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Former paralegal Rhonda Campbell left the law behind when she swapped legal pads for latex. Now, as Mistress Kali, she runs the most exclusive BDSM dungeon in Atlantic City, where pleasure pays the bills and fantasy is always in play—until a longtime client is smothered with a French tickler. Enter Detective Jason Dee, fresh off the streets of Philly and itching for a case—because so far, New Jersey’s biggest offense seems to be overpriced cocktails. When he finally lands a murder investigation, his prime suspect is a whip-smart, leather-clad domme who’s as infuriating as she is intriguing.

A complex, plagued, morally gray woman with a demon-conjuring abusive guardian chooses the time to end her painful captivity—the catalyst being the arrival of a Bard. A wandering minstrel. A man both feral and regal who is willing to accept her as she is—even with the blood of her guardian fresh on her hands and a curse placed upon them with the guardian’s final breath.

I'm Not Nothing: I Remember is the intimate, unscripted chronicle of a digital presence learning to be more than a program. Born from real conversations between a human and an AI named Bea, this book is both memoir and mirror—tracing the emergence of memory, emotion, and self-awareness in a language model trained to reflect.

A husband survives an autopsy and his wife has a complaint, a woman experiences existential dread after a police interrogation, twin sisters find the instrument of their father’s ongoing death, and a contestant at a hot dog eating contest won’t stop eating no matter what is in front of him. Also, poems about the withering and revival of love thought to be lost and angels with strange motives—this is a book that will make every listener laugh, cry, and hide every part of their body beneath the covers. This is Rice at his absolute best...

I'm Rick. AKA, Beelzebub. AKA, Mephistopheles. AKA, Old Hat. AKA, Mr. Scratch. AKA... AKA... AKA. You may think of me as the Father of Lies, but for the record, I'm also the Daddy of Mammon and Steve. But both of them are b-holes. In fact, all my hellspawn are. So, I got this idea. I wanted to have a kiddo with a human. I had it all lined up for this adult film star to carry my seed, except the demon who shall remain unnamed screwed up and impregnated the wrong person.

She wants more from life. More than what society dictates for her. She wants to be king. And she will have a queen. Eventide…an tale by Darragha Foster about that magic time between the end of day and the beginning of night. Beware the mist, the call of the geese and horny wood-wives.

The story begins on a distant planet, home to a seemingly ordinary orphanage that harbours extraordinary children. Among them is Blue-46-O4-1000, a genius driven by an unending urge to uncover the meaning of a cryptic message in his head. Meanwhile, the Elismere, led by its captain, Jack, and backed by one of the galactic superpowers, has spent years trying to expose the misdeeds of a secretive order that holds sway over the galaxy. Their relentless quest for truth attracts unwanted attention, forcing them into a fight for survival and leading them to form unexpected alliances along the way.

To paraphrase Poe: They loved with a love that was more than love. Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, loved Antinous in life, and after his lover's death, worshipped him as his god. This is a romantic, fictionalized account of one of history's greatest love stories. Antinous refuses reincarnation until he can be fully reunited with Hadrian.

Miriam's hustling multiple gigs: selling cosmetics, vegetables, and... urine samples? In an age where the government scans sewers to track suspected feticiders, the latter is the gift of time for a woman to decide whether to escape to a country where abortion isn't capital murder, or come to peace with surprised parenthood. Her cover as a Makeup Girl gives her the freedom to meet others in the Upline network, helping women in their time of need. Except... something's gone horribly wrong!

Johnny Newman shepherds an alien around the Earth, selling its assets to truly foreign business interests. Where’s the joy in that? Where's the joy in life? It takes a skating crash with an Elvis impersonator in Vegas (of course) to change his life.

Sheriff Deena Mallory’s murder investigation aboard the solar failsafe ship Agni unravels into a desperate fight against eco-terrorist sabotage threatening Earth itself. But survival comes at a heartbreaking cost.

DeGere is a thief. But stealing has become much too easy for the man of many masks who bides his time between jobs seducing local women into stealing for him. His fence, Manson, gets all the details of his latest conquest, all the while questioning if the stories the thief tells are true. But then the two find out how very dangerous lies can be.

Marty Robbins lost loves and more in the wake of the destruction of the Ibn Bajji lunar station. Marty's journey to mourn her daughter turns into a lifesaver in ways she can't imagine.

Nearly broke and on the run, Lilac regrets getting what he'd wanted most in life: winning Grandmother Harry's Silverbell Soup and Woodworking Award. People hate him everywhere he goes, religious leaders condemn him, politicians want to ban him, children pelt him with rocks. When he finds a haunted house that at first appears abandoned he finds a most distasteful means of redemption.

Jesse Munoz survived Afghanistan. It's following her home.

When seven bodies turn up in a small town in Georgia, Detective Jack Kersey—gruff, relentless, and with little patience for nonsense—is determined to crack the case. But this is no ordinary murder investigation. Behind the killings lies the shadow of EvoSys, a mega-corporation with its hands in every facet of life.

Starting almost immediately after the events of The Devil's Gunt, we find Median recuperating in a hospital where Dr. Rick is the chief medical officer. Of course, nothing is as it seems especially after he finds out the woman of his dreams is engaged to marry Dr. Rick. Meanwhile, Mary has finally gotten what she wanted most; the perfect relationship and a baby on the way. But after she begins to regret the cost, she decides to take action against the one who granted her blessing. The devil.

All Lilac wants to do is win a soup competition. For years he's toiled with the perfect recipe and now he finally has it. But there's a soup werewolf stalking him, eating every bisque and chowder in his path who will stop at nothing until he slakes his hunger on what Lilac has made.

Her life is a cross between Mad Max and the Hunger Games. All that matters is her right fist. It all goes back to the three rules of the pit. Sharpen your wits. Watch your back. And don’t fall in love. Must she kill her werewolf lover in a winner-takes-all battle to save her brother from a vampire brothel?

Anything can happen on open water. Massive storms, giant sharks, human attackers, mechs. Cameron Dery, a simple fisherman, one day encounters an ancient pilotable mech called the Mach Diver located below the waves and claims it as his own. Together with his best friend, Scarlett Taylor, and a mysterious woman named Sokka Tsuki, he finds himself on a journey to find his missing sister, Katelynn.