Jack and Octavian have been partners in vampiric crime for years and have been cutting swathes of destruction and questionable ethics across North America for a long period of time, looking for the perfect place to lay down some roots.When they roll into a seemingly harmless town with a corrupt mayor they realise they have found the place for them. With the help of their cohorts in crime as well as strong arming the mayor into helping them, they set up shop and begin to decimate th...

Jack and Octavian have been partners in vampiric crime for years and have been cutting swathes of destruction and questionable ethics across North America for a long period of time, looking for the perfect place to lay down some roots. When they roll into a seemingly harmless town with a corrupt mayor they realise they have found the place for them. With the help of their cohorts in crime as well as strong arming the mayor into helping them, they set up shop and begin to decimate the popul...

After a lifetime of failed relationships, non-binary history professor Sam Bell is committed to a new (non)romantic strategy: Thirst Only. It's the actual drinking where things get too complicated, where Sam inevitably gets hurt.Sam is good at being thirsty, though, especially when it's karaoke night at The Moonlight Café. Moonie's is fun. Comfortable. Safe. Except for tonight, when one by one, all of Sam's friends abandon them. Disappointed, they prepare to leave—until their #1 ka...

How long, exactly, had June been coming to Moonie's for the sole purpose of pining after the bartender?Long enough to know, probably, that there was no good reason for Mal Edwards, a bastion of stability and good sense, to see any kind of future with June anyway. Was it even fair to express feelings to a woman like that when June was barely around, on the road more than she wasn't?But as another Pride weekend approaches, June's fiftieth birthday and the eventual end of her ...

The Handmaid's Tale: Teaching Dystopia, Feminism, and Resistance across Disciplines and Borders offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, as well as its film and television adaptations, can be employed across different academic fields in high school, college and university classrooms. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and cultural contexts contribute to wide-ranging analytical strategies, ranging from religion and science to the role of journal...

Will a dark history doom their future together?New York copper Tom Halloran is a man with a past. If anyone finds out he once ran with the notorious O’Connell tunnel gang, he’ll spend the rest of his life doing hard time behind bars. But Tom’s secret is threatened when a horrible murder on his beat seems to have been caused by the same ancient magic that killed his gang.Cat shifter Cicero is determined to investigate the disappearance of one friend and the ...

From this “master of the genre,” Christina Dodd,comes a third short storyset in the quaint — and deadly — town of Virtue Falls…A murder committed. A love lost. A ghost haunted by his past.Only one woman can rescue him from his lonely fate…If she can survive the night…

Sniffing out a murderer…When Sunny Coolidge’s curmudgeonly boss, Oliver Barnstable, lands in rehab after breaking his leg, Sunny is stuck shuttling between their offices in Kittery Harbor, Maine, and the facility where Ollie is recuperating. And if putting up with temper tantrums from her boss wasn’t enough, his rehab roommate, Gardner Scatterwell, is a shameless flirt.But when Scatterwell dies unexpectedly in the night, Ollie is convinced it wasn’t from na...

And you thought dying once would be hard...On the morning before her 67th death, it is business as usual for agent Jesse Sullivan: meet with the mortician, counsel soon-to-be-dead clients, and have coffee while reading the latest regeneration theory. Jesse dies for a living, literally. Because of a neurological disorder, Jesse can serve as a death surrogate, dying so others don't have to.Although each death replacement is different, the result is the same: a life is saved, ...

Part Bridget Jones’s Diary, part Ten Things I Hate About You, Dale Dent’s Diary is a fresh, funny and surprisingly touching look at one gay man’s neurotic pursuit of love. Or at least volcanic sex.In the war between his heart and his privates, 27 year-old Dale Dent thinks he wants his heart to win, but does he really? After all, every Mr. Right turns into Mr. Wrong the minute he gets serious. The “vulgarian,” Dale’s raunchy best friend, meanwhile, lives for endless one-stands and l...

The tale of a handsome modern-day prince in the gutters of New York—from “a writer of explosive, winning imagination” (The New York Times Book Review).After studying at Trinity College, Dublin, Cornelius Christian—born in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronx—has returned to New York City with a cultured accent, refined manners, and the corpse of his wife who died shipboard.Charismatic but penniless, he takes a job with a funeral director to pay for the...

Dorkius Maximus is a young boy growing up in ancient Rome. This hilarious diary recounts his exploits as, desperate to become a great Roman hero, Dorkius enlists the help of his father's friend, Stoutus, to teach him the noble art of fighting. But heroism doesn't come naturally to Dorkius. Plus, his dad doesn't listen to him, his friends pick on him, and his mum is more interested in her sacred chickens. Dorkius knows there's a mighty warrior inside him, just waiting to get out ... isn't t...