Hate Me Take Me is a breathless romantic suspense about the razor-thin line between love and deception, and how far you'll go for someone once the truth finally comes out.

'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' JUNOT DIAZ'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEMOne woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin.When...

Yuletide Shifters Volume Two contains Books 4–6 in the Yuletide Shifters series: Saved By Her Guardian, Enchanted By Her Guardian, and Caught By Her Guardian.Saved By Her GuardianBanished to the oldest church in America, reaper Aralyn is stuck with a job she hates and only a brooding Church Grim for company. Then snow leopard shifter Maverick is drawn to the cemetery and discovers two impossible truths: the Church Grim is real, and the dis...

When Detective Mira Solano watches her partner die in the line of duty, she expects the case to end with an arrest.

**NEW FOREWORD BY JANELLE MONÁEExperience the time travel science fiction classic from the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and winner of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo Awards.A modern Black woman is pulled through time to face the horrors of slavery in this “Great American Novel” about racism, sexism, and white supremacy—then and now (The Atlantic).**“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm...

The first in a light, loving wife, hotwife/wife-sharing series:Sheila's an age-defying hottie: prim, professional, and a mother of two grown kids.She's also a very kind person.Alistair isn't thrilled when she invites a young man to live with them to help him out. It's the sort of thing that Sheila does.And they do have all this extra space.Booker turns out to be a charming, polite, and handsome young man. Sheila's become a little more youthful...

Six years ago, Mara Ellison disappeared — new name, new city, new life, all of it built to outrun a man she never should have loved.

Expelled is an award-winning drama comedy that unfolds over an explosive week in a privileged South African family.Lou and Rich have staked everything on their son Alex: he has a place at an elite boys' school, is popular, and is on the first rugby team. His status seems untouchable until a reckless moment with the wrong friends is caught on camera and goes viral.Overnight, reputations shatter, secrets erupt, and the family fractures. Teenage impulsiveness spirals ...

From the bestselling and award-winning novelist, Octavia E. Butler. Completing the Patternist series, a new edition of her cult classic novel, now in print for the first time in fifty years.When Alanna flees a plague-scarred Earth to a new planet, she believes she has found a peaceful new home for humanity. Instead, she finds herself caught between two battling civilisations - the Kohn and Tehkohn.Now she must play a dangerous game to survi...

Higgs returns to Erewhon twenty years after escaping by balloon, and finds that his ascent has become a religion — Sunchildism — with temples, a priesthood, relics and a professional interest in his never coming back. Butler quarrelled with his clergyman father, made money farming sheep in New Zealand, and spent the rest of his life attacking respectable opinion; this 1901 sequel is his coldest joke about how religions are actually made.

Eliph' Hewlitt sells Jarby's Encyclopaedia of Knowledge and Household Recipes door to door through the small towns of Iowa, and decides to marry a woman he has not met, using the encyclopaedia as his method. Butler wrote Pigs Is Pigs, a six-page joke that sold in the millions; this 1907 novel is Iowa itself — the depot, the store, the newspaper — and the book agent is a masterpiece.

Justine is happily married, making ends meet as a massage therapist. Her work has always opened the door to the occasional fantasy: thoughts about what if? with her male clients. After all, they're there, alone, together, with the urban legend of the "happy ending" always in the air...But she never does anything more than fantasize.Until she meets her newest client, the dark and very forward Marcellus, who wants a happy ending and isn't shy about making it a reality. If she...