Murder is not her department.It’s not like it used to be. Modern-day grim reapers wear business casual, not black cloaks, and they don’t carry scythes, they work for S. C. Y. T. H. E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), where the Department of Natural Causes is the least exciting gig. And that’s how Kathy Valence likes it: boring and predictable. She has enough stress in her personal life; she’s mid-divorce, pregnant, and terrified she doesn’t have ...

**Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and PracticeFinalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.**Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelis...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From three-time National Jewish Book Award winner Dara Horn, a masterful new work of nonfiction that boldly confronts and dismantles the myths and lies that have spread antisemitism from ancient times until today—and then offers an audacious but achievable vision for the future.After publishing the “extremely engaging” (The Washington Post) and award-winning essay collection People Love Dead Jews about the insi...

What is the secret to writing a great screenplay?Whether you're a beginning screenwriter or an A-list Academy Award winner, all writers struggle with the same thing: to get to the great script inside.Step by step, Inside Story guides you through an extraordinary new process that helps identify your thematic intention—what your story is really about—and teaches you how to turn that intention into the driving force behind all your creative choices. The result is a profound rela...

A New York Times Notable BookA Booklist Editors' ChoiceA Chicago Public Library Best Book of the YearWhat would it really mean to live forever?Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual ba...

After a disastrous weight-loss program and devastating divorce, self-help author and teacher Cassie Graham calls it quits—on diets and on men. So, when she meets reclusive restaurant owner Drake Henson—a man with gorgeous eyes, a sexy grin and a large appetite for food—Cassie knows exactly what to do. Run for cover.Drake knows all about running. After years of distancing himself from his past and the challenges of raising his two younger siblings on the streets of DC, he enrolls in...

When Tanna Ariyo gets dumped at her twin sisters’ wedding, she throws caution to the wind and asks a handsome stranger for a simple request.She expects him to turn her down.He doesn’t.Soon an evening she’d thought would be a disaster turns into something more. And before she knows it, Tanna finds herself falling for a man who could either break her heart or give her unexpected pleasure…

Soccer star Darren West is Marcus's idol, and when Marcus finally gets to meet him after a game, he doesn't realize he's not just getting an autograph, a picture or a handshake with the athlete, he's going to be intimately acquainted with him in ways he couldn't have ever imagined.WARNING: This 4,594-word short story is a steamy read that features explicit scenes of hot gay sex including jocks, straight guys, rimming, oral sex, and may be too much for some readers to handle!

Will she risk everything, no matter what the price?Jessie Clifton only wants one thing: The Sapphire Pendant, an heirloom her father sold years ago. When offered an opportunity to win the pendant back by charming an eligible bachelor, the hotheaded tomboy impulsively accepts. She soon regrets her decision when she learns that her target is Kenneth Preston, a man she's hated for years.Nevertheless, determined to win, she trades in her running shoes for high ...

Landon Reed had lived for three centuries, shunning the human world and maintaining a safe distance. In all his years, he'd never considered taking a human as a lover. Then, one night, he is drawn to an alley where he finds Sean Caffrey, a college student, left beaten and bloody. Unable to leave the handsome young man, Landon takes Sean home and finds that he may have gotten more than he bargained forWARNING: This 3,942-word story is a steamy read that features passionate g...

BONUS! This ebook contains a preview of the hot novelette "The Prince's Bodyguard" by Bernadette Russo.The brilliant and handsome Dalton has found himself in the past as a result of his latest experiment, and what's more, he's found himself in the bedroom of an incredibly attractive young man: his younger self. An amazing opportunity presents itself: just what will Dalton do in the name of science? Or in the name of lust?WARNING: This 5,154-word short story is a steamy read...

"Nothing short of amazing." — Entertainment WeeklyA million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thief, former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents' living room. This work of art opens a door through which we discover his family's startling history—from an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam.