I always lose the women I love...I'd been assigned to visit Earth's Interstellar Penitentiary System, Concord, where my girls were imprisoned.Stick to the plan, Sol, I tried to tell myself. That went to hell when the prison ship crashed. Well, a little before then. See, the ship wasn't just holding prisoners--they were being used for experiments.They were torturing them.They were torturing my girls.I consider myself a level-heade...

In The Thematic Evolution of Sports Journalism’s Narrative of Mental Illness: A Little Less Conversation, Ronald Bishop contends that the conversation developed and sustained by sports journalists about professional athletes’ experience with mental illness has evolved through three slightly overlapping stages, each marked by a primary theme. During the first stage, from the end of the 19th Century to the middle of the 20th century, sports journalists sensationalized the experience...

A grumpy alien. A chatty, sunny human. For some insane reason, he wants her to look at him and see her mate.BashI dislike people. I despise humans. A cruel mandate from one of my region's rulers has saddled me with a slew of little alien humans: I'm to put them to work. One problem? I run a rock quarry, where humans' thin skin is a detriment to productivity. Overseeing these humans is like trying to herd yanaks. If I don't burn, beat, or strangle t...

I was abducted by aliens.The aliens that I've been auctioned to don't speak my language, and I definitely can't speak theirs. I didn't expect to get married by accident to the sweet one.I didn't expect to have a grumpy alien bond to me and go a little crazy if other males get near me, or if I try to leave. It doesn't matter if they've won my heart. I can't stay.Somehow, I have to explain that I need to go home. Because the bad aliens that ab...

I was gifted as a slave-bride to an alien giant.That's the start of my day. At least I have my guide dog, Kota, with me. I'd be lost without her . . . literally.Yes. I'm blind.And our new alien owner is kind enough that he's not holding me to the wife or slave deal even though that's what I was intended for. We've basically been dropped into a scene from Little House on the Alien Prairie, complete with his one-room cabin, and he's been the perfect gentleman. He's pr...

Sobi enjoys the solitude of darting animals to track behaviour and migration. When she heads home for a quick check-in, she is a little perturbed to find that her presence is required for the Anvin dignitary in need of a wife.She dresses appropriately, and when she faces the man behind the shadows, she recognises the man that she linked herself to years earlier.Midnight is a silly nickname, but Aloss is willing to let the Protheans call him whatever they like as long as the...

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.

Harumi can’t remember much, like who she is or where she came from, but one thing’s for certain... She’s somehow been reborn as a treasure-chest-shaped monster—a mimic! And no sooner than she gets her bearings, she gets unceremoniously dumped into a labyrinth full of other monsters and told she must survive for at least five days. Between treasure-hungry adventurers murdering their way through the labryinth and monsterous rivals joining the fray, that won’t be an easy task for a newborn mi...

Alien Experiment, 2Grath and his twin brother, Zlade, have tackled many obstacles to obtain passage to Earth to find their mate. When they finally arrive, they don't find one man but identical twins. With the same tempting blood, they know they must keep both.James and Adam are at the end of their rope when they discover an alien craft deep in the woods outside their camping ground. When they're abducted by two of the sexiest men they've ever seen, they aren't sure what to ...

Driving through an empty desert in the middle of the night, Adrienne and Ebony Raines never expected to come across UFOs, let alone be captured by them. Waking up on an alien ship, the sisters find they've been taken along with other women by the aliens and brought to a strange world filled with giants who wanted them only for breeding purposes.  Unfortunately for Adrienne, her attempts at escape only bring her to the attention of the Captain of the Guard, Dezec Zeta, who w...

She thought they were saving her life. She was wrong. Instead, Meredith Powell was kidnapped, taken aboard an alien spacecraft, and forced to prostitute herself to paying humanoid customers. But she had hope. She would only have to serve for two years, and then she would be returned to Earth.It was a life she had to learn and adjust to, until one paying customer took a special interest in her. A customer who had other plans for her, and none of them involved returning her to her ho...

The omega didn’t know it yet, but she was mine.She’s curvy, sweet, and tired of being overlooked by the alphas who think she isn’t a perfect omega. But someone has been watching her. Leaving gifts. Tracking her scent. Wanting her long before she ever knew he existed.When she follows the trail of her mysterious admirer, she doesn’t find a human alpha—she finds a horned monster with claws, hunger, and an obsession that’s been building for months. And once she...