**Stonewall Book Award Winner, 2025"A sweeping triumph in queer romance." –Booklist**“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?”In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor*—*but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue.In 1740, a lonel...

**A USA TODAY BESTSELLER"Lucky Seed is a family saga, a romance, a bodice ripper—a crotch ripper too—a diasporic Asian American family novel, and a thriller. A family story for a family like this could never have just one genre and Huang knows it and has fun with it. The result is thrilling to read, addictive, and full of heart and hijinks. Reader, I cackled." —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel**Successio...

Born and nurtured in an Oriental atmosphere (though educated at Harrow), he was one of three out of four sons, whom their father, himself British Consul at Constantinople, dedicated to the Diplomatic or Consular service in Eastern Europe or in Asia. His Persian experience began when at the age of twenty-eight he accompanied Sir Harford Jones as private secretary, in 1808-1809, on that mission from the British Court direct which excited the bitter jealousy and provoked the undignified recri...

An abridged collection of the laws passed during the reign of the Emperor Justinian I. Most of them deal directly with the administration of the church within the empire, its relationship to the authority of the state and the person of the emperor, and the criminality of heresy within the imperial realm itself.

Ultra-ripped bodybuilding muscle-MILF Doreen is a winner! And while enjoying her success and an increasingly flirty interview with the beautiful Kelly, an angry interruption allows Doreen to show that she can, and will, win in more ways than one. A gentle lesson in respect turns into a harder, hotter and more overpowering dominance as Doreen cuts loose... and Kelly gets up close and personal with the star of the show in a way no-one thought she would, or could!Muscle growth, cock g...

Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of ordinary life in Rome.

Timothy has a big, bulging problem which makes him bait for a certain kind of woman - it just so happens that this time, despite his best efforts, he might have caught one worth keeping!Hard, heavy, rough good times follow - and a happy, testosterone-laced accident leads to an afternoon Tim, his new (nearly literal) crush, and the city emergency services will remember for a long, long while!

Stripes and Astra have a hard day looking for work, a hard evening commiserating and a hard fuck celebrating - two oddballs in a strange and seedy city where the muscles are big, the stakes are high and the prize is thick, massive and full of cum.It's just as well for both of them that in their own sexy, strong ways they're probably some of the best at what - or who - they do!This is a short story with themes around beautiful muscular women, female dominating futanari, a se...

When the talk of the town is the Lover's Moon and its funky pink moonlight, how are Kyle and Claire to resist a bit of fun in the sheets... that quickly turns hotter, harder, thicker and more muscular than either of them could imagine. It's not enough that he's into big brawny girls - she decides to get in on the fun too, and they both enjoy the benefits!And after their pink-tinged midnight love marathon, there's still a whole world out there where for good or for ill, changes are ...

In "The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan," James Justinian Morier presents a richly embroidered narrative that chronicles the journey of an Iranian barber, Hajji Baba, who navigates the complexities of Persian society in the early 19th century. This picaresque novel employs a vivid and satirical literary style, drawing upon both humor and keen observation to critique social customs and political intrigues. Morier's work sits within the broader context of Orientalism, as it offers Wester...

In "The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan," James Justinian Morier crafts a vivid tapestry of early 19th-century Persian life through the eyes of his protagonist, Hajji Baba. The novel is structured as a picaresque narrative, blending humor and irony while offering keen insights into the political and social landscape of Persia during a period of cultural exchange and Western fascination. Morier's use of rich, descriptive prose not only immerses the reader in the exotic settings but also...

Sila has more in mind for her life, and Evan's, than he could have ever predicted when they met. Growth is the only way forward - as bigger women, bigger muscles... and bigger everything else quickly become the order of the day.Heated liasons, dreams made real, and changes that nobody in their lives could imagine possible are all the regular order of the day as their house - and the increasing number of people in it - gets bigger, and busier and sexier than ever before.A co...