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While Scot is taken to the heart of the Right Nation camp before he is released and hunted for sport, Kimberly is trafficked to a ruined plantation called the The Tombs.

Eleanor, a crowned Miss Indiana beauty queen, was on her way to college with dreams of one day becoming a star. That was until one-night poor decision derailed her plan and life. Years later, drugs and prostitution have her spiraling so out of control that she finds herself on the path to prison.

This is not to suggest that every individual does not have one’s own streaming reality that pops in and out of the spotlight: it is just that everyone’s idea of a spotlight is deep, personal, and different. And the mantra and drum rhythm we march to has a wide arrangement of sheet music in which there is a note, verse, and arrangement for each player in the orchestra.

Mouse, a foundling, loves her pieced-together family at the Moth Theatre fiercely. When their leading man, Walter, is wrongly arrested for murder, Mouse swears she'll free him. But another member of the cast has a secret identity ­- as a ruthless killer. As Mouse's investigation leads her ever closer to their true, deadly nature, can she outwit them without losing everything she holds dear?

Beth Harper is a highly gifted spiritual medium and clairvoyant. Having fled Scarsdale Hall, she's drawn to the remote coastal town of Crewby in north west England, and it soon becomes apparent she has a job to do. The congeniality here is but a thin veneer masking decades of deeply embedded secrets, madness and fear. Although she has help from her spirit guides and many clues are shown in visions, it isn't until the senseless and ritualistic murders happen on Mailing Street, however, that the truth is finally unearthed.

Masquerade is a supernatural thriller told from the perspective of a spiritual medium and astral traveler. Following a whirlwind relocation for a live-in job at the local inn, Beth quickly realizes the whole village is thoroughly haunted, the people here fearful and cowed. As a spiritual medium, her attention is drawn to Scarsdale Hall nearby, the enormous stately home dominating what is undoubtedly a wild and beautiful landscape. Built of black stone with majestic turrets, it seems to drain the energy from the land. There is, she feels, something malevolent about it.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is one of the world’s most loved modern classics. A Leopard’s Kiss entwines the story of Tomasi di Lampedusa writing his famous novel with that of a young couple who say farewell to their Sicilian homeland to settle in far-off Australia. The novella moves from the mountains of an ancient Sicilian village to the ornate cafes and lounges of 1950s Palermo. And from the humid Queensland cane-fields in the north of Australia to a Catholic convent school in the south.

Evie Gunson is a very busy woman, having a very busy day…in very high heels…. No wonder she’s cranky! She’s young and ambitious, witty and rich. She buys stunning clothes and wears them well…. So why isn’t life giving her that happy ping? It could have something to do with the fact she’s having a doomed affair with a married man, so we all know how that is going to end…. Badly. …But hold on! There’s a handsome Australian zookeeper waiting in the wings, who is going to save her from a deadly pot-plant

On her 16th birthday, Marianne’s world gets turned upside down. After her parents die suddenly in an accident, she and her brother, Marcus, must fend for themselves as they adjust to a new life with a dysfunctional extended family. Marianne begins to unravel one dark secret after another, revealing a sinister past and awakening the spirits who inhabit Azalea House, the Southern Louisiana estate owned by her family for generations. Among those spirits are her dead twin brothers, who drowned under mysterious circumstances before Marianne was born.

Isaac moves to a new town with his mom, and he can be whomever he wants to be. So, he decides to be an honest and trustworthy person. But can he hold on to his honesty when his family is distressed? Listen to this amazing story to find out what you must do when you are faced with critical choices.

On the surface, Brooke seems to have it all: She lives in Los Angeles with a decent boyfriend and has a steady income as a model and a promising career as an aspiring author. But her life begins to spiral into a vortex of drugs and depression as she learns more about the dark side of her modeling agency. At first, she is just as hollow and jaded as those around her, but behind the painted face, there is a vulnerable person walking down a dark and desperate path.

Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know. Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid. Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground. One act of violence sets three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth, when the people they love are not what they seem.

Isis can control her dreams. Or she could—until recently. The creature in her nightmares has been haunting her for months. As if being dumped wasn't bad enough, now she dreads going to sleep. She decides to confront the creature and win back some of her peace; only, she finds that he's not a monster and he's not a dream. A sacrifice for love, a shocking discovery, and a jealous ex-boyfriend blur the lines between reality and dreams, making it hard to tell who the real monsters are. Who would've known...sometimes love is lethal?

Based on the extraordinary true story of the female stonemason who carved a queen's tomb, The Stone Rose traces the life of fierce, self-destructive Isabella of France. Wife to a weak king, Isabella finds herself facing enemies from the wild North, in a war with Scotland, and from within her own family: her uncle Lancaster, whose attempts to rein in royal power cause a rift between them. But Isabella soon comes to realise that this is a love story. And the threat to the kingdom is a threat to her marriage—and to her own life....

A zany twist on the Southern Gothic, Ballad of Jasmine Wills is a wild and heartfelt tale of abduction and revenge, body shaming and media fame. Lee Rozelle’s debut novel is the story of overweight banker Jasmine and her kidnapper, the enigmatic reality TV mastermind Preston Price. Trapped inside an egg-shaped studio in the secluded backwoods, Jasmine is tortured with haute cuisine, brainwashed with self-help videos, and badgered with cardio exercise routines for her growing mass of livestream fans.

Janie O'Connelly expected her life to travel in any number of foreseeable directions. Which is why she can't understand how she ends up standing in the Kiddie Pool of Rebirth, surrounded by unknown, barefoot, and braless women. For as long as she can remember, Janie O'Connelly has been dating-impaired. Although she's willing to chalk up her once-again-single status to nothing more than bad luck, her best friend Sarra "Fitz" Fitzpatrick thinks Janie is possibly cursed. Now a group (or coven) of women known as the Ladies of the Moon have made it their mission to save Janie from herself.

A lonely depressive Afro-Caribbean man befriends and then falls for a young innocent Asian webcam model after becoming enticed by her seductive charms. Follow their love affair, which affects both their lives as infatuation leads into a maze of lesbian fantasies and a romantic encounter in Central Asia before their relationship ends unexpectedly.

These five bizarre and stimulating tales of sex and horror are graphic, bloody, disturbing, and downright salacious. Prepare yourself to be drawn into the strange world of vengeful vampire ghosts, a bloodthirsty succubus, a doctor-stalking pain freak, a drug-addicted dreamer, and a female serial killer with a voracious appetite for pleasure and pain.

I get my kicks watching the parallel worlds that I am thrown in and out of as I serve my masters. All their wishes are the same. Wealth. Power. Fame. These newest three masters are different, and it isn’t because they are half-vampire. They did not mean to rub my bottle and have no desire to collect their wishes. Instead, they want to give them to someone else. They drag me through their world, and for the first time, I am in one place long enough to feel human. A desire for a true life awakens in me, and I can taste my freedom in their touch.

When baby bunny Letty discovers that her mummy is the real-life Easter Bunny, she follows her, secretly, through the forest as she hides her special deliveries. But seeing all the choccylicious Easter eggs is much too tempting. Letty nibbles one here and there...and soon, the eggs are gone! Will mummy have enough eggs left for Letty’s forest friends?