The Family comes first.I've been part of the Leone family since Don Massimo took me in when I was a boy.Now I sit beside his son, il capo, Don Sebastiano. Being a mobster is all I know and want. Even when betrayal comes knocking at my door.A teasing smile, the most striking cloud-gray eyes, an androgynous body wrapped in lingerie, and a belly chain around his narrow hips. Can a man be pretty? I must be drunker than I thought to wonder such ...

Anna Roberts never expected a single bite of forbidden fruit to change her life forever.One moment she's an ordinary office worker. The next, she's immortal, transformed into a newly born goddess in a realm of dragons, spirits, ancient magic, and celestial intrigue.Most of the heavenly court greets Anna's arrival with suspicion. Only Lord Eastwei, the powerful dragon god whose icy composure has kept countless admirers at a distance, seems more intrigued than threatened by t...

Six years ago, Elira's husband gambled the most important thing to them in the Quadrant Trials. He thought he was outsmarting them, until he died screaming, and the empire took the payment anyway. Now Elira has entered the Trials herself, determined to burn the world down to get it back. But the man who kept her alive, her protector, the one she was falling for despite every vow she made, had been lying the whole time.He wanted her to lose. To be broken. To owe him everything....

Ezra Hamilton hasn't felt the warm spurt of blood flow through his fingers or the indescribable feeling of pushing a knife deep into someone's flesh in a long time. Too long.He's been watching a man stalk women, curious as to what he's doing with them. Ezra's never encountered someone with similar dark tendencies before, and what starts off as genuine curiosity turns into much more when Kaspian turns the tables on him.As their chemistry builds, so does the ...

Slavery was a continuous presence in the Pre-Modern Era, roughly 500 ce to 1450 ce, when changes in geopolitical forces, demography, and cultural background contributed to the nature of enslavement. Coercion as a way of life differed across sociocultural and economic realities, ranging from chattel slaves and war captives, to sexual and domestic slaves. This volume destabilizes the deep-seated idea that during the so-called “Middle Ages,” social and cultural relationships ...

An obscure legend speaks of a man with dragon wings. Fifteen hundred years ago the man ventured into our world searching for a companion, but none could be found. He left a statue of his likeness in the keep of the castle in the hopes that one day his companion would come to him.Christine wasn’t one to believe in legends, and certainly not on her trip through the wilds of Wales. The tour package her friend picked out for them brought them to the castle where the winged figure stood...

Lucy is looking forward to date night with her husband Brad. When he forgets, Brad must make it up to her. They decide to spice things up by watching porn together, but Lucy believes they can do it better, and they let their inhibitions go and make a sex tape.All characters in this short story are over 18 years of age.

A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca EkwuyasiA trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of agin...

Christina "Chrissy" Monet traded city life for a rundown cabin deep in the woods, hoping for peace, quiet, and a fresh start.Instead, she gets Adam Smith.The handsome, frustratingly private neighbor insists part of her new property belongs to him, turning their first meeting into anything but friendly. Unfortunately, Adam is also the only person capable of helping her restore the old cabin she just spent her life savings to buy.As strange things begin happening in t...

Nina is excited to see her high school best friend Tahlia, but things have changed in the last two years. She is not the innocent ballerina Nina remembers. Tahlia now likes a new type of dance, one she can't wait to show Nina and her boyfriend Marcus.The characters in this short story are over 18 years of age.

A Sexy Contemporary Paranormal Mystery Suspense Romance.Strange noises. Haunting shadows. A handsome man with a mysterious past.Enid Runa doesn’t ask for anything or anyone to slip into her life, but fate deems her destined for an adventuresome life that begins with a shadow and ends with her being carried off into the night. Her captor is the enigmatic and flirtatious Ian Osman, a man with a lot of secrets and more than one interest in her. He tells her that she’s entered ...

The box set contains the final three books in the fantasy romance series Maiden to the Dragon, an adventure that will take your breath away.Life comes knocking on Miriam Cait’s door as she’s whisked away from her normal life and into a land of fantasy and wonder. The downside is she’s mated to a handsome dragon lord, a ruler of one of the five realms. Most people wouldn’t see that as a downside, but Miriam has her own mind and she aims to keep it that way.Whether it’s fight...