In the smoke and blood of the Napoleonic wars, delicate Frenchmen fall into the brutal hands of towering British and Russian conquerors. Four standalone tales of captivity, size disparity, and raw dominance trace the dark path from terror and coercion to aching, addictive devotion. Uniforms are stripped, bodies claimed against oak desks, barn posts, blood-slick tables, and wine barrels; pride crumbles beneath calloused grips, foreign tongues, and unrelenting possession. What begins as viol...

In the high-pressure world of breaking news, Mateo is about to be the biggest story on Elias Thorne's desk.Mateo is a twenty-two-year-old journalism prodigy with a soft body and a desperate need to succeed. But when a critical error threatens his front-page debut, he doesn't meet HR—he meets the mountain of a man running the paper. Elias Thorne is forty-seven years of broad-chested, hairy dominance, with a voice like gravel over silk and hands that...

When dominant Vivian decides her straight submissive Joel needs to expand, she offers him a single, devastating proposal: sleep with men while she watches and directs every moment.Joel has spent three years in perfect surrender to Vivian. He kneels when she tells him. He opens when she commands. He finds the deepest peace he has ever known in the precise, loving structure of their D/s relationship. For him, submission is not weakness — it is the place where everything finally makes...

He had eleven months left. His biology didn't wait.Emery Sato is twenty-four, unregistered, and running out of time. In a near-future America where the Designation Act requires every omega to submit to Bureau-assigned bonding by twenty-five, Emery has spent six years doing the impossible: hiding. Black-market suppressants, forged beta papers, a stockroom job in a desert town too small to notice him. Eleven months from aging out of mandatory assignment. Eleven months from free....

Julian thought his father's debt was a matter of money. Marcello Viti is here to prove it's a matter of skin.When twenty-three-year-old Julian finds his family's historic Roman estate gambled away, he expects a legal battle. Instead, he meets The Baron—a fifty-two-year-old billionaire with a reputation for ruthlessness and a private, predatory craving for absolute control. Marcello's offer is simple and devastating: six months of J...

The Big Book of Christmas Novels, Stories, Myths & Carols surveys Christmas as sacred observance, domestic ritual, folk inheritance, and imaginative escape. Its capacious selection moves among realist fiction, fairy tale, ghost story, children's literature, lyric devotion, humorous sketches, legends, and carols, placing familiar seasonal narratives beside rarer transatlantic and European materials. Accounts of generosity, poverty, hospitality, wonder, memory, and moral renewal reveal how C...

Kaito thought he was returning to university for a degree. Dr. Alistair Vaughn is going to give him a destiny.Kaito is a twenty-one-year-old dropout, brilliant but spiraling into self-destruction, until he meets the icy gaze of his former Professor. Dr. Alistair Vaughn doesn't just want to fix Kaito's grades; he wants to fix Kaito's soul. The deal is simple: to be reinstated, Kaito must move into Alistair's secluded Victorian manor and submit to a ...

The Ultimate Christmas Library: 400+ Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends offers a comprehensive exploration of holiday literature, weaving together an eclectic tapestry of narratives that celebrate the many facets of Christmas. This anthology traverses genres and eras, from timeless tales of generosity and redemption to enchanting folklore and enduring carols. Exploring themes of compassion, joy, and reflection, the collection includes standout pieces that resonate with the spirit of ...

This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective and exposes students to the complexities of religion in small-scale and complex societies. The chapters incorporate key theoretical concepts and a wide range of ethnographic material. The fifth edition of The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft offers:• a revised introduction covering the foundatio...

GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection gathers the astonishing range of Stein's experimental achievement: fiction, short prose, poetry, drama, memoir, and essays. Across works such as Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Stein dismantles inherited narrative conventions, replacing plot-driven realism with repetition, rhythmic variation, and radical attention to perception. The collection situates her at the heart of literary modernism, where language itself bec...

Santa's Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends' encapsulates an extraordinary range of literary styles, themes, and individuals, highlighting the diverse manners through which the essence of Christmas has been captured in literature. From iconic carols that echo through the ages to poignant tales that embody the spirit of giving, this anthology masterfully compiles works that span centuries, cultures, and literary movements. Noteworthy pieces not only entertain bu...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!