes darkened."Because I never wanted you."Her heart cracked."Then why didn't you let me go?"He clenched his jaw."Because fate is cruel… and now you belong to me."Tears filled her eyes."I don't want to belong to someone who hates me."His voice dropped, rough and low."Be carefu...

"Why do you look at me like that?" Olivia whispered, her hands shaking."Like I am something ugly you regret touching."Kingsley's eyes darkened."Because I never wanted you."Her heart cracked."Then why didn't you let me go?"He clenched his jaw."Because fate is cruel… and now you belong to me."Tears filled her eyes."I don't want to belong to someone who hates me."His voice dropped, rough and low."Be carefu...

He Was Born a Potter's Son. He Died a King.In the blood-soaked waters of the early sixteenth century Mediterranean, one man rose from slavery and imprisonment to become the most feared corsair of his age and the unexpected saviour of tens of thousands of exiled souls.His name was Aruj Barbarossa, known to the Ottomans as Oruç Reis, and to a grateful multitude of Muslim refugees as Baba Oruç, Father Aruj.RED BEARD OF THE MEDITERRANEAN is the complete, gripping biogra...

Two people trapped in their different worlds. One by wealth and one by poverty. Twenty years working for The Firm has given Marcus Barlow everything he wants but has taken his soul in return. Finding a way to leave has become an obsession.Claire Halford's life hits rock bottom when she is caught stealing food from Tesco Express. Left alone by her husband with two small children and an STI, her suicide music is starting to play louder in her head.A chance meeting brings them...

Society by MCXI - The Discipline Issue is a modern luxury lifestyle and culture magazine exploring the power of structure, ambition, self-development, and intentional living.Inside this issue, readers will discover conversations centered around health, wealth, emotional intelligence, personal boundaries, film, culture, and modern success. Featuring editorial storytelling, cinematic visuals, movie reviews, reflective essays, and inspirational perspectives, Socie...

On May 29 1453 a 21-year-old Sultan did what emperors and caliphs had failed to do for 800 years.He moved ships over mountains. He shattered walls that had never fallen. And he fulfilled a prophecy that had waited eight centuries to come true.This is not just the story of a siege. This is the story of the day the Middle Ages ended and the modern world began.What You Will Discover InsideThe Sacred Prophecy Why Muslims across eight centuries believed Constanti...

History called him The Grim. But without him, the holy cities of Islam might have fallen.In 1513, a Portuguese naval commander named Afonso de Albuquerque sat down to write a letter to his king. In that letter was a plan so monstrous that it still makes the blood run cold five centuries later.His intention: to sail warships into the Red Sea, attack Mecca and Medina, desecrate the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and hold it hostage — until every Muslim on e...

It’s 1990, and Leo Sanford has just been expelled from Central Baptist University for creating an explicit topiary of the female figure using a push mower on the front lawn of the quad.After a humiliating ride home, Leo opts for an entry-level job at All the Hits Video Rental.During an especially dull shift, Leo finds an alien portal opening in the adult section of the video store, just behind the hanging beads. Defending himself with only a pair of rollerblades, h...

Julie Ball dreams of having it all: her career, a family. With her parents pressuring her to give up one to have the other, she wonders if her opinion even matters. Her only choice is to go on a date to appease her overbearing parents. The suitors: a city boy with too-clean shoes her parents chose, or the persistent mountain man whose one-liners make her cringe.From the moment Clayton Montgomery met Julie, he knew they were meant to be. A mountain man with a heart of gold and a str...

From BSDM and other sexy taboos to threesomes and other raunchy situations, this steamy collection of erotic romance short stories has a little something for every erotic romance listener. Join us on this sexy adventure through tales of bondage, threesomes, and all sorts of bodice ripping escapades that would make your grandmother faint! (Or not, maybe she's into that too!)Fans of the Fifty Shades series will find many things to love in the sto...

The world finally had its third and then final war. Two remaining teenagers, Marlow and Zane are left surviving in a church bunker with nothing but a couple ducks. They've watched everyone they love, pass on from the toxic conditions and know they aren't far behind them. When they are found by a team scavenging for supplies, the teenagers don't believe the claims that they are from the asteroid belt, the last settlement of humans that made it off Earth just before it all went to hell. They...

The Cultist: How do you save a lost child no one believes exists?When young yet jaded hacker Takara Murakami meets 10-year-old Tyler online, she doubts the boy's story of escape from a cult group's mass suicide in the New Mexico wilderness. The police find no evidence of Tyler's existence and warn Takara it's a hoax, or worse, a trap.But the death of her younger brother in an earthquake years ago still haunts Takara. As Tyler's laptop computer dies and he loses communicatio...