Would you make a deal with a monster?I need money. My rent is overdue, my aircon is busted, and my bank account is overdrawn. So when I get an email from Monstrous Deals offering discreet well-paying clients willing to negotiate all sorts of arrangements, I'm not too proud to sign up.Then I meet Rin. Impeccably styled, perfectly cultured, and devastatingly gorgeous, this handsome billionaire is too good to be true. When I find out exactly what he has in min...

Would you make a deal to be used by a unicorn . . . and his herd?I've got a secret and I haven't told a soul: I'm pregnant to my deadbeat ex-husband and thousands of dollars in debt.So when the chance comes up to become an escort with Monstrous Deals, I jump at it. After all, it sounds like my dream job. I wear pretty lingerie, I flirt and serve drinks, and the perks are I can play with a whole herd of unicorns if I want to? Sign me up!I'm in my ho ...

Would you dance for a statue? What if he woke and claimed you?I've got big dreams of a career on the stage. Unfortunately dreams don't pay the bills. Working as an exotic dancer for a mysterious monster client sure beats being groped by some of the sleazy humans I've danced for.Performing alone on a rooftop for a statue sounds strange, sure. Then the statue comes alive and turns into a huge, sweet protective gargoyle. My dance frees William from his rocky p...

Could you master the minotaur billionaire?I'm not a dominatrix. I'm just a single mom struggling to pay the bills and raise my two kids. But when my sister, Kalli signs up as an escort for a demon and ends up with a billionaire demon boyfriend, I can't help wondering if I should re-think my work situation.I'm not looking for a boyfriend, but if the huge, handsome, rich minotaur wants to pay to get on his knees for me, I'd have to be stupid to turn that down...

Would you make a deal with a big, grumpy troll?Trolls belong lurking under bridges, not in the arms of beautiful human women. That's what Hisondine tells me. He's not fooling me, though. I see the way he looks at me. I know the way he touches me. He's huge and muscled and hard as stone. But that's not the only thing about him that makes me feel safe. He treats me like I'm precious. I've been a companion to plenty of monsters, but I've never met one who makes me fee...

Would you make a deal to dominate the werewolf at full moon?Maurice is a lone wolf. Rejected, half-feral at full moon. Unable to control himself when he goes into heat.That's not what scares me.Even as a beast, he's a very good boy. All that need gets channeled into pleasing me. You see, we've met before: one night a year ago when I ran from the way he looked at me as if I was his whole world. As if he was mine.He can't be m...

Would you make a deal with a deadly basilisk?Diamonds are a girl's best friend, or that's what they say. That's why I love my job as an escort with Monstrous Deals. When the billionaire property mogul who's just opened a new casino in Heartstone tracks me down and demands to be my next client, I'm thrilled. He is far more handsome than my regular clients and dangerously charming.The catch: Erserro is an ancient, deadly basilisk who can kill with a s...

I'm the only Wright who has it all together.Except when it comes to my brother’s best friend, Patrick.You think you know everything about us.But you don't know . . . the Wright secret.

I might be the orc's mail-order bride, but I'll be the one giving the orders around here!Desperate and on the run from my arranged marriage to Bratva boss, Dmitri, I accept an offer to be a lonely orc's mail-order bride. Now I'm alone in a foreign country and engaged to a monster, but that is better than the alternative. I just have to pretend long enough to get my green card and make my escape.Only my new husband, Erik, makes me feel heard and cared for. H...

Building on various feminist theories of ethos, the authors in this collection explore how North American Catholic women from various periods, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and classes have used elements of the group’s positionality to make change. The women considered in the book range from the earliest Catholic sisters who arrived in the United States to women who held the Church hierarchy accountable for the sexual abuse scandals. The book analyzes women such as those in an African A...

The 2010 national midterm elections produced Republican majorities in Tennessee for the first time since Reconstruction. In the wake of that election, leaders of the Shelby County Schools (SCS) school district began legislative maneuvering to advance a long-cherished goal: granting their schools “special school district” status—a move that would permanently sever the relationship between the SCS and the other school district in the county, Memphis City Schools (MCS). Leaders of MCS realize...

He'll never belong in her world.Beynon Thomas might have agreed to spend time in England with his recently discovered half siblings, but home will always be his farm in Wales. Being the illegitimate son of an earl doesn't mean he belongs in high society, and it's never been more evident than when he's paired with the gentle Lady Anne at a country house party. She represents everything he disdains about London's pampered daughters. Yet, he can't resist being drawn b...