From authors including National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, Deadly Ink 2007 winner Darrell James, and renowned social commentator turned short-story writer Mike Davis, Politics Noir is a chilling and subversive collection of new crime stories featuring greed, corruption, insatiable ambition-and murder in the very highest places.

When G Double D, the founder of the gangsta rap label Explicit Content, seduces her singing partner, Leila “Fatal Beauty” Aponte, into splitting up their act to pursue solo stardom, Cassie Rivers is driven to find her own path to success, but her competitive nature could lead to danger when she uncovers dark secrets about G and his Explicit Content company. A first novel. Original.

She's the sexiest woman he's ever seen…and his new assignment.Kurt just got the worst mission of his life – investigate JAG officer Bobbi Castiel. He wants to get to know the vivacious beauty better, but his plan was to wine and dine her, not scrutinize every aspect of her life. If she's the spy they're hunting, then his life just got more complicated, and his heart might never recover.She hates secrets – but she's keeping a big one.

Street hustler turned Bronx bond agent Jasmine Reyes is all about second chances, and she’s given one to imprisoned Macho Booker. A talented graffiti artist, Macho reminds Jasmine of her twin brother, Jason, known and respected as “REY²” until his unexpected suicide on Rikers Island.But when bail is posted and Macho vanishes, Jasmine feels burned and goes on a mission to capture her man. The deeper Jasmine delves into Macho’s world, however, the more secrets she uncovers. Deadly se...

Determined to put her life back together, a female ex-con, who had endured a prison sentence for a gun possession charge for her boyfriend, finds herself caught between the passion for the streets, her lover’s intentions to bring her back into his game, and her own conscience. By the author of Explicit Content. Original.

A Box Office Smash, or Smash, as his friends know him, was born to be a show horse. He grew to be a champion. But there was something different about him – he was deaf! After he retired from showing, he spent his time hanging out on the farm. But his owner knew he still had so much more to achieve. When she heard about how the Houston Police Department's Mounted Patrol Division used natural horsemanship training with their mounts, she contacted them. Smash was soon on his way to Houston. H...

Black Mare Books serves up some fun-sized treats from Artemis Greenleaf, Holly Dey, A.B. Richards, and Claire A. Murray.In this grab-bag of Halloween shorts, you’ll find an assortment of killers and creeps. You may want to log off your Zoom meeting to play with the nice birdies. Perhaps kick back with a premium pizza before you go for a long walk in the dark woods? Or maybe you’ve wanted to run away to join the circus? Sounds like more fun than keeping a date with Death.But...

This is a boxed set that contains the first three books in the Marti Keller Mysteries series: The Hanged Man's Wife, The Magician's Children, and The Devil's Advocate. Go with Marti to solve a murder, stop Ragnarok, and suss out just what the weird creature stalking her neighborhood is. If you like your mysteries with a splash of romance and a side of supernatural, this series is for you.

Being a vegetarian vampire isn't always easy. Carl's dad works night shifts in a warehouse so that he can keep his family in synthetic blood, but longs to be a real estate agent. Carl, desperate not to become a scary vampire, would do anything to help him live his dream, even if it means taking a huge risk to find a mad scientist and getting into trouble.Carl's bat friends, Dari and Foxy, follow him throughout his adventure and share interesting bat facts with readers.

The only thing Kara has ever wanted for Christmas was a pony. Every year, her list was the same – one pony (pretty please with sprinkles on top?). Every year, she got pajamas and plastic horse models, but no pony. Her hopes were high when she and her mother moved out to her grandparents' old farm. But instead of ponies, she found a spoiled fairy princess!When she reluctantly agrees to search for the fairy's missing sugar bowl, she discovers a whole society of fairies, gnomes, and w...

Black Mare Books presents twelve twisted tales from Artemis Greenleaf, Holly Dey, and A.B. Richards.In this Santa’s sack of Christmas yarns, you’ll find an array of monsters of all stripes. You may want to keep a lookout for a possibly rabid coyote when you stop to play with a dolly. Perhaps enjoy a little shopping before you head into the woods to fell a Christmas tree? Or maybe you’ve wanted to go on a holiday cruise? And whatever you do, don’t look a gift bear in the mouth....

Love them or hate them, we've all had first dates. From the first blush of romance to the slamming of a door, nothing can capture—or repel—our hearts so fully. Do we swoon with desire? Hope for tenderness? Or does the first meeting shatter any chance of two souls connecting? In First Last Forever, each story follows the passionate, sometimes accidental rendezvous between two people as they fight to overcome the one obstacle between them and happiness—the disastrous first date. Will they en...