He's her brother's best friend. It never should've happened. Now, she can't stop it.Jade's life is already complicated. She's trying to co-parent with her toxic ex, keep from breaking his trifling girlfriend's neck, and make sure her family stays completely unaware of her disastrous decision-making skills. The last thing she needs is more drama. So, it probably wasn't a good idea for her to get so close to the one guy that she was warned never to get involved with,...

He's her client. She's his weakness. One request, and he'll give her anything she desires.For Simone, the only thing she cares about is looking out for the people she loves, maintaining a great reputation as a massage therapist, and building a family with the only man she's ever been with. When she overhears her longtime boyfriend talking about wanting a hall pass, she's furious, and what starts as a one-sided request soon becomes the opportunity she never knew she...

He thought he was marrying the love of his life. Then betrayal got in the way. Or was it fate?On the night before his wedding, Blaise should've been at his bachelor party tossing back drinks, smoking cigars, and preparing to walk down the aisle. Instead, he was barely tipsy, pissed off, and banging on his friend's door in the middle of the night.Bree had no idea what was going on when Blaise showed up at her apartment, furious and ready to fight the world. ...

“Did you think since we have company that, that gives you the right to defy me, get loud, and talk back!” With a swift effortless stroke of his right hand he slapped Kymela down. Kymela looked up to his friend who was standing next to him in the kitchen for help, but he turned around and headed back to the living room. Kymela’s eyes quickly surveilled the room for a weapon. There wasn’t anything close enough for her to grab. At that moment she knew it was on. Kymela began to cry while mumb...

Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnos...

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.We publish every other month.Issue 130 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.EDITORIALMusings from Maryland: Editorial by Lesley ConnerORIGINAL FICTION...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.This month, we have an original novelette from Usman Malik ("Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung") that we'll be serializing over two weeks. Our reprints are by Carole Johnstone ("Better You Believe") and Lucy Taylor ("Nikishi"). In the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Wo...

For students with disabilities from historically marginalized backgrounds, inequities in education and support services often lead to negative post-school outcomes. Promote successful adult lives for all students with disabilities—including historically marginalized culturally and linguistically diverse learners—with the new edition of this guide to the universal design for transition (UDT) framework.Like the popular first edition, this important text prepares teachers, transition ...

This volume explores connections between two growing and complementary fields of research: cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology. It sheds light on the ontological aspects of cultural evolution that so far have been largely neglected and raises questions for social ontology regarding the relevance of evolutionary aspects of social phenomena.This volume shows that cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology are complementary disciplines that, while having their own s...

Introduce yourself to Mills & Boon’s sexiest series yet!Hot Boss by Anne MarshBedroom besties…With his friends Max and Dev, Jack Reed is royalty in Silicon Valley. As a venture capitalist, nothing gets his heart pumping like the right deal. So when his friend and business partner Hazel proposes they partner up in the bedroom, he can’t resist! And he can’t give her up…Wild Wedding by Jamie K. Schmidt...

ACS Chemistry Made Easy⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐Are you eager to advance your career and reinforce your understanding by successfully mastering the ACS Chemistry Exam?In search of a complete resource that encompasses everything necessary to excel in ACS Chemistry concepts?Your quest ends here!This guide acts as your ultimate resource for enrichin...

At Your ServicePractice makes passion…Tech entrepreneur Nina Fuller's new app is on the verge of a breakthrough. But there's a string attached—or rather, a ring. She must play her part as the fiancée of delicious fashion exec Major Gold. And not want him too much. And absolutely not fall for him…Guilty PleasureA scandalous truth…When Wes Brennan is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, Vivienne Gra...