If you mention the word 'superhero' these days, everyone and their mum can tell you a potted history of it all, because they've sat through numerous phases, extended TV series, and animated side-specials of expansive character-development, culminating in extraordinary final chapters, with the screen literally stacked full of characters battling one another while your eyes bleed with excitement and spectacle. But before 1997, people would generally only think of a few things: Christopher Re...

The 1980s. A time of fear: fear of the unknown, fear of your neighbours, fear of drugs, fear of sex, fear of strangers, fear of videos, and the very real fear that the world would end at any moment in an awful, and very sudden, nuclear attack. However, in those times of turmoil and worry, there was a comfort that soothed the mind, and acted as a quiet balm: action movies. Video shops were bursting at the seams with rampant gunfire, sex, drugs, rock, roll, cars on fire, people on fire, guns...

The creator of SMERSH Pod explores his favorite Bond films (and the other ones, too) in this irreverent celebration of the spy thriller franchise.The Bond films have entertained annoyed, excited, bored, aroused and invigorated moviegoers for generations. Who hasn't wanted to kick a big bloke with metal teeth in the groin? Fly a small plane out of a pretend horse's bottom? Or push a middle-aged man into space? No one, that's who.John Rain, host of the Bond pod...

It started with a kiss. Then it became so much more.Love at first sight. Avery Connor doesn't believe in it.But what about love at first kiss?A favor for a friend. Kiss a stranger and walk away.But what if that favor, and that stranger, prove to be the turning point of her life?What if that kiss leads to something more?Dr. Daniel Stewart is certain it will.He is determined to make her see him. To feel what he feels. To have the effect...

Brooke Chapman-Powell takes her position as the Earl of Englefield’s personal secretary very seriously. This job is what keeps her sister in the university for the deaf and the town from completely shutting down. But the earl is dying, and they have only one hope: an American, from some place called Salvation, Virginia.Now she will have to teach the in-all-likelihood-uncouth-and-lazy half American how to be a proper earl if they hope to save the village. God help them all.N...

A legacy like mine was never meant to be easy; shaky alliances, deals with the deathless, and an enemy far more powerful than previously believed all weigh heavily on my shoulders.I'd hidden behind the mask of the Yaga for so long, I'd forgotten what it meant to be human. By claiming the fated mate bond with my Riders, I've rediscovered parts of myself I'd buried centuries ago, but I wonder if digging up the dead has its own consequences.Our mission to unea...

The last thing I need while trying to make a success of my outdoor adventure company is a beautiful distraction. It takes all my focus to fight off the demons that remain from the injury that ended my career as a Royal Marine and deal with the clients that make me want to climb the nearest mountain and never come down.But Parker Lawrence walks into our office, takes over a phone call, and changes everything. My desperate desire to keep her close has nothing to do with the fact that...

Landon Black. Zodiac Tactical code name: Libra.Charismatic, intelligent, charming—the one with the easy smile.Zodiac Tactical has been the biggest part of his life for the past three years. They guard, protect, rescue...eliminate the threat when nobody else can. And he's always been at the front lines—first to help in whatever way was needed.Until he took a bullet to the chest.Now everybody’s worried about him. So he's sent on what’s suppose...

With all my best mates settled down, I'm the last single man standing. Of course, the one woman to spark my interest is the only one in Scotland who seems immune to my charm. Dr. Saoirse MacGregor is brilliant, beautiful, and decided she hated me at first sight.When her friend goes missing on a research expedition, Saoirse turns to us at Out of Bound Scotland for help. With my military training, I'm the best tracker we've got, so she agrees to an uneasy alliance—as long as I take h...

In the games men play, love is the riskiest roll of the dice…Ever since John, Earl of Summerset, retired as a spy, his life has suffered from nothing but boredom. He has no plots to uncover, no foes to vanquish…until his brother gambles away the source of the Summerset fortune. Determined to save his earldom, John devises a plot guaranteed to recover his property. All he needs is a proper young miss to assist him…Netta isn’t averse to a racket or t...

THIS IS THE GUIDE TO CLASSIC SUPERHERO MOVIES YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED.If you mention the word 'superhero' these days, the mind is immediately bombarded by visions from the MCU, DCU and all the numerous phases, extended TV series and animated side-specials that combine to make our eyes bleed with a barrage of different characters fighting each other.But before 1997 people would generally only think of a few things: Christopher Reeve smiling as his Superman...

The sweetest sting….Elizabeth Wilcox is trapped in a web of deception and betrayal. A gentleman’s daughter, she has no choice but to do the unthinkable in order to save her sister. Posing as a chambermaid to infiltrate the estate of a nobleman, she will steal. She will spy.She will submit.Marcus, Duke of Montague is no stranger to espionage, but he doesn’t expect to find it in his own home. On a mission to find a traitor, Marcus ca...