A compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it—until nowFor more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.” He founded a hospital in New York City and had a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the world’s first celeb...

She came here for protection, but that’s the last thing she's going to find.Welcome to Corium University, where the most dangerous criminals in the world send their offspring. Assassins, mafia leaders, arms dealers and art thieves.You name it, this college houses them.Nothing can touch us here.The only rule: No one can die.I knew she would be here.Aspen was my enemy in every shape of the word. A liar, a thief. I wanted revenge for my family, ...

Betrayal cuts the deepest.I would know better than anyone.They never suspected me to be the villain.That didn’t matter anymore, though, because I didn’t just want revenge, I needed it.Leaving my old life behind, I knew I could never return, but there was something … no, someone I had left behind.Scarlett.Kind. Innocent. Fragile.She was a light in the darkness of my life.Back then, she was always meant to be mi...

I went to a sex club to lose my virginity, but all I got was the attention of a man I should’ve stayed far away from.Nicholas is dark, dangerous, and charming. When he fails to sweep me off my feet, he finds another way to claim me. Now, locked away in his secluded mansion, I either give him what he wants or risk facing his wrath.This is a dark game, and if I’m not careful I could end up dead—if I don’t lose my soul to him first.

Bound by duty, Mia Casteel is nothing but a job. A sinfully gorgeous, downright infuriating job.One year ago, I got saddled with keeping her safe, virginal, and out of her father’s business. Little did I know, the spitfire would become my newest obsession.Pretending I don’t want her is easy enough. Ignoring her advances is hard but not impossible.At every corner, she pushes me, crawls under my skin, and makes my icy cold heart beat again. She makes me want her so badly I’m ...

“A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation” (Salon)—and a nod to U and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic memoir about John Updike—from an award-winning author called “wonderfully bright” by The New York Times Book Review.Nearly twenty-five years ago, Nicholson Baker wrote U and I, the fretful and handwringing—but also groundbreaking—tale of his literary relationsh...

Heaven: A Forbidden Romance by Darcy RoseI’ve had a crush on my stepbrother since I can remember … He came home for my eighteenth birthday. All I wanted to do was show him I’m not a little girl anymore. I didn’t know that would be the worst decision of my life.Hell: A Dark Romance by J. L. Beck and C. HallmanI’ve built this club from the ground up. A playground for the wicked. In my club, your wildest dreams can co...

It was not supposed to end like this.We were supposed to be together forever, but our world erupted into chaos instead.I’ll fight until the very end, but will it be enough?

In the darkness they lurk, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.Danger is everywhere, and not even Quinton can protect me. Someone wants me dead and they’ll do anything to achieve their goal.I’m back to being a rat scurrying through the halls of Corium and I know it won’t be long till I’m caught in a trap.The only question is, can I save myself this time?This is a Dark Bully Romance including many TRIGGERS (For a complete list of triggers please contact ...

We were only kids when I met him. My stalker, savior, the man who protected me from all the evil in the world.I should’ve trusted him, believed him when he told me he was only trying to keep my safe. I thought the worst was behind me. Little did I know the worst was yet to come. Kidnapped by a man capable of the worst kind of evil, I am thrust into a dark and dangerous world where blood and wealth are the only things that matter.I’m a pawn in the war for po...

In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, Longitude, and The Orchid Thief, Hallman transforms an obsessive quest for obscure things into a compulsively readable and entertaining weaving of travelogue, journalism, and chess history.In the tiny Russian province of Kalmykia, obsession with chess has reached new heights. Its leader, a charismatic and eccentric millionaire/ex--car salesman named Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is a former chess pr...

In 2005, J.C. Hallman came across a scientific paper about "Pleistocene Rewilding," a peculiar idea from conservation biology that suggested repopulating bereft ecosystems with endangered "megafauna." The plan sounded utterly utopian, but Hallman liked the idea as much as the scientists did—perhaps because he had grown up on a street called Utopia Road in a master-planned community in Southern California. Pleistocene Rewilding rekindled in him a longstanding fascination with utopian ideas,...