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Let your imagination run wild as you listen to this collection of three romantic lesbian novellas featuring werewolves. Best-selling author Bridget Essex offers a trio of heart-stopping tales of women transformed by love.

Trish Dalton has put her wild, adventurous days behind her. She's grown up and settled down in her veterinarian practice that she built from the ground up, but a secret part of her misses the untamed woman she used to be. Now her life is quiet, safe, and a little bit lonely. When her sister surprises her with a gift - a singles retreat at a yoga studio in the Rocky mountains - Trish is reluctant to go. While most of her happiest memories were in the Rockies, she isn't into granola-crunchy stuff and has never done yoga in her life.

When they were teenagers, Amber and Stevie were so deeply in love that nothing could drive them apart. Until the one night, when Amber needed Stevie to be there...and, instead, Stevie disappeared without a trace. Seven years later, Stevie appears in Amber's life again with a long scar across her stomach, and a pretty fantastical explanation for her disappearance that night. Sparks fly between the two women, and they are drawn together with a passion neither of them can ignore. But Amber needs the truth about what happened that night.

Humans cannot become Vampires. Elisavet Katsaros defies this belief when she wakes up in a hospital as a Sanguinarian, or human-born vampire. She is the first of her kind in over 300 years. The transformation was an accident, but there is no going back now. Questions surround Elisavet. Why her? How did it happen? Who is responsible? Above all else, what will the ramifications be for the rest of the World in Shadows?

Erin McEvoy tries to be an optimist, but her life is in a downward spiral. Her job as a reporter at a small Boston news station and her love life are going nowhere, but the thing that worries her most is the fact that Erin has started seeing things. Specifically, a tall, winged shadow following her wherever she goes. Afraid that she might be losing her mind, Erin ignores the shadow - until she's nearly hit by a car. It's then that she realizes it's not simply a shadow but her guardian angel, a beautiful female angel named Gabrielle.

What if you fell for the most impossible woman: your best friend's girlfriend? Maxine "Max" Hallwell has spent her entire life making the safe, responsible decisions. It's not that she never had dreams, but while her childhood best friend, Joanna, risked everything to start her own delivery business, Max went to work at a call center. Now, their 40th birthdays are fast approaching, and Joanna is rich, high-powered, and happy. And Max is miserable.

Can love save a soul? Cassandra Griman was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. She'd stayed out at the bars until last call, and on her way home was cornered in an alleyway by four men. That night might have been her last...until she was saved by an angel. But first impressions aren't everything, and Cassandra soon realizes that the captivating woman who saved her life is no angel. In fact, Elle is a powerful vampire who was exiled from Boston fifty years ago. But Elle has returned now to exact revenge.

Whiteboards, computers, and stickers. What do these things have in common? They're all tools Ms. Crawford uses in her job. Ms. Crawford is a fourth grade teacher. She invites a group of students learning about community helpers to visit her classroom. She shows them the many ways she helps her students learn. Hooray for teachers!

What do construction workers do? Some lucky kids are about to find out! They visit Mr. Moore, a construction worker who's helping to build a new school. He shows them machines that dig big holes. He explains how he follows the building plans. And he tells about different workers and how they stay safe. Hooray for construction workers!

Fifteen-year-old Alyx Atlas was raised as a boy, yet she knows something others don't. She's a girl. And after her dad dies, it becomes painfully obvious that she must prove it now - to herself and to the world. Born with ambiguous genitalia, Alyx has always felt a little different. But it's after she sustains a terrible beating behind a 7-Eleven that she and her mother pack up their belongings and move from California to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to start a new life - and Alyx begins over again, this time as a girl.

Hello, grown-ups of all ages! Eclectic, bite-size bursts of advice abound in this playful guide to feeling like the grown-ups we all wanted to be as kids. From thoughts on the best way to open a champagne bottle to a short list of the kitchen tools you actually need, these tips and tricks reveal secrets that are attainable, not intimidating. Anyone can make a life upgrade using these insights alongside the traits they already have - their wits, creativity, and enthusiasm.

Mistress Aevia has made her intentions quite clear. Convinced that Stacy is not a "true submissive" and is merely a pretender, another person waiting to break Henry's heart, she has promised to show Henry Stacy's true colors. Stacy has no idea how to fight back against someone - the mistress who trained Henry to be a dominant - who has such a strong influence on Henry's life. Meanwhile, she is still uncertain about the relationship she has with a man she knows she is falling in love with.

Stacy thought that Henry was turning away her submission. Now she finds that she is not the only one changing. As Henry learns to come to terms with his own emotions, Stacy processes the lessons of her submission. As she slowly gives over more power to this dark and mysterious man, more of him opens to her. What she sees is enticing; but with love and commitment come new fears.

Stacy Caldwell thought that she could put Henry Lennox behind her. Throwing herself into her work, however, her teammates know better. Henry Lennox, on the other hand, seems to have moved on just fine - with new flirtations and new affairs with new staff in his office. Soon neither can deny their attraction for each other, and Stacy begins to delve into the darker side of Henry Lennox and explore dominance and submission with him.

Once again, Stacy Caldwell thought she could put Henry Lennox behind her. When Henry apologizes for his jealousy and his attempt to control her life, they pick up where they left off with their dominance and submission dynamic. Together, they continue to explore BDSM, as Stacy is drawn deeper into Henry's dark world. Meanwhile, Stacy's feelings for Michael Cavanaugh go from friendship and infatuation to a full affair.

Labeled an Arcane, Rachel Ryan wonders if she's human anymore. After she's thrown headlong into the world of the preternatural Rachel learns shapeshifters, faeries, and vampires aren't legends. They've been living hidden in plain sight among humans. In her quest to save a child she will set off a cataclysmic chain of events. Her actions will disrupt the carefully balanced political chess board, casting once powerful pieces to the floor.

A man and woman play a strange game of Twenty Questions with a boy they've just met. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

She will never forget that summer - when the bones began to surface. The decomposing skull of a dog, then that of a cat. Later, birds. Her parents even made a game of digging them up while the children played and kept the tiny trophies on display in their home. And then her cousin was implicated in a grisly murder. Did that strange find really mark the creation of a monster in their midst? From the acclaimed author of Monster comes this chilling story of a long-buried childhood memory and a family bent on denial.

"A Good Brandy", by John Bunting: James Branding has been Prime Minister for only three weeks, when his phone rings late one night. As he answers it, little does he know that in the next few hours he will be fighting to save the nation from the gravest danger it has faced for over 70 years. Also includes "The Ambassadors", by Janet Gogerty; "The Duck and Thistle", by Bridget Arregger; and "Esther", by Paul Cassidy.

As a successful lawyer in Miami, going home to the tiny town of Broken Branch for her older sister's wedding was the last thing Alexis Beauchamp really wanted to do. After the devilishly handsome rodeo cowboy Kip Caldwell catches her attention at the rehearsal dinner, she decides the trip may have been worthwhile after all. Kip has two reasons to be in town: The Professional Rodeo Riders Association finals and a wedding he doesn't really want to attend.