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Book One of the Twyla & the Warbirds saga, Family Lost, traces a difficult path for an American-Ukrainian rural girl from Boonville California. At a tender age, Twyla Campbell loses her family in a freak aeroplane accident. Her young life is salvaged from indenture by the neighbor boy, who teaches her to fly.

It is 1944, and Twyla Campbell has been transporting fighter planes to Alaska for the Army Air Force, President Roosevelt, and Premier Stalin. In Fairbanks she befriended Marina, a Russian pilot with indefatigable courage and an odd sense of humor. When tragedy struck again, Twyla boarded a transport, only to find herself arrested on the Eastern Front scheduled for execution.

2133: Mark Brandis ist seit 240 Tagen als Gastpilot auf einem neuen Schiff unter dem Kommando von Cmdr. Elmar Busch. Statt eines Testfluges verharrt die EXPLORATOR jedoch regungslos im Weltraum, um den möglicherweise bevorstehenden Ausbruch des Sterns Eta Carinae in eine Hypernova zu beobachten.

I’m the furthest thing from content with my situation. Bound to three alien husbands, I arrived on their home planet just in time to learn that everything was a con. I didn’t need to come to their home planet for a one-way ticket off Earth. I definitely didn’t need to trade my body to do it, but here I am, stuck on Lukrim with an inviolable tie to three liars. Freedom comes too late, leaving me at the brink of having to make a terrible decision. There’s no one at my side who I can trust and now I have to choose between my mental health and keeping one good memory alive.

A baby girl named Stephen Gordon is born to well-to-do parents. She grows from a young tomboy into a thoughtful woman who feels 'different'. Stephen is understood by her father but alienated from her mother. Bucking against the conventions of society she turns down an offer of marriage and forms a passionate attachment to an American woman. Gradually, Stephen realises she will never fall in love with a man – but will she be an outcast? In pursuit of love and experience, Stephen takes herself to bohemian Paris, a far cry from the strict confines of British society.

Ancient bloodmanes have declared war on Rayvenstar Castle. After Admiral Hawksford is summoned to help, she assembles a team and journeys to Alyssia to confront the threat. But when truth is distorted by fiction, and every attempt to gain information leaves her with more questions than answers, Valhara and her crew are left scrambling for a solution. Rampant beasts aren’t the only menace. A stubborn king with a brash temper and archaic ways puts her under undue pressure. The Elemental Guardian’s patience and powers are tested, forcing her to endure a twist of fate.

In the cave Alisa and the Heirs have to face the five dangerous tests of humanity. But the closer Alisa gets to finding the Knot, the more of her friends she needs to leave behind. Will she be able to get them back and who will stop Dracula from untying the Knot first?

Alex's dream of becoming an artist is on the brink of collapse, trapped in a marriage where his wife demands his total obedience. Lured into a humiliating form of chastity, he finds himself in a secluded mansion in Marin County—a place where the line between dreams and nightmares blurs, and forbidden desires take center stage. In this mansion, Alex is set on a path of erotic trials and transformation, challenging his understanding of pleasure, submission, and his own sexuality. Surrounded by mysterious figures, he is pulled into an erotic venture that tests the limits of freedom and restraint.

Museala and Serenity are star beings that are madly in love with each other. They find it very difficult to be separate from one another. However, the belief among their people is that the famed Sacred Star - which is Museala - and the beautiful sovereign - which is Serenity - should never be intimate. Disregarding such superstition, Museala and Serenity proceed making passionate love within her quarters, indulging each other's fantasies for as long as their endurance allows them. In a magical universe that the star beings are named after, anything is possible.

Anastasia grew up in a weird mix of chaos. As a Bi-Racial child, she experienced the truths of the world in a very fast and open, and sometimes aggressive, way. That’s how she became an actress and comedian, learning quickly that to entertain is an easy way to deliver messages and to make people laugh is good for the soul and great way to break up the chaos. Nobody can stay mad while chuckling. Try it. I’ll wait. See?!

LEI VUOLE TORNARE A VEDERE IL MONDO A COLORI E FORSE HA TROVATO IL MODO PER FARLO. Tutti sorridiamo di fronte a un cielo azzurro, ma per Australia Greene quel colore significa dolore, confusione, panico. I dottori del Mental Green-Easy, che per due anni l'hanno avuta in cura, chiamano il problema cianofobia, la paura dell'azzurro, e ne riconducono la causa al trauma che le ha stravolto l'esistenza. E così, a sedici anni, Australia si ritrova a indossare un paio di lenti che le fanno vedere il mondo in bianco e nero, proteggendola dai ricordi che le fanno più male.

The ship is speeding for Norway; Alisa’s decision to free Calvina has turned for the worse. Alisa is to appear before the Elders to be held accountable for her actions. Nicu has to prove he can lead an army of Redmasks to serve Dracula. When they arrive in Norway, Lars hurries to the Noaidi. There they find that Alisa is the only one who can help Baron Magnus fight the silver in his body.

Alisa doesn’t agree with the Elders, who want to sentence Calvina for being Dracula’s Shadow and the danger she might become. Back in Italy, Dracula finds Nicu and offers to turn his mother back to normal if he helps him with his evil quest.

Betrayed by the people she loved the most, Kikka Takasi has known nothing but pain and misery throughout the long ten years of her captivity. A strong will and pure determination have been the only things keeping her from losing herself entirely, even if she lost something as precious as her voice during one of their experiments. Convinced she would die in captivity, she’s stunned when a group of Umazi warriors breaks her free and absconds her to safety.

Barbara Bridget has been into the size kink for years. Now that shrinking is actually possible, she makes it her company’s primary goal. Enter the Sweet Squeak app – a service that allows women to be paired with men who want to be shrunken down and toyed with . . . This story follows a Q and A session at Size Con and showcases the inner workings of Barbara’s ultra-feminist mind.

A beast lurks in Kathera's mind, shredding her sanity until all that remains hangs by a fragile thread. While the line between fiction and reality blurs, a moral dilemma keeps her from fighting back. Can she find the answer without losing herself in the process, or will there be more blood on her hands?

Abby Lane can’t resist the allure of a cat shifter tribe forced to repress their beasts. Research has led her to a coveted piece of information. The location of a man who could prove everything she’s been searching for.

According to legend, when the world was young, the goddess Issaura appeared among men. Those who treated her with kindness received the gift of the gods—the ability to transform into an animal form. This was a great honor but one that separated this race from other humans. Before Issaura departed the mortal realm, she promised to return if her people were ever at the point of destruction.

As the second-in-command of Olympus Station, Captain Hadley Wells is usually too focused on her career to worry about romance. That changes with the arrival of Prince Nykal of Jroj, a planet that’s recently joined the Coalition. Their attraction is immediate and fierce, but too many rules separate them to let them have more than one stolen night.