Getting shot is bad enough, but waking up two hundred years in the past is even worse.Samantha never thought being in the antiques business would be so dangerous, nor that a locket she swiped for herself would send her to 1783 London. With only enigmatic rhymes for clues, she must find out why she slipped through time and how to get home. Her situation goes from bad to worse when desperation lands her in a brothel, but Samantha's first client may have the answers s...

Desire leaves her bound to a demon. Love will unlock a destiny.In Shumei's world, her black hair marks her as being touched by magic and thereby vulnerable to its corruption. Shunned by her village, she and her family scrape by selling herbal remedies, but a mysterious epidemic has depleted her stores, and she is forced to leave the protection of town to replenish them.With only moonlight to guide her, Shumei does what she can to evade the demons known to s...

Slipping through time wasn't the fairy tale she'd always imagined.When a pair of headlights slammed into her car, Emma expected to wake in a hospital bed, not alone and confused in 1351 Scotland. Her antique locket now looks new, and it holds cryptic clues about the unfamiliar place—and time—where she finds herself. Alien in both manner and appearance, she is believed to be a fairy and becomes the unwanted houseguest of a skeptical, boorish crofter named Iain, in w...

A nightmare he cannot escape…Before earning his position as a commander in the new empress's forces, Jun spent most of his life as a roaming mercenary, on the run from a past that holds his heart hostage. So when rumors of lust-eating demons emerge from the land of his youth, he embarks on a mission for redemption, only to find himself face to face with a woman he thought long dead—a woman who hasn't aged in twenty years.A curse she can't break…

Her head tells her he's an impudent rake. So why does the rest of her still want him?Mai knows to beware of drawing any carnal interest and has learned never to lower her guard. Despite how isolated her cynical manner has made her within the newly resurrected Dark Court, she cannot imagine letting anyone closer, not while the court is focused on defeating a powerful evil intent on destroying their world.So why do her eyes always turn to the arrogant command...

Freelance tech journalist Lily Foss wears many masks. No one knows that the "L. Foss" who reviews the latest Eidolon robotic companions is also "codemonkkey," whose program cost the Eidolon manufacturer a lot of money. No one knows she can't sleep at night. No one even knows she's a woman, and all of this secrecy makes fulfilling her desires as a sexual submissive next to impossible. Not even the newest Eidolon can replace a living, breathing Dominant.Lily pins her hopes on the rum...

This volume presents documents from a monumental inspection of presidios in northern New Spain from 1766 to 1768. The Marqués de Rubí, a Spanish noble and field marshal, led this 7500-mile tour and reshaped Spanish policy in the region. The writings included here provide readers with first-hand perspectives on the course of the inspection, the state of the presidios, and the process of reform. But information about many other topics also lies within, including environmental conditions, eco...