Not many people leave the Mercenary Brotherhood alive – either the training kills them, or the life does...Road of Bones and Other Stories follows the adventures of Dhulyn Wolfshead and her Partner Parno Lionsmane as they confront everything their own world – and a few others – can throw at them. No job is too big or small: from forgery, murder, kidnapping and slavery to battling disgruntled gods, trans-dimensional demons, mad mages and ghosts. And if they’re very luck...

Two French schoolgirls discover obsessive pleasures in repressed secrets in this "masterpiece on the tyranny of love" ( Independent, UK)."Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir's protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force" (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc's hidden classic, the groundbreaking Thérèse and Isabelle proves an authentic and liberating exploration of quee...

This new epic fantasy series begins a tale of magic and danger, as a healer finds herself pulled deeper into a web of secrets and hazardous magic that could bring about the end of the world as she knows it.Fenra Lowens has been a working Practitioner, using the magic of healing ever since she graduated from the White Court and left the City to live in the Outer Modes. When one of her patients, Arlyn Albainil, is summoned to the City to execute the final testament o...

Patricia and Kyle are a happily married couple who have won a trip to a luxury resort. During their stay, the two encounter Sophia and Alex, a wealthy, attractive couple. Sophia and Kyle immediately hit off through their shared interests. Although she doesn’t approve of Sophia’s obvious attraction to her husband, Patricia finds herself draw to the charismatic Alex.Alex and Sophia invite them to spend a session at the resort’s private spa with them. While she loves her husband, Patri...

Eva Thompson has just become the waitress of a nightclub known as The Octagon. On her first day of work, she gets on the wrong side of the nightclub’s head bouncer, Jack Harrow. The MMA fighter turned bouncer has little tolerance for absentminded waitresses. The free-spirited waitress and the reclusive bouncer immediately clash at each encounter. However, her anger turns to admiration as the bouncer saves her from an attack by some thugs.As she recovers in Jack’s home, the two beco...

Over eighty per cent of Canadians live near a body of waterand that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, editors Violette Malan and Therese Greenwood celebrate that most Canadian of locations: the ocean, lake, or river near you. With tales set across Canada, by award-winning authors like James Powell, Rick Mofina and Barbara Fradkin, and even a crossover story from fantasy writer Tanya Huff, you may just find you...

My Patient is a Werewolf: Curves, Fangs, and Videotape (Paranormal BBW Billionaire Erotic Romance Alpha Wolf Mate)Checking her messages one day, Abigail, a professional therapist, receives a surprise email from a man. This mysterious man shows a strange interest in working with the small time shrink. To Abigail’s surprise, it is none other than sexy billionaire, David Greyeyes. The casino tycoon has come under a strange illness. But why is the rich, well-connected ...

What started as a joyride has turned into a nightmare. Although she’s unharmed, Angela has wrecked her father’s custom made Lamborghini through a rear end collision. Worse, her father will come home in two weeks and find out that she’s destroyed his prized position. The young woman can’t find a repair shop that can fix the car in time and keep it a secret. However, help arrives in the unlikeliest of forms; a motorcycle club known at Birds of a Feather will help her… for a price.Led...

About the novel: Murder in BeaujolaisWhile the Beaujolais region of France in the late '50s, early '60s, is an idyllic rural setting, the strange and horrific crime wave which takes place is a manifestation, some call, ungodly. At the center of these frightful events, there is a baby orphan, Jeanne, who comes of age in the convent des Ursulines. Torn between earth and heaven, she becomes an avenging angel, before surrendering to her destiny.

From aristocracy to anarchy…After seeing a news report that he's been set up to marry a rich socialite, Gabriel Chase quits playing hockey and skips town.Frustrated with his rich and famous CEO father, Gabe wants to send a message—he's not his father's puppet anymore.But when an encounter with a foul-mouthed wannabe rock star threatens to expose Gabe's hiding spot, he has to make a decision—leave her behind or risk everything by helping her....

Censored in France in 1954, Therese and Isabelle was published for the first time in its full original version in 2000. Leduc's novella follows the story of a passionate love affair between two schoolgirls, aiming to describe 'as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love'.

What could possibly happen when two cultures meet for the first time?In WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, anything.WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE presents fourteen original stories where two different societies intersect and deal with the aftermath of that meeting. Will the conflicting cultures merge and adapt and find peace? Or will they clash, unable to either accept their differences or acknowledge their commonalities? Who will survive when the last of the Fae battles a world-killing AI? What h...