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Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that's no...

Hanna is devastated when just a few weeks before her wedding, her fiancé drops the bomb that he doesn’t want to marry her. With the wedding bought and paid for (and completely non-refundable!), she decides to give it away to a deserving couple. Hanna chooses a pair of strangers that fate seems to put in her path, and then embarks on rearranging the wedding details with the help of the new bride-to-be’s brother.

In 2003, the first ever late-night talk show hosted by a 10-year-old boy premiered live for six minutes, before it was violently pulled from the air and abruptly canceled. Its host, Donnie Dixon, hasn’t been heard from since.

Nevada Frida Baylor and Connor Ander Rogan cordially invite you to join their wedding celebration. Summoning, weather manipulation, and other magical activities strictly forbidden. Catalina Baylor is looking forward to wearing her maid of honor dress and watching her older sister walk down the...

Qué pasaría si toda la historia de la filosofía occidental pudiera leerse como una conversación viva, en lugar de una colección de doctrinas aisladas? En SÓCRATES. PLATÓN. ARISTÓTELES, Isaac Volpe ofrece un recorrido audaz, lúcido y profundamente cautivador por la evolución intelectual que dio forma a los fundamentos del pensamiento occidental. Los conceptos complejos se vuelven accesibles sin caer en simplificaciones, lo que convierte este libro en una obra igualmente valiosa tanto para lectores que se acercan por primera vez a la filosofía como para estudiantes experimentados.

March, 1366. Amid the chaos of a war-torn Spain, Geoffrey Chaucer—page to King Edward III and the son of a wine merchant—finds himself thrust into the heart of a boiling conflict between two brothers: King Pedro the Cruel of Castile and his half-brother, Enrique Trastámara. But Chaucer’s task is far from simple. Sent as a reluctant spy by the king, he must locate the elusive mercenary Sir Hugh Calveley and persuade him to change sides in a war that could alter the fate of kingdoms.

With more than 10 stories from exciting new voices and a few veterans of the universe, the second anthology highlights the lives and struggles of humanity's best and worst years after system advent.

Though she is the owner of a popular tavern in the capital city, when the planet of Hippolyta is defeated by a more powerful world Kara Hannafin is chosen for a deeply shameful role. She will be a war bride, a plaything to be punished, claimed, and very publicly used and shared by the man to whom the invaders have given her, all with a live audience from two worlds watching. As she is stripped, spanked, and brought to one quivering orgasm after another in front of a crowd of onlookers, Kara cannot hide her body's response to the humiliating ordeal.

Britana Geran had been blissfully unaware of the consequences of her planet's defeat by the Magisterians, but that all changed when she was summoned to a training center to be prepared for her new role as a pleasure girl under the authority of the captain of a Magisterian warship.

Wearing nothing but her collar as she's paraded before the elite of the world that conquered hers, the fallen ruler of Artemisa isn't contemplating how to defeat her enemies or regain her office. She's too busy trying to keep from coming right then and there as she imagines her new owner bending her over, punished and sore, for the deeply shameful lesson he warned her about. Because he's not just going to spank her ass red tonight. He's going to claim it for the first time. Publisher's Note: Punished and Trained is a stand-alone entry in the Galactic Discipline series.

What if the world around you wasn’t haunted… but waiting? Scary Stories for Kids & Teens: Book Two brings twelve eerie, unforgettable tales where ordinary places turn strange one creepy detail at a time. A birthday gift that plays a song written just for its owner, a fog that whispers names, a snack machine that takes memories, a locker mirror that moves too late, a science experiment that learns too fast, and a principal everyone hears but no one ever sees—each story builds with clever, slow-burning suspense instead of gore or cheap jump scares.

South Africa, 1877. Andrew Baird is a man trying to escape his past. The son of the famous “Fighting Jack Windrush” of the Royal Malverns, Andrew hopes to forge his own path away from the shadow of his father. Amidst the turbulence of the Zulu-British War of 1879, Andrew finds love with Elaine Maxwell. But after Elaine dies tragically and her sister is kidnapped, Andrew must confront the Zulus in bloody battles, driven by the hope of rescuing the woman and proving his worth beyond his father's legacy.

He wished to escape a prison of his own making. Trapped by guilt and mistakes he can't undo, he's been drowning for years—until a simple coin toss connects him to a woman he's never met but somehow can't live without. She wished to save her mother. Desperate and running out of time, she throws a coin in a fountain and prays for a miracle. What she gets? A stranger who claims her wish bound their fates together.

Though helpless arousal has been dripping down her thighs since she was stripped naked upon arrival on Magisteria, nineteen-year-old Jendra has done her best to mask her shame with fury. But now, desperate to avoid a humiliating public climax at the mere sight of a huge, utterly dominant alien punishing and ravaging his mate, the truth is becoming impossible to deny. Soon it will be her bare ass being spanked red by one of these brutes. Her virgin body bucking and writhing as she's ruthlessly claimed by her new master.

A ferocious, bloody firefight on a remote Scottish island scorched Gabriel Wolfe’s soul to cinders. It left him a broken man, consumed by rage against his unseen enemies. Now he holds two lives in his hands. His own. And that of the woman who betrayed everything he ever held dear. Everything he ever believed in. Everything he ever loved.

In Egypt, all things are possible. So discovers Albion Stanley, a recent Cambridge graduate and brilliant linguist, newly arrived in Cairo in 1902. Albion sees the unseen, including ghosts. It is a less than comfortable reality, which he tends to with copious amounts of whiskey and numerous other vices. Also in Cairo is Aleister Crowley, the famed occultist. Aleister is a dangerous man, but not an unsympathetic one and never a dull one. Together, they discover the world of dead Egyptians, some of whom are older than the pyramids.

Far from his old life as an off-books government assassin, Gabriel Wolfe tends his farm. Until one night, armed men arrive in SUVs and attack without mercy. They have reckoned without Wolfe’s unique mix of skills, honed in his years in British Special Forces and as a member of The Department.

Jake’s journey is one of incredible hardship, relentless hope, and unexpected triumph. Born with a disability and abandoned by his father at a young age, Jake’s early life is shaped by loss. Raised by a devoted mother who eventually succumbs to illness, Jake is left to navigate the world on his own—until a series of life-altering events leave him without a home or a future.

These stories and more are featured in the third short story anthology for the System Apocalypse, continuing the saga of survival in a world transformed by the arrival of the System. Humanity has adapted to a new reality filled with Classes, magic and monsters, but the struggle for life, love and purpose never ends. This anthology brings together gripping tales from returning authors and two new short stories by Tao Wong.

Gabriel Wolfe is done with ops. Too much blood. Too many friends dead. His days, and nights, haunted by the memory of his murdered wife, Eli. Trying to heal, he spends his time at a gym in an unfashionable part of Paris, teaching martial arts to poor kids. But whether he likes it or not, the call of duty instilled in him as a child and reinforced by his military commanders has only been quieted, not deleted. So when he hears a woman cry out that her sister’s been stabbed, he rushes to help. But his instincts, always so trustworthy, betray him. Now it’s his life in danger.