Seventeen emerging and established authors from around the world reimagined clocks and wove them into beautiful speculative and dark stories.As you move from one narrative to the next, you'll find yourself lost in fog, grasping at a young love, risking it all to save a dying world. Pages will swallow you whole as you slip through time, challenge what it means to live, and create an automaton. With poignant representations of queerness, disability and mental health issues, grief, lo...

At Rawhide, the very exclusive dungeon where only those with connections gather to indulge their sexual fantasies, a new twist has been added—a deck of cards. For each Master and sub, the choice of cards from their deck determines the play for the night. Who knows what twists a game of chance can bring… Cut the Cards Kelly LeBlanc was hot and aroused at being selected as part of a demonstration for Rawhide's members and guests. A card game for sex? What fun! But then she meets the Dom, Tan...

Elementary schoolteacher Maddie Conor spends her summer vacation walking dogs, avoiding a toxic ex-boyfriend, and listening to her favorite podcast Murder For Your Thoughts. It’s shaping up to be another long, hot Chicago summer—until a few of her wealthier clients are robbed. She should be worried about what’s going on, but it’s hard to pay attention when the hot, young lawyer in the building catches her eye. The moment Jack Delgado runs into Maddie in the elevator, he knows he’s a goner....

Lynea Kreig has spent the past three years being invisible. After running with her little sister halfway across the country–away from her abusive cult leader husband–she seeks nothing but safety and anonymity.When she’s offered a job which would keep her close to her sister, Lynea can’t refuse. But the job puts her in close quarters with Professor Brennan Gage, a man bent on exposing cult leaders to the public. If he discovers her secret, he could destroy the life she’s worked so h...

When stable owner Cheyenne Modine meets vet Jack Carter, it’s hate at first sight. He may look like the sexiest man alive but his arrogance tells her he’s a privileged member of the elite Lexington, Kentucky, Thoroughbred world. Cheyenne Modine is exactly Jack’s type—a smoking hot woman who loves horses—but her slurred speech calls up childhood memories of living with an alcoholic father, and Jack isn’t about to travel that road again. After several chance encounters, the fireworks between...

Prologue:Generations had walked its paths, their lives intertwined with thelegacy of the roses, each petal a witness to stories both tender andtragic. Clara Sinclair had grown up hearing the whispers of thosetales, woven into the very fabric of her family's lineage. She hadalways felt a strange pull toward the garden, a yearning thattranscended mere curiosity.

Alice Little and Asa Hatterly, both child geniuses, were barely teens when they met in college and fell in love. War tore them apart when Asa went into the Army as a sharpshooter. They reconnect years later after Asa spent time in prison for a crime he's not even sure he committed. Did he really shoot a man or was he duped into believing he did? Did someone manipulate the evidence to point to Asa? Only Alice can help him find the answer. They're pulled into a world of twisted identities an...

Jane Lakewood steals into the supposedly abandoned Ridgeford Hall and unexpectedly meets Conrad, an intriguing but secretive young man. They part ways with a promise to reunite, but Conrad fails to keep their rendezvous. Six years later, delighted to see Ridgeford restored to its former grandeur, Jane immerses herself in parties and socializing while simultaneously grappling with a momentous decision. Unwanted advice only complicates matters. At a grand ball, Conrad abruptly waltzes back i...