Cerberus, a coliseum gladiator, has been ordered to become a stud for breeding a new generation of powerful warriors. For political reasons, Phaethon, a handsome priest of the sun god, has agreed to give the virgin gladiator lessons in sex. At first, Phaethon underestimates the reserved Cerberus, but the gladiator's eyes hold a smoldering love that borders on raging inferno. Can the love between two lonely souls break the chains of social status that bind them?

This book considers issues of social and ecological significance through a masculinities lens. Earth – our home for aeons – is reeling. The atmosphere is heating up, causing reefs to bleach, fisheries to collapse, regions to flood and dry, vast tracts to burn, the polar ice caps to melt, ancient glaciers to retreat, biodiversity to decline exacerbated by the sixth great extinction, and more. Meanwhile, social and economic disparities are widening. Pandemics are cauterising glocal communiti...

Around the globe, unfettered industrialisation has marched forth in unison with massive social inequities. Making matters worse, anthropogenic pressures on Earth’s living systems are causing alarming rates of thermal expansion, sea-level rise, biodiversity losses in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and a sixth mass extinction. As various disciplines have shown, rich white men in the Global North are the main (although not the only) perpetrators of this slow violence. This bookdemonstrate...

The purpose of Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations is to tell a different story about the world. Humans, especially those raised in Western traditions, have long told stories about themselves as individual protagonists who act with varying degrees of free will against a background of mute supporting characters and inert landscapes. Humans can be either saviors or destroyers, but our actions are explained and judged again and again as emanating from the individual. And yet...

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships betwee...

A year has passed since Avel, the son of the Tangata clan’s chief, married into the Miyaru clan, whose people are said to possess the blood of sharks. His new husband, Tukiri, next in line to become chief, married Avel as a means of keeping the peace between their two clans, but Tukiri has been secretly in love with Avel ever since they were kids. Avel has been basking in Tukiri’s love and enjoying married life, but one day, he feels himself begin to change!

Volume 3 of the hit series. A monster who wants to be feared. A ghost who wants to be seen. A romance that will haunt your heart. A 2025 Chill Chill Award winner!Tsubaki Koton—a troubled delinquent—speaks with his fists, not his words. With blood on his hands and few words to protect him, he soon becomes known as a monster, shadowed by talk of his reckless behaviour and the misfortunes he can't leave behind.Yet it's more than his past that haunts him—his gh...

Betrayed and sold…Once a dancer of great renown, everything changed for Yol when he was branded a liar and sold to a brothel. Heartbroken, Yol abandoned his dreams and vowed never to dance for an audience again…That is, until the day a distinguished Hybrid — one who shifts between man and beast — known as Amulan arrives at the brothel and purchases Yol for himself, offering “freedom” in exchange for Yol’s ...

Umehiko is finally adjusting to his strange other-world life as Theodorus's blessed maiden, even if the archmage is upsettingly patronizing. Even so, Umehiko is enjoying getting to see the town, participating in a cooking contest, finding a part-time job, and even going on vacation! His relationship with Theodorus is strictly business--bedroom business, that is--so why is it Umehiko's heart races whenever Theodorus is around? But just as he's about to realize his feelings for the mage, Ume...

This dark, broody BL romance explores themes of trauma, escaping cycles of abuse, and facing the parts of ourselves we keep locked away out of shame.As the screams of cicadas pierce the suffocating summer heat...Nanase finds himself cornered by a strange, sinister animal.The only thing more depressing than Nanase's new cleaning job is his creepy, dead-eyed coworker, Kurono. And now that Kurono has turned th...

This emotional boys love oneshot by BL artist Sai Asai, featuring two childhood friends turned lovers in a beautiful seaside town, explores the enduring power of love beyond memory.Each day, Rihito confesses to Arata, and their relationship begins anew.At the end of each day, Arata forgets.One year ago, a strange comet passed over Earth, leaving countless individuals with inexplica...

The head of the Lomonosov family does the unthinkable--he publicly acknowledges Lee-won as his son! The crime families, and Caesar's feelings, are thrown into turmoil. As he reels from the seeming betrayal, a rival faction within Caesar's own Sergeev family takes advantage of the confusion to mount an assassination attempt on the Tsar.Will Lee-won accept his mafia father and step into the role of Lomonosov heir? What will topple the mighty Caesar first--the attempt on his life or the heart...